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Palliative care nursing education: a review of research findings.
Copp, Gina (1994) Palliative care nursing education: a review of research findings. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 19 (3). pp. 552-557. ISSN 0309-2402
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Recently, there has been considerable interest shown in research studies that identify the needs of dying patients and their families, as well as the needs of health care professionals who care for the dying. This particular type of research has significantly contributed to an increase in the awareness of health care professionals of the need to look critically at the ways dying patients and their families are cared for. Moreover, this awareness has led to demands for death education and, in recent years, advances have been made in identifying a body of palliative care knowledge to teach health care professionals. This progress has been particularly notable within nursing. This paper presents an analysis of some of the key education research undertaken, focusing specifically on studies related to death education. Some potential areas for future research in palliative nursing education are also discussed.
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Hispanic grocery in Goshen expanding shopping, warehouse space
San Jose Fresh Farm in Goshen will be offering more fresh produce and possibly beer with its remodeling and expansion.
GOSHEN — An Hispanic-oriented grocery store is expanding to add new items and create more store and storage space.
San Jose Fresh Farm, 270 Lincolnway East, needs the extra space to serve its growing customer base, said manager Mayra Garcia, daughter of owner Jose Garcia.
"My dad just had it in his mind that he wants it to be bigger and nicer," Garcia said, noting she was speaking for her father because he does not speak English well. "Business has increased and he wants it to go up more."
A contractor has demolished warehouse space in the building's rear and now is building new space there to house the shopping floor. Part of what is now the shopping area will become warehouse. As a result, the store space will grow from 7,000 to 9,000 square feet, and the warehouse will double in size from 1,000 to 2,000 square feet.
The entrance will be moved to the rear of the building.
The extra space will allow for the addition of some new products. Garcia said the store hopes to obtain a license to begin selling beer and will increase its fresh fruit and vegetable offerings, which are popular with area Hispanic restaurants.
The number of cash registers will increase from two to three, and they'll be moved to a more spacious spot in the store.
"On the weekend when we get really busy, it's a mess," she said of the current registers.
Jose Garcia immigrated from Mexico to Chicago at age 18 and moved to Middlebury in 1994. In 2002 he was working part-time at a Hispanic grocery store in Mishawaka when the owner asked him to move to full-time, his daughter said. He declined, saying instead that he wanted to open his own store.
That owner lent him some products to get started, and Garcia hasn't looked back since. In 2002 he opened Carniceria San Jose, 214 N. Main St. in Goshen. After noticing a lot of customers coming from Warsaw, he opened a store there in 2003, and then a second Warsaw store in 2005. In 2006 he opened a second Goshen Carniceria San Jose store at 2124 Elkhart Road, and in 2008 he converted a former gas station across from Goshen High School into Taqueria San Jose, a restaurant.
In 2010 he opened the Lincolnway store that is now being expanded.
San Jose is the village in the state of Michoacan from which Garcia immigrated. He started using the name "Fresh Farm" because it's easier for non-Hispanics to pronounce than "Carniceria," which is Spanish for "butcher shop," Mayra said. Her father worked for years as a butcher in Chicago.
While he has steadily grown his business, Garcia has had to learn about health code regulations in Elkhart County. In January a county health department inspection found 14 critical violations, including keeping cooked pork at too low of a temperature, improperly date-marking pre-cooked processed ham, unclean cooking utensils and food-contact areas, storing raw meat without packaging or wrapping, and storing raw pork in cardboard boxes next to raw ready-to-eat cilantro, according to county health department records.
A follow-up visit in February found that all of the violations had been corrected, and an inspector noted "good work" on her report.

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The task at hand -- to create a new reality; a new way of living with fewer resources while providing a prosperous life for every member of our growing population -- is going to require more than even the best technology that money can buy. It's going to require imagination, open-mindedness, a willingness to live and to understand life differently. With that significant challenge ahead of us, is "sustainability" the best weapon we can bring to the fight?
To illustrate my point, let me ask: is sustainability an inspiring call to action? Do you dream of a life that's simply "sustainable?" Or do you hope for something better, say, a happy life? One that's full of meaning?
Who among us would be satisfied with living a life that can simply be sustained? And if that's not what we want for ourselves, then why is it the word we use to pitch this lifestyle to the still-unconvinced? Sustainability, the way many on the most recent wave of popularization have tended to think about it, is nothing more inspiring than business as usual -- adapted so that we can do it forever. As usual.
I am aiming a punch straight for our "green" solar plexus. I want to knock the wind out of our guts. I want us take a deep breath and think of something better.
What I'm saying is that there are a lot of products and processes out there that could be made in a way that's arguably sustainable when, in fact, they do no good for humankind at all. To my mind, even if resources are used "sustainably," if they are not being used to improve human life, they are still, essentially, being trashed.
A new means of evaluating products and services in terms of their improvement to human life will be a necessary step in the evolution of "sustainability" -- if we want to use that term -- as an enduring philosophy.
When our measure of sustainability asks only if a given activity is something we can get away with doing -- and fails to ask whether that activity is worth doing at all -- we fail to see the larger picture.
Imagine a soda can. Sure, it's better for the planet if the can is both recycled and recyclable; it's even better if the local recycling program ensures that the aluminum used to make the can continues to loop through the process of use and re-use. At that point, the process of packaging soda becomes arguably sustainable.
But when we view that product in the interconnected world in which it lives, we still end up with obese kids buying sugary sodas from machines in their schools. Another example: No matter how green a car we drive, unless the system changes we are still stuck with suburbs and highways and spending 13 percent of our incomes to service those cars.
Business. As usual.
"Sustainable" implies something can be done, but it says nothing about whether it should be done. It says nothing about whether our precious resources are being used for our betterment.
In order to change the paradigm, I believe that we need to begin to include "life enhancement" as a measure of a product's overall worth in the world.
Consider, first, that reduced resource use and ecological lifestyles, on both the cultural and the individual level, need not mean deprivation. Let's assume, in fact, that there are synergistic solutions that can help solve both our lifestyle and our environmental crises.
Indeed, let's assume that such solutions are better than what we call "sustainable" because they have the added benefit of enhancing human life. I'm going to call these solutions, for the purposes of this post, "environmentally effective."
Environmental because it is less harmful to the environment. Effective because resources are effectively used to enhance human life. In other words, we get joy or life, quality or health. Or something else good. That's better than boring old "sustainable," right?
One simple example of environmental effectiveness on the individual level: cycling. Studies show that bicycle commuters are happier than car and transit commuters.
Research also shows that, at the cultural level, people who live in pedestrian-friendly areas tend to have more friends.
In both cases, the scenario that uses fewer resources results (directly or indirectly) in better quality of life. The happiness of people, therefore, does not depend on energy and material use. It depends upon whether materials and energy are used effectively to improve well-being.
You can argue, therefore, that a transportation system based on biking is not just sustainable, but actually environmentally effective.
In this next-gen version of ecological thinking, I'd like to propose that the ecologically responsible designer of products and systems go beyond the question of identifying the lowest possible energy and materials input. The real question is whether use of those valuable ecological resources can be justified in terms of quality of life improvement.
In mathematical terms, the "environmental effectiveness" (E) of a product or system might be represented by an equation that looks something like:
E = life enhancement / ecological resource use.
The more life enhancement (pleasure, health, contentment, security, community, connectedness) delivered per unit of resource, the higher the environmental effectiveness, and the more ecological the product. In other words, even a conventionally-grown apple has a higher environmental effectiveness than organically-grown tobacco.
And if you think about it, products like sugary sodas wouldn't score so well either. Carrot juice, even in the same throwaway container, would score better.
Here's another example: a coal-fired power plant. If we were to build one here in New York, say, where I live, we might be able to turn our air conditioners up and keep our buildings a degree cooler. But if we built the same power plant, say, in India, we could deliver electric light to villages so kids could learn to read at night.
The same power station is more environmentally effective in one case than the other. Though both examples have the same ecological resource use, the Indian case delivers more life enhancement.
We have become so short on environmental resources that we can no longer afford to be wasting them on things that don't even improve our lives.
Environmental effectiveness goes beyond sustainability and challenges us to ask whether or not we're using our resources to enhance life; because if we're not, isn't that the true definition of waste?
It challenges us to look deep into the environmental crisis not only for opportunities to use less, but also for ways to use better. It challenges us not to squander our limited resources on things that harm us or others but to value our resources enough to insist that they are used for our good.
That's vision. That's opportunity. That's a chance to get better lives as well as solving the environmental crisis.
Colin Beavan writes and administers NoImpactMan.com, a meeting point for discussion of environmental issues, lifestyle redesign, political engagement and citizen responses to our planetary emergency from a "deep green" perspective. Beavan's experiment in lifestyle redesign is the subject of his book (scheduled for publication in September 2009 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and a documentary by independent filmmakers Laura Gabbert and Eden Wurmfeld.
Thanks Colin.
Nice piece.
It sounds like you've already seen the article that Michael Braungart released last spring, but in case others want to have a look, point your browsers at:
and enjoy!
As both of you write, sustainability is boring. As both of you imply, being a little less damaging is not a good motivator.
The idea of effectiveness as a measure is something we need to be better at promoting, and it needs to replace the discussion of "efficiency" as an end in itself. As Michael Porter has written, "efficiency is not a strategy." To be meaningful, it must be used in service of some end objective. Otherwise, we may just be better at the wrong thing.
Nice one Colin. I worked as a green campaigner/do-er for years and that word - Sustainable - is a real problem. I don't think you've found the solution but it's a fine effort and the thinking is spot on.
It's also glaringly obvious - we need our political leaders to embrace this thinking. Urgently!
I find your comments refreshing. I will sometimes tell people I think recycling is as effective as filtered cigarettes.
The filter makes people feel better about doing something bad for them, people around them and the environment - but does little actual good.
Residential Recycling puts the most polluting vehicles on the road (Garbage Truck) in double the volume.
Then heavy use of resources is required to create a product that is often of lower quality than the original and more expensive.
The end result is arguably more damaging than just throwing the recycling away.
However, like filtered cigarettes, recycling is making people think about what they are up to and is an important step toward changing behavior.
Consider bottled water. What if water filtration was installed at the point of sale and people carried around reusable water bottles.
Water could be sold, refrigerated and filtered. This would eliminate packaging, transportation and recycling impact. This would be a change that is inline with the type of basic behavioral change you are suggesting.
I like Roger Von Oech's term for a surprise that releases creativity: A whack on the side of the head.
I think you're right -- we need an entire paradigm shift. I think Sustainability is a proto-shift. I like the fact that consumers are asking the companies they're buying from if they can get this product in a less toxic way--but it's not the whole thing.
The scary thing about a paradigm shift is that we don't know what it will look like until it happens. We can project from the known all we want, but we won't know we're there until we get there. That means we have to hold that zen place of doing the best job we know how to do and letting new technologies bloom (in spite of the resources they take) so that we can be surprised.
But here's the hopeful evidence that we're heading in the right direction: We went from records to CDs to electronic downloads. We went from having to string wire to connect every house by telephone to putting a single tower in the vicinity of a group of homes. We went from printing a boatload of paper--including the ads to pay for it--daily to communicate to sending bits and bytes. The coolest things these days are not the products you're wearing, but where you communicate online. We have an incredible amount of intertia to disconnect the things we value (social status, entertainment, connection) from products.
We also have an incredible opportunity to change our economic model so that it creates the things we want (affordable solar and wind power, local production of food and goods, walkable and bikeable infrastructures, mortgages in line with jobs available locally).
I don't know what the new paradigm will be, but I get more excited every day that it's on its way.
matt, i like your filtered cigarette comparison. i refer to recycling as a gateway drug. it isn't much by itself, but if your friends are doing it, you may try it, get hooked, and move on to something more serious.
If Colin has read Braungart then he seems somewhat confused as, with the sort of closed loop, biomimetic economy Braungart proposes, we can thankfully leave to one side (for a round of the usual politics) the rather more difficult questions Colin raises around life enhancement. There is very little which annoys the average Joe and Zhenya so quickly as this habit of judgement which many environmentalists carry around, even if it seems to be for the best of reasons. If waste = food and social and natural capital are increasing then there is plenty of scope still: to be frivolous, selfish, generous, rich or poor and to indulge those things humans assume are part of marking the passage of time - from big weddings to Olympic games. We can leave behind the mediocrity of 'sustainable' but I always watch out for and resist the puritanical tendency so often cloaked behind otherwise sensible suggestions about how 'less' can be 'better'. It can be but I'd be happier to let people find thir way to that point when the wish or can. A living systems inspired economy is the necessary and primary challenge.
I know from my own educational experience and career that engineers, in particular, have been systematically encouraged to "leave to one side the rather more difficult questions... about life enhancement." Indeed, business people and many others are encouraged to do the same.
Leave those questions for the "usual politics," as you say. Or put another way, if it's legal, it's okay.
Will you excuse me for saying that that, in itself, is a boring and uninspired view? The idea that engineers, designers, and business people should not be asking about the social value or costs of their products has helped to get us where we are.
Don't we need to be asking these questions at every level? Shouldn't every person in every job be asking whether what they are doing helps their community? Or do you not trust the people?
A living systems inspired economy may be part of the path, but eco-dogmas have the tendency to inspire and be afforded by only the elite.
How can we get people to change if we cannot promise that what we're offering them is going to be better, an improvement on what they have?
Also, you are confusing the use of fewer material and energy resources with "less." Because what I am arguing for here is MORE. Way more. If you follow my argument in the post, you'll see that it makes sense to use more resources--if it delivers improvement in life.
This is not an argument for using less. It's an argument for using better.
I'd like to see a sort of design based on whether the system or product will actually improve people's lives (rather than whether or not we can manipulate them into buying the product in question). I'm arguing that we turn away from simple sustainability and ask if we can't hitch that cart to the more powerful horses that traditionally pull us forward--the things people are actually interested in pursuing--joy, happiness, health, security, etc.
These are things that can inspire people. Certainly they inspire me.
And it moves away from elitism. It captures some of what Van Jones talks about. The idea that meeting our environmental challenge should not save just the planet, but also the people. Do you hear much at the unemployment office about "a living systems inspired economy?"
I mean, I like the idea, I just don't think it's going to win us many converts.
With love,
Colin aka No Impact Man
Perhaps we should remember that the recent emergence of sustainability was never a radical concept - it was really Brutland that came up with this recent idea of having our "environment" while eating (devouring) it. We can't have it both ways.
Colin, I am not sure that "effectiveness" is a great marketing idea either! Who would want an effective marriage? I want a flourishing, abundant marriage. Can we come up with terms that really are appealing to mass numbers of people?
Everything we do has an impact on the planet, no matter what we consume or do. It is whether that action taken or thing consumed feeds back into the world in synergestic and beneficial ways, ie I can eat lots of stuff, but if I use the waste in beneficial ways (I use a compost toilet) then "nature" and my local environment benefits.
And I see no benefit in drinking soda! Humans evolved pretty well with water!
"The idea that engineers, designers, and business people should not be asking about the social value or costs of their products has helped to get us where we are."
Sure, but that's not my point. One of the lessons of a living systems approach is that feedback is crucial and in a market dominated economy that is mostly organised through prices. Its the internalising of hitherto external costs which provides a major lever for change. I think we all know this by now. If Alex Steffen is right with his analysis in Winning the Great Wager there won't be a spontaneous change of heart to help us emerge at scale on the other side and enable 'a bright green future' it will be because of some judicious rule changing and some coherent sense of what 'abundance by design' (as Lovins has it) means. It has to play well in the world of economics and business. It does. This is the key to my argument and provides credentials which everyone from Van Jones to Nike, GE and InterfaceFlor have already found, well.. inspiring. More jobs, eliminate the concept of waste, more prosperity. Its the Natural Capitalism argument. In fact they do feel very comfortable with moving towards a closed loop system (if the rules of the game are adjusted) and the likes of InterfaceFlor already champion it. Its far from elitist (where is that notion coming from?) Sure if you aspire to advance the cause of the LOHAS or that strand of New Realism which has the search for the authentic as its touchstone, that's what I call 'a round of politics', and all well and good. Closed loop models are not an 'eco dogma' of course just a logical response to a mismatch between how humans have tended to work and how living systems work and they can be confidently predicted to form the intellectual base of any successful sustainable economy. Until the next model emerges! When it comes to articulating a world beyond mere sustainability I'd say we have already a lot of good work and a coherent model out there being tested.
William Stahel got under way with it in the 1970s and its coming along, as these things do in a sort of generational timescale. I think what may be uncomfortable is the way it is attractive to the most powerful interest groups in society, once its clear that peak oil and climate change and other crises are mandating change, yet as Paul Hawken argues these interest groups are the only ones with the power to effect rapid change. Politics of the sort Colin is involved in can be easier if there is bright greenfuture rather than the end of days
interesting ideas. we HAD to buy a new floor for our condo--the old one had been refinished before, now dangerous to feet.
We discovered bamboo, ecologically better, and it looks lovely. It's been down for 3 weeks and so far we're happy with it. Good to spend money on something you can live with, that makes you happy, and feel like you haven't hurt the world. Good for the bare feet of this diabetic, too.
Read this just after seeing http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1081355/The-100-000-white-wedding-16-year-old-girl-lives-caravan.html.
The contrast was amusing but it also brings up a serious point: the human impulse to show off will not be going away any time soon. One of our tasks in this paradigm shift process will be finding and publicizing and, if our talents lean that way, creating sustainable ways to impress. With that in mind, I offer http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/27/temple-of-a-million-bottles/
Bill McDonough also addresses this (from an interview in YES! magazine, Fall'99, issue 11):
"I'm not that interested in sustainability, because if sustainability is just the edge between destruction and regeneration then it's a kind of maintenance -- it's a demeaned agenda.
I'm interested in fecundity -- regenerative, powerful stuff. Nature's not efficient, it's *effective*! You don't look at the cherry tree in the spring and say, "Look how many blossoms it takes!" It's not efficient. It's *effective*, and it's safe. There's nothing dangerous about the blossoms--they return to the Earth.
Look at me. I just had a baby girl a week and a half ago. We also have a little boy, four and a half. I have a 100 million sperm in case two get lucky -- not very efficient. But effective and fun! So let's celebrate and delight in abundance."
I don't disagree with any of the ideas that you raise in your piece, except that the sustainability movement doesn't already embrace them. The Brundtland definition of sustainability is easy to quote, but it is a political statement, negotiated and compromised. Triple-bottom-line, people-planet-profit, ecology-economics-equity, three-legged stool, however you want to state it or diagram it, sustainability has always been about the persistence through time of human societies and our relationship to each other, our ecosystem, and our economics.
We can argue whether one term is better or worse. "Sustainability" may not be an inspiring or evocative term, but neither is "environmental effectiveness." It is also steeped in the frame of "environmentalism," which is not generally perceived to give much attention to social justice issues or economic issues.
I am (like you, I assume) pretty disgusted with green consumerism. But I think that Westerners and especially Americans give it credence because we have metrics that pretty accurately measure the environmental impacts of things. It's called life-cycle assessment. We don't really have similar metrics or methodologies for social justice impacts that can be used at the design stage. Of course we can analyze economic impacts ten ways to Sunday (most of them are self-fulfilling prophesies and soothsaying, but that's another rant).
I'm also not saying that I haven't done the kind of calculation that you describe in my head a million times. "How may villages in Africa could have clean water for the price of one Tesla Roadster?" "How many kids could go to college for what we spend on one cruise missile?" You get the idea...
I like Amory Lovins' idea of "Abundance by Design." I think the word "abundance" evokes the feelings that everyone would like to have about our own lives as well as humanity as a whole. Who could argue with abundant ecosystems, abundant economics, and abundant social justice? I feel that "Abundant" is on the development side of the "development/growth" spectrum (ie growth=bigger, development=better) and alludes to nature's fecundity.
My point is, we can argue terminology, but don't ignore the ideas that have evolved within the sustainability movement. Build from them.
Excllent approach. Way back when, Aristotle called for "a flourishing life." I think that's what we're looking for. In my mind a flourishing life is simple, successful (effective!), and sustainable. Products and services that support a flourishing life would also support flourishing families, neighborhoods, communities . . . and a flourishing planet. That's what to shoot for. I like your take on reframing sustainable. Flourishing! Sufficient! Exuberant! . . .
Hi Colin and other Worldchangers:
just to point out, there's been quite a lot of thinking about re-framing our economic systems around promoting well-being with minimal resource consumption. One group active here is the New Economic Foundation:
You can even survey your own happinessenviro effectiveness with their "Happy Planet Index":
Creating a happy planet is a concept that might re-invigorate the debate in the way you're asking for.
Hi Colin - great piece!
I work in urban and resort planning, and do design from human-behavior standpoint. Meaning - my work is very sociological - we begin by looking at how we want people to feel and act in our communities, and design the surrounding spaces to support that.
I'm particularly interested in two points you mention, and wonder if you can provide the background research/data/sources for them:
"Studies show that bicycle commuters are happier than car and transit commuters."
"Research also shows that, at the cultural level, people who live in pedestrian-friendly areas tend to have more friends."
Thanks a lot!
Good luck with your book!
Your environmental effectiveness index is very similar to the economic concept of opportunity cost – with an ethical co-efficient. Free marketer Warren Buffet, I believe, is a big promoter of the importance of opportunity cost.
As someone who has seen very status-quo oriented architects (that's most despite their passions for edgy form-making) go all sustainable in the last decade, I'm equally impressed with how cynically 'sustainability' is thrown around as a means to play the same old games. You can spend millions of dollars on cantilevered steel for architectural spectacle and call it sustainable if you double the insulation.
Let's face it, there's going to be few who want radical change on this front until things get very, very dire. In my country, Australia, our major river system (for most food production) is in decline possibly terminal – may be then, maybe.
I'm an Episcopal priest, so I'm becoming accustomed to talking about environmental issues using the language of faith - and what you're talking about in this article, Colin, is right on. What's needed is not "sustainability" language - business as usual - but transformation. Most religions have some concept of conversion: a dramatic experience, maybe, or simply a slow process of enlightenment, but the end result is a way of living that is radically different from the "old ways." That's transformation; it's what religion needs to be about, and its what the climate crisis is going to require from us on a global and individual level. Business as usual - sustainability - is just not going to cut it.
colin - agree with your thesis. I think you should change your web url to positiveimpactman - ;-) I subscribe to the Braungartian C2C approach to excess and positivity.
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Knoxville, Pella, Pella Christian Girls Converge on the Tennis Courts
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Caldwell Park plays host to a round-robin style tennis tournament today involving Knoxville, Pella and Pella Christian's girls' teams. Lady Dutch head coach, Tiffany Rohe says that even with the dominating presence of Pella Christian's girls in attendance, her girls will be ready to compete. Oskaloosa and Indianola will also be joining the fun today in Pella. The tournament is scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m.
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Joan Rivers comes to Utah with no apologies
Last week during a taping of her hit show "Fashion Police," Joan Rivers assessed a dress worn by Heidi Klum, saying, "The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens."
Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League demanded an apology from the 79-year-old comedian. She refused to give one.
Rivers, whose parents were Jewish, told "Showbiz Tonight" that "it's a joke. This is the way I remind people about the Holocaust, I do it through humor. My husband lost his entire family in the Holocaust, so let's just start with that."
Whatever you think of Rivers, she will not be apologizing for anything said during her show at Kingsbury Hall on Saturday. She's only concerned with this: "Are they having a good time? Are they laughing?" she said during a recent telephone interview. "My job is to entertain people."
The outspoken, no-holds-barred Rivers has been entertaining people since she was Joan Alexandra Molinsky and attended Connecticut College and later Barnard College. At the time, Barnard was an all-girls school and Rivers was known to regale cadets from the once all-male United States Coast Guard Academy across the street, when students from the two schools got together for afternoon tea.
Since then, the Brooklyn-born comedian has changed her name, guest-hosted "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson," become a best-selling comedy album performer, written several books, hosted her own talk show and designed a jewelry line. In recent years, she has gained fame as the sharp-tongued fashion critic along with daughter Melissa Rivers at Hollywood red-carpet events.
Rivers is still riding a wave of success as host of "Fashion Police" with Giuliana Rancic and Kelly Osbourne on E! She also is the star of the WE TV reality show "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" The third season began in late February and includes an episode in which Rivers kissed a lesbian friend.
Despite all her success, Rivers isn't afraid to support fellow comedians. While others groaned and booed during the Academy Awards when Seth MacFarlane joked about Abraham Lincoln's assassination and Adele's weight, Rivers thought he was "terrific." Her message to the pooh-poohing celebs: "Oh, lighten up."
Rivers' decades-long career has been inspiring for many comics, said Keith Stubbs, a local morning-show host, the owner of the Wiseguys comedy clubs and working comic.
"As a comedian, she was ahead of her time," he said. "That she's been able to sustain her career speaks volumes about being fearless and opinionated."
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Kevin Nealon is impressed by Rivers' longevity at the top. "What a dynamo she is," said Nealon, who performs at Wiseguys in West Valley City on Friday. "I'm happy to see it."
Rivers said the 2010 Sundance Film Festival premiere of "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" extended her love affair with Utah. The state had already been a regular vacation spot when she was still skiing now she prefers snowmobiling.
"I loved that so much," Rivers said of the praise that accompanied the documentary. "Utah has a special place in my heart."
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Oh, lighten up
Joan Rivers performs.
When • Saturday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m.
Where • Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $49.50, $42.50, $32.50, $22.50; U. of U. students $5 with valid ID (at box office or Union desk); at kingsburyhall.utah.edu or by calling 801-581-7100


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The Sixth Surface creates a dialogue on the expanded Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Topo\graphis Press introduces a new book, The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum, which illuminates the connection between the Nelson-Atkins' original neoclassical building and Steven Holl's contemporary structure.
Just as the museum offers multiple points of entry for visitors, the book offers multiple interpretations of the combined structures.
The Sixth Surface features a collection of poems, essays and artworks that helps translate the expanded Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
The Sixth Surface is named for the innermost surface of the innermost panel of glass that constitutes Steven Holl's structure. The book, like the museum, creates perspective, generates dialogue and both elevates and grounds the expanded Nelson-Atkins for its visitors.


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Just saw the ad for them today, makes me want to run out to my nearest Bigs store and see if they're starting to carry them. Hope to see a video of some in action soon. I'm assuming the "shooting star" effect is caused by some type of sparkler being connected to the flame pad.
"Wisdom derives more from mistakes and failures than from success."
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would have been nice if the ad had some description, not just a picture.
Meh...cool but I'm looking ahead to other bigger ideas or products for 2014. I want shooting star super megakubes with the new paper design so it doesn't die at the slightest wind like at Shocktober...
Just tie a length of visco to them.... Even regular slow visco produces a cool effect!
I sense another mass "alien" invasion coming
Group buy and meet anyone?
Which one is the lucky city this time?
you can find some videos of similar ones on Chinese websites.
I saw them last year there
I will try and find them again.
It was a site like alibaba.com or something similar
Anyone see these or find video yet?
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Tie a piece of fishing line to your sky lantern,then tie visco to that so it cant start your lantern on fire. then put strobes fuse flying fish fuse use firecrackers what ever you want on. time them by fuse length where you want them to go off at. You could use two lines on with different effects, just dont get to heavy.
here is a video of them
Fireworks so powerful you might think they're nuclear!
Here is a video of how my classmates honored those that have passed. A sky lantern tribute with name announced as their lanterns are released.
I've been told that the link isn't working. Oh well.
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just tried one and there not that bad. they only cost a few cents more than the regular ones and add a nice extra effect. you have to get them in the air quick they sparkle alot more in the begining.
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The IndyStar Pat McAfee Show has launched a 48-hour "Twitterthon" to raise money for the Indiana victims of this past weekend's tornadoes.
Pledge your tornado relief donation now and follow the hashtag #IndyStarTwitterthon on Twitter to help spread the word. Tweet your gift and extend a helping hand across the Hoosier state.
Help spread the word by letting McAfee know about your donation: tweet him at @PatMcAfeeShow and use the #IndyStarTwitterthon hashtag. Funds raised will provide relief in Kokomo, Lebanon and other communities affected by this weekend's disaster.
If you are not on Twitter, you can still donate and help the tornado victims.
We will collect donations until 7 p.m. Thursday. McAfee will make the donation in person on Friday and you can watch it on IndyStar.com.


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Even with thumbs up from the U.S. Supreme Court, Brianna's law will not go into effect immediately.
That's because it's going to cost the state money to take samples and store the D.N.A
Beginning July first of this year, anyone convicted of a misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, or felony will be assessed a $3 fee to generate funds for the program
"We have a 1 year start up time to collect funds before samples are actually collected," says Renee Romero, Director of Washoe County Sheriff's Office Forensic Science Division.
Romero testified in favor of Brianna's law when it was up before lawmakers this legislative session.
She estimates in Northern Nevada it will take more than half a million dollars annually to collect, test and store DNA taken from felony suspects at the time of arrest.
Monday the U-S Supreme Court upheld laws like Brianna's Law.
Their decision was based on a Maryland case where the defendant was arrest for assault but ultimately connected to a rape case because of his DNA sample.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the dissenting opinion, said, "This will solve some extra crimes, to be sure. But so would taking your DNA whenever you fly on an airplane."
Justice Anthony Kennedy in the majority wrote: "Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee's DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment."
These were the same arguments state law makers wrestled with during the session before ultimately passing Brianna's Law out of both houses.
Under Nevada's law, if the felony arrest is dropped down to another lesser charge, or the accused felon is exonerated, the person can notify the state to that fact, and have his or her DNA removed from the central registry.
"There's a misconception that that is a very difficult process and its quite simple. It's a matter of a few keystrokes on the data base saying delete this profile from the data base," says Romero.
While a defendant can request that his or her DNA be destroyed because they were not convicted of a felony.
Under Brianna's law the DNA will nevertheless be held for an additional 3 years, provided there are no additional felony arrests made.


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Washington County organizations in partnership with the Volunteer Center, a United Way of Johnson County program, will be recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day and by holding a Feed the Dream Food and Supply Drive.
The drive will run until Friday to benefit HACAP, Hamakua Place and other Washington County food pantries.
Volunteers will collect and sort goods, network and view Washington County volunteer opportunities.
Following the drive, there will be a service day and agency fair for an Alive After Five event from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Hamakua Place, 604 S. Iowa Ave., in Washington.
The following locations are taking donations: Hair Etc. and Hamakua Place in Washington; Kalona Public Library and Wellman-Scofield Public Library.


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How to see best meteor showers of 2012
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Meteor showers are some of the most popular skywatching events each year, and 2012′s lineup of celestial light shows is already expected to be more impressive than last year.
A meteor shower occurs when Earth travels through specks of debris from comets or asteroids. These pieces of dust and debris hit Earth's atmosphere at scorching speeds and disintegrate in flashes of light. This is why meteors are often called "shooting stars," because of the way they streak across the sky.
So, what is the best way to watch a meteor shower?
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DETROIT (AP) - How to address Detroit's financial crisis is now in the hands of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder.
A state-appointed review team has determined Detroit is in a financial emergency, saying in a report Tuesday that "no satisfactory plan exists to resolve a serious financial problem."
The finding means Snyder has 30 days to decide if the city needs an emergency manager to take charge of its finances.
The review team noted Detroit's long-term liabilities, including underfunded pensions, are more than $14 billion and that its deficit could have reached $900 million last fiscal year had it not borrowed enormous amounts of money.
While some fiscal experts believe municipal bankruptcy may be Detroit's only remedy, State Treasurer Andy Dillon is confident answers can be found if the city and state work together.
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I like mind *****.
The Stanley Parable is an experimental narrative-driven first person game. It is an exploration of choice, freedom, storytelling and reality, all examined through the lens of what it means to play a video game. You will make a choice that does not matter You will follow a story that has no end You will play a game you cannot win ...it's actually best if you don't know anything about it before you play it :D
The Narrator has emerged from the shadows with a message for the internet
Posted by Cakebread on May 31st, 2012
Today I was minding my own business when the Narrator sent me this video:
It seems he'd like to clear up a few misconceptions about the Stanley Parable: HD Remix. Of course I personally have NO idea what he's planning, but he's never given me any reason not to trust him in the past, so I think we can take him at his word on this one.
I like mind *****.
I hope you do, because the narrator is a hell of a Mind ******! xD
Mind = Blown
P.S somehow the narrator remains me of Glados but more disturbing and plus hes a male
He's so much like GLaDOS, except kind of a **** and no regard for anything it seems. With not even a care for testing, he's kind of just a **** for no reason.
Oh my god. This HD remix looks amazing.
This is gonna be godly.
Terrific! Also, the Narrator sound like the narrator from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Is he the same guy? If so, that's amazing!
My thoughts exactly. He's still amazing either way.
All hail the narrative overlord!
Oh... my... god...
yeahhhh maybe i shudn't have watched that when i have just woke up. lol
Fricken. Sweet.
That was incredible.
Awesome, I'm hooked
WTF did I just watch? o.o
Just amazing.
I can't wait for this new version, I really enjoyed the original one. Also, chapeau bas to the narrator, his voice and acting may be the best elements of this mod.
< speechless. can't wait to help stanley again... ;)
Just tried out the mod today after this news reminded me of it.
Quite a different experience, but very interresting.
I hope the HD remix will also play with the expectations of the users who allready played this version.
reminds me of HK-47 except just less aggresive
HK-47+GLaDOS= What the narrator feels like :O
Quite lovely, I shall track.
o.o <- says it all.
Wow, crazy good!
ohhh okey. Cant wait to se emore.. oh wait I can. AND NARRATOR KNOW IT! FFFUUU.
I loved you in Ticket for Success, Narrator.
Fantastic narration! I am officially interested.
I just love this voice and the intonation work like nothing else. You really have to thank God for a gift like that. I'll be waiting... and I'll be productive too :D
G-man + GLaDOS = Narrator
Yep. So, this game scares me slightly. I don't know if it's the slightly sadistic tone the narrator has in his voice, or the fact that everything in the video is disarry.
Excuse me while I go change my pants.
Thats just creeped me right the f**k out.
cant wait for more
Not scary.
Not supposed to be the point, just to slightly show the disturbing side of the antagonist. This is why I hate it when some mods make it to the front page. Complete idiots will assume the worst.
Alright who the fuq keeps subtracting karma from everybody?
Missed the the first one, but this looks good. Downloading now!
Is this Portal 2's engine?
Is it going to be an indie game? :D
"This is Gideon, your guest conductor. Hold on tight, this ride might get a little... bloody."
Come on, I can't be the only person reminded of Blood 2 with this narrator.
Sounds great :D!
THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME! MOST AWESOME TRAILER FOR ANY GAME I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE! Seriously, Mr. Cakebread is an awesome developer! I can't wait. I hope we continue to get weird games like this one from Cakebread.
The Narrator simply have and AMAZING voice.


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Apple to reopen expanded Barton Creek store on March 23rd
updated 12:34 pm EDT, Tue March 19, 2013
Promises more meeting spaces, bigger Genius Bar
Apple is relaunching its Barton Creek outlet in Austin, Texas on March 23rd at 10AM. The company says that the overhauled location will be larger than before, for instance offering more demo units. More significantly the store will have more space for training, workshops, and meetings with business staff, and a larger Genius Bar.
As at many other Apple Store openings, the first 1,000 people to come to the store will get a free t-shirt. Austin is an important market for Apple; the city is rapidly expanding, and home to a number of high-tech businesses and conferences. During SXSW 2011, the company in fact opened up a pop-up retail location downtown to help sell the iPad 2, despite already having two other stores in the city.


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The Downtown Fall Festival, entering its 18th year and sponsored by Carlsbad MainStreet, will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Businesses will be handing out the sweet stuff and parents will be able to register their children for the costume contest that will be held on the south side of the courthouse lawn. Registration will open at 4:15, said Michele Robertson, Carlsbad MainStreet assistant director. Contest age groups are 0-2; 3-5; 6-8 and 9-12. Robertson said there will also be a group category for children dresses in coordinating costumes, which will be held last.
She said the annual event this year has received financial help and support from the Carlsbad Elks Lodge, Carlsbad Anti-Drug and Gang Coalition, Character Counts and United Way.
At NMSU Carlsbad, trick-or-treaters can visit the campus for three hours of trick or treating, beginning at 3 p.m., followed by the fall carnival at 5 p.m.
For trick-or-treaters looking to cash in on their Halloween haul, a Carlsbad dentist office is offering cash in exchange for candy. The office of Drs. Lunardon and Brown, located at 701 N. Canyon St., will buy back candy for $1 a pound from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Pumpkin Party at the Carlsbad Library
CARLSBAD >> Carlsbad's youngest children were getting into the Halloween season at the Carlsbad Public Library Tuesday morning.
The library was hosting its annual Pumpkin party, which library volunteers say will continue Wednesday morning for toddlers.
Preschoolers at Tuesday morning session participated in story time and arts and crafts.
Some came dressed for the occasion in Halloween costumes and got cookies and milk as a participation reward.
The Pumpkin Party is the initiation of a Halloween party, costume competition included, which begins at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning and children up to 3 years of age may attend with parents.


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CCEF and the History of Biblical Counseling
Topics: Biblical Counseling, Theory
Published: Jan 12, 2009
David Powlison joins Help and Hope to provide an introduction to the ministry of CCEF and a brief history of the biblical counseling movement.
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Leonardo DiCaprio received an interesting write-up this weekend in the UK's Observer. Writer Carole Cadwalladr claims that though Leo is a good actor, his best acting comes out in real life saying that, "Reading back through his cuts, it becomes apparent that there's a Leo for every occasion."
Cadwalladr says she sat with Leo last week to discuss his Oscar nomination, among other things, and she met, "DiCaprio the serious artist, and DiCaprio the ecowarrior and DiCaprio the impassioned idealist." The next day, however, she reads (and sees photos) in the Daily Mirror, a UK gossip rag, of his other personality. She goes on,
Oh, it's annoying this. Because as well as interviewing him I spend five hours traipsing around in his wake and immediately after he leaves me, I discover, he heads off to his premiere and 'a marathon nine-hour all-night booze bender'. And what a bender! With his 20-strong 'entourage', he's seen racking up a £10,000 bar bill, trawling three different clubs including, slightly hilariously, I think, Boujis, the inner sanctum of Sloaney prepsters as frequented by Princes William and Harry, returning to his hotel at 6am, carrying on partying for another couple of hours, and then leaving to fly to Rome in that most environmentally friendly of all vehicles: a private jet.
Of course, she argues, if a multi-millionaire with a brand-new Oscar nomination can't party it up, who can?
It is actions like these that make the press and the public wonder: is the eco-bit for real, or is it for show? I still believe it is all for real, though I do believe that my dear DiCaprio leads a double life. But is that so bad? When you go to work, aren't you more serious and professional? When you get home you call up your friends and go out to the clubs. You don't mix the two – and neither does Leo. In fact, he is one of the only celebrities that insists on this separation.
I don't think that makes him less sincere. As for the private jet, hmmm…not so sure about that. We're going to hope he's at least offsetting those emissions.
About Rebecca CarterRebecca Carter is the Co-Founder of Ecorazzi. Rebecca was recently featured in the book Hot, Rich, and Green. She is one of 70 eco-achievers featured in Glamour magazine in April 2009, named Best of Green 2010 by Miami Magazine and Best Environmentalist by Miami New Times Best of 2008. She's raising a couple of little boys in Miami and speaks English & Spanish. Find out more at www.RebeccaCarter.net. Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @rebeccacarter
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H.P., Intel to build world's most energy-efficient supercomputer at D.O.E. lab
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Hewlett-Packard and Intel will work to build the "world's most energy-efficient supercomputer" in Colorado for the United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Making use of their companies' innovations, the machine will use warm water to cool the servers even while running at peta-scale computing ability, or at 1 million billion calculations per second.
"The new system will greatly expand NREL's modeling and simulation capabilities, including advancing materials research and developing a deeper understanding of what biological and chemical processes," said NREL.
The NREL can maximize heat generated by the supercomputer by reusing it as the primary heat source in the Energy Systems Integration Facility offices and spaces. Meanwhile, excess heat will not go into waste as it can be exported to adjacent buildings and other areas of the laboratory campus.
As a whole, the efficiency of the data center, the energy efficiency features of the high-performance computer, and its ability to reuse heat combine to slash overall energy consumption, according to NREL.
The $10 million supercomputer is expected to generate significant energy savings and prevent high costs through the efficiency retrofits.
"NREL needed a system that would deliver on their commitment to energy efficiency while achieving the highest levels of performance for their researchers," said Scott Misage, H.P.C. director at H.P.
The supercomputer will come in two phases, with the initial installation of servers to take place this November and completion by the summer of 2013.
Energy use has been a critical issue among data centers, leading to numerous efforts to cut large consumption.
The industry is more and more cognizant of the amount of energy being used in our nation's data centers. [The] new H.P.C. data center will set the standard for sustainable and energy efficient computing," said NREL Computational Science Center director Steve Hammond.
"Research on renewable energy and new energy sources are the areas that are aimed to address humanity's biggest challenges and will impact literally everyone on the globe," said Stephen Wheat, general manager of High Performance Computing at Intel. – C. Dominguez


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|Long-term Outcomes of CLIPPERS (Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation With Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to Steroids) in a Consecutive Series of 12 Patients.
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|PMID: 22777259 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|BACKGROUND Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) is a central nervous system inflammatory disease. OBJECTIVE To describe the disease course of CLIPPERS. DESIGN A nationwide study was implemented to collect clinical, magnetic resonance imaging, cerebrospinal fluid, and brain biopsy specimen characteristics of patients with CLIPPERS. SETTING Academic research. PATIENTS Twelve patients with CLIPPERS. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The therapeutic management of CLIPPERS was evaluated. RESULTS Among 12 patients, 42 relapses were analyzed. Relapses lasted a mean duration of 2.5 months, manifested frequent cerebellar ataxia and diplopia, and were associated with a mean Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score of 4. Besides typical findings of CLIPPERS, magnetic resonance imaging showed brainstem mass effect in 5 patients, extensive myelitis in 3 patients, and closed ring enhancement in 1 patient. Inconstant oligoclonal bands were found on cerebrospinal fluid investigation in 4 patients, with an increased T-cell ratio of CD4 to CD8. Among 7 available brain biopsy specimens, staining was positive for perivascular CD4 T lymphocytes in 5 samples. Thirty-eight of 42 relapses were treated with pulse corticosteroid therapy, which led to improvement, with a mean residual EDSS score of 1.9 (range, 0-7). In 1 patient with untreated relapses, scores on the EDSS progressively increased to a score of 10 at death. Among 5 patients without long-term corticosteroid therapy, the mean annualized relapse rate was 0.5 (range, 0.25-2.8). Among 7 patients taking oral corticosteroids, no relapses occurred in those whose daily dose was 20 mg or higher. No progressive course of CLIPPERS was observed. Four patients with a final EDSS score of 4 or higher had experienced previous severe relapses (EDSS score, ≥5) and brainstem and spinal cord atrophy. CONCLUSIONS CLIPPERS is a relapsing-remitting disorder without progressive forms. Long-term disability is correlated with the severity of previous relapses. Further studies are needed to confirm that prolonged corticosteroid therapy prevents further relapses.
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Hello Readers! This is the last time you'll have the pleasure to hear (or that I'll get to bug you) about my fund-raising drive for my book and eBook based on the articles on this blog. The book will be a rich and insightful look at my year in China and the eBook will offer video embedded in it as well! I'm approaching the 2/3 mark of my $1,500 goal with one week to go. Please consider putting me over the top. If you do, there are rewards–like a copy of the book: ) So consider it a pre-order. Click here to give and to see a cool video about my project. (Lastly, if you'd rather not give online, contact me and we can work something else out.)
Now let's go to Yangshuo!
Tell me, what do you think of when you see/hear the word "China"? Do you picture The Great Wall? Perhaps you see a horizon of drab apartment high-rises? Some folks imagine vast terraces of rice patties edged into rolling hillsides. And others may be familiar with the dramatic, jagged terrain in areas of the south.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
In the spring, I spent a four-day weekend in the city, Yangshuo. It's in northern Guangxi Province, adjacent westward to my province, Guangdong. Here's a map for ya:
That distance represents an eight hour car ride, yet look at how little we moved in the grand scale of China:
And yeah, maps are cool, but the sites on the ground are what we're here for:
Actually, this is just a teaser shot for what you'll see later. But don't be dismayed. There's some cool stuff we saw on the way up, and that's what this post is all about. We'll be spending the next couple weeks trekking up and exploring this dramatic region in China. Here we go.
I've wanted to see Yangshuo since arriving to China. It's one of those places you see pictures of and think, "that's Earth?" It has a surreal, mysterious feel to it. And indeed, its features resonate with a variety of emotional notes, all coming together for a complete and lovely chord. And all this only a day's drive away.
I went with my friends, Jordan and Carla:
Going by car, I was almost as excited for the ride itself as I was to see the destination. I love road trips! There'd be much to take in. Other villages, rural areas, new landscapes. Oh, and this guy:
Yeah, I was getting camera-happy, but since most of my stay in China has been in Zhuhai, even just entering a different city has enough novelty and freshness to remind me, "oh, ya, I'm in China":
And suddenly, sticking out everywhere are the unmistakeable reminders: like all the motorbike travel–and in particular, this happy family:
Here's some un-fancy footage of us driving into a town:
On the other side of this small city, we focus on the natural. The occasional hill turned into consistent ups and downs. The gradual lands of Guangdong Province were evolving into the geological drama of Guangxi:
And with the mountains, comes mountain villages and people, Chinese style:
Actually, to be more precise, I should say Guangxi-style. Because many of the people here aren't your typical Chinese. They belong to an ethnic group called the Zhuang who live life their way:
We stopped the car, and I followed these beasts back to a pond behind some houses. The Zhuang ladies thought it was nice to have a new herder:
But I had a heck of a time feeding them (the buffalo, I mean):
This roadside village represents one of many "Old China/New China" contrasts.
Carla, my Chinese friend in the picture above, told me when we first met that I haven't seen "real China", or at least that there are "two Chinas" to discover. In the city, I see the modern version. But there's another China that hasn't incorporated current technology into their ways of life. Our drive up to Yangshuo provided this view.
And the contrasts were clear. On a new road in the middle of this town, traffic cruises 45 mph by/around people living life at 10 mph. Something's gotta give, right? But here, it's the pavement and vehicles that stick out in a backdrop of livestock, small farms, and people with handmade clothes.
This kind of interaction continues in countless forms as modernization reaches into more isolated areas of China. And more than about adapting to new technologies, it's about a consolidation of cultures. "One China" is a common slogan, but this China has 56 ethnic minorities.
These populations are dwarfed by the Han majority, though, but China seems to walk an effective line, putting an over-arching rule over these people while giving them freedom to do what they want inside the "One China" bubble. As they blend, one hopes that these "two Chinas" means the benefits of each predominate.
After this stop it began to darken and after two missed turns, a construction detour, and slow windy roads, we arrived. An 8-hr drive became a 10-hour one. Ugh. But actually, it was kind of nice not seeing much around us in the dark. It made the scenery the next day all the more surprising.
Next week you'll see the wonders of Yangshuo.
have an awesome start to your June,
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Title: Charles II
Date: 1685
Artist(s): Sir Godfrey Kneller (German-born British, born:08 August 1646, died:26 October 1723)
Materials: Oil; Canvas
Information: Kneller came to England from Germany in 1676 and soon gained royal favour. In this work, the king's authority is subtly undermined: his face is stiff, his hand limp and the crown and orb are hidden in shadow. Kneller presents an aging and even lonely figure. This is the last of his portraits of Charles II. It was probably begun just before the king's death and finished afterwards.
Accession no: WAG 3023
Credit line: Purchased by the Walker Art Gallery in 1952
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An ArtWorks mural meant to capture the history of the City of Dayton is now just that, history.
By a 4 to 2 vote, Dayton City Council rejected the mural project, which had been approved by a 5 to 1 vote in March.
"A lot of people in this community are very disappointed by this decision," said resident Leslie Carr, a member of the city's Main Street Board. "This was an opportunity to bring more art and culture into Dayton, and now that opportunity has been missed." ...


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Call Sign Change: As of 3/14/2015 KA4SFD is now WV4R.
KA4SFD was in use from 9/11/2013 until 03/13/2015 with 10,468 QSO's, 195 Countries, and over 20,000 Lookups.
Hello Ham friends. I live on the West coast of Florida 50 miles north of Tampa. I started in radio in the mid 1970s. I am a retired firefighter and did constant radio communications over my 27 years with the FD. Got back into radio in 2011 and really enjoy Ham. I operate a Yaesu FTDX 3000 with a Heil PR781mic. Amplifier is a Acom 2000A. Antennas are a Mosley Pro 67 C3 at 75' on a Rohn 55G tower and a homemade 80 meter wire at 55' on a Rohn 25 tower. Mobile in my 1992 F250 4X4 is a Yaesu FT 890. So 73 to all and look foward to making lots of contacts and friends.
God Bless You and God Bless the Unitd States of America.
Special Thanks To: W5IFN my Elmer, K4XS my contest Elmer, W8AMZ manufactured my G5RV (Tom, now a Slent Key and will be greatly missed), N5SDO consultation on my towers, N0PWB and WX4CAZ my friends along with many others.
If you would like to send me a QSL card I would like to have it. However, at this time I am not sending them. So please dont waste a SASE.
My 2014 tower project. Rohn tower 55G 75', RT Razor Lifting System with a Mosley Pro 67-C3.
The Tower Crew
From left to right.
KK4TUO Leo - Concrete Forman and Assembly Tech
KA4SFD Walter - Owner, Tower Monkey and Assembly Tech
KK4ZDS Wayne - Excavation Forman, Electrician, Welder, Tower Monkey, and Assembly Tech
Here is what I started with.
6' X 6 ' X 4.5' Base. 6" above grade and bottom is 6" gravel for proper drainage.
Tower base was to far away for cement truck. Thank God for pumps. Total of 10 cu. yds. concrete.
5.5 cu.yds. concrete in base 21,000 lbs.
Custom guy wire anchors in 4' X 4' X 4' hole with 2' concrete in hole then back filled.
Assembly of Rohn 55G with fresh paint Rust-Oleum 7000 System - Cold Galvanizing Compound.
Dielectric grease on every joint.
Impact wrench comes in very handy.
70' assembled and ready to go.
Crane arrives on site.
KK4TUO Leo supervising crane operations.
Attached one section below top.
Up it goes.
Me getting the crane unhooked and straps off at 65'.
Me rigging temporary guys'.
Looking up the tower.
View from tower at 75'
Me working on RT Razor lift system some fresh wheels and paint.
RT Razor lift set on tower. Check out rtinnovations.net
Conduit in ground for coax and rotator control cable. Also romex for 110v at tower base.
KK4ZDS - Wayne, the super human backhoe does it again.
110' conduit from shack to tower.
Distributation box at shack.
WX4CAZ Joe pulling cable.
Wayne welding bracket for electrical box at tower.
Electrical box at tower. Alpha Delta Polyphaser for coax. Morgan Surge Protecter for rotator control cable. 110v power for Razor winch.
Grounding system staked out.
Water jetting to sink ground rods.
Trench with ground rods and #4 copper wire.
Ground wire attachment to ground rods.
Neatly placed in sprinkler valve boxes.
Nice, clean, and accessible.
Ground system attached to tower. Ground wire is in insulator to avoid abrasion and contact with concrete.
Tower legs are wrapped in stainless steel to prevent reaction from dissimilar metals. Copper clamp to galvanized tower leg.
Me drilling custom plate to mount wench to tower for Razor.
Mast 6061 T6 Aluminum 2" OD .375 wall thickness.
Four big boxes arrive from Mosley and unpacked. Some assembly required.
Me with the front driven element.
Boom to mast bracket.
Stacking one element at a time.
KK4ZDS Wayne on lower guys. The top 35' of the upper guys are Phillystrand. Everything else 1/4" EHS.
K4XS Bill tensioning guys. Bill also provided much appreciated technical support.
Finished guys.
Me headed up for a few final adjustments.
Everything looks good up here.
The KA4SFD Pro 67-C-3 project finished at last. Three months from start to finish.
Thank you to everybody that contributed to this project it could not have been done without you. Projects like this give you a greater appreciation for all the knowledge that other HAMS have to offer. And then in turn we hand down to others.
Special thanks to KK4ZDS, Wayne, my friend and right hand man. Perhaps I was his right hand man, hihi. The countless hours and late nights we spent working on this project together was a great experiance, very educational, lots of hard work, and we had lots of fun along the way.
God Bless
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MSI confirms mobile Core i7, touchscreen Wind
updated 10:50 pm EDT, Tue August 25, 2009
Mobile Core i7, touch Win
MSI has confirmed the introduction of mobile Core i7 processors with several of its upcoming Windows 7-based notebooks . The company is set to ship 15.4- and 17-inch notebooks based on the Core i7 7200M, Core i7 8200M, and Core i7 920XM CPUs. Along with the high-end notebooks, MSI is also set to release a Wind U150 netbook featuring a touchscreen and Intel's next-generation Pine Trail platform.
Intel's "Calpella" platform improves upon the company's current Centrino components, while MSI expects the price-points to average between $600 and $900. The mobile Core i7 products will offer performance slightly scaled back from their desktop counterparts, but utilizing the same Nehalem architecture. The system is said to provide improved power management and a smaller, 32-nanometer process that runs at cooler temperatures.
The U150 features the next-generation Pine Trail Atom CPUs which are expected to be formally introduced at CES. The platform combines functions of both the CPU and GPU onto the same chip, reducing the overall footprint of the system while improving battery life and performance.
The 15.4- and 17-inch notebooks are expected to arrive around the same time Windows 7 comes to market. The U150 Wind could arrive as early as December, although Intel has not yet publicly committed to a time-frame for the Pine Trail launch. [via Gizmodo]


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Aussie Set for Biggest Drop This Year on RBA Easing Bets
Australia's dollar is poised for its biggest weekly drop this year and bond yields fell to new records as investors increased bets the Reserve Bank will reduce its benchmark rate to an all-time low after officials cut forecasts for growth and inflation.
Declines in the so-called Aussie were tempered on speculation the currency's slide may have been too rapid after the central bank lowered borrowing costs by an unexpected degree on May 1. Yields on the South Pacific nation's 10- and 15-year debt declined to records. New Zealand's dollar weakened versus all of its 16 major counterparts this week as Asian stocks fell in tandem with global equities.
"The Aussie has made its move slightly lower against the U.S. dollar," said Hans Kunnen, chief economist at St. George Bank Ltd. in Sydney. "The Reserve Bank is seeing weaker inflation and growth, and has therefore moved interest rates appropriately."
The Australian dollar was little changed at $1.0265 as of 4:12 p.m. in Sydney, poised for a 2 percent drop this week, the biggest since Dec. 16. It bought 82.32 yen from 82.30, having fallen 2.1 percent since April 27.
The yield on Australia's 10-year note slid to as low as 3.53 percent. The rate on the 15-year security dropped to 3.86 percent, the lowest recorded for Australia's longest-maturity issue, according to data compiled by Bloomberg going back to 1991.
N.Z. Dollar
The New Zealand dollar was at 80.04 U.S. cents from 79.97 cents yesterday, set for a 2.7 percent five-day decline. The so-called kiwi was at 64.18 yen from 64.13 yesterday, when it traded at 64.08, the weakest since Feb. 8.
New Zealand's two-year swap rate, a fixed payment made to receive floating rates, fell as low as 2.56 percent, the least recorded in Bloomberg data going back to 1993.
The MSCI Asia Pacific excluding Japan Index fell 0.6 percent. Japan's markets are shut today for a public holiday.
The RBA cut its key rate by 50 basis points, or 0.5 percentage point, to 3.75 percent on May 1. Governor Glenn Stevens cited economic conditions that "have been somewhat weaker than expected" after the RBA decision, which most economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predicted would be a quarter-percentage-point reduction in borrowing costs.
Interest-rate swaps data compiled by Bloomberg show investors are betting that the RBA will lower its benchmark rate to 3 percent by November, matching 2009's all-time low. There's more than a 35 percent chance of the rate declining to 2.75 percent or lower, the data indicate.
Lower Forecasts
The RBA sees average growth of 3 percent in 2012, down from a February estimate of 3.5 percent, according to its quarterly monetary policy statement released today. Consumer prices will rise 2.5 percent in the year to December, from a previous prediction of 3 percent. Underlying inflation is predicted to be at 2.25 percent from a previous 2.75 percent, the central bank said. The estimates are based on the overnight cash rate target remaining at 3.75 percent, it said.
"The assumed high level of the exchange rate and a weak short-term outlook for building construction are expected to result in subdued growth outside of the mining sector in the near term," the RBA said.
The Aussie has lost 1.6 percent this year, the worst performer after the Japanese yen and U.S. dollar among 10 developed-nation currencies tracked by the Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes.
"We've seen some short-covering in the Aussie dollar," said Sacha Tihanyi, a senior currency strategist in Hong Kong at Scotiabank, a unit of Bank of Nova Scotia. "The statement wasn't overly negative, relative to an RBA that cut by 50 basis points." Short-covering is the purchase of a security in order to close out a short position, a bet that an asset will fall.
Relative Strength
The Australian dollar's relative strength index versus the greenback was at 41 from 56 on April 27, nearing the 30 level that some traders see as a sign the currency may be about to reverse direction.
Both the Australian and New Zealand currencies fell yesterday after data showed growth slowed in U.S. services industries, curbing demand for risk assets.
The Institute for Supply Management said yesterday its non-manufacturing index, a gauge of U.S. service industries, fell to a four-month low of 53.5 in April from 56 in March. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 55.3. A reading above 50 in the Tempe, Arizona-based group's gauge signals expansion.


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Look For Less - Eva Longoria Parker
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Eva looks fiery in this red one shouldered sheath with nude patent pumps. I don't know why but I go crazy over red dresses and nude pumps, it's just so chic. Remember when wearing red to tone down everything else, notice she has no jewelry ( maybe earrings). Keep it low key and let your fiery dress steal the show, and trust me it will.
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There are many, many recipes for tiramisu and much written on the history behind this Italian dessert. It's definitely one of my favorites; I guess I'm a gal that loves the creamy desserts; tipsy in alcohol, rich in flavor and softly sweetened. I almost always have the basics for pulling together a tiramisu on hand such as, ladyfingers, mascarpone, whipping cream and an assortment of liquors. From there it's whatever your heart desires. And this time, my heart was tugging at me for chocolate and raspberries.
While I've heard of several stories on its origin, my favorite by far is that this dessert with its traditional ingredients including espresso, ladyfingers (sugar) and a cordial was offered to customers at certain bordellos as a "pick me up" to enjoy after so they could go on with their day. Now whether this tale is true or not doesn't really matter to me…
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'Cosmos' re-emerges on Fox with the help of Seth MacFarlane
If it strikes you that it's sort of odd that Fox, the network of "Family Guy" and "Dads," is also the home of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," hold on to your hat.
Seth MacFarlane, the executive producer of "Family Guy" and "Dads," is also the executive producer of "Cosmos." And the man perhaps most responsible for the successor to Carl Sagan's classic series coming to Fox instead of, say, the Discovery Channel.
Not that there's anything wrong with, say, the Discovery Channel, but if it aired on a channel where you might expect to see a show about science, "In a way, you're sort of preaching to the converted," MacFarlane said. "And wouldn't it be nice to broaden it a little bit even more?"
He said he thought that Fox executives "would be receptive to the idea of doing the show on a network. And sure enough, they were."
Yes, all 13 episodes of "Cosmos" will air Sunday nights on Fox (and repeat Mondays on Nat Geo.)
Neil deGrasse Tyson, a familiar face to PBS viewers, is the host of the new "Cosmos." And he admits he was "initially a little skeptical" when he first had lunch with MacFarlane.
"His first question to me just after the appetizer was, 'How can I make a difference in science in this world?' " Tyson said. "And I said, 'Is this Seth MacFarlane? Is this, like, the guy who illustrates Stewie?'
"The first few seconds of that exchange, I said, 'He really doesn't really understand, right? He doesn't get it,' " Tyson continued. "As I added up the potency of Fox as a network, by the 10th second, 12th second, I said, 'That is the most brilliant idea I ever heard, to put science at that fulcrum of media.' "
"Cosmos" is not dumbed down for Fox. It's a fascinating journey that, like the 1980 original, is not exactly your average documentary. It's a journey through science rather than a stuffy tutorial.
" 'Cosmos' is taking the story of the universe ⦠and it's telling it so that everyone can feel it and enjoy it and be entertained by it," said Ann Druyan, the co-writer of the original series and the update. (She's also Sagan's widow.) She wants viewers to "be moved, be taken across the vast expanses of space and time, back to the beginning of the universe, into the future."
"It's primarily a story of why science matters," Tyson said. "There's plenty of science that's new [since the 1980 original], but the goal is not to show here what is the new science. The goal is to show here's why this new understanding of the world continues to affect us deeply as an individual, as a nation, as a species."
Even if you've seen the 1980 "Cosmos," you haven't seen the 2014 "Cosmos." There are some familiar elements like the Ship of the Imagination and the Cosmic Calendar but Druyan insisted the new series "is not, in any sense, a reboot or a re-creation of the original series."
The look of the new "Cosmos" takes advantage of the advances in CGI in the past 3 ½ decades. It's stunning to look at.
"It ranges from Earth to as far as we can see in the observable universe," Druyan said, "to down a black hole, to a bear's ovaries. To the lives of some of the greatest scientists who you've never heard of, who struggled in some cases, gave up their life in the service of wanting to know a little bit more about nature and the universe.
"So, yes, it's the same, it's that intersection of emotion and solid science and fabulous facts and animation and drama and history, but it's completely new."
The project began five years ago, and MacFarlane was not involved. Druyan and Steve Soter who wrote the original "Cosmos" spent a year carving out "the stories we wanted to tell, and then I kept going," Druyan said.
She credited MacFarlane with persuading her to revive the Ship of the Imagination, "which, at first, I wasn't that excited about. But then I realized what we could do and how much more transporting we could make it."
She also "knew he was right" with his idea to animate the lives of the scientists so we didn't have that kind of muttonchop, dramatic re-creation, potential dreariness" of so many other re-creations.
And MacFarlane is convinced that the same people who watch "Family Guy" are going to stick around and watch "Cosmos."
"I think you're going to see a lot of crossover, actually, even from the animated shows to 'Cosmos,' " he said. "I think you're going to see a lot of people who are fans of both genres and are very enthusiastic."
Druyan agreed, insisting there's "a tremendous overlap between the 'Cosmos' audience and the Fox audience" because both are "about opening the door to the widest possible audience to entertain them, to uplift them, to make them feel the ⦠awesome power of the scientific perspective."
She added that when Sagan was alive, his goal was not "to preach to the converted" but to appeal to "people who might have even had hostility to science" and "excite people who thought that science was just too challenging to dream about the universe of space and time."
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'Cosmos' on TV
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" debuts Sunday, March 9, at 8 p.m. on Fox/Ch. 13. The premiere episode will also air Sunday at 7 p.m. on Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, FXX, Fox Live, the National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild; and Sunday at 10 p.m. on FX, Fox Life, the National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild.
The remaining 12 episodes will air on successive Sundays at 8 p.m. on Fox/Ch. 13. Each episode with bonus footage and behind-the-scenes content will be repeated Mondays at 8 and 10 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel.
The original, 13-part, 1980 series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" will be repeated Saturday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.


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Professor wins prestigious Bellman Award
Recognizing his "fundamental contributions to the theory of large-scale systems, decentralized control, and parametric approach to robust stability," the American Automatic Control Council recently awarded the prestigious Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award to Dragoslav D. Siljak, professor of electrical engineering. Honoring distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control, this award is the highest recognition of professional achievement for US control systems engineers and scientists.
"To be singled out by this eminent organization is a tremendous honor and indicates a level of career accomplishment few achieve. We are fortunate, indeed, to have someone of Drago's caliber on our faculty," said Godfrey Mungal, Dean of the School of Engineering. Further evidence of Siljak's eminence: his 1991 book, Decentralized Control of Complex Systems, was recently ranked No.1 in sales on Amazon.com in two categories, Systems and Control Systems.


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N.J. police kill suspect in two bank heists
The Star-Ledger
|The suspect had walked out of a Bank of America in Mays Landing with less than $3,000 after handing a teller a note that read: "This a bank robbery. Don't do anything stupid."
A Hamilton Township police officer, recognizing the Acura from a police radio dispatch about the robbery, pursued the vehicle onto the Black Horse Pike near the Hamilton Mall, where the suspect ran a red light and hit another car. The driver of that car was treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries.
The suspect then ran into a new housing construction area, where he was confronted by Hamilton Township Officer Leo Rudolph, 28, and the shooting took place. No further details about the shooting were released. The prosecutor's office is investigating the circumstances, Blitz said.
Less than two hours before the Mays Landing robbery, the same suspect used a similar note - this one also saying he had a gun and demanding $15,000 - to hold up a Commerce Bank on the White Horse Pike in Absecon for less than $2,000, Blitz said.
After the shooting, police found a sum of cash and the Commerce Bank holdup note in the man's pants pockets.
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