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A labor, and legacy, of love
Serenade Chocolatier in Brookline Village is bracing for the busiest rush of the year: Valentine's Day. There will be a line out the door of this small, pretty shop, awash nowadays in pinks and reds, milks and darks, hearts and Cupids.
But things didn't always run this smoothly for its owner, Nur Kilic. A struggling candymaker in 1988, working in a 300-square-foot shop, Kilic was trying to perfect the Viennese truffle, but its three layers wouldn't hold together. Today, the Viennese is her signature piece, and it began as a labor of love. What had once bedeviled her would become a lifesaver for both her business and her life.
It was the Viennese that led her to call retired confectioner William Federer, who had been in the business for decades, first in Mattapan, and then in Coolidge Corner, where he was legendary. Could she hire him?
Not now, he told her; he was taking care of his wife, who had Alzheimer's. Then one day, he walked into the shop, rolled up his sleeves, and gave Kilic two hours of help. He stopped by whenever he could grab time. When his wife died, he came to work.
"From then on, he came in every day until he couldn't anymore," says Kilic, her eyes moistening. Federer died six years ago at 91, and it was Kilic and her husband, Jonathan Wiederecht, who made the funeral and burial arrangements, and who, along with their children, still mourn his passing.
"All four of us love him endlessly," Kilic says. "It's one of those unique gifts in life I received and I will treasure forever."
Seated on a stool in the back of the shop, wearing tan cords, rubber clogs, and a burgundy apron, Kilic discusses her years of candy-making, and prepares a visitor a cup of dense, delicious hot chocolate. Nearby, four employees busy themselves dipping chocolates, packing espresso beans, and waiting on customers.
"On Valentine's Day, it's all men, and it's very funny to see how they shop," says Kilic, who is celebrating her 25th Valentine's Day in the chocolate business. "They say, 'I'd like to buy a nice box for my wife, but I don't know what she likes. So just put together what you like.' "
Kilic, 53, has garnered accolades for her artisan pieces, each made by hand, from the Key lime cream to the chocolate-dipped homemade marshmallows with caramel. But it is the Viennese that led her to Federer, and it holds a special place in her heart.
"Uncle Bill" Federer, a Holocaust survivor from Vienna, became a member of their family — Kilic's surrogate father, and grandfather to the couple's two children. She gave him the family he didn't have, he gave her his candy business: the name Serenade, after his favorite piece of music by Franz Schubert; his recipes, equipment, and tools; the giant marble slab; his time.
No money ever changed hands.
Another lasting legacy: Kilic, who is of Turkish descent, hires immigrants. Federer, having arrived in Charlestown knowing no one and speaking no English, had a soft spot for other immigrants.
"Do for others," he always told Kilic. "A lot of people helped me out when I needed it."
So during the Bosnian genocide, Kilic's family, which at the time included an infant and toddler, welcomed a Bosnian family of three into their home — the first Bosnian refugees to be sponsored in Massachusetts. The 5-year-old boy, traumatized by war, had stopped speaking. Kilic got him speech therapy and counseling and free parochial school, and found jobs and English classes for his parents.
Today, that boy is 25. He served in the US Navy and now works at a school in New Hampshire. His parents live in Malden, where the father sells cars. The mother, who knows Kilic works seven days a week, will often stop in at Serenade, don an apron, and say, "I'm here to help."
In 1999, Kilic was able to buy a 1,000-square-foot commercial space in Brookline Village. Over the years, she has hired Africans, Russians, Chinese, Bosnians, Turks, and other immigrants. On a recent day, an Albanian woman dipped chocolates alongside a Chinese woman.
"I believe I should give back, and that there should be a better distribution of what we have in this country," Kilic says. Anyway, she adds, it makes life at Serenade more interesting: "I like diversity. This is America, this is what it should be."
Sen Sen Wang arrived from China in 1990 with an English dictionary, and found her way to Kilic, who hired her. Federer would pick up Wang at her apartment and take her to the store. "He taught me everything," she says.
For years now, Wang has been running the Serenade kiosk at South Station independently. Which means Serenade supplies her with the candy, and she operates the kiosk as her own business, profits included. She had partnered with Kilic's mother, Lale, in the spinoff enterprise before Lale retired.
"When I started here, I hardly spoke English, and I was so shy," says Wang, 52. "But Nur and her husband and parents treated me as family, and now I've become an owner." Her daughter worked at Serenade while in high school, and is now a law student in New York.
In Serenade are photos of the diminutive Federer, whose omnipresent smile and twinkle were contagious. Each summer, he made a trip home to Vienna, and during one of those trips in the late 1980s, he decided to visit Dachau, the German concentration camp where he had been imprisoned decades earlier, now a memorial site.
It was a day trip, and Federer had left his passport in his Vienna motel room. Kilic laughs as she recalls what happened. "In Germany, they told him he needed a passport to cross the border, and they wouldn't let him off the train," she recalls. "Finally, he told them, 'The last time I went to Dachau I didn't need a passport!' and then they let him off. I bet he was laughing, too."
When Kilic started out in the candy-making business, customers knew little about chocolate — just that they loved it. "They'd ask what's the difference between milk and dark chocolate," she recalls.
In the past decade, customers have become much more knowledgeable. "Now the people who come to us are really serious chocolate eaters," says Kilic. They ask where the cocoa beans come from, what's the percentage of cocoa in the chocolate, is the chocolate gluten-free, what are the working conditions on the cocoa plantations?
Since doctors began recommending dark chocolate as rich in antioxidants and good for one's heart and arteries, sales have increased. "We now sell more than twice as much dark as milk chocolate," Kilic says.
But any kind of chocolate is good for your mood, Kilic believes: "How can you not be happy eating chocolate?"
And does chocolate make you smarter? Hanging in the shop is a gift from Kilic's niece: a framed graph of per capita chocolate consumption compared to the number of a country's Nobel Laureates, compiled by the New England Journal of Medicine. Switzerland leads the way, with Sweden a close second. The United States falls in the middle. China is at the bottom.
"China is just being introduced to chocolate," says Kilic with a smile. "Let's give them a chance."
Four years ago — around President Obama's first inauguration — salted caramel chocolates took off, and they remain a big seller at Serenade. "It started when the president said it was his favorite, like the Reagan jelly bean," Kilic says. She isn't crazy about them herself, but she'd love to send the president a box, if only she could get them directly to him.
Kilic experiments with flavors; one of her newest is yumberry from China. She likes making seasonal pieces, such as blood orange in fall and fresh mint in summer. Among the dozens of truffle types she makes are passion fruit, strawberry balsamic cream, and green tea.
But the Viennese truffle has always been the store's most popular. Thanks to her Uncle Bill, Nur Kilic did learn how to perfect those three layers of hazelnut and chocolate. It's as if his aged hand is still over hers, steering her through the process.
"He is always a presence in my life, and always a guide," she says.
As for those salted caramels? "I think it is a fad that will pass but it may take four more years," says Kilic. "Hmmm, I wonder what Hillary's favorite candy is."
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Complete Release in PDF Format
March 31, 2011
The Schedule
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7 p.m.. at Robertson Gym
No. 8 UC Santa Barbara (12-10, 9-7)
vs. No. 12 UC San Diego (8-16, 4-13)
Series record vs. the Tritons- 26-5
Streak- Won 3
2010 Series- UCSB 2-1
2011 Series- UCSB 1-0
Last time out vs. the Tritons- W, 3-0
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Robertson Gym
No. 8 UC Santa Barbara (12-10, 9-7)
vs. No. 6 UC Irvine (13-11, 9-8)
Series record vs. the Anteaters- 45-19
Streak- Lost 1
2010 Series- UCSB 2-0
2011 Series- UCI 1-0
Last time out vs. the Anteaters- L, 3-0
Can't Make it to the Court?
UCSB men's volleyball matches can be followed live online for no charge with Gametracker. Log on to UCSBgauchos.com, go to the men's volleyball schedule, and click on the Gametracker link for the match you're interested in. You can follow each point and see player statistics and bios.
The Week in Review
After taking a week off for Finals week, the Gauchos hit the road to take on the Cal Baptist Lancers in Riverside. Though the Lancers participated in the Gaucho Collegiate Invitational, the two teams did not face off during the tournament. Although the Gauchos finised higher the tournament than Cal Baptist, that did not show last Thursday night, as UCSB fell in straight sets. Before the match, the UCSB starting lineup underwent a major, if only temporary, overhaul. Sophomore seter Oliver Deuschman thrived with his playing time, recording a career-high 25 assists. Freshman setter Chad Kingi, who filled in for the Gauchos at the libero position, recorded a game and career high 7 digs.
Playoff Bound?
At this date in the season, there are two spots left open in the MPSF postseason tournament. Though the Gauchos sit above tournament clinchees UC Irvine and Hawai'i in the standings, they have yet to clinch a spot because they have played less games. The Gauchos need just one win over the final six matches to reach the tournament for the first since 2007. A
Rough Patch
The Gauchos, who have had an up-and-down season all year, seem to have hit somewhat of a speedbump over the last month. UCSB has dropped two of its last three matches, and four of its last six overall. If history serves as any indication, the Gauchos are a team to be feared when they are perceived to be down- UCSB has a 7-2 record in matches following a loss this season.
Shakeup the Lineup
For the majority of the season, the Gauchos boasted one of the most consistent starting lineups in the nation. For the first 20 matches of the season, Head Coach Rick McLaughlin sent out the same 7 guys at the beginning of every match. But starting in a match against Lewis earlier this month, the lineup has become much more volatile, as freshman middle Evan Licht, senior outside hitter Todd Travis, fresman libero Evan Mottram, sophomore setter Oliver Deutschman, senior middle blocker Wyatt Thomson, junior outside hitter Blaine Nielsen, and freshman setter Chad Kingi have all recieved starts in the past two matches.
Double-Digits a Sure Thing for #1
With 10 kills against Cal Baptist last week, senior outside hitter Jeff Menzel was able to maintain an impressive streak. Jeff has now recorded 10 or more kills in 14 consecutive matches. The last time Jeff failed to do so was when he tallied nine kills against USC on Jan. 26. Menzel has had 10+ kills in 19 of the Gauchos 22 matches and has recorded atleast nine in all 22 matches.
New Career Marks for Younger Gauchos
Against Cal Baptist last week, two younger Gauchos were able to record new career highs. Sophomore setter Oliver Deutschman, a prized recruit who has not yet had the chance to bloom behind senior Vince Devany, recorded a career-high 25 assists. Another setter, freshman Chad Kingi, recorded a career-high seven digs playing libero against the Lancers. Those seven digs also led the match.
Career Milestones in Reach for Seniors
Jeff Menzel has accumulated 1864 kills in his UCSB career, and has an outside shot at hitting 2000. Jeff currently lies third place all-time in career kills, and figures to finish there. Senior setter Vince Devany has 4096 career assists, which already places him third all-time in Gaucho history. He has 833 assists on the year, and has a good shot at reaching 1000 assists for the third consecutive season.
Tickets For All Matches This Season Are Available
Tickets for all matches this season are available by calling 805.893.UCSB, visiting the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, or buy online and print at home. The Intercollegiate Athletics Ticket Office now has two parking spaces adjacent to the building, making it easier than ever for fans to purchase tickets. The two parking spots, designated specifically for the Ticket Office, are available during weekday hours, which are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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Lots of controversy on the internet concerning writers lately. It's time for...
1. I will never pay people to write positive reviews of my books.
2. I will never use a false account (aka a sock puppet or anonymous account) to leave negative reviews of any of my peers.
3. I will never use a false account to review my own books.
4. I will never send reviewers copies of my books if they review in a periodical where my publisher buys advertising.
5. I will never ask friends, family, peers, or anyone who knows me to write reviews of my books, since they are biased toward me.
6. I will never ask fans to write reviews of my books, since they are biased toward me.
7. I will never pay a publicist to send out books of mine to be reviewed, since I am essentially paying someone for reviews.
8. I will never allow a publicist working for a publisher to send out books of mine to be reviewed, since they are being paid to do so.
9. I will never allow anyone to send out copies of my books to be reviewed, because if they were doing that they must know me, and if they know me it is impossible to get an unbiased review.
10. I will never allow any review from anyone I've ever met. Every review must be from someone who has never met me, heard of me, or read me before, and must come with a signed affidavit proclaiming such.
11. Every review must be from a professional reviewer who has true integrity. But this professional reviewer cannot accept money in any way, shape or form, because getting paid for reviewing could compromise their ethics.
12. I will personally interview every reviewer to make sure they are unbiased, and then ask them to remove their review because upon meeting them (The Konrath Uncertainty Principle) I may have affected their review, which renders it biased.
13. I will never blurb a book by an author I know.
14. I will never accept a blurb from an author I know.
15. I will never blurb a book from any author, because I may know them some day.
16. I will never review anything, or blurb anything, or allow any of my books to be reviewed of blurbed.
17. I will never allow anyone I have ever known, or ever might know, to blurb or review anything.
18. I will never use a sock puppet or post anonymously online about anything at all, because I should stand by my own words.
19. I will never post anything at all online, ever again, because it might impinge upon someone else's ethical standards.
20. I will publicly chastise, denigrate, ridicule, mock, and lynch anyone who has breached any of the above.
21. I will tattoo this code of ethics permanently upon my back to show all how ethical and moral I am.
22. Those who don't ask about my ethics will still be forced by me to memorize the tattoo on my back, in public, as many times as I demand.
23. All who do not comply will never be allowed to write again, and will broken on the wheel, their intestines forced down their own lying, cheating, dishonest, unethical throats while they beg for mercy, then they'll burned at the stake, drawn and quartered, their charred, smoking, crispy body parts placed on spires for all to view. This punishment will be meted out to any person, living or dead, who has ever had contact with, or has heard of, the offending party.
Joe sez: If you haven't figured it out yet, this isn't about dishonesty. It's about degrees of dishonesty. And everyone, to a degree, is dishonest. Glass houses and throwing stones, folks.
The only way to make the system pure is to never allow anyone to do anything, ever. But that's impossible. So instead we have people pointing fingers and masturbating to their own smug sense of superiority because they haven't been caught in the "ethical lapse du jour" yet.
I say "yet" because I'm working on a law to install cameras in every shower in the world. No secrets anymore. We'll catch your shameful masturbation, you knee-jerk finger-pointing self-pleasuring holier-than-thou folks. EVERYONE does things they aren't proud of. I shall now make it my mission in life to discover your secrets and broadcast them to the world so I can feel better about myself and show everyone how righteous I am.
For the pinheads among you, this is satire. I have never bought a review, or used a sock puppet for any reason, let alone to positively review my own books or negatively review a peer's books. Morals and ethics are slippery slope, and I think muck-rakers are on par with sock-puppeteers as far as scum-suckers go.
The current level of sanctimonious bullshit on the Internet that makes me feel I'm required to publicly proclaim my innocence is repulsive. When honest people get defense, there is something wrong with the world. It's a witch hunt. It's the HUAC.
All of you pointing your fingers and proclaiming your piety? Get back to working on your books, not judging your peers.
To my knowledge, I've publicly signaled out one writer in all my years of controversially bitching about the system, and that writer was spouting bullshit as President of the Authors Guild. He was truly hurting other authors. Not by buying reviews to sell more books. Not by cowardly denigrating a peer because of envy or jealousy. He was SELLING ALL OF US OUT and needed to be publicly spanked.
Plus, I spanked him for his arguments, not his business behavior. He took public positions which demanded a public response.
Those guys in the crosshairs right now, accused of buying reviews and using sock puppets? I may not agree with what they've done. But I won't get off rubbing their noses in their mistakes, and I don't have to sign a code of ethics to separate me from them.
When we start turning on our own, ask yourself why. Is it really to correct their behavior? Is it to join the mob so they don't come after you next? Is it to feel superior?
In all my years of blogging, of tweeting, of social networking, I can say this with honesty and candor:
That includes me. We're all human beings with fragile egos, trying to be the heroes of our own movies. Sometimes we fail. That's human.
Pouncing on those who fail with torches and lynch ropes? That's also human, but a lot uglier.
Siding with the mob because you fear they'll attack you next? That's cowardly.
Recognizing that certain behavior is wrong, and making a silent pledge to not do the same?
That's what strong, self-confident people do.
You all fail.
So do I.
Shame on us.
Addendum: Hey! All you whistle-blowing muck-rakers out there who want to humiliate people!
How about humiliating businesses instead?
The NYT just ran an article on buying reviews. I'd love for some investigative journalist to:
1. Count every publisher ad in the NYT for the last ten years and guestimate their worth.
2. Count every NYT book review of the last ten years and note the publishers.
3. Compare the top advertisers with how many books they've had reviewed. Compare that to reviews received by those who never advertised. Might also check if the review was favorable or not, but let's be serious--we all know even bad reviews sell books. No such thing as bad publicity, right?
If you like that one, you might try investigating how the NYT Bestseller List works. Hint: it's based on pre-printed write-in ballots, which bookstores fill in without any verification of actual sales. Hint #2: Every publisher knows which bookstores are reporting stores.
Or maybe you'd like to investigate how the Authors Guild and the Association of Authors Representatives are publicly supporting agency pricing, even though authors earn less under agency.
Or perhaps you'd like to take up the torch to support libraries, who are getting screwed by publishers with ebook acquisitions.
Or how about an article supporting the DOJ suit? I can't recall anyone in the mainstream media that has done so, even though collusive price-fixing has already been settled in three of the six complaints.
I really believe that investigative journalism is an important part of a democracy, and freedom. But there's a difference between Wikileaks exposing government cover-ups where people are tortured and killed, and a tabloid posting pictures of a drunken celebrity without her underwear on.
Reread my Code of Ethics above.
My guess is everyone will agree with some of them, but eventually there comes a point when it becomes silly.
That point differs for everyone.
Pick your arguments. Because when you argue ethics, it's very easy to be proven wrong.
Pick your targets. It's cowardly for a mob to attack one person. It's a lot harder, and more worthwhile, to attack organizations, whether they be government or big business.
Pick your battles. It ain't a battle if you join the majority. Your righteous indignation could be better spent on more productive debates.
There's a lot wrong with the world. A lot of people doing stupid things.
Just because you have a mob on your side doesn't mean you aren't being stupid.
For a more balanced look at this issue, check out Barry Eisler's thoughts. He manages to make points without any hysteria and without two minutes hate, which is the vibe I get from the NSPHP.
You know what you should have done, Society of Authors, if you really wanted change?
You should have forgiven the trio you named, and invited them to sign your petition.
But instead you signaled them out for more derision, so you could feel smug and superior. You're using that blog like a chastity ring, proclaiming your purity to the world because it isn't enough keeping it to yourself.
I don't need to join a mob, or excoriate my peers, or proclaim to the world how righteous I am. I can do the right thing in spite of that.
So come, oh ye witch hunters. Come hunt me.
Update: In the comments, I mention one of my truisms: people would rather fight to the death for their beliefs instead of honestly questioning that they may be wrong.
I value my ability to change my mind as more information comes in, and this blog has documented me reversing my opinion on several things over the years. Sometimes I need to be hit over the head with contrary evidence or logic a few times before it sinks in, but I try my best to constantly question my actions and motivations.
Barry Eisler does that as well. He just removed his support of the NSPHP.
I recommend that those behind that petition read Barry's blog carefully. When reasonable people opt out of what is supposed to be a good cause, something is amiss.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
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Geospatial Information Sciences Course Descriptions
6301 Geospatial Data Analysis Fundamentals (3 semester hours) Focuses
on data handling techniques and applying basic statistical methodology to
spatial research questions. Concepts of statistical data analysis including
descriptive statistics, exploratory methods, sampling theory, statistical
inference and correlation analysis are reviewed from a Geo-Information Sciences
perspective. Regression analysis and basic methods of spatial pattern analysis
are introduced. A prior course in statistics (such as SOCS 3405) is strongly
recommended. (3-0) Y
GISC 6317 Computer Programming for GIS (3 semester hours) General introduction to Visual Basic and other languages with GIS related applications. Topics covered include fundamental data structures and algorithms, user-interface design, component object model, and data base management. Emphasis on rapid GIS application development with hands-on experiences. Students are expected to design and implement a project.(3-0)Y
GISC 6311 (ECON 6311) Statistics for Geospatial Science (3 semester hours) Introduces calculus-based statistical analysis and probability theory, providing background for econometric and spatial modeling of simple stochastic processes. Covers standard probability distributions including Bernoulli, binomial, negative binomial, hypergeometric, Poisson, normal, gamma, beta, t and F distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; introductory asymptomatic theory, including the Law(s) of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem; real-world applications of probability theory, as time permits. (3-0) Y
GISC 6325 (GEOS 5325) Introduction to Remote Sensing (3 semester hours) Application of airborne and satellite remote sensing for understanding the surface of the earth. Focus on interpretation of images obtained by passive and active imaging systems using electromagnetic radiation, especially visible, infra-red, and radar. Laboratory course. (2-3) Y
GISC 6326 Geovisualization (3 semester hours) Examines the theoretical concepts and practical applications of cartographic and geographic visualization. Topics covered in lectures include concepts for geographic data representation, symbolization and map design, and methods for geographic visualization and display. 3D visualization, cartographic animation, and web based mapping may also be included. Lab sessions explore the implementation of cartographic and geographic visualization with industry standard GIS software. Prerequisite: GISC 6381 or equivalent knowledge. (3-0) R
GISC 6332 GIS Applications in Criminology (3 semester hours) Examines spatial distribution of crime, criminals, and criminal justice interventions. Students conduct spatial analysis of point patterns and area-based data in studies of the locations of crime events and rates, offenders, police controlling practices, judicial districts and community corrections and how they relate to physical and social characteristics of neighborhoods. (3-0) R
GISC 6379 Special Topics in Geographic Information Sciences (3 semester hours) Topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit up to a maximum of 9 hours. Consult with adviser to determine appropriateness of topic for degree plan. (3-0) R
GISC 6380 Spatial Concepts and Organization (3 semester hours) Examines the recurring patterns of physical and human objects on the Earth's surface, the flows of circulations among them, and the spatial concepts and theories which have been advanced to help understand and explain these spatial arrangements. Provides a fundamental understanding of spatial processes, concepts, and theories. (3-0) R
GISC 6381 Geographic Information Systems Fundamentals (3 semester hours) Examines the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems and their applications. Emphasizes the concepts needed to use GIS effectively for manipulating, querying, analyzing, and visualizing spatial-based data. Industry-standard GIS software is used to analyze spatial patterns in social, economic and environmental data, and to generate cartographic output from the analysis. (3-0) Y
GISC 6382 Applied Geographic Information Systems (3 semester hours) Further develops hands-on skills with industry-standard GIS software for application in a wide variety of areas including urban infrastructure management, marketing and location analysis, environmental management, geologic and geophysical analysis and the Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. Prerequisite: GISC 6381, or equivalent with instructor's permission. (3-0) Y
GISC 6383 Geographic Information Systems Management and Implementation (3 semester hours) Management strategies for GIS are examined by presenting GIS as an integrated system of people, computer hardware, software, applications and data. Implementation is examined as a systematic process of user needs assessment, system specification, database design, application development, implementation, operation, and maintenance. Includes design of implementation plans as case studies to explore various techniques associated with each step of this process. (3-0) Y
GISC 6384 Spatial Analysis and Modeling (3 semester hours) Treatment of more advanced topics in the application of spatial analysis in a GIS environment. Topics covered include raster-based cartographic modeling, 3-d visualization, geostatistics and network analysis. Student will be acquainted with state-of–the-art software through hands-on laboratory experiences. Prerequisite: GISC 6381. (3-0) Y
GISC 6385 GIS Theories, Models and Issues (3 semester hours) Provides an understanding of the underlying theories, mathematical and geometric tools, and their computational implementations that establish GIS capabilities to handle and analyze geo-referenced information. Associated issues (such as uncertainty, spatial analysis and spatial data management) highlighted. Prerequisite: GISC 6381 and 6382, or equivalent with instructor's permission. (3-0) Y
GISC 6387 Geographic Information Systems Workshop (3 semester hours) Provides a structured laboratory experience focused on the students' substantive area of interest. Each participant develops a project which should include aspects of database design and manipulation, spatial analysis, and cartographic production. Projects may be designed in coordination with a local government, utility, business, or other entity that uses GIS in its operations and research. Prerequisites: GISC 6381 and GISC 6382. (3-0) Y
GISC 6388 GIS Application Software Development (3 semester hours) Provides instruction and hands-on experience in specific techniques and languages for developing application systems based on GIS concepts. Students will learn to use current generation commercial software to design and implement an application. Prerequisites: GISC 6381 and GISC 6317, or consent of instructor. (3-0) R
GISC 6389 Geospatial Information Sciences Master's Project (3 semester hours) Requires completion of an original GIS project by the student working alone or in a team. Team efforts must result in products that can be associated uniquely with each student. Projects normally continue efforts started in GISC 6387 or GISC 6386. (3-0) S
GISC 7310 Regression Analysis with Spatial Applications (3 semester hours) The specification, interpretation and properties of the multiple linear regression model including spatial and aspatial regression diagnostics are examined. Extensions to the logistic and Poisson regression models and spatial heterogeneity are provided. A review of the key concepts of matrix algebra and simulation techniques is given. Practical data analysis for large datasets is exercised by coupling statistical software with GIS environments. Prerequisite: GISC 6301 or GISC/ECON 6311 or equivalent. (3-0) Y
GISC 7360 GIS Pattern Analysis (3 semester hours) Examines univariate and multivariate methods for point pattern analysis, geo-statistical surface interpolations, and spatial regression models. Underlying models and processes leading to spatially clustered and spatially dispersed patterns are discussed. Course has particular relevance for local and global spatial analyses of crime, disease, or environmental patterns. Prerequisites: GISC 6381 or GISC 6311 and GISC 6301 or equivalent. (3-0) R
GISC 7361 Spatial Statistics (3 semester hours) The application of statistical techniques to the explicit treatment of space (geography) in social science models. Covers indices of spatial autocorrelation, the specification of autoregressive models (Gaussian, Poisson, binomial/logistic), geostatistical modeling, spatial filtering, Bayesian map analysis, random effects in models, and imputation of missing geocoded data. Prerequisite: GISC 7310 or EPPS 7316 or equivalent; GISC 7360 recommended . (3-0) R
GISC 7363 Internet Mapping and Information Processing (3 semester hours) Provides a conceptual overview and hands-on experiences in Internet mapping and web-based geospatial information processing with state-of-the-art commercial software. Topics covered included client/server configuration, distributed data access and display, web-based user interaction and customization. (3-0) T
GISC 7364 Demographic Analysis and Modeling (3 semester hours) Examines key demographic models for population analysis, their underlying theoretical foundations, and extensions into the spatial domain. Incorporates quantitative estimation and projection techniques and their use within a geographic information systems framework. Provides a solid understanding of spatio-temporal population dynamics, either local or global, which is essential to many disciplines engaged in planning for the public and private service sectors, for transportation networks or for regional development projects. Prerequisites: EPPS 7313. (3-0) R
GISC 7365 (GEOS 5326) Remote Sensing Digital Image Processing (3 semester hours) Introduction to remote sensing digital image processing techniques. Topics covered include principles of remote sensing and remote sensors, image visualization and statistics extraction, radiometric and geometric correction, image enhancement, image classification and change detection. Innovative image processing approaches will also be introduced. State-of-the-art commercial image processing software is used for labs and applications development. (3-0) Y
GISC 7366 (GEOS 5329) Applied Remote Sensing (3 semester hours) Focuses on the application of remote sensing techniques to solving real world urban and environmental problems in areas such as urban and suburban landscape, lane use and land cover, transportation and communication, vegetation and forestry, biodiversity and ecology, water and water quality control, soils and minerals, geology and geomorphology studies. The current generation, industry standard software is used for labs and applications development. Prerequisite: GISC 6325/GEOS 5325 (3-0) Y
GISC 7367 (GEOS 7327) Remote Sensing Workshop (3 semester hours) An independent project is designed and conducted by the student, after instructor approval. The project develops and demonstrates student's competence in using remote sensing techniques in a substantive application appropriate to his/her field of interest. Projects may be developed in coordination with a local government, utility, business, or other entity, which uses remote sensing in its operations and research. A formal presentation and a project report are required. Prerequisites: GISC 6381 and GISC 7365/GEOS 5326. (3-0) Y
GISC 7387 GI Sciences Research Design (3 semester hours) Examines issues relative to the conduct of effective and valid research in geospatial information sciences and related fields.(3-0) Y
GISC 7389 GI Sciences Ph.D. Research Project Qualifier (3 semester hours) Requires completion, according to uniform guidelines established by the GI Sciences program, of a GI Sciences Research Project and its presentation to a committee of at least three GI Sciences faculty. May be repeated once in the immediately following semester. May substitute for GISC 6389 GI Sciences Master's Project. Prerequisite: completion of 24 hours of coursework in GI Sciences Ph.D. program (3-0) Y
GISC 8320 Seminar in Spatial Analysis (3 semester hours) Examines selected topics in spatial analysis or GI Science. (May be repeated for credit when topics differ). (3-0) R.
GISC 6V98 Master's Thesis (3-9 semester hours) Provides faculty supervision of a student's master's thesis research. Prerequisite: Consent of GIS Program Head and instructor. (May be repeated for credit.) ([3-9]-0) S
GISC 8V01 Independent Study in GIS (1-9 semester hours) Provides faculty supervision for a student's individual study of a topic agreed upon by the student and the faculty supervisor. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (May be repeated for credit.) ([1-9]-0) S
GISC 8V27 Internship in GIS (1-9 semester hours) Provides faculty supervision for a student's internship, which must be related to GIS. ([1-9]-0) S
GISC 8V29 Research in GIS (1-9 semester hours) Provides faculty supervision of research conducted by a student. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (May be repeated for credit.) ([3-9]-0) S
GISC 8V99 Dissertation (1-9 semester hours) Provides faculty supervision of a student's dissertation research. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (May be repeated for credit.)([1-9]-0) S


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Give your photos a grunge look with this popular Photoshop effect. Although this Photoshop effect is commonly referred as HDR photo effect, it is it can be done with regular, non-HDR photos.
Note: This photo effect is titled Gritty HDR due to the common use of the name and is not intended to be an accurate description of the effect. HDR means high dynamic range but this photo effect does not require the use of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. This effect is better described as a grungy tone mapping effect that can be done without the use of HDR images.
At left see a preview of the Final Results
Start by opening an image into Photoshop ... run Photoshop and choose File > Open. Browse and select the photo you would like to edit then click OK.
Photoshop CS2 or Older:
Select the layer and press Ctrl+J or go to Layer > Duplicate Layer to create a duplicate of the layer.
Do not do any editing on the Background layer. Instead, work on the Background copy layer. This will ensure you always have a copy of the original unedited image in case you require it for further post processing.
Photoshop CS3
If you are using Adobe Photoshop CS3, right mouse click on the layer an select "Convert to Smart Object". This will allow you to apply Smart Filters which can be edited at anytime and will keep the file size smaller.
Step 2: Make details more visible with the Shadow/Highlights tool
First, we'll mimic the tone mapping effect by using the Shadow/Highlights tool.
Choose Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlights.
In the Shadow/Highlights tool, adjust the settings so that all details are easy to see without making the photo look fake.
Step 3: Add a halo effect with the Unsharp Mask filter
Choose Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask.
We will not be using this filter to sharpen the image.
Instead, we'll use this filter to add a high-contrast halo effect to the image. In the Unsharp Mask filter, set the Radius to 250 pixels and adjust the amount to get an effect that you desire.
Step 4: Add a Black and White adjustment layer
Photoshop CS2 or Older: Select
Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation.
Set the Saturation to -100 and click OK.
Photoshop CS3 Select
Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Black and White.
A window with the settings will appear.
For now, just click OK without touching any of the settings and change the blending mode of the Black and White adjustment layer to Overlay.
Step 5: Black and White adjustment
For Photoshop CS3 only - Adjust the Black and White adjustment layer settings
Photoshop CS2 or Older: Skip this step
In the previous step, we skipped the settings to change the layer blending mode.
Now, we'll go back and edit the settings that we previously skipped. The reason for this is so that we can see the live preview effect of the Black and White adjustment layer with Overlay blending mode instead of the Normal blending mode.
Double-click on the Black and White adjustment layer and a Black and White window will appear. In this window, adjust the settings to get the results you desire.
Start by scrolling through the Presets and find the one that closely matches your screen
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- Al Jaffee is a longtime veteran of Mad magazine
- Jaffee created the Mad Fold-in and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions"
- His early life was bumpy; he was caught between parents, continents
- At almost 91, Jaffee is still active in Mad, other pursuits
"Draw something," Abraham Jaffee was told.
A school monitor had pulled young Abe out of math class and told him to report to the art room. Sitting with about 50 students, Jaffee drew the first thing that came to mind, a scene of a village square in Lithuania, where he had spent several years of his childhood.
Jaffee, by then in his early teens, had already established a talent for art. His teachers admired it; fellow students encouraged it. After a bumpy several years in which he bounced like a pinball between his parents -- moving from Savannah, Georgia, to Lithuania, to one borough and then another of New York City, back to Lithuania and back again to New York -- art was something to hold on to, a way to establish an identity. He had no idea it would lead anywhere.
"Some folks' lives roll easy," Paul Simon once sang, "some folks' lives never roll at all." Jaffee -- you can call him Al now -- has had a life that's rolled downhill and uphill and occasionally clicked into place. It's like one of the Rube Goldberg machines he enjoys so much, those fantastical contraptions for simple tasks -- wiping your mouth, say, or closing a screen door -- that require falling bowling balls, agitated parrots, dropping hammers, kicking boots and snapping strings, turning minor chores into a symphony of wacky machinery.
Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There's the Mad Fold-in, the magazine's inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over another. There's "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," in which a humdrum question leads to several unexpected sarcasms.
And then there are his sketches of "Mad inventions," including an airbag suit and an improved beverage can. Some of them, like a smokeless ashtray or a multiroll toilet paper dispenser, have come to pass -- much to Jaffee's amusement. He's been a primary contributor to Mad for more than 50 years, one of the chief purveyors of the humor that has shaped everything from "Airplane!" to The Onion to "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." (Mad is a unit of DC Comics, which -- like CNN -- is a part of Time Warner.)
His colleagues have praised him as a "genius."
"He picks up everything," says cartoonist Chris Schweizer, author of the graphic novel series "Crogan Adventures." Sergio Aragones, whose mini-cartoons have filled Mad's margins for almost 50 years, sounds pleasantly exasperated when he insists that many things he has done, Jaffee has done before.
"I've apologized a million times, and I still do, because I'll do a cartoon and he's already done it," he tells an audience at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he's part of a recent panel celebrating Mad's artistry.
Jaffee downplays the praise.
"People who want to do creative things are generally going to seize the opportunity to do so whenever they can," he tells the SCAD crowd. "I particularly enjoy doing something that hasn't been done before."
Draw something.
It was 1935 in New York. In the art classroom, the students worked. Jaffee was particularly impressed by the student in front of him, who composed an elaborate rendering of a Dutch peasant.
At the end of the exercise, the teacher announced that everybody could leave except Jaffee and the peasant's creator, Wolf Eisenberg. The two boys were to go to the principal's office.
Jaffee thought he was in big trouble, but Eisenberg, later to be known as Will Elder, knew differently. More than 75 years later, Jaffee still chuckles as he repeats Elder's words in his former classmate's thick Bronx accent.
"I tink," Elder said, "dere gonna send us to art school."
Across the Atlantic
You have to watch out for cartoonists. They'll catch you by surprise.
Jaffee sits on stage at the Trustees Theater in Savannah. To either side are other members of Mad's "Usual Gang of Idiots," as contributors are known on the magazine's masthead: Aragones, Jack Davis, Paul Coker Jr. and Tom Richmond, along with Mad art director Sam Viviano.
They're all in this coastal Georgia city for a weekend celebrating their work, patiently listening to moderator and former Mad editor Nick Meglin offer questions for them to bat around. Meglin usually speaks a mile a minute, incessantly cracking jokes, but right now he's reeling off a long, thoughtful query to Jaffee about original Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman.
However, Meglin has neglected to speak into his microphone, and his words have trailed off. The almost-capacity audience -- about a thousand strong -- murmurs, and finally Meglin, realizing his mistake, raises the microphone and finishes his address.
Jaffee impishly takes a beat.
"What was the question?" he asks.
The audience erupts.
You have to watch out for cartoonists. They may seem quiet, but they're watching like hawks.
"He absorbs it all," says Jaffee's wife, Joyce.
For Al Jaffee, such observation comes naturally -- and not without some pain. He was actually born in Savannah but has little memory of it. When he was 6, his mother took him and his three brothers from Georgia to Zarasai, Lithuania, her hometown, leaving his father Morris behind in America. The marriage was not a happy one; Mildred Jaffee was a religious eccentric who refused to acclimate to the ways of the United States.
She told her husband she was going to visit her parents for a month. She stayed for a year, children in tow, and probably never planned to return.
As Mary-Lou Weisman writes in her recent biography, "Al Jaffee's Mad Life," the trip from urban America to small-town Lithuania was like traveling from the 20th century back to the 19th. There was no indoor plumbing, no electricity. Everybody spoke Yiddish. People were fleeing Lithuania to come to America; Jaffee's mother was going the other direction.
Jaffee adjusted. One thing that helped was the newspaper comics his father regularly sent from America, featuring such cartoonists as Goldberg, Roy Crane and Harold Gray. Another was Al's ability to re-create those comics' characters in his own hand.
"The Lithuanian children had never seen cartooning," he told Weisman. "They drove me crazy, begging me to draw the same characters over and over again."
Jaffee's father eventually lured his wife back to America, but life had turned hard. The onetime Savannah department store manager eventually moved to New York, where he took a part-time job as a mail carrier. Then Mildred Jaffee decided to move her sons back to Lithuania. Once again Jaffee and his brothers made the long trip across the Atlantic and back to the 19th century. This time they stayed for four years.
But Europe was growing darker. Morris Jaffee scraped some money together and came to Lithuania to get his family back in early 1933. Three of his four sons came with him; the youngest, David, came over seven years later. Jaffee said his father "took Hitler seriously ... (and) saved the family's life."
But not Mildred's. She stayed behind. Jaffee never saw her again. According to Weisman's book, she most likely died in a mass shooting sometime in 1941.
Jaffee addresses his departure with some sadness but clear eyes. "When the selection was made in the concentration camps, some people chose to go to the left, to stay and die with the people they loved," he told Weisman. "When the selection was made in Lithuania, I didn't stay with my mother; I went to the right."
Picture of success
There's a photograph of Jaffee sitting in the cafeteria at New York's old High School of Music & Art, the school that changed his life. His arm is around Will Elder's shoulders. They're probably 16 or 17. The two of them are making faces like little kids.
Being a cartoonist means never having to grow up. Over lunch during the SCAD weekend, Al's wife, Joyce, and Paul Coker's wife, Rosemary Smithson, are asked if living with a cartoonist is like living with a perpetual 12-year-old.
Smithson doesn't even blink. "Fourteen," she says.
Though Jaffee looks more like an elfin college professor today, he's held on to that subversive side. And why not? He's a cartoonist. Pictures have weight. According to legend, Boss Tweed, the corrupt 19th-century New York power broker, complained to his flunkies about sharp-penned satirist Thomas Nast: "Stop them damn pictures. I don't care what the papers write about me. My constituents can't read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures."
During World War II, Jaffee worked at the Pentagon, where he created and illustrated pamphlets for soldiers in rehabilitation. He also learned a lot about military protocol. Once, needing a small bottle of ink, he put in a requisition. The army sent him a case of the stuff in large jugs.
After the war he joined an old friend, Stan Lee, at Timely Comics, where he worked 18-hour days coming up with plots and sketches for such comic books as the teen romance "Patsy Walker." (Timely would eventually become Marvel, where Lee would go on to create Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.)
It was a great if exhausting business that paid enough for Jaffee, who now had a wife and children, to buy a house on Long Island and a brand new car.
And then Harvey Kurtzman called.
Kurtzman had been three years behind Jaffee and Elder at the High School of Music & Art. Years earlier, he had sworn he would run a magazine and employ his old schoolmates. Now he was helming a new humor magazine, Mad. Elder was a regular. Would Jaffee contribute?
You bet.
Except, this being Al Jaffee's life, there were some twists and turns. First, he was still devoting long days to "Patsy Walker." Then, by the time he quit "Patsy Walker" to join Mad, Kurtzman had left to start another magazine.
Over the next few years, Jaffee hitched his star to the unpredictable Kurtzman as first one, then another, of his humor magazines went bust. Jaffee, who had found dependability under Lee, was pinballing around again. This time, he loved it: "Going broke working for Harvey was the best experience of my life," he told Weisman.
But he had to try Mad again. In 1958, he called then-editor Al Feldstein.
The magazine was ready for another Idiot.
Life at Mad
Mad publisher William M. Gaines, says former editor Nick Meglin, was a "living contradiction. He was singularly the cheapest man in the world, and the most generous."
Gaines, a self-described "maniac" who looked like Santa Claus' wiseacre younger brother, was a millionaire but dressed like a bum. He shelled out thousands for exotic annual trips for Mad's staff and freelancers but forced the group to pay for their phone calls. Meglin once asked for a raise of $3 a week and was turned down, only to have Gaines continue the conversation over an expensive dinner at one of New York's finest restaurants.
"The check came, and I said, 'That's the whole raise!'" Meglin recalls. "And Bill said, 'I like good conversation and good food. I don't enjoy giving raises.'"
Gaines, living contradiction that he was, also wasn't a funny guy. Despite that, he "appreciated humor," Jaffee said, and helped build one of the most influential magazines in American history. For generations of readers, the names of the Mad Men now "exist as gods on Olympus," says art director Viviano.
Gaines also brooked no interference from his corporate bosses. He wanted the magazine to tackle the world on its own terms.
And it did. Nothing was sacred to Mad.
"It was magical, objective proof to kids that they weren't alone, that in New York City on Lafayette Street, if nowhere else, there were people who knew that there was something wrong, phony and funny about a world of bomb shelters, brinkmanship and toothpaste smiles," The New York Times wrote in 1977.
Al Jaffee meshed beautifully with this world. His "Mad inventions" were pokes at Madison Avenue hyperbole and late-night TV commercials, as well as a tip of the hat to his old comics hero Goldberg.
"Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" originated when Jaffee, on his roof fixing an aerial, had to listen to his son ask "Where's Mom?" one too many times.
"I've killed her and stuffed her down the chimney," replied Jaffee, and a series was born.
And then there were the Fold-ins, which began in 1964 because Jaffee wanted to parody all the glossy fold-outs of magazines such as National Geographic and Playboy. The first one was so successful he was asked to do another, and to date he's done more than 400.
The feature is a layered joke in which Jaffee's elaborate art, accompanied by a cleverly spaced caption, turns into the answer to a headlined question when the right side is folded to meet the left: A colorful insect becomes Elvis Presley ("What colorful creature is being exploited even after it has wiggled and died?") or a farm scene becomes a death's-headed war hawk ("What offensive animal would many Americans like to see become extinct?"). They've taken shots at modern art, fast food, elections and celebrities -- whatever's in the news or tickles Jaffee's fancy.
Mad readers might have had the impression that Jaffee and the rest of the Gang hung around the office causing mayhem, but despite the family atmosphere cultivated by Gaines, the contributors didn't see each other much in New York. The tone was really set on a series of annual Mad junkets.
The trips began when Gaines decided to visit the magazine's only Haitian reader after he canceled his subscription. (With the entire Gang begging at his doorstep, the man changed his mind; the trip was worth it, Gaines believed, because the man's neighbor signed up, thus doubling the number of Haitian subscribers.) Later trips included an African safari and jaunts to Italy, the former Soviet Union, Thailand, Greece and Tahiti.
"On the trips we became a band of brothers," Jaffee recalls. "Even if an entire year went by without seeing each other, it was like being back with family again."
A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world
At SCAD, Jaffee is once again among family. The Mad trips ended just after Gaines' death in 1992, and some of the legends -- Dave Berg, Antonio Prohias, Don Martin, George Woodbridge -- have passed on. Age and distance have made it harder to connect. But Jaffee relaxes with Jack Davis and Sergio Aragones as if he'd seen them yesterday, sharing stories, signing books and observing the passing crowd, as cartoonists will.
At this gathering in Savannah, Mad is the center of the world. But outside SCAD's Poetter Hall, times have changed. The magazine's circulation, which topped 2 million in the 1970s, was down to just below 200,000 as of 2010. The magazine, once printed on pulp, now uses better-quality paper, prints words it once shunned, and even takes advertising. It's the kind of stuff that gives complainers material for potshots at the magazine even though -- given Mad's influence -- you might say we're living in a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world.
But the magazine remains a rite of passage, points out Viviano, a way for preteens and preteens at heart to negotiate the adult world.
"It's still a magazine for skeptics," he says. "That hasn't changed."
As for the idle chatter saying it's not as good as it once was? It comes with the territory, Viviano says -- after all, nothing is as good to anyone as when they first discovered it. And times have changed. Previous generations may have cared about skewering Richard Nixon and Vietnam; these days, the skewer is more likely to pierce Lady Gaga ... along with the politicians and product-hawkers.
If anything, Mad is raising its profile. The magazine now has its own website -- The Idiotical -- and a tablet app is in the works. Moreover, Cartoon Network (another division of Time Warner) has recently started animating some of the magazine's material, bringing the name to a more video-centric generation.
For the students at SCAD, the magazine and the Mad Men still have their magic. Junior Meg Casey remembers having to sneak the magazine past her parents. And interactive design student Erin Christensen, who claims he "started stealing it from my dad," relishes Jaffee's Fold-ins for their wit and color.
Jaffee still impresses his colleagues, too. He won the National Cartoonists Society's top honor, the Reuben Award -- named for Rube Goldberg -- as 2007 Cartoonist of the Year.
He's quick to acknowledge others' contributions, even if all a Mad staffer did was suggest an idea. "He feels almost obligated to let everyone know you did this," Viviano says.
And Jaffee remains a regular Mad contributor despite having "essential tremor," an affliction he's coped with for decades. He controls it by using one hand to anchor the other.
"My only worry is I'll need a third hand," he says.
But after all these years, he still seems surprised by the attention.
A few years ago, he contributed a Fold-in to "The Daily Show's" "America: The Book." A producer asked if he could deliver it by hand. So Jaffee took a Manhattan crosstown bus, walked into the office and was told by a receptionist to wait.
"Every one on the staff came down to meet me," he recalls in wonder. "And they told me how they came from various places like The Onion and other humor jobs, and what a terrific influence we had on them."
He pauses, the bowling balls, parrots and hammers hitting home. The ball finds its slot. Perhaps there's something to be said for a Rube Goldberg life.
"I was very happy about it, but a little bit embarrassed." It's not like he and the Gang set out to create a new world, he observes.
"We were just being very silly."


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After the first 2012 Republican presidential debate this month, newly appointed Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) director Christopher N. Malagisi observed:
Earth to Rep. Ron Paul… you are running for the Republican nomination for president, not the Libertarian or Democrat nomination. At various times throughout the Republican primary debate last evening, I had to remind myself I was actually watching a Republican debate. Without the interludes of Gov. Tim Pawlenty (and) Sen. Rick Santorum… you would think that Ron Paul (was) participating in a Democrat presidential primary debate, siding with Democrats on major social and defense policy initiatives.
Mr. Malagisi then explained the foundational mechanics of GOP politics that he believes Congressman Paul fails to comprehend:
The Republican Party as a whole though is based on five fundamental principles—individual freedom, limited government, free markets, a strong national defense, and preserving our traditional values and heritage… The conservative movement is a coalition made up of three disparate, yet amenable groups—classical liberals or libertarians, traditionalists, and anti-communists—or modernly referred to as fiscal, social, and defense conservatives. While each entity emphasizes different issues, they all work together in a political compact…
Malagisi concluded: "The modern Republican Party is based on the foundation of the conservative movement."
Earth to Mr. Malagisi: The modern Republican Party is not based on the "foundation of the conservative movement" even as you've described it. And if there is a big-government trend within the GOP that would typically be more identified with Democratic or liberal philosophy, it more accurately belongs to the big-government Republican brand exemplified by conventional candidates like Pawlenty and Santorum.
Let us begin with Malagisi's "five fundamental" Republican principles: "individual freedom, limited government, free markets, a strong national defense, and preserving our traditional values and heritage." Today's Republican Party, as defined by the last GOP administration, fails miserably on most of these fundamentals: The Bush administration attacked individual freedom and liberty (dismantling Fourth Amendment Constitutional protections via the Patriot Act), limited government was virtually non-existent (unprecedented empowerment of the Executive branch and an explosion of new departments and entitlements, doubling the national debt and overall size of government), free markets were literally mocked (The TARP and bank bailouts—"I have abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," said Bush), what constituted a "strong national defense" was at least arguable (In retrospect, was invading Iraq actual "defense" or an irrational offense?) and traditional values were more often used as a rhetorical electoral tool than vigorously pursued (it's no coincidence that Bush's first pick for the Supreme Court was Harriet Miers, a direct insult to the social conservatives who helped deliver Republicans the 2004 presidential election).
This anti-individual freedom, anti-limited government, anti-free market, hyper-interventionist and cosmetically socially conservative GOP was—and remains—the party of Republicans like Santorum and Pawlenty. Comparatively, Bill Clinton's briefly balanced budget, support for the Defense of Marriage Act and willingness to intervene militarily in Kosovo and Somalia (interventions many Republicans opposed) puts that Democratic president in the same rightwing stratosphere as Bush, if judged by Malagisi's stated Republican standards. In fact, if judging by the size of government alone, Clinton could be considered to the Right of Bush. How do Santorum or Pawlenty, in their records or rhetoric, differ significantly from Bush? Worse, how do any of these Republicans differ substantively from Bill Clinton?
In this light, let there be no illusions about which Republican candidates' platforms more closely resemble a Democratic ticket, and let us recognize that the mushy, statist center of conventional American politics has long been bipartisan.
This brings us to the 2012 race's most unconventional candidate. In citing Ron Paul's opposition to the War on Drugs and our current foreign policy as somehow being liberal in nature, this would have surprised the late William F. Buckley and Milton Friedman, who agreed with Paul on the drug war. Conservatives as diverse as Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak, Tony Blankley, George Will and Grover Norquist have all taken Paulian foreign policy positions. In fact, many conservatives now question Obama's war in Afghanistan and intervention in Libya, while the neoconservatives—who Malagisi subtextually implies define Republican foreign policy—now firmly side with a Democratic president.
Indeed, the very reason the GOP became the party of big government under Bush can be found in the collapse of Ronald Reagan's "three legged stool" of "fiscal, social, and defense conservatives" which Malagisi also cites. Malagisi writes: "John McCain knew he had to win over enough people from each of the three main groups to win the Republican nomination." Seriously? McCain joined the Democrats on supporting TARP, embryonic stem cell research and now sides with Obama on Libya. Again, which party's nomination did McCain win in 2008?
The fiscally conservative stool leg was put on the back burner permanently during the Bush administration, precisely because so-called "defense" conservatives were elated with the most aggressive foreign policy in American history. Social conservatives were not only satisfied with Bush's pro-life and anti-gay marriage rhetoric—they too were typically just as enthusiastic about policing the world and footing the bill. Notes The American Conservative's Michael Brendan Dougherty: "The religious right is more convinced of American righteousness in the exercise of its military might than the neoconservatives are."
With all the GOP's attention paid to God and war, fiscal conservatism became an afterthought, if it was ever thought about at all—as defense and social conservatives gladly sawed off the libertarian leg of Reagan's tri-pronged Republican coalition. The socially conservative Paul now dares to ask if federal solutions to moral depravity actually work in practice. Even though Buckley and Friedman asked the same question and drew the same conclusion as Paul, Malagisi believes this position makes Paul a liberal Democrat. More accurately, it makes the Congressman a constitutionalist in the mold of Thomas Jefferson.
Paul now also asks if what most Republicans reflexively call "national defense" is indeed that? To quote former CPAC boss and American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene's view of Reagan's foreign policy: "(Reagan) resorted to military force far less often than many of those who came before him or who have since occupied the Oval Office. . . . After the [1983] assault on the Marine barracks in Lebanon, it was questioning the wisdom of U.S. involvement that led Reagan to withdraw our troops rather than dig in. He found no good strategic reason to give our regional enemies inviting U.S. targets. Can one imagine one of today's neoconservative absolutists backing away from any fight anywhere?"
One can hardly imagine this. In questioning today's conventional GOP politics, even Reagan would likely not measure up to Christopher Malagisi's defense of the indefensibly statist Republican Party. Indeed, where Ron Paul is unconventionally Republican is typically where he is the most conservative. Conservatism necessarily requires reflection. Protecting the status quo necessarily requires deflection. And indeed, if today's Tea Party has a primary purpose, it is to force the Republican Party to finally remind us what, exactly, makes them so different from the Democrats in the first place.


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Despite the new World War II drama Darkest Hour now playing in theaters nationwide, "Who was Winston Churchill?" still sounds like a question you're likely to find on one of those 'the dumbing down of America has happened' videos. While Churchill may not have been American, himself, his influence and importance in the events of the mid-20th Century cannot be overstated. Winston Churchill was elected Britain's Prime Minister in 1940, a position he held throughout the remainder of World War II and again from 1951 to 1955. Before his career in politics he had worked as a writer and served as a member of the British Army. His election in 1940 came at a time when Britain's, and indeed the future of the whole of Western Europe was uncertain. Hitler had been elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and, by the time of Churchill's election, was already marching across France, pushing British forces to the shores of the English Channel, where the famous evacuation at Dunkirk took place (if you haven't seen Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, I highly recommend it!).
With the United States still hesitant to enter the war effort in either Europe or the Pacific, the newly appointed Prime Minister was faced with the choice of either regrouping and rallying national support to continue the war effort against Nazi Germany, or agreeing to sign a peace accord with Hitler and the Axis Powers. As the United Kingdom stood at the brink of invasion, it was up to Churchill to persuade Parliament, King George VI, and the people of Britain that the war could be won and that it was worth fighting, an extremely difficult prospect considering the ever-growing influence of Nazi Germany and the reluctance of the United States to enter the war. Continue reading


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- "Toni, my boy, today's the day you're being made!"
- ―Salvatore Leone
Making Toni is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories given to protagonist Toni Cipriani by Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone from inside Toni's safehouse in the Newport district of Staunton Island, Liberty City.
Toni finds a letter in his safehouse from Salvatore, which informs Toni that someone will be coming round to pick him up. Toni later exits the safehouse to find Mickey Hamfists waiting. Mickey tells Toni to get into the car and drive the meeting place. Toni, remembering the events leading to JD O'Toole's murder, nervously agrees to enter the car. The pair drive to a location in Bedford Point, where Toni walks down an alley, with Leone Family gang members at either end. Salvatore walks out, and the two enter a building to make Toni a made man. Salvatore has Toni dropped off back at the alleyway leading to his safehouse in Newport.
Post mission phone calls
Salvatore Leone
Toni Cipriani: Yeah?
Salvatore Leone: It's Sal. Listen, the Forellis had Mayor Hole in their pocket. But, we're gonna take control of City Hall. I know a big shot businessman who'd do anything to get into office. He's a complete asshole, so he's qualified for the position. I told him you'd make sure he wins the election... for us!
Ma Cipriani
Toni Cipriani: Toni Cipriani here.
Ma Cipriani: Toni? It's your Ma! I just heard, you've been Made! ...I never doubted you for a second, son! ...and seeing as you finally proven yourself, I'm calling off the contract I put on you. Let's just put it behind us. After all, I only did it with your best interests at heart. Ah, what kind of son makes his Ma go to such lengths? See you soon, son. Don't forget about your old ma.
The reward for completing the mission is $2,000 and the mission The Morgue Party Candidate is unlocked. The Antonio Outfit will also be added to Toni's wardrobe. Following the mission, Toni receives a phone call from his mother, who explains that she has withdrawn the contract to have him killed, meaning that the hitmen will no longer attempt to kill Toni.
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- After completing the mission, Toni will be wearing the Leone's Suit, regardless of what he was wearing when the mission was started.
- This is one of the few missions in the GTA series to be triggered from inside a safehouse.
- The letter on the table in the safehouse will remain there until the player reloads their game.


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Section 68
1–5, The words of the elders when moved upon by the Holy Ghost are scripture; 6–12, Elders are to preach and baptize, and signs will follow true believers; 13–24, The firstborn among the sons of Aaron may serve as the Presiding Bishop (that is, hold the keys of presidency as a bishop) under the direction of the First Presidency; 25–28, Parents are commanded to teach the gospel to their children; 29–35, The Saints are to observe the Sabbath, labor diligently, and pray.
1 My servant, Orson Hyde, was called by his ordination to proclaim the
2 And, behold, and lo, this is an ensample unto all those who were ordained unto this priesthood, whose mission is appointed unto them to go forth—
3 And this is the
4 And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the
5 Behold, this is the promise of the Lord unto you, O ye my servants.
6 Wherefore, be of good
7 This is the word of the Lord unto you, my servant Orson Hyde, and also unto my servant Luke Johnson, and unto my servant Lyman Johnson, and unto my servant
9 And
10 And he that believeth shall be blest with
11 And unto you it shall be given to know the signs of the
12 And of as many as the Father shall bear record, to you shall be given power to
13 And now, concerning the items in addition to the
14 There remain hereafter, in the due time of the Lord, other
15 Wherefore they shall be
16 And if they be literal descendants of
17 For the firstborn holds the right of the presidency over this priesthood, and the
18 No man has a legal right to this office, to hold the keys of this priesthood, except he be a
19 But, as a
20 And a literal descendant of Aaron, also, must be designated by this Presidency, and found worthy, and
21 But, by virtue of the decree concerning their right of the priesthood descending from father to son, they may claim their
22 And again, no bishop or high priest who shall be set apart for this ministry shall be tried or
23 And inasmuch as he is found
24 And if he repent he shall be
25 And again, inasmuch as
26 For this shall be a law unto the
27 And their children shall be
28 And they shall also
29 And the inhabitants of Zion shall also observe the
30 And the inhabitants of Zion also shall remember their
31 Now, I, the Lord, am not well
32 These things ought not to be, and must be done away from among them; wherefore, let my servant Oliver Cowdery
33 And a commandment I give unto them—that he that observeth not his
34 These sayings are
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NASA clears a green-propulsion testbed that will need SpaceX to reach the space station
SpaceX will get an early opportunity to show what it can do to help scientists and engineers use the International Space Station by flying a powerful thruster testbed up in the unpressurized section of its Dragon cargo capsule.
That capability to fly large unpressurized cargo, and to bring samples back from space to a splashdown recovery off the California coast, will ease a couple of transportation bottlenecks as NASA shifts gears from building the space station to using it.
Last week the agency cleared Innovative Space Propulsion Systems (ISPS), a Houston-based partnership developing green rocket engines that use its patented non-toxic monopropellant, to fly a thruster testbed on the space station. The experimental package, which will ride in the unpressurized section of a Dragon set for launch next year, is exactly the type of work the station was built to accomplish.
"We want to do the hard things, if they're of benefit to society," says Mike Suffredini, NASA's ISS program manager. "So a high specific impulse, relatively non-toxic engine that uses green storable propellant has a lot of interest to a lot of folks."
The "NOFBX" engine that ISPS has been developing for the past eight years has attracted "very broad interest from spacecraft and system integrators, as well as propulsion suppliers," says Max Vozoff, the company's vice president of business development. The work has generated more than 30 patents for the propellant—a proprietary blend of nitrous oxide and other ingredients—and for the engine technology developed to burn it, Vozoff says.
In ground tests, the engines have demonstrated they can be started with a spark igniter, are self-pressurizing and will fire if the propellant is in the liquid or gas states, he says. The company has patented four different propellant mixtures, which deliver specific impulses ranging up to 325 sec., comparable to standard hypergolic propellants.
But unlike hypergols, the monopropellant is non-toxic, Vozoff says, and can be loaded without protective gear or the need for technicians trained to work with hazardous materials. That saves money, as do a number of engine features—low-cost materials throughout, low operating temperatures inside the regeneratively cooled engine jackets, and etching-based production processes borrowed from the microchip industry.
Before joining ISPS, Vozoff spent five years at Space Exploration Technologies Inc.—the formal name for SpaceX. Among his duties was drafting the company's proposal for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) seed-money effort. SpaceX was set to close out its COTS milestones this week, launch conditions permitting, with the first docking of a commercial vehicle at the ISS set for May 22.
Aside from Dragon, the only other vehicle that can deliver unpressurized cargo to the ISS is Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle. Tentatively set for the Dragon's third commercial flight, the 430-lb. NOFBX Green Propellant Demonstration will ride in the unpressurized bay so the station robotic arm can grapple it.
The demonstration package will be mounted on a Columbus External Payload Adapter, the European version of NASA's Flight Releasable Attach Mechanism (FRAM) pallet, and installed on the outside of the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory module. The 46 X 34 X 26-in. testbed will include 8 liters of the non-toxic monopropellant, a 100-lb.-thrust engine, and associated valves, tanks and other hardware.
During a year-long test period, the engine will go through a series of hot-fire tests, including steady-state burns, pulses, deep throttling, and restart after long-term storage. Because of the risk associated with firing a rocket attached to the station, the clearance process was rigorous.
"When a new rocket engine, this NOFBX rocket test, wants to go on station, that's a big deal," says Suffredini. "It fits on a FRAM interface, but ultimately it wants to fire its rocket at different levels, at different times, and the whole station is affected by that."
Just as NASA took pains to ensure the rocket tests will be safe, the agency's station program office undertook elaborate software checks before certifying that the Dragon will be able to berth at the station safely (AW&ST Feb. 13, p. 27).
The caution exercised in granting clearance to berth does not reflect the level of anticipation among agency scientists awaiting the capability the Dragon can offer. In addition to the external-cargo capability ISPS will use, which can be applied to telescopes and other exposed sensors, the company has procedures to accommodate last-minute stowage in both directions.
"SpaceX becomes really key for our biotechnology development on the NASA lab side, as well as [NASA-funded] life sciences and human research," says Julie Robinson, the agency's ISS chief scientist. "You have to be able to put those samples in right before you launch, not load them too early . . . and you sometimes need to take them off the space station right before you undock and get them home quickly. SpaceX is going to have the best capability for both those launch and return issues."


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