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Three local boys have gotten in touch with their soulful side. They travel the country performing bluegrass music as The Moore Brothers Band.
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Change in National Voter Registration Form on Hold Pending
May 20, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Tenth Circuit issued a stay in Kris W. Kobach et al v. United States,
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Arizona applying to register to vote using the federal registration form will
not be required to provide proof of citizenship.
May 9, 2014
Today, Project Vote is pleased to release the latest updated policy paper in our Issues in Election Administration series, Enfranchising America's Youth
Despite significant gains in voter turnout over the last decade, young people are still underrepresented within the American electorate, and are among the populations most vulnerable to disenfranchisement. Recent partisan attacks on voting rights, such as strict voter ID laws, have a disproportionate impact on young voters, and risk exacerbating further the existing disparities in the electorate.
In this updated policy paper, Project Vote Communications Manager Erin Ferns Lee reviews the voting rates of 18- to 29-year-old citizens in recent elections, and examines laws that hinder or facilitate participation by young, non-college attending voters. The paper provides recommendations for effective policies that can improve participation rates for all American youth, including preregistration, high school registration, voter education programs, and other policies that can increase access to registration and voting for this underrepresented population.
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Man, I wish I could train there. That is the perfect team if you ask me. They might be the #1 training camp now.
Wanderlei Silva training with Shawn Tompkins at Xtreme Couture
Shawn Tompkins and members of his Canadian team will be joining Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. The Muay Thai master has taken an offer by Xtreme Couture to be the head trainer and gym manager of the legendary gym. Tompkins stable of fighters also making the move are Chris "The Polish Hammer" Horodecki, Sam Stout and Mark Hominick. Horodecki will be competing in the IFL Grand Prix under the Xtreme Couture logo alongside new teammates Jay Hieron and Alex Schoenauer.
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Shawn Tompkins alongside Randy Couture will be cornering Xtreme Couture fighters this weekend at the IFL Grand Prix.
Man, I wish I could train there. That is the perfect team if you ask me. They might be the #1 training camp now.
chute box, Xtreme Couture , miletich, and Brazilian Top Team are all elite camps.
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Wednesday, 23 October 2013 11:31
A Belmond man accused of trying to steal an infant from a Clear Lake bar earlier this year has been sentenced to 10-years in prison.
Jonathan Workman, 34, entered an Alford plea on the charge of child stealing after he was accused of trying to take a six-month-old from Rumorz on April 20. An Alford plea means the defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges prosecutors can likely prove the charge. Two other charges in the case were dismissed.
Three candidates on the ballot for two Ventura Council seats
Wednesday, 23 October 2013 11:29
One incumbent and two challengers filed nomination papers for two Ventura City Council seats. Kristie Meints, 2605 E. Lake St., and Fred Petersburg, 1101 E. Lake St., are seeking the Council positions, as well as incumbent Brian Vaage, 101 E. Lake St.
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|I don't think their planners are long term thinkers. It's gonna be: "Hey, we won! What now?"
They still have to hold their gains, and they have to make good their losses. So, toppling the central government may save ISIS, maybe for all time, bit it looks to me like they have to exopand constantly, or their movement will die.
|20150522 19:32
|They don't need to hold it for long. Just long enough to topple the government in Baghdad, at least.
|20150522 12:09
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|It's not just Iraq though, badanov. It's Iraq and Syria -- and ISIS just took control of both sides of the last border crossing between the two.
Granted, the territory on both sides contains an awful lot of empty desert, but still.
|20150522 01:34
|My opinion with regard to Iraq is that for all its claims, ISIS can't sustain the losses it has sustained for long.
They have to keep on the offensive, and they can't afford to hold ground. They need more bodies to replace the ones they are grinding into hamburger.
The optics are terrible, to be sure, but in the end, I doubt ISIS will be able to claim much more than a Pyrrhic victory.
|20150520 19:40
|20150520 16:47
|Bright Pebbles
|20150520 11:11
|Here's a lead to the ISIS map for you Thing.
I don't know hoe current they keep it.
|20150520 00:29
|Make your own.
|20150519 23:50
|up-to-date map
Apparently Thing, it would be obsolete before it was published.
|20150519 21:03
|Thing From Snowy Mountain
|Hey, does anyone know of a site that has an up-to-date map of ISIS-held territory?
|20150519 20:12
|Can we set up a FundMe site to collect money to pay Pudgy to keep her?
|20150519 10:45
|Deacon Blues
|Gloria Steinham iS going to lead a women'S March in North Korea. Too bad she won't do the same in Iran.
|20150518 22:06
|Frank G
|Sister works for SDPD Crime Lab as an Senior Analyst. Current Chief Zimmerman is a personal friend (via sister)
|20150518 22:04
|Frank G
|already liked, Gloria. Good link!
|20150517 23:41
|Blue Lives Matter
|20150517 22:01
|trailing wife
|Here is Gloria's Facebook page, for those interested in Blue Lives Matter: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blue-Lives-Matter/2023392027801748?ref=ts&fref=ts
|20150517 21:38
|trailing wife
|I'll take a look at it, Gloria.
|20150517 20:20
|I have a FB page Blue Lives Matter only been up a few weeks, would like help promoting it. Thanks.
|20150517 20:08
|Also this purge begins: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/15/us-lockheed-boeing-ula-idUSKBN0O029D20150515
|20150517 20:05
|Thing - the reboost attempt with another Proton failed on the same day.
|20150517 10:41
|Thing From Snowy Mountain
|It's not a physical bump. The supply ship carries fuel which iis run through a rocket engine, sometimes on the Progress.
|20150517 00:10
|Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
|20150517 00:09
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
Source: On Liberty, 1859
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
Source: Quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, W.W.Norton&Co,Ltd, NY, 1996
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Morrison Becomes First Healthcare Food Service Contract Company To Join The Partnership For A Healthier America Could Impact More Than 500 Million Hospital Meals Annually PR Newswire ATLANTA, March 7, 2013 ATLANTA, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Atlanta-based Morrison today announced it has become the first healthcare food service contract company to commit to The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) and its Hospital Healthy Food Initiative. Morrison's commitment along with that of its clients could impact 41 million patients served annually and 403 million guest meals sold in cafes, vending areas and kiosks annually. "This commitment is an extension of our already well-established wellness platform initiatives and programs, which align with PHA goals and the mission of their organization," said Tim Pierce, CEO, Morrison. "We've been at the forefront of the industry on health and wellness for more than two decades. The PHA partnership is an extension of our philosophy of offering wholesome, nutritious, and better-for-you foods and will allow us to make healthful choices easy and even more accessible to millions of patients, staff and visitors." The PHA Hospital Healthy Food Initiative seeks to move healthcare institutions toward delivering nutritious options to meet the needs of the children, families and communities they serve. In joining the initiative, Morrison agrees to make a commitment to adopt standards for nutrition labeling, healthy food marketing, wellness meal offerings, elimination of deep fat fryers, increases in healthy beverages and increases in fruits and vegetables offered. "Morrison's commitment not only brings more healthy options to patients, staff and the families and friends of those they care for; it also reaches beyond the walls of the hospitals to impact the entire food system," said PHA CEO Lawrence A. Soler. "Today's announcement will dramatically increase the number of hospitals that are part of PHA's Hospital Healthy Food Initiative, the single most expansive effort in hospital food and nutrition in the industry. We are thrilled that Morrison is joining the fight to increase access to healthier options, so that people who want to can make the healthier choice." Using the latest research on healthful eating and incorporating techniques that influence behavioral change in food consumption, Morrison will improve the health profile of the hospitals it serves by implementing such changes as: oeliminating 5.7 million pounds of sugar from bottled beverages oswitching to exclusive use of whole grain or legume-based pasta in the 3.7 million pounds of pasta served each year ooffering whole grains as an alternative to the 1.9 million pounds of rice served annually ooffering better-for-you foods in place of high impulse low-nutrient food at cash registers oreducing fat calories by using healthier, misted oils exclusively in appropriate applications oand featuring images of healthy nutrient-rich food in regular marketing promotions "We believe we have a responsibility to help change people's lives through healthier food environments," Pierce said. "By joining with PHA, we can help hospitals in their mission of becoming models of healthful eating and implementing practices that support a more robust and healthier food system. We want to support healthcare institutions as they encourage behavioral change in the hospital environment and the community." In 2010 Morrison became the first national contractor to sign the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge from Healthcare Without Harm. Morrison has also implemented the purchase of rBGH free dairy products, meat without the routine use of antibiotics as well as working directly with suppliers to eliminate added trans fats and to reduce sodium in food processing. About Morrison Healthcare Morrison Healthcare, a member of Compass Group, is the nation's only food service company exclusively dedicated to providing food, nutrition and dining services to the healthcare industry. With more than 1,300 registered dietitians, 450 executive chefs and 19,000 professional food service team members, Morrison is actively committed to fostering ways to enjoy great-tasting, healthy food through socially responsible practices and superior customer service. The Atlanta-based company serves approximately 550 hospitals and integrated healthcare systems in the United States. Visit www.IamMorrison.com for more information. Media Contact: Alla Umanskiy Communications Manager Morrison Management Specialists 404-845-3326 firstname.lastname@example.com SOURCE Morrison Website: http://www.iammorrison.com/
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At work, as the resident social media fan and graphic designer, I typically get asked to help out the marketing people to design graphics for our various social media platforms.
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Integrate Launches AdHQ to Liberate Media Buyers Trapped in Spreadsheet Hell AdHQ Centralizes Paid Advertising Across Online, Offline and Mobile Media for Brands and Agencies PHOENIX, AZ -- (Marketwire) -- 03/20/13 -- Integrate, a leading advertising technology provider, today announced the release of AdHQ, a comprehensive workflow management solution for brand and agency advertisers and media buyers. Integrate's AdHQ empowers media and brand managers to effectively plan, launch, analyze and optimize cross-channel marketing campaigns across multiple forms of performance, digital and traditional media. "Marketing needs to be smarter, more relevant, and focused on effectively reaching customers across channels and platforms. Being able to optimally allocate marketing resources across channels and accurately account for the marketing effect on key performance indicators (KPIs), such as revenue, is a top concern for senior marketers." ("Evaluate Your Marketing Optimization Readiness," Forrester Research, Inc., November 5, 2012) Unlike single point solutions, Integrate's AdHQ is the first unified platform that allows marketers to manage the entire lifecycle of paid media campaigns in a single system. AdHQ provides an intuitive interface to plan and develop media buying strategies, a comprehensive ad-serving technology suite enabling effective lead distribution, affiliate tracking, call tracking, and real-time reporting and analytics to holistically compare channel, publisher and creative performance. This integrated approach increases the return on investment (ROI) of paid media campaigns by automating manual processes, simplifying workflows and increasing productivity. Based on early testing, advertisers reported up to a 150% increase in operational efficiency, translating to increased bandwidth of their existing staff. AdHQ allows marketers to onboard their existing media partners and access a thriving ecosystem consisting of over 3,500 vetted publisher sources, more than 300,000 URLs and 35 digital programmatic buying systems. Those who implement AdHQ across all areas of media spend yield the best return. "Integrate's AdHQ has absolutely improved overall campaign execution and allows our ad operations department to focus on other r evenue generating tasks," said Isaac Zafarani at IDG TechNetwork, an online advertising network for technology marketers and agencies. "We moved all of our demand generation campaigns to AdHQ and can now manage hundreds of clients simultaneously -- while meeting their media schedules and protecting their brand security. It saves our staff tons of time by automating a lot of the manual and labor-intensive processes." While analyzing cross-channel performance data, media buyers often get bogged down in what they call "Spreadsheet Hell." They spend hours and days recording performance data from different channels and ad types (e.g. print ads, TV commercials, Internet display ads, mobile ads, etc.) in separate spreadsheets, only to spend more time manually comparing data between spreadsheets to determine which channels are delivering the highest response rates. Integrate's AdHQ provides real-time tracking and cross-channel reporting tools that compare performance metrics across online, offline and mobile paid media campaigns. The software automatically consolidates these cross-channel metrics into a single report, helping media buyers easily and accurately identify underperforming channels so they can instantly reallocate marketing spend to the highest performing publishers, methods, pricing models, creative and campaigns. "Every day, media buyers waste valuable time and resources using processes from the 1990s," said Jeremy Bloom, co-founder of Integrate. "Why should today's smartest and hardest-working people in the ad business have to rely on media management methods that came into use back when Jurassic Park was in the theater, Nirvana was on the radio, and I was in junior high? "We developed AdHQ to bring automation and simplification to marketing departments and agencies of all sizes," Bloom added. "The increase in operational efficiency gives agencies the ability to manage more clients with their existing staff, and gives marketing departments the ability to manage all of their customer acquisition efforts with their current resources, regardless of scale or spend." Key features of AdHQ include: -- Plan -- Vetted Marketplace -- Plan media buys across 3,500+ trusted publishers, 300,000+ URLs and 35 programmatic buying systems. -- Strategy Development -- Identify opportunities and gain insight into past campaigns and current market conditions. -- Vendor Intelligence -- Make informed decisions regarding collaboration, removing the risk of blind tests that gamble budget on media buys with potentially unqualified publishers. -- Launch -- Campaign Creation -- Select pricing models and set campaign parameters using step-by-step guidelines. -- Cross-Channel Distribution -- Manage all marketing efforts across all channels including online, offline and mobile. -- Fraud Prevention -- Rely on comprehensive fraud prevention technology for every campaign, delivering an unmatched level of security and quality. -- Analyze -- Real-Time Reporting -- Track each campaign in real time, accounting for every advertising dollar spent and saving hundreds of hours in data accumulation and analysis. -- Audience Analysis -- Deconstruct consumer information by location, demographics, behaviors and purchasing patterns. -- CPL Campaign Review -- Identify positive lead-to-revenue correlations with real-time campaign analysis reports. -- Optimize -- Budget Reallocation -- Benefit from automated or manual reallocation based on real-time publisher performance statistics and campaign requirements. -- Messaging Center -- Communicate directly with publishers to discuss campaign objectives, as well as negotiate allocation and pricing. AdHQ is available and supports agencies, brands, networks and media sellers, with tiered integration fees for advertisers who choose to onboard their own publishers and third party systems. However, Integrate is offering a money back guarantee to brands and agencies that don't see an increase in efficiency and overall campaign performance after the first 90 days. Integrate clients include top advertisers such as Dell, LivingSocial, Sony, and Microsoft. For more information about Integrate's AdHQ please visit www.integrate.com. About Integrate Integrate is the first advertising technology provider that empowers media buyers to plan, launch, analyze and optimize marketing campaigns across performance, digital and traditional media. Integrate's AdHQ offers buyers and sellers an end-to-end solution that supports the entire lifecycle of paid media campaigns in one intuitive dashboard. The platform's regulated ecosystem ensures the success of any cross-channel marketing strategy across online, offline and mobile. AdHQ includes industry-leading analytical tools necessary to measure campaign effectiveness and optimize tactics in real time. Through advanced technology, Integrate saves marketers hundreds of hours in manual processes, enabling a single media buyer to do the work of an entire team. To learn more, visit www.integrate.com or follow Integrate on Twitter @Integrate. Media Contact: Ali Kramer Barokas Public Relations for Integrate 206-264-8220 firstname.lastname@example.com
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Nguyen, Phuong Thanh*, Nguyen, Hao Van*, Bui, Tam Minh*, Phan, Lam Thanh*, Vo, Son Minh*, Nguyen, Nhut*, Duong, Long Nhut*, Nguyen, Thuy T.T., Gooley, Geoff J.*, Ingram, Brett A. and De Silva, Sena S. (2011) Better management practices for striped catfish (tra) farming in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam, Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand [A6.1]
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Episode #119
How to Fix Our Broken Retirement System
Friday, August 22, 2014
The retirement system in the United States is in shambles. Most people no longer have pensions. Many workers are not putting enough money into their 401ks and IRAs to build up enough retirement savings. And in today's society, Social Security payments cover very little of a retired person's costs. So, what's to be done?
This week on Money Talking, Joe Nocera of The New York Times and Rana Foroohar of Time magazine rethink retirement and discuss possible solutions to the problems plaguing America's retirement system. This conversation is also available as a video from MetroFocus, the weekly news magazine from New York and New Jersey public television stations THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and NJTV.
Hosted by:Charlie Herman
Produced by:Daniel P. Tucker
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Thanks for speaking about retirement funds and the difficulty of not having enough saved for retirement. It was mentioned that the funds are too readily available for withdrawal. However, if I had not been able to withdraw the funds since I've been unemployed or underemployed for most of the past 5 years, I don't know where I would be. I agree that we need to have funds set aside, but this economy is not back up to snuff. Anecdotally, a lot of people are underemployed - unable to pay their bills on their present job. These are difficult times for many and I venture to guess, for a lot more people than we realize.
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception (Paperback)
Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, potions, and powders against the adversary, the CIA hired America's most famous magician, John Mulholland, to write two manuals on sleight of hand and covert communication techniques.
In 1973, virtually all documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed. Mulholland's manuals were thought to be among themuntil a single surviving copy of each, complete with illustrations, was recently discovered in the agency's archives.
The manuals reprinted in this work represent the only known complete copy of Mulholland's instructions for CIA officers on the magician's art of deception and secret communications.
About the Author
H. Keith Melton is a historical consultant for the CIA and the author of several books, including "Ultimate Spy".
Robert Wallce has led tours, with his wife Gwynneth, to the Holy Land and followed in the steps of St. Paul to Turkey and Greece. After retiring from parish ministry and teaching homiletics, he represented the United Church of Canada on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, which involved much world travel.
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"An enchanting account of espionage and wizardry at their blackest."
-Peter Earnest, Executive Director of the International Spy Museum
"Melton and Wallace have achieved the ultimate mastery of the shadow world where CIA's smoke and mirrors meet Hollywood's art of magic, deception and illusion. Like any good stage show, the never-before-disclosed techniques are spellbinding. The history of espionage is expanded by this factual, fascinating account."
-Tony and Jonna Mendez, Masters of Disguise
"A legendary 'lost' piece of magic history…It's James Bond meets Harry Houdini!"
-Lance Burton, Master Magician
"Entrancing! I was amazed to see how the magician's trade can be twisted to aid in the dark arts of espionage."
-Jeff McBride, Creator of The Magic and Mystery School
"Espionage and magic! A special thrill to read the once-classified CIA magician's manual."
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JACINTO CITY, Texas A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder early Wednesday after his mom was found fatally stabbed in her Jacinto City bed.
Laura Moreno, 31, was stabbed multiple times at her home in the 11100 block of Verano Street.
Her son called Moreno s sister who found the body and called 911 call shortly after 3 a.m.
Witnesses told police they saw the woman s son running from his home screaming shortly before paramedics arrived.
Her father called me and told me that there had been a tragedy, said family friend Arthur Zunnga. He said his grandson had killed his daughter. I said, unbelievable.
The police chief said the woman s son was the only other person home at the time.
The teen allegedly confessed to family members that he stabbed his mother. He was taken away from the home by officers, who bagged his hands to preserve any evidence.
The chief described the victim s wounds as defensive wounds, saying she was stabbed at least 10 times.
The owner of the house who lived with Moreno and her son said there were signs of trouble.
She had a temper. She abused him, he said.
The boy told police the same thing.
He said that he had suffered abuse, verbal abuse, and he was tired of it, said Jacinto CityPolice Chief Joe Ayala. And he just snapped.
Police said the two argued about the clothes the boy was wearing overnight.
He was slapped... and that s what led to this, Ayala said.
I just can t believe it. I m still numb, the homeowner said. I m hoping this is all a dream and I m going to wake up any minute.
The teen has been charged with murder and is being held in the juvenile detention center.


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Spending on open source support services in Canada to soarSubmitted by Ty on March 2, 2007 - 12:00pm
The market for open source support services is going to boom over the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey. The study of organizations in geographies around the world – including Canada and the U.S. – predict that spending in this country will likely see a compound annual growth rate of 16.1 per cent between 2006 and 2010. That's marginally below the expectation in the U.S. and almost three per cent more than the global average.
Mindquarry Forms Up With an Open Source Team SoftwareSubmitted by Ty on March 2, 2007 - 11:00am
Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections. The free download is available at mindquarry.com. Mindquarry eases especially teams in small and mid-sized companies, freelancers or home workers to use distributed workplaces in an efficient way. It streamlines knowledge and file exchange and the management for teams and tasks.
The Emerging Dell-Linux-Apple WarSubmitted by Ty on March 2, 2007 - 10:00am
While we spend a lot of time talking about Linux vs. Windows and Windows vs. the MacOS, the real battle for the Windows desktop alternative may be the preliminary round between the MacOS and Linux. That battle really kicks off this year with Apple stepping up their effort sharply with the Leopard, and Dell becoming aggressive (with others likely to follow) with SUSE Linux (though this choice may change).
Novell Reports Preliminary Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2007Submitted by Ty on March 2, 2007 - 9:00am
Novell announced preliminary financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2007. These financial results are preliminary because Novell, during the third fiscal quarter of 2006, began a self-initiated, voluntary review of the company's historical stock-based compensation practices and related potential accounting impact.
Dell censors IdeaStorm Linux dissentSubmitted by Ty on March 2, 2007 - 8:00am
It seems pointless seeking ideas and feedback if you're going to ignore and delete the ones you don't like. That's exactly what Dell is doing with its IdeaStorm web site, which has been set up by the company to solicit ideas and feedback.
Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)Submitted by Ty on March 1, 2007 - 4:00pm
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Eric Raymond: Yes, "open source" is still meaningfulSubmitted by Ty on March 1, 2007 - 3:00pm
Writing in O'Reilly's Radar, Nat Torkington argues that the term "open source" is becoming meaningless. He points to SugarCRM's badgeware, through which, he claims, only two-thirds of their code is downloadable, and rPath and MontaVista, which "sell software that works on Linux but the software itself isn't actually open source."
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When you're a team that finishes the season with single digit wins it's awfully hard for athletes on your squad to garner postseason accolades.
Most all-league and all-conference teams are loaded with players from the squads that finished at or near the top of the standings. The Madison-Plains baseball team, 4-19 this spring, had a select few garner postseason respect.
Golden Eagles junior catcher Matt Jeffers was selected to the Mid-State League Ohio Division second team after hitting .429, collecting 12 RBI and an on-base average of .556. He was also the only Plains' player to receive any All-Central District recognition, being named honorable mention All-District in Division III.
Junior third baseman Kenkade Snyder was an honorable mention All-MSL Ohio pick. This spring he hit .475, had 10 RBI and a .592 on-base percentage. Fellow junior Hunter Butin was also an honorable mention selection as a pitcher. He was 2-4 on the season with a stellar 1.80 ERA, at the plate he hit .244.
"I am happy for our players being recognized with postseason honors," Plains coach Zach Durban said. "Each of them are very deserving. Kenkade and Matt have hit in the three and four spots, respectively, all year. They are challenged every game with good pitching and come away with great success.
"Hunter was our No. 1 starter this year. He competes hard every inning and has done great for us both in the league and non-conference. I look forward to having all of them back as seniors next year."
The Lady Eagles had a strong contingent of postseason honorees, headlined by first-team All-MSL Ohio selection of second baseman Tori Bevington.
A trio of Madison-Plains players were pegged for the second team including sophomore infielder Shelby Puckett, sophomore pitcher Courtney Davis and sophomore infielder Maria Grabill.
Catcher Liza Watson, a senior, and Macey Long, a freshman infielder-outfielder, were both named honorable mention All-MSL Ohio.
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Dip of a bit of the gel at the end of a tiny pointed brush, pulling in little bitty dotted lines across the waterline (never one solid line…ever), while keeping the lid taut, continuing until getting to the corner, at which point lift and pull the lid and the line out and up (still close to the lashes), finishing by gently connecting the line to the lashes under the eye (bottom lashes).
When Nicole had finished with the one eye, she gave me the choice to finish the other or wipe the first one off. Such silliness! I had to let her finish both.
I would have been happy to hop out of the chair, but needing to complete what she started, a dusting of a pale bronzer, a nude shadow across the lid, finished off with Ellis Faas' Hot Lips in bright red (9 different stains in the collection) and I was ready to go.
The face called for a 1950s full skirt and cardigan, or Audrey's famous Funny Face ensemble; black tights, black turtleneck, black flats. But I went about my day anyway, off to Target looking ready for pictures.
Using deeper shades of pink can give off the same effect as a candy apple pout, but the color must be just right, so trying different shades is a good idea. For girls who feel that red is too severe, and girls who aren't as comfortable wearing a lot of makeup, there's the pink alternative. Thank goodness for pink.
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"This informative study is well illustrated with the author's photographs and immensely suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.... Highly recommended." —Choice
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In Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the "healing room," Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. Flueckiger collaborated closely with Amma and relates to her at different moments as daughter, disciple, and researcher. The result is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India and reveals the creativity of a tradition often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.
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"In Amma's Healing Room is a terrific book. Well structured and well written, it will be a great addition to courses on religious ethnography, popular and contemporary Islam, South Asian religions, ritual studies, and gender studies." —the Journal of Religion, 88.2, April 2008
"... In Amma's Healing Room is a well-written ethnographic study of a complex and sensitive domain of Muslim religious experience and, as such, is a very welcome addition not only to the expanding body of anthropological work on Islam as a world religion. It broadens the anthropological understanding of the various forms taken by Islamic religious authority and offers new insights into the vitality and diversity of Muslim ritual practices in South Asia." —Magnus Marsden, School of Oriental and African Studies, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol.15. 1 March 2009
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Patients come by auto, foot, and bus—from villages, Bombay, and Pune. My falita are taken even as far as Dubai.
Amma's healing room is a small crowded bustling crossroads of domestic and public spaces, personae, and discourses, a crossroads of ritual and storytelling, social and economic exchange, and family disputes and negotiations. As one enters the courtyard outside the healing room, one often sees a crowd of patients leaning into the doorway of the room, straining to hear Amma's voice or slip in a personal request out of turn. Other patients sit in small familial groups conversing quietly among themselves, entertaining restless babies or children, exchanging gossip with groups from other parts of the city, and/or sharing with others in the courtyard their stories of suffering and Amma's healing (and periodically giving their own advice to each other). On busy days, they may sit for several hours awaiting their turn. Although every so often a patient or her family might complain about the long wait, especially if a baby is crying inconsolably or if Amma is about to take her hour (or more) lunch break, usually patients resign themselves to waiting for their turn. Many patients spend the greater part of a day simply getting to Amma's neighborhood due to long distances and the vagaries of public transportation. For women in particular, the day is an important social outing, as patients rarely come by themselves. It may serve as an occasion for mothers and married daughters or sisters who live with their in-laws to get together outside the scrutiny of others and the pressure of childcare and meal preparation. For a woman who has recommended Amma to a neighbor and accompanied her, this may be a rare occasion for them to talk with each other beyond the few minutes spent standing at the neighborhood water tap or rounding up their children from their play in the street.
Amma's Neighborhood
Amma lives in a neighborhood of Osmania University's subsidized housing for nonacademic employees. Abba used to work as a clerk in the English Department, carrying books to and from the library, and so forth, a position from which he had retired before I met him in 1989.1 (The family has stayed in university housing after Abba's retirement under the name of one of his brothers, who still works at the university.)
The location of Amma's healing room in a neighborhood on a university campus is significant; in many ways, the university is a kind of liminal social space. Amma's neighborhood is not traditionally Muslim or Hindu; its inhabitants are both. It does not carry a particularly elaborate history or caste/communal ethos, and no one has deep ancestral ties to the land or homes (although this does not make it easier for the university to evict families that no longer have direct employment connections to the university). The university location may provide a certain freedom of access and activity that does not hold true of more-traditional neighborhoods. However, Amma's ritual healing activity itself does not differ significantly from that of pirs located throughout Hyderabad's Old City.
Amma's immediate neighborhood houses neither a mosque nor a Hindu temple, although both are found in the vicinity. There are two mosques within a fiveminute walk from Amma's house in each direction. One mosque is a small older structure with the four minarets characteristic of traditional Hyderabadi architecture, and the other was more recently built in what is sometimes called the Saudi style with just a single minaret. Many of these new mosques have been built with monies from Indian Muslims working in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia. Just a little farther down the road is a small dargah, outside of which sits a Muslim baba selling rings with semi-precious stones.
A small shrine to the Hindu goddesses Durga, Pochamma, and Mutyalamma has grown up across the road from Amma's neighborhood under a wide-spreading neem tree, and a much older and larger goddess shrine to the village goddess Yellamma lies at a major intersection in the middle of the university, a ten-minute walk down the road. The lower branches of trees around this shrine are filled with coconut "cradles" tied by couples making vows to the goddess for a cure for infertility. Over the last fifteen years, both shrines have grown considerably larger and more permanent, with cement walls built around the images. The outside walls of the three-goddess shrine are painted with bright images of the goddess Durga, Yellamma carrying pots on her head, and the brother Pota Raju; the surrounding courtyard has been paved with stone. The second shrine has newly built cement walls around its large courtyard; they were added sometime between 1999 and 2003. Each shrine is the site of a major annual festival during which its courtyard is filled with celebrants, but usually they are quiet, with only one or two worshippers present at any given time. Amma's neighborhood itself is also periodically sacralized when, for example, during the annual festival of Ganesh Caturthi, several temporary shrines to the elephant-headed deity are set up or when Islamic devotional qavvali music wafts over the neighborhood throughout the night once every month during Abba's sama [devotional musical gatherings].
Into the Courtyard
Amma's courtyard can be accessed from two directions: one tiny footpath leads from a major road that borders the neighborhood, winding through an overgrown weed patch often used by children as an outdoor latrine (many of the homes do not have indoor latrines) and in between neighboring houses to Amma's healing room. This is the neighborhood/private access road that might even be characterized as "domestic." Most patients come to the courtyard through the other, more public, path off the main road; it is wider and is accessible to 'autos', motorcycles, and the rare car. This side of the courtyard is open to a large open field crisscrossed by footpaths leading to another neighborhood; the open expanse is punctuated by palm trees and the field is overgrown with brush.
Amma and Abba have gradually built on to the living quarters they received from the university, which originally consisted of a single small sleeping room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and the courtyard. They built on another sleeping room for their middle son (Khalid, who is also a pir) and his wife and four children; much later, they built a separate small kitchen for them. The first room they added to the original living quarters was the healing room itself.
The courtyard is approximately 15 by 8 feet, the floor of which is laid with stone slabs; it is roofed by corrugated tin. Two sides of the courtyard are walled with the outside walls of the healing room and a family sleeping room and small verandah; the other two sides are open. Against the outside wall of the healing room is a flagpole that is the site of ritual (the cilla). Both the walls behind the flagpole and its base are painted bright green, and an image of a tiger is painted on the base. Some years the tiger is depicted as springing toward the viewer, roaring, and other years it is standing with a still gaze, as the murals are repainted by different professional artists every year or two. The tiger is associated with the Prophet's son-in-law Ali, who is called "Tiger of God" [sher-i-khuda] and the "First among the Friends of God." On the green-painted wall behind the flagpole are written the names of the founding saints of the Qadiri and Chishti silsilas: Ghaus-e Azam Dastagir and Khwaja Garib Nawaz (one year the artist added cilla mubarak, meaning "blessings on this place, the cilla"). On one wall next to the flagpole is painted the buraq [a winged white horse with the head of a woman, the wings variously painted as folded down or extended out] that carried the Prophet on his night journey and ascent from Jerusalem to heaven, and next to the door of the healing room is a depiction of a horse carrying an open human hand [the panja] under the protection of a royal umbrella. Amma describes the panja as a symbol for the family of the Prophet: Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, his son-in-law Ali, and his grandsons Hassan and Hussein. These are all images common to vernacular Islam in India; they are painted on the walls of many dargahs, shrines, and Muslim healing sites.
The Healing Room
When they arrive at the courtyard, patients first go into Amma's healing room and for 50 paise (only pennies in American currency) receive from Abba (or whoever is tending the small dry-goods store that fills about one-third of the healing room) a little cardboard square with a number written on it, to hold a place in queue. Amma periodically instructs her patients on the importance of keeping order in this way. She instituted this number-queue system in 1990 to bring some order to the increasing numbers of patients that crowd the courtyard. She maintains, "I don't even take my daughter or the sultan without a number. In front of Allah, there is no privilege [rista, lit., connection or relationship]." However, every so often both the cardboard squares and patients in queue get totally out of order ("ahead and behind," age-piche, as Amma says). People are usually quite patient about such mix-ups, but on some days, if they have been waiting for a particularly long time, tempers flare. Mothers with young babies might complain that they should be given preference; the rare wealthy patient who arrives in a car rather than by bus or in an 'auto' might send in an emissary to tell Amma that someone of status is waiting (expecting her to take them out of turn, which she usually does). Sometimes the patients themselves send someone into the healing room out of order if there is a particularly sick child, a feverish moaning woman, or patient who is possessed and not easily controlled. But Amma is rarely sympathetic to complaints about long waits except in the most dramatic of cases; as she responded to one angry patient, "When my work is so grave [gambhir] and important, how do you expect me to do it quickly?"
When I met Amma in 1989, she was seated on the ground behind a low wooden school desk. When I returned to Hyderabad in 1991, she had "moved up" to a comfortable office chair and wooden table. This move coincided with an increase in patient flow and income, but she attributed it primarily to her arthritic knees, which prevented her from easily sitting down and getting up from the floor. Amma is constantly making small improvements to the healing room: one year adding a fluorescent bulb overhead, another year two floor fans, then a cassette player to play devotional qavvali music. At the end of my year with Amma in 1995, I bought her, as a farewell gift, a desk with a linoleum top and drawers. She was particularly excited about the drawers, in which she kept her money, extra sheets of amulets (yet to be cut and folded), and her tins of pan ingredients [betel leaf that various spices are wrapped in and then chewed like tobacco].
Amma makes sure that every possible seating space in the healing room is filled (and she often sees room for another person to squeeze in where others might not); she says she gets restless [becaini] if she sees people standing outside or leaning in the door when there is an empty seat. There is little room for individual privacy in this context, and it is clear that listening to the stories of others who may share a particular patient's difficulty and to stories of Amma's healing success is part of the healing and teaching process. However, when there is no more room for patients to sit and they still continue to crowd into the room, Amma might shout at them to get out of the doorway to let in a little light and air. Without looking up from her work, she frequently cries out, "Hava, hava, hava [air, air, air]! Go wait for your turn outside! Do you think I can breathe in here?"
Amma sits on a large swivel chair with arms behind a desk, around which are arranged a few folding chairs and a wooden bench for the patients whose turns are coming. Stacks of paper slips filled with Arabic writing are arranged across the front of Amma's desk, held down by colorful chipped glass paper weights: one stack will be made into amulets [taviz] for general well-being and one will become specialized fever amulets, one each for morning and evening falita (the slips are rolled up to use as wicks that are soaked in oil and burned). Amma writes all day long: her diagnoses are based on a written mathematical calculation and her prescriptions are written on paper amulets, unleavened bread, saucers, or fresh gourds. As Amma says, "There would be no world without pen and ink." A clipboard, an inkwell, scissors, and one or two ballpoint pens complete the healing paraphernalia on the desktop. The visual impact of the written word (particularly the Arabic written word, Arabi, as Amma calls it) in the healing room is striking for someone familiar with Hindu healing contexts in which the written word is most often absent altogether. The dominance of the written word helps identify the healing room as Muslim space. But as we will see, the written word exists performatively and within a wide oral tradition, and both oral and written words have significance beyond their semantic content.
When I was present, my small black tape recorder sat unobtrusively next to the stacks of amulets. I usually turned it on as soon as I walked in the healing room and turned it off only when I left several hours later; patients sometimes asked about it, but few seemed to care that their conversations were being recorded. Only a handful of patients confidentially whisper their complaints to Amma, and then it is as much because of the presence of other patients as it is because of my tape recorder. Amma was sometimes amused that I would want to record such mundane conversation. But when I explained to her the kind of notes I took from the tape recorder when I got home and that its presence kept me from frantically writing the entire time I was sitting with her, she understood.
At least once an hour, Amma stops all healing activity, relaxes, and pulls out a motley assortment of small tin boxes whose contents she uses to make herself pan. Amma said she developed the habit as a young girl, when a doctor gave her pan as she was recovering from a tonsillectomy (he said it would help to cut down the bleeding). Abba frequently reprimands Amma for taking time out to make pan when the room is filled with patients. However, these breaks from healing action are often occasion for a story. And the stories are not frivolous; they are carefully chosen to establish and reinforce Amma's healing authority, to construct the worldview within which such spiritual healing is possible, and to nurture her relationship with her patients, all elements that are crucial to her successful healing practice.
Amma's is not the only authoritative presence and voice in the healing room. One-third of the healing room is designated for a small provisions store, of which Abba, who was 70 years old when I first met him in 1989, is the storekeeper. His seat is in the middle of the store section, on the floor, and (when the store has been newly stocked) he is often literally obscured by a veil/curtain of snacks, candies, and toys that are tied to strings hanging down from the ceiling. Several such domestic stores, sometimes marked only by the addition of a single shelf on the wall, are sprinkled through the neighborhood; most are supervised by women. In fact, Amma says it was she who first set up the store as a young mother. Abba took over as primary shopkeeper only after his retirement from university employment. After his death and until the dissolution of the store a few years later, Amma's sixteen-year-old granddaughter sat in Abba's place.
Abba's shop stocks spices, soap, incense, single cigarettes, matches, oil, eggs, cheap candies and snacks, and tiny plastic toys. Neighborhood children run in and out of the room throughout the day on errands for their mothers to buy an egg, a cup of sugar, a couple of pinches of tea leaves. Abba sometimes jokes with them and lets them linger over a decision about which toy or piece of candy to buy with the five or ten paise change left to them; other times he impatiently yells at them to take their purchase and run home. He also sells ingredients needed for Amma's nonwritten prescriptions, such as black seeds, iron nails, incense, and lemons. Amma and Abba seem to keep their healing and shop accounts separate. When Amma periodically wants to offer a friend or visitor (field-worker included) a snack from the shop, she takes money from her healing coffer and gives it to Abba to purchase the snack. In his seat as storekeeper, Abba's primary concern does not, however, seem to be actually selling supplies; in fact, the profit margin from the sales serves only as a small supplement to the family income. (In 1995, Abba told me that the profit margin for the store was Rs. 1 for every Rs. 10 worth of goods sold.)
Excerpted from In Amma's Healing Room by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. Copyright © 2006 Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. Excerpted by permission of Indiana University Press.
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Introduction: Called to Amma's Courtyard
1. Setting the Stage: The Healing Room, Its Actors, and Its Rhythms
2. The Healing System
3. Patient Narratives in the Healing Room
4. Negotiating Gender in the Healing Room
5. Religious Identities at the Crossroads
6. Immersed in Remembrance and Song: Religious Identities, Authority, and Gender at the Sam?
Conclusion: Vernacular Islam Embedded in Relationships
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Plowing Yosemite's Tioga Road For Summer Traffic
Opening the Tioga Road through Yosemite National Park is as much-awaited as is the clearing of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. This short video gives you an idea of what Yosemite crews must do to clear the road.
You can check on the progress of clearing the Tioga Road at this site.
great video learned much and enjoyed it also
enjoyed seeing this. now I appreciate govt and contractors even more! glad we'll be spending more this year than previous 8 to update some of our parks. money well spent.
How much CO2 and other noxious pollutants does this Caterpillar and those like it belch into the pristine park air of Yosemite, Glacier, and Crater Lake? How many decibels assail the parks' solitude? (I'm sure it's more than a tourist talking on a cell phone at the Grant Tree.) How much oil does a Caterpillar consume and leak? How can the NPS warn about melting glaciers while using CATs to clear the roads in the same park as the melting glaciers?
And NPT readers want to ban cell phones in national parks.
NPT readers believe WalMart and Verison are the devil incarnate.
How about Caterpillar, Inc.?
Caterpillar, Inc. obbied on bill S.148, a bill to establish the Paterson Great Falls National Park in the State of New Jersey.
Caterpilliar, Inc. also lobbied on the Iraq Supplemental Spending bill and the Defense Appropriations Bill, which provides for construction equipment and civil engineering support equipment.
Where's the outrage?
Frank, you make some valid points here about the exhaust end of the process, but it amounts to implying that, since park maintenance and repair activities cannot be accomplished without adversely impacting the environment, they ought not be done. Or do you consider keeping Tioga Road open a non-essential activity? If that's the case, you need to consider the outrage that would result if the NPS were to fail to keep open the only east-west road through the park. I'm sitting here trying to image a horde of laborers hand-shoveling that snow off the road. I can't quite get my mind wrapped around that one.
Wish I had the RAM & connection speed to watch the video. The machine in the still photo is a rotary snowplow, probably made by Idaho-Norland and not Caterpillar. Frank C's point about pollution is doubly valid, however. Most rotaries have two large diesels, one to spin the auger and one to move the truck. They're also very costly to maintain in these budgetary hard times. Blown and leaking hydraulic lines are common and the expensive auger blade can be easily damaged by hidden rocks in the snow. I recall crossing the just opened gravel one-lane Tioga road on a family vacation one August back in the 50's. I'll bet they let most of it just melt out then and Yosemite Park somehow survived.
Here at Mt. Rainier, the NPS is busily clearing the Paradise Valley Road, with snowbanks almost twice as high as those shown in the Yosemite photo. Bulldozers working in tandem with the rotaries push much of the snow over the downhill side, resulting in hundreds of snapped off trees. This expense and damage is to establish a three-mile loop from the already accessible Paradise area.
Thanks for the links!
Have a planned backpack for a week or so along the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne beginning June 21st.
The North Cascades Highway (access to the national park) here in Washington is now open!
Here is a link with the pictures.
Time to give the snowshoes a spring workout!
Just a correction to your choice of words on your 4/25 reply to Frank. Those plows in Yosemite do not KEEP the Tioga Road open - they reopen it in the spring. The road closes every fall after the first significant snowfall - usually in early November. The goal is usually to get the road reopened by Memorial Day, but depending on snowfall, it sometimes happens earlier, sometimes later. Yes, it is a vital east-west link across the Sierra, but Mother Nature has a say in the practicality of a year-round highway.
Good catch, Liz. That was a bad choice or words, alright.


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