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Red Hat founder to startup hopefuls: Dream big for big rewards
When you start a company with a product or service to sell, Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat and Lulu.com, told a packed room at the All Things Open conference at the Raleigh Convention Center: "You don't sell a product's features, you sell benefits." He also offers more advice. What is it? WRAL TechWire's Allan Maurer has the details for our Insiders in this exclusive report.
Analyst: Open Source is on the rise, especially in China, India
Inside the All Things Open conference: Open source software is on the rise even in enterprise settings, Forrester Research analyst Jeffrey Hammond told a packed room as the All Things Open conference got under way at the Raleigh Convention Center on Wednesday. WRAL TechWire's Allan Maurer has the details for Insider subscribers.
Top open source experts headline Raleigh All Things Open conference
Many of the world's top open source experts converge on Raleigh Wednesday and Thursday Oct. 23-24 for the second All Things Open Conference. Speakers include James Pearce, head of Open Source at Facebook, Dwight Merriman, co-founder of MongoDB and DoubleClick, and Jonathan LeBlanc, Emmy award-winning software engineer and head of developer evangelism at PayPal.
Red Hat: 'Bash,' 'Shellshock' malware attack underway; fix updated
Red Hat says a malware attack exploiting vulnerabilities it disclosed last week and now known as "bash bug" and "shellshock" is underway. The company is telling firms to make sure their systems are "fully patched" to defeat the attack. Meanwhile, Red Hat also updates its patches which it knows says were "incomplete."
Dealing with the 'Bash Bug:' What is it? What should you do?
Internet security experts are warning that a new programming flaw known as the "Bash Bug" may pose a serious threat to computers and other devices such as home Internet routers. Even the systems used to run factory floors and power plants could be affected. So, is it time to panic? Here are some common questions and answers about the latest security scare.
Red Hat reports bug that could devastate 'Internet of Things'
Remember the "Heartbleed" security scare earlier this year? Well, just in time for Halloween, an even bigger nightmare has surfaced - and it threatens the "Internet of Things" from cameras to networks, a security expert warns. Red Hat disclosed the "bash bug" on Wednesday.
Red Hat's chief technology offer exits; is there a management rift?
Red Hat, which is shifting its focus over time away from Linux solutions to cloud-based computing, will continue its transition without Chief Technology Officer Brian Stevens. Red Hat says Stevens is resigning, but tech news service ZDnet says "staffers suspect friction in the executive suite."
Inside Red Hat: Strategy, execution to deliver double-digit revenue growth
Analysis: Red Hat improves cross-sales execution and hones in on ecosystem engagement for diversified growth. With a focus on Linux evolution and OpenStack monetization, Red Hat will deliver double-digit revenue growth through 2015.
Red Hat beats Wall Street expectations on earnings, revenue
Red Hat's latest earnings report tops Wall Street analysts expectations in both revenue - by nearly $10 million - and earnings per share - 34 cents rather than 33 cents as projected. Shares immediately jumped nearly 4 percent in after-hours trading.
Inside Red Hat's latest deal: Why another OpenStack acquisition?
Wednesday's $95 million deal to buy Paris-based eNovance commits Red Hat even more deeply to OpenStack "cloud computing" solutions as its bet for the future. Two Red Hat executives spell out the reasoning for the deal in a WRAL TechWire Insider exclusive.
Microsoft tops Cisco; Ubuntu beats Red Hat; 'conflict minerals' in RTP; new Fedora leader; smart home interest grows
The Bulldog wrapup: In a new survey, Microsoft tops Cisco for the first time in collaboration-related sales; Ubuntu leads in OpenStack, not Red Hat; tracking conflict minerals in RTP; a new Fedora Project leader; 43% of homes with broadband eye smart home services.
Red Hat's Inktank acquisition will bolster its OpenStack storage leadership
Analysis: Inktank's Ceph Enterprise platform positions Red Hat to enable the full range of software-defined object, block and file storage on commodity hardware -- building on Red Hat's October 2011 acquisition of open-source scale-out public and private cloud storage platform provider Gluster.
CEO who led NC broadband effort at MCNC stepping down
Joe Freddoso, the executive who spearheaded efforts to turn the North Carolina Research and Education Network into a state-wide fiber optic highway, is leaving the CEO post at MCNC. After seven years in the job, the former Cisco executive says "I believe it's time for next generation leadership to take over for the good of the organization."
Red Hat 'supports' new Linux security initiative but isn't a listed funder
The Linux Foundation is launching a "multi-million dollar project" to improve security in the wake of the Heartbleed OpenSSL crisis. Big-name tech companies are contributing to the fund - but Red Hat, a backer of OpenSSL and the global Linux commercial leader, isn't among the listed funders. Red Hat says it "supports" the initiative but remains mum on specifics. The Hatters do acknowledge that their director of security response is a "founding member" of OpenSSL. They say Red Hat OpenSSL problems have been fixed but won't say anything else about the new program.
Inside Red Hat earnings: Hatters develop winning lineup to meet CIO needs
Analysis: Red Hat's success in linking core middleware and Linux platforms to cloud and OpenStack, as well as its focus on generating cross-selling opportunities through its "land and expand" initiative, is evidenced by the firm's consistent mid-teen year-to-year revenue growth and record number of deals exceeding $1 million during its FY14--with four of its top seven deals being entirely middleware. Krista Macomber of Technology Business research offers her insight into where Red Hat is headed.
Just call red-hot Red Hat the 'OpenStack' company
Red Hat will forever be known as the company that commercialized open source Linux, but it's quickly becoming the driver in OpenStack - or open source - for cloud computing. CEO Jim Whitehurst says in a conference call: "Yes, obviously there is substantially more interest in OpenStack, frankly than there has been in really any products since Linux."
TransEnterix cancels investor event; Verizon joins OIN; Cree cracks 300 barrier; Secure Enterprise Computing's new name; Iverify names new CEO
In today's technology news roundup: TransEnterix cancels an investor event; Verizon joins the Open Invention Network; Cree cracks the 300 lumen barrier for LEDs; Secure Enterprise Computing has a new name; Charlotte-based Iverify has a new CEO.
A Red Hat stunner: 'Miccosoft .NET apps on OpenShift' Yes, you read correctly
Working with Uhuru Software, Red Hat is now incorporate a rival Microsoft product - .NET - to its three-year-old OpenShift platform-as-a-service. Really? Red Hat even published a blog to explain what's going on to those who might find the concept a bit unbelievable.
Leadership lessons from the Red Hat tower: CEO stresses r-e-s-p-e-c-t
On Tuesday, Red Hat unveiled a new business process management suite and also announced further security acceptance for its "cloud" computing offerings. Yes, the Hatters continue to grow at a relentless pace. And spearheading the drive is CEO Jim Whitehurst. He's leading the company to places it has never been - and in a blog post the affable exec with the boyish grin explains the secrets to his success.
SciQuest lands RTI; BioCryst flu treatment advances; DARA drug wins orphan status; OIN adds new member
In regional technology and life science news: SciQuest has landed RTI International as a customer. BioCryst's influenza treatment advances; Open Invention Network adds VIA Technologies; and a drug from DARA BioSciences receives orphan drug status.


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I have a Black Lab,Pitt mixed female 13 months. She is very smart. I've tried and tried to house break her. I crate her
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Have you had her to the vet to rule out a UTI? If so, when you crate her, do you take her out every half hour? If she goes, she earns one hour of freedom. If not, then she goes back in the crate. Also, restrict her access to the entire house. She has to earn that too. Good Luck!
Kali earned her wings 10/21/14 answered on 10/30/12. Helpful? / 1
i disagree just a little. I myself crate my 8 week old puppy for just a few hours a day and not all at once. I think crating because of accidents is not effective. i take her out every hour to the exact same spot so she knows this her "potty" area. maybe a vet trip would provide better answers, at 13 months she should be able to hold it until shes let out. you can also try puppy pads, put it down and as she gets used to going on that move it closer and closer to the door you take her out to potty, after she is used to going to the pee pad at the door remove the pad all the way and she should go to the door and then you know she ahs to potty.
Beauty and Nala answered on 10/31/12. Helpful? / 0
The purpose of crating is not BECAUSE of accidents, it is to prevent the puppy from using the entire house as a toilet. A dog will not soil their bed and if they are kept confined and only allowed out when under CONSTANT supervision, housebreaking is a simple matter.
DO NOT use papers or pee pads, this will only serve to convince your dog that you WANT her to go in the house.
Keep her in the crate when you are not right there watching, when she is out take her outside OFTEN, praise when she goes, and keep her tethered to you OR confined to the room you are in via baby gates or closed doors until she is reliably house trained.
If you leave her alone just to go to the other room to get a drink of water, it is giving her the opportunity to go inside...take her with you OR put her in her crate.
It will take longer since she is older now, but with supervision and dilligence it will work. Remember, each time she goes inside she is learning that it IS okay so you need to prevent
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Congress Gazette
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Keynote Address emphasizes "stop the bleeding… start the healing"
Timothy McDonald
Timothy B. McDonald, MD, JD, presented the AARC Keynote Address Saturday, Dec. 13, to an audience of more than 2,000 respiratory care professionals at the AARC Congress in Anaheim, CA.
As chief safety and risk officer for health affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. McDonald oversees a disclosure program that has increased safety for patients and reduced the number of malpractice suits. His presentation, "Legal and Ethical Pitfalls in Respiratory Care," offered information and encouragement aimed at changing the culture in health care to support effective ways to report, investigate, communicate, take responsibility, and resolve patient safety issues.
Dr. McDonald emphasized that the respiratory therapist is a valuable member of the health care team and, armed with special expertise in respiratory care, can provide crucial input in patient risk and safety matters. We must "stop the bleeding and start the healing," he said, noting that families of patients harmed by safety violations generally appreciate the opportunity to communicate safety concerns. They want the facility to correct problems so that other patients will not be harmed by the same unsafe practice.
The AARC's 2008 Keynote Address was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from GE Healthcare.
AARC installs officers and directors for 2009
The Association's 2009 officers, directors, and House of Delegates officers were installed this morning during the AARC Annual Business Meeting. Reports were presented by the AARC president, treasurer, and executive director, along with the ARCF, House of Delegates, and Board of Medical Advisors. (Read the president's and treasurer's reports in this section.)
Toni Rodriquez
The Annual Meeting also featured the presidential address by Toni Rodriguez, EdD, RRT. "I have been blessed to represent one of the most dynamic professions in the world at the time of its greatest achievement," she said, listing a number of advancements the profession has made [see president's report below]. "As I leave my term as president," she concluded, "I am confident in the future of my profession."
Newly elected officials were also installed, including: Timothy R. Myers, BS, RRT-NPS, 2009–2010 AARC president; and Karen Stewart, MSc, RRT, FAARC, secretary/treasurer; George Gaebler, MSEd, RRT, FAARC, vice president of internal affairs; and Joseph Lewarski, BS, RRT-NPS, FAARC, vice president of external affairs. The following are joining the Board of Directors: Debbie Fox, MBA, RRT-NPS; Doug McIntyre, MS, RRT, FAARC; John Lindsey, Jr., MEd, RRT-NPS; and Michael Tracy, BA, RRT-NPS.
The chairs-elect of the following specialty sections also took office: Long Term Care: Gene Gantt, RRT; Management: Douglas Laher, MBA, RRT; and Surface and Air Transport: Steven Sittig, RRT-NPS, FAARC.
2008 AARC Executive Reports
President's Report
by Toni Rodriguez, EdD, RRT
Toni Rodriquez
As I close the chapter on the first 2-year presidency for the AARC, I am thankful for the experience. I have been blessed to represent one of the most dynamic professions in the world at a time of its greatest achievements. Upon review, you will agree that as an Association we have been extremely busy and effective. Thank you for the opportunity to serve as your President. The top 10 events and/or accomplishments of my presidency are as follows:
Secretary-Treasurer's Report
by Colleen Schabacker, BA, RRT, FAARC
In 2008, a global economic crisis was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn worldwide. These included high oil prices, which led to both high food prices and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis leading to the bankruptcy of large and well established investment banks as well as commercial banks in various nations around the world; increased unemployment; the melt down on Wall Street; and the possibility of a global recession.
However, rest assured, your AARC remains financially sound.
I can't express in words how gratifying it has been to serve as your Secretary/Treasurer this year. I would like to thank each and every one of you for going beyond where you thought you could go and for making this year such a huge success.
The Cardiopulmonary Physiology of Dinosaurs
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This year's 35th Donald F. Egan Scientific Memorial Lecture, "The Cardiopulmonary Physiology of Dinosaurs," will be presented Sunday morning by David J. Pierson, MD, FAARC, editor emeritus of the Respiratory Care journal.
Dr. Pierson will present a serious but entertaining examination of dinosaurs, using evidence from paleontology, comparative physiology, and the ICU to appreciate the circulatory and respiratory physiology of Earth's largest animals.
The Egan Lecture is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from GE Healthcare.
Key presentations provide Congress attendees with vital information
What are attendees learning at the Congress? These key lectures provide a great example of the cutting-edge topics covered during the meeting:
The AARC's 24th Annual New Horizons Symposium will provide a critical review of "Neonatal Respiratory Care," co-chaired by Peter Betit, RRT-NPS, FAARC, and Steven M. Donn, MD, on Sunday, Dec. 14, from noon to 5 pm. Eight lectures are scheduled, including "Oxygen Therapy Techniques in the Neonate," "Surfactant Replacement Therapy," "Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia," and many more.
Richard M. Kallet, MS, RRT, FAARC, will present the 24th Phil Kittredge Memorial Lecture titled "What Is the Legacy of the NIH ARDS Net?" This special session, named after former Respiratory Care editor Phil Kittredge, will be offered 8:30 Monday morning and will offer an insider's view of the workings of the network and its expected long-term impact on critical care research. Don't miss this insightful look at the major breakthroughs of the ARDS Net, its place in medical history, its accomplishments, and, yes, even its controversies.
Thanks to ARCF reviewers!
by Steven Nelson, MS, RRT, FAARC, AARC Associate Executive Director
Every year, the American Respiratory Care Foundation (ARCF) presents multiple awards during the Awards Ceremony at the AARC Congress, and the whole process depends on a group of people who never get noticed: the educators who help review all of the applications that come in each year. We have a core group who have done a great job for the last several years, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank them for their assistance. Without them, we would not be able to dig through the piles of personal essays and scientific papers that are submitted for the awards:
Organize your Exhibit Hall experience
The Exhibit Hall at any AARC Congress can be overwhelming—so much to see, so much to do, so many vendors to visit.
Making sure you go home with what you came for takes a little organization, so here are a few tips we believe will help everyone make the most of this key Congress experience:
Remember it's all a Buying Show as well. You can make deals right on the Exhibit Hall floor, often with special discounts just for Congress attendees. In fact, many attendees end up covering the cost of their trip solely through the savings they realize from these onsite transactions.
So get your plan down in writing and set it in motion. The hall will be open Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, 11 am–4 pm.
Peak Performance USA is back!
Peak Performance USA was a big hit back in the 1990s, when hundreds of AARC members used the program's pre-packaged materials to go into their local schools and educate teachers, school nurses, and other personnel about managing asthma in alignment with the national asthma guidelines.
Now Peak Performance is back, and this time it is entirely based on the Internet. It can be found at www.PeakPerformanceUSA.info. Each school that participates in PPUSA will receive a complimentary peak flow meter and valved holding chamber. We thank Monaghan Medical, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, and Forest Laboratories, who provided an unrestricted grant making this possible.
Congress attendees are invited to the AARC Information Center in the Exhibit Hall today, where Tom Kallstrom, AARC COO, will provide more details about Peak Performance USA.
Congress safety tips
If you're like most attendees at this year's Congress, you came for the wealth of information that will be presented and the chance to network with peers from all over the country. Unfortunately, there are some other people lingering around this year's meeting with an entirely different agenda. Large professional gatherings in major metropolitan areas may attract thieves and con men, and the savvy conventioneer will put security at the top of the list. Here are some common-sense ideas:
Advances in Bronchoscopy
By Charles McArthur, BA, RRT, RPFT
There have been many recent innovations in the field of interventional bronchoscopy, according to Dr. Eric Edell, director of interventional pulmonary at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. In a talk delivered today, Dr. Edell reviewed new methods for the treatment of endobronchial disease and endobronchial obstruction. Techniques like autofluoresence bronchoscopy can identify early cancers before they are apparent during routine visualization. Navigational bronchoscopy combines bronchoscopy with other imaging techniques to more precisely obtain tissue samples. Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) has been developed to improve the yield of mediastinal lymph node sampling.
Lois Rowland, RRT-NPS, RPFT, respiratory care clinical coordinator at CJW Medical Center in Richmond, VA, followed Dr. Edell with a presentation describing the role of the respiratory therapist assistant during EBUS at her hospital, where two respiratory therapists assist during EBUS procedures. Rowland described the training involved to begin an EBUS program. The therapists must not only learn the EBUS technology, they must also learn about specimen preparation and handling. Respiratory therapists monitor the sample catheters for signs of bleeding as well, and must w ork closely with the interventional bronchoscopists to ensure a safe procedure for the patient.
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Acoustical retrofit of existing classroom buildings due to high noise levels created by the flight path into LAX. Scope of work included: providing insulation to exterior walls and classroom ceilings, providing new acoustical windows, and bringing the campus up to date with ADA requirements.
Status: Under Construction
Location: Lennox, CA, US
My Role: Took classroom measurements and field notes, produced and updated the Revit model, and produced Schematic Design, Design Development, and Construction Document drawings.
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A new survey of New York's Jews out today suggests the advent of a much more politically conservative Jewish community that could shift the balance of local New York politics.
The study, conducted by the UJA Federation of New York, knocks down old conceptions of what it means to be a New York Jew. The Jewish community is increasingly Orthodox and poor, with significant numbers of Russian-speaking members and decreasing levels of educational attainment.
"The Russians are not Democrats, and the Hasidim are not necessarily Democrats," said Hank Sheinkopf, a conservative Democratic political strategist. "When somebody figures out how to put the Russians and the ultra-Orthodox together they're going to come up with an atomic bomb in Democratic politics in New York State."
The UJA survey was the largest of its kind ever conducted. As we reported earlier this morning, 32% of Jews in the five boroughs of New York City plus three suburban counties identify as Orthodox, up from 27% a decade ago.
Orthodox Jews are generally more political conservative, and are in greater need of social services than non-Orthodox Jews. Their numbers appear to be concentrated in Brooklyn, where the study found that 22% of Brooklynites are Jewish, up from 18% just ten years ago.
Russian-speaking Jews, who are also more conservative than other non-Orthodox Jews, make up 18% of the city's Jewish population. In Brooklyn, where they are concentrated, 27% of Jews are Russian-speaking.
"The era of the so-called Jewish vote is over," said Sheinkopf. "This Jewish vote was identified by left-wing thinking and more concerned about social issues than anything else…It's over."
That phenomenon may have been previewed in the 2010 special election to replace congressman Anthony Weiner, in which Republican Bob Turner rode to victory on a wave of Russian-speaking Jewish support. In March, Republican David Storobin narrowly defeated Democrat Lew Fidler in a special election for state Senate in a heavily Jewish south Brooklyn district.
What this will mean on a national level is less clear. More on that later today.
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Clinical Research
A number of clinical studies are being conducted by faculty members of the Section of Infectious Diseases. This includes investigations of outpatient therapy for HIV infection and inpatient studies of newer antibacterial agents. Some studies are part of NIH-funded trials consortia, while others are multi-center studies of new agents or approaches to therapy being sponsored by industry. There are also investigator-initiated trials, some of which have a translational laboratory research component.
Current Global research areas include epidemiologic and social network studies of HIV, HSV-2 and Chlamydia infection in India and China, Novel HIV prevention strategies in Asia, HIV and STI seroepidemiologic studies in high-risk male cohorts such as truck-drivers and men who have sex with men. Cost-effectiveness of HIV therapy in Uganda. Cardiovascular and diabetes disease prevention in South Asia. Health worker migration patterns ("brain drain"), and pharmaceutical industry policy in India. These and other collaborative projects have been funded in part by the NIH, CDC, Lancet, foreign government, and private foundation and pharmaceutical support.
In addition, opportunities for global infectious disease operational research projects have been established by clinical training and research relationships established in Andhra Pradesh, India and in Wuhan, China. Specific projects under consideration are HIV prevention and health worker training in India and operational research in infectious disease and public health training in China.
The listing below is limited to studies being conducted by the Infectious Diseases Section that are actively accruing study participants.
Chicago Center for HIV Elimination
Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA)
The AIDS Research Alliance of Chicago (ARAC) is the Chicago site of the CPCRA. The University of Chicago joined this trials consortium this year. The major trial that is ongoing and recruiting patients is the SMART (Strategies for Management of Anti-Retroviral Therapy) study. This is a management strategy study comparing two approaches to antiretroviral therapy that compares intermittent therapy based on immunologic status versus continuous therapy. This is a large, long-term study that could greatly impact on the use of antiretroviral therapy in the future.
Solid Organ Transplantation in HIV: Multi-Site Study
A multi-center study of solid organ transplantation in HIV infection is supported by the NIH. The University of Chicago is a site, and Dr. Pursell from our section is a site Co-Investigator for this trials. This study will focus on liver and renal transplantation in HIV patients as an option for organ failure. The study is designed to examine the effects of HIV on graft survival and the effects of immune suppression for the transplant on the progression of HIV disease.
Chicago Department of Public Health, Office of HIV/AIDS Surveillance
The University of Chicago is a site for the CDPH study "Estimating HIV Incidence by Using a Population-Based Serologic Method to Detect Recent HIV-1 Infection, Chicago, IL." Previous antibody tests were only able to detect chronic HIV infection without any ability to determine if the infection was recent, having been contracted in the past 6 months to 1 year. This type of information is important in tracking the HIV epidemic and determining the efficacy of prevention measures. This study uses a de-tuned serologic test to determine if patients have had recent infection. This study will also have a component looking at the incidence of transmission of drug-resistant HIV, a growing concern for clinicians across the country.
HIV Studies
Switching HIV Patients with a Viral Load of < 50 copies/mL on a Twice Daily or More Frequent Initial HAART Regimen to a Once Daily Regimen Including Stavudine XR, Lamivudine, and Efavirenz.
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Bret Harte 1836?-1902
(Full name Francis Brett Harte) American short story writer, novelist, poet, critic, journalist, editor, and playwright.
The following entry presents criticism of Harte's short fiction works from 1991 to 2000. For criticism of Harte's short fiction career published prior to 1991, see SSC, Volume 8.
One of the most influential and popular writers of the nineteenth century, Harte achieved fame and success for his works about the American western frontier. In his short fiction, he employed realistic description, stock characters, and local dialect and humor to nostalgically portray life in the California mining camps of the 1840s and 1850s. Although Harte lost much of his popularity later in his career, elements of his work—especially its regional flavor and use of such stereotyped characters as the ornery prospector, the cynical gambler, and the kind-hearted prostitute—influenced his contemporaries and later writers of popular Westerns.
Biographical Information
Harte was born in Albany, New York. Although his education was disrupted by his family's frequent relocations, he was an avid reader whose favorite authors included Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Washington Irving. As a young adult, Harte moved to San Francisco. There he worked at various times as a school teacher, a miner, and an express messenger for the Wells Fargo stagecoach lines before accepting a staff writing position at the Northern Californian weekly in Union, California. Returning to San Francisco in 1860, Harte worked as a printer for the Golden Era and published several sketches in that paper over the next few years. In 1864 he began contributing to the newly established Californian, later serving as its editor. In 1868 Harte became the first editor of The Overland Monthly, where he published several of his most famous short stories. These pieces met with great success and established him as a prominent literary figure and a unique voice of the American West. In 1871 he left California for Boston to work for the Atlantic Monthly. A year later, when his contract with the periodical was not renewed, he attempted lecturing and writing plays (including a collaboration with Mark Twain), but both of these endeavors proved unsuccessful. Discouraged by a decline in his popularity among American readers, Harte accepted a consul position in Krefeld, Germany, in 1878, and in Glasgow, Scotland, two years later. In 1885 he moved to London, where he remained until his death in 1902.
Major Works of Short Fiction
In his stories Harte offered romanticized depictions of the California gold-rush era, featuring grotesque or idealized characters, detailed descriptions of regional settings, and a strong appeal to sentiment. Harte invented such stock frontier characters as the seedy prospector and the hard-bitten gambler—individuals whose depraved exterior is essential to Harte's most common plot formula: to expose the "heart of gold" beneath the most coarse appearance. Thus, the cynical Jack Hamlin reveals an underlying concern for others in "An Heiress of Red Dog" and "Mr. Jack Hamlin's Meditation," a group of criminals place the welfare of a young couple above their own in "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," and the callous miners in "The Luck of Roaring Camp" become the sensitive and self-sacrificing guardians of a child born to a prostitute. In addition to characterization, Harte emphasized in his stories the local color of Californian landscape and culture. His realistic descriptions are often compared to the backdrops of a stage, reflecting the mood of the action and characters. In "Tennessee's Partner," for example, Harte presents an idealized view of friendship between two miners, while casting an aura of foreboding over Tennessee's trial for theft through his presentation of setting.
Critical Reception
Early in his career, Harte received virtually undisputed acclaim as a short story writer. During the 1870s, however, reviewers began to fault Harte's fiction for its reliance on coincidence, romantic situations, and melodrama. As a result his literary standing in the United States plummeted, and by the 1940s, the view of Harte as a Victorian sentimentalist was widely held, even though his works continued to please European audiences, particularly in England. Since the 1960s, however, some critics have reassessed the strengths of Harte's fiction, arguing that he is a romanticist whose works should be interpreted in terms of symbolism rather than realism. For example, some critics have noted the presence of Christian symbolism within "The Luck of Roaring Camp," viewing the adopted baby as a redeeming Christ figure. Commentators have also noted that as a regionalist writer and creator of standard American character types, Harte helped further the evolution of an independent American literature.
Principal Works
Condensed Novels and Other Papers 1867
The Lost Galleon and Other Tales (short stories and poetry) 1867
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches 1870
Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Sketches 1872
An Episode of Fiddletown and Other Sketches 1873
M'liss: An Idyl of Red Mountain 1873
Tales of the Argonauts and Other Sketches 1875
The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories 1879
Flip and Other Stories 1882
Cressy 1889
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales 1889
A Sappho of Green Springs and Other Stories 1891
Sally Dows, Etc. 1893
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories 1894
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories 1894
Barker's Luck and Other Stories 1896
Stories in Light and Shadow 1898
Tales of Trail and Town 1898
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Meditation and Other Stories 1899
Condensed Novels, Second Series: New Burlesques 1902
Trent's Trust and Other Stories 1903
Her Letter, His Answer, and Her Last Letter 1905
Tennessee's Partner 1907
Salomy Jane 1910
Poems and Stories 1912
Stories and Poems 1915
The Story of Enriquez: Chu Chu, The Devotion of Enriquez, The Passing of Enriquez 1924
Sketches of the Sixties [with Mark Twain] 1926
The Luck of Roaring Camp 1928
Selected Stories and Poems 1928
Outcasts of Poker Flat, Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories 1954
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Three Other Stories 1968
California Stories 1984
Sixteen Stories 1985
California Sketches [with Mark Twain] 1991
Tales of the West 1991
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories 1992
Three Partners 1994
Selected Short Stories and Sketches 1995
East and West Poems (poetry) 1871
Poems (poetry) 1871
Gabriel Conroy (novel) 1876
Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama (play) 1876
Ah Sin [with Mark Twain] (play) 1877
Sue: A Play in Three Acts (play) 1902
Harte's Complete Works. 10 vols. 1929
Selected Letters of Bret Harte (letters) 1997
Harold H. Kolb, Jr. (essay date winter 1991)
SOURCE: Kolb, Harold H., Jr. "The Outcast of Literary Flat: Bret Harte as Humorist." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 23, no. 2 (winter 1991): 52-63.
[In the following essay, Kolb regards Harte as a humorist and local colorist.]
In that corner of American literary history reserved for half-true maxims—Dreiser lacked everything but genius, Henry James chewed more than he bit off, Poe was a jingle man—we might add a statement about Bret Harte: it is generally agreed that Harte lacks everything but readers. He has not been taken seriously by critics since the demise of the Overland Monthly a half century ago, yet somehow his name and his tales endure. Thirty-eight Harte titles are currently in print, along with his letters, a reprint of the twenty-volume 1903 edition of his works, and eight different paperbound collections of his best-known tales. Harte's letters and manuscripts bring extravagant prices—$1750 recently for five letters to his wife complaining about debts. Even a facsimile edition of "The Heathen Chinee," which Harte himself called "possibly the worst [poem] anybody ever wrote," sells for $75. "Bret Harte Country" is familiar to many Americans who never heard of Melville country, Americans who might identify the James boys, Will and Harry, as desperadoes.
In 1943, Bret Harte was presumably buried for all time in Brooks and Warren's Understanding Fiction, a volume designed to teach its generation how to read stories and nouvelles, just as the earlier Understanding Poetry (1938) had taught them how to read verse. One of the strategies of Understanding Fiction was the surgical dismemberment of a bad story, and for this key paradigm the editors chose "Tennessee's Partner." Harte is faulted on every ground: his plot is inconclusive, his language is unrealistic, his psychology unsound, his symbolism is illegitimate. The story is "sentimental," "strain[ed]," "false," and probably not even original:
Has not Bret Harte taken a theme which, perhaps, he had seen successfully employed for pathetic effects in other fiction, and attempted to trick it out with a new romantic setting, touches of local color (such as descriptions of the community and bits of dialect), and poeticized writing, without ever grounding the story in a presentation of the real psychological issues involved?1
Three decades later Brooks and Warren, along with their colleague R. W. B. Lewis, published American Literature, the Makers and the Making (1973) which they described as the fruit of many years of reading and discussion, of attempting "to divest ourselves of preconceptions." Bret Harte is included in volume II, with an introduction gently pointing out that "after the glorious dawn of Harte's reputation, his promise was never quite fulfilled." And then in this anthology, remarkable for its astute and voluminous criticism, "Tennessee's Partner" is reprinted without comment. Somehow, even in their own terms, even in their own anthology, Bret Harte has weathered the critics' storm.
His survival will not be a surprise to teachers of American literature, who often try the Understanding Fiction trick only to have it explode in their faces. Students perversely seem to find the obligatory Harte tale or two among the most memorable selections in a survey course; and if asked to choose between Bret Harte and Henry James—but no matter, that's a box canyon an experienced instructor avoids.
Why is this? Why do we continue to have Bret Harte T-shirts, Bret Harte tours, Bret Harte editions, Bret Harte selections in every anthology? No one seems concerned about Harte's paradoxical relationship to the West, an uncongenial environment he abandoned at the first opportunity. No one bothers about his exile, the most complete in American letters. No one seems to care about the gaping flaws in his character—profligacy, irresponsibility, superficiality. No one seems able to resolve Harte's peculiar fictional mélange of freshness and cliché, of cynicism and sentimentality. His tales and his reputation as a literary founding father sail on through clear blue skies over mining camps that never existed. What is the source of Bret Harte's staying power?
A century of commentary provides little help. Presumably some of Harte's first readers were seduced by his combination of new subjects and sentimental effects—compassionate whores, altruistic gamblers, rejuvenated Western towns, the great bleeding heart that pulses under a rough exterior. Yet other nineteenth-century American sentimentalists have been buried so long that time has effaced their tombstones. Some readers, located in the East, thought at first that Bret Harte was a realist—a term that was just coming into literary discussions when Harte assumed the editorship of the Overland Monthly in 1868.2 But in the face of increasing information about the West, and increasingly sophisticated writing from the Howells-Henry James-Mark Twain generation that raised the flag of realism over American literature, readers and critics began to agree on a more modest niche for Harte as a local colorist. Eventually he came to be seen as the originator of what was called the local color movement. Here is where the critical writing on Harte converges:
"a major initiator of the local-color movement in American Literature,"
—Joseph Harrison
"'The Luck of Roaring Camp' is the father of all Western local color stories,"
—Wallace Stegner
"a seminal example of local color and regionalism,"
—Brooks, Warren, and Lewis
"a major initiator of the local color or regional movement in American literature."
—Patrick Morrow3
This list could be extended relentlessly, and one suspects that anthologists and writers of surveys, who have their hands full with Hawthorne, Melville, James, and Faulkner, have been content to pass on what has, through repetition, become the standard wisdom. Harte added his own voice to this chorus when he published "The Rise of the 'Short Story'" in Cornhill Magazine in 1899. Not wanting to claim too much, Harte denies that he invented the short story. His contribution was merely to gather up the tentative and imitative rudiments of a provincial tradition, give them form, vitality, economy, a firm location in the American experience, and thus pass on to the world a newly refurbished genre. As Harte describes it, his work "sought to honestly describe … life." His secret
was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its methods; with no fastidious ignoring of its habitual expression … with no moral determination except that which may be the legitimate outcome of the story itself; with … never … the fear of the "fetish" of conventionalism.4
This claim has more snags than a sluice box. Bret Harte was, one might say, a bastard father of regionalism, and his example and his success encouraged others, but a serious case cannot be made for Harte as a local colorist, as an honest describer of American life. "Local color" is a painting term, first used in the eighteenth century to describe "the color which is natural to each object or part of a picture independently of the general colour-scheme or the distribution of light and shade" (OED). Gradually the term was applied to literary works, coming to mean, by the 1880s, "the representation in vivid detail of the characteristic features of a particular period or country (e.g., manners, dress, scenery, etc.) in order to produce an impression of actuality." A century of hindsight enables us to make this definition more precise. The local colorist's impression of actuality depends on the rendering of a specific place at a specific moment in history. Identified with that place, helping to define it just as they are defined by it, are one or two or a handful of local characters, and they in turn are defined by the peculiarities of their local speech, the language, as Wordsworth put it, "really used by men." We think immediately of Sarah Orne Jewett's fishermen, Hamlin Garland's farmers, George Washington Cable's Creoles. Some local colorists work in the traditional forms of the tale or the novel, but often the term sketch is appropriate, for the triple alliance of place, character, and language becomes both plot and theme in the writings of many successful local colorists—Longstreet, Stowe, Eggleston, Cooke, G. W. Harris, Freeman, Murfree, J. C. Harris, Woolson.5
Bret Harte's tales demonstrate no comparable impression of actuality. His scenes are copy-book productions, often grotesquely bent to accommodate exigencies of the story:
The way [for the cart bearing Tennessee's corpse] led through Grizzly Canyon, by this time clothed in funereal drapery and shadows. The redwoods, burying their moccasined feet in the red soil, stood in Indian file along the track, trailing an uncouth benediction from their bending boughs upon the passing bier.
—"Tennessee's Partner"6
His characters are cardboard mannequins, propped up in front of the scenery:
Miss Mary was an orphan [who had] come to California for the sake of health and independence. … Jack Hamlin, a gambler having once silently ridden with her in the same coach, afterward threw a decanter at the head of a confederate for mentioning her name in a barrom.
—"The Idyl of Red Gulch"
Harte's energies are devoted to manipulating his characters for effects, not to realizing them as human beings. Thus the questions of Understanding Fiction—"Why does Tennessee's Partner forgive Tennessee so easily for the wife-stealing?"—are irrelevant; and Brooks and Warren, usually among our most astute critics, seem on this ground like chiding schoolmasters at a frolic. Bret Harte is less interested in dialogue than most local colorists, saving his best lines for the narrator. When he does present dialogue, it seems to be not the language really used by men, but that really used by actors in nineteenth-century melodramas:
"I'm going," she said, in a voice of querulous weakness, "but don't say anything about it. Don't waken the kids. Take the bundle from under my head, and open it." Mr. Oakhurst did so. It contained Mother Shipton's rations for the last week, untouched. "Give 'em to the child," she said, pointing to the sleeping Piney. "You've starved yourself," said the gambler. "That's what they call it," said the woman. …
—"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
A significant argument for Bret Harte as a local colorist cannot be made, for his scenes, characters, and speech are not persuasively local, and his colors are predominantly purple. Harte is not concerned with an impression of actuality. His interests lie elsewhere.
Readers in recent decades, nourished on irony and ambiguity and unable to believe that either Harte or his readers could have taken the tales seriously, have sometimes wondered if his fiction might be more complex than it first appears. Could "Tennessee's Partner" be seen as a subtle contest in which the Partner gets even with Tennessee for wife-stealing by deliberately attempting to bribe the jury, knowing that the attempt will misfire and seal the verdict against Tennessee? Is the death of the baby in "The...
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Gary Scharnhorst (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Scharnhorst, Gary. "Whatever Happened to Bret Harte?" In American Realism and the Canon, edited by Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, pp. 201-11. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994.
[In the following essay, Scharnhorst explores the reasons for Harte's virtual disappearance from modern critical studies.]
In the midst of a literary reformation whose most radical protestants decry the very notion of a canon, something rather curious has occurred: Bret Harte's works have disappeared from the textual landscape like books banned in Boston. Neither the Heath nor the Harper—the most inclusive and unabashedly decentered of the new college...
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Lee Mitchell (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Mitchell, Lee. "Bierstadt's Settings, Harte's Plots." In Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West, edited by Michael Kowalewski, pp. 99-124. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
[In the following essay, Mitchell finds parallels between the careers of Harte and the painter Albert Bierstadt.]
In the mid-1860s, a painter and a writer burst into fame as the premier artists of America's Far West. Unlike anyone before, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and Bret Harte (1836-1902) took the nation by storm, and yet in less than a decade, few Americans glanced at Bierstadt's grandiose landscapes or leafed through Harte's sentimental...
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Axel Nissen (essay date spring 1997)
SOURCE: Nissen, Axel. "Lord of Romance: Bret Harte's Later Career Reconsidered." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 29, no. 3 (spring 1997): 64-81.
[In the following excerpt, Nissen reevaluates the later stages of Harte's literary career.]
I see no limit to the future in art of a country which has already given us Emerson, that master of moods, and those two lords of romance, Poe and Bret Harte.
—Oscar Wilde to A. P. T. Elder, 1885
Nothing is more indicative of the condescending attitude taken by most biographers and critics toward the last quarter century of...
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Axel Nissen (essay date summer 1997)
SOURCE: Nissen, Axel. "The Feminization of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte and The American Woman's Home." Studies in Short Fiction 34, no. 3 (summer 1997): 379-88.
[In the following essay, Nissen determines the influence of Catherine E. Beecher's The American Woman's Home on Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp."]
More than any other author, Bret Harte was responsible for literary representation of the Gold Rush and for putting California on the world's literary map. The challenge he faced was how to represent a lawless and uncivilized phase of American history in a way that would not only capture the imagination of the...
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J. David Stevens (essay date September 1997)
SOURCE: Stevens, J. David. "'She War a Woman': Family Roles, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction." American Literature 69, no. 3 (September 1997): 571-93.
[In the following essay, Stevens traces the development of Harte's treatment of gender and sexuality in his short fiction.]
By almost all accounts, Bret Harte must be considered a progenitor of the popular Western in America. Although he eschewed the displays of violence central to other frontier texts, his renditions of town and mining camp life constructed the principal backdrop against which the struggle of the Western hero would later take place; and though his characters are not as...
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Janet Floyd (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Floyd, Janet. "Mining the West: Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote." In Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition, edited by Karen L. Kilcup, pp. 202-18. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.
[In the following essay, Floyd considers the position of Harte and Mary Hallock Foote within the literary tradition of the American West.]
The category "Western writing" is a slippery one, and the exercise of forming and reforming a Western canon has become relatively obscure in the larger context of recent critical considerations of regionalism. Yet, even against a background where Western writers' status is liable to shift, Bret Harte...
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Gary Scharnhorst (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Scharnhorst, Gary. "The Overland Monthly: From 'The Luck' to 'The Prodigal.'" In Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West, pp. 37-69. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Scharnhorst surveys the stories by Harte that were published in The Overland Monthly.]
From the start, Harte and Roman had very different ideas about what the magazine should be. The publisher wanted the Overland Monthly to promote "the material development of this Coast," and according to its subtitle the magazine was "devoted to the development of the country." He feared with good reason that Harte—who basked in the...
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Further Reading
Hall, Roger. "Annie Pixley, Kate Mayhew, and Bret Harte's 'M'Liss.'" ATQ: American Transcendental Quarterly 11, no. 4 (December 1997): 267-83.
Discusses theatrical adaptations of Harte's "M'Liss."
Additional coverage of Harte's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 2; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1865-1917; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104, 140; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 80; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 12, 64, 74, 79, 186; DISCovering Authors;...
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This topic has in all likelihood been discussed and hammered more than any other CM-related subject. But it's a good idea to revisit it now and then, especially from another prospective and point-of-view, just to keep it fresh.
One of the first things asked by those "threatened" by the notion of controlling changes is, "Why do things have to change?", and "What should be controlled?" As we all should realize, we don't live in an ideal world, so when a configuration item or component is approved, there's no need to change. However, we live in the real world where change is dynamic and inevitable. Requirements change, boundaries change, errors are found in documents and specifications or are just plain wrong, designs change, customers change their minds - in general, stuff happens! Consider the following important input criteria for change:
- Nature: What is the nature of the change?
- Alternatives: What are the alternative solutions?
- Complexity: How difficult is it to implement?
- Schedule: When is it required?
- Cost: What are the potential costs/savings?
- Severity: How critical is this change?
- Priority: How important is this change?
If we stop to think for just a moment, the number of items that should be controlled becomes clear. For example, requirements, design, test, and user documentation, source and executable files, database objects, models, prototypes, libraries and repositories, the CM domain, tools, scripts, plans, schedules, impact analyses, change requests, problem reports, migration requests, build requests, baselines, release notes, etc. The list of items that should be controlled can be staggering. Yet in many organizations, these items are not taken seriously and subsequently lost or worse - deleted.
To drive home a case in point, the affects of changes can be summarized as follows:
- Requirements changes affect design
- Design changes affect code
- Testing finds problems the result of which causes changes to code, design, or requirements
How can we define the need for change? To answer this, a number of questions must be asked and their responses analyzed and considered. Such questions may include:
- What needs to be changed?
- Why must it be changed?
- Who wants the change?
- How will it be changed?
- Who approves the change?
- Who will make the change?
- When must it change?
- What are the impacts? If changed? If not?
- How much will the change cost?
- How long will it take to implement?
- What are the schedule and resource impacts?
Now that we've identified some "what" and "why" criteria for change control, let's focus on the "how" and "who". To begin, we need to define a change control process, which is established by accepting changes in a controlled and stable manner. The change control process controls and manages the release and change of configuration items and components throughout the development lifecycle. It also provides several key functional aspects including:
- Change impact analyses
- Change authorization
- Tracking changes through closure
Changes made to baselined configuration items should be done according to a defined process and documented procedures. Such procedures should specify:
- Who can initiate change requests
- Approval/rejection authority
- How revision history is kept
- Impact (analyses)
- Check-out and check-in procedures
- CCB process
- Escalation process
The most effective mechanism for controlling changes is the change control board or configuration control board (CCB). The CCB should include in its membership those stakeholders closest to or impacted most by changes, provide overall authority for managing baselines and configuration items or components, and ensure that all changes are considered, reviewed, coordinated, approved/rejected, and implemented. The CCB should also control impacts to project costs and schedules, categorize and prioritize enhancements (new requirements), resolve defects and problems, and establish an authority responsible for all change activity. The CCB also considers:
- What is the specific benefit of the change?
- How would the change affect project costs?
- How would the change affect the project schedule?
- How would the change affect product quality?
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Hey guys, sorry I have not been on here in a while. Got some pm's about the cams, i thought i would update you all on them thus far. So I have had them since May, the car runs fine as of right now, it still idles a bit rough but not to bad since i changed the stock idle to 950rpm. The car will stall on idle now and then, maybe 2-3 times a month so nothing major and only when the car first starts. As for a tune, I have been through hell and back trying to get the car tuned for the cams. Ran into a million issues with sct software, my datalog lists are super out of date and will not show anything that me and tom need to tune it, had serious issues were the wrench light on the car would keep coming on when tom sent me new tunes. It had to do with the files being corrupted or somthing, not sure. We have spent hours on the phone with SCT, pretty much in the end just refused to help us and said it was our problem. As of right now I pretty much gave up on tuning the car for now, since it does run ok, im sure it would be a lot better with a proper tune. I am currently runing my Fswerks tune, which was made for all my other mods, minus the cams. I am going to contact Tom soon I think and see if I can get things going again. The major problem is that I do not have a wideband which limits what I can really tune for, since I do not have the $$$ to buy one right now (at university). Do you guys think there is any danger to running these cams without a real tune for them? They are only stage 1
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In order to enhance the general basis of Japanese studies in the Philippines, by supporting organizations involved in Japanese studies which are expected to be a center of the Japanese studies, by providing a range of support which effectively expands and develops Japanese studies activities.
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In order to promote Japanese studies in the Philippines by providing support for foreign scholars of Japanese studies. This program provides opportunities to conduct research in Japan, and consequently to promote the understanding of Japan and the friendship between both countries
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The programme which is for 6 weeks is funded by the Japan – ASEAN Integration Fund as part of the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths (JENESYS) Programme.
The programme offers opportunities for graduate students who are involved in the study of Japan and East Asia to deepen their understandings of Japan as well as to foster the development of human resources for the collaboration and cooperation, in particularly for dynamic intellectual community in East Asia.
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overHandright1 replied to Hockeytown0001's topic in GeneralAbby: meet us on the same balcony during the first intermission if we don't see you before.
overHandright1 replied to Hockeytown0001's topic in GeneralNot too bad in the Old No 7 Club .... about $7 for a single JacknCoke. Up in the Platnium level we were getting double vodkas with Red Bull which were $17 apiece and threw in a 25% tip for our awesome tableside waitress. All told, both up and down stairs tabs set us back 3 bills ( binge drink, much?). The entertainment was invaluable however .
overHandright1 replied to Hockeytown0001's topic in GeneralI heard that. Too bad the realignment didn't go thru since as we would get one more additional game down here ... playoffs notwithstanding of course. We dropped quite a bit of cash on our collective bar tab during the Jan 3rd game so we will be finding a way to "save" on the marked up drink prices this time around. I'll be on the lookout for ya ... and yes, we will be sure to rebut the "Stars" quip during the National Anthem. I haven't seen any posts by "NotTooAbby" yet. He said he was going to be at tonight's game as well. We ran into him and his entourage during the second intermission last game and unfortunately didn't get to hook up with him for the post-game celebration. GO WINGS!!!!
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overHandright1 replied to Hockeytown0001's topic in GeneralHeading up 35 from SA for tonight's game. Hopefully the Wings won't take their foot off the pedal for this game cuz I'm sure the Stars will be looking for payback. That and I don't feel like putting up with over exuberant Stasr fans. Section 203 Row E ... Probert Reebok Jersey.
We're in the Old No. 7 Club right now getting "refreshments"!!
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@ LeftWinger ... Third wheels are fine as long as the wheel in question is Winged
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My bro, his lady friend, and I have tiks in Sec 223 (platinum level, Bitchez). I will wearing my Home Probert jersey (not genuine but Reebok reproduction ... boo) and my bro will be his Datsyuk black practice jersey. Looking forward to a good game and "killin it" at the Old Number 7 Club pregame and postgame. Will try to stop Hooter's to hook up with our LGW brethren. What time will you guys be there?
overHandright1 replied to CAredwingsfan91's topic in GeneralI heard the same stipulation from Ken Daniels awhile ago (I think it was Ken anyway). It was in return for the Wings playing in the Western Conference instead of the Eastern Conference. I know it sounds unlikely, but Kenny Holland probably had some leverage because the NHL needs the Wings in the West to draw larger crowds in western cities.
overHandright1 replied to wingscapsfan's topic in GeneralNot sure if this is the same one, but I found this on YouTube....
overHandright1 replied to robat's topic in GeneralBabcock would never allow something like that to happen .
overHandright1 replied to HockeytownRules19's topic in GeneralChelios with a hooking call ... we should just get used to this happening thoughout the season now as opposed to later.
overHandright1 replied to WingsFANstuckintheSOUTH's topic in GeneralI don't mind the logo or the color scheme, but that gray/black square pattern that runs around the bottom of the jersey is awkward looking.
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overHandright1 replied to Shutemdown's topic in GeneralThe Blackhawks have cap issues of their own. They are something like $4 million over the cap at the present moment. I guess that is what happens when you have $13 million wrapped up in goaltender salary. Oh well, it would be nice for Chris to have an early homecoming but it's not going to happen this year. I wonder what kind of reception he will get from the fans when and if he returns to the hawks?
overHandright1 replied to a topic in GeneralIt's about F'in time! I especially liked the quote from Jim Nill about Downey: Glad to hear that coming from the top brass of the Wings Organization who obviously appreciate the job that Downey did last season. This signing restores my faith in humanity after reading all the anti-Downey garbage thrown down on this site. Congratulations, Aaron!


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Rick Piltz – Founder
Rick Piltz, the founder and first director of Climate Science Watch (CSW), sadly passed away on October 18, 2014 (See In Memoriam: Rick Piltz, Climate Science Champion and Bush-Era Whistleblower, R.I.P. Rick Piltz, and Remembering Rick Piltz). As he wished, CSW will continue to serve its established watchdog role, relying on the resources of those dedicated to speaking the truth to power about climate change science and policy.
Rick tirelessly worked as an educator, writer, and policy analyst and advocate from the 1970's to 2014, in federal and state government, academia, and nonprofit organizations. During his more than 20 years in Washington, his primary focus was on the collision of climate science with the reality of climate politics and policy.
From 1995-2005, he held senior positions in the Coordination Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. In the spring of 2005, Rick resigned from his position to protest the George W. Bush Administration's political interference with climate change communication. His whistleblower documentation of politically motivated White House editing and censorship of climate science program reports intended for the public and Congress received front-page coverage in The New York Times, and was widely reported in the media. Rick testified before both the House of Representatives and the Senate at hearings on political interference with federal climate scientists. Rick then spent the last nine years leading GAP's Climate Science Watch program and challenging what he called the oil and coal industries' "denialist machine," the slow pace of government action on climate change, and the need to view climate change policy through the prism of national preparedness. For those revelations, he won the 2006 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling.
For more on Rick's media appearances following his disclosure, his many appearances as a commentator, and his publications, please click here. As he wished, Climate Science Watch will continue to serve its established watchdog role in accordance with the expanded vision Rick set forth to GAP before he passed away. Now renamed Climate Science & Policy Watch (CSPW), Rick's legacy continues on at GAP, relying on the knowledge and passion of a team of expert contributors who were close to Rick and CSW and are dedicated to speaking the truth to power about climate change science and policy.
Michael Termini
Rick Piltz's expanded CSPW vision is currently under the leadership of GAP's Chief of Staff Michael Termini. As CSPW Acting Director, Michael is leading the efforts of a team of approximately 12 expert contributors to advance the goals of CSPW — the majority of whom were actively involved in some capacity with the CSW website and initiatives since the program began in 2005. Michael worked closely with Rick at GAP for almost eight years in the strategic development and implementation of CSW. As such, he is intimately aware of Rick's vision for CSPW, which Rick had set forth in detail to Michael and GAP Executive Director & CEO Louis Clark, the strategic needs of the program, how to execute them, and had Rick's blessing to do so before he passed. Prior to joining GAP in 2007, Michael worked at New York-based non-profit Citizens Campaign for the Environment, which combated pressing issues in the region, such as the prevention of the dumping of toxic materials into the Long Island Sound and fighting the development of a corporate initiative risking waste and significant threats to the environment known as Broadwater – a first-of-its-kind liquefied natural gas facility proposed by Shell Oil and TransCanada. Termini also explored international environmental issues such as climate change, cap-and-trade and the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations while working in the Global Policy Department of the United Nations Association of the USA.
Michael graduated Summa Cum Laude from Kent Law School at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, with a dual LL.M. Master of Laws degree in International Law and International Relations, and Magna Cum Laude from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Michael has been presented numerous awards, including a town board commendation for his civil rights victory defending worker rights in Woodstock, NY; the Spirit Award for his work in support of the rights to dignity and to life in the medical sector at Vassar Brothers Medical Center; and the Achievement Prize by the Chair of the Board of Examiners of Kent Law School for the achievement of Kent's highest scholastic honor. Michael also authored Exceptionalism and the George W. Bush Presidency: A New Extreme Taken at the Expense of the International Rule of Law (VDM Verlag Publishing, 2009), available at amazon.com.
Anne Polansky
CSPW's Senior Climate Policy Analyst Anne Polansky has 30 years of experience in public policies relating to energy and the environment, with a strong focus on climate change and renewable energy. She has served as an independent consultant and held management positions in private industry, not-for-profit organizations, and the US Congress. For much of the 1990s Anne directed the Policy and Governmental Affairs arm of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) where she advocated and supported federal and state energy policies favorable to renewable energy. Before moving to SEIA she staffed the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology where she facilitated development and passage into law of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the Oil Pollution Act, and amendments to the Clean Air Act. Polansky Consulting, established in 1998, has provided a variety of services to clients including the Organization for Tropical Studies, the International Energy Administration, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Environ International Corporation, the Renewable Energy Policy Project, and the Center for Resource Solutions. Anne now owns and operates a home-based bed-and-breakfast open year-round in Takoma Park, Maryland with her son Kyle, and works part-time for The Voice, Takoma Park's local online news source. She holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Chemistry from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
Anne met Rick Piltz in 1991 when he worked at the House Science Committee. Rick took over for Anne on covering climate issues and staffed several oversight hearings of the US Global Change Research Program, the entity created by the GCRA. Their overlap in the House was short but they stayed in touch. A few months after Rick blew the whistle, Anne offered to help Climate Science Watch get off the ground and was soon brought on full-time. From 2006-2009 Anne contributed over one hundred CSW blog posts offering unique perspectives on a wide variety of topics, and teamed with Rick to design and develop the elements of a National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative (NCCPI) – recognizing the urgent need for US and State leaders to recognize and prepare for the full array of climate change impacts, both predicted and occurring, in every sector of our economy and in every region of the country. After Anne left CSW, Rick continued the effort of getting "climate preparedness" on the radar of the US Congress and the White House. We believe that President Obama's 2013 Executive Order creating a White House Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, and the incorporation of climate preparedness language into the President's Climate Action Plan, was at least partly inspired by this important work.
Katie Miller
Katie serves as GAP's Communications Officer, where she provides support for various communications and development projects, focusing on GAP's online program campaigns and overall public education efforts. In this capacity, Katie serves as the lead Communications Officer for GAP's Climate Science & Policy Watch program.
Katie joined GAP through the Mennonite Voluntary Service after graduating Cum Laude in 2016 from Eastern Mennonite University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Environmental Sustainability and minors in International Development and Mathematics.
Her previous experience includes two summers serving as a Research Engineer Intern for USAA and a semester with Gaines Architecture Group, conducting research on environmentally sustainable materials to be used in the construction of a carbon neutral house.


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The price of the ticket is $900 while students pay only $300. The lottery drawing will take place early next week. Sure, it isn't like winning the Powerball, but if you're a developer or a fan of tech, it might be the next best thing. Google I/O will take place on June 25th and June 26th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
If you don't get selected, don't fret. Google releases a great app every year, with live feeds from almost every panel. And all you need to pay is the cost of your data plan. If you're using Wi-Fi, well, it's a win-win! And for those who are attending, there is a map that can help you navigate the venue, along with a schedule. Last year, Google added a feature that allowed you to scan attendees' badges to your phone using NFC connectivity, allowing you to network on the fly.
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My dad was an avid reader of FATE magazine from issue number 1. My mom says when he got a new issue, he would read it from cover to cover in one sitting.
Dad painlessly passed away during the night. Mom found him sitting slightly slumped over at his desk, with his new issue of FATE on the desk top, open at the end of the magazine. That night I felt Dad's presence during my falling-asleep meditation.
My brother had a dream about Dad. He was walking across the master bedroom, in a house that we had lived in many years ago, looking much like he did before he died. My brother was taken aback with what he saw, and said to him, "How can this be, you're dead! You're the same in death, as you were in life."
"What did you expect?" Dad replied.
Mom told me about my brother's dream, and I related my experience. She felt a little left out because she hadn't been contacted. Be careful what you wish for!
Shortly after this conversation, Mom was contacted. She has a special time each day to rest. She went into the bedroom to read, and for some reason, she felt she should go look at the plants and veteran's flag that had been at my dad's funeral. After looking at them and thinking about Dad, she started to go back to the bedroom and noticed that the hall light was on. It was the middle of the day and very bright, so she knew that she hadn't turned the light on.
When she walked into the bedroom, there on the corner of the desk-where the FATE magazine was when Dad died-was an old issue of FATE which Mom swears wasn't there shortly before. She didn't put it there, and she was the only one in the house. This frightened her, since she "doesn't go in for that sort of thing." Dad, of course, would have been delighted to have had such an experience.-Donald Swaner, Ellicott City, Md.


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First settled in the early 1700s, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is a small city with a long history. Capitol of the United States for one day in 1777; site of the nation's first paved highway, first fire department, first commercial telegram, first automobile factory, first pharmacy, and first smoke shop; home at various times to the world's largest silk mill, largest umbrella factory, and largest flooring factory — the list goes on. Despite that catalog of bygone achievements, however, today's Lancaster hasn't allowed itself to become a shadow of its industrial-era past.
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March 2014
- Brain Injury Awareness Month (US)
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There is now a form you can use to add information you know of that I might have missed. Click "ADD EVENT" at the top of the page and follow the directions. Thank you!
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text: Seems odd to say "Happy" memorial day, becuase I know there's a lot of rememberance going on in the US today. Anyhow, I hope that everyone who's got the day off uses it wisely making the best of free time that we enjoy here in our relatively safe and stable country. I'm trying to get some chores done. Cleaning, putting stuff away, will probably look into buying some more organizer bins and getting rid of some junk ... maybe taking a trip to the Goodwill. If the weather holds us, we'll look at going down to the waterpark this afternoon too. Then it's back to work tomorrow