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As the title states, these images were gathered over the last days, weeks and months of Internet searching and most of them are not in the TDH Gallery. Maybe one of the mods will add them to the Gallery.
Note that the first image is from the same series as the second image, which was taken from the Gallery.
Note that the first image is present on the last image too (which is from the Gallery) but is more detailed.
The first image, more specifically the Boba Fett half exist in the Gallery, and this goes for the second image too, but in this case this is a hi(er)-res image.
These images were shot in a professional studio (for the exibits?), but the interesting fact is the first image, more exactly the fact that we can see the ROTJ hero helmet with the ROTJ Hero jetpack (in all the exibit images the ROTJ Hero jetpack is present with the ESB Hero helmet, the so called ROTJ Se suit) and this image was definitely made after ROTJ.
This image (taken by an RPF member from the Star Wars Blu-Ray Extra) is missing from the Gallery.
These images were made by me and were made just for fun (each file name contains the 'photo montage' to avoid misleading.
The first image was made using ESB stills while the second image was made from ESB screen caps.
New addition 26-11-2012
While I did my usual browsing I found something extraordinary! The images are not best quality, but the fact that these blueprints and info are available is great news. So whoever has the 'Star Wars - The Blueprints' and a good scanner...
Note that the last image (taken from the first image) has the perspective view corrected and was also resized to a higher but poor resolution.
And this is the link to the images ==> Star Wars - The Blueprints the images are labeled 21 and 22.
Among some known facts we can read that these blueprints were drawn by Norman Reynolds in May 1978, the sculptor's name was 'Jen Stevros' (it's hard to read it correctly) and the actual building was made by Brian Archer. And we can see the working flamethrower and a 'new' side of the Supertrooper suit worn by Alan Harris.
I tried to decipher the text on the first image and I think I did a good job:
Note that the bolded texts are hard to understand or missing parts and were added as logical deductions. The hardest to decipher is the sculptor's name(*) which might be a known name by some members.STORMTROOPER II - EPISODE V
As many Empire aficionados knows, bounty hunter Boba Fett started out as an all-white supertrooper. The origins of his creations begins in February/March 1978 when Johnston did several concept drawings of the next-generation stormtrooper's armor and secret weaponry. In april, Lucas's second draft introduced Fett, a bounty hunter, though in May the costume was still designed as a "stormtrooper II" in Reynolds's very early backpack drawing (no. 02). In June, a film test in the States, showing a prototype based on Reynolds's series, still featured an all-white costume, presumably that of the supertrooper. But in September a fully clothed and painted Fett marched through Marin County in his final incarnation during a local fair. In November, Fett appeared in the rest of the United States as an animated character in the Star Wars Holiday Special on television.
The exact day or month that Fett and the supertrooper costume combined is subject to speculation. Clearly for the Holiday Special to be aired in November, plans lead to have been finalized at least a couple of months earlier -- possibly around the date George was writing his second draft in March or, at the latest, June 1978, when a concept drawing by Joe Johnston is clearly labeled "Boba Fett."
"As I recall, just before I started full-time on Empire, Robert Watts received a sketch from ILM depicting what was described as a super stormtrooper," says Reynolds. "He asked me if I would develop the character and produce an outfit for George to consider, so I enlisted the aid of a sculptor, Jan Stevens(*), and a model maker, Brian Archer (who previously had helped me with Threepio's costume), and produced the outfit complete with backpack and helmet range finder. When George finally received the outfit, he decided to change the concept from stormtrooper to bounty hunter."
(*)Update 29-11-2012
I managed to find the name of the sculptor/modeller of the Boba Fett suit and her name is Janet Stevens (or Jan Stevens) but sadly I didn't find any image or info regarding her, except the movies she worked on: Janet Stevens - IMDb or Jan Stevens - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
Another mystery solved for us. More to go...
Other data from the same page:
ABOVE The all-white supertrooper costume, like C-3PO's, came with a "poster" to aid assembly, as shown here at Elstree.
If you have never before seen images with Boba Fett, you can post them here.
Update 24-10-2013
Finally! The name has a face!!! Jan(et) Stevens:
Update 25-10-2013
As I promised, here is another image that is not new, but it has a better resolution:
It's the same room where Jan Stevens did the sculptings, but in the right side image on the top shelf you can see the clay model of the Supertrooper/Boba Fett helmet (this was already pointed out in an older thread by BGHunter, if I'm not mistaking), but if you looks closer, there are more goodies:
If some of the images are breaking the TDH Rules then please let me know and I will remove them from this thread


text: We grew poppies from seed in February. It probably would have been faster to grow them in place, but we didn't know that. We were rewarded with this beautiful blossom which I was photographing when bees started pollinating it in a strange way. I thought "what the heck, I'm going to video this." The bee faces AWAY from the center of the flower, vibrated her wings rapidly hitting the stamens which showered her with pollen. After getting a layer of pollen, she hangs out on the outside of the flower and grooms her body, pulling the pollen off her 'back' and into her pollen baskets. I've never seen anything like this.

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Rye triple murder suspect faces 18 felony charges
PUEBLO, Colo. - The suspect in a triple murder in Rye faces 18 felony charges, including counts of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery.
Harry Mapps, 59, is accused of killing Kim Tuttle, 55; Reginald Tuttle, 51; and their daughter Dawn Roderick, 33, on Nov. 27.
Mapps faces six counts of first-degree murder, six counts of aggravated robbery, one count of first-degree arson, one count of tampering with physical evidence, two counts of identity theft, and two counts of forgery.
The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office said Mapps cashed two checks totaling $8,000 that belonged to the victims.
Some of the victims' relatives filed a protective order that prevents them from being directly contacted by the defendant and public defender during the case.
Mapps was arrested Dec. 28 at a motel in Roland, Okla.
Pueblo District Attorney Jeff Chostner has not decided if he will pursue the death penalty against Mapps.


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The Porsche 928 has to be among the least appreciated (both by collector's and the media) sports cars still on the road today. At one time it graced the covers of this magazine. Today, it's owners are almost fanatical in their loyalty. I'm hoping Porsche does go forward with plans to build a next generation 928. I bought an '87 model for "peanuts". With it's mostly aluminum body and sleak lines it looks as impressive today as it did coming off the showroom floor.I'd like to see Motor Trend pay tribute to the car they once called Porsche's Best.
A good overview of the car can be seen on European television here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIPzNSkZa8Y
The 928 is definately underappreciated. But hey, I am glad it is underappreciated, this is what allowed me to buy my dream car. If it remains underappreciated for a few more years, I will buy a second. As for why 928 owners are fanatical, there are few 20 year old cars that can seem so modern in both appearance and performance.For an idea of how well the 928 can perform look at this footage of the 928 on a race track. Grant it this is a race prepped car, but look at how it passes the 360 stradale like it was standing still. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P29nHru4fvI
Very cool video dreamer. Very nice driving. I love road courses, you can really see the skill of the driver and see how gutsy he is. Much better than on an oval track where pretty much the fastest car wins.
I think there are a few keys to the 928 never really "taking off" in the collector car world. I've never owned one of these, but in America I think the major conceptions people have is that 928's are 1.) "Controversially" styled 2.) Financial suicide as they age and 3.) Not a "real" Porsche. Of course, none of the front-engined cars (924, 944, 968 included) have ever really threatened sales of the 911, although the 928 was essentially deesigned as the 911's successor in the late 1970's. IIRC, the MSRP of a new 928 was also significantly higher than that of a 911. I've driven a few of these, the most recent a 1986 928S, and always come away with a the impression that it feels like Porsche tried to make a Corvette. They are very solid feeling, structurally, but with the added downfall of most U.S. versions being automatics, there's simply not much for an enthusiast to appreciate. Neat cars, though. I'd probably pick up a 5-speed if I got a good deal on a nicely maintained example -- just to experience it. I would expect to tire of it rather quickly, though.
As far as the styling is concerned, the 928 was way ahead of it's time. Whenever I drive my 928 I get asked by people about the car. They are always completely floored that it is a 1987. Most think it is only a few years old.In terms of driving. If you do get a chance to drive another 928, try manually shifting the auto gearbox. You will be amazed at how the car responds to this.
This is also a car that can very easily be brought into the 21st century. The dynamics and balance of the car are excellent, so it responds well to added horsepower. There are now several options for the 928 owner who wants to add forced induction including 2 proven supercharger kits with examples of each producing well over 500 RWHP with some reaching 600. There are also now two or three turbocharging options available with one of them a twin turbo kit that looks amazing. These kits have proven very reliable and now have the option of custom tuning the air fuel maps with a custom chip.So for about $7K more you can have a car that handles impecably with power that will keep up with just about anything.I don't want people to get the wrong idea, these cars are not for everyone. Now that they are getting older and have been cheaply available for a number of years, there are some pretty rough examples out there. So, if someone has had a bad 928 experience, it was likely not in a well sorted example.
Beautiful car, definitely a future classic, jut cant get over those goffy looking headlights, I always thought that the 944 was a better looking car, just wish it had the 968s power...


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Even when we understand their parts, living things are hard to put back together
Robert L. Dorit
The publication in 1637 of René Descartes' Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences changed the practice of science forever. In it, he poured the foundations of modern science by putting forth two powerful and interrelated theses. The first embraced reductionism as a way of knowing: Descartes committed himself to "divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution," and to "conduct my thoughts in such order that, beginning with those objects that are simplest and most readily understood, I might ascend little by little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex." Later in the same work, he deployed one of the most durable metaphors of Western intellectual thought: He argued that the body was best thought of as a machine.
By coupling those two ideas—that complex machines could be understood by taking them apart, and that living beings are essentially machines—Descartes set the stage for the age of science. He argued persuasively that living systems emerge as the physical consequences of material forces. For example, also in his Discourse, he explained the workings of the heart:
I wish it to be considered that the motion which I have now explained follows as necessarily from the very arrangement of the parts, which may be observed in the heart by the eye alone, and from the heat which may be felt with the fingers, and from the nature of the blood as learned from experience, as does the motion of a clock from the power, the situation, and shape of its counterweights and wheels.
The living world was thus the legitimate province of the sciences and its inner workings could be probed and understood through logic, observation and experiment.
The task of this new science would henceforth consist in disassembling the seemingly complicated machinery of life into its simplest components, which could then be cataloged, prodded, manipulated and described. According to Descartes' model, any real understanding of the body could only come from taking it apart, just as one takes apart a machine to discover its inner workings. If we wish to understand how a clock tells time, according to this model, our job is to disassemble it. Understanding a clock means understanding its springs and gears. And the same is true of living "machines."
This notion of the body as a machine would clear away centuries of intellectual detritus: By arguing that the body was the sum of its interacting parts, and, more importantly, by suggesting that the study of those parts would reveal the workings of the body, Descartes shifted centuries of scientific and philosophical discussion about imponderable life forces and inexplicable animist vapors. (Lest we go overboard in praising Descartes, he clearly panicked at the last moment. He exempted human beings from the ground rules he set for other living organisms. In so doing, he sowed 400 years of confusion and discord with his notion that the mind and the body were separate phenomena, governed by separate rules.)
Implicit in both the strategy of reductionism and the metaphor of the machine, however, is a hidden assumption. That assumption is that an accurate understanding of the parts will reveal the workings of the machine in their entirety. To state it differently, we do not need to be overly concerned with how we take the machine apart, because the parts themselves will dictate the reassembly. But is this assumption true?
Anyone who has tried to repair a piece of lab equipment, a washing machine or even an old-school carburetor knows the dangers of taking something apart without paying careful attention to the process. Making a couple of sketches or taking a few photographs during disassembly certainly makes life easier later on, when the goal is reconstruction. A little thought and a few disastrous reassemblies make it easy to dismiss the idea that the parts harbor the information needed to reassemble the whole. Yet the truth is complicated. I suspect that the reductionist strategy, in its purest form, does work when the number of component parts is comparatively small and their relations are limited and predictable. If a given gear can only mesh with a small number of other components, and a given spring fits only on a single stem, the parts do encode the whole. This is why a good clock maker could probably put a clock back together—even one she has never seen before—if all of the parts were laid out in front of her.
But living systems are not really clocklike in their assembly, and organisms are not really machines. Despite Descartes' contention that we could not distinguish a well-made automaton of an ape from an actual ape ("were there such machines exactly resembling organs and outward form an ape or any other irrational animal, we could have no means of knowing that they were in any respect of a different nature from these animals"), the relations of parts to wholes in living systems is entirely different from that in machines—and most unclocklike.
If anything, living systems consistently violate all of the criteria for reducibility. The number of elements that compose any living system—an ecosystem, an organism, an organ or a cell—is enormous. In living systems, the specific identities of these component parts matter. Unlike chemistry, for instance, in which an electron in a lithium atom is identical to an electron in a gold atom, all proteins in a cell are not equivalent or interchangeable. Each protein is the result of its own evolutionary trajectory. We understand and exploit their similarities, but their differences matter to us just as much. Perhaps most importantly, the relations between the components of living systems are complex, context-dependent and weak. In mechanical machines, the conversation taking place between the parts involves clear and unambiguous interactions. These interactions result in simple causes and effects: They are instructions barked down a simple chain of command.
In living systems, by contrast, virtually every interesting bit of biological machinery is embedded in a very large web of weak interactions. And this network of interactions gives rise to a discussion among the parts that is less like a chain of command and more like a complex court intrigue: ambiguous whispers against a noisy and distracting background. As a result, the same interaction between a regulatory protein and a segment of DNA can lead to different (and sometimes opposite) outcomes depending on which other proteins are present in the vicinity. The firing of a neuron can act to amplify the signal coming from other neurons or act instead to suppress it, based solely on the network in which the neuron is embedded. The disappearance of a single species can stabilize an ecosystem or send it spinning into chaos, depending on (you guessed it) the network of interactions that surrounds that species. This extensive and subtle connectivity, which gives meaning to the behavior of the underlying components, turns out to be a consistent feature of living systems.
The recurrent evolution of these networks of weak interactions suggests that they may allow biological systems to incorporate information from the environment while also maintaining stability in the face of constant perturbation. This general feature of living systems also has clear methodological consequences for modern biology. Once this gossamer web is taken apart in search of the smallest components we can study, the process of putting it back together bears no resemblance at all to reconstructing a clock. Thus we find ourselves, early in the 21st century, with extraordinarily detailed descriptions of the components of many biological systems. But reconstructing those systems is proving to be a monumental and consistently surprising enterprise.
The promise of reductionism rested on the belief that an intelligent dissection of complex phenomena would not only yield progress, but would eventually reduce any problem to its component parts. Complexity, we naively hoped, was simply a by-product of incomplete understanding, an illusion that would fall away once the parts were fully understood. But this is the dirty little secret of contemporary biology: Despite our reductionist successes, the central conceptual problems of biology have not yielded to study. We have revealed the elegant workings of neurons in exquisite detail, but the material understanding of consciousness remains elusive. We have sequenced human genomes in their entirety, but the process that leads from a genome to an organism is still poorly understood. We have captured the intricacies of photosynthesis, and yet the consequences of rising carbon-dioxide levels for the future of the rain forests remain frustratingly hazy. We are, in short, the king's horses and the king's men: We stare at the pieces, knowing what Humpty should look like, but unable to put him together again.
Despite its limitations, reductionism as a research strategy in biology has proven phenomenally successful. The ascendancy of the life sciences, from the discovery of DNA in 1954 to the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, attests to the power of the reductionist approach. We cannot and will not solve the central challenges of biology without understanding in detail how the component parts operate. My argument is not with reductionism itself, but with the idea that it represents the only viable strategy for understanding the living world. And here, too, I want to be careful: Some of the arguments about "irreducible complexity" or "emergence" flirt dangerously with pre- and post-Cartesian animist notions of life forces, ideas that lie beyond the realm of science. Acknowledging the limitations of reductionism does not an anti-materialist make. The living world in all of its contingency and beauty is still the material world and, as such, the result of material forces.
But the days when we could have blind faith in the power of reductionist deconstruction are over. Humpty lies in fragments. Fortunately for us, a new approach is taking shape to replace the seductive appeal of reductionism. We biologists may have bought a little too much of what Descartes had to sell, but as the limits of naive reductionism become more obvious, additional methods emerge for understanding the complexity of life. This new, interactionist perspective on living systems, with its emphasis on the interplay of parts, has benefited from new computational tools and experimental approaches. Whole new subfields in the life sciences, as well as productive interactions among existing disciplines, have emerged. Systems biologists, complexity theorists and newly minted biologists now attend as carefully to the ways in which parts come together as they do to the parts themselves. In the process, features of living systems that we once carelessly overlooked (or destroyed) in our haste to deconstruct now snap into focus. We are, for instance, beginning to understand that modularity and redundancy are inherent features of all levels of biological organization. These features characterize systems that are simultaneously resilient and capable of evolving. They are the calling cards of life.
The current emphasis on interactions also ushers in a new kind of conceptual harmony in biology. The latter half of the 20th century was marked by an apparent and unnecessary gulf between those branches of biology that studied parts—cells and molecules—and those that focused on organisms and ecosystems. The former, committed to reductionism, saw themselves as ascendant, as replacing descriptive natural history with rigorous, experimentally driven hard science. The latter, by contrast, seemed defensive. They were unwilling to concede the potential utility of the reductionist approach or to advocate for the importance of evolutionary history at all levels of biological organization. But now, chastened by experience, we have been reminded that the living world is neither wholly reducible nor fundamentally irreducible. Instead, we have come to understand through biology's one Theory of Everything, evolution, that the unity and the diversity of the living world are inseparable. Evolution has crafted the very relation between parts and wholes that our science should seek to emulate: Neither is viable without the other. The questions we are asking as biologists are profound and profoundly difficult. Meaningless discussions about what kind of biology is best must give way to a more nuanced dialectic. It is time for a science as subtle as its objects of study.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2011/4/the-humpty-dumpty-problem/1
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OSU: Prices up 13 percent since '04; income off 9 percent
BEND, Ore. - New and expecting parents these days are having to worry about paying for much more than diapers, formula and the hospital bill.
Child care in Oregon is more expensive than nearly anywhere else in the country.
According to a new report from Oregon State University, only two other states charge more. The average annual cost of toddler care at a child care center in the state is now $11,064, up from $10,392 in 2011.
What's more, those costs increased 13 percent from 2004 to 2012 while household incomes declined 9 percent.
Maybe the most surprising: Parents today pay more to send their child to day care than to college. The median annual price of child care in Deschutes County is $8,100. The average annual cost of public university tuition in Oregon, just over $6,679.
"Parents are probably putting us right below their house payment," said Tammy Rundle, the director of Growing Tree Children's Center in Bend.
Rundle says she's doing what she can to keep costs affordable for families, while maintaining a growing program.
"We do have a small incremental change every year, but we try to keep that between 1- 3 percent."
Growing Tree is so popular many parents are signing up the moment they know they are expecting a baby -- or before.
"Our infant waiting list has about 50 babies on it," Rundle said. "Most of them probably won't get in right now. We get many newly pregnant parents that are on our wait list."
While some parents said they would rather pay more for better care, the high costs are still hurting their wallets.
Bend residents Micah and Alicia Wood are first-time parents to 7-month-old Alexa. They're loving parenthood, but dreading the future day care days.
"I have a ton of friends saying I can't afford to work. It's either I go to work during the day and not spend time with my child, just so I can pay to not spend time with my child -- it just doesn't really make sense," Alicia said.
The high costs have forced many families like the Woods to rely on a parent, relative or close friend to watch the kids.
"Family and friends have come through for us over and over again," Alicia said.
"Why not just leave her with grandma and grandpa and have them take care of her?" Micah added.
But just to be safe, the Woods are doing what most parents are having to do -- start saving now.
"Hopefully the cost doesn't go up by the time we do have to consider day care," Alicia said.
The complete OSU report, including breakout data and interactive maps on child care statistics in every Oregon county is available here: http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/jun/cost-child-care-continues-rise-oregon-majority-not-centers-or-organized-care


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A VERY elongated head and very narrow. The best type of head; highest on the social heirarchy of heads. Recent mutations have resulted in retardation in these noble ancestors; however, and very few pure-blooded soaring heads still exist that are healthy. Able to fly.
The last time I saw a soaring head was in the Floating head/Sinking head War of 1389, when the Soaring heads were used to sky-dive deep into the water and pick off a drowning head or two. Since then, soaring heads have become rare, but strangely, many ACTION STARS seem to be nearly soaring heads. Interesting...
by daniel June 17, 2004
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush


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Nicky Hemmers On Dynasty and Pressures Featured
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In Shakespeare's Henry IV part II, the king muses, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." In saying this, the king is referencing how he himself or any other person who is a leader can be consumed with worries due to a sometimes overwhelming amount of responsibility and tough decisions. A crown, however, is not always tangible, it can be analogous to something such as one's surname. One's name in this life can come with certain expectations for achievement.
Within the kickboxing community, the name Hemmers rings loudly and proudly as one of the most prestigious families to be associated with the sport. Beginning with the patriarch, Cor Hemmers, this legacy for greatness in the sport has been passed down now to his son Nick, who is now creating a legacy of his own .
Beginning his own training at age eleven, Nicky has lived on both sides of the combat sports coin as both as fighter and a trainer. Having fought professionally from age 16 until 2 years ago, now he has now found his niche as a trainer in Breda at Hemmers Gym where he helps to shape and mold the careers of many of the best and brightest of today's kickboxing community. If you want to know who, think Errol Zimmerman, Jamal Ben Saddik, Filip Verlinden, Robin van Roosmalen, Marc de Bonte and countless others who are making their way up the ranks in Glory and other organizations.
Coming from such a prestigious and well known family one would think the pressure to perform and/or make a mark in this world would be immense, and perhaps it is, but Nicky plays his role with style, grace as well as with a touch of humor. In our talk prior to Glory 16 in Denver, he touched upon that very issue, stating that he does feel pressure to perform but also, that he feels he has a down to earth style that allows him to not only explore innovative ways of training fighters but also to seek and accept constructive criticism about performance. He names his father as a key figure and stated that he frequently asks for feedback on his performance.
With a maturity that exceeds his actual years of experience, Nicky also seems to have developed rather keen insight on the multi-dimensional role he plays in the life of a fighter. Having been there himself, Nicky is not afraid to counsel his trainees on the importance of having a back up plan to sustain them once their days in the ring have come to an end. Nicky also expresses a clear understanding of his role in letting a fighter know when enough is enough, stating, "Sure, he can do what he wants, just not under my name."
With many impressive wins at Glory 14, 15 and 16, 2014 promises to be a very big year for Nicky and his team. Admittedly, he has faced adversity and change during the last 18 months but still he smiles, remarking that it has been these changes that continue to help him to grow and make him a better person. As Glory 17 approaches, we can only wish him the best of luck as he and the men from Hemmers Gym continue to make their mark in this often unpredictable world of combat sports.


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From interim president Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J.
When Marquette opened in 1881, the building housing this school's first classrooms, library and laboratories also included living space for three Jesuit priests, plus several scholastics and lay brothers. Since then, members of the Society of Jesus have never been far from center of the life of Marquette or the center of campus.
Questions about where Marquette's Jesuits would next find themselves, though, first emerged several years ago. It became clear that our Jesuit community's home for the last 40 years the former hotel at 14th Street and Wisconsin Avenue known affectionately across campus as the "Jes Res" was plagued with maintenance problems and aging mechanical systems that would be impractical to replace. And in this time of belt tightening and students straining to afford college, the cost of a new residence could not just be absorbed into university budgets.
So with exciting plans in hand for a new Jesuit residence again at the heart of campus, about a half-block from the current facility I joined our University Advancement team early this year in reaching out to benefactors about this cause. Hoping this would not be one of those fundraising efforts that is slow to catch fire, I was delighted to experience a totally opposite kind of response. It's rare that a single early gift gets us halfway to our goal, but that's what happened with a $10 million contribution in January from an anonymous donor that included $7.5 million for this project and $2.5 million for another critical Marquette priority: need-based and current-use scholarships. By mid-March, we were announcing a $5 million gift from Ray and Kay Eckstein through their charitable trust and working to secure other gifts that put us within reach of the $15 million needed for the project.
Friends of the university have clearly been moved by this opportunity. They understand the Catholic, Jesuit traditions at the core of Marquette's curriculum and mission. And they know our university community is profoundly richer for having members of the Society of Jesus dwelling here and serving as teachers, mentors, moral guides and examples of lives dedicated to serving others.
A brief story on page 8 of this issue describes how the new residence will support the spiritual and physical needs of my Jesuit brethren while helping to engage the university community in new ways. The project's scope also extends well beyond the residence. Ultimately, it will remake the area east of the Alumni Memorial Union by adding new green space and a continuation of our campus' main north-south pedestrian axis.
Broad in its benefits, this is also a project I can't help but view in personal terms. For the past 17 years, the current Jesuit residence has been my home. This community of Jesuits is my community. We live, pray and serve God together, most often by helping students grow academically, personally and spiritually.
Although we hardly agree on all matters, my 43 fellow community members and I share powerful bonds resulting from our Jesuit formation. And we have grown more vital as a community since the mid-1980s, when, in partnership with the university, we first began to host young Jesuits from Africa and Asia for their doctoral studies. In sharing our home with these young, very talented Jesuit priests, we had to get serious about our hospitality and our willingness to welcome and support these men personally and spiritually.
Last year Pope Francis revealed that a desire for community drew him to the Jesuits originally and guided him again when he decided to continue residing in a bustling Vatican guesthouse after assuming the papacy. "The papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace," he explained, "is old, tastefully decorated and large, but not luxurious. But in the end it is like an inverted funnel … the entrance is really tight. People can come only in dribs and drabs, and I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others."
That is how we live as Jesuits "in community" and focused on faith, mission and service. And thanks to the deeply inspiring generosity of this university community and its generous benefactors, it is how we will go on living at Marquette for generations to come.


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Original post made by amy, Del Prado, on Apr 24, 2009
Here is a youtube link of an amazing videoclip of a legitimate alternative news journalist who would like to cover an event at USC. This event is where Katie Couric is about to receive a "Walter Cronkite" award at the USC Dept. of Journalism for her "unbiased" interview of Sarah Palin. (Unbiased???)
[BTW: Walter Cronkite played a MAJOR role (whether intended or not) in the US's defeat in Vietnam...just when the North Vietnamese were just about to surrender to the US. ]
This video is a shocking wakeup call regarding what investigative journalism within major media is rapidly becoming for those who DARE to challenge the LEFT.
Gina (and others)...I would be very interested in your reaction to this videoclip.
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a resident of Castlewood
on Apr 24, 2009 at 7:40 am
Yes...That videoclip is truly eye-opening and the ULTIMATE IRONY since the event was on "Excellence in Journalism" but only journalists invited by the "guest" -- Katie Couric -- could interview her!!!
Truly Orwellian and people in the US should be outraged!
I found a follow-up videoclip to the one above...where the handcuffed journalist, John Ziegler, comments to Greta Van Susteran about his experience...
Here is that Greta interview below...
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on Apr 24, 2009 at 8:54 am
And yet ANOTHER breathtaking trailer of a documentary entitled...
"Media Malpractice"
If you only are vaguely aware of media bias...you've got to view this!
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When I buy Jersies these days, it's generally for a player who as far as I can tell, remains/ will remain a permanent fixture on the Team. (example, Eli)
But in general with all the Cap Restrictions, Salary limitations and re-structured CBA in place and so on; I am realizing that investing in a Jersey is kind of silly and instead I opt for the shirts, hoodies, jackets, caps, beanies etc that represent the Team/Franchise as a whole.
Does anyone else do the same and for similar reasons?
I own a Strahan, Tiki, Eli, Jeter, Ewing, Posada, Berra (combinations T-Shirts or Jersies) and was thinking about an Amar'e, Melo or Osi...yes Osi (maybe a bargain if/when he leaves the Team).
(I hope we keep Cruz but ...) ( I bought my two older sons a Tuck and Cruz jersey last year sometime- LOL)


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redwill wrote:Letang Is The Truth wrote:a man a plan a canal, panama
Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.
canaan wrote:im dead
pittsports87 wrote:save redwill
kill c2i
I think this will answer some questions I have.
count2infinity wrote:so i easily could have put my vote on redwill and pretty much finish him off, but i don't (something a baddie would do). i go for who i think is bad i merely explain why i wasn't here and bam, three votes for me? i mean, i'm just blue so it's no big deal, but it just seems weird. we're clearly going to win, but this just makes me want to not say a single word the whole next game.
count2infinity wrote:did PS confirm that PFiDC is vig? not that i don't believe you, but i want confirmation before i go with it.
PensFanInDC wrote:Whats the time limit?
I dont think we are going to see any vote changing...
PensFanInDC wrote:Ya know...there is a chance that doublem took over for the alpha I killed and he came back blue....
the wicked child wrote:PensFanInDC wrote:Ya know...there is a chance that doublem took over for the alpha I killed and he came back blue....
I kinda doubt that in this game tbh.
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RAPHP......................nba.....DENVER-5.5 WINNER
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GRIFF......................cbb.....LSU +7.5 WINNER
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Griff's Pick -- LSU +7.5
Mobig Wins -- Michigan-2.5
Madman Producer -- Virginia Tech -1.0
Halo -- Kansas -3.0
Billy -- ??????????? (pending)
We might have a problem with Billy today because he is on Long Island and they are getting pounded with Nemo. His internet might be out. What do we do in this situation Faultless?
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You can choose for him. Get together with your team and make a unanimous decision on if you need to wait for him or not. As long as somebody posts a game for Billy before the game comes on it will be fine.
That works for me
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I tell my wife that I'm shooting blanks all the time. Kids would dig into my golfing/gambling fund!
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Jazz up smoked salmon by pairing it with potato halves topped with crème fraîche and garnished with salty capers. Crème fraîche can be made by combining one part sour cream to one part whipping cream or buttermilk, covered and chilled for at least four hour
12 fingerling potatoes (about 1 pound)
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4 ounces thinly sliced smoked salmon
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1 tablespoon capers
1. Slice potatoes in half lengthwise, toss in olive oil, and place on a baking sheet. Bake at 425° for 20 minutes or until golden brown and tender. Let cool.
2. Arrange pieces of smoked salmon on potatoes; top each with a dollop of crème fraîche and capers. Makes 2 dozen.
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Big day set for Bank Holiday Monday
One inspirational defender – two memorable championships – Jody Craddock's former Wolves and Sunderland team-mates will lock horns for his testimonial match taking place at Molineux on Monday, May 5th (2pm).
Jody won two promotions to the Premier League during his career, with Wolves in the 2008/09 season and with Sunderland in 1998/99.
Many of those players involved in those title-winning campaigns, and more of his former team-mates and other special guests, are due at Molineux to pay tribute to the defender as part of his testimonial year, from which a proportion of the proceeds are going to Birmingham Children's Hospital.
And, with several among the current Wolves squad hoping to play a part in the game, and others expected to be present at Molineux, it promises to be the biggest gathering of past and present Wolves players seen at the stadium for many years.
Mick McCarthy and Terry Connor are set to manage the Wolves side with Bobby Saxton, number two to Peter Reid when Sunderland won the title, in charge of the visitors.
Former Wolves players who have already said they will appear if available and join Jody in the squad include Matt Murray, Wayne Hennessey, Chris Iwelumo, Neill Collins, Matt Hill, Christophe Berra, Karl Henry, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, David Jones, Michael Kightly, Rob Edwards and Seyi Olofinjana.
Several of the current squad – Carl Ikeme, Richard Stearman and George Elokobi – are also in line to be involved dependent on Wolves' league status at the time, as well as Stephen Ward, who is currently on loan at Brighton.
Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips are set to reunite their legendary strike partnership for Sunderland, with the squad also including Thomas Sorenson, Thomas Myhre, Julio Arca, Gavin McCann and Kevin Kilbane.
There are also several players who could end up with a choice of teams given their affiliations with both clubs, such as Paul Butler, Gary Breen, Micky Gray, Alex Rae and Kevin Kyle.
All manager and players availability is dependent on their teams' league and potential play-off status.
Due to the current demand for tickets for Wolves' remaining fixtures – and expected interest in the testimonial - tickets for the game will go on sale tomorrow (FRIDAY) ONLINE ONLY at www.wolves.co.uk Prices are £10 for adults, £5 for concessions (u17 / over 65's), or £20 for a family of two adults and two children.
Booking fees apply but a reminder that supporters can avoid these by printing their tickets at home.
The Billy Wright and Stan Cullis Stands will be open for the fixture. The Billy Wright Lower Tier will be available only to those buying family tickets or adults purchasing with concessions.
With only two stands open supporters are encouraged to purchase early to ensure the best possible seats.
"I am delighted we have now got a date fixed and can really start to look forward to the game," said Jody.
"I would also like to thank everyone at the club for their help in getting things finalised and in particular Steve, Jez and the Board in granting the testimonial year.
"I have been speaking to my former managers and team-mates from both Wolves and Sunderland and am really pleased that pretty much all of them are planning to make the game as long as club commitments allow.
"Everyone knows how much I enjoyed my time at both Wolves and Sunderland, particularly those two promotions, and the admiration and respect I will always have for both sets of supporters.
"Hopefully this game will provide a great showpiece event to the testimonial and will prove both a fun and exciting afternoon for everyone who comes along."
A proportion of the proceeds from the testimonial year are going to Birmingham Children's Hospital, where Jody's young son four-year-old son Toby is continuing to be treated for leukaemia since being diagnosed two years ago.
Several events have already been held as part of the testimonial year, including a training day with Jody and Matt Murray, an art exhibition to showcase some of Jody's works, a Fans' Forum with Kenny Jackett and Samuel Ricketts and a 2008/09 promotion reunion dinner held in the Hayward Suite at Molineux.
There also promises to be plenty of other entertainment taking place on the day, including some junior football prior to the fixture and a special half time penalty competition.
One random ticket holder who purchases before the day will be invited to join in the half time penalty competition – keep an eye out for more details.
Both Wolves and Sunderland fans are urged to come along to Molineux on Bank Holiday Monday to pay tribute to a firm fans' favourite and true professional.
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Fire recently transformed the landscape around Canberra. In a moment the green terrain was rendered a deep blue carbon, ever-folding surface. This land was changed back to primary elemental form, back to a changing, ever-shifting same. This return to a primary element is shocking, shocking in speed and shocking as a reminder of the fragility of existence.
When measured, the human body occupies a relatively small volume, although the pursuit for space is unending. The 'space appetite' expands in multiple directions, consuming and engulfing with speed and veracity. The sculpture titled Inversions one to two explores form and structure; it is an architectural response to changing space and place.


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One of the two masterminds who planned what changed the world. After his death the discovery of Giu's journal revealed his true intentions and a plan so flawless, that no man could ever change what he had done. Giu was seen as a traitor, but the people soon began to realize his intentions were true. Now he and his partner are the Knights Of Vengence.
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Well, the time has come sooner than I had thought. But I'll be trading in my 2013 WRX that I have owned for almost a year on a 2014 STI hatch.
Let me explain my reasons:
I always knew that I wanted a brand new STI and I wanted it to be a hatchback (I ride bikes, keep golf clubs in my car etc etc). With the new 2015 STI it doesn't offer a hatch and well...I'm personally not into the new look at all. With that being said I am kind of backed into a corner. So I saw that my local dealer has an incoming 2014 black STI hatch listed for 38,800. So I went in and chatted my my salesman. Prices look like this....
STI - $38,800 to $36,011
Trade in value of my car ( I purchased for 27k) - $24,000
I have an STP exhaust, XXR 527 wrapped in Pirelli 4 seasons, rally armor flaps, Eibach springs.
I was thinking I'm going to ask if it's possible I can have the STP exhaust taken from my car and put into the STI for no added cost. Hoping that wouldn't depreciate the value of my trade in.
I feel pretty good about this, I know I'm eating a few thousand dollars on my Wrx but my monthly payment is growing another $60. Which I don't think is horrible. This would be my 5th Subaru and my first STI. I already put down a deposit so now I wait (February 18th) is when it arrives.
So what I'm wondering is what you guys think? Do you think it's a smart decision? Are those numbers looking good?
Any opinions and advice welcome!
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Excellent bro , enjoy Will
Wife approves ...and says thanks.
Says we should've already gotten a sling for it...
Excellent bro , enjoy Will
To Will and the crew at Red Jacket:
I just wanted to thank you guys for lifting my spirits for the last 15 months. Had a duty related car accident, ended up shattering my right leg from the knee down and crushing my left hip and sciatic nerve. Spent a lot of time bed bound due to post op infections and recurrent surgery.
Finally getting to go back to work (desk duty to be sure), but your show sure did give me a lot of pleasure, took my mind off the pain and gave me some cool guns to look at.
I'm really glad your business is doing well. Best of luck to you, your family and your crew this New Year!
just joined here. I have a heavy Hi-Point .45 acp, my first handgun have had it for over a year now. i open carry a lot but hope to someday get a better .45 acp that is a little smaller that is easyer on me for the days i take road trips and carry for 8 hrs at a time. Just love the show. I might be picking up a 2nd job soon and might be able to get caught up on bills then maybe by the end of this year i will be able to look at a high priced .45 acp
Will, with regards to the gattling gun, have you considered a different bolt system?
I was formerly an armourer in the RAAF, and I have worked extensively on the M61A1 20mm gattling cannons that are fitted to F-18's & most other fighters. They are a 6 barrel gun, that use 6 individual bolts, operating on a campath inside the main housing. The campath is elliptical, taking rounds from the belt feed at the back of the case, up to the front/top part to be fired, then back down to the bottom on the other side, if you get my drift. The bolts and barrels are on the same longitudinal plane, and the whole lot rotates together. Everything is gear driven so timing is not an issue.
Sorry if i'm telling you something that you already know, but I thought it would be simple to make a similar system operating on 3 barrels.
Anyways, keep up the good work dude, it's always interesting to watch the RJF team.
By the way, if you ever have the opportunity to get an M61A1 as another of your crazy aquisitions, I would be so jealous... The sound of a 20mm rotary gun spitting out 6000 rpm pretty much makes everything else piss...
And you never know, there's a graveyard full of dead fighters in the Nevada desert that just sit there as parts mules... I'm fairly certain Joe could sort one out to work on a rig, they aren't too complicated...
Yes , we've designed a entirely new system and are currently having it rapid prototyped . I expect to be shooting it end of March


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text: I installed ProFTP using the Perfect Install FC4 HowTo now I need to know HowTo use it! I have only used FTP via WS_FTP client before. After much research and testing I have determined that ptoftpd.conf seems to be correct and I can log into ftp as anonymous via the console but I am not sure what to do after that. I found a small tut and tried a command but these are the results: Code: [[email protected][email protected] Am I do something wrong? Note that this is on the same box that has my ftp server also and I am not using ISPConfig. Does anyone know how I would use WS_FTP from my MS machine to connect to my FTP? I have tried anonymous with my e-mail as password and I get "failure to connect to ftp.thefractalfarm.net". I can however use the browser on my MS box to go to my FTP site. Would drop and drag work there, didn't think to try it.


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Monday, June 1, 2009
More than twenty-five years ago, Memorial Sloan Kettering was the first cancer hospital to create a pain and palliative care service. Today, the service continues to work to relieve, or palliate, the pain and distress that may be experienced by cancer patients — both those in active, curative treatment and those with advanced, late-stage cancers.
The field of medicine known as palliative care includes any treatment that is given to relieve symptoms caused by diseases such as cancer. While the main goal of medicine is to cure or control these diseases, there is an increasing need for attention and resources to be directed to addressing issues such as pain and symptom relief — conditions directly related to a patient's quality of life during treatment. More than twenty-five years ago, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center was the first cancer hospital to create a pain and palliative care service. Today, the service continues to work to relieve, or palliate, the pain and distress that may be experienced by cancer patients — both those in active, curative treatment and those with advanced, late-stage cancers.
What Is Palliative Care?
Paul Glare, MD, Chief of the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering, defines palliative care as interdisciplinary treatment aimed at relieving suffering and improving quality of life, delivered simultaneously with all other appropriate treatments to patients with advanced illness and their families. Such care can be provided by physicians, nurses, pharmacists, mental health professionals, social workers, physical therapists, and chaplains.
According to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, cancer patients can receive palliative care if they experience issues such as fatigue, anemia, pain, distress, or nausea and vomiting, or if they or their family members have concerns about the course of the disease.
Dr. Glare explains that it is important to make a distinction between hospice, which provides end-of-life care for patients, and palliative care. "Palliative care is not hospice," he notes. "What palliative care does is provide the relief of pain, discomfort, and distress, while a patient continues to receive disease-controlling treatment. In this sense, we like to say that palliative care is about 'living better with cancer, not dying from it.'"Back to top
Palliative Care: Now More Than Ever
According to the American Cancer Society, about 77 percent of all cancers are diagnosed in people 55 and older. By 2011, the first wave of baby boomers will turn 65. Because this population is expected to produce a significant increase in the number of people who will develop cancer, providing palliative care is becoming increasingly important. Currently, according to the Center to Advance Palliative Care, there are fewer than 3,000 doctors certified by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and only about 15,000 nurses accredited by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.
In addition, issues related to adequate insurance reimbursement for palliative care need to be addressed. Contrary to popular belief, palliative care can actually reduce the cost of medical care. Studies have shown that access to palliative care produces shorter in-patient stays, lower hospital mortality, reduced cost of care, and fewer admissions to the intensive care unit.Back to top
Palliative Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering
In Memorial Sloan Kettering's interdisciplinary disease management model of treatment, each patient is treated by as many different specialists as are needed to address the various aspects of his or her disease. To further the active role of palliative care in cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering, attending doctors from the Pain and Palliative Care Service have recently become active members of the disease management teams.
The Pain & Palliative Care Service's team includes individuals from specialties such as Interventional/Anesthesia Pain Management, Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Integrative Medicine, Chaplaincy, Social Work, Pharmacy, the wound care team, radiation oncology, and neurology. These team members work together to improve the quality of life of patients as well as their families. "In addition to dealing with pain and other symptoms, these patients are worrying about what lies ahead for them," Dr. Glare says. "They need to work out what their goals and priorities are for the rest of their lives. We can help them with all of that."
In most cases, a patient's attending physician co-ordinates palliative care. The Pain and Palliative Care Service is consulted to assist with complicated cases and, if necessary, can address the issues on the pain and palliative care unit. In addition, palliative care is offered during outpatient visits and can be accessed after a patient is discharged. Recently, a walk-in palliative care clinic has been opened at the Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion, Memorial Sloan Kettering 53rd Street, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. This clinic provides pain and symptom control for patients with a physical condition that may become unstable and change abruptly, resulting in a life-threatening situation. The walk-in clinic also offers, when appropriate, counsel about transitioning patients to hospice care.
In collaboration with the Integrative Medicine Service, the Pain and Palliative Care Service plans to develop a cancer nutrition program, which will use nutritional intervention and a fitness program to address issues of pain and symptom control for patients experiencing anorexia-cachexia syndrome — a condition in which some patients with advanced cancer suffer from malnutrition, weight loss, and muscle weakness as a result of cancer and its treatment.
"Many patients with cancer can benefit from palliative care," Dr. Glare notes. "Unfortunately, too few know of the palliative care options that are available to them. We need to do a better job of getting the word out so that these patients can be helped."Back to top


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The islands are very undeveloped - great for a very peaceful and lazy time, and not many beaches use (or I suspect) have permission, for jetskis and other fast speedboats. I have spent three nights in the north of the group, and will spend 3 more on the nearby isles, so as to stay within a water-taxi pickup of the dive-centre island, allowing me to complete the course and to have some dives for pleasure. One of the nearby islands has the reasonably famous Blue Lagoon, as in the film of that name with Brooke Shields. There is an exclusive, (9 star or some such thing) part of the beach but there is good snorkelling without impeding on their reserved area (well who can really be sure if I am swimming 60 metres out from the shore is how I reasoned it!)
I will be making my way south in the island group known as the Yasawas, to see a couple more beaches, and to dive at one more location
Also in the vicinity in Fiji are the Castaway island (Tom Hanks film I believe), and the one where they filmed one of the "celebrity get me out of here" series.
I completed my advanced PADI dive course which included a deep dive at 30 metres. At this depth the instructor carries out some simple tests, kind of the equivalent of police getting suspected drunkards to walk along a line or touch their nose looking straight ahead (we tied knots and timed the operation). This is all to observe the effects of nitrogen which enters the bloodstream on a dive, and can make people behave similarly to being drunk. So when the instructor pointed to an object on the seabed (and I was in the right position to get a good close look), writing on his slate that it was a very rare fish, I had to think that he was the one not quite coping with the nitrogen. You see he was pointing at what I would describe as a pair of tree leaves wafting about amidst the sand.
However, not wanting to remark, we looked it up in the marine life book, and sure enough, even in the high resolution photograph in the book, it was really a fish but still looked like two leaves on a twig!
Pleased to say that it wasn't part of the tests, and now my new PADI diver's card is wending its way by mail to Brighton (since it has to be issued from the US).


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The article by Elizabeth Thompson ran in iPolitics a few weeks ago under the headline "Twitter, Facebook and social media 'critical' to government, says Clement." It was one of those stories that sail just under the mainstream media radar–an anodyne little item that didn't make the grade in the newsrooms of the national outlets.
Speaking after an appearance before the Senate Official Languages Committee, Treasury Board President Tony Clement told iPolitcs that he wants to launch a pilot project to use social media to consult and engage Canadians more on government policies. He added that he intends to push forward with Treasury Board's open data initiative where government information is shared openly online.
This is one story with legs. Or at least, it's a story that should have legs. While it may not be readily apparent, few initiatives now on the government's drawing board have the potential to transform our democracy as much as this one.
And this is a story that anyone who believes in the concepts and merits of open government or government 2.0 needs to take stock of and react to-now.
Senate reform, more MPs for rapidly growing provinces, amount to tinkering at the margins of our democratic system when compared to the transformative potential of genuine online engagement and its institutional implications.
Clement, who is one of the most active MPs on Twitter, is quoted in the article as saying that the opportunity "to use social media, to speak directly to people, to our constituents, to citizens…is a big occasion to promote the conversation between citizens and the Canadian government. It is very important for the future."
He's right. The problem is that there have been no conversations on what that conversation could or should look like.
The absence of a public debate on the merits and implications of using technology to open government up and engage more with citizens means that what has the potential to transform our institutions also runs the risk of being used to shore up the status quo.
The problem is that our system is built around incrementalism—small cautious steps that don't rock the boat are what garner promotions in Ottawa, not proposals for sweeping institutional reform.
And citizen consultation is nothing new in government. There are well-staffed units in most federal departments that do nothing but consult and engage with citizens and interest groups.
But using new online tools to make these consultations easier does not mean we've embraced Government 2.0. Giving outdated concepts and approaches a fresh coat of paint will only hide the rust and cover up the cracks.
One of the challenges is that our current system of ministerial and bureaucratic accountability is not designed to easily integrate solutions that run counter to formal advice. Alternatives or contrary opinions tend to be relegated to the public environment scans of memos to cabinet, not recommended action.
Designing new government online strategies to operate on the old institutional and accountability platforms would be like putting a Ferrari body on a '72 Pinto drive train—it'll look nice in the garage, but don't take it for a spin.
If the core principles of open government (data as a public good, largely unfettered access to information, implementation of citizen solutions, and democratic engagement) were implemented, they would result in a fundamental shift in how government works and thinks. It would also amount to a dramatic re-think of our democracy.
But without a compelling main-street narrative to create political space and demand for real change and without any obvious external champions for this cause the prospects of a transformative open government agenda being implemented any time soon are dim.
Open government is not a bureaucratic issue–open government is all about politics. And political leadership and decisions will be what make it happen…or not.
It's not enough for techies and theorists to carry on amongst themselves about the virtues of new digital technologies in opening up government. It's time for Canada's open government evangelists step up to the plate and kick-start the debate, explain why open government matters and what the cost of half-hearted reforms would be.
A few weeks ago, Treasury Board President Tony Clement hinted at his vision: a connected more collaborative government, a bureaucracy empowered to engage directly with Canadians, the sharing of data to foster innovation. He also said Treasury Board officials were now busy developing "guidelines" that will frame this vision.
The first Treasury Board installment on that vision was released last month: a rule-bound straight jacket of a social media policy to govern public service online activities. Not an auspicious start.
Anyone that wants to see government open up better grab the perch offered by the minister now, before government's blueprint is fully set and reputations become wed to it.
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What Game Should I Play Next?
Posted on 9th Mar 2009 at 15:40 by Joe Martin with 57 comments
The reduction in time is making me value my gaming time a lot more too – so I'm reluctant to just replay my old catalogue of games and I don't want to go over previously-reviewed titles.
Thus, I wanted to put it out there to bit-tech.net readers and take suggestions on the matter; What game should I play next?
Seriously, I'll take any suggestion as long as it is on PC and not something I've already revieed. Old or new, I'll look through your suggestions, pick one, buy it, play it and do my next blog post on it. The more obscure the suggestion, the better.


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Thinking about going back to college? Hudson Valley Community College will offer several evening courses at Guilderland High School beginning Monday, Jan. 23.
The courses are Abnormal Psychology and Sociology.
The cost is $112 per credit hour; most courses are either three or four credits. The semester runs through May 12.
For more information about registering for these courses, contact the college's Office of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at (518) 629-7338.
Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley Community College offers more than 60 degree and certificate programs in four schools: Business; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Science; and Liberal Arts and Sciences; and an Educational Opportunity Center for academic and career training. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it has an enrollment of more than 12,000 students, and is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and workforce training. Hudson Valley has more than 60,000 alumni.


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Wildlife: Invertebrates, Reptiles, Amphibians
To some, species such as nudibranchs, sweat bees, tarantulas, and red-legged frogs are lumped into the great wide world of creepy-crawlies. But these underfoot and underwater animals can be surprisingly interesting, albeit sometimes obscure. The sense of wonder and curiosity that these species spark is a reminder of wildlife's inherent value, no matter the size or number of legs.


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But, unlike my friends, I own several guns and train with them regularly. Every month or two, I spend a full day shooting with a highly qualified instructor. This is an expensive and time-consuming habit, but I view it as part of my responsibility as a gun owner. It is true that my work as a writer has added to my security concerns somewhat, but my involvement with guns goes back decades. I have always wanted to be able to protect myself and my family, and I have never had any illusions about how quickly the police can respond when called. I have expressed my views on self-defense elsewhere. Suffice it to say, if a person enters your home for the purpose of harming you, you cannot reasonably expect the police to arrive in time to stop him. This is not the fault of the police—it is a problem of physics.
Like most gun owners, I understand the ethical importance of guns and cannot honestly wish for a world without them. I suspect that sentiment will shock many readers. Wouldn't any decent person wish for a world without guns?
In my view, only someone who doesn't understand violence could wish for such a world. A world without guns is one in which the most aggressive men can do more or less anything they want. It is a world in which a man with a knife can rape and murder a woman in the presence of a dozen witnesses, and none will find the courage to intervene. There have been cases of prison guards (who generally do not carry guns) helplessly standing by as one of their own was stabbed to death by a lone prisoner armed with an improvised blade. The hesitation of bystanders in these situations makes perfect sense—and "diffusion of responsibility" has little to do with it. The fantasies of many martial artists aside, to go unarmed against a person with a knife is to put oneself in very real peril, regardless of one's training. The same can be said of attacks involving multiple assailants. A world without guns is a world in which no man, not even a member of Seal Team Six, can reasonably expect to prevail over more than one determined attacker at a time. A world without guns, therefore, is one in which the advantages of youth, size, strength, aggression, and sheer numbers are almost always decisive.
Who could be nostalgic for such a world?
Rather than new laws, I believe we need a general shift in our attitude toward public violence—wherein everyone begins to assume some responsibility for containing it. It is worth noting that this shift has already occurred in one area of our lives, without anyone's having received special training or even agreeing that a change in attitude was necessary: Just imagine how a few men with box cutters would now be greeted by their fellow passengers at 30,000 feet.
I view the question of gun ownership as primarily an ethical one: A couple of sociopaths break into your house for the pleasure of killing you and your family, and the police cannot arrive in time to stop them.
What should you be permitted to do in self-defense?
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Quads are not dead, they just aren't the heavier side of the scale anymore. There's more a required equality between athleticism & artistry. Which is the way it was always meant to be, but hadn't been for a while.
Not saying CoP is perfect. It's got a lot of glitches to work out.