text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Sculpting 1:1 Head Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Sculpting 1:1 Head" mathmemberMember #Joined: 07 Mar 2004Posts: 254Location: Gnarsemole Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:12 pm Hi everyone, I wanna create a lifesize head bust in the near future. Its some kind of therapy for myself since things arent too well at the moment. But im not sure what kind of material i wanna use. I worked with Clay before but i think its really hard to get fine details. Or maybe i just used the wrong kind of clay...... I used Super sculpey, but thats like really expensive since theres no easy supple available in my country. And im not sure how to fit the finished bust into my oven. Soap Stone is nice too, but its chips so easily. With smaller works i will just start over or change them so its no problem. But this project is bigger and i dont want my bust to look like the sphinx with a broken nose or sth. Marble..no idea. I heard its quite hard to work with and ive never worked with a chisel n stuff. Anyway, im open for all ur suggestions. Feel free to recommend anything to me, even i already mentioned my thoughts about it in my post. "Best" material for a beginner thanks_________________quit pro quo Back to top durgldeepmemberMember #Joined: 14 Sep 2001Posts: 859 Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 4:48 pm If you want to start right away (rather than fuss with ordering special materials - or afterward clay firing, etc.) I'd suggest rough the head in paper mache and render details with whatever's handy. My two cents. Good luck. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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The document Unitatis Redintegratio (21 Nov. 1964) of the Second Vatican Council stresses spiritual ecumenism. Sometimes we overlook this aspect. But we can't but focus on what is the soul of the ecumenical movement; theologians and church leaders have a lot of work to do on this point; I recall that the saints have kept their eyes on this method, and so we as members of the Body of Christ have to keep focused on daily conversion, a daily turn toward the Lord.
With two noteworthy ecumenical monastic communities this week, Taize and Bose, the Pope spoke of three conditions at the center for Christian unity:
1. there's no unity without conversion of heart, which includes forgiving and asking for forgiveness.
2. there is no unity without prayer and therefore men and women religious who pray for unity are like 'an invisible monastery' bringing together Christians of different denominations from different countries around the world.
3. there is no unity without holiness of daily life. so the more we put our search for unity into practise in our relations with others, the more we will be modelling our lives on the message of the Gospel.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity which concludes today (the feast of the Conversion of St Paul) meditated on the theme, "Give me a drink," from the narrative of the Samaritan woman meeting Jesus.
In his talk with the monastic communities whose primary work is Christian Unity, His Holiness spoke of the fact that we see in the Savior a "desire for unity" among the disciples, and that same thirst continues today especially with the divisions of the Christian community. The thirst of the Samaritan woman –and therefore each one of us– is a "thirst not only material for water, but above all our thirst for a full life, free from the slavery of evil and death."
Francis calls us to pray about this fact: "Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promises because it is he who gives to the Holy Spirit, the 'living water' that quenches our restless hearts, hungry for life, love, freedom, peace: thirsty for God."

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well today was much better than yesterday, thank jeebus.
headed into work a bit early to triage some email prior to a morning spent with a jobtalk and interviewing a candidate for an gig chez moi.
had a meeting that ran extra long so missed a conference call for SLA Eastern Canada (i'm president-elect) which bummed me out since it was my first thinger in an official capacity. grrrr.
inhaled lunch prior to the selection committee resuming to discuss the morning's candidate. our committee is made up of folks from all around the library, so it's always interesting to hear other opinions and figure out what is important to people. sometimes i agree, sometimes i don't, but the insight is hella valuable.
spent a chunk of the afternoon reviewing the schedules for the 7 students i hired last week. coordinating it with the two digitization projects they are working on, as well as making sure no work station is double-booked… well, let's just say i'm a big-picture person so will have one of my team members have a look at it and make sure i didn't monkey any of it. (i probably did.)
met with ed to further develop the workplan for digital initiatives. we've built a plan that will take us to september. i think ed calls it "optimistically ambitious" – which means we're planning to get way too much stuff done by the end of the summer, but that's kinda how we roll. we seem to be pretty good at getting things done in a miraculous fashion, except when we don't.
answered a bunch of copyright questions, set up some meetings for a few digital projects we're working on, and iced my ankle a few times.
towards the end of the afternoon, collections services brought me a few rare books to have digitized as part of an islamic manuscript collection. we chatted about next steps and planned a meeting for tomorrow. the books were just sitting on my desk and so i started wondering about them. looked them up in the catalogue – all three were over 350 years old.
now, those of you who know me know that i'm the reason we can't have nice things. i lose favourite pieces of jewellery, dribble food on fancy clothing, and cause sparks to fly out of expensive machinery.
so i decided it was best to call it a day and get the hell outta my office before i tried to take a swig of water out of my sippy cup, only to have the lid explode off the top, somehow hitting a sprinkler on the ceiling, breaking that little doohickey that if you break it (say, by hanging your clothes from it on a cruise ship because they need to dry and there's no other place to hang things from since you're living in a 6'x8′ cabin for 7 months – or so i'm told) sets off the water, thereby drowning my office, and these precious and unique books.


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Senior Ella Ellis scored a career-high 37 points, including 16 of Army's 17 in overtime, in a non-league loss in New Haven, Conn.
Ellis hit 10 of 20 shots from the field and 14 of 15 from the foul line. It was Army's highest-scoring game since Mark Lueking scored 41 against Wesley on Jan. 30, 1996. Ellis moved into 20th place on Army's all-time scoring list (1,136).
Josh Herbeck, Kyle Wilson and Matt Gramling each had 10 points for Army (3-2), which had a three-game win streak snapped. Herbeck missed a 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the second overtime.
Austin Morgan had 19 points and Sam Martin added 11 for Yale. Martin hit a 3-pointer with less than 30 seconds to play to give Yale the lead.
Army improved to 5-1 with the win late Friday night in Colorado Springs, Colo. Freshman Kelsey Minato set an Academy record with 13 made free throws, and scored 20 points. She hit a field goal and five foul shots over the final 1 minute, 57 seconds.
Olivia Schretzman had 18 points and 10 rebounds, Aimee Oertner had 14 points and nine rebounds and Anna Simmers scored 13 points for Army, which is 4-0 on the road.
"It was a tremendous second-half effort by our team,'' said Army head coach Dave Magarity. "I felt Olivia Schretzman was remarkable – one of the best games of her young career. She showed great toughness and leadership. And once again Kelsey Minato came up big in the clutch and down the stretch with her free throws.''
Paul Hancock won three matches at 165 pounds as Army went 1-2 at the Northeast Duals in Troy. The Black Knights lost to No. 23 Purdue, 23-12, beat Binghamton, 16-15, on a third tie-breaker, and lost to Rutgers, 26-15.
Winning in the Purdue match were Jordan Thome (133 pounds, by pin), Connor Hanafee (141) and Hancock. Posting decision wins against Binghamton were Hunter Wood (125), Brian Harvey (157), Hancock, Ryan Tompkins (174) and Collin Wittmeyer (184). Hancock and Bryce Barnes (197) won against Rutgers.


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This weekend marks the anniversary of a very special episode of Friends, aptly titled "The One Where Ross Finds Out," which first aired on Nov. 9, 1995.
A little background: When the second season began, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) showed up at the airport to tell Ross (David Schwimmer) his romantic feelings were requited, but soon discovered he was dating fellow paleontologist Julie.
By this episode, Rachel resolves to move on and lets Monica (Courteney Cox) fix her up. The world's worst date ensues, during which Rachel chugs wine and obsesses over Ross and Julie. An intoxicated Rachel then proceeds to aggressively borrow another diner's giant cellphone (reminder: this was 1995) and leave a humiliating message on Ross's answering machine, proclaiming she's "over him."
In one of the series' most monumental scenes, Rachel then teaches all of us how to do damage control after a drunk dial (well, sort of). When Ross stops by her apartment the next day and asks to check his voicemail, Rachel suddenly has a flashback to the previous night's inebriated phone call. She jumps on Ross in a valiant effort to wrestle away the phone, as he wonders out loud, "When were you under me?" The episode concludes with TV's favorite on-again, off-again couple's famous first kiss.


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Wellington Burt's fortune was not to be distributed to his family heirs until 21 years after all of his grandchildren who were living in 1919 had died. That condition has just been met, and the $100 to $110 million legacy is about to be released.
You may be surprised to see who has family ties to this history book event. Within the 25,000 plus relatives in the Family Forest kinship report (see question number ten) of Hon. Wellington R. Burt are a number of instantly recognizable names.
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Pavia leads entourage to D.C.
STAMFORD -- Mayor Michael Pavia took several members of his administration to the nation's capitol for a two-day farewell tour this week, meeting with members of Congress, as well as key federal officials.
Pavia drove down to Washington, D.C., Wednesday accompanied by Director of Operations Ernie Orgera, Director of Economic Development Laure Aubuchon, Health Director Anne Fountain and Executive Aide Lynn Arnow. The group visited U.S. Rep. Jim Himes and U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, all D-Conn., before meeting with federal justice, housing, environmental and transportation officials.
"Most importantly, the mayor wanted to thank all of the Congressional staff and all of the people in the various agencies who have worked very hard on Stamford's behalf," Aubuchon said. "We have been blessed with strong support. We're also reminding them not to forget the city as the new administration comes in."
Pavia said he is also aiming to tie up some "loose ends" before he leaves office in two and a half weeks. He hoped a meeting with Corey Ray, senior public affairs specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice, might result in a federal grant for Stamford.
"We have been visiting them regularly every year, but we haven't been able to get any grants or anything out of the Department of Justice because they see Stamford as too safe," Pavia said. "We're going to see if we can complete some open business there."
The Stamford officials were also scheduled to meet with Peter Rogoff, an administrator for the Federal Transit Administration who worked closely with Pavia's administration on the Stamford Urban Transitway project.
"Any major infrastructure projects that we may need to have done -- it's his office and his department that would be pivotal in all of that," Pavia said. "We're just laying more bricks in the roadway for future opportunities for the city of Stamford."
Stamford taxpayers are covering the trip's expenses, Pavia said. The group left the Government Center early Wednesday morning and was scheduled to return to Stamford Thursday evening.
More InformationHighlights of Mayor Michael Pavia's trip to Washington
10:30 a.m. : Arlington National Cemetery
Noon: Meeting at U.S. Department of Labor
1:30 p.m. : Meet with U.S. Rep. Jim Himes
2:30 p.m.: Meet with U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy
4 p.m. : Meet with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal
5:30: Meet with former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Clarine Nardi Riddle
8 a.m.: Tour of the White House
9:30 a.m. : Meeting at U.S. Department of Justice
10:30 a.m.: Meeting at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
11:45 a.m. : Meeting with former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Clarine Nardi Riddle
1 p.m.: Meeting at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2 p.m.: Meeting at U.S. Department of Transportation
"We drove down, so it's basically a tank of gasoline and overnight in the hotel," he said.
Orgera accompanied the group because he worked with federal officials in the aftermath of several powerful storms that battered Stamford during Pavia's tenure. Fountain went to drum up grant support for Stamford Hospital, the mayor said.
"Everybody has a specific reason to be here," Pavia said.
Reached by phone Thursday, Blumenthal said he enjoyed Pavia's visit to his Washington office.
"He brought me a wonderful photo of Stamford, which now hangs in my office, showing the skyline and several buildings where I worked when I was an attorney there," Blumenthal said. "It was a very meaningful gift."
Blumenthal said he enjoyed a "cooperative and collaborative" relationship with Pavia over the last four years.
"He's a Republican, I'm a Democrat, but our work together was supremely bipartisan," Blumenthal said. "He has always struck me as a public servant who really rises above politics and partisan differences to do what he thinks is right."
Himes could not be reached for comment Thursday. Murphy, who was elected to the U.S. Senate last year, said he also enjoyed Pavia's visit this week.
"He's always been a forceful and effective advocate for Stamford," Murphy said in a statement provided by his office. "While we only worked together for a short time, Mike's near constant presence in Washington, D.C., has done great things for the city."
The mayor and his delegation were able to squeeze in some sightseeing during their trip, including tours of Arlington National Cemetery and the White House. The group also met with former Connecticut Attorney General Clarine Nardi Riddle and former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Stamford native.
Pavia has traveled to more exotic locations than Washington as Stamford's mayor. Last year, the mayor flew to London during the Olympic Games to meet with Royal Bank of Scotland executives, who assured Pavia of the bank's commitment to its U.S. headquarters in Stamford.
In 2011, Pavia visited the Peruvian capital of Lima to cement Stamford's sister-city relationship with the South American city. Pavia and the Stamford officials who accompanied him paid their own ways for the London and Peruvian trips.
Pavia was elected to the mayor's office in 2009 and served one term before deciding not to seek re-election. The mayor-elect, Democrat David Martin, won the November election to replace Pavia and will be sworn in Dec. 1.
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Allan Clarke served as the lead vocalist for The Hollies from their birth in 1962 until his retirement in 2000, although there were a few times in the 1970s when he went AWOL to pursue a solo career. His distinctive voice can be heard on several Top 40 Hits, including "Look Through Any Window," "I Can't Let Go," "Long Cool Woman," "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," and "The Air The I Breathe."
He also composed several great songs, as part of the GRALTO songwriting team of Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, and Tony Hicks. In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales, Graham Nash had many words of praise for Clarke, whom he first met when the two of them were classmates in school. In addition to his tenure with The Hollies, Clarke also scored an FM radio hit by singing lead on "Breakdown" from The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot album.
Clarke discovered Bruce Springsteen before many people had heard of The Boss, and performed Springsteen material on his solo releases. According to a recent post from a fan on the Allan Clarke Facebook page, Clarke met Springsteen in New York back in the 1970s. Springsteen was in the audience when Clarke reunited with Nash for a performance at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony.
A new compilation honoring Allan Clarke's solo efforts, titled Sideshow: Solo Recordings 1973 –1976, is now available as an import on Amazon.
In honor of Allan Clarke's birthday, here's a clip of him singing "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress." Note to the organizers of Fest For Beatles Fans: Can you please invite this gentleman when you come to Chicago in August? He can't belt out those vocals like he used to, but it would be fascinating to see him interviewed by Terri Hemmert or Martin Lewis.


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I rendered a simple scene in Bryce 3D as I was fooling around with the program. The scene took over twenty hours to render on my computer. 20 hours! Life is way too short to be a computer artist. I am going back to pastels and watercolor...
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Rafael Nadal's comeback foiled by stomach bug
The 11-time Grand Slam winner had hoped to return to action at Abu Dhabi this week
Spaniard has battled against a knee injury which has kept him out of action for past six months
Nadal took to social media networks to reveal his withdrawal from exhibition tournament
Rafael Nadal's long-awaited comeback has been put on hold after he was forced to withdraw from an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi with a stomach infection.
The 26-year-old, who has not played since his shock second round defeat by world number 100 Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon, had hoped to make a return to action following a six-month absence with a knee injury.
Nadal is desperate to be fit for the ATP tournament in Doha on December 31, but now faces an uphill struggle to make the event.
Rosol sends Nadal crashing out of Wimbledon
The 11-time Grand Slam winner was set to play at a six player exhibition competition this week alongside the likes of world number one Novak Djokovic and U.S. Open champion Andy Murray.
But the Spaniard has taken to Facebook and Twitter to reveal he will now be unable to compete after pulling out of the tournament following advice from his doctor.
"I am really sorry but I cannot compete this year in Abu Dhabi," wrote the seven-time French Open champion and presently ranked number four in the world.
Nadal to make long-awaited tennis return
"Everything was ready and I was really eager to return to competition, but the doctors have forbidden me to participate in Abu Dhabi because of a viral infection of the stomach which has provoked a fever."
The news comes as blow for Nadal, who is desperate to get back on the court and make up the ground on his rivals.
After his shock defeat at Wimbledon, Nadal was diagnosed with Hoffa's syndrome, an inflammation of the fatty tissue in his left knee which has plagued him in recent years.
The injury prevented him from defending his Olympic title at London 2012, while he also missed out on the U.S. Open and Spain's Davis Cup final defeat by the Czech Republic in November.
Nadal targets Australian Open return
But speaking earlier in the week, he insisted that his knee was now in better shape with the new season upon the horizon.
"I haven't forgotten how to play. I have played over 600 ATP matches and I have spent two years without playing.
"My feeling is good. I won Roland Garros and those emotions are still me," he said.
"The doctors say the knee is fine and that is great news for me. I still feel something, it's not perfect."


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TAMPA, Fla. -- The crowded Yankees outfield promises to make this Ichiro Suzuki's most uncertain spring as a big league player, but the veteran expects that he will be able to find a niche to help the team win games.
Upon learning that the Yankees had added both Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran this winter, Ichiro said that his immediate reaction was to exclaim: "Oops!"
"This is a place where the greatest players gather and play, so I'm really excited to play with those guys," Ichiro said through an interpreter. "Obviously with the additions, I'm going to have to find a place for myself.
"But I've worked hard this offseason and I've worked on a lot of things. Throughout Spring Training, hopefully those things will come together and we'll see where it goes from there."
The Yankees project to have Ellsbury in center field, Beltran in right field and Brett Gardner in left field. Alfonso Soriano will see time at designated hitter, but can be available to play the outfield with Ichiro, who may be asked to fill roles as a pinch-runner or defensive replacement.
"It starts tomorrow," Ichiro said. "My job up to this point was to come here healthy, in good shape, and that's what I did. I'm here and we'll see where it goes tomorrow."
Ichiro, 40, acknowledged that he had thoughts this offseason about being traded.
"When you're here with the Yankees, you tend to think about those things," Ichiro said. "You just never know, like I said before, with great players coming here. I thought about a lot of things, which I think a lot of players do."
Ichiro has 2,742 Major League hits, and said that he is not thinking about reaching 3,000. As he heads into his 14th big league season, Ichiro said that he is not sure how much longer he expects to play.
"I do have goals and dreams about certain things, but when you get into the late 30s, you just have to take it year by year," Ichiro said. "Obviously you have goals within that, but you can't really make a long-term goal when you're in this stage. I think you just take it year by year and go from there."


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In this short note we prove some general results on semi-stable sheaves on P_2 and P_3 with arbitrary linear Hilbert polynomial. Using Beilinson's spectral sequence, we compute free resolutions for this class of semi-stable sheaves and deduce that the smooth moduli spaces M_{r m + s}(P_2) and M_{r m + r - s}(P_2) are birationally equivalent if r and s are coprime.
Power-ordered sets are not always lattices. In the case of distributive lattices we give a description by disjoint of chains. Finite power-ordered sets have a polarity. We introduct the leveled lattices and show examples with trivial tolerance. Finally we give a list of Hasse diagrams of power-ordered sets.
Abstract: This paper presents a solution to a problem from superanalysis about the existence of Hilbert-Banach superalgebras. Two main results are derived: 1) There exist Hilbert norms on some graded algebras (infinite-dimensional superalgebras included) with respect to which the multiplication is continuous. 2) Such norms cannot be chosen to be submultiplicative and equal to one on the unit of the algebra.
Influence of center-of-mass correlations on spontaneous emission and Lamb shift in dense atomic gases (2000)
Abstract: Local field effects on the rate of spontaneous emission and Lamb shift in a dense gas of atoms are discussed taking into account correlations of atomic center-of-mass coordinates. For this the exact retarded propagator in the medium is calculated in independent scattering approximation and employing a virtual-cavity model. The resulting changes of the atomic polarizability lead to modi cations of the medium response which can be of the same order of magnitude but of opposite sign than those due to local field corrections of the dielectric function derived by Morice, Castin, and Dalibard [Phys.Rev.A 51, 3896 (1995)].
Abstract: We identify form-stable coupled excitations of light and matter ("dark-state polaritons") associated with the propagation of quantum fields in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. The properties of the dark-state polaritons such as the group velocity are determined by the mixing angle between light and matter components and can be controlled by an external coherent field as the pulse propagates. In particular, light pulses can be decelerated and "trapped" in which case their shape and quantum state are mapped onto metastable collective states of matter. Possible applications of this reversible coherent-control technique are discussed.
Abstract: We analyze systematic (classical) and fundamental (quantum) limitations of the sensitivity of optical magnetometers resulting from ac-Stark shifts. We show that incontrast to absorption-based techniques, the signal reduction associated with classical broadening can be compensated in magnetometers based on phase measurements using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). However due to ac-Stark associated quantum noise the signal-to-noise ratio of EIT-based magnetometers attains a maximum value at a certain laser intensity. This value is independent on the quantum statistics of the light and defines a standard quantum limit of sensitivity. We demonstrate that an EIT-based optical magnetometer in Faraday configuration is the best candidate to achieve the highest sensitivity of magnetic field detection and give a detailed analysis of such a device.
Abstract: We analyze the above-threshold behavior of a mirrorless parametric oscillator based on resonantly enhanced four wave mixing in a coherently driven dense atomic vapor. It is shown that, in the ideal limit, an arbitrary small flux of pump photons is sufficient to reach the oscillator threshold. We demonstrate that due to the large group velocity delays associated with coherent media, an extremely narrow oscillator linewidth is possible, making a narrow-band source of non-classical radiation feasible.
Abstract: We describe a technique for manipulating quantum information stored in collective states of mesoscopic ensembles. Quantum processing is accomplished by optical excitation into states with strong dipole-dipole interactions. The resulting "dipole blockade" can be used to inhibit transitions into all but singly excited collective states. This can be employed for a controlled generation of collective atomic spin states as well as non-classical photonic states and for scalable quantum logic gates. An example involving a cold Rydberg gas is analyzed.
On quantum logic operations based on photon-exchange interactions in an ensemble of non-interacting atoms (2000)
Abstract: The recently proposed idea to generate entanglement between photon states via exchange interactions in an ensemble of atoms (J. D. Franson and T. B. Pitman, Phys. Rev. A 60 , 917 (1999) and J. D. Franson et al., (quant- ph/9912121)) is discussed using an S -matix approach. It is shown that if the nonlinear response of the atoms is negligible and no additional atom-atom interactions are present, exchange interactions cannot produce entanglement between photons states in a process that returns the atoms to their initial state. Entanglement generation requires the presence of a nonlinear atomic response or atom-atom interactions.


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Send in the mirrors. Obviously there's a shortage, judging by the lawmakers and district attorneys who acknowledge racial bias in the justice system in neighboring counties, but never in theirs.
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act, which simply allows defendants in capital trials to present another piece of evidence that race was a significant factor in their case, is up for a concurrence vote in the Senate today.
Senators are being asked to restore the bill's original intent of securing fairness in the ultimate punishment. It strips out amendments inserted by Senators eager for the state to resume executions, and whom still voted against the bill even after their amendments were added.
The Racial Justice Act has been subjected to a cruel, years-long political game among legislators wary that their votes might make them vulnerable in an election year. But more than most questions put before our lawmakers, this bill is about life and death judgments. Lawmakers have long ignored racial prejudices and assumptions that are typically unspoken and infinitely present in capital sentencing.
In the last year, three innocent black men were released from death row. It's bad enough that those men served a combined 41 years in prison on death row, but they would have been executed without the state's court-imposed moratorium on the death penalty.
Today blacks make up 20 percent of the state's population but 60 percent of those on death row.
It'll take Senators willing to put away the politics for a day, and who have the conviction to take a hard look in the mirror before voting, to push percentages like that into the history of another era.
For more information on the NC Racial Justice Act – Senate Bill 461, please visit www.ncmoratorium.org.
The Carolina Justice Policy Center is a partner group of the NC Coalition for a Moratorium on Executions.


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Mary Ellen "Mert" Yackle
ESTHERVILLE – Mass of Christian Burial for Mary Ellen "Mert" Yackle, 83, of Estherville will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2014, with Monsignor Michael Sernett as Celebrant. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Friday at Henry-Olson Funeral
Chapel in Estherville with Vigil Service at 8 p.m. Interment will be at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Armstrong.
She died Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at the Good Samaritan Society in Estherville.
Mary Ellen "Mert" (Kimmet) Yackle, the daughter of Louis and Anna (Petersen) Kimmet, was born June 19, 1930 in Ringsted.
She received her education and graduated from Ringsted High School in 1947.
On Sept. 15, 1947 she was united in marriage to Floyd Yackle at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Armstrong. Following their marriage the couple made their home on a farm near Ringsted until 1950 and then moved to Bancroft until 1966. The couple then farmed in the Dolliver area and in 1974 they moved near Estherville and continued farming. Mert was employed with the United States Postal Service for over 23 years, retiring in 1992. In 2001, Mert and her son, Steve, visited Danish cousins in Scandinavia. In 2002, she went to Italy to the Vatican City, Assisi and Pompeii. Mert also visited New York City and she and Floyd made three trips to Hawaii. Mert and Floyd enjoyed winters in Florida, Arizona and Las Vegas and many visits to Indiana and Michigan to visit friends they met in Hawaii.
She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters, Genealogy Society, Good Samaritan Auxiliary, Dolliver Chatter Club, Pioneer Club, Danish American Fellowship, Red Hat's Queen Mum, Galloping Grandma's Relay for Life and Estherville Public Library.
Left to cherish Mert's memory are her children, Susan Wilander and her husband, Chet, of Bemidji, Minn.; Steve Yackle of Estherville; Nancy Yackle and spouse, Anne Marie Aita, of Omaha, Neb.; David Yackle and his wife, Brenda, of Eagle Grove; Janet Yackle of Minneapolis; Mark Yackle and his wife, Patti, of Wallingford; Mary Feldman and her husband, Mike, of Ruthven; 11 grandchildren, Matt Yackle; Andy and Tessa Yackle; Jenny Yackle and Jess Olsen; Katie Yackle; Sarah Yackle; Judy Yackle and friend, Dustin Moore; Christine and Ryan Nielsen; Paula Yackle; Heidi Yackle; Tommy Yackle and Brian Yackle; 11 great-grandchildren; siblings, Louise Carley of Cleveland; Mike Kimmet and his wife, Kay, of Fairmont, Minn.; Tom Kimmet and his wife, Carol, of Estherville; Connie Maday of Litchfield, Minn. and Alice Jacobson and her husband, Rod, of Albert Lea, Minn. She has been preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Floyd; parents, sister, Judy Thibodeau and baby brother, George.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to St. Patrick's Catholic Church or Respite Angels.


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The New Pension Scheme: New wine in completely new bottle
The new pension scheme has some innovative features. It is a long- term investment vehicle that will deepen our capital markets and make a much needed provision for self-funded old age social security net.
Want to buy live longer, Buy an annuity !!
The government is doing its bit to increase the return on the annuities by promising to exempt approved annuities from tax in the revised discussion draft on the DTC. This will benefit the richer annuity buyers since they may be in the taxable bracket.
If it's good, they will come
NPS is a good scheme but a tough sell if the return is not guaranteed. Such products need both wide publicity as well as reasonable incentives.


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It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tragic endings into new beginnings. A childless woman conceives in her old age; a fearful, self-conscious shepherd becomes a leader of millions; and a prostitute becomes a wife and mother in the lineage of Christ. Every biblical fresh start reveals the amazing, awe-inspiring hope we have for our own new beginnings in God's plan for our lives.


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Summer bucket list: 20 things to do before Labor Day
The band Mungo Jerry once sang, "In the summertime, when the weather is high, you can reach right up and touch the sky."
Of course, the band Mungo Jerry were probably neck deep in the electric Kool-Aid when they penned those words, and now - this just in - looking at the rest of the lyrics, I think Mungo Jerry should have been on an FBI watch list ... "Have a drink, have a drive," Mungo Jerry? What's that all about? And what's with "If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal. If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel?" What are you advocating, Mungo Jerry?
Anyway, Mungo Jerry aside, it is the summertime and I've got things I want to accomplish before Labor Day. In short: This my official 20-count summer bucket list. Hang on, 'cause here we go ...
1) Reunite with the cast of "Jersey Shore" and do tequila shots off random Snooki parts. I miss Snooki.
2) Not pay one beach fee at the Jersey Shore because I'm going to sneak on every time. I'm morally opposed to beach fees. For those of you not familiar with New Jersey beaches, almost all the beach towns charge people to use the sand and water. Anywhere from $5 to $12 a day. Insanity.
3) Have a beer with Edward Snowden.
4) Figure out, once and for all, if I think Edward Snowden is a patriot or a traitor.
5) Take my kids to see the Statue of Liberty; tell them it used to be a real-live person, but this it what happens to people who don't listen to their moms and dads.
6) Re-watch every episode of Season 4 of "Arrested Development."
7) Find out about a high school keg party, sneak in, replace keg with non-alcoholic beer. Witness ensuing idiocy.
8) Use the lazy summer months to start caring more about social issues that don't necessarily affect me, but that do affect blah blah blah whatever.
9) Sample the rums of the world!
10) And while I'm at it, the beers of the world! (I'm sorry. Alcohol brings out the exclamation points in me. In me!)
11) Enact a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to hot dog consumption.
12) Make a late-night run for the border.
13) I was talking about a red-eye vacation flight to Mexico up there, not a Taco Bell snack.
14) Carry around a thin white glove in order to cinematically slap the face of anyone who asks me, "Hot enough for ya?"
15) Leave nasty comments on the Facebook feeds of anyone who sees fit to post a picture of the digital temperature feed on the dashboard of their car.
16) Be on the lookout for people who seem to getting too much sun and, in an effort to be a real do-gooder, smother them with suntan lotion. Without even asking. Front and back.
17) Give my kids and my wife my undivided attention all summer long.
18) And then, when they're not looking, I'm going to tell them I have "big meetings" all day "at work" and then I'm going to drive down the shore, sneak on the beach, and re-read an entire Elmore Leonard novel in one sitting. I'm thinking "52 Pick Up."
19) Start eating croissants for breakfast. Just need to find some good ones. Why croissants? Because I love the taste of croissants, I love the mouthfeel of croissants, I love saying the word "croissant." So there.
20) Carry around a thin white glove in order to cinematically slap the face of anyone who uses the word "mouthfeel."
Jeff Edelstein can be reached at facebook.com/jeffreyedelstein and @jeffedelstein on Twitter.


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Beyonce strode into a Super Bowl press conference packed with perhaps 500 journalists from around the world and belted out the national anthem on Thursday to quell the controversy around her inaugural lip-syncing.
Upon reaching a brightly lit stage in the New Orleans convention center, Beyonce asked the press to stand, then gave a commanding rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" that rocked the press corps on its heels.
For a minute.
Then reporters asked about the inaugural, and whether she would sing to a backing track at halftime of the Super Bowl, where she is the featured performer. "I will most definitely be singing live," she said. "I am well-rehearsed."
She also explained — and admitted — her lip-syncing at the inauguration because "I'm a perfectionist" who felt unprepared to make her country and president proud, due to the weather and rushed preparations of the inauguration. She said she did sing, but along with a pre-recorded track. It was her first statement about the controversy since the inaugural.
The oddest question of the press conference came from a Danish reporter who asked Beyonce what color her toothbrush is.
The answer: Multi-colored.


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Alas, the formal end has come for PRrag.com.
The blog hasn't been active in over two years, but it is with a great deal of excitement that I announce the creation of John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC.
I'll be blogging JGPR.net from time to time, so please check out the site!


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These are literally being uploaded as I type:
I'm confused ... which of these is the design??
Flat roof for 4WTC:
Sloping roof for 4WTC:
These are literally being uploaded as I type:
More confusion ...
More slope:
more flat:
Those renderings suck... Where is the love for this tower?
This is just copied from the 175 Greenwich thread..
Lofter, take another look. I believe with the rendering you're confused ovefr, it's just the camera lens angle making things look more angular and dynamic. All the other renders show a flat roof.
...please note with all the renders that the floor lines are all parallel to the roof line.
You are right of course about the slope. No way of telling. This building looks almost identical to the placeholders we have had since 2003. Perhaps there is much work to be done on it yet and it was rushed out so WTC 2 & 3 could be introduced on time. WTC is clearly nothing special; it's just there. But it is not some Gehry attrocity either. It bookends the sight adequately.
Street level at 4WTC ...
Church St. Level:
Greenwich Office Lobby:
Greenwich St. Level:
Ground Floor Plan:
I hope we get a sloped roof, else it will be another 7WTC.
I'm sorry but that is just pure BS. That's great and all that they managed to justify a bunch of disparate tops with a supple curve, but who here would have ever seen that? Then ask yourself what typical architecturally uneducated tourist from Minnesota will ever make that connection. Unless this line was there long before the buildings were designed, then it's just pointless and stoopid.
Sorry for the rant, but I hate it when architects try to put meaning where there is none. Too thinky for their own good.
I'll say it again: note that every floor line on this building continues from the south side to the north, meaning there is no sloped roof. It's just a combination of camera lens tricks, and the play between the lower portion of the western wall (which angles out to the west) against the upper portion (which angles in).
To add to the confusion from the NY Times:
"inclines toward" ???The upper part of the facade inclines toward the towers to the north and is meant as a unifying gesture.
slopes up ???
Does this tower remind you of 599 Lexington? Same "contextual" architecture, same cut away reshaping of the building...
This isnt a particularly good or exciting building. Maki must have thought the design program was to emulate Edward Larabee Barnes, either way this building is an ELB 1980's throwback.
599 Lex:
535 Mad:
IBM Building (In relation to the atrium spaces)


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ILSC has a modern, interactive teaching method, and the classes are very dynamic and participative, allowing the students to express their ideas, knowledge, and culture.


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Reality Check: Wendy's New Frosty Parfaits
I love Wendy's; so it pains me to admit that their new Frosty parfaits are, for the most part, sub-par.
Back in June of last year, I ranked the Twisted Frosty as my favorite of the three national chain milkshake-like desserts that I tried. I love the Frosty's texture, not quite liquid, but like slightly runny ice cream, air-lightened. But is it a good vehicle for add-ins?
New on the menu is the Wild Berry Frosty Parfait, which Wendy's describes as "our classic Frosty [with] a very berry and flavorful twist [and] fresh, hand-sliced strawberries and juicy blueberries." In reality, it was soupy, melty, bubbly soft serve with what seemed like strawberry pancake syrup. The stawberries may have been "hand-sliced" at some point but mine were semi-frozen, and not too flavorful. The blueberries, I will agree, were plump, juicy, and slightly tart. But in the time it took to actually assemble the thing, the Frosty had melted from a semi-solid milkshake consistency to a runny mess. (The additional berry juices and liquid ingredients didn't help matters.)
Their second new item is the Caramel Apple Frosty Parfait: "Our creamy, classic Frosty swirled with all-natural brown sugar granola, fresh red and green apple slices, and real caramel." Once again, soupy soft serve rears its ugly head. Perhaps Wendy's employees are still just learning how to assemble the parfaits, but when it takes 5 minutes to doctor up something that's barely frozen to begin with, you're going to be handed a melted dessert. The granola was limp when I'd hoped for crunch; any textural interest it might have had was soaked right through. The apples were mealy and not very flavorful. As for the caramel—well, when the marketing folks can only come up with "real" as an adjective to describe it, you're not in for any sort of hidden gem.
The Oreo Frost Parfait has been on the menu for a while. It's basically a vanilla Frosty with Oreo cookie pieces and chocolate syrup. The cashier said it was her favorite, and it was mine, too. It's guilty of all the sins of the predecessors: melted, formless Frosty and unexciting syrup. However, it's got big hunks of Oreo, and Oreo makes everything better; it didn't have sub-par fruit to make up for; and it didn't have said fruit's juices liquifying everything. Also, vanilla Frosty with stray cookie bits is a more appealing thing than vanilla frosty with mealy apple bits.
I can't say I'd recommend the new parfaits; frankly, I don't think that the Frosty itself is a very good vehicle for a "parfait," the way Dairy Queens's soft serve is. I liked the blended Frosties last year, but the things take better to blending than they do layering. Sorry Wendy's, but I gotta call a spade a spade.
About the Author: John M. Edwards, the fast-food bureau chief at Serious Eats, also writes about fast food and regional chains at fastfoodr.com. His day job relates to personal training and nutrition. (Seriously.) Follow him at @johnmedwards.
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What nation in its right mind, after 9/11, after Osama (at least his collaboration with the powers that be on it), after our alleged war on terrorism, would elect a questionable and dark character who is pro-Muslim, raised during his influential years in Muslim countries, has attended a hateful Afro-racist congregation that preaches anti-American and anti-white sermons typical of Black Liberation Theology, is endorsed by avowed Black racists and rabid Nazi Muslims, etc. would let Barack Hussein Obama even entertain the notion of running for president for a second? It certainly appears America is under a curse and those who treacherously voted for that fraud and foreigner are helping to make Marxist Jeremiah Wright's wish come true that God damn America. Shame!
Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and others all represent the curse of reverse discrimination, the tail wagging the dog, the animals running the farm, the serious consequences for White Israelite disobedience to God (Deuteronomy 28:43).
We've failed to learn from history; we've been deaf, dumb and blind to the two witnesses of raped Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ruins) and besieged South Africa (that testify against our madness); and we've rejected common sense. Now we'll have hell to pay for it! God save us all!
"I will say, then, that I AM NOT NOR HAVE EVER BEEN in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races---that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever FORBID the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race."
- Abraham Lincoln


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Marli Márcia da Silva
Ashoka Fellow since Mar 2006
Without legally established paternity, 30 percent of Brazil's children raised by single mothers face lifelong stigma and limited financial means. Marli da Silva promotes the full citizenship and material and affective support of children abandoned by their fathers by supporting single mothers. She...Read more


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Jim Cohen's Sephardic Brisket Recipe
Read more: Joan Nathan's Rosh Hashanah Greatest Hits
- Yield:8
- 2 dried pasilla chiles
- 1 4-pound brisket
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- Flour for dredging
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 onions, diced
- 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, chopped
- 1 cup organce juice
- 4 cups chicken or beef stock or water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon peppercorns
- 4 tea bags of strong black tea
- 2 cups dried pitted prunes
- 2 cups dried apricots
Soak the pepper in lukewarm water for 30 minutes. Seed, remove the stems, and chop into tiny pieces.
Season the brisket with the salt and pepper and dredge with flour. heat the olive oil in a large heavy roasting pan and bronw the brisket on all sides. Remove from the pan.
Preheat the oven to 400˚F
In the same pan, over medium heat, sauté the onions and ginger until the onions are transparent. Add the pepper and deglaze with the orange juice. Reduce for a few minutes. Add the brisket and enough stock or water to cover. Add the cinnamon stick, bay leaf, and peppercorns. Cook, uncovered, until the brisket is tender, about 3 hours, turning at 30-minute intervals. Remove the cinnamon stick and bay leaf. Puree the sauce in a food processor or blender.
Cool and refrigerate a few hours or overnight. Remove the congealed fat that floats on the top of the liquid.
About 30 minutes before serving, bring 4 cups water to a boil. Steep the tea bags in the water to make a strong tea. Discard the tea bags. Put the prunes and apricots in the tea to plump for about half an hour. Then drain them. Reheat with the brisket and the plumped fruit. Serve with saffron rice, mashed potatoes, or couscous.
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Web-based dashboard integrates crime and traffic crash data to improve operational efficiency.
Imagine a society where police officers regularly stay ahead of crime and stop criminal activity before it happens. Sound too good to be true? Think again. Police departments in Oakland County, Mich., are keeping crime down throughout the region thanks to the use of advanced crime analytics software.
More than 80 police agencies in the Courts and Law Enforcement Management Information Systems (CLEMIS) Consortium are now better analyzing crime trends and strategically deploying resources with CrimeView Dashboard, a policing and operations management system by The Omega Group.
The dashboard includes seven data streams: arrestees (home address), citations, crashes, incidents (9-1-1 calls for service), offenses (crimes from the case management system), parolees (home address) and sex offenders (home address). These data sets are available with three years of historical information, and will soon include information up to five years back.
CrimeView has already proven its worth in the region. According to Jason McKinley, a senior application specialist with the city of Ann Arbor, police were able to use Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) to integrate location-based crime and traffic crash data to deploy resources more efficiently to stop criminal activity.
"We had an issue in which a specific individual was breaking and entering into residential homes and seeking out computer equipment," McKinley said. "The detective was able to look at the patterns of the movements, and time of day and week, and actually looked at staging a particular house to catch that individual. While the individual did not break into the staged house, they did arrest the individual that night."
The project was spearheaded by the city of Ann Arbor, the police departments in Canton Township, Southfield, and Pittsfield Township, along with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's office. Those five agencies put up the initial $140,000 for the project and conducted the pilot. But all CLEMIS member agencies are able to use the technology to analyze near real-time crime data. The consortium also hosts the technology platform for the region.
The CrimeView Dashboard went live in February after a six-month implementation. With the new technology, an officer can now quickly query how many robberies have been reported year to date, and, with a couple of clicks, a law enforcement official can learn on what days of the week and what times those robberies occurred.
According to Gregory Bazick, deputy chief of Administrative Services for the Ann Arbor PD, the initial idea behind the project was to find a way to automate the ability to generate a crime map for the local media. After discussing the idea with other members of CLEMIS, the group decided a more thorough program was a better value, leading them to the CrimeView Dashboard. The technology gives users a high-quality crime map, but also an analysis component that can be configured to support different organizational contexts.
Prior to the CrimeView Dashboard, the consortium was using a program called CrimeIMS that included some analytical and reporting capabilities, but was not a true dashboard.
"It was somewhat limited in the reporting," McKinley said. "It was the best available in the early 2000s, but it was time to upgrade the solution. Today, we are able to overlay multiple data streams and look at them all at once. It's all right there through dashboard-like style."
The city of Ann Arbor earlier this year won a Public Technology Institute award in the category of Public Safety Technology and Emergency Management for its use of CrimeView Dashboard.
Future iterations of the technology could include officers using an optimized dashboard that works on tablets and smartphones. Officers in the field would know what is happening in the area as well as where, relative to current crimes.
"With all the technologies that are out there, there are other tools that could be deployed effectively if we know where to deploy them," Bazick said. "We can't always rely on calls for service. It's going to lead to more effective deployment of police resources."
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More than a month after Typhoon Bopha, locally known as Pablo, hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, survivors face another challenge - rebuilding their livelihoods.
"People need livelihoods. It will take years for the agriculture industry here to recover, and many rely on, and actually live off, the plantations," Arturo Uy, governor of Compostela Valley Province, told IRIN on 9 January.
"Many are left without sources of income," he said.
Some 80 percent of residents rely on subsistence farming, producing such things as coconut, vegetables, bananas, coffee and cocoa.
The storm, the strongest to hit Mindanao since records began, passed through the southern Philippines from Mindanao to Palawan on 4 December, making landfall three times, triggering landslides and extensive flooding.
Worst affected was the eastern part of the island, particularly the provinces of Davao Oriental, Surigao del Sur and Compostela Valley - all inhabited by coastal and mountainous communities with an economy largely based on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining.
According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, over 6.3 million people were affected, with more than 200,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Nearly 2,000 people were killed or are missing.
Experts say unregulated small-scale mining had rendered many slopes saturated and pock-marked, making them unstable and prone to landslides and flash floods.
"We continue to need urgent assistance from the government, and international donors. This is increasingly becoming a humanitarian crisis," the governor said.
Key crop
Compostela Valley has been the centre of the country's US$500 million banana export industry since the 1960s. About two thirds of exported bananas are grown here, and about 150,000 people normally depend on the fruit for their primary source of income. The Philippines is the world's third largest banana exporting country.
The Agriculture Department has said over 200,000 banana farm hands and their families live on over 42,000 hectares of plantations in Mindanao owned by large corporations, where they work for US$250 dollars a month as sharecroppers - a relatively good wage in this impoverished region.
Many of the workers migrated from other parts of Mindanao to escape a decades-old Muslim and communist insurgency.
Fortunato Yubi who lost two relatives to a deadly Bopha-induced mudslide that washed out most of New Bataan town in Compostela Valley, said his family's small farm had been totally destroyed, and that they were subsisting on handouts while living in a shelter made of tarpaulin and wooden debris.
"There is no other job here for us. We've lost everything and we don't know where to go and how to start anew," the 60-year-old said. "This storm stole everything from us."
Cedric Daep, a civil defence official from eastern Bicol Region sent to the devastated area to help local officials with camp management, said the authorities must provide immediate sources of income.
"Cash-for-work-and-food programmes must be increased to give the villagers, especially heads of families, some sense of purpose and productivity, apart from the usual needs such as food, water and shelter."
Debris clearing remains a major concern, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on 8 January, with a number of clean-up and cash-for-work efforts already in place.
Food insecurity
Meanwhile, the London-based medical charity, Merlin warned of increased food insecurity following extensive damage to farms and infrastructure, as food stocks begin to dwindle and many residents lack jobs.
"With homes and livelihoods destroyed, nearly one million people are in need of food assistance," Merlin's head for Asia, Gabor Beszterczey, said in statement.
"The government believes that in the worst affected areas food aid will be needed at least until the end of March," Beszterczey said, warning that the situation could deteriorate in the coming weeks, with diseases likely.
On 10 December, the UN and humanitarian partners launched the Typhoon Bopha Action Plan (BAP), appealing for $65 million to provide emergency assistance and to help with recovery for nearly 500,000 typhoon-affected people over 3-6 months.
According to the UN Financial Tracking Service, as of 8 January, BAP is 34 percent funded with a total of $22 million in pledges, commitments and contributions. A revised BAP will be launched in Manila towards the end of January.
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Four tricks: How to make more time
Success in the workplace depends on being a good time manager, because it doesn't matter how good you are at your job if you never have time to do it. Here are the four most important steps you can take to end that feeling that you can't get everything done.
1. Prioritize ruthlessly
Most people who are too busy to get everything done are not really too busy: they are procrastinators. Everyone has time to do the most important thing on his or her to-do list each day. Most people have time to do the top five things. Problems arise when people do the number eight thing first, because it's easy.
Instead of doing the easy things, do the things that will have the most impact. Many days, for me, that means doing one very difficult thing that has the potential for big, long-term reward. The problem is that this one thing probably has a lot at stake; if it goes poorly, then no long-term reward. So I get nervous about doing it. The number-eight task has little impact, so doing it poorly doesn't scare me as much.
In the worst case, this sort of prioritization goes on all day. If you choose to do the easy things first, then at the end of the day, when there's no time, you make yourself crazy-busy trying to get the top of your to-do list done. Whereas if number eight is not done, you can go home anyway.
2. Stop doing research
One of the biggest black holes on a to-do list is research. "I need to read this book before I start writing," or "I need to have three more numbers before I start the project." In most cases, you can start without all the research. Journalists are so used to writing before all the facts are in that there is a sign– "TK"– that means "to come." So you could write the sentence: TK children are shot each year, which is TK percent of all homicides. John Doe has proposed TK legislation to address these deaths."
My friend Mary just fired someone who procrastinated so much she was frozen at her desk. This person's job was to write client work proposals, but in each case she would say she needed more information in order to write the proposal. Mary would tell her to make up assumptions for the information she didn't know, and fix it later. But this employee could not do it. She was so scared to get started on the proposals that she could always think of another number she needed from the client.
3. Sort immediately
Another form of procrastination is pile-making. To read a piece of paper briefly and then put it in a pile to be read again is to double your work. In most cases, though, a pile maker does not want to make a decision about that piece of paper until it is an emergency. If you forced yourself to deal with every piece of paper as soon as you touch it, you will find that you deal with papers in 50 percent less time.
Barnes & Noble is so convinced of this theory that the company has made touch-it-once company policy. When Barnes & Noble opens a new store, hundreds of workers unpack boxes of books. Some books are easy to shelve and some are difficult. Rather than shelving the easy ones right away and making a pile of difficult ones, Barnes & Noble mandates that employees touch a book only once: you cannot put it down until you know where it goes. Implement this in your life to expand your career as fast as Barnes & Noble's business has.
4. Call a spade a spade
This morning, I woke up, passed my kid off to the baby sitter and sat down to my computer to write a column. I checked e-mail. (I have four accounts. I checked them all.) Then I rechecked because I thought I should have received a more interesting batch of mail the first time around.
Then I opened up my column folder to start working.
Then I told myself I could surf for just a little. I came across a study from the University of Carleton that said cyber-slacking is the new form of procrastination, and it's killing peoples' productivity. I saw myself in that study, so I skipped it. I surfed a little more ... CNN, the Onion ... then I went back to the study.
Then I took my computer to a local café where I cannot connect to the Internet. The Internet is useful, yes, but in most cases, it's a way to take a break from doing the hard stuff.
It seems that most of time management is being honest with yourself: At each moment, ask if you're doing the most important thing or the easiest thing.
The more honest you are with yourself, the more time you'll find in your day.


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I'm Ellie, a project archaeologist with GGAT, and I'm currently working on a community project, Arfordir ('coastline' in Welsh) which involves working with volunteers to monitor and record the vulerable archaeology in the coastal zone of south east Wales. The study area encompasses the coast of the Gower peninsula and Swansea Bay as far as the mouth of the River Ogmore. This includes fascinating archaeology of all periods, much of which is at risk from coastal erosion, sea level change, visitor damage and other threats.
A large part of the workload of the project involves general admin, I spend the first part of every morning checking and answering emails from volunteers working on the project and liasing with colleagues. The project study area has just been expanded to the east and a lot of new volunteers have been recruited in this area, so I've been organising a meeting and training session, and inviting interested people to come along.
We've also just started working in partnership with a similar project in Swansea, and I've been creating a leaflet advertising the opportunity to volunteer and get involved in this. I'm also planning a series of guided walks around the study area so I can show volunteers some interesting archaeological sites and they can get some experience in recording and surveying. In preparation for this, I've been creating maps showing the sites in the area and lists detailing what they are. Finally, I plan to spend the rest of the afternoon writing a proposal for a spin-off from the Arfordir project, a small excavation on the foreshore of Swansea, investigating a series of wooden posts embedded in the Brynmill peat shelf. In the past features in this peat shelf have been found to be of prehistoric date, so these wooden posts could be thousands of years old. I'm hoping to spend part of the autumn excavating them with a team of volunteers so that we can find out.


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Release Date: 2002 |
good review, im gonna go listen to more hip hop now
Album Rating: 3.0I think this album is a bit inconsistent at point, but the tracks that do work they're excellent!
Ya I'm not feeling the rating this high, but it's certainly a good album. I'd say I even prefer The Shape of Broad Minds to this though.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offfigured i'd do one of my favorite albums for my 10th.
if you absolutely need a single song recommendation, check out "Deep Space 9mm".
edit: wow that was an immediate response if ever. this is an important album to me, as it really got me into hip-hop. i understand others not digging it as much, but then again, all of you have your quirky 5/5 albums also.This Message Edited On 01.12.09
Oh ya I think the difference for most people between a 4.5 and a 5 is that extra tilt from pure subjectivity. It's sort of ludicrous to
claim that an album is perfect or error free, so it's more a matter of assembling the most positive objective observations possible
and then succumbing to your subjective love and being like DAMNNNNNN.This Message Edited On 01.12.09
Album Rating: 3.0How are my 5/5 quirky lol damn you!
I totally agree on the focus of the album though. Which is why I don't like it as much as you.
Album Rating: 3.0ugh double post my fav tracks: Squeegee Man, Deep Space 9mm, Stepfather Factory.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffAll awesome of course. The only track that kind of annoys me at times is Dead Disnee.
Yeah, opinions are opinions, i'm sure plenty of people think El-P sucks (ie one of my best friends that thinks he's absolutely the worst thing ever). Hopefully I assembled all my best "positive objective observations" ;-)
Album Rating: 3.0my brother calls it backpack rap like its alternative hip-hop...I was like please dude (I had Atmosphere / Aesop Rock / El-P playing on my usb...only had #-F artists from library).
eh i dunno id call atmosphere and aesop rock backpack rap for sure. I havent given El-P enough of a listen, but Ill check him out.
iluvatar is trying to bring the funnies
Album Rating: 5.0sweet review. this is the only album i have from El-P
excellent review, album's not really a 5 for me. it's good though.
pretty good album.
great review
I haven't heard this, but I really like I'll Sleep When Your Dead. I might check this out.
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound OffISWYD is amazing as well... i used to have that as a 5/5 also, but this one stuck with me more.
i tried listening to el-p once but my blood boiled until it evaporated and i was left in the sun to dry
Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offracist
like a raisin in the sun
This is up to your usual high standards of reviewing Sobhi. Being a little nit-picky, the introductory paragraph is a little disorientating on first read, especially to someone who doesn't know a great deal about the artist. But it basically becomes clearer after the review has been finished, if that makes sense.
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Mouse Trap (Atari 2600) review
"I'm not sure why the mouse looks so happy, all things considered, as a number of (possibly starving) felines patrol the corridors of the maze. Working in the mouse's favor were a few dog biscuits, which would turn it into a dog that could rip through the cats like me through a Thanksgiving turkey drumstick, sending them back to their cages � much like Pac-Man could do to ghosts."
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If you missed Jabba the Hutt this year, which was an elusive exclusive, you've potentially got a second chance to get one while proving the old saying "good things come to those who wait." The exclusive is showing up again at some locations, generally scanning at $19.00 even, although sometimes the shelf tag says $26.00. Previously, it was closer to $35, so why not go take a look and get one now? It's certainly worth the $19 for Oola and Jabba alone.
He's Mine...Mine....MINE !!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha !
sorry had to get that out of my system. after months of searching for Jabba, searching close to 10 different Walmarts in Jersey I finally have one and to boot I paid the $19.00 price tag. I picked up sir Jabba on Sunday along with a Vintage Dengar with a $22.00 gift card to Walmart.
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2-Bean Salad With Fire-Roasted Jalapeños and Pickled Red Peppers Recipe
Two types of beans, red kidney and green beans, are combined with pickled red peppers and fire-roasted jalapeños in this amped-up redux of the time-honored three-bean salad.
Note: Wait to add the parsley until right before you're ready to serve the salad. If you can't find pickled red peppers, soak minced roasted red peppers in red wine vinegar for 30 minutes.
Read more: Summer Bean Salads: 2-Bean Salad With Roasted Jalapeños and Pickled Red Peppers
- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes minutes
- Total time:1 hour 20 minutes
- 1 jalapeño
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup blanched, chopped green beans
- 2 tablespoons minced yellow onion
- 2 tablespoons minced pickled red peppers from a jar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- Pinch of sugar
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons minced flat-leaf parsley
Roast jalapeño under the broiler, on a gas burner, or on a grill, until skin is blistered and charred all over, about 5 minutes. Let cool, then rub off skin with paper towel and discard stem. Mince; discard seeds before mincing if you want less heat.
Combine kidney beans, green beans, onion, jalapeno, and red pepper and in a medium bowl.
In a small bowl, whisk together olive oil, vinegar, and sugar. Season with salt and pepper.
Toss vinaigrette with bean mixture. Season with salt and pepper, if needed. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or overnight. When ready to serve, stir in parsley. Serve salad cold or at room temperature.
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FDA Chides Pfizer For Omitting Drug Risks On Lipitor Website
Somebody who didn't like the way Pfizer was promoting a bunch of its drugs on a website for cholesterol-fighter Lipitor tipped off the Food and Drug Administration about it. And the agency agreed.
In a written reprimand, the agency faulted Pfizer for failing to tell people about risks from Caduet, a pill to treat high cholesterol and blood pressure; Norvasc, for high blood pressure; and Chantix, a pill to help people quit smoking.
The basic problem, according to the FDA, was that links to pages with more information about these drugs featured language describing what the piils do without mentioning any of the risks they pose.
"By omitting the most serious and frequently occurring risks associated with Caduet, Chantix, and Norvasc, the webpage misleadingly suggests that these drugs are safer than have been demonstrated," the FDA wrote.
Pfizer has until Sept. 14 to respond to the agency's letter. In an email to Shots, a Pfizer spokesman said the company "is in the process of reviewing and responding to the FDA letter and has already removed the cited content from the Lipitor website."
The Pfizer letter is just the latest FDA enforcement action spawned by a "bad ads" initiative launched in May 2010. FDA Commissioner Margert Hamburg asked doctors, nurses and pharmacists around the country to become tipster and help root out false and misleading marketing of drugs.
In a report on how things are going, the agency said in the first year it received 328 tips, more than triple the yearly average before the call for help. Most came from health professionals, and 87 of those prompted a careful look by the FDA. For a look at some of the problems that resulted in action, you can find links to five agency letters here.
For all the hoopla, most doctors remain unaware of the tip program, according to a survey highlighted by the blog Pharmalot in March. Speaking of, I was unaware of the latest action against Pfizer until Pharmalot blogged about it this morning.
For more on how the tip program is supposed to work, check out the FDA video.
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Pope Bids Farewell at St. Peter's
VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI held the final audience of his pontificate before a sea of faithful in Saint Peter's Square on Wednesday, a farewell that he said wouldn't mark the end of his life in public.
Addressing the crowd, the pope said he faced a "difficult and trying" decision in relinquishing leadership of Roman Catholicism's more than one billion faithful, a step he will take Thursday evening.
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Communities dig out after storm
More than a foot of snow falls in the biggest storm in two years.
In the hours after the storm, plows are out to clear off more than a foot of snow.
Bob McGregor is not doing this for business -- he's simply helping friends.
"As long as it's not like two years ago, we'll be doing all right. Two years ago was really heavy. This year, well -- just the beginning," said McGregor.
Vermont Agency of Transportation officials say it's certainly not the worst they've seen although it did make for a long day.
"Sixteen hours," said VTrans worker Paul Kirby.
The crews rest overnight now that the snow has stopped, and than come out in force again Friday to keep cleaning up.
For the most part, they say in this storm things went pretty well on the roads.
"A few cars off, but that's pretty much the norm when you've got a lot of heavy snow," said Kirby.
It becomes very clear just how much and how heavy this snow is when it's time to clean it up.
"I wasn't actually expecting quite so much snow," said Winooski resident Joshua McKnight.
He was out clearing snow from his driveway Thursday night.
He started his snow blower for the first time in two years, then shoveled the rest.
It may be hard work, but he says it's Vermont -- we're supposed to get snow.
"It's nice," said McKnight. "Hopefully gives the economy a little bit of a boost, and the ski resorts hopefully can get back to business finally after last year. And it's a little bit of a hassle but I think it's worth it in the end."


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Last night Monday (December 3), Solange Knowles attended the Ermenegildo Zegna Essenze Collection Launch at the Ermenegildo Zegna Boutique in Manhattan, New York. For the event, the fashion trendsetter and singer sported a Diana Ross inspired curly hairdo. She wore a $225 nude Olcay Gulsen Two Slit Dress paired with $325 B Brain Atwood Labrea Corded Snakeskin Sandal. Solange accessorized her outfit with a gold clutch, rings and cuff. Solange's style has evolved! She is really a fashion trendsetter. I like her style more than her music. She should focus on fashion and modeling more.
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Any tips on how to make a GUI etc like Growtopia Tools? Except the GUI will be like Growtopia, I need help. Also, I won't get copyright from Robmumu right? I'm just so tired of the virus Growtopia World Planners. I don't have a credit card to buy Growtopia Tools. Even if I have, I doubt I would spend money on it..
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Video: Behind the Scenes at Lorentz Meats, a Processing Plant in Minnesota
There are many levels of eaters—from the passionate vegan to the rampant Paleo-style carnivore. Some support large farms for their efficiency; others want those with only an acre of produce, a cow, and five chickens. As for meat processing, nearly everyone is freaked out for one reason or another. Most of us hate industrial meat processing; others fret that small-scale operations are dying out.
Lorentz Meats in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, is on the small side, but it's growing. The small-is-beautiful types think Lorentz is getting too big, but the company is touted as one of the most efficient, clean, and successful processing plants in Minnesota, and widely used by small farms.
I visited the plant last year. Not wanting to delve too deep into the politics of meat processing, my approach was more focused on the actual butchering process. This episode is more of an informative music video. So, turn up the volume and learn the difference between a rib-eye and a strip. And make sure to stick to the end for a touch of insight into what makes a big processing plant.
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All you need to know about hashtag #colourmyhome is here!
You are looking at a detailed overview of a hashtag #colourmyhome. Hmmm, how to use it? I advise you to see top-ranking pages with a chosen hashtag and find relevant hashtags to enforce your posts on social media. Analyze the difficulty, popularity of hashtag #colourmyhome, and get your new ideas for promotion. You can use hashtags on every social media you need: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, TikTok, etc.
- 333.86 K Posts The number of posts with a mentioned hashtag. If the number of posts is high, it's really hard to get to the top and get your traffic.
- Medium Difficulty Hashtag Difficulty shows how hard it is to be ranked in the top publications with #colourmyhome hashtags. Be careful while choosing the HD!
- 5 hour Time in Feed The metrics show how long your post is visible in the feed by hashtag search. The data is an average number, but always up to date.
- — TOP: AVG LIKES NUMBER Be attentive, and take a close look. Estimate your chances if you can compete in top hashtag publications.
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How to apply trending hashtags to maximum effect?
There are many extremely popular hashtags that you can see nearly under every post. The problem is that an enormous amount of photos is being published with these hashtags. Your post will get lost immediately.
However, you can use some variations of the same hashtags with the same keywords that may turn out to be more efficient. Take, for example, #photooftheday – you can try #photooftheweek or #picoftheday instead.
To create a personal list of popular tags, you need to use the Hashtag Generator. Type several words that can reflect the topic or mood of your future post in the input box. The service will find suitable hashtags automatically and split them into 3 groups according to the frequency of usage. These groups are high, medium, and easy.
High difficult hashtags
These are the most frequently used hashtags. They give the most exact information about what is shown in the picture. It can be a word or a phrase that names a topic of a pic or a style of photography like #photooftheday.
Instagram users often follow these tags or use them to find relevant info on social media. That's why it is a pretty nice idea to use high hashtags so that people will see your tagged posts in their search results.
This category of tags like #photooftheday or #instadaily can increase the number of clicks and bring unique visitors to your page.
Medium difficult hashtags
These hashtags are less frequently used than #photooftheday and aren't as intuitively clear as high hashtags. Apart from the keywords, they include other words that provide more information and maybe even highlight your publication from a new angle. Medium hashtags are also helpful in attracting new followers and raising high-quality traffic.
Low difficult hashtags
Easy hashtags as medium ones also include keywords and new words, which are even less associated with the main theme of the publication. Such easy tags and are rather rarely used by Instagrammers as a search query. Still, the important point here is that fewer publications are tagged with this category, and your picture won't get lost among others in few seconds after publication. This way, new visitors and followers have more chances to notice your post.


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Married couples who have chosen to part ways may wonder about their options. Most people are not aware of the differences between divorce, annulment, and legal separation.
An annulment is when a court says your marriage is not legally valid. Annulments are rare, and can only be granted by a judge. Unlike a divorce, an annulment treats the marriage as if it never occurred. A marriage is always considered invalid if it is incestuous or bigamous (marriage to more than one person). Marriages may also be annulled if the marriage occurred due to force or fraud, if one of the spouses is too young to marry or already married, or if there is physical or mental incapacity. Similar to a divorce, the judge presiding over the annulment may determine issues of child custody, child support, alimony, and division of assets.
Legal Separation
A legal separation is an agreement by a married couple to live separately. Typically, the simple act of living apart or agreeing to separate for a period of time is not enough for a legal separation; it requires the spouses to legally file for separation. A legal separation does not end the marriage, and you cannot marry someone else if you are legally separated. Couples that have a religious objection to divorce often choose legal separation. Other times couples choose legal separation because they have concerns about the availability of benefits, like insurance, for one spouse. However, some insurance policies will not cover a spouse following a legal separation. A legal separation allows couples that do not want to divorce to live apart and have a judge assist with the process. The judge can help decide issues like division of money and property, visitation, and child support.
A divorce is a dissolution of marriage, and officially ends the marriage. After you are divorced, you are considered single again. You may marry again if you would like. During the divorce proceedings, a judge can order child support, spousal support, custody, visitation, restraining orders, and division of property. Spouses may choose between two types of divorce: "no-fault" or "fault-based" divorce, depending on the laws of the state in which the petitioner resides. No-fault divorces allow a spouse to file for divorce without blaming the other spouse for the dissolution. The grounds for a no-fault divorce include irreconcilable differences, irremediable breakdown of the marriage, or loss of affection. In some states, spouses may also file for a fault-based divorce. A spouse may choose a fault-based divorce to avoid the required waiting period or to influence the judge when deciding child custody, child support, alimony and property division. The grounds for a fault-based divorce include adultery, abandonment, domestic violence, and substance abuse.
Deciding whether to obtain an annulment, legal separation, or divorce is a decision each divorcing couple needs to make based on their own circumstances. For example, California requires a married couple to live in the state for six months before they may file for divorce, so they may choose to legally separate until the six month period expires. An attorney will be able to provide the best advice, given your particular circumstances, and can advise you on the best option for you.
Married couples who have chosen to part ways may wonder about their options. Most people are not aware of the differences between divorce, annulment, and legal separation.


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