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I have started to get the bus into work again, and have now read just about every book I own.
Any recommendations?
Sun Jun 30, 2002 3:34 am
"A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius" autobiography of Dave Eggers
one of the most insightful books about not much at all
Sun Jun 30, 2002 6:03 am
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I just read "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. His writing style becomes aggrivating after a while, but he highlights some very interesting things and drowns you in statistics.
Sun Jun 30, 2002 4:21 pm
My Experiments with Truth: an autobiography- Mahatma Gandhi
The Gospel According to the Son- Norman Mailer
Both are very interesting and entertaining reads. Check them out if you're bored.
Sun Jun 30, 2002 5:37 pm
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse.
One of the most insightful books on eastern religion I've ever read.
Sun Jun 30, 2002 5:44 pm
Bomb the Suburbs, William Upsky Wimsat
book about hip hop culture & race relations...ect...good read
Sun Jun 30, 2002 6:33 pm
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stranger in a strange land
by robert heinlein
its a philosophy book disguised as science-fiction. intriguing, to say the least.
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Anything by Rohinton Mistry (A Fine Balance, Family Matters, etc) or Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses, The Ground Beneath Her Feet...); 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
XvScott - That Dave Eggers shit is damn good. Goddamned fucking good.
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Thanks for the replies.
I will head bookstorewards some point today.
Tie-my-shoe> I read "Stranger" a couple of months ago.
Excellent book. I am still trying to get my girlfriend to read it, but the er... size of it scares her.
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Anything by Charles Bukowski. Right now I'm reading "Run With The Hunted". It's a collection of his poems, short stories, and excerpts from his novels. The guy is awesome.
Chuck Palahniuk too. I've only read "Choke" and "Survivor", but they were nice.
And I like Kurt Vonnegut.
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writers well worth checking out: charles bukowski, henry miller, paul auster, yukio mishima, emile cioran, raymond carver, fyodor dostoyevsky, jean genet, banana yoshimoto and hubert selby jnr.
all damn fine
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Nice!!! I love your second poem! Reminds me a lot of Pink Floyd's "Eclipse," which goes...All that you touchAll that you seeAll that you tasteAll you feel.All that you loveAll that you hateAll you distrustAll you save.All that you giveAll that you dealAll that you buy,beg, borrow or steal.All you createAll you destroyAll that you doAll that you say.All that you eateveryone you meetAll that you slighteveryone you fight.All that is nowAll that is goneAll that's to comeand everything under the sun is in tunebut the sun is eclipsed by the moon.I'LL eat the sparkly bird poop cookies!!!
See, when we joked we'd never leave hereIt wasn't quite a lieBecause where ever else I've beenPart of me has stayed behind;Belittled by the wider worldRunning from upper middle class rootsConsciously avoiding meaningHigher than the sunKnowing we'd amount to nothingToo scared to even smileHuddled together for comfortClinging to each other for strengthYet each of us,in our own wayAlone.If that's not irony then I don't know what is
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Dr. Cohen received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and was a resident in medicine at Duke University. Following a medical staff fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he was a clinical fellow in infectious diseases at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard University. He returned to NIH, where he was the chief of the Medical Virology Section in the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases until 2010. In June 2010, Dr. Cohen became chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases.
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After a successful third-place showing in the 46th Annual HEB Tournament of Champions that featured several of the top teams in the nation, the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's tennis team will face off against nationally ranked South Alabama at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
The Islanders are now 7-7 on the season after a pair of wins over two nationally ranked teams in Middle Tennessee and Oklahoma State in the HEB Tournament of Champions. The win over OSU gave the team a third-place finish in one of the most prestigious, and longest running, team tournaments in the nation. South Alabama comes into the match with a 7-3 record after also going 2-1 at the HEB.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi is coming off of a 4-3 win over Oklahoma State on Saturday to take third-place in the HEB Tournament of Champions. Aurelien Tave, Fernando Llorens, Pietro Jordao and Alex Pavlov each won their match to give their team the victory.
On Friday, they picked up a 4-1 win over Middle Tennessee in the opening round of the tournament. They then moved on to face the highest ranked team in the event in New Mexico. The Islanders played tough, but came up short in a 4-1 loss to the Lobos.
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"Chilling'' surveillance video from the Boston Marathon attack shows one suspect dropping his backpack and calmly walking away from it before the bomb inside it exploded, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Sunday.
The video clearly puts 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the scene of the attack, Patrick said on NBC.
"It does seem to be pretty clear that this suspect took the backpack off, put it down, did not react when the first explosion went off and then moved away from the backpack in time for the second explosion," Patrick said. "It's pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly."
He added, however, that he hasn't viewed all the tapes but had been briefed by law enforcement about them.
Investigators have determined the bombs were fashioned from pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings and hidden in black backpacks. Three people were killed and more than 180 injured when the two bombs exploded Monday about four hours into the race.
Tsarnaev was captured Friday after being pulled bloody and wounded from a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. He is being guarded by armed officers while he recovers at a Boston hospital. He is in serious condition and hasn't been able to communicate with investigators.
His 26-year-old brother and alleged accomplice, Tamerlan, died earlier Friday after a gunbattle with police.
The brothers are also suspected of killing an MIT police officer Thursday and severely injuring a transit officer.
Patrick said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation" that law enforcement officials believe the immediate threat ended when police killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and captured Dzhokhar.
The governor said he has no idea why someone would deliberately harm "innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did."
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The town of Gypsum continues efforts to make its golf course more profitable since it bought the property in 2010 after a bank foreclosed on the private owners.
The town's latest consideration is to remodel the basement of the Gypsum Creek Clubhouse. Craig Bouck, president and CEO of Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture, presented ideas to Gypsum Town Council last week (March 12).
Bouck said the project would cost roughly $225,000 to $254,000 and could be done in phases. Those cost estimates include utility equipment that is needed regardless of the town's decision for a remodel. The town has already spent about $50,000 for new heating equipment and its installation, and Bouck told council members they could subtract that amount from whatever future costs they consider for the remodel.
At the end of his presentation, the council told Bouck to proceed with his proposal and come back with more refined plans for serious consideration. Bouck said he anticipates it will only take a couple months to draw up the blueprints.
The basement of the clubhouse is currently a locker room, for the most part, and it doesn't see much use. When the golf course holds a tournament, the restaurant on the main level often has to close to accommodate the event. The town hopes to turn the basement into a space that can host events and allow the restaurant to remain open at the same time.
The biggest limitation on the basement is its 8-foot high ceiling. Bouck said the locker rooms could be opened up into a banquet room that could host 100 people and have space for a band and dancing. Windows could be made into doors that open to the outside. Despite that, he said it is difficult to make a basement with an 8-foot ceiling feel as open and inviting as people would like it to be.
Gypsum Council member Tom Edwards agreed the ceiling is a significant limitation.
"I don't get a good feeling about this," he said. "I think the use of this space would be minimal."
Other council members said something has to be done with the basement, which is essentially worthless for increasing revenue at the course as it is now.
"We've been doing all these improvements with the golf course and we can't stop now," said Mayor Steve Carver. "The golf course is on the map now. This will move it a little higher on the map."
Council member Tim McMichael said increasing Gypsum Creek's ability to host tournaments with more frequency is key.
"Tournaments bring the dollars," he said.
Meanwhile, the new Creek Side restaurant is preparing to open on the main level of the clubhouse. Creek Side has a soft opening for Easter brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Easter Sunday, March 31, and will have a grand opening two weeks later on Saturday, April 13. Creek Side is also hosting the Fire and Ice Gala for the Eagle Valley High School Foundation this spring at a date that is yet to be announced.


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PARKERSBURG — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Tuesday outlined what the sequestration cuts will mean in West Virginia....
The fact that there are millions of hard working Americans who did everything right, worked, saved, got retirement funds, budgeted...and then one day whoosh, lost their jobs...eventually their homes...or got cancer...and medical bills cleaned them out...none of you find this wrong?? None of you see that this is NOT the way this country is supposed to be? Because Wall street Bankers and Corporations screwed up...ALL OF US HAVE TO PAY??? You're good with that? They fly away on their private jets with their cayman bank accounts and you're good with it? I'm NOT. It's unreal to read this crap on here, insinuating that our country is in this mess because of 'lazy people'....you are partially right...lazy people sitting in air conditioned offices punching computer keys and moving their investments to avoid taxes.
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It great to wax nostalgic about the good ole days, and how we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. The cost of living has increased at break neck speed....wages....no so much. I remember when you could go out and get a job anywhere...no problem. What is wrong with this country is NOT THE FAULT OF THE WORKING PEOPLE OR POOR PEOPLE...as much as the Teabaggers and such want you to believe that. What is wrong is the the 1% most wealthiest citizens and Banks and Wall Street that destroyed our perfectly fine economy and will continue to do so until we are all standing in food lines. You folks that keep pounding the talk that Romney tried to push...we're all just moochers?? Read something other than the funny papers sometime why don't ya?
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jbennett:God bless your Mother in law!That was back when men and women weren't afraid of work and didn't depend on local stores/restraunts to cook for them.I'm from a generation 20 years later and we did the same.Most young people today can't cook from "scratch"and have no clue dandilions are more than a weed! So sad!
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How much cut in foreign aid?Don't cut the aid to anyone other than Americans.I never heard one word about that.
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The USA has lived the good life in the "land of plenty" since the end of WWII,with no thought of cutting back on that carefree,frivilous,and "getting what is mine" lifestyle. Now the chickens have come home to roost!!!
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Just don't cut mine, right?
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And if we didn't have these cuts, we would be further in debt. Now is the time to pass laws that would double or more these cuts and increase our income with real tax changes. After all, do we need federal and state mine inspectors doing the same job? Let the states take care of their poor, and watch over the safety of their people. No state should need the federal government to run their business. My mother-in-law who is 96, told me she raised 7 brothers and sisters after her mother was killed in a wreck. She had 4 children of her own and raised 4 others that couldn't afford theirs, and said "she didn't know she was poor until the government told her she was". Maybe there is a message here, the government had to tell her it was so.
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This past Saturday, Sycamore Middle School's soccer fields were full of girls and boys from the ages of 4 to 12.
Saturday was the first day of the Gridley Recreational Department's youth soccer program. Malanee Montero reported that the Recreational Department had seen about 300 kids sign up this year.
According to her, the teams are divided among four different age groups: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, and 10-12. The number of youth that signed up called for a total of 27 teams.
The youth soccer league began on September 8th at 9:00 am, and it will conclude at the end of October.
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School board members have reached the end of their evaluation of Dr. Larke after a three-hour meeting Wednesday night. But while the results may be in, they're confidential, and it's up to Dr. Larke to decide when, or even if, they'll be released.
The only two souls in the room are friends of Dr. Larke.
"I happen to support him and recognize that he's done some outstanding things for this county," says Ellis Johnson, retiree and Board of Education Consultant.
Johnson and Dr. Mallory Millender, a Paine College professor, were there to voice concern over what they call a crooked evaluation, questioning rumors that at least one board member was not objective.
"Out of 36 possible ratings on a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the best, 1 being the worst, gave him thirty-four 1s and two 2's," says Dr. Millender.
But we may never know just how each individual voted. The evaluation is a private instrument belonging to Dr. Larke. We do know its results were discussed long and hard.
"I think that we are just doing the right thing, what is in the best interest of the system, and I think the community will see the results in the future," says board member A.K. Hasan.
"When you get ten board members to sit in a room and all agree on this process, I think that's a good sign," board member Ken Echols says.
A good sign, maybe, but Dr. Millender says he's picked up on others: namely, vindictive and petty attacks on Larke.
"I'm saying that we ought to be insistent upon fairness, insistent upon justice, insistent upon truth and honesty. Now if we do that and it comes out unsatisfactory so be it," says Dr. Millender.
Board members will meet again in executive session in April to further discuss their goals for improving the school system.
They're also working to beat a May 1st deadline for negotiating Dr. Larke's contract.


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Re: Whoever has the last group photos, post it here please.
Toy Maker wrote:He didn't even make it to his bed... that's the futon
Hey now, that was my bed for the night. That was the night I stayed up to assemble Sparky. Tim and his family stayed in my room because my boxes were all over their sleeping area.
The best way to enjoy digital music reproduction is to never listen to a good analogue reproduction.
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Two people from St. James face murder, burglary and assault charges in connection with an incident early Wednesday morning in the Rosati area that left one man dead and another injured.
According to online court records, Oryon Dain Guinn, 29, faces five charges — first-degree murder, a Class A felony; armed criminal action, an unclassified felony; second-degree burglary, a Class C felony; first-degree assault resulting in serious physical injury, a Class A felony; and unlawful possession of a firearm, a Class C felony.
Additionally, Chelsea Lynn Maxfield, 31 faces three charges — first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, and first-degree assault resulting in serious physical injury.
Both are being held in the Crawford County Jail on $1 million cash-only bonds each.
Herman Ilges, 58, was confirmed Wednesday afternoon by a family member to be the deceased victim. A probable cause statement filed with the Crawford County Circuit Court stated the deceased victim suffered "an apparent gunshot wound to the head."
The name of the injured man, who "appeared to have a small caliber gunshot wound to the head," has not been released. According to the probable cause statement, the injured victim was transported by an air ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur for treatment.
Crawford County Sheriff Randy Martin said deputies were dispatched around 2 a.m. Wednesday to a residence in the 200 block of Piazza Road in the Rosati area in Crawford County for a report of an assault in progress.
The 911 call initially was taken by Rolla central dispatch, which forwarded the call to the Crawford County dispatch center. The reporting party, who was the injured man, said that he and another man had been shot.
Crawford County sheriff's deputies and Cuba police officers responded to the residence and found the two shooting victims.
The injured victim was located in the living room and the deceased victim was found in a bedroom. Ilges was pronounced dead by Crawford County Coroner Paul Hutson.
The suspects fled the scene before officers arrived, according to Martin.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control were called to assist with securing the residence and investigating the scene.
The injured victim was conscious and alert, and when asked who shot the two, the man wrote down the name, Oryon Guinn, on a sheet of paper and gave it to law enforcement officials, according to the probable cause statement.
When the injured victim was interviewed in Creve Coeur, he told a Crawford County sheriff's detective that before the shooting incident, he heard someone banging on the door of the residence on Piazza Road and that the door was kicked in.
The injured victim said the shooting suspect identified himself as Oryon Guinn and the victim also heard a woman, "which he could identify as Oryon's girlfriend, Chelsea," court records state.
Page 2 of 2 - The injured victim heard yelling in the bedroom and five to eight shots fired. The injured victim then said the suspect entered the living room, pointed a gun at the victim and fired it at his head.
The injured victim said he had known the suspect for about five years.
It was discovered that the shooting suspect was from the St. James area and the SJPD was contacted. Police, who stated they were familiar with Guinn, did not find him at his last known address.
Later, a St. James police officer located and apprehended a male suspect along with a woman in the parking lot at La Cabana Mexican Restaurant, east of St. James.
According to St. James Police Chief Ron Jones, the suspect was arrested about 3 a.m. Wednesday.
"A small caliber handgun, believed to be the weapon used in the shooting of the two men, was located laying on the restaurant parking lot a short distance from the vehicle the two suspects had been driving," Martin wrote in the news release. "The weapon was seized and will be sent to the Highway Patrol Crime Lab for analysis."
The gun found was a .22 caliber revolver, a 9-shot revolver with two rounds which appeared to have been fired still in the cylinder, court documents state. A box of .22 caliber shells also was found on the dashboard of the vehicle the suspects were driving.
Both suspects were interviewed by detectives before being booked in the Crawford County Jail.
Court documents state Maxfield initially denied being at the residence on Piazza Road and that a Crawford County sheriff's detective noticed blood on Guinn's pants.
The detective informed Guinn that one of the victims was still alive, according to the probable cause statement, and Guinn "replied 'which one?' and then quickly stated 'What do you mean?' "
At the jail, both Maxfield and Guinn requested attorneys before being interviewed.
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Sulphur free fuel only (EN590, max 10 ppm sulphur).
Emission standard EEV
Available for all engines except D11C450 and D13C380.
* Torque output both when driving and standing still.
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High-rev with dual drive. Connecting flange attachment at the rear and DIN attachment at the front.
High-rev with dual drive rear and single drive front. Two connecting flange attachments rear and one DIN attachment at the front.


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Digestive Disorders Health Center
Dog Sniffs Out Deadly C. diff Infection
Dec. 13, 2012 -- A 2-year-old beagle named Cliff may hold the key to preventing an infection that kills thousands of Americans each year.
Researchers in the Netherlands taught Cliff to sniff out the intestinal bacteria Clostridium difficile(C. difficile or C. diff) in stool samples from infected patients and even from the patients themselves.
C diff is commonly spread in hospitals and long-term care centers, causing diarrhea that can be mild to life-threatening. It is responsible for as many as 14,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, the CDC says.
The hope is that other dogs can be trained to identify the infection far faster than it is found through current tests, preventing potentially deadly outbreaks in these settings.
"This study proves the concept, but we have to confirm that this approach will be useful in the real-world setting," says researcher Marije K. Bomers, MD, of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dogs Can Smell Better
Hospitalized older adults who have recently had a course of antibiotics are most at risk for C. diff infections.
Early detection can prevent the spread in hospitals and other care facilities, but current tests can take anywhere from two days to up to a week to confirm infection, Bomers says.
She says the idea for the study came from the observation that the diarrhea of patients with C. diff infections has a particular smell that she and her colleagues could sometimes detect.
It occurred to them that if humans could smell the infection some of the time, then dogs, with their superior sense of smell, should be able to smell it all the time.
To test the theory, they enlisted psychologist and dog trainer Hotsche Luik, who was also Cliff's owner.
Over two months, the beagle was taught to identify the C. diff toxin in smaller and smaller quantities and in different samples, including human stool.
During one test, he correctly identified 50 of 50 C. diff positive stool samples and 47 of 50 negative samples.
In a separate test, he was taken to two hospital wards to examine his ability to sniff out the infection in patients.
He correctly identified C. diff in 25 of 30 infected patients. He also identified no infection in 265 of 270 non-infected patients.
He completed this task in one of the wards in less than 10 minutes.
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An attorney for the general contractor hired to rebuild Palo Alto's Mitchell Park Library and Community Center claims the city is responsible for cost overruns and delays that have dogged the project.
According to a six-page letter received Monday by the City Clerk's Office, the city owes Flintco Pacific Inc. "millions," in part because it misrepresented the accuracy and completeness of plans and specifications for the project when it released them for bidding in 2010.
"Flintco expects the evidence will show that the city's actions were intended to shift blame for project cost overruns and delays to Flintco while covering up the fact that the plans and specifications were incomplete and inaccurate," Arthur G. Woodward of Sacramento-based Downey Brand Attorneys LLP wrote to Senior Assistant City Attorney Cara Silver.
The city fired Flintco in mid-January, citing inadequate progress, lack of staffing, faulty work and missed deadlines. Big-D Pacific Builders has since been hired to finish the project.
City Attorney Molly Stump said she is reviewing Woodward's letter and plans to issue a formal response within the next 45 days.
"An initial comment would be that it's not surprising to get this claim," Stump told The Daily News in a phone interview. "It's consistent with Flintco's conduct throughout the contract, which is a continual effort to shift the blame for its lack of effectiveness on the site to others."
According to the letter, the city issued more than 2,000 clarifications of the contract documents and over 200 architect's supplemental instructions. In response, Flintco submitted upward of 500 change-order requests, or CORs, for more time and money but they were denied by the city.
"Due to the city's improper denial of CORs, Flintco financed a significant portion of the extra work performed on the project in a good faith effort to complete the project," wrote Woodward, adding that the total cost to Flintco and its subcontractors exceeded $10 million more than the approved contract.
The letter also alleges that the city knew the library and community center would cost more than Flintco's bid of approximately $24.4 million. The price tag, according to the city, has ballooned to $28 million, which is still $4 million less than a city engineer's estimate.
"Flintco's continued reliance on the inaccurate plans and specifications during the course of construction resulted in project delays and increased costs which would have been avoided had the city waited until the plans and specifications were complete before it sent them to the bidders," Woodward wrote.
When finished, the 56,000-square-foot Mitchell Park Library and Community Center will feature shelving for collection expansion, as well as large flexible spaces, including rooms for children, computer training and reading. Ada's Café, a nonprofit organization that provides disabled adults with jobs and job training, will also operate a coffee shop at the facility.
The project, which was originally scheduled to open in summer 2012, is the centerpiece of Measure N, a $76 million bond measure passed in 2008 to overhaul the city's library system.
"Progress is being made," said Stump, adding that the library and community center are on track to open by the end of the year.
"Big-D, the replacement contractor, is really effective and everybody is working well out there at the site now."
Email Jason Green at jgreen @dailynewsgroup.com; follow him at twitter.com/jgreendailynews.


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The term "reportage illustrator" tends to bring to mind courtroom reporting, so it's not surprising that Franklin McMahon documented many famous moments in modern courtroom history.
In September 1955, on assignment in from Life magazine, McMahon was present at the trial of the killers of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman; the young wife of a grocery store owner.
McMahon captured an important moment - many say a turning point - in civil rights history. When Till's uncle, Moses Wright, stood and pointed out the two murderers, it was the first time in the history of the state of Mississipi that a black man implicated the guilt of a white man in court.
During his storied career, McMahon recorded the likeness of many important historical figures...
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
(Pope Paul VI)
... and the range of subjects he documented and the assignments he undertook is truly unprecedented. Here's a drawing of St. Peter's Basilica that was printed in the Saturday Evening Post and the Chicago Tribune...
... and here's one from a series done on board the U.S.S. Wasp during the recovery of the Gemini IV space capsule.
By their very nature, readers would find these subjects compelling, but even McMahon's illustrations of ordinary people living everyday lives provide the viewer with something remarkable: the sensitivity of his observational drawings brings artistry to even the most mundane activities.
Here is an illustration by McMahon for a 1960s McDonald's Corporation annual report...
Three double page spreads on newspaper production from the 1964 edition of "Childcraft: The How and Why Library"...
A painting for an article in Chicago Magazine, "Housing, Fair and Otherwise," 1960s...
One of approximately fifty drawings for an IBM film produced by Charles Eames...
And here's one of my favourite Franklin McMahon illustrations among all those I've seen while researching the artist, done for an Abbott Laboratories publication called "What's New."
McMahon once said, "I tell students: Look at the people you see on the way to school. Draw them. Look at the people in a bus station, waiting for a train. Draw them. Go to the airline terminal. Go to the courtroom, factory, municipal government. It doesn't have to be reportage in the sense of an incident. Draw what you see."
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Franklin McMahon: Artistry from Mundanity
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McMahon was at the Emmitt Till trial?! My respect has gone even higher for him.ReplyDelete
From a different vantage point than the famous photograph, it looks like McMahon recorded the moment that Till's uncle pointed out the killers in the courtroom, something unheard of in segregation-era Mississippi.
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But some things are worth going crazy over.
(The following is occasioned, of course, by the long-awaited official SBD release of November 21 to 23, 1997.)
The fandom responded ecstatically to the tour at the time, as you'd expect; among other things it represented a sea change in how the band approached show structure (never mind the pornographic music itself) -- some folks were convinced that 'there [were] no first sets anymore,' and given that this show kicks off with a 20-minute funk workout, it's easy to see why. Time has been kind to the tour as well. With the benefit of hindsight we can see how Fall '97 began a darkly generative period for the band (their imaginative freedom nightblooming even as their technical command and professionalism began to falter amidst a rapidly decaying backstage/fan scene), while representing a historic peak of possibility and intensity. With only a couple of exceptions, the band was just absolutely *there* every single night, taking song after song to deep dangerous places.
It was a good time to be a Phish fan.
The best jams of 2011 -- R'n'R at the Gorge, the Tahoe Light, the brilliant 'elements' set at UIC -- seemed to draw some of the same dark energy that powered Phish's late 90s music: layered textures, intricate polyrhythms, effortless group interplay, soaring ambient passages, guitars put to unholy new uses, keyboards much abused, drums caressed and then shattered. Above all, the music flows now almost as it did then, with extraordinary patience and organic inevitability.
But what's missing from Phish 2011 is the black ice that became their premillennial music's center: cool austerity of early 'cow funk,' anxious chaotic 'space jams,' the *scary* quality it had. (Hear the way Izabella comes roaring out of 12/6/97's fog like an angry undead stowaway, or the teeth-gnashing mania of the Hartford Char0 > 2001. A lotta Hendrix in the air, then.)
For all the expansiveness and ambition of the band's Fall '97 work, the tour feels All of a Piece; it all belongs together, the maniacal Hampton/Winston-Salem stuff and the knives-in-blacklight Worcester jamming and the retro-dufus-turned-pornstar goodtimes in Dayton and the astral lullabies in Utah and, and, and oh those sorcerous goings-on and splashings-crashward in Auburn Hills (cloudpiercing peak of a deepwater volcanic island). The same can't so much be said of the new music; ironically, as the band's palette has grown to include more lived-in sounds (and whatever eerily the goddamn 'storage shed' jamming is, when it eerily ever is), they've lost the glasseyed focus of back-in-the-day. They might sound like any number of great bands these days, even Zeppelin a bit when the moon's right, but there was something harrowing and deeply pleasurable about knowing (walking into a familiar room, strangers at close quarters in the dark) that the approach was gonna be, ready set go, THE METERS AND PINK FLOYD ARE TRAPPED TOGETHER FOREVER ON A DERELICT SPACESHIP ALL ECHOES AND GHOSTS AND ALONE AND THEY ARE SAVED FROM COLD DEATH ONLY BY THE WEIRD COSMIC FAVOUR OF PLUNGING SLOWLY INTO AN OCTARINE SUN, GAINING SPEED, FALLING, HOLD ON...
To the matter at hand.
Emotional Rescue isn't a great choice of cover beyond its novelty/comedy value -- the jokey falsetto and sparse texture wear thin some time before the jam starts -- and the jam does feel like a show-opening warmup, which of course it is. But 17 minutes of shambolic Phish funk (climaxing in a transitional few minutes of lovely dark ambience) is a fine easygoing thing, regardless. And it leads into a very nice Split, for which we supplicants are naturally thankful.
Et cetera et cetera, and Caspian (a tune tailor-made for smoky indoor-venue AUDs, by the way) is a strange but appropriate choice for a first set closer: excellent version here, particularly Trey's digital-delay offering to Hades in lieu of those closing rock chords from the album, which...
1. ...fondly recalls the beloved 12/31/95 Mike's, and...
2. ...helpfully signals to the crowd that we are setting our course for darker night in Set II.
The show's back half kicks off seven consecutive must-hear sets (next breather: 11/28 I). During Ghost the players bail on that song's basic funk patterns in favour of a haunting spare passage typical of Fall '97: minimalist assembly, assured group rhythm work, and a patient crescendo and sighing wavebreak into a wry, spry midtempo jog at the outro. 1997 is THE year for Ghost, but this performance trades its standard snap/pop/wah funk for something moodier and more meaningful.
Then yeah, a true segue arrow before AC/DC Bag, and *get ready* for this Bag. Less decisive and authoritative than the canonical 12/30/97 version, but also less linear, the 11/21 Bag takes a few minutes for somewhat clumsy I-IV thrashing (a climax too early, it seems) before settling into a deadly take on the introductory PYITE groove. Fishman slides over to the ride cymbal, Page leaps onto piano, Trey sprinkles some space-jam fairy dust over everyone, and suddenly we're working a slightly ambivalent variation on that I-IV, posing as Triumph while whispering Collapse, Dissolve...and after a twinkling ambient passage, we return to ambivalence: minor-melancholy rock clatter and swerve, Page's piano diagonals zagging at everyone else's zig, or I guess vice versa. 25 minutes of top-shelf Phish, and another true segue into Slave.
Slave, as you'd expect after the foregoing 50 minutes of music, is devastating. Well, it's a 1997 Slave; the mycological languour of late-90s Phish was well suited to tunes like this one.
More Stones to close, of course. They've always killed on Loving Cup. And is there a better, more coherent long-form composition in Phish's catalogue than Guyute? Pure prog mayhem in the encore. Nice.
11/22 gets the press, 11/23 gets the 'underrated masterpiece' tag, and of these now-forever-conjoined triplets, 11/21 is the li'l sibling with -- hey whaddaya know -- some earth-shaking powers of its own. I think you can pass on this first set without feeling TOO bad, if you really don't think you can spare that hour of your life, but that's a swell half-hour you're missing at the opener, and a ringading Caspian to close. The second set, meanwhile, is as good as Fall 1997's usual, which is to say it's a solid hour of deadly focused improvisation, favouring eventide melancholy and dissolution, crescendi desperately imploding or exhausting themselves in gouts of terminal noise, minimalist funk with a mischievous dancing step and slow poison on its blade, visible in the right kind of dark...
Ego-costumes aside, in the end it doesn't matter whether Fall '97 is the 'best' Phish tour. (One hopes the best is yet to come, right? What kind of person *doesn't* hold that hope, or pretends not to?) Those are fun arguments to have, but it's all just circles around imaginary selves, signs that read No Trespass: there's no place for borders like those when the music begins. I'll say instead, quite confidently, that on these nights 14 years ago, Phish reached the windblown jagged top of one peak, bringing thousands along with them; several other peaks would follow, as several had come before, but this one had a Weird light, and everyone why got up there saw something extraordinary. And would you believe it: it's still there. Might I recommend heading up alone some night. Go on: follow the strange glow that won't fade. The dark will keep you warm.


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I've been trying to stream the 2nd season of Game of Thrones to my PS3 with PMS and for some reason after the intro is done, the audio slows to a crawl and becomes badly distorted. All the video's are from the group "IMMERSE". I haven't been able to find any other suitable versions so I'm posting here in hopes that someone here recognizes the problem and has a solution for it.
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Nestlé catches BioGaia bacillus
Swiss Nestlé S.A. has extended its collaboration agreement with BioGaia AB. The world's largest nutrition company is paying up to €50.8m for a perpetual licence to use BioGaia's patented Lactobacillus reuteri in infant nutrition products. BioGaia is receiving an upfront payment of a40m in the first quarter of 2012, and an additional a10.8m on achieving certain milestones in the next five years. Nestlé also has the option to extend the use of L. reuteri to other product areas. "Through the new agreement we have secured income that otherwise would not have been guaranteed under the original contract," said Peter Rothschild, President of BioGaia. The Stockholm-based company announced it will use the proceeds to "further invest in its own brand" and for "a generous dividend policy". A recent double-blind study in Indonesia showed that L. reuteri significantly reduced episodes of diarrhea. In the trial, 494 children received low lactose milk with or without L. reuteri or L. casei 431. The incidence of diarrhea episodes fell by 32% in the group supplemented with L. reuteri compared to placebo.
In the last few years, Nestlé has moved significantly into the field of functional food. In September 2010 it announced it would invest about US$500m in a new venture called Nestlé Health Science.


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Please can you add support for embedded VOBSUB subtitles in MKV?
Now I tested it with latest MEncoder_mt (build r30521) and with no problems embedded vobsub was rendered. Unfortunatelly external ones can't be loaded. Also now -ass parameter can be used with VOBSUB without generating error (in older versions when embedded VOBSUB was loaded with -ass parameter, it failed with error)
Also can you enable possibility to use CoreAVC decoding outside AviSynth engine?
New MEncoder versions from Sherpya includes this support so adding
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Also linux version can use HW decoding, not CUDA but vdpau(DXVA alternative on Linux)...don't know exact parameter now and if it is already coded there.
Let me inform all that MEncoder is crashing when "Force VMR AR Correction" is enabled in CoreAVC so disable it!!!
Also up to v1.9.5 MEncoder detects CoreAVC but it seems that from v2.0 you need to copy "CoreAVCDecoder.ax" to "c:\Program Files\PS3 Media Server\win32\codecs\" folder.
It can be done for any version for compatibility reason, so better to copy it there everytime so MEncoder will find everytime
My benchmarks show that it has some gain in speed (EDIT: This test is misleading. I accidentally used wrong MEncoder parameters from other test):
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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
It's time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics. We've each picked the five comics we're most anticipating in order to create a list of the best new stuff coming out two months from now.
As usual, please feel free to play along in the comments. Tell us what we missed that you're looking forward to or – if you're a comics creator – mention your own stuff.
Graeme McMillan
Crater XV HC (Top Shelf, $19.95): I've been following (and loving) the serialization of Kevin Cannon's follow-up to Far Arden in the digital pages of Double Barrel, but I know that I'll be picking up this hardcover collection of the further adventures of sea dog Rusty Shanks nonetheless. The Canadian space program deserves no less.
In The Days of the Mob HC (DC Comics, $39.99): To say that Kirby's 1970s take on the organized-crime world of the 1930s is something I've been longing to read since I first discovered its existence would be an understatement, so I'm definitely looking forward to this deluxe reprint, complete with material that wasn't in the original edition.
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse TP (Rebellion/2000AD, $24.99): John Smith's cosmic authorities are one of comics' most secret treasures, I think, especially when he's paired with an artist like Edmund Bagwell, who brings a wonderful Euro-Kirby influence to the stories in this collection. Really looking forward to this one.
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen GN (First Second, $17.99): As a sucker for good autobiographical comics and also good food writing, the idea of Lucy Knisley creating a food-centric memoir — complete with recipes! — is far too good to ignore. I love that publishers like First Second are publishing work like this.
Solo Deluxe Edition HC (DC Comics, $49.99): Even though I own most of these issues from their original appearance, the oversized hardcover format is waaaay too tempting when you consider some of the material this book has up its 500+ page sleeve: Paul Pope covering Kirby! Brendan McCarthy channeling Ditko as only he could! The amazing Darwyn Cooke issue! The only thing that could make this better would be if it included work completed on follow-up issues before the plug had been pulled … But maybe that can appear in a second volume, one day…


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GlassFish V2 update center module for Spring Framework
By pramodg on May 05, 2008
Thanks to Rajeshwar Patil, who actually pushed the module to the external servers. Installing the module :
You can install this module after you have successfully installed GlassFish by following the section Instructions to unbundle and configure GlassFish. For the rest of this blog, let us refer to the GlassFish root directory location as $GLASSFISH_ROOT. After you have installed GlassFish, launch the Update Center client :
$GLASSFISH_ROOT/updatecenter/bin/updatetoolSelect the "Available Modules" tab and you should find the Spring Framework module as one of the modules available for install.
Accept the license agreement to install this module. After the successful installation of this module, you would see a new directory "spring_framework" created under the $GLASSFISH_ROOT directory. A screenshot of the module directory
Post Installation steps :
During the module installation process 2 files are copied to the $GLASSFISH_ROOT/lib directory : spring.jar and commons-logging.jar. Please note that you need to restart the GlassFish application server after the spring module has been successfully installed.
$GLASSFISH_ROOT/bin/asadmin stop-domain domain1 $GLASSFISH_ROOT/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1In the above commands - "domain1" is the default domain that is created when the application server is installed. If you are using a different domain, provide that domain name instead of domain1.
When the application server is restarted it would now use the new spring libraries. From this point of time you should be able to deploy and use spring applications to the application server.
Sample application - SpringJPA
Before we dwell into the sample application please follow these steps :
- Change the value of "javaee.home" in 2 property files : setup/build.properties & bp-project/build.properties.The property points to your application server installation location i.e $GLASSFISH_ROOT.
- Ensure that the script files setup_sample.sh & unsetup_sample.sh have execute permission. The setup script also creates tables and inserts data into a javadb database. Hence the next 2 steps are required.
- Ensure that you have a DERBY_HOME environment variable pointing to the value - $GLASSFISH_HOME/javadb
- Ensure that the javadb startup script has execute permissions.
- Start the javadb database by executing the command $DERBY_HOME/bin/startNetworkServer
To setup the resources required for the sample application, create the javadb database, insert data and deploy the sample application execute the shell script "setup_sample.sh". Check the server.log to ensure that the application has been successfully deployed. Below I have attached a small section of the log file for reference :
Below are few screen shots of the SpringJPA sample application :
Additional Resources :
- Blog by Carol McDonald Detailed documentation of the sample application SpringJPA.
- For issues/questions on the spring framework module use the firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list.
- Introduction to Spring Framework 2.5


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Pet Friendly Cottages in the South West
If your dog could tell you exactly what they want from their next cottage holiday, they'd probably say something along the lines of: "Beaches, wilderness and plenty of interesting things to sniff!" But where can you find all of this in one neat package? The South West of course!
That's right, our pet friendly cottages in South West England offer everything you and your pooch could ever want from your UK holiday. Scattered across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, our dog friendly cottages in the South West are there for when you want to treat your canine companion to that perfect holiday getaway. But what is it about the South West that makes it such an ideal destination for both man and beast? Let's find out!
Where to stay on your dog friendly holiday in the South West
Looking to lollop in the surf and have a game of fetch with your furry 'Fido'? Choose a pet friendly holiday cottage on the Cornish Coast! Home to over 300 dog friendly beaches, Cornwall is as pet friendly as they come and both you and your pooch can expect a warm welcome on your cottage holiday here. One of the county's most popular dog friendly beaches is Porthluney Cove, a wide expanse of soft, golden sand bordered by open grasslands that proves the perfect place for a spot of walkies! Alternatively, choose pet friendly accommodation in Dorset to experience the beauty of the county's Jurassic Coast; a World Heritage Site boasting some of the most beautiful stretches of coast in the UK.
If your pooch is more interested in country than coast, book a pet friendly cottage in the Exmoor National Park in Devon. Sporting uninterrupted countryside and overflowing with rare flora and fauna, this glorious national park is one of Devon's most popular spots for an intrepid dog walk. You'll find a variety of different walking trails throughout the park, giving you and your dewy nosed pal plenty of options when planning your next outing!
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- Feb 12:
- Chat Transcript: Discussion of Elder Care Facilities
- Castro Valley: 911 recordings from Valley Springs Manor senior home
- Nov 24:
- State never examined Castro Valley senior homeowner's dismal record
- Nov 21:
- In California, $1 million in unpaid fines for assisted living centers
- Nov 13:
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Time for accountability for Castro Valley care home fiasco
- Nov 3:
- With good info hard to find, Castro Valley senior home residents left in the dark
- Nov 2:
- Missing Castro Valley assisted living patient found in San Jose
- Nov 1:
- 911 calls: Help began to arrive at Valley Springs Manor with call that resident was having trouble breathing
- Reports show state worker left Castro Valley care facility in hands of a cook and two others
- Oct 31:
- Janitor recounts nightmarish last days at Castro Valley senior home
- Oct 30:
- Castro Valley senior home residents moving to nursing homes as investigators launch elder abuse probe
- Oct 29:
- Castro Valley senior home's chaotic closure mirrored similar problem months earlier
- Oct 27:
- Castro Valley senior care facility had license suspended
- Castro Valley: Sheriff's Office opens probe of senior care facility
- Oct 26:
- Patients left to fend for themselves after state shutters Castro Valley senior care facility
CASTRO VALLEY -- The state Department of Social Services said Tuesday that it did not condone the abandoning of 19 patients at Valley Springs Manor after caregivers at the facility left them last week to fend for themselves for more than 48 hours.
Department spokesman Michael Weston said the agency continues to review exactly what happened at the care facility in Castro Valley, where the patients were abandoned Thursday and the situation came to light Saturday. But Weston said the department has determined that proper procedures to relocate patients to other facilities before Valley Springs Manor was shuttered by the state were not followed.
"While a few Valley Springs Manor staff agreed to continue to provide care to the remaining residents awaiting placement and transfer, this is not standard procedure and should not have occurred," Weston said in a statement Tuesday.
Weston said a notice was given Oct. 21 that the facility would be closed and that 13 patients were transferred that day. But by Friday, Oct. 25, 19 patients remained.
Standard procedure involves state department staff working with the licensee of the facility and other local agencies to contact family members or other authorized representatives of the residents to make sure they are transferred safely before the facility closes.
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An event we plan on attending next year is Eurobike, a sprawling, massive, bike love-in that unlike Interbike is open to the public. Of course the bikesphere will blog it, including Treehugger, and manufactures like 3G, who market the Stepper, a stairmaster with wheels, bike, something, don't really know … but following the links, I arrived at Randy Ross and then saw this stepper-thong video, and thought, "how did I get here?" Ah yes, the serendipity of the internet, much like finding odd things at a tradeshow.
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Pure Marketing Genius, that video. And what a bike friendly city having that shower to rinse off after a hard day of riding.
However, I think I might look stupid stepping down the street. Especially in a thong.
It's amazing isn't it—there's also the "dude" version.
I have to say that I was shocked and appalled by the stepper-thong video! This young, healthy woman weaving in amongst traffic wearing nothing but a bikini top and a tiny, tiny thong…I mean, where is her helmet?!!!! By the sixth or seventh time watching it, I was really worked up about this issue. I sincerely hope that I meet this woman someday so that I can have it out with her about using protection.


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Amrita organizes its first FOSS Conference
By Avinash Joshi on Apr 17, 2009
Sun Club @ Amrita had conducted a National Level FOSS Conference - FOSSTER '09 at Amritapuri Campus on March 28th and 29th, this year. It was a great success. The event wae inaugural day by Mr. Nageshwara Rao, Sun's Senior Site Director and Site Lead of its India Engineering Center. Tirthankar gave talk on Open HA Clusters and Mayuresh on Introduction to OpenSolaris.
We are going to conduct a FOSSTER '10. We would like to have full support from the community!
You can visit the Photo Gallery and also see the Press release/article
Fosster website: http://foss.amrita.ac.in
Here is the article published in our amrita website (http://amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/d-march/fosster.php):
NASA decided to build Mars Exploration Rovers at a cost of several
hundred million dollars, it chose free and open source software to
power the robots. Launched on the Martian surface in 2003, the rovers
are still going strong today. When Amrita decided to build a complex
ERP software solution for its 1300-bed specialty hospital AIMS, the
decision was taken to use a free and open source operating system and
database. Free and open source software (FOSS) is now a world-wide
movement; many computer companies are investing their resources to
support the effort.
For example, take the case of Sun Microsystems. Its operating system Solaris, initially a proprietary product, is now also available in its open source version. Amrita University students have, in fact, contributed to the development of this product. Abhilash TG, a final year B Tech student at Amrita was the first person not employed by Sun to fix a bug in OpenSolaris's Open High Availability Cluster. Senior executives from Sun Microsystems and other companies were in Amrita recently as resource persons and to participate in FOSSTER 09, Amrita's first national conference organized to promote the use of free and open source software and technologies.
Conceived and organized by students, the conference had extensive support from the Amrita faculty and administration. Nearly a hundred non-Amrita delegates -- students, faculty members and professionals from industry -- in addition to hundreds from Amrita, participated. "We wanted to promote the awareness of FOSS and take steps to create a user base competent in the use of this technology," stated Avinash Joshi, the student coordinator. Avinash will graduate with an engineering degree from Amrita next year; he was the one to first float the idea about the conference a few months ago. "I am happy that we have met these objectives," he added.
Invited speakers included several eminent names from the FOSS community. The sessions were organized in two parallel tracks -- technology/education and culture/society -- and covered topics as varied as Linux, blogging, 3D games, movie-making, Drupal. The keynote address on the inaugural day by Mr. Nageshwara Rao, Sun's Senior Site Director of its India Engineering Center, underscored the importance of FOSS in students' lives in terms of employability, becoming part of a vibrant community, and learning and sharpening technical skills. The importance of FOSS in the world of emerging technologies was also highlighted.
Most sessions were house-full,
delegates participated enthusiastically. "I learned so many new
concepts; I am inspired to develop new skills now," said M. Sangeeta, B
Tech student from Bannariamman Institute of Technology in Tamil Nadu,
which sent nearly 90 student-delegates. "You all have done a great
job!" added Yadu Nand B, from College of Engineering, Trivadrum.
Several sessions were 'taught' by Amrita students and staff. These
included two demos on installation and customization of GNU/Linux and
doing everyday things with it; the sessions made migration to this
operating system look easy. A session on building websites using the
content management system, Drupal, was also conducted by Amrita
Multiple sessions on blogging were included. "I learned to blog late in my life," stated Mr. Chandrasekharan Nair, a retired jawan, now a farmer. Mr. Nair helps other farmers through his blog; he publishes correct rubber statistics and campaigns against genetically modified crops. "I am glad I could attend his talk," said Swapna Laxman, B Tech student. "The talk was moving and inspirational. Mr. Nair's experience proves that age is not a bar for learning new technologies." Additional sessions on blogging were conducted by 'Uncle' Chandrakumar who contributes to community service through his blogs, Anand Subramaniam, a professional blogger and Arun Basil, a student, whose blogging has brought him fame and fortune.
Singhal, a final year BBM student in Amrita, was the event manager for
this event. "I want to make my career in Event Management, I learnt a
lot from having the opportunity to plan for this event," he shared.
"Initially there was a lot of turmoil but in the end, everything worked
out well; the conference was a big success." "I am very happy with the
response to the conference," added Dr. Sankaran, Principal of the
School of Engineering, the chief patron of this initiative of the
students. "The response exceeded our expectations. I am glad that the
students came forward with the idea and we were able to provide them
the needed support."
For more information about the conference, please see http://foss.amrita.ac.in


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MARIETTA - The American Cancer Society's Road to Recovery program provides a service for cancer patients, but local volunteers who drive them to their treatments and doctor appointments say they benefit as well.
"It's an honor," said Williamstown resident Vicki Viers, 53. "They thank us and thank us for what we do, but to me, it's the least we can do."
Viers is one of about nine volunteers for the program in Washington County, said Amy Magorien, health initiatives representative for the cancer society in Washington County. Some of those have not been able to participate lately for personal reasons, and the program is looking for more folks willing to help.
"I'd like to have another 10," Magorien said. "The more we have, the more flexibility we have to help patients."
Getting to appointments and chemotherapy or radiation treatments can be a significant obstacle for some cancer patients, Magorien said.
"Even if they do have a car, the treatments sometimes just take everything out of a person," she said.
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Road To Recovery
* Through this American Cancer Society program, volunteers provide transportation to treatments, doctors appointments or to fill prescriptions for cancer patients.
* Volunteers must be at least 18 years old, have a valid driver's license and proof of insurance for their vehicle.
* A one-hour training session and free background check are required.
* People interested in participating can call 1-800-227-2345 24 hours a day or 1-888-227-6446, ext. 3101, or email email@example.com.
* People in need of service through Road to Recovery can call the 24-hour line, 1-800-227-2345.
Source: American Cancer Society.
While she was being trained for the program, Viers said she heard stories of patients going to their treatment by bus or waiting an hour afterward for a cab.
She learned about the program from a friend and thought it would be a good way to volunteer, especially since she's had several incidences of cancer in her family. That's also what inspired Reno resident Renee Kraynak to participate.
"It's very rewarding to know ... that you've truly helped someone," said Kraynak, 56.
The only qualifications for a Road to Recovery volunteer are being at least 18 years old, having a valid driver's license and having proof of insurance for the vehicle that would be used. A background check, paid for by the cancer society, is also required, as is attendance at a training session that lasts about an hour.
Anybody that would be transported is able to walk to and from the vehicle, so no lifting is required, nor is any medical knowledge, Magorien said.
"We give (volunteers) little kits to have on hand in case the person might be tired or nauseous after their treatment," she said.
Then volunteers simply need to inform the coordinator of when they're available and how far they are willing to travel. While one volunteer takes people to Columbus and another travels to Cleveland, most of the rides are in the local area, Magorien said.
When a patient contacts the cancer society about needing a ride, the local coordinator is notified and she emails volunteers to see if they're able to help.
"We'll try to cover as many of those dates as we can," Magorien said.
Volunteers don't have to sign on for regular shifts, she said; even once a month can be helpful.
"A few hours a month can just make a huge difference in a cancer patient's life," Magorien said.


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The Keds Kitty Time Preschool Shoes are adorable! Your little one will go nuts for everyone's favorite feline. Transparent sequins give this look a hint of shimmer without distracting from the pattern. The lace-up front gives the shoes an old-school feel but the midsole brings it back to present day cool. And don't forget the cute bows on the midsole!


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Today's letters: Broken' system?
Published: Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 4:54 p.m.
To the editor: Daily we are told that our immigration system is broken; we hear it in commercials and see it in the paper. Is it all broken? If not, which parts are broken? Who broke it and why did they break it? (I refuse to accept the notion that the break was an accident.)
Did you know that many of the fixes in the current Senate bill were passed in previous laws? What happened?
Answer: The laws were not faithfully enforced. Why would a Congress and president pass a law and then not enforce its provisions?
Border fencing has been passed twice before but never seems to get built. There are thousands of miles of sound barriers on the major highways of America 15, 20, 25 feet high and 1-2 feet thick, How did we manage to do these to protect our ears from road noise, but we cant do a border fence for national security reasons?
Pathway to citizenship: Why is it assumed that all illegal immigrants want to be U.S. citizens? There is research on how many just want to work here and how many would apply to be citizens.
Dont buy into the lies.
Jim Griffin
Its all for them
To the editor: As chairlady for Operation Toasty Toes, Chapter 7, I feel obligated to address a letter and column some time ago concerning salaries of nonprofit organizations. I want my fellow residents to know not one cent donated or through sales is paid to anyone by our organization.
We are extremely proud that 100 percent is channeled to the programs needs as we support service members deployed overseas or provide lap robes for our injured warriors. More than 17,000 items have been mailed overseas. More than 500 crocheted and knitted lap robes have been delivered to facilities at Camp Lejuene, Fort Bragg, and Fort Gordon (Augusta, Ga.).
To all who have financially helped, please know that without your generosity we could not continue to make of these yarn comfort items.
Please visit our sale tables during the Apple Festival. We are located within the Historic Courthouse on Main Street, Hendersonville. Henderson County officials support our troops by permitting us space. Please enter through the Second Avenue doorway.
For the first time, we are having a Breast Cancer Awareness table. I did not know until recently that there are five breast cancer survivors in the committee.
Call 696-9777, 696-8858 or 698-4859, visit www.operationtoastytoes.org, or email us at email@example.com.
Patricia-Lee Pirog
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Failing the people
To the editor: How can I justify my belief in our political system when our system seems to be failing so many people? Tax cuts for the more affluent and corporations are greater than those for the poor. Unemployment benefits have been cut. These are but two of the many ways that so many North Carolinians are being negatively affected by actions of our legislators.
As a Christian and a retired pastor, I have been taught to respect the laws and decisions made by our chosen leaders. But when those laws and decisions go against what I believe to be the teachings of my faith, I am conflicted. The apostle Peter asks the religious leaders, Is it better to obey man or God? His answer was to obey God.
I applaud those pastors and others who have answered the same way and have risked being arrested on Moral Mondays. I need to ask myself if my convictions are strong enough to join them. At least I hope to join a more local protest in Asheville for our own Moral Monday event. Why not come and join us Monday, Aug. 5, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at City-County Plaza in Asheville?
Rev. Jerry Miller
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Overall DimensionsWidth: 10.25" Depth: 7" Height: 5.25" Box Compartment DepthDepth: 3.75"
Return/Exchange Policy
At CB2, we stand behind the quality of our products and want every purchase to be a positive experience. We will do our best to make things right if you are not satisfied.
non-furniture items
We will accept returns and exchanges of non-furniture items if they are returned within 90 days of customer receipt, a valid proof of purchase is provided, and items are returned in good condition (unused and unwashed).
stock furniture, rugs and rug pads
If you are not satisfied with your Stock furniture, rug or rug pad purchase, you must contact us within 7 days of delivery or pickup to arrange a return. The item must be returned within 30 days of delivery or pickup. The item will be inspected upon return, and a refund amount will be determined based on its condition. For furniture orders placed online, please call us at 800.606.6252. For orders placed through a store, please contact the store where the sale originated.
special order upholstery
We require a 50% deposit for all Special Order upholstery. This deposit is nonrefundable after a 72-hour change/cancellation window. These items are made to your specifications and cannot be returned or exchanged.
our designers recommend
teak bath accessories$6.95 - $24.95
stainless steel bath accessories$4.95 - $34.95
format storage shelf$69.95