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Perhaps the most exciting reason to go to the new exhibition at Open Door Art Studio is also the reason studio employee Cat Lynch loves going to work.
"Working here, it's hard to come up with an excuse to not make art," said Lynch, who is an art facilitator and habilitation coordinator at the Grandview space. "'I'm tired' or 'I don't have a great idea' don't work anymore now that I work with artists who have every reason not to make art. They're cranking out painting after painting with enthusiasm."
Open Door is a 6,700-square-foot studio for artists with disabilities. Professionally trained artists, such as Lynch, teach classes on a variety of mediums, giving students a chance to explore and express themselves through art.
Sixty pieces of work created by artists at Open Door and seven other similar studios in the state — including Cincinnati's Thunder-Sky Inc. — are on display in "Outside/In," a free exhibition in Open Door's gallery space.
"It's going to be really interesting to see how different all the studios are in their approach by seeing the artworks side by side," Lynch said.
Some focus on collaboration, others on individual expression; some on the process, others on the content.
"I was surprised at the amount of high-quality outsider artwork I found," Lynch said. "I'd go to the studio and expect to [pick out] five pieces [for "Outside/In"], and I'd come back with eight."
There was no theme for the exhibit; however, there are a lot of representations of superheroes and pop culture icons, and Lynch said one inspiring idea keeps reoccurring: the idea that there are no rules.
"In art school, there is this cloud of academic rhetoric. We're all reading the same stuff, speaking the same language," she said. "But here, they don't care that pink is not an acceptable color for a serious painting. It's so less serious, and more fun. The work is so fearless. It can teach us a lot."
For example, the work by Marty Freireich, who paints with his feet.
"Chaotic but beautiful," Lynch said. "That's totally Marty."


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Focus on London 2012: Shad Thames
London's iconic Tower Bridge has been much in the news lately. Tower Bridge marked the final dramatic moments in the rain-soaked Diamond Jubilee pageant in early June, which celebrated Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne.
The panorama from Tower Bridge looking back up the River Thames towards Westminster is, for want of a better word, breathtaking. Cutting-edge new architecture like the GLA building (known rather irreverently to everyone as The Egg) and the Shard, the tallest building in Europe, with the contrasting Tower of London and historic ships, all combine to make a true fusion cityscape. The river is constantly busy, with water taxis, pleasure boats, booze cruises and even working barges.
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Bicycling coalition pushes for bikes on Amtrak trains
The New York Bicycling Coalition is working with Amtrak to make the company's trains more friendly for cyclists.
In July, the two groups organized three demonstration rides on Amtrak's Empire Service, including the Adirondack train that runs from Montreal to New York City. The train stops in Westport.
For the rides, Amtrak retrofitted a cafe car with four bicycle racks. The racks were for the bikes themselves and not for ones in boxes.
The test runs took place on July 23, 24 and 31. During those dates, the bicycling coalition organized volunteer bicyclists to participate in demonstration rides.
The bicyclists were then asked to provide feedback to Amtrak officials and complete a written survey. Non-bicycling passengers were also asked to complete a survey about the service.
State Sen. Betty Little, R-Queenbury, participated in the demonstration ride on July 24, along with local elected officials and representatives from area chambers of commerce and tourism agencies.
"Getting unboxed bicycle carriage facilities onto trains in New York has been a long-time advocacy goal of New York Bicycling Coalition and many of our partners in the bicycling community," said NYBC Executive Director Josh Wilson, who lives in Saranac Lake. "We are thrilled that Amtrak has provided this special and historic opportunity for bicyclists to participate in these test runs and to demonstrate the strong demand for providing this service on New York's Amtrak train routes."
Currently only the Lake Shore Limited train between New York City and Chicago can carry bicycles, which it does in a baggage car. However, bicycles must be boxed for carriage on this train.
According to the bicycling coalition, roll-on bicycle carriage would serve millions of people in cities such as New York, Montreal and Boston. It would also encourage bicycle tourism.
Amtrak already operates this service in a handful of western states, including the Surfliner Train in California, and the Amtrak Cascades Train between Oregon and British Columbia, according to the coalition.
The future of roll-on bicycle service in New York will be determined by the state Department of Transportation, which will soon take on the responsibility of paying for a greater portion of in-state train service in accordance with a 2008 federal law that goes into effect in October and Amtrak, who must design and approve a bicycle rack system that will work on the train cars used in New York, according to a press release from the coalition.
"New York Bicycling Coalition will continue working with Amtrak, the Department of Transportation, Empire State Passengers Association, elected officials, chambers of commerce and other stakeholders toward a reasonable, cost-effective design for accommodating unboxed bicycles on New York's passenger train lines," Wilson said.


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When I talked to Graham Norton in December, his "scrappy mixed terrier thing" kept interrupting by attacking her loudest toy. Her name, he said, is Madge, which led me to ask if she's named after Madonna.
"Well yes, but I didn't do it! I don't want to lose my booking over this," he said, referring to finally landing his dream guest on his British chat show, "The Graham Norton Show."
He needn't have worried. Madonna showed up Wednesday to tape the episode, which will air at a special time, 9:45 p.m., this Saturday on BBC America. In December, Norton was beyond thrilled the Material Girl would be on the show, but concerned.
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In the end of this month I'm going to London. My hope is at least for one evening dine at a real authentic chinese cuisine restaurant that also serves high quality tea.
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(Kissimmee, Fla.) - Nearly 800 athletes are scheduled to compete at the USA Judo National Junior Olympic Championships beginning on Friday at Walt Disney World® Resort.
Competition will be held at the Disney's Coronado Springs Resort Convention Center from Friday through Sunday with the following schedule
Intermediate 1 (9-10-year-olds), Intermediate 2 (11-12), Juvenile A (13-14), Juvenile B (15-16)
9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. (approximate)
Bantam 1, 2 and 3 (6-8) and IJF-Junior (under 20)
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (approximate)
International divisions for Intermediate 2, IJF-Junior and Juvenile A / B divisions
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (approximate)
As the final qualifier for the 2008 Junior World Trials, athletes in the IJF-Junior (under-20) division all will be vying for one of four berths to the Trials where they will fight for the ability to represent Team USA at the Junior World Championships, Oct. 23-26 in Bangkok.
Check out some of the players to watch in Olympic weight divisions this weekend:
Female 48kg
Formerly one of the smallest divisions at junior tournaments, 48kg could have more than a dozen entries this year - nearly all of which could vie for medal contention.
Angela Creutzberger (Ballston, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center), the top seed in the division, made a name for herself in the senior ranks when she placed fifth at the B-Level Rendez-Vous Canada in 2007, but watch for her to be challenged by youngster Katelyn Bouyssou (Hope, R.I. / Mayo Quanchi Judo Center). Barely 14-years-old, Bouyssou is one of the most tenacious junior players in the United States. A seasoned junior competitor by the fourth grade, Bouyssou made her first appearance on the Senior Roster as a 12-year-old 44kg player. Although she was small even by 44kg standards, Bouyssou moved up to 48kg to make a run at the Trials earlier this year and won a bronze medal as a 13-year-old at the Senior Nationals. The win qualified her for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Judo in June where she lost in the first round to Creutzberger. Bouyssou and Creutzberger fought again last week at the Junior U.S. Open and Bouyssou won the preliminary match as well as the gold medal. Bouyssou is just one of four top 44kg players who all moved up this year. Veronica Prado (Coral Springs, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami), Taylor Ibera (Honolulu, Hawaii / Hawaii Tenri) and Alexa Liddie (Colorado Springs, Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center) are all former 44kg players who have won internationally at both the junior and senior levels.
Female 52kg
Sisters Chrissy and Mindy Chow have become accustomed to fighting each other, both in practice at their father Greg's club - Hawaii Tenri in Honolulu - as well as in competition where 15-year-old Chrissy beat 13-year-old Mindy at the Junior Open. Although both players are Senior Nationals bronze medalists, Chrissy is the division's top seed, but watch out for 16-year-old Kayla Chappell (Moore, Okla. / USA Stars) who beat Chrissy in the finals of the Junior Open. A 48kg player in 2007, Chappell is one of the most physical players in the division.
Female 57kg
South Florida natives Angelica Delgado (Miami, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) and Hana Carmichael (Wellington, Fla. / USA Judo National Team FORCE / Budokan Judo) have grown up fighting each other in local and national tournaments as both junior and seniors. The reigning Senior Nationals silver medalist, Delgado has typically had the upper hand in the meetings, but Carmichael, who is training with Pedro and the USA Judo National Team FORCE crew for the summer, showed that this won't be an easy match-up when she threw Delgado for ippon (instant win) at the Junior Open. Carmichael also defeated top-seeded Delgado at the Liberty Bell Classic in March and a little confidence could make for a long day for both players.
Female 63kg
Nineteen-year-old Paola Genao-Butler (Colorado Springs, Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center) not only fought for a medal for the first time at this year's Senior Nationals, but she placed second with wins over several top players. Although the division wasn't qualified for Beijing, Genao-Butler competed at the Olympic Trials and placed second, showing she may be a top candidate for London in 2012. Also watch out for Ronni Aragona (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center) who was a bronze medalist at this event in 2007.
Female 70kg
One of the ultimate division hoppers, Helen Delpopolo (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center) has fought at three weights during the past year, but earned junior titles in all of them. A 2007 Junior Open Champion at 63kg and 2008 Scholastic National Champion at 78kg, Delpopolo has moved back down to the division where she won her 2007 Junior Olympic title. Kadee Shadden (Mineral Wells, Texas / Ruben Martin Judo) and Malinda Bridges (Coventry, R.I. / Mayo Quanchi Judo) both won bronze medals at the Junior Open last week and will be contenders here as well.
Female 78kg
It has been a long time since reigning National Champion Kayla Harrison (Wakefield, Mass. / NYAC / USA Judo National Team FORCE) has lost to a junior U.S. player and watch for her to continue this streak here. Although she has fought in at least seven weight divisions in just over four years, she has remained the dominant junior in nearly all of them. That said, Harrison is still new to the division after moving up from 63kg at the Senior Nationals and is not the reigning Junior Olympic Champion. That title goes to Laquinta Allen (Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. / Onikusu Judo) who won bronze earlier this year at the Pan Am Juvenile Championships at +70kg. Reigning Pan Am Junior Champion Halee Shadden (Mineral Wells, Texas / Ruben Martin Judo) also will vie for a medal here.
Female +78kg
A wide-open division, watch for a possible surprise appearance by 2007 Senior Pan Am Team member Brittni Bradford (El Mambi Judo) who lives in nearby Tampa.
Male 60kg
Although there are three years separating 19-year-old Aaron Kunihiro (Wakefield, Mass. / USA Judo National Team FORCE) and 16-year-old Kyle Taketa (Torrance, Calif. / Gardena Judo), the Southern California natives are familiar enough with each other's styles to create a long match between the likely #1 and #2 seeds. Kunihiro quietly won his first Senior Nationals 60kg medal in 2006 while Taketa won a silver medal at 55kg and would go on to place third at the Senior Pan Ams as a 15-year-old that year. Now Kunihiro holds a #3 senior ranking and Taketa is just beginning to get more experience under his belt, but he had an impressive showing at the Trials when he nearly upset two-time Olympian Taraje Williams-Murray in the first round. Also watch for third-ranked Jeff Fujimoto (San Jose, Calif. / USA Judo National Training Site at San Jose State University) who also competed at the Trials in June after a fifth-place finish at the Senior Nationals.
Male 66kg
Joseph Hashimoto (San Jose, Calif. / USA Judo National Training Site at San Jose State) and Daniel Chow (Honolulu, Hawaii / Hawaii Tenri) are two of the top players in the division. Both athletes placed fifth at the USA Judo Senior Nationals earlier this year and competed at their first U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Judo in June. Also watch out for Zachary Godbold (Houston, Texas / Diamondback Judo) who enters as a #2 seed after placing second at the Scholastic Nationals in March. A former top-five senior player in the 60kg division, Miguel Ballesteros (Miami, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) recently moved up to 66kg where he competed at the Junior U.S. Open last week.
Male 73kg
Reigning Scholastic National Champion Andrew Porras (Miami, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) became the talk of the tournament when he beat a former Senior Nationals medalist twice to win the Scholastic Nationals in March. After winning the Junior U.S. Open last week, Porras is a favorite to do well again here, but any number of young players could have a breakthrough first win.
Male 81kg
A former 100kg Pan Am Juvenile silver medalist, Tony Sangimino (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center) slimmed down to 81kg last year and is now the top-ranked player in the division after winning the Junior Open last week and the Scholastic Nationals earlier this year. A finals appearance by Sangimino this weekend would solidify his #1 seed at the Junior World Trials, but look for strong performances by #2 and #3 seeds Antonio Rodriguez (Miami, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) and Danny Satinsky (Buffalo Grove, Ill. / Cohen's Judo). Rodriguez, who lost to Sangimino in the finals at the Scholastics, and Satinsky fought for bronze at the Junior Open with Satinsky taking the win.
Male 90kg
East Coasters Steve Fayzakov (Fresh Meadows, N.Y. / Spartak Sports Club) and Carlos Moran (Clifton, N.J. / Camal Judo) have battled back and forth both locally and nationally for several years and the fights continued last weekend when #2 Moran beat top-ranked Fayzakov at the Junior Open. Ajax Tadehara (Pocatello, Idaho / Idaho State University), who placed second ahead of Moran and behind Fayzakov at the Scholastic Nationals, and Michael Harrison (Burke, Va. / Sport Judo) could be in the mix as well.
Male 100kg
Armen Babayan (Glendale, Calif. / Valley Judo Institute) is the likely top seed in this division after his third place finish at the Junior Open last week.
Male +100kg
Colin Robinson (College Park, Ga. / Waka Mu Sha), Doyle Richeson (Burleson, Texas / Ruben Martin) and Chris Harriss (Livermore, Calif. / Northern California Elite Team) all went 1-2-3 at the Junior Open. Look for all three players to be back at the Junior Olympics with the gold on the line.


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Dredd: Suicide Watch [2]
Mega-City One, 2130 AD. This vast urban nightmare on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to 400 million citizens, every one a potential criminal. With lawlessness rife, only the Judges can prevent total anarchy. These future lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the Law!
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy [4]
Another Britain, 1981. Following the Victorian Spiritualist movement's ability to capture otherworldly beings, the economy is built on spectre-trading. Spartacus DANDRIDGE was a ghostfinder at the turn of the century until he was shot dead. His spirit held captive for decades, he escaped, returned to corporeality and made his way home to his mansion, where he lives with his fanatically loyal and mute manservant Shelley.
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A Government-run Earth, the far future (trust your Government). An experiment in mixing human and zombie DNA, ZOMBO was created in an attempt to control the sentient Deathworlds - obedient, docile and friendly, his hunger for flesh is his only vice. When the ship he was being transported on crash-landed on the lethal planet of Chronos, Zombo escaped from his Government handlers, and his widely broadcast adventures have turned him into a media celebrity!


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Q: If there is an expression in 'Default' clause of a table column in the source database, what can I do? For example: There is a table defined as "create table a1 (f1 varchar(120) default to_char(sysdate,'yyyy'))" in an Oracle DB.
A: Before CUBRID 9.0.0.x, a table column's 'Default' value must be a constant value, so users should change this expression to a constant value in column mapping UI.
Q: If i want to export many SQL tables into one file, what should i do?
A: There are two ways: One is unchecking the option "One table one file" which is in the second step of migration wizard; Another way is changing the SQL tables' target name to same, for example:
Q: How to create a migration script and run it in the migration console tool?
A: First of all, at the confirm page, you can find a button "Export Script" as follows,
Clicking it will pop a saving dialog and you should specify a XML file which the migration configurations will be saved into.
Then you should copy the XML migration script file to the remote server where you want to run it.
Make sure that the migration console tool has been installed in the remote server.
Call the migration.bar(windows) or migration.sh(linux) and send the full name of the migration scirpt file as its latest parameter. For example:
"migration.sh /home/cmt/console/migration_script.xml"
You can add "-sd" parameter to specify the source database's JDBC driver file, For example:
"migration.sh -sd /home/cubrid/jdbc.jar /home/cmt/console/migration_script.xml"
You can add "-td" parameter to specify the target database's JDBC driver file, For example:
"migration.sh -td /home/cubrid/jdbc.jar /home/cmt/console/migration_script.xml"
You can add "-tp" parameter to specify where the output files will be saved if you have set the target is CUBRID dump/CSV/SQL/XLS files, For example:
"migration.sh -tp /home/cubrid/output /home/cmt/console/migration_script.xml"
Q: How to use user defined column data handler?
A: At the column mapping view:
This setting includes two parts: the jar file name and the full class name of the handler in the jar file.
The jar file should be in the "handlers" directory of the migration application's working directory, for example:
The handler class must implement a method "public Object convert(Map<String,Object> recordMap,String columnName)", for example:
package com.cubrid.migration; public class TestConvert { public Object convert(Map<String,Object> recordMap,String columnName) { return "Test for data handler:" + recordMap.get(columnName); } }
Parameter "recordMap" stores the record's column and data information: the key of the map is source table's column name and the value of the map is the column's data.
Parameter "columnName" is the current source table's column name to be handled.
Return value should be the data which will be inserted into target.
During the migration, the method "convert" will be called to convert the data from source to the data which will be written into target.
And all dependences of the handler class should be packaged into the jar file to ensure the handler can work well.
Note: if the "recordMap.get(columnName)" returns null, null value will be returned directly by CMT ant it will not pass the handler.


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These are some of the images that have been chosen as the winners of the fourteenth International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment, organised by UNEP, Bayer AG and the Foundation for Global Peace and Environment. This year's theme was Green Cities, the motto of World Environment Day 2005.
UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer said: "All pictures hold a special power, triggering real action and changing the hearts and the minds of those who view them. Seeing the world and our environment through the eyes of children puts into sharp focus the responsibility we have towards them and towards the future."
A preliminary round of regional competitions resulted in six winners being chosen. Shortlisted paintings from the six regions then led to the selection of a global winner.
The winners are:
Global Winner:
A stark warning emanates from US-based Ryotaro Sato's watercolour: one arrow directs us towards clean skies and a harmonious future, the other points towards a dead tree under a leaden sky.
Commenting about his painting, Ryotaro (15) said: "My wish was to illustrate a globe, centred on the United Nations, coming together as one. By portraying a land full of bright, vivid greenery, with contrast to a land, dark and perishing with decay, I was able to picture how our future will change, depending on how different countries work together for a common future. The message that I wanted to send out is that whatever road our future may take, it all depends upon us, the people of the globe."
African regional winner:
Ranjani Dharamajan (10) from Kenya drew a picture, which shows two contrasting scenarios of an actual city and what a city should be in a perfect world.
"Today the forests are being destroyed to create space for buildings and factories", Ranjani said. "The air, land and sea are being constantly polluted. I felt that to bring back the original green city we need magic. So, I drew an 'Aladdin's Lamp' which could make our wish come true, - that would bring back the Green Cities."
Asia and Pacific regional winner:
Thirteen-year-old Mahdi Nurcahyo from Indonesia displayed much artistic talent in a pop-art illustration of people living in harmony with nature and animals.
European regional winner:
Bulgarian prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg personally congratulated regional winner Iskren Petrov (14) whose picture of an 'environmental' ark sailing on a polluted sea turned him into an over-night celebrity in his home country.
Latin American and Caribbean regional winner:
Mexican schoolgirl Raquel Haiat Sasson at 9 years old is the youngest winner this year. Her entry is a colourful landscape of a perfect world: a rising sun shines onto a pristine town on the banks of a crystal-clear river, surrounded by rolling verdant hills.
North American regional winner:
Yian Shang (13) from Cupertino, California (USA), impressed the judges with her ethereal drawing combining industrial and transport images with lush vegetation.
West Asian regional winner:
Children working cheerfully in a fertile garden, gathering fruits and tending the ground along a gushing stream, are the subject of the winning entry by 12-year-old Maya Shafick Hajeh from Syria.
All seven children, together with their chaperones, will travel to San Francisco to attend the World Environment Day celebrations that are being held in the city 1 - 5 June 2005. There they will be honoured in a special ceremony, sponsored by Bayer. All winners will receive a certificate and a plaque, a cash prize, and special prizes such as drawing kits and environmental stationery. The winning paintings will be shown in exhibitions in the USA, Japan and other countries. They and other selected paintings will also be used on UNEP posters, post cards, calendars, and in publications.
"We are very happy to support the International Children's Painting Competition as one of the important projects of Bayer's partnership with UNEP", said Werner Wenning, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG, and added: "Sustainable development is an integral element of all our business and social activities worldwide and with our commitment we strive to safeguard a good future for ourselves, our children and for the succeeding generations."
UNEP has entered into a three-year partnership with Bayer AG to support the implementation of UNEP's long-term TUNZA strategy for engaging children and youth in environmental issues.
The children's painting competition is jointly organised each year by UNEP, Bayer AG and the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE). The painting competition has been held since 1990 and in that time has received over 160,000 entries from children in over 100 countries. Eventually all paintings submitted to the global competition will be stored at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan.
This year's competition is also supported by the National Museum of Ethnology - Japan -, the Japanese Ministries of the Environment, Foreign Affairs, Education, Forestry and Fisheries, and the Japan-Arab Association.
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The Palin Portfolio: Take 2Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 5:48 PM
The plot continues to thicken on the political battleground, with each party claiming lipstick descrimination of one sort of another.
This photo, though black and white (the standard back in the prehistoric age of the mid-eighties), clearly shows that the V.P. candidate is certainly skillful in applying her makeup, whether she be hockey mom or pitbull...
This second photo is dated at the same time as the red evening gown shot in the previous blog. Though this one is a head shot, I think it is far the superior of the two photos. In fact, this one is just pretty darned terrific, if you ask me. Her hairstyle even seems a bit more modern in 1984 than it does today...
Of course, to recognize the current Republican candidate, you might need to draw librarian-style glasses on her.
Do you remember the old Superman comics and movies, in which Clark Kent was totally unrecognizable as Superman when he sported those black horn-rimmed glasses? That never seemed believable to me, even when I was a kid...
I don't believe Superman wore any lipstick...
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MD, Looks to me like Super Sarah just has a naturally yummy complexion.
Let's see... SS can out-shoot Obama at hoops and out do him at bagging any kind of animal, she can beat him at bowling, she can out eat him at ice cream (since he hates the stuff), she looks way better in a strapless dress, and I really doubt he would fearlessly can an annoying ex-in-law from his State job after he threatened to kill a family member. And she can do all that while wearing glasses and lipstick! Just imagine what she can do when she takes her glasses off and start really kicking A**!!
Watch out Putin! SS can probably out arm-wrestle you with her right arm while holding Trig in her left arm! With or without glasses, and while wearing lipstick taboot! Wouldn't that make a terrific photo!
MD, you apparently left Fairbanks too soon. I just saw that SS is one her way there to hold a rally at the airport!
-- Posted by FJGuy on Wed, Sep 10, 2008, at 8:11 PM
Madeline Dejournett's response:I see this morning that our lipsticked super heroine is back in Fairbanks, FJ. Judging from the coverage, the people there are absolutely wild about her. I haven't contacted my Fairbanks friends yet to see what they think of her. Must do that!
So Maddie, interested in your take here. Does Palin help the status of women in today's society more, the same, or less than someone like Hillary? Biden says that Palin is helping women take a step backwards. The mainstream media has ripped her right and left, up and down, and you seem to be poking fun at her and not taking her all that seriously. Just wanted to know what some other women think about all of this. Do you have to be a liberal suitcoat wearing cankles growing feminist to help the movement or no?
FJBoy...she is still HOOOOOOOTTTTTTT!!!!!!!
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Sep 10, 2008, at 10:52 PM
Madeline Dejournett's response:I think it's obvious that she's a shot in the arm for the Republican party. My daughter-in-law in Minneapolis is wild about her - spent 4 days at the convention while my son babysat their 3 small children. This is a working engineer-mom, sharp as a tack. However, she was conservative to begin with...
For the women who genuinely supported Hillory, I can't see a switch-over to Palin. The two women don't support the same agendas; in fact, they're opposites on most issues.
I remember when the opposing forces critized Obama for being able to make a pretty speech. Now we have a GOP candidate who not only made a terrific speech, she's a real looker, to boot. It makes for some lively television coverage, for sure.
And, yes, it's easy to see the media bias: CBS has been working overtime to counter the various GOP allegations about Obama, and the network has also been presenting the other side of Palin's claims, such as the one about opposing "the Bridge to Nowhere." However, these media efforts should be transparent to most viewers, who should still have no problem in thinking for themselves.
As for myself, I have to distance myself from the ugliness of the political race, or I'll get completely depressed. That's why my blogs may sometimes seem so flippant.
She reminds me of the daughter of my old principle...hot.
-- Posted by Jim Morrison on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 1:07 AM
Madeline Dejournett's response:I see that I didn't answer all of Hoon's question: Does Palin help the status of women? Of course. The fact that we have a woman as a vice-presidential candidate will pave the way for bigger and better offices in the future. In fact, she's probably a better choice in this position than Hillory, for the simple fact that she's more acceptable to all those men out there who find Hillory too unfeminine. She's probably just as pushy as Hillory, but she's so cute that the guys will swallow their objections - just to be able to LOOK at her!
Pretty good stuff....but not exactly what I was getting at. The hardcore crazy left wing feminists are threatened by Palin? I can see them being threatened by her positions (I enjoy most of her positions...slap my wrist) BUT how do they get away with trashing her as a fellow woman? Blacks do the same thing....a liberal, ambulance/media chasing black like Jackson or Sharpton is all about the "movement", but a conservative black man OR woman is trashed? Matt Damon, genius and smarter than you, me, and anyone on here because he knows how to act and lives in Hollywood, said that Palin on the ticket makes for a "bad Disney movie". This from a guy who thinks Obama is the greatest thing in the world and I we all know based on his support of the Hillbillies from AR, a Hillary LOVER. What gives?
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 8:41 AM
Maddie....Its Hill...A...ry! Or sometimes I spell it :
I think Hillary is easier to spell type though.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 10:25 AM
I don't think Palin's boost to the Republican party will last. It's nice, but I think it will settle down. The nomination of Geraldine Ferraro as VP brought a big boost to Walter Mondale's campaign - for a few months - but then it settled down too.
You can't count on any old die hard feminists (like me) to vote for her solely because she's a woman. That's a kind of descrimination, too. If I vote for her or any other candidate (I'm still undecided) it will be because of their opinions on the things about which I care. (yes, MD, I remember prepositions.)
I can laugh at the jokes and the trivia about the election, but when it comes down to actually voting I promise I won't pay any attention to legs, lipstick, gender, skin color, or musical ability on David Letterman's show.
-- Posted by Ducky on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 12:40 PM
I'd say it settled down...in the form of a landslide butt kicking.
As a die-hard feminist, who are your role models/heroes? It is hard for me to picture a die hard feminist who is NOT a liberal. Trying to figure out what the jokes and trivia are about with this election. In our David Letterman/Jay Leno dumb it down and hand it out society, it seems an election should be anything but trivial and funny.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 1:01 PM
I guess she is OK, but if I was her husband and if she ever called me "first dude" she would be a single dudette.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Thu, Sep 11, 2008, at 1:03 PM
Ducky, you bring up some good points. I can't imagine that any "feminist" supported Hillary Clinton in any part due to her gender, because she isn't a feminist. Hillary achieved "success" in life the old fashioned way -- she rode on the back of a very successful man ... her husband. Without Bill Clinton she wouldn't have been the first lady of Arkansas or the U.S., without him she wouldn't have had the name recognition and campaign fund raising network to have been elected a NY senator, and without him her presidential campaign would have been soon over (if it had ever been undertaken) because he was responsible for raising more than half the campaign's money, and when it ran out of money it was money that he made from his speaking engagements and book that kept it afloat. Although it nakedly demonstrates that Obama's judgment in important matters is very suspect if not just downright lousy -- he very well may have rejected Hillary as VP because Bill is an integral part of the two-fer package you get with her.
In contrast, Sarah Palin is a genuine "feminist" who hasn't been piggy-backed by a man. She has pulled herself up by her bootstraps (Has the "first dude" done much more than tag along for the ride?) And it is because she is a new age woman that she is undergoing more intense media scrutiny than McCain, Bidden and Obama put together. Although Obama has been the subject of many baseless Internet rumors, as has Palin, he has largely been given a pass from serious investigation or probing interviews because he is half-black, and any reporter/journalist digging deep for the truth about him would be branded a racist. Obama has not undergone any media interviews as intense as Charles Gibson's interrogation of Palin last week, and Gibson would never interrogate Obama like that because if he did his career would effectively be finished. The howls of racism against him would result in his demotion and marginalization as a reporter. If Palin had been a Democrat and picked by Obama the media scrutiny of her would be just as intense -- and much more than Obama has been subjected to. I would think it would be of concern to "feminists" that self-confident, "self-made" resourceful women in this society are considered as less "human" and treated less respectfully than blacks.
Some people might have objected to Jackie Robinson's selection to break the "color" barrier in baseball because he wasn't a larger than life figure and he wasn't a long ball hitter. Instead he was a speedy baserunner who hit for average, while keeping within himself. But he paved the way for any black with the talent to do so to become a major leaguer.
Listen to left-leaning radio and your ears will be singed by the Obama lovers passionate hatred of Palin because she is messing with his expected cakewalk to coronation, while on right-leaning radio the McCain lovers adore her because she gives him a shot at winning. But the bigger picture is that she is the first woman of her generation to have the opportunity on the national level to demonstrate that a woman can make it without depending on the crutch of a man. (At this point it seems that she is propping up McCain.) I think that any woman who doesn't factor that into her voting decision is as big a fool as the people who didn't favor Jackie Robinson as the right choice to break the major league's color barrier.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Mon, Sep 15, 2008, at 6:38 PM
Obama didn't need to be given "probing interviews," because he had already been subjected to a mortal hatchet job on the internet by forces too cowardly to identify themselves. The only part of the populace not on the internet are the old, and they're against him from the outset anyway.
There will be no "cake walk to coronation." The seething hatred expressed in this part of the country can't be an isolated instance.
Why you even bother defending the Palin/McCain duo is beyond me, since they will so obviously sweep as many red states as Bush did in the last election.
Forget the infamous "liberal media." They will have no effect whatsoever.
Fight a paper tiger if you want to, but it's all just wasted effort, as far as I can see.
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Sep 18, 2008, at 9:39 PM
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Curving south out of Carmel, California, on Highway One, I put the pedal to the metal on my car loaded with two trail runners, a dog ...
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Curving south out of Carmel, California, on Highway One, I put the pedal to the metal on my car loaded with two trail runners, a dog and a passel of camping gear. We are headed to Big Sur, where North America takes a topographic tumble into the Pacific Ocean. My foot is leaded by dreams of the trail-running vacation beginning now.
The road soon narrows and abandons most traces of civilization. Our route wobbles left, then wends right before opening to The Big View. A friend told me to grip the steering wheel tight on this highway because Big Sur would blow my mind, and she was right. To our left, orange peaks rake a ragged line across a cloudless sky. On the right, steely ocean waves crinkle toward shore in white-capped creases.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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Great Lakes Brewing Co.'s Edmund Fitzgerald Porter took home some new hardware over the weekend, winning a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
The winners were announced Saturday night, after three days of judging. More than 100 judges worked their way through 2,793 beers and awarded 22 medals in 75 categories.
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The Edmund Fitzgerald, a perennial award winner, placed second in the "robust porter" category, which had 62 entries.
Port Reyes Porter, from the Marin Brewing Co. in California, won the gold medal in the category. Planet Porter, from the Boulder Beer Co. in Colorado, took the bronze.
The only other medal-winning brew in Ohio was from Elevator Brewing Co. in Columbus. The downtown microbrewery scored a bronze medal in the "American-style dark lager" category with its Elevator Dark Horse.
The Edmund Fitzgerald for years has been recognized as one of the best porters in the world. The hops shape the flavor of the dark brew, competing nicely with the burnt malts.
Beer drinkers scared off by dark beers because they're too "heavy" ought to try this one - it's a very drinkable brew.
Over the years, the porter has won a variety of medals at the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Championships.
Meanwhile, Pabst Brewing Co. was honored as the year's top large brewery. Firestone Walker Brewing Co. in Paso Robles, Calif., was this year's top midsize brewery. Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, Calif., took honors among small brewers.
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Prep soccer: Marquette finishes 2-1 in Rhinelander, Wis.
MARQUETTE – The Marquette Senior High School girls soccer team improved to 7-2 overall on the season over the weekend after picking up two wins and a loss in Rhinelander, Wis., against three teams from the Badger State.
The Redettes split two blustery games on Saturday, losing 3-1 to host Rhinelander and closing with a 5-1 win over Wausau West. MSHS won on Friday evening 8-0 over Green Bay West.
MSHS head coach Dan LeBert was especially proud of the win against Wausau West after his team scored all five goals in the first half.
The defense, anchored by freshman Lexi Guidebeck, was left to close out the win against the win in the second, he said.
"Our whole defense deserves kudos," LeBert said. "Wausau West was a really good offensive team and our defense played really well."
Five different Redettes scored against Wausau West in the first half with freshman Sydney Higgins, sophomore Makayla Burse and sophomore Casey Durand finishing with a goal and assist.
Senior Sille Hendricksen and sophomore Carleigh Hillier also had goals in the win.
Durand finished with two goals and two assists against GB West while three other players – Carleigh Hillier, freshman Madison Rieboldt and senior Katie Garrow – all had a goal and assist.
Sophomores Allie Hillier, Shelby Ross and Burse also had goals on Friday.
All four goals in the Saturday morning match between MSHS and the hosts came on either penalty kicks or direct kicks.
Burse was taken down in the penalty box and scored on the ensuing penalty shot for the lone Redettes goal.
Rhinelander scored twice on direct kicks and once on a penalty kick.
Freshman Molly Gaudreau was in goal all three games for MSHS. She made six saves in the loss to Rhinelander with five saves coming on set pieces.
Gaudreau made one save against GB West and 10 against Wausau West.
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Autumn is approaching in Michigan and Wisconsin.
That means crisp apples, corn mazes, pumpkin patches and more.
It also means motorists will be sharing the road with farm equipment as producers work to harvest their crops.
The Michigan Farm Bureau and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation remind motorists to use caution around farm vehicles and to give them the space they need stop, make turns, and operate safely.
"Motorists have to be alert at all times and allow enough room and time to slow down," said Craig Anderson, manager of Michigan Farm Bureau's Agricultural Labor and Safety Services Department.
"Farmers will pull off the road to allow motorists to pass when it's safe for them to do so, but it's important to be patient. Don't expect the farmer to move aside immediately just so you can pass," Anderson said in a statement.
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Wisconsin is one of the nation's leading agriculture states, with more than 34 million acres of land in farms and more than $5 billion in farm product sales per year.
Everybody knows that Wisconsin is America's Dairyland. Farm products equal farms. Farms equal farm equipment.
Traffic statistics show that accidents involving farm equipment most often occur in the late afternoon, involve sideswipe or angle collisions, and are often preceded by motorists trying to pass as farmers make left turns.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says there were nearly 1,400 crashes involving farm machinery from 2005 to 2012. Twenty-five were fatal collisions and 708 resulted in injuries.
According to the Michigan Farm Bureau, one of the biggest hazards is motorists not allowing enough time to brake when approaching a slow-moving farm vehicle.
A car going 55 mph can take 300 feet of braking distance-that's a football field-to avoid rear-ending farm equipment traveling 15 mph. That means only about five seconds to close the gap.
The slow-moving vehicle (SMV) emblem, a bright orange triangle framed in red, is meant to warn motorists that a vehicle traveling at slower than normal speeds is ahead and they should approach it with caution.
A slow-moving vehicle emblem is used on vehicles that have a maximum potential speed of 25 mph on the highway or an implement of husbandry, and also for farm tractors or special mobile equipment.
All new farm equipment manufactured in the United States after Jan. 1, 2007 comes standard with special safety features, including flashing amber lights.
However, the majority of farm equipment used in Michigan and Wisconsin was manufactured prior to that date.
Until the older equipment is retired and replaced with newer models, motorists and farmers share the burden of making sure that the slow-moving vehicle sign retains its safety purpose.
Misuse of slow-moving vehicle emblems, often as driveway markers, dilutes the symbol's effectiveness and is a violation of the state motor vehicle code. Unlike most traffic markers, slow-moving vehicle emblems are widely available for purchase, but their only legal use is on the back of a vehicle with a maximum designed speed of 25 mph.
Traffic safety experts offer motorists, farmers, and others the following tips for sharing the road:
– Recognize slow moving vehicles on the road. They come in a large variety of shapes and sizes. A good road safety rule is to look for an orange triangle emblem on the back of any vehicle you don't recognize. Use caution when you see the triangle, which indicates a slow moving vehicle.
– In Michigan, normal traffic laws apply. Don't pass in no-passing zones or within 100 feet of intersections, railroad crossings or bridges.
– In Wisconsin, drivers may pass a slow-moving vehicle in a no passing zone if the slow moving vehicle is traveling at less than one-half of the posted speed limit and the passing can be completed safely
– Farm equipment makes wide turns; watch for turn signals and hand motions.
– Yield to wide, approaching vehicles. Farm equipment is often wider than a normal traffic lane. Approaching motorists should pull off in a safe location to allow it to pass.
– Don't assume the farmer knows you're there. Most are aware of the traffic around them, but their equipment is much louder than conventional vehicles.
– Slow down in rural areas. Motorists traveling on two-lane rural roads and county roads must anticipate farm machinery and be prepared to slow down or stop.
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– Farmers are reminded that spilling loads of waste or foreign matter on the roadway could result in a traffic citation. Farm equipment on the roadway should be well marked and lighted.
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– Clean dirt from lights and reflectors to help ensure maximum visibility.
– Safety chains are required on all trailers, drawn vehicles and equipment.
– Avoid heavy traffic times and bad weather whenever possible.


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Last week in Seattle, law enforcement used the GPS feature installed in most cellphones to track a murder suspect as he fled from the scene at the Federal Way Transit Center. Merlin Bell was suspected of shooting and killing Devon Winston Parks. Witnesses told police that they had seen Bell speaking with Parks before the shooting and then identified Bell as the shooter.
Police were able to obtain Bell's cellphone number and worked with T-mobile to track his cellphone while the police searched for him. Soon after the shooting a police dog found Bell hiding behind a bush with a revolver hidden nearby. Furthermore, police were able to identify Bell in an MTA surveillance camera shooting. Police say that the surveillance footage reveals that the victim has been in a defensive position. Overall, the insurmountable evidence presented against Bell was enough to put him behind bars under second-degree murder charges.
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Update: Orca Badly Hurt in SeaWorld Clash
After visiting SeaWorld and taking photographs of Nakai's injury (two of which are shown below), Dr. Ingrid N. Visser, founder and principal scientist of the Orca Research Trust, found that there are "puncture marks that match orca teeth spacing," which "is a clear indication that an altercation between the orcas was involved." The puncture marks in question can be seen at the bottom right of the wound in the first photo below:
© Ingrid N. Visser, Ph.D.
©Ingrid N. Visser, Ph.D.
This evidence strongly suggests that Nakai's wound was indeed caused by a bite resulting from incompatible confinement rather than contacting with the side of the pool, as SeaWorld has alleged.
Originally posted September 28:
Following a serious and gruesome injury to an orca in an avoidable attack, PETA has submitted a complaint asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take disciplinary action against SeaWorld for housing orcas incompatibly in violation of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
As you can see in these disturbing photographs, Nakai, an 11-year-old male orca at SeaWorld in San Diego, sustained a laceration so significant that, as a whistleblower said, "a dinner plate-sized chunk of his lower mandible [has been] sheared off, exposing underlying tissues, and bone." The flesh cut from him "was big enough and intact enough for SeaWorld to retrieve it from the bottom of the pool."
According to the whistleblower's report to journalist Tim Zimmermann, Nakai's injury was a result of "a major altercation" between Nakai and two other orcas, Keet and Ikaika. The AWA makes it clear that "marine mammals that are not compatible must not be housed in the same enclosure." Yet SeaWorld parks have a long history of housing incompatible orcas from widely divergent groups together in enclosures—and the result has been stress, agitation, aggressive and bloody raking, serious injury, and death.
What You Can Do
It's clear that SeaWorld can't be trusted to make the safety and well-being of marine animals its top priority. Please don't ever visit SeaWorld (or any other marine-mammal park)—and tell company executives why you won't support the abuse of Nakai and the other intelligent, complex animals they've imprisoned and enslaved.
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It is absolutely heartbreaking the things man does to the defenseless animals. I wholeheartedly believe seaworld should be shut down. Besides I would never attend any event that exploits and abuses any animal because to do so is to support this treatment of animals. I need an "anti seaworld" bumper sticker. I already have anti hunting, anti animal research and I'm waiting for my anti circus sticker to come.
If people want these animals happy release them!!!! They need freedom they dont need to be in jail for the rest of there lives!!!
Its there fault that poor orca got that bite because they let him in with the other orcas
SeaWorld=Animal Cruelty 🙁
I HATE SeaWorld!!!!
What majestic creatures. I have seen the Blackfish documentary and found it very ddisturbing. They are the animals but we are the monsters.
I went to Seaworld in October this year, I only wished I knew the extent of the cruelty before i paid my ticket. While walking around Seaworld I didn't feel joy, amazement, happy to see these amazing animals. I felt so heartbroken! We went on the arctic simulator ride where when you get off its like your in the animals "own habitat"….anything but!! I stood for a good 10 minutes watching a walrus just repeatedly swimming in circles. I felt so sad, it was obviously stressed, bored,frustrated whatever! either way, it wasn't happy! moved on to see the dine with shame show and was astonished at how small the tank was that these beautiful orcas are kept in. There was a feeling of sadness around the whole park. What makes things worse, I overheard a Seaworld employee talking about Tilikum saying " We don't use that whale anymore, and it was trainer error that lead to the accident!!" How sad hat Seaworld brainwash their employees into believing there doing good for these animals. I wish there was something I can do to stop this cruelty! I WILL NEVER VISIT SEAWORLD AGAIN! but still want to do more. Just feel so affected by how inhumane these animals are treated!
What is more magical than seeing wild animals in their natural environment? They are not ours to use and abuse and this terrible and so sad to see any animal confined in this way. I will never go to sea world or any such place that uses wild animals for our entertainment. Please also chose vegetarianism as a way forward.
I will never go to sea world, or zoos or any park that holds these beautiful creatures in captivity and I will let others know about how inhumane this is and I hope and pray this comes to an end real soon. This makes me so sad. All the sea worlds need to be shut down.
i will never !!!!! never never even the day i have children will ever go to any marine parks and i will try to make people i know not go either !!!!
This is scandalous!!!!! Idiots, can they not be careful at least, these greedy bastards of seaworld keepers who are totally useless.
NO it is seaworlds fault these animals are not made to be in captivity they travel up to 150 km a day they are not meant to be held in an inclosure they become aggressive and irrtated because of their lack of space and not being able to be social like normal wild orcas , 2 former seaworld trainers are also involved in a law suit previuosly against seaworld also stating that it is cruel and unfair to the animals. The orcas where not compatable which was seaworld responsibility to know the putcome is what can be suspected , IT IS CRUEL AND UNFAIR to these beautful creatures to be held like this it is our responsibility to protect our earth and whatever inhabits it !!!!!!
Que terrible, esto no se debe de permitir
Animals are not for our entertainment. Let these creatures be free. They are wild animals and that is where they belong. People love to watch them but once the animal turns on them and hurts a person, they kill the animal. We cannot domesticate these animals nor should we try. Please stop this abuse..animals go through way too much of it as it is.
gracias por organizar esta peticion !!
Vergüenza, los inocentes e indefensos pagan por la diversión y el placer de los culpables. La historia de la humanidad. Tenemos que terminar con esta conducta egoísta. GO VEG!
Stop confining these creatures. Seaworld anyway should be closed down. We have the internet and TV so we no longer need to enslave these magnificent creatures like this. Personally – I HATE Seaworld including owners and all staff who work there!
I think that what happened to the Orcas is pure evil. I hate it when people think that they own the animals that they house.
They really need to be much more careful with evaluating possible tank mates. Granted you can't predict everything, some just won't get along, but, they do need to be much more careful. Poor orca.
Why is there a Sea World in the first place? We shouldn't keep animals captive for our own entertainment.
this is yet another good reason for hating sea world and all that the do and promote – they always state that their mammals are in the best conditions possible!! NEWFLASH no they are not – Orca's in swimming pools – please – dolphins dancing for food or they are starved until they do – NOW this with Nakai – your time is up Sea world people have had enough and after the pic went viral your sales just dropped by 50 percent overnight……. and the rest of us will see to it they drop even more!!!!! very sad excuse for human beings!
Yes, this injury is bad, and yes, it definitely hurt the whale. But this isn't all SeaWorld's fault. The whales in the tank did the damage, not people. It's obviously a fight, not anything that deals with hunger, because they found the whole piece at the bottom of the pool. What they try and do with the whales is the same with any experiment. They move the whales around to get some better interaction with each other. When they see violent interaction, they move them away, it's as easy as that. And yes, we do need the SeaWorlds of the world, just like we need zoos and aquariums. What you might see is captive animals, but what others see is research opportunities and a chance to meet animals that you would never get to see otherwise.
It's not research mate. They pluck them out of the ocean, inbreed them with each other. put them is enclosures that are far too small and make them perform for their food. it's not an experiment, they're not doing research :L They are torturing them for amusement and money.
I agree sometimes, other zoos. (NOT SEAWORLD) will rescuse sick or injured animals and do research but that's not what seaworld is.
Good blog post, nice efforts. It couldn't appear to have been penned any better. Reading this article piece of writing reminds me about my old boss! He usually kept babbling about this. I will email this post to him. Pretty confident he will probably have a high-quality read. Appreciate your posting!
This is cruel and made me feel very sorry for the animal, this is something that could AND should have been avoided.
Seaworlds should not exist. NoOrca's or any other wild animals should be in captivity. Money hungry people are the animals worst predators. These people should not exist.
To all the comments that 'DISMISS' this cruel treatment of animals you should be ashamed of yourselves. Humans are NOT more important than animals, like a child, animals are helpless, defensless and in need of TLC, what a shame you hard arses out there can't see the bigger picture, that is mistreatment of animals, that needs to stop. Love and well wishes to PETA and all it's supporters. Xxxx
While this would be simply a sad story if it occurred in the natural world, the fact that it happened here in captivity is unacceptable negligence. This was preventable. Sea World needs to be fined at the very least.
I feel really bad for the poor orca. How could watyer world just stand by while he is in so much pain.
Was so much stupid in these comments?!? Yes it happens in the wild, sometimes, but they whales where forced to stay in close proximity. Also @Sorana: Pigs, and cows are evolutionary breed to be eaten, if we didn't farm them (and that is not to say that raising them should not be done humanly) they would likely be extict
I agree with "jimmy" because, we started many things with animals and nature, we're destroying the Earth with our machines we don't even need! All we need is food, water, and shelter, what if animals put us in captivity it's just like prison but, worse, we get taken in while we're innocent! This is just nature, animals fight just like humans do sometimes.
These pictures literally make me want to throw up. Thinking about it, the pain that this poor Orca is going through makes me so mad. If that happened to you, how would you feel…I imagine it would be quite painful!!! But these pictures and this article remind me why I would love to see an Orca Whale…IN THE WILD, NOT CAPTIVITY!!!!
that's intense…except it was orca on orca violence…so why the hell does peta care
The difference dear Julinski, is, Animals are defenceless creatures. They cannot make a difference in their situations. "Human beings", on the other hand, are supposed to have "souls" and "developed brains" – although I sometimes wonder when I see how humans treat each other, never mind animals – and were put "in charge" of things. Unfortunately we screwed up miserably. We can choose to change our situations and those of the animals we are "in charge" of. We can still make a difference! Somewhere it is written: "A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." And Mahatma Ghandi said: "The moral worthiness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
@Julinski, ur a goof…Id much rather help animals over humans, who have brought all that is wrong in this world.
Really? Really? Let the Orcas go? Do you all know what happened to Kieko, the orca that lived at the Oregon aquarium? They tried to let him go and he died. He starved to death following a fishing boat. Orcas are highly social animals just like horses, lions, wolves and us. They need to be together or else they get stressed. And just like horses, lions, wolves and people; social animals fight. Its normal. I'm sure the dolphin was given the best medical treatment out there. People think orcas and other dolphins are smiling nice creatures. Orcas will rip apart other sea mammals and leave the body to rot. Even ones that they don't compete with for food. Like baby whales. They'll hold them under water until they die. Its fun to them. You really think an animal like that isn't more than willing to bite a chunck out of a tank mate's face?
What's the difference between this happenening in captivity and this happenening in the wild? PETA is a joke, we have millions of problem with HUMAN BEINGS, yet they want I solve problems with animals and attack Pokemon.
I just hope that all the ppl saying here that all animals should be free also included the cows, pigs, sheep, horses, ducks, gooses etc in the same cathegory of animals that should and deserve to be free ! Just sayin' !


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AMA annexation hearing tonight
SARANAC LAKE – A public hearing will be held tonight on the proposed annexation of the American Management Association campus into the village.
Hosted by the village and the town of St. Armand, the hearing will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Harrietstown Town Hall auditorium.
During the hearing, people will be able to make comments or submit documents on the proposed annexation of AMA's 65 acres. A court reporter will be on hand to record the testimony.
Following the hearing, each board has 90 days to determine, by a simple majority vote, whether the petition complies with the law and whether annexation is in the overall public interest.
AMA, which provides management training courses and seminars, has 140 workers and is one of the area's largest employers. AMA officials have said they want to be annexed because they believe being in the village, and being able to use its planning and economic development services, will boost the prospects of developing unused buildings and vacant land on their property.
Village officials have been pushing for annexation of AMA for close to two years. Mayor Clyde Rabideau has said it could grow more jobs and increase the tax base in the village.
The St. Armand town board has yet to go on record either for or against annexation.


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ZMD goes fabless as X-FAB acquires ZFOUNDRY
ZMD plans 20% growth in 2007; X-FAB continues its worldwide expansion
X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG (Erfurt) and ZMD AG (Dresden) have agreed that X-FAB will take over ZFOUNDRY (ZMD Analog Mixed Signal Services GmbH & Co. KG), the wafer production facilities of ZMD, located in Dresden, effective immediately. ZFOUNDRY will be integrated into the X-FAB Group as a subsidiary of the Erfurt-based X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG. In addition, the companies agreed to maintain close collaboration long-term regarding wafer manufacture. A wafer delivery contract ensures that X-FAB will become the principal supplier of foundry services for ZMD which, in turn, becomes one of the Top 10 customers of the X-FAB Group. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Both companies benefit from this step, which mirrors a trend in the semiconductor industry to separate circuit design from circuit manufacture, to gain the cost advantages and other benefits of specialization. ZMD AG now can focus on its core business – developing its innovative analog/mixed-signal circuits – while maintaining access to the premium manufacturing capacity and expertise of the X-FAB Group. By acquiring ZFOUNDRY, X-FAB continues its successful strategic growth plan and expands its total manufacturing capacity by 15%, bringing its 8-inch equivalent wafer starts to approximately 70,000 a month.
ZFOUNDRY is a state-of-the-art wafer fab for 6-inch wafers, with a technology range of 0.8 to 0.35 micrometers, and is certified according to the demanding requirements of the automotive industry. In 2006, the foundry segment of ZFOUNDRY recorded 44.5 million Euro in revenue with approximately 350 employees.
With the sale of ZFOUNDRY, ZMD AG has completed its strategic reorientation of the past five years. Its main focus now is standardized analog/mixed-signal products for demanding signal-processing solutions for sensor systems that are used primarily in the automotive and medical sectors. ZMD AG also plans to expand its product portfolio. The company now has successfully spun off all divisions that are not part of its core business; in some cases, with ZMD AG retaining an interest in the company.
Thilo von Selchow, CEO of ZMD AG, commented on the agreement with X-FAB: "This is the crowning achievement of our strategic reorientation. With X-FAB, we have found the ideal partner for ZFOUNDRY. We now have access to a substantially broader technology portfolio at smaller feature sizes, immediate access to 8-inch technology, and opportunities for second sourcing. At the same time, we maintain the close relationship between process and chip manufacture and, with Erfurt, we have another innovative technology site not far from Dresden. In addition, the arrangement meets a fundamental requirement for ZMD – guaranteed delivery of the respective technologies for at least the next 10 years – with the high quality required by the automotive industry. In this way, we can optimally fulfill the requirements of our demanding customers and achieve our planned 20% growth in 2007."
Hans-Jürgen Straub, CEO of the X-FAB Group: "We are very pleased about this mutually-beneficial cooperation, and will fully support ZMD in its changeover to a fabless company. In fact, this is the third project in which X-FAB has helped one of our customers transition to a fabless organization. We consider ZFOUNDRY with its proximity to Erfurt a very valuable addition for X-FAB, especially because it increases manufacturing capacity for our technologies and services that are constantly in high demand."


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Topic: redirect back generically?
Hey all,
My app allows users to upload images. These images end up in different parts of their profile and show up in many different places throughout my website. Whenever a user uploaded image is displayed, it's wrapped in a "report_abuse" partial that includes a tiny link just below the image where people can click if the image is offensive.
Clicking the 'report abuse' link is just this
<%= link_to 'report this image', :controller => 'image', :action => 'report_abuse', :id => image %>
and the action is something like this
def report_abuse
abuse = ImageAbuse.new(:image_id => params[:id])
flash[:notice] = 'the image has been reported for abuse'
# this is obviously not a real method
How can I implement 'redirect_to_wherever_the_heck_they_where_when_they_clicked'? Is it possible to do so generically? Can rails say look at the "request stack" or something like that? I REALLY don't want to have to include a parameter in the call to tell report_abuse where to return to.
I could do this particular example with AJAX (and may just do that), but in general, I'd like to know how to do this or know that it's generally not possible.
oh, and acts_as_authenticated has "redirect_back_or_default", but it doesn't seem to work.
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Public Safety Alerts and Closing Information
STATUS: Open.
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When emergencies or bad weather conditions (snowstorms, hurricanes) make it necessary to cancel classes, all students, faculty and staff are encouraged to check this page for the latest official information on the status of the college. The college's main number, 617 266-1400, may also be called for a status as well.
Though classes may be canceled, only in extreme emergencies will the buildings be closed. Notification of class cancellation will always be posted and/or distributed as early as possible.
In most situations the Berklee Emergency Notification System (BENS), will be used to contact members of the Berklee community. This system uses text and email as the primary means for notification, but may also use voice messages, social media and other and provide status on cancellation of classes and other emergency situations. Students are encouraged to sign up for BENS notification at the beginning of each semester.
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In general, when weather or another emergency situation prevents the conduct of safe, effective education at Berklee, we will cancel classes and may close other facilities. An effective, efficient notification system is important because many faculty, staff, and students commute considerable distances. If it is necessary to close, the college will notify television and radio stations (see listing at left); check the stations' websites (in addition to berklee.edu) for updates, or call a colleague or supervisor. When possible, the college will try to make a determination before the beginning of the school day. If there is uncertainty about whether Berklee will be closed or not, let common sense and your personal safety be your guide. Even if it means getting a late start, you may avoid making an unsafe or needless trip. Emergency staff with specific responsibilities in such situations will be notified in advance and are expected to work on these days.
The Berklee Performance Center generally operates independently of college closings. In the event of a college closing, college events (such as clinics and master classes) will not be held, but professional shows (such as evening concerts) may still be held. If the college is closed, call the Performance Center Concert Line at 617 747-2261 to confirm whether a show will or will not be held.
A closing will normally cover one specific or, at most, a 24-hour period, unless stated otherwise. Buildings will normally follow a Saturday schedule. 1140 Boylston, 921 Boylston, and 22 Fenway will close at 5:00 p.m. 171 Mass. Ave. will remain open unless conditions make it impossible for the personnel who work there to get to work. Call the front desk at 617 747-2250 for information. Most labs, the media center, and library will be closed. A message regarding the closing will be placed on the college's main telephone number, 617 266-1400.
Closing for special weekend programs will be coordinated by the program director in conjunction with public safety.


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Topic: ROR spreadsheet
Hey everyone.
Im attempting to create essentually what will be an openoffice spreadsheet using ajax_scaffold.
Now by default each line will be non-editable and will have actions to edit or delete. No problems there.
The last action will be "add a line below" which will add a line below the one clicked obviously .
Now the problem I have:
Each line is numbered. 1..x and adding a line will obviously change all the line numbers below it.
so do you guys have any suggestions as to how I could possible do this?
what techniques would you use?
would you have a client side javascript function that that you call in your ajax? or would you regenerate the page? what other ideas do you have?


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AdSpender provides a fast, top-level summary of the multimedia advertising marketplace. This web-based tool spans five years of national summary spending trends, accessible by industry, parent company, and brand. Data is available via customizable reports with easy data exporting abilities to popular spreadsheet and flowchart programs.
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Written by Chris –
Farro is an ancient wheat grain that can be found in specialty foods stores, natural foods stores, and Italian markets. It's sold whole (which is the most nutritious), semi-pearled, or pearled, all of which can be used in place of barley and other grains in salads. In Italy, where most farro is grown, the grain is often added to soups. It can be substituted for rice in risotto as well. And it's fabulous for breakfast.
Farro has a hearty texture and nutty taste, making it the perfect base for this spring salad. I chose to use pearled farro because it can be prepared quickly. Since it's hulled, the cook time is reduced to 15 to 20 minutes. If you prefer to use whole grain farro, plan on cooking it for about 45-60 minutes.
Grain salads make a satisfying lunch, simple side or nutritious snack. Use whatever vegetables are in season and you really can't go wrong. I chose fresh English peas, English cucumber, green onions, dill, micro greens and avocado. I didn't plan to have everything green in color; it's just what I had on hand. Fresh lemon vinaigrette brings it all together!
Ingredients needed for four 1-cup servings:
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup pearled farro
- 1 ½ teaspoons MAGGI Instant Chicken Flavor Bouillon
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ½ cup English peas, blanched* (these are super tasty raw too!)
- ½ cup sliced and quartered English cucumber, seeded if desired
- ½ cup micro greens or wild arugula
- ¼ cup sliced green onions
- 2 tablespoons snipped fresh dill
- ½ cup diced avocado
COMBINE water, farro and bouillon in medium saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cover; cook for 15 to 20 minutes or just until farro is tender (it will not absorb all the water). Drain and set aside to cool.
WHISK together oil, lemon juice, lemon peel, vinegar and pepper in large bowl. Add farro; toss to coat. Add peas, cucumber, micro greens, green onions and dill; toss gently to coat. Taste and season salad with sea salt, if needed; fold in avocado. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
*Set aside a bowl of ice water and slotted spoon. Bring a pan of water to boil over high heat. Add a teaspoon of salt and the peas and boil just until bright green (about 30 seconds to 1 minute). Quickly remove the peas with the slotted spoon and plunge them into the ice.
Related recipes:
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Topic: Thoughts on plugins...
I was wondering what most of you think of plugins. One of Rails', greatest strengths is that it is a full stack architecture. You don't have to worry about integrating an ORM module with an MVC framework with mailers and loggers, etc. Of course the price is that you are loosely constrained to do things the Rails way.
Some people also claim that not having to evaluate 4-5 different contenders for each of those pieces is another bonus for Rails.
However it seems like the exponential proliferation of plugins is at odds with Rails' core strengths. There are stories of plugins that don't play well together; numerous plugins break on different versions of Rails, etc. I hear stories of a lot of plugins that aren't well maintained; plus now you need to spend time evaluating the N versions of a plugin for doing X, for instance the large number of login plugins/engines/generators.
As a result, I've tended to stay away from plugins with a few exceptions for things that don't directly interact with production code (ie test helpers)
In other frameworks I'd consider the plugin ecosystem an extremely valuable thing, but in Rails I wonder if its something that will cause Rails to lose its defining character.
Your thoughts?


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Let's get serious on gun violence
To the editor:
Is everyone getting as tired as I am of the National Rifle Association lecturing us about gun rights and the Second Amendment? What is it about owning a gun that turns people into constitutional law experts?
The Second Amendment by its own words is aimed at preserving the right of people to be members of a "well-regulated militia." The present-day version of a "well-regulated militia" is the National Guard and Reserves, so it would be completely constitutional under the Second Amendment to limit gun ownership to current members of those groups. Even that interpretation is wildly permissive, because the Guard and Reserves do not require their members to purchase their own firearms, and it would be foolish for anyone be permitted to buy or own the type of firearms used by the U.S. military.
The "arms" contemplated by the authors of the Second Amendment loaded through the muzzle and fired three rounds a minute, more or less. Those wishing to exercise their Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms" should be free to own such a weapon, but no other. It is outlandish to suggest that ownership of today's semi-automatic rifles or handguns would have ever been permitted by the founders of this country.
Unfortunately, the proposals that have been put forth to get gun trafficking under control since the Newtown killings will not have a serious impact on the number of gun deaths in the U.S., currently over 30,000 per year. We have way too many guns in this country – do we really need more? Do we really need 60,000 licensed gun dealers in this country? How about if we reduce the number of gun outlets by half or two-thirds or even more. A gun dealer's license costs $30 a year – why isn't it $10,000? Why is it legal to sell firearms and ammunition over the internet with deliveries made by UPS and FedEx? When we get serious about stopping gun violence, UPS and FedEx will be out of the gun and ammo delivery business.
When we get serious about stopping gun violence, sales of firearms will be limited to face-to-face transactions involving a licensed dealer, with proof of liability insurance, background checks and lengthy waiting periods – no private sales, no internet sales, no gun show sales – with permanent records of every transaction kept electronically by the ATF so there is a responsible person linked to every firearm. And why are we even discussing "instant" background checks? Every one of us knows two or three people who could probably pass a check of their criminal history with flying colors, yet should never be allowed to own a firearm. When we get serious about stopping gun violence, we will make background checks thorough and waiting periods lengthy " four weeks at least, with potential purchasers required to prove their legal, mental and emotional competence.
Let's get serious or people are going to keep on dying from gun violence.
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Sanofi Genzyme's manufacturing operations rely on a variety of critical supplies, which we source from a select group of external vendors around the world. Our top priority in selecting suppliers is product and service quality. We also have a supplier diversity program to promote business relationships with quality-driven minority-owned vendors who align with our cost and service standards.
Our working relationships with suppliers are generally governed by our standard purchase order terms and conditions and import requirements, which vary by country:
Some suppliers may have a separate supply or service agreement signed by Sanofi Genzyme, in which case the terms and conditions set forth in that agreement control any conflicting terms and conditions in the purchase order.