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For the second month in a row the Hudson River was the big story, as April 2011 will long be remembered as the month of the big flood. In March, it was a large ice jam that was the center of attention. That produced a very high gauge reading of 12.19 feet, which seemed like a new record only to have it easily eclipsed by a reading of 13.65 feet April 28. A combination of heavy warm rains and significant snow melt created the perfect storm for record high water. This is certainly one month that many will never forget.
The average high temperature was 52 degrees and the average low was 32.4 degrees, giving us an average of 42.2 degrees, only .6 degrees less than normal. The month seemed much colder than normal as snow was so often seen, but warmer temperatures near the end of the month pulled up the average. This was the seventh consecutive month with below normal temperatures. The highest temperature of 76 degrees was recorded April 28 and the lowest temperature of 19 degrees was recorded April 7.
Melted precipitation for the month was 6.72 inches - 3.00 inches above normal and the third most on record. The wettest April was in 2005 when 7.58 inches was recorded and the driest was in 1999 when only .63 inches fell. Our seasonal total is now 18.43 inches - 6.02 inches above normal. April is the second month in a row with over six inches of rain. There was measurable precipitation on 21 days with the greatest amount of 2.23 inches falling on the April 26.
Snowfall was only 1.5 inches, which was 2.6 inches below normal. However, there was a period of time from April 17 -24 when it snowed for six of the eight days with only a trace amount here in Riparius but measurable amounts in other parts of town. Our seasonal total is now 92.8 inches, which is 14.3 inches above the normal of 78.5 inches.
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GRAFTON, Mass. — Approximately 1,000 gallons of heating oil spilled on the property of a North Grafton truck leasing company Sunday morning sending the fuel down an embankment where it pooled in a small pond.
The accident occurred at Suttles Truck Leasing, a chemical carrier at 88 Westborough Road owned by the Dana Companies.
"The release was reported as soon as it was discovered," George Criswell, Suttles' terminal manager, said in a press statement. "The cause of the unintentional release remains under investigation."
The accident occurred on a lot overlooking the pond, said Edmund Colletta, Jr. a director from the Office of Public Affairs at the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection. He said a temporary mobile heater was set up on Sunday, when oil being fed from a tanker truck with a manually controlled pump was left on, overfilling the heater's tank and sending the fuel to run down the embankment and into a "finger pond".
Colletta said there was no containment set up around the furnace to catch the overflow.
The pond, said Colletta, is about 20 feet wide and 300 feet long and leads to a stream that connects to a town drinking water source about a mile away.
He said the town well was shut off for maintenance before the accident occurred so there was no immediate danger of polluting the drinking water. "As far as we can tell, no oil got down that far," Colletta said.
He also said Suttles Truck Leasing put down booms, absorbents, sand bags, and an oil water separator at the channel near the end of the pond. "They did quite a bit to contain it," he said.
New England Disposal Technologies, based in Sutton, was hired to clean up the spill who were observed on-site Wednesday afternoon from Westborough Road.
Colleta said most of the oil is under the ice which the clean up crew have to break up to get at it and then use a vacuum hose.
He also said a member of the DEP is visiting the site daily to gauge the progress but added that the clean-up might take a few weeks because of the ice and a snowstorm in the forecast.
"All available resources are being utilized at this time," said Michael Polselli, Suttles' New England Region manager in the press statement. "We are committed to site remediation and restoration."
Colleta said the Mass DEP is not considering fines currently but will review the possibility in the future.
This is not the first accident on the company site. In April 2011, a worker from the Dana Companies accidentally mixed nitric acid with waste water sending a vapor cloud of gas into the air which forced the evacuation of North Grafton Elementary School and a partial shutdown of Route 30.


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Dr Rachel Kendal is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham and has recently completed a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship.
Building upon the knowledge of others over many generations, currently referred to as cumulative cultural evolution, is arguably unique to humans and widely thought to be responsible for our success in colonising virtually every terrestrial habitat on the planet, and solving ecological, social and technological challenges. In contrast, social learning - learning from others - underlies the wide-spread occurrence of traditions or culture in all animals. Dr Rachel Kendal has investigated social learning strategies in young children, monkeys, chimpanzees and fish and discusses how the unique ways in which humans learn from one another may have been critical for our capacity for cumulative culture.
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Of the six tests detailed in today's release, three used live nerve agents, one used a live biological agent, and one used a simulant that, while believed to be harmless at the time, has subsequently been found to be hazardous. The sixth test used a non-hazardous simulant. This information and a list of personnel assigned to the ships and units involved, has been provided to the VA.
In the 1960s, the DoD conducted a series of chemical and biological warfare vulnerability tests on naval ships known collectively as Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD). Some veterans have expressed concern that their participation in these tests may have exposed them to harmful substances. DoD has released fact sheets on the individual tests as the information became available. Six fact sheets were previously released.
The Department of Defense has been investigating the project since August 2000, when the Department of Veterans Affairs asked the DoD for information needed to clarify claims information from servicemembers who believed they might have been exposed to harmful substances during their participation in SHAD tests. VA claims experts needed to know what substances veterans may have been exposed to and who might have been exposed. DoD agreed to deliver that information if it could be found.
An investigative team located and searched records to identify which ships and units were involved in the tests, when the tests took place, and to what substances their crews and other personnel may have been exposed. This required declassification of test-related ship and personnel information, without release of military information that remains classified for valid operational security reasons.
The SHAD tests were intended to show the vulnerability of Navy ships to chemical and biological warfare agents. By learning how those agents would disperse, military planners could improve procedures to protect crewmembers and decontaminate ships.
The investigation has been a slow process, partially because in the cold war era, this kind of military information was classified. Also, investigators are searching through archived, poorly filed information about events that occurred four decades ago. While the SHAD program plans, part of the larger Deseret Test Center program, may have encompassed as many as a hundred individual tests given unrelated names, many tests were never actually executed. Because it is difficult to determine which tests are SHAD-related, investigators plan to look at all Deseret Test Center's chemical and biological tests conducted between 1963 and 1970.
Data DoD collected on the fact sheets for each completed test include the test dates, identification of ships and personnel involved; test locations; simulants, agents, tracer material, and decontaminants used; and test methods employed.
The DoD investigation into SHAD tests continues, and additional fact sheets will be released when more is known. Veterans who believe they were involved in SHAD tests and desire medical evaluations should call the VA's Helpline at (800) 749-8387. SHAD fact sheets are available on line at http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_intro.shtml .


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The Flour Mill Lot will is closed permanently and work on the parking garage is underway. It is expected that construction will take until June, 2016.
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Peter named the territory over which he ruled Freeworld. He was installed in Washington in a decrepit, smelly old building which someone, evidently with a fine sense of irony, had once named The White House. This, he was told, was where the old capitalist emperors used to live.
"Alone?" he asked — "with all this floor space?"
He assigned apartments in it to Adams and other officials.
"I am going to introduce my new economic reform immediately," he told Adams.
"We can't afford any such diversion now," Adams protested. "The first thing to do is to prosecute the war against Bolshekov. We have the planes and the trained aviation personnel; but he still has the factories. He will immediately build up a new air force. What we must do is to set up airplane factories, motor works, aluminum smelters. We must build up an army, a navy, a merchant marine. We must expand steel capacity — "
"I know, I know," said Peter. "You are entirely right. But it will take several years for Bolshekov to build up an air force to challenge the one we already have. And it will certainly take years for us to do what you propose. My reforms, instead of diverting us, will enable us to do all these things faster."
Adams shrugged his shoulders resignedly.
Peter delivered his first Freeworld radio speech. He announced his new reform.
But it was one thing to declare that there would be "private ownership of the means of production." It was quite another thing to work out the details. It was all very well to say that the individual worker would hereafter own his own hammer, sickle, plow, saw, or paintbrush. But what about a great machine on which many men worked? Especially if it was an integral part of a whole set of machines constituting a factory? Could each worker own a different part of the machine? Could each worker own a specific part of a whole factory — one a part of the roof, another a part of a floor, another a window? What would happen if one worker quarreled with the others and wanted to take his particular piece of the factory away with him?
"The problem is insoluble," said Adams. "The factories, the railroads, the means of production must be owned in common."
Peter refused to give up. He thought at last of a solution.
A factory, a locomotive, any great machine whatever, was a unit. It couldn't be broken up into pieces to be owned separately. But it could be owned jointly, and not necessarily by everybody in Freeworld. It could be owned simply by those who actually had to do with its operation.
"My idea is wonderfully simple, Adams," Peter explained. "Suppose, for example, there are a hundred workers in a textile factory, including the managerial force. Then the ownership of that factory would be divided among the hundred workers. Each would own one-hundredth as his share — "
"Just as I said, chief. The ownership would have to be in common."
"Let me finish, Adams. There would be an enormous difference. These hundred workers wouldn't have to wait for orders from a central point, perhaps hundreds or thousands of miles away, to learn precisely what they could make in their factory. They could do what they saw had to be done by their managers on the actual spot — "
"But if we don't have central planning, chief — "
"We'll come to that later. I've thought of a wonderful way in which individual ownership can be reconciled with joint ownership, and it combines the advantages of both. Our problem is to divide the ownership of a factory into, say, a hundred parts so that each worker can own an equal share. Yet we don't want to have the factory itself broken up into a hundred parts. And we don't want any owner tied to his share for life. He might want to move away, or he might prefer to own something else instead. So what do we do?"
Adams shrugged his shoulders.
"We give each worker," Peter went on triumphantly, "the right to share in one-hundredth of all the advantages or gains that flow from the ownership and operation of that factory! And we also give him the right to sell that right — to exchange it for anything else he wants instead!"
Adams still looked doubtful.
"And it seems to me that the simplest way to do that, Adams, is to give each worker, say, an engraved certificate, declaring that he has the right to a one-hundredth share in the ownership of the factory. Each one of these certificates would be called a 'share.' Any owner would have the right to exchange his share, if he wanted, for a share of any other factory — or even for consumption goods."
"All that is very ingenious, chief. But I still foresee some serious problems."
"For example?"
"Well, suppose one factory has a hundred workers and a second factory, just as big and just as valuable, has only fifty. You would be giving those in the second factory twice as much value as those in the first."
"We will have to work that out," said Peter. "I suppose we will have to do quite a lot of wild guessing. But we can be thankful that we now have a consumers' goods market."
"Because we may be able to estimate the comparative values of at least some factories by the comparative values and quantities of the consumers' goods they turn out."
"But how about mines, say, turning out raw materials?"
It was Peter's turn to shrug his shoulders. "We can't assure absolute equity. We'll just have to guess. We'll try as far as possible, of course, to give everybody an equal share."
"That's only one of the problems I see," Adams said. "Here's another, just as important. Some people are in factories making shirts. Others are on farms raising tomatoes. Each of these groups, I agree, could form part of joint enterprises that would exchange their products with others. But how about the people who work on making roads? How about the people who repair the sewers? How about firemen? How about policemen? What sort of 'shares' are you going to give them, for example?"
Peter thoughtfully lit a cigarette. "Maybe we'll have to work out something special for them. Maybe for the factory that employed a hundred people, for example, we'd print a hundred and ten shares instead of a hundred, and distribute the extra ten among those outside the factory to whom we couldn't assign any other kind of ownership. Let's call in the statisticians from our new Freeworld Supreme Economic Council and dump the whole problem in their lap."
The statisticians prepared a plan. The work of detailed calculation was assigned to hundreds of regional boards, and by those in turn to hundreds of thousands of individual factories, workshops, stores and collective farms. The detailed calculations became mountainous.
Peter wasn't happy about the plan. It was obviously full of guesswork, and on a wholesale scale. But he could think of no way of removing the guesswork. He had to start somewhere, he decided, somehow.
He approved the plan; and on Adams' advice he put it into operation with a flourish. He proclaimed a Freeworld holiday. There were speeches, bands, parades and fireworks. Every day speakers on the radio, on street corners, in shops and factories, explained the plan. Everyone seemed to tingle with anticipation concerning what he was personally going to own. The general feeling reminded Peter of how he himself used to feel at his childhood birthday parties in Bermuda, to which his mother used to invite his tutors and for which she used to bake a special cake, anyone's slice of which might turn out to contain some special little souvenir or prize.
No sooner was the new distribution made than markets developed in production goods, and even in the "shares" issued to each person. These markets bore a striking similarity to those that had developed in consumption goods when Peter had first permitted freedom of exchange. The shares were traded in on separate "stock exchanges." These began by a few brokers meeting on street corners (nicknamed "curb" markets); but trade soon grew to the point where the brokers met in large rooms with great blackboards on them on which the changing quotations were chalked up.
As with consumer goods, the company shares were at first quoted in terms of the number of cigarette packages for which they would exchange.
Then happened precisely what Peter had feared. He had hoped that all the shares would sell or exchange for approximately the same amounts. Instead, wide discrepancies developed. For some shares people bid two, three or four times as much as for others. Those who had the less valuable shares complained of discrimination.
Peter did his best. He pointed out that nobody was forced to sell, and that every group could make their shares worth more by working harder — or even, if they wished, and if their factories could be converted, by producing different goods from those they were already producing.
One of the first results of the change was a tremendous turnover in managers. Under the communist system, managers were selected for their ideological fervor, for their passion for communism, for their ability to make rousing speeches, for their adroitness in producing excuses for not meeting production quotas, for their docility and subservience, for their meticulous care in making out reports in triplicate or quadruplicate and keeping all paper work neatly in order. But the owner-workers now seemed to care for only one thing. Each group of shareholders wanted a manager who knew how to increase their income and the value of their shares. They threw out every manager who failed — however ingenious his explanation for his failure, or however expert he was in slapping backs and kissing babies — and they chose a manager who they thought knew how to succeed, or who had shown by his record somewhere else that he did know how.
Another result of the private ownership of productive property was that equality of income soon ceased. In the factories, for example, the managers were often rewarded out of all proportion to the rewards of the average worker. The workers in a plant seemed willing to pay their top manager almost any amount — provided only that he could increase the value of their own shares, or the income from their own shares, by an even greater amount. The better the manager, they found, the greater the overall productivity of the plant; and therefore the greater the income to be divided among all of them.
But the quickest and most dramatic results of the new reform were on the land. Here there were few problems of common ownership. The collectives were broken up into smaller units. Usually the land was divided up pro rata, and particular parcels of it were assigned to individual families. It was only where this division would have resulted in individual plots of land obviously too small for economical cultivation that several families would agree to work a larger piece of land in common. But in such cases the plot was usually too small anyway to yield a tolerable living for the several families involved, and in the course of time the others would usually sell their share to some one family. A few former members of the collectives went into the business of owning or working tractors, and renting them out by the day to farms too small to afford to keep them all year round.
The yield per acre of all crops grew amazingly; yet the soil was better conserved than ever. The attitude of the peasants toward their work and toward the land changed completely. They worked as never before. No work seemed like drudgery to them.
They took a pride in their land and developed a love of it such as even Peter had not dreamed to be possible.
When he asked one of these new peasant-proprietors about his changed attitude, his explanation was simple: "The more work I and my family put into the farm, the better off we are. Our work is no longer offset by the laziness and carelessness of others. On the other hand, we can no longer sit back and hope that others will make up for what we fail to do. Everything depends on ourselves."
Another farmer-owner put it this way: "The greater the crop we raise this year, the better off my family will be. But we also have to think of next year and the year after that, so we can't take any risk of exhausting the soil. Every improvement I put into the farm, whether into the soil or into the buildings, is mine; I reap the fruits of it. But there is something that to me is more important still. I am building this for my family; I am increasing the security of my family; I will have something fine to turn over to my children after I am gone. I don't know how I can explain it to you, Your Highness, but since my family has owned this land for itself, and feels secure in its right and title to stay here undisturbed, we feel not only that the farm belongs to us but that we belong to the farm. It is a part of us, and we are a part of it. It works for us, and we work for it. It produces for us, and we produce for it. You may think it is just a thing, but it seems as alive as any of us, and we love it and care for it as if it were a part of ourselves."
"The whole thing is just a miracle," conceded Adams. "If I wanted to coin an aphorism I would say: The magic of private property turns sand into gold."
Meanwhile, fascinating developments began to take place in the new markets for raw materials and for production goods. There was now a market for everything that could be exchanged. There was a market and a price for coal, steel and pig iron, for lead, zinc and copper, for rubber, jute and marble, for cattle, hides and leather, for raw cotton, raw wool and flax, for silver, platinum and gold.
At first the prices of all of these were stated in terms of cigarette packs. But after a few months this system came to seem ridiculous, and broke down. Prices of great quantities of raw materials, and of the precious metals, had to be stated in terms of thousands and thousands of cigarette packs. The demand for cigarette packs as a medium of exchange became far greater than the demand for them for smoking. Cigarette packages began to assume so high a value as a medium of exchange, in fact, that it came to seem criminally wasteful to smoke them — though their use for smoking had been the sole source of their original value.
So people took to using the rare metals as mediums of exchange and common standards for stating high prices or the prices of large-quantity transactions. In some markets silver would be used for this purpose, in others platinum, in still others gold. But it proved troublesome to be constantly translating these prices into each other, especially as the price of each of the metals was constantly changing in relation to the others.
Gradually and almost imperceptibly the habit developed of translating all prices into gold for common comparison. Gold became the medium of exchange for all large transactions. Cigarettes were now used as such a medium only in small transactions. In time the value of cigarettes themselves was commonly stated in terms of gold.
Another curious thing happened. Once gold had established itself as the medium of exchange, it had a higher value in relation to silver and platinum, and to everything else, than it had before.
"How do you think that happened, chief?" asked Adams.
"As nearly as I can make out," said Peter, "the reason is this. The demand for gold as a medium of exchange has now become an additional source of demand above that for ornament, teeth filling, or any of gold's other original uses."
"But why, chief, out of all the commodities, should gold have become the medium of exchange."
"Well, it was obviously an enormous convenience that some one thing should eventually become the common medium of exchange. Such a medium, of course, would have to have certain qualities in order to serve satisfactorily. When you start to think of what these qualities ought to be, as I did the other day, you will find that gold combines them better than practically anything else."
"What qualities are they?" Adams asked.
"Well, before anything can become a medium of exchange, it must have a high measure of acceptability for its own sake. Gold has this. It must have a high value with small bulk, so that it can be easily carried in pockets or easily shipped from place to place. Gold, again. It must not be perishable; it must not evaporate like alcohol, rot like eggs or rust like iron. It must, in short, keep permanently. Gold, again. It mustn't vary in quality, like wheat, eggs, meat or a thousand other things. One part must be as valuable, weight for weight, as any other part, provided it is the same material. Gold, again. It must be easily divisible, so that it can be cut into any desired size without losing value, or pass from hand to hand in any standardized size. Gold, again. It must have stability of value. Gold has this because the current year's production is always small compared with the accumulated stock. It must be easily recognized for what it is, so that it cannot be easily imitated. Most people can tell real gold instantly, because there is nothing quite like it. It is beautiful to look at; it has an unmistakable ring; it is malleable and impressible, and takes a sharp stamp. And, if you wish, you can always make a final acid test."
"Then you don't think, chief, that the emergence of gold as the medium of exchange was a mere accident?"
"It looks much more to me, Adams, like the survival of the fittest."
When gold first began to emerge as the medium of exchange after Peter's reform, it was exchanged in small bars weighing a hundred grams each. These were stamped, marked, cut and assayed by people who now made a regular profession of being "goldsmiths." But soon prices of everything were commonly quoted in terms of grams of gold, or "goldgrams." People did not actually exchange anything as small as a gram of gold, but gradually the goldsmiths began to stamp small round disks of gold of as small a weight as ten grams. One of these was known as a "ten-gram piece." These disks came to be called "coins." After a while, people no longer asked what the value of any other commodity was in terms of gold. The value of any other object was simply stated as its "price" in gold. Later this was simply referred to as its "price." Most of the time, when talking of the "price" of this or that object, people did not even stop to think that this meant its exchange value in relation to a gram of gold. They began to talk of a "goldgram" as if it were something by itself, apart from a specific weight of gold. Instead of referring to gold as a common medium of exchange, by which all goods were exchanged in an indirect or "triangular" way instead of being bartered directly against each other, people simply referred to the coins and the goldgram as "money." The "price" of anything meant its price in money.1
All this came about by such a gradual and apparently spontaneous and automatic process of evolution that few people appreciated its full significance. But Peter realized that a sort of miracle had come about. His two inventions — first, freedom of exchange of consumers' goods, and second, private ownership of the means of production and free exchange of the means of production — had solved the problem of economic calculation! Or rather, they had given rise to a free market system, a free price system. And it was this that had solved the problem of economic calculation.
[This article is excerpted from chapter 32 of Time Will Run Back (1951). For a summary of this science-fiction novel by the great Henry Hazlitt, see "A Tale of the Reinvention of Capitalism " by Edward Wayne Younkins.]
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The latest edition of Gwyneth Paltrow's e-newsletter GOOP dropped in our inboxes this morning, and once again the actress is championing the power of skipping solid foods to detox the body. This time Gwynnie is plugging something called the "Clean" cleanse, during which she existed on "mostly juice" for three weeks. That sounds about as pleasant as watching Shallow Hal, but the bony blond is heralding it as "amazing."
Says Paltrow, "…this program allowed me to work and exercise regularly, something I cannot do if I am on a liquid-only detox. I followed it to the letter and I can report that it worked wonders. I feel pure and happy and much lighter (I dropped the extra pounds that I had gained during a majorly fun and delicious "relax and enjoy life phase†about a month ago)."
We want to like Gwyneth, we really do, but there's something about her that's just so exasperating. Maybe it's all those "extra pounds" that bug us? Eh, whatever. We can't be bothered to worry about it, as we've gotta go eat lunch – or as some people call it, "relax and enjoy life."


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Measuring Movement-Related Cerebral Potentials in
Physiological Investigations of
Speech and Nonspeech Orofacial Movements
L Patrylak, L Max
Slow potentials can be recorded with surface electrodes overlying the cortical motor areas of the brain. It is generally accepted that the first distinctly observable potential, known as the Bereitschaftspotential or Readiness Potential (RP), reflects information regarding central nervous system processes involved in the preparation of movements. In contrast to movements performed with a finger, hand, or foot, little is known about the neuromotor processes involved in the preparation of movements performed with orofacial structures such as the lips, jaw, and tongue. This lack of understanding is related to methodological difficulties associated with the recording of RPs prior to orofacial movements. Artifacts resulting from cyclic respiratory processes, from the close proximity of involved muscles to the recording electrodes on the scalp, and from the very nature of speech movements themselves have consistently hindered the application of RP measures to orofacial movements.
Work in our laboratory is aimed at investigating and optimizing the application of current electrophysiological recording techniques and procedures to the study of orofacial movements in speech. Specifically, the work reported here was designed to examine (1) whether or not appropriate triggering for backward averaging of RPs preceding speech can be achieved based on electromyographic (EMG) activity from natural movements rather than from brisk movements such as used in studies of finger movements, and (2) whether or not holding one's breath is a necessary and sufficient control technique to avoid respiration-related artifacts in RPs prior to speech production.


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By Matthew Curtis | Enzian Theater July 10, 2006 at 4:59AM
Hard to believe I'm actually writing these words, but the last two weeks have brought some excellent music to these parts for the first time in a very long time. How long? I actually don't remember the last show I saw in Orlando, though it might have been The Pernice Brothers sometime in the fall. And the only local shows I can remember being interested in since the new year (Chuck Prophet opening for Aimee Mann, The Fleshtones as part of one of those Little Steven garage band spectaculars) unfortunately fell during Florida Film Festival crunch time.
But it's a new season and summer's been good so far in the tunes department. I finally caught up with Echo and the Bunnymen, despite being a fan since the very beginning. Now a six piece, they sounded quite good while playing a nice balance of newer material from their recent albums on SpinArt (that I wasn't familiar with but impressive nonetheless) with a lot of the older faves (do they qualify as "hits"?--maybe in the UK). Dynamite renditions of "Villiers Terrace", "The Killing Moon" and "The Cutter" were some of the stand-outs, but I didn't care for the lame arrangement of "Rescue" and why they refused to play "Do It Clean", one of their best songs ever, I have no idea. Plus the moody and shadowy lighting (with not a single bright spot!) bordered on pretentious, spurring the guy next to me to repeatedly scream (to no avail), "Ian--we can't see your face."
Next up was an in-store performance by British folkie Alexi Murdoch at Park Ave. CD's. Out promoting his (finally released) first LP, "Time Without Consequence", by only doing gigs at indie record stores and no actual paid concert performances, the singer/guitarist was amazed at the crowd he drew. It's easy to pigeonhole him as just a Nick Drake clone, but there are worse things you could be called. I also heard echoes of Bert Jansch in a bluesier number, and this guy's voice, guitar playing, and songwriting are stunning to say the least.
Finally, I got to see the Reverend himself (for the 3rd time), one of the greatest soul singers ever, Mr. Al Green. Backed by a super tight 12-piece band (including his daughter on backing vocals), he delivered a glorious--if too short--set of almost exclusively greatest hits with a gospel number or two ("Amazing Grace") thrown in for good measure. Oddly ignoring his last two highly acclaimed, return-to-basics studio LP's with the exception of opening with the infectious "I Can't Stop", Al's voice (not to mention his smile) was as gorgeous and joyful as ever. Hit after hit kept coming, including "Let's Get Married", "Tired of Being Alone", "Let's Stay Together", and a closing "Love and Happiness" that absolutely cooked. But would it have killed him to play "Take Me to the River" (maybe a bit too obscure for his regular crowd?), and I'd rather hear him sing stuff from his back catalog than take up time doing a Vegas-y tribute to other seminal soul artists like Otis Redding, The Four Tops, The Temptations, and Marvin Gaye. Not that it's not great hearing Al Green take a shot at singing some of the legendary songs, but I hate medleys, and when you're only doing a 65-minute set, I've got more important songs to get to.
So now that I'm primed to actually go out and start seeing live music again, will there be anything else worth going to? I sure as hell hope so!


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By Douglas J. GillertAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 22, 1996 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Stephen Joseph called customer focus the No. 1 priority for the military health services system.
"Our customers need to have their phone calls answered promptly, they need to be asked if they can be helped and they need to be treated courteously, as important people," Joseph said July 16 at the 1996 TRICARE Lead Agent Conference in Vienna, Va.
Lead agents and their staffs conduct the business end of TRICARE, DoD's health care program. The theme of this year's conference was "best practices," and plenary and breakout sessions throughout the three-day meeting dealt with ways to make health care more efficient, cost effective and customer oriented.
Joseph said re-engineering business practices will enable the lead agent staffs to mold military health into "the best system in the world," he told the conferees. "It is your opportunity, to identify the functional obstacles that restrain you from being a fully customer-focused operation ... [and] implement changes that will enhance operations."
Improving the health care system, Joseph said, requires the collaborative efforts of health affairs, the service surgeons general and the Joint Staff. "That's why I talk about the 'Defense Health Program, Inc.'," he said. "This is a corporate venture. Together, we are re-engineering the system of military medicine."
He said lead agent and medical treatment facility staffs also play critical roles in improving the system, citing the more than 300 suggestions and innovations documented in binders distributed at the beginning of the conference. "But there are many really tough issues we are wrestling with," he added. At the top of Joseph's list is portability of the TRICARE benefit between regions.
"The mobility of our patient population demands this feature," he said. Portability would eliminate confusion or reduction in services when patients enrolled in one TRICARE region travel to another region and require medical care while they are there, officials explained. Joseph said the lack of portability currently is a major issue with some of the beneficiary associations.
"Portability would certainly make it easier, particularly when you have family members [eligible for DoD health care] living in different states," said John Geoghegan of the Air Force Sergeants Association. "Right now, for example, a sergeant and his family enrolled in TRICARE Prime [DoD's health maintenance organization] in Texas, with a daughter away at college in California, would have to pay two enrollment fees. Obviously, portability would be a major beneficial change to the current TRICARE setup."
Such change is integral to making TRICARE "user friendly," Joseph said. "Many of your suggestions are to that end," he told the conferees. "Whether the user is a hospital corpsman, an admissions or records clerk, a patient, a contract physician, the resource manager, a pharmacist downtown, a wing commander or one of our lead agents, we must simplify the processes of TRICARE and eventually make them transparent to the user."
Finally, he said, it's time to "focus our attention, our performance, our analogies, our initiatives [and] our improvements on our customers' needs. This refocusing is not a marginal change," he said. "It involves measuring performance and practice in each and every military treatment facility, analyzing productivity and effectiveness and making the necessary modifications for improvement."
To facilitate customer focus, Joseph announced a decision by his office and the service surgeons general to periodically measure the effectiveness of military facilities, by a common set of standards. An annual "report card" on military treatment facilities will evaluate patient access to care, quality improvements, utilization, costs and health standards, he said.
"These report cards will enable medical facilities to compare themselves with other facilities of similar size and specialty mix," he said. "Lead agents, major commands and the surgeons general also will be able to evaluate their facilities and compare across regions, commands and services."
The evaluations will allow treatment facilities to recognize what processes work or don't work and make appropriate changes, he added.
One way to improve the health care business, the secretary said, is by developing cooperative agreements between health care facilities. Under TRICARE, he said, the "barriers of colloquialism are collapsing. There's an outpouring of cooperation, and you have begun to recognize the power of working jointly, not only with the military but also with Veterans Affairs, the Indian Health Service, the Coast Guard and other federal agencies. This translates into more seamless delivery of care for our patients ... and in many cases, significant cost avoidance."
He noted an agreement reached between TRICARE Region II (southern Virginia and North Carolina) and three VA hospitals in the region. "They pooled their requirements for laboratory records custody and, using the VA's authority, awarded one five-year contract that may well avoid almost $3 million in operating costs," he said. "In addition, they gained working relationships with one another, with one laboratory that met their combined standards for high quality."
Improved business practices within the military health services system also include designating regional medical centers for specialized treatment services. The services, Joseph said, will enhance continuity of patient care, avoid the cost of obtaining such care outside the military system and solidify the value of DoD medical centers.
"Shortly, we will improve 10 such services involving liver and bone-marrow transplantation, advanced neuro-imaging and cardiac surgery," he said.
Doctor (Lt. Gen.) Edgar R. Anderson Jr., Air Force surgeon general, challenged conferees to share ideas for innovation and improvement.
"The quality movement gives everybody both the opportunity and the responsibility to come forward with the best ideas," Anderson said.
He cited one military treatment facility where advanced practice nurses and internal medicine physicians conduct an after-hours adult primary care clinic, to the delight of customers.
"That's got to be our standard, he said. "'Satisfaction' won't get it; 'delight' is what we're searching for."
The general called business practice re-engineering an endlessly evolving effort. "It's axiomatic in the culture of quality that you never achieve perfection," he said. "Constant quality improvement is a recipe for success. Conversely, satisfaction with the status quo is a recipe for disaster."
TRICARE, according to Joseph, is like a train moving down the track at good speed and on time, with many destinations.
"It's important that we realize there is no end point," he said. "[TRICARE] is a continuing, evolving and self-renewing effort. So it's important that we focus our energies on fuel-efficiency to give us the competitive edge we need ... to set an optimum level of operations to ensure we have the flexibility to keep innovating and improving."


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Happy New Year's, everyone in Hollywood! The New Year's Eve trailer is out, and celebs are sprinkled throughout like the beer-soaked confetti covering your carpet on January 1st. The cast includes, but is not limited to, Lea Michele, Ashton Kutcher, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sofia Vergara, Abigail Breslin, Seth Meyers, Josh Duhamel, Sienna Miller, Carla Gugino and a partridge in a pear treeeeeee. Oh, and Robert De Niro for a split second at the very,very end.
Maybe we've just been burned before, but anyone who's seen Valentine's Day, director Gary Marshall's other rom-com starring five billion A-listers, knows that more celebrities does not mean more enjoyment (unless we're talking about a charity fundraiser or an orgy). Not that the movie doesn't have a few high points: an incredibly schlubby Michelle Pfeiffer, a mid-custody-battle Halle Berry, Katherine Heigl and Jon Bon Jovi's slap-a-thon and, of course, the Hilary Swank/Ludacris coupling that we are praying is actually the movie's main focus. If we do end up seeing this movie, it'll be in the same way we ring in the New Year: drunk, in Times Square and wearing only a diaper and sash.


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December 2-5 2014
"Architecture in the Anthropocene" book launch
A book launch for Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin (Ann Arbor: MPublishing/Open Humanities Press, November 2013).
14:00—17:00, Friday 6 December 2013
Organized by Nabil Ahmed and the Center for Research Architecture
Michel Feher Lecture Series - The Age of Appreciation: Six Lectures on the Neoliberal Condition
1. The Neoliberal Condition and its predecessors: Redemption, Fulfillment, Appreciation
i) Wednesday November 20 Inaugural Lecture by Michel Feher
The Neoliberal Condition and its predecessors: Redemption, Fulfillment, Appreciation. This is the first in a series of six lectures to be presented by Michel Feher at Goldsmiths for the years 2013-2015. This new Visual Cultures initiative is organized around the concept of Operative Thought and how the Political Practice of Ideas takes shape.
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To be involved in politics without aspiring to govern, governed by the best leaders, or abolish the institutions of government: such are the constraints that delineate the field of nongovernmental politics.
Laura Kurgan - Close Up at a Distance
The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite images of a quality once reserved for a few militaries and intelligence agencies, and powerful geographic information system (GIS) software is now commonplace. These new technologies have raised fundamental questions about the intersection between physical space and its representation, virtual space and its realization.
Meg McLagan and Yates McKee - Sensible Politcs
Political acts are encoded in medial forms—feet marching on a street, punch holes on a card, images on live stream, tweets—that have force, shaping people as subjects and constituting the contours of what is sensible, legible, visible. Thus, these events define the terms of political possibility and create terrain for political actions.
Michel Feher: The Goverened in Politics
Neither apolitical nor governmental, to be involved in politics without aspiring to govern… such are the constraint that delineate the condition common to all practitioners of nongovernmental politics [...] Nongovernmental politics can be envisioned as encompassing the political involvements of the governed, or better still, as the politics in which the governed as such are involved [...] what all these activists all have in common is that they are driven by a shared determination not to be governed thusly.
Mike Davis - Who will build the ark?
"In the first section, 'Pessimism of the Intellect', I adduce arguments for believing that we have already lost the first, epochal stage of the battle against global warming. The Kyoto Protocol, in the smug but sadly accurate words of one of its chief opponents, has done 'nothing measurable' about climate change. Global carbon dioxide emissions rose by the same amount they were supposed to fall because of it. [2] It is highly unlikely that greenhouse gas accumulation can be stabilized this side of the famous 'red line' of 450 ppm by 2020.


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Jobs Plan Unveiled by House Progressive Caucus
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus released a plan on Tuesday that would create jobs, invest in clean energy and rebuild American infrastructure — and has little to no chance of passage. Still, the jobs package, a farther-left alternative to President Barack Obama's jobs plan, could provide a negotiating point as the president's bill moves through Congress in the coming weeks.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chairman of the caucus, acknowledged that Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, are unlikely to support the caucus's proposal, but called on the American people to push for jobs legislation.
"We expect [Republicans] to be opposed," Ellison said at a press conference. "But we've got faith in the American people to rise up and demand that Congress pass a jobs bill. So we're fundamentally optimistic, but we're also realistic. … We do expect the American people are going to bring pressure to bear."
Congressional Progressive Caucus members said it would be wrong to "cut the baby in half" and pass only parts of the Obama jobs plan, even though they do not support every aspect of the bill.
"[Obama] must insist that we have nothing less than what he presented, along with the additions we're talking about here," Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) said. "This is an emergency, we must do it, and we cannot cut this baby in half. … The whole proposal is what we must have."
At issue for these House members is the proposed payroll tax cut for employers, which could hurt the revenue stream for Social Security. But they were careful to say that they support the vast majority of the president's bill, despite some concerns about how it will affect key entitlement programs.


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Intense fires, intense training
Intense live-fire conditions orchestrated in a safe simulator have honed the skills of Henderson firefighters this week at the Station One location on Dabney Drive.
Jon Juntunen, the fire and life safety educator for the Henderson Fire Department, said that all three shifts at both station houses, One and Two, had their turn with exercises inside the tractor-trailer sized metal flame and smoke cubicle.
"You really do expend some energy in there," Juntunen said. "There is work to it — it's pulling hoses, putting fires out, engaging rescue — it's not easy by any means. This is the training we do to be prepared for a fire inside a house in Henderson."
The burn trailer manufactured in New Jersey was provided for HFD use by Vance-Granville Community College through their firefighter education program. VGCC also provided instructors.
"This is a good opportunity for us. It is valuable training," Henderson Fire Chief Danny Wilkerson said. "I just wish we could have it here longer, but we do appreciate Vance-Granville for the time we do have."
The simulator uses computer- and hand-held controls to provide exact flame levels and non-toxic, vegetable-oil smoke so firefighters must direct flame suppression efforts, move hoses and cooperate in cramped quarters, under realistic, sometimes smoke-black conditions.
"You can't see your hand right here," HFD Battalion Chief Tim Twisdale said, holding his hand open near his nose. "That's what we have to search through, and it takes learning how to use your other senses.
"What we really like about this simulator is that it is completely safe," he added. "You can control everything with the touch of a button."
HFD Lt. Trent Ayscue, also an instructor with VGCC, is a live-burn specialist, backing up Twisdale's observation about the way smoke can black-out your sense of sight.
"Firefighters often have to rely on other senses," Ayscue said. "The majority of people who die in a fire are overcome by the smoke."
Also on hand to provide training was Curtis Tyndall, the VGCC fire education program director, who said that simulated conditions include flash-over and back-draft problems, with firefighters able to practice roof-top ventilation procedures to lessen the intensity of heat inside an enclosed area.
The burn trailer has sections along the top where wood-work structuring is put in place, and a second level of slanted wood-work is available, to mimic roofing that firefighters have to hack through to create the vent.
The wood panels are destroyed each exercise, and replaced with new panels.
"You cannot simulate roof ventilation any better except with the real thing," Tyndall said. "By applying the ventilation technique, you let out many of the potentially explosive gasses."
Tyndall said that VGCC obtained the 2006 Kidde T-4000 burn trailer in 2011 from the Roanoke-Wildwood Fire Department, having originally been purchased through federal grant funding programs for more than $200,000.
A U.S. Army surplus truck valued at about $100,000 completes the ensemble that he, while not able to specify exact numbers, said has come to benefit area firefighters at a very low cost.
"We serve 60 fire departments in the four-county area," Tyndall said. "The forest service folks were instrumental in helping us obtain the Army surplus truck to pull this thing around."
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How to Light a Burnt Match
Posted by: guiler on Mar 1, 2011
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For this trick you need 2 matches and a ring (a ring thats slightly loose) and a black marker
- using a black marker draw on the red part of one match.
- put 1 match (the colored one) in the ring out of sight.
The Method:
- with the marker color the red part of 1 match.
- light the match that is NOT colored.
- quickly quench it in your closed palm before it gets burnt past the red bit.
- replace the burnt match fir the one thats colored.
- light the new match and they will be amazed.
Note:if they ask to light it again say ''i cant it wood break the magicians code never do a trick more than once''
This is a good trick so i recommended you try it but the quenching in your palm can be awkward so just squeeze quick and get it over with this is my variation on the trick.
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Martinsville, Va. (October 28, 2013) – With a pink 3M Ford in honor of October being breast cancer awareness month, Greg Biffle tackled a caution-filled 500 laps at Martinsville Speedway to earn a ninth-place finish. The wear-and-tear of short track racing took a toll on the bumper cover of the 3M Ford, forcing Biffle to pit road for unscheduled repairs. With a little over 100 laps remaining, Biffle rebounded from 27th to cross the finish line ninth.
"We had a great 3M Ford Fusion," said Biffle. "It was a good day for us. I just wish that wouldn't have happened (the rear bumper flapping forcing him to pit road). We had a top-five car here today, finally to get in the top-five at Martinsville, but that's like our fourth or fifth top-10 in a row so I'm pretty happy."
The 3M team had their hands full right from the start at Martinsville. Biffle qualified a disappointing 33rd and spun twice on the track during practice on Saturday. Luckily there was no contact during each spin in practice and the team was able to get the handling heading in the right direction heading into Sunday's race.
Biffle's 3M Ford started off the race a little tight, but wedge and track bar adjustments were all he needed to maneuver his way around the short track. There were 17 cautions throughout the race and on each restart the bottom row was the preferred line, as the top had no grip. Biffle found himself in the outside line for a majority of the restarts.
The beating and banging of 43 cars on the ½-mile track led to the bumper cover of the No. 16 flapping behind Biffle. The team attempted to repair the damage with bear bond during the race, but ultimately the cover came loose again.
Under caution on lap 382 NASCAR black-flagged Biffle, forcing him to come in from seventh position to have the cover removed. Biffle restarted the race 27th with just over 100 laps remaining. Proving he had a fast Ford, Biffle pitted under the next caution for tires, then charged through the field earning a ninth-place finish.
Jeff Gordon won Sunday afternoon at Martinsville, while Matt Kenseth, Clint Bowyer, Brad Keselowski and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top five. With three races remaining in the Chase, the Sprint Cup Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway.
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Folks please can you sign, and get others to sign, my petition to stop Croydon Council's attempt to build an arena in Croydon.
Petition can be signed here Petition
Background to the fight can be found here CATARENA
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Please Sign My Petition
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Whilst I would support your petition, I am unable to sign it as Nanny wants too much personal information about me in order for me to sign.
I would love to sign many of the petitions on the PM's petition web page but I am concerned about what happens to all the personal information they request before one can sign.
Does anyone else feel uncomfortable about the amount of information the petition site collects or is it just me being paranoid...Remember, just because one is paranoid, it does not mean they aren't out to get you.
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Music Project Unites Closing Cardinal Heights in Positive Memories
Cardinal Heights elementary is a school with musical roots. It has its own music studio. It has talented staff who play in local bands. And the school even has its own band – the Cardinal Commitments – that hums with the musical talents of staff and students.


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Playstation: Wipeout 2097
Playstation 2: Tekken 3
Playstaion 3: Wipeout HD
Playstation: Wipeout 2097
Playstation 2: Tekken 3
Playstaion 3: Wipeout HD
NES: Techmo Bowl / Clash at Demonhead / Shadowgate
of course the mario bros. games....
Final Fantasy IV (II on SNES)
Valandui's Weekly Music Video
Down: Ghost Along the Mississippi
Any Mario Game and any of the Legend of Zelda games
And also the earlier Final Fantasy games, I not sure how i forgot about them
Contra for NES!
Mario Cart double Dash for sure
I'm going through Zelda II for the NES again. Love this game. Forgot how hard it was though. Damn.
Also, Adventure Island was a great NES game too but was also one of the most frustratingly difficult games I've ever played. Nearly impossible to beat without an emulator and save states.
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State Senate candidate Bryan Taylor of Prattville said, if elected, he would give the more than $20,000 increase in compensation that lawmakers have received since 2006 and donate it to schools and teachers in the six-county district.
Taylor, a Republican who was political director for Gov. Bob Riley, is trying to unseat longtime state Sen. "Walking" Wendell Mitchell, a Democrat running for his eighth term.
Taylor is one of several Republican legislative candidates who have made the pay raise an issue in the campaign.
Mitchell said he is already giving much of the salary increase away to four nonprofits: AGAPE, Compassion 21, Mexico Mission, and the United Way.Those charities help children who need a home or are in poverty. Mexico Mission takes trips to Mexico twice a year to help residents there with housing, healthcare, and food.
"I have been doing that a long time," Mitchell said of donating his raise.
Mitchell said he has realized during his travels through the district that the most important issues are jobs, a balanced budget and ethics reform, "all of which I have supported long before my opponent got in this race."
Predominantly Democratic legislators pushed through a 62 percent increase in salary and expense allowance as one of their first acts in 2007, the first year of the current four-year term. Lawmakers also included an automatic cost of living increase tied to the U.S. Consumer Price Index.
In 2006, before the pay raise, Taylor said lawmakers received a minimum of $30,660 in compensation.
Now, with the raise and cost of living increases, lawmakers receive $52,596, according to numbers Taylor received from the Legislative Fiscal Office.
Taylor said that increase is now more than 71 percent with the hikes for cost of living.
"Legislators are making $10,000 more than half of all Alabama families make in an entire year," he said. He added the lawmakers are only on official business three months of the year. Most lawmakers would quickly point out that their jobs require full-time attention even though they are only in Montgomery three days a week for three months of the year.
Mitchell said it was not an increase in pay, but in expense allowance. He said, when he drives, sends out mail, travels or needs to pay for housing, he uses that expense allowance. He said he sometimes drives 400 or 500 miles in a day driving in his six-county district.
Mitchell said he knows some senators, who after all of their expenses, clear less than $20,000 a year.
The senator said, before the 2007 increase, the last increase was in 1992.
Mitchell said he believes members of the Legislature deserve "a reasonable wage for the service they perform. It ought to be commensurate with the work they do. If it needs to be adjusted, I am all for that."
Taylor said the pay for legislators has increased while state budgets are strained, while the education budget is in proration, and teachers and parents are paying for supplies out of their pockets.
"This is symbolic, but it's also very real," Taylor said. "This is a way to help teachers and schools in the district."
Taylor is one of several challengers who have vowed not to take all or part of the pay raise.
"The pay raise is just one of those issues that shows that career politicians in Montgomery are out of touch with the challenges facing Alabamians," he said.
District 30 includes all or part of Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Butler, Crenshaw, and Pike counties.
Taylor, in writing, has also asked Mitchell to participate in a series of town hall-style forums, one in each county. He said they want to hear back from the senator by Sept. 1.
Mitchell said he would welcome an open dialogue, looked forward to discussing issues, will remain accessible to constituents, and would appear at forums with Taylor if his schedule allowed, but "I am not going to be dictated by him when I meet and greet my constituents."
When he talked to the Montgomery Advertiser on Wednesday afternoon, he said he made six appearances in his district in the last 72 hours.
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All Grown Up? Three Books About The Mystery Of Coming Of Age
Originally published on Mon April 21, 2014 12:42 pm
Some books have a subject so timeless as to be almost mythic — it's as though these stories are reinvented each time a new book appears, since the subject is right at the heart of what it means to be human. Coming of age books, if they are any good, have this mythic quality. Here are three that are at the top of the scale.
What does it mean to grow up? And why are adults so fascinated by this transition from the innocent to the knowledgeable?
It seems to me that great coming-of-age books allow us to look back at the time in our lives when we discover, almost always the hard way, that some things shouldn't be done — and if they are, they come at an astronomical price. This passage from innocence to knowledge, while sometimes painful, is often so exciting as to be unforgettable. What wouldn't we give to return to that transition, if only for a few imaginary hours?
Craig Nova's most recent novel, The Informer, was named a New Yorker Best Book of 2012. His new novel, All the Dead Yale Men, is out now in trade paperback.


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A detailed overview of Fireworks CS5, Adobe's software for creating and optimizing web graphics and interactive prototypes.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The University of New Mexico women's basketball returns home Wednesday night to play host to Colorado State University. The Lobos enter the contest coming off a tough two game road swing at 16-6 on the season and 6-3 in the MWC, while the Rams are 8-12 overall and 2-7 in conference. Tip-off Wednesday, is 7:05 p.m. at The Pit. Also, next up for UNM is TCU, Sunday, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. rather than the original 3:00 p.m. The Blue Star Mothers will be at Sunday's game to collect non-perishable items and toiletries.
TONIGHT'S GAME: Tonight's game features the No. 20/20 Lobos of the University of New Mexico as they play host to the Rams of Colorado State in a Mountain West Conference game. The Lobos will look to avoid losing three straight games for the first time since March of 2000, with losses to BYU, UNLV and Long Beach State.
SCOUTING THE LOBOS: UNM is 16-6 on the season and 6-3 in conference with wins over Oral Roberts in the first round of the preseason WNIT, Cal in the second round, at No. 12 Texas, Marist, Oklahoma State, No. 10 Minnesota, Louisiana Monroe, North Dakota State, home and away against New Mexico State, No. 22 Utah 59-42, at Colorado State 73-57, Wyoming 62-39, at Air Force, San Diego State and UNLV, with losses to Oklahoma twice, at No. 12 Arizona State, at TCU, at BYU and at Utah. New Mexico is led in scoring by sophomore Dionne Marsh at 16.4 ppg. Senior Abbie Letz leads the team in rebounding at 7.7 rpg., while junior Katie Montgomery leads UNM in assists at 3.7 apg.
SCOUTING THE RAMS: Colorado State is currently 8-12 overall and 2-7 in the MWC. The Rams have wins over Concordia-St. Paul, UC Irvine, Colorado, Portland, Northern Colorado, at Texas San Antonio, San Diego State and at San Diego State, with losses to South Dakota State, at Denver, at San Jose State, at Duke, Tulsa, New Mexico, at Utah, UNLV, TCU, at Wyoming, at BYU and Air Force. The leading scorer and rebounder for CSU is Melissa Dennett with 15.3 ppg. and 8.9 rpg. Leading them in assists is Molly Nohr at 3.5 apg.


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Storms South & West of Central IndianaApril 27th, 2014 at 3:23 pm by Pamela Gardner under Weather
Scattered thunderstorms have popped up in central Illinois. It's the southern part of that line that extends through Evansville and south into Kentucky that will affect us. All of these storms are staying below severe levels. As they move north, northeast they will push into central Indiana this evening. They should arrive in Indianapolis around 7pm according to Forecast 8 Futurecast. Overnight those storms will continue to weaken as thy run into a more stable environment. A strong storm is still possible though. Expect gusty wind, small hail, torrential rain and lightning with any of those storms tonight. The slight risk for severe storms stays in extreme southwestern Indiana today.
Most of us are enjoying full sunshine and warm temps this afternoon. The wind is noticeable today with gusts up to 30 mph from the southeast. Keep an eye on radar if you will be outside today.


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Students withdrawing from all classes during the refund period are entitled to a refund of a portion of the fees paid for the course(s). Students should check the Registration Bulletin to determine the date and amount of refund (if any) available. No refunds are made for partial withdrawal.
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