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Q&A: Former Apple exec Andy Miller on Steve Jobs, becoming a VC, and owning a minor-league baseball team
Oct. 10, '11: Andy Miller left Apple this past summer to become a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm. At Apple, he was the company's VP of Advertising, reporting directly to Steve Jobs. (Apple bought his mobile advertising company, Quattro Wireless, almost … Continue reading →
Passing the torch
Oct. 6, '11: The focus is off on this photo — shot at Steve Jobs' last Apple keynote, this past June at WWDC — but I love the expression on Steve's face as he takes back the slide clicker from Scott Forstall for … Continue reading →
The other Steve Jobs biography: "Return to the Little Kingdom"
Oct. 6, '11: Steve Jobs' official biography, by former Time magazine editor Walter Isaacson, will now be released on Oct. 24, about a month earlier than anticipated. Since news of Jobs' death yesterday, its pre-sales have soared 40,000% on Amazon, and it's currently … Continue reading →
Steve Jobs' greatest performance
Oct. 5, '11: Many will point to Steve's 2005 Stanford commencement speech as his greatest ever. I won't argue with that. But his greatest presentation on Apple's behalf was in January, 2007, when he unveiled the iPhone for the first time. It highlights everything that … Continue reading →
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
Oct. 5, '11: I'm happy that I got to see Steve speak in person once, this past June at WWDC. This is a photo I took that day.


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DV Journeys
Aug 1, 2003 12:00 PM, By Stephen Porter
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Working for FRONTLINE/World
With the help of DV technology, FRONTLINE/World not only promotes coverage of independent foreign news stories but gives young videographers a unique opportunity to air their work.
Cameraman Adam Keker uses a Sony DSR-PD150 camera to capture footage for videographer Amanda Pike's (below) short documentary about the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Pol Pot's Shadow. The 24-minute feature aired on the debut episode of PBS' new international news show FRONTLINE/World.
It is six o'clock in the morning in mid-April 2002 when independent videographer Amanda Pike and her cameraman Adam Keker find themselves sitting in a stifling hot shack in the middle of the Cambodian jungle. Across a simple kitchen table sits the grandfatherly man they have come so far to see, a man whose pleasant countenance belies his ugly past.
His name is Nuon Chea, also known as "Brother Number Two." Though largely unknown outside of Cambodia, he was the second in command in Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rouge regime back in the late 1970s, a regime that was responsible for one of the worst genocides in human history. During nearly four years of Khmer Rouge rule, more than two million Cambodians were killed, and many believe that this man, Nuon Chea, was as responsible for the killings as any single person.
Now old and frail, Nuon Chea talks amiably with Pike for about half an hour before he tires and is led back to his bed to rest. During the conversation, he says little of substance. One moment he is talking about his admiration for George Washington, and the next he is slyly suggesting that all the killings were done by Cambodia's enemies — presumably the United States and Vietnam. He seems to enjoy his time on camera, but he takes no blame nor expresses any remorse other than to make a vague statement about how everybody makes mistakes sometimes.
The experience of sitting down to a cordial tea with a key official of one of the worst regimes in history was very surreal and very frustrating, recalls Pike. "I had only this short period of time to talk to him, and he dissembled," she says. "It was like he knew he couldn't talk for that long. It was like we were playing this game. He wasn't answering my questions and was just eating up the time. It was six in the morning, and it was so hot in his little hut that you could barely breathe. Just trying to focus on getting him to open up at all was frustrating."
Still, when it was over, Pike knew she had scored a coup.
She had come to Cambodia to do a documentary that explored why, after nearly 25 years, the men responsible for the genocides had still not been brought to justice. She also wanted to explore the impact that lack of an accounting had on the country's spirit.
Documentarian Joe Rubin says that the Sony PD150 allowed him to capture honest and intimate footage in Sri Lanka. The people he interviewed were less guarded in the presence of a small crew, and he was able to build scenes quickly.
During her five weeks in the country, armed with a Sony PD150, she interviewed Khmer Rouge victims and Khmer Rouge soldiers. She was witness to another surreal moment when nearly two dozen people — including women and children — traveled to Pol Pot's remote, primitive burial site to sift through his cremated ashes for mementos and say prayers to a man they held in almost God-like esteem. And now she had obtained a rare videotaped interview with a man described by one former Khmer Rouge member as "Pol Pot's shadow."
The trip had been an enormous success. Now the question became: Where would she show this important footage. Who would buy it? Who would broadcast it?
It's an unfortunate fact that there are few U.S. outlets for international documentaries, especially those that don't fit into a traditional 2 to 5 minute news slot and aren't focused on whatever the hot story of the month is. Moreover, the market is even tighter for documentaries produced by virtually unknown, independent videographers who don't have a long list of accomplishments and industry connections.
Funding for the production of Pike's documentary came from the prestigious Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, which she received several months earlier. The Pew Fellowship is designed to promote greater coverage of international topics in the United States, but simply winning the fellowship is no guarantee that a documentary produced with its funds will get air time.
Fortunately for Pike, just before she left for Cambodia she'd heard from a friend, fellow documentary videographer Joe Rubin, that there was a new show coming to PBS television that focuses on international news stories. Moreover, Rubin told her, the show was actively looking to give opportunities to young videographers — to promote new voices in the news world. The show was going to be called FRONTLINE/World. It was the brainchild of David Fanning, PBS' revered executive producer of the venerable FRONTLINE program.
Although FRONTLINE/World had not yet aired at the time Pike was preparing to leave for Cambodia, she quickly arranged a hasty meeting with the newly hired FRONTLINE/World series editor Stephen Talbot and Sharon Tiller, senior producer for FRONTLINE, to discuss her project before leaving on the trip.
Although they made her no promises, the meeting was extremely encouraging. "It seemed like FRONTLINE/World was trying to do something different," Pike says. "They were trying to do short stories that tell about news events and places around the world but in the context of a narrative that is a little different and more interesting than a typical documentary. So I was just excited to find there was an outlet for this story I was spending so much time doing. I thought, 'Wow, I really want to work with these people.' But first I had to go to Cambodia and see if anyone would talk to me."
In the end, people in Cambodia did talk to her, and FRONTLINE/World ended up buying Pike's story and broadcasting it last fall on the first episode of the show's first season. Pol Pot's Shadow ran about 24 minutes and was enormously well received. In fact, says Talbot, it was the story "that put us on the map with PBS. It was a really amazing story. It was beautifully shot."
FRONTLINE/World's first season ended in June and consisted of eight hour-long shows. That doesn't count a ninth show, the pilot, which ran in May 2002 and featured Joe Rubin's piece on Sri Lanka — a tropical paradise that, in the last 20 years, has seen more terrorist suicide bombings than all other regions in the world combined, including the Middle East. Despite that horrific distinction, the country's problems have received scant attention from other U.S. media outlets.
FRONTLINE/World's next season, which will begin next month, will consist of nine or 10 shows. Talbot has hopes that the show will become a regular series or even a weekly series. If that happens, it will fill a gaping hole in the U.S. television marketplace. It will be a place for diverse international stories that are underreported by the mainstream media.
One of the shorter features for FRONTLINE/World, Sapana Sakya's story chronicled five Sherpa women climbing Mount Everest.
According to Talbot, the desire to create a show like FRONTLINE/World had been around for some time, and even attracted initial funding from a corporate sponsor, ABB, based in Switzerland. But it took the terrorist attacks of Sept. 2001 to finally bring the series into existence. In the wake of that event, interest in international news coverage skyrocketed as people found themselves wondering why anti-American feelings were so strong in other parts of the world. All at once, the need to better understand the world took on an urgency that ultimately shook loose the remaining funding needed to get the program off the ground.
The responsibility for producing FRONTLINE/World is shared by two PBS stations — KQED in San Francisco and WGBH in Boston. Under David Fanning's direction, Talbot and his small staff at KQED manage editorial content for the show (working closely with Sharon Tiller and KQED executive Sue Ellen McCann) and have primary responsibility for its accompanying award-winning website. The folks at WGBH have primary responsibility for publicity and postproduction. Offline finishing work is done by Steve Audette, senior editor at FRONTLINE, or by one of the other FRONTLINE staff editors located at the WGBH offices in Boston. The online editing is handled by FRONTLINE Outpost, an Avid-equipped online editing facility located several blocks down the street from the main WGBH offices.
In addition to being a show designed to help educate people about events and cultures around the world, FRONTLINE/World's other core mandate is to encourage more diversity among reporters. From the start, the goal of the show was to "mentor a new generation of video journalists," says Talbot. "It's definitely a way that someone who is a little younger and a little less experienced can get a foot in the door," he says "And I think in our first season we've done a pretty good job of getting more women on camera and for that matter behind the camera shooting and producing and editing. We are making a concerted effort to get more reporters from different nationality and ethnic groups on camera telling their stories."
FRONTLINE/World contributor Cassandra Herrman took advantage of DV's portability and flexibility when her story in Nigeria took a dramatic turn during a riot protesting the Miss World pageant.
For her part, Pike would readily agree. "They were the only people who really stopped and listened to what I had to say and look beyond the lack of credentials," she says. "They spent several hours talking to me when I got back, looking through all my footage and seeing what I had and appreciating what I'd been able to get. I can tell you there was another news organization that wouldn't even return my calls and emails. And I had a scoop when I got back."
While FRONTLINE/World's creators were determined to maintain the high journalistic standards that have characterized FRONTLINE for the last 20 years, they also wanted the show to have its own unique style — one that would hopefully appeal to a younger audience. Toward that end, they adopted a different format. FRONTLINE consists of a single hour-long documentary, and FRONTLINE/World offers three stories each hour — a 22-minute hard news story, an 18-minute feature, and a 10-minute piece that tends to be more entertaining or inspirational.
The hard news stories, like Pike's Cambodia story or Rubin's Sri Lanka story, are often disturbing looks at difficult problems in various regions around the world. The shorter features are human interest stories, such as Marco Werman's profile of Iceland's hot pop music scene or Sapana Sakya's chronicle of the attempt of five Sherpa women to climb Mount Everest.
From a style perspective, FRONTLINE/World also makes use of more innovative graphics, hipper music, and faster video cuts than does FRONTLINE. "We have the mandate to experiment, to take chances," says Talbot. "We can afford to take chances because we are new. We can afford to take some risks that FRONTLINE can't."
Perhaps the biggest difference, however, is the way FRONTLINE/World chooses to tell its stories. These aren't big budget productions produced over long periods of time by big crews using expensive equipment. Most stories are told by one or two-person crews, and virtually all are shot using small DV cameras. Rarely do they make use of sit-down interviews. They are more personal. They have an on-the-run feel that's like a journey of discovery that the audience shares with the reporter.
"The format of all these shows is generally a reporter on a journey," says Talbot. "We mix the best of a travelogue/adventure kind of show with very solid journalism. The LA Times called us a showcase for "backpack journalism" and that's definitely the feel of the show. We take the audience off the beaten path to places they've never been before and show them unusual things."
The decision to have its freelance producers use DV equipment for FRONTLINE/World stories was a very conscious one that contributes to the unique style of the show in a number of important ways. To begin with, it makes the cost of doing the shows more affordable, which opens the door to videographers who can't afford high-end equipment but who have important stories to tell.
Pike, for one, admits she wouldn't have been able to do her story on Cambodia without DV technology because she could never have afforded Beta equipment. As a result, the story simply would never have been done. Moreover, she says, working with a smaller camera was more practical. For example, when they went to meet with Nuon Chea, they had to hide their equipment by wrapping it in towels, something they could easily do with their Sony PD150.
"Working with a small camera definitely helps people feel more at ease," says Pike. "They pay attention to you and not the big camera equipment. It lets you fit into the environment a little bit more subtly."
Rubin, who operated as a one-man band in producing his piece on Sri Lanka, agrees that small crews working with small DV cameras are less intimidating to people and allow journalists to capture scenes and tell stories that simply couldn't be told any other way. "I think people tend to be more honest and less guarded because it is not a huge production," he says.
In addition, says Rubin, who also used a Sony PD150 to shoot his story, a DV camera makes it easy to capture unusual footage quickly. "I'm very aggressive in the field," he says. "I like to get lots of angles and beautiful shots. That's one of the benefits of DV. You can get down on the ground and use the LCD screen and you can do all kinds of things with it and build a scene quickly."
The bottom line, however, is that DV technology complements the loose and free feel that FRONTLINE/World is trying to create: a lone journalist out in the field capturing experiences as they occur.
"The use of DV is very purposeful," says FRONTLINE/World contributor Cassandra Herrman, who co-produced a piece on Nigeria with Alexis Bloom. "It's very much the video journalist model. You have a smaller crew, which makes for more intimate storytelling. And you're not out there lighting scenes. It's very different. The purpose is to bring the viewer into the moment. With the smaller cameras, that's a lot easier. It's also a lot easier in foreign countries to capture scenes that way."
Because FRONTLINE/World stories are journeys, the DV cameras give the small crews who use them the flexibility to go wherever their journeys may lead. Herrman found that out first hand during the dramatic events that occurred during the filming of her story in Nigeria last year. Originally the story was supposed to focus on what life was like for women living under the rigid Shariah law of Nigeria, a law that sentenced one Nigerian woman, Amina Lawal, to death by stoning for committing adultery. That sentence was to be contrasted against the fact that Nigeria at the time was playing host to the Miss World contest.
As fate would have it, just as Herrman and Bloom were driving north through the Nigerian town of Kaduna on their way to find Lawal, a riot broke out as people upset by the pageant took to the streets. Two hundred people died. Eventually the pageant itself moved to London.
With that event, Herrman's and Bloom's journey took an unexpected twist, and they quickly changed plans to document this new development. "The events in the journey determined the course of the story," says Herrman. "We were just taking this journey, and I was filming the journey we were on. So we just followed the twists and turns of the story."
While none of the videographers who've worked for FRONTLINE/World would suggest that DV is the one and only way to shoot documentaries, they tend to believe it's an ideal format for achieving what FRONTLINE/World has set out to accomplish.
"I think David Fanning understands what works with DV and what doesn't," says Rubin. "With DV, it shouldn't just be cheaper. It should be there for a reason. I'm a big fan of documentaries that have crews and producers and reporters. I don't think they should all be DV documentaries. But I think DV has its place. I know when Talbot or Fanning are considering a story, they are very focused on understanding what the journey part of the story is. Because that's what works with DV."
And for young videographers, the marriage of DV technology with FRONTLINE/World's mandate represents the creation of a new opportunity to tell the kind of important stories they always dreamed of telling.
Creating an Award-Winning Website
In addition to documentaries, the FRONTLINE/World staff has also managed to create a high-quality website.
The quality of the video streamed on the site, and the wealth of additional, original reporting that accompanies each FRONTLINE/World story makes it clear that this website is more than an afterthought or an archive. It's an impressive contribution to journalism in its own right.
In its first year of existence, the website has won an Online Journalism Award for General Excellence from the Online Journalism Association and Columbia University, an award for investigative reporting for its material on gunrunning from IRE Investigative Reporters & Editors, and an Eppy award for web design. It was also nominated for a Webby award for best TV-related website.
Despite its high quality, the site is maintained by a relatively small handful of people. The site's designer is Susan Harris of Fluent Studios, San Francisco, and the site's producer is Angela Morgenstern of KQED's Interactive Department. The content editor is Doug Foster, a visiting professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, alternating with a freelance editor, Sara Miles. FRONTLINE/World's associate producer Sheraz Sadiq helps provide web content and post material, as does series editor Stephen Talbot, who has ultimate responsibility for the site. Sam Bailey of EntropyMedia offers occasional technical support, and several other FRONTLINE/WGBH and KQED interactive staff members pitch in as time allows. Morgenstern also makes use of recent journalism school graduates to help develop site content.
In an email interview, Morgenstern shared some of the secrets of the website's success:
VS: Beyond the hard work of individuals, what design philosophies or work processes have you employed to create such a top-notch website?
Morgenstern: Instead of just making the site a dumping ground for leftover media or archived bits that didn't make it into the televised program, we try to emphasize storytelling in our feature choices, publish original narrative and perspectives, and provide tools to help visitors learning about a particular story understand the world around them.
It's also important to consider elements of intuitive and clean web design. In our case, we were facing numerous design challenges, including an audience that might be relatively unfamiliar with global geography or news, large tracts of text, multiple and sometimes changing stories, and the need to find the right balance between rich media/interactivity and accessibility.
The designer pays enormous attention to layout and presentation to help people absorb all the information and so as not to overwhelm them. The site takes a photography approach, with bold images on the homepage and use of illustrative photos throughout the site. A color is associated with each story in order to give the user a sense of place within the larger site as well as to reinforce the mood and tenor of each story. We try to humanize the online stories by adding photos of local life and landscapes without sensationalizing the topic.
hen we started out, we looked at Benetton Colors magazines and Edward Tufte books, researching the visual presentation of social issue and news information. Then we thought about how that might apply to the interactive nature of the Web. We provide special interactive features with each story. Our editors at PBS national help challenge us to think beyond straight presentation of text.
In the development of these and other features, I find it's really important to engage everyone on the team in the editorial process, regardless of their title. Our designer, Susan Harris, has been instrumental in conceiving of some of these ideas or bringing them further. It's important that each person along the chain has passion for the mission of the site.
Communication is also really important throughout, so that what we are doing on the website, while completely original, is still in sync with the TV side.
VS: What's your trick for creating such high-quality streaming video? What tools or techniques do you credit it to?
Morgenstern: FRONTLINE has a tech guru, Sam Bailey of EntropyMedia. He says his process is "to digitize the video into Final Cut Pro from Beta and then use Media Cleaner Pro 6 to output both RealVideo sizes. Media Cleaner makes everything pretty easy and fast. We might have to fiddle with cropping and coloring slightly depending on the clip but generally as long as we get a good version of the tape it's pretty easy."
We sometimes work with outside vendors to help digitize the material at the highest resolution in a short amount of time. We've worked with Zaps Inc. in Boston and BuyStreaming in San Francisco.
We also follow specs from PBS national and use a customized audio and video player template, which makes the presentation look nice. They specify that all video encoded for RealPlayer use RealVideo 8 codec or earlier, optimized for two audiences: 56.6K modem users and DSL/Cable users. They also dictate the KB rates per section and the pixel screen rate display for each stream.
VS: Is the producer of a FRONTLINE/World documentary intimately involved in the creation of the website for his/her piece? If so, how?
Morgenstern: Each producer/reporter contributes one original piece to his or her web section. This can be a reporter's diary, online interview, or behind-the-scenes written piece. The site also benefits from a great degree of collaboration with the TV series staff.
With each story, we sit down together and brainstorm questions that interest us as viewers after watching or hearing about a story. Then, from those ideas, we pick the angles that would be best suited for a web feature. The producer or reporter of the story can be as involved as they want in that process. Usually they are very busy with the production of their TV piece, so they are happy to have researchers and writers on the case who can develop other original pieces around their idea. They are generally pleasantly surprised at the end of the day. I think that seeing all the features that we develop not only provides for a more rich experience and educational extensions, it shows our genuine interest in "their" story or journey.
VS: Do you have any practical advice for others about how to create a top-quality, video-intensive website?
Morgenstern: If you are making a video-intensive website, don't leave low bandwidth users behind. PBS has a policy that sites must be designed so that key content features are accessible to users without plug-ins. If a plug-in [such as Shockwave Flash or RealPlayer] is used for a key feature, we provide a non-plug-in version as well. For example, we'll provide a written synopsis of the story alongside the streaming video, or a straight HTML/graphic version of a Flash feature. We try to pick the most rich and interesting elements of the story and create media-rich experiences [Flash, video, etc.] around those, while also providing some info in basic HTML.
Clean and clear design is also important. Tell the user what he or she will get before they click to download something, and provide basic information about plug-ins.
Sam Bailey also suggests that from both an editorial and technical standpoint dividing clips into chapters makes a lot of sense. And if you want to present an entire program at once you can use SMIL or similar technologies to sequence the clips so at least you won't have to present two versions of the same clip.
Sam also advises that you make sure you have somewhere reliable to host these clips. If at all possible avoid HTTP streaming, except for Quicktime with Autostart, as it can be unreliable and could also end up being costly if your web server doesn't have limits on bandwidth consumption.
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ANYONE INTERESTED IN PRODUCING A DOCUMENTARY for FRONTLINE/World can view streaming videos of past shows and find story submission contact information at the show's website www.pbs.org/frontlineworld.
According to FRONTLINE/World series editor Stephen Talbot, the show finds its stories any number of ways. Some story ideas are generated internally and assigned to producers who are familiar to FRONTLINE/World editors. But some stories, he says, come from submissions emailed by unknown producers — a practice he readily encourages. "Obviously if people have a track record and good tapes, it helps," he says. "But sometimes people have sold us because the story idea is so good."
Once someone is given an assignment, the chances of getting another assignment go up considerably if they do a good job. "When people prove to us they can do it, we want to try and hire them again," Talbot says.
Sometimes sending in a submission can be useful even if the FRONTLINE/World editors end up not liking the proposed story idea. "One guy sent us a story that wasn't quite right for us, but we noticed from his tapes that he was a good cameraman," says Talbot. "So that's the kind of guy we put in the Rolodex."
On occasion FRONTLINE/World will even acquire an already completed documentary, even if it needs to be reworked for the show's purposes. That's exactly what happened to Alexis Bloom, whose story about Bhutan, the last country in the world to legalize television, was used in the pilot episode of FRONTLINE/World.
According to Talbot, the piece, originally entitled Switch on Bhutan, was created by Bloom as graduate school project and ran 24 minutes in length. After seeing it, FRONTLINE/World bought it and cut it down to 10 minutes.
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Reply-47#6 - infamoustrapper (01/19/2014) [-]
Are they ******* bleeding? what happened to their faces? it's a kid show for darns sake
#65 to #59 - infamoustrapper (01/19/2014) [-]
That was a joke
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Reply-7#33 to #6 - fuckyosixtyminutes (01/19/2014) [-]
Yeah that's right, thumb him down for asking a question, you ******* cunts.
Reply+4#46 to #33 - birdlaw **User deleted account** (01/19/2014) [-]
I pretty sure people thumbed him/her down because he/she was adverse to the idea of blood in a kids show. People thumbed you down because you tried to defend someone with a wrong opinion. It's FunnyJunk. Were you expecting decency?
Reply+1#64 to #46 - infamoustrapper (01/19/2014) [-]
lol what? That's not what I was saying at all! That's why I got thumbed down??? I wasn't saying I was opposed to it, I was just saying I've never seen it before
#66 to #30 - infamoustrapper (01/19/2014) [-]
I wasn't complaining...I was just questioning because I've never seen it before
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Or in this case because they were falling asleep.


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Residents discuss turning area into municipalityBy Bryan Brooks Staff Writer firstname.lastname@example.com NORCROSS - About 120 residents of the Peachtree Corners community turned out Monday night to gather information on turning their area into a city. The meeting was held by a civic group to gauge interest in turning the area of about 15,000 residents into a municipality. Go slow and know what you are getting into was a common theme among elected officials invited to address the audience at the Simpsonwood Retreat and Conference Center near the Chattahoochee River. One official urged more caution than others. State Sen. David Shafer, R-Duluth, warned that governments generally have an insatiable appetite for tax money. Also, residents of the west Gwinnett area would begin paying city taxes on top of their county taxes if the area incorporates, he said. "I think a lot of what you want to accomplish you can accomplish without becoming a city," Shafer said. He said he would support what ever decision is made, though. State Sen. Dan Weber, R-Dunwoody, said he is a proponent of cities because they tend to be more responsive to citizens. "There is no entity that is closer to the people and more accountable to them than a city," said Weber, who is taking part in efforts to create a city of Dunwoody in DeKalb County. Still, Weber advised those in attendance that they should "go slow and start small" if they do pursue city status for their white-collar area between Norcross and the river. Gwinnett County Commissioner Bert Nasuti, whose district includes Peachtree Corners, said cityhood doesn't make sense for the area of roughly 15,000 residents. The county already does a good job providing services, he said. Also, he said creating a city would mean more taxes. "I don't want to pay any more, and I don't think anybody else wants to either," said Nasuti, who lives in Peachtree Corners. After the forum held by the United Peachtree Corners Civic Association to gauge interest in incorporation, six-year resident Jim Lutes said he remained undecided. "The thing is go slow and make sure you don't mess up," Lutes said. "We would have to know we would gain something." Ken Allen said he is frustrated with the amount of police and fire service provided by the county. He said he hopes talk of turning Peachtree Corners into a city will motivate the county to address those shortcomings. "I don't think the county government is putting the emphasis on the things it should," said Allen, who has lived in Peachtree Corners since 1981. "I think if the county government did its job, the need to become a city would be a moot point." UPCCA will review written comments it gathered Monday night and comments left on its Web site. Ultimately, its roughly 3,000 dues-paying members will vote in coming weeks on what step to take next, if any, said UPCCA President Lynette Howard.
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Posted by the real bagel eater on 02/05/2011
I live a few blocks from Rays. A lot of the other reviews on here are dead on about the location being annoying and the pizza being pretty disappointing. BUT - its just not true that all the food is mediocre and that the service is no good. The bagels are pretty good, they're fresh and in this area there aren't tons of other fresh bagel options. ALSO, delivery is always lightening fast the people who answer the phone and the delivery guys are always friendly. So I get the gripe w the location and considering the abundance of amazing pizza in the area, I cannot fathom why someone would eat the pizza at Rays. Just don't let the haters steer you wrong - if you order a bagel for delivery you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Posted by Huckleberry on 01/07/2011
Subpar pizza, oversized bagels, right on the most annoying corner of St. Mark's
Posted by Anonymous on 02/06/2010
I don't want to seem like a snob but I seriously question how long the people who rave about this place have lived in or around the city. The sauce is bitter the crust way too thick and the dough tasteless. The pizza is much too expensive for what it is and the staff is incredibly rude. I live a block away and I happily walk the extra few blocks to get decent pizza. The bagels are also mediocre. Reviewers mention an authentic NY taste. Well if you are referring to mid-town, tourist trap, mediocre, authenticity then yes you are correct however there are at least 10 places to get better pizza within 10 blocks.
Posted by Aly on 07/19/2009
having eaten pizza here for four years living down the block, i was happy to still know it would be delivered to my apartment when i moved to alphabet city.... not so anymore, as i was rudely hung up on and told not to call back when trying to order a pizza.
Posted by ex customer on 01/10/2009
I was a regular fan, but have received such rude service I will never order again. After years of receiving regular delivery (only being 2 blocks from their location) I was hung up on and roundly told to &^[%] off. Do not support this kind of behavior. There are too many worthy pizza joints with wonderful staff and ownership.
Posted by Marie on 07/22/2008
I may have enjoyed the pizza more if the man who served it to me wasn't so completely rude. I also had no cash on me and had to pay credit, and the minimum was $6. I had to buy 2 slices of pizza, both of which were given to me lukewarm, each plain slice 2.50. My friend was waiting for me outside at a table with a bag of food, and the man at the register, who seemed to be in charge, yelled at me, saying she wasn't allowed to sit there. I calmly explained she was waiting for me, but was given attitude. I finally raised my voice to the man, telling him we're not staying to eat. They treated a customer like dirt, and the pizza was less than mediocre. First and last time.
Posted by Anonymous on 06/24/2008
I'm a broke intern, so any place where I can pay for my food in quartersi'm happy! Go grab a bagel and it's a cheap/easy/delicious lunch! Plain bagel, toasted with sundried tomato cream cheese...get it!


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Jessica Boling: Youth group members 'take up their cross'
The youth group at New Salem United Methodist Church in South Knox recently decided to take up their cross — literally.
On March 29, a group of about 15 youth and other church members carried a 10-foot-long wooden cross from the church building on Tipton Station Rd. to South-Doyle High School and back — about a mile each way. "It was cold and rainy outside, but it was fun," said Beverly Ramsey, 19, a member of the youth group. "It was a big cross, so we had more than one person sharing the load. A lot of people driving by honked their horns or slowed down to see what we were doing."
Youth leader Penny Atchley said her sister and co-leader, Becky Gibson, had the idea to carry a cross on Good Friday. "We announced it in church several weeks ago and someone asked, 'How big is your cross?' We said we didn't have one yet."
So church member Rusty Goddard volunteered to create one. "Rusty made us a beautiful wooden cross," Atchley said.
Goddard said he constructed the cross out of spruce pine with the help of his brother, G.R. Goddard. "We sawed the wood, put some screws in to hold it together, and stained it," Goddard said. "It's 10 feet tall and the cross arm is about five feet wide." Because of its size and thickness, the cross weighs close to 30 pounds, says Goddard.
The group felt the cross's heaviness during their walk, Atchley said. "It was heavy enough to feel the weight of it and get some idea of what Jesus felt carrying his cross," she said. "We put a crown of thorns on it at the top, and some rope to make it look authentic."
Along with her sisters, Becky Gibson and Teresa Ford, Atchley has worked with the youth group at NSUMC for about 25 years. "We started out as our own children's youth leaders," Atchley said. "We wanted them to be active in the church, so my sisters and I jumped right in and took turns leading the group." Their children grew up and moved on, but Atchley and her sisters still love to invest in the lives of kids at NSUMC. "We've seen lots of kids come and go that we've helped along the way. It's still just our mission to have a place for the kids to come on Wednesday nights," she said. "Right now, we have about 12 kids who come regularly."
Besides planning events such as carrying the cross on Good Friday this year, the NSUMC youth group has taken an active role recently in regular church services. "The youth led the Maundy Thursday service, and several of them did readings at the Easter service," said Atchley.
Ramsey said carrying the cross together made an important statement about the group. "It shows our strength to go out in public and demonstrate that we love God and they don't care who's watching us," she said. "I thought that was an important reason to do it."
This year was the first time the group from NSUMC carried a cross on Good Friday, but Atchley hopes it won't be the last. "We want to continue doing this each year," she said.
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Bill O'Reilly is clearly very sad about this fact on Fox News:
Sorry Bill,
But you've missed the point. From my reading of the 2010 census the the USA is still has an Anglo/European majority OLD (fashioned) fella. In truth this vote was always split along party lines. What has changed /is changing is that this isn't 'the never was' 1950's nor even more never really was (as remembered) the Regan 80's any more. The reality is:-
– That the population mean is getting younger
– The Majority is no longer interested in the old political meme. i.e. to be told what is good for them and the country.
PS they have always wanted things…hence the term 'hip pocket nerve' quip from the 50's. The best that can be claimed is that the desire for things is that the aspiration has intensified. One might ask why ? and the answer is business' driving of demand through saturation advertising, simply cause and effect.
– However, the expectation that the standard meme will deliver on those aspirations is decreasing, because of the profitability gained by exporting of unskilled and semi skilled jobs (aka employment security) to cheap wage third world countries.
– The reality is that it is businesses the likes of a Bain & partners who make money leveraged buyouts leaving the target company with debt and eventual demise and or loss of jobs. Romney's modus operandi is people/production free profits.
– then he bitches about car bail outs that saved 1000's of jobs
– and looks down on 47% on govt handouts often because of the actions of a privileged few that has denied them of attainable betterment.
– Then ignoring the blacks and Hispanics while trying to court the racist whites?
– Women voters are not going to accept the 50's idea of barefoot and in the kitchen raising the children any more. They have their aspirations and suffer the same frustrated expectations as the men folk.
As you rightly said but with backwards logic This isn't 20 years ago…. in short the republicans need to get with the today 2012.
If you really want to know what happened Bill it's simple really ….people are better educated/informed that in the past and simply want more than the old staid 'out of date' meme of back to traditional USA (in fact any where) is no longer good enough.
The euphoric hope that Obama got in 2008 should have told the politicians that the public expect/demand more than status quo. The reason Obama won was simply he wasn't Romney and the failed "back to …. "
However, although Obama didn't get the excitement of 2008 he was at least, in some issues , in the right century . In the final analysis Obama is simply the lessor of two evils in some areas . In fact I'd say that he won by default.
I haven't seen any media mention the telling fact that 6million less voters turned than in 2008.
There's only one party at Federal level under two banners, run by the same shadow deficit based, war mongering government.
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David Cross ft. James Adomian
David Cross began his professional television career as a writer on "The Ben Stiller Show." It was there that he first met Bob Odenkirk, with whom he would later co-create the award-winning HBO sketch comedy series, "Mr. Show with Bob and Dave." Cross has since starred as Tobias Fünke in "Arrested Development" and has appeared in numerous films including "Men in Black," "Ghost World," 'Scary Movie 2" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Cross also maintains a notable stand-up career and has released two comedy CDs on SubPop Records: the Grammy-nominated "Shut Up You Fucking Baby!" and "It's Not Funny." In addition to his larger roles, Cross has made cameo appearances on "Just Shoot Me," "The Drew Carey Show," "NewsRadio," "Strangers with Candy" and "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." Cross also provided voices for the Xbox game "Halo 2" and appeared on Adult Swim's "Tom Goes to the Mayor" (for which Bob Odenkirk is executive producer).
JAMES ADOMIAN is a daredevil dancing queen renowned for the many masks he wears and his fiery populist satire — but don't you know deep down he's just a kitten? James was a top-10 finalist on the most recent season of LAST COMIC STANDING (NBC) and is a frequent contributor to COMEDY DEATH-RAY RADIO and other wild podcasts. He performs standup and characters live at UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE and at festivals, theatres, dive bars, party schools and radical political events across North America. Other credits include HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY, THE LATE LATE SHOW (CBS), FACE TO BUSH (Comedy Central), WORDGIRL (PBS) and THE ONION RADIO NEWS, along with several underground cartoons and some failed t.v. pilots that would have made for great television. But keep your chins up, you gorgeous nerdsluts: it's High Noon in the Garden of Good & Evil!
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Darwin's barberry
Darwin's barberry (Berberis darwinii) is what is called a "garden escape". It was originally introduced to New Zealand for its ornamental value, but thanks to its bird-dispersed seed, it literally flew over the garden fence to invade our native forests and shrublands. Its distribution in New Zealand is scattered from just north of Auckland to as far south as Stewart Island.
Darwin's barberry is one of the few weeds in New Zealand that can actually establish and persist under a forest canopy. In addition to this, research by Kate McAlpine (DOC, Science and Research) has shown that Darwin's barberry is able to produce copious amounts of viable seed which can be spread hundreds of metres by birds. All told, this makes Darwin's barberry a serious threat to New Zealand's indigenous biodiversity.
On Stewart Island, history has it that Darwin's barberry made its first appearance there as a hedge plant at Halfmoon Bay (Oban). Much like the gorse story we all know so well, Darwin's barberry has spread up to 35 kilometres from the main seed source.
Darwin's barberry is a serious threat to the forest and shrubland of Rakiura National Park.
In October 2001, a multi-agency eradication programme got underway. Southland District Council, Environment Southland and DOC joined forces to eradicate Darwin's barberry from Stewart Island. Eradication means eradication, and Darwin's barberry has to be cleared away from everywhere – including private property. Stewart Islanders have been consulted right from the start, with door to door visits and flyers advertising the eradication work.
Community response to the programme has been great, with many people approaching DOC for advice and help. And the Eradication Crew have plenty of advice to give, as they now have a finely honed procedure and techniques. They have discovered that the most effective method of control is to handsaw smaller shrubs or chainsaw big ones, and then treat cut sumps and stems with Vigilant Gel (dyed blue to keep track of which stumps have been treated). A disturbing discovery has been that when cut stems are left lying on the ground, they are able to form roots ('layering'). But this is no problem for the Eradication Crew who transfer all cuttings to vacant land near the local sewage pond where they are burned.
The rest of the country can draw inspiration from the successful control work happening on Stewart Island; and even though Darwin's barberry is now scattered throughout New Zealand, we can stop its spread.
We can all help by removing it from our own gardens and keeping an eye out for any growing wild. Darwin's barberry is easiest to recognise when it is heavy with golden/yellow flowers (mostly from late spring to early summer), that are followed with dark purple berries with a whitish tinge. For the rest of the year you'll know it by its small, prickly, holly-like leaves. For advice on control or to report any infestations, get in touch with your friendly weeds staff.
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A Late Night Korea Town Food and Bar Crawl
Korea Town is one of Manhattan's most exciting food neighborhoods at any time of day, but it really comes alive late at night, when the crowds build and the soju starts flowing. Some late night specialties on our trip: spicy noodle stew with cheese and hot dogs, stir fried blood sausage, Korean fried chicken, and more. Follow along with us after the jump. More


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Summer reading assignments: Heights history sources plentiful online
Heading out on summer vacation, there are many sites online to acquaint oneself with the history of the Greater Heights, which connects those of us who live here in the present to those who made the neighborhood what it is. [Read More]
Heights Kids petition aims to save lives
Stephanie Riceman with the Heights Kids Group, a 900-strong (at least) group of families in and around the greater Houston Heights, has put together an interesting online petition that says as much about how many new families there are in the Heights as it does about the need to make streets safer for bike riders […] [Read More]
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I get so many questions all the time about how people can learn more about the history of the Houston Heights and surroundings. So by way of providing some answers, there is really only one place to start. To begin at the beginning, you should go no further than Sister M. Agatha's The History of […] [Read More]


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May your death save the lives of millions.
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Previously, in accordance with Chapter 33-203.201(2), Florida Administrative Code, money orders, cashiers checks or certified bank drafts for the personal use or benefit of inmates were mailed to the local service centers for processing. On November 1, 2000 all inmate trust fund activities were centralized at the Financial Service Center in Tallahassee. This requires that all funds intended for the personal use or benefit of inmates now be mailed directly to the Financial Service Center in Tallahassee. The service center is now using an advanced processing machine to make deposits, which transfers money to the inmate sooner.
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Last year when Enzo picked our olives, all but one jar went into making olive oil. I spent days trying to find information about the best way to preserve them and quite frankly hit a brick wall! It all looked far too complicated.
Well today we are here to tell you that preserving freshly picked olives is NOT, I repeat NOT complicated at all and I discovered this by opening the only jar that I preserved from last years crop and carrying a single fruit to Enzo.
"The skins are a bit tough, but … ummmm, they're good!"
Enzo is our chief taster and an expert in all things edible that are made in Italy, so when he says they are good, they must be. Without hesitation I was getting down to the business of preserving this years crop.
You may have noticed from the photo above that they don't look very black but when you're growing organic and pickling on the edge, your fruits and vegetables won't have that shiny, polished uniform look that you find in the supermarkets.
Olives have a 'one year on, one year off' growing cycle and this year was their year off. That is not to say that there were no olives at all, just not enough to squeeze into bottles for Enzo's extra virgin olive oil. However, Enzo had managed to pick enough to fill one large basket with our pretty, black Gaeta olives (plus a few green ones – but who cares).
The first thing we did was to pour them into a sink of cold water with 8 oz of salt dissolved into it. Salt is ones of natures best sanitizers, so we left them there to cleanse overnight.
This morning I drained and rinsed them, removing any stems, leaves and other debris. It was time to sort through my vast collection of jars and bottles that I keep under the stairs and which have already been sanitized. I've been collecting them throughout the year and it turns out that I have quite a few crates full!
We always have a few tins of black olives in the kitchen for making tapenade, so I've taken a photograph of the ingredients for you to see it's simply olives, water and salt. I have no idea what gluconato ferroso is and therefore didn't use it. I poured the olives amongst the jars and filled them to just below the top. Meanwhile, in a bowl I have salt dissolving in our local mountain water to form a brine.
While we were collecting donations for Aulla from Giulia at the Da Giotto restaurant in Ameseno, we had a discussion about the best water to use for preserving olives. It seems that your choice of water is fundamental. Tap water often contains calcium and this will just not do. Many Italians who live in the rural areas will seek out the nearest tap dispensing fresh mountain water and this is considered to be the best water for preserving olives, and indeed making pizza dough too.
For the brine : 1 part salt – 2.5 parts water
I made up only 8 oz of salt to water at a time, not being sure of how much I would need. Once the salt is completely dissolved you can pour it over your olives. You'll notice that they float to the top and a couple of them won't be totally submerged. Don't panic – here's a little tip for you. Take some clingfilm, bunch it up and place it over the top of the olives pushing them down into the brine.
Place a screwed up piece of clingfilm over the olives trying to float to the top
Now put a lid on them, tap the bottoms of the jars gently on the counter to bring any air bubbles to the surface, then store your olives somewhere cool and dark (in our case under the stairs). Relax and forget about them until next year.


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White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said Friday that second-year second baseman Gordon Beckham will not wind up back in the minor leagues because of his sub-.200 batting average.
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After spending time helping others, Idol returned to the job of dumping someone from its ranks. Last night's results episode dilly-dallied with recounting Wednesday's philanthropy, which clearly unnerved the top eight contestants. Each must have been nervous about getting the axe. During the wait? Hot air from all three presidential hopefuls, and some truly awful performances. By now you know that Michael Johns' is history. After the jump you'll find out what last night's five worst moments were.
5. Top 8 Perform "Shine to the Lord"
The producers have stumbled upon a great secret: even the worst of the Idol hopefuls sound better when backed by a full, professional gospel choir. Choirs been showing up more and more in recent weeks, and while they can certainly bolster a number, they can't shine sh*t. The show's contestants have always had a difficult time performing together—their musical styles don't mesh, their competitiveness makes them tense, and you can practically see those in the background enviously hoping for the soloist's demise. (David Cook, who got a plum role tonight, must have delighted his competitors with his pitiable solo.) "Shine to the Lord" was a wretched mess, but luckily a brief one.
4. Chris Brown and Jordin Sparks Do "No Air"
Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks should be a great success, or so the Idol story goes—the show is in the business of minting stars, not flashes-in-the-pan. Sparks, a talented vocalist with a charm reminiscent of America Ferrara, waltzed off with the grand prize last year, but her subsequent victories since have been comparatively meager. The show tried to glorify her achievements, trotting out fans with faux-gold records to celebrate her million-download singles, but the contestants and the viewers shouldn't be fooled: Kelly Clarkson she isn't. Ironically, "No Air" is exactly the sort of song that would be savaged on Idol: overproduced and under-sung, it's radio fluff in the worst way. In an uncharacteristic act of mercy, Simon wasn't asked to weigh in.
3. Jason Castro On Ukulele Prices
Jason's fan base of screaming teen girls has easily secured him a spot on the safe couches, but isn't he truly lacking stage presence? Simon has repeatedly chastised him for phoning in his performances, and he's at his worst when being asked for a simple human thought or emotion. Perhaps the 'tween set finds his chatter on the price of ukuleles ("from, uh, $150 to, uh, $600") charming, but it's unpolished and irrelevant – two qualities an Idol should never aspire to. Jason's skills have taken him far, but there's a lot more than vocal talent to being an Idol.
2. B-Listers Sing the Monkees
Idol's commitment to charity is laudable—though, according to The New York Times, not unassailable—but one two and a half hour broadcast is enough. Peppering the results show with cutting-room-floor outtakes of Wednesday's show – like the video montage of b-list celebs doing "I'm a Believer," is nothing short of painful. Dr. Phil, Rob Schneider, Rikki Lake: was there no Jerry Lewis telethon or mall-opening to attend instead?
1. John McCain Attempts Humor
There's no denying the clout of the Idol platform: it may not create stars every time, but evidently it's substantial enough to become a stop on the campaign trail for some very confused-looking political contenders. Hillary and Obama, as usual, were stilted and charming, respectively; but it was John McCain who really stunk the place up. His stabs at humor are both specifically offensive (making light of the uncounted votes of Florida and Michigan) and generally bizarre (threatening Simon with an immigration plan that is, presumably, anti-British). His spiel was a tour de force in all the wrong ways. It just might be enough to secure an '08 victory for the Dems.
With the bounty of awful performances tonight, it's easy to forget that there actually was one good one: Michael Johns' swansong on "Dream On." Michael's dismissal from Idol is this season's first absolute shocker: it was his first time in the bottom three, and certainly there were more deserving contestants. (Kristy Lee, all of America is looking at you.) Johns took his departure with grace and a deeply pained look, and in a dignity-restoring gesture, gave what may have been his best performance yet as he exited. Even Simon had to admit he was talented. He'll be missed.
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"He lived very simply," Vos adds, "like African people do." Aside from his motorcycle, all of his possessions could fit in a sack. His family would send him underwear, socks and deodorant, but he'd give it all away. "He didn't need it," says Weaver.
"You rarely saw him down," says Weaver. "He could find joy in the simplest things." On visits home, he would devour bowls of ice cream, quote lines from the movie Fargo in a Minnesota accent, and sing his favorite song, Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy." A week before his death, Kaiser wrote home to say he hoped he and his family could "all meet again and have a fishing trip up in the border waters of northern Minnesota, canoe country. The best time would be late August or September..."
But there were at least two periods in Kaiser's life, according to the FBI report, when his natural exuberance deserted him. In 1969 Mill Hill reassigned Kaiser to its mission near Albany, New York, where he served as a rector, guiding other young men who hoped to join the order. His superior was an older priest who had served the parish for many years. Soon after Kaiser arrived, he noticed that money appeared to be missing from the parish's coffers. He announced that he would ask a friend, a CPA, to check the books.
"Soon thereafter," the April 2001 FBI report read, "Father Kaiser traveled to New York City. While there, Father Kaiser was taken into custody by the New York Police Department and taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Father Kaiser had resisted the NYPD officers because he believed there was nothing wrong with him. He subsequently learned that [the other priest] had filed a report stating that he (Father Kaiser) was mentally impaired, possessed a gun, and had gone to New York City." Mahoney went to Bellevue to visit him and found him under heavy medication. Kaiser agreed to voluntary commitment so his insurance would pay for treatment, the report continued, "and stated it would be a good opportunity to rest."
The real problem, Mahoney maintains, was not Kaiser's mental condition, but widespread corruption within the Albany parish. "There were things amiss in that place," she says. "There were problems not with John, but with someone in so-called authority."
Mahoney arranged for Kaiser's release from the hospital, and Mill Hill sent him back to Africa. He had no further mental-health issues until 1980, when, on a visit home, he began to feel agitated and had trouble sleeping. His family took him to see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium. Kaiser took the medicine until he returned to Kenya later in the summer of 1980 and no longer felt he needed it. Weaver believes Kaiser was suffering from culture shock. "He came back here," she says, "and everything was so different. He never had a problem in Africa."
"There was a lot of misinterpretation of his behavior in the FBI's analysis," Mahoney adds.
Kaiser's life as an ordinary missionary priest came to an end one night early in 1993. He'd recently been transferred to a new parish in the central Kenyan highlands, just east of the Rift Valley. Driving along a mountain road, he saw a group of Kikuyu tribespeople trudging through the chilly rain. Kaiser stopped to ask them where they were going. To a refugee camp in Maela, halfway up the mountain, they told him. The government had just confiscated their land in the valley and they had nowhere else to go.
Like nearly everywhere else in Kenya in the early 1990s, the Rift Valley had been the battleground of a bloody tribal war. In the past, the Kikuyu people had leased farmland from their Maasai neighbors. The arrangement benefited both tribes, and they lived together in relative peace. But in 1992, just before Kenya's first two-party election, some of the Maasai began stealing cattle from their Kikuyu tenants and attacking Kikuyu farmers for violating the terms of their leases. The Kikuyu fought back. War broke out, and some entire villages were decimated. The government intervened and seized the Kikuyu land.
Kaiser volunteered to serve as chaplain in Maela. After several months in the camp, he began to realize that the tribal war was not the dustup over cattle rustling and land leases that it first appeared.
Daniel arap Moi had been the president of Kenya since 1978. He was a popular leader at first, but as time went on he began to resort to more menacing measures to maintain political power. By the early '90s, says Durenberger, "the Moi government was rotten to the core."
"Moi was a dictator," says Dasteel. "He had any opposition tortured or murdered. Ballot boxes were stolen. Anyone who tried to run against Moi got killed." One of Moi's favorite methods of eliminating his rivals was to stage car "accidents" in remote locations.
The 1992 election was particularly crucial for Moi. For the first time since becoming president, he was facing a real political challenge. In 1991, in order to continue to receive Western aid, he reluctantly agreed to allow multi-party elections, even though he believed multiple parties would lead to increased tribal warfare.
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best central estimate of the transfer coefficient that can now be obtained. Further, because of the uncertainty in the value of the ventilation rate and its distributional characteristics, the committee recommends that the transfer coefficient be assumed to be in the range 0.9-1.2 × 10-4. The committee is not assigning a specific uncertainty to the central estimate, but rather suggesting that it has the highest likelihood of lying within this range.
Those are not particularly large changes, suggesting that because the parameters have remained stable even as the amount of data relating to the transfer factor has increased, the uncertainty might now be lower than that suggested by the EPA analysis (EPA 1995). Further studies on transfer factors will not reduce the uncertainty substantially. The committee did not find a compelling need to go to a three-compartment model; it is not particularly more effective in characterizing either the uncertainty or the variability of the transfer-factor calculation.
An important issue is the integration of the dosimetry model with the model of radon-progeny buildup in the bathroom and in the rest of house volume after water uses. More studies on the buildup and distribution of radon progeny will have much more importance with regard to the overall uncertainty in the link between the concentration of radon in water and inhalation dose. These issues have been discussed in more detail in chapter 5.
One important issue regarding the transfer factor is the question of whether there is a correlation of the distribution of variability and uncertainty in the transfer factor with the distribution of ambient radon levels. For example, there is a need to consider further whether there is a joint occurrence of high radon-in-water levels with geographical regions with high temperature so that both increased tapwater intake and higher radon-in-water concentrations might correspond. Similarly, there is the question of whether high radon-in-water levels occur in regions with low annual temperatures and more tightly sealed homes so that the high radon levels in water would yield to the higher water-to-indoor-air transfer factors.
The committee did not conduct its own detailed uncertainty analysis for the risk model used for radon inhalation. Instead it reviewed the uncertainty analyses that have been carried out previously by EPA (1995) and by the BEIR VI committee (National Research Council 1999) to estimate the uncertainties associated with inhalation exposures.
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Frank Allen Click Here to Read a brief History of 31 years of Wu Tang PCA and see old photos
Frank Allen
Click Here to Read a brief History of 31 years of Wu Tang PCA and see old photos
Frank Allen has studied and practiced the Internal Energy Arts since 1973. He was an early student of Master B. P. Chan from whom he learned the Internal Martial Arts of Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan and Tai Ji Quan as well as the healing art of Qi Gong. Frank began to study with Master B. K. Frantzis in 1976 and over the next two and a half decades studied Frantzis Internal Arts, including Ba Gua Zhang, Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan Nei Gong, and Taoist Meditation. Frank Allen was the first person certified to teach the Ba Gua of B.K. Frantzis. Since 1984 Allen has been the disciple of Western Boxing Master, Verne The Bulldog Williams. Currently Frank travels annually to Beijing where he studies Northern Wu Style Tai Ji Quan with Grandmaster Li Bing Ci, and Cheng style Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan with Grandmaster Liu Jing Ru and became a formal disciple in 2006.
In 1979 Allen founded The Wu Tang Physical Culture Association of New York City which has a brother branch in
With Tina Chunna Zhang, Frank Allen is the co-author of Classical Northern Wu Style Tai Ji Quan: The Fighting Art of the Manchurian Palace Guard and "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang: The Art and Legends of Eight Trigram Palm". He has authored or co-authored over thirty articles for the major martial arts and Taoist related periodicals in the U.S.A. He and the Wu Tang P.C.A. video production crew have produced twelve instructional videos covering the subjects of Ba Gua Zhang, Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, Taoist Philosophy, Meditation, and The Fighting for Health System. (click HERE to purchase).
Allen teaches workshops around the
Allen teaches workshops around the
Frank and Li Bing Ci Frank and Liu Jing Ru
Frank and Guy Pascuzo, 1983
Frank and B.K. Frantzis, 1991
Frank and Doug Westlake, 2008
Liu Jing Ru teachs a Ba Gua Zhang class in Beijing, Dec. 2007.
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