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Janowitz, Tama
Tama Janowitz 1957-
American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and children's writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Janowitz's career through 1996. For further information on her life and works, see CLC, Volume 43.
Both reproached and lauded for her bold depictions of late twentieth-century American society, Janowitz is a best-selling novelist who also became a celebrity in the worlds of fashion, art, and advertising in the 1980s and early 1990s. At one time, Janowitz was the subject of tremendous media exposure due to her association with the New York City art scene, which centered around pop art guru Andy Warhol. Critics have also identified her as part of a "literary brat pack" that includes novelists Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, and Douglas Coupland. Janowitz claims Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Vladimir Nabokov among her major influences, but her literary style encompasses a wide range of references; from the broad English farces of Evelyn Waugh to comic strips and the impact of television on modern culture. Janowitz specializes in making bold characterizations of mainstream pop culture and uses sharp satire to capture the "poses and pretentions" of the upper-class Manhattan art world.
Biographical Information
Although a long-time resident of New York City, Janowitz was born in San Francisco, California; the daughter of Julian Frederick Janowitz, a psychiatrist, and Phyllis Winer, a poet and professor. Her childhood was marked by a liberal parenting style and her parents' divorce. Janowitz studied at several different institutions including Barnard College, Hollins College, Yale University School of Drama, and Columbia University. After college, she settled in New York and worked as a freelance journalist, a model, an assistant art director, and a writer-in-residence. Janowitz first began writing fiction during her college years. She completed American Dad (1981), her first published novel, several years after college while working in the New York fashion and art world. Her first critical success was Slaves of New York (1986), a collection of short stories which inspired an 1989 film by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory (in which Janowitz also appeared). A Cannibal in Manhattan (1987), an earlier work, was released by Janowitz's publisher immediately following the success of Slaves of New York. Janowitz developed strong ties with the New York art scene, and especially with her close friend, Andy Warhol. Warhol's creative marketing approach and postmodern sensibilities were qualities that influenced Janowitz in her formative professional years. Employing Warhol's trademark technique of "visualization" (where an individual constantly imagines oneself as successful in order to achieve success), Janowitz boldly pursued her celebrity status as she participated in the decadent lifestyle embraced by many young affluent New Yorkers during the 1980s. In 1992, Janowitz married Tim Hunt, the curator of the Andy Warhol estate.
Major Works
American Dad focuses on the life of a young man named Earl Przepasnick and his handling of his parents' divorce. Earl's relationships with his father, his psychiatrist, and his mother, are autobiographical in nature and reflective of several events in Janowitz's youth. Slaves of New York is a collection of twenty-two short stories inspired by Janowitz's experiences living in Manhattan and her relations to the New York City art world. Several of the stories center on a young jewelry maker named Eleanor and her artist boyfriend, Stash. Another prominent character is Marley Mantello, a self-assured painter who dreams of becoming a success. The stories exhibit an abundance of humor that helps mask a deep underlying darkness. This style is also prevalent in A Cannibal in Manhattan, whose main character, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, is a young man brought to New York from a South Seas island by a wealthy socialite. Mgungu quickly encounters the barbarity of civilized life, and the novel, through its central metaphor, provides commentary on the culture of consumer capitalism. Janowitz exploits the Shakespearean conceit of "gender in disguise" in The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group (1992), which centers around Pamela Trowel (who sells advertising for Hunter's World magazine) and her befriending of a nine-year-old street urchin. Gender themes are also woven into By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996), a story based on the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The novel focuses on Maud Slivenowicz, a nineteen-year-old who lives with her family in a trailer by the polluted shores of Lake Superior. Janowitz explores issues central to post-feminist thought through her portrayal of Maud and her sister, Marietta. Susan Bolotin referred to the novel as "a picaresque satire of twentieth-century America." Janowitz returned to her usual New York setting in her 1999 novel, A Certain Age. The city's social climbers and their cocktail-party circuit are again reexamined, this time with the focus on an unmarried woman in her thirties and her ruthless quest for a wealthy, well-connected husband. In April 2001, Janowitz collaborated with illustrator Tracy Dockray on the children's book, Hear That?, which centers around a mother playing a listening game with her young son.
Critical Reception
Although her first novel, American Dad, was widely ignored by critics, Janowitz's second work, Slaves of New York, became an international best-seller that immediately thrust her into the media spotlight. Readers were drawn to her dark sense of humor and her vivid, engaging descriptions of the ethics behind New York's avant-garde art scene. Critics, however, did not respond so favorably as the general public. Although some reviewers praised her bold prose style (Alice H. G. Phillips said that Janowitz "observes everything with a sharp eye but with a New York bohemian's true affection for her world"), many critics took issue with Janowitz's tendency to stress style over substance. They criticized Janowitz for her exhaustive descriptions of pop culture minutiae and for her thinly-veiled allusions to high-society gossip. Raymond Sokolov called Slaves a "slovenly collection" with "restlessly indistinct" prose, labelling Janowitz "a writer for nonreaders." Slaves of New York has endured as Janowitz's best reviewed work, although her follow-up novels have remained popular with readers across the country. When asked in an Esquire interview how she felt about the negative critical response to her work, Janowitz commented: "My feelings are hurt … and you feel like, oh how could you say this, but it doesn't bother me that much because what can you do, you're writing the best book you can. And the other side of me feels glad that they trashed it because mostly the books that I don't like are the ones getting the lovely reviews." Hailed as a "marketing artist" by the New York Times, Janowitz is a writer whose fiction has drawn close scrutiny, and whose work has been hailed as a vivid and telling rendition of American postmodern urban life.
Principal Works
American Dad (novel) 1981
*Slaves of New York (short stories) 1986
A Cannibal in Manhattan (novel) 1987
The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group (novel) 1992
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (novel) 1996
A Certain Age (novel) 1999
Hear That? (juvenilia) 2001
*This work was adapted for the film Slaves of New York (1989), with a screenplay written by Janowitz, who also appeared in the film.
Raymond Sokolov (review date 22 July 1986)
SOURCE: "New Girl in Town," in Wall Street Journal, July 22, 1986, Vol. CCVIII, No. 15, p. 28.
[In the following excerpt Sokolov objects to the substance of Janowitz's prose in Slaves of New York.]
Uptown in the shabby genteel offices of The New Yorker they have been waiting at least a decade for the aged editor William Shawn to step down. At age 80, he has become a laughingstock, devoting his once-distinguished, once-amusing magazine to n-part screeds on staple grains and vanished airplanes, indulging an old man's whim for young women writers of dubious (literary) virtue.
The latest of these Shawn-genues is Tama Janowitz, whose stories...
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Alice H. G. Phillips (review date 12 December 1986)
SOURCE: "From the Hip," in Times Literary Supplement, December 12, 1986, p. 1409.
[The following review provides a brief synopsis of Slaves of New York and comments on the book's range of characters and themes.]
From its opening tale, related flamboyantly by a rich girl turned prostitute, to its final case history of a modern sado-masochistic relationship, Tama Janowitz's first collection of short stories [Slaves of New York] is designed to attract the attention of the young and the trendy. But then, almost all of its characters are New York artists, art dealers, designers or models with reputations to make and high rents to pay; they know that...
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Michael Dibdin (review date 5 February 1987)
SOURCE: "Ghosts in the Machine," in London Review of Books, February 5, 1987, pp. 12-13.
[In the following review, Dibdin discusses Janowitz's thematic concerns in the novel Slaves of New York.]
How do you like to be approached by a strange work of fiction? Do you prefer a hearty handshake ('Call me Ishmael'), a more discursive line ('All happy families are alike'), or a low-key manner ('For a long time I used to go to bed early')? What about this, for example?
After I became a prostitute, I had to deal with penises of every imaginable shape and size. Some large, others quite shrivelled and pendulous of testicle....
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Sonia Pilcer (review date 18 October 1987)
SOURCE: "Pre-Literate in Manhattan," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 18, 1987, p. 10.
[In the following review, Pilcer briefly considers several thematic implications of A Cannibal in Manhattan.]
Perhaps you've seen her Amaretto ads. The most visible of a highly publicized group of young writers who have been hailed "the literary brat pack," Tama Janowitz has brand recognition. Her new book [A Cannibal in Manhattan.] has been launched with the breathless hype usually reserved for rock acts.
Despite the off-putting title, I was ready to be entertained by her deadpan humor and offbeat characters.
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Peter Reading (review date 4-10 March 1988)
SOURCE: "Into the Faded Air, the Torpid," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4,431, March 4-10, 1988, p. 245.
[In the following review, Reading discusses the texts and subtexts of A Cannibal in Manhattan.]
To the South Pacific island of New Burnt Norton, home of the sometime cannibalistic, almost extinct Lesser Pimbas, comes nubile New York billion-heiress Maria Fishburn—ostensibly to teach algebra to the hapless natives under the auspices of the Peace Corps, but really because she fancies the tribe's president-elect, five-foot purple-skinned Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, having seen his picture on the front of the National Geographic years earlier and fallen in...
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Elizabeth Kaye (essay date November 1988)
SOURCE: "Fifteen Minutes over Soho," in Esquire, November, 1988, pp. 170-84.
[In the following essay, Kaye presents a detailed portrait of Janowitz's personal life, commenting on her professional milieu and various critical attitudes toward her work.]
From the back she looks like a stick figure drawn by a child. From any angle, she clearly aspires to be both a rebel and a waif. Her abundant hair has been likened to a bird's nest, a furry wigwam, a lion's mane. It is going gray at the temples.
Had she had less distinctive hair, her life might have been quite different. The hair has been useful in furthering the career of a writer whose most notable...
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Julie Salamon (review date 19 October 1992)
SOURCE: A review of The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, in Wall Street Journal, Vol. 220, October 19, 1992, p. A12.
[In the following brief excerpt, Salamon praises portions of The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group for its wit and intelligence.]
Tama Janowitz has solved the casting problem for her latest novel, The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group. She has written and directed a film version, conceived as a promotional gimmick.
Without having seen the film but having read the book, I strongly recommend the film. It's only 40 seconds long, an appropriate amount of time to spend with Ms. Janowitz's ruminations about her heroine's...
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Tom Shone (review date 14 November 1992)
SOURCE: "Eight Million Characters in Search of an Author," in Spectator, November 14, 1992, pp. 39-40.
[In the following review, Shone contemplates the humorous aspects of Janowitz's style.]
Eighties junk fiction is showing its paunch. 'The ancient tallow of fast food' hangs around Tama Janowitz's new novel [The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group]. The most frequently used adjective in the book? Greasy. The pizza her heroine eats at the start: 'A spot of grease glistened in the centre'. The lamb chops she remembers eating as a child: 'greasy, gristly'. The hamburger on page 72: 'greasy'. The hair of the schmuck on page 205: 'filthy, greasy,...
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Elizabeth Young (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Library of the Ultravixens: The Lost Phallus—Where did I Put It?—in the works of Tama Janowitz, Mary Gaitskill, and Catherine Texier," in Shopping in Space, edited by Elizabeth Young and Graham Caveney, Atlantic Monthly Press and Serpent's Tail, 1992, pp. 142-93.
[In the following essay, Young discusses Janowitz's oeuvre within the framework of postmodern feminist theory.]
"Slipping through the stitch of virtue, Into crime"
(Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women)*
It is the 1950s and our heroine is sitting...
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Susan Bolotin (review date 20 October 1996)
SOURCE: "Hiawatha Goes Hollywood," in New York Times Book Review, Vol. 101, October 20, 1996, p. 13.
[In the following review Bolotin provides a summary of the plot of By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee.]
The creative muse manifests itself in many forms. Even Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" has provided its share of inspiration, albeit mostly to parodists. But one has to wonder what it was about the famous narrative poem that got Tama Janowitz's juices going. Could it have been the notion of an innocent culture heading for its inevitable destruction, or the image of the magnificent Hiawatha revenging the sins perpetrated against his mother? Was it...
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Tamsin Todd (review date 20 October 1996)
SOURCE: "This is the Forest Primeval," in Washington Post Book World, October 20, 1996, p. 6.
[In the following review, Todd addresses issues of Janowitz's style and theme while providing a summary of By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee.]
Here's a bright gem of a book—literally. The jacket lettering is done in electric-blue and lime-green; a neon-yellow hairless dog is freakily emblazoned mid-page; and in the background are surreally rolling bubble-gum-pink clouds, which, if you remember, also featured prominently on the cover of Douglas Coupland's Generation X.
Which reference is confusing, because the distinctive landscape Tama Janowitz...
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Further Reading
Bellante, John and Bellante, Carl. "Janowitz and Gobbins: Feminist Fatales." The Bloomsbury Review (May/June 1993): 13.
Examines the "male-bashing" post-feminist strain in Janowitz's The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group.
Bradham, Margaret. "Familial Failings." Times Literary Supplement (12-18 May 1989): 518.
Contains a brief synopsis and commentary on American Dad.
Driscoll, F. Paul. "Going to the Opera with Tama Janowitz." Opera News (November 1996): 26, 28-9, 65.
A conversation with commentary between Driscoll and Janowitz that draws...
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Footprint Network Blog - 04/2013
Human Development and the Ecological Footprint
Despite over $150 billion being spent annually in development globally, virtually nobody is tracking whether the achieved progress can last, or whether it is becoming increasingly fragile without the necessary access to nature's resources.
But this is changing. The United Nations Development Programme's latest flagship publication, its Human Development Report 2013, prominently features countries' performance as proposed by Global Footprint Network: how much human well-being do countries generate (as measured by the UNDP's Human Development Index) at what level of resource demand (as measured by the Ecological Footprint).
The Report reads:
"To sustain progress in human development, far more attention needs to be paid to the impact human beings are having on the environment. The goal is high human development and a low ecological footprint per capita. Only a few countries come close to creating such a globally reproducible high level of human development without exerting unsustainable pressure on the planet's ecological resources."
It is a significant step for a leading UN agency to question business-as-usual models of development and explore alternatives. In the past, the report included Ecological Footprint results in its background data table, but this year UNDP used our HDI-Footprint graph to prominently show how far away the world is from meeting the sustainable development challenge, using simple metrics.
Ecological Limits, Human Development

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New product, though, is on its way. Later this month, Congoleum is launching AirStep Advantage, the latest and thickest (110 mils) version of its loose lay flexible sheet flooring featuring a low gloss urethane/aluminum oxide wearlayer, Scotchgard Protector and silver-laden antibacterial protection. The line is being launched in 19 upscale designs, is FloorScore certified and warranted for life.
Moran, however, is aware that retailers haven't fully grasped the advantages that the alternative AirStep sheet line has over fiberglass-backed flooring, mainly that it can be loose laid over most existing subfloors.
"We have significant double-digit growth in AirStep, and retailers who have used it prefer it to glass, they get it. But we haven't gotten the story out as well as we should have," he said. "We haven't been telling the story of its performance. We haven't pushed it enough."
Congoleum will also launch 12 X 24" DuraCeramic tiles at Surfaces 2013 and extend the renowned collection into the commercial marketplace.
"The market is telling us what's selling and 12 X 24" rectangles are the hottest trend right now," said Dennis Jarosz, Congoleum's senior vice president of marketing and sales. "The other hot trend is commercial LVT. And that's an area we haven't participated in. We'll enter that market next year with graining and veined tile looks that will set us apart."
That optimism is backed by the July 1 hire of Doty Horn, Congoleum's new vice president of design. Horn, a 37-year veteran of the design industry, has worked for Formica, Benjamin Moore, J. Josephson and Armstrong. Horn is also the inventor of Color Pulse, an international directional trend forecast for crosscurrent industries.
"Doty is definitely going to expand our visuals when it comes to design," said Moran. "She brings a ton of experience to the table both residentially and commercially. She educates designers globally. She's active scholastically, publishes books and is quite renowned in Europe. She's very participatory. We're actually having specifiers call us because of their relationship with Doty."
Congoleum also continues to actively research alternative materials and chemistry for future, greener products, said Jarosz.
"Our research and development group is looking at new plasticizers, resins and experimenting with different binder systems," he said. "So far, there's no alternative materials that are as cost effective or work with our equipment as easily as what we're already working Sith. I can't say we're going to introduce something revolutionary in 2013, but I wouldn't rule it out for 2014."


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How Did Fiscal Talks Hit Impasse Again?
After a brief and happy stretch of several days in which negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff seemed to be humming along nicely, they have gone into the ditch once again.
Instead, the House plans to pass Thursday, on a partisan vote, a measure that even its advocates consider an unsatisfying and incomplete attempt to address part of the tax debate—and that has no chance of becoming law. Meanwhile, negotiations on a bigger deal have ground to a halt.
What has happened?
In a nutshell, it appears that the deficit-cutting deal House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) was negotiating with President Barack Obama was either not fulsome enough in spending cuts or not coming together fast enough—or both—to sell to House Republicans. That led Mr. Boehner to offer up his now famous Plan B, which does little more than extend current tax rates for everybody with incomes under $1 million a year.
Plan B initially seemed designed mostly as a maneuver to increase House Republicans' leverage in talks with the White House. Now, though, it appears to have taken on a life of its own as the GOP's potential final position for the year.
In other words, despite meaningful movement by both the president and the speaker in the last week, the situation seems stuck again where it has been for more than a year, in an ideological divide between the White House and the bulk of House Republicans.
Let's recap. Last Friday, Mr. Boehner made a significant move when, for the first time, he offered a proposal to the White House in which he agreed to raise some tax rates—the top tax rate on those making $1 million or more annually. That was a long way from the Obama plan to raise the top tax rate for all families with incomes of $250,000 or more, but the importance was that the principle of raising at least some rates had been accepted.
Mr. Obama in return offered to increase the income level at which higher rates would kick in, to $400,000 from $250,000, and acknowledged he would have to accept less in tax revenues in a deal than he had been seeking. The president also agreed to reduce the rate at which Social Security benefits are increased for inflation, offering some savings in the near term, and more significant savings in the long run, in an entitlement program.
In sum, by Monday, Mr. Boehner had moved on tax rates and proposed more revenue in a final deal than he had originally proposed, and the president was seeking less in revenue and offering more in entitlement savings than he had originally proposed. Negotiations seemed to be moving in a natural order in which the two men would continue dividing the remaining differences until they reached a compromise somewhere in the middle.
But then Mr. Boehner shook up the process by offering up his Plan B, a bare-bones proposal that seemed designed to show the White House that, if the big deal wasn't concluded, the Republicans had another way to avoid taking responsibility for the across-the-board tax increases that otherwise kick in automatically at the end of the year.
But Plan B has morphed into an idea that many House Republicans have concluded would be an acceptable end point for the year. If the Senate refuses to pass Plan B, as Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says will be the case, or if the president vetoes it—well, then Democrats will own the tax increases and spending cuts that will kick in automatically in the New Year as the country goes off the cliff.
Republicans will have voted to extend Bush-era tax levels for most Americans, and the decisions about how to cut future spending on entitlement programs and a range of other tough questions could be kicked into next year. Then, they reason, pressure for a real fix will grow and their leverage will be higher as the White House again approaches the need to get a vote from Congress to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
Of course, perhaps passage of Plan B could be followed by a return to Boehner-Obama negotiations, with the speaker thinking his hand has been strengthened.
For those hoping for a comprehensive deal, though, the danger is that Plan B has become an acceptable stopping point for many House Republicans. Many in the GOP now seem to believe the two real alternatives are this bare-bones extension of tax rates for most Americans on the one hand, or a dive off the fiscal cliff on the other. The vote on Plan B could end up making the big deal more elusive rather than easier to find, at least for now.
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Tue 10th – nothing yet
Wed 11th – 78s, Danny Mullins (9ish), Zoomerians, Iona Marshall
Thu 12th – FF till 11 and then Dan Seizure/ downstairs: Balkanarama (8pm)
Fri 13th – FF then Sink at 12/ downstairs Jiggery Fuckery and Dead on the Live Wire at 11pm and another band and maybe some acoustic set before
Sat 14th – X party. Line-up: downstairs 8pm Torn strings, 9/10pm withces' brew, 11pm talkamac, 12 maybe myrtle tyrtle, bristol brunch + DJ/ upstairs 8pm humphrey, the hemullen, fueldiva, pigeon foetus, silk, snake rider etc.
Sun 15th – Humelele African music by Shane 8pm
Mon 16th – Click clack club?
Tue 17th – FF til 10 then ceilidh. Mark?/ downstais Zorras 8pm + DJ
Wed 18th – FF till 10 then drama drama/ downstairs 78s then golden hour at 8pm
Thu 19th – FF till 10 then something/ downstairs Turning plates. Need more bands
Fri 20th – FF til 10 and then The Graveyard Train upstairs or downstairs. Need bands!
Sat 21st – FF closing party/ downstairs Ultrachip at 7pm
Sun 22nd – Ultrachip upstairs midday/ downstairs acoustic folk 8pm
Mon 23rd – upstairs Noe games day until 6pm and then at 8pm Andy Brown Sarah and The Snakes, The Leg and The pineapple chunks/ downstairs New Urban Frontier at 8pm
Tue 24th – upstairs Skin for Sale 8-9pm, Foxgang / downstairs Outbox midnight, The Irresistible Urges 10, Collar Up 9pm, Mobius Loop 11
Wed 25th – humelele upstairs/ dead on the live wire curate both 8pm
Thu 26th – plastick fork downstairs / bowery vs od upstairs both start 8pm
Fri 27th – upstairs save the clocktower/ downstairs ten tracks
Sat 28th – The hapenning
Sun 29th – drama drama drama downstairs


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About the Author: Claire Sneed serves as a Conflict Prevention Officer in the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction & Stabilization (S/CRS).
In April 2010 a popular uprising brought down the Government of Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The Provisional Government that filled the power vacuum was soon put to the test when ethnic violence erupted in the south of Kyrgyzstan in early June, creating a fragile environment for an inexperienced Provisional Government in a country of strategic importance to the United States. To support the efforts of U.S. Embassy Bishkek and the U.S. Government to ensure the stability of the Provisional Government and prevent further violence, S/CRS deployed an interagency team of Civilian Response Corps members to provide technical and administrative support to the embassy in areas critical to the country's stability.
In January 2010, concerns about Central Asia prompted U.S. officials to facilitate a whole-of-government conflict analysis and planning process for Kyrgyzstan. The process engaged dozens of U.S. Government offices in Washington, as well as an interagency team at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, to identify key questions related to Kyrgyzstan's short and longer term stability. Senior leadership at the U.S. Embassy, leadership of the Manas Transit Center, representatives from the U.S. Department of State's South and Central Asia Bureau and other offices, members of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and representatives from the Department of Defense (DOD), including CENTCOM, worked together to identify country-specific and broader regional factors affecting stability and to develop a whole-of-government strategic plan to address these factors.
Following the uprising in April 2010, senior leaders from the budget, planning, and assistance coordination offices of the State Department's Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, and the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) agreed to send a multi-office team to Kyrgyzstan to help the U.S. Embassy develop a six-month stabilization strategy for U.S. assistance to the Provisional Government to help lay the groundwork for a constitutional referendum and parliamentary elections in the fall of 2010. Three Civilian Response Corps members participated in the State-USAID assessment, which set broad objectives for the 6-12 month period, assigned U.S. Government resources to these objectives, and identified critical technical areas, such as elections, security, and economic and trade policy, which the Provisional Government identified as key to achieving peaceful transition. To meet the objectives set forth in the assessment, an expanded team of Civilian Response Corps members was selected and deployed in May and early June.
In early June, however, the situation worsened as ethnic violence erupted in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad, resulting in hundreds dead and thousands wounded, the destruction of public infrastructure and entire neighborhoods, and the expulsion of tens of thousands of minority ethnic Uzbeks into neighboring Uzbekistan, creating a humanitarian and refugee crisis. The Civilian Response Corps team responded quickly to the changed circumstances. A small assessment team deployed to Osh to assess security, damage, and humanitarian need and to evaluate timing to stand up a temporary U.S. Assistance Coordination Unit in the south. The team also increased U.S. Embassy reporting and provided technical advice to the U.S. Embassy and local officials on key stability issues such as assistance coordination, security, economic policy, and elections. An additional S/CRS representative was assigned to CENTCOM to help coordinate efforts between the Civilian Response Corps; DOD; USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance; State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; and other U.S. offices participating in the humanitarian response.
Several valuable lessons learned have come out of this engagement and will be useful for future U.S. efforts to respond to complex stabilization challenges. First, U.S. Government stabilization efforts and plans to address conflict and instability should be based on a shared understanding of changing dynamics on the ground, ideally through a robust interagency assessment. Only through collaboration at the very beginning of an engagement can a full picture of the situation on the ground be achieved. The second lesson is that, where appropriate and feasible, a civilian surge effort must be based on a detailed concept of operations developed jointly with the U.S. Embassy and key Washington offices to ensure a coordinated response. Third, U.S. civilian stabilization efforts can only be successful with clear and accepted mandates, roles, and responsibilities, and clear processes for communication and decision-making. Finally, all of these requirements for successful U.S. stabilization response are achievable if stabilization resources, goals, and plans account for those that already exist and are ongoing, not only those of the U.S. Government in-country, but those of our host nation partner and counterparts as well.
The work of the Civilian Response Corps continues in Kyrgyzstan, with the deployment currently scheduled to end in December 2010. Support to the U.S. Embassy will remain a high priority with S/CRS and the Civilian Response Corps standing ready to provide assistance to help ensure peace and stability in this area important to U.S. national security.
Related Entries:Providing Assistance and Supporting International Efforts in Kyrgyzstan, Helping the People of Osh Move Toward Peace and Reconciliation and Rebuilding Kyrgyzstan: U.S. Pledges $48.6 Million at International Donors' Conference
Ron in New York writes:
CRC a model for effective local governance.....
CRC sounds like a good model for providing domestic/internationsl conflict-prevention. An early intervention; bringing all players to focus with their respective resources and legal capacities. maybe we should look at this approach in the US...as emergency situations requiring multi-level and multi-agency responses are becoming more routine.
Elmira P. in Florida writes:
Engagement plans with government,businesses,public andcity and rural areasgoing to be in environment tens times increasing group of gangs. Inprocess growing up. Concerns two questions safety of people helping Kyrgyzstan rebuild and flexibilty of available forces to contreol this gangs. Efficient comunication with journalist can help shape public opinion in certain direction. More deeply understand direction of society moving.


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A woman tends to a child during a Sacrament Meeting of the Washington DC 3rd Ward at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
In the March 8 Washington Post article "Feminism's Final Frontier? Religion," Lisa Miller predicted that American women would soon abandon the Republican party in droves, just as they are reportedly quitting conservative Christian churches in historically large numbers. In both cases, women's disaffection appears to be fueled by the disrespect shown to them by male leaders, a disrespect revealed in the ecclesiastical sphere by evangelical minister Jim Henderson's new book, The Resignation of Eve, and visible in the political sphere to anyone who has followed the recent debates over access to birth control.
As "the men of the right" (as Miller calls them) insult women of faith, many of the latter are rejecting the communities that demean them, and creating leadership roles for themselves elsewhere. She suggests that a similar dynamic will soon govern American party politics. However, the implications of the current situation may not be that clear-cut, religiously or politically.
Miller believes women's disaffection to be a new phenomenon, spurred by the incongruities between a newfound economic independence and an old-fashioned gender hierarchy:
"In churches (and synagogues and mosques) across the land, women are still treated as second-class citizens. And because women of faith are increasingly breadwinners, single moms and heads of households, that diminished status is beginning to rankle" (emphasis mine).
The assumption that previous generations of women of faith uniformly accepted an inferior position, that is, that religion constitutes "feminism's final frontier," leads the author to predict a major break with the patriarchal past due to a novel combination of propitious circumstances and female aspirations. But the "resignation" described by Henderson is not a new departure potentially signaling a major break with tradition; rather, it is the latest permutation of the gender conflict that has been part and parcel of the Christian tradition from earliest times.
Indeed, the struggle over gender and spiritual authority set in early enough to affect the canon of the New Testament. Many women supported Paul, the greatest early Christian missionary, including Prisca (Priscilla), who was instrumental in the apostle's successes at Corinth and Ephesus, and whom he ordained as a congregational leader along with her husband Aquila (Acts 18). Yet, misogynistic editors of biblical manuscripts successfully obscured Paul's respect for female religious leaders by falsely attributing to him — either through misplaced punctuation or outright interpolation — the sentiment that women should be silent in churches (1 Cor. 14:33-36).
Nevertheless, women persisted by, among other things, writing or supporting the composition of egalitarian texts, founding and governing monastic communities, pressing the liberationist claims of virginal feminism, exercising a number of liturgical (at times sacerdotal) functions, articulating a whole range of new theologies (including feminine theologies of the godhead), and establishing innumerable beguine communities that were absolutely independent of male ecclesiastical authority. In sum, women consistently found ways to control their own religious destinies and to assume leadership roles within Christian contexts, including during the European Middle Ages, a period popularly (albeit erroneously) conceived as particularly repressive of women. Yet, none of these activities ever fully erased the persistent commitment to gender hierarchy cherished by the "men of the right" whose values have determined the character of most mainstream hegemonic institutions.
Christianity has consistently been open to pro-feminist movements, but this has resulted neither in a fundamental egalitarian transformation of Christian institutions, nor in a mass exodus of disaffected women. The current wave of "resignations" fits squarely into a 2000-year-old tradition of tension over gender and spiritual authority; if proponents of patriarchal forms of religious organization do not feel particularly threatened by the alarm bells Henderson has rung for them, it is because historical precedent encourages complacency on their part. After all, their predecessors always managed to hold on to power.
"The men of the right" have found, in every generation, a substantial number of Christian women who considered the limited roles and secondary status allotted to them to be quite comfortable. It is certainly easier to execute simple, circumscribed tasks such as meal preparation than to shoulder the responsibility for major policy decisions. But every generation has also witnessed rebellion and discontent.
Today's feminists of faith can draw on a rich heritage to stake out positions that might ultimately justify both Henderson's warnings and Miller's optimism. Success may well depend precisely on an awareness of that inspirational heritage. A radical egalitarian transformation will require an unprecedented struggle; it will not be the inevitable result of the rise of the female breadwinner.
Felice Lifshitz earned a PhD in History from Columbia University and currently teaches in the Program in Women's Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published numerous books, articles, and essay collections concerning medieval Christianity.
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BEIJING (AP) An Australia judo competitor who lost in the under-100 kilogram class in Beijing has been discharged by the Australian Olympic Committee after withholding information about an outstanding assault charge.
Half heavyweight Matt Celotti was under investigation Friday by the AOC after an Australian radio station reported that he is due to face a Melbourne court on Sept. 12 over a charge of intentionally causing injury during an incident at a pub last year.
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All new CUBRID 9.2.0 with new SQL support, performance improvements, and more
posted 4 years ago in CUBRID Life category by newpcraft
Last month we announced CUBRID 8.4.4, the latest version of 8.4.x branch, with new SQL Profiling feature and numerous stability improvements. Today I am excited to announce an update to the 9.x branch - all new CUBRID 9.2.0.
Most new features and stability improvements of the latest 8.4.4 version have been applied to CUBRID 9.2.0 as well. However, there are several more new features and performance improvements in 9.2.0 that I will describe below.
You can download the latest version of CUBRID 9.2.0 for Windows and Linux from http://www.cubrid.org/?mid=downloads&item=cubrid&os=detect&cubrid=9.2.0.
New Features
SQL profiling
Prior to 8.4.4 and 9.2.0 users could obtain SQL profiling information to analyze the query performance only in desktop GUI applications like CUBRID Manager or CUBRID Query Browser. Now CUBRID allows to retrieve SQL profiling information directly from drivers. To enable the SQL profiling one can execute
SET TRACE ON before executing the query, then retrieve the query plan and statistics by executing
SHOW TRACE query. See the following example:
csql> SET TRACE ON; csql> SELECT /*+ RECOMPILE */ o.host_year, o.host_nation, o.host_city, n.name, SUM(p.gold), SUM(p.silver), SUM(p.bronze) FROM OLYMPIC o, PARTICIPANT p, NATION n WHERE o.host_year = p.host_year AND p.nation_code = n.code AND p.gold > 10 GROUP BY o.host_nation; csql> SHOW TRACE; trace ====================== ' Query Plan: SORT (group by) NESTED LOOPS (inner join) NESTED LOOPS (inner join) TABLE SCAN (o) INDEX SCAN (p.fk_participant_host_year) (key range: (o.host_year=p.host_year)) INDEX SCAN (n.pk_nation_code) (key range: p.nation_code=n.code) rewritten query: select o.host_year, o.host_nation, o.host_city, n.[name], sum(p.gold), sum(p.silver), sum(p.bronze) from OLYMPIC o, PARTICIPANT p, NATION n where (o.host_year=p.host_year and p.nation_code=n.code and (p.gold> ?:0 )) group by o.host_nation Trace Statistics: SELECT (time: 1, fetch: 1059, ioread: 2) SCAN (table: olympic), (heap time: 0, fetch: 26, ioread: 0, readrows: 25, rows: 25) SCAN (index: participant.fk_participant_host_year), (btree time: 1, fetch: 945, ioread: 2, readkeys: 5, filteredkeys: 5, rows: 916) (lookup time: 0, rows: 38) SCAN (index: nation.pk_nation_code), (btree time: 0, fetch: 76, ioread: 0, readkeys: 38, filteredkeys: 38, rows: 38) (lookup time: 0, rows: 38) GROUPBY (time: 0, sort: true, page: 0, ioread: 0, rows: 5)
New SQL syntax
In CUBRID 9.2.0 we have added new SQL functions and statements.
- Analytic functions
- Aggregate-analytic functions
- Support
NULLS LASTsyntax to the
ORDER BYclause.
- Support DROP VIEW IF EXISTS statement.
In CUBRID 9.2.0 there are over 140 stability and usability improvements which include the following:
- Administrative Convenience
- One of the major improvement is the SQL profiling which I've already explained above.
- Sort the output of the tranlist command by the specified column.
- Added an additional event log file to record query status information such as SLOW_QUERY, MANY_IOREADS, LOCK_TIMEOUT, DEADLONG, and TEMP_VOLUME_EXPAND which affect the query performance.
- cubrid_master log file now includes each node information in the output of HA status.
- Added two new parameters to configure the replication delay interval to teh replica node and specify time for stopping replication.
- An option to change the failover method in HA environment.
- Sharding
- cci_set_db_parameter function can be used in SHARD environment.
- The password of shard DB can be also specified with an environment variable.
- Configuration
- Added a parameter to adjust the maximum number of replication archive logs.
- Added a system parameter to specify transaction rollback when lock escalation occurs.
- Added CONNECT_ORDER broker parameter which allows to specify the order brokers access the DB host when multiple HA/REPLICA DBs are configured.
- Add a generic_vol_prealloc_size parameter that allows to maintain a certain amount of free space in GENERIC volume to prevent the low performance caused by the sudden increase of a GENERIC volume.
- Globalization
- Support Romanian ro_RO locale.
- Hash partitioning is now available for all collations.
- Performance
- The in-memory sort optimization is added to process the query by saving the records that match the ORDER BY ... LIMIT condition to the sort buffer.
- Query performance improved by applying SORT-LIMIT optimization while executing the ORDER BY ... LIMIT clause in the join query.
- Query plan is rewritten when the proper data volume is exceeded during the re-executuion of prepare for the same query statement.
- Statistical information of only the added index is updated.
- Fix to use an index when a subquery is given in a START WITH clause as a condition in a hierarchical query
As a result of these improvements, the performance of SELECT operations in CUBRID 9.2.0 has improved by 23%.
Figure 1: Result of SELECT Operation of YCSB Benchmark (Master Server).
For more performance and QA results, refer to CUBRID 9.2.0 QA Completion Report.
Behavioral changes
Some of the functionality in CUBRID 9.2.0 have been changed.
- When a column without a default value is added by using the ALTER ... ADD COLUMN statement, the PRIMARY KEY or NOT NULL constraint was violated as all values of the added columns became NULL. This problem has been fixed.
- Globalization
- CUBRID default data/time format is available when TO_CHAR, TO_DATE, TO_DATETIME, or TO_TIMESTAMP SQL functions are called without specifying the date/time format.
- The collation and charset of an ENUM type attribute is no longer propagated from its components.
- Sharding
- The "cubrid shard" command that controls the SHARD is removed; it is now controlled by the "cubrid broker" command.
- SHARD-related parameters are configured in cubrid_broker.conf instead of shard.conf.
- Some SHARD-related parameter names are changed. Refer to Changing SHARD-related parameter names.
- Driver
- In JDBC code changed the zero date of TIMESTAMP from '0001-01-01 00:00:00' to '1970-01-01 00:00:00'(GST) when the value of zeroDateTimeBehavior in the connection URL is "round".
- In JDBC and CCI drivers query timeout is now applied to the batch processing function not per query when execution multiple queries at once.
- Utility
- Locale should be specified when creating a database.
- Now the decimal values output by some utilities in Linux and Windows are same.
- Configurations
- Changed the time and capacity related parameter names to allow to set time unit or capacity unit next to the time or capacity parameter value.
- PHRO is removed from the ACCESS_MODE of the broker.
- Among the system parameters that a user without DBA permission can change dynamically, "client" or the "client/server" parameter can now be changed.
- Other
Besides these improvements and behavioral changes, there are many bug fixes and minor improvements in resource management. For the full list refer to CUBRID 9.2.0 Release Notes.
If you would like to migrate from previous version to the latest CUBRID 9.2.0, please refer to Upgrading to CUBRID 9.2.0.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave your comment below.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (220 votes).
In short: nice flat course, very friendly place!In full: This is a great race for a 1st time 10k runner as it is very flat and quick, which means it is also good for pb hunters as well! easy to get to and away from with easy parking and good facilities, nice 1 alchester running club!Date of review: January 4, 2009
In short: Quick and flat courseIn full: One of the flatest and fastest 10K races you'll find in the area. The only hills are at the bridge over the M40 which you do on twice on this out and back course. My Garmin reported the total climb as 37m.Being in early December the weather can be a factor, but Sunday was (for me at least) perfect.Scenery wasn't the best, but this is a race I entered with an eye on a PB.Date of review: December 20, 2008
In short: First time I have ever run a 10k, if they are all like this then bring them on.In full: Definately worth doing and will do again. wll organised and very friendly, thank you to everyone.Date of review: December 18, 2008
In short: Very flat and fast, good organisation, will definitley do next yearDate of review: December 18, 2008
In full: Very well organised friendly and encouraging Marshall's, my first 10k will definitely be back next yearDate of review: December 17, 2008
In short: great race will do this again.In full: Great race, least the weather held up and didnot rain, great running weather.Date of review: December 16, 2008
In short: A great race for a race PB, but the countryside is dull, probably because it is flat and next to the M40!Date of review: December 15, 2008
In short: Well run with good marshalls and food.In full: 2nd year of doing this and it is obvious that it is very well planned. Brilliant race and even the weather was ok.Date of review: December 15, 2008
In short: Cheery marshalls & good organisation compensate for any lack of sceneryDate of review: December 15, 2008
In short: Good race - different but recommended!Date of review: December 15, 2008
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The United States just wrapped up its successful July Presidency of the UN Security Council. The presidency -– which rotates monthly and now goes to Argentina in August –- focused on issues as far ranging as the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria to the conflict in Africa's Great Lakes region.
The July Presidency marked the first UN visit of John Kerry as Secretary of State. The Secretary spoke passionately on peace in the Great Lakes region while chairing a highly anticipated ministerial debate, which also included other high-level briefers, including the UN Secretary-General and for the first time in the Council's history, the President of the World Bank.
In another first for the Council, journalists spoke during an open debate on the Protection of Journalists in Armed Conflict, a theme the United States highlighted in different ways throughout the month. For example, working with the U.S. Institute of Peace and the City University of New York, the U.S. Mission to the UN hosted New York's first TechCamp, where 80 journalists, technologists, academics and civil society activists met to create innovative ways to use technology to allow reporters covering crises around the globe to operate more safely and effectively.
While the United States is done with the hard work of the July Presidency, plenty of works remains as the U.S. Mission gears up for the UN General Assembly starting in September. Keep up with all of the action by following the U.S. Mission to the United Nations on Twitter and by liking it on Facebook.
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I am a freelancer strong in CAD customization. I am searching for agents or indivisuals who can provide me cad customization work. I will pay agreed percentage on the total project cost. My profile is as follows:
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Programming Languages : Visual Basic 6, VB.NET, VBA
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This software is used by Kirlosker Oil Engines Ltd., Large Engines Division, Pune, India.
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Software developed for road cross-section & L section generation in AutOCAD using the field survey data, Cutting & filling area calculations, and Volume calculation
Skills used: Above software developed using AutoCAD VBA
These softwares are used by CADDLink, Nisarga Consultants and Akshaya Engineers from Nashik, India
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Utilities developed for solidWorks to perform following ;
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- To change sheet metal radius & K-Factor
- To automatically generate spare parts catalogue for assembly
Skills used: Above software developed using SolidWorks VBA
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Softwares developed for following:
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- To generation the material tests certificates.
- To automate the furnace charging calculations.
Skills used : Above softwares developed using Visual Basic & Excel
This software is used by Perfect Circle Victor Ltd. (Casting Division), Nashik, India.
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Software developed to generate the gear manufacturing drawing automatically using the input data.
Skills used : This software is developed using AutoLISP.
This software is used by Shri Krishna Gears Pvt. Ltd., Ambad, Nashik, India.
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We have designed the piping layout for the power house having DG set.
Skills used : Piping design & AutoCAD 3D
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Topic: How to set environment variables
Rails can't seem to find the RMagick module on my server. I've tried to set the GEM_HOME environment variable for rails with no luck.
I wrote a little .rhtml view to output all of the environment variables and only path appears (albiet for the incorrect location).
I have been unable to set environment variables and have the changes show up in the ruby script with both the apache SetEnv directive and the 'rake environment GEM_HOME=whatever' command
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Panasonic - Selfie functionality-enhanced LUMIX DMC-GF7W mirrorless camera
Panasonic's new mirrorless single-lens reflex camera with 16MP Micro Four Thirds sensor format - LUMIX DMC-GF7W - will be on sale for about ¥83,500 on February 13.
Panasonic's new mirrorless single-lens reflex camera with 16MP Micro Four Thirds sensor format - LUMIX DMC-GF7W - will be on sale for about ¥83,500 on February 13.
Fujitsu announced the development of the innovative style PC LIFEBOOK GH77/T and will release it for about ¥240,000 on January 23.
LIFEBOOK GH77/T consists of 2 parts; a 15.6-inch full HD display and a stand that contains the PC functionalities.
What is it exactly? It's a new style product that is hard to identify as a laptop or desktop. All the computing functionality is placed in the stand so that it cannot be called a tablet, either.
Panasonic is going to release new digital camera LUMIX CM1 that can also be used as a SIM-free Android 4.4 smartphone (Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor).
It will be available for about ¥120,000 on March 12 in a limited quantity - 2,000 units ONLY.
A super-rugged iPhone 6/6 Plus case, which is currently available by Thanko, is able to protect your iPhone from getting damaged by water, snow, dust, sand and shock.
It's IP68 waterproof and rustproof so that you have no worries to play with your iPhone with the case, for example, in the bathtub, and at the beach or snowy mountain. It also protects against the shock of falls of up to 200cm in height.
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au's new Android 4.4 kids smartphone model - miraie KYL23 - politely warns kids not to send derogatory words in a message.
miraie KYL23 is made for kids in the 3rd to 6th grade age group by Kyocera, and will be released for sale in late January.
Thanko released a pencil device that can be used in 3 ways: ball-point pen, stylus pen and 800mAh mobile battery.
There is a model for iPhone and one for Android smartphones, and both of them are sold for ¥3,480.
Fujitsu announced the development of a wearable device FUJITSU Vehicle ICT FEELythm to read signals of a driver's sleepiness by his pulse wave.
It's planned be released to the public sometime in March.
au is going to release new smartphone model INFOBAR A03, manufactured by Kyocera, in mid-February.
INFOBAR A03 is made of a curvy aluminum body, 4.5-inch full HD IGZO display (1920x1080), MSM8974AB 2.3GHz (Quad-core), 13MP CMOS camera, 16GB storage, 2GB memory, IPX5/8 waterproof, IP5X dustproof, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, GOS, microSDXC (up to 128GB), 2,020mAh battery. It has an original interface called "iida UI"


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5:00 Topic: 10 Principles of Burning Man, applied to polyamory
Guest cohost Joe Zarate-Sanderlin, a therapist, shares his thoughts with Minx at Burning Man and BMIR on how the 10 principles of Burning Man apply to poly
- Radical inclusion
- Gifting
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One of the most versatile actors in Hollywood, Martin Short's career spans television, movies and Broadway, with plenty of acting, singing, writing and producing along the way. Known for his fearless comedic performances, Short created iconic characters such as Saturday Night Live's Ed Grimley, a triangle-playing nerd obsessed with Wheel of Fortune; Franck Eggelhoffer, the flamboyant event planner with a mysterious accent in the Father of the Bride movie series; and Jiminy Glick, a heavyset and patronizing celebrity interviewer who knows very little about pop culture. These days, Short is the voice of the titular feline in the TV series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, has a recurring role on How I Met Your Mother and is a judge on Canada's Got Talent, which airs this month. As part of a nationwide tour, he is coming to the Sunrise Theatre for the Performing Arts in Fort Pierce on April 6 (tickets cost $55-$60) to perform a one-man comedic show in which he'll bring many of his characters to life.
PBI.com: Tell me about the performance you'll have at the Sunrise Theatre.
SHORT: It's a one-man variety show. I guess it's like if I was hosting Saturday Night Live, but I was the host but I was also the cast. So all the characters I've done will show up and I'll interview a surprise guest as a character, Jiminy Glick, and Ed Grimley will show up. Franck [Eggelhoffer] will show up. [laughs] It's kind of a mad show. It's just very loose and it's fun.
You've created so many well-known characters and starred in so many recognizable roles. What would you say is your favorite or most meaningful?
I don't have a favorite. It sounds pretentious, but they become your kids. You like them all. You've created them all. I usually let people tell me what they like. Comedy is a very subjective animal. So what one person might like, the other person might despise. But that's all okay.
What would Ed Grimley be like today?
I think he'd be very similar. What I always liked about that character is that he was an adult who hadn't lost the enthusiasm and excitement for the possible options of life. I guess he was like the type of person who's had a heart attack and now smelled the roses for the first time. But he just hasn't had the heart attack. He's just filled with excitement: [in Grimley's voice] "Oh, what if the phone rings? Who will be on the phone?" and, "Oh, I love Christmas." It's not that he was a little boy; he was an adult with a little boy's enthusiasm for things. We all hope that we don't lose that.
What would you say was Ed's life motto?
The essence of his life was [in Grimley's voice] in the everyday, just most exciting, fascinating things that could exist, I must say.
Who was Jiminy Glick's favorite person to interview?
Steve Martin, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Eugene Levy—a lot of great favorites. A lot of people are my friends, you know. It's kind of like, who's your friend? Who do you like the best?
And whom would he like to interview?
The best Jiminy Glick guest is someone who treats Jiminy like a real person. It's someone who treats Jiminy as if he's been in show business for years, and he may be a moron but you've got to do his show.
If I were to ask Jiminy what his qualifications were as an interviewer, and I mean that in the nicest possible way, what would he say?
[laughs] Right? He'd probably say [in Glick's voice], "I think my best quality is that I don't listen. I think that's a mistake many interviewers make."


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Nautic Global Group Introduces Eight All-New Boats
September 4, 2012
Nautic Global Group introduced new models for each of its primary boat lines at its annual international dealer conference. The new boats were developed based on ongoing requests from consumers for models with specific features.
"It's important that we continue to set the bar higher and keep working to develop innovative products to inspire our dealers and our boat-buying consumers," said Doug Sexton, Nautic Global Group Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "By adding new offerings to each one of our boat lines, we are demonstrating a commitment to maintain our leadership role in the industry."
Nautic Global Group manufactures Rinker Express Cruisers and Captiva Sport Boats, Hurricane Deck Boats, Polar Kraft Aluminum Fishing Boats and Parti Kraft Pontoons, as well as Godfrey Pontoon Boats including Sanpan, Aqua Patio and Sweetwater.
New models announced at the conference were the Rinker Captiva 186 Fish & Ski, Rinker Captiva 220 MTX Extreme, Rinker Captiva 236 BR, Hurricane SunDeck 2220 DC (available as outboard or I/O), Hurricane SunDeck Sport 203 OB, Aqua Patio 250 Express, Aqua Patio 240 OB Elite, and Polar Kraft Kodiak Sport 170 Fish & Ski. The company also made significant improvements to the entire Sweetwater Pontoon Boat series.
"These new boats fit perfectly with our existing brand lineup, and they truly represent our forward-thinking design," Sexton said. "Nothing is off the table as far as we're concerned when it comes to developing exciting new products. Whether it's creating a full-featured fishing boat using our wildly popular Rinker Captiva 186 or completely re-imagining the future of pontoons with the incredible Aqua Patio 250 Express, our goal is to lead through innovation."


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By STEPHEN NOHLGREN and TERRY TOMALIN
Published August 7, 2006
Roger Wilburn's life on the gulf began at age 11, cleaning fish on party boats.
Over the next 56 years, he caught enough grouper, snapper, shrimp, shark and tuna to pay off the $350,000 boat now docked behind his Panama City home.
Yet Wilburn's fishing days could end abruptly if Congress approves a grouper "buyout."
Designed to stabilize commercial fishing, the plan would limit the grouper catch to about 320 big producers, knocking twice as many small-timers out of the fishery without compensation.
"I never thought fishermen would turn on themselves like this," says Wilburn.
The plan's creators, led by influential Madeira Beach fish house owner Bobby Spaeth, say quotas and regulatory shutdowns have crippled commercial grouper fishing. The buyout could preserve a critical Tampa Bay industry, they say, while protecting a tasty fish that diners have come to love.
A close examination, however, shows the buyout may be unworkable and unnecessary.
The grouper fleet can survive without eliminating Roger Wilburn and hundreds of fellow fishermen.
Spaeth has dominated grouper politics for years. He is savvy, blustery and willing to sit through tedious regulatory meetings. His lobbying organization donates to Alaskan politicians, big players in federal fishing legislation.
It was only natural that Spaeth would kick into gear in 2004, when regulators began grounding the grouper fleet for months at a time to reduce overfishing.
Spaeth persuaded U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young to arrange a $35-million government loan that would underwrite a three-part "buyout" of the grouper fleet. Then Spaeth picked a committee of colleagues that hashed out the details and forwarded a plan to Congress in hopes of final approval.
First, fishermen with the smallest commercial catches would lose their right to fish for grouper, without any compensation.
Those with sufficient catches could collect up to $350,000 in "buyout" tax money to quit the fishery voluntarily.
Lastly, fishermen who reject the buyout and stay in the fishery would pay a 5 percent tax on future grouper catches to repay the government appropriation.
Chuck Sullivan, 59, says he would take the buyout in a heartbeat. He's tired of boat maintenance and onerous government rules.
Grouper fishing "is going down the tubes," Sullivan says. "I'd like to see anybody else take four months off without one bit of pay and see how they like it."
Most of the gulf's 1,000 or so commercial permit holders, however, don't catch enough grouper to qualify for a buyout. They would be forced out without compensation.
Hit hardest would be multispecies fishermen who target grouper one day, stone crab the next, then cast-net for mullet. Some run charter boats, but fish grouper when clients are scarce.
When Spaeth's committee polled the fleet, two-thirds of permit holders opposed the buyout.
Then the committee weighted the vote according to each fisherman's catch. Using that standard, full-time grouper fishermen swamped their smaller competitors and the committee reported to Congress that the industry supports the plan.
"It's like two wolves and a sheep sitting down and deciding who's for dinner," complains fisherman Bill Tucker, who rallied colleagues to fight the buyout.
Permits vs. pounds
Removing small producers from a fishery is hardly a new concept - regulators have done it for years to keep fishermen with meager landings from selling their permits to more productive newcomers, who increase pressure on the fish.
Many full-time grouper fishermen have lost their permits for other species. It's only fair, they say, that a buyout plan would boot part-timers out of the grouper industry.
"I don't have a stone crab permit because I didn't have enough landings," says Ed Maccini. "Three or four years ago, because I wasn't catching enough, they decided I wasn't getting a shark permit. I lost that, and kingfish."
But focusing on part-timers misses the point, says Roy Williams, biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The grouper industry suffers from too many boats and too few skilled captains and crews. The buyout may take boats off the market, but the best crews will just find work elsewhere and landings will remain high.
Ed Small, who captains his own boat, explains:
"I can get my 350,000 grand, (from taking the buyout), take my laptop computer off the boat, scuttle it and go on someone else's boat as captain," says Small. "I still have the (hotspot) numbers in my laptop. How does that take any production from the fleet?"
Furthermore, recent events have reduced the urgency for a buyout.
For one thing, the grouper fleet faces a new restriction this year: A limit of 6,000 pounds per trip. That slows down captains capable of bringing in 10,000 or 15,000 pounds.
And for whatever reason, the bite seems to have slowed some.
Through June, the fleet had landed only 2.2-million pounds of red grouper, a 35 percent reduction from 2005. At those rates, the fleet will easily stay within its red grouper quota this year and avoid the shutdowns that plagued them in 2004 and 2005.
Meanwhile, the federal Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council plans to impose "individual fishing quotas" in the next two or three years, says Williams, who sits on the council.
Individual quotas, based on each fisherman's historical catch, eliminate the need for shutdowns by assigning catch shares to each fisherman, much like owning stock in a company.
Fishermen who want to increase their catch would have to buy shares from other fishermen willing to sell theirs. Also, the government will tax all grouper fishermen to administer the program.
These new costs of fishing will be passed along to consumers, Spaeth says, "and I don't think people want to pay $18 for a grouper sandwich."
Nevertheless, he acknowledges, regulators "are hell-bent on getting those IFQ's whether we get a buyout or not."
Up in the air
Despite Spaeth's early success in getting Young to inject tax dollars into the budget, the buyout plan has lost steam in recent months.
Young's office has received hundreds of opposing e-mails, mainly from recreational fishermen who worry that heavy-hitting long-liners will dominate the market if the buyout goes through.
Attorney General Charlie Crist, a recreational fisherman himself, urged Young to dump the buyout. It "would harm small fishing operators while creating no benefit to the species," Crist wrote.
Young says he originally thought most people in the industry favored the buyout. Now he wants more consensus before he supports any specific plan.
He is not sponsoring a buyout bill, he said, nor is anyone else that he knows of.
"Except for having money available," Young says, "the buyout is still up in the air."
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January 15, 2014
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I have been with the Dordt College Social Work Department since August 2007 and serve both as Assistant Professor and also Field Director. My position as Field Director means I organize all the internships for our senior social work majors who complete a 440-hour internship in their final semester. I teach Introduction to Social Work, Family System and Practice, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Field Seminar and I also teach Sociology and Social Justice every fall semester. I thoroughly enjoy getting to know students and watching them grow and develop throughout their time at Dordt and in our program. I love discussing the topic of Christian faith and social work practice and wrestling with the ways that these two things can both complement and oppose each other from time to time.
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Madhuram because I did not want to bake anything eggy today..and it turned out to be moist an super tasty too, and the best part of this story is that my strawberry hating daughter didn't figure out that so much strawberries were deceptively concealed in it and enjoyed eating it, raving about the moist texture and asking for more till i revealed the truth...that didn't deter her either:-)SHE ATE MORE:-)LOL!!!
Sugar 3/4 cup
Baking soda 1 tsp
Oil 1/2cup
White distilled vinegar 1 tbsp
Vanilla extract 1 tsp
Strawberry puree 1 cup
Milk 1-2tbsp(optional)
Chocochips 2tbsp
Line the muffin tray with liners or grease the muffin tray well.
Puree the strawberries. I used 15 of them
In a large bowl mix the flour, soda and sugar together
In another bowl add vinegar, oil and vanilla extract. Whisk them together. Now transfer the strawberry puree to this and whisk again.
Into this wet mixture fold in the flour-sugar mixture ans mix. If you need add 1 or 2 tbsp of milk to get the consistency (if the liquid mixture is not enough)
Scoop these into the muffin liner and sprinkle the chocochips if you have a chocoholic at home like my daughter.Bake them for 22-30 minutes
Test by inserting a wooden tooth pick in the center , if it comes out clean then it is done.
Linking this to Bake -a- thon with these lovely bakers
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Regardless of the operating system, 3 simple commands will help you manage your CUBRID database service.
Important! On Linux, make sure that the user that owns the $CUBRID installation folder (such as /opt/cubrid for example) is the same one that runs the cubrid commands. You can connect as that user using "sudo su -s $SHELL cubrid" (assuming the user that owns /opt/cubrid is named cubrid).
1. To start the service, run command:
cubrid service start
2. To stop the service, run the command:
cubrid service stop
3. To restart the service, run the command:
cubrid service restart
You can also start/stop/restart only the manager or broker by replacing "service" with "manager" or "broker" in the above commands.
4. In order to start/stop/restart a given database, you must run:
cubrid server start demodb
demodb in the above example is the database name. Replace "start" with "stop" or "restart" according to your desired action.


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