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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 7, 2012) – U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) has turned in the 12-player U.S. roster for the opening weekend of the FIVB World Grand Prix Pool B that will be staged June 8-10 at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
As presented to the FIVB World Grand Prix control committee during the preliminary inquiry, McCutcheon will utilize a roster with three middle blockers, three outside hitters, two opposites, two setters and two liberos. The setters are two-time Olympian and 2012 USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), while the libero is 2008 Olympian Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.). Rounding out the 12-player roster is Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii).
McCutcheon has selected two-time Olympian Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix most valuable player Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) as opposites for the Pool B roster. Outside hitters are three-time Olympian Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) and Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.). Middle blockers for the stage in Dominican Republic are four-time Olympian Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix most valuable player Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) and Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.).
The roster for the FIVB World Grand Prix can be changed prior to each preliminary round weekend and the Final Round. However, the replacement players must be part of the 25-player preliminary roster.
The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, ranked No. 1 in the world by the FIVB, will attempt to win its third consecutive FIVB World Grand Prix, the premier annual international women's volleyball event. The 16-team tournament is broken down into three preliminary weekends with four teams competing in round-robin competition in four different locations. The top five teams following the nine-match preliminary round, along with host China, advance to the six-team Final Round held June 27 to July 1 in Ningbo, China.
The U.S. will face No. 8 Germany to open the FIVB World Grand Prix on June 8 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, followed by a June 9 contest versus No. 28 Chinese Taipei. Team USA concludes Pool B on June 10 against No. 9 Dominican Republic. All three matches will be played at 2 p.m. PT. According to the organizers, there will not be television or live streaming video for the matches.
After the first weekend stage, Team USA travels south to Brazil to face No. 4 Italy, No. 8 Germany and No. 2 Brazil from June 15-17. The preliminary round ends June 22-24 with matches against No. 6 Serbia, No. 18 Argentina and No. 12 Thailand in Thailand. Out of the nine preliminary round matches, the U.S. will face four Olympic Games qualified teams (Dominican Republic, Italy, Brazil, Serbia).
Team USA will try to become just the second country to win the FIVB World Grand Prix for three consecutive years. Aside from the U.S., only Brazil has successfully defended its title having won the tournament three consecutive years from 2004 to 2006 and back-to-back years in 2008 and 2009.
For more details on the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix, visit the U.S. event page at usavolleyball.org/events/10257 or the FIVB event page by clicking here.
To view the 2012 U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team FIVB World Grand Prix Press Kit, click here.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix
# - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 - * Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
2 - * Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 - * Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Opp, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 - * Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - * Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
11 - * Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (Opp, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
13 - * Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Hopewell, Pa., Penn State)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (Opp, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
15 - * Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
16 - * Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
17 - Carli Lloyd (S, 5-11, Bonsall, Calif., California-Berkeley)
18 - * Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - * Destinee Hooker (Opp, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
20 - Alix Klineman (OH, 6-4, Manhattan Beach, Calif., Stanford)
21 - * Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
22 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
23 - Mary 'Nellie' Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
24 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
25 - Lauren Gibbemeyer (MB, 6-2, St. Paul, Minn., Minnesota)
Legend: * Weekend 1; # Weekend 2; ^ Weekend 3; % Final Round
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Manager: Ken Sullivan
Pool A – Macau, China
June 8: Argentina vs. Thailand, 5:20 p.m.
June 8: China vs. Puerto Rico, 8:50 p.m.
June 9: Puerto Rico vs. Thailand, 2:50 p.m.
June 9: Argentina vs. China, 5:20 p.m.
June 10: Argentina vs. Puerto Rico, 12:50 p.m.
June 10: China vs. Thailand, 3:20 p.m.
Pool B – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
June 8: USA vs. Germany, 5 p.m. (2 p.m. PT)
June 8: Dominican Republic vs. Chinese Taipei, 7:30 p.m.
June 9: USA vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m. (2 p.m. PT)
June 9: Germany vs. Dominican Republic, 7:30 p.m.
June 10: Germany vs. Chinese Taipei, 2:30 p.m.
June 10: USA vs. Dominican Republic, 5 p.m. (2 p.m. PT)
Pool C – Busan, Korea
June 8: Japan vs. Turkey, 2 p.m.
June 8: Korea vs. Cuba, 4:30 p.m.
June 9: Korea vs. Turkey, 2 p.m.
June 9: Japan vs. Cuba, 4:30 p.m.
June 10: Korea vs. Japan, 2 p.m.
June 10: Cuba vs. Turkey, 4:30 p.m.
Pool D – Lodz, Poland
June 8: Italy vs. Brazil, 5:30 p.m.
June 8: Poland vs. Serbia, 8 p.m.
June 9: Serbia vs. Brazil, 12:30 p.m.
June 9: Poland vs. Italy, 3 p.m.
June 10: Italy vs. Serbia, 5:30 p.m.
June 10: Poland vs. Brazil, 8 p.m.
Pool E – Sao Paulo, Brazil
June 15: USA vs. Italy, 6:20 p.m. (2:20 p.m. PT)
June 15: Brazil vs. Germany, 8:20 p.m.
June 16: USA vs. Germany, 6:20 p.m. (2:20 p.m. PT)
June 16: Brazil vs. Italy, 8:20 p.m.
June 17: USA vs. Brazil, 1:20 p.m. (9:20 a.m. PT)
June 17: Germany vs. Italy, 3:20 p.m.
Pool F – Komaki, Japan
June 15: Thailand vs. Puerto Rico, 3:20 p.m.
June 15: Japan vs. Dominican Republic, 6:20 p.m.
June 16: Dominican Republic vs. Thailand, 3:20 p.m.
June 16: Japan vs. Puerto Rico, 6:20 p.m.
June 17: Dominican Republic vs. Puerto Rico, 3 p.m.
June 17: Japan vs. Thailand, 6 p.m.
Pool G – Foshan, China
June 15: Korea vs. Poland, 4 p.m.
June 15: China vs. Chinese Taipei, 7:30 p.m.
June 16: Poland vs. Chinese Taipei, 4 p.m.
June 16: China vs. Korea, 7:30 p.m.
June 17: Korea vs. Chinese Taipei, 4 p.m.
June 17: China vs. Poland, 7:30 p.m.
Pool H – Belgrade, Serbia
June 15: Serbia vs. Argentina, 5:20 p.m.
June 15: Cuba vs. Turkey, 8:05 p.m.
June 16: Cuba vs. Serbia, 5:20 p.m.
June 16: Turkey vs. Argentina, 8:05 p.m.
June 17: Serbia vs. Turkey, 5:20 p.m.
June 17: Argentina vs. Cuba, 8:05 p.m.
Pool I – Osaka, Japan
June 22: Korea vs. Turkey, 3:20 p.m.
June 22: Japan vs. Germany, 6:20 p.m.
June 23: Germany vs. Korea, 3:20 p.m.
June 23: Japan vs. Turkey, 6:20 p.m.
June 24: Germany vs. Turkey, 3 p.m.
June 24: Japan vs. Korea, 6 p.m.
Pool J – Bangkok, Thailand
June 22: USA vs. Serbia, 1:50 p.m. (11:50 p.m. PT on June 21)
June 22: Thailand vs. Argentina, 4:20 p.m.
June 23: USA vs. Argentina, 1:50 p.m. (11:50 p.m. PT on June 22)
June 23: Serbia vs. Thailand, 4:20 p.m.
June 24: Argentina vs. Serbia, 1:50 p.m.
June 24: USA vs. Thailand, 4:20 p.m. (2 a.m. PT)
Pool K – Luohe, China
June 22: Cuba vs. Brazil, 4 p.m.
June 22: China vs. Puerto Rico, 7:30 p.m.
June 23: Puerto Rico vs. Brazil, 4 p.m.
June 23: China vs. Cuba, 7:30 p.m.
June 24: Cuba vs. Puerto Rico, 4 p.m.
June 24: China vs. Brazil, 7:30 p.m.
Pool L – Taipei, Chinese Taipei
June 22: Italy vs. Dominican Republic, 4 p.m.
June 22: Poland vs. Chinese Taipei, 7:30 p.m.
June 23: Italy vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m.
June 23: Poland vs. Dominican Republic, 7 p.m.
June 24: Dominican Republic vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m.
June 24: Italy vs. Poland, 7 p.m.
FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round
Ningbo, China – June 27 to July 1
Top five teams from preliminary round plus China


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In his element: Bauer orchestrating the Marathon des Sables. Photo by Audray Saulem
Patrick Bauer
In the beginning, there was Patrick Bauer and the Sahara Desert. It was January of 1984, and the young, former French-concert promoter had already spent a couple nomadic years exploring West Africa by car. In an effort to more deeply experience the desert, he undertook an almost-self-sufficient, 350-kilometer pedestrian expedition in southern Algeria. Bauer, then 26, carried all of his provisions save for water, which was resupplied from a car once daily by his brother and a friend. Twelve days later at the Niger border, Bauer emerged with a single thought: other people need to do what he just had.
Two years later, the first Marathon des Sables (MdS), a seven- day, six-stage, 250-kilometer running race of self-sufficiency (which means competitors carry everything they need for the week except water) was held in the more politically benign Moroccan Sahara. With 1986's MdS, Bauer invented a new format: the stage race. Not even adventure racing had yet been born.
Twenty-three competitors undertook the inaugural MdS. Mário Machado, editor of Spiridon, a Portuguese running magazine, remembers that race well, "My biggest memory is a sense of aloneness, just 23 of us and the desert! For 10 kilometers at a time between checkpoints, I was alone on the unmarked route, using my compass for bearings. It was frightening, yes, but also exhilarating." Machado has another vivid memory, "It was not easy in those days to find [backpacking] meals. I brought food out of survival packs, what's stocked in lifeboats. It was horrible!"
The race grew wildly in popularity. In 1989, 170 competitors toed the line; in 2012, a throng of 854 jostled at the start.
"Patrick is the reason this race is so popular." says Jay Batchen, the MdS representative who coordinates North American entrant registrations and who has finished the race eight times. "He wants every competitor to finish, but He also wants them to experience some sort of transcendent challenge."
Getting the details of an expedition stage race in the remote and harsh Sahara Desert just right has always been tough. "In the late 1980s, the MdS was a unique event. We started from a blank copy," says Bauer. each year offers up some unexpected challenge.
Batchen remembers the 2006 race not so fondly, "For unexplained reasons, hundreds of runners became sick. i woke up one morning and projectile vomited." Such rampant illness threatened many runners' ability to finish the race. Batchen says Bauer beefed up the race's medical treatments and allotted competitors more water so they could recover and complete the race. "This was the first time i saw Patrick's genuine concern for every participant's experience."
When asked about other unexpected challenges, Bauer's response is instantaneous, "oh, 2009! The flood, a volume of water in the desert that i had never before seen! our ability to adapt has never been tested like that." That year, the Sahara Desert experienced extreme flooding that shortened the race to four days and 202 kilometers, forced organizers to completely change the race route and provide for the safety of hundreds of competitors in cold, wet conditions.
The full-time mdS director, 55, married his wife, Marie, in 1998 after a long-term, live-in relationship, and the two have a 10-year-old son, Rayane. The family lives in France, but spends months each year in morocco. Bauer still runs, saying, with a laugh, "Well, I run when I'm not injured." he also works on ecology projects in the Sahara, including building wells for remote villages in the region the MdS is held, his way of giving back.
What began as one man's multi-day, algerian expedition has now blossomed into a race format so popular that dozens of stage races host thousands of runners around the world each year.
"I just wanted people to be able to chase their sense of adventure, and am elated to see more races providing venues to do this." He pauses reflectively, concluding, "The desert called to me. What can I say? I knew it would call to others."
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I'm new to rails. Have worked through the depot example in the AWDWR using an older version of ruby on rails due to the scaffolding being changed in RoR 2.02...
Now I'm trying to learn the "new" features and having troubles getting things up and running.
Basically what I've done is installing the BitNami Rubystack in windows. I've then updated using gem update --system. I've set up MySql privliges, no databases or tables.
Then I've started a new project using: rails newproject. This works fine and it makes the new directories and files. Inside I've edited the datamase.yml file to look like the following:
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defaults: &defaults
adapter: mysql
username: root
password: sqlpass
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port: 80
timeout: 5000
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database: newproject_test
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After doing this I thought I was ready to run the command: rake db:create:all for rails to create the databases and do it's "magic". But there's a problem...
Using --trace I get the following:
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then it thinks for a long time, litteraly 5-10 minutes before dumping
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The concentration of the third agent in antiretroviral therapy [Non Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor (NNRTI), or boosted Protease inhibitor (PI) ] is different according to the body weight or body composition and therapeutic monitoring may be necessary in overweight HIV patients.
The investigators aim at measuring the individual trough concentrations of interest [at steady state for NNRTI and boosted PI] in overweight and normal weight HIV+ patients.
HIV Infection
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Extreme Weights and Antiretroviral Therapy Individual Concentrations
- comparison of the trough concentrations between patients with Body Mass Index (BMI)<25 kg/m2 and patients with BMI >25 kg/m2 [ Time Frame: the day of enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- comparison of the occurrence of virologic failure within each patient group [ Time Frame: the day of enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- occurrence of adverse events in each patient group [ Time Frame: the day of enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2013
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|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
patients treated with efavirenz
HIV-infected on stable HAART regimen with efavirenz
patients treated with atazanavir
HIV-infected patients on stable HAART regimen with atazanavir
patients treated with darunavir
HIV-infected patients on stable HAART regimen with darunavir
Detailed Description:
Our primary endpoint is the individual trough concentrations of interest at steady state for NNRTI or boosted PI; Principal outcome measure: comparison of the concentrations between patients <25kg/m2 and patients<25kg/m2
Secondary endpoints:
- Occurrence of virologic failure
- Occurrence of clinical/biological adverse events
- Percentage of patients with concentration within the therapeutic range
- Body composition Secondary outcome measures: comparison of the occurrence of virologic failure, occurrence or adverse event, patients with concentration within the therapeutic range between groups. Correlation between body composition and concentration.
Methodology, study design:
open-labelled monocentric study.
Sample size:
It will be a descriptive experimental study involving 120 overweight subjects, 120 normal weight subjects
Inclusion criteria :
- Patients with HIV+
- Patients aged more than 18 years old.
- Patient giving its well-informed and free consent.
Study design :
Plasma concentration was performed during the usual clinical follow-up. Study duration: 12 months Duration for a patient: 1 day Investigating center and participating units: one center enrolling the patients and the lab performing drug dosages.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with HIV+ receiving one of the following third agent their HAART: efavirenz, atazanavir , or darunavir
- Patients aged > 18 years old.
- Patient giving its well-informed and free consent. Patient giving its well-informed and free consent.
Patients living in France during the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
Treatment with rifampin/rifabutin
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01805427
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|Paris, Ile-de-France, France, 75010
|Responsible Party:
|Stephane Mouly, MD PhD, MD PhD, Hopital Lariboisière
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01805427 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 28, 2013
|Last Updated:
|December 5, 2013
|Health Authority:
|France: Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament et des produits de santé
Keywords provided by Hopital Lariboisière:
trough concentration
virological failure
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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Following the dynamic campaigns of PETA and its affiliates worldwide, the 70 4-month-old beagles sent for horrible experiments in an Indian laboratory have just been rescued! A huge "thank-you" to the more than 50,000 compassionate people around the world who e-mailed Indian officials through the websites of PETA and its international affiliates urging them to take action. The dogs have been removed from quarantine and handed over to animal protection groups with the permission of the Ministry of Environment & Forests and through efforts made internally in government by MP Maneka Gandhi.
During its campaign, PETA India discovered that Beijing Marshall Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (a branch of the notorious animal-breeding facility Marshall BioResources), had sent a letter to the airline used for the animals' transport—which has a longstanding policy against shipping animals to laboratories—giving false assurances that the beagles "won't be hurt or killed as Lab Animal [sic]."
While these 70 lucky dogs have been spared lives of misery and pain in a laboratory, there's still work to be done to keep more animals out of the hands of experimenters in India. Air India recently resumed shipping animals to laboratories; please urge airline officials to stop delivering animals to their torturers and executioners.
Thanks to a whistleblower, PETA India found out that 70 beagles exported from China into India and falsely labeled as "pets" are actually to be used in deadly experiments. PETA India is calling on the Indian government to conduct an urgent investigation. It has also asked officials to confiscate the dogs and allow the organization to give them a chance at living in peace in adoptive homes instead of facing caging, poisoning, and death in a laboratory.
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People may generally picture mice, rats, and rabbits when they think about animals used in experiments, but a great many dogs—including puppies and homeless animals from shelters—are tormented and killed in laboratories as well. Dogs are often used in toxicology tests in which they are force-fed massive amounts of a drug, industrial chemical, pesticide, or household product, causing a slow, excruciating death from poisoning.
Oddly, experimenters particularly favor beagles because of their size and their eager-to-please nature—a quality that would normally make a person want to protect and care for them, not torture them.
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Even though I have lived with beagles and beagle mixes since childhood—including my current companions, Beau and Oliver—when it came to understanding the inexcusable cruelty of experimenting on animals, I never quite "got it" until I saw this picture during a PETA conference. That's when I realized that there could be never be sufficient justification for inflicting this kind of suffering on a dog so much like Beau.
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I saw a clip on my local news last night about these beagles being rescued. Of course, the laboratory that owned them said it was for "science" and the dogs were treated "very well", showing only the healthy, playful dogs in the segment. The news then reported Peta did an undercover investigation showing 5 – 6 dogs in one small cages, yelping for freedom, a dog with being forced to swallow Oxycontin (yelping and crying in pain and fear) and another dog circling its case in boredom and a need to run. The dogs were all rescued and giving good homes. I absolutely love Peta with al my heart.
Thank goodness there are people like you who are able to save and rescue the poor dogs who are being tortured and mistreated.
Heyyy I enjoyed lot here from u. Thank you PETA for everything you do for animals.
Please be kind and compassionate towards animals in INDIA. I wonder some people in this land even think that these Animals are also a part of living beings.??? The way they Treat animals are so Horrific & utterly shameful. Those Ruthless people who mistreat animals like Barbarians must be Punish heavily. That will be the only language they will then understand. Otherwise to educate these majority of morons will take another 100 years. Pathetic.
Thanks to all who made this is a good thing! Ever experiments on animals go into the past! Would rather be!!!
The tests that are done are completly useless with finding any important. I dont understand the reason for this. Now yet when someone kills a human its a huge deal even if the human died very fast by gun shot but when thousands of people every day tourture dogs cats mice and animal they want and nothing is done. I strive to become a vet but i always become worried that in my studies they might ask me to do something horrific. Which i would refuse. I hope to become a vet to help animals who are in these situations. I WILL MAKE A DIFFERANCE.
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September 27, 2012, could be the day that forever changed the lives of a group of teenagers from the low-income township of Chitungwiza (population one million) outside of Harare. I hope that date does prove fateful. I'll know it was auspicious if I see Zimbabwean names on the list of the 2017 Berkeley graduating class. If the names are there, I can say I saw the students get their first taste of northern California in a cramped, hot classroom off a dusty road near some of Zimbabwe's stunning balancing rocks and minibus taxi ranks.
At 9:00 a.m. on the 27th, I stood before 250 of the best students from five Chitungwiza public high schools. Next to me was Lin Larson, Senior International Specialist in the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Undergraduate Admissions Office. It was Lin's first visit to Africa, and Zimbabwe was the last stop on her four-country tour. It was also the place where she got to make the official big announcement: UC Berkeley is one of six American universities to receive part of the Mastercard Foundation's new $500 million scholarship fund for students from sub-Saharan Africa. With the right mix of good grades, leadership potential, and commitment to "give back," several of the shy-eyed students with ready smiles in front of us could be freshmen "Golden Bears" in 2013.
Dubbed the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, the new program was announced on September 26 at the United Nations Special Session to launch Education First, an initiative led by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Special Envoy for Education Gordon Brown. Foundation CEO Reeta Roy underscored that, "An education does more than liberate people from poverty, it is the foundation of social and economic progress." The scholarships will target talented yet economically disadvantaged students and, as Roy said, "contribute to the emergence of a more equitable, dynamic, and prosperous Africa."
As the main source of information about American higher education in Zimbabwe, my office's EducationUSA center will play a central role in helping Zimbabwean students learn about these scholarships. The cooperation between UC Berkeley (and the other participating universities -- Duke, Stanford, Wellesley, Arizona State, and Michigan State), the Mastercard Foundation, and our embassy is much more than an international version of student aid -- it is a coalition to transform lives and, hopefully, countries.
Higher education is one of the United States' leading service exports. Since 2000-01, the number of international students on U.S. campuses has grown 32 percent, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE) Open Doors 2011 annual report on international students in the United States. International students now make up 3.5 percent of the total enrollment at U.S. institutions of higher education and add over $20 billion to the U.S. economy.
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I am hopeful that we found future Golden Bears here in Zimbabwe.
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Wow! This is an amazing story.
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Murray, James
James Murray 1837-1915
(Born James Augustus Henry Murray) Scottish linguist, philologist and lexicographer.
Murray holds a unique place in the history of the English language. He was the principal editor of a vast dictionary recording historical usage of English words dating back to the mid-twelfth century and beyond. This work became the Oxford English Dictionary, the most authoritative text extant on the English language. In addition to this decades-long project, which he had not yet completed on his death, Murray published several works exploring the development and different dialects within English. Himself holding only honorary university degrees, Murray was primarily responsible for the acceptance of modern language studies as part of the university curriculum.
Biographical Information
Murray was born on February 7, 1837, in Denholm, Scotland. The son of a linen manufacturer, Murray was largely self-educated. Adept at learning various languages, Murray had become headmaster of a local academy by the age of twenty-one. He later moved to London on account of his wife's health and took work in a bank. There he met members of the London Philological Society, which had for years been engaged in compiling a new English dictionary. Since the previous editor had died, Murray put forth a new plan for the project, seeking to ground the work in strict principles of historical precedent and accuracy. The project continued to languish for some years. Meanwhile Murray published several works on English usage, development, and dialect, including a famous article for the Encyclopedia Britannica. In 1879, Murray, now president of the Philological Society and master at the Mill Hill private school, was asked to take over as chief editor of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. In 1884, the first installment appeared. In 1885, having been awarded a pension, Murray moved to Oxford to devote all his energies to the dictionary. He continued this work for the rest of his life, seeing about half the original project (slated to include six volumes of 1400 pages each but still continuing in various supplements) to publication. He was knighted in 1908. Murray died on July 26, 1915.
Major Works
Early in his career Murray wrote a number of short works, which at the time were considered to be important contributions to the scientific study of modern languages and dialects. Once in London Murray turned to the history of languages, editing works for the Early English Text Society. Despite the importance attached to these works at the time by students of the English language, it was as editor of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles that Murray made his lasting contribution to the study of English and other modern languages. The dictionary sought to provide authoritative definitions that were not merely supplemented by, but rather grew out of historical examples drawn from literature. Millions of quotations were compiled and organized to show changes in words' usage over time. The result was an exhaustive history of every word known to have been in use after the year 1150; a compilation that became, on its publication, the standard reference work for all students and scholars of the English language.
Critical Reception
Murray's contributions to the creation of The Oxford English Dictionary are considered to be astounding. He established the standards and editorial models used in the dictionary for years to come. Murray's method of reading quotations to obtain meaning is still used today as one of the principal methods of assembling material for revising the dictionary.
Principal Works
The Complaynt of Scotlande [editor] (nonfiction) 1549
Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland (nonfiction) 1868
Synopsis of Paley's Horae Paulinae (nonfiction) 1872
*A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [editor] (nonfiction) 1884-1915
*In 1933 the dictionary was officially renamed The Oxford English Dictionary.
James M. Garnett (review date 1884)
SOURCE: A review of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, in American Journal of Philology, Vol. 5, 1884, pp. 359-66.
[In the following review, Garnett compares and contrasts Murray's A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles to An Anglo-Saxon Dicitonary, finding Murray's work the more valuable.]
English lexicography is at last beginning to receive the attention it deserves and requires. The publication of the works above mentioned [An Anglo-Saxon Dicitonary and A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles], of the second especially, will carry beyond the narrow circle of scholars the much-needed public information that the English language has a history, a history which every English-speaking man and woman should know; and that the English language did not begin with Shakspere, nor even with Chaucer—an old story, but one hitherto much neglected. Prof. Toller has done well to re-edit Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, first published in 1838,—how well, critics are still engaged in discussing. That the work needed re-editing no one will deny. Every Anglo-Saxon scholar has long felt the want of such a dictionary. The original work has been long out of print, and even if accessible, could not answer the demands of modern scholarship. Bosworth's Compendious Anglo-Saxon and English Dictionary (1860) is too meagre to serve any but the most elementary purposes, so that English scholars were dependent upon German works, especially Grein's invaluable Glossary to the Poetry (1861-64), and the glossaries attached to special works, as that of Heyne to Beowulf, the best of its kind. Ettmüller's and Leo's Lexicons do not come into consideration, for the repelling arrangement of these works will always prevent their general use. The republication of Bosworth was then necessary, and Prof. Toller informs us that "Dr. Bosworth devoted much time and labor to the preparation of a second edition of his dictionary, but at the time of his death [in 1876] only the 288 pages which form Part I of the present issue had been finally revised by him"; and further, that "So much progress had been made with some succeeding sheets that it would have been a matter of considerable difficulty to make any but slight alterations in them. Consequently, after careful consideration, it was thought better to leave unchanged in the text certain points which would have involved extensive modifications, and, when the work should be complete, to note such in the preface or appendix." These quotations give Prof. Toller's point of view. I rather think that he would have done better to make the necessary alterations in the work itself, even at the expenditure of considerable time and labor, for this work, when completed, will have to serve as the standard Anglo-Saxon dictionary for many years to come. Moreover, Bosworth's views of Anglo-Saxon phonology are completely antiquated, and a modern editor cannot afford to follow them. As to the treatment of æ and the separation of the short from the long vowels—both points referred to by Prof. Toller—with respect to the first, æ might have been treated alphabetically along with a, as Prof. Zupitza has treated it in the glossary to his edition of Cynewulf's Elene, or it might have been treated separately immediately after a, but it should not have been treated as ae. The separation of short from long vowels in the alphabetical list is altogether unnecessary, as Profs. Toller and Zupitza rightly think; in fact, the alphabetical arrangement of Zupitza's brief glossary may be taken as a model by future editors, for it shows, in this respect, a decided advance upon Heyne's arrangement. A more important matter, however, and one not so readily overlooked, is the phonetic quality of æ. Prof. Toller simply repeats Bosworth's older statements, e. g., Bosworth: "The short or unaccented Anglo-Saxon æ seems to have been a slight lengthening of the short a, approaching to ae or ai in faery or fairy, as appears from these cognate words: wael, wail; braedan, to braid; naegel, a nail, etc." Toller: "The short or unaccented Anglo-Saxon æ has a sound like ai in main and fairy, as appears from these cognate words: wael, wail; braedan, to braid; naegel, a nail, etc." While no longer calling æ "a slight lengthening of the short a," Prof. Toller leaves unchanged Bosworth's statement as to its pronunciation. Further, Bosworth says: "The long or accented œ is found in the following words which are represented by English terms of the same signification, having ea sounded as in deal, fear; dœl, fœr, etc." Toller: "The long or accented œ has the sound of ea in meat, sea. The œ is found in the following words, which are represented by English terms of the same signification, having ea sounded as in deal, fear; dœl, fœr, etc." These views as to the sound of short æ and long œ are totally at variance with those advocated by modern Anglo-Saxon scholars. Again, Bosworth says: "The œ is often changed into á, as stœnen, stony, stán, a stone; lœr, lár, lore"; and Toller repeats the statement verbatim. This is a decided instance of "cart before the horse," and if we look under a we find it reversed. Bosworth says: "The long á is often changed into œ, as lœár, lore, lran, to teach," which also we find repeated verbatim in Toller, with the addition of "án, one; œnig, any"; so that apparently á and œ interchange ad libitum. The phenomena of umlaut (mutation) do not seem to be comprehended yet in England, notwithstanding Mr. Sweet's energetic labors, and dialectic variations receive no consideration. It is to be hoped that when Prof. Toller gets to i he will not follow Bosworth and say: "The Anglo-Saxon long or accented í had the sound of i in tine, fine, in these cognate words: tíne, fíndan [!], wín," etc. The late Dr. Bosworth deserves great credit for his valuable services, but his ideas of Anglo-Saxon phonetics should not be taught to the present generation.
The deficiencies of this dictionary have been commented on by Mr. J. Platt in the Transactions of the Philological Society (1882-3-4), by Prof. Wülcker in Anglia (V, Anzeiger, Heft 4), and by Prof. Heyne in Englische Studien (VII, Heft 1), who is more complimentary than either of the other critics, and praises as it deserves the industry and labor expended on the work, but does not hesitate to note its shortcomings, and supplies many omitted words. Prof. Wülcker complains that Prof. Toller has incorporated Grein's Glossary into Bosworth's Dictionary, but he could not have neglected that work, and has acknowledged his obligations by the prominence given to Grein's references, although these obligations might have been more distinctly stated in the "Preliminary Notice." The large number of examples and references shows that Prof. Toller has not spared labor, and the almost entire lack of any adequate helps to ascertaining the vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon prose works should cause critics to be lenient in judging omissions of words. A cursory comparison of a few columns of Grein's Glossary, s. l. H, with the corresponding words in Part II, prepared by Prof. Toller himself, shows, as was to be expected, numerous additions from the Anglo-Saxon prose vocabulary, and s. v. han-créd, where Grein has but one example from the whole body of Anglo-Saxon poetry (Seel. 68), Prof. Toller gives at least ten from the prose. Much space is taken up in the repetition of references for the same example, as no less than three for the word above mentioned, "Exon. 99a; Th. 370, 32; Seel. 68." Also, in respect to proper names, which are rightly included, the dictionary emulates the encyclopaedia, and even long extracts, with translation, are given, as under "Beowulf" twenty-four lines from Thorpe's edition—in which article, by the way, we are informed that Beowulf was "a relation of Hrothgar," and that this poem "must have been translated into Anglo-Saxon by a Christian—perhaps in the reign of Canute, about A. D. 1020." These things ought not so to be. So too under "Brunan-burh," after a long account of the battle and the locality, we have thirty-six lines, with translation, from the poem as printed in Dr. Guest's History of English Rhythms. This seems to be an unnecessary consumption of valuable space in a dictionary. It may be added that the only omitted word found in Grein in the columns compared as above was hangelle, with example from the Riddles (456).
Whatever may be said of the omissions and other shortcomings of the work—and Prof. Toller is well aware of their existence—the dictionary supplies a long-felt want. There is nothing to take its place, and it is to be hoped that Prof. Toller will be able to complete it speedily. Heyne's advice (Englische Studien, VII 135, ad fin.) would, however, be well heeded, as, in that event, the value of the two parts still to come, forming the second half of the work, would be much increased, and we should have an Anglo-Saxon dictionary that we might well be proud of.
The publication of the first part of the Philological Society's New English Dictionary, [A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] edited by the President of the Society, Dr. J. A. H. Murray, marks...
(The entire section is 4005 words.)
W. H. Wells (review date April 1884)
SOURCE: "The Philological Society's New English Dictionary," in The Dial, Vol. IV, No. 48, April, 1884, pp. 301-304.
[In the following review of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Wells praises the breadth of Murray's endeavor, but finds that Murray sometimes sacrifices accuracy in favor of originality.]
The age of Elizabeth has been called the Golden Age of English Literature, and that of Queen Anne the Augustan Age. In the absence of other special characteristics to distinguish the present period in Great Britain, we may apply a less euphonious title and call it the Age of Dictionaries. We have had dictionary periods before, but the...
(The entire section is 3129 words.)
The Nation (essay date 4 May 1916)
SOURCE: "Scotch Dialect," in The Nation, London, Vol. 102, No. 2653, May 4, 1916, p. 495.
[In the following essay, the critic unfavorably compares James Wilson's Lowland Scotch to what the critic considers the superior work, Murray's Account of the Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland.]
It is now more than a generation since Sir James A. H. Murray, in his Account of the Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, laid the foundation for the scientific study of the Scottish dialects. He hoped that similar studies would be made of at least the seven or eight main dialects, and that thus material would be collected for a new and complete Scots...
(The entire section is 436 words.)
Anthony Burgess (review date 30 September 1977)
SOURCE: "Murray and His Monument," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3940, September 30, 1977, pp. 1094-95.
[In the following review of K. M. Elisabeth Murray's Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary, Burgess expresses an appreciation for James Murray's modern approach to language.]
When Becky Sharp threw away her copy of Johnson's Dictionary—Miss Pinkerton's invariable gift to her departing students—it was not the least of her gestures in the direction of modernity. That book was a dog walking on its hind legs and, moreover, walking backwards. It tried to fix standards of usage in terms of the undefiled...
(The entire section is 3137 words.)
Hazel K. Bell (essay date October 1996)
SOURCE: "The Making of a Dictionary: James A H Murray," in The Indexer, Vol. 20, No. 2, October, 1996, pp. 78-80.
[In the following essay, Bell recounts Murray's efforts to compile and publish the Oxford English Dictionary.]
Caught in the web of words: James Murray and the Oxford English dictionary, K M Elisabeth Murray's biography of her grandfather (Murray 1977), was reviewed by The Times as describing 'how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English dictionary, and a lexicographer greater by far than Dr Johnson'. It makes fascinating...
(The entire section is 2321 words.)
Further Reading
Murray, Katharine Maud Elisabeth. Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. New Haven: Yale, 1977, 386 p.
Account of Murray's life focusing on his efforts in organizing the definitive historical dictionary of the English language.
Additional coverage of Murray's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 49-52; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 1; and Literature Resource Center.
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Mining trucks should stay off Marquette streets
About 4 1/2 years ago, I was on the Marquette City Commission. We then made a half try at a truck ordinance aimed at trucks, e.g. logging trucks and other industrial trucks, not to come through Marquette as a short out to Escanaba or west to Sagola, Iron Mountain, etc.
What we achieved was an ordinance to not allow Blondeau Trucking to haul limestone from the Shiras power plant across U.S. 41 to Genesee Street onto Division and out to M-553 and west and return.
Blondeau sought relief in the courts and the judgment by Judge Thomas Solka was that Marquette could ban Blondeau's heavy trucks from city streets.
As a result, limestone was haulted via U.S. 41 north, through the roundabout and west on U.S. 41 to Negaunee Township, and south to the Palmer area. We can extrapolate from this activity that Marquette can ban heavy trucking from our city.
The then-city manager, Judy Akkala, arbitrarily had a five-ton limit sign placed at the south end of Lakeshore Boulevard beginning at the light near the Beef-a-Roo restaurant.
(I believe) this action was never approved by the city commision and I am quite sure that I was the only commissioner to register disapproval of an effort by Manager Akkala not to make life better for a considerable number of Marquette residents but was clearly done to make life better for the promoters/owners of the Lakeshore Park Place condos, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming building condos and the (what's commonly known as the) bird house condos.
This action was very limited in scope and comfort to very few Marquette residents. The sign remains today and I believe truckers could challenge the action and win.
These partial solutions did not prevent loaded or empty logging trucks from entering Marquette from Marquette County Road 550 west to West Avenue, south to Fair Avenue, east to McClellan and south through a large portion of town.
These logging trucks were also yet allowed to turn left at Wright Street and south on any number of city streets to hit U.S. 41 south. For example, Third Street, Front Street, etc.
I am urging our city to get busy now and defend the peace, quiet and safety of Marquette residents by banning all heavy trucking from using Marquette streets unless their cargo is either generated in Marquette or to be delivered within the city of Marquette.
The city commission has hesitated to take action to seek relief from the ongoing heavy logging, sand and gravel trucks and future mine truck traffic. Now is the time.
For some years, I have touted a bypass that goes through the Narhi's Salvage Yard, south through the Sand Pit to the We Energy haul road.
This road crosses County Road 550 near the railroad tracks close to the Old Schneider Mill and runs west to their fly ash landfill area.
The We Energies road is a very good road that in a short distance west connects to a quite good Forrestville Road going south over a newly built bridge over the Dead River.
This road runs south to U.S. 41 West at two points in Marquette Township.
Another option is for the county with financial assistance by interested parties to build a bypass road west behind the currently built-up commercial frontage along the north side of U.S. 41.
This road could connect with the Brickyard Road and west U.S. 41.
Heavy trucks coming from County Road 550 and ultimately heading east could exit Forestville Road and proceed to the Walmart light, turn left on U.S. 41 and proceed to Escanaba.
It is my belief that citizens of Marquette are not going to allow introducing huge mining trucks to those now allowed.
Again, trucking cargos not generated from within Marquette or trucking cargos not intended for delivery within Marquette should not be allowed to use city streets as a convenient shortcut through our city.
Call or write now before it is too late.
Many of you folks know that historically the city fathers have considered McClellan Avenue to be a truck route when completed.
I have been reminded most recently by a sitting comissioner that McClellan will be named a truck route.
Citizens of McClellan and the school board ought to consider fast and well of the change in your lifestyle if that becomes an ordinance in the near future.
Editor's note: Don Potvin is a former member of the Marquette City Commission and Marquette County Board and is a resident of Marquette.


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Are we really wanting to keep the recycling bins in the corridor outside the office? I don't think it's the best place, beside a fire exit. Also, the recycling has already mounted up and it adds to the pain of recycling that little bit more to have to have to carry it all up the stairs. After it's been carried from upstairs already.
I was thinking of putting the blue bins where they were upstairs beside the church doors, and proper signage to keep it sorted. Like, if this bin is full CLOSE THE KITCHEN FOR 15MINS AND JUST DO IT.
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Mr. Alessi, in his August 11 forum letter, is to be commended for his support of Senator Young.
His letter, however, goes downhill after the first sentence. Doesn't he realize that Chicago is the last city in the U.S. that bans its citizens from owning pistols and most firearms? Why, then, were there, as he wrote, " several hundred people killed over the last weekend in Chicago alone?"
"LaPierre and his ilk" , that, I would guess, means four million law abiding NRA members and I, have shown our understanding of the Second Amendment by going to the Supreme Court and winning a case to force Chicago to let citizens defend themselves. As soon as the Chicago politicians abide by the Supreme Court's ruling, perhaps the death rate will decrease to the level of cities allowing weapons of self- defense.
Alessi's statement, "Contrary to what Mr. LaPierre has publicly stated, using the Second Amendment to justify the maiming or death of even one human being – child or adult – is not in any way justified." means you, Mr. Alessi, have given up your right to self-defense of you, your family and property. That may be fine for you, but I love my family too much to not protect them.
Finally, you commend Governor Cuomo for incorrectly using an emergency rule to rush a flawed bill through in the middle of the night, without the stipulated three day consideration period. I would challenge the Governor to start his ethics campaign in his own office by being ethical.
Mr. Alessi, you are correct that the Second Amendment doesn't trump the rest of the Constitution. It does, however, provide the means to protect the rest of the constitution.
I encourage Senator Young to keep working to repeal the S.A.F.E. Act and commend her for voting against the amendment giving retired law enforcement exceptions that other equally qualified citizens don't receive. Thank you, Senator Young, for supporting my unalienable right to defend my family and myself. I would hope Senator Young continues support for better defense methods for our New York school children. History shows that total weapon free zones don't work to protect our schools.
I would hope that more well informed citizens would support her by using their First Amendment rights and their right to vote.
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Wow great work. Is that plaster? I love plaster, and it looks like you really found out how to exploit it.
Im looking forward to the Year End Show. Will I get to see this there?
yes end of the year show, we are building it. It is actually blue foam, milled on both sides (we only have a 3 axis mill) and then painted white.....
After 6 years working at a commercial firm in London and setting up my own practice with collegues from the AA to deliver a comission for a tower we won in India, I am embarking on a new adventure as studio leader for a local firm in China, trying to reconnect with the experimental mind set I used to have during my days at GSAPP


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New budget includes hike in real estate taxes
WILLIAMS TWP., Pa. - Property owners in a Northampton County township are going to be paying substantially more toward the cost of running their municipality's government next year because of a legal dispute with the Chrin landfill.
Williams Township supervisors voted 3-0 Wednesday night to advertise a $2,538,809 budget for 2014 that carries a 1.5-mill real estate tax boost.
Supervisor-elect Ray Abert, who will replace supervisor Sally Hixon on the board in January, also voiced support for the proposed budget.
The tax hike -- a 60 percent increase over the current 2,5-mill rate -- was necessitated by Chrin's decision in September to cut the amount it pays in host fees to the township by two-thirds, because the supervisors voted in June to try to collect millions of dollars in back business privilege taxes Chrin says it does not owe.
The matter is now being litigated in Northampton County Court, with the next round of arguments set for Dec. 10, according to township solicitor Jonathan J. Reiss.
Township manager Jennifer Smethers told the supervisors Wednesday night she budgeted only $156,750 in the proposed 2014 spending plan, compared to $475,000 in 2013, and without a tax increase, the township would have a $273,000 deficit.
If the proposed budget is approved at the supervisors' Dec. 11 meeting, the tax bill for a property owner with a home assessed at $100,000 would rise from $275 to $450.
Even with the tax hike, Williams Township's real estate tax rate remains among the lowest in Northampton County, Hixon pointed out.
At least one township resident, Frank Korpics, praised the supervisors for moving ahead without Chrin money. ""I think you're on the right track," he said. "You need to wean yourself off this cow, because it doesn't give milk all the time."
Korpics also objected to the money Chrin has spent on various township projects. "Everything is a gift," he said, adding that the landfill operators send out "propaganda letters" touting their contributions. "This is what they [the letters] are good for," he said, as he dramatically ripped a piece of paper in half.
Before the supervisors acted, Mohammad Umar Choudhry, head of the township budget advisory committee, presented a report urging them to support a 1.25-mill tax increase.
However, the supervisors were uneasy with the recommendation because a 1.25-mill hike would only leave a budget surplus of $17,375, which, Hixon said, "could be wiped out with one [unexpected] bill."
Supervisors chairman George Washburn said a 1.5-mill boost, which would give the township a $75,000 cushion, would allow the board to build up its capital reserve fund to help pay for extensive road repairs that will be needed in the next two to five years.
Supervisor Vincent Foglia agreed with Washburn, saying, "To give us a cushion and money for the capital reserve fund for roads, I'd go along with that."
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Song Hordes: The Return of the Indie
"Yeah," I said. "Can you bring up Steve Holland's records?"
In our family lore, Steve Holland's records are the equivalent of The Ark of the Covenant from Raiders Of The Lost Ark or One-Eyed Willy's treasure map from Goonies. The story went that Steve Holland, my mother's high school boyfriend, had lent them to her more than 40 years ago and that the two broke up shortly thereafter. My mom got the records in the exchange and both went on to lives too busy to be bothered with a bunch of old vinyl. The two faux-snakeskin flip-top boxes of 45s had been buried in a far corner our family's attic since we moved into the house in the mid-'80s and hadn't been played since the late 1960s or early '70s.
When my mom brought them up to our Boston apartment last summer, I was surprised not only by the singles they contained -- Dirty Water by The Standells, Louie Louie by The Kingsmen, You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes , The Music Explosion's Little Bit O'Soul -- but by the sheer amount of labels. Not just Motown, Stax, Sun and the ones people still talk about, but dozens of others. The orange-and-white checkers of Roulette records, the googie font of Laurie records and the cartoon quote bubble firing from the revolver of Bang Records still entrance me every time I drop the 45 adapter on the turntable and give them a spin.
In the current music climate, we're repeatedly told how consolidation and greed are killing the recording industry and how the Big Three of Universal Vivendi, Sony
Maybe they would if the Big Three was all we had and independent labels were ground into dust. Maybe that would be the case if they weren't such a potent reminder that once those London-issued Rolling Stones singles and Capitol-minted Beatles records stop spinning, music lovers eventually branch out and start seeking out the Dave Clark Five, Procol Harum and The Left Banke. That's where the little labels come in, and broadening music minds have kept a lot of them around.