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Julia McKenzie
|Julia McKenzie
|Julia Kathleen McKenzie
17 February 1941
Enfield, Middlesex, England
|Actress, director, presenter
|Years active
|Jerry Harte (m. 1971)[1]
Julia McKenzie (born 17 February 1941) is an English actress, singer and theatre director. On television, she is known for her role as Hester Fields in the sitcom Fresh Fields (1984–86), its sequel French Fields (1989–91), and as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple (2008–13).
McKenzie has also starred in numerous musicals, and received a 1977 Tony Award nomination for her work in the Broadway revue Side by Side by Sondheim. For her work in the West End, she has twice won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical; for the 1982 revival of Guys and Dolls and the 1993 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She also starred in the original London productions of the Sondheim musicals Follies (1987) and Into the Woods (1990).
Early life[edit]
She was born Julia Kathleen McKenzie on 17 February 1941, in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Kathleen Rowe and Albion McKenzie.[2]
In London's West End her performing credits include Guys and Dolls as Miss Adelaide (1982) and Sweeney Todd as Mrs. Lovett (1994), winning the Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Musical for each.[3][4]
She played the Witch in Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" at the Phoenix Theatre, London in 1990.
For her role in Woman in Mind, she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in Follies as Sally at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1987[5] and Into the Woods as the Witch at the Phoenix Theatre in 1990.[6] She appeared in Side By Side By Sondheim in the West End in 1976 and on Broadway in 1977,[7] and was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her performance.
McKenzie appeared in a National Theatre 80th birthday tribute to Lord Olivier, Happy Birthday, Sir Larry on 31 May 1987 in the presence of Olivier himself.[8]
On television, McKenzie co-starred with Irene Handl in the sitcom Maggie and Her (1978–79), and with Gareth Hunt in That Beryl Marston...! (1981). She went on to greater popularity with British viewers as Hester in Fresh Fields and the sequel French Fields in the 1980s opposite Anton Rodgers, for which she was voted TV Times Favourite Female Comedy Performance for five consecutive years. She also appeared as Mrs Forthby in Blott on the Landscape and as a Midsomer villager involved in a series of murders in an episode of Midsomer Murders. Film credits include Hotel du Lac, Shirley Valentine, Bright Young Things and These Foolish Things.
In 2007 she was reunited with Anton Rodgers (again as a husband and wife team) in the ITV comedy You Can Choose Your Friends. In 2007 she co-starred with Michael Gambon and Judi Dench in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford, playing Mrs. Forrester, a military widow of slender means, very attached to her cow Bessie.[9]
In 2008 she was announced as the replacement for Geraldine McEwan as ITV's Miss Marple.[10]
McKenzie noted: "It's difficult because Agatha Christie wrote her in two ways...First, very much what Geraldine McEwan played: a slight, rather Victorian creature. Then, a little sturdier and tweedier. I chose the latter. A lot of people say they don't like the tweedier version. But they're both genuine."[1] Also, she said: "Just about everybody in the world knows about Miss Marple and has an opinion of what she should be like, so I'm under no illusions about the size of the task ahead."[10] McKenzie's first series of Marple comprised A Pocket Full of Rye, Murder is Easy, They Do It with Mirrors and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?. The second series of the show, which aired in 2010, included The Pale Horse, The Secret of Chimneys, The Blue Geranium, and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. A sixth series, including adaptations of A Caribbean Mystery, Greenshaw's Folly and Endless Night, began filming in September 2012 and was broadcast in 2013.
During the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony she played Her Majesty the Queen on board the helicopter in the short film Happy and Glorious.[11] That year she also played the role of Betty Nicholas in the ITV television series The Town.[12]
On 26 December 2013, McKenzie appeared as the title character in the film adaption of David Walliams' book Gangsta Granny.
In 2015 McKenzie appeared as Shirley Mollison in the BBC mini series The Casual Vacancy.
Other work[edit]
She is a radio performer with a long list of credits, including Blithe Spirit, The Country Wife and A Room with a View. As a director she has staged Stepping Out, Peter Pan, Hey, Mr. Producer!, Steel Magnolias, Putting It Together and A Little Night Music.
She also recorded an audio book of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.[13]
Personal life[edit]
McKenzie has been married since 1971 to American actor-director, Jerry Harte.[1]
McKenzie is a critic of fox hunting and was among more than 20 high-profile people who signed a letter to Members of Parliament in 2015 to oppose Conservative prime minister David Cameron's plan to amend the Hunting Act 2004.[14]
- (London debut) Maggie May, Adelphi Theatre, 1966
- Gloria, Mame, Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1969
- Girl in owl coat, Promises, Promises, Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 1970
- April, Company, Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1971
- Cowardy Custard, Mermaid Theatre, London, 1973
- Cole, Mermaid Theatre, 1974[15]
- (New York debut) Side by Side by Sondheim, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1977
- The Norman Conquests, 1978
- Ten Times Table, 1979
- Miriam Dervish, Outside Edge, Queen's Theatre, 1979
- Lily, On the Twentieth Century, Her Majesty's Theatre, 1980
- Maggie Hobson, Hobson's Choice, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1981
- Anna Kopecka, Schweik in the Second World War, Olivier/National Theatre, London, 1982
- Miss Adelaide, Guys and Dolls, Olivier/National Theatre, 1982
- Susan, Woman in Mind, Vaudeville Theatre, London, 1986
- Sally Plummer, Follies, Shaftesbury Theatre, London, then West End Theatre, New York City, 1987
- Happy Birthday, Sir Larry, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, 31 May 1987
- Witch, Into the Woods, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1990
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, National Theatre, London, 1993
- Kafka's Dick, Piccadilly Theatre, 1998[16]
- Fuddy Meers, Arts Theatre, 2004
- The Philadelphia Story, Old Vic, 2005
- Stepping Out, Duke of York's Theatre, London, 1984
- Just So, Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Berkshire, England, 1989
- Steel Magnolias, Lyric Theatre, London, 1989
- Putting It Together, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1993
- (Stage direction, with Bob Avian) Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh, Lyceum Theatre, London, 1998
- A Little Night Music, Tokyo, 1999
- Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done (1975)
- The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980)
- Hotel du Lac (1986)
- Shirley Valentine (1989)
- Vol-au-vent (1996)
- The Snow Queen's Revenge (voice) (1996)
- Bright Young Things (2003)
- These Foolish Things (2006)
- Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- Gangsta Granny (2013)
- The Casual Vacancy (2015)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Patay, Ajesh (25 August 2009). "Julia McKenzie on Being the New Miss Marple: interview". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ "Julia McKenzie Biography (1941–)". Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ^ "Olivier Winners 1982" olivierawards.com, accessed 18 August 2011
- ^ "Olivier Winners 1994" olivierawards.com, accessed 18 August 2011
- ^ Hutchins, Michael H. (compiler)."'Follies', 1987 London Production" Sondheimguide.com, accessed 18 August 2011
- ^ Hutchins, Michael H. (compiler). 'Into the Woods', 1990 London Production Sondheimguide.com, accessed 18 August 2011
- ^ Hutchins, Michael H. (compiler)."'Side By Side By Sondheim" Listings" Sondheimguide.com, accessed 18 August 2011
- ^ Cast list from Happy Birthday, Sir Larry theatre programme, 31 May 1987
- ^ "'Cranford' Characters, Mrs. Forrester" PBS.com, accessed 18 August 2011
- ^ a b Hemley, Matthew."McKenzie to take on Miss Marple role for ITV" The Stage, 11 February 2008
- ^ Hand, Lise (29 July 2012). "'Secret agent' in the coup that made the Queen a global TV comedy star.". The Mail on Sunday. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ Wilson, Frances The Town, ITV1, review at The Telegraph, 5 December 2012. Retrieved 16 August 20134
- ^ SilkSoundBooks "About Julia McKenzie" silksoundbooks.com, accessed 18 August 2011.
- ^ "SNP to vote against Tories on fox hunting ban in England and Wales". STV. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ Cole 1974 production at sondheimguide.com
- ^ Dalglish, Darren Kafka's Dick, Piccadilly Theatre (Review) at London Theatre Archive, 26 January 1999
External links[edit]
- Julia McKenzie at the Internet Broadway Database (listed as "Julie N McKenzie" as a result of a previous Broadway actress called "Julia McKenzie")
- Julia McKenzie at the Internet Movie Database
- 1941 births
- 20th-century English actresses
- 20th-century singers
- 21st-century English actresses
- 21st-century musicians
- Actresses from London
- Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Living people
- English film actresses
- English musical theatre actresses
- English radio actresses
- English television actresses
- English theatre directors
- English theatre managers and producers
- Miss Marple
- Laurence Olivier Award winners
- People from Enfield Town
- Singers from London
- Audio book narrators
- Evening Standard Award for Best Actress winners
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Ret. Gen. Prabowo Subianto is seeking the support of his former in-laws, the still-influential family of the late President Suharto, in his unlikely bid to become the next president.
Summoning the spirit of the authoritarian ruler who held power here for 32 years, Prabowo, who rarely gives interviews or speaks on the record, called current politicians naive and said that Suharto's strong-man style suited the country.
Prabowo made the remarks late on Wednesday after attending the launching of "A Testimony of Indonesian History: From Pak Harto to Indonesia," a book written by Probosutedjo, Suharto's stepbrother.
Pak Harto was the nickname of the former president, who died last year.
The controversial retired officer said that he was approaching the so-called Cendana clan — informally named after the street where Suharto's private residence is located in Menteng — to seek their support, and that several members of the former ruling family of Indonesia had vowed to back his presidential bid.
"I cannot say what is really going on inside the mind of the Cendana family," Prabowo admitted. "I cannot claim that I already have their votes because they have not officially announced their aspirations."
At the same event, Probosutedjo, a powerful businessman during the Suharto era who was later jailed on corruption charges, claimed that the Suharto family saw Prabowo as the man to carry on the late president's legacy.
"With Prabowo, I will have the opportunity to say what Pak Harto's real wishes were for the development of Indonesia," Probosutedjo said.
Divorced from Suharto's second eldest daughter, Siti "Titiek" Hediyanti, Prabowo is running for president on a ticket from the fledgling Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra.
Although the Suharto family and its cronies were forced to lay low following the resignation of the patriarch during the political turmoil of 1998, they still have considerable influence. Before his death, Suharto lived as a recluse at his Cendana residence, but received a steady stream of visitors, including former and current government officials.
Despite several attempts, no charges against him for corruption were ever proven and he was never forced to appear in court.
In his remarks at the book launch, Prabowo said he favored Suharto's model of iron-fisted development.
He said politicians leading the country after Suharto's fall have been "too naive" in trying to apply Western political theories to local governance. He argued that despite allegations of human rights violations during Suharto's rule, the people benefitted.
Prabowo Still Aiming for Presidency
Photo: Ret. Gen. Prabowo Subianto. (JG)

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Social Impact Bonds are a funding model where private investors provide upfront capital for social programs, allowing the government to use public money on programs that have proven impact by paying only for results, not activity. In the traditional Social Impact Bond (or SIB) model, the government contracts with a third party to fill a gap in service provision. Unlike traditional contracts, the government will pay for the work of service providers only if they achieve the desired outcome. For example, instead of paying a nonprofit that works with released inmates based on how many individuals go through its program, the contract would pay based on the ultimate reduction in recidivism (reoffense) that the program achieves. Also unlike traditional contracts, the funds necessary for service providers to implement projects are fronted by private sector investors, later returned with interest contingent upon the success of the project.
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How are Social Impact Bonds Innovative?
Social Impact Bonds encompass the following procurement, financial, and programmatic innovations:
1. Procurement Innovation. Governments and development agencies typically purchase social services by making up-front payments to service providers that are weakly tied to performance outcomes. In a SIB, these agencies can condition payment on outcome, channeling taxpayer money toward programs that work.
2. Financial Innovation. Investment managers often struggle to find double-bottom line investments and offer social and environmental screens for their clients. In a SIB, financial return is conditioned on social return, and social return is tied to a powerful evaluation. This guarantees investors alignment of their financial and social goals.
3. Programmatic Innovation. Regular donations often short-change nonprofits' internal operations and stifles their ability to experiment and improve their programs by restricting donations to program-specific activity. In a SIB, investment is tied to outcomes rather than activities, enabling nonprofits to innovate and improve its programs.
What is the value of Social Impact Bonds?
1. SIBs help strengthen and scale promising programs.
The SIB theory of change is that programs with demonstrated success can scale and achieve impact by addressing systemic failures in incentives, risk, accountability and transparency. An SIB starts with a vision of improving a social outcome, shared by sponsors of social services, such as the government, and service providers. Instiglio pursues that vision with a focus on implementation. The SIB mechanism transfers implementation risk in scaling programs to investors. Its results-based structure improves the chances of success at scale.
2. SIBs improve the implementation of social services.
By emulating the incentives and outcome-focus of private markets, SIBs introduce innovation, rigor and effectiveness to the social sector. In the existing funding structure, non-profit service providers compete on project structures, which are weakly tied to impact. Once selected, service providers receive up-front funding, which, when combined with the lack of rigorous impact evaluation or active monitoring, can lead to a moral hazard that leads to poor services being delivered. These misaligned incentives discourage thorough implementation, organizational efficiency and learning. In a SIB contract, service providers internalize the benefits of good performance and invest in human capital, organizational systems and learning infrastructure. Our SIB model catalyzes four major changes in service delivery and service providers:
3. SIBs improve process innovation and learning.
SIBs create the space for social innovators to demonstrate and validate their programs and teams. SIB sponsors do not have to pay for unsuccessful projects and, therefore, are more likely to try different service delivery models. Also, whereas traditional procurement contracts reward a service provider's adherence to prescribed program models, the SIB model rewards a provider's ability to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its services. This incentivizes monitoring, learning and feedback and focuses them on strengthening implementation.


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He beat Indiana. BFD.
I'm a Michigan fan first but was definitely excited to see State beat Purdue. Nice win.
What is that jacket. Is MD pimping in the offseason?
I'm ok with this. Whatever. The two basketball players that raped a chick in their dorm room is waaaaaaaaaaaay sketchier than this.
Great hair, Brian.
Yeah... Dantonio is building something special in East Lansing off of their solid 6-7 season a year ago. Their time? MSU hasn't even played a real road game yet.
Think Braylon knows how to pluralize a noun?
Tony Tague is still around? Yikes, that guy is a shiny pinnacle of incompetence.
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Beilein is all over the place. Busy guy.
feel bad for him but he was behind three kids on the depth chart.
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I searched Instructables and was mildly amused that there's no tutorial on how to rip CDs (convert audio CDs to MP3s). Plenty of articles on how to remove copy protection systems, but none to do the basic process. I've shown this to many friends who are intelligent, but not really into high tech equipment and they've found it useful.
There are two challenges to converting your audio CD collection into MP3s on your computer and media players – the actual conversion (copying the uncompressed file from the CD to your computer and compressing it as an MP3 file) and labeling the song. The technical specifications for standard audio CDs do not provide a way to identify a song's name or other information about the song and album. Many modern MP3 players have the capability to display a song's title and additional information (artist, album, year, and even album artwork if it's available).
Step 1: FreeDB and suitable programs
The key limitation of freedb is most of the data is submitted by users. When a new CD is submitted which isn't in freedb's database the user has the option to enter the information for that CD. Users can certainly make typos, enter names in the wrong format, or other inconsistencies. As a consequence when your program queries freedb you may be given several basically identical choices (e.g. "Beatles, the White Album", "The White Album", "White Album, The", or even "White Album – Beetles").
You cannot download or purchase MP3s from freedb, it's a database of information about songs, not an online collection.
Freedb is a GNU licensed database and it's been promised that the data will always be free, even though it's controlled by a commercial company (Magix) which sells audio editing software.
Magix's Audio Cleaning Lab is an excellent CD ripping program and is also an excellent audio editor and CD burner. But if you only need to convert audio CDs into MP3s in Windows there's a free program, Audiograbber.
Step 2: Do it
Run the program and put your audio CD into your computer's CD or DVD drive. When the program recognizes the CD its tracks will have generic names (Track 1, Track 2, etc.) But when you hit the freedb button the program will query the freedb database and return the Album's information. The name of the performers, album name, year, and genre will appear, along with the names of each of the tracks.
At this point you can click Grab and all of the tracks will be saved on your computer in the compressed MP3 format.
Step 3: Final thoughts
Once the MP3s are saved on your computer you can use any program which manages music (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.) or just move the files manually. The MP3 songs can be saved on a stand-alone MP3 player, streamed to your home theater system, or any other way you use MP3s.
I have a small suggestion, folk. Unlike in the far, dim past, today storage space is cheap and plentiful, virtually eliminating the need for radical conservation of file size for which MP3 was created.
If you're going to play things on a player of limited capacity or capability, or your sound system's cheezy, perhaps MP3's still your best choice. MP3 is, by design, a lossy compromise. It ain't pretty, folks.
However, for those of you that play your music directly from a compooter to your audio system, I heartily recommend ripping to FLAC instead. It's no more difficult than ripping to MP3. FLAC is an acronym for 'Free LOSSLESS Audio Codec', and it's MUCH better sound, a perfect copy of your original file. The resulting file size is necessarily a bit larger, though this is somewhat adjustable. If your prime consideration is sweet sound, by all means try FLAC, or maybe one of the other, lesser-known lossless codecs available. Compare the same tune done in MP3 and FLAC, especially in your headphones. The difference is humongous!
Winamp and Foobar easily play FLAC files. You'll have to do a little fiddlin' if you decide to rip FLACs to an audio CD, but for many, like me, I rip them to MP3 for that, and save those elsewhere. Meanwhile, I have a fine-sounding library of tunes, all on a portable drive, in a lossless, perfect copy of the source.
MP3 is fine, within it's limits and for those specific applications where it's most useful, but when your primary aim is the best sound, when you want your audio files to make the best use of a good audio system, take time to check out ripping to lossless FLAC. I think you'll be pleased. Eargasms, anyone? ;)
Instead of Audiograbber on Microsoft Windows, I prefer to rip the tracks to WAV format with Winamp, then use the free LAME MP3 encoder with the free RazorLAME GUI shell to convert the collection of WAV files to MP3 files in batch mode. I get perfect results every time and don't have do the work over again. To prepare the ID3 tags in the MP3 files, I use MP3tag, a free program that can fill the metadata fields for one MP3 file or hundreds of MP3 files at once in batch mode.
As I mentioned in the instructables I also use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab which has a bunch of other functions. I decided to feature audiograbber over Audio Cleaning Lab because it's a free program but both are excellent tools that I'm glad to use.
Winamp is a program I used to use, but don't like anymore because it's too intrusive with its ads.


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Tag's Baseball Plays
Tracking the Astros in majors & minors with Brian McTaggart
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Cecil Cooper is angry. Are you?
Astros manager Cecil Cooper was furious after Wednesday's loss to Arizona and took no consolation in going 4-4 on the road trip. He was furious his team blew leads of 4-0 and 6-2 and irate reliever Dave Borkowski gave up a two-run, game-tying, pinch-hit homer to pitcher Micah Owings in the sixth. "If we can't […] [Read More]
Survey: Minute Maid Park is average
I asked you, the fans, a few weeks ago about your likes and dislikes of Minute Maid Park. Well, Sports Illustrated conducted an online survey in March of baseball fans, asking readers to rate their hometown ballparks in 10 categories: affordability, food, team quality, tradition, atmosphere, fan IQ, fan hospitality, promotions, traffic and neighborhood quality. […] [Read More]
Hard not to pull for Michael Bourn
Michael Bourn is an easy guy to like, and not just because he went to the University of Houston. Bourn is a great teammate, a tremendously hard worker and a good guy. He's also extremely talented, which makes his early season struggles a bit of a head scratcher. No one has been scratching his head […] [Read More]
Cooper explains why Matsui leading off
Second baseman Kaz Matsui was in the leadoff spot for the Astros for the second game in a row Monday against Arizona, and manager Cecil Cooper was happy to explain why he was hitting Matsui first and Michael Bourn second. "I like Matsui's game, period," Cooper said. "He makes the pitcher work. He's not one […] [Read More]
Bourn must step up
Astros center fielder Michael Bourn is hitting .205 with an on-base percentage of .295 in 78 at-bats in 21 games. Simply put, the Astros need more from their leadoff hitter. They need his average and on-base percentage to rise about 80 points. Maybe he should bunt more to take advantage of his streak-of-lightning speed. So […] [Read More]
Random thoughts on Astros
Even though the Rockets are in the playoffs and the NFL draft is this weekend, I'm guessing fans are getting excited about the Astros. And why not? The Astros have won six in a row entering Saturday's game in which they have Roy Oswalt on the mound. Perhaps they will get over the .500 mark […] [Read More]
Miguel Tejada vs. Adam Everett
Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada is hitting .370 with an OPS of 1.032 and four homers and 18 RBIs in 21 games. Former Astros shortstop Adam Everett hit .232 and hit two homers and drove in 15 runs in 66 games last year. Tejada has been very solid defensively and is playing the game with a […] [Read More]
Cecil Cooper to the principal's office
Former Astros slugger Bob Watson, baseball's disciplinarian, will be in Houston on Tuesday to meet with manager Cecil Cooper to discuss the comments Cooper made that were critical of umpires a few days ago. Watson, who interviewed for the Astros' general manager's job that went to Ed Wade, said he doesn't plan to fine or […] [Read More]
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In addition, the arena will not serve any peanuts or peanut-related food items. A portion of the proceeds will go to support FARE.
Four Easy Ways To Purchase Peanut Free Seating:
01Call Wolves Account Executive Janel James at (847) 832-1982.
02Submit an online request using the form below and a Wolves representative will assist you.
03Fax your completed order form to: (847) 724-1652 ATTN: Peanut Allergy Awareness
04 Mail in your completed order form to: Chicago Wolves, ATTN: Peanut Allergy Awareness, 2301 Ravine Way, Glenview, IL 60025
Over the past 10 years, the incidents of food allergies have been increasing in developed countries worldwide. In the U.S., some 12 million people suffer from food allergies of varying degrees of severity—nearly 4% of children under age 18 and 3-4% of the overall population. There is no cure and no therapy to prevent anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction — only emergency treatment to control a reaction that is already in progress.
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis
- For some people, even a tiny trace of the wrong food can trigger an anaphylactic reaction. People with food allergies must always be vigilant. Dangerous trace amounts of problem foods may be found in poorly labeled processed foods, on cross-contaminated utensils or manufacturing equipment — even carried on another person's hands or transmitted through a kiss.
- The foods that most commonly cause anaphylaxis are peanuts, tree nuts, and shellfish.
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- More than 6.5 million Americans are allergic to seafood and more than 3 million are allergic to peanuts and tree nuts.
- The number of children with peanut and tree nut allergies tripled from 1997-2008. Teens and young adults with these allergies appear to be at an increased risk for severe allergic reactions.
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A top NBA prospect, and track & field running to victory on-and-off the track ... Bob Vazquez, Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations, offers his weekly insights on the accomplishments of the teams, coaches, and student-athletes who compete for Cal State Northridge ... The weekly report includes upcoming key games, and a report on what other activities are happening in the Matador Athletic Department ... For more information on Matador Athletics, go to www.gomatadors.com
Hoops Hysteria ...
Interest is running high among NBA scouts for the Cal State Northridge vs Rider University ESPN BracketBuster men's basketball game on Feb. 23 (6:00 p.m., ESPNU)at The Matadome ... Admittedly, the scouts have an interest in Rider 6-foot-10 senior forward Jason Thompson, a top NBA prospect who is averaging 20 points, nearly three blocks per game, and is among the nation's leading rebounders at nearly 12 per game ... Nine NBA teams (Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, New Jersey Nets, Phoenix Suns and the San Antonio Spurs) have requested credentials to the game ... Thompson is a one of 30 candidates for the prestigious John Wooden Award, and his name is among a distinguished list including Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina, Kevin Love of UCLA, and O.J. Mayo of USC.
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Veteran head track & field Don Strametz is always looking for creative ways to fund raise and extend the friendly hand of the Cal State Northridge campus into the community ... Strametz, who is the senior member of the Matador coaching staff, not only coaches the championship Matador men's and women's track & field teams, but is also highly successful in raising money to keep his nationally-ranked program at a high level ... One such successful endeavor has been the All-Comers Meets at Matador Track from January through early March ... On nearly every Saturday morning (starting around 8:30 a.m. and running through the mid-afternoon), Strametz schedules a series of running and field events for children, collegiate and post-collegiate athletes, Olympians, the community and even for senior citizens who still compete at the Masters level ... For only a $5 admission fee, any one can compete in as many events that are conducted during the day ... On some days with ideal weather conditions, nearly 650 people compete which means dollars that are placed into the track & field budget ... Kids as young as five years of age can spend a day competing on the track in their age events while other events will include top Olympic competitors ... Last year, several athletes who were around 75-years-old competed for the world record in the pole vault in their age-group ... Three weeks ago, a woman set the American record in her age group (50-years plus) in the javelin at Matador Track ... These All-Comers meet have been in existence at Cal State Northridge for nearly 42 years, and in addition to money raised for Cal State Northridge track & field, it's a great opportunity for the community to participate in track & field, and bond with the University. Go Matadors!!!
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Women's Tennis vs UC San Diego, 2:00 p.m.
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Track & Field at Husky Classic, Seattle
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Women's Tennis vs Cal Poly, Noon
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Men's Golf at Gado North Texas Classic, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, All Day
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Join Opensource.com and General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now Chairman of the Board of Directors of Red Hat, for the Open Your World Forum webcast on February 16, 2011.
On February 16, 2011, opensource.com will host a webcast with General Hugh Shelton (US Army retired), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and chairman of the Red Hat board of Directors. Shelton will reflect on his nearly four-decade military career and how his experiences in the armed services shared many of the same principles as the open source way.
Serving two terms as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shelton experienced the broad application of open source principles, including meritocracy, rapid prototyping, transparency, sharing, and authenticity. During this webcast, he'll give examples of the intersection of the open source way and the military, many of which are also chronicled in his recently published autobiography, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior.
The "Open Your World" webinar is free to attend but you must register. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, February 16, from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST and register today to attend this event.
Immediately following his talk, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Participants can submit questions in advance on the registration form or questions can be emailed as well. For any one who can't attend this webinar the recording will be available online for one year.
More information can be found on the opensource.com website.
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Qemu Flaw Lets the Guest Escape
Xen project announces a privilege escalation problem for Qemu host systems
Android Bug Threatens Millions of Users
Attackers can compromise an Android phone just by sending a text message
Lenovo and Canonical Announce Laptop Deal
PC vendor will pre-install Ubuntu on portables in India.
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Flash
More embarrassment for Adobe's embattled multimedia tool
Security Problem in Firefox's NoScript Add-On
Mozilla's script blocker add-on could be putting malware sites on the whitelist.
RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
Mate 1.1 Arrives
Popular desktop environment continues the Gnome 2 legacy – with new support for the Gnome 3 toolkit.
US Government Requires HTTPS
The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
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Services provided by the North Country SBDC will be available at the chamber office typically on the second Tuesday of each month.
"The open house will be from 12:30 to 3 p.m. for the month of October," stated Matt Courtright, the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce executive director. "Representatives from the North Country Small Business Development Center and I will be visiting area businesses from 9: a.m. until noon on Oct. 9,to promote the services available via the NCSBDC and upcoming seminars and trainings being held at the chamber."
The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce office located at 94 Montcalm St.
The North Country Small Business Development Center at Plattsburgh is part of a statewide network of 24 regional centers located throughout New York State. The New York State SBDC is accredited by the Association of Small Business Development Centers and has more than two decades of serving the small business community.
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More charges for Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris is is more trouble.
Australian entertainer Rolf Harris faces three more charges of indecent assault against girls in England, English media report.
The new allegations include one against a girl aged "7 or 8″, the BBC reports.
Harris, 83, was charged on August 29 this year with 13 sex offences, including four counts of possessing indecent images of children and nine of indecent assault involving two girls aged 14 and 15 during the 1980s. Read more »
Fifty Shades of Brown and other jokes
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At least no one was hungry, he got chinese and she got two minute noodles.
She thought she called him into the office to talk about elections, not erections.
Len Brown says he works 24/7 for Auckland but now we know it is actually 23 hours 58 minutes.
"I love this city. I love my wife. I love my family. I love my girlfriend." – Len Brown
New book in Whitcoulls Queen St – "Fifty Shades of Brown"
Shan wants to wring his neck, but the problem is he'd find the choking arousing.
Down at the Ports of Auckland, there are 100 plus port workers saying "he fucked us too"
When Len said he wanted to build a skyscraper in the middle of Chinatown, we thought he meant a building! Read more »
A little education joke for Saturday
A ERO school inspector is sent to assess a Year 4 class in a local School. He is introduced to the class by the teacher.
She says to the class, "Let's show the inspector just how clever you are by allowing him to ask you a question".
The inspector reasons that normally in this integrated school class starts with religious instruction, so he will ask a biblical question.
He asks: "Class, who broke down the walls of Jericho?"
For a full minute there is absolute silence. Eventually, little Billy raises his hand.
Billy stands up and replies, "Sir, I do not know who broke down the walls of Jericho, but I can assure you it wasn't me".
Of course the inspector is shocked by the answer and the lack of knowledge of the famous bible story and he looks at the teacher for an explanation.
Realising that he is perturbed, the teacher says "Well, I've known Billy since the start of the year, and I believe that if he says that he didn't do it then he didn't do it".
The inspector is even more shocked at this and storms down to the principal's office and tells him what happened, to which the principal replies "I don't know the boy, but I believe his teacher. If she feels that the boy is innocent, then he must be innocent".
The inspector can't believe what he is hearing. He grabs the phone on the principal's desk and in a rage, dials Read more »
Obama Won It In How Many Months?
The EU has won a Nobel Peace Prize for bailing themselves out and running out of wars to fight.
The Norwegian prize committee said the EU received the award for six decades of contributions "to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
"The stabilizing part played by the European Union has helped to transform a once torn Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace," Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said.
They probably most need the 10 million SEK.
A little joke for you all:
Racism! Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to scream 'racism' these days!
A customer asked, "In what aisle could I find the Guinness?"
The shop assistant asks, "Are you Irish?"
The guy, clearly offended, says, "Yes I am. But let me ask you something, If I had asked for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I was Italian? Or if I had asked for
German Bratwurst,would you ask me if I was German? Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish? Or if I had asked for a Taco, would you ask if I was Mexican? Or if I asked for Polish sausage,would you ask if I was Polish?"
The shop assistant says, "No, I probably wouldn't."
The guy says, "Well then, because I asked for Guinness, why did you askme if I'm Irish?
The clerk replied, "Because you're in Bunnings'."
On Raybon Kan
I note that the story has made the Herald on Sunday.
This post isn't about the tweet. When I posted it last night I posted it saying I bet he gets in trouble for it. But I can now see where this is story is going and my prediction is it is going nowhere. I'll tell you why.
In this country it is ok to make jokes about Jews. Muslims no way, but Jews yes. About the Governor-General, no and the jokester must be sacked, but Jews yes. You can't make jokes about Indian Commonwealth Games preparations but you can about Jews. You can't make jokes about Maori, but you can about Jews. Jews and the Exclusive Brethren, they are the ones where there is open season for joke telling.
This is the double standard that exists in New Zealand. I doubt we will see UNITE union flunkies protesting outside Raybon Kan's employer, or boycotting his shows, because all he did was tella joke that offended some filthy Jews.
No don't get me wrong, I'm with David Farrar on this issue, but I wonder where the shriekers and yellers from the left that scream racism and take offence at much less are on this issue?
Their silence is telling. Next time they screech in outrage about some joke or another we should point at this case and tell them to STFU.
He's a smart man that GWB
People mock George W Bush but this is perhaps one of his best bitch-slaps of a numpty media hack.
hat tip Clint Heine.
Is there a Doctor on board?
Recently on an international flight there was a medical emergency. The flight crew were coping but the passenger deteriorated quickly. A decision was made to seek medical assistance from the passengers and so a call was made on the aircraft's intercom system. You know the call;
"Ladies and Gentlemen, could I have your attention please, If there is a Doctor on board this flight could they please make their whereabouts known to the crew, thank you"
The crew waiting for the usual way that passengers make their whereabouts known, the crew page button. There we no lights, they were in a quandary. The passenger wasn't looking good and there appeared to be no doctor on board.
Then a small, ruddy faced, grey headed man appeared.
"I am a Doctor, how may I assist"
The crew quickly explained the situation to the ruddy faced, grey headed man who progressivly got first paler and then bright beetroot red, presumably with embarrassment. You see the good Doctor who voluntered to assit in the medical emergency was in fact a Doctor of Social and Economic History.
Before you scoff, this is a true story and happened just a short while ago.
Ralston slates Clark for the illusion of action
Bill Ralston: Words are louder than actions – 17 Feb 2008 – Politics: New Zealand Political News, Analysis and Comment including 2008 election coverage – NZ Herald
Bill Ralston writes about Clark's insincere policy initiatives of the past week;
In case it has escaped anyone's attention, under 18-year-olds are banned from buying liquor and cigarettes but they seem to be able to access these forbidden fruits with ease, and there is no reason to expect they will have any more difficulty laying hands on spray cans once the ban comes into force.
Harsher penalties are unlikely to have much effect, either. There are some heavy penalties for using drugs but some people keep happily getting stoned anyway."
Yep, she missed the boat on that one. Tagging will continue in spite of the government. (no it isn't an error, I used in spite on purpose). What about the much vaunted "Affordable Housing" policy that isn't;
The average household income in New Zealand is $68,000 a year but the average couple would need to earn $70,000 to service a mortgage on the "affordable" home. If there is only one breadwinner in the household and he or she earns the necessary $70,000 then, of course, the Government declares that person to be rich and taxes the last desperately needed $10,000 of their earnings at the top tax rate of 39 cents in the dollar.
The Government will claim that is why it proposes a shared equity scheme, whereby a state funding body will effectively give struggling first-home buyers a second mortgage, interest free, to be repaid when they eventually sell the house. If that second mortgage is 30 per cent of the value of the home then the Government gets back its initial investment and 30 per cent of the value of the home when it is sold.
The Government appears to have fallen into the same trap many of us have already. It is assuming it will, over time, get a capital gain on property. Some real estate observers are predicting a fall in house prices of 20 per cent to 30 per cent. What happens if the poor first-home buyer ends up in a negative equity situation? Forced by debt to sell their home at a dramatically depressed price the drowning homeowner has to dig deeper to find the full amount of the second mortgage, plunging still further into debt."
Precisely Mr Ralston. Labour's Affordable Housing policy is a dog. I hope they defend it long and hard until it is too late to drop the stupid thing.


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Where Does Kailyn Lowry Live?
Teen Mom 2's Kailyn Lowry has always been determined to better her life for her and her son, Isaac, while navigating a complicated relationship with baby daddy, Jo Rivera, and trying to make it on her own.
But now that Kailyn is engaged and has created a stable home for her son with soon-to-be husband, Javi Marroquin, where does she currently live?
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The Johnson City Cardinals are leaving a lot of ducks on the pond while sinking in the Appalachian League standings.
The Cardinals stranded nine base runners in scoring position Friday night in a 5-3 loss to the Kingsport Mets at Cardinal Park.
It was the sixth straight loss for the Cardinals (7-7), and wasn't complete until cleanup batter Ronniera Garcia lined out to pitcher Robert Coles with runners at second and third.
Johnson City also left runners at second and third in the third and fourth innings, and Kingsport's Jeyckol De Leon gave the Mets a 5-2 lead in the top of the fifth when he capped a four-run frame with a three-run home run.
"That was huge," Kingsport manager Jose Leger said. "He came up in a big spot and he came out on a mission. He was looking for that slider and he got it. It was a hung slider, and he did some damage with it."
The Cardinals got within 5-3 in the bottom of the fifth when Garcia singled and scored on Brett Wiley's two-out single.
Consecutive one-out singles from Richy Pedroza and Bryan Vaughan put the tying runs aboard for the Cardinals in the ninth, and they were each in scoring position after Kenny Peoples-Walls grounded out to second for the second out.
But the clutch hit continued to avoid the Cardinals' bats.
"We've really left a lot of guys on base, probably during this whole six-game ordeal," Johnson City manager Joe Kruzel said. "But, you know, when we went 7-1 we were driving those guys in. We're still getting them on. ... I'd rather it be that we're not driving than in than nobody's getting on."
Left-handed reliever Yoan Gonzalez (1-2) allowed one run in four innings for the victory for the Mets (5-9).
"He fell behind early in the count, but he made adjustments and got better as the game went along," said Leger, whose Mets will look to complete a series sweep today (6 p.m.). "You sleep a lot better when you do (string some victories together). When we put it all together we have a good chance to win. All those games we lost early in the season, it seemed like something was missing – either it was pitching or hitting."
Coles got his first save.
Victor Cruzado was 3-for-5 for Kingsport. Champ Stuart and Jeff McNeil were each 2-for-3. Stuart scored two runs and stole a base.
Pedroza, Bryan, Wiley and Lance Jeffries each had two hits for the Cardinals. Wiley hit a 400-foot triple to lead off the fourth, and scored on Jeffries' single.
Starter Luis Perdomo (1-1) pitched better than his line indicated. He allowed five runs in 41/3 innings, but a line-drive to center field was dropped and an infield single also came during the Mets' four-run fifth.
Zach Lorained struck out three in 1 2/3 innings of relief for Johnson City. Cards' reliever Michael Holback struck out three in two scoreless innings and closer Fernando Baez struck out two while working a scoreless ninth.


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(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has licensed the new RTA label to metadata services company Secure Path Technology, for use by companies registering audiovisual works with the ISAN International Agency.
The ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is a voluntary numbering system for the identification of audiovisual works. It provides a unique, internationally recognized and permanent reference number for each audiovisual work registered in the ISAN system. As the first North American ISAN Registration Agency, Secure Path Technology services the entire Film and Television market including all MPAA studios, television networks, and independent studios.
The RTA ("Restricted to Adults") website label was created by ASACP to better enable parental filtering, and to demonstrate the online adult industrys commitment to helping parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate content. Under the new agreement, the RTA label will now also be applicable to individual Av works, including movies and video clips. Producers and owners of such Av works will be able to voluntarily rate them as "adult" using the RTA label, when obtaining ISAN registration through Secure Path Technology.
ASACP will not receive any financial compensation from Secure Path or ISAN. However, according to ASACP Executive Director Joan Irvine, allowing the RTA label to be used in this new additional context will help improve parents ability to prevent children from viewing adult material.
"The ISAN system is already recognized by Windows Vista," she said. "And we expect it to be adopted elsewhere as well. That means the RTA label now has the potential to be incorporated into parental controls across a variety of platforms. And like RTA, both the ISAN Id and all associated rating of content by producers are voluntary and self-applied. We think its a good match!"
Chad Knowles, Executive Vice President, Business Development for Secure Path Technology, agreed. "Secure Path is committed to providing enhanced metadata services to its customers," he said. "Having a rating system tied to content identification that helps protect children makes sense."
Secure Path Technology will also participate in an ASACP-moderated classroom session on website labeling at Internext Las Vegas 2007. The session is entitled "Protecting Children, Protecting Yourself: The New Generation of Website Labeling is Here" and will take place on Tuesday, January 16 at 1:00 Pm. The discussion will include both child protection and possible future business advantages of site labeling and ISAN registration.
In forging the agreement, ASACP was represented by noted entertainment law attorney Paul Menes of Duval & Stachenfeld.
Founded in 1996, the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating child pornography from the Internet. ASACP also works to help parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate material online. More information is available at www.ASACP.org.
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Bambi's back! Turns out she's tight with Traci, so she shows up to an event Traci is hosting and invites Benzino. To complicate things, Benzino invites Kirk, and Bambi invites Mary Jane, the woman Kirk messed with at the cabin. "Dr. Love don't have an explanation for this, right here," Benzino says.
They all start to fill Traci in on how very turned up it was at the cabin and Traci, who is friends with Rasheeda and attended her baby shower, if you'll recall, is like "The hell going on around here?" She doesn't like what she sees (Kirk flirting freely with Mary Jane, Mary Jane defending Kirk's "free pass") and she's sure Rasheeda wouldn't like it either, but she and Sean leave so they can leave all this "turned up" business behind.


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Supreme Court rules out city's sweepstakes tax
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Supreme Court said Friday high taxes aren't necessarily unlawful but had no problem striking down a city's special levy on electronic sweepstakes businesses that was at least 600 times the original rate.
The justices ruled the decision of Lumberton's leaders in 2010 to raise existing privilege taxes on sweepstakes locations in the city limits violated the state constitution's provision that taxation be exercised in a "just and equitable manner."
Companies that previously owed $12.50 per year faced taxes of at least $7,500 under the ordinance —$5,000 per business and $2,500 for each computer terminal where players played casino-style or other games to reveal potential prizes. Two sweepstakes companies challenged the tax's constitutionality, while the city sued two other businesses that didn't pay the tax.
A divided three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals last year upheld a higher privilege tax, which many municipalities have approved in part to discourage or sharply regulate what many viewed as illegal gambling.
Justice Mark Martin, writing the Supreme Court's opinion, said courts must exercise care when determining if a government has initiated an abusive tax policy, but the Lumberton case "is hardly nuanced." The new tax rate required the companies to pay from $75,000 to $137,500, the ruling said.
"The city's 59,900 percent minimum tax increase is wholly detached from the moorings of anything reasonably resembling a just and equitable tax," Martin wrote. "If the Just and Equitable Tax Clause has any substantive force, as we hold it does, it surely renders the present tax invalid."
There was no dissenting opinion from the six court members who heard the case. Martin wrote there's a constitutional tension between affirming the government's taxing authority and how to protect citizens from unjust and inequitable taxes. Challenges to taxes must be performed on a case-by-case basis, he said.
"We do not suggest, however, that any large increase in a tax, or simply a high tax, would alone be enough to run afoul" of the constitution, he wrote.
In the Lumberton case, Martin said it was clear the privilege tax on sweepstakes operations was out of step. He pointed out that of the 44 types of privilege licenses the city offered, the second-highest tax was $500 for "circuses, menageries, Wild West, (and) dog and pony shows" that visited the same week as the county fair.
The state Supreme Court in December upheld the legislature's ban on video sweepstakes machines. Some outlets say they're trying to find a way to keep operating within the law.


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In its Recommendation to member States on gender equality standards and mechanisms, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers recalls the importance of adopting methodologies for the implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy, including gender budgeting, gender-based analysis and gender impact assessment. Experience shows, however, that even the most committed member States are finding it difficult to achieve gender mainstreaming.
Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)2 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on gender mainstreaming in sport (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 January 2015 at the 1217th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Recommendation CM/Rec(2015)3 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 January 2015 at the 1217th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
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Message of the Committee of Ministers to Steering Committees of the Council of Europe on Gender Mainstreaming
Practical Tools and Training ResourcesManual Supporting Gender Equality Rapporteurs (GERS) in their Role
Handbook on the implementation of Recommendation CM/Rec(2013)1 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on gender equality and media
Compilation of Gender training courses and related resources
Gender mainstreaming in other organs and institutions of the Council of Europe
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GRECO - Group of States against Corruption Gender Dimenstion of Corruption
Pompidou Group - Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs - The Gender Dimension of Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs
EURIMAGES - European Cinema Support Fund - Gender Equality
CODEXTER - Committee of Experts on Terrorism - Discussion paper on possible gender related activities
Division of Electoral Assistance and Census:
Venice Commission - Gender Equality Work
European Social Charter - Equality between women and men in the European Social Charter
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - On-Line Training Course "Gender Equality, Human Rights and Me - English - French - Spanish
Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights of Wome: OHCHR Policy StatementIntegrating Gender into Human Rights Monitoring
2002 UN Guidance Note "GENDER MAINSTREAMING - AN OVERVIEW"
A human rights-based approach to development and gender mainstreaming (UN Development Group – Human Rights Mainstreaming Mechanism )
Integrating Human Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluation (UN Evaluation Group, 2011)
Gender mainstreaming in the work of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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Gender Equality eLearning Programme - UNESCO
The Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme - UN-GEST (Iceland University)
"Mainstreaming gender into the policies and the programmes of the institutions of the European Union and EU Member States" (EIGE, 2013)
EIGE resources on gender training in the EU, including good practices, resources and a trainers database
Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination - ILO International Training Centre
Handbook on mainstreaming gender equality into the OAS project cycle - Organisation of American States
Making Budgets Gender-Sensitive: A Checklist for Programme-Based Aid" (Austrian Development Cooperation, 2009)
"Gender in practice: a tool-kit for Swiss Development Co-operation and its partners"
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Daught/Beam/Daught: - 235? x 40.8? x 21.3? (71.6m x 12.4m x 6.5m)
Tonnage: - 1.782 tons
Hull: - wood
Built By: - Donald McKay, East Boston, Mass.; 1851
Built for Enoch Train of Boston and sold to Grinnell, Minturn & Company, of New York, Flying Cloud was one of the fastest ? if not the fastest ? clipper ship ever launched. The largest merchant sailing ship afloat until the launch of Challenge shortly before her first voyage, great things were expected of her.
Under the command of the hard-driving Josiah P Cressy, she departed New York on June 2, 1851, and arrived at San Francisco on August 31 after a record run of only 89 days, 21 hours. The average time for all clipper ships was more than 120 days. Three years later Flying Cloud bettered her own time on the same run by 13 hours. Her time of 89 days, 8 hours, anchor to anchor, stood as the record until 1860.
Continuing her fourth voyage, Flying Cloud sailed for Hong Kong, as she had on her first two voyages, to load tea. A few days out from Whampoa on her homeward run, she grounded on a coral reef and began leaking at a rate of 11 inches an hour. With the pumps manned continuously, Flying Cloud arrived at New York on November 24 with her million-dollar cargo intact. On her next voyage, under Captain Reynard, the ship proved badly strained and put into Rio de Janeiro. After five weeks in port, during which her spares were cut down, she resumed her voyage and went on to post her best day?s run ? 402 miles ? and arrived at San Francisco on September 14, 1856, after 113 days at sea from New York.
Laid up until the next January, she made her last Cape Horn passage in 1857 and then laid up at New York for nearly 3 years. In December 18859, she sailed for England and loaded for Hong Kong.
After three years in trade between England, Australia and Hong Kong, Flying Cloud was sold to T.M. Mackay & Company, a partner in James Baines?s Black Ball Line. In 1871, Flying Cloud was sold to Harry Smith Edwards of South Shields who put her in trade between Newcastle and St. Johns, New Brunswick, carrying coal and pig iron out and timber back.
In June 1874, she grounded on Beacon Island bar and was forced to return to St. Johns. With her back broken, the following year she was burned for her metal fastenings.
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Maximum height 4 metres.
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Rich soil is important - dig in plenty of good manure and compost before planting.
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Christopher Ries
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|University of Wisconsin, Madison, MFA, The Ohio State University, BFA
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Christopher Ries (born 1952) is an American glass sculptor.
Ries was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up on a farm. He attended The Ohio State University, where he earned a BFA in glass and ceramics. He later went on to earn an MFA while serving as an assistant to Harvey Littleton, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who is responsible for founding the modern American studio glass movement.
After experimenting with glassblowing, Ries began working in the classical reductive technique, beginning with a large block of optical glass and reducing and shaping it to the desired form. His larger sculptures can begin as blocks of glass weighing over 4,000 pounds, and the process of reducing and polishing can take as much as a year.
His piece Opus, displayed in Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, is the world's largest monolithic glass sculpture. It weighs nearly 1,500 pounds and was sculpted from a 3,000 pound block of glass.
Ries's sculptures are noted for the changing internal optical patterns he creates and for their technical proficiency. The glass he uses is clear lead-crystal cast, of the sort typically used for fiber-optic cables. This glass is among the best transmitters of the visible portion of the spectrum, and that fact accounts for the optical illusions Ries is able to create.
His works have won several awards and are exhibited in major collections and museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the National Heisey Glass Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Tampa Museum of Art.
Since 1986, he has been artist-in-residence at Schott Glass Technologies in Duryea, Pennsylvania. He lives with his four children Banks, Chase, Catherine, his favourite kid, Caroline (Hugo), has a long lost son named Caleb (also Hugo) who lives an hour south of him, and his wife Colleen in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.
Awards and Honors[edit]
Ries has received various awards and honors throughout his career:
- 2010 Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA
- 2005 Artist as Hero, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Distinguished Artist Award, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1990 Ohioana Citation for Distinguished Service to Ohio in the Field of Art
- 1978-79 Aid to Individual Artists Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council
- 1974-75 Leo Yassenoff Scholarship
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- Pennsylvania
- Ohio
- Riverside Medical Hospital, Columbus
- Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus
- New Mexico
- Wilford Gallery, Santa Fe
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- Briggs, Richard. "Windows to a View: The Work of Glass Sculptor Christopher Ries," WVIA-TV, Northeastern Pennsylvania Public Television, Scranton, PA (November 1993).
- Kapelke, Steven. "Focus: Christopher Ries," American Craft (December 1996/January 1997).
- Paine, Janice T. "Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and its Origins," American Craft (October/November 1999).
- Waggoner, Shawn. "The Fourth Dimension: The Art Glass of Christopher Ries," Glass Art (November/December 1996).
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Mr. Goldemberg, who also had lived in Demarest and Haworth, was divorced from both his wives. Patricia Goldemberg, his first wife, died in 1999. Rose Goldemberg lives in New York City.
In addition to his son and second wife, he is survived by two daughters, Kathy Holmes of Hiram, Ohio, and Sharanne Goldemberg of Kent, Ohio; his companion, Eva Roth of Mahwah; a sister; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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Softball | Monday, April 14, 2014
Bearcats and Pioneers each Win 3-2 to Split Final Twinbill of Regular Season
Winslow Smacks 2-Run Homer to Lead Willamette to Victory in Opener
PORTLAND, ORE. -- Willamette University won the first game 3-2, and Lewis & Clark College took the second game 3-2, as the Bearcats and the Pioneers split the final Northwest Conference doubleheader of the regular season on Monday, April 14 at the Huston Sports Complex.
With the split, Willamette moved to 18-20 overall and 14-14 (4th place) in the Northwest Conference. The Bearcats will compete in the NWC Softball Tournament on Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19 in McMinnville, Ore. WU will open the tournament against top-seeded Linfield College at 11 a.m. (PDT) on Friday.
Lewis & Clark ended its season with a 12-25 overall record, including 8-20 in the NWC.
Willamette and L&C were playing two games for the third day in a row. On Saturday and Sunday WU played Linfield College, while L&C took on Whitworth University. The games played on Monday were originally scheduled for Saturday, April 5, but the doubleheader was rained out.
The Bearcats have now played in 11 games in nine days, including six innings of a game suspended earlier in the year. The Pioneers have played in nine games in nine days.
Both teams had to be tired, but the players combined for eight extra-base hits during the twinbill, while all four pitchers kept the scoring down with complete-game performances.
Heather Winslow (Jr., 1B, Oregon City, OR/Oregon City HS) of Willamette hit a two-run homer in the first inning of the first game. Jenna King (Jr., OF, Camarillo, CA/Adolfo Camarillo HS), who singled and stole second with one out, scored when Winslow's home run went over the center field fence.
Lindsay Yearman of L&C belted a solo homer to start the second inning and cut the led to 2-1. Caitlin Basilio doubled with two outs, but was left on base.
Willamette added an insurance run in the third. Winslow received a walk with two outs. She stole second, and then reached home on a double down the left field line by Erin Norris (Jr., 3B/C, Salem, OR/South Salem HS).
L&C had runners at second and third with one out in the fourth, but Hayley Glantz (Jr., P, Reno, NV/Robert McQueen HS) struck out Basilio and forced Hannah Dall Pra to ground out. The Pioneers scored a run in the sixth. Yearman walked, stole second and scored when Maddie Lee hit into an error.
The bottom of the seventh inning opened with a single by Haley Robinson of L&C. She went to second on a sacrifice bunt. A pop-up to Winslow at first and a grounder to short ended the game.
Kayla Rieger (Jr., OF, Anacortes, WA/Anacortes HS) went 2 for 4 in the first game for Willamette. Winslow finished 1 for 2 with two runs and two RBIs. Yearman was 2 for 2 with two runs and an RBI for L&C. Glantz earned the win, as she struck out four batters and allowed seven hits. Kalin Rooney took the loss for the Pioneers, despite giving up just six hits.
In the second game, L&C achieved two runs in the third. Lee singled and Kelsey Buck was hit by a pitch. A sacrifice bunt moved the runners, and then Tiana Rosario reached base on an error in center field. Lee scored, but Buck was thrown out at the plate. Rosario scored on a double by Hannah Dal Pra.
Winslow walked in the sixth inning. She advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by King, and went home on a double by Ashley Pender (So., 2B, Reno, NV/North Valley HS).
Lewis & Clark's 2-1 lead expanded to 3-1 when Kylee Kennel crossed the plate in the bottom of the sixth on a single by Lee.
In the top of the seventh, Victoria Bradshaw (So., DP/P, Discovery Bay, CA/Liberty HS) singled and Rieger doubled with no outs. One out later, Alex Shields (Fr., C, Lake Forest, CA/El Toro HS) hit a sacrifice fly to bring in Bradshaw. Winslow was intentionally walked. King grounded out to third base.
Madison Hollenbeck of L&C registered the win to improve to 8-13. Jade Smith (Fr., P, Chico, CA/Chico HS) fell to 12-6 with the loss.
The Pioneers outhit WU, 9-5. Lee went 2 for 3 with a run and an RBI. Hollenbeck was 2 for 3. Five WU players had a hit, with Pender, Rieger and Amanda Absher (Jr., C, Elk Grove, CA/Franklin HS) pounding out a double.
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HAZARD — The Hazard Independent Board of Education held its final regular meeting of 2012 on Thursday, addressing a short agenda which included an update on construction within the district.
Joseph Clark, an architect with the firm Clotfelter-Samokar, presented the board with a brief progress report on work ongoing at Roy G. Eversole Elementary on Broadway, and at Hazard Middle School in Walkertown.
The school board voted last year to switch the district's primary and middle school locations, which also came with some needed construction that has been ongoing during the current school year.
At the elementary school, Clark noted that the project is slightly behind schedule due to issues with what he termed "logistics and getting the paperwork started," but the pace of work has picked up over the last 30 or 40 days, he added.
The preschool playground is at about 80 percent complete, with the perimeter fence still yet to be installed, though Clark noted that it is scheduled for this week. Crews are also installing new exterior windows, a project which will take several weeks to complete. Interior renovations have also begun on the gymnasium toilets, and a new exterior entrance has been added to the gym.
At the middle school in Walkertown, the contractors have brought in a second crew in the past month, and are working to bring that project up to speed.
Interior renovations of a classroom suite have begun with demolition complete and the HVAC units and duct work being installed. Demolition has also begun on a bank of toilets near the administrative area, and the work there is also progressing fairly well, Clark said.
The board unanimously approved two pay applications to the contractor, McKnight and Associates, for both school projects, and also a change order related to issues with the roof at the elementary school.
A completion date for both projects has not yet been established due to the initial delay and bidding process, Clark said, but he expects that both schools could be complete by the end of January or toward the beginning of February.
In other business, the board approved a new lease agreement with the City of Hazard for use of the tennis courts at the Hazard Pavilion. Hazard High School's tennis teams use the courts during the tennis season each year, and the agreement approved this week will meet the school's needs, explained Superintendent Sandra Johnson. The lease will give the school use of the courts for the next three years.
Regina Cornett, the district's finance officer, also presented the district's financial report to the board. The Hazard Independent School District took in more than $789,000 in revenue during the last month, and received a check from the sheriff's office for $615,666 in tax revenue the sheriff collected during the month of November. Cornett did caution that the board will see a significant increase in the district's bills next month as costs from some construction projects will be included.


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So Noam Chomsky won the argument. Or so, in essence, says former Executive Editor of the New York Times Bill Keller. Keller admits in the MSNBC Special on the media coverage of the run up to the Iraq War that the New York Times became a propaganda arm for war interests within the government.
The Times wrote a number of really bad stories – inadequately sourced, unskeptical stories – particularly about Saddam's weapons capabilities. And those stories were rewarded with lavish front page display.
The Times also wrote some very good stories, more skeptical stories, and those tended to be buried on page you know A13.
So there is – you know reporters respond to those sorts of incentives. So there was, at least some reporters, who went to feed that hunger for scoops.
By way of explanation for this conduct Keller offers that the Saddam WMD story was a "mainstream" view. Mainstream is who again? Oh, the New York Times. So Keller was responding to the mainstream views from the New York Times to justify reporting mainstream views in the New York Times? OK.
Presumably one of the stories or rather reporters Keller is referring to is Judith Miller. A reporter whose work appeared on the front page and was bad, inadequately sourced and, according to the reporter herself, unskpetical.
My job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers what the government thought of Iraq's arsenal.
As Keller and Miller are surely aware, the White House has been furnished, courtesy of the taxpayers, funds which it uses to maintain a communications department that is able and willing to relay the government's thinking on the issues of the day. If people can read a newspaper they can read a White House press release, no reporters necessary.
The Iraq War was a multisystem failure for the New York Times. Not only did reporters use questionable sources and rewrite government press releases with editors promoting "bad" stories to the front page, some of the Times' columnists became leading war mongers. Tom Friedman and David Brooks shamelessly promoted the Iraq War free of the restraint any reporters were in theory supposed to have. The Iraq War was, in many ways, brought to you by the New York Times much to their disgrace.


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James O. Campbell, Alaska; Melvin C. Thrash, Arkansas; Arthur C. Tokin, Hawaii; Dr. George W. Schubert, North Dakota; John R. Ricottilli Jr., Rhode Island and Raymond C. Jones, Virgin Islands are the new appointees who join a team of 54 ESGR committee chairs nationwide, one in each state, territory and the District of Columbia. Each has previously served as a volunteer on a state/territory ESGR committee and was nominated by search committees within each jurisdiction prior to their selection.
"The state chairpersons are vital because they provide the leadership to the 4,200 ESGR volunteers, nationwide, who are working to garner support from the civilian employers of Reserve and National Guard personnel," said Cragin. "Our Reservists and Guardsmen are being used in more cases and more places than ever before. They must have the cooperation of their civilian bosses so that they can continue to meet their military commitments."
While in Washington, D.C., the appointees will participate in an intense orientation program to prepare them for their duties.
The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (NCESGR) was chartered in 1972 to minimize conflicts between part-time military duties and full-time civilian career responsibilities. At that time, the U.S. armed forces were transitioning to an all-volunteer force.
"Today more than half of the nation's military strength resides in the National Guard and Reserve," Cragin said. "It is important, particularly as the role of Reserve forces grows, that we not take the support of employers for granted. The state ESGR committees are a vital means to ensure that we don't."
For more information, call Lt. Col. Terry Jones, (703) 695-3620 in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, or Lt. Col. Mike Edrington at NCESGR at (703) 696-1381, or visit the Reserve Affairs web site at http://dod.mil/ra/.