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Will Coconut Grove's Waterfront Revival Come To Fruition?
On Coconut Grove's picturesque but cluttered waterfront, a ramshackle marina, a seafood restaurant well past its prime and a funky if beloved watering hole known as Scotty's Landing today occupy seven acres of choice public land next to Miami City Hall.
Their leases are up and their long run is over.
And what's in the offing to replace them could forever change the spot's simple, old-Grove vibe, which is sticking in the craw of village denizens with long-held Bohemian views and a default antipathy toward glitz and development.
The city and developers who won a bid to remake the place have ambitious plans for it: The developers would spend $18 million in private money to sweep away much of what's there now, reconfigure and expand boat racks, and build a Shula's steakhouse and two other new restaurants. They would also put a marine store in a refurbished hangar dating from the days when Pan Am flew seaplanes out of Dinner Key next door.
Their site plan would do something else Grove residents have long clamored for: open up water access and direct vistas from South Bayshore Drive to Biscayne Bay by creating a pedestrian promenade that would end at a new public pier.
The so-called Grove Bay proposal, which goes to Miami's voters on the Nov. 5 ballot, is only one piece of a larger blueprint, years in the making and almost universally well received, that aims to revitalize and open up the historic village's public bayfront, much of which now lies hidden and disconnected from the rest of the Grove by a jumble of buildings and boats and a series of asphalt parking lots.
A second, separate piece of the broader plan is slowly and simultaneously now getting under way as well. The city is tearing down the closed Grove exhibition center, a vast concrete fortress that blocks off Biscayne Bay from South Bayshore Drive, and will replace it with a 17-acre park, the new waterfront's centerpiece.
A third piece hinges in part on voters' approval of the Grove Bay proposal. The developers would be required to contribute $5 million toward construction of a three-story city parking garage, to be lined all around with 40,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. The narrow, 39-foot-tall garage would replace the surface lot fronting South Bayshore, as well as Expo center parking to be converted to parkland, and would sit well back from the waterfront so as not to obstruct water views, the city and the developers say.
Backers of the Grove Bay plan say it would make the Grove waterfront significantly more accessible and inviting to locals and visitors alike. They say it could also help boost the village's nearby commercial center, which has been struggling in the face of competition from South Beach and South Miami's resurgent downtown, by improving pedestrian connections and capitalizing on a unique water's-edge allure.
"Miami is desperate for places where you can be by the water, to have a bite or a drink,'' said Michelle Niemeyer, a neighborhood activist and member of the Coconut Grove Village Council, an elected advisory group that endorsed the Grove Bay proposal. "There will be more green space and broader and better pedestrian connections. It greatly improves what we have.
"Part of what's really beautiful with this plan is that it redirects marina forklift traffic so that, going to the restaurants, you will no longer be walking through puddles of oil.''
But the Grove Bay bid, which has the backing of Mayor Tomas Regalado and was approved by the city commission and various advisory boards in a series of public hearings, has run into an angry, last-minute blast of opposition from some Grove residents. In often-hyperbolic terms, opponents have branded the plan a "give-away,'' a "scam'' and, inaccurately, "a 120,000 square foot shopping mall.'' The retail space, though substantial, is in fact half that amount.
The critics have also suggested the Grove Bay developers could build a casino on the site, seizing on a standard clause in the lease meant to stop anyone leasing city property from installing a gambling establishment without the commission's OK.
A band of longtime Groveites, spearheaded by architect Charles Corda and Mango Strut co-founder Glenn Terry, has formed a political action committee to fight the measure.
Businessman Steve Kneapler, meanwhile, has filed two lawsuits claiming the city violated open-meeting laws and procurement rules in awarding the bid to the Grove Bay group, which also developed the Fresh Market and Grove Harbour Marina project just to the north. The suits are pending. Kneapler holds the contract for food and beverage sales at nearby Monty's Restaurant, which could face competition from the Grove Bay restaurants, backers of the plan note.
Critics of the Grove Bay plan say it's too slick, would overwhelm the site and block rather than open up water views. They contend the restaurants' glass-and-steel design, by the renown Grove-based Arquitectonica, doesn't fit in with the tree-shaded neighborhood. And while not everyone calls for keeping Scotty's Landing — something city officials say they can't legally do long-term without competitive bidding — they argue it's better to leave things more or less as they are, or turn the whole area into a low-key park.
"The Coconut Grove waterfront is so cluttered with boats, and where's there's no boats there are mangroves, and you can't see the water,'' Terry said. "This is the prettiest spot in Coconut Grove. And it will be occupied by a Shula steakhouse with a banquet facility upstairs. This is not what people in the Grove want. It doesn't have to be Scotty's. But we can do better.''
The opponents have also lashed out furiously at City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, a Grove resident, who has actively championed the project, directing insults at him and Grove Bay supporters in public meetings, in e-mail blasts, and in comments posted on the Coconut Grove Grapevine blog. The blog, written by Tom Falco, who opposes the plan, has become the site of warring, sometimes blistering comments both pro and con from Grove residents.
In an email to city attorney Victoria Mendez, Kneapler used an obscenity to refer to Sarnoff, drawing a rebuke from her.
The opposition has also led to some unruly public behavior. Some Grove Bay opponents became outraged when Sarnoff did not attend a meeting last week of the central Grove residents' association at which he was expected, though the topic wasn't on the agenda. Several people, at least some of whom were clearly inebriated, began shouting at and interrupting association board members, who vainly pleaded for order.
"We're trying to save our neighborhood!'' one man shouted before he was removed by police from the meeting room at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club.
Sarnoff, who sent a staffer to answer questions in his place, said he was at another residents' association in nearby Brickell dealing with another contentious issue, the replacement of trees on the avenue's median. Grove Bay opponents accused him of ducking them. But some Sarnoff allies said he was right to stay away, describing the meeting as "a mess.''
The venom has extended to Scotty's owner Scott Wessel, who issued a letter endorsing the Grove Bay plan only to be publicly labeled a "sellout'' by some opponents. Grove Bay developers have pledged to rehire Wessel's restaurant and marina staffers.
Some Grove Bay critics decry the boorish behavior. But they say longstanding mistrust of Sarnoff and other city leaders, who many in the Grove believe have often engineered sweetheart deals with developers that mess up city waterfront land, is playing into the opposition.
"They have a history of botching up public land. They've done such a poor job of developing the Grove bayfront in a poor and uncohesive way,'' said Terry. "There seems to be no appreciation for open space.''
Regalado, Sarnoff and the developers, however, say the opposition has grossly misrepresented the proposal, exaggerating its size and footprint while failing to mention the creation of the adjacent new park. The critics have insisted the Grove Bay plan violates the broader 2008 master plan for the waterfront, known as the Sasaki plan for the prominent landscape architecture firm that designed it. But firm managing principal Mark Dawson has written a letter endorsing the Grove Bay plan and noting that it improves on the Sasaki blueprint in some aspects.
"People are speaking from passion,'' Sarnoff said of the plan's critics. "People are not speaking from facts.''
The Grove Bay group submitted a bid in response to an advertised request by the city, and won when its sole competitor dropped out. This was the city's second attempt to secure a redevelopment plan for the site after an earlier effort fell apart. The group would get no city money, and would guarantee a minimum annual rent payment of $1.4 million to the city, with payments going up during the 50-year lease span if the project succeeds.
Under a legally binding proposal, the group would demolish the existing Chart House restaurant and Scotty's and replace them with two mid-sized eateries, the Shula's and a Peruvian seafood restaurant, within the same footprint. A canopy would join the two restaurants, framing an open view of the water and the new pier. A banquet hall and open-air public terrace would go on top. A new casual restaurant, mostly open air, would be built just to its south, where the companion marina's storage racks now stand.
The choice of glass and metal for the buildings is not arbitrary, the developers said: It's meant to echo the construction of the historic Pan Am hangars on the site, and provide customers and visitors with clear, panoramic views of the water.
The racks would be moved next to the developers' Grove Harbour Marina just to the north, consolidating the industrial side of the operation and making pedestrian access cleaner and safer, they say. All trees on the site would be saved and supplemented with additional green landscaping.
The two Pan Am hangars on the site, both now badly deteriorated, would be renovated. One will continue serving as boat storage. All new buildings, including the garage, would be lower than the hangars so as not to obscure the protected historic structures.
Retail at the parking garage would likely consist mostly of stores to serve residents and park users, including a convenience store, yoga studios and bike rental outlets, the developers say.
Critics note that, with the exception of the successful Fresh Market, retail on the waterfront has not fared well. But the city and the developers say they expect sharply increased foot traffic and retail demand from park users, restaurant patrons and residents of the new ultra-luxury condo towers going up across South Bayshore.
"Our goal from the beginning was to bring people to the waterfront,'' said Grove Bay principal Jay Leyva. "Our offices are right here, and I look out every day and see there is no one out there. We want to open it all up to the public.''
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The American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice honored Taussig for his "outstanding" contributions to the implementation and development of regulatory practice and administrative law.
"I am honored and grateful," said Taussig on receiving the service award. "It's particularly nice, during these times of government cutbacks, to have recognition for government employees for their work."
Taussig was born in Haifa, Israel. He was raised in Kew Gardens Hills since he was seven and currently lives in Hollis Hills with his wife, Ethel.
He graduated from Queens College in 1971 and attended Brooklyn Law School for his law degree.
For 37 years, he has worked at the Law Department on city regulations, from mandating windows guards for the safety of children to the posting of calorie information in chain restaurants.
"I like to think that law [mandating window guards] and the defense of that law made a difference in saving lives of young children," said Taussig in regards to an achievement that made a considerable difference.
Taussig's associates nominated him based on his various achievements in city government.
Taussig has also been involved with health code regulations banning smoking in public places, police regulations of parade permits protecting safety of bicyclists, motorists, and pedestrians, and regulations installing fire safety devices for high-rise buildings.
"My office has given me a really significant exposure to different types of matters that I probably wouldn't get in another division," said Taussig on working in the Administrative Law Division.
In addition to his administrative work, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Queens Public Library.
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Clouds today come in two basic flavors: the private cloud (wholly behind the firewall) and the public cloud, which runs on remote hosts. The private cloud currently enjoys IT management's attention, because taking lots of individual servers, putting them into a pool, and parceling out their capabilities as needed has tremendous advantages for the data center. Of these, none is more prominent that the ability to scale up resources when projects demand and back down again when the need declines.
Private clouds require little changes in programming. Instances of virtual machines are spun up from an administrative console and the application is migrated to this home in the clouds from which, by and large, it works as expected.
The public cloud — whose leading hosts include Amazon, Google, Microsoft — is a different thing altogether. Code cannot be migrated simply to these hosts and expected to work correctly. It won't. Google's App Engine, for example, allows only a select list of core Java classes to run on its platform. If your code relies on a proscribed class, your app will not run.
Moreover, each platform uses its own unique datastore, which does not run at all like traditional relational DBMSs. (Microsoft Azure does offer a "cloudified" version of its SQL Server database product as an option.) So, if you plan to run applications in the public cloud, you'll either have to invest considerable effort porting existing code or writing new apps from scratch. Doing so will reveal a second problem: No two platforms use the same API. So, from the get go, you are coding to a proprietary platform &mdash with all the constraints that implies.
This problem is widely acknowledged, but efforts to provide a universal API, such as the Simple Cloud API, have garnered little enthusiasm from the cloud hosts. This situation puts IT organizations in a bind. If considering using the public cloud, therefore, run extensive pilots before committing to a platform. Know your platform's limitations and costs intimately before making it the basis of an important app. You're likely to be residing there a long time.
— Andrew Binstock is the Executive Editor of Dr. Dobb's. He can be reached at [email protected].


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A federal judge will decide March 15 whether to dismiss a lawsuit by the ACLU and the Bay Guardian seeking access to FBI records showing the agency's involvement with the Occupy movement.
As if often the case, the FBI's legal motions tell an interesting story that sheds light on what some of the still-unreleased documents might show.
The filings make it clear that the FBI was not only spying on the Occupy movement but was sharing data with local law-enforcement agencies — and at some point may have classified some part of the Occupy movement as international terrorists.
The Guardian and the ACLU have been fighting for more than a year to get the agency to release its complete files on Occupy. After a March 8, 2012 Freedom of Information Act request yielded only a few pages, and the FBI claimed it had no more documents, the ACLU filed suit.
In a declaration dated March 15, 2013, David M. Hardy, chief of the FBI's Information Section, confirms that the agency was sharing information on Occupy with other police agencies. He states that "The mention of the FBI sharing intelligence with another agency doesn't mean that the document becomes and intelligence or planning document. It is simply documenting that information was shared."
Among the documents that the feds did release is a Nov. 2, 2011 memo discussing the FBI's contact with the Port of Stockton Police Department to "share intelligence about Occupy protesters targetting the Port of Oakland."
And of course, the fact that the FBI is sharing intelligence means that it was gathering intelligence as well.
By law, the FBI can only investigate when there are federal crimes or federal statutes involved, and the vast majority, if not all, of the Occupy actions in cities all over the country were local in nature. Occupy was a famously diverse group of community-based organizations that had no national structure or leadership. In the few instances were Occupy protesters were charged with crimes — mostly in cases of civil disobedience or minor vandalism — there were no federal laws even remotely involved.
In his declaration, however, Hardy defends the FBI's refusal to release some documents by saying that "the FBI's general investigative authority … and its general authority to collect records …. provides the statutory basis for the FBI's role in providing services and support to state and local law enforcement agencies in investigating crimes and terrorism related to the enforcement of federal laws. The FBI is also assigned the lead role in investigating terrorism and in the collection of terrorism threat information within the United States."
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In other news, this is getting insane. What the **** is wrong with society?
In short, a local girl was gang raped and subsequently bullied and mocked until she took her on life. Only now that she's gone is this getting looked into. Anonymous got involved and now it's like a media circus. Worried it may end badly. At least the rapists aren't being glorified in like that other recent case of gang rape.5 Replies
And by worried, I mean that it may be hard to find imparial members of the jury. Or that one of the rapists will happen to be innocent and vigilante justice happens before it's found out. I only hope that this gets the appropriate people's asses in gear to get those who caused this behind bars.
didn't see the Anonymous part. but I did catch the story this morning. she was so pretty, and this is such a shame.
I'm wondering what part of all this made the case circumstantial.
I am constantly disgusted by the immorality of some people. The facts of the case are not entirely clear, but whatever happened the bullying and hatred thrown at this poor young girl are atrocious, and the lack of response from the authorities is unacceptable. The case in Ohio was almost shut because the local authorities wanted it to be, i wonder who is influencing this one?
I also have to comment her family, for their maturity and composure in the face of this tragedy. If she were kin or i knew her, i am not sure i could not take the law into my own hands.
Let's hope some good comes of this, teaching kids a lesson about accountability and conduct
This is the second one in Canada in 6 months. As the father of a 17-year old daughter, you have no idea how much this breaks my heart.
It really boggles my mind how the rapists think this is ok. I mean - rape is bad enough, but gang rape. It's just disgusting on a whole other level.
That and how the students shared the images, and then made fun of her, and how it went on for so long without intervention. If anything I think they should be charged for child porn. The whole thing is really sad - it just seems like it's such a large group of disturbed people involved. I'm worried about the younger generation - they seem to have no morality.
I mean, I was bullied in school - but it was nothing like this (although I suppose being male I have the privaledge that this particular case couldn't happen). It's sickening.
I'm applying for a job at Tesla, in California. I know someone who knows Elon Musk, but I don't think I should ask him for a referral, he's my boss. They are both involved in the X-Prize foundation.
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I would much rather pollen falling from the skies than rain. I forgot to look at the temp in the car this morning, but it feels like 5C and raining. Very dark skies. Pretty gloomy. At least we've been lucking out on the weekends lately - hopefull it clears up tomorrow.4 Replies
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Indian rapper caught in gang-rape backlash
Indian police have arrested a man as he tried to plant a crude bomb near the home of one of the suspects in the New Delhi gang-rape case as a backlash against widespread sex crimes gathered steam.
As protests against harassment and violence against women continued, a chart-topping Indian rapper known for his sexually explicit lyrics also became embroiled in a growing campaign against sexism and misogyny in Indian society.
Yo Yo Honey Singh, whose hits include My Home My Village, saw his New Year's Eve concert in New Delhi cancelled following an online campaign which highlighted lyrics allegedly inciting abuse of women.
His 2007 track Prostitute refers to him having violent sex with a woman after he forces her to "dance naked" and includes the line: "You will scream and run but where can you go... I will take your life".
The furore over the rap star comes as the country comes to terms with the December 16 gang-rape in which a 23-year-old medical student was repeatedly assaulted and violated with an iron bar while being driven around in a bus for 40 minutes.
She died from internal injuries in a Singapore hospital at the weekend and her ashes were immersed Tuesday in the holy Ganges river by her family near their native village in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
The unnamed girl, whose parents had sold land to fund her studies, had been out to the cinema with her boyfriend when she was lured onto the bus by a gang of reportedly drunk joyriders.
Sexual violence and gang-rapes are commonplace in India, but the case has brought simmering anger - particularly among young urban women - to the boil and led to protests in the capital and calls for the death penalty for rapists.
Police said they had arrested a 37-year-old man on Tuesday in the narrow by-lanes of a slum in southwest Delhi after he allegedly tried to plant a crude bomb near the house of one of six suspects detained by police for the Delhi rape.
The low-grade device was filled with explosives usually used in firecrackers, a police official said.
Protests in India, which continued on Monday and on New Year's Eve, have also spilled to other parts of the world with people taking to the streets in Hong Kong, Islamabad, London and Kathmandu.
On Tuesday, about 30 women's rights activists protested outside the Indian consulate in Hong Kong, urging authorities to enact tougher laws to punish sex crimes.
The government, which has faced a wave of anger, has set up a panel headed by a former chief justice to recommend changes to the criminal law dealing with sexual crimes.
The panel, which was set up last week, had already received more than 17,000 suggestions until Monday, The Indian Express newspaper reported.
Also on Tuesday, the Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the six suspects for the gang-rape risked the death penalty if found guilty and the case against them appeared very strong.
"We have a solid case with very good evidence... a magistrate has recorded the victim's dying declaration and we have a prime witness, the girl's friend, who has identified the rapists," Shinde told The Economic Times newspaper.
The victim's boyfriend, whom friends said she intended to marry, tried to prevent the rape and is likely to give crucial evidence during what is expected to be a fast-tracked trial.
Police are to file charges and present their evidence against the suspects - five men and a minor - on Thursday.
Delhi police have said their probe is almost complete, pending the arrival of an autopsy report from doctors in Singapore and the conclusions of forensic experts.


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"The Baroque Trumpet Ensemble Berlin, founded in 1990 by Johann Plietzsch, specializes in trumpet music from 1500 to 1800. The repertoire of the ensemble extends from the oldest preserved processional and ceremonial music of the court trumpeters, through the period of the flourishing art of playing clarino in Europe from the end of the 17th. to the middle of the 18th. century, to the orchestral trumpet parts of the Classical Period.
The main core of the ensemble consists of four baroque trumpets and timpani. Cooperation with singers and other instrumentalists allows the presentation of the full extend of baroque trumpet music possibilities, from intimate chamber music to the full-scored sound of court music in all its splendor. Thus it is possible to present to the listener all the rich sounds of the early music tradition."
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"Les Sacqueboutiers, an ensemble based in Toulouse, playing on early brass instruments. Les Sacqueboutiers have been in existence for just over a quarter of a century, during which time they have built up a reputation as one of the finest early music ensembles on the international scene.
Regarded by specialists and the public alike as a reference in the interpretation of seventeenth-century instrumental music, particularly that of Italy and Germany, the ensemble has reaped the highest awards for its recordings.
When they decided to form Les Sacqueboutiers in 1974, Jean-Pierre Canihac and Jean-Pierre Mathieu were among the first to embark on the adventurous rediscovery of early instruments. The quality if their work soon attracted attention, and they took part in the groundbreaking recording of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, conducted by Michel Corboz. Since then, they have performed music ranging from the Renaissance to Mozart, with many prestigious ensembles including Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe), A Sei Voci (Bernard Fabre-Garrus), Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy (Jean-Claude Malgoire), and the Clément Janequin Ensemble (Dominique Visse). .."
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"Formed in 1991 and led by László Borsódy, Sonatores Pannoniæ Brass Ensemble plays 16th-17th century festive music on replicas of the musical instruments of that era. With the members having found a common voice both as musicians and friends, Sonatores is dedicated to play early music with an authentic feel that offers their audience the experience of a true journey in time as opposed to that of visiting a museum or a dusty archives of sheet music.
Sonatores Pannoniæ is the only historical brass ensemble in Hungary and is one of the few such groups in Europe. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Anneke Scott is "rapidly emerging as one of the outstanding younger exponents of the natural horn". Having begun her studies at The Royal Academy of Music, London she was awarded prestigious scholarships to further her study in France and Holland where she concentrated on the various aspects of period horns. ...
For many years she has had a keen interest in chamber music which led to her becoming a founder member of The Etesian Ensemble. Through this ensemble she met the fortepianist Kathryn Cok with whom she formed a duo specialising in classical and romantic repertoire for horn and fortepiano. Kathryn and Anneke have recently been selected as two of Makng Music's Concert Promoters Network Artists for 2008/2009.
An integral element of Anneke Scott's career has been research. During 2005-2006 she undertook research at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Early Music Performance where she currently teaches period horns. In 2005 she received the great privilege of being invited by The Bate Collection, Oxford to perform in concert on one of their magnificent original Hofmaster horns dating from the mid 18th century and in 2006 was interviewed by BBC TV for the BBC2 series The People's Museum discussing the Hofmaster horns housed at Edinburgh University. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Baroque Brass of London is without rival in presenting brass music of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries on period instruments. The experience of Baroque Brass of London's players is unmatched as all are members of Europe's leading early music ensembles.
Brass instruments hold a prominent place in European musical tradition. Baroque Brass acknowledges a particular debt to David Munrow (1942 - 1976) the musicologist and distinguished performer largely responsible for the revival of early wind instruments.
The group consists of natural trumpets, cornetts, sackbuts, timpani, percussion and continuo. The trumpets use natural harmonics; the cornett was always valued for its resemblance to the human voice; the sackbut (precursor of the trombone) is soft and warm while the timpani tone is fresher and drier than its modern counterpart. The sound of the ensemble is, as might be expected, bright and pure in the larger ceremonial music and soft and supple in the smaller pieces. Baroque Brass creates a spectacular effect in the open air and in larger venues such as cathedrals. In contrast, it offers chamber music programmes in more intimate halls, such as those in palaces and castles, for example, where much of the repertoire was first performed. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Crispian Steele-Perkins is a trumpet soloist who is world-renowned for the quality of his performances and wide-ranging musical experience.
On graduating from the Guildhall School of Music, Crispian spent his early career playing with the English National Opera and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He then spent 15 years working in Recording, TV and film studios, developing a body of work which is universally recognisable today, from Handel to James Bond themes and pop classics.
His interest in collecting and restoring antique trumpets led him to begin performing on them - appropriately you may have heard Crispian's playing introducing the BBC's "The Antiques Roadshow". " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts is a group of virtuoso wind players who specialise in playing Renaissance and Baroque music in historically appropriate styles on original instruments. The noble sound of cornetts and sackbuts was among the most versatile instrumental colours available to composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was heard in many musical contexts: in consort or in alternation with voices in the extravagant liturgy of the great Italian and Spanish churches - above all the Basilica of St Mark's in Venice; in aristocratic entertainments such as the intermedii of northern Italy or the masques of Jacobean England; and in the ceremonial and devotional music for the courts and free cities of Lutheran Germany."
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See this post of mine on the topic of choosing when/if/not to save during the session and at shut-down.
2. In particular:
To be given the choice at shutdown "to save or not to save".
File to be edited is:
3. Lupu-528.004 has had natively included within it, a simple method that when switched on gives the user a choice "to save or not to save" at shut-down.
It's explained by rerwin in a post in the Lupu thread.
See this post...
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Allows user to choose to be asked whether to save during shutdown, by setting "ask" in the
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Post subject: ASK
Hello, I'm a newbie here.
I lookup with my mouse to one icon on the bottom right (it's green multi bar horizontal). I look the message is:
"504M personal storage, free space = 408M. Click for Partview and Version info"
Can U help me for explaining about this? My Ram is 2GB and it's detected in bios. so, why does this free space + personal storage only cover 1 GB? do I miss something here?
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bakekoq wrote:
Hello, I'm a newbie here.
I lookup with my mouse to one icon on the bottom right (it's green multi bar horizontal). I look the message is:
"504M personal storage, free space = 408M. Click for Partview and Version info"
Can U help me for explaining about this? My Ram is 2GB and it's detected in bios. so, why does this free space + personal storage only cover 1 GB? do I miss something here?
When you created a frugal install, you saved a workspace file (in your case, it appears 512MB) which sits on your hard disk.
That report is the size of the save file, and available space for saved files.
Of course, Puppy can also access all of the disk space, and files saved there are available to any other OS you may have.
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Posted: Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:04
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owh I see..
btw, is it really safe for me if my free space becoming 39M? I think I really used up the space of saved files. hmm.. btw, is it really giving any effect for my puppy?
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bakekoq wrote:
owh I see..
btw, is it really safe for me if my free space becoming 39M? I think I really used up the space of saved files. hmm.. btw, is it really giving any effect for my puppy?
You will run out of file storage space.
Open the little house in the upper corner ("home" which is actually /root/)
Click the arrow up (this takes you to "/")
Click on the folder "mnt"
Drag the "home" folder icon to your desktop (it won't actually move it, but make a copy). This will give you a shortcut to your hard disk on your Puppy desktop.
That "home" folder (not to be confused with the house in the corner) is your hard disk, where your Lupusave file lives. If you have Windows installed, you will also see your Windows folders.
If you make a folder there, and store your stuff, it won't fill up your Lupusave -- and it will be accessible to Windows (or whatever other OS you might have).
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I'm a newbie. I created a live multi-session CD for Precise Puppy 5.5 which works a treat.
I tried to install a program (Teamviewer) using another thread but I need to modify one of the files (as a text editor). However, when i try to modify the file, it says read write error. is this because I am using a live multi-session CD and it is mounted?
How can i make adjustments to the file if I am using a live multi-session CD?
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Hi tannaroo,
Do not mount your CD manually (its contents are booted into RAM).
If any of your drives is mounted (especially any CD drive usually the first is labelled sr0 with any second CD drive labelled sr1) it will have a small red x in the top right hand corner of its desktop drive icon - then you can click the red x to unmount it.
With the CD unmounted try making your teamviewer change(s). If that works you can (if you wish) save the changes to your CD on Shutdown/Reboot (or even immediately using the desktop save icon and then ignore any spurious error message if that happens on reboot).
My regards
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Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 10:27
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thanks jasper
when i unmount it though, the CD/tray pops out of the drive, so i cant access the file.
and everytime i try to open the file on the CD that needs changing, the CD mounts (i.e. little red cross).
or there another way to access the file by preventing the Cd to mount?
Note: the file that needs changing is on the live CD which saves my session
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Hi tanneroo,
Just give the CD drive tray a gentle push to close it. (You could even take the CD out - but obviously you would need it in (though not mounted) before you can save back to it).
Just access the files you want to change (the desktop file icon is probably in the top left corner of your screen).
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Posted: Tue 02 Apr 2013, 10:42
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sorry jasper - i'm just not following.
if i take the CD out then mnt/sr0 is blank (since the files that i need to change are on the CD0.
if the CD is in then mnt/sr0 has all of the files.
somehow, i need to unmount sr0 but still access/change the files on sr0 - is this possible?
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Hi tanneroo,
To gain understanding - remove the CD - everthing is in RAM - you can make whatever changes you want to and you can do anything and everything that you could do if your OS were on your Hard Drive (instead of loaded into RAM from your CD).
Now reread my earlier posts and come back if you need to.
My regarfs
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Thanks - I got it.
I made the changes via usb/bin/teamviewer (which is RAM)
and then can save it to CD (mnt/sr0/usr/bin/teamviewer).
after all that, my program teamviewer doesnt work so there is something else wrong which i need to investigate
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hi tannaroo
- not real sure about precise 5.5, but in general (multisession)..
..) 'saving' directly to your mounted disc via a filemanager doesn't work that simply if at all - please to read again what Jasper went over previously. If you're really interested in what goes on, observe what happens in the console when you try the in-session save2dvd shortcut on the desktop (tip: do not have sr0 mounted
a) savedirs - the date-timed (according to when you saved) dirs have all your changes made when you saved session. You can examine them individually (with the disc mounted) and copy stuff to your working session (in RAM). They are
nly, thus non-editable in their place in the savedir .. the copy in RAM you
edit. If the file already shows in your working session, you may need to overwrite what's there or change the permissions/properties.
b) deleting - in many cases this is accomplished by a 'whiteout'. File or dir (name) gets a special .wh.. prefix which covers over the deleted item in the layering system .. normally neither you nor the running file manager can 'see' these because that's how it works. It can be a real pitb sometimes, like if/when you need to copy an item with the same name in the same path it was deleted from. No can do -> error message results,
c) /initrd/pup_ro* and rw - now for some fun
mounting the disc! ro is short for
nly, rw for
rite .. only one rw (the current session changes) but * is a number with ro2 being the main pup sfs and other variations on numbering depending on extra sfs files and so on (ro1 is a merge of all your savedirs, if I recall correctly). These are all layered to plan, ro2 being the base, then extra sfs, then ro1 (oldest to most recent savedirs merged) and finally rw on top .. this is what you and the file manager 'see' normally (does b) make sense now
d) /.badfolders - At bootsplash, if you've ever done the "puppy pfix=*" with * being how many savedirs you wish to stop from being loaded (1 is most recent to however many), then you'll have this file. Not a bad idea to try it on a 'throwaway' saved session just to see what it is even if you don't need it. It can be a way out of having a troublesome savedir in the merge. If you save your current session with that .badfolders file in place it will show up at next boot with the date-timed savedir "marked as bad" in the load sequence.
hope that helps and
good luck
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Post subject: Please help...Unable to unmount USB flash drive
I hope this is the correct place to post this request.
I am running Wary Puppy from a USB flash drive plugged into my HP 510 laptop (which has a crashed Win XP system installed). Wary Puppy is to be the rescuer, and eventually may be the main OS...I like it a lot.
The first time I used Wary, I was able to mount and dismount all drives shown, and copy some key Win XP files...thanks for this.
However, on the second use, I am unable to dismount the Wary USB drive.
When I try to unmount, the error message I receive is "/dev/sdb1 mounted as /initrd/mnt/dev_save is in use by Puppy. You cannot unmount it."
Yikes. I tried Google, but am not clear about how to proceed. I would appreciate some steps to take so that I can unmount this USB and turn off the laptop without corrupting the Wary Puppy.
All help welcome. Thanks.
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Poor conditions forced the FIA to start the race under safety car conditions, allowing Vettel to take full advantage of his pole position. However, it was a far from easy victory for Vettel, as the persistent rain ensured that the result was far from certain throughout the two-hour race.
After eight laps behind the safety car the race got underway properly on lap nine with Fernando Alonso having already relinquished his second position with an early pit stop. The Red Bull duo of Vettel and Webber were quickly able to establish a gap over Button who passed his Brawn Mercedes team-mate Rubens Barrichello early in the race.
With an 11-second advantage at the head of the field, Vettel pitted on lap 15 and Webber followed suit soon after leaving Button at the head of the field. Further back down the order Jarno Trulli was really struggling in the conditions and heading to the final turn on lap 18 was hit hard from behind by Robert Kubica's BMW Sauber. Trulli was forced to retire, while the safety car picked up the rest of the field.
Jenson Button's 14-second lead at the head of the pack was immediately negated to nothing as he headed to the pits for this first stop. From that point onwards, Vettel and Webber dominated at the front as they traded fastest laps and eased away for a comfortable victory from Button.
Webber finished 11 seconds behind Vettel and kept the pressure on his young team-mate throughout. While he will be happy with the result for the team, having your team-mate record the team's first victory will be tough to take.
Button finished 34 seconds behind Vettel, while Barrichello had a low-key race in the second Brawn Mercedes and was never really on the pace of the front runners. The decision not to change his wet tyres in the second and final pit stop put him under pressure from those close behind, but the Brazilian veteran held on to retain the position.
Button remains at the head of the drivers' championship with 21 points, with Barrichello on 15 and Vettel vaulting up to third with his 10-point haul. Brawn Mercedes lead Red Bull in the constructors' championship by 16.5 points.
Behind the Red Bull and Brawn drivers, the battle for fifth was completely open. In the end it was Heikki Kovalainen who drove an error-free race to take the position in his McLaren Mercedes ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton who suffered several spins on his way to sixth.
Timo Glock started the race from the pit lane and despite a brush with Nick Heidfeld early in the race and then a later pitstop for a new front wing, the Toyota driver managed to battle on to finish in seventh position.
Sebastien Buemi is proving he really does deserve his place in the series as he capitalised on his fine qualifying form to finish eighth in the leading Toro Rosso Ferrari.


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Football's knack for springing a surprise or two is one of the reasons why the game never gets boring. In 2007, Austria raised more than a few eyebrows when they stormed to fourth place at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada, thanks in no small part to Veli Kavlak.
"I think it's the biggest and most important tournament in the world for any young player," the midfielder told FIFA.com.
Kavlak's career has been on an upward trajectory ever since. The 24-year-old has now made 22 senior appearances for Austria and stars for Besiktas. Five months before the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013, Kavlak feels a mix of nostalgia about the memories of his side's heroics in 2007 and pride that the next edition of the prestigious tournament will be held in the land of his forefathers.* *"Turkey is so passionate about football," said Kavlak, who became the second-youngest player to represent Rapid Vienna - after Andreas Ivanschitz - when he made his debut aged 16. "People live and breathe football."
In the beginning, the attendances were normal but as the tournament built to a climax, people started to go to the stadiums a lot more because they realised it's a beautiful and magical atmosphere.
Despite learning his trade on the streets of the Austrian capital, it is clear to see how much playing in Turkey means to Kavlak. He is that Turkish football will benefit from hosting the upcoming finals.
"In my opinion, after hosting an international tournament a country moves forward on both an organisational and sporting level," Kavlak said, recalling the ever-increasing enthusiasm among the Canadians five and a half years ago. "Canada is not a totally footballing country. In the beginning, the attendances were normal but as the tournament built to a climax, people started to go to the stadiums a lot more because they realised it's a beautiful and magical atmosphere.
"The football stars of the future will come to Turkey next summer. Therefore I'm sure that they will totally enjoy the tournament and its atmosphere."
Sharing a stage with stars
The 2007 edition marked Kavlak's breakthrough, and the hard-running midfielder looks back fondly on his side's barnstorming displays in North America:
"I spent the most beautiful days in my football career at the U-20 World Cup in Canada. Besides, there were many talented players in that tournament, such as Alexandre Pato, Arturo Vidal, Sergio Aguero, Angel Di Maria, Juan Mata, Luis Suarez, Martin Fenin and Giovani Dos Santos. They're the stars of today. Being in the same cup with them was a privilege for me."
Following a 1-0 victory over hosts Canada and two draws against Congo and Chile, Austria beat Gambia 2-1 in the last 16 before defeating USA 2-1 after extra time in the quarter-finals. However, a 2-0 semi-final loss to Czech Republic ended their dreams, while Chile narrowly edged the match for third place 1-0.
Kavlak recalled: "It had a very big impact in Austria. We were in the headlines in the Austrian media. This generation started to make up the main body of the senior Austrian national team. And most of the players from this cup are playing in the top European leagues these days."
For example, Sebastian Prodl, Zlatko Junuzovic (both at Werder Bremen), Erwin Hoffer (Eintracht Frankfurt) and Martin Harnik (Stuttgart) are all active in the German Bundesliga. Kavlak himself is a fan favourite at one of the biggest clubs in Istanbul. He is convinced Canada 2007 turned him into the player he is today.
"I played six games in the tournament and after that people's confidence in me and their belief in my qualities became higher and higher," he said. "I also started to be in the public eye much more. It was a milestone in my career."
Now he intends to sit in the stands and observe the latest raw talents test themselves in their biggest outing yet on the world stage. The fact that Turkey has the chance to host the competition is not only a dream come true for the local population, but also for Kavlak. He intends to make the most of it.


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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The King of Gaheena, a novel. Motes Books, 2008.
Highlighted Publications
"Wrestling the Horned Beast." Arts & Letters, Georgia College and State University (Winter 2010).
"Land Between the Lakes." Colorado Review Volume XXV, Colorado State University (Fall/Winter 1998). Reprinted in New Madrid, journal of contemporary literature, Murray State University.
"Grandma's Hands." The Louisville Review, University of Louisville Publications (Spring 1996).
Courses Taught
ENG 102 Composition and Research
ENG 104 Honors Composition (at Oxford University)
ENG 105 College Composition Abroad (at Oxford University)
ENG 340 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 343 Special Topics in Creative Writing
ENG 344 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
ENG 415 Writers Workshop: The Short Story
ENG 521 Forms of Fiction
ENG 560 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
ENG 610 Graduate Writers Workshop
ENG 663 Graduate Creative Nonfiction Tutorial, MFA Program
ENG 667 Graduate Residency in Creative Nonfiction, MFA Program
HUM 211 Western Humanities Tradition
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Creative Writing: Fiction
Creative Writing: Nonfiction
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20 years of service recognition, Murray State University, 2012
Presidential Research Fellowship, Murray State University, 2008-2009
Nominated for Murray State University Max Carman Teaching Award, Spring 2000
and Spring 2008
Murray State University, College of Humanistic Studies Teaching Merit Award
1995, 1996, 1997
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
Association of Writers & Writing Programs, 1994 to Present
In the Media
Prof. Babcock talks with Chris Dietz of "Good Morning Kentucky" about his novel The King of Gaheena. See the video.
Listen to Prof. Babcock on Nashville Public Television's "A Word On Words" with John Seigenthaler.
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Sunday's episode of The Good Wife spoiled viewers' appetites as Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) and her estranged husband (Marc Warren) participated in a scene that may have you thinking twice about reaching for that Haagen-Dazs any time soon.
In what has to be one of the most provocative network TV moments in recent memory, Kalinda and Nick find themselves in an ice cream shop in the middle of the day while Kalinda plays hooky from Lockhart Gardner. One minute, Nick is making Kalinda feel guilty about leaving him fresh out of jail with no money. And the next, Nick's pulling his fingers out from under the table (and, presumably, from under Kalinda's skirt) and sinking them straight into her soft serve. (Guess he didn't like being told he used to be better!) The scene ends with — no, really — Kalinda taking a big lick of her ice cream despite the intrusion. Was it to turn Nick on or show him he has no effect on her? With this couple, your guess is as good as ours.
The scene was one scoop of sexy and one scoop of gross, and it was topped with "WTF?" sprinkles. (There were children nearby!) While the moment in question was definitely jarring, fans of the critically acclaimed series know just how much creators Robert and Michelle King love keeping CBS Standards and Practices on their toes. But did this scene go too far? Did Sunday's moment make you melt or leave you cold? Watch the clip below and sound off in the comments!


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Collection of correspondence, writings, memorabilia, and photographs of Jack Rosenfeld, mainly pertaining to his service in the United States Army during the Second World War, from September 1942 to November 1945. Rosenfeld's extensive wartime correspondence with his fiancée, family members, and friends offers glimpses into the experiences of everyday Americans during the war, both from the point of view of individuals serving in the Armed Forces, and from that of the civilian community at home, especially in Philadelphia. The correspondence also gives an impression of Jewish community life in Philadelphia at the time, and of the perspectives of American Jews on the war. A little more than half of the correspondence is in the form of the miniaturized facsimiles known as Victory Mail, or V-Mail. Jack Rosenfeld's writings include a memoir about his wartime experiences (dated 1995), and an autobiographical essay about his family and childhood. Documents and ephemera from Rosenfeld's military service include materials related to his participation in musical theater productions by the Army's Entertainment Section of Special Services. The majority of the photographs were taken during the Second World War in the locations where Rosenfeld was stationed in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany.


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The Bruins enjoyed a day off Monday. It was a reward well-earned for completing a punishing March that produced magical results.
The Bruins played 17 games jammed into a 31-day month. They played six sets of back-to-backs, all involving travel. They reeled off a 15-1-1 run that plopped them 9 points ahead of second-place Pittsburgh in the Eastern Conference.
"When you play 17 games in 31 days and you lose one shootout game, that's pretty impressive for this group," said coach Claude Julien. "They've stayed focused. They've stayed humble. They've stayed determined. So I'm pretty proud of the way we handled this month."
They will now reap the benefits of that run. Starting Wednesday against the Red Wings, they will begin the process of resting their lead dogs. It's possible that some players may not make the two-game swing to Detroit and Toronto. It's just as likely the big boys will stay home for the two-game trip the following week to Minnesota and Winnipeg.
The Bruins can make three more recalls from Providence before the conclusion of the regular season. They will exercise all or part of that option.
The Bruins will probably play one final game at full tilt with their expected roster for Game 1 of the playoffs. That could be in the regular-season home finale against Buffalo April 12. They will need at least one tuneup with their varsity to make sure all systems are go.
But they have other priorities before the real games start later in April.
■ Resting their best players.
This process starts with Zdeno Chara. The captain is expected to remain in Boston for at least one of the three remaining road trips: Detroit-Toronto this week, Minnesota-Winnipeg next week, or Game No. 82 in Newark April 13.
Chara is pushing for his second Norris Trophy, but rest is more important. There's a balance between giving Chara the repetitions he needs to stay sharp and the time away from the rink he requires.
Other players deserving of a breather: Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, David Krejci, Jarome Iginla, Brad Marchand, and Johnny Boychuk. It may be hard to take Bergeron out. On Monday, the NHL named Bergeron its Second Star of the Week. Bergeron scored five goals in four games last week, including the game-winner against Chicago Thursday. He stretched his goal-scoring streak to seven games against Philadelphia Sunday.
The Bruins are carrying one extra forward and two spare defensemen. They will use their reserve players as well as some AHL call-ups to spell their important guys.
■ Determining the defensive lineup.
There are three locks to dress on defense for Game 1 of the playoffs: Chara, Boychuk, and Kevan Miller. The latter has elevated himself from AHLer to big-league stalwart. Miller is a hard-nosed, straightforward, defensive defenseman. The Bruins needed such a right-shot force to replace the injured Adam McQuaid (quad). Miller has been all that and more. He will be the right-side man on the third pairing and regular penalty killer.
The three other slots remain up for grabs. Dougie Hamilton has the inside line at starting alongside Chara on the top pairing. Hamilton was out of the mix last year because he was a right-shot defenseman behind Dennis Seidenberg, Boychuk, and McQuaid on the depth chart.
But the second-year pro should be ready for the challenge. Hamilton has been playing with more bite during the 16-game point streak. At the same time, he is moving the puck efficiently and supporting the attack. Hamilton should also be the point man on the No. 2 power-play unit.
Torey Krug is favored to keep his job on the left side of the No. 3 pairing. Krug has a history of having big games in the playoffs. He scored four goals against the Rangers in the second round last year, including three on the power play.
Krug's difference-making ability in one-up situations should give him the nod. He retrieves the puck with pace, hammers it from the point, and opens up opportunities for his teammates.
That pits Matt Bartkowski against Andrej Meszaros for the final spot: the left-side position on the second pairing next to Boychuk. Both have their assets. Bartkowski is a better pace pusher. Bartkowski can be a one-man breakout, especially when he wheels around the net. Bartkowski is stronger and quicker than Meszaros.
But Meszaros has experience, a heavy shot, and he can play both sides. He can work the point on both power-play units. Right now, the race between the two is very tight. The bet here is that Bartkowski opens the playoffs in the lineup.
■ Give Loui Eriksson a game with Marchand and Bergeron.
Reilly Smith is picking up his game. He scored the shootout winner against the Flyers Sunday. The day before, he ripped off a would-be goal from the slot that Capitals goalie Braden Holtby snatched with his glove. Smith is getting better offensive sniffs.
But Smith is entering his first postseason. The Bruins might have to switch him and Eriksson if the former flickers offensively. If so, that will help Marchand, Bergeron, and Eriksson to get a feel for each other in a regular-season game.
■ Play meaningful hockey.
Detroit will be pushing for a playoff spot. As unlikely as their chances may be, the Maple Leafs could still have some hope of making the playoffs. Both teams, then, will be fighting for their lives.
This will be good for the Bruins. They need high-intensity preparation for the playoffs. This is no time to develop bad habits in games without meaning. The best games of the year are less than three weeks away. They can't get here soon enough.
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The wealth gap in China, which has been growing along with its roaring economy, has exceeded the point beyond which lies social unrest, according to a member of the country's Politburo.
Bloomberg reported that Bo Xilai, the Communist Party secretary for Chongqing Municipality, said that the Gini coefficient, which is an index of the income gap, has passed 0.46. The range of the coefficient is from 0 to 1, and 0.4 is considered the dividing line beyond which social disturbances are more likely to occur.
Bo spoke at a meeting held during the annual National People's Congress in Beijing that emphasized steps being taken by his municipality to cut the gap between rural and urban incomes during the last five years while he has been in office. Bo has reintroduced Mao-era philosophy in an attempt to reinvigorate the spirit of a country that at least nominally follows Marxist principles.
He was quoted saying, "As Chairman Mao said as he was building the nation, the goal of our building a socialist society is to make sure everyone has a job to do and food to eat, that everybody is wealthy together. If only a few people are rich, then we'll slide into capitalism. We've failed. If a new capitalist class is created then we'll really have turned onto a wrong road."
Protests in the village of Wukan over land grabs by party leaders led to those leaders being expelled from office and also to elections. Suach unrest and corruption are the sorts of events China wants to avoid, but they are becoming far more common.
Sun Liping, a professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University, was cited as saying that riots, strikes and similar public unrest have doubled from 2006 to 2010 as the gap in income increased. And a 2008 report by Chen Jiandong at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Sichuan said that the Gini coefficient stood at 0.302 in 1978, which was when the Communist Party began to open the economy.
Murtaza Syed, resident representative in Beijing for the International Monetary Fund, cited World Bank data showing that China's Gini coefficient and its wealth gap have both risen more than any other Asian economy in the past 20 years.


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Most high-profile politicians acquire weird little bits of biography that you just cannot shake out of your mind. A reporter once told me that he sat next to a member of Congress on a trip, while said lawmaker kept eating mayonnaise out of those little packets they give you at fast-food restaurants. Even if this guy someday single-handedly resurrects the Equal Rights Amendment and shepherds it through 37 state Legislatures, when I look at him, a corner of my brain will always think condiments.
Then there is Mitt Romney, a candidate most of us don't really know well yet. (A disconcerting number of well-informed people seem to believe his name is "Mort.") Yet he could become the Republican presidential nominee. It behooves us to pay attention, to mull his Iran plan and deconstruct his position on health care.
But every time I see him, all I can think about is Seamus the dog.
Seamus, in case you missed the story, was the Romneys' Irish setter back in the early 1980s. Mitt used to drive the family from Boston to Ontario every summer for a vacation, with the dog strapped to the roof in a crate.
As the Boston Globe reported this summer, Romney had the entire trip planned so rigidly that every gas station stop was predetermined before departure. During the fatal trip of '83, Seamus apparently needed one more than the schedule allowed. When evidence of the setter's incontinence came running down the back windshield, Romney abandoned his itinerary and drove to the closest gas station, where he got a hose and sprayed both dog and station wagon clean.
"It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management," the Globe said.
Well, you could spin it that way. Imagine George W. Bush staring blankly at the windshield, the way he did during his My Pet Goat moment. However, how many people out there are troubled by the idea that we might have a president who wouldn't let his kids go to the bathroom unless it was time for a preauthorized rest stop?
Romney has already come under considerable fire from animal rights groups over the Seamus incident. "They're not happy that my dog loves fresh air," Romney snapped back. He said that just recently, in Pittsburgh, although Seamus had actually long since shuffled off this mortal coil.
Is it possible that Romney is trying to dodge the Republican YouTube debate because he's afraid someone will ask him about his method of transporting dogs across long distances? Perhaps we could have one sponsored by the ASPCA instead.
Most of the candidates from both parties have pets. In fact, so many of them have golden retrievers or labradors you can't help but wonder if they rent them. (John Edwards, ever the conspicuous consumer, has one of each.) This could be an excellent opportunity for John McCain to catch a break, since he seems to have the largest menagerie. Although counting each of the fish individually was a bit much.
McCain also has a ferret, which could provide ample opportunity for lively discussion with Rudy Giuliani, a well-known ferret-hater. Few of us who lived in New York City during his ferret-banning crusade can forget the day a ferret owner confronted the mayor on a radio-call-in show. Giuliani, in tones of Dr. Phil on steroids, urged him to seek psychiatric care. ("This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness.")
Animal-lovers around the nation may also be interested to know that Giuliani's second wife once asked for $1,140 a month in dog support for Goalie, the family retriever. Or that the third Mrs. Giuliani is a former saleswoman for surgical staplers - a profession that involves demonstrations of how well the product works during unnecessary surgery on dogs.
The Giuliani campaign has dodged the question of whether Judith Nathan Giuliani ever was involved in this kind of activity, which usually ends badly for the dog in question. This week a spokesman said he didn't know, adding: "In the 1970s that was an acceptable medical technique," which I think we can probably take for a yes.
Once we settle all these issues we can get back to health care. Although every time Mitt Romney walks on stage, a sodden Irish setter is going to flash before my eyes.


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I was a 27 year old career woman and in great fear of pressure from the father of the child with whom I'd been involved for nearly 10 years. I was also afraid of hurting my parents and losing face.
I had no preconceived notions or ideas about what would happen (it was 1963). It was a depressing and lonely experience. When I went to this doctor he very quickly made arrangements, asked what were the reasons I couldn't have "it", then told me to bring cash of $300, a lot of money then. Then my mind is blank except being slapped in the face to wake up after the anesthetic and given a cup of tea and told I could go. My boyfriend picked me up outside the place and I felt like fainting. I've never known a feeling so bad.
I am upset even now to think about it and bitterly ashamed. I am desperately sorry and just one word of support from the father would have just given me that straw I needed to hang on to. Although I was absolutely unaware until soon after the abortion how terrible it all was. It wasn't a religious guilt -- it was just there. I'm very pleased now that the churches are coming out saying it is wrong because women must know that with whatever feelings they have before they have the abortion they can't control the feelings after. My GP had been supportive but not strong enough encouraging me to keep my child. I blame him for that. I am now convinced that many illnesses of body and illnesses of mind in women stem from an unresolved abortion grief.
To Conclude: It is criminal for individuals or groups to pretend that abortion is a ten-minute non-consequential act. It is the worst thing a woman can do in this life and it is not related to her upbringing, circumstances or religion. It is an instinctive natural reaction to an unnatural act. I tend to relate a lot of bitterness in middle aged and older women to past abortion experience. If the law of any country does not uphold the protection of its citizens it is doomed and the obligation to educate the young is essential.
I finally confided in my next male friend in great sorrow about how this experience (which had not been so physically distressing as mentally so) after I broke off finally with the child's father when I first realized I was pregnant, I was delighted, the rest follows.
From that day onwards after all those years with him my feelings changed towards that man. It was the saddest time of my life and I think it changed my personality from a happy woman (even if an insecure one) to a shell -- I lived my life -- but never recovered until some years ago.
When I next got pregnant it was to a lovely Naval Officer who has been my lovely husband for 17 years. I now have a gorgeous daughter (who again with all my previous woes came under threat because I had done it once and maybe it was the thing to do when cornered -- a certain mentality breaks through). Fortunately this second man was courageous enough to make a future for the two of us (which is now 4). Men must be made aware of their part in the abortion scene as women are very vulnerable then and, in my case, weak.
I don't know whether God is looking after me but my third daughter looks the image of the first man -- blue eyes, blonde hair and the other two are dark and brown eyed. I would live well to think that God in His goodness knowing how sad I was, gave me back my original child. Is it incredible, who knows.
I am glad to offer you these true thoughts about abortion. The worst affliction to mankind today.
P.S. -- Do your best to stop this horrible practice. It's too late when the damage is done.
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Only Uni by Cami TangPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 1:08 AM
It is March 15th, but no need to worry about the Ides of March when we have a special blog tour for one of our FIRST members! (Join our alliance! Click the button!) Normally, on the FIRST day of every month we feature an author and his/her latest book's FIRST chapter! As this is a special tour, we are featuring it on a special day!
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Zondervan (March 2008)
Camy Tang is a member of FIRST and is a loud Asian chick who writes loud Asian chick-lit. She grew up in Hawaii, but now lives in San Jose, California, with her engineer husband and rambunctious poi-dog. In a previous life she was a biologist researcher, but these days she is surgically attached to her computer, writing full-time. In her spare time, she is a staff worker for her church youth group, and she leads one of the worship teams for Sunday service.
Sushi for One? (Sushi Series, Book One) was her first novel. Her second, Only Uni (Sushi Series, Book Two) is now available. The next book in the series, Single Sashimi (Sushi Series, Book Three) will be coming out in September 2008!
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Trish Sakai walked through the door and the entire room hushed.
Well, not exactly pin-drop hushed. More like a handful of the several dozen people in her aunty's enormous living room paused their conversations to glance her way. Maybe Trish had simply expected them to laugh and point.
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