"Obama tried cutting oil subsidies in his very first federal budget proposal, and it didn't fly. He and the Democratic members of Congress tried again earlier this year, hoping that the Tea Party's incessant yelling for spending cuts would translate into Congressional support for one of the most obvious spending cuts in the history of spending cuts. But no such luck. And get this: The true amount we pay in oil subsidies is waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than $4 billion a year. In fact, the far-right libertarian think tank the Cato Institute once calculated the true cost of subsidizing oil to be in the range of $78-150 billion -- yep, billion -- per year. A lot of these expenditures come from the massive amount of security needed to protect oil, both at its source in volatile regions and along international shipping routes 'round the world. The US gov expends much effort and capital to help safeguard the oil companies' product and operations -- it's in the national interest, after all, that everyone be able to continue purchasing Exxon gasoline. So you'd think that paring a comparatively meager $4 billio"
TOKYO --Caved-in roads, warped pipes, washed away cars, and mounds of rubble and earth -- the premises of the Hirono thermal power station of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (TEPCO), located in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, was completely devastated after being struck by the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11. On March 18, a week after the earthquake, the Denki Shimbun was able to interview three workers of the power plant. While little information has been reported to date as to damage suffered by thermal power plants, the interview provided a glimpse of actual conditions. At the time when the earthquake occurred, the Hirono power station's units 2 and 4 were in operation, units 1, 3 and 5 were off line, and unit 6 was under construction. Units 2 and 4 shut down automatically upon detecting the strong tremor of the earthquake. At the unit 6 construction site, dozens of workers were installing the steel frames of the turbine and boiler buildings. Some of them were working as high as 30 m above the ground. When the workers were shaken by the sudden tremor, they had no option but to cling to the steel frames for the time being. All workers climbed down to the ground and evacuated immediately after the tremor had subsided.
"Aided by federal and state tax breaks, solar energy will be cheaper than building new nuclear power plants, according to a North Carolina study released today. Dr. John Blackburn, the emeritus chair of economics and former chancellor of Duke University, said the costs of new nuclear plants continues to rise while electricity generated from solar voltaic panels is only half the cost of 12 years ago. In a study commissioned by the environmental group NC Warn, Dr. Blackburn estimates that the cost of new nuclear plants is now about 16 cents per kilowatt-hour and headed higher while solar energy can be generated with rooftop panels and solar farms in North Carolina for a comparable rate and solar costs are trending down. Solar costs are cut by about one-third because of state and federal tax credits, but Dr. Blackburn said the nuclear industry also benefits by federally backed insurance, loan guarantees and research assistance. "The message is that solar is here and now and not something exotic for the future," Dr. Blackburn said."
"Dreams of braking global warming by storing carbon emissions from power plants could be undermined by the risk of leakage, according to a study published on Sunday. Rich countries have earmarked tens of billions of dollars of investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that is still only at an experimental stage. Under CCS, carbon dioxide (CO2) would be snared at source from plants that are big burners of oil, gas and coal. Instead of being released into the atmosphere, where it would contribute to global warming, the gas would be buried in the deep ocean or piped into underground chambers such as disused gas fields. CCS supporters say the sequestered carbon would slow the pace of man-made warming. It would buy time for politicians to forge an effective treaty on greenhouse gases and wean the global economy off cheap but dirty fossil fuels."
"Following the failure of the latest efforts to plug the gushing leak from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and amid warnings that oil could continue to flow for another two months or more, perhaps it's a good time to step back a moment mentally and look at the bigger picture-the context of our human history of resource extraction-to see how current events reveal deeper trends that will have even greater and longer-lasting significance. Much of what follows may seem obvious to some readers, pedantic to others. But very few people seem to have much of a grasp of the basic technological, economic, and environmental issues that arise as resource extraction proceeds, and as a society adapts to depletion of its resource base. So, at the risk of boring the daylights out of those already familiar with the history of extractive industries, here follows a spotlighting of relevant issues, with the events in the Gulf of Mexico ever-present in the wings and poised to take center stage as the subject of some later comments. Readers in the "already familiar" category can skip straight to part 5. "
"Massachusetts has a law mandating a portfolio of renewable energy, including energy derived from wind, solar, and biomass. But a new study says that replacing coal power with biomass will actually increase the amount of CO2 emitted, throwing a wrench in the state's plan and casting some doubt over the utility of using biomass on national scale and the inclusion of biomass titles in the energy bills now being negotiated in Congress. The study from the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences finds that the replacing coal power generation with that from biomass would result in 3 percent greater emissions by 2050."
"A quick update on the slow motion oil spill that is the Alberta Tar Sands and how the death of birds is just one of the huge environmental problems here: The Winnipeg Free Press reports that the long-running trial of Syncrude over the death of some 1,600 ducks in one of its toxic tailing ponds has concluded, with Syncrude found guilty. Syncrude Failed to Deploy Duck Deterrent Systems in Snow Storm Judge Ken Tjosvold: It should have been obvious to Syncrude that deterrence should have been in place in the spring as soon as reasonably possible. Syncrude dud not deploy deterrence early enough or quickly enough. I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Syncrude could have acted lawfully by using due diligence to deter birds from the basin...and it did not do so. The crux of the case was whether or not Syncrude deployed noise-producing duck deterrent systems early enough in the season. Defending its actions, Syncrude maintained that a snowstorm had delayed their deployment. In the snowstorm, with no other place to land, other bodies of water being ice-covered, the birds landed in the toxic tailing pond. There, soaked with toxic sludge, they became unable to fly and either were eaten by ravens or sank to the bottom dead. "
"One more piece of information supporting how important your personal dietary choices are in dealing with climate change: New research published in the journal Global Environmental Change shows that by reducing the amount of meat and dairy eaten and changing farming practices, by 2055 we could reduce emissions of methane and nitrous oxide--two greenhouse gases far more potent than carbon dioxide--from agricultural sources by more than 80%. Summing up the research, study lead author Alexander Popp of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research says, "Meat and milk really matter. Reduced consumption could decrease the future emissions of nitrous oxide and methane from agriculture to levels below those of 1995." "
"I hear that PV really costs about 40 c/kWh, at least that's what so many people who have their 2 cents to add to the energy debate have to say about it. And then all of Chicago cringes, and with them, the Obama administration. I would quit if PV cost 40 c/kWh. After 30 years of working in PV, I would quit. It's true that it's hard to understand what PV costs, since we don't know what dollars per watt means in cents per kWh, and we don't know what it means in different locations. Put simply, there are some locations where PV costs 40 c/kWh; and there are some where it costs a third of that. There is no one price for PV, because sunlight varies, and system costs vary with size and design. Large systems are cheaper than small ones. So some nudnik from the oil or coal industries can stand up and say, PV is 40 c/kWh and not be lying. And I can say it is 13 c/kWh and not be lying, and all without a cent of incentives, not even traditional depreciation."
"Sea Ice Volume is calculated using the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) developed at APL/PSC by Dr. J. Zhang and collaborators. Anomalies for each day are calculated relative to the average over the 1979 -2009 period for that day to remove the annual cycle. The model mean seasonal cycle of sea ice volume ranges from 28,600 km^3 in April to 14,400 km^3 in September. The blue line represents the trend calculated from January 1 1979 to the most recent date indicated on the figure. Total Arctic Ice Volume for March 2010 is 20,300 km^3, the lowest over the 1979-2010 period and 38% below the 1979 maximum. PIOMAS calculates that the monthly average Arctic Sea Ice Volume for May 2010 was 19,000 km^3, the lowest May volume over the 1979-2010 period, 42% below the 1979 maximum and 32% below the 1979-2009 May average. September Ice Volume was lowest in 2009 at 5,800 km^3 or 67% below its 1979 maximum. Shaded areas represent one and two standard deviations of the anomaly from the trend. Updates will be generated at approximately two-weekly intervals."
"Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs and other lighting technology more comparable among consumers. Well word has just hit that the new system has been approved and we'll soon see nutrition-facts-style labels on our lights. EarthTechling gave us a heads up about the new label, pointing us to the announcement from the FTC. The FTC states, "Under direction from Congress to re-examine the current labels, the FTC is announcing a final rule that will require the new labels on light bulb packages. For the first time, the label on the front of the package will emphasize the bulbs' brightness as measured in lumens, rather than a measurement of watts. The new front-of-package labels also will include the estimated yearly energy cost for the particular type of bulb.""
Natural gas will provide an increasing share of America's energy needs over the next several decades, doubling its share of the energy market to 40 percent, from 20 percent, according to a report to be released Friday by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The increase, the report concluded, will come largely at the expense of coal and will be driven both by abundant supplies of natural gas - made more available by shale drilling - and by measures to restrict the carbon dioxide emissions that are linked to climate change. In the long term, however, the future may be dimmer for natural gas if stricter regulations are put in place to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 - a goal set by President Obama. Although lower in carbon than coal, natural gas is still too carbon-intensive to be used under such a target absent some method of carbon capture, the authors of the report concluded.
"Energy-never has a political topic had so many bold words expended on it with so little to show. As Jon Stewart pointed out in his usual skewering fashion last week, the last eight American presidents promised to move America off oil and onto renewable energy, and all we have to show for it is increasing dependence on foreign petroleum, rising carbon emissions and an out of control gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy is one of those bipartisan issues that any politician can dust off-usually whenever gasoline prices have gotten a little high-promise to change and then promptly drop until the next crisis. Most of our politicians seem to lack what you'd need to really change how America uses energy: the will to take on the strong fossil fuel lobby and the persistence to see changes through over the long-term. But we all bear responsibility for that failure, because we fail to see-and take-the hard choices that would be necessary. We'd rather live in energy fairyland, as a new New York Times/CBS News poll demonstrates. The poll surveyed the attitudes of Americans-with specific attention on Gulf coast residents-toward the oil spill, energy policy, the economy, President Barack Obama and BP. The news is not good for Obama-the economy and employment remain the top concerns of Americans, bigger than the oil spill, but 54% of the public says he does not have a clear plan for creating jobs, and 48% of the public disapproves of his handling of the economy. 60% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track."
"Just once, it would be nice if a president would level with Americans on energy. Barack Obama isn't that president. His speech the other night was about political damage control -- his own. It was full of misinformation and mythology. Obama held out a gleaming vision of an America that would convert to the "clean" energy of, presumably, wind, solar and biomass. It isn't going to happen for many, many decades, if ever. For starters, we won't soon end our "addiction to fossil fuels." Oil, coal and natural gas supply about 85 percent of America's energy needs. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects energy consumption to grow only an average of 0.5 percent annually from 2008 to 2035, but that's still a 14 percent cumulative increase. Fossil fuel usage would increase slightly in 2035 and its share would still account for 78 percent of the total. "
"President Barack Obama has vowed the Gulf of Mexico spill would speed the end of US dependence on fossil fuels, but experts doubt reality can match his rhetoric. "The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now," Obama said in a primetime televised address from the Oval Office. Amid the worst environmental disaster in US history, supporters of renewable energy had hoped images of sullied coasts and dramatic engineering failings would spark just such a revolution: the beginning of the end for fossil fuels."
"In a fight that showed the flaws in California's ballot initiative process and the sheer nerve of PG&E, the state's largest utility, clean energy and local control has won. Proposition 16, which would have change California's constitution to force cities and counties to get the approval of two-thirds of their voters before using public money to invest in local energy projects or utilities. PG&E spent over $46 million on the effort, which would have ensured its monopoly. Prop 16 stems from a 2002 state law, that allowed "community choice aggregation," which allows counties or cities to purchase electricity while utilities continue to offer the infrastructure for power delivery--the power lines, distribution equipment, supply natural, and even billing. "
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Can you talk and surf at the same time..
Discussion in 'Android Questions' started by ventrj, Mar 4, 2010.
On T-mobile can you talk and surf the web at the same time ?
Yes, I do this on my AT&T Apple iPhone. I start a call and then put the call on speaker phone. Then, I can switch to the internet application and surf the internet while I am still on the call (talking through the speaker phone).
Its very practical in that you can do two things at once; like update your Facebook page over the internet while talking to your mom.
do you really need to update your facebook page or play monopoly while on hold? are we that ADHD?


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The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation announced an escalation in their strike earlier this week in response to what they described as "the Government's refusal to meaningfully engage with the union".
Members of the organisation will take to the picket line once again today (Thursday) as the number of services on strike increases from 82 to 240. The organisation also announced further strike days on the 19th and 21st of February in addition to the already-announced strikes on the 7th, 12th, 13th and 14th. This Saturday (9th) will also see the INMO stage a national rally in Dublin in a bid to "secure safe staffing levels in the health service, through increases in pay to make the professions more attractive".
Staff members at Roscommon University Hospital and Portiuncula as well as Brothers of Charity services around the county will take part in today's strike.


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In recent years the theatre has undergone a 630 million crowns restoration project. The auditorium has been restored and modernised, with air-conditioning installed.
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The Heroic Pilot who Stayed with Entebbe's Jewish Hostages
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Capt. Michel Bacos recently died at age 94.
French airline pilot Michel Bacos, who recently died at the age of 94, knew what terror and Jew-hatred looked like.
A former free French fighter during World War II, Captain Bacos later recalled: "I fought the Nazis. I knew precisely what fascism was all about. The genocide (of Jews during the Holocaust) is a horror that none of us had forgotten."
That memory sustained Capt. Bacos years later, in 1976, when the plane he was piloting was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. With his life in danger, Capt. Bacos chose to stand with his Jewish passengers.
Air France pilot Michel Bacos, in uniform, returning from Entebbe with the other hostages
The first leg of Air France Flight 139, headed from Tel Aviv to Paris on June 27, 1976, was uneventful. It took off as scheduled, carrying over 240 passengers and 12 crew members. After a routine stop for refueling in Athens, the flight departed once more, headed to Paris. A few minutes after takeoff, terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the pro-Palestinian German terror group Baader Meinhof pulled out guns and announced they were hijacking the plane.
Hearing screaming from the cabin, Capt. Bacos initially thought there was a fire on board. The plane's chief engineer opened the door to the pilot's cabin and found himself nose to nose with a German terrorist holding a pistol and a grenade. "If you stay still and do nothing suspicious, no one will be hurt," the German told the crew. The terrorist pushed the muzzle of his gun into Capt. Bacos' neck and ordered him to turn the plane away from Paris and fly to Libya instead.
Capt. Bacos later explained he felt he had no choice. "We could only obey the orders of the terrorists…Every time I tried to look in a different direction, he pressed the barrel of his gun against my neck." Capt. Bacos, a 52-year-old veteran of World War II, was a seasoned pilot and kept his calm. He flew to Benghazi, Libya, where the sympathetic tyrant Muammar Gaddafi allowed the plane to refuel. The terrorists then directed the crew to take off once more and fly to Uganda.
The plane landed in Entebbe, where Idi Amin, the genocidal dictator who ruled Uganda, met it on the tarmac with a warm welcome for the hijackers. More Palestinian terrorists boarded the plane as well as Ugandan troops. They went through the cabin, examining the papers and passports of passengers, separating the Jewish and non-Jewish passengers.
148 of the passengers were neither Jewish nor Israeli and they were freed on June 29, 1976. The 53 remaining passengers were brought to a sweltering abandoned terminal and held hostage. The hijackers and Ugandan troops told the non-Jews they were free to leave on the next flight to Paris. For the Jewish passengers, a terrifying fate awaited: the hijackers demanded the release of 54 convicted Palestinian terrorists being held in prisons in Israel and around the world, as well as $5 million. If these demands were not met, the terrorists would start to kill Jewish passengers.
Capt. Bacos and the rest of the crew were told they were free to leave, but the captain refused to abandon his Jewish passengers. "I told my crew that we must stay until the end, because that was our tradition, so we cannot accept being freed. All my crew agreed without exception," he later recalled.
Capt. Bacos demanded to see the Jewish passengers and was allowed to visit the terrified hostages. After years of flying to Israel, he spoke some Hebrew and was able to comfort them, trying to convey a sense of reassurance he hardly felt himself. The situation appeared hopeless.
Unbeknownst to the hostages, Israeli commandos were contemplating a daring raid. After attempts to reason with Idi Amin proved fruitless, Israeli officials tried to gain the cooperation of France to help free the hostages. As the days dragged by and the terrorists set one deadline after another for their unreasonable demands, it became increasingly clear: Israel stood isolated and had to find a way to free Jewish hostages hundreds of miles away in a hostile nation, alone.
On July 3, 1976, with just hours to go before the terrorists had vowed to start shooting hostages, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin authorized an unprecedented, top-secret attack. Four transport aircraft carrying Israeli troops took off from Israel, landed in the Egyptian port of Sharm el-Sheikh, then took off again, headed towards Entebbe.
Captain Michel Bacos
They were helped by a Jewish passenger from the doomed Air France flight named Ninette Morenu. She was mistakenly identified as non-Jewish by the terrorists due to her very French-sounding name, and she quickly contacted Israeli authorities after arriving back in Paris. Before departing Entebbe, Ms. Morenu had made a determined effort to memorize the layout of the airport, particularly the terminal where the Jewish passengers were being kept. The diagram she drew helped Israeli officials decide they had enough information to go ahead with their plan.
Under cover of night, the soldiers flew to Uganda. They knew that upon landing they would be marooned in a hostile country, far from any logistical or military allies. Once in Uganda, the Israeli commandos changed into uniforms of the Ugandan army. The plan was to pretend to be a motorcade carrying a triumphant Idi Amin to the airport where his miserable hostages were being kept.
The plan nearly was derailed. The motorcade came under fire from Ugandan troops operating a roadblock, but managed to drive through and arrive at the airport. For Capt. Bacos, the site of the motorcade was initially terrifying - until he got a look at the soldiers. "I lifted my head," Capt. Bacos later recalled, "and I saw a soldier dressed like a member of the Ugandan army with a white hat, and he said in Hebrew: 'Listen, guys, we're coming to take you home.'"
Israeli soldiers battled with the terrorists and Ugandan troops. In the melee, three passengers were killed: Ida Borochovitch, Jean Jacques Maimoni, and Pasko Cohen. A fourth passenger, Dora Bloch, had been hospitalized in a Ugandan hospital and was murdered there after the raid. One Israeli soldier, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was killed in the fighting.
Michel Bacos (left) emerging from the Israeli military plane
after the Entebbe rescue mission. Photo: Ya'acov Sa'ar
As the Israeli soldiers flew home, they had a special message for Capt. Bacos, whose commitment to his Jewish passengers had never wavered, and who was sitting with them in the main body of the plane. "Your place is not here," a soldier told him, "but in the cockpit."
After the daring raid on Entebbe, Capt. Bacos took off two weeks for a vacation. Then he resumed flying for Air France and had a request for his very first flight back on the job: he wanted to fly to Tel Aviv.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., July 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of South Carolina Corporation, (Nasdaq: BKSC) announced unaudited earnings of $1,726,357 or $0.31 basic and diluted per share for the quarter ended June 30, 2018 – an increase of 24.52% from earnings for the quarter ended June 30, 2017 of $1,386,385 or $0.25 basic and diluted per share. Earnings for the six months ended June 30, 2018 increased $726,114 or 27.79% to $3,338,587 compared to $2,612,473 for the six months ended June 30, 2017. Returns on average assets and average equity for the six months ended June 30, 2018 were 1.57% and 15.59%, respectively, compared to 2017 returns on average assets and average equity of 1.26% and 12.47%, respectively.
Fleetwood S. Hassell, President of the Bank of South Carolina, stated, "Improved loan demand, strong margins, and continued emphasis on management of expenses have led to a strong second quarter and first half of the year. We are pleased to be ahead of budget and last year's performance to date. We look forward to the rest of 2018."


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Receiving no government contributions, our work is completely funded by the generosity of our members and through vital donations from our supporters to the Wings Appeal.
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This week we've got three comedies that are as different as night and day, but are guaranteed to make you LOL. Or maybe even LMAO. Or … maybe we'd better just stop there. Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star in a zany send-up of the screwball comedies of the 1930s with Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc?. Dick Powell only has eyes for Ruby Keeler (like, all 1 million of her) in Busby Berkeley's delightfully mad Dames (1934). And Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard star as a quirky couple who love each other, but have an awfully strange way of showing it in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941).
Wade's Pick: WHAT'S UP, DOC? (1972)
Although Peter Bogdanovich had already directed two feature films and a documentary, a common misconception is that his fourth, 1971's The Last Picture Show, was his first; as he was lauded as a "wunderkind" upon its release. Known both as a critic and film scholar, Bogdanovich used his considerable cache to next tackle a project that hearkened back to the Golden Age of Hollywood; the screwball comedy, something which he knew quite a lot about. What's Up, Doc? Starring Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand cleaned up at the boxoffice, and laid the groundwork for his third major hit, Paper Moon. While Picture Show and Paper Moon are highly respected and viewed ad infinitum, you just don't see What's Up, Doc? screened very often, which is a shame. It's something of a curio, as interesting for its many misfires as its on-target hits.
Barbara Streisand plays Judy Maxwell, a strange and screwy girl who becomes instantly fascinated with Ryan O'Neal's Howard Bannister, a PhD in music in town to hopefully win an endowment for his study in rocks. Along with his domineering fiancée, Eunice (Madeline Kahn in her feature debut) he carries a bag that is similar to three others, one filled with diamonds, another with secret documents, and the third, filled with Judy's clothes. Grabbing some carrots from a passing waiter, Judy introduces herself to Howard, uttering Bugs' famous salutation, "What's Up, Doc?" From that point on, she makes a wonderful mess out of Howard's life, all the while the four bags are chased, lost, stolen and swapped.
The film doesn't necessarily "work" in the traditional sense, because it's not really a faithful parody or re-imagining of the screwball comedy. It's a mashup of comic styles and periods, and as such, works about 50% of the time. Borrowing from Howard Hawks, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and the Marx Brothers, not to mention Bugs Bunny, Bogdanovich cast his net almost too far. Not quite as slapsticky as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, or paced with the brilliance of Bringing Up Baby or His Girl Friday, the cast gets an "A" for effort. Streisand and Kahn are the real stand-outs, as the former is allowed to not only show off her ability to machine gun fire convoluted statements like Rosalind Russell, but merge her comedic timing with a sexiness she was rarely able to use to such winning effect. And Kahn already shows the ability to embody her role, a shrewish harpy, from the annoying voice to her frumpy walk, to a "T." (That same year she would explode with her performance in Blazing Saddles). O'Neal, living somewhere between Cary Grant's David Huxley and Harold Lloyd, is adequate, but doesn't have the charm or timing of either; sometimes coming off less than the genius he's supposed to be, and more like a compete dimwit.
Still, some of the film is snort-out-loud funny. A third act car chase is well-paced and directed, and includes many of the sight gags reminiscent of silent comedies. And the many references and inside jokes, from O'Neal's Howard looking for Judy Maxwell and calling "Judy! Judy! Judy!" (the age old Cary Grant cliché, mis-attributed though it is) to an avalanche of trash cans chasing a man down the street a la boulders rolling after Buster Keaton in Seven Chances, are fun touchstones to the past.
What's Up, Doc?, rather than a departure for Bogdonovich, strangely became standard form. He tried to captured the lunacy again and again in At Long Last Love, They All Laughed and Illegally Yours, all to a worsening effect. Whatever the reason you approach What's Up, Doc? there's a little something for everybody, and five will get you ten you'll find yourself snorting out loud and not even know the reason why.
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Carley's Pick: DAMES (1934)
It's ridiculous. It's madness. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There's dancing laundry and neon violins and kissing cousins and plenty of Joan Blondell's side-boob and about 1,000 Ruby Keeler's and NO I have NOT been drinking. This is Busby Berkeley, ladies and gents, and that woozy boozy just-how-much-did-I-drink-last-night effect is achieved entirely without the help of alcohol. (Or any other stimulant du choix.) Dames is delightfully fun insanity (and gosh darn pretty to look at too) all wrapped up in a big melodious ball of WTF.
If you've ever seen any of the Powell/Keeler/Blondell/Berkeley concoctions, the ingredients are always pretty much the same. There's always a hungry hoofer, even hungrier chorus girls, and in keeping with Depression-era themes, pursuit of the ever-elusive almighty dollar. Yet somehow, the results are always deliciously caffeinated confectionery. Dames is no exception. This time around, Dick Powell is an aspiring showman with plenty of talent but not a penny to his name, thanks to having been axed from the family fortune courtesy the disapproving Uncle Ezra (Hugh Hebert). On the moral side of the family are Matilda (Zazu Pitts) and Horace (Guy Kirbee) who will do anything to get their early $10 million inheritance from pious teetotaler Uncle Ezra (who has a fondness for hiccup medicine with a 70% alcohol content), and are determined to keep their pretty young daughter (Ruby Keeler) away from Powell. (Yeah. Powell and Keeler are cousins. I know, I know, just … go with it.) But Powell finds an unexpected financier for his show in jittery old Guy Kirbee, who is being blackmailed by sexy showgirl Joan Blondell. Kirbee is of course terrified of being found out by Uncle Ezra as the silent partner in a Broadway show, and even more terrified that Keeler is the show's star performer. The predictable mishaps result in light (make that very light) comedy as they gang stops at nothing to produce their reeeally big sheew.
Working off a script by a young Delmer Daves (who was on the cusp of becoming a Hollywood heavyweight in his own right with The Petrified Forest, Love Affair, Dark Passage, etc.,), the film's directorial credit is attributed to studio director Ray Enright. In fact, during Busby Berkeley's explosive two year period of 1933 and 1934, he held a single "directed by" credit—his directorial debut She Had to Say Yes (1933). The classics 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade, Roman Scandals, Fashions of 1934, Wonder Bar, and of course Dames, were all directed by a studio man, with Berkeley holding the title of either choreographer or director of musical numbers. And yet, with every last one of these films, they are very much "Busby Berkeley". Berkeley was give complete creative control with Dames, and was even allotted his very own unit. Berkeley's signature geometric choreography which transformed hundreds of beautiful dancing girls into human kaleidoscopes, was dubbed "cinematerpsichorean" by Warner Bros, and Dames features some of the master choreographer's most ingenious creations.
The transcendental screen magic of a Berkeley number is typified with Dames. As author Lucy Fischer states, "The Berkeley production numbers posit their existence in the realm of pure imagery. The space in which his sequences transpire does not conform to that of the concrete world. It is abstract and, in its fluid chain of metamorphoses, essentially ambiguous. From this perceptive, it becomes the perfect vehicle for fantasy." And there is nothing more fantastic that the monumental, 20 minute long closing production sequence which culminates with the dizzying "I Only Have Eyes for You" starring hundreds of Rube Keeler's. Literally.
Dames and the rest of those early '30s Busby Berkeley musicals are the type of escapist Hollywood entertainment that was designed to bring relief to Depression era audiences, and today they are time capsules that have precisely the same effect on the modern viewer. We are allowed play around in its impossible universe for 80 minutes before having to go back home to our dreary reality. And I wonder … how much of it has to do with the timelessness of the material, and how much of it has to do with the fact the unstable world we live in is as hard pressed for audiences today as it was for audiences then … maybe it's both.
Jill's Pick: MR. AND MRS. SMITH (1941)
Ann and David Smith are a rather unusual couple. They are madly in love, filled with fun and passion, but they must follow a number of self-imposed rules to guarantee they will never leave each other's presence while angry. With each fight (the bad ones, anyway), David (Robert Montgomery) and Ann (Carole Lombard, in her penultimate film prior to her tragic death) agree to hole themselves up in their lavish master bedroom suite, refusing to leave until matters are resolved. It's kinda like John and Yoko's bed-in for peace, but without the peace. And the singing. And the signs of protest. And … OK, it's really nothing like the bed-in except there's a bed, a room to go around it, and they're staying in. Once a truce is called, the once-quarreling lovebirds become reacquainted with some good ol' make-up sex (implied, anyway), finally going about their daily lives more in love than ever. Now, it's worth mentioning these fights are rarely short ones. Lasting for days at a time (we're told of one time when they went a whole EIGHT days without leaving the bedroom), this quirky relationship "rule" isolates Ann and David from the real world. Which means David can't work (he's a lawyer with his own firm), and yet this makes virtually no impact on their financial status (read: they're loaded).
When we first meet our couple they are embroiled in a three-day standoff. Their servants, co-workers, and neighbors all wonder if this one will beat their current 8-day best (or worst, depending on how you look at it). Luckily, the argument ends on the third day, and things are looking great for Ann and David. During a footsie-filled, post-coital breakfast, Ann asks a rather pointed question that's rooted in truth, respect, and love (the truthful answers to these kinds of questions always cause loads of trouble): " If you had it all to do over again, would you still have married me?" And in the name of honesty and respect, David answers with a "no."
What a dumb ass.
Later that day, David is informed that his marriage to Ann is null and void due to a silly bureaucratic technicality/mix-up in the county where they were married. Ann is made aware of this, too (although David doesn't know she knows), and decides this is the perfect time for David to step-up and make the right decision again.
But he doesn't.
So, in violation of the very rules she laid down on their relationship, Ann throws David out of the house, vowing never to be with him again. And through David's silly, pathetic attempts to win her back, Ann stubbornly rejects David at every single turn. You know, that is until the very end when all screwball comedies find a way to bring couples back together.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) is a fun, but rather odd little film. The director of this wacky screwball comedy is none other than the master of suspense himself: Alfred Hitchcock. Now, this film was made fairly early on in his long Hollywood career (he'd already made a name for himself in his native England), and definitely sticks out like a sore thumb amongst his darker, suspense classics. That saying, Hitchcock had a wicked sense of humor, and you'll find many cheeky a moment throughout his filmography. Also, this is one of a few films where Hitchcock wasn't involved in the script writing process. He took this film on as a favor to Carole Lombard.
And really, no one can turn down Carole.
What we have is a very un-Hitchcockian film directed by Hitchcock. But if you know what to look for, you'll see his hand prints all over this film. For instance, when Ann is shaving David with a straight-razor, there's an awkward combination of sexiness and "oh my god, she may slit his throat." Or the blatant sexual double entendres and imagery Hitch is famous for, which are too many to count in this film. And more importantly (although we don't want to spoil things too much) but remember the train tunnel in North by Northwest or the bursting fireworks in To Catch a Thief? Yeah, think along those lines. The end result is a fast-paced comedy with hilarious performances by a very handsome Bob Montgomery and a luminous Carole Lombard (who is a bit more reserved and not at all frantic and high-pitched as she was in, say, Twentieth Century), and makes you wonder what it would've been like to have more Alfred Hitchcock directed comedies.
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Stephanie April "Steph" Twell is a British middle distance runner who competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She won the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships, and is a three-time winner of the European Junior Cross Country Championships (2006-2008), as well as being part of four winning Great Britain teams. Representing Scotland, she won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Dehli.
Twell was born in Colchester, England. Born and raised in England, Twell announced in 2009 that she would compete for Scotland rather than England, and represented Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She is eligible to compete for Scotland as her mother is from Paisley.
Twell's personal best time for the 1500 metres is 4:02.70, set in Barcelona, Spain on 1 August 2010. She competed in the women's 1500 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was eliminted in her heats running 4:06.68.
In September 2008, Twell was named European Athletics Rising Star of 2008. In January 2009 she was named "Telegraph Ten for 2012" - 10 of Britain's brightest young sports stars in The Daily Telegraph.
She began the 2009 cross country season well, winning at the Antrim International Cross Country. A few months later, Twell finished 38th in the 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Jordan. Although she was the fastest Briton in the race, she was disappointed with her performance and stated that she resolved to do better in the next championships.
She set a new personal best in the 5000 metres in May 2009, winning the Artur Takac Memorial in 15:18.47 – a meeting record.
She had a disappointing run at the 2009 European Team Championships over 3000 m, finishing in fourth in a time well outside her PB. At the 2009 World Championships she was never in contention in her heat at 1500 m and then when one of the favourites she was only 11th in the European Cross Country Championships (under 23 race).
Her 2010 was marked by improvements in her personal bests on the track. She set a 1500 metres best at the Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meeting, finishing third and ahead of Lisa Dobriskey with a time of 4:02.54. Stepping up to the 5000 m at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels, she smashed her previous best by 22 seconds to set a new Scottish record of 14.54.08, breaking Yvonne Murray's 15-year-old mark. She ran at the Women's 5K Challenge in London in August 2010 and took third place behind Sylvia Kibet and Linet Masai. Twell suffered a fractured ankle competing in a cross-country race in Belgium in February 2011. A further foot injury in June 2012 ended her hopes of competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.


Laclaustra M, Rodriguez-Artalejo F, Guallar-Castillón P, Banegas JR, Graciani A, García-Esquinas E, López-García E. Clin. Nutr. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.
CIBERESP and Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Idipaz, Arzobispo Morcillo, 4, 28029, Madrid, Spain; IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM+CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
BACKGROUND: Certain foods and dietary patterns have been associated with both inflammation and frailty. As chronic inflammation may play a role in frailty and disability, we examined the association of the inflammatory potential of diet with these outcomes.
METHODS: Data were taken from 1948 community-dwelling individuals ≥60 years old from the Seniors-ENRICA cohort, who were recruited in 2008-2010 and followed-up through 2012. Baseline diet data, obtained with a validated diet history, was used to calculate Shivappa's Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII), an "a priori" pattern score which is based on known associations of foods and nutrients with inflammation, and Tabung's Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Index (EDII), an "a posteriori" pattern score which was statistically derived from an epidemiological study. At follow-up, incident frailty was assessed with Fried's criteria, and incident limitation in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) with the Lawton-Brody index. Statistical analyses were performed with logistic regression, and adjusted for the main confounders.
RESULTS: Compared with individuals in the lowest tertile of DII, those in the highest tertile showed higher risk of frailty (odds ratio [OR] 2.48; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.42, 4.44, p-trend = 0.001) and IADL disability (OR: 1.96; 95% CI: 1.03, 3.86, p-trend = 0.035). By contrast, EDII did not show an association with these outcomes. The DII score was associated with slow gait speed, both as a low score in the Short Physical Performance Battery test (OR: 1.82; 95% CI: 1.27, 2.62, p-trend = 0.001) and as a positive Fried's criterion (OR: 1.64; 95% CI: 1.08, 2.51, p-trend = 0.021), which use different thresholds.
CONCLUSIONS: DII predicted frailty and IADL while EDII did not. DII is able to measure diet healthiness in terms of physical decline in addition to avoidance of inflammation. REGISTERED ON: ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01133093.


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James Shapiro's Huffington Post blog carries a eulogy to evolutionary biologist Carl Woese, who died in December. Chasing through links about him, I find that Woese spoke to the argument I made here, and quite likely originated it, in 2004. His overview of evolutionary theory for the twenty first century is well worth reading here.
When I posted recently about David Attenborough I mentioned that I mistakenly thought I'd blogged about science documentaries before. But my intention, had I actually done so, would not have been to criticise their truthfulness, but to use them as an example of the inescapability of genre considerations.
I've remarked before on how uncommon it now is to find straightforward Evangelical teaching on evangelical websites, especially in the US. Nearly everyone wants to distance themselves from biblical inerrancy, probably through wishing to distance themselves from Fundamentalism and crude literalism. I think this is because, as I mentioned in the post linked above, on that side of the Atlantic (and because England catches a cold when America sneezes to an increasing extent over here) "Evangelical" has ceased to mean "united to Christ by faith in the Evangelical doctrine of the Reformation". Instead it implies only "believing one has a personal relationship with Jesus".


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Gay Rights, Gun Rights, Birthrights, Inalienable Rights & Other Self Evident Truths
What we most often think of as "Constitutional rights" are actually found in the Amendments to the Constitution. There are twenty seven such Amendments, and the first ten are traditionally known as the Bill of Rights.
Many of the other seventeen Amendments (after the Bill of Rights) are not concerned with basic, fundamental "rights." But five of them are: the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments (abolishing slavery and related issues); the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage); and the 24th Amendment (abolishing "poll taxes").
The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery. It was actually proposed in Congress on January 31, 1865, just under a month before the surrender of General Lee. It became law on December 6 of that year, eight months after the assassination of President Lincoln.
The 14th Amendment (adopted July 9, 1868) has four major components:
The citizenship clause grants citizenship to everyone born in the United States (except for Native Americans!).
The due process clause protects individual rights against arbitrary government actions.
The equal protection clause guarantees all US citizens equality before the law.
The incorporation clause prohibits individual states from violating rights protected under the Constitution (yes, this was necessary!).
The 15th Amendment guarantees the right to vote for all citizens.
Taken together, the 13th through 15th Amendments were necessary to extend full citizenship to former slaves. Even with these amendments there still came into being an odious system of second class citizenship, which was only possible because the 13th through 15th amendments were not rigorously enforced.
The whole bullshit argument over "States Rights" arose as an attempt (successful for almost a full century) by racist Southerners to exempt themselves from abiding by the Constitution of the United States! This is precisely the reason for the "incorporation clause" in the 14th Amendment - to ensure that no State can deny its citizens any of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
The other two major "rights" oriented Amendments are the 19th, which extended voting rights to women; and the 24th, which prohibits the use of the so-called "poll tax" to deny any citizen the right to vote.
People should study the simplicity and forcefulness of the language in these fifteen Amendments. Then compare this stirring language with the (often) tortuously obtuse, mind-numbing legalese of the rest of the Constitution. In fact, the primary function of much, arguably most, of the Constitution is to carefully define and legally enshrine property rights, whereas these fifteen amendments are where our rights as human beings are addressed.
As everyone knows, the original framers of the Constitution fell far short of fully implementing the ideals espoused in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. And the same was sadly true of the implementation of the 13th through 15th Amendments.
Even today, in the 21st century, the power of the 14th Amendment has yet to be fully realized. How can anyone claim that we have equality before the law when same-sex marriage is barred by law? In fact, how can anyone claim that we have true separation of church and state when religiously inspired homophobia is allowed to influence our laws in ways that have a direct and pervasive effect on the lives of citizens?
Some people want to monkey with the 14th Amendment. Some people want to tinker with the 2nd Amendment. Some people don't realize that Sharia Law is incompatible with equality before the law -- the same law for all citizens. Some people don't want equal protection to be applied in the case of same-sex marriage. Some people want to make a fetish out of the idea of the Constitution, to turn it into an empty symbol and a political marketing ploy. Some people think religious freedom is an outmoded idea because we should get rid of religion altogether. Some people think freedom of speech is an outmoded idea because they want to criminalize "hate speech." But mostly people just don't want to bother with trying to understand the issues and ideas that Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and others wrestled with and that we have to still wrestle with today.
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At least nine climbers including a South Korean world-record holder died after an avalanche buried them at the base camp of Mount Gurja in western Napal.
The group, on an expedition to climb the 24,000-foot Himalayan mountain, were reported missing Friday.
An unexpected heavy snowstorm followed by a landslide buried the base camp, which sits more than 11,000 feet above sea level. The group was waiting for weather conditions to improve so they could head to a higher camp.
Along with top climber Kim Chang-ho, police identified the Koreans killed as Jaehun Lee, Jin Rim, Young Jik yoo and Joon Mo Jeong. The deceased Nepali climbers are Tsering Bhote, Lakpa Sangbu, Phurba Sherba and Netra Chantyal.
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First, who am I? What is SACNAS?
My name is Bridget Hansen and I am an undergraduate in Microbiology at San Francisco State University, doing research at the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies. Over the summer, I participated in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Excellent Research Opportunity Program (HHMI-ExROP) summer research and the AMGEN program at the University of California, Berkeley. I worked on a project that I then presented at the SACNAS Conference this past October.
SACNAS stands for the Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. This society, made up of many successful Chicanos and Native Americans in science related careers, puts on a national conference once a year. The conference has opportunities for scientists at all levels, from undergraduates to professors and researchers. Many graduate school recruiters and other professional organizations come to this conference to recruit, providing a great platform for networking.
I used this opportunity to network for graduate schools! I will be attending a PhD program in the fall, in part, thanks to my interactions that I had at SACNAS.
What happens at the SACNAS National Conference?
Students from all over the country submit abstracts for the opportunity to present their work, either in the form of a poster or an oral presentation. The students had a scheduled time and room to present. Other than presentations, the meat of the conference was geared towards guest speakers and networking. The whole goal of the conference was to introduce young students to the world of research and science related careers! The best part is the graduate student recruiter booths where you have the opportunity to chat with recruiters, professors, and students from that university.
There were hundreds of booths set up, all stocked with professors, recruiters, graduate students and pamphlets listing the reasons why you should come to their school. Nearly every research institution was in attendance, looking for the next round of graduate students to apply to their programs. They want you to apply to their programs but most importantly, they want to make sure their school lines up with your research interests. You can ask them about the programs, the application process, what it is like to live in that part of the United States and any funding opportunities. Exchanging business cards or information is very common and the badge that you are given upon arriving even has a scanner square that the recruiters can use to keep in touch with you (they scan your badge and your e-mail is logged with them).
I spoke to over a dozen booths about their programs and had all my questions answered. I was even recruited during my poster session presentation! Which brings me to my next point.
The presentations are great for two reasons: 1. You have an opportunity to talk about your work and receive feedback on your presentation skills and 2. Other schools can come by your presentation and see you as a researcher. This is fantastic! I am not the best on paper in some ways, so having other schools approach me based on my science, reassures me that I am more than just my GPA or my GRE scores. Not only that, I received written evaluations based on my presentation skills and my poster, which were all constructive and positive!
The guest speakers focus on their journeys as minorities in the sciences and how their transforming experiences have brought them to where they are today. They inspire us to continue to pursue our passions and create a sense of community, which I will get to in a minute. The seminars are also great opportunities for junior scientists, like myself, because they offer an opportunity to check out new areas of research, hear about different paths in science outside of academia and get insights into how to be successful. There are workshops on how to give a compelling interview, what to expect in graduate school and how to master networking. All of these skills are important ones that give you a competitive edge.
The experience itself was wonderful. Surrounded by 3,600 other students, mentors and researchers, the conference felt grand. I say grand because the conference center was massive, the sheer number of attendees was at times, a bit overwhelming, and the hotel that we were assigned to left me in awe. The Gaylord National Conference Center in Washington D.C. was an incredible place to hold this conference this year. As apart of the conference fees, we were fed in a large hall, which also created a sense of community.
The SACNAS conference creates a sense of community for young scientists; a community that they can be a part of throughout their careers in the sciences. The idea of having a supportive community that I can be part of is a great feeling, especially coming from a background that does not have any college graduates. It can be lonely sometimes, walking into a completely new field that no one you grew up around, has any experience in. So, when I attended the conference with other San Francisco State students who were also presenting, they immediately considered me one of the group, even though we had just met. Similarly, other students from other places also welcomed conversation with open arms. The inclusion that occurs at SACNAS is excellent.
Overall, I highly recommend attending a SACNAS national conference. It looks great on your CV, it is great for your future scientific career and definitely gives you an edge when applying for graduate school. Bring your own business cards!
If you have any questions about SACNAS, please refer to the SACNAS website: http://sacnas.org .
Hope to see you there next year! I will be attending as a graduate student!
Feel free to contact me with questions at: blhansen "at" mail.sfsu.edu or missbridgette4 "at" aol.com. and indicate you read this blog so I know where the questions are coming from!


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Piedmont's finances strong, budget panel chair tells council
'(Continuing) the parcel tax is critical' for revenue, Hosler says at Monday meeting
By Linda Davis | Correspondent
PUBLISHED: October 10, 2019 at 5:00 a.m. | UPDATED: October 10, 2019 at 5:16 a.m.
PIEDMONT — The city is in good shape financially, Bill Hosler, the Budget Advisory and Financial Planning Committee's chairman, told the City Council at its Oct. 7 meeting.
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"We have enjoyed great financial success the past few years," Hosler said. "The real estate transfer tax has been robust. (Continuing) the parcel tax is critical. Roads and sidewalks need attention, and there is a lot of deferred maintenance. But we will bring it under control. There is still more to be done."
The council asked for a report from Hosler as it considers how much to levy and how long the municipal services special tax should run. The current parcel tax expires June 30, 2021. A measure could go on the primary ballot March 3, 2020, or later, City Administrator Sara Lillevand said. The city would have to file with the county by Dec. 6 to put the parcel tax on the March ballot, and the council would have to approve that by its Dec. 2 meeting.
The council did not set the rate yet for the new parcel tax. Piedmonters currently pay $602 a year for an average parcel of 5,000 to 9,999 square feet or $694 for a larger parcel of 10,000 to 14,999 square feet. The council favors the renewed parcel tax run for four years. They instructed staff to begin putting together information in preparation. Continuing his report, Hosler noted that, despite economic recovery surpassing prior records, a downturn will come at some point, impacting city revenues and increasing city costs.
"Care must be taken to continue to moderate expense growth and future promises," he said. "The city must balance its basic operational needs with the … desires of the public for improved public facilities, such as parks, public pool and recreation facilities."
Finance Director Michael Szczech said every Piedmont department spent less than its budget. Pension and salary costs were lower than expected due to some city staff vacancies that were not filled. Workers compensation costs were up to $410,000, exceeding the budget by $124,000.
"There was an uptick this past year, but I don't expect that to continue," Szczech said, recommending an increase in spending in years when funds are available to pay for street repairs.
About half of Piedmont's streets are in good repair, and the rest range from good to poor. Costs for sidewalk repairs exceeded budget by $212,000 due to damage from heavy rains. Szczech transferred $200,000 from the general fund to the sidewalk fund for 2019-20. The council unanimously approved the budget transfers, with Vice-Mayor Teddy King absent.
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Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising
Slow, deliberate and deceptively simple, the music of Boston-based band Galaxie 500 was wonderfully at odds with the prevailing underground sounds of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Formed in 1987, the band split up in 1991 after releasing three acclaimed albums—Today, On Fire and This Is Our Music—as well as a Peel Sessions recording. The primary contributors to this long-unavailable history of the band are the three band members—bassist/vocalist Naomi Yang, drummer Damon Krukowski and guitarist/vocalist Dean Wareham—but dozens of people were interviewed in all, including fellow musicians, record business folks, music critics and scenesters. Galaxie 500: Temperature's Rising provides a complex, sometimes contentious account of the band's rise to indie stardom and their acrimonious breakup. It also includes dozens of rare and never-before-seen photographs, as well as posters and other ephemera from the personal collection of Naomi Yang, who provides a running commentary to the images. This is the definitive book about Galaxie 500 and a crucial chapter in the story of indie rock.
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New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Title New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Short Title NSW Assisted Immigrants
Repository Ancestry.com
Source ID S333
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data:
New South Wales Government. "Returns of convicts applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense." Series 1190, Reel 699. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
New South Wales Government. "Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists)." Series 5316, Reels 2134-2143. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
New South Wales Government. "Persons on early migrant ships (Fair Copy)." Series 5310, Reel 1286. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales.
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El término hipermedia sirve para designar al conjunto de métodos o procedimientos para escribir, diseñar o componer contenidos que integren soportes tales como: texto, Imagen, video, audio, mapas y otros soportes de información emergentes, de tal modo que el resultado obtenido, además, tenga la posibilidad de interactuar con los usuarios.

La estructura hipermedia de estos contenidos, califica especialmente al conjunto de los mismos, como herramienta de comunicación e interacción humanas. En este sentido, un espacio hipermedia es un ámbito, sin dimensiones físicas, que alberga, potencia y estructura las actividades de las personas, como puede verse en casos como, entre otros: Redes sociales, Plataformas de colaboración en línea, Plataformas de enseñanza en línea, etc.

En el plano conceptual, hipermedia designa a medias que puedan bifurcar o ejecutar presentaciones. Además, que respondan a las acciones de los usuarios, a los sistemas de preordenamiento de palabras y gráficos y puedan ser explorados libremente. Dicho sistema puede ser editado, graficado, o diseñado por artistas, diseñadores o editores.

Es la suma de Hipertexto y Multimedia. Una red hipertextual en la que incluye no sólo texto, sino también otros medios: imágenes, video, audio, texto, unidos entre sí por enlaces y conexiones lógicas para la transmisión de una información. Por ejemplo: DVD, presentaciones de PowerPoint, en Flash, en programas en línea o productos informáticos similares.

Para Ted Nelson, la idea de que dichas medias manejen múltiples espacios simultánea o secuencialmente, hace que las medias se llame hiper-media. En donde el prefijo hiper, es un término prestado por las matemáticas para describir los espacios multidimensionales. El hipertexto se considera un subconjunto de los hipermedios y estos a su vez de los multimedios según palabras de Woodhead en 1991. Para darle en 1997 el hipertexto se utiliza para indicar las conexiones entre los documentos de naturaleza textual e hipermedios se refiere a la conexión entre los documentos de diversos tipos de medios.
En el contexto de la Sociedad Conectada, hipermedia se entiende como una extensión del concepto de Hipertexto, en la cual audio, video, texto e hipervínculos generalmente no secuenciales, se entrelazan para formar un continuo de información e interacción, que puede considerarse como virtualmente infinito desde la perspectiva de Internet.

Entre los tipos de hipermedia se encuentra:

 hipertexto
 hiperfilmes
 hipergrama

El primer sistema hipermedia creado fue el Aspen Movie Map. Actualmente ejemplos de hipermedia son:

 la World Wide Web
 las películas almacenadas en un DVD
 las presentaciones en Powerpoint o en Flash o productos informáticos similares.

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Hipermedia Multimedia - María Jesús Lamarca Lapuente
 Integración de materiales didácticos hipermedia en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje: retos y oportunidades
 Proyectos Hipermedia, manual de procedimientos
 Hipermedia; Laberintos Digitales

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Change is a constant in business today. What worked last month may need a tweak this month. Even though there are core elements to business that remain, change is constant. For example, we have to market our company, service or message to acquire more business-that's a core element. But some of the things we do in order to market our business are things we didn't do five years ago. And I'm curious to see what will join the mix in the next five years … because things change.
"Despite widespread unemployment, U.S. companies seeking to hire are complaining of a shortage of qualified workers."
As the Baby Boomers continue to retire, industry finds there are not enough trained and tenured Generation X and Y (yet) to take their place in certain fields. To address the issue, some corporations are proactive as they encourage "schools and colleges to provide job training for the next generation of employees" Anita says in reference to a Wall Street Journal report on the subject.
Replacing Baby Boomers is new territory because it's not plug and play. The new generations don't think the same, don't stay on jobs as long and are often motivated by different goals and lifestyle choices.
Foreign is relative. Who is speaking? Where are they from? What is their culture? The ability to recognize and adapt to these distinctions can be new territory for some. In "How Understanding Foreign Cultures Can Help You Advance," John Mariotti provides "a crash course in culture politics" including the differences from one company to the next.
"No matter how competent you are, no matter how experienced you are, until you understand the culture in which you are operating, living or simply participating, you are in many ways, a rank novice."
Distinctions between businesses, languages, departments and histories change how we see and respond to things. Every time you encounter a culture difference it's new territory. So before you clear the room by saying the wrong thing, listen and adjust. Learning to maximize these distinctions instead of aggravate them could be good for business.
"Like it or not, influence indicators matter. Becoming an influencer is no longer reserved for celebrities and powerful political figures. YOU are currently becoming an influencer, or fading into the background, depending on your marketing presence online."
"Reputation and influence rankings are here to stay regardless of what the measuring app or tool is called."
Social media is a relatively new marketing medium with new measurement tools. It's new territory. The question is, How do you adapt to change, to new territory, to difference?
Pay attention to the people around you — how they engage, communicate and adjust — and make plans only after you understand what you're dealing with. But be quick to listen because ignoring the distinctions and the changes can cost you opportunities, relationships and influences.


Frothing, or foaming, soy milk is the process of using steam to heat it and mix in air to create bubbles. The heat causes the milk to taste sweeter, leaving your coffee drink with a sweet, creamy foam on top. Most milk substitutes can be frothed, though the quality may suffer.
Soy milk can be frothed similarly to cow's milk. However, the quality of the foam will depend on both the composition of the liquid used and the technique and skill of the barista. Different brands of soy milks may vary in density and fat to protein ratios, causing them to froth differently from each other.
Nutritionally, soy milk has a fat content about halfway between those of skim milk (0 g per 8 oz.) and whole milk (8 g per 8 oz.), giving its foam stability and a richer texture. It is lower in proteins than cow's milk, which may make it more challenging to froth.
Starting with refrigerated soy milk will give a better froth than room temperature milk. Because soy milk has about half the sugars of cow's milk, a sweetener may need to be added before frothing to achieve a similar flavor. Soy milk can make a healthier alternative to cow's milk, having only slightly more calories than skim milk and less saturated fat per serving than whole milk, while keeping the creamier texture of whole milk. For a tasty coffee treat, try foaming flavored soy milks as well as plain.


A brief break – hols and all that – so here are a few things from April to get your chops around.
Champions-strugglers-champions (elect) vs Strugglers-champions-strugglers: the Economist looks at how Chelsea and Leicester keep swapping places. Plus the Guardian shows how British managers are overrated by English clubs – and the stats back it up.
Yup, Scrabble. A FiveThirtyEight dive into how Qi and Za have changed the game.
The Guardian on why the Lions selection process is almost as tough as the tour.
Quartz on the physics behind figure skating's most difficult jump – the quadruple.
The Ringer on how to draft a quarterback.
ESPN on how the Roger Federer revival couldn't have come at a better time.


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American Institute of Architects study shows smart thermostats are the most popular product, while demand for mechanical rooms for racks wilts away.
Home technology is becoming so popular that even Marcia Brady from The Brady Bunch would be jealous these days. According to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Home Design Trends Study, home technology is absolutely on fire in terms of its popularity among architects, and smart thermostats and lighting controls are leading the pack.
Energy management is the "most popular home automation and wireless controls" feature that architects are specifying these days. The study shows that 66 percent report the popularity of energy management systems has increased in 2017 compared to 2017.
Home automation is also growing in popularity, with 48 percent saying there is increased demand for control systems, up from 43 percent in 2016.
Lighting controls had the highest leap of any technology in 2017 with 39 percent of architects saying the technology is growing in popularity, up from just 26 percent last year.
2017 is the first year the AIA asked about wireless audio systems, and it is a good thing they did. More than half (52 percent) of architects say it is a popular amenity these days.
Smart themostats are the most popular product being requested according to architects. For more data from the AIA Study, check out the slideshow.
The AIA study also asked architects to rate which individual products are the most popular home amenities. Smart thermostats was the No. 1 overall most popular technology, ahead of any other amenity… technology or otherwise.
64 percent of architects said smart thermostats are the most popular home amenity in 2017. Other items making the list include synthetic materials, tankless water heaters, and interior motion sensor lights, among others.
Outdoor living is another strong category, with 70 percent of architects citing demand for outdoor living spaces, which often include technology.
Interestingly, the room space that has the biggest decrease in demand is the "home automation management mechanical room." In 2016, 24 percent of architects reported demand for that space, but only 11 percent in 2017. This trends mirrors what integrators are seeing in terms of the elimination of the need for large equipment racks.
The study also shows that the average architect has a 4.8 month backlog right now, which is up from a 2.7-month backlog back in 2010. Finally, remodeling/additions is the hottest construction sector for architects, ahead of kitchen remodels, first-time homes, move-up homes and luxury condos.
Energy management is the most popular technology system being requested to residential architects. To see more data, check out the slideshow.


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Net Tax Bill On Way To Bush: Has State IP Tax Provision
Today theHouse of Representives gave final approval to a measure that would extend the prohibition on state-imposed Internet access taxes until November 2007. The bill goes to President Bush for his signature.
By Russell Shaw for IP Telephony | November 19, 2004 -- 17:22 GMT (09:22 PST) | Topic: Enterprise Software
A key provision allows states to tax Internet phone services.
A handful of Senators, including Tom Carper (D-Delaware) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) insisted on this exception. Interesting to note that as former two-term Governors, both Sens. Carper and Alexander are attuned by personal experience to the need states have to raise revenue.
As if to underscore the Internet-themed focus of his initiative, Sen. Alexander posted the following comment on his site after the measure was approved:
"Last year Congress came close to passing legislation that would have cost states billions of dollars in revenue and had the effect of raising local property taxes and state college tuition payments. This compromise is a good result, but only a temporary solution.
"It is time for governors and mayors to sit down with telecommunication company leaders and suggest a permanent solution that simplifies regulation and taxation of Internettelephone technology without harming state and local governments."
Sen. Alexander's enthusiasm for the right of states to tax VoIP runs counter to the FCC's opposition tosuch taxes. It's unclear what the battle lines will be on this one when the new, 109thCongress convenes in early January.
We'll be watching.
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Bodyguard accuses Morrissey of firing him for not murdering a fan
Thread: Bodyguard accuses Morrissey of firing him for not murdering a fan
July 30th, 2014, 03:10 PM #1
Between the new album, the canceled tour, ill health and the barbs traded with Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea over Canada's seal hunting policies, and the time he publicly threw his opening act under the bus, it's been a fairly eventful year for our favorite aging, cantankerous crooner.
However, things took an unexpected turn when a former bodyguard Bradley Steyn filed a lawsuit against the singer, claiming that he was let go after refusing to "hurt" "DavidT," the operator of the Morrissey fan site Morrissey-solo.com.
As Stereogum points out, Moz has had a long and troubled history with the site, which posts news and rumors related to the singer. In 2011, he and his band even performed a show while wearing "Fuck Morrissey-Solo.com" shirts.
TMZ reports that Morrissey felt that the site "invaded his personal space" and allegedly asked Steyn "if there was a way the fan 'could get hurt.'" The suit alleges that inquiries were made into finding the site operator's home address. As if that weren't creepy and upsetting enough, apparently inquiries were made as to whether the fan "could be gotten rid of."
It turns out that meat is murder, but putting an alleged hit out on a fan is just a solution to an annoyance.
Even the most devoted of Morrissey fans have had to reconcile the fact that the singer can be kind of a dick, and that's putting it mildly. However, the fact that the notoriously difficult artist might assumed a have seriously contemplated putting a hit out on a fan is a bitter pill to swallow. Plus, imagining the singer adopting a morose Don Corleone persona is downright absurd. So much for the times when Moz sang"I never wanted to kill/I am not naturally evil."
If this turns out to be true, the singer might learn that the authorities tend to frown on attempts at murder for hire. Another singer, Tim Lambesis of the Christian metal band As I Lay Dying, recently found that out the hard way.
UPDATE: Morrissey has posted a statement on fan site True To You, denying all of Bradley Steyn's accusations.
According to Moz:
The shabby truth of this drama is that Bradley Steyn has been trying to extract money from what he terms "the Morrissey tour", and he has failed. He is now desperate, and this story is his latest escapade to gain someone's attention. What he is telling the world is that, as a music venue security officer, anyone who works with him in the future should expect the same harassment and persecution as he is now – mysteriously – wielding my way. It is beyond belief, and it is shocking that someone who makes claims of professionalism would lower himself to this level.
Please note that Bradley Steyn's statement is now in the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department, and is subject to both criminal and civil action.
The full text can be read here.
Source: TMZ
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He's a great guy, very nice and calm, but also very focused on getting his students better. He's dedicated to teaching and improving his students' skill level, and he makes sure his students have fun while doing so. Overall, a great teacher, coach, and friend to have. Speaking personally, my playstyle and level have improved dramatically since I started taking lessons with him.
Clement is a great tennis coach. He is able to quickly ascertain areas needing improvement and is very patient. It is easy to understand Clement's instructions. I am very pleased with the lessons he has provided.
Great experience with Clement. My friend and I took our first lesson with him this past weekend, and he came to my subdivision's court, which was very convenient. We started off with form and he grew on that as the lesson went on. Clement was very patient with us, as we are not the most skilled players, but had some great tips that completely changed my hits. My friend and I are looking forward to our next lesson with him!
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Clement is a fantastic coach. He constantly gives feedback to the whole team throughout the whole lesson. I enjoy taking lessons from Clement.
Clement is coaching our Alta team for several months now, although we are 8-9 ladies in lesson, each one of us feel a lot of improvement. After we started with coach Clement, our team went up in the league. he is very positive and encouraging, easy to follow and learn. I very much recommend him!
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Clement is my coach, trainer, and hitting partner and he has been so for almost 15 years. During that entire time he has consistently been upbeat, positive, and a great role model. I have played tennis almost all of my life and because of my time with Clement, I am hitting better than ever. He has coached me to have a smoother swing - both backhand and forehand, and he has taught the value of having true confidence in both my tennis game and in my life. I absolutely recommend him as a tennis coach/instructor.
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I check with them about their strengths and weaknesses. What they want to work on and improve the most, how often the lessons, willingness, patience they can demonstrate to make changes. What's their specific goals and time frame to accomplish them.
Am USPTA and GPTA certified. Both requires me to have extensive training, conferences and workshops each year to maintain my certification.
Don't have a standard pricing. Base my rates on ages, levels, semi privates, group privates and how often the lessons are. Open to negotiations.
Been playing tennis all my life and have the love and passion for it. Played professionally and decided to share my knowledge, experience and expertise to people willing to learn, listen, trust me and improve.
Have work with all sorts of players. Worked with several of the top juniors in the state and southern region. Worked with beginners, adults, teams, groups. Love working with anyone willing to listen and would hard to improve their game.
A student I started coaching at the age of 7, as a pure beginner, went on to win the biggest tournament in GA in the 10's and under when he was 9yrs.
To look for someone with experience and have work with several proven players now and in the past. Watch the teacher give several lessons if able to.
What's their main focus and purpose. How patient and flexible the teacher is.