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Here is a software suggestion for those of you out there that enjoy doing digital photography and save to RAW format. I am using Photoshop Elements and was getting annoyed having to open all of my files individually in the editor to weed out the unacceptable ones. The Windows Image viewer wouldn't read the RAW files, so what do you do?
The answer, as always, is Google for a free solution. It turns out that most of the major manufacturers of digital cameras are now putting out CODEC files so that the Windows image viewer can read these files. Now I will warn you that it isn't fast, but it is still faster than opening each one in an editor.
As with any career, consulting has a number of benefits and challenges. As a consultant architect you get to experience more environments than a in house architect. On the other hand you aren't assured that you will be doing architecture on every assignment. One day you may be working as a developer and the next as a project manager.
So how do you keep your skills sharp and your resume viable? Your resume is going to be littered with jobs other than the title of architect. Within a project look for areas where you can apply your architecture skills.
The first thing to look at is assisting your manager to resolve issues. This demonstrates your ability to work problems and think at a project level instead of a code level.
Mentoring junior developers within your team is another way to improve your worth. Besides helping the team to improve the quality of the product this also keeps in your mind the best practices of software development.
One thing you definitely need to do is mine the client for areas where they do need architects. As consultants we sometimes have to sell our abilities more than full time employees. This means seeking out areas outside of your current project to advance your cause.
Of course one thing that all architects should do is read books about architecture in general as well as skills that are related to job of an architect. Mentors and peers aren't always available.
Lastly, get involved with your local architect community. I would suggest joining your local chapter of IASA (Chicago chapter is coming soon).
I was reading a blog post the other day about motivating software developers to be motivated to ship code. While I agree this is a problem I have to ask the question "do IT departments really want to ship code"?
Here is where I am coming from. I have seen enough IT departments where they stack release on top of release at such a frenzied pace that it causes them to split their resources. When you have multiple versions of an application that have to be tested you need more environment that all have to be managed.
The result of this splitting and multiplying resources is that company doesn't have enough subject matter experts to do all the work. This leads to developers making changes without understanding the implications to other parts of the system.
Another problem is that of keeping all of the testing environments synchronized and stable. Of course since each environment will be on a different version of the code, but it is difficult to ensure the configuration lessons learned are applied across the board.
The point is that the thinner you stretch your resources the less likely you are to be able ship quality code on time. It takes a very mature IT department to pull this off and it should not be attempted without robust lines of communications between team. If this is done wrong it will actually show the development staff that they don't need to worry about getting their code done because the company is not serious about the product. The best alternative is to serialize you projects although that won't make management the happiest. As architects I believe it is our place to identify these risks and present alternative.
Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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"William McGuire, chairman and chief executive of UnitedHealth Group Inc., faces mounting boardroom pressure to leave the giant health insurer after an internal probe found evidence that stock options were improperly backdated to benefit insiders, people familiar with the matter said.It's time to say good-bye.
Dr. McGuire's fate, along with that of general counsel David Lubben, could be decided at a board meeting scheduled to take place Sunday, these people said.
Directors received a detailed briefing on the results of the months-long internal probe Friday in Washington. The probe was conducted by law firm WilmerHale. The meeting included a lengthy presentation by Dr. McGuire and his attorney.
UnitedHealth, one of the nation's largest health insurers with a market value of $66 billion, is among the most prominent of the more than 100 companies caught up in the stock-options scandal. Dr. McGuire has been among the highest-paid executives in U.S. corporate history, amassing an enormous, options-based fortune over his 15 years running UnitedHealth. At the end of 2005, his unexercised cache of options was valued at $1.78 billion, far and away the largest sum held by any U.S. executive, according to Standard & Poor's ExecuComp."

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Wikisource:WikiProject DNB
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|WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
|Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, containing over 27,000 biographies related to the current territories of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and to former British colonies; together with its public domain supplements.
Welcome to WikiProject DNB.
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, "from earliest times to the present", i.e. up until the time it was published, from 1885 to 1900. It is a massive work, comprising 63 volumes and encompassing over 27,000 biographies. Even though it is now more than a century old, the original edition remains an important reference work; and is the best secondary source for many of the subjects or aspects of their biographies. Our project aims to make this work available online in an accessible form. As of February 2013, all DNB first edition and first supplement articles are present at Wikisource. Our project now aims to improve the DNB here in several ways. These include additional proofreading, additional internal linking, and completion of linking to Wikipedia.
Why the old Dictionary of National Biography?Edit
The Victorian writing style and point of view in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) can make reading some of the material tedious, and more recent publications may have updated the information, but that does not diminish the importance of this work as a comprehensive source of British biographies. For many of the minor figures, the DNB's information is still the basis of academic work published a century or more later, as can be seen surprisingly often.
The goal of this WikiProject is to make the original sources available in one place where the text may be verified, and links made to other information. If for no other reason, Wikipedia makes extensive use of the DNB as a reference. By posting a pair of articles with interwiki links, one here that is the original, and another at Wikipedia that is lighter on some of the detail and citations of primary sources, but also updated and corrected, we can add reading value to both articles, and give real help to those with a serious interest.
There are some thousands of DNB articles here without WP equivalent. See Category:DNB No WP.
There are hundreds of WP biographical articles that could usefully reference a DNB article here. Some can be seen in the Wikipedia category w:Category:Articles incorporating DNB text without Wikisource reference.
The Wikipedia sister projectEdit
The need for cross-wiki collaboration has led to the creation of a sister project: w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography. We hope that participants in the Wikipedia project will use articles that we have already transcribed. Going the other way, we link each of our articles to the corresponding Wikipedia article when it exists. Some editors who are members of both projects are actively creating WP articles for each WS article.
The goal of the Wikipedia project is to add useful information to Wikipedia, while the ultimate goal of our Wikisource project is to transcribe the DNB into a web-friendly form that is easy to use and reference. If you are new to our project and wish to help but do not know where to start, please consider adding articles to WP from Category:DNB No WP. If you are willing to do the hard work, please consider proofreading our sources in "page space." Each page of the original DNB is available, and must eventually be progressed by three separate editors from "not proofread" to "proofread" and then to "verified."
Wikisource endEdit
Another motivation is to get the DNB properly indexed and wikified, making the text much more useful. A couple of points about this: obviously articles created here will be found by search engines, and so will be read (more often and in a much more readable form than in text dumps from bad scans full of typos), and links from Wikipedia will help the prominence; and wikification onsite here of the articles can make the [q. v.] structure into hyperlinks. Wikification is not restricted to that type of hyperlink, either (see /Wikification)This work was originally secondary, but as we now have transcluded all articles it has become more important.
The existence of a DNB article on the same topic as others created here by other projects (Catholic Encyclopedia, Britannica 1911 for example) will also promote and one day lead to a consolidation of reference material on this site. Exactly how that will take place is still an interesting and open discussion site-wide.
Comparison with the ODNBEdit
We are not the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the modern version of the DNB that is a magnificent subscription site of over 50,000 updated biographies and a total number of words around 65,000,000. We can rival the ODNB in various worthwhile ways:
- by being free, evidently;
- by linking to a WP article that is kept updated, so that anyone reading articles in WP/WS pairs will get a very fair view of what is known;
- by being hypertext.
The last point is worth plenty, in fact: the DNB text mentions thousands of place names, for example, often enough in obsolete spellings, and we can link those. For all its virtues, the ODNB has hardly entered the hypertext age.
Copyright statusEdit
This project has not been endorsed by the Oxford University Press or any agent, editor, or subsidiary thereof. The Oxford University press has been the publisher of the Dictionary of National Biography since 1917. Modern derivatives and supplements, now known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography continue to be protected by copyrights. The 1900 DNB, the first two supplements, and the early reprints are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired.
Wikisource's edition of the DNB is based upon the knowledge available at the time of original publication. Research continued as new sources were discovered. These new sources, reflected in later editions, were initially captured in the 1904 Errata. Readers should bear this in mind when using the information and verify the absence of applicable errata for these articles prior to use. If a Wikipedia article is available, it should be consulted for possibly more recent information.
Structure and points of discussionEdit
The initial structure of this project borrowed heavily from WS:EB1911. Various suggestions for piecemeal change have since been adopted. There is room for further improvements in the ways of working.
This is a work in progress, and you should feel free to add to the list of things to consider. Some of them are:
- Meeting, greeting and helping: welcoming participants for this mammoth task, and providing practical assistance.
- Checking processes. We use the coding in the Page namespace that can be read from the bar below the article titles.
Our project has processed scanned text into Wikisource pages. We support this activity with necessary auxiliary pages.
Several mass scanning projects have scanned the original 63 volumes of the DNB. We have attempted to find the "best" scan for each volume, and these have been copied into the Wikisource "page space" to use as the basis for this project. However, none of the scans is perfect, and in many cases some pages of the "best" scan are not as good as the same page of an alternate scan. As the project has evolved, our methods of tracking the original scans have changed. As of 2011-12-10, you can find all 63 scans in wikisource page space. You can access the page space scan for a particular article as follows:
- go to Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- go to the appropriate volume
- go to the appropriate article
- click on the page numbers in the left-hand column
For pages that are not part of articles, you may find pages for a particular volume as follows:
- go to Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- click on the volume of interest (e.g., Abbadie - Anne)
- click on the "Access scanned source of Volume" link (e.g., Access scanned source of Volume 01)
This link also provides information about any alternate sources we have found. If you find additional alternate scans on the Internet, feel free to edit the relevant "access" page to add the new source. As a last resort, some team members have access to the original hard-copy DNB and can scan the pages. Add a request to the talk page if this proves necessary. (So far, we have found online alternates for each request.)
Before the scans were available in page space, some articles were created by directly adding the text to the article either from an OCR version on the internet or by manual transcription. A few of these may remain, but we are attempting to convert them.
The scanned text you need should be by the djvu. When it is, the proof-reading task is conventional, with some standard format and markup conventions. The proofed text can be advanced in status (pink to yellow to green) using the radio buttons at the bottom of the editing box.
Articles in the main namespace have been created by transclusion, so any subsequent proof-reader finding errors can navigate back to the djvu and parallel text, using the left-margin figures or the transclusion data accessible via the "edit" tab, and can fix them in the pagespace version. These corrections (caching permitting) then will be found in the article.
To complete the picture, the auxiliary pages divide into those that provide listings, and templates: firstly
- listings by volume (the volume ToCs);
- listings by author, on each Author page for a contributor.
Each single biography has been listed in both those places. The project has created an Author page for each DNB contributor: See Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors, and a reference for the abbreviations.
There is a template for each contributor, such as {{DNB AA}}, and each article uses the correct template. (A small proportion of unsigned articles exist in the DNB).
Style ManualEdit
We aim for a "letter-perfect copy" of the original DNB. But what exactly does this mean when we transform a set of 63 nineteenth-century books into pages on Wikisource? The project members have found a reasonable way to do this, and we have documented it. See Wikisource:WikiProject DNB/Style Manual. If you encounter a problem that is not covered on the style manual, use its talk page to discuss your problem. We can then add the solution to the style manual. You should consult the style manual if you are proofreading.
Using transclusionEdit
Few (normal) people read a volume of a long biographical dictionary from cover to cover. It is a reference work, and the natural unit for the reader is the article. To do the two things at once (reproduce the paginated text, produce single articles) is quite possible, using the transclusion of whole or partial pages into articles. For one fundamental aspect of the activity of the project, checking the text against the image of the original in our djvu files, this has a clear advantage: correction of an error found with the text next to the image will propagate into the free-standing article. And then anyone can go and verify a spelling or date (say), and make a change if one is needed.
The technical requirements to do the transclusion are twofold: markup in the Page: namespace, which is simple and something of which the reader will not be aware; and the transclusion syntax applied by the article creator, which lives on the article page. The transclusion infrastructure should already exist for all articles, so proofreading corrections should only be needed in page space.
Early in the project some pages were created simply by article text plus header only. If you encounter such a page, please mention it on the talk page here so we can re-create it using transclusion. See /Transclusion.
Reporting and requestingEdit
Scale is an issue for this project, and the need for collaboration on the creation from rough raw materials of approximately 30,000 articles hardly needs stating. We developed structures to ensure that anyone who becomes aware of issues relating to the work of the project can report them.
- Category:Problematic is used across Wikisource for tagging pages that are obviously defective; we now use its DNB subcategories systematically. Defective pages in the Page should be categorised, to aid cleanup of djvus and text. For example, for the notorious "interleaved text", for example, where the two-column format has defeated the scanner which has read across the whole page, please report bad cases of this text problem by adding Category:Problematic DNB pages, text.
- /Progress has tabulated information relating to the 63 volumes and their issues. This is the place to leave reports of "bot hiccups" or other problems with the initial postings of djvus.
- /Data capture is really an automated version of "Most wanted" designed to pick up needy Wikipedia articles, those that could use article creation here to provide a good Web reference. This page now carries links to Wikipedia pages that track the template use.
Add your name here with ~~~~ if you wish to join the team!
- created stub project -Arch dude 02:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- created several entries before it became a project. Eclecticology 08:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Recently trying to focus on Volume 6. Eclecticology - the offended (talk) 16:41, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- happy to type and reference, and done bits already. Would suggest that we would at least want to add WP:PDATA components Billinghurst 15:35, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- Well done you guys... I don't know I'll be as active as you but I'll definitely try to lend a hand Dsp13 (talk) 04:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- Charles Matthews (talk) 12:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
- working on volume 11 sporadically --Magnus Manske (talk) 11:42, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- Working on a small part of volume 34 initially. Mark.s.shaw (talk) 10:41, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
- I'll do a bit, Magna Carta leaders led me here Innotata (talk) 00:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
- Starting at the beginning. Jan1naD (talk • contrib) 23:19, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
- Would like to give it a go. Daytrivia (talk) 19:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Stumbled here by accident. Looks like fun...I'll spend time on volume 28.JamAKiska (talk) 13:05, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
- I'm de facto working on it, might as well list meself here. MLauba (talk) 10:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
- P. S. Burton (talk) 20:54, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
- If it's helpful, I can cut and paste from an electronic version of the DNB, which should save transcription from images.--Longfellow (talk) 17:17, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
- Tommy Jantarek (talk) 00:59, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
- Senra (talk • contribs) I have referenced this project in my wiki editing without realising it. Met the nice Charles Matthews (talk • contribs) at the recent Cambridge 8 meet-up. I would be glad to help --Senra (talk) 12:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
- George Burgess (talk)
- Bob Burkhardt (talk) 17:59, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
- Guess I've been in for some time ... Rich Farmbrough, 23:11 9 October 2011 (GMT)
- I will certainly try my best to help out with this one.--Inobtanium (talk) 13:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
- Still needing help?
- I was reading Murdac, Henry (DNB00) and surprised by the lack of Wikilinks on the q.v.'s. So I added them, and ended up validating the corresponding page and a couple more. ColinFine (talk) 12:46, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- Interesting project Henkenny (talk) 22:39, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
Index of project internal linksEdit
- Blind [q. v.] links are now handled by piping to Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Blind links.
- Cleanup
- Completions tracking complete volumes and letters
- Data capture lists WP articles citing DNB text that is not yet here in article form
- /DNB00 active, authors needing DNB00 articles
- /DNB01 completions, authors needing first supplement articles only to be complete to 1901
- Errors and errata
- Listings , progress report on the volume ToCs and author page listings
- Master lists
- Messy lists (now obsolete)
- Most wanted articles
- Pagefinding - detailed explanation of how to navigate into pagespace using index pages
- Progress tabulates how it is going on the technical side; /Djvu files is yet more detail arising
- Raw materials about text scans
- Statistics
- Style Manual
- Terminating hyphen maintenance page for word breaks at end
- Tools
- Transclusion
- Unpopulated - DNB author pages bearing the {{populate}} tag
- Unsigned - list of articles unsigned in the original DNB
- Walkthrough - a detailed "how-to" guide
- Wikification - discusses added hyperlinks
- WP referencing
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 gives access to completed articles listed for each volume
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors for the relevant author pages
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement provides access to 3 Volume supplement published in 1901 and 1904 Errata.
- 1912 authors for the second supplement
- Category:DNB
- Category:Problematic under P for problem djvu pages, and sorted pages in subcategories Category:Problematic DNB pages, djvu, Category:Problematic DNB pages, text
- A means to search for text in the DNB within Page namespace (workspace search only)
External linksEdit
- Wikisource DNB links to Magnus Manske's statistics and maintenance tool. (The detailed readout is now more complicated than in the past, because the /DNB author subpages are causing some unproblematic pages to register in both of the main cleanup lists.)
- Articles requiring a direct DNB link at Wikipedia


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Denver Post Pushes Voter ID Laws, Columnist Equates Voting With Adopting A Pet
Within the last 7 days, the Denver Post has published two opinion pieces on voter ID laws, specifically arguing for why Colorado needs one. Both pieces rehash common myths about voter ID laws, including the popular conservative argument that the number of citizens without an ID card is too small to be significant and the false equivalency that because you need identification to do a multitude of other things, such as "travel by air" or "operate a motor vehicle," then it's reasonable that you should need one to vote. From this morning's Denver Post editorial:
The case has been made that voter ID laws could disenfranchise a significant number of eligible voters, disproportionately harming minorities, seniors and low-income voters.
Those were among the arguments made by 16 Democratic U.S. senators, including Colorado's Michael Bennet, who last summer asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to examine voter ID laws in various states. [...]
A 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case involving a voter ID law in Indiana, a state that also does not fall into the higher-scrutiny category, made it clear there wasn't anything inherently discriminatory about requiring voters to present a photo ID before casting a ballot. [...]
So long as it is paired with administrative adjustments to help those voters who want to get an ID, we think it would be a positive step toward ensuring those who show up at the polls are who they say they are. There's nothing wrong with that.
Despite the Supreme Court decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board that is cited by the editorial board, these laws are restrictive to voters. A study of new voter ID laws passed last year alone show that another 5 million citizens will be impacted in the upcoming election -- especially the elderly and communities of color.
The Denver Post's editorial board claims there is nothing wrong with voter ID laws, "so long as it is paired with administrative adjustments" to help voters acquire ID cards; the board is essentially agreeing to impose a burden on people who wouldn't have been previously burdened -- all to stop a non-existent problem. As the Brennan Center for Justice found in its 2007 study of voter fraud, the allegations of widespread voter fraud "do not pan out." Even prominent voices in favor of voter ID laws, such as Hans Van Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, have previously admitted that there is not "massive fraud" in elections.
Mike Rosen, an opinion writer for the Post, also weighed in on voter ID laws in a column from last Thursday. From the Denver Post:
Across the nation, Americans are routinely required to show a photo ID when they travel by air; operate a motor vehicle; buy alcohol at a liquor store, restaurant, bar or sporting event; write a check at a grocery store; get a job; rent a car; apply for a passport; make a credit card purchase; apply for a loan; get a marriage license; adopt a pet; open an account or cash a check at a bank; get medical care; fill a drug prescription; pick up tickets at the will-call window of a baseball park or theater; rent an apartment; close on a house; or get a hotel room, to mention just a few. [...]
How tough is it, really, to get a photo ID? There are 200 million licensed drivers in the U.S. with photo IDs. Non-drivers can secure general-purpose photo IDs at government offices. Obtaining one is much easier than a driver's license; there's no written exam or road test.
And why would anyone want to suffer the inconveniences of going without a photo ID? Only a racist or political spinmeister could claim that blacks lack the common sense to accomplish this simple task. And you can be sure that anywhere photo ID laws are passed, Democratic community organizers would be out in force getting their core voters qualified. Yes, illegal immigrants and other lawbreakers might have trouble getting a valid photo ID, but why should that bother you, unless you're a Democrat who assumes most of those people would vote for your party?
Despite Rosen's assertion that it can't be that "tough" to get a photo ID, a 2006 study by the Brennan Center for Justice found that as many as 13 million people don't have ready access to citizenship documents. Without citizenship documents, getting an ID becomes problematic and potentially expensive.
Rosen also seems to disregard the fact that identification requirements for travel, purchasing alcohol, filling a prescription, etc. are fundamentally different from voting, since the former are not constitutionally protected rights. As ACLU South Carolina executive director Victoria Middleton explained in a William & Mary Election Law Society post:
Photo IDs are required for many activities these days, from boarding a plane to purchasing a six-pack of beer. When asked if it was unreasonable to ask an individual to present an ID to vote, Middleton said, "It's not a constitutional right to buy Sudafed or become a frequent flier." She continued, "People fought and died to win the right to vote."


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The new heist film "Takers" opens with a gripping, rapid-fire bank robbery and closes with a pretty decent hijacking and a fantastic footrace. It's a pity about the hour in the middle.
Actually, that's not entirely accurate, as the very beginning of the film introduces us to LAPD detective Jack Welles (Matt Dillon) and his younger partner Eddie (Jay Hernandez). It takes the two of them about five minutes to fall into about every cop-partner cliche in film history: there's the grizzled veteran who's not afraid to hit a suspect and has a failed marriage and a crap relationship with his kid and then there's the earnest, wide-eyed younger cop with a wife and a family. Bleecchhhh...
It's not until we see the "takers" start to filter in that the film gets interesting, as one by one they assemble on an abandoned floor (there's always an abandoned floor, isn't there?) of a high-rise that's home to a bank. What follows is a robbery pulled off with the kind of precision execution that would make any mother proud, and is a pretty sweet getaway to boot.
What sets this crew apart from most bank heist teams is their love of well-tailored suits, single-malt scotch and fine mahogany woodwork. Their lair is basically a Wall Street frat boy's dream, which to be honest is a refreshing change of pace from the cesspools or nouveau riche nightmares most movie gangs inhabit. Oh, and it's a biracial crew, a fact made interesting only by being ignored.
The acting in this film ranges from tortured to very good, with a bit too much at the former end of the spectrum. Unfortunately, there's not much to work with for some of the movie's better performers. Dillon, Idris Elba are Marianne Jean-Baptiste are all talented veterans trying to make do -- they all deserve better.
Unfortunately, Tip "T.I." Harris is way out of his depth as Ghost, a man from the takers' past who's fresh out of prison and has a plan for one last job. It's not Shakespeare, but in the hands of a better actor, Ghost could've been a great stock genre character offering any number of chances to gnaw on some scenery. Instead you wince a little more each time T.I. calls someone "G."
Chris Brown and Michael Ealy are the hilariously named Attica brothers -- while the fact they are siblings is clear in the film, their family name is sadly not highlighted. Ealy acquits himself nicely as the taker with the most to lose. And Brown (and his stunt double) makes a hard-charging, exciting escape on foot that mixes elements of Frogger and parkour (which is quickly wearing out its welcome as the new movie trick).
Rounding out the cast are a positively wooden Paul Walker, an absurdly hatted and tatted Hayden Christensen and Zoe Saldana, who must've signed on to this movie before "Avatar" became the highest grossing film of all time.
"Takers" has the ambition of Michael Mann's "Heat" (which had its own problems), but director John Luessenhop lacks the skill and cast that Mann had at his disposal. Ultimately "Takers" is bookended by plenty of good action that is sadly held together by a string of tired nonsense.
Review: If Only "Takers" Had Given a Little More
The new heist film "Takers" opens with a gripping, rapid-fire bank robbery and closes with a pretty decent hijacking and a fantastic footrace. It's a pity about the hour in the middle.


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20 March 2012 | MEMS Executive Congress®
Zurich, Switzerland | Hotel Novotel Zurich Airport Messe
Presented by MEMS Industry Group® (MIG), the European edition of MEMS Executive Congress strives to strengthen the global connection of the MEMS supply chain.
At MEMS Executive Congress, you'll explore MEMS in automobiles, smart industrial systems, quality of life applications, and consumer electronics with some of the most innovative companies in Europe. Keynote speakers include Carmelo Papa, senior executive vice president and general manager, Industrial & Multisegment Sector, STMicroelectronics and Markus Buhlmann, head of unit, Chassis Electronics, Vehicle Dynamics/Software, Audi AG.
21 – 22 March 2012 | Smart Systems Integration
Registrants of MEMS Executive Congress will be given a coupon code for 20% off registration to Smart Systems Integration. Don't miss the US MEMS session, hosted by MIG's Karen Lightman on Wednesday, 21.03.2012, 15:15 – 18:15 hrs.
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The opportunities continue. Extend your stay to include a site visit to the CEA-Leti Minatec Facility. The tour will include the Léti showroom, MEMS 200mm line, Clinatec /nanobio facilities, and will conclude with an optional evening social event.
Why not send more than one person for your organization?
Once you register, you'll receive a coupon code for an additional 20% off each subsequent registration from your company.


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Ashley Kay Cligny
Feb. 16, 1991-April 28, 2013
Pleasanton, California
Ashley Cligny took her last breath peacefully early Sunday morning with her mother and father by her side. Ashley was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in October of 2011 while attending the University of California at Davis after transferring from Washington State University at the end of her sophomore year. Ashley was described as an ?old soul? and enthusiastically lived the typical life of a college student ? attending class, playing soccer, making and nurturing friendships and always wanting to spend time with family. In many ways, Ashley will be remembered most for her courageous battle with the disease that would take her life but not conquer her spirit, as she taught us to be positive not negative, loving not bitter and to marvel at the power of her spirit to overcome her circumstances. Ashley leaves behind her mother and father, Tani and John Cligny; Sisters, Jonalin McCollum and Janelle Cligny, brother-in-law Matt McCollum: niece Alice McCollum; father James Loughmiller, brother Chase Loughmiller as well as grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. A celebration of Ashley?s life and Mass is planned for Friday May 3rd at 11:00 AM at Saint Augustine?s Catholic Church, 3999 Bernal Ave, Pleasanton. A reception will immediately follow in Parish Hall. Ashley?s interment at Saint Augustine Cemetery in Pleasanton will be private. Ashley was fortunate to have a world class medical team at UCSF Medical Center and was especially fond of her therapeutic horseback riding at Hoofprints on the Heart in Livermore. John and Tani ask that in lieu of flowers and in support of those less fortunate that you make generous contributions to: Hoofprints on the Heart, http://www.hotharc.org/ and the UCSF Foundation at https://makeagift.ucsf.edu. If you can, direct your gift to the Brain Tumor Research Center (B0628) or Child Life Services (B0948). Please make your gifts in Ashley?s name.


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The new Visio start experience is all about helping you
quickly and easily find the template you need to begin your diagramming
experience. You'll see that we've updated all our template icons to be simpler
and easier to quickly scan. We've also
color coded them, so that, for example, all the flowchart related templates are
green. Additionally, new search functionality will make it easy to find exactly
what you're looking for to get started creating your diagram.
Ultimately, we think these
improvements will make it a lot faster to go from booting Visio to drawing your
If you don't yet have the Visio Preview, you can find instructions
for getting it here so
that you can try the changes out for yourself.
Templates front and center
One of the first things you'll notice in the new
start experience is that templates are presented in a single flat list that
lets you see the breadth of content the new Visio has to offer. We also put our
most popular templates first, so that they are easier to access.
All of the new Visio's template icons have been redesigned
to be simpler and easier to scan, as well as color coded by template type. For
example, all of your business and scheduling templates are blue, flowcharts are
green, network, software and database are orange, etc. We found this made it
even faster for folks to quickly scan the list of templates and find the one
they're looking for.
The new Visio has enabled its entire template
library to be searchable via the search bar on the start experience. Simply
type in the template you're looking for or click one of the "Suggested
searches" links to get started. And, if you liked our old template categories,
you'll notice we've pre-populated them as the suggested searches, so they're only
a click away.
example, searching for "uml" returns all the Visio templates related to UML
diagram notation.
Template order
Over time, based on usage data from the new Visio, we plan
to modify our start experience's template order to reflect changes in template
usage. For example, if we learn that most folks really enjoy our new Timeline
or BPMN templates, we may move them up higher in the Featured tab view so that
the start experience is optimized to be as fast as possible for the largest
number of people possible.
Of course, if you do have a few favorite
templates that you don't want us moving around, we also have an easy way to pin
things to the top of the list. To do so, simply hover over the template you
want to pin, and click the pin icon. You'll see the template move to the top of
your templates list and it will stay there, until you tell us otherwise.
unpin the template, simply hover over the template and click the pin icon
again. The next time you launch Visio, the template will be back in its
original un-pinned location.
Enhanced Template Preview
When you've found a template you'd like to use, you can
single-click it to display the Enhanced Template Preview, which will provide
you with a larger preview image of the template icon, a description of the
template, and allow you to select your template unit type (US/Metric).
If you prefer to jump right into the template,
simply double-click the template icon from the Start screen. This will use the
units you selected last time you opened this template.
"Featured" vs "Categories" tabs
Above the template icons, you'll notice two different tabs:
"Featured" and "Categories". If you do prefer the hierarchical view of our
templates from Visio 2010, it's still available. Simply click on the "Categories"
tab above the template icons and your view will change to display templates
organized by type. You'll still get all of the modern and color coded template
icons too.
However, by default your view is set to the
Featured tab, where you will see the flat list of templates ordered by
popularity and your own usage over time.
The Categories tab is also where you'll find "New from
existing…" and any templates that were installed with an add-on. Having a
dedicated area for this content will make it easier and faster for users to
find and we're really excited to provide our more advanced users this
Finally, you can set the Categories tab to be your default
view using group policy:
Policy Name:
Registry Path +
Value:[ HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0VisioApplication]
– "OfficeStartDefaultTab"
0 = Featured tab
2 = Categories tab
Custom templates
If you have custom personal templates you can
view them in the new Start experience in a separate tab. Just go to Options and under Save add the path of your templates folder where it says "Default personal templates location".
With the new Visio's start experience, we hope it's easier
than ever for you to both find the template you're looking for, and discover
new templates you may have never knew Visio offered. We encourage you to
explore- look through all the templates we provide and try opening a few you've
never seen before. You'd be amazed at wide
array of content we've got in here!
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It probably won't work out this way, but wouldn't it be great if the Indianapolis 500 finish looked like the end of the Indy Lights race.
"If Sunday's race finish is anything like the Indy Lights finish on Friday, it's going to be a spectacular race," said Nick Davidson, onetime Formula 5000 racing team mechanic and veteran Indy 500 watcher from Maine.
In Friday's Freedom 100, one of the Indy Lights series of races, Peter Dempsey won by 0.0026 seconds — that's 26 ten-thousandths of a second — over three other racers; and all four of them crossed the finish line abreast, with Dempsey just a few inches ahead of Gabby Chaves. The separation between all four drivers was only 44 ten-thousandths of a second.
The Indy Lights races are a junior series to the IndyCar racers, somewhat analogous to Formula One/Formula Two. The Freedom 100 was held at the Indianapolis Speedway.
Statistical probability being what it is, it's highly doubtful that this close finish will repeat itself. The Indy 500 is scheduled to start at noon EDT Sunday, May 26; 9 a.m. PDT, and will be broadcast on ABC. More about the race can be found in Autoweek's coverage here.
POSTSCRIPT: Brazil's Tony Kanaan won the 97th Indy 500 on Sunday. It was a pretty exciting race, the lead changing 68 times among 14 of the 33 starting drivers, but in the end, the finish was pretty desultory compared to the final seconds of the Freedom 100 race two days earlier. Kanaan was in the lead of the Indy 500 when a car back in the pack spun out, bringing out the yellow caution flag for the last few laps of the race. He crossed the finish line at the head of a long line of race cars, but behind the blue Corvette pace car. No cars finished abreast.


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The vet's office was closed for the weekend when we got back, but they'd told us the 20-something girl who stayed with the pets overnight would let us in to get Fido, since it was a special circumstance and we were established clients.
Anyway, we came by, and she let me in to get the dog. I had some questions, and was talking to her in the lobby for a few minutes. Her shirt was on inside-out, but I didn't pay much attention to it until a naked guy came wandering out of the back and said, "Hey, don't leave me hanging... Oh, sorry" and ran back.
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Only one word describes the effect of watching Ben Affleck slowly dial down the temperature one degree at a time in "Runner Runner": Cool. Frank Sinatra cool.
He stars as sociopathic online gambling mogul Ivan Block, and if that role doesn't sound cool, you haven't seen Affleck at the controls.
Justin Timberlake costars as Richie Furst, a Princeton whiz kid, also cool. Not as cool as Block. Nor as keen on the whole sociopathic lifestyle. The money's great, but feeding enemies to the crocodiles crosses some lines.
But we're not there yet.
First we're introduced to Richie's very profitable campus online gambling services, with all the money going to a good cause called tuition. After he gets on the dean's list — and not in a good way — his fortunes change. Smart guy that he is, Richie decides he can beat the online gambling odds and cover his Princeton bill. When that doesn't work, he tracks down the guy whose online operation cheated him: the legendary Ivan Block.
Great clothes, great presence, great-looking COO Rebecca Shafran (Gemma Arterton), Block is a smooth operator with great expectations when it comes to Richie. He extends an offshore offer the kid can't refuse. FBI agent Shavers (Anthony Mackie), who has made the mogul and his Costa Rican enterprise a special project, has an offer of his own.
The question is, who is bluffing whom?
My bet's on Block no matter how the movie plays out. He is one killer of a character, and Affleck plays him like a Bach concerto — every note perfectly played. Loved Affleck in "Argo" and "The Town," but this particular Machiavellian turn reminds me more of his troubled George Reeves in "Hollywoodland." Something about the set of the jaw, the seduction in the eyes.
The crime thriller is directed by Brad Furman, who has a habit of falling in love with certain characters, as he did Matthew McConaughey's back-seat attorney in "The Lincoln Lawyer." It means he tends to forget to pay enough attention to the rest. He's done it again with Block. Richie and Rebecca deserved more.
There are other challenges, primarily a spotty script by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. They have written other manipulation stories, among them the teasing "Ocean's Thirteen," and to my mind their best, the tense "Runaway Jury." But in "Runner Runner" they've gotten completely caught up in explaining the specifics.
There is what amounts to an on-screen tutorial about online gambling, with a series of news clips decrying the practice and actual computer screen demonstrations. Yawn.
They get into why Block's business is offshore, as if terms such as "illegal" and "money laundering" are new to the lexicon. They throw in Richie's dad, Harry (John Heard), a low-end poker player and a cheat, then write "fall guy" all over him.
Wake me up when this is over.
Fortunately we do have Timberlake. He has a way of breathing life into even deadened moments. You want to watch him. But like most stars, his acting is better when the plotting is smarter. "Runner Runner" too often sends Timberlake running down a blind alley when he should be out on a scary limb or twisting in the wind, so we have something to worry about. This is billed as a crime "thriller," after all.
There are many bribes and betrayals in "Runner Runner," a few twists on trust, and some surprise appearances by Agent Shavers, whose outrage Mackie makes fun.
Arterton is a very appealing Brit still looking for one of those breakout roles. And no, I do not count "Clash of the Titans" or "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," no matter how big their budgets. She and Timberlake have good chemistry on the few occasions Furman lets them bring sexy back.
A little romance is a nice break from all the money stuff. I never realized how boring it is to watch someone count it, or deliver it, or receive it. Not even when cinematographer Mauro Fiore, with an Oscar for "Avatar," is shooting the rich, the impoverished and the beautiful beaches of Costa Rica with such a discerning eye.
The struggles in the movie are with the moments when life and liberty are on the line. The ones that should put you on the edge of your seat are more likely to have you glancing at your watch.
Even with Affleck doing his Rat Pack best, by the end of "Runner Runner," the chill is gone.
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(Reuters) – Nearly three-quarters of Americans, including a majority of those who personally object to extending marriage rights to same-sex couples, say legal recognition of gay marriage is "inevitable," according to a survey by the Pew Research Center released on Thursday.
The survey found that just over half of Americans favor giving gays and lesbians the right to marry, while 42 percent oppose legalizing gay marriage.
In March, a Pew survey found 49 percent of Americans favored same-sex marriage and 44 percent were opposed.
"It just keeps ticking up and up and up, and we wanted to register that we've crossed that threshold," Michael Dimock, the director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, said in an interview.
Seventy-two percent of those surveyed said they believed legal recognition of same-sex marriage was inevitable, including 85 percent of gay marriage supporters and 59 percent of opponents.
Dimock said that sense of inevitability about gay marriage is shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents in equal measure, with more than 70 percent of each group expressing that view. "What stood out most to us is this very broad sense that legal recognition of same-sex marriage is inevitable," he said.
It was not immediately clear how much recent media headlines had influenced this belief, though gay rights advocates have been celebrating a string of landmark victories.
In 2011, President Barack Obama declared gays and lesbians would be able to serve openly in the military and the following year he became the first sitting president to endorse same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. states allowing gay nuptials has grown from six to twelve since last November.
The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule soon on a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that restricted federal recognition of marriage to heterosexual couples, as well as a challenge to a 2008 California voter initiative that banned same-sex marriage in the state.
According to the Pew survey, the growing acceptance of homosexuality has gone hand in hand with the increased visibility of gays and lesbians in people's lives.
Roughly two-thirds of Americans who said they know a lot of people who are gay or lesbian favor gay marriage, while fewer than a third of people who said they do not know any gays or lesbians favor gay marriage.
Overall, nearly nine in 10 Americans personally know someone who is gay or lesbian, an increase from six in 10 Americans a decade ago. Young people, urbanites, women and less religious people were all more likely to have gay acquaintances.
About half of Americans say a close family member or one of their closest friends is gay or lesbian.
The survey also found a large shift in the broader question of how homosexuality should be viewed by society – an issue that split Americans down the middle a decade ago, according to Pew. Now, six in 10 say it should be accepted while about three in 10 say it should be discouraged.
That view extended to how Americans would react to learning that their child was gay or lesbian. More than half of respondents said they would not be upset, while 21 percent said they would be somewhat upset and 19 percent said very upset.
Americans are evenly split over whether homosexual behavior should be considered a sin. Moral considerations and religious beliefs were the main reason given by those who oppose same-sex marriage.
"My religious background taught me that this was something that was taboo and not accepted," a 62-year-old man whose name was not released told researchers, according to Pew.
The telephone survey of 1,504 adults was conducted from May 1 to May 5 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
On Tuesday, Pew released a survey of global attitudes toward gays and lesbians and next week it will release its first survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Christopher Wilson)
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Human resources leaders must make succession management a strategic priority and take the lead in the development of a corporate-wide approach. This approach should include development of processes for succession and talent management. Areas of focus may include working closely with the CEO and leadership team, educating the board about the talent enterprise, and creating guidelines that clearly describe the organization's succession process. Companies can also turn to outside firms for succession assistance, but they should consider how best to engage those advisors in the process and how consultants can advise the CEO and others about building formal succession processes.


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Ausmus consults with Torre about challenge
DETROIT -- Brad Ausmus has exchanged text messages with MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Joe Torre about his first unsuccessful replay challenge, and the two might meet up in Los Angeles when the Tigers are in town next week.
In Friday's win over the Orioles, Tigers shortstop Andrew Romine bobbled a toss on the exchange from his glove to his hand while attempting to turn a double play. The umpire ruled the runner safe at second base. Ausmus challenged that the runner at second was out.
After consulting with an official at Major League Baseball's replay operations center, the umpires confirmed the ruling on the field. Torre told Ausmus it was the right decision.
On Saturday, Romine said he knew this sort of confusion was going to come up.
"I can't necessarily say I was surprised, because I heard the discussion before the season started and how they were going to rule that," Romine said. "After watching the video, I was under the impression I had control of the baseball in the glove. But as far as the ruling and the wordage they're using, I don't know what they're saying -- if it needs to be transferred into the bare hand or not to have possession. There's a lot of confusion, apparently."
Ausmus made the case that the fielder can control the ball long enough in his glove and said plays of that nature need to be looked at more closely. But he knows replay is a "work-in-progress." Romine said it's something he'll have to adjust to, but he can't change the way he turns a double play.
"To me, in the game of baseball, I don't know if that's always when you have control," he said. "You can have control with the ball in your glove, but I don't write the rules. If they're changing them, that's something we're going to have to adapt to."


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Camp Styles
Camp Styles
Every camper has his or her own style. For some, the perfect camping trip means strapping on a backpack and heading for the backcountry. For others, it's a way to spend time with family and friends in a natural surrounding away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. For others, it is a way of life – camping full time in an RV. Many people camp to be close to recreational activities such as hiking, fishing, water sports, and ATVing. Find your camp style.
Base Camping
Base Camping
If you want to combine your love of camping with your need for relaxation, try base camping. Base or car camping is a great way to enjoy some of the joys of camping without having to carry all your equipment with you. All you have to do is pack up your camping gear, find a scenic campsite, and enjoy the comforts of a home-away-from-home.
Base camping is a more relaxing form of camping than survival type camping or backpacking. However, it is more rustic than RV camping. All you need to take on your base camping trip are your basic camping essentials. You can choose the degree of comfort you wish to enjoy during your trip.
The basic supplies you will need are; a tent large enough to comfortably fit the entire family, sleeping bags, camp stove, food and cooking equipment, wood for the campfire, and a lantern. For a more comfortable base camp you can bring along sleeping pads, an air mattress or even cots. If you have room in your car you can also pack lawn chairs, utensils, plates, cups, a bin to do dishes, and some dish soap. You can bring as much or as little as you choose, just as long as you make sure you bring what you need to be safe during your trip.
Base camping gives you a chance to set up a camp that acts as a home, while taking day trips and hikes. This type of camping allows you to leave your tent set up at your campsite each day. When you are backpacking, you have to pack all of your supplies with you throughout your trip. Base camping allows you to take a much more leisurely trip.
When getting ready for a base camping trip you need to select an appropriate campsite in the area you are planning to visit. If you are visiting a national park you can make a reservation for a campsite for the duration of your stay. Private RV parks and campgrounds provide all kinds of amenities, from swimming pools and fishing ponds to exercise rooms, restaurants, and group areas.
Base camping allows you to leave many of your camping essentials at your site when you leave for your day of adventure, but you need to make sure that your belongings remain safe. Make sure you don't leave any valuables behind when you leave. It is best not to bring any valuables that you don't plan on carrying with you at all times. Many parks warn not to leave valuables in your car for the day either. It is always prudent to plan ahead and save yourself potential headaches. Leave extra credit cards at home, and don't bring any equipment you aren't willing to either lose or store somewhere safe.
Next time you plan a camping trip, try out base camping. You will have a wonderful time having new adventures with the knowledge that you have a comfy tent and campfire waiting for you at the end of the day. Base camping can be as relaxing or as difficult as you would like. Enjoy exploring the wilds of America from the comfort of your home-away-from-home when you next go camping.
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Community Gardening – what we call a community that comes together to start and care for a garden. Community gardens can serve as a catalyst for neighborhood development, beautification, recreation, therapy, and food production. The Atlanta Community Food Bank helps communities start gardens by providing seeds, education and volunteer support.
Community Kitchen – often referred to as a "soup kitchen," this is a charitable program providing hot meals to homeless and low-income residents of a neighborhood or community. Most community kitchens are housed in churches or community buildings. In Georgia, an estimated one million meals are served each month at community kitchens.
Feeding America – the national network of more than 200 food banks (formerly known as America's Second Harvest). Feeding America Food Banks have operated in the U.S. for over 30 years. Feeding America headquarters are located in Chicago, IL. The Atlanta Community Food Bank has been affiliated with the national network since it began in 1979.
Food Bank – a private, nonprofit distribution warehouse often affiliated with Feeding America, the national network of food banks. Food banks provide a central location for the receiving of donated food and distribution of food and grocery products to local nonprofits in their communities. (Note: There are some food banks that are not affiliated with the Feeding America network and some food pantries also use the term "food bank" in their names.)
Food Drive – A food drive is a community-wide effort to collect non- perishable foods for distribution to the hungry. Food drives are organized by groups such as schools, congregations, associations, and businesses. They are sometimes sponsored by a grocery store, TV or radio station, and/or held in conjunction with a special event in the local community.
Food Pantry – community-based, nonprofit food assistance program most often found at churches, synagogues, mosques and social service agencies. Food pantries are places where those without food receive a supply of food to take home and prepare. Pantries often acquire a substantial portion of their food supply from food banks. Food pantries distribute food to an estimated 90,000 people in Georgia each month.
GNAP (Georgia Nutrition Assistance Program) – federally funded program administered by the state of Georgia to provide funds for food banks to purchase high nutrition food products for distribution to partner agencies serving children and families with children. Funding approval comes from the state legislature annually. Not to be confused with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) which was formerly called the Food Stamp Program.
Hunger 101 – the Atlanta Community Food Bank's educational project - a series of interactive curricula and educational programming designed by the Food Bank to inform a wide range of audiences about hunger and poverty and solutions to these issues such as food banking and government aid.
Nonprofit Organizations – refers to those legally constituted, nongovernmental entities, incorporated under state law as charitable or not- for-profit corporations that have been set up to serve some public purpose and are tax-exempt according to the IRS. All food banks and their partner agencies are IRS approved nonprofit agencies.
Partner Agency – the term used to describe the nonprofit program that gets food from the Atlanta Community Food Bank. The food is distributed by the Food Bank through a network of nonprofit organizations. These organizations offer one (or both) of two broad types of food assistance, on- premise meal service and/or grocery distribution. The Food Bank works with over 600 partner agencies in a 29 county service area.
Prepared Food Recovery Program – private, nonprofit program based on the food banking model but concentrating on donations of prepared, perishable food from restaurants, hotels, caterers, and others in the hospitality industry. Strict adherence to safe food handling is a prime concern, as is a quick turnaround of product from the donor to the food recovery program to on-site feeding agencies. The Food Bank's Prepared Food Recovery Program is called Atlanta's Table.
Service Area – each Feeding America certified food bank has an assigned service area. The Food Bank has 29 counties in its service area, which covers the metro Atlanta area and much of north Georgia.
Share Maintenance Contribution – refers to the fee that Feeding America affiliated food bank partner agencies pay per pound of product to help defray the costs of product storage, transportation, and distribution. Currently, the Atlanta Community Food Bank and most Feeding America food banks set a "16 cents per pound of product distributed" limit on share contribution.
Shelter - A place that temporarily houses homeless people, usually overnight; meals are almost always served. Some shelters are for families, and others for individuals. Some have a limited time that a family or individual can stay, and others will let people stay for extended periods of time.
Advocacy – the act of arguing in favor of something; An anti-hunger advocate would be an individual, group, or organization that speaks out about the issues of hunger, and works to enact policies that will provide hunger relief. The Atlanta Community Food Bank participates in anti-hunger advocacy by educating and empowering the community to be involved in hunger issues, sending out advocacy alerts during the legislative session, and urging citizens to connect with their elected officials.
Anemia – a condition in which the hemoglobin concentration is lower than normal due to disease or as the result of a deficiency of one or more nutrients, such as iron.
Daily Calorie Requirement – the average number of calories needed to sustain normal levels of activity and health, taking into account age, gender, body weight, and climate; on average, about 2,350 calories per day.
Food Insecurity - refers to the lack of access to enough food to fully meet basic needs at all times due to lack of financial resources. As defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA):
- Low Food Security: People who make changes in the quality or the quantity of their food in order to deal with a limited budget.
- Very Low Food Security: People who struggle with having enough food for the household, including cutting back or skipping meals on a frequent basis for both adults and children.
Food Security – assured access to enough nutritious food to sustain an active and healthy life, including: food availability (adequate food supply); food access (people can get to food); and appropriate food use (the body's absorption of essential nutrients).
As defined by the USDA:
- High Food Security: Do not have difficulty securing food.
- Marginal Food Security: Have some difficulty securing food.
Characteristics of a food secure community include:
- Availability of a variety of foods at a reasonable cost
- Ready access to grocery stores and other food sources
- Enough personal income to purchase adequate food to meet nutritional needs for all household members
- Freedom to choose acceptable foods
- Personal confidence in the safety and quantity of food available
- Easy access to good information about nutrition
Human Nutrition - the study of how food affects the health and survival of the human body.
Hunger – The USDA determined that while hunger is difficult to measure, it "should refer to a potential consequence of food insecurity that, because of prolonged, involuntary lack of food, results in discomfort, illness, weakness, or pain that goes beyond the usual uneasy sensation."
Low Birth Weight – newborns weighing 2,500 grams (5 pounds, 8 ounces) or less, and are especially vulnerable to illness and death during the first months of life.
Malnutrition – a condition resulting from inadequate consumption or excessive consumption of a nutrient; can impair physical and mental health and contribute to, or result from, infectious diseases; general term that indicates a lack of some or all nutritional elements necessary for human health (Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia).
Nutrition - the study of foods and nutrients and their effect on health, growth, and development of the individual.
Poverty – The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.
Poverty Guideline – official, federal measure of poverty. The United States instituted the poverty measure in 1967. Module One, Activity 2 of ACFB's Hunger 101 Curriculum explains the history and function of this measure.
Vulnerability to Hunger (at Risk) – a condition of individuals, households, communities or nations which have enough to eat most of the time, but whose poverty status makes them especially susceptible to hunger due to changes in the economy, climate, political conditions or personal circumstances.
Working Poor - a term used to describe individuals and families who maintain regular employment, but remain in poverty due to low levels of pay and dependent expenses.
EITC- Earned Income Tax Credit – U.S. Federal tax refund for low to medium income working families. Many households are not aware that they could be eligible for this credit, which can often total more than $1,000.
Food Stamps – offered through what used to be called the Food Stamp Program, these federal benefits were given to low-income individuals and families to help them purchase food (This is now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP). Food Stamps are no longer provided in the form of stamps, but rather an EBT (electronic benefits transfer) card similar to a debit card.
Meals on Wheels – food delivery program that delivers one meal a day to elderly people or people unable to leave their homes for medical reasons.
Nutrition Assistance Programs – are funded through the U.S. Farm Bill and administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Federal nutrition programs like SNAP (Food Stamps) and the Free/ Reduced Breakfast/Lunch Programs help to increase food security for low-income individuals and families in the United States.
PeachCare for Kids – a low-cost health insurance option for income eligible uninsured children in Georgia.
School/Summer Meals – (National School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program, and Summer Food Service Program for Children) are subsidized programs that assist low-income students to improve their nutritional status.
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) - formerly the Food Stamp Program, SNAP is the nation's primary food assistance program for low-income families. The program provides purchasing power via EBT (electronic benefits transfer) cards to eligible households, which can be used to purchase food items only. EBT is provided by federal funds through county social service agencies to eligible low-income persons. More than half of food stamp recipients are children.
Social Safety Net – government and private charitable programs to assist the needs of low-income, disabled, elderly, and other vulnerable people.
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) – federal supplemental feeding program designed to decrease risk for nutritional and medical problems in women, infants, and children. Assistance is provided through local health agencies and health departments to poor pregnant and breast-feeding women, infants, and children up to age 6.
TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) – federally funded, cash assistance program signed into law in August 1997. This program is often referred to as "welfare." People must meet income qualifications, have dependent, minor children and begin employment or training in order to receive TANF benefits. Administered in Georgia by the Department of Family and Children's Services (DFACS).
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*squints eyes shut*
*rubs temples*
*keyboard to forehead*
So… You know all that stuff Dembski said in his notpology a while back? You know, where Dembski said he was really, really sorry for using a manipulated version of XVIVO/Harvards animation titled 'The Inner Life of a Cell', but he didn't do anything wrong?
Back in September of 2006 I announced at my blog UncommonDescent that a "breathtaking video" titled "The Inner Life of Cell" had just come out... ...Moreover, at the time, the video did not have a voiceover explaining the biology of what was being shown... most simply have some background music that do not explain the relevant biology... I downloaded from the Internet a version of the video with a voiceover describing the relevant biology...the version I used omitted the opening credits (a fact about which I became aware only in the last few days)...Remember how John West at the Discovery Institute said they didn't know nuthin about anything, they were being persecuted by Darwinists?
Some have even claimed (as usual, without an iota of evidence) that Discovery Institute supports the disregard of copyright laws or even had something to do with Dr. Dembski's usage of the animation in question. (Wrong on both counts.)*squints eyes closed again*
Yeah… They were lying.
Peter Irons and Afarensis teamed together and discovered things in 'Design of Life' only a Master would look for or notice:
Footnote from Chapter 6:
Now, there is nothing wrong with them referencing XVIVO's animation. Nothing weird about that. Whats interesting is the 'last accessed' date:
January 25, 2007.
The footnote is to the original Harvard website, not YouTube. The longer animation, with the original narration, with the original title/opening credits/closing credits/copyright.
January 25, 2007.
But Dembski didn't know nuthin November 26, 2007. He sure didn't know there was an original narration or no opinin credits! He just thought it was nifty and found it on the intrawebz!
January 25, 2007
Dembski knew at the time of his presentation at OU (September 17, 2007) that he was NOT allowed to use Harvards animation, but he did it anyway and lied about it when he got caught.
But theres more. You remember this coincidence? This figure?
The caption refers you to Footnote #4:
"As seen" at a web-article about 'Inner Life of a Cell.' Figure 8.1 was SUPPOSED to be a still from 'Inner Life'. Not a funny coincidence, it was supposed to be 'Inner Life'. But while they changed the actual figure, the stupid bastards didn't change the footnote.
*keyboard to forehead again*
To quote Peter:
- Removing the XVIVO still from the book (but forgetting to remove the incriminating footnote) indicates that Dembski knew a) that he didn't have permission to use any portion of the video, and b) that Harvard and/or XVIVO would have grounds for copyright infringement if a still from the video appeared in the book.
- Nonetheless, knowing this (as he must have before Sept. 2007), Dembski went ahead and showed the over-dubbed XVIVO video at his OU talk on Sept. 17, probably assuming that nobody in the audience would know that it was a doctored version of the video. Over-dubbed or not, the video was still protected by copyright, and Dembski did not have permission to use it, which he obviously knew by then. Claiming (as he did on UD on Nov. 26 and 27, after you exposed him on ERV on Sept. 20) that he simply "found" the doctored version on the Internet, does not excuse his knowing violation of copyright.
- All the other evidence you showed on ERV (stripping the opening credits, projecting a new title of "The Cell as an Automated City," etc.) indicate that Dembski knew he was using the XVIVO video without permission.
- Is the latest footnote snafu a big deal? Not as big as the OU use of the doctored video. But it shows, IMO, that Dembski knew well before his OU talk, while DOL was still in production, that using a still from the XVIVO video would violate copyright. However, he failed to erase his fingerprints (the tell-tale footnote on p. 299) from the scene of the attempted crime.
- This footnote snafu is just further evidence of Dembski's cover-up of his serious ethical problems in appropriating other people's work for his own purposes (and profit). Rubbing his nose in it seems perfectly justified.
Dembski is a lying sac of Creationist Crap. Pretend to act shocked.
But lets not forget the organization supporting Dembski and 'Design of Life'. John West at the Discovery Institute wants us to believe that the DI 'Don't know nuthin' about Dembski's obsession with 'Inner Life of a Cell.' Even though everyone at the DI has written GLOWING reviews of 'Design', and they all no doubt received review copies, as well as pre-print copies, and drafts, and two DI senior fellows wrote 'Design'—Dembski and Wells (wheres Behe?), they expect all of us to believe that the DI knew nuthin of Dembski/Wells having some 'copyright issues' with Harvard trying to get a pic for 'Inner Life'.
Im sure Dembski/Wells kept it to themselves that the Evil Darwinists in their Ivory Towers at Harvard wouldn't let them use a dippy little picture.
Im sure none of them flipped by the Harvard picture in a pre-print version and said 'WOW! We got Harvard to give us the copyright to use this pic??' Lawyers wouldnt think of such things.
John West—You all are the IDiots that tried to steal Harvards work and were too incompetent to cover your own tracks. *We* aren't the stupid ones. *We* don't believe you knew nuthin.
* Before anyone posts any crap about 'IZ CRIZMAS Y R U POSTIN?', my family isn't Christian, but Dembski wanted to make sure this years Christmas present got to everyone on time.


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Tom Storck recently emailed me a copy of a drawing someone had done of him for The Distributist Review, a fine website to which he contributes. He asked me if I remembered a caricature I had done of him some years back, in the early 90s. I did not, until he reminded me of the context. It was a cartoon of Tom hosting a TV show, "The Logical Hour", and you probably have to know Tom, who is a Thomist, to appreciate the humor. A funny looking Tom is addressing the camera: "Welcome to The Logical Hour. Tonight's question: Is it licit to torture a slave suspected of usury?"
Of course this was meant to be absurd, and we never dreamed as we laughed that in a few short years intelligent people, even Catholics, would be defending torture.
That is only one indication of how far we have fallen, of the darkening of the times.
It began on September 11, a date so traumatic that I do not have to say the year. After a brief moment of national unity and rare gravitas fear and anger set in. Wars were launched, seemingly without much forethought, by men blinded by ideological visions. We would be welcomed with flowers, greeted as liberators. Victory would be easy and swift. We would remake the Middle East and initiate a Pax Americana.
Rarely has America's messianic complex sparked such misguided wishful thinking.
Nor did national unity last. In little time the nation became badly divided, split into ideological camps that ascribe only the worst motives to their enemies.
There was a brief moment of hope, early in the Ron Paul campaign in the primaries leading up to the 2002 presidential election, when it seemed that a left/right populism was taking shape, embracing antiwar and prolife forces. It was not to last, and after Dr Paul failed to do well in the primaries what remained of his movement was more enamoured of his misguided free market ideas than anything else. Out of the remnants of the Paul "Reloveution" came the birth of the Tea Party, which quickly mutated (and was co-opted) into the confused and angry thing it is today.
Tea has replaced Kool Aid as the drink of choice among the ranting Right, and the mad hatters of this particular party- Beck and Palin- are serving a strange brew indeed. While claiming to oppose federal spending, they are ardent supporters of the biggest and most expensive (and bloodiest) government program of all, the military and its endless wars. The cost of our long wars cannot be measured in deaths and dollars alone. We will be paying for the trauma inflicted on our soldiers by unprecedented multiple deployments for a very long time.
And if every Tea Party activist who collects Social Security, Medicare, and VA benefits left the movement, I suspect it would be tiny indeed. I see this daily in my job as a letter carrier: everyone –everyone- who receives a lot of right wing mail also sends checks to organizations devoted to protecting Social Security and Medicare. These are strange libertarians, opposing all government programs except those from which they personally benefit or are devoted to war and empire.
None of this is a defense of the Obama administration. It may not be a "reign of terror", as one political mailing I saw ridiculously claimed, and he may not be a Muslim/atheist/communist/fascist foreigner, as others have insinuated, but he has certainly failed to deliver on that whole hope and change thing he promised. Of course the bankers and industrialists got a big bailout and the stock market is booming again even as more and more Americans collect food stamps and slip into poverty. The world, breathing a collective sigh of relief that the Bush/Cheney era had passed, gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize before he had even done anything. I wonder if they will take it back.
So there is plenty of fuel for the Tea Party fire. I just wonder what will be left standing in the ashes.
All of which leaves those of us formed by Catholic social teaching and the Distributist tradition hopeless and homeless. There are no voices anywhere across the political spectrum that appear to have a clue to the situation we have found ourselves in. It's the Evil Stupid Party vs the Stupid Evil Party, all over again.
Nor can one draw much comfort from the Teaching Church these days. So much credibility has been lost as evidence gradually emerges of the extent of hierarchical complicity in the crimes of priests over the decades that the Church's stature has been diminished beyond repair. This is a difficult time to be a Catholic, which has led to soul searching among many of us, to the realization that the institutional Church is only one flawed and very human aspect of the Body of Christ. We must not let disappointment in the hierarchy cause us to lose sight of the deeper Mystery of the Church. None of the scandals was caused by fidelity to Jesus Christ. None came from immersion in the Divine Liturgy, or from living a sacramental life.
In my own case this has led to a deeper appreciation of the interior Jesus Prayer and of the beauty of the Litany of Peace, around which formal prayer in our home, standing before the icons alone or with the family, is structured. This is a long prayer from the Divine Liturgy built around repeated pleas for mercy, and it covers just about everyone and everything in the world. It is a great comfort, from the opening "In peace, let us pray to the Lord" to the final prayer that ends "Have mercy on us and save us, for You are good and love mankind."
And I have been pondering Our Lord's words about the love of enemies: "Love your enemies. Do good to those who harm you. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." There is a tendency for Christians to treat these words as hyperbolic, like Christ telling us to cut off our hands or poke out our eyes if they cause us to sin. Clearly this is a poetic device to make a point (none of the Apostles was self-blinded or maimed). But the command to love one's enemies is not poetry. It is marching orders. Christ summarized the whole law in the commandments to love God and to love our neighbor, and he clarified in the parable of the Good Samaritan that our "neighbor" includes those we perceive as enemies, as the Jews and Samaritans perceived each other.
I have had a chance to exercise this command in the last year or so, when I found myself working for the worst supervisor I have ever had. The whole office suffered, but he singled me out for hostile treatment. For a long while I woke up every morning hating the fact that I had to go to work (and I usually enjoy my job).
Oppression and injustice have always provoked outrage in me. When I am the victim my natural reaction is burning anger, and I learned from this experience how much more difficult it is to love one's enemies when there is an actual enemy, not just an abstraction, in the picture. It is far easier to respond to mistreatment with hatred. But I forced- forced- myself to pray for him in the words of the Litany of Peace: "For N., for his health, safety and salvation, let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy. That he may be delivered from all affliction, wrath and need, Lord have mercy." Every time I would feel anger I would repeat this blessing. Don't get me wrong. This was not easy. I am not a virtuous person at all. My initial reactions to things are usually sinful. I can be fierce. And I certainly didn't "feel" any loving feelings while I did this. But the locus of sin and virtue is the will, not the emotions, and by grace I perservered, and in doing so I experienced a little victory, a real liberation from resisting the cycle of bitterness that conflict engenders. Is is not easy, but it is easier than being consumed by hatred and rage (these are the worst kinds of sins, the ones that don't even feel good!)
What would love of enemies look like if it was practiced in the wider world? Even professing Christians think this command would only be obeyed by the naive. So what we see instead is Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and Catholics defending (or redefining) torture and in general bowing to the Moloch that is nationalism.
Oddly, we have to look to the Muslim world to see something like love of enemies.
Saudi Arabia, as the center of Wahhabism, bears much responsibility for the spread of militant jihadism. In a sort of devil's bargain the corrupt Saudi princes threw money at the radical Wahhabi clerics for decades. They in turn funded mosques and madrassahs throughout the world and refrained from criticizing the Saudi government. The deal broke down when the Saudis allowed the American military onto their soil during the first Gulf War. Osama bin Ladin issued a fatwa declaring war on the Saudi government. There were a series of subsequent terrorist attacks within Saudi Arabia. That is when the Saudis were face to face with the monster they had helped create. But the way they dealt with the problem was uncharacteristic of a nation noted for its harsh desert justice. Rather than cruel treatment, accused terrorists are humanely housed and well fed. Learned Muslim clerics are brought in to argue, from the Koran, against the heretical doctrines the militants have adopted: declaring Christians, Jews and even fellow Muslims to be infidels, the legitimacy of attacking non-combatants, the morality of suicide attacks, all of which contradict traditional Islam.
Sexual frustration is a seldom commented-on but consistent element in the lives of suicide bombers. Time after time, when the last days of terrorists are reconstructed, they are found to have spent time at strip clubs or watching pornography. Unemployment is widespread in the Arab world, and marriage long postponed. These frustrated young men, promised sensual gratification in the afterlife, spend their final days in sensory indulgence, their guilt assuaged by the promise that "martyrdom" will cleanse their souls of sin and bring sexual pleasure in paradise. Recognizing this, the Saudis (and the Yemenis as well) offer job training and placement and even arrange marriages for captured militants. Few erstwhile terrorists given such treatment return to jihad; most settle happily into productive married life.
Don't get me wrong; I hold Saudi Arabia largely responsible for the wave of Islamic terrorism that hsa swept the world in the last decades, and think the American alliance with the Saudis highly problematic and hypocritical, but in this one instance we would be wise to heed their example.
Contrast this gentle reform of terrorists with prisoners treated harshly, even tortured, by Americans. Whether originally guilty or not they will bear hatred for their abusers for life. Many return to, or become terrorists if released. And other Muslims, watching TV or reading papers, are radicalized by the abuse and humiliation of their fellow Muslims. Hate begets hate begets hate in and endless cycle. Only love breaks the circle. So it turns out that far from being naive, love of enemies is in the long run the most practical response to hate.
Our Lord, in His ethical teaching, turns human reasoning upside down. But He does so only to set us aright. We may not be able to effect the wider world in any tangible way, but every soul who refuses to hate, who prays for his or her enemies and wishes their "health, safety and salvation" has constructed a little outpost of the Kingdom of God and experiences the liberating power of love. We can plant seeds of supernatural life, of mercy, grace and peace to the glory of God, Amen.
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