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A few suggestions for possible Advent Sermon Series
The Songs of Advent:
A series which looks at the poetic words uttered around the birth of the Messiah. The texts of the songs are below, more verses can be added to flesh out the stories.
- Mary's song - Luke 1:46-55
- Zechariah's - Luke 1:67-79
- John the Baptist's - Luke 3:1-18
- Angels' - Luke 2:14
- Simeon's - Luke 2:28-32
Hidden Characters of Advent:
A series which looks at the characters in the Advent story not usually highlighted.
- Elizabeth - Luke 1:23-25; 39-45; 57-66
- Joseph - Matthew 1:18-25
- Herod - Matthew 2:1-18
- Jesus - John 1:1-18 [The perspective here is that we can forget that Jesus existed before all time, and that creation was made through him, and will be remade through him as well.]


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In any case, I've had enough.
I mean, I love these people, but it isn't healthy to love people who are self-destructive to the point of homelessness or suicide. Not after every effort has been made--several times--to help them.
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as his waves twist and curl in visions of her hair
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when once more into the night she will climb
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Like all the other letters she quickly collected it and placed it into a box, which she then slid under her bed with a swift kick. Tissarakkhā went quickly to preparing dinner, Tāy would be home soon and she wanted to surprise her. Before boiling water she grabbed a rusted kettle to see if there was any mark on her cheek still but couldn't see anything through the time on the metal. Rubbish she said out loud to no one in particular and tossed the pot aside.
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Magnitsky relatives: Russian diplomat lied to EU parliament
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BRUSSELS - The mother and widow of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption activist who died in prison, have accused a Russian diplomat of lying about him to the European Parliament.
The women - Natalia Magnitskaya and Natalia Zharikova - spoke out in a letter on 25 February to the parliament's subcommittee on human rights.
They said Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry's special envoy on human rights, misled MEPs at a hearing in Brussels on 20 February when he told them Magnitsky's relatives want him to be tried posthumously in order to clear his name.
According to a transcript of the hearing, Dolgov said: "The court cannot close the case unless the relatives, or people who represent the interests of the deceased, make it clear that they are not against the closing of the case. The relatives of Mr Magnitsky made it absolutely clear that they are against closing the case without his acquittal."
Russian authorities accused Magnitsky, an accountant, of fraud after he exposed a scam by tax officials to embezzle hundreds of millions of euros from the Russian treasury.
He died in pre-trial detention in 2009.
But prosecutors are now re-opening the fraud case in what his family see as a smear campaign and a form of intimidation to keep them quiet.
"[Dolgov's] statements are hard to characterise other than [as] a lie and hypocrisy," Magnitskaya and Zharikova wrote.
"We suddenly learned from the media that a criminal case was resumed posthumously … The initiative to resume the criminal case belongs to deputy general prosecutor Victor Grin, though he is not a 'close relative'," they noted.
"Our position about the unlawfulness of this proceeding has been stated in over 25 formal complaints," they added.
Dolgov is not the first Russian diplomat to claim the dead man's family want him to be tried.
Russia's EU ambassador, Vladimir Chizhov, in an interview with EUobserver on 28 June last year, also said: "If the immediate relatives of the deceased declare officially that they want the case closed, then it is closed. None of Magnitsky's relatives have said a word about that."
The Magnitsky affair has become a cause celebre in EU-Russia and US-Russia relations.
For their part, 10 French MPs and senators, including senior figures from President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party, in a letter on Thursday (28 February) urged him to raise the issue on his visit to Moscow.
They compared Magnitsky's prison diaries - which detail the abuses that led to his death - to the writings of Soviet-era dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
They said the posthumous trial is a form of "repression" and a "sinister comedy … which must be stopped." They added: "This affair, both tragic and touching, stands as a symbol of human rights violations in Russia."
Hollande did not refer to Magnitsky in public remarks in Moscow on Thursday, however.
He told a press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin: "We have not come here to judge, but to observe and to seek progress [on human rights]."


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Learning Self-Compassion
The fact that you are reading Diabetes Self-Management suggests that you are eager to learn new ways of dealing with this demanding condition. It is likely that you've heard a great deal of advice on improving your diet, controlling your blood glucose levels, and starting or maintaining an exercise routine. However, it is also important to consider how you care for your mental and psychological health. Many people pay too little attention to these aspects of healing, yet such activities as guided imagery, meditation, and mindful eating can be excellent additions to anyone's self-management routine. Each of these techniques — and others, as well — can help you learn to accept and feel compassion for yourself, and that, in turn, can lead to rewards both measurable (in the form of improved blood glucose control, for example) and immeasurable.
What is self-compassion?
Many people are also overly self-critical, doubtful of their capabilities and desires, and too ready to negatively compare themselves to others. They see mistakes as permanent failings and temporary setbacks as insurmountable obstacles. When it comes to their own shortcomings, they see mountains where only molehills exist. But allowing greater self-compassion into one's life can change all that.
Self-compassion presents an alternative way of thinking about yourself and your perceived faults. It allows you to bestow upon yourself the same love and support you give to those close to you. It also helps build your emotional resilience so that it's easier to weather future blunders without spiraling into guilt and recrimination.
Dr. Kristin Neff, Associate Professor in Human Development and Culture at the University of Texas, has proposed three major components of self-compassion:
Self-kindness. This means avoiding harsh judgment of yourself and instead treating yourself with care and understanding. Self-kindness is a gentle and accepting approach in which you use kind and caring language with yourself, as a good parent might use with a child. You learn to actively soothe and comfort yourself when something goes wrong, rather than turning to harsh and judgmental criticism. Exercising self-kindness means avoiding negative language; just as you wouldn't call your best friend fat, lazy, or stupid, you shouldn't use such language with yourself either.
Embracing common humanity. This means recognizing that imperfection is a shared aspect of the human experience and not a personal failing. When experiencing problems in life, it is common to feel as if you are the only person in the world who has that problem — even when this is obviously not the case. You may have experienced such feelings when you were first diagnosed with diabetes. This mind-set can leave you feeling isolated and powerless. But when you commit to embracing a sense of common humanity, you develop an understanding that everyone is in the same boat together. All of humanity deals with failure, disappointment, and shame. Once you internalize this reality, you will begin to feel more connected with the world and less alone in moments of trouble.
Mindfulness. This means seeing the big picture by keeping your present experiences in perspective. It means seeing life — with all of its nuisances, obstacles, and disappointments — as it is, no more and no less. By having a balanced perspective, you can avoid getting carried away with thoughts and feelings and letting them control you. You begin to realize that reality consists of only the present moment, not anxieties about the future or regrets about the past.
Self-compassion and diabetes
Diabetes is a complex disease, requiring constant evaluation of your behavior — which is why feeling compassion for yourself is essential to successful self-management. With self-compassion, you can develop a new relationship with your diabetes, in which you pay attention to it without judging yourself. You do this in part by applying mindfulness to your daily self-care activities, such as food preparation, eating, exercise, and blood glucose monitoring. Dealing with the ups and downs of diabetes can be difficult, but being compassionate toward yourself can help you make peace with your diabetes. This has both mental and physical benefits.
Mental benefits. Research has shown that people who treat themselves with compassion have greater psychological health than those who do not take this approach. Self-compassion correlates positively with overall life satisfaction, feelings of happiness and optimism, social connectedness, and emotional resilience. Self-compassionate people also tend to have less extreme reactions to problems than people who are excessively critical of themselves. It follows, then, that lacking self-compassion can lead to self-loathing, depression, anxiety, and perfectionism — all of which will ultimately have a negative impact on your diabetes management. Taking a compassionate approach will lead to greater awareness of your health, more resilience to deal with health-related setbacks, and more nurturing mental responses to distressing thoughts and events.
Physical benefits. A lack of self-compassion has been shown to be related to a variety of eating problems and disorders, including emotional eating. Research has shown that when dealing with a restrictive diet, people who are self-critical tend to feel "eating guilt" when they stray from the diet — which often leads to overindulgence as a method of coping with this feeling. People who practice self-compassion, on the other hand, are more likely to forgive themselves for eating something that's not on their meal plan and move on.
Furthermore, if you treat yourself with compassion, you will feel more motivated to opt for healthy rather than harmful choices. Self-compassion strengthens humans' innate yet often neglected awareness of how their bodies are feeling, thus increasing their ability to self-regulate, heal, and maintain good health.
Four ways to increase self-compassion
1. Consider your reaction to having diabetes. Ask yourself: Do you accept your diabetes and work with it, or do you resent your diabetes and try to fight or ignore it? What kind of language do you use with yourself when thinking about or discussing your diabetes? Do you often insult yourself, or do you usually take a kind and understanding tone? By evaluating your initial level of self-compassion, you can identify areas where you need more work and attention.
2. Consider your feelings about having diabetes. Take some time to write about a diabetes-related issue that tends to make you feel inadequate or bad about yourself. Write down how this issue makes you feel inside: Does it make you scared, sad, depressed, insecure, or angry? Focus on whatever emotions arise when you think about this issue. Try to be as honest as possible, examining your feelings without exaggerating them or pushing them away.
Once you have your honest feelings down on paper, think about a real or imaginary friend who loves you unconditionally and is accepting, kind, and compassionate toward you. This friend knows you intimately and can see all of your true strengths and weaknesses, including any negative aspects of yourself that you've been writing about. Reflect for a few moments on the feelings this friend has toward you. Now pick up a new piece of paper and write a letter to yourself from the perspective of the friend, focusing on whatever negative emotions you've been probing within yourself. What would this friend say to you about your perceived flaws, from the perspective of unqualified compassion and support? How would this friend convey such compassion to you, particularly in response to whatever pain you inflict upon yourself through harsh self-criticism? What would this friend say to remind you that you are only human, and that all humans have their strengths and weaknesses?
After you finish writing it, set the letter aside for a while — maybe a few days. Then read it as if you were seeing it for the first time, letting the words truly sink in. Reflect on how soothing it is to hear these compassionate words and to realize that they came from inside of you — which means they can come from you again anytime you feel a need for them.
3. Keep a self-compassion journal. Journaling has been found to enhance both mental and physical well-being, and it is an effective way to get in touch with your emotions. Journaling has been found to be particularly useful for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes. Every evening, find a few quiet moments to reflect on the day's events. Write in your journal about any negative feelings, anything you judged yourself for, or any other difficult experience that caused you pain or sadness — no matter how trivial it may seem. For each event, make a point of using the three components of self-compassion to help frame the way you think about the events:
• Self-kindness. Write yourself some kind and understanding words of comfort. Adopt a gentle, reassuring tone and let yourself know that you care about yourself. For example: "It is all right; you strayed from your diet, but it wasn't the end of the world. Maybe you can keep some healthy snacks at your desk to avoid cravings at work."
• Common humanity. Write down some ways in which your experience was connected to the larger human experience. This might include acknowledging that being human entails being imperfect. ("It is normal to slip up every once in a while." Or, "I am not the only one facing these challenges; many people have diabetes.") You may also want to reflect on the underlying causes and conditions behind the negative event. ("I was already stressed out about my afternoon meeting, which made me less resistant to food cravings.")
• Mindfulness. Explore any painful emotions that arose from your self-judgment or difficult circumstances. Write down how you felt, including whether you were sad, ashamed, frightened, or stressed. As you write, try to be accepting and nonjudgmental of your experience, capturing your emotions as they were rather than minimizing or exaggerating your experience. ("I was stressed about my meeting, so I indulged and felt guilty afterward.")
Using the three components of self-compassion as part of your journaling will help you organize your thoughts and emotions, as well as help you incorporate these attitudes into your everyday life. If you keep this journal regularly, the practices of using kind language and keeping your experiences in perspective will become easier and will help you treat yourself in a caring way.
4. Take care of yourself. Managing your diabetes effectively might mean that you need to recharge your inner battery occasionally to have enough energy to give to others. Grant yourself permission to satisfy your own needs first — recognizing that this will not only enhance your quality of life, but also enhance your ability to contribute to the lives of others. By showing yourself the same love and care you show to the people you care about, you are cultivating a more balanced and capable self. Whether you pamper yourself with a relaxing bubble bath or organize a night out with friends, relaxing and recharging your mind and body will improve your mood, ability to concentrate, and general outlook on life. Taking the time to respect your personal needs — and making a habit of it — will also help you manage your diabetes more effectively.
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Due to the shrinking of feature size and reduction in supply voltages, nanoscale circuits have become more susceptible to single event transient (SET) faults. Traditionally, soft errors have been a much greater concern in memories than in logic, due to three factors that prevented logic from becoming more susceptible to soft errors: logical, electrical, and timing (latching-window) masking. Technology scaling decreases the impact of these three masking factors on SETs: in particular, reduction in feature sizes and supply voltages allows lower energy particles to result in SETs, while reduced logic depth and smaller gate delays decrease attenuation and increase in frequency reduces latching-window masking. Our work on reliability modeling, analysis, and optimization in digital systems focuses on symbolic methods and efficient models or mitigation techniques. Our symbolic reliability modeling and analysis framework is capable of characterizing internal gate error impact or output errors susceptibility, for both single and multiple transient faults, while doing so at 5000X speedup compared to detailed HSPICE simulation and with less than 8% accuracy loss. The impact of uncertainty due to process variations or post-layout delay increase is also handled. Our results show that joint modeling of the three masking factors is key to the high accuracy level achieved, underscoring the need for their simultaneous modeling. To address the increased impact of soft errors in digital systems, we propose several mitigation techniques that can theoretically achieve a cumulative 95% reduction in error rate. Specifically, our results show that using Redundancy Addition and Removal (RAR), Selective Voltage Scaling (SVS), and Clock Skew Scheduling (CSS) for soft error mitigation, 15-30% reduction in error rate can be achieved when these techniques are applied individually, with a potential for allowing synergistic usage in a complete flow.
Driven by aggressive technology scaling, a marked increase in the variability of process technology parameters introduces uncertainty in the guaranteed level of performance for most digital systems. In addition, due to increased power density and stricter thermal envelopes, environmental parameter variability increases as well. While a significant body of work exists for characterizing performance and power consumption in the presence of process-driven variability at the interface between physical-gate levels, these effects need to be modeled at higher levels of abstraction as well. In support of a complete probabilistic design flow, high-level modeling of variability effects is needed for determining design choices that are most likely to meet initial design constraints. Our work focuses on modeling the effects of process variation at system level and shows that a design style relying on multiple voltage-frequency islands (VFIs) copes in a more robust manner with the effect of process technology parameter variation. Furthermore, our work details how these effects are manifested in systems implemented using 3D integration, as opposed to just the classic two-dimensional one. Our results show that modeling process variation effects at system level provides a 145X speedup compared to full Monte Carlo simulation. Furthermore, for systems with generic topologies, a VFI design style is shown to potentially double the yield for both latency-constrained and throughput-constrained applications. Finally, 3D systems are shown to be more heavily affected by process variations than their 2D counterparts, when a 3D-specific macromodel for characterizing design variability is employed.
Continuous technology scaling has enabled the integration of hundreds of processing cores on the same silicon substrate, therefore allowing for the concurrent execution of multiple applications on a chip. In such systems, on-chip power consumption represents one of the main bottlenecks in providing increased performance and enhanced capabilities. Increased power consumption results not only in higher on-die temperature and reduced lifetime reliability, but also leads to faster discharge of battery-powered mobile devices. On-chip power management has therefore become a critical component of every step in the many-core design flow, from physical design all the way up to micro-architecture and system-level design. Our work addresses the challenges of dynamic power management of many-core systems by proposing techniques for maintaining appropriate performance levels for applications running on the system, both in the context of turning on/off cores and using selectively power states, or in the context of using Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) for enabling a certain performance level at a minimum power. Our proposed power management techniques have shown that the use of Voltage Frequency Islands (VFIs) enables fine grain power management for many-core systems, while allowing for both hardware and software-based solutions for power control. Techniques ranging from fully-distributed to fully-centralized control-theoretic or heuristic approaches show that power consumption can be reduced by a factor of 5-10X, with no impact on performance for a wide variety of applications.


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Singer/songwriter Norah Jones has sold 36 million records worldwide, won numerous Grammy awards and is now starring in her first movie, "My Blueberry Nights." She talks about her journey in this week's One on 1 with Budd Mishkin.
You might think that playing in front of sold out audiences or acting for the first time in a major motion picture constitutes pressure.
But not for Norah Jones.
"I played in a marching band competition in the middle of August in 110 degrees with a polyester suit on, now that's difficult. I think about five of us fainted on that show," said Jones.
The working conditions have gotten a lot more comfortable for Jones than they were when she played the saxophone in the high school marching band growing up in Texas.
Her three albums have sold nearly 36 million records worldwide.
But now she is leaving the comfort zone of music to act in her first film, "My Blueberry Nights."
"The first week of the shoot, really the first couple days, I was really freaked out because I thought, ÎWhat did I get myself into? I am the main character in, wait, a movie? I'm a musician, what am I doing here, you know? I don't even like making music videos,'" said Jones.
"My Blueberry Nights" is a movie about heartache and the road and ultimately romance. It opened the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Jones says seeing herself for the first time on the big screen was terrifying.
"It's like hearing yourself on the answering machine, you know, how everybody cringes when they hear themselves," says Jones. "I think what was a harder thing for me than seeing my face big, was to hear my speaking voice, because I'm used to hearing my singing voice."
Another adjustment for Jones? Kissing actor Jude Law.
"I was a little nervous about it, but I also got to just lay there and pretend I was passed out, so I didn't have to make the first move, you know, luckily," said Jones.
Aside from promoting the film, these are relatively quiet days for Jones.
She's off the road, back living here, occasionally playing small clubs with friends and other events in the city, taking a pottery class, enjoying the anonymity of New York.
"I walk down the street, nobody really notices me. I mean, I'm so short people probably don't see me, you know? But, New York is a really good place because nobody really cares in New York, they're doing their own thing," she said.
But a lot of people do care.
Fans and fellow musicians, like those who have done duets with her, including Wyclef Jean, Ray Charles and Dolly Parton. Songwriters have even offered her their songs.
"I'm a huge Tom Waits fan, so I said, ÎHi, nice to meet you Tom Waits, I love you,'" recalled Jones. "And he said, ÎOh did you get the songs I sent you?' And I said, ÎWhat are you talking about, you are Tom Waits!'"
That's what happens when your first album sells 20 million copies.
But at the time, Jones was also introduced to the seamier side of celebrity. In the aftermath of Jones' winning five Grammys in 2003, The Post put the location of her Williamsburg apartment on the front page.
"Oh my God! Yeah. I've tried to block that out of my mind," says Jones. "I remember at the time there was a picture of Saddam Hussein on one side of The Post and me on the other side and at the top it said 'Hunt and Destroy,' you referring to Saddam Hussein, but I was like, ÎOh my God, what is this weird cover?' It's terrifying."
In February 2002, before the release of her first CD, Jones thought she'd hit the peak of her career, opening for Willie Nelson in San Francisco.
"I was such a huge Willie Nelson fan growing up. My mom flew out for the show. She thought, ÎWell, this is going to be it. This is her big moment,'" says Jones.
Little did she know.
Her journey actually started in New York. Jones spent her first years in Greenwich Village, then she and her single mom moved to a town outside Dallas.
Her father, with whom she had little relationship for most of her life, is famed Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar.
"Some people are more natural at playing music than others and I've always felt like I was meant to play music, you know. Maybe that's because my dad is a great musician," said Jones.
The house was filled with music and Jones knew what she liked to play: jazz.
"The idea of improvising appealed to me," she said.
But not classical, for a very simple reason.
"I don't like to practice!" said Jones.
Jones was studying music at North Texas State in 1999 when some New York musicians encouraged her to come north, and a family friend offered a summer sublet in the Village.
"Then halfway through the summer, I thought: ÎOh crap. If I stay, I'm going to have to get a job, and oh crap, I'm going to have to find a place to live that's not a nice, sweet apartment in the West Village,' you know," she recalled.
She started waiting tables, played clubs and got a demo tape to Blue Note Records.
Only a few years later, she was playing to packed houses, garnering tremendous attention. The rise was rapid, the learning curve steep. And there is no course on how to prepare for the transition from unknown, to known around the world.
"I didn't really have anyone to talk to about that, but I kept myself surrounded by good friends who addressed it and you know I was lucky that way," said Jones.
"It just kept getting nuttier and nuttier. I wish I could have enjoyed it more cause most of the things that happened were amazing. I was so stressed out the whole time that I was a little bit, I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have. I wish I had enjoyed it a little more," said Jones.
Jones says she rushed her second album to be done with the pressure of having to follow up the first. She recorded her third album in a studio at home, an intertwining of her personal and professional lives.
But Jones says the events in her personal life don't always dictate how she'll write a song.
"I've also had the complete opposite happen, you know been in a great relationship, write a bunch of breakup songs," said Jones. "Sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to it and sometimes there is."
Jones is promoting "My Blueberry Nights," but the attention now is a far cry from the Grammy winning, SRO crowd, multi-million selling hubbub created by her first album.
Jones says she doesn't reflect much on those hectic days of recent past, perhaps helped in part by the happy ability to create a quiet life in the big city, with her friends and club gigs, pottery class and always, music.
"I went to performing arts high school and there was a big jazz program and we would do gigs," said Jones. "A lot of my teachers made their living doing gigs and teaching some on the side and still making great music and loving music. I didn't doubt that I would be a musician, but I also didn't have a crazy career in my head for what I would do."
— Budd Mishkin
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Hoover, a sixteen day old orphaned Bald Eagle chick, finds a new home!
Hoover was orphaned at just 2 days old when the tree holding his nest fell over. Fortunately, he was not hurt but attempts to reunite him with his parents were unsuccessful.
So, the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Florida took care of him while volunteers looked for a new home. For a successful adoption, they needed to find a nest with eaglets that were about the same age as Hoover. After an extensive search, a suitable home was finally found. Then on President's Day, Hoover was introduced to his new home!
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The Bald Eagle chick was nicknamed Hoover because the eaglet was adopted on President's Day and President Herbert Hoover was also an orphan after his mother and father died.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States says a "vicious" attack on the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital was a failed attempt to breach the compound's walls.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday that the embassy's security upgrades, combined with the response of security officials, stopped attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb.
Officials say sixteen people were killed, including six assailants.
McCormack says no Americans were hurt. He says one U.S. embassy guard from Yemen was killed, along with several Yemeni security officials.
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This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word karakul
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Kar•a•kulˈkær ə kəl(n.)
or car•a•cul
any of an Asian breed of sheep having curly fleece that is black in the young and brown or gray in the adult: raised esp. for lambskins used in the fur industry.
Category: Animal Husbandry
Ref: Compare broadtail, Persian lamb.
Origin of Karakul:
1850–55; after Kara Kul lake on the Pamir plateau, Tajikistan, near where the sheep were bred
Princeton's WordNet
broadtail, caracul, karakul(noun)
hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur
A Central Asian breed of sheep.
A kind of hat.
Karakul or Qaraqul is a breed of domestic sheep which originated in Central Asia. Some archaeological evidence points to Karakul sheep being raised there continuously since 1400 BC. Hailing from the desert regions of Central Asia, Karakul sheep are renowned for their ability to forage and thrive under extremely harsh living conditions. They can survive because of a special quality they have, storing fat in their tails. Karakul are also raised in large numbers in Namibia, having first been brought there by German colonists in the early 20th century.
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Noyes Museum Presents 'The Art of Conflict'
By Christina Migioia
The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton College will showcase a new exhibition called The Art of Conflict starting Friday, Jan. 18, and featuring visual representations of conflict and war. The exhibition will run until April 21, with an opening reception scheduled for Friday, Feb. 8, from 5-8pm, at which time the artists will be in attendance for a meet-and-greet. The featured artists include Rajie Cook, David Keefe, Veru Narula, Rhoda Wall and works from the Combat Paper Project — a New Jersey-based effort that utilizes art-making workshops to assist veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences, as well as "broadening the traditional narrative surrounding service and the military culture." Through the presentation of various elements of warfare, discord and displacement, the exhibition sets out to raise the viewer's awareness of conflict and to promote a greater understanding of it. The Noyes Museum of Art is located at 733 Lily Lake Rd., in Oceanville, Galloway Twp. Museum hours are Mon.-Sat. 10am-4:30pm, Thurs. 10am-8pm, and Sun. noon-5pm. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for students and seniors. For more information call 652-8848 or visit noyesmuseum.org.
Polar Bears Take Plunge in Wildwood
By Casey Harper
The air is brisk and ocean temperatures are around a cool 45 degrees, which can only mean that it is time once again for the annual Wildwoods Polar Bear Plunge. On Saturday, Jan. 19, at 1pm, brave bathers will crowd the beach behind the Wildwoods Convention Center as they prepare to face the winter water's chill. With funds benefiting the Special Olympics of New Jersey, one of the main objectives for the 2013 event is to encourage plungers to participate in teams of 10 or more to promote competitive fundraising. While spectators are invited to come take part in the fun for free, those who wish to make the shivery splash are asked to raise $100 each or $1,000 per teams of ten. Prior to the event, the "Beef and Brrr Benefit for the Plunge" will take place Friday, Jan. 18, at 7pm at the Bolero Resort (3320 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood), where a $20 donation includes a beef buffet, drink specials, live entertainment, and a live auction. Registration is offered online at sonj.org as well as in person the day of the event, with check-in open from 10am-noon inside the Convention Center, where all post-plunge activities will take place including a free lunch for participants. Over 22,000 New Jersey Special Olympians benefit from the Wildwoods Polar Bear Plunge, therefore incentives will be given for raising funds for the athletes, with special recognition given to the participant with the highest amount of money raised. For more information, visit njpolarplunge.org or call 896-8000.
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Gil Scott-Heron
'The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters' (BGP)
In the year or so before he passed away on May 27, 2011, Gil Scott-Heron, the artist who said "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," seemed to be rising like a phoenix from years of legal, drug and health problems.
The year before, England's esteemed XL label (Radiohead, Adele) released his first new album in more than a decade — the triumphant, endearing and widely acclaimed I'm New Here — and his long-awaited book/autobiography was being prepared for publication (The Last Holiday: A Memoir, which would be published posthumously by the U.K.'s Canon Gate Books in January 2012).
Scott-Heron's death left a lot of unanswered questions about the poet/musician/songwriter/author's life — many of which still remain following the release of his book.
Although he was the first artist signed to Clive Davis' Arista label (in 1975), Scott-Heron never had much "mainstream" success. Because he was such an original and his art so unique, he never quite fit into the music business's neatly defined genres and chart-oriented thinking. Thus, he was never quite marketed properly, unable to reach the level of notoriety or amount of listeners he deserved during his lifetime — especially in America.
The amount of Scott-Heron's top-shelf work is staggering. It's downright pathetic that many of his best albums have remained out of print for decades. Albums such as Bridges, 1980, Secrets and Real Eyes (all favorites of Scott-Heron's) have yet to even come out on CD in the States.
(At a May 2010 performance at Philadelphia's intimate Tin Angel — one of his favorite venues to play he said at the time — Scott-Heron was selling CD-R versions of the aforementioned albums.)
But there is hope that some of the late singer-songwriter's best music will be made more accessible in the years to come.
This past Jan. 8, BGP Records released The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters, a three-CD set, collecting all of the surviving recordings the young Scott-Heron made for the Flying Dutchman label in 1971 and 1972.
Along with tracks from his first three albums (Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, Pieces of a Man and Free Will), the exceptional set also collects a rare recording with Pretty Purdie's band and a whole disc featuring an alternative version of 1972's Free Will album.
Also included is a wonderful 56-page booklet featuring many rare early photos, 45 covers and advertisements, as well as detailed liner notes by the set's compiler Dean Rudland.
From astonishing early songs such as "Lady Day and John Coltrane," "Home Is Where the Hatred Is," "Save the Children" and "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," which make an extraordinary entrance on disc one (dubbed "Songs"), to spoken-word tracks such as "Whitey on the Moon," "Billy Green Is Dead" and the original spoken-word version of "The Revolution Will Not …" — the song was re-recorded with a full band for Scott-Heron's second album — on disc two (dubbed "Poetry, Jazz & The Blues"), to the alternative version of Scott-Heron's third album, Free Will, taking up the entire third disc (including two alternate takes of the title track), the new set exposes a young artist just turned 20 and doing something few others were doing at the time.
Namely, what the young Chicago native was doing was asking simple questions about America and making extremely candid statements in a new in-your-face format, first as a poet and author and then as a singer and songwriter.
Questions such as "Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?" and "If we know all we say we know about the problems, why can't we do something to try and solve them?" and "You keep saying' kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it, but did you ever try?" and statements such as "Home is where the needle marks try to heal my broken heart" and "There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mae … trying to slide the color TV into a stolen ambulance" are just a few examples represented in this new set.
Although many revere Scott-Heron as the "Godfather of Rap," especially of the politically charged variety — he even wrote a song ("Message to the Messengers") for his remarkable 1993 album Spirits, offering advice to contemporary rap artists — Scott-Heron's legacy is a great deal more than that.
Although he wrote, sang and even (in concert) joked about injustices at home and abroad, and spent most of his life with the word "revolution" pinned to his lapel by the media, part of that revolution was inside Gil Scott-Heron the man. Like a Bob Dylan or a Prince or a Spike Lee, Scott-Heron was a man constantly changing and evolving, attempting with each new song or album or poem to bring to his art (quite successfully) what Lou Reed called the stuff "between thought and expression." He didn't change for change's sake or for the public or to try and fit in with the latest fad, and he worked at his own pace.
This three-disc set is where Scott-Heron's musical journey began. (He had already written his first published novel, The Vulture, as well as a book of poetry while in the midst of attending Lincoln University.) Hopefully, his revolution in music will continue to be center stage on more great re-issues like this one so that new audiences can discover — and old ones can rediscover — one of the most gifted and marvelous thinkers of our time. — Jeff Schwachter
Plus the Album of the Week, Drew Toonz, and this weekend's Jazz Vespers salute to Art Blakey, featuring Keith Hollis.
"Same way shit happens in [the record business]: you get a letter; you get a call. Someone calls and tells you that somebody's been looking for you. I got a letter from him out there and he wanted to sit down with me and that's the way shit happens. He said he wanted to meet up and that's where I was so there was no chance of us meeting up any place else!"
Plans were in the works to try to get Scott-Heron to perform in Atlantic City this summer, for one of the city=sponsored concerts at Gardner's Basin. I also suggested to the organizers of the Dave Matthews Band Caravan festival coming to Atlantic City June 24-26, to reach out to Gil to have him as one of the dozens of artists on the bill.
On Gil Scott-Heron's first new studio album in 16 years, I'm New Here, out Tuesday on XL Recordings (Radiohead, White Stripes), the rust-voiced revolutionary sounds as vital as ever. He's been recording the haunting album—a mix of spooky futuristic blues; strange, drenched-in-synths soundscapes, poignant odes to his family and a few extraordinary covers—for the past few years with XL Recordings head Richard Russell, who first met Scott-Heron in 2006 when he visited him at Rikers, where he was serving 90 days for DUI.
Wheels have been in motion for quite a while regarding Atlantic City's vision of creating an arts district, and a stronger presence in town for such cultured pursuits as painting and sculpture, theater and dancing, classical music and more.
This is a message that the American artist, Seth Camm, has taken to heart, but for him he's found his start at the easel. This wasn't an easy journey for Camm; it took him a nervous breakdown to achieve the compassion he now has for the plight of the homeless.
A special presentation from ArtC — an organization dedicated to promoting the arts in southern New Jersey — in partnership with the Noyes Museum of Art and Stockton College, Photo SJ 2012 will showcase two of the world's most accomplished and respected professional photographers: John Russo and Seth Resnick.
Like that branch of the federal government that allows neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night nor deluge of holidays packages to stand in its way, a proud community tradition, the Brigantine Polar Bear Plunge, will continue in the face of adversity on New Year's Day.
Oh Yes, It's Ladies Night
Chrome-wheeled, Fuel-injected
Cool Vibes at Stockton
Italian Fest Excitement in A.C. and Philly
Rocking the Season
A Run to Remember
Bay-Atlantic Symphony's Broadway A-to-Z
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the efforts by the executive branch to determine national security risks associated with exports of high performance computers (HPC).
GAO noted that: (1) the executive branch has identified high performance computing as having applications in such national defense areas as nuclear weapons programs, cryptology, conventional weapons, and military operations; (2) however, except for nuclear weapons, the executive branch has not identified how and at what performance levels specific countries of concern may use HPCs for national defense applications--an important factor in assessing risks of HPC sales; (3) a Department of Energy study on nuclear weapons was completed in June 1998; (4) the study shows that nuclear weapons programs in tier 3 countries (which pose some national security and nuclear proliferation risks to the United States), especially those of China, India, and Pakistan, could benefit from the acquisition of HPC capabilities; (5) the executive branch has only recently begun to identify how specific countries of concern would use HPCs for nonnuclear national defense applications; (6) to date, a Department of Defense study on this matter begun in early 1998 is not completed; (7) with regard to foreign availability of HPCs, GAO found that subsidiaries of U.S. computer manufacturers dominate the overseas HPC market and they must comply with U.S. controls; (8) three Japanese companies are global competitors of U.S. manufacturers, two of which told GAO that they had no sales to tier 3 countries; (9) the third company did not provide data on such sales in a format that was usable for GAO's analysis; (10) two of the Japanese companies primarily compete with U.S. manufacturers for sales of high-end HPCs at about 20,000 millions of theoretical operations per second (MTOPS) and above; (11) two other manufacturers, one in Germany and one in the United Kingdom, also compete with U.S. HPC suppliers, but primarily within Europe; (12) only the German company has sold HPCs to tier 3 countries; (13) Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom each have export controls on HPCs similar to those of the United States, according to foreign government officials; (14) because there is limited competition from foreign HPC manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers reported no lost sales to foreign competition in tier 3 countries, GAO concluded that foreign suppliers of HPCs had no impact on sales by U.S. exporters; (15) in addition, Russia, China, and India have developed HPCs, but the capabilities of their HPCs are believed to be limited; (16) thus, GAO's analysis suggests that HPCs over 2,000 MTOPS are not available to tier 3 countries without restriction from foreign sources.
Nov 18, 2014
Human Trafficking:Oversight of Contractors' Use of Foreign Workers in High-Risk Environments Needs to Be StrengthenedGAO-15-102: Published: Nov 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2014.
Nov 13, 2014
Free Trade Agreements:Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Should Continue to Improve Its Monitoring of Environmental CommitmentsGAO-15-161: Published: Nov 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
Free Trade Agreements:U.S. Partners Are Addressing Labor Commitments, but More Monitoring and Enforcement Are NeededGAO-15-160: Published: Nov 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
Oct 21, 2014
Combating Terrorism:Strategy to Counter Iran in the Western Hemisphere Has Gaps That State Department Should AddressGAO-14-834: Published: Sep 29, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 21, 2014.
Sep 24, 2014
International Labor Grants:DOL's Use of Financial and Performance Monitoring Tools Needs to Be StrengthenedGAO-14-832: Published: Sep 24, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 24, 2014.
Sep 10, 2014
Foreign Assistance:USAID Should Update Its Trade Capacity Building StrategyGAO-14-602: Published: Aug 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2014.
Sep 9, 2014
Export-Import Bank:Enhancements Needed in Loan Guarantee Underwriting Procedures and for Documenting Fraud ProcessesGAO-14-574: Published: Sep 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2014.
Aug 28, 2014
Export-Import Bank:Monitoring of Dual-Use Exports Should Be ImprovedGAO-14-719: Published: Aug 28, 2014. Publicly Released: Aug 28, 2014.
Jul 24, 2014
Democracy Assistance:Lessons Learned from Egypt Should Inform Future U.S. PlansGAO-14-799: Published: Jul 24, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 24, 2014.
Democracy Assistance:Lessons Learned from Egypt Should Inform Future U.S. PlansGAO-14-793T: Published: Jul 24, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 24, 2014.
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ART WOLFF, whose career Norman Lear has called "remarkable", is one of America's most innovative producer-directors. For television, he has directed fifteen pilots including Seinfeld and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, numerous episodes of Emmy award winners The Tracey Ullman Show, Dream On, and The Wonder Years, plus Grace Under Fire, The Paula Poundstone Show, Dear John, The Powers That Be, Grand, It's Gary Schandling's Show, and TV movies starring Debbie Reynolds, Ronne Blakely, Suzanne Pleshette and Courtney Cox.
He's a recipient of Cable ACE awards for the comedy specials, The Kathy and Mo Show and Garrison Keillor's The Prairie Home Companion. In a field where it is easy to be pigeonholed, Wolff has done a wide variety of productions. As a Documentary maker he produced and directed The Jason Project with noted oceanographer Bob Ballard, for National Geographic, The Philadelphia Orchestra: In Rehearsal for PBS and Artists in America, for which he received a Ford Foundation grant.
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(CBS) -- Mitt Romney said on Tuesday that he has no plans for abortion legislation if elected president, a statement that is more moderate than ones he's made on the issue in the past.
"There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda," Romney told the Des Moines Register editorial board.
In an interview with an Ohio TV station during the heat of the Republican primary in February, Romney said he was "in favor of a pro-life policy." He noted that "the legislation that relates to abortion is something which is going to have to be approved by the Supreme Court," a body to which he would appoint nominees to fill any vacancies if he is elected.
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Never Follow Suit is a great little boutique along Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar with quirky, up-and-coming fashion designs. The clothes in this concept store are divided into two sections: men- and womenswear and it's a great place to let your funky inner child loose. You can find some pretty trendy designs here ranging from re-embellished vintage collections and original designs, to basics like polo shirts.
All clothes found in the store are chosen, designed or embellished by its style-setting owners (stylists Calvin Cheong and Victor Goh, hairstylist David Shaw and designer Joe Chia). If you are having trouble putting together an outfit, one of them is sure to offer style ideas – it is a personal touch that makes you feel great when you walk out of the store, carrying bags of clothes.
One of the things that make the store stand out is the fact that most of the other boutiques along this stretch mainly supply clothes for women but Never Follow Suit has an equal amount of men's and womenswear collections. This has made it popular with the fashion-conscious urban KL male and helped the store make its mark on the city's shopping scene.
We particularly like the women's denim collection, some of which have quirky patches, beadwork and sequins in girly patterns. Another major selling point for the store is that clothes are very reasonably-priced – we found a coral skirt and silk tank combo for just RM148 and a khaki bomber jacket for RM299.
The store instantly catches your eye. From the outside, the décor is very retro-cool with buffed concrete floors, colourfully-upholstered chairs, wooden cabinets with old magazines stacked up high beside, triangular-shaped tables, tufted carpets, pendant lights hanging from the ceiling and large black-and-white photos on the walls.
The store has an 'open' concept with no display windows or doors (shutters are used to close the shop down at night) so it looks really spacious the instant you walk in and has a very friendly feel to it. Clothes racks are placed around cosy sitting areas where you can rest your feet for a while or sit down to try on shoes; 80s tunes play on an old vinyl record player while you shop.
The clothes at Never Follow Suit are divided into three sections: vintage, minimalism and urban. When you first enter the store there is the cheerful collection of vintage (50s- to the 80s-style) tops, skirts, dresses – check out the bras hanging from the ceiling, acting as decoration. Then there is a minimalism section with white couches and billowing white curtains – here you will find racks with little black dresses and clothes in monochromatic colours. The urban section of the store has trendy clothes in strong colours, plus this area has fashion accessories (shoes and purses), as well as furniture and knick knacks like throw rugs and harmoniums for sale.
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We are pleased to offer you a presentation prepared by Omar Itcovici, Deloitte CIS Partner, for a workshop organized by the Moscow section of the SPE* (Society of Petroleum Engineers) on 14 April 2009.
The presentation focuses upon the importance of systematized accounting for hydrocarbon extraction. This process is directly related to the rational use of natural resources and enables to solve the urgent issue of exhaustion of hydrocarbon fuels to a great extent.
Today the majority of Russian companies do not have a single set of tools that could cover all the elements of the value chain (from lifting liquid to selling oil products), process reliable information, be regulated by statutory standards and be applied not only to the extraction of oil, but also to associated gas and water.
The following key practical tasks facing operators remain unresolved:
- Production loss management and prevention (monitoring of production shortages due to well downtime)
- Use of the most reliable production data for the exploration of well reservoirs
- Preparation of corporate and statutory reports
International experience demonstrates that in order to ensure comprehensive control over production, oil and gas companies need to develop a target operating model, based on the best practices for the management of their production processes, and then to implement an integrated system of accounting for carbohydrate production.
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My global vision is create a world where children to grow up healthy, happy and loved. Time and again, I have observed in myself and in others how much our childhood affects who we are, what we do and how we behave as adults. Healthy, happy and loved children tend to become healthy, happy and loving adults. And yet there are so many factors that affect childhood that what to do about the many problems children face can be downright overwhelming!
After much time of spinning my wheels, I finally concluded that the best option is to start exactly where we're at, simply doing what we can with what we have.
For me, this has meant making loving and caring for my immediate and extended family a priority as well as starting a volunteer-run arts and education organization, Aver School, to teach digital media skills to at-risk children and youth who are for the most part facing life on their own.
The ability to communicate my vision clearly, efficiently and persuasively is essential. Being a VOF Correspondent would help build these skills and most importantly help me to connect with women all over the world who share the vision and desire more than anything that children have a bright future.
Ignorance is often a breeding round for abuse. Education and access to information enlightens and empowers. I have a practical solution for empowering children and the commitment to seeing it reach its highest potential. It matters not that the challenges and obstacles are many. I will see this through.
My personal vision is to be a leader in my family, my community and the world. Change has to start from the inside out. Too many women and children are suffering needlessly in the world so I'm stepping up my game. It is time to turn up the volume on my voice and my efforts, to transform the energy of fear into life-affirming change. It's time to join forces with my sisters, World Pulse women who are taking a stand, reaching deep into the wells of courage the lie within.
It's time that our voices be heard. Acknowledged. Acted on.
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Your concepts of starting from where one currently is and moving in a logical direction really speak to me! Continue realizing your dreams!
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Truthfully, I haven't thought of anything I'd like to write about yet! I'm in the midst of my final year at university and it seems to be sapping away all the intellectual power I have! I'm really encouraged by your work though!
You are so right, ignorance plays a major role in what we accept in our lives, many times even abuse. Ignorance of our worth and of our rights.
I like the way you write, almost poetic.
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The game dropped ASU to 22-30 with a 10-16 league mark. FIU won its 15th straight contest moving to 35-16 with an 18-8 league mark.
FIU scored three unearned runs in the first inning on an RBI single by Rudy Flores, a sac fly by Mike Martinez and a bunt single by Jabari Henry.
The Golden Panthers scored again in the fourth when Behar grounded out to ASU starter Brad Allen which plated Henry.
Junior first baseman Daniel Short got ASU on the board in the seventh inning when he sent the first pitch of the frame over the left field fence for a solo home run to move ASU within three runs of FIU, 4-1. It was the first home run as a Red Wolf for Short and the only run scored for A-State.
FIU scored a pair of insurance runs in the eighth on a two-run home run from Martinez to take the final 6-1 lead.
"The game was played in the first inning; we couldn't score with a runner at third with nobody out and they scored three with an error so essentially it was a four run swing and the game was played early," said ASU head coach Tommy Raffo.
Senior starting pitcher Brad Allen threw 5.0 innings with two strikeouts giving up just one earned run on five hits.
FIU outhit the Red Wolves 9-6 while ASU committed just one error while the Golden Panthers were perfect in the field.
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