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The Far North of Experience
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch
This piece first appeared at TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here.
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Terns were once called sea swallows for their deeply forked tails and grace in the air, and in Latin, arctic terns were named sterna paradisaea by a pietist Danish cleric named Erik Pontoppidan, at the end of a turbulent career. It's not clear why in 1763 he called the black-capped, white-feathered arctic terns sterna paradisaea: birds—or terns—of paradise. He could not have known about their extraordinary migration, back in the day when naturalists—and Pontoppidan himself in his book on Norway—thought swallows buried themselves in the mud in winter and hibernated, rather than imagining they and other birds flew far south to other climes.
Of all living things, arctic terns migrate farthest and live in the most light and least darkness. They fly tens of thousands of miles a year as they relocate from farthest north to farthest south. When they are not nesting, they rarely touch ground and live almost constantly in flight, like albatrosses, like their cousins the sooty terns who roam above the equatorial seas for years at a time without touching down. Theirs is a paradise of endless light and endless effort. The lives of angels must be like this.
The far north is an unearthly earth, where much of what those of us in temperate zones were told is universal is not true. Everyone walks on water, which is a solid. In winter, you can build palaces out of it, or houses out of snow. Ice is blue. Snow insulates. Water crystallizes into floating mountains that destroy whatever collides with them. Many other things turn hard as rock in the cold. Nothing decays, and so time stops for the dead, if not the living. Cold is stability and warmth can be treacherous.
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Their opposite is the equator, where every day and every night of the year is exactly twelve hours long. The further north or south you go, the longer summer days and winter nights get. In Iceland, each day of spring was several minutes longer than the one before, so that in May the days went from nearly 17 to 20 hours long, and by June there is no true darkness, no night. The sun dipped low around midnight or after and there were spectacular sunsets that melted into sunrises, because the sun never went entirely away.
That summer among the terns, I lived at latitude 65, about as far north as Fairbanks, Alaska, and one degree south of the Arctic Circle. If you go farther north, to, say, the town of Longyearbyen in the Norwegian Arctic at latitude 78, which I later visited, the sun rises in late April and stays above the horizon until nearly the end of August, when sunset finally comes—a few minutes before sunrise. There, winter is a night as long as that summer day, running from the end of October until the middle of February. The twenty-four-hour cycle of day and night we think of as normal and daily comes as a rush of rapidly changing days and nights, flickering like a strobe, between the great day and the great night that each lasts 1,000 hours or more.
Long ago, I had read about the white nights of St. Petersburg in Russia, at only 59 degrees north, and I had once spent a couple of weeks in the Canadian wilderness at that latitude near midsummer, when night was just a blush of darkness that generally began and ended while I was asleep in my tent. I had always wanted to see the white nights farther north, but actually living through them was a little disorienting.
In Praise of Darkness
Sometimes during that summer when the sky was often gray but never black, I would think that a task had to be done before darkness and then realize that there would be no more darkness while I was there, and it didn't matter so much when I rose, when I slept, when I traveled. For me day and night were time itself, and I missed the rhythm and structure they provide. I missed stars. Darkness no longer shut me in: I shut light out to sleep. It was as though I had entered a landscape that itself never slept, never dreamed, that never let up the rational alertness of daytime, the light of interrogation and analysis.
The sensuality of night had never been so clear to me, darkness descending like velvet to wrap around you and enclose you in its black cocoon, to take you to your other self and others. In darkness dreams awaken and dreamers merge, which might be how passion becomes love and how making love begets progeny of all natures and forms. Merging is dangerous, at least to the boundaries and definition of the self. Darkness is generative, and generation, biological and artistic both, requires this amorous engagement with the unknown, this entry into the realm where you do not quite know what you are doing and what will happen next.
Creation is always in the dark because you can only do the work of making by not quite knowing what you're doing, by walking into darkness, not staying in the light. Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that's where they may be seen by others, that's not where they're born. But darkness is a pejorative in English, and the term has often carried emotional, moral, and religious overtones as has its opposite: the children of light, snowy angels, fair maidens, and white knights. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that," said the dark-skinned Martin Luther King Jr., but sometimes love is darkness; sometimes the glare is what needs to be extinguished. Turn off the lights and come to bed.
When you spend time in the desert, you come to love shadow, shade, and darkness, the respite they give to the menacing blaze of day that burns you out and dries you up. Heat is the desert as predator, just as cold is the Arctic's biggest animal. Desert light is fierce, and at midday it flattens everything into a harsh solid, but early and late in the day, light is golden and every crevice and fold and protrusion of the landscape is thrown into the high relief of light and shadow. At those times day and night intertwine like dancers, like lovers, and shadows are as powerful a presence as the things that cast them, or more so, growing and growing until the sun disappears below the horizon and darkness spreads like water on the land.
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Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux Hold Hands on Their Way to Dinner (PHOTOS)
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux continued their matching wardrobe streak Thursday night as they headed to dinner in New York City.
Justin looked drool-worthy in black pants, a black suit jacket, and skinny tie. Jen was black from head to toe in tights, boots, and a dress.
This is one gorgeous couple! Ever since making their debut after the MTV Movie Awards, J & J have hardly been shy at showing their affection for one another.


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Google shows off Nexus 7 tablet, bundled with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
On Wednesday, Google announced a 7-in., $199 tablet called the 'Nexus 7' that will be running on the new Android OS, 4.1 a.k.a. Jelly Bean.
Google Play will launch on the home screen of the Nexus 7, and people who purchase the new tablet will get a $25 credit toward Google Play content, such a music, e-books and movies. The Nexus 7 screen features 1280-x-800-pixel resolution, which is good for watching movies, playing games and viewing other content, Barra said.
Google also listed a series of improvements that are included in Android 4.1, including paid app encryption to help developers protect their intellectual property and an on-device speech recognition engine that eliminates the need for speech input to work over a wireless connection.
Jelly Bean will also ship in the Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Xoom smartphones in mid-July and will be available as open source at that time, according to Google. A developer blog on the improvements was posted at the same time that Android 4.1 was announced on stage during the Google I/O opening keynote.
In a side-by-side demonstration of a device running Android 4.1 and a device running Android 4.0 during the keynote, Google demonstrated that Jelly Bean features a smoother and more responsive user interface than its predecessor, which is known as Ice Cream Sandwich and was launched last October.
Given the price and focus on content streaming from Google Play, analysts said the Nexus 7 tablet will primarily serve the same audience as the Amazon Kindle Fire, a $199, 7-in. device that Amazon is expected to update in July.
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Jaguar XJ Facelift Sheds Camo for Spy Photos
The facelifted Jaguar XJ is shedding most of its camouflage for new spy photos.
The updated XJ will likely make its official debut soon, given that the British automaker is now just lightly concealing the front and rear ends of the sedan. This time around, we even get to see the headlights and tail lights that will likely be used in the production model.
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New DVD: Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0304 Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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Hannibal Hamlin is in a state of disbelief:
Kim Catrall !?
>For Release 20 July 2012 by Illuminations
>Shakespeare's Sonnets
>Illuminations, with Touch Press, Faber and Faber and The Arden
>Shakespeare, present an exclusive DVD release, Shakespeare's
Why not Kim Catrall? Her IMDB bio says, "At 11, she returned [from Canada] to her native country and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She returned to Vancouver and, at age 16, graduated high school and won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. During her final year at the academy, she won a part in Otto Preminger's Rosebud (1975). Following her film debut, Kim returned to the theatre, first in Vancouver and then in repertory in Toronto prior to winning a contract at Universal in Los Angeles . . ." Her list of film and TV credits since 1975 is very long: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000326/
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Jimmy was born in 1950, in the dream of an American military general.
The latter was about to embark for the Korean war, and, as Jimmy notes: "He was very anxious and ... homophobic. So he dreamed about me." Jimmy is an appropriate subconscious irritant for the General: he's a homosexual hairdresser, with a respectable New York salon, mostly patronised by cute young soldiers.
Jimmy, in this dream world, falls in love with one of those soldiers, Mitchell. His lips are about to connect with Mitchell's when the General has a heart attack. Dream over, with Jimmy marooned in no-man's land.
Marie Brassard's solo performance (she's the writer, director and actor) takes its initial impulse from the shifty partial existence of other people in our dreams. Me, in a dream I'm dreaming, is (generally) an unproblematic concept. But what about all those other people that my unconscious constructs for the dream-me to interact with?
Jimmy is one of those constructs, and Brassard gives him an original, and subtly fascinating, life cycle. Time only moves forward when he's being dreamt of. Thus he spends 50 blissful years on the verge of kissing his lover, but never actually does.
The next person who dreams of him is an actress, with rather different ideas about attraction, metaphor and the interpretation of dreams. At least, Jimmy lives again, in brief spasmodic flashes - but how long can someone spend locked in an aircraft toilet waiting for an external consciousness to dream of him again?
Brassard is a performer of wonderful economy and understated physical skill. Despite having performed this show around the world since its premiere in 2001, she brings a very welcome sense of freshness and unpredictability to the work.
The major technical effect is pitch-shifted vocals, allowing Brassard to speak in Jimmy's male tones, the childish piping of the young Jimmy, and the more feminine drawl of the Actress's mother.
At one point, the technology breaks - Brassard was mortified and apologetic, in her natural voice. It happened just at the point where the Actress's biggest fear was about to be revealed. Genuine error or extremely clever (and convincingly performed) rupture?
It's both an illustration of the Actress's worst fear (the technology she depends upon dying) and a subtle way for Jimmy to include the audience in this world (we're in a theatre, but are we in any sense corporeal or just figures in someone else's dream?).
Hard to tell definitively, but just one of the delicious uncertainties and subtle enigmas of this fascinating and beautifully performed dreamscape.
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The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) Americas Regional Network is celebrating Earth Day with the release of a new educational video highlighting the work the Green Building Councils (GBCs) of the Americas are doing, and who is involved.
The video notes how the GBCs are connected through North America, Central America, and South America and how all work together towards facilitating the transformation of the building industry towards sustainability.
In addition to showcasing established members (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the United States), the video also highlights emerging members such as Guatemala and Panama. All remain united in the effort to promote sustainable buildings and a better quality of life for people and communities.
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The cancellations — a half-dozen Monday evening and the rest Tuesday and Wednesday — will wipe out nearly 17% of the airline's flights from Charlotte on Tuesday and Wednesday, spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said Monday.
Workers are replacing and repairing the concrete on one of the airport's three runways. Work was to begin Monday evening and continue around the clock through Wednesday, with the runway reopening at 6 a.m. Thursday.
In addition to the canceled flights, airport officials also expect delays due to the construction work. Kudwa said Monday that US Airways anticipates an average delay of 27 minutes for flights departing from Charlotte-Douglas.
The airline worked through the weekend to notify affected passengers and rebook them on other flights, she said.
Kudwa said US Airways tried to cancel flights that were lightly booked, could easily be rerouted through another hub or served destinations to which the airline offers multiple flights.
US Airways is by far the largest carrier at Charlotte-Douglas; with its regional affiliates, the airline operates 577 scheduled flights out of Charlotte each day.
The 10,000-foot runway being repaired is known as 18R/36L and is the longest at Charlotte-Douglas. The airport said 800 tons of concrete from the runway, which opened in 1979, will be repaired or replaced in the 58-hour project.
Airport officials said they will recycle the concrete in future parking lot and roadway projects.
Charlotte-Douglas is the nation's 17th busiest airport, with 25 million passengers in 2004. A fourth runway is currently under construction, but will not be finished for another two years.


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By Larry Weisman, USA TODAY
When it comes to paychecks in the NFL, the ends justify the means.
Three of the five highest-paid players this season and six of the top 20 are defensive ends, with Dwight Freeney of the Indianapolis Colts topping the list at $30.75 million. Only two of the top 20 are quarterbacks.
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"The quarterback," Freeney says, "has always been getting the hype. So you have to have someone to counteract that. If the great quarterback has no time to throw, then he's no longer so great."
Freeney, 27, signed a six-year contract worth $72 million — most ever at his position — last spring. He is the Colts' all-time leader in sacks (60) but went on injured reserve Nov. 14 with a foot injury.
USA TODAY's analysis of player compensation, based primarily on NFL Players Association contract reports, counts all signing bonuses in the initial year of the contract, along with other bonuses and base salary.
Why so many defensive ends in the top 20 and only two quarterbacks (Marc Bulger of the St. Louis Rams and Vince Young of the Tennessee Titans)?
Some of it is a result of the cycle of contracts — Freeney and a number of other defensive ends signed new deals as free agents, while quarterbacks rarely get to free agency. Some is in value.
"Defensive ends have to be paid like quarterbacks because they are the great equalizers," says agent Gary Wichard, who represents Freeney.
About the database:Salaries for NFL players during the 2007 season are based on USA TODAY research, agents' information and NFL Players Association research documents. Each player is listed with his total salary and cap value. The total salary counts the entire signing bonus, if any, in the first year of the contract plus base salary and any other bonuses. For the cap value, the signing bonus is prorated over the life of the contract and base salary and other bonuses are included in their entirety. Players included were on a teams' roster through Week 6.
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Lincoln (New Zealand), Oct 4: India A consolidated their position in the second unofficial Test, amassing over 550 runs and then reducing New Zealand A to 198 for five on the second day of the match here on Friday.
After Mandeep Singh and Ashok Menaria's big centuries propelled India A to a mammoth 554 for eight declared in 118 overs, R Vinay Kumar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took two wickets apiece to leave the hosts trailing by another 356 runs at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval.
Resuming on the team score of 433 for four, Mandeep missed out on what would have been a well-deserved double ton by just seven runs while Menaria, though he could add only nine to his overnight score, fell for a blazing 190-ball 173.
Barring Hamish Rutherford, who was unfortunately run out for 99, none of the hosts batsmen could challenge the Indian bowlers.
With the bowlers complementing the batsmen's dominating display, India A can easily afford to force a result in their favour in the next two days. They were deprived of a positive outcome in the first match courtesy bad weather, which meant early stumps on almost all days.
Mandeep and Menaria came out all guns blazing, adding 318 runs for the fifth wicket in 62.2 overs. A highly impressive run-rate of 5.10 clearly indicates their dominance over the Kiwi bowlers.
While Mandeep hit 24 fours and a six during his 281-ball knock that lasted for 423 minutes, Menaria, the more aggressive of the two, found the fence 21 times while clearing it twice, during his 270-minute stay at the crease.
New Zealand bowlers' agony did not end with the duos dismissals as Vinay Kumar blazed his way to a 41-ball 50 with the help of five fours and three sixes.
The hosts, who lost George Worker without a run on the board, relied solely on Rutherford, who struck 15 fours and a six during 121-ball innings.
When bad light brought an early end to the day's proceedings, Dean Brownlie was batting on 19.
Brief Scores
India A 554/8 declared in 118 overs (Mandeep Singh 193, Ashok Menaria 173, Anustup Majumdar 56, Vinay Kumar 50, Brent Arnel 3/94, Sam Wells 2/84, Tarun Nethula 2/139) Vs New Zealand A 198/5 in 48.1 overs (Hamish Rutherford 99, Vinay Kumar 2/36, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/57)


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Cosmopolities without a plea
Alight in every Land
The compliments of Paradise
From those within my Hand
Their dappled Journey to themselves
A compensation fair
Knock and it shall be opened
Is their Theology
Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1589.
Cosmopolities without a plea
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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Generic Name: clarithromycin (kla-RITH-roe-MYE-sin)
Brand Name: Biaxin
Clarithromycin is used for:
Treating infections caused by certain bacteria. It may also be used to prevent a certain infection in persons with advanced HIV infection.
Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic. It works by stopping the growth of or killing sensitive bacteria by reducing the production of important proteins needed by the bacteria to survive.
Do NOT use clarithromycin if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in clarithromycin or to any other macrolide (eg, erythromycin)
- you have had liver problems or yellowing of the skin or eyes caused by previous use of clarithromycin
- you have a very slow heartbeat or certain types of irregular heartbeat (eg, QT prolongation, long QT syndrome, ventricular arrhythmias)
- you have low blood potassium or magnesium levels
- you are taking alfuzosin, certain antiarrhythmics (eg, amiodarone, dofetilide, dronedarone, procainamide, propafenone, quinidine, sotalol), asenapine, avanafil, bosutinib, cabazitaxel, cisapride, citalopram, conivaptan, crizotinib, diltiazem, eletriptan, an ergot alkaloid (eg, dihydroergotamine, ergotamine), everolimus, ivabradine, lovastatin, lurasidone, nilotinib, pimozide, quinupristin/dalfopristin, ranolazine, regorafenib, salmeterol, sildenafil, silodosin, simvastatin, tadalafil, tamsulosin, tetrabenazine, ticagrelor, tolvaptan, vardenafil, or vincristine
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Before using clarithromycin:
Some medical conditions may interact with clarithromycin. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
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- if you have the blood disorder porphyria, kidney problems, liver problems, or myasthenia gravis
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- if you are taking any medicine that may increase the risk of a certain type of irregular heartbeat (prolonged QT interval). Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are unsure if any of your medicines may increase the risk of this type of irregular heartbeat
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This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if clarithromycin may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
How to use clarithromycin:
Use clarithromycin as directed by your doctor. Check the label on the medicine for exact dosing instructions.
- Take clarithromycin by mouth with or without food.
- If you are also taking zidovudine, do not take it within 2 hours before or after clarithromycin.
- Clarithromycin works best if it is taken at the same time(s) each day.
- To clear up your infection completely, take clarithromycin for the full course of treatment. Keep taking it even if you feel better in a few days.
- If you miss a dose of clarithromycin, take it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use clarithromycin.
Important safety information:
- Dizziness or confusion may occur while you take clarithromycin. Use clarithromycin with caution. Do not drive or perform other possibly unsafe tasks until you know how you react to it.
- Clarithromycin only works against bacteria; it does not treat viral infections (eg, the common cold).
- This product may contain tartrazine dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5). This may cause an allergic reaction in some patients. If you have ever had an allergic reaction to tartrazine, ask your pharmacist if your product has tartrazine in it.
- Long-term or repeated use of clarithromycin may cause a second infection. Tell your doctor if signs of a second infection occur. Your medicine may need to be changed to treat this.
- Be sure to use clarithromycin for the full course of treatment. If you do not, the medicine may not clear up your infection completely. The bacteria could also become less sensitive to this or other medicines. This could make the infection harder to treat in the future.
- Mild diarrhea is common with antibiotic use. However, a more serious and sometimes fatal form of diarrhea (pseudomembranous colitis) may rarely occur. This may develop while you use the antibiotic or within several months after you stop using it. Contact your doctor right away if stomach pain or cramps, severe diarrhea, or bloody stools occur. Do not treat diarrhea without first checking with your doctor.
- Severe and sometimes fatal liver problems have been reported with clarithromycin. This has usually been reversible when the medicine is stopped. Discuss any questions or concerns with your doctor. Tell your doctor right away if you experience symptoms of liver problems (eg, yellowing of the skin or eyes; dark urine; pale stools; severe or persistent nausea, loss of appetite, or stomach pain; unusual tiredness).
- A very bad skin reaction (Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis) may happen. It can cause very bad health problems that may not go away and sometimes death. Get medical help right away if you have signs like red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin (with or without fever); red or irritated eyes; or sores in your mouth, throat, nose, or eyes.
- Tell your doctor or dentist that you take clarithromycin before you receive any medical or dental care, emergency care, or surgery.
- Diabetes patients - Clarithromycin may rarely affect your blood sugar. Check blood sugar levels closely. Ask your doctor before you change the dose of your diabetes medicine.
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- There have been reports of hearing loss with clarithromycin, usually in elderly women. This has usually been reversible. Discuss any questions or concerns with your doctor.
- Use clarithromycin with caution in the ELDERLY; they may be more sensitive to its effects, especially irregular heartbeat (prolonged QT interval).
- Clarithromycin should be used with extreme caution in CHILDREN younger than 6 months old; safety and effectiveness in these children have not been confirmed.
- PREGNANCY and BREAST-FEEDING: Clarithromycin has been shown to cause harm to the fetus. Clarithromycin is not recommended for use during pregnancy except when no other antibiotics can be used. If you think you may be pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using clarithromycin while you are pregnant. Clarithromycin is found in breast milk. If you are or will be breast-feeding while you use clarithromycin, check with your doctor. Discuss any possible risks to your baby.
Possible side effects of clarithromycin:
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Abnormal taste; diarrhea; mild stomach pain; nausea; vomiting.
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General information:
- If you have any questions about clarithromycin, please talk with your doctor, pharmacist, or other health care provider.
- Clarithromycin is to be used only by the patient for whom it is prescribed. Do not share it with other people.
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Sure I'd love to see what you have. We may have two different John's here - my Vitals of Sandwich only have a John Blake in town in 1844- There are very few Blake's listed in Sandwich at all. Maybe Plymouth is a better lead for your John. Other tip I have is the founding Blake for New England came to Dorchester and has been pretty well documented so you may try starting before your John and tracing forward. I've used that technique before with success. If you do connect back to the Blake's of Dorchester check out the "Interesting Charactors" section of my web site. The James Blake house of Dorchester still stands and is the oldest house in Boston. I've gathered info and pics on it. my email is
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World Record Parking [Video]
If you travel in downtown Lafayette along Jefferson street and decide to stop to enjoy the nightlife, great food or fun, chances are you're going to face the dreaded parking question. What makes this question dreaded is parallel park or not.
Parallel parking was the toughest part of my driver's license exam so many years ago. It was the one aspect of driving we all spent way to much time learning to do. With today's modern cars the ability to parallel park is almost unnecessary. Today's cars, at least some of them, will park for you. I don't think the guys in this video need any computer assistance.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Seminar
The Kemin Research Group will hold a panel discussion on the divisions and jobs at Kemin.
The Kemin Research Group will hold a panel discussion on the divisions and jobs at Kemin.
Krysten Shipley, certified genetic counselor at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa, will be the speaker.
Jaci Donath, former CSI in Kansas City, will present, "Outside the Lab: Evidence Collection Careers in Forensic Science."
Catherine Oertel, Oberlin College, will present, "Inspired by Corrosion: Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry of Lead Oxide Carboxylates."
Annette Richards, Cornell University, and Catherine Oertel, Oberlin College, will present "Music and Materials: Art and Science of Organ Pipe Metal."
Edward Gillan, department of chemistry at the University of Iowa, will present "Precursor Routes to Unusual Structures of Phosphides, Nitrides, and Oxides for Photocatalysis or Electrocatalysis."
The UNI Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), in collaboration with students from the departments of biology, physics and earth science, will host a "Halloween House." UNI students will perform Halloween-themed science demonstrations and supervise hands-on activities in rooms such as the "Pirates' Cove," "Frankenstein's Lab," "Creepy Crawlies" and "Spooky Spelunking." This event is free and open to the public. Costumes are welcome. The activities are intended for elementary age children, but can be enjoyed by children of all ages.
Ken Smith, director of student affairs-Rockford, College of Pharmacy, The University of Illinois at Chicago, will present "UIC College of Pharmacy PharmD Program."
Ken Smith, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, will present, "UIC College of Pharmacy." His talk will include an overview of careers in pharmacy and an overview of UIC College of Pharmacy paths to admission and admission requirements.
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From Beast to Beauty? Ecological industry policy in North Rhine-Westphalia
Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the largest land of the Federal Republic of Germany. Until the 1970ies the Ruhr-area with a population of about 12 million people and a strong coal, steel and chemical industry had been plagued with severe pollution. In the 1970ies environmental protection had emerged on the international and national policy agendas. The federal and regional government launched massive legislative and economic public interventions for cleaning-up rivers, soils and air. As a result, a highly competitive eco-industry emerged. The article outlines main features of ecoindustries, the structural change of the Ruhr area and regional economic cluster policies in support of eco-industries in NRW. It draws conclusions for eco-industry policy developing from end-of-pipe towards integrated preventive approaches.
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Michelle Obama To Set Jumping Jack World Record
Michelle Obama is our hero. She is using the get-lots-of-people-to-do-a-simple-thing strategy in order to set a Guinness World Record. More specifically, she is teaming up with National Geographic Kids to break the world record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24 hour period, beginning on October 11 at 3 p.m. and ending on October 12th at the same time. To break the record, they will need a minimum of 20,426 people to do a minute of jumping jacks—so they are recruiting groups of kids all over the world. Hundreds of kids in DC will even get to do their jumping jacks on the South Lawn of the White House. We bet the Secret Service is not too thrilled — after all, that's an awful lot of kids to frisk. [Newser]


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Seoul, South Korea (AP) - Dead fish tell no tales - unless they're the goldfish being used to monitor water quality at the conference center where President Barack Obama and other world leaders met Friday to hash out global economic policy.
Hosts of the Group of 20 economic summit have released six goldfish into the convention center's water supply. The goal is to make sure the recycled water piped into restrooms is safe from any toxic attack by North Korean agents.
Any fish that go belly-up would signal possible water contamination.
The animal rights group PETA denounced the tactic.
Tracy Reiman, the group's executive vice president, said subjecting goldfish to contaminated water serves little purpose besides causing them to suffer horribly.
"After all, the fish cannot tell you specifically what might be wrong with the water," she said.
After taking questions from White House reporters at a wrap-up news conference, Obama offered to let a South Korean journalist pose a question since he said the country had been such a good summit host.
But as it turned out, Obama got a bit more than he was expecting from the reporter he called on, who was the only person who stood to take the president up on his offer. Obama assumed the reporter would speak Korean and requested a translation.
"Unfortunately, I hate to disappoint you, President Obama, but I'm actually Chinese," the reporter said in English, adding that he would be representing the whole of
His answer led to a mini-debate with Obama over whether the gentleman would get to ask his question. Obama tried a second time to get a Korean reporter to rise to the occasion. There were no takers.
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Melvin wrote:
> OK, let's put this is a more palatable perspective then. What
> outstanding issues are yet to be resolved before 1.32b is ready for a
> release version? I am less interested in a date than understanding what
> issues are still to be resolved and therefore holding things up.
> Perhaps knowing that would allow me / you / someone / anyone to assist
> in moving forward.
It is a little slow on embedded and older hardware. It has some
unpredictable behavior in some features. What it really needs is a lot
of use, bug reporting and patching. What you can do is try it, and test
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Birmingham-Southern's new residence halls are first on a college campus in Alabama to achieve LEED certification
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern College's new Lakeview North and Lakeview South residence halls have achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification, making them the first residence halls on a college campus in Alabama to be recognized with the highest environmental standards a construction project can achieve.
LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system. Developed by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council in March 2000, the system provides verification that a facility was constructed with energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and other sustainable features.
Birmingham-Southern's Lakeview North and Lakeview South residence halls opened to 160 students in fall 2010. The four-story, suite-style living facilities overlook the college's Urban Environmental Lake and Park area which serves as an outdoor laboratory for the Urban Environmental Studies academic program and as a place of recreation and leisure.
Among the many sustainable features that helped earn the LEED certification include the use of regional, recycled, and low-VOC (volatile organic compound) materials throughout the buildings. Other sustainable features include Energy Star appliances, recycled-content carpet, low-flow shower heads and faucets, dual-flush toilets, high performance windows, heavily insulated walls, and a high performance, variable refrigerant volume heating and air system.
In addition, the two residence halls were carefully oriented to minimize solar heat gain by avoiding exposure to the Western sun for maximum energy efficiency. A 15,000-gallon water storage cistern buried between the buildings captures the rainwater from the roof to use for landscape irrigation, saving as much as 50,000 gallons of water each year.
"The college is committed to building and operating in an environmentally sustainable way," said Lane Estes, BSC's vice president for administration who oversaw the construction of the new residence halls. "The most easily recognized validation of this is the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED certification. It allows students, parents, and prospective students, in a shorthand way, to see that the college has a commitment to sustainability. The LEED certification of these two buildings is just one of numerous ways that the college embodies this commitment."
"The Lakeview residence halls are a practical example of good environmental stewardship balanced with a comfortable and attractive living environment," said Jonathan Lucia, director of residence life at BSC. "Our students are learning by living—learning that one can be comfortable and be a responsible consumer of resources."
The architect for the building project was ArchitectureWorks of Birmingham, which led the team from the early stages of design through construction and the LEED documentation process. The general contractor was Golden & Associates of Birmingham.
Birmingham-Southern has been recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the 286 "Greenest Colleges" in the nation. The college has employed several environmental initiatives in recent years, including parking lots with porous asphalt designed to reduce storm water runoff by allowing the water to be absorbed back into the ground; hybrid vehicles for campus police; an ongoing recycling program, including oil; low-flow shower heads in student living facilities; energy efficient light bulbs in campus buildings; significant reduction of paper use; and motion detectors which allow lights to turn on and off based on occupancy, among other past and ongoing initiatives.
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Editor's note: How does it feel to be homeless and what services are available for those who are? Those are two questions we wanted to find out as we sent out reporters for a day to experience homelessness. Truro reporter Ryan Cooke and New Glasgow reporter Kevin Adshade swapped coverage areas in search of answers. The shelters weren't aware ahead of time that they'd be coming and were not told that they were entertaining reporters, in an effort to keep the experience as real as possible. Our reporters made sure they weren't taking a place needed for someone else and a small donation is being made by The Truro Daily News to cover the costs associated with the stay at the local shelter. We hope you enjoy reading these stories.
NEW GLASGOW – I must have fallen asleep. Was it for a few seconds? Minutes? It didn't matter now.
Hunkered down behind a dumpster, I slowly pull my knees into my chest, praying not to make a sound in the fresh, crunchy snow. I was alone here at the end of this narrow and dark alleyway, my own secret hiding place from the wind, snow and the outside world. I was.
I'm not anymore.
Behind me, I hear voices. Two men. My heart is pounding in my chest, every breath held inside until my lungs explode for air. I make myself as small as possible and bury my face into the collar of my jacket. Maybe they won't see me.
They root through the dumpster, just a quarter-inch of steel between us. The bright beam of a flashlight peeks around the corner occasionally as they climb in and out of the trash. The light stops on the toe of my boot and their voices go silent. They're whispering to each other now. They see me.
More time passes in silence until I hear footsteps heading the other way. I'm safe and alone again.
I look up to the brick wall in front of me and there are the faces to match the voices, staring down at me.
"There is a person down there!"
For all my fear, the two young men were more afraid of me than I was of them. I didn't know what to say next.
"I'm just… hanging out."
"You aren't going to stay there all night are you? It's going to get pretty nasty tonight. You shouldn't stay out here, man."
"Thanks guys, I'll be fine. I have somewhere to go."
"Are you sure? Do you need anything?"
Welcome to being homeless in the Maritimes.
For me, it's just one night – one cold, wet, snowy night. After walking all over town for a few hours, my clothes bore the weight of a suit of armour. Soaked with melting snow, every uphill walk felt like the last leg of a marathon. Every step in the slushy muck on the pavement was a battle. My legs twisted and slipped. My left knee, a sports injury from eight years ago, twinged and ached.
Finally, when I could bear it no longer, I headed to the Life Shelter – an emergency shelter for those in need. I had walked past it five or six times during the night, putting off ringing the buzzer to go inside. What would I say? What's my story? What would they think of me?
It turns out, it didn't matter. I was met at the door by two volunteers who happily greeted me. They asked for my name and a piece of ID. The woman asked me a few more questions while the man phoned in my information to the RCMP. A police check is needed for anyone staying in the shelter.
Her questions were nothing intrusive. She had no interest in how I ended up there. She was just happy I was there, asking for a helping hand. They hadn't had any visitors for a few days, she said. They worried they weren't well-known to the public. They worried they were failing people.
I didn't feel judged. I didn't feel less than human.
After a couple minutes, the man came back and said I was OK to enter. He immediately brought me to the storage room, where I had my pick of any food I wanted. He then took me to the kitchen, where he heated up some vegetable soup and poured me a glass of lemonade. He gave me cookies and crackers while his co-worker put clean sheets and quilts on a bed for me.
When the food was gone, I began cleaning up until he brushed me aside.
"Don't worry about it, I'll clean up. You can go watch TV."
I opted instead to hit the hay. It had been a long, cold night. The shelter had three sleeping rooms, each equipped with two cots made of 2x6 lumber, plywood and a mattress.
Knowing I was inside, safe and out of the cold, I had one of the best night's sleep I've had in weeks.
5:45 p.m. - It's a beautiful night, big snowflakes falling lightly all over town. Mild, not too cold.
6:10 p.m. - The snow is quickly changing from beautiful to annoying. My clothes are getting pretty heavy.
6:15 p.m. - After walking around a while, I take my first break on a park bench.
6:25 p.m. - Back on the road again, I find myself scouting places sheltered from wind and snow.
6:45 p.m. - The Temperance Street School is my first shelter-seeking stop. The homeless shelter will be open any minute, but I want to get a better outdoor experience. Sitting here, I'm blocked from the wind on three sides. Still snowing.
7:30 p.m. - I find the perfect hideaway behind two dumpsters and two tall brick buildings. There's a stone wall in front of me and some trees. No wind, no snow. There's a shopping cart behind the dumpster already. Looks like I'm not the first one here.
7:55 p.m. - Another lap around town
8:42 p.m. - Back to my dumpster hideaway.
9:25 p.m. – There are two guys looking through the dumpsters. Do they know I'm right here?
9:35 p.m. - They turn silent. I hear whispering. I take it they spotted me. They come around and ask if I'm OK, where I'm staying tonight and if I need anything.
10:05 p.m. - I check into the shelter. I give the woman my ID, she hands it to another man and he calls police for a background check. She's nice. Not judging me. I'm honest in answering questions but avoid mentioning I'm a journalist.
10:10 p.m. - I'm allowed in. The man, Bob, brings me to the storage room and let's me pick out anything I want to eat – vegetable soup, crackers, cookies and lemonade. He makes it all for me and insists on cleaning up after. Not too bad.
10:30 p.m. - My bed is all made up, with extra blankets. They offer to wash and dry my clothes. The bed is hard, but the blankets are warm and clean. There's nobody else here tonight besides me.
10:45 p.m. - One last note before sleep – I had walked past the shelter four or five times tonight before going in. I was worried I wouldn't know what to say. But no explanations were needed; no judgments.
3:32 a.m. - I'm awake and pretty hungry. I don't usually sleep that early, so I'm probably up for the day now. I don't want to take any more food from this place, not when I don't need it.
5:48 a.m. - Awake again. Have to be out by 7:30, so I leave early, hoping not to disturb anyone.
• Homeless in Sydney - Cape Breton Post
• Guardian reporter seeks shelter - The Guardian
• No home, not sure where to go - The News
• Homelessness is a lonely street - The Western Star
• Lessons in generosity - The Telegram
• You can't fake homelessness - The Telegram
• A night in a cold tent is not homelessness - The Digby Courier


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Patterns in Big Data
One philosophy has dominated Porsche engineering since the company's formation: there is not one vehicle for all situations and people. Instead, each vehicle needs to perform a specific job for its user:
Patterns in Big Data
I first wrote about Next Generation Middleware in October of 2011. While alot has changed since then, many of my views on how Big Data will evolve have not. That being said, they have certainly become more granular.
I've had a front row seat to how Big Data is changing client environments for a few years now. 2 things are quite evident to me:
1) This change is quite real, it's accelerating, and its much more than Hadoop.
2) There is a set of emerging deployment patterns.
As we've moved through the experimental phase of Hadoop and Big Data, I'm seeing clients take a much more strategic approach to the topic. It's less about trying out the flavor of the month (Cassandra, Mongo, Hadoop, etc) and more about figuring out how to integrate many of these components into their existing environment.
A key tenet in developing a Big Data strategy requires an organization to take a page of Porsche's strategy and acknowledge that one size does not fit all. There are many technologies, most have a unique and special purpose, and the leaders in Big Data will leverage all or most in a complementary way. Hence, the pattern that I am seeing around building a Big Data Strategy revolves around 3 cornerstone environments:
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This is what it looks like logically:
You will recognize that IT environments of the last 20 years, have been largely focused in the 'white areas'. These are traditional data repositories, providing data to business applications. This is how companies ran their business, in the e-business era. Certainly, as datawarehousing and analytics have risen to prominence, we have seen more investment in the 'blue boxes' or Big Data Zone. However, most of that investment to date has been an augmentation of the 'white areas' (ie providing analytics of structured data from transactional systems).
The Big Data Zone is where companies will separate themselves from others in the next 5-10 years. Those that can execute on this vision and get there faster will be more efficient, more information rich, and make better decisions.
The Landing Zone
This is the place where you 'land' your data in its native form. All data types, sizes, veracity accepted and expected. It's the innovation 'manufacturing floor', and as you begin to harvest your data assets, you can send those refined assets to other zones. The Landing Zone must be cost effective and differentiated by analytics and analysis (not just the run-time), as the effectiveness of your other zones may be dependent on the Landing Zone. I expect that we will see Hadoop and the plethora of NOSQL options take root in the Landing Zone.
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This is the place for discovery and deep analytics, primarily of structured data assets, but not limited to that. Have large complex analytic queries? Do them here. Need high performance analytics? Do it here. This becomes the core analysis and analytics hub for the organization. This will be the most efficient and cost effective place for high performance analytics. Obviously, this requires tight integration with the Landing Zone.
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This is the place for mixed analytic workloads. It's not just deep analytics like the Discovery Zone; it encompasses thousands of concurrent users, operational workloads, analytic workloads and all of them in combination. It's the best place for mixed workloads, but it's too expensive to use for just landing data or for data discovery. This zone will be more important in some companies (like credit card companies tracking fraud transactions in real-time), than in others (a retailer analyzing last months sales).
This pattern of Big Data Zones is gaining steam in the forward looking IT environments across the industry. Like Porsche realized long ago, many companies know that there is not a single answer to every problem. Leaders in Big Data will embrace this notion of the Zones and start to build a plan to meet the analytic needs of the organization, leveraging all aspects of Next Generation Middleware.


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The grisly shooting deaths of four people, including three members of a British family on vacation in the Alps, have the hallmarks of a professional assassination and may be tied to an alleged family dispute over property, The Guardian reports.
French investigators, however, stress that at present the family feud suspicion is only a theory.
The Guardian reports that the British Foreign Office earlier this year warned tourists of an emerging "pattern of incidents" in this part of France, after gangs appeared to be targeting foreign-registered cars on highways.
The body of 50-year-old Iraq-born Saad al-Hilli, an aerospace engineer from England, and two family members were found Wednesday in a bullet-riddled BMW in Annecy in the foothills of the Alps. A fourth person, a cyclist, was found nearby.
In addition, police discovered al-Hilli's 4-year-old daughter Zeena hiding beneath her mother's body for eight hours. She was unhurt.
Her 7-year-old sister Zainab was hospitalized in critical condition from gunshot wounds.
The British newspaper the Evening Standard quotes local French prosecutor Eric Maillaud as saying al-Hilli's brother has spoken to police and denies any family financial dispute.
Maillaud says Zeena is unable to help with the investigation because she was hiding during the ordeal.
Sir Peter Ricketts, the British ambassador in Paris, tells French TV that in any case, Zeena is "shocked and traumatized."
France 24 reports that prosecutor Maillaud says 25 shots were fired at the victims and believes that more than one person was behind the killings.
"It seems humanly difficult that so many shots could be fired by one man," he tells France 24. "Instinct tells us there was more than one suspect."
He tells the local newspaper Le Dauphine Libere that the "case looks more and more like an ambush," The Guardian reports.
"This bears of the hallmarks of a professional assassination and there was an absolute determination to kill shown by the bullets in the head of the victims, and the savagery of the attack on the elder girl," Maillaud says
The prosecutor also says today that investigators are looking for a green or dark colored 4x4 vehicle and a motorbike in connection with the killings.
Doug is an unrepentant news junkie who loves breaking news and has been known to watch C-SPAN even on vacation. He has covered a wide range of domestic and international news stories, from prison riots in Oklahoma to the Moscow coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Doug previously served as foreign editor at USA TODAY. More about Doug
Michael Winter has been a daily contributor to On Deadline since its debut in January 2006. His journalism career began in the prehistoric Ink Era, and he was an early adapter at the dawn of the Digital Age. His varied experience includes editing at the San Jose Mercury News and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Did a $10 bill change the mind of U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg? Quite possibly, but not in an illegal way: At a hearing in San Francisco Thursday, Seeborg looked more favorably upon Facebook's revised settlement proposal in a class-action lawsuit over the use of users' images in sponsored stories, and the judge said he would rule "very shortly."
In August, Seeborg took issue with the settlement proposal Facebook announced in June, and a major sticking point was the fact that Facebook users received no money, with all of the funds going toward organizations that promote online privacy.
But Reuters reported that Facebook's revised proposal provides for payments of $10 to each user out of its total settlement fund of $20 million, with the remainder of the money going to charity.
Facebook also said in its revised settlement that it would create a new tool that would allow users to view any of their content that may have been used as part of sponsored stories and opt out of the process.
According to Reuters, if Seeborg does grant his preliminary approval, outside groups will have the opportunity to file further objections before a final hearing is held.
Reuters also reported on an interesting exchange between the judge and Facebook attorney Michael Rhodes, in which Rhodes claimed that the social network's revised settlement provided meaningful protections, and that the court's job was to ensure a fair settlement, and not to create national privacy policy, prompting Seeborg to reply:
Trust me, I'm not proposing to set grand policy with privacy issues writ large.
Readers: Do you think this version of Facebook's settlement will pass muster?
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Jordan's FM Visits Saudi For Talks on Middle East Crisis
Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdel Ilah Khatib travelled to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for talks on the Middle East crisis and the upcoming Arab summit, reported (AFP)
"I will hold talks with my Saudi counterpart, Prince Saud al-Faisal, on the tension in the Middle East as part of the consultations between our two countries," Khatib told AFP before leaving on the previously unannounced visit.
Their talks would also cover "the aggressions against the Palestinian people and Israeli threats against Syria and Lebanon" following the capture of three Israeli soldiers by Lebanese guerrillas backed by Beirut and Damascus.
Khatib, whose country has a 1994 peace treaty with Israel, stressed the need "to close Arab ranks at this delicate period", in reference to the Arab summit called for October 21-22 in Cairo.
Jordan has two aims for the summit: to reach a "unified stand in support of the Palestinian cause" and to "close the Iraqi file", the minister said, quoted earlier in local newspapers.
Khatib visited Damascus on Monday to deliver a message to President Bashar al-Assad from Jordan's King Abdullah II on efforts to ease tension in the Middle East since the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian clashes on September 28.
A total of 100 people have been killed in the clashes, almost all Arabs, crippling the peace process – (AFP)
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Serena Williams cruised to a second-round win over Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh in the Australian Open on Wednesday, but was left frustrated by an Italian reporter bent on reminding her on her loss to Roberta Vinci in 2015.
Vinci ruined William's calendar year Grand Slam (winning all four majors) aspirations at the US open with a remarkable upset in the semi-finals in September.
The Italian reporter began his line of questioning saying, "Serena I don't want to remind you of your nightmare, but Roberta Vinci is the only Italian still left in the draw..."
Williams answered the question but grew visibly frustrated as the questions around Vinci went on, with a USA Today report describing her as "clearly annoyed" by the end of the press conference.
His final question drew a sarcastic response from Williams.
Reporter: "If you don't throw me an arrow with your eyes, another question on Vinci, which is — this is the last one, I promise: Verdasco last night said that he had seen his match 10 times, the one he played seven years ago against Nadal. He keeps watching it. Roberta said she saw her match with you, against you, five times. I want to know if you ever saw it again or you didn't want to see it or you saw it?"
Williams: "Yeah, I watch it every day. Every night to get ready."
Williams then ended the press conference after being asked about her sister Venus skipping her own press conference after her first round exit at the hands of Johanna Konta.
"I don't know. If you want to, you can ask her. Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't here," Williams said.
"In fact, I was watching Telenovela. I'm coming apart, though. Do we have any more questions?"
Williams will next face world No. 69 Daria Kasatkina after the young Russian defeated Croatian Ana Konjuh 6-4 6-3.
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Do you donate more or less to your church knowing that it's tax deductible? If that income tax deduction went away, what then?
That's one of the concerns probed in a new survey of church giving. The third annual "State of the Plate" survey of 1,507 church pastors, staff and leaders tracks the impact of the economy on churches and church practices on financial integrity.
Among the findings:
Matt Branaugh of Christianity Today International, one of three sponsors of the survey, ties giving to employment. Branaugh says:
As unemployment accelerated in 2008, we saw it in 2009 giving levels. Now unemployment has stabilized to some degree. I think that's helped.
Also influential, churches nationwide were coached this year in effective fund-raising and proper financial accounting practices. Church finance expert Brian Kluth and Dan Busby of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, co-sponsors of the survey, toured 13 cities talking about accountability and best practices.
The EFCA is leading a commission to look at changes in regulations for non-profit charities and churches -- and fretting about potential changes to tax laws. The survey asked about this with an alarming question:
If the charitable tax deduction were significantly reduced or eliminated, what impact do you feel this would have on the future giving at your church?
While nearly all (91%) said it would have an impact, only 30% thought it would be a significant impact.
Kluth acknowledges,
I don't think it's on the radar screen of a lot of churches. But reality is that it could affect our giving. If the tax deductibility went away, I think you'd see softer numbers in December although, from a spiritual perspective it should not matter."
But Dan Busby of the ECFA says 41% itemize their deductions and it's hard to imagine that cuts wouldn't dampen giving. At a press conference today, he told USA TODAY's Alicia McCarty,
Those who give even remotely generously are those that tend to itemize their deductions. Thus they are the ones that would be impacted... People don't give solely for tax reasons, but it does play a part.
Kluth concluded,
We need to encourage generosity not for the sake of the budget but for the faith journey.
THINK ABOUT IT: If you couldn't deduct your giving to church, would you still give? Would you give as much?
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Vulgar Materialism: The Madness of Growth and the Casino
Renouncing on growth or tolerating a shriveling economy is hard. Greece is a shocking example. Many people cut down the last trees because they could not afford heating oil. Nature is the first victim in an economic crisis. Whole generations are traumatized and may turn to a supposed rescuer if new jobs do not arise soon. We must bid farewell to growth if we don't want our environment to be completely ruined.
By Ulrike Herrmann
[This article "Wachsinn Wachstum" published 12/21/2012 is translated from the German on the Internet, http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/?dig=2012/12/21/a0092. Ulrike Herrmann is an economics editor at taz. In 2010, Westend published her book "Hurrah, we can pay. The Self-Deceit of the Middle Class" (Hurra, wir durfen zahlen. Der Selbstbetrug der Mittleschicht.]
Jesus was not a capitalist. Modern capitalism first arose 1800 years after Jesus' birth. Nevertheless Christmas has long been a symbol of the abundance produced by this capitalism.
The German environmental ministry has counted how many objects the average German citizen owns. They are 10,000. At least half of these things are never used but frittered away to the limit polluting the environment – first in production and then as waste.
A simple solution presses. Everyone should only buy half as much. This would be liberation, not renunciation. The plunder that is never tackled would be gone at last. Our capitalist economy would obviously not grow any more but shrivel. Why doesn't this happen? The environment would be rescued.
This is not simple as the Euro crisis shows. One way out was recommended in unison to the crisis countries: generate growth! Political conflict only rages over the question how this growth can be best produced. Chancellor Merkel demands austerity programs while the French president emphasizes economic assistance. But everyone agrees: there must be a boom in the Euro zone. I have also commented repeatedly that the crisis countries need growth. Many readers sent letters that pointed out: the world is finite and the economy cannot grow infinitely.
That is true. However renouncing on growth or even tolerating a shriveling economy is hard. Greece is a shocking example. Many people cut down the last trees because they could not afford any heating oil. Nature is the first victim in an economic crisis.
It is hardly conceivable that crisis countries will remain democracies when unemployment is at 20 percent and youth unemployment is at 50 percent. Insecurity and lack of perspective is the worst. Poverty is not the worst that can happen though it is terrible. Whole generations are traumatized and may turn to a supposed rescuer if new jobs do not arise soon.
Thus capitalism, functions differently than the advertising suggests. The commodities that we consume and give as gifts on Christmas are not central. The products are only expedients for a higher goal. The ultimate goals are the jobs. We work so others can work. Only the one who works has income, security and acknowledgment. In his book "The Affluent Society," (1958) the economist John Kenneth Galbraith referred to a strange phenomenon. In an economic crisis, there is never regret that many goods do not arise because the factories are not used to full capacity. No one worries over this loss in material wealth. The declining quantity of goods does not matter. Instead there is only criticism about the jobs that are eliminated in the crisis. We seemingly consume to death but this is a false perception. We produce to death. The goal is full employment, not full consumption.
Employees are not the only ones urging growth. Savers and investors also want to see profits. Every German does not have assets as the latest German Poverty- and Wealth report shows. The bottom half of the population has nothing. That the top half accelerates even greater panic hardly means the economy could collapse. The Euro crisis has not come to Germany but real estate is frantically bought.
The commodity becomes a fetish. Different from what Karl Marx thought, security is central, not practical value or exchange value. We produce and invest so an unknown future can be controlled.
Thus the task appears insoluble. We must bid farewell to growth if we do not want our environment to be completely ruined. Still every economic collapse triggers existential fears.
This dilemma can only be overcome if society no longer insists every individual is alone responsible for his or her security – by getting hold of a job or "private provisions." Both force growth. Thus the environment is rescued by the right social- and fiscal policy, not by environmental policy.
What must happen so citizens feel secure? "Security" is an ambivalent concept in rich societies like Germany. Obviously avoiding death from starvation is the main challenge. Hartz IV recipients also have enough to eat. Nevertheless the middle class falls into panic as soon as it imagines it could be counted as poor. The middle class knows it will then lose its dignity, be despised and treated like a child.
People only feel secure when no one can crash them – since poor and rich are not so far apart. Environmental care is only possible with that security, as worldwide comparative studies confirm. The egalitarian Scandinavians lead the way while the polarized US is far behind. How wealth is distributed is important for pollution control, not how rich a society is. It may be surprising but high taxes for top earners are active environmental care. This recalls Jesus who emphasized again and again to his disciples that riches do not create security. As he says in the Sermon on the Mount, "Do not pile up treasures on earth where moth and rust devour." Jesus did not know capitalism. Still his commands are current and burning issues if we want to survive. High taxes for top earners are active environmental care.
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The wagyu was a revelation. The Colorado-grown meat was tender, able to be cut with a fork and was delicately infused with flavour. It was topped with petite mustard greens. I savoured its texture and lapped up the promise that it was higher in Omega 3 because the animals were fed on high-altitude grass.
But it wasn't just the qualities of the beef that had opened my eyes. Nor that the first dish of the tasting menu was accompanied by copious amounts of Californian wine, enjoyed in the comfort of a warm, log-walled room, in the company of a cheerfully chattering group after a day outside in the crisp mountain air. All these features were secondary.
The wagyu was a revelation because it was a contrast. Dinner at the Ranch House Restaurant was a little oasis of luxury in a Colorado ski holiday that could have just been chock full of burgers and burritos, cheese pizza and chilli, topped off with exaggeratedly cheerful but (being honest) sometimes inadequate service.
(What is it with American waiters? Don't they rely on tips? Bellowing "hey y'all" with a cartoonishly large smile doesn't make up for the fact that my mug of hot chocolate is now swimming in its saucer, after you plonked it carelessly on the table. But I digress.)
The food, wine, service, activities, even decor at Devil's Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa, 1½ hours from Denver and 20 minutes from ski resort Winter Park, was lovely.
But this luxurious refuge almost never existed.
Telecommunications multimillionaire Bob Fanch and wife Suzanne bought Devil's Thumb in 2001. If it wasn't for their intervention the property could have been another Colorado golf course – green grass and plaid pants in the summer, deserted in the winter.
"I have nothing against golf," Bob Fanch says on the phone from Denver. "But it's such a beautiful piece of property and so unique . . . I just thought this would be a higher and better use for it."
Fanch, originally from upstate New York, had built a log house about 15 kilometres away in the 1970s that he used as a base for cross-country skiing. He had always known of the once working dairy ranch, and felt it was a special property.
After selling his eponymous cable TV company for a reported $US2 billion in 1999, Fanch and his wife wanted "to do something different" (although he has gone on to establish other phone and data providers). When a deal to sell the ranch to a Dutch condo and golf course developer fell over, they swooped.
"We thought there wasn't any real true Colorado experiences out there," Fanch says. "Aspen and Vail [ski resorts], they're beautiful in their own right, but we felt this was a location where you could really disconnect and get back with nature."
The ranch comprises 52 rooms, 16 cabins, two restaurants, a ski rental and shop and a spa. A popular location for executive retreats, conferences and weddings, it has a hall that fits 160 people and another to fit a further 350 under construction and due for completion in November 2013.
Couples are lining up for the soon-to-be enhanced facilities.
"I have had phone calls for weddings in 2015," director of group services Kevin Siegrist says. "I'm like, he's not ready to commit if you're planning for 2015."
The property is on 5000 acres of Colorado forest and farmland, starting at 2530 metres of elevation up to 3400 metres. The ample space provides for wide-open cross-country skiing trails in the winter and horseriding trails in the summer. In the warmer months guests also take advantage of streams crossing through the fields for fly fishing – Fanch's favourite activity to partake in with his young son Zach.
(The ski shop at the ranch is named after the young fly fisher, while the pool is named after Fanch's daughter Rachel.)
During our afternoon at Devil's Thumb Ranch we were given a cross-country ski lesson. For this beginner (with only snowboarding skills to fall back on) it was actually surprisingly fun and enjoyably hard work.
On a bright blue day, after the trans-Pacific flight the day before, it was nice to get the heart pumping and the quads and hamstrings stretching, without the nerves that usually accompany that first time in the season "back on the mountain".
A dusk sleigh ride, towed by two stocky but obedient horses, to feed the herd of working horses, was followed by some warm apple cider and an American childhood delicacy of toasted marshmallows and melted chocolate squeezed between wheat Graham crackers, known as "s'mores" – a contraction of "some more", appropriately.
After a warm shower (leaving just enough time for me to dip in the indoor-outdoor heated pool and enjoy the steam rising off the water as I gazed east towards the Continental Divide, over the trails we'd skied earlier) we were given a tour of the property.
I didn't get the chance to test the accommodation, so a trip back to Winter Park region is on my bucket list, if only just to sink into those Devil's Thumb old-fashioned clawfoot soaking tubs in each room.
But a disclaimer. My enduring feeling about Winter Park (the town is just a little south of Devil's Thumb) is that I wouldn't book a trip all the way to the US to ski just that one resort. But for an extended trip that encompasses a few of Colorado's peaks it should definitely be a contender, because among the glitz and glamour of neighbouring mountains, Winter Park offers something different.
An hour and 40 minutes west of Denver airport, you drive along the I-70 bypassing the city, with the mountains always in view through the windscreen.
The resort, which is owned by Denver City although managed by travel conglomerate Intrawest, is very popular during holidays and weekends for Denver families, many of whom drive back and forth each day. The resort is well set up for this traveller. A free cabriolet (like an open gondola) lifts visitors from the carpark to the village, over a tubing hill for children.
International guests do not make up a huge proportion of visitors, despite visits from a few token Brits (taking advantage of direct flights from Heathrow to Denver) and some Russians (surplus from Aspen).
The village amenities are fine. The Cheeky Monk, a chain beer café with a good selection and Lime Cantina, a bar serving margaritas and burritos and showing sports, are worth a drop in, although there's a distinct lack of buzz throughout the village after about 8pm.
But putting aside après-ski sulkiness, Winter Park is a serious mountain for serious skiers and snowboarders.
With a vertical drop of more than 915 metres and peak of 3680 metres, it is challenging. More than half of the two ski areas – Winter Park and Mary Jane – is best suited to the advanced skiers. And for those experienced skiers, Winter Park is a mecca for moguls.
The resort covers more than 3000 skiable acres and about 10 per cent of that is able to be covered with man-made snow. Winter Park receives on average of about 830cms of natural snowfall each season.
On the one day we skied, 30cms of powder had dumped the night before. As a snowboarder, I usually avoid moguls, but in shin-deep powder they are more like fluffy speedbumps than the heinous obstacles I am used too. It wasn't very busy, but the powder pulled the whole village out and the groomed slopes became quickly chopped up.
The day began with blue skies and a fresh temperature hovering just above zero. Even in the first week of March it was still chilly and the winds began whipping around madly by 11am.
Unfortunately, the one lift crucial for entry to the more advanced Parsenn Bowl area, was quickly closed. But my guide led me through plenty of pockets of powder through trees and off to the sides of terrain parks.
It's a good idea for snowboarders to get a guide initially because there are a number of flattish ski-outs to avoid. Meeting up with the group for a late lunch we dined on the mountain at Sunspot. As the weather outside worsened, I sipped appreciatively on gluhwein (but also resolved never again to order it alongside a hearty buffalo chilli, which was great but not a great accompaniment to mulled wine).
Mustering up some courage and zipping up layer upon layer tightly, I headed back out, just in time for the wind to die down and the view of the surrounding ranges to reappear.
After a couple more hours snowboarding, despite the ominously approaching jetlag and buffalo chilli indigestion, I had really enjoyed my day at Winter Park . . . because the resort is a contrast in itself.
Overseas skiing holidays are great because the terrain is far better than anything at home, but invariably you eat too much at lunch or get too boozed in après ski.
Sometimes you just want to ski all day until your calves are aching and your hair is sweaty and ridiculous. You want to drink hot chocolate and eat warming food, then fall asleep at 9pm ready to do it all again the next day. Well Winter Park is the place for this.
Sure, the coffee was terrible and the village café couldn't do an omelette to save itself. The burritos came in a basket, the beer in a plastic cup and the village at night resembled a ghost town. But the lift queues were negligible, the powder plentiful and the views remarkable.
When I asked Bob Fanch what he liked most about Winter Park, he could answer immediately.
"It's got some of the best mogul skiing, if not the best mogul skiing in the state," he says. "And it fits in with our non-pretentious way of doing business up here."
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