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Immigration in The 1920s
25 Million "New Immigrants"
The 1920s unfolded at the tail end of the greatest wave of immigration in American history. Between 1880 and 1920, more than 25 million foreigners arrived on American shores, transforming the country. The immigrant surge of the late 19th and early 20th century was distinctive in its size, its demographics, and its impact upon American culture and society.
More than 80% of the arrivals after 1890 were so-called "New Immigrants," natives of Southern and Eastern Europe, culturally and ethnically perceived to be quite different from the Germans and Britons who had embodied the bulk of the immigration into the United States in earlier periods. Italians, Poles, Jews, and Slavs—ethnic groups rarely encountered en masse earlier in American history—arrived in large numbers.
They also departed in large numbers. The New Immigrants were distinctive from earlier migrants in that most didn't want to stay. These immigrants, mostly male and mostly young, hoped to earn enough money during a temporary stay in America to be able to afford an increased standard of living upon returning to their homeland. Something between 50% and 80% of the New Immigrants are believed to have eventually returned to their countries of origin. The exceptions were Jews (who mostly came from Russia, and only 4% of whom repatriated) and Irish (9%), two groups that tended to stay in America permanently because they faced religious persecution, political oppression, and economic privation back home.
Heyday of the Urban Ethnic Enclave
Despite high rates of repatriation among the New Immigrants as a whole, enough migrants put down roots in America to boost the foreign-born population of the country to record levels—just under 15% in the Censuses of 1920 and 1930. While the vast majority of the population of the United States—always more than 85%—remained native-born citizens, an especially heavy concentration of immigrants in major cities created the feeling of a foreign takeover. By 1920, 42% of New Yorkers were foreign-born; 41% of Chicagoans; 42% of San Franciscans.
Immigrants in these bustling cities tended to congregate together with their countrymen; the 1920s were the heyday of the urban ethnic enclave. Immigrants, many speaking little or no English, settled together with their compatriots and forged close-knit communities, often boasting ethnic shops, ethnic markets, ethnic banks, ethnic clubs, ethnic cinemas, even ethnic radio stations, broadcasting in the mother tongue. These invaluable, if insular, community institutions only lost their grip on ethnic populations when overwhelmed by the spread of American mass culture during the 1920s—the chain store, the bank branch, the national radio broadcast, and the Hollywood motion picture created, in some cases for the first time, a real common ground that crossed ethnic boundaries in America's cities.
The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance
The patterns of migration and settlement common to the New Immigrants were in some ways mirrored by those of American blacks. Employment opportunities created by World War I spurred the "Great Migration," the mass movement of African-Americans out of the rural South and into the urban North. In the cities of the North, blacks built their own ethnic communities, not unlike those of their immigrant counterparts. New York's Harlem became the center of African American cultural life in the United States, with a literary, artistic, musical, and political scene so vibrant it became known as the Harlem Renaissance. African-Americans rallied around Marcus Garvey—himself an immigrant from Jamaica—to create the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the most assertive black political movement seen to date in the United States. Musical geniuses like Louis Armstrong developed a new form of popular music—jazz—that many consider, to this day, to be America's greatest contribution to human culture. And a cadre of talented writers—Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston prominent among them—forever changed American literature.
Nativist Backlash
The development of large, thriving communities of immigrants and minorities generated a considerable backlash among native-born Americans who feared they were losing their cities to "undesirable" newcomers. Prior to the coming of the New Immigrants, a large majority of the American population—more than 60%—could trace their ancestry back to either the British Isles or to Germany. These old-line Americans, mostly fair-skinned and Protestant, tended to view the darker-complected, mostly Catholic or Jewish New Immigrants as not just different but "inferior"—members of lesser races, likely lacking the Anglo-Saxon temperament many believed necessary to maintain a free society. The New Immigrants, in the prejudiced imagination of many native-born Americans, lacked self-discipline and work ethic, lived immoral lifestyles, and could not be trusted not to throw their votes (should they attain citizenship) to corrupt machine politicians or radical troublemakers. The New Immigrants generated a renewed nativism in hostile reaction to their arrival on American shores.
Americanization Campaigns Stir the Melting Pot
The most benign strain of that nativist sentiment came in the form of aggressive "Americanization" campaigns, efforts to remake the immigrants into good Americans through work, education, and social reform. Henry Ford was a leading exponent of the movement, declaring that "these men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live." Ford forced immigrant workers at his automotive factories to attend lengthy Americanization courses, in which they were schooled in the English language and Ford's conservative ideology. At the end of each course, Ford even organized an ornate pageant in which workers clad in outlandish versions of their countries' native costume descended into a giant melting pot, only to climb out the other side wearing suits and waving American flags. Ford's Americanization program was backed by coercion, as the company's Sociological Department investigated the home lives of its workers; any Ford employee who failed to maintain a middle-class American lifestyle that met Ford's standards could lose his job.
Slamming the Door: National Origins and Immigration Restriction
Other nativists lacked Ford's hope that the New Immigrants could be remade into good Americans, and focused their efforts on blocking immigration altogether. Prior to 1921, with one exception—the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—immigration into the United States had never been systematically restricted by federal law. That changed with the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the 1924 Immigration Act, which imposed for the first time a limit on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States. The two laws were targeted squarely at the New Immigrants; they established a new National Origins system that created different quotas for immigrants from each country, pegged to those countries' representation in the population of the United States in either 1910 (the 1921 law) or 1890 (the 1924 law). Because countries like Italy and Poland had contributed a tiny proportion of America's population before 1890, they received miniscule quotas. The effect was startling: Prior to the quota, immigrants were arriving at a rate of more than 850,000 per year, with just under 700,000 of those coming from Southern and Eastern Europe and only 175,000 coming from Northern and Western Europe. The strict 1924 act imposed a very mild restriction on immigration from Northern and Western Europe, still allowing 140,000 arrivals per year from those countries. But immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe was limited to just 22,000 per year—a 97% reduction from pre-restriction levels.
While the immigration restriction acts of 1921 and 1924 well reflect the nativist, anti-immigrant attitudes of many Americans during the Roaring Twenties, it is important to note that the laws' practical effects were not as great as one might expect. Because of difficulties in determining the precise proportions of the 1890 population that belonged to each country, the law did not take effect until 1929, at which point the economic collapse brought about by the onset of the Great Depression naturally reduced the immigrant flow to a trickle.


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Here's my card for the challenge. The stamp set I used is Bright Blossoms and the Designer Series Paper is called Summer Smooches. Both of these products are Sneak Peeks from the NEW Idea Book and Catalog that will be available on June 1st. But, Stampin Up is offering these products early for those of us who just can't wait (like me..lol).
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The Stony Brook women's tennis team swept the doubles points and won easily at No. 1 and No. 2 singles on its way to a 6-1 win over Connecticut. The match vs. the Huskies, which was originally scheduled for February 6, was played at Army.
Senior Nini Lagvilava (Tbilsi, Georgia) and freshman Jackie Altansarnai (Hinsdale, Ill.) defeated the UConn duo of Weinberg and Stosljevic, 8-5.
Lagvilava followed that up with a 7-6, 6-1 win at No. 1 singles. Sophomore Polina Movchan (Kiev, Ukraine) was victorious at No. 2 singles (6-1, 6-0). Freshman Becky Shtilkind (Brooklyn, N.Y.), senior Chloe Pike (Bristol, England) and sophomore Cassandra Dix (Northamptonshire, United Kingdom) also won in straight sets.
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8 August 2012
As long as you're in town, you might as well see some of the sights, right?
When people come into town, I always point them at the Smithsonian. It's an awesome set of museums that are completely free. You can spend a week going through them and still not see all of the exhibits. They're also only closed two days a year, and neither of those days are during the conference.
- Some important notes:
- You have to go through security to get in. They're going to poke around in your bag with a stick. Some places have metal detectors.
- The art museums are super-uppity about what you can bring in. If you think about it, this makes sense. Their exhibits aren't behind glass. They have a bag check so you can stash your stuff if needed.
- The museums open at 10am. One of the buildings, the castle, opens early, but there's not much to do there besides drink a coffee and sit in the garden.
- Pictures are allowed! Bring your cameras and camcorders!
- Almost all of the museums ring the Mall. The Mall is a big strip of grass in front of the Washington Monument. It does not have any stores.
- The zoo isn't even remotely close Mall. There's a metro stop called "Woodley Park-Zoo", but this is the stop is at the bottom of the world's biggest hill. Get off at Cleveland Park instead.
If you're a gamer, make sure to check out The Art of Video Games at the American Art Museum. If gaming isn't your thing, there's still plenty to see.
Other museums
I adore the International Spy Museum and the Museum of Crime and Punishment. They film America's Most Wanted in the latter! You can get deals for both museums off of Groupon on a regular basis, so keep an eye out for those.
Nearby, there's also a Madame Tussauds if you want to go look at creepy wax people. Also, the National Academy of Sciences has a museum that's super cheap and has some awesomely detailed exhibits. It's not a huge museum, but it's packed with information. They're closed on Tuesdays, so plan accordingly.
And there's so many more! We have no shortage of museums.
If you want to see monuments, buy a step-on-step-off tour. Seriously. The monuments are NOT close to each other, and some of them are surrounded by highway. The buses come by every thirty minutes, which is about how long a monument is likely to entertain most people.
I wanna run!
I confess: I'm not a runner. I've toyed with Couch-to-5k a few times, but the summer always beats me. I did, however, find this trail right by the hotel. amk also recommended Bike Washington for some multi-purpose trails.
I need to go shopping
You forgot to pack socks. We're hit by a freak snow storm. They lost your luggage. Your kids will not let you back in the house without souvenirs. The vendors ran out of your t-shirt size. It's cool. We've got you covered. We're right by the Crystal City Shops. They're easy to miss because the shops are hidden inside the buildings at Crystal City, behind the restaurants.
If your needs aren't covered by those stores, you can ride one metro stop over to Pentagon City Mall and pick up almost everything you need, from clothes to Apple connectors. They even have a Costco, if you need a palate of danishes or something.
Next: FOOD
Yes, you want to eat and possibly hit up a bar while you're here. I'm still compiling that list! Locals, shout out your favorites so I can add them.
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1 Ben says...
As a former Crystal City resident, now living in Colorado, very few days go by that I don't miss Kabob Palace, on Eads & 23rd, just across the Hwy from the Crystal City commercial & hotel complex. I challenge anyone to find better pakistani/afghani (not sure which) stewed chick-peas and marinated chicken, lamb and beef kabobs. This place is a 100% hole-in-the-wall, paper-plates kind of place but its a must try if you're into spicy food that lands somewhere between middle-eastern and Indian and want to get full. 8-12 dollars a plate. Don't pass on the chickpeas. (Personally, I forego other side options besides the standard, delicious rice and get double chickpeas). Serving sizes are big.
Other than that, there are various commercial & chain restaurants & bars on the East (commercial) side of Highway 1 aka Jeff Davis hwy--from Chipotle on up to Ruth's Chris. A few of them are in the underground mall. You've probably heard of most of them, or they at least look like some generic commercial restaurant in your town, since many are national or regional chains. Personally, I like Ted's Montana Grill when I'm craving a good overpriced buffalo burger, and McCormick & Schmicks (or however its spelled) for high-end seafood. Other than that, I've tried a ton of the restaurants on that side of the Hwy (which is where the conference is), but nothing really stands out to me that you wouldn't already have an opinion about.
When you cross Highway 1 on 23rd street, things get interesting. There's a "restaurant row" on 23rd street that offers a bunch of non-highbrow non-chain bars and restaurants, including foods of various ethnicities. Some aren't good at all (the sushi place, mexican place). Some are really good (Tagolio's pizza). My personal favorite is the three-story Crystal City Sports Pub. Good food, and feels like what a sports pub should be.
Also. A tip to the unaware: if you get lured into the "Crystal City Restaurant" on 23rd Street by one of their "New York Strip" specials expecting a nice steak dinner, you might be a bit surprised by the strippers. Or maybe that's what you're after.
If you have access to a car or want to dish for a cab, The Carlyle, in the Shirlington area of Arlington, is one of the best restaurants in the area.
Restaurants in DC proper-- there are a lot of good ones-- goes beyond the scope of this comment.
Oh, and there are a lot of good ethnic restaurants in the DC area, but not Mexican food.
Posted at 3:26 p.m. on August 8, 2012
2 Ben says...
PS, for Kabob palace, they were doing so well that they opened up a new restaurant . . . right next door. Interesting business decision. The new one is called "Kabob palace family restaurant" and is more of a sit-down full service place. I recommend the original, non "family restaurant" one. The food is the same but they go through it a lot faster there so it usually tastes better.
I wish my startup had budget for me to go to Django Con this year! DC is awesome.
Posted at 3:34 p.m. on August 8, 2012
3 Ben says...
PPS, Its 24 hours.
Posted at 3:37 p.m. on August 8, 2012
4 Steve Holden says...
Over the river in DC, for a swank meal the Capital Grill is hard to beat. Rashika is an innovative and friendly (but not cheap) indian meal.
Close by the hotel there's a Ted's Montana Grill that serves hearty meals and has a great bar. Legal Seafood is also a reliable dining experience, with a great raw bar for those who like it. Hope these reminders help.
Posted at 5:06 p.m. on August 8, 2012
5 Ben Lopatin says...
Kabob Palace? Yes, yes, and yes. Across the street: Cafe Pizzaiolo is worth a trip. One Metro stop over: Lebanese Taverna (amazing hummus and shwarma).
If you want something amazing and local, get theeself to Court House/Rosslyn and to Ray's the Steaks (Court House), Ray's Hellburger I and II (Rosslyn) and Rays the Third (Rosslyn). Medvedev liked the jalapeño topped burger.
As for bars, probably a good bet to go into DC by Metro or cab, although the aforementioned CCR is rumoted to be getting local brewery Port City Brewing's Optimal Wit on tap soon.
Posted at 6:11 p.m. on August 8, 2012
6 Rosie says...
As far as sightseeing goes, I like to take visitors to see the FDR and MLK monuments at night. After 9pm or so, it's easy to park right next to the FDR monument and walk around the Tidal Basin to see the new MLK memorial. They're open until 11pm, IIRC.
Also, Kabob Palace = Yes.
Posted at 3:52 p.m. on August 13, 2012
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Entropy 2012, 14(3), 533-558; doi:10.3390/e14030533
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AbstractIn a curved surface design, the overall shape features that emerge from combinations of shape elements are important. However, controlling the features of the overall shape in curved profiles is difficult using conventional microscopic shape information such as dimension. Herein two types of macroscopic shape information, curvature entropy and quadrature curvature entropy, quantitatively represent the features of the overall shape. The curvature entropy is calculated by the curvature distribution, and represents the complexity of a shape (one of the overall shape features). The quadrature curvature entropy is an improvement of the curvature entropy by introducing a Markov process to evaluate the continuity of a curvature and to approximate human cognition of the shape. Additionally, a shape generation method using a genetic algorithm as a calculator and the entropy as a shape generation index is presented. Finally, the applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated using the side view of an automobile as a design example.
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We gave away ticket to the Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women show coming up at Bunkers, Friday, August 27th.
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Back to the show with 25 CDs of beautiful music….from the back porch. Coolin' off the way they did it down south in the Delta. Just sittin'…just waitin' for the sun to go down. And you know it will 'cause trouble….and the heat….don't last always.
BIRTHDAYS-IN-BLUE From the Land of the Round Haircut, one of them a little too close to home….
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ATLANTA, Ga.---Georgia's Board of Regents has accepted a plan to expand the Medical College of Georgia. This came after a conference call among the regents.
It also comes just before crucial budget hearings on MCG in the Georgia legislature.
Chancellor Erroll Davis says the action means regents are sending a signal to lawmakers they are firmly behind expansion plans.
Some Augusta-area lawmakers have expressed doubts, especially about plans for an MCG campus in Athens. That could require $10,000,000 or more in startup costs.
The report accepted by the regents calls for the Augusta campus to increase enrollment from 745 to 900. The Athens campus would have up to 240 students.
According to the plan, the state would also need new medical research
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Susan Kimball, a teacher at the Sikeston Kindergarten Center, holds up a chick for students to get a closer look. The students studied the life cycle of the birds watching them hatch from eggs in an incubator thanks to effort of a local parent and two Orscheln Farm and Home employees, Kimball said.
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SIKESTON - It was egg-sactly the perfect conclusion...
Kindergarteners crowded around the container filled with the peep-peep-peeping baby chicks. Carefully they offered a finger to touch the tiny birds, knowing just the proper way to caress the babies they had watched hatch, stretch their wings and learn to fend for themselves.
Really not so much different from the lessons - of breaking out, stretching and growing - that the kindergarteners in Susan Kimball's class accomplished as they neared the end of the school year.
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Definition of sum total in English:
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Another term for sum (sense 2 of the noun).
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- The Hindu does not hold God responsible for these: they are ascribed to karma, or the sum total of deeds in one's past lives.
- At any given moment in time an individual is representative of the sum total of his/her people's collective history.
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Steve M. Fabac, Jr. wrote:
> I have moved a client's SCO 5.0.7 system from a SuperMicro
> server to a HP ML 350G4 box. The move was successful but I
> have questions on regarding the procedure I followed and
> if I should have done the steps differently.
> And most importantly: If I have a problem waiting to happen.
> Short description:
> I did not run "mkdev cpqciss" on the
> old system to install ciss disk support into the kernel
> but performed the necessary steps manually.
> My question: Should I now run mkdev cpqciss on the new machine
> or just forget about it since the ML 350 is up and running and
> boots without requiring modified boot strings?
> Long description:
> The technique I followed was to download the HP EFS-5.770a
> file and unpack it in the /tmp directory on the old server
> (SuperMicro with Adaptec 2150 ZRC raid running dpti RAID
> drivers). I copied the btld image to floppy and performed
> btldinstall and selected the ciss driver. I then ran
> mkdev hd and specified to add a disk to the ciss driver,
> rebuilt the kernel and rebooted.
> I then used Backup Edge to rebuild the DVD RE2 boot image
> and wrote it to a CD.
> I tested booting the ML 350G4 with the RE2 CD and found that
> I had to use the string: "defbootstr Sdsk=ciss(0,0,0,0) Srom=wd(1,0,0)
> to allow Backup Edge to "see" the ciss RAID5 array and mount
> the CD as "master" on the "secondary" IDE controller (the DVD
> on the old machine is "master" on the "primary" controller).
> Once I knew that the RE2 image would boot the ML350 and allow
> access to the 641 Smart Array Controller and the CD-RON, I
> waited for the nightly backup to create a bootable DVD backup
> of the old system.
> I installed a DVD-R+R/RW/RAM drive in the ML-350G4 and booted
> the DVD backup with the RE2 image. I selected the automatic
> recovery option of RE2 but that failed when it discovered that
> the old system RAID5 was 71G and the ML 350 is 68G.
> I used the RE2 "editor" and checked the file system layout
> stored in the RE2 image and manually adjusted the divvy
> partition to adjust file systems sizes to fit in the 68G
> space. Once that was done, the "restore all file systems"
> mounted the file systems and restored the DVD backup image
> to the ML 350.
> I had to boot the ML 350 with the Sdisk=ciss(0,0,0,0) boot
> string and then ran "mkdev scsi" and removed the hard disks
> listed in /etc/conf/cf.d/mscsi, proceeding from last to
> first: I removed ciss and then dpti. I ran mkdev scsi and
> added the ciss back into the configuration. I rebuilt the
> kernel and installed it and upon reboot, the system booted
> without requiring the Sdisk=ciss(0,0,0,0) boot string.
> I ran netconfig and removed the old NIC and when I selected
> "add new LAN adapter" it identified the on board NIC as:
> HW HP NC7761 Gigabit Server Adapter - PCI Bus# 1,Device# 2,Function#
> and I was able to configure the ML 350 with an IP address on
> a test network (SCO 5.0.7 will not boot if it "sees" the
> same licenses on another server in the network).
> After the system was up, I installed EFS-5.770a on it and reviewed
> the installation and release notes. I see that the EFS installed
> the /usr/lib/mkdev/cpqciss script and my question is should
> I now run "mkdev cqpciss" or just ignore it. (I checked the btld
> disk and there is no reference to the cpqciss file so it was
> installed by the EFS and not a part of the btldinstall.)
> Sorry to be long winded. I hope that someone with experience
> with the ML 350G4 and SCO 5.0.7 will take the time to read this
> and post recommendations or suggestions on what to check or what
> to watch out for.
> --
> Steve Fabac
> S.M. Fabac & Associates
> 816/765-1670
Looks right to me. I don't think any driver issues will surface if they
have not already.
An alternate would have been:
- Do a fresh install on the new system
- Restore using Edges ability to re-direct symbolic links to an
arbitrary new root, and restore the entire backup to the alt dir.
- Pick and choose what I needed to cpio -puvd over to their final locations.
- Use ap to restore user logins and passwords from the old system.
Less likely to blow up IMHO if a step is forgotten
If that system has ILO (I forget if that appeared with G4 or G4p's), and
you use the serial port (modem or UPS say) be sure to turn off the CLI
interface in the ILO bios - the default setting will kill the tty1A port
if Esc( is passed out that port.
HP has a bulletin out about the problem here:
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ok, so let's be honest - it's very little more than a dressed up version of burn.app, so when you buy it, you expect it to be pretty. right out of the gate, i can't get the interactive smoke to work on either my imac (santa rosa) or my macbook pro (also santa rosa). both should be WAY more than sufficient for whatever graphic requirements smoke has, yet it works on neither. i've tried for nearly two weeks w/5 emails to get support to RESPOND AND ACKNOWLEDGE my problem, and they haven't.
to clarify - smoke works, but it's the two-color non-interactive variety. works fine w/1.0.1 on the same machine, just not 1.0.3
save your money.
Bwa? An update? The mind boggles.
Bwa? A maintenance update? The dead lives!
I'm amazed that on one hand the vast majority of the comments here are negative, yet the app scores nearly 1500 'iusethis'. Is it all hype? I don't know. I use it, but to be fair only on rare occasions. I just like the simplicity of the interface.
waaaay overpriced. It's all eye candy (and not that special still). There are many better apps that are freeware or you can simply use finder and disk utility for most of the things.
If you want a powerful burning app forget this and get toast which is lightyears ahead of this and anything else.
Beautiful interface.
Bells and whistles.
Nothing special whatsoever (except disc spanning maybe)
Waste of Money.
Just a fancy, overhyped GUI wrapper for the Disc Burning framework. Major features? It shakes when your laptop's motion sensor goes off. It has 'cool smoke effects'. It has a half-assed disk spanning utility.
For a free alternative, try Burn instead. http://osx.iusethis.com/app/burn
Personally I like Toast for rock-solid stability, maximum utility, and speed, but it has a hefty price tag.
I like its ability to index the listings of files that were burnt - makes it so much easier to locate what has been backed up where later on! Disc spanning is also another plus.
The cool "smoking" animation when burning discs doesn't hurt either!
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King Digital Entertainment PLC's forthcoming stock-market debut will shower its employees and investors with riches.
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Mike Chalfen was a young deal maker at London-based Apax Partners LLP in 2005 when he led the firm's €29 million ($40 million) investment in the maker of "Candy Crush Saga." In a feat of exquisitely unfortunate timing, he left the next year—just months before he would have received a share of the firm's profit from the deal, known as carried interest.
It turned out to be a monster investment: Apax owns about half of King Digital, a stake valued in securities filings at $3.5 billion.
"I'm not going to make a penny," Mr. Chalfen, 42, said in a telephone interview. Private-equity partners typically don't receive their share of carried interest in deals unless they remain with the fund they're investing for a sufficient length of time, Mr. Chalfen said.
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Probably studying politics.
Posted by Adam on July 1, 2013 13:03
Obviously education has done little to dispel the belief in superstition and spiritualism in these students.
Posted by ThaiMike on July 1, 2013 14:36
I remember the same thing happening at the school in Kamala South Side, some years ago. So it's not that rare.
Posted by Robin on July 1, 2013 15:36
was it announced the buses will roll and they all fainted.
Posted by slickmelb on July 2, 2013 02:30
of the 22 victims, 21 were girls, and the remaining victim will no doubt be a girl in the future.
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Strange ain't it... when so many of the multitudes of the world believe in some nefarious entity called god or whatever .....yet when there are the above strange occurrences so many automatically debunk it?
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Philips' 2012 TVs may have arrived at the eleventh hour, but if the 46PFL7007 is anything to go by, it looks like it was worth the wait.
Also available in 40in and 55in versions, the 7007 is only two steps down from the flagship 9707. It's a beauty to behold, with a thin 5mm metal bezel and a smart wedge-shaped stand, which can also double as a wall mount.
It's an LED edge-lit 3D TV using active shutter glasses, of which you get one pair in the box, and has a built-in Freeview HD tuner, Wi-Fi, the signature Ambilight LEDs which light up your wall with colours to match the on-screen action, plus Philips' latest Smart TV hub.
It's not only the bezel that's super-slim: the set itself is just 30mm deep. There's also a fantastic array of ports and connections including five HDMI inputs.
See also: group test: what's the best 3D TV?
Philips 46PFL7007: Smart TV
One of the areas in which Philips' previous TVs were lacking was internet services. With the new version that's no longer the case. Press the remote's Smart TV button and, after a short delay, you're presented with a thumbnail of the current video source, and some icons for online services.
These include the all-important iPlayer (where you get the choice of SD or HD streaming) and YouTube. The rest of the (presently) limited selection includes TED Talks, Ebay, MeteoGroup, Absolute Radio, Aupeo, CNBC Real-time and, slightly oddly, TomTom HD Traffic. There's Twitter and Facebook integration, a web browser (more on that below) and Skype, which gets its own icon in the main menu.
To use Skype, you'll need the £100 PTA317 webcam (you can't use any old USB model you have lying around, but the PTA317 actually costs around £60 if you shop around), but it's a great way to communicate with friends and family on the huge screen. The camera itself has two noise-cancelling microphones and offers a decent wide-angle view of your room so several people can be seen at once. The Skype app is easy to use and sound quality was good during our tests.
The portal doesn't include any other TV catchup services, nor BBC News, but we're told Blinkbox and at least one other video-subscription service will be added in an update shortly.
The web browser isn't a reason to buy the TV. It's not a bad effort, but as there's no cursor it can be tricky to select links and text boxes unless you connect a USB mouse (which you can). Plus, it doesn't support Flash, so many web videos can't be played.
Philips 46PFL7007: remote
The bundled remote is an RF unit, which is welcome as it doesn't need line of sight to communicate with the TV. Flip it over and you'll find a split QWERTY keyboard that's comfortable enough to use with your thumbs.
This makes it much more feasible to write those Tweets and Facebook updates as well as searching for YouTube videos or entering your Wi-Fi password. It doesn't work in every app, though, with iPlayer being a frustrating omission.
If you have an Android or iOS device, you can download the Philips MyRemote app which replicates the remote's buttons and has some other nifty features.
One is Simply Share, which allows you to show photos, music and videos from your smartphone or tablet on your TV via Wi-Fi. We tried this on an iPad, but it couldn't find our TV. Philips says a firmware update coming in November for the TV will fix this.
Another feature (Wi-Fi Smart Screen) which will be included in the same update is the ability to stream the live broadcast showing on the TV straight to your smartphone or tablet.
Another feature, which is only on tablets, is a programme guide. This is arguably easier to browse than the version on the TV itself, and doesn't interrupt your TV viewing. If you find a show you want to watch you can tap it to switch straight to it on the 46PFL7007.
Philips 46PFL7007: media playback and hard disk recording
As you'd expect, the 7007 can play back a variety of video, photo and music formats, both via its three USB ports, and across your network.
The menus for playing media are fairly nippy and easy to navigate. Connect a flash drive or hard disk and the media player will launch automatically, allowing you to select the type of media you're after at the top of the screen. It's then a case of navigating to a particular folder and playing the contents.
It's great to see MKV support along with AVI, MP4, MPEG and WMV. Naturally, JPG photos can be viewed, and as well as MP3 for audio, you can also play WMA and Apple's AAC files.
If you press the Pause button after connecting at least a 32GB USB drive, the 46PFL7007 can format it and use it to pause live TV. If you also want to be able to record broadcasts, you'll need a 250GB or larger disk. Recordings are encrypted, so you can't copy them to a computer.
However, we'd recommend using a hard disk only for pausing and rewinding live TV (which works well). Recording both SD and HD shows is possible but the system is unwieldy. You can't pause or rewind during recording, nor can you even watch another source, which seems unnecessarily restrictive. Plus, features you might expect to see, such as Series Link are missing.
Next page: Picture quality
Philips 46PFL7007: 2D picture quality
Although image processing is a step down from the 8000 Series, the 46PFL7007 still has the same 200Hz LCD panel. Unlike the 9707 there's no moth-eye filter, so the screen has a semi-gloss finish which is quite reflective.
Rather than the top-end Perfect Pixel HD engine, the 7000 Series has 'Pixel Precise HD'. This can't process as many pixels per second as Perfect Pixel HD, but it's difficult to tell.
Indeed, detail levels are incredible. From a good-quality Blu-ray, you can see the blades of grass on a football pitch, individual hairs in a cat's fur and every last blemish pan models face. The picture is so sharp, it feels as if the action is happening right in front of you.
Motion resolution, too, is another strength. Images moving across the screen remain in sharp focus, making this a great set for watching sports.
Contrast is excellent, as long as you're sitting almost directly in front of the 46PFL7007. This is partially thanks to micro-dimming, where the scene is analysed and the backlight adjusted in small segments according to whether it's a bright or dark area of the frame.
Blacks are deep and convincing, but things change as you move off-centre. Narrow viewing angles mean colour saturation drops off, even at 45 degrees, making blacks look bluish and faces take on a corpse-like appearance. Colours also appear to invert, giving people a plastic look.
The panel can swivel on its stand enough to counteract this effect if you're sitting on a sofa at the side of the room, but when several people are watching on opposite sides of the room, only those directly in front of the screen will see the best quality.
In our technical tests, displaying a variety of solid colours on the screen, the backlight is pretty even. On our test sample, however, tiny dark patches were evident in the bottom corners. These aren't noticeable in normal circumstances, but you might see them on a news channel with a coloured bar at the bottom.
Again, as long as you're sat square-on, colours are absolutely stunning, with deep reds, bright yellows, and convincing blues and greens. When you move off centre, colours quickly fade.
Of course, you won't be watching HD video the entire time, and the 46PFL7007 does an admirable job of upscaling standard definition Freeview. We'd advise leaving the sharpening control disabled, though, as it only leads to artefacts and haloing.
Philips 46PFL7007: 3D picture quality
You get only one pair of 3D specs in the box, but you should be able to pick up a free second pair during in-store promotions.
Importantly, though, 3D quality is good, with scenes being both deep and immersive. There's little perceptible crosstalk (it reared its head only in occasional scenes in Prometheus on Blu-ray) but being active shutter glasses, other light sources within your vision flicker.
It's possible to adjust the 3D depth, but only between two settings: Normal and More. We'd have preferred to see an additional 'less' option.
A useful trick is the ability to play two-player games in 3D, where each player gets to use the entire screen rather than squinting at half the screen. Each pair of 3D glasses lets you select whether you're player A or B, and then they synch with the TV so both eyes only see the left 3D frame while the other player sees only the right frame.
Next page: EPG, menus and sound
Philips 46PFL7007: menus and EPG
Given that there's a dual-core processor capable of dealing with millions of pixels per second, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the TV's menus would be snappy. Sadly they're not. The animations would be great if they weren't so slow, and there's no way to disable them.
On top of this, getting to the picture quality settings takes at least 9 or 10 button presses - there's no dedicated setting button on the remote.
As we've come to expect from Philips, there are more than enough quality settings to satisfy those who like to tweak. That's a good thing, since the preset modes are really only starting points which you'll almost certainly want to adjust - mainly to disable all the unnecessary processing which is turned on by default.
Particularly frustrating is the inability to quickly enable or disable Perfect Natural Motion, Philips intelligent frame creation system. Typically you'll want to disable it for movies, but enable it for sports.
Settings are saved for each input source, so it can take a while to get things just right if you have, say a Sky+ box, an Xbox and a Blu-ray player.
The programme guide takes up almost the whole screen, so it's easy to read, and shows two hours' listings for six channels. Annoyingly, it cuts both the picture and sound of the programme you're watching.
As if this wasn't annoying enough, there's no easy way to change days, no way to jump back to the current time and pressing the Ok button for a programme switches to that channel's live feed rather than displaying information for that show, or scheduling it for recording.
Philips 46PFL7007: sound
Thin TVs typically have poor sound quality, but the 46PFL7007 isn't bad. There's a pair of 20W speakers built into the base and these deliver loud, decent quality sound. Bass is just about audible, but not a patch on Philips older sets. Still, audio is better than pretty much every other thin TV we've seen recently.
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Philips 46PFL7007: Specs
- 46in LCD TV
- 1920 x 1080 pixels
- Brightness: 450 cd/m2
- Contrast ratio: 500,000:1 (dynamic)
- Stereo speakers with 2 x 20W amplifier
- Freeview HD tuner
- 7-day EPG
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- Headphone jack
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- 3 x USB 2.0, CI slot
- Video Playback Formats. Containers: AVI, MKV, H264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9/VC1
- Music Playback Formats: AAC, MP3, WMA (v2 up to v9.2)
- Picture Playback Formats: JPEG
- 85W average power consumption
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- 14 kg
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- Brightness: 450 cd/m2
- Contrast ratio: 500,000:1 (dynamic)
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- Picture Playback Formats: JPEG
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- 1042 x 599 x 30 mm (with stand)
- 14 kg
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There's lots to like about the 46PFL7007. 2D picture quality is searingly sharp, with bright, realistic colours and superb blacks. 3D is also impressive, even if there's slight crosstalk from time to time. It also looks fantastic, and the Ambilight makes things even more immersive. The range of ports is unparalleled and Wi-Fi is integrated. What we didn't like were the restrictive viewing angles and reflective screen (the latter being a common feature of just about all TVs this year). The slow menus with options buried too deeply were also frustrating. The Smart TV needs more content, including more catch-up TV services such as 4oD.


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After you learn everything you can about the show, you might want to try your hand at some Pretty Good Trivia.
A Brief History
If you showed up on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul and plunked down your $1 admission (50 cents for kids) to attend the very first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, you were in select company. There were about 12 people in the audience. But those in attendance thought there were worse ways to spend a Saturday afternoon, so Garrison Keillor and the APHC team went on to produce close to 500 live shows in the first 10 years alone. There were broadcasts from this venue and that, until March 4, 1978, when the show moved to The World Theater, a lovely, crumbling building that was one plaster crack away from the wrecking ball. (Now fully renovated and renamed The Fitzgerald, it is the show's home base.)
In June of 1987, APHC ended for a while. Garrison thought it was a good idea at the time, but only two years later, the show was back, based in New York and called American Radio Company of the Air. But there's no place like home. So in 1992, it was back to Minnesota and, soon after, back to the old name: A Prairie Home Companion.
There has been plenty of adventure in the past 40-plus years — broadcasts from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Iceland and almost every one of the 50 states; wonderful performers, little-known and world-renowned; standing ovations and stares of bewilderment. We've missed planes, coped with lost luggage, dodged swooping bats and hungry mosquitoes, plodded through blizzards, and flown by the seat of our pants.
Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by 4 million listeners each week on nearly 700 public radio stations, online, and on the American Forces Networks, SiriusXM Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KPRG in Guam. Garrison recalls, "When the show started, it was something funny to do with my friends, and then it became an achievement that I hoped would be successful, and now it's a good way of life."
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Post to the Host: A monthly column in which Keillor responds to questions and comments submitted by A Prairie Home Companion Web site users.
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Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton announced that Tony Truelove has been appointed marketing manager for the company's North America Truck operations. He is located in Galesburg, Mich., and reports to Tom Nellenbach, director of marketing and communications for Eaton's Vehicle Group.
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More than 300 guests gathered during an annual Ramadhan celebration dinner Saturday evening at Baitul Baseer Mosque, under the rolling hills in Milpitas, hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the Silicon Valley.
During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims around the world abstain from food and drink from dawn until sunset. This has shown to increase focus on worship, charity and human welfare in an effort to strengthen their relationships with God. Emphasis is given to the holy book, Quran, by reciting and understanding the message. As Muslims who believe in the promised Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, are especially conscious of the sense of sacrifice during this month for the less unfortunate through charity giving.
As a tradition, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Milpitas organized its annual Iftar Dinner at Baitul Baseer Mosque in Milpitas. This is a time for the entire community to gather and have discussions about the significance of this month, and on the Muslim faith around the world.
Leaders from various communities, including Sikh, Christian, Buddhist and Jewish, conversed over the similarities in their faiths.
Milpitas Mayor Jose Esteves welcomed the guests and praised the event, which brings the community together every year. The president of local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Wasim Malik, introduced the event by explaining the background and purpose of the event. He added "the significance of fasting is a kind of sustenance which is a source of comfort and gratification of the soul.
"Ramadan is a time to change one's attitude toward others; to firmly decide to behave better, to live in kindness and love with others" said the keynote speaker, Imam Mubasher Ahmad of the Silicon Valley chapter.
Right after the ceremony, a melodious call to prayer heralded the breaking of the fast. Serving the attendees with traditional foods such as juice dates and samosas made the event very festive. Soon after the evening prayer, dinner was served. The evening ended with dessert and traditional tea amid garden lights.
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The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2013, H.R. 647, would allow people with disabilities or their families to put aside tax-free savings for education expenses, employment support, housing charges, health needs, legal fees, assistive technology and more. Not only will these savings not be taxed, making it easier to build up a reserve for the future, but the ABLE Act allows people to save more while still receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid benefits. The act was sent to the House floor just before Congress adjourned for August recess. It enjoys support among Democrats and Republicans, but it's important that our community add its voice! Use and follow #PasstheABLEact on social media and spread the word! You can also find your district's congressperson here and let him or her know how the ABLE Act will help you. Get involved to remind your representative of the real, positive change this bill can make!


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Moments after CM Punk reigned supreme in an ultra-intense matchup against WWE's "young gun" Big E Langston – turning back the up-and-comer's Big Ending to hit the GTS – Paul Heyman congratulated his former friend on the victory over a "marginally talented rookie, barely out of the NXT division." While Punk had already won the right to face Ryback & Heyman in a Handicap Match inside Hell in a Cell at the pay-per-view in nine days, the "mad scientist" hurled another 2-on-1 situation in the direction of The Straight Edge Superstar – sending The Human Wrecking Ball and Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel storming to the ring.However, some surprising assistance would soon even the odds, as a revitalized Big E suddenly rose to join in The Second City Saint's fight and help send the Heyman Guys packing!
CM Punk def. Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel in a Beat the Clock Challenge
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NEW DELHI: The World Bank officials have expressed shock and concern at the UPA government's ambitious plan of installing desalination plants all along the Coromandel coast starting with Chennai. The Bank, which has been funding projects on safe water supply and water management in Chennai in particular, earlier rejected the desalination of sea water as a possible option of supplying water to Chennai because of high cost factor.
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Police search for missing teen last seen in Gentilly
Mikell Brieana Montgomery missing since Dec. 27
Published 2:30 PM CST Jan 03, 2013
New Orleans police are looking for a missing teenager last seen on Dec. 27 in Gentilly.
Police said Mikell Brieana Montgomery, 16, was last seen at her father's home in the 1600 block of Caton Street in Gentilly.
Montgomery's mother said her daughter has never gone missing in the past.
Montgomery was described by police as an African-American, standing 5 feet 1 inch tall, weighing about 125 pounds.
She was last seen wearing a navy blue jacket, grey jogging pants and brown boots.
Police said she has several stars tattooed on the right wrist.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NOPD at 504-821-2222.
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A drake pintail stands guard while its mate dabbles away to capture the abundant fairy shrimp in a shallow depression filled with snowmelt. The drake alerts the hen, and they flush as a young bison calf romps up to the wetland for a drink with its much larger mother close behind. As the pintails rise above the prairie, they see an endless expanse of unbroken grassland dotted with hundreds of gleaming wetlands.
For millennia, this was a scene that greeted breeding ducks as they returned to the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) in spring. Sculpted by the massive forces of glaciation, this 300,000-square-mile area, named for millions of shallow "pothole" wetlands of varying sizes and depths, was once among the most expansive wetland systems in North America. Surrounding these wetlands were vast prairie grasslands subject to frequent disturbance by wildfires and great herds of grazing bison. Along the northern and eastern boundaries of the prairies and boreal forest, aspen parkland dominated the landscape. The combination of diverse and productive wetlands and abundant upland cover constituted the most productive ecosystem for breeding waterfowl on Earth. When snowmelt and spring rains filled prairie wetlands across this region, duck production was spectacular beyond belief, and the resulting fall waterfowl migrations blackened the sky. This remarkable productivity for breeding waterfowl gave rise to the region's nickname, "the Duck Factory."
Today, waterfowl find a much different ecosystem when they return to the prairies. Gone are free-roaming herds of bison, and in many areas seasonal wetlands have been drained and grasslands plowed under. As homesteaders settled the prairies, they soon discovered that the rich soil that once supported lush grassland, bison, and ducks could also raise bumper crops of grain. Extensive waterfowl habitat loss ensued across the Duck Factory, especially in eastern portions of the region where rich soils and a relatively wet climate are especially conducive for growing row crops. In Iowa and Minnesota, which at one time may have contained the most productive waterfowl breeding habitat on the prairies, more than 95 percent of historic wetlands and grasslands have been converted to other uses.
Fortunately for waterfowl and hunters, significant expanses of wetland-rich grasslands remain intact in parts of the Duck Factory. Landscapes with steep terrain and less fertile soils are not as intensively farmed because of the barriers to cultivation these factors present. Additionally, large blocks of native grassland managed for cattle grazing remain on the western prairies where a more arid climate produces less consistent crop yields.
Perhaps the most productive geographic area left for breeding waterfowl on the prairies is the Missouri Coteau, a narrow band of rolling hills that runs from southern South Dakota to southern Saskatchewan. Until recently, the coteau's rugged topography and light, rocky soils generally discouraged cultivation, leaving large tracts of native prairie surrounding mosaics of potholes. In especially wetland-rich areas of this region, breeding duck densities can exceed 120 pairs per square mile. For breeding ducks, the coteau and similar landscapes are bastions of high-quality habitat. For waterfowl hunters, these landscapes are vital to sustaining duck populations now and in the future.
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Grieving and working toward nonviolence
"There is nothing quite so painful as a broken heart, but a broken heart is an open heart. If one can live with an open heart, GENTLE transformations begin to happen."
I wrote this in my journal in early 1995 after losing my son Tariq to a senseless tragedy of gun violence. Once again – with the recent travesty in Newtown, Conn. – those days are being relived.
The operative word in my journal entry is "GENTLE." It is so important we support the parents of murdered children to grieve their losses. Their hearts have been broken beyond imagination. As I can relate, it will take time for these hearts to heal. I am reminded of a Turkish saying that says, "Grieving itself is medicine – those who conceal their grieving will not find a remedy for it." So I have been in prayer and meditation since this tragedy happened, and in that I have mostly been in a grieving state. I have been praying for the parents and families of the 20 young children and the six adults who were so tragically taken away for no reason. I'm left wondering what I would say to these broken hearts.
In respects to dealing with my own tragedy, when I first learned of the death of my son, I was devastated. At first I did not believe the word from the San Diego police as they told me the news over the phone. Yet, upon my next phone call, it all came crashing down as I listened to the sobbing cries of my son's girlfriend. Standing in my kitchen, I dropped the phone, felt the life force completely leave my body and collapsed to the floor. Holding my chest, I felt as if a nuclear bomb had gone off in my heart.
After months of agonizing pain, as well as anger at a society that could create a scenario for gangs and violence, I came to realize there were victims at both ends of the gun – my son Tariq, of course, but also the young 14-year-old who pulled the trigger.
Over the years, I finally came to believe that on some level the lucky die young. Tariq is in a better place than I. And yet I also know that parting is temporary … that he – like the slain children of Newtown – will pull their families to a brighter heaven, and we will be together someday to never again be apart. I also know this is difficult to see in the early days of loss.
As a nation, we must grieve for the families left behind and pray for the departed souls that they may rest in eternal peace. We must give the families left behind the strength to move forward in the absence of these beautiful angels. At this moment I am still in the grieving and praying mode and not focused on the solution. The only thing I can offer is that as a society it is clearly evident that we are angry and violent. It is my prayer that this and similar past tragedies is a wake-up call to all of us.
Why can't we be a nonviolent society that practices goodwill, friendship, respect, empathy, compassion, forgiveness and most importantly peacemaking? Violence is a learned behavior, and no child was born violent. If one accepts that as a truism, then it follows that nonviolence can also be a learned behavior. However it is important to teach these nonviolent principles to our children (our future), as they will not learn this though osmosis. My life since losing my son 18 years ago is dedicated to teaching these principles to our children through a nonprofit foundation named in his honor.
It is my vision that this tragedy wakes up our nation, and we all commit to creating a nonviolent society teaching principles of forgiveness, gentility and peace.
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UPDATED: Friday night's accidental fire won't delay Nov. 11 opening of the Dallas Convention Center hotel, official said
UPDATED 1:23 p.m.: As soon as I hit publish on this previous update, Dallas Fire Rescue spokesman Jason Evans came through with additional information on the fire's cause.
The cause of the fire at The Omni Hotel, at 555 South Lamar St., is Spontaneous Combustion of oily rags. These rags were used to apply stain treatment to the redwood deck in the outside spa/pool area on the 4th floor.
These rags were stored in a plastic container, and when they ignited, melted pieces of plastic fell down into a space between the concrete floor and sub-floor causing damage to the concrete decking.
This fire could have been prevented if the oily rags had been stored in a self-closing metal container as required by the Fire Code. A referral is being made to Fire Prevention, but I have not heard if there will be any fines or citations.
There were no firefighters or civilians injured at this incident. There were a total of 52 firefighters who responded to the incident, at 11:30 PM, with 10 heavy apparatus, 2 rescues and others in supervisory roles.
UPDATED 1:12 p.m.: Officials say that Friday night's fire will not delay the Nov. 11 opening of the Dallas Convention Center hotel in downtown Dallas.
The fire appears to have been accidental, but the cause is still pending, said Michael Hite, general superintendent for Balfour Russell Pegasus, the construction joint venture building the hotel.
About 10:30 p.m. Friday, sensors in the heating and air conditioning system detected smoke and automatically alerted Dallas Fire Rescue and company officials, Hite said. Firefighters found smoke coming from under the stone pavers in the pool deck area on the fourth floor, he said.
"The fire had developed at the end of the work shift (about 8:40 p.m.) and smoldered for a while before it was detected," Hite said.
He said the damage was relatively minor. The third floor roof was damaged below the pool area, and the fifth floor above the fire had some smoke damage, he said.
"It looks accidental," Hite said. "There's nothing there that indicates that nobody did anything."
ORIGINAL POST: I checked in with Dallas Fire Rescue this morning on the status of the investigation into the cause of last night's fire at the still-under-construction $500 million Omni Hotel just down Young Street from this newspaper's offices.
DFR spokesman Jason Evans said he would check. When I hear from him I'll post an update here. He did note that the only reason firefighters put a second alarm on the fire — meaning they needed more personnel to fight it — is because it's a high rise.
Translation: If the fire got out of control at the 23-story, 1,000-room hotel, they'd need more people very, very quickly, so you might as well call them out sooner than later.
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All of our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families of the bombings at the Boston Marathon today, as well as with the runners, spectators, volunteers and staff of the Boston Athletic Association (BAA). Marathons bring out the best of the human spirit and unite our cities and towns. This is a tragic day for all of us in the running community. We are here in full support of our close friends at the BAA. The safety and security of all New York Road Runners' races is and will always be our top priority. We will continue to work hand in hand with the City of New York and the NYPD as we plan for upcoming events.
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