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Agency of the Month examines the many important facets of government agencies. Each month, Federal News Radio speaks with top executives from a specific agency about the issues most important to its mission. The Agency of the Month for November 2013 - the Social Security Administration.
Thursday - 11/7/2013, 11:14am EST
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The lessons learned from fiscal 2013 are helping senior executives prepare for 2014 and beyond. These lessons will be especially helpful if sequestration continues, as is expected without congressional action.
Peter Spencer is the deputy commissioner for Budget, Finance, Quality and Management at the Social Security Administration.
In part two of his conversation with Agency of the Month host Sean McCalley, Spencer shares advice and fiscal disappointments from both inside and out of his agency during a tough budget climate.
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Peter D. Spencer (Pete) became Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance, Quality, and Management (DCBFQM) in March 2013. In this role, Pete serves as the agency's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and is accountable for an $800 billion program budget and an $11 billion administrative budget.
Prior to becoming the DCBFQM, Pete was a consultant in the private sector after retiring from SSA in September 2011 with over 44 years of Federal service.
He had been the Regional Commissioner for the San Francisco Region since November 2001. As the principal Social Security official for Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, he provided leadership for the effective operation of all Social Security programs in the San Francisco region. He directed 6,800 employees at regional and field facilities, including the Western Program Service Center, and managed an annual budget in excess of $300 million.
Pete served as Social Security's acting deputy commissioner for Finance, Assessment, and Management in 2001. He oversaw the comprehensive budget program, the acquisition and grants program, audit resolution, accounting operations, internal controls, quality assessment, and facilities and publications management programs. He also served as Social Security's CFO, deputy chief information officer, and principal deputy ethics counselor.
Pete began his career with Social Security in the Los Angeles field office. Since then, he has held numerous responsible positions, including:
Pete holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Loyola University in Maryland and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands in California. He also attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a graduate of the Management Intern Program and the Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program.
Pete received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive in 2006; the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive in 2002; and SSA's Leadership Award, given to one management official annually, in 2001. In addition, Pete has received the Commissioner's Citation — the agency's highest award — four times.
Spencer was born in Bremerton, Washington. He is married and has one daughter.


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The State government has agreed to constitute a committee headed by a senior officer to go into allegations of misuse of funds for repairs to hospitals under the ambit of AP Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP).
The decision of the government was announced in the Assembly by Health Minister D. Nagender during question hour on Thursday. On a suggestion, he assured members that they would also be represented on the panel. He also agreed to get construction works of APVVP hospitals transferred from its engineering wing to the AP Health, Medical, Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation.
The Minister was replying to a question by Congress MLAs, D.L. Ravindra Reddy and R. Damodar Reddy, who challenged that they would prove misuse of funds if an inquiry was ordered. They wanted an IPS officer to head the probe.
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Social Welfare Minister P. Subhash Chandra Bose said, in reply to a separate question, that the government would launch construction of buildings for 1,115 social welfare hostels housed in rented premises and 115 other hostels in dilapidated condition on February 1. The detailed estimates for these works to be taken up at mandal headquarters villages at a cost of Rs.1,144 crore would be prepared by December. All buildings would function as integrated hostels.
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First Star Resources sampling of previous un-split drill core reveals high-grade gold and silver. 6.9m grading 11.7 g/t gold and 13.8 g/t silver in drill hole LM-10-39
VANCOUVER, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – First Star Resources Inc. (TSXV: FS) ("First Star") is pleased to provide an update of its 2011 winter core
cutting program on its flagship property, LMS, in Alaska. The LMS
property is under Joint Venture with Corvus Gold Inc. (A spin off from
International Tower Hill). (TSX:KOR.to – News).
An update including assays on the company's winter drilling program at
LMS will follow soon.
In February and March the company sampled drill core from above and
below the graphitic quartzite breccia that was not sampled by the
previous operators during the 2005 and 2006 drilling, as well as 2010
drill core from the "feeder zone" in the lower gneiss unit previously
not sampled by First Star. While several core samples collected from
above and below the gold-bearing graphitic quartzite breccia zone
returned gold values in the 0.2 to 0.8 g/t gold range, the surprising
news is that the company discovered more high grade gold mineralization
in the lower gneiss zone. The company is planning on cutting more
"feeder zone material" from drill core not sampled by previous
operators during the 2005 and 2006 drilling in the coming weeks.
Two samples collected from previously un-sampled core from the feeder
zone area in the lower gneiss unit of drill hole LM-10-39 revealed
grades of 21.9 and 7.45 g/t gold.
____________________________________________________________________ |From (ft)|To (ft)|Interval (ft)|Interval (m)|Gold (g/t)|Silver (g/t)| |_________|_______|_____________|____________|__________|____________| | 881.5 | 885.0 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 21.9 | 13.05 | |_________|_______|_____________|____________|__________|____________| | 885.0 | 890.0 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 7.45 | 0.84 | |_________|_______|_____________|____________|__________|____________|
With the recent samples collected First Star is pleased to announce that
is has extended the feeder zone drill intercept in drill hole LM-10-39 to 6.9 metres:
____________________________________________________________________ |From (ft)|To (ft)|Interval (ft)|Interval (m)|Gold (g/t)|Silver (g/t)| |_________|_______|_____________|____________|__________|____________| | 879.0 | 901.5 | 22.5 | 6.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | |_________|_______|_____________|____________|__________|____________|
A 0.2 g/t cut off for gold used for composite calculations
Due to technical difficulties drill hole LM-10-39 was not completed in
2010, but will be re-entered and finished in May 2011.
First Star is very pleased with its recent achievements on the LMS gold
property: 1) the company successfully determined that the thickness of
the gold bearing graphitic quartzite breccia is greater than previously
thought and encountered significant gold and silver grades within the
graphitic quartzite breccia, as well as, directly above and below the
graphitic quartzite breccia in schist; and 2) successfully delineated
the high-grade gold vein feeder systems in the lower gneiss zone.
All exploration work on the LMS property is conducted by First Star's
exploration contractor Pacific Rim Geological Consulting Inc. of
Fairbanks, Alaska, under the supervision of Dr. Karsten Eden, Vice
President Exploration of First Star Resources Inc. All sample shipments
are sent to ALS Chemex in Fairbanks, Alaska, for preparation and then
on to ALS Chemex in Reno, Nevada, or Vancouver, B.C., for assay. ALS
Chemex's quality system complies with the requirements for the
International Standards ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 17025:1999. First Star
has its own quality control / quality assurance programs in place.
The LMS claim block is located in the Goodpaster Mining District of
Alaska and consists of 92 State of Alaska mining claims covering 61
square kilometers. In September 2010, First Star drilled three NC core
holes totalling 3,618 feet (1,103 metres) within the Camp Zone area of
LMS. The goals of this drilling program were to: 1) expand the
stratiform gold-bearing graphitic quartzite breccia horizon; and 2)
confirm the extent of high-grade gold vein feeder zones in the lower
gneiss zone. All three holes were designed to test both targets. The
results of this drilling program were announced were announced on
November 10, 2010 (November-10.pdf).
The technical information in this news release was reviewed by Dr.
Karsten Eden, First Star's Vice President Exploration, and a Qualified
Person as defined in NI 43-101.
About First Star Resources Inc.
First Star Resources is a junior exploration company focused on gold
exploration in the world famous Tintina Gold Belt in Alaska. The
Tintina Gold Belt hosts major gold deposits and several mines, such as;
Fort Knox Mine – 3.7 million oz. gold, the Donlin Creek deposit – 33.5
million oz. gold, the Livengood deposit- 8.1 million oz gold, White
Gold deposit- 1.4 million oz gold (Recently taken over by Kinross Gold
Corp), and the Pogo Mine 5.6 – million oz gold, which is adjacent to
one of First Stars Resources' key targets for this year, the LMS and WP
property. The LMS and West Pogo properties have well defined Gold
Targets which First Star Resources will be addressing in 2011.
Visit the Company's website, www.firststarresources.ca
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performance and reflecting First Star Resources or beliefs regarding
future events include, but are not limited to, statements with respect
to completion of the private placement and related matters. In certain
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Address change provided revenue, identity
For years, a curious thing was happening to some of the tax money due to Henrico County.
It was being paid to the City of Richmond instead.
How much, exactly, county officials had no way of knowing, but they conservatively estimated their losses between $5 million and $12 million annually.
The culprit? Inaccurate mailing addresses that labeled most of the county – even the county's own government centers – as "Richmond, Va." In total, all or portions of 15 ZIP codes in Henrico – covering nearly 100,000 postal customers – carried the Richmond name.
Tax payments made by businesses – often those with branches in Henrico but headquartered elsewhere – were being designated incorrectly for Richmond, since that's how those businesses were labeled by the Postal Service.
Fixing the problem seemed simple enough, but years of efforts by county officials couldn't convince the U.S. Postal Service to create new ZIP codes specific to the county (too complicated and costly) or give a more appropriate name to those already in use.
But finally, in early 2008, the U.S. Postal Service agreed to let Henrico residents in the affected ZIP codes decide for themselves. The result was a majority vote that spring in favor of establishing "Henrico, Va." mailing addresses that seemed long overdue. The new addresses took effect that fall, helping Henrico begin to reclaim its missing revenue and also giving it a firm identity at the same time.
For its impact on the county's coffers – and its identity – the establishment of "Henrico" mailing addresses ranks No. 14 on the Henrico Citizen's list of the most significant moments in Henrico's 400-year history.
Finding a solution
Addressing the issue had been a top priority of county executives for some time, but they knew that solutions – though seemingly simple – would require patience and could cause backlash from the city, the postal service and even their own citizens. To some degree, they were right on all counts.
When the Henrico Citizen initially reported the county's estimated tax losses in early 2003 as a result of the issue, some citizens reacted with skepticism. Others bristled at the notion of changing the recognizable "Richmond" address for something less identifiable to most outside of Central Virginia.
About seven years ago, county officials believed they had convinced the Postal Service of the gravity of the matter. The USPS initially agreed to change the "Richmond" addresses within Henrico to read "Henrico" instead, if survey respondents supported the idea. But then USPS officials backed away from the plan – as well as a subsequent effort by Henrico leaders to conduct a smaller "test" area that could be phased in slowly.
Frustrated, and still losing revenue, county officials enlisted the help of their elected officials in Congress and the Virginia General Assembly to help their efforts gain traction. But the process was slow.
Because the operations of the Postal Service do not take into consideration jurisdictional boundaries, there was no easy way for USPS officials to consider creating new Henrico-specific ZIP codes.
The "Richmond" mailing addresses had permeated Henrico during a period of decades, as the original Richmond post office expanded and opened new branch locations in the county, as well as in Chesterfield. Aside from Glen Allen, Sandston and Highland Springs – which had developed originally with all the features of small towns and therefore received their own mailing addresses and post offices – the rest of Henrico lacked those characteristics and was as a result painted by the broad "Richmond" brush.
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When years of discussions finally resulted in the USPS's decision to put the idea of a "Henrico" mailing address to a vote, county officials were thrilled. Customers in the 10 "Richmond ZIP codes located entirely within Henrico County – 23228, 23229, 23231, 23233, 23238, 23242, 23250, 23255, 23288 and 23294 – as well as those customers in the Highland Springs ZIP code, received surveys that spring asking them to vote for or against the proposed change to a "Henrico, Va." mailing address.
As the issue received more public attention, some of the anticipated public commentary became reality.
Some Western Henrico residents argued that the change would lessen the value of their "Richmond" labels, while Eastern Henrico residents, tired of existing in the shadows of Richmond, seemed mostly to favor the change. Some business objections centered around the downside of having to change letterhead, address labels and other mostly minor items.
The public debate was at times a contentious one.
"I think it's a bunch of rubbish that the county says it is losing revenue from the city," one resident wrote in response to a Citizen article about the topic in 2008. "Everyone knows Richmond. If Henrico is trying to create an identity of its own away from Richmond, it can't be done."
But county officials always viewed the issue as a straightforward one.
"The county's money should go to the county, and the city's money should go to the city," Tuckahoe District Supervisor Pat O'Bannon told the Citizen in 2008. "I think it makes sense – [the issue] is worth tax money to the county."
Henrico officials always placed blame for their lost revenue on the system that they said confused taxpayers – especially the large, corporate ones based out of state whose accountants simply checked off "Richmond" as the locality to which their payments were due. Henrico leaders didn't fault the City of Richmond, which unknowingly had become the beneficiary of the misdirected payments for years.
But when the proposed mailing address change was put to a vote, some television commercials encouraged Henrico residents to vote against the change, arguing that the loss of revenue would hurt Richmond and strike a blow to regional cooperation.
Creating an identity
Only about one-third of the customers in the affected regions responded to the 2008 survey, but of those, 61 percent voted in favor of the change, which took effect in October the same year. The vote made "Henrico" the preferred mailing address for each of the 11 affected ZIP codes located entirely within the county and an acceptable address for the Henrico customers in five ZIP codes that straddle Henrico and Richmond (23222, 23223, 23226, 23227 and 23230). (Customers in each of the 16 ZIP codes could, and can, still use "Richmond" if they desire.)
County officials celebrated a long-sought victory that also came with a perhaps unintended side benefit: a true identity for the county.
Because most of the affected ZIP codes were in the heart of Henrico's West End commercial corridor, the change provided instant and widespread name recognition for the county, which has only grown in the years since. That impact may be more difficult to quantify but no less valuable as a result.
Henrico's effort to correct a Postal Service flaw spawned similar efforts elsewhere in Virginia – a rare state in which cities and counties cannot overlap – including in Chesterfield County, where new mailing addresses recently took effect.
Henrico officials have credited their own change with helping to restore millions of dollars to the county's budget – money that has been particularly welcome during the recession of the past several years.
Holman student named Miss Va. Coed Junior Teen
Holman Middle School student Victoria Nguyen recently was named Miss Virginia American Coed Junior Teen after competing in the Miss Virginia American Coed pageant in Williamsburg. She was the youngest competitor in her division. Nguyen now will advance to represent Virginia at the 2015 Miss American Junior Teen Pageant at Walt Disney World in Florida in November. > Read more.
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Companion Extraordinaire Home Care and Skilled Services will be honoring veterans and current military members May 14 at 11 a.m. The event will take place at 5311 Lakeside Avenue.
Companion Extraordinaire dedicated a hall in its new Lakeside office as a "Wall of Honor" and will be presenting 13 military service men and women with certificates as well as placing their service photos on the wall.
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Henrico student among 3 vying for national $10,000 scholarship
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Henrico resident Haley Malloy is one of three national finalists for a $10,000 scholarship, whose winner will be determined by the vote of the public.
Malloy is a finalist for The Goddard School Anthony A. Martino Scholarship, which is open annually to any high school junior or senior who graduated from a Goddard School pre-kindergarten or kindergarten program. Applicants are evaluated based upon the work ethic and perseverance they have demonstrated – two key characteristics of Martino, the founder of the Goddard School franchise system. > Read more.
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Disneynature's 'Monkey Kingdom' is its strongest yet
"Did you know monkeys could swim?" asks Tina Fey in Monkey Kingdom. While she's asking, a toque macaque (a two foot-long monkey with red-white fur and great hair) breast-strokes under the surface of a pond, yanking out lily pad flowers by her teeth and dragging them ashore to munch later.
Turns out monkeys can swim. And slide down telephone poles. And do the thing from Flashdance where you bring down a cascade of water on your head and shake it off in slow-motion.
All will happen in Monkey Kingdom, the eighth film in nine years from Disneynature, Disney's wildlife documentary outlet. > Read more.
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Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and students plant vegetables at the new Saturn Street Elementary community garden, kicking off the Los Angeles Unified School District's Day of Service on Mar. 20. The edible garden is part of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company's Give Back To Gro national gardening program, focused on reducing hunger; portions of the garden's produce will be donated through First Presbyterian Church.


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StarTek has acquired Accent Marketing Services, which has $67 million in yearly sales, in hopes of diversifying its client base and adding higher-value service offerings.
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What a difference a few hours makes. Matt Harvey toed the rubber and allowed no earned runs in eight innings tonight, but as we've come to expect, the run support was not there and the Mets dropped a heartbreaker 2-1. The game was quiet for three innings, but Josh Satin got it going in the top of the fourth when he drove a double to the opposite field. John Buck followed with a double of his own, driving in Satin and giving Harv' and the Mets an early 1-0 lead. Harvey found himself in a little bit of trouble in the bottom of the fifth when Jayson Werth and Ian Desmond got on base. After getting a huge strikeout, he got the double play ball he needed, but Daniel Murphy's throw went wide and Werth came around to tie it up, 1-1. Harvey was not charged with the earned run. It was quiet again until the seventh, when Andrew Brown reached on a Ryan Zimmerman error and was moved over on Harvey's sacrifice bunt. Murphy walked, but Wright could not come through and popped out to first, ending...
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ClassicsOnline Home » SHAKESPEARE, W.: Merchant of Venice (The) (Unabridged)
Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket. Antonio falls into bad fortune and finds he cannot repay Shylock: a dramatic trial ensues to decide his fate.
By Frank Behrens
Keene (New Hampshire) Sentinel
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a comedy that produces a sense of creeping uneasiness in an audience watching it today. It is a play with complex themes: the broad humour of the young men getting into trouble for losing their wives' rings; their wives in turn cross-dressing as lawyers to save the life of their husbands' friend; the beautiful Portia wooed by ludicrous suitors; all mix unhappily with the persecution and cruel treatment of a human being because he belongs to another culture—of Shylock, a Jew. In this age of multi-culturalism we find the prejudice of the Christian majority at times offensive to our 21st-century susceptibilities. But this is a modern reaction that Shakespeare would not have recognized.
Many misconceptions have arisen about the character of Shylock and his relationship to the Christian society in which he has chosen to live. The Elizabethan audience would have had a very different theatrical experience from that of a modern audience. For a start, the Jewish moneylender (or usurer) was a recognizably comic figure to them, and Shakespeare endorses this. The first words Shylock speaks are about money: 'Three thousand ducats—well'.
The impression immediately is of a man obsessed—fixed on one thought. His stilted flow of language and his foreignness of speech are immediately obvious when set against the easy babble of those gilded Venetian flies, Salerino and Solanio. The very idea of the bond, to be sealed 'in a merry sport', proposed by Shylock, is grotesquely comic. Nevertheless Shakespeare was incapable of creating a stock character without humanity. Before the bond is proposed, he provides a psychological justification for it:
'Signor Antonio many a time and oft
…you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe…'
'Signor Antonio many a time and oft
…you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances:
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe…'
Shakespeare gives a certain reality to Shylock: he is a serious man, intense, who uses words judiciously, by which he will later stand or fall. Antonio, Bassanio and the other Christians by contrast are impulsive, irresponsible and trust to chance. Bassanio takes a chance on his wooing of Portia to clear his debts, whilst Antonio, already chancing his fortune in trade, takes a greater risk by agreeing to a loan from Shylock, the terms of which threaten his very life. By contrast, Shylock respects money, whereas the Christians don't. He hoards it, as he hoards his words; they waste it. It is a theme repeated endlessly in the play: thrift versus chance.
But did Shakespeare intend us to despise the Christians and respect the Jew? In fact, Shylock as the unjustly persecuted victim became a theatrical tradition only after the actor Edmund Kean, in the early 19th century, chose to abandon the traditional comic red wig of the stage Jew and appeared instead with black hair and a complementary dark and brooding characterization. Later in the 19th century, the actor Henry Irving imbued Shylock with so much dignity that it unbalanced the play and he ended the play after the trial scene. This was 'romanticising' Shakespeare, distorting his intentions. That Shylock is a 'comic' character is important to the action of the play. His comedy is both grotesque and uncomfortable, typified by his anguish between the loss of his daughter and the loss of his ducats. It is this grotesque extremity that provides the humour. The often quoted speech: 'Hath not a Jew eyes…' (Act III Scene1) when put in context, and not quoted as proof of Shakespeare's sympathy with his plight (which is very much a 20th- / 21st-century view of the play) shows that Shylock's motivation is not social justice but revenge:
'If you wrong us shall we not revenge?
– if we are like you in the rest we
resemble you in that…the villainy you
teach me I will execute, and it shall go
hard, but I will better the instruction.'
'If you wrong us shall we not revenge?
– if we are like you in the rest we
resemble you in that…the villainy you
teach me I will execute, and it shall go
hard, but I will better the instruction.'
It's true that his obsession for revenge is born out of gross injustice—a truth that Shakespeare observes—but obsession corrupts, and Shylock's relentless pursuit of revenge, reiterating the letter of the law (but not its spirit), leads to his downfall.
During the trial, Shakespeare maintains a comic tone for Shylock's obsession with his bond: 'Is it so nominated in the bond?…I cannot find it, 'tis not in the bond.' This is comic, but it is the comedy of life, where aspirations and ambitions are continually thwarted by unforeseen circumstances.
Not that the Christians escape criticism. Portia's famous 'Quality of mercy' speech is heavily ironic in its context: when Portia herself says at the end of the trial: 'The Jew shall have no mercy', and Antonio insists that Shylock must reject his faith, they show little Christian mercy to the defeated Jew. Typically, Shakespeare leaves it to us to decide who comes off best in the trial. He merely presents things as they are, and every generation since the play was first performed has had a different response.
If Shylock represents the darkness at the heart of this play, then Portia shines throughout like a beacon of love. If too, Shylock is thrift, then Portia is chance. Her very future and happiness depend on it. By the terms of her father's will she will become the property of whomsoever chooses the correct casket. The game of chance works in her favour and she wins the suitor of her choice, but aware that money, a dominant image in this play, had a lot to do with Bassanio's quest, she 'values' herself in monetary terms, as a 'reckoning' or a 'bargain' and talks of 'the full sum of me.' But her true value is shown in the saving of her husband's best friend Antonio. It is an act of love. For Portia, love is the only wealth, and it must be generously shared for it to grow. Portia displays her generosity too towards Lorenzo and Jessica in giving them a home at Belmont, and as the play draws to a close the young men, Bassanio and Gratiano, used to Venetian ways, begin also to learn that love ultimately is more powerful than money.
Money dominates this play, but Shakespeare is by no means intent on showing that wealth has benefited the Christians. In contrast to Shylock, they may use their money and buy pleasure with it, but Shakespeare shows this pleasure to be idle and unsatisfying, and many characters express their discontent with their lot: 'When shall we laugh? Say when?' Bassanio asks his fellow Venetians; and this sense of the emptiness of pleasure for its own sake may in part contribute to Antonio's sadness. The wise Nerissa sums it up perfectly: 'They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.'
The Venetian Christians look at Shylock, corrupted by his obsession with money, and they see themselves; what they could become. He is the unacceptable face of Venice's deeply materialistic society, and they hate him the more for it. This explains the public vehemence against Shylock shown by pleasure-seekers like Gratiano at the trial. Standing in the garden at Belmont at the end of the play, the three young married couples have learnt that love is more precious far than gold or silver and if nurtured and 'kept safe' will be the basis for a happy future.
The message of love is carried by the imagery of music throughout the play. Music is integral to the text; its rhythm and melody are in the verse throughout the play, but the imagery is specifically used to lift Act V after the dramatic trial scene.
Act V contains Lorenzo's eulogy to the spiritual power of music. Jessica listens, and her presence reminds us of her father stopping 'his house's ears' against music, and speaking negatively of it: 'The vile squealing of the wry-necked fife'. Lorenzo's reference to a man who has no feelings for music could be a description of Shylock himself:
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils,…
Let no such man be trusted…
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils,…
Let no such man be trusted…
Thus at this point the two opposing worlds of the play are finally reconciled and harmonized through music. It is the lyricism of Act V that saves the play from being a tragedy.
Notes by David Timson
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Manual Wadsworth was the winning pitcher, striking out six and allowing just one hit through four innings. Leading hitters were Hunter Clinton (2-4, triple) and Corbin Metts (2-3).
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Leading hitters were Jack Edwards (2-2, double); Jackie Stroud (3-4, double); Corbin Metts (3-3, home run); and Jack Lominick (2-3).
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Leading hitters for Mid-Carolina in Game 4 were Jackie Stroud (3-4); Hunter Clinton (2-3); Corbin Metts (3-4), Drew Moore (2-4) and Jack Lominick (2-2).


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Does anyone else think that the new Alpha version of the Model S front grill looks cheap and Toyota like? I much preferred the Aston Martin DB-9 line to the front hood and grill. Tesla please read this post and the complaints of a myriad of Tesla enthusiasts and take it back to the way it was in the first pictures! Looks count!
There is several other threads on this topic ...
See above. The new front sucks. . .
I like it. Real front is much better than it looks in that video.
Yeah. What's wrong with this?
there is a smashed kid's bicycle on it. will run into trouble driving around like that...
Heh. I do b'lieve that's a reflection off the high gloss nose cone!
Cute, V.
Yeh. At first I though it looked like something smashed onto the bumper, but when I saw VolkerP's comment, I saw that it was a reflection. Other reflections from the car make it look like there is damage to it.
It's a bumper sticker "I don't brake for bicycles!" :-P
The reflection is a testament of Tesla's commitment to the environment: workers ride bikes to the shop where they assemble electric cars. No oil. :-D
they should change this it is very ugly.
it just looks like a cheap Ford car
why cant the front bumper be in 1 piece, nice and clean.
I do like the bottom part that looks very sporty.
Note to Tesla Motors:
Now that we are within 12 months of Production of the Model S. I would think it's time to lay this subject to rest. What will the front grill look like?? Personally, I'd gladly sacrifice a few miles per charge to have a grill that looks more like the 2009/2010 photos of the prototype (albeit less aerodynamic). At this point, I cannot believe the grill is still on the drawing board.
Just saw this picture on Tesla's Facebook page. It looks like a mix between the old grill and new grill.
Except that it isn't a grille, it is just a nose cone. I think the picture Tiebreaker posted above is better looking and doesn't look like a phony grille. Especially if that stays black while rest of the car has some other color. Then it is just plastic nose cone that is just plain ugly. Like a red rubber nose on playboy centerfold.
I must say tho I really enjoy seeing the line of metal and the logo in the front grill instead of the hood.... very sleek
Personally, I'll be satisfied with a nice color and finish and the knowledge that the aerodynamics are optimized while the grill is minimized to the needs of the heating/cooling of the batteries and passenger compartment. If there's a noticeable grill, I'd just prefer it to be subtle so the car continues to look good while styles change. I hope to keep the car for a while.
There are more images online now that show that very "grille", the nose cone with a single line of chrome and the logo inside.
I see three black and two silver/grey (one with nose visible) alphas. Rest are prototypes (smaller grille, blue lights below main light).
Black nose cone looks comical in silver/grey car. In black is doesn't hurt so much because rest of the car is same color.
Tesla should be reminded of the design catastrophe Subaru made when they introduced the 2007 Tribeca, more consideration must be given to the design of the front grille, maybe it doesn't need a front grille? (Porsche 911..!?..) When it comes to Automobile Design," God" is in the details! Oh yah, let's not forget about the Pontiac Aztek...uglier than mortal sin...
The model S front grill looks like a giant shark's mouth! (my wife said this and first time this year I agree). The pics u sent out last year and before did not look this crappy.
fyi, rlw.
What ever happened to that beautiful mesh metal grill that was in the very early pictures of the car? Ever since they have some varying version of the plastic clown nose. I have held off on upgrading to a signature purely because I'm terrified what I'd be locking myself into with that variable and seldom handsome nosecone.
I think the latest pics of the black alpha are amazing. I think it looks way tougher than the original prototype. I embrace the idea that this is a shark! I can't look at my car and think of a predator. I did think the blue daytime lights were cool and the light on the side diffuser was a nice touch. I also hope the side view mirrors end up a little more like the prototype. I was a little weirded by the first pics of the alpha. These ones are the best looking model s yet.
Want to see the mesh as an option like in the original prototype. Mocked this up to show you all...
For what its worth, I vote for the grill as shown on the new website photos, which is much like the original prototype. The bright mesh grill doesn't look as aero and is garish.
Personally, I hate the new front end. Hate it. HATE IT. The design prototype was a sleek, elegant shape. The alpha images look, for lack of a better phrase, "tarted up."
Specifically, I really dislike the more aggressive lines of the air dam with the big gaping vents and the flared-forward lower edge. It looks like an aftermarket "make it look sportier" add-on.
I'm at least relieved to see the logo back in the grille area instead of on the hood like in some earlier shots. Now if we can just roll back the other changes, we'll really be getting somewhere.
Nice mock up sjoshuaj! Should be an option as there seems to be various opinions on this part of the car.
What is the function of this grille area anyway? False grilles just provide a place for dirt and snow to collect; real grilles for air are fine, but false grilles are just silly.
And where do we attach our legally required front license plate?
I think that plastic nose cone is going to end up with a several ugly holes in it with big bolts holding my license plate on. Please, for goodness sakes, design a front end with a space for a license plate. Seriously!
@nicu "And where do we attach our legally required front license plate?
That is a question to ask to Franz. I have same concern, it is legally required here too, and there is no good place for it in that front. It looks like best position would be in front of that lower air gap where the real grille is, but in there that would prevent good airflow to the actual cooling system.
Sorry, not nicu, ncn. I need more coffee. And edit-button.
The new grille is a nice combination of engineering requirements and customer feedback. They heard the community loud and clear about the front end and made changes to give folks what they asked for, while at the same time adding the additional cooling they needed. Well done.
"It looks like best position would be in front of that lower air gap where the real grille is, but in there that would prevent good airflow to the actual cooling system."
They did it on the roadster. Look at the gallery. One of the plates looks like it covers up half the grille. I can imagine how the cooling system engineers felt about that one.
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MCAA's First Educator Of The Year Award
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The Career Development Committee of the MCAA has announced that the recipient of its first Educator of the Year Award is professor Timothy Wentz of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The committee chose Wentz for this first-ever award in recognition of his commitment to MCAA's educational programs, his success in creating a student chapter at the University, and his willingness to assist the committee on a variety of educational and career development projects.
Wentz teaches in the University's Department of Construction Management. He is also faculty advisor to the Student Chapter of Mechanical/Electrical Specialty Contracting. The honor carries with it $5,000 in monetary recognition-$2,500 for the student chapter and $2,500 for professor Wentz.


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Originally written on The Victory Formation | Last updated 11/20/14
While everyone is making clever lists to try to intertwine the Academy Awards and athletics, Sean Fine made it quite simple. Last night's Oscar winner for best documentary short. While everyone else was busy wearing "someone," he was rocking the socks of the night. Fine is a huge Washingotn Redskins fan, and decided to pay tribute to their star quarterback Robert Griffin III, by wearing his Adidas socks. His first Tweet after the win went to RGIII: @rgiii we just won an Oscar"no pressure no diamonds" #oscars #addidas #inocentedoc twitter.com/FineFilms/stat… — The Fines (@FineFilms) February 25, 2013 RGIII responded with "Awesome. Lol." For a little context, Dan Steinberg pointed out that Fine's grandfather was the lead photographer for the Redskins: He began working for the Washington Times-Herald and the Redskins as a photographer in 1937. He eventually dropped the newspaper job to become a football cameraman who pioneered the tradition of using film footage for training in the locker room. Former head coach George Allen called him the "Cecil B. DeMille of the National Football League." A month before Nate Fine died in 1988, the team dedicated its Super Bowl win against the Broncos to him. He had been with [...]
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
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My research works to understand mechanisms driving natural variability in chemical, biological, and physical oceanography, along with the response of the ocean to anthropogenic climate change. I use geochemical and sclerochronological techniques to generate environmental reconstructions from marine proxy archives to address these issues.
5/21/15 The cruise report for "Patterns in Deep-Sea Corals" Expedition: NOAA ship Bell M. Shimada SH-15-03 is available here: http://tinyurl.com/n7kgbhg.
5/4/-5/6/15 Branwen attended the Proxy System Modeling workshop at USC's Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island. Thanks to Julien Emile-Geay (http://climdyn.usc.edu/Home.html) for organizing.
4/11/15 Scripps College featured our research in a news story: http://tinyurl.com/ohpx96t
4/3/15 Our research in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuaries with Dr. Peter Etnoyer and MARE (http://www.maregroup.org/) was featured in the LA Times. Click through for the full story: http://tinyurl.com/qcs6cbf.
4/1/15 Our chapter on Environmental Contaminants has been published here: http://tinyurl.com/nnblqfv. Thank you to Dr. Jessica Carilli (http://blogs.umb.edu/jessicacarilli/) for leading this review. Please contact me via email if you would like a reprint.
3/23/15 Devyn Parks is blogging about her time on the R/V Bell Shimada here: Lab Blog
3/12/15 Branwen and Devyn Parks are headed out to sea with NOAA on the R/V Shimada in the Channel Islands.
2/17/2015 We are very excited to invite Dr. Elke Weber into EA30L: Science and the Environment to discuss risk and the perception of global warming.
1/27/2015 Honoured to be included in The Oceanography Society issue Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later (http://www.tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-4_supplement.html#download)
12/15/2014 It's AGU week. Come see our session High-Resolution Archives of Marine Biogeochemistry, Climate, and Environmental Change on 12/19, talks in the morning and posters in the afternoon.
12/11/2014 Please see our new white paper for documenting marine annually-resolved proxy archives: http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~kilbourn/MARPA_WhitePaper.pdf Feedback is welcome!
10/7/14 Branwen gave the Whole Earth Seminar at UCSC. Thank you to Adina Paytan for hosting!
10/2/14 Congratulations to Tricia Light and Sarah Barnes on their Scripps Environmental Analysis awards.
9/22-10/21/14 Branwen is in Santa Cruz with a visiting position at USGS/UCSC.
9/24/14 A year delayed, but we are finally updating the members in our lab. Please see the people tab for current lab members and some of the alumni.
6/6/14 Branwen is presenting on Mg/Ca in coralline algae at the Goldschmidt conference on June 10th in the session Biogeochemistry of Biological Systems (http://tinyurl.com/p75zuq3).
5/16/14 Williams Lab group: (top L to bottom right) Sarah Barnes, Jessica Ng, Andrew Walnum, Hannah Tannenbaum, Ellie Smith, Evelyn Byer, Tricia Light, Sasha Ponomareva, Tiffany Ortamond, Branwen Williams (and kids).
4/7/14 see press for the Water Scarcity and Solutions conference here: http://tinyurl.com/qbyu5g3 and video of the talks here: http://tinyurl.com/ky6yfrm.
4/3/14 Our paper calibrating coralline algae Mg/Ca to sea surface temperatures will be published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703714002282).
3/12/14 The Keck Science Dept and the CMC Athenaeum are hosting Dr. Ben Santer for seminars this week.
3/6/14 Congratulations to Jessica Ng on her Scripps Environmental Research grant award. She will be working to reduce the subannual dating uncertainty in reconstructions of temperature from coralline algae.
2/24/14 Ocean Science Meeting in Honolulu! Branwen is presenting at the Ocean Sciences meeting (http://tinyurl.com/o6uzrhz) and co-chairing a session (http://tinyurl.com/n7b9lnu).
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Chat/Social System Improvement Suggestions
I think the current chat and social system in STO needs improvement and expansion.
The reason why is because it is very hard for people of similar interests to find each other and communicate ingame, and most people aside from small groups rely on the ingame social system to perform these thing. PvPers can't coordinate to play matches with/against specific people on both sides, roleplayers don't know who's RPing and who isn't, and casual players don't know who's looking for a team. Simply put, the chat and social system right now is an obstacle rather than a tool.
I have a few suggestions as to how to better improve the system in place right now.
1) Expand Public Channels
Many players from other MMOs are used to having access to a lot of public channels in order to communicate with each other for various reasons. Currently, the only channels people can communicate with each other is local, zone, and 5 player channels. As strange as this may sound to a new player, these are not enough avenues for player communication.
I suggest that there should be additional public channels for other people to communicate to each other with. For example, a public PvP channel will allow both dedicated and casual Federation and Klingon players to coordinate matches better against each other, as well as have a ingame venue to discuss PvP tactics, PvP Fleets, and personal superiority over each other in an easy and obvious ingame channel. Starting up a new player channel for such things is impractical and cumbersome, because players cannot search for such channels and may not have the room for another channel. If players had an easy and obvious avenue like "zone chat" to chat through based on generalized interests, then communication between those players would go much more smoothly and productively.
These channels, like "zone chat", would be public and self regulating, and not like private player channels, just to clarify.
To finish this point, here is a list of the new public channels I'd suggest STO having in addition to "Zone".
Exchange(Auction House)
Remember, while some people may not use them all, everyone enjoys having the OPTION to use them.
2) Double the Private Chat Channel Limit
Yes, make the channel limit 10.
Considering the fact that STO shares it's chat server with CO, many players who play both are severely limited as to player channels. Fleets/SG's might have public channels for their guilds, or they might have special interest channels they want to be a part of in both games. Five channels for both games is very limiting and frustrating. 10 Channels on the other hand will allow a great amount of flexibility while keeping a cap to ensure the chat server does not get overloaded.
Simply put in this case, more is better.
3) Special Interest Player Color Labels in Chat
A MMO attracts many players with special interests. Of these, PvP and Roleplay are the two major special interests, and players will often seek out those with similar interests. Currently, as we are all one big happy server with multiple instances, these special interest players are forcefully separated from each other without inflection as to who might be who. The best suggestion I can come up with is that supported distinction between players' special interests would better facilitate interaction and community of these interests.
I would suggest that as a specific character option, there is a drop down selection box of what interest the player's character has. In this case, the options would be "None", "PvP", and "Roleplay". Obviously, selecting "None" would have no effect on the current chat system and would carry on as normal. However, if a player selects "PvP" or "Roleplay", I can suggest one of the two following options.
a) Character names (
@handle) of people with the same special interest selection as you are highlighted by a global color whenever they speak in any chat context, to include tells, private channels, zone, and/or emotes. This distinguishes players of your chosen special interest in chat so that players can pursue common interest activities with that identification in place.
b) Character names (
@handle) of people with either "PvP" or "Roleplay" selected are highlighted by different global colors, say Orange for "PvP" and Cyan for "Roleplay".
What this would do is add distinction between players, and encourage them to develop as communities, knowing there are indeed fellow players with similar interests obviously apparent at a glance. Plus, it gives players a better idea at glance what to expect out of other players according to character chat color. Additionally, as some players like/want to do both PvP and Roleplay on different characters, they don't have to worry about changing color schemes every time they switch toons since the chat option is character based.
I could probably thing of a few more smaller, nagging, chat issues, but I think these three points are about as good a compromise of both what can be made available in STO, and what people have to to expect in MMO socializing. Feel free to discuss of make better suggestions.


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Giants lose again, fall 3 games back in NL West
SAN FRANCISCO The bats were nearly silent, and so was the San Francisco clubhouse.
Things are going so sour for the Giants these days, maybe they feel talk is cheap. The Houston Astros, the team with the worst record in baseball, beat San Francisco 3-1 Thursday night to leave the defending World Series champs three games back of first-place Arizona in the NL West.
"We've been talking about it for a while now," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "We're trying different things, mixing things up. What else can we do different? These guys are going to have to go out there and swing the bats."
The Astros are 4-10 in their last 14 games against NL West teams, including a 3-1 mark against the Giants during that span. The Diamondbacks took three of four from Houston, while both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado Rockies swept three-game series against the Astros.
Jordan Schafer homered and scored three times, Henry Sosa pitched six strong innings against his former club to earn his first career victory and the Astros ended a four-game losing streak.
J.D. Martinez doubled twice and had two RBIs for the Astros, who stole a season-high four bases and turned three double plays on defense.
"I didn't have much stuff-wise and my location wasn't all that great," Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong said. "It was evident I was struggling to make pitches and I didn't give Eli (Whiteside) much of a chance to throw guys out."
Orlando Cabrera drove in San Francisco's only run with an RBI groundout in the third. The Giants have lost nine of their last 13 home games.
Sosa (1-2) pitched with runners on base every inning but limited the damage with a crisp fastball and slider that baffled the Giants most of the night.
The rookie right-hander, who began the season with the Giants before being shipped to Houston as part of the July 19 trade that sent infielder Jeff Keppinger to San Francisco, allowed only four singles and struck out three in his second straight start against his former team.
Sosa got just enough support from his teammates.
Vogelsong (10-4) gave up six hits over 7 1-3 innings but lost for the third time in four starts.
After beginning the season 8-1, Vogelsong is 1-3 with a 4.00 ERA over his last four starts. The Giants have scored only one run in the three losses.
"We got the leadoff hitter on enough times to find runs," Bochy said. "We just couldn't keep the line moving."
It was just the latest setback for San Francisco's pitching staff, which has been beset by a rash of injuries lately.
The Giants, who have lost the opening game in their last 11 series, have even bigger issues with their offense. They put the leadoff hitter on base in five consecutive innings but hit into three double plays and had two runners caught stealing.
"It's not from lack of effort," Vogelsong said. "We're trying everything we can to get some runs across. Once again we hit some balls hard and they made plays on us. We just have to keep fighting."


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from the pulitzer-prize-board-added-to-terrorist-organization-list dept.
He *is* a criminal. He is still right though.
This is going to be tough but George Washington is considered a criminal too and Benedict Arnold is considered a patriot, in England. Because in that country under their laws they are.
Most people still believe in the fairness of our justice system. They probably do not realize the gov would make an example of him. Until there are a few hollywood style movies making him look like a super hero. Most people will side against him.
They've gone after him -- for everything but actual offenses to the Constitution.
Benghazi, birth certificates, communism -- it's not his fault the alleged opposition party has bad aim.
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