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"Visionary" Visions of the Upper Mississippi Riverfront in Minneapolis
I have written before about the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition and the "Next Generation of Parks" that the competition is seeking for the upper riverfront, above St. Anthony Falls. The four teams unveiled their proposals last Thursday evening at the Walker Art Center, and they are simply spectacular.
The competition web site has links to the proposals, videos that each team created, and a place to collect comments. Unlike the comments that accrue to online newspaper stories (don't those people have anything else to do other than vent bad-tempered ignorance?) the comments on the design proposals appear to be quite good. I've just glanced at them, but there appears to be considerable reflection and analysis taking place, which is always good.
I intend to write about each of the proposals in the next few days, and to take up some other particularly interesting questions about the process. But in the meantime, by all means I encourage you to go to the site, study the proposals and make your comments.
After all, it's only the next century or so on the river front that we're talking about!
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It's a Friday in August, so it's time to break the fourth wall and talk about something that isn't necessarily romance, but is a passion.
As a Clive Owen fan who's been disappointed by many of Clive's cinematic choices, it seems like there might be hope in the new series premiering on Cinemax tonight called The Knick. Directed by Stephen Soderbergh (who brought us Magic Mike, remember!), The Knick revolves around "the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics...Clive Owen stars as Doctor John Thackery, a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite his secret addiction to cocaine."
The Knick takes place in 1900—but in New York City, not England, so although it shares its fashions and innovations with the Edwardian era, it is a starkly different place. The world was advancing toward the advent of WWI, Kodak introduced its "Brownie" camera, and work began on the New York City subway system (completed in 1904).
Cinemax has already renewed The Knick for Season 2, and Soderbergh has signed on to direct the episodes, so it seems that this might actually be worthy of Clive Owen's considerable talent (even though, once again, he is sporting an unfortunate moustache—but this time it's period-appropriate).
Many of you have your own Clive Owen—someone you will see whatever they're in, no matter how unappealing it sounds (speaking of which, Richard Armitage stars in Into the Storm, opening today). Who's yours?


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Former prime minister
Many of the bosses of our biggest companies have done just that.
"It's lactose-free milk that is whipped up and heated, and then they put some chopped liver on top so it looks like a cappuccino," Tsenin says.
Crawford likes his dogs so much because "they never answer back".
Elders chief executive Malcolm Jackman, who has a miniature poodle called Max and a shih tzu called Jess, jokes: "dogs show unconditional love which is a hard thing for a CEO to find".
The founder of Brumby's Bakeries and rich-lister
"I do some of my best work when I am walking my dogs in the morning because you are clear, you can think through the day and plan things.
"One of my claims to fame was inventing chocolate hot-cross buns. The idea came to me while I was walking my dogs."
Sherlock has a 14-year-old maltese-bichon frise cross called Stewie and a straight bichon frise called Penny.
"They are great for a suit-wearing CEO because they don't shed, so you don't get any hairs on you," Sherlock says.
Tsenin admits he has been known to shift board meetings to take care of his shih tzu called Sonny.
"It's my surrogate because we don't have kids. He's got a golden colour," Tsenin says, pulling out a photo of the dog from his wallet.
"He's having a big birthday party. He's a very clever dog. I spend most of my time worrying about how he can stay social and intellectually active. He goes to day care a couple of times a week," Tsenin says.
"We take him for walks in the morning, at dusk and before going to bed. My wife says he brings a bit of normality to my behaviour. She thinks I am actually human when I am with him."
Dearie later moved to Australia to lead the Australian arm of the then-Foster's business and later became CEO of Treasury when it was demerged from Foster's in May.
"When I'm home, Saturday night is soccer night. We sit down and watch the English Premiership League together."
The chief executive of corporate adviser Gresham,
"The thing I find amazing about dogs is that they are always in a good mood. They never wake up on the wrong side of bed and are always pleased to see you," Feetham says.
"There are people who are cat people and people who are canine people. The people who are canine people love their dogs and they are inherently a part of the family."
Sydney mortgage broker Ian Lazar is one businessman who knows the pain of loving his dogs a little too much. He had his four dogs – Goldberg, a miniature poodle, Max, a maltese terrier, and Bella and Lilly, maltese shih tzu – which he treated "like my children", kidnapped earlier this year.
Soon after, he received a photo of the dogs in a cage with a copy of the Weekend Financial Review in the picture to prove the date.
He was warned that their throats would be cut "one by one" unless he paid a ransom of $300,000.
Chatswood police on Sydney's north shore say three of the dogs are reported to have been returned, and the investigation continues.
Other leading business figures who confess to be dog lovers include the new commissioner at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and former deputy at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Recently retired Federal Court judge and head of the government media inquiry Ray Finkelstein has a black sheepdog called Charlie, which the judge was renowned for sneaking into his chambers.
Retired fund manager
While politicians have long been known for keeping a pet close to their side for some much-needed kinship,
"It's more than two years since Rusty our red cattle dog died at the very distinguished age of 17 (equivalent to 119 in human years)," Turnbull wrote in December last year.
Rusty's memorial is a Port Jackson fig planted in Centennial Park in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
"There are not many pages of our family picture albums without Rusty's big goofy grin beaming out at us, often with one of the children wrapped around his neck. He was a great dog," Turnbull wrote.
However the former Opposition leader is still glad to have his two maltese silkies, Mellie and Jojo, and in the past week was photographed with Koko – the dog from the Australian hit movie Red Dog.
Foreign Minister
Perhaps the Prime Minister let it play with visiting US President
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By Arthur Max, Associated Press Writer
BONN, Germany Industrial countries are falling short on pledging to slash their carbon emissions over the next decade, the U.N. climate chief said Wednesday, while the chief U.S. delegate urged climate negotiators to adopt a more long-term strategy.
The contrasting visions of the fight against global warming emerged in the first appearance of the U.S. delegation sent by President Barack Obama, which nonetheless was warmly welcomed at a two-week negotiating session attended by 175 nations.
Ending his first round of talks as chief U.S. delegate, Jonathan Pershing said he found a "wide divergence" of positions, and "implausible" demands from some developing countries on wealthier nations.
"The negotiations themselves are just starting," he said. "For every issue that is before us there seems to be two or five or 10 perspectives."
The talks, launched 15 months ago, have made little progress on the key issues of rich-country commitments to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, and how to raise and distribute $100 billion annually to help poor countries adapt to dramatic changes in the climate that already have begun.
Most delegations have embraced the conclusions of a panel of U.N. scientists that industrial countries must together cut carbon emissions by 25 to 40% from 1990 levels by 2020 to avoid a catastrophic rise in sea levels, harsher storms and droughts and climate disruptions that would affect millions of predominantly poor people.
"The numbers being discussed so far are still a significant distance from that range," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. climate change secretariat. "More ambition is clearly needed on the part of industrialized countries."
A block of developing countries said that target should be raised to 45% in light of new evidence that global warming is happening faster than predicted.
But Pershing said that after dozens of quiet meetings and corridor conversations he was beginning to find some support for the U.S. position that a climate change agreement should look at mid-century objectives rather than focus on short-ranged targets that would be difficult to meet.
Pershing said the two strategies were not irreconcilable. "It will require compromise. I think it will require clever drafting. But ultimately it will require a collective understanding of what we are trying to do," he told reporters as the talks adjourned for two months.
The negotiations have set a December deadline for an accord to replace the 1998 Kyoto Protocol, which set mandatory targets for carbon emissions for 37 countries. The United States rejected that agreement.
The U.S. position, seeking to soften the recommended 2020 target, reflects the difficulty America will have in quickly reducing its greenhouse gases, which the previous Bush administration refused to regulate.
"There is a basis for negotiation," said Kim Carstensen of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature. He said the U.S. stand raises problems for industrial countries, especially in Europe, that have taken action to curb emissions, and for developing countries that are looking for strong action from the world's second largest carbon emitter.
Obama has outlined plans to bring U.S. emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020, a reduction of about 17% from the current rate. He wants Congress to pass a cap-and-trade program that would need time to take hold, but which he said would help reduce emissions by 80% by 2050.
In its seminal 2007 report, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said developing countries also must dramatically slow the growth rate of their emissions to keep the Earth from overheating.
De Boer praised China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa for drafting climate change strategies, and said it was important politically that their action be recognized, "which it is not, at the moment."
Pershing, at a separate news conference, agreed that countries like China and India had adopted policies "that would be the envy of many developed countries."
But after 15 months of talks, the U.N.-led negotiations had made what Pershing called "modest progress." He said he believed a new forum revived by Obama of the world's 17 most powerful economies would give the talks new momentum.
The Major Economies Forum is to hold its first meetings later this month, in a process concluding with a summit in July.
Meanwhile, the negotiators in Bonn agreed to hold two extra rounds of negotiations this year in addition to the three previously scheduled.
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ANDOVER Lawn Tennis Club has submitted a planning application to Test Valley Borough Council for permission to build housing on its premises in Andover.
The application, submitted on 21 December, would see 14 dwellings built on the Eardley Avenue site if councillors' approval is forthcoming.
The application includes a significant amount of archaeological detail from Wessex Archaeology as the Port Way Roman Road probably passes through part of the site.
No objections have so far been lodged by consultees, although one neighbour has voiced fears that new occupants of the homes would want to see some of the trees in the area removed because of their impact on light and the amount of leaf-fall in the autumn.
Andover Lawn Tennis Club was originally known as the Folly Tennis Club and moved to its current location,then known as the Drove Courts in 1945. The club moved away from there in the 1950s but returned and purchased the site.


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Here is a bit of an interview with David Stockman who was at one time the budget director for President Reagan (with Bernard Condon of Associated Press). Stockman comes across as the shill for the old-money seigneurs:
Stockman: We're stalled, stuck.
Condon: What will 10-year Treasuries yield in a year or five years?
A: I have no guess, but I do know where it is now (a yield of about 2 percent) is totally artificial. It's the result of massive purchases by not only the Fed but all of the other central banks of the world.
Q: What's wrong with that?
A: It doesn't come out of savings. It's made up money. It's printing press money. When the Fed buys $5 billion worth of bonds this morning, which it's doing periodically, it simply deposits $5 billion in the bank accounts of the eight dealers they buy the bonds from.
Q: And what are the consequences of that?
A: The consequences are horrendous. If you could make the world rich by having all the central banks print unlimited money, then we have been making a mistake for the last several thousand years of human history.
Here are two mutually supporting economic tropes on display: the first being the 'good money- bad money morality play' the second is the 'monetization (or hyper-inflation) myth'.
Savings or retained earnings are simply debt that has been laundered: it is funds borrowed then given to another in exchange for some product or service. The borrowed funds are 'earnings' on the account of the seller. These are presumed to be the good money as opposed to debts created without any regard by out-of-control money authorities. Mr. Stockman asserts that the sales-transaction process by itself is ennobling, that it alters the fundamental nature of borrowed money. Carrying on with this idea, there are virtuous enterprises with organic returns that produce good money while the non-virtuous, out-of-control central banks and governments produce the bad.
This is a long-running drama: it's also complete nonsense. The enveloping idea insists that our enterprises are productive but are constrained by debt. Practically every 'Brand X' economist uses as a starting point the assumption of the productive industrial enterprise that returns good money.
In the real world these enterprises do not exist. Products are unimportant, they are given their fifteen-seconds of fame then exit into well-deserved obscurity (landfill). What matters is the degree to which the collateral worth of enterprises can be enlarged so that debts can be taken on against them by their entrepreneur-owners. Whether a firm can provide good-money returns is immaterial if the same firm has credit enough to monetize its costs and provide profits. Entrepreneurs do not become rich by the sale of goods and services, they borrow billions against the accounts of their firms, using debt to expand or support their enterprises, leveraging against their holdings and their customers' accounts. The customers in turn are responsible for retiring and servicing the debts taken on by the firms.
Stockman sanctifies the process by hauling out economists' fairy tales about money-morality. He endorses the virtuous old money held by 'deserving rich' who (logically) possess the bulk of it.
"The consequences are horrendous. If you could make the world rich by having all the central banks print unlimited money, then we have been making a mistake for the last several thousand years of human history."
You can make a handful rich by having banks print limited money and giving this handful access to it, leaving to the rest the obligation to repay.
Look to the sainted entrepreneurs (The Hill):
Congress can ensure U.S. remains world's most entrepreneurial nation
By Steve Case, President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (The Hill)
For all the talk about how broken Washington seems to be these days – and there is a lot to fix – considerable progress has been made over the last few months around the issue of improving the environment for entrepreneurs to start new businesses, grow existing companies, and create jobs. There is broad bipartisan agreement that entrepreneurs have played a critical role in creating the leading economy in the world, and that we need to double down on our nation's commitment to our entrepreneurs. Now's the time to push pro-entrepreneurship legislation over the goal line, so we can ensure the United States remains the world's most entrepreneurial nation.
Here is a buzzword salad: the Administration promotes 'opportunities' for entrepreneurs to stuff more credit into their own pockets.
Here is an entrepreneur right here:
Ford Awards Mulally $58.3 Million in Stock for Turnaround
Keith Naughton (Bloomberg)
Ford Motor Co. awarded Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally $58.3 million in stock as a reward for the automaker's turnaround.
Ford paid the stock to its top executive as part of an incentive plan for 2009, according to filings yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Ford earned $29.5 billion in the last three years after $30.1 billion in losses from 2006 through 2008. The shares, which traded as low as $1.01 on Nov. 20, 2008, closed yesterday in New York at $12.09.
Mulally will receive other compensation for 2011, including salary and benefits, which will be revealed in a proxy report in the coming weeks. Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford withheld some of the stock award to cover Mulally's income taxes. After taxes, Mulally received $34.5 million in stock. Ford has awarded him stock worth more than $100 million the past two years.
"Our compensation philosophy is to align the interests of our leadership with those of our shareholders," Todd Nissen, a spokesman, said yesterday in an e-mail. "Ford's stock was $1.96 a share at the time of the 2009 awards, and is over $12 a share today. That is a more than a 500 percent increase, which benefits all stakeholders in the Ford turnaround."
Last July, United Auto Workers President Bob King assailed Mulally's compensation as "outrageous" and "excessive." Last year, Ford rewarded Mulally with $56.6 million in stock. The executive's 2010 compensation rose 48 percent to $26.5 million.
Options, Restricted Stock
In his new awards, Mulally, 66, also received 1.28 million stock options with a strike price of $12.46, which he can begin to exercise next year, and he was awarded 376,016 restricted stock units that can be converted into shares in 2014.
Executive Chairman Bill Ford, 54, received 595,238 stock options with a strike price of $12.46, the first of which he can exercise next year, and he was awarded 175,473 restricted stock units that can be converted into shares in 2014, according to a separate filing with the SEC.
Talk about being on the right street-corner at the right time! Who knows who this Mulally character is, no doubt another rent-an-executive who migrates from company to company borrowing massive paydays for himself. Another version is ex-Home Depot, ex-Chrysler, ex-Cerberus cockroach Robert Nardelli.
In March of 2009 most of the stock prices of US companies were beaten down. Mulally had nothing to do with Ford's stock price increasing any more than he had to do with the increase in any other company's stock. Ben Bernanke and the Treasury Department introduced moral hazard without end. This, discount-window cash and timely capital increased demand for all kinds of companies' stocks including insolvent finance firms and real-estate investment trusts (REITs). Maybe part of Mulally's $100 million haul was for approaching Fed Boss Bernanke with begging bowl in hand:
Note the auto-beggars lined up for TALF handouts from the Fed soup kitchen:
|Ally Master Owner Trust (ex-GMAC)
|American Express Credit Account Master Trust
|AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust 2009-1
|ARI Fleet Lease Trust 2010-A
|Bank of America Auto Trust 2009-1
|BMW Floorplan Master Owner Trust
|BMW Vehicle Lease Trust 2009-1
|Cabela's Credit Card Master Note Trust
|CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2009-1
|CarMax Auto Owner Trust 2009-A
|Chase Issuance Trust
|Chesapeake Funding LLC
|Chrysler Financial Auto Securitization Trust 2009-A
|CIT Equipment Collateral 2009-VT1
|Citibank Omni Master Trust
|CNH Equipment Trust 2009-B
|CNH Wholesale Master Note Trust
|Discover Card Execution Note Trust
|FIFC Premium Funding LLC
|First National Master Note Trust
|Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2009-A
|Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust 2009-A
|Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust A
|GE Capital Credit Card Master Note Trust
|GE Dealer Floorplan Master Note Trust
|Great America Leasing Receivables Funding, L.L.C.
|Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2009-2
|Honda Auto Receivables 2009-2 Owner Trust
|Marlin Leasing Receivables XII LLC
|Navistar Financial Dealer Note Master Owner Trust
|Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2009-A
|OCWEN Servicer Advance Receivables Funding Company II LTD.
|PFS Financing Corp.
|SLC Private Student Loan Trust 2009-A
|SLC Private Student Loan Trust 2010-B
|SLM Private Education Loan Trust 2009-B
|SLM Private Education Loan Trust 2009-C
|SLM Private Education Loan Trust 2009-CT
|SLM Private Education Loan Trust 2009-D
|SLM Private Education Loan Trust 2010-A
|U.S. Small Business Administration
|Volkswagen Auto Lease Trust 2009-A
|World Financial Network Credit Card Master Note Trust
|World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2009-A
|World Omni Master Owner Trust
According to the NY Fed the amounts borrowed were just south of a half-billion by auto 'services'.
Consider there are primarily four levels of debt acceptance:
– There is debt taken on by a firm's against its customers' accounts.
– There is debt taken on by a firm against its own account, such as the firm's own bank line of credit or access to stock and bond markets. In a debtonomy there is no difference between stocks, bonds or non-currency derivatives because all are forms of collateral, none being more 'virtuous' than others.
– Debt is taken on by firms against public accounts: either by way of (borrowed) subsidies, direct public loans such as TALF or by way of regulatory/tax 'adjustments'.
– Debt is also taken on by firms against international accounts of trading partners by way of advantageous currency exchange- or interest rates.
Consider the pool of borrowed funds that is available for Mr. Mulally's company to tap:
– The 2009 'cash for clunkers' program: $2.88 billion
– The remaining year of the 2005 Transportation funding SAFETEA-LU: $60.8 billion
– Highway transportation funding for 2010 and 2011: $80 billion
– Highway transportation component of Stimulus Act: $49 billion
– Depreciation allowance for the business purchase of new vehicles (subsidy for the purchase of SUVs and gigantic pickup trucks): $1 billion
– Oil depletion and other tax expenditures for the oil and gas industry since 2009: $8 billion
– Funds made available by Ford customers 2009-10: $240 billion (revenue includes sales of parts and Ford dealer warranties).
The total available is approximately $442 billion, all of which is borrowed outright or from customers. There is some overlap: the entire auto industry makes use of available highway space, all the other makers gain credit subsidies. Subsidies such as borrowing for real estate development are not included. Neither are 'soft subsidies' infrastructure such as hospitals and graveyards to manage the flow of corpses that flow from the use of Mr. Mulally's products along with the insurance companies to manage the related costs.
The 'Death Tolerance' subsidy is one the nuclear reactor industry observes with anguish. How its executives wish that its products' death rates could be as tolerable as those of the car makers. Sadly for them, it is not possible to make radiation sexy.
The cost of US wars represent another indirect subsidy for the car makers who need the flood of cheap(ish) fuel in order to have a market. Leaving out 'black budget' military operations in areas such as Colombia and Uganda, the total amount of debt-subsidy available for the Nardelli-Mulallys of this world to steal is over two trillion dollars.
How does it all end? How it is ending already: the little people refuse to pay, refuse to perform as trained seals for the rich. Consequently, the rate of credit expansion slows and deflation takes hold. As debt unravels so does wealth … whether it is virtuous or not.


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It's that time of year again when your face and hands get a beautiful purple tinge to them. Parfait is a french style un-churned ice-cream so you can make it at home without a machine.
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300g fresh mulberries, de-stemmed
600ml semi whipped thickened cream
6 eggs
4 yolks
350g castor sugar
In a large metal bowl place the mulberries, eggs and sugar, then whisk over a pot of simmering water until thick and creamy. This should take about 5 minutes and the bowl should not touch the water.
Remove the bowl from the heat and allow to cool. Fold in the semi-whippped cream and place in a lined container.
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Deaf VS Hearing, anyone?
Although some hearing people have occasionally bully deaf people because they feel that they are more superior than them. Deaf people on the other hand tend to exhibit their "pity-me" effect to the hearing people in order to get concessions. But pitting them against each other is counter-productive and does not promote rights-based approach.
I got hold of this image from a Facebook page of my friend who got it from another friend. I felt amazed at how the image-maker compared the Deaf from the Hearing. Here it is:
I don't know where he got this view. Probably he is deaf. But I believe most of the statements of comparison are true. Based on this I can summarize that deaf people are more open, blunt and straight-to-the-point while hearing people are more subdued, respecting and mind-your-own-business type.
Dear readers, what do you think?
Nagpapasalamat po ako kasi may mga handang magtanggol sa mga may kapansanan lalo sa deaf, gaya ng anak kong babae 6years old sya at binubully din sya ng mga naging kalaro nya. Pero sana po maturuan din sila ng tamang english grammar sa paraan ng pagsulat para din po hindi nman po sila mabully na kasi hndi po natin talaga ma please lahat ng tao my mambubully at mambubully po talaga sa kanila, kaya po sana maituro po sa kanila yung tamang english grammar po kahit po halos iba po sa language ng pag sa sign po. Marami pong salamat po..


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Northeast research farm silver anniversary field day
Attend the Silver Anniversary Field Day at the Northeast Research Farm near Nashua on June 26. Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, northeastern Iowa native and Nobel Peace Prize winner, will deliver the keynote address at this special field day. Numerous exhibits, field plot tours, and activities for youth are planned. A program featuring various speakers will recognize leaders responsible for the establishment and success of the research farm, showcase research projects conducted on the farm and increase awareness of their relevance to the people of northeastern Iowa, and chart a course for the future of northeastern Iowa agriculture.
The Northeast Research Farm is located 1 mile south and 1.5 miles west of Nashua. To receive a list of speakers and times or for questions about the Silver Anniversary Field Day, contact your county extension office or the Floyd County Extension Office at 641-228-1453.
This article originally appeared on page 108 of the IC-486(13) -- June 11, 2001 issue.
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Most of us will never get the chance to write our own obituaries but this remains one of the few perks of candidates whose political careers are officially dead. As pundits conduct the equivalent of an autopsy after a loss (i.e. "We all know that campaign is dead, now let's decide what killed it") the candidate goes around trying to "set the record straight" which is usually code for: blame everybody else for his/her defeat. To his credit, Congressman Artur Davis has not done this, going to great lengths during our recent interview to take responsibility for his dramatic loss in last week's Alabama gubernatorial primary. But amidst much of the media postmortem of Davis' race, one major question has been left unanswered: Has President Obama's tumultuous first 500 days in office made it tougher for other black candidates to succeed?
Keli Goff: Has President Obama Made It Tougher for Other Black Candidates?
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I remember as a kid praying as a family for the Raths and Millies, two missionary families who were friends of my parents serving over seas. Though we prayed for them on a regular basis, we almost never knew how they were doing or what life was like on a day-to-day basis. I remember our family receiving only a handful of letters from them over the years.
Of course, that's no fault of the missionaries. Back then (25 years ago), I think it cost about $5 to send a single-page letter from Papua New Guinea (about $11 in today's money), there were no phones, and any communication was a major undertaking.
The Internet has changed all that.
Today it's not unusual for me to get an email from the pastor of the church in Haiti that my church has partnered with or connect with my friends in Kenya on Facebook. When we send people from our church on a short-term missions trip, it's pretty much expected that they'll post daily updates to the church blog.
This month is missions month at OurChurch.Com. We're focusing on helping missionaries living overseas and people going on short-term missions trips use the Internet to communicate with their friends, family, and supporters more effectively.
As a part of that we're looking for people who have served as missionaries or taken missions trips to write guest blog articles here describing how their use of the Internet enhanced their missions experience.
We did this last year, and I thought the guest blog articles were fascinating. I just loved reading the first-hand accounts from missionaries. The articles provided some great ideas and insight to others doing missions work.
- Blogs for Missions
- "Impact" Makes an Impact
- Going on a Short-Term missions Trip? You Gotta Blog!
- God at Work through the Internet in Africa
- Using the Internet to Promote Missions in Tibet
- Internet a Blessing and Challenge for Missionaries in Slovakia
You can write about how email, a website, blog, online giving, Facebook, or other Internet technology impacted your missions work.
We'll be publishing guest blog articles all month, but the sooner you can submit a draft the better. Here's more info on how to post a guest blog article.
If you know someone who could write about missions and the Internet, please share this article with them.


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A local man was arrested in late November on charges of distributing and possessing child pornography following a five-month investigation by the Eagle County Sheriff's Office.
Casey Curtis Williams, 26, of unincorporated Pitkin County, faces charges of sexual exploitation of a child (distribution), a class III felony, and sexual exploitation of a child (possession), a class IV felony, according to an arrest warrant.
A forensic laboratory allegedly found 35 images and video files of child pornography on Williams' laptop computer, which was seized during the execution of a search warrant.
Williams is employed at the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport as an operations officer, said airport Director Jim Elwood. Elwood referred a question about whether Williams, who has been in the operations position for about two years, is actively working or has been placed on leave to the Pitkin County human resources department.
"I'm going to kick this over to [human resources]," he said. "I'm not at liberty to discuss this with it being a personnel issue."
Human resources officials did not return a message late Thursday.
Elwood said airport officials had not been notified of the charges Williams faces.
Operations officers typically respond to airplane accidents, inspect the grounds to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations, and enforce safety rules, among other duties.
"He's not around children," Elwood said of Williams.
The investigation began on June 28, when detective Kyle Hall of the Eagle County Sheriff's Office used a computer detection program called E-Phex, which automatically scans websites known to be broadcasting child pornography, according to an arrest warrant by Eagle County detective Brian Hollenbaugh.
The program further identifies the Internet protocol (IP) addresses of computers browsing and downloading the material. The E-Phex program captured a "globally unique identifier," or GUID, a reference number that can help track an application, file, database entry, and/or user, according to webopedia.com. GUIDs can also be assigned to a user's browser to record and track an online session, the website says.
Hall obtained a history that "showed this GUID to be associated with seven files suspected of being child pornography dating from Saturday, June 16, 2012, to Saturday, June 23, 2012," the warrant says.
Hall then was able to track the IP address to Comcast Cable Communications Inc., Hollenbaugh wrote, and the detective used E-Phex to download a file that the IP address was making available.
"The computer at IP address [redacted] was the sole candidate for this download, and, as such, the entire file was downloaded directly from this IP address," the warrant says.
Comcast, responding to a court order to produce records, told police that the IP address had been assigned to Williams, according to the warrant, which redacted his physical address, phone number and email. Williams is not listed in the phone book.
Hall and Hollenbaugh executed a search warrant for Williams' residence in unincorporated Pitkin County on July 19. Williams allegedly told Hall that he owned the laptop, which was the only computer inside the home, the arrest warrant says.
The laptop was seized as evidence and sent to the Rocky Mountain Regional Forensic Laboratory for analysis. Efforts to reach Hall and Hollenbaugh about the investigation, including why four months went by between the search warrant being carried out and the obtaining of the arrest warrant in November, were unsuccessful Thursday.
But the time it took for the forensic laboratory to do a "complete" analysis might have been a factor. The analysis allegedly showed 20 video files and 15 images of child pornography on Williams' computer.
One video showed an adult male attempting to rape a prepubescent female child and other acts of child pornography, the warrant says.
The arrest warrant was signed by an Eagle County judge on Nov. 20.
Williams' arrest follows the Dec. 20 arrest of part-time Aspen resident Aedan Teague Hopper, 20. He faces six felony counts related to his alleged possession of child pornography. It's unknown if his case and that of Williams' are related.
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Ted Simons: February is Black History Month and to coincide with that, a huge African-American legislative and leadership conference is being held at the state capitol today and tomorrow. 1,000 African-American leaders from around the state are expected. Here to talk about the conference is State Senator Leah Landrum-Taylor, the organizer of the event. Good to have you here.
Leah Landrum-Taylor: Glad to be here.
Ted Simons: The conference goals, what's going on here?
Leah Landrum-Taylor: Well, the main point of this conference and this is our ninth year of having the conference at the legislature, and we look at several pillars that we focus on. Education, health, justice, economic development, as well as youth. And the big portion is to make sure people understand, look, this is your capital, and if you want to make sure you have a place at the table, you need to come down here and you need to talk about things that are relevant to the community and then from that, we're able to come up with different policy changes if necessary, if it has to be legislative, or it can be things internal that we can work with. We've seen significant strides in the amount of legislation we've been able to get passed, has been incredible.
Ted Simons: When it comes to things like education and justice and environment and the economy and these sorts of things, what stands out, what are people talking about this go around?
Leah Landrum-Taylor : Right now, of course, the big topic is the budget: There are some certain concerns that have been voiced as of this morning with the opening ceremonies and particularly making sure that education is protected because we want to make sure we have a educated workforce even that's out here that will help businesses and we owe that to our young people to be able to have a productive education system. Another big thing that has come up, are the whole -- the cuts as it relates to healthcare, and some of the things that are relevant to the African-American community. The full elimination of sickle cell anemia and programs for that. These are huge issues, diabetes. These are major concerns and another thing that came up was the whole dissolving of the juvenile corrections system.
Ted Simons: Interesting. The legislative workshops, what exactly happens at one of these things?
Leah Landrum-Taylor: It will take place on Friday, tomorrow. There will be people from around the state. Just about every county is represented this year. It's one of our largest attended. It's really great. But what happens when they walk up to that workshop, there are facilitators that are there in the various committees and from that it's handled just like a committee regularly at the capitol. People have an opportunity to present and the public has an opportunity to weigh in on the top subjects they're going to be going over. From that, these ideas are developed. And we have position papers we put together and take a look at what was relevant that came out of the particular workshops and what should be looked at in order to go forward.
Ted Simons: In the years past, has anything surprised you? Do you go in thinking this may be the focus and coming out, wow, I didn't expect that.
Leah Landrum-Taylor : Well, absolutely, because it's open to the public and a facilitator may have something planned and then all of a sudden, a big issue comes up someone is able to talk that and it may turn into something entirely different.
Ted Simons: I know looking at your agenda, there's a career fair for kids. Talk to us about that.
Leah Landrum-Taylor: This year, I must say, this is one of the largest attended youth participants that we have. And our goal and focus this year, the theme is passing the flame to the next generation. And so there was a huge focus to make sure the youth workshops were going to be incredible as it relates to economic development, what they can do in order to weigh in on issues important to them. Like education and other issues. And so we are going to be having a career fair right there at the capitol, so they can see what are some things and possibilities they can get into in the future and colleges will be out as well.
Ted Simons: Very good. Is it difficult considering all the stuff going on at the state capital right now, is it difficult to get folks interested or involved in the legislative process? Survey after survey shows most Americans are down on the legislative process, lawmakers in general. If you're a politician, I'm sorry, but if you're a politician it sounds like people aren't happy with you. How are you getting people involved?
Leah Landrum-Taylor: One of the things I've noticed over the years of having this conference, is people are understanding, truly, the complexities of the whole governmental process and how difficult it is to have this idea that you're working on and to have that idea become a law. And how much work that actually takes, going through the committees and, you know, the whole body and then moving over to the other chamber and finally, if it survives, over to the governor for a signature or perhaps a veto. And I think what people are seeing, you know what? Without us voicing our opinions on these various pieces of legislation, the things we don't like, it may go on through because people may think it's ok and if we do support something, if we aren't coming out here and weighing in on that support, that might be difficult getting through. It's just one legislator trying to fight the battle.
Ted Simons: Yeah, it's interesting the things going on at the capitol right now are there so divisive in many ways, it's like a civics education in and of itself and I'm sure that message is getting crossed in a variety of ways. Good luck with the conference. Thank you for joining us.
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North Attleborough, Mass. • State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday, two days after a body was found about a mile away.
Two troopers knocked on the door of Hernandez's sprawling house in an upscale subdivision Wednesday morning, but no one answered. The night before, police spent hours there as another group of officers searched an industrial park where the body was found Monday. No more details about the body have been released.
Sports Illustrated, citing an unidentified source, reported that Hernandez was not believed to be a suspect in what was being treated as a possible homicide. The magazine said police had spoken with Hernandez.
The Patriots drafted Hernandez out of Florida in 2010. Since then, he has combined with Rob Gronkowski to form one of the top tight end duos in the NFL.
On Tuesday night, some police officers stood on the front steps of Hernandez's home and others could be seen inside. Some walked around the driveway and in the garage with flashlights. Before wrapping up their work for the night, one officer took a box out of the massive house.
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TRENTON, N.J. Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) artificial joint business is recalling two hip replacement products, just two days after getting hit with a government warning that it is illegally marketing two other products. It is the 11th J&J recall since September.
DePuy Orthopaedics said Thursday it is recalling two hip replacement products because data, about to be released, show higher-than-expected rates of patients needing a second hip replacement procedure.
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Within five years, one in eight patients needed a revision surgery. That's required when an artificial joint doesn't fit perfectly, causing pain and difficulty walking. The products are the ASR Hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular System.
"We are committed to assisting patients and healthcare providers by providing information through multiple channels and paying for the cost of doctor visits, tests and procedures associated with the recall," David Floyd, president of DePuy Orthopaedics in Warsaw, Ind., said in a statement.
That includes monitoring of how well a patient's hip is working and paying for any corrective surgery. Products still on hospitals shelves will be removed, said DePuy spokeswoman Lorie Gawreluk.
Each of the metal systems is used to replace a worn or weakened part of the hip, which consists of a socket at the outer edge of the pelvis and a rounded bone atop the thigh bone that fits into that socket like a ball. Total hip replacement involves replacing both parts at once.
The ASR Hip Resurfacing System replaces the ball portion of the hip and has a metal stem that fits into the top of the hip bone, or femur. The ASR XL Acetabular System is a concave metal piece used to provide a smooth lining for the acetabulum, the bowl-shaped socket in the pelvis.
DePuy, part of Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick, N.J., said data it received from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales show that within five years, about 12% of people getting the hip resurfacing system and about 13% of those getting the acetabular system needed corrective surgery. Women were more likely to need a second surgery than men.
DePuy said previous data "had shown lower revision rates and that the ASR hip was performing in line with other devices in its class."
Gawreluk said she did not have the actual numbers of patients with problems.
The acetabular system, launched in 2004, has been sold worldwide. The resurfacing system, introduced in 2003, is only sold outside the U.S.
DePuy decided last fall to discontinue both, Gawreluk said. The company is working on developing a new generation of both products.
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration told DePuy to stop selling its Corail Hip System for two unapproved uses. It also ordered the company to provide information needed to review another product the agency said DePuy has been selling even though it was never approved. It's called the TruMatch Personalized Solution System, and uses software and high-tech CT scanning technology to create a 3-D view of a patient's knee to help a surgeon position a knee implant.
On Monday, Johnson & Johnson recalled millions of 1 Day Acuvue TruEye contact lenses sold in Asia and Europe because some users complained of stinging or pain when they inserted the lenses.
Johnson & Johnson remains under scrutiny by the FDA, Congress and federal prosecutors over eight previous U.S. recalls of nonprescription medicines since last September. Those included millions of bottles of Tylenol, other pain relievers and cold medicines for children and adults, for problems including bacterial contamination and tiny metal savings found in some bottles.
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Greg Robic moved to Japan 14 years ago, so when he flew back to Toronto for a visit this week, he did what any homesick Canadian might do: He wandered into an uptown pub to catch the Maple Leafs' season-opener. Wearing a kimono and white slippers.
The traditional garb has been Robic's uniform ever since he was granted the name Katsura Sunshine two years ago, becoming the first North American to be certified in the ancient Japanese art of rakugo storytelling. On Saturday night, he will perform at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre, the final stop in a 19-city tour of Canada and the United States sponsored by the Japanese government.
Robic – or Sunshine, if you please – was a familiar face in the Toronto theatre community during the mid-1990s. As a recent University of Toronto Classics grad, he produced, wrote, directed and acted in a delightful production of Aristophanes' The Clouds, which ran at the Poor Alex Theatre for 15 months. His love of classics led him to Japan after he read an article that suggested that Greek comedies and tragedies bore resemblances to Noh and Kabuki theatre.
"You can't see Greek theatre as it was done," he reasoned, "but you can see Noh and Kabuki basically preserved, because it has continued."
While in Japan, he discovered rakugo, a 400-year-old tradition in which a kimono-clad performer kneels on a cushion and, using only a fan and a hand cloth, regales an audience with stories. Some tales are brief, perhaps 10 or 15 minutes; others can stretch to an hour.
"I usually compare it to Bill Cosby when he's doing the Cosby Kids," says Sunshine, 43, sipping a pint of Mill Street ale. "There's almost no narration, it's dialogue-driven."
Performances begin with the rakugo-ka telling stories drawn from his personal life; the second half of the evening is usually devoted to classic tales. The other night, after the Leafs finished off the Montreal Canadiens and the bar crowd thinned out, Sunshine demonstrated one such story, an audience favourite about a child with such a long name that, by the time his mother manages to get him up for school, the day is over. (Snippets of Sunshine performing that tale can be found online.) "It's very, very innocent comedy," he explains. "A rakugo storyteller will not swear, will not talk about politics or anything controversial." In the first half of the evening, "when you're doing your own material, you want to bring the audience together. You never want to divide them."
The story of how one becomes a rakugo-ka could make for its own classic. Aspiring performers submit themselves to an apprenticeship – or, rather, indentured servitude – with a rakugo master that lasts three years. "No days off," Sunshine says. "You clean his house, do his laundry, carry his bags – and just learn by observing." Apprentices are on call 24 hours a day, and effectively barred from having a social life.
Sunshine's master was Katsura Bunshi VI, a rakugo-ka now in his 70s who has written about 230 stories. "He could call any time: 'Oh, Sunshine, I can't find my glasses. Come up.' I gotta go, [even if it's] one o'clock in the morning. And if I smell like alcohol? Big trouble."
He laughs and says it reminded him a little of The Karate Kid, in which Ralph Macchio's character doesn't understand why his sensei commands him to sand floors, paint fences and wax a series of cars rather than teaching him karate.
Being called to his master's house in the middle of the night to perform a menial task requires "erasing yourself as an individual human being, subsuming everything to the master, and trying to learn to read your master's mind. So, if he asks you for tea once, you have to read the pattern of his behaviour, his needs, and realize, 'Well, I think he needs a tea,' and put it out there. You spend three years learning to read your master's mind. And then, when you go up on stage, you can read the audience's mind and you'll know how to entertain them, you'll be able to read their rhythm, feel what they want, and tell the stories that they want to hear."
Sunshine is writing his own stories now – there are 12 in his repertoire, including a Japanese-language version of the Abbott and Costello "Who's on first?" routine – and continues to learn how to reach his audiences. Initially, he says, he loosely adapted his master's stories to perform them in English, and was disappointed with the audience's flat response. "But I had a hunch: 'I'm going to translate as much as I can, word for word, trying to imitate the rhythms, the speech patterns, and just be as close as possible to the [original Japanese experience].' Suddenly, people were just killing themselves laughing."
Now, he's more confident. "I think there's room for this art form here. Especially with stand-up comedy – [there's] a lot of cynicism and negativity and divisiveness and swearing, and all that. I think there's room for the kind of innocent humour that rakugo brings to the table."
As the only Western-born practitioner, Sunshine has been tapped by the Japanese government to be a cultural ambassador of the form. "I'm interested to see how far it could go here," he says, smiling. "I'm hoping to get apprentices. I'd like to think that, in 30 or 40 years, just like in sumo wrestling, all the best rakugo storytellers are foreigners."Report Typo/Error
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- Once you sell 20 or more paid subscriptions within a year, we'll provide you with a free Professional account for the next year.
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All Contactually partners will be required to watch the following videos and maintain a Relationship Grade of an A or above in Contactually. This is so that you know how to properly leverage our platform for your own business, and can then take your extensive knowledge of our features and benefits combined with your own methodology and best practices to create passionate Contactually users.
You can access the videos here.
This course is a work in progress. All of the Contactually-centric parts of the course are ready to go now. This includes an overview of the following:
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Once you watch the videos, please send me a screenshot of your Relationship Grade. After verifying your Relationship Grade, I'll send you your Contactually Certified Partner badge and add you to the certified partner directory (when available).
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Most (if not all) of you already have a Contactually referral link that drives your audience to a co-branded version of our homepage (see here for an example). We'll continue using these co-branded homepages in addition to new custom partner pages that you can also use to drive traffic and registrations through your link.
You can see an example of one of our customizable partner pages at /partners/bookyourselfsolid.
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Results: Hardy Girls, Healthy Women
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As we look ahead to our partnerships for 2012, we reflect on the results of 2011. Thanks to everyone for uniting to help girls in 38 countries through this small organization, Hardy Girls Healthy Women.
A report from Megan Williams, President at HGHW:
We've been so grateful to have the opportunity to partner with Curves for Change. Thanks to their fundraising and outreach efforts, we've raised the visibility of Hardy Girls Healthy Women in New York City and with the funds donated to Hardy Girls, 22 low-income girls have participated in one of Hardy Girls' Girls' Coalition Groups for free where they've learned to trust one another and do social activism.


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Optically-based partial discharge continuous monitoring system for HV cable joints
Y.Tian, P.L.Lewin, J.S.Wilkinson*, S.J.Sutton, S.G.Swingler
Tony Davies High Voltage Lab, and *Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
This paper describes the further development of a novel partial discharge continuous monitoring technique. The measurement mechanism applies capacitive coupler measured partial discharge signals across a LiNbO3 electro-optic modulator to modulate the intensity of the transmitted laser light. Recent research has applied an in-fine fibre polarizer for use with the modulator. A polarization scrambler is placed after the laser source to generate unpolarized light, which is transmitted over long length of standard single mode fibres and fed to the fibre polarizer and the modulator. Both the fibre polarizers and modulators, which are placed near cable joints, are passive without any power requirement.
IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena Boulder, Colorado, USA 17-21 Oct (2004) pp.21-24
doi: 10.1109/CEIDP.2004.1364179
Publisher′s URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1364179
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The Tri Pen Ice AAA peewee team captured the gold medal at the 2014 Bell Aliant Atlantic AAA Peewee Championship in Fredericton, N.B., March 27-30. The Ice defeated the EDZA East Canadiens of New Brunswick 5-1 in the championship game. Members of the team are: front (l-r) — goaltenders Caleb Andrews and Riley Petten; middle — Luke Akerman, Cole Mackey, Dawson Mercer, Kyle Petten, Shailynn Snow and Ethan Crosbie; back — coach Bo Bennett, Lucas Russell, HNL representative Dec Lecour, Liam Best, Dawson Laundry, Micheal Ingram, Taran Leonard, Ethan Pollett, Lucas Adams, Riley Mayne, Tyler Dohey, Tyler Green, Mark Davis, coach Craig Mercer, manager Carolyn Petten and trainer Roger Akerman.
Ask anyone around the Tri Pen Ice AAA peewee team's Atlantic championship run and they will tell you it is an amazing story.
Although, Tri Pen's story did not start out like it was going to be amazing.
The Ice defeated the EDZA East Canadiens 5-1 in the championship game at the Grant-Harvey Centre in Fredericton, N.B., March 30.
Tri Pen got goals from Dawson Mercer (2), Kyle Petten, Shailynn Snow and Ethan Crosbie. Mercer would also add two assists for a four-point game.
Comprised of players from associations in Bay Roberts, Clarenville, Marystown, Harbour Grace and Whitbourne, the Ice started out 0-2 at the Bell Aliant Atlantic AAA Peewee Championship.
First, there was a 4-2 defeat at the hands of the EDZA East Canadiens on March 28.
"It's not that we were terrible, but we did have a shaky start," said coach Nelson Bennett.
That was followed by a razor thin overtime 3-2 loss to the host EDZA West team.
"We dominated them, the pucks just didn't go in the net for us," he said.
In a tournament such as this one, no wins in a team's first two games is not the best way to start.
"Usually it's a death sentence," said Bennett.
However, the Ice had other ideas.
Needing to win its remaining two games and a little bit of help, Tri Pen bore down.
The team doubled the Antigonish, N.S., representatives 4-2.
Heading into the final round robin game with Summerside Capitals of P.E.I., the Ice needed to win by at least 6-0 to even give themselves a chance at the gold medal game.
"We discussed it as a team. This is what has to happen. We have to collapse to our net, we have to protect our goaltender," said Bennett. "We chipped away and chipped away. We didn't dominate them by any stretch but we just kept going."
The Ice got the 6-0 shutout, but they needed the PEI squad to defeated the No. 1 EDZA East Canadiens.
Tri Pen needed a miracle.
"That's what we were saying in the hotel: we need a miracle," said Bennett.
And, they got it. Summerside doubled EDZA East 4-2.
"The respect I have for those kids on that team for what they did," said Bennett. "They didn't have to. You're a last place team, it's really easy to fold the tents, but they battled."
It's the first Newfoundland and Labrador team to win in the Atlantic AAA peewee championship tournament since the St. John's Aliant Pioneers turned the trick in 2009.
The championship
The title game did not start out well for the Ice. It was a rematch of the first round robin game.
"We didn't want it to happen again," said Bennett.
EDZA jumped out to the early 1-0 lead. However, the team quickly tied it up before making it 2-1.
"At 2-1 things were starting to go our way, but it was still hard going," said the coach.
Then Kyle Petten poked a loose puck behind the EDZA goaltender.
"At 3-1 the game totally changed," noted Bennett.
Tri Pen would notch two more goals to make the score 5-1. When the final buzzer sounded, all 18 skaters piled on top of goaltender Riley Petten.
A league of their own
Offensively, the Ice were led by standout forwards Kyle Petten and Dawson Mercer.
Petten, a centre, and Mercer, a right winger, each notched 11 points during the round robin. Petten picked up eight goals and four assists, while Mercer's registered six goals and five assists.
Both received the award for top scorer in the tournament, while Dawson was named its top forward. Not do be outdone, Petten picked up the award for most valuable player.
By all accounts, both players were in a league of their own at the tournament.
"Every team was solid and deep, but they never had the superstars we had," said Bennett.
But, a team is more than two players. Defenseman Lucas Russell was a standout on the back end, while Shailynn Snow was her usual self, along with Ethan Crosbie, Riley Mayne, Ethan Pollett, etc.
"We believed we also had the best goaltender in the tournament," said Bennett.
He was talking about Riley Petten. Petten finished just shy of the tournament's top goaltender award.
A family
For a regional team to be successful, players have to come together quickly. The Ice did not have that problem. Parents and players came together, made the commitment and the result was a championship season.
"We're a family," said Bennett.
The victory has ignited the hockey world in the Trinity-Conception-Placentia region and beyond. Bennett said his cellphone has been "going crazy" since the final buzzer.
People like Doug Moores and Bennett's mentor, Dick Power, have reached out offering their congratulations on the impressive victory.
"Parents kept telling me it's karma, it's destiny," said Bennett.


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Progress pockets Persistence
ObjectStore suitably EdgeXtended by acquisition
It is not often that I get a genuine scoop, but I got a briefing today on Progress Software's acquisition of Persistence, even before the guys on Wall Street.
Here's how it happened: I was starting a tele-briefing with the ObjectStore division of Progress when I got an email through to me announcing the acquisition, and informing me of the webcast to be broadcast an hour later to the financial guys. Naturally enough, I asked my briefer about it and got the low-down on what the ObjectStore division is planning to do with Pervasive. More of that anon.
The ObjectStore division is, in fact, announcing a number of things today apart from the acquisition, notably ObjectStore 6.2 and, more particularly, the ObjectStore RFID accelerator. This will be generally available in October. In addition, though it has not been formally announced, the ObjectStore Trading Accelerator will also be available within the same timeframe, though financial and program trading environments is a market that Progress has addressed for some time and the Trading Accelerator will extend the company's solution rather than create a new one.
ObjectStore is an object-oriented database and its target markets are complex applications, real-time data caching and event-driven environments, though the last two of these are often used in conjunction. In particular, Progress sees a significant growth in the requirement for real-time, event-driven processing as a consequence of the expansion of use of RFID. In order to serve this market it has developed a number of specific facilities that augment the capabilities of the database, which provides an in-memory event cache.
The most notable of these facilities are the Event Query Language, which has been specifically designed to process incoming events (as opposed to the set-based processing in SQL) and product output that is usually an action - such as "sell this stock". Secondly, with respect to RFID it is providing a standards-based interface (in conjunction with partner ConnecTerra) that will accept input from front-end third party RFID specialists. And thirdly, it has integrated ObjectStore with the Sonic Enterprise Service Bus so that information from the event management system can be passed to back-end ERP and similar applications. It is also worth bearing in mind the company's PSE product, which is a cut-down version of ObjectStore with a small footprint that can run on handhelds and PDAs. This means that you can capture RFID data remotely and then load it into the main system as required.
This is neat stuff and confirms ObjectStore's leadership in the market for real-time data services. However, it will be augmented further by the acquisition of Persistence, whose core product is to be renamed ObjectStore EdgeXtend. To put it briefly, this product makes application servers go faster through object-relational mapping on the one hand and data caching on the other. Where it gains over the existing ObjectStore capabilities is in the mapping and development tools that it has, and it also has clever caching capabilities though it is likely that ObjectStore can expand on these and it can certainly add new persistence capabilities to the product.
This is certainly a sensible acquisition. While there is some overlap between the product sets there is also considerable potential synergy. The companies share a number of the same customers and this purchase can only extend ObjectStore's position in the object oriented market.
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A bracing Department of Justice lawsuit filed last month against Meridian, Miss... argues that the city's juvenile justice system has operated a school to prison pipeline that shoves students out of school and into the criminal justice system, and violates young people's due process rights along the way.
In Meridian, when schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principal's office. They call the police, who show up to arrest children who are as young as 10 years old. Arrests, the Department of Justice says, happen automatically, regardless of whether the police officer knows exactly what kind of offense the child has committed or whether that offense is even worthy of an arrest. The police department's policy is to arrest all children referred to the agency.
Once those children are in the juvenile justice system, they are denied basic constitutional rights. They are handcuffed and incarcerated for days without any hearing and subsequently warehoused without understanding their alleged probation violations.
"[D]efendants engage in a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct through which they routinely and systematically arrest and incarcerate children, including for minor school rule infractions, without even the most basic procedural safeguards, and in violation of these children's constitutional rights," the DOJ's 37-page complaint reads. Meridian's years of systemic abuse punish youth "so arbitrarily and severely as to shock the conscience," the complaint reads.
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The BBC Good Food Summer Festival in Birmingham is a monster, with several aircraft hangars' worth of space and lines and lines of stalls - the Good Food Summer Festival, Good Homes Live and Gardeners' World all under one roof. There are 174 stalls just for the food. It's the full lifestyle package for the 150,000-plus people who will pour in over three days.
Not yet, though. It's almost orderly, peaceable, ghostly before the doors open at 9am, just exhibitors moving around, putting the last bits and bobs in place before the avalanche of humanity is unleashed.
The girl on the Magic Knife Company stand warms up her vocal line. The bloke on the Grill It stand does a little rap to his soundtrack. There's a young fellow sleeping on the Run Cookware stand. A rather soothing woman's voice warns the exhibitors that their cardboard boxes must be disposed of by the time the show opens. You wonder what's going to happen at the Essex Pig Company stand because there's no one there yet. A mini-tractor trundles by pulling a wagon piled high with cardboard boxes.
The voice on the Tannoy warns that the doors are about to open. There's a lull, the exhibitors take a deep breath, get into the zone, and then they're upon them - they being the watchers of Gordon, Ainsley, Nigella, James, Antony, Gary, Rick and Saturday Kitchen, the sample hunters, the food yeomen - and the exhibitors are up and running ...
"Get your parboiled potatoes and ..."
"Remember, this was designed by a lady in Germany ..."
The hordes sweep and swirl around Munchy Seeds, Thatchers and Les Chocolatiers with its three chocolate fountains.
"Love it, just love it," says Harriet Murland on the Kin Knives stall (very nice, very expensive Japanese knives). "Meeting people. It's my social life. We do 26 shows a year."
There's a scrum around the Copella stand as the free samples go out. "Too many free samples - it makes it difficult for the little guys," says the chap at the Lemonade Factory stall.
But the visitors don't make such distinctions. It's fine for them, fun for them. This is a day out, a day off.
"What do you come for?"
"The food, of course. I'm food mad, I am."
"How much have you spent?"
"Too much."
The crowds move between the stalls like magma, slow and irresistible. Some are irresistible because they're pushing baby buggies, others because they have plastic shopping boxes on wheels full to overflowing with things bought and things given. It's like looking at a coral reef, with shoals of people gathering around the Essex Pig Company, feeding, then moving off in a seemingly single, coordinated move to graze at Skylark Trading.
In the wide open spaces at the back of the Sainsbury's Demo Theatre, a scene from Paradise Lost is being acted out. "Go on, it's like a strawberry," says a young commis chef to a colleague.
"I'm not having that," she replies. "I know what it is. It's a scotch bonnet. I'm cleverer than you."
John Torode, Masterchef presenter, whips up a storm and three tarts in the demo theatre. He is cheered and clapped to the echo.
"Love it all. You've got to - we do 250 shows a year."
It's a long day and a big space. By 5.20pm the festival is winding down. It doesn't close until 6.30pm, but there's a distinct sense of appetite for walking and tasting satiated.
There's a chap stretched out full-length in a vacant corner, his head on a rucksack. A woman sits on the ground, her back against a wall, reading a Margaret Atwood novel.
"Are you that bloke on the Great British Menu?"
"Oh, absolutely."
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My name is Robin, I am just another nerdy and normal girl you would find at school. Besides my other identity. I will live, I will fight, and everybody will fear my name. I am Robin Hood and forever these words will haunt you. When the darkness comes I will be watching, waiting, wondering how a world that looks so peaceful is filled with so much hatred and torture. But just listen.... Even if the world looks like a terrible and evil place, there is always more good in this world than bad.
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Healthy Holiday Cooking
Nov 30, 2012 10:00-11:30am
Family Resource Center, Oakwood Mall, Eau Claire
Turn your family's favorite holiday recipes into healthier recipes! We will discuss ways you can make the foods your family already enjoys healthier by using ingredient swaps and different preparation techniques. Bring your favorite recipes to discuss and take home new ones to try.
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London, England. Singer-songwriter Hewerdine is a proud resident of Cambridge, England, where he moved with his parents aged 12 and which he likes because nothing ever happens here. You can get on with things. However, at age 18 he returned to London to live in his late grandmothers house in Edgware, London, which set about a downward personal spiral. He suffered from agoraphobia and was (unjustly) accused of theft and fired from his job at a record shop. However, he found a friend with similar experiences and together they began to explore music as an outlet for their traumas. He returned to Cambridge to form Placebo Thing, then the marginally more successful the Great Divide. The latter released two singles for Enigma Records after being recommended to the label by Mike Scott of the Waterboys. These attracted a fair degree of attention within the UKs minor press, but more mainstream media support was not forthcoming.


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Kim Kardashian Shops at Barneys in Tight Leather Skirt
The sad reality, she is going to give birth to a baby with her and Kanye's genes. I'm pretty sure this is one sign of the apocalypse.
At this point, isn't little Kimmie wearing cow leather akin to being a cannibal?
The hell with the huge ass; look at that plastic trout pout. That whole fucking family should be thrown into chum-filled Pacific waters. And make the chum out of Kanye!
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4 medium sized navel oranges
4 vine ripe tomatoes
1 medium sized red onion
1 lb. tub burrata cheese, available in specialty stores and some delicatessans (buffalo mozzarella can be substituted)
1 small bunch of green basil, leaves picked (approximately 10 leaves)
1 small bunch of opal basil, leaves picked
6 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
3 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
Fresh ground black pepper, to taste
Sea salt or any other larger flake salt, to taste
Peel the red onion. Using a sharp knife, slice it into approximately 1/8 inch rings and place in a shallow bowl. Squeeze the juice from one orange over the red onion. Add the red wine vinegar to the onions and season with salt and fresh ground pepper.
Allow the onions to marinate for one hour.
Using a sharp paring knife, remove the skin and pith from the remaining three oranges to expose the flesh. Slice the oranges horizontally into approximately six even wheels, 1/4 inch thick. Remove any seeds.
Leaving the stems of the tomatoes intact, slice the tomatoes horizontally as you did for the oranges, into approximately six even wheels, 1/4 inch thick.
Assemble each salad by alternating the orange, tomato and red onion slices on four plates and placing two nice spoonfuls of the burrata cheese in between two layers.
Garnish the plates with basil leaves. Drizzle the salads with the extra virgin olive oil and season to taste with salt and fresh ground pepper.


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Permanent military court to be established
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A permanent Australian military court and a special investigation unit will be established as part of the federal government's response to a landmark inquiry into military justice.
The inquiry, which took evidence from grieving families and friends around the country, heard stories of suicide, racism and violence, drug use and abuse of power in military training schools and cadet units.
It recommended all suspected criminal activity be referred to state civilian police for investigation and prosecution before civilian courts and that suspected criminal activity outside Australia be investigated by federal police.
Releasing its response to the inquiry today, the federal government said the Australian Defence Force (ADF) would retain its power to internally investigate crimes committed by soldiers.
It said it would introduce significant reforms to improve the ADF's military justice system, including a permanent military court and special investigation unit.
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Walk Now For Autism Speaks
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SoJO on the Go will be at the 2013 Southern New Jersey Walk Now For Autism Speaks walk at the ARI Building inside Bishops Gates Corporate Center in Mount Laurel beginning at 8am! Walk Now for Autism Speaks is a fun-filled, family friendly event and is their single most powerful force to fund vital research that will lead us to the answers we need. Every 11 minutes, another family receives the devastating news that their child has an autism spectrum disorder. Help us change that!