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Either regular peel-and-stick flashing tape or 6-inch-wide Zip tape can be used to flash doors and windows to the wall panels.
A worker seals a metal cap flashing with Zip tape.
Zip roof panels provide good traction, thanks to grit added to the overlay during production.
The author's crew sets up toeboards for roof pitches steeper than 8/12.
On shallow pitches, seams can be quickly taped as the roof is sheathed.
Roof penetrations are sealed with tape — which is guaranteed to remain watertight for up to 120 days — before being covered.
Roof-to-wall intersections are also sealed with tape.
After the step flashing and roofing have been installed, the author tapes flashing to the sidewalls with 6-inch tape.
Flashing taped to sidewalls
When all the panel joints have been taped, the shell is weathertight and ready for roofing and siding.
For window and door installations, we use the same basic flashing techniques with Zip sheathing that we use for walls wrapped with housewrap. The one big difference is that we're ultimately relying on the adhesive bond between the tape and the sheathing to keep water out of the wall. First, we cover the rough sill with 6-inch Zip tape or less-expensive 9-inch Vycor or Moistop, lapping the flashing out and over the sheathing. At the bottom corners of the opening, we use either a flexible flashing tape or Vycorner prefabricated self-adhering corners (866/333-3726, graceconstruction.com). Then we caulk the back of the unit's nailing fins with a flexible adhesive and set the window into the opening. Next, we flash the fins to the sheathing, making sure to firmly J-roll the flashing tape to the wall and nail fins. Finally, we install the head flashing over the trim at the top of the window, taping the Z-metal to the wall with Zip tape.
Huber's 6-inch-wide Zip tape costs a little more than the 9-inch-wide butyl- and asphalt-based peel-and-stick flashing tapes we typically use, but I think it's a far better product. We've left windows and doors flashed with Zip tape for over a month without a single corner or edge peeling off the sheathing (a problem we've had with many other peel-and-stick tapes). Unfortunately, Zip tape is approved as a flashing tape only with Zip sheathing and might be red-tagged by your inspector on regular OSB or plywood.
Normally, we frame roofs 24 inches on-center with 7"16-inch roof sheathing, so we have to use H-clips. But the Zip roof panels we use are true 1"2-inch OSB with a 3 2/16 span rating and they don't require edge support. This simplifies installation somewhat but presents a potential problem: Since the long edges are self-spacing, the spacer lips on the sheathing can sometimes overlap, lifting the edge of the uphill sheet slightly. To avoid this problem, we begin nailing along the bottom of the sheathing at each rafter to pull the sheathing tight to the framing before nailing off the rest of the sheathing.
In dry weather, Zip roof panels provide plenty of traction, thanks to the grit in the overlay. The panels are slicker in wet weather, but not noticeably more so than regular OSB or plywood sheathing. In most conditions, we can comfortably frame up to about an 8/12 roof without using toeboards.
Taping. On roof pitches less than 8/12, taping roof seams is a very quick process. For example, it takes about 15 minutes to tape and J-roll a 20-foot-by-30-foot section of 7/12 roof.
On roofs steep enough to require toeboards, however, I think that the benefits of Zip sheathing are outweighed by the extra labor required to tape the seams. On a recent 12/12-pitch roof, for instance, we needed more toeboards to get leverage on the tape gun and J-roller than we needed to actually sheathe the roof. And, of course, all of the nail holes from the toeboards have to be taped. In fact, it probably takes twice as much labor to sheathe and tape a steep Zip System roof as it does to sheathe the roof conventionally and roll out underlayment. So in the future we'll stick to OSB sheathing for steep roofs.
Underlayment. Manufacturers and local codes may require an additional underlayment for shallow-pitched roofs, depending on the roofing material. There is a two-layer underlayment requirement in most building codes for roof slopes between 2/12 and 4/12, and a taped Zip roof replaces the first layer only. Also, when it comes time to strip off the old shingles and reroof, new underlayment will be required over the Zip sheathing regardless of the roof pitch.
Eaves, valleys, hips, and ridges. The wider 6-inch Zip tape is ideal for valleys, though Huber says that overlapping the 3 3"4-inch-wide tape by at least 1 inch is okay, too. In some areas, code may require an additional self-adhering valley flashing. Hips and ridges are also taped, and we tape step flashings to sidewalls where necessary.
At the eaves, ice barrier membranes may be required in certain climates. They're not required in our coastal climate, but my roofer tells me that they would be if we were building farther up in the mountains. Huber allows any self-adhering ice barrier with an ICC-ES report (or equivalent) to be used over the Zip sheathing.
In my area, Zip System sheathing tends to cost about twice as much as comparable OSB sheathing. Currently, we're paying $7.67 per sheet for OSB sheathing and $14.63 per sheet for Zip wall panels. Zip roof panels are twice as expensive as both AdvanTech and Edge Gold roof sheathing. After several houses, we've learned that the installed cost for Zip wall sheathing - including the labor to install the tape but not the cost of the tape itself - is roughly equal to the installed cost of OSB plus Tyvek. The extra cost, then, is in the tape.
About one box of tape (a box contains 12 rolls, at 90 lineal feet per roll) is needed to seal a unit (70 to 80 pieces) of 4x8 Zip panels; for a typical 100-sheet house, that's 16 rolls of tape. In addition, we use two or three rolls of Zip tape for flashing windows and doors and taping step flashing and Z-metal to the wall. Tape costs around $28 per roll, so using Zip panels adds about $500 to the cost of a 3,000-square-foot house.
We're not convinced that Zip roof sheathing is cost-effective (particularly on steep roofs), since our roofing sub can roll out underlayment and cover the roof completely the same day he starts shingling. If we were trying to build tighter homes in an area that had a colder climate and a stricter energy code, though, the added cost might make more economic sense.
But with or without the energy savings, we're sold on Zip wall sheathing. We can tape the walls while we're framing and rigging them to be lifted into place, so we don't lose any time; and we avoid the ladder work that would be needed to hang housewrap. In fact, we eliminate about a day in the construction cycle that would typically be spent installing housewrap, detailing it correctly, and then - later - fixing rips in it caused by wind or by other tradesmen stubbing pipes or wires out through the walls.
Also, since we protect the seams with tape as we frame, the panels don't absorb moisture. This saves both time and money, since in our climate we might sometimes spend as much as $1,000 to run kerosene heaters and dehumidifiers to dry out an OSB-sheathed house before insulation.
Tim Uhler is a builder in Port Orchard, Wash.
Zip System sheathing combines OSB structural panels with a layer of resin-impregnated kraft paper. The .01-inch-thick overlay is permanently bonded to the outside face of the panels in the press as the OSB is manufactured. The panels are manufactured for use as wall and roof sheathing; the roof sheathing panels have a gritty surface texture to improve traction. Roof panels come in 1"2-inch and 5"8-inch thicknesses in a standard 4x8 size; wall panels come in 7"16-inch and 1"2-inch thicknesses, in sheet sizes from 4x8 to 4x12, according to literature published at the manufacturer's websites (huber wood.com, zipsystem.com). Wall panels are available either square-edged or with a self-spacing machine-edged profile; roof panels can be tongue-and-groove, square-edged, or machine-edged.
Getting rid of housewrap? The ICC evaluation report for Zip System wall sheathing states that it is "used as combination wall sheathing, air barrier, and water-resistive barrier" - no doubt a big reason for its increasing popularity in some parts of the country. While housewrap can be installed quickly by anyone, it's rarer to see it installed well, and not uncommon to see it torn and flapping in the breeze - which would be impossible with a bonded WRB. Of course, the "system" requires the application of tape, which is time-consuming and expensive. But for builders looking for an airtight shell, the tape is just another part of the attraction. And though housewrap may be omitted, some builders using Zip wall panels include it anyway, because they are reluctant to rely on taped joints to permanently keep out water and because they want the additional water-resistant layer for weaving in cap flashings over windows and doors (see "High-Performance Homes on a Budget," 01/11).
Huber claims a vapor permeance of 12 to 16 perms for the overlay on the Zip wall panels. That means a wall sheathed with Zip panels will have a vapor profile similar to that of a wall sheathed with conventional OSB and covered with Typar, which has a permeance of around 12 (by comparison, Tyvek is 58 perms). - The Editors
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Saying goodbye to the best pitcher in baseball.
More rumors, Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was this trade.
What the Jays are likely to get from the Phillies for Roy Halladay
I figured Dayton traded Greinke for some Magic Beans. But no, Cliff Lee is going to Seattle, Roy Halladay is going to Philly, and Toronto is getting prospects from Seattle and Philly. It's all in the link. As a sidenote, I think Seattle may have just won the AL West with this move. I wish Jack Z was our GM.
Star Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay, who hopes his current residence in trade limbo will be resolved within the next couple of months, will be pleased to hear that the Jays have engaged the Yankees in at least initial trade talks. According to sources, Toronto officials mentioned at least four Yankees players and minor leaguers that interested them when the teams spoke recently: Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, catching prospect Jesus Montero and outfield prospect Austin Jackson.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/jon_heyman/12/02/roy.halladay/index.html
Red Sox offered half a dozen arms for Roy Halladay?
Postgame Pitch F/X breakdown of Buchholz's great performance, on a night when he was matched up against Doc Halladay.
Concerning the Blue Jays - Part II: Trade Talk
Trading for George Sherrill got the Dodgers a nice set-up man. But was it worth it?
If he can't join em, beat him: Yankees take Halladay deep in 5-3 win
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Tallulah is a small town in Northeastern Louisiana, one of the poorest regions in the
On a recent Saturday afternoon I visited Hayward Fair, a civil rights movement veteran from Tallulah. Mr. Fair is one of the founders of People United for Education and Action, a grassroots organization dedicated to transforming the local prison (now called
When I met with Mr. Fair he was going door to door with activists from the grassroots organizations Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, Southern Center for Human Rights and Safe Streets Strong Communities. At nearly seventy years old, with muscular arms and a shaved head, he shows no sign of slowing down. "I've been doing a little community organizing," he explained, modestly. As he went from house to house, it seemed everyone in the city knew and respected him, and everyone had an opinion about both the prison and what Tallulah needs. Wielding respect from both his age and his reputation for fighting for justice locally, Fair was bringing a vision of a new Tallulah to residents who have seen a town die around them.
Speaking in a gravelly voice and a deliberate step weighted with experience, Mr. Fair led me to the site of the prison. "When the prison came to town most people weren't even aware of what it was going to be," he said. "It was something that produced jobs and people needed jobs so there wasn't no real resistance to it." But now, the local economy is devastated, and Fair blames the prison, at least in part. "It's killing the economy of the area, in my opinion," he claims. "Prisons only bring money to the owners."
When you enter the city limits, the first thing you see after you pass the "Welcome to Tallulah" sign is the prison, a large complex of 33 buildings surrounded by fence and barbed wire. Standing nearby, Fair gestures down the street. "We're about a block and a half from the junior high school, we're about 5 blocks from the senior high school. Our children have to walk out from the classroom and the next thing they see is all these bars and towers and all these big buildings. It had a psychological effect on the children and the adults as well. It really just devastated this whole city." For several years, the people of Tallulah, aligned with Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, have fought this struggle, to not just close the local prison, but to open something different in its place, to demonstrate that small rural towns don't have to turn to prisons for jobs.
Tallulah, which is seventy percent Black, used to be a town that Black folks would travel from all around the region to visit. To demonstrate his point, Fair took me to the downtown, to street of shuttered storefronts, with virtually no people out. "On a day like this, on a Saturday evening, you could hardly walk down the streets of Tallulah, you'd be bumping into people. You had all businesses on this end of town," he gestured across the street. "All the way down, nothing but businesses; grocery stores, cafes, clothing stores, barrooms, you name it. The town was wide open, stayed open 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
Now Fair says, the town is a very different place. "We are working trying to bring our image back up, but we are now labeled as a prison town." As in much of the country, prisons are a big business in rural
The prison in Tallulah has a long and notorious reputation. Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone visited in 1998, and incarcerated kids broke onto a roof to shout out complaints about their treatment. The New York Times wrote several articles that same year, including a front page report calling Tallulah the worst youth prison in the
New Orleans-based journalist Katy Reckdahl chronicled the beginnings of the struggle to transform this prison in an important series of articles several years ago. But now the effort is nearing its final days. Activists have lined up local and statewide support for this important transition, from the community level to meetings with the Governor, to support of national allies such as the Center for Third World Organizing and the Southern Center for Human Rights. With a new Governor on the way, the next few weeks will be crucial for this struggle, and for the fate of Tallulah. If the people of Tallulah win, it will be an important victory for people everywhere concerned about issues of race, education, and criminal justice.
Mr. Fair is proud of the civil rights history of Tallulah, which is located not far from where the Deacons for Defense, a pioneering Black armed self-defense group active during the civil rights movement, was formed. "We had some people here that went off to world war two, then they come back here and were second class citizens," he explained. "They had to ride in the back of the bus. They said were not going to put up with this. So we started a movement ourselves, to eliminate that."
Fair experienced intense white resistance to basic rights for Black folks. "At one point the Klan met about three miles outside of town and had a rally and they was going to come into town that evening. They thought they were going to run all the Blacks out of town," Fair says. But resistance in the town was strong. "When they came into town the streets was crowded. People were walking stiff legged, with their shotguns down under their pants. We told the police were going to take care of ourselves; we don't need you to take care of us. They thought they were going to scare somebody, but nobody here was afraid of them."
I asked Fair how Tallulah fits into a wider struggle. "All the eyes of the world is focused on the Jena Six. But every small community in the south, and in the north, has its Jena Six. Maybe you can't visualize it or maybe you don't want to visualize it, but this is not just small rural towns. Look at
Before leaving, I asked Fair what kept him in the struggle. "I ain't struggling, I'm free," he answered, explaining that this struggle is not about him. "I'm gonna do what I know is right, and I don't care who you are. I see the young people in the community that need help. That's what keeps me going. If you see something and you feel it aint right, don't say they ought to change it, get in there, roll your sleeves up and say lets change it. That's the only way. You gotta keep a cool head and do the thing that's right. When you know right and fight for it, you're gonna win."
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8.5 billion dollars and counting. That's the estimated amount of damage Hurricane Ike wreaked on Harris County homes according to a new report from the county's housing authority.
"Where you see the the dark colored areas that's where there was a high sustained loss or total loss of residential property," said Harris County Housing Authority Board member Casey Wallace.
Maps of the survey results show what most already know, that the southeast part of the county fared worst than other sections.
"In Shore Acres you have 675 homes 512 are more than 51 percent destroyed. In Seabrook, you have another thousand homes that have at least 4 feet of water in those," said Guy Rankin of the Harris Cty Housing Authority.
The report relies on a sample of Harris County houses, apartment buildings and mobile homes damaged by Ike-- information drawn from aerial photos, hurricane wind analysis, and assessments from housing authority inspectors going door to door. The survey found that most of the damage was to single family homes, about 7.6 billion dollars in damage.
There was 830 million dollars worth of damage to apartment buildings, and about 1.7 million to mobile homes. Important numbers county officials say they need to qualify for FEMA funds.
"FEMA uses methods and calculations to determine how much money should be returned to the area whether it be through community development block grants or other assistance to Harris County directly or to homeowner's directly," said Wallace.
"In dealing with FEMA and other entities at the federal level we have to be able to quantify. It's not enough to say we need help," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett.
The county says inspectors will assess 30 to 40 percent of homes before presenting a final report. so that 8.5 billion dollar estimate is expected to increase. A final damage report is expected in December from the Harris County Housing Authority.


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Welcome to THE RIVER JEWEL in beautiful Three Rivers, California. We are located 5 miles from Sequoia National Park. We are pleased to offer our private, new riverfront retreat. If you want one of the the best riverfront experiences, this is it with a series of private waterfalls and pools.
Hideaway from the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy all that nature has to offer in an exclusive riverfront suite. There are two separate suites to choose from and they are are immaculate. Each has unique decor and includes special amenities such as organic toiletries, fresh fruit, gourmet coffee and much more. Spend the evening gazing at the star studded sky on your private patio overlooking the Kaweah River. This is truly a glorious spot with the sounds of the river as background music for your stay. We strive to make your stay a relaxing, secluded, elegant experience.
The private suites boast a shower large enough for two ( Kaweah Gem), luxurious cal king bed, kitchenette, BBQ, fire pit, games, small library, satellite TV and music. Please see our website for more pictures.
We offer a complimentary bottle of wine with a three night stay. The River Jewel offers spectacular, riverfront lodging in a private, peaceful setting.
Enjoy one of the best swimming spots in the area. Historians know this spot as "Livingston's swimming hole". Step out your door to a private river paradise that includes a waterfall (seasonal) and 'the lagoon'. For your enjoyment are lounge chairs and a hammock on the bank of the river as well as an outdoor BBQ and firepit. Relax as the sounds and sights of nature surround you. We also provide bicycles for your use. There is a quaint little bakery and restaurant within walking distance.
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The Cowboys have claimed FB Tony Fiammetta off waivers from Carolina and have agreed to terms with veteran OG Derrick Dockery on a one-year contract, according to DallasCowboys.com.
Dockery has spent six of his eight seasons in the NFL in Washington, which released him on March 1. He played in only five games last season, with two starts, because of a knee injury. He had started every game the previous five seasons.
Dockery joins a team that was looking for veteran depth at guard after having released veteran Montrae Holland in its final cutdown Saturday. Holland had been expected to win the starting OLG job after the Cowboys cut veteran Leonard Davis before the start of training camp. However, Holland reported out of shape and had been rehabbing assorted injuries, enabling rookie seventh-round pick Bill Nagy to win the starting job at left guard.
The Cowboys have been overhauling their offensive line, having released four veteran since the beginning of the league year — Holland, Davis, OT Marc Colombo and C Andre Gurode.
Because Fiammetta technically took Holland's roster spot, the Cowboys will have to release another player before adding Dockery to the roster.


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The Chicago Cubs' Starlin Castro left in the bottom of the fourth inning after pulling up on a ground ball to shortstop Wednesday during an 11-7 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Cubs said their shortstop had left hamstring tightness and was being evaluated.
Aaron Harang, bidding for a spot in the Dodgers rotation, allowed four runs, five hits and a walk in the first, then threw a 1-2-3 second.
Jerry Hairston Jr. hit a two-run double off Trey McNutt in the second inning and added a sacrifice fly in the third. Darwin Barney had two singles and two RBIs.
Alfredo Amezaga had three hits and two RBIs for the Dodgers, who trailed 4-1 after the first but led 8-4 in the middle of the third.
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Nation-wide campaign for building toilet for every house was launched by Sulabh from Badaun where two girls were allegedly gangraped and hanged in May.
The goal is to include all rural families that do not have a pucca house under the new scheme that will eventually replace the Indira Awaas Yojana.
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"India-Japan have a responsibility beyond that of bilateral relations. Indian & Japanese businessmen can give a direction to world economy,"
India's largest private company with interests in petroleum, retail is keen to focus on startups and technology that are spawning businesses in India.
PM Modi's financial inclusion drive is off to a flying start, but some who enrolled under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana may have accounts elsewhere.
Normally, during certain months in a year, vegetable prices go up. This year we acted promptly and managed to contain it at an early stage.
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Government hopes that Federal Aviation Authority will restore category 1 status before end of year. FAA had downgraded India to category 2 status.
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The world invented the tools and technology to eradicate poverty a long time ago.
From health interventions to education to energy technology, there is a clear development path open to the poor. Yet millions in the developing world still lack access to basic poverty solutions. Why is that? Today's greatest need is not for inventors to create a slightly better tool. The real need is for better distribution of solutions that already work.
It is no secret that distribution saves lives. Consider malaria, a disease which has plagued human health and development throughout history. Mosquitoes transmit the virus, and to protect against infection the modern insecticide treated mosquito net was invented in the 1980s. The design was both highly effective and affordable. Yet malaria deaths continued to increase from 500 thousand in 1980 to over 1.5 million in 2004.
A drastic downturn in malaria deaths occurred only after distribution campaigns were launched between 2004 and 2010. Distribution reduced malaria deaths by 33% in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Fletcher D-Prize Competition is a call to social entrepreneurs.
"Ours is the first generation that has decided to go beyond the traditional international development machine. This is a generation that is capable of applying passion and entrepreneurial zeal to solve a poverty problem directly. This is a generation capable of boldness."
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Select a proven poverty intervention and design a model to distribute it to people in need. Winners receive $10,000-$20,000. From there, it is a simple matter of booking a plane ticket to the pilot country, hiring a few staff, and spending three months using every last shred of ability and talent that you have to solve a world development challenge.
It is remarkably riskless for you, and even at the very worst you will probably end up making a positive change in the lives of hundreds of people. At the very best, you might start an organization that one day improves the lives of millions of people.
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Human Resources unveils updated learning catalogue
Staff who aspire to improve their skills and deepen their knowledge can sign up for a variety of workshops and certificate programs offered by Human Resources (HR).
"We have tweaked some of our offerings and added new certificate programs and workshops in order to help as many staff members as possible meet their career goals," says Shannon Hill, Learning and Development Specialist, Human Resources.
Some of the highlights of this year's learning catalogue include:
• A revamped Administrative Professional at Queen's (APAQ) certificate to better support the professional development needs of staff in administrative and support roles;
• A new APAQ Master Certificate to give administrative staff enhanced skills in the areas of strategic thinking, leadership styles, and business communication;
• Several new workshops on topics such as event planning and electronic file management; and
• A revised Email @ Queen's workshop that now includes a discussion on the use of social media in the workplace.
In addition to the APAQ certificate, HR continues to offer the Certificate in International Perspectives and the Certificate in Workplace Communications. HR is also collaborating with the Equity Office to develop "From Diversity to Inclusion in the Workplace," a new certificate program that is slated to begin in January.
Staff responded very enthusiastically last year to the expanded focus on personal health workshops, prompting HR, in partnership with Athletics and Recreation, to continue offering several different Lunch and Learn sessions and health promotion activities including a walking club and yoga classes.
Workshops begin this month and continue through June. Visit the HR learning catalogue for a full list of offerings.
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Students at Prairie Rose Elementary are using their hand eye coordination to be part of a World Record.
The school's P. E teacher Tami Doppler got the school involved in this year's Stack UP-- the world's largest sport stacking event.
The students will be just a small part of the expected 450,000 stackers participating.
Their speedy stacking skills are being used in various ways from stacking sit ups to stacking buckets.
The previous world record was set last year with over 412 thousand people stackers participating.
Doppler says it's exciting for the students to be a part of the event.
"They've been pretty excited this is the first year like I said we've done this at Prairie Rose and so I think it's because it's new it's kind of exciting and also that they know they get to be part of a world Record that's kind of exciting too."
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A body found in a burned out car was an accidental death, according to authorities.
The car was found in the early hours of May 6th. It was parked on Allison Ave; after extinguishing the fire, a body was found in the driver's seat.
The body has been identified as Dwight Cecil, age 69. He owned the car and was a resident of the 400 block of Allison Ave.
Fire and police officials conducted a joint investigation of the case. The Fire Department ruled that the car fire was accidental. The Medical Examiner's Office says Cecil's death was caused by medical issues and was ruled accidental as well.


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The New Yorker has released a New York events listings phone application for both the Android and the iPhone.
The Goings on About Town app provides listings for music, movies, art, theatre and other events in New York. The app includes a 'My Location' feature that uses Google Maps to show you what events are occurring around your current location.
The app also allows users to search listings by date, to access restaurant reviews from the New Yorker and includes recommended places from New York artists and writers.
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[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications]
A future society that has freed itself from oppressive institutions will not engage in the aggressive wars for conquest plaguing our world today. However, in the absence of a worldwide revolution that ends all destructive institutions everywhere, a good society may be forced to defend itself from outside attack by oppressive groups. Similarly, a movement working to build a good society to replace oppressive systems is likely to come under violent attack by defenders of those systems when it is close to winning.When violent attacks by enemies of a good society occur, those working to build or maintain that society will have to make an informed decision after collective consideration as to whether or not violence is a justified tactic of self-defense. I think a guiding principle for that discussion should be that violence must be an absolute last resort for survival when all nonviolent self-defense fails. To help us prepare for any future attacks, we need a clearly defined vision of defense institutions, defense training programs, and the institutions to determine when and how we protect ourselves. I am not proposing that vision here, but my goal in writing this essay is to describe the psychological aspects of lethal violence against other human beings and how this should inform our preparation for violent self-defense. This is an important issue to consider long before we are attacked and compelled to decide our response, and I believe it should be central to our formulation of a defense vision. Several ideas can be entertained regarding the best way to organize defense forces and violent protection for a good society (See for example, Matt Grinder's "International Relations Involving a Participatory Society"). Should we have everyone in society undertake collectively agreed upon warfare tasks, sharing the burden of this work as a type of balanced job complex? Should we have a standing army or a decentralized militia? Should we train the whole of society in violent self-defense so it can protect and quickly organize itself as necessary without having to grant dangerous power to specialists? These are all questions we should consider at length as we move toward building a better society. However, in all cases, we must address the psychological aspects of killing as we establish our defense institutions and training.In his book, On Killing: The Psychological Costs of Learning to Kill In War and Society, Dave Grossman hypothesizes that human beings have in innate, biological resistance to killing members of their own species. He notes that throughout the animal kingdom, animals in conflict between species often have a physiological fight/flight response to danger in which they become predisposed to escape from danger or kill the threat. However, in conflict within species, most of Earth's animals go into a variation of the fight/flight response in which combat is rarely lethal but instead involves a ritualistic series of bluffs that usually ends in flight or a display of submission by one of the animals. Grossman puts forth evidence for this pattern in human warfare, noting several historical examples supporting his claim that humans, like most animal species, do not instinctively and easily kill their own kind. Generally speaking, we bluff, submit, run away, and sometimes even die before we kill another human being.This resistance to killing has been frustrating to states such as the U.S. government, and much study has gone into ways to effectively condition people to kill other people in war. As Grossman notes, U.S. infantry fired their weapons approximately 20 percent of the time that warfare conditions dictated they should in World War II. When it came time to fire, the majority of soldiers tended to go into behavioral patterns reminiscent of intraspecies conflict in the animal kingdom. In other words, the instinctive rule against killing a member of one's own species seemed to get activated when the soldiers were in survival mode. However, through discovery and manipulation of the psychological variables that override human resistance to killing, the U.S. government was able to increase infantry firing rates to 50 percent during the invasion of Korea, and over 90 percent during the invasion of Vietnam.Those who train most of the world's professional armies have identified several of these variables and exploited them to enable people to kill in war. According to Grossman, these include the social psychological forces of authority and group influence. These in turn interact with the individual psychological predisposition to kill, which is influenced by variables such as the temperament and training of the person doing the killing. This combination of social and individual psychological influences interacts with the unique attributes of the killing situation, such as whether or not alternatives to killing have been exhausted. Finally, killing gets easier with greater physical and emotional distance from the victims.Whereas state armies and corporate mercenary firms have simply amplified the influence of all of these factors to create the maximum possible killing propensity, our job in creating alternative defense institutions is to determine the best ways to effectively protect ourselves with lethal violence without sacrificing our humanity in the process. Detailed exploration of the killing factors described above, as well as what role they should have in a good society, will assist us in this task. Authority InfluenceBoth the proximity and perceived legitimacy of authority figures seem to strongly influence whether or not people kill. In a famous study of obedience to authority, Stanley Milgram found that the mere authoritative statements of a person calling himself a doctor and wearing a lab coat were enough to get participants in an experiment to go along with orders to electrically shock another human being with what they believed to be dangerous voltage. Similarly in war conditions, people are more likely to kill if they are ordered to by an authority who is physically close to them, seen as legitimate, and strongly demanding that they kill.Vision for defense organization will determine whether or not we have authorities and what form such command structures might take. Regardless of that decision, I believe a defensive training regimen for a good society should have at its core a questioning of authority and strong emphasis on the dangers of obedience. This is a radical departure from the training approaches of state militaries. However, if the history of states has taught us anything, it is that terrible atrocities can be carried out simply because they are ordered. Blind trust in authority should have no place in a good society, including in its defense training.Group InfluenceThe social influence of the groups with which people align themselves also seems to impact whether or not they can kill others. Similar to authority's influence on killing, groups conformity pressures can increase the likelihood of killing. People kill more easily if they identify as members of groups that demand that they kill. Thus, the dark side of group solidarity is that it can lead to atrocity, even in the absence of authority. The brutal actions of lynch mobs demonstrate that not all crimes against humanity are the result of a top-down command structure ordering them. Therefore, defensive training in a good society should also emphasize the danger of blind conformity to the group and encourage dissent among group members, similar to the healthy distrust of authority that we should instill in our defense forces.Individual Killing PredispositionBesides the group factors that can influence anyone regardless of background, Grossman identifies several individual psychological variables that influence killing. Two key factors in this area are the person's level of innate resistance to killing, as well as the person's recent training experiences. Innate ResistanceAs noted above, Grossman's theory is that humans are like most animal species in that we have a biological resistance to killing our own species that is not a conscious, moral decision so much as an instinctive set of possible behaviors that gets activated when we are confronted with the threat of violence from other human beings. While this set of behaviors does not preclude killing, it relegates such a tactic to a last resort. Studies of human behavior in warfare seem to support this hypothesis. However, there is a minority of people who do not seem to have any hesitation in killing situations and will kill as a first resort. In state armies and mercenary organizations, such people often do very well in battlefield conditions. But a sociopathic predisposition is not a success in a good society. Should we need lethal violence for defense, those who can easily carry out the task may be useful, but we should contain their behavior to the extent possible. As we formulate defense vision, we should consider that the existence of some people who have no instinctive aversion to killing could be an argument against having volunteer armies in a good society, since such people may join for this reason and shape the army culture into one that kills with enthusiasm.The way we view killing and the social messages we use in our training should be on the side of reluctance to kill, not enthusiasm for it. Therefore, in our defense training, we must reject the glorification of killing used in state military training today. The concept of killing being a heroic act worthy of praise should not exist in a good society. Rather, it should be accurately emphasized as the tragic act that it is, to be used as a last resort when all other options have failed. Necessary killing should be mourned rather than celebrated in a good society.Desensitized Killing Predisposition
Realistic, repetitive drills of simulated killings are the principal method professional armies use to train their soldiers to kill. This appears to bypass the innate resistance to close range killing that has been observed throughout human warfare. I see no way around incorporating this method into lethal self-defense training in a future society. If we are forced to violently defend ourselves, we will die if our frightened brains won't let us shoot back. Grossman notes that untrained guerilla armies are generally much less accurate in their firing than professionally trained ones and attributes this to the guerillas' lack of realistic killing drills. So, this is one existing technique that I believe we should keep in a good society.However, such training will have consequences that we must address as we define our defense institutions. If we have an instinctive brake on killing, and we condition ourselves to bypass it, that means that we run the risk of habituating to killing our own kind. This can become even more of a problem if we have universal training or if we see warfare work as part of a balanced job complex, because the habituation can be society-wide. The defense vision debate should be informed by this consideration. I suggest we counteract the killing desensitization that training can bring by having strong social messages that killing is only to be done when absolutely necessary, i.e., when all other options for self-defense have been exhausted. Another way we can restrain the ease of killing that realistic killing drills can bring is by mediating one of the factors that makes it easy for human beings to slaughter each other: distance.Killing At a DistanceDistance from the people we are killing helps obscure the reality of what we are doing and thus breaks down our resistance to it. Presuming Grossman's theory of resistance to intraspecies killing is correct, this makes sense. If the instinctive parts of our brains think we're killing a different species because we cannot physically or emotionally see our commonality, the brakes on killing come off. People don't look as human to us if we look at them on a satellite map or through a sniper scope, nor after we have tricked ourselves into thinking they are another species called undermen, grasshoppers, cockroaches, gooks, hajjis, savages, targets, or collateral damage. With this delusion, we can slaughter accordingly.Physical and Technological DistanceAdvanced weapons technology allows people to kill other people with greater distance, and therefore, more ease. This, perhaps more than any other distancing factor is what separates powerful nation states from weaker enemies in ability and propensity to kill, as well as the scale of the killing. Powerful states such as the U.S. government can afford the technology necessary to carry out the world's largest slaughters from a distance that makes the acts invisible to the perpetrating state and its population. The degree of advanced weapons technology we authorize will have to be an important part of vision, considering the moral implications of killing from a distance, as well as the terrible legacy of state terror that high technology weapons have made possible throughout the world. Regardless of the distance we deem acceptable, we must address and counter the ease of killing that comes with physical distance.Killing a person in face-to-face, hand-to-hand combat appears to be the hardest for people to do. Not seeing a person's face makes it slightly less difficult. The ease increases respectively with shooting at close range, sniping at long range, and becomes easiest from the distance of a missile or aerial bombing. Consequently, our defense training is going to have to compensate for the blindness to humanity that comes with distance. If a good society has to kill to protect itself, it must do body counts, genuinely mourn its victims, and atone for what it has done. The words "collateral damage" will have no place in the lexicon of a good society.Cultural DistanceI cannot think of a single genocide in human history that did not first involve a psychological ritual of turning the targeted group into something other than human, thus paving the way for the species suicide that followed. Stan Goff writes of this dehumanization process in Vietnam and how it affected him as a soldier:"We knew that what we were doing was wrong. So they became dinks or gooks,just like Iraqis are now being transformed into ragheads or hajjis… somethinginside us told us that so long as they were human beings, with the same intrinsic value we had as human beings, we were not allowed to burn their homes and barns, kill their animals, and sometimes even kill them. So we used these words, these new names, to reduce them and strip them of their essential humanity, and then we could do things like adjust artillery fire onto the cries of a baby… When you take away the humanity of another, you take away your own humanity. You attack your own soul because it is standing in the way."
The deliberate use of racism to enable killing is a crime that should be eradicated on the path toward a good society. It will obviously have no place in the world we want to see. However, as part of our defense training and mental approach to any warfare we deem necessary, we must protect against the dangers inherent in the subtle and unconscious ways we emotionally distance ourselves from those whom we see as different. We must constantly remind ourselves that the people we face are ordinary human beings with lives and loves, fighting and dying for what they believe in, just as we do.Moral DistanceThe killing behavior that moral distance enables may be the greatest liability for a good society. Should we use violence to defend ourselves, it will most likely be against an oppressive group or institution that is directly attacking us, and we will probably have the collective backing of the good society. Our moral superiority in such an instance will probably be indisputable. But the danger of seeing one's enemy as morally inferior is that we can become the monsters we despise by not restraining our killing behavior with humility and the recognition that our enemies are still human like us. Consider, for example, Martha Stout's observation:"Throughout all of human history and to the present, the call to war has included the flattering claim that one's own forces are about to accomplish a victory that will change the world for the better, a triumph that is morally laudable, justified by its humane outcome, unique in human endeavor, righteous, and worthy of enormous gratitude. Since we began to record the human story, all of our major wars have been framed in this way, on all sides of the conflict, and in all languages the adjective most often applied to the word war is holy."
The psychological risk of this mindset of moral superiority, irrespective of its truth, is summarized in Sam Keen's poem, "To Create an Enemy:" Start with an empty canvas Sketch in broad outline the forms of men, women, and children. Dip into the unconscious well of your own disowned darkness with a wide brush and stain the strangers with the sinister hue of the shadow. Trace onto the face of the enemy the greed, hatred, carelessness you dare not claim as your own. Obscure the sweet individuality of each face. Erase all hints of the myriad loves, hopes, fears that play through the kaleidoscope of every finite heart. Twist the smile until it forms the downward arc of cruelty. Strip flesh from bone until only the abstract skeleton of death remains. Exaggerate each feature until man is metamorphosized into beast, vermin, insect. Fill in the background with malignant figures from ancient nightmares – devils, demons, myrmidons of evil. When your icon of the enemy is complete you will be able to kill without guilt, slaughter without shame. The thing you destroy will have become merely an enemy of God, an impediment to the sacred dialectic of history.Thus, we can lose our humanity through our belief in our moral superiority if it blinds us to the humanity of our opponents. Ironically, our justified belief that we are on the side of good can lead us to dehumanize with almost identical callousness to racist distancing from victims. We should not defend ourselves violently in a good society unless it is considered absolutely necessary to do so. If this is the case, once again, the killing act should never be glorified nor celebrated. Killing is not righteous, but tragic, especially if carried out by a good society forced to do so by an outside attack. This should be the mindset of those who carry the burden of killing. We should mourn the lives we have taken and continuously evaluate whether the killing or its scope was absolutely necessary for our survival. RehabilitationThe psychological aftermath of having to kill another human being is high for most people put in that situation. For example, Rachel MacNair, in analyzing data gathered from the National Vietnam Veteran Readjustment Study, found that the experience of killing best predicted the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This supports the idea that we are not predisposed to kill, and that overriding this resistance comes at the expense of our sanity. Those who kill defending a good society should be treated with the utmost empathy and care, and their killing behavior should neither be glorified nor condemned. Rather, the act of killing should be seen as a necessary and tragic last resort. We can expect that those who kill will be traumatized by the experience; therefore, psychological treatment should be the top priority for the women and men who are placed in the surreal situation of simultaneously being perpetrator and victim.Treatment can follow established and effective techniques that are currently used to treat PTSD. However, one caveat to these approaches that should be central to treatment of anyone who has killed is to involve them in a society-wide mourning process for those whose lives they have taken. We should also be very emotionally supportive of those we ask to perpetrate the violence we deem necessary to defend ourselves, avoiding the temptation to scapegoat those who did the dirty work we authorized. When we kill or ask others to kill after we have exhausted all other options for self-defense, we must weep for the people who will never spend another minute pursuing their dreams and loves. We must also weep for ourselves at having to stain our humanity with the grisly work necessary to stay alive.ConclusionSocieties composed of oppressive systems do their best to make killing easy and ignore the victims, including the perpetrator-victims they manipulate. Such societies use the following tools to do this: authority, group conformity, realistic killing drills, glorification of killing, and above all, blinding their people and warriors to the humanity they share with their victims. Most of these techniques will have no place in a good society, and the psychology behind them should inform ways we can inhibit rather than enable killing. I propose that a good society's defense institutions should kill only as a last resort of self-defense, realizing that violence is only one of many methods of self-defense. The only tool that a good society should use to this end is the realistic killing drill training used today so that we are able to fire when necessary. Our training should counteract unquestioning obedience and group conformity to keep us from killing blindly. We must stay emotionally close to our victims, recognizing that we are taking the lives of people just like us. Most importantly, if we ever experience the tragedy of having to take life to stay alive, we must grieve those we have robbed of their existence and the bit of humanity we lost in doing so. ReferencesGoff, S. (2003). Hold On To Your Humanity: An Open Letter to U.S. Troops Serving In Iraq. www.counterpunch.org/goff11142003.html.Grossman, D. (1995). On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Killing In War and Society. New York: Little, Brown and Company.Grinder, M. (2009). International Relations Involving a Participatory Society. www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20324.
Keen, S. (1986). Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination. San Francisco: Harper & Row.MacNair, R. (2002). Perpetration-induced traumatic stress in combat veterans. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 8, 63-72.
Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral study of obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 371-378.Stout, M. (2005). The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us. New York: Broadway Books.


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A man was shipwrecked with his dog and a sheep on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Everytime the man moved close to the sheep, his dog would snarl and growl at him.
One day while walking the island he discovered a lovely naked lady who also had just become marooned.
"Finally, some company!" he thought.
While sitting on the shore and the watching the sunset with his new female friend, he slowly leaned over and whispered in her ear, ''Hey, could you go walk the dog?''
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Rendering Images in ASP.NET Directly from Your Database
Listing 7: Code that scales the images (but keep in mind that the GIF images didn't render well after manipulation; the fault may be mine though).
Const max As Integer = 64 Dim width As Integer Dim height As Integer Dim scalar As Single If (FImage.Width > FImage.Height) Then width = max scalar = width / FImage.Width height = scalar * FImage.Height Else height = max scalar = height / FImage.Height width = scalar * FImage.Width End If Dim bmp As Bitmap = New Bitmap(width, height) Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bmp) g.DrawImage(FImage, 0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height) Dim stream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream() bmp.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Gif) Response.BinaryWrite(stream.ToArray())
Listing 8: You have a perfectly valid canvas to write on, so you can use and of the GDI+ capabilities when you manage loading the images from the database.
Dim b As Bitmap = New Bitmap(FImage.Width, FImage.Height) Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(b) g.DrawImage(FImage, 0, 0) Dim f As Font = New Font(FontFamily.GenericSansSerif, 12, _ FontStyle.Italic) g.DrawString("Extra Information", f, Brushes.Red, 10, 10) Dim stream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream() b.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Gif) Response.BinaryWrite(stream.ToArray())
Finally, it is worth noting that you could store the path to the image in the database, use Image.LoadFromStream—Image.LoadFromFile locks images—and manipulate the image. Then, you could use the techniques described in this article to render the image. The main premise is why should images be stored differently when they don't have to be?
This article demonstrates how to store and retrieve images from a SQL Server database instead of storing the path and binding the URL. The technique renders the image to a GDI+ object and stuffs the results in the HttpResponse stream. Then, instead of setting the Image.ImageUrl (or <img> tag's src attribute) to the path, you assign the relevant attribute to the .aspx page containing the rendered image. The result is that you now store images in a way that is homogenous with other kinds of data, and you are free to manipulate the image—by scaling, rotating, annotating, for example—any way that images in general can be manipulated by GDI+.
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Týr - Regin Smidur [With Lyrics] HD
Extension for Chrome/Firefox with searcher and my videos: http://myapp.wips.com/bliz-youtube-extension This is one of my favourite songs from Tyr and I thought that putting the translation in the video would look awful so I left only the original lyrics. The lyrics translated: =============================== Týr - Regin Blacksmith: Will you now listen whilst I will sing. About the rich kings that I will now speak of Chorus; Greyfell carried the gold from the heath He swung his sword in wrath Sigfried defeated the dragon Greyfell carried the gold from the heath Hundings sons at war they did damage there Poison was in the sword they carried against me Chorus Fafnir is the name of the dragon that lies on the Glittering Heath Regin is a good blacksmith to few is he faithfull Chorus He was on fields of play rages amongst men Tears up large oak trunks he maims some to Hel Chorus On the easten side under the mound where heroes grow in numbers Dark is this sad day down in the mould to go Chorus A man stepped forward upon the field Noone knew him He had a wide hat on his head and a Finnish bow in his hand Chorus A man stepped forward upon the field raging with his sword He had one eye and his trouser legs were buttoned Chorus The dragon has slithered of the gold it is rumoured widely Sigfried seats himself on Greyfells back he prepares himself to ride Chorus ===============================


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A 50-year-old Sacramento man with four felony strikes on his criminal record has been sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison following a Placer County jury conviction for driving under the influence of drugs and resisting a peace officer.
Anthony Joseph DiBernardo, who racked up all of his felony strikes in 1988 during a one-night burglary binge in which he broke into three homes and attempted to rape a 14-year-old girl, tried to have three of his prior strikes stricken on Feb. 18 in hopes of reducing his sentence to no more than six years.
However, Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty denied his motion and called the attempted rape a "top of the pyramid" felony.
Prosecutor Benjamin Eggert of the Placer County District Attorney's Office said DiBernardo had continued to break laws in the 1990s, including assaulting a person with a deadly weapon and twice failing to register as a sex offender.
"This guy had his chances," Eggert said. "He's exactly the kind of person the three-strikes law was written for."
In his most recent incident last May, DiBernardo was stopped by a Roseville police officer for driving with expired registration, Eggert said.
DiBernardo, suspected by the officer of being under the influence of a substance, then wrestled with the officer who tried to stop him from swallowing a baggie of methamphetamine that he was hiding in his mouth, Eggert said.
In October, a trial jury convicted DiBernardo of DUI, transporting and possessing meth, possession of drug paraphernalia and of resisting or obstructing a peace officer.
"If he had been convicted only of the drug counts, he might have been eligible for a drug diversion program," Eggert said. "But the DUI and the resisting counts are what got him the mandatory sentence of 25-to-life."
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If you saw Malden Catholic's Ara Nazarian play on the ice, you'd never know that he was just a sophomore centering the Lancers' top line.
Yet the Boxford native has led the way for MC in the Super 8 tournament, netting his fourth shorthanded goal of the postseason during Wednesday's 5-3 victory over Catholic Memorial in semifinal action.
With the win, the Lancers are defending their title and headed back to their third straight Super 8 final at the TD Garden tomorrow.
"We're feeling good and it's turned our season completely around," said Nazarian. "We still have one more game left to accomplish our goal and that's what we're putting our focus on now."
While icing the game for the Lancers with a empty-netter, Nazarian recorded a hat trick and was the leading scorer of the game. Though he's a new face to some, Nazarian did in fact play in last year's Super 8 tourney and has been around head coach John McLean since he was a little kid.
"I've been coaching Ara since he played on Mites," said McLean. "He was a great player even then and it's been a pleasure to coach him. Ara's extremely skilled and will be Division 1 player pretty soon and commit some place.
"To me he's the best player in the league. As a team we hit a speed bump and he just continued to do what he's used to doing, coming through in big games."
MC's top line of Mike Iovanna (Middleton), Tyler Sifferlen and Nazarian have developed solid chemistry over the past year and have elevated their play this postseason.
"I played with Siffs since freshman year and Mikey fits great with us," noted Nazarian, whose line factored into all five of the team's goals on Wednesday night. "We've been playing really well together, moving the puck well and using our speed to get those goals."
Though the Lancers (15-6-3) are bound for the finals, they did hit a rough patch in the regular season and struggled to stay about .500 during the month of January. That's all ancient history now as Malden Catholic has won three straight tournament games to get to tomorrow's main event.


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