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NEWS RELEASE FROM SORENSON: Sorenson to Exit IP Relay Business
New FCC Rate Regime Prioritizes Cost Reductions Over Quality of Service for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
The Nation's Voice for People with Hearing Loss
New FCC Rate Regime Prioritizes Cost Reductions Over Quality of Service for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
New Research: Listening to Music Through Hearing Aids
On April 29, 2013, the FCC released a Report and Order to implement section 718 and part of section 716 of the Communications Act.
SOMERSET, NJ April 17, 2013 Oticon, Inc. today announced the 2013 recipients of the Oticon Focus on People Awards.
Launched in April 2012 by the Oticon Foundation and the non-profit Ida Institute, Ideas, Speak Up - Action and Awareness for Hearing Loss called for ideas with the potential to create public awareness of hearing loss, put hearing loss on the public agenda and encourage people to take action. More than 1,300 people worldwide contributed ideas aimed at meeting the campaign's criteria for unique ideas that affect change locally and/or globally, are simple, thought-provoking and cost-effective and inspire people to action.


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New York JetsDuplin Co. teen profiled in ESPN 'My Wish' seriesSubmitted by WWAY on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 3:01pm.READ MORE:
Tonight ESPN profiles a Duplin County teen battling leukemia who got to met his hero.
Jesus Reyes, 14, is preparing to play football for East Duplin High School. He is also undergoing chemo treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia at Children's Hospital at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Tim Tebow has been traded to the Jets.
The team said Wednesday it has acquired the polarizing quarterback from the Broncos. Denver general manager Brian Xanders says the Broncos will receive fourth- and sixth-round draft picks, while New York gets a seventh-rounder - all in 2012.
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The Lazy Gardener
Gardening with Brenda Beust Smith
Yearly Archive for 2010
Velcroweed … UGH!
Brenda Beust Smith photo My Martha Gonzales antique rose doesn't seem to mind the velcro weed, but I do! Brenda Beust Smith photo This may go down as the Year of the Weed. Have you ever seen so many? Coping with them depends on the type of weed. My bane right now is Velcroweed. Because […]
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Clerodendrum conundrums
Brenda Beust Smith photo The prolific Clerodendrum trichotomum. <!– Brenda Beust Smith photo Red Clerodendrum paniculatum –> As far as I can tell, there's only one problem with having clerodendrums in your yard. How do you decide which ones to plant? Most of us know the bleeding heart vine. That's a clerodendrum. Clerodendrum thomsoniae. But […]
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The three 'Rs' of gardening
photo The shape of bridal wreath, a great spring bloomer, can be easily altered by judicious pruning. Photo taken at Bayou Manor on South Braeswood. So you don't like the look of your yard, but you don't know what to do about it? It needs "something." But what? How about stealing an approach from celebrity […]
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The secret to growing gerberas in Houston
Brenda Beust Smith photo My mother grew the prettiest gerbera daisies in her back yard on Timberside, just off Stella Link. I tried for years to grow them, and never could. Then one day I did an article on a backyard with a swimming pool. In containers next to the pool, they had the most […]
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Do vegetable planting times change this year?
Brenda Beust Smith photo A reader asked, given the past unusual winter, if there should be any changes in which vegetables are planted now. I turned to my vegetable gurus: Ray Sher at Urban Harvest says the only effect winter had on his edibles plantings involved tomatoes. He put them in the ground in early […]
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How to tell if your hibiscus will come back
Brenda Beust Smith photo This is my variegated hibiscus pictured above. I've been trying to train it into a tree. It wasn't cooperating but I hadn't given up yet. I got it up to about 10 feet tall with three vertical stalks/trunks by continually stripping sprouted branches from about seven foot down. It responded by […]
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What is that wildflower?
Brenda Beust Smith photo Wild ranunculus photo Wild ranunculus I know spring has to be right around the corner when our ditches here in Aldine turn yellow. They're filled with wild ranunculus (Ranunculus carolinianus), a prolific spreader with profusions of tiny daisy-like flowers that look as if they've been dipped first in liquid sunshine and […]
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Is my plumeria dead dead?
Brenda Beust Smith photo Plumeria or frangipani, the Hawaiian lei flower. Brenda Beust Smith photo A plumeria from Jim Kadlecek's garden. Will plumerias return after this past winter? It's iffy, folks. These are true tropicals. They've done well in past years because we've had no real winters. And we've become so complacent, we actually plant […]
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What's your favorite small blooming tree?
Brenda Beust Smith photo My Mexican bauhinia (Mexican orchid tree) was grown off a side shoot of Kathy Huber's Mexican bauhinia. With all the gorgeous flowering trees in full bloom right now, Kathy Huber and I are expecting to be asked "what is that blooming on the corner of …?" quite a bit as we […]
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Plant swapping time!
Brenda Beust Smith photo A variety of yuccas will be available at the April 3 Plant Swap NASA Johnson Space Center. With everyone's yard in disarray from both Ike and the Great Freeze of 2010, this should be a good year for plant swaps. Whether you do it on a small neighborhood basis, or an […]
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The competition begins at 9 a.m. and is open to the public at no cost.
Teams are judged on their engineering notebook, marketing presentation, team exhibit and interviews, spirit and sportsmanship, and robot performance.
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Search continues for missing 14-year-old girl
POSTED: Friday, January 25, 2013 - 6:00am
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33 year old man being sought in case
Houston — The Houston Chronicle is reporting; The search continued Thursday for a 14-year-old girl two days after left her home in Harris County with a man, officials said.
Authorities said Haylie White was taken Tuesday from her home in Harris County by 33-year-old Jacob West, who also is being sought in the case. To read more, head to The Houston Chronicle's website: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Search-continues-for-missing-14-year-old-girl-4219690.php


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Letter: Yielding to environmentalists has hurt America on energy, jobs
Mario DiVincenzo, Jensen Beach
Letter: Yielding to environmentalists has hurt America on energy, jobs
The Canadians are going to develop and sell their oil whether the environmentalists in the United States like it or not. The question is: Who are they going to sell it to, the U.S.A. or China?
Not to build the Keystone pipeline is foolish, as we already have hundreds of miles of pipeline in the country.
Meanwhile, natural gas produced in the United States is the key to starting the economy, increasing jobs and energy independence. We are the world's leading producer.
If our leaders (?) in Washington would lead and encourage the private sector to build the infrastructure necessary to support automobiles and trucks propelled by natural gas, all would benefit.
Meanwhile, vehicles running on natural gas would give us energy independence, while keeping American dollars in America.
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Facebook redesign like a 'personalized newspaper,' Zuckerberg says
The new Facebook News Feed will focus on individual customization and visual cues.
Facebook is getting a face-lift.
At a press conference in Menlo Park, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will immediately begin rolling out a redesign of its News Feed, the centerpiece of the Facebook experience. While the current News Feed revolves largely around text, the new News Feed will incorporate more photos, videos, and graphics.
Ideally, Zuckerberg explained, the feed will become a kind of "personalized newspaper," where users can "drill down into topic-specific news feeds," as the New York Times put it. For instance, you can set your preferences to filter in only info from in-platform games, such as FarmVille 2; or you can customize the feed in such a way that it displays only photos from friends.
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Learn the best mobility exercises to increase your movement, head to toe. These moves from Kelly Starrett, creator of MobilityWOD, plus tips from expert Dean Somerset, have you covered.
Bland is boring. Step up your chicken breast game with these 21 healthy chicken recipes, including skewers, bites and bakes that won't disappoint.
Rumor has it this supplement will help you get some quality sleep — but what is melatonin, really? We went straight to the experts to get both sides of the story.
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Manufacturer of Tool for Machinery of Public Works
They burn Equipment (AE) is the name that serves of reference in a world in constant evolution, the one of the machinery of Public Work. His strength roots in having imposed like the unavoidable partner of all the manufacturers and importing of machinery, mainly in Europe.
They burn Equipment possesses a range of more 3.000 references, mainly centred in the sector of the tools of demolition and manipulation, Burn Equipment in Spain has had a very important development, multiplying his figure of sales by 10 in 4 years, until the arrival of the crisis which began to detect in August of the 2007.
To be able to attend to this impressesive growth, Burn Equipment created in Spain the society Burn Equipment Iberian that was cream in January 2006. The social headquarters and the ship of Burn Equipment Iberian are situated in front of the Business Park of Saint Fernando of Henares (Madrid).
Structuring his network of distribution in Spain, in full crisis, Burn Equipment Iberian has selected a big network of distribution and of workshops authorised, to be able to attend more than near the needs of each zone. Attending from the central ship the direct sellings in the zone center and the negotiations with big accounts.
His wide range of implementos covers all the equipment for the demolition (demoledores, trituradores, pinzas), hydraulics hammers, stick fast, cazos, grappler, bivalve (including the bivalve of cimentación). This range of equipment manufactures for all the sizes of machinery from the smallest until the biggest, increasing like this the range of products and the possibility to satisfy all the needs of his customers. Demoledores And cutting cutting shears from 400 kg until "monsters" of 5.000 or 7.000 kg.
Thanks to the big quality of his products (showed by his incredible durability), to his strong financial stability and his big capacity of adaptation to the different situations of market.
They burn Equipment has achieved to invoice in the 2011 in Spain but that in the 2009 / 2010 then the half of his best year, the 2007.
To world-wide level, Burn Equipment possesses 2 factories, the main in France and the secondary for cazos in Slovakia. Account besides with 2 subsidiaries distributed in Brazil and England, although the range of products Burn sells in 38 countries.
The factory of France covers a surface of more than 15.000 square metres and characterises for being endowed of a technical office with 10 skilled engineers in CAD-CAM and of machinery for the manufacture of the highest technology.
They burn Equipment constitutes an important industry, that has like end supply in quantity and quality to all the customers, already are final customer, importing, dealers or manufacturers of machinery.
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Majors Fair 2014 Wednesday, September 17 • 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. • Baker University Center Ballroom
With a hundreds of major, minor and certificate options at Ohio University, determining an academic path can be both stressful and challenging for students (regardless of class year!). Current and prospective OHIO students can get help with this decision by attending the annual Majors Fair, which will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, September 17, in the Baker University Center Ballroom.
The event will give students an opportunity to explore the more than 270 majors that the University offers. The Majors Fair is also a great opportunity for students who have already determined a major to explore minors, certificates, and experiential education options. Deans, assistant deans, and faculty will be present to provide students with information and to answer questions about the selection process.
Encourage students of any class year to attend this Fair. If they are decided on a major, it is a great opportunity to explore minors and certificates. If students are undecided and need guidance, there will also be academic advising and career coaching professionals at the Fair for on-the-spot assistance related to this "major" decision.
High school students: On September 17, Undergraduate Admissions will include additional information sessions led by admissions staff and campus walking tours led by current student guides. Visiting students can have the traditional campus visit and experience the Majors Fair all in one day. Register at http://www.ohio.edu/admissions/visit/specialprograms.cfm.
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Events for Lubec, Maine and Surrounding Areas
Events located in Lubec, Trescott, and Whiting, Maine and Campobello, New Brunswick.
Special Events
Astronomy Course at the CCLC
Mar 7 - May 23 - Time: 1 - 3 PM
Learn astronomy and the night sky in this 12 week class.
Spaghetti Supper and Dessert Auction
Mar 14 - Time: 5 PM
Come enjoy a flavorful spaghetti supper with raffles and dessert auction while benefiting the Whiting school's craft days, classroom parties, and Grade 8 graduation!
ATV Safety Course
Mar 15 - Time: 9 AM - 3 PM.
Participation in an ATV education course will teach how to properly operate and maintain an ATV. Laws, responsibilities and personal safety will also be covered.
Fruit Tree Grafting and Scionwood Exchange
Mar 15 - Time: 1 - 4 PM
This class is for everyone interested in growing fruit trees!
Behavioral Health Homes Community Forum
Mar 18 - Time: 5 - 6:30 PM
Join us for a brief presentation on Behavioral Health Homes - an exciting new way for children and adults on MaineCare to receive coordinated behavioral and physical health services.
Winter Dance Party: Rhythm Method
Mar 20 - Time: 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Chase away the winter doldrums, and brighten up the dark nights by getting out to listen to live music, socialize, and DANCE!
Cabin Fever Film: Rocket Gibralter
Mar 26 - Time: 6 PM
Free movie with Burt Lancaster as dying patriarch whose grandchildren give him a nontraditional send-off.
Hunter Safety Course
Apr 18 & 19 - Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's Hunter Education Course is more than a "gun safety" class. Two eight-hour sessions.
Winter Dance Party: Half Moon Jug Band
Apr 18 - Time: 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Chase away the winter doldrums, and brighten up the dark nights by getting out to listen to live music, socialize, and DANCE!
Water, Wood, and Wire
May 15 - Time: TBD
Lubec Guitar Weekend: Attila Vural, Bob Ardern, Frank Fotusky and more!
12th Annual Down East Spring Birding Festival
May 22 - 25, 2015 - Time: 6 AM. - 9 PM most days
Mark your calendars for the 12th Annual Down East Birding Festival, Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-25, 2015. Visit pristine coastal Maine, home to Puffins and American Woodcock. Guided walks, presentations, boat trips. Explore boreal, pelagic, migratory species.
The Art of the Lyric Essay with Dawn Potter
Jun 6 - Time: 9 AM - 12 NOON
In this workshop we'll consider some examples of the lyric essay, studying how the structure of language itself influences the writer's thought process and learning to follow our own lyric impulses in prose.
Lubec Farmer's Market Opens for Season
Jun 13 - Time: 9 AM
Transition Lubec is pleased to announce that the Lubec Farmer's Market will be opening for its fourth season! Each Saturday from June 13 into October there will be fresh produce and baked goods to purchase from local farmers and vendors.
2015 WINGS Birding Tour
Jun 19 - 28 - Time: TBD
This tour visits one of the most beautiful and sparsely populated areas in North America - Maine and New Hampshire - near the peak of breeding bird activity.
2015 Bay of Fundy International Marathon Weekend
Jun 28 - Time: 7 AM
Mark your calendar for the 3rd running of the Bay of Fundy International Marathon. It's a weekend full of fun!
Lubec Woman's Club Scholarship Yard Sale
Jul 4 - Time: 8 AM - Noon
LWC's annual 4th of July yard sale is a fund raiser for scholarships to be awarded to local students graduating from high school.
Reading and Writing Haiku
Jul 7, 14, 21 & 28 - Time: 9:30 AM. - 12:30 PM
The greatest benefit of attending this course will be learning to read and write in a form that is brief enough to be easily fitted into our busy modern lives, but complex enough to be engaging for years to come. 4 Sessions, Tuesdays.
2015 Maine's Winged Migration Tour
Aug 17 - 21, Aug 31 - Sep 4 - Time: See Website
Two new tours offered jointly by the Maine Birding Trail and the Schoodic Education and Research Center.
2015 Maine's Winged Migration Tour
Aug 31 - Sep 4 - Time: See Website
A tour offered jointly by the Maine Birding Trail and the Schoodic Education and Research Center.
Lubec's Coastal Cleanup
September 19 - 26 - Time: .
Join the International Coastal Cleanup and Maine's Coastweek at the local level. Sign up at the Lubec Memorial Library for a Lubec beach and pick up your data card and trash bag.
HSP Gathering Retreat
September 30- October 4, 2015 - Time: varies
Spend time with other people with the highly sensitive (HSP) personality trait, sharing, learning and growing.
Ongoing Events - Seasonal
Pancake Breakfast
The Lubec Community Outreach Center will host a winter series of pancake breakfasts to be held at the Lubec school cafeteria.
Improv Cooking with Brenda Barker, 4th Fridays
Foster your creativity and build confidence and teamwork skills while making new friends! Plus enjoy the dinner afterwards! 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Writers Group, Every Other Thursday
A working group for poets and prose writers starting on October 30th. 1 - 3:30 PM
Outdoor Adventure Club, 1st & 3rd Saturday
Kids Have FUN learning & practicing wilderness skills, 9 AM - 3 PM
Paint Campobello Plein Air Painting Workshops
Michael Chesley Johnson is now taking reservations for next summer and fall's oil and pastel en plein air workshops in Campobello and Lubec.
Fundy Chapter of Maine Audubon-Sponsored Program, Tuesdays, March to November
Every 3rd Tuesday of the month the Fundy Chapter of the Maine Audubon sponsors an interesting program at CCLC. 7 PM
Roosevelt Campobello International Park, May to October
Take a tour of Roosevelt's Cottage, the beautiful flower gardens and natural areas. Hear the history of Franklin D. Roosevelt's summer home on Campobello Island, in New Brunswick, Canada's Bay of Fundy.
Tea with Eleanor Memorial Day Sat to Columbus Day
Two seatings daily - Two seatings daily; 11 AM ADT (10 AM EDT) and 3 PM ADT (2 PM EDT) - first come, first served. Obtain tickets at the Roosevelt International Park Visitor Centre.
SummerKeys Concerts, Wednesdays, June - August
Free summer concerts by SummerKeys faculty at the Congregational Christian Church Wednesdays. 7:30 PM
Masons' Music and Barbecue, Thursdays, June - August
Come enjoy the food and music at the Masons' Music and Barbecue buffet every Thursday from June through August. 5:30 PM
West Lubec Methodist Public Baked Bean Suppers, Saturdays, May - Oct
3rd Saturday of Month May through October, except 2nd Saturday in August.
Lubec Farmer's Market, Saturdays, June - Oct
Every Saturday Farmer's Market (Saturday, June 13 into October) on the corner of Water and School Streets. Often with LIVE music! 9 AM - Noon
Masons' Community Breakfast, Sundays, April - October
See your friends and enjoy a wonderful Community Breakfast at the Masonic Lodge every 4th Sunday. 7 - 10 AM
Cobscook Bay Music
Bringing musicians from Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, Nova Scotia and elsewhere, Cobscook Bay Music also features local musicians and works with restaurants and inns to promote the area as a musical as well as artistic, historic, and natural attraction.
Ongoing Events - Year 'round
The Fitness Port Class Schedule
From Aerobics to Gentle Exercise!
Storytime for Tots and Toddlers, Mondays
A half-hour read-aloud for young children at the Lubec Memorial Library at 11 AM
Guitar and Drum Lessons with Kelly Bryand
Kelly Bryand specializes in rock, blues, and jazz, but is proficient in various styles, and has an individualized teaching style based on students particular tastes and aspirations as a musician. 3 - 5 PM
Monday Night Music Circle, Mondays
Every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday of each month local musicians gather to jam! Come to play or come to listen. 7 PM
Community Cafe, Tuesdays
Tasty luncheons that provide a social get-together for seniors and guests. 10 AM - Noon
Death Cafe, 1st Tuesday
A platform from which to develop a shared experience and a unity of purpose allowing participants to swap ideas, theories and personal stories of life and death, both deeply heartfelt and at times humorous, never forgetting that vast field of everything in between. 5:30 PM
Piano Lessons with John Newell, Tuesdays
Piano and Music Lessons with John Newell are currently being offered on Tuesdays at Cobscook Community Learning Center. 3:15 - 5:30 PM
Common Threads Weekly Handwork Group, Wednesdays
The group consists of people who enjoy knitting, crocheting, hooking, embroidery and other forms of handwork. 11 AM - 2 PM.
Senior Social Bingo, 3rd Thursday
Every third Thursday at the Quoddy View Sunrise Apartments Community Hall. 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Sacred Harp or Shape-Note Singing, 1st Saturday
Sacred Harp, or shape-note singing, is a form of a cappella hymn singing that became popular in America during the early nineteenth century. 2 - 4:30 PM
Summer Paint Nights, Saturdays
Come for an evening of happy painting with ARTWORKSOFMAINE's director Karen Baldauski who will walk you through the process of painting with water-based acrylics, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Pathfinder Walks, Sundays
Join us for enjoyable explorations of our beautiful area. 1 PM


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What's the best way to modernize our transportation?
With a lagging economy, high unemployment, and aging transportation systems, Americans debate the best ways to invest in their infrastructure and stimulate economic activity – from high-speed rail and congestion pricing, to cutting pork and tapping private capital.
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High-speed rail is a big part of the answer
During the Great Depression, businesses and governments agreed that transportation modernization was essential to restoring prosperity. The 1930s saw the emergence of the freeway (the first one opening in Los Angeles in 1940) and the airport as important modes of transportation. Together with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, these Depression Era investments helped produce the long postwar economic boom and brought widespread prosperity to the United States.
As we face another dire economic crisis, we have a similar need for modernization and economic recovery. When gas prices soared in 2008, it helped push the unstable economy over the edge. Even in the depths of the worst recession in 60 years, gas prices remain at 2006 levels. Analysts such as those at Deutsche Bank predict that oil prices will rise again once job growth returns, threatening to strangle a recovery in its infancy.
High-speed rail will not only stimulate the economy during construction, but it will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, helping our economy to avoid future oil price shocks. It will also tie together the economies of mid-sized urban areas to the economies of large metropolitan cities through increased accessibility.
ONE MINUTE DEBATE: Should America's illegal immigrants be offered legal status?


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Carrie Nation | |
Temperance advocate Carrie Nation with her Bible and her hatchet in 1910 | |
Born | Carrie Amelia Moore November 25, 1846 Garrard County, Kentucky |
Died | June 9, 1911 Leavenworth, Kansas[1] | (aged 64)
Nationality | American |
Other names | Carry A. Nation |
Occupation | Temperance advocate |
Known for | Temperance activism; smashing bars with her hatchet. |
Carrie Nation | |
Temperance advocate Carrie Nation with her Bible and her hatchet in 1910 | |
Born | Carrie Amelia Moore November 25, 1846 Garrard County, Kentucky |
Died | June 9, 1911 Leavenworth, Kansas[1] | (aged 64)
Nationality | American |
Other names | Carry A. Nation |
Occupation | Temperance advocate |
Known for | Temperance activism; smashing bars with her hatchet. |
Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre-Prohibition America. She is particularly noteworthy for promoting her viewpoint through vandalism. On many occasions Nation would enter an alcohol-serving establishment and attack the bar with a hatchet. She has been the topic of numerous books, articles and even an opera.
Nation was a large woman, almost 6 feet (180 cm) tall and weighing 175 pounds (79 kg) and of a somewhat stern countenance. She described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like,"[2] and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars.
The spelling of her first name is ambiguous and both Carrie and Carry are considered correct. Official records say Carrie, which Nation used most of her life; the name Carry was used by her father in the family Bible. Upon beginning her campaign against liquor in the early 20th century, she adopted the name Carry A. Nation mainly for its value as a slogan, and had it registered as a trademark in the state of Kansas.
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Carrie Nation was born Carrie Amelia Moore in Garrard County, Kentucky, to slave owners George and Mary Campbell Moore.[3] During much of her early life she was in poor health and her family experienced financial setbacks, moving several times and finally settling in Belton, Missouri in Cass County. She had poor education and informal learning. In addition to their financial difficulties, many of her family members suffered from mental illness, her mother at times having delusions.[4] As a result, young Carrie often found refuge in the slave quarters.
During the Civil War, the family moved several times, returning to High Grove Farm in Cass County, Missouri. When the Union Army ordered them to evacuate their farm, they moved to Kansas City. Carrie nursed the wounded soldiers after a raid on Independence, Missouri.
In 1865 she met a young physician who had fought for the Union: Dr. Charles Gloyd, by all accounts a severe alcoholic. They were married on November 21, 1867, and separated shortly before the birth of their daughter, Charlien, on September 27, 1868. Gloyd died less than a year later of alcoholism, in 1869. Because of Gloyd's death, she became very passionate about fighting liquor (she wanted to get rid of liquor). With the proceeds from selling the land her father had given her as well as from her husband's estate, Carrie built a small house in Holden, Missouri. She moved there with her mother-in-law and Charlien and attended the Normal Institute in Warrensburg, Missouri, earning her teaching certificate in July 1872. She taught at a school in Holden for four years but was fired from her job.
In 1874, Carrie married David A. Nation, an attorney, minister, newspaper journalist, and father 19 years her senior.[5][6] The family purchased a 1,700 acre (690 ha) cotton plantation on the San Bernard River in Brazoria County, Texas. As neither knew much about farming, the venture was ultimately unsuccessful.[3] David Nation moved to Brazoria to practice law. In about 1880 Carrie moved to Columbia to operate the hotel owned by A. R. and Jesse W. Park. Her name is on the Columbia Methodist Church roll. She lived at the hotel with her daughter, Charlien Gloyd, "Mother Gloyd" (Carrie's first mother-in-law), and David's daughter, Lola. Her husband also operated a saddle shop just southwest of this site. The family soon moved to Richmond, Texas, to operate a hotel.[7]
David Nation became involved in the Jaybird-Woodpecker War. As a result, he was forced in 1889 to move back north to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where he found work preaching at a Christian church and Carrie ran a successful hotel.
She began her temperance work in Medicine Lodge by starting a local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and campaigning for the enforcement of Kansas' ban on the sales of liquor. Her methods escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a hand organ, to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, "Good morning, destroyer of men's souls."[2] She also helped her mother and her daughter who had mental health problems.
Dissatisfied with the results of her efforts, Nation began to pray to God for direction. On June 5, 1899, she felt she received her answer in the form of a heavenly vision. As she described it:
The next morning I was awakened by a voice which seemed to me speaking in my heart, these words, "GO TO KIOWA," and my hands were lifted and thrown down and the words, "I'LL STAND BY YOU." The words, "Go to Kiowa," were spoken in a murmuring, musical tone, low and soft, but "I'll stand by you," was very clear, positive and emphatic. I was impressed with a great inspiration, the interpretation was very plain, it was this: "Take something in your hands, and throw at these places in Kiowa and smash them."[8]
Responding to the revelation, Nation gathered several rocks – "smashers", she called them – and proceeded to Dobson's Saloon on June 7. Announcing "Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard's fate," she began to destroy the saloon's stock with her cache of rocks. After she similarly destroyed two other saloons in Kiowa, a tornado hit eastern Kansas, which she took as divine approval of her actions.[2]
Nation continued her destructive ways in Kansas, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record. After she led a raid in Wichita her husband joked that she should use a hatchet next time for maximum damage. Nation replied, "That is the most sensible thing you have said since I married you."[2] The couple divorced in 1901, not having had any children.[9]
Alone or accompanied by hymn-singing women she would march into a bar, and sing and pray while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet. Her actions often did not include other people, just herself. Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times for "hatchetations," as she came to call them. Nation paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets.[10] In April 1901 Nation came to Kansas City, Missouri, a city known for its wide opposition to the temperance movement, and smashed liquor in various bars on 12th Street in Downtown Kansas City.[11] She was arrested, hauled into court and fined $500 ($13,400 in 2011 dollars),[12] although the judge suspended the fine so long as Nation never returned to Kansas City.[13]
In Amarillo, Texas, Nation received a strong response, as she was sponsored by the noted surveyor W. D. Twichell, an active Methodist layman.[14]
Nation's anti-alcohol activities became widely known, with the slogan "All Nations Welcome But Carrie" becoming a bar-room staple.[15] She published The Smasher's Mail, a biweekly newsletter, and The Hatchet, a newspaper. Later in life she exploited her name by appearing in vaudeville in the United States[2] and music halls in Great Britain. Nation, a proud woman more given to sermonizing than entertaining, sometimes found these poor venues for her proselytizing. One of the number of pre-World War I acts that "failed to click" with foreign audiences, Nation was struck by an egg thrown by an audience member during one 1909 music hall lecture at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties. Indignantly, "The Anti-Souse Queen" ripped up her contract and returned to the United States.[16] Seeking profits elsewhere, Nation also sold photographs of herself, collected lecture fees, and marketed miniature souvenir hatchets.[17][18]
Suspicious that President William McKinley was a secret drinker, Nation applauded his 1901 assassination as a tippler's just deserts.[19]
Near the end of her life Nation moved to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where she founded the home known as Hatchet Hall. Ill in mind and body, she collapsed during a speech in a Eureka Springs park, and was taken to a hospital in Leavenworth, Kansas. She died there on June 9, 1911,and was buried in an unmarked grave in Belton City Cemetery in Belton, Missouri. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union later erected a stone inscribed "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition, She Hath Done What She Could" and the name "Carry A. Nation".[20]
Her home in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, the Carrie Nation House, was bought by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the 1950s and was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1976. A spring just across the street from Hatchet Hall in Eureka Springs is named after her.[21]
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The First series seem to be better constructed, offer better performance, and include better deck hardware than same vintage Oceanis and ''number series''. Depending upon the confiration (deep lead keel vs shoal cast iron, in mast furling vs ''classic and so on) the 32s5 appears to be a reasonably well constructed reasonably fast coastal racer cruiser.
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i have drawing a skin what i really need for D, maybe my hope would be realize in a far future :3 i know, it's an inappropriate place to post this, but, we are talking about Diana skins, a draw is better than a long text
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Well the most obvious issue I have with the skin is colour. Overall the new skin's colours although different still feel... distinctly similar to the existing skin (i.e. lots of Whites and Purples). This means that while it might look cool when I am closely analyzing the skin, in contrast when just looking at it from a distance such as when actually playing the game where you moving around constantly it just doesn't feel quite as unique. That being said currently only the shield effect looks gold, I'm assuming all the effects are going to be that colour instead of white? If this is true alone with the gold on her suit also getting enhanced as you mentioned it would go a long way to making her feel more unique.
On topic Diana feels too girly in this skin, kind of out of character, not saying she is not a woman or anything she was just hardened by her people (I'm talking Solari), but on the same boat this could perfectly fit a "before the madness" theme/skin, so i actually like, not to a full extent Out of topic As we are already discussing Diana's skins, well I have a proposition: Pitcher Diana Make her wear a baseball uniform a cap, darkened cheeks just like pitchers from the movies, and a cap. Q - Moonstrike - Curve ball: she throws an over sized baseball in an arc, works perfectly for the mechanic of curved skillshot W - Pale Cascade - Third ball/strike: she summons three orbiting baseballs (this could replace with three red "X" that symbolizes strikes E - Moonfall - Pitcher's mound: the floor makes a pitcher mound and closes in R - Lunar Rush - Base steal: she dashes legs firts towards the enemy, just like players to a base pros: -fits with "lil slugger trundle" -fits with the idea of not giving her a hard armor on every skin -can solve the community issue of portraying her forehead in every skin by putting the moon symbol on the cap and uniform cons: -turns the "Khopsickle" into an straight bat (unless you want a curve/broken bat) -passive is hard to change to fit with skin Parrot please give some signs of liking/disliking the idea P.S. regarding the on-topic she wouldn't feel that girly in this idea of a skin even with clothing because she is playing rough =P; Also is someone with artistic capabilities would like to draw this I would appreciate it so much
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78% of people according to the poll think the new Diana skin needs to be changed or redone completely. There should be a bell going off at Riot headquarters. Riot will make very little money with this skin because very few people will buy it due to dissatisfaction. Who is running the business/marketing side of Riot? When a movie is made it is screened by a theater full of random people. They analyze how the people respond to the film and change the film accordingly. This has been done to numerous films. (i.e. World War Z) This thread is that test theater. You see how many people want the new Diana skin to be fixed. Please do so or else this skin will be a flop no one will buy it which means Riot will not make any money etc. etc. Business 101.
after mixing few versions/edits made by Xokolade I made two version that may somehow work for that whole concept of Lunar Event and still look cool/badass blue dress similar to what he have on actual model + blue fits Diana after all bright red because woooo Lunar Revel, Chinese New Year, etc. must have aspect
Okay, so I did say I appreciated that the purple in this skin was lighter and more pastel... as well, that my vote is for pastels in this particular skin. However, upon trying the skin on in PBE, I stand by my statement that there has been WAY TOO MUCH PURPLE lately. And Diana already has a skin with purple too (Dark Valkyrie). Let me illustrate: So I make this a formal plea to change the purple-tones on the skin. Purple as a colour has been abused... please give the color a rest for a while, take this purple back too; the gross overuse of purple also waters down the appeal and visual impact of certain champions/skins because they all meld into this androgynous purple-club. I vote for a soft orange or teal-replacement. Bonus: all it does for me selfishly is further diminish Quinn's visual appeal which saddens me... she's blue/purple hued too, but every other blue/purple motif outshines her because of better color-blending/resolution/texturizing... it's kinda salt in the wound, ya know?


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Claxton, Georgia, is famous for its fruitcakes, and I had the pleasure of knowing the nuttiest one of all of them. Her name was Sadie. She lived across the street and over one from my grandmother (we called it caddy-cornered), and she was a 4-foot-11, 86-year-old firecracker of a woman.
Sadie reminded me a bit of Rose Nyland (made famous by Betty White in the Golden Girls series). She loved to tell stories of growing up "over in Claxton" (she lived in Jacksonville, Florida when I knew her), and her stories rambled and wove much like she drove on a late night after a few too many juleps.
Any time any of my grandmother, Elner's, "kids" (be they her children, nieces, nephews, cousins, grandchildren, or urchins she picked up off the street) came over, Sadie had to drop by and visit. She LOVED my grandmother and she loved our extended family. She loved to talk, and we were happy to listen. When Sadie came by, she talked about the latest church gossip (she did NOT like that new woman preacher), the latest beauty parlor gossip (can you believe what Faye said about Beverly's daughter?), and what everyone who lived on the street was up to. She enjoyed asking my dad about his trips to "Codorado" and my mom if she had seen the latest of "Orpah's" shows. She was so cute (and stubborn) that we didn't bother to correct her.
Sadie had a little dog named Clem. Clem was her baby, mainly because he was the main connection she had to her deceased husband. Clem had been Ed's dog, and she honestly believed that a little piece of Ed resided in Clem somewhere. So, she cooked him a steak dinner every Saturday night.
Sadie did love taking care of people. Even after her mind started to go and her eyesight was blurred by "cadillacs," she still loved to bake cakes for people. Which brings me to my recipe...
We were there visiting my grandparents one summer, and Sadie came waltzing in with one of her chocolate pound cakes. Now that was an amazing cake! But, this time, something was a little off. My grandmother, while a wonderful woman, was not known for giving people the benefit of the doubt, or for cushioning feelings.
"Sadie, WHAT is wrong with this cake?"
"What do you mean? It's not good??"
"No...it's hot!"
"Oh, well, when I went to measure the cinnamon, the phone rang and I dropped the container. A little more than was called for went in. I figured it would be okay though."
"Sadie, this doesn't taste like cinnamon."
"Oh...well...maybe it was cayenne. Sorry 'bout that. I'll go home and make you another one." And with that, she was gone.
Firecracker Chocolate Cake
1/2 pound butter
1/2 pound shortening
3 cups sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
5 eggs or 6 (sorry...this is Sadie's recipe!)
1 cup milk
3 cups sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon, or cayenne -- your choice (feel free to add more if startled by the telephone)
1 tablespoon vanilla
Cream butter, shortening, and sugar. Add cocoa and eggs (one at a time, beating after each addition).
Mix flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon or cayenne.
Alternate adding flour and milk mixture, beating well after each addition. Start and end with flour (I typically do 3 rounds of flour separated by 2 rounds of milk). Beat in vanilla.
Bake 1 hour 20 minutes at 325 degrees in a greased and floured bundt pan.
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Professor Green Delays Tour Over 'Mental Life'
Professor Green's fans are going to have to wait even longer to see him perform live after he postponed his tour for a second time.
The rapper, who was banned from driving for a year, said the decision was a result of his "wonderfully colourful day-to-day life".
The 12-date series of gigs had been due to start next month but tour promoters said "from a professional position the only decision was to move the tour to later this year".
The tour had been due to take place in November of last year but was put back after he had been involved in a car accident which caused delays to his album.
It will now take place in November and December.
Announcing the postponement, Green blasted what he called "silly billy bully boys" who were involved in his arrest for perverting the course of justice as part of the investigation into the driving offence, although he was not charged.
Green, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, was banned last month after he admitted driving while over the limit, claiming he had been pursuing a thief who had taken his Rolex watch when he and his Made In Chelsea star wife Millie Mackintosh were confronted outside their home in Lewisham, south London.
The court heard how he was arrested for the further alleged offence over doubts about his story, but there have been no charges.
Green said: "The last 18 months have been mental, turbulent, up and down, round and round, amazing, horrible, happy, sad, frustrating, testing, trying and above all incredibly f*****g stressful.
"I wanted an album out last October but as most of you are aware a lot has happened in my wonderfully colourful day-to-day life.
"I got hit by a car, got married and then had my life turned upside down by an entirely unfounded arrest for something which I was subsequently not charged. A waste of time. Silly billy bully boys."
He said the album was now finished and told fans: "You lot have been there the whole way and I can't wait to get this album out for you all to hear and to get back on stage without a gammy knee or a looming bail date.
"That said I'm not gonna come out and perform the same set I have been since the last album, it wouldn't be fair to you - at least not until I'm doing a greatest hits tour when I'm on my third marriage, have 12 kids and a huge tax bill."
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Might the cultural sensibility that came to be referred to as postmodernism best be seen as a prolonged meditation on all the technological changes that never happened?
The question struck me as I watched one of the recent Star Wars movies. The movie was terrible, but I couldn't help but feel impressed by the quality of the special effects.
Recalling the clumsy special effects typical of fifties sci-fi films, I kept thinking how impressed a fifties audience would have been if they'd known what we could do by now—only to realize, "Actually, no. They wouldn't be impressed at all, would they? They thought we'd be doing this kind of thing by now. Not just figuring out more sophisticated ways to simulate it."
That last word—simulate—is key. The technologies that have advanced since the seventies are mainly either medical technologies or information technologies—largely, technologies of simulation. [snip]
The postmodern sensibility, the feeling that we had somehow broken into an unprecedented new historical period in which we understood that there is nothing new; that grand historical narratives of progress and liberation were meaningless; that everything now was simulation, ironic repetition, fragmentation, and pastiche—all this makes sense in a technological environment in which the only breakthroughs were those that made it easier to create, transfer, and rearrange virtual projections of things that either already existed, or, we came to realize, never would.
Surely, if we were vacationing in geodesic domes on Mars or toting about pocket-size nuclear fusion plants or telekinetic mind-reading devices no one would ever have been talking like this.
The postmodern moment was a desperate way to take what could otherwise only be felt as a bitter disappointment and to dress it up as something epochal, exciting, and new.
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Is progress in technology winding down?
September 16, 2014Is technological progress winding down? I think it might be. And if it is, I have some ideas as to why this might be so.
I have seen many changes in my adult lifetime (since 1957), but I think the changes my grandparents saw were greater. They saw the advent of electricity, the telephone, piped water, radio and the automobile—not that these things were invented in their lifetimes, but that they came into widespread use.
What have I seen that is comparable? Television, the personal computer, the Internet, affordable air travel. I don't think that any of these things changed my life as the progress of technology changed my grandparents' and my parents' lives.
I don't think this is because inventors are less creative. The electrical generating plant and the internal combustion engine were much more complicated than the steam engine, and the nuclear reactor is more complicated still. The telephone was a more ingenious invention than the telegraphy, and the Internet even more ingenious. Compared to the first car I owned, the car I have now is like something out of science fiction.
Rather it is because the simple inventions that have a big payoff have already been made. As the Japanese would say, we have picked the low-hanging fruit. It is in the nature of things that the demands on engineers and inventors in the future will be greater, and the payoff will be less.
The first oil wells were simple devices compared to deep water drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Think about drilling a deep vertical shaft into the earth's surface, then drilling a horizontal shaft out from that, then setting off explosives to fracture the layers of shale, then pumping in detergent to force out the oil and gas. It is amazing to me that this is possible at all. Yet the payoff is less and the hazards are greater than in the old well because the low-hanging fruit already has been picked.
Then, too, to the extent that technological progress consists of using external sources of energy more efficiently, it is self-limiting, because there are finite amounts of water power, fossil fuels and nuclear fuels.
This is all speculation. I could be wrong. This is not a subject about which I have deep knowledge.
I remember all the people in the past, including the man who said about a century ago that the U.S. Patent Office should be closed because there was nothing important left to invent. And even if I'm right for now, there could be some breakthrough that would change everything.
Why, then, do I even bother to post on this topic? It is because so many people, especially us Americans, seem to think that indefinite technological progress is a law of nature.
The extreme example of this is the high-tech entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil, who says that accelerating scientific progress will soon bring us everything we could wish for, including immortality. A more common example is the people who refuse to be alarmed about climate change, exhaustion of fossil fuels or mutant drug-resistant disease, because they are confident something will turn up.
I've seen construction crews with flow charts of their work, culminating in a box saying [AND THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS]. This of course was a joke, but if we as a people assume this in real life, the consequences will not be a joke.
The passing scene: Links & notes 12/1/13
December 1, 2013The latest health issue for the elderly: 'observation purgatory' in hospitals by June McCoy for The Guardian. Hat tip to naked capitalism.
Medicare's payment structure gives hospitals an incentive to designate elderly patients as "observations" rather than "admissions." This means less care for the patient and higher bills for their families.
23andMe is Terrifying But Not for the Reason the FDA Thinks by Charles Seife for Scientific American. Hat tip to naked capitalism.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered a genetics testing company to stop selling its products until it can prove its tests are accurate. But the writer says the real danger is creating a genetics database on millions of Americans that could be tapped by Big Brother.
Activist Malpractice by Michael Donnelly for Counterpunch. Hat tip to Mike Connelly.
The writer slams Democrats, liberals and fake environmentalists who facilitate the Alberta tar sands mining, mining by mountaintop removal in Appalachia and clear-cutting of forests in Oregon.
Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week by the Canadian Press.
As the Arctic icecap melts, Canada, Russia and Denmark (which owns Greenland) are mapping their northern continental shelves and staking claims to the floor of the sea. Canada's claim will be the size of the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba combined.
Nicaragua canal boosts China power by Arnie Seiki for Asia Times.
China and Nicaragua have signed an agreement that would give China the right to build a canal across Nicaragua rivaling the Panama Canal. While it's long way from signing an agreement to actually building a canal, it is a sign of China's emergence as a global power, and not merely an east Asian power.
Wal-Mart arrests could fuel "a new political movement of the disenfranchised," Grayson tells Salon.
Weird science: links & comments 9/16/13
September 16, 2013The natural world is a source of beauty, awesomeness and knowledge, but we human beings have to seek justice, mercy and the means of survival within ourselves.
They're Taking Over by Tim Flannery for New York Review of Books.
This review of Stung! Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Oceans by Lisa-ann Gershwin tells how the rich ecology of vast areas of the world's oceans are dominated by jellyfish. That is because much marine life is sensitive to pollution and climate change, while the jellyfish can survive almost any conditions. Flannery sees nothing to prevent jellyfish displacing all other surface marine life.
Evolutionary fitness is different from being high on the food chain. Jellyfishes and cockroaches may be better able to survive radical changes in the environment than whales, dolphins or humans. I hope Flannery and Gershwin are wrong, although I don't know any facts that prove them wrong.
Stop pretending we aren't living in the Space Age by Annalee Newitz for io9.
The Space Age is already here. We depend on space satellites for communications, global positioning and much else and, at any given time, there are scientists, engineers and technicians working in interplanetary space.
The First Gear Discovered in Nature by William Herkewitz for Popular Mechanics.
Wheels were not thought to occur in nature, but scientists of discovered a tiny insect with biological gears that increase its jumping power.
Architect in London Accidentally Builds Solar Death Ray by Sam Webb for London Daily Mail. Hat tip to Bored Panda.
The curved reflective surface of a London skyscraper focused the sun's rays so as to partially melt a businessman's car. Nobody actually was killed.
The Radical Challenge of Building a Dorm for the Deaf by Liz Stinson for Wired magazine.
Gaullaudet University in Washington, D.C., is the largest U.S. educational institution for the deaf. This article tells how its new residence hall was designed to create the equivalent of good acoustics—to minimize the occasions in which deaf students would not be able to face each other. There is much more to this than I would have thought.
As Humans Change Landscape, Brains of Animals Change, Too by Carl Zimmer for the New York Times.
Scientific studies indicate that the sophisticated city mouse may have a larger brain than the old-fashioned country mouse.
Preventive maintenance, the price of civilization
August 20, 2013The 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke said that human society was based on a contract between the present generation, past generations and generations yet to come.
He was speaking and writing about social institutions, but the same is just as true of the physical infrastructure of our society.
When I was a boy, electricity, telephone service and running water were not things that everybody had, and there were living people who could remember when these things are unusual. I enjoy a higher material standard of living than my parents did, based on technologies I did nothing to create, from my Internet connection to my thermostat-controlled furnace. I can't repay my debt to previous generations, but I can pay it forward to the next generation. That's what I think Burke meant.
These thoughts were prompted by an article I read in The Washington Post on-line by Brad Plumer about how electric power outages are becoming more common. He noted that the U.S. electrical transmission system is aging and not being replaced, and wondered if there would be fewer outages if there were a more modern system.
Of course the expense of upgrading the transmission lines will have to be paid by someone—the utility stockholders, the utility customers or both. The cost of neglect may be greater in the long-run, but the decision-maker won't be around to face the consequences.
I think this is part of a larger problem—neglect of the preventive maintenance that is needed to keep our technological systems going.
There is a lot of political support for gee-whiz technologies such as high-speed rail, but not so much for mundane work such as inspecting and upgrading the existing track system so that trains can proceed safely at normal speeds.
I don't see this as an economic or governmental question as a question of attitude. No matter what the system, there will be a temptation to put aside long-range concerns and focus on the next quarterly profit statement or the next election. We live in the present and forget the generation yet to come.
Terrorism, the Internet and free speech
August 14, 2013I've posted a good bit lately about abuses of power by the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies. My friend Daniel Brandt recently e-mailed me some links to articles by a UK news service called The Kernel which are a good reminder that there are Islamic terrorists who really should be spied on.
The articles describe how terrorists are recruited through Islamic jihadist discussion forums. Typically there will be an open forum which argues the radical Muslim jihadists are justified. People who post on the forum and have someone to vouch for them are then admitted to closed forums which discussed actual terrorism.
I don't believe the NSA and the other Homeland Security agencies should spy on all Americans. I don't believe they should spy on peaceful protesters. I don't believe they should encourage and then entrap people into terrorists plots. But they do have a right and duty to monitor pro-terrorist web sites so they can nip plots in the bud.
Here are links to The Kernel series.
The scariest sites on the Internet by Jeremy Wilson.
The hosts keeping radical Islamic forums online by James Cook.
CloudFlare: 'terrorists little helper' by James Cook.
Chaos on campus: Islamists and social media by Jeremy Wilson.
When 'free speech' means defending evil murderers by Milos Yiannopoulos, editor-in-chief.
The Kernel is especially concerned about an Internet company called CloudFlare. Daniel Brandt also is critical of that company. What CloudFlare purports to do is to provide services by which web sites can product their anonymity, survive denial of service attacks and optimize their efficiency.
The Kernel writers criticize CloudFlare for protecting radical Islamic web sites against denial of service attacks by US and UK intelligence services. Daniel Brandt's criticism is broader. He says CloudFlare also provides a shield for malicious hackers, cyber-bullies, hard-core pornographers, copyright pirates and other kinds of lawbreakers.
Here are links to statements of CloudFlare's position.
CloudFlare and Free Speech by Matthew Prince, chief executive officer.
Ceasefires Don't End Cyberwars by Matthew Prince.
Here are links to statements of Daniel Brandt's position.
Web watchdog's new site: CloudFlare Watch.org
What it all comes down to is which you fear more, abuse of freedom or abuse of power. This is not an easy question. What Milos Yiannopoulos fears most is abuse of freedom. What I fear the most is abuse of power.
Yiannopoulos thinks Twitter, YouTube and CloudFlare should be regarded as publishers, like Huffington Post, and exercise pro-active responsibility to take down dangerous content, based on their own judgment. He doesn't think this is censorship, but what else would you call it.
I think Twitter, YouTube and the like should be regarded as public utilities, like Rochester Telephone, which provide services to all members of the public unless there is a specific legal reason not to do so.
What do you think?
An end to progress? Arguments pro and con
August 6, 2013.
An economist named Robert J. Gordon, and Erik Byrnjolfsson, director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, had an interesting debate at a TED forum on whether the days of rapid economic growth are over.
Gordon said improvements in world living standards are the result of two historical events that may not be repeated—the first industrial revolution, based on coal, iron and steam, beginning in the late 1700s in Britain, and the second industrial revolution, based on oil, electricity and the internal combustion engine, beginning in the late 1800s in the USA.
Both these revolutions have run their course, he said, and there's no reason to think that the current technological revolution in information technology will have the same impact. The i-phone is nice, but it will not change society in the same way that Alexander Graham Bell's telephone did.
Byrnjolfsson said computer and information technology are in their infancy, and will have as great an impact as the earlier technological revolutions. Human beings haven't as yet learned how to work most effectively with the new technology, he said.
Much depends on which one is right. With rapid economic growth, it is possible for all classes of society, rich, middle and poor, to improve their condition without hurting the others, except maybe in relative terms. With flat or declining economic growth, the struggle for economic and political power becomes much more of a zero sum game, a sorting of society into winners and losers.
I think the videos are interesting and worth watching, but I also think both speakers fail to emphasize an important thing—that improvement in the material standard of living requires not only progress in science and technology, but public policies that make the fruits of science and technology available to the wider public.
Improvements in public health, for example, are based not only on discoveries about vaccination, antiseptics and antibiotics, but also from public water and sewerage systems, food inspections and mass vaccinations of school children. Universal telephone service is based not only on a technology, but also on a commitment by AT&T as a condition of maintaining its monopoly position.
Advances in technology don't automatically abolish poverty. George Orwell, in The Road to Wigan Pier, which is about unemployed British coal miners in the 1930s, pointed out that every miner's family owned a radio, a technological wonder unavailable to kings and emperors 50 years before. And yet these same miners had difficulty putting food on the table. Not having radios would not have enabled them to pay for it.
Brynjolfsson could be right. Factory automation could produce a world of leisure and well-being for everyone. But, depending on who is running things, it could produce a world like that imagined by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in his 1952 novel Player Piano.
I can easily imagine a future USA with amazing information technology, communications technology and virtual reality entertainment technology, not to mention science-fictional war-making and surveillance technology. And along with this, growing shortages of affordable housing, medical care and higher education, and a deterioration of public services and the physical environment.
I'm neither foolish enough nor brave enough to attempt to predict the future. I don't think decline is inevitable. But all it requires is for us to continue on our present path. We're halfway there now.
The Saturn V rocket explained in common words
August 3, 2013The Saturn V rocket explained in the 1,000 most common words in the English language.
Source: xkcd: Up Goer Five.
If you like this, you might like Short Words to Explain Relativity.
Hat tip for both to kottke.org.
After 33 years, a human-powered helicopter
July 13, 2013Click on this article in Popular Mechanics for details.
Hat tip to kottke.org.


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Birmingham-based teenager who was shot by Taliban flies to Africa to support cause
Maleficent is a new take on the Brothers Grimm story of Sleeping Beauty, with the bad fairy centre stage.
New Disney blockbuster weaves a magic all of its own
Cattery worker Claire Rainbow has spent four years refining iconic skintight leather outifit
Almost half a million healthy women at high risk of breast cancer should be offered a cheap course of drugs to drastically cut their chances of contracting the disease
Smiling couple greeted cheering fans as they arrived in London's Leicester Square for the world premiere of Pitt's new movie World War Z
Anti-sleaze reforms will not be abandoned, Nick Clegg has vowed and two men are due to appear in court charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby
Having recently witnessed my good friend Michelle Heaton go through a mastectomy, seeing them get on with their lives is an inspiration to others
Sutton Coldfield administrator Alison Cupples went under the knife in 2008 after being told she had the BRCA1 gene
The Hollywood star said she took the decision after doctors found she had a faulty gene, which meant she had an 87% risk of developing cancer
Stuart Hazell will be sentenced this morning for the murder of Tia Sharp and Angelina Jolie has had a preventive double mastectomy
Unnamed organisation in Pakistan gets £29,500 from charity fund to educate 40 girls in safety
A look back at the defining images that made the news in 2012
Shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai should be sentenced to death says Muslim extremist
Brummies are flocking to support brave Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafza while she is treated at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Consumer Editor Emma McKinney seeks out top products on the market aimed at making life easier for those who find the right way's left.
HERE'S Our selection of some of the most outstanding photographs from around the globe today.
Black and white are the big colours of the moment - especially judging by the Oscar awards last week.
AN exotic sports car used in a Hollywood blockbuster is set to go under the hammer at a Birmingham motor auction.
Take a look at our selection of the best photographs from around the world today.
HIT'S perhaps surprising to see Brad Pitt in a film about baseball, given his own traumatic history with the sport.
HONE of the funniest moments in Kung Fu Panda 2 comes when giant panda Po realises that noodle-making Mr Ping, a goose, might not be his real father.
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WE are used to seeing Professor Charles Xavier as the compassionate and noble wheelchair-bound father-figure to the mutant protégés at his school for the gifted.
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Flop of the Night: LeBron James
April, 30, 2012
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LeBron James earns top honors.
HoopIdea wants to #StopTheFlop. To spotlight the biggest fakers, we present Flop of the Night. You can help us separate the pretenders from the defenders -- details below:
Flopping in the NBA is hitting a new level with the arrival of the playoffs. Our first playoff Flop of the Night goes to LeBron James, a player who has shown a flair for the flop in postseasons past.
James's prolonged reaction to a rugged back pick from Tyson Chandler drew the most scrutiny on Saturday (and a flagrant foul on Chandler), but it's actually the preceding play that earns James this dubious award.
After deflecting a Knick pass, James tracks down the loose ball in the corner, where he is hemmed in by J.R. Smith. At first glance it seems as though Smith, in his eagerness to recover possession, nudges James to the ground. But this replay shows that it's actually James who elbows Smith before losing his balance and falling out of bounds.
Luckily, Jeff Van Gundy was on the scene to call out the flop: "I'm not giving him that call. If I'm the referee, [it's] ball out of bounds, good. Knick ball the other way."
It's worth listening to the end of the clip, when a slow-mo replay of the flop reduces Van Gundy's commentary to indistinct grumbling. He is literally speechless.
Runner up: Chris Paul, who is blown backward by this seemingly innocuous fourth quarter drive from Mike Conley.
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The hordes are flocking to the mecca of what's known in the trade as Home Meal Replacement, a concept that developed from the fact that there's a whole generation of folks out there who don't know how to cook and another that's too time-poor to even try. It's the same market that Yapa and its ilk have been catering to for a few years, but eatZi's is to Yapa as a Randalls Signature Store is to a mom and pop grocery. They basically do the same thing, but at a vastly different scale.
In eatZi's case, what they do is offer up restaurant-quality food that you then take home and reheat. But having visited this Dallas import (the first eatZi's opened 18 months ago in our neighbor to the north) often in the past few weeks, I find myself pondering two questions: Is it possible to be too popular? And is it possible to have too many choices? My answer to each query, at least as far as eatZi's is concerned, is a resounding yes.
At eatZi's, the pace is frenetic, the wait for service lengthy and the parking lot impossibly small -- all, I suspect, by design, and all to add to the ambiance of takeout food emporium as circus. (Want opera at 7 a.m. or chefs behind the grill who shout a merry refrain about the chickens they prepare? EatZi's offers both.) I wonder if, once the novelty diminishes, customers will continue to endure such things. Maybe so -- the Dallas eatZi's is still going strong a year and a half in.
It's not that eatZi's is always chaotic; after a while, I learned that the best time to visit is early in the morning or late at night. At these times, you may actually be able to walk around and get a feeling for what's available, might actually be able to notice the fine selection of wines, beers and fresh flowers and linger over the beautifully displayed produce and other specialty items. You can even enjoy a simple breakfast of cappuccino and croissant. And in the late of the evening, most of what's left (if there is anything left) in the refrigerated counter goes for half price.
Alas, every time I visited at more normal hours, I found more cacophony than convenience. It wasn't simply the lines, though they're everywhere -- to get in, to get served, to pay. It was also that the aisles are narrow and crowded with gawkers who know they should buy something but aren't sure just what. The more than 30 toque-wearing chefs add to the hubbub. You can be sure that every time you stop to examine something or ask for a sample of any of the multitude of foods available, you'll be blocking someone. I contemplated that in the amount of time I spent getting in and getting out, I could probably have eaten at a nearby restaurant.
The dazzling arrays of available stuff make decisions hard, a difficulty best seen at the deli counter. On my first visit to eatZi's I was on a tight schedule, and decided to zip in and grab a quick sandwich. Wrong. You don't zip anywhere at eatZi's. Since there were eight people ahead of me and only two servers, I decided to forgo the wait and instead grabbed some teriyaki spring rolls along with some shrimp spring rolls, which were disappointingly dry, as if they had been sitting in a refrigerator for hours (which they had). At the checkout, I asked how early in the morning I could get a sandwich. "As soon as we open," was the reply. Fine. The next day I entered at 7:30 a.m. and headed for the sandwich counter. "We're not quite ready," a server told me. "No problem," I replied. "When will you be ready?" "At ten." And so I left.
When I finally made it to the head of the line on my next visit, I understood why it took so long to be served. There are more than ten different choices of breads and ten different kinds of spreads to put on them, as well as 100 different cheeses and easily 50 different kinds of meats. There is no apparent end to the permutations available. Well, there is some: When I asked for liverwurst as my meat, I was told they didn't have it. When I pointed it out in a deli case just a few feet away, I was informed that I would have to purchase it from the deli counter (one line) then bring it to the sandwich maker (another line). I settled for a pastrami on rye with Swiss, with an ancho chili spread. It was large, and it was delicious. But I still longed for some liverwurst.


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Don't forget your radio, OC and key ring. And go with a Surefire...lots lighter.
This is a discussion on A Policeman's Belt within the Law Enforcement, Military & Homeland Security Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Don't forget your radio, OC and key ring. And go with a Surefire...lots lighter....
Don't forget your radio, OC and key ring. And go with a Surefire...lots lighter.
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Get a cuff holder that holds two sets.
For one thing, you cant imagine how often that comes in handy.
For another, fat guys and woman, with short arms wont pull around far enough to cuff in the back cause they are too fat. Using two pair of cuffs, one hooked to the other, takes care of that.
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
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Quick thinking about yourself...get the furry cuffs they chaffe less and your prisoners will appreciate it
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
You could put a knife in the underbelt. Ka-Bar TDI is what I'd use.
Gun control can be blamed in part for allowing 9/11 to happen.
"Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum" (Latin)- "If you want peace, prepare for war".
Don't forget your radio holder and an OC holder.
Good Luck to you! The reserves are a great way to help out in your community.
I use a 1/2 size pepper spray, as it makes it easier to sit in your car. MK-3, 1.47 ounce. I'd stay away from the Fox spray in the green can, its pretty hot stuff. Rule of thumb --- you WILL get sprayed by yourself and your partner, so if you don't mind it in your grill, go ahead and get it.
I don't like hinged cuffs, because they only flex in one axis. They are more difficult to apply rapidly. I think they're gimmicky.
Ditto on getting the nickel plated and the Peerless. Durable and time tested.
Also, get yourself an UnderArmor t-shirt, it wicks the moisture away from your body and makes it a little more comfortable under the vest.
Thats the reason I carry a set of hinged is so the suspect can not move his/her hands when in custody or sitting in the back of the crusier. But look into S&W or peerless but the Mil uses S&W so thats why I carry them. And trust me get a set of both they come in handy in different situations of the job. They serve me well on my duty tours daily.
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Don't forget a good handcuff key. The one that comes with the cuffs is dinky and hard to work with, especially at night. You want a bigger one that is easier to manipulate in the dark. Streamlight makes a nice one that glows with a small LED light when you squeeze it together.
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My duty belt goes like this, from my left to my right from center:, gerber/leatherman, oc, cuff strap(asp chain), main flashlight pouch, radio holder, keeper to hold occasional 3rd set of cuffs(s&w chain), (glove case, asp holder, cuff strap(asp hinged), duty holster, silent key keeper, mag pouch with my secondary light attached.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt


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Gathering fourteen lectures by the pioneers of securitization and by current practitioners—from Freddie Mac, Paine Webber, JP Morgan, Chrysler, McKinsey & Co., and other major players—A Primer on Securitization introduces readers to America's newest system of raising capital: what it is, how it operates, and what difference securitization makes.
The securitization process bypasses financial intermediaries that have historically collected deposits and loaned them to those seeking funds, and links borrowers directly to money and capital markets. Authoritative and practical, these lectures show how securitization was developed to fill a gap in financial markets. They discuss the nature and causes of the market imperfections that made securitization a valuable source of funds, and describe how securitization has linked local mortgage markets with international capital markets. Readers will gain a broad perspective of the different parties—the borrower, the loan originator, the servicer, the rating agency, the special purpose vehicle, the credit enhancer, the underwriter, and the investor—as well as a detailed analysis of how these parties relate to one another.
" A Primer on Securitization does a very good job of explaining what securitization is, how it is accomplished, and what difference it makes. The coverage of the book is impressive, ranging from the basics of securitization to more recent developments in international markets, to the effect of the process on monetary control. The chapters are informative, and are written by many of the top names in the field. An excellent book." Maureen O"Hara , R.W. Purcell Professor of Finanace, Cornell University