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General Policies and Procedures for Software/Hardware Services
1. Office of Technology Services (OTS) staff supports and services only those computers and peripherals that are clearly defined as University of Baltimore property. Hardware must properly display a "Property of State of Maryland" tag in order for any services to be performed upon it.
2. Departments that are supported by "grants" will be charged for all replacement parts in microcomputer systems and peripherals. An inter-departmental billing form must be completed prior to the conclusion of the repair services. A hardware technician will provide a cost estimate to the department upon request.
3. All requests for hardware and software support must be logged in through the OTS Call Center.
4. The primary function of the OTS Hardware Technical staff is to "repair" computer property currently owned by the University of Baltimore. The cost for hardware services and repairs are provided by OTS (such as refurbishing parts, batteries, bulbs, etc.) at the maximum cost of $100.00. The user will be required to pay for any amount exceeding this limit. In addition, OTS can only provide the financial end of this policy as long as funds are available.
5. OTS does not cover the cost or replacement items such as new monitors, laser printer maintenance kits, toner, cables, paper, diskettes or any other similar items.
6. OTS does not cover the cost of any upgrades. The cost is the responsibility of the requesting department.
7. OTS will not pay for any outside services contracted by departments.
8. The relocation of any inventory items such as microcomputer systems, scanners, and printers should be reported to the Call Center immediately. The necessary information can be transmitted by e-mail to (dwells). The information should include: Property Control Number, Description of Item, Previous Location & Owner and New Location & Owner.
9. Microcomputers that are relocated must be reported to the OTS Call Center. Provide the microcomputer Property control number, the previous and the new location that the system will be stationed.
10. OTS Technical support staff are not responsible for backing up user's hard drives. Users should routinely back up their systems. Backups should be performed by users prior to submitting work request to the OTS Call Center for hardware repairs. OTS is not responsible for data lost when work is performed on a microcomputer.
11. OTS will support only standardized networked microcomputer software, which is purchased and installed by OTS on the University Network.
12. As a courtesy to users and departments, OTS on occasion will install non-standard software on the network. Those requesting this service must get approval from the Network Manager prior to purchasing the software.
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UNF art students can now go beyond textbooks and online reproductions to view actual examples of various types of prints thanks to a recent donation by a Jacksonville couple.
Dr. Saul and Judy Eisen donated 15 prints and paintings to the Department of Art & Design to be used for educational purposes. "My husband and I would hope that eventually these prints could be instructive to future students. They can see firsthand the different types of print-making techniques in use," Judy noted.
The Eisens have a collection of more than 100 pieces of art, mostly purchased from New York art galleries over the years. While editing their collection, some were given to their children and others were donated. Judy said some pieces were donated if they had more than one piece from the same artist. "Other pieces were collected very early in our purchasing and I had looked at them for many years, so I wanted others to enjoy them."
Debra Murphy, chair of the Department of Art & Design, said she is thrilled with the acquisition of such high-quality prints. "They will be used in the classroom to study techniques, composition and various styles and periods," she explained.
Murphy added that the prints will also be the focus of an exhibition in the UNF Gallery of Art. "Students will be charged with researching the works, curating and installing the exhibition," she said.
Paul Karabinis, assistant professor of Photography and Art History, explained that the prints and paintings are a significant boost to the mission of the program.
"It is our hope that these artworks will form the core of a University collection and serve as a focal point in a new exhibition facility in the near future. The Eisens have been great supporters of our program and their generous gift will be of immediate value to art students who will use the artworks as a focal point for research and preparation of the exhibition," he said.
In 2003, Karabinis organized an exhibit of the Eisens' prints at the University Gallery of Art, where more than 30 prints were displayed.
Judy has had a long involvement with UNF. She received her master's in Counseling Psychology from UNF in 1978 and even worked part time for the University, to help write and edit the first course catalog.
Judy and Saul are regular auditors of UNF classes and supporters of the Department of Art & Design. Judy has also guest lectured in art classes and was recently named to the Dean's Leadership Council for the College of Arts & Sciences.
Neither has any formal art education or background in art. "The little bit we know we've learned on our own. When we travel, we always go to museums and art shows," Judy said.
UNF students will now benefit from those travels. "These pieces will enrich the learning experiences of our students in perpetuity while they add to the cultural vitality of our campus," Murphy noted.
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Sir Bill Morris
Bill Morris was born in Bombay, Jamaica in 1938 and lived with his parents (his mother was a domestic science teacher, his father a part-time policeman) in a small rural village, Cheapside, Manchester. He was educated at nearby Mizpah School where his ambition was to play cricket for the West Indies.
Bills plans to attend a prestigious agricultural college changed his father died, when he joined his recently widowed mother in Britain, living in the Handsworth district of Birmingham.
Bill started work at the Birmingham engineering company, Hardy Spicers, attending day-release courses in engineering skills at Handsworth Technical College.
Bill's trade union life began in 1958 when he joined the Transport and General Workers Union. He was elected a shop steward at Hardy Spicers in 1963 and the following year he was involved in his first major industrial dispute, over the issue of trade union recognition.
He held a wide range of elected positions within the T&G, including membership of its governing body, the General Executive Council. The T&G had an education programme which Bill took full advantage of,learning about trade unions, labour history and industrial law and health and safety.
In 1973 He was appointed a full-time T&G Officer, as Nottingham/Derby District Organiser, and later as Northampton District Secretary. In 1979 he was appointed National Secretary for the Passenger Services Trade Group, responsible for leading national negotiations in the bus and coach industries.
He became Deputy General Secretary in 1986 and, as a result of a change in the law, was confirmed in the position by postal ballot four years later. His industrial duties included executive responsibility for the union's four transport sectors, the car industry, energy and engineering and white collar workers.
He was also responsible for the union's educational activities, equal opportunities and development of policies and services for women and young members.
In 1991, Bill was elected General Secretary of the T&G by a postal ballot of members. He was the first black general secretary of a trade union and one of the most influential black people in Britain.
Bill Morris made it clear he did not wish to be known or judged as a black General Secretary: as he said at the time of his election, "I am not the black candidate, rather the candidate who is black.
In 1995 he was re-elected to the post of General Secretary. a post he held untill 2003
Morris served on a wide range of national bodies including the Advisory Councils of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), and was appointed to the Economic and Social Affairs Committee of the European Union. He has served as a member of the Labour Party's Conference Arrangements Committee.
In addition he has also worked as a member of the Commission for Racial Equality.
1998 saw his appointment as a non-executive Director of the Bank of England. He is a Fellow of the RSA and the City and Guilds of London Institute and he holds honorary degrees from a number of British universities.
Morris was awarded the Order of Jamaica in 2002 and received a knighthood in the 2003 Queen's birthday honours list.
Responding to the news of the award, Sir Bill said:
I hope that in this recognition, today's young black Britons will find some inspiration. <em>"I have always held the view that race can be an inspiration, not a barrier
On 11 April 2006, it was announced that Morris would take a seat in the House of Lords as a working life peer, and he was gazetted as Baron Morris of Handsworth, of Handsworth in the County of West Midlands in June 2006. He serves on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.
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Indians punch postseason ticket with win over Dexter
TECUMSEH — Had the Tecumseh High School football team started slow in its 49-0 playoff-clinching win over the Dexter Dreadnaughts on Friday, the reasons may have been plenty.
It was homecoming. Dexter had beaten them last year. And the Indians were going after win No. 6 to clinch a playoff berth. Coach Al Romano shouldn't have worried, but that's not to say he didn't.
"To be honest, I was worried all week about homecoming, the fact we haven't had a close game, and our quarterback hasn't really had to play in the fourth quarter all year," said Romano. "But these kids are great. They played great tonight, and I'm extremely happy for them."
Tecumseh now stands at 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the SEC White Division, while Dexter remains winless. The Indians put on a dominating show for the large homecoming crowd and will be making their first playoff appearance since 2007.
Tecumseh wasted no time in establishing control. Dexter received the ball, starting their offense on their own 20-yard line. Three plays later, the Dreadnaughts punted, and the Indians started their possession from their own 43-yard line. On their first play from scrimmage, quarterback Ben Dreslinski dropped back and found Spencer Adams streaking down the right sideline. Dreslinski hit his target and 57 yards later, Adams was in the end zone. After Casey Hunt kicked the extra point, Tecumseh had a 7-0 lead less than three minutes into the game.
After the kickoff, Dexter again started from their own 20-yard line. This was a common theme for the Dreadnaughts. Of their seven possessions in the first half, six of them started from their own 22-yard line or worse. Once again the Indians forced a punt. This time Tecumseh started from the Dexter 37.
Dreslinski again dropped back on the first play, and this time found Kyle Bryan streaking down the field and hit him for a 37-yard touchdown. Another extra point by Hunt, who was a perfect 7 for 7 on the night, and the Indians quickly grabbed a 14-0 lead.
Tecumseh's offense had enough time to add another score before the first quarter ended. Dreslinski found Adams again, this time from 39 yards out, and the Indians were up by 21 as the first quarter ended.
The Indians offense has shined this year, but the defense made a statement themselves, and they have certainly been noticed by Romano.
"The biggest turnaround in our team this year has been our defense," said Romano. "They have been keeping everything in front of them, have made tackles and avoided the big play."
Dexter tried to get some things going offensively in the second quarter through the air. Quarterback Matt Mitchell dropped back 20 times in the first half alone, completing 12 passes, but almost all were short out patterns. Even though the Dreadnaughts had eight first downs in the half, they really only threatened to score once, and that was nixed by a Devin Moore interception. On the night, the Indians picked off four of Mitchell's passes.
While the defense was doing their work, Dreslinski was busy adding to his numbers. After throwing for three touchdowns in the first quarter, he used his legs to score two more in the second on touchdown runs of 4 and 32 yards. Tecumseh went into halftime leading 35-0.
With a running clock in the second half, time zipped off. The Tecumseh starters were in for one possession in the third quarter, which was capped with a John Terry 5- yard touchdown run. However, the Indians added another score in the quarter on a run by Spencer Hite, this time from 15 yards out.
That ended the scoring for the night, but not before Dexter made an attempt to reach the end zone. If not for a superb effort by the Indians Charlie Haesler, the shutout by the Tecumseh defense would have been over.
Late in the fourth quarter, Dexter receiver Zack Bollstetter took in a pass near the Dexter bench and found himself alone along the sideline. As he raced down field for what looked like a sure touchdown, Haesler tracked him down, timed his dive and tripped him up 62 yards later around the 20-yard line. The score would not have had an impact on the outcome of the game, but the play was meaningful to Romano.
"That is what we want to be," said Romano of Haesler's effort. "Charlie is playing out of position, but he's been playing well all year, and he makes a great play."
For the first time in five years, the Indians are in the playoffs.
"I'm so happy for the kids, the community, and to be honest, there are a lot of people responsible for making this happen," said Romano. "I'm just blessed to be the guy talking to you about it."


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Marco Tabini has posted a reminder about a promotion they (php|architect) are offering - a free iPod Touch when you purchase a training course.
n case you haven't yet seen it, our PHP Training iPod Promo is back for the third year in a row. This is one of our most popular promotions—possibly because it's simple and evil at the same time. I mean, how often do you get a brand-new (almost not even released yet) iPod Touch when you buy a training course?
This year the promotion is a little bit different because you'll receive two iPod Touch (16G) players (three credits required for two iPods). This promo applies to training purchased between September 18 and November 30th, 2007. To check out the great range of training opportunities php|architect offers, check out their training pages.


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Latoya Dixon Smith is a wedding and lifestyle commercial photographer based in Greenville, SC. She has been widely featured in publications including The Huffington Post, Black Southern Belle, and Borrowed & Blue. Along with photographing crazy-in-love couples who are mindful in their journeys together, Latoya finds her passion in educating and leading The Queen Photographers…Read More > > >
I recently shared the Facebook Live below on my business page, and a few hours later my friend Tara called me. She said how much she loved the video, and then asked if she could be on my podcast episode to talk about the experience of visiting photographer's websites as a client. Tara is not…Read More > > >
Jennifer & I discuss Instagram, Pinterest, and the strategy of using Social Media for your photography business. We dispel some of the myths around the people telling us that they know what Instagram is doing with their algorithm. (Hint: They don't really know!) Understanding the strategy of social media will help you more than anything…Read More > > >
Welcome back to The Life Boss Show! In this episode, the start of "season 2" (but we're just continuing on with the numbering to make it easier), I take a moment to share what has happened during the break between the last episode and the present. I tried something new – I recorded it as…Read More > > >
It is interesting now to look back on October 2015. Those last days before my life would change in ways I could not even imagine. Attending the Emerging Women Conference in San Francisco, I was on a crazy whirlwind trip. I had already been to Calgary, a day in Edmonton, a trip over to Kelowna,…Read More > > >
Being in business can be hard when you're a solo entrepreneur. I get it. There are all these personal feelings of self-worth mixed in with trying to run a business – and we aren't talking about it. (We are all running around trying really hard to look like we have it all together.) When a…Read More > > >
I wrote a post previously sharing tips for photographers on how to let your clients know that you don't Photoshop their images extensively. Wait, I mean edit their images extensively; "Photoshop" isn't a verb. It also isn't a term every client out there knows what it means. That's the problem though, right? Because it is…Read More > > >
You're spending all this time researching when is the best time of day to post online, when do you need to make your Instagram post so it gets the most eyes on it, how many times a week should you blog, all of it. Have you considered when is the best time of day for…Read More > > >
I was reading an article today in Pen World Magazine, "From Cyberspace to the Real World" (April 2015 issue). It is about a blog, The Pen Addict, and how it gave birth to a business and has inspired a new generation of pen lovers — including me. In the article, there is a paragraph describing…Read More > > >
Before we get in to talking about the editorial calendar, there is one more very important thing we need to think about. Creating your Ideal Client Avatar! This is a great exercise for your business as a whole, not just for your blog. What can you tell me about who you are talking to with…Read More > > >
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Sony Ear Duo - Hands on at MWC 2018
Published on Mar 4, 2018
Last year, Sony first introduced some cool smart earphones. Well this year at MWC 2018, they'll finally ready for sale. Could you see yourself using the Ear Duos functionality in the future?
Discover a new way of listening with Xperia Ear Duo
Published on Apr 2, 2018
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Published on Apr 20, 2018
Our simple guide to getting started with your Xperia Ear Duo device
Learn how to set up your new Xperia Ear Duo quickly and easily with our simple guide.
Here we'll show you how to start using your device in just a few steps, from how to charge up, to pairing your Xperia Ear Duo with an Android device. You can also find out the best way to fit your Xperia Ear Duo to your ear for comfortable and relaxed dual listening.
Learn how to easily answer or decline calls, skip tracks or respond to messages with a combination of touchpad and head gestures – all of which you can personalise in the Xperia Ear Duo app settings. You can also customise the controls for the Assistant to choose the information you would like to receive through readouts.
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Friday, Friday, Friday is my favorite day (Do you know the song?)! It's time to grab some free stuff!
This week Kroger stores are offering a FREE Jell-O Simply Good Gelatin or Pudding. First you will need to log into your Kroger account, whether it be Fred Meyer, QFC or any other Kroger store. Then head on over to the coupons section. You will see a highlighted section where it says "promotions" and that is where the FREEBIE will be! Load the coupon to your card TODAY and you have a FREE Jell-O Simply Good Gelatin or Pudding. You have to load your coupon today, but you have until 4/16/17 to pick it up, still plenty of time to grab this offer.


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Blair Underwood back on TV starring in 'Ironside'
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) — Blair Underwood is returning to series television in a remake of "Ironside," which shares few similarities with the original series that starred Raymond Burr.
The character's name and job as a detective are the same, and he uses a wheelchair after being paralyzed from the waist down.
In a nod to Burr, Underwood's character ends the day by sipping a glass of bourbon.
"Everything else is re-imagined. All new characters, a new city, new texture, new storytelling, new audience," Underwood told the Television Critics Association on Saturday. "It's a crime drama wrapped in a character study."
The original series, set in San Francisco, ran on NBC from 1967-75. The reboot is based in New York City and filmed in Los Angeles. NBC has ordered 13 episodes of the show that debuts Oct. 2.
Underwood said he got used to the wheelchair by using one at home while learning his lines. The role is especially meaningful to him because his mother, Marilyn, is in a wheelchair as the result of multiple sclerosis.
In preparing for the part, Underwood has been working with technical adviser David Bryant, who became a paraplegic after a skiing accident at 19. Bryant's self-sufficiency inspires the new "Ironside" incarnation, with the handles on the character's wheelchair removed just as they are on Bryant's chair.
"It's something I had to delve into and continue to delve into as often as possible," Underwood said. "Our job is to make you believe it and be authentic in that."
Ironside's personal life is noticeably spicier than it was on the old show, too.
"What David told me is every injury is unique, and everybody is different depending on where it affects your spinal cord," Underwood said. "So, yes, in Ironside's case, he is able."
Underwood returns to TV after a stint on Broadway last year. The 48-year-old actor has a long history on NBC, including a breakout role in "L.A. Law."
His co-stars include Spencer Grammer, the oldest daughter of Kelsey Grammer, a star on the NBC hits "Cheers" and "Frasier."


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Also I can't figure out the cookie stealer part. I got to the message that says your cookie stealer appears to have worked but nothing seems to have happened. Also it says Nothing happened. Method or object not found. on the top left of the message. Finally, when I launch cookie editor it first shows me the cookie for the cookie stealer url. Am I supposed to put a hackthissite.org url in my javascript?
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Police surrounded a Pacifica residence with a suspected burglar inside and arrested him as he came out of the front door on Friday afternoon, according to police.
A person in the neighborhood reported seeing a man climb a ladder to reach a balcony door at 174 Pacific Ave. at 3:53 p.m. Friday, police said.
Police arrived, surrounded the home and arrested a suspect as he came outside holding stolen property, according to police.
The suspect was identified by police as 27-year-old Pacifica resident Kenneth Spoonhunter.
He was booked into jail on suspicion of burglary and possession of narcotics and also had two felony warrants for his arrest, police said.


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Jan. 18, 2013 Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — A man has been arrested on charges he grabbed a woman by the feet and threw her onto the tracks at a Philadelphia subway station, police said. The woman got off the tracks on her own and suffered only minor injuries.
Police announced the arrest Thursday, more than two days after the woman was assaulted around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at a subway station in the city's Chinatown neighborhood. The victim had been sitting on a bench when the man asked her what time the train was coming and requested a light for his cigarette, according to investigators. After she obliged and put the lighter back in her coat pocket, police said, the man grabbed her by the neck and began punching her.
In the assault, which was caught on surveillance video, the man can be seen grabbing the victim by her feet, dragging her along the platform and then throwing her on the tracks as she screamed. The suspect walked away with her cellphone, police said, but the woman was able to get back up onto the platform with only bruises and cuts.


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UNC's Martin Report provides answers, but leaves too many questions
Rival fans were hoping that the report issued Thursday by former Gov. Jim Martin would bring about an athletic Armageddon at UNC 24 hours before the Mayans predicted the end of the world for everybody else. Instead, they got what they're interpreting as the biggest whitewash since Tom Sawyer convinced his friends to paint that old picket fence.… Read More »


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For most women, pregnancy is a time of great joy, excitement and anticipation. Unfortunately, for many it can also be a time of serious sleep disturbance, even for women who have never had problems sleeping. In fact, according to the National Sleep Foundation's 1998 Women and Sleep poll, 78% of women report more disturbed sleep during pregnancy than at other times. Many women also report feeling extremely fatigued during pregnancy, especially during the first and third trimesters. Considering the physical and emotional demands of pregnancy and the prevalence of sleep disorders among pregnant women, it's no wonder that expectant mothers become so tired.
One of the reasons for fatigue and sleep problems during pregnancy are changing hormone levels. For example, rising progesterone levels may partly explain excessive daytime sleepiness, especially in the first trimester. Hormonal changes may also have an inhibitory effect on muscles, which may result in snoring and in obese women increase the risk of developing sleep apnea and may be partly responsible for the frequent trips to the bathroom during the night. These interruptions as well as those caused by nausea and other pregnancy-related discomforts can result in significant loss of sleep. Many women experience insomnia due to emotions and anxiety about labor and delivery, balancing motherhood and work, or their changing relationship with their partner. This is especially true of first time mothers. For most women, getting a full night's sleep becomes even harder once the baby is born. It is very important for pregnant women to prioritize sleep and to find effective strategies for managing their sleep problems as early as possible in their pregnancy.
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Several sleep disorders can be caused or made worse by pregnancy. In a study of over 600 pregnant women, 26% reported symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS), a condition characterized by unpleasant feelings in the legs that worsen at night and that are relieved by movement. Another common problem during pregnancy is heartburn, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). One recent study found that 30-50% of pregnant women experience GERD almost constantly during pregnancy.


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Here it is fresh from the oven:
I'll admit that there were several points during making this recipe when I had doubts. It seemed so runny and compared to other Far Breton recipes it had a much higher milk content. Then the instructions said to "push the prunes down into the batter" – mine didn't need any help! The recipe also said to brush the egg yolk on the top before putting the Far in the oven – how can you brush on top of liquid? All I'm trying to get across is that I've changed the instructions slightly to reflect my experience of making this dish. As you can see, the results are yummy.
Each slice is unique due to the prune placement. The prunes go squishy and soft:
A Far Breton is a traditional cake from the Brittany region of France. "Far" is a sweet batter similar to clafoutis but more eggy. Intriguingly, the dish is served for breakfast as well as dessert; I like the idea of that!
The Far can be served either hot or cold. Both the CCM (Caked Crusader's Ma) and CCD (Caked Crusader's Da) preferred it hot whereas I preferred it at room temperature. Heating it makes the texture softer and brings out a more eggy custard flavour. Here are the slices ready for reheating:
150g plain flour
125g caster sugar
4 eggs, beaten
500ml whole milk
Dash of rum
200g pitted prunes
For the glaze: 1 egg yolk
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Grease a 20cm gratin dish or alternatively line a 20cm round springform tin with baking/greaseproof paper.
- Mix the flour and sugar together then make a well in the centre.
- Add the eggs and whisk until the batter is thick and smooth.
- Keep the whisk running and slowly pour in the milk and rum.
- Pour the batter (it will be very liquid) into the tin/gratin dish and place the prunes evenly into the batter. They will sink as the batter is so thin.
- Place in the oven and bake for at least 35 minutes before attempting to brush on the egg yolk glaze. Mine was not firm enough to do that before.
- Bake further until the top is nice and golden and there's not too much wobble when you gently shake the tin. Mine took an additional 35 minutes but I'd advise keeping an eye on it as the original recipe said it would only need 30 minutes in total! Either my oven is insane or the recipe understated it!
- The Far will sink slightly on cooling – that's to be expected.
- Serve slightly warm with my preference, whipped cream, or if you wish to make me cry, crème fraiche.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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Mention the city of Chicago and the year 1919, and someone might bring up the Black Sox scandal that disgraced major league baseball. But the Second City had much bigger problems on its mind earlier that year.
A blimp crashed downtown in a fantastic accident. A young girl was murdered by a person (or persons) unknown. A race riot broke out and dozens were killed.
And on top of all that, a transit strike paralyzed the city, all during the heat of a Midwest summer. In his new book, historian Gary Krist takes a closer look at one of the most epic series of crises to ever hit an American city. "City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago" is a crackling history, full of expert storytelling from the very first page. In an interview, Krist talks about the dashing of Chicago's grand post-war optimism, the
corruption that has long bedeviled the city's reputation, and the legacy of inept people making bad decisions.
Q: What happened in Chicago in 1919?
A: You had a city going from a state of high optimism about the future to the brink of civil collapse and martial law.
The war was over, the influenza epidemic was tapering off, the crime rate was low, and people had this plan for Chicago in view.
[Architect and urban planner] Daniel Burnham had this visionary plan that was going to turn Chicago into the Paris of the prairies, and people were very optimistic about this.
Then the postwar pressures just set in. And what started out looking hopeful disintegrated into this 12-day period when the city descended into chaos.
It started with a blimp crash, the first major aviation disaster in American history. And even before people had time to digest that, a child disappears from the North Side of Chicago, which created this hysteria about whether our children are safe from our neighbors.
The real mayhem began when a pretty minor incident at a South Side beach spiraled into one of the worst race riots in American history. As if that weren't enough, a transit strike was called.
Q: How were the ordinary people of Chicago affected by all this?
At a certain point, people wondered if Chicago would get through this.
I include excerpts from the diary a young girl of 17. She wonders if the city will ever settle down: What is going on in this city?
People thought the whole fabric of society seemed to be tearing apart: I can't get to work, I can't even go out on the streets. I'm looking at my neighbor a little askance. And you can't even walk into a bank without fearing that a blimp will crash into the roof.
There really was a sense of crisis and emergency felt by just about everybody.
Q: The government is supposed to help in situations like this, but it was entirely corrupt thanks to machine politics. Then again, ordinary folks often appreciated the machine, right?
There's an alternate way of thinking about machine politics, seeing it as a kind of social service provider.
This was before we had unemployment insurance, job offices, and housing offices. There was a real need for people who were working class or lower middle class.
When Uncle Louis lost his job or Aunt May was being evicted from her apartment, there was no place to go except for your local precinct captain.
They'd say "we're on it." All they'd ask for was every vote by you and your family in the immediate future.
It was the upper middle class and upper class that were really making all the noise about corruption. The lower classes, in contrast, viewed the good government types as in it for themselves.
If you're an average Chicagoan and you're paying high streetcar fares and high gas costs, the good government types seem to be on the sides of the utility barons and transportation barons. There was a suspicion of what the good government types really wanted and their relation to the interests of wealth and property.
Q: In the middle of all this was William "Big Bill" Thompson, the colorful and corrupt mayor of Chicago. How is he remembered?
He's a favorite punching bag, really. I think his enemies were the ones who wrote the history books. It was the academics at the University of Chicago and newspaper publishers who hated him and more or less went on to write the history.
He was not a great guy. He was not a misunderstood champion of the lower class and middle class. But he did have some redeeming features.
He was a demagogue and did say some outrageous things, but a lot of the outrageous things he said were pretty sly.
He was a noted pacifist during World War I and he got a lot of flack for that, but he claimed that Chicago was the sixth largest German city in the world and that was accurate.
He said that if King George came to Chicago, he'd punch him in the snoot. He knew that railing against the king of England was going to play with his Irish constituents and the Germans.
Q: You write that Chicago was especially prone to corruption. Why was that?
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds.
When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things. They'd set up what were essentially alternative governments. Even drainage projects were put under the aegis of a different government with their own bonding and taxation powers.
When you have all these independent governments, you have a lot of offices to fill. There are jobs that don't require that much work but pay well. They were used as a kind of political currency: You give me a position on the board of the South Parks Commission and I'll throw my support to you in your race for state's attorney.
Q: Is the corruption of the city behind your title, "City of Scoundrels"?
A: I wanted to create this general sense that there were a lot of people in the city who behaved very badly in this period. It doesn't only refer to the rioters, the mayor, and the girl's murderer. There was enough blame to go around.
Q: Amid all this chaos, was there anyone on the side of the angels?
A: There were a few unambiguous angels. One is Ida Wells-Barnett. [The African-American heroine was a journalist, activist, suffragist and more.]
The day before the riots, she had an article published in one of the papers saying that we're on the brink of disaster, Chicago has to wake up.
She knew there would be an extensive investigation afterwards. So she would have victims over to her house and take testimony throughout the entire riot. And she was going into neighborhoods where people were killing each other to take their testimony.
She is an unambiguous white knight.
[Author and poet] Carl Sandburg was doing some good reporting in the black belt shortly before the riot. I wouldn't necessarily vouch for his personal beliefs on race, but the stuff he was writing was good for the black population of Chicago, and certainly his outrage at the riots was something we can identify with today.
Q: What did the events of 1919 mean for Chicago as it faced the next few years?
A: A lot of black leaders at the time thought there was a silver lining to it, that the riots galvanized African Americans to fight back against discrimination, especially given the stellar performance of black soldiers during World War I. It raised awareness that there were injustices stewing under the surface.
The summer had a mixed legacy for Chicago at large because the resolution of both the transit strike and race riot were really mismanaged by the governor and the state's attorney. They performed horribly in the wake of the disaster.
But Mayor Thompson was able to come back stronger than ever by 1920 and attain a level of power that was unprecedented in Illinois politics. It assured that Thompson would dominate politics for much of the 1920s.
I do think he has some legitimacy as a builder. Many of the things that make Chicago an architectural wonder are a legacy of Thompson.
But he was also very accommodating to people like Al Capone. You had the cliché Chicago of the 1920s, which was all jazz, guns, and bootleg liquor.
Q: What about the long-term legacy of those days in 1919?
A: It changed race relations in the city for many years to come. There was understandably a lot of bitterness afterward, and it really hardened the color line in Chicago for decades.
The legacy is with us today in Chicago, which is still one of the most segregated cities in the country.
For more about Chicago in the 1920s, check my 2010 interview with Douglas Perry, author of "The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired 'Chicago." Another book, 2008's "For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago," by Simon Baatz, provides a fine look at crime and punishment in the Second City.
Randy Dotinga is a Monitor contributor.


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Bianchi have just launched their 2012 range near their base in Bergamo, Italy. On the road side of things, there's a new mid-level aluminium sportive bike, the Impulso, and other models get new colours, updated groupsets and some tweaks. Shimano's electronic Ultegra Di2 groupset, the worst kept secret in cycling, is also confirmed for the range-topping Oltre and upper-midrange Sempre. We'll bring you news on Bianchi's 2012 mountain bikes later this week.
The Impulso is designed to sit above the Via Nirone in the C2C (Coast 2 Coast) family of entry- to mid-level sportive bikes. It's made from 6061 aluminium using a new triple hydroforming technology that Bianchi say is exclusive because while others have tried it, none has succeeded. The tubes are formed under intense water pressure as normal, with the top tube and head tube being welded together and then placed back into a mould to be hydroformed together.
This process adds the crease line that, along with the width of the top tube, is claimed to increase stiffness in this crucial area by 10 percent. It also smooths out the welds, making the frame look like it's made from carbon fibre. Bianchi think buyers will like this, especially as the Impulso's price is likely to overlap well into carbon frame territory. In fact, they say the frame's styling was the top priority, albeit with performance a close second.
The 55cm frame is claimed to weigh a very respectable 1,500g. In total, nine sizes will be offered, from 44cm to 63cm. The fork is carbon fibre with an aluminium steerer and features Bianchi's proprietary K-Vid Kevlar insert that's claimed to dampen vibration.
The bike will be available with Shimano Ultegra Gray, 105 or Campagnolo Veloce, all running a compact FSA Omega MegaExo crankset and Reparto Corse components. It's be available as a frameset too. No prices have yet been released but expect the Impulso to cost from around £1,400 for the 105 version when it goes on sale later this year.
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The pro-issue HoC Oltre gets three new colourschemes and an Ultegra Di2 option (details on this coming soon on BikeRadar) alongside Dura-Ace Di2, Shimano's mechanical equivalents, and Campagnolo Super Record and Chorus. The Sempre from the B4P (born for performance) family also gets electronic Ultegra plus the regular version, 105, SRAM Red and Campagnolo Veloce, covering a very wide price range.


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DETROIT (AP) ? A bankruptcy lawyer and turnaround expert tasked with reviving Detroit's beleaguered finances could be greeted by a crowd of protesters as he arrives at work Monday, then plans to spend his first day meeting with some city officials who for months fought against creating his job at all.
DETROIT (AP) ? A bankruptcy lawyer and turnaround expert tasked with reviving Detroit's beleaguered finances could be greeted by a crowd of protesters as he arrives at work Monday, then plans to spend his first day meeting with some city officials who for months fought against creating his job at all.
Kevyn Orr is under no illusions that he'll be treated as a hero when he begins his duties as the Motor City's emergency manager, an appointment that makes Detroit the nation's largest city ever put under state control. But while there are plenty of sacrifices ? including Orr's resignation from a powerful law firm where he was a partner ? Orr says he is motivated by the opportunity to engineer one of the greatest fiscal turnarounds in U.S. history.
"I'm a worker bee. I'm not a honey bee," Orr, 54, told The Associated Press in an interview. "My set-in-stone plan is to get to the office ... and start meeting folks."
A review team spent two months scrutinizing Detroit's books and reported to Gov. Rick Snyder that the city was in a financial emergency, citing its long-term debt of more than $14 billion and $327 million budget deficit.
Snyder agreed and earlier this month announced Orr, a Washington attorney who represented automaker Chrysler LLC during its successful restructuring, as the man for an even larger fix-it task. State law allows emergency managers to negotiate labor contracts and deals with vendors. He can sell off city assets to raise money and cut the salaries of elected officials to save bucks.
Opponents, led by a vocal group of Detroit clergy and residents say the law snatches power from elected officials. National civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has called for mass demonstrations and protests outside City Hall.
Orr insists he has no immediate plan of action other than getting a sense of the city's priorities.
"You really want to look into the swimming pool to see if there is water in there before you dive in," said James Spiotto, a municipal bankruptcy expert at the Chicago-based Chapman and Cutler law firm.
But turnaround specialist James McTevia said he finds it hard to believe that Orr enters the job without any idea about what he intends to do. McTevia, who has closely followed the Detroit situation, suggests that one of his first steps should be an immediate freeze on debt spending.
"The first step in resolving a serious financial problem is to stop fueling the fire by spending money you don't have," McTevia said.
Early success could be crucial for Orr to win over citizens who are skeptical about whether an emergency manager really is needed, bankruptcy expert Doug Bernstein said. Such victories can be as simple as getting "street lights on and get police on the street," he said.
"Public safety is paramount," said Bernstein, managing partner of the Banking, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group for Michigan-based Plunkett Cooney law firm. "This is such a hot area where people are passionate about whether there should or not be an emergency manager. It would likely go a long way to convince those who are against, or otherwise opposed to the concept, that this can lead to something good or rehabilitation for the city."
Beyond public safety, a host of other problems await Orr ? including health care costs, pension concessions, privatizing services if necessary and, finally, weighing whether the only real solution is municipal bankruptcy.
"Maybe he means he doesn't have the details of it yet, but I hope he has some idea what the major issues are," Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning said of Orr. "Mr. Orr has to deal with the threat of bankruptcy. This is a more immediate issue and he has to make a decision fairly quickly whether to put the city into bankruptcy or not."
Then he has to match revenue and spending.
"This is the idea of downsizing the city so that the costs more closely match the amount Detroit brings in," Henning said. "On the revenue side, something has to be done to stabilize the tax base. That's all easier said than done and will take years, probably well beyond Mr. Orr's term."
Pamela Amato, a former emergency financial manager for tiny Three Oaks in southwestern Michigan, said when she took the job in 2009, she did not jump straight into the finances. Three Oaks had a $600,000 deficit and was nearly devoid of cash. It took less than a year to turn the village around. Amato says listening to officials and residents was the key.
"I wanted to get a sense from the people who lived there and who were in governance as to what was going on and used that information to chart my own course," she said. "I let them know that we either succeeded together or we failed together."
Orr has met with people in Detroit's business and foundation communities, attending some dinners and receptions. He plans to commute between Detroit and his home in the Washington, D.C., area during the time it takes to fix Detroit.
"I was very comfortably placed in my private law practice at my firm that I adored," Orr said, pointing out that he had been picked to go to open a Miami office before the offer to become Detroit's emergency manager came from "out of the blue."
Jevonsha Johnson, 28, said she wants Orr to keep in place efforts under Mayor Dave Bing to level as many of the city's 30,000 or more vacant houses as funds allow. There are two adjacent to Johnson's newer wood-framed bungalow in the city's north end and another across the street.
"It don't make you feel safe," Johnson said. "The other new houses over here have been broken into several times. My neighbor next door told me a couple times that they broke in while his wife and daughter were there."
Although Orr said he likes what he has seen in parts of the city ? downtown, resurgent Midtown, the strong cultural and central business districts ? he acknowledges other neighborhoods are "in need of some TLC."
Amid all these problems, he acknowledges there's a risk of being unable to solve them, though he insists he will within the 18 months dictated under Michigan's emergency manager law.
"Failure is not an option," Orr said. "It's just a question of designing the architecture around what can be creating a future ? and a sustainable future ? for the city."


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Having sex on the job is kind of risque, but watching sex on the job? Well, that's just a little creepy.
In a new twist on the phrase "hump day," an unidentified man in Australia must have felt a little sheepish after a picture of him watching porn at work was tweeted for the whole world to see by a man who works in the building across the street.
Along with the photo, which you can see above, Twitter user James P tweeted, "the guy watching porn at work across the road is back, doesn't realize our whole office can see him!" James P says the man has been watching porn on his computer "for ages."
The tweet had been re-tweeted 2,600 times before it was taken down, presumably sparing the horndog real embarrassment at his next office party. The man also eventually realized he had an audience. James P wrote, "He saw us all watching him towards the end of the day. We have [sic] him a round of applause, he closed his screen down…"
If you're going to get a round of applause, it should at least be for having sex, not watching it, but what happened to this guy is the grown-up equivalent of everybody giving you a round of applause when you dropped your lunch tray in the high school cafeteria. It was a lame response to something you just know millions of people all over the world do when they're on the job.
Yes, this guy got caught with his pants down (figuratively, of course. If it was literally, we would know his identity, courtesy of the indecent exposure charge that surely would have followed), but he's a dude at work. Can you blame him? This is why Al Gore invented the Internet – to help us pass the time on the job in creative ways.
I don't know what the work environment is like in Australia, but I do know there are just so many Midnight Oil videos you can watch on YouTube before you need something else to entertain you. At least he was enjoying himself – the poor guy who spotted him watching porn was wasting man hours on the job watching someone else watch porn. That's creepy and almost as lame as giving an acne-scarred teen a round of applause when he drops his lunch tray in the cafeteria. Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.


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NEW BEDFORD — New details emerged Thursday about the events that led to a 21-year-old city man jumping out a third-floor window on Hathaway Street as he was apparently attempting to flee police.
NEW BEDFORD — New details emerged Thursday about the events that led to a 21-year-old city man jumping out a third-floor window on Hathaway Street as he was apparently attempting to flee police.
Detective Capt. Steven Vicente, head of the Major Crimes Unit, said neighbors were outside Derek Luz's home at 131 Hathaway St. about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, accusing him of stealing tools from their basement just before he jumped 35 feet to the pavement below.
Police said Luz was waving what appeared to be a handgun at the neighbors. Vicente said the weapon turned out to be a pellet gun.
When police arrived, Luz jumped out the window, despite his girlfriend's effort to stop him, according to Vicente.
A police officer asked Luz why he jumped as he lay on the ground, and Luz answered that he didn't want to go to jail, Vicente said.
David Jones, one of the neighbors who went to Luz's home, said the man jumped "head first" out the window and hit a chain-link fence, breaking his fall, before striking the pavement.
Vicente said Luz faces charges of receiving stolen property over $250, larceny from a building and assault with a dangerous weapon in the theft of the tools and the incident with the pellet gun.
He clarified earlier police reports, saying neighbors didn't chase Luz and never entered his building. "They were outside looking for their property," he said.
Luz was transported to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, where a spokesman said Thursday he was in fair condition.
Tim Trommenschlager said he and about six family members went to Luz's home to get his tools back.
"He stole all my power tools. He wiped out the entire cellar," he said, adding he believes the thefts occurred Tuesday and Wednesday.
Trommenschlager said Luz tried to sell a sander that belongs to him outside a convenience store in the North End neighborhood. He said he asked Luz on Wednesday about his tools and the man told him he "got rid of 90 percent" of them.
He said one of Luz's neighbors called police because of the theft and Luz waving a pellet gun.
Jones said the group went to Luz's home to support Trommenschlager but Luz refused to come out and asked them from the window to leave.


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A collection of my favorite guitar and piano pieces that I've added to my portfolio in early 2013. Perfect for corporate, drama, film & tv and commercial use. A focus on musical storytelling via the piano and guitar – you get 5 tracks as detailed below and in the preview.
1. Grandpa's Story (2:06) a lyrical guitar melody that evokes warmness, and the style of Mark Knopfler's soundtracks. Emotional and inspiring.
2. Coming Home (1:41) an optimistic and inspiring piano piece underscore with subtle percussion and pads. Great for travel or commercials.
3. Acoustic Reflections (2:28) A piano and guitar piece that alternates between both instruments. Emotional and perfect for drama and montage. Guitars question and pianos answer. Warm and uplifting.
4. Coast Road (1:36) Beautiful and understate piano piece with harmonic bowed waterphone and subtle synth underscore. Strings join in the second half. Perfect for travel and beautiful places. Relaxed and unhurried, there is a tranquil quality to this track.
5. Country Boy (1:57) Upbeat country/western style track with acoustic guitar and piano, pad underscore. Think wide open spaces, sunsets and freedom.


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Yarn Bombing; is it Explosive or a Dud? Part III Knitorious M.E.G
I Interviewed Knitorious M.E.G. from K1-D2 in Richmond, VA, which started out and remains a group who comes together to knit and drink. I've recently learned, from an interview on Yarnbombing.com that their group runs like a television show, meeting once a week from September to June. At their peak they had nineteen members and plan to keep that their peak. Knitorious M.E.G. is the groups main Yarn Bomber and installs a piece every month herself. The group also did four projects last year, which Knitorious M.E.G. noted are easier to pull off because they "look like a group of girls out on the town."
One aspect of Yarn Bombing is that it is considered graffiti by a lot of people including Knitorious M.E.G. and many police officers. This means that Yarn Bombers must be careful when tagging and realize that the art may be unwanted and illegal. Knitorious M.E.G. told me that while Richmond is very hard on graffiti, Yarn Bombing is removable and since no permanent damage is done the officers are ok with it. She still keeps her head down and works quickly to put a tag up, just in case.
Knitorious M.E.G agrees with Magda when it comes to who Yarn Bombing appeals to and said "I feel it speaks to all ages, I think young or old are kind of surprised to see knitting, especially in a graffiti/public context." This continuity in what Yarn Bombers are observing shows that Yarn Bombing is an art that appeals to many ages in many places. She also agrees that that Yarn Bombing is still going to become more popular along with knitting in general. She believes that it takes time and dedication and that deters people from actually going out and doing it. However, when people find or make the time for it they might find they really enjoy it.
This interview was another good indication that Yarn Bombing will still rise in popularity. Knitorious M.E.G. and Magda Sayeg have been able to work in groups and as solo artists, documenting their works. Yarn Bombing is a form of street art that does display the artwork but also helps to unite a community and bring color to people's days. This sense of community helps to drive Yarn Bombers to create more work and continue making tags. Knitorious M.E.G. said that she stays motivated by "Just thinking about the smiles that it will bring when it's completed." This idea that Yarn Bombing is not just for the artist or to color an industrialized world, but actually to bring happiness to communities seems like a pretty good cause to join instead of forget about.


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作者John N. Miksic以近年大量出土的考古文物,描述以新加坡為中心的海上絲路,其海運通商的繁華面貌。
John N. Miksic, an associate professor of archaeology and history at the University of Singapore, reveals that the Silk Road was as much about trade at sea as it was trade over land
By Jerome Keating / Contributing reporter
Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea 1300—1800
by John N. Miksic
Mention the name Singapore or the Silk Road and chances are vivid, picturesque images will immediately come to mind. Singapore suggests a rich modern maritime city, one that grew from a simple island through the efforts of a far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles who obtained it for the British East India Company in 1819. The Silk Road, on the other hand, is seen to date much farther back. It conjures up images of age-old caravans snaking along a trade route that had linked East and West from the days of Han Dynasty China (206 BC to 220AD) and the Roman Empire. Yet a common misconception lies hidden here, namely that though the Silk Road had existed for millenia when Raffles "founded" Singapore, he took a barely inhabited island and made it into a stellar city. This is the misconception that John N. Miksic aims to dispel with Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea 1300—1800.
Miksic, who teaches archaeology and history at the University of Singapore, does not dispute the claims of the "land silk route." Instead, he sets about to show that land routes linking China, Southeast Asia, India and the Mediterranean were by no means the only ones. The Silk Road of the Sea dates back just as far, if not farther, and Singapore would prove to be a major player in that history. Situated at the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, its location made it a vital trade port, instrumental in linking three seas: the South China Sea, the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. And given the cargo capabilities of ships, the trade along this "Silk Road" could have more volume and be more frequent than land caravans.
Certainly when the early 16th century Portuguese first entered Asian waters, the question arose how they would find their way to the fabled but mysterious Spice Islands since these were totally uncharted waters for the West? Miksic's first four chapters provide the answer. The trade routes were well in place as early as the 3rd or 4th century BC and very active. This trade never ceased. Miksic's main focus, however, will be on the period of 1300 to 1800, Singapore's heyday and the time before the arrival of Raffles. In that period the fortunes of Singapore rose and fell and Miksic, as an archaeologist can provide demonstrable proof.
Using the results of extensive excavations in Singapore, the book's middle chapters leave little doubt as to the imports and exports that passed through this port city century to century. With about 25 years of archaeological research, innumerable artifacts have been discovered, some areas like St. Andrew's Cathedral yielding a ratio of 519 items per cubic meter. Raffles was aware of this history from the Malay Annals and that proved instrumental in his selection. Other potential locations were available, but Singapore had history on its side, and, for the history-minded Raffles, that made it the perfect way station between India and China, the place to tap into an already existing network.
Singapore and its exemplary excavations are prominent in the book. But other informative points of interest are present as well. Passage through the Strait of Malacca stands in contrast to the more treacherous southern coast of Sumatra. Seasonal monsoons governed east-west movements. Multiple nations participated in trade but the earliest ships of the period were not Chinese but those of Malayo-Polynesians (read Austronesian). China entered once the Han Dynasty was established and had a vacillating on-again, off-again participation. The Yuan Dynasty did not have any compunction against trade, allowing Marco Polo to follow sea routes on his return to Europe. The succeeding Ming Dynasty restricted trade until the Yongle (永樂) Emperor reopened it, bringing Zheng He (鄭和) and his fleets temporarily into the picture, but then China withdrew. Western control of the strait would first go to the Portuguese and then the Dutch who weakened Singapore's role by requiring trade to stop at Batavia. Raffles and the British would bring it back to life.
The final chapters of the book expand the details of this vast trade network by placing Singapore in the context of its trading neighbors. Miksic's one regret is that while trade extended from Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands to Madagascar, none of the locations along those routes have comparable excavations allowing him to measure how large Singapore was in comparison. This seminal book encourages such, and also opens the door for future historical books and even novelists to expound on the vast history of the Silk Road of the Sea, a point that Taiwanese readers with their own Austronesian past can relate to.


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Question: I would like to offer an edible Christmas gift to a few friends and office workers. I usually make cookies, but don't have time this year for something that elaborate; I am German, and German Christmas cookies are a labour of love. What do you suggest I make instead? Please, no plum pudding, which also sounds very complicated!
Answer: Plum pudding is not only complicated, it's also expensive (with all that candied fruit) and not everyone's favourite. Instead I would make a coffee cake that could be enjoyed Christmas morning. You can find inexpensive Christmas tins at Loblaws to pack them in. These cakes can be made in advance and frozen, and then offered to friends and family on the 23rd or 24th, as they keep for a few days. I know I'd like to receive this instead of a plum pudding. I'd even take it over most cookies. Here is one of my favourite recipes from American cookbook author Sarah Foster.
Classic Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Serves 10
Foster says: "This classic cake is one of our most popular breakfast breads. It keeps well (up to two or three days) and is delicious warm or at room temperature. The brown sugar-pecan filling can be made ahead; the cake freezes beautifully and is wonderful for brunch or tea."
For the filling
1/3 cup (75 mL) firmly packed light brown sugar
2 teaspoons (10 mL) ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons (10 mL) all-purpose flour
1 cup (250 mL) coarsely chopped pecans
For the cake
3 1/2 cups (875 mL) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons (10 mL) baking powder
1/2 teaspoon (2 mL) baking soda
1/2 teaspoon (2 mL) salt
10 tablespoons (11/4 sticks/138 g) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup (250 mL) sugar
3 large eggs
1 3/4 cups (425 mL) sour cream
For the filling: Combine the brown sugar, cinnamon, flour and pecans in a bowl and stir until well mixed. Set aside or refrigerate in an airtight container until ready to use.
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350F (180C). Grease and lightly flour a 10-inch (25 cm) Bundt pan and set aside.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl and set aside.
Cream together the butter and sugar in a separate bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, starting on low speed, then increasing to medium. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition.
Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture, alternating with the sour cream, beating slowly, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Scrape the sides of the bowl several times. Beat just until all the ingredients are well contained. Do not over-mix.
Spoon half the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle evenly with the brown sugar-pecan filling. Spoon the remaining batter on top of the filling.
Bake 50 minutes to 1 hour, until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes. Turn the cake out onto a baking rack to cool completely.
Question: We have a gift exchange at my office, and this year the theme is the kitchen. The budget per gift is a maximum of $10, which doesn't leave much room for originality. Do you have any suggestions of what I could buy?
Answer: I gave this some thought and came up with what I think is a rather brilliant idea.
Here is a superb recipe by TV chef Laura Calder for vinegar chicken that I have been making for a while now and that any cook could master.
Print this out, laminate it (or at least print it on some nice paper) and find a good bottle of white wine vinegar to offer as a gift with the recipe. For fun, you could add in as many dry ingredients listed here as you're willing to offer, like the garlic cloves, the spices and maybe even a tube of fancy tomato paste.
Place them all in a small recyclable bag, and I'm sure you'll still come in under your $10 mark.
Chicken in Vinegar
Serves 4
1 chicken (3 1/2 pounds/1.6 kg), cut into eight pieces
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons (30 mL) butter
1 tablespoon (15 mL) olive oil
6 cloves garlic, peeled
1 cup (250 mL) white wine vinegar
1 cup (250 mL) chicken stock
1 bay leaf
1 sprig thyme
1 tablespoon (15 mL) tomato paste
4 medium tomatoes, roughly chopped
2 good handfuls of chopped fresh parsley
Season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon (15 mL) of the butter with the oil in a sauté pan and brown the chicken, a few pieces at a time. You're not cooking the chicken here, just making the skin crisp and giving it colour and flavour. Five minutes per side is about right. Remove the chicken to a dish.
Add the garlic and cook 5 minutes. Deglaze the pan with the vinegar and boil down by half, about 10 minutes. Return the chicken to the pan, and pour over the stock. Add the herbs, tomato paste and tomatoes. Simmer uncovered until the meat is cooked, about half an hour. Remove the chicken to a dish and keep warm.
Strain the liquid into a saucepan, pressing to get all the juices through, and whisk in the last tablespoon (15 mL) of butter and pour over the chicken. Sprinkle the parsley on top and serve.


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Autonomy and the role of the Official Solicitor – whose interests are really being represented?
10 October 2012
R.P. and others v United Kingdom (9 October 2012) – read judgment
The day before our seminar on the Court of Protection and the right to autonomy, the Strasbourg Court has ruled on a closely related issue in a fascinating challenge to the role of the Official Solicitor in making decisions on behalf of individuals who are for one reason or another unable to act for themselves.
The Official Solicitor acts for people who, because they lack mental capacity and cannot properly manage their own affairs, are unable to represent themselves and no other suitable person or agency is able and willing to act. This particular case involved child care proceedings, but the question before the Court was the vital one that arises out of any situation where an individual is deemed to have lost capacity to represent his or her own interests in court. What the parties asked the Court to consider was whether
the appointment of the Official Solicitor in the present case was proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued or whether it impaired the very essence of R.P.'s right of access to a court.
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By Marissa Maier
As a child, Gini Booth effortlessly tread between two disparate worlds. By day, Booth could be found on the streets of New York City and its environs protesting racial prejudices and socioeconomic injustices with her father, Judge William Henry Booth, an African-American New York City Criminal Court Judge and Chairman of the city's Commission on Human Rights. In the evening, Booth's mother, Harriet Walker Booth, whisked her young daughter to debutante balls in the gilded halls of the Waldorf Astoria.
Above: Booth's father, Judge William Henry Booth, to the right of Martin Luther King, Jr. during a rally.
Booth's early balance between social justice and social graces served her well later in life as an actress, news producer, literacy advocate and breast cancer survivor. Her early life, and the lessons Booth's parents taught her at a tender age, will be the subject of a talk at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center on Thursday, February 25, as part of "Straight Talk: A series of community conversations."
During her talk, Booth will highlight the convictions of her parents and how these beliefs influenced her upbringing and affected her as an adult. With a father who represented Malcolm X at one point and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., Booth has one or two stories to tell about fighting for civil rights in New York City at a young age. During one rally, in support of a hospital union in Riverdale, Booth saw a police officer attempt to push her father along to move with the crowd. To the 13-year-old Booth, the cop seemed more like a six-foot giant dressed in blue than an officer of the law keeping order.
"I went up to him and I tried to beat him up. I said, 'Don't you dare hit my father,'" recalled Booth. "No one had told me it was supposed to be a peaceful protest."
After spending many childhood afternoons in her father's office, Booth would later follow in his footsteps. As a teenager, William Booth served as President of the NAACP Youth Council in Jamaica, Queens. Years later, Booth was appointed Secretary of the Treasury of the same council.
After years of practicing law and setting up strong roots in the Episcopal faith, William Booth's calm and forgiving approach to life helped his daughter in her struggles with issues of race and ethnicity. Though Booth's parents are of African-American descent, she was born with blue eyes and blond hair — characteristics typical of Caucasians. As Booth was maturing into a young woman, she recalls several instances when she would be walking down the street with her father and a passerby would yell some racially derogatory comment.
"Someone started screaming at my father, 'Who is that little white girl with you?' The man said, 'Was she dipped in Clorox?' It was very hurtful. But my father said to just ignore him and that he doesn't know any better," remembered Booth. "And then I thought of something my father's mother had taught me. She said 'A garden is beautiful and in the garden are all different types of flowers of all shapes and sizes. But it is all one garden.' At least I had the strength and the substance every day when I left that house with my parents."
After growing up in Queens, Booth flew the coop to study acting at the University of California at Los Angeles. She returned to New York and joined the Negro Ensemble Company Actors Workshop, Frank Silvera's Actors Studio and New Heritage Theater. Later, Booth relocated to Providence, Rhode Island for a career change in news broadcasting and producing. She created a talk show, named SHADES, on the local PBS channel and "Black News," which was on the CBS radio affiliate for the state. Because Booth was a member of the National Black Programming Consortium, her television work was broadcast throughout the US, in Africa and the Caribbean.
Currently, Booth's myriad projects include an affiliation with the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, the Suffolk County Executive's African American Advisory Board, the Vestry of Christ Episcopal Church, ERASE Racism, the Witness Project LI and EVIDENCE Dance Company.
As a 21-year survivor of stage three breast cancer, Booth's work has spilled over into cancer advocacy. She is affiliated with CancerCare of the Hamptons and the American Cancer Society. Booth's work and life has been featured in many television shows and publications, including "Good Morning America," "Good Day NY," Town and Country Magazine and Family Circle Magazine.
Though Booth is ringing in her 60th year of life in 2010, she shows no signs of slowing down. She currently serves as the executive director of Literacy Suffolk. Literacy, says Booth, is often seen as a non-issue in the 21st century, but she pointed out that close to one in every seven adults in Suffolk County are functionally illiterate.
"I am wondering what I am going to be doing in 20 years," exclaimed Booth. "I can only imagine. I can't wait."


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China's corruption crackdown has already taken a bite out of the hospitality sector in China with its ban on lavish banquets and is now starting to make waves in another corner of the economy, as officials afraid of government scrutiny are dumping apartments.
In one case late last year, an Inner Mongolia political leader named Wu Zhizhong was convicted of corruption, accepting bribes and embezzling public funds. Investigators said Mr. Wu owned 33 properties in China and one house in Canada. Xinhua, China's official news agency, said the keys to all of his homes could fill up an entire handbag.
Cai Bin, a former Guangzhou official dubbed "Uncle House" on social media, was also convicted last year for accepting bribes. Investigators said he and his family owned more than 20 homes.
Those cases, and others like them, have raised alarm bells among local government leaders.
According to roughly a dozen property agents interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, officials are now afraid to buy luxury pads, and several are trying to offload properties that might raise red flags.
"Officials are focused on selling their homes quickly, so they are willing to sell at 5% to 10% cheaper than the average prices of comparable homes," says Zhang Yan, a manager at Shanghai Centaline Property Consultants, who says he sells three to four homes to officials every quarter on average. Party members usually find a buyer within two weeks, he said, while most other sellers find buyers in about a month, waiting for a higher price.
The impact of the corruption crackdown on the overall market is difficult to measure, in part because there is no national property registration system in China. While there are limitations on how many homes a person can buy, some people have relatives or surrogates purchase homes for them.
The dumping of properties is the latest iteration of fear that has spread through the Chinese government at all levels as President Xi Jinping's anticorruption campaign rolls on. Already, government officials have toned down lavish banquets, gift-giving and travel.
And it comes at a bad time for China's property market, which is facing a slump that many economists say poses the greatest risk to the country's economy. Housing sales in the first seven months this year fell 10.5%, according to official data issued last week.
According to real-estate agents, government officials make up as much as 20% of owners in the luxury housing market, and the agents say they simply aren't buying much anymore.
"A major way to corrupt an official is to give him a house as a gift," says Yan Jirong, a professor at the Peking University School of Government. "The anticorruption campaign is sending a signal" that such tactics should be stopped, he said.
Housing corruption is rampant in China. In June, the authorities in Guangxi Autonomous Region issued a statement warning civil servants "in possession of excess homes" to turn them in, though it left vague where and how to surrender such property.
The Central Military Committee, which controls China's armed forces, says it wants military personnel to annually declare the property they own, and has threatened to punish officers who hide or falsify their declarations.
In June, one government official offered a two million yuan ($325,000) discount on his apartment in Beijing's downtown Chaoyang district, originally priced at 22.5 million yuan, according to the real-estate agent selling the home. An advertisement for the four-bedroom home was titled "Distressed sale!!!"
Mr. Zhang said he sold an apartment in Shanghai's high-end Gubei district for an official last year for around 11 million yuan. Comparable homes sold for at least 12 million yuan at that time, he said.
"It was a three-bedroom apartment in a good location, and the home he lived in was actually humbler," Mr. Zhang says. "He was exceedingly discreet."
According to a recent survey of investors and property developers in China conducted by the Urban Land Institute, a think tank, only 23% of the respondents expected to invest more in luxury residential real estate, one of the lowest percentages recorded in the survey. That compares with 44% who expect to increase their investment in the midmarket housing sector.
In Hangzhou, sales of high-end homes plunged 54% in the first half the year, according to data tracker China Real Estate Index System. Gao Yuansheng, research director of the firm's Hangzhou office, attributed the fall mainly to expectations for slower price appreciation, but said it could be partly due to the anticorruption measures.
Another drag on the real-estate market: Beijing is paving the way for a nationwide system to tax and register property, which would make it much easier to identify modestly paid government officials who buy multiple homes. However, draft rules on a property-registration system issued Friday indicated the public would have only limited access to such a registry.
In a study from the University of Pennsylvania, economists found that Chinese government officials buy larger and more lavish homes than nonbureaucrats, despite earning typically 14% less in monthly income. Some officials also receive a price discount of nearly 4%, according to the study, which said that the size of the discount appears related to the power the official wields among local developers.
Bureaucrats in the study accounted for 7.1% of buyers--a much higher percentage compared with the 0.86% proportion of bureaucrats in China's total population.
Many officials mask their homeownership by using the IDs of their chauffeurs, relatives or surrogate buyers, according to real-estate agents.
One agent in Beijing said a client was in the process of unloading a home when the client was arrested last year. "I didn't realize he was an official until I saw his picture online when he was arrested," the agent said.
Lilian Lin contributed to this article.


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"Genres Do Not Exist"
What 'bad' genres did you grow up reading—science fiction, fairy tales, romance, etc.—or read as an adult?While I generally agree, I would offer various footnotes of minor disagreement (or nuance), most of which would just be me paraphrasing my introduction to The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and review of Gary Wolfe's Evaporating Genres. Genre is not merely something that "serves the needs of marketing", etc., but rather has been something produced by a variety of publishing practices — genre-specific magazines and book publishers, fan clubs, fanzines, conventions. Those are real, and they exist, and they profoundly influence, for better and worse, how all sorts of different texts are created, shaped, distributed, and received.
I resist the question entirely. I don't think quotes ['...'] dispense with the idea of putting writing into good and bad genres. Let me say and I probably mean this in the most manifesto-ing way that genres don't exist. They don't exist at all. They serve the needs of marketing, of academic specialization, even as modes of work, but in terms of meaning or content or associative formations they are like traffic lights—not so interesting and most adamantly not what we are doing today. Genres for me are just a way in which we are controlled, protected I suppose but I'm not a writer to be protected at all. I love science fiction, have all my life and it's where I met Kafka. Angela Carter is swimming around in there too. Science fiction propelled me into poetry and writing in general and if I think of the children's books I was exposed to I can't see the difference between sci fi, poetry, Kafka or Angela Carter. Yet they all know each other very well. That's all I'm saying. Are there good and bad writers? I'm not sure about that either.
Otherwise, yes, exactly. I, too, met Kafka in science fiction. As have others.


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"Santa" Burlap Bags
Problem Solved. No more "Santa" wrapping paper being bought over here---EVER!
My friend told me about this idea..and man is it a smart one! So easy..every year place the burlap sacks out under the Christmas tree for Santa to fill!
So simple...Trace the stencil of your kiddos initial you are making the bag for on the felt. Cut it out, fold up the burlap sack {I bought the sacks on Ebay} Cut the ribbon and attach that initial with a cute mini clothespin. This took me about 15 mins to complete....and I am in Love with how they sit all pretty under the tree!
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Absolutely love that you leave the empty bags for Santa to fill! I've been making fabric gift bags for family and friends for years, but this adds magic to the idea! See my fabric gift bags (also known as Santa Sacks) here: http://organized31.blogspot.com/2012/11/fabric-gift-bags.htmlReplyDelete
Great idea Jen!ReplyDelete
Santa would approve!
great idea!!! they are looking so cute! And love your Christmas projects button!ReplyDelete
Jen, FINALLY! My post about Christmas Wreaths is up, featuring your Christmas Burlap Wreath post. Hope everyone will stop by and see it. As I said before, I just love your projects and beautiful photo displays.ReplyDelete
Here is the link: http://www.ducksnarow.com/2012/12/christmas-wreaths.html Let your friends know! I'm facebooking it all over the place! :)
Many blessings,
That is a great idea. I do have some burlap bags, coffee bags that is. If I put them out Santa might sit on the couch and have a cup of brew and fall asleep.ReplyDelete
Great idea and it brings back memories of my childhood. I was born in England and so some of our Christmas traditions hale back to there......when we were young, Santa didn't put gifts under the tree but in a pillowcase which was at the end of our beds (sort of a Victorian precursor to stockings?).ReplyDelete
What an awesome idea. You rock.ReplyDelete
I think me and my 3 boys will decorate their burlap bags tonight for Santa!! Had 5 bags lying around!!! Such an awesome idea!!! They are excited.ReplyDelete