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Manchin voting his conscience
March 12, 2014
Too many positions taken by members of Congress are based on politics, not what is good for the nation or what their consciences dictate. So, strange as it may seem, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va....
I've made no bones about saying that I never trusted Manchin, and never will. He's always been wishy-washy, indecisive and untrustworthy. When he speaks, his eyes are all over the place as if he's looking for a way to avoid the truth. I don't trust anyone who won't look me straight in the eyes when they address me. Watch the eyes folks. It's a known fact that people do certain things with their eyes when they talk, and it's a good indicator of their honesty when they move them a certain way, just as it's as equally certain they're lying when they do the opposite. Ask any detective, they'll tell you the eyes are a dead give away when interrogating criminals. Manchin has never passed the eye test, even when he's on TV. He showed his true colors more than once recently.
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Show me ONE democrat who has a conscience? Just one! Waiting........................................................................................................
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My perspective of Joe Manchin is he's like a leaf blowing around the patio in all different directions, well it's sort of like "he ain't found his groove yet", don't know which direction to go. In some aspects though he reminds me of another ex-Democrat Governor from New Jersey, Jim Florio. Yup Florio was all so pro second amendment then flip flopped, he even went to NRA dinners and back slapped the NJ Association of Rifle and Pistol Clubs of what a fine job they were doing, only to change his spots after getting elected. Oh how I remember the sign in PA coming across the Delaware River,"Welcome to PA,America starts here",yup even one such in Maryland urging NJ residents to oust Jim Florio. A little ole lady unknown,unheard of,Christine Todd Whitman ran on reversing his anti gun laws and beat Florio to the pulp. The NRA rebuffed and wouldn't let the nose of the camel(2 noses)Manchin and Tommey's in the tent to chip away at the Second Amendment,truly a wolf in sheep
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I think Manchin did the right thing by voting against this man, but did he do for the right reason. Manchin has pulled some very underhanded stunts since he went to Washington, and I don't trust him at all. Anyone who claims to be pro-gun and then side with Obama in his unconstitutional gun bans will forever be on my bad side. I dislike lawyers even more willingly represent murderers like Wesley Cook, better known to the world as Mumia Abu-Jamal. There's no question about Jamal's guilt, and he deserved the death sentence. Debo's decision to represent Jamal was as racially jaded as was Obama's decision to nominate him. He knew the reaction that would follow over the nomination, but as usual, he doesn't care. If he can slap the good citizens of this country in the face, he'll take every opportunity to do so that comes along.
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Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a Florida special election Tuesday that largely turned on the federal health care law. Democrat Sink spent 3 times the money on tv ads and it did her no good. She lost.
Alex Sink, democrat well, 'sunk' and lost! People are fed up with the dems and their controlling agenda.
Manchin and other dems know we're fed up.
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I no longer believe anything Manchin says, does or what his 'supporters' write in the papers. Voted for him ONCE; NEVER AGAIN. He BETRAYED WV!
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WHERE was Manchin's "conscience" when he supported Obamacare? WHERE was Manchin's "conscience" when he pretended during his election campaign to be a pro-2nd amendment politician waving his rifle at the pages of Obamacare, PRETENDING to hate both the socialist healthcare bill AND the gun bans??????
THIS is an election year folks. Manchin's got his "damage control" professionals on SPEED DIAL!
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Teens are giving up part of their summer to keep their friends from becoming a highway statistic.
"Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety," or is holding a retreat at Lynchburg College.
The group, which is also known as "YOVASO," is made up of students who want to stop teen driving deaths.
All week they'll be taking part in hands-on activities and brainstorming sessions.
They're learning about bad driving habits and how to be advocates for safe driving at their schools.
"In this particular setting, it's really nice for them because they all have similar goals and they're able to get together and try to make a difference," said retreat director, Haley Glynn.
YOVASO's ultimate goal to is fighting traffic deaths. Motor vehicle crashes continue to be the number one killer of teenagers.

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August, 2014: Creating New Funding Streams for Specialized Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking: Read about EDI's latest successful legislative initiative >>
Proposal for Supportive Services for Survivors in Illinois
CAASE's End Demand Illinois campaign released a Proposal for a Statewide System of Specialized Services for Survivors of Prostitution and Trafficking.
The Chicago Tribune ran a front page story about our new law, Creating Funding Streams for Specialized Service for Survivors of Human Trafficking. The story featured Renea Walker, member of the EDI Survivor Engagement Committee and CAASE's Lynne Johnson discussing why services are crucial for survivors and the End Demand Illinois campaign. We led the passage of this law and are thrilled to be interviewed about it.
(You will need to sign in to the Trib's website, but you don't need to be a paid subscriber, simply create an account.)
Want to help? Sign up for our email action alerts here!
CAASE works with elected officials, public-opinion shapers and allies to improve our community's response to sexual exploitation. We promote policy and advocacy reforms that will hold perpetrators of sexual harm accountable and create resources for survivors of prostitution, sex trafficking and sexual assault. Questions? Contact Lynne Johnson, Policy Director: firstname.lastname@example.com.
End Demand Illinois: A Local Campaign with National Influence
CAASE is the lead agency for End Demand Illinois (EDI), a multi-year statewide campaign that seeks to transform our community's response to prostitution. EDI is working to end the routine arrest and re-arrest of women and girls in prostitution and instead proposes a statewide system of supportive services for survivors of the sex trade. In addition, EDI advocates for new tools and resources to allow law enforcement to begin arresting, charging, and prosecuting pimps, traffickers, and customers who create the demand for the sex trade. Illinois is receiving national attention for these innovative approaches.
The goals of End Demand Illinois are:
Campaign successes include:
Want to spread the word? Get informed!
To learn more about the campaign, our partners
and steering committee members, visit www.enddemandillinois.org
Improving Local Government's Response to Sexual Assault
Rape crisis centers are vitally important to our community, but local government has not historically offered financial support to ensure that these services are available. In recent years, CAASE has led efforts to change this and secure new funding:
CAASE leads effort to secure rape crisis funding from Cook County Board
In November 2009, we led an organizing and policy effort to encourage Cook County to provide financial resources to support area rape crisis centers. Want to know where services are located within county districts? View a map of rape crisis services in Cook County here.
In May 2010, the County approved our request for $275,000 in grants to support Rape Victim Advocates, Pillars, YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, Northwest CASA, and Mujeres Latinas en Acción. Again in 2011, CAASE was successful in leading a campaign to ask Cook County to renew this funding. Survivors and advocates described how CAASE's leadership helped the effort:
"Without the Cook County funding this year, rape crisis centers would have been forced to make devastating cuts to services to victims. CAASE's leadership was essential to securing this funding."
-Polly Poskin, Executive Director, Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Read more stories from advocates and survivors who benefited from this funding here.
What's Next: Asking the City of Chicago to Support Rape Crisis Services
Currently, CAASE and local rape crisis centers are advocating that the City of Chicago begin supporting rape crisis services. We have created several resources for this effort:
Legislative Resources Regarding Trafficking, Prostitution and Sexual Assault
Reforming Illinois' Human Trafficking Code: Public Act 97-0897 (previously HB 5278): Passed unanimously in the General Assembly, this bill was signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn in August of 2012. It expands the scope of the state involuntary servitude law by including additional means by which a trafficker can obtain or maintain a victim. The bill removes confusing language from the statute and lessens the emphasis placed on force, which will help prosecutors more effectively use the statute. The bill also extends the time limit for prosecutors to bring charges against traffickers in cases involving minors. The passage of this bill will help prosecutors to more effectively utilize the involuntary servitude statute, which in turn will protect victims. Read more about the bill here.
Justice for Victims of Sex Trafficking Crimes: In 2011, Illinois was the third state in the nation to pass a law to enable victims of sex trafficking to vacate their prostitution convictions. Want to learn more? Read the bill summary here.
Note: as of January 1, 2013, the human trafficking code in Illinois has been updated in a way that could be useful for attorneys seeking relief on behalf of victims. Anyone using the Litigation Guide will want to also look at the updated law: view a bill summary here.
Illinois Safe Children Act: End Demand Illinois' first legislative initiative, created in partnership with Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, this law ended the practice of charging young people who have been prostituted, and instead requires the child welfare system to investigate the case as human trafficking. You can download a summary of the bill here.
Cook County Human Trafficking Taskforce
CAASE is a member of this local taskforce, which works to "Combat human trafficking through seamless collaboration between federal and state law enforcement and social service providers."
Our policy work is supported by individual donations to CAASE as well as through grants provided by:


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For the first time ever, six teams were highlighted in a single day at SEC Media Days in Birmingham, among them, Mississippi State.
Head football coach, Dan Mullen, was prepared to answer questions bright and early.
"You know i don't think we're that far off," Mullen told a bevy of reporters of the outlook for his team this coming season. "And for us the big part of it is making that final play. About 170 plays a game, in offense, defense and kicking game. Unfortunately, you don't know which one. In this league, one play can sway it and you don't know which one it was. I guess if you knew which one it was you'd make sure you won that play. But I think that's part of the mental toughness that comes. We have some guys that have played a lot of football. and I think they can get that message, that experience that they have in this league now to get that across to the young guys."
"Just watching older guys and seeing the things that they did and what they did when things weren't going really well and the things they did when things were going good," said quarterback Tyler Russell, of Meridian, of how he has prepared to take a starting role. "And just being out there and, you know, the experience I've had and I played in some games. You know, (it's) just time to be that guy young guys count on and look up to and finally being able to just lead the team."
Mississippi State opens the season Sept. 1 at home against Jackson State, with the SEC opener the following week against Auburn.
Featured at SEC Media Days Thursday are Ole Miss and the defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide.


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Credit Rating Press Releases:
Bond ratings press releases for U.S. municipal bonds and energy sector corporate bonds.
Fitch Rates University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Rev Rfdg Bonds, Series 2009B 'BBB+'
Fitch Rates University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey Rev Rfdg Bonds, Series 2009B 'BBB+'
Fitch Ratings-New York-05 March 2009: Fitch rates approximately $251,540,000 of New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority (NJEFA) revenue refunding bonds, series 2009B (the bonds), issued on behalf of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), 'BBB+'. Proceeds of the bonds will be applied by UMDNJ to refund approximately $232.2 million of outstanding fixed and variable rate obligations; fund a debt service reserve fund; and pay various costs of issuance. The bonds are scheduled to price on or about March 30 through negotiated sale.
The 'BBB+' primarily reflects the strength of bondholder provisions, including the intercepting of state appropriations to pay debt service prior to their release to UMNDJ for operating purposes. While this structure is somewhat atypical for a public university, in the case of UMDNJ, it partially mitigates the risks associated with a fairly weak financial profile and the legacy of issues pertaining to corporate governance and internal controls, nearly all of which UMDNJ has successfully resolved.
Similar to other UMDNJ revenue bonds (not rated by Fitch) and certificates of participation (not rated by Fitch), the bonds are a general obligation of UMDNJ and are payable from all legally available, unencumbered funds and balances. However, in addition to this standard security package, the bonds, along with outstanding series 2002A bonds ($211.4 million), will be payable from state appropriations on deposit with a lockbox bank established pursuant to a lockbox agreement (the agreement). Parties to the agreement include NJEFA and U.S. Bank National Association, the lockbox bank. In addition, the state of New Jersey (the state, general obligation [GO] bonds rated 'AA-' by Fitch) has acknowledged the agreement.
Under the agreement, all unrestricted state appropriations, as well as funds appropriated for specific bond financed projects (restricted appropriations), will be deposited monthly into an unrestricted and restricted lock box fund (the lockbox), respectively. Funds held within the lockbox will be applied, on a pro-rata basis, to pay debt service on the bonds and the series 2002A bonds (lockbox secured bonds); make scheduled swap payments, if any; and replenish debt service reserve funds established for lockbox secured bonds. Upon satisfaction of these requirements, remaining unrestricted state appropriations will be released to UMDNJ for any corporate purpose. Remaining restricted state appropriations will be similarly released, though their use will be limited to specific purposes. Upon issuance of the bonds, approximately 70.2% of UMDNJ's bond portfolio will be considered lockbox bonds, benefiting from a first lien on state appropriations on deposit within the lockbox. Additional parity lockbox bonds may be issued following the satisfaction of an additional bonds test.
In addition to the aforementioned structural considerations, Fitch's 'BBB+' incorporates the significant excess coverage of lockbox bond debt service provided by intercepted appropriations, essentially protecting lockbox bond bondholders from material reductions in state funding; UMDNJ's essential role as the state's university of the health sciences, with programs at five academic health center campuses and a statewide network of affiliated and educational partners; an experienced management team, lead by a new president, which is taking steps to improve UMDNJ's image among its various constituencies through increased transparency and accountability; and slow, but steady, progress in stabilizing the operations of University Hospital (UH), which as a result of its unique role as both an academic medical center and safety net hospital, has historically been a financial drain on the UMDNJ credit.
On-going credit concerns center primarily around UMDNJ's track record of significant operating deficits, largely related to UH, which have to date limited UMDNJ's ability to build balance sheet resources; weakening state finances which could lead to material reductions in state appropriations, further constraining UMDNJ's already limited operating and financial flexibility; the on-going significant, and increasing level of unfunded charity care, which, without increased funding from the state, will limit UMDNJ's ability to turnaround operations at UH; and additional, sizeable capital needs over the intermediate term, portions of which may be debt financed.
Headquartered in Newark, UMDNJ is the university of the health sciences of the state. During fiscal 2008, healthcare operations, including net patient service revenues and professional services and contracts, comprised approximately 44.3% of total revenues ($1.6 billion). Other important sources of funding continue to include state appropriations (28.1%) and research (18.5%). While tuition and fees comprised only 5.7% of fiscal 2008 revenues, demand for UMDNJ's education programs remains strong, with 5,696 students enrolled during the fiscal 2008 academic year. Available funds, including cash and investments not permanently restricted, totaled $73.2 million as of June 30, 2008, providing fairly weak coverage of fiscal 2008 expenses (4.3%) and pro-forma leverage (11.1%).
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Quotes & Info
|HPOL > SEC Filings for HPOL > Form 8-K on 1-Nov-2012
|All Recent SEC Filings
Results of Operations and Financial Condition, Financial Statements and Ex
On November 1, 2012, Harris Interactive Inc. (the "Company") issued a press release announcing the Company's earnings for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2012. A copy of the press release is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The following non-GAAP financial measures are referenced in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1: adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA with add-back of restructuring and other charges. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, GAAP Net Income, is provided as part of the press release.
These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation; they are in addition to, and are not a substitution, for financial performance measures under GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. Further, we may utilize other measures to illustrate performance in the future. Non-GAAP measures have limitations since they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with the Company's results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP.
The Company defines Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest expense (income), income taxes, depreciation and amortization, and stock based compensation. Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. The Company is presenting Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA because it provides investors with an additional way to view its operations, when considered with both its GAAP results and the reconciliation to net income, which the Company believes provides a more complete understanding of its business than could be obtained absent this disclosure. Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA is presented solely as a supplemental disclosure because: (i) the Company believes it is a useful tool for investors to assess the operating performance of the business without the effect of non-cash depreciation, amortization and stock based compensation expenses; (ii) the Company believes that investors will find this data useful in assessing its ability to service or incur indebtedness; and (iii) Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA is a component of the financial covenant measures used by the Company's lenders in connection with the Company's credit facilities. The use of Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA has limitations and should not be considered in isolation from or as an alternative to GAAP measures, such as net income, operating income or other data prepared in accordance with GAAP, or as a measure of the Company's profitability or liquidity.
The Company believes that its description of Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA with add-back of restructuring and other charges is useful to investors because it provides a means for investors to better understand the Company's ongoing operations during the fiscal quarter and year.
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit 99.1 Press Release issued by Harris Interactive Inc. on November 1, 2012 announcing the Company's earnings for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2012.
Exhibit 99.1 is not "filed" pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is not incorporated by reference into any registrations under the Securities Act of 1933. Additionally, the submission of Item 2.02 of this Report on Form 8-K is not an admission as to the materiality of any information in this Report that is required to be disclosed solely by Regulation FD.


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I (standing on the shoulder of others) have ported SlackwareARM to Cubieboard's Cubietruck.
µSD image builder script is available @ https://bitbucket.org/gwenhael/cubietruck-slackware (mirrored @ https://github.com/cycojesus/cubietruck-slackware )
The script just requires a vanilla Slackware host (possibly even just any GNU/Linux host, haven't tried.)
This gives you a very minimal system (even missing libmpfr, reinstall aaa_elflibs and/or mpfr packages during the first boot.)
See the script for more details and configuration variables.
I haven't uploaded a ready-to-use image but if you ask nicely…


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BANGALORE: Brahmos, the missile joint venture between India and Russia, is inviting a lot of global attention, particularly from South America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and African regions, a senior defence official told ET. With this newfangled demand BrahMos aims at creating an order book of $13 billion for the indigenously-built Brah-Mos.
Although there are over 60,000 cruise missiles worldwide, most of them are pretty archaic, having been developed in the 1970s. This explains the reason for the spurt in demand for the new BrahMos fleet, say defence officials.The supersonic cruise missile system has also caught the attention of many countries such as Brazil, South Africa and Chile because it has been developed at a low-cost budget of $300 million.


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Mrs. Jennie C. Foster, 94, a resident of Parkside Court, 53 S. Main St., Dolgeville, died Sunday evening, Sept. 1, 2013, at her residence, with the love and support of her family at her side.
She was born in the town of Little Falls on Oct. 24, 1918, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Marcewicz) Nalaskowski, and was educated in Eatonville schools.
Her marriage to Harry F. Foster, Sr. took place on Oct. 2, 1938, in the Baptist Church in Little Falls. Mr. Foster predeceased her on Feb. 26, 1996.
Mrs. Foster had been employed by the Little Frocks Dress Company of Little Falls and retired from the Daniel Green Company of Dolgeville in 1981.
She was a member of the former St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Fairfield and Middleville, the Salisbury Center Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary and personally enjoyed bingo and gardening, especially flowers.
Surviving her are a son and his wife, Harry and Betty Foster, of Salisbury; her daughters and their husbands, Diane and Clinton Helms, of Las Vegas, Elaine and John Stanley, of Alaska, and Karen Borst and her companion, Stephen Prentice, of Freeville; a brother, William Nalaskowski, of Canadarago Lake; 19 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her sons, James, on March 18, 2010, and Thomas, on Oct. 11, 1991; her great-grandchildren, Bradley Borst, John Stanley, IV and Jason Foster; a brother, Joseph; and her sisters, Helen Miller, Mary Pavalock, Stella Peteskovek, Bessie Golowicz and Lottie Mettot.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, at 1 p.m. at the Roberts & Enea Funeral Home, 3 Faville Ave., Dolgeville. Rev. Joseph A. Famulare, of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Little Falls, will officiate. Burial will follow in the Salisbury Rural Cemetery. Calling hours are on Wednesday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., when the service will begin.
A remembrance of Jennie or a message of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.robertsandenea.com.
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The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday lambasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation for what he called attempts to "stonewall" congressional investigations of the events leading up to the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI, which interviewed the alleged bombers two years before they set off a pair of bombs at the April 15 finish line, "continues to refuse this Committee's appropriate requests for information and documents crucial to our investigation into what happened in Boston," said Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican of Texas.
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AS SSD Benchmark
Version and / or Patch Used: 1.2.3577.40358
Developer Homepage: Alex Intelligent Software
Product Homepage: Alex Intelligent Software
Download here: http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?cat_id=4&download_id=9
AS determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains four synthetic as well as three practice tests. The synthetic tests are to determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are carried out without the use of the operating system caches.
In all synthetic tests the test file size is 1GB. AS can also determine the access time of the SSD, the access of which the drive is determined to read through the entire capacity of the SSD (Full Stroke). The write access test is only to be met with a 1 GB big test file. At the end of the tests three values for the read and write as well as the overall performance will be issued. In addition to the calculated values which are shown in MB/s, they are also represented in IO per seconds (IOPS).
- Copy Benchmark
Another benchmark and more super impressive results. We can see that the SATA 3.0 C300 setup manages to beat the SATA 2.0 X25-E setup by a factor of around two times.


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License Requirements
- Resident: A hunting license (see Licenses & Permits) or proof of exemption.
In addition to a hunting license, a trapping license is required for all persons who trap any furbearer, unless otherwise exempt. The trapping license is valid from Dec. 1, 2012 – Feb. 28, 2013.
A fur license (bobcat-raccoon-river otter-gray/red fox license) is required for all (regardless of age) who take these species by any means (trapping, firearms or archery) unless exempt. The fur license is valid from Dec. 1, 2012 – Feb. 28, 2013.
Lifetime licenses (lifetime hunting, lifetime combination, senior citizen hunting. senior citizen combination or lifetime disabled veteran) are exempt from the fur license and the trapping license.
- Nonresident: A nonresident hunting license (see Licenses & Permits) or proof of exemption.
In addition, a nonresident (professional) trapping license is required for all persons who trap any furbearer. This trapping license is valid from Dec. 1, 2012 – Feb. 28, 2013.
A nonresident fur license (bobcat-raccoon-river otter-gray/red fox license) is required for all who take these species by any means (trapping, firearms or archery). Such license is valid Dec. 1, 2012 – Feb. 28, 2013.
Public Lands
Seasons on public lands may vary from statewide seasons. Consult List of Public Lands section.
Hunter Orange
For hunter orange requirements, see General Hunting Regulations.
Sale of Carcass
Carcasses or parts of legally acquired furbearing animals and coyotes may be purchased, bartered, traded, sold or offered for sale.
Bobcat & River Otter Tagging Requirements
No bobcat or river otter pelt may be held in possession after 10 working days after the close of furbearer season by the taker or buyer, sold, purchased or bartered within Oklahoma, nor taken out of Oklahoma, without having first affixed a permanent tag to the pelt. This tag shall serve as an export tag. The tag must be affixed by an authorized employee of the Department or designated private tagging agent.
It is the responsibility of the possessor of the bobcat or river otter pelt, not the Department, to ensure that the pelt is legally tagged. No untagged bobcat or river otter harvested in another state may be possessed in Oklahoma. Tags are available from any game warden, wildlife biologist, state fish hatchery, Department field office and specifically designated private tagging station. Designated private tagging stations may charge a fee of 75 cents per tag. 2012-2013 bobcat or river otter export tags will not be affixed after March 14, 2013.
Sale of Furs
Persons taking pelts during the season shall have 10 working days after the close of the season to sell or dispose of the pelts or notify the Department in writing of intent to hold pelts after the 10-day deadline. All pelts held after the 10-day deadline must be inventoried on a form provided by an authorized Department employee. All bobcats and river otters must have a permanent tag affixed for the current year, prior to being held for later sale.
Possession of Carcasses or Hides
It shall be illegal to possess live animals, carcasses or raw furs of ringtail, spotted skunk or swift fox unless it can be proven that each carcass or hide was taken legally outside of Oklahoma. Proof of legality or origin for carcasses or green hides shall be a tag or other marking or device attached to or imprinted on each and every hide in such a way that it cannot be removed intact. The tag or marking must be the official method used by the issuing agency. If an identification is not required by the issuing agency, a hunting or trapping license appropriate to the species taken is required as proof.
Tagging Hints
All bobcats / otters must be tagged with a plastic tag that is looped under the skin from the eye to the mouth. If you choose to freeze your bobcat or otter whole prior to tagging, it is best to open a 1/2-inch wide slot under the skin from the eye to the gum line with a knife or sharp screwdriver and install some sort of spacer that can be removed later to allow tagging once the bobcat/otter is frozen.
Taking these few simple steps will allow the spacer to be removed and the tag attached in the proper location without having to thaw the bobcat or otter. Otherwise, it is best if you thaw the bobcat or otter enough that the tag can be placed before you bring it to be tagged.
Legal Means of Taking
Firearms or Archery
- Daylight only: Any legal firearm or archery equipment.
- Nighttime only: Hunters may possess a .22 caliber rimfire rifle or .22 caliber rimfire pistol and a light carried on the person while in pursuit of furbearers with hounds during the legal, open furbearer season, while possessing a valid hunting license, unless exempt.
- Legal traps: Box traps; smooth-jawed, single-spring, leg-hold steel traps with a jaw spread no greater than eight inches; smooth-jawed, double-spring offset jawed, leg-hold steel traps with a jaw spread no greater than eight inches; enclosed trigger traps (dog-proof traps).
- Setting traps: No trap may be set in the open or in paths, roads, or runways commonly used by persons, dogs or other domestic animals.
- Visiting traps: Traps must be tended once each 24-hour period.
- Legal number of traps: Residents trapping under the general annual resident trapping license may use no more than 20 traps. Residents possessing the professional license and non-resident trapping license holders have no limit on the number of traps.
- Identification of traps: All traps must have the owner's name attached, except for any person trapping on his own property. All traps on Department-managed lands, regardless of species being sought, must have the owner's name attached.
- Posting of traps: When double-spring offset jawed steel traps are used, signs must be posted conspicuously to the right and left of all entrances from public roads and highways and from adjacent lands at corners of perimeter fences. Signs must have minimum dimensions of five inches by eight inches and the wording "Traps" must be included and be conspicuous on the signs and printed in letters at least two inches tall. Persons trapping on their own property are not subject to this requirement.
- Permission to trap: No person may trap on the inhabited land of another without first obtaining from the owner or occupant thereof a written permit to do so. This permit must be carried whenever traps are being tended. Said permission is also required to hunt but it need not be in writing.
Exemptions from Regulations
Nothing in this regulation prevents the killing of furbearers actually found destroying livestock or poultry. In addition, nothing in this regulation prevents the running or chasing of coyote, bobcat, fox or raccoon with dogs for sport only, except on those public lands where such activity is prohibited.
Raccoon, BOBCAT, BADGER, Gray Fox, Red Fox, MINK, MUSKRAT, OPOSSUM & WEASEL
Dates & Open Areas
Dec. 1, 2012 – Feb. 28, 2013; statewide.
- Bobcat: No daily limit, season limit 20, possession limit 20 per license.
- Gray Fox / Red Fox: Daily combined limit two, with no more than one red fox. Season combined limit six, with no more than two red fox.
- Raccoon: Daily limit 10, season limit 40, possession limit 40 per license.
- Other species: No limit.
Dates & Open Areas
Year-round; statewide.
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Weber–Fechner law
In psychophysics, the Weber–Fechner law combines two different laws of human perception, which both describe ways the resolution of perception diminishes for stimuli of greater magnitude. Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878) was one of the first people to approach the study of the human response to a physical stimulus in a quantitative fashion.[1] Weber's law states that the just-noticeable difference between two stimuli is proportional to the magnitude of the stimuli, (and the subject's sensitivity), i.e. if you sense a change in weight of 0.5 lbs on a 5-pound dumbbell, you ought to feel the extra pound added to a ten-pound dumbbell.[2] Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887), a scholar of Weber, later used Weber's findings to construct a psychophysical scale in which he described the relationship between the physical magnitude of a stimulus and its (subjectively) perceived intensity. Fechner's law (better referred to as Fechner's scale) states that subjective sensation is proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity. Fechner scaling has been mathematically formalized. In fact, human perceptions of sight and sound work as follows: Perceived loudness/brightness is proportional to logarithm of the actual intensity measured with an accurate nonhuman instrument.
Some authors use the term "Weber–Fechner law" to mean Weber's law, and others use it for Fechner's law. The use of the term "Weber–Fechner law" was criticised as a misnomer by Ewald Hering.[citation needed]
Weight perception[edit]
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Weber found that the just noticeable difference (jnd) between two weights was approximately proportional to the weights. Thus, if the weight of 105 g can (only just) be distinguished from that of 100 g, the jnd (or differential threshold) is 5 g, or in the SI system, a force or weight of 0.005 kg N. If the mass is doubled, the differential threshold also doubles to 10 g, so that 210 g can be distinguished from 200 g. In this example, a weight (any weight) seems to have to increase by 5% for someone to be able to reliably detect the increase, and this minimum required fractional increase (of 5/100 of the original weight) is referred to as the "Weber fraction" for detecting changes in weight. Other discrimination tasks, such as detecting changes in brightness, or in tone height (pure tone frequency), or in the length of a line shown on a screen, may have different Weber fractions, but they all obey Weber's law in that observed values need to change by at least some small but constant proportion of the current value to ensure human observers will reliably be able to detect that change.
This kind of relationship can be described by the differential equation
where dp is the differential change in perception, dS is the differential increase in the stimulus, and S is the instantaneous stimulus. The parameter k is to be estimated using experimental data.
Integrating the above equation gives
where is the constant of integration and ln is the natural logarithm.
To solve for , put , i.e., no perception; then subtract from both sides and rearrange:
where is that threshold of stimulus below which it is not perceived at all.
Substituting this value in for above and rearranging, our equation becomes:
The relationship between stimulus and perception is logarithmic. This logarithmic relationship means that if a stimulus varies as a geometric progression (i.e., multiplied by a fixed factor), the corresponding perception is altered in an arithmetic progression (i.e., in additive constant amounts). For example, if a stimulus is tripled in strength (i.e., 3 x 1), the corresponding perception may be two times as strong as its original value (i.e., 1 + 1). If the stimulus is again tripled in strength (i.e., 3 x 3 x 1), the corresponding perception will be three times as strong as its original value (i.e., 1 + 1 + 1). Hence, for multiplications in stimulus strength, the strength of perception only adds. The mathematical derivations of the torques on a simple beam balance produce a description that is strictly compatible with Weber's law.[3][4]
Fechner did not conduct any experiments on how perceived heaviness increased with the mass of the stimulus. Instead, he assumed that all jnds are subjectively equal, and argued mathematically that this would produce a logarithmic relation between the stimulus intensity and the sensation. These assumptions have both been questioned.[5][6] Most researchers nowadays accept that a power law is a more realistic relationship, or that a logarithmic function is just one of a family of possible functions.[7]
Other sense modalities provide only mixed support for either Weber's law or Fechner's law.
Weber's law does not quite hold for loudness. It is a fair approximation for higher intensities, but not for lower amplitudes.[8]
"Near miss" of Weber's law in the auditory system[edit]
Weber's law does not hold at perception of higher intensities. Intensity discrimination improves at higher intensities. The first demonstration of the phenomena were presented by Riesz in 1928, in Physical Review. This deviation of the Weber's law is known as the "near miss" of the Weber's law. This term was coined by McGill and Goldberg in their paper of 1968 in Perception & Psychophysics. Their study consisted of intensity discrimination in pure tones. Further studies have shown that the near miss is observed in noise stimuli as well. Jesteadt et al. (1977)[9] demonstrated that the near miss holds across all the frequencies, and that the intensity discrimination is not a function of frequency, and that the change in discrimination with level can be represented by a single function across all frequencies.
The eye senses brightness approximately logarithmically over a moderate range (but more like a power law over a wider range), and stellar magnitude is measured on a logarithmic scale.[10] This magnitude scale was invented by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus in about 150 B.C. He ranked the stars he could see in terms of their brightness, with 1 representing the brightest down to 6 representing the faintest, though now the scale has been extended beyond these limits; an increase in 5 magnitudes corresponds to a decrease in brightness by a factor of 100.[10] Modern researchers have attempted to incorporate such perceptual effects into mathematical models of vision.[11][12]
"Near miss" of Weber's law in visual regularity perception[edit]
Perception of Glass patterns and mirror symmetries in the presence of noise follows Weber's law in the middle range of regularity-to-noise ratios (S), but in both outer ranges, sensitivity to variations is disproportionally lower. As Maloney, Mitchison, & Barlow (1987)[13] showed for Glass patterns, and as van der Helm (2010)[14] showed for mirror symmetries, perception of these visual regularities in the whole range of regularity-to-noise ratios follows the law p = g/(2+1/S) with parameter g to be estimated using experimental data.
Numerical cognition[edit]
Psychological studies show that it becomes increasingly difficult to discriminate among two numbers as the difference between them decreases. This is called the distance effect.[15][16] This is important in areas of magnitude estimation, such as dealing with large scales and estimating distances. It may also play a role in explaining why consumers neglect to shop around to save a small percentage on a large purchase, but will shop around to save a large percentage on a small purchase which represents a much smaller absolute dollar amount.[17]
It has been hypothesized that dose–response relationships can follow Weber's Law[18] which suggests this law – which is often applied at the sensory level – originates from underlying chemoreceptor responses to cellular signaling dose relationships within the body. Dose response can be related to the Hill equation, which is closer to a power law.
Public finance[edit]
There is a new branch of the literature on public finance hypothesizing that the Weber–Fechner law can explain the increasing levels of public expenditures in mature democracies. Election after election, voters demand more public goods to be effectively impressed; therefore, politicians try to increase the magnitude of this "signal" of competence – the size and composition of public expenditures – in order to collect more votes.[19]
See also[edit]
- ^ Ross, H.E. and Murray, D. J.(1996)(Ed. and Transl.) E.H.Weber on the tactile senses. 2nd ed. Hove: Erlbaum (UK) Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Pinker, Steven (2011). The Better Angels Of Our Nature. P.265: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-141-03464-5.
- ^ Lanzara, Richard G. "Weber's Law Modeled by the Mathematical Description of a Beam Balance". cogprints.org. CogPrints. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ "Bio Balance - Reference Library". bio-balance.com. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ Heidelberger, M. (2004)Nature from within: Gustav Theodor Fechner and his psychophysical worldview. Transl. C. Klohr. Pittsburgh, USA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- ^ Masin, S.C.; Zudini, V.; Antonelli, M. (2009). "Early alternative derivations of Fechner's law" (PDF). J. History of the Behavioral Sciences. 45: 56–65. doi:10.1002/jhbs.20349.
- ^ Murray, D.J. (1993). "A perspective for viewing the history of psychophysics". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16: 115–186. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00029277.
- ^ Yost, William A. (2000). Fundamentals of hearing : an introduction (4. ed.). San Diego [u.a.]: Academic Press. p. 158. ISBN 0-12-775695-7.
- ^ Jesteadt, Walt, Craig C. Wier, and David M. Green. "Intensity discrimination as a function of frequency and sensation level." The Journal of the acoustical society of America 61 (1977): 169.
- ^ a b V. B. Bhatia (2001). Astronomy and astrophysics with elements of cosmology. CRC Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-8493-1013-3.
- ^ Jianhong (Jackie) Shen; Yoon-Mo Jung (2006). "Weberized Mumford–Shah model with Bose–Einstein photon noise". Appl. Math. Optim. 53 (3): 331–358. doi:10.1007/s00245-005-0850-1.
- ^ Jianhong (Jackie) Shen (2003). "On the foundations of vision modeling I. Weber's law and Weberized TV (total variation) restoration". Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 175 (3/4): 241–251. doi:10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00734-0.
- ^ Maloney, R. K., Mitchison, G. J., & Barlow, H. B. (1987). Limit to the detection of Glass patterns in the presence of noise. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4, 2336-2341.
- ^ van der Helm, P. A. (2010). Weber-Fechner behaviour in symmetry perception? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 1854-1864.
- ^ Moyer R.S., Landauer T.K. (September 1967). "Time required for judgements of numerical inequality". Nature. 215 (5109): 1519–20. doi:10.1038/2151519a0. PMID 6052760.
- ^ Longo M.R., Lourenco S.F. (2007). "Spatial attention and the mental number line: evidence for characteristic biases and compression". Neuropsychologia. 45 (7): 1400–6. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.11.002.
- ^ http://www.npr.org/2015/01/13/376836545/consumer-agency-launches-tool-to-help-you-find-a-cheaper-mortgage
- ^ D. Murray Lyon (1923). "Does the reaction to adrenalin obey Weber's law?". Journal of Pharmacology. 21 (4): 229–235.
- ^ Mourao, P. (2012). "The Weber-Fechner Law and Public Expenditures Impact to the Win-Margins at Parliamentary Elections". 21 (3). Prague Economic Papers: 290–308. doi:10.18267/j.pep.425.
External links[edit]
- Texts on Wikisource:
- "Weber's Law". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
- "Weber's Law". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.


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Join us this Wednesday at 4:30pm CST for an interview and LIVE performance with Damen Tolbert of 3rd Damention on Chicago's WIIT 88.9FM streaming live at radio.iit.edu every Wednesday from 4-6pm.
Name: Damen Tolbert
From: Chicago, IL
Age: 22
I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. As a child music was always in my life. My father is a DJ as well as a great singer. I fell in love with the saxophone when I was 10 years old when I heard the Dave Brubeck tune "Take 5." Not too much later I heard the classic Coltrane rendition of "My Favorite Things." There was something about its sound that drew me to it. It wasn't until I was 15, a sophomore in Morgan Park High School, that I was given the chance to play in beginning and marching band under the direction of Mr. Micah Frazier (R.I.P.). I soon found that I had a knack for the instrument and music in general. By the end of my first year playing an instrument, I was already section leader. Jazz was introduced to me that same year when I joined the school jazz band. I immediately understood improvisation since I've always had my own musical ideas. By the next year, I was the most entertaining soloist in the school. By this time, with no solid theoretical knowledge or music arrangement skills, I started writing my own music. My senior year, for the winter concert, I and three of my friends performed "Qristmas Cuartet" (a medley of Christmas tunes using 2 trumpets, an alto, and baritone saxophone).
Thanks to procrastination and divine intervention I was awarded a full marching band scholarship to attend the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB). It was a culture shock and period of self-enlightenment that I will never forget or regret. There I became a member of the Marching Musical Machine of the Mid-South under the direction of Mr. John R. Graham. The marching band was very time consuming and physically taxing. It required discipline on and off the field. I immediately joined the school's jazz band where I switched to baritone sax since there were too many altos. Between the marching and jazz band, I quickly gained the respect of my peers and instructors alike. Freshman year, I was awarded the Freshman of the Year title from the band. By the next marching season, I was promoted to section leader; a position that I held for 2 years.
In my 4th year I decided to leave the band for various reasons. Knowing that singing was in my blood, I got voice lessons from Dr. Heidi Gordon, the assistant choir director, in order to prepare myself for try-outs. With quite a bit of difficulty, I was admitted into the UAPB Vesper Choir for my senior year. This experience was much different than being in the band.
Thanks to the time allowances, I was able to focus more on my studies. For my senior project I decided to produce my own album entitled "Into the 3rd Damention" based on my nickname "3-Damentional." This was a work of mostly original music based on the concept of "musical inception." The album features my production, jazz, composition, and poetic talents in various ways.
After graduating from UAPB with a 3.4 GPA in Music: Sound Recording Technology, I decided to continue my education. I now attend Vandercook College of Music going for my Master's degree in Music Education. Since my return to the city, I have performed at several venues. For these gigs I've had to accumulate my own band. First as the "Damen Tolbert Quintet," I called out to my musician friends and family to play with me. Most recently we've expanded to an 11 piece group including a guitarist and 5 vocalists. I felt the "Damen Tolbert Band" sounded very elitist when the band is more of a democratic collage of different personalities. Carrying the concept of "musical inception" over from previous philosophies, we renamed the band "The 3rd Damention."
We are not afraid to play with any style. We perform original music and original arrangements. We play a mix of jazz, rock, funk, r&b, blues, gospel, or whatever comes up in rehearsals.


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When wives earn more outside the home, and husbands take on more housework, marriages tend to be happier!
Men are now doing twice as much housework, and three times as much childcare, as they did in the 1960s!
It says so right here in the New York Times, so it has to be true, right?
Seriously, there seems to be increasing recognition that although gender roles may be stubborn, they're apparently not fixed; and that when there is equality in marriage, there is more enjoyment and stability. This can only be a good thing.
The article does discuss some challenges to equality. For example, among men in their 50s, having a wife who earns more is associated with poorer health. (This item particularly caught my attention because my own husband was in perfect health until I abandoned a higher-paying job than his to return to graduate school, and then learned that I was pregnant on his 50th birthday. During that period we were both plagued by stress-related symptoms—but I imagine that the prospect of starvation trumps narcissistic gratification in most cases.)
When I was growing up, very few people were even looking at these issues. It's not just that the date wasn't there, but that the frame didn't exist. Among married couples, at least in the middle class, which was then considered the norm, men worked and women stayed home and managed the house and kids. If a married woman worked outside the home, everyone pitied both halves of the couple: her because her husband couldn't take care of her, and him because he must feel emasculated.
Things are changing rapidly, and in this case, it seems, for the better. Maybe by the time my son gets married, if he does (another former given that is now an option), people once again won't be looking at these issues — because there will be no need to.
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Let's talk business.
The New York Times Magazine has a terrific article today on the New Orleans Saints and the cash cow that is the NFL.
Here's an excerpt:
For this past season, each of the 32 teams will get $112.5 million from what's called the N.F.L.'s central fund — an amount well in excess of the $100 million salary and benefits cap. "The N.F.L.," says Red McCombs, a San Antonio native who used to own the Minnesota Vikings, "has built the best business model in sports."
Even so, the Saints' financial performance has been exceptional. According to two former front-office executives, the Saints under Benson have regularly been among the most profitable teams in the league, despite operating in one of the smallest markets. Although the books are closely guarded, Forbes magazine estimates that in 2004 the Saints made almost $43 million on $175 million in revenues, making it the eighth most profitable team in the league…
One way that N.F.L. owners make money is by pleading poverty — and threatening to leave for greener pastures — in order to get either a new stadium or a better deal from the state or local government. And so it has been with Benson, who swears up and down that the Saints make only average profits. Three times he has gotten the state of Louisiana to sweeten his lease deal…
One of my favorite days of the year is when Forbes releases its estimates of franchise values, revenues, profits, etc. Never has one publication been so wrong by so much, according to the men who own the teams.<p<
Just don't ask for specifics. Don't ask to see the books. Give them their publicly financed facilities, give them their tax breaks, but ask no questions. Trust me, they say, I'm losing my shirt.
The 2004 Astros were 11th in revenues ($155 million), franchise value ($357 million) and profits ($9.6 million), according to Forbes.
Drayton McLane disagrees with all of these numbers. He said he lost money in 2004 (he acknowledges a profit in 2005).
McLane also acknowledges that times for good. With a sweet new local television deal, increased revenue from the Internet and merchandising and the pending sale of the Washington Nationals, owning a big league baseball team is a pretty good thing.
Meanwhile, the good citizens of the Twin Cities can have themselves a second Super Bowl if they'll cough up $500 million for a new football stadium.
Joe Valentine, who'll be a non-roster invitee to spring training with the Astros, has a story to tell.
From the posts…
I think there is a consensus that the Texans have not been fair to David Carr and because of this it is very difficult to evaluate him as a football player. But the question that no one is asking is – is it fair to David Carr to keep David Carr? This team is going through a tremendous transition. The coaching staff is new and very young, the offensive line is going to be completely revamped, and the defense is going to a 4-3. Despite the calls to in "quickly," the growth of the staff and the changes on both sides of the ball are not going to happen overnight or even in one or two years. Is it fair for David Carr to go through this transition, with no certain outcome and boos ringing throughout the stadium because he is not Vince Young? I don't think so. Is it fair to keep him, no. Is it fair to trade him to Arizona, no. Is it fair to trade him to good organization, a resounding yes.
Yes, it would be harder on him. But that's also part of being a quarterback in the NFL.
Peyton Manning has been ripped in Indianapolis since that playoff loss to the Steelers. Troy Aikman got some tough treatment in Dallas. Others, too.
Carr has to be able to take it, respond to the challenge and move on.
I don't necessarily agree the Texans are in for a long rebuilding period. If they've got a good coaching staff in place and if they make the right decisions in personnel, they can win quickly.
The biggest problem still may be that they don't know what they don't know. They appear to have gone low-budget with this coaching staff as well. And the personnel department appears to be essentially unchanged.
Imagine how hard it is to spend $1,000 renewing season tickets when you know that some of the top people in the organization are more interested in saving face than making the best decision with the #1 pick. Those "goodwill" letters from McNair that keep appearing in my mailbox really aren't helping either.
Let's see where this all ends up. Gary Kubiak has the opportunity to remake a franchise.
I'm guessing he has waited a long time for this chance. I'm guessing he's full of ideas about how he wants to do things.
He has worked closely with a really good head coach — Mike Shanahan — so he knows how a successful franchise operates.
Bob McNair will give him the resources to shape the roster, and GM Charley Casserly is very good at collecting information on potential draft choices and free agents. He's not so good at pulling the trigger on which players to take, but if Kubiak has a strong vision, if he has a sense for which players will fit and which won't, they could work well together.
The Texans badly need a strong leader to take control of the organization. They need a Nick Saban or a Bill Belichick.
I have no idea if Kubiak is up to the job, but it'll be interesting to watch it all play out.
Peter Vecsey reports that Steve Francis could be headed to Denver.
The Rockets have 35 games to make up a six-game deficit for the final Western Conference playoff spot. If they go 25-10 the rest of the way, they're in.
"If you're losing as much as we've lost, your job should be in jeopardy. Whether it is or not, I have no idea. Should it be? Absolutely. It's not about the job you do. Your job is to win."
— Jeff Van Gundy in an interview with the New York Post.
(Why is it that coaches who are signed to long-term contracts are always the first to volunteer to be fired?)


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I was working on login experience for our product, and while we have account validation system for newly registered user, by sending an email to the users, I am having a hard time convincing my team to provide a 'Regenerate validation email' link. The Validation emails ofcourse have a expiration time, and there is quite a possibility the user may not access his email to complete his registration immediately.
Hi all,
Looking for some of your best suggestions for tools used to test email content formatting.
Should be for both browsers and mobile devices. Litmus is great and offers a variety of browsers and device comparisons, but I'm looking for other options here.Thanks.
We're looking at implementing Facebook Connect on our Join page, allowing new users to create an account either through a standard sign-up form or through Facebook Connect. I'm looking for thoughts on the best way to also present an email opt-in option.
On our standard form, we have a checkbox, checked by default, to opt-in to our newsletter. Adding the same checkbox beneath the Facebook Connect button seems like the most sensible way to go, but it also feels a little clunky to me.
Doing some work on signing up for product alerts, but having trouble finding any best practice documents around it. Does anyone have any resources on this?
At the moment this hasn't been scoped out at all, so methods of communication haven't been defined yet but I would expect this to include, email, and possibly Twitter and SMS if specified. Aside from basic personalisation rules for setting what you're contacted about, frequency etc, what are some best practice rules?
Two problems we have are:
Hi all,I'm looking for stats or anecdotal evidence (yeah, I said it) regarding email verification--that is, you register and a site says your registration will be complete once you click a link they've sent you. The purpose, of course, is to confirm that the user's email address is valid.If you work(ed) at a site that practices email verification, how many users actually clicked the link you sent? In other words, how many users did not complete registration because of the email verification step?
I've been seeing the popularity of the "Email to a friend", "Email Article", "Email page" (and many other names) feature on the internet. Personally, I never use this feature because I think that the company behind the website will store my email and my friend's email address, plus the email will contain advertising elements as well, so instead, I personally email the URL to my friend. But of course, I'm talking here on my own experience.
Does anybody have statistics that validate the inclusion of this feature? Do people really use this feature?


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Hey! It's November…time to talk turkey! Maxine, one of our faithful members has graciously come forward with her best effort regarding old dead turkeys and how best to deal with them!
We are so fortunate to have this information, particularly if we use Angel Food Ministries or have an EBT card from WIC or SNAP. Some of us are users of food commodities and some of us have goods from a food pantry. Still others are simply frugal and want the most for their food dollar-and who can blame them?
Here is what Maxine tells us:
"It's November—let's talk turkey!
I've got lots of good ideas, but I know you know things I haven't even thought of…so, together, let's write the definitive book!
I always buy at least two turkeys at Thanksgiving, when they are dirt cheap. Although we don't normally eat turkey at Christmas, this is the time to buy the Christmas bird, because turkeys are never cheaper than they are at Thanksgiving.
If you don't have a freezer, ask a friend or relative if they've got room for your extra bird.
Let's talk first about what to buy. My in-laws, who were in the restaurant business, taught me that turkeys 20 lb. and larger are a much better buy because they have more meat relative to bone.
My mom taught me this: if the turkey is too big, have the meat cutter saw it in half for you. They can do this frozen. If the thingy that holds the feet together is metal, they can saw right down to it. When you get the turkey home, leave it on the counter for an hour or so, and you'll be able to pull out the thingy with a pair of pliers before the bird thaws. Re-wrap and freeze.
I usually buy one big bird and one smaller one. Often I will cook a 13- to 15 lb. bird for Thanksgiving, and freeze both halves of a 20+ lb. turkey for later.
When it is time to cook the bird, what are you going to use for a pan? If you don't have a roasting pan, don't waste $5 on a disposable foil turkey pan. Discount stores will have roasting pans on sale that you can wash and use forever for as little as $10. They often have a rack inside, which is nice. If you don't have $10, just use the broiler pan that came with your stove, and cover the bird with foil during part of the roasting time. I've done that a few times with great success.
I'm using the turkey pan my mom bought in the 1950s, and I expect my grandchildren will be roasting their turkeys in it, too.
Most turkeys come with a pop-up timer to tell you when the turkey is done. The one I bought last year didn't have one, and I couldn't find my meat thermometer. A friend who was visiting told me she always just follows the roasting times printed on the turkey label. That's what we did—and that turkey was perfect! So don't sweat it if you don't have a meat thermometer Or can't find it.
We've bought the bird-and an extra, too-and roasted it…what's next?
Eating it, of course! Here's to the big Thanksgiving feast, and many more to come! I'll let you choose your own menu.
By the time dinner is over, you may find yourself getting nervous about the leftovers. Dealing with the leftovers needn't be daunting. You just need a plan.
The first thing to do is to strip the meat off the bones. I do this while I am cleaning the kitchen after dinner. Some men are good about this—makes 'em feel like Attila the Hun or Henry the Eighth–so if you get an offer of help, don't turn it down. I try to remove the breast in one big piece. It's nicer for slicing.
Once you've removed all of the meat you can, put the bones and skin in a stock pot, cover with water, add onion and celery, and simmer until the meat literally falls off the bones. If you don't have a stock pot, use your roasting pan and make the stock in the oven. A big Crock Pot works really well, too. You might have to break the breast bones to make them fit in your pot.
When the stock is done, cool it and remove the bones, meat and skin. Skim the fat from the broth, either by refrigerating it overnight and removing the hardened fat from the top, or by using a gravy separator-one of those plastic cups with the spout coming up from the bottom.
- Pour off a small amount of broth and save it to make extra gravy. Just use flour and water thickening. No, it isn't quite as good as gravy made from the pan drippings, but it's waaaaaaaaaay better than what you can buy in a jar or foil envelope, and a heckuva lot cheaper. I freeze a couple of cottage cheese cartons full of broth for this purpose—another tip I learned from my mother.
- Pick the meat from the bones and discard the bones and skin. Use the meat and the rest of the stock to make a vat of turkey soup. We like turkey noodle, turkey rice, turkey vegetable…you name it, we like it. You might have enough meat for a batch of turkey and dumplings.
Sometimes I get started on the stock while I'm doing the Thanksgiving dishes, and sometimes I make it the next morning. Sometimes it takes all day for me to get everything done. No worries—I'm just puttering, not putting forth any serious effort. I've found the really important thing is to start dealing with it right away, before anyone has the opportunity to get tired of the leftovers.
You've still got a ton of turkey meat, right? Save out enough for another meal and maybe a few sandwiches. Then, before anyone has the opportunity to get sick of turkey, cube all of the leftover meat and freeze it in 2-cup packages. Why two cups? Nearly all recipes call for 2 cups of chicken or turkey. Thanks to PaulaF at The Frugalista Files for this tip! If you've got a small or extra-large family and typically use less or more in your recipes, that's how much to put in each package.
I use quart-size zippy freezer bags for my turkey. You can make a decent vacuum by sticking a straw in the top, closing the zipper to either side of the straw, and sucking out all of the air. Pull out the straw and seal the bag the rest of the way.
In addition to Thanksgiving dinner, we will typically eat leftovers on Saturday and make clubhouse sandwiches on Friday or Sunday. Then we are done with the bird, until I start using what is in the freezer. Often I will freeze all of the soup, too, although sometimes we eat it with the clubhouse sandwiches: turkey, bacon, lettuce and tomato between 3 slices of bread, cut in quarters and held together with a toothpick.
I would hate to guess how much turkey gets thrown away in this country because people put the carcass in the refrigerator, eat on it intermittently for about a week, and throw away what is left. Shoot, I've done that myself! But never again. Now I view that soup and those packages of cubed meat as money in the bank. Especially toward the end of the month.
Just a reminder that you can substitute cubed turkey in any recipe calling for chicken, and that turkey makes excellent Mexican food!
Now it's your turn to share more tips and recipes!"
Jeepers! Creepers! What a boatload of info! Even seasoned cooks can find many good tips in this message! THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAXINE! For those of you who have not yet cruised on over to visit Maxine at Frugalista Files, please treat yourself and do so today!
Mother Connie has some off the topic notes for you, as well. My good blogger pal from iamtheworkingpoor has a contest going on. I so hope you will cruise on over to HER adorable blog and get in on the fun! She has some interesting books that will appeal to those who are interested in living frugally as prizes, so please visit her at your earliest convenience, won't you?
Well, we offer three cheers and a toast to Maxine for all her wisdom and for sharing here today. I just can't WAIT to see all the tips and ideas the rest of you pour into the mailbox: email@example.com
Enjoy the ride, kids! Life is so short…
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Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New York; Motor Vehicle Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance Program
Final Rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a proposed State Implementation Plan revision submitted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This revision consists of changes to New York's motor vehicle enhanced inspection and maintenance program that would eliminate the transient emission short test program as it relates to the New York portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT 8-hour ozone moderate nonattainment area. EPA is approving this State Implementation Plan revision because it meets all applicable requirements of the Clean Air Act and EPA's regulations and because the revision will not interfere with attainment or maintenance of the national ambient air quality standards in the affected area. The intended effect of this action is to maintain consistency between the State-adopted rules and the federally approved SIP.
Table of Contents Back to Top
- Table of Contents
- I. What action is EPA taking?
- II. What was included in New York's proposed SIP submittal?
- III. What comments did EPA receive in response to its proposal?
- IV. Summary of Conclusions
- V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
- List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
- Subpart HH—New York
Tables Back to Top
DATES: Back to Top
Effective Date: This rule will be effective March 29, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Back to Top
EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket ID No. EPA-R02-OAR-2011-0687. All documents in the docket are listed on the www.regulations.gov Web site. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, Air Programs Branch, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866. This Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The Docket telephone number is 212-637-4249.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Back to Top
Kirk J. Wieber, Air Programs Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866, (212) 637-3381.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Back to Top
Table of Contents Back to Top
I. What action is EPA taking?
II. What was included in New York's proposed SIP submittal?
III. What comments Did EPA receive in response to its proposal?
IV. Summary of Conclusions
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. What action is EPA taking? Back to Top
The EPA is approving a revision to the New York State Implementation Plan (SIP) pertaining to New York's motor vehicle enhanced inspection and maintenance (I/M) program that proposes to end tailpipe testing on December 31, 2010. This proposed SIP revision also outlines several changes to New York's enhanced I/M programs currently operating within the New York portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT nonattainment area (referred to as NYMA). New York proposes to reduce the percentage of emissions waivers allowed within that area to 2% (from 3%). New York indicates that the decentralized program, which features on-board diagnostics inspections, is as effective as a centralized test-only program for modeling purposes.
II. What was included in New York's proposed SIP submittal? Back to Top
After completing the appropriate public notice and comment procedures, on July 10, 2009, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) submitted to EPA a proposed SIP revision that includes changes to the New York State enhanced I/M program. The changes include a proposal to end tailpipe testing through the New York Transient Emissions Short Test (NYTEST) I/M program on December 31, 2010. The proposed revision also includes a reduction in the percentage of emissions test waivers allowed within NYMA to 2% (from 3%) beginning in calendar year 2008. The SIP revision includes MOBILE6 vehicle emission modeling software (MOBILE6) demonstration for the high enhanced I/M performance standard.
On February 15, 2011, NYSDEC made a supplemental SIP submittal to EPA which included recent revisions to Title 6 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR), Part 217, "Motor Vehicle Emissions," and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV) regulation found at Title 15 NYCRR Part 79, "Motor Vehicle Inspection." New York adopted these rule revisions to end the NYTEST I/M program. This submittal was also subject to public notice and comment. On September 16, 2011 (76 FR 57696), EPA proposed to approve New York's revised I/M program. For a detailed discussion on the content and requirements of the revisions to New York's regulations, the reader is referred to EPA's proposed rulemaking action.
III. What comments did EPA receive in response to its proposal? Back to Top
In response to EPA's September 16, 2011 proposed rulemaking action, EPA received no comments.
IV. Summary of Conclusions Back to Top
EPA's review of the materials submitted indicates that New York has revised its I/M program in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act, 40 CFR Part 51 and all of EPA's technical requirements for an approvable enhanced I/M program. EPA is approving the revisions to the Title 6, New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR), Part 217, "Motor Vehicle Emissions," Subparts 217-1, 217-4 and the adoption of new Subpart 217-6, as effective on December 5, 2010, and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV) regulation Title 15 NYCRR Part 79 "Motor Vehicle Inspection," Sections 79.1-79.15, 79.17, 79.20, 79.21, 79.24, 79.25, as effective on December 29, 2010, which incorporate the State's motor vehicle I/M program requirements. The Clean Air Act gives states the discretion in program planning to implement programs of the state's choosing as long as necessary emission reductions are met. EPA is also approving New York's performance standard modeling demonstration, which reflects the State's I/M program as it is currently implemented in the NYMA as well as throughout New York State.
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Under the Clean Air Act, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP submission that complies with the provisions of the Act and applicable Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act. Accordingly, this action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and does not impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by state law. For that reason, this action:
- Is not a "significant regulatory action" subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993);
- Does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
- Is certified as not having a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
- Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
- Does not have Federalism implications as specified in Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
- Is not an economically significant regulatory action based on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997);
- Is not a significant regulatory action subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
- Is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent with the Clean Air Act; and
- Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, this rule does not have tribal implications as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000), because the SIP is not approved to apply in Indian country located in the state, and EPA notes that it will not impose substantial direct costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law.
The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. EPA will submit a report containing this action and other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register. This action is not a "major rule" as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by April 30, 2012. Filing a petition for reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or action. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).)
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 Back to Top
- Environmental protection
- Air pollution control
- Carbon monoxide
- Hydrocarbons
- Incorporation by reference
- Intergovernmental relations
- Oxides of nitrogen
- Ozone
- Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Volatile organic compounds
Dated: February 1, 2012.
Judith A. Enck,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.
Part 52, chapter I, title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:
PART 52—[AMENDED] Back to Top
1.The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:
Subpart HH—New York Back to Top
2.In § 52.1670, the table in paragraph (c) is amended by revising the entry under Title 6 for Part 217 and the entry under Title 15 for Part 79 to read as follows:
§ 52.1670 Identification of plan.
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(c) * * *
|New York State regulation
|State effective date
|Latest EPA approval date
|Title 6:
|Part 217, Motor Vehicle Emissions:
|Subpart 217-1, Motor Vehicle Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance Program Requirements Until December 31, 2010
|2/28/12 [Insert page number where the document begins]
|Subpart 217-4, Inspection and Maintenance Program Audits Until December 31, 2010
|2/28/12 [Insert page number where the document begins]
|Subpart 217-6, Motor Vehicle Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance Program Requirements Beginning January 1, 2011
|2/28/12 [Insert page number where the document begins]
|Title 15: Part 79, "Motor Vehicle Inspection Regulations"
|Sections 79.1-79.15, 79.17, 79.20, 79.21, 79.24, 79.25
|2/28/12 [Insert page number where the document begins]
[FR Doc. 2012-4470 Filed 2-27-12; 8:45 am]


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Dear Alumni and Friends,
We proved once again that we are a community that can
inspire when called upon.
Our first Law Day 24-hour fundraiser motivated more than 350
alumni, students, faculty and staff to give a total of $100,000—in only 24
Albany Law School is a community that rises to surprising
heights when we come together. On May 1 we came together to demonstrate—and
express—our commitment to this institution.
I want to thank Bill Brewer '77, for creating the matching
challenge of $25,000. We could not have done this without him. His challenge,
and all of you, inspired me to continue the momentum with my $10,000 gift for a
second challenge
This is a proud moment for the Law School
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Medicaid Expansion: Bad For Arkansas Hospitals
Our latest policy paper examines the impact of the "private" option on Arkansas hospitals. The news is not good.
Authors Dan Greenberg and Shane Stacks explain that the basic realities of Arkansas hospital finance cannot justify the private option, or any other form of Medicaid expansion. Key findings include:
The problem of hospitals' uncompensated care is driven primarily by bad debt, which the private option does not address;
The problem of hospital bad debt, and uncompensated care generally, is likely overstated by hospitals' use of "charge basis" accounting;
The private option will weaken hospital balance sheets by increasing both their bad debt and their undercompensated Medicaid costs;
The private option will increase both the costs and the burdens in already-strained Arkansas hospital emergency rooms;
The Affordable Care Act's scheduled Medicaid cuts which supposedly justified the private option – like the Affordable Care Act's scheduled employer mandate – never happened.
The report contains a statistical analysis of many of the publicly disclosed Form 990s that nonprofit hospitals have filed. The analysis demonstrates that undercompensated Medicaid expenses, which the private option is supposed to remedy, only constitute about 10% of hospitals' uncompensated care problem -- and that the private option will by and large leave the other 90% of uncompensated care unaffected.
You can click here to read "The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease: Why the Private Option Will Hurt, Not Help, Arkansas's Hospitals."


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YOLO Bike Company was founded on simplicity, innovation and function. We didn�t enter the crowded bike market to offer just another �me too� product. We wanted to provide a line that would take the active YOLO lifestyle to the next level with a durable, timeless, aesthetically soothing and bomb-proof product that would leave some folks scratching their heads. As a matter of fact, many of the specifications on a YOLO bike are similar to what would be found on a performance level mountain bike, lending lightweight components and durability to the cruiser market. Life is short...Enjoy the ride!.
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Our centres
The Cancer Research UK Centres are one of our highest strategic priorities. They form a national framework to deliver world-leading research, improved patient care and greater local engagement.
Encouraging collaboration and partnerships
Our Centres drive local partnerships and high-calibre collaborations between universities, NHS Trusts and other cancer charities under a united strategy to accelerate the translation of research into the clinic.
Where the money goes
Our funding is used for clinical and non-clinical training, research infrastructure (research nurses, technicians, some equipment) and to provide seed-funding. Our Centres deliver effective use of these resources and infrastructure, providing the focus needed to enhance the quality of UK translational research.
The right research environment
Providing an environment in which world-class research can thrive is crucial to achieving our research goals. Our investment in infrastructure such as our Centres helps to shape the research environment in the UK so that researchers can make the most of funding from us and others. We support research through our involvement in partnerships and networks both nationally and internationally, as well as funding the work of individual researchers across the UK.
More details on the work being carried out in each of our research locations across the UK can be found on our research near you pages.
Centres review
We are in the process of conducting a comprehensive review of our networks of Centres and ECMCs. For the first time, the reviews of the Centres network and the ECMCs network are being aligned, enabling all applicants to present a unified vision for cancer research at their locations. The review process will:
- Appraise the performance of existing Centres and ECMCs
- Assess the performance of each network, leading to an understanding of how they are delivering against our Research Strategy
- Determine Centre and ECMC financial support for the next funding period (April 2017 to March 2022)
- Enable new Centres and ECMCs to apply to join the networks
- Invite applications for new Major Centres
Applications for new Centres
New locations seeking to establish a CRUK Centre must complete an expression of interest (EOI), with successful applicants passing to the full application stage. The deadline for EOIs is 18 March 2016.
To make an EOI, please read the Centres EOI Guidelines (docx). To make an EOI to establish an ECMC, please read the ECMCs guidelines.
Guidelines for the full application (for existing Centres and successful EOI applicants), in addition to guidelines for newly applying Major Centres, will be released in January 2016.
For further information regarding the applications, please contact the Centres and ECMCs team.
Centres Network Accelerator Awards
Our research strategy is built on the understanding that effective partnerships are crucial for delivering the greatest impact. We want to support a united Cancer Research UK community in which our Centres can operate effectively as a network, sharing knowledge and resources.
Our CRUK Centres Network Accelerator Awards (CNAAs) supports this aim. These awards provide additional infrastructure support that will enable Centres to increase collaboration, promote translational research and build capacity in areas of strategic priority for the Centres and CRUK.
The basic remit and eligibility requirements are:
- Maximum of £1m per annum for up to five years
- CRUK Centre directors may lead one application
- Centres, Major Centres and other non-centre locations may collaborate on any applications
Successful applicants to the CNAA funding scheme will be subject to annual review.
Deadline for CNAA annual reports is 10 December 2015.
The call for expressions of interest for the 2015 funding round has now closed. Details for future calls will be announced in due course. For any queries regarding the Centres Network Accelerator Awards, please contact Sarah Brown.
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"The Music of Regret (Meryl)" (2006)
"The Music of Regret (Meryl)," 2006
Flex print, 40 x 40 inches.
© Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York.
"I decided that the puppet of myself would become a real woman...it would have been too uncomfortable to think about Meryl Streep portraying me in the movie. So once she claimed the part, I stopped thinking about the part as representing me or my life...Once I got over that, she became the character, it wasn't about me anymore."
- Laurie Simmons