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Here are some pictures of the Mighty Trin taken from The Tower Club on the 48th floor of Thanksgiving Tower on Wednesday, May 27.
Flooding as seen from the 48th floor
In light of flooding, HavenCon suspends Indiegogo fundraising
A week ago we posted this blog saying that the folks behind HavenCon, Texas' first and only LGBTQ gaymers convention, had announced plans for the second annual con in 2016 and had launched an IndieGoGo page to raise they money they need to stage the convention.
Today, HavenCon organizers have announced they are talking to IndieGoGo to close the page and refund contributions so far, in light of the weather-related disasters — flooding, tornadoes, etc. — plaguing Texas.
Rather than try to explain it in my words, it's easier to just share theirs:
Important Announcement RE: Texas Floods and HavenCon Indiegogo Contributions
Published on May 26, 2015 by Shane
Hi Haven friends, just so you are all aware. I have contacted Indiegogo to see about refunding current contributions and closing our fundraiser.
I think right now human life and safety are a higher priority and I want people to be able to help those in need first.
This does mean that we might not be able to secure the venue in time for next years event. But we will be speaking with them to see if we can have an extension on when that is due.
If we are not able to get that extension, we will cancel 2016 and aim for a relaunch in 2017. Either way, we will keep you all updated.
Please hold any contributions you were considering donating at this time.
Also, any funds raised from our t-shirt campaign will be donated to local organizations to assist those in need during this time.
Thank you!
Start building the toll road now
We think building the toll road is a great idea and construction should begin now — as in today, before the flooding in the floodway where the road will go gets any worse.
Here are some pictures taken over the weekend along the proposed toll road route. We agree with Councilman Adam Medrano that the trees that are slowing down the flow of river should be kept in place to slow down the water as it cascades down the toll road.
The flooding's not THAT bad, flooded downtown pic a fake (sort of)
Facebook has been "flooded" with a picture purporting to show downtown inundated after today's rains.
The only problem? That's not a picture from 2012. It's a Houston Chronicle picture from 2001 when Tropical Storm Allison swamped the city.
Not that today's flooding wasn't extreme. The Houston Transtar cameras captured this image of Brays Bayou almost coming over the bridges at MacGreggor this afternoon. Fortunatly the waters have since receded.


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The most astonishing thing about hearing Ornette Coleman's Atlantic recordings today is how accessible they seem. Back in the early '60s, when they were first released with immodest titles like "Change of the Century" and "The Shape of Jazz to Come," all we could hear was the way the alto saxophonist and his quartet felt free to disregard the usual bounds of keys and measures in their solos. Because Coleman's music was, in fact, the shape of jazz to come, his innovations don't seem so novel now. What we hear instead are the beauty of Coleman's melodies and the passionate bluesiness of his quartet's playing. --Geoffrey Himes
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Her leafy university campus looks the perfect spot for a budding insect gourmet. Hundreds of cicadas litter the ground there, post-coital corpses of the ones who have already mated and laid their eggs.
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Tomorrow is the spring equinox
It got both busy and slothful here over the weekend.
When they proclaim me emperor.
Continuing a series on what I would do if I were emperor of these United States.
Abolish federal aid to education, except in the District of Columbia and of course on military bases. In DC I would eliminate all welfare: you have no inherent right to live in the Capital. If you don't have a job or other means of support, move out.
Now eliminate all unionism in civil service and education in the District and in military base schools. Abolish tenure in the DC school system; pay whatever it takes to get teachers who are willing to perform in order to be paid. There will be plenty of them. Set up a school system that works. If that requires chopping the District into a dozen smaller school districts with locally elected boards, do that, but we will also have a Capitol Hill district with appointed Board. The notion is to set up schools that work. If the rest of the country wants to copy the new education system that's good, but it won't be paid for by the national government.
Get the borders under control. Get the Melting Pot working again: The notion that one can learn to be an American, and should will now govern. Leave much of the enforcement of immigration status to local governments with the understanding that if local services are overwhelmed by illegals using those services, the Federal Government will help in enforcement of immigration status laws. In other words, if your hospitals and schools are overloaded with illegals, the Federal Government will help by more vigorous enforcement of immigration status laws.
Meanwhile, English will be the only language for election to any Federal office, and the only official language in Federal offices in general. If you need a translator, get one, and we'll try to be helpful, but English is the official language of these United States.
I would then go through the budget eliminating federal entitlements. Since the goal is to cut Federal taxes and leave as much money in the States as possible, the States can compete on providing entitlements, which they get to pay for. Meanwhile we have a legal commission go through all the old court decisions trying to equalize entitlements among the states and reverse them. If States want to impose residency requirements as a condition of receiving public assistance, that is the business of that State (as it was before Earl Warren got into the act). Thus there will be states that want to soak the rich to provide entitlements for the masses, and states that do not, and the rich are free to move wherever they like.
The goal of all this is to rebuild the Melting Pot while restoring some freedoms to the states and to the people (Tenth Amendment and all that). That will take longer than the life of one emperor, but these are steps in the right direction.
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21, 2006
Equinox, Sort of
Equinox doesn't mean what you think it does, and doesn't happen when you
think it should, but this is still the first day of Spring. For more on
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In case you didn't see this, regarding the Tunguska event and global warming:
http://www.physorg.com/news11710.html gives the theory.
Note, though, that the standard response does not respond to the data on late 19th Century cooling Shaidurov presents. I have no way of verifying his measures, but if they are true, and if that trend changed in the early part of the 20th Century, this requires comment. One possible comment is that his data are just plain incorrect, with some argument to that effect. What is not acceptable is dismissing the data.
Long ago I did an essay on The Voodoo Sciences, which is worth your attention if you have not seen it before. There is a small discussion of this in an earlier view. The important principle here is that real science covers all the data.
I am out of time so I won't get to the essay I intended today. I was going to begin by saying that nearly everything I learned in clinical psychology classes in graduate school in the early 1950's was the bunk, although I was fortunate to have one class in which the textbook was Henderson and Gillespie, A Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th Edition; this was largely because the emphasis in my graduate school was on physiological science rather than Freudian voodoo. In those days Freud was still very much respected. In those days I could see there was as much evidence for the truth of Hubbard's Dianetics as for Freud. This was before the transmogrification into Scientology, when Hubbard's book was held up as science, and indeed made as much sense as Freud. Freud postulated non-existent mental structures, just as Hubbard did. Jung added collective unconscious, as Hubbard did. None of this was science, but that wasn't clear at the time. Well, it was clear, but it was a bit difficult for one graduate student to oppose the entire intellectual and scientific establishment of the country, and while it was easy to ridicule Hubbard's Dianetics -- Martin Gardiner did that well in Fads and Fallacies -- when you pointed out that the same arguments could be applied to Uncle Ziggy you would find yourself in real trouble.
In other words, psychology in those days was Voodoo science.
Apparently it still is, and apparently the psychiatrists are in on it. In particular we have a local case of a man diagnosed with adult ADD; the drugs he is given have made him find himself. Finding himself consists of quitting his job, living at his parents' home, suing his working wife for spousal support and making her sell the house so he can have his share, not paying child support, and in general using his 'disability' so he can stay on drugs. Legal drugs. He has found himself, with the help of the physicians.
Apparently this is science. Telling a man he is no longer a man, and has no responsibilities, is old wives tale stuff. Modern science lets you find yourself even if what you find is being a moral monster, and modern science supports, apparently, the notion of "equality" so that a woman with two kids has to sell her house to support the legal drug habit of the man who found himself.
So I do have this request: I don't want speculation, but some of you are in or were very recently in graduate school in psychology or psychiatry. What are the standard textbooks today? What do graduate students in clinical psychology learn now? And what do psychiatrists learn that makes it a reasonable thing to let a man find himself with drugs that allow him to feel good about quitting his job and beggaring his wife and children? What are the textbooks that teach this?
There is a story in the LA Times today about Winny, a file sharing program, and a virus pumping files out to the world.
It seemed a bit confused so I asked
Mr. Hellewell for his interpretation, which is:
The person was preparing a report for the nuclear site company, and copied files to his laptop (or perhaps a USB drive; the reports are varied on this) to take them home to work on. He also had the Winny P2P program installed, and had probably configured it to share the same folder that he put the nuclear files in. So when he connected at home, the Winny P2P program shared all the files in that folder, and someone found them and got them.
Although the Japanese nuclear agency has a policy about copying confidential information, it's apparently not well-enforced.
There is a virus called "Antinny" which uses the Winny P2P network spread itself.The Winny user has to manually download/open a file to install the virus. When installed, then "shares" itself to other Winny users. It's a Japanese language worm; Winny is also a Japanese language program. The various descriptions of this virus are not clear as to it's function, other than to spread to others via the Winny P2P program.
I don't think that it is clear that the Winny virus is the cause of the leak of the confidential data. I think that the user put the confidential files in a Winny-shared folder, and that's how those files were spread.
So it's another example of the danger of P2P programs, and the need to have current anti-virus. Along with the problem of confidential data leaking out via the improper actions of users. From a security standpoint, USB drives are a big source of leaks .... and most companies are hiding their heads in the sand about the security issues with USB drives.
Regards, Rick Hellewell
A reader asked me about LCD
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Precisely. And those who have any interest in visual display and editing and are not reading David Em are missing a lot.
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March 22, 2006
I took today off. Errands, mostly.
This week:
March 23, 2006
Conservatism and the Shah of Iran
My current issue of The American Conservative has an article about why we
probably won't invade Iran (and certainly arguing that doing so is not a
good idea.)
While I agree with the conclusions, I do not understand why anyone or anything calling itself "conservative" wants to demonize the Shah and whitewash Mossadegh.
The Shah was no petty dictator, and his attempt to bring Iran into the modern world had some chance of success. He had the support of most of the middle class and was building the strength of the middle class and merchants as a secular opposition to the mullahs. He kept Islam in its place without going fully secular and provoking a revolt. He had some popularity with the Kurdish Iranians, and they trusted him not to do a Farsification of their part of Iran.
He took the Shatt al Arab from Iraq, and that was immensely popular in Iran while not threatening to the West.
The crowds that turned out shouting "Death to the Shah" were, within a week, shouting "Death to Mossadegh"; they were easily bribed as anyone with Company connections has very good reason to know. The peasantry largely supported the Shah. The opposition was mostly urban. The KGB and GRU were very active in Iran, and had been since Truman threatened nuclear war to get Stalin's troops out of Iran after WW II; one of Truman's most heroic and underappreciated acts.
The article talks about the Shah's secret police. The Shah was certainly less repressive than the current regimes in Pakistan and Egypt, and was a good ally of the west, with a clear goal of easing his way into a monarchy like that of Jordan. His queen appeared regularly on TV in western garb and promoted women's causes with his support. There were more women's rights in royal Iran than now.
Why do "conservatives" want to demonize a man who, if Jimmy Carter had had the slightest sense, would still rule (well his son would) in Persia and the US would not have half the problems we have over there? And why do "conservatives" want to promote Moscow-backed Mossadegh who seems somehow to have become a democratic leader? He wasn't "flawed". He was a bloody traitor to Iran and the West.
Just what is "conservative" about arguments like these?
I would have thought that the enemy of my enemies principle alone would be enough -- that's the only reason we are friendly to most of those in the Middle East now anyway -- but the Shah was a genuine friend to the West, less corrupt than any regime over there including Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and very interested in his "White Revolution" as was the Queen. The media here detested the Shah, and exploited his accessibility, but until Jimmy Carter abandoned him -- during the Cold War, when it mattered a lot -- the Shah was very much an ally of the United States, and his regime was considerably less unsavory than some of those we depend on today. No: it wasn't a "democracy" but Jacobin enthusiasm for democracy as the only legitimate form of government is not a conservative principle.
What in the world is conservative about that article in "The American Conservative" other than that we shouldn't invade to undo Jimmy Carter's bungling?
The discussion of The Voodoo Sciences continues in mail.
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One reason I didn't write much (here, anyway, I got some fiction done) yesterday is that it's spring and with that come the allergies, mainly sinus headaches. As usual I futzed around rather than doing what was needed. This morning I did a sinus wash before and after my morning walk, and the results are much better than Claratin. The following is an advertisement and endorsement:
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This argument is not over.
Above I had some harsh words about The American Conservative's view of the Shah. You will note I do continue to subscribe to the magazine, because they often enough have something very much worth my time, such as this gem: http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_03_27/article2.html
This week:
March 24, 2006
Quantum gravity? See mail.
There is a bit of mail on the Shah, with a long reply.
Dr. Pournelle:
Reports surfacing today about a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that may allow a program to run if you visit an evil web page. Some security folks are starting to get a bit excitable about it (for instance, the Internet Storm Center has gone to a 'yellow' status). It may be that this will be another 'the sky is falling' issue.
Although the vuln (and the exploit) is real, I don't think it will be a widespread issue for most people. If readers practice 'safe computing' by
- stay away from the 'dark side' of the 'net (hacker sites, 'questionable content' [adult] sites) - ensure current anti-virus/spyware/operating system patches - don't click on links in spam email (including emails that are 'from' any bank, eBay, PayPal, etc) - use a firewall (Windows Firewall is sufficient)
Some security folks will take this an another opportunity to shout "don't use IE, use Firefox", or "get a Mac", "use Linux", "Microsoft is not secure/evil", etc.
There will be some that might have a problem. But the bigger problem is users not being aware (or practicing) safe computing. As I have said before, I use Windows and IE 6, and I haven't had problems with viruses, keystroke loggers, spyware, or other exploits. I am protected by my 'safe computing' practices, and my 'layered defenses' against such evil things.
In my humble opinion, the sky is not falling.
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By exporting portions of its natural gas to the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, Israel could help bridge relations on a broader level with its neighbors, Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau said on Wednesday.
Naturally, the immediate export of natural gas will be to our neighbors the Palestinians and the Jordanians, and I believe that this connection will be an important step in building trust and peace in the region, Landau said, according to his office.
The minister was speaking at The Economist magazines Investment Energy Summit Greece, Cyprus, Israel: Redesigning the European Energy Map event, held in Athens on Wednesday and Thursday, in cooperation with Greeces Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry; Cypruss Commerce, Industry and Tourism Ministry; the Greek- Israeli Chamber of Commerce & Technology; and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Addressing participants during the conferences opening session, Landau joined the energy and environment ministers of both Greece and Cyprus. The three ministers later took part in an open discussion about global challenges and the specific problems that the countries in this region share, the ministry said.
For Israel in particular, there will be specific challenges as the economy strives to cope with an entirely new, and extensive, addition to the market, according to Landau.
The energy market is expected to transfer to the most extensive use of natural gas, opening the use of natural gas and its products, such as methanol for transportation, he said.
But the regional natural gas developments will not just be remarkable for Israels energy security status it will also be crucial to that of its neighbors, and the relationships among the countries.
We believe with deep conviction that this important development in the Middle East will lead to a better future for our countries, as well as for that of our neighbors, Landau said.
We are confident that in the Middle East, which at the moment is in chaos, this partnership between Greece, Israel and Cyprus will create a basis of stability that is very important for the region.
Along these lines, Landau wished success to Cyprus and Greece in their natural gas explorations, which are slated to begin next month. Your success is the success of the region, he said.
As a testament to the increasingly high level of cooperation among these three countries, Israels ambassador to Greece, Aryeh Mekel, told Landau that six Israeli ministers have visited Greece in the past year to create various partnerships, while 12 Greek ministers have visited Israel, the ministry reported.
Later during the day, Landau signed a agreement with Greek Environment, Energy and Climate Minister George Papaconstantinou for cooperation between their two countries in the field of environmental protection.
The agreement calls for exchanging knowledge and sharing expertise, with particular emphasis on issues of water management, sewage treatment and reuse, desalination, bio-gas and biomass production, energy efficiency and other elements.
The ministerial meetings occurring in Athens indicate a tightening of relations between the three countries, particularly on issues of energy and environmental importance, many of which have arisen from their mutual natural gas discoveries, according to the ministry. Earlier this month, Landau and officials from the other two countries signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction of an electric cable from Israel to Cyprus to Greece, which will allow for redundancy, reciprocal backup, security and long-term domestic energy for all the parties involved, the ministry said. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 03/29/12)
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The announcement of the cancellation was greeted with shouts of "Shame" and "We want Ann" from about 100 people inside the hall at the school, AP said.
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Speech organizers said Coulter was advised against appearing after about 2,000 "threatening" students crowded an entrance, posing a security threat.
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Corali originated in a Day Centre in Southwark and was founded by one of the centre's social services workers, Virginia Moffat. At that time Corali was a casual dance group, formed as a result of the clients' interest and enjoyment of dance and the arts. The name Corali is an anagram of the first letters of the original company members' names.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) is set to hold its analyst day this coming Tuesday, and if the company hasn't named a new CEO by then or even as part of the festivities, it's sure to face plenty of questions about where it's leaning. The stock is coming off a strong week where it gained almost 5%, including a 2.1% rise to $40.98 on Friday. It was the second positive week in a row for the shares which sold off in the wake of Mark Hurd's departure on August 6, setting a new 52-week low of $37.32 on August 27, a swing of 32% from its April 16 high for the year of $54.75. Prior to Hurd's surprise resignation, the stock was sitting comfortably above $46.
Wall Street was split on how imminent an announcement on a new CEO might be ahead of the meeting. Collins Stewart, which has a buy rating on the stock with a $55 price target, issued a note on Thursday saying it believes the company is close to announcing Hurd's successor, most likely an internal candidate. It doesn't expect this will spark the stock to previous heights however, and didn't venture a guess as to who might get the job beyond identifying three likely candidates -- Anne Livermore, executive vice president, Enterprise Business; Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, and also the former CEO of Palm; and Dave Donatelli, executive vice president, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking -- and listing some positives and negatives for each. Collins Stewart sees VJ Joshi, HP's executive vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, as a less likely candidate than the others, saying the printing business hasn't grown enough to justify a larger role for him. "While the fact of resolving the CEO question will probably give rise to a modest relief rally, it is unlikely to generate the enthusiasm of five years ago when Hurd was named CEO," the firm told clients, saying the announcement could come in the "very near term." ISI Group, however, offered a preview of the meeting earlier in the week, and it doesn't expect HP will reveal its next leader. "We expect the company to offer its preliminary FY11 outlook in addition to providing an overview of each of its businesses," the firm said. "We would not be surprised if the company does not have an update on its CEO search by the analyst day."


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The Republican Party just ceded much political clout to extreme right-wing forces, and formalized new goals to oppress LGBT citizens via its official party platform. Even before the vote, evangelical Christian Dominionists from anti-LGBT hate groups were bragging how their Family Research Council wrote key planks of the platform which was adopted on August 28 at the national convention in Tampa, Florida.
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Eva Robin's (or Robbins in her younger years) was born Roberto Maurizio Coatti in Sienna, Italy in December 1958. She has never legally changed her birth name and still occasionally uses it.
Eva seems to be living her adult life as a bi-sexual pre-SRS transsexual woman. She's always maintained that she's a hermaphrodite and not a transsexual, claiming that she takes no female hormones and that her body feminised rather than masculinised at puberty. However, physically she exhibits none of the characteristics typical of most intersex or pseudo-hermaphrodite medical conditions. Her voice is also not clearly male or female, but perhaps tends slightly to the former. There are some rare conditions - in particular Partial AIS - that could explain (for example) her breast development, but a simpler explanation is that she's been regularly taking small amounts of female hormones (e.g. from contraceptive pills) since her early teens. Eva's overall physical appearance with obvious and well-formed breast development (apparently un-enhanced by any surgery) is certainly consistent with this.
Either way, after some psychological confusion as a youth, Eva finally chose to live with great success as a woman of considerable beauty. A poll by a Italian radio station in the early 1990's asked one thousand men who would they would most like to marry, Eva came an impressive third with 17% of the vote - beaten only by Danish supermodel Helena Christensen and popular Italian TV presenter Daniela Vergara.
It would be difficult to doubt that Eva was a woman in every sense but for the revealing of her anatomy in some movies. There were rumours that she quietly had sex re-assignment surgery in 1991 or 1998 - slightly supported by no photographs appearing of her lower sexual organs since the film Mascara in 1989. However paparazzi photos continue to suggest that she has substantial male genitalia. This supports the view that she takes only small amounts of female hormones - carefully balancing keeping her body feminised (e.g. no facial hair) with maintaining a "male libido" most of the time. By contrast, long-term use of high levels of female hormones by pre-op MTF transsexual often results in a total loss of sex drive, chemical castration, and dramatic shrinkage in the size of their male sexual organs.
In a 2002 interview for the Italian Internet ISP libero.it the interviewer presented Eva as Roberto Coatti, he/she stated that she has never had a sex reassignment operation, and that it would be a negative thing "for a person that has found herself". She's since been explicit that she doesn't want to "cut my penis cut off" as it's been "so good to her", she has relationships with women but she also seeks relationships with men so that she doesn't "lose touch with my femininity".
Eva then began a very successful career as an actress. This started with some dubious soft porn efforts such as Evaman (1980), but she successfully broke in to the mainstream. Although she often laments in interviews that she is rarely offered roles not dependent upon her "surprise" factor, most of her movies do in fact avoid this. Eva's most famous movie moment is almost certainly when she appears as the topless "Woman on Beach" in the world-wide hitTenebre (1982), no hint is given that she's not a genetic woman.
She followed this movie with a minor role in the rather dire films Hercules (1983) and The Adventures of Hercules (1985), ironically one of the many complaints made about these films by movie critics is that in Greek mythology Eva's character - Dedalos (a misspelling of "Daedalus") - is a man, not a woman. Since then Eva has had starring roles in a series of mainly Italian language movies such as Mascara (1989), Belle al Bar (1994), Luna e l'altra (1996), I Miei Piu' Cari Amici (1998) and the award winning L'auto del Silenzio (2001).
Eva apparently wanted to be credited by her birth name of "Roberto" for L'auto del Silenzio, but the producers insisted on using "Eva" given that she was playing a straight female lead role in a PG rated film.
Eva had a rather unsuccessful prime-time show Primadonna in the 1990's.
In 2003 she star'ed, age 44, as a fading lesbian singer in the mediocre Cattive Inclinazioni (Bad Inclination). Once again she had the lead female role - being credited as Eva Robin's. Her many scantily clad or lesbian scenes were apparently carefully filmed to avoid confusing those in the audience who assumed that she was a woman, whilst also titillating those "in the know".
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early 2000's Eva had a leading role in the second series of the
Italian TV show Il
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The 2009 Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference, co-hosted by the Washington Technology Center and Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute and presented by Hewlett-Packard Co. and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announces the panelists for its closing plenary panel and reception. MNBC 2009 will be addressing head-on the challenging environment for early stage funding with an outstanding panel of tech transfer and early stage investment experts, addressing such topics as:
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Dr. Fiona Wills, Director of Technology Licensing, UW TechTransfer
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Jim Torina, President and CEO of The University Funds, LLC.
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Search is on for Bridgetown's replacement
One town's loss is another one's gain, as Rachel Turner has accepted the position of chief administrative officer for the Town of Middleton.
For the past two years, Turner has served as CAO for Town of Bridgetown. On Tuesday night, that council regretfully accepted her resignation at its regular meeting.
"It was a tough decision, but ultimately I needed to make it," Turner said. "Bridgetown still has its challenges and this is hard on staff."
She added that she is looking forward to taking on her new role starting in early April, "Middleton is a great community, it has a terrific staff and council. They're doing great things."
Middleton has been recruiting a permanent CAO for the past several months, ever since Clayton MacMurtey announced his retirement last fall. Brian Smith has been serving in the interim as acting CAO.
Middleton Mayor Calvin Eddy said Turner was selected from among 61 candidates. He added that he was surprised at the number of applications they received and at the level of qualifications.
"We're happy to have Rachel and are looking forward to working with her," he said. "We're were fortunate to have Brian Smith for the last six months, he has been instrumental in getting us through this process. We're very lucky."
Bridgetown Mayor Horace Hurlburt said his council and town staff are still processing the news, but an informal search has begun for a new CAO.
"Council wishes Ms. Turner the very best in her future endeavours, with many thanks extended on behalf of the Town, for the hard work and dedication she brought to town hall," said Hurlburt.


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Or, If anyone's interested, I just bought some stuff from an Internet
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> OK, so the 233 won't be enough. I was afraid of that. :-(
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Did you know: Yasiel Puig is one of five nominees for the Best Breakthrough Athlete ESPY. The Angels' Mike Trout is the only other non-football player.
Numbers game: 58 – Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen's 58 strikeouts entering Thursday were tied with Pittsburgh's Jason Grilli for the major league lead among relievers.
Capuano earned some extra credit for pitching the Dodgers to a win over San Diego on short rest Sunday, throwing five scoreless innings while earning a no-decision. He hasn't allowed a run – or a walk – in 11 innings since coming off the DL. Capuano gave up three home runs to the Phillies in his last start against them in 2012, but that was in Philadelphia's bandbox of a ballpark.
vs. Phillies: 1-2, 3.47
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Loves to face: Chase Utley, 1 for 10 (.100), 3 BB, 4 SO
Hates to face: Jimmy Rollins, 5 for 18 (.278), 2 HR, 4 RBI
A sneaky-good starter for Washington from 2008-2011, Lannan hasn't done much of anything for the Phillies over the past two seasons. He has really only had one great start this season, and it came against Miami, the worst-hitting team in the majors. He was knocked out in the second inning of an April start against Cincinnati and even got roughed up by the New York Mets last time out.
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In 1973, Professor Kenneth Gergen conducted a social psychology experiment that found the answer to the question, "What do people do under conditions of extreme anonymity?"
Category romance authors have surmised the answer to that question for years now. Turns out, the truth isn't that far from what those authors suppose.
In the experiment, men and women who had never met were put into a small, furniture-less room that was pitch dark. At first the two talked, but then the conversation escalated to touching. In fact, almost 90 percent of the subjects touched someone else on purpose, and a third ended up kissing. Nearly 80 percent of the subjects reported feeling sexual excitement.
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What could be better than one Jacko? Two Jackos! A few months after the New York Adventures, there was a Halloween party at the shop. I decided to dress up as Jacko. It was a bit confusing for Jacko at first, but we ended up having a grand time.
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The Daily tries it on
Monday 17 September 2012
I chose this double-breasted wool coat from H&M because it is reminiscent of the coats worn by my grandfather. As well as having a nostalgic appeal, I was drawn to the masculine tailoring, which I think can look great on a woman. I have always been a tomboy and this coat will go with both my boyish clothing and my dresses.
Coat £79.99, by H&M. Enq 0844 736 9000; hm.com


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For the last few months, thanks to winning a prize from one of my favourite sites, I've received daily newsletters from the TSI Network. For those that don't know, the TSI Network is the online home of Pat McKeough's highly successful family of investment publications: The Successful Investor, Stock Pickers Digest, Wall Street Stock Forecaster and Canadian Wealth Advisor. You can sign up for some or all of these publications about Canadian, U.S. and international stocks.
After reviewing my inbox filled with these publications for the some time now I've noticed a rather interesting (and predictable) investment trend when it comes to great buys for Canadian stocks. Maybe you'll agree with me…
First up though here are some of the Canadian stocks highlighted as great buys in Pat's recent publications, in no particular order:
- Toromont (TIH)
- Enerflex (EFX)
- Intact Financial (IFC)
- Yamana Gold (YRI)
- Great-West Lifeco (GWO)
- Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD.B)
- Transcontinental Inc. (TCL.A)
- RioCan REIT (REI.UN)
- Teck Resources (TCK.B)
- Bellatrix Exploration (BXE)
- Encana (ECA)
- Cenovus (CVE)
- Canadian Utilities (CU)
- ATCO Ltd. (ACO.X)
Although Pat's reports are interesting and I'm thankful to receive the stock details in them, they can be distilled down to "tipping" many Canadian dividend paying stocks you'll find by owning Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like CDZ (that holds Canadian dividend aristocrats) or XIU (that holds the biggest 60, mostly blue-chip Canadian stocks).
The reality is there are only so many "hot" stocks in Canada. Once your stocks are purchased, you can largely forget the market noise and simply focus on doing other things with your time. Many of these companies will provide steady dividends and capital appreciation for the foreseeable future.
Do you agree with me?


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Annual Tap Extravaganza - Flushing Town Hall
Hours: 8pm
Ages: TW,TE,AD
Price: $20; $10 students with ID
137-35 Northern Blvd. - 718-463-7700
Flushing, NY 11354
Description: Hoofers can bring their tap shoes and join the Tap Jam. Featured artists include: Dormesha Sumbry Edwards; Jason Samuels Smith; Omar Edwards; Baakari Wilder; Michelle Dorrance, Andrew Nemr,. Michela Lerman, Dance Captain; Frank Owens, Music Director.


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Chevron plans Monday to resume use of the pipeline that caused the Red Butte Creek oil spill, following a completed 24-hour, high-pressure test of the line.
The company over the weekend pumped water into the 13.7-mile section of pipeline between the refinery north of Salt Lake City and Red Butte Garden in the foothills near the University of Utah. Officials said the pipe held up under 300 pounds per square inch pressure, about five times more than normal.
Chevron's plan to start using the pipeline was approved by the U.S. Transportation Department's pipeline safety office and the Unified Command, a team comprised of Chevron, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of Environmental Quality, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake Valley Health Department and Salt Lake City.
"We're pretty confident the pipeline is in good shape," Chevron spokesman Dan Johnson said.
The pipeline transports about 14,000 to 15,000 barrels of oil a day -- that's about 588,000 to 630,000 gallons -- mainly from the Rangely Oil Field in Colorado, he said.
A leak in the pipeline was discovered June 12, but not before 33,000 gallons of oil flowed into Red Butte Creek and on into Liberty Park pond and the Jordan River.
Chevron on Saturday used a flushing technique, that has been successful in other spills, to move oil out of the creek into Liberty Park Pond, where it was recovered by vacuum tankers. A surge of water was released from Red Butte Reservoir to boost stream flow for about 90 minutes. Absorbent booms spanned the stream and the pond at numerous locations to catch floating particles of oil.
The spill cleanup team reports that just 100 barrels of oil, about 4,200 gallons, remain in the three contaminated waterways. Six hundred of the 800 barrels spilled have been recovered, the company said. And 100 barrels evaporated, said the Unified Command.
Creekside homeowner Brandon Bennett said Sunday he was not surprised the pipeline was reopening. Economic pressures were driving the company to resume normal operations quickly, he said.
He would have liked to have seen stepped up safety precautions and a better effort to communicate the clean-up plans.
"We're expecting the same kind of urgency," he said, "in cleaning the spill up."
Yalecrest resident Tom Kurrus also expected the pipeline to quickly be put back into use, but had hoped information would have been available about how the sensors were tested -- they failed for hours to sound an alarm about the leak -- and how future monitoring will take place.
The speed of the approval process was a bit astonishing, he said. "It surprises me that the government agencies -- that you could get them to do this on the weekend."
A group of creekside neighbors met Saturday at Westminster College, Kurrus said. Their discussion focused on spill-related lawsuits under consideration, and touched on other issues.
Kurrus' goal is simple: "My concern is cleaning up the creek."
Cleanup of remaining oil and air-quality monitoring continue around the clock, company officials say.


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Grilled Shrimp Salad with Savoy Cabbage
This exciting salad mixes crisp cabbage, tart apple and sweet fried shallots with grilled shrimp. Leftover basil oil can be used to make vinaigrette for other salads, as an accent for grilled white-fleshed fish, in pastas or on pizza.
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- Servings: 8
- 2 cups (packed) basil leaves, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup pure olive oil, plus more for brushing
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- Peanut or canola oil, for frying
- 8 medium shallots, thinly sliced and separated into rings
- 24 large shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 1 large Cortland apple
- 6 cups (packed) baby tatsoi or arugula leaves (about 3 ounces)
- 4 cups (packed) finely shredded Savoy cabbage (about 1/2 head)
How to make this recipe
In a blender, puree the basil with the 1/2 cup of olive oil. Pour the puree into a small bowl and let stand at room temperature for about 20 minutes, or until the oil separates from the solids. Skim 1/4 cup of the basil oil into a clean bowl, leaving the solids behind. Stir in the lemon juice and season with 3/4 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper.
In a medium saucepan, heat 1/2 inch of peanut oil over moderate heat until shimmering. Add half of the shallots and stir well. Reduce the heat to moderately low and fry, stirring once or twice, until the shallots are lightly browned and crisp, about 15 minutes. Remove the shallots to paper towels with a slotted spoon. Repeat with the remaining shallots.
Light a grill or heat a grill pan. Brush the shrimp with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill for about 2 minutes per side, or until opaque throughout.
Cut the apple into matchsticks. In a bowl, toss the tatsoi, cabbage, apple and shallots. Add the dressing and toss well. Arrange the salad on 8 plates, top each serving with 3 grilled shrimp and serve.
Make Ahead
The recipe can be prepared through Step 2 up to 2 days ahead. Refrigerate the basil oil and store the shallots at room temperature.
Suggested Pairing
A not-too-fruity Chardonnay from central California.


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Thursday, 5 September, 2002, 02:10 GMT 03:10 UK
Libya 'right for human rights job'
The son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has defended Libya's much-criticised nomination as chair of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, the UN's main human rights monitoring body.
The younger Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, heads a charity foundation which he says is independent of his father's government.
He said in an exclusive BBC interview that he supported the move for his country to head the UN Commission on the unusual grounds that Libya had a bad human rights record.
It is Africa's turn to nominate the chair of the UN Human Rights Commission and the African Union - a continent-wide body largely financed by Colonel Gaddafi - had put forward Libya's name.
Colonel Gaddafi's son defended the move for Libya to head the commission.
"We have a bad record regarding human rights in this region in general... not just Libya but in all the Third (World) countries and in particular in the Middle East," he said.
"It's a good time now to have a country from this region in that position because... it's an embarrassment to those countries because they are violating the human rights.
"We can work with this commission to enhance the situation of the human rights in the Middle East," he added.
The argument seems to be that although Libya has a bad record on human rights its heading of the UN Commission could embarrass regional governments into cleaning up their act.
The nomination has brought howls of protest from the US and lobby groups like the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
They said Libya was in no position to judge the human rights of others when it was hiding its own violations.
It is also ironic that Africa should be pushing Libya's case when just two years ago, thousands of black African immigrants were the targets of racially motivated violence in Tripoli and when many were unceremoniously deported from the country.
However, it is also possible that Libya is serious about trying to clean up its image.
It recently mended some diplomatic fences with Britain and the fact that Libya is at least airing human rights issues may be another part of this charm offensive.
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