text:
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
PAHs can form in a variety of ways, as a result of both biological and non-biological processes. On Earth, they can cause pollution and cancer and are found, for example, in diesel exhaust, burned pots and pans, charred hamburgers, and cigarette smoke. Among cosmic sources of PAHs are carbonaceous chondrites, which originated in the main asteroid belt and are not associated with life as far as we know. On the other hand, David McKay and his colleagues have tried to show that the PAHs in the meteorite ALH 84001 are derived from ancient Martian bacteria, though this has been strongly disputed (see Martian "fossils" controversy).
In December 1998, scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center and the Astrophysikalisches Institute in Germany reported finding the spectroscopic signatures of PAHs in interstellar space.1 Ames researchers simulated conditions in space using extreme cold, a near-vacuum, and artificial starlight. Then they measured the spectra of large, carbon-bearing molecules in the ultraviolet and visible bands of the spectrum, and compared their results to astronomical data from Kitt Peak and other observatories. The German scientists carried out a similar study using other forms of carbon molecule. The result of the collaboration was the conclusion that previously unidentified absorption features in the spectra of the interstellar medium, known as diffuse interstellar bands, are due to PAHs in space which originated in the atmospheres of red giants. This adds to the growing impression that complex carbon chemistry is a universal phenomenon and that carbon-based life may also be common throughout space.
Related categories• BIOCHEMISTRY
Home • About • Copyright © The Worlds of David Darling • Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy • Contact


text:
Analog Toys Get A Second Life As Artistic Robots [Videos]
Echo Yang gives a group of forgotten objects an art career of their own.
No longer content to hop around in circles or spin around in cake batter all day, a group of mechanical toys and small appliances are beginning a second career as painters, using their repetitive motions to make intricate patterns on paper. The Autonomous Machines Project, the brainchild of freelance graphic designer and 2013 MA Information Design graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven Echo Yang, is meant as an answer to modern generative design processes, wherein computers create endless variations on a theme without human input. Instead of the complex mathematical programming involved in these processes, Yang's creatures click, hop and spin, each showing the trace of their motion in paint, ink and various other materials.
For the TinToy (chicken) variation, Yang attached cotton swabs with various colors of paints to the back of a wind-up chicken toy. Half of the toy's outer shell was removed, presumably for balance reasons. The colors may have been chosen by Yang, but the patterns in which they're arrayed are the 'choice' of the chicken.
A hand mixer got its own mini paint brushes in the hand mixer variation. Watching the ink appear on the page in circular patterns is mesmerizing.
If you've never seen a Walkman make anything actually walk, check out this video of one using a bent wire to spin a pencil lead around. It's a noisy process that creates bold, uneven streaks on the paper. After 48 minutes, it started to tear up the surface. A differently bent wire creates a much smoother result.
Yang's electric shaver also makes circular patterns that are fine and pressure-sensitive. The robustness of this tool, which required little modification from its original form, allows for human factors like pressure to come into play as it is manipulated by human, instead of machine, hands.
The wildcard in Yang's upright vacuum cleaner experiment was the fuzzy material of the device's brushes. As it turns out, they spat out the ink in randomized splatters. Yang also tried leaving the vacuum cleaner to its own devices, which created some even crazier patterns.
Who knew that a windup clock could use a pencil? The watch's mechanism, unaccustomed to carrying such a heavy weight, groans and complains as it makes tiny dots all over the paper, first with pencil lead and then with charcoal.
Two more autonomous art machines – a hand sewing machine and a food chopper – can be found on Yang's Vimeo channel.
Image and Source: Mocoloco

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Paideia 1a
Fall 2007
We will weave together intentionally the strands of Paideia: academics, intercultural, collaborative, and civic engagement. The Paideia Program seeks to assist the Paideia Scholars in their search for a life that is connected, thoughtful, and authentic. Our seminar and tutorial sessions are designed to assist each seminar member in the pursuit of such a life.
The following shared values, methods, and procedures continue to clarify our approach to learning in this seminar:
Therefore, this seminar will require all of us to "stretch" beyond our established frames of reference, limits of understanding, and levels of comfort. The end result will be the integration of diverse learning experiences and progress toward the realization of our respective personal goals with regard to our educations.
Attendance Policy. Attendance in your Paideia Seminar and at your Paideia one-on-one appointments is required. Because attendance and participation are such integral parts of this program, students who miss either a seminar session or a one-on-one meeting with their Paideia Professor due to an unexcused absence will receive a lower class participation grade (see below). In addition, they will be placed on probation with the three-year Paideia Program. Any additional unexcused absences during the duration of the Paideia Program will typically result in your termination from the Program. All probationary cases will be reviewed by the group of ten Paideia Professors.
The class is offered on a P/D/F basis:70%-100% = P
Reflective essays will be graded according to the following scale:
- High Pass(95%). Such essays will contain a clearly, succinctly
stated thesis and exemplary supporting evidence; they
will also be stylistically excellent (that is, be well
organized, worded, and presented).
- Pass (85%). Such essays will contain a clearly, succinctly
stated thesis and good supporting evidence; organization,
word choice, and argumentation will be good but not
- Low Pass(65%). Such essays will contain a thesis and
supporting evidence but clearly lack clear
organization, word choices, and overall effect.
- F (50%). Such essays will either lack a clear thesis,
supporting evidence, or be so stylistically flawed as
to make it impossible to determine the thesis.
- F- (0%). Written assignment not turned in
Class/Program participation 50% of final grade
Assignments: 50% of final grade
Honor Code. The Honor Code applies to the Padeia Program. Students will be expected to complete their work as defined by the course. At times, students must work alone, at other times with other students and professors.
Accommodations. Southwestern University will make reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. To arrange accommodations students should contact the Academic Services Coordinator within the Office of Academic Services (Cullen Building, 3rd floo). Students seeking accommodations should notify the Academic Services Coordinator at least two weeks before services are needed. It is the student's responsibility to discuss any necessary accommodations with the appropriate faculty member.
Session #1 (Aug. 28)
Session 1
* goals
*service ("civic engagement")
Session #2 (Sept. 4)
Please post a response (tab under your name) to the following essay:
Paideia: ancient Greek word referring to the sum total of one's educational experience.
Homer in the Odyssey tells us that Penelope wove a fantastic cloth. This tapestry, woven in Greece, was made with precious dyes from the Levant and had pictures of griffins from Mesopotamia and palmettes from north Africa. This description in the Odyssey provides an analogy with Southwestern. The faculty and students are a tapestry woven together for the purpose of teaching and learning. Each one of us is a thread in a differing hue, either a culture, set of ideas, background, or thought process. Together we make a whole cloth, a tapestry bright with many colors and patterned with different figures.
Let us define the ancient view of the liberal arts. Many years ago, the Greeks debated the concept of what we call the liberal arts. To them, learning was philo-sophia, love of wisdom. Facts were considered as part of a whole and were not separated as is our custom. Biology (the knowledge of life) was part of natural philosophy. Euclidian geometry was studied as another part of philosophy. The ancients had what is now called a multi-disciplinary educational approach.
Some of our most beautiful art, most thoughtful poetry, and valuable societal ideals come to us from ancient Greece. On the other hand, there is a dichotomy that some practices of the ancient Greeks were abhorrent, such as slavery, elitism, and marginalization of women; this dichotomy is worth studying for its valuable lessons. The achievements of this complex society are extraordinary, including in the areas of medicine, biology, physics, geography, history, theater, warfare-so much so that their short span on the human stage can be described honestly as a watershed period in history. Because of Greece's place between east and west, much of the Greek experience is syncretistic. The art of the Parthenon comes ultimately from Africa, Socrates' philosophy finds its roots in Asia, and nearly all Greek ritual/religious practices come from the eastern Mediterranean and what we call the "fertile crescent."
Today we continue the connection with ancient Greece. Arab scholars kept alive the philosophy, science, plays, and mathematics of the ancients, Renaissance thinkers discovered the ancient world, eighteenth century American constitutional delegates were inspired by it, and twentieth century artists reinterpreted it. It can be said-in no sense prejudicially-that the ancient Greeks have affected our thinking.
So what can these people tell us about the liberal arts that is at all useful and relevant? First is that knowledge is a whole and that the holistic or multi-disciplinary approach is extremely valuable. Secondly, that any knowledge base must incorporate all disciplines. Finally, that knowledge is syncretistic and that its base must come from many cultures and areas of the world.
The ideal, then, is to have a knowledge base that is a useful blend of learning from many different areas. How can we strive for this kind of learning experience? Paideia attempts to amplify and clarify what we already do at Southwestern, that is, to embrace learning and knowledge holistically.
Paideia should be within in the true Greek sense of the symposium: that, through an exchange of ideas, true intellectual questions can be considered. Let the symposium begin!
P. Haskell
In class, be prepared to discuss:
* Extracurriculars / accountability
* Service: how does one conceive of researching, discussing, choosing a group service project?
Session #3 (Sept. 11)
Each Paideia Scholar will compose a one page letter that begins "Dear Paideia Group, My hopes and dreams for the Paideia Program at Southwestern and for our group are.... Therefore, I think that we should...."
Session #4 (Sept. 18)
Please read and react with a short essay to the following article from Newsweek. Post your reflection under your personal tab below.
By Sarah Kliff
Sept. 10, 2007 issue - One week into his premed classes at Washington University in St. Louis, Ryan Jacobson was rethinking his plan to become a doctor. His biology and chemistry classes were large, competitive and impersonal—not how he wanted to spend the next four years. "Sitting in a chemistry class, I knew it wasn't the right place for me," he says. Jacobson found the history department, with its focus on faculty interaction and discussion, a better fit. But he had no intention of leaving his medical aspirations behind. So Jacobson majored in history while also taking the science and math courses required for medical school. When he graduated last spring, he won the departmental prize for undergraduate thesis for his work on the history of race relations in Tulsa, Okla. He started medical school at the University of Illinois last month. "Historians are supposed to integrate information with the big picture," he says, "which will hopefully be useful as a physician."
Even as breakthroughs in science and advances in technology make the practice of medicine increasingly complex, medical educators are looking beyond biology and chemistry majors in the search for more well-rounded students who can be molded into caring and analytic doctors. "More humanities students have been applying in recent years, and medical schools like them," says Gwen Garrison, vice president for medical-school services and studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges. "The schools are looking for a kind of compassion and potential doctoring ability.This makes many social-science and humanities students particularly well qualified."
The number of science majors applying to medical school has been steady for the past decade—about 65 percent of applicants major in biology or another physical science. What's changing is who gets in. When Gail Morrison, who runs admissions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, sorts through the school's 6,500 yearly applicants, she is not looking for students who spent their undergrad years hunched over biology and physics textbooks. "It doesn't make you a better doctor to know how fast a mass falls from a tree," she says. Approximately 40 percent of the students that Penn accepts to its medical school now come from nonscience backgrounds. That number has been rising steadily over the past 20 years. "They've got to be happy and have a life outside of medicine," says Morrison, "otherwise they'll get overwhelmed. We need whole people."
In 1999, a national survey of first-year medical students found that 58 percent took a social-science class for personal interest. In last year's entering class, the number was more than 70 percent. Humanities students also fare better on the MCAT, the standardized test for medical-school admissions. Among the 2006 applicants to medical school, humanities majors outscored biology majors in all categories.
Michael Sciola, who's been advising premed students at Wesleyan University for the past 13 years, has seen liberal-arts majors become more attractive to medical schools. And he's not surprised that those who stray from science are finding success. "Medical schools have really been looking for that scholar-physician in the past few years," he says. "We're living in an increasingly complex world, and the liberal arts give you the skills to understand that better."
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has a program designed to attract nonscience majors. Each year, Mount Sinai accepts about 30 college sophomores from around the country through its humanities and medicine program. The students do not have to take the MCAT, but they are required to pursue a humanities major as undergrads before starting at Mount Sinai. "The students who come in with a humanities background see patients more as a whole patient," says Miki Rifkin, the program's director. She says that these students often outperform their peers, with higher rates of competitive residency placements.
Andrea Schwartz, a third-year medical student in the Mount Sinai program, attended Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary and has a dual degree in history and Bible studies. "Having such a varied experience has given me the opportunity to appreciate different angles," says Schwartz, who is interested in geriatrics. "The intense text study I did as an undergrad helps me when I'm taking patients' histories. It taught me to be a better listener." That sort of training may be just what the doctor ordered.
Session #5 (Sept. 25)
Please read, and write a response paper to,
Our Compassless Colleges
Do agree/disagree with Berkowitz's various points? What relates to the situation at SU?
Please post your response under your individual tab below.
Session #12 (Nov. 6)
Post some thoughts here regarding the blogs on andrewmayo.googlepages.com
Respond to Amanda's flags: "Just be thinking about how we perceive other people and situations in different countries after world events, along with how other countries perceive us (Americans), especially when we are in a different country."
Session #13 (Nov. 15)
[Talitha] "Read (Don't hate me!) the attached excerpt and post (again, don't hate me!) your response or thoughts on segue. Also, please think about our own civic engagement project. Happy Reading!!!"
Excerpt from:
Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility (2003) by Anne Colby
This book takes up the question of what kinds of influence undergraduate education can have on students' development as ethical, committed, and engaged human beings and citizens. The undergraduate years are just one part of a lifelong developmental process, but especially if efforts are intentionally designed with these developmental outcomes in mind, colleges can establish some groundwork that students can later build on, shape the intellectual frameworks and habits of mind they bring to their adult experiences, change the way they understand the responsibilities that are central to their sense of self, and teach them to offer and demand evidence and justification for their moral and political positions and to develop wiser judgment in approaching situations and questions that represent potential turning points in their lives.
In a loose sense, undergraduate education at its best can resemble the preparations explorers make when preparing for expeditions into uncharted territories. Meriwether Lewis, for example, prior to his exploration of the North American continent with William Clark, collected a wide array of tools and learned how to use many that were new to him (chronometers, sextants, and other scientific instruments; medical equipment; and so on). With the help of some extraordinary teachers and mentors, including Thomas Jefferson, Albert Gallatin, Benjamin Rush, and others, he mastered knowledge that he would need (in geography, botany, natural history, astronomy, commerce, and American Indian culture) and learned scientific techniques that would allow him to use his explorations to expand the boundaries of that knowledge. Before assembling a team, he thought hard about what kind of men he needed and how he could maintain a cohesive corps. Lewis also collected the best existing maps, however incomplete they were, and out of his experience with those maps and integration of the disparate bodies of knowledge he had studied, his plans took shape (Ambrose, 1996). These preparations shifted somewhat the course of Lewis's journey and the route adjustments he would make in response to unexpected barriers and events. When he finished the preparations and set out, his direction was perhaps only slightly different than it would have been with less groundwork, but over many months of travel the slight initial shift in trajectory and the continuing, responsive alterations no doubt led to a route distinctly different from the one he would have taken without such extensive preparations. Moreover, the viability and scientific productivity of the expedition was critically dependent on what he had learned during the preparation phase.
Similarly, students may leave college with the trajectories of their lives shifted only slightly but with ways of approaching and responding to their subsequent experiences that magnify the shift over time, until much later it becomes clear that the gap between where they are and where they would have been without those influences is dramatic. The undergraduate experience has the potential to be this kind of preexpedition for millions of Americans, and we believe colleges will be most effective in this preparation if their efforts are self-conscious and intentional, not simply dependent on the fortuitous impact of the kind that Clark Foreman had on Virginia Durr.
College is the last stage of formal education for most Americans and the last formal education outside their field of specialization for those who pursue further study. Although informal education can continue throughout life - at work and through engagement with the media, the arts, and books - to a great extent experiences in college determine how inclined individuals will be to pursue this kind of ongoing learning and what intellectual and personal capacities they will bring to those engagements.
The Need for Undergraduate Moral and Civic Education
Although acknowledging the exceptional vitality of U.S. higher education, Ernest Boyer's report (1987) on the college experience also points to a number of things that diminish the quality of undergraduate education, preventing colleges from serving their students as well as they might.
One issue that stands out in Boyer's investigation is the question of what the goals and purposes of higher education should be. Boyer's calls for greater attention to the moral and civic purposes of college have been widely quoted in the intervening fifteen years. In a chapter titled "From Competence to Commitment," he said:
Throughout our study we were impressed that what today's college is teaching most successfully is competence - competence in meeting schedules, in gathering information, in responding well on tests, in mastering the details of a special field. . . . But technical skill, of whatever kind, leaves open essential questions: Education for what purpose? Competence to what end? At a time in life when values should be shaped and personal priorities sharply probed, what a tragedy it would be if the most deeply felt issues, the most haunting questions, the most creative moments were pushed to the fringes of our institutional life. What a monumental mistake it would be if students, during the undergraduate years, remained trapped within the organizational grooves and narrow routines to which the academic world sometimes seems excessively devoted [p. 283].
Through large-scale surveys of faculty and students and extended site visits at twenty-nine colleges and universities, Boyer and his colleagues concluded that by and large undergraduate education is not meeting the challenge of going beyond competence to commitment. The research team encountered a picture that seems quite at odds with our opening portrait of Virginia Durr's experience at a small, liberal arts college for women in the 1920s. The report points to conflicting priorities and competing interests, confusion about mission and goals, disciplinary fragmentation, a narrow vocationalism, a great separation between academic and social life on campus, and a disturbing gap between the college and the larger world. These trends and several others impede the efforts of faculty and administrative leaders who see the importance of higher education's civic mission and want to make the undergraduate years a pivotal time for moral and civic development.
It is a good time to revisit this question of the public purposes of higher education. The need is perhaps even greater now than it was at the time of the Boyer report a decade and a half ago. Global interdependence is ever more striking and insistent. Old social problems persist, and new ones are emerging. The country's increasing racial and ethnic diversity has brought tensions and raised dilemmas as well as enriched its already kaleidoscopic culture. And the complexity of the contemporary social, economic, and political worlds is accelerating at an alarming pace. If today's college graduates are to be positive forces in this world, they need not only to possess knowledge and intellectual capacities but also to see themselves as members of a community, as individuals with a responsibility to contribute to their communities. They must be willing to act for the common good and capable of doing so effectively. If a college education is to support the kind of learning graduates need to be involved and responsible citizens, its goals must go beyond the development of intellectual and technical skills and beginning mastery of a scholarly domain. They should include the competence to act in the world and the judgment to do so wisely. A full account of competence, including occupational competence, must include the abilities to exercise considered judgment, appreciate ends as well as means, and understand the broad implications and consequences of one's actions and choices. Education is not complete until students not only have acquired knowledge but can act on that knowledge in the world.
Session #13 (Nov. 20)
Hello! Please take a look at the article I've provided you with and think of the following question as you read:
Is the impact of American culture so great that it consumes the native culture of immigrants coming into the U.S.?
'Are you Hispanic?'
After years of transformation into an Americana, I fell into a culture coma. Then that simple question woke me up.
By Marie Arana
NINE YEARS AGO, on my first day as an editor for The Washington Post, I was in the personnel office, giving a human resources officer a lot of personal information: birth date, nationality, place of birth. Suddenly she looked up at me, her pen in the air. "Born in Peru," she said. "Does that mean you're Hispanic?" she asked with a new interest I couldn't immediately fathom. "Well, yes," I answered, blinking. "Yes."
Long ago I had transformed myself into an "American." Suddenly I was back where I began, but not exactly.
As a sixth-grader, I saw only one Latino face in school—my brother's. at the time, it didn't strike me as strange. There was an overwhelmingly gringo culture in my little New Jersey town, and I knew I'd have to work hard to fit in. I'd left Peru with my family when I was 10, and, as far as I was concerned, I'd closed one segment of an American life and entered another.
I became very good at fitting in—so good that by age 12, I was indistinguishable in a crowd: I had pennies in my loafers, the "Peppermint Twist" on my radio, "Mashed Potato" on the dance floor, and Ringo Starr in my dreams. My father would shake his head and say. "Ay, Marisi, I don't recognize you anymore." And I would know that my metamorphosis was under way.
I went to college, got married, took my husband's Anglo name. I became an English teacher, read to my children in English only, and worked at publishing house, where no one suspected I could speak Spanish, turn out a ceviche, and cut a hot mambo. I was a New Yorker, an editor improving other people's English, a red-white-and-blue girl through and through.
"Are you Hispanic?" I don't know why that question became my galvanizing moment, but it did. It had never occurred to me that I was part of a larger group, a growing force; that my being a Latina could be an advantage to my employer and to my country, and perhaps even make me a small bridge in a large hemisphere. That moment became the impetus for many things: I took back my maiden name; I wrote a book about my cultural duality.
Recently I returned to that little town in New Jersey. I saw that it was full of faces like mine. I heard Spanish in the streets. Salsa blared from construction workers' radios. A corner market sold Peruvian ají.
It has become a place where any schoolgirl from two Americas would know she fits.
Session #14 (Nov. 27)
I'm sorry this is so late guys :( There were some unfortunate circumstances that I won't
go into, but the good news is here's the assignment and it's not a reading! :)
First, take this short quiz:
Next, take a look at the answers. They're listed under "Cross Cultural Quiz 2":
Finally, post your reactions to and thoughts on the quiz on Segue. If you wish, you can
also post some answers to the questions below. No need to come to class with written
responses to these or anything, but think them over a bit so we can discuss them in class:
1. Did this quiz give you any new ideas about what knowledge it's important to have
before going abroad?
2. In general, how aware do you think Americans are of differences in etiquette across
cultures? How about your own personal awareness?
3. Have you ever noticed someone from another country visiting America who seemed rude or
strange because they weren't aware of American etiquette?
4. Have you ever committed a breach of etiquette in another country, or locally among a
group of people from a culture different from yours?
Sorry again about this being a bit late. I hope you enjoy the assignment, see you on
Tuesday! :)


text:
→ view details
Glossy silver body is silver case silver bezel Silver Dial with fluorescent paint Guide, bar index, logo and 3 o'clock to 12 o'clock position 30 minutes total, 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock and 12 hours total to 11 o'clock, small seconds to date, Crown guard, arms around the control is approximately 6 mm 7 stages at intervals of width to be & D buckle parts brand screw back, skeleton, serial number and pendulum back to logo
▼ specs
• Size
|Bank Transfer
|We accept Bank transfers. After receiving the order confirmation e-mail, please transfer your payment to the bank account specified in the e-mail.
*All payments are made in Japanese Yen. Please check with your bank for applicable exchange rates.
*If payment by bank transfer is not confirmed within the date indicated in the e-mail, your order will be automatically cancelled.
This product cannot be shipped to United States from the store.
Please contact the store for further information.


text:
Already Europe's biggest travel firm, TUI is looking to increase the size of its container shipping operations.
The company said the acquisition would turn its Hapag-LLoyd business into one of the world's five biggest shippers.
TUI said it would sell shares worth 1bn euros (£677m; $1.1bn) to existing shareholders to finance the cash deal.
'Compelling opportunity'
The bid values CP Ships' shares at $21.50 each, 10% more than Friday's closing share price.
Once they have merged, the two firms will have a fleet of 139 ships, with another 17 already ordered.
They also will have a stronger presence in the North Atlantic, Asia Pacific and South America.
"Our enlarged shipping business will be well positioned to take advantage of the strong long-term growth dynamics in the container shipping industry," TUI's chief executive Michael Frenzel said in a statement.
"This is both a compelling financial and strategic opportunity for us."
The company said that it expects to see growth in both its tourism and shipping businesses.
TUI tweaked its strategy regarding Hapag-Lloyd last year and cancelled plans to sell as much as 49.9% of the company to investors citing weak market conditions.


text:
Mandy Patinkin on Shooting 'The Princess Bride' and His Character's Immortal Catchphrase
The cast of the classic fairytale film The Princess Bride reunited at the New York Film Festival earlier this month for the film's twenty-fifth anniversary,...
Laura Linney: "The thing that makes the theater different from any other art form: it's time"
Linney cast's some light on why revivals in theater are looked at differently than their television and film counterparts.
Corey Hawkins: "I grew up a theater nerd"
"The fun of it and the challenge of it is to take the play — to take the text — and make it your own, to find it your own way" - Corey Hawkins on Theater
Sally Field on Performing on Broadway: "You're so totally and utterly and completely alive"
Field reveals how the lack of intermission helps her maintain her energy and why she decided to return to Broadway after a nearly 15-year break.
Watch: SAG Conversations with Geoffrey Rush of 'Genius'
Rush speaks at length about his career and portraying who many consider to be the wisest man of the 20th century.
Ben Platt on How He Found Himself Starring in 'Dear Evan Hansen'
"Every day is a different sort of vibe and feeling. It can be impacted by anything from like, "Is it raining outside?" to "Are there a lot of old people?"" - Ben Platt


text:
Makers Local logo
From Makers Local 256
Advice for anyone else looking to make a logo-
- should look when it's both very big, or very very small
- should look in full color, or simplified to be one color
Here's our logo - it's elsewhere on the site, but I'm putting here because this was the project page and it's easier for me to remember - Thanks nykodemus and preaux for helping the project get to this point. I've just realized there's some clipping issue in this .svg, creases are appearing between shapes. It's invisible on the file on my computer, it may be a firefox issue, I'm going to look into it. If you can see it, let me know what browser and resolution you're using so I can eliminate it.


text:
Vintage Bass Guitars
The era of the modern electric bass guitar began in 1951 when a former radio repairman named Leo Fender gave the world the Fender Precision. The first Precisions had 20 frets on a full-scale 34-inch maple neck that was bolted to the guitar's ash body—the frets, presumably, were the "precision" points that differentiated Fender's bass from traditional fretless uprights. Chromed covers hid the bridge and the instrument's single pickup from view, while two knobs on the bass's body allowed the player to adjust volume and tone.
Fender did not reach far for the instrument's design. That same year he had released the Telecaster, a six-string solid-body guitar, and the Precision was essentially a four-stringed version of that. Like a Telecaster, the sides of the Precision bass were squared off so that the body was a uniformly thick slab. As for its headstock, it, too, echoed the look of the Telecaster. Both of these details changed in 1954, when Fender released the Stratocaster, with its contour body (the Strat's cutaway made it comfortable for players to hold the guitar against their bodies for extended periods of time) and more sculptural headstock. The Precision copied both of these features, note for note.
Naturally, Fender had imitators, first a company called Kay, whose short-necked K-162 from 1952 faded away almost as soon as it appeared. In 1953, Gibson followed with the EB-1, a radically scaled-down version of an upright bass, complete with a fake F-hole. That model was dropped in 1958, but in 1955, German instrument maker Höfner made a go of the traditional look when it introduced its famous 500/1 bass, known variously as the "violin bass" for its shape and the "Beatle bass" for its most famous player, Paul McCartney.
Two other basses from the 1950s are of interest to vintage bass collectors. Danelectro introduced its six-string UB2 in 1956, prompting Gibson and Fender to issue their own low-octave six-strings in 1959 and 1961 respectively. Rickenbacker's 4000 came along in 1957. It was the first electric bass built with through-neck construction, and it featured fancier electronics than its competitors—its Rick-O-Sound feature allowed a player to simulate stereo by directing the output of each of the guitar's pickups into a separate amplifier.
In 1960, Fender followed up on the Precision with the Jazz Bass, which aped the look of the Fender Jazzmaster guitar released in 1958. After a false start with the EB-1, Gibson finally got into the bass game in 1961 with the EB-3, a short-scale-neck bass with "horns" on its body and a deep, muddy sound that caught the attention of players such as Jack Bruce of Cream. Not to be outdone when it came to horns, Danelectro launched the Long Horn in 1961. Although they were made of cheap materials like Masonite instead of fancy hardwoods, players liked Danelectro basses for their distinctive look and punchy sound.
Gibson followed up on the EB-3 in 1963 with a bass version of its fabulous Firebird called the Thunderbird—John Entwistle of The Who played a Thunderbird bass almost exclusively from 1972 until 1976. As the 1960s continued, other traditional electric guitar companies began to offer their customers electric basses, too. In particular, the hollow-body Guild Starfire was the bass of choice for the Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh and the Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady, both of whom eventually turned to an engineer named Ron Wickersham to have their instruments customized with low-impedance pickups developed by Rick Turner.
The connection between bass players like Lesh and Casady and technicians like Wickersham and Turner led to a renaissance in bass guitars that would arguably prove to have an even...
For instrument collectors, especially those who are fans of the bass guitar, Alembic holds a hallowed place. Its instruments deliver natural tones that are rich, sophisticated, and nuanced, not just deep and boomy, although they can also do plenty of that. And the physical appearance of an Alembic bass is as stunning as its sound. For example, Alembic's first bass, number 72-01 created for Casady, had a pointy bottom so that a musician would never be tempted to rest their precious instrument on anything but a cradling stand.
As legendary as their hardware and physical appearance were the details that graced each instrument, especially ones created for a who's who of rock and jazz elite. Casady's bass married multiple types of exotic woods with painstakingly precise inlay. Greg Lake of prog-rockers Emerson Lake and Palmer had an eight-string Alembic bass with signs of the zodiac in mother-of-pearl crawling up the fingerboard. Stanley Clarke played an Alembic tenor bass. The list goes on and on.
In recent years, collectible basses include five- and six-stringed instruments, as well as the otherworldly graphite axes made by Ned Steinberger. His instruments frequently have no headstock at all, while Steinberger bodies resemble small, rectangular notebook PCs. They look weird, but players from Sting to Geddy Lee of Rush to Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones have become fans of their sonic properties.
Another graphite bass maker, and perhaps the heir apparent to Alembic in terms of pushing technology, is Modulus, whose graphite basses are favorites of Phil Lesh, Mike Gordon of Phish, Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, and Oteil Burbridge, to name but a very few.
Best of the Web ("Hall of Fame")
Vintage Guitars Info
This great reference site features detailed sections on vintage guitar makers, including Gibson, Fender, Martin, Gr… [read review or visit site]
Vintage Guitar and Bass
Want to see all the old brochures and ads for your favorite vintage axe? Check out this great site, which showcases… [read review or visit site]


text:
Best Of :: Food & Drink
If you've been to France, you know that the French are seriously into food. And if you've been to Croissan'Time, the French bakery, delicatessen, and fine-food emporium, you know that Bernard Casse has taken his homeland's culinary obsession to delectable extremes since 1986. From the southwest of France, Casse trained as a pastry chef and has worked many a professional kitchen. He's obsessed with natural ingredients, the "quality of the basics," particularly as they relate to bread. And well he should be, since Croissan'Time on average turns out 2000 loaves of different types of bread daily, including some 500 baguettes. Once you've purchased that long loaf, head to the charcuterie-épicerie wing for imported cheeses, pâtés, or meats such as mergez, andouillete, boudin, or confit. And don't forget the bottle of wine for your tailgate picnic or the sweets: filled croissants, cakes, tarts, candies, or chocolates (the last of which are not candy to the French, they're part of the five basic food groups). The food is delicious and luscious to look at, the one-stop shopping suits the American mentality, and if you didn't hear the swish of traffic on Federal Highway, you'd swear you were in a Paris café listening to the strains of Jacques Brel.
Deep in the retirement belt of western Lake Worth, refugee snowbirds and resident Members of the Tribe flock each morning to savor the crusty, chewy treats from this little storefront operation. The bialy bread is to die for, especially early in the day -- a warm, oblong cloud of moist, puffy bread flecked with crisp burnt onion. The pletzl is a joy, a footwide disc of crusty flatbread under a dense sheet of poppy seeds and onion. How did a Scotsman such as owner Scott McCollough get the knack? A Bronx apprenticeship in his youth taught him, among other things, to boil the bagels before baking them. Sundays offer the bargain of a half-dozen free with every dozen purchased. With the Palace's selection of smoked fish and flavored cream cheeses, you can build a king's feast.
Barbecue snobs have simple but stringent requirements. First of all the standard for judging is a good old-fashioned sandwich. The meat of choice is lean but succulent pork, preferably pulled or in chunks rather than sliced. And it goes without saying that it has to be smoked. Then there's the all-important sauce: tangy but not too tangy, with a hint of sweetness but not too sweet. Pile high on an ordinary bun. If the sandwich is good enough, the side dishes are irrelevant. Georgia Pig succeeds on all counts -- so well, in fact, that we tried the beef sandwich, too, just for the hell of it, and found it quite satisfactory. As a bonus, this long-lived joint on U.S. Highway 441 has its own distinct ambiance. Think '60s greasy spoon meets Deep South honky-tonk, complete with a garish collection of pigs -- on the walls, behind the counter, and on your plate.
Though this pub offers about 130 brands of brew from all over the world, the beer that earns Murray's the prize hails from the abbey of Koningshoeven and is called La Trappe -- because it is made by the abbey's silent Trappist monks. It's fermented in the bottle, a corked crock. We usually choose the "tripple," which signifies triple-fermentation and a hearty 10 percent alcohol. It comes with a hearty price, too: 12 bucks a crock. With a medium, flavorful body and a sweet citrusy aftertaste, the brew is worth every single penny. Hell, the bottle, which has a drawing of the abbey on it, is probably worth the price all by itself. If that's too much, or if you simply don't dig monk brew, another must-have in our book is Fiedler's Pils Im Stein. If you need a guide, call on the owners, father-and-son team Jeff and Jason Dimm, to give you a tour. They're true suds aficionados who love to share their extensive hops knowledge and don't mind giving you a sample or two. While you're sipping some of the finest concoctions ever crafted, the place offers good company, pool tables, and free darts to use on their boards. Now get thee to Murray's.
Half the fun of a bloody mary is where and when you drink it. That's because people almost always consume these spicy delicacies when they really shouldn't be drinking -- in the morning. And if you are going to drink in the morning, you might as well do it at a joint that opens at 7 a.m. That would be the Entrada. Take a seat at the horseshoe-shape bar and order your debauched self one of these beauties. They come with a dollop of horseradish, just the thing you need after a night of living large. Then go outside and dip your toes in the pool. You are sooo South Florida.
OK, so tons of fresh tuna are going through restaurants in seafood-heavy South Florida, and some of the more expensive, elegant spots surely make it as well as it can be done. And some truly great caesar salads are being made out there as well. But both for nine bucks? Uh-uh. Try to get a big, fresh, medium-rare steak of tuna sitting atop a huge pile of fresh romaine lettuce, chopped bacon, and croutons at most places, and they'll charge you at least that and half again. And this is no kiddie salad -- it's a Jethro Bodine bowl. It filled us up, and we're among the manliest men you'll ever see in Broward County. We have big round bellies, hairy backs, thick and furry wrists, knuckles callused from dragging along the ground, and slabs of Angus-like beef stuck to our ribs (well, some of us do, anyway), and that salad beat the hunger out of us. If you feel like a beer and some first-rate seafood at a cut-rate price, go to Flanigan's. Yes, it is a chain and we rarely recommend cookie-cutter restaurants, but Flanigan's warrants an exception, at least the one in Deerfield Beach. (We can't honestly laud all 19 Flanigan's restaurants around South Florida, because we haven't eaten in all of them.) The place, which is located on A1A just a stone's throw from the beach, has an old seafarer's ambiance and great service from people who genuinely seem to like working there. We had two wonderful dinners, an order of conch fritters (also among the best we've ever had), and three or four drafts for about $25. And the tuna, nice and red in the center, virtually melted in our mouths. We're hooked.


text:
Best Of :: People & Places
Among the sloping hills of Angelino Heights is a street where time stands still. On Carroll Avenue trees are tall, the nearby 101 freeway is a distant hum and relics of Los Angeles' past reside. The Echo Park–adjacent avenue is dotted with beautifully maintained Victorian manors from the late 19th century. Located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in L.A., these are storybook homes with intricate architecture and colorful stained-glass windows. Some of the Queen Anne and Eastlake style houses are still equipped with hitching posts for horses and the occasional carriage box. Angelino Heights was considered the Beverly Hills of the 19th century, and it's not difficult to imagine ladies strolling with parasols and horse-drawn carriages dropping off finely attired gentlemen. L.A. is constantly reinventing itself, but here the homeowners remember a storied past, and with their carefully restored homes invite you to, as well. Carroll Avenue and Douglas Street, Echo Park.
—Sophia Kercher
The south side of the Silver Lake Reservoir has long been popular for its playground, basketball court and (stinky) dog park. But earlier this year we finally saw the debut of the Silver Lake Meadow, a mellow, grassy haven located on the east side of the water. The no-dogs-allowed, bare-feet-welcome space is considered a "quiet place," and so far it has lived up to its name. The best part is how empty it tends to be, particularly on weekdays. But even on weekends there's plenty of room to spread out with a picnic blanket, without fear of a stray Frisbee landing in the middle of your feast. In fact, if you're there with your family, you might want to take advantage of another cool element of the location — the breeze off the reservoir. It's an ideal spot for flying kites. Even if you might need to launch it into the air, once it's up, even your kindergartener can keep it high. Silver Lake Reservoir, Silver Lake.
—Rebecca Haithcoat
Four miles north of the 210 freeway in Altadena, the Cobb Estate sits at the top of Lake Avenue at the corner of Loma Alta Drive. If you want a quick commune with nature after work, take the half-mile loop around the grounds, filled with eucalyptus, pepper and acacia trees, wild buckwheat and mustard. Your leashed dog is welcome. Enter through the historic wrought-iron gates and ascend the winding paved driveway to the site of what was once one of Altadena's premier mansions, built in 1916 by lumber magnate Charles H. Cobb. The Marx Brothers bought the 107-acre tract in 1960 and planned to sell it for use as a cemetery, but local ecologists stepped in and turned it over to the Forest Service in 1971. There are several side trails you can explore, including a couple that lead down into Las Flores Canyon, a waterfall and abandoned gold mines. If you are more ambitious, take the Sam Merrill Trail to the top of Echo Mountain, 2.5 miles of switchbacks that will deposit you at the ruins of an old hotel where you will be rewarded with vistas of the city of Los Angeles with the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Locals call the spot "the Haunted Forest," so get out of there before dark, when stoner teenagers converge on the estate to get paranoid about "flashing lights" (aka flashlights). East Loma Alta Drive at Lake Ave., Altadena.
—Samantha Bonar
Until now, Wrightwood has been a place Angelenos visited only during the winter. Tucked away in the San Gabriel Mountains, a mere 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the town's relative proximity to L.A. has made it a frequent destination for skiers, snowboarders, sledders and other people who like snow — or just wanted to be reminded of how it looks. Now, Wrightwood has become a place to visit every season, thanks to Navitat Canopy Adventures' zipline tour. Navitat has recently adapted the winter resort into a year-round destination for thrill seekers, building a network of trails, stairs, platforms and treetop bridges, all connected by rappels and zip lines up to 1,500 feet long. High-adventure addicts have the opportunity to play Tarzan, swinging from tree to tree while soaring hundreds of feet above the canyon. It's not for the faint of heart, but it is a must-have experience for intrepid, nature-loving folks aching to get out of the city. 6047 Park Drive, Wrightwood. (760) 249-9990 or (855) 628-4828, navitat.com/wrightwood.
—Tanja M. Laden
Rededicated in 2008 after a partial closing for Gold Line construction, the Evergreen Jogging Path encircles one of the oldest cemeteries in L.A., home to more than 300,000 departed souls since it was established in 1877. With less drastic upward inclines if the course is taken counterclockwise, the rubber-coated running track has turned a formerly severe section of sidewalks into a recreation area shared by runners, walkers, baby strollers, bicycles and working-class pedestrians. Be wary of countering the health benefits with carnitas at 5 Puntos next door or a carb overload at El Mercadito, both along the eastern edge of the run. The Gothic crematorium and the headstones in every language are must-see jog-by scenery, making the mile-and-a-half loop remarkably pleasant. 204 N. Evergreen Ave., Boyle Heights; latinourbanforum.com/Evergreen_Jogging_Path.html.
—Abel Salas
The gated and enclosed Lacy Park in swank San Marino is designed for anyone wanting to escape the frustrations of urban life. Run the outer path (about one mile in distance) encircling the park. Or take your racket and partake of some tennis on one of the park's six courts. Put a couple teams together and utilize the baseball field. Take a lover to the gorgeous rose garden located in the southwestern portion of the park. Despite having all these things to do, if you come here to walk your dog (doggy bags provided) or just people-watch, the park's 30 acres and its canopy of lush trees provide enough shaded areas and space to just sit and soak up the scene. Just be aware that on weekends, non–San Marino residents must pay $2 to gain entrance — and it's worth it. 1485 Virginia Road, San Marino. (626) 300-0790, ci.san-marino.ca.us/lacy.htm.
—Ontay Johnson


text:
The polished wood-paneled rookery Hotel calls itself "Soho in the East" and frankly, that undersells it.
Once they are in the rookery, however, different conditions obtain.
The proximity of a rookery does not affect all people alike.
The second desire is, naturally, to get away from the model dwelling, even if it should lead a man back to the rookery.
Navigators have agreed in calling an assemblage of such encampments a rookery.
All day these floes, often crowded to their utmost capacity, would float past the rookery.
Our rookery was in the middle swamp a day inland from Talimeco, safe and secret.
There isn't a sea-catch on the rookery that hasn't had from ten to twenty fights already this year.
The question is, how we shall be able to find him in this rookery of a place.
If a nest is blown down the birds go to work in the precincts of the rookery, but never touch the rooks' sticks.


text:
In response to a nationwide crackdown against peaceful, political protesters, two well-known liberal pundits (one of them the revered Paul Krugman) portrayed the evictions as a net positive. The movement - according to these pundits - was in danger of fizzling out over a long Winter and therefore, the police did the protesters a "favor" for which the protesters "should be grateful."
Are you fucking kidding me? Local police forces - recently militarized as a result of the War on Terror - pepper sprayed, beat and brutalized peaceful protesters. The first effective protest in decades is being forcefully - no, brutally! - suppressed and you're telling hundreds of thousands of readers it's probably for the best? Did you see this? (Thanks photographer Tina!)
The sane response to this is to tell your readers to watch these videos, to call the persons responsible, to take to the streets. But instead, you've implicitly told them it's not really a big deal because it's actually doing the protesters a favor. It's not quite pointing out pepper is a table condiment, but it's not helpful either.
The bottom line is this: Well-meaning liberals haven't had a clue how to effect real political change or even, for that matter, to change the heretofore insane national dialogue. I'm not exactly sure why Occupy Wall Street has been so effective, but I do think physical occupation has something to do with it. Looking on the bright side and expressing no alarm when the tactic of occupation is brutally suppressed by militarized police forces suggests that Krugman and Klein think the tactic is beside the point.
We should never act nonchalant in the face of police brutality and suppression of First Amendment Rights, but, in this case, there's also a tactical dimension: And, in that regard, the assumption that occupation is of little importance is a dubious, unsupported assumption. The tactic matters and the suppression of the tactic is a threat to the movement.
Update: I had a twitter exchange with Digby wherein she noted - correctly - that Krugman and Klein are not equally culpable here. I would've liked to see more outrage from Krugman and I think he underestimates the importance of occupation as a tactic as well as the difficulty of re-establishing an occupation at a later date, but Krugman clearly supports OWS. Nonetheless, where Krugman sees the biggest problem as the potential to fade away, I see suppression as at least as threatening (and seeing militarized police forces unleash on peaceful protesters is freaking me out). However, make sure to follow the links above so that you can judge for yourself. (Krugman's link is "should be grateful.")
Update 2: By the way, here's the appropriate response to police brutalizing human beings for exercising their constitutional rights:
Anyone who commits violence against a defenseless person is lost. And the powers that be in this country are lost. They've been going down this road for years now, and they no longer stand for anything.
All that tricked-up military gear, with that corny, faux-menacing, over-the-top Spaceballs stormtrooper look that police everywhere seem to favor more and more – all of this is symbolic of the increasingly total lack of ideas behind all that force.
It was bad enough when we made police defend the use of torture and extrajudicial detention. Now they're being asked to defend mass theft, Lloyd Blankfein's bailout-paid bonus, the principle of Angelo Mozilo not doing jail time, and 28% credit card interest rates.
How strong can anyone defending those causes be? These people are weak and pathetic, and they're getting weaker. And boy, are they showing it. Way to gear up with combat helmets and the the full body armor, fellas, to take on a bunch of co-eds sitting Indian-style on a campus quad. Maybe after work you can go break up a game of duck-duck-goose at the local Chuck E Cheese. I'd bring the APC for that one.
Bravo to those kids who hung in there and took it. And bravo for standing up and showing everyone what real strength is. There is no strength without principle. You have it. They lost it. It's as simple as that.


text:
Clean Up India foundation focuses on bringing smiles and hope to those in India. This is a country of colorful traditions and values. It is time to build a better home.
Clean Up India is a fundraising foundation for various charities across India who share the same passion and vision to make India a better home. CUI's focus is on funding the smaller charities of India who do not have the ability to raise money or awareness for their causes. CUI focuses on charities serving children who face extreme challenges in life; no education, family abandonment, children in sex slave industry, to name a few.


text: 9/04/08 8/26/08 POPSUGAR Fashion POPSUGAR Celebrity Boy's Club Boy's Club August 26, 2008 by coutorture 0 Shares Chat with us on Facebook Messenger. Learn what's trending across POPSUGAR. View on One Page Photo 0 of 26 Start Slideshow ADVERTISEMENT () Share This Link Copy What's Your Reaction? Thanks for your reaction Don't forget to share this with your friends! ← Use Arrows Keys → 0 Boy's Club Trend Report. Photos from the Fall 08 catwalks. Previous Next


text:
Tips when hiring a landscape architectA well-maintained landscape is important to many homeowners. In addition to adding to a home's aesthetic appeal, a lush landscape can also help increase a home's resale value. Oftentimes, homeowners without much experience tending to lawns and gardens hire a landscape architect to do the job for them. First-time homeowners on the lookout for a landscape architect should consider the following tips to make the most of that process.
* Find a professional who will work with you. Though you might not plan to do any of the landscaping or gardening, that doesn't mean you won't have a vision of what you want the property to look like. A landscape architect should be receptive to your ideas and willing to work with your vision while keeping the channels of communication open throughout the project.
* Look for a professional with some experience. A landscape architect should be ready and willing to discuss his or her previous work experience. Ask to see photos of previous work or even local addresses where work was done so you can see the finished product in person. Landscape architects without extensive work histories aren't necessarily unqualified, but homeowners should weigh the projects such architects have completed considerably.
* Discuss subcontractors. Some landscape architects will handle the project entirely on their own, while others might subcontract part of the project. Determine who will be performing the project and how the hiring of subcontractors might affect the cost of the project.
* Discuss fees and get a fee schedule. How the project will be paid for is an important thing to discuss when interviewing landscape architects. Each contractor might have a different fee structure, so you will want the one that's best suited to you. If a series of payments will be made, get a fee schedule so there's no confusion down the road.
* Get references. A professional landscape architect should have a list of references at the ready for potential customers. When contacting references, be sure to ask how satisfied they are with the finished product and how the project went with regards to scheduling and fees. When talking to a previous customer, also ask how amenable the landscape architect was to their ideas and how much he or she involved the homeowner in the project.
* Make sure the contractor is licensed. In many communities, landscape architects must be licensed. This information is public, so always verify if a landscape architect is licensed prior to making any final decisions or signing a contract.


text:
City councillors have approved another $615,000 to finish phase one of Thunder Bay's waterfront development, but some were unhappy to do so.
About half of the money will rebuild fish habitat lost when the city in-filled part of Lake Superior, to build Prince Arthur's Landing, as part of an agreement with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Waterfront book
One city councillor says when the waterfront development at Prince Arthur's Landing is complete, he wants to see the city commission a book on the project.
Joe Virdiramo said something should reflect all the hard work the city has done and that the waterfront would make for "a good story ... in written form, with appropriate pictures, documenting what we've done on the waterfront."
He said the story should include "the pluses, the minuses, [and] everything we've done to get to this point in time."
Administration will now figure out if such a book is possible, and how much it would cost.
Coun. Rebecca Johnson said she knows the city has to complete the project, but said she sees the expenditure as yet another cost to the $60-million development.
"I'm kind of disappointed that we have to have this back in front of us again," she said.
"I'm looking now as to how many [times] is it going to come again."
Coun. Paul Pugh said he's heard from many people who are concerned about the rising costs associated with developing the city's waterfront.
He said the city should ensure the public knows when a development is — and is not — complete.
"We need to improve the way we communicate these things," Pugh said.
"The fact that there were other bills to come, I think that's understandable if one looks at the whole history."
The federal and provincial governments have chipped in $36.5 million for project.


text:
Discuss football with over 60,000 fans. Free Membership.
Join now
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
FootballsFuture.com Home
Aaron Rodgers better than Phillip Rivers
Goto page
FootballsFuture.com Forum Index
NFL Draft
View previous topic
View next topic
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 1239
Location: Bay Area
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:18 pm
Post subject: Aaron Rodgers better than Phillip Rivers
there is talk about the 49ers trading the top pick for Phillip Rivers stariaght up, with the rationale being that Rivers rates out much higher and Rodgers. Now, both teams since then have denied the trade rumor, with San Diego saying they want to decide who will be their QB of the future after the 2005 season.
But I just want to focus on the statement of Rivers being better than Rodgers. Rivers is, in my mind, a weak armed system QB with mechanics problems and he will not be anything like a franchise QB in the NFL. Some people have said Rodgers is a system QB and that could be true, but he deserves a chance to prove he can be a good QB in any system. The difference between him and Rivers is he has no arm strength questions and his throwing mechanics are sound.
Rivers reminds me of Alex Smith. Mechanics problems and not as strong an arm as you want to see from a no 5-10 pick...And in my mind, anyone who has those problems cant be considered a top prospect and therefore doesn't measure up to Aaron Rodgers.(unless they have Michael-vick like athleticism or something)
Houses on my wrists. Whips on Fists. Your budget on my neck. Your spouse on my -.
Back to top
Joined: 16 Nov 2004
Posts: 4025
Location: Norman Oklahoma
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:20 pm
Post subject:
Rodgers is definitely better than Rivers
Back to top
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 147
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:37 pm
Post subject:
Aaron Rodgers is a MUCH better talent than Philip Rivers, but Rivers has the intangibles...
an ESPN article:
"It's more than just throwing the football," said Chargers wide receivers coach James Lofton, speaking about Rivers and the esteem in which he is held by the San Diego staff. "He's got that certain 'it' that is hard to define. There is a presence there. You watch him in the huddle, all eyes are on him, not a head moves. You just can't say that about every quarterback, you know? I don't think he's surprised by very much."
Senior Bowl scout comments:
Rivers was particularly effective hitting on the intermediate routes, but his deep passes tend to hang, while he wasn't very accurate on a couple of flat routes.... Rivers isn't a threat to run and doesn't create many second looks for himself to throw, but he has great pocket awareness and patience as a drop-back passer... Rivers is winning this race(with Losman) in the intangible areas. He has impressed teams with is intelligence, personality and character.
now... here is aaron rodgers...
Simply put, Rodgers looked a lot like he usually does at Memorial Stadium: He put nearly every pass on the money, showcased his scarily quick release and displayed equal helpings of touch and arm strength. He delivered picturesque deep balls with a seeming flick of the wrist, gunned deep outs and skinny posts that landed in the perfect spot and showed off his flawless footwork and fundamentals. Of the 91 balls he threw, four hit the ground-only one because of his mistake.
Back to top
Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 344
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:40 pm
Post subject:
Like you said about Rodgers, give Rivers a chance to prove himself.
Back to top
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 1239
Location: Bay Area
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:41 pm
Post subject:
So who are you gonna take? The guy with the great arm, mobility, and basically the ability to let your offense do what it wants to do?
or the guy with the "intangibles" who has a weak arm and will clearly be a limiting factor on your offense.
To me, the choice is clear.
Houses on my wrists. Whips on Fists. Your budget on my neck. Your spouse on my -.
Back to top
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 1239
Location: Bay Area
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:33 pm
Post subject:
Superfreak842 wrote:
Like you said about Rodgers, give Rivers a chance to prove himself.
Ill give Rivers a chance. Im not saying hes worthless or something. Plenty of players have overcome obstacles and had to prove a lot of people wrong. PLnety of guys people dint think had first round credentials ended up being great pros...
But if you want to ask me who the better prospect is...
hands down, Aaron Rodgers.
Houses on my wrists. Whips on Fists. Your budget on my neck. Your spouse on my -.
Back to top
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
Posts: 726
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:05 am
Post subject:
Who looked better coming out of college Joe Montana or Jeff George? Tom Brady or Ryan Leaf? Sometimes it's not all about tangible aspects. The most important part about being a good QB is the ability to lead an offense, not throw a ball though a brick wall.
Back to top
Joined: 11 Oct 2004
Posts: 2955
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:47 am
Post subject: Re: Aaron Rodgers better than Phillip Rivers
TheBigE wrote:
Some people have said Rodgers is a system QB and that could be true, but he deserves a chance to prove he can be a good QB in any system.
So Rodgers deserves a shot to prove himself, but Rivers doesn't. Care to explain that one?
Back to top
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 1528
Location: CA
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:51 am
Post subject:
Did anyone actually see Rivers play this year? I saw a couple scrimages as well as a couple games he played in, to mop up this year, and he looks like the real deal. I like Rodgers but I'll take Rivers over Rodgers and Brees. He jsut needs a chance to play and he will shine IMO
Back to top
Joined: 14 Feb 2005
Posts: 549
Location: Maryland
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:00 am
Post subject:
I saw Rivers play a ton in college. He was a true leader of that team. His mechanics are not going to be corrected. They are gonna let him throw that weird 3/4 motion. He is a Kosar type with better tools but the same intangibles. I would take Rivers if I had the choice.
Back to top
Joined: 10 Feb 2005
Posts: 435
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:57 am
Post subject:
What would you rather have? A QB with a strong arm and mobility, or a guy who leads your team to wins? Quarterback, more than any other position, is about that intangible quality. "It," as the coach put it, is much more important than any other factor. I'd take Brady over Manning 10 times out of 10, knowing what I know now about them. Gimme Super Bowls over TD records any day.
Back to top
Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 1549
Location: Chi-Town
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:19 pm
Post subject:
id take rivers over rodgers any day
Back to top
mauRICE 80
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
Posts: 772
Location: Yay Area
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:01 pm
Post subject:
IMO Rodgers is way better prospect and the niners seem to agree stating this year top 5 is stronger than last years top 5 which included Eli, Rivers
Back to top
Joined: 04 Nov 2004
Posts: 4114
Location: Stockton, Cali
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:13 pm
Post subject:
If there were 2 quarterbacks I would be torn over it would be these 2 they, I feel are the best from their respective classes, Rivers is a proven winner even though his mechanics aren't great he still has solid arm strength and is pretty accurate. I would still take Rodgers though
Back to top
Joined: 04 Nov 2004
Posts: 4114
Location: Stockton, Cali
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:04 pm
Post subject:
That post on the 49erswebzone.com scared the hell out of me thank god it was an april fools joke.
worst joke in history
Back to top
Display posts from previous:
All Posts
1 Day
7 Days
2 Weeks
1 Month
3 Months
6 Months
1 Year
Oldest First
Newest First
FootballsFuture.com Forum Index
NFL Draft
All times are GMT - 4 Hours
Goto page
Jump to:
Select a forum
NFL General
NFL News
NFL Comparisons
NFL Draft
2017 NFL Mock Draft
GM Mock Drafts
Fantasy Football
College Football
AFC East
Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins
New England Patriots
New York Jets
AFC North
Baltimore Ravens
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Steelers
AFC South
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars
Tennessee Titans
AFC West
Denver Broncos
Kansas City Chiefs
Oakland Raiders
Los Angeles Chargers
NFC East
Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Redskins
NFC North
Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
NFC South
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
NFC West
Arizona Cardinals
Los Angeles Rams
San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahawks
Other Sports
Other Sports
Fantasy/Sim/GM Leagues
This aint sports talk!
Madden 17 and video games
Feedback Forum
Signature and Avatar Help
post new topics in this forum
reply to topics in this forum
edit your posts in this forum
delete your posts in this forum
vote in polls in this forum
Powered by
© 2001, 2005 phpBB Group


text:
Narrow Your Results (0 Products)
Sort By:
Aveeno® cremes and lotions contain rich emollients to provide 24-hour moisturization Great for sensitive skin, and recommended by dermatologists
We can help!
Need a specific item? We can help you find it.
Call Us
Give us a call.
We'll be happy to help find what you are looking for.
Dial 1-800-982-3400 to talk with a representative.
Send an e-mail message with information about the item.
We'll respond within 2 business hours.


text:
Yet it is no exaggeration to say this lanky Texan with prodigious talent fired a huge salvo in the thawing of the Cold War.
In Super, there are a few delicately written sex scenes the prodigious author feels no compunction about writing.
His feats of memory about novels or history were prodigious.
Gingrich is an idea factory, an organizational genius, and a prodigious fundraiser.
No biography of Jack Nicholson could long skirt the issue of his prodigious appetites.
Their adventures during that prodigious night are not to be described.
The clamour of voices from that quarter was prodigious, but there were no shots.
His name was Arrogante, and he was an animal of prodigious power.
These numbers are possibly exaggerated, but they really were prodigious.
But where was the populace, amid all this prodigious wealth?
1550s, "ominous," from Middle French prodigieux and directly from Latin prodigiosus "strange, wonderful, marvelous, unnatural," from prodigium (see prodigy). Meaning "vast, enormous" is from c.1600. Related: Prodigiously; prodigiosity.


text:
This content has been marked as final. Show 3 replies
1. Re: client jvm.dll vs server jvm.dllEJP Jan 12, 2013 10:58 PM (in response to 894590)If it didn't run under both JVMs there must have been something very strange about it. What was it?
2. Re: client jvm.dll vs server jvm.dll894590 Jan 14, 2013 3:42 PM (in response to EJP)Actually after struggling a lot i realized it runs with client jvm.dll and not with server jvm.dll . I could nt undertand why when both are supposed to be doing similar work.I assumed that older application's window service (apache common daemon) part which we dint change and we just have executable must be written with 32 bit java.
And then i realized all jdks/jre for 64 bit doesnt at all contain client jvm.dll.Only server jvm.dll.?????
Also somewhere on internet forums, i read that JREs contain client jvm.dll but JDK contains both or server jvm.dll ?which was not true and got me confused.
I am now more interested in knowing the details.
3. Re: client jvm.dll vs server jvm.dlljschellSomeoneStoleMyAlias Jan 14, 2013 9:41 PM (in response to 894590)
user5873044 wrote:That either means that
...didnt run with server jvm.dll
1. It threw an exception - which would tell you something.
2. It crashed.
3. You had some 'criteria' which was not met for one of them.
Additionally it might have been one of the above but you don't know what caused the problem.
It would be helpful and interesting to know which it was.
(which is actually a windows service written by some unknown team)Which suggests one possible failure in that they used jni and were explicitly loading one dll versus the other.
why jdk/jre for 64-bit doesnt contain client jvm.dll (only server.dll)??Possibly because when they first put together the 64 bit VMs the only machines that ran 64 bits were server class machines.


text:
Web HD
Web HD
Unlock all options today!
CLICK HERE to JOIN NOW! Fast, secure and private
Already a member? Please login
Next Door Twink
Adam Wirthmore, Alex Waters, Noah Brooks, Jay Kohl
Kurt Wild, Cliff Jensen
Micah Andrews, Alex Waters
Next Door Studios will allow you to transcend into another world - or maybe just onto the cock of the guy from next door. This site is all about the hottest guys, with the biggest dicks and sexiest bodies. The ones that get you hard with a mysterious glance, and have perfect faces and asses to match. We have big dicks, waxed backs, plenty of muscles, and all the gay anal sex that you can stand. Get ready to experience role-playing, first-time anal thrusting, and plenty of gay anal.
Kurt Wild is a horny little dude. He's so stoked to have the waify blonde Alex Waters on board today. And when he finds out Alex has never done it with a guy, you can almost hear Kurt's dick scream with delight. Alex seems pretty nervous but when Kurt crams that maiden cock into his mouth, Alex's tension melts away while his boner stiffens. Alex really never thought he'd actually have a boner in his mouth, but once it hits his lips it's so good! He quickly discovers the joys of fellacio as Kurt slides his hard thickness in and out. From there he tosses his inhibitions to the wind and fucks Kurt's ass with all he's got. They say you never forget your first time. You probably won't forget Alex's first time either!Enjoy! Scenes like this and much more on NextDoorStudios.com with your membership, so don't hesitate, JOIN NOW!


text:
Archive for the 'black & white' Category
JPEG SubmarineJuly 27, 2014
The long-awaited holidays I have written about in a previous post started with a visit to my parents, who live at the Baltic Sea. My youngest daughter came with me and while bathing in the aforementioned sea, I became inspired to take aquatic photos.
So, a NIKON Coolpix AW120. Who thinks of these names? (more…)
Against the GrainJuly 17, 2013
These two photos stand for two very distinct modes of photography I'm using currently. (more…)
The Leica M GestaltFebruary 1, 2013
A film-loading Leica has it's own Gestalt. (more…)
On the EdgesJune 3, 2012
Today I want to talk a bit about framing. Not about the process of putting a picture in a frame, but about taking an excerpt of one's surrounding and making a picture out of it. In photography, they way you do this determines the quality of your art. Together with pressing the shutter at the right time, of course. Photography is easy *1), you just need to get two things right. (more…)
Error CircleMay 16, 2012
Sometimes there are so many errors in an image that quality comes round again to being, dare I say, good? Example in case above. I had expired (more…)
All Wrong, But Fabulous*May 12, 2012
These are heady times for photo gear geeks like me. The day before yesterday, Leica announced (more…)
Film Swan SongMay 8, 2012
See that yellow in the film ID window? (more…)
Pattern RecognitionMarch 1, 2012
With apologies to William Gibson
Our brain seems hungry to find pattern in the chaos. It's a functional principle I like to play with in an ongoing series. My brain in turn seeks out patterns in nature and makes me photograph them in a way both revealing to and demanding from the viewer. (more…)
Step Right UpDecember 4, 2011
Yes, of course I take photographs on the street as well with the Leica M9. Here are some examples from yesterday's visit to the Christmas Fair. (more…)


text:
Your browser does not support iframes.
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission voted July 22 to subpoena former county administrator Jim Moore in its investigation of former county commissioner Kevin McCasky, a decision that could bring to light information suppressed by multiple lawsuit settlements.
A program that teaches both entrepreneurship and suicide prevention to high school students will be expanding into more Colorado schools in the next three years.
The program, called the Fire Within, has been given a three-year $500,000 matching grant from the Adolph Coors Foundation. It will be introduced into as many as a dozen schools in August, about 25 along the Front Range next year and 50 schools across the state the following year, according to Sally Spencer-Thomas, executive director of the Carson J. Spencer Foundation, a nonprofit based in Genesee.
The West Metro firefighter who was cited for a misdemeanor in connection with a fire in the Soda Creek subdivision on March 21 has decided to contest the citation and is headed for a trial date in Jefferson County District Court on Sept. 26.
Joel Nathan Worley, 37, was working as a caretaker for a private property owner in the forest near the Soda Creek subdivision on March 18, three days before the fire broke out in windy weather the following Monday.
About 5 acres were scorched and about two dozen homes evacuated, but there was no structural damage.
Going to the Evergreen High School Old-Timers' Reunion is like taking a trip down Evergreen's memory lane.
The EHS alums — who graduated between 1932 and the early 1970s — have stories about what Evergreen was like decades ago, and it's hard to imagine a time without traffic lights, when Evergreen and Bergen Park were farther apart with only fields and trees in between, when it was a summer tourist destination, and when the houses were more like cabins.
Friends and family of Sherry Pilcher gathered to dedicate a new residents' library and lounge in her honor on Friday, July 15, at the Life Care Center of Evergreen.
About 75 people crowded into the dining room to listen to tributes to Pilcher's work at the center, where she was a certified nursing assistant from 1998 to 2001. She loved to read, said Kathy Price, admissions and marketing director, in a statement.
It wasn't that big of a deal to Tom Cencich. The 50-year-old 1978 Evergreen High School graduate has been to a number of international competitions. So last month's North American Powerlifting Championships in Miami, Fla., wasn't all that much different than the rest.
But, in truth, it was.
The 5-foot-6, 182-pounder entered the competition for one reason — to shatter a world record.
EVERGREEN — As should be expected, 15-year-old Jonas Texeira struggled with his breathing that comes with the altitude of playing at Hiwan Golf Club. After all, he is from Sun Valley, Calif.
Stingers' U-7 Reds team looking for sponsors
The Evergreen Stingers' U-7 Reds 3v3 soccer team is looking for sponsors so the team can play in the 2012 World Championships at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 14-16, 2012.
The team qualified after taking second place last month at a regional tournament in Commerce City.
If anyone is interested in sponsoring the team, contact Dauma Venta at email@example.com or by calling 303-523-0097.
The construction beat goes on with road and bridge improvements on Colorado 8 near Morrison starting this week and running through September.
The Colorado Department of Transportation will roto-mill and pave 2 miles of Colorado 8 beginning at the south end of Morrison near Bear Creek Bridge and continuing south to the Colorado 8/U.S. 285 junction. Four bridge decks will be repaired and waterproofed, and crews will add new guardrails and concrete curb ramps and improve signs and striping.
After 15 months on the board of the Evergreen Park and Recreation District, Pat Callahan announced he is resigning to move to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, for at least a year to be with his wife, Julie Callahan, who is being sent there on a foreign assignment by IBM.
"I feel bad about the voters who elected me. I really do. There were 980 who voted for me. It's not like resigning as a volunteer," Callahan said. He was elected to the board in 2010 after receiving the most votes of seven candidates on the ballot.
Copyright © 2017
Canyon Courier is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in Evergreen, Colo, and the surrounding area.


text:
Now Viewing:
Product Highlights
The Lectrosonics Octopack Multicoupler Assembly accepts up to 4 SRA or SRA5P dual receivers and distributes power and RF signal to each. There are 8 outputs for distributing audio from all 4 receivers in dual mode.
Two BNC antennas effectively distribute RF signal to all receivers and the Octopack may be run powered via external DC, or 2 L and M style rechargeable batteries (not included). The batteries will also provide backup power whenever DC power is disrupted. The Octopack is a viable, rugged assembly with durable metal construction and carry handles.
|Antenna Inputs
|Standard 50 ohms BNC Jacks
|0 to 2.0dB Across Bandwidth
Internal Battery: L or M Style Rechargeable (Not Included)
External DC: 8 to 18VDC; 1300mA at 8VDC Power Consumption: 1450 mA max, with 7.2V battery power
|10 x 2.75 x 6.50" (254 x 70 x 165mm)
2 lbs, 9 oz (1.16kg) (without transmitters)
4 lbs, 6 oz (1.98kg) (with transmitters)
|Packaging Infotyfquzdbyaefueyutvbvuyzfcd
|Package Weight
|4.05 lb
|Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
|14.2 x 10.6 x 4.2"


text:
Begin New Search
Refine Last Search
Cemetery Lookup
Add Burial Records
Help with Find A Grave
Top Contributors
Success Stories
Community Forums
Find A Grave Store
Log In
Loyce L. McCormick
Learn about removing the ads from this memorial...
Feb. 26, 1916
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma, USA
Aug. 29, 2011
Contra Costa County
California, USA
Mr. McCormick was the principal of Roosevelt Elementary School when I attended there. I remember him as a nice man.
MAC February 26, 1916 ~ August 29,2011 Loyce L. McCormick, a proud Purple Heart veteran of World War II, died at home in Brentwood at the age of 95 on Monday August 29, 2011. He was an innovative educator for over 30 years in San Leandro, a beloved father, and highly respected friend. He was born in Lula, Oklahoma; graduated from Lula High School in 1935 (varsity basketball - 3 years); received a B.A from East Central State College (Ada, Okla.) in 1939; attended the Univ. of Oklahoma 1939-1940 and completed a Master's Degree in Administrative Education at Stanford University in 1941. Mac spent 4 years (1942-1946) with the 554th Automatic Weapons Battalion, U.S. Army. For 2 years he was attached to the 29th Infantry Division as 1st Lieut. and saw active combat in the invasion of France; Battle of St. Lo and the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded the Bronze Star by Major General Gerhardt, Division Commander, for meritorious service during the period November 12, 1944 to February 5, 1945. He was also injured by a tank mine and awarded the Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to San Leandro in 1947 and taught veterans in the Adult School in Alameda. He then moved to San Leandro Unified School District as a teacher and Vice Principal at Cleveland School. In 1954, he opened James Madison K-7 School where he remained until 1964. He then transferred to Roosevelt School as Principal and remained until retiring in 1976. He is survived by his wife Beth, the love of his life for 46 years; a son, Robert of Brentwood; a daughter, Marsha of Lodi; a granddaughter, Melanie and four greatgrandchildren, Kyiah, Violet, Eli and Sevhana all of Lodi. He and Beth have resided in Brentwood since 1997. Preceding him in death were his parents, Robert E. and Lydia C. McCormick of Wasco, California; two sisters of Bakersfield, CA, two brotheres of San Leandro and Lafayette and a grandson,
Robert L. McCormick
of Lodi.
Published in Contra Costa Times on September 6, 2011
Family links:
Robert E. Lee McCormick (1876 - 1964)
Lydia Catherine
McCormick (1888 - 1981)
Created by:
Record added: Sep 06, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 76113466
Added by:
Added by:
Added by:
Photos may be scaled.
Click on image for full size.
Extend your search results for
Loyce McCormick
Records for Loyce McCormick:
Census & Voter Lists
City directories
Birth, Marriage & Death
Immigration & Travel
See more…
View records
Newspaper records for Loyce McCormick:
The Ottawa Journal
The Wilkesbarre Record
The New York Times
The Times
See more…
View records
Military records for Loyce McCormick:
The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
The War of 1812
See more…
View records
Privacy Statement
Terms of Service


text:
What's missing from this list of people Mika Brzezinski blasted on today's Morning Joe for "making a lot of money at the Olympics" while Vladimir Putin's suppression of democracy in the Ukraine unfolds: "the people performing there, the people competing there, the people sponsoring there"?
Did somebody say NBC, Mika's own parent network? Give that guy a gold medal! To whom does Mika think "the people sponsoring there" are paying their millions to promote their products? Has Mika not noticed that regular programming on MSNBC itself has been pre-empted by the Putin Olympics? View the video after the jump.
While Mika failed to directly confront the people who write her paychecks, perhaps she's due some credit. If only tangentially, she was the only person on the panel to raise the issue, Mike Barnicle, who spoke next, couldn't wait to get away from her question and move on to something else, and no one else responded to her suggestion.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: We have three flash points across the globe right now, Ukraine in very vivid terms, Syria, where the bloodshed goes on just at horrific levels. Crimes against humanity being committed and then, of course, Iran who looks like they're going to walk away from the table and move towards nuclear weapons. What's the common denominator in all three of those world crises? Vladimir Putin. What is the United States response? What's the president going to say? What's the Secretary of State going to say? What's the United States government going to say? What are we going to do? How aggressively are we going to work against Vladimir Putin? That's the question.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, I think you add to that question what about all the people making a lot of money at the Olympics? The people performing there, the people competing there, the people sponsoring there. What are they going to do? Why are they there? Is this OK? I'm just curious. It's kind of strange, isn't it?


text:
I like Akilah because it helps me in different ways either in school and my real life, it gives me the opportunity to get a job so that I can pay for the necessary things in life. I love the way they take care of me like when I face any problem (sickness or otherwise). They show me empathy. My leadership skills have really improves, and I have learned a lot since I joined Akilah. I really appreciate the Akilah staff.
I really like my scool because it helps me to gain some knowledge and skills regarding customer care services, so it will help me achieve my future. I wish I could better express the wonderful services that Akilah offers its students. Thank you Akilah!!
I really like my school (Akilah) because it helps me a lot in my career, especially to continue surviving in life through working hard in my studies and making connections in industry.
I like Akilah because it helped me to open my mind and think about my future. It helped me also to build my self-confidence.
I look at Akilah as an esteemed institute that trains and empowers young ladies in Rwanda. What Akilah gives meets the needs of self-motivated young ladies in Rwanda to help them determine and live out the life they want in preparation for a better future. Hospitality, leadership, tourism and customer-care are just some of the skills acquired from Akilah. They are the tools that a student at Akilah will apply to transform bad customer service in Rwandan to wonderful customer services in Rwanda.
I really like Akilah because it helps me to learn more. It helps me to prepare for my future, because I know that "luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation." So Akilah is offering preparation, and this is a big chance for me. I really appreciate the opprotunity to study at Akilah.
I look at Akilah as light which can help us and show us a way to reach our goals and visions. Akilah trains us to become future leaders in our country, even in the outside world, and helps us to be professional in our work.
Akilah is a very interesting place, because you find it is like a family. Everyone is willing to help each other which is very important in our daily life.
Akilah has been good to me. I had a broken heart but Akilah helped me a lot, now I am ok. I am normal person like others. I am enjoying every day; that is how life should be. I am no longing facing the world alone and I wish for Akilah's spirit to spread all over the world. May God bless the Akilah founders.


text:
#6 - Trust Fund? What Trust Fund?
Americans may believe that when they pay their Social Security taxes, the federal government sets that money aside to finance their public pension benefits. Don't bet on it.
* The Social Security Trust Fund resides within the H.J. Hintgen Building in Parkersburg, West Virginia near the Ohio River.1
* The Trust Fund is stored inside the locked bottom drawer of a gray filing cabinet controlled by employees of the U.S. Bureau of Public Debt.
* That drawer contains $1.76 trillion worth of Special Issue U.S. Treasury Bonds. Each of these, 225 pieces of paper in all, is contained in one of two white, loose-leaf notebooks that hold plastic page covers.
* Despite the protective plastic, these certificates have no more financial value than the ink with which they are printed. "The paper is symbolic," Bureau of Public Debt spokesman Pete Hollenbach told the Associated Press.2 As a 2004 Congressional Budget Office report explained, the Trust Fund is an "accounting mechanism" with "no economic resources."
* The key reason these notes have no value is that the money that should be behind them - the excess payroll taxes not spent on today's retirees - instead gets spent by Congress on everything from farm subsidies to national parks to armored Humvees.
* To make matters worse, these Special Issue bonds are not traded in the capital markets, where investors could infuse them with cash value. In reality, they are merely IOUs that obligate tomorrow's Congresses to finance the Treasury's future Social Security checks by raising taxes, approving increased federal borrowing or cutting retirement benefits.
* Beginning in 2041, Washington will have to bridge an anticipated 30 percent gap between what Uncle Sam will collect in payroll taxes and what retirees have been promised.
That task will be plenty difficult for the senators, congressmen, and presidents of tomorrow. And they will get precious little help from a drawer full of plastic-wrapped sheets of paper deep inside an Appalachian filing cabinet.
by Deroy Murdock, Distinguished Fellow
1 Larry Eichel, "Social Security Trust Fund is Built on Trillion-Dollar IOUs," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 18, 2005, available online at http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/columnists/larry_eichel/10671774.htm as of April 12, 2005.
2 David Espo, "Social Security Trust Fund Sits in Drawer," Associated Press, February 26, 2005, available online at http://abcnews.com/Politics/print?id=534351 as of April 12, 2005.
Return to Health Care and Retirement Security Main Page
Return to Social Security Talking Points Index
Donate | Subscribe | Search | About Us | What's New | Blog | Home
The National Center for Public Policy Research


text:
When did you start? Were they in the same room?
I have been trying to put them on a loose schedule today so I can get them into their cribs to sleep tonight. I will still wake for night feedings, I just dont want them getting overly tired and screaming anymore.