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The Good Oil - Issue #28
24 December 2012
The primary aim of New Zealand's marine spill and pollution response capability is to minimise damage to the marine environment and reduce the time for recovery of affected resources by achieving an acceptable level of cleanliness.
Maritime New Zealand is responsible for maintaining a nationwide capability to respond to marine oil spills of any size.
New Zealand's response capability is maintained (and developed) through partnerships between Maritime New Zealand, Regional Councils, the oil industry, and overseas agencies.
A response 'system' has been developed, based on contingency and strategic planning. The response system is comprised of three tiers. Each tier can be escalated to the next, depending on the scale of the event.
Those responsible for each tier are required to prepare contingency plans and a response capability appropriate to their respective levels of responsibility:
If the scale of an incident is beyond the nation's domestic capability, arrangements are in place to secure overseas assistance. This relationship is reciprocal - New Zealand will be expected to assist our neighbours if requested.
Oil spill preparedness is funded by an industry levy, the Oil Pollution Levy , which is paid by those sectors whose activities raise the risk of a marine oil spill. In the event of an oil spill, the polluter is liable for all costs associated with the response.
An overview of marine pollution response [PDF: 339Kb, 26 pages]
Responding to an oil spill - 3 tiers, resourcing, stages, options [PDF - 231Kb, 6 pages]
International involvement and assistance [PDF: 53Kb, 3 pages]
Read about major oil spills around New Zealand
In 2010, Maritime New Zealand commissioned a review of New Zealand's oil pollution preparedness and response capability. This review was undertaken by a team from Thompson Clarke Shipping. The team consulted with some 50 organisations and visited 16 sites.
The review, completed and publicly released in June 2011, found New Zealand's response capability, led by Maritime New Zealand's Marine Pollution Response Service (MPRS), is well placed to respond to the current risk of oil spills in our waters. It also found MPRS is meeting all of its regulatory requirements.
The review also identified a path forward to develop New Zealand's oil spill response capability over the next few years, resulting in 34 recommendations.
Maritime New Zealand has considered these recommendations, and has already implemented or started to implement many of them. Others will take some time to implement.
MPRS has developed a three-year action plan that details the way it intends to implement the review's recommendations.
Below are links to the report from the Thompson Clarke Shipping review and the MPRS action plan.
OPPRC Action plan - June 2011 [PDF: 76Kb, 17 pages]
OPPRC Review - February 2011 [Thompson Clarke] [PDF: 1.08Mb, 72 pages]
New Zealand's spill and pollution equipment capability consists of a national equipment cache located at Maritime New Zealand's Marine Pollution Response Service (MPRS) in Te Atatu, Auckland and more than 20 caches with regional councils around the country.
Learn more about the equipment used for marine spills
A small expert response team is located at MPRS in Te Atatu. This team is supported by experts with specialist skills who are based in Maritime New Zealand's Wellington office and elsewhere throughout New Zealand. There are also about 400 trained personnel based within New Zealand's 16 regions.
When wildlife are involved in a marine oil spill, the National Oiled Wildlife Response Team (NOWRT) may be mobilised. This team is trained, managed, and coordinated by specialists at Massey University's Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences. In addition to Massey staff, the NOWRT consists of other wildlife specialists and coordinators from the regions. Each region also has a team of volunteer wildlife responders available to assist. Specialist wildlife equipment can be deployed from the Palmerston North Massey University Campus and a purpose-built wildlife treatment facility is also available.
Every region has one or more people appointed as regional on-scene commanders who are responsible for Tier 2 (regional) oil spill response within the region's coastal marine environment. New Zealand also has several national on-scene commanders who have the authority to declare a Tier 3 (national) response and take command of any oil spill incident within New Zealand marine waters.
Maritime New Zealand is responsible for providing training for people who are involved in marine oil spill response at both the regional (Tier 2) and national (Tier 3) levels. The oil industry is responsible for providing appropriate training for on-site (tier 1) response personnel.
Learn more about the training for response personnel
The New Zealand Marine Oil Spill Response Strategy provides the overall framework to mount an efficient and effective response to marine oil spills. The Strategy is subject to a five-year formal review process.
Learn more about New Zealand's Marine Oil Spill Response Strategy
The National Marine Oil Spill Contingency Plan promotes a planned and nationally coordinated response to any Tier 3 marine oil spill or training exercise. Tier 3 includes any marine oil spill that is:
The Contingency Plan describes the national marine response organisation and procedures, and provides information on response resources, cleanup techniques, and administrative and operational procedures. The plan is updated every six months and officially reviewed every three years.
Maritime New Zealand produces special area contingency plans where necessary, for example Fiordland. These are developed where an area is of such environmental significance, or has such complex response issues, that it is deemed necessary to address contingency planning as a discrete entity.


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Kazakhstan-born Elmira Abdrazakova clinched the country's top beauty pageant crown but to some she is "not Slavic enough".
06:13, UK, Saturday 13 April 2013
The newly-crowned Miss Russia has told Sky News she is still proud to represent her country, even after racial slurs accusing her of not being Russian enough.
Elmira Abdrazakova's father is Tatar, one of Russia's oldest ethnic minorities, and she was born in Kazakhstan, but she was brought up in Russia and considers herself thoroughly Russian, as do the authorities.
The 18-year-old has been targeted by critics online and received so many vitriolic messages after winning the competition she was forced to temporarily close her social networking sites.
One fairly typical message, still posted on a Russian news site, describes her as an "ordinary Azeri parsley seller" and says the user would not even glance in her direction.
Another says she is "an ordinary market stall worker" and would be considered "a real beauty among sheep".
The new Miss Russia told Sky News she had been shocked to read the messages.
"The nationality question - I don't really understand it, I don't understand why men would write to a young girl offensive things about her nationality.
"It humiliates first of all not me, but those people who write it.
"It was bizarre for me when men were writing things like that to me, I was surprised we have people of that sort here."
Ms Abdrazakova comes from a small coal-mining town in Siberia and there is an almost fairy tale quality to her rise to fame.
She says she only entered the competition to get the chance to try new experiences and visit the capital, Moscow, and that she never dreamed she had a chance of winning.
She now hopes to inspire other young girls and to prove that you can achieve success in Russia without a wealthy background.
She explained: "For many teenage girls Miss Russia will become a role model, a measure of beauty.
"Maybe some girls will look at me and get inspired by my experience to grow, to develop, to work hard. I hope they can see that in life you can reach something without big money."
"I wasn't expecting to win, to get this crown. The host announced that Elmira Abdrazokova won and I remember standing there and thinking, what a lucky girl who won it. Then it dawned on me - that's me.
"All that evening I couldn't believe it, only when I got back home I sat down and realised - I'm Miss Russia!"
Miss Russia 2013 might not conform to the Slavic ideal still expected by some here, but she will now go on to compete for Russia at the Miss World contest.
Ms Abdrazakova told us it was a great honour, and that she would try to represent her country as well as she could, even if not everyone in that country believes she truly represents them.
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I am experimenting with Racket's 'match' form and would like to match sequences of items in a list. Each item will have particular properties. For example, if I wanted to match alternating sequences of numbers and strings corresponding (roughly) to the regular expression:
#rx"([0-9]+ \"[a-zA-Z0-9]+\")+"
The code below seems to do the job:
(define (match-sequence L)
(let ([n-lst '()] ; Used to collect numbers found.
[s-lst '()]) ; Used to collect strings found.
(define (m-test L)
(match L
[(list-rest (? number? n) (? string? s) ... (? m-test))
(set! n-lst `(,@n-lst ,n))
(set! s-lst `(,@s-lst ,(car s)))
(list (reverse n-lst) (reverse s-lst))]
(m-test L)))
I realize that the #rx and code above don't quite match the same sequences but it is just an analogy.
Is this the most succinct way of writing this in Racket?
I tried patterns like:
(list ((? number? n) (? string? s)) ...)
and Racket did not accept this.
Patterns like: (list (? number? n) (? string? s) ...) require the first item of the list being matched to be numeric and all others to be strings.
I tried quasiquotation and splicing in several ways with no success.
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Geared up, went to the beach, and the waves just weren't doing it. A couple of my friends in the line up yesterday told me a big swell (around 10-12ft) is supposed to be heading our way today and last through the weekend. Nobody was out today and the ocean looked a bit stormy and unorganized, so I decided to take a break and surf the internet.
I usually surf about 3 hours in the morning and if the conditions are right another 2 1/2 hours just before sunset. Yesterday the waves were fun and the conditions stayed good through the day, so between the morning and sunset I put in about 6 hours. Felt a little tired today so the lousy conditions are a good excuse to take a break, and if the waves are pushing 10 ft tommorow I'll be nice and fresh.
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Today the waves were similar to yesterday waist high to chest high, a little less clean very shifty and the wind kicked in after about an hour. Today all you could really work on was trying to be in the right spot. I focused on trying to take a more aggressive approach to catching Read More→


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May 8, 2009
FRESNO, Calif. - The No. 25 Fresno State softball team advances to Saturday's WAC Tournament Championship at 2 p.m. after the `Dogs defeated Louisiana Tech 5-0. The `Dogs will face No. 2 Nevada who defeated Louisiana Tech 2-1 in nine innings.
Fresno State improved to 35-18 overall and a perfect 2-0 in the double elimination tournament, which means if the `Dogs win game one tomorrow they will win their third WAC Tournament Title. If the `Dogs drop game one, a second and deciding game will be played at 5 p.m. with the winner earning an automatic berth to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.
"I thought our team played extremely well," said head coach Margie Wright. "We had to adjust to three different pitchers and I thought everyone did a great job doing that. I thought Morgan pitched well, I thought we had really good defense and I think all and all, it was a great game."
Haley Gilleland was hit by a pitch and after a fielder's choice by Alexis Lujan, a two-out bloop single to right field by Caitlin Stiglich drove in the games first run for a 1-0 Bulldog lead in the first.
The Lady Techsters got two on in the bottom of the second but a strikeout by Morgan Melloh and a turned double play by Nicole Angene got the `Dogs out of the inning.
Coronado and Angene hit back-to-back doubles in the top of the fourth as the `Dogs took a 2-0 lead.
The third double of the inning for the `Dogs was a shot to left by Gilleland as Angene scored from third as the `Dogs went up 3-0.
A double steal by GIlleland and Michelle Moses scored Gilleland from third to extend the lead to 4-0
Melloh's third strikeout of the game in the bottom of the fourth inning was her 400th on the season as she became the fourth pitcher in NCAA history to record back-to-back 400 strikeout seasons in her first two years in college. The other three were Monica Abbott (Tennessee), Cat Osterman (Texas) and Angelica Selden (UCLA). Melloh would strikeout the side to end the inning.
The first out of the bottom of the fifth inning for Louisiana Tech was the 403rd strikeout of the season for Melloh, moving her into sole possession of second on the WAC single-season list.
Perkins singled to lead off the sixth followed by a fielder's choice that send Gilleland to first as Perkins was safe at second. A single to left by Moses sent Perkins home. A walk to Alexis Lujan loaded the bases with no outs.
Melloh ended the game with 11 strikeouts and picked up her 27 win of the season. Megan Krieg got the loss for La. Tech as she allowed three runs on five hits in 3.0 innings.For complete tournament action log on to: http://www.gobulldogs.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/09-wac-softbal-tourney.html.
"Join the State - Fresno State!" - Your Fresno State softball team is hosting the 2009 WAC Softball Tournament at Bulldog Diamond May 6 through 9. The Bulldogs are looking to claim their tenth tournament title and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. Tickets are on sale now at go bulldogs dot com or by phone at 278-DOGS.
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May 8, 2012
Fellow Bruins,
If you were one of the 13,000-plus fans at the Rose Bowl on Saturday for the UCLA Football Spring Game, I hope that you enjoyed what turned out to be quite a festive, day-long event. After having conversations with some of them since, I can tell you for sure that the players were delighted to take part in live action in front of a very engaged crowd and that it was a treat for me to see the exuberance of the coaches as they saw the fruits of their labor come to life.
As I headed home from the Spring Game, I thought not only of them, but also of the spring sports teams that will be competing for NCAA Championships. For some, that quest gets underway beginning this week, and for others, it is still a few weeks away. Regardless, this truly is the stretch run of the season for spring sports, and many of our student-athletes are poised for deep runs into the competitions that await them.
The teams already in the NCAA mix are as follows:
* The #1-ranked UCLA women's water polo team kicks off NCAA Tournament play on Friday at Noon at San Diego State with a quarterfinal matchup against Iona. Should they win, a possible rematch with USC is looming in the semifinals the next day.
* The #1-ranked women's golf team will officially begin defense of its 2011 NCAA Championship at the NCAA West Regional in Colorado on Thursday. As reigning champions and the top-ranked team for most of the season, the Bruins are again among the title contenders. The top eight teams from this regional will advance to the NCAA Championships.
* On Friday, the #1-ranked women's tennis team opens play in the NCAA Tournament when it hosts Eastern Kentucky at LATC. Should UCLA win that match, they will host a second round match on Saturday against either Arkansas or Long Beach State.
* The #5-ranked men's tennis team opens play in the NCAA Tournament Saturday at LATC when it, too, hosts Eastern Kentucky in the NCAA first round. A win then means a second round match at home on Sunday against the winner of the San Diego-Fresno State match.
* Meanwhile, next week, the #3-ranked men's golf team will compete in the NCAA Central Regional in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The top five teams from this regional will advance to the NCAA Championships at Riviera Country Club.
A couple of teams will also be competing for conference championships this week:
* Both the men's and women's track and field teams return to Eugene, Oregon for the first-ever Pac-12 Outdoor Track Championships. Anyone who has ever been to "Tracktown USA" knows that the atmosphere should be electric and the competition exciting.
* The #7-ranked women's rowing team will compete in the Pacific Coast Rowing Championships on Saturday and the Pac-12 Championships on Sunday, both in Rancho Cordova in their final race before NCAA Championship selections next Tuesday.
In addition:
* The #17-ranked softball team wraps up its regular season this weekend in Eugene before learning its NCAA tournament fate. The Bruins took two of three from Arizona last weekend and are just one game behind the Ducks in the Pac-12 standings.
* The #11-ranked baseball team is also in position for an NCAA Tournament berth after winning two of three in an important non-conference series against Purdue at JRS last weekend. After today's game at Pepperdine, the Bruins are on the road for the next two weekends, at Washington and at Cal, before hosting USC in the final regular season series.
Off the field of play, the department also made some news last week ...
Men's Basketball Team Headed to China
Our men's basketball team will be going to China for a preseason tour this August. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and I have been in discussions about the possibility of this tour for more than a year, and, as a result, we were able to execute it with the help of the Pac-12 Conference. We are excited to provide our players with this unique cultural opportunity. The NCAA rules allow incoming freshmen to join, so it will be a great chance for Coach Ben Howland to integrate the newcomers with the strong nucleus of returning players early on for 10 days of practice plus the games in China.
Special Honor for UCLA Olympians
Last Saturday, before the Spring Football Game, the Athletic Department and the Alumni Association had the unique chance to honor UCLA Olympians past and present with a brunch in the Morgan Center Hall of Fame Press Room. A number of very important Bruins were able to make it out for the occasion, and I wanted to thank each of them in this forum for their attendance at that special event. It was quite an impressive collection of athletes and coaches: Brent Ballatore (representing his late father Ron), Keith Erickson, James Ferguson, Natalie Golda, Laurie Havel, Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, Rafer Johnson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Bob Larsen, Ann Meyers Drysdale, Monte Nitzkowski, Samantha Peszek, Ting Quah, Dot Richardson, Gary Sanserino, Tasha Schwikert, Art Shurlock, Sinjin Smith and Dwight Stones.
Ask Dan Question of the Week
Q: I love watching the student-athlete video blogs. It's great to find out a little bit more about some of the student-athletes. There are upperclassmen, underclassmen, student-athletes who get significant minutes, and then some who don't at all. I'm wondering how you pick the student-athletes featured?
Martin Smythe
A: There is always a range of different personalities on any given team. Therefore, the process of finding student-athletes for the video blogs on UCLABruins.com actually involves numerous people, including coaches, marketing staff and sports information personnel who are all consulted along the way. The goal is to find a student-athlete who will showcase unique aspects of each team while being insightful and comfortable in front of the camera. This often means that a team's "star player" or most experienced one on the roster doesn't necessarily become the video blogger. The video blog is a great experience for the student-athlete participants, and many have enjoyed being involved with it. They get an opportunity to program the content for their episodes and also hone their on-air skills. It's been a great addition for our student-athletes and our fans alike. We hope that you continue to enjoy it!
Thank you all for your submissions - please know that each question submitted was read, and please don't forget to submit a question to firstname.lastname@example.com this week.
Go Bruins!
Dan Guerrero
Director of Athletics, UCLA


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What You Didn't See on Raw
WWE will return to the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. for Monday Night Raw on December 29, 2014. The presale code to obtain tickets is RAWWEDC.
After this week's show went off the air, John Cena, Sheamus, Cesaro and Roman Reigns were in the ring. Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt attacked but the babyfaces fought them off to send the crowd home happy. The babyfaces celebrated to end the taping.
Connor's Cure
Stephanie McMahon and Triple H have announced the formation of "Connor's Cure." The charity is named after the young Daniel Bryan fan that grabbed all of hearts — Connor Michalek. Michalek died at the age of 8 earlier this year from Medulloblastoma.
The charity, personally funded by Stephanie and Hunter, is through the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation. Donations can be made at this link. Dot com has coverage here.


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I have become addicted to Kale and use it more than lettuce or add it to mix up the taste of my salads. Here is one in many of my versions of Kale salads which is simple and quick to prepare.
-Kale-2-3 bundles (or more depending on how small or large salad needed).
-Tomatoes (cherry or any variety) sliced or diced.
-1 Red onion (small-medium) sliced.
-1-2 Tablespoons Olive oil (extra virgin)
-1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning (McCormick Gourmet Herbs or any brand)
-1 clove garlic (crushed)
-Sea salt (add according to taste)
-Juice from 1 small lemon.
*decrease or increase (olive oil, Italian seasoning, garlic, salt and lemon juice) depending on your taste and size of salad that you will prepare.
Kale -Pick leaves from stems, clean thoroughly in tepid to warm water, dry and cut into desired pieces.
-In a large bowl add kale.
-Next add olive oil, Italian seasoning, garlic, sea salt, juice from a lemon.
-Toss well
-Next add tomatoes and onions and toss well.
Optional: you can add a variety of fresh and colorful vegetable to this salad, let your imagination run wild.


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****i missed you guys so much, i bought a dress!****
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Or something like that! But truly, honestly, I have been away for 3 days and I feel like I have been goen for 3 weeks. I had such a busy weekend and spent all day yesterday doing wedding stuff and the entire time I was thinking: " I wonder if LILSHINE got in her workout and is eating her 5 meals? did ENDERLI post a blog? I hope EUEK098 doesn't think I forgot about her. I wonder if LISANO415 is getting any wedding stuff done? I thought of so many of you and I worried that something major was going on in your lives that I needed to support you through and I was ultimately missing it. Needless to say, I will be doing a lot of catching up on blogs over the next couple of days.
I worked Monday night and ended up over calories because some idiot brought in Eileen's Cookies and some idiot (ME) decided to eat two of them. Yesterday I did ok and was able to do my 2nd day of P90X - Cardio X. That tape is only a little over 50 minutes. The worst part about the whole thing was the yoga warmup. I have hardwood floors in my family room and staying in a set pose for a minute is hard when your back foot continues to slide. The cardio wasn't bad, in fact, at some spots it was too easy and at others it was just plain fun. I liked doing high kicks over a chair, and jumping through imaginary tires, and doing jumpshots. The best move, The Heisman, is a butt workout like no other. I am really liking P90X and am beginning to look forward to it at the end of the night. Tonight I am going to Zumba and then coming home to do the chest and back dvd. We will see if I can move on Thursday.
Yesterday was wedding planning day! Our colors are ivory, champagne and chocolate brown. I found my niece the most ADORABLE flower girl dress.
It will look so good on her; she has a beautiful milk chocolate complexion. She may just steal the show! I also bout MY dress yesterday. I looked at the dress on the 5th of September and loved it then but wanted to give myself time to lose more weight before I ordered. This is what I looked like in the dress in September:
Don't mind me, I was feeling waaay too cute!
Since that day, I have lost 23 more pounds. This is what I looked like yesterday:
Yesterday I felt like a bride! Its so amazing what a difference of 23 lbs could do. I look at that picture and I feel proud. And I don't care that I am 221 lbs. I look healthy and fit. And I was able to buy a 16 wedding dress! Buying what the designer considers to be "standard" size saved me $100 from the September quote they gave me. And the store owner gave me a bottle of champagne to celebrate! (Take that Kleinfelds!) Afterwards my aunt and I went and looked at linens to no avail and then Derrell and I were invited as guests to a wedding coordinator society event with all the major wedding vendors from Nebraska there. They set it up like a reception with an open bar and buffet and carving station and wedding cake- the whole nine yards. They asked us to sit on a panel with other brides and one other couple to share our wedding planning experience and answer their questions. It was good to just be honest with them and feel like someone cared about our big day. Tomorrow we meet with a photographer. Things are coming together and I am so pumped up!
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Gorgeous! And congratulations on saving $100. That alone is worth all of the hard work IMPO.
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Oh honey, I know you didn't, besides I'll always pop in to see how you're doing. Doing good on the P90x,
for you, that's gonna be quite the combination, you'll be up and about tomorrow, just a little sore.
OMG NIKKI, awww, you look so pretty in your dress, Keep going you'll look even more amazing on D-day. Have fun making those plans. So happy for you.
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You look amazing!! congrats on the 23lb loss!!
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As I describe in the title of this question, I like to allow my guest computer access the internet, and allow my host computer access via HTTP the guest computer.
In depth, I have a Windows 7 OS installed in my host computer, and I have installed the Latest Ubuntu Server version as a guest computer in a VirtualBox.
At the time, I have the option either to get access to the internet from my guest host, either allow the access to my guest host via the HTTP.
In my guest host, I have installed a LAMP stack, in combination with the WebMin. In my case, If I need to install a new software or updates in my guest host server, I have to shut down the guest computer and then change the connection settings from "Host-only Adapter" to "Bridge Adapter". Then if I like to use the WebMin, I have to shutdown again the guest PC and change the connection type from, "Bridge Adapter" to "Host-only Adapter".
Note that also I have used and a second adapter in network options of the guest host, with the alternative value, but no luck.
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I'm not old enough to vote, but when I am I hope I get to cast a vote for a president like Barack Obama! He is inspiring and the kind of leader we need for the future. The character at the center of this movie obviously thinks so too, and not just because he happens to be black (I think a lot of people who don't like Obama will dismiss the movie just because the cast is black and "of course they have to like Obama" - not true!) but I thought it was cool how he became obsessed with trying to get Obama elected. If only we all had a passion that burned so intensely! He learns a lot along the way, thanks mostly to his understanding wife, and in the end he decides that though getting Obama elected is important, it doesn't mean that it's the be all or end all of his life. Charles Dutton who plays the main character is spectacular in his role, so adorable and high energy but still vulnerable.
When I first heard there was a movie called "The Obama Effect" I thought it would have to do with politics. As I recall, during the 2008 election there was all this talk of the "Bradley Effect" which was supposed to explain voters telling pollsters they would vote for a black candidate and then go in the booth and vote the other way. Thankfully, this movie is not just a "Hooray for Obama" piece of propaganda. It is definitely pro-Obama (if you're looking for a critique of his policies or his persona, look elsewhere) but there is an actual story here about a man who becomes lost in the whole Obama euphoria of 2008, so much so that he forgets what should be most important to him: getting his life back on track and dealing with the real issues of his health and prosperity. Once he realizes that he is the real her of his life, he learns to put everything in perspective, even the presidential race. I think that is good movie for everyone to see despite their personal politics. It has good lessons for those who think the grass is always greener on the other side. If you don't like the grass on your side, then fix it! Or get new grass!
I wanted to like this movie more than I really did so let's just agree to disagree if you think it's just another Hollywood cheerleading effort for President Obama. It's about a man who is obsessed with getting Barack Obama elected to the highest office in the land. He thinks it's a noble cause but it's really just a way for him to mask his deep seated denial of what is troubling him inside. When his wife finds out, she knocks some sense into him and he gives up the Obama cause and begins to focus on himself. The performances by the leads are very good (especially Vanessa Bell Calloway as the wife Molly) but the movie is really predictable. I gave it four stars because it is well acted and the direction is spot on even though the script is as hackneyed as it gets. Plus, it gets a couple extra stars because we FINALLY have a movie about African Americans that doesn't involve Tyler Perry dressed up in drag and serving up a big plate of slap yo mamma cliches. It's worth seeing just for that!
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Authorities suspect the Feb. 29 robbery at the bank, 9790 West Peoria Road, was connected to an employee, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
On the day of the robbery, teller Joel Leon Thomas Jr., a two-month employee, and a branch manager were opening the bank at 7:30 a.m., the filing said. They were confronted by a gunman, suspected to be Billy Wayne Brymer III, 21, who forced his way into the bank's vault and fled with a large sum of money.
During the robbery, the gunman pointed the handgun directly at the bank manager, but not Thomas, the document said. Surveillance video showed Thomas walked behind the gunman, who did not make any attempt to control or even look at him, as the gunman was forcing the bank manager into the vault, the filing said.
Investigators suspect the gunman fled and and called an acquaintance, Ernest Lerma, to pick him up.
Peoria Police Detective John White informed FBI investigators that he had an open fraud case involving Thomas, the teller, the document said. Thomas allegedly was involved in a fraudulent debit cards scam while employed at a Wells Fargo Bank, the filing said.
White made the connection to Brymer and investigators began looking into whether he was the gunman. He matched the description provided by the bank manager and as shown in the surveillance video, the filing said.
Investigators searched Brymer's home and car and found documents containing bank account numbers and personal information of dozens of people, two note cards that demanded money from the bank and a sweatshirt that looked like the one worn by the gunman stuffed into a tub of protein powder.
Investigators also found phone records showing the teller and Brymer had communicated the night before and the morning of the bank robbery.
Brymer and Thomas were indicted this month on armed bank robbery and aiding and abetting, the indictment said.
Brymer was also indicted on a charge of using a firearm during a crime of violence.
Lerma and Brymer's girlfriend Jillian Bagley were indicted for their alleged involvement with the armed robbery.
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A Monday story in the Washington Times reports that Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who has written a number of books on public policy has offered to debate Al Sharpton on various issues of concern to African Americans. Hot Air suggests that while this would be as catnip to the fans of each leader, it may be easier said than done. Each man works for rival cable news networks, Carson for Fox News and Sharpton for MSNBC. But the contrast between each man's style and substance could not be greater.
Carson, who first won national fame when he directly challenged President Obama on health care reform, is a soft spoken man who won his way up through education and hard work from poverty. His approach is definitely on the conservative side of the electoral divide, emphasizing individual responsibility and small government as a means to solving social problems. He is a tea party favorite and has been mentioned, despite never holding a political office, as a potential president of the United States.
Sharpton's stock in trade has been fanning the flames of racial animosity for personal and political profit. From the Tawana Brawley affair to the current unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton seems to be attracted to racially charged situations, which he has been accused of exacerbating. He has also made bigoted remarks against Jews, whites, gays, and Mormons. He has run for a number of political offices, including that of president of the United States in 2004
Such a debate between Carson and Sharpton, if nothing else, would be both illuminating and entertaining. The trick would be to find some high profile neutral ground and a good format that would bring out the two men's differing views and approaches. A Lincoln/Douglas style debate, perhaps on CSPAN, might prove suitable, with both men able to speak at length on how they would address social issues.


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Languages of Latin America (ILLA)
list of Volumes in this Series
7 - Uchumataqu. The lost language of the Urus of Bolivia
6 - Baure. An Arawak language of Bolivia (2007)
Vol. 5 - Language
Endangerment and Endangered Languages (2007)
4 - Diccionario
Tehuelche-Español / Indice Español-Tehuelche
3 - Current Studies on South American Languages
2 - Diccionario
/ Español-Ranquel
1 - Indigenous Languages of Lowland South
America (2000)
book is the first comprehensive grammatical description
of Uchumataqu, the language of the Uru of Lake Titicaca
in north-western Bolivia. Uchumataqu forms part of the
isolated language family Uru-Chipaya but has been influenced
to differing degrees by Aymara, Quechua, and Spanish.
The Uchumataqu language became extinct around 1950.
Although several researchers had documented the language
during the first half of the twentieth century, much
of the material remained unstudied. This book is the
first to take into consideration every previous study
of the Uchumataqu language. The grammatical description
is based on former publications and archive material
and seeks to describe Uchumataqu as comprehensively
as possible. It includes a description of the phonological
system of Uchumataqu as well as a presentation of its
morphological processes. The nominal and verbal systems
are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid
to the complex person-marking system of Uchumataqu,
of which person-marking clitics are a vital part that
distinguishes Uchumataqu from the neighbouring Aymara
and Quechua language. Another important issue are nominalisation
and subordination strategies as well as adjectives which
form a word class of its own. The relationship of Uchumataqu
with the surrounding Aymara and Quechua language, and
particularly the way in which influence on Uchumataqu
was exerted, are described in detail.
appendices contain a transcription of the afore unpublished
manuscripts of Max Uhle and Walter Lehmann on Uchumataqu
as well as a comparative and diachronic dictionary.
book is aimed at linguists from all disciplines but
is of equal interest to anthropologists, Americanists,
historical linguists, typologists, and linguists with
a special interest in Andean studies. It is not only
an important contribution to the study of Andean languages
and their interrelationship, but also an account for
the descendants of the last Uchumataqu speakers of their
lost language.
English, 304 pp.)
book is first and foremost a grammatical description
of Baure, a seriously endangered language from Bolivian
Amazonia. Baure belongs to the Southern Arawak language
family and it forms part of the Guaporé-Mamoré
linguistic area. This book is the first detailed and
comprehensive grammatical description of Baure, covering
its phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse stucture.
It is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia
in 2003, 2004, and 2006. The book furthermore addresses
the historical, cultural, and sociolinguistic background
of the speakers of Baure.
attention is given to th e complex (morpho)phonological
processes within a phonological phrase, the rich noun
classification system, the distinction of verbal and
non-verbal predicates with respect to the argument marking
pattern, the three-level distinction of verbal morphology,
and specific clause types based on different nominalization
strategies, which also play an important role in clause
subordination. The relation to the surrounding Southern
Arawak languages Trinitario, Ignaciano, and Paunaca
is investigated through comparison of the lexicon and
the grammar.
appendices contain different text types, lists of grammatical
morphemes, classifiers, and the Swadesh 200 word list.
It is a highly valuable addition to our knowledge of
South American languages and cultures in general and
the Arawak languages in particular. This book is aimed
at linguists from all backgrounds and is of special
interest to typologists, historical linguists, Arawakanists,
Americanists, and anthropologists. It is also an important
record of a dying language for its speech community
and their descendants.
English, 480 pp., ill.)
About the author
author Swintha Danielsen studied English Linguistics,
Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Hanover
and received her Magister degree with a thesis on article
and aspect in English and English-based Creoles. She
participated in the LEXIKURS-project at the University
of Hanover and obtained a doctoral scholarship at the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Radboud
University in Nijmegen , the Netherlands to carry out
research on the Baure language and more in general on
comparative issues concerning Arawak languages in Bolivia.
studies gathered together in this book were originally
presented at two conferences sponsored by The Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which were
held at the VU University Amsterdam, in late August
first part Language Endangerment and Endangered
Languages deals with issues related to language
endangerment and the problems linguists and other researchers
encounter when documenting these languages, both in
general terms and with an eye on the Andean/Amazonian
second part, Specific Studies: Languages and Cultures
of the Andean-Amazonian Border Area, contains three
sections. The first deals with topics that relate to
the Maku peoples and languages of Brazil (Eastern Maku)
and Colombia ( Western Maku ). The second section features
papers that address anthropological and grammatical
issues concerning the Nambikwara peoples and languages
(Brazil). The third section discusses various other
languages in the Andean/Amazonian border area.
Content of this book
editor of the book, Leo Wetzels, was recently appointed
as a research director (directeur de recherche) at the
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP),
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Paris
III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris. He has retained a
part-time appointment as Professor of Romance and Amazonian
languages at the VU University Amsterdam to supervise
his PhD students, who are working mainly on endangered
South-American languages. His personal research is directed
towards questions of phonological and morphological
typology, for which the properties of the Amazonian
languages play a decisive role, and the phonology of
Brazilian Portuguese.
articles brought together in this volume are improved
versions of presentations given during two symposia
on the indigenous languages of South America at two
international events held in the year 2000: the 50th
International Congress of Americanists in Warsaw (Poland),
and the 3rd Workshop on Amerindian Languages in Leiden
(The Netherlands). Two such events in the same year
demonstrate the increasing interest in South American
languages. In fact, there have never been as many scholars
interested in the enormous linguistic diversity of South
America - and actively involved in its study - as today.
However, the situation of these languages and their
speakers has also never been as precarious as today,
which makes their study and protection an urgent need.
The articles in the present volume report on current
research by a number of scholars, most of whom discuss
new linguistic data obtained during their own fieldwork.
Over thirty languages from a large number of families
and isolated stocks are represented: Chahuapana, Canichana,
Carib, Cayubaba, Chapakura, Chiquitano, Chocó,
Cholón, Gê, Itonama, Jaqi, Kamsá,
Kwaza, Leko, Maipure-Arawak, Mataguayo, Mosetén,
Movima, Pano, Peba-Yagua, Tacana, Tupí-Guaraní,
Yuracaré, and Záparo. This volume is not
only intended to inspire discussion and exchange between
colleagues, but also to stimulate others to participate
in carrying out the tasks that lie ahead.
of ILLA 3
(In English, 346 pp.)
volume is the result of a number of talks on the indigenous
languages of the South American lowlands (i.c. Amazonia
and the Gran Chaco region) held at the 49th International
Congress of Americanists in Quito in 1997. Lowland South
America is one of the linguistically most diverse parts
of this world. The articles in the present volume reflect
this diversity. They are based on linguistic data from
over 60 languages from over 25 different linguistic
families: Araucanian, Arawa, Carib, Chapakura, Cholon,
Guaykuru, Jaqi, Jivaro, Macro-Jê, Maipure, Makú,
Mataguaya, Pano, Piaroa-Sáliba, Quechua, Tacana,
Tukano, Tupi, Uru-Chipaya, Yanomami and a number of
isolates and unclassified languages. The articles are
all written by specialists in their field, and the data
are mostly from firsthand experience. This book also
reflects a good range of different approaches to the
subject: it contains descriptive, comparative, historical
and theoretical articles on the phonological, morphosyntactic
and pragmatic components of the linguistic systems concerned.
This collection is intended to contribute to the study
of the indigenous languages of South America, and to
further the interest in the highly endangered linguistic
heritage of this underdocumented part of the world.
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(In English and Spanish, 330 pp.)


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Unfabulous funk day
Monday, January 21, 2013
I'm in a serious funk today.. I didn't do too awful over the weekend in fact Saturday I was a exercise beast but Sunday I stayed within my calories even though I had a small burger which by the way almost killed me! I felt like I was dying 20 minutes after I ate it. I think the funk might be because I didn't exercise yesterday? Perhaps I am just missing my huge shot of endorphins, but today I just felt very negative which is a first for me during this lifestyle change I'm usually fairly excited and happy but today I sat back and just felt fat I felt like I am making no instant progress (trust I know better about instant progress) but it would just be so awesome to see some changes right away.. I guess today my goal is feeling so far away and unobtainable. I know everyone has days or even weeks like this but it just sucks. Having said that I am in no way giving up, cheating or letting myself get away with not exercising tonight I still have my eye on the prize I just am having one of those days.
I bought a fitbit and I am so excited I can hardly stand the wait for it to get here! Not that I think this is some miracle item but I do think it will help me personally know certain things like how many calories I am burning for sure during my workouts and knowing could help me want to push it harder if that makes sense.
I am terrified of getting the flu! Not because I hate being sick or would have to take time off, more than anything because I feel it will knock me back from my plan and goals that it might make me lose my motivation. Aside from my negative day I am feeling like real changes are happening on the inside and I am loving it I just don't want to lose it.
Seeing as I have a serious addiction to the scale I have agreed with myself to not weight myself until Friday I tend to cheat and weight myself periodically throughout the week I think for me picking one day and sticking to it might be in my best interest.
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Taxi! - I spotted style photographer Garance Doré after Ralph Lauren's fashion show, hailing a taxi for Pardon my French, her Fashion Week webseries with Net-a-Porter. Episode 1 had just premiered the day before and a journalist standing next to us mentioned it had already hit 10,000 views that morning. It's a comedic docu-reality on her creative endeavors and slices of life, from being ribbed by her beau about grooming, to hints of a collaboration with Kate Spade and intoxicating fashion show footage. More, please!
Related Post: shoegazing: Garance et Scott


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The beautiful Queen Elizabeth has checked into a German shipyard for a major facelift. As Cunard Line's newest ship, Queen Elizabeth is undergoing her first scheduled dry-docking since she entered service in 2010.
"Queen Elizabeth is already a much loved ship and following this multi-million dollar refit, she is sure to shine brightly for years to come," said David Dingle, CEO for Cunard Line.
Queen Elizabeth is set to leave Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg on June 1 to set sail for Southampton. From there she will cruise on June 4 to Amsterdam. And solo cruisers will be in for a treat as part of the makeover.
"Whilst there has been investment across the ship, we are particularly delighted to announce that following this refit, there will be staterooms for single travelers on board a Cunard ship for the first time since QE2," Dingle said.
In response to passenger requests, Cunard is creating nine new single staterooms on Deck 2 midship. The new staterooms will be part of a remodeling of Queen Elizabeth's casino. Eight of the single accommodations will be a new grade of Ocean View accommodation. The ninth single stateroom will be a standard inside. Queen Elizabeth offers 1,034 staterooms for 2,068 passengers.
Along with conducting standard checks and maintenance, the refit will create enhanced stateroom and other amenities, plus improved restaurant facilities. Scrubber technology also is being added in line with Cunard's environmental sustainability goals. The project includes installing a new filtration system for the exhaust gas from the ship's engines
The ship is getting new carpet and large flat screen TVs in all passenger staterooms. Most of the TVs are 32 inch or more.
For the ship's informal restaurant – The Lido – will offer waiters with insulated coffee and tea pots to serve passengers with hot drinks at all meals. Recessed risers are being installed to improve the passenger flow and styling in the self-service area.
As an important part of skin protection, sun awnings are being erected on the open area near the Lido pool at the stern of Deck 9 and on both sides of the Grills Upper Terrace area near the top of the ship. The sun awnings will offer more shade on deck.
For popular shipboard photos, a dedicated studio will allow ship's photographers to offer high-end portraiture. For choosing photos, passengers will be able to use touch screens in the photo gallery to easily find and select photos taken by the team.
Shoppers will be able to browse new fine jewelry and watch shops. To improve; the overall shopping experience, the layout and lighting are being enhanced.
In addition to Queen Elizabeth, Cunard Line operates luxury ocean liners Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria. Since the company's first paddle-wheeled steamer Britannia crossed the Atlantic in 1840, Cunard has drawn travelers with impeccable White Star Service, gourmet dining and world-class entertainment.
Today, Cunard offers the only regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic liner service and continues the legacy of world cruising, which it began in 1922.
For more information: Visit www.cunard.com.


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The New Orleans Saints brought tight end Michael Higgins up from the practice squad to the 53-man roster as tackle Bryce Harris landed on injured reserve with a broken bone in his lower right leg, interim coach Joe Vitt said Tuesday. Tackle Zach Strief (groin), cornerback Corey White (knee) and tight end David Thomas (knee) were limited in Tuesday's practice.
Those who didn't practice were defensive end Junior Galette (ankle), defensive tackle Tom Johnson (back), tackle Charles Brown (knee), safety Isa Abdul-Quddus (concussion) and wide receiver Courtney Roby (shoulder, ankle).
Cornerback Elbert Mack (concussion) practiced fully.
Strief said he felt better Tuesday than he had since sustaining the groin injury and that he's definitely moving in the right direction. Strief said it's ultimately up to the coaches to see if Strief plays Thursday.
Harris sustained his injury in the first quarter of Sunday's loss to the Niners. William Robinson replaced Harris for the rest of the game as the Saints were down to their fourth right tackle.
Falcons defensive tackle Peria Jerry (thigh) and cornerbacks Asante Samuel (shoulder) and Dunta Robinson (illness) missed Tuesday's practice.


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In 'Open Tucson' to Drive Better Decisions, Noelle Knell talks about recent developments in Tucson as they relate to the national context:
Greenhill, along with other local advocates who are passionate about the potential of open data, have been meeting locally for a couple of years now. Their organization, called Open Tucson, got a shot in the arm on May 22, with an official go-ahead from the mayor and council to formulate a strategy to make an open data portal a reality.
You can read the whole story here:
As a follow up to our data set brainstorming yesterday, we're going to follow up with a meeting where we re-hash these sets, as well as think of specific problems that could be addressed by each and come up with candidate applications. More details to follow.
We had a good meeting last night and came up with a list of candidate data sets that our group is keen to see released. They're listed below, along with some miscellaneous notes on policy ideas and methodologies. Please do comment on these, or suggest additions!
Various Notes:
City could consider adding clause for contracts that contractors must release data.
Most citizens don't know how the city works/is put together. Some kind of facilitator role would be helpful — a data coordinator/liaison/interpreter.
Make sure people can comment and rate data. I.e. explain the way the data is structured, deficiencies, etc. Flagging data as flawed or issues.
Consolidate Existing Data Streams
Ask each department to list the data streams they currently publish, and information about the streams (how frequently updated), API if available.
Open Tucson Proposed Data Streams
SunTran GTFS (bus stops, routes, etc.)
SunTran live bus data
TDOT Construction projects status and schedule.
Traffic Counts for major streets – ADT
Traffic signal data
Police reports – traffic or other crimes
All the data from the zoomtucson service — http://maps.tucsonaz.gov/zoomtucson/
trash pickup
congressional district
Job postings
Zoning/permits/liquor licenses
Restaurant Inspections
Traffic circle locations
Current Employee Names, Salaries, and Position Titles
Business Licenses
Parking Tickets
Parking Facilities
Bicycle parking locations
Traffic infrastructure
Bike Theft locations
Tree inventory
census data — centralize for the city too.
Construction costs on road jobs
Construction & Development permits
Construction Stages in process
Survey data
Water connections
Water usage by area / wastage
Parade permits
Waste generated
TREO/MTCVB data
TPAC data — public arts / artist grants
Historic Assets
Red Tags (prob part of TPD reports)
GIS data in shapefiles — can they release that in other formats?
Graffiti app / 311 calls for service / potholes
Park awning availability — city parks — other parks/rec data?
Preferred Formats
GTFS — other standardized formats
Static Data: CSV
Now that Tucson's City Council has voted to start exploring an Open Government initiative, they're going to be collecting a list of data sets based on input from Staff, Mayor and Council, and citizens — that would be us. So let's get together to brainstorm what we're most interested in seeing! Here are some example sets from other cities to get started:
- http://data.vancouver.ca/
- http://data.dc.gov
- http://data.edmonton.ca/
- http://data.baltimorecity.gov/
- http://civicapps.org/datasets
- http://nycopendata.socrata.com/
- http://data.nanaimo.ca/ (that's right a city of 83,000 already has an open data catalog with 45 data sets!)
And there are tons, tons, more. Looking forward to seeing you all then — 6:30-8pm June 4, 2012 at the Spoke 6 co-working space at the corner of 6th Street and 6th Ave. Snacks and beer always welcome. If you can't make it, be sure to fill out our wishlist form.
See you all then!
Good news! I was invited by the Mayor's office to address the City Council yesterday during their study session on the merits and impacts of Open Government and to talk a bit about the work that OpenTucson members and others have done in our community. It was a lightning fast presentation, but I think they were impressed — particularly by the work that Kit Plummer did with the Busted API, and the work that Collin Forbes has done with bikecolli.info.
This is the motion that they passed:
I move that we direct the City Attorney to work with City staff and return in 60 days with the following:
- Proposed legislation that confirms the City's commitment to open government principles and to the development of a City webpage where the catalog of open data sets can be accessed and public input on the value of these data sets, requests for other data sets and examples of how citizens are using these data sets is collected.
- A list of valuable and useful data sets based upon input from Mayor and Council, City Staff and citizens
- Staff determination of the costs of implementation and recommendations on how best to proceed.
This is just the first step of many, but it's great news that the process has started. Now would be a good time to fire up our lists of data sets we're excited to get our hands on.
Thanks to the Mayor and his Staff for getting this item on the agenda and on the City's radar, to the Councilpersons for voting to move forward on this, and to all the members of OpenTucson who have helped make the case for opening government data to facilitate citizen coding by showing up at OpenTucson meetings and doing all the work. Chris Janton, I wouldn't be surprised if you get a call soon about helping SunTran staff finalize that GTFS data.
UA student Shi Junxiao sent an email letting me know that he's created a program to query departure times by text message based on the Busted API. Check it out here:
The next OpenTucson meeting will be this Tuesday, March 29 6-8pm at Spoke 6. For now:
1. CityCampAZ report: Chandler held a city camp on February 15 that Andrew and Ian attended. What we learned and what we could do here.
2. SunTracker Kiosk: next steps — location aware browser version? QR codes?
3. Inspirations and Project ideas: discuss ideas for other projects and leads — what's happening in other cities
4. Code For America report: How the Code for America teams are doing, and what they're learning
Please let me know if there's anything else you want to discuss. See you Tuesday!
Spoke6 is at the corner of Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue.
Andrew found an interested article related to our SunTracker project.
"In D.C., as in many other places, the intention is that by giving people more information, more often, and more easily, they will make better choices about their mobility."
Read the rest of the article here:
Andrew's efforts with Code for America and Open Tucson are mentioned in the December issue of Fast Company:
It's a great article about the government 2.0, and worth reading. The relevant excerpt:
In 2009, while she was working with O'Reilly on the Gov 2.0 Summit, she heard from Andrew Greenhill, chief of staff to the mayor of Tucson — who happened to be married to her childhood friend Valerie. "I was tweeting and blogging around gov 2.0," says Pahlka, "and Andrew was telling me, 'You need to pay attention to the local level because cities are in major crisis. Revenues are down, costs are up — if we don't change how cities work, they're going to fail.' "
Greenhill, a Vassar graduate with a master's degree in English who spent two years with Teach for America, may not seem like the most likely tech advocate in government. But he had brought a customized version of SeeClickFix to Tucson, and had also helped introduce a Live BusTracker app. In 2009, he cofounded OpenTucson, a not-for-profit dedicated to developing more apps for the community. His motivation is as much financial as techno-utopian. "Our entire general fund budget was at one point about $493 million. Now it's down to $443 million, and we're facing a $51 million deficit in fiscal year 2012," he says. "The application of technology in government can do as much as anything to make government more efficient and effective, more transparent, and more participatory and collaborative."
Greenhill and Pahlka began discussing the outlines of what eventually became Code for America, a one-year fellowship recruiting developers to work for city government. They decided that any potential fellows would have to go through a rigorous application process, and that they would be equally ruthless in demanding buy-in from the cities they worked with. Only then would programmers be embedded in city hall, to spend a year working closely with city managers to design web solutions to public problems.
We're going to be hosting our first annual OpenTucson holiday party Monday night at Spoke 6. We'll have food, beer, and a brief presentation of the most recent version of the SunTran kiosk, but mostly we'll just be socializing and talking about next year's goals.
Join us — and feel free to bring your friends!
When: December 20 at 6pm
Where: 439 N 6th Avenue on the Southwest corner of 6th Avenue and 6th Street.
See you Monday! RSVP to email@example.com if you can so we can make sure we order enough food.


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Tuesday Morning is starting to see the results of its turnaround strategy, which involved the company exiting a number of non-core categories, such as women's apparel and footwear.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2014, comparable sales in ongoing core categories increased 7% and were led by exceptional strength in furniture, up 57%; sheets and linens, up 23%; and home décor, up 20%.
Comparable store sales increased by 3.1% and consisted of a 7% increase in customer transactions, partially offset by a 3.9% decrease in average ticket.
The company's net sales were flat at $285.8 million compared with $285.3 million for the prior-year quarter. Net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 included the contribution of 24 additional stores, as well as e-commerce sales.
Including the impact of business turnaround related charges, the company reported net income for the quarter of $17.7 million, or $0.41 per share, compared to a net loss of $21.5 million, or $0.51 per share, in the same period last year.
"During the second quarter, our experienced team executed a disciplined program aimed at improving operations, enhancing merchandising and strengthening the Tuesday Morning offering to our value-oriented consumer," said CEO Michael Rouleau. "Our progress to date includes improved customer service in well-stocked stores displaying fresh, new merchandise at great values — all of which yielded solid comparable store sales results, increased inventory turnover and a strong cash position. We are pleased with our progress and results this quarter and are confident we will demonstrate continued improvement in the second half of our fiscal 2014, yet remain focused on the significant work ahead necessary to complete our business turnaround program."
Tuesday Morning is a leading closeout retailer of upscale decorative home accessories, housewares, seasonal goods and famous-maker gifts. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company opened its first store in 1974 and currently operates 819 stores in 41 states.


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Florida Marlins: Twitterverse dumbfounded over Logan Morrison demotion
No one saw this coming, and not that it's happened it appears a healthy contingent of Marlins fans is not happy. Early Sunday morning, Logan Morrison sent out the following tweet: Thx guys 4 all of ur kind words & support. Really means a lot! "A bend in the road isnt the end of the road…unless u fail 2 make the turn"
Morrison is the first to admit he's not having the kind of season he or the Marlins expected, but his play of late did not merit a demotion to Triple-A New Orleans. After Saturday's loss to the Giants, the Marlins stunned Morrison and all observers by optioning him to the minors with three weeks of that season remaining.
The Marlins told Morrison they were sending him down because of his .249 batting average. Speaking cryptically, Morrison said some off-field incident, which he would not discuss, was the likely impetus. He didn't think his Twitter habits and outspoken nature had anything to do with it.
Morrison through his insanely popular Twitter account (@LoMoMarlins), earlier in the day apologized to his close to 60,000 followers for not attending Saturday's meet and greet with season ticket holders. It's unclear what if any role his absence at that even factored into the transaction.
Reconciling this strictly in baseball terms is tough. If the Marlins indeed had another reason for shipping him out, why wouldn't they tell him instead of leaving it at the batting average explanation?
The Marlins are not a better team without Morrison right now. They are not accerlating his professional development sending him to Triple-A for three weeks worth of games.
For whatever reason, they must feel like they needed to humble him. Maybe this will help him in the long run, but the short-term benefits are difficult to pinpoint. The Twitterverse is equally confounded. I had one Twitter user (@mattlazear) tell me the Morrison move should have happened months ago. Otherwise, every tweet directed toward me was pro-Morrison.
Even Keith Olbermann sided with Morrison, tweeting: "If you bat a guy third at 7 then send him to the minors at 10, it ain't him (@LoMoMarlins) McKeon, Beinfest, Loria – it's you
Here's a sampling of tweets directed at my handle (@JCRMarlinsbeat):
@Spettus_24 why in gods name was Lomo sent to AAA?; @arigmark why would we send @LoMoMarlins down? Makes no sense to me at all. One of our bright spots; @whitehotjd This makes no sense at all; @rob5468 is this a personality issue..did he rub Jack the wrong way, can't see the logic in this move; @janewins1 Sounds like a Loria move; he doesn't tolerate insubordination (e.g., Girardi). I don't think he knows how popular LoMo is;
@marlinfan36 we need a new front office for god sake…; @WickedOrtega What are the Marlins smoking, sending down LoMo WTF?; @MLBBoca What's to get with the worthless crap we call a front office?; @Rene_Bullsfan23 I'd understand sending Lomo down in June/July. But now? Don't rosters expand soon? What's this incident he referred to?; @cavanaghryan unless they traded for the 2004-2007 version of Bonds I don't get it; @Rizzmiggizz If BA is the logic they used, Gaby is hitting .195 in the last month, send him down too;
@GOBBLEX239 @If Lomo was sent down due to "low" .249 BA. Then should Wise, Cameron, Petersen, Buck, Hanley be sent down as well? #joke; @tomsmokedog @The Marlins might as well swap out the whole team with the Zephyrs, by their lomo logic; @mdelafe Seems to me that the Marlins have a split clubhouse. Who are they trying to please with these moves?; @CharlesMilian He is a fan favorite, so was Ross, Uggla, is this the way to excite the fan base for the new stadium next year? @James_Bondman Bad PR move for Marlins to make with ballpark, are they that dumb?


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What Do You Know about Essay Length? Is this Really True?
What do you know about essay length? Essay length is sufficient if your instructor says it is. This is the reply most of the students will give if asked about the essay length.
Indeed, what is the most appropriate essay length? Two pages? Maybe three or four? All the answers are correct because essay length depends on a number of factors which should be taken into account when writing an essay.
Some interesting facts about essay length
Essay length is, in most of the cases, determined by your professor and can hardly be exceeded. Some of the educational establishments have rather strict requirements regarding the essay length this is why try to stay within the limit when writing your essay.
This will help you to save some points to spend them later for grammatical mistakes. This is what you should know about the essay length:
- Sometimes the essay length is free. This is the best case because such essays do not have any word or pages limits. However, do not overdo it! Your professor will unlikely be happy to read your How-I-spent-my-summer essay written on 30 pages.
- Quite often the essay length depends on the number of sources needed to be used in the paper. Generally, no more than three sources per page are required because otherwise the essay will have too many quotations. So, if you have to use 15 sources, than your essay should be around 5 pages.
- Essay length depends on the topic of the essay. If the topic is general (for instance, What do I like most of all about Christmas), the essay length is usually no more than 2 pages. In case with essays on literature, history, psychology, etc the essay should be longer because more space is needed for laying out the ideas.


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I opened the tin to a small number of extra large flakes, each flake being nearly 2" x 4". The flakes are mostly light in color with some darker browns in the mix. The tin note is of honey and oats, like the smell of Honey Nut Cheerios without the nutty scent. I laid the flakes out to dry for a bit. As has been noted, the moisture content is not normal for SG flakes and they may require as little as an hour of drying time to be at correct moisture for smoking. Of course that depends on your individual moisture preference. The length is just a tad bit too long for a traditional half pint mason jar. I cut the flakes in half across the grain to fit them in the jar.
I packed a flake or two slightly loose, using a fold 'n stuff method, with a little rubbed out on top for kindling. The charring light brings a distinct sweetness to your palate. The true and first puffs continue with the honey-like sweetness and bring in black pepper in both taste and spicyness. The tobacco burns easier than most traditional SG flakes. Cadence is important, this can get hot and bite a little. Through the first third the two flavors continue to fight each other, sweet vs pepper until about midway. The pepper spicyness, but not flavor, settles down about halfway through and the flavors begin to meld together with the sweetness being a constant throughout. In the last third a new flavor I have trouble describing comes into play, and having reread the description above I think it may have been the Sherry which I completely forgot about! Overall the flavor was in the medium range. I found the nic level to be slightly under medium. I did post a mild flavoring, as most pipe tobacco is treated somewhat, and while this is not a heavily cased or topped blend, the honey sweetness is most likely from some type of treatment. It really is quite an interesting smoke with good potential.
Pipe Used: Grant's Tanshell(Dunhill sub brand)
Age When Smoked: 6 months
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Nicely prepared 2"x4" flakes just about fill the tin and are flexible enough for my fold and pack technique. I think the sweetness must come from a honey like topping and am not sure if the spice is from an additive or the perique. Overall, a nice mild smoke as the weather warms up. With care, smokes cool and evenly without relights.
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According to NBC News Investigations, teen pop star Justin Bieber better hope he isn't caught with egg on his face because any evidence tying him to accusations of "egging" could result in felony charges for what many might consider "typical kidstuff," egging your neighbor. NBC's report described how, on Tuesday, Los Angeles County sheriff deputies served a search warrant related to a recent accusation alleging Bieber egged his neighbor's home causing "approximately $20,000" worth of damage.
Perhaps in a rural neighborhood, a teen might be required to scrub up his mess and apologize; however, a neighbor and his daughter claim they watched from a balcony as Bieber pelted a home with eggs. Now, if evidence is found in Bieber's home to support charges of "felony vandalism," applicable when damage exceeds $400, this prank could have dire legal consequences for the Beiber.
The egged home, according to Prado De Grandioso sheriff officials, suffered damage to a "decorative facade." The sheriff isn't particularly interested in the contents of Bieber's frig, instead their investigation is centering on "video surveillance" which might back-up the allegations. It's not a giant leap to imagine how damning a video tape would be showing Bieber leaving his home armed to the teeth with egg crates or returning boastful about such an attack.
Spokesperson for the sheriff claimed neighbors videotaped the incident. Now, all of Bieber's security apparatus, including videos, were apparently seized, according to a livestream of official statements It is unknown whether any tapes dismantled and seized might also include audio.
As almost an afterthought, a drug arrest during the "egging" raid was confirmed by the authorities. Though neither the drug nor the person arrested were identified, it, reportedly, was "not Justin."
The press conference ended quickly once the authorities were questioned about whether Justin's celebrity contributed to the size of the response. In denial to the question about Bieber's celebrity status, reporters were told: "None of this has anything to do with his being a celebrity."


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Transitioning from lazy, summer fun to hectic school days can cause even the most organized family chaos. Running to after school practices and completing the pile of daily homework can make little time for elaborate meals. To ease the change into the school year, Francesca's Restaurants wants to solve the dinner time dilemma with a perk for parents.
Now through September 9, Francesca's Restaurants are offering a special deal called perks for parents. This special offer will bring smiles to both kids and parents faces as well as provide them with a delicious dinner.
Perks for Parents at Francesca's Restaurants: To help with easy meal preparation for weekday dinners, parents who pick-up a carry-out meal for families during the first week back to school (September 2-9) will receive a free kids meal with purchase of an adult entrée. This offer extends to all Chicagoland Francesca's Restaurants on carry-out orders only.
Since learning doesn't end with the school bell rings, the family unit is the foundation for the students through the school year. "We consider our guests family at Francesca's Restaurants, and we know how hectic it can be getting kids ready to go back to school," Corporate Executive Chef Massimo Salatino says. "That's why we thought it would be great to offer them a break in meal preparation with a complimentary kids meal when ordering an adult entrée to-go."
This back to school time take a moment to sit and enjoy a meal with your family. Since families let Francesca's Restaurants do the cooking, there might be a few moments to sit an unwind at the end of the day. Just don't fight over who does the dishes.


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Soroptimist is an international women's organization for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Almost 95,000 Soroptimists in about 120 countries and territories contribute time and financial support to community-based and international projects that benefit women and girls.
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Jul 13, 2016Monthly Business Meeting
This is our monthly business meeting. It is currently being held at 1892 East, 720 Pratt Avenue, Huntsville from 12:00 to 1:00. Pre-order online or off the menu upon arrival.
Nov 25, 2016International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981.
Dec 2, 2016International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, recalls the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (resolution 317(IV)of 2 December 1949).
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2014 Soroptimist International of Huntsville Women's Awards Luncheon
Soroptimist International of Huntsville celebrated the achievements of three exceptional Huntsville area women with a special luncheon held in their honor at the Ledges on March 18th. The Honorees are Ms. Bach Ngoc Thi Truong, Ms. Larissa M. Moore, and Ms. Tajuan McCarty.
Asha Kiran Community Kite Festival
SI Huntsville was pleased to support Asha Kiran's Community Kite Festival on March 8th. This was the second year for this community wide event that supported education on social justice issues including domestic violence, human rights, and coming together as a community. Families were encouraged to bring kites and spend the day having fun and there were over 5000 people in attendance! Soroptimist of Huntsville supported the event providing a booth and volunteer lounge. We are looking forward to the continued growth of this event!


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Canterbury Cathedral
October 2015
Family at Leeds
Jan, Richard, Kory and Lauren at Leed's Castle.
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June 2015
Just one of many armours.
Leeds has it all from the Medieval Period!
December 2014
Leeds Castle
This is the wall of the mill in front of the castle
December 2014
Dover Castle and the White Cliffs
Dover Castle sitting on the White Cliffs
October 2014
Leeds Library
The library at Leeds Castle on the Leeds Castle, Canterbury Cathedral, and Dover tour
May 2014
Cliffs of Dover
I got this shot from the place where the bus stopped by the ocean at Dover.
April 2014
Canterbury Cathedral
interior view of the scale and detail of the ceiling
April 2014
Canterbury Cathedral
One of the many awe-inspiring interior views of the cathedral
March 2014
Our tour group for the Leeds Castle, Canterbury Cathedral and Dover tour
March 2014