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I'm new to the forums, but not new to PS3 Media Server, been trailing it since 0.99 and it's a simply astonishing piece of software, and getting even better by the version.
1.04 pretty much covers all I would ever ask for from a media server except one thing:
remote pc shutdown.
Was talking to my friends the other day and we all agreed it's such a pain in the ass (especially late at night ) to have to go to your PC (which could be on a different floor, like mine) and have to turn it off if you you're done with streaming and not planning to do something on the computer in the near time.
SUGGESTION: Make an option available under Video Settings menu to shutdown PC
I've got no experience in Java else I would already be on having it done , but from my programming knowledge it would be fairly easy to do for Windows, even Sleep and Hibernate options could be added.
So for starters just Shutdown option that would work for Windows, and if it seems popular enough other powerdown options/systems could probably be added later with not much fuss.
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I just came across an event taking place in Canton, Ohio on May 1st and May 2nd that I think sounds very exciting. Who doesn't love to see magic, young or old?
Live on stage at Canton's Palace Theater, this year's show promises to be one of the best ever with some of the most exciting and hilarious acts in the world. This spectacular, once in a lifetime show, is where Las Vegas quality entertainment comes to Canton.
There will be six acts:
Jeff Hobson is known as the Hilarious Host of Las Vegas. Jeff is one of the most in-demand comedy magicians working today.
Mark Kalin & Jinger Leigh are respected around the world as powerful performers and creative trend setting producers.
Woody Pittman is a full time comedy magician from Hollywood.
Tim Wright's (a.k.a. Skilldini) stage presence and enthusiasm have escalated him to one of the most sought after magicians in the country.
Simultaneously intelligent and wacky, Billy Bob Steinberg's show draws on his background in stand-up and musical comedy theatre, circus arts and magic.
The sixth act this year will be a special treat. A super surprise guest act, which promises to captivate the Palace Theatre audience.
To find out more about the individual acts, visit the online http:www.battleofmagicians.com
Tickets are $25 each. However, combine this show with an overnight stay at Whispering Pines Bed and Breakfast overlooking beautiful Atwood Lake where the flowers are blooming, and we will pay for one (1) ticket to this magical show. Don't wait too long because tickets are going fast.
Hope to see you soon,
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I heard the ballet wasn't really worth it (so says Elle magazine).
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Sometimes I just love doing a workout DVD. Especially during the winter if I can't motivate to go to the gym--I can get a good workout without leaving home. Thanks for the suggestions!
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I'm looking for something that will get my lazy tail off the couch and moving, I need something that starts with low-impact and moves up.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Basil Pesto With Grilled Tuna
Easy Basil Pesto (recipe by Giada De Laurentiis)
1 garlic clove, peeled
2 cups fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup toasted pine nuts
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup - 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Into the bowl of a food processor, add the garlic, basil leaves, pine nuts, salt, and pepper. Pulse until finely chopped. With the blender still running, slowly pour 1/2 cup of olive oil. Check for a thick, yet smooth consistency, adding more oil if necessary. Transfer to a bowl and stir in 1/2 cup Parmesan.
I served this particular batch of pesto on some grilled tuna steaks (recipe also included on the same Food Network webpage)
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- Moogie said...
Girl... you are as crazy as I am. But that's a good thing. Hope you're enjoying your vacation.
My motto: If you've got the boobs... flaunt them.
- August 4, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- June said...
Mmm, this looks kinda' familiar. Hope you're having a great vacation Magda!
- August 4, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Pam said...
LOL! I love grilled tuna and must try this.
- August 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Laurie said...
Looks like a great dish. I have a gigantic basil plant in my garden presently and want to make some pesto. My problem is that I can't use pine nuts due to a peanut allergy in our family (peanuts and pine nuts are closely related). What other options can I use in place of pine nuts? Can I just omit them or will it effect the taste too much? I have to stay away from tree nuts as well.
- August 4, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- The Mom Chef said...
Actually, we call her "Big Head," but yes, she does have other sizable attributes. Pesto looks yummy.
- August 4, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Ken Myers said...
Molly's favorite dish, grilled tuna! WIll have to try this one out! Enter me, enter me!
- August 4, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- Nanan said...
Love the use of the egg tray!!!!! You are such a smartie!!!!
Here's to boobs!!! egg trays do look like they hold boobs, don't they - sort of?
- August 4, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Grumpy and HoneyB said...
OMG I LOVE it. You are absolutely hilarious. Would I ever love to spend time with you in person! lol. Oh, Grumpy loves to watch Giada...and it ain't for her cooking either! lol
- August 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM
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- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
You are too funny! I think that show accounts for at least 75% of the male viewers of the Food Network!
PS - The pesto looks great, too.
- August 4, 2010 at 9:09 PM
- Cajun Chef Ryan said...
Besides the wonderful recipe, the humor is great!
Bon appetit!
- August 5, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Sue said...
Ha Ha! :) This looks so healthy, but delicious! The ice cube tray is a great idea!
- August 5, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Megan said...
LOL, Great post! My basil is starting to over flow and I'm ready to make pesto! Great tip about the cheese.
- August 6, 2010 at 11:36 PM
- Peggy said...
Enjoy your vacation! The pesto with tuna sounds like a great combination!
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CALDWELL - Unable to wipe away tears with his tightly bound hands, the murderer of a Caldwell woman hung his head and wept quietly Wednesday in the Noble County Common Pleas Courtroom where he was about to be sentenced.
Larry A. Schoeppner, 34, of 231 N. Main St., Belle Valley, received a life sentence, with the possibility of parole after 28 years, for the Sept. 22 shooting death of 46-year-old Tracy L. Kay, his estranged ex-girlfriend.
The sentence, said Schoeppner, will be a secondary punishment to his guilt.
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Murderer Larry Schoeppner, of Belle Valley, sobs Wednesday in court as he is addressed by Susan Lowe, the mother of 46-year-old Tracy Kay, whom Schoeppner shot and killed in September.
"The true punishment will always be in my heart. I hope after I get sent away you all get some closure," he said as he violently sobbed his way through a written apology to Kay's family.
But in his apology Schoeppner did not give a reason for his actions, something Kay's mother, Sharon Lowe, 64, of Akron, said she is still trying to understand.
"We have questions that will never be answered because this coward refuses to let us know why," said Lowe as she addressed Schoeppner and the court.
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Timeline of events
Sept. 22 - Larry Schoeppner, 34, of Belle Valley, is arrested for murder after breaking into the Caldwell apartment of his estranged ex-girlfriend, 46-year-old Tracy Kay, and shooting the woman three times.
Oct. 10 - Schoeppner is indicted for aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated murder charged two different ways.
Oct. 16 - Schoeppner pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and was ordered held on a $1 million bond at the Noble County Jail.
Feb. 8 - Schoeppner pleaded guilty to the second murder charge which specified he had acted with calculation and design.
Wednesday - Schoeppner was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 28 years.
Schoeppner and Kay had once been romantically involved, but Kay had ended the relationship a year before the murder.
Still, said Lowe, Schoeppner would not leave Kay alone.
"She would come to our house to visit and she would have a good 300 text messages from him," she said.
Lowe described Kay as a soft-spoken, gentle, caring woman who has now been taken from her six grandchildren.
"I hope you suffer every day of your life. At least you still have one. I hope the horror you caused shadows you for the rest of your life," she told Schoeppner.
Lowe's daughter, Tasha Kay, 29, who heard the three gunshots ring out at her mother's apartment that night, told Schoeppner she forgave him.
"There are so many things I could say, but the only thing I do have to say is I forgive you. I forgive you because I will not let the pain of what you did ruin our lives," she said.
Following the sentencing, Tasha said that being able to talk to her mother (Tracy Kay) on the phone leading up to the murder helped her get the closure denied to some of the other family members.
"I got to talk to my mother that night. I got to say 'I love you,' to say my last goodbye," she said.
It was Tasha who called the authorities that night after her mother expressed concern that Schoeppner might be waiting at her apartment to harm her. Tasha arrived at her mother's apartment just as police and sheriff's deputies did, in time to hear three gunshots ring out inside and to then hear Schoeppner ask Tracy if she was OK.
"I know he loved my mother, probably too much. He was obsessed with her," said Tasha.
Schoeppner had been threatening her mother, and Tracy had reported those threats a month before her murder, she said.
Schoeppner was indicted in October for aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated murder charged two different ways, said Noble County Prosecutor Kelly Riddle.
Schoeppner pleaded guilty on Feb. 8 to the second charge of aggravated murder with a gun specification -the charge that specified Schoeppner had committed the crime with calculation and design, said Riddle.
Noble County Common Pleas Court Judge John W. Nau pointed out that Schoeppner has previously served time in prison for a felony offense. Schoeppner also has a pattern of drug or alcohol abuse related to the offense that he refuses to acknowledge or seek counsel for, said Nau.
Nau sentenced Schoeppner to serve a minimum of 25 years on the aggravated murder charge and a consecutive three years for the gun specification.
Lowe said she wasn't satisfied with the sentence.
"I'm not, but at least we didn't have to go through a trial which I don't think I could have handled," she said.


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Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Choreographer: Helgi Tomasson
Scenic Designer: Alexander V. Nichols
Costume Designer: Holly Hynes
Lighting Designer: Christopher Dennis
Music: Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 3
World Premiere: April 4, 2014—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
Helgi Tomasson, Yuan Yuan Tan, and Luke Ingham rehearse Tomasson's World Premiere (© Erik Tomasson)
"Danceable, very danceable." That's what Helgi Tomasson thought when he first heard Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 2. For his first ballet since his 2011 Trio, Tomasson, the artistic director and principal choreographer of San Francisco Ballet, chose music that's big, exhilarating, and off the beaten choreographic track. "The music is very joyous," he says. With two adagio sections, the very brief one in Symphony No. 2, plus the generous one he added from the well-known Symphony No. 3, Tomasson ended up with a lively and varied score that allowed him to take a fresh approach to his ballet.
Saint-Saëns, who wrote his first symphony at age 15, is best known for his playful yet poignant Carnival of the Animals, plus several piano concertos. "He was a true child prodigy," says Martin West, the Company's music director and principal conductor. "He was playing major recitals when he was five, and memorized the entire Bach Toccata and Fugue by the time he was six—really incredible. And he had huge success with his music." A brilliant composer, he lived for 86 years, through huge changes in musical genres.
The second symphony was written when Saint-Saëns was 24—for him, "not that early because he was a child prodigy," says West, "but it's still quite young to do a symphony of any major importance." In listening to the second symphony repeatedly, Tomasson realized early on that he would need to add to the score; the adagio, typically a ballet's centerpiece, flashed by, leaving the choreographer no opportunity to develop an expansive pas de deux. "All that beautiful music—a great beginning, a great finale," he says. "But it needed something else in there. So I found a beautiful adagio."
However, that beautiful adagio in Symphony No. 3 (commonly called "the organ symphony") came with one problem: the Opera House has no organ. Re-creating the organ's unique quality with a synthesizer sounds wrong when it's played in the context of a full orchestra. A better option, Tomasson and West agreed, would be to reorchestrate the organ part for various wind instruments (An organ blows wind through pipes, making it essentially a wind instrument, not a percussive instrument like a piano.)
Tomasson's handling of the two adagios makes the expanded score seem cohesive and natural. He gave the short adagio to a small group of men, first trying it with four and then settling on three. "I felt three extra guys plus the leading man, in this short a span of music, made it feel very crowded," he says. For the longer adagio, he decided to use not one but two principal couples. Lush and luxurious, it's emotional without being romantic. "I don't approach it as a love pas de deux; it's just an interpretation to me of what that music means," Tomasson says. "I thought, why not use two couples— first couple, second couple, then both of them together? I thought that would be different structurally."
Dancing one of the couple roles is Principal Dancer Frances Chung, whom Tomasson has cast in ten of his previous ballets. In this new ballet, she says, "it's like you're displaying everything you are as a dancer. There are five movements, and my partner and I are in the first, third, fourth, and fifth movements. So there's a lot of dancing! It's quite difficult stamina-wise." Each movement has a different flavor, she says. "In the first movement, you're like pow, pow, pow! Nonstop technique. And the third movement, for us, is more playful, which I really enjoy. It starts with the men dancing and then the guys toss me around a little bit. And the fourth movement starts with the adagio couple, and then my partner and I do another adagio; it's more mature."
One of the adagio couple dancers is Soloist Shane Wuerthner, cast in his first Tomasson ballet aside from Nutcracker. He calls his role "lyrical, more about the relationship between the dancers. The music is really portrayed there." In contrast, he says, the first couple is "more virtuoso. They do a lot of tricks and jumps and turns."
Music as big and grand as Saint-Saëns' symphony begs for a full stage, and Tomasson responded. He began with five corps de ballet couples, because he likes to work with odd numbers. But as rehearsals progressed, he found that he "didn't use the five couples the way I thought I would, structurally or musically. And particularly when we got to the final movement, I felt we needed to have more symmetry. I wanted to have a feeling of a big group of people out there, so I added another couple." Along with more volume, the added symmetry enhances the ballet's classical feel.
Classical, however, doesn't necessarily mean formal. In rehearsal one day, Tomasson urges the corps to enter with more abandon. "Be more daring," he tells them. Later he says the dancers sometimes take a too-serious approach to a classically based ballet. "And I don't look at it that way. I'm saying, 'Just go for it. Enjoy.' I think the music is very joyous." The freedom to "go for it" comes once the choreography and music have taken hold in the dancers' minds and bodies. "Once we're onstage," Chung says, "we get to play. Helgi really likes it when we play with the music."
For Principal Dancer Mathilde Froustey, new to the Company from Paris Opera Ballet, working with Tomasson was a good way for her to get acquainted with her artistic director, and she was thrilled to be part of the creation of a neoclassical ballet. New classically based ballets don't exist in Paris Opera Ballet's Rudolf Nureyev–heavy repertory, she says. "Nureyev is not here anymore, and we can't change anything; the version is always the same. I have done contemporary fresh [new work], but classical fresh I have never done.
"It's so good to have the choreographer in front of you," Froustey continues. "To have Helgi with me in the studio makes me feel classical ballet is still alive. It was very emotional."
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Choreographer: Mark Morris
Costume Designer: Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Music: Trio in D Major, Opus 70, No. 1 "Ghost" Allegro vivace e con brio Largo assai ed espressivo Presto
World Premiere: February 8, 1994—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
Twenty years ago, Mark Morris created his first work for San Francisco Ballet, Maelstrom. A prolific, primarily modern-dance choreographer with his own troupe, Mark Morris Dance Group, Morris had done a handful of ballets (for companies such as American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey, Paris Opera, and Boston Ballets) by the time Maelstrom premiered in 1994. Since then, he has created works for several other ballet companies, but it is with SF Ballet that he has developed a long-term relationship.
Morris has created eight ballets, including the full-length Sylvia, for SF Ballet. For each one, he has had Ballet Master Betsy Erickson at his side, watching and documenting rehearsals when the ballets are made and rehearsing them in subsequent seasons. For Maelstrom, Morris spent the first few days of rehearsals doing movement studies "to see how the dancers moved, how they listened, how they responded," Erickson says. "I felt like Maelstrom was quite an exploration for him—what you can do on pointe, and partnering in the more balletic sense." One thing he knew when he arrived, she says, was that he wanted "clean lines of the arms, no flapping wrists."
If Morris had to adapt to working with the Company, so did the dancers and Erickson have to adjust to the choreographer's approach. "It took a bit for all of us to get used to how he works musically, which is so phenomenal," Erickson says. "When you work with a piece over time, you start to see how he approaches the music, and the thematic material he builds [choreographically] with the thematic material of the music, and how he alters or augments it. It might start out with something big and diminish, or it might start very small and become more elaborate. It was a wonderful thing, a little miracle all the time, to discover how he was hearing the music."
That music is Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio (so called because of its dark, mournful second movement), composed in 1809, after he had left behind much of the influence of Haydn and Mozart and opted for a more expressive style. Beethoven composed the trio while he was contemplating writing an opera based on Macbeth; his notes indicate that the themes in the trio's second movement came from his sketches for the witches scene in the opera. More than 30 years later, one of Beethoven's students, Carl Czerny, wrote that the movement reminded him of the ghost of Hamlet's father—thus the nickname "Ghost."
Morris is a stickler for using a musical score in its entirety, repeats included, which can be opportunities for choreographic exploration. Erickson describes a section that has a kind of waltz step that's done three different ways. "It's the same basic movement and it goes in the same direction," she says, "but one goes very slow, one goes almost without rhythm in a very slippery way, and another one is very punctuated and sharp. It's the same movement and the same music, but it's three different interpretations."
The maelstrom in this ballet, if there is one, seems to be more about tension than a tempest. "I certainly see a buildup and I see a release," Erickson says. "I don't know if we really see the heart of the storm. There's a swirling movement, but there are also times when something is disappearing or diminishing, like down a drain. It happens several times—someone will go upstage and disappear into the darkness."
The third movement, Erickson says, is "joyous and dancey and fun. Maelstrom has so many beautiful movement characteristics in it—swirls and beautiful partnering and wonderful imagery." Her favorite part? "The second movement, because it's so mysterious," she says. "It has some slow lifting in it, which is really difficult. But when it's done well, it takes your breath away."
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Yuri Possokhov
Scenic Design: Benjamin Pierce
Costume Design: Sandra Woodall
Lighting Design: Christopher Dennis
World Premiere: February 26, 2013—San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
San Francisco Ballet in Possokhov's The Rite of Spring (© Erik Tomasson)
On May 29, 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, ballet and music history took a major step forward. Vaslav Nijinsky's new ballet for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), set to Igor Stravinsky's now-iconic score, shook the preconceptions of the ballet world hard enough to cause a riot. And the shockwaves continue to reverberate. Although The Rite of Spring quickly disappeared from the Ballets Russes repertory, versions of it are now performed by ballet and modern-dance companies worldwide.
Last year, in this ballet's centenary year, it was SF Ballet's turn to do The Rite of Spring, as created by Choreographer in Residence Yuri Possokhov. For him, this ballet reflects "what's happening in the world, some dark sides of our society," he says. "For me, this music is so matched to political and social life of the earth."
Nijinsky's Rite of Spring dramatized the ritual of human sacrifice practiced in ancient Russia, humanity at its most primitive. The subject matter was atypical for ballet, and so was Nijinsky's movement. Depending on whose version of history you read, the turned-in, pounding movement was to blame for the rioting—or the unimaginably strange music was, or both. What's known is that the audience shouted, yanked hats over eyes, wielded canes as weapons, and threw punches. Uproar turned to brawling, and the police were called. Backstage, Nijinsky stood on a chair yelling the counts to his dancers, who couldn't hear the music over the roaring crowd. According to Stravinsky, Diaghilev, who enjoyed upsetting the status quo with his Paris-based troupe's innovations, said of the evening, "Exactly what I wanted."
San Francisco Ballet in Possokhov's The Rite of Spring (© Erik Tomasson)
In his version of The Rite of Spring, Possokhov evokes his native country, both in the movement and in the birch trees that dominate the setting. In rehearsals he emphasized the downbeat, asking for an accent on landings, a downward thrust to the arms. "The Russian way is down; it's earthy," he says. "In this ballet, everything should be down." The birch trees—"one of the prettiest things in my life," Possokhov says —symbolize beauty. He says the ugliness in Rite is in the people, and thus he opted to physically distort the Elders who choose the sacrificial victim. The choice of whom to kill "should come from people who are abnormal," he explains. "So to show this abnormality, I have to find a shape of ugliness." He wants to show that it's "one step from beautiful to ugly."
With The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky created "a complete new language," says Music Director and Principal Conductor Martin West. "He even said he didn't know how to write it down. He knew what it was meant to sound like, but there was no language for it. The rhythms are outlandish." The music is based on folk melodies, deeply buried; part of what Stravinsky was doing, West says, was trying to re-create the sound of Russian folk instruments. "That's why the bassoon is so high in the beginning," he explains. "Nowadays it sounds beautiful. But a hundred years ago bassoonists could barely play it. It was meant to sound horrible."
The score is difficult, West says, but what listeners find so complicated isn't so bad for the musicians "because it's so brilliantly written." The difficulty comes in the size of the orchestra and the piece's rhythmic drive. "It's very hard to get maybe 80 players—it's a huge orchestra—to lock in on one rhythmic groove," he says. "There's this forward energy, which why it's so exciting."
Possokhov calls working with this rule-defying Russian composer "passing through the school of Stravinsky music"—a necessary part of learning to make what he calls "big ballets." What he hears in the music is brutality, and his visceral response is "not to be sophisticated with choreography," to make the steps "more rough, more spontaneous." There is deep meaning in this music, he says, and it's up to him to reveal it.
Program notes by Cheryl A. Ossola


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A Year End List of Lists
In the last week of the year you can count on at least two things it seems: the ubiquitous "last chance to give a tax deductible donation" emails from your favorite organizations and recap and top 10 lists from just about everyone online. A favorite way for bloggers to draw us in, lists can actually be very useful to pare down the vast amount of information out there into bite size chunks we can consume in one sitting.
And it really has been an incredible year for insights and shared knowledge in our communty . So compiling a list of lists that contain inspiration, good ideas, tips and resources for online nonprofits seemed like a fitting celebration of all the sharing and smart ideas that are out there. Below are a few (there are more than 10 ) that I'll kick off with, but I know it's just a start, so please leave more in the comments.
Nonprofit and Technology Lists from 2010
Some lists cull out their author's favorite blogs...
Top 10 Nonprofit Technology (NPTech) and Social Media for Social ...
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Two Italian cities - rich in history - battle for the poet Dante's remains
Dan Brown's latest thriller "Inferno" hits the bookstores on Tuesday, May 14, but the real-life (and post-mortem) story of its central figure is a story you just couldn't make up.
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- Oct 3:
- Jahi McMath: Family breaks silence on brain-dead girl's condition
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- Jahi McMath: Attorney shows video he says proves Oakland girl moves feet, hands at mother's commands
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- Jahi McMath's family to get award from Terri Schiavo foundation
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- Jahi McMath: five similar brain death legal cases
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- John Horgan: Readers react to Jahi McMath commentary
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- Jahi McMath: Streetfighting lawyer takes heat, death threats for brain-dead Oakland girl's family
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- Jahi McMath: Family says brain-dead teen's body may be too deteriorated to save
- Document: Medical analysis of Jahi McMath's deteriorating condition
- Jahi McMath: Brain-dead girl moved to undisclosed care facility
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- Jahi McMath: Timeline of events in case of brain-dead Oakland teen
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- Jahi McMath: Terri Schiavo group secretly leading transfer efforts
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- Jahi McMath: Judge's order keeping girl on ventilator reinvigorates family
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- Jahi McMath: Statement of Children's Hospital Oakland
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- Jahi McMath: Family, attorney release letter addressing critics
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- Jahi McMath: Hospital open to transferring brain-dead teen but won't perform surgery required by admitting facilities
- Jahi McMath: Children's Hospital Oakland agrees to release brain-dead girl to long-term care
- Contra Costa Times editorial: No one recovers from being brain dead
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- Jahi McMath: Family ready to move brain-dead girl to new facility; hospital may refuse surgery request
- Jahi McMath: 2 years ago, a girl wound up severely brain damaged following similar surgery
- Jahi McMath: Family says they'll move brain-dead girl to another Bay Area facility
- Dec 25:
- Jahi McMath: Family tries to have normal holiday celebration in hospital waiting room
- Dec 24:
- Lost in the divisive battle over Jahi McMath is a mother's undeniable love
- Jahi McMath: Judge denies petition to keep girl on ventilator past Dec. 30
- Dec 23:
- Jahi McMath: Judge extends order to keep brain-dead girl on ventilator
- Dec 22:
- Faith leaders call on prosecutors to investigate Jahi McMath case
- Oakland: Need for tonsillectomies in question
- Dec 21:
- Jahi, her mom and 13 days at Children's Hospital Oakland
- Jahi McMath: Medicine's ability to keep a heart beating complicates how death is perceived
- Oakland: Emotional letter from Jahi McMath's mom to keep daughter 'warm'
- Dec 20:
- Oakland: Judge grants restraining order keeping Jahi McMath on ventilator through Monday
- Family of Oakland girl on ventilator furious after meeting with hospital officials
- Dec 19:
- Family of girl left brain dead at Children's Hospital Oakland demands medical records
- Dec 18:
- Jahi McMath prayer vigil: "God knows we want a miracle"
- Family of Oakland girl on life support after tonsil surgery calls for international prayer vigil
- Dec 16:
- Family furious, hospital investigating after tonsil surgery leaves girl brain-dead
- Oakland: Girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery may be taken off life support Tuesday
- Dec 15:
- Oakland girl, 13, declared brain-dead after tonsil surgery
OAKLAND -- An Alameda County judge extended an order keeping Jahi McMath on a ventilator Monday afternoon, forcing officials at Children's Hospital Oakland to keep the brain-dead 13-year-old girl on breathing support until 5 p.m. on Jan. 7 as an emotional battle over the girl's fate continued.
Omari Sealey, Jahi's uncle, confirmed the extension of a temporary restraining order that would have expired at 5 p.m. Monday, allowing hospital officials to take her off the ventilator. Sealey also said the family was making a furious last-ditch effort to keep the 13-year-old Oakland girl alive long enough to arrange to have her flown to a facility in New York, which they say has agreed to accept her for long-term care.
The order was extended by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo, who had put the first order in place one week ago. Late Monday, the family's attorney also filed a new complaint with the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Shortly before 5 p.m., a state appeals court also issued a 24-hour stay, declaring that Jahi must remain on the ventilator through 5 p.m. Tuesday, until the court can hear the family's case.
"The family has located a licensed facility in the state of New York which has agreed to take Jahi," Sealey said Monday afternoon. "We have contracted with an air ambulance willing to take her from door to door. We have a doctor here in California who will be with her throughout the transfer."
Sealey said that despite those arrangements, Children's Hospital will not "allow us to proceed in that manner."
Sealey said Jahi has been responsive to her mother's voice.
"Jahi is moving when her mother speaks," he said. "We have video; our attorneys have just produced it to the hospital's attorney. We have a pediatrician who has seen Jahi who has sworn that she is not dead. We are hopeful that one of these (legal) actions will forestall the hospital's rush to extinguish Jahi's chance at life."
A Los Angeles-area facility withdrew its offer over the weekend to accept the girl, who suffered cardiac arrest and was left brain-dead after a Dec. 9 three-part surgery to remove her tonsils and clear tissue from her nose and throat to treat sleep apnea. Her family said over the weekend that a New York facility was their only remaining option.
Hospital spokesman Sam Singer said doctors would comply with the court orders, but added that attorneys for the facility would file motions opposing the family's request "so this tragedy may have a conclusion."
Singer said that despite the family's claims about other facilities taking custody of Jahi, the hospital had not had any substantial conversations with any of those facilities. He said documentation that the family had given the hospital, spelling out plans for the girl's transfer, was "faulty."
On Monday afternoon, Jahi's grandmother, Sandra Chatman, told reporters that her granddaughter was responding to sounds and touch.
"I know we're going to have victory today," Chatman said. "She's moving her body. Her vital signs are good."
Dr. Paul Fisher, a court-appointed pediatric neurologist from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, arrived at a different conclusion last week. On Monday, television station NBC 11 obtained and posted the "Treatment and Progress Record" Fisher submitted to Children's Hospital.
In handwritten notes, Fisher observed in Jahi, "electrocerebral silence," "no blood flow to brain," and "no response to pain in extremities ... or trunk." His conclusion: "Child meets all criteria for brain death."
Singer told reporters on Monday that in similar cases, brain-dead patients had experienced involuntary muscle movement known in the medical community as the "Lazarus reflex."
Doctors at Children's Hospital have refused to perform a tracheotomy for breathing and insert a gastric tube for feeding, procedures that are needed in order to transfer Jahi, saying it is unethical to perform surgery on a deceased person.
"Discussion about performing medical procedures upon a dead body presents unusual and complicated questions." hospital lawyer Doug Straus wrote in a letter to Dolan that was released Sunday afternoon.
Straus also wrote that the hospital needs to be presented with a "lawful transportation plan" and written approval from the coroner to send her body out of state.
A spokesman with the Alameda County Coroner's Office on Monday said the office had agreed to allow her body to be moved to another facility.
"If they can find a facility I will not be opposed to that," said Lt. Rick Bowers, who oversees the office.
Staff writers Erin Ivie, Mark Gomez and Thomas Peele contributed to this report.


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Industry Experts in Residence required
Applications are now open as Deakin builds on success of Thinker in Residence program.
Building on the success of its Thinkers in Residence scheme, Deakin Research has announced a new Industry Experts in Residence program.
The purpose of this program is to bring industry or technology experts to Deakin University, to advance understanding and engagement of Deakin academics in industry-focused research problems and ideas.
The program also aims to increase industry's understanding of opportunities for industry benefits through collaboration with university researchers.
The residency will normally be for a one to 6 month period. It is envisioned that Industry Experts in Residence will typically be experts in commercially-relevant areas of Engineering, Information Technology, Materials Sciences, Chemical Sciences or Biotechnology.
Industry Experts are expected to bring a broad based understanding of their industry sector, in the context of future thinking.
Through this program they will both advance research collaborations and make an important contribution to Deakin's research culture.
Led by Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Hollander, Deakin has committed itself to working with industry to help create the new industries, products and jobs in Australia.
Two recent initiatives, the new Australian Carbon Fibre Research Facility (ACFRF) along with the proposed Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering training (CADET) are just one part of this.
The University is keen to build on its achievements in creating new products through the Proof of Concept facility at Waurn Ponds where ideas can be taken from concept to commercialisation and this can only increase when the ACFRF is opened next year.
Examples of breakthrough products already in the marketplace are CFusion's tyre rims made from entirely carbon fibre and the partnership with VR TEK Global Pty Ltd that does away with environmentally unacceptable mountains of used tyres by recycling them instead.
Applications for Industry Expert in Residence positions at Deakin are now open.
Click here for the guidelines.


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Scientists find cannibalism at American settlement
Published: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 7:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 7:12 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists survived harsh conditions by resorting to cannibalism.
On Wednesday, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and archaeologists from Jamestown announced the discovery of the bones of a 14-year-old girl with clear signs that she was cannibalized.
The human remains date back to the deadly winter of 1609-1610, known as the "starving time" in Jamestown, when hundreds of colonists died. Scientists have said the settlers arrived from England during the worst drought in 800 years.
For years, there had been unconfirmed tales of starving early colonists resorting to eating dogs, mice, snakes, shoe leather and even their own dead.
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DALLAS (December 18, 2012)--A pickup that former President George W. Bush used on his Central Texas ranch will be auctioned off to benefit a program dedicated to assisting U.S. military families.
The Barrett-Jackson auction house in Scottsdale, Ariz., says the 2009 Ford F-150 King Ranch 4-by-4 SuperCrew will be offered on Jan. 19.
Proceeds will go to the Fisher House Foundation.
Bush signed the truck's right airbag panel is signed and the buyer will also get a video showing Bush autographing the truck and driving around the ranch near Crawford.
Bush, who left office in 2009, said in a news release, "I haven't driven on a street in many, many years, but I have been able to drive this truck on my ranch."


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|Roseland, Janet
|Holden, Joanne
|Andrews, K - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV
|Zhao, C - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV
|Middleton, A - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV
|Feinberg, M - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV
|Douglass, L - UNIV MARYLAND
|Dwyer, J - OFFICE DIETARY SUPPL-NIH
|Picciano, M - OFFICE DIETARY SUPPL-NIH
Submitted to: American Dietetic Association
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: November 20, 2008
Publication Date: October 26, 2008
Citation: Roseland, J.M., Holden, J.M., Andrews, K., Zhao, C., Middleton, A., Feinberg, M., Douglass, L., Dwyer, J., Picciano, M. 2008. Selenium, chromium, and vitamin D: what dietitians need to know regarding dietary supplements. American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo, October 26, 2008, Chicago, Illinois. Technical Abstract: Accurate nutrient data for dietary supplement composition are essential for determining supplements' contribution to total dietary intake. To plan a nationwide adult multivitamin/mineral (MVM) study, the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) obtained prevalence information for the most common labeled levels and ranges of Se, Cr, Vitamin D, and other priority nutrients for adult MVM products, using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. This information was used as the basis for developing a sampling plan that would include representative adult MVM products at specific nutrient levels to provide a range of data for conducting regression analysis. This year, a preliminary data release of adult MVM composition information will be available for researcher use to evaluate diet and health interrelationships in the U.S. population. The Office of Dietary Supplements and NDL have been collaborating on this work. The publicly available database at NDL, the Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database (DSID), will complement the nutrient database for foods known as the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. The DSID will ultimately permit more accurate estimates of total nutrient intake to include both food and supplements and will permit the assessment of variability among and within supplement products.


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Colorado Doubles its Renewable Requirement and Aids Transmission
March 28, 2007
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed two bills on March 27th that will significantly boost the use of renewable energy within the state. House Bill 1281 doubles the state's renewable energy portfolio standard, requiring investor-owned utilities to draw on renewable energy for 20 percent of their electricity supply by 2020. By the same deadline, rural electric cooperatives are required to draw on renewable energy for 10 percent of their electricity. The governor also signed Senate Bill 100, which encourages the construction of new transmission lines to enable greater use of renewable energy. See the governor's press release and the texts of House Bill 1281 (PDF 57 KB) and Senate Bill 100 (PDF 29 KB). Download Adobe Reader.


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Europe's largest supercomputer
By DaveLevy on Jun 02, 2009
The Forshung Julich phase two super computer, now Europe's largest, had its formal opening session last week and Mark Hamiltion, Sun VP who leads our HPC team went to visit them, and recorded it on his blog, in a couple of articles dated as at the end of May, because it runs on Sun. He wrote three articles, several of them with lots of pictures.
This is Europe's largest super computer and runs on Sun's Constellation systems, Mark's article "Memorial Day in Germany" and the Forshung Julich web page, "Systems Configuration" talk about the technology, where they state, they have 2208 compute nodes, each with dual, Intel Xeon X5570 (Nehalem-EP) quad-core processors, running at 2.93 GHz. This has over 17500 cores with 207 Teraflops peak performance, hardly surprisingly they have also taken four of Sun's Data Centre Switches.
The EU's PRACE project funded the feasibility of this and I have been tracking it for a while since we knew that phase 2 was to be based on Sun's hardware. I have a link roll...<script TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/js/DaveLevy/julich?title=My%20Delicious%20Bookmarks&icon=s&count=7&sort=date&tags&extended"></script>
which records a bunch of pages about it and this page, the Juropa Supercomputer has a rather cool picture.
which I have linked to, but shrunk to get on this page.
tags: technology hpc supercomputer cluster intel Nehalem europe eu PRACE Germany Julich


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- Nov 9:
- TCAL-Stone Division roundup: Hercules clinches TCAL-Stone title
- DVAL roundup: Clayton Valley tops Northgate, claims outright title
- WACC roundup: Castro Valley shuts out Berkeley
- EBAL roundup: Foothill beats rival Amador Valley 41-14
- DFAL roundup: Campolindo High finishes off perfect regular season with 50-24 win over Dublin
- Nov 8:
- BVAL football roundup: Freedom becomes playoff eligible with win over Liberty
- East bay football roundup: Washington beats Irvington to wrap up MVAL title
- East Bay high school/community college scoreboard for Friday, Nov. 8 events
- Friday night's East Bay high school football scores
CONCORD -- For the last few years, the De La Salle High football team has endured some of its most challenging tests of the regular season against California.
But the Spartans look to be in playoff form a little early this season.
In what coach Justin Alumbaugh described as his team's best game yet, De La Salle cruised to a 55-0 win Friday night at Owen Owens Field to finish off a second straight unbeaten regular season.
The Grizzlies (8-2), coached by De La Salle graduate Eric Billeci, are no slouches. Last week, they wrapped up the first outright East Bay Athletic League championship in school history.
"It seems like the last five years we've played them it's just been a dogfight," said Alumbaugh, who was teammates with Billeci at De La Salle in 1995 and 1996. "We haven't played (Cal) all that physically. Those guys have been hit for hit with us and that's not something that we were real happy about. The emphasis all week was making sure we outhit those guys."
Cal was without injured starting quarterback Cameron Owen, but the Grizzlies' defense struggled just as much as their offense.
De La Salle (10-0) never punted, failing to score only on a botched field goal attempt as the halftime buzzer sounded.
John Velsaco rushed for 185 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries, and Antoine Custer added 93 rushing yards on just six carries. Custer scored on a 49-yard run on the Spartans' opening drive and later returned a punt 45 yards for a score. De La Salle led 34-0 at halftime.
Velasco broke off an 80-yard touchdown run on the first play of the second half, opening the door for the Spartans' backups to finish off the rout.
It was a far more decisive result than most De La Salle-Cal meetings, including last season when the Spartans couldn't put away the Grizzlies until the final period, winning 27-14.
"This year we came out with a lot more energy and a lot more focused," De La Salle quarterback Chris Williams said.
Williams was 4 of 4 passing for 91 yards. He hit Marquis Morris for a 45-yard touchdown and also scored on a 3-yard keeper.


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gate 1
1A hinged barrier used to close an opening in a wall, fence, or hedge: she closed the front gate figurative they were opening the gates of their country wide to the enemy
More example sentences
- Andrew drove up to the front gate; the gate was closed, but there was a check-in station.
- The gunmen in all cases were greeted with hospitality and obeyed requests from the owners to close gates, not break fences or frighten animals.
- Many walls, fences and gates have to be clambered over.
barrier, wicket, wicket gate, lychgate, five-barred gate, turnstile;
British kissing gate;
Scottish port;
in China moon gate;
in ancient Egypt pylon
1.1A gateway: she went out through the gate
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- I found a group of men standing outside the gates of the port, clamoring for customers to get into their cabs.
- At irregular intervals, metal doors and gates gave access to whatever was behind the wall.
- The site now includes parking, special access gates, wide and clearly visible footpaths, reinforced grass areas and an interpretation board with Braille panel.
1.2An exit from an airport building to an aircraft: a departure gate
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- The small group stood together at the departure gate at Sheridan Airport.
- The group searched four airport departure gates and, after they could not find the man, returned to the checkpoint to retest the machine.
- The flight was cancelled and the aircraft returned to the gate.
1.3 [in names] A mountain pass or other natural passage: the Golden Gate
2The number of people who pay to enter a sports ground for an event: an average home gate of more than 12,000
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- By the very nature of their popularity, certain people can act as role models for the young, lend their good name to charity or simply add thousands to the gate of a sporting event.
- They are currently lying seventh in the crowd table with an average gate of 8,662.
- One, a bigger gate means greater admissions and therefore a greater return on the money.
2.1The money paid for admission to a sports ground for an event.
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- It has the moral right to know whether the money collected from gates is ploughed back into the sport.
- They cannot, should not and will not disturb the basic formula: pooling the TV money and splitting the live gate.
- Clubs cannot live on their gate receipts and television money is non-existent so there is a definite need for clubs to be strong throughout the country.
3A device resembling a gate in structure or function, in particular:
Example sentences
- This strongly favors the hypothesis that the packing deficiencies detected in membrane gates might be functionally important.
- Now model years 2001 to 2005 are being recalled because their rear lift gates, well, they could open during a crash.
- We now know that those gates are proteins which, by coiling and uncoiling like a snake, can change their configuration and hence their opening and closing like gates.
3.1A hinged or sliding barrier for controlling the flow of water: a sluice gate
More example sentences
- Workers removed a road and excavated swales to allow tidal action on the parcel, and installed a tide gate to permit water control.
- The next morning, the kampu opens a wooden gate, releasing a flow of water that provides about nine hours of daytime irrigation.
- Better and more precisely operated control gates were installed in the canals so that water could be measured more carefully.
3.2An arrangement of slots into which the gear lever of a motor vehicle moves to engage each gear.
Example sentences
- Instead of slotting the gear lever through an H-patterned gate, you simply push it away from you repeatedly to change up, and pull back to change down.
- I didn't think they made gearboxes this bad any more - the gate is far too tight so that I was forever slotting from first to fourth.
- Drivers can access the feature by moving the gear selector into a separate gate.
3.3A device for holding each frame of a film in position behind the lens of a camera or projector.
Example sentences
- After some panicky confusion, the lights dimmed, and a single frame appeared locked in the projector gate.
- I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.
4An electric circuit with an output which depends on the combination of several inputs: a logic gate
More example sentences
- That is, the output of a gate is fed back into the input.
- Fundamental to these operations are electronic gates for handling Boolean logic.
- These two gates are simply combinations of an AND or an OR gate with a NOT gate.
4.1The part of a field-effect transistor to which a signal is applied to control the resistance of the conductive channel of the device.
Example sentences
- In an embodiment, the gate of a drive transistor is controlled by the charge on a storage node.
- The field effect transistor includes a gate over a silicon substrate.
- Transistors in each column of the display have connected gates and in each row have connected sources.
verb[with object] British
Confine (a pupil or student) to school or college: he was gated for the rest of term
get (or be given) the gate
- North American informal Be dismissed from a job.Example sentences
- I can't see him getting the gate under any circumstances, but the natives are very restless, and a .500 campaign or less will make things much worse.
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The Biopharmaceutical Industry is Driving Unprecedented Progress in Drug Discovery and Development
Innovation—it is what everyone likes to talk about, but what does it really mean for millions of patients battling disease? Simply put, medical innovation can help patients live longer, healthier and more productive lives.
Innovative medicines developed by America's biopharmaceutical research companies have helped increase childhood cancer survival rates from 58 percent in 1970 to 83 percent today and have contributed to declining death rates for patients battling diseases such as HIV/AIDS (85 percent decline since 1995), heart disease (30 percent decline between 2001 and 2011) and cancer (22 percent decline since 1991).
As one of the most research-intensive and science-driven industries in the U.S., the biopharmaceutical industry is committed to the research and development (R&D) of new treatments and cures for patients, including those who have serious unmet medical needs. With more than 7,000 innovative drugs in development worldwide by biopharmaceutical companies and over $500 billion invested in R&D since 2000, hope is certainly on the horizon.
Patients are not the only ones who benefit fromnew drug development. When new medicines keep patients healthier, the economy gets a boost from a healthier workforce, the cost of healthcare can go down and access improves. Perhaps above all else, medical advances give patients one essential ingredient for survival: hope.
Importantly, biopharmaceutical research companies, oftentimes working with partners in the scientific and medical innovation ecosystem, continue to forge an important pathway forward in defeating disease. But in order for us to push the innovation boundaries into unchartered territories, there needs to be a regulatory and public policy environment that fosters medical advancements and promotes U.S.-based biopharmaceutical jobs.


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He may be the new kid in town, but Noel Kilkenny has already begun to make his mark in the New York Irish community.
Kilkenny, 58, a native of Co. Clare, is the new Irish consul general in New York. He replaced Niall Burgess, who moved back to Dublin to take up the position of director general of the Anglo Irish Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Kilkenny isn't a man who believes in easing himself into the job. He asked for a full schedule to be put together immediately, and he got right to work.
Within his first week he visited the Aisling Irish Center in Yonkers to become acquainted with the older members of the Irish community.
There he met 98-year-old Joe Cunningham. An active member of the senior group at the center. Cunningham promised to keep Kilkenny up to date with the happenings of the group and pledged to paint him a picture.
"We had such a wonderful time at the Aisling Center," Kilkenny shared during an interview with the Irish Voice last week at the Irish Consulate.
"My wife Hanora came with me and it was very special for both of us to meet the older members -- the heart of our community really -- who came here in difficult times and still maintain such great pride for their country and Irish heritage."
Referring to the "great work" started by Burgess with the older members of the Irish community, Kilkenny pledged to continue to concentrate on serving the same people and doing for them what he can.
"Niall had a real strong passion for the community and especially the seniors in the community, so I plan to build on that and reach out to them as much as possible," promised Kilkenny.
Pausing during the interview for a moment, Kilkenny turned around to point out several pictures taken by famous Irish photographer John Minihan of the older members of the Irish community hanging on his office walls.
He smiles and says, "They are wonderful reminders to me every day that these are the people I'm here to serve."
Kilkenny hails from Kilrush, Co. Clare. There he attended the Christian Brothers primary school and went to Co. Waterford to boarding school for the latter part of his secondary schooling. He furthered his education with a law degree from University College Dublin.
He spent three years in the Irish Department of Justice and began his career with the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1977.
Since then his career has brought him all over the world, including various stints in Holland, China, Washington, D.C., Bosnia, London, Estonia and Moldova, and many years in between in Dublin.
During his tenure in Washington Kilkenny served as the press officer for the Irish Embassy there.
"That was a hugely exciting time," said Kilkenny, who has several relations in Chicago.
"I was there for the final year and a half of George Bush Senior's administration and then of course the election of President Clinton," he said.
For Kilkenny, the real excitement began when Washington got involved in the Northern Irish peace process and the first visit of Gerry Adams to the country in 1994.
"It was just great to be here seeing all this progress happen. New York and Washington had a very significant role in developing the Good Friday Agreement and it was wonderful to be part of that," he said.
Also during his tenure in Washington, Kilkenny witnessed the surge of young Irish people coming to the U.S. to escape the poor economy at the time in Ireland.
"I was here to see so many young people get good news from the Morrison visa program, and that was another exciting time in my career," he said.
"The feel good factor with the Morrison visas was fantastic. Just meeting young people who were below the radar -- as it is now too -- who benefited from the visa was wonderful."
Kilkenny was quick to make note that he "will work closely with Washington and the Irish Embassy there" to do what he can "to find a solution" for the Irish undocumented currently in limbo in the U.S.
"I know what it's like. They came here when they were younger, but now their parents are getting elderly and they can't go back home to see them," he said, adding he can "only imagine" the hardship they face in that situation.
"While posted in Washington I lost both my parents but I had the freedom to visit them. Not to be able to do that would have been awful," said Kilkenny. "The situation really breaks my heart."
Although his feet have only just touched the ground in New York, Kilkenny said he already gets "the feeling that New York is going to be a very special post."
Said Kilkenny, "I've heard from my predecessors that New York was a great place, and I can safely say I'm already realizing that."
Kilkenny, father to two grown children, is ready to hit the ground running.
"The first thing I plan to do is to serve our Irish community," outlines Kilkenny. "We celebrate 80 years of serving the community in New York this week, and I plan to continue to build on that service."


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Bruce's first compilation album incorporates 14 of his best-known songs, along with his recent hit "Streets of Philadelphia," from the film Philadelphia, which won multiple Grammys and an Academy Award. Also included is fan-favorite outtake "Murder Incorporated" and three more songs newly recorded with a reunited E Street Band in January 1995.
- Released:
- Label: Columbia Records
- Producers: Bruce Springsteen, Mike Appel, Jon Landau, Steven Van Zandt, Chuck Plotkin, Roy Bittan


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18 June 2010
It's been a few years since I last read Saramago, simply because other things kept grabbing my reading time, but I will forever be grateful to the Nobel Prize committee for bringing him to the world's attention, because I doubt I would have encountered his work otherwise. I read Blindness soon after it was released in the U.S. to see if the latest Nobel Prize winner was my sort of writer, and it was a shattering experience. Because I came to it with only basic expectations and knew little about it, I was in just the right frame of mind to be shocked and awakened by its visceral power. No other book had ever so powerfully made the fragility of human civilization so clear.
I went back and found everything else I could get my hands on by him. (My copy of Baltasar and Blimunda was discarded by the New Hampshire State Prison, and I almost brought it back to the prison and said, "No, you need this. Keep it.") The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The Stone Raft, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, All the Names, The Cave -- I devoured these books, one after another, their voices melding in my head over the course of a year or two of hungry reading. I have few memories of the books individually, but ghostly memories of their voices and characters, and that seems appropriate to them, so filled with what is otherworldly, so beautiful in their terrors and aching in their loves.
And so I imagine Faulkner and Kafka sitting together at a wobbly table in a café in an unnamed city built with thousand-year-old stones, drinking something locally distilled, a little tipsy and loquacious, twilight setting in, and so they help each other stand up and discover themselves skipping down the street and humming a tune and giggling until they get to an alley and they realize it's dark and time to go home, and melancholy sets in, and they stare up at the sky in silence for a moment and they see the stars through industrial haze, and there's a new one up there, shimmering, and at the same time, without even realizing it, without knowing why, the two men whisper a word whose meaning they don't understand, Saramago, and then walk home, slowly, in opposite directions through the endless darkness of night.
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Nice. That last paragraph does a good job mimicking Saramago's style.ReplyDelete
Well said, Mr. Cheney.ReplyDelete
Another octogenarian master gone. Saramago's death isn't as personally upsetting as Markson's, but it leaves more of a sense of lost work. I don't know if he was still producing at the height of his powers, as the cliche goes, but his recent books didn't seem diminished, particularly, and his public pronouncements were mostly as feisty as ever. I thought I'd still get to read at least a few more new books from his pen.
I've wanted for some time to read his Manual of Painting and Calligraphy but it's been virtually unobtainable. Anyone have an opinion about that one?
If there can be any good drawn from the sad news of Jose Saramago's passing it is that he has one more novel forthcoming. And I've put off too long reading The Year of the Death. Time to take it up now.ReplyDelete