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The car will sometimes start and run just fine. When it runs I have 12 volts heading into the coil and 6 volts heading to the distributor. The car can will be running just fine and then I will shut it off. 30 seconds, 5 minutes, etc later and it won't start at all. I still have 12 volts heading into the coil and 12 coming out heading to the distributor for starting purposes like it's supposed to. It will drop back down to 6 volts like it's supposed to as well. Sometimes though you can come back to it 5 minutes after you shut it off and it will turn right back on. Sometimes it'll run for about a week with no problems and then it just dies. When it dies it just turns over and over and over. During this time all the voltages still check out.
Now I have replaced the coil, starter solenoid, ignition switch, distributor, and the eliminator module (Note the old module still functions just fine as far as I can tell as I have had it back in too and the car does the same thing). I have tried heading back to points and it does the exact same thing. I have checked all the wire connections and everything checks out. I have tried bypassing the tach and the car does the same thing.
On a side note. I was going to install the resistance wire tonight. The only problem is that the the old resistance wire is tied into a 4 way hard plug while this new one is not meant for that type of connection. It's just a female connection on both ends. So I have not installed the new wire, but at the same time everything checks out with this old wire as far as I can tell. So I'm not going to replace it quite yet, and even then I don't see how you attach it since the terminal ends are different.
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Hello, love the theme, i do have a question, how can i change the color of the header? thanks
And i do have also a problem with the maps on the header :/
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Dad As Emotion Coach
By Lowell Johnson
Fort Ripley
While watching my son play basketball with my grandsons the other day, I started thinking about the important role fathers play as coaches, and especially as emotion coaches.
Fathers have a long and intricate relationship with sports, families, and communities. Many boys grow up playing sports - at first for fun, and later for the thrill of the game and the many positive benefits that go with athletic competition. Along the way, boys and men make decisions about how much time and energy to put into sports, as the reality of never becoming a professional athlete sinks in. However, this realization doesn't keep us from playing sports, because after all, sports can be valuable for fitness and fun at all skill levels. Plus, sports can teach us many valuable lessons. These lessons are about us as individuals, and our relationships with others.
Here is where the concept of emotion coaching emerges. If you look around the neighborhood and community at who is doing the coaching of children, it is still mostly men. At the youngest ages of organized sports, the coaches are primarily men and volunteers. The unwritten rule is that if you want your children involved in sports, someone has to step up and volunteer to be the coach. That someone is usually a father.
To be an effective coach a guy needs to be able to do two important jobs. One job is to teach the various skills that go along with the particular sport. The other job is to help children manage the variety and intensity of the emotions that go along with competition. As the level of competition rises, the importance of emotional management rises.
Not every child enters or remains in our organized sports system. But every child needs adults who can coach them about how to manage the variety and intensity of the emotions that go along with every day life. Men and fathers can do this emotion coaching. Men and fathers are doing emotion coaching.
Research on effective emotion coaching gives us some guidelines on how to do it. According to John Gottman, family therapist and researcher, three styles of dealing with children's emotions are counter productive. The dismissive style, where "bad" emotions are ignored, produces children who don't know how to deal with being upset. The disapproving style, where "bad" emotions are punished, produces children who don't know how to handle strong feelings and who struggle with making friends. The laissez-faire style, where children are encouraged to express themselves without restraint, produces children who never learn to handle their emotions in appropriate ways.
What does work for children is a coaching style based on empathy and guidance. The effective emotion coach listens to and values children's emotional experiences. He authentically communicates, "I know how you feel" and offers guidance on thought patterns and behaviors that might help a particular child in a particular situation. He recognizes growing success in emotional management skills.
On this Fathers Day, I salute all those dads engaged in the emotional coaching of our children. Their efforts promote improved health for children, and make our community a better place to live.
Lowell Johnson, Fort Ripley, is a member and on the board of the Minnesota Fathers and Families Network.


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BUY TICKETS: See the races at Pocono Pocono Raceway officials have announced the completion of a project that has added more than 5,000 feet of Steel and Foam Energy Resistant (SAFER) barrier around the 2.5-mile track. The barrier was put in place along the 3,740-foot frontstretch as well as areas between Turns 2 and 3, according to a track release. In addition, each of the track's three crossover gates have been upgraded and now consist of SAFER materials. The upgrade comes one year after officials installed more than 6,000 feet of SAFER barrier around the track and brings the total to more than 23,000 feet for the facility. Pocono Raceway has hosted Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races annually since 1974. The track will host two race weekends for the series this season, the Pocono 400 on June 11 and the Pennsylvania 400 on July 30. The 2.5-mile venue also hosts a NASCAR XFINITY Series race in June and a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race as part of its July race weekend. RELATED: Pocono to hold qualifying, race on same day for July event It is the only track hosting the series that features three turns, hence the facility's "Tricky Triangle" nickname. Kurt Busch won last year's June event while Chris Buescher scored his first career win in the series second stop last August.
Rain at Pocono Raceway postpones Sprint Cup race
RELATED: Live radar, weather updates Intermittent fits of rain postponed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series' Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway to an 11 a.m. ET Monday start. Wet weather moved into the area Saturday evening, and it was raining hard Sunday morning as teams went through pre-race inspection. A fleet of Air Titan 2.0 trucks were on hand to get the track ready as the clouds broke near the scheduled 1:30 p.m. ET start time, but rain began to fall again at approximately 2:30 p.m. ET to halt the track-drying process. The rescheduled 400-mile event will be broadcast on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM. Martin Truex Jr. is the polesitter for the 21st of 36 points-paying races of the Sprint Cup season. Truex, who prevailed in Friday's Coors Light Pole Qualifying, is one of five drivers who can clinch a spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup with a victory at Pocono . MORE: Full starting lineup The series' first stop at the 2.5-mile triangular track was delayed until Monday due to rain, and Kurt Busch went on to find Victory Lane. This is the first time in a single year that both Pocono races have been postponed to the next day. Rain also affected on-track activities early Saturday, canceling qualifying for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. William Byron went on to win the Pocono Mountains 150 later Saturday. </p>
Rain delays Axalta 400 at Pocono Raceway
RELATED: Live radar, weather updates from Pocono LONG POND, Pa. -- Rain has delayed the start of Sunday's Axalta 'We Paint Winners' 400 race for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Pocono Raceway . Sunday's forecast called for a high percentage of rain, potentially heavy at times with possible thunderstorms. To combat the damp conditions, race officials have a total of 20 NASCAR Air Titan dryers and 10 conventional jet dryers on hand at the triangular 2.5-mile track. But NASCAR officials are also up against periodic fog, which has shrouded the speedway in spurts through the morning and into the afternoon. Two brief, heavy showers drenched the track Sunday morning, but a lingering mist has persisted after each downpour. Brad Keselowski is on the pole for the race after slipping past Team Penske teammate Joey Logano late in qualifying on Friday. It's his first Coors Light Pole Award of the season and the 12th of his Sprint Cup career. Martin Truex Jr ., who won last week's Coca-Cola 600 in dominating fashion at Charlotte, also is the defending winner of this race. Fellow Toyota driver Matt Kenseth won the August race at Pocono in 2015. Rain also abbreviated Saturday's NASCAR XFINITY Series race and shuffled Friday's on-track schedule, causing limited practice time for the Cup series. Truex said he was eager to see how the race played out as conditions change. "I'm interested to see what the tire's going to do just because of what I felt in the tire test and pretty optimistic about it," said Truex, one of four drivers who participated in a Goodyear tire test at Pocono in April, "but until we get everybody out there it's hard to say. I'm good either way. I just hope we get it in sometime Sunday and we'll see what happens." Sunday's 160-lap, 400-mile race is the 14th of 36 events this season for the Sprint Cup Series.
Bear makes appearance outside Pocono Raceway
Pocono Raceway already has a mascot -- Tricky, a fox -- but one hopeful candidate apparently did not get the memo that applications were no longer being accepted. — Mary Lou Hamlin (@11mommalou) June 4, 2016 Sprint Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin 's mom snagged a shot of a bear cub outside the entrance to the site of Sunday's Axalta 'We Paint Winners' 400 (1 p.m. ET, FS1). The photo almost looks like some Bigfoot-style imagery, lending a sense of ominous foreshadowing to the weekend. Especially when you consider the fact that where Baby Bear strays ... Mama Bear tends to be close behind. Be safe out there, folks.
John Wes Townley cleared to compete at Pocono Raceway
Concord, N.C. (July 26, 2016) – John Wes Townley received medical clearance earlier today to resume racing in NASCAR and ARCA. He will compete in this weekend's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and ARCA events at Pocono Raceway . Townley had been sidelined for the past four weeks while being treated for mild concussion-like symptoms. "I'd like to thank Parker Kligerman, Cole Custer and Brady Boswell for filling in for me," Townley said. "I feel great and I'm looking forward to racing at Pocono this week."
Pocono Raceway adds XFINITY race for '16
Pocono Raceway officials announced Tuesday the addition of a NASCAR XFINITY Series event to the track's 2016 racing schedule. The 250-mile race is scheduled for Saturday, June 4, and will be part of a three-race weekend at the 2.5-mile track. The Sprint Cup Series' Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400 is slated for Sunday, June 5 while the Pocono 200 ARCA Racing Series event will kick off the weekend's racing activities. It will be the first appearance for the XFINITY Series at Pocono , which has hosted NASCAR-sanctioned events since 1974. Track president and CEO Brandon Igdalsky said race fans "have been asking for this to happen for several years." Comcast, parent company of series sponsor XFINITY , is based in Philadelphia. "From Day 1 we've been focused on enhancing the way fans experience NASCAR and highlighting the competition and youth in the XFINITY Series," Matt Lederer, director of sports brand marketing for Comcast, said. "The addition of an event at Pocono Raceway in our home state ... will help carry the momentum built in the first year of our partnership into 2016." In addition to the June race weekend, the Pennsylvania 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race is scheduled for July 31 at Pocono , along with the Pocono Mountains 150 Camping World Truck Series race and Modspace 125 ARCA event. Camping World Truck Series teams have been competing at Pocono since 2010 while the ARCA Series began competing at the track in 1987. " Pocono is a very unique track," current XFINITY Series points leader Chris Buescher said. "I'm excited that we are adding a new track to the XFINITY Series schedule. I've raced there a considerable amount in the ARCA Series and have always enjoyed it. It will be a good challenge for the XFINITY teams."
Pocono Raceway adds SAFER Barriers
RELATED: Buy tickets for Pocono races Pocono Raceway announced Wednesday that it has added supplementary SAFER Barriers and extended the pit wall. The Pennsylvania track enlarged the existing SAFER Barrier by 6,600 feet and extended pit wall by 100 feet as part of a series of enhancements. Officials are also expected to cover all outside walls and install an additional 5,100 feet of SAFER Barrier before the 2017 season. "We are always looking to make our track safer for drivers, teams and fans and these enhancements do just that," Track President and CEO Brandon Igdalsky said in a release. "As cars and technology change and evolve, so do tracks. We are adapting to ensure Pocono Raceway is as safe as possible. We will continue to monitor races and technology and aggressively add safety measures where appropriate." Pocono Raceway is the most recent of several tracks that have increased their SAFER Barrier parameters in the past year. The 2.5-mile track will play host to seven NASCAR events this season in all three major series, with the XFINITY Series making a trip to the Tricky Triangle for the first time in the track's history. RELATED: Purchase Pocono tickets " Full 2016 schedule
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Pocono to hold qualifying and race on same day
BUY TICKETS: See the action at Pocono Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series fans should be ready for a full day of action at Pocono Raceway on July 30. The track announced Monday that both qualifying for the Monster Energy Series and the Pennsylania 400 race will be held Sunday, July 30. Thus far, Pocono is the only track to announce it will have qualifying and the race on the same day for the sport's top series. On a t ypical race weekend, Monster Energy Series qualifying is held on Friday afternoon. The schedule for Saturday, July 29, will include Monster Energy Series practices paired with NASCAR Camping World Truck Series ' qualifying and the Pocono Mountains 150 . In NASCAR's first trip of the year to Pocono Raceway June 9-11, the track will operate under the standard schedule where Monster Energy Series qualifying is held on Friday with a practice as well as a NASCAR XFINITY Series practice. Saturday will see more practice time for the Monster Energy Series as well as XFINITY Series qualifying and the Pocono Green 250 race.


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How does flow rate affect plant growth in streams and rivers?
- 20 gallon aquarium (or larger)
- Electric water pump (found in garden stores)
- Soil from the bottom of a stream
- Plants from the bottom of a stream
- Collection containers (one-gallon plastic milk jugs work well, as do plastic storage containers, or old pots).
- Shovel
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- Make sure you have permission to remove approximately two gallons of silt and pebbles, water, and several plants from a stream bed. Remove these materials. When collecting the plants, make sure they are the same species, the same size and that they will fit comfortably in the aquarium without crowding. When collecting the plants, use the shovel to make sure you get enough of the silt that it is anchored in.
- Place your aquarium in a well-lit area near an electric outlet. Put the collected silt and pebbles into the aquarium.
- Gently towel off both plants. Weigh each one separately and record the weights.
- Plant the two plants in the aquarium, with one on either side of the tank.
- Set up your water pump, following the directions on the package.
- Position the tubing so that it shoots water directly on one plant, but not on the other.
- Every day for two weeks, observe the plants at both ends of the tank. Log your observations of both plants daily for at least three weeks.
- After three weeks remove the plants from the water. Gently towel them off to remove excess water. Weigh and record the weights. Calculate the differences between these weights and the weights in step three. Identify which plant grew most.
Experiment #2
- Find a creek or stream that has a bend in it. Identify the inside and outside of the bend,
- Measure the flow rate on either bank of the bend by noting how long it takes a flowing object to travel a specific distance. Usually, the flow rate on the outside of the bend is greater than on the inside.
- Examine the plant life on either side. Identify a species that grows on both sides. Tag several of these plants and measure them every day for several weeks.


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Managed to bump into my hotel without really looking very hard, got booked in quickly and am delighted. It's a 19th Century colonial building and the room is basic but a quick walk around told me that I won't be spending very much time in my room.
Headed towards the harbour and wandered along there for a bit before turning inland. The buildings here are beautiful wooden structures that have survived innumerable hurricanes down the generations
Duval Street is the main drag and what a delight! Late afternoon and the sound of live bands in the bars spills out on to the street, as the occasional busker takes his position on the street corner. Tat shops for the tourists line the street along with restaurants. It's alive, non-threatening and fun. Oops....nearly tripped over a chicken!
Looked at adding credit to my phone which wouldn't be a problem as it was sorted out some days ago....right? Guess again. The curse of Net10 will follow me until I shuffle off this mortal coil!
About 10pm I wandered down towards Duval and headed left when I got there to see what was there and to see if I could find an ATM. This is evidently the part of the street that hosts the posher shops. Found an ATM, drew out some dosh and headed back towards the more touristy part of the street. Wandered into to one of the bars called the Bear something-or-other, had an over-priced ($4.75) bottle of Bud then wandered down to Sloppy Joe's which I have seen before thanks to the fabulous quality of their webcams
Once inside, I ordered a Bud for a dollar less than the last place, then found you could order a 'pint' of Bud Light for yet another dollar less. This alleged 'pint' would be done under the Trades Description Act in the UK but what the hell...
On stage ambled a band from Pennsylvania who treated us to a comedic set of cover versions which suited the holiday crowd perfectly. They covered everything from Michael Jackson ("Billie Jean"..including idiot Moondances), A more Ska version of "Hotel California" by the Eagles including accurate twin guitar stuff (For a male under 50 in the States to not be able to play Eddie Van Halen's intro to "Hot for Teacher" is a criminal offence which is punishable by being sent to Guantanamo Bay for a jolly good chin-wag by Homeland Security), and all manner of songs that would bring drunk holiday makers onto the dance floor. It was cheesy but didn't seem to be as cheesy as the fare dished out to Brits on holiday in Spain. These guys seemed to be folks who wanted to play 'proper' music but had to do this stuff to make money. I remember being in that situation when I left school! Speaking of music and myself, I used to play with a guy called TV Smith for 5 years or so and had his name come up as I crossed a bridge on the way down that spanned a stretch of water called 'Channel 5'...the name of an album that he recorded not long after the birth of the British TV station Cannel 4 in the early 80s
In summary, the atmosphere here is fantastic. It's busy, with cars and bikes vying for space (although a lot of cyclists use the sidewalk). People are polite and very friendly and the place may seem all hustle and bustle but the underlying feel is laid back. I love this place! I've been to lots of places where I've thought I could stay for a while but this place grabbed me by the short and curlies immediately. Someone give me a job here!!!
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The factors that drive success in motion picture development : an Australian context
Rossiter, Craig (2003) The factors that drive success in motion picture development : an Australian context. Masters by Research thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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The motion picture industry is characterized by a high degree of artistic innovation that revolves around the project rather than the firm. Success is elusive and firms operate in an environment of symmetrical ignorance, that is, high levels of demand uncertainty as well as product uncertainty. This makes managing the commercial development of new products difficult. The study of the factors that drive success in new product development have been significant, however, little attention has been given to experiential and creatively driven products such as motion pictures. While a number of studies have attempted to find accurate means to predict performance in motion pictures, most of these have met with limited results, yet few, if any, have linked the knowledge gained from the study of new product development with the industry. Similarly, the impact of market orientation on firm performance and new product success has been the focus of much empirical research since the late 1980's and has been shown to be significantly associated with new product performance. Here, the marketing literature and the NPD literature converge, yet few studies have attempted to study how the same concepts might apply in motion picture production. The primary focus of this study was to explore the feasibility of the NPD and market orientation literature in the development of successful motion picture and whether or not similar application of this knowledge is tenable. As such, the study centers around two broad research issues: RESEARCH ISSUE 1: How can Australian films perform better? In other words, what are the factors that drive success in Australian motion picture production? RESEARCH ISSUE 2: What is the role of the audience in the development of successful Motion Pictures in Australia? Or in other words, do Australian filmmakers need to be "close" to their audience (market oriented) in order to attain higher levels of success. Australia has been used as a context primarily due to the accessibility of data. This represents a relatively new setting for the study of NPD and market orientation and a new industry. Therefore, an exploratory study was designed which utilized in-depth interviews with experts from three sectors of the Australian motion picture industry. This was deemed to be the best approach given the dearth of previous studies in this setting and the fact that the majority of past industry studies have been quantitative. The findings reveal some support for a significant relationship between success and new product development activities such as product advantage, market orientation, up-front homework, early product definition, cross-functional and coordinated teams, and launch. Product advantage, however, is better understood in terms of a movie's marketability and playability, that is, the perceived superiority of its attributes before and after its viewing. A market orientation is likely to be more effective in the motion picture industry when it helps a firm lead its customers rather than encourages a firm to be led by them. Finally, despite previous studies in the Australian industry, the number of scripts in development is unlikely to matter. What matters is that the scripts that are ready to move into production are evaluated fully and that full support is provided to those that make it through in order to give them the best chance for success.
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Texting While Driving Now Illegal In PA
It's time for your phone to take the back seat.
A new statewide texting ban while driving ban starts Thursday.
The law makes texting while driving a primary offence in Pennsylvania.
Talking on the phone or using a hands-free device is still legal, but sending, reading, or writing a text based message of any kind is now illegal in the state.
The law doesn't just apply to teenagers either, it affects all drivers.
High School sophomore Erik Wagner was one of many teens Thursday who learned firsthand just how tough multi-tasking your phone and the wheel can be.
"First of all you're trying to concentrate on one thing, driving, and then you're getting all these texts on your phone trying to answer them," Wagner explains.
Fellow teen, Bailey Deleo agrees.
"In the game I passed the finish line twice and I didn't even realize it I was so busy with my phone. I barely got a chance to look up."
You can't get text or write anything without taking your eyes, mind and hands off the road, and that's what makes this form of distracting driving particularly dangerous, Pennsylvania Traffic Injury and Prevention spokeswoman, Kelly Whitaker says.
"There are distractions naturally in our lives, but if we can limit them as much as possible it's going to make us safer drivers."


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The Analogue Reader: How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smithwritten by andredimu on 2012-01-25
"To document and observe the world around you. As if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to." This is the mission given to us by by Keri Smith in her book!5 10 Share Tweet
Life As A Professional Explorer: LomoAmigo JamieBD Shoots With The LC-A+written by littlemisslove on 2012-10-29 #people
James Buchanon Dunlop is a Lomography Community member with an AMAZING life. He is a professional explorer (yes, really!) who takes his LC-A+ to far flung corners of the world, under the sea, to the top of mountains, and to places the rest of us can only dream about. Read on to find out how he got this lucky....6 Share Tweet
Let's Give Some Attention to Women: Introducing Alma Karlinwritten by lomofrue on 2013-03-26
I really hoped and wished that in march lomography will give some attention to women. After all, it was International Women's Day on 8th of March and in this world and this time, when some women still don't enjoy the same rights as men, well, we certainly have the power to do something. I'll start and introduce one special lady to you and you can work from here on. Let's do something about it, people!5 Share Tweet
Lomography Day Trips: Lisbon, The City of Yellow Tramswritten by lomofrue on 2014-03-03 #places
I divide people who travel to Portugal into two groups: those who prefer Porto and those who like Lisbon better. I love Porto, it's a little gem, but if I ever lived in Portugal I'd choose Lisbon in a heartbeat. It's got everything big cities have while staying beautiful and romantic and the same time.1 Share Tweet


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i have or had (?) a loan with wells fargo home mortgage. in march my job like many others cut back and i lost half of my pay. i applied to wfhm for a loan modification to lower my interest rate which at the time was 9.95%. they denied my request within 4 wks. at that time my payments were good and on time. so i reapplied and stopped making payments till the modification was done. figured the first one only took 4 wks so i could make 2 payments and not be behind. besides obama gave them bail out money to help people like me.
so i called 3 times a month to check on the progress on the modification. wrote down every person i talked to and the id numbers. the day and time i spoke with them. each time was told still working on mod. and should know something soon. started calling in june,2009. got letter from their lawyers, wilson and asso. told me house was in foreclosure and would be auctioned 7/23/2009.
i called wfhm and was told auction would be postponed till modification complete. and sure enough it was postponed till 8/20/2009. called on 8/16/2009 and was told auction would again be postponed since modification not finished. called 8/20/2009 and was told still working on mod. and should know something bt next wk. guess what? they auctioned my house that same day and bought it back themselves for half its value. the only reason i even knew it was sold was a realator came to my house to take pictures for listing it. so i again called wfhm and was told still in modification and looking good. haha. have called several times to get this straghten out but cant get anyone that can tell me what happened or why i was never notified. admits no letters were sent to me but don't know why. meantime i am sitting in my house waiting for the sherriffs dept to come and evict me and my husband. still have not heard from wells fargo. not sure what to do now. guess will keep waiting till someone contacts me. bet it wont be wells fargo. big ripoff and evidently supported by our president and the rest of the federal government since no one seems to care or check on whatthese high interest rate ripoff companies are doing with our tax dollar bail out money.
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Dead Men Walking in Ohio
By Paul Kopp
Most debates about capital punishment are narrowed to a choice between an approach from either the Old Testament or the New Testament: Do we take an eye for an eye or turn the other cheek?
Last month Sister Helen Prejean, a notable advocate for the abolition of the death penalty spoke at Xavier University. Prejean is best known for her book, Dead Man Walking, which inspired the Oscar-winning film of the same name. The book was an account of her experience in Louisiana as spiritual advisor to Death Row inmate Elmo Patrick Sonnier, whom she accompanied to his execution in the electric chair in 1984.
Prejean, 70, is a Roman Catholic sister of the order of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille. She began her work with Death Row inmates in 1981. She is now working for the Death Penalty Discourse Network in New Orleans, and travels the world meeting with prisoners and speaking out against capital punishment. She talks about her intimate experiences dealing with Death Row inmates and their families, as well as the families of murder victims, in the hope of furthering the public's knowledge of the process of capital punishment.
"The journey that I try to help people with is first to stand with others in outrage when innocents have been ripped out of our lives by these very violent crimes," Prejean says.
A link to slavery
Most people haven't thought deeply about the issue because it's something that doesn't concern most people, she says. She also finds that, in general, once people have a more profound understanding of how the death penalty actually works, they are more perceptive to its shortcomings.
When Prejean talks about the death penalty in the United States, she is quick to note that understanding the context of the society which it came from is very important.
"You have to connect it directly with homelessness in America, people without health care," she says. "You have to connect it with all the systemic things that are wrong, that don't allow so many people to participate fully in American life."
Her reasoning focuses not only on the moral argument against execution, but also on inequalities within the political, racial and social climates that keep the system in place.
"Can you picture a prosecutor getting on the evening news and saying, 'Ladies and gentlemen, one of our valuable citizens was killed last night, a homeless man in the street, and we are outraged about this. We are going to seek the ultimate penalty for the ones who killed this valuable citizen.' You know you will never hear that," Prejean says.
Politicians and prosecutors utilize the idea of capital punishment as a campaign tool to show they are tough on crime, according to Prejean.
"It is 95 percent about political symbolism than it is an actual effective way to deter crime," she says.
Racism, she adds, is also a major factor.
"Eighty percent of executions are taking place in states where slavery was most present," she says. "The places where people of color live is where the death penalty is going to be most operative."
Though she knows where the problems with the death penalty begin, and where she feels they should end, the basis of her message is that taking one life for another is not justice, and it does not bring peace to the families of the victims. It only causes them more grief, she says.
Execution is the highest form of punishment in a justice system and culture that have lost touch with humanity, Prejean says.
"When I witnessed that first execution, I came out of the prison and threw up," she says. "That's why I wrote the book. People are never going to see this, so we are going to have to bring them closer to it."
'Becoming more uncomfortable'
Capital punishment became part of Ohio law in 1803. In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional, outlawing the practice across the country. In subsequent years, state legislatures passed death-penalty laws that have been upheld by the Supreme Court.
Ohio lawmakers enacted the state's new capital punishment statute in 1981. However the state did not resume executions until 1999. In 1991 then-Gov. Dick Celeste commutated death sentences against eight men and women. Since 1999 Ohio has executed 32 exec people by lethal injection.
Ohio's use of the death penalty as recently received nationwide news coverage due to the botched execution of Romell Broom. Over a period of two hours the executioners failed to find a suitable vein in Broom's arm, and Gov. Ted Strickland halted the execution. A hearing in federal court n Nov. 30th could decide whether the state will try a second time to execute Broom.
Concerns about the qualifications of the technicians carrying out lethal injections have become magnified by the Broom case. Though guards are trained to administer the poison, some critics say they lack the medical knowledge to do it properly. Dr. Jonathan Groner, professor of clinical surgery at the Ohio State College of Medicine, told the Cleveland Scene, "Ohio is caught in a 'Hippocratic paradox.' Those most qualified to help the state in executions – doctors, nurses, practicing EMTs – are forbidden from taking part in executions by
Broom's was the first Ohio execution called off while in progress, though two other executions over the past four years have been delayed due to similar complications.
The incident has also brought further public attention to the moral issue. Ohioans to Stop Executions (OSTE) issued a statement saying, "No amount of adjustment to the death penalty process can achieve an outcome absent of pain and suffering for victims' family members, witnesses, corrections workers and the condemned inmate."
OSTE, founded in 1987, works to educate the public about executions.
"People don't know a lot about the death penalty," says Renee Berlon, southern Ohio organizer for OSTE. "The state is split right now. People are becoming more uncomfortable with it."
Aside from the moral issue of capital punishment are matters of practicality. The death penalty, as practiced in the United States, is a long and expensive process, stretching over an average 10 years, Berlon says. A recent study by the Death Penalty Information Center acknowledged that it's difficult to gauge how much a death sentence costs, but estimated $30 million per execution. Berlon says most northern states aren't executing.
Ohio has 135 inmates on Death Row. Kentucky has 35 on Death Row; Texas has 350.


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'Graphic Details' Q&A: Michael Kaminer
What began with a 2008 story about autobiographical comics by Jewish women in the Forward has developed into a touring museum exhibit. Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women is the first exhibit to explore what co-curator Michael Kaminer calls a "unique and prolific niche of graphic storytelling" by Jewish women. The exhibit features the work of 18 Jewish women artists, some of which is being seen by the public for the first time.
We at JWA were taken with this project. We spoke with Michael Kaminer, co-curator and author of "Graphic Confessions of Jewish Women," the Forward article that started it all. This is the first in a series of interviews; we will be posting weekly interviews with the artists and samples of their work.
Leah Berkenwald: How did you first get into comics?
Michael Kaminer: My parents have told me I learned to read by scanning newspaper comic strips and watching "Sesame Street". At 5 or 6, I started buying every comic book I could get my hands on - Richie Rich, Archie, superhero comics a little later. As an adult, I got into alternative and indie comics, as well as editorial cartoons. And in my 30s, I started collecting. The first original piece I bought was a ten-page sequence by Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who's represented in the show. Meanwhile, there are still boxes of old comics at my parents' place because I don't have the space.
Growing up, did you ever think about the gender of the comic artists you read?
On a conscious level, I don't think I had any awareness around gender of the artists. I certainly was aware of subtleties in character portrayals – Wonder Woman vs. Batman, or Veronica vs. Reggie. I have a feeling that even back then, my radar was going off about stereotypical or dishonest depictions of women. At that age, I didn't really have access to the women who were shaking up comics, nor was their material available to a nine-year-old in Montreal. But that's one reason why it's such a thrill to work with pioneers like Trina Robbins, Sharon Rudahl or Diane Noomin now.
What interested you about the trend of Jewish women doing autobiographical comics you observed at the 2008 Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Expo in New York?
The story kind of told itself. I was on the lookout for women artists because that's a large part of what I collect. Their voices always seem sharper, the powers of observation more refined, and the humor riotous. I probably had my Jewish filter up because I was a contributing editor to a magazine called Jewish Living at the time. And the autobiographical element just emerged as a common thread among the artists I encountered. When Jewish Living tanked, I took the story to the Forward, and the piece — which ran in December 2008 — became "Graphic Details," the show.
What kinds of reactions did you get when you pitched the Graphic Details exhibit to museums?
Across the board, the response has been enthusiastic. The Cartoon Art Museum people told us that Graphic Details was the first show they've presented with an explicitly Jewish theme, so that was exciting. The Koffler's been amazing and supportive; I was blown away that they got us the Gladstone as a venue. It's one of the highest-profile galleries in Toronto. And Yeshiva University Museum in New York, where I live, jumped right on board after a curator read about the show in The New York Times.
What can we learn about Judaism, gender and comics from this exhibit?
A few things. First, I hope visitors develop some kind of relationship with the artists in the show. I would love if people would explore the work of the women in Graphic Details. Second, I'd be thrilled if they got curious about other comics by women as a result of seeing this show. There's just a wealth of material out there, and it feels like we're in a kind of golden age. Third, I hope people get an appreciation for comics as an art form. It always amazes me that people still dismiss comics as "low" or for kids. It's an incredibly sophisticated form of storytelling, with levels and layers that are as complex as anything in visual arts. Fourth, I hope people gain a new perspective on how Jews continue to reinvent comics; it's a medium we've helped shape over the years. Finally, I hope visitors get a renewed appreciation of the powerful voices women continue to bring to comics. And, of course, if people get a good laugh or shed a tear over one of the works, I'll know we did our job.
Graphic Details will finish its run at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco on Sunday, January 30. It will open in Toronto on February 17, presented by The Koffler Centre of the Arts at the Gladstone Hotel galleries on the West Queen West arts strip, and run through April 17, 2011. In January 2012, Graphic Details will open at New York's prestigious Yeshiva University Museum and University of Michigan's School of Art & Design will host "Graphic Details" at its renowned Slusser Gallery in fall, 2012.
Michael Kaminer blogs about the exhibit and other interesting comic art news here.
Leah Berkenwald is the online communications specialist at the Jewish Women's Archive, and a contributor to its Jewesses With Attitude blog.
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Comics101.com sends a love letter to Axel Braun's Iron Man XXX
Major Comic Site Applauds Braun's Interpretation of The Mandarin in Adult Movie from Vivid
LOS ANGELES June 10th 2013 – In his article "Speaking Mandarin" for Comics 101, editor Scott Tipton discusses the evolution of the Mandarin character portrayed recently in the summer blockbuster movie, "Iron Man 3." But, Tipton believes, Axel Braun's Mandarin adaptation in the adult movie parody "Iron Man XXX" from Vivid Entertainment comes the closest to the comic book.
Derrick Pierce as Mandarin in 'Iron Man XXX.' Image courtesy of vivid.com. 'Iron Man XXX' DVD cover courtesy of vivid.com."After being ever so lightly hinted at in the first Iron Man film (with the cleverly named 'Ten Rings' terrorist organization, a reference to the comic-book Mandarin's 'magic rings,' the source of his powers), nearly everyone had expected the Mandarin to be the Big Bad in an Iron Man film sooner or later, and with the casting of Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin in 'Iron Man 3,' it looked as though that's what we were getting. But although everyone expected the Mandarin…the Mandarin wasn't really the Mandarin, instead just being a puppet for the world media…" says Tipton.
After reviewing earlier interpretations of the character, Tipton concludes: "Ironically, for the closest adaptation of the comic-book Mandarin, you'd have to go to porn director Axel Braun, whose willingness to recreate comics costumes and story lines in his line of best-selling 'porn parodies' is firmly established. However you may feel about porn, there's no denying Braun's geek cred. Take a look at Derrick Pierce as the Mandarin in Braun's newest release from Vivid, 'Iron Man XXX.' "As a die-hard comic geek since childhood, I always strive to bring characters that I parody to life, the way I envisioned them as a kid," said Braun. "The Mandarin is such an iconic, over-the-top, anachronistic villain that I simply could not imagine him without his scaled helmet and his rings. Don't get me wrong, Ben Kingsley is a tremendous actor, and I understand the need for mainstream to have a different, modernized approach to superheroes in order to appeal to a broader audience. But I don't need to have a $100 million opening weekend, and I am just thrilled that my adult parody has won accolades among fans like Scott Tipton."
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About Axel Braun: The son of legendary porn-pioneer Lasse Braun and grandson of a diplomat, Axel Braun was born and raised in Italy, where he received a privileged upper-class upbringing. Fluent in five languages, a member of MENSA, a film-school graduate, and the bearer of a Ph.D. in psychology, Axel has a unique cultural background that definitely sets him apart from the many other directors in the adult industry. A second-generation AVN Hall-of-Famer, over the span of his career he has won many awards all over the world for directing, producing, screenwriting, and editing, including three consecutive "Director Of The Year" AVN awards. For more information visit facebook.com/AxelBraun and twitter.com/axelbraun


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There are many who believe the state of Israel has yet to completely live up to its reputation as a democracy. New evidence has been uncovered by a researcher studying the close relationship between Israel and the apartheid regime in South Africa which indicates in the 1970s there was discussions between the two countries regarding the sale of nuclear devices by Israel. For years, Israel has argued that it is a "responsible power" that would not misuse nuclear weapons and thus is not subject to investigation by UN inspectors. A new book by Sasha Polakow-Suransky, "The Unspoken Alliance," cites documentary evidence that in 1975, Israel offered to sell to the racist South Africa, "some of the nuclear capable Jericho missiles in its arsenal." South African General RF Armstrong, responded to the offer by insisting his nation also required access to nuclear weapons. South Africa decided to pursue the purchase due to cost factors.
It is time for Israel to live up to its reputation as a democratic society and work for peace with Palestinians. Instead of citing past failures at compromise, it must pursue the path of hope. If the past is a factor in determining success today, what is one to make of a past in which Israel was willing to sell nuclear weapons to a racist nation?


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The Rosy Tetra is a schooling fish and I suggest a
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a peaceful fish and can be kept with other peaceful fish of a similar
size. These include Neon Tetras and Cardinal Tetras. They would probably also be OK
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Avoid large, aggressive or predatory fish. Even if
they do not eat the Rosy Barbs, bullying will adversely affect this
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Both sexes
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The Male has
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Females usually have a very small area of red above the white area above
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The red
parts of the male tend to be brighter.
The female gets distinctly fatter when getting eggs in her body.
When in
breeding condition the colours of both sexes become brighter, but the male's
colours intensify more. Once you have
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The Rosy Tetra
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eggs and raising the babies.
Most Tetras
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your pair separately with a variety of rich food like frozen Blood Worms, Daphnia
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This fish
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for the adults. This type of food tends
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A suitable
spawning temperature is about 27 degrees C (80 degrees F). This is a little higher than I recommend for
keeping these fish. The increase in
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together of the male and female fish should be enough to stimulate spawning.
The Rosy
Tetra will scatter 100 or more eggs over fine leaved plants. Usually this will happen early in the
Raising the Fry
The babies
should be free swimming about 5 days after being laid. The water should continue to be soft and acid
until the babies are at least 3 months old when you can change gradually to
harder tap water.
The babies
need very small food like Infusoria (Protozoa) at first. This can be supplemented with the finest
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try giving then the finest screened Daphnia.
Pest Fish
Do not release any fish into a place it is not native to.
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Original post made by Curious, Sylvan Park, on Jul 15, 2008
Do we know who is running for office?
Like this commentPosted by Daniel DeBolt
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Daniel DeBolt is a registered user.
So far five people have submitted candidate intention statements: Mike Kasperzak, Don Letcher, Alicia Crank, John Inks and Tom Means. Laura Macias is also expected to run again.
Anyone interested in running has until August 8 to file papers. The official nomination period started on July 14.
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On January 3rd 2008, I gave birth to two beautiful baby girls!!! I was not suppose to be bred, but I was a bad girl, and did what I wanted to behind Mom's back. She was so happy that I birthed the puppies just fine.... and that a took to being a mom too.
I just adore my babies!! Soon mom will take pics, and let everyone see my beauties!!
Well.... Since the snow has been melting, Mom has taken me to a few out door places to get me use to being out side. We went to Byers Lake to have a picnic lunch, and I walked around a little, and later went for a walk with Mom, w/me on the ground... it was ok. I did not like being left on the ground well my human family was eating, so I requested to be picked up, and I found the picnic table NOT to my liking either!!! So I just balanced on Moms arm....
We later stopped to take a small hike up to a veiwing piont.... and that was the funnest part of the day.... there was allot of people and other dogs there too.... Of course, EVERYONE thought I was soooo cute!!!
Well after an out door feeled day, I was back home to my beds, pillows and blankets to my spoiled-ness!! Taa Taa all.... Happy
The snow is almost all melted away, and I still DO NOT want to be outside on the ground!! That is just not for me! I don't care what the rest of the pack is doing, and how much they like their doggie roots! I don't even like the outdoor smells... or the nasty horse smell... doesn't smell as good as my Channel!! Yuck those dogs that enjoy all that! I was born to be a Princess, and I wish my mommy would just understand that, and stop trying to get me to be a DOG!! Isn't it enough that I play with the dogs inside??? !!!
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Condenser fan motor making noise.
I've noticed my condenser fan motor making noise for some time and it's starting to get a lot worse. I bought a new condenser fan motor and I'm not sure I was sold the correct part. I have a 3 wire 1/4 HP running 850 rpm but was sold a 4 wire that runs 1075 rpm. I have a feeling I should have told the guy never mind. But, he said it wouldn't hurt anything. You tell me, I've read posts elsewhere that state not to use a different RPM motor without changing the fan blade. He also sold me a 5uf 370V 2 prong capacitor and wasn't real clear on why I needed it. The unit is a York package system AC / heat pump.
Yep, wrong motor.
more air moving will effect the condenser pressures and system ops...always get a new CAP with a new motor...
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I would like to know what the Quilting Board members use their Sergers for.
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I would like to know what the Quilting Board members use their Sergers for.
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I use it for clothing that I make for my niece and sometimes for myself. The serger overcasts so I also can make quick table cloths, napkins and many many accessories and home dec projects. You can zip a stitch across before washing your quilting fabrics too so the strings don't occur.
I personally could not keep house without one.
"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern ... It will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that ...one stitch at a time, taken patiently."
*Oliver Wendell Holms
One of my favorite uses is for the edge of my quilt sandwich before the binding goes one. I get my borders trimmed so they are even, pin in from the danger zone (where I might get the pins with the serger) and then serge the edges. This gives a nice firm edge to turn your binding against and you're sure all of the layers are together.
I give a lot a table runners and place mats for gifts and also sell them. Some are embroidered silk and some are quilted. I don't like the way a binding looks on the edge. I use a three needle rolled edge or the overlock stitch. I use the rolled edge on the napkins. I finish the seam edges on clothing with my serger - I give baby clothing for baby gifts. put an edge on all new fabric before washing it. I use it every week.
Nothing! I have one, use it every now and then when I make pajama bottoms or the such. I broke a needle in it about 6 months ago and haven't replaced it yet. I just don't use it very often. I should probably just get rid of it!!!
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm taking a class and making the entire pillow with the serger to get to know mine better. So far I've done pintucks, flatlock seam to thread ribbon through and gathered a strip on both sides (ruching?). Next class we learn to put in a zipper and finish the pillow.
Mine gets used to edge fabric before I wash it. We are on a septic system so the less lose thread going in the washer the better.
I just got a serger and it seems to work fine, so I'm glad CaroleLee started this thread.
I've used one for years, great for clothing. The rolled hem works great for tablecloths, napkins. I also use it to finish the edges of placemats. A serger is great for making cafe curtains or putting lining in any flat work. I really like it for putting an edge on the fleece blankets. I use wooly nylon in the upper and lower looper( as it stretches and covers a bigger area) and thread in the needle. I've also used fine crochet thread in the upper and lower loopers and thread in the needle to hem a tablecloth. You can use lots of fun threads in the upper and lower loopers. You just have to re-adjust the tension. Another hint: I keep a lined note card with a sample of the thread and fabric, write down the adjustment numbers of the knobs on the card. That way if I use that particular thread/fabric again, I don't have to spend all that time fooling around adjusting. I store the cards in an old recipe box close to my machine. My last hint would be if your machine is new, take time to write your factory settings on a piece of masking tape or blue painters tape and attach it to your machine. That way if it gets all out of whack you can set it back to factory settings and it should be fairly close to perfect. I also do this when I have any machine, sewing or serger, cleaned and adjusted. Hope this helps.
I pieced my first three quilts on a serger and my machine quilter said it was the most even quilts she has machine quilted in a long time. I know that serger pieced quilts are not allowed in certain competitions but they stay together really well.
Remember, people will see your quilts long after you are gone....NOT your housework!


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Chief Justice Commends State Auditors; new Committee to examine needs and priorities
CONCORDSupreme Court Chief Justice David A. Brock said the performance report of the Judicial Branch released by state auditors today presents a balanced examination of the court system and provides court administrators with a framework for continued improvement in the fair and efficient administration of justice.
"We believe that this rigorous look at our operations has produced many valuable suggestions which we intend to consider," Brock said about the audit, which was conducted for state lawmakers by the Office of the Legislative Budget Assistant.
Following presentation of the report to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee, Brock announced that the Supreme Court has established a new "Committee on Justice System Needs and Priorities," chaired by Manchester lawyer Bruce W. Felmly, to consider the current level of court services and expected needs over the next five years. The committee will be composed of key leaders working in the state justice system, including Attorney General Peter W. Heed. They will work over the next several months to formulate strategies and make recommendations to the judicial branch for meeting challenges in the future.
"Our expectation is that this committee will provide important guidance to our administrative judges and court managers that will enhance our overall operations now and in the future," Brock said.
In commenting on the audit report, the Chief Justice noted that the judicial branch agreed, in whole or in part, with 44 of the 48 observations and recommendations made by the auditors. He noted that some of the audit findings, including increased case backlogs in the states 65 trial courts, supported the need for increased funding for the judicial branch.
"There are many excellent suggestions in the audit report. But our dedicated staff is already making an extraordinary effort to keep up with the current workload and we cannot ask them to do more without adequate resources," Brock said.
The audit pointed out that judicial branch spending increased by 20 percent over the six-year audit period, while overall state spending increased by 29 percent. If the judicial branch had kept pace with overall state spending, the appropriation for the court system in FY 2004 would have included an additional $4 million.
Associate Justice Linda S. Dalianis, who appeared before the Legislative Fiscal Committee today with LBA Audit Division Director Catherine Provencher, thanked Provencher and her staff for their even-handed approach to the process. "Our exchanges with the auditors were productive. I enjoyed the opportunity to work with them and I think our discussions were mutually beneficial," Dalianis said.
The audit took almost two years to complete and during most of that time, the auditors worked in the offices at the Administrative Office of the Courts. The Chief Justice, who commended the auditors for their highly professional approach to the project, also thanked AOC director Donald D. Goodnow, and Judicial Branch General Counsel Howard J. Zibel, for the extensive effort they made to provide the auditors with information about the judicial branch and responses to their observations.
In a letter to members of the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee, the Supreme Court said "we welcome the opportunity to give every one of those recommendations thorough and thoughtful consideration as we plan how best to use the scarce resources appropriated to the judicial branch." The letter is included in Appendix A of the audit report.
"The New Hampshire Supreme Court is committed to careful scrutiny of each of the auditors recommendations and to a process of continuous improvement in order to ensure that New Hampshire citizens enjoy the best possible access to dispute resolution services," the court said in its letter to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee.
"Some of the many recommendations that depend upon additional resources will surely find their way into our budget request for the next biennium," the letter said.
The complete LBA audit and appendices is available at www.gencourt.state.nh.us/lba/indexbudget.html.


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St. Peter With an iPad: The New Yorker Cover
The cover of the latest issue of New Yorker magazine is another classic.
Barry Blitt, the artist who did the infamous "Obama fist-bump" New Yorker cover, in this issue depicts the recently departed Steve Jobs at the Pearly Gates.
St. Peter is checking his records on an iPad. There's an app for that, apparently.
The magazine has a handful of pieces about Jobs, including James Surowiecki on how Jobs succeeded upon his return to Apple by learning to relinquish a bit of creative control and Nicholson Baker on how Jobs was the king of "making good things flow better."


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This article originally appeared in the May 8, 1973 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
D eep in the land of the sunE ach day like each other oneE very sexual encounter was lackingP erhaps it is her that is slackingT o the doctor she wentH er whole problem she spentR eached a climax—of courseO nly one thing…the sourceA ll of you will agree…Throat!T hat Deep Throat should happen to me!"
By the time the second day's worth of somber, clinical courtroom haggling over the fate of Deep Throat had rolled around, psychosexual wear and tear was beginning to take its toll on the attorney for the Prosecution. Fred Kellogg, the young but ultraserious jurist in question, was cross-examining a defense witness, Reverend Ron Mazur, a sex educator at U. Mass (and author of something called Common Sense Sex), when Kellogg began inquiring as to just what Rev. Mazur thought the "main thrust" of the film had been. The Reverend seemed a trifle surprised, but after musing on the thrust issue for a while he offered some observations about the educational value of the film as a whole. He said he found its chief merit to be that of allowing audiences "to laugh about the forbidden." Attorney Kellogg, not about to settle for that, brought up a specific instance in the film wherein two women invite countless men over for pure purposes of a good time. "Now, what about that!" Kellogg snapped triumphantly, "Would a normal girl ever do that?"
The Reverend, not purporting to know very much about normal girls, merely looked surprised. He did say that he felt certain scenes in the film had sexist overtones; but Attorney Kellogg, looking unsatisfied, pressed still further onward. "What scenes can you cite," he inquired, "that do not have the negative values of brutality, sexism, and sex without love, instead of possible educational value?" Reverend Mazur just looked weary and said, for the umpteenth time in response to essentially the same question, that the film "allows us to laugh at ourselves." But didn't Mazur think, persisted Kellogg, that the film was then guilty of foisting sexism and sexist ideas upon the public? This time Mazur sighed audibly before mustering his energies for a reply: "Since the public is rampant with sexism already, I believe not."
Hippies, Leftists, and Anarchists
That was just about the high point of the trial, at least as far as I could tell. True, I'd only been around for one out of three days' worth of testimony (last Monday), and on the previous Thursday I'd missed hearing a prosecution witness named Dr. Levin, a sociologist who claimed to be an expert in the field of underground newspapers, and sexual standards thereof. Dr. Levin, who had been studying such rags as Avatar and the Village Voice from 1957 through 1970, had concluded that the readers of those papers were primarily "hippies, leftists, and anarchists." Dr. Levin had apparently made for the high point of the prosecution's case. Their only other witnesses had been Dr. Cohen, a psychologist, and John Lord, a BU film professor and former writer for the Today show, so it was a shame to have missed Levin. Although Professor Lord, who I'd also missed, had testified about his own filmmaking credentials (he'd made a little something called "Four Days to Omaha") and his own expertise in the dirty-picture field (he had seen one other one, once, in Scottsdale, Arizona) before going on to make the point that there's never been frontal nudity shown on television (there has)—so I'm sure he must have been worth watching as well.
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The Watchmen movie trailers we've seen so far offer eye-catching insight into how Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' canonical comic will make the jump to popcorn mall fare.
But they also come somewhat overloaded with marketing hype, most notably by calling Zack Snyder a "visionary" director.
That may be going a bit far to sell a movie that needs little selling.
I interviewed Snyder for Wired magazine back when he was finishing up 300 and making preparations for Watchmen.
He is an ebullient guy and a quick study of source material, and I can report that he was committed to taking panels right from those acclaimed comics and stuffing them into his camera.
He showed me the comics, then showed me his notebooks, and the transfer was direct and deliberate. Indeed, the comics were elaborate storyboards from which the films were born.
And that is no easy feat, to be sure, but it's much easier than dreaming up such imagery and committing it to paper or cinema without anyone else's help. Given that he's been aided during his movie-making career by the unforgettable work of three shining lights of comics — 300's Frank Miller as well as Gibbons and Moore — it's a bit of a stretch to call Snyder a visionary at this stage of the game.
We're no naifs: Marketing is half the battle in selling a film. But too much marketing can lose that battle by selling short the audience.
And Watchmen, probably more than any single graphic novel in the history of comics, boasts a serious audience.
The last thing that audience wants is for a relatively new Hollywood director to take credit for the well-documented accomplishments of others.
Taking a look at the trailers for Watchmen, Snyder's bag of tricks is in good form.
He's always had a thing for exhibiting velocity and action by jumping between painstaking slow-motion and abrupt fast-forward. His grasp of CGI is capable; he never uses too much when he could use just enough. And his faithful rendering of Moore and Gibbons' panels into three dimensions is equal parts homage and inspiration. Snyder knows what is going to win over Watchmen's legion of loyalists.
But those panels belong to Moore and Gibbons, much as 300's belonged to Miller, and not to Snyder. Calling the director a "visionary" because he took some of the most famous comics in the world and literalized them in cinematic form is worse than bad marketing. It's bad faith.
The world will find out whether Snyder is a visionary after Watchmen is released, and not sooner. Even then, it will be hard to stick that landing. When Snyder creates a rich, dense world out of the corners of his own mind and commits it to film, like Darren Aronofsky or Danny Boyle or even Guillermo Del Toro, then it might be fair to call him that.
Until then, such hyperbole is just another worrisome sign — alongside Snyder's confirmation that he altered the comic's ending and Moore's dismissive opinion that the movie sounds like "regurgitated worms" — that Watchmen may not have the goods.
See also:
- Watchmen Trial Pushed as Premiere Creeps Closer
- See the Rest of the Watchmen Character Posters
- Alan Moore Will Be 'Spitting Venom All Over' Watchmen
- Doc Profiles Watchmen Creator Alan Moore
- Fans Threaten Fox Over Watchmen Lawsuit


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During the summer the first floor of Senghennydd Library has been transformed.
Three new group study rooms have been created, enabling groups of students to work together for the first time. The rooms feature new PCs, plasma screens for presentations and extra large whiteboards. Rooms can be booked in advance. Please contact the site for more information.
Both floors of the Library have been decorated and we now offer 80 study spaces all with new desks and comfortable chairs. Continuing the improvements, we have 25 newly installed open access PCs with access via Follow-me printing to new printer copiers. Laptop users can use the wireless printing service to access these facilities once they have registered their laptop. In Addition, laptop users can also use new lockers to improve security within the site.


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Nanotech 2008 Vol. 2
Nanotechnology 2008: Life Sciences, Medicine & Bio Materials - Technical Proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 2
Chapter 5: Phage Nanobiotechnology
Landscape phage probes for PC3 prostate carcinoma cells
|P.K. Jayanna, P. Deinnocentes, R.C. Bird, V.A. Petrenko
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|landscape phage, prostate cancer, drug delivery, targeting
|Cancer chemotherapy is complicated by a lack of selective drug targets. The use of liposomes as vectors for drug delivery has provided a route to selective accumulation of nanoparticles in the tumor interstitium due to EPR effect. To further enhance tumor chemotoxicity of liposomal drugs, they have to be precisely targeted to tumor receptors using tumor-specific probes. Herein, we describe the use of landscape phage libraries for deriving specific phage probes for PC3 prostate tumor cells. In our selection protocol, we used an extensive depletion regimen to rid the parent library of non-specific binders followed by four rounds of selection for each library. Phage probes bound to the surface were collected by elution with acid buffer (Eluate fraction) whereas the phage probes internalizing into the cells were collected followed by lysis of cells (Lysate fraction). The selected clones will be tested for their target binding efficiency in cell binding assays. Positive clones will be further tested for selectivity to target cells by comparing relative binding efficiencies to human skin fibroblasts, hepatocytes and hepatocarcinoma cells. The probes identified by these protocols will be studied as potential targeting ligands for liposomes and other nano-particulate drug vehicles.
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Another gameplay demo has been released of Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 title, Killzone Shadow Fall.
The demo takes place in the program Late Night with Jimmy Fallon where Jimmy and Anthony Anderson test drive PlayStation's newest technology playing the upcoming game Killzone Shadow Fall.
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