text: Half a year after the well-received Vanguard finale Dayton Ward once more takes a turn of sorts at the saga's wheel to deliver us a coda, the ebook-exclusive novella In Tempest's Wake. This was apparently originally slated to carry the TOS label, reflecting the fact that the crew of the USS Enterprise takes center seat here in a retelling of the events of Storming Heaven from their point of view, but ultimately joins Mr. Mack's work under the same Star Trek sub-brand. The Simon & Schuster page still hasn't been updated with the official blurb, but StarTrek.com posted one a while ago. Taken from there: Sadly no excerpt either!


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DePaul's in the market for a new basketball arena. Currently they're way out at the Allstate Arena, next to the airport, but they'd really like to be closer to campus, or at least somewhere in Chicago. Rocky Wirtz and (especially) Jerry Reinsdorf want them to make the United Center their home, and they're making the deal as sweet as possible.
According to Crain's Chicago Business, ownership made a presentation to DePaul, and offered:
• A customized court to add DePaul and Big East logos and decals for games.
• A DePaul team store.
• The Bulls' staff would help the school sell tickets.
• The Blue Demons would get to use the Bulls' locker room.
• DePaul would get to hang its banners in the arena.
• The school gets the United Center free for fundraising events.
• Best of all, 10 years of free rent.
DePaul's other option is to come up with $75 million to help build its own arena. The United Center's deal is looking pretty cushy.
The crazy part is, Jerry Reinsdorf doesn't even particularly want DePaul games. But it's worth it to him just to block the competition. The university's first-choice is a new 12,000-seat arena, as part of a development on Chicago's near South Side. Reinsdorf reportedly fears that the United Center would stand to lose out on concert and convention business if the arena gets built—and the project needs DePaul to get started.
Crain's reports that DePaul is still leaning toward the new arena, because it would prefer to own rather than rent, and because it wouldn't run up against scheduling conflicts. Still, sometimes it's nice to be a pawn in the schemes of rich people. DePaul's not the only Big East program to learn that lesson.

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Was Utah Doctor's Wife Victim of Foul Play?
Daughters say doc dad's actions were very suspicious.
Feb. 24, 2011 -- The foothills of the Utah's Wasatch Mountains seem like a picture-perfect place to raise a family, and the MacNeill family fit the bill.
Martin MacNeill, 51, was a respected doctor, who also held a law degree and taught Sunday school at the family's Mormon church. He was married to Michele, a former beauty queen from California, and together they were raising eight children -- four biological and four adopted -- in the gated community of Pleasant Grove. But on the morning of April 11, 2007, their seemingly perfect world fell apart.
Watch the full story on '20/20' Friday at 10 p.m. ET CLICK HERE to see photos of the MacNeill family.
Martin MacNeill returned home after picking up the youngest member of the MacNeill family, 6-year-old adopted daughter Ada, from school and asked her to check on Michele, who was recovering from plastic surgery. What Ada saw when she entered the bedroom horrified her: Her mother was lying in the bathtub, unconscious. Ada screamed for her father, Martin, who called 911.
"I need an ambulance immediately," MacNeill yelled into the phone. "My wife has fallen in the bathtub!"
To dispatcher Heidi Johnson, the caller seemed agitated, and she had difficulty understanding him.
"Is your wife unconscious?" Johnson asked.
"She's unconscious. She's underwater!"
"OK, did you get her out of the water?"
"I can't. I couldn't lift her up!"
"Is your wife breathing?
"She's not! I am a physician. I've got CPR in progress."
MacNeill told Johnson his 50-year-old wife had a face-lift a week earlier. Over the course of five minutes, MacNeill hung up the phone three times, but Johnson was finally able to decipher the address and figure out where to send the ambulance.
"It was really hard to understand him because he was yelling very hysterically at me," Johnson said. "So I tried to calm him down and tried to get the information from him, but … he didn't want to stay on the line with me, and he hung up."
MacNeill sent Ada next door to get help from a neighbor. When neighbor Kristi Daniels ran into the bathroom, she said MacNeill then told her, "I've already called 911. I need a male's help."
Daniels was surprised he needed help but called her husband, Doug Daniels, who arrived minutes later. "I just immediately went straight to her ... and grabbed her legs, and Martin grabbed her upper body and we lifted her out of the tub and onto the floor," Doug Daniels said.
Doug Daniels said MacNeill then began performing CPR, alternating between moments of concern and anger.
"He would calmly be doing puffs of air, and then he would suddenly have an outburst, yelling ...'Why, why? All for a stupid surgery!'" Doug Daniels said.
When the ambulance arrived, Michele MacNeill was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Daughter Suspects the Worst: 'He Killed Her'
As the chaotic scene unfolded in the MacNeill home, Martin received a call from his daughter, Alexis MacNeill, now 28, who attended medical school in Nevada. Alexis, who idolized her father and wanted to follow in his footsteps, said she received a voice message from her dad earlier that morning between classes and returned the call.
"He said, 'Your mom, she's in the tub. She's not breathing. I've called an ambulance.' And then he hung up," said daughter Alexis, who recalled her alarm.
"I just dropped all my books and just ... started driving to the airport, and I was just screaming. Just screaming, 'He killed her.' That was my first instinct. He killed her," Alexis said.
Though it was a shocking accusation, Alexis MacNeill had reasons to believe her father might have had a hand in her mother's death. Just two days earlier, Alexis said her mother made a warning that sounded ominous to her as she washed her hair.
"She started to cry. [My mother] said, 'If anything happens to me, make sure it wasn't your dad,'" Alexis said. "I kind of got upset. I said, 'Mom, What do you mean?'… And she just said, 'You know, make sure if anything happens to me, it wasn't your dad.'"
Alexis and her sister, Rachel, who had also been trying to call home and finally reached her father, rushed home. When the two girls were together that afternoon, Alexis told her sister her belief that their father might have been responsible for their mother's death. Rachel was in disbelief until Alexis recounted what their mother had told her two days earlier.
Who Is Gypsy Willis? Wife Feared Affair
Why would a seemingly healthy 50-year-old woman collapse in her bathroom a week after facial surgery?
It turned out that the surgery Michele MacNeill had was one she neither asked for nor wanted, according to her daughters. She did it, they said, because her husband wanted her to.
A few months before, in early 2007, after Michele MacNeill had turned 50, Alexis and Rachel said their father appeared to be in the midst of a midlife crisis.
"He'd go to the tanning salons. He'd start exercising just all the time -- just in the middle of a conversation, jumping and doing pushups, things like that," said Rachel, now 31.
The daughters also said their mother suspected their father might be having an affair, saying he would disappear for long stretches. Alexis said her mother asked her to do some late-night investigating into her father's activities.
"While he was sleeping, I logged on to his phone and printed out all of his phone records, and we found this number that he'd been calling a lot," Alexis said.
An online search of the number revealed the name of the person MacNeill had been calling day and night: Gypsy Willis.
"We thought it was maybe some stripper or something," Alexis recalled. "Who's named Gypsy?'"
Did Husband Push Wife to Get Face-Lift?
Michele MacNeill confronted her husband about the phone calls. According to Alexis, MacNeill told his wife that Gypsy was a woman he'd worked with, and that she'd be renting a property they leased.
"My mom said, 'Well, why have you called her? It's three o'clock in the morning, all these strange hours,'" Alexis recounted.
MacNeill said Gypsy worked the night shift, but according to Alexis, her mom doubted her husband's tale and feared he was cheating. However, Michele did not press the matter further. But Alexis said that the next day, Martin came to Michele with an odd request: He wanted her to get a face-lift.
"My mom had never talked about that before or anything," Alexis said. "She'd never been into plastic surgery."
It took some convincing, but according to Alexis, Michele "saw my dad … tanning, getting all in shape. And so I think my mom was just a little concerned too. 'Oh, maybe I should do a couple things. You know maybe that will help.'"
Michele reluctantly agreed to the face-lift. She wanted to wait until the summer, but Alexis said her father insisted she do it sooner. Within a week of the initial consultation, Alexis said the surgery was scheduled.
A Face-Lift, Powerful Painkillers, Sedatives: Reason for Suspicion?
On April 3, 2007, Michele went under the knife for the face-lift procedure. Alexis, who attended the consultations with the surgeon, said her father insisted the surgeon prescribe a combination of powerful painkillers and sedatives -- Lortab, Percocet, Ambien and Valium -- which are almost never administered for this recovery from this kind of procedure.
The surgeon agreed, said Alexis, because "he knew my dad was a physician, so he thought … he knew how to dose different medications.
"It was just bizarre because my mom was very sensitive to medication anyway," she said.
Alexis was prepared to care for her mother at home, but the next evening, she said her father abruptly told her to leave.
"He said, 'Alexis you need to get some rest,'" she recalled. "I said, 'No, I want to stay right here by my mom.' He said, 'I'll take care of her, her medicines tonight.'"
The next day, Alexis said her mother was heavily medicated when she checked in on her.
"She was completely sedated and out of it," Alexis said, adding that her mother mentioned that her dad kept upping her medications.
After Alexis confronted her father about the dosages, MacNeill allowed his daughter to take over her mom's care, and after four days, Michele seemed to be recovering.
With her mother seemingly on the mend, Alexis flew back to Nevada to resume medical school. But within 24 hours, her mother was dead.
Sister Sleuths Play Detective
At the family home, the day of Michele's death, Alexis told "20/20" that she'd asked her father where the remaining sedatives and painkillers were, but MacNeill's answers kept changing.
"He said, 'I don't know. … The police must've taken [the medications]. I don't know where it is. Check in the garage,'" Alexis recalled him saying.
When nothing turned up, she said she asked her father again, and this time he said they were thrown out. His explanation: "It was making him too sad to look at it. To see this medication," Alexis said, "As soon as I heard that, things were just starting to add up. Everything was adding up."
But if events raised eyebrows for Alexis and Rachel, nothing about Michele MacNeill's death seemed to appear suspicious to the Pleasant Grove, Utah, police. They did not treat the house as a crime scene, collect evidence or interview anyone besides Martin MacNeill, who according to the police report, told them he believed Michele "passed out while preparing the tub."
"I thought that, OK, if this is a healthy woman who died that there would be some sort of big police investigation," said Alexis. "Their police report into my mother's death is about 2½ paragraphs."
The medical examiner ruled that Michele MacNeill died from natural causes, stating that hypertension and an existing heart infection called myocarditis had caused Michele's heart to fail. Police closed the case.
Husband Hastily Arranges Funeral, Hires 'Nanny'
In the meantime, Martin MacNeill seemed to move on quickly. He hastily arranged a funeral three days after his wife's death, and two days later, returned to work as medical director of the Utah State Developmental Center.
His grown daughters said a few days later that MacNeill had insisted that the family hire a nanny to care for the four younger adopted daughters. Though Rachel and Alexis say they offered to help, MacNeill seemed to have his mind made up, and even had a potential nanny on the short list.
The name was one that was familiar to Alexis: Gypsy Willis -- the woman whom Michele thought Martin was having an affair with during their marriage.
"There was only one candidate and that was Gypsy," Rachel MacNeill, said.
Two weeks after Michele's death, Gypsy Willis moved into the family home. But what kind of "nanny" was she? Her role seemed to be more like a girlfriend than a nanny, according to Alexis and Rachel.
"She didn't cook, she didn't clean, she didn't take care of the children in any way," said Rachel.
Suspicious, Alexis and Rachel MacNeill began a long personal and legal battle with their father. Alexis went to court to try to gain custody of the three youngest adopted MacNeill children, Ada, and Sabrina and Elle, who are from Ukraine
Alexis and Rachel said their father was upset.
"He said, 'If you fight me, I'm going to get you thrown out of medical school,'" said Alexis. "We were basically… pushed out of the house by my dad."
"I was told that I needed to leave the home because I wasn't nice to Gypsy," said Rachel. "He wanted to make it known that it was either Gypsy or his children, and he chose the 'nanny.'"
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Like everyone, we love a good Joe Biden gaffe—especially when it's about sports.
The vice president was at a private fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, and he took the opportunity to bond with local supporters over the fact that "the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl":
When the comment drew boos from the crowd, Biden quickly apologized, saying he was used to talking about the San Francisco Giants' baseball victories.
After the apology from Biden during the Wednesday campaign stop, the vice president clarified that he meant to say "49ers" when referring to the team that would go all the way.
Sure, sure. That's perfectly "believable."
Say it ain't so, Joe! VP flubs rally cry [SF Examiner]
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I've been feeling pudgier than usual. My clothes more or less fit the same, so I don't think I actually am, I think I'm just feeling that way. Although it would be awesome if I wasn't overweight. I have this idea of maybe someday thinking about having this life where perhaps I have time to exercise. That would be nice.
I think I'm very much starting to burnout on living with my parents. The free food is good (both beneficial and delicious), but I'm BORED. And I'm tired of driving 30 miles to work every day. And I'm just plain tired.
I'm moving on the 17th, but the concept of moving? It makes me feel like ripping my own toenails out with my teeth. I hate moving. I'm tired of moving. I don't want to ever move again. And moving means more expenses, more financial woes, more stress.
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Paula Cole
Paula Cole was one of the many female singer/songwriters who rose to prominence in the mid-'90s in the wake of alternative's commercial breakthrough. Drawing heavily from the ethereal, pretty sound of Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos, she created songs that relied equally on dreamy melodies and poetic, introspective lyrics. Although she continued recording music into the next millennium, Cole's career reached its peak in 1997, when both "I Don't Want to Wait" and "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" cracked the Top 20.
Cole was born and raised in Rockport, Massachusetts, the daughter of an amateur musician and a visual artist. Following her high-school graduation, she went to the Berklee College of Music to study jazz singing and improvisation. After she graduated from Berklee, Cole became a professional musician in order to make a living; she continued to write original material on the side.
Her first big break arrived when Peter Gabriel invited her to perform on his 1992-1993 world tour. Shortly afterward, she signed to Imago Records, where she released her debut album, Harbinger, in 1994. Imago went out of business within a year of the album's release, though, which prevented the record from getting exposure on radio and in the press. In 1995, she signed a new contract with Warner Bros., which reissued Harbinger in the fall of that year. Cole returned with her second album, This Fire, in October 1996. The album and its accompanying single, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?," became word-of-mouth hits and eventually broke into the mainstream during the spring of 1997. That summer, Cole participated in the first Lilith Fair, a traveling festival that had been designed by Sarah McLachlan to showcase female artists. Cole was one of the performers to receive a significant boost in profile from the tour, and was the subject of many articles in the mainstream press.
In 1998, Cole won the Grammy for Best New Artist, despite the fact that she released her debut album in 1994 and, therefore, was technically ineligible. That same year, she scored another hit with the single "I Don't Want to Wait," popularized as the theme to the television hit Dawson's Creek. Her much-anticipated third album, Amen, followed in 1999 and broadened Cole's sound with electronica and hip-hop textures. It wasn't nearly as popular as This Fire, though, prompting Cole to drop out of the limelight and focus on raising her daughter.
Eight years passed before she returned with a new single, "14," and a new album, 2007's Courage. Although only modestly popular, Courage represented something of a stylistic return for Cole, who had settled into an eclectic, jazz-influenced adult contemporary vein. She began recording and touring on a more regular basis, releasing her fourth album, Ithaca, in 2010. Cole undertook a crowdfunding project to complete and self-release her next recording, Raven, which was issued in the spring of 2013. Recorded live in the studio as an acoustic quartet, 7 followed in 2016, the same year that brought the live LP This Bright Red Feeling. She relied again on crowdfunding for the covers album Ballads. Released in 2017, it included her versions of classics by artists such as Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, and Bobbie Gentry and debuted at number ten on the jazz albums chart.
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AcelRx Pharmaceuticals to Present at the Piper Jaffray 24th Annual Healthcare Conference
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain, today announced that Richard King, President and CEO, will present a corporate overview at the Piper Jaffray 24th Annual Healthcare Conference at The New York Palace in New York, NY. The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. ET/8:00 a.m. PT.
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The congress Homeopathy – from Childhood to Old Age on March 14-16, 2014 was once again a major highlight. It was held in a spirit of tolerance and cooperation with wide-ranging discussion of a wealth of different treatment approaches. 300 participants came from 20 different countries. Internationally known homeopaths such as Resie Moonen, Jonathan Hardy, Sunirmal Sarkar, Alok Pareek, Rosina Sonnenschmidt, Jean-Lionel Bagot, Michal Yakir, Heidi Brand, Norbert Groeger, and Heiner Frei demonstrated their specific approach in the treatment of children and elderly patients for illnesses such as ADHD, behavioural disturbances, and typical childhood illnesses through to Alzheimers, cancer, and other chronic diseases that occur more frequently in old age.
The Dutch doctor Resie Moonen was the first speaker, giving a very lively presentation on the use of the Lanthanides for children. She showed impressive cases of learning and behavioural disturbances as well as autoimmune disease. Jonathan Hardy, the doctor from England whose talk at the previous congress was extremely popular, showed the considerable potential of spider remedies for children with problems such as ADHD, sleeplessness and motor disturbances. The Indian doctor Sunirmal Sarkar, speaking for the first time in Europe, offered valuable hints on the use of potentized chemotherapy agents for the specific treatment of cancer in cases often characterized by the most severe pathology. In certain Indian states, homeopathy is supported by the government since it has proved to be so very effective in precisely such severe illness.
On the second day, the well-known Indian homeopath Alok Pareek drew on his vast clinical experience to speak about homeopathy in cases of neurological disturbance, including the important topic of Alzheimers in elderly patients. Rosina Sonnenschmidt showed an impressive live case with complaints of muscle wasting and borreliosis. The French doctor Jean-Lionel Bagot, in a talk with great practical relevance, described his encouraging results in significantly reducing the side effects of conventional cancer treatment.
On the final day, the Israeli homeopath Michal Yakir explained how childhood behavioural disturbances can be treated in view of her ground-breaking discoveries in the system of plants. Heidi Brand and Norbert Groeger presented the remedy picture of the alga Chara intermedia, which has aroused great interest, proving especially useful in geriatric cases. The renowned Swiss homeopath Heiner Frei rounded off the congress, explaining how he uses polarity analysis to cope with 40 patients a day in his paediatric practice. All in all, a very varied congress with something for everybody to take back to their homeopathic practice.
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Title: The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden
Author: Jonas Jonasson
Translator:Marcalais Fransisca
Publisher: Penerbit Bentang
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After successfully entertaining his readers in his debut, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, this Swedish writer, Jonas Jonasson is back with his new awesome adventure involving an African girl, a bomb and a man frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden. What a festival of adventure.
As usual the writer delivers a bunch of eccentric characters with the main cast is Nombeko, a Soweto girl, three Chinese sisters practised in the arts of poisoning dogs, an alcoholic South African nuclear bomb engineer, twin sons who named Holger One, the idiot, while Holger Two is the smart one. Let's explore their unpredictable trip when they find themselves confined in a potato truck with the king and the Swedish Prime Minister in 2007.
Still with his way of absurdity, the writer tells the story in a playful way. Although several facts on political issues are correct yet just don't take it seriously. I am sure the writer background as a journalist for many years completed his research on the setting of his novels and the most enjoyable part for me is his Nordic humour, it's just crazy. Absolutely fun. Thoroughly enjoyable.


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Source: IMF Survey : Volume 29, Issue 21
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Astramatic S.A., Barcelona, Spain, is an engineering and consulting company that designs, builds, manufactures, and maintains industrial process water treatment plants adapted to all needs and situations.
Astramatic recently built and installed a highly advanced Reverse Osmosis water purification plant in Algeria. The plant has a capacity of 1,000 m3/day, and a variety of Grundfos pumps help to keep the processes moving flawlessly. The plant was inaugurated recently by the Algerian Prime Minister and it has already been widely acclaimed for it's unique design and great efficiency.
The situation
Astramatic S.A. specialises in designing and building water treatment plants on a turnkey-basis. Although based in Barcelona, Astramatic frequently operates abroad and often in third-world countries. Most plants that the company builds have been purpose designed according to customer requirements and special local conditions. In the present case, the customer required a system that would allow for variations in the pumping capacity according to fluctuations in the chloride concentration in the well.
The solution
Due to special circumstances at the plant location, it was decided to construct the plant in transportable containers, connected through pipes with vitaulic auto-couplings. One container holds the pre-treatment unit with pumps and the process control panel.
A second container holds the RO plant with Grundfos BM pumps in two connected lines, 3+3 in series and parallel in order to meet the required 52 bars pressure. The pumps are connected electrically via a single 37 kW frequency converter. This allows for a much simplified control panel and enables starting and stopping of the modules according to the water salinity conditions.
In a third container, the water filters of silex and active carbon are located.
The plant comprises a total of 6 units of Grundfos BM 46-19 in version R, installed in series and parallel to obtain a modular flow and sufficient pressure. A Grundfos NK bronze pump was installed to provide the raw water supply for the plant. A Grundfos CRN 90 pump takes care of the cleaning of the membrane, and several DMS dosing pumps handle the precise dosing of chemicals for the process.
The outcome
Thanks to the modular system, the efficiency of the Grundfos pumps, and not least the simplicity of the piping and the control panel, the plant has operated flawlessly from day one in spite of considerable variations in the salinity of the raw water.
One-stop shopping for all pumping needs - Compact design - Reduced installation costs - Low power consumption
Barcelona, Spain
Astramatic S.A.
Grundfos provided
- One-stop shopping for all pumping needs
- Compact design
- Reduced installation costs
- Low power consumption
Pumps used
- 6 Grundfos BM-R 46-19, 1 Grundfos NK (bronze version), 1 Grundfos CRN 90, and several Grundfos DMS dosing pumps.
Mr. Bernado Blanco, Technical Director, Astramatic S.A.
"We chose to co-operate with Grundfos for this project for a number of reasons. Firstly, we wanted to have a single supplier for all our pump needs. Operation flexibility and versatility was another decisive matter. As this project is designed to be un-manned, we required a system that could adjust automatically to the changing quality of the raw water. Environmental considerations were also an issue as a low noise level was important. Finally, we were impressed with the simplicity of the control panel required for the automatic operation of the pumps, only a single frequency converter was needed, which allowed for a reduction of the necessary power input to one sixth of what a traditional set-up would have required."
If you need a similar solution, please contact us for further information.
If you need a similar solution, please contact us for further information.


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U.S. pair suffer disappointing start at world championships
After winning the U.S. pairs title the past two years, they entered the World Figure Skating Championships hoping to make a mark. "This worlds kind of sets up the next season, let's everyone know who is out there, who has the ability," Brubaker said heading into the event. McLaughlin had talked about their desire "to be a force to be reckoned with."
After finishing a disappointing ninth in the pairs short program on Tuesday night at Staples Center, the splash McLaughlin and Brubaker hoped for will likely have to wait until well after Wednesday's free skate. They finished the short program with a score of 53.62, nearly 19 points behind the leaders, Germany's Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, the defending world champs.
McLaughlin and Brubaker were undone after several elements were downgraded and McLaughlin fell on triple salchow. "I haven't missed one all season," McLaughlin said.
With the increased pressure following their early success and a more challenging program, they looked at this year "as more as a season to grow, to find out what was working and be competitive at same time. We struggled competitively but learned so much," Brubaker said.
Still, a year from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, McLaughlin, who at 16 skates well beyond her years, and Brubaker, 22, are confident they can still establish themselves as that force. They have only been skating together for three years in a discipline where it usually takes years to develop.
"We know we have the ability to be competitive," Brubaker said. "It's just …"
"Time," McLaughlin said finishing his sentence as the best pairs partners do.
"A year so much can change," Brubaker continued.
"It's not like we have just one year," she said.
"Hopefully another four years after that," he said.
The U.S.'s Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett were 10th in their world championship debut. They scored 52.74 points in the short program. At 15, Denney is the youngest competitor at the worlds. Barrett is 24.
Their rise is remarkable considering they have only been skating regularly since June. Denney and Barrett, who train in Ellenton, Fla., skated together for four months in 2006 before Denney, a former roller-skating champ, decided to move to Colorado with her mother and sister to concentrate on singles. Their stay, however, was brief because her father was in Florida and the separation was tough on the family.
While Denney was in Colorado, Barrett was searching for what to do with his life. He had worked part time as a personal trainer, managed the concession stand in his home rink and had driven the Zamboni. Then Denney moved back and the pair reunited.
At the nationals in January, they finished second earning a trip to worlds, a remarkably arc considering their short time together.
"I appreciate it every day," said Denney. "It's not every day you get to go to the world championships, so I'm very blessed."


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Here is an index of the various Photo Assignment threads. I will update it with each assignment and include the description of the assignment. Each entry will include a link taking to that particular thread.
In the opening thread of this intriguing series of Photo Assignment threads KBasa described the origin and purpose of this enjoyable exercise.
"There was some discussion of photography in another thread and I thought it might be fun to start a sort of clinic, where interested folks could submit their photos for critique by a couple folks who seem to know a thing or two about photography.
These aren't meant to be public lashings, humiliation or anything of the like, but rather, an opportunity for all of us to improve our photographic skills. I don't know about you folks, but I've learned a ton about photography by having someone that actually knows what good composition and exposure are provide me with comments on my shots."
Here are the simple rules:
• Photos must be shot this weekend: Fri, Sat, or Sun.
• You must provide the EXIF information if asked (we'll help you, if you'd like to know how to get it).
• No photoshop alteration (we're looking to improve your skills with your camera, not software).
• Your photograph must adhere to the theme, which will be described below.
• Post only one photo per post, so that commentary can be easily provided for that photo. You may post more than one photo, but try to keep it to a handful.
• Title your photo so it can be referred to later.
• Post your photos in this thread only. Do not start a thread in reply to this assignment. Please post your photos no later than next Wednesday.
• And, the most important rule: have fun! We're looking to spread the joy that many of us derive from taking pictures, particularly ones that tell a story of some kind.
09/08/2007: A Long Way to Go
This week's theme is "A long way to go". You can interpret this however you'd like. Pictures of roads, pictures of little kids learning something, you make the call. It's just like those writing assignments they gave you in high school where you had to write about "pride" or something.
09/12/2007: Where I Want to Be
This could be a location, a stage in life, what you want to become. . . . Or many other interpretations. (You have NO IDEA how hard it is to think of a theme!) I hope it is open to innumerable interpretations, motorcycle and otherwise.
09/22/2007: Balance
This could be an item, a composition, a stage in life, a color study, what you want. . . . Or many other interpretations. We were thinking it might be nice to make some of our "Photo Challenges" instructive for those trying to improve their picture taking. So this week, we invite you to work on composition (this is optional). Try to consider the "rule of thirds" or the "golden mean" when taking the picture for this week's assignment. Commentators will focus on this consideration when providing feedback on the photos.
09/29/2007: Evolution
As with the others, let this theme speak to you and interpret it in whatever way you can or wish. I don't have a particular photo skill in mind, but was impressed with last week's compositions. Lots of really nice stuff, as usual.
10/06/2007: Blue
Blue can be a color, a state of mind, a musical genre, a political affiliation, a mood, and many other states of being. As with the others, let this theme speak to you, and offer us your photographic interpretation of blue.
10/13/2007: Group Dynamic
Our friends at Wikipedia define group dynamics as "the study of groups, and also a general term for group processes. In psychology and sociology, a group is two or more individuals who are connected to each other by social relationships. Because they interact and influence each other, groups develop a number of dynamic processes that separate them from a random collection of individuals. These processes include norms, roles, relations, development, need to belong, social influence, and effects on behavior.
As with other challenges, interpret this theme as you will. I merely offer the definition above as a jumping-off place. You need not limit your definition of groups to "individual" humans.
10/19/2007: Shadow of a Doubt
"Beyond a shadow of a doubt" is an English idiom, which as you know, means absolutely certain or completely unambiguous; however, this theme invites the interpretation of, "there is" or "there is not," a shadow of a doubt. This theme also offers the connotation of shadow, something dark or mysterious or less substantial than the thing itself.
10/27/2007: Open Wider
Certainly this familiar phrase connotes the confinement of a dentist's chair or the taste of bitter medicine. Perhaps this may involve trick-or-treaters, as well. Could be what we like to do to our throttles. Certainly this theme captures the feel of the great outdoors, too.
This theme could also be interpreted as "wide open." You may (but are not required to) want to play with depth-of-field here. For those of you unfamiliar, depth-of-field refers to how much—or how little—is in focus in front of and behind the subject.
11/03/2007: Pure & Simple
"Pure and simple" can refer to ingredients, one's version of truth, the old days, or many other ideas. What does it mean to you? Take a photo and show us. And for fun, try to include a title without the words "pure" or "simple."
11/10/2007: Harmony
Beyond its obvious association with music, harmony connotes agreement or accord. It can refer to a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts or congruity.
What does harmony mean to you?
11/17/2007: Triangle
It doesn't take a geometry teacher to recognize a triangle. This three-sided shape is arguablly one of the most basic and recognizable forms. It is also, by definition, two-dimensional. Sure, you can find a triangle and take a picture of it, but where's the sport in that? Can you find something triangular (not pyramidal) in your composition or subject matter?
11/24/2007: Gratitude – Thanksgiving Special
It's Thanksgiving. For what--or for whom--are you grateful? Tell us in a picture.
In last week's theme there arose a discussion about the joys and challenges of photographing people, specifically portraits. So for this week's theme, I invite you to try your hand at a portrait. Now, you don't have to. If you're grateful for that new F800 and want to photograph it, by all means do. But aren't you grateful for your mom? Your brother? Your riding buddy? Give it a whirl if you'd like and teach us something in the process.
12/01/2007: Element
For our purposes, "element" should be defined as "a fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity." In other words, when considering that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, what exactly is one of its parts?
This week you are invited to take a picture of a part of something. This should not be a general or major part, like the top half of a tree, but of one its essential, constituent, and irreducible parts, like a branch or a leaf.
In addressing this theme, I encourage you to think about composition. What will you include in the image, what will you exclude? Look at your screen, or through your viewfinder, and think of that as the final picture. Which part do you want to show, at what angle, and why?
This week's assignment is up close and personal. All I'm asking is that you do your "part."
12/08/2007: Pattern
This week you are invited to take a picture of a pattern. Could this be a pattern of behavior? A tartan or a plaid? A system of repeating elements? What does "pattern" mean to you? Show us in a picture.
Once again, I encourage you to think about composition and see your viewfinder as a finished print. What will you include within--and exclude from--it's borders and why?
12/15/2007: Holiday Warmth and Motorcycling
This week you are invited to take a picture of that sums up the Holiday Season and motorcycling. Could this be a motorcycle parked in front of snow? Santa on a motorcycle? Eight motorcycles pulling a sleigh? A motorcycle menoraha? What does the Holiday Season and Motorcycles mean to you? Show us in a picture.
12/29/2007: Three
Three seems to be a mystical number, the one magic numeral in equations, formulae, Pi, even the holy trinity. How does "Three" inform your photographic aesthetic? Let's see what you've got. I'll offer some feedback on these next year.
01/05/2008: Close Up
In keeping with requests for learning techniques, this week, please take a photo utilizing a close focusing distance, sometimes referred to as "macro." Most P&S cameras have a built-in macro setting, often the minimum focusing distance with the lens at wide-angle. DSLR cameras with zoom lenses often have this same arrangement. For DSLR cameras, you can buy close-up filters fairly inexpensively. Some of us even have macro lenses capable of focusing closely enough to reproduce a subject at life-size.
Very simply put, just focus as closely, or nearly as closely, as you can--no purchase necessary.
There are several factors you should bear in mind:
1. In many circumstances you will need plenty of light. Shoot outdoors or use a supplementary light source or reflector, white cardboard, for example. If you use a desk lamp, don't forget to switch your white balance to that light source.
2. Depth-of-field will be a factor, so shoot at a smaller aperture if you are able.
3. A smaller aperture will result in a slower shutter speed, so. . . .
4. you may need to use some form of support, i.e. your braced arms or a tripod. A small bean bag or similar item makes an excellent support.
By no means is it necessary that your photo be microscopic. Just get in close and shoot a detail of something. Bonus points for anything motorcycle related or any subject that is not immediately identifiable.
01/19/08 : My Town
This week's photo assignment is a photo essay. Don't just show us, but tell us about where you live, and do so only by showing us three photos. Please no text except for a title. Do it. Remember, this is not your house, but your place, town, or location. Of course not all of us live in towns or cities, but you get the idea. Illustrate where you live photographically. You may post only three shots, no more or no less, please. The three shots can be shot at the same time, or at different times, or even on different days. All three must be shot within the time limit above, though.
Spend some time thinking about what you want to photograph, then set out to do it. Consider whether you want all three shots to be similar or wildly different, and what that says about where you live. Perhaps you want all three different, one wide, one telephoto, one close up. Indoors or out? Daytime or night? Snowy or sunny? I've extended the time because we're all dealing with weather, but I didn't want to wait until spring. These photos will be of locations, but will you include people? Will you put your bike in one of the shots?
To recap: Three shots, no text, post test shots and comments over here, and have fun. Show us your town.
02/09/08: Winter
Many of us are suffering from cabin fever and simply can't ride. Others of us are be inundated by torrential rains. Some of us live in sunny locales and are gleefully riding day in and day out. What does winter mean to you? Try to avoid walking out the front door and shooting the snow in your yard; instead, take your time and compose a thoughtful photograph that says, "This is my winter."
This assignment may prove to be a challenge for those of us in the Southwest and Southeast. Remember, this photo doesn't have to be stereotypically winter, but should say "winter" nonetheless.


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US Suspends IBM from Seeking New Federal ContractsBy Eric Auchard, Reuters Print
IBM is in the ethics spotlight over possible violations of bidding provisions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the company is temporarily suspended from all Federal contracts.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over an $80 million bid it made in 2006 to modernize EPA financial systems and has been suspended from seeking new contracts with all U.S. agencies, the company said on Monday.
In addition, IBM said the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia had served IBM and certain employees with grand jury subpoenas requesting testimony and documents on interactions between the EPA and IBM employees.
International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest provider of computer services, said it only learned on Friday of the temporary suspension from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tied to possible violations of ethical bidding provisions on an EPA contract IBM had submitted in March 2006.
IBM shares, which closed up 57 cents at $115.14 in regular New York Stock Exchange trading ahead of the disclosure, lost $1.75, or 1.5 percent, to trade at $113.39 in extended trade.
The temporary suspension applies to all federal agencies and IBM business units. IBM may continue work on existing contracts as of the date of the suspension, unless a particular agency directs otherwise, the company said in a statement.
IBM spokesman Fred McNeese said the company had been blindsided by the government suspension. IBM plans to cooperate in the investigation but will fight to limit the scope of its suspension from bidding on new contracts, he said.
"We are going to cooperate with investigators but we are also going to take all appropriate actions to challenge the scope of this action," McNeese said in a telephone interview.
The company started receiving calls on Friday from outside parties informing it that IBM's name was on a Government Services Administration site listing parties barred from bidding on federal contracts, McNeese said. After inquiries, IBM received a letter of suspension from the EPA, he added.
The spokesman for Armonk, New York-based IBM said the bid covered a financial systems modernization contract that has yet to be awarded. He confirmed that the value of IBM's bid was around $80 million and was for a systemwide EPA project.
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A year ago, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced an ambitious goal to grow Baltimore's population by 10,000 families in a decade. Today, in her State of the City address, she began to lay out her vision for how to make that goal a reality. She is seeking to increase investments in the things that will make city living more attractive and to reduce the costs that make it unaffordable. Her proposals reflect a clear-eyed view of Baltimore's assets and liabilities and a remarkable willingness to take on politically unpopular causes. Whether she can make it work remains to be seen, but there is no question that Ms. Rawlings-Blake's plans represent a bold new turn for her administration.
Much of what the mayor proposed today amounts to an attempt to control the ever-increasing cost of city government without slashing the services residents rely on, a common theme of her administration. In some cases, that has proved elusive, as in her effort to concentrate city support on a few high-quality recreation centers while turning others over to private operators. In others, such as reforms of retiree health benefits and police and fire pensions, she has realized substantial savings for the public, though in the latter case, she has also faced litigation from the unions.
Now she is proposing to go further, most notably by moving new civilian employees to a 401(k)-style retirement benefit rather than a traditional pension, and creating a hybrid defined contribution/defined benefit plan for new police and fire employees. The details of how she intends to make that transition are important, but the direction is right on. Taxpayers cannot be expected to foot the bill for an expensive benefit that few private sector workers now enjoy. For existing civilian employees, the mayor plans to seek some of the same kinds of reforms she enacted for the police and fire departments, including requiring contributions to the system from workers. Meanwhile, the mayor intends to shrink the size of the city government workforce by 10 percent over the next eight years.
By getting the costs of city government under control, Mayor Rawlings-Blake believes she can begin to ease downward Baltimore's crippling property tax rate — at twice the level in other nearby jurisdictions, it is a powerful disincentive to investment.
But to make more substantial progress, she is proposing to establish a waste handling fee and to offset the cost dollar-for-dollar with property tax cuts. That's a proposal that will require some serious study. The mayor believes that with that plan, she can cut the property tax rate by more than 20 percent, but because she is replacing one revenue source with another, she may be creating winners and losers in unpredictable ways.
That said, the interaction of Baltimore's high tax rate and the homestead tax credit creates disincentives for young families to buy homes in the city, and this proposal could begin to address that problem. Coupled with improvements in recent years in the city's crime rate, higher student test scores and a major push in Annapolis for a multi-billion dollar overhaul of Baltimore's outdated schools, the mayor's new proposals offer the prospect of reversing a decades-long decline.
Baltimore is paying now for decisions made long ago, when its elected leaders found it expedient to make generous promises for retiree health care without setting anything aside to pay for them, or to maintain a bureaucracy that might have been justified when the city's population neared 1 million but is now far too large and costly. Within a decade, those obligations will outstrip tax revenues by billions of dollars if Baltimore does nothing now. The answer is not higher tax rates, it's cutting costs and expanding the tax base, and that is what Ms. Rawlings-Blake's reforms are designed to do.
What the mayor is proposing isn't as radical as the reforms some have called for; she is not, as some have suggested, cutting the property tax rate in half overnight. But she is tackling festering problems that her predecessors have glossed over, and she is doing it before being forced to by a fiscal crisis. Ms. Rawlings-Blake is taking a major political risk. But if she succeeds, she will accomplish what none of her immediate predecessors have managed: Change a vicious cycle of exodus and disinvestment into a virtuous one of growth and redevelopment.


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"Hotel Charlottesville"-- Capshaw to help Danielson?
" Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy,
and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night"–The Eagles
California-based developer Lee Danielson may be hoping that travelers remember "Hotel California." Perhaps in homage to the '70s hit, he's calling his planned 100-room, light-topped lodging "Hotel Charlottesville."
That revelation was one of two jaw-droppers Danielson made after the Board of Architectural Review approved his design last week. The other is that Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw will fund the towering structure planned for the former Boxer Learning building on the Downtown Mall.
Danielson also told the BAR he believed financing would be provided by Virginia National Bank. Capshaw declined comment– as did the bank. "Customers are confidential," says an assistant to bank president Mark Giles.
Back in the mid-1990s, Danielson achieved notoriety for his frequent clashes with the design board. And a month ago, some BAR members worried that they wouldn't like his hotel's windows.
But at the February 17 meeting, the latest renderings met with wide favor.
"The new design was greatly improved and responsive to what we suggested," says BAR chair Joan Fenton.
One feature of the nine-story, 101-foot-tall building that didn't draw any criticism is the massive expanse of sanded glass near the top. The translucent glass, bathed in the glow of interior lights, will serve as a beacon of sorts over downtown. It's the brainchild of San Francisco-based architect Mark Hornberger, whom Danielson has described as an "old high school buddy."
Other high-profile projects designed by Hornberger's 60-person firm include the Hyatt at Beaver Creek, Colorado, and renovations to California's famed Hotel del Coronado.
The proposed hotel means the demolition of most of the former Boxer Learning building which was erected in the 1960s as a bank. Danielson has said his high-end "boutique" hotel will offer an American bistro in the former banking lobby, whose black granite facade will be preserved. Hotels guests would enter on Water Street under a porte-cochere. The structure would be about twice the height of the neighboring Live Arts building and about the same height as the nearby Wachovia tower.
Danielson wouldn't comment for this story, but back in January he told The Hook he was modeling his project on Ian Schrager hotels. Those include the Delano in Miami and the Paramount in New York. Schrager hotels have become "temples of hip" in the words of the Financial Times, and "made contemplative discussion of door handles de rigeur among the chattering classes."
Two days after the BAR's nod, the hotel cleared its last big official hurdle with approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals, which allowed a larger-than-standard rooftop mechanical area.
According to City planning director Jim Tolbert, Danielson's hotel was granted a variance to extend rooftop machines over 50 percent of the building's footprint instead of the code-mandated 20 percent.
"You can either put 'em on the roof, or you can put 'em underneath and have the big vents on the sidewalk like New York," says Tolbert. "I don't think anyone wants that."
Vivian Stein is not looking forward to another construction mess. Her store, Vivian's, faces the proposed hotel, and she has been dealing for over a year with construction canopies, mud, and water associated with the renovation of the Paramount Theater.
"But in the end," says Stein, "having a nice-looking hotel here would be lovely– certainly the kind of customer I'm looking for."
As for Capshaw, the longtime music maven has furthered his diversification into real estate investing. In addition to developing two apartment complexes, Walker Square and Riverbend, he also owns at least two former manufacturing plants: the Ivy Industries building downtown and the ConAgra food-packing plant in Crozet. Already, his pack-and-ship company, Music Today, has begun operating from the Crozet facility, and a published report suggests that the Ivy Industries building could become a health club.
"I wish there were more people like Coran Capshaw doing good things for our town," says fellow developer Gabe Silverman.
What about the Capshaw effect on the BAR?
"There was no reaction," says Fenton. "It's not part of what we have opinions about."
The BAR does care about such things as windows, and Fenton had been leading a charge to make sure the windows related to the rest of the structure. The latest drawings show a band of limestone around the base of the building, and Fenton's happy about that. "It really makes the ground level look much more attractive," she says.
Lee Danielson's proposed hotel, center, would cast a shimmering light toward the equally tall Wachovia tower.
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London, UK (PRWEB) February 11, 2014
There is no doubt that bullying is a problem in U.S. schools, but just how much of a problem is it? NoBullying.com releases the latest bullying statistics 2014 guide today.
According to the guide, recent news stories are filled with tales of cyberbullying – where the target is harassed through social media or other technology – that have unfortunately resulted in victims' suicides. The majority of bullying still takes place at school; 1 in 3 U.S. students say they have been bullied at school.
In a UCLA psychology study, published in January 2013, Psychologists studied 1,895 students at 11 Los Angeles middle schools, where students were asked to name the students who were considered the "coolest." According to Jaana Juvonen, the lead author of the study, "The ones who are 'cool' bully more, and the ones who bully more are seen as 'cool.'"
20 percent of U.S. students in grades 9-12 reportedly have experienced bullying, while 28 percent of students in grades 6-12 report the same. Experts agree that most incidences of bullying occur during middle school.
Most experts agree that bullying peaks in middle school, while children are making the transition from children to young adults. Although bullying certainly continues into high school – and even into adulthood, unfortunately – it does seem to subside with maturity.
Even so, approximately 160,000 teens reportedly skip school every day because of bullying, and 1 in 10 teens drops out of school due to repeated bullying. 83 percent of girls, and 79 percent of boys report being bullied either in school or online.
Macartan Mulligan, Co-Founder of NoBullying.com, said, "Bullying Statistics 2014 aim to keep our readers updated with what is going on in the sad world of bullying and cyberbullying. Numbers, sadly, cannot lie."
He added that parents and teachers should make a point to educate the younger generations about the sad outcome of bullying online and off line. According to Mulligan, it is quite imperative to press for more firm laws condemning all acts of bullying and harassment.
NoBullying.com features many pages dedicated to parents, teens, teachers, health professionals as well as posts related to cyber safety and the latest news about law making concerning curbing Bullying worldwide as well as inspirational Bullying Poems and Bullying Quotes.
The website makes a habit of updating its bullying statistics and cyber bullying statistics regularly because it is essential to understand how widespread the bullying epidemic is.
He also added that anyone suffering from bullying in any form or way can always reach out to the team of NoBullying and they will be given advice on how to stand up to bullying or protect themselves online.
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11569608.htm


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The best lack all conviction, Yeats said, in one of the more underquoted parts of that immortal poem, while the worst, regrettably, are full of passionate intensity. All it takes for evil to succeed, another man, in a convenient bid to contribute to this paragraph, added, is for good men to do nothing.
Perhaps I shouldn't go so far as to call those who hold different viewpoints from mine as "the worst" or "evil men", even though they have implied far worse things about us, but I think it is time for Uganda to develop a tradition of liberal activism. Because blogs and commentary pages and radio shows are overrun by reactionaries and bigots and people who spew with force and passion, but spew in the wrong direction.
Meanwhile, those of us who understand that things are not always black and white, those of us with a sense of nuance, those who see the value of asking questions as greater than the act of proclaiming guesses as certain answers just shrug and tut and go away.
Certainly without starting our own blogs.
So anyone stumbling into our sphere of discussion would think that there is a consensus on these issues—gays should be hanged, Obama is a babykiller, porno causes rape and others.
Did you read that article in the Vision last Saturday, by the way? It was an appaling piece of bullshittery that skated so close to the edge that by the end I could no longer be sure that the writer wasn't deliberately trying to lie.
Full disclosure first: I find pornography distasteful and vulgar and think it debases everyone involved in making and using it, and even though if you gave me a VCD of Beyonce stripping out of a French Maid's outfit I will not fling it back at you, at least not until after I have watched it, I still don't think that is anything to be proud of. Porn is cheap thrills and is bad manners. But let's not get carried away. Porning doesn't make you want to rape people.
This article's headline said that porn causes crime according to research, but blithely neglected to actually state so in the story. The writer, Ganzi Muhanguzi, observed that there is a lot of porn around Uganda these days and that also, over the past few years, there has been a rise in the number of rape convictions.
The implication here, of course is clear.
However, what Ganzi doesn't know, or doesn't tell us, or just didn't bother to find out is, beyond implications, what do actual researchers say?
How about nothing? In over sixty years of looking no valid scientific evidence has been found that proves that porn causes an increase in sexual crime, and when Ganzi cites a rise in rape convictions in Uganda, he doesn't look at places where this research is a virtual industry.
In the US home of Judith Reisman (more on her later if you are still reading by then) A presidential commission estimated in 1970 that the total retail value of all the hard-core porn in the US was no more than $10 million.
In 2003, Forbes.com put an estimate of the industry's revenue at between $2.6 billion and $3.9 billion.
Meanwhile, during the time when magazines and videos and websites were burgeoning, did the US record the expected spike in sexual crime?
Uh-uh. The US department of Justice said in January that there has been an eighty-five percent reduction in sexual violence over the past 25 years.
The numbers won't prove it and neither will common sense. Ganzi mentions Ted Bundy, the serial killer who famously claimed that porno made him do it before he was excecuted for the murders of thirty women.
But Ganzi forgets the hundreds of thousands, the millions of guys out there who have consumed pornography in their life but have not raped or killed anybody for it. Every dude I know who has no religious compunctions about it doesn't mind a glance or two at a dirty picture, but I don't know any serial rapists at all. The logic is telling me that porn doesn't cause rape and if a porn user rapes someone, there was another factor in the equation.
The article gets really ridiculous here, when Ganzi brings in his quoted authority. He refers to Dr Judith Reisman who he introduces as a "renowned psychiatrist."
Reisman is not a psychiatrist. She is a "doctor" yes, she has a Masters degree and Ph.D in Communications from a Cleveland university, but she has no training in medicine, psychology or psychiatry.
Perhaps that ignorance is what enables her to craft such risible theories as the one that I found when I read up on her. She claims that a cocktail of hormones, which she calls "erototoxins", are produced when you look at a porny picture and that these cause actual physical damage to the brain. Erototoxins, she says are, testosterone, dopamine, adrenalin, serotonin. Actual real doctors who have seen neurotransmitters and hormones at work disagree when told that sexual arousal damages the brain.
I am about to hit my word limit.
This post was not in defense of porno. Like I said, it is bad manners and none of us want our children involved in it, but there are worse things to find in magazines and newspapers and on the net. Like falsehood and deceit which, even if it is only by neglecting to do his job thoroughly, is what this story amounts to: a lie.
But in the week since it was published, no one has taken it upon themselves to retort, because that is how we be. The Ganzis of the world write their stuff uncontested. Rev wrote a bilious tirade based on a very slight grasp on the issue of overpopulation vs large population. I know there is nothing to be gained by offering facts and logic and figures to 27th, but it worries me that he writes long-ass blogs about American conspiracies to exterminate Africans, and SAGE writes about how we should be ruled by priests but no one writes the opposite. Those of us who know why separation of church and state is good for the Church don't say so. Those of us who know why gay rights are not about the right to be a homosexual, they are about basic human decency, don't say so. Those of us with insights on family planning and reproductive rights issues just shrug and let the crackpots rage uncontested.
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HOWTO Run another linux distribution from within Puppy without rebooting
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You reason for doing so might be
- make a "breeding house" for your puppet (e.g. Vector Linux)
- run applications, which you don't want to put on your slim puppy (e.g. TeX)
- examine how other distributions work
- learn why "chroot" is so cool
- The proper boot configuration is not done, and sometimes needs a little manual help
- It still does run on a Puppy kernel, so maybe there are drivers missing
Step 1 Installing your alien distribution
If you already have an installed distribution skip to step 2
You could either install the distribution by usual means (e.g. install CD) on a dedicated partition. Your documentation or your distro of choice will tell you how.
If you do not need to boot into your new distribution, but just want to run it from Puppy, you can also install it in a mountable directory on a ext2/ext3/reiserfs filesystem (e.g. a linux partition or the /root directory of your puppy). NTFS/VFAT filesystems do not work directly because of lacking permission settings).
I will show you how to do that with Vectorlinux, as this is the new standard development environment for Puppy. It should be similar for any Slackware-based distribution. Debian has something similar, search for "bootstrap".
1. Download the Vector Linux iso named VL-5.1-std.iso from www.vectorlinux.com, if you haven't done it yet. Alternatively you could use an existing install cd.
2. Mount this somewhere (that means, include it in the filesystem tree)
For the iso file you type in an rxvt
cd /path/to/directory-i-have-put-the-iso
mount -t iso9660 -o loop VL-5.1-std.iso /mnt/linux2
If you use the cdrom:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/linux2
(i use /mnt/linux2 for simplicity reasons here, you can choose another directory)
3. Create a directory on a filesystem, where you have enough
room (about 1GB) for the installation and extract the system (thank $DEITY_OF_YOUR_CHOICE for Slackware)[
You can also use the /root directory, but make sure to expand it enough(via Start -> Utilities -> Resize /root filesystem
Assuming you want to install it to /mnt/home/vector
mkdir /mnt/home/vector
cd /mnt/home/vector
tar xvjf /mnt/linux2/veclinux/veclinux.bz2
tar xvjf /mnt/linux2/veclinux/vlconfig.bz2
Step 2 Run in your new distribution
Make sure, that you have your distribution somewhere accesible in the tree - in other words, have it mounted.
Assuming your alien distribution is installed in /mnt/home/vector, a magic
chroot /mnt/home/vector
typed into a rxvt or xterm would make this terminal running in the new distribution environment. So every program you run in there searches for needed libraries and configurations in this directory. What it actually does is running a new shell in which /mnt/home/vector is assumed to be / (the "root").
So, if you want to run something from this distribution in the future, open a terminal, "chroot" to the appropriate directory and run the application (e.g. gcc, make, tex, gimp ... whatever).
Caveat 1 (does not affect Vector Linux): some distributions install there main filesystem across multiple partions. Pay attention during the installation and make sure these partitions are mounted in the right place before you chroot. Assuming, hda1 is supposed to be /, but hda2 holds /usr you need something like:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/linux2
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/linux2/usr
Caveat 2: Because the distributions are not booted properly, there might be problems with the configuration, e.g. network
For Vector Linux installed as described above, you may need to run several configuration tools once in order to get your system running.
and afterwards perhaps
for network
for mouse
to configure the X system
If you want to run the X server from Vector Linux, shutdown the running X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace), chroot on the console and type "startx". You do not need this if you just want X applications (like Firefox, Gimp etc.).
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Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 15:34
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well I did all that
went to a rxvt prompt typed in the chroot thingee
and then
(which I found by running
and clicking on installed) and seemed to get a running prog. I also managed to run a snazzy looking xchat and gaim BUT I am not connected to the net with them - yet
Now to connect to the net and try my original reason - to compile a .c program with
. . .
(what do I need with make?
make test
where test is a test.c file or something more
did some research but any advisement welcome
Hey if I can do it - a halibut can do it
Are you smarter than a halibut?
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make is an utility for building C programs. It's purpose is to release the developer from the burdens of complex invocations of the compiler, and to allow actions like installation.
It expects to find a file called "Makefile" in the place you invoke it.
See for example:
how to write one.
Complex applications, which are offered to be downloaded and compiled, either include Makefiles on their own or mechanisms to produce one (you might have seen the sequence "./configure;make;make install" somewhere, this is exactly that)
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Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 20:15
Post subject: running DEBIAN in Puppy
Is it possible to bootstrap Debian ?
it would be great to use Debian apt-get and have acces to the repository for new programs
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Yes ,it should be possible. (I only started it up to the point where the actual download of packages begins)
This is for Red Hat, but all the necessary tools (ar, tar) are in Puppy, so it should work. Please give feedback about your experiences.
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Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 22:19
Post subject: debian in puppy
I read and tried those exact instructions a couple of weeks ago while googling for an answer in this subject but could not get it to download anything , If I remember correctly the error was that the Var dir did not exist.
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Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 23:53
Post subject: What "make" is
Actually in the most general sense
is a tool to coordinate the execution of commands that generate files from other files.
Make checks if the source file is newer than the output file, if it is, it executes the designated command. If the output file is newer, that step will be skipped (unless you pass a parameter to
to ignore the output file time)
It also has some kind of 'scripting' abilities where it can include or exclude steps or pass different parameters to the designated command based on the parameters passed to make.
Most commonly make is used to compile and link executable programs or libraries.
It is not only used to 'compile' C programs. A large variety of development environments depend on make to coordinate the generation process.
I hope that this didn't confuse you more.
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rarsa wrote:
I hope that this didn't confuse you more.
When you are as confused as me a little more is no problem
all I wanted is the command line to compile a simple .c program
that I have edited or copied and saved from an editor
If I can successfully compile with from Vector Linux(now running as a Puppy sub process)
my conversion to uber-geek will be one step closer . . .
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U-BER-GEEKS frickin' rock!
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Then for a simple program you don't even need make.
You just need the compiler. You would normally pass the source files and libraries as parameters and the compilation directives as parameters and that's it.
For a very simple program. e.g. Hello world you don't even need compilation parameters
cc hello.c -o hello
# Or if you use gnu C compiler
gcc hello.c -o hello
Will get the
source file and will generate a
executable file.
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thanks for that - just what I required - easy when you know how - mindless trudging - wondering why such simple things are difficult to find sometimes - thanks again
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Post subject: damnsmall & Puppy
I installed damnsmall in a separate partition and chrooted into it . I was able to run Damnsmall without rebooting , only problem I could not go back to puppy without rebooting , no matter what combination of keys I used, I soon as I exit damnsmall my screen went black and I had to reboot .
is there a trick or maybe I was thinking the init comand But I'm not sure how to use it to get out of X and back into puppy.
help any one!!!.
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This Just In…From 1894
You might not like the Wild Card, and you might not like the World Series extending into November, and you might promise you will not like this expanded version of the playoffs Bud Selig is hinting at. But your displeasure will be nothing compared to the most ill-fated of all of baseball's post-season formats: The Temple Cup.
The team that won the pennant would play the team that finished second in a best-of-seven series. If the first-place team declined to play, the second-place and third-place teams would compete. If the second-place team declined to play, the pennant winner would play the third-place team. If the…well, you get the idea.
with the big glove is catcher Duke Farrell, and, to his left, in the other sweater, is Game Four starting pitcher Jouett Meekin. At the far right of the picture, seemingly just ambling up to the line, is no less a figure than Hall of Famer John Montgomery Ward. Ward is not only the Giants' second baseman and manager, but the organizer of that first players' union that precipitated the end of the game as they knew it and made the Temple Cup necessary.
During the seventh inning, two horses escaped from the grasp of their owners behind the ropes in center field, delaying the game several minutes before they were caught.
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Again, good stuff! Thanks.
Are you training for a TSA job, with those gloves?
Back on track, I'm related to someone in baseball…
thanx k.o.
see you tonight on the tube
Well done, impressive! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
If you look real close, Strom Thurmond is in the crowd with a giant letter D in one hand and a section of picket fence in the other.
Great article! As one of the few people who apparently appreciate 19th century baseball history, I thoroughly enjoyed this blog. And I also thank you for wearing gloves when hoisting the trophy (although I suspect that the HOF staff required that).
Thanks a Cubs million for this great story and pictures!
Nice! There's a lot of great baseball material, especially photos, buried in obscure publications of the 19th century. I hope this post serves to stimulate some more digging along these lines — there may be many other Temple Cup pics to be found.
As another eccentric interested in 19th century baseball, I appreciate your giving some love to the early championships.
Early 20th century writers considered the NL/AL World Series a continuation of the NL/AA series. Somewhere along the way this was quietly forgotten, and the original World Series seems officially not to have existed. There are three dates which can, at least somewhat plausibly, be considered the first World Series: 1884, 1903, and 1905. The irony is that the official date of 1903 is by far the least plausible. The usual reason for ignoring the earlier series is that they were effectively unofficial post-season exhibitions. But so was the 1903 series. Only in 1905 was it actually set up by the respective leagues. You have to go through some serious intellectual gyrations to work around this embarrassment.
As to photo 5, assuming your previous ID's are correct, that person is not Meekin – Meekin's sweater hung noticably lower. The sweater in photo 5 is consistent with that of the player previously identified as Wilson.
I would also say that Van Haltren is identifiable less by his unmistakable mustache, which is severly distorted in the reproduction, but by the fact that the players are lined up according to height (with the 5'9″ Ward being the exception)
THIS is what you're reduced to, Keith? Baseball from…1894?? NOT nitpicking, mind you…lol
Now that we've seen the kinescope of Game 7 of the '60 WS (note from Bing Crosby's private archives…NOT your "employers" at NBC; after all, wasn't it NBC that erased Carson's 1st "Tonight" show??), do you think the two of us can convince the MLB Network to find the tape of the Yankees-Senators game from 9/30/71?
Blackout rules being what they were at the time, the game (the last MLB game played in D.C. until '05, although we didn't know it THEN) wasn't televised in Washington. And I wouldn't know who in New York televised it. All anybody knows of that night is the news footage from the D.C. stations of the fans taking the field.
TALK to them, okay, Keith? You'd make THIS Senators fan happy…believe me!!
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this is great
btw – tiernan was my mother's great uncle. he's known for a homer he hit from the stadium next door that left the park and hit the polo grounds. he got an ovation from two crowds at once. he also once hit the flag pole in dead center at the polo grounds.
and this is was dead ball era.
i agree with you keith – HOF
It may interest you to know that Mike Tiernan still has relatives, mostly in the NY area. He also has a contingent in the DC area, one of whom (Dr. Gene Galvin, of Herndon,VA) has sung the National Anthem at Nats games- once at RFK and on this past Father's Day at the new stadium.
Mike, also known as "Silent Mike Tiernan," holds a rather remarkable world record. He is the only major league player never to grant an interview to the press, thus his nick name.
Hope you enjoyed this piece of baseball trivia.
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My grandfather was Joseph Tiernan from Brooklyn, NY. He grew up elsewhere in NYC, but he had 5 kids. The youngest is my mom.
Great article. Real historians appreciate 19th Century base ball. Playing vintage ball from 1886 you get to understand the game and its development. I don't understand why MLB Network likes to focus on the "10 Greatest" stuff when nothing is about 19th Century ball. They should note "The 10 Greatest Plays We Have Film of."


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