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The "true genius of America," Barack Obama said the night the country elected its first black president in 2008, is "that America can change."
The uproar over the George Zimmerman verdict is a vivid, somber reminder of how that change comes slowly, even haltingly at times, and how much race still courses through American politics.
While the days of legal segregation and institutional discrimination are now a generations-old memory, major policy disputes roiling Washington continue to have racial subtexts. The immigration fight is in one sense a fight for the loyalty of the growing, influential Latino voting bloc. The battle over how or whether to strengthen the recently diluted Voting Rights Act stirs fears that blacks in the South will lose long-cherished rights. Other clashes over the size, scope and cost of government continue to have racial undercurrents as well.
"Different groups have different views of what government policy should be, and that doesn't seem to be going away at all," said Merle Black, a Southern politics expert at Emory University in Atlanta.
The Zimmerman verdict has the potential to harden racial attitudes that have been developing for generations. The Sanford, Fla., neighborhood watch volunteer was found not guilty Saturday in connection with the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin.
History shows that once certain groups of voters learn to trust a political party, they don't switch allegiances. They remember perceptions of who worked against their interest, perhaps in opposing civil rights laws or denying funding to programs for lower-income people.
Black voters were intensely loyal to the Republican Party for roughly 70 years, remembering Abraham Lincoln's abolishing slavery and the party stalwarts who continued that legacy. Democrats were the party of the segregated South.
The perception began to change during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, as his New Deal helped ease the Depression's pain and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt became a champion of civil rights. When her husband ran for re-election in 1936, he got an estimated 71 percent of the black vote. Obama, the nation's first black president, got 93 percent of the black vote in 2012.
The Latino community is still emerging as a political force. Though it's been trending more Democratic in recent years, Republicans still see opportunities. Polls suggest Latino voters will back Republicans who demonstrate sensitivity to immigration issues.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has been a leader in the bipartisan effort to create a path to citizenship for the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants. He's endured withering conservative criticism for his stance and yet remains a prominent voice in his party and a potentially formidable 2016 presidential contender.
"Clearly there's a subtext to this whole fight over immigration. Both parties have blatant political motives on this issue," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll and author of "Minority Party," a book about race in politics.
The Latino community is watching closely. An America's Voice/Latino Decisions poll of Hispanic voters last month found 53 percent named immigration as the nation's most important issue. Nearly two-thirds said they knew an undocumented immigrant.
They also showed a willingness to vote for either party, as 48 percent said they had voted for a Republican in the past. As the undocumented immigrants become legal voters, most could very well side with either party, argued Adrian Pantoja, senior analyst at Latino Decisions, which studies Hispanic voting trends.
"Undocumented immigrants are still learning the positions and orientations of the political parties," he said.
But the more the Democratic Party promotes itself as the party of racial sensitivity, the more it hamstrings Republicans' efforts to diversify. Obama on Sunday issued a somber statement asking "every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son." Sixteen months ago, Obama was more blunt. "When I think about this boy I think about my own kids," he lamented.
Republicans this week have said little. Neither House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, or Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has spoken publicly about the case.
Republican Party officials routinely deny any racial undercurrent to their thinking on immigration, voting rights or for that matter any other issue. The party earlier this year launched an aggressive effort to woo minority voters through grassroots organizing and other strategies.
But long-held images persist, and there has been little Republican enthusiasm for revisiting last month's Supreme Court ruling on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The court struck down a key provision requiring areas with histories of racial bias to get federal approval for changes in voting laws. The act is a touchstone for many blacks, who recall its pivotal role in securing the right to vote.
Republicans urge looking at a broader picture. Wooing minorities will not happen all at once, and a key way to engage them, said former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, is to stress the party's economic views.
"As increasing numbers of people grow tired of politics that divide people," he said, "you try breaking down the barriers with a growing economy."
His party has had only limited success with that mantra. President George W. Bush got 44 percent of the Latino vote in 2004. The former Texas governor's record as sensitive to Latino concerns such as education and immigration helped, but so did the booming economy.
Overall, though, minority voters still zero in on certain issues more than whites. A 2009 Pew study of black voter attitudes found 53 percent of blacks thought major conflict existed between blacks and whites, while only one-third of whites felt that way.
Now comes the Zimmerman case, sparking a new dialogue about race in American life.
It's likely to continue for some time, said Black of Emory University, because "in different ways, race and ethnicity still structures a lot of American politics."


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I have recently discovered that I have to stop any sort of frying or deep frying in my house until I can find a way to get rid of the nasty smoke that ensues. Hence I am turning to other cooking methods, and one of them is steaming.
I have already attempted and succeeded in making mushipan using silicone cups as Bronwyn described in this thread. It's a great hit with my daughter!
I am planning on trying chawanmushi pretty soon, and I was wondering if it will work with silicone cups as well. I've read that the mixture is a bit runny and I'm worried that the silicone cups won't be able to hold it well. I don't really have the proper ramekins to use for traditional steamed egg custards. What do you guys think?
Depends on the silicon cups. Pour some water in them - do they spill? If they don't they should be fine. I have cooked various custards in my silicon cups, and they've all been good. The only issue is carrying them from where you fill them to where you cook them. The best thing to do is to put the cups in the top part of the steamer before you fill them, then you can carry it to the stove safely. Likewise if you are baking a custard in them, I put them on an oven tray to fill, then carry the whole tray to the oven. Or you can put the cups in the oven/steamer before filling them, but my glasses get all steamed up if I do that.
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The fleet was back in Corio Bay for day three of the Parks Victoria Melges 24 Australian Championships, hot sun and a light to moderate South Easterly breeze set the scene for three windward leeward races.
The fleet seem to get closer together the more races they completed. Big achievers of the day were Heath Townsend Kaito, the Western Australian representative, and Dave Alexander Foxtrot from South Australia.
Kaito was pleased with their setup and boat speed, they found clear air in the final race and capitalised on their position to cross the line in first place. Foxtrot have crept up through the fleet, they have been getting good starts and working hard up the first beat, it paid off for them today with a third and finishing race 8 in second place behind Kaito.
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The Social Security number that you received all those years ago is still valid and will always be valid. As you were a permanent resident at the time the card would have been issued without restriction – the Social Security Administration also issues cards to temporary residents that clearly note the card's validity for work only with Department of Homeland Security authorization, and to non-citizens whose cards note that they are not valid for employment at all.
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Prodded by some comments, I think I'll go even further afield from linear algebra. It's a slightly different order than I'd originally thought of, but it will lead to some more explicit examples when we're back in the realm of linear algebra, so it's got its own benefits.
I'll note here in passing that mathematics actually doesn't proceed in a straight line, despite the impression most people get. The lower-level classes are pretty standard, yes — natural-number arithmetic, fractions, algebra, geometry, calculus, and so on. But at about this point where most people peter out, the subject behaves more like an alluvial fan — many parallel rivulets carry off in different directions, but they're all ultimately part of the same river. So in that metaphor, I'm pulling a bit of an avulsion.
Anyhow, power series are sort of like polynomials, except that the coefficients don't have to die out at infinity. That is, when we consider the algebra of polynomials as a vector space over it's isomorphic to the infinite direct sum
but the algebra of power series — written — is isomorphic to the infinite direct product
It's important to note here that the do not form a basis here, since we can't write an arbitrary power series as a finite linear combination of them. But really they should behave like a basis, because they capture the behavior of every power series. In particular, if we specify that then we have a well-defined multiplication extending that of power series.
I don't want to do all the fine details right now, but I can at least sketch how this all works out, and how we can adjust our semantics to talk about power series as if the were an honest basis. The core idea is that we're going to introduce a topology on the space of polynomials.
So what polynomials should be considered "close" to each other? It turns out to make sense to consider those which agree in their lower-degree terms to be close. That is, we should have the space of tails
as an open set. More concretely, for every polynomial with degree there is an open set consisting of those polynomials so that divides the difference .
Notice here that any power series defines, by cutting it off after successively higher degree terms, a descending sequence of these open sets. More to the point, it defines a sequence of polynomials. If the power series' coefficients are zero after some point — if it's a polynomial itself — then this sequence stops and stays at that polynomial. But if not it never quite settles down to any one point in the space. Doesn't this look familiar?
Exactly. Earlier we had sequences of rational numbers which didn't converge to a rational number. Then we completed the topology to give us the real numbers. Well here we're just doing the same thing! It turns out that the topology above gives a uniform structure to the space of polynomials, and we can complete that uniform structure to give the vector space underlying the algebra of power series.
So here's the punch line: once we do this, it becomes natural to consider not just linear maps, but continuous linear maps. Now the images of the can't be used to uniquely specify a linear map, but they will specify at most one value for a continuous linear map! That is, any power series comes with a sequence converging to it — its polynomial truncations — and if we know the values then we have uniquely defined images of each of these polynomial truncations since each one is a finite linear combination. Then continuity tells us that the image of the power series must be the limit of this sequence of images, if the limit exists.
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While the introduction of topology here is easy to motivate (just as you explained), it's also an instance of a general phenomenon, where topology and topological completions are used to extend dualities between structures 'of finite type' to more general dualities between "pro-objects" and "ind-objects". A very famous example (which I am blogging about, very gradually) is Stone duality: there is a duality of finite type between finite sets and finite Boolean algebras, and this is extended to a duality between topological projective limits of finite sets (called Stone spaces) and general inductive limits of finite Boolean algebras, which are general Boolean algebras.
In the present case, we have a perfect duality between finite-dimensional algebras and finite-dimensional coalgebras. Then, on the ind-object side, the space of polynomials carries a coalgebra structure (with comultiplication ), which can be construed as an inductive limit of finite-dimensional coalgebras.
On the pro-object side, the vector space dual of the space of polynomials is, as you say in the post, the space of formal power series. The algebra structure on can be gotten either purely algebraically, defining the multiplication as a composite
where the first arrow is a canonical map and the second is the transpose of the comultiplication on . Or, in line with the general phenomenon, the multiplication can be defined topologically (just as you have done), and this corresponds to taking a (dual) projective limit of (dual) finite-dimensional algebras, equipped with suitable uniform structures.
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I've posted in sci.math.research the follwoing question: Consider a power series sum a_n x^n that is convergent for all real x, thus defining a function f: R \to R.
Are there criteria for the a_n to decide whether f is bounded?
Can the topology you defined above give answers to the question how "sparse" the subspace of all bounded power series is within the set of al convergent power series (in tems of cardinality or measure or Baire category or dimensionality)?
Thank you!
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If it was good enough to win the Pacific Division and gain the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs, then why aren't the Ducks using their shutdown line of Andrew Cogliano, Saku Koivu and Daniel Winnik in that role against the Kings?
"That sounds like a question for Bruce," Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf said Tuesday, his team facing a 2-0 deficit as the Western Conference semifinal series moves to Staples Center for Game 3 on Thursday night.
Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau has watched the Kings' first line of Marian Gaborik, Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown combine for three goals and six assists while matched against the Ducks' top line of Matt Beleskey, Getzlaf and Corey Perry.
There are some extenuating circumstances to that production — one of Kopitar's assists came on a power play, another on a Gaborik goal with the Kings goalie pulled.
But in a series that began with Boudreau talking about the importance of keeping the Kings' offense muted because of their NHL-best defense, tinkering with past success hasn't helped.
Jakob Silfverberg, who has replaced Winnik in the lineup, has a good shot but his playoff goal differential is minus-three. Winnik isn't expected to score, but his defensive attention helped clinch the Ducks' Game 1 victory over Dallas in the first round. He played in 76 of the Ducks' 82 regular-season games, but has been benched in three of the last four games.
Meanwhile, neither Perry nor Getzlaf has scored a goal in the series. Following Monday's loss, Getzlaf — wearing his "Unfinished Business" T-shirt, reminding the Ducks of last year's first-round playoff exit — was handed a stat sheet from the game and crumpled it in his hand.
Boudreau said he'll review his lines with his coaches Wednesday morning.
"We've got to find a way to score three goals, and limit them to [no more than] one," Boudreau said. "We'll go through the lineup and see who's best fitted for the game in L.A."
Koivu was on the ice with Cogliano on Monday when a shot by Kings defenseman Alec Martinez ricocheted off Silfverberg and sailed past Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller.
"Obviously that Kopitar line is the key line for that team," Koivu said. "The management is reviewing to see what they can do to make it more effective. We'll have to wait and see."
Then there's Quick
Like most Ducks, Koivu surmises that the Ducks' most pressing concern is figuring a way to get shots past Kings goalie Jonathan Quick, who stopped 36 of 37 Monday. The Kings needed just 17 shots to win.
"It's more about how we can turn these 37 chances into more traffic, get more bodies on their net, get the [dirty] goals," Koivu said.
Perry and Getzlaf are urging more determination, well aware how skilled the Kings defensemen — led by Drew Doughty — are in keeping pressure away from Quick and giving him clear views of shots.
"He's seeing a lot of pucks. We need to get in his eyes, get in his head a bit," said forward Patrick Maroon, who scored the Ducks' lone goal Monday. "We need to crash and bang, go to the net. We need all 20 of us. It's what we've been doing all year. I think we have the character to do that."
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Chef Scott Ryan might be the rare person who did not have a scarring experience with beets as a child.
The instructor at Baltimore's Stratford University culinary school was on his honeymoon in Paris when he and his wife packed a picnic that included beets marinated in fresh fennel, lemon and olive oil.
It was love at first bite.
"I think that many people have bad experiences with food — canned this or canned that — and they don't understand its true nature," said Ryan. "Beets fall into that category."
Fleet Street Kitchen's Chris Amendola's parents hated beets. "We never had them in the house," said the chef, who has several beet dishes on his menu. "I wasn't until I was working in restaurants that I even had any."
Even President Barack Obama has a problem with beets, so they were left out of the planting of the first White House vegetable garden.
"Anyone who knows beets from a can is fully justified in not liking them," said Martha Rose Shulman, who contributes healthy recipes to The New York Times.
Beets are emerging from those cans and finding their way onto the menus of fine restaurants and into the baskets of home cooks trolling farmers' markets for something new.
Donna Crivello might have been among the first to offer beets in her signature roasted vegetable salad, a mainstay at Donna's since it opened more than two decades ago.
"When I started roasting vegetables, I was just roasting whatever I saw," said Crivello. "The roasting brings out the flavor and the sugar in the beets."
Though they are most often served in salads, with spicy greens, savory cheese and the crunch of nuts, Crivello served beet ravioli to guests on Valentine's Day — it was all about the red — and beets with grilled salmon is on her menu now.
Even beet greens are finding favor. Crivello uses them to dress her ravioli and her fish. "People are willing to try them," she said, "like they have been willing to try kale and collards."
Shulman, who is based in Los Angeles and has a healthy eating website, said people often ask farmers to cut off the greens, "but that's a terrible waste."
She likes to strip the leaves off the stem and saute or blanch them with olive oil and perhaps garlic, just like Swiss chard, its cousin. Amendola likes to dehydrate the greens for garnish.
The history of beets is as colorful as the deep red, gold or pink stripe of the root.
They were first grown only for the greens, as a salad crop. But as they moved north from their home in the Mediterranean, they were cultivated for their swollen root so they could be stored in winter.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the French dictator was looking for an alternate source of sugar because the supply of sugar cane had been cut off by the British blockades, and he offered a 10,000-franc prize. The result was the sugar beet with high levels of sucrose.
Beets made their way to the New World with European settlers, but they were saddled with a reputation as peasant food, most often boiled into a strange, purple soup called borscht.
"It is amazing how versatile they have become," said Ryan, whose goal is to get his students to explore foods, like beets or Brussels sprouts, that have a poor reputation. One of his favorite ways is to serve them is as a roasted puree over cardamom ice cream.
"But I like a good, old-fashioned beet salad," he said. "It is a late-summer sweet treat."
Beets are easy to prepare and Shulman keeps some ready in her refrigerator. She roasts them in a hot oven in a covered casserole with a half an inch of water. The skin slides off easily after the beets cool. They can keep for several days for use in a salad or as a snack on their own.
Spike Gjerde of Woodberry Kitchen has focused his restaurant's menu on the local agricultural scene, and beets are a part of that. But he's another one who had a bad experience with beets as a child.
"I got pickled beets confused with spiced apple rings, and I was so disappointed," he said. "But I got over it, and I love them."
He focuses on beet recipes in the fall and winter, he said, when his choices for fresh produce start to dwindle. Thanks to hoop houses, as well as beets' preference for cooler weather, they are essentially a year-round crop.
"I love the meatiness of beets in cold weather," said Gjerde, who first cooked with beets when he and his brother had Spike and Charlie's. "I remember the first time we got a chioggia beet. I thought it was the coolest thing, these beautiful pink striped beets."
When asked if his guests have taken to beets as enthusiastically has he has, Gjerde said yes, but added, "My brother. He may be the last guy to like beets."
Donna Crivello's grilled salmon with a salad of beets, beet greens and wheat berries
The sweet beets and tangy greens are nice match for the wheat berries, which have a ruddy texture and nutty taste. A hearty salad on its own, it can be topped with feta or goat cheese, or as we do at Cross Keys, grilled salmon. There, the chef tosses the beets, greens and wheat berries with some freshly made basil pesto. If you don't have time to make pesto simply toss with olive oil, add a little basil, lemon and orange juices and salt and pepper.
Makes 4 servings
1 bunch (about 4) beets with tops (about 1 pound). If you can't get beet tops, you can use red Swiss chard.
olive oil, salt, pepper
2 cups cooked red wheat berries
2-3 cups beet greens, washed, chiffonade cut (very thin ribbons)
pinch sea or kosher salt and pepper
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons basil, chiffonade cut
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 small red onion, very thinly sliced
2 tablespoons pesto*
4 6-ounce pieces of salmon fillet
2 cups cooked red wheat berries**
*For the pesto
2 cups fresh basil
1/2 cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
Blend in food processor or blender
**For the wheat berries
1 cup cooked red wheat berries
2 1/2 cups water
1 bay leaf
1 slice orange
1 slice lemon
Combine and cook for about 45 minutes until just tender
For main dish
Cut the beets from the tops, reserving the tops for the salad.
Soak the tops in cold water and continue to rinse until the water is clear.
Scrub any grit from the beets. For this recipe you can boil or roast the beets.
To roast, rub beets with some olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and set in a shallow roasting pan. Roast at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes or until beets are just tender.
To boil, place in pot, cover with water, bring to the boil then simmer for about 45 minutes or until just tender.
To test for doneness: If the point of a sharp knife penetrates with a little resistance they are done.
Cool until you can handle the beet, then peel the skins from the beets. Rinse off any bits of skins if needed.
Dice the beets into cubes about 3/4 inch.
In a medium-sized bowl toss the chiffonade of beet greens, cooked wheat berries and red onions. Add pesto if using or add orange juice and lemon juices, salt and pepper.
Set aside while grilling your salmon.
Taste. Add more pesto or juices.
Arrange on platter or individual plates. Set salmon on top.
Garnish with orange or lemon zest.
Fleet Street Kitchen's Heirloom Beet Salad
2 pounds of beets, peeled
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup pine nuts
1/4 cup homemade or Greek yogurt
1/4 cup ruby port
6 ounces sugar
2 cups beet juice
1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
1 tablespoon red wine
Microgreens and raspberries
Toss beets in olive oil, rosemary, thyme, and salt. Wrap beets tightly in aluminum foil. Cook for 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees or until tender. Remove immediately and cut to desired size.
For the pine nut butter
Roast nuts until golden brown in oven. Reserve a tablespoon of pine nuts for plating. Put into food processor to release the natural oils until it becomes liquid. Season with a pinch of salt and sugar.
For the beet borscht
Reduce port and 5 ounces sugar by half then add beet juice. Reduce again by 1/3, strain. Season with 1 tablespoon of red wine.
To finish, toss beets in sherry vinegar and olive oil to taste. Season with salt and pepper. To plate, add pine nut butter to the bottom of plate, add beets, spoon (or splatter as we do in the restaurant) borscht over and around beets. Add a small spoonful of yogurt (or use piping bag) to plate. Garnish with microgreens and raspberries.
Martha Rose Shulman's clear summer borscht
Makes 6 servings
2 pounds beets (8 medium, usually 2 bunches), peeled, cut in half and sliced in thin half-moons
7 cups water
2 teaspoons salt, or to taste
6 tablespoons strained fresh lemon juice (from 2 to 3 lemons)
1 tablespoon sugar
2 plump garlic cloves, cut in half lengthwise, green shoots removed
3/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt (optional)
1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut in small dice
Chopped fresh dill or chives for garnish
Combine the beets, water, and 1 teaspoon salt in a soup pot and bring to a simmer. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Add the lemon juice, remaining salt, and sugar and continue to simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the garlic. Allow to cool, then cover and chill (you can speed this process by transferring the soup to a bowl and placing the bowl in an ice bath). Taste and adjust seasoning. Remove the garlic cloves.
Place 2 tablespoons yogurt, if desired, into the center of chilled soup bowls. Ladle in the soup. Garnish with diced cucumber and minced dill or chives.
Advance preparation: This soup can be made a day ahead and will be good for 2 or 3 days.
Cook's tip: This glistening, lemony summer borscht is infused with garlic and utterly refreshing, even thirst-quenching. If you enrich the soup with yogurt, the color will be dark pink. If you don't, it will be a clear, dark red.
Tips about beets
When choosing beets, look for firm bulbs with smooth skin, but without spots or bruises. Small to medium beets are generally more tender. The very large ones may be tough.
Crisp leaves mean the beets are fresh. If you are going to cook them, smaller leaves are more tender. Strip the leaves off the stems, which can be fibrous.
Wait to peel the beets. The skins slip off easily once the beets are roasted, boiled or steamed. You might want to use rubber gloves to prevent staining your fingers. And don't trim the beets before cooking. The color will drain out.
Beets are sweet, so they are best paired with spicy greens, like arugula; savory cheeses, like goat cheese or feta; and some crunch, such as walnuts or pine nuts. Beets also can stand up to red meats or fish.
Beets are noted for their nutrient content — folate, magnesium and potassium — and the greens contain beta-carotene, calcium, iron and vitamin C. Beets are also a source of phytonutrients in the pigment that have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and detoxification benefits.
Adults, and often children, experience beeturia, a reddening of the urine that can result in a rush to the doctor. It is not necessarily a problem and can occur when beets are consumed even in regular amounts. If you have concerns, however, consult your family doctor about possible problems with iron metabolism.


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Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
The Institute of Management Accountants, an international professional organization of financial and accounting professionals, has a very active local chapter. Student membership is available for approximately $30 annually and students are welcome at chapter meetings. The chapter offers a reduced lunch or dinner rate for students. Joining this group offers an excellent way to interact with local financial professionals. IMA Spartanburg also sponsors yearly scholarships for Upstate college students. For more information about this organization, visit their website.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and its state counterpart, the South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, both offer student memberships. The state membership is only $15 per year! There are many benefits to joining, not least of which is building relationships with other students and accounting professionals.


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It's always been weird to me that we all assume in MMOs that most communication goes on outside of the game. Pretty much every guild has a website with a forum, and we all accept this as standard. So when you create a guild, you have to go set that up. Whole industries have spawned around making this easier to do (the various free guild websites, etc.)
Players flout attempts to stop different factions communicating with each other by just using IRC channels (or whatever the cool kids are using these days 😛 )
It is accepted that to play an MMO, you spend a lot of time using the web outside the MMO. Communication within the game is so rudimentary that it simply does not suffice.
In game, what you typically have are IRC-style chat channels, a very limited message of the day for guilds, and a limited, awkward to use mail system. Any mail system which makes it inconvenient to mail several people at once, filter mail into folders, and follow threads is going to limit communication. I know I avoid mail like the plague unless I actually need to send stuff to someone (which is its main useful function) or am setting up a RP event.
But what would be so difficult about providing in-game bulletin boards for guilds, or other player organisations? So you could log in, look at your bboard tab and read the boards via a nice graphical interface. It can't be the fear of being sued, people can already write what they like in mails. And guild bboards could be guild moderated.
They were common enough on MUDs; back then no one expected you to spend hours reading the web to participate in your guild or game. You'd just catch up with the boards when you logged in.
What if you could scroll back on chat channels when you logged in and see what people had been discussing while you were gone?
What if there was an in game news bboard that people were directed to when they logged in which had details of in game news, player run events, and technical news. We already know most people don't read forums, but I bet they do check their in game mail. They'd check a bboard if it was easy to use and the game notified you when there were new posts.
What if we had actual graphical bulletin boards to help looking for guilds, where you could post short notes and adverts, and it would look as if you were pinning a notice up?
Why are we happy with such limited communication tools?


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Winter Skincare: #THIS. w/ Elizabeth Holmes
Winter is here and the cold weather can be devastating on your skin. To keep a healthy glow during these cold, winter months, it's important to stick to a skincare routine that will moisturize and protect your face. WSJ's Elizabeth Holmes got the expert advice of Sephora PRO Lead Artist Gilbert Soliz.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Marketing Mistakes
From Openmoko
The analysis of the marketing of OpenMoko Freerunner reveals the following problems:
- Freerunner was shipped to the user as an experimental device and not as working device for everyday use for novice users.
- the only widely accepted distribution is QT extended distribution, so the OpenMoko should have a pre-installed QT extended improved distribution.
- Developers are able to flash the freerunner to any other distrubtion they want to test, ordinary users have problems to do that, so this fact is also indicating that QT extended improved should be the distribution of choice that is pre-installed of the freerunner.
- the big advantage of the freerunner is the open source concept - using OpenStreetMap in a car navigation system like navit on the device is really a unique selling position for the freerunner. This implies that the freerunner has a car-navigation system pre-installed e.g. 'navit' or 'roadmap' on the device and the wiki of OpenMoko has working tutorial with which an ordinary user can download and upload a map of his/her choice to the freerunner easily.
- The wiki was not divided in an area for 'novice users' of the device and 'more advanced users' that have experience with linux systems.
- this leads to maintainance of the wiki that has no working tutorial with which an ordinary user can:
- synchronize PIM data (contacts, tasks, ...) of kontact, evolution ... on a linux box with the QT extended improved distribution (Mac OS, Win OS should be considered too)
- download maps of choice to a pre-installed car-navigation system on a QT extended improved distribution
- add new language modules for spanish, italian, ... easily on the device.
- the freerunner could have two distributions installed at the same time with Qi and removing the SD card starts the second distribution or ship the freerunner with two SD cards so that the user can select the distribution just by exchanging the SD card.
Summary: if the shipped device and tutorials on the wiki are not tailored to novice users the sold numbers of freerunner will remain low, which would be bad, because a wonderful approach of the freerunner and the OpenMoko team should not die, because of these marketng mistakes that can be eliminated!


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A toilet made from beer cans (August) and Mahatma Gandhi's toilet (September) are both featured in defeatDD's 2014 "Places We Go" toilet calender. You can download and print the calendar for free. All the entries submitted to the "Places We Go" contest are on Pinterest.
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GREENVILLE, SC (AP) - A mother who abandoned her newborn in the toilet of a South Carolina sports arena has avoided prison time.
Jessica Blackham was sentenced to a year of house arrest and three years of probation Wednesday after pleading guilty.
Prosecutors say the 26-year-old Blackham went into labor while watching the circus in February 2011 and gave birth to a 6-pound boy in a cramped stall. She left the child in the toilet and went home with her family.
Authorities say the baby was found by a cleaning crew 90 minutes later, his neck just above the water and with a body temperature of 85 degrees. The newborn survived and is developing normally.
Blackham apologized, telling the judge she may have not been thinking clearly because of blood loss.
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It's time that the Illinois High School Association brought the state basketball championships to Rockford. Or Aurora. Or DeKalb. Or Carbondale. Or anywhere besides Peoria and Champaign.
Peoria has done a fine job hosting the state basketball championships since 1996, just as Champaign did a fine job hosting the tournament for 77 years before then.
It's the state's tournament, however, and shouldn't be confined to one or two cities.
Peoria's contract with the IHSA expires after the 2015 tournament. The IHSA should consider revamping the tournament and rotating it among various cities across the state.
Doing so would help revive a tournament that has been losing its luster. The Peoria Journal Star reports that initial IHSA estimates for tickets sold during the Class 1A-2A finals March 14-15 was about 28,000 for four sessions, leaving an average of more than 4,000 tickets unsold per session in 11,164-capacity Carver Arena.
Those numbers represent tickets sold, not actual attendance. Actual attendance appeared to be less than 7,000 each session. As recently as 2009, 37,912 tickets were sold for the Class 1A-2A weekend.
Playing in front of a bunch of empty seats takes away from the experience of playing in a state championship. Successful teams are used to playing in packed gyms during the regular season and the playoffs. A packed house adds excitement to the game as players feed off of fan enthusiasm.
One of the reasons the tournament was moved from Champaign was that there were plenty of empty seats in 16,000-seat Assembly Hall (now the State Farm Center). Moving games to a more intimate setting — for example, Rockford's BMO Harris Bank Center, which has about 7,000 seats — would create a better atmosphere for players and fans alike.
It would be easy for us to advocate for a long-term contract between the IHSA and Rockford. The revamped Ingersoll building, the proposed Gorman hotel and convention center and other downtown amenities would provide plenty of facilities for players and fans when they weren't in the BMO Center.
But giving other Illinois cities a chance would allow casual fans who don't want to travel great distances an opportunity to see the state's top high school basketball talent — talent that often makes it to the professional ranks.
The National Football League does it right. Cities bid to host the Super Bowl. There have been 48 Super Bowls, and 22 different stadiums have hosted or are scheduled to host the big game.
It's a big deal for your city to be chosen to host a Super Bowl — just as it would be a big deal for any Illinois city to host the state basketball championships.
We get that the IHSA prefers a central location to host the games, but we think that concern is overrated. If your team makes it to the state finals, it doesn't matter much if you have to drive two hours or five. You're probably going to spend a night in a hotel either way.
Besides, the IHSA has shown a central location is not always necessary. The 2013 football championships were at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, which will host the state finals during odd-numbered years. The finals are at the U of I in Champaign in even years.
While IHSA officials discuss a change in venue, they also should discuss changing the four-class system. Expanding from two classes to four has diminished rather than increased interest. There are no good Cinderella stories — think "Hoosiers" — anymore.
Peoria officials probably are working on a proposal to keep the hoopla in central Illinois, although our colleagues at the Journal Star report that enthusiasm appears to be waning. The tournament is not a shiny-new experience for Peorians anymore.
But it would be for Rockfordians or Aurorans or residents of almost every city in the state. It's worth a shot.


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Brentford: home of the suicidal IT professional
And badger torturers, says Google trends
Letters IT: the world's most stressful profession? Yes, according to the stressed IT operatives among you:
It seems easy, doesn't it, to explain to someone how to do things with a computer? "Please drag the files from the zip file to the folder you created on the desktop." "Ah... how do I drag files?" In a few minutes' time, you're going to be talking this fun lover through deleting keys from the registry. A riot a minute.
The stress in IT comes through the fact that you're talking to people who in all other aspects of what they do [that you can observe] display excellent skills and talent. Only, when they start working with computers, and more so when the sticky brown stuff hits the fan, they acquire the density of neutrino matter. There's no way to make them do the most simple of tasks. Operations that cost mere seconds to complete now take 30 minutes to an hour. And you have all that other stuff that your boss wants you to take care of. He simply won't believe it took you 45 minutes to help Mrs. Lafferty navigate the website to find a piece of information. They admit they don't know anything about computers and yet they know their computer better than you do, they don't believe you when you tell them something is going to happen or they won't accept direction from a lowly tech [a double bladed axe should be mandatory for IT support for managers]. And they lie to you.
An American bomb disposal specialist knows that when he screws up he won't live long enough to feel the pain. The IT worker knows that the pain will not go away. The bomb disposal specialist knows that the bomb wants to kill him. The IT worker knows that the user wants to drive her/him insane. Bomb disposal specialists have it easy.
The survey should have asked two more questions. 1) How crap is your manager (read as prepared to listen and resolve issues)? 2) How well does the business understand what you do?
I've been in situations where the IT helpdesk was effectively used as a verbal punching bag for frustrated users who's machines had crashed. The manager felt it was 'part of the job' rather than putting in a phone monitoring system to help support the very stressed out and abused helpdesk. He would also come down on the side of any user should a complaint be made as it was 'career' wise the right thing to do.
I've seen this at numerous companies.
It doesn't help that IT is usually a cost and not a revenue stream. This can result in there being no IT director. A lot of IT solutions require good leadership/ financial support at the top level. Without this, you end up with companies running 1000s of Windows NT boxes because the upgrade to XP is considered a cost and not a benefit.
IT usually ends up having to change the culture within the business to put in valid solutions.
Right back to work before the manager notices me reading your site :)
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I so agree with this article! Stupid customers have been christened 'numpties' in our office, as we can't say 'fuckwit' in case it's overheard by visting customers :o) They are the bane of my working life - I've been known to bang my head on the desk, whilst mouthing expletives during a particularly difficult support phone call.
World's worst/most stressful job is always good pub conversation but haven't found much that beats Police Diver - wading around in sewage infested pools, prodding your hand into holes that may contain the rotting remains of a dismembered child. Not sure if it's that stressful though, as the folks that do it seem to like what they do..
Your article: IT: The worlds most stressful profession hit the nail on the head - This is why I am retraining to become a Paramedic.
Working outside, dealing with the seriously ill is less stressful and a lot more rewarding.
Counting down the days to February 2008 - when I can leave my IT cereer behind for good...
----- Wayne Badcock
Your article on The Reg brought back some fine memories of me earlier this week trying to explain the crappy day I had in work to my GP wife. She slapped me across the face and told me to grow up. Everything is relative, eh?
Quote: "And here's an alternative top ten as compiled by the Vulture Central Statistical Analysis Soviet: 1. Iraqi police recruit 2. US Army bomb disposal expert 3. Baghdad A&E doctor" Unquote
Maybe it's just me... but I think you mixed up "dangerous" with "stressfull".
Ah yes, nothing like queueing up outside a Baghdad police station to induce a state of chilled-out wellbeing. Of course, you might get blown up, but that's merely dangerous.
Being Ballmer's furniture supplier isn't stressful! You have an awfully wealthy customer who has to regularly renew furniture, and who will break it himself so you won't even have to back your lifetime warranty claims!
A fair point - unless you happen to be delivering furniture when someone's in the office talking to Steve about Google. Prosecution rests.
Well, all of you stressed-out helpline oppos should at least be grateful that you have some company - even if it's shouting at you from the other end of a phone line. People in Brentford, on the other hand, plough a lonely furrow - according to Google Trends.
I take it you haven't been to Brentford lately. The Thatcher years combined with the Thames-side location so the temp secretaries and car mechanics sobbing quietly into their solitary Pot Noodles while contemplating another evening alone on front of the telly have been replaced by investment bank and information technology workers sobbing quietly into their solitary M+S microwave meals while contemplating another evening alone in front of the 42" plasma.
Not to mention the odd IT journo - take a bow Bryan Betts.
And isn't it North Kew now anyway?
I suspect that Google trends shows some very odd results - or no-one actually knows how to interpret them
Try checking for "the Register" - and you'll find that Eugene, United States seems to be the place that searches for The Register more than anywhere else. Searching on trends for Brentford seems to indicate that more people in Teddington search for Brentford than residents of Brentford itself (that comes in at 4th in the list).
Also for some reason people in Trowbridge seem to have an odd fascination for GCHQ with people in Cheltenham apparently not interested in it at all
If you lived in Brentford, it'd be the last thing you'd want more information on while sitting in your bedsit eating a Pot Noodle. As for posh Teddington, we reckon the toffs are searching for Brentford to show their kids exactly where they'll end up living if they don't pass that Oxbridge scholarship exam.
More fascinating Brentford trivia:
Brentford is also a locus of torture, only one place behind Washington DC: http://www.google.com/trends?q=torture&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Brentford's also eighth in the world for searches for 'badger'... Coincidence? Or have some Brentfordonians discovered a suitable cure for their loneliness?
The Brentford 'lonely' rating might also explain this:
'confused' gives good results, though I think Milton Keynes at No. 2 just behind Sheffield is probably a statistical anomaly - surely should be No 1. good game.
Thanks for the loneliness index Lester!
You might want to check out the 'top myself' index http://www.google.com/trends?q=top+myself&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Hope you're not from London!
try typing 'sexy' into that Google gizmo and the top 5 cities are all in India, with Brussles in the top ten!
Worthless? not a bit of it!
Oh my!
Your story on loneliest places probably referred largely to Lonely as in Lonely Planet, you dunce. Apart from Brentford.
Finally, to put some distance between ourselves and Brentford, the final word on that <abbr> tag palaver:
Dear Vultures,
You say in your letters page that "We experimented with the <abbr> tag on a "NSFW" tagline, but the damned dotted line underneath looked absolutely 'orrible on the Reg front page."
Well I'm here to tell you about this amazing new technology known as CSS which could make your dotted underlining woe a thing of the past! Infact, for a small fee - say I'd be more than happy to sort it out.
Mark Ford
No need - it's sorted. Henceforth, all potentially-confusing acronyms on the Reg front page will come with accompanying explanation - and no dotted line. The same in body copy will continue to bear the dotted line of enlightenment, as God intended. ®


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As I understand pclose will return 0 (on every platform) in case popen could not execute the specified command.
Since popen only returns the status wether it was able to send a command and not wether it was succesfully executed. Only the returned value of pclose can be used to check wether a command could be executed.


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This cartoon from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal sums up how I oftentimes feel about men who respond to explanations about gendered oppression with claims to being oppressed, as men:
I'm not sure who came up with the "what about the menz?!?" meme first, but Shakesville is pretty good at pointing out examples. One of the things that bugs me about this mentality is that it takes the focus off of legitimate concerns about how men are negatively affected by patriarchy by raising bs about how men are "oppressed" as men, by women.


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Are you ready for Saturday Night, and more Genealogy Fun?? I hope so!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
Knowing that a "Bucket List" is a wish list of things to do before death:
1) What is on your Genealogy Bucket List? What research locations do you want to visit? Are there genea-people that you want to meet and share with? What do you want to accomplish with your genealogy research? List a minimum of three items - more if you want!
2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own (please give me a link in Comments), a comment to this post in Comments, or a status line or comment on Facebook.
Think big! Have fun! Life is short - do genealogy first!
This is way old, but I wasn't able to do it when Randy first put it out there. Kind of like Genealogy, we do it when we can, even if it's not when we would like to.
1) I've never made a Bucket List for anything, so I've got to do a little thinking.
A) I need to visit several locations in Louisiana to research my maternal lines. I've not been down there since I was about 14 years old, before the genealogy bug bit me. I think I'd appreciate it more now, even without the genealogy aspect.
B) I'd really like to visit Germany to research my lines there, and my wife's lines as well. Late in 2009 I had an opportunity to go with the Dillman Family Association on a research junket, but I was unemployed and could not afford to go. I saw some of the reports they did, and now I'm even more sad I couldn't make it.
C) I'd like to visit the UK to research those lines. My first immigrant ancestor in the US was Robert Day, who sailed from Ipswich on the Elizabeth, landed at Massachusetts and soon pioneered with the initial group to what is now Hartford, CT. For that matter, I could use a research trip to Hartford, and Sheffield, MA, and any of several other places in that region.
D) I really need to step up my documentation game. I've been getting better in that aspect, but for many years I was playing the "Let's see how many names, how far back we can add!" game. Now I need to go back and fill in the blanks. This is going to require more outlay of money than I've had available for a few years, for travel and for document copying and for online access to digital repositories.
2) I'm as connected to genea-people as I need to be online. That said, I would be happy to meet some at a conference some time, but conferences are not high on my agenda.
3) I'm doing this to get a decently researched, documented family tree put together for posterity. Most of my family are not terribly interested, but it needs to be done now before more records are lost. It needs to be done now, when I have an interest in doing it, since no one else is putting the effort into it. I'm doing this for my descendants, so they will have the information. So they can follow on and improve what I'm starting. I'm also doing it for me, so I can know where I come from, what kind of people, where they lived and what they did. Knowledge for its own sake is a nice thing to have.
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News media inquiries have ferreted out more details on performance awards given to General Services Administration executives at a time when top GSA leaders already were aware of what would become an explosive inspector general's report on lavish spending at a 2010 training conference in Las Vegas.
WUSA-TV, a Washington CBS affiliate, on broadcast published results of an investigation and Freedom of Information Act request that found 67 GSA executives at the end of 2011 had received bonuses of about $10,000, and five of them were involved with the $820,000 Western Regions Conference that triggered the scandal. Working along the same lines, the Asbury Park Press, which, like the TV station, is owned by Gannett, filed its own FOIA request with the Office of Personnel Management to obtain governmentwide salary and bonus data, which it used to create a searchable database of salary information.
There are discrepancies, however, between the GSA and OPM data on the amounts awarded -- varying by as much as $13,000 -- and some awards were reported from one federal source but didn't show up in the other. Neither agency nor the White House could shed light on why.
According to WUSA-TV and a related Federal Times report, performance awards for 2011 went to the following five executives who had some involvement with the Western Regions conference, who are on administrative leave:
- Public Buildings Service Deputy Commissioner David Foley -- $9,530
- PBS Region 7 Commissioner James Weller -- $9,100
- PBS Region 8 Commissioner Paul Prouty -- $11,690
- PBS Region 10 Commissioner Robin Graf -- $11,180
- PBS Region 9 Commissioner Jeff Neely -- $9,460
Neely, considered the main force behind of the training conference, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights at an April congressional hearing on the GSA ordeal. But his $9,460 bonus became the subject of an exchange with lawmakers, and former GSA administrator Martha Johnson explained why she and fired PBS Commissioner Robert Peck overruled a recommendation that Neely not be awarded a bonus.
Prouty, who was acting GSA administrator in the months before Johnson was sworn in, received a 2010 performance award of $35,940, according to the Asbury Park Press' database.
Foley, who attended the Las Vegas conference and gave a humorous speech later circulated on video, apologized at the April congressional hearing for not giving a more serious talk about GSA's mission of efficient government.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., asked by Government Executive on Wednesday for comment on the bonuses, said, "this is offensive to the taxpayer and cannot be tolerated."
GSA Deputy Press Secretary Adam Elkington said in an email: "As previously stated, GSA is conducting a top-to-bottom review of our agency's operations. This comprehensive review of our agency operations includes all bonus payouts in recent years -- especially for those individuals under investigation by GSA's inspector general."
Jim Williams, who did three stints at GSA, including serving as acting administrator for the final months of the George W. Bush administration, said, "to give performance awards to four regional commissioners when they knew about the IG report reflects an incredible lack of judgment. I find it incredible they got anything, especially Neely."
Williams, currently a senior vice president at Daon Inc., a provider of identity verification software, noted, "since the economy fell, the level of senior executive bonuses has fallen, and [Senior Executive Service] people have to share the same pain as the American people." But in good times, a $20,000 performance reward is not unusual, though Prouty's 2010 award topping $30,000 seems high, nearly on par with Presidential Rank awards, he added.
Still, Williams said, if an agency review board recommends an award, that doesn't mean the agency head has to follow it, as Johnson apparently did in Neely's case. "I'm sorry, but I'd say Neely's general performance was overshadowed" by what went on at the training conference, Williams said.
Bill Bransford, general counsel for the Senior Executives Association, told Government Executive that Johnson's decision to give Neely a performance award made sense at the time, though he doesn't know details of Neely's performance. Noting the inspector general had asked GSA leaders not to take any action until their investigation was complete, Bransford said, "if someone gets in trouble but is otherwise doing a very good job, then I would interpret that and do what I would have done if there were no IG investigation, and if everything else falls into place, he gets an award."
The WUSA report makes much of the fact that the $500,000 given out to 67 GSA executives was bunched into awards around $10,000, or 5 percent to 6 percent of their position's aggregate salaries. Bransford said that's because the Office of Management and Budget, as part of the pay freeze announced in 2011, had capped awards at 5 percent of payroll, but 20 percent was actually common. By statute, SES performance awards are part of the compensation system, and by lowering the caps OMB forced agencies to choose amounts that allowed a greater number of executives to receive some form of award.
Bransford also said PBS Deputy Commissioner Foley's attempt at satire in his speech at the conference "should be looked at in context. He was an invited guest and was demonstrating some leadership to 300 people to try to build morale and esprit. What did he do wrong?" he asked. There was no executive order from President Obama on cost cutting at conferences in October 2010, Bransford added, and Foley's satire looked different from how it looks today.


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Pete Vigliano from Austin, Texas sent in this shot of his wicked 2004 Chevrolet K2500 HD. The truck sports a 6.0L gas engine that is supercharged by Magnacharger. The lift is a 10-inch setup by B&C Offroad in Pasadena, Texas. The rig uses Fabtech shock hoops and Bilstein shocks. The front bumper is from Off Road Tech in Oregon, with additional modification by B&C. Pete runs 42-inch IROKs on 16x10-inch American Racing Atlas wheels.
Rock Hound
Matthew Fellows of Long Beach, California loves rockcrawling in this 2001 TJ. It hosts a full assortment of trailworthy components. For starters, the Jeep rides on a Rubicon Express 5.5-inch long-arm suspension lift. Under that, a set of 35-inch Goodyear MTR tires handle traction needs. Next, a Dana 30 with a Lock-Rite and a Warn hub conversion make up the front axle. The rear is a Superior Super 44 with 33-spline shafts and a Detroit Locker. Protecting this TJ on the trail is a sweet set of Poison Spyder tube fenders, and a pair of "Off Your Rockers" rocker panel and corner panel protection plates.
Icelandic Patrol
U.S. Air Force Pilot Randy Watkins sent in this shot of his 2001 Ford F-150 SuperCrew. The rig has a 3-inch body lift, which helps to clear 33-inch Kelly Springfield Safari tires wrapped around a set of 16-inch Pacer wheels. Randy says he uses the Ford mostly for duck hunting trips in the Louisiana swamps. However, while stationed in Iceland, he has found out it works well in the snow and ice too.
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Photographer Deborah Feingold Talks About Shooting Mick Jagger
Over the course of her more-than 40-year career, Deborah Feingold has photographed many of the biggest names in popular culture. On Sept. 30, she will release 'Music,' the first-ever compilation of her work.
The photo of Mick Jagger at the top of this page graces the cover. Feingold was kind enough to give us this preview, as well as the story behind how she got the shot.
"We turned up the music and Mick immediately started posing. It was going great and I was feeling fantastic, which of course is when it all started to fall apart. I heard a crackle and then a loud pop behind me as I watched my main light explode. I panicked knowing how interruptions can change the flow of a shoot."
"I apologized and explained to Mick that it would take a few minutes to replace the light and asked him to stay on set. As I directed my assistants behind me, I never took my eyes off of him. And it was just out of the corner of my eye that I saw this shot. Indeed, I kept my eye on the prize."
With 108 pages and a foreword by Grammy award-winning critic Anthony DeCurtis, 'Music' features photographs of Bono, Joey Ramone, Keith Richards, Prince and many others. You can learn more about the book and pre-order it at Amazon.


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Team Looking to Start Spring Break Off Right
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After a long off-season and surviving a particularly frozen New England winter, the Yale women's sailing team is looking forward to its first event of the spring, the Charleston Women's Intersectional to be held in Charleston, S.C. Not only does the chance for warm weather sound nice to the Bulldogs, but the opportunity to finally sail again has them licking their chops.
Freshman skipper Marlena Fauer, who started her collegiate sailing career off with a bang in the fall, says that she is "really excited to pick up from where [the team] left off at the end of the fall season". Those words are a testament to the fact that although the final regatta of the fall did not end quite as hoped, overall it was a strong season that bodes well for the spring.
Fauer will continue to sail with freshman crew Eugenia Custo Greig in B division for the Bulldogs while junior skipper Genoa Warner and junior crew Stephanie Schuyler represent Yale in A division. This team combination has proven itself as a force to be reckoned with on multiple previous occasions. They took third overall at the Regis Bowl in Boston in September and took first by a commanding 36-point margin at the Finger Lakes Women's Intersectional held in Geneva, N.Y., in October.
The Yale women hope to be able to hop into their boats at the College of Charleston and start right back up where they left off, but most importantly, as Fauer says very wisely herself, the regatta "will be a great tune up for the rest of the season". Getting back on the race course and finding their groove again in boat-handling, starting and tactics is the first step of the year towards achieving their ultimate goal of qualifying for the National Championship regatta to be held in May.
Immediately following racing in Charleston on Sunday the four Bulldogs will hop onto a plane and fly to St. Petersburg, Fla. There they will meet up with the rest of the Yale sailing team as well as a team from the University of South Florida for a week of intense spring break training under the Florida sun. Judging by remarks from a few team members, the entire Yale sailing team seems to have the right attitude going into its first weekend of the new season. This is particularly important seeing as the regatta in Charleston marks only the first two of a total of 11 days that the sailors plan to be on the water during the two-week spring break.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tombstone Tuesday: Catherine and Edward EISWERTH
Angela Catherine COUCHIE was born 21 May 1900 in Pennsylvania (probably Darlington, Beaver county) to Enos KAVCIC and Apolonia ALBRECHT who both immigrated from Austria.
She married Edward Charles EISWERTH on 14 Oct 1919 in East Palestine, Columbiana county, Ohio.
Edward was born 22 Jun 1885 in Bastress, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania to Lewis M EISWERTH and Maria DINCHER. He died 7 Mar 1949.
Catherine died 16 Sep 1969.
They are both buried at the Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Bastress, Pennsylvania.
Edward and Catherine are my great grandparents. They had one child, my grandfather.
Catherine A and Edward C Eiswerth marker, Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Bastress (Lycoming), Pennsylvania; photo taken by DKE, 2009.
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| WMU News
KALAMAZOO—Dr. Rachel Swearingen, a Western Michigan University alumna, is among six women to receive this year's Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
Created by the late novelist Rona Jaffe, the prestigious award recognizes the contributions women writers make to culture and society. It comes with a $30,000 grant and stands as the only national literary prize of its kind devoted exclusively to women, according the foundation.
Foundation officials say Jaffe created the program in 1995 to identify and support women writers who possess "unusual talent and promise" at early stages of their careers. The six award recipients will be feted during a private ceremony in New York City on Sept. 20.
Swearingen, still astounded by the honor for which she was anonymously nominated, says the prize will allow her to focus on completing a novel she's been developing.
"That's huge, because my biggest hurdle has been finding the time to work on a larger project and finish a book," says Swearingen, who just began an academic-year appointment as a visiting professor at Kalamazoo College. Once her appointment has ended, Swearingen plans to turn to her novel in earnest.
A Kalamazoo resident for about seven years, she moved to the area from Seattle to pursue a doctorate in creative writing at WMU. While there, Swearingen spent a few years as editor of Third Coast, a national literary magazine based at the University.
Her own works of short fiction have been published in several literary magazines, such as AGNI, The Missouri Review and the Mississippi Review. More recently, she had another short story accepted for publication by The Kenyon Review and next year, she'll have a piece featured in the anthology "New Stories from the Midwest."
It was Swearingen's body of work that inspired an anonymous admirer to nominate her for the Jaffe prize. She wasn't even aware of the nomination until a letter from the foundation arrived in the mail last spring informing her that she was a nominee and a finalist for the award. The foundation's letter also asked that she submit a writing sample and Swearingen later learned that she was one of the six writers selected.
"I didn't expect to be chosen because the letter notifying me that I had been nominated was very clear that my chances would be slim," she says.
Receiving the award has been a confidence booster. "Any writer who has been writing for a long time has experienced a lot of rejection," Swearingen says.
She credits WMU's creative writing program, in part, for developing her talent and in particular praises her faculty mentors, such as the celebrated novelist Jaimy Gordon, professor emerita of English and 2010 recipient of the National Book Award for fiction.
Too few people realize "how good Western's writing program is, and how many great writers have come out of it because of its phenomenal teachers," says Swearingen, who isn't the only WMU alumna to have won a Jaffe prize.
Author Kellie Wells, who received her doctorate in English from WMU in 1999 and today teaches at the University of Alabama, also won the award in 2002.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – In their final game in Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium the Coker men's basketball team's four seniors, Mason Ambler, Michael Gore, Ricardo Smith and Brandon Sanders, were unable to lead their team to victory as the Cobras lost to the Falcons of Pfeiffer University 93-82 in Conference Carolinas men's basketball action Wednesday night.
The loss drops the Cobras to 11-14 overall and 8-11 in the conference, placing them in a three way tie for seventh place in the Conference standings entering the final weekend of play. Currently, Coker would take the eighth and final spot in the tournament by virtue of Belmont Abbey holding a 2-0 advantage head-to-head against the Cobras. Pfeiffer improves to 15-8 overall and 13-6 in the conference with the win, giving them the fourth seed currently for the tournament.
The Cobras stormed out of the gates and took an early 21-9 run in the first seven minutes of play, but Pfeiffer battled their way back to eventually take a 50-39 lead as both teams entered the locker room for halftime.
The second half saw the Cobras chip away at the Falcon lead and even get as close as five points, but Coker was unable to ever gain another lead and in the end the Falcons were able to take home the win.
Pfeiffer was outstanding from beyond the arc, hitting 10 of 25 (40.0%), while Coker shot just 21.4 percent from three-point range. The Cobras did shoot a solid 58.9 percent from the field, but were manhandled on the glass, as the Falcons cleaned up 36 rebounds to Coker's 28.
Michael Gore (Landis, N.C.) had 15 points in his final home game, while Joselle Bracy (Ruby, S.C.) put up a season high 15 points. Mason Ambler (Atlanta, Ga.) finished his last game at Coker with a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds, with Vatrick Thompson(Columbia, S.C.) and Delonte Doles (Roswell, Ga.) scoring 14 and 10 points respectively.
Chris Woods had a game high 20 points for Pfeiffer, with James Crowder following behind with 17 points. Reggie Hollinger and Jeff Pettiway each dropped in 12 points and James Morse chipped in 10 points.
Both teams will wrap up the 2009-2010 Conference Carolinas schedule on the road this Saturday, February 27. Coker travels to Barton while Pfeiffer heads to Anderson. Both games tip-off at 7:30 p.m.


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Turkish group wants Egyptian leaders prosecuted
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish Islamic human rights group has petitioned for Egypt's military chief and 10 other officials to be put on trial for crimes including murder, torture and unlawful imprisoning under a law that allows prosecution of such crimes by Turkish courts, even if they were not committed in the country.
Ahmet Faruk Unsal, who heads the Ankara-based Mazlum-Der group, said Thursday he filed the complaint with prosecutors against the Egyptian defense minister and the military-backed government this week for deposing Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi through a "coup."
He added, however, that prosecutors need the Justice Ministry's permission before starting possible action against Egyptian leaders.
Turkey's Islamic-rooted government, which had forged an alliance with Morsi, has also spoken out against his ouster and has demanded his immediate release.


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All but which of the following methods are permitted to guard live parts from accidental contact? Assume the nominal voltage of the system is 600V or less.
- By elevation of 8 ft or more above the floor or other working space.
- By location on a suitable balcony, gallery, or platform elevated and arranged so as to exclude unqualified persons.
- By wearing Level 1 to 4 flame resistant clothing and using equipment appropriate for the hazard/risk category based on Table 130.7(C)(9) & (10) of NFPA 70E – 2009.
- By location in a room, vault, or similar enclosure that is accessible only to qualified persons.
Answer: C
As per 110.27(A) of the 2008 NEC, there are four options available to protect persons from making accidental contact with energized live parts. The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is not one of the four choices.
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UK network EE (Everything Everywhere) has announced that it will be rolling out its LTE services to 27 more markets by June 2013. EE is currently the only UK network to offer LTE data on its network and it claims that by June this year it will have coverage of 55% of the UK population up from its current claim of 45%.
Olaf Swantee, Chief Executive Officer, EE, said:
"Our business customers want a 4G network that covers the markets in which they operate, and that is exactly what we are building for them – and at a phenomenal rate. We're set to cover more than half of the UK population by Summer, staying ahead of the schedule that we set for ourselves at launch, and continuing to demonstrate the amazing value of 4G mobile to many organisations with different challenges and different needs."
Between April and June, 4G will be launched in Aldershot, Ashford, Basildon, Basingstoke, Blackpool, Bracknell, Camberley, Colchester, Crawley, Farnborough, Guildford, Horsham, Huddersfield, Leatherhead, Maidstone, Milton Keynes, Oldham, Oxford, Redhill, Reigate, Sevenoaks, Stevenage, Tonbridge, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Warrington, Wigan and Woking.
EE has quite a head start with LTE over the other UK networks and it looks like it is making the most of that now. The other UK networks like Three, Vodafone and O2 should see some movement on their own LTE services by the summer of this year with Three already announcing that It will not be charging any premium for LTE. This year could eventually be the year that the UK catches up with the US and will finally be able to offer super fast mobile data at affordable prices.
Source: EE
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