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Mining heavyweights say boom isn't over
PUBLISHED: 23 Aug 2012 14:10:00 | UPDATED: 25 Aug 2012 00:21:57PRINT EDITION: 23 Aug 2012Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese. Photo: Reuters
Ayesha de Kretser, Adam Rollason and Alyssa McDonald
Wednesday's news that BHP Billiton has shelved its $US20 billion Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine expansion couldn't have provided a more appropriate backdrop for the gathering of resources industry luminaries in Perth on Thursday to discuss the outlook for the mining and energy sectors.
Ditto Labor Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's Thursday morning call that the "resources boom is over".
On stage at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre were Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese, Fortescue Metals Group chairman Andrew Forrest, Chevron Australia managing director Roy Krzywosinski, Business Council of Australia president Tony Shepherd and Orica managing director Ian Smith.
4:30pm: That's the end of the third Future Forum and our live blog – thanks for joining us.
4:25pm: And on that note, Chessell hands over to Macquarie Group's Mark Barnaba to close. He says Chessell can afford to lose his job at the AFR and take up one as a moderator.
Barnaba also thanks his Macquarie colleagues for their contribution to the event as co-sponsors.
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4:24pm: Krzywosinksi says Chevron leaders are getting more involved in politics because of their concerns about what they are seeing, while Twiggy says we need to set a better example now if we want more youth interest in politics. If we start steering the country again based on what's best for the country, we will see good leaders coming through again.
4:21pm: Albanese turns to the future: Over the next ten years at least we'll see slowly growing steel production that will support our expansion to 353 million tonnes per annum, or much higher than 353 million. We'll be well positioned to add increments for 20 years or longer. We've got well over 20 years, I think well over 100 years.
4:16pm: Will delaying the Olympic Dam project have a negative impact on the industry more broadly? Krzywosinski says if we can't get brownfields expansions up and running, things don't look good for greenfields. He's calling again for investment certainty.
4:15pm: A question from the floor from a Kenyan, who wants to know if governments will support investments in African countries. Smith says you'll see that infrastructure moving in over the next ten years.
Albanese says it's one thing if you're producing diamonds or gold, but in bulk the difficult funding environment means you have to create partnerships. "We also have to get some kind of return as we drive these developments further."
4:11pm: Krzywosinski says Chevron's goal is always to hire Australians first. Albanese says the challenge is convincing families to move to where jobs are, to create a stable workforce.
What was perceived by everyone as a stable fiscal regime is now seen as unstable, he says, and he has no doubt capital will move offshore as a result.
4:10pm: On Indigenous employment, Twiggy applauds Rio Tinto's approach, which recognised that welfare does not work.
Albanese responds: My predecessor Leon Davis took a brave decision in recognising that there were Indigenous land rights in the 1990s. "It's not just giving them jobs, it's actually recognising the fact we have to handle all parts of employment differently."
Photo: Lee Besford
As for the Business Council of Australia, Tony Shepherd says 70 per cent of members have Indigenous programs running.
4:07pm: The conversation turns to ... pie. Smith says economic conversations with the Hawke government were always about how to grow the pie. Now the discussion is all about how to divide the pie, he says.
4:05pm: What's key for projects? Albanese says it's not just money, it's also time: "Time can actually be more important than money because if you miss the cycle, as we're seeing projects don't go ahead."
4:02pm:Krzywosinski says Angola, as an example, knows it needs a fiscal policy that encourages investment. He agrees with Albanese that some African countries aren't stable – but points out many others are very strong on this front.
3:57pm: More from Albanese: 20 years ago people would have said Brazil would never be a major competitor in iron ore.
3:54pm: Regarding Rinehart's statements that Australia is too complacent about Africa, Ian Smith says the amount of activity there is huge and Australia really needs to be aware that there is a truly growing threat from the continent.
Andrew Forrest says the Australian government is really encouraging Africa to become a major competitor, and he applauds that, while Tom Albanese says Africa shouldn't be seen just as a competitor or as bad news for Australia, because the Australian mining sector is so prominent there.
3:50pm:We're back from lunch with a panel and talk turns to Africa. Meanwhile, Chessell jokes that he's contractually obliged to mention Fairfax shareholder and iron ore billionaire Gina Rinehart.
3:33pm: And now we're breaking for lunch. Chicken or beef? It's Perth's culinary prowess on display.
3:27pm: Shepherd is asked his views on the tax system: You need to make sure that your fundamental fiscal plan doesn't rely on the boom. We need a tax system which encourages investment, motivates companies to invest and also ensures that the states have the right supply.
Shepherd is also chairman of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL team. What's it like trying to push AFL in rugby league heartland? "It is the hardest job, it makes BCA look easy."
3:25pm: Chessell welcomes Business Council of Australia chief Tony Shepherd and wants to know if he agrees with Martin Ferguson that we've done well out of the boom.
Tony says he doesn't agree entirely with the view that the boom has ended. "There will be corrections along the way but I don't believe the boom is over."
Photo: Tony McDonough/AAP
He says keeping investment growing will be a big challenge, which will need the business council, unions and the government to work together. It's not just labour that contributes to business costs, he says - Australia needs infrastructure and project management and skills training, as well as more flexibility in industrial relations.
"We are a high-cost country and we have low productivity and that is unsustainable," he explains. "We're not talking about less pay for more work, we're just saying we need a better relationship."
3:23pm: The days where Australia's proximity was a major advantage in dealing with China are gone – we have to be a friend to keep the relationship strong. China does not see Australia encouraging a relationship between the two countries.
3:19pm: What does Forrest think about the national conversation? He says disagreeing with the Treasurer Wayne Swan shouldn't stop the conversation, because frankly there's plenty to disagree about. "He can speak through levitating Bruce Springsteen as much as he likes. It doesn't do much for the economy."
3:16pm: China's vice president has described China as feeling its way, Twiggy says. Australia has an enormous amount of capital, and where there isn't enough investment going into the industry we have to make it ourselves. Has Tony Abbott damaged our relationship with China? Not as much as not being represented at the Boao Forum has damaged it, he believes.
3:14pm: Back to the boom. Fortescue Metals Group's Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest isn't convinced it's over. It's just changed.
3:10pm: The tough interview continues, with questions about the environmental performance at Kooragang Island. Smith says the calculations around how much hexavalent chromium was let out was incorrect by a factor of ten. Orica has reorganised its business since the disaster and restored relations to a level where the government has now provided approvals to expand production.
3:08pm: Chessell asks whether the market needs Orica's $700m ammonium nitrate plant. "We are extremely confident" that by the time the plant is commissioned, the amount of iron ore coming out of Australia would exceed 800 million tonnes, Smith replies.
3:05pm: And a few home truths... Smith says he was on his way to non-executive director land but his wife "for some reason" didn't mind when he presented the idea of him taking on another role as CEO. "I was happy and I think my wife was even happier". He also says being on the other side he now realises he should have been far more generous to his suppliers!
Photo: Nic Walker
3:02pm: Orica managing director Ian Smith starts with a quip. "We're in explosives, so you shouldn't use the word "boom".
3:00pm: What we're seeing in terms of productivity is that it takes three or four times longer to load a vessel in Australia than in other parts of the world.
2:56pm: Chessell gets straight to the guts of Chevron's Gorgon project; he wants examples of the challenges around costs and industrial relations. Krzywosinski tells how important the Gorgon project is for both Chevron and Australia's status as a major LNG exporter. "We are generating tens of thousands of jobs, we're growing local content," he says. But he reconciles this with the broader international context of cost competitiveness.
Photo: Ross Swanborough
2:53pm: Next up is Chevron's managing director Roy Krzywosinski, who has clearly had an international past, working all around the world. He thanks Albanese for making him "feel like a dinosaur".
2:52pm: And Albanese's love of all things nerdy in mining is outed. He warns technology in the industry hasn't evolved quickly enough because of a reticence to disrupt major operations already under way.
2:50pm:Albanese wishes Chessell had given him the opportunity to comment on BHP, with the team at Rio obviously pleased it will fill the gap in the market left by BHP's postponed Outer Harbour development at Port Hedland.
2:47pm: Is the boom over? The Rio Tinto CEO would never have said there was a boom in the first place, and his long-term view hasn't changed.
2:45pm: Albanese says what's important is not just the business between Australia and China but what's happening in Europe – everyone's watching for a Lehman Bros type "accident" and the effect it might have on the economy.
2:42pm: Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese is on stage.
2:40pm: The AFR's Editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury has a different view to the minister. He says rather than being over, the mining boom is "moving into a third phase".
2:35pm: And it has started. AFR Deputy editor James Chessell welcomes delegates and thanks Martin Ferguson for "getting the ball rolling" by warning that the resources boom is over.
2:10pm: Forum is about to get under way. For all those who want to join in on Twitter, you can use the hashtag #futureforum.
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This article was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 April 2014.
Following last week's resignation of Barry O'Farrell and the appointment of Mike Baird as premier, it is now time to get back to the key criminal justice issue in NSW: the prevention of alcohol-fuelled violence.
This article was first published on The Age website on 27 June 2014.
Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark has called time of death for the offence of defensive homicide. The government's bill, which was introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, represents a significant step forward in ensuring just responses to lethal violence in the Victorian criminal justice system.
This article was first published on The Conversation on 26 June 2014.
Victorian attorney-general Robert Clark today introduced a bill into parliament that repeals the offence of defensive homicide. The bill signifies a significant step forward in ensuring just responses to lethal violence in the state's criminal court system.
While reforming homicide law has been a long process, the bill introduced today is a significant step forward for Victoria.
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Half of all Australians will experience a legal problem this year. Most won't get legal assistance or come into contact with our courts or other legal institutions. In part, this is because Australia's legal system is "too slow, expensive and hard to understand".
This was a key finding of the Productivity Commission's draft report of its inquiry into access to justice, released this week.
The 891-page report seeks feedback on a number of findings and recommendations to improve access to justice. But why are they needed? And are the recommendations practical?
On Friday, Yassir Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court to a maximum term of 12 years imprisonment, with a non-parole period of nine years, for the manslaughter of his wife, Mariam Henery Yousif. Hassan's case is a stark reminder of the injustices caused by the partial defence of provocation, which continues to reduce what would otherwise be murder to manslaughter in New South Wales,
Hassan, aged 56 years old at the time of sentencing, killed his 24-year-old wife in a 'frenzied' knife attack that occurred on a background of over two years of disharmony in the marriage. While the specific cause of the marriage deterioration was not clear, on sentence the judge noted multiple contributing factors including their significant age difference, cultural differences and disagreements over parenting discipline style.
Short of a bureaucratic snafu, which is always possible, Australian convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will be released on parole from Indonesia's Kerobokan prison within days. She's breaking new ground.
Parole is relatively uncommon in Indonesia, primarily because parolees have to be accepted back into the community in which they intend to reside. Many communities have been unwilling to accept convicted criminals, but Corby's sister Mercedes and Balinese brother-in-law, Wayan Widyartha, appear to have secured support from their local community in central Kuta.
Indonesian Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin has said Corby will not receive any special consideration for or against as he considers some 1700 applications for parole over the next few days. She will, he says, be treated as would any other prisoner.
Corby has refused to acknowledge guilt over smuggling marijuana into Indonesia, which has been a significant factor in ensuring that she did not have her prison sentence fully commuted. However, this should not be a factor in whether or not she is paroled.
This is a positive sign for Corby, as there have been cases in the past where judicial decisions have been influenced by political considerations. Clearly, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono does not consider Corby's potential parole as a political issue, although he is attempting to put forward a candidate in this year's presidential election in July, and despite the damaged state of Australia-Indonesia relations.
It shows, too, that the Indonesian judicial process is, or appears to be, operating in a straight and transparent manner, at least at the top. This has sometimes not been the case in the past.
As for Corby, assuming all goes according to plan, she will live with her sister and brother-in-law. She will be free to stay elsewhere in Indonesia, so long as she informs the local police of her intended whereabouts.
The catch, such as it is, is that she cannot leave Indonesia until her sentence is completed in 2016. She must also stay in Indonesia for a further year to assure Indonesian authorities that her parole has proven she is of reformed character.
On the scale of hardships, however, and especially after eight years in an Indonesian prison, living in Bali for the next three years should be relatively comfortable. This will be especially so if she is able to moderate any comments she might make to an enthusiastic media. Getting the local community offside with injudicious observations would be the last thing she would want over the coming months and years.
Perhaps the biggest adjustment that Corby will have to make is simply that of coming to terms with her prison experience. There have been indications, at different times, that she has been psychologically troubled by the experience.
More positively, that time will have ensured that Corby is at least familiar with the wider cultural mores of Indonesia generally and of Bali in particular. One would expect, too, after such time, she would have learned some Indonesian, which, although far from necessary in much of Bali, is always more rather than less helpful.
After her experience in prison, Corby's next biggest challenge will be how she handles intense media attention. If she is able to secure a financially lucrative media deal, such as for an exclusive interview, she would be wise to be discreet about being rewarded, in effect, for her conviction for breaking the law.
Beyond that, we should not read into this parole any potential leniency for the so-called Bali Nine. They are still in very deep trouble.
There we were, sitting in a crowded room of a two-storey stone building dating back to when Bridgetown, Barbados, was a buccaneer and slaving settlement. Convicted Great Train Robber, escapee, Australian and Brazilian resident and Sex Pistols associate Ronald Biggs was sitting, handcuffed but smiling and happily relaxed in the dock, his theatrical local barrister resplendent in a tunic with red leg stripes, arguing his case.
That was April 1981. The air was soft, the water clear and, they say, the spliff was excellent.
Biggs had been recently kidnapped from Brazil by English bounty hunter mercenaries. Their boat had mechanical problems and they were rescued off Barbados, bringing into question the legal status of their involuntary shipmate.
I was a 25-year-old reporter, sent to cover the trial by a significant Australian newspaper, by way of inducement to leave El Salvador's horrible and increasingly personalised civil war. Biggs was eminently sociable and ensured that he made eye contact with the media scrum on the benches. In the first stage of post-traumatic stress disorder, I nodded back.
Much of Bridgetown had been built by the British in the 17th century, after expelling the Spanish and Portuguese who had been there some 200 years previously. Apart from an airport, a requisite four star hotel and reggae, there was a sense that little had changed.
Biggs was by far the biggest thing that had happened to Barbados in a very long time. There were British tourists, jetting in and out. But it was otherwise "dreadlock holiday".
The British media was there, Biggs' criminal notoriety having been given a further boost by his musically questionable appearance with remnant Sex Pistols on their video The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. For a person who could not legally work in Brazil, he had traded socially for years on his reputation as a famous criminal, receiving small gifts from visitors to attend his Rio barbecues.
Ronald Biggs was one of the Great Train Robbers, who hoisted an estimated 2.6 million pounds (a significant fortune now) from the Glasgow-to-London mail train in 1963. Though no one was killed, the train driver, Jack Mills, was beaten so severely his injuries ended his working life.
Of the 13 convicted participants in the crime, Biggs was a minor player. However, the trial itself was a media sensation, and Biggs gained notoriety by getting over the walls of Wandsworth Prison in 1965 and escaping with his wife, Charmian, and two sons to Brussels, Paris and then Australia.
Biggs arrived in Sydney in 1966 and soon moved to Glenelg, in Adelaide, where he was joined by his wife and sons. The following year, and with a new child, they moved to Melbourne.
In 1969, it had become increasingly obvious that the infamous Ronald Biggs was in Melbourne. He was all across the local news. So he fled by ship to Panama, and then to Brazil where, by fathering a Brazilian child, he fought off extradition appeals by the UK government.
While living in Rio, Biggs became a local celebrity. One could buy T-shirts and coffee cups with his image. The remnant Sex Pistols teamed up for a quick punk recording of No One Is Innocent and Belsen Was A Gas, which made #7 on the UK charts.
In 1981, Biggs was kidnapped by ex-UK soldiers. But Barbados, small, only independent since 1966 and without many legal structures, had no extradition treaty with the UK. Biggs was returned to Brazil.
Biggs dragged out the rest of his minor celebrity with other punk bands and generous tourists, but chose to return to the UK in 2001. He was immediately returned to prison, but sought release on the basis of poor health. He was released in 2009, having served a third of his original sentence.
Biggs' health continued to be poor, and he suffered a series of strokes. Free from prison, he said he just wanted to see Christmas of 2009.
Ronald Biggs, 84, has fallen just short of seeing Christmas 2013.


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Hadoop World NYC
Posted: October 3, 2009 | Author: hilary | Filed under: academics, blog | Tags: conference, data analysis, hadoop | 9 Comments »Yesterday, I attended the first Hadoop World NYC conference. Hadoop is a platform for scalable distributed computing. In essence, it makes analyzing large quantities of data much faster, and analyzing very large quantities of data possible.
Cloudera did a great job organizing the conference, and managed to assemble a diverse set of speakers. The sessions covered everything from academic research to fraud detection to bioinformatics and even helping people fall in love (eHarmony uses Hadoop)!
I'm not going to review every session, but I saw several themes emerging from the content and conversations.
Hadoop is Getting Easier
New integrated UIs like Cloudera Desktop and Karmasphere mean that developers will no longer be required to use a command-line interface to configure and execute Hadoop jobs. IBM's M2 project hides Hadoop behind a spreadsheet metaphor, making the collection, analysis and visualization of data as easy as using Excel.
This doesn't just speed up development time, it puts the tools for manipulating the data directly in the hands of the people who need the results, without requiring them to talk to a database programmer.
Hadoop is a Utility
The only organizations that talked about building their own Hadoop clusters are those who deal with very sensitive data (VISA) and those who deal with very very large quantities of data (Yahoo, Facebook, eBay). Organizations with more manageable data sets, such as eHarmony and the New York Times, use EC2 and Amazon's Elastic Map-Reduce. Amazon, Rackspace, and Softlayer have offerings in this area and were all event sponsors.
Yes, you can turn on a cluster of nodes from your living room in your PJs!
Hadoop Can Talk to Your Existing Systems
Hadoop has an ecosystem of supporting products that allow organizations to adapt their existing infrastructure. Cloudera's Sqoop (which is just fun to say out loud) is a tool for importing data from SQL databases, HBase is a Hadoop database, and Pig lets you talk to the system in a SQL-like language.
I expect we'll see more information available in the near future to clarify which systems are more appropriate for which kinds of users (an ecosystem decision tree?).
Hadoop is Changing Things
I heard the phrase "an order of magnitude improvement in speed" so many times that I lost count. Speaking from personal experience, the difference you see in productivity between waiting minutes and hours for results and waiting days is immense. When you can see the answer to a question shortly after you ask it you can preserve the context you need to act on that answer immediately without having to spend the time to figure out why you were asking that question in the first place.
Most of the projects were doing fairly simple analysis over data like web user sessions or transactions. I was intrigued by Deepak Singh's talk on bioinformatics and genome sequencing (slides) and Jake Hofman's talk on social network analysis (slides). More and more massive datasets are becoming available and will drive techniques for new analysis. I do wish there had been a talk about Mahout, which is a very promising approach to developing machine learning algorithms on the Hadoop platform.
I left the event more excited about the technology and very enthusiastic about the community. Thanks for a great day!
Update: A few other people have written up their notes and impressions from the event:
- Stephen O'grady posted The View from HadoopWorld
- Deepak Singh's Post-HadoopWorld Thoughts
- HubSpot Dev Blog has two write-ups, by Dan and Steve
- Atbrox has notes from the morning session and the application session
- Alexander Sicular's Are You New to Hadoop? Settle in…
- Pete Skomoroch posted his slides and thoughts
My NYC Python Meetup Presentation: Practical Data Analysis in Python
Posted: August 12, 2009 | Author: hilary | Filed under: blog | Tags: data, data analysis, nltk, presentations, python, spam, twitter | Leave a comment »I gave a talk at the NYC Python Meetup on July 29 on Practical Data Analysis in Python.
I tend to use my slides for visual representations of the concepts I'm discussing, so there's a lot of content that was in the presentation that you unfortunately won't see here.
The talk starts with the immense opportunities for knowledge derived from data. I spent some time showing data systems 'in the wild' along with the appropriate algorithmic vocabulary (for example, amazon.com's 'books you might like' feature is a recommender system).
Once we can describe the problems properly, we can look for tools, and Python has many! Finally, in the fun part of the presentation, I demoed working code that uses NLTK to build a Twitter spam filter with 90% accuracy*.
Please let me know if you have questions or comments.
* I'll post the code and training data shortly


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No jab, no education: New CA law requires middle schoolers to provide proof of Tdap vaccination in order to receive education
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May 3, 2012
A new amendment to California's Health and Safety Code as it relates to vaccinations will take effect this fall for the 2012-2013 school year, and will require all incoming seventh graders, as well as eighth and twelfth graders for the first year, to get a Tdap booster vaccination for pertussis (whooping cough) before being admitted to school. The website of the Marin County School District, which includes the city of San Francisco, literally states "No shot, No School!" in an apparent attempt to strong-arm parents into complying with the new provision.
Even though students in California can be exempted from any and all vaccinations for medical or personal reasons, most parents are largely unaware of this fact. And because of the 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California, many parents will likely just comply with the new Tdap requirement simply out of fear that their child could be the next victim of the disease, even though the Tdap vaccine itself has been shown to be ineffective at protecting against whooping cough (http://www.naturalnews.com [2]).
Unless parents specifically request a Personal Belief Exemption Form (PBEF) from their local health department's Immunization Program, their school-age children are required to get whatever vaccinations the State Department of Public Health decides is necessary from year to year. And those wishing to opt out of the new Tdap requirement will need to specifically request a CDPH 8261 form from the school (http://vaclib.org/exempt/states/ca/FAQ-CDPH8261.htm [3]).
The interesting thing about DTaP, Tdap, and other pertussis vaccines is that they have never been tested for long-term safety, and they have never been proven to work. In fact, as we reported previously, the majority of the children who developed whooping cough during the 2010 scare had already been vaccinated against the disease. It was also revealed openly that pertussis vaccinations do not provide "lasting protection" against the disease.
Every California parent has a right to know the truth about Tdap and DTaP, not to mention the many other vaccines they are told their children are required to receive upon entering school for their own safety. They also have a right to know that they can exempt their children from such vaccines for medical or personal reasons. Sadly, most of them know neither, which is why it is crucially important to spread this information far and wide.
To learn more about vaccines, visit:
http://vactruth.com/ [4]
http://www.vaclib.org/ [5]
http://sanevax.org/ [6]
Sources for this article include:
http://shotsforschool.org/tdaplaw.html [7]
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HH/main/campus/tdap.cfm [8]
http://www.naturalnews.com [2]
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[1] Natural News: http://www.naturalnews.com/035756_schoolchildren_vaccination_education.html
[2] http://www.naturalnews.com: http://www.naturalnews.com/035466_whooping_cough_vaccines_outbreaks.html
[3] http://vaclib.org/exempt/states/ca/FAQ-CDPH8261.htm: http://vaclib.org/exempt/states/ca/FAQ-CDPH8261.htm
[4] http://vactruth.com/: http://vactruth.com/
[5] http://www.vaclib.org/: http://www.vaclib.org/
[6] http://sanevax.org/: http://sanevax.org/
[7] http://shotsforschool.org/tdaplaw.html: http://shotsforschool.org/tdaplaw.html
[8] http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HH/main/campus/tdap.cfm: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HH/main/campus/tdap.cfm
[9] http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/california.htm: http://www.vaclib.org/exempt/california.htm
[10] http://www.cdph.ca.gov: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Pages/CaliforniaLocalHealthDepartments.aspx
[11] Hospitals Push Tdap Vaccine On New Mothers: http://www.prisonplanet.com/hospitals-push-tdap-vaccine-on-new-mothers.html
[12] Vaccinated Children Develop the Disease Vaccinated Against: http://www.prisonplanet.com/vaccinated-children-develope-the-disease-vaccinated-against.html
[13] CDC brazenly tries to poison all pregnant women with whooping cough vaccines that we know don't even work: http://www.prisonplanet.com/cdc-brazenly-tries-to-poison-all-pregnant-women-with-whooping-cough-vaccines-that-we-know-dont-even-work.html
[14] Court Requires 8-Year-Old to be Vaccinated Against Mother's Wishes: http://www.prisonplanet.com/court-requires-8-year-old-to-be-vaccinated-against-mother%e2%80%99s-wishes.html
[15] NJ Attempts to Strip Parental Rights with Vaccine Anti-Exemption Bill: http://www.prisonplanet.com/nj-attempts-to-strip-parental-rights-with-vaccine-anti-exemption-bill.html
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The new gapless playback feature doesn't appear to work with local files. Is there a reason for that? Thanks.
23-02-2012 10:36 PM - edited 23-02-2012 10:37 PM
Just now only Crossfade is available for Local files.
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Well that's kind of crap. Gapless is necessary for a lot of the albums I listen to - is there any plan to fix this? It makes me not want to use Spotify for my local files. If I can't do that, then I might as well not use Spotify...
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A transitive verb is an action verb that has a direct object. Remember that a direct object (a noun or a pronoun) answers the question Whom? or What? after the action verb. Thus, in the sentence, "The clown threw the toy into the air," the verb, threw, is transitive because (A) it is an action verb, and (B) there is a direct object, toy.
Here are some other examples of transitive verbs. The verb is underlined, and the direct object is italicized.
- Danielle wanted pizza for lunch.
- The old shed really needs repairs.
- We believed him.
An intransitive verb is an action verb, but it does not have a direct object following it. In the sentence, "Veronica remained here after the incident," the intransitive verb, remained, does not have a direct object after it. No noun or pronoun receives the action of the verb.
Some other examples of intransitive verbs are these.
- They laughed quite loudly.
- The boys sprinted from the alley.
- These scientists know about physics.
Activity 1
On the line before each, write T if the underlined verb is transitive or I if it is intransitive.
- We walked slowly around the lake.
- We walked the dog in the park.
- Reggie wrote your card.
- Reggie wrote.
- Reggie wrote carefully.
Activity 2
Ten of these sentences include transitive verbs, and ten include intransitive verbs. Write the letter T (for transitive) or I (for intransitive) on the line next to the sentence.
- These flowers need more sunshine during the next few weeks.
- Walk more quietly down the hallway.
- Drivers noticed the many potholes on the roads last spring.
- Mrs. Littlefield helped Roger find his dog, Rex.
- You do not need to help yet.
- A newscaster examined the historical photographs.
- We witnessed the beautiful sunrise.
- That hurts him.
- Bring the tickets with you this evening.
- My dog ran away last night.
- The rain came suddenly.
- Jasmine walked confidently down the street.
- The heavy winds lifted the table into the air.
- Larry spoke eloquently at the banquet.
- Dan rested often during the challenging climb.
- The scouts marched in size order at the jamboree.
- Did you give Candace the candy?
- My dad wished for clearer skies.
- These candles will glow for a long time.
- We interviewed Gussy after the memorable performance.
Activity 1
- The transitive verbs are in sentences 2 and 3.
- The intransitive verbs are in sentences 1, 4, and 5.
Activity 2
- The sentences that include transitive (T) verbs are numbers 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, and 20.
- The sentences that include intransitive (I) verbs are numbers 2, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19.


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This is a small galley kitchen with very little storage, I have previously had the cabinets refinished but really dislike the style and squattiness of the upper cabs. I would like to remove the microwave, install an incredible vent, pearl white subway tile, take the doors off the cabs and paint them grey with an open look. What do I do above those cabinets and any storage ideas for the empty wall. Don't really want to continue spending $$$ as it will be a rental at some point.
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Sunday, December 30 2012
Pueblo Pottery; Stories in Clay Exhibit
In the Rio Grande River Valley of central New Mexico and eastern Arizona, the Pueblos, a people spread over 19 communities, continue to practice their ancient art of pottery-making. Descendents of the Anasazi, the Pueblo People, still use the traditional coiling methods and decorative patterns that have distinguished their work for centuries..
This exhibit compares and contrasts the unique style of each Pueblo community and highlights individual artists who have shaped this timeless craft.
The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00am - 5:00pm* and Sunday 12:00pm to 5:00pm * *Last admission 4:30pm
Franklin Street Works celebrates its one-year with the original exhibition 'Working Alternatives'
Franklin Street Works presents the original exhibition Working Alternatives: Breaking Bread, Art Broadcasting, and Collective Action, on view from October 27, 2012 - January 13, 2013. The exhibition looks at three threads of alternative art space histories and examines how engaged, inclusive strategies are still being used to break down perceived barriers between contemporary art and its audiences. The themes covered in Working Alternatives are conviviality and food, artists who use media (newspapers, television, and radio) as platforms for artworks, and artist collectives in the US, explored through an open archive gathered specifically for this exhibition.
Originally Working Alternatives was designed to be the backdrop for our first annual fundraiser, but Franklin Street Works is postponing that event until the spring so the indoor/outdoor extravaganza will coincide with warmer weather and have less proximity to long-standing regional art events. If you saved the date for our fundraiser, however, don't despair and keep it on your calendars – there is still a party! Working Alternatives will open on the same night, October 27, from 5 p.m. -8 p.m. with a free, public reception. The evening will include a lively performance of San Francisco artist Tom Marioni's "Drinking Beer Sonata with 13 Players" where thirteen people will create music by blowing into beer bottles based on Marioni's instructions.
For Working Alternatives, curators Mackenzie Schneider, Terri C Smith, and Jess Wilcox explore three threads of alternative art platforms and production: conviviality and food as components in alternative art space programming and mission (Wilcox); artists using media such as radio, television, and newspapers as alternative venues for presenting work (Schneider); and artist collectives presented in a living archive with weekly changing exhibitions using archive materials (Smith). In addition to historical examples, the exhibition also includes original artworks by contemporary artists that reflect and expand on the show's themes. Working Alternatives' artists include: Paul Branca, Jaime Davidovich, ESP TV, Group Material, Ann Hirsch, Tom Marioni, Anna Ostoya, Legacy Russell, Chris Sollars and Jerome Waag. Franklin Street Works is also excited to collaborate on several off-site artworks, including the live radio broadcast of an Ann Hirsch performance on WPKN, Bridgeport, and collages by Anna Ostoya in the Stamford Advocate via four, monthly ads during the show's run.
Guilford Art Center's Artistry Holiday Sale of Fine American Craft
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Brookfield Craft Center Holiday Exhibition
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Syntax Showtime: Art at Center Stage
This mixed media exhibition will be held at the Center Stage, Shelton, from November 30 through January 12, 2013. It opens with a reception on Friday, November 30, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., at the first performance of, "A Christmas Carol: The Musical." Admission to the reception and exhibition is free.
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Holiday Express Train Show
Warm up at the Fairfield Museum and see the new displays at the Holiday Express Train Show! Kids and adults alike will delight in the magic of the model trains winding around a winter wonderland of spectacular trees and beautiful holiday scenery.
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At April's NPE show in Florida, it was impressive to see how giant, working production lines could fit into limited floor space. Blown-film lines three-stories high come to mind as good examples. But I had another impression at this year's event: how coldly mindless many kinds of automated production lines can seem.
Automation is of course a good thing for keeping costs low for products like blown film. But the continuing human creativity needed behind a good process can easily be forgotten when a production line can be so easily "switched on." No matter how reliable automated plastics conversion processes get, the human brains hovering around the equipment still need to be humming with ideas on how to save more energy and increase efficiency.
A lot of process elements can be targeted for optimization, as Helmut Heinson of injection molding machine-maker Arburg GmbH observed in his April 3rd plenary speech at ANTEC@NPE2012®. In injection molding there are many energy- and/or time-sucking elements to look for with a critical eye, cited Heinson, like poor mold cooling (and thus excessive cycle times), multiple moving mold components, and lack of synchronization between the molding machine and peripheral equipment, he said.
Peripheral equipment is also often overlooked as a target for optimization; for instance, resin-drying equipment can be optimized to use the least energy to dry the most material (as in this example).
Characteristics of the resin can be looked at in a similar way. One basic idea is to consider how much energy per kilogram a resin requires for processing, compared with the energy of another resin that could be used in the product. Process parameters can also affect process energy consumption, given the way melted plastic flows. For example, higher injection velocities and back pressures in molding tend to reduce overall energy use, as explained in this blog entry by Andy Routsis.
Looking beyond the production facility, authors in Packaging World magazine recently proposed alternative ways of quantifying how much the quality of a packaging product is affected as it's transported across the value chain. They offered the "total-energy" method, which is a measure of the potential energy used in moving a package; "energy-time," which is a rate of "energy absorption" per minute of packaging transport time; and "energy-distance," or transport energy per distance, a measurement which can be used to minimize product damage, inventory, and waste.
And for creating understanding about a product's complete resource and waste impacts, ever-evolving methods in life cycle assessment are aids in product/process development.
So the human brain remains infinitely creative in coming up with concepts aimed at making processes and products better, in comparison with our awesome, but relatively mindless, production machinery.
P.S. – My talk at the ANTEC@NPE2012® conference – "Strengthening the Message of Sustainable Plastics Packaging" – is available in article and PowerPoint form. Go to http://www.mtextcomm.com/ to download them or see an abstract here.
Mike Tolinski is the author of Plastics and Sustainability, published in Oct. 2011 by Wiley-Scrivener, and he is Contributing Editor for Plastics Engineering magazine of the Society of Plastics Engineers in the USA. His views have been shaped by his engineering, university, and journalism experience in the plastics and manufacturing industries over the past 21 years. You can follow Mike and be alerted on blog updates via Twitter.


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fpmike Posts: 21Hello,
I've been following the Avalanche Pickup Townhall forum for a few months now and a lot of info is there. I got my Av three weeks ago and really like it. I had an Expedition before and this is more stable, comfortable, powerful and great to drive. I've yet to get it off the road but expect good things there too. I am looking for the roof rack and BVE running boards, the local dealer can't find them yet. Anybody have info on access to the parts information? -
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markiii Posts: 21Have you talked with anyone with the Z71 pkg.? I have the Z71 and can't imagine how they could improve the ride. The only thing I have noticed is a little vibration of the steering wheel and a small amount of rear wheel hop during light off-road. Highway drive is smooth as silk. Love it.
P.S. Mike, mine is Pewter too. Nice match with the cladding. Does yours have the graphite interior? -
mordantk Posts: 7Morning.
I purchased my Av on 6/27. It was loaded with everything except the BVE option. Just like fpmike, I too am awaiting the running boards and looking for any information. They would be mighty nice to have. My wife's grandmother is 4'10", and it is quite a site to see her try and climb in and out of the back seat.
Constant comments all around whenever I am driving. People asking me questions at stop lights, bank drive-thrus, etc. It is almost annoying, but exceedingly gratifying. The only negative thing that I have found is that if any small car pulls up behind me, they disappear because the rear end is so tall. Other than that, no problems. Water leakage around the mid-gate etc. is minimal to nothing. I have washed it twice through a car wash, drove through heavy rain, and washed once at home.
looking foward to hearing other comments. -
darkeye Posts: 36I purchased my Av on 6/6. It's loaded with all options. Going to add the running boards, molded hood protector, molded splash guards and ventvisors when they are available to order. So far I have had not problems with my Av. I wish I could get a dollar for every person that looks or ask me questions about my Av. I would be able to buy another one. I have been getting 16.7 mpg in the city and 18.14 mpg on highway. No water leak problems as of today. I have been washing it every week now. Blue really shows the dirt and dust. I am completely satisfied with my Avalanche.
allonon Posts: 14I highly recommend the getting WeatherFlectors instead. No tape, Look much cleaner. Already have mine and their sweet. Although you have to put the clips in (at least on the rears), ours popped out and we had to order replacements. The rears on our Durango didn't require the clips and I was seeing if it was really necessary. It was. You can order them from www.macnielauto.com.
aeric1 Posts: 5I also notice that small cars disappear, especially at night, when they get too close to the Av's rear. This is especially a pain in Los Angeles, where lots of little car owners like to get right on my tail. (Oh well, Darwin will take care of them!)
The other problem with the high rear is during reversing; the backup lights seem to be very small and dim for the area they need to light up for me to see beyond the tailgate. I am considering purchasing extra bright reverse lights. Any one have ideas on this? -
allonon Posts: 14Yes. I emailed them and they said the door/windows are the same from the suburban. I ordered them and they fit great except for not doing the little clip on the rears. They also tell you to put them in the front but I haven't had problems with those. I wanted to leave the clips off because I like to pull the weatherflectors out when I wash the car.
allonon Posts: 14I don't have any problems with it. But I'm also used to driving large vehicles with bad rear visibility (Suburban, Durango, 3/4 ton pickups with full loads) I never use my inside mirror, always the side mirrors.
There are a ton of comapnies that do rear-facing cameras. You can try that -
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camtor67 Posts: 1Guys, thank you for your comments, but they are not helping. Why?, cause they are out of stock in my area already (North Atlanta). Because of that prices are also almost on-negotiable. I went today to get mine and from 38500K (4WD Z71)they just came down to 37500k. Am I getting a good deal?. Haven't get it yet, they don't have the Indigo Blue (nice color). If you are in my area, your friend is a Chevy Salesman and is willing to negotiate, please hook me up. I also want people to look at me.
stockmut Posts: 21I'm in NC and didn't have time to go out of state
to get an Avalanche, but it looks like one of the $98 over invoice Chevrolet dealers located a little west of Charleston is selling their Avs for
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tx2contact Posts: 1Camtor67......try Bellamy-Strickland in McDonough..770-954-3000 and ask for Scott Jennings. I bought the first one they had on a special deal from GM however, I know they had a red Z-71 in stock and are waiting for a white and pewter one any day now. I have purchased 3 vehicles from Scott over the last 2 years and can tell you they will deal on them.....great folks to do business with as well. If they don't have what you want I'm sure Scott will try and locate one for you...I have a black Z66 and can't recommend it enough. Hope this helps!
showme1 Posts: 38allonon, I agree, very hard to keep track of the speed. This thing is so quiet and smooth. Picked mine up in TX and drove home today.
darkeye, I took your lead and got the Indigo Blue Z-66 with assist steps,luggage rack, tan interior, and conv. package. Your photos really sold me on the blue (you have a great loking AV). I test drove a white one 6/1 and the AV finally came in. The dealer did not have the spash guards or the hood deflector in stock but they are sending both to me UPS on Tuesday. I'll let you know how they look and share my comments on installation.
My main complaint is the Indigo Blue seems to be a dust magnet! Sure does look good, even if I do say so myself. -
timfarn Posts: 289We took delivery on 8/22/01 of our fully loaded Av. The sales manager confessed that he was skeptical of the neutral interior and then asked if I minded if he ordered another exactly like it - Yes, I mind!
The hood protector and ventvisors go on tonight and the mud guards will be in next week.
Check your spares, Firestone Wilderness ATs - good thing they'll see limited duty. -
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gandolphxx Posts: 19I have a black 2500 4x4 - fully loaded, with full protection package - what an animal. Reminds me of my '67 GTO - about the same gas mileage. This thing is awesome - turns heads - gets a lot more respect than my 98 Grand Cherokee. Only thing missing is 17" wheel option and a muffler to match the engine. Everybody who rides in it is impressed.
ygmn Posts: 179Just finished washing her again.
Light pewter Metallic (SILVER to normal people).
Z66 loaded with all the options. I love it and so does everyone I drive by.
Now I am worried about getting hit by drivers staring at me while I drive down the road.
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skidmarks Posts: 47Had my AV 2 wks now. I really like it. Previously had a 99 SLT Sierra which I liked alot as well. I located mine on BuyPower. Black Z77 with graphite interior ,Convenience package,4:10 gears.I got a great deal.I think there is a glut of these now. It runs good,but not as good as my GMC I traded in.It's the extra wt. that's a killer.I also noticed the tow/haul mode doesn't give the hard shifts like my old GMC, just seems to raise the rpm shift points. This thing really needs the 345hp 6litre motor in it,although the mpg would suffer The OnStar is cool,but the subscription is a little over priced. So far I have logged a 1000 miles,the computer went goofy once and wouldn't let it idle,but corrected itself. I recommend the Manic stainless steel step boards. They look as good as the GM ones and are a couple of hundred less. This thing is so smooth that I can forgive its shortcomings.


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The Denigration of Stephen Hawking Reveals the Intense Dishonesty of Current Zionism
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Early last week, when it came out that British physicist Stephen Hawking had decided to not attend a late-spring conference in Jerusalem, he went quickly from being a cult hero in the Israeli high tech sphere to pariah. Although he has been to Israel several times in the past – and to the occupied territories of the West Bank, now called "Palestine" by a growing number of countries, agencies and notable individuals – he was encouraged by British academics, Palestinian scholars and American linguist, Noam Chomski, to back out.
His entire letter of cancellation to Israeli President Shimon Peres hasn't yet been published. An important part of it has been:
I have received a number of emails from Palestinian academics. They are unanimous that I should respect the boycott. In view of this, I must withdraw from the conference. Had I attended I would have stated my opinion that the policy of the present Israeli government is likely to lead to disaster.
The most shocking aspect of the backlash against Hawking coming out of Israel and Israeli apologists to me, from the very beginning, were the claims that if it weren't for the genius, pluck and ingenuity of Israeli scientists, he wouldn't even be able to communicate:
if one decides to Boycott Israel, then one must be consistent, if Mr. Hawking decides to boycott us he should also refrain from using his means of communications as he is using products that were invented and produced in Israel. it is very interesting though that we continue to hear him isn't it.
This inaccurate meme was repeated again and again, in articles published in Israel, the USA and elsewhere. To be more specific, the claim was somewhat along these lines:
Hawking's decision to join the boycott of Israel is quite hypocritical for an individual who prides himself on his own intellectual accomplishment. His whole computer-based communication system runs on a chip designed by Israel's Intel team. I suggest that if he truly wants to pull out of Israel he should also pull out his Intel Core i7 from his tablet" – this according to Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center.
Darshin-Leitner's claim, inaccurate as it was, was also very questionable morally. After all, the Germans perfected the jet turbine during the height of the 3rd Reich, using slave labor, some of which was comprised of Jewish and other slave laborers. Don't get me started.
The inaccuracy and hubris of the many claims that Hawking is somehow an ingrate are very easy to refute, and have been:
The i7 was designed by Intel's architecture design team in Hillsboro Oregon. The claims the i7 was designed in Israel are also lies.
For the i7 in particular, the Sr. Principal Engineer's name is Ronak Singhal. He is an Indian. The design team does not consist of Israelis and is not located in Israel.
Hawking's sentence construction software, EZ Keys, was designed and built by an american company, Words Plus, which was based in Palmdale, California. Hawkings speech synthesizer, NeoSpeech, is produced by a company based in Fremont, California and backed by Voiceware Co of Korea. It has nothing to do with Israel either.
Hawking's laptop which ran the software used AMD chips. This was an embarrassment to Intel. Intel's CEO at the time Gordon Moore (now retired) personally negotiated with Prof. Hawking to participate in a marketing arrangement where Hawking would use Intel provided off-the-shelf laptops.
i7 microprocessors have no more to do with Israel than do many such items developed by increasingly multinational scientific teams. Intel's facilities in Israel are increasingly important to the firm, but less so than their operations in one county in Oregon. They could pull out next month with little or no adverse impact to the high tech giant's global footprint.
It is interesting that it has just come out over the weekend that Noam Chomsky was one of those who urged Hawking to reassess his conference attendance. How many Israelis and American Zionists now denigrating Hawking made a fuss three years ago this week, when this happened:


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Salamo Arouch (1923 – April 26, 2009) was a Jewish Greek boxer who survived the Holocaust by entertaining Nazi officers in Auschwitz with his boxing skills.[1] His story was portrayed in the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit.[2][3]
Arouch was born in 1923,[4] in Thessaloniki, Greece, one of two sons in a family that also included three daughters.[5] His father was a stevedore who nurtured his son's interest in boxing, teaching him when he was a child.[4] Arouch said that when he was 14, he fought and won his first boxing match.[6] He told People that, though only 5'6", he became the light-middleweight champion of the Balkans in 1941 when he was 17.[4]
In 1943, his family was interred in the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.[4] In Auschwitz, where Arouch was tagged prisoner 136954, he said the commander sought boxers among the newly interned and, once assured of Arouch's abilities, set him to twice- or thrice-weekly boxing matches against other prisoners.[6] According to Arouch, he was undefeated at Auschwitz, though two matches he was forced to fight while recovering from dysentery ended in draws.[6] Lodged with the other fighters forced to participate in these matches and paid in extra food or lighter work, Salarmo fought 208 matches at his estimation,[7] knowing that prisoners who lost would be sent to the gas chamber or shot.[5] Fights generally lasted until one fighter went down or the Nazis got tired of watching.[7] Arouch claimed he weighed about 135 pounds and often fought much larger men. He said he once dispatched a 250-pound opponent in 18 seconds.[7]
Though Arouch survived the war, being released from Auschwitz on January 17, 1945, his parents and siblings did not.[4][5] During a search for family at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April, 1945, he met Marta Yechiel, a 17-year-old survivor from his own hometown.[4] With Yechiel, he emigrated to Israel, settling in Tel Aviv to manage a shipping firm.[4][8] Arouch and Yechiel wed in November 1945 and raised a family of four.[4] Arouch was a consultant on the 1989 dramatic reenactment of his early life,[8] accompanying filmmakers several times on an emotional return to the concentration camp.[5] The film takes some artistic liberties with the biographical details of his life, including the renaming of his wife and placing her in his story prior to internment.[5]
After the movie came out, another Jewish boxer from Salonika, Jacques "Jacko" Razon sued Arouch and the filmmakers for more than $20 million claiming that they had stolen his story and that Arouch had exaggerated his exploits. The case was later settled.[7]


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Winter marches on.
This weekend features the opening of the Winter Plein Air Exhibit & Sale at the Grand Marais Art Colony and the official beginning of Winter Tracks, a week-long celebration of winter in Cook County.
First up is opening reception for the Winter Plein Air Exhibit at the the Art Colony from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31.
Photographers and plein air painters have been working outdoors this week, painting and photographing winter landscapes. Their work will on display at the Art Colony through Feb. 23.
The reception, where painters and photographers will be in attendance, will also feature photographs of the snow sculptures that have been carved this week from Tofte to the Gunflint Trail, as well as the sculptors who made them.
This is a fun show and, surprisingly, not a freezing experience. On the contrary, it's always exciting to see what these artists have captured in our winter wonderland. The reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The snow sculptures are also awesome. You can see them at the Bluefin Resort in Tofte,, the Eagle Ridge Resort on Ski Hill Road in Lutsen, Harbor Park in Grand Marais with snow sculptures sponsored by Joynes Ben Franklin, Best Western and Art House B&B, and at Bearskin Lodge on the Gunflint Trail. They'll be up as long as the weather permits.
There are lots of other events during Winter Tracks, including a Family Fun Weekend at Lutsen Mountains with family Olympic games on Saturday and fireworks and a torchlight ski parade at 8 p.m.
The Ridge Riders Snowmobile Club will hold a Fun Run on Saturday.Participants can start from either Devil Track Lodge or Hungry Jack Lodge, ending up at Devil Track for a food, music, prizes and more.
And next Saturday, Feb. 8, Winter Tracks concludes at Grand Portage Lodge & Casino at the 11th annual Snowarama Snowmobile Ride starting at 8 a.m. The event is a benefit for Easter Seal kids. The Hoolies play for the dance on Saturday night. For more info, click here.
This Sunday, Feb. 2, is SuperBowl Sunday and there are viewing parties at venues throughout the county including the American Legion, the Grand Portage Lodge and Casino and Papa Charlie's.
There are some highlights in music, too.
Gordon Thorne and Al Oikari are playing at the Cascade Lodge Pub on Friday night. That should be an interesting show. It's a small, intimate space and seeing these perform together should be pretty nice. They start at 7 p.m.
Thorne will be interviewed on WTIP's The Roadhouse just before that, as will Martha Beck, a nationally-recognized life coach and columnist for O (Oprah's) magazine, about her special workshops for men. The Roadhouse airs from 5-7 p.m.
On Saturday night, there's another treat. The nationally acclaimed band, Cloud Cult, will be at Papa Charlie's on Lutsen Mountains at 9:30 p.m. Check out some of their music here. The show is a a great visual experience as well as musically exciting. An acoustic set will open the show.
Also on Saturday night, there's a fundraiser for Jennifer Schulz at the Grand Marais Art Colony featuring music by the Pete K Group, The Splinters, Cook County's Most Wanted and Joe Paulik. The "Jam-o-Rama" is from 7-10:30 p.m. There will also be a silent auc\tion. BYOB. All invited.the
In other art news, Nancy Seaton is one of seven artists featured in a show that opened in the Twin Cities recently.
Entitled "Botanical Art in All Its Wonder," the exhibit at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul features a range of styles and media used by the artists to portray plants and flowers, including paintings and fused glass pieces by Seaton and bead paintings by Jo Wood of Duluth.
The exhibit continues through May 24. To learn more about the show, click here.
Layne Kennedy has just published a children's book entitled "Croix and The Magic Burl."
There's a print version and an eBook version of the book.
Kennedy explained how the book developed in a recent email.
"When I took a wood turning class at the North House eight years ago, I knew I found something that was going to be a wonderful diversion from photography. It is a whole different medium. Very tactile. For once, something created that I could touch and feel. But, its funny in the end. Learning a new art form always seems to bring me back to my original passion, photography.
"When I got into woodturning, I started seeing the forest differently. I looked at trees differently. Then, one day heading home from Grand Marais, I stopped at Cascade River for a short hike and spotted a really cool looking burl. Then, it hit me. Use the old burl as a means to tell a fun story about the forest … using photography as the vehicle, for KIDS!
"Finally, I had some time to put together CROIX AND THE MAGIC BURL. I used my photographs and converted them in Photoshop to watercolors to make them more imaginative and less definitive, like photos can do.
"It was an enjoyable effort. Most of the images, of course, are from the Grand Marais area with a scattering of others images from the region."
Here's a link to see the entire book and purchase a hard copy if you're interested.. And here's a link to see the eBook. Enjoy!
Valentine's Day is just around the corner and the Grand Marais Art Colony will hold a "Print Your Own Valentine: Community Ink Day" in the Print Studio of the Art Colony this Saturday, Feb. 1, from 1-4 p.m.
It's an all-ages printmaking event with an afternoon with lots of hands-on creative fun. Printmaker Jerry Riach will be there to help as you make your own unique printed valentines and art pieces. Cost is $5. Register by calling the Art Colony at 387-2737 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
For music — here's the schedule:
Thursday, Jan. 30:
- James Moors, Poplar River Pub, 6 p.m.
- Joe Paulik, Gunflint Tavern, 7:30 p.m.
- Dance Party with DJ Beavstar, Papa Charlie's, 9 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 31:
- Pete Kavanaugh, Moguls Tap Room, Caribou Highlands, 3:30 p.m.
- Mark Darling, Gunflint Lodge, 5:30 p.m.
- Gordon Thorne & Al Oikari, Cascade Lodge Pub, 7 p.m.
- Joe Paulik, Bluefin Grille, 8:30 p.m.
- The Thunderheads, Gunflint Tavern, 8:30 p.m.
- Pushing Chain, Papa Charlie's, 9 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 1:
- Joe Paulik, Papa Charlie's, 3:15 p.m.
- Jim and Michele Miller, Moguls Grille, 3:30 p.m.
- Mark Darling, Gunflint Lodge, 5:30 p.m.
- The Sivertones, Papa Charlie's, 6:45 p.m.
- Briand Morrison & Roxann Berglund, Cascade Lodge Pub, 7 p.m.
- Eric Frost, Lutsen Resort, 7 p.m.
- Timmy Haus, The Landing, Devil Track Lodge, 7 p.m.
- Jam-O-Rama, Jennifer Schulz Benefit, Grand Marais Art Colony, 7 p.m.
- The Thunderheads, Gunflint Tavern, 8:30 p.m.
- Karaoke, Antlers Lounge, Grand Portage Lodge & Casino, 9 p.m.
- Cloud Cult, Papa Charlie's, Lutsen Mountains, 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 2:
- Steve Blexrud, Gunflint Tavern, 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 3:
- Bump Blomberg, Bluefin Grille, 8 p.m.
- Songwriter Series, Molly Maher, Papa Charlie's, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 4:
- Fingerstyle Guitar Workshops with Gordon Thorne, Moondance Coffee House, 5-7 p.m. Free.
Wednesday, Feb. 5:
- Sarah Krueger, Spotlight North, Papa Charlie's, 8 p.m.
There's no doubt that winter is here and the high winds and cold temps have created dramatic scenes on Lake Superior. Here's a photo by Alec Johnson of one of those places.
And there are people who go out in any weather. Christian Dalbec caught this fisherman fishing on the Two Harbor's breakwall during one of our ground blizzards. He asked the guy why he was kneeling down and he said because if he stood up, the wind was so strong it would blow him into the lake.
But winter also brings those sublime moments.
Beautiful ones.
Or surprising ones.
Sometimes photographers wait for hours, if not days, to get a shot, like this one.
Or sometimes it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time with camera set and ready to go.
The Apostle Island Sea Caves were on many people's radar this week. Paul Sundberg went out there and said that he thought that 500 people might have hiked the beaches and crossed the ice to see the caves that day. He took a photo of some of them.
It was worth it. Some gorgeous images have been posted so far.
And this …
And this …
Some people focused on taking unusual images. This photo by Jeff Henningsgaard features spin-master Jamie Rabold really shooting out the sparks in one of the caves.
Duluth photographer Dennis O'Hara created an absolutely gorgeous panorama of one of the sea caves. Click here to view this cave from 360 degrees.
Another photo op event this weekend was the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon which concluded very late on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. There were lots of wonderful images posted for that event, despite the tough conditions.
This one, though, says it all– the cold, the dogs, the mushers, the wilderness and the comaraderie between them all.
Have a good weekend everyone! And stay warm!


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Totem Talk: Restoration's Cataclysm alchemical consumables {WoW}
Nov 16th 2010 1:14PM I'm so glad my main, a resto shaman, is an alchemist.
How does mixology look in Cata?
WoW China hit with more censorship upon relaunch {WoW}
Jul 30th 2009 8:48PM Um, it's absolutely censorship. The icons and player models are being changed because the state is enforcing its cultural mores under pain of law.
That's what censorship is.
I have no doubt our own (US) government would censor blatantly sexual imagery, were it found in WoW. That isn't really OK either, but it's how it is.
WoW China hit with more censorship upon relaunch {WoW}
Jul 30th 2009 8:27PM It's really sad, isn't it?
A huge country, with 1+ billion people, with censorship being the tip of a huge iceberg which encompasses myriad human rights violations. Changing a skull icon into a bag is, well, not interesting at all.
And it's great that Blizzard is jumping on the chance to take advantage of the money to be made from subscribers in that huge market.
That's the story. Who cares how they've changed the appearance of the forsaken, or player corpses, or anything? How many dissident voices within China has that same censorship silenced?
We've got spirit, yes we do! {WoW}
Jul 29th 2009 4:28PM Glenury Royal all the way.
And the first few times I read lrcasha's comments, I was seeing, "I prefer pallys(sic.) for sentimental reasons . . ."
We've got spirit, yes we do! {WoW}
Jul 29th 2009 2:09PM It's not even that clear for advanced, experienced players. I am only now leveling a lock and a priest for whom spirit probably really does matter . . . and I say probably . . . since my other toons are a paladin, a shaman, and a DK. But I hear the conversations in Vent all the time among purer-caster classes. "You get that from spirit, don't you?"
"Wait, I don't think I have that talent."
"Do I get that from spirit?"
Playing resto shaman, I have a fine appreciation of mp5, but I see even from the baby lock (who just dinged 46, gratz me) that a core ability, life tap, scales a bit with spirit.
I'm just now getting over the fact that the tooltips for lock abilities have a very, VERY loose association with reality. I thought some of what pally and shaman tooltips said, but JEEZ. I guess tooltips are really hard to fix.
Officers' Quarters: Best in slot {WoW}
Jul 13th 2009 6:47PM Oh yeah, and what's the best in slot?
There's a list?
I know EJ's site lists BiS gear, and I use it as a guide . . . but there's something to synergy between items. There's no way a raid leader would be able to keep track of all that, nor should he or she.
Officers' Quarters: Best in slot {WoW}
Jul 13th 2009 5:16PM I agree with Scott's assessment of the situation . . . and I play a holy pally AND a resto shaman on different servers. I only roll on caster mail (which usually does, IMHO, have better stats than healer plate) when there's no shaman present when I'm on the paladin. Mail is itchy. I mean, heck.
Seriously, though, the raid leaders ought to have spelled out the loot rules at the beginning, and if debate ensued, so be it. Tacit agreement (or even a "K" in /raid chat) is agreement. My shaman raids with a guild whose rules are: tanks and healers have first priority on gear (usually affects the healers vs. DPS casters more than tanks/melee DPS), AND, you can wear plate, you roll only on plate because clothies can't wear your armor so you can't wear theirs. Sure, if there were no resto shamans in the raid, and some nifty piece of caster mail goodness dropped, I'm sure it'd go to the paladin.
We're all at the mercy of the RNG. BiS is also, as many have mentioned, a moving target. I think it's perfectly reasonable to give priority to shamans over healadins for caster mail (for example), but the shaman always has the right not to roll and to give the piece to the paladin. Make the loot rules clear at the beginning of the raid and try to avoid the drama.
Resto Shaman changes hinted {WoW}
Jun 17th 2009 7:02PM I know this'll label me as a noob . . . but . . .
Are other restos glyphing Healing Stream totem? I'm currently using Glyph of CH and Glyph of Water Mastery, along with GoHST. I keep a few Glyphs of Earth Shield around if I find myself in a 5-man with a weak tank, but otherwise . . . that healing from the totem is nice. I haven't found myself wishing that I had any particular buffs to HW or LHW other than Healing Way; if my tank seems to be in trouble, I'll usually have a Riptide available, then I can cast a Tidal Waved HW, and if the damage is STILL coming, the next HW has been healing wayed.
Wow, verbing does weird language, to quote Calvin and Hobbs.
I have a pally healer and a resto shaman, and I have to say that I love where resto is right now. Maybe if I played resto druid or had a healing priest, I'd feel differently . . .
BobTurkey updates Priest theorycraft {WoW}
May 5th 2009 1:13PM And the great thing about WoW and theorycraft is that . . . just like in real life . . . understanding it won't necessarily help you play the game.
I got a shaman to 80 about 3 weeks ago, maybe a little more. I read through Elitist Jerks (love the site), specced resto, and started on my merry way healing. I took some of their advice, and decided their theorycraft didn't make sense on some of it. Any time there's dependence on the RNG, theorycraft'll only go so far.
Last weekend, I got to do heroic Naxx with a raiding guild on my home server. There were a bunch of healers, all of whom were in at least Naxx gear, most of whom had either full T7 or t7.5 sets. One of them decided to PST me their recount data on healing. Guess what? I was #3 (out of 7 for a couple of encounters) on HPS and had the least amount of overhealing. More importantly, I didn't lose any of my assigned healing targets. In my blues. Cool thing about the raid . . . I got 4 drops, serious upgrades, all in an evening.
I find theorycraft discussions interesting, but they're not the end-all be-all. Some players will benefit from understanding the theorycraft. Some mediocre players will think they have to understand it to function, and their play will probably either improve or deteriorate based on their adherence to theorycraft . . .
My experience has given me a new appreciation of WoW. Just like life, there's some art to it.
Officers' Quarters: Friendly favors {WoW}
Apr 6th 2009 4:05PM Interesting letter . . . the real problem is not hers, it's rather that her friends and guild-subordinates don't respect the hierarchy.
Secondly . . . I agree with the other responders that her English is perfectly understandable, even if she may be thinking in another language. However, be careful how you create acronyms. ANO is Spanish for "rectum." Or ass.


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The Caicedo project totals 4,224 hectares in two concessions, one of which is a registered contract and one with a defined technical study. Registration in the Colombian National Registry is pending. The project is located 52 kilometers northwest of Medellin in the Department of Antioquia, along the Middle Cauca Porphyry Belt adjacent to a number of well defined porphyry deposits.
As of December 2011, the Company had conducted field reconnaissance and sampling programs and compiled a report of the findings, which confirms the presence of porphyritic intrusive bodies and mineralization in the area. The project is part of an letter of intent (LOI) with Trident Gold Corp. dated September 22 2011, where Trident can earn a 60% interest in the properties by spending $3 million over a 21 month period after signing a definitive joint venture agreement.


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After publishing six sentences, among them "I will not pray for you [Mohammed]", a 23-year old journalist had to flee to Malaysia because of public outrage. Now he has been extradited to Saudi-Arabia where he is facing the death penalty for blasphemy, which is requested by over 13,000 on Facebook.
"On your birthday I will say that I loved the rebel in you, that you were a source of inspiration and that I don't like your gloriole. I will not pray for you."
"On your birthday, I see you whereever I look. I loved aspects of you, hated others and many I did not understand."
"On your birthday I will not bow down and will not kiss your hand. Instead I will shake your hand, as equals do. And I will smile as you will smile. I will only talk to you like to a friend.
Kashgari apologized after tens of thousands angry reactions. A high-ranking Islamic comittee declared him as an "unbeliever" and demanded legal action against him. Over 13.000 Moslems joined a Facebook-page which is demanding his execution. Kashgari fled to Malaysia, a country that has reputation as a moderate Islamic country.
Kashgari was arrested directly at his arrival in Kuala Lumpur airport (on Februrar 9) on grounds of an Interpol arrest warrant. He was extradicted to Saudi-Arabia a few days later.
I Saudi-Arabia, desecration of the Qur'an, blasphemy and apostacy can be punished by death for men and livelong imprisionment for women.
Picture: Executions in Saudi-Arabia are traditionally public beheadings with a saber.


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Just as an optometrist's professional responsibilities are varied and difficult, so may be the road to becoming an optometrist. Admission into any of the 17 accredited optometric colleges in the United States is very competitive. As an undergraduate, superior grades in math, physics, chemistry, biology, anatomy, physiology, and even English are a must. Applicants must also take and score highly on the OCAT (Optometry College Aptitude Test). Graduate study lasts four years and includes classroom and clinical training in ocular anatomy, disease,myotology, pharmacology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the vision system, vision performance, and vision screening. Unique to optometric education is the study of optics and extensive training in lens design, construction, application, and fitting. And, since optometrists are members of the primary health care team, they also must study human anatomy, general pharmacology, pathology, psychology, biochemistry, statistics, and epidemiology, much like any medical student. After completing this study successfully for an OD (Doctorate Degree of Optometry), optometrists must pass a state board examination to become licensed to practice in their state.
Very few optometrists transfer to other occupations, but individuals who do sometimes look at ophthalmology. Ophthalmologists are specialized physicians concentrating in treating eye diseases, repairing injuries, and performing eye surgeries. Optometrists may become ophthalmologists, but only after several more years of schooling. Because optometrists apply scientific knowledge to prevent, diagnose, and treat disorders and injuries, those few individuals who want to change career tracks before committing to the years of education ahead of them also consider careers as chiropractors, podiatrists, and even speech-language pathologists. A scant few of them become enchanted with optics and turn their career track to the practical applications of optics in industry, such as laser technology or lens technology used by NASA and in industrial research.