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Mut and Lou react to a blog post from Philadelphia writer John Mitchell in which he called Boston fans bigots because of the way people acted on Twitter following Joel Ward's series ending goal against the Bruins. Unfortunately, Mitchell didn't do his homework and Mut and Lou point that out.
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Our two we are live at Dave and buster's in Braintree -- -- -- -- 37 WE yard Red Sox and Orioles -- an area at a coming your way. Later on this hour starting with the baseball prime knicks have backed him with a Celtics game six here tonight right Celtics sixers game six -- we just. Is the expectation all of a sudden golf course -- not gonna win they don't win these type games that haven't -- the elimination games according to Peter may. His extort that the ideas he had -- lose tonight come back and win. On Saturdays ballot there's not much bugs for this game tonight I. -- eleven you know how you are an elimination game and and it does it definitely has that feel that everyone is just accepted the fact. That they gonna go down to Philly lose in the there's going to be gave savage. I don't and I don't think that's the case I really don't and I think the what Kevin Garnett talking about calling out that the Philly fans and saying you know. They're not the greatest fans in the world and calling them names or whatnot I I do think what's somewhat of a bull's eye on Kevin Garnett. It wouldn't this Celtics team I think we'll look at their guy -- that they respect and they'll step up and they'll back it up I think with Kevin Garnett tonight maybe this is better to see that. We've been searching wondering. Where is it then why does this team play a third see when they can knock -- team out like. But they could have been game was it being four down to Philadelphia. Or a game five against Atlanta why can't they finish it. Maybe this is what it takes. In LA I talk the talk now let's go I got to back it up and you know what guys back it up with me. The urgency should be if we win tonight we're gonna get some extra time off here for that meeting with the Miami Heat the next round that should be the urgency of we we win this game tonight. And there's a chance would not the plate until Monday it if if pacers he goes to game seven that's on Saturday. The -- that's -- tonight they're off Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday -- go to Miami till Monday if they lose tonight. And at the place Saturday. Acting wanna come back on Monday you have less than 48 hours to get yourself ready for the game that should be the motivation we already screwed the pooch on this and we should have already been. I have an opportunity to rest right now. We got to win this game tonight now maybe the gonna -- works their favor. I would hope the idea of we gotta get healthy for this thing is more important and to that point terms being healthy. Doc Rivers and a couple minutes ago at Celtics shoot around at Philadelphia. He does not expect Avery Bradley to place. He called a 5050 yesterday with Dennis and Callahan he says he doesn't expect in the play here tonight so. Rleal would start I would assume and you would have Mickael Pietrus playing more minutes and down maybe Sasha. -- -- it's their late but Doc Rivers -- this morning. Doesn't expect to have -- Bradley and I said this before the break expected. Some column to come out like this and I unfairly called they call the -- blog post by John Mitchell at Philly dot com. Of Kevin Garnett took. I shot the Philadelphia fans called fair weather -- the city your book brotherly love after the game the other night. Take that how you want to Garnett added after that. John Mitchell. Who's on the sixer beat and writes the deep six or blog at Philly dot com responded ought to Kevin Garnett saying you think with a fair weather type do you. To say that it's better to be fair weather. That'd be anything remotely akin to the creek that'll least their rate -- the races that drawl. Via Twitter upon Washington Capitals defenseman Jewell ward a black hockey player last month. After he eliminated all the Boston Bruins from the NHL playoffs and overtime goal. I can't really call this isolated incident that you wrote. Not unless you believe that those clowns that gathered together at some sort of -- skinhead gatherings and -- after the team went down they all took to Twitter once wardrobe the stake through Boston's heart dale did I did did you do you drop that. All of slurs when Twitter well that apparently according -- that that's what job like you to believe that's what lewis'. To be very lazy and -- a lot in the Internet age where -- put a blog post up there. To draw the page views draw the the Twitter buzz straw that the email. Never -- friends the people check it out. Is lazy by John Mitchell because the next day. On many different platforms here locally. It was digested pretty quickly. It was not Boston and in most cases the tweets came from outside Boston and or from fifteen year old men -- -- just gives -- enough for the Boston Bruins fan base and for Mitchell. To bring this crap up balance they'll see this a fan base full bigotry I go back to Bill Russell give me a break. John Mitchell it's lazy here is what it is you're right. It is sleazy and elect -- he gets so offended -- KG called your fans fair weathered immediately. Where I'll be offended by that. With Fran based isn't -- mean really I mean it if your team -- one fan base where team has been dead last for the last. You know five years that still sells the stadium out I mean this -- diehards will go because they love the sport. There are different fans in different parts of the countries for whatever reason can look at Florida incidents there was too much going on people don't goal. The rays are a great team they don't go with you start waiting for the most part you get excitement that stadium. People don't show up -- it's all the places in the world but didn't she knows that. In New York in Boston it in Philly. The they'd they'd love their teams who gave the there was a point with a garden wasn't sold out either because the -- -- -- that thinks that it can solve -- victory you know started coming on here so why he really didn't offended when someone says that. We know Philly fans -- are you know emotional and they get it to their teams he's just he's just pocket after game it's KG -- for John Mitchell come out. And to say that you know racist fans in the bigots in Boston generalize and and -- -- all of us in the same group when that he said it. That's laziness and lazy -- marsupial from Boston obviously there were tweeting but gave but there were a lot of people outside the Boston area there were doing it. A lot of the kids we found out where exactly that your high school hockey players your high school students. The other kids that it literally 1516. Years old tweeting this. Now Kevin Garnett comments about them being fair weather not the promise of Philly fans today. Kevin Garnett right now it's a playoff game game six elimination game tonight correct yeah. If you wanna get in the building according to all the states double up is the site of looking at right now. If you look at for one ticket to get the building tonight anywhere in the building for a playoff basketball game. What do you think your best or what your best guess the lowest priced ticket you can get free playoff game. At home Celtics sixers in a wild and crazy fan base there -- wait to get the pay to get in. To Philadelphia Boston tonight 5050 dollars. Forty dollars for fifty dollars you could -- might not want not two but three tickets you can get in tonight. For fourteen. Box as it 140014. Dollars free single upper quarter seat tonight it by yourself. So maybe about the affairs many want to afford tickets. You'll pay fifteen dollars for either two or four into a playoff game tonight in Philadelphia -- that's fair weather John Mitchell. I call that fair weathered it thin skin jerk that's what it is. He's pissed off because the -- is -- What you playoff game in Boston for fourteen dollars. I can't have Philadelphia tonight probably given guy we can let you know as it is to that thing. Everybody out there -- a brain realizes that it was just a stupid stupid comment and if you want -- -- if you want ten seats together I get to those for eighteen dollars apiece. To a playoff game and so this guy it's comical they allowed to write that and I still gets the texas' cub fans aren't fair weather. Though they just -- who has. And it is go for the part you're going there to drink at Wrigley -- -- -- struck down the dead at this I was a fund raiser. -- in about Big Brother big sister. Last week and Robert Kraft will get a lot of great people there weren't guys that might -- able to -- the -- of the cubs. There's not a war. We really think about it season ticket all the -- 1 o'clock games each and every day who's going. They based it that corporations you know I give a lot of clients -- measure of your season ticket ahold of the cubs you want to go to every single Gaby can't work. Go to 1 o'clock games all time the -- -- a fearless like I said they just go in -- stick around a ballpark it moves they have a lot of fun it's a big party. Scott tweets and it says look KG was talking about death Celtics fans not Bruins fans anyway I'd say it doesn't it doesn't matter -- the guy John Mitchell is this clueless. Andy you're somebody be lazy use that as a a way to try to paint all Boston fans who did the research the next day and did any sort of work you recognize that and it happened -- USA today Boston Globe around USA today. They all got their story wrong saying -- Mitchell didn't happen the next round. Against. It's against the Rangers -- awarded that we penalty late in the Rangers tied it up and -- overtime he would be sexy tweets. The several ones the ones you received when he beat the Bruins so I mean it he -- get any for the for being run everywhere so apparently trying to say it was all Boston this joke. Mike's -- car driver rowdy son 937 WE yeah what's up Mike. Guys we're going on hire whomever you want an app that I'll spot we that there are so be it looked insisted there will -- a lot fairer and I picked up about a little bit right the right people -- example won't really know. You know they put it bubble -- is reflected -- -- I think maybe. They seem like either I think that's -- it's all really -- to rally. Against the world and I think you're gonna make it all but I. And -- rallied around the picnic is tonight. Yes I I agree on much earth was that intentional I really don't maybe it was maybe it wasn't I don't know but I do think that he gonna put it on himself he put a target on his back. And I think as a team that obviously respects their guy in the big ticket -- G. Not out of I don't think -- come out flat and don't think they would let up so I think even though they're not successful these types of games it's almost like we just assume. I know people -- -- can win this game alive but for the most part of surprise some people just assume they'll lose this game is what we've seen recently. And a win game seven I think they do when the forty hang your hat they don't they haven't shown that killer instinct -- they haven't but they have shown that they keep it says you think Kevin Garnett content if you don't you saw war. Gets it going public and go there and dominate. Like they did in game three and game four and they -- basically they let up in game four they let up. I think that they can show they've -- they go down there and just. They can impose their will against this Philly team whenever they want this question of whether they want that should offer not and that's one reason why frustrate you could it. You -- for Justina makes all the sense in the world. That they would want to finish this off. As quick as possible because they are the better team and yet here we are in game six and we could be faced negates that. Yeah -- Bradley doesn't play tonight doc told the media couple minutes going to suspect David Bradley to play I'll be very interested to see how Ray Allen response I mean. We talked to Donny Marshal yesterday he made the great point look we -- was the right ankle have disperse. He was holding his left ankle there at the end effect is a great shot heralding him leaning over holding both ankles and at the expectation is ray Allen's gonna play. Thirty minutes and it's gonna shoot off the screens they gonna try to guard -- -- young athletic guards they haven't Philadelphia. What how how long can you go with that means it is it just eight. I guess it is a pain threshold thing you know and a a war of attrition. Talked about with this this sell the team and their injuries. And it's a broad range he's just. He's not shoot the ball well you know what does he do for your team and if he gets off to a slow start is no lift those legs. You what are they going to be forced to go to. It allows you expect anything other than we've seen. I think it got worse there at the end game five I think that was the first time we set okay the right ankle ought to spurn it now the left ankle. It's up to Wednesday's early giving you much anyways of and pretty much minutes being a body on the court some of the -- the corner like doc says it has the most in a right next don't. You expect more minutes from Michael features and hopefully you know can get the same oughta -- -- vast amounts of short but then again. You know Philly you wonder if they'll change their strategy it sort of seems that will give -- best that show will -- invesco. You know we're gonna defend KG would it -- Paul Pierce who to defend Rajon Rondo. 6177790850. Year expectation or tonight game six sounds like you're going Celtics they have got a -- went tonight -- -- -- comeback for Boston. For game 7888. 5250850. What you expect in this game here tonight and what I expect out of the NBA's league office. After that disaster. And almost melee last night Miami Indiana we'll mix that with your phone calls keep it here.


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The home was originally built by Joseph Hunter in 1866 on 100 East and Center Street, and the event Aug. 3 was full of stories of the home's past glory when it stood across from the Rock Church, and had its full addition making the home more than twice its current size.
Hunter family descendants walked through the rooms of the home, sharing stories and remembering sitting in the bay window watching people walk to the church, and how much the home meant to their grandmother, Maddie Hunter-Booth, who inherited the home.
Janet Seegmiller, devoted local historian and Southern Utah University associate professor of Library Media over Special Collections, offered the dedication.
She mentioned groups and individuals for whom the home, moved from its location across from the Rock Church in 2005, should be dedicated, including early volunteers who gathered at the Frontier Homestead Park determined to save the home, volunteers who worked to dismantle and preserve it in preparation to be moved, Mayor Gerald R. Sherratt who offered funds to preserve the home, and Hunter family descendants.
"This home is dedicated to the community who would not let it be torn down," she said. "The home had become a community icon … I still wish I could drive past the Hunter House on Center Street … "
Paula Mitchell, Iron Mission Foundation Board of Trustees chair, also spoke at the dedication as to the importance of preserving "our past and heritage."
"(Every day that passes) a little piece of our heritage is chipping away," she said. "A community without a past is a community without a future."
Mike Liebhardt, who teaches construction at the Southwest Applied Technology College, did most of the work to restore the home with his students from both Canyon View and Cedar High Schools over the course of three years, and at the Aug. 3 event he shared some of the painstaking efforts involved in bringing the home to its current state of restoration.
He and his students did the majority of the labor on the home including replastering the walls.
Liebhardt said more than 220 students worked on the restoration project over three years and became emotional as he spoke of what it will mean to the students in the future.
"Those students will tell their children and their grandchildren about the work they did to restore that historic home," he said.
The upstairs of the home is now open, and Mitchell said "The best days of the home are in its future," and that they envision the home hosting wedding receptions, family gatherings, business events including holiday gatherings and parties, and princess parties complete with tea and scones, footmen and carriage rides.
Descendants of Maddie Hunter-Booth, Ray Booth, Craig Kitterman, and Sharlene Caron attended the dedication, and all helped dismantle the home when it had to be moved.
They stood outside it on the grounds of the Frontier Homestead and reminisced of when they lived in the home as young children, what it meant to have it preserved, and how much they wish it could have been preserved on its original site on Center Street.
"I'm still very, very sad it's not in its original spot," Sharlene said. "I'm still grieving over that."
The family heard the home was going to be torn down seven years ago from other citizens and through an article in the newspaper.
"We were horrified," Craig said. "I volunteered the family to come and donate time to save whatever we could of the home, and then called and told them I had signed them up."
Seegmiller said some of the family was there at the first meeting when citizens gathered to decide what they could possibly do to save the home, when all other avenues allowing it to stay in its location on Center Street were exhausted.
Moving the home was the only option they had, although the large addition to the home, built in the Victorian tradition in 1891with beautiful, Victorian woodwork, could not be moved. Instead they saved almost every piece of the addition including the windows, doors, and bricks so someday it could be restored along with the original portion of the house.
Looking at the big front porch of the Hunter House, with the Victorian woodwork also added in 1891, all now located behind the one-room school house on the museum grounds, Ray Booth remembers cutting the porch and the wood work off the home so it could be moved, his heart pounding as he did so, hoping it all would later be reconstructed.
Craig said he thought Cedar City was determined not to let another historic home be torn down and citizens were dedicated to saving this piece of their history and community.
Seegmiller said Cedar City has not done nearly as well as Parowan and St. George, which have been more successful in preserving their beautiful, old and historic homes.
The large, beautiful bay window appointed with its original, wavy glass now faces north to the Cedar City Cemetery where it once overlooked the Rock Church and Cedar Mountain, but Craig said "Grandma (Maddie) Booth," who taught first grade for 30 years, would love that the house is being used for education, and that so many people will get to enjoy it and learn from it.
Sharlene remains unconvinced, and still believes the first house of its kind in the valley belongs where it was built, across from the Rock Church, at the point of transition between the wild and rugged Cedar Canyon and the city Joseph Hunter and his descendants helped to build.


text: The new breed of giants fans are spoiled. I feel like these types take winning championships for granted and act like Lombardi trophies grow on trees. People are tripping for one year of poor play? Try waiting 17 years for another title. I was here for the 21-0 shut out in t playoffs against the 85 bears. I was there for the flipper Anderson walk off td. I was there for the Vikings recovering two onside kicks back to back as we blew a playoff game. I was there for the snowball game with ray handley as the head coach. I was there when we blew that big lead against the 49ers in that wildcard game. I was also there for the 44-3 beatdown that we took in the divisional round of the playoffs against San Francisco in the 1993 playoffs. The point is that teams go through hard times and we will again suck and be cellar dwellers one day. Probably as soon as next year. Anyways, appreciate being even close to contending every year because this **** wont last forever. IMO, the new breed of fans haven't really experienced real turmoil yet and I actually question if they will be around once things go really south.


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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly Crivitz hotel in Basthorst with 3 restaurants
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In addition to a full-service spa, Schloss Basthorst features an indoor pool and a health club. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a swim-up bar and a bar/lounge. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
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- Number of floors - 2
- Bar/lounge
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Designated smoking areas
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Computer station
- Sauna
- Indoor pool
- Health club
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Terrace
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Conference space size (meters) - 315
- Year Built 1649
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 3389
- Conference center
- Number of buildings/towers - 4
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Swim-up bar
- Wedding services
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( EUR 7.50 per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( EUR 7.50 per 24-hour period )
Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Digital TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Room service (24 hours)
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Pillowtop mattress
- Pillow menu
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Schloss Lounge - This restaurant specializes in German cuisine and serves lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Wilhelmina Helena - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. A children's menu is available.
24-hour room service is available.
Castle Terrace - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in German cuisine and serves lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Segway rental/tour nearby
Spa Services
Schloss Basthorst Spa has 11 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including Ayurvedic. The spa is equipped with a sauna.
Children under 14 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
- Number of treatment rooms 11
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 30.00 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 5.00 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet (varies based on length of stay)
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
Hotel Name
- Basthorst
- Basthorst Schloss
- Schloss Basthorst
- Schloss Basthorst Crivitz
- Schloss Basthorst Hotel
- Schloss Basthorst Hotel Crivitz
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Requirements for the Major in Microbiology
Supporting Courses Required
Honors in the Major
1322 Microbial Sciences Building, 1550 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706; 608-262-2914; www.bact.wisc.edu
Professors Gourse (chair), Donohue, Downs, Escalante-Semerena, Filutowicz, Jeffries, Johnson, Kaspar, Keller (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), Landick, Mansfield, Roberts, Wong; Associate Professors Barclay, Currie, Forest, Goodrich-Blair, Hammel, McMahon (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Thomas, Wassarman, Weimer, Yu; Assistant Professor Suen
Contact Katy France, Student Services Coordinator, 608-262-2975, firstname.lastname@example.com, for general information about the undergraduate program, declaring the microbiology major, career opportunities, and advisor assignments.
Microorganisms are the oldest life forms on earth and influence our lives and the well-being of the planet in innumerable ways. The field of microbiology has become even more prominent in recent years because of increased concerns about bioterrorism, infectious disease, and environmental manipulation. The microbiology major, offered by the Department of Bacteriology, provides training in broad aspects of microbiology with an emphasis on cutting-edge laboratory skills. The core courses focus on the diversity, genetics, biochemistry, and physiology of microorganisms. A variety of elective courses provide the opportunity to study environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, food microbiology, microbial pathogenesis, immunology, virology and microbial biotechnology. Instructional laboratory courses provide hands-on experience with modern techniques and equipment. Students have many opportunities for independent research projects in faculty laboratories.
The bachelor's degree provides a strong background in the biological sciences for students planning to enter medical, dental, veterinary or other professional schools, as well as those planning graduate studies in any branch of microbiology or other biological sciences such as molecular or cell biology.
Students who end their training with a bachelor's degree are well prepared for a wide variety of career opportunities, including laboratory positions in pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms and in university and government laboratories. They also work as specialists in industrial quality testing and control, and as regulatory workers in government agencies and public health laboratories. Exposure to the scientific process as well as training in microbiology allows microbiology graduates to enter fields as diverse as business, technical service, sales, and technical writing.
Requirements for the Major
The Department of Bacteriology offers an undergraduate major in microbiology for students in both the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) and the College of Letters and Science (L&S). Students majoring in microbiology complete a minimum of 23 credits, including the core courses—Microbio 303, 304, 305, 450, 470, 526 and 527, in addition to the Microbio 551 Capstone course. The remaining 6 credits can be taken in a variety of electives; up to 3 credits may be fulfilled by specified non-microbiology courses. Contact the department for a complete list of electives.
All students completing a Letters and Science degree must complete the L&S requirement of at least 15 credits of upper-level work in the major completed in residence. Microbiology courses 300 level and above (excluding Microbio 303 and 304) count toward this requirement.
Supporting Courses Required
Biological Sciences
Students may choose one of two options to gain appropriate background in basic biology, genetics and biochemistry.
Option A:
Botany 130 and Zoology 101 and 102
or Biology/Botany/Zoology 151 and 152;
Biochem 501 or Biochem 507/508 or BMolChem 503
Option B:
Biocore 301 (381, effective spring 2014) and 302 (382, effective spring 2014) and 303 (383, effective spring 2014) and 304 (384, effective spring 2014) and 323 (485, effective spring 2014)
Biochem 501 or Biochem 507/508 or BMolChem 503
Math/Physical Sciences
General Chemistry 103 and 104
or Chemistry 109
Organic Chemistry 343, 344, 345
Calculus 171–217 or 211 or 221
Physics 103 and 104 or 201 and 202 or 207 and 208
Students are encouraged to complete the B.S. degree because strong math skills are required for the microbiology major. Students who plan on graduate study are advised to complete Biochem 507 and 508, calculus, and physical chemistry.
Honors in the Major
To earn L&S Honors in the Major in Microbiology, majors must complete a minimum of 15 honors credits in the department, chosen from:
Microbio 303, 304, 330, 425, 450, 470, 526, 528, 607, 612, 622, 625, 632, 640, 650, 668, and 681-682
Honors candidates must complete a Senior Honors Thesis (Microbio 681-682). A minimum grade of B is required in each honors credit course, and students must earn a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.3 in courses taken in the major and an overall GPA of at least 3.3 in all courses taken at UW–Madison at the time of graduation. Students should check with the department honors advisor at least once a year to make sure that requirements have not been modified, as well as to seek guidance about planning the best possible Honors in the Major curriculum that reflects their special interests.
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easyJet holidays has everything from cultural city breaks to exotic beach destinations, so whatever your preference you can be sure to find the perfect winter escape. Get away for less and give yourself something to look forward to this winter!
The temperature is at a refreshing 20c during the winter season, retaining its warm waters and there's so much to discover on an Egypt holiday, the country is full to the brim with history.
All of the attractions in Tenerife remain open during the winter season and there are fewer crowds, which is perfect if you have children travelling with you. There are a mixture of activities on offer, including relaxing on the beach or exploring the island on foot.
The temperatures are a lot more comfortable during the winter months which means you can enjoy some of the great outdoor activities on offer. The beaches are less crowded, so you won't have to fight for a spot in the sun!
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I have an old aluminum extension ladder that has the original hinged shoes at the base.
I noticed the newer ladders have better - larger, wider, better traction shoes.
Are those parts interchangeable? Can I buy two of those and replace the ones I have, or are those different from manufacturer to manufacturer, model to model?
Concider buying ladder levelers instead. You remove the old feet and these just bolt to the sides of the ladder. They have large pads for feet and there adjustable so the ladder can be sitting on rough or sloped ground and still stay level.
Lowes and Home Depot both have them.
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As predators, cougars tend to select prey animals that are weaker and easier to attack during certain seasons, according to results of a new study.
The study is outlined in an article featured in the September 2010 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management, published by The Wildlife Society.
The authors' study of cougar predation from 1998 to 2008 in west-central Alberta, Canada, aimed to answer four questions: •How many ungulates, or hooved animals, do cougars kill? •How does season influence cougar predation? •What effect does cougar population structure have on predation rates? •Do cougars target vulnerable prey?
During the study, the researchers immobilized and then fitted cougars with GPS radiocollars for tracking purposes that were programmed to obtain a location at 2- or 3-hour intervals, or 8 to 12 times a day. They used this information to identify GPS cluster sites that also were likely predation sites and then visited the sites to identify any animal remains as predation or scavenging events. This added up to about 3,700 GPS location clusters and more than 1,500 predation events.
"Although previous research has applied GPS telemetry to estimate cougar kill rate, estimates were obtained using models and not continuous monitoring," according to the researchers. "In this study, we attempted to census cougar predation on ungulates over the duration each cougar was monitored."
Potential ungulate prey in the region includes elk, moose, white-tailed deer, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats, while nonungulate prey includes beaver, porcupine, snowshoe hare, and grouse. The study found that wild ungulates were the most common prey, with white-tailed deer the most common.
"Cougars exhibited significant seasonal shifts in prey composition," they write. "Cougars in west-central Alberta killed primarily female ungulates just before, during, and just after the birthing period (April-June), males just before and during the rut (September-November), and focused predation on juvenile ungulates in spring consistent with the reproductive and juvenile vulnerability hypotheses, reinforcing the notion that cougars select for vulnerable prey."
According to the authors, "Our kill rate estimates indicate that adult cougars are highly effective predators, killing at rates at the upper end of those recorded for wolves in both frequency and biomass."
The authors also note that while cougars are able to kill large prey such as adult moose and feral horses, they often choose smaller animals, probably because of the lower risk of these attacks.
"Our estimates of cougar kill rate and our findings concerning the influence of season, demography, and prey vulnerability on cougar predation patterns can be applied to better interpret and anticipate cougar-ungulate dynamics," the authors conclude. "Our results also have application for cougar harvest management where cougar impacts on ungulate populations are cause for concern."
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Hampton Inn New York Chelsea
About the hotel
Property Location
Hampton Inn New York Chelsea is in the heart of New York, walking distance from Flatiron Building and Fashion Institute of Technology. This hotel is close to Empire State Building and Macy's.
Make yourself at home in one of the 144 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a fitness center, or other amenities including complimentary wireless Internet access and concierge services.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Hampton Inn New York Chelsea.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby.
Hotel Facilities
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Luggage storage
- Elevator/lift
- Roll-in shower
- Restaurant
- Number of floors - 19
- Free WiFi
- Computer station
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free breakfast
- Fitness facilities
- ATM/banking
- In-room accessibility
- Total number of rooms - 144
- Year Built 2003
- Concierge services
- Business center
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Accessible bathroom
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Smoke-free property
Room Facilities
- Shower/tub combination
- Premium TV channels
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Desk
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Free local calls
- Hair dryer
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Daily housekeeping
- Satellite TV service
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free toiletries
- Free WiFi
- Coffee/tea maker
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
Hotel Policy
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Valet parking fee: USD 65 per day
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From a sleek cat eye to bold, matte lips, it's no secret that I enjoy trying new and dramatic make-up looks. These looks are perfect for a night out or a special event but not so much for everyday. Creating a perfect everyday make-up look is all about creating a flawless, natural face. I always enjoy seeing what everyday products others use so I thought I would share the products currently in my everyday make-up routine.
1. Estee Lauder Double Wear Light This is hands down a holy grail product for me. This foundation is light to medium coverage and it stays in place all day long. Seriously, it doesn't move. It's perfect for my combination skin and never feels heavy. I am obsessed with this stuff and hope it never goes away!
2. Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder I really love this setting powder by Laura Mercier. My skin tends to get oily throughout the day and this definitely helps control it. This powder also gives my skin a beautiful finish, which is a plus!
3. Bare Minerals 'True Romantic' Blush I have tons of favorite blushes but I'm currently infatuated with this limited edition blush by Bare Minerals. It gives my fair skin a subtle rosy glow and stays on all day long. It doesn't hurt that it's all-natural either.
4. Tarte Amazonian Clay Mineral Bronzer in 'Park Avenue Princess" As a fair skinned gal, it can be hard to find a bronzer that won't make me look like an oompa loompa. This bronzer by Tarte is a dream come true! It adds warmth to my face without being super noticeable. I love using this bronzer as a contour.
5. Bare Minerals Moxie Lip Gloss in 'Show Off' I'll be honest, I'm addicted to lip balm. However, when I want a little something extra for an everyday look I go straight to my Moxie gloss. All of the colors in this line are amazing and the consistency of this gloss is wonderful. It's not sticky and makes my lips all tingly.
6. Revlon Lash Potion Mascara I am a HUGE fan of drugstore brand mascaras. I usually go for Loreal but lately I've been impressed with Revlon's Lash Potion. It doesn't clump and gives my lashes just enough volume and length for the workday.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by WoodysGirl, Dec 2, 2012.
No he isnt.
Seahawks tied the game and have the ball with less than 2 mins left.
Crosby stinks.
Seahawks had a TD overturned, but still 10-7 up. End of half.
chicago and green bay are letting us down.
Adrian Peterson........
I wish my boss was Rex Ryan. No matter how much you suck, you will still have a job with this guy. Fat Boy is hilarious.
Just a very poor decision by Christian Ponder. He committed the cardinal sin for a quarterback. The first thing to teach you is throwing back across your body because when you're rolling out of the pocket more often than not you can't see defenders coming under neath. I still remember back in 2009 when Brett Favre made a similar mistake in the NFC Championship Game against New Orleans and it cost them a shot at the Super Bowl.
Why are you saying Rex and not Garrett?
Well, he could've said Rob too. Both big fat blowhards that have done nothing in the last half decade.
Goes without saying Garrett is garbage.
This is different. Sanchez has been wretched from day 1 and it continues 4 years later. Nobody on this team has been that bad for even close to that long.
True. IMO Sanchez is the worst QB in the league.
*waits for "has more playoff wins than Romo*
It's amazing the amount of leeway being a 1st round pick gets a player.
It may be different, but the Ryans are all talk. All the first round picks on this defense, all the sacrifices made to get them. Rob Ryan walked into a situation where all the groceries had been bought, or were about to be. What does our defense have to show for it? Bottom of the league in turnovers.
Sure Ryan's defense could be called 'good' when you look at yards allowed, but when you look at touchdowns allowed and takeaways forced, not so much.
greg mcelroy coming in for the jets. loud cheers erupt around the stadium lol.
Then as a DC, you go to the GM (Jerry) or HC (Carrothead) and say get me some safeties. Or you mortgage your season on players like Barry Church, Matt Johnson laugh2, Danny McCray, and guys off the street like Eric Frampton and Charlie Peprah.
And that really has been a huge part of it.
You spend a fortune in draft equity and actual dollars, it's hard to give up on someone.
Yet we have people on this board that measure players by their draft pedigree.
Oh well
Bears TD. 14-10 up.
Jets look like they want to play now that Sanchez is out.


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IS 130 introduces the basics of emergency management exercise evaluation and improvement planning. It also builds a foundation for exercise evaluation concepts as identified in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP).
At the end of this course, you will:
This course is designed for local, State, Federal, trust territories, tribal nations, volunteer organizations, and private industry emergency management/response personnel with the responsibility for exercise evaluation.
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Justin was there to support Selena's mom, who just suffered a miscarriage. Isn't he caring?
Justin Bieber may be the most supportive boyfriend in the world. He made the time to visit Selena Gomez's mother Mandy Gomez in the hospital.
Mandy just went through a heartbreaking miscarriage and it's wonderful that Justin would be there for Selena's mom. x17Online.com took pictures of him at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Dec. 19, and he looks devastated for his girlfriend's family.
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The second phase of the Just a Click Away initiative is well underway! As you'll recall from our last blog post, CLEO, Courthouse Libraries BC, Educaloi and PovNet have teamed up to deliver Just a Click Away Phase 2.
First up is our online community of practice, PLEI Connect/La Connexion VIJ. This part of the project is being led by the great team at PovNet. Lots of work has been going on behind the scenes, and now we need your input.
Mosa, who some of you may remember from the Just a Click Away conference in Vancouver, is the Outreach Coordinator for PLEI Connect/La Connexion VIJ. If you registered for one of the webinars or the conference last year, you'll likely have an email from her. She's inviting you to complete a questionnaire by Friday February 17, 2012. The information gathered will help to shape the online community of practice, so please make sure you take a bit of time before February 17, 2012 to add you two cents!
If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact Mosa directly at firstname.lastname@example.com, or Brenda Rose at firstname.lastname@example.com.
We're happy to announce that the Law Foundation of Ontario's Access to Justice Fund has approved funding for Just a Click Away Phase 2: Supporting a Culture of Sharing.
Collaborating on this two year project are four organizations:
- Community Legal Education Ontario/Education juridique communautaire Ontario (CLEO)
- Courthouse Libraries BC
- Éducaloi and
- PovNet.
Also involved are advisory committee members from Justice Education Society of BC, Community Legal Education Association (Manitoba), and Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick.
This next phase features four elements:
- An online community of practice. Led by PovNet, we will provide a private online space for PLEI practitioners to have frank conversations and share experiences and learning about technology and PLEI on an ongoing basis.
- A series of webinar broadcasts. Led by Éducaloi, we will hold a series of 8 broadcast webinars over a two year period where PLEI practitioners, managers, and funders from across Canada can learn about key topics relating to technology and PLEI.
- A series of hands-on web labs. Led by CLEO, we will hold a series of 8 hands-on interactive workshops over the web aimed at PLEI practitioners who work directly with online technologies.
- Documentation of best practices. Led by Courthouse Libraries BC, we will create online PLEI best practices guides, developed from the exchanges in the online community of practice space, the webinar broadcasts and the hands-on web labs.
The project is in the very early stages so stay tuned for information about events as they unfold. To receive updates about the project, please subscribe to our blog, follow us on Twitter and/or like us on Facebook!
Many thanks to all of the great speakers we had at our Just a Click Away conference in February. On the "Conferences Presentations and Notes" tab of our website, you'll find links to many of the presentations made at the conference in Vancouver. Recently added ones include a link to the Webex recording for Reaching New Immigrants, and Bryan Robertson's presentation on Evaluation: How to know if your website is a success (or not).
Thank you to our presenters for sharing these with us!
Thanks to everyone who attended the Just a Click Away conference in Vancouver, February 23-24, 2011. It was an amazing couple of days, filled with opportunities to learn, share and connect.
We were so pleased that so many participants were able to stay for our closing session, Imagine, where with the help of a graphic recorder, we captured how the conference touched your heart and head, and what you planned to take away with you. It was an energizing, fun way to end the conference, and start planning for the future.
Here's the final product from that closing session. Thanks to all of you for participating, and to graphic recorder Yolanda Liman for this amazing piece of art!
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David Eaves, our conference keynote speaker, opened the Just a Click Away conference on Wednesday, February 23 with a talk to inspire those in the public legal information community to take up the next challenge of innovation within their roles as members of the legal community.
David Eaves has a strong interest in public policy, and within that holds a passion for open and accessible data that leads to, among other things, government transparency. He argues that this perspective can also be adapted to enable citizens to better access justice, as well as to produce a long term change in public policy.
Three key elements point to the question of what can be done differently:
- Open and accessible data, which can be and is shared with citizens. It encompasses data that is maleable and useful, which users can "look and touch": play with, map, and make into tools that serves citizens;
- Open standards for this data that respects privacy; and,
- Open source software is used so that other cities (for example) can use it to make similar tools using local data for its citizens and put it on the same level as proprietary software.
What are examples of what that looks like?
One popular website, Recollect, provides Vancouver residents with a service to get updates and reminders of the city's garbage collection schedule – a potential source of frustration due to the collection day shifting due to holidays. Recollect used relevant city data to make a more interactive garbage schedule, create applications for smartphones that send reminders in various methods, including email, telephone, Twitter, and SMS. Originally tested in Vancouver, the service is rolling out to Victoria, Nanaimo, Edmonton and other Canadian cities.
Another example uses air quality data to measure pollution surrounding local plants. The data can be mapped for use by those concerned with the emittance from a given plant, not just by community members or activists, but also by health workers. The resulting project includes, in his example, not only a map with readings, but also the email of that plant's manager and the relevant Member of Parliament.
The result is not just an additional interactive tool, but one that plays a role towards shaping public policy and increasing government transparency.
However, for projects such as these to be possible and produced efficiently, a government has to present its data in downloadable, workable formats. To make data available in a PDF format, or something similar, that would require an interested user to then re-type this data into another format, such as a spreadsheet, presents a barrier that hinders openess, accessibility and innovation. His objective aims to not only allow citizens to read information, but to grab the aggregate data and build with it.
There are important benefits to such changes in the way that data is perceived and distributed. The first is a collapse in transaction costs – the costs that are involved when citizens or interested data users must "beg" to have that data released to them, and potentially have different users on different occasions ask again for data that was already released to another user, at another time, all over again. In addition, having the data released in a format that is increasingly barrier-free, in a format that is more playable and pliable (a spreadsheet versus PDF, for example) reduces the resources (skills, time, technology) required to work towards a goal or tool. The potential for co-operation also reduces the cost, because the data is there to be potentially grabbed by an interested user or citizen and then worked with. They do not have to gain permission to gain access, and there is less likelihood that a long, expensive and time-consumming negotiation (which, he argues, characterizes collaboration) takes place thus slowing down the path to innovation.
He argues that this take on access to data can lead to innovations in accessing the law, and inherent in this is changing the proprietary structure of access to the law. In other words, a shift must be made away from profitness and proprietariness in the law to openess. What, he asked, if you had to place yourself on the following continuum, from yes to no: "For a number of issues a citizen with a computer can be as effective as a lawyer"? If it's not possible for the citizen to solve problems on their own, he suggested, it is potentially the case that the law is impenatrable. Is thinking upon these lines key to solving issues surrounding access to justice?
Finally, he established what he saw as the "Innovation challenge": to crush the value out of the low end of the law. He argued that legal issues that are common could be distilled to concepts that we collectively agree upon. In a parallel way to how the Creative Commons symbol has become a standard by which a creator can select a more flexible use of their work, so could a logo or brand be used to signify a validated, standard form or contract for some of the most common disputes, such as wills or rental agreements, resulting in that everyone involved in the transaction knows what they are agreeing to. Such a product could become the go-to standard that could save signees legal fees and conflict. Therein, he argues, is the genius: the branding and the content.
In closing, there are three key pieces to his perspective: work together, with small, modular pieces to cooperate, share information and who is using it; take on the innovation challenge he presents; and, have fun with the open data space!
Our Vancouver conference is February 23-24, 2011. We're just putting the finishing touches on what we hope will be an amazing event. We've got over 100 people coming from across the country, and dozens of outstanding speakers – we're in for an exciting couple of days!
For those who are attending, here's a quick list of information you may want to review before Wednesday:
- Venue – our conference is being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Vancouver.
- Program – the complete list of sessions at the two-day conference.
- Speakers – read about the great lineup of presenters we'll have!
If you're planning to attend the post-webinar session on Portals and Other Models for Online Public Legal Education, you may want to review the handouts and recordings from the webinars we held over the last two months.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
For those who can't make it to the Vancouver conference, we do plan to have a conference report posted on this site in the Spring, so stay tuned!
Wow – look at all this great stuff. Ontario Justice Education Network's Sarah McCoubrey shares their innovative online youth programs including Charter Challenge. Family issues are explored by Justice Education Society of BC's Dave Nolette, who has an exciting new online program for separating parents. Deborah Doherty from PLEIS of New Brunswick shares their new work on fillable forms.
A breakout session on day one of the conference, "Leveraging Others' Genius: Adapting Content from Other Jurisdictions" (Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:00) features these innovative programs and resources. And there is more – examples of ways to support public library systems in delivering public legal education, to make it easier for you to use translated materials, and a look at some basic guides from the UK that we can all use. We welcome more examples of or requests for PLEI resources or services that can be shared, adapted, or used as a model. See you at the conference. The full conference program is here.


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If you think back to last year's Olympics in London, you'll recall the remarkable performance staged by the Chilean arts collective Casagrande. Yes, we're talking about the bombing of poems over London. Our friend David Shook covered the even for us here. Now, Casagrande is hoping to publish a book containing poems from the bombing, along with images of the event:
Bombing of Poems is a performance, which consists of dropping one hundred thousand poems from a helicopter over cities that in the past have been bombed during military confrontations. At the moment, it has been held in six cities around the world. Each time the cargo of poems has been released, none of the 100,000 poems has been left on the floor: every single poem was collected and treasured by the crowd.
Today we would like to publish a book including the 300 poems and the best pictures of the performance carried out in London, 2012.
The book is a hard cover edition, and will be published in Spanish and English. The poets are from more than 200 different countries and included an introduction of Oscar Hahn and William Rowe.
To accomplish this target we need to fundraise 8,000 US dollars.
There's only a week left to help support the project. Find out more here, and watch the video!
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Posted in Poetry News on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 by Harriet Staff.


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Red Cross volunteers see increased activityIncidents such as these happen county-wide, sometimes on a daily basis.
Hurricane Sandy has reminded us all again of the important work the Red Cross does during emergencies, but we don't always hear of the work the Red Cross does locally.
The Red Cross not only works large disasters but local incidents where people are displaced or in need of assistance.
And they are very busy this year.
Local Red Cross officials said that, since July 1, the Snohomish County Red Cross has responded to 37 local incidents, including 24 single family fires, 12 multi-family fires and one pipe burst flooding incident.
That's up more than 190 percent over the first six months of 2011.
The Red Cross reports that 10 of those responses have been in the South County, including four multi-family fires.
Their typical response includes:
- Financial assistance, as needed, for food, clothing, rent, bedding, lost medical prescriptions, and other emergent needs;
- Health care provided by volunteer RNs;
- Damage assessment (for insurance purposes);
- Grief counseling (volunteer licensed therapists).
All disaster response is done by volunteers, allowing the Red Cross to provide more direct financial assistance as needed.
"We see the Red Cross in action on a regular basis when they respond at all hours of the day and night to help families who have just suffered the devastating loss of a fire," FD1 Fire Chief Edward C. Widdis said.
"Beyond supplying the basics of shelter, food and clothing, Red Cross volunteers provide comfort and emotional support to help fire victims get back on their feet again."
Widdis gave as an example the service Red Cross volunteers provided just a few weeks ago at the Edmonds Highlands Apartments where a fire claimed the life of a 52-year-old man and caused more than $450,000 damage.
"The first Red Cross volunteers started arriving while we were still fighting the fire. Soon, a whole Red Cross disaster response was in place at the fire scene," he said.
"They made sure 35 residents had a place to stay the night
of the fire."
The next day, after the building's electrical system was put
back in service, most of the residents were able to return to their apartments, but 11 residents from five apartments were permanently displaced and lost many, if not all, of their possessions in the fire. None had renter's insurance.
"Red Cross volunteers offered them help with food, clothing and housing," Widdis said. "Red Cross nurses helped replace prescription medications and eyeglasses lost in the fire.
"A Red Cross mental health professional also responded to assist grieving residents as they learned of their neighbor's death."
Incidents such as these happen county-wide, sometimes on a daily basis. Recently, the hardest hit areas have been Everett, Edmonds and Lynnwood.
Volunteers with the Snohomish County Red Cross have been busy, and just got even busier. They've already sent a number of volunteers to help with Hurricane Sandy Relief.
"We sent 10 volunteers and one staff person," said Chuck Morrison, regional executive with the American Red Cross, NW Washington.
"And the deployments continue. Our Emergency Response Vehicle is leaving as soon as we find one more driver, so that means at least two more volunteers leaving soon."
Those volunteers won't be the end of Snohomish County Red Cross support for Sandy.
"There'll no doubt be a second wave of volunteers needed about two weeks from now, as the current volunteers finish their assignments, which is typically three weeks," Morrison said.
With all this activity, the Red Cross may be finding themselves short of funds soon.
"Funds are not running low yet," Morrison said. "But they will as gifts now are generally intended for Hurricane Sandy response."
Nationally, in the first 48 hours pre- and post-Hurricane Sandy, American Red Cross sheltered nearly 11,000 people in more than 250 Red Cross emergency shelters, served more than 25,000 meals and snacks, and mobilized more than 1,700 trained disaster responders to support relief efforts in affected areas across 16 states.


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Dr. Bharathi plans Vishnu Film Festival on his birthday
Dr. Bharathi Vishnu held press conference for the first time
after the death of Dr. Vishnu. Addressing the media, the Kannada
actress said, "Earlier Namma Yajamanru (My husband) used to address
you and he used to share his feelings. But now, he is not there
with us. So I thought of sharing my feelings with you and have
lunch with you this afternoon."
She added, "I've planned to hold several programmes on the Vishnu's birthday on 18th September. Firstly, we'll have Vishnu Film Festival and Anirudh is taking full responsibility of it. Along with Ani, I'll be spending the full day at Abhiman Studios on 18th Sept. Vishnu fans will come to celebrate his birthday and we'll serve 'prasadam' (meal) to all his fans."
Bharathi said that she would release the book 'Naanu Nanna Haadu' penned by journalist Nandakumar on 18th Sept. Talking about the book, Nandakumar said, "As a journalist, I've spent 15 years with Vishnu's sir. I had interviewed him on several occasion and collected lot of information about his life. Now, I'm bring it out in the form of book. I would like to Bharathi amma, Anirudh and their family for supporting me to publish this book."
The close friend and senior Kannada actor Shivaram, who was also present at the press conference, spoke and remembered his precious moments spent with Vishnu. He said, "Hardly a few people will get to see the entry and exit of an actor into films. I'm one among those fortunate and unfortunate people because I've seen both Vishnu's entry into film industry and his exit. He was a wonderful actor and his last movie Aaptha Rakshaka is best example for it."
Meanwhile, actor Anirudh briefed the details of the Vishnuvardhan Film Festival. He said that Shrimathi Puttanna Kanagal would innaugarate the Film Fest on 17th Sept and Vishnu's close friends like Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha and rebel star Ambareesh would attend the valedictory function on 19th Sept.


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The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
Joyce Appleby
(W. W. Norton & Company)
US: Jan 2010
Most historians and theorists of capitalism have ideological axes to grind, whether critics like Karl Marx and his various disciples or rabid boosters like Milton Friedman and the sundry advocates of various forms Libertarianism. In contrast, Joyce Appleby has no axes to grind. Although she is clearly dubious about the almost endless virtues ascribed to free market capitalism by its boosters, she also believes that capitalism has more virtues than its many critics deny it. Her attitude towards capitalism may not be too different from Winston Churchill's famous assessment of democracy: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
As a result of her sensitivity to both the vices and virtues of capitalism, The Relentless Revolution: The History of Capitalism is one of the more objective such histories that exists. Instead of parading historical narrative to support her ideological claims, she allows the historical data to emerge in ways either passionate detractors or boosters would ignore or abjure.
Appleby's main contention is that capitalism was neither an inevitable development in human history nor a natural phenomenon. Instead, the birth of capitalism was a highly contingent event, dependent on both the congruence of many historical factors along with a wide-range of necessary cultural preconditions. There are, she contends, reasons why capitalism emerged in Great Britain in the 18th century instead of Holland in the 17th century in a completely different corner of the globe. Changes in agriculture in the 17th and 18th centuries, which meant that fewer people had to be involved in the production of food for the rest of society, were an absolute precondition to the so-called Industrial Revolution, because without workers it would have been impossible to have working factories. Without the higher wages that factories produced there would have been no widespread market for the many good produced by the burgeoning number of factories in England.
Additionally, many Continental societies were, unlike Great Britain, too resistant to change, and an openness to change is at the heart of capitalism (hence the title of her book). Although many want to see capitalism as arising from laws of nature, the fact is that its development everywhere is dependent upon contingent cultural and societal preconditions, which in large part accounts for why capitalism has failed throughout much of the world.
Joyce Appleby tells a moderately conservative (in method, not in politics) account of the development and birth of capitalism. While some see the many centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution prefiguring and leading to full-blown capitalism, Appleby tells a story of an economic system that is neither inevitable nor existing previously in embryonic form (i.e., the history of human economic activity was not leading inevitably to capitalism).
While many locate the birth of capitalism in Dutch trade in the 17th century, Appleby does not, finding too many key elements missing not only in that century, but not emerging until well after capitalism was underway in Great Britain. Neither does she see the Industrial Revolution as the central event in the history of capitalism that many do, just as she does not see Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations as especially crucial in its development. Both Smith's classic work and the Industrial Revolution, on the other hand, were the result of a host of changes and developments that had already taken place and that were culmination of changes taking place in England during the previous century.
After dealing with the birth of capitalism in Great Britain and its acknowledgment by the rest of the world, Appleby at great length explores the development of the next two capitalist economies to emerge, those of Germany and the United States. She explores both the similarities and differences in capitalism in these two countries and the factors that made it different there than in Great Britain (indeed, one of her contentions is that there is no one capitalism, but many, that capitalism exists in slightly altered and modified forms due to the culture in which it is embedded).
Subsequent chapters explore the development of the great corporations of the 19th century (almost all of which still exist in one form or another), the reactions to capitalism within the leading industrial nations, the growth of state-sponsored capitalism (such as 19th century Belgium and late 19th and 20th century Japan), the impact of the two great 20th century World Wars on economic development, and the impact of the global depression (as well as the recognition of the failure of the United States to assume global leadership after becoming the world's largest economy).
The final chapters, which are less narratively structured than the earlier parts of the book, deal with the failures of Western-style capitalism in most Third World economies (especially the policies pushed forward by those inspired by Milton Friedman, particularly in the Washington Consensus whose policies have been carried out by the IMF and the World Bank) and the challenges to our understanding of capitalism represented by the Chinese economy and the Asian Tigers.
The notion that capitalism is something best understood through its history is central to the book. Many viewing capitalism merely through theory see it as something historically inevitable because they assume that the economic order naturally veers towards a free market. As Appleby shows, history does not support this. If anything, she understates her case for the contingency of capitalism.
That capitalism is not a natural phenomenon was similarly argued by the Marxist critic Karl Polanyi in his 1944 classic The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, whose central points were not undermined by his ideological commitments. If, as libertarians and other ardent free marketers argue, capitalism is the natural order towards which all economic activity tends, then history—both modern and ancient—ought to be replete with examples of the self-regulating free market striving to assert itself. Polanyi went much further back in time than Appleby, even working through a variety of anthropological studies as well as surveying in detail economic activity in ancient, medieval, and early modern history.
Polanyi is not only unable to find any evidence at any point in human history of a self-regulating market prior to the 18th century, he cannot find any such animal even in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead he discovers only markets in which government has always and inevitably played a major role. He finds only the idea of a self-regulating market, not its existence in reality. Polanyi labels as Utopian the belief that markets can be self-regulating. As utopian it therefore is a theory that is not descriptive of the real world and hence incapable of refutation; unable to point to any real world instances where markets have been successfully self-regulating, libertarians inevitably insist that every failure of the market to self-regulate is due to government interference.
With each failure of free market ideas, its boosters insist that the problem is not that there could be anything wrong with their theory, but that the market is insufficiently pure, that if the government would just leave the market alone everyone would find economic nirvana. One wonders what it means when an economic theory is so hard to ground in real world events. Although Appleby does not engage in ancient and anthropological research to support her contention that capitalism is a product of historical development rather than part of the inevitable elements of society, she does provide considerable historical evidence of the contingent nature of capitalism.
As noted above, a major contention of the most avid celebrants of capitalism is that the market works best when government plays little or no role in the economy. The status of this kind of claim has always been an odd one. There are no historical examples of any economy in which government has not played a massive—even a decisive—role, as both Appleby and Polanyi show. Given the complete absence of such self-regulating and self-sustaining markets, with no government interference, how are we supposed to take such beliefs? That they are ahistorical ought to go without debate. As noted, Polanyi characterizes them as utopian. Appleby seems to take them as oddities, given the overwhelming historical evidence that governments have always been intimately involved in capitalist economies, whether providing direct planning or by assisting the growth of economies either by keeping in place protective tariffs or by negotiating trade treaties.
The United States became the industrial power it became largely through powerful protective tariffs in the 19th century that allowed American factories eventually to become competitive with those in Great Britain and Germany. Histories of capitalism such as Appleby's (because they are rooted in history and not theory) suggest that extensive government involvement in capitalism is not only not undesirable but also inevitable. Appleby's closing chapters chronicle several instances where capitalism has developed strong economies despite the lack of laissez-faire policies that many theorists see as the core of capitalism.
Appleby is hardly opposed to capitalism. Although this is not a theoretical work, the understanding of the economy that undergirds her book is that while capitalism is an extraordinary economic system for producing vast amounts of wealth it has not done a very good job of distributing the economic gains equitably. She understands that capitalism has been responsible for creating a higher quality of life for hundreds of millions of individuals—both in the sense of meeting basic human needs and in the sense of enriching human existence by increasing leisure time. While there have been far more winners under capitalism than under less developed economic systems, enough basic goods—food, housing, medicine—have been produced so that there should be no real losers anywhere in the world.
Yet, as she shows at several points, despite growing enough food to feed everyone on the planet, there have been ongoing problems with famines. There were record harvests in India in 1943 during one of the nation's greatest famines, the cause of the millions of deaths an inability or unwillingness to transport food to those who needed it. Appleby is aware of the problems inherent in capitalism but remains hopeful that the various nations of the world will show concern not merely for producing very wealthy segments of the population but for helping those at the bottom of the economic pyramid as well. Her hopes echo the words of FDR, who famously declared that America was not well off unless all Americans were well off.
She also acknowledges that capitalism has made the world a more interesting place. She cites as the two enduring strengths of capitalism as "encouragement of innovation and a capacity to create new wealth along with the real satisfactions that wealth brings to a growing population of recipients". Some Luddites will insist that the joy that iPods, personal computers, DVDs, cheap and inexpensive books, and high-def TVs are artificial and overrated, and in fact counter to genuine living, but it certainly doesn't feel that way to me.
Perhaps I am self-deluded, but being able on my rather modest salary to afford an excellent personal library (my collection of books would rival virtually any personal collection in the 15th century, when even the most bookish of individuals owned only a few hundred books) and many of my favorite movies and TV series on DVD feels like a significant enhancement to my quality of life. The freedom in my leisure time to read these books and watch these DVDs is, in my eyes, a thoroughly good thing.
In fact, one of the great results of capitalism has been the recognition that "freedom" embraces more than merely the narrow understanding of freedom as freedom to own property (18th century political theorists narrowed conceived freedom in terms of ownership of land; indeed, only those who owned land could be free, and this is why the great innovation of American democracy was to detach the right to engage in the political process—i.e., the right to vote—from owning land). "Making private property the premium social good, [factory owners] rejected the idea that freedom is just as precious to workers as to themselves". The good life consists not merely in owning things (whether land or an iPod), but in having the time in which to live as we wish; freedom consists not only in the right to own land, but the freedom to enjoy our lives.
But the failure of capitalist economies to involve everyone within those economies in their overall success and their complaisance when they do not—even when doing so would be possible—doesn't keep Appleby from underrating the tremendous virtues of capitalism. Not only for centuries but for millennia prior to the emergence of capitalism economic growth was stagnant and flat. People remained stuck in the station of life into which they were born, with no possibility of change. Capitalism changed this irrevocably. Although the rigid class structure of European societies impeded capitalist development at first, the capacity to accumulate capital allowed people to move out of the class into which they were born.
As historian Gordon S. Wood pointed out in The Radicalism of the American Revolution, the late 18th century underwent a huge change in the way people thought about themselves in society. Prior to that century, people defined themselves vertically, by the individuals who were stationed immediately above them in society, as well as those who were just below them. But during the economic and political changes of the late 1700s a staggering change occurred, as people came more and more to think of themselves and their world in horizontal terms, looking not above at their superiors and below at their inferiors, but horizontally to their equals.
Indeed, it is not an accident that many historians often link the republican and democratic ideology of the American Revolution with the economic ideas espoused by Adam Smith and others (The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776). Appleby excels at showing the precise ways that capitalism both changed and drew upon the changes of the way that people conceived of themselves in society and the world.
Appleby also expresses concern in the book's final chapters about the problems that emerge when government does not sufficiently protect its citizens from the excesses of capitalism. We have certainly seen in recent decades in the United States—when beginning with Jimmy Carter and then dramatically accelerating under Reagan—a passion for deregulation that has created a string of economic catastrophes, which might have been prevented with stronger regulation and more stringent protective legislation. We have witnessed not merely the recent subprime crisis, but also before that the dotcom crash at the turn of the millennium and the stock market collapse of the late'-80s and the S&L scandal of the '80s.
There are countless factors at work here (and a plethora of new books that analyze the causes that went into the making of the disaster—let me here especially recommend the new book by Larry M. Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, published this past month on Princeton University Press, a book that goes beyond the immediate causes of our economic catastrophe to the changes in the political process that made it possible), but one of the greatest problems is in large part that there is no distance between the government and the economic sector.
Adam Smith worried about this in The Wealth of Nations. In fact, Smith believed that those engaged in the market should not be allowed to serve in government. Why? Because lawmakers who were involved in the market would be insufficiently disinterested to govern wisely. They would, he argued, govern with regard to their own selfish interests. Smith's alternative is not adaptable to our contemporary situation (he felt only landed aristocrats, whom he bizarrely imagined were "disinterested", should serve in government), but the point is that he was aware of the danger to the commonwealth generated by having people whose first concern was the success of the free market gaining the reins of government.
One of the great virtues of Appleby's book is that it shows how intimately economic issues have been at the center of almost all of the key political and cultural issues of the past 250 years. The book almost doubles as a history of the modern world, touching upon the most important political and cultural developments of each century; indeed, economic issues often drive the political and cultural events. Thus, the book is an important key to understanding both the world that we live in as well as a helpful corrective to those who want to mystify capitalism and make it more than what it is: a historically contingent, often effective, and frustratingly fallible way of organizing our economic life.
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