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UK digital music provider 7Digital announced today that 100% of its 4 million strong catalogue is DRM free MP3 format. All previously purchased WMA tracks will be upgraded free of charge. This is great news and reflective of the pioneering spirit of 7Digital as they try to eek out market share at the expense of the Big Apple. The bulk of Europe's 300 odd digital music services would do well to take lessons from 7Digital on how to compete. Often what happens when a single company dominates a marketplace it eventually falls foul of complacency and finds itself under multi-directional attack from niche innovators. Apple's dominance of digital music is comparable to that of Google's footprint: it continues to augment its dominance through innovation and weak competitive threat. Most other digital music providers have settled for me-too WMA stores. 7Digital hasn't.
The irony of all this though, is that DRM-free shouldn't even be an issue anymore. 18 months ago I wrote a report showing that the majority of the digital music industry (major labels included) were ready for DRM-free. I even expected (hoped) that Apple would be finally announcing DRM-free last week. Instead of empowering the flagging digital music market by granting Apple DRM-free catalogue the major labels have focused on getting Apple's competitors, such as 7Digital, stocked up with DRM-free first. Though this tactic is aimed at leveling the competitive playing field, the risk is that the effect is to weaken the most driving force of digital music and therefore the digital music market itself.
The symbiotic iTunes / iPod relationship is quite simply the pivotal factor in digital music. Making DRM free available on other stores is not going to suddenly make all those iPod owners switch. Why would they? They can get all the music they want from iTunes and it plays on their devices. In the future of course DRM-free will help balance the market should Apple lose market share. But right now it is a building stone for the future. Keeping DRM-free off iTunes is a futile gesture that hinders rather than drives the current market.
So the 7Digital announcement is a big deal but the irony is that it shouldn't be.
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Queens Park Rangers coach Harry Redknapp claims that England's players "do not know how to play football" and has called for an overhaul of the country's development system at all levels, after the U-21s crashed out of the U-21 European Championship with three straight defeats. Sky Sports says the U-21 team's struggles have been mirrored by a number of "disjointed and uninspiring showings" from the senior team recently -- which includes draws at home to Ireland and away to Brazil.
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12 reels 16mm FILM - 1939-50s home movies Philadelphia , wedding, graduation, parade. ect wish I had a projector to look at these very cool.
are 8 reels of 4" reels of 16mm color home movies from 1939 to 1950s? I can only tell you that they are in good shape I scanned a list someone made up of what was on them I hope you can read it. one of the reels were never use still unexposed don't know if it is any good.
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"Panic in Khartoum: Foreigners Shake Hands, Make Penises Disappear."
That's the headline of this article that is so bizarre you have to read it yourself. It's from the Midle East Research Institute, so I guess it's no big surprise that at the end of the article they accuse the penis melters of being Zionists.
Link via Sanskrit Boy.
Richard Burger is the author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China, an exploration of China's sexual revolution and its clash with traditional Chinese values.


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Trust in the institutions of government, business, media and NGOs has increased across the globe, reports Edelman in its latest annual Trust Barometer report. However, trust in these institutions lags among general population respondents, instead driven by the so-called "Informed Public" – college-educated 25-64-year-olds in the top income quartile who have significant media consumption and engagement in business news.
Edelman notes that this "trust inequality" has widened in recent years, reaching a 12-point gap this year when measuring average trust in the four institutions of government, business, media and NGOs. The trust gap has widened by 3 percentage points since 2012, with the disparity accelerating even more significantly (by 8% points) in the US.
Nevertheless, the general population's trust in business did increase over the 27 countries surveyed, up from 48% trust last year to 53% this year (flat at 51% in the US). Looking specifically at various sectors, the study indicates that general online population respondents are most likely to trust businesses in the technology sector to do what is right, with 74% rating technology businesses a top-4 box for trust (on a 9-point scale). That aligns with separate research which finds that:
Beyond the tech industry, trust is highest for the food & beverage industry (64%, up 1 point from 2012), CPG (61%, up 4 points); telecom (60%, up 2 points) and automotive (60%, down 2 points). Interestingly, the energy (+ 5 points to 58%) and financial services (+8 points to 51%) sectors have seen the biggest improvements over the past 5 years. The Gallup survey cited above finds that the energy sector has seen the biggest improvement in positive perception in the US since 2010.
Turning to the media landscape, the study indicates that search engines continue to outpace traditional media when it comes to trust in general news and information. Last year, traditional media ceded the top spot to search engines among Informed Publics, and the data shows that that was true also for the general population. The gap is even higher among Millennials, 66% of whom trust search engines (versus 63% of the 18+ population overall) against 58% trusting traditional media (even with the general population overall). In fact, Millennials are as likely to trust online-only media as they are to trust traditional media.
Finally, when it comes to spokespeople, technical experts are trusted the most by the general population, according to the study. Specifically, respondents were asked to rate the credibility of information they heard about a company when coming from a range of different spokespeople. The top 3 were:
The biggest increase in credibility came for CEOs, who were deemed credible by 49% of respondents this year, up from 41% last year. In order to build trust in CEOs, respondents indicated that the following types of information are important:
About the Data: The 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer was fielded among 32,200 general population respondents across 28 countries, 6,200 of whom qualified as "Informed Public." The markets covered were: China; India; UAE; Mexico; Singapore; Indonesia; US; Australia; Canada; Netherlands; Colombia; Brazil; Italy; Malaysia; UK; France; South Africa; Argentina; Spain; Hong Kong; Germany; South Korea; Ireland; Turkey; Sweden; Poland; Russia; and Japan. There were 1,150 respondents (18+) per country.
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Celebrating Black History Month
I Got a Home in Barack, a musically illustrated talk exploring Africans' resistance to white domination over the centuries, and their eventual triumph (symbolically at least) with the election and inauguration of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America, written and performed by Nigerian-born British actor/singer Tayo Aluko, with Louis Magor at the piano. Tickets $15-$20.
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1960s National Bluegrass 35. These have a Res-O-Glass body. We don't see them too often. Seller states this guitar is near mint with OHSC, tags, strap etc. It has been stored for 40 years. We have never seen anyone play Bluegrass on one of these, but we could certainly think of some other stuff to play on it. Excellent pictures and description here. Cool in Spades.
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Version Festival 15: 100 Watts
April 23 to May 3, 2015
Information from versionfest.org website
For the past 14 years Version Festival has introduced innovative projects that tackle local social and urban issues. The festival highlights projects and people that engage public interest and promote the cultural use of public space.
In December, 2014 the FCC granted the Public Media Institute, our nonprofit arts organization, a license to build a low-power FM station to serve our community and up to 1.7 million Chicago listeners. We are calling it WLPN or Lumpen Radio. It is broadcasting live on the internet and will be on the airwaves at 105.5 FM once we finish building our studio, buy equipment and lease our tower. It's our most ambitious project to date and we need you to join us and help us build it.
This year VERSION FESTIVAL'S theme is 100 WATTS, the strength of our new Low Power FM Radio Station that we are building right now. VERSION FESTIVAL 15 : 100 WATTS will be an on-air laboratory and campaign to create the kind of radio station we believe our city needs. Lumpen Radio will be a conduit for musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists, and instigators from Chicago and around the world, and our festival will serve as a beta test for producing and experiencing these essential sounds, ideas, and programs.
In addition we will transform our gallery, the Co-Prosperity Sphere, into a studio for recording and broadcasting live events and programming. We will also record and broadcast live music, performance, and spaces throughout the city.
We have joined forces with local radio producers, audio alchemists, activists, DJs, podcasters, record labels, bands, storytellers, spoken word artists, time travelers, poets, librarians, art critics, educators, performance artists, and sound editors to present our Version of what a radio station should look and sound like.
The Lumpen Field Guide to Chicago Jagoffs
Issue #124
Lumpen Field Guide to Chicago Jagoffs. Contributors from across Chicago craeated entries about the people, places, and practices (past and present) that constitute representative jagoffery.
The Guide was edited by Bill Savage and Paul Durica who crowd sourced contributions from across the city.
Contributors include: Randy Bushwa, Chris Brotherton, Jerry Boyle, Joe Bryl, Andrés Carrasquillo, Paul Dailing, Amy Beth Danzer, Charlie Davis, John Dudas, Paul Durica, Marc Fischer, V. Francone, Amy Friedman, Pawel Grajnert, Honna Eichler George, Peter Hand, Ed Herrmann, Hugh Iglarsh, Nick Jaeger, Yana Kunichoff, Matt Lauritzen, Carol LaChapelle, Ian Morris, Jarrett Neal, Max Norton, Robert O'Connor, LuAnn Paladino, Joseph S. Pete, Christopher Peterson, Rachel, Greg Salustro, Dmitry Samarov, Bill Savage, Tom Schneider, Christopher Sholes, John Shuster, August Spies, W.R. Logan Sq. , Jamie Trecker, Vincent Truman, Katharine Uhrich, Shanna van Volt, Sam Weiner, Julie Welsh, Mary Zerkel and others.
Comics by: Andy Burkholder, Ben Marcus, Danielle Chenette, Eddy Rivera, George Porteus, Nate Beaty, Sarah Leitten, Grant Reynolds, Kevein Budnik, Krystal Difronzio, Mike Carretta and Nate McDonough.
This is our "Makers" edition of the magazine and focuses on the work of some rad local small manufacturers, artists and artisans.
The issue features interviews with: Angela Venarchik, Johnny Wator (Daredevil Pedals), Julie Ghatan, Doug Kaplan & Max Allison of Hausu Mountain, Kelsey Dalton & Andrew McClellan of Heart & Bone Signs, Dusan Katić of Katić Breads, Coyote DeGroot of Labrabbit Optics, Dave Rand of Local Foods, John Taylor Wallace & Emily Moorhead of Metal Magic Interiors, Nancy Klehm of The Ground Rules, Pablo Ramirez of Pilsen Outpost, Jes Skolnik of Pure Joy, Dan Salls of The Salsa Truck, Shirley Kienitz & Jenny Stadler Wolfbait & B-Girls, Marie Akerman of Working Bikes and Blake Sloane formerly of Rebuilding Exchange.
Lumpen #123 also features the usual world class comic art you expect from us including work by: Andy Burkholder, Ben Bertin, Ben Marcus, Danielle Chenette, David Alvarado, Eric Rivera, Grant Reynolds, Jason T Miles, Joe Tallarico, Krystal DiFornzo Leslie Wiebeler, Nate Beaty and Sarah Leitten.
Lumpen Issue 122
This is the second All Comics Issue of Lumpen magazine. Edited by Joe Tallerico, this edition features an international sampling of some of the best comic artists on the planet.
Contributors to Lumpen Magazine issue 122 include: David Alvarado, Max Bare, Nate Beaty, Ben Bertin, Michiel Budel, Kevin Budnik, Andy Burkholder, Jessica Campbell, Danielle Chenette, Ryan Travis Christian, Jo Dery, Krystal Difronzo, Nick Drnaso, Edie Fake, Leif Goldberg, Anna Haifisch, Sean Hernandez, Keith Herzik, Juliacks, Bret Koontz, Blaise Larmee, Sara Lietten, Ben Marcus & Nicole Ginelli, Marieke McClendon, Ian Mcduffie, Bernie McGovern, Lane Milburn, Jason T Miles, Max Morris, Onsmith, Paul Nudd, George Porteus, Eric Rivera, Otto Splotch, Joe Tallarico, Mike Taylor, Jeremy Tinder, Carrie Vinarsky, Leslie Weibeler, Lale Westvind
Version Festival 14: The Placemakers ( June 2014)
The 13th annual edition of Version festival investigated the intersections of creative placemaking, tactical urbanism and social practice. Visit Version Festival's website.
Typeforce 5
PMI along with Firebelly Design is produced the fifth annual exhibition of Typographic All Stars. The juried show opened Februray 28, 2014. Highlights of past shows can be seen here>
Chicago Street Art: Paint, Paste, Sticker
(Winter 2014)
Public Media Institute published the catalog for the Chicago Cultural Center's recent survey of Chicago Street Art.
Proximity 011: The Art and Food Issue (Fall 2013)
We published the potluck edition of Proximity Magazine Number 11, wherein we investigate the intersections of art, food, politics and social practice. We are following our noses and inhaling the increasing preoccupation of food being used in contemporary art. Our engagement with projects that have inspired us in recent editions of Proximity, Version Festivals and MDW fairs, and romps throughout our city's art ecology has lead us to this inevitable feast. And of course the increasing collaboration between chefs and brewers with community groups and social causes has given us a pause to further consider this blossoming movement of culinary social art practice.
Spontaneous Interventions
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Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good features 84 urban interventions initiated by architects, designers, planners, artists and everyday citizens that bring positive change to neighborhoods and cities.
Spontaneous Interventions is devoted to the growing movement of architects, designers, artists, and everyday citizens acting on their own initiative to bring improvements to the urban realm, creating new opportunities and amenities for the public. The exhibition received over 178,000 visitors in Venice, and earned a Special Mention from the Golden Lion jury, the first time the United States has been honored in the history of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Version ⑬ An Urban Operating System
(June 14- 22, 2013)
Since 2001 Public Media Institute's Version Festival has introduced innovative projects that tackle local social and urban issues. The festival highlights projects and people that engage public interest and promote the cultural use of public space.
For Version Festival 13 we launched An Urban Operating System. The Urban OS celebrates the energy and imagination of people who make the city a better place to live, work and play in. During the festival we examined projects that serve the common good, and connect us to services that everyone can use in our neighborhoods. These socially engaged projects promote the cultural use of public space and demonstrate innovative forms for funding ideas and actions.
An Urban Operating System is an ongoing campaign by the Public Media Institute to examine applications and ideas promoting opportunities for renewing our public space. Visit Versionfest.org and Public Media Institute for more information.
Typeforce 4: Showcase of Typographic All-stars
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In conjunction with Firebelly, PMI hosted our 4th annual showcase of art and design at our gallery, The Co-Prosperity Sphere. Over 4o artists from around the world took part in the exhibition. Over 1,000 members of the art and design community attended the event.
SMALL is Ordinary Shop
From October 15, 2012 through January 1, 2013 The Small Manufacturing Alliance (SMALL), a project of the Public Media Institute, created the SMALL is Ordinary Shop. The Shop was part of the Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary exhibition which took place in the Chicago Cultural Center. The Shop was be located on the first floor, re-imagining the former Cultural Center gift shop. Over 150 local boutique manufacturers had their products represented and sold at the Shop.
The SMALL Showroom
The SMALL Showroom was launched May 2012 during Version Festival 12 at the Co-Prosperity Sphere (3219 S Morgan Street) in Chicago. SMALL Showroom is a nomadic shop created to launch awareness of SMALL members' products and services. Think of it as the People's Macy's. Public Media Institute helped launch SMALL with financial and operational support.
Version Festival 12: Bridgeport The Community of the Future
Each year we produce Version Festival. It is an annual arts festival that intersects, art, activism, social practice, urban development and design. In May 2012, Version festival created twelve pop-up store front projects and businesses which formed the basis of a neighborhood-wide social intervention. The spaces were open from a month, projects ranged included an artisanal donut shop, a record store, a bookstore, a new art gallery to the SMALL shop. This year's festival features over 500 participants and reached over 8,000 attendees.
Public Media Institute Research Library
The PMI Research Library is a collection of art, architecture and design periodicals . The library is a site of interaction and research for individuals interested in hard to find and unique publications. PMIRL was created to establish a dialogue about new urbanism, contemporary art, and graphic design in Chicago.
Printervention debuted in Chicago in the Spring of 2010 as part of the annual arts festival Version Festival.
Printervention underscores the necessity for the support of artists and the idea of civic responsibility to the greater society. Inspired by the Depression era's Works Progress Administration (WPA) that hired artists to make murals, posters and other art for the everyday, Printerventionists are asked to recreate that era's style of communication.
The inaugural exhibition featured over 70 posters and prints by artists from around the US who created work inspired by the WPA of the 30s. The exhibition included a mobile silkscreen cart, public art installations, as well as workshops, demonstrations and collaborations at the Chicago Tourism Center Gallery.
Typeforce is the annual showcase of emerging typographic artists that takes place at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. It is the only typographical art and design showcase in the midwest.


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They are dishonest. Their view of the truth is based upon their upper management being lawyers. To lawyers, the truth is whatever you can convince a jury it is.
When CR does testing and reports the results, they are worth listening to. Unfortunately they do no real tests on cars. They may have somebody drive them around and make comments but there are better places to get that sort of information. Their feedback is so limited (above average, what does that mean? How does it compare to a smaller or larger vehicle? What if the owner loves his vehicle and considers a trip to the dealer a month acceptable? What if that is not acceptable to you? CR is just not a good source of information. As you can probably tell, the thing that bothers me most is I do not think they are honest.
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Overcoming America / America Overcoming
Can We Survive Modernity?
Stephen C. Rowe
Overcoming America / America Overcoming
, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world. He points to a way out of this current and potentially fatal malaise: join other societies which are also struggling to move beyond the modern and consciously reappropriate those elements of tradition which have to do with cultivation of the mature human being. To avoid fundamentalism, Rowe discusses how this reappropriation must be undertaken in dialogue with those who also have come to recognize the unsustainable quality of the modern lifeway, and who have been able to live beyond the nihilistic wish to tear it down. This book supports the call for an emerging global ethic and spirituality, providing resources of articulation and interpretation that allow for an ongoing dialogue between traditional and modern values—both worthy and problematic in their own ways—through which reliable policy and healthy living become possible.
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Foreword: Martin E. Marty
Part I America and the Problem of Modernity
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Chapter 2 Ideologues, Nihilists, and the Depressed — and Relationalists
Chapter 3 Moral Disease and Nothingness:
Chapter 4 Nothingness and Gift: Eleven Glimpses
Part II Relational Worldview
Chapter 5 Reappropriating Tradition
Chapter 6 Dialogue as Democratic Possibility: Reappropriating the Modern
Chapter 7 What We Can Learn From/With China
Chapter 8 Dialogue, Development, and Pluralism
Part III Reviving Civic Virtue
Chapter 9 A Liberal Confession
Chapter 10 American Clash and Revival
Chapter 11 Pragmatism Revisited
Chapter 12 Democratic Life, American Hope: A Meditation on/from the Practical Turn
Chapter 13 Liberal Education as Democratic Practice
Conclusion: Democracy Somewhere
Stephen Rowe is my favorite commentator on American culture, doing so with great nuance. In Overcoming America he has sought the deepest level of the malaise gripping our nation and found it in the dominant "worldview." The book arises from the richness of Rowe's own dialogical life-experience, especially with American liberal education and the revival of traditional Chinese culture.
John B. Cobb Jr., author of Spiritual Bankruptcy: A Prophetic Call to Action
Stephen Rowe launches a powerful argument for the need to aufheben ("negate-and-uplift") the modern and to construct a relational America. Engaging and refreshing. An excellent example of how comparative philosophy is relevant to the real world.
Chenyang Li, author of The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy
In this intriguing new book, Stephen Rowe exemplifies the key democratic, educational, moral arts he invites us to understand, to value, to practice. Honestly, caringly, respectfully he invites us to think with him as he lays out the complex weave of analysis, understanding, and hopeful prescriptions on which he has worked for many years. It is a rich conversation we enter, then, with a thinking friend who cares a great deal about our troubled, troubling world. It is also a call to action, but, crucially, Rowe believes that, if we do not also and always keep working on understanding rightly, and truly with equal others, our best-intentioned actions can perpetuate the very harms we want to remedy.
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This book should go far to establish Rowe as the contemporary American social critic who has inherited the mantle of Christopher Lasch. Rowe continues Lasch's trenchant observations of the sickness of our times, sounds the prophetic call to conversion for the sake of the true American promise, and carries the reader forward with strong, clear, well chosen words and convincing argument. The text reads as if it were spoken onto the page and the reader hears it as much as sees it. Rowe has created a style of writing most fitting for our "post-traditional" era, and a message which, as he confesses in the book's first sentence, is "urgent, large, and a bit wild." And also intimate, engaged, conversational, reflective, personal, anecdotal. Rowe brings his first-hand experience with inter-cultural dialogue, and in depth knowledge of Chinese culture, as well as his life-long devotion to liberal education as a way for citizens in a democracy to grow morally and spiritually together, to the contemporary public conversation he so celebrates and augments in this book.
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My company had it's annual meeting yesterday, and we went over the usual stuff.
Here is the oddly humorous yet disturbing/annoying part.
At 7:30 am, we were informed that there was an incident at one of our job sites where a driver, who was irritated with the slow traffic on the highway and a closed exit ramp, opted to drive by the flagger through the coned off section to use the closed exit ramp.
Evidently the driver narrowly missed the flagger and got a traffic/criminal ticket along the lines of reckless endangerment.
We were informed that this driver is extremely upset about the whole incident and has made threats of retaliation against the company, ergo we were told to be cautious and extremely aware of anybody odd at this particular job site.
At 8:00 our safety manager gets up to make her speech about safety and workplace violence and our "No Weapons" policy. As usual, no guns, no knives (caveat - the smaller pocket knives are a tool unless the person with the knife has intent to cause harm :22a: ).
So, here we sit. Informed that there is some random guy who blames us for his stupidity, has made threats against us, and followed up with the policy that we are not allowed to have any weapons of any kind.
I am a mechanic. I carry nothing but tools, some of which are specialty tools that are intended for very specific uses (19mm fuel line socket, form bent wrench for 1 air compressor mounting bolt, sidearm :hand10: ), and Personal Protective Equipment - PPE (gloves, steel toe boots, safety glasses, brain bucket, sidearm...).
After that meeting, more than ever I have my personal justification for carrying at work and risking loss of my employment for violating company policy vs. my ability to defend myself while at work.
More often than not, I am working alone in an isolated area, and at this particular job site, at night. Let me think...Lower risk of being terminated...Ability to defend my self against threats against me...Hmmmm


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Phillies-Reds suspended in 9th
The Phillies' slump brought them to a new point of futility -- a scoreless game that gets carried over to the next day.
The Phillies and Cincinnati Reds managed only two singles apiece on Tuesday night, staying scoreless until their game was suspended because of heavy rain in the middle of the ninth inning.
The game will be picked up at the same point on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., before the teams play the finale of their series no earlier than 7:10 p.m.
"We haven't hit on this road trip," manager Charlie Manuel said. "Right now, we're hanging on a zero. We'll see if we can beat it tomorrow."
The Phillies have scored three or fewer runs in each of their four-plus games on the trip so far, wasting a lot of good pitching. Their starters have thrown at least six innings while allowing two earned runs or less in each of the last seven games.
"It is frustrating," said outfielder Laynce Nix, who made a run-saving catch to snuff out one of the few scoring opportunities. "We've had chances and we have to come through. It's a long season, so there's going to be times when that happens."
Phillies reliever Phillippe Aumontwas warming up to start the bottom of the ninth when heavy rain prompted the umpires to call for the tarp. They decided to suspend it after 43 minutes with more rain headed for the area.
Aumont will have to face at least one batter. Shortstop Zack Cozart-- who had one of Cincinnati's two hits -- was due up.
The lack of offense has prevented the Phillies from putting together good streak and wasted a lot of solid starts.
"It's seven quality starts in a row but at the same time, we need to get them some runs," Manuel said. "We've got to get our game together."
Left-hander Aroldis Chapmanpitched the top of the ninth and retired the three Phillies he faced. Chapman has allowed only three hits and no runs in his eight appearances. He has fanned 13 in 7 1/3 innings.
Reds manager Dusty Baker declined to say who would follow Chapman to the mound if the game goes extra innings.
"It'll be strange getting the first at-bat at home," Baker said. "I hope we win it before we get there (the 10th inning). It doesn't matter. They've got the heart of their lineup coming up. We're starting off even."
Pitchers dominated on a rainy night. A storm moved through after both teams finished batting practice and delayed the start of the game by 1 hour, 20 minutes. Rain returned intermittently and became steady in the fifth inning, then heavy in the ninth.
Philadelphia's Kyle Kendrick and Cincinnati's Homer Baileywere stingy, allowing a pair of singles apiece before leaving. They got strikeouts and let their infielders do the rest of the work.
It was a virtual day off for the outfielders, with a total of only four fly outs through the first six innings.
Bailey gave up two singles, didn't walk a batter and matched his career high with 10 strikeouts, the fourth time he's reached the number. He also fanned 10 during his 1-0 no-hitter in Pittsburgh on Sept. 28.
Kendrick left after seven innings, having allowed two singles and two walks. Nix made a diving catch of Joey Votto's liner in right field in the third inning with a runner aboard, saving a run.
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Published: 12.27.2007
Tract homes may land on preservation list
Post-World War II subdivisions could qualify
Tucson CitizenAlfredo Rendon (top) and his wife Olga Rendon have lived in the same house in Tierra del Sol since 1957. Their East Side neighborhood is flush with Tucson ranch homes, an architectural style marked by very low-pitched roofs and red brick exterior walls.
A recent tally of local neighborhoods confirms what southern Arizonans have been shouting from the rooftops for decades: Tucson is not another Phoenix.
Though both cities sprouted sizable stretches of tract housing in the decades after World War II, the way Tucson grew and the homes built here - about 66,000 from 1945-73 - are very different from our larger neighbor to the north, according to a study commissioned by the city.
The Old Pueblo grew in smaller chunks than the Valley, and our mountain views and local brickworks sparked a distinct style of home - the Tucson ranch. The inventory of 304 neighborhoods built from 1945-73 is on the first cut of post-World War II subdivisions that could qualify for the National Register of Historic Places, said Marty McCune, city historic preservation officer.
The list was culled from just more than 800 neighborhoods started during the study period.
"There are just so many of these neighborhoods that we have to have a way of weeding out the ones that clearly are not going to be eligible," she said.
The study lays the groundwork for comparing Tucson neighborhoods - a key to deciding which to nominate as historic districts, which would likely increase property values and could net homeowners a 50 percent property tax break if they agree to limit remodeling.
Echo of baby boom
Tucson's post-World War II housing explosion matched the nation's. Veterans needed homes for the baby boom, which was springing up so fast that traditional, one-at-a-time construction couldn't keep pace, said preservation specialist R. Brooks Jeffery, associate dean of the University of Arizona College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
"Like the rest of the nation, we had a pent-up demand," he said.
The answer was production building, in which neighborhoods could be built assembly-line style, Jeffery said.
But Tucson had smaller lenders than Phoenix, and many developers here were small-time operators - often married couples developing just a few acres - which helped make Tucson's production scale smaller than the Valley's in the post-war years, the study shows.
A similar report shows Scottsdale's 103 post-war neighborhoods averaged 146 homes each while here the average was 83 homes.
Tucson's water situation also forced smaller neighborhoods. Phoenix's valleywide water system allowed broad-ranging developments with thousands of homes and dozens of plats, or chunks local governments approved one by one. Tucson had no valleywide water system, said Deborah Edge Abele, president of Akros, the Tempe consulting firm that got $57,000 to do the study.
"Everybody kind of had to find water on their own, and that created a very different pattern," Abele said.
Developers here often filed just one or two plats for small neighborhoods that could rely on wells or small private water companies, she said.
The city bought many of those companies and made them part of Tucson Water, but the Halcyon Acres Water Users Association, created in the early 1950s to serve the neighborhood on the northeast corner of Camino Seco and 22nd Street, still serves 77 customers.
Another difference between Tucson and Phoenix was in materials. Because of the Tucson Pressed Brick Co., which used clay common under Tucson but not common under Phoenix, builders here used red brick while Phoenix builders used slump or cinder block, Abele said.
This red brick and very low-pitched roofs are key features of the Tucson ranch. The low roofs were designed to provide views of the Santa Catalina and Rincon mountains, Abele said.
"You could sell a view to everyone in the neighborhood," she said.
Are they really historic?
Tierra del Sol, which stretches from Wilmot Road to Kolb Road and from 22nd Street to Golf Links Road, is the largest neighborhood to make the first cut in the study. The middle-class subdivision is full of Tucson ranches built in the 1950s.
Alfredo Rendon, an electronics supervisor retired from Hughes Aircraft Corp., and his wife Olga, a housewife, built their Tucson ranch in the 6600 block of East Calle Luna in 1957. They paid about $9,000 for the three-bedroom, one-bath home where they still live.
They never thought about whether their neighborhood with curving streets lined with ranch house after ranch house is historic. But they would welcome the 50 percent property tax reduction the move could offer.
"If they're willing to drop the valuation, then, yeah, I'm interested," Alfredo Rendon said.
There should be little concern that thousands of new tax breaks could deplete local government coffers, said state preservation officer James Garrison.
About 14,000 of Tucson's 117,000 homes are in historic districts, with 5,000 more in the pipeline in eight neighborhoods trying to get on the register.
But only about a third of eligible homeowners apply for the tax break, and increased property values would help offset the tax losses, Garrison said.
Some might scoff at the idea that neighborhoods built as late as the 1970s are historic, he said.
"It's just a sea of mass production. I have talked to architects who believe none of that construction should be eligible (for the National Register)," Garrison said.
Retired Air Force Master Sgt. James Carr bought his house in Tierra del Sol in 1969. Since then he has added a brick family room, enclosed the single carport and added a double carport. The changes could make it tough to qualify as a "contributing property," a requirement to get the tax break, but Carr never thought his house was historic anyway.
"I think more of downtown Tucson," Carr said.
But attitudes can change. Decades ago many people didn't think the millions of bungalows that sprang up across the nation in the first half of the 20th century were historic. Thousands of those homes are now on the National Register and are popular with younger people, Garrison said.
"Just because we haven't warmed up to the mass-produced housing doesn't mean people in the next generation won't want to live in it," he said.
More study needed
Jeffery had hoped to see Abele's top picks for National Register consideration, but McCune never expected that. The survey is not a final product; it's a starting point for weeding out neighborhoods that are not eligible. More study is likely in the coming year, she said.
Abele didn't want her picks to influence Tucson's decision on which neighborhoods to nominate for the National Register.
"The community needs to decide, not me," she said.
Abele recommends the city create a committee to guide further winnowing. Because of the large number of homes and neighborhoods, she suggests eliminating neighborhoods that meet only one of the four National Park Service criteria for inclusion. The Park Service requires that one criterion be met.
The study might allow Tucson to lump neighborhoods together for the nomination process. Phoenix is doing that with 10 neighborhoods, McCune said.
"In the next few months we need to decide which direction we're going to go," she said.


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Plumage aplenty: fossil found of 'four-winged' feathered dinosaur
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was built sort of like a biplane but probably did not fly as well, if at all.
Scientists on Tuesday described a fossil of a strange dinosaur that lived in China 125 million years ago which was covered in feathers, looked like it had two sets of wings and may have been able to glide.
The meat-eating creature, called Changyuraptor yangi, had exceptionally long tail feathers, the longest feathers of any dinosaur, at one foot in length (30 cm). It had feather-covered forelimbs akin to wings as well as legs covered in feathers in a way that gave the appearance of a second set of wings.
Changyuraptor is not considered a bird but rather a very bird-like dinosaur. It illustrates that it is not always easy to tell what is and is not a bird. It measured a bit more than 4 feet long (1.3 meters) and weighed roughly 9 pounds (4 kg).
If a person saw Changyuraptor, the reaction likely would be: "Hey! That is a weird-looking bird," according to paleontologist Alan Turner of Stony Brook University in New York, one of the researchers.
"So, think a mid-sized turkey with a very long tail," Turner added.
Scientists have identified a handful of these 'four-winged' dinosaurs, known as microraptorines. Changyuraptor is the largest.
Birds arose from small, feathered dinosaurs. Crow-sized Archaeopteryx, which lived about 150 million years ago, is considered the earliest known bird. But many dinosaurs before and after that had feathers and other bird-like characteristics. Continued...


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text: Torture charges dropped against Jackson County man By Travis Crum August 19, 2013 Story Share The Associated Press Peter and Stephanie Lizon stand with their newborn daughter, Bozena, outside the Jackson County Courthouse on Monday. A judge dismissed charges against Peter Lizon stemming from accusations that he had tortured his wife for years. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A judge dismissed charges Monday against a Jackson County man accused of torturing his wife for more than a decade.Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Evans dropped three counts of wanton endangerment and three counts of domestic battery against Peter Lizon, 39.Evans dismissed the case without prejudice, meaning a special prosecutor could reintroduce charges if new evidence is found.Mason County Prosecuting Attorney Craig Tatterson, who was appointed to the case as a special prosecutor last month, filed a motion to dismiss the case because of a lack of admissible evidence during trial. Tatterson said the case relied heavily on hearsay evidence.The case was sparked by comments that Lizon's wife, Stephanie, allegedly made to another woman at an emergency shelter in Parkersburg. In June 2012, police accused Peter Lizon of chaining up his wife and abusing her for more than a decade at their farm in Leroy.The couple is looking forward to moving on with their lives, said Michael Hissam, Lizon's attorney, after Monday's hearing. Lizon previously told the Gazette that he is focused on regaining custody of his 2-year-old son, who is the care of Stephanie Lizon's parents in Virginia.He and his wife would consider whether to stay in Jackson County or not, he said. They previously lived near Washington, D.C., and in Slovakia before that.The couple celebrated the birth of their daughter last week. Peter Lizon had been under court order to stay away from his wife and son as a condition of his release on bond. Hissam said that order also was dropped Monday.Stephanie Lizon, who had been living at a motel in Ripley, can now move into a double-wide trailer on their farm, he said.On Monday, Evans agreed with Hissam's motion to dismiss and said Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Kennad Skeen should have recused himself because of a conflict of interest.Skeen recused himself last month because he had represented the Lizons in unrelated matters as a private attorney. However, Skeen didn't recuse himself until after he had presented the case against Peter Lizon to a grand jury.Reach Travis Crum at email@example.com or 304-348-5163. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Vt. senator Bernie Sanders returning to WV for health care rally 2 Protesters: 'The female body is not a spectacle' 3 Kanawha woman accused of using her disabled mother for financial gain 4 Charleston asks topless protest organizers to reschedule 5 Kanawha ambulance authority cutting budget, staff Suspect arrested in weekend West Side shooting Previous Story Pratt Elementary closed Monday by water problem Next Story


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Louis Vuitton's ad campaign has come under fire for using poor countries as the backdrop for its luxury goods
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The meerkat's autobiography is flying off the shelves, and his rival, Gio Compario, releases his Christmas single this week. But who benefits financially from these advertising spinoffs, asks Stephen Armstrong
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According to the World Health Organization:
The International Training Program of the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) seeks to decrease the burden of injury mortality and morbidity worldwide. The program has three objectives:
The International Visiting Scholars Program was established in 2004 as part of the International Training Program in Injury Research. Selected scholars are matched with a CIRP faculty member who serves as their mentor. Scholars apply for a non-immigrant visiting scholar visa and are expected to sign an agreement stating their intent to return to their home country. Scholars receive in-depth training in injury research methodology and have the opportunity to pursue research projects with the goal of publishing in U.S. peer-reviewed journals.
In order to enhance global scientific exchange, the International Training Program in Injury Research invites injury experts working in the developing world to Columbus, Ohio for academic exchanges in injury research and safety promotion.
The Center for Injury Research and Policy has established international cooperative agreements to conduct collaborative injury-related research with the following organizations:
Future plans include collaborative agreements with other organizations globally.
Research Project 1:
Sleep Patterns and Farm Work-Related Injuries Among Middle School Students in China (R49/CCR811509)
PI: Dr. Huiyun Xiang
Funded through the Colorado Injury Control Research Center by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Research Project 2:
USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project (1D43TW007257-01A2)
PIs: Dr. Lorann Stallones & Dr. Huiyun Xiang
Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (Fogarty International Center)
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Indianapolis faces heroin epidemic
Heroin is one of the most highly addictive drugs and also one of the most deadly. Indianapolis closes 2013 with at least 95 heroin-related deaths.
On the streets of Indianapolis, medics are on the front lines. They're encountering an increasing number of heroin users, who often overdose.
"It's definitely become a problem in the city," explained emergency medical technician Adrian Foster. The four-year veteran of Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services says this past year he's encountered people who have overdosed on heroin two or three times a week.
"I've even found them in a parking lot, right after the bought it shooting up with their young child in the passenger's seat," Foster said.
The drug has claimed at least 95 lives in Indianapolis in 2013 alone.
Smaller cities are also seeing a spike, including Columbus, Connersville and Greenwood. A study this year showed the number of young Hoosiers using heroin is twice the national average.
"I was at a point to where if I didn't have heroin, I couldn't function," explained Eric Gardner, a recovering addict. That was practically a lifetime ago.
"I truly believed that at 23 years old, I'm going to have to put a needle in my arm for the rest of my life or until I overdose; somebody finds me dead, a drug dealer kills me, I rob the wrong person," said Gardner, who eight years later is sober and works at Wheeler Mission's men's residential center.
"I would say nine out of then of these young men are coming to us because of opiate-heroin abuse," he explained.
One main reason: prescription drugs are harder to come by. And heroin is relatively cheap at $10 to $20 per hit. But it's so strong, and so unpredictable, it can easily cause cardiac arrest and death.
"A lot of people think of it as a recreational drug but there's not recreational aspect about it," said Foster, the EMT.
Eric now runs the same program at Wheeler Mission that saved him. He's married. He's become a minister. And now has a personal mission of turning lives around before it's too late.
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Red Sox lose AL wild card in heartbreaker
BALTIMORE – David Ortiz said there was no comparison. This was the worst and changes need to be made.
"Not even close to what happened to us in '03," said Ortiz, recalling Aaron Boone's walkoff home run against Tim Wakefield in the 2003 ALCS.
The Red Sox had just been stung by an Orioles' ninth-inning rally and hit with a double-whammy -- Tampa Bay's stunning comeback from a 7-0, eighth-inning deficit to beat the Yankees to earn the AL wild card.
BOX SCORE: Orioles 4, Red Sox 3
"We went into September nine games ahead and look where we're are right now," Ortiz said. "It can't get no worse than that. The way we were playing this month -- that's not a playoff team. Not without changes. Not how we played."
Steps away in the clubhouse, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein couldn't disagree.
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"We go 7-20 in September," Epstein said. "(If) we go 9-18, we're where we want to be. Win a third of our games? The worst team in baseball wins a third of their games. We have no excuses. We did this to ourselves."
Epstein wasn't ready to get specific minutes after Boston had been eliminated, but he indicated a complete reassessment of the organization is in order.
"If there's any silver lining from this, it's that you can't look the other way," Epstein said. "We can't deny this month happened, just because it was preceded by four months of (us) being the best team in baseball. We have to take a very close look at everything that's not right. We have to fix things and that includes the whole organization."
First baseman Adrian Gonzalez said the place to start is not with manager Terry Francona.
"You can't blame the manager who kept us on an even keel the whole time," Gonzalez said. "He did his job. Us, the players, just didn't get it done."
Epstein did mention pitching is his post-game assessment. The Red Sox didn't have enough of it down the stretch, particularly in the starting rotation.
"Pitching led the way as far as not playing well," he said.
Although Jon Lester gave the Sox six solid innings and late-season savior Alfredo Aceves and Daniel Bard managed to get the ball to closer Jonathan Papelbon with a 3-2 lead in the ninth, Papelbon couldn't slam the door Wednesday night. Two-out hits did him in.
"I think everybody in this clubhouse expected to be in the playoffs and we fell short of our goal this year," Papelbon said. "But I don't think this defines me as a player and I don't think this defines our ballclub. In my situation, I believe whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I know that for sure. I've always been one to bounce back. I'm not worried about myself or anybody else in this clubhouse.
"It's a game of inches, man. Look at the games around the league tonight. (Craig) Kimbrel and Atlanta have been great all year and things didn't go his way tonight. Things didn't go our way tonight."
Ortiz agreed, at least as far as the offseason will provide time for great reflection among Red Sox.
"Trust me, I guarantee that a lot of guys this winter are going to be thinking about what happened to us this month and we'll keep that in mind wherever we're at next year," Ortiz said.
Francona seemed every bit as stunned as his players.
"(After) the mess we got ourselves into, we needed to take care of business today and we didn't," he said.
"Every time you lose, when you go home before you're ready, it hurts. As tough as it's been this last month, we're not ready to go home."
Ready or not, the Red Sox can only dwell on their September, which according to Elias Sports Bureau was the lowest for any team that entered the month in first place.
"Massive disappointment," Epstein said. "Things went on from an injury standpoint or luck or fate or whatever you have it, but the overriding factor was just poor play. We did it to ourselves. No excuses."
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan women's gymnastics head coach Bev Plocki announced Monday (Aug. 26) that junior gymnast Brooke Parker (Lorton, Va./South County Secondary) has transferred into the program following two years at the University of Alabama.
"We're excited about the addition of Brooke Parker to our program," Plocki said. "She is a very talented young woman. It's not every day you have an upperclassman transferring into your program, but I can already tell that she'll be a tremendous fit with our team. We think she has a great deal of upside and can contribute to what we're doing here."
Parker comes to Michigan after spending the last two years with the University of Alabama. With Parker on the roster, the Crimson Tide won the 2012 national championship and finished third last season. She competed in three meets last season, scoring 9.825 on floor exercise on two occasions. Parker also competed in five meets as a freshman in 2012, three of which came as an exhibition competitor. In the classroom, she was a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree and a 2012 NACGC/W Scholastic All-American. Parker is a former Senior International Elite and trained club at Capital Gymnastics National Training Center.
She is eligible to compete this season for the Maize and Blue and will have two seasons of eligibility remaining. She is the third member of U-M's junior class, joining Annette Miele (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) and Sachi Sugiyama (Keller, Texas/Keller).
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There had not been a soccer game at Cheney Stadium in more than 35 years, and judging by the action on May 30 it was worth the wait. The Sounders U-23s, in their inaugural season after formerly existing as the Tacoma Tide, battled to a 3-3 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency, who came back from a two-goal deficit late to earn a point.
It was Vancouver that created pressure early, as the Whitecaps built a 1-0 lead in the 15th minute when Ben Fisk sent a low pass to Gagandeep Dosanjh, who drove it in from the right side. Fisk was a pest for most of the first half for the Sounders' defense, mounting several other threats that were ultimately denied.
The Sounders finally equalized in the 39th minute, as Aodhan Quinn received a pass and sent a through ball to Luis Esteves, who drove a low ball past keeper Callum Irving.
"I just saw an opening, played it through the guy's legs to Luis and he just slotted it home very well," Quinn said.
Quinn then put the Sounders up 2-1 just after halftime, stealing a ball near midfield and driving it over Irving in the 47th minute.
"I picked the ball up and then just drove at the defense. They backed off so it opened up for a shot," Quinn said. "I hit it, and luckily it went in."
The Sounders added on five minutes later, as Fernando Monge sent a through ball to Sean Okoli for a breakaway, and the Todd Beamer High School grad beat Irving with a low shot to make it 3-1.
"(Fernando) had a great tackle in the middle of the park, and it was more of just a counterattack where he slid me through," Okoli said. "Being a center forward I have to stay in between the gaps, so it opened up for me. I stayed calm and just finished it."
"At halftime we just decided to match them up. We changed our formation and went head-to-head with them," said Sounders head coach Darren Sawatzky. "Same personnel, just a different formation and I don't think they were ready for it. Our guys did well, they scored good goals."
But the Whitecaps did not fold, as Caleb Clarke won a scramble for the ball in the box in the 71st minute, moved to his right and curved a shot around Sounders keeper Doug Herrick to close to within 3-2. Herrick had a brilliant save on Dosanjh's low shot to protect the lead in the 84th minute, but Vancouver finally evened the score two minutes later. Bhupinder Jhutty's long cross from the right side found the head of Fisk – who held off Sounders defenders – in the box, and the forward nailed it into the left of goal to draw even.
"When you look at the overall season, the Vancouver Whitecaps are a team that's going to be contending in the end," Sawatzky said. "To get a win up there and a tie at home, if you'd have asked me early on I'd have said that'd be great, but I do think we gave away a couple points tonight."
The Sounders followed that up with a huge 1-0 win over the first-place Portland Timbers U-23s on June 2, as Jamael Cox's goal in stoppage time provided the dramatic victory. The Sounders, now sitting in third place with 12 points, host the Washington Crossfire at Franklin Pierce High School on June 8 at 7:30 p.m. before hosting the North Sound Seawolves on June 10 at 2 p.m.


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I don't know why I've been finding a ton of amazing book art, maybe that is the current trend for what is popular online, but I knew when I saw this that I had to share it with you!
I was raised by bibliophiles who would have had a heart attack if I defaced a book in order to create art, and to this day I have a hard time even marking in my textbooks the way my fellow students do (I only use pencil and that's only if I don't have a post-it note handy to use instead), but I have to admit that these sculptures are amazing!
Created by Guy Laramee you are going to discover amazing carved book landscapes at this site. To navigate just scroll down the page and you'll find a slew of images of the different sculptures he created and then a bit of information about the artist and his inspiration beneath the images.
I was awestruck when I saw these incredible sculptures. I can't even pick out a favorite. If you want to see more of Guy's work go check out his art site via the links in the article Biblios [1] and The Great Wall [2].
If you like these sculptures you may also want to check out some of the other art that is trending on the site like The Chromatic Typewriter [3] or The Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco [4].
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In celebration of Earth Day, Professor Carl Koval of the University of Colorado at Boulder will discuss CU's Energy Initiative on April 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Hotel Boulderado in downtown Boulder.
The talk and lunch is open to the public and is part of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association's Smart Lunch series, which features professors and their research twice a semester. The Hotel Boulderado is located at Spruce and 13th streets.
CU-Boulder's Energy Initiative aims to play a leading role in addressing the world's pressing need for innovative solutions to the challenge of renewable and sustainable energy. The initiative involves several departments and colleges on campus, including several in the basic sciences, engineering, business, law, social science and the humanities. Koval's presentation will summarize the Energy Initiative's accomplishments over the past two years and its plans for the future.
"In the 21st Century, humanity is faced with two critical challenges: meeting an increasing societal demand for energy in various forms and reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy production and use," said Koval, who is a faculty member in CU's chemistry and biochemistry department.
The event, which includes lunch and Koval's lecture, costs $20 for Alumni Association members and $25 for nonmembers. Interested persons can get more information and also may register for the luncheon online at cubuffalum.org/2008/03/12/smart-lunch-energy-initiative/.
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As readers may recall, a few months ago in Egypt thousands of people including many young men and women gathered in Tahrir Square, Cairo in order to express desire for a new nation based on human rights. They were tired of former President Mubarak's secret police, torture and imprisonment of innocent people whose only crime was to seek a nation based on law, rather than a country in which a small group had power and used those positions for self enrichment. Alas, the flowers of April, have withered on the vine of brutality. Egyptian military officials have admitted that dozens of young females who had been part of the protest movement, were not only arrested, strip searched, brutalize and subjected to "virginity tests." As one official put it: "the girls were different than your daughters or mine. These were girls who had camped out in tents with males protesting in Tahrir Square. None of them were virgins."
There is such sadness in those words. It reveals the dictatorship of Mubarak has been changed into a military regime who will draw upon the Muslim Brotherhood and seek to install a religious form of government.


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ARTUR BORUC has left the door open for a sensational return to Celtic after revealing he's on the brink of quitting Fiorentina.
But the former Hoops hero admits he's keen to play at a higher level than the SPL despite his passion for the Parkhead outfit.
The 32-year-old Polish keeper has spent two years in Serie A with the Florentines and insists he will take time to decide his next move.
He said: "I have said that when I think of Celtic I think of warmth and love.
"But at this moment I want to play in a better league and aim for the highest target.
"As for Celtic, though, I would always consider a proposal from them.
"What is really important in my life is my family and I would listen to what they have to say because I need them to be happy.
"I have enjoyed my time in Florence but it seems to me that this is not my league. I would like to go and play in a better one."


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The U.S. labor market captures the spotlight in the coming week with the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for February out on Friday morning.
Bankrate (RATE) late yesterday reported stronger-than-expected results for the 2016 third quarter and hiked its revenue guidance for 2016.
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To close my account and put my stuff elsewhere if I don't sell another track by the 31st!
It just seems so unlikely. Surely it must be a bug!?
still dead
I'm disappointed with my first full month. The end of October and start of November were great, I had 9 sales with only 4 or 5 items but now nothing for nearly 2 weeks. I'll carry on for a few more months and see what happens.
Just got a track soft rejected on Audio jungle, the reviewer liked it but says it just needs a small adjustment. Shall I wait until Monday? I don't want to waste my 10 minutes on the front page if noone buys on a weekend.
I'm on my forth day of waiting for one.
What is the situation with Thanksgiving? Do people usually take a long weekend off work?
I am thankful that it is nearly the end of November in Sweden and it hasn't snowed yet!
I've only been here 1 month, I didn't think I'd be affected but I've gone from an encouraging start with a few sales to an absolute flatline.
I'll give it until I have about 30 tracks and see how it goes. Otherwise I'm gonna haul ass outta here, I can earn more on backend elsewhere.


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