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6JSC/Chair/3: Initial articles
6JSC/Chair/3: Initial articles
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Deadline for entering initial comments: August 17, 2011 (DONE)
Deadline for comments on the LC response: September 15, 2011
Summary of discussion, 8/23/11
General support for the proposal; agreement that ideally initial articles would always be transcribed and systems would handle sorting.
Disagreement with the statements regarding the relevance of such instructions in an online environment; concern over the amount of work needed to enable such capability in MARC 21.
Some concerns about the effects of the proposed alternative rules (lack of consistency, impact on access points).
- Robare, 8/23/11
General comments
Basically, I agree, but have some quibbles.
Far be it for me to argue with native speakers, but under German language examples, point 1 could happen, but isn't all that common (most German nouns have just one gender).
I don't get point 2 at all. Where did that hyphen come from? If it is 2 separate words, I don't think a German would reinterpret it as a compound, and if you aren't German, it would never occur to you in a million years that such things exist. The only way it could "imply" a compound in my mind, is if you assume the space and the other capital letter are both typos.
However number 3 is totally totally true. That's the big problem in my mind.
As to solutions, they are correct in that the machines should take care of sorting, not the rules. BUT -- we would need a lot of changes in both MARC and our current systems to make this work. Might be non-trivial. Do we need filing indicators in every field now? Who knows.
My other quibble is with the proposed alternative rules, where you get to omit articles, but only sometimes. The exception is for inflected languages. So the alternative is less consistent (but maybe they mean for it to be less attractive anyway).
However, under 126.96.36.199, the alternative does not include the exception for inflected languages. Why not? As soon as you include an example like "Der alte Autor des Buches..." then you need the exception. At least the exception should be consistenly present in all alternatives.
Also, once you have the exception for inflected languages, it seems like Appendix C needs to be modified to let catalogers know which languages are inflected. It doesn't look to me from what I have in front of me that the Appendix includes that info.
- Robare for D. Brooking, 8/1/11
I am heartily sympathetic to and in favor of this proposal from our German colleagues. Even in non-inflected languages like English, the presence, absence, or choice of article creates subtle differences in meaning. I think however that they have it wrong when they argue that "instructions to omit initial articles are mainly relevant for card catalogs but not for contemporary (integrated) library systems." In a card catalog, filing rules as applied by humans can address the need to ignore articles in any number of heading configurations. In an ILS this becomes a matter of programming, which is much more complicated. Yes, there are MARC 21 fields in which there is a non-filing indicator but there are equally important fields, such as the 246 and 600/700/800 $a$t combinations where there is not a mechanism to address how to ignore the article in filing. This shortcoming of the (current) communications format should not be the overriding factor but needs to be considered. It would be especially welcome if there were corresponding MARBI proposals in the offing to address how to code reliably for the presence of an initial article. -- Myers, MARBI Liaison, 2011/08/02
Actually, MARC21 has the capability to deal with non filing characters anywhere (see MARBI Proposal 98-16r -- http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/1998/98-16r.html). Unfortunately, I don't believe anyone has actually implemented this functionality. -- Glennan (PCC liaison), 8/3/2011
It doesn't look like proposal 98-16 R ever got beyond the approval stage into actually being part of the format. The document indicates there was still more work to be done. Seeing that the last status date is 4/15/99, it makes me wonder if the proposal has been left to die before being finalized! I certainly hope that isn't so. I do support the German proposal on initial articles, and hope that dealing with initial articles can become entirely a tagging & display software matter. K. Randall, 8/9/11
I also am sympathetic, particularly to point 3, that the omission of initial articles leads to grammatically incorrect forms. It has always bothered me that we are instructed to leave off all initial articles, even those not in the nominative case. It seems very odd to me to leave off articles in genitive, dative, etc. case, which in English are equivalent to a preposition plus an article, which we'd never drop. However, this could be remedied less disruptively by adding to the various RDA instructions something like "In languages with case, only omit initial articles in the nominative case."
I am quite put off by the statement "In an online environment omitting an initial article is no longer necessary and unimportant." This is completely untrue in an alphabetic index, whether online, in a card catalog, in a book, whatever. It will not do simply to marginalize those of us who continue to find alphabetic indexes useful by categorizing them as unnecessary and unimportant.
--Bob Maxwell, 2 August 2011
I'd like to comment on the RDA change proposal regarding initial articles, as proposed by the German libraries. First I'd like to say that their emphasis on online searching (i.e., keyword searching) as the predominant current form of catalog access is overstated. As a cataloger, I rarely rely on keyword searching in either my local database or in OCLC, if I want to see a specific and orderly (alphabetical or numeric) list of results. Keyword searching does not produce orderly results and is not as reliable for cataloging purposes. So the ability to retrieve headings in a strict alphabetical order is still important, if only for us practitioners. The proposal to permit the use of initial articles in headings could result in significant dislocations in an alphabetic display.
Second, one of the goals of RDA is compatibility with AACR2 headings, and since AACR2 prescribed the omission of initial articles in authority headings, the proposal to begin using them would be out of sync with AACR2. This could be accommodated by repurposing the second indicator in the MARC fields 100, 110, 130, etc., to function as a "filing" indicator, so that the initial article would not be indexed and RDA and AACR2 headings could be retrieved in an orderly alphabetic display. I realize that MARC may not be long for this world, but any future bibliographic format that is widely adopted should also have some such function included.
Third, the proposal to require inclusion of the article as the primary rule, but allow an alternative option to omit the article, is not really practicable. In the descriptive rules, inclusion of the article should be a requirement, if the article appears on the resource being cataloged (the "take what you see" principle of RDA). But for authority records, the rule should be prescriptive, not optional. The function of an authority record is to specify the form of heading that should be used in bibliographic records. If the rules governing the formulation of headings allow for too many mutually exclusive variations, they might as well not exist.
Last, a minor point: the examples using Military chaplin should be Military chaplain.
-- Glennan (PCC) for Pat Williams, Head, Monographic Original Cataloging Section, University of Chicago Library 8/4/11
Ideally, initial articles would always be transcribed, and would always be ignored whenever an alphabetical list is to be produced. That's a systems issue, and I hope we get there soon, but I'm not sure adopting this elaborate proposal with all its alternatives and exceptions is a necessary intermediate step. R.Rendall, 8/17/11
I have worked as a cataloger for many years with German-language materials; I was also a member of the team that translated AACR2 into German. I support in principle the attempt being made here by the German National Library to change the treatment of initial articles in access points. As the National Library's proposal makes clear, this is an Anglo-centric library practice that leads to many unfortunate results when the language of the item is a grammatically inflected one, as German is. Omitting initial articles, as RDA currently requires, leads to a plethora of ugly results in German; the result often looks illiterate to the user's eye, and in some cases, the meaning of words in a name or title can be obscured. The Scandinavian languages suffer from this problem as well. You are a music cataloger, so I'm sure you are familiar with the example of Gustav Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, unfortunately established as Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Knaben Wunderhorn, where omission of the genitive article "des" obscures the fact that "Knaben" is a possessive, i.e., The youth's magic horn.
Technologically speaking, it is no longer necessary to omit initial articles from headings. All that is needed is increased awareness of the non-sorting character, and widespread adoption of this character by library system vendors. MARC21 adopted the non-sorting character back in 2004 (cf. http://www.loc.gov/marc/nonsorting.html)
German library systems have successfully used non-sorting characters since the inception of their online catalogs some 40 years ago. I think it is a shame that RDA remains tied to past practice here, instead of grasping an opportunity to embrace current technology. However, in practical terms, I recognize that it may be difficult to overcome the legacy of millions of records in which initial articles were omitted.
I believe that the German National Library is right to ask that the rules be changed so that the preferred practice is to include initial articles in transcription of names and titles and in access points. But the adoption of this change in the rules would have to be tied to the adoption of library systems that support the non-sorting character. As we know, OCLC has not yet agreed to support the non-sorting character, and the other major systems vendors have of course followed suit. JSC should make it a goal to promote the non-sorting character and to eventually implement policies as outlined in the National Library's proposal. In the interim, it is probably not realistic to adopt the German proposal in its entirety.
At the least, however, users of RDA should have the option to record initial articles if their library systems support the non-sorting character, and this option should be stated explicitly in the rules. This could be accomplished at present by retaining the rules in question as currently written, and adopting the proposed German revisions as an option.
One small note: in the text you shared, the Germans several times use the phrase "a title [etc.] which is originated from an inflected language." This could probably be better expressed as "a title written in an inflected language" or something similar.
-- Glennan (PCC), for Charles R. Croissant (Saint Louis University), 8/30/11
0.5 Structure
220.127.116.11 instruction and alternative
While the revision to the alternative is something that CC:DA also wanted, I believe that the generalization of the instruction itself, both in the German proposal and in the LC revision, goes too far. The instructions on transcription (both the general ones in chapter 1 and specific ones on transcribing titles) are full of instructions on modifying the title as it appears on the source of information. LC is correct that the preferred title of the work is recorded, rather than transcribed, but I believe that this instruction (which deals specifically with initial articles) needs to be a simple negative instruction "Do not omit an initial article."
-- J. Attig, 9/13/2011
Agree with John A. above about the first paragraph. Disagree with LC's rationale for not including "or which is originated from an inflected language" because all the situations are represented in the first paragraph. The DNB proposal could probably be better worded "e.g. a title that begins with the name of a person or place, or which is in an inflected language". Their point is that an initial article should never be omitted in an inflected language because a title like "langen Tages Reise in die Nacht" or a name like "Alte Mystische Orden vom Rosenkreuz" is nonsensical und ungrammatical. Of course, the JSC could choose to ignore that and make an alternative rule that reflects our current practice. --J. Hostage 14:34, 13 September 2011 (CDT)
I really like the clarity of "Do not omit an initial article." It's the sort of plain, direct language that critics of RDA are clamoring for.
-- Randy Roeder 9/14/11
LC is correct that transcribing initial articles in inflected languages is covered by the instruction in the first paragraph, i.e. if you want to record them you can say you're following the basic instruction and not the alternative. But that's missing of the point of why this proposal includes this phrase about them in the alternative. The intent of the proposal is to ensure that initial articles in inflected languages, unlike English or French ones, will never be omitted in RDA records, even by those who are implementing the alternative. That would be a change from our current practice and would result in German titles indexing alphabetically under the German equivalents of The and A. I do agree with LC that this phrase and should be removed from the alternative wherever it appears, and the Kleine Nachtmusik example retained. For as long as we need to do it, it makes no sense to omit initial articles for some languages but forbid that practice for other languages, no matter how unnatural and objectionable artificial headings like "Goldene Topf" may be. R.Rendall, 9/14/11
22.214.171.124 Characterizing word or phrase
I wonder why LC changed "Omit an initial article" to "Omit the initial article" in the alternative. Was that intentional? --J. Hostage 14:34, 13 September 2011 (CDT)
126.96.36.199 Phrase naming another work by the person
126.96.36.199 Initial articles. Alternative
Here again I agree with LC that the phrase "or which is originated from an inflected language" and the proposed example should be removed, but for the reasons given under 188.8.131.52 above. R.Rendall, 9/14/11
Appendix C
FWIW, after re-reviewing the proposal in light of LC's response, I found the revision to the first sentence of C.1 to be incomprehensible. As revised, it makes it sound like there are lists of articles under the alternatives to 18.104.22.168, etc. This is not the case, as the lists of articles are in Appendix C. I think the revised text is trying to point out that there are circumstances under the alternatives where an article would be omitted and those where it wouldn't, and that the alternatives identify (list) those circumstances. This is different from listing the articles. While I appreciate the attempt to draw attention to those circumstances in the instruction for C.1, perhaps the easiest language would be "Do not omit initial articles unless applying the alternative instructions under 22.214.171.124 (titles of works) ..." --Myers?
Agree with John M. above. --J. Hostage 14:34, 13 September 2011 (CDT)
Agree with John M. R.Rendall, 9/14/11


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The president slept here
"Warren Harding died here" doesn't quite have the tourist draw of "George Washington slept here," but for the Palace Hotel, in San Francisco, the distinction of being the only hotel where a president of the United States drew his last breath is enough to put it into the pantheon of presidential sleep spots.
Scores of hotels around the country can lay claim to a little White House luster, where the famous men have bedded down before, during or after their stints in the White House. Most will tack the term "Presidential Suite" onto the spot and start charging the highest rates in the house.
But there are a handful of places around the country that have earned a tighter tie with presidential history. Two gave us political terms we still use -- "lobbyist" and "smoke-filled rooms." Another might have cost one man the presidency and later could have cost a president his life.
It's not surprising that the majority of the places on my short list are big, old, luxurious hotels in a few key cities. Washington, Chicago and New York are on the list. San Francisco has two. Here's my collection of must-stay presidential hotels, with a list of also-rans.
The Willard, Washington, D.C.
The nation's capital is crammed with hotels containing presidential lore. The Hay-Adams, near the White House, was built on the site of homes of John Adams' grandson and Abraham Lincoln's private secretary. Along with introducing air conditioning to the sweltering summer capital, it was used as a fundraising spot related to the Iran-Contra Affair during President Ronald Reagan's term. Barack Obama moved in for two weeks before his inauguration when the usual guest lodging, Blair House, was unavailable.
But for a true slice of American history, nothing can beat the Willard. A couple of doors down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, it has hosted presidents going back to Zachary Taylor. Lincoln snuck into town after his 1860 election (Washington was basically a Southern town and many in the capital were friendly to the secessionist cause) and used the Willard as his pre-inauguration headquarters. Lincoln's bill is on display in the hotel's small museum.
But its place in the dictionary was cemented by Ulysses S. Grant, who had the habit of making irregular strolls to the Willard to enjoy a cigar. Men seeking to influence legislation or gain political appointments would hang out, hoping they could elbow their way to the president to make their case. The crowd that loitered in the lobby were dubbed "lobbyists." The term has stuck for advocates of all types who seek to bend laws and regulations by plying the halls of Congress, the offices on K Street, the party circuit and, yes, occasionally a hotel lobby -- including the still-sparkling Willard.
The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago
No smoking is allowed at the hotel on the south end of downtown Chicago, an ironic policy given that it was plumes of cigar, cigarette and pipe smoke that gave the hotel its place in presidential history. Chicago was a frequent choice for political conventions before World War II, hosting 26.
With many of the conventions going on at the old Chicago Coliseum, the Blackstone was frequently the center of the wheeling and dealing that went on in the days before political conventions were a just-for-TV advertisement for each political party. The hotel's pinnacle came during the 1920 Republican Party convention. On the first ballot, the leader was retired Army Gen. Leonard Wood with 287 1/2 votes. Illinois Gov. Frank Lowden was second with 211 1/2 votes. The convention remained deadlocked, and the action moved to a group of power brokers who gathered behind closed doors at the Blackstone to horse-trade federal jobs and money for votes.
On the 10th ballot, Warren Harding -- who had received a scant 65 votes on the first ballot -- was proclaimed the nominee. A reporter for the United Press news service wrote that the victory had not come on the convention floor, but in the "smoke-filled rooms" of the power brokers.
By the end of the past century, the Blackstone had fallen into disrepair. It closed in 2000 but reopened as a Renaissance property in 2008 with fewer but larger rooms, modern amenities and an emphasis on the business trade and community events.
Palace Hotel, San Francisco
The hotel was brand new when the 1906 earthquake struck, sending the most famous opera singer of the day, Enrico Caruso, running into Market Street, reportedly in his bedclothes.
The hotel was gutted by the fire that raged after the earthquake. Three years later it reopened as the city's premier hotel address. In 1923, it hosted President Harding, the handsome Ohio newspaper publisher whom historians rank with Grant as among our worst presidents. Harding had been ill with flulike symptoms when he left for a trip to the Northwest, which included playing golf in Vancouver and making speeches in Seattle.
He was scheduled to go to Yosemite, but instead, the weak chief executive was taken to San Francisco and installed in room 8064. While his wife was reading to him, Harding passed away, most likely from a heart condition -- it's not completely known, because Mrs. Harding would not allow an autopsy.
After decline dropped the Palace out of the top ranks of the city's hotels, it has been reborn under the Starwood Luxury Collection brand as one of the city's finest.
St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco
In many cities, different parties tended to hunker down at different hotels. In San Francisco, the Democrats more often stayed at the Fairmont atop Nob Hill, while Republicans preferred the St. Francis, just off Union Square. The St. Francis was part of two dark moments for Republicans -- the most famous being the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford by Sarah Jane Moore randomly aiming a handgun across the street outside of the hotel. Ford survived unscathed, which can't be said about Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
In a political route that's hard to imagine today, the former New York governor left a seat on the Supreme Court to run for president as a Republican. He ran as a Roosevelt-style progressive.
Hughes destroyed any chance at success with bad moves while in California. He didn't show up for an appointment with the governor and attended a banquet at the St. Francis, despite a strike by the hotel's unionized kitchen staff. Progressives were appalled, and Hughes lost the state and its 13 electoral votes by just over 3,000 votes, sending Woodrow Wilson back to the White House for a second term. The St. Francis is famous for the clock in the lobby where generations of visitors have "met at the clock" before going out on the town.
Menger Hotel, San Antonio
Across the street from the famous Alamo is an old hotel that in some ways is just as important to American history as the Alamo -- and you can still check in. It has beautiful, cool-blue tiles and handsome cream-colored Corinthian columns in the atrium. The Menger Hotel is where former Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt stayed while assembling his Rough Riders to fight the Spanish in Cuba. Roosevelt trained his troops on a makeshift parade ground that's now Roosevelt Park.
Roosevelt was selected as William McKinley's running mate in the 1900 election, and a year later became president when McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in Buffalo, N.Y., and the rich-boy bureaucrat who remade himself into a tough-talking, risk-taking warrior-politician while staying at the Menger was on his way to having his face memorialized on Mount Rushmore with Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson.
Mission Inn, Riverside, Calif.
The Mission Inn, the amazing citadel of the Inland Empire with its Spanish-Moroccan-Asian mix, has drawn more than a century of Republican politicians. You'll find a copy of the chapel in Assisi, Italy; a huge Buddha where Raquel Welch once cavorted; and staircases and walkways that seem to be geometrically improbable.
Frank Miller, the colorful founder, used to greet the train from the East Coast in full Franciscan monk's garb and lead the procession of guests back to the hotel. Roosevelt was the first president to stay the night, in 1903. Two of the country's most interesting presidential artifacts are on display.
First is a massive carved wood chair with sturdy legs and bowed armrests that Miller had built for a visit by President William Howard Taft. Though generations of hotel visitors have taken their turn to be seated -- sometimes three at a time -- in the seat built for the 300-plus-pound Taft, there are reports that the chief executive himself declined to use a chair so obviously designed to accommodate his girth.
The second spot is the hotel's bar, which in the late 1940s was a meeting and reception room -- the least expensive to rent in the place. It's where Richard Nixon, from nearby Whittier, married his girlfriend, Pat Ryan. The room was later converted into the Presidential Lounge, with portraits of the presidents who have visited over the years hung on the outside (note they are all Republicans, with the exception of John F. Kennedy). You can now have a cocktail in the room where the Nixons tied the knot.
Other presidential sleep spots
Some other notable hotels around the country have presidential ties. The Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix is where Sen. John McCain gave his 2008 concession speech. It has hosted several presidents. The Brown Palace is the Denver hangout for every president since Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 -- with the exception of Calvin Coolidge and Barack Obama.
More than two dozen presidents have stayed at The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., a popular cool mountain getaway from Washington's summer. But its greatest mark was a secret underground nuclear bunker created to serve as the secret gathering place for the U.S. government in event of atomic war. You can stay at the hotel and tour the bunker.
The turreted Windsor Hotel in Americus, Ga., was the unofficial headquarters of the White House during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who came from the tiny nearby town of Plains. Now affiliated with Best Western, it's across the street from the headquarters of the Carter-founded Habitat for Humanity headquarters.
The Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles has been a Democratic Party favorite for decades. Robert F. Kennedy often barked orders from his hotel room bathtub to underlings working on his brother John's convention campaign in Los Angeles in 1960. The hotel is where Lyndon Johnson decided to give up his powerful job as Senate Majority Leader to run with Kennedy as vice president.
One of the best photos of a president is of the taciturn Calvin Coolidge wearing a full Indian headdress while on tour in the Western United States. You can still sample part of "Cool Cal's" vacation destinations at the State Game Lodge, the 1927 "summer White House" in Custer State Park, S.D. It's famous as a jumping-off point to see bison. Dwight Eisenhower also stayed there in 1953.
Waldorf Astoria, New York City: Every U.S. president since Franklin Roosevelt has stayed at the Park Avenue palace. The train lines into Grand Central Terminal run underneath the street and presidents at one time could disembark from a secure special platform adjacent to the hotel.
Carlyle Hotel, New York City: John F. Kennedy's favorite haunt in Manhattan, it's where he met Marilyn Monroe after she sang her infamous "Happy birthday, Mr. President" tune at Madison Square Garden. On Monday nights, Woody Allen still plays with a Dixieland jazz band at the hotel.
Before Barack Obama put Hawaii on the presidential vacation map, George H.W. Bush was fond of the Grand Wailea on the sunny southwest coast of Maui. The Best Western Gettysburg Inn was the former operations center when President Dwight Eisenhower stayed at his nearby farm while president.
Hotel information
For all hotels, note that prices rise sharply during peak periods, particularly in Washington and San Francisco. Book as far in advance as you can. Rates are often lower on the weekend than during weekdays.

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A local farm offering horse therapy programs plans to raise money through contra dancing and an Italian dinner on Saturday night.
Shining Hope Farms of Mount Holly hosts the event from 6-10 p.m. Saturday at Gaston County Citizens Resource Center, 1303 Dallas-Cherryville Highway.
The nonprofit is on a mission to raise money in support of its hippotherapy program. The treatments use equine movement to provide therapy for children and adults with disabilities.
Shining Hope Farms provides the therapy for free to 94 percent of participants.
Those at the fundraiser will eat dinner from the Denver restaurant Brooklyn Bros, followed by dancing. Intermission entertainment will also be provided.
Participants engaging in programs at Shining Hope Farms receive benefits of recreational riding along with physical, occupational and speech therapy.
Tickets to Saturday�s fundraiser are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. To make reservations, call Randy and Sandy Hammitt at 704-691-1119 or Phyllis Helms at 704-825-5219.
Gazette reporter Wade Allen can be reached at 704-869-1828; twitter.com/gazettewade.
Want to go?
What: Shining Hope Farms benefit dinner
When: Saturday, Feb. 2. 6-10 p.m.
Where: Gaston County Citizens Resource Center, 1303 Dallas-Cherryville Highway, Dallas.
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Call Randy and Sandy Hammitt at 704-691-1119 or Phyllis Helms at 704-825-5219
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Abstinence under attack
AIDS | Changing sexual behavior as a way to fight AIDS gets a warning flag from the government's chief accounting office
"Abstinence under attack" Continued...
Lawmakers returning from a two-week recess face calls for action over a controversial report from the General Accountability Office (GAO) released earlier this month and perhaps waiting among stacks of backlogged congressional mail. The 87-page summation concludes that the Bush administration's support for abstinence programs in the treatment of AIDS is undermining other prevention strategies in AIDS crisis zones in Africa and elsewhere.
The report is a startling wake-up to faith-based organizations and others who have long pushed the so-called ABC approach (Abstinence, Be faithful, use Condoms) as a way to lower the spread of AIDS. It is a potential blow to one of the largest spending initiatives put forward by President George Bush. The audit itself is a surprise, coming barely two years into the program and with funding levels for abstinence programs still below the minimum level required by law.
Three years ago President Bush tripled the rate of federal funding to combat AIDS abroad-from $5 billion to $15 billion over five years-and reordered spending priorities to focus on prevention, including training high-risk groups in abstinence before marriage and faithfulness to one partner (AB of ABC). Although passed by Congress, the approach angered critics within the AIDS establishment, whose chief prevention strategy has been condom distribution (C of ABC) and early sex education. By moving money toward community-based groups and churches, the plan became a benchmark for how well the president's compassionate conservatism can fare overseas.
Now the president's own auditing agency suggests that the plan isn't working. "Support for abstinence programs in the treatment of AIDS is undermining other AIDS-prevention strategies," the GAO concluded. It went further to suggest that laws governing the program be modified by Congress to allow more discretion in whether government and private humanitarian groups actually implement AB programs at all.
That conclusion elicited steady calls for change from newspapers around the country. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said Congress and the Bush administration "should not insist that abstinence and fidelity be such high priorities everywhere." The Salt Lake Tribune called the report "long overdue" and said, "The current policy stubbornly promotes conservative Christian attitudes. . . . Preaching abstinence can do little to halt the spread of HIV in Africa when many people there don't understand the dangers of unprotected sex." And the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, calling for an end to the administration's "abstinence obsession," said a U.S. AIDS-fighting strategy ought to focus "more clearly on saving lives, not reshaping morality to fit a red-states political agenda."
But big print editorial boards, along with lawmakers, may need to look more closely at the report's fine print. While the GAO claims to focus on all 15 countries eligible for funding under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), auditors conducted site visits to only four of those countries (Botswana, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zambia). The GAO sent requests for information to foreign teams in five countries but received data back from only two.
Elsewhere the GAO conducted "structured interviews" by phone with government officers based in U.S. embassies and nongovernmental agencies, or NGOs, large enough to have Washington offices. According to an appendix, GAO researchers surveyed six leading NGOs out of the hundreds that contract under the plan. And they granted anonymity to those who responded, a detail noted only in its finest print, a footnote attached to the appendix. Asked by WORLD to name those NGOs, the report's author, David Gootnick, declined. The general information contained in the appendix, he said, "is the publicly available information that is pertinent to your request."
The methods behind such methodology may be significant. The GAO report comes at a time when federal agencies supervising the AIDS plan are cutting back on grants to longtime social-service contractors-those the report hints provided information to the GAO-in favor of grassroots and faith-based organizations.
In the past year the Bush administration has cut funding to CORE, a leading AIDS-fighting consortium. It also reduced grants to Family Health International (FHI) and Population Services International (PSI), both leading condom distributors who reluctantly shifted program focus under the Bush plan two years ago in order to qualify for abstinence-based funding ("Hooked on failure," Nov. 6, 2004).
PSI staff in Uganda complained after they were forced to remove posters, billboards, and radio ads promoting condom use in 2004, with public-service messages urging youth to delay sex until marriage going up around Kampala in their place. PSI deputy director Susan Mukasa told the Associated Press that the portion of the group's U.S. prevention funding this year was not renewed, dropping its PEPFAR level from $600,000 to $100,000.
"The notion that because people have always received aid money that they'll get money needs to end," Deputy U.S. global AIDS coordinator Mark Dybul told the Associated Press. "The only way to have sustainable programs is to have programs that are wholly owned in terms of management personnel at the local level."
That's good news for faith-based charities and church groups in Africa that once could only qualify for federal AIDS-fighting money as subcontractors to the larger NGOs like PSI and FHI. Now, under the plan's New Partnership Initiative, those who qualify on their own include Samaritan's Purse, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision, HOPE (a relief organization founded by the International Churches of Christ), World Relief, and others.
The emphasis on the ABC approach as a prerequisite to funding, according to Debbie Dortzbach, director of international HIV/AIDS programs for World Relief, "has focused the priorities-bringing all prevention efforts out into the open for application. For too long the AB part of prevention was given little focus and certainly almost no funding."
Last July Mrs. Dortzbach hosted first lady Laura Bush and U.S. global AIDS coordinator Randall Tobias at a secondary school in Rwanda where World Relief runs one of the U.S.-funded abstinence programs. At that time, federal officials and members of Congress were more concerned about not spending enough on abstinence. The president's plan in 2004 allocated only 27 percent of the 33 percent of prevention funds required by law to AB programs, and in 2005 only 25 percent. Meanwhile, condom procurement under PEPFAR has increased by nearly 50 percent-from 115 million condoms in 2001 to 240 million in 2005.
Mrs. Dortzbach said she is "disappointed" by recent negative reaction to abstinence-based programs-particularly given that the required level of funding is not fully into the pipeline. But "we are not thwarted," she said. "We know abstinence and faithfulness work. We also know faithful women are particularly vulnerable in Africa, due to their unfaithful husbands. We have a lot of work still to do." Data on the success of ABC programs, she said, "will be much more concrete than the words flying around from both sides of the political divide."
Recent studies do suggest that the shift in U.S. funding priorities is having an effect in Africa even before all the money gets there. In Kenya and Zimbabwe, two countries not highlighted in the GAO report, abstinence is up while HIV prevalence is down. The journal Science reported in February that sexual activity among men age 17 to 19 in Zimbabwe dropped from 45 percent in 1998 to 27 percent in 2003. Among women age 15 to 17 over the same time period it fell from 21 percent to 9 percent. Overall HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe has dropped by 23 percent among young men and by 49 percent among young women.
Kenya's Ministry of Health has reported similar statistics, with an overall decline in HIV prevalence from 10 percent in 1998 to 7 percent in 2003. Young Kenyan men reporting more than one sexual partner dropped from 35 percent in 1998 to less than 18 percent in 2003. UNAIDS director Peter Piot admitted that the declines in HIV rates in Zimbabwe and Kenya "have been due to changes in behavior, including increased use of condoms, people delaying the first time they have sexual intercourse, and people having few sexual partners." Such implicit endorsement of the ABC approach may suggest to government auditors and other critics that the ABC success story is only beginning.


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3-Channel Mixing Keyboard Amplifier
A.The Roland KCW-1 Powered Subwoofer is a perfect companion for any KC-series amp. It features a built-in crossover that allows you to adjust the frequency balance between the subwoofer and the KC-series amp. By adjusting the crossover point with the CROSSOVER knob and the KCW-1's overall level, you can achieve optimal low-frequency performance in any acoustic environment.
The KCW-1 has two inputs, allowing for the connection of a single KC-series amp or two stereo-linked KC-series amps.
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New Canadian HOS regime around the corner
OTTAWA - Canada's new hours-of-service rules have been formally approved and will be published in the Canada Gazette Part II in mid-November, Transport Minister Jean-C. Lapierre announced.
The Changes to the Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulations will reduce the maximum daily driving time for commercial drivers and increase their minimum off-duty time, says Lapierre.
As expected, the rules have hardly changed since they were first published in the Gazette Part I. They consist of 13 hours driving; 14 hours on-duty; 10 hours off, with a 16-hour elapsed working window in a 24-hour work day.
However, in order to be more compatible with their new 2003 US HOS rules, Canada also included a sleeper berth exception, allowing drivers to split their off-duty time.Ironically, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration abandoned the split-sleeper option as it was first written when it revised its rules as part of a court order this past summer. Drivers now must now take eight consecutive hours off, rather than split the off-duty time as per their own choosing.
The regulations will continue to be enforced by the provinces and territories. The new regulations will be effective as of January 1, 2007.
"The Government of Canada is committed to continually enhancing the safety of commercial drivers and all other users of Canadian road and highway systems," said Lapierre in a press release. "These new regulations will significantly enhance the current regime for truck and bus drivers in Canada, resulting in improved workplace safety and quality of life."
These new regulations incorporate current scientific research on driver fatigue and reflect an agreement reached between Teamsters Canada and the Canadian Trucking Alliance in 2001, Transport Canada says.
Last year, the Canadian Trucking Alliance tried to get the Council of Ministers to extend the daily on-duty working window two extra hours. While it wouldn't have allowed drivers any more on-road time, it would have allowed drivers additional available time to cope with delays, CTA argued. However, the Alliance backed off the proposal after several mainstream news outlets misrepresented the group's position.
Owner-operator groups and some unions also voiced their opposition, arguing the extra two-hours would have given carriers an excuse to keep their drivers working longer days.


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Southern California-based Robertson's Ready Mix operates more than 40 ready-mix plants and 12 aggregates facilities.
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Southern California-based Robertson's Ready Mix operates more than 40 ready-mix plants and 12 aggregates facilities.
Robertson's had to do a pour in the hills, but the trucks couldn't make the drive--so they brought in a helicopter, which helped drop concrete to the jobsite.
Robertson's had to do a pour in the hills, but the trucks couldn't make the drive--so they brought in a helicopter, which helped drop concrete to the jobsite.
Finishing up work on a 10,000-yd overnight concrete pour at Kaiser Hospital in Ontario.
A family-owned business since its launch, Robertson's Ready Mix opened its Riverside, Calif., doors in 1969. Forty-four years later, the company has grown to operate more than 40 ready-mix plants and 12 aggregates facilities across seven counties in Southern California.
Even with all that has changed over the years, Robertson's maintains its original vision, striving to offer competitive prices and develop close customer relationships. The producer has taken part in everything from home improvement construction to municipal projects.
Mark Raigosa, quality control, cites high-profile examples of Robertson's work, including the Alameda Corridor railroad project, a 20-mile rail "expressway" from Alameda Street in Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles. The corridor is one of the region's largest transportation projects in recent years. Other projects include the Gerald Desmond Bridge renovation in Long Beach, and a courthouse restoration in San Bernardino.
Robertson's has also been deeply involved in the pervious concrete movement. In 2008, the producer began hosting the NRMCA's pervious certification classes for contractors, providing its parking lot as a working space for contractors to place concrete.
But the producer's objectives go beyond the plant: Robertson's is committed to educating future members of the concrete industry. Raigosa works with engineering students at Cal Poly Pomona, mentoring them for the American Society of Civil Engineers' National Concrete Canoe Competition.
"[They learn] how to work with lightweight concrete, what's involved in producing it, and how different aggregates can be used to create different properties," Raigosa says. "It's a hands-on look at how it's done."
And that hands-on approach has paid off: In 2013, Cal Poly Pomona won the Pacific Southwest Conference canoe race, and ultimately placed 13th in the national competition.
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By Heidi Glaus
St. Louis (KSDK) -- Busch Stadium has played host to plenty of special people, but on this particular morning, the guests of honor are a group of veterans, many of whom remember watching a game at Sportsman's Park.
"In the early days down there they would throw baseballs to the fans," explains one veteran.
The thing is, these men don't always remember what happened yesterday.
"When you start mentally struggling what tends to happen is you don't want to go out, you don't want to socialize," explains Dr. John Morely, a Saint Louis University Geriatrician.
So Dr. Morely, the VA hospital, the Alzheimer's Association and the Cardinals have teamed up to spark some old memories.
"So literally they put the picture in front of them and just try to start the discussion and the real benefit to the veterans that are involved here is discussing," adds Brian Finch with the Cardinals.
"I understand some of you have some good memories here about this particular team," Finch says pulling out a picture of the gas house gang.
"Medwick got pulled out of the 1934 World Series. They were throwing tomatoes and everything at him," says one of the veterans.
But this is more than recalling memories.
"A big piece of this is the socialization, bringing a big group of people together where they can talk to other people and not feel embarrassed about not being able to remember things," explains Dr. Morely.
And after only a few minutes with the group you can see it works whether they're talking about Stan the Man...
"He never missed a ball and it seemed like he hit every time he got up, but I know he didn't," says one veteran.
or Lou Brock.
"He gave me a box of balls that he signed that I could give to the kids in the neighborhood, he was a great man," he goes on to say.
"It takes a little while and each week is a new experience. Sometimes you come back thinking well, everybody was doing so well and then it's two weeks later and there's not necessarily a memory of where you where the last time, so it's a struggle each time, but it's a very positive ending to each of the hour long sessions," adds Dr. Morely.
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While Colorado lawmakers focus on guns, an area university psychiatrist claims police ignored warnings that James Holmes was a threat to the public, my emphasis: A University of Colorado psychiatrist told campus police a month before the Aurora movie theater attack that James Holmes had homicidal thoughts and was a public danger, according to records unsealed Thursday. Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist at the Denver campus, told | Read More »


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Master Class with IE visiting professor James Macmillan-Scott
Regulation in the financial markets is very necessary – as it is on the roads or in a hospital – but if it is applied in a way that does not take account of potential consequences, then those consequences may create problems far greater than those for which the regulation was put in place. We will look, very briefly, at this and look at how the past helps us to understand the present – and very possibly the future. The session is a single session from a lecture series on Historical perspectives from 6,000 BC to today.
He started his banking career in 1978 at Merrill Lynch in London moving to New York in 1984 where he became CEO of the US subsidiary of European broker Savory Milln, (later Swiss Bank Savory Milln) from 1984 to 1989. At that time he moved back to Merrill Lynch where he was appointed Head of International Equity Distribution in North America 1989 – 1992. In 1992 he took up the post at Deutsche Bank of Managing Director and Head of Equity, North America and was appointed a Board member of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. At the same time he was appointed CEO of Deutsche Bank's NYSE listed $1bn Mutual Funds family.
In 1997 he moved to Paris as CEO of Hambrecht and Quist's Paris based euromarkets platform which was responsible for many important European technology IPOs and a powerful research base working closely with the San Francisco based parent. In 2001 due to the sale of the parent to JP Morgan Chase and the European unit to Close Brothers (the latter sale initiated and executed by James) and after a workout he was hired as CEO/Managing Director of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey's European investment bank.
In early 2002 James founded Augusta and Co plc, a London based merchant bank specializing in structured and specialized finance and capital markets activities with a particular emphasis on middle market private debt and the renewable energy industry. Augusta & Co has been a successful business with an impressive track record of transactions. James resigned from the position of Senior Partner (CEO) at the end of 2007 as commuting from Paris and then Madrid was becoming a drain. Among other positions, James is a visiting Professor at the IE Business School in Madrid and is a partner in The Saturn System.
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After having massive trouble to deploy ZCS in MAC environments (no client sync for shared calendars........... :( :( :( ). I thought about getting the users to use the WebUI - but how do I define the WebUI as default Mail client. If the user clicks on an email address and it opens an unconfigured apple mail or entourage - then I get a support call :(
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What makes naruto the worse? Reasons plz.
What makes naruto the worse? Reasons plz.
I didn't like what I watched of naruto but I wouldn't say it's the worst per say. I think it's a good show for younger kids; I just like more serious shows.
Naruto? Hardly the worst, though I myself am not a fan of it. I did get a few laughs when I watched it though.
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Worst anime ever technically I forget what it's called, maybe Demon Scroll? It was really pointless almost uncomfortable grotesque violence with a really strange story about resurrecting Satan or something and it was only 3 episodes with a really stupid ending. Most of the time these shows are somewhat enjoyable for the humorous violence or so bad it's funny effect but this was so bad it surpassed that.
An example of an average scene is some woman having sex with a dying soldier while he coughs blood onto her and makes grotesque dying noises surrounded by dead bodies in a church.
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
Sounds like something mex would get off to. But getting back on topic, I don't think this debate is really going to go anywhere because it's based solely on opinion and not facts. We can all say whether we don't or do like it and give reasons, but it's an endless, pointless debate.


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The North Central College Board of Trustees recently granted tenure and approved promotions to several faculty members effective with the start of the 2012-2013 academic year in September. These faculty are:
During winter term, North Central's Oesterle Library will feature publications by 10 faculty members and the history of Oesterle Library. The displays are showcased in the library's lobby.
Community Publications• Gerald Gems, professor of health and physical education. "Polish Americans" and "Progressive Era, 1900-1920" in Sports in America: from Colonial Times to the Twenty-first Century: an Encyclopedia, 2011.
North Central College prepares students to be informed,
involved, principled and productive citizens and leaders over their lifetime.


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I purchased this mirror at one of the Tampa stores so, unfortunately, I didn't have the benefit of these reviews. It's a Bell product, which is typically a good brand name, but it's boxed such that you can't tell how flimsy it really is. The problem is the flexi-shaft, which is so unbelievably flimsy that the mirror flops around when riding and there's simply no way to tighten it or firm up the shaft. While inexpensive, it's simply useless; a complete waste of money.
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text: The KJLT/KJTF radio family will hold its annual Sharathon Oct. 16, 17 and 18. This broadcast will be hosted by John Townsend, Gary Hofer and special guest Bob Lepine from the Family Life Today broadcast. Sharathon 2012 will begin Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 6 a.m. and conclude Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. KJLT/KJTF is a non-commercial non-denominational ministry depending on listener support. The Sharathon goal this year is $281,050. Listeners may phone in their faith promise by calling 532-1659 or 1-800-532-1659. KJLT is found at 970 AM and 94.9 FM. Find KJTF at 89.3 FM. Listeners can also make their faith promises online at kjlt.org


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Economics is a decision science or a study of tradeoffs. Manyof the world's resource management decisions are made in a market environment. Individuals, families, associations, companies, communities and countries can engage in market-like exchanges. When markets reflect fully the social benefits and costs of the exchange, resource management is efficient. However, when markets and economic policies fail to adequately capture the values of biodiversity, many costs and opportunities for benefiting from nature are missed and resources are wasted. Recognising human reliance on nature and the natural wealth tradeoffs implied by decisions, or 'getting the prices right,' is an essential step toward better measurement and better management of the world's scarce resources.
IUCN's Global Economics Programme aims to help people capture the economic opportunities provided by biodiversity. Traditionally, environmental economics works to estimate the costs, or footprint, of economic activities and then to design policies to reduce the footprint caused by incomplete or misleading market incentives. Increasingly, environmental economic arguments in favour of conservation consist of identifying opportunities and guiding incentives such that pro-biodiversity behaviour is economically attractive. IUCN Economics aims to build a bridge between environment and development through nature-based solutions to local and global development challenges. By increasing our knowledge of the economic value of ecosystems and ensuring that this information is appropriately guiding related policy processes, IUCN is well placed to solidly anchor nature at the heart of a green global economy.


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North Central College's senior athletic training students compete in final round, take fourth place at IATA College Bowl.
North Central College's athletic training students returned from competition at the 2012 Illinois Athletic Trainers Association (IATA) College Bowl, an annual event held during the two-day IATA State Meeting and Clinical Symposium. This year's contest of knowledge and skill was held Nov. 4 at the Wyndham Lisle-Chicago Hotel.
North Central's competitors—seniors Matthew Hussey, Kristi Lishman and Jason DePue—represented the College's athletic training education program, with Trevor Magnotti standing ready to serve as alternate.


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Wood Floor Install - Wood Floors For FleetsidesWritten by on December 20, 2010 Bedstrips With Hidden Fasteners
Looking for a smooth custom look to your wood bed floor? These bedstrips with hidden fasteners use a completely hidden fastening system developed by Mar-K. Each strip is 11/2 inches wide, just like the original strip, and the original strength of the bed is maintained. Special bolts slide into the groove on the underside of the strip to adjust to any bolt location. These strips are precut to the correct length for your truck. Bedstrips include the correct number of hidden fasteners for your truck. You will need to purchase a bolt kit for bed to frame and side mounting, and wood with hidden mounting holes, if you want the look of a no-bolts bed. These parts are made by Mar-K in Oklahoma City.
The following images will give you a good idea of just how easy it is to install. Mar-K has several different types of bedstrips with hidden fasteners, including polished stainless, unpolished stainless, steel and aluminum. The fasteners on these all work the same way. These bedstrips will work with any wood floor, Stepside or Fleetside. However, in this article we'll look at the extra steps it takes to install them into a Fleetside bed.
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In order to correctly place the T-Bolt fasteners from the front of the bed to the rear, place the new bedstrips upside down next to one of your old bedstrips. Slide the T-Bolt fasteners into the new bedstrips as shown, and move them to line up with the holes in your old bedstrip. There will be a T-Bolt fastener lining up to each hole in the old bedstrip. This will enable you to turn the bedstrip over and install it with the bolts in their proper locations for attaching to the front panel, cross sills, reinforcing strips, and rear sill.There may be a bedstrip bolt in each space between cross sills that requires a 11/2-inch outside diameter washer with a 1/4-inch hole. This washer bridges the gap between the boards on the bottom and is placed on the bolt before installing the lock washer and nut.When laying out (test-fitting) the wood, make sure to leave at least a 1/16-inch gap between the edge of the bedstrip and the raised portion of the wood. This is necessary to allow the wood to expand and contract as the humidity changes (wood is a living thing!). This also allows room for the finishing product, which tends to build up more in the groove. Space the boards as shown below and the wood bed should completely fill the bed floor.If installing the bedstrips with hidden fasteners in a Fleetside box, there will be short strips that have a hole in one end of the strip. This end fits under the wheelhouse.A standard carriage bolt will fit into the wheelhouse flange and through the bedstrip. The heads of these carriage bolts can actually be seen in your bed, but the heads of the other bedstrip bolts will not show.During the final installation of the bedstrips, be careful when tightening the hidden T-Bolt fasteners. Use a torque wrench and tighten them to 75-100 in-lb maximum. Excessive torque may distort the hidden fastener or the bedstrip. You may wish to use a thread-locking compound on the bolt threads during final assembly. Please note: In this picture, the wood has been "cut away" so you can see how the bolts and bedstrips look underneath where the bolts attach to the cross sill. The bed wood with hidden bolts is also used in this bed, and you can see that bolt head sitting beneath the wood and on top of the cross sill.


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The Goodguys Nationals In Columbus - Coming Of AgeWritten by Johnny Hunkins on December 1, 2010 Contributors: Robert McGaffin Have Muscle Cars Finally Gained The Acceptance Of The Straight-Laced Street Rod Crowd? The Goodguys Nats In Columbus, Ohio, Is Proof They Have.
If you could revisit a typical street rod show 20 years ago, you'd be greeted by vastly different sights and sounds than what we see at a Goodguys show in 2010. Cabbage Patch Kids cleverly mounted to grilles, over-the-hill gals in poodle dresses, old men loafing in folding chairs, and doo-wop songs pouring syrup-like from loudspeakers were the stock and trade of rodding events until just a few years ago. If you were lucky, some octogenarian might pour some high-octane juice into his fairgrounds motor and get his blown, chromed-out highboy to do a burnout on his way out the gate-provided he remembered to take his Geritol that morning. Yes, for many years, performance slept quietly, living only in faded vintage magazines sold in the swap meet area.
Meanwhile, muscle cars played the part of whipping boy. While street rods received all the lavish fabrication and craftsmanship, muscle cars were doomed to one of two lives: either become restored to like-new condition and wind up in a collection, or be unceremoniously hacked up into a bracket racer. Yet a few cars remained on the road, serving as reminders of our greatest automotive days. These survivors often found themselves in the hands of those who we now think of as visionary. Hot rodders who saw the light got involved with fast street car racing, fast appearing stock tire racing, open-road racing, autocrossing, road racing, and the nascent Pro Touring movement. These guys weren't content with restoring and garaging; they wanted to live life on the edge.
Those intrepid muscle car men learned much, and got faster. Engines, suspensions, brakes, chassis, and fabrication methods improved, much of that know-how ironically coming from the top echelon of the street rod biz. Now, construction quality and style-paint-mattered. Street rod insiders watched in disbelief (and magazine readers with cynicism) as muscle cars became "street rodified." Fortunately, we'd been down that road before. When R&B music morphed into disco in the early '70s, smart listeners recognized the error, and the "disco sucks" movement arrived in the nick of time to squash the errant style. Within a few years, the genetic defect known as "disco" was extinct. (Can we get an "amen?") Like disco, rodified Pro Touring cars are getting a righteous beat down from the real McCoys. And those real McCoys have one primary destination on their calendar: the Street Machine of the Year (SMOY) competition in Columbus, Ohio.
Enigmatically, the Goodguys' SMOY competition places seemingly opposite values on car building. A SMOY contestant must be possessed of award-winning style and build quality, while being capable of very real performance. Every SMOY entry must complete a thorough flogging on the autocross, regardless of pristine paint or sparkling undercarriage. At least that's what's supposed to happen-when it doesn't rain, as it did for the '10 competition. Be that as it may, prior years have seen fierce autocross competition at SMOY, and that's exactly what this year's competitors signed up for.
The SMOY competition notwithstanding, the entire field of cars at this year's Goodguys Nationals-street rods included-are light-years ahead in terms of real performance. The theme has almost unanimously become, "Let's all build cars we can drive regularly without worry." We can thank both the forward-thinking group of enthusiasts at the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association for that, along with some very influential muscle car builders who place a premium on driving their dreams.
Street Machine Of The Year
Every year at the Columbus Goodguys Nationals, the coveted RideTech Street Machine of the Year award is bestowed on the nicest Pro Touring car in the land. The field of competition was tough this year, with many stand-out competitors vying for the top honor. When the dust settled, Karen Leisinger's radical first-gen '67 Camaro, built by Lakeside Rods & Rides in Rockwell City, Iowa, took home the bacon.
Leisinger, a self-proclaimed first-gen Camaro lover, wanted a '67 Camaro that featured wicked performance while combining some of the design and style elements of the new '10 Camaro. Roger Burman and his Lakeside Rods crew did yeoman's work on the Hyper Orange PPG-colored Camaro, dropping in a 600hp LSX mill, Lakeside chassis with Detroit Speed components, and a lot of body mods, hence the car's nickname "Scar." This is the first major award Leisinger has won in hot rodding, but the fourth time Lakeside Rods & Rides has built a Goodguys Terrific 12 award winner.
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|Dale and Stacy Johns
|Van Buren, AR
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|Mike Manning
|Belmar, NJ
|'69 Camaro
|Jeremy Gerber
|Mundelein, IL
|'70 Dodge Challenger
|Ken Smith
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George Poteet's '66 Chevy 300 was another overlooked car in the Street Machine of the Year competition. There are so many subtle details that many casual observers walked right by it without recognizing them. The appearance shouts "grandma," but the large-diameter billet wheels-which are painted to match the car-are a hint. We'll have more on it in a later issue, but suffice it to say that this car's performance is incongruous with its appearance-quite the opposite of the build ethic of two decades ago.Woody's Hot Rodz is typical of many shops that have traditionally built street rods and are now moving into muscle cars. This Viper Red '68 Dart GTS belongs to Brian Shackelford, and has an overdrive trans, RMS suspension, Wilwood brakes, and Bose alloy wheels (17s on the front, 18s on the rear). Power comes from a very streetable 400hp 360ci small-block.Patrick Plenge's '62 Rambler is admittedly a work in progress, but he will also point out, "Hey, at least I'm driving it!" Don't laugh, it's bagged, and it's a roadster, but Plenge is quite serious about putting his homebuilt baby on the track. A 440ci Mopar Wedge puts power through a 700-R4 overdrive. Note the subtle faded "484" racing graphic on the door.Question: How do you know expensive suspension parts are going to work right before you buy them? Answer: If the people who design and sell them actually race them all-out in their development car, it's a good bet the parts are serious. That's the case here with the Mustang rear suspension system from Gateway Classic Mustang.Gateway's unique rear suspension is quite possibly near perfect; a Watt's link centers the rearend perfectly at all excursion points, and a tubular torque arm increases bite off the corner and reduces brake dive. This maximizes the amount of work done by all four tires for faster lap times, and it improves driver feedback and confidence.Bowler Performance is well-known for building high-horsepower automatic overdrive transmissions, and to test them, they have a keen interest in building and racing project cars for both autocross and road racing. As part of the R&D into the Ford side of their business, Bowler has built this '70 Torino project, which features a 540hp Roush 427ISR motor and their Bowler 4R70W overdrive trans. Suspension is by RideTech.Kevin Musser is just a regular guy-he's a forester by trade-so in choosing a shop to build his lifelong dream, it was critical to find someone who could stay inside his budget and deliver him a reliable, driveable car. RPM Hot Rods-the builders of the Goodguys Boss Snake giveaway car on our October cover-was chosen for just that reason. Musser's '69 Mach 1 has a 392ci Windsor, Tremec five-speed, Total Control suspension (including a rear four-link), six-piston Wilwood brakes, and Boze 18-inch wheels.One car that didn't get ignored for the SMOY competition is Mike Manning's dark titanium LS7-powered '69 Camaro, which got a Top 5 finish. Manning owns American Autowire in Bellmawr, New Jersey, so he knows his way around some muscle cars. His Camaro is the perfect business calling card, and has so many DSE components on it that some folks at the Columbus show dubbed it the "DSE Camaro." Kind of ironic, seeing as it's the American Autowire Camaro!
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The Summit League named South Dakota State senior forward Jordan Dykstra its player of the week on Monday, the first Jackrabbit to win the award this season.
Dykstra received his first career Player of the Week accolade after earning MVP honors at the Progressive Legends Classic, Brookings Subregional. In victories against Howard and Lehigh, Dykstra posted double-doubles including a career-high 32 points and season-high 13 rebounds against Lehigh.
In the week's final outing at Stanford, Dykstra posted his fifth 20-point game of the season. In four games during the week, Dykstra averaged 20.0 points, 8.8 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 0.5 steals per contest. He shot 85.7 percent from the free throw line, 55.6 percent from three-point range and 46.9 percent from the field.
Dykstra and the Jackrabbits return home to Frost Arena on Wednesday to host Dakota State, and then hit the road for a game at Minnesota on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at Williams Arena. Both games tip at 7 p.m.


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What is the proper technique to self-arrest and brake a fall, given steep icy (frozen snow) slope, when wearing crampons and wielding an ice axe? Should the crampons be used for stopping or held high in the air, to avoid tumbling over them?
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You never want to stop yourself with the crampons because they are liable to catch, flip you over and, at best, put you in a worse situation than before and, at worst, break your legs.
Instead you want to first stop yourself using the pick of the ice axe, with your crampons raised above the ice. You can use your knees as an additional brake. The way you do this is first get into self arrest position, which is face down, with legs downhill, one hand on the head of the axe, and one hand down the shaft, with the head on level with the shoulder. The pick is placed into the snow, and the bottom of the shaft raised, with the bulk of the torso placed on the shaft and and pick.
After you are stopped, or sufficiently slowed down, use the crampons to kick steps into the ice, and get yourself into a secure position.
It is highly recommended to practice this with knowledgeable mountaineering guides or instructors on relatively safe slopes.
Although @ReverendGonzo gave a nice answer I want to start a little debate. There is no explicit answer to this question. Different alpine clubs have different opinions and even different mountain guides in one organization. That being said, I think the process described by @ReverendGonzo (which I will call default process) is very common and also the doctrine of the biggest German Alpine club ("Deutscher Alpenverein").
Still, I will share the opinion of a very experienced guide* I was pleased to have a course with. The question was about a steep slope with frozen snow. That isn't ice. For bare ice holding a fall is even more troublesome. If you are on snow (which is most likely for a classical Alpine tour), his suggestions were:
Those previous thoughts are all together just a point of view against the default process. In theory this default process works but may be really difficult under real circumstances. Therefore the suggestion was to get you self-arrest really fast or it's very unlikely at all (if you're not roped in). Get yourself in a pushup position, use your hands/fists (always wear gloves!), crampons, maybe also the knees.
That being said I don't want to state that this point of view is better or describes the best strategy at all. The specific conditions of the snow, weather, equipment, the degree of the slope, security possibilities, ... all that has an impact. I was a bit surprised by the opinions of the guide but this somehow opened my eyes. I wanted to share this with you.
There are no rules.
*He was raised directly in the Alps close to big mountains, working as a professional mountain guide and ski guide for nearly 30 years. He also works for the mountain rescue team.


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The 2011 MLB season may be only half over, but the KC Ribeye Stack Sandwich is already a winner.
With 63 percent* of votes, fans chose the char-grilled ribeye sandwich, topped with cheddar cheese, applewood bacon, sautéed mushrooms, a crispy onion ring, lettuce, tomato and onion with Kansas City smoky and Gold barbecue sauces on a fresh potato bun, over the Royal Pork T, a crispy pork tenderloin, topped with caramelized onions, fried pickle chips and Kansas City barbecue sauce, to become the featured signature sandwich at Hot Corner Grill concession stands throughout Kauffman Stadium.
During the first half of the season, the Royals and ARAMARK – the club's exclusive food and beverage partner – asked fans to vote for their favorite new sandwich from the two finalists.
The Royal Pork T sandwich, also popular among Royals fans, earned itself a permanent position on the roster and will also remain on the menu through the 2011 season.


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Reidsville, NC -- The driver in a fatal accident involving a man on a bicycle has been charged with the cyclist's death, according to Reidsville police.
Richard Craig Norwood is charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in a collision that killed Anthony George Nunnally, who was riding a bicycle on Barnes Street Friday.
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Norwood's next court date is set for May 7 at the Rockingham County Courthouse in Wentworth.
Police are still investigating the accident.
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Another game day in Athens…? you are what you eat…or reheat
I have never in all my life heard of this before. Though, I will admit that nothing is more annoying than my junior high players asking if they can go to the bathroom during the game.
You can spend a lot of time and money picking out the perfect floral bouquet for your date ... but you're probably better off checking if you have bad breath and taking the porn out of the glove compartment.
The moral: you gain more by not being stupid, than you do by being smart. Smart gets neutralized by other smart people. Stupid does not.
that's hideous. i figured it was some sort of personal prayer box.
That is a first.
Go Cyclones!!
**** Iowa!!
#1 might be OK, but #2?... ugh
Nothing like taking a Chizik on the sidelines in the middle of a football game!
That's funny. We would have been the laughing stock of football had he done that here...
Why is there a hole in the side of the tent?
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Nothing like taking a Chizik on the sidelines in the middle of a football game!
Especially if you wipe it with a Weasley.
Sign of Chizik admitting the Auburn season has gone down the toilet?
Yikes! What's in that bottle next to the toilet?
Well atleast it's better than a couple of towels down your pants leg
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and may her colors ever fly!!!
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I would love to see a guy run off the field and get tackled right into that.
Mandatory in-game drug testing? Maybe the bottle next to the tent is a specimen jar!
What we have here, is a glory hole.
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Well, well, well. We now know that even Captain Planet lives his life in an ethically compromised trade space*. It turns out that Van Jones and other leading environmentalists kept quiet during the BP Oil Well Fiasco of 2010 because they didn't want to hurt the Obama Presidency. They cared more about their human friends than the cuddly polar bears. I'm sure Artemis, The Hunt-Goddess | Read More »


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You're hiking streamside through a rhododendron tangle when you hear a short, musical trill – it kind of mimics the riffles in the stream. I know, you're in a hurry – got a lot of hiking to do. But if you have a minute to track this little chorister down you won't be disappointed. What you're hearing is a Canada warbler.


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We often get requests by users to post the contents of some of the internal mailing lists. Using the following command I can output the contents of that list, and eventually through a cron job I will have it update our internal wiki server page to always keep the latest copy of the list around.
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Dustin Dwyer · Happy Oberon Day! Michiganders Celebrate The Beer That Signals The Start Of Spring.
March 26th, 2012
You won't find it marked on any official calendars, but today is a special day for many Michiganders. It's Oberon day.
If that doesn't mean anything to you, then you are probably not a follower of MIchigan's beer scene. But these are boom times for craft brewers in Michigan. The Kalamazoo Gazette reported last year that the state's breweries invested more than $70 million in facilities upgrades. They hired workers. And the number of craft breweries in Michigan continues to grow (there's even a fight song for Michigan craft beer).
Larry Bell was one of the early leaders of this new industry, and Bell's Brewery has become one of the biggest players among the state's small beer makers. Oberon, the golden-hued Summer brew from Bell's, is distributed in 18 states. But in Michigan, Oberon has become more than just a beer. It's an official symbol of the end of winter.
In northern states, Oberon is only available in Spring and Summer. Keeping Oberon off the shelves during the cold winter seems to make people love it more. When Oberon comes back, people in Michigan go nuts.
Every year, Bell's hosts a big party to celebrate Oberon's release. This year, the Bell's Eccentric Cafe opened at 9 a.m. for the Oberon release. The party will go on well into the night. Bell's also lists more than 60 other bars across Michigan that are hosting Oberon parties. There are also Oberon parties in other states, but no one else seems to celebrate the beer as much as Michiganders.
If you doubt that people in Michigan really care that much about a beer, all you have to do is search for "Oberon" on Twitter today. A new post has been coming just about every 30 seconds. Most people are just passing along the simple message, "Happy Oberon day."
Or, as Twitter user Rachel Prior put it: "Happy Oberon Day! Spring has finally arrived for us MIchiganders."
Of course, not everyone celebrates Oberon day in Michigan. Even plenty of people who love Michigan craft beer aren't all that excited about it.
But for many Michiganders, Oberon day isn't even really that much about the beer anymore. It's about celebrating the arrival of Spring, with a Michigan-made product.
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The reason I am asking is because I will ultimately have 2 email servers setup, the first one is already going and has been for the last year (no problems there), lets call it mail.example.com, and now I have been mandated to setup a second email server for "sister" companies and I would like the host to be mail2.example.com. Two completely different email servers, the first email server will host example.com and the second will host example1.com, example2.com, etc.
Does this make sense and can I do what I want to do? Or does the second email server have to have a different hostname all together. So instead of having the first email server being mail.example.com and the second being mail2.example.com, does the second have to be something like mail.example2.com.
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Villa v Reading team news: Baker and Holman recalled
Paul Lambert has made two changes to his starting line-up for tonight's top-flight clash against Reading.
Nathan Baker comes in at centre-back while Brett Holman is recalled in midfield.
Skipper Ron Vlaar misses out after sustaining a calf injury in Saturday's goalless draw against Arsenal.
Meanwhile, Karim El Ahmadi drops to the bench.
Gabby Agbonlahor will captain Villa in Vlaar's absence.
Reading have made two changes from their defeat against Wigan on Saturday.
Shaun Cummings replaces Chris Gunter, while Adrian Mariappa is in for Kaspars Gorkss.
Former Villa man Nicky Shorey lines up for the Royals at left-back.
VILLA: Guzan, Clark, Baker, Lowton, Stevens, Bannan, Westwood, Holman, Weimann, Agbonlahor, Benteke. Subs: Given, Ireland, El Ahmadi, Albrighton, Delph, Bowery, Lichaj.
READING: Federici, Cummings, Shorey, Mariappa, Morrison, Leigertwood, Tabb, McAnuff, Robson-Kanu, Roberts, Le Fondre. Subs: Taylor, Harte, Pearce, Gunnarsson, McCleary, Pogrebnyak, Hunt.
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Consol Digs Deeper
Devonian Shale Found Below Utica
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WHEELING — Move aside, Marcellus and Utica shales, and make way for a new player in the natural gas bonanza: the Devonian Shal....
TROLLSLAYER aka the "X-Spurt" on EVERYTHING in the world today on this message board, and NO DOUBT an industry shill from ENERGY IN DEPTH or a similar gas industry DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN, spurts out his venom and propaganda once again. "DO NOT DEFY ME, OR I WILL SQUASH YOU LIKE A CYBERBULLY!!!, sez HE. BUT we can now see from all the DISAGREES on his BULLY-POSTS that people have figured out his BULLY PULPIT and INTIMIDATION ROUTINE and just ain't buying it! LOL Bwaaahaasss!! What a joke he is!!!
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and we have 100 years worth of coal.
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Yep, you're right, GEO, Marcellus. The gas boom is over already. You anti-gas loons may as well pack up shop. I hear the last fracking truck heading out of town as I'm typing this. Well, it was fun while it lasted...
Now on to the next big boom: CO2 to snake oil. I hear that one is a sure thing, as long as you don't get all hung up on obeying the laws of physics... LOL
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Further: There's unlikely to be much of an export market. People around the world, like Great Britain and China, are now developing their own shale gas deposits. And, Russia has so much conventional gas that they're building pipelines to Europe. Even further: Japan, as represented by Panasonic Corporation, and Germany have pilot facilities up and running that use sunlight to convert CO2 into Methane; and, similar technology has been developed by Penn State University, the City University of New York, and a couple of the US DOE's national laboratories. There isn't much in any of this shale gas "news" that seems much like real news; or, that makes much economic sense.
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Just to clarify: They're actually digging shallower, in the literal sense of the word, not "deeper", as the title might imply. The Marcellus, too, is a Devonian unit, but more middle than upper. Range Resources and some others have looked at the "Upper Devonian" for a couple of years now, since it has to be drilled through to get to the Marcellus, or the even deeper Utica. You might see specific unit names, like "Rhinestreet" mentioned. The gas markets are tremendously complex and hard for the non-expert to analyze, but, nat gas prices sure look to us like they've dropped by at least half in just the last several years; and, you have to wonder, where's the profitability in all of this? Did anyone know that there are huge reserves of stored gas in the US? That is, gas that's been produced, and then been then pumped back underground into salt caverns and other easy-access reservoirs?
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"Marcellus" has it exactly right. He mentioned the Texas Barnett Shale, and, the per-well production decline rates there became so steep that the rate of new drilling had to be increased just to maintain an established gas production plateau; with the costs of production increasing accordingly. And, the whole situation, relative to world markets for gas in general, as we'll touch on in another comment or two, must arouse suspicion. But, in the meantime, something folks might be enlightened by is some information available from a number of sources in response to a web search for: "Oil Executive: Military-Style 'Psy Ops' Experience Applied". You are seeing the effects of such "Psy-Ops", as applied to shale gas, as the "Oil Executive" said it should be, almost everyday now in your press.
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The shale industry around the tri-state area can only hope that future shale wells have a better productive lifetime than what the production numbers are revealing on Marcellus wells. Production drops off like a rock, indicating the productive lifetime of these wells is probably closer to 7 years than the "20 to 40 years" industry uses to dazzle investors and shareholders. This fast drop-off trend mirrors the research done on Barnett shale wells by economist Deborah Rogers.
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