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Wolters Kluwer Audit, Risk & Compliance announced today that its TeamMate audit management system is now available through the U.K. government's G-Cloud program. The G-Cloud or CloudStore is the online resource for U.K. government agencies to shop for and select online technology solutions.
Russell Heppleston, audit manager with the Mid-Kent Audit Partnership in the U.K. says Cloud-based access to Teammate has given the partnership needed flexibility.
"Auditors can access TeamMate wherever and whenever they like, regardless of location and hardware, which is vital in a partnership environment," Heppleston said. "Moving to the hosted environment was straightforward and with minimal disruption. We were provided with a level of support that made the whole process painless. In the words of our management team, moving to a hosted solution was a 'no-brainer.'"
"Governments and other organizations across the globe have a growing need to access various tools and resources via the Internet," said Mike Gowell, vice president and global general manager, TeamMate. "Offering TeamMate through the G-Cloud is another example of how we are helping them reduce their IT burdens and increase efficiencies through hosted solutions."
In April, Wolters Kluwer Audit, Risk & Compliance announced the launch of its new TeamMate hosting center in London, which is helping meet the growing demands from its clients in the U.K. and Europe. TeamMate offers full or lite hosting, allowing audit departments of all sizes to access their audit programs, work papers, recommendations and other TeamMate data securely through the web. To date, more than 1,600 users at about 120 organizations have implemented TeamCloud, including companies based in the U.K., Italy, France, Japan, Honduras, India, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands Antilles, Canada and the U.S.
TeamMate is the world's most widely-used audit management system. More than 90,000 auditors and over 2,000 organizations across the world rely on TeamMate to improve the audit process, including risk assessment, scheduling, planning, execution, review, report generation, trend analysis, committee reporting and storage.
About Wolters Kluwer Audit, Risk & Compliance
Wolters Kluwer Audit, Risk & Compliance is part of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and solutions provider with annual revenues of (2012) €3.6 billion ($4.6 billion) and approximately 19,000 employees worldwide. Please visit our website for more information.
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SUMMER RATES TEMPORARILY SLASHED!!! You have to love 'TROPICAL ISLES' because it is a stunning 3 bedroom, 2 bath waterfront home just minutes from our new sandy beaches. Enjoy the peace, quiet and privacy of the large Master Bedroom and private bath on one end of the L shaped home while kids and guests have beautiful bedrooms and a bath on the opposite end of the L. We are waterfront and that's better than beachfront because we are only 3 or 4 minutes away from the 24 hour hustle, bustle and noise of the beach. We offer peace and quiet with privacy all in a large waterfront patio with a sparkling private pool and hot tub. Unlike a condo with many bodies in the pool and hot tub, it's just you and your family enjoying the cleanliness of crystal clear water in the pool and hot tub. Even sit on the dock, drink in hand and watch the sun go down. You can't do that on the beach!
All this is within a 3 or 4 minutes drive to our amazing beach with lots of parking. Pompano Beach is considered the "Best Kept Secret" as one of the most beautiful beaches in South Florida. You have a food and ice cream concession plus a large restroom facility right there at the beach. The public beaches have been revitalized at the cost of millions by the city of Pompano Beach and the entire area is fantastic, nicer than at a beach house. see our photos.
Imagine swimming in the gorgeous kidney shaped pool or you can simply relax in the huge hot tub. Each bedroom has a water view and glass sliding doors within 6 feet of the pool. Wake up and jump in!! Rent or bring a boat and tie it up at our waterfront dock or fish to your hearts content. A very private patio and pool area guarantees your privacy as it is protected on two sides by the house, one side by tropical growth but still has a view of the waterfront. You have to love the large living room and dining room. Over 30' long with a leather sectional and leather queen sleeper couch. Everything is here for your from paper goods, towels, silverware, pots and pans, washer and dryer. Minutes to shopping, golf, beaches, entertainment and hundreds of restaurants. You will love the night life, water parks, golf, museums, para-sailing, jet skiing and boating, all within minutes of the front door!. Kids will love the pool, the hot tub, board games, pool toys and fishing
You will love our beautiful home where my wife and I lived for several years before buying a larger home nearby. Rather than sell it we decided to offer it as a vacation rental. It took several weeks of living here to convert it, buy furniture and furnishings, paintings, linens and even silverware and kitchen utensils. We then decorated, bought new pool furniture and dressed it up just for you. It is a home you can relax and be comfortable in with the charm of Florida and the look of the tropics.
We have it all, a beautiful pool, hot tub for 7, a very wide canal with boats going by, golf and shopping malls just 3 or 4 minutes away and beautiful sandy beaches, miles and miles of them. Pompano Beach is only 3 minutes away with plenty of parking. There are hundreds of restaurants of every kind, from white table cloth to sports bars and pubs including ethic and kosher restaurants. The food in many is excellent and we have a guest book at the house that will give you our ratings of many of the local eateries.
Ocean beauty, beaches and entertainment: Pompano Beach is in the middle of the 20 + mile beach strip of Ft. Lauderdale, Pompano and Deerfield Beach. Regardless of whether you drive North or South or 2 minutes straight ahead, you will enjoy the gorgeous Atlantic Ocean beaches of all three cities. What more can you ask for than to be centrally located between these world famous beaches, each with their own personality and tourist attractions and atmosphere. Just drive down A1A alongside the beach, see the yachts go by, visit the marinas, take a look at the multi-million dollar homes with 4 and 5 million dollar yachts parked in front of them. This is the yachting capitol of the world and the Venice of America where you will find the largest and most beautiful yachts ever made, the playground of the rich and famous and we will put you on the famous water taxi for an all day tour of the waterfront with 15 or more hop on and off stops at restaurants and bars plus shopping areas, all with discounts, even free drinks..
My wife and I are retired snowbirds who live in Massachusetts in the summer on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Webster lake for short, and in Florida winters. A few years ago we would run our boat back and forth, keeping it here at our dock during the winter. We have now downsized and fly or drive. We love having our own 4 kids and many grandchildren here and they love to be here in the sun to play on the beaches and swim in the pool. We enjoy the water and our summer home is on a lake in MA.
If you look in the water when here you may see an occasional Manatee swim slowly by and often will see Iguana's sunning themselves on the dock.
Mal Mager purchased this house in 2002
A great place to be, you are close to the beach, its convenient to everything, well maintained, very clean inside and out with nice chaise lounges, table and chairs outside by the pool and hot tub and a big dock where you can fish to your hearts delight. Privacy is golden and our pool and hot tub are hidden from most other homes and people. It comes down to LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION, and we have it all. You will me just minutes from the beach, malls, the Goodyear Blimp, the local airport, hundreds of restaurants, boat rentals, para-sailing and more. The perfect location and fun spot of the Tropics.
Tropical Isles is located in a small community called Garden Isles. Many call it their secret little community because if you didn't know it was there, you would almost never find it. Garden Isles is nestled between water on two sides and two main roads on the other sides. Most houses are on canals that lead to the intracoastal, which runs from Florida to New Jersey. It 's quiet and a safe community of single family homes, most of which are single family residences.
WOW! The pictures just don't do this gorgeous home justice. We enjoyed 7 days here and hope to be back next year. My husband is just sorry he couldn't fit the master bedroom shower into the car to take home - what a treat to have all those jets to choose from - and so roomy (as is the bedroom itself). The house layout wraps around a large, clean pool that is heated at just the right temperature. One side is the master bedroom with sliding doors to the pool AND to the hot tub (so much fun at night). And the other side are 2 other bedrooms and another bath with a tub - keeping the kids or relative at bay. In the middle is an open living room, kitchen, dining area and computer room fit for architectural digest. Very well planned out, large and comfortable. Ceiling fans in every room made the house very comfortable - of course, you can choose to have the A/C on too. Really, the only negative thing I could say about this place is that we could only stay for one week!!! We left tanned (from the pool or go to the beach a few miles away), relaxed and well fed from all the wonderful restaurants in the area. A few other family members rented ohter houses in the area. Although the prices were about the same for each, we all agreed that ours was the best of the bunch. Thanks, Mal, for offering this lovely house as a rental.
My wife and I and our five children ages 5-18 just spent a week in this house. It was completely as advertised and more. It took us three days to even bother going to the beach, because the house and pool and setting of the house were like a mini-resort that left nothing to be desired. Lots of room for everyone in the house, and really open feeling with glass patio doors from all main rooms opening onto the pool/patio area. Very close to grocery and drug stores and restaurants, and easy distance to the beach. Quiet, beautiful, private, oasis-like outdoor area perfect for family swims, meals, reading, and just taking in the views. We didn't want to leave and would come back to stay again for sure.
My family and I stayed in the house in July 2010. Unfortunately we didn't get to totally enjoy it because my Mom passed away 3 days before we arrived. We contacted Mal to see if we could extend our stay and he was very accommodating and sympathetic. We were supposed to stay there the year prior but had to cancel due to the passing of my wife's father. Mal worked with us and carried over the reservation to the following year. We can't say enough about their kindness.
The house had everything we needed for the 6 of us. It was tastefully decorated and clean. The pool and hot tub looking over the canal were very relaxing. The washer and dryer were very helpful. It even had a BBQ, what more can you ask for. If you are looking for a very nice place in this area we highly recommend this one.
We just completed an 11 week stay and it was terrific! A daily walk to the beach, great restaurants and shopping , a calming and soothing waterfront home with a powerful hottub and a very relaxing pool, who could ask for more! The owners are obsessed with insuring that we had a great time. They were exceptionally responsive and so friendly. The home is located just slightly more than a mile from I95 that leads to other great Florida attractions all about 30 minutes away north or south!
The layout is perfect for families as we had my sister in-law and her partner as well as my mother-in-law. It was great! Imagine eating all your meals with a wonderful relaxing view of the canal, pool and hot tub and waking up each morning to the same view as every bedroom outdoor scene is chamber of commerce picture perfect!
Why was this a life changer? We never realized that we could spend 11 weeks worry and stress free, fully relaxed and really doing nothing but enjoying life!
A wonderful location for a multi generational family trip. The facilities were wonderful with lots of communal living space. The facility was very clean with a large selection of towels and other equipment. The master bedroom was large, spacious. The kitchen was very well appointed and the living area very comfortable. The pool was terrific. The owners were wonderful to deal with and any questions or concerns were quickly addressed.
No one wanted to leave after our terrific week.
Traveling with 4 small children, we normally stay away from hotels and prefer to rent houses or cabins. "Tropical Isles" is the PERFECT vacation home. It is situated on a canal which is great if you have or wish to rent a boat. We did not on this trip, but will hopefully do so next time. The house is laid out in an L shape, with the master on one end, and the two quest rooms on the other. The floors are all tile, which is awesome for families with small children. Each bedroom and the dining area have sliding glass doors that open onto the patio/pool. Even the master bathroom had a door that led to the patio/pool, which is especially helpful when bringing in wet children from the pool area to shower and change. With two large comfy couches, there was plenty of seating for our family of 6, and the several cousins, nieces, nephews etc. that came to visit throughout our stay. The hot tub was delightful, and had a beautiful view of the canal. There were board games and cards in the living room, not to mention a large flat screen tv with cable to keep the kids occupied when the thunderstorms popped up in the afternoons. There were plenty of clean linens and the house was nice and clean when we arrived. The gas grill was clean, and fully operational. Mal and Dianne certainly take pride in their home, which shows in the immaculate detail of the home and grounds. The master bed is the most comfortable conventional bed you will ever sleep in!! The home is located on a through street, with light to moderate traffic, near everything Pompano/Ft Lauderdale has to offer. I hope we have the chance to stay at "Tropical Isles" on our next trip to So. Florida.
My wife and I spent 8 wonderful days at this home, celebrating our 20th anniversary. Mal and Diane were not only great owners but will remain our friends for years to come.
The home is exactly as listed. If you desire privacy, convenience, in a great location, this is the place to rent.
The only negative is that we could not stay longer.
The temperature was a comfortable 84 degrees, daily, while it was below 0 in Colorado.
We really enjoyed the pool and hot tub during the day and evening.
The master bed was as comfortable as our own bed at home.
We have rented other vacation homes in the past and none of them can surpass the qualities of this home.
Don't miss out on this one, It is a real gem!! We look forward to coming back to visit with Mal and Diane in Pompano Beach.
We also hope that they will be able to visit us in Colorado for future skiing adventures.
Welcome to 'TROPICAL ISLES' where we have endless, stunning sandy beaches with sparkling blue water. Enjoy golf, boating, para-sailing, boating, fishing and shopping by day. By night, entertainment, bars, pubs, casinos, fine dining in hundreds of restaurants, shows, theaters and if you want, skinny dipping in the very private, illuminated and heated pool and hot tub. Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale have it all. Located only minutes from every type of entertainment imaginable. Take time to wind surf or rent a jet ski or boat for the day as it is a paradise for water sports. Lay on the beach or just relax in privacy at the pool and take in the sun. BBQ burgers on the gas grille or dine out.. A central and peaceful location, the perfect place for lovers or family relaxation. Bring lots of sun tan lotion because we give you lots of FREE sun and real Aloe plants for your sunburns!
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$500.00 additional holiday fee for Christmas, New Years, all major holidays, last 2 weeks of March and the first week in April.
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Last Saturday's Warm Up was an eclectic day of funk, techno, and house. Benji B, Dām-Funk (live), DJ Marfox, Tessela, Dutch E Germ, and Avalon Emerson created a perfect soundtrack for the long weekend. This week's set designers were The Principals. Read more
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Warm Up 2014: Week 10 Highlights
Warm Up 2014: Week 9 Highlights
Last Saturday's Warm Up featured a diverse lineup that proved to be a huge success. We had footwork, disco, techno, and a crowd that was eager for all of it. We had sets by Kevin Saunderson, DJ Earl, Shamir (live), The Range, and Gifted and Blessed. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Week 8 Highlights
Last Saturday's Warm Up focused on dancehall and reggae with sets by Supa Dups and Willy Chin of Black Chiney Sound, Junglepussy, Princess Nokia, Dai Burger, Dubbel Dutch, Visionist, and Blazer Sound System, with set design by Chen Chen & Kai Williams. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Design Playground
Every summer, in addition to the convergence of exhibitions, dance troupes, music performances, and the Young Architects Program installation, we are thrilled that design has become an integral part of Saturdays at Warm Up. For the past four seasons, Warm Up has invited local, emerging artists to envision and realize pop-up performance environments for our stage set, which rotate every weekend. This year Chen Chen & Kai Williams (@chenandkai), CONFETTISYSTEM (@confettisystem), Fort Makers (@fortmakers), Fort Standard (@fort_standard), Nightwood (@nightwoodny), and The Principals (@the_principals) each present their own take on summer vibes with installations that give each studio the opportunity to realize a large-scale and event-specific creation. From an abstract, Memphis design-inspired nautical pillow forest (Fort Makers); to a glam-rock, metallic take on utilitarian rescue blankets (CONFETTISYSTEM); to sculptural forms made from industrial fans, dry ice, and tetrahedron-shaped origami forms inspired by 1950s Swedish food packaging; to a backdrop made entirely by a community weaving project using recycled materials (Nightwood); to a sea of neon inflatables (Fort Standard); to a landscape of kinetic forms inspired by prosthetic technology used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis that expand and contract in response to sound waves (The Principals), all of our designers each have a highly specific and dynamic vision for their contribution.
Each artist collective/design studio operates its own commercial practice, which informs and inspires their work for Warm Up, and for the first time this summer, we are also including these items in our new Weekend Shop, a retail space organized in collaboration with Artbook to focus on the art, objects, and music made by Warm Up stage artists and performers. The store features a large selection of vinyl, CD, and cassettes, as well as tabletop and interior objects, games, jewelry, and other beautiful and inventive products. For instance, CONFETTISYSTEM has made a Warm Up–exclusive product for the store, Party Packs inspired by bodega snack displays. In addition, the store features a listening and music-making station with an array of synthesizers and samplers, organized by CTRL Brooklyn, allowing visitors to not just enjoy the sounds of Warm Up, but to learn how to make them.
We are lucky to be working this year with Instagram to make the most of these visual, kinetic elements of Warm Up, and our designers have risen to the challenge. They've created spectacles that amplify the cadence of the day, providing playful surprises that allow the crowd to physically interact with the designs, making the stage not just something for the musicians to inhabit, but something that expands outward to the audience (and upwards, since many pieces, like beach balls and confetti-filled piñatas, are launched, projectile-style, off of the roof).
With four Saturdays left, come revel in Warm Up's design playground!
The Warm Up stages are realized in collaboration with Cecelia Thornton-Alson and Gabriela Scopazzi, with support from our installation team Thomas Barger, Maya Berrol-Young, Vanessa Castro, and Paul McAdory.
Warm Up 2014: Week Six Highlights
As we hit the pinnacle of the summer, Warm Up is really hitting its stride, with performances by Maria Chavez, Hiro Kone, Simian Mobile Disco, Charanjit Singh with a special guest appearance by Heems, and Daniele Baldelli, set within a jungle of inflatables and streamers by Fort Standard. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Week Five Highlights
Last Saturday's Warm Up performances brought the dance party to MoMA PS1 with sets by Suicideyear, UNiiQU3, GoldLink (live), Total Freedom, and Cashmere Cat—and more set design by CONFETTISYSTEM. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Week Four Highlights
Last Saturday's performances brought an exhilarating darker, techno vibe to MoMA PS1 with sets by Robert Hood, Objekt, Rrose, Vatican Shadow (live), Container (live), and Young Male—and more set design by CONFETTISYSTEM. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Week Three Highlights
Last Saturday's Warm Up was filled to the brim with some of the most lively DJs and exciting live acts to ever hit the MoMA PS1 stage! Auntie Flo opened the day, followed by live performances by Gabriel Garzón Montano, Archie Pelago, and Cibo Matto, and Mister Saturday Night DJs Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter closed things out. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Week Two Highlights
Last week's holiday spilled over into a 5th of July celebration at MoMA PS1's second Warm Up of the summer. Read more
Warm Up 2014: Week One Highlights
Thanks to everyone who came out last Saturday to MoMA PS1's courtyard to make the first Warm Up of 2014 such a smashing success. We welcomed over 5,000 people!
Check out images of A/JUS/TED, Dimitri From Paris, Pantha du Prince, DJ Spoko, and Mumdance performing, the incredible stage design by Fort Makers, The Living's installation Hy-Fi, and the gorgeous crowd!
This weekend (Saturday, July 5), we're excited to welcome J-CUSH, Ramona Lisa (live), Maxmillion Dunbar, Todd Edwards, and DJ EZ, with a special performance by the Flex Is Kings dancers.


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DTV Is Coming - Are You Ready?Saturday, April 12th, 2008 - by: Brian Herzog, Head of Reference
On Feb. 17, 2009, television as we know will change. On that date, by law, analog broadcasts will cease and digital broadcasting will begin.
The advantages of digital television are many, as digital broadcasting provides a clearer picture, more programming options, and will free up airwaves for use by emergency responders.
In order for you to continue to watch television, you'll need to have either a DTV-ready television set, or buy a digital converter box for your television. In preparation for this switch, the federal government is sponsoring a coupon program for citizens who need to buy a converter box. For more information on the coupon program, please visit http://www.dtv2009.gov.
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Make sure you get enough information before you purchase a converter box or new television. For product reviews, check out our Consumer Information Resources webpage, or contact the Reference Desk for help.
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Fabulous Photos WorkshopsThursday, March 13th, 2008 - by: Brian Herzog, Head of Reference
Last night was the first in a series of workshops designed to help people do more with their digital cameras.
Last night's session with Loreen Liberty, of TLM Studios, focused on the technical aspects of a digital camera: how to set resolution, compression, what memory card and batteries, to use, etc. Next week, on March 19th, Loreen will switch from the technical to the creative aspects of photographs - choosing subjects, balancing foreground and background, paying attention to color and lighting, and much more.
The third and final workshop, on April 2nd, will give one example of what can be done with the pictures you take with your digital camera. Brian Herzog of the Chelmsford Library will demonstrate how the photo sharing website flickr can be used to store, organize and share photographs.
For more information on this series, visit the website.
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Video: Rodrigo Y Gabriela Live From Dublin
The Mexican guitar duo will be webcast in concert live tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET.
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Hastert La Vista, Baby!
It's time for Dennis Hastert to go.
It's time for Dennis Hastert to go.
Rep. Hastert, R-Ill., ought to announce sooner rather than later that he will not be a candidate for re-election as Speaker of the House when the next Congress convenes in January, 2007. He should do so for reasons both principled and purely political. He should do so because, in practical terms, his effectiveness is reaching -- or probably has already reached -- an end.
And the recent embarrassment of his wild over-reaction to the FBI's search of Rep. William Jefferson's office is merely the 100-pound load that, combined with tons of ethical dead-weight, broke the elephant's back.
The first reason Hastert should make this his last term as Speaker is to fulfill a promise he and his colleagues made when Republicans first took a House majority in 1995. That promise, abandoned as part of a larger fit of House GOP hubris in early 2003, was that the Speaker would be limited to four consecutive terms in that particular leadership post.
This pledge was no mere passing thought. It was an important part of the reformist initiative of the congressional GOP class of 1994. The idea, formalized in House rules in 1995, was to avoid a centralization of and aggrandizement of national power in any one set of hands that the nation's voters never had the chance to approve directly. The rule served to unify those upstart Republicans who wanted term limits on all congressmen and those who believed, as did James Madison and many of his fellow Founders, that limiting the terms of legislators would be an anti-republican restriction on the ability of the citizenry to choose its favorite representatives.
Even many of the latter group accepted the idea that an undue concentration of power within Congress, as opposed to a restriction on the people's ability to choose their own congressmen, was subversive of many elements of republican theory. An endlessly renewable Speakership surely is evidence of what Madison (in Federalist 48) called "the danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations."
In short, the idea of a term-limited Speaker was a wise application of age-old principles to the modern experience of abuses of power by self-selected congressional elites.
ALAS, THE CONGRESSIONAL GOP FORGOT its principles along the way, on multiple fronts. At the beginning of 2003, the Republican caucus eliminated the term limit on the speaker, relaxed the limits on gifts and food to members and staff by about ten-fold, and relaxed restrictions on travel paid by outside sources. Republicans also changed arcane rules in such a way as to further limit the ability of the Democratic minority to propose, much less pass, alternative legislative ideas.
And with Hastert leading the way, Republicans engaged in a series of floor votes in which they trampled all traditions of appropriate time limits, not to mention their own promises, while twisting arms (and allegedly worse) to finally, belatedly, and unfairly pass legislation that a majority of the House originally opposed. The worst example, but far from the only one, occurred in the three-hour pre-dawn vote to pass the hideously expensive prescription drug benefit for Medicare.
Thus did Hastert institute a culture of brute power in the House divorced from both rules and tradition, not to mention consistency. As term limits on the Speaker were dropped, Hastert himself used the excuse of term limits to force out independent-minded Joel Hefley as chairman of the House's ethics committee. (Even Hastert's reading of the ethics term limit rule was tendentious: Hefley's stint as chairman had lasted only four years, not the prescribed limit of six.) Yet at the very same time he was citing term limits to force out Hefley, Hastert waived term limits to keep the slavish David Dreier as chairman of the House Rules Committee two years longer than the rules ordinarily allow.
All of this is only background, mind you, to explain just how long, and how pervasively, Hastert has exhibited the arrogance of power that leaves him clueless both as to ethical concerns and as to the political damage such arrogance can cause to his own party. The House GOP's hubristic culture, the culture that makes its members feel immune to expected mores and to any blowback from a disgusted public -- the culture that, even after the Abramoff and DeLay scandals, makes them unwilling to pass serious reforms on ethics, lobbyist disclosure, and earmarks -- is what has led the House overall into even-worse poll ratings than the stupendously low scores President George W. Bush has been receiving in recent months.
Now comes Speaker Hastert, at the very first moment where House Republicans can push back against an image of corruption, to step all over both the law and especially the politics in order to assert a highly dubious congressional privilege. As if Congress doesn't already look privileged enough.
READERS WILL BY NOW, OF COURSE, be familiar with the crazily loud and intemperate complaints shouted by Hastert about the FBI's duly warranted search of Rep. Jefferson's office. Legal opinion is somewhat fractured on the constitutional issues involved, but the dozens of both conservative and liberal experts who have pronounced the search perfectly valid does indicate, at the very least, that Hastert's assertion of legal privilege from such searches is far from a slam-dunk. All of which makes the intemperate tone of his complaints all the more objectionable: The more dubious the legal case, the more circumspect should be its embrace by a political leader.
Worse still, of course (in the short term, at least), is the nature of Hastert's political blunder. In the face of a general public already fed up with congressional malfeasance and self-absorption, the very last thing the Speaker should do is to sound as if Congress is above the law.
Sen. John Warner was entirely right, in contradistinction to Hastert, when he said that "Congress should not set itself apart from citizens. We should be treated alike when it comes to criminal codes." That bit of wisdom should be familiar to Hastert and others who signed the Republican Contract with America in 1994: As has been widely noted, one of the most popular, applause-generating parts of the Contract was its pledge to, "FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress."
The inviolability of one's own office space against a duly and carefully executed search warrant is far from being a law generally applicable to the "rest of the country."
If Hastert's outburst against the Jefferson search were an isolated incident, a rare lapse in judgment, it certainly would be forgivable. Because, however, it is part of a consistent pattern of abuses of ethical norms or of simple fairness, and because Hastert's own compromised image is helping drag down his whole party's electoral prospects for November, this Speaker should silence himself politically.
As Republicans realized way back when they first took the majority in Congress, eight years is long enough for any Speaker to become the source of horrible static -- and to be replaced, forthwith.
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We are three sisters who are collaberating on our travels for VT. This picture has BB (Barb) on the left, EDB (Beth) in the center and DEB (Debbie) on the right. This is in the same order as we are in the passport picture.
Our grandmother had these pastels done when we were between 2 and 4 years of age. Hung in her house, they were in order of age so DEB is the oldest and Beth is the youngest.
The other thing my grandmother did for us was take us on trips with her.
DEB went to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti in 1974
BB went to Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the UK) in 1976 and
Beth went to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Hawaii in 1979.
Geographically we are pretty spread out. Currently DEB lives in Maryland, but she was on a job exchange to England for several years. She lived in Cheltenham and did a lot of sightseeing in Europe, including hosting her sisters and grandmother for visits. Now she's traveling in the US, including their usual beach getaway to Bethany in Delaware, visiting the Washington D.C. Mall at Christmas, and camping with her youngest son's scout troop.
In 2008, her daughter got married in CT and the whole family attended the wedding.
Barb has a vacation home in the mountains of NC where she often goes for Christmas. But she lives in Miami.
She usually takes a vacation somewhere once a year. Now that her sister DEB is back in the states, she sometimes goes places with her son's baseball team in the summer.
In 2008, the first trip was when her son's grandmother took him to Barcelona and Italy on a cruise ship. Then in June, she took a trip out west to Jackson Hole, the Tetons, Yellowstone, Big Sky Montana and South Dakota. Finally she went to DEB's daughter's wedding in August 2008
and Beth lives in TX. Most of her trips are related to visiting her parents or doing 'business' trips where she judges or shows Paso Fino horses. She did get to visit her sister in England in 2002, and she went to her cousin's wedding in upper NY state, and her nieces wedding in CT.
This was taken at Beth's wedding. Deb's husband on the left, Beth's in the middle and Barb's on the right.
Taken October 2007.
Barb's children are the two on the left - the boy age 13 and in the 8th grade. The girl sitting on the railing is almost 8 and in the 2nd grade.
Deb's children are in the middle - tall man with a beard age 27, boy in the red shirt sitting on the railing, age 13 and in the 7th grade, and the girl in the maroon shirt, age 25 and engaged to be married.
Beth's children are the other three. The little girl in the purple shirt is 6.5 and in first grade. The baby will be two, and the boy holding the baby is almost 10.
Family reunion 2009
Seated front L-R
Boy in blue Deb's youngest age 15 and 9th grade. On his lap is Beth's youngest who will be 4 in December. Next the boy in green is Beth's oldest - age 12 and in the 6th grade, and her middle daughter with the purple turtleneck, 3rd grade age 8.5.
Standing: Beth in tan, Barb in green, in back of Barb her oldest son age 15 and 10th grade. In front of Barb, the girl in yellow, is Barb's daughter, age 10 and 4th grade. Behind the girl in yellow is our brother (man with beard in blue) and his two children a girl in a red sweater (age 13 and 8th grade) and a boy in green striped shirt (age 16 and grade 11). On the right is DEB's oldest daughter (age 27 and married) with DEB on the right end. Deb's older son couldn't get off work.
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congrats from another Deb, one of three sisters, from Phila PA. PS: love your " DEBBBEDB" label
So nice to see that you were able to travel with your grandmother in your younger days.
Hey Deb! Just wanted to let you know that we featured one of your photos of Sydney on our VT Facebook page today! You can check it out here: facebook.com/VirtualTourist?...
Hope you are having a great year so far and planning some very fun trips!
Talk soon,
Blake aka Rudysmom626
Thanks for your answer to 'First time Key West visit!'. The room at Eden house ended up booking before we could. It worked out, as we got a place at the Galleon Resort, so we're within a couple blocks of Duval. Thanks for all your info!
Your story is so interesting. I just took my granddaughter overseas so this'rang a bell' with me.
I came to your page because of the Sydney tip...did we have another aussie VTer I wondered.
Love your motto - and your homepage! A great life being lived by three!! Gillybob greetings
I love it when no one knows which camera they should look at for the family picture. I can't tell you how many family pics we have with the same "looks". This is great. Kudos to your grandmother. Karl
Thanks for your comment on my St Mary's page. I considered a separate page for Point Lookout, but since it's close to St Mary's, I decided to keep the tips together.
what a great way to grow up travellers!wonderful grandmother for sure!
What a wonderful grandmother you had!
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I got my wife Twister for Christmas. While we were playing it on Christmas morning, she remarked that the spinner was not great. It seemed to land on Left Foot more than we expected.
My first thought was, "I could write a quick Python script to get a more random spinner result!" So I grabbed my computer and threw this together in about a minute:
import random
parts = ['Right Foot', 'Right Hand', 'Left Foot', 'Left Hand']
actions = ['Red', 'Yellow', 'Green', 'Blue']
while True:
input('{} {}'.format(random.choice(parts), random.choice(actions)))
This is about the bare minimum I could get away with: choose a random body part and a random color and print the combination. We played this way for a while before my wife had an amazing idea.
"It would be really great if the computer could just read the spin result out loud," she said.
I immediately thought of
say, because my five-year-old daughter loves to
play with
say on the command line and make my computer speak. So another
minute or two later I had modified my script:
import random
import subprocess
parts = ['Right Foot', 'Right Hand', 'Left Foot', 'Left Hand']
actions = ['Red', 'Yellow', 'Green', 'Blue']
while True:
move = '{} {}'.format(random.choice(parts), random.choice(actions))
subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'Samantha', '-r', '150', move])
Now we had nice random spins and the computer calling out the moves. But the script still required someone to press Enter after each move. The final tweak was to make it automatically call out moves after a few seconds:
import random
import subprocess
import time
parts = ['Right Foot', 'Right Hand', 'Left Foot', 'Left Hand']
actions = ['Red', 'Yellow', 'Green', 'Blue']
while True:
move = '{} {}'.format(random.choice(parts), random.choice(actions))
subprocess.call(['say', '-v', 'Samantha', '-r', '150', move])
At this point I was pretty happy with the behavior of my quick little script.
But I took the opportunity anyway to flesh it out a bit and allow command line
options to configure various things. It was a good chance to learn how to use
argparse module.
The final script is on GitHub. It includes command line arguments for:
say command).
This script was a fun little diversion, and now my wife and I can play Twister without needing a third person to operate the spinner!
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[This is the transcript of a talk I gave in church on Sunday, December 29, 2013.]
At the beginning of this month, we hung on the wall a felt advent calendar my wife made. Each morning in December we take a shepherd, or wise man, or angel, or other character from the Christmas story out of a pocket and place it in the scene. As Christmas approaches, the cast of the nativity assembles, culminating on Christmas morning when a small, felt Christ child is placed in the small, felt manger.
Last week I took an inventory of our home. Including this advent calendar, I counted no less than 14 nativity scenes. In each depiction, whether it be felt, wood, plastic, ceramic, glass, metal, or crystal, there at the center lies the Christ. What better way to remind us of what our focus should be than to have depictions of the Savior within our glance almost continually?
Just as each nativity scene is arranged with Christ at the center, we should do all we can to make the Lord Jesus Christ the center of our homes.
Elder Richard G. Scott, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said,
When [Christ] is the center of your home, there is peace and serenity. There is a spirit of assurance that pervades the home, and it is felt by all who dwell there. [source]
In The Book of Mormon, the prophet Nephi wrote,
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. [2 Nephi 25:26]
You are probably already familiar with a few fundamental principles that help make the Savior the center of your home, but allow me to draw on some of my own experiences, both as a child in my parents' home, and as a parent of two small children. The three principles I would like to talk about are prayer, scripture study, and family home evening.
The first fundamental principle of a Christ-centered home is prayer. Prophets have long counseled us to pray daily, both individually and as a family. I remember praying together with my family when I was a child. No matter what activities we were involved in or how busy we were, every day began and ended with family prayer. I learned to pray by listening to and following the examples of my parents and older siblings.
From my father and mother I learned to pray for each member of the family by name. When I take the time to think about my wife and each of my children individually, and ask our Heavenly Father to supply their specific needs, I find that the Holy Ghost can teach me how best to express Christlike love to them. In a Christ-centered home, where the Holy Ghost can inspire the hearts of each family member, we can meet each other's needs.
We have often been taught that we can pray for anything, big or small. One day, when I was working on a puzzle with Emily, one of my daughters, we discovered one piece was missing. We searched for a minute but came up empty-handed. As if this sort of thing that happens every day, my daughter said, "We better say a prayer so we can find that piece."
Without hesitation, she said a very simple prayer, asking Heavenly Father to help us find the missing puzzle piece. After less than a minute of searching, sure enough, we found the piece.
Then Emily said, "Okay, now we need to say thank you." Again, without hesitation, she prayed to Heavenly Father and thanked him for helping us find the missing puzzle piece. What a humbling example of childlike faith!
We pray to the Father in the name of Jesus Christ. As our prayers become more heartfelt, by necessity we draw closer to Christ. The first fundamental principle of a Christ-centered home is prayer.
The second fundamental principle of a Christ-centered home is scripture study. If Christ is to be the center of our home, surely the words of Christ should be studied frequently, both individually and as a family. When I was a child, just as my family ended each day with family prayer, that prayer was preceded by family scripture study.
My siblings and I learned to read mostly by reading the scriptures. Before I could read myself, I started by simply repeating the words after one of my parents.
The language of the scriptures is unlike other things we read, so the younger we start to read them, the more understandable and comfortable they will be to us as we grow older. When our first daughter Emily was about six months old we began reading The Book of Mormon with her. We usually read about five verses a day. Last night, about three years and ten months after we started, we read the last few verses of Moroni and finished the book.
One day, about two years after we started this reading, when Emily was two and a half years old, she declared that it was her turn to read. She took The Book of Mormon from me, opened it to a page somewhere near the middle, and launched into one of the most amazing recitations of scripture I have ever heard.
It sounded like she was pulling random scriptural phrases out of her memory and combining them on the fly. There were also some lines I recognized from Primary songs scattered throughout her speech. She made liberal use of, "and it came to pass," of course. If you weren't listening too carefully, you might think she was reciting an actual verse of scripture.
Even though the words of her performance made no sense when strung together like that, we recognized that our daughter understand that there was something different about the scriptures. I pray that this is only the beginning of a meaningful, personal relationship with the words of Christ.
In my family growing up, we would mostly read through the scriptures linearly together. But one summer, we studied the Doctrine and Covenants differently. My father put a list of sections on the wall. Each child could choose a section to study individually, then make a report to the family about what that section was about. When a child reported on a section, it was crossed off the list.
We were pragmatic children, so as you can imagine, the shorter sections were claimed quickly. Even though we were always looking for the easiest way to complete these assignments, I have specific memories of the Holy Ghost testifying to my heart that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that through him the Lord restored his Gospel in these last days. I will be forever thankful that my parents worked to build a Christ-centered home where I could have these experiences and where my testimony could grow.
You may recall the story of the Liahona, that curious brass ball that acted as a compass to Lehi and his family as they travelled through the wilderness. When they had faith that God would use the Liahona to lead them to a land of promise, the Liahona led them. After the travellers arrived on this continent and inherited the land that God promised them, it appears the Liahona's purpose was fulfilled. But rather than discard it, prophets handed down this sacred object through the generations until it was cared for by a man named Alma.
As Alma prepared to pass the Liahona on to his son Helaman, he gave this counsel:
For behold, it is as easy to give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss, as it was for our fathers to give heed to this compass, which would point unto them a straight course to the promised land. […] For just as surely as this director did bring our fathers, by following its course, to the promised land, shall the words of Christ, if we follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of sorrow into a far better land of promise. [Alma 37:44-45]
The world is full of sorrow, which only seems to increase with each passing day. If we study the words of Christ and give the scriptures a place in our minds and hearts, we can build our homes into a promised land today.
The second fundamental principle of a Christ-centered home is scripture study.
The third fundamental principle of a Christ-centered home is family home evening. The idea of a weekly family home evening was formally announced in 1915. Joseph F. Smith, the President of the Church at that time, called for families to
[…] spend an hour or more together in a devotional way - in the singing of hymns, songs, prayer, reading of the Scriptures and other good books, instrumental music, family topics, and specific instructions on the principles of the Gospel and on the ethical problems of life, as well as the duties and obligations of children to parents, the home, the Church, society and the nation. [In James R. Clark, comp, Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. (1965–75), 5:89]
This counsel was followed by a promise:
If the Saints obey this counsel we promise that great blessings will result. Love at home and obedience to parents will increase. Faith will be developed in the hearts of the youth of Israel, and they will gain power to combat the evil influences and temptations which beset them.
In 1970, the Church set aside Monday night as a designated family night, and asked local wards and stakes to not hold activities on that night. I remember spending Monday nights with my family. We sang songs, played games, acted out scripture stories, and took turns giving lessons about the gospel. Sometimes we didn't get along. No family is perfect. But as I recall, we usually enjoyed ourselves.
We did not only have family home evening when it was convenient. When my brother Eric and I were in high school, our school choir director announced the organization of an extra-curricular men's chorus that would meet to rehearse on Monday nights. Eric and I were both singers and wanted to participate in this new chorus.
We both knew that on Monday nights our place was at home with our family. We talked to the choir director and asked if it would be alright if we were late to the weekly rehearsal. He said that would be okay. So each Monday night, after family home evening, we went to rehearsal.
We never could convince the director to move rehearsal to another night. But even then, I knew that family home evening came first.
So now I have two young girls, and our family home evenings don't always go as planned. But in the introduction of the Family Home Evening Resource Book it says,
The most important thing your children will remember is the spirit they feel in your family home evenings and activities. Be sure that the atmosphere is one of love, understanding, and enjoyment. It is more important to have a good time with one another than to get through a lesson. [source]
This is encouraging! We definitely have a good time together, and even if we don't think our daughters are paying any attention, we have found that they get more from the lessons than we think they do.
I have faith that as we make family home evening a priority, our family will be strengthened and we will draw closer to Christ together. The third fundamental principle of a Christ-centered home is family home evening.
Remember that building a Christ-centered home will not magically remove trials from our lives. Elder Scott said that
[…] living an obedient life, firmly rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ, provides the greatest assurance for peace and refuge in our homes. There will still be plenty of challenges or heartaches, but even in the midst of turmoil, we can enjoy inner peace and profound happiness. [source]
I echo that testimony. We can find joy and love in our homes when we work to put Christ at the center. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
¶ 2013-07-11 20:05:52
While I was recently posting a photo to Instagram, I had cause to wonder what would happen if I applied the same filter to a photo multiple times. My wonder was caused by an interesting side-effect of the app's workflow on my phone.
The typical steps to take when posting to Instagram are these:
However, something happens behind the scenes between steps 3 and 4: the app saves a copy of the edited photo to the phone. I have found this useful in the past, particularly when I get to the captioning step and have to switch out of the app to do something else. When I get back to the app I have often lost my work and need to compose a photo all over again. But instead of taking a new photo (and editing it again) I can browse my phone and find the photo I edited the first time.
At this point, the app does not know I just loaded a photo that the app itself created moments ago, so I get the option to apply a filter and otherwise edit the photo again. So I began to wonder what would happen if I took advantage of this to apply multiple filters to a photo.
An operation is idempotent if it "can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application."[^1]
[^1]: Thanks, Wikipedia.
So, an Instagram filter is idempotent if, after the first application, any subsequent application of the same filter does not change the photo in any way. Applying the same filter several times is the same as applying the filter once.
My gut feeling is that Instagram filters are not idempotent, and if I apply a filter to the same photo over and over the photo will look crazier and crazier. Let's see if I am right.
We'll start with a boring photo of this fine trilby.
For this exercise I chose the Amaro filter. I liked how it helped bring out the pinstripes on the hat. Here is the original photo with no filter (top-left), Amaro applied once (top-right), twice (bottom-left), and thrice (bottom-right).
Already the photo is getting out of control. My hat is turning violet! And I was right, Amaro really brings out the pinstripes. Also the filters are not idempotent. But I kind of expected that anyway, I just needed an excuse to play around with multiple filters!
But maybe after a few more applications of the filter, the photo will stabilize. Let's keep going. Here is the same photo with Amaro applied four, five, six, and seven times (top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, respectively).
There is still a fair bit of difference betwen Amaro × 4 and Amaro × 7. We're giving up violet and moving into the reds. What next?
The changes are slowing down now, but it is still easy to see differences.
Now we are all the way up to Amaro × 15 (bottom-right). It is almost indistinguishable from Amaro × 14. We'll stop here.
While we're at it, how about one more crazy experiment before we're through? What happens when every filter is applied to a photo? Here is the original photo with filters applied cumulatively in this order: Amaro, Mayfair, Rise, Hudson, Valencia, X-Pro II, Sierra, Willow, Lo-Fi, Earlybird, Sutro, Toaster, Brannan, Inkwell, Walden, Hefe, Nashville, 1977, and Kelvin.
About halfway through we can still kind of tell it is a trilby, but by the time we get to the last four filters, who can tell what that is a photo of? Nobody, that's who.
Obviously, applying every filter at once is overkill and no one is going to do it. But we might get good results from combining two or three filters. I wonder if the app will ever support selecting multiple filters natively. It might make a useful addition but it also might make more people over-filter their photos and that would just make me sick.
Better keep this little trick between us.
¶ 2013-07-01 13:33:53
Way back in January, Rebecca sent me a link to a camping workshop run by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and asked me what I thought about taking Emily camping. My first thought was, "Does she know me at all?"
I kept the link in my inbox and thought about it for a while and finally, in May, I decided that no matter how many unpleasant memories of camping as a Boy Scout I had, I could make this fun.
Besides, I'm an adult now. I can be responsible and wear sunblock.
So I registered for the workshop and Rebecca told me she was actually really surprised that I did. Maybe she does know me after all.
At first it was going to be just me and Emily. But Rebecca thought it would be more fun if we could find someone else to go with us (Rebecca wouldn't touch a tent with a ten-foot tent pole herself). I talked to my friend Josh, who has a daughter only slightly younger than Emily, and they agreed to go on this adventure with us.
Because we were camping as part of a workshop, the Parks Deparment provided most of the basic equipment: a tent, air mattresses for the adults, sleeping pads for the kids, a lantern, a cooking stove, and pots and pans. We only needed to bring food, clothes, towels, soap, and any other fun things we wanted. And let's be honest, we never used the soap.
I had no idea what kind of pots and pans we would encounter in our kit so I brought along my own cast-iron skillet just to be safe.
We drove out on Friday night (21 June) and stayed until Sunday morning. We got to choose our own campsite, and we got a nice one right on the shore of Inks Lake. We spent a long time in the water on Saturday.
We also got to do a little fishing (I caught a 2-inch fish!) and kayaking. Emily had a nice relaxing kayak ride while I rowed her wherever she asked me to.
We saw a fair bit of wildlife, too. We would often see lizards zipping around in the grass and on the trees. A deer came through our campsite early Saturday morning. Two ducks came to the shore at our site, probably looking for free food. We also spotted a heron in the water near our site. A pair of cardinals took some interest in us and even made off with a bit of hot dog bun Emily dropped on the ground. We also saw a wasp that was possibly as big as the fish I caught.
The weather was really nice and we all had a wonderful time! We agreed that this was definitely something we want to do again.
¶ 2013-04-04 20:08:11
Sound advice from James Shakespeare:
The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you're detracting from them because all your efforts are focused on making them look attractive to other people.


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The Shanghai Sharks got a taste of the PBA's physical game after the Chinese club absorbed an 80-71 loss Tuesday night to conclude their two-game exhibition series at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Thankfully, Yao Ming was not there to witness his team's second loss as the former NBA superstar left town earlier in the day, disappointing the crowd hoping to catch a glimpse of the 7-foot-6 Chinese basketball icon.
Rain or Shine bruiser Beau Belga used his brawn against the Sharks' 7-foot-3 center and one-time Chinese national team member Zhang Zhaoxu as he led the PBA selection with 16 points and nine rebounds.
Paul Lee, KG Canaleta and Arwind Santos also delivered for the locals who rallied from a nine-point second half deficit to hand the Sharks a winless stint in their two-game appearance in Manila.
Lee picked the pocket of Meng Lingyuan twice, buried a tying three and fed Arwind Santos for a 71-69 lead with 3:17 left to play.
Canaleta hit his third triple with 1:37 left in the payoff period, putting the PBA cagers up for good, 74-71 before Belga's putback off a Mike Cortez miss extended the lead to five to put the game away.
"Siguro pinairal lang namin ang pagka-Pilipino namin," said Belga. "Kung kapwa Pilipino nga nagpapatayan pa kami para manalo e sa ibang bansa pa."
A letdown, however, was the non-appearance of former Houston Rockets center and Sharks owner Yao Ming.
The 7-foot-6 Yao appeared during his club's 80-72 loss to Gilas Pilipinas at the Mall of Asia Arena on Monday but left for Beijing early Tuesday morning.
Fans were also dismayed also by the no-show of Sharks guard Liu Wei, who missed both games due to diarrhea.