Last night I couldn't sleep, lay awake for an hour and then woke before dawn still crackling with energy. It's as though I am carrying the collective healing of a whole group of people and I can barely contain it, barely open my heart to let it in, it is so joyful. Who would have thought such a reaction would come from talking about grief?
Yesterday I gave a sermon at The Weekly Service. It's a group that's been on my radar for over a year, a church for nonreligious people, an opportunity to have meaningful conversations with like-hearted community, something I've been dying to check out. So when co-founder, Cam Elliot saw me at The Moth in Melbourne last month and invited me to share my story at the Service I jumped at the chance.
The story I told was not about the more-than-human or my relationship with it and it was not about violence against women. It was about my mother and about grief, a deeply personal story about one of the most significant and precious moments of my life. I called it "We don't do grief in our family: a healing tale" and a crowd of almost 50 people turned up to hear it.
Beforehand I was a bundle of nerves. Several audience members were mentors and heroes of mine, not one, not two, SEVERAL. Plus my family were there and my cousin. I had to go and stand in the lane way under the peppercorn tree just to keep myself from dissolving into a puddle of fear. When it came time to speak, the nerves faded into the background, I sang one of my songs about presence and surrender and following the 'quiet whispers of joy' and was very grateful that my quivering hands managed to keep forming the chords.
Then I took a deep breath and told the story. It's one I've told a couple of times before but I badly wanted it to be alive for this group. The Weekly Service has gathered a precious community of seekers and truth speakers, the first time I sat among them I wept with the feeling of safety and welcome, all my petals unfurled. Now, sitting in front of them, I wanted to honour them by offering all of myself, my presence, my rawness, my truth. I wanted to let myself be seen.
I have no idea what it was like for them, I can barely remember what I said or how it went. I remember the reactions though, remember my joy at hearing people's reflections and connections, at having my story given back to me fresh and new from all these different perspectives. They saw things in it that I had no idea were there and took beautiful things beyond my imagining to apply to their lives. Wow.
A new culture is coalescing. A new way of being in the world. We are sick of complaining about late industrial capitalism and we are rolling up our sleeves and making something new. Long have I admired the people at the forefront of this creative task, yesterday I felt like I was taking my place among them. I couldn't be more excited about what the future holds, communities like this make life worth living.
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La Catedral de León, també coneguda com a Basílica Catedral de l'Asunción de León, i el nom oficial és Insigne y Real Basílica Catedral de la Asunción de la Bienaventurada Virgen María, és una catedral de construcció barroca colonial situada a la ciutat de León, Departament de León, Nicaragua. Està inscrita a la llista del Patrimoni de la Humanitat de la UNESCO des del 2011.

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ZEKE: Interview with Matt Black
Social Documentary Network
Matt Black is an American photographer who grew up in California's Central Valley. His work primarily revolves around documenting food, farming and the human relationship to the land in that area. SDN's Caterina Clerici talked to him about the work recently exhibited at his first solo show in New York at Anastasia Photo gallery, his ongoing 'Geography of Poverty' project on Instagram, and what it means to work on life-long projects.
Caterina Clerici: Let's start with your recent exhibition at Anastasia Photo gallery in New York, "From Clouds to Dust" which brings together two twin documentary projects of yours, "The Kingdom of Dust" and "The People of Clouds." The first embodies part of your multi-year work chronicling contemporary farming life in California's Central Valley, while in "The People of Clouds" you document the disappearance of farming culture and the indigenous communities dependent on it in Mixteca, a region in southern Mexico. What's the link between the two projects?
Matt Black: The work exhibited at Anastasia puts together two different projects, but it's a continuum to me as a photographer. My professional life started in the Central Valley, then followed the route taken by the immigrant field workers but in reverse, back to their home towns in Mexico, and then took me back here to California. Also, both projects focus on the issues I've always been interested in exploring: labor, migration, food, farming. The work is about the human connection to the environment, about the community, and its land.
CC: You graduated from San Francisco University with a degree in Latin American and US labor history. How did the transition to becoming a photographer happen?
MB: I never really wanted to be a "professional photographer." Photography has been a way to engage on these topics, to explore communities and the issues they're facing. I don't see photography as an end per se, but as a means of engaging, communicating what you're trying to say… and you have to know what you're saying with your photography.
CC: How does the fact that you're so familiar with the area and the issues you've been documenting for decades affect your photography and help in that sense?
MB: There is a strong connection between myself and what I photograph. You have to have that. If I didn't have that connection, I wouldn't feel like I had anything particularly interesting to say about a topic. If the issue is something dear to me, like the drought in Central Valley in California in this case, then I know I do have something to say.
CC: What led you to take that leap from California to Mexico?
MB: The issues I've been exploring in Mexico are very similar to the ones I've been documenting for so long back home. In the mid-1990s, while I was working in California more and more workers were migrating there from Mexico. I started asking myself. "Why? Why are they coming? What's forcing them out?" So in 2000 I went to Mexico to see what was happening there and over time I've watched the impact of this migration grow. I saw that the towns were disappearing: no one was left except for the youngest and the oldest. So, "Why do people migrate?" was always the core question behind the project.
CC: What struck you the most when you were working in Mexico?
MB: These towns are dying, and it's just incredibly sad. As a photographer, I think what's most humbling to me was that many of the people are so happy to see that an outsider understands and cares. It's easy to think that "raising awareness" has become a naïve idea, but most places I go I'm the only photographer. So that's what makes me think that doing it is important. Because I know what is going on, I feel responsible to be there.
CC: Back to the Central Valley: how did the "California: Paradise Burning" project you and Ed Kashi did for the New Yorker come about?
MB: Ed contacted me to talk about the situation in the Central Valley, and it became clear that we should do something together. I was shooting stills, and he did the video. It's incredible how photos, video and audio can work together… all avenues are being employed to tell the story and that makes it very strong.
CC: You've recently decided to include Instagram among the many avenues to pursue your documentary work. Why did you start using it?
MB: I had been interested in the idea of mapping photographs for a while and when I looked at Instagram for the first time—not very long ago actually [laughs] —I saw it had a map built in and thought, "That's the coolest thing!" So, the "Geography of Poverty" project was basically built around that part of the application. You see a picture, you see a community, and you see where it's on the map. It can be very powerful and people connect to the image in a different way. Even people who will never go to these places can instantly place them on a map and that makes them more real.
CC: What do you think is the most significant aspect of your work as a documentary photographer and can Instagram or other innovations in the field make it better?
MB: I think the most important aspect of my work is the long period of engagement with a place and these issues. Then something like a drought happens and it shows how everything can change, how it is all so fragile. With my work I can help focus attention on some of the issues, and Instagram and other new media definitely help. I try to use my voice to keep these places in front of people's eyes. Especially in California, I know these towns and I care about them, and I go because I feel it's my duty to be there. It's my job to do it.
ZEKE is published by Social Documentary Network (SDN), an organization promoting visual storytelling about global themes. Started as a website in 2008, today SDN works with nearly a thousand photographers around the world to tell important stories through the visual medium of photography and multimedia. Since 2008, SDN has featured more than 2,000 exhibits on its website and has had gallery exhibitions in major cities around the world. All the work featured in ZEKE first appeared on the SDN website, www.socialdocumentary.net.
Spring 2015 Vol. 1/No. 1
ZEKE Staff
Executive Editor: Glenn Ruga
Writer: Paula Sokolska
Copy Editor: Barbara Ayotte
Proofreader: Matthew Lomanno
Social Documentary Network Advisory Committee
Barbara Ayotte, Medford, MA
Director of Strategic Communications
Management Sciences for Health
Kristen Bernard, Salem, MA
Marketing Web Director
EBSCO Information Services
Lori Grinker, New York, NY
Independent Photographer and Educator
Steve Horn, Lopez Island, WA
Independent Photographer
Ed Kashi, Montclair, NJ
Member of VII photo agency
Photographer, Filmmaker, Educator
Reza, Paris, France
Photographer and Humanist
Jeffrey D. Smith, New York NY
Contact Press Images
Steve Walker, New York, NY
Consultant and educator
Frank Ward, Williamsburg, MA
Photographer and Educator
Jamie Wellford, Brooklyn, NY
Photo Editor, Curator
ZEKE is published twice a year by Social Documentary Network
Digital ISSN: Forthcoming
ZEKE does not accept unsolicited submissions. To be considered for publication in ZEKE, submit your work to the SDN website either as a standard exhibit or a submission to a Call for Entries. Contributing photographers can choose to pay a fee for their work to be exhibted on SDN for a year or they can choose a free trial. Free trials have the same opportunity to be published in ZEKE as paid exhibits.
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In this video, you're going to learn how to set up an IPsec VPN using the new VPN Wizard in FortiOS 5.2. Using IPsec VPN, you can provide remote iOS users with secure, encrypted access to an internal network, and routes their Internet traffic through the FortiGate so it abides by your security and firewall policies. This example uses iOS, but you can adapt it for any VPN-capable device. Visit Fortinet's documentation library at http://docs.fortinet.com. Best viewed in 1080p.


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Ying Wu College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty for 2021-2022 Academic Year
Written by: Michael Giorgio
Published: Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Top Row: Fuad Hamidli, Huong Le, Yao Ma, Kamlesh Naik
Bottom Row: Shantanu Sharma,Julie Ancis, Hua Wei
Seven new faculty members – researchers and instructors – joined the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) in Fall 2021, embracing the opportunity to contribute to the NJIT academic mission. They collectively bring a wealth of experience from as far as Asia and the Middle East to the four corners of the U.S., hailing from institutions and organizations that are recognized leaders in their fields.
Craig Gotsman, dean of YWCC, cannot conceal his satisfaction: "As we continue to grow the college, we welcome a steady stream of fresh talent. Our recent crop is as outstanding as it is diverse, and we look forward to their contributions, which I know will be significant."
Fuad Hamidli, university lecturer
Fuad Hamidli received his Ph.D. in cryptography from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. A cybersecurity expert, his work has been deployed throughout industry. His current endeavors include research on APN/PN/Bent functions and continuing his joint work with collaborators at METU on Alltop functions. He is also continuing research and evaluation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities/incidents and security solutions.
Fuad is eager to contribute in an academic environment and looks forward to sharing his significant industry experience with NJIT's many students.
Huong Le, university lecturer
Huong Le recently completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at NJIT. This experience has enabled her to successfully transition to a new position as University Lecturer with a first-hand perspective on understanding the needs of students. She expects to continue refining her teaching style and is passionate about reinforcing value, best practices, and ethics to the diversity of freshmen and seniors with whom she feels privileged to be educating. She will also continue working on her research interests of spectral clustering, computer networking, machine learning, blockchain, data analytics, and deep learning.
Huong is currently writing two books: Machine Learning Mastery with Python and A Practical Guide to Hands-on Computer Networking. When not working, she enjoys reading Manga and cites Kindaichi, Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit and The Liar Game as all-time favorites.
Yao Ma, assistant professor
Yao Ma recently earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2021. Prior to that, he completed his MS (2016) in Statistics, Probability & Operations Research at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and his BS (2015) in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. His research interests include graph neural networks and their applications, social network analysis, and knowledge graphs. He is currently developing deep learning models for graph-structured data. Yao authored the first comprehensive book on the topic of Deep Learning on Graphs, published by Cambridge University Press.
Kamlesh Naik, university lecturer
Kamlesh Naik transitions to the NJIT faculty following completion of his M.S. in computer science in spring 2021. Honored and excited to have been appointed as a faculty member at his alma mater so soon after graduation, he views teaching more as a calling than just a job. Kamlesh feels that his recent experience as a student himself will provide insight into instructional methodologies that will resonate with the many "young, enthusiastic learning minds" in his classes. In parallel to continuing to develop as an instructor, he will also perform research in the field of cybersecurity, with the ultimate goal of pursuing a PhD degree.
Shantanu Sharma, assistant professor
Shantanu Sharma holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, widely considered to be a "mecca" for machine learning research.
Shantanu has developed several techniques for scaling cryptographic techniques for large-size datasets, which have been incorporated in a real-time, privacy-preserving WiFi-based system called TIPPERS, funded by DARPA. The system uses WiFi connectivity data for localizing people both inside and outside buildings, and is operational at UC Irvine and the Naval Information Warfare Center. Shantanu's work has been published at top databases conferences and he served as leading organizer and presenter on tutorials and advances in secure data management at the IEEE International Conferences on Data Engineering (ICDE) in 2020 and IEEE Big Data in 2019. He frequently collaborates with Jeffrey Ullman of Stanford University, recipient of the 2021 Turing Award.
Julie Ancis, professor
Julie Ancis is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Founding Director of the Cyberpsychology program at NJIT, which she launched in the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) prior to joining YWCC this fall. Julie has been active in leadership roles in the American Psychological Association (APA) and other organizations, including serving as Chair of APA's Society of Counseling Psychology's Section for the Advancement of Women. Julie has received a number of awards and honors, including Woman of the Year from that section and Georgia State University's Outstanding Research Award.
Prior to NJIT, Julie served as Associate Vice President for Institute Diversity at Georgia Institute of Technology and was affiliated with the School of Psychology. At Georgia Tech, she was PI and Co-PI of 6 million dollars in grant funding from the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Previously, she served as a tenured professor of psychology at Georgia State University.
Julie looks forward to bringing her expertise in the area of cyberpsychology and human-computer interaction (HCI) to the department of Informatics and collaborating on interdisciplinary research. Her current research focuses on the individual and environmental factors that influence susceptibility to online misinformation and its spread in areas of COVID, climate change, and prejudice. She is especially proud of having had her work applied to areas of clinical practice, training, and in the legal arena; including use of her research in several Amicus Briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Julie enjoys all genres of music… "as long as it's good…"
Hua Wei, assistant professor
Hua Wei recently earned his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 2020. Before joining NJIT, he worked as a Staff Researcher at Tencent AI Labs. His research interests include data mining (especially spatio-temporal data mining), reinforcement learning, and urban computing. He sums up his experience at NJIT thus far: "As the saying goes, 'the first step is always the hardest,' but the faculty and staff have made it much easier for me."
Hua lives by the motto "teach well, advise well," and cites the satisfaction he felt when a student at a conference told him that his paper followed Hua's work and was accepted for presentation at the conference.
He also appreciates that NJIT security will come and open the doors when you lock yourself out of your building and office! Many have probably done this but few might admit it…
NJIT Promotes Digital Readiness Across NJ Educational System
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Messing with Disaster: International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies
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University of Los Andes (ULA) senior lecturer in political sciences, Jutta Schmitt writes: This week, from March 22-26, the 'Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies,' hosted by the Climate Response Fund, is taking place in Pacific Grove, California-USA, where scientists discuss possible means to counter-balance climate change and its impacts. The kind of measures proposed to mitigate climate change pertain to the realm of geo-engineering and climate intervention techniques, and are outlined in the Conference's working agenda.
The agenda itself can best be described as an array of proposals for 'disaster management,' aimed at 'moderating' global climate change. Listed among the various physical science aspects of climate intervention are experiments related to Solar Radiance Engineering, which respond to 'Solar Radiation Management' or the 'management of climate change in the stratosphere and above,' which test 'the potential for aerosols in the troposphere or stratosphere to limit incoming solar radiation.' Under the specific approaches for Solar Radiation Management figure the stratospheric injection of sulfate or other materials with global or regional coverage, satellite deflection of solar radiation, cloud brightening on a global or regional scale by sea salt or dimethyl sulfide (DMS) injection, 'ocean brightening' as another means to deflect solar radiation, arctic intervention and specific regional intervention relating to hurricane modification and redirection of storms, among others.
– 'Spraying the stratosphere with sulfate or other materials'?
– 'Hurricane modification and redirection of storms'!
Until recently, suggesting that this kind of experiments were being considered in earnest by high level scientist panels or that they could already be going on as we speak, was denounced as the pathetic fantasies of global conspiracy theorists gone crazy! But now and as Copenhagen went down the drain, all of a sudden we see the emergence of a Global Climate Crisis Management Team, ready to 'geo-engineer' us out of the mess.
Let's take a closer look at the proposed 'innovative' techniques to deflect solar radiation, especially as they've already been put into operation for quite some time. Since years, former German Greenpeace activist Werner Altnickel, who obtained German and European Solar Prize distinctions for his alternative solar energy projects implemented successfully in his hometown, Oldenburg, has referred to the already ongoing spraying of the stratosphere with sulfate or other materials as described in the Climate Response Fund's working agenda, in terms of a chemical crime committed right above our heads, clearly visible to the public in form of the so called Chemtrails and documented in thousands of videos and photos posted on thousands of websites on the World Wide Web.
Altnickel warns that spraying the stratosphere with chemicals and metals (polymers, fibers, cadmium, barium, aluminium, titanium, mercury, lead) is not only a highly questionable technological attempt to contain and mitigate climate change effects, but also a means to manipulate the weather and to create inductive fields, of special interest for military purposes such as enhancement or interruption of communication technologies. The spraying has taken place ever since the beginning of the nineties, with intense and wide-range Chemtrail spraying over North America and most of the Western European countries. Altnickel suspects that the US' retreat from the Kyoto Treaty under George W. Bush is in the first place due to the assumption that it is 'cheaper' for governments to spray the skies and more profitable for the companies that provide the logistics, technology and substances being sprayed, than implementing and actually sticking to regulations that effectively protect the environment. The environmental contamination as a result of the massive injection of chemicals and metals into the atmosphere and the subsequent dangers to public health by exposure to hazardous elements stand in stark contrast to the proposed 'mitigation of climate change effects.'
For Altnickel, the only peaceful way that can lead to popular resistance against these contaminating and highly dangerous practices is making people aware of what is happening, furthering public knowledge and understanding of these phenomena with the help of the new communications technologies.
It is worth to note that among the chief Science Advisors of the Climate Response Fund, host of the Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, are Edward A. Frieman, Research Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University California, San Diego and Senior Vice President of Science and Technology at the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
To our Venezuelan readers, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is notoriously known and remembered as the Corporation which, by means of its subsidiary INTESA, owned and managed the technological and electronic components of Venezuelas State Oil Company, PDVSA, and which oversaw and conducted the electronic sabotage and shutdown of the industry's 'electronic brain' during the events of 2002-2003 that have come to be known as the management lockout and sabotage of Venezuela's industrial heart.
According to research undertaken by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele in March 2007, SAIC is a private company, one of the main government contractors in the US, with a workforce of 44,000 people and a true record of 9,000 active individual government contracts with annual revenues between 8 and 12 billion dollars.
The main product of the company is brainpower and expertise to guarantee 'national security':
"(…) SAIC is a body shop in the brain business. It sells human beings who have a particular expertise — expertise about weapons, about homeland security, about surveillance, about computer systems, about "information dominance" and "information warfare." If the CIA needs an outside expert to quietly check whether its employees are using their computers for personal business, it calls on SAIC. If the Immigration & Naturalization Service needs new record-keeping software, it calls on SAIC. Indeed, SAIC is willing to provide expertise about almost anything at all, if there happens to be a government contract out there to pay for it — as there almost always is."
Given the brief background sketched above with regard to the possible military applications of Solar Radiance Engineering, it is disturbing to think that the very Senior Vice President of Science & Technology at the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is among the chief Science Advisors of the Climate Response Fund, which is hosting the Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies this week in Pacific Grove, California.
The conference's commitment to take into consideration the social context of climate intervention, the international legal framework for climate intervention (ENMOD) as well as 'ethical principles' with regard to climate intervention technologies, does little to tranquilize the mind. And this is why the closing event of the conference will be a 'plenary discussion on climate change, public attitudes, the media, and insights on implications for public discourse on climate intervention/geoengineering,' read a brainstorming effort to resolve the problem of how to spin-doctor the world public into accepting and approving the application of these messing-with-the-climate-disaster techniques.
The upcoming World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth to be held in Cochabamba, will definitely have to address the danger posed by this emerging 'Climate Change Management Lobby,' which rather than fight the root causes of the problem seeks to mess with the disaster in multiple ways.
The three basic postulates of the World People's Conference on Climate Change, that is, to determine and fight the structural causes of climate change, to live in harmony with nature and to recognize and establish the rights of Mother Earth, are fundamental pillars in what can be considered the only viable way to effectively respond to the threats to human survival.
Recognizing that climate change is "a product of a model of life and development under the capitalist system that is premised on the supremacy of human beings over nature," that it is necessary to "challenge the current system based on consumption, waste and the marketing of all aspects of life and nature," and thus demanding that the rights of Mother Earth be recognized and defended, is imperative to planetary survival.
Messing around with the climate disaster and exploiting it for the sake of making profit from new climate intervention technologies and techniques, surely will pave the road to hell.
The World People's Conference on Climate Change must stand up against climate intervention technologies, geoengineering and global environmental warfare.
Jutta Schmitt
jutta@franzlee.org.ve


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State of the State address; proposed abortion ban
Phelan M. Ebenhack
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a joint session of a legislative session on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, in Tallahassee.
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave his annual State of the State address on Tuesday, opening the state legislative session in Tallahassee. He said he is proud of what he calls the Free State of Florida.
The only statewide-elected Democrat says the governor is not fit to serve. Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried says that's because of a recently discovered stockpile of unused COVID tests as people around the state were waiting in long lines to learn their COVID status.
Fried is running for governor.
Even before Gov. DeSantis delivered his State of the State address, another candidate hoping to replace him in the governor's mansion was criticizing his approach. Charlie Crist was governor as a Republican and is now running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
The third Democrat running for governor, state Sen. Annette Taddeo, took issue with the governor calling Florida a "free state."
Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried.
Leon County GOP Chair Evan Power.
Proposed abortion ban
State lawmakers in Florida plan to pass legislation this year that would drastically limit access to abortions in the state. It's a move sure to inflame growing tensions nationally over conservative efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The bill that is moving in Tallahassee would enact a ban on abortion in Florida after 15 weeks of pregnancy unless two doctors agree the fetus is suffering from a fatal abnormality, or if the mother's life is endangered. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. Existing Florida law restricts abortions after 24 weeks.
State Sen. Lori Berman.
Melissa Woodford, communications director for the Florida Family Policy Council.
Katherine Hobbs
Florida Roundup Associate Producer Katherine Hobbs can be reached at khobbs@wjct.org or on Twitter at @KatherineGHobbs.
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When Bees Flew in for Breakfast is a collection of forty original poems written specifically for the 11-16 age group. The poems cover a wide range of themes, from nonsense humour to Gothic horror to logical puzzles to the Natural World. The poems are playful, surprising, thought-provoking and intriguing. This is a book that young people will want to read.
This was the first book I published, and it was written to my teenage self. Having been a passionate reader as a young child, I found in my early teenage years that there were fewer and fewer authors who interested me. I missed, for example, the imagination of Lewis Carroll in his Wonderland stories and the ingenuity of T.S. Eliot in his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. When Bees Flew in for Breakfast was the book that I would have wanted to discover when I was 13.
As someone who thinks that everyone is a reader - some just may not have found their favorite book yet, this is definitely a book I'd hand to reluctant teens and preteens. Short enough that it can be read in an afternoon, well-written enough that I found myself wanting to go back and revisit my favorite poems, it's a keeper.
This is a unique poetry book that can be inspiring for young minds attracted to words, songwriting and poetry.
This magical collection of 40 original poems compiled by Nigel Tetley is a treasure.
This is a book that I am sure every teen (and adult) will love to read, especially reluctant readers and those not yet sold on poetry. I myself have already shared some of the poems with family and friends and have gone back and re-read others just for my own personal enjoyment. I highly recommend this book and I am so glad I got a chance to review it. I am now a "When the "Bees" Flew in for Breakfast"KEEPER!"
An enjoyable selection of poems that are written to inspire young thinkers to think. Tetley adds philosophy, wisdom, and whimsy to each poem. He is an obviously talented poet, well-versed in form and technique.


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- George, our master wood craftsman, about 3 weeks before we called him up again with the idea to do a Wood TLR Camera.
By now you've probably heard the story of the 35mm Wood Camera, as it was one of our most-read and shared pieces ever. And for good reason: the story is unique, interesting, and - like most good things in photography- came somewhat unexpectedly.
The truth is that as soon as we saw the finished product, we were already thinking about what to do next. Before we launched the 35mm Wood Camera to the world, before we heard from people around the world how beautiful they were, and before they all sold out, we were already planning our next big move.
That move was the TLR Wood Camera.
You see, George is a rare find. And we knew we had only scratched the surface of what we could do together. He is the archetype of a humble breed of artisan makers and craftsmen from generations past. Although retired from his lifelong work as a master in woodcraft for many years, George continues to tinker and make smaller scale handmade items in his garage, quite literally.
This of course, means that he can only work when the weather is warm. As you may know, Philly is a bit chilly in the winter, and you can't really work wood properly in an unheated garage when it's below freezing.
So as soon as we called him up in mid January almost a year ago, just a few weeks after we launched the 35mm Wood Camera, he immediately reminded us that he couldn't get started on any making or prototyping until the weather warmed up.
But that didn't mean we couldn't start designing and planning.
As soon as April rolled around and the weather finally thawed (we had some late snowstorms near the end of March), we called him up again and went and paid him a visit.
Over the course of the next several weeks, we launched into a feverish design, development, prototyping and iterating process. Except instead of computer code, it was all painstaking, manual artisan-level expert woodwork.
We made multiple prototypes, each time making small or large tweaks to the overall design, the type of wood being used for each part of the camera, and even the arrangement of the different types of wood on parts that had more than one type.
Because of all the deliberate, slow manual labor involved, each prototype took weeks to make and finish. And each time, we got together with George and took a good hard look at it, poring over every detail and debating the merits of adding a piece here or using a different color wood there.
In the end, we settled on a single integrated drawer design, to avoid the issues that can develop over time with moving parts like hinges. After all, these are heirloom-quality pieces, and we want them to last 100 years or more.
In the final design, each TLR Wood Camera is made of 5 different types of wood from around the world.
They include some wood types that are rare and distinct, that were specially selected for their superior beauty and grain.
The top plate, lens front elements and feet are Maple.
The body of the camera and removable drawer are Walnut.
The lens back plate behind the lenses and in front of the faceplate is Black Walnut.
Each of these 10 cameras was handmade in Philadelphia.
Each piece of wood is carefully finished with 5 layers of ultra-thin satin coating to protect the wood and enhance the grain.
The removable drawer holds a 2" deep stack of standard business cards.
Care instructions are included to ensure your TLR Wood Camera lasts a lifetime and beyond.
This is a Limited Edition - only 10 have been made.
You can get one here. If they're no longer available, sorry. Given how much work goes into each one, George could only make 10 of them.
See if there's any left of the Twin Lens Reflex Wood Camera.
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Phnom Penh Post - More 'Adhoc 5' banners taken down by officials
More 'Adhoc 5' banners taken down by officials
Kong Meta | Publication date 05 May 2017 | 06:27 ICT
Sre Ambel district police officials tear down a banner calling for the release of the 'Adhoc 5', claiming that the display 'affects peace and security' in Koh Kong province. Photo supplied
Fri, 5 May 2017
Kong Meta
A day after Koh Kong police's contentious removal of banners calling for the release of the "Adhoc 5", Sre Ambel district officers tore down three more banners hung at villagers' homes, claiming the display "affects peace and security", with a Ministry of Interior official suggesting still more signs would be destroyed across the country.
District Police Chief Toun Sela said yesterday that he had ordered the commune police to remove the banners in his district, an action he said was not an infringement on private property.
"[The villagers] cannot place those banners recklessly everywhere . . . The banners affect peace and security. I don't think it violates private property. They hung them in front of their house, and when we went there we called them and gave them an explanation," he said.
When asked for the reason for removing the banners, he replied: "The arrest [of the Adhoc 5] did not happen here. If they want to hang the banners, they should hang them in Phnom Penh, not here."
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak backed the banner removal, and maintained that calling for the release of the Adhoc 5 was against the law because it constituted an attempt to pressure the court. "The ministry has not instructed them to do this, but officials in other provinces can remove these banners and have the right to do it," he said, dismissing any freedom of expression concerns.
The Adhoc 5 – current Adhoc staffers Lim Mony, Ny Sokha, Yi Soksan and Nay Vanda, and ex-staffer and election official Ny Chakrya – have been detained for more than a year without trial on allegations widely believed to be politically motivated.
Chi Khor Krom Commune Police Chief Sak Bun Thhean said that under the district police's orders, they went on Wednesday to remove the banners peacefully. "When we went there, we told them we would like to remove the banners. We don't threaten them," he said.
However, one of the three villagers, Nom Vannary, 41, said she was told by the police that they would remove the banner even without her consent.
"They requested us to remove the banner . . . They said that even without [our] consent, they will still remove it. They took our thumbprints to say that they did not steal our banner. I think it is so unjust," she said.
According to Duch Piseth, advocacy director for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, the police had no legal grounds to remove the banners at villager's homes without a court order.
"The Ministry of Interior and district police should investigate the case properly," he said.
Adhoc provincial coordinator Nheab Sam Oeun said that the police's actions infringed on the rights of the people and NGOs.
"I think what they are doing makes the villagers feel threatened," he said.
Additional Reporting by Jovina Chua
'Adhoc 5' free despite being sentenced to five years in jail
Outrage at 'Adhoc 5' hearing as key witnesses absent and verdict looms
Adhoc 5 key witnesses absent
NGOs call for charges against Adhoc 5 group to be dropped
'Adhoc 5' passed over for award
Cambodian mission rebukes UN over 'Adhoc 5' statement
The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations warned the UN not to interfere in the Kingdom's internal affairs after the body's
Groups welcome court's release of the 'Adhoc 5'
BREAKING: Adhoc 5 released from pre-trial detention
Three of the 'Adhoc 5' denied medical care
"Adhoc 5" see detention extended for six months


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Our aim is to stimulate an interest in classical music of all types from Bach to Wagner by listening to recorded music in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
There is also an Opera Group on the third Wednesday morning under the banner of Ledbury U3A which several members of Malvern U3A attend. All OPERA meetings are hosted by my wife Charlotte and me at our home in Upper Welland.
The Music Appreciation Group is now in its 10th year and the Opera its 6th.
We do not cap membership of either group as we operate a 'booking' system which works very well.
There are about six members who take their turn to host music. Host accommodation varies from 10 to 18 persons so booking is essential.


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Vince Mcmahon calls TNA programming "Reprehensible"
By MikeJordan23, March 25, 2009 in TNA Wrestling
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Vince Mcmahon calls TNA's programming "reprehensible"
WWE chairman Vince McMahon says TNA's TV programming is "reprehensible." McMahon also says he doesn't view TNA as competition because their ratings aren't close to WWE's.
"I think some of the things they do on television are reprehensible, but it is a TV-14 rating. That's the only bone I have to pick with them," McMahon told the Hollywood Reporter. "Their TV ratings are a fraction of ours."
McMahon called on TNA to adjust their TV programming to a PG rating, which is the policy WWE has adopted.
"My concern with TNA is not in terms of competition," McMahon said. "My concern with TNA is that they are TV-14, and we are PG. They have to change with the times."
The Hollywood Reporter's Georg Szalai then asked a solid follow-up question on WWE recently featuring a home invasion with Triple H and how that differs from TNA's programming. McMahon offered a peculiar response.
"What we try to do in situations like that is use things that you can't find around the house. You will never see us use a baseball bat," McMahon said. "You don't find folding metal chairs around the house."
McMahon said WWE is "very selective" in picking out weapons and incorporating outside-the-ring elements into storylines. He says they want the audience to care about the welfare of the characters without crossing the line of good taste.
"You can go up to the line. It's storytelling; that's how our business thrives," McMahon said. "If you have well-defined characters and put them in the right story line against other characters, people care about their welfare."
Caldwell's Analysis: I'm not sure where to start here. I'll get my agreement out of the way that McMahon is right about TNA's programming often being reprehensible and devoid of any redeeming quality. That said, WWE is in absolutely zero position to call out TNA on reprehensible programming after Raw on Monday night. I don't consider PG TV to be a 60-year-old man beaten and bloodied, a top babyface tearing up an enhancement talent with steel chair shots, John Cena verbally degrading a female as part of an adulterous love triangle storyline, or Randy Orton forcing himself onto an unconscious woman.
I don't even understand McMahon's logic on the Triple H home invasion storyline. So, it's okay to use weapons as long as they're not something you would find in the home? I'm being facetious here, but I suppose that's how WWE draws the line on not having a character pull out a gun and shoot an opponent. WWE has gone so far out-of-bounds with these wild storylines to create a reaction from the audience that they've lost sight of the internal logic in pro wrestling. Now they're at the point of trying to justify these storylines with puzzling and illogical statements.
http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_New...cle_30939.shtml
King Cucaracha 0
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I don't even understand McMahon's logic on the Triple H home invasion storyline. So, it's okay to use weapons as long as they're not something you would find in the home?
I assume Vince's logic was, if it were weapons that'd be lying around the house being used, children could easily replicate it at home.
But my first thought then was 'sledgehammer'.
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Interests:bustin' on serds who be actin' a fool...
So... a sledgehammer is less violent than a baseball bat?
EDIT: Cucaracha was thinking the same thing as me.
To be fair, most children probably couldn't lift a sledgehammer, so I guess it falls somewhere in between obtainable and unobtainable.
For what it's worth my grandparents have metal folding chairs ready for extra seating at large family meals. Every year I'm struck with endless temptation to brain myself with one of them. Clearly WWE's reprehensible programming has corrupted me.
CanadianChris 0
Why does Vince even bother opening his mouth? He has to know he has zero credibility calling another company's programming reprehensible. Or maybe Vince really is that delusional and self-unaware.
Star Ocean 3 0
As dumb as TNA can be I can't stand to support Vince McMahon anymore. At least TNA has people I can like, WWE is just awful.
The Amazing Rando 0
Absolute Original.
Dude, I'm like minutes from West Virginia, If I say the right phrase in certain neighborhoods I'd be up to my eyes in stop signs and cookie sheets. LET ALONE metal trashcans and bowling balls.
It's a little bit of both.
The Ghost of bps21 0
Owns All
This is such an odd little piece here. It's like he was asked a question he wasn't prepared for so he decided to use his answer to push the WWE is PG angle. He isn't wrong...what with Joe walking around with knives and hanging people upside down and beating the shit out of them...but you get the impression that he doesn't actually know that those things are happening and just that they are TV-14. The ratings thing is what it is. But that fraction has gotten a little smaller with Smackdown getting a 1.9 and ECW doing around the same numbers as TNA. They do only pull a third of the Raw audience though.
The most interesting part has to be him saying that TNA has to adapt to the times and be PG... Basically flat out saying that if they want to succeed they need to be more like WWE...which is what everyone else in the world thinks is TNAs biggest problem.
So, how long before TNA come out and say "Hey, Vince is wrong about us being reprehensible, I don't know anyone who's got a Samoan tribal hunting knife or 10,000 laying around their house so what we're doing is a-okay for children!"
In all seriousness, this is just a publicity soundbite rather than a firm statement. I doubt Vince is that up on the current TNA product and if he is, I doubt TNA's TV-14 stance means anything to him at all either way personally.
I don't think there's much to read into it besides "Vince uses opposition to put over WWE in interview".
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I think this is hilarious given how this past week's Raw ended.
That's actually pretty funny. I forgot Spike doesn't want them doing violence against women and Raw has Stephanie getting taken out and molested.
dubq 0
Sounds like Vince and Phil Mushnick can finally get along, heh.
Vince is really starting to sound like an old man.
"I don't want them kids running around here with baseball bats and hitting each other dagnabit!"
Black Lushus 0
Vanessa who...? Ashley what...?
Which one of you bozos has a sledgehammer laying around the house and if you do, why?
Karc 0
Sadly, Vince will be proven right when TNA responds to this on Impact. Because that will happen. But yeah, this a pot, kettle, black statement, nothing more.
My Dad has one in his storage shed, for reasons unknown. My Granddad had one in his basement that he bought for crushing asphalt when he was filling-in his driveway.
I too find "reprehensible" an odd choice of words. A couple weeks ago on RAW, Triple H broke into Orton's home, tore some stuff up, threatened Orton's "wife", then threw Orton through a window. This past week, Orton DDT'ed Stephanie off the Middle Rope, then kissed her while she was passed out, and hit Triple H with the Sledge. Looks like as usual, he's talking from both sides of his mouth.
As others have said, I believe in about 5-6 years, when the current target audience grows up and becomes angst-filled teenagers, we will probably see another Attitude Era of sorts.
Jingus 0
Universal Solder
We've got one in our garage, but mostly only because we've also got every other tool and hardware known to man. Except for a chainsaw. Always wanted a chainsaw, dammit.
As for the TV-14 bashing, it's actually just Vince going back to his old argument. Before the Attitude era, the WWF in outside interviews would constantly knock NWA/WCW for being overly violent and adult. This even went so far as to criticize things which weren't violent and adult but just claimed to be, like the first Uncensored ppv.
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I is your uncle
Location:South Jersey
Once one of you run a business, you'll understand. CEO's are always hypocritical. Without hypocrites, big business is dead.
White Stripes Sabin 0
TNA programming is pretty bad and I agree with McMahon about them being stuck in the past and need to get with the times. TNA is following the WCW playbook almost to the letter and its pretty scary. Vince, however, should be THE LAST PERSON to talk about taste. TNA deserves Vince's silence.
If anyone is still following this, Dixie Carter shot back at Vince, today:
Now, TNA President Dixie Carter is firing back at Vince, claiming that what happens on the PG-rated Monday Night Raw is worse than anything on TNA iMPACT! Carter told the UK Sun:
"I think it's wonderful that Vince watches
TNA iMPACT. "And I agree with him that things such as the brutal beating of a sixty-year-old man [Jericho-Flair], a vicious home invasion [Triple H-Orton] and gratuitous man-on-woman violence [Orton-Stephanie] can be seen as reprehensible – and that's just the last three Monday nights."
While Vince can make the argument that some of TNA's more outlandish angles (such as Samoa Joe putting a knife to Scott Steiner's throat) are "reprehensible," it's his own WWE product that bears the family-friendly TV-PG rating and is overtly marketed to children.
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On some level I understood what Vince was trying to say here and in various TNA threads I've noted similar aspects of TNA's programs being far over the top with violent threats and acts. Thing is, none of us on this forum are booking a wrestling show with a PG rating that has home invasion, women being attacked and semi molested, etc. It's a pot calling the kettle black deal.
JRE 0
A not crazy, a per se
Yeah....Vince picked a really bad week to say that.
2GOLD 0
Vince picked a bad month to say that. Hell, last month wasn't much better.
Vince didn't pick a bad time because do you really think deep down he cares? He knew a statement like that was going to get a rise out of the people who heard it.
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Doesn't do steroids. Injects cheesesteaks instead.
Vince forgot that the Attitude years existed. Wait a couple of years before the WWE becomes violent again.
Honestly, he probably does feel that to some extent. I took this as more of a "if I have to go and do that [what TNA is doing], I can and I will win, but family entertainment is where the big bucks come in" and he's been right so far.
Naked Snake 0
McMahon saying ratings are close for TNA is a joke. Didn't he freak out a few weeks ago when SmackDown! did a 1.9 rating. Hasn't TNA's highest rating this year been a 1.7/1.8? I'd say that's pretty close McMahon.


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Sophie Elkan née Salomon (3 January 1853, Gothenburg –5 April 1921, Gothenburg), was a Swedish writer and translator.

Life

Sophie Salomon was born to the merchant Alexander Salomon and Henriette Abrahamson: her parents had migrated to Sweden from Germany. Her elder brother, Otto Salomon was educator. She was raised in a happy home and affected strongly by her intellectual mother. In 1872 she married her cousin, the music book seller Nathan Elkan (1834-1879), with whom she had a daughter, Kerstin (1877-1879). Her marriage was happy, and the death of both her spouse and daughter in december 1879 with tuberculosis caused a crisis; for the rest of her life, she dressed in black.

As a widow, she began to make translations, publish serials and papers, and debuted as a novelist in 1889. Her first novel, John Hall – en historia från det gamla Göteborg, was an immediate success. As a writer, she made much use of her own life and experiences in her novels.

As a person, she has been described as egocentric and nervous, but also as hospitable and charming. In 1894, she became acquainted with Selma Lagerlöf, who, as is evident from their correspondence, was in love with her. The two women visited Italy in 1895, and traveled to Egypt, Palestine, Italy, France, Belgium and Holland in 1899.
After her death, Lagerlöf inherited her personal possessions, which she used to convert a room in her home Mårbacka into an Elkan museum, known as Elkanrummet (Elkan Room).

In fiction
The relationship between Selma Lagerlöf, Valborg Olander and Sophie Elkan was portrayed in Selma, a TV series written by Åsa Lantz in 2008, with Helena Bergström as Selma Lagerlöf, Ingela Olsson as Valborg Olander and Alexandra Rapaport as Sophie Elkan.

Works
 Dur och moll: skizzer och berättelser. Visby: Gotlands Allehandas tr. 1889.
 Med sordin : Skisser och novelletter. Visby. 1891.
 Rika flickor: berättelse. Stockholm: Fr. Skoglund i distr. 1893.
 Säfve, Kurt & C:o: nutidsberättelse. Stockholm: Skoglund (distr.). 1894.
 Skiftande stämningar: ett novellhäfte. Visby. 1896.
 John Hall: en historia från det gamla Göteborg. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1899.
 Drömmen om österlandet. Nordiskt familjebibliotek, 99-3140236-9 ; 10. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1901.
 Konungen: en sannsaga. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1904.
 Konungen i landsflykt: en sannsaga. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1906.
 Från östan och västan: en novellbok. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1908.
 Anckarström : en historia från idyllens och revolutionernas tidehvarf.. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1910
 Erdmann, Nils	August Bondeson ;  Ola Hansson ; Sophie Elkan ; Axel Lundegård ; Daniel Fallström. Sveriges national-litteratur, 1500-1900 / utgifvet af Henrik Schück och Ruben G:son Berg, 20. Albert Bonniers, 1912.

References

Heggestad, Eva (1991). . Uppsala: Avd. för litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Univ. Libris 7746142.
Sophie Elkan in Nordisk familjebok (second edition, 1907)
Svenskt författarlexikon: . [1, 1900–1940]. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. 1942. sid. 183–184. Libris 113133

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External links

1853 births
1921 deaths
19th-century Swedish women writers
19th-century Swedish writers
Swedish Jews
Swedish people of German-Jewish descent
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Hybrid and Alternative Fuel Forum
Insight and Honda News
Seven Honda Vehicles Certified for New Energy Tax Credit
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,, ... 63,00.html
IR-2006-86, June 1, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged the certification by American Honda Motor Company, Inc. that several of its vehicles meet the requirements of the Alternative Motor Vehicle Credit as a qualified hybrid motor vehicle. The tax credit for hybrid vehicles applies to vehicles purchased on or after Jan. 1, 2006, and could be as much as $3,400 for those who purchase the most fuel-efficient vehicles.
The hybrid vehicle certifications recently acknowledged by the IRS and their credit amounts are:
Honda Civic Hybrid CVT Model Year 2006 — $2,100.00
Honda Civic Hybrid (SULEV) MT Model Year 2005 — $1,700.00
Honda Civic Hybrid (SULEV) CVT Model Year 2005 — $1,700.00
Honda Insight CVT Model Year 2005 — $1,450.00
Honda Accord Hybrid AT Model Year 2006 — $1,300.00*
Honda Accord Hybrid AT Model Year 2005 — $650.00
*2006 Honda Accord Hybrid AT without updated control calibration qualifies for a credit amount of $650.
Starting in 2006, the tax credit replaces the tax deduction of $2,000, which was previously allowed for taxpayers who purchased a new hybrid vehicle before
December 31, 2005. The tax credit requires a different certification. Many currently available hybrid vehicles may qualify for this new tax credit.
Consumers seeking the credit may want to buy early since the full credit is only available for a limited time. Taxpayers may claim the full amount of the allowable credit up to the end of the first calendar quarter after the quarter in which the manufacturer records its sale of the 60,000th vehicle. For the second and third calendar quarters after the quarter in which the 60,000th vehicle is sold, taxpayers may claim 50 percent of the credit. For the fourth and fifth calendar quarters, taxpayers may claim 25 percent of the credit. No credit is allowed after the fifth quarter.
Hybrid Cars and Alternative Motor Vehicles http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,, ... 32,00.html
Summary of the Credit for Qualified Hybrid Vehicles
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mrv said:
For the fourth and fifth calendar quarters, taxpayers may claim 25 percent of the credit. No credit is allowed after the fifth quarter.
Hmmm,
I thought 1/4 maxed out at 4/4 so where's the 5th quarter. And in a calendar year, 5 quarters :?:
Yup :!: That's whats on the original IRS web page. :?
Or am I missing something obvious :?:
the quarters can wrap around years, so you're counting the quarters following the quarter when a manufacturer hits 60,000 sales since Jan. 1, 2006. a calendar quarter is a 3 month period.
Toyota/Lexus/Scion has a pretty chart explaining the credit amounts for its vehicles:
http://www.toyota.com/prius/tax.html
Toyota/Lexus/Scion will be hitting 60,000 hybrids this Q2 2006. (I haven't added up the May totals yet, but most likely they just hit it.) full credit extends to the quarter after the quarter that they hit the magic number, so end of Q3/Sept. 30, 2006. Then 1/2 credit for the next two quarters, so end of Q1 2007, then 1/4 credit for the next two quarters, so end of Q3 2007, then sales of Toyota/Lexus/Scion hybrids as of Oct. 1, 2007 have no more credit.
ethicalpaul
What they said:
The tax credit for hybrid vehicles applies to vehicles purchased on or after Jan. 1, 2006, and could be as much as $3,400 for those who purchase the most fuel-efficient vehicles.
What they meant:
The tax credit for hybrid vehicles applies to vehicles purchased on or after Jan. 1, 2006, and could be as much as $3,400 for those who purchase some sort-of fuel-efficient vehicles, but will be $0 for those who purchase the most fuel-efficient vehicle, the Insight MT, and will be a puny $1450 for those who purchase the second most fuel-efficient vehicle, the Insight CVT.
I'm not a government-basher typically, but this burns me up.
Me too, at least initially.
The deeper problem is that this credit as applied does not encourage people to buy smaller and really fuel-efficient cars. Large credits for bigger vehicles like the Highlander, Escape, and Lexus are counter-productive: these vehicles both burn more gas and (probably) produce more pollutants per mile than either Insight version does.
[Is the SULEV designation determined by ppm or total mass of pollutants?]
People in the US (myself included!) have tended to think in terms of a single vehicle which serves all purposes and therefore is large enough to do the maximum they might need. When I was replacing my 1994 Accord Wagon (27-28mpg) in 2003 it never occurred to me to just keep it for when I needed a larger vehicle and get an Insight for cold weather/rainy commuting (I commute by bike in reasonable weather). I got almost nothing for the Accord and ended up with a Subaru that gets poorer mileage (23mpg). I wish I had thought outside the box.
Tzepish
Yeah, I'm more than a little annoyed that I specifically purchased my Insight MT because it is the most fuel efficient vehicle available, and the reason I wanted the most fuel efficient vehicle available is for the environment and for saving gas.
Thanks for my $0 tax credit!
Blue 2006 5-Speed
Makes you wonder if there really is a pollution issue or oil shortage, doesn't it?
No, it doesn't.
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The landmark that made Boise State a household name nationwide will get a refresher this spring. Boise State has received permission to spend up to $600,000 to start replacing the iconic blue turf at Albertsons Stadium from Idaho's Permanent Building Fund Advisory Council, a board charged with approving state public works projects. Boise State Athletic Director Curt Apsey confirmed to the Idaho Statesman on Friday that the school will replace the blue turf after spring practice and in time for the start of fall practices before the 2019 season. The turf will remain its trademark Bronco Blue, but Boise State will expand it to cover the areas where the track used to sit with a shorter turf to "complement the turf in appearance and provide slip resistance to the players," according to the project proposal. -Michael Lycklama and Dave Southorn, Idaho Statesman. Read More.


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Paridou & Achakzai Architecture
Design for Good - Concerned with positions within culture generally
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Trying to utilize Computational creativity in architecture, Genetic algorithms developed in computer science are used to evolve designs on a computer, and some of these are proposed and built as actual structures. Since these new architectural tendencies emerged, many theorists and architects have been working on these issues, developing theories and ideas such as Patrick Schumacher's Parametricism.
In contemporary architectural discourse theory has become more concerned with its position within culture generally, and thought in particular. This is why university courses on architecture theory may often spend just as much time discussing philosophy and cultural studies as buildings, and why advanced postgraduate research and doctoral dissertations focus on philosophical topics in connection with architectural humanities. Some architectural theorists aim at discussing philosophical themes, or engage in direct dialogues with philosophers, as in the case of Peter Eisenman's and Bernard Tschumi's interest in Derrida's thought, or Anthony Vidler's interest in the works of Freud and Lacan, in addition to an interest in Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space or texts by Gilles Deleuze. This has also been the case with educators in academia like Dalibor Vesely or Alberto-Perez Gomez, and in more recent years this philosophical orientation has been reinforced through the research of a new generation of theorists (E.G. Jeffrey Kipnis or Sanford Kwinter). Similarly, we can refer to contemporary architects who are interested in philosophy and cultural studies. Some are interested in phenomenology, like Christian Norberg-Schulz, or specialize as philosophers and historians of science, such as Nader El-Bizri who is also a notable phenomenologist (especially in Heidegger studies). Others, like Manfredo Tafuri, are interested in new ontological definitions of architecture tracing a new notion of modernity in architecture. The notion that theory entails critique also stemmed from post-structural literary studies in the work of many other theorists and architects, such as Mark Wigley, among others. In their theories, architecture is compared to a language which can be invented and re-invented every time it is used. This theory influenced the so-called deconstructivist architecture. In contrast, network society innovators, especially Silicon Valley software developers, have embraced Christopher Alexander's emphasis on The Timeless Way of Building (1979) based on pattern languages that are optimized on-site as construction unfolds.
Since 2000, architectural theory has also had to face the rapid rise of urbanism and globalization. By developing a new understanding of the city, many theorists developed new understandings of the urban conditions of our planet (E.G. Rem Koolhaas's Bigness). Interests in fragmentation and architecture as transient objects further affected such thinking (e.g. the concern for employing high technology), but also related to general concerns such as ecology, mass media, and economism.
In the past decade, there has been the emergence of the so-called "Digital" Architecture. Several currents and design methodologies are being developed simultaneously, some of which reinforce each other, whereas others work in opposition. One of these trends is Biomimicry, which is the process of examining nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements, to emulate or take inspiration from them in order to solve human problems.[10] Architects also design organic-looking buildings in the attempt to develop a new formal language. Another trend is the exploration of those computational techniques that are influenced by algorithms relevant to biological processes and sometimes referred to as Digital morphogenesis. Trying to utilize Computational creativity in architecture, Genetic algorithms developed in computer science are used to evolve designs on a computer, and some of these are proposed and built as actual structures. Since these new architectural tendencies emerged, many theorists and architects have been working on these issues, developing theories and ideas such as Patrick Schumacher's Parametricism.
Nonetheless, there is no evidence for claiming that we are witnessing the birth of an entirely new type of architectural theory and practice. Contemporary architecture's theoretical world is plural and multicolored. There are different dominant schools of architectural theory which are based on linguistic analysis, philosophy, post-structuralism, or cultural theory. For instance, there is emerging interest in the re-discovery of the post-modernist project (Sam Jacob), in the definition of new radical tendencies of architecture and its implication in the development of cities (Pier Vittorio Aureli), and in a new formalist approach to architecture through the appropriation of concepts from the Object Oriented philosophy (Peter Trummer or Tom Wiscombe). It is too early, however, to say whether any of these explorations will have widespread or lasting impact on architecture.
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RIVER FALLS NORMAL WIPED OUT BY FIRE LAST NIGHT.
IT IS TO BE REBUILT VERY SOON.
A LARGE PORTION OF THE CONTENTS WAS DESTROYED, AND THE LOSS IS ABOUT $75,000, THE INSURANCE BEING TWO-THIRDS OF THAT AMOUNT.
River Falls, Wis., Nov. 30. -- The River Falls state normal school building is a ruin. Fire broke out in the laboratory on the third floor about 8 o'clock last evening and in spite of the efforts of the firemen, the flames forced their was to the attic and in a few moments the whole roof was ablaze. Owing to the height of the structure the firemen worked at a disadvantage and in a short time the main building was burned. The wing containing the engine room was saved. A great portion of the contents was destroyed. A good share of library and pianos and the furniture in the kindergarten were saved. The building and contents were insured for $55,000, and the loss is about $75,000. The building was erected in 1874. Steps have been taken to continue the school in halls and churches. The school has been very prosperous and the attendance up to the capacity of the building. It will be rebuilt without delay.


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Garstang RUFC 20 Oswestry 5: Vital victory in the battle to beat the drop
Published: 17:00 Tuesday 22 January 2019
Garstang RUFC pulled five points clear of the drop zone following a 20-5 win against Oswestry at the weekend.
They went into the game knowing that they could not afford to lose as the bottom two teams clashed.
With a couple of long-term injuries and some unavailabilities, coach Gavin Barton had to shuffle his playing squad and deployed back row forwards Andy Tissingh and Ben Kelsall in the back line as centres.
Garstang dominated from the off but were constantly thwarted by a resilient Oswestry defensive effort.
The dam finally burst after 15 minutes and Garstang took the lead as the ball was spread out wide to Freddie Hewitt who went over in the corner.
A few minutes later and another period of sustained pressure saw Tissingh crash over from close range to make it 10-0.
The second half started in similar fashion as Garstang's dominant forward pack set up a superb platform.
However, the fickle confidence and lack of belief led to an unbelievable amount of squandered chances.
This came to a head midway through the half when the team worked their socks off to create a three-on-one overlap but the ball was spilled with the line begging.
Straight afterwards, Garstang regained possession and looked to have scored but the ball was lost as the player stretched out to dot it down.
The pressure eventually told though as Garstang created a massive overlap and the ball was spread out wide to Hewitt, who scored his second try in the corner.
Minutes later the dominant pack sealed the win as a scrum was driven over from five metres and Greg Billington touched down to score the fourth try which secured the crucial bonus point.
All of the Garstang tries were scored in the corners, meaning Craig Johnston did not have any luck with the conversions as they led 20-0.
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Despite the game being over as a contest, Oswestry team refused to lie down.
They had their one and only period of dominance in the last five or 10 minutes and were rewarded with a try in on the stroke of full-time.
Garstang's seconds also had a successful day as they beat Orrell St James by 39-7.
Both are back in action on Saturday as the first XV travels to play Birchfield and the Blues are at Wigan's seconds (both 2.15pm).
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The policies are underwritten by 3Sixty Life, a black-owned insurance company established in 1993 and also provides policies to Doves funeral company.
Speaking to TshisaLIVE, Penny Penny said he decided to launch the cover to help those who were disadvantaged and could not afford funeral insurance.
The star started a foundation last year called the Penny Penny Foundation where he gives out food parcels to as much as 50 people each month, financed from his salary as councillor in Giyani.


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Rescuers still hope for survivors as death toll in Florida collapse hits 10
By Gabriella Borter
SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) -Rescue workers pulled a 10th body from the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium on Monday, as officials vowed to keep searching for any possible survivors five days after the 12-story building fell without warning as residents slept.
Crews were using cranes, dogs and infrared scans as they looked for signs of life amid the ruins, hoping air pockets may have formed underneath the concrete that could be keeping some people alive.
"We're going to continue and work ceaselessly to exhaust every possible options in our search," Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a news briefing.
The death toll appears certain to rise, and Levine Cava acknowledged the number of casualties is "fluid." There are 151 people still unaccounted for.
The cause of the collapse at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, near Miami, remains under investigation.
A 2018 engineer's report found serious concrete deterioration in the underground parking garage as well as major damage in the concrete slab beneath the pool deck. The author, Frank Morabito, wrote the deterioration would "expand exponentially" if it was not repaired in the near future.
But Ross Prieto, then Surfside's top building official, met residents the following month after reviewing the report and assured them the building was "in very good shape," according to minutes of the meeting released by the town on Monday.
Reuters was unable to reach Prieto, who is no longer employed by Surfside. He told the Miami Herald newspaper he did not remember getting the report.
The engineer's report was commissioned in advance of the condo seeking recertification, a required process for buildings that reach 40 years of age. The tower was constructed in 1981. An estimate prepared by Morabito Consultants in 2018 put the cost of repairs at $9.1 million, including electrical, plumbing and work on the façade.
After the meeting, Prieto emailed the town's manager to say it "went very well. The response was very positive from everyone in the room. All main concerns over their forty year recertification process were addressed."
Guillermo Olmedillo, Surfside's town manager in 2018, told Reuters he did not recall hearing about any issues related to the tower based on the engineer's report.
"The last thing I knew was that everything is OK, reported by the building official," he said.
Gregg Schlesinger, a lawyer and former general contractor who specializes in construction-failure cases, said it was clear the deficiencies identified in the 2018 report were the main cause of the disaster.
But Donna DiMaggio Berger, a lawyer who works with the condo association, said the issues were typical for older buildings in the area and did not alarm board members, all of whom lived in the tower with their families.
Morabito Consultants was retained by the building in 2020 to prepare a 40-year building repair plan.
The firm said on Saturday that roof repairs were underway at the time of the collapse but concrete restoration had not yet started.
"We are deeply troubled by this building collapse and are working closely with the investigating authorities to understand why the structure failed," it said.
Levine Cava vowed officials will "get to the bottom" of why the building collapsed but said the priority right now is searching for survivors.
'TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE'
Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah said workers have found voids large enough to keep victims alive.
"Not to say that we have see anyone down there, but we've not gotten to the very bottom," he said.
He said searchers have heard some sounds, such as tapping of scratching, though he acknowledged it could be metal shifting. But he emphasized that there is no set amount of time after which the rescue effort should cease.
The teams include experts sent by Israel and Mexico to assist in the search.
Some relatives of those missing have provided DNA samples to officials, and family members were permitted to pay a private visit to the site by special arrangement on Sunday, Levine Cava said.
The police have identified eight victims, including a couple married for nearly 60 years and a mother whose teenage son is one of the few known survivors.
At a makeshift memorial a block away, tributes to the victims and "missing" posters hung on a chain-link fence, with flowers and children's toys strewn about.
Given the scores of those still missing, the disaster may end up one of the deadliest non-deliberate structural failures in U.S. history.
Ninety-eight people perished when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., gave way from the weight of snow during a silent movie screening in January 1922. Two interior walkways collapsed into the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, during a dance party in July 1981, killing 114.
(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien, Brad Heath, Peter Szekely and Kanishka Singh; Writing by Joseph Ax; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Alistair Bell)
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Thailand to mark boy soccer team's dramatic cave rescue with museum
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai construction workers on Thursday began building a museum to commemorate the dramatic cave rescue of a boys' soccer team in the northern province of Chiang Rai and the death of one of the divers.
The 12 boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach went missing on June 23 while exploring the cave complex and were rescued more than two weeks later during a perilous three-day mission by foreign and Thai divers that gripped audiences around the world.
People react as the 12 soccer players and their coach who were rescued from a flooded cave arrive for their news conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 18, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo
Work on the museum began after a traditional Buddhist ceremony on Wednesday at the Tham Luang cave, in which authorities asked for the blessing of local spirits.
The museum, which is expected to take about five months and 10 million baht ($300,000) to build, is being funded by a Thai artist, Chalermchai Kositpipat, a Chiang Rai native.
"This place will be very beneficial for our country, as it will commemorate the multinational cooperation and the hero who sacrificed his life. Tourists from around the world will visit this place," Chalermchai said.
Thai diver Samarn Kunan died after he lost consciousness during a mission to place oxygen tanks deep inside the cave.
A four-meter statue of Samarn, currently being sculpted, will be placed in front of the museum.
The museum will also house a 13-metre-long painting, which features rescuers, including the British divers who first found the boys.
Eleven of the boys have been spending time as Buddhist novices to honor Samarn. On Saturday, they will leave the temple to return to normal life.
(Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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Missing Argentine submarine had reported electrical malfunction
By Walter Bianchi
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) – An Argentine military submarine reported a malfunction and was headed back to base when it went missing last week in the South Atlantic, a naval spokesman said on Monday, while storms complicated efforts to find the vessel and its 44-member crew.
Hopes for a successful search for the ARA San Juan submarine, which went missing last Wednesday off the Argentine coast, waned on Monday when the navy said satellite calls detected over the weekend did not in fact come from the vessel.
More than a dozen boats and aircraft from Argentina, the United States, Britain, Chile and Brazil joined the search effort. Authorities have mainly been scanning the sea from above, as storms have made it difficult for boats.
Gabriel Galeazzi, a naval commander, told reporters that the submarine had surfaced and reported an electrical problem before it disappeared 268 miles (432 km) off the coast.
"The submarine surfaced and reported a malfunction, which is why its ground command ordered it to return to its naval base at Mar del Plata," he said.
Galeazzi said it is normal for submarines to suffer system malfunctions. "A warship has a lot of backup systems, to allow it to move from one to another when there is a breakdown," he said.
Crew members' relatives gathered at the Mar del Plata naval base, waiting for news.
Intermittent satellite communications had been detected on Saturday and the navy had said they were likely to have come from the submarine. But the ARA San Juan in fact sent its last signal on Wednesday, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said.
The calls that were detected "did not correspond to the satellite phone of the submarine San Juan," he said on Monday.
The ARA San Juan was inaugurated in 1983, making it the newest of the three submarines in the navy's fleet. Built in Germany, it underwent maintenance in 2008 in Argentina.
That maintenance included the replacement of its four diesel engines and its electric propeller engines, according to specialist publication Jane's Sentinel.
(Additional reporting by Maximiliano Rizzi; Writing by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Alistair Bell)
Tagged ARA San Juan, Argentina, electrical malfunction, Mar del Plata naval base, Missing, rescue mission, Search, South Atlantic, Warship | Leave a comment
Dramatic nighttime rescues in flooded Houston suburbs as Harvey rolls on
By Mica Rosenberg
CYPRESS, Texas (Reuters) – The mayday call went out near midnight to all members of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department organizing rescue operations in the outskirts of Houston. There was a new emergency: Four of their own in peril.
On a suburban street transformed into a rushing waterway by Tropical Storm Harvey, a firefighter heading out to save people stranded by the storm fell into floodwaters as he was boarding a boat.
The firefighters turned all their attention to rescuing their fellow rescuer.
Matt Perkins, a 21-year veteran of the fire department of Cy-Fair, short for Cypress-Fairbanks, listened intently to the progress from the mini-command post set up in his truck at a gas station.
"Those are my guys out there. I want to make sure they are OK," he said as he listened to his radio.
"Command Boat 21, do you need a helicopter at your location?" a radio dispatcher said.
A garbled response.
"We can't understand your response," the dispatcher responded. "Your mic is wet."
Hearing no response, the call became more urgent: "Repeat. Do you need a helicopter at your location?"
Finally the radio crackled back to life: "We are extracted. The boat is tied to a tree. We are walking out with the military."
The three on board were able to pull the fourth out of the water, but the fast current pinned the boat to a tree and left them stranded.
It was just the first hair-raising moment in a long night of rescues by firefighters, police and the National Guard as rains from the devastating storm continued to hammer Houston and the surrounding area. More than 3,000 people had been rescued from their homes by late Monday and more rain was forecast for Tuesday.
National Guard teams with Humvees and high-water vehicles coordinated with local emergency officials to respond to calls from people trapped in their homes.
Residents of this city 30 miles (48 km) north of Houston are used to floods, having just weathered a major one last year. But many said they were caught by surprise by the extent of rising water levels, as the area was expected to get as much rain in a week as it normally sees in a year.
In the dark hours of the night, the National Guard navigated their vehicles through neighborhoods transformed into inland lakes with water cresting to the tops of mail boxes and fire hydrants and garden shrubbery looking more like watery mangrove forests.
With local firefighter Cassie Fritch guiding the troops with Google Maps on her cell phone, they searched for people who had called for help. When the water rose above the Humvee doors on the outside, it also seeped up through the floor on the inside and dripped in from the hatch.
"Oh, that's cold," said Specialist Jaylan Dawson as the water rose over his pedals.
At one home Fritch found a man who had changed his mind about evacuating and decided to stick it out. She warned him that rescuers would not be back if he called again.
"He says he's not coming because the water receded," Fritch said. "That's his choice, but the storm's not over yet."
(Editing by Scott Malone and Chizu Nomiyama)
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'Suicide Squad' brave bullets to rescue civilians in embattled Marawi City
By Kanupriya Kapoor
MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – Saripada Pacasum Jr. gagged and turned away the first time he came across a decomposing body in Marawi City, where hundreds have died since Islamic State-inspired fighters attempted to overrun the southern Philippines town six weeks ago.
But the rescue and recovery volunteer had no time to waste as gunfire rang out from government troop positions and militant snipers around him: he put on a pair of rubber gloves and helped carry the remains out of the conflict zone in a pick-up truck.
"I thought of resigning after that," Pacasum, who works in a disaster relief office told Reuters. "I was scared and not prepared for this kind of job."
FILE PHOTO: A member of a humanitarian volunteers team walks with a white flag as he searches for survirvors or victims due to the fighting in the center of Marawi City, Philippines June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo
But Pacasum, 39, continued to lead a team of about 30 young men and women who make near-daily forays to rescue civilians and retrieve victims in an urban battlefield that is infested with rebel snipers and battered by air strikes.
They have come to be known as the "white helmets" or "suicide squad" because of the risks they take when going in unarmed and wearing little protection other than white plastic construction helmets.
More than 460 people have been killed since the battle for Marawi began on May 23, including 82 members of the security forces and 44 civilians.
The military believes hundreds of civilians are still trapped by the conflict, the biggest internal security threat the Philippines has faced in decades and a shock to neighboring countries worried that Islamic State is trying to establish a foothold in Southeast Asia.
Fishermen, farmers, students, and small business owners, mostly from Marawi, are among those who have volunteered for rescue missions.
"We all grew up in Marawi and it breaks our hearts when we hear that Marawi is under siege," said Abdul Azis Lomondot Jr., a 25-year-old university student, speaking in the team's one-room office in the town's capitol complex where many of the "white helmets" grab some sleep.
When the team gets a call from a trapped civilian or their evacuated relative, they first try to determine their location. Team leader Pacasum then asks for volunteers.
"We grab our helmets, IDs, a ladder, some small tools and we are good to go," said Lomondot.
One such mission around three weeks into the siege almost went awry when the team drove into the conflict area in pick-up trucks but could not immediately find the house where four elderly people were known to be trapped.
"In that moment, I was panicking because I thought this may be an ambush," Pacasum said as he and Lamondot recalled the mission. "We were just waiting for the sound of gunshots."
After driving around for 20 minutes, the team finally located the house, but was shot at as they drove out with the civilians on board.
A group of rescue volunteers carry a body they found at the beginning of the fight between government troops and Maute group militants in Marawi, Philippines May 28, 2017. Picture taken May 28, 2017. Lanao del Sur Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office/Handout via REUTERS
"TOO STRESSFUL"
As the siege drags on and the government pours troops into the lakeside town, soldiers have started providing cover for some of the rescue teams' missions. Pacasum says that while this has obvious advantages, it can also mean they are more likely to be targeted by the militants.
The team has also received counseling and equipment from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and training on how to properly handle cadavers.
Pacasum, who has led more 10 rescue missions, wants to see the battle through to the end, but will consider changing professions when it's over.
"It's too stressful, he said.
"Some of the volunteers … they are just young kids, they are very aggressive. I'm more cautious. I have kids and I want to watch them grow old."
(Editing by John Chalmers, Robert Birsel)
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