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Support Bay View
John Manke is an active former Bay View resident who is involved in numerous neighborhood organizations, including the Bay View Historical Society, the Humboldt Park Fourth of July Association and the Shore Shore Farmers Market. He believes Bay View has a fine tradition in its past that we do not want to lose in the future.
The Humboldt Park Lagoon
Have you recently walked in Humboldt Park. The water looks dirty and full of slime. The weeds are building up on the outer edges. How any fish can survive in that filthy water is beyond me. The park has hard working people employed there. The problem is that there is too much work and not enough staff to do it. What is Milwaukee County going to do about this? Do not blame the park staff, because they are overworked already. Our city founders gave us parks for the people to enjoy, but now political concerns are blocking the maintenance of these parks. It is a shame to be in the park and see all of this lack of maintenance. Our city fathers would turn over in their graves if they could see the parks as they are now. Something has to be done to protect and preserve this treasure of ours. Please contact your elected officials to see what can be done about this problem. It is up to you to complain to them, because what I say does not matter to them.
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Who uses iTunes on the computer anymore? I hardly even touch my MacBook now that I got an ipad. Lol
Unlim tones can make ringtones. It's free.
Good app, but $5?!!!
this thing doesnt work. I tap and hold and all i see is the song name. I contacted them, they havent answered me in 2 days. The app info doesnt say that it is not compatible with IOS 6. it just says the standard ios 5 or later. i have an iphone 5.
at $5 for no service thats a high price. unlimtones does the same thing and its free and they specifically tell you its compatible with ios6. people wonder why their apps get cracked
let me correct myself. its been today is the third day
Make sure you also have the latest version of Action Menu installed. The tweak relies on Action Menu when you hold down on the song name.
Rinngo is certainly compatible with iOS 6. And it works. The screenshots in the piece are all iOS 6.1 from our testing.
Can anyone remember the name of the tweak that deletes the data accumulated by resprings?
This looks cool and I love that it's implemented like a native extension. That said, I just got AnyRing and have been blown away by its capabilities. It will use your own music, search a directory of sounds and music by others and even extract audio from youtube videos.
This sounds like a commercial but just figured I'd toss it out there. I might give this a try anyways.
Ever hear of unlimitones lol works great. Not over priced, and u can create custom ringtones. If this app was 1$ I'd buy it. But 5$? Ha your app better do a lot!!
As others have stated, no matter if this tweak is good or not, it has "Cocoanuts" written over it. And I'll never, EVER pay one more single cent more to this bunch of liars, should they even release the most awesome tweak of all time (which I doubt). Their support is no-existent, which is unacceptable considering they're one of the most expensive dev crew around; wait till a coming iOS version will render this tweak not compatible and you can say bye to your investment. They'll promise and promise you an update, they'll promise you awesome new features, then they'll disappear for 3 months, come back, promise you the same, disappear again and so on, but with ZERO facts. The fact that they're releasing a new tweak when they still have to release an official, iOS5 (lol!!!) supporting version of Celeste (let alone their other tweaks) which was promised for over a year is enough for them to just earn insults instead of cash. The big Repositories shouldn't even allow such scammers to sell stuff around, relegating them on their own private repository.
Thx God, at least in Bluetooth Sharing department we got an alternative from a dev which is well aware of what developing and customers support means.
People....we all know you can do this in iTunes......doesn't need to be posted a bazillion times.
We also know you can download them elsewhere...duh!
This 5.00 app allows you to crop them to your exact liking....in the iOS without a bazillion steps, resyncing or using a computer at all....
jesus christ.
For up to date information see their web page CocoaNuts

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LSU at Ole Miss
n When: 2 p.m. (No TV)
n Radio: WQLJ-FM (93.7), Oxford
n Records: LSU 16-9 (9-4 SEC), Ole Miss 15-12 (5-8)
n Series: LSU leads 24-19.
n Last meeting: LSU won 83-36 in Baton Rouge last season.
n LSU: Keeping that Final Four streak alive seems unlikely, but the rebuilding Lady Tigers have won four in a row, including victories against Florida and Tennessee. Depending on results today, they could finish in a tie for second in the standings behind Auburn. … Junior G Allison Hightower (14.4) and freshman forward LaSondra Barrett (11.3) are LSU's scoring leaders.
n Ole Miss: The team hasn't played since last Sunday's 71-69 homecourt win against Vanderbilt, which snapped a three-game losing streak. … Junior G Bianca Thomas (15.5) and senior C Shawn Goff (13.5) lead the Rebels in scoring. … Ole Miss is 4-2 in home SEC games this season after the win against Vandy.
Mississippi State at Alabama
n When: 2 p.m. (No TV)
n Records: MSU 20-8 (7-6 SEC), Alabama (13-15, 1-12)
n Series: Alabama leads 33-10
n Last meeting: MSU won 79-59 in Starkville last season.
n MSU: Thursday's win against South Carolina ended an untimely two-game skid. … The team's scoring leaders – G Alexis Rack (14.5), G/F Armelie Lumanu (11.3) and F Chanel Mokango (10.7) are all juniors and are all averaging 27 or minutes per game. … Another starter, senior Robin Porter (8.4 ppg, 6.5 rpg) is a native of Abbeville, Ala.
n Alabama: Beat Ole Miss at home on Feb. 19 for the Tide's only league win this season. … Sophomore six-footer Tierney Jenkins leads the team in scoring (11.6) and rebounding (7.4) but is more likely to come off the bench today rather than start. … Katie Hancock, a sophomore from Tupelo, is averaging 4.2 points, 3.8 rebounds in 15.5 minutes per game.
Also today:
n Arkansas (17-11, 6-7) at No. 7 Auburn (26-2, 11-2): The Tigers are 13-0 at home and won the first meeting in this series 70-61 on the road in mid-January. But the Razorbacks have won five in a row after a slow start in league play.
n No. 17 Florida (23-5, 9-4) at Georgia (16-12, 6-7): The Gators had lost 3 in a row before beating South Carolina last Sunday. Georgia ended a 5-game skid with Thursday's victory at Kentucky.
n Kentucky (14-14, 4-9) at South Carolina (10-16, 2-11): The Wildcats have lost 4 of their last 5; Gamecocks are just 7-8 overall (1-5 SEC) in games this season at home.
n No. 19 Vanderbilt (21-7, 10-3) at No. 18 Tennessee (19-9, 8-5): Vandy had won 4 in a row before the loss at Ole Miss and pinned a 16-point defeat on Tennessee earlier in the season. The Lady Vols have lost 3 of their last 4 but are still formidable (12-2) at home.
Parrish Alford, John L. Pitts
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SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1917 -ca. 1956
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COLLECTED WRITINGS, 1917 -ca. 1941
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High school diploma and yearbook
Magazine article, "Heroes of Labor," Time, December 16, 1935, quoting Milly Bennett
Membership cards, ads for speeches, press passes, identity cards
Newspaper articles about Milly Bennett
ca. 1921 - Marriage of Milly Bennett and Mike Mitchell
1927 - Arrest in China
1928 - Experiences in China
1929 - Writing career
1932 - Experiences in the Soviet Union
1933 - Milly Bennett's interview with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine
1936 - Izvestia and Pravda articles, November
1938 - Milly Bennett and Hans Amlie in Spain and their marriage
1942 - Speaking engagements
O.G.P.U. - Document on arrest of Milly Bennett's second husband, Evgeni Konstantinov, 1934 (in Russian)
Outline of Milly Bennett's career
Safe conduct passes for Milly Bennett in Spain
Souvenirs belonging to Hans Amlie, including calling cards, Spanish money, and safe conduct passes
Abramson, S. H., 1937
Allan, Bill and Seema, ca. 1934
Allen, Robert S., 1938
Amlie, Hans, 1938-1944
Amlie, Paul J., 1938-1944
Arthur, Chester A., 1942
Baillie, Constance, n.d.
Ballantine, Betty, 1939-1940
Barnes, Esther, 1941
Benet, Frances Rose, 1937
Bliven, Bruce, 1939
Bremler, Mrs. (mother of Milly Bennett), 1926
Bridges, Billie, n.d.
Buckley, Edmund, 1941-1943
Bullitt, William C., 1940
Burkhards, William, ca. 1930
Burnett, James, Sir, n.d.
Burton, Wallace, 1931-1932
Burton, Wilbur (?), 1926-1927
California State Board of Prison Directors, 1929
California State Relief Administration, 1940
Copeland, A. R., Mrs., 1943
Cornwell, Warren, 1942-1943
Cowley, Malcolm, 1939
Dalyrymple, Martha, n.d.
Detro, Agnes, 1938-1943
Dodd, Martha (?), 1939-1940
Dooling, Mary, n.d.
Douning, Myrtle, 1948
Edmundson, Charles, 1943
French, Lucille, 1939-1942
Friends of Democracy, Inc., 1944
Fuqua, Stephen O., 1940-1942
Garoffolo, Vincent, 1943
Givens, Alice, n.d.
Goodall, Donald, 1939
Gould, Grace, ca. 1935
Gould, Randall, n.d., 1940
Greene, Abel, 1937
Hall, L., n.d.
Hampel, "Sis", 1938-1942
Hawkins, Maurice, 1938
Herbst, Jo, 1943
Hoover Library, 1940-1943
International Labor Defense, 1931
International News Service, 1936
James, Bessie L., 1938
James, Edwin L., 1940
Jones, George S., 1943
Jones, R. M., n.d.
Kennedy, Edward, 1939-1941
Klutts, Henry and Dot, 1941-1942
Knoblaugh, Ed, 1941
Konstantinov, Evgeni Vasilivich (Zhenya)
Logan, Milla, ca. 1942
Magdiel, Daniel and Valborg, 1941
Mangan, Kate, n.d.
Mann, Tom (?), n.d.
Manson, Dan, 1941
Marca, Arnold, n.d.
Matson, Harold, 1938-1943
McCann, Steve and Tinka, 1956
McKillop, Marjorie, 1938-1944
Merrick, Owen, n.d.
Miller, Bob and Jenny, 1937-1944
Montrose, Sherman and Ethel, 1945
Morris, Gerry, 1941
Muggeridge, Eric, 1939
Muller, Hermann, 1937
Murphy, ca. 1938
National League of American Pen Women, 1939
Ness, Roy, 1942
Norris, Charles and K., n.d.
North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, 1937
O'Connor, Jim, 1940-1941
Offie, 1937
Olson, Culbert, 1941
Parker, Dorothy, 1937
Phillips, Joseph B., 1942
Podesta, Evelyn Wells, 1941
Prohme, Rayna, 1927
Prohme, William, 1934
Radomsky, Sergei (?), 1937
Raffel, Daniel and Rosalee, 1937-1942
Roessner, Elmer, 1934-1937
Rose, Sol, 1937
Ross, C. Blake, 1929-1930
Rothman, Kajsa, 1937-1943
San Francisco-Oakland Newspaper Guild, 1939
Sartain, Geraldine, 1941-1943
Seldes, George and Helen, 1938, n.d.
Shaver, J. J., Mrs. (sister of Wallace and Wilbur Burton), 1937
Sheean, Vincent, 1927
Shirer, William, 1941
Smith, Charles, 1931, n.d.
Steward, Pearl, 1939
Strong, Anna Louise, 1931-1944
Sutro, Ralph C., Mrs., 1941
Van Ansdal, Alvin, n.d.
Vanderburgh, W. W. and Rose, Drs., 1939
Vaughn, Peg, 1936
Wachtel, Marion, 1938-1941
Wiley, Donald and Marjorie, 1940-1942
Williams, Beryl, 1940
Williams, Spencer, 1941-1944
Wilson, J. E. and Mary Ann, 1939-1944
Amlie, Hans (correspondence to and from Hans Amlie, third husband of Milly Bennett), 1937-1944
Amlie, Thomas, to Hans Amlie, 1938-1939
Besant, G. A., Jr., to all Austinites, 1931
Douglass, Leon F., to W. N. Burkhards, 1929
Fox, Charles James, to Randall Gould, 1927
Gould, Randall, to Rayna Prohme, 1927
Houser, Lionel, to Elmer Roessner, 1936
Prohme, William, to Dr. Kou Meng-yu, 1927
Sun Yat-sen, Mme, to Rayna Prohme, ca. 1927
Wintringham, T. H., to Robert Minor, 1937
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1917-ca. 1956
Undated holograph notes
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings (many with Milly Bennett's by-line), 1917-1921
Verses, 1917-1926
Articles and manuscripts by Milly Bennett
"Ah, Girls, Have You See Wilson's Doctor"
"Birthday Is Celebrated On Way to Prison"
"Child Faces Anthony With Her Story"
"Daily News Reporter Sits in Court of Woman Judge"
"Guns on Casco Hold Up Treasure Hunt"
"'I'm Very Well, Dear' Mrs. Wilson Tells Reporter"
"Orphans Shiver While Clothes are Rushed to Burned Home"
"Reporter Sits on Pier in Early Morn; 'Rescued' Four Times"
"San Quentin Visit Gives S.F. Judge New Crime Philosophy"
"Starvation Pay Is Cause of Rail Strike, Men Say"
"'Wild Westers' Arrive On Oakland Side in Night"
"Wilson's Envoy In City: Saw Kaiser in 1915"
"Writer Brands Probe of Russ A Farce"
"Milly Bennett, Maid" Series (in the sequence in which they appeared, number nine is missing and the headline in number seventeen is illegible)
"'Milly Bennett' Gets First Job in City Home"
"'Milly' Quits; Seeks Work in Big Hotel"
"'Milly' Tries New Agency; Is Recognized"
"Jobless, 'Milly' Haunts Employment Bureaus"
"'Milly Bennett' Clashes With Stranger; Seeks Army Job"
"'Milly' Gets Job As Second Maid"
"'Milly' Quits After Day of Housework"
"'Milly' On New Job Overturns Bowl of Soup"
"'Milly' Finds Silent Service Is Difficult"
"'Milly' Invited to Party, Goes Through Ordeal"
"'Milly' Leaves Country Job; Returns Home"
"Send 'Milly' to Home of Acquaintance"
"'Milly' Almost Gets Job in Big Home"
"'Milly' In Berkeley Home Rebels At Cap"
"'Milly' Learns Proper Way To Tend Door"
"Beaus Are Bars to Job, 'Milly' Finds"
"'Milly' Goes To Work For Police Judge"
"'Milly Bennett' Ends Her Career As Maid"
"Hundreds Stranded in Berry Districts"
"Won't Send Boys to Farms, Say Officials"
April - "'Mother' Jones Comes to Help 'Her Boy'"
June - Series on the California Women's Army entitled "A Soldier of the Sod"
November - "'Newsboy Row' Desolate; 'Mother Lillian' Stricken"
"Civilized Life Palls; Pair Seek Solitude"
"Held Under 'Spell' Says S.F. Woman"
May-June, series entitled "Oneita of the Ozarks"
"Boy, 9, Penniless, Lives Two Weeks in City"
"Daughters of Syrian Banker 'Bus-Girls' Now"
"Fund Completed Rocca Boy Gets a New Leg"
"Girl Confesses Love for Herbert Law"
"Northcott Pose gone; Nerve Slips, Reporter Finds"
"Every One But Santa To Be Cheered Today"
"Find S.F. Meeting Place for 300 of Bolsheviki"
"Hard Luck"
"If 'Wheezer' Could Pitch With His Nose"
"Irish of America Will Aid Revolt, Says Kathleen O'Brennan"
"Jail Is Better Than Home, Thinks Carmelo Garcia"
"Oakland Judge Turns Hobo To Study Men"
"Thurston Says Wife Should Have Killed Him and Not Miss Kimball"
"Destitute Squatters Near Panic Stage As Government Prepares to Evict Them"
"New Reds Will Uphold the Glory of Old Reds - McVey"
"Woman Leads Move for Federal Service Shop Steward Plan"
"Woman Wanted Clothes, Drugs; Robbed for Them"
"Yep! S.F. Sure Wanted to See the Fleet"
September-October, series on American Forces in Siberia
"Americans Used to Break Mine Strike in Siberia, Says Veteran"
"Canadian Veteran Declares He Robbed Drunken Officers Charity"
"Crime for U.S. to Send 'Kids' to Siberia, Claim"
"Destitute Squatters Near Panic Stage As Government Prepares to Evict Them"
"Finds Siberia-Bound Lads Want 'To See World'"
"He'd Drink Before He Would Return to Siberian Service"
"Kopec Hill and Vodka Yanks' Only Relief in Vladivostok"
"Manacles Welded On Yanks, Says Veteran"
"Morale Is Gone, Says Siberian Soldier, Just Returned"
"More Men of 27th, 31st home From Siberia"
"Mother Walker Waits in Vain for Soldier Son"
"Returned Yanks Tell of 'War' in Russia"
"Siberian Veterans Tell Bitter Stories"
"Soldiers Don't Know Why They Went to Siberia"
"13 Trials, 1 Suicide in Month in Siberia Company"
"U.S. Officers in Siberia Often Drunk, He Says"
"Veterans Are Afraid to Talk"
"Vodka Drives American Soldiers Mad, Siberian Veteran Declares"
"'Why Are Yanks in Siberia?' Veterans Ask"
"Yanks In Siberia For Private Interests"
"Yanks In Siberia Study Maps to Find Ways to Make Their Escape"
"Couldn't Stand Sight of Slain Husband, Says Slayer in Prison"
"Home Town Paper Vendors See Life Pass on S.F. Streets"
"Jury Duty Proves Strenuous to 'Society'"
"Lou Eagan Gets Real Fund From Theaters"
"Verdi, World Rover, Wants To Stay in Petlama (sic)"
"'Waterfront Widow' Hit By Dry Laws"
"Women Gossip At 'Flirt Murder' Trial"
"You Can't Cure a Drug Victim, Declares Jim M'Quaide"
March - series on Travelers Aid Society of San Francisco, in sequence in which they appeared
"'Husband' Is a Myth; Girl Tells Tragic Tale"
"Girl Victim of War Works In S.F. Millinery Shop"
"Girl Comes to S.F. For Joy, Finds Tragedy Waiting"
"Weeks Of Toil Do Not Bring Sweetheart"
"Finnish Strangers Lost in Strange Maze of S.F."
"Girl's Tragedy Turns Into Happiness"
"Vice Rings Foiled By 'Badge' Women"
1921 -September - "'Fate Made Me a Murderess,' Says Woman"
March - Series
"Girl Reporter, With Only $5, Starts To Find Job in S.F."
"Girl Hunting Job, Applies to S.F. Salvation Army for Aid"
"Girl Reporter Finds Job First Day She Goes on Her Hunt"
"Milly Bennett Gets Acquainted with Girls Working in Factory"
August - Series
"Crawling Like A Dirty Bug in Heavy Dust -- That Is Weed"
"Men Held Like Slaves In Lumber Camps"
"Lumber Company Owns Towns, Keeps Peace Officials On Its Payroll"
"Destitute Squatters Near Panic Stage As Government Prepares to Evict Them"
"A Few Words by Milly"
"The Kona Coast: A Place to Dream"
"The Kona Coast - Arcadia - A Place to Rest and Dream"
"Memories of Honolulu"
"On the Kona Coast"
"She Walked in Beauty and Found the True Feeling That Is Hawaii"
"When the Old Burg Went Mad"
"Girl Griffin, Piloted by Gay Young Blade, Fails to Find Lovely Russian in Native City"
"Orient Is Not So Dangerous"
"Sun Has Set in Far East For Foreigners: 'China For Chinese' Is Battle Cry"
"'Teapot Dome' Shattered by U.S. Gun Fire"
April - Letter to the Editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times
November - Series in The San Francisco News
"'Butterflying' Into China's Revolt"
"Flames Save Milly's Life; Red Secrets Burned as Pekin Police Storm at Her Door"
"Hope For United China Lies in Education and Industry"
"Talking to the $100,000 Head"
1928 - Series entitled "Palmy Days" by E. J. Quillinan as told to Milly Bennett
March - "Flaming Youth Old Style, Novelist Says"
"Failure? Man in Almshouse Is Triumphant"
"He Failed, But World Fails, Too, His Solace"
"Life's a 'Lulu' Relief Home Inmate Finds"
"Meekness Is One Road to a Poorhouse"
"Blue Blood, No Less, Flows in S.F. Poorhouse"
"Charity Plea in Newspaper 'Racket' Hit"
"Fast Horses Convey Him 'Over the Hill'"
"She Tumbles From Trapeze to Poorhouse"
"Stanford to the Ganges"
August - September - Trip to Central America, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba and Colombia-carbon copy of article on the trip, answers to questions (in Spanish) presented to the President of Guatemala by Milly Bennett, copy of The Voice of the Passengers edited by Milly Bennett on board the S.S. Colombia
1930 (ca.)
"Janitor's Big Moment Comes at Court Session"
"Love in a Fudge Box"
"Mrs. Mooney Keeps Up High Heart for Son"
"Old West Still Lives in Lively Border Town"
"A Scripps Slave Spends a Profitable Morn Over Her Keys" (carbon)
"Vets Protest Ban on Radios at Livermore"
Holograph notes
"Garner to Work With Hoover If Elected Speaker of House"
"Mrs. Rolph Is 'First Lady'"
Partial manuscript on Judge Sylvain Lazarus (presiding Judge in the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle case and the Liu Fook case), outline, drafts, research materials, ca. 1931. This manuscript may not have been published
"Prince In Tiflis," typescript of article, ca. 1931
"Problems of U.S. Engineers in Russia", The San Francisco Daily News, September 5
"China and Russia Begin Negotiations as 'War' With Japan in Manchuria Ends", The Honolulu Advertiser, December 13
"Russia, China to Sign New Trade Treaty Which Will Be Soviet's Great Advantage", The Honolulu Advertiser, December 20
"Tragedies, Comedies Make Life In Moscow Quartiera Like Scenes From Balzac", The Honolulu Advertiser, January 4
Notes, verses
"Art for Nizhi Novgorod" draft
"American Girls in Red Russia" two page proofs of article for This EveryWeek Magazine, May 28-29
"Moscow's First American School" two page proofs of article for This EveryWeek Magazine, June 11-12
Chapters, notes on Milly Bennett's experiences in the Soviet Union
"Reveals Forgotten Chaikovski Score", Moscow Daily News, April 5
"'Evgeni Onegin' Resurrected", Moscow Daily News, May 5
"The World's Newest Drama", Moscow Daily News, June 3
"A Ballet Which Youth has Created", Moscow Daily News, June 8
"Fairy Tales in Moscow", The Honolulu Advertiser, December 2
"Big News Comes to Russia", The Nation, January 17
"Life of Durov" partial manuscript, research materials, ca. 1934
Carbon copy of article, probably written for the Moscow Daily News, ca. 1935
"Soviet Russia Discovers 'Home Sweet Home'", The New York Times Magazine, November 10
"Russia's New Hero Sticks to Mines", The New York Times, December 8
News cables to the International News Service from Milly Bennett
Copies of news stories for the International News Service by Milly Bennett
1931-1936 - Typescripts, carbon copies, parts of articles, notes
Typescripts, carbon copies for the Associated Press, written in Spain by Milly Bennett
Carbons, drafts, notes - Spain
Processed articles from Valencia, Spain
Radio interview with Milly Bennett on Chronicle "Feature Edition" Program, March 18
Draft, notes on radio interview conducted by Milly Bennett with her husband, Hans Amlie, KSRO, Santa Rosa, California, July 1
"Write a Book?", Scoop, the magazine of the Press Club of San Francisco, August
1940-1945 (ca.)
"A Bouquet for the Bride" (carbon copy)
"Camp Follower - 1944 Style" (draft)
"The Dog Collar" (draft)
"The Friendship Quilt" (draft)
"How To Lose a Ration" (draft)
"I Almost Lost My Head" (carbon copy)
Miscellaneous notes
1950 (ca.)
Untitled, incomplete manuscript on Milly Bennett's experiences in China (first draft ?)
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapters 10-16
Chapters 17-21
Chapters 22-26
Untitled, incomplete manuscript on Milly Bennett's experiences in China (second draft ?)
Chapters 1-5
Chapters 6-9
Chapters 16-17
Chapters 18-19
Chapters 20-22
Chapters 23-26
Miscellaneous notes, parts of chapters
1956 (ca.)
Autobiography (first draft ?)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapters 5-8
Chapter entitled "The End of Book"
Notes, parts of chapters
Draft, typescript with holograph notes
"The Girl With the Whistling Eye" autobiography, incomplete (second draft ?)
Chapters 2-3
Chapters 5-8
Chapters 9-12
Chapters 13-17
Chapters 18-22
Chapters 23-26
Chapters 28-30
Chapters 31, 32, 35, 36, miscellaneous notes
The Girl With the Whistling Eye" autobiography (third draft ?)
Chapters 1-5
Chapters 6-10
Chapters 11-15
Chapters 16-20
Chapters 21-25
Chapters 26-29
Chapters 30-33
Chapters 34-36, Postlude
COLLECTED WRITINGS, 1917-1941 (ca.)
Amlie, Hans
"Friends of Humanity - Friends of Democracy"
"I Still Have Mine"
"Story of Hans Amlie" related to Leland Stowe
"War in Spain" (a talk by Amlie to migrant workers)
"War Without Love" (2 copies)
Bland, Henry Meade
"Mount Davidson Park"
"To John McLaren"
Daily News staff, San Francisco - drawings, verses, notes, 1917-1922
Hawkins, Ann - letters about Spain, 1938 (planned for publication)
Mitchell, Mike
"Autotell of One W.K. 'Doc' Adams"
"Between Editions" - verses
"California Chronicles, or Life in the Far West"
"Dayton Days"
"Leomele Hawaii"
"Mitchell Tells All; Not Hit by Crutch"
"Song From the Chinese"
"When I Was in the Army"
Prohme, William - "Rayna Simons Prohme, A Report on the Last Months of Her Life"
Spender, Stephen - "Hitch-hiking in Republican Spain" (holograph)
Sterling, George - "The Revenge" (poem)
Strong, Anna Louise (manuscript on the Spanish Civil War, may not have been published)
Chapter I - "Why They Went"
Chapter II - "Where They Are"
Chapter III - "Training Camp - A Bit of America"
Chapter IV - "Battles at Jarama"
Chapter V - "American Base Hospital"
Chapter VI - "July Offensive - Madrid"
Chapter VII - "Wounded Men"
Chapter VIII - "The Taking of villa Nueva de la Canada"
Chapter X - "Harder Days"
Asia, April, May, 1927
The Coast, July, August, October, 1938
Sunset, June, 1928
Miscellany - Cartoon, calling cards, emblems, ca. 1927
Printed matter
Hankow Herald, July 19,1927
North China Standard, March 26, 1926
The Peking Leader, (clipping), March 26, 1927
The People's Tribune, November 7, 1926
Council of Jamaica Farm Workers' Welfare Association
Daily News, San Francisco (advertisement)
Hawaii - Printed matter
Harding, President Warren G. - Galley of front page of The Honolulu Advertiser on the death of Harding, August 2, 1923
Health - Moray radiant energy device
Printed matter
Moscow Daily News - March 28, April 2, May 24, 1931; November 3, 1936
Outer Mongolia - "The Truth About Outer Mongolia" by Edward Dunn, 1935
Civil War
Amlie, Thomas - Letter and newsletter by Thomas Amlie
British Royal Air Force - Report by Wing Commander Gade and Captain Pearson on Republican Spain, February, 1938
International Brigade
News of Spain, February, 1938 -February, 1939 (incomplete)
Press releases, 1937
Printed matter
Press bulletins
Excerpts from the speech of Largo Caballero, President of the Council of Ministers, at the Cortes in Valencia, February 1, 1937
Information bulletin, October 3, 14, 21, 1937
Communist Party
An Open Letter from the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Spain to the Executive Commission of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Making an Official and Concrete Proposal of Unification.
Report of Jose Diaz, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Held in Valencia in November, 1937
Printed matter
Children's book, 1933
List of foreign correspondents (in Russian)
Soviet Union
Moscow Trial, 1936 - Indictment, testimony (incomplete), summary of evidence of the Zinovieites: G. E. Zinoviev, L. B. Kamenev, G. E. Yevdokimov, I. N. Smirnov, I. P. Bakavev, V. A. Ter-Vaganyan, S. V. Mrachkovski, A. E. Dreitser, E. S. Hatsman, I. I. Reingold, R. V. Pikel, V. P. Olberg, K. B. Berman-Yurin, Fritz David (I. I. Kruglyanski), M. Lourier and N. Lourier
Music, including a booklet of Red Army songs (in Russian)
Translations from the Soviet Press, 1936 - typescripts, carbons, holographs
United Federal Workers of America - Constitution
United States Department of Agriculture - Farm Security Administration - Migrant camps (newsletters, notes, correspondence, printed matter) 1941-1942
United States Department of Justice - Alien registration form
Originals of newspaper articles by and about Milly Bennett, photocopies of which are filed in the collection
5 photograph albums: 1 album of childhood photographs; 1 album Hawaii, circa1920; 1 album in Hawaii, 1922-1925 1 album in china, 1926-1927; 1 album in Spain, 1936-1937 containing clippings, 1938-1939.
18 prints of unidentified people in Hawaii; 5 prints, 1 negative of Professor Hermann J. Muller.
3 prints of Mike Mitchell (first husband of Milly Bennett).; 4 prints of the University of Hawaii; 3 early family prints, Milly Bennett and others; 4 prints of Milly Bennett and others; 19 prints of Milly Bennett and others in Hawaii; 31 prints of scenes in Hawaii; 6 prints of Milly Bennett and others; 2 unidentified prints. circa 1920
2 prints related to the murder trail of Liu Fook: Liu Fook and others, Liu Fook, Judge Sylvain Lazarus and others. 1930
2 prints of Milly Bennett, Randall Gould and others circa 1918; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others, 1918 (probably in the office of The Daily News) San Francisco, 1918; 37 unidentified prints, 1917-1922.
6 prints of Milly Bennett; 9 prints of Milly Bennett and others; 2 unidentified prints. 1917-1922
1 print of Stephanie Dolgorouky (autographed) 1927
1 print of Eugene Chen; 1 print of Mme. Sun Yat-sen (Soong Ching-ling); 1 print of Michael Borodin and Yu Yu-jen; 1 print of General Fa-Kwei; 2 prints of Rayna Prohme, 1 print of Milly Bennett, Rayna Prohme, William Prohme and others in Hankow, China, 1927; 1 print of Henry H.Y. Hsu and Harold C.A. Ra (?), 2 unidentified prints of China, 1927.
1 print of William Prohme
1 print of Hsu Chien, Sun of, Tang Yen-kai, Feng Yu-hsiang, Yu Yu-jen, Wang Ching-wei, Tang Shen-chi, General Galen (Vasily K. Blucher) Chengchow, June, 1927; 1 print of Tang Shen-chi,Yu Yu-jen, Feng Yu-hsiang, Chengchow, China June, 1927.
2 prints of Earl Browder and Tom Mann in China, 1927; 1 print of Tom Mann; 4 prints of Milly Bennett in China; 6 prints of Milly Bennett and Wilbur Burton (?); 6 prints of Milly Bennett and others, China, 1927; 1 print of Wilbur Burton (?); 2 prints of Randall Gould and others, China, 1927; 1 print of Peg Vaughn and others, China; 18 prints of scenes in china, 1926-1927; 1 print of Yolande and Sylvia Chen, 1 print of Percy Chen (children of Eugene Chen) 1 print of Vincent (Jimmy) Sheean (?), 1927; 3 prints of wall posters, March, 1927, Hankow, China; 2 prints of Milly Bennett, Anna Louise Strong and others; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others; 2 scenes of the Chung Yang Dyke Project, China, circa 1927; 1 print of Milly Bennett; 17 prints taken in Hankow, China on May 19 and May 30, 1927; 1 print of Li Li-san; 4 unidentified prints of China.
3 prints of Milly Bennett, 1929; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others; 37 prints taken on Milly Bennett's trip to Central America, Cuba, Colombia Mexico, August 15-September 17, 1929; 5 prints of Milly Bennett; 11 prints of Milly Bennett and others.
9 prints of Milly Bennett and others, San Francisco, 1928-1929; 1 print of the San Francisco Press Club, 1930.
12 unidentified prints, 1 unidentified drawing circa 1929
1 print of Harpo Marx; 1 print of the Marx Brothers; Chico (Leonard), Zeppo (Herbert, Harpo (Arthur) and Groucho (Julius). 1933
2 prints of Alex Enukidze, Joseph Stalin, and Maxim Gorky; 1 print of Leo Tolstoy. undated
2 prints of Milly Bennett and others in the Soviet Union, circa 1931; 1 unidentified print; 15 prints of Milly Bennett and others in Moscow, 1931-1936; 4 prints of Evgeni Konstantinov; 1 print of Konstantinov and others; 2 prints of Konstantinov, Milly Bennett and others; 2 unidentified prints; 6 prints of the Children's theatre, Moscow; circa 1933
9 prints of Pushkina, U.S.S.R., 1 print of Milly Bennett; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others, 1933; 1 print of Bill Shatov and others; 2 prints of Evgeni Konstantinov; 15 prints of scenes in the Soviet Union; 36 prints of Soviet Lapland, 1932; 1 print of Milly Bennett; 4 unidentified prints
6 prints of Milly Bennett and others in the Soviet Union; 5 unidentified prints in the Soviet Union; 2 prints of Milly Bennett, Bob and Jenny Miller, 1936; 11 prints of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre and actors; 1 print of Milly Bennett and others; 1 unidentified print. undated
10 prints of children's art in Spain.. 1937
1 print of Hans Amlie, 1938; 1 miscellaneous print; 6 unidentified prints, possibly of migrant camps, circa 1941; 1 print of Hans Amlie, circa 1940; 2 prints of Hans Amlie during the Spanish Civil War, circa 1937; 5 prints belonging to Hans Amlie; 6 prints of Milly Bennett, circa 1940; 10 unidentified prints, circa 1940; 8 negatives; 23 negatives; 1 print of Hans Amlie and others, Pozarubio, Spain, circa 1937
63 postcards from the Soviet Union undated
14 postcards, Leningrad; 31 postcards, Spain. 1936
25 postcards, Paris, circa 1936; 53 postcards, Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow.
1 print of migrant camp. circa 1941


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11.10: Radiometric Dating
How do you date a rock (and who would want to)?
How you date a rock depends on what type of rock it is and how old it might be. Different radioactive isotopes have different half lives and so they are useful for dating different types and ages of rocks. Who would want to? Why, geologists, of course!
Radiometric Dating of Rocks
Radiometric dating is the process of using the concentrations of radioactive substances and daughter products to estimate the age of a material. Different isotopes are used to date materials of different ages. Using more than one isotope helps scientists to check the accuracy of the ages that they calculate.
Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating is used to find the age of once-living materials between 100 and 50,000 years old. This range is especially useful for determining ages of human fossils and habitation sites (Figure below).
Carbon isotopes from the black material in these cave paintings places their creating at about 26,000 to 27,000 years BP (before present).
The atmosphere contains three isotopes of carbon: carbon-12, carbon-13 and carbon-14. Only carbon-14 is radioactive; it has a half-life of 5,730 years. The amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere is tiny and has been relatively stable through time.
Plants remove all three isotopes of carbon from the atmosphere during photosynthesis. Animals consume this carbon when they eat plants or other animals that have eaten plants. After the organism's death, the carbon-14 decays to stable nitrogen-14 by releasing a beta particle. The nitrogen atoms are lost to the atmosphere, but the amount of carbon-14 that has decayed can be estimated by measuring the proportion of radioactive carbon-14 to stable carbon-12. As time passes, the amount of carbon-14 decreases relative to the amount of carbon-12.
A video of carbon-14 decay is seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dWTeregEA; a longer explanation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udkQwW6aLik&feature=related.
Potassium-Argon Dating
Potassium-40 decays to argon-40 with a half-life of 1.26 billion years. Argon is a gas so it can escape from molten magma, meaning that any argon that is found in an igneous crystal probably formed as a result of the decay of potassium-40. Measuring the ratio of potassium-40 to argon-40 yields a good estimate of the age of that crystal.
Potassium is common in many minerals, such as feldspar, mica, and amphibole. With its half-life, the technique is used to date rocks from 100,000 years to over a billion years old. The technique has been useful for dating fairly young geological materials and deposits containing the bones of human ancestors.
Uranium-Lead Dating
Two uranium isotopes are used for radiometric dating.
- Uranium-238 decays to lead-206 with a half-life of 4.47 billion years.
- Uranium-235 decays to form lead-207 with a half-life of 704 million years.
Uranium-lead dating is usually performed on zircon crystals (Figure below). When zircon forms in an igneous rock, the crystals readily accept atoms of uranium but reject atoms of lead. If any lead is found in a zircon crystal, it can be assumed that it was produced from the decay of uranium.
Zircon crystal.
Uranium-lead dating is useful for dating igneous rocks from 1 million years to around 4.6 billion years old. Zircon crystals from Australia are 4.4 billion years old, among the oldest rocks on the planet.
Limitations of Radiometric Dating
Radiometric dating is a very useful tool for dating geological materials but it does have limits:
1. The material being dated must have measurable amounts of the parent and/or the daughter isotopes. Ideally, different radiometric techniques are used to date the same sample; if the calculated ages agree, they are thought to be accurate.
2. Radiometric dating is not very useful for determining the age of sedimentary rocks. To estimate the age of a sedimentary rock, geologists find nearby igneous rocks that can be dated and use relative dating to constrain the age of the sedimentary rock.
Using Radiometric Ages to Date Other Materials
As you've learned, radiometric dating can only be done on certain materials. But these important numbers can still be used to get the ages of other materials! How would you do this? One way is to constrain a material that cannot be dated by one or more that can. For example, if sedimentary rock A is below volcanic rock B and the age of volcanic rock B is 2.0 million years, then you know that sedimentary rock A is older than 2.0 million years. If sedimentary rock A is above volcanic rock C and it's age is 2.5 million years then you know that sedimentary rock A is between 2.0 and 2.5 million years. In this way, geologists can figure out the approximate ages of many different rock formations.
- Radiocarbon is useful for relatively young, carbon-based materials; other longer-lived isotopes are good for older rocks and minerals.
- Different isotope pairs are useful for certain materials of certain ages.
- Radiometric dating cannot be used if parent or daughter are not measurable or if one or the other has been lost from the system.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
Radionetric Dating
1. What do scientists want to answer with radiometric dating?
2. What is the easiest way to date rocks?
3. How do we get actual dates on rocks?
4. How is the rock crushed?
5. What are scientists looking for in this rock?
6. Who came up with the principle of radiometric dating?
7. What is the mass spectrometer? Who invented it?
8. What is the spectrometer separating in this rock?
9. Why is the dating of rocks important?
10. What is the age of the Earth?
1. How would you determine which isotope pair to use for a particular material?
2. How does radiocarbon dating work and on what materials does it work best on?
3. What types of rocks are best fro radiometric dating and why?
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Legends and Killers is an addition to Rockstar's latest hit, Red Dead Redemption. The add-on includes a total of nine new multiplayer areas, eight classic characters from Red Dead Revolver, all accessible right away, new weapons and of course, new achievements and trophies.
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Deeplinks Blog posts about No Downtime for Free Speech
Last week, two leading Constitutional scholars offered detailed analyses of the Internet blacklist bills now pending in Congress, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP, or PIPA. Both scholars concluded that the proposed law could not pass muster under the U.S. Constitution. So you'd think that the new version of SOPA circulated this week would have resolved those concerns.
You'd think wrong. While the revised SOPA briefly mentions the First Amendment, the substantive text makes clear that's just lip service. Here's a selection of fundamental flaws that remain in both SOPA and PIPA:
Representative Lamar Smith, the principal sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a dangerous and unconstitutional Internet blacklist bill now working its way through the House of Representatives, has released a "manager's amendment" that reworks some of the bill's worst provisions. While the new version jettisons some of the most harmful language, it doesn't go nearly far enough.
The best thing about the new version is it no longer allows a private actor to effectively cut off payment processing for websites with a simple notice. The bill also endeavors to narrow the range of targets to non-U.S. sites. And, the authors have had the good sense to eliminate language that would have put sites under threat if even a single page was arguably linked to infringement.
At EFF, we like to give credit where it is due. Over the past few years, we've repeatedly called out the Burning Man Organization (BMO) for using online ticket terms to require participants to assign to BMO, in advance, the copyrights to any pictures they took on the playa. The assignment was designed to allow BMO to send takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) if it discovers photos online that it finds objectionable. We also criticized how the terms limited participants' ability to donate their works to the public domain or to license their works through Creative Commons, and restricted ticket holders' ability to make fair uses of BMO trademarks, such as the (trademarked) term "Burning Man," on any website.
This week's news that the feds seized 82 websites based on allegations of copyright infringement demonstrated that government website seizures can silence innocent speech. But let's take a broader view for a moment. The domain seizure debacle, the COICA Internet censorship bill, ACTA, and many other short-sighted efforts to eliminate copyright infringement all depend on (a) the traditional entertainment industry's yowling wail that "piracy" on the the Internet is injuring the livelihoods of artists and (b) the US government's chronically uncritical acceptance of those complaints.
Over the past few days, the U.S. Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and nine U.S. Attorneys' Offices seized 82 domain names of websites they claim were engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and illegal copyrighted works.
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Seem more and more users request to know what is being worked on about their prefered softwares, I thought I would try to keep my advocato diary updayed.
Generic Prelude work
- Merged the new IDMEF API in CVS head.
- Sensors have been ported to the new IDMEF API.
- Implemented a database cache, improving frontend query time by a factor of 6, on my local machine. This is available to any frontend using libpreludedb.
Prelude NIDS:
A lot of work has being done to make the Prelude NIDS gigabit capable and I recently commited theses to the CVS tree. Changes include:
- Multithreading support providing the ability to parallelize the packet analysis process on SMP machines.
- Implementation of the e2xb algorithm for speeding up pattern matching


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The title is one that can truly be applied to your life. Our lives can be much simpler if we learn to merely focus on what is more important. As women we tend to add a multitude of things to our lives because we are known as multi-taskers but we need to learn how to trim down on the obligations we take on. When we can accomplish that small task we will be much happier.
Now in order to accomplish a simpler life we can apply some of the following tips:
- Reduce the Clutter – you will be amazed and how much more at ease you will feel when you have reduced the unnecessary clutter. Truly assess the clothes in your closet and instead of thinking that the style will come back or that you are planning to lose weight, remove the items you no longer use. The same goes for the piles of magazines with the design ideas or recipes you hoped to use. Instead, rip out the pages, and place in a folder and recycle the magazines.
- Electronics/Gadgets – It's amazing how many remote controls we will accumulate. Consider obtaining one that will work for all your items such as television, DVR, DVD player, stereo, etc. Have you looked at your kitchen counters lately? How many of those appliances do you truly use? Consider removing the ones you don't use and enjoy a clean and clutter-free kitchen counter.
- Using a calendar – sounds easy enough but you'd be surprised how actually keeping track of all your appointments will help you better assess your schedule. This is also an opportune time to re-evaluate all the activities you or your family are involved in. Do you truly have to attend each and every activity? Sometimes we as moms feel that we must entertain our children with many activities when in reality they are much happier staying home. Removing the excessive activities will help you and your family relax, enjoy your family time and have less stress.
- Learn to say 'No' – this may be perhaps the most important tip of all. Again we as women and moms, fall prey to every invitation and feel obligated to participate. It is much easier for you and your family if you learn the simple word , 'No'. If that is difficult to say, try this phrase- 'I simply can't say yes to that'. Notice how you are not coming out and say the word 'No' but you are not saying 'Yes' either.
- Make time for you – it is very important to make time for you. It can simply consist of taking a bubble bath or setting time aside to read your favorite book or magazine. Whatever it is that will make you relax and avoid all the craziness that may be going on around you, it is wise for your health and the sake of those around you. If you need to get up 30 minutes earlier or stay up longer in the evenings, do it! You will see the changes in you, your family and those around you, when you implement this simple yet very important tip.
Living life simply is one that is very rewarding. When you do so, you eliminate many of the useless cares and are able to focus on what's really important to you. Give it a try!


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Economists React to -2.9% Q1 GDP Revision: 'Different Shades of Nasty'
The U.S. economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter this year, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That is a sharply lower reading than earlier estimates and marked its sharpest pullback since the recession ended five years ago. Economists weighed in on the third read, what it might mean for the economic recovery, and where activity stands in the second quarter.
Hindsight is 20/20, This Was Ugly/Ugly: I think we can all recognize the first quarter was ugly, and, not to be too trite about it, the degree of ugliness seems to have grown with time. But the first quarter has been over for nearly three months now, so the more material question is: what does this number say about the second quarter? The answer hinges largely on the technicals of how the Commerce Department plans to estimate healthcare spend when second-quarter GDP numbers are released at the end of July. –Guy LeBas, Janney Montgomery
Rarely does one see the third iteration of a GDP number so large, and so far from consensus. … The first point is that this is simply a very ugly temperature check of activity in (the first quarter). To put this in context, the decline matched the average GDP print during the last recession, the worst since the Great Depression. The big miss relative to expectations centered on downward revisions to healthcare spending assumptions for Obamacare. What had been viewed as a 0.7% addition to GDP turned into a 0.2% drag. That accounts for most of the miss, but it doesn't account for a disastrous quarter of growth or lack thereof. –Eric Green, TD Securities
Bottom Line: The first quarter was a complete write-off for the U.S. economy, but growth has rebounded smartly in the second quarter, in part, because companies are more willing to take out their checkbooks. –Sal Guatieri, BMO Capital Markets
In short, GDP was recession-like in Q1, although most other data clearly signal that the decline is an outlier. If anything, labor market indicators and business surveys are suggesting a net pick-up in the trend so far this year. We expect at least partial payback with a strong 4% rate of growth in Q2. –Jim O'Sullivan, High Frequency Economics
It is amazing that the initial estimate of healthcare spending's contribution to Q1 growth went from an initial estimate of +1.10 percentage points (representing a 9.9% quarter-to-quarter annualized growth rate in the sector) to -0.16pp (-1.4% q/q annualized). This is a crazy-sized revision, and speaks very loudly to the fact that nobody has a real handle on how the introduction of Obamacare has affected these data, nor for how long the distortions may last until things settle down. –Joshua Shapiro, MFR, Inc.
A number of factors were behind the contraction in the economy in the first quarter. The big drag was the difficult winter, which caused consumers to postpone spending, disrupted production, led businesses to hold off on investment, and caused construction delays. Consumer spending growth was weak. … But the contraction in the first quarter is old news, and things are looking much better for the rest of this year. Most importantly the labor market remains solid. –Gus Faucher, PNC Financial Services Group
More up-to-date data show that activity is rebounding in the second quarter. Indeed, May's durables goods orders suggest that business investment is growing again. … In short, the larger contraction in GDP in the first quarter is not a sign that the US is suffering from a fundamental slowdown – it was still largely due to the extreme weather. The latest data are consistent with growth in the second quarter rebounding to at least 3.0%. –Paul Dales, Capital Economics


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Five Sharks Spotted During My Shark Research Cruise
Posted On August 9, 2013 by Claudia Friess
More than 70 species of shark occur in the Gulf of Mexico and along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Of those, we catch over a dozen large and small coastal species during the bottom longline population survey I'm participating in with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Here are five of the species we commonly spot:
Atlantic Sharpnose Shark
This small shark is the most commonly caught species during our survey because it is ubiquitous in this region. In the right depths, it is not uncommon for us to catch around 50 of these small sharks per set of 100 hooks.
Population status: Due to their abundance in the western North Atlantic, their population status is not considered to be of great concern. Apart from humans, Atlantic sharpnose sharks also have other, larger sharks to fear as predators.


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July 12
11:00 am
Have you ever wanted to know how a monkey puzzle tree got its name? Or how to identify a Douglas fir tree by looking at its cones? Or how animals and plants depend on each other?
Join high school age Youth Volunteers on a short walk around the zoo to learn the answers to these questions and more! Our Youth Volunteers will introduce you to a few of the amazing plants we have on zoo grounds and will provide basic information about some of the connections between animals and plants. Plant Nature Walks take place at 11:00am on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of June, July and August.
Ages 5+. No RSVP needed. Walks last approximately 30-45 minutes. Come prepared with sunscreen and weather-appropriate clothing. The Plant Nature Walk is FREE with Zoo Admission.
Dates: June 28, July 12, July 26, August 9, August 23
Time: 11:00am
Walk Length: about 30-40 minutes, beginning at Earth Aid Station (near the Red Wolf Picnic Area). Participants will walk through part of Asia, through Kids' Zone, and back to Red Wolves.


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Ford Transit Connect EV Battery Maker Azure Dynamics Files for Bankruptcy
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March 28, 2012 11:19 AM
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The bankruptcy filing caused a halt in Ford Transit Connect production
While the electric vehicle (EV) industry seems to be moving forward in many ways, it has also experienced some setbacks over the last year. Unfortunately, many of these setbacks involve EV batteries, and now, Ford is in the same boat.
Azure Dynamics, a British Columbia-based EV firm, has filed for bankruptcy in the United States. Azure Dynamics is responsible for installing
the battery electric powertrain in Ford's Transit Connect
Azure Dynamics filed for bankruptcy on Monday, and was forced to lay off 120 employees worldwide. Layoffs occurred in Boston, Michigan, Canada and the United Kingdom.
In addition to layoffs, Azure Dynamics said it will no longer proceed with a planned stock offering because the company just doesn't have the liquidity to move forward with an appeal of a ruling that opposed its planned stock offering.
"We wish to convey to the company's stakeholders our terrible sadness at this outcome," said Azure Dynamics in a statement.
Azure Dynamics received a four-year contract from the Government Services Administration for about $112 million. The contract gave the U.S. military and government agencies the ability to order the
Transit Connect EV
, and Azure said it had about 2,200 orders. In addition, Azure was attracted to Michigan because of the state tax credit, which is over $1.7 million over a seven-year period, and an 11-year local tax abatement approved by the city of Oak Park valued at $55,400.
On Ford's side of the situation, the bankruptcy means having to stop production of the Transit Connect EV, and it's currently unclear if this situation will be temporary or permanent.
So far, Ford has produced 500 EV Ford Transit Connect vehicles since 2010, when it began its partnership with Azure. Despite Azure's recent news of bankruptcy, Ford is standing behind the company.
"Our priority is to ensure that Azure's Transit Connect Electric customers continue to have support throughout their ownership experience," said Wes Sherwood, Ford spokesman.
Azure definitely isn't the only EV battery company (or alternative energy company) to file for bankruptcy within the past year. In January,
EV battery maker Ener1 filed for bankruptcy
after its subsidiary, EnerDel, received a $118 million Department of Energy grant in August 2009. Other EV battery issues that have occurred recently include General Motors' Chevrolet Volt, which experienced a series of battery fires last year, and problems with Fisker Automotive's Karma plug-in hybrid batteries, which will be replaced entirely by A123 Systems Inc. for $55 million.
Other failed alternative energy companies that have filed for bankruptcy include
solar panel company Solyndra
, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the government despite warnings of Solyndra's viability, and
Beacon Power
, which received nearly $43 million from the government in August 2010 and filed for bankruptcy in November 2011.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:23 PM GMT on June 30, 2010
Hurricane Alex continues to intensify as it slowly bears down on the coast of northeastern Mexico. Brownsville long-range radar shows the spiral bands of Alex, which has dumped heavy rains of up to four inches in northeastern Mexico and near Brownsville, according to satellite estimates of rainfall. The Brownsville airport received 0.78" of rain in the hour ending at 8am CDT, and 0.61" in the hour ending at 9am CDT. Floods from Alex have already killed ten people--six in Nicaragua, and two each in El Salvador and Guatemala.
Figure 1. Snapshot of the Brownsville long-range radar showing Hurricane Alex approaching the coast.
The 7:12am CDT eye penetration of the Hurricane Hunters found a central pressure of 959 mb, a modest 2 mb drop from the reading four hours previous to that. They noted a very tiny eye, ten miles in diameter, with a gap in the northwest side. Tiny eyes like this tend to be unstable, and in the 9:05am CDT eye penetration, the Hurricane Hunters found that the inner eyewall had collapsed, and the pressure had risen 2 mb, to 961 mb. A new, much larger eye will form today as the day progresses. During these "eyewall replacement cycles", a hurricane will typically weaken a few millibars , and the strongest winds will spread out over a larger area as the hurricane conserves angular momentum. Thus, the hurricane still has about the same amount of destructive power, it is just spread out over a larger area. This tends to increase the hurricane's storm surge, but lessens the wind damage, since the extreme winds of the inner eyewall are no longer present. Satellite loops show a large, well-organized storm with increasing amounts of low-level spiral bands forming, and improving upper-level outflow. Data from last night's flight of the NOAA jet showed an unusually moist atmosphere surrounds Alex, so dry air is no longer a problem for it. It's a good thing Alex has less than a day before making landfall, or else is would be a large and very powerful major hurricane.
Figure 2. Visible light image of Tropical Storm Alex taken at 19:35 UTC (2:35 pm CDT) on June 29, 2010, by NASA's Aqua satellite. At the time, Alex was a tropical storm with 70 mph winds. Image credit: NASA.
Storm Surge
Traditionally, a storm's ranking on the Saffir-Simpson Scale--the familiar Category 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 rankings we always talk about--have also been used to quantify storm surge threat. However, large, weaker storms that cover a huge area of the Gulf of Mexico, like Alex, can generate a larger storm surge than a smaller but more intense hurricane with a higher Saffir-Simpson rating. Thus, the National Hurricane Center has formally discontinued use of the Saffir-Simpson scale to characterize storm surge, and is studying the possibility of issuing separate Storm Surge Warnings a few years from now. These would be in addition to their traditional Hurricane Warnings. To give us a better idea of a storm's surge potential, Dr. Mark Powell of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division has developed the Integrated Kinetic Energy scale to rank storms. The scale ranges from 0 to 6, and a parallel wind damage scale that runs from 0 to 6 is also generated. Alex had an Integrated Kinetic Energy of 2.6 on the 0 to 6 scale at 1:30pm CDT yesterday, and its destructive potential rating for winds was just 1.2. Thus, Alex's surge ranked alomst one-and-a-half categories higher in destructive potential than its wind. These numbers have probably increased by a full category since yesterday afternoon. NHC is giving a 40% - 60% chance of a storm surge of at least 3 feet affecting the Brownsville area, and 10% - 30% chance the surge will exceed 5 feet. In theory, a Category 2 hurricane moving WNW at 5 mph can bring a storm surge of up to 8 - 9 feet to the South Texas and northern Mexican coast.
Other Impacts
Alex is bringing bands of heavy rain to the coasts of Texas and Mexico, as seen on the Brownsville, Texas radar. Hurricane local statements with projections for how Alex will affect the coast are now being issued by the National Weather Service in Brownsville and Corpus Christi. Flooding damage from the expected 6 - 12 inches of rain from Alex will be the main concern. Wind damage is a lesser concern, since the core of Alex is making landfall in a swampy, sparsely populated region of Mexico. The combined wind, surge, and flooding damage from Alex may be similar to 2008's Hurricane Dolly, which hit near Brownsville. Dolly was a Category 2 hurricane offshore that weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds when it made landfall, and did about $1 billion in damage. Dolly also generated two weak EF-0 tornadoes, and Alex is capable of generating a few tornadoes as well, according to the latest discussion from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. The atmosphere is moderately unstable, there is plenty of moisture, and wind shear at low levels has been increasing this morning. The greatest threat for tornadoes will occur late this afternoon, on the right side of where the storm makes landfall.
Alex in historical context
Alex is the first June hurricane since Hurricane Allison of 1995. Allison briefly became a minimal 75 mph hurricane before weakening and hitting the Florida Panhandle as a tropical storm. Alex is the strongest June hurricane since Hurricane Bonnie of 1986, which had 85 mph winds. Bonnie was the first hurricane I flew into as a member of the Hurricane Hunters. Bonnie made landfall along the upper Texas coast, and caused less than $20 million in damage. If Alex strengthens to 90 mph winds, it will be the strongest June hurricane since Hurricane Alma of 1966, which had 125 mph winds as it skirted the Florida Keys. There have been only ten hurricanes in May or June since 1945; only four of these were major Category 3 or higher storms.
Track forecast for Alex
All of the models take Alex to the west or west-northwest into northern Mexico by early Thursday morning. However, the steering currents are fairly weak, and Alex could stall and move erratically at times today. I don't anticipate that this weakness in the steering currents will allow Alex to move northward and make landfall in Texas. After landfall, the ridge of high pressure forcing Alex westward should remain in place and strengthen, keeping Alex's remnants over northern Mexico for several days.
Intensity forecast for Alex
Alex is over a region of ocean with moderately high total ocean heat content . Wind shear has fallen to a low 5 knots, and is projected by the SHIPS model to remain in the low range, below 10 knots, through landfall. The combination of low wind shear, moderately high ocean heat content, and plenty of moisture should allow Alex to continue to intensify today. Alex's pressure is already characteristic of a Category 3 hurricane, but the storm is so large that it is taking time for the winds to catch up to the pressure falls. It is unlikely that Alex's winds will be at Category 3 strength at landfall, since the storm is undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, and does not have time to build a tight inner eyewall with strong winds before landfall. A Category 2 storm at landfall looks more likely.
Elsewhere in the tropics
The latest run of the NOGAPS model predicts the formation of a tropical disturbance in the Western Caribbean on Monday. None of the other models is showing anything brewing over the coming seven days.
Wind and ocean current forecast for the BP oil disaster
Alex is generating very rough conditions over the Deepwater Horizon blowout location, with 6 - 8 foot waves and 3 - 4 foot swells. Strong southeast to south winds of 15 - 25 knots will blow over the oil slick region today through Thursday, according to the latest marine forecast from NOAA. The resulting currents will push oil to many protected bays and estuaries that haven't seen oil yet. In addition, the 1 - 2 foot storm surge Alex is generating along the Louisiana coast will act to push oil deep into some low-lying marshlands. While this oil will be diluted some by the wave action, the impact of the oil and accompanying toxic dispersants on the marshlands is of concern. The latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA and the State of Louisiana show oil will also move westward along the central Louisiana coast towards the Texas border. Winds will decrease to 10 - 15 knots Friday through Monday but remain out of the southeast, keeping the pressure on the regions of coast in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi that are seeing oil hit their shores this week.
Resources for the BP oil disaster
Map of oil spill location from the NOAA Satellite Services Division
My post, What a hurricane would do the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
My post on the Southwest Florida "Forbidden Zone" where surface oil will rarely go
My post on what oil might do to a hurricane
NOAA's interactive mapping tool to overlay wind and ocean current forecasts, oil locations, etc.
Gulf Oil Blog from the UGA Department of Marine Sciences
Oil Spill Academic Task Force
University of South Florida Ocean Circulation Group oil spill forecasts
ROFFS Deepwater Horizon page
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the University of Miami
Next post
Either Rob Carver or myself will do an update late this afternoon or this evening.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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It's hard to buy SW for me because I hunt and shop myself. It's nice for me to just get money. You can be assured I'll spend it on Star Wars.
JabbaJohn: do you have a gift list? Do you purposely NOT buy things you put on your gift list? (like so you don't end up with duplicates of say Milakali?)
I think you got a wonderful haul.
Maybe I'll put YOUR parents on my gift list


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The skinny: Norwegian Cruise Line reinvented its onboard contemporary cruise experience a little over a decade ago with the introduction of "Freestyle" cruising, giving passengers on its megaships the opportunity to do what they want onboard, when they want it — even for dining. The success of the program led a lot of other lines to subsequently copy the concept to varying degrees, but Norwegian was the pioneer. As part of the Freestyle initiative, all of the line's ships have multiple dining and activity/entertainment options.
The experience: All casual, all the time. Guests can decide when they want to eat and with whom in a wide variety of dining spots, including popular for-a-fee venues Le Bistro (for French) and Teppanyaki (a Japanese Hibachi grill where the chefs perform as they cook your meal). Naturally, the biggest variety is on the line's newest ships. Norwegian Epic boasts 20 dining option and Norwegian Breakaway 28 (including "Iron Chef" Geoffrey Zakarian's first restaurant at sea).
The ships also have rare cabins designed for solo passengers and private luxury suite complexes for big spenders. The decor on all the Norwegian ships is bright and cheerful with such fun innovations as gourmet-beer bars, onboard bowling alleys and thrilling waterslides like those you'd see in trendy amusement parks. Bars abound and the ship casinos are big. The line pioneered tie-ins with brand names, bringing aboard the Blue Man Group, Second City (improv comedy), and Nickelodeon TV for guests of all ages.
For Breakaway and sister ship Norwegian Getaway, which debuts in early 2014, the line took the unusual move of going with destination-specific theming. Breakaway cruises from New York and is all about the Big Apple from its Peter Max designed hull art featuring the Statue of Liberty and city skyline to the real hot dog carts in several locations onboard. New Jersey's "Cake Boss" also makes an appearance with a bakery, and the ship hosts three Broadway shows including the rowdy "Rock of Ages." Getaway will be similarly themed around its homeport of Miami. Norwegian also recently spent a lot of money upgrading its private island, Great Stirrup Cay — having pioneered the cruise line private island concept in the Bahamas many decades ago.
Who's onboard? An active and eclectic mix of ages and social units, including multi-generational families,couples, and singles.
Where they go: The Caribbean, the Bahamas, Alaska, Bermuda, Canada/New England, Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, the Panama Canal, and Pacific Coastal.
Contact: (866) 234-7350; ncl.com
--Fran Golden is the Experience Cruise expert blogger and a contributing editor of Porthole Magazine. She is the co-author of Frommer's Alaska Cruises and Ports of Call.


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Of course most other places don't have the kind of weather that Miami has in February, so you probably will see Miami and New Orleans always in the bidding, even though there are newer and better stadiums.
Lets see if they are asking for more welfare for billionaires. Amazing how the nfl keeps squeezing public money away from everything else when they are quite capable of financing their own stadiums.
Would love nothing more then to see us have a Seahawks style stadium and name it THE ORANGE BOWL. Problem solved
Please God, let me see 1 Dolphins Superbowl victory before I die.
Weather is no longer a factor. New York hosts 2014 and Goodell is talking about wanting one in Denver. Footbal was made to be played in the elements and he knows that.
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The ageless revolution has befallen upon us, whether we like it or not. What started as a small project for the employees of the small podcasting company Odeo has taken the world by storm, gaining more than 500 million followers since its inception in early 2006. The popular social networking website and micro-blogging service allows users to post their latest updates in a quick, burst-like fashion of 140 characters or less. It's basically mass texting via website and is probably one of the simplest things you will ever do — all you need is a Twitter account and you're well on your way. Here are some quick steps, pointers, and tidbits to get you up to speed.
To tweet or not to tweet: there really is no question.
This article has been updated since it was originally published to reflect changes to the service. Staff writer Jacob O'Gara contributed to this guide.
Sign Up. Go to www.twitter.com to sign up. Enter the appropriate information (full name, email and password) on the right-hand side before clicking "Sign up for Twitter." The website will then ask you to verify the information, choose a username and agree to the Twitter Terms of Service before proceeding.
There will also be a checkbox to keep you signed in on whatever computer you're using as well as a checkbox for tailoring your tweets based on the websites you visit. Check accordingly!
Build Your Timeline: The entire point of Twitter is to follow and be followed. So what's the point if you're not reading and retweeting the latest gossip from all your friends, colleagues and favorite celebs? Plus, Twitter gives you options of who to follow immediately after signing up so you need not go far.
- Suggestions. Choose who to follow from the dropdown menu of notable celebs like Kanye West and Stephen Colbert or news networks such as CNN and the New York Times. Twitter will also give you the option to browse a slew of categories from sports to technology.
- Search. Use the search bar to find anyone the suggestions may have missed—whether they are celebrities, politicians or your just friends. You can even search for people to follow through your email accounts (Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL and Hotmail).
Add Character. Once you're an avid follow, Twitter will ask you to upload an image (maximum size of 700k) and provide a brief, 160-character bio about yourself. The placeholder bio will introduce you as a rocket ship building, pizza tossing, Giants fan with a couple of kids. However, a bio is only suggested, not required.
Tweet. You're officially a full-fledge Twitter member with a list of friends and followers, but now it's time to join the Tweeter ranks. Just click inside the "Compose new tweet…." box in the upper left-hand corner of the home tab or click the blue feather icon in the upper right-hand corner at any time to get started. Then punch in some text, upload an image or set your location. This is how you update your Twitter and let people know what you're up to. Remember, text is strictly limited to 140 characters.
Twitter Pointers. You've signed up and tweeted your first thought into the beyond, but what do you do now? Well, it's time to learn the finer points about how to connect with your audience and join the global conversation.
- Hashtags. The hashtag symbol (#) is a great way to mark specific topics or keywords in a Tweet. It was created by Twitter users as a way to classify messages and has since become a cultural phenomenom. All you have to do is place a hashtag in front of a word or phrase in your tweet. Simple as that. Can you say #tigerblood?
- Mentions & Replies. Two more ways you can connect with other Twitter users. Mentions and replies are updates that contain "@username" anywhere in the body of the tweet. Place a "@" in front of the person, business, organization or whatever you want to mention or reply to. A recent change has made it so that your replies to someone will be seen only by mutual followers if you place their "@username" at the beginning of your tweet. If you want your followers to see your mentions/replies to someone, set the "@username" at the end of the tweet or put a period in front of the ampersand like this: ".@". There is also a "Reply" option under tweets to save you precious time.
- Retweets. A retweet is a way to share another Twitter user's tweet with all of your followers. It will essentially look the same as normal tweets with the author's name and username next to it, but it will also contain the retweet icon and the name of the user who reposted it. Click the "Retweet" option under a tweet in order to share.
- Favorites. Adding a tweet as a favorite is similar to liking something on Facebook. It's a way to let the original poster know you liked their tweet for whatever reason. However, it also gives you a way to save a tweet so you can refer back to it later. Simply click the star icon with "Favorite" next to it in order to favorite a tweet.
- Direct Messages. You can send a direct message to people who follow you by clicking the gear icon in the top right and selecting "Direct Messages." Choose the "New message" icon, type the name or username of the follower you wish to send the message to, enter the message and hit "Send message." Unlike tweets, direct messages are private and can only be seen by the recipient of the message.
- Mobile Version: Now you can access Twitter right from your smart phone, tablet, or other mobile device. It works in the same vein as the website, but with some slight modifications and restrictions. Plus, the smartphone versions are even equipped to create Instragramesque photos on the go and are available for both Android and Apple devices.
Random Tidbits. There are a few other things worth mentioning.
- Try using your real information (name, location, etc.) when customizing your Twitter homepage and profile. Doing so will help people find you more easily on Twitter.
- Change your personal options by clicking the gear icon and choosing the "Settings" option. Here you can change around your personal options, picture, bio, password, or any other sort of customization you've done. You can also make all your tweets private by checking the "Protect my Tweets" option in the settings menu. If selected, only those you approve will receive your tweets.
- You can change your Twitter username anytime without affecting your existing tweets, replies, direct messages or other data. But be sure to let your followers know so you'll continue receiving all of your messages with your new username.
- Learn to use shorthand — it's tough to get a thought out in 140 characters or less — but remember you're not texting. Don't make yourself look completely illiterate.
- Twitter is a great way to share links to cool and interesting stuff you find on the Web, but sometimes those lengthy URLs can eat up your 140-character limit. Get around this problem by using a handy link shortener like Bitly.
- Follow and tweet to amass your fanbase. Go the whole nine yards and use in hashtags, mentions, replies, and favorite tweets. If you follow someone, they will be more inclined to follow you back. Just don't spam.
- Integrate other social networks into the mix. Have a Facebook account? You can link it directly to Twitter so your tweets automatically post on your Facebook timeline. Just log in with your Facebook information from the profile tab in the Twitter settings menu.
Tweet Away. That's basically all you need to know about Twitter in a nutshell. Go ahead and share your deepest secrets with your followers, rejoice when your favorite musician replies to you, or engage in an infamous tweet argument. The best way to really learn how to use Twitter is by using Twitter. Check out the Twitter Help Center for more information.
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Frame Arm 75
By SAQ / Studio Arne Quinze, from Quinze & Milan
This product is no longer available.
Quinze & MilanFounded in 1999, in Belium, Quinze & Milan began producing pieces that would encourage and continue to encourage lovers and newcomers of the brand to turn dreams into reality. Apart from their own custom designs, the company produces and distributes the work of guest designers and architects so that all spaces may be filled with meaning, energy, creativity, and a modern design meant to challenge the conventional side of minimalism. Since the beginning, the company has used the slogan "Creator of Atmosphere" to imply that the furniture, itself, was not meant to be aimed at anything; but, meant to be medium that helps to illustrate a wild, sexy, easy-going, loud, and outrageous lifestyle. With such a strong and carefree outlook on the world of design, their bold and avant-garde designs have turned the company into the pop star, bad boy in the world of furniture design. Dare to be crazy, fun, and stylish with Quinze & Milan.
SAQ / Studio Arne Quinze
SAQ is a multidisciplinary conceptual Architecture and Design agency. Pumped by art director Arne Quinze, a team of architects, engineers, product and interior designers translates his style and spirit into working designs for a broad range of projects, becoming infectious creations that pull you into their self-shaped sphere and hold you captive. SAQ also designs collection pieces and custom made furniture for other labels, such as Moroso and Swarovski.View other products by SAQ / Studio Arne Quinze


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Mon 2010/Jul/26
The bad news is that I am not attending GUADEC this year. I miss you, people! This is the first GUADEC in which I fail to be a fixture of the conference.
The good news is that I have a good reason for not attending. I will be at the inaugural event for the Talleres Libres de Artes y Tecnologías, or Free Workshops for Arts and Technologies.
There are several ideas behind the Free Workshops:
Resurrect traditional techniques for agriculture, woodworking, metalworking, permaculture, textiles — all the arts and crafts that no one longer knows how to do because everyone buys everything pre-made.
Publish that knowledge in online form, under a Creative Commons license.
Create physical workshops with the tools and knowledge for those arts and technologies. You need a space to make stuff; we make it happen.
Form an internal economy based on import-replacement. It's better if I use soap that my friend Joaquín makes, than to buy soap at the supermarket. I can make the wooden molds that he needs for his soap, or I can trade it for some vegetables that I grow.
Work to improve the quality of life of each workshop's local community. Are people filling their house's water tank from a truck? Help them build a rainwater-harvesting system. Are people going to the supermarket to buy bread? Start a bakery with a hand-built oven.
Think of it as a 21st-century, networked, distributed, copyleft hippie/maker commune.
My starting contribution to the Free Workshops is knowledge in woodworking and building techniques, and space in our backyard orchard and woodworking shop.
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A Trip to Remember: Visit the land of your ancestors and see history unravel itself before your eyes. The venues you know from the Bible come alive in this exciting tour you'll cherish forever.
Begin your Jerusalem experience on the Mount of Olives, with its panoramic view of the Old City and its ancient Jewish cemetery. Then, it's time to begin your tour of the Old City. Start with the Ramparts Walk – a walkway atop the Old City walls offers a unique panoramic view of the Old City and its surroundings and is a shutterbug's delight. (Entry points: Citadel moat, Jaffa and Damascus Gates).
Continue to the Western Wall, Judaism's most sacred site. See Bar Mitzvahs (on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays). While at the Western Wall, arrange your schedule to join a public tour of the Western Wall Tunnels by enquiring at the Western Wall Heritage Foundation.
Visit the Southern Wall Excavations, walking on the original two thousand-year old street and climbing the ancient steps. At the Davidson Center, in the basement of an eighth-century-CE palace, look into the possibility of seeing its virtual-reconstruction, high-definition interactive model, and enjoy the high-definition film that depicts ancient pilgrimage to the Temple in a unique way. On Mount Zion, visit King David's Tomb, a site of Jewish pilgrimage since the Middle Ages.
Overnight: in Jerusalem


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There was a time when the most interactive thing about a classroom was the chalkboard. The grating chalkboard eventually gave way to the whiteboard, which has recently given way to a hybrid Active Board. The Active Board, one of my current favorite classroom innovations, is a cross between a whiteboard, a projection screen and touchscreen. It has brought a new level of interactivity to the classroom. Now, Lucerne, Switzerland–based EF (Education First) has taken their recent trend of learning through gaming to the next level with an iPad app set to revolutionize the way teachers interact with students.
EF is known for their EFEKTA advanced language learning system, used all over the world in corporate settings, school settings, and any other setting that requires language education. EF is also the official supplier of language programs for the 2014 Winter Olympics. EF is behind the English Tower "learn through gaming" educational application on Facebook. They developed the High Flyers Vocab Game for Learning English game for children, and they run an online school called Englishtown which serves millions of students worldwide.
When it comes to developing learning materials set for 21st century learning, EF has the backing and the technology to make it happen. In EF classrooms around the world, this next step in learning is already happening. Continue Reading "EF Classroom App Ushering in Paperless Education of the Future" »


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Strawberry Skies is an antique inspired beauty. Big star blocks elegantly showcase the blooming florals of Robyn Pandolph's Incense and Peppermints collection for RJR Fabrics. I love incorporating star blocks into my quilt designs. They are such a great shape to show off the prints in a collection, and Strawberry Skies is no exception.
Grab a taste of Strawberry Skies by grabbing a copy of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting May/June 2013 or by heading over to Fons & Porter to pick up a kit!


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Using the integer coefficient vs. the float coefficient would be a decision of "fast fit" vs. "best fit". Integer multiplication would be a little faster but you'd waste a few more bytes in some circumstances. Space vs. time, the classic tradeoff in computerized problem solving. Of course that decision is a "micro-optimization" anyway - unless n is really freaking big - and micro-optimizations are mostly frowned upon these days. On the other hand Musashi said that the true tests of skill are "the small, fine works."
I've found that most of the programming one does as a sysadmin doesn't strain the "advanced" fields of programming theory and it doesnt't require any math at all. There's a lot of "glue" programming, which often requires one to be clever but not very deep. And in my case I do a lot of patches to free software, which makes me feel good but again these are very small hacks. There is one large piece of software done for the company in which I am applying increasingly sophisticated techniques. And it's working out well which makes me feel good about being able to use that knowledge, but I'd like to do that more often than this job really requires. I mean I could structure my solutions in ways that would require a lot of custom code but that's hardly good business. It's better in the long run to take established (free software) tools, shim them together with a little code where needed, and set it loose. That's why I love well structured modular softwares (like Apache) cause they readily lend themselves to that sort of approach.


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Online and magazines?
Online and magazines?
I was wondering if anyone knew of any good Star Wars collectible price guides (mainly for Episode 1)? I have the Tomart's SW Guide that was published in 1997, but it does not cover the newer episodes. What do you folks use? Any help would be much appreciated.
Lee's Toy Review did a good one for all the figures and the waves. I believe you can order them direct. The prices are a hit and miss but still gives an indepth look, lists different variants and has images of the figures and some with their variants.
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks


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Does anyone else watch this? I think it's the first thing I've watched regularly on CBS in . . . perhaps ever.
It's generally pretty funny, and most of the characters graduated from high school the year after I did, so the references are always dated for my consumption. Of course I mostly bring the show up because of the fact that they will have a Star Wars reference every couple of shows. It's slightly unfortunate, though, that the first episode I watched was the "Slutty Pumpkin" episode and none has been as funny as that episode. Well, an episode involving Winnie from Wonder Years and a pineapple came close.
As far as consistent laughs go, Neil Patrick Harris (yep--Doogie) makes me laugh the most often with his over the top women's man, love of Laser Tag and battle cry of "Suit up!" Of course I wouldn't be me without mentioning that Cobie Smulders is good reason to watch this show regardless of its content otherwise.


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