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Carry On, Sister
by Another Mother on April 25, 2011
New here?
You'll probably want to hear about how I became an accidental lactivist first. And maybe see some of the media coverage.
Over the next few weeks I'll be talking about what happened after the hoopla. My thoughts on the news coverage, what's happening with the human rights complaint, why people are sending me hate mail for breastfeeding, and more. Check back often.
When I first put up this blog, I thought maybe 30 people would read it. And I would know them all. Try almost 14,000 so far. And I definitely don't want to know them all.
Why? Because some of them are truly horrible people.
I was kicked out of a store for breastfeeding and this blog has been a great way to get my story out. It's also been truly inspiring the wonderful positive response I've received from complete strangers. Just go to my original post and read the comments.
On the other hand, there are still some people in this world who think that the best way to keep a woman quiet is to threaten her with violence. Yes, even for breastfeeding.
Now I'm not talking about the people who respectfully disagree with me. I don't actually expect the whole world to agree with me, I just expect them to respect the law.
I'm also not talking about the people who post anonymous comments on news sites. People who are so ashamed of their opinions that they can't take credit for them by using their real names can't really be taken seriously. As a friend mentioned to me, "Trolls can't help but be a disagreeable species." (Thanks S.!)
I'm talking about the people who have singled me out for personal attack.
Now I'm a pretty tough cookie (or I like to think so), but some of the comments and emails I've received have been truly awful.
Individuals have written to me in the comments of my blog to tell me I'm a "whiny feminist b%$ch". They've told me that I'm "not a lady". They've told me that I'm responsible for "the decline of traditional values." Yes, all by myself. Who knew a single breastfeeding mother could do that in one afternoon at the mall?
People have singled me out on twitter to tell me that they think breastfeeding in public is like masturbating in public.
After my story hit the news I also started getting hate email. Individuals have written to tell me they want to come to my house, and expose themselves in front of my children. And much worse.
Now I know what you're thinking… those things sound horrible, but it's not really violence, is it? Yes, it is.
The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
Threat of physical, sexual, mental harm? Check. Threats of the same against my daughters? Check. Arbitrary deprivation of liberty? Check.
Now are there worse cases of violence against women? Of course! And this blog post is not in any way intended to diminish the injustice of those instances. But there should be no cases.
And yes, don't worry I have logged and saved all the email addresses and ip addresses just in case. Though I think it's discouraging that I now have to save a file full of letters describing the violent and often sick things that individuals want to do to me and my children on my own computer.
All this for breastfeeding.
And of course the next question you probably have: "So why bother? Why go through all that?".
Because it's important. Because too many mothers have have had their human rights violated. They've been disrespected. They've been shamed. They've been threatened. How do I know? They write to me to tell me.
We live in a world where large newspapers think it is appropriate to publish columns that publicly shame breastfeeding mothers, by name.
We live in a world where journalists feel comfortable asking me directly if I staged a breastfeeding incident.
We live in a world where I can tell by the search terms that people follow to get to my website that there are some very sick people out there with some very disturbing views on breastfeeding.
I am very lucky. I am privileged enough to know my rights. I feel comfortable talking to the press. I speak two languages well enough to manoeuvre through both the media, and the Quebec human rights tribunal. I am technically savy enough to know how to use twitter and to set up a blog to tell my story.
But how much harder would it be if I were a new mother, or a young mother, or a woman of colour, or an immigrant mother, or a differently abled mother, or a single mother, or a gay mother, or a poor or homeless mother? How much easier would it be to shame me, or silence me, or threaten me?
Of all the wonderful messages of support I received, one stood out. It was from a stranger. She wrote to tell me that she had fought for the right to breastfeed her children in public 30 years ago and had hoped the fight was over. She could have been my mother. "So, Sister, carry on and know all women who know the joys of holding their babies in their arms and to their breasts support you".
In 30 years from now, one of the young mothers I'll see out there could well be my daughter and I sure as hell hope I don't have to tell her that the fight isn't over yet.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi
At least we're at the fighting stage. Next comes the winning.
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Wow… I'm ashamed to live in a society that treats women this way. I've also read some of the nasty comments left at the end of blogs, columns, etc. It's really disgusting. I've got your back, and thankfully, thousands of others do too. Thank you for standing up for what we shouldn't have to stand up for. I didn't breastfeed in public until this incident happened, actually. And now I do so, proudly. Thanks for that, too. You're just awesome to me :)
Big hugs, sister, big hugs.
Grace a des femmes comme toi, aujourd'hui, j'ai allaité mon garçon dans la serre des Papillons en Liberté. Sans recevoir un seul regard surpris, choqué ou désapprobateur…
I cannot tell you how sorry I am that you have to endure such stupidity. I think that you are a great mom, doing what all great mom's (and dads) do…taking care of your child.
Sorry that you have to fight the fight in public – you deserve better but more so does your child…after all the little one was just hungry…I hope that better days are ahead for all of us on this NON-ISSUE. (what should be that is).
I truly can't believe how horrible people are! I really don't know what else can be said!
I live in the U.S. so I probably can't sign the petition. This is just a word of support for you and your lucky baby. I'm 72 now, but when I had babies, I nursed them everywhere and I do mean everywhere. Good luck.
We all fight together and we stay strong. What some people may not realize when they send these horrible emails is that they are possibly committing a criminal offence. We have asked the government for laws to protect public breastfeeding and most times the government doesn't believe they are needed. Well you are providing the proof that it is needed 100%. If you wish to present this to our provincial government I will help you get in touch with the right people and depending on the elections May 2nd I am happy to also bring this to the federal ministers. I have sent to each of the candidates a letter asking what they intend to do to support breastfeeding mothers and to implement the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. I mentioned that millions of mothers will be asking that question on voting day when making their decision. We know it takes a village to raise a child, it also take a village to support the mother and family of that child. I am happy to be part of your village. Way to go girl!
Thank you for being strong and representing all of us who stand, not behind you, but beside you ready to fight.
I'm sorry that there are such idiots in the world…I mean how the HELL do they think babies are SUPPOSED to be fed? How did they do it back in the caveman days? Sterile plastic baggies filled with formula in plastic bottles with latex-free nipples? Sheesh!
J'ai toujours allaité mes enfants en public mais avant cet incident si une salle d'allaitement était disponible je m'y rendais pour les allaiter. Depuis cet incident, j'ai changé mes habitudes. Étant une femme de couleur (mi-noire, mi-blanche) si j'ai pu m'asseoir en avant dans l'autobus quand j'allais à l'université, fréquenter les mêmes écoles et boire dans les même abreuvoirs que les "Blancs", et si je peux m'afficher publiquement avec mon conjoint "Blanc" c'est parce qu'un jour un "Noir" s'est dit ça suffit et un mouvement de masse s'en est suivi qui a amené la Société dans laquelle je vis à évoluer. Alors depuis cet incident je me fais un devoir d'allaiter en public en dehors des salles d'allaitement qu'elles soient disponibles ou non. Aujourd'hui j'ai allaité au IKÉA sur un banc dans le corridor menant au comptoir de service (tous les bancs au service étaient pris sinon je me serais installée là) à côté d'un homme âgé et en face d'une famille avec des ados en train de manger une crème glacée. Ensuite je suis allée chez Costo et devinez quoi ma fille a encore eu faim alors je l'ai allaitée à la foire alimentaire en piquant une jasette à un homme qui attendait en ligne au comptoir de service et qui ne s'est jamais rendu compte que j'allaitais. Je le fais parce que j'espère qu'un jour mes filles auront la chance d'allaiter en public sans se poser de question ou se sentir mal à l'aise et que mon fils se sentira à l'aise que sa conjointe (s'il en a une) allaite en public et qu'en fait la Société se sente mal qu'il en fut un jour autrement…
Though I wish this was a fight no woman had to fight, I am proudly behind you and believe wholeheartedly breastfeeding, whether in public or not, is the most natural loving thing we can do for our babies. Stay strong, there are many, many women like me behind you. Our daughters will hopefully never have to endure any of this nonsense because of voices like yours.
So sad all of this is happening to you, specially because you where feeding your baby… it's ridiculous how people can react to such good values!! I support you 100%!!
Je te remercie de persévérer et d'être "le visage" des femmes qui allaitent et qui ont le droit de le faire! Je suis vraiment désolée que tu reçoives autant de désagréments et d'énergie négative. J'ose espérer que les encouragements sont beaucoup plus nombreux.
Ton histoire m'as permis d'arrêter d'être stressée et d'enfin sortir avec ma poupoune au lieu de rester cachée chez moi. Tu m'as donné du courage. Ma petite est sevrée, mais je compte bien sortir dès le début avec mes prochains enfants!
This is crazy. I am so sorry you are being subjected to yet more discrimination. You are, as you said, one tough cookie. I am one of the many mums who wrote my story of recently being kicked out of a place for breast feeding. Just four short months later, and just outside of montreal.
I am not nearly as technically savvy as you, but I've managed to hack out my story on a very basic blog page, http://www.nipblues.blogspot.com
I'm hoping to generate enough interest to do another nurse-in soon.
Thanks again for being strong enough for all of us.

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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2010 7:00 PM EST
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Update 3/30/2010: After hearing word after the launch that NVIDIA has artificially capped the GTX 400 series' double precision (FP64) performance, we asked NVIDIA for confirmation. NVIDIA has confirmed it - the GTX 400 series' FP64 performance is capped at 1/8th (12.5%) of its FP32 performance, as opposed to what the hardware natively can do of 1/2 (50%) FP32. This is a market segmentation choice - Tesla of course will not be handicapped in this manner. All of our compute benchmarks are FP32 based, so they remain unaffected by this cap.
Continuing at our look at compute performance, we're moving on to more generalized compute tasks. GPGPU has long been heralded as the next big thing for GPUs, as in the right hands at the right task they will be much faster than a CPU would be. Fermi in turn is a serious bet on GPGPU/HPC use of the GPU, as a number of architectural tweaks went in to Fermi to get the most out of it as a compute platform. The GTX 480 in turn may be targeted as a gaming product, but it has the capability to be a GPGPU powerhouse when given the right task.
The downside to GPGPU use however is that a great deal of GPGPU applications are specialized number-crunching programs for business use. The consumer side of GPGPU continues to be underrepresented, both due to a lack of obvious, high-profile tasks that would be well-suited for GPGPU use, and due to fragmentation in the marketplace due to competing APIs. OpenCL and DirectCompute will slowly solve the API issue, but there is still the matter of getting consumer orientated GPGPU applications out in the first place.
With the introduction of OpenCL last year, we were hoping by the time Fermi was launched that we would see some suitable consumer applications that would help us evaluate the compute capabilities of both AMD and NVIDIA's cards. That has yet to come to pass, so at this point we're basically left with synthetic benchmarks for doing cross-GPU comparisons. With that in mind we've run a couple of different things, but the results should be taken with a grain of salt as they don't represent any single truth about compute performance on NVIDIA or AMD's cards.
Out of our two OpenCL benchmarks, we'll start with an OpenCL implementation of an N-Queens solver from PCChen of Beyond3D. This benchmark uses OpenCL to find the number of solutions for the N-Queens problem for a board of a given size, with a time measured in seconds. For this test we use a 17x17 board, and measure the time it takes to generate all of the solutions.
This benchmark offers a distinct advantage to NVIDIA GPUs, with the GTX cards not only beating their AMD counterparts, but the GTX 285 also beating the Radeon 5870. Due to the significant underlying differences of AMD and NVIDIA's shaders, even with a common API like OpenCL the nature of the algorithm still plays a big part in the performance of the resulting code, so that may be what we're seeing here. In any case, the GTX 480 is the fastest of the GPUs by far, beating out the GTX 285 by over half the time, and coming in nearly 5 times faster than the Radeon 5870.
Our second OpenCL benchmark is a post-processing benchmark from the GPU Caps Viewer utility. Here a torus is drawn using OpenGL, and then an OpenCL shader is used to apply post-processing to the image. Here we measure the framerate of the process.
Once again the NVIDIA cards do exceptionally well here. The GTX 480 is the clear winner, while even the GTX 285 beats out both Radeon cards. This could once again be the nature of the algorithm, or it could be that the GeForce cards really are that much better at OpenCL processing. These results are going to be worth keeping in mind as real OpenCL applications eventually start arriving.
Moving on from cross-GPU benchmarks, we turn our attention to CUDA benchmarks. Better established than OpenCL, CUDA has several real GPGPU applications, with the limit being that we can't bring the Radeons in to the fold here. So we can see how much faster the GTX 480 is over the GTX 285, but not how this compares to AMD's cards.
We'll start with Badaboom, Elemental Technologies' GPU-accelerated video encoder for CUDA. Here we are encoding a 2 minute 1080i clip and measuring the framerate of the encoding process.
The performance difference with Badaboom is rather straightforward. We have twice the shaders running at similar clockspeeds, and as a result we get twice the performance. The GTX 480 encodes our test clip in a little over half the time it took the GTX 280.
Up next is a special benchmark version of Folding@Home that has added Fermi compatibility. Folding@Home is a Standford research project that simulates protein folding in order to better understand how misfolded proteins lead to diseases. It has been a poster child of GPGPU use, having been made available on GPUs as early as 2006 as a Close-To-Metal application for AMD's X1K series of GPUs. Here we're measuring the time it takes to fully process a sample work unit so that we can project how many nodes (units of work) a GPU could complete per day when running Folding@Home.
Folding@Home is the first benchmark we've seen that really showcases the compute potential for Fermi. Unlike everything else which has the GTX 480 running twice as fast as the GTX 285, the GTX 480 is a fewtimes faster than the GTX 285 when it comes to folding. Here a GTX 480 would get roughly 3.5x as much work done per day as a GTX 285. And while this is admittedly more of a business/science application than it is a home user application (even if it's home users running it), it gives us a glance at what Fermi is capable when it comes to compuete.
Last, but not least for our look at compute, we have another tech demo from NVIDIA. This one is called Design Garage, and it's a ray tracing tech demo that we first saw at CES. Ray tracing has come in to popularity as of late thanks in large part to Intel, who has been pushing the concept both as part of their CPU showcases and as part of their Larrabee project.
In turn, Design Garage is a GPU-powered ray tracing demo, which uses ray tracing to draw and illuminate a variety of cars. If you've never seen ray tracing before it looks quite good, but it's also quite resource intensive. Even with a GTX 480, with the high quality rendering mode we only get a couple of frames per second.
On a competitive note, it's interesting to see NVIDIA try to go after ray tracing since that has been Intel's thing. Certainly they don't want to let Intel run around unchecked in case ray tracing and Larrabee do take off, but at the same time it's rasterization and not ray tracing that is Intel's weak spot. At this point in time it wouldn't necessarily be a good thing for NVIDIA if ray tracing suddenly took off.
Much like the Folding@Home demo, this is one of the best compute demos for Fermi. Compared to our GTX 285, the GTX 480 is eight times faster at the task. A lot of this comes down to Fermi's redesigned cache, as ray tracing as a high rate of cache hits which help to avoid hitting up the GPU's main memory any more than necessary. Programs that benefit from Fermi's optimizations to cache, concurrency, and fast task switching apparently stand to gain the most in the move from GT200 to Fermi.
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Headfoot - Monday, March 29, 2010 - linkUnless you are an insider all of this "profitability" speculuation is just that, useless speculation.
The reason they make both companies chips is more likely due to diversification, if one company does poorly one round then they are not going to go down with them. I'd hate to make ATI chips during the 2900XT era and i'd hate to make nVidia chips during the 5800 FX era Reply
blindbox - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkI know this is going to take quite a bit of work, but can't you colour up the main cards and its competition in this review? By main cards, I mean GTX 470, 480 and 5850 and 5870. It's giving me a hard time to make comparison. I'm sure you guys did this before.. I think.
It's funny how you guys only coloured the 480. Reply
blindbox - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkI know this is going to take quite a bit of work, but can't you colour up the main cards and its competition in this review? By main cards, I mean GTX 470, 480 and 5850 and 5870. It's giving me a hard time to make comparison. I'm sure you guys did this before.. I think.
It's funny how you guys only coloured the 480. Reply
iwodo - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkIf i remember correctly Nvidia makes nearly 30- 40% of their Profits from Telsa and Quadro. However Telsa and Quadro only occupies 10% of their Total GPU volume shipment. Or 20% if we only count desktop GPU.
Which means Nvidia is selling those Perfect grade Fermi 512 Shader to the most profitable market. And they are just binning these chips to lower grade GTX 480 and GTX 470. While Fermi did not provide the explosion of HPC sales as we initially expected due to heat and power issues, but judging by pre-order numbers Nvidia still has quite a lot of orders to fulfill.
The Best thing is we get another Die Shrink in late 2010 / early 2011 to 28nm. ( It is actually ready for volume production in 3Q 2010 ). This should bring Lower Power and Heat. Hopefully the next update will get us a much better Memory Controller, with 256Bit controller and may be 6Ghz+ GDDR5 should offer enough bandwidth while getting better yield then 384Bit Controller.
Fermi may not be exciting now, but it will be in the future. Reply
swing848 - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkWe are not living in the future yet.
When the future does arrive I expect there will also be newer, better hardware. Reply
Sunburn74 - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkSo how do you guys test temps? It's not specifically stated. Are you using a case? An open bench? Using readings from a temp meter? Or system readings from catalyst or nvidia control panel? Please enlighten. It's important because people will eventually have to extrapolate your results to their personal scenarios which involve cases of various designs. 94 degrees measured inside a case is completely different from 94 degrees measured on an open bench.
Also, why are people saying all this stuff about switching sides and families? Just buy the best card available in your opinion. I mean it's not like ATI and Nvidia are feeding you guys and clothing your kids and paying your bills. They make gpus, something you plug into a case and forget about if it's working properly. I just don't get it :( Reply
Ryan Smith - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkWe're using a fully assembled and closed Thermaltake Spedo with a 120mm fan directing behind the video cards feeding them air. Temperatures are usually measured with GPU-Z unless for some reason it can't grab the temps from the driver. Reply
hybrid2d4x4 - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkThanks for elaborating on the temps as I was wondering about that myself. One other thing I'd like to know is how the VRM and RAM temps are on these cards. I'm assuming that the reported values are for just the core.
The reason I ask is that on my 4870 with aftermarket cooling and the fan set pretty low, my core always stayed well below 65, while the RAM went all the way up to 115 and VRMs up to ~100 (I have obviously increased fan speeds as the RAM temps were way too hot for my liking- they now peak at ~90) Reply
Ryan Smith - Saturday, March 27, 2010 - linkCorrect, it's just the core. We don't have VRM temp data for Fermi. I would have to see if the Everest guys know how to read it, once they add support. Reply
shiggz - Friday, March 26, 2010 - linkI just am not interested in a card with a TDP over 175W. When I upgraded from 8800gt to GTX 260 It was big jump in heat and noise and definitely at my tolerance limit during the summer months. I found myself under-clocking a card I had just bought.
175W max though a 150W is preferred @ 250$ and I am ready to buy if NVIDIA wont make it then I will switch back to ATI. Reply


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While researching, capturing and developing content as Editor of the Commercial Space Gateway, I try to more clearly define and communicate the "brand" associated with the emerging space commerce market. One definition of a good brand is a memorable image, name or phrase that "promises the value that can be delivered". A brand thus gains power in proportion to the realization of that promise. Unfortunately, many conclude now that most of the public and the Congress don't see the value that's being "delivered" by the overall space enterprise, inevitably including the commercial space subset. Considering that "NASA" is one of most famous brands in the world and the biggest organization operating in space, there must be something going on that's not so obvious.
A professional analysis of this issue titled the "American Perception of Space Exploration" suggests that "NASA does not have a branding problem; it has a communications problem, in that people do not understand the connection between the brand and its current activities". The report identifies a disconnect between the public's perception of the "promised value" and what is "delivered". Based on my recent experience, commercial space has both a branding and a related communications challenge. But, let's dig into this a bit further.
In our media-dominated world, many think that branding is essential, for the success of people, products, organizations and yes, even markets. A good brand helps create committed customers who understand and share a sense of the value in making an investment in developing, producing, or buying something. This is a significant issue since defining what's meant by "space commerce" is not easy in an environment where the standard industry codes still barely recognize "aerospace" as a category. We need to develop branding that promises clear value and ensures, that as the value emerges, it gets delivered and the benefits are communicated effectively to the customer-stakeholders.
For example, commercial human suborbital spaceflights on space planes (initially "space tourism", then "personal spaceflight") promise to dramatically lower the cost of access to the edge of space. This will provide value to adventurers who are willing to pay relatively big ticket prices at the emergence of this market. However, as the demand expands the flight rate will increase and the cost/flight will be driven down - competition will ensure that. This price shift can open the door to new customers with fewer resources including researchers who want to accompany their small experiment payloads for 3-4 minute duration multiple exposures to microgravity. This can be provided at a much lower cost than traveling to orbit on the Shuttle or to the International Space Station, sites that should be reserved for research that is sufficiently proven to warrant the larger investment. Thus the market will evolve and lead to another one, and the value proposition will expand, as well. This is the power of lower-cost space access – it is seen as a primary new market catalyst.
The overall emerging space commerce market needs access to significant business investments for new space infrastructure development, new space applications, and commercialization of many products and services. How can we effectively communicate the projected value of these investments? What would be a powerful brand definition sufficient to clarify the value to stakeholders and get them excited about this industry's potential?
As we ponder this, we should ask ourselves some questions. Do we agree that it's an appropriate strategy for space commerce to pursue both government and private sector R&D seed money while working to create a new space transportation market? How should our space commerce brand relate to more traditional space business, such as communication, navigation and positioning satellite applications? The increasingly-used brand name "NewSpace" tends to be applied to the suborbital commercial human spaceflight market. Should it be broadened to apply to entrepreneurial commercial space enterprises of any kind? If so, how can that be accomplished?
We need a memorable brand that recognizes government funding limitations as a customer, opportunities for new private sector investments and innovations, and the prime value of generating business profits and public benefits. Could we use "Bringing it Home: Commercial Benefits from Space"? What about "Space Commerce: Reaping Benefits from Space"? Or maybe "Down-To-Earth: Commercial Benefits from Space"? My last idea is "Real Space Access: Down-To-Earth Benefits". What do you think of this branding and communications issue and these branding ideas? We need your creative input and we need it now!
Branding of Space Commerce is Overdue
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While researching, capturing and developing content as Editor of the Commercial Space Gateway, I try to more clearly define and communicate the "brand" associated with the emerging space commerce market. One definition of a good brand is a memorable image, name or phrase that "promises the value that can be delivered". A brand thus gains power in proportion to the realization of that promise. Unfortunately, many conclude now that most of the public and the Congress don't see the value that's being "delivered" by the overall space enterprise, inevitably including the commercial space subset. Considering that "NASA" is one of most famous brands in the world and the biggest organization operating in space, there must be something going on that's not so obvious.
Is Branding for NewSpace Premature?
From: Eric Brachhausen, 07/05/09
This article asks a lot of good questions, for which I personally don't have the answers. But to help jiggle the kaleidoscope into a more aligned pattern, let me add some comments. First, I'd say let's reflect on history for a moment, and the use of brands. What do we know about the use of brands at the industry level in the railroad industry or the airline industry? Was there ever a promise of value that these industris as a whole made? It does not appear so. For the railroads, take a look at http://www.18xx.net/history/usslogan.htm. For airlines, check out http://www.textart.ru/database/english-advertising-slogans/airline-advertising-slogans.html. I think we can conclude that individual carriers did make attempts at brand identities for the purpose of differentiating themselves from others in the same field. These slogans don't always promise something, but they do help answer the question for potential users, "What are you about?" One of them that I recall best actually making a promise was Robert Morley for BOAC saying, "We'll take good care of you!" Once an industry has matured enough to have distinct competitors, branding can serve a useful purpose. This does not mean an industry slogan is not a good idea. But it would have to mean something positive, irrefutable, and compelling for just about everyone from any vantage point. Yet it could not be so diluted that it means nothing at all. This is a real PR challenge. I am wondering what the various airlines, for example, would find of value in a slogan for the whole industry, when the alternatives to rapid travel between continents are pretty scarce. At the current stage of development, maybe the New Space slogan should be answering the question, "Why are we doing this?" There should be an answer beyond the reason that a small number of people will be able to have an extraordinary experience. Somehow we could work in the idea that ultimately space technologies ripple through society to benefit many others. Something like "Harvesting the benefits of extreme innovation." Or "Peak performance in space brought down to earth." Once the industry is more established, then I think there will be room for brands by market sectors and brands by individual companies. And these will have to cover cargo, people, information, or whatever. Remember Fedex and their "When it absolutely, positively has to get there overnight?" There had already been hundreds of millions of accident-free passenger and cargo miles flown that enabled them to create a credible promise that separated them from the pack. Therefore, I believe that when New Space is ready, brands will materialize to satisfy our many needs.
From: Joan Vernikos, 07/03/09
I agree with Jeff that creating "brands that cater to the markets" is a more useful exercise.After all space is a place and branding it is no more inspiring than branding the ocean. NASA's most effective communication to the creativity of the commercial sector has been in spite of itself. Images of a rocket launch, the view of Earth from Earth orbit or the Moon, the scenes of astronauts cavorting apparently weightless, conjure emotions and generate ideas and possibilities, unrelated to their original purpose, that were into the commercial sectors of today.On the other hand, relatively few of the incredible technologies developed because of going into space have seen similar success.In these cases, communication to the general public in layman's language of what something can do and why it was needed in space leaving the rest to the imagination of the listener may do more than any verbal brand.In the 1960s the glare and scratching of the spacesuit visor was a huge problem. The image of an astronaut in EVA and Ted Wydeven's development of polymer coatings switched on a light in someone's brain at Foster Grant who made glasses. Communication was once more the image but also making the public aware of the problem and the solution and leaving the rest to the entrepreneur's creativity. We have been far too careful not to communicate problems. Problems whether with or without solutions grab the public's attention. Identifying brands is not unimportant. Richard's essay is significant in stimulating a most important discussion.
space brands
From: Stan Rosen, 07/02/09
I agree with Jeff. There are so many potential commercial space applications that each will have it's own identity, just as there are now many different flavors of the multi-billion-dollar commercial satcom business (FSS, MSS, BSS, mobile, broadband, etc), commercial space remote sensing, commercial space PNT (positioning, navigation, timing) services, etc. And most of this is well outside NASA's brand. The set of "NewSpace" offerings (which I assume Jeff means to define as crewed rather than robotic activities) is only a small fraction of current and potential space offerings, so that moniker doesn't seem widely useful. What is needed is to promote a broader appreciation for these potentials, both as money makers and as significant contributors to society.
A few thoughts on branding and NewSpace
From: Jeff Krukin, 07/02/09
The first thing that struck me is the quote from the above-referenced study; "NASA does not have a branding problem; it has a communications problem, in that people do not understand the connection between the brand and its current activities". A brand is a form and process of communication, and I would argue that you must first understand how you wish to be perceived, then create a brand in support of this image, and then create a communications strategy in support of this brand. In this context, if you have a branding problem, you have a communications problem, and I think NASA suffers from both, perhaps primarily because it is not the master of its fate and thus does not have absolute control over its brand and how it is perceived by the public. Regarding the use of "NewSpace" as a brand, in 2005 the Space Frontier Foundation surveyed about 20 CEO's of the companies we considered to be "NewSpace," which began with the impossible task of creating a precise definition of that term so we could decide who to survey. Some companies, like XCOR Aerospace, were obvious choices because they fit the entrepreneurial mold. Other companies, like Spacehab, were seen by some as a stretch. In some ways, defining "NewSpace" is more of an art than a science. Nevertheless, it would be useful to develop multiple brands rather than just one, since entrepreneurial space activity incorporates more than suborbital flights. In my primer "NewSpace Nation" (available at www.jeffkrukin.com in hardcopy and Kindle formats) I took what should only be a first step at defining the sectors of the NewSpace industry, which I described as: 1) Atmospheric flight 2) Suborbital transportation 3) Orbital transportation 4) Orbital destinations 5) Services, support, and the supply chain 6) Commercial spaceports At a minimum, each needs its own brand that supports its unique image and markets. Developing answers to Richard's questions is one way to begin this process. However, I think it will be more useful to create brands that cater to the markets (investors and consumers) within each sector rather than to attempt to create one big NewSpace brand. I think Richard's suggestions are good educational statements, but I'm not sure they are succinct enough to motivate investors and consumers to open their wallets.


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On behalf of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs Alumni Chapter, The Board of Directors would like to invite you to join us for our annual Urban Affairs Alumni Homecoming Reception. This annual reception provides alumni and friends the opportunity to reconnect with old friends, classmates, professors, and faculty.
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I can barely make it from Point A to Point B without tripping over my own two feet. How this guy manages to pull this off is beyond me, but it is pretty sweet!
"This guy" is British snowboarder Billy Morgan and what you're about to watch him do has never been caught on video before. Move to the 1:35 mark to see Billy do not one, not two, but three back-flips and land cleanly – despite the fact that another snowboarder ahead of him has wiped out at the base of the ramp. Billy, you are my hero!


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Suzanna Tamminen is the Director and Editor-in-Chief at Wesleyan University Press, where she has made important acquisitions in poetry, dance, and Connecticut history. She is the sponsoring editor of, among many more titles, Rae Armantrout's Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Versed, Jean Valentine's National Book Award winning collection Door in the Mountain, Liz Lerman's Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, Tomie Hahn's Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance, Jules Verne's Invasion of the Sea, Mel Goldstein's Dr. Mel's Connecticut Climate Book, and Dan DeLuca's The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend. She also oversees the dance and humanities website Accelerated Motion.
Marla Zubel, Acquisitions Editor. Marla comes to Wesleyan University Press from the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where she worked as an assistant editor and book review editor for the peer-reviewed journal Cultural Critique (University of Minnesota Press). She will soon defend her dissertation, titled, "Literary Reportage and the Poetics of Internationalism"—a comparative study of literature, print media, and documentary cinema based on a neglected archive of Eastern European cultural encounters with the Third World during the Cold War. She brings to the press an interest in transnational modernism in word, image, and sound. Her areas of acquisition include musicology, film studies, science fiction studies, and a regional Connecticut trade list.
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Senate Republicans vowed today to block all legislation in the year-end "lame duck" session until the chamber moves ahead with proposals to extend income tax cuts and fund the government, putting a handful of priorities for President Obama in danger.
"With little time left in this Congressional session, legislative scheduling should be focused on these critical priorities," according to a letter signed by all 42 members of the Republican caucus delivered to Democrats. "While there are other items that might ultimately be worthy of the Senate's attention, we cannot agree to prioritize any matters above the critical issues of funding the government and preventing a job-killing tax hike."
The move, which comes a day after congressional leaders met with Obama at the White House in an effort to find a political middle ground after the midterm election, could put a host of legislation – from immigration changes to an extension of unemployment benefits – on the back burner.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the approach "cynical." In a statement, he said, "The recent election gave Republicans more responsibility to participate in solving the problems we face, but so far they have just continued to stand on the sidelines rooting for failure."
Lawmakers are wrestling over whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for top earners. Republicans want to extend the tax cuts for everyone while Democrats want to exclude taxable income for couples exceeding $250,000.
(Posted by John Fritze)
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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The charitable donations keep coming from Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as AP reported that the couple will donate $5 million toward the $29 million cost of expanding a Silicon Valley community health center.
According to AP, the Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto, Calif., is the beneficiary of the Zuckerbergs' latest charitable endeavor. The facility is located close to Facebook's headquarters in nearby Menlo Park.
According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Zuckerbergs' donation of 18 million shares of Facebook class-A common stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation was the largest individual philanthropic donation in the U.S. in 2013.
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Carrier board for the ADuC7020 ARM processor.
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by Daniel Boulud
your pick. There's restaurant Daniel, db
bistro moderne and Café
Boulud. They're as different from each other as they
are delicious. And Daniel Boulud doesn't stop with restaurants.
He is a prolific entrepreneur with a line of cookware and
gourmet food products. Somehow, in the midst of all that,
plus television appearances and charity work, Boulud has
managed to write a stack of cookbooks, and Letters
to a Young Chef.
Dish: Entertaining at Home with a Four-Star Chef offers
a compilation of recipes from Boulud's "Elle Décor"
articles, as well as new recipes and updates. While the
dishes reflect his trademark finesse and style, they are
geared for the mainstream audience. Some of the recipes
can be time-consuming and a bit laborious, but they are
straightforward and the results are impressive.
four cocktails in the first chapter are luxurious. A classic
Bellini becomes a Berrini by way of strawberry-mint syrup.
We'd be happy to squander calories on Crème Boulud-a
cognac and Frangelico-infused vanilla custard with praline
paste. There's no fussiness in the Small Bites and Starters.
When you see the rich photographs you'll want to make everything.
The chapter includes such standards as Chicken Satays with
Spicy Peanut Sauce, Blini with Caviar, and Baked Littleneck
Clams, but there's no room for complacency. Next up is a
Melon Salad with Lemongrass Shrimp—layers of watermelon
and honeydew in a martini glass with shrimp, in a sparkling
ginger, lime and lemongrass dressing.
Fish and Shellfish chapter pays tribute to scallops, soft
shell crabs, skate, cod, swordfish and more. One minute
it's Eggplant Wrapped Swordfish with Tomato and Meyer Lemon,
the next it's Boulud's take on the New England Lobster Roll—his
Lobster Roll Sandwich. Leave it to him to improve the classic
with fennel, radishes cornichons—and line the roll with
could live on the Meat, Poultry and Side Dishes chapter
and never get bored. Daniel's Casual Cassoulet takes just
a few short hours from start to finish. You won't have to
schedule this one. There's a rosemary and orange-scented
Lamb Stew with plenty of carrots, turnips, fennel and celery
root, and an Alsatian Potato Gratin that is layered with
a surprise of carrots and Savoy cabbage. If you skip the
bacon layers (don't) there's only a tiny amount of added
fat—from some olive oil and butter. Then again, who's counting
are lovely. End your meal with the Chocolate Bread Pudding
with Dried Fruit. The bread part, by the way, is croissants.
Or the Chocolate-Ginger Pound Cake. Or the Spiced Chocolate
Soup that gets its heat from Szechuan peppercorns. If you're
not leaning toward chocolate, there's a handful of nice
choices like a Passion-Fruit Soufflé paired with
a Caramelized Pear-Passion Sauce, and an interesting composition
of Squash Panna Cotta, Cranberry Compote and Walnut Tuiles.
it would be nice to have an up-front idea of time requirements
for each recipe, Daniel's Dish does not skimp on
other details. Instructions are clear and concise. Suggestions
for beverage pairings include wines and spirits that venture
beyond the ordinary. Boulud provides four pages of menu
suggestions: Menus for Entertaining and Seasonal Menus.
The Pantry Basics and Basic Equipment for the Kitchen lists
are useful, and the Kitchen Source guide will help if you
don't have a great gourmet market nearby.
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With the big auto show in Detroit this week, we thought we should try your skills at ID-ing one of the belles of the ball from an earlier Detroit. It didn't take Onelessdemocrat long to tag this one: Mercury's XM-800 Dream Car shown at the 1954 Detroit auto show, the year of Onelessdemocrat's birth.
The extravagantly futuristic XM-800 embodies the brash techno-dreams of the 1950s, when the auto business and the USA were on a world-class roll. And Ford Motor had made a stunning comeback from postwar financial difficulty. Drive On found the expectations a lot more muted at this year's show, but there was a lot of electric techno-dreaming -- and Ford has made another financial comeback.
This big two-door hardtop (still an only-in-the-USA idea) was designed by Elwood Engle. It was sleek, clean and aerodynamic -- and remarkably restrained for that lavishly chromed era. It had a fiberglass body on a Mercury Monterey chassis and had Ford Motor's 312 cu. in V-8 and three-speed automatic. Gizmo's galore for the time, including power truck and hood. Drive On sees clear influence of the XM-800 in Ford's 1956 Lincoln. What do you think?
-- Fred Meier/Automotive Editor
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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st: Aggregating spatial units for SPMAP
Enzo Coviello <firstname.lastname@example.com>
st: Aggregating spatial units for SPMAP
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:49:06 +0100
Dear Karsten,
I had a similar problem:
1) First order region "Comuni"
2) Second order "Distretti"
3) Third order "Province"
A wonderful function -dissolve- in ArcView make easy to remove the
"within" borders.
Therefore my advice is to use ArcView and then import the new shape
files in Stata
For the future let's hope in an addition to -shp2dta-.
Dear Statalist members,
I would like to refer first to the following thread that emerged some
month earlier on statalist:
My problem is similar. I have a shapefile (coordinate file) containing
polygon coordinates about a certain type of regions (calles "kreise") in
Germany, which allows me to draw a grid of Germany that divides Germany in
just these regions. However, I am not interested in the regions themselves
but in some kind of higher order regions called "ror". Of course I also
have information about which "kreise" are part of which "ror" (just
imagine you have coordinates about the counties of the USA and based on
these coordinates you would like to get the coordinates of the federal
states, knowing which countries belong to which federal state). The data
file looks as follows (illustrative example):
ror kreise (=_ID) _Y _X
101 1 9.0468785 54.872552
101 1 9.0646343 54.871183
101 1 9.0649463 54.871159
101 1 9.090514 54.70260
101 2
101 2
101 2 some coordinates for kreise 2 & 3
101 2
101 2
101 2
102 3
102 3
So obviously, ror 101 contains kreise 1 and 2.
Based on these information, I would like to create a shapefile that draws
polygones of each ror, and ignores the "within" borders. Is there any
possibility to do so? I think there must be some way since all the
necessary information to create a map containing but the rors are at hand.
Any help or suggestion is highly appreciated.
Best regards Karsten Pfaff
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In September, personal income increased $48.1 billion, or 0.4%, and disposable personal income increased $43 billion, or 0.4%, according to the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures increased $87.9 billion, or 0.8%.
In August, personal income increased $17.8 billion, or 0.1%, DPI increased $15.1 billion, or 0.1%, and PCE increased $59.9 billion, or 0.5%, based on revised estimates, the bureau announced.
Real DPI— DPI adjusted to remove price changes— decreased less than 0.1% in September compared with a decrease of 0.3% in August, it stated.
Real PCE— PCE adjusted to remove price changes— increased 0.4% in September compared with an increase of 0.1% in August. Purchases of durable goods increased 1.3% compared with an increase of 1.5% in the month earlier. Purchases of nondurable goods increased 0.5% versus an increase of 0.4% month over month. And purchases of services increased 0.2% compared to a 0.2% August decrease, BEA noted.


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Big Data Seeks Online Love [Infographic]
Online dating purports to combine both "data" and "science" to find you that perfect match. One in 10 Americans have used a dating site or mobile app, and 23 percent have met a spouse or long-term partner through these sites. In fact, 11 percent of American couples who have been together for 10 years or less met online. It's no wonder—in addition to generic sites like Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid—the online dating world is rich with specialty sites for daters looking for a match based on a number of factors (e.g., income, biological traits, age, religion).
The industry still has a long way to go, however, especially when it comes to trust. A 2013 Pew study found that 54 percent of online daters felt someone had seriously misrepresented themselves in their profile. They're not wrong; 81 percent of online daters reported inaccurate information about their weight, height, or age. They're also apt to lie about their income and sexuality, and using out-of-date flattering photos is an all too common practice.
In this infographic, datascience@berkeley explores the past, present, and future of online dating. How do dating sites' matching algorithms work? What data do users rely on when judging prospective dates? How can you optimize your profile to find that perfect match? Join us and watch as Big Data Seeks Online Love.
In the mid-2000s, a team that included faculty from the UC Berkeley School of Information began to use large-scale data to investigate a variety of questions about romantic relationship formation in online settings.
In Data, a Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match, Amy Webb shares how her detailed analysis of the 'data' of online dating sites and trial and error experimentation with fictional accounts led to her finding the man of her dreams.
Amy Webb used data science to find love. After a difficult breakup of a relationship when she was 30, and feeling the pressure of her heavily involved family, this data geek started crunching numbers to game the online dating system in search of true love.


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6 years ago
Bug 651192 will get us to point where support multi-threaded plugin renderers, but not concurrently with the main thread because the non-main-threads proxy SetCurrent back to main. The purpose of this bug is to stop doing that. Rob and I discussed the following model - when the plugin sets the "will SetCurrent off-main-thread" flag, gecko creates a dedicated SetCurrent thread - the SetCurrent thread gets a direct channel to the browser, never blocking on plugin main thread - all SetCurrent calls from all threads are proxied to the SetCurrent thread. We can asynchronously proxy calls by copying the underlying surface, but initially it's probably easier to synchronously proxy.
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This should no longer be relevant with the new implementation of the model. SetCurrent now works fine off other threads.


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'Wrong mix' used to repave 33rd South
10/14/2013 7:50amOrange construction barrels are back on a road that was just repaved in July.
Owner helps track down stolen car; 2 suspects arrested
10/14/2013 6:34pmTwo people were arrested by police Monday for allegedly ramming one vehicle and leading officers on a short chase.
Funds intended for toddler's funeral expenses stolen from mother's purse
10/14/2013 7:38pmBryce and Trudy Nielsen's 3-year-old son, Dayton, lost his battle with cancer less than two weeks ago. The news was devastating, and to make matters worse, they recently found out the money donated to help them pay for funeral expenses was stolen.


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Indonesian police say they have arrested their most-wanted fugitive, a man believed to have an important role in terrorist activity.
Abu Tholut alias Mustofa is one of Indonesia's top wanted suspects after militant figures Noordin M. Top and Dulmatin died at the hands of police last year.
He is accused of helping set up a terror network plotting attacks on foreigners at luxury hotels in Jakarta and several high-profile assassinations, including Indonesia's president.
Investigators confirmed the man arrested Thursday is Abu Tholut on condition of anonymity because they don't have authority to talk to the media.
MetroTV and TVOne reported he was arrested during a police raid at his house in Central Java's Kudus district.


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A TEACHER is saying au revoir to her students and colleagues as she decides to retire after 37 years at Rednock School.
Marion Miller has taught French and Spanish to several generations from the Dursley area over four decades but has decided the time is right to leave.
Originally from Chester, the 60-year-old learnt her trade in Bristol before moving to Everlands in Cam 29 years ago.
The mother of Jack, 23, who was also taught languages by her at the school, and wife to Len, 60, said she had enjoyed her time at the school, especially the school trips with the students.
"It's a mixture of emotions leaving really, I am sad to say goodbye to so many nice students and friendly colleagues but looking forward to looking after my garden," she said.
"I have enjoyed being with the students the most as they are so nice and so fun and I have enjoyed helping them and watching them grow."
Mrs Miller said she had noticed the true longevity of her stay at the school when she was recognised by a former pupil who said her granddaughter now attended Rednock.
After a holiday to Canada and Alaska, she is looking forward to spending more time in the garden and her new greenhouse.
Headteacher David Alexander said the students loved Mrs Miller and he praised her achievements and for staying at the top of her game despite constant changes to the profession over 37 years.
"We had a send off on Thursday (July, 17) and I was able to say that I don't know anyone that have been in a profession for 37 years which has seen so much change and still be consistently good over that time," he said.
"Marion has kept up with the technology changes all this time, she was the queen of the cassette and now she is the queen of the internet."


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Greensburg Laurels & Lances
Lance: To dipping into the state's slush fund. With plans for an athletic, educational and cultural center, St. Vincent College wants $8 million from Pennsylvania's contemptible Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. But the college doesn't want to talk about (or otherwise defend) its request, among the many statewide that total $7 billion. Nope, the preferred protocol is to keep your mouth shut — and maybe you'll get the cash. No need to draw any attention to this pathetic system for divvying up the taxpayers' pie. It's more like a pie in the face.
Laurel: To a teacher's well-deserved lesson. The former Franklin Regional gym teacher and coach asked for leniency. What he got was five to 10 years in state prison, followed by 10 years' probation, for having a sexual relationship with a student, who was 16 at the time. Bret Anthony Thompson, 43, pleaded guilty to 46 charges. One seriously has to wonder what the so-called adults were thinking in these recurring cases. Let this one be a lesson to all.
Laurel: To the "G7" Summit. It's tough to put a precise dollar value on what's being saved in local costs by this cooperative confab, which in its fourth year brought together officials from Mt. Pleasant, Scottdale, South Connellsville, Connellsville, Everson, New Stanton and Youngwood. At the very least, leaders of these municipalities are talking to each other. And that helps sow the seeds of cooperation where few (if any) previously existed.


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AMATEUR star Georgia Hall will tomorrow aim to shake up her professional rivals once more when the Women's British Open gets under way at Royal Birkdale.
The Parkstone golfer, who finished tied-33rd in last week's European Masters at Buckinghamshire Golf Club, will be keen to follow up her success in the Open 12 months ago.
Then 17, Hall was the joint-leading amateur alongside New Zealand's Lydia Ko, although a mistake by event organisers meant she missed the prize-giving ceremony.
The Women's British Open features the top players from round the globe including defending champion Stacy Lewis, US Women's Open winner Michelle Wie and South Korea's world number three Inbee Park.
Hall, one of five amateurs in the field, is due to tee off at 7.47am alongside Shanshan Feng and Christina Kim.


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Oregon Schools Approve Levy For November Ballot
Oregon City School will place an emergency levy on November's ballot. Toledo News Now reports the school board approved putting the levy to the voters at last night's meeting. The five-year levy will collect about $2 million a year and cost $207 per year for the owner of a $100,000 home. The district says it needs the levy for operations purposes.


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BERLIN (Reuters) - One in four Germans would be set to vote in September's federal election for a party that wants to quit the euro, according to an opinion poll published on Monday that highlights German unease over the costs of the euro zone crisis.
Germany's mainstream parties remain solidly pro-euro despite grumbling over costly bailouts of Greece and others. A German taboo on nationalism, rooted in atonement for the crimes of the Nazi era, has helped to muffle eurosceptic voices.
But the poll conducted by TNS-Emnid for the weekly Focus magazine showed 26 percent of Germans would consider backing a party that wanted to take Germany out of the euro and as many as four in 10 Germans in the 40-49 age bracket would do so.
The survey, which canvassed the views of 1,007 people on March 6-7, coincides with the launch of a new party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), that calls the euro a "fatal mistake", though political analysts play down its election chances.
AfD and other German critics of the euro say it is unfair and undemocratic to expect Germany to bear the costs of other countries' economic mistakes and call for a return to the Deutschmark. "Every people should be able democratically to decide its own currency," the AfD said on its website.
Emnid chief Klaus-Peter Schoeppner said the survey results were partly a signal from conservative supporters of Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition that they expected a strong defence of German interests in Europe and would not accept any moves towards "euro bonds", a sharing of liability for euro zone debt.
"There is scope in Germany for a protest party to win two or three percent support but it would be very difficult for it to enter parliament," he told Reuters, adding that much would depend on the wider economic situation.
A political party needs to win 5 percent to get seats in Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
Despite the euro zone crisis, which has pitched southern Europe into deep recession, Germany, the region's largest economy, is faring relatively well, its exports to non-European markets are booming and unemployment is near two-decade lows.
The new eurosceptical party, the AfD, comprising mostly academics and business people, is due to hold its first meeting on Monday evening in a suburb of Frankfurt.
"Let's put an end to this euro!" reads the message on the front page of its new website at www.alternativefuer.de.
"The Federal Republic of Germany is in the deepest crisis in its history. The introduction of the euro was a fatal mistake that is threatening our prosperity. The old parties are grizzled and worn out. They are stubbornly refusing to admit their mistake and correct it," it said.
The AfD said the European Central Bank should not be allowed to buy up the debt of struggling euro zone members. It fears this could stoke inflation that will destroy the value of Germans' savings.
But previous eurosceptic parties in Germany have made little headway. One of them, the "Free Voters", have won seats in Bavaria's regional assembly but have yet to win support at the national level.
Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University, said AfD was unlikely to gather much momentum because it was effectively a single-issue party and that Germans had more pressing concerns than the fate of the euro.
"Most of those who talk about the dangers of the euro and long for a return to the Deutschmark will still vote conservative in the end. They believe Merkel will protect them, they feel safer with her than voting for a new party," he said.
Merkel's conservatives are tipped to win most votes in the September election, helped partly by her tough stance on euro zone bailouts and her insistence that heavily indebted countries embrace harsh austerity measures.
The main opposition centre-left Social Democrats and Greens have broadly backed Merkel's efforts to tackle the euro crisis.
The crisis has featured less on the front pages of German newspapers since the European Central Bank pledged last summer to buy up unlimited quantities of sovereign debt if necessary - in return for strictly binding austerity commitments - to save the European common currency.
But many Germans, including at the Bundesbank, are deeply uncomfortable with this ECB pledge and last month's inconclusive election in Italy, where anti-austerity parties performed well, has reminded Germans that the crisis is far from over.
Reporting by Gareth Jones; Editing by Noah Barkin and Mark Heinrich


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Prairie Home Companion - Jokes 1999
March 29, 1999
While driving through Minnesota farm country, a traveling salesman's car breaks down and he is left to walk for help. He happens upon a farm house with lots of activity and is approached by the farmer. While explaining his situation, the salesman notices a three-legged pig running by. The salesman asks the farmer, "How come that pig has only three legs?" The farmer replies, "That's a very special pig! That pig is very intelligent. Why one night last winter, while me and the family were asleep, the wood stove caught fire and if it weren't for that pig running through the house and waking us up, we'd all be dead! I tell you, that's a very special pig!"
Seems there was this nasty biker riding his hawg down the highway one day, when he spots a cat lying in the middle of the road. The biker thinks to himself, "I'll cut that cat in two"' and he bears down on it hard. As he gets closer, he suddenly realizes that it's not a cat, it's a large piece of metal lying in the road. Too late! His front wheel plows into it and he's sent flying over the handlebars onto the road at 80 MPH.
A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.
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Super cheap Milwaukee summer
Published Aug. 3, 2013
I don't work in the summers so money is much tighter. But I've also learned it's pretty easy to find yourself buying tickets or paying admission prices to keep the kids entertained as the season wears on. Those costs can add up quickly and they aren't really necessary if you are willing to think ahead, pack a picnic or spend some time outdoors. So far this year, we've tried a few things and here are our favorite examples of free Milwaukee fun.


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Words Spoken Quieter Than Actions by Chloe Perron
I think community art projects are the epitome of interesting creativity. To me, this is kind of like that except in your home. It's custom wallpaper with nothing but empty speech bubbles waiting to be filled in by random people. Sure, vulgarity and inappropriate things are inevitable, but it's probably worth it.


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Rio Tinto is a Portuguese city and parish, located in Gondomar Municipality, in northern Portugal. It has a population of 50 762 (2011 Census) inhabitants and a total area of 9.5 km². Rio Tinto, which in Portuguese means red river, was elevated to city status in 1995, and the city of Rio Tinto includes two parishes (freguesias): Baguim do Monte and Rio Tinto, with a total of 65,000 inhabitants, being the most populous city in Gondomar municipality, and third largest in the Greater Oporto (Grande Porto).
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June 10, 2005 Approval Letter - Adacel
Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, MD 20852-1448
June 10, 2005
Our STN: BL 125111/0
Luc Kuykens, M.D.
Aventis Pasteur Limited
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs North America
1755 Steeles Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario Canada M2R3T4
Dear Dr. Kuykens:
We have approved your Biologics License Application (BLA) for Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed effective this date. You are hereby authorized to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce, Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed, under your existing Department of Health and Human Services U.S. License No. 1280. Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed is indicated for booster immunization against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis as a single dose in individuals 11 through 64 years of age.
Under this authorization, you are approved to manufacture Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed at your facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You may label your product with the proprietary name, ADACEL. The vaccine will be marketed in 0.5 mL single dose vials.
The dating period for ADACEL vaccine shall be 36 months from the date of the manufacture of the final bulk when stored at 2- 8°C. The date of manufacture is defined as the date of final formulation of the final bulk.
Please submit final bulk samples of the product together with protocols showing results of all applicable tests. You may not distribute any lots of product until you receive a notification of release from the Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).
You must submit information to your BLA for our review and written approval under 21 CFR 601.12 for any changes in the manufacturing, testing, packaging or labeling of ADACELT vaccine, or in the manufacturing facilities.
All applications for new active ingredients, new dosage forms, new indications, new routes of administration, and new dosing regimens are required to contain an assessment of the safety and effectiveness of the product in pediatric patients unless this requirement is waived or deferred. We have reviewed your submission and agree that a waiver of pediatric studies for children 7 to less than 11 years is justified because such studies are highly impractical and because the number of eligible subjects in that age group is small and geographically dispersed. In addition, we agree that a waiver of pediatric studies for children less than 7 years of age is applicable because ADACEL vaccine does not represent a meaningful therapeutic benefit over existing therapies for pediatric subjects in this age group.
Postmarketing Studies subject to reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70
We acknowledge your written commitments as described in your letter of June 9, 2005, as outlined below:
- To conduct an open label, descriptive, epidemiological safety surveillance study that enrolls at least 10,000 adolescents (ages 11-17 inclusive) and 6,000 adults (ages 18-64 inclusive) or enrolls for one year, whichever results in the larger enrollment. The study protocol/analysis plan will be submitted by September 2005. Subject accrual will begin no later than September 2005. The final study report will be submitted 1 year after the last subject has completed the study, by November 2008.
- To complete and submit the results from the ongoing randomized, modified double-blind, comparative study evaluating safety and immunogenicity when Menactra vaccine is given concomitantly with ADACEL vaccine. This study is being conducted in approximately 1400 adolescents aged 11-17 years. The study was initiated in April 2005. The statistical analysis plan, which will include analyses for fever and pain, will be submitted by June 2006. The final study report will be submitted by December 2006.
- To submit the results from the ongoing study evaluating the duration of the antibody response at 1, 3 and 5 years post-vaccination in participants who had received a single dose of ADACEL vaccine in the pivotal trial Td506. The 1-year serology study is complete; the study report will be submitted by September 2005. The 3-year field study is complete; the study report will be submitted by December 2006. The study report for the 5-year follow up will be submitted by July 2008. An amendment to the Td506 protocol to extend follow-up to 10 years post immunization will be submitted by October 2005.
- To implement the web site for the established Pregnancy Registry by the end of August 2005.
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We request that you submit clinical protocols to your IND, with a cross-reference letter to this BLA, STN BL 125111/0. Submit nonclinical and chemistry, manufacturing, and controls protocols and all study final reports to your BLA, STN BL 125111/0. Please use the following designators to label prominently all submissions, including supplements, relating to these postmarketing study commitments as appropriate:
- Postmarketing Study Protocol
- Postmarketing Study Final Report
- Postmarketing Study Correspondence
- Annual Report on Postmarketing Studies
For each postmarketing study subject to the reporting requirements of 21 CFR 601.70, you must describe the status in an annual report on postmarketing studies for this product. The status report for each study should include:
- information to identify and describe the postmarketing commitment,
- the original schedule for the commitment,
- the status of the commitment (i.e., pending, ongoing, delayed, terminated, or submitted), and
- an explanation of the status including, for clinical studies, the patient accrual rate (i.e., number enrolled to date and the total planned enrollment).
As described in 21 CFR 601.70(e), we may publicly disclose information regarding these postmarketing studies on our Web site (http://www.fda.gov/cder/pmc/default.htm). Please refer to the April 2001 Draft Guidance for Industry: Reports on the Status of Postmarketing Studies - Implementation of Section 130 of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (see http://www.fda.gov/cber/gdlns/post040401.htm) for further information.
Adverse experience reports should be submitted in accordance with the adverse experience reporting requirements for licensed biological products (21 CFR 600.80) and distribution reports as described in 21 CFR 600.81. Under 21 CFR 600.80(c)(2) [Periodic Adverse Experience Reports], you must report each adverse experience not reported under paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section at quarterly intervals for the first 3 years following approval, and then at annual intervals. Since your product is characterized as a vaccine, submit these reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) using the pre-addressed form VAERS-1.
You must submit reports of biological product deviations under 21 CFR 600.14. You should promptly identify and investigate all manufacturing deviations, including those associated with processing, testing, packing, labeling, storage, holding and distribution. If the deviation involves a distributed product, may affect the safety, purity, or potency of the product, and meets the other criteria in the regulation, you must submit a report on Form FDA-3486 to the Director, Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, HFM-600, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448.
Please submit all final printed labeling at the time of use and include implementation information on FDA Form 356h and FDA Form 2567 as appropriate. Please provide a PDF-format electronic copy as well as original paper copies (ten for circulars and five for other labels). In addition, you may wish to submit two draft copies of the proposed introductory advertising and promotional labeling with an FDA Form 2253 to the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Advertising and Promotional Labeling Branch, HFM-602, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448. Two copies of final printed advertising and promotional labeling should be submitted at the time of initial dissemination, accompanied by a FDA Form 2253.
All promotional claims must be consistent with and not contrary to approved labeling. You should not make a comparative promotional claim or claim of superiority over other products unless you have submitted data to support such claims to us and had them approved.
Sincerely yours,
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Norman W. Baylor, Ph.D.
Office of Vaccines Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research


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Presenting a new storyline of the New York Times Best-Selling, Harvey and multiple Eisner Award-winner series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants. Tony Chu -- the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats -- is back in action, just in time to face a cult of egg-worshipping terrorists who've declared holy war on the chicken-eaters of the world.
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Tony Chu is a cop with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. It's a dirty job, and Tony has to eat terrible things in the name of justice. And if that wasn't bad enough, the government has figured out Tony Chu's secret. They have plans for him, whether he likes it or not. Presenting a twisted new series about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals and clairvoyants, written by John Layman (Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness, House of M: Fantastic Four and Puffed) with mind-blowing art by astonishing comics newcomer Rob Guillory.
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EPPA Challenges Promotional Products Restrictions For European Pharma Companies
The European Promotional Products Association (EPPA) and industry suppliers serving the European market are challenging a decision by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) to ban the use of promotional products by its members.
The EFPIA's move, which goes into effect at the start of 2014, is part of an effort by the pharmaceutical industry in Europe to improve a reputation tarnished by aggressive marketing of medication found to be excessively expensive or scientifically unsound by the courts.
EPPA has filed an official complaint with the European Commissioner of Competition about the measures taken by EFPIA. It believes the move is in violation of anti-competition laws and claims that such a ban would affect the livelihoods of the promotional products distributors and suppliers.
In a statement, EPPA says, "As the umbrella association for the European promotional products industry, we are not happy with this decision and feel confident that a ball pen or sticky note with a company name and/or logo on it will have any impact in the decision making process when health care providers need to prescribe a medicine. We have received numerous messages from concerned associations and promotional product companies from all over Europe, who are also astounded by this decision. We calculated that these measures will have a negative effect on the European industry's turnover of approximately 8-10 percent, amounting to an estimated € 500m a year. Not that much if you take into account that the pharmaceutical industry is charging billions of euros to EU countries each year in medicines sales."


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If you are in the mood for good, authenic italian food, then look no further then Antonio's Restaurant which opened today, July 12th. Antonio's is located at the corner of Woodlawn and 20th Street in Jackson Township. This is the 2nd location for Antonio's. They have another restaurant in Perry Township. Antonio's has been in business for over 3 years and it is owned by Tony and Kalene Amendola.
"We decided on another location and picked this corner because we are close to Belden Village but still in a residential area. We like being the neighborhood place.", said Kalene Amendola.
Antonio's prides itself in offering authenic italian food. Tony Amendola was born in Italy and makes sure that all the food is homemade. Amendola says, "We don't do any advertising. Most of our customers come back and we get all of our new customers by word of mouth."
Customers come in mostly for the Italian Beef Sandwich which is Antonio's version of the Philly Steak Sandwich. "We sell out of the Italian Beef nearly everyday.", said Amendola.
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