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Be still (service plan)
Here are some elements from an alternative service I led on the subject of stillness/silence/solitude/sabbath. It was just before the summer holidays, so I was encouraging people to think about how they might truly rest over their time off.
I used the first of these videos as an introduction to the service, and the second for people to reflect on after the talk.
Lectio Divina Reading
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we hear and say so many words,
yet yours is the word we need.
Speak now,
and help us listen;
and, if what we hear is silence,
let it quiet us,
let it disturb us,
let it touch our need,
let it break our pride,
let it shrink our certainties
let it enlarge our wonder.
Read Passage – Matthew 11:28-30
Are there any phrases or words that particularly jump out to you?
Read again
Chew over the word or phrase that got your attention. Why did it stand out to you? What might God be trying to say to you through it? How does it apply to your life today?
Some questions from one of the discussion times
-What are the benefits of resting on a Sabbath day?
-In the current economic crisis is it fair to ask people to take a Sabbath?
– What advice would you give to people such as nurses, ministers and youth workers who tend to work on Sundays?


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One of the craziest guys on Earth has officially gone faster on his skateboard than I could ever go in my first car. World champion downhill skater Mischo Erban set a Guinness record for fastest standing skateboard speed, clocking in at an utterly insane 80.74 mph.
It's impossible to know what flying down a mountainside in Quebec at that speed would feel like without actually doing it, but Erban and Recon Instruments bring us one step closer to the sensation with some cool POV footage. Erban clipped an Android-powered HUD prototype to the right side of his helmet, flipped it on and hit the road.
Erban rides a GMR deck with an aluminum spine that holds the trucks in perfect alignment so the board tracks straight and true in the neutral position. The board features Ronin trucks and 85 mm wheels with ceramic bearings. It's a package built for speed.
Erban, who lives in British Columbia, has been training for this since 2007, when Douglas de Silva of Brazil set the record at 70.21 mph. Erban hit 80.83 mph on a 12 percent incline in Colorado two years ago, setting a record for the International Gravity Sports Association. That run was at 6,000 feet; Monday's run occurred essentially at sea level, where there is more air resistance. Hence, the Guinness record.
Hitting that kind of speed is fun, Erban said, especially when the pavement is good.
"When you go on these speeds on a smooth road, you feel the raw power of gravity pulling you down, it's so crazy to see everything whipping by you," he said. "It's a crazy rush."
Until, of course, it's time to stop. Skateboards don't have brakes, and you can't just step off. You wouldn't jump out of a car going 80 mph, would you? So how do you stop? Wind resistance.
"Pop out of the ball you were in, open your arms up and make yourself as big as possible," Erban said. Then dare to put your foot down.
Photos: Digital Direct via Mischo Erban
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I'm writing an app that will store an html page's source into a field. I came
across a file that was larger than 64k and the field in Access of datatype
memo, choked. Basicly I learned there was a 64k limit on the Memo field...
How the heck do you store a text file larger than 64k in an Access database???
I'd appreciate any help.


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Hello all,
I have a few questions about fieldwork, confidentiality, and IRBs that are hopefully not completely obvious. I'm hoping some of you who have been through the fieldwork process already are able to offer some guidance.
I'm starting my dissertation research in Poland this year, where I will be interviewing museum and cultural center employees/volunteers and other people involved with this kind of "memory work" about the process of creating public presentations and framings of Poland and Polish culture. I'm currently working on some revisions for my university's IRB before I can begin the actual research. The project has been provisionally approved, but they have requested a few minor changes and supplemental documents - among other things, a more specific description of the disclosure of research data. This poses a bit of an ethical dilemma for me, as I would like to share my research data, at least in some form, with the participants and the institutions they are involved with so that they can benefit from my study as well (and possibly with other researchers working on similar topics as well), but certainly don't want to do anything that would compromise participants' confidentiality. What is the best way to handle this, for purposes of writing the IRB application and beyond? Have any of you dealt with this kind of situation? To what extent do I need to "de-identify," e.g., remove names and other identifying information from, research data in order to share it with other researchers/interested people, and how do I go about doing this to ensure participants remain confidential? What are your thoughts on making research data public/collaborative?
Thanks in advance!
- Erica
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Erica, I think part of what you need to grapple with is how you will negotiate consent with the participants in your research over the long term. You will need some plan for how you will inform them in a meaningful way about the research and about what you would like to do with the material you collect from them, and you then need some plan for how you will get their consent not only to participate in the research, but for the use of material that includes them. Some IRBs are satisfied if you hand them and information sheet and consent form; the savvier ones will want to see that you have thought through these issues to the end and have a clear plan that involves more than forms (and sometimes the most ethical approach is not to force people to sign forms at all).
In negotiating consent with participants, I like to let them call the shots about anonymity, i.e. I sketch out various scenarios and find the level at which they are comfortable (completely anonymized data where you remove not just their names, but also any contextual information that could lead to them being identified? Just changing their names? No anonymity at all?). It is also important to be clear about the distinction between anonymity and confidentiality. But for me, the bottom line is that I do not try to put each participant in the same box - the terms of participation are unique for each person.
One book I highly recommend, which addresses some of the issues you are dealing with and is written in a beautifully sympathetic way, is Luke Eric Lassiter's book The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography.


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When an arrogant would-be physicist and philosopher writes about trillions whose transfers he can't trace or understand...
I know James Weatherall primarily as a student of mine who was always too sloppy and lazy to learn the subject properly but who was also breathtakingly self-confident, ambitious, and eager to talk about the questions he considered most important.
At various points of time, he would team up with various hardcore crackpots to assault state-of-the-art theoretical physics. But his ambitions are also behind the new book that was brought to my attention by a mathematical physicist in Munich (let me know if you want your name to be here!).
If I summarize the book, in Physics of Wall Street, Weatherall claims that "physicists" invented all the modern financial tools but these tools have been known for thousands of years at the same time; advanced algebra is needed to calculate the inflation indices but almost everyone should learn those; and all knowledge of the financial markets' working boils down to the random walk.
The book must be an inconsistent mixture of incoherent babbling about everything financial that Weatherall doesn't understand but it has gotten some excited reviews and appraisals both by crackpots – such as Horgan and Smolin – as well as people with some distinguished record – Galison and Brown of Microsoft.
Edward Frenkel, a Berkeley mathematician, wrote one positive review of the book:
Don't Let Economists and Politicians Hack Your Math (Slate)In this short text, Frenkel focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The basic claim in the book – endorsed by Frenkel – is that the right calculation of CPI is a complicated thing, politicians may easily abuse it to achieve their goals, and everyone should learn advanced algebra so that we don't get fooled.
Well, in some respects, I agree. One may design complicated formulae to quantify inflation based on advanced maths. I have been playing with such things, too. We've been discussing some of those matters with a vice-governor of the Czech National Bank during a lunch two years ago or so.
For example, should volatile goods such as food and energy be included in the price index? Because of their large short-term fluctuations, one may justify the answer "No" in order to make the price index ("core inflation") more stable. However, when the food and energy prices keep on increasing for five years, it becomes wrong to pretend that they don't exist or they are an irrelevant short-term fluctuation. After some time, such trends become damn real. I think that the Czech central bankers – and many others – are doing a mistake when they neglect such things.
However, there are lots of other questions to be included. Should the real estate prices be included in the price index? People buy them once a life or so and their price really matters. It's not just about things' being included in a basket. It's also "whose basket we should be considering", "which goods and papers are independent enough to be included [whether 'derivatives' of a sort should be there]", and – indeed – "how to correctly account for the (sometimes radically) changing composition of the human consumption, changing consumers' tastes, and so on." Intertemporal comparisons always have lots of questions.
But what Frenkel seems to deny is that there isn't really any "only correct and unique" formula for the CPI. People may propose various formulae that may reflect their preferences concerning the spending of money and their deeper or shallower understanding of linear (and "not so linear") algebra. However, there will always be many possibilities how to calculate the CPI. When we're relying on some statements about the CPI or laws that depend on the value of the CPI, we're assuming that we roughly know how the quantity is defined. Of course that a change of the algorithm to calculate the CPI potentially means a trick how to transfer trillions of dollars or how to obey political promises that would otherwise be unrealistic. But that just shouldn't be shocking. We may always compare the estimates or projections of the CPI according to two different methodologies and figure out what it means. At the end, which of the CPI formulae is being used doesn't really matter much as long as the rule is stable or as long as those who change the formulae pay the costs and have the responsibility.
Frenkel also mentions Weatherall's claim that the calculation of the CPI is exactly equivalent to a gauge theory. As far as I can say, this meme has been copied right from crackpot Lee Smolin.
To summarize, I found Frenkel's review unusually shallow, uncritical, and kind of uninspired. That's totally different from the anti-review by Aaron Brown, a real-world achieved risk manager:
'The Physics of Wall Street': The Most Arrogant Book in the World? Part 8The previous 7 parts of this (so far) 8-part "introduction to finances based on the debunking of Weatherall's errors" are linked to in the anti-review above. New episodes will appear in the future.
Brown considers Weatherall's book to be "perhaps the most arrogant one in the history", primarily because Weatherall claims that the modern finances were "invented by the physicists". While I am close to claims that various things were invented by the physicists, I realize that such claims are usually historically wrong or at least dependent on the definition of a "physicist".
If we adopt a highly inclusive definition of a physicist, someone who thinks quantitatively about the real world, then it's probably true that the modern finances were built by the "physicists" except that I think that Aaron Brown is a much better physicist according to this definition than James Weatherall.
(One of Weatherall's motivations is to fight against the claims that the recent downturn was "caused by the physicists-turned-traders". He wants to claim that physicists were mostly successful and we need more physics, and not less, at the Wall Street. I have mixed feelings about what he means and whether I agree. I would agree that smarter folks and traders with physics-like tools would be fine. On the other hand, I may disagree with him which ideas are right and physics-like and I think that the papers etc. that many – possibly ordinary – people are relying upon should not demand too much mathematical sophistication of the users; they should be more resilient and idiot-proof, not more sensitive.)
Let me summarize the content of Aaron Brown's anti-review. Or at least some of it.
In Part I, Brown discusses the "arrogance of the physicists" as well as the historical facts about the transition from the gold standard economy to the borderless economy based on abstract papers and derivatives. Who did it? And so on.
In Part II, we learn how incredibly narrow-minded and naive Weatherall's ideas about the "models behind finances" are. He essentially uses one stochastic model for everything – the random walk – and he claims that all the finances are about the prediction of individual prices that ultimately boil to the random walk.
This is a particular extreme viewpoint that throws most of the baby out with the bath water. I wouldn't associate this narrow-mindedness with taking a "physicist's viewpoint". In fact, Brown's attitude is much more physical. He emphasizes that certain things are predictable and follow patterns and he offers an analogy with thermodynamics – I usually like those – and one of its conclusions is that to try to predict the individual prices is, just like to try to predict positions of the individual gas molecules, completely missing the point.
Also, he questions Weatherall's brutal idealizations and declares that much of the interesting science only occurs when one considers the incompleteness of the information; the impact of the transactions on the market itself; and the price of the transactions.
In his mostly history-based and people-based treatment, Weatherall lionizes folks like Jim Simons whose trading strategies are kind of based on the random walk – they're mostly about the high-frequency trading. But despite their producing lots of profit that is kind of reliable and independent of the evolution of the economy, I would say that it would be very bad if all investors were trying to be like this. Dealing with longer timeframes – in which the random walk loses relevance – is essential for profits for many traders except for a selected groups; it must be the bulk of profits, it is the bulk historically, and one needs to admit that there's a lot of wisdom about those, too. Weatherall's approach is fully analogous to an analysis of Feynman's path integral in which everything except for the kinetic terms is dropped. (These are my comments that I formulate as criticisms of Weatherall's opinions. He would probably disagree.)
In Part III, the roulette wheel plays an important role. Although Weatherall apparently tries to dismiss its importance, Brown presents it as the ultimate toy model for the modern traders. Brown says that there typically exists an algorithm to make profit due to a "complementarity" in the casinos. The casino owners either guarantee that the different numbers are uniform. But to achieve so, they must make the marble behave rather predictably and deterministically. Or they throw it non-deterministically but then there will be patterns and non-uniform probabilities of different outcomes. In either way, one will be able to make profit.
This presentation by Brown is very interesting but it betrays the fact that he is mainly a practitioner attempting to make a profit. There are lots of important things in the financial world that behave according to some rules even though the rules don't allow you to make much profit. What I want to say that proper economics can't be just about the "imperfections of the prices" but also about the right behavior of the "perfect markets". In my eyes, Brown seems to downplay the latter.
However, he realistically argues that the modern financial methods weren't invented by physicists – theoreticians – but rather by "engineers" who made many trials and errors. He mentions the construction of suspension bridges as an analogy. I think that Brown is right but I would still insist on the claim that to make a profit is something entirely different than to properly understand what's going on. Many people have made a profit because of some coincidences and good luck, thanks to some semi-legal and semi-ethical if not unethical or illegal deeds, or thanks to some understanding of a very special pattern that was relevant once and that doesn't imply that they understand the bulk of the financial world and its rules. One must be careful not to declare "lucky engineers" as the ultimate scientists understanding the truth.
In Part IV, we learn much more about the ways to profit from the roulette wheel – a toy model of the financial world. Again, we learn that either deterministic predictions or non-uniform probability distributions (patterns) yield methods to make a profit.
Brown criticizes Weatherall's excessive focus on the logarithm of prices which is a technicality (although a natural one) and emphasizes that much of the science is about the information content of the observed or predicted price movements and this content is independent of the redefinitions of variables. The main point – completely misunderstood by Weatherall – is that the efficient market hypothesis is the opposite or complementary tool to the random walk models. They give you the opposite approaches to study what's going on. Their domains of validity are almost always non-overlapping. Weatherall stupidly thinks that they're the same thing. That's a manifestation of Weatherall's obsession with the flawed idea that "finances are about random walks all the way down", using the metaphor with the turtles.
In Part V, Aaron Brown exposes some Weatherall's (and others') misconceptions about the meaning and purpose of derivatives. Weatherall thinks that they're all about hedging against price risk. In contrast with Weatherall's model's predictions, derivatives are typically more expensive than the thing they try to "insure" and they're bought and sold by people who don't have to understand complicated financial mathematical formulae.
Part VI replaces Weatherall's naive "crops producers and buyers" model of derivatives by a more appropriate one. Brown's model is really opposite in many of its predictions relatively to Weatherall's model. Weatherall claims that the producer wants to get insured against the drop of the prices so he should really "short" the commodity he is producing. In the real world, however, he does the opposite. He doubles his exposure to the price risk by making "reserves" which is important because it helps him to achieve steady running of the business and that's what matters most. Brown says a lot of things about what may happen, why, how it is solved in the real world, and so on.
In Part VII, Brown says that the liquidity (the cash that is almost immediately available) determined the events in 2007-2008, not the value of things. Weatherall has missed that point, Brown claims. Weatherall made sign errors when he discussed whether hedge funds borrowed from Bear Stearns. The hedge funds were borrowers, not lenders! So when the hedge funds pulled out of the business, it was the opposite of "run on banks", not a classic run on banks as Weatherall claims. In the same episode, Brown offers pretty much the opposite answers to Weatherall's answers to the question why Bear Stearns needed its hedge fund clients etc.
The point – and I am sure that Brown is right about this point and Weatherall is wrong – is that the immediate events are caused by short-term dynamics (physics analogy: short-distance physics is fundamental). Brown says that "the modern financial system may appear to be buying and selling securities, but it's more accurate to describe it as trading promises of future cash flows." This is a very important point. The securities are just pledges of the deals (and cash flows) in the future but when something breaks now, within a day, it's the cash flows that go awry now, not the future ones. So if the price of securities affects things, it's only via its influence on people's and companies' immediate decisions on cash flows done now.
Brown says that the genius of the paper money is that they create currency and credit at the same moment.
Part VIII, so far the most recent one, discusses the numerous consequences of the replacement of credit-based money with the liquidity-based money. Brown tells us that in contrast with Weatherall's misconceptions, the physical delivery of goods and services isn't the point, mark-to-market payments are the point. People buy futures contract whose prices are correlated with the things they want to sell – so they're effectively selling their products for future prices. They don't need to depend on the actual other party – they may sell the future pledges to others (or buy them from others). Unless the business is just being liquidated, most of the positions cancel and only the small perturbations around this almost exactly canceling base is what the producers and companies are tracing and making profit of.
The modern liquidity-based money invented between 1965-1980 is supposed to be analogous to the futures contracts. Derivatives took off. In the 1980s, the bank capital was redefined. In the credit-based paradigm, it was the equity contributed by founders plus profit. In the liquidity-based modern paradigm, it's the ability to cover daily changes in prices of banks' assets and liabilities. So the possibility of partners' default is treated as a uniform risk that is spread over days and some money is separated to cover these losses. The institution goes out of business when it's unable to maintain a margin but at that moment, no one loses anything because the assets exceed liabilities at that point. The bank capital requirements have been rebuilt around conditions about their short-term ability to pay in various scenarios (i.e. liquidity) rather than inequalities constraining their credit.
In the future episodes, Brown will discuss new kinds of derivatives that were created and new ways how they began to be traded etc.
I can see why Brown is right about many points. But there are also many points in which I am no expert because I haven't studied the newest types of derivatives etc. – and surely have zero experience in trading them. That's almost certainly the case of James Weatherall, too. His chutzpah needed to write a book about something that he demonstrably can't understand is as amazing as his arrogance needed to make far-reaching statements about string theory or quantum gravity.
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notlistening wrote:Funnily enough, I'm wearing a Star Wars long sleeve top today to work. Did not even think about SW month here when I put it on. I just thought it was be comfortable to wear on the plane.
Hope you cleared up the ad problem, Calma.
I got me some US dollars yesterday, no small bills though . Exchange rate sucks. Glad I have paid for as much as I can beforehand in my money. All I have to buy is food and souvenirs...and tipping. Must remember to factor that it. Hey, do I tip the shuttle driver who will drop me at my hotel? and how much? Any other hints about tipping for food? how much is the percentage now? I know waiters in the US hate aussies visiting as we are not good tippers...(as we don't normally tip except for exceptional service as our minimum wage is higher than yours.)
Around here restaurant tipping is more like 20%. I guess you tip drivers and such a couple of bucks??? It's been too long for me.
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Sox farm-system hitting instructors Jeff Manto or Tim Laker are thought to be the top candidates to replace Greg Walker as hitting coach, but don't rule out the Sox making a play for a bigger name such as Jim Thome.
Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf loves Thome, 41, whose playing career likely has come to an end after 21 seasons and 604 home runs. The two share the annual habit of meeting for dinner to talk about life and baseball after the season, and a major-league source said Reinsdorf was eager to move this year's meeting up.
Jerry is bringing the band is coming together!
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City in Iowa sits on meteorite crater
It's confirmed. The city of Decorah sits atop a 470 million-year-old meteorite crater.
Decorah is in the northeast corner of the state.
That's according to scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey. They released a statement Tuesday indicating geophysical surveys conducted by airplane confirm rock studies. The results show Decorah is built on a buried ancient crater concealed beneath bedrock and sediment.
Decorah, known for its annual Nordic Fest celebrating its Norwegian heritage and a family of bald eagles watched by millions of Internet nature enthusiasts, now has a new claim to fame. It's built on one of just 180 or so known impact craters on earth.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources geologists first made the discovery in 2008 after examining well drilling samples.
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At just 7.4mm it is a truly slim device. Combine that with the 135mm width, and this is a tablet that you can support between the fingers and thumb of one hand.
At 307g in weight it has wafer-like lightness. This puts it in excellent stead as an eBook reader, since it weighs less than most paperbacks. It's about the same size as an A5 sheet of paper.
iPad mini: Build and finish
Build quality is outstanding. It feels absolutely rigid – the all-aluminium backplate and frame melds into the front glass to make an unyielding featherlight slice.
The back presents as smooth satin aluminium, Apple logo centred, and with a few essential buttons on one rounded edge, two for volume and a power key on top. These are positive and assured to the touch.
There's a headset jack on top, and a new tiny Lightning port at the bottom. Either side are perforations for two stereo speakers.
iPad mini: specs and screen
The iPad mini uses the same Apple A5 processor as last year's iPad 2, with the same 1024 x 768-pixels condensed into a smaller space than the 9.7 inches of the iPad 2. So where both the original iPad and iPad 2 had a resolution of 132 pixels per inch, the iPad mini raises its pixel density to 163 pixels per inch. Sure enough the display is not as sharp as the swelling catalogue of hardware that Apple now sells with a Retina specification.
On-screen text at small font sizes can be a little furry.
The display is still IPS, with all the rich colours and spectacularly wide viewing angles we've come to expect from the screen technology, once the preserve of high-end graphic design monitors.
iPad mini: connectivity
The iPad mini has dual-band Wi-Fi, allowing it to roam across the less-crowded 5GHz radio band. Apple also lists channel bonding in its spec, where two adjacent 20MHz channels are combined to make a 40Hz channel for potentially greater throughput.
The cellular option for the iPad mini should allow it to use '4G' services.
iPad mini: verdict
This is a supremely well-built mini tablet that will almost certainly be a runaway hit with consumers. The smaller, dare we say cuter, size makes it nearly ideal as an eBook reader, as well as a device for all the other manifold tasks that are now possible from a collosal number of useful apps ready to install.


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My office desk faces a southern window which can be very bright and hard on my eyes while working, so I wanted to come up with a fun way to open and close the shutters.
If it's connected to your network, it's going to need power. Power over Ethernet (PoE) has been around since 2003, allowing power and connectivity via a single Ethernet cable, but just because it's a standard doesn't mean it's simple.
It's no secret that 3D printers can be loud, and the RepRap Prusa i3 that I use is no exception. Mine sits next to where I work all day, so I was tweaking it a bit to make it quieter the other day. I noticed that if I picked up the printer even a little, it significantly reduced the amount of noise it generated.
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HAMPTON — In one sense, opening day at a stock-car racing track is similar to the first game at a professional baseball field. A mix of veterans and rookies share the same butterflies and sense of anticipation.
There is one big difference between the sports. While warmups in baseball are virtually meaningless for nonpitchers, opening-day practice in racing is crucial for almost every driver.
"You want to know where you are after a winter off," said Super Street driver Sammy Gaita, who was opening his sixth consecutive season as a driver after 24 years on the crew of numerous cars in four divisions. Gaita was third-fastest in the first practice and went on to finish second in the race.
Five-time Late Model Division champion Danny Edwards Jr. said that his 30 years of opening days pretty much run together and he has no recollection of his first.
Edwards added, "The longer I do this, the less worked up I get, but after a long winter of preparing your car there's always that excitement of seeing what you've got."
For Edwards, there was a little bit more mystery in that than usual, because he's driving the second car of two-time Late Model champion Mark Wertz until his own new car is finished. Edwards sounded pretty pleased with the early practice results.
"We were decent," he said. "Not the best and not the worst.
"We've got to get a little better for the race."
Super Street driver Jason Michaud and Bandolero driver Zack Lightfoot simply need to get a little more experience. Both are rookies in their respective divisions after successful seasons last year.
Michaud was third in the UCAR division a year ago, winning twice in finishing just 13 points out of first. Lightfoot, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Isle of Wight Academy, is racing on Langley's four-tenths-of-a-mile oval for the first time after winning nine of 13 races last year in his go-kart class.
"I'm very excited to be racing against other people who are better than me and get experience," said Lightfoot, an honor roll student whose sponsors include the Racing for Hope Foundation and Autism Speaks. "Racing on the full track is very fun and makes me feel just like Jimmie Johnson.
"We've got this car dialed in."
Michaud began his third opening day with "some butterflies, because moving into the Super Street division, I feel like a small fish in a big pond.
"We ran good in the second practice, but the car's quite a bit bigger than the UCAR and I'll be learning.
"Some of the confidence (from his successful 2013 in a UCAR) transfers over, but being in a new car knocks you down a few pegs."
Gaita says those are pegs you have to climb if you have a difficult opening race.
"You carry the momentum from the first race," he said. "If it's bad, you have nowhere to go but up.
"If it's good, you try to maintain it for the whole season. I'd say the first day is pretty important."
Look for a complete story on the races online Sunday afternoon and in the print edition of Monday's Daily Press.
O'Brien can be reached by phone at 757-247-4963.
Saturday's brief wrap-up
(from Langley's Gary Daughtrey):
Late Model:
Greg Edwards moved out front on lap 19 and sailed to a five-length victory over Matt Waltz in the Late Model Pomoco Auto Group 100.
Pole-sitter Nick Smith, the only other driver to complete the entire distance, was third.
Super Street:
Landon Abbott moved Randy Akers aside in the final corner, driving into the leader's left-rear quarter-panel and forcing him to spin in Turn 4 on the last of 40 laps, to win the Super Street feature.
Sammy Gaita was second, followed by Renno Marchetti IV, Bill Eaker and Jeff Sweeney.
Super Truck:
Chase McAdams rebounded from a pair of accidents and took the lead on the final circuit to win the 25-Super Truck feature. He beat Jacob Carr by a truck-length.
Tommy Jackson Jr. grabbed the lead with a charge on a restart at lap 10 and won the 25-lap Legends race by shortly less than two car lengths over Spencer Saunders.
Jesse Jones IV started on the pole, at 74.248 mph, and led all 25 laps of the UCAR race, beating Richard Ellis by four lengths.
Devon Courtney took the lead for good on the eighth of 15 laps and rolled to victory by a straightaway over D.J. Elzey.
Saturday's results:
LATE MODEL STOCK CARS - 100 laps
1. Greg Edwards
2. Matt Waltz
3. Nick Smith
4. Brandon Gdovic
5. Casey Wyatt
6. Terry Carroll
7. Mark Wertz
8. Justin Carroll
9. Danny Edwards Jr.
10. Rick Gdovic
11. Gary Weeks
12. Rodney Boyd
13. Duane Shreeves
14. Jeremy Grogg
15. Robert Bruce
Pole: Smith - 90.464 mph.
SUPER STREETS - 40 laps
1. Landon Abbott
2. Sammy Gaita
3. Renno Marchetti IV
4. Bill Eaker
5. Jeff Sweeney
6. Sean Calway
7. Marty Tice
8. Randy Akers
9. Rod Busitzky
10. Jason Michaud
11. Jim Bennett
12. John Pereira
13. Gary Graham
Pole: Akers - 76.691 mph.
SUPER TRUCKS - 25 laps
1. Chase McAdams
2. Jacob Carr
3. Trevor Battoia
4. Corey Bress
5. Colby Vance
6. Bill Wallace
Pole: Wallace - 75.135 mph.
LEGENDS - 25 laps
1. Tommy Jackson Jr.
2. Spencer Saunders
3. Chris Hildebrand
4. Scotty Edwards
5. Brandon Gdovic
6. Chris Raiford
7. D.J. Valente
8. Matt Morgan
9. Brad Hancock
10. Matt Dail
Pole: Hildebrand - 80.704 mph.
UCARs - 25 laps
1. Jesse Jones IV
2. Richard Ellis
3. Justin Fuller
4. Kevin Morgan
5. Ronnie Vance
6. Eric Schaffer
7. Nick Gundacker
8. Ashten Mullett
9. Courtney Shiflett
10. Nick Isidro
11. Brandon Wood
12. John Matthews
13. Tommy Gildea
14. Tim Wilson
Pole: Jones - 74.248 mph.
BANDOLEROS - 15 laps
1. Devon Courtney
2. D.J. Elzey
3. Henry Broadbent Jr.
4. Alex McCollum
5. Bradley Wilson
6. Elysia Potter
7. Zach Lightfoot
8. Autumn Weaver
9. Bradley Kilby
10. Cole Bruce
11. Trevor Wells
12. Aiden Bolling
Pole: Courtney - 68.875 mph.


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It's another thin week on the home video front for recent films, a bunch of hitmen, husband-thieves, exorcisms and straight-to-video failures. But there's also a pair of all-time classics in the mix.
Beverly Hills Cop
The comedy that made Eddie Murphy a certified movie star, he stars a police officer from Detroit to heads off to LA to fight crime. The film also made Mumford High t-shirts wildly popular. Watch the trailer
Daydream Nation
Kat Dennings stars as a precocious girl who moves to a small town where she begins a relationship with one of her teachers, played by Josh Lucas. Unfortunately, a local teenager gets caught in the crossfire of a love triangle. Watch the trailer
Diabolique: The Criterion Collection (1955)
This classic French thriller centers on the wife of a headmaster and his mistress, who together plot his death. Things get interesting when his body goes missing. Watch the trailer
The Hustler
Paul Newman in one of his greatest roles, as Fast Eddie Felson, a pool shark with a heart of stone who hits bottom only to get back on top, before finding himself back on the brink. Brilliant supporting performances from Piper Laurie and Jackie Gleason. Watch the trailer
I Want Your Money
A documentary from Ray Griggs outlines his argument for the belief that President Obama wants to take all your money and have the government control everything. Includes interviews with likes of Mike Huckabee, Andrew Breitbart and Newt Gingrich. Watch the trailer
The Mechanic
Jason Statham stars alongside Ben Foster of this remake of the Charles Bronson classic about a hitman who teaches a protege the tricks of the trade only to suspect that he's going to be double-crossed. Watch the trailer
The Other Woman
Natalie Portman stars as a woman who falls for and weds a married man, loses her one-day-old baby to SIDS and struggles with her relationship with her stepson, in this film from director Don Roos. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD, watch the trailer
The Rite
A young seminary student travels to Rome to attend exorcism school at the Vatican, where he meets a strange old priest, played by Anthony Hopkins, in the religious thriller. Read our review and watch the trailer
The Roommate
It's another "Single White Female," but stabbier and starring Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester. In theaters everywhere, watch the trailer.
Vanishing on 7th Street
From director Brad Anderson ("Session 9") comes this post-apocalyptic tale starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo. Watch the trailer.


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We were the first manufacturer to offer a full range of products free from BFRs in boards, cables and casings. Some BFRs are banned under some regulations, such as the EU RoHS directive, while others are still used by the industry. At Sony Mobile, however, we decided to phase out all BFRs and use alternative fire protection because of the risk of BFRs forming dioxins in uncontrolled incineration and that BFRs have proven to be endocrine disruptors, highly resistant to degradation in the environment and considered to be bioaccumulative. We have continuously phased out these substances, and all our smartphones and tablets and majority of our accessories are free from halogenated (brominated and chlorinated) flame retardants.
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Sachin Tendulkar wishes people would just get out of his head. Since March 16, when he smashed cricket's equivalent of the sound barrier by notching his 100th century--a single-innings score of 100 or more runs--for his country, the player deified by a billion Indians and revered by half a billion other cricket fans has been dogged by questions about what he would do next. Having reached a mark previously considered impossible, would he play on? Or would he walk away from the sport he has dominated for more than two decades? And if so, would he become a businessman, a TV pundit ... a performer of miracles?
The incessant inquisition, carried out by Indian media that have long banked on Tendulkar's popularity to sell papers and score ratings, finally got to him on the very day of his 100th 100. "Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to," he told the Indian magazine Open. It wasn't for them to judge when his time was up, he said; when he feels "unable to serve India, I will stand down and give it all up."
It was an uncharacteristic display of pique from a player who is known as the Master Blaster for his aggressive batting style but is almost as famous for his placid demeanor off the field. No one is ever going to confuse Tendulkar, 39, for John McEnroe. By the time we meet, a month later, Tendulkar has regained his composure, but his manager has asked me not to use the R word. Retirement is not on Tendulkar's mind.
In fact, he'd like to have nothing on his mind at all--no critics, no records, absolutely nothing. When he goes out to bat, Tendulkar seeks "the zone." It's a mental state familiar to great athletes in which the mind filters out the crowd, the opponents, the score and other distractions; performance is guided by a magic combination of intuition and muscle memory. Tendulkar speaks of it in terms more spiritual than sporting: "I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts," he says. "My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It's been trained to react for years."
Tendulkar admits he hasn't yet mastered the ability to get into the zone at will, for which bowlers around the world must be grateful. He has breathing techniques, tricks to psych himself up, but even so, he makes it only "50% of the time," he says.
It's a miracle he can get there at all. Of Tendulkar's many achievements as a cricketer, perhaps the most difficult is the one he must repeat every time he bats for India: carrying the hopes and dreams of an entire nation on his back. It is the heaviest burden borne by any modern sportsman, and his ability to carry it for more than 22 years while utterly dominating his sport makes a good case that Tendulkar is the world's greatest athlete.
God at Bat
In cricket, a batsman who hits a century, or a "ton"--another term for a 100-plus-run innings--displays the most consistent measure of batting prowess. Great players end their careers with anywhere from 25 to 50 such scores. Tendulkar's ton of tons is beyond great. Every sport has record breakers, but of his contemporaries, only Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong and prescandal Tiger Woods come anywhere close to matching him in redefining the realms of possibility. Leo Messi may be the best soccer player on the planet, but he has Cristiano Ronaldo nipping at his heels; Tendulkar leads his closest challenger, Australia's Ricky Ponting, by a staggering 29 centuries.


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Brookhaven Town Hall evacuated due to bomb threat
Brookhaven Town Hall was evacuated due to a bomb threat for about an hour Tuesday afternoon, according to town officials.
Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine said authorities told him a package was mailed to News 12 Long Island threatening to blow up Town Hall in Farmingville at 2:15 p.m.
Public safety officers inside the building began the evacuation at 1:30 p.m. and more than a dozen Suffolk County police vehicles and dogs were on the scene, town officials said. Town Hall was reopened at about 2:30 p.m. after the building was searched and secured, an official said.
Everyone inside exited calmly, but they were concerned as to what was happening, said Brookhaven Councilwoman Kathy Walsh, who was among those evacuated.
Town leaders found themselves under fire after a blizzard hit Feb. 8, with residents complaining of unplowed streets for days, and lack of leadership in the highway department and town government.
Officials, including Romaine, who was on vacation during the blizzard, have blamed the highway department for snow removal problems. They said the department was not prepared to handle a major storm, citing problems with planning, seeking outside contractors, internal staffing and leadership, equipment shortages and old vehicles.
Acting highway superintendent Michael Murphy was on sick leave from Friday through Tuesday during the blizzard and snow cleanup. He resigned Wednesday, and town officials appointed John Cappella acting superintendent.


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|Taking our Iban friends for a fast ride on Sungai Tulai, Sarawak
|Arriving For School On Sungai Tulai - Children From The Longhouse Rumah Lidam
On the rivers in Sarawak (Borneo) it worked incredibly hard for years, and I do remember 12 children (and more) being delivered to "school" on Crystal Blues on most days, for weeks on end.
We patched it when necessary, had canvas covers made in Thailand to protect the tubes, and it served us faithfully for 14 years. Hats off and congratulations to Caribe.
This year it started to need more frequent care, and we found ourselves applying frequent patches - the Hypalon fabric was failing at last. Contemplating a new dinghy was daunting.
|New Dinghy Ready For Work
While the Caribe weighed 75 kg, we found a Highfield of the same size that weighed only 46kg. It was the right color, and exactly the same dimensions as the Caribe (within 1cm in all directions).
The Highfield dinghy has hypalon tubes the same (large) size as our old Caribe, but is has a very lightweight aluminum hull, so we can easily pick it up and man handle it. Cholamark in Phuket supplied the dinghy and also provided custom made Sunbrella covers to help protect the tubes from UV damage.
|The Admiral With Our New Transport
Today we're celebrating after completing the fitout yesterday, bolting on new Beachmaster retractable dinghy wheels. We tested them this afternoon on the softer sand here at Nongsa Point, and we were able to haul the unit well up the beach with minimal effort.
So we're mobile again, and I can't help wondering if the Highfield will last 14 years - it has a lot of work ahead of it, and when when I remember the Caribe, it has a lot to live up to.


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A few years ago I shared photos and a Saveur recipe for delicious Sage Potato Chips. I recently made them again and updated the photos in a set on flickr.
While trying to come up with a fun snack for the big game on Sunday (Puppy Bowl for me, Super Bowl for Peter), I decided to change-up the recipe with (what else?) BACON.
Before scrolling down, check out the step-by-step Sage Potato Chip photos here. The bacon process is similar.
What you need:
Two large russet potatoes. You should get about 10-15 chips, depending on width of cut.
Five pieces of Bacon.
Oil for frying.
Salt (and thyme if you want).
Mandolin (I use a Kyocera) or use your good knife skills!
Instructions (a few photos below):
1. Clean and dry the potatoes.
2. Using a mandolin (or sharp knife), make long, even slices of the potato. Make them thick enough so the potato doesn't tear when inserting the bacon.
3. Make two cuts (photos below) in the center of the potato to hold the bacon.
3. Cut five pieces of bacon in half (or maybe in thirds depending on the size of your potato) then pan-fry the bacon until cooked about 50%. Drain and set aside.
4. The potatoes will be cooked TWICE. In a separate pan, heat up oil (just enough to cover the potato slices) to 200 degrees. Fry each potato slice (without the bacon ) for ten seconds each then drain.
5. After the potato pieces cool down a bit, carefully insert the partially cooked bacon piece into the center cuts.
6. Heat oil to 350 degrees and fry until cooked to your liking.
7. Drain on paper towels and season if you want extra flavor on the potato.
Photos (make sure you've looked at these sage potato photos first):
Fry the potato (precut for bacon) in low heat. You want it pliable enough so it doesn't tear when adding bacon.
Insert the partially pre-cooked bacon gently into potato cuts. This is what they look like BEFORE frying the second time.
Fry until done to your liking then drain and season (if needed). I also call these "Bacon Sandal Crisps" and served with guacamole.
Chef Dan Barber's Original Sage Recipe via Saveur
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This public forum for the Cruiser/Vision/Freedom seems dead.... how active is the builder group?
How involved is support?
The freedom info hasnt been updated from 90% in 6 years.......
I am in planning and research stages.....
Have been getting my feet wet building boats and really enjoying building stuff.
Would like to build a "poor mans" Lancair to be bassed off a gravel strip and the Freedom seems to fit that criteria.
If I lived on pavement the Cozy mkiv or Velocity would be my first choices but that wont work for me.
Any thoughts for someone interested in this path?


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – From the moment Marla Dietrich boarded the Carnival cruise ship Fascination in Jacksonville, she worried her four-day trip to the Bahamas with 18 friends would be less than relaxing.
"It started out bad. It started out bad," Dietrich said.
She said the ship was delayed due to high tides and was stuck in Jacksonville for hours before starting to cruise south.
A day later, Dietrich said, it only got worse when severe weather began tossing the ship around, changing its course and preventing passengers from stopping at one of its intended ports.
"You were just like rolling out of your bed, stuff was falling in your rooms, you couldn't take showers because you couldn't hold on," Dietrich said.
High tides also delayed the ship for hours in returning to port Monday because it couldn't pass under the Dames Point Bridge.
Dietrich and other passengers contacting Channel 4 through Facebook by posting pictures of the cruise are not upset Mother Nature created a rocky path, but are more concered with Carnival's customer service.
"Just an, 'I'm sorry and I'm sorry.' That's all they offered, and they said that that's all that they would be offering to anyone," Dietrich said.
Back on land, some passengers are still upset, saying they'll never cruise with Carnival again. But that also means they won't set sail from Jacksonville anytime soon because Carnival is the only cruiseline available in the River City.
"I mean, we had nothing to do," passenger Shane Griffin said. "You could only eat and drink so much before it's just not enjoyable."
Passengers like Griffin feel the cruise was like throwing cash away because they were stranded on board, angry about the several-hour delays at the beginning and end of the trip.
The cruiseline says it doesn't issue refunds. It issued this statement:
"Unforunately, the weather can sometimes cause uncomfortable conditions, and we sincerely apologize to our guests for any discomfort they may have experienced."
For many passengers, that's not enough.
"I won't cruise again," Griffin said. "I'll just go down to the Florida Keys and just spend my money in the Florida Keys."
Passengers said that while Carvinal does not issue refunds, they did receive about $1 back from a tax at a port at which they never stopped.


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Last week, US mobile firm Verizon announced a deal with Microsoft to allow subscribers to listen to music on their phones. But it has now emerged that people signing up to the new service are losing the ability to play MP3s on their phones.
The company said the decision was made to keep things simpler for users - one media player rather than two.
If you transfer music from your PC to your phone the software will automatically convert the MP3s to Microsoft's WMA format. Unless you are trying to move music from a Linux or Mac machine, in which case the process may be more complicated.
The VCast Music Service goes live 16 January and will offer half a million songs for $1.99 each. Punters will get a version for their phone and one for their computer.
A Microsoft spokesman said there was nothing in the deal with Verizon or in the company's technology to prevent phones working with other formats.
Verizon is joining the rush of mobile firms trying to extract revenues from music and video while satisfying content companies' desire for solid digital rights management. ®


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Let's start with a show of hands. How many of you think you've got a handle on all this modern communication technology?
Let's start with a show of hands. How many of you think you've got a handle on all this modern communication technology?
I'm referring to things like tweeting and Facebook posting — not mastering the TV remote.
You can be sure some of the raised hands belong to police officers, because as we learned from the Boston bombings, an increasing number of law enforcement personnel are walking a virtual beat these days. They're using social media to supplement traditional crime-solving techniques.
What happened in Boston was an eye-opener to those previously unaware of the vast array of Web tools now at the disposal of our crime fighters.
A flood of electronic images poured in once the FBI sounded a public call for help. Thousands of marathon watchers submitted cell-phone videos and photos.
Information made the rounds on Twitter, Facebook and Internet websites, giving investigators abundant resources to develop leads.
Once the video and photos of the suspects were displayed on all media platforms, it was just a matter of time. And it was a Twitter message posted by the Boston Police Department that broke the news of the capture.
But there is a potential downside to all this lightning-fast information dissemination. The rush to locate a perpetrator in Boston led to the initial targeting of an innocent bystander.
Ask police officials about inaccurate social media postings and they'll tell you how they can add grist to the rumor mill.
Town of Montgomery police Chief Arnold Amthor had a bone to pick with social media users following his department's recent search for a suicidal man in Maybrook. Rumors of a villagewide lockdown spread like wildfire.
The chief later called the misinformation a hindrance to law enforcement efforts — forcing officers to spend valuable time dispelling non-factual statements.
A similar situation played out recently in Sullivan County when the young and not-so-young took to Twitter and Facebook to spread the word about a shooter on the loose in Monticello High School. It turned out to be a realistic-looking police drill.
Forward-looking police departments are adapting to the modern media landscape.
Our growing social connections can help them crack cases. And an increasing number of departments now have Facebook pages to deliver information and build a stronger bond with the communities they serve.
The Boston bombing case did more than advance the public discourse over how we attempt to prevent future acts of terrorism. It also put the spotlight on the benefits when social media is effectively used by law enforcement. Now, if we can just keep accuracy from getting lost when instant access is gained.
Two weeks ago, I told the story of Barbara Allen's quest to obtain a Purple Heart for her late husband, Lt. Lou Allen. Readers requested follow-up information. Her White House petition drive is now under way at http://wh.gov/zroT
-- Reach Tracy Baxter at firstname.lastname@example.com and see his online blog and NewsWatch program at recordonline.com


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So my friend wants to hear the west coast announcers during the playoffs - while watching the game on tv. Problem is that the tv broadcast is delayed a few seconds. Does anyone know of a work around? I have computers, recorders, att u-verse and an am radio.
I could run the am broadcast through something and delay it to match the game somehow. Ideas?


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The Toy Business Forum offers extra knowledge for exhibitors and visitors at Spielwarenmesse eG. At the forum, scheduled for January 29 to February 3, experts speak on the latest toy trends as well as unusual marketing tools.
Christian Blümelhuber, professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, will tackle the subject of future management; while toy specialist Reyne Rice will reveal the latest developments in the international toy market. Meanwhile, Andreas Haderlein will discuss what strategies tomorrow's shops should adopt.
The following daily presentations are scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Hall 3A:
- Wednesday: ToyKnowHow—Recognizing Trends, Shaping the Future
- Thursday: Multichannel—Successful Use of New Opportunities
- Friday: Future Retail—Tomorrow's Shop
- Saturday: Marketing—Retail Branding
- Sunday: Multichannel—Offline and Online for Success
- Monday: Live Actions
A detailed overview of the topics is available at www.toyfair.de/toybusinessforum. The presentations will be given in German and English.


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No Ferries in Greece on November 28 Due to StrikeThe Pan-Hellenic Seamen's Federation (PNO) announced on Wednesday that it will participate in the 24-hour strike called by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) on Wednesday, November 28.All ferries will remain docked at the country's ports from 00:01 until 24:00.Travelers that have booked ferry tickets are advised to check with their travel agents or contact local port authorities for further information.
Local authority workers to strike MondayLocal authority workers will go on strike on Monday in protest at a series of accidents suffered by garbage collectors.The union representing local authority workers, POE-OTA, called the strike on Friday after the 53-year-old driver of a municipal garbage truck was crushed when he lost control of his vehicle near the capital's main landfill in Fyli, northwestern Athens.
WEDNESDAYNational strike by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE). There will be no metro, electrical railway, tram or trolley services in Athens, while buses will only run from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. There will be no ferry services across Greece.
Doctors, medical staff to stage work stoppage on MondayHospital doctors and medical staff will walk off the job from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, following a call to action by the Federation of Hospital Doctors of Greece and the national union of public hospital workers.
Teachers planning strike, protest rally for MondayThe union representing primary school teachers, known by its acronym DOE, has called on its members to stage a 24-hour strike on Monday while the secondary teachers' union, OLME, has called a three-hour walkout from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Public servants to strike in solidarity with teachersCivil servants are to walk off the job on Thursday in a 24-hour strike called by their umbrella union, ADEDY, to express solidarity with teachers who have staged a series of protests over the past week against government plans to make changes to the system of public sector hirings.
Major restructuring plan for Greek Post envisions closing of 200 offices; voluntary retirement for 2,800 workersA major restructuring plan for debt-laden Greek Post (EL.TA) features the closing of 200 offices around the country and the gradual early voluntary retirement of more than 1,800 employees in 2019 alone.Conversely, the union representing postal workers is opposed to further staff reductions, with an industrial action set for Wednesday.
Greek postal workers call one-day strike over cost-cutting plansWorkers at the Greek postal service (ELTA) are walking off the job on Wednesday in protest at plans to further reduce spending in the state-run company.ELTA workers say these plans include firing 2,300 employees at the cash-strapped organization and shutting down 220 more branches, which will leave many parts of the country without a post office, including rural areas that already have limited access to banks and other services.
Sounds dire. Roger here continues to report an almost all st non-existent service and he's not that far out in the sticks. As I posted here several years ago: ELTA - Expecting Letters, Totally Absurd. Tony
Union of paramedics to hold work stoppage on FridayThe Panhellenic Association of Paramedics has announced a five-hour work stoppage (10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) on Friday.The national union of public hospital workers (POEDIN) said it is supporting the labor action.
WEDNESDAYThe Civil Servants' Union (ADEDY) holds a work stoppage from 11 a.m. to the end of shift.
Hospital workers to stage four-hour stoppageThe union of Greek hospital workers, POEDIN, on Tuesday announced a four-hour work stoppage for the following day.The action is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, starting at 11 a.m., and is expected to affect services at the country's public hospitals.
POE-OTA local worker union calls strike for Thursday, demanding benefitsThe union representing local authority workers, POE-OTA, has called a 24-hour strike for Thursday, February 21, to demand that staff working hazardous jobs get paid a corresponding bonus.The union has also appealed for the public nature of services to be safeguarded, protesting against the "avalanche" of recent privatizations.
Public hospital workers to walk off the job on ThursdayThe union of Greece's public hospital workers, POEDIN, on Tuesday called a 24-hour strike for Thursday in protest at the looming loss of dozens of patient transporters.
Restaurants and bars close in Patra to protest high taxesRestaurants and bars in Patra, western Greece, are to remain closed on Monday as part of a 24-hour strike announced by the union of business owners in protest at excessive taxation, the Athens-Macedonia news agency reported.
FRIDAYSecondary school teachers hold a 24-hour strike.
Three-hour stoppage at antiquities sites, museums on FridayGuards at ancient sites and museums will go on a three-hour warning work stoppage on Friday, from 08.00 to 11.00, to highlight "urgent issues that need immediate solutions", their union PEYFA said on Monday.
Ferryboats to stay tied up at port on May 1The PNO union of Greek dockworkers on Tuesday announced a 24-hour strike for Labor Day, starting at one minute past midnight on May 1.
Ferry strike to disrupt Ionian servicesThere will be no ferry services Monday between Corfu, Igoumenitsa, Paxoi and the Diaponteia islands, as dockworkers walk off the job.The union of local dockworkers organized a strike this week instead of on May 1, when the rest of the country's ferry boats remained tied up at port.
Greek hospital staff to strike on ThursdayGreek state hospitals will be operating on skeleton staff on Thursday after the union representing hospital workers, POEDIN, called a 24-hour strike to protest cutbacks and the increased contributions paid by patients for medicines and healthcare.
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Impact of violent video games debated
Ken Dixon
Published 6:09 pm, Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Laws preventing minors from playing violent video games in public arcades may violate First Amendment rights of free speech, a legislative committee was told Tuesday.
David J. McGuire, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, told the Children's Committee that despite concerns such video games are linked to physical violence, hundreds of studies have failed to establish such a connection.
Moreover, the U.S. Supreme Court has protected the purchase and use of such games by those under 18 years of age, ruling that such an exclusion would violate their First Amendment rights.
But proponents of the bill, pushed this year as a potential precaution after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, said the point-and-shoot games have been shown to "desensitize" military and police trainees from the consequences of shooting firearms.
One committee member, Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, called for the video game and arcade industries to police themselves.
McGuire said as a parent, he respected the committee's goal to reduce violence in society. But two years ago, he pointed out, the nation's highest court ruled that violent video games have First Amendment free-speech protection like books, plays and works of art.
"Significantly, after reviewing several studies on the subject, the Supreme Court concluded there is little evidence of a link between violent video games and violent behavior in children, and ruled that such a tenuous correlation was not sufficient to impose a restriction on this protected medium," McGuire said.
"There's not enough research to show a direct causal link that video games give harm to minors," he added. "Another interesting fact is that since the mid-1990s, there's been an increase in the popularity of these video games, yet there's been a decrease in the rate of serious violent crimes by youth perpetrators."
But Sen. Toni N. Harp, D-New Haven, sponsor of the legislation, said she believes there is a link between video violence and aggressive behavior in children.
"This bill, should it become law, will prohibit the use of certain video games by minors," she said. "To allow access to these life-like simulators is to teach point-and-shoot proficiency -- and with the shock and horror of recent local events still in our minds and the memory of Connecticut victims still held in our hearts -- there is no doubt in my mind that these games can put real people at risk again in the future.
"These games inadvertently teach young children that shooting people is easy, virtually harmless and without serious consequence."
Harp recalled that 12 years ago, a similar bill was approved in the House and Senate, but was later vetoed by then-Gov. John G. Rowland.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, speaking to reporters in the Capitol Tuesday afternoon, said that violent video games are clearly responsible for the proliferation of bloodshed.
"I think the industry has done a wonderful job in destigmatizing violence in our society," Malloy said. "Much more than the movie industry, I think the game industry has basically sent out the message for the better part of a generation that violence is acceptable.
"It's acceptable coming into your home. It's acceptable being played out over long periods of time. I don't think any good has been accomplished in that except for the industry itself."
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A friend of mine recently bought me dinner in exchange for a a few hours of printing instruction on his new Golding Official No. 2 Printing Press. It was a fun time, showing him how to clean and keep up his press, some basic type setting and making a list of supplies he still needed before he could really get rolling. I really love teaching people about printing (my first love, er, well second after my Other Half…)
So I got to thinking, maybe I could offer private letterpress printing lessons. Over the last coupla years, I've had people ask me if I could teach them how to use their new press, or if they could come to my house and learn to use mine and see if they should make the commitment to buying a press. (I always wished I could, but my print shop is the size of a postage stamp so two people in there is really hard to maneuver. ) Also, several people I know have presses that just sit unused because they've become discouraged trying to teach themselves to print with a press that might just need a tune up, or with type too worn for a crisp print. These are problems a few good Lessons could really help empower New Printer!
Here's what I'm thinking: say you just bought a cute little table-top 3×5 hobby press from eBay for the affordable price of one arm (let's hope you had the forethought not to pay with your printing arm), one leg and your first born child. It needs to be cleaned up, and you're just unfamiliar enough with the mechanics of a table top press to want to start taking it apart. That's where I come in.
You send me a message, and tell me you just got this press, and we set up a time for me to come over to your house or studio or class room, wherever the press is kept(its easier to go to it, than bring it to me). I'll bring with me a small box of supplies in case you're not sure what exactly you need yet. This way, you can get a good visual of any tools or miscellany you might not have acquired, and some hands on experience with things like quoins and gauge pins.
First things first, you will learn the Care and Feeding of your new little Kelsey. We oil and clean, adjust the platen, tighten loose bolts or pins, adjust the rollers, getting quite intimate with the machine. The lessons would be billed by the hour, so we can take as much time as your schedule and budget allow, but for the sake of example, today you only have 2 hours to spare. We get the press clean and moving freely for now, while setting up another date for Lesson 2.
Then maybe you'd like to know more Basic Printing, learn some typesetting skills, more vocabulary, make-ready and packing the platen. Perhaps Lesson after that if you want to keep going is getting more in-depth typesetting techniques down, or working on locking up your forme. It can be tailored to what you, the student needs as you progress. Then, one day you won't need me anymore. *Sniff. *Tear. But I'll say "So long for now, Good bike, Good bilt, good bauble!" because I'm just terrible with good-byes. You'll be printing on your own, with hands-on knowledge to get you off on the right foot.
While I'm no Paul Moxon, I do have a bunch experience on Vandercook proof presses, C&P platen presses and a myriad of other table top proof presses so I could help get the ball rolling with more than just your little table top lever presses. I'm imagining all these sessions to be informal and a lot of fun for both of us.
Is this something you budding hobbyists would like to have available? I'm sure to get responses about "I wish you were in my area!" and maybe that could be worked out, I don't know. Maybe I'll schedule a Tour!


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I'm pleased to introduce my newest product line—Fusible Fabric Wall Décor made with laser cut fusible appliqués. There are 12 laser cut appliqués that feature your interests and hobbies. Perfect for framing on stretched canvas, in a purchased frame, or as a wall quilt, these appliqués will add style to your décor.
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- Welcome to Our Home (Appliqué dimension–13″ H x 18″ W plus two additional leaf accents)
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- Sewist (Appliqué dimension–10″ H x 15″ W)
- Sew with smaller Pincushion (Appliqué dimension–7-1/8″ H x 13″ W)
- Quilt (Appliqué dimension–10″ H x 16″ W)
- Family (Appliqué dimension–15″ H x 18″ W with additional bird accents)
- Sun Soil Seeds Sprouts (Appliqué dimension–15″ H x 19-1/4″ W plus additional leaf accents)
- Simplify! (Appliqué dimension–7-1/8″ H x 15″ W)
- Faith (Appliqué dimension–5-1/4″ H x 13″ W plus additional butterfly accents)
- Read Relax Enjoy Learn (Appliqué dimension–13-1/2″ H x 17-13/16″ W)
- Fabric Cut Stitch Create (Appliqué dimension–13-3/8″ H x 17-11/16″ W with additional button accents)
- Chocolate Therapy—need i say more! (Appliqué dimension–8-11/16″ H x 18″ W)
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I'm curious, which design piques your interest? How would you frame or use one of my new designs? Three, yes three, random winners will be chosen on June 29 and sent a laser-cut appliqué for their sewing and decorating enjoyment.
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The following statement was written by a small group of people present at the 'Safer Spaces' workshop on Friday morning and put prominently on the wall. It was done to communicate the results of the workshop to new people arriving later in the weekend.
We're trying to make this space as safe and welcoming as possible.
We had lots of discussion on Friday about what we mean by "safer spaces" – you can read the notes we took [nearby on the walls] – but this discussion is ongoing…
The process of changing ourselves and our scenes involves reflecting, and recognising the ways in which our attitudes/actions sometimes affect others. The classism / racism / sexiam / ageism etc of the dominant culture is something we all need to dismantle and unlearn.
We need to be open to challenging ourselves, and each other, and changing our behaviour if it's causing people to feel unsafe or making our spaces less inclusive than we'd like them to be.
A rough guide to what we mean by "safer space" creation – a few suggestions we thought we could try out here, and in the rest of our lives…
DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS about your audience. About individuals' backgrounds, experiences, situations, life-choices, gender, sexuality, politics, diet, health, abilities, needs, beliefs…
THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK, don't let you knee-jerk reactions rule.
LISTEN TO PEOPLE & LEARN, don't dominate the space / conversation. Encourage everyone to voice their thoughts. Enjoy silence.
SPEAK UP & DON'T BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES – stifling your opinions in order to be polite / "nice" / safe isn't always helpful. Especially if we're trying to have honest, open dialogue.
BE AWARE OF YOUR PRIVILEGES AND POWER. Recognise that our society is inherently oppressive in many ways, and we are products of our society. Unless we recognise – and work on – the prejudices and privileges that we've inherited, we are part of the problem.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOU ACTIONS and how your behaviour / your speech affects other people.
CHALLENGE OPPRESSIVE BEHAVIOURS. We can all challenge fucked up behaviour when it occurs. It's easier to do this when you know how other people around you think about the issue – so it's worth talking about all this in advance and establishing clear, open guidelines and communicating them.
DEFENSIVENESS ISN'T CONSTRUCTIVE, neither is guilt. Try to really listen to what people are pointing out to you and take some time to reflect on that.
CLIQUEYNESS ISN'T HEALTHY. Make the effort to talk to more people, invite people to join your group or conversation, catch them up on what's been discussed, explain slang & in-jokes if necessary.


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Back in the early 1970s, when I was struggling to get something–anything!–published, I sold a copy of a short story to a children's magazine for one free copy. "Never give your work away," I was admonished, but I did anyway. … Continue reading
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