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One such online recruiting site is FlipDog.com. In the 2 1/2 years since the site has been in service, over 10 million job applications have been submitted to potential employers. "We have job listings for thousands of towns, many of which you won't find on other search engines," says John Peterson, the site's senior product manager.
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siri replied to siri's topic in For BeginnersPosting the question jolted my memory. I forgot that they now include all the DX stuff in the Windows SDK. Removing the paths and references to D3DX fixed it. :)
siri posted a topic in For BeginnersI've recently got back in to programming after a long hiatus. I'm starting with a blank screen. The code builds and I get a nice blank screen. But the output is a load of warnings. I pasted them here: http://pastebin.com/gWbGsm6z Why is that happening? It doesn't seem to be related to any of my code. But rather the headers. It's something I'd rather not ignore but I have no idea what's causing it. Win7/VS2013 if that's relevant. I seem to remember something about Win8/SDK and warnings but I've forgotten. Thanks.
siri replied to siri's topic in For BeginnersNot using any AA. I checked the driver settings and they're all set to application controlled. Apart from 'Gamma Correction' but it says that only affects GL. Outside of the point light in that screenshot the rest is lit by a full-screen quad directional light. It's not z-fighting. I'm not sure about the blending. The 'process' is pretty hacky as I'm still learning. Not sure what information you need but I'll try and elaborate. I'm rendering position and normals in to an MRT. From that I'm rendering the lights to a render target. I then take the lighting render target and project it on to the geometry as a sort of, I dunno, screen space lightmap. I'm pretty sure it's the projective co-ordinates that are wrong. I've never understood the texel offset stuff in D3D9.
siri posted a topic in For BeginnersHi, Not sure if this counts as a beginner question or not. I apologise if it's in the wrong section. I'm currently playing around with some deferred rendering. It seems to be working ok. I have directional and point lighting. I'm rendering the lights in to a render target and then using that to calculate the final stuff. But I think my projective co-ords are slightly off. If you look at the image below you'll see that at the geometry edge there's a white line. As though the lighting texture doesn't quite match up. The code I am using to build the projective co-ordinates is as follows: //suv are the co-ords for tex2Dproj() //invWidth is (0.5f / screen_width) //invHeight is (0.5f / screen_height) v2fout.p = mul(a2vin.p, wvp); v2fout.uv = a2vin.uv; v2fout.suv = v2fout.p; v2fout.suv.xy = float2(v2fout.suv.x * 0.5, -v2fout.suv.y * 0.5); v2fout.suv.xy += (0.5 * v2fout.suv.w); v2fout.suv.x += 0.5f * invWidth * v2fout.suv.w; v2fout.suv.y += 0.5f * invHeight * v2fout.suv.w; Thanks for any help/advice.
siri replied to incertia's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingThis is probably a very stupid question and I apologise if it is. But can't you just use the D3D9 feature levels in DX11 for the D3D9 renderer ?
Personally I think context solves this problem.
First world problems doesn't quite cover it.
siri replied to Alpha_ProgDes's topic in GDNet LoungeHow about worst ? [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbAWZ8yPks[/video] I loved that game as a teen but the trailer makes it look awful -- it probably would be awful if I played it now.
I agree, which is why I think it's a pointless and costly addition, it's only really useful to developers working on exclusives. Until it becomes a standardised technology that all platforms have I don't see the reason for it. They could compete on price with PS4 if they just dropped it. I could be way off but that's the way I currently see Kinect. It's a cool bit of kit but nothing more.
but but people still get to give their money to Gamestop etc instead of the industry to play games! Surely that is worth it! *drowns in his own sarcasm* but yeah... my bet; 6 months into the console release people will moan about having to have the disk in the drive to play their games (much like they currently do) - on this day I plan to point and laugh. Can you not just buy the game online to begin with if that is your preference ?
They've just reversed most of the policies people were complaining about. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-19-microsoft-will-reverse-position-on-xbox-one-drm-today-report Edit: Should have read before I posted. :D
siri replied to Alpha_ProgDes's topic in GDNet LoungePersonally I don't get the kinect hate. There's a bunch of cool stuff on kinect, and the new kinect is better in every regard. I'm excited to see how it's used now that developers have a guarantee of it's existence. That's only true of exclusive titles though. Anything cross-platform still has the same problem as before, no ?
siri replied to foxefde's topic in For BeginnersI use Raster and this site: http://www.braynzarsoft.net/index.php?p=DX11Lessons
Sure. But a lot of the time when stuff freezes, or the window becomes unresponsive, those UI elements keep ticking away.
I think "Uh... Shiny" explains a lot of modern UI elements. I can't think of much practical use for this other than "Ooohhhhh".

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Herbal Glossary | Medicinal Glossary | Herbal Preparations | Ayervedic Formulas | Chinese Formulas
Folk Remedies | Native American Formulas | Herbal Remedies | Nutritional Guidelines
Common Names | Parts Usually Used | Plant(s) & Culture | Where Found | Medicinal Properties | Biochemical Information
Legends, Myths and Stories | Uses | Formulas or Dosages | How Sold | Warning | Bibliography
Seven barks
Wild hydrangea
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Hydrangea is a native North American shrub; the stems, growing from 3-10 feet high, are covered with thin layers of different-colored bark. The opposite, ovate, serrate leaves have hairy veins on the underside when mature. Rounded or globular clusters of small, creamy-white flowers appear during June and July. The flowerheads are surrounded by sterile, papery, flower-like structures that attract bees and other pollinators to the tiny, inconspicuous fertile blooms.
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Grows on dry slopes, in shady woods, and on streambanks from New York to Iowa, northern Florida, Oklahoma to Indiana, Ohio, and Louisiana.
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Antilithis, diuretic
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Two resins, gum, starch, sugar, albumen, soda, lime potassa, magnesia, sulphuric and phosphoric acids, a protosalt of iron and a glucoside, hydrangin
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The name "Seven Barks" is applied to the hydrangea due to the seven separate layers of different colored bark. There are 23 species of H. arborenscens, or wild hydrangea. The flowers are colored, depending on the acidity or alkalinity of the soil, mostly white, often tinged with pink, blue, or purple, and in a few are entirely colored.
The root bark was formerly marketed under the name "Gravel Root", referring to its use for kidney stones.
Making hydrangeas blue: Hydrangeas are often made to produce blue flowers by adding aluminum sulphate to the soil at the rate of 1/2 lb. to 5 gallons of water at weekly intervals. After 2 or 3 applications, it also seems to help to apply 4 oz. of ferrous sulphate per 5 gallons off water for a few weeks. This treatment is continued as long as it seems necessary to make and keep the soil acid.
Making hydrangeas pink: Hydrangeas are often made to produce various shades of pink flowers if they are not grown in acid soil. A neutral or slightly alkaline soil will give the results desired. Add sufficient lime to bring the pH of the soil to a figure somewhat between 6.7 and 7.2. The addition of the lime is best affected by lifting the hydrangea in fall, shaking the roots free of as much soil as is safely possible and then mixing the lime thoroughly with the soil before planting again. To be certain of the amount of lime needed to bring the soil to the required pH figure, have the soil tested.
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The root has long been used as a mild diuretic. It has a reputation for helping to prevent and remove gravel, gallbladder stones, and kidney stones. Will relieve chronic rheumatism, backache, paralysis, scurvy, and dropsy. Homeopathically, for bronchitis, treats diabetes, incontinence of urine, and prostatic affections. The Cherokee Indians used this herb for urinary retention and stones. Also excellent for chronic penile discharge (non-specific urethritis) in men and mucousal irritation in the aged. This herb acts differently in different people. In some it acts like a laxative. Therefore, it is better to start with a smaller dose and increase slowly as needed. The average dose is 2 capsules a day.
Externally, scraped bark is poulticed on wounds, burns, sore muscles, sprains, tumors; the bark chewed for stomach problems, heart trouble.
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Infusion: steep 1 tsp. root in 1 cup boiling water. Take 1 cup per day.
Tincture: a dose is from 5 to 20 drops.
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Overdose can cause vertigo (dizziness) and stuffiness in the chest.
Experimentally, causes bloody diarrhea, painful gastroenteritis, cyanide-like poisoning.
Research has shown that this plant is potentially toxic.
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Back to Eden, by Jethro Kloss; Back to Eden Publishing Co., Loma Linda, CA 92354, Original copyright 1939, revised edition 1994
The Complete Medicinal Herbal, by Penelope Ody, Dorling Kindersley, Inc, 232 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, First American Edition, copyright 1993
Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, by Steven Foster and James A. Duke., Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10000
The Herbalist Almanac, by Clarence Meyer, Meyerbooks, publisher, PO Box 427, Glenwood, Illinois 60425, copyright 1988, fifth printing, 1994
The Herb Book, by John Lust, Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. copyright 1974.
Indian Herbalogy of North America, by Alma R. Hutchens, Shambala Publications, Inc., Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 1973
Planetary Herbology, by Michael Tierra, C.A., N.D., O.M.D., Lotus Press, PO Box 325, Twin Lakes. WI 53181., Copyright 1988, published 1992
Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition, Victoria Neufeldt, Editor in Chief, New World Dictionaries: A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 15 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10023
The Rodale Herb Book: How to Use, Grow, and Buy Nature's Miracle Plants (An Organic gardening and farming book), edited by William H. Hylton, Rodale Press, Inc. Emmaus, PA, 18049., 1974
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Brad Paisley Is A Guy, Don Gibson Is Lonesome – Today In Country Music History
Brad Paisley proudly declared his manhood on this date in 2008, Crystal Gayle became the first woman in Country Music to earn a platinum album in 1978 and Don Gibson was lonesome in 1958.
Click through for the complete list for Today In Country Music History for 15 February, 2012.
- Brad Paisley's "I'm Still A Guy" was released to radio in 2008.
- The Rascal Flatts album Me And My Gang went quadruple-platinum in 2007.
- Billy Currington earned a gold single with "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" in 2006.
- Garth Brooks' "What She's Doing Now" became his eighth Number One hit in 1992.
- Ricky Van Shelton's debut album, Wild-Eyed Dream, was released in 1987.
- Dolly Parton won her first Grammy for "Here You Come Again" in 1979.
- Crystal Gayle became the first country-based female artist to receive a platinum album for We Must Believe In Magic in 1978.
- T.G. Sheppard collected his first Number One country single in Billboard magazine with "Devil In The Bottle" in 1975.
- Don Gibson's Number One single "Oh Lonesome Me" charted in 1958.
- Jerry Lee Lewis performed "Great Balls Of Fire" and "Breathless" on ABC's American Bandstand, hosted by Dick Clark, in 1958.
Here's a fun clip of Don Gibson and June Carter singing Oh, Lonesome Me.
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Design: the it profession
Everybody seems to be talking about it these days. Business magazines are recognizing that something's up. Fast Company recently devoted an entire issue to it, and so did Wired magazine (though it was referenced by various names). Culture publications are falling all over themselves touting it. There's an idea, an ideal that's currently tripping the hot circuit among the Joe Schmoes, illuminati and literati.
Allegiance is its consequence. Control is its pseudonym. It commands respect, it draws gobs of attention and yet it remains unfathomable among those outside of its practice. Its name is almost underwhelming, yet it amounts to "power." We know it simply as design. Simply put, design is control, power – go juice or kryptonite in most human endeavors. Do it right or fall on your face.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Despite the apparently awesome power wielded by the effects of design, the second-tier business world seems to be exceedingly distrustful and standoffish when dealing with the idea of or process involved with design (which could easily explain why they're second-tier). Sad, for if ever there were a business component to embrace, it's design. Truly, if ever there was a group of professionals that business should seek to befriend, it is designers. But with the current discovery of design by the popular media, this situation may be changing for the better.
Wow, design!
In the past few months I've come across several articles, even entire magazine issues, devoted to how cool it is to be in the design profession these days. Admittedly, these articles come mostly from design community publications. One or two of them have even had a hint of desperation in them; seeming to blow the design horn in feigned bravado. But the overall tone in the recent deluge of "wow, design!" buzz has had the ring of truth. Optimism seems to have replaced the dark outlook so prevalent in our industry just a few years ago.
Art and industry are my puppets. Blessings and curses flow from my mouse, brush, and gradient tool. Wireframes dance to my tune and so, in turn, do the fortunes of my clients – and theirs!
And there's good reason for this because, as we designers know, design can make a huge difference in user/viewer experience across a wide spectrum of endeavors. It is perhaps the consequential and tangible ingredient in product and brand appeal (beyond actual product quality and usefulness). In the business world, this is known as "mindshare" or "buy in." It's worth more than its weight in gold. Marketers will lie, cheat and steal for it. Motion picture studios live and die by it. Automotive corporations devote obtuse percentages of their annual budgets in quests for it.
The top competitors in these and other industries have long understood how design fits into their business aims and how it affects their bottom lines. It seems these days that larger and larger segments of business and culture are getting hip to the design factor in success. About time, I'd say.
Why Now?
Well, I'm no expert. In fact I'm rather biased, being a member of the design profession. Surely this current buzz is not the result of my peers and me having stirred up design to a critical mass. No, definitely not.
Actually, I believe the real reason lies with the fact that our world at-large is now widely dependent on our collective interconnectivity. This relatively new and ever-expanding media soup brings to light a host of usability, attention-sustaining and form/function issues that we've never before experienced so vividly and been so dependent upon. Almost every aspect of our daily lives is affected or facilitated by some sort of media-driven process where design becomes a critical factor.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
By now we've endured the gamut of usability and interest-enhancing experiences, from horrible to excellent, and continue to do so on a daily basis. The difference between the low end and high end of this spectrum is largely governed by design. Bad design = bad experience, good design = good experience, to put not too fine a point on it. For this and for other reasons, designers are indeed powerful – the good ones as well as the bad ones.
So at the risk of merely sounding like an echo of so many recent articles, I have to agree that it totally rocks to be in the design profession these days. Art and industry are my puppets. Blessings and curses flow from my mouse, brush, and gradient tool. Wireframes dance to my tune and so, in turn, do the fortunes of my clients – and theirs! The world is my enchilada. Sweet.
So it would seem that the new buzzword for designers should be responsibility. We hold so much power over the world, whether it is widely recognized or not, that we have an overreaching obligation to exercise our endeavors with caution, wisdom, and restraint. In fact, aside from the fact that we risk harming individuals, businesses or entire industries by a casual approach to design, I'd say we have a significant obligation to future generations of designers. If we abuse the power of design or by our example teach the business world to hold our skills cheap, we could hamstring those who come after us. No kidding, think back to how hard it was to gain trust from a client in the early post–dotcom bust era. Not fun, boys and girls.
Okay, that was a serious moment just now, but it has now passed. The point of this article was to tout the total coolness of being a designer these days. And it is totally cool.


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QE2 has arrived in the US! – not the famed cruise ship, but the second round of quantiative easing by the US Federal Reserve.
The pace of economic recovery in the US has been painfully slow, and momentum is waning with persistent high unemployment, weak housing and construction markets and tight credit availability.
And abroad, there are still the minefields of the European debt crisis, which is already resulting in austerity measures by governments, and a potential economic slowdown in China.
So what is quantitative easing and more importantly, how could it help the economy and the chemical markets? In this action, the Fed will essentially buy up US Treasuries with cash, resulting in a two-pronged impact.
First it injects cash into the economy, boosting overall money supply and liquidity. Secondly, buying up Treasuries puts upward pressure on Treasury prices, driving down the yield and ultimately interest rates.
So money becomes more plentiful and borrowing costs go down. This will give a boost to the overall economy, and hopefully juice-up important end markets for chemicals such as automotive, housing and construction, and consumer durables (white goods).
Plus, an added benefit will come in the form of even lower rates at which companies can refinance their debt. Right now, chemical companies are already lining up to raise funds on attractive terms.
On August 5, US specialty chemical company Ferro sold $250m in 7.875% senior notes due 2018. US specialties firm Chemtura is looking to sell $450m in senior unsecured notes due 2018 to finance its exit from bankruptcy. And Brazilian chemical giant Braskem is issuing an additional $350m in 6.875% senior unsecured notes due 2020 after selling $400m in notes in April at 7%.
Normal monetary measures by the Fed would involve simply taking down the discount and Fed Funds rates, but these are already at record lows after unprecedented "easing" steps through the global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009. With a targeted Fed Funds rate of 0-0.25%, there is basically no more room to maneuver.
But the QE2 measures the Fed is taking will be somewhat limited in scope – at least for now. Right now, the plan is to use funds from maturing mortgages in its $2 trillion securities portfolio to buy up Treasuries. This will amount to around $10-$20bn every month. Observers are hopeful that this could be the first step towards more robust easing actions ahead.
Upon the initial news of QE2 on August 10, which was widely expected, the US stock market reversed much of its losses by the end of the day. But on August 11, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 265 points, or 2.5%, to 10,378, on weaker-than-expected manufacturing data from China and renewed concerns about a global economic slowdown.
China's industrial production in July grew 13.4% year on year – hardly a weak showing, but it was the smallest gain since August 2009.
Economically-sensitive chemical stocks fell harder on the day, including Dow Chemical (-3.1%), DuPont (-3.0%), Hunstman (-5.8%), Eastman Chemical (-3.6%), Celanese (-5.5%) and Georgia Gulf (-10.6%).
It will take more than just baby steps to revive the fading recovery. With inflation currently low, and a greater risk for deflationary conditions ahead, it's time for the Fed to crank up the printing press.
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In a new study put out by the National Partnership for Women and Families, an analysis of the most recent census statistics available has found that Seattle has one of the highest disparities in pay between sexes.
On average, women working full time in the Seattle metro area make $44,535 annually, while their male counterparts make $60,881 – a yearly wage difference of $16,346.
That's an average of 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.
For African American and Latina women, the compensation is even lower. Black women only receive 64 cents for every dollar the average white man takes home, and Latina women only 55 cents.
For the many women living in Seattle, then, the elimination of a wage gap could mean:
- 118 more weeks of food (2.3 years' worth);
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When is a Death Reportable to the Medical Examiner?
Any death…
- Resulting from any form of physical trauma, accident, by fire, electrocution, by self or otherwise without regard to the time period between the traumatic event and death.
- Being the result of an abortion, either self-induced or otherwise (not miscarriage).
- As the consequence of overdose, poisoning, intoxication, drowning, or suffocation/asphyxia or lightning.
- That is "suspicious", "unusual", "unexpected", the result of equipment failure or malfunction; deaths while working "on-the-job" or in an agricultural setting.
- While in custody, detention, or transportation by an agent of the Federal, State, County, and/or City, Village, or Township government.
- Of a mother within one year of delivering a baby.
- Of a child/infant or one "found dead".
- From abuse, neglect, or starvation or allegations of such treatment.
- Of persons believed to be in good health without prior medical conditions that might explain death at the time it occurred and includes those who have been receiving care for such a short time that a reasonable definitive natural cause of death cannot be determined.
- Which is unexpected and/or associated with or result of diagnostic or anesthetic procedures.
- Without medical attendance when the physician of record will not or cannot determine with 'reasonable' accuracy a natural cause of death.
- Where the body/remains are "found dead".
- Hospice/planned home death patients must be reported according to established Medical Examiner criteria. In most cases, these will not be investigated by the Medical Examiner's office unless there is suspicion of foul play, equipment malfunction, or negligence.
- Of individuals within Huron County territorial jurisdiction on the Great Lakes/Saginaw Bay and associated Huron County tributaries draining into the lakes/bay or on Huron County inland lakes, ponds, or other bodies of water.
- Resulting from a high mortality or highly communicable disease or toxic substance, which threatens the public health, safety and/or welfare.
When is Medical Examiner Notification NOT Necessary?
The following DO NOT need to be reported. Questions should be referred to the Medical Examiner. Deaths which need not be reported are …
- Natural deaths, which can be determined with 'reasonable' accuracy by the physician of record who will certify the death and complete the death certificate.
- Hospital or nursing facility patients, which do not fit the above criteria for reporting, even if hospitalized or admitted to a nursing care facility is/has been less than 24 hours, if the physician of record can determine a NATURAL cause of death and the death otherwise does not fit into the reportable criteria above.
- Or will be the result of life support termination unless the death is associated with the reportable criteria above.
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Spectator Magazine - April 3, 1998
(c) David Steinberg. All Rights Reserved.
In 1583, Veronica Franco was the most famous and sought-after courtesan among the pleasure-loving aristocracy of Venice. She was a brilliant thinker, a published poet and, according to historians Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser, "concerned about the plight of other prostitutes, those not as fortunate as she was. She petitioned the Venice senate for realistic measures to help prostitutes with children.... She was trying to make it clear that prostitutes were not an alien species to be punished or raped or saved. She tried to show that these women were just like any other group of working people, trying to survive and help their families survive, in the best way they could."
Franco's 400-year-old advocacy for respect and decent treatment of prostitute women is alive and well in the growing contemporary international movement for prostitute rights, and the current film, "Dangerous Beauty" -- appropriately subtitled "a life without compromise" -- is as direct and outspoken a presentation of the issues being raised by that movement as one could imagine.
Far from the stereotype of the pathetic, broken woman of ill-repute, Franco is shown in "Dangerous Beauty" to be cultured, intelligent, witty, self- possessed, successful, and totally unwilling to take insult from anyone -- man or woman -- who would treat her as anything less than a fully worthy fellow human being. In contrast to the socially respected but intellectually and sexually ignored wives of the Venetian aristocracy, she is her own woman, with her mind, her passions, her finances, her self-respect, and her ambitions intact and outside the control of the men around her. She is involved in affairs of state of the highest order (her triumphant will and sexual ministrations persuade the vain, young King of France to commit his navy in support of the Venetian war against the Turkish infidel). She even triumphs over the cruel and seemingly unlimited power of the Inquisition by refusing to repent for her life or for her profession, and by inspiring the upstanding politicians, businessmen, and even clerics of Venice to stand up and be counted as being among her customers.
The film, directed by Marshall Herskovitz of thirtysomething fame, is lavish, romantic and, like its stars, Catherine McCormack and Rufus Sewell, unrelentingly beautiful to the point of the absurd. But the issues it raises are right on the mark, and point to the parallels between contemporary struggles around the politics of sex and pleasure and those of sumptuous Venice stricken by Bubonic plague. In the words of the publisher of "The Honest Courtesan," the biography of Franco upon which "Dangerous Beauty" is based, "it is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women -- and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries -- that makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today."
Helen and I went last night to see "Bent," the brilliant, minimalist playput -to-screen about the Nazi persecution and death-camp confinement of gays. The film is thankfully modest in its serving up of physical violence, but almost unbearably brutal in its portrayal of the sadistic emotional manipulation that the Nazis were so talented in designing. (Remember "Sophie's Choice," where a mother is forced to decide which one of her two children will live and which will die? That sort of thing.)
"Bent" centers on the numbing dilemmas of trying to physically survive and to preserve scraps of one's humanity in a circumstance of complete and arbitrary totalitarian control mixed with this sort of mental cruelty. To make one part of a long story quite short, Max (Clive Owen), the film's main character, is rounded up by the police during the Night of the Long Knives, when Nazi police went on a rampage terrorizing gay men in Berlin. He is shipped off to Dachau. On the way, he meets Horst (brilliantly played by Lothaire Bluteau of Jesus of Montreal), another gay man being sent away. Horst knows something about the detention camps and warns Max about what plays, and doesn't play, in the mad nether world they are about to enter.
At Dachau, Max bribes a guard to have Horst transferred to his work detail. The two men have the task of moving rocks from one side of the compound to the other and, when that is done, returning them to their original place. It is, Max decides, work designed to drive them insane. Their task of resistance is to find a way to hold onto their sanity as they go through the meaningless ritual, day after day, month after month, through the blazing heat of summer and the cold of snowy winter.
Horst wears the pink triangle that identifies him as homosexual, but Max has bribed a guard to obtain, instead, a yellow star identifying him as Jewish, because Horst has told him that in the camps it is better to be addressed as "you, Jew," than "you, pervert." The guards, unaware that Max is gay, are blind to the friendship, love, and sexual attraction that gradually emerge between the two men.
Every two hours, Max and Horst are allowed a three-minute break, for which they must stand at attention, side by side, unmoving, their eyes fixed straight ahead. During one of these breaks, Horst asks Max if he misses being sexual. Max at first denies any sense of sexual loss, but when Horst persists, he admits that actually he only wishes he didn't miss sex, and then realizes that he misses it very much indeed. Horst then starts to talk Max through the details of the two of them being sexual together. "I'm touching you now.... Can you feel me?" At first Max thinks Horst is simply speaking a fantasy, but Horst pushes further, demanding that Max actually experience what he is describing, not as fantasy but as reality -- pushes Max to experience, in the moment, the two of them actually doing what they say they are doing. To Max's amazement and delight, he does begin to feel what Horst describes, and finds that he can pass feeling back to Horst with his own vivid description of his feelings.
Without touching, without moving, without looking at each other, their backs to the guard the entire time, the two men talk each other into higher and higher states of excitement, faster and faster, until they are both gone, lost in that place of sexual transformation, their shirtless bodies pouring sweat, their eyes rolling back in their heads. They are not imagining they are having sex; they are having sex, and good sex at that. The scene is utterly breathtaking.
"Did you?" asks Horst, after they stop and come back to earth.
"Yes," Max confirms, then asks in return, "Did you?"
"Yes," Horst answers.
Smiling but still not moving, they exult that even under these extreme circumstances, even with the guards and the machine guns, the shaved heads and the inhuman work, the daily threat of death from betrayal or disease, they have been able to have sex together -- powerful, personal, meaningful, intimate, exciting, satisfying sex. And they realize that as long as they can do this, they can stay human; and if they can stay human, they can survive.
It is a stunning portrayal of sex as a fundamental expression of human connection and essential life spirit triumphing over even the most systematic and brutal attempts at its annihilation. And, not coincidentally, it is also a sex scene as hot as any more conventional, hands-on interaction you're likely to see in either mainstream or adult film. I was trembling at the end, both from the intensity of the sex itself, and from the giddy victory of possibility over impossibility, life triumphing over death.
(In an interesting reversal, the power of this scene, lost on many reviewers, was well understood by the ratings board. Dismissed by critics variously as "unintentionally funny" or "near-camp," the "strong scene of graphic sexuality" earned "Bent" its NC-17 rating.)
"Bent" doesn't seem to be in wide distribution and is not (yet) available on video. But if it shows up at a local theater, as it has in Santa Cruz, don't miss it.
On April 25, 1990, a group of FBI agents and officers of the San Francisco Police Department raided the studio of photographer Jock Sturges, seizing his cameras, his prints, his computer -- everything relating to his work as an internationally recognized fine art photographer, much of whose work involves nude portraiture of children and adolescents. The law officers discovered that they had taken on one of the art elite's own as art communities, both in San Francisco and nationally, rallied around Sturges, his work, and the legitimacy of respectful nude photography of children and adolescents. Eventually, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors condemned the raid, and a San Francisco grand jury refused to indict Sturges on any charges.
Sturges' work focuses primarily on nude, entirely non-sexual, portraits of adolescents and children from naturist communities in France and Northern California that Sturges has been associated with for decades. The photos, in museums and private collections around the world, are delightful in the completely natural and powerful personal presences they capture. The unpretentious sensuality of children and adolescents, before they become self- conscious about their sexuality, is not exploited, but neither is it covered up or ignored.
Now Sturges' work is again under legal attack. Grand juries in Montgomery, Alabama, and Franklin, Tennessee, have indicted bookseller Barnes & Noble on child pornography and obscenity charges for selling Sturges' book, "Radiant Identities," as well as the work of British photographer David Hamilton. Grand juries have been impaneled in two additional states and others may follow, according to Sturges. Supporters of Randall Terry and his organization, Operation Rescue -- best known for their protests against abortion clinics -- take credit for bringing the books to the attention of prosecutors by such actions as physically destroying books in Barnes & Noble stores.
"People need to realize that a cultural war has been declared here," Sturges says strongly. "A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population. This represents a whole new level of attention to the arts by repressive forces. It's very scary and it has to be withstood.
"The state attorney general in Alabama, a man who is running for re-election, postulates that my work is 'obscene material of people under the age of 17 involved in obscene acts.' This is pretty chilling language because, in fact, the people in my pictures are not engaged in any acts at all. They are living in contexts that are naturist, which is to say that when it's warm and people feel like it, they don't wear clothes. He finds that, by virtue of the language of his indictment, somehow inherently obscene."
"It's laughable and we'll win these cases, however far it has to go," Sturges continues. "If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. If obscenity is simply a matter of somebody being without clothes, then there are so many other things that would be inherently obscene -- medical books, the National Geographic."
Sturges does not relish being back in the legal limelight. Although the indictments are not directed against him, his legal expenses will be substantial. In the meantime, the turmoil pulls him away from his work and his normal life. "It's a madhouse around here," Sturges says with more than a little exasperation, when I go to talk to him about his current situation. "Thursday we had 140 phone calls."
As we're talking, the doorbell rings. Sturges stiffens. "I hate it when that happens," he says with an edge.
"When what happens?" I ask.
"When the bell rings and I'm not expecting anyone. I still remember the time that happened when it was the feds and the police who had come to turn my life upside down."
Sturges' work is available in three published volumes, "Radiant Identities," "The Last Day of Summer," and "Jock Sturges: Photographs."
Did you catch Steve Rubenstein's cute feature in the San Francisco Chronicle a while back, the one that noted how it's actually codified into New York City's manual for taxi drivers that passengers are entitled to have all the sex they want in cabs without having to worry about disapproval or interference from their cabbies? Well, that is indeed the current word on the matter.
Seems it's all part of a Big Apple program to promote courteous attitudes by drivers toward the city's bus and taxi passengers. The city itself is on record and is actively instructing its cabbies that if passengers want to have sex in their cab, the driver must mind his or her own business, as long as the sex doesn't interfere with the safe operation of the cab. "Does sex [necessarily] interfere?" asks Terry Gelber of the Master Cabbies academy of cab-driving etiquette. "I don't think it does."
So if you're getting it on in a New York cab and your driver tells you to cut it out, or even so much as throws you a disapproving look, you could (if you wanted to) take down the driver's name and number and report him/her to the authorities for uncabdriverlike behavior. And, just by the by, the new mandatory sensitivity training course for cabbies makes clear that gay and lesbian riders are to be accorded fully the same sexual privileges as their heterosexual co-passengers, thank you very much.
Now this is a sensible enough policy, but as we all know from the grand antisexual reality we have to deal with from the day we are born, common sense about sex is distinctly uncommon, so I found myself doing something of a double take when I read about this little island of sexual sanity. I called my friend Jon Bailiff, a former driver for Veterans Cab in San Francisco, to find out if this was a uniquely New York sensibility, or if sex-tolerant vehicles for hire also existed west of the Hudson. The info on New York was no surprise to Jon. Indeed, he says, the situation is quite the same in San Francisco.
"As long as the driver can maintain control of the vehicle," says Jon, "people can do anything they want, as long as it's not illegal. You're basically in a private room, not out on the street." Without going into details, Jon told me that there were any number of times when he had had the pleasure of people having sex in his cab. In fact, he said, there had been times.... Well, he might not want me to go into that.
As of the last time I looked, having sex was still legal. So if you're in a cab and you and yours are in the mood, know that the rule book stands solidly behind your libido, at least in these two bicoastal urban breeding grounds of sin and degradation. Remember, you do still have to avoid breaking the laws about indecent exposure. If you put your sex in the face of people outside the cab you run the risk of getting popped by a frustrated cop, which would make you in violation of the taxicab rules as well. But with a little attention to keeping it all below the window line, taxis are one place where sex actually seems to have the right of way.
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Connecticut priest sentenced to five months in prison
Connecticut Catholic pastor Fr. Michael Moynihan was sentenced [1] to five months in federal prison after pleading guilty [2] to obstructing a federal investigation into his personal use of parish money. He will have to pay the parish $409,000 for reimbursement of the investigation.
It was an open secret for years in Greenwich, Conn., and beyond that Moynihan, pastor of perhaps the wealthiest parish in town, St. Michael's Parish, lived the high life. Stories abounded of Moynihan's lifestyle: for example, having white-glove waiters serve the vicariate dinners held at St. Michael's. There were plenty of red flags that something was materially amiss.
The Bridgeport diocese, then under now-Archbishop of Balitmore William Lori, never adequately explained how it missed Moynihan's malfeasance. While Moynihan finally gets jail time for obstruction of a federal investigation, the Bridgeport diocese has not sued Moynihan for a return of the funds he stole from the parish.
Furthermore, neither the federal prosecutor, David Fein [3], nor the current state attorney general, George Jepsen [4], has pressed criminal charges against Moynihan. Jepsen's longtime predecessor, Richard Blumenthal [5], now a senator for the state of Connecticut, never prosecuted multiple priest embezzlement cases in the Bridgeport diocese, the Hartford Archdiocese and the Norwich diocese.
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Appleby Manor Country House Hotel was asked to feature in the forthcoming Great British Cook Book 2014.
Co-owner Mike Dunbobbin said: "The book celebrates our very diverse culture, uncovering extraordinary dishes served up by hundreds of pubs, restaurants and hotels across our great nation and Appleby Manor is thrilled to have been asked to join this fantastic project."
All of the book sales will be divided between two charities – the Hospitality Action and Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Sure, the 2010 Super Bowl looks like it oughta be a nail-biting classic, but what if it's not? Start in on the proposition betting — wagers on just about anything but the actual outcome — and you won't have merely the ads to get excited about. Only this year, forget that random safety and who scores the first TD — gambling gets much goofier with off-the-field props (What color top will Kim Kardashian wear?) and cross-sport action (Will LeBron outscore the Saints?). We asked two top wise guys — Bodog.com's Richard Gardner and Las Vegas Hilton bookmaker Jay "King of Props" Kornegay — to parse the odds (as of early Wednesday) behind the weirdest of wagers.
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The Play: Over. As long as they close with "Won't Get Fooled Again," which they probably will.
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Jacinto Molina, Carlos Fuentes and Carmen Morales star in director Carlos Gil's creepy film about an angry spirit's determined attempts to frighten any unwanted visitors in his chosen abode. In this case, his haunting grounds are an old building that formerly housed the school in which he served as a security guard. One day, he snapped, embarking on a rampage that would leave many dead and his soul disturbed and directionless for years.


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I received an EMail from Mr. Edward So offering an apology for the incident on Sept. 4th, 2010 when the Paramedics came and took me to Mt. St. Joseph's Hospital. After being hospitalized for the better part of that weekend, when I returned home I EMailed Denny's on Wst Broadway, near the intersection of Broadway & Alder. Mr. So also offered coupons upon received of my mailing address. My friend and I live directly behind Denny's at 1265 Wst 10th, My Apt. #102, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1J5. Thank-you.


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Membership in the Teaching Academy recognizes outstanding and scholarly teaching in the graduate, undergraduate, or engagement programs of Purdue University. Members of the Teaching Academy help promote the scholarship of teaching and learning, and share their expertise across campus with their colleagues. Each spring individuals with a passion and commitment to teaching who have been recognized as outstanding teachers by their students and peers are encouraged to be nominated by their Dean for consideration to be inducted into the Teaching Academy.
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We develop and test a new theory of security issuance that is consistent with the puzzling stylized fact that firms issue equity when their stock prices are high. The theory also generates new predictions. Our theory predicts that managers use equity to finance projects when they believe that investors' views about project payoffs are likely to be aligned with theirs, thus maximizing the likelihood of agreement with investors. Otherwise, they use debt. We find strong empirical support for our theory and document its incremental explanatory power over other security‐issuance theories such as market timing and time‐varying adverse selection.


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Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2012
A massive project to divert water from China's south to its drought-prone north -- which has seen hundreds of thousands of people relocated -- will become partly operational next year, state media reported.
The South-North Water Diversion Project is one of the country's largest infrastructure projects since the building of the Three Gorges Dam, which involved the relocation of more than one million people.
Sun Yifu, deputy water resources chief in the eastern province of Shandong -- who is also involved in the programme -- said his province's part of the project would be completed at the end of the year, the Xinhua news agency said.
He added that "the entire project" would become operational in the first half of 2013, and start supplying water to arid parts of the north, the report said late Saturday.
China's South-North Water Diversion project consists of three routes -- the eastern, middle and western routes -- and Sun was referring to the eastern portion of the project, or a 1,890-kilometre (1,170-mile) canal.
Construction on the 1,430-kilometre central route began in 2003 and will only be operational in 2014. The western section, meanwhile, has yet to see the light of day.
Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong is credited with coming up with the idea for the massive diversion programme, which will feature a tunnel dug beneath the Yellow River -- the second-largest in China.
But the project -- which will cost an estimated 500 billion yuan ($79 billion) -- was only approved in 2002.
Critics say it could be a huge waste of resources that risks creating new water shortages and sparking environmental disasters. They also point to the human cost of mass relocations to make way for the canals.
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Dr. Tidwell is a native of Columbus. She received her undergraduate degree at Emory University and her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia. She completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and returned to her hometown to practice. She is Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology. She has one daughter, Morgan born in September 2003.
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Whitman's 2017 Convocation is scheduled for Friday August 25, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in Cordiner Hall.
The word "Convocation" arises from the Latin "con" meaning "together" and "vocare" meaning "to call." The Whitman College Convocation ceremony is a calling together of everyone on campus - students, parents, faculty, and staff - to mark the beginning of the next academic cycle, and to welcome the incoming class of first year students into our community.


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A couple people have asked me how I'm hosting the Sinatra-based pastie service we wrote in yesterday's revised tutorial. The previous version ran on a mongrel handler frontended by nginx, but for this version I decided to try something a little different.
One of the big announcements at Railsconf last month was that Passenger (aka mod_rails) would be releasing a v2.0 with support not only for Rails applications but also for Rack, meaning that any Rack-based Ruby web framework can also run on it. Yay for deployment options, right? So anyway, I figured we'd give that a shot.
For those of you who haven't yet mucked with it, Passenger is dead simple to setup. Run
gem install passenger to pull down the gem, and execute the
passenger-install-apache2-module command to build and install the Apache 2.2 module (you'll need the proper Apache libraries to be present of course). The command output will show you how to configure Apache to load the module.
Getting Passenger to run a Sinatra-based application also turned out to be remarkably easy. All you need to do is create a regular old Rackup script. The file will need to be named
config.ru and should contain all the logic necessary to initialize our app:
require 'rubygems' require 'sinatra'
Sinatra::Application.default_options.merge!( :run => false, :env => ENV['RACK_ENV'] )
require 'toopaste' run Sinatra.application
Place this file in the folder on your server where
toopaste.rb and the
views directory reside.
Next, create a
public directory. This is where any static images, JavaScripts, or stylesheets would be kept (we're not using any, in this simple example). Point your vhost's
DocumentRoot here:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName paste.zerosum.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/toopaste/public
You might as well create a
tmp directory too. You can place a
restart.txt file in this directory to tell Passenger it needs to reload the app without restarting Apache (you can use this in your cap restart tasks, too).
Couldn't be much easier. For more information on deploying other Rack-based frameworks (Merb, Camping, Ramaze, etc) and various other config options, check Passenger's user guide.


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Colchester United manager Joe Dunne admitted his side "stopped the rot" after ending a run of three straight defeats with a 0-0 draw against Rotherham United.
The U's battled to claim a point against the promotion-chasing Millers, following a tight contest at the Weston Homes Community Stadium.
Dunne said: "We've stopped the rot, if you like.
"I was very pleased with the performance.
"We had to nullify their threats and we went with a team so that we were able to get bodies behind the ball when needed and attackers to get forward.
"At the start it really looked like it was going to pay off and we had great movement but were just shy of the pass in the final third but I think we've fully deserved the point.
"In the games ahead for the rest of the season, I'm sure we'll score goals."
Colchester thought they had scored in the first half when Sanchez Watt had the ball in the net.
But the effort was chalked off by referee Brendan Malone after Clinton Morrison was adjudged to have fouled Millers goalkeeper Adam Collin.
"I think it was the correct decision," added Dunne.
"What we were concerned about was the period of time between the ball going in the net and the whistle going and he gave himself a period of time to think about it.
"I think overall, it got it right so no complaints."
For a full match report and pictures from the U's game against Rotherham ,see Wednesday's Daily Gazette.


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- Henbit Hen"bit`, n. (Bot.) A weed of the genus {Lamium} ({Lamium amplexicaule}) with deeply crenate leaves. [1913 Webster]
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henbit — [hen′bit΄] n. [ HEN + BIT2] a spreading weedy plant (Lamium amplexicaule) of the mint family, with rounded, opposite leaves and small, pink or lavender flowers … English World dictionary
henbit — /ˈhɛnbɪt/ (say henbit) noun a weed, Lamium amplexicaule, with small purplish flowers; dead nettle. {hen + bit2 (apparently 16th century translation of German Hoenderbeet)} … Australian English dictionary
henbit — noun Date: 1597 a Eurasian herb (Lamium amplexicaule) of the mint family that has small scalloped leaves and purplish flowers and is naturalized in North America … New Collegiate Dictionary
henbit — /hen bit /, n. a common weed, Lamium amplexicaule, of the mint family, having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers. [1570 80; HEN + BIT2] * * * … Universalium
henbit — n. plant of the mint family with round leaves and small white or purple flowers … English contemporary dictionary
henbit — [ hɛnbɪt] noun a dead nettle with purple flowers and partly prostrate stems. [Lamium amplexicaule.] Origin C16: appar. a translation of Low Ger. or Du. hoenderbeet hen s bed … English new terms dictionary
henbit — hen•bit [[t]ˈhɛnˌbɪt[/t]] n. pln a weed, Lamium amplexicaule, of the mint family, having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers • Etymology: 1570–80 … From formal English to slang
henbit — noun Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two lipped white or purplish red flowers • Syn: ↑Lamium amplexicaule • Hypernyms: ↑dead nettle • Member Holonyms: ↑Lamium, ↑genus Lamium … Useful english dictionary
Henbit (horse) — Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename = Henbit caption = sire = Hawaii grandsire = Utrillo dam = Chateaucreek damsire = Chateaugay sex = Stallion foaled = 1977 country = United States flagicon|United States colour = Bay breeder = Mrs J. G.… … Wikipedia
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Jesus can save you
If you are not saved, YOU NEED TO REPENT!
Or maybe you don't know why you need repentance?
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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them,
O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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LONG BEACH - Visitors to city parks who want to stay plugged in may soon be able to connect wirelessly to the Internet.
The Long Beach City Council voted 9-0 Tuesday to direct staff to investigate bringing Wi-Fi service to existing parks and integrate it into future parks as a cost of construction. A report will be forwarded within 90 days to the Parks and Recreation Commission.
Vice Mayor Robert Garcia, who authored the proposal, said the amenity would benefit recreational park users as well as workers who increasingly rely on Internet access wherever they go for their jobs.
"They're no longer working in the office in a 9-to-5 environment like people used to," Garcia said.
Dozens of municipalities across the United States offer wireless Internet at select locations or citywide.
According to Garcia, Wi-Fi is offered in California state parks and in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago.
"You name a major city and they're working on this project," he said.
The vice mayor's idea has attracted more than 600 "likes" on his Facebook page.
Councilman Patrick O'Donnell supported Garcia's request for a report but expressed reservations.
"Just looking at the condition of our parks, the infrastructure, I have to be honest, this is just not a high priority for me," O'Donnell said.
Garcia said, though, that public-private partnerships may be able to provide the service for little or no cost.
The resolution was co-sponsored by Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske and Councilman Steven Neal.
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For the Moms Shawl
Mother-in-laws, cool grandmas, any woman on your list will look great in this airy, versatile shawl made with "magic" yarn, which changes color and texture as you stitch.
Requires 2 skeins each of two colors
Finished Size:
Shawl measures approx 54"/137cm wide across top edge x 25"/63.5cm long from lower point to top edge.
Gauge Notes:
2 diamonds 4.25"/11cm
4 rows of diamonds 4"/10cm over pattern


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MANILA – I'm still on the road in Asia where I've had the opportunity to present media briefings on the commercial airplanes market outlook for the Asia Pacific region - first at Asian Aerospace 2009 in Hong Kong, then in the Philippines, and later this week, in Beijing.
At Asian Aerospace, my colleague Jim Edgar, our Commercial Airplanes regional director, Cargo Marketing, noted that despite unprecedented contraction in cargo traffic, we remain confident in the long-term strength of the market. Asian carriers will add about 750 freighters to the fleet to accommodate growth and airplane retirements.
A model of the COMAC C919 on display at Asian Aerospace.
In Hong Kong we also reported that based on our forecast Asia Pacific will become the largest air travel market on the planet. We think that in 20 years, more than 40% of the world's airline traffic will involve that region of the world.
In fact we think that in less time than that, maybe less than 10 years, Asia Pacific will rank as the top air travel market.
At the Boeing media briefing in Hong Kong, a lucky drawing winner came away with a 1/100th scale 747-8I model. And that winner was a surprised Charlotte So, business reporter for the South China Morning Post.
After two days of non-stop media interviews at Asian Aerospace I jetted into Manila. Believe it or not, this was my first visit to the Philippines. That's right. Despite thousands of miles of travel, I'd never before found myself in this part of Southeast Asia.
When I got to Manila, I had just missed some rain showers. Instead, I was impressed by the abundance of sunny hospitality surrounding me. Boeing has a long history of valued partnership with the Philippines dating back to legacy Boeing airplanes in service here since 1946.
This is a burgeoning market where roughly one in ten jobs is supported by travel and tourism. The Philippines welcomed 3.1 million international visitors in 2008.
At a media briefing in Manila, I was joined by more than 40 journalists, with the support of some Philippine Airlines (PAL) executives.
I shared some great conversations in Manila. Here I'm with (L to R) Cesar Chiong, PAL senior assistant VP; Scott Grimsby, Boeing sales director; Nicky Gozon, PAL executive assistant to the president; and Jaimie Bautista, PAL president and CEO.
One of the key things I pointed out was that while the world aviation market is challenging today, overall, Philippine carriers are growing. The Philippines market has seen significant growth over the last 10 years.
There are five new jet operators, and scheduled weekly seats have doubled over the past 10 years (based on Philippine operator departures – August 2009 vs. August 1999). Carriers here serve more than 27 international destinations and have 21 jets on order including four 777s, plus two others on lease
By the way, the Boeing 777-300ER joins the Philippine Airlines fleet this November.
From here, I continue my Asia travels for a while longer. This week, it's several days of meetings in China with customers and journalists.


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"Theoretically, a person could survive in one of the cabins that is above the water line for days," he said.
But she had kept Timothys nose above the water line, and she breathed a sigh of satisfaction.
What will be the effect on its water line when passing into the ocean?
She is armed with a contact torpedo charged with dynamite carried on a 10-foot ram, lying deeply under the water line.
It stood not far from the bank, its roof above the water line.
Shot after shot hit the Cap Trafalgar on the water line, and soon she caught fire.
Two shells plowed into the crippled German just on the water line.
Her streaks are so nearly on her water line that the resistance, if any, must be infinitesimal.
A water line is run down the partition fence to the rear yard.
With such a load the gunwales of the craft were possibly three or four inches above the water line.


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Morrow becomes first Jays pitcher to work eight innings
By BOB ELLIOTT, QMI Agency
They were undefeated and untied from November to January.
They played 33 exhibition games in February and March.
But when the four-bus, two-truck caravan carrying the Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners to Pearson International — accompanied by a police escort — left the Rogers Centre at 4:35 on Sunday afternoon, it appeared to be the best chance the Jays had to ride in a parade this season.
Looking back, it was a fun season full of promise.
After a 10-2 thumping of the Seattle Mariners on Sunday before 22,937 at the Rogers Centre, the Jays sit dead last in the American League East, tied for the third worst start in their 37-year history.


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Guest opinion: There is an easy solution to the endless conflict in Palestine: the Arab peoples of the region must accept that Jews have a right to live in their ancestral homeland with the democratic sovereignty it aims to protect. If they did this, there would be no reason to lob rockets into Israel, and hence no need for Israel to retaliate.
The behaviour of the two sides could not be more ethically disparate to any fair-minded observer. Hamas, whose charter states the goal of destroying Israel, makes its attacks with intent to extirpate. When the Israel Defence Force returns fire, it takes the unprecedentedly-humane step of attempting to contact civilians to warn them of impending strikes. Hamas deliberately targets civilians and Israel's comparatively-low casualty count owes to its infrastructure of shelters to protect its citizens, not a moral distinction of an
Arab David and a Jewish Goliath. Hamas, meanwhile, fires its weapons from the vicinity of civilians—a war crime which ensures casualties on its own side.
P.E.I.'s own Island Peace Committee, which held a rally yesterday at Province House, believes that the Arabs are the sole victims and calls for "an end to the occupation, as it is the primary cause of injustice that underlies violence in the region." ("Violence" including suicide bombing, by the way.) Their campaign is full of euphemism, inaccuracy, and oversimplification which belie the facts.
First, the use of the term "Palestinian" to refer exclusively to the area's non-Jewish population is misleading. This word is not indigenous to or descriptive of a distinct, historical Arab nation. In fact, it was only revived from centuries of disuse by Arthur Balfour in his 1917 declaration of British support for a Jewish homeland "in Palestine". Being a previously-extinct term of Roman origin, it was no doubt chosen to suggest an even-handedness on Britain's part. The Ottoman Empire, which collapsed after its defeat in World War I, never had a province named Palestine or one that corresponded to the territory of what is now meant by the term.
During the British mandate, "Palestinian" referred principally to the Jews, not the Arabs. For instance, the Jewish newspaper published in English was called the Palestine Post, now the Jerusalem Post. Furthermore, the use of "Palestinian" by today's anti-Israel activists connotes Arab entitlement to the whole territory, supposedly because it was theirs before the Jews showed up. But this is also incorrect. The area in the late 19th century through Mandate Palestine saw significant immigration from both Jews and Arabs, both of whom have an equal right to be called Palestinians. Jews, in fact, inhabited Judea well before there were such things as Christianity, Islam, or the Arabic language, with a continuous population well before Zionism.
When anti-Israel folks speak of an illegal West Bank occupation, they make it sound as if there were once a Palestinian Arab state who controlled it before Israel took over. But before the 1967 war, the West Bank was actually controlled by Jordan, who annexed it in 1948. As Jordan makes no claim to the West Bank now, it is not legally clear what state is in fact being occupied. Of course, it is clear that a people — the Palestine Arabs — are subject to foreign rule, but a state of their own can be established through negotiation.
Nor is it true that Israel refuses the possibility of a peace agreement. Nay, it longs for one. In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered a West Bank state along 1967 lines with land exchanges, a secure tunnel connecting the new state to the Gaza Strip, cession of Judaism's holiest site in the Temple Mount, and the incremental absorption of 5,000 Arab refugees into Israel. The delegation of the Palestinian Authority never responded and the negotiations collapsed. This was only one of many offers made by Israel in the past two decades.
So the proverbial ball of peace lies firmly in the Arab court. It is not the Israelis who deny the right of Arabs to live in their own state, but the most powerful local Arab organization — which enjoys much public support — who denies such a right to the Jews. Any activist group with peace in its name should lobby for an Arab return to negotiations, not more smearing of Israel.
Jackson Doughart is a graduate of UPEI and Queen's University.