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The state Legislature on Wednesday passed a Democratic budget for the coming fiscal year that eliminates the state's remaining $9.6 billion deficit, but the plan was derided as a sham by Republicans and widely seen as a mere placeholder that will allow lawmakers to continue getting their paychecks as negotiations continue.
Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita, said he voted against many of the budget bills passed Wednesday, including the vehicle license-fee-increase measure, since he believes voters should be able to weigh in on other government reforms.
"We have an opportunity to change the way we budget in California, and the voters should have a say in that," he said.
Smyth also opposed a bill that would reform local redevelopment agencies, saying the measure focuses more on taking the agencies' money than on reform.
Wednesday's budget approval also comes as school districts across the Santa Clarita Valley prepare to adopt budgets in time for the start of the fiscal year on July 1.
The budget, which still needs the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, appears to include some good news for public education because it doesn't call for any new cuts to funding.
"Our budget is set, and that's because we had a pretty good idea of where it was going to go," Newhall School District Superintendent Marc Winger said Wednesday.
The budget approval gives school districts like Newhall a basic idea of how they will be funded this year, especially since the Legislature has waited until the fall to adopt budgets in previous years.
Winger remains hesitant because talks continue that Brown is still negotiating with Republicans to keep tax extensions in place.
"There's probably still behind the scenes stuff going on," he said.
Among the concerns of the state budget is the state's deferral of a $2 billion payment to school districts across the state, Winger said.
Brown had proposed budget language that would have released that money to schools rather than delaying payments. But without any new funding sources, the deferrals remain in effect.
If lawmakers had missed the constitutional June 15 deadline for sending a balanced budget to the governor, they would have forfeited $261 a day in salary and $142 in payments for daily expenses under a voter initiative passed last year.
Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Pulskamp reserved his comments on the budget until he knew more about what the budget bills mean.
"It sounds to me like the end of Round 1, and the beginning of Round 2," Pulskamp said. Brown now has 12 days to decide what to do with the bills, and there could be "substantive changes" between now and then, Pulskamp said.
Republican lawmakers said the Democratic proposal was thrown together and was not intended to stand.
"I wish that we had a chance to vote on a real budget today," said Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks. "Instead, we're going to vote on what is effectively the legislative paycheck-protection plan."
Democratic leaders acknowledged that the plan was not the budget they and Brown really want.
That hoped-for budget — which some Democratic lawmakers refer to as "Plan A" — includes a temporary extension of expiring tax increases to fund schools in the coming fiscal year and an authorization for a special election this fall so voters can decide whether to extend the tax hikes for an even longer period.
The last of the tax hikes passed in 2009 — increases to the sales and vehicle taxes — expire June 30, giving Democrats two weeks to convince four Republicans to keep the higher taxes in place until voters have their say. An increase in the personal income tax rate passed at the same time expired in January.
"I would love nothing more than to come back sometime between June 15 and July 1 and pass Plan A," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg told reporters.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Originally Posted by Mr. Anthony
I love weighted pullups--current pullup workout is 5 sets of 8 reps with 55 pounds on a weight belt.
Nice numbers. I'm going to add matching them to my list of personal lifting goals.
Just keep working like you are, the reps will come as your strength returns. Once you get to 5-10 reps, start adding weight. It will make your unweighted reps much easier.
I used to seriously post here, now I prefer to troll.
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text: The Greenwich Village of Llewyn Davis is not the thriving scene that produced Peter, Paul and Mary and changed the world when Bob Dylan went electric. It is the folk scene in the dark ages before the hits and money arrived, when a small coterie of true believers traded old songs like a secret language. Most were local kids or voyagers from the suburbs of Long Island and New Jersey, fleeing the dullness and conformity of the Eisenhower 1950s to a Bohemian life in lower Manhattan, where a two-person hole-in-the-wall could still be had for twenty-five dollars a month. Some details of the movie suggest familiar figures—Llewyn's Welsh name recalls Dylan, and like Phil Ochs he crashes on the couch of a singing couple named Jim and Jean. But the story takes place in the moment before Dylan and Ochs arrived, when no one imagined the Village becoming the center of a folk boom that would produce international superstars and change the course of popular music. This moment of transition—before the arrival of the 60s as we know them—was captured by one of the central figures on that scene, Dave Van Ronk, in his memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street, which the Coen Brothers mined for local color and for a few key episodes of this week in Llewyn's life. Llewyn is not Van Ronk, but he sings some of Van Ronk's songs and shares his background as a working class kid who split his life between playing guitar and shipping out in the Merchant Marine. Llewyn also shares Van Ronk's love and respect for authentic folk music, old songs polished by the ebb and flow of oral tradition. For Van Ronk's generation, the well-worn authenticity of folk provided a profound contrast to the ephemeral confections of the pop music world, and the choice to play folk was almost like joining a religious order—complete with a vow of poverty, since there were virtually no jobs in New York for anyone who sounded like a traditional folk artist. That would change in the early 1960s, and already in early 1961, when Inside Llewyn Davis takes place, there were glimmerings of the world to come—a few small clubs where people could play once in a while for tips, and some little record companies that—though they might not pay much—were at least willing to record the real stuff. Van Ronk recalled that time with a mix of wry humor and deep affection—like Llewyn he was living hand to mouth and sleeping on couches, but he was surrounded by people for whom the music mattered more than anything else. That dedication made the late 1950s a key period. Young musicians studied old records to capture the grit and rawness of Delta blues and Appalachian ballads, then found ways to make that music express their own feelings and desires. Most of them did not go on to professional careers, or even make a record. They were devoted amateurs, ignored by the outside world but fired by youthful optimism. Van Ronk remembered, "We had no doubt that we were the cutting edge of the folk revival—but bear in mind, we were in our late teens and early twenties, and if you do not feel you are the cutting edge at that age, there is something wrong with you. Of course we were the wave of the future—we were 21!" The center of this scene was not a club or coffeehouse, but Washington Square Park, where a heterogeneous mix of folk aficionados gathered every Sunday to play for each other and whoever wandered by. Kids from politically progressive summer camps would be singing union songs, young Zionist socialists would be doing Israeli folk dances, and a banjoist named Roger Sprung led the first wave of urban bluegrass musicians. No one even opened a guitar case for donations; although there was already a commercial folk scene—with songs like The Kingston Trio's rendition of "Tom Dooley" at the top of the pop charts—to the Village players the folk on the radio represented the bland conformity and commercial culture they were trying to escape. As Van Ronk recalled, "We knew about the Kingston Trio and Harry Belafonte and their hordes of squeaky-clean imitators, but we felt like that was a different world that had nothing to do with us. Most of those people couldn't play worth a damn and were indifferent singers, and as far as material was concerned they were scraping the top of the barrel, singing songs that we had all learned and dropped already. It was Sing Along with Mitch and the Fireside Book of Folk Songs, performed by sophomores in paisley shirts, and it was a one hundred percent rip-off: they were ripping off the material, they were ripping off the authors, composers, collectors, and sources, and they were ripping off the public." While the pop-folkies ruled in suburbia and on Midwestern college campuses, the amateurs in Washington Square were shaping a new aesthetic of authenticity. Individual singers staked out spots to sing blues or southern mountain ballads, and Van Ronk recalled that they formed a sort of clique within the clique: "We banded together for mutual support, because we didn't make as much noise as the other groups, and we hated them all—the Zionists, the summer camp kids, and the bluegrassers—every last, dead one of them. Of course, we hated a lot of people in those days." The aesthetic of those ballad and blues singers would shape artists like Dylan, Ochs, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell, and later influenced the folk-rock innovations of the Lovin' Spoonful, the Byrds, and even the Rolling Stones. (In Britain, a similar scene produced Ewan MacColl, whose "Shoals of Herring" Llewyn sings to his aging father.) But in the late 1950s most of them would have been horrified to think they might inspire a pop or rock trend. They were a band of purehearted refugees from the American mainstream, proud of their secret knowledge. Van Ronk wryly dubbed his crowd the "neo-ethnics," and to some extent they were a folk equivalent of the "early music" movement in the classical world (a movement the movie nods to in Llewyn's dinner with uptown academic friends, where he meets a fellow guest who plays in a group called Musica Anticha). For the neo-ethnics, the bible was a set of six LPs assembled by a beatnik eccentric named Harry Smith from recordings made by rural southern musicians in the 1920s and issued in 1952 as The Anthology of American Folk Music. Van Ronk recalled, "Those records changed everything, because the previous generation had liked folk songs, but sang them like trained concert singers. For us, what mattered was authenticity, reproducing the traditional ethnic styles all the way down to getting the accent right." Like Ramblin' Jack Elliott before him and Bob Dylan a couple of years later, Van Ronk sang in the rough, raspy styles of his rural heroes. Some of his friends were more willing to compromise with modern, urban tastes—the women on the scene tended to sing in clear sopranos rather than sounding like aged farmwives—but they all studied old records and books of ancient ballads, and mastered archaic instruments like the Appalachian dulcimer. Paul Clayton, a handsome, bearded man (whose look provides the template for Justin Timberlake's Jim Berkey), was the most popular neo-ethnic. A prolific recording artist with a degree in folklore, he influenced many other artists, including Dylan, who reworked one of his songs into "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." But the fact that so few people remember him today is a reminder that in this period folk music was still a very minor part of Village nightlife. In October of 1961, when Dylan got his big break at Folk City—the only folk club of that period that had a liquor license, and the model for the bar in Llewyn Davis—there were only two other New York venues advertising named folk performers, and both featured older cabaret-style artists. The important clubs were sticking to jazz: Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Horace Silver, Herbie Mann—and as a reminder of how fast things were changing, Silver and Mann were on a double bill with Aretha Franklin as the opening act. What gave the folksingers a foothold in this world was that the tough New York cabaret laws included an "incidental music" clause designed for restaurant background music, which said that no license was needed for groups that had less than four people and did not include wind, brass, or percussion instruments. That meant a club could feature poets or folksingers without meeting the arcane licensing strictures and high fees required for jazz groups. Of course, poets and folksingers could not attract the audiences that jazz was drawing, but by the late 1950s a lot of people had heard about the weird beatniks in Greenwich Village and were coming down just to see the freak show. (For a while the Village Voice even ran a weekly ad for a "Rent-a-Beatnik" service that would send a bearded, bereted hipster to liven up suburban parties.) The Village's first full-time folk club was a blatant tourist trap called the Café Bizarre, and Van Ronk, who played its opening night in 1957, recalled, "It was selling the squares a Greenwich Village that had never existed. The ambiance was cut-rate Charles Addams haunted house: dark and candle-lit, with fake cobwebs hanging all over everything. The waitresses were got up to look like Morticia, with fishnet stockings, long straight hair, and so much mascara that they looked like raccoons." The Bizarre was soon followed by the Café Wha?, which advertised itself with a picture of a beatnik in beret, beard, and sunglasses and listed the entertainment as "folk singing, comedy, calypso, poetry, and congas" in "the Village's swingingest coffeehouse." Since the musicians were just there as part of the bigger freak show, the owners generally saw no reason to pay them—someone would just pass a basket for tips, and the performers divided the take. Another advantage of the coffeehouse concept was that bars had to close at one a.m., but a coffeehouse could stay open as long as there were customers. As a result, performers were expected to play five or six sets a night, and Van Ronk remembered them as the most grueling places he ever worked—but also as a terrific training ground: "We had so much opportunity to try out our stuff in public, get clobbered, figure out what was wrong, and go back and try it again. It was brutally hard work, because these crowds of tourists usually started out at the bars and by the time they got around to us they were completely loaded. So we would be playing for audiences of fifty or a hundred drunken suburbanites who really could not have cared less about the music—they were there to see the freaks and raise some hell. In that kind of situation, you either learn how to handle yourself onstage or you go into some other line of work, and the people who stuck it out became thoroughly seasoned pros." The tourists thought of folksingers and beat poets as part of the same crazy culture, but when Van Ronk talked about the people his crowd hated, the beatniks were only a few steps behind the suburban squares, and the dislike was mutual: "The beats liked cool jazz, bebop, and hard drugs, and hated folk music, which to them was all these fresh-faced kids sitting around on the floor and singing songs of the oppressed masses. When a folksinger would take the stage between two beat poets, all the finger-poppin' mamas and daddies would do everything but hold their noses. Then, when the beat poets would get up and begin to rant, all the folk fans would do likewise." (You can get a taste for this clash in the movie, in the contempt with which John Goodman's hip jazzman and Garrett Hedlund's beat poet chauffeur treat Llewyn on their journey to Chicago.). There was also a generational clash between the young folksingers and the older businessmen they depended on for their livelihood. Moe Asch of Folkways Records, model for the movie's Mel, was revered by the young musicians for recording Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Lead Belly, but he was a hard-nosed, old-fashioned businessman—as in the movie, he once tried to foist his winter coat on Van Ronk in lieu of royalties. Albert Grossman, model for the movie's Bud Grossman, was equally tough. He opened Chicago's Gate of Horn in 1956 as a folk nightclub featuring established artists like the Clancy Brothers, a quartet of Irish singers in white sweaters who are briefly referenced in the movie. Van Ronk's crowd hated anything that smacked of show-biz, and dismissed these artists as overly slick: "If you weren't staring into the sound-hole of your instrument, we thought you should at least have the decency and self-respect to stare at your shoes." Such self-righteous purism made no sense to Grossman, whose appreciation for folk music did not distract him from the bottom line. Like Llewyn, Van Ronk suffered a humiliating audition in Grossman's club—and like Llewyn, he received a tantalizing offer to join a trio Grossman was forming, which became Peter, Paul and Mary. In 1960, no one who knew anything about the music business wanted to take a chance on people who sounded like Van Ronk or Dylan, or on sincere singers like Llewyn who felt the material should speak for itself. Mike Porco, the real-life counterpart of the movie's charmingly cynical Poppie Corsicatto, was a rare exception, but that was because he didn't know anything about music. He had been running a bar called Gerde's on a block of factory loft buildings, and since he didn't have a lot of evening business he agreed to let Izzy Young, who ran a small store called the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street, host a few concerts there. Young presented older traditional musicians like Reverend Gary Davis and young neo-ethnics like Van Ronk on a non-profit basis, giving all the money to the musicians. Izzy's evenings at Gerde's drew enough of a crowd that Porco sensed a business opportunity; he took over the booking, renamed the place Gerde's Folk City, and for a while it was the only bar in the Village that regularly featured folksingers. Since he sold liquor, Porco could afford to pay the musicians, which made it a more attractive gig than the "basket houses," and made it a convenient hang-out for Van Ronk and his friends on nights off. As in the film, this could be a mixed blessing. Van Ronk remembered: "The people seated in front knew that they were watching a show but the people at the bar would act like they were in another room. When that place was crowded, it was one of the toughest rooms I have ever seen." If one wanted to precisely date Inside Llewyn Davis, the bookends would be the opening of Folk City in January 1960 and Dylan's arrival a year later. That was the last period of calm before the storm: over the next few years the folk scene exploded, till there were almost three dozen folk clubs within a couple of blocks of MacDougal Street. Even in 1960, musicians were beginning to drift in from all over the country. Tom Paxton, model for the movie's Troy Nelson, came from Oklahoma and played on weekends while doing his military service at Fort Dix. He was a new kind of folksinger; his interest lay less in learning old songs than in writing new ones—like "The Last Thing on My Mind," which Stark Sands sings in the film—and he was a key figure in the evolution from neo-ethnics to singer-songwriters. That evolution has gotten most of the historical attention, thanks to Dylan, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and the other poetic wordsmiths who gravitated to the Village in the next few years, mixing the musical aesthetic of the folk crowd with the literary aesthetic of the beats. It was not an instant shift: when Izzy Young sponsored Dylan's first concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1961, it attracted barely fifty listeners. His nasal voice and whining harmonica were too raw and abrasive for a mainstream audience, and even after Peter, Paul, and Mary made "Blowin' in the Wind" a national hit in 1963, nobody could imagine Dylan becoming a pop star in his own right. When his career finally took off a couple of years later, he sounded as baffled as everyone else: "I once thought the biggest I could ever hope to get was like Van Ronk, but it's bigger than that now, ain't it?" By that time, the world of Inside Llewyn Davis had all but disappeared. The small band of true believers crashing on each other's couches and swapping songs till dawn was replaced by a wave of new arrivals with dreams of folk stardom. By 1965, Van Ronk was the only old New Yorker left on the set, and the intimate Greenwich Village where the singers all knew each other, played together, sometimes slept with each other and broke each other's hearts, seemed as ancient and far away as the Mississippi sharecroppers' shacks and Appalachia cabins of the 1920s had seemed to him and his young peers in Washington Square. Elijah Wald is a musician and writer who spent much of his teens sleeping on Dave Van Ronk's couch near the corner of Fourth Street and Seventh Avenue, and co-authored The Mayor of MacDougal Street.


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The Jakarta Post
The House of Representatives approved the government's proposed fuel-price hike as it endorsed the draft bill of the 2013 revised state budget in a plenary session in Jakarta on Monday.
Under the revised state budget, the price of fuel will increase by 33 percent to Rp 6,500 (66 US cents) per liter.
During the session, 338 legislators voted in favor of the bill, while 181 lawmakers rejected it.
Five factions ' the Democratic Party, the Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the United Development Party (PPP) ' supported the passing of the law.
Meanwhile, four factions -- the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) ' opposed the revised budget.


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Proposal in Chile to legalize same sex marriage "to install the debate in society"
Socialist Sen. Fulvio Rossi announced Sunday that he will present a law to the Senate on Tuesday to legalize same sex marriage in Chile. The announcement was made at a press conference one day after Santiago Archbishop Francisco Javier Errázuriz publicly called the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex "an outrage," referring to Argentina's initiative.
Argentina became the first Latinamerican country to legalize gay marriage two weeks ago on July 15. Argentina also legalized adoption for same sex couples with the same bill.
"It may be that two people, two men or two women, want to live together and share life, but to call that marriage is an outrage which some countries are allowing. I regret that Argentina has allowed it, the Archbishop said while speaking with journalists.
Sunday, Rossi asked the Catholic Church to be "friendlier" and said the Archbishop's statements "cause immense pain to a community of easily 2 million people." Rossi added that he does consider himself part of the Church, but the words of the Archbishop are words "of intolerance, a lack of love and caring. I am not a member of a Church that wishes to condemn. I am a member of a Church that knows how to take in all Chileans with care."
The Senator said his proposal would modify Article 112 of the Civil Code, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Article 112 also relates childbearing as a purpose of marriage, which will also be under examination, as the proposal includes the rights for same sex couples to adopt.
Rossi said he recognized that the initiative could be rejected in Parliament, but added it would be a big step for the country either way, as the proposal and discussion would install the debate not only in society, but also in the political sphere.
Carolina Tohá, former minister in the Bachelet Government and future president of the centre-left Party For Democratic (PPD), said Rossi's proposal will have the votes of her party. We do not think gay people have fewer rights to build stable relationships than heterosexuals. On the contrary, we think they are Chileans are entitled to make their lives and the legislation gives all Chileans the conditions to be able to do so safely, she said.
Senate President Jorge Pizarro, a member of the Christian Democratic party, reacted more cautiously. He pointed to the fact that a proposal is already pending regarding civil unions in Chile. "First things first. Here civil unions do not have the protection necessary to protect their rights," he said.
Further, the president of the conservative Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Sen. Juan Antonio Coloma, said legislation of this nature seems total nonsense… In our view, the basis of society is the family and that depends on the marriage, understood as a man and a woman, he said.
The Archbishop also speculated on the possibility of a decline in birth rate if gay marriage was approved. "In our own country, with the small birth rate as it is, if gay marriage was adopted, there would be a population decline, leading to an aging population," he said.
No such decline has been proven or measured within the populations of other countries which allow gay marriage.
MOVIHL, Chile's gay rights organization, described the Archbishop's comments as "bloody and undemocratic," as well as homophobic and "improper promotion of what Christianity says."
By Laura French – Santiago Times


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Why Big Grocers Go Where the Garlic Grows
Nairn, Scotland
The first shoots of new garlic are sprouting on Glen and Gilli Allingham's field in the Scottish Highlands. For British grocery stores, they can't grow fast enough.
The Allinghams are among the U.K.'s only farmers of porcelain garlic, a sweet and subtle variety. Marketing products from the Allinghams' 10-year-old business, the Really Garlicky Company, is part of a strategy at British supermarkets to profit from the craze for eating local. The supermarket giants are courting farmers, and adding in-store marketing and special packaging to showcase local vegetables, fruit and meat.
Britain is far ahead of the U.S. in selling local food in supermarkets. As big U.S. stores and packaged-food companies start taking steps to market more local food, Britain offers a lesson in the benefits and challenges.
For farmers supplying the big chains, "unless you make a muck-up of it, the volumes are immense," Mr. Allingham says.
At Britain's biggest grocery chains, sales of local food are rising. Market-leader Tesco PLC expects sales of local food to reach £1 billion ($1.6 billion) this year, up from £870 million in 2010. Its research shows that 44% of U.K. shoppers are buying more local food than five years ago. At rival Asda, the British arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., sales of local fare rose 25% last year. All major food retailers are expanding their local ranges.
Such growth is unusual in the mature supermarket industry anywhere. It comes despite the higher prices commanded by some local foods. A mesh bag of three Really Garlicky bulbs, for example, costs £1.69 at Tesco, compared with 90 pence for garlic from Spain or China.
U.K. supermarkets are known for their innovation, partly because the industry is so concentrated and competitive, with five chains controlling over 80% of the market. Tesco alone accounts for nearly one in every three pounds spent on groceries in the U.K.
In the U.S., where distances from farm to store are often greater, local-produce marketing is less developed. Some stores are expanding, though. Whole Foods Market devotes space in stores and online to tout its support for local producers. Asda parent Wal-Mart in October said it aims to double locally grown food to 9% of its total produce offerings by 2015. The store encourages farmers to supply produce that local shoppers request, says spokesman Kory Lundberg.
Offering produce from local farmers lets supermarkets stand out from the competition and is a lure for shoppers other than low prices, says Martyn Jones, group services director at Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC, which sells fresh pork, beef and lamb only from Britain, and labels its fish with the origin and method with which it was caught.
Morrison's is working with farmers in mild areas of Britain such as Devon and Cornwall to move up the breeding times of British sheep. This would allow the retailer to offer fresh local lamb in late April and early May, when rivals are still selling New Zealand lamb.
At a Tesco store in Elgin, near Nairn, shelves are dotted with signs with tales of nearby producers. "Enjoy the Taste of Scotland," says one showing a map of the region, a picture of Mr. and Ms. Allingham holding a garlic bulb with children running in the field behind them, and a description of their business.
Tesco stocks about 4,000 locally sourced foods at any given time. Last month, the retailer launched a special website that lets shoppers search for produce from within 30, 50 or 100 miles from their local stores.
"It's a big investment for Tesco," says Sarah Mackie, category manager for regional and local foods, about the new website. She declined to say how much Tesco is spending.
When Ms. Mackie first approached the Allinghams about buying their garlic in 2004, the couple say they worried how delis and farm shops would react to them doing business with such a big corporation, and feared that they couldn't meet Tesco's needs. Eventually, the Allinghams were swayed by the sales volumes a Tesco listing would offer. Tesco started carrying their garlic in 2005.
The Allinghams lost a few small customers who objected to their relationship with Tesco, but Tesco proved to be a flexible partner. The Allinghams don't have long-term contracts or minimum quantities they must produce. Tesco sells Really Garlicky products in 69 Scottish stores. The Allinghams stopped selling at farmers markets in winter because Tesco and Waitrose Ltd. buy most of their gourmet garlic.
To supply a supermarket chain, each year farmers must pass two food safety exams. Auditors from industry-backed and independent certification programs can make surprise inspections to make sure farmers document the origins of all raw materials, among other measures. Supermarkets offer higher sales volumes but lower margins than farmers markets. And there is no guarantee that they will keep buying from one year to the next.
"They could quite easily remove it at the drop of a hat," said Mr. Allingham, in a checked shirt, green fleece vest and mud-caked boots as he inspected a field bathed in pale winter sunlight one recent morning.
The stores define locally grown produce differently. At Tesco, food is labeled local if it comes from the county where a store is located, or a neighboring county. At Asda, local implies the item originated within a 25-mile radius of a store.
The benefits of cutting the distance food travels may be fewer than many consumers realize. The Allinghams' garlic, for instance, carpools with carrots grown by a nearby farmer. The garlic and carrots go 100 miles to a Tesco depot near Edinburgh. From there, they are shipped to stores, but some travel back to stores near the fields where they were grown.
Still, Ms. Allingham says the system is more environmentally friendly than farmers driving—sometimes half-empty—trucks to stores.
Asda, based in Leeds, has a local-food team of 28 buyers and marketers, up from just one person six years ago. It courts local food suppliers at farm shows, food fairs and open days, and runs a "supplier development" program with the Scottish government, says CJ Antal-Smith, category director for emerging markets.
Overall, research firm Mintel forecasts sales of local food in Britain to reach £6.2 billion by 2013, up from an estimated £5.1 million in 2009, the most recent data available. Retailers say sales of domestic food were more resilient in the recent economic downturn than those of other premium foods.
At their farm near Loch Ness and a castle named in Macbeth, the Allinghams' business has grown to 35 acres and they produce items such as garlic mayonnaise and garlic bread.
Write to Cecilie Rohwedder at email@example.com


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Michael Soibelman
>I want to delete the MBR of a disk. I am working on someone elses box and
>I'm trying to install that other OS from a 'recovery' disk. I don't know
>if this is possible as the computer will not boot from the CD. It will, of
>course, boot from a openSUSE disk or even a retail version of that other OS
>but NOT from the recovery disk.. Someone has told the owner of this
>computer to delete the MBR and the computer will then boot from the CD. So
That is an idiotic suggestion. By the time it has gotten to trying to boot
from the mbr, it has stopped trying to boot from the CD. Ie, if that CD is
unbootable, then that CD is unbootable,
>I'm trying to delete the MBR. I've got a legitimate retail version of W2K.
You are trying to delete the MBR why?
>Unfortunately this is not the same as I remember with Windows98. There you
>copied certain files to the floppy and booted from that. Then you could
>just type FDISK :\MBR (or something close to that) and it would delete the
>contents of the master boot record. I don't see that on W2K. How do I do
>this with Linux or how do I do this with W2000 ?
>P.S. When I complete the install of the other unnamed OS I can install
>AutoCad for this person. Which is the ONLY program he needs to use in that
>other OS (rhymes with 'I gotta pee'). Then I will reinstall GRUB so he can
>also use openSUSE-11.0 !! Now that's a real OS...
Danger-- recovery disks have a tendency to erase everything on the disk,
and simply write over a disk image. Ie, MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A BACKUP.


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William L. Myers, 61, Altoona, died unexpectedly Saturday at his residence.
He was born in Altoona, son of Robert N. and Betty (Miller) Myers. He married Susan Lucas on Sept. 5, 1987, in Altoona.
Surviving are his wife; his mother; two daughters: Kelly (Ron) Spangler of Kulpmont and Lisa (Sean) O'Shell of Altoona; a stepson, Eric (Laura) Bankert of Hagerstown, Md.; nine grandchildren; a brother, Robert of Columbus, Ohio; and three sisters: Connie (Marvin) Huhn of Pickerington, Ohio, Linda Clawson of Hollidaysburg and Shari (Mark) Izzo of Hilliard, Ohio.
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He was preceded in death by his father; and a brother, James P. Myers.
Mr. Myers was a 1969 graduate of Altoona Area High School and a 1973 graduate of Penn State University, where he also received his master's degree. He retired from the Bellefonte Area School District as a middle school teacher after 36 years of service. He was a member of Grace Bible Church.
William enjoyed motorcycle riding, reading, spending time with his family and was an avid Penn State football fan.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at The Stevens Mortuary Inc., 1421 Eighth Ave., Altoona. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, at Stevens Memorial Chapel, with Pastor Lou Hileman officiating.
Committal will be at Alto-Reste Park Cemetery.


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CSADV provides educational opportunities to the communities we serve. Educational presentations are available to all segments of the community and can be modified to best target your group and fit your schedule. Presentations are informative and assist the public in becoming more aware of the issues surrounding domestic violence and sexual assault. All educational programs are offered free of charge. If your class, group, or organization would like to schedule a presentation, please contact our agency.
CSADV provides educational prevention programming for preschool children through college level. All curriculum concepts are age and developmentally appropriate and each level builds upon the previous section. This programming is designed to address the issues of domestic violence and sexual assault in a non-threatening fashion. The educational programs incorporate role plays, skits, live characters, printed materials, film and video, discussion between the presenter and audience, and much more. It is our belief that prevention education is vital to ending child and adult victimization. All education programs, as are all CSADV services, are offered free of charge.
Prevention Programming, Elementary School PreK, ,Kindergarten, First Grade, Happy Bear: Happy Bear utilizes a panda mascot to help children understand safe vs. unsafe touch and how to tell an adult if they are touched. This is an interactive, fun program.
Kindergarten—Third Grade, Quit It! This research-based program gives children a vocabulary and conceptual framework that allows them to understand the distinction between teasing and bullying and how to respond to bullying .
Fourth and Fifth Grade, Bully Proof: This research-based program engages children to think about the distinctions between teasing and bullying. Activities help children focus on the boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate, playful and hurtful behavior. Included are useful tips on how to safely respond to a bully.
Second and Fourth Grade, Body Safety and Me: The focus of this program is to help students identify what sexual abuse is and how to respond. The program empowers children that their bodies are their own and no one has the right to touch them inappropriately. Children are taught how to tell and who to tell.
Grades 4 through High school, Sexting and Cyber bullying A new phenomena … sexting and cyber bullying are quickly becoming a major problem in our schools and communities. Recent suicides of cyber bullying victims have brought this issue to light. Students receive information about the serious consequences including possible criminal actions. Step by step instruction is given to students on what they can do if they become a victim of these crimes.
Middle School and High School, Gender Violence/Gender Justice: This research-based program explores power, inequalities and violence in relationships, as well as in friendships. The program creates discussion about the larger topics of gender violence, including sexual harassment, and sexual assault.
Flirting or Hurting: This research-based program explores student– to-student sexual harassment in schools. Topics covered include flirting versus sexual harassment, identifying and standing up for ones rights, and appropriate responses to sexual harassment.
Love is not Abuse: This program focuses on issues of teen dating violence. Students will learn to identify the warning sings of an abusive relationship, how they can support a friend who is being abused and how to confront a friend who is abusive.
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Last weekend my sister and I drove up to the Bay Area. We unloaded her stuff at her apartment in Berkeley for her last semester. Gosh my mini me is growing up so fast and is making me feel very old. The weather was beautiful in San Francisco and my three day weekend would have been perfect had I not got a speeding ticket on the 280 and then a parking ticket too on the same day. At least I did get to eat some good food and spend some quality time with a few friends and family.
On the way to SF, my sister and I stopped at Harris Ranch for dinner for the first time.
Saturday, I had brunch with a few friends at Town's End (pics from my iPhone) by Pier 38.
After brunch, I introduced Judy to Daiso and Bi-Rite (pic from my iPhone).
Wendy had suggested we have dinner at The Tipsy Pig in the Marina area. Umm…the appetizers were good.
After I got my speeding ticket on Sunday, I had lunch with my sister and cousins at the On The Bridge restaurant in Japantown. The service was so slow.
As for dinner, I slowly drove myself back to Millbrae for some steak at Jerry and Grace's house. Argh! I'm dreading the day that damn speeding ticket arrives in the mail. I hate traffic school, even if it's online.


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The 2009 Season is one week underway and its going to be one hell of a ride!
From the Nittany Lions of the Big Ten to the BYU Cougars of the WAC every team begins the season as a contender, and is trying to prove itself worthy for BCS Contention.
In my first Bowl Projections of the Season I will project are
The BCS National Title Game (To Be Played in Pasadena this year)
The Fiesta Bowl
The Rose Bowl
The Sugar Bowl
The Orange Bowl
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The Carolina Panthers, who are surging with seven straight wins, may be without two of its biggest stars for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay.
Defensive end Charles Johnson, who leads the Panthers with 8.5 sacks, will miss his second straight game with a right knee sprain. And the Panthers may be without leading rusher DeAngelo Williams, who has missed practice all week with a quad contusion, ESPN reported Friday.
"A lot of concerns with DeAngelo,'' coach Ron Rivera told ESPN after Friday's practice.
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Williams suffered the injury in last week's game against Miami. His status for Sunday should be known by Saturday. If Williams is out, Mike Tolbert and Jonathan Stewart likely will get the majority of carries for the Panthers (8-3).
Johnson was injured in the Nov. 18 win over New England and missed last week's game against Miami. He is expected to return for the Dec. 8 Sunday night game against divisional rival New Orleans.


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H.B. lifeguards will take over at Sunset Beach
HUNTINGTON BEACH – The city will take over lifeguard services for Sunset Beach on Tuesday, as the OC Lifeguards give way to the city's Marine Safety Division.
The City Council voted Sept. 16 to make the change, choosing a plan to allocate $416,446 to provide lifeguard service on the beach. The city also will upgrade lifeguard stations, vehicles and communications equipment.
The city voted to annex then-unincorporated Sunset Beach three years ago, over the objections of some of its residents.
OC Lifeguards had proposed a $395,000 contract to continue its service, an increase of $145,000 because of equipment and training needs.
"(This) is a slightly higher cost than that received from OC Lifeguards, but actually provides a slightly higher level of service, a little bit better supervision and does not take away from services on our main city beach," city Fire Chief Patrick McIntosh said..
Mayor Pro Tem Matthew Harper voted against the proposed change of service in the 5-1 vote. Council member Joe Carchio was not present.
"I felt as though the current contract (with OC Lifeguards) was providing the service that Sunset Beach needed," said Harper. "Therefore, I believed there was no reason to change service."
OC Lifeguards appreciated the opportunity to service Sunset Beach the past 24 years, said Jason Young, cheif of OC Lifeguards, adding that the proposed increase was necessary to cover vehicle replacement, communication equipment repairs and replacement, and substation repairs and replacement.
"Normally with a longer contract term, equipment expenses of this nature can be factored into the budget over several years," Young said. "But with a one-year contract term such as the city was offering, these expenses had to be covered up front and thus a significant increase was the result."
Safety is what matters most, said Victoria Perez, a Sunset Beach resident and frequent beachgoer.
"Families that come here should be assured that there are lifeguards here that make this environment safe for them and other families," Perez said. "I wouldn't want to bring my children to a beach that I know didn't have the safety of lifeguards."
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Thunderstorms brought much-needed rain to California Sunday, but also complicated week-long firefighting efforts in the state.
Rains caused a huge mudslide, some 300 yards wide and three feet deep, to sweep through the eastern Sierra Nevada.
"If it isn't fire, it's flood. If it isn't fire or flood, it's the mud," said interagency fire spokeswoman Christina Lilienthal.
The mudslide damaged about 50 homes, cut off a wildfire escape rout in the Sequoia National Forest and forced many residents to evacuate.
At the same time, the milder weather allowed thousands of other residents in fire-threatened areas to return home.
Firefighters say they continue to make headway on the more than 250 fires still burning across the state.
But the weeks of firefighting are taking their toll.
"If you look at our battle that we're fighting right now, we have aircraft and ground resources," firefighter Mike Mohler said. "It's almost like we're fighting a war."
President Bush plans to visit the worst hit areas this week.
More than 1,100 square miles have burned since the fires started three weeks ago.
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Can Android do Serious Linux Work, or is it Just a Toy?
Lugging a laptop around is preferable to commuting, but why not go even more portable with a smartphone or tablet? Can Android serve as a capable remote server administration platform? Android is based on Linux and is open source, so it seems it should be a natural for portable administration.
Both Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems were designed from the ground up with the mobile phone as the principal platform. Apple has used iOS for their iPad tablet device and the Apple TV set-top-box, while Google has essentially followed suit with a number of Android-based tablet devices already on the market, and the latest Google-TV product offerings from Logitech and Sony. It certainly seems like Apple and Google are competing head-to-head on many fronts. So are these just toys, or can they do serious work?
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4 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Awkward People
Back in 2009, I was super excited when I saw previews for Adventureland. I liked Greg Mottola as a director, and I loved most of the cast, but mainly I was excited because it was about a scrawny, curly-haired kid with a stutter who took a crummy summer job at an amusement park while he figured out what to do with his life. The preview presents him as a nervous and awkward guy who doesn't seem to know how to talk to women. Now, I never worked at an amusement park, but I did work a crummy summer job at a summer camp when I was a scrawny, curly-haired kid with a stutter. I was nervous and awkward, and I barely know how to talk to women today, 10 years later (you aim your words at the face, right?). I saw Jesse Eisenberg's character and thought, "Yes, this is going to be great, this will be an authentic representation of my awkward summers. We are the same, Jesse."
I don't know which one to shoot!
I was expecting a movie about an awkward guy stuttering and fumbling around for a few months, striking out with girls and finding joy in hanging around his other awkward friends, making jokes about Star Wars.
If you haven't seen Adventureland, forgive my spoilers: Jesse spends the entire movie getting high and juggling relationships with the two most beautiful women at the park. And if you haven't seen my life, forgive my spoilers: That's not what being awkward is like.
Jesse, no! YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!
Don't get me wrong, I still really like the movie, it's just always frustrating when you think things are going to be one way and then it turns out they go the other way. Every movie that's allegedly about an awkward kid (Superbad, I Love You, Beth Cooper, additional Michael Cera movies) inevitably involves the main character going on a CRAZY ADVENTURE and then ending up with his dream girl. There wasn't a second of Adventureland dedicated to Jesse's uncontrollable sweatiness or his fear of being touched by anyone or about how he never knows where to put his hands at any given time, and those are the awkward guy hallmarks. There was a show on MTV called Awkward and the arc of the first season involved the main character gaining popularity on her blog and secretly having sex with the most popular guy in school. At the risk of being redundant, no. No!
I thought Jesse's time at the kid-filled amusement park would be like my time at the kid-filled summer camp. For an awkward person, working with kids is actually great, because children haven't yet developed the social graces to realize what a clown-shoe disaster I was at interacting with regular, functioning human beings. Awkward people are terrible around babies, sure, but working with kids is easy -- it's like bowling with bumpers on. Children say exactly what they're feeling so you don't have to rely on being able to pick up on complicated social cues or worry about violating any unspoken rules of conduct. The kids just wanted to run around in the sun and pretend they were being chased by monsters, which was great, because I could totally handle that.
But I guess a movie about Jesse Eisenberg stuttering and chasing a bunch of second graders isn't as compelling as one about Jesse Eisenberg hooking up with the chick from Twilight.
#1. Awkward People Aren't Looking to Be Rescued
There's a character in Can't Hardly Wait, William, who spent his whole life as a shy, awkward, quiet nerd who liked school and talking about science fiction with his two buddies. By the end of the movie, he sang and danced in front of his school, hooked up with two beautiful women, partied harder than he ever had, ran from the cops, and was, temporarily, the most popular guy in his school.
I know this is going to be hard for dynamic and interesting extroverts to believe, but some people are happy being introverts. Shy people don't stay in on a Friday night because they're broken, they stay in because they get more enjoyment out of reading at home than they do out of going to a sweaty bar or crowded party or loud concert or violent, I don't know, quinceanera. Quiet people avoid talking in large crowds not because they don't know how to talk, but because they prefer listening. Shy and awkward people are not looking for you to save them because they don't need to be saved. Why do we throw around the phrase "She really helped him break out of his shell" as if that's a good thing? If a turtle breaks out of his shell, he will die.
I talk about awkwardness a lot, but at the end of the day, it's not a disease. As paradoxical as it might sound, I'm actually super comfortable with my awkwardness. Even in high school. I wasn't cool; I played clarinet in the marching band, but that wasn't as cool back then as it is now.
The Streets
Line up, ladies. Form a single file line so that you can, one at a time, kick my ass.
Even though I was the opposite of cool, I still had my little gang of similarly awkward people and had a blast. I didn't want to spend my weekend nights crowd-surfing at some big house party like the reformed nerd in Can't Hardly Wait; my nights were spent at diners with my buddies, trading jokes and talking about pop culture. Awkwardness wasn't something that needed to be fixed, and I was never waiting for some free-spirited hippie chick to break me out of my awkwardness and turn me into the kind of guy who sings Guns N' Roses at parties.
Extroverts look at introverts and think, "That poor thing; he just needs me to pull him out on the dance floor so I can teach him to let his hair down and enjoy the exact same version of fun that I enjoy. He's been waiting his whole life for someone like me to turn him into someone like me! I will save this lost lamb." No thanks, lady, we're fine. Stop trying to convert introverts into extroverts; you don't see us telling you to "shut the hell up once in a while."
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This project started almost 6 months back now between myself and jamz az, and will probably be in the works for at least a few more while we add, move around, tweak and get everything exactly how we want it, but we wanted to show off some of what the controller is capable of at this point and get some feedback on it also.
One thing that most consoles have never been able to do right, even the 'next generation' of consoles, has been letting the user decide what they want the buttons on the controller to do. This has been an option in PC gaming for years and years, while console games just omit or at best most times give the user a handful of options, and once in a blue moon actually let you remap the controller from in game how you actually want, this is an option that ALL games should have, not just a few of them. With a default controller layout, or even 4 or 5 setups to choose from you have to get used to that layout, which seemed like a fair challenge to do something about, so this project was started.
The controller has, for all intensive purposes, been hacked up so we have access to almost every single button and Analog line in the thing, minus Start and Guide for several reason, but mainly because those 2 buttons are the same in every single game and Guide only has but one use anyway, but every other function on the controller can be remapped, turned off or duplicated to any other function on the controller.
Here's an early Prototye, that we quickly outgrew, poor little thing..
..so it became updated to this version here..
From the start we knew there were going to be way, way too many options to be able to keep this all 'on controller' so a PC app (Mapper Zapper) was also coded up to control the new Hardware (CGnome) in the controller.
Here you can see the different Drop Down boxes to select what you would like the button to be...
Then here it is loading the new remaps...
...and finally loaded, all of which takes around 10 seconds right now.
The controller can store 5 custom remaps, and always has a 'Map 0' that is always the Default settings, so it's really 6 controllers in one, and you just tap the Sync button to 'cycle' thru the stored maps.
Right now the prototypes are at the point where this is all that you see on the controller..
..but there is still a good bit to do and things to iron out before we will consider it done.
Well, there it is, for now anyway, look forward to hearing some feedback and will answer some questions about it, there's still a lot in the works as well as some ideas we tossed out earlier on and are looking at putting back in, but feel free to ask away.
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MIS798 - Project Management
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Cloud(online): Learning resources are via CloudDeakin.
Project Management is undoubtedly one of the most important skills in management as modern organisations shift from traditional management to project based management. This unit examines project management in the exciting, dynamic, innovative, virtual, information enabled, and knowledge intensive organisational environment. Consequently, this unit emphasises skills as well as techniques that can be derived from traditional project management and explores innovations relevant for the successful management of projects. It also investigates the task of managing project knowledge which is regarded as a central skill for managing future projects. The project management methodology taught in this unit is based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK). Topics covered in this unit include: overviews of project management; the virtual context; planning processes; project communication; human and social aspects of project management; procurement tools; techniques and enabling technologies.
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An earthquake is also a conceptual event of telluric proportions. An emergent seismic consciousness, reflected in a number of contemporary films from Iran, Chile, Haiti, Japan, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Korea, the USA and New Zealand, has shaken to the core those solid and secure political, economic, ethical and ontological categories which ground the project of modernity in its current globalised form. Perhaps the spate of earthquakes in 2010-11 can serve a similar function for our present geopolitical formation as the famous Lisbon earthquake of 1755 held for the age of Enlightenment.
The earthquake indicates a fissure, a rupture that forces us to reconsider our established notions of film history and criticism. Faultlines, by definition, are located on the edges of tectonic plates. Film history and theory too must confront the tectonic shift in focus away from the centre (Europe, North America) toward the periphery (the Southern Cone, the Pacific Rim, China, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the Mediterrean Basin and North Africa).
Papers are invited which address any of the following issues:
• fictional and non-fictional representation of earthquakes in film
• narrative form, genre and the cinematic image
• archival footage and digital witnessing
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• social memory and history
• modernity, film and ruins
• heritage, home, exile
• mourning, trauma and survival
• disaster as media spectacle
• alternative forms of film and media production, distribution and exhibition
• racial, ethnic and indigenous experience of natural disaster
• urban planning and renewal
• disaster capitalism and compassion fatigue
• local and national politics
• international solidarity and community activism
• banality, catastrophe and everyday life
• the temporality of crisis, the event and emergency
Please submit an abstract of 250 words by March 24th, 2012, along with a short biography, to firstname.lastname@example.com
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The Children's Visitation Center is designed to help alleviate the tension between children and parents during parenting time with the non-custodial parent(s). By providing a comfortable, neutral location for supervised visits, we are able to help create a better atmosphere for child-parent interactions.
When should I use the center?
The CVC is used when you are encountering problems at home with your own visitation schedule. Tension can arise when a parent comes to pick up a child while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Inconsistent or irresponsible visits can also cause conflict. We want to help establish a stress-free routine for you and your children. We can provide:
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Eric Stonestreet's best friend knew to bite the hand that would feed him.
"He scratched me, then bit my hand," the Modern Family star tells PEOPLE of Coleman, the Jack Russell terrier/beagle mix he found at a shelter in 2000. "I knew I had to take him home, and he has been my best friend and right-hand man ever since."
The two quickly became inseparable, and though Stonestreet's career is the one that's taken off, it's Coleman who has the swelled head. (The dog has his own Twitter page with more than 3,000 followers.)
"Yes, he thinks he's famous, and he wants to connect with his fans," Stonestreet says with mock seriousness. "I need to get him a special iPad that he can use without scratching it with his claws."
Stonestreet, 40, credits Coleman with helping him live a healthier lifestyle. "I spend a lot of time with him," he says. "I get out and play with him and it's like I'm 12 years old again – rolling around, running, playing. Coleman inspires me to get some fresh air, get some exercise. He has brought so much happiness into my life, and I think I have done the same for him."
Coleman and Stonestreet will spend more quality time together Thursday when they fly to Alabama to unveil a new $500,000 public dog park sponsored by dog food company Beneful. The park includes splash pads, hiking paths and even a fetch football field with fire hydrant goalposts.
Stonestreet is promoting the third Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest, where one grand prize winner can win a dream dog park for his or her town. "I do it because I think it helps communities," he says. "It's good to have a nice, safe park where families and dogs can play."
Plus, he says, it's a great way to hook up. "It's a good place to meet people," he laughs. "Are ya single? Go to the dog park, you may find someone there. And you'll know that you have at least one thing in common: your love of dogs!"
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MANSFIELD - Barbara A. Butcher, director of law enforcement and certification programs and the municipal Police Academy at Mansfield University, has been reappointed to the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission by state Gov. Tom Corbett.
The State Senate confirmed Butcher's reappointment Oct. 16. She took the oath of office from the Hon. Robert E. Dalton Jr., president judge of the Tioga Court of Common Pleas, in Wellsboro on Oct. 24. Butcher has served on the commission since 2002.
"I'm honored to have the confidence of the governor and the Senate to be reappointed to the commission," she said. "I look forward to the continued opportunity and challenge of assisting with the very significant work of the commission and serving police officers and the commonwealth. I believe it's important to have representation from our geographic region and I'm pleased to be able to represent the northcentral region of Pennsylvania on the Commission."
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The Hon. Robert E. Dalton Jr., president judge of the Tioga Court of Common Pleas, administers the oath of office to Barbara Butcher. Butcher has been reappointed to the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission by state Gov. Tom Corbett.
MPOETC, which is in Harrisburg, was created by Act 1974-120 and charged to establish the Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Program.
The responsibility of the commission is to improve standards and goals in police training and to determine the required certification of any municipal police officer to work in the commonwealth.
The commission is comprised of 20 members and meets at least four times a year at various locations throughout the state.
Most of the members are appointed by the governor to represent a variety of offices and positions. One of the seats appointed by the governor on the commission is reserved for a director of one of the certified training schools.
The legally designated term of office for those commission members appointed by the governor is three years.
The commission delivers the basic police training program (Act 120), the mandatory in-service training (Act 180) and lethal weapons training (Act 235), all of which are provided at Mansfield University.
Mansfield is one of 17 schools in Pennsylvania that provides training programs certified by the commission.


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Yesterday saw the beginning of London Fashion Week for Womenswear Collections for Spring Summer 2013. The world's fashionistas ascended on our great capital for four days of shows, presentations and parties!
Following a busy day at the Seventy Seven Diamonds office, some were lucky enough to catch up with one of our favourite designers, Markus Lupfer, at his new collection's presentation in Soho, Central London, with the aptly titled "Fall in Love".
Markus never fails to impress us with his careful use of sequins to give the added boost of sparkle to many a jumper, t-shirt or dress!
Imagine our surprise when working our way through the collection we spot something oh too familiar to Seventy Seven Diamonds… A diamond ring! This time, in sequins on a beautiful cashmere jumper!
Over the last few seasons, Markus has demonstrated his love for sequined sparkle in a foray of shapes and characters ranging from lips, cats and now our new favourite, the diamond ring! Using this as further inspiration, there were some luxury silk pieces with the same ring printed on a pink blouse, matching culottes and also a blue silk dress, showing diversity doesn't always have to mean the complete opposite to work.
After the presentation we headed to Kensington Roof Gardens for the PPQ Aftershow Party to wind down following a busy week in the office and an evening of fashion. Drinking flutes of vodka champagne cocktails and gin and tonic in oversized goblet glasses was definitely a way a great way to commence what will no doubt be an iconic London Fashion Week.


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August 14, 2013
Thammasat University, Thailand, Honors Daisaku Ikeda
On August 14, 2013, Thammasat University in Thailand presented Daisaku Ikeda, SGI president and Soka University founder, with an honorary doctorate in philosophy in recognition of his contributions to cultural and educational exchanges between Thailand and Japan. The conferral took place on the Tha Phra Chan campus in Bangkok. SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda, the SGI president's son, accepted the degree certificate and read an acceptance message on his father's behalf.
Established in 1934 with a focus on law and politics, Thammasat University is Thailand's second oldest institute of higher education. The university today enrolls over 30,000 students in some 240 academic programs in 23 faculties and colleges across four campuses. Many former prime ministers and political figures are among the alumni. Thammasat University and Soka University entered into an academic exchange agreement in 1985.
In a citation, Thammasat University Rector Somkit Lertpaithoon commended Mr. Ikeda for his promotion of peace, culture and education on a global scale, actions which, he said, were rooted in and reflective of the Lotus Sutra's teachings of respect for the sanctity of each individual's life. The rector called attention to Mr. Ikeda's contributions to Thailand, such as his promotion of educational exchanges and initiating through the Min-On Concert Association and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, of which he is founder, performances by various Thai cultural groups including the Royal Thai Classical Dance Troupe and the Thai Royal Ballet and special exhibitions and concerts highlighting His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand's photography, music compositions and paintings.
In his message, Mr. Ikeda applauded Thammasat University for being the first university in Thailand to institute a curriculum for training educators and offering evening classes. He also paid tribute to Thammasat University founder Dr. Pridi Banomyong, and his belief that the mission of a university founder lies in empowering people through education and promoting the ideals of democracy. He commented that August 14, the day of the conferral, was the anniversary of his first meeting with his mentor, second Soka Gakkai President Josei Toda, in 1947.
Mr. Ikeda expressed his heartfelt hope that the Thai university would foster a core of leading thinkers who would become the driving force for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will be launched in 2015. He resolved to contribute further to cultural and educational exchanges between Thailand and Japan, in consort with his fellow faculty members at Thammasat University. In closing, he conveyed his best wishes for the good health and long life of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the eternal glory and flourishing of the Kingdom of Thailand.
Also in attendance at the conferral were Professor Noranit Setabutr, president of the Thammasat University Council; Japanese Ambassador to Thailand Shigekazu Sato; Counsellor Shigeki Kobayashi of the Japan Embassy in Thailand (who is also director of the Japan Information Service); and SGI-Thailand representatives.
[Adapted from an article in the August 17, 2013, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, Soka Gakkai, Japan]


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Okay, I have officially figured out that it is not a neighbor who mangled my mailbox, but a kid. I know this because I put a new one up and two days later it was mangled again. I am not happy about this situation. Finding residential mailboxes isn't hard to do, but having to do it twice in one month is irritating. So it is back to the drawing board and buying yet another mailbox. The last one my wife didn't like as much as I did, so she is picking out the mailbox this time. This ought to be good.
She has been looking at designer mailboxes and victorian mailboxes. At least the victorian ones are really heavy duty. The little prankster who keeps mangling ours is going to have a difficult time with one of those. I think I will set up a camera for a couple of nights after we put up the new one. That way if someone tries to mangle it, I can catch them on video. I haven't decided if I will take the video to the police or not, it really depends on who it is that is doing this.


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GAA: Tyrone to take dive into U21 sector
Published 24/10/2007
The Tyrone Under-21 football championship is to go ahead - in darkest November!
Some six months have elapsed since Armagh beat the O'Neill County en route to winning the Ulster Championship and since then there has been no meaningful Under 21 domestic action in Red Hands territory.
But now it would appear that the county board has been persuaded to have a change of heart in relation to the internal Under-21 Championship.
Clubs apparently lobbied the board to stage the competition and a condensed version of the series will be staged next month.
Initial calls for the scrapping of the competition engendered sharp debate within the county and for a period it looked as if the Under-21 series was doomed.
But suddenly interest has been rekindled and, given the level of fare in the recent senior championship in which many prominent Under-21 players were involved, there is a feeling that next month's action will form a very tasty menu.
Cookstown and Coalisland in particular are strong at this level with Errigal Ciaran and Ardboe also expected to mount a challenge for the title.
Indeed, several members of the Coalisland team that lost to Dromore in the county senior final on Sunday week last are eligible for the Under-21 championship and they will bring their experience to bear at this level.
The Tyrone county board has already indicated that where necessary extra-time will be played, with replays not an option.
Sounds hugely sensible from every perspective!
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Moody Blues to play Riverside Theater Oct. 4
Album-rock vets the Moody Blues will bring more than 40 years of music to the Riverside Theater for an 8 p.m. show Oct. 4.
The Moodies, who managed to bridge the gap from string-laden psychedelia ("Nights in White Satin," "Tuesday Afternoon") to MTV ("Your Wildest Dreams"), continue to turn out new music. Singer Justin Hayward just released a new solo album, "Spirits of the Western Sky." »Read Full Article
Garbage makes triumphant return at Eagles Ballroom
Saturday was an emotional and special night for Garbage, Scottish frontwoman Shirley Manson assured fans at the Rave's Eagles Ballroom.
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Events this week: MAM lecture; Bay View Wine Fest; WingFest
MAM founding works
Before the Calatrava, before the Kahler, before the War Memorial Center, there was the Layton Art Gallery. And without Frederick Layton and the gallery, we wouldn't have the others. The Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive, which is rooted by the Layton collection, is paying tribute to the man and his gallery with a 125th anniversary exhibition. In the Gallery 10 and the Decorative Arts Gallery, MAM will display the works upon which the museum was founded. And the Baumgartner Galleria will display items that illustrate the history of MAM. Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Lubar Auditorium, guest lecturer Giles Waterfield will discuss "The Role of Private Patrons" in Layton's development of his collection. The lecture is free with general admission. »Read Full Article
Many of MSO Pops' hits from the '60s miss their mark
Classic pop/rock songs are a unique brand of magic, snapping one back to a time and place that lives only in memory.
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Love brings hope to Next Act Theatre's 'Grace'
When the lights come up on Craig Wright's "Grace" - now at Next Act Theatre, under David Cecsarini's direction - a man is holding a gun to his head, having just murdered the woman and man sprawled nearby. We can guess what happened with this love triangle. But how? And why?
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Resizing 45-70 cases.
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> Resizing 45-70 cases.
May 9, 2013, 08:42 PM
I have read and heard from other good shooters that they do not resize the brass or crimp them, OK, How do you deprime the brass without using the resizer?
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Jim Watson
May 9, 2013, 08:51 PM
There are readily available "universal decapping dies" with a large enough ID to accept about anything, nothing touches the empty except the decapping pin.
May 9, 2013, 09:10 PM
You can also do it with a 1/16" pin punch and a block of wood to set the case on.
May 9, 2013, 10:13 PM
A universal decapper costs about $25 and should be part of every reloader's kit.
Don McDowell
May 9, 2013, 11:29 PM
I use a lee hand press with a universal decapping die to knock the primers out. You need to do that before cleaning the cases . There are also simple decapping tools available from a variety of places, that are basically a pair of pliers with a decapping stem in place of the jaws.
Ron T.
May 10, 2013, 07:42 AM
If I had a .45/70 (which I don't), I'd have a "tungsten-carbide" ("T-C") resizing die for it since it's a "straight-walled" case. This would eliminate having to lube the case prior to resizing it and wipe all the lube off after resizing it... saving quite a bit of time and hassle.
I have several T-C resizing dies for the various straight-walled calibers I reload. However, they are handgun cartridges rather than rifle cartridges... so there may be some "problem" using T-C resizing dies with the longer rifle cases.
A carbide die not only considerably shortens the time involved in the complete reloading operation, but shines up the case nicely as well and totally eliminates the hassle of having to lube, then wipe off the lube after resizing.
Yes, those T-C dies aren't cheap, but they last a life-time and the time you save and the elimination of the hassle of getting all the lube off the cases is well worth it in my humble opinion.
When Fred Huntington first started RCBS, he use to offer "custom-made" resizing dies as a "service" FREE-OF-CHARGE if you sent him 3 fired cases (not resized)... and he'd return the 3 cases along with the T-C die charging ONLY his standard price for the T-C resizing die.
Since Fred sold out, I dunno if RCBS still offers such a "deal", but given their excellent customer service, RCBS may still offer such a "service"... possibly at an extra charge. You can "Google" their phone number. I have it, but it's downstairs in one of my reloading manuals.
Therefore, I suggest you check into it since such a "custom" die would NOT resize a fired case down to smaller than your rifle's chamber. but make the case a perfect fit for your individual rifle's chamber.
This would give you 3 advantages:
1) You could leave the de-capping pin in place when resizing the case.
2) You could entirely eliminate lubricating the case for resizing and thus eliminate the time-consuming hassle of having to lube the case prior to resizing, then having to remove the lube after resizing which is always a "pain".
3) You'd end up with clean, shiny, "dry" cartridge cases without having to tumble 'em. Then it is a simple matter of cleaning out the prime pocket, recapping the cases, dropping the powder in the case & seating the bullet.
As concerns "crimping"... there's no need to crimp the bullet if it is being fired in a single-shot rifle. The resizing operation will "tighten" the neck of the case enough to securely "hold" the bullet in place. However, crimping IS necessary for cartridges used in a rifle which has a magazine for additional cartridges due to the possibility that the recoil from firing a cartridge will cause the bullets in the cartridges in the magazine to tend to "back out".
Jus' my 2¢... ;)
Strength & Honor...
Ron T.
highlander 5
May 10, 2013, 08:15 AM
45/70 cases are tapered not straight walled so a carbide die is out of the question and if it were straight walled to have it made would be expensive as all get out. And just because it's carbide doesn't mean no lube,carbide dies are made for 30 carbine and 223 and they still need to be lubed. Easiest way out is to use a 45 Colt carbide die and neck size the case and yes it will work is I've tried it for laughs. The loaded cases look ridiculous but they will work.
May 10, 2013, 08:15 AM
I have the Lee Universal decapping die that I use from 9mm to 45-70 without a problem. It decaps dirty cases without a problem, tumble and ready to go with reloading. Worth every cent of the cost and even carry it on a Lee Hand press when shooting black powder due to how fast the brass starts to turn black.
Ron T.
May 10, 2013, 08:50 AM
My mistake! The .45/70 cases I've seen looked "straight-walled" to me. :banghead:
HIGHLANDER 5 may be correct in indicating that the .45/70 isn't a "straight" case. I don't have a rifle in that caliber and don't load for the caliber as I mentioned previous... sooooo if it is a "tapered case", then I agree that a tungsten-carbine die would not work.
However, I do load for 9x19mm, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Magnum and .45 ACP calibers... all "straight cases" and I use tungsten-carbide resizing dies... and I have never had to use any lubrication on the cases for these calibers during the 50+ years I've been reloading.
The .223 is a "bottle-neck" case and the .30 caliber Carbine may be a tapered case (I dunno)... which may be the reason why HIGHLANDER 5 must use lubrication on them when reloading 'em. Since I don't own or shoot either caliber, I couldn't say. I'm not "into" military caliber semi-auto rifles.
Normally, tungsten-carbine dies can not be used on "bottle-necked" or tapered cases. I reload for a good many pistol and rifle cartridges, but with the exception of my Ruger #1 International (aka "RSI") in 7x57mm and my 1911A1s in .45 ACP, I have no other current or past military caliber firearms.
If it doesn't have a blued or browned barrel and a wooden stock, you won't find it in my gun-safe.
I.E., I'm not "into" the so-called "black rifles" and so, you'll have to forgive my ignorance concerning them, and to some extent, their cartridges. :)
Strength & Honor...
Ron T.
May 10, 2013, 08:58 AM
Depends on what you are shooting them in. If you're using a Marlin lever action, then they most likely need resizing and crimping. If you're using a single shot, then resizing and crimping MAY not be necessary.
May 10, 2013, 10:09 AM
Ditto on the universal decapping die.
May 10, 2013, 11:53 AM
I have an original, and a H&R Trapdoor, and I mostly shoot the original, so I mostly don't need to resize, but when I want to shoot the H&R, I do have to resize.
May 10, 2013, 12:06 PM
I reload 45-70 BP cartridges for a Trapdoor, I simply screw the resizing die out as far as I can and the decapping pin in as far as I can, this does resize the case mouth slightly but that gets belled out when I flare the case for the bullets. I don't crimp after loading, the powder stays compressed and the neck tension holds the bullets in pretty well.
I don't have a universal decapper but do like the idea of a lee hand press with decapper for the range.
Don McDowell
May 10, 2013, 12:19 PM
Stormin, I also take a set of dies, and all the fixins to load more ammo if I need practice ammo, when going to shoots like the Quigley and others where a fella might be there shooting a few days before the actual match starts.
That lee hand press is handy thing for the bpcr shooter to keep in his equipment box.
May 10, 2013, 02:55 PM
You can also do it with a 1/16" pin punch and a block of wood to set the case on.
That's what I do too, rc. It works a treat and it's cheap.
Driftwood Johnson
May 10, 2013, 08:17 PM
Here is the deal. If you are shooting them in a repeater, like a Marlin Model 1895 or a Winchester Model 1886, it is necessary to crimp the bullets, because bullets may shift or get damaged when run through the mechanism. Recoil can cause them to jump out a bit, and the action of slamming them in a tubular magazine can tend to telescope bullets further into the case, however a solid plug of Black Powder will probably stop that from happening.
In a single shot, like a Sharps or a Trapdoor, this is not a concern. So some of the top shooters in BPCR competitions do not crimp the bullet in place, they simply insert it with neck tension. The theory is this will disturb the shape of the bullet less than crimping, achieving top accuracy. However, if one does not resize one's cases, they will be fireformed to fit the chamber of the rifle they were fired from. They may not fit perfectly in another rifle.
Personally, when I load 45-70 for my Sharps, I bell out the mouth of the cases just a tiny bit, to seat a lead bullet without shaving any lead. Then after seating a primer, charging with powder, adding a wad and compressing the powder with a compression die I seat the bullet, then give it just enough crimp to fold the 'belled' case mouth back, without putting on any real crimp.
That's what works for me.
45-70 cases appear straight, but they have a slight taper to them.
Conventional carbide dies use a short insert of carbide, like a thick washer. The hole in the center is one diameter through, so cases shoved through the hole will only have one diameter for their entire length. Producing a carbide die for tapered cases like this would be cost prohibitive because of the dimensions needed for the carbide, and the cost to machine it to shape. So there are no commercially available carbide dies for 45-70.
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Silverdale's Ricco Morales raises expectations, spirits
It's hard to square the image of Jonathon "Ricco" Morales struggling to pick something up.
The 5-foot-4, 150-pound powerhouse, and Special Olympics weightlifter, has three national gold medals for doing just that, picking things up.
"He couldn't pick up a penny," said Gena Morales of her son's physical therapy sessions when he was 4. "Now, he can lift 685 pounds combined weight."
Ricco Morales still can't grasp a penny. He struggles to conjure the motor skills necessary to wrap his fingers around small objects. Instead, he picks up much larger objects. And in doing so, he has realized a dream and defied early expectations of what kind of life he would lead.
Ricco Morales, 26, is a first alternate for the weightlifting team heading to the World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. He was born six weeks prematurely and sustained brain damage to the frontal lobe, resulting in delayed development of motor skills.
"When I lift the bar up, it feels like I conquered the world," Ricco Morales said. "I guess sometimes it feels like I'm on cloud nine. Basically, it makes me feel that I've completed all my accomplishments. I like knowing how much I can push myself with the weights."
From what she heard early on, his mother didn't know what to expect.
"We were told he would never lead a normal life and that he would be lucky if he can communicate at all," she said of the expectations early on.
Morales said her son was diagnosed at age 3, but she had long suspected something was different when he walked and developed speech later than other toddlers in their large Hispanic family.
More specifically, she was told her son would suffer from a lack of strength in his arms and legs, along with learning disabilities that could hinder any hope of living a normal life.
"We were told he could be institutionalized," she said. "We were told he would have to live with us for the rest of our lives, and that he wouldn't be able to count, dial a phone or drive."
The champion weightlifter lives alone in Silverdale, working two jobs, one at Lowe's in Bremerton and another for the Seattle Seahawks as an usher. And when he's not pulling down 12-hour shifts at Qwest Field, Ricco Morales is lifting the barbell for Special Olympics, exceeding everyone's expectations.
"He's overcome a lot," Gena Morales said. "It's amazing he's able to get up and publicly speak and tell his story. It's crazy he can lift because his legs shouldn't support him, but they do."
For Ricco Morales, there's nothing like the feel of raising a steel bar above his head, keeping his shoulders straight, head forward and eyes focused on his parents, Richard and Gena Morales, in the crowd.
The Special Olympian and 2003 Klahowya Secondary School graduate said he looks up to himself for turning a bleak prognosis into a triumph.
"I'm very proud, and I like it when everybody is proud of me," he said. "I even sometimes get total strangers congratulating me about nationals. Co-workers and friends do the same as well and it feels great I'm able to achieve that."
Ricco Morales' proudest accomplishment in weightlifting came last July at the U.S. National Games in Lincoln, Neb., where he claimed three gold medals and one bronze en route to a national title for his weight class of 75 kilograms.
The event also marked the first time he was away from his parents, coach and trainer as the games isolated the athletes from their familiar routines to test their adaptability in unfamiliar territory.
Gena Morales could only watch, worried sick, from the stands at nationals when her son lifted on the stage alone for the first time.
"I thought he wasn't going to be able to do this," she said. "I didn't want him to powerlift at first because his arms and legs aren't that strong, but little did I know."
Her initial doubts soon disappeared when her son raised 125 kilograms in the deadlift, 65 on the bench press and 110 in the squat for a combined 300 in the event.
Once again, Ricco Morales defied the odds.
"I was worried I was setting him up for failure, but he continues to amaze us beyond our wildest expectations," she added.
No longer worried about her son training alone, Gena Morales has high hopes for this summer. As a result of his national medals, Ricco Morales could compete on the world's stage this summer in Athens. He will find out in April if he will lift at the world games.
"We will go to Athens if Ricco advances," Gena Morales said. "There's no 'I hope I'm going,' we're going if he goes."
Having never left the continent, the Special Olympian is excited about the prospect of traveling to Europe.
"I just want to be able to say that I've been to Athens, Greece, and that I was there for World Games," he said last week. "Hopefully, I'll bring a title home."
Weightlifting has changed Ricco Morales' life for the better by allowing him to exceed expectations, said Bremerton-Kitsap Athletic Team program coordinator Barb Pool.
He has competed for seven years at the Special Olympics BKAT, spending the last three weightlifting.
"He's got a whole new life for himself," she added. "It's done so much for him. He's really changed who he is and developed into a whole human being."
Pool said she's been addressed by parents of other Special Olympics athletes inspired by Ricco Morales' story.
His example provides a light at the end of the tunnel for those looking to do the same.
"Parents ask me if their child can be like Ricco someday, and I say absolutely," Pool added. "It gives parents hope that their kids can blossom."
"It doesn't come quick," Gena Morales added. "But it can come with persistence and encouragement and the hope they can do it. As a parent, you want him to pass it on, enjoy it now and don't take anything for granted."
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The paper elaborates on some of the implications of a "Germanic Bias" in the development of theoretical human geography. Advances in location theory have been strictly limited to two-dimensional, horizontal space relationships dismissing physical features such as terrain as well as man-made vertical space relationships as "distortions." Particularly in an urban context the vertical dimension of space has become a significant economic variable. Two-dimensional urban land use and interaction models are recognized to be increasingly inadequate for comprehensive urban air- and space-use planning. The present use of largely two-dimensional population density concepts is a vivid example for this point.
Some aspects of residential space use have been analyzed in more detail. A substitution and indifference framework a la Alonso is proposed for the theoretical analysis of the forces behind the demand schedule for residential height. Preliminary empirical investigations suggest a number of factors, which may be responsible for demand and supply differentiation.
Economic aspects related to non-horizontal space dimensions and functional relationships are not restricted to high-rise residential decision-making. In many ways, residential land use variations on hills and slopes seem to be based on similar factors. For urban air pollution, road and air transportation, multi4evel circulation in cities, as well as mining operations and agricultural and recreational activities, height, depth and elevation in addition to slope gradients are crucial variables for the determination of private and social cost and benefit patterns. It is suggested that theory oriented geographers attempt to include the third dimension into traditional models in a more rigorous way than has been done so far.
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