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Choosing where to go fishing in southwest Montana can be difficult. With countless rivers and streams to choose from, local anglers literally have limitless opportunities for summer fly fishing. As much as we cherish time in the drift boat swinging flies, we also truly value a day spent trolling the lake. Within 50 miles of Bozeman, there are multiple bodies of water to explore that more often than not hold giant fish. Every summer, we make sure to dedicate a couple of weekends to fishing our favorite lakes. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to catch a colorful variety of trout including rainbows, browns, cut throat, and more. If you haven't spent an afternoon on the water lately, get out there! Summer only lasts so long.
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Spring In The Mountains
Living north of the 45th parallel means winters are long and daylight is scarce for about five months a year. Come late April-early May, the snow starts to bleed off, the sunshine remains a bit later each evening and temperatures begin to rise as life returns to the mountain side. This seasonal change also brings one of our first hunting opportunities of the year, bears and sheds.
Our pursuit begins as we painfully get ourselves back into hiking shape. Steep hillsides taunt us with determined patches of snow and loose rock. The experience is both torturous and rewarding. One moment you feel as though your lungs and heart are about to burst out of your chest, and the next you stumble upon a mule deer shed or sight a feeding bear on a distant hillside. Excruciating exhaustion is usually quickly replaced with a powerful sense of fulfillment.
Some nights we may find nothing more than a picture-worthy sunset accompanied by a crippling leg cramp, and that's enough. Spring reminds us the mountain is demanding, a lesson better learned in May than September. We may not find a trophy bear or a monster shed every time we go, but that's ok with us.
Another Reason We Call Montana Home
Team Schnee's recently spent a memorable afternoon flinging flies on one of our famed local rivers. There are few places you can consistently catch trout on a fly rod over 20 inches and this particular river is is one of them. The sun was shining, the parking lot almost empty and fish were feeding! The afternoon was spent fighting monster trout and hanging out with good friends. Opportunities like this one is just another reason why we call Montana home.
10 Questions with Bryce Ledbetter
2. What do you like to hunt with?
The favorite of my firearms is a Kimber 300 Winchester Short Mag. It might be a bit overkill for a lot of North American game but I know I can rely on it for those bigger animals and longer shots. This past year I got into bow hunting and bought a Bowtech Insanity. It's a bit on the heavier side but it proved itself in September when I got my first bull elk. I shoot Gold Tip Pro Hunter arrows in the field and Easton Light Speeds at the range.
3. Do you live in Bozeman?
I've lived in Bozeman for a year and a half, though I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. After finishing school I worked in Dallas for about 6 years. I first became interested in Bozeman after reading an article in Outside Magazine. I was looking to make a change and Bozeman seemed to have everything I wanted: more easily accessible areas to hunt and fish, great people, and unbeatable scenery. I'll take the occasional -30 over 3 months of 115 any day.
4. What do you do when you're not working at Schnee's?
Like most Bozemanites I'm a pretty active person. I spend a lot of time running in the Bridgers and exercising at the local gym. This past winter I joined an archery league where I practiced alongside some of the best archers in the state. I'm also fairly involved with the community: I sit on two city boards, lead a group at my church, and volunteer at the local animal shelter.
5. What is your typical week like?
I get up most days at about 430 and spend some time catching up on the news and enjoying a couple cups of coffee. Afterwards I hit the gym and get to work by about 730. I get off work most days around 5 and then head over to the archery range, or, if the weather is nice, I'll run up to the M with a couple of friends. After some time at the range or on the mountain, we'll head downtown for dinner and drinks. I read for about an hour each night before hitting the sack.
6. What's the next big item on your calendar?
I'm really pumped for September. I'm hoping to bag my first Mulie. I've spent a lot of time practicing and am ready for whatever the Crazies have to throw at me. But before all that, I plan on spending a lot of time this Spring and Summer fishing and running in local races.
7. What do you do in the off season to prepare for the next hunting season?
As I mentioned above, I spend a lot of time at the archery range and the gym. If I want to be successful in the field I need to be as fit as possible. CrossFit is a high intensity workout program and it scares a lot of people off, but it incorporates a lot of practical movements. I'll be very grateful I put myself through all the pain when I'm lugging an 80+ pound pack up some mountain.
8. What animal is your favorite to hunt for?
Tough question . . . I've hunted quite a few. If I had to choose one I would have to say elk with a bow. I went on my first archery elk hunt this past season and had an absolute blast. I'm still fairly new to archery but can honestly say I may not go back to firearms any time soon.
9. If you had a dream hunting trip, where would you go and what you hunt for?
Since I was a little kid I've dreamed of hunting cape buffalo in Zimbabwe. Being that close to something so large, intimidating and deadly would be quite exhilarating. That hunt will happen a long time from now. If I had to be realistic about it, I'd love to shoot an Alaskan mountain caribou with my bow. They have got the coolest horns of any animal I've ever seen.
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After taking a four-year break from world-famous Glen Helen Raceway, Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross returns to the San Bernardino, CA, track for the season-opening round. Known for its challenging elevation changes and exciting jumps, Glen Helen will officially kick off the 12-round championship on Saturday.
With reigning Motocross Champion Ryan Villopoto out for the season due to knee surgery, the championship is anybody's guess heading into round one. Among the favorites are Red Bull KTM teammates Ryan Dungey and Ken Roczen. Dungey has won the title twice and hopes to pick up a three-peat in 2014, while 2014 AMA Supercross Rookie of the Year Roczen is looking forward to his first full year in the 450 class.
With Monster Energy Kawasaki's Villopoto on the sidelines, the team asked current Canadian Motocross Champion Brett Metcalfe to sub in. Australian Metcalfe had planned to defend his Canadian title this year, but opted instead to contest the AMA Pro championships alongside Jake Weimer on the factory Kawasaki team.
Also on a Kawasaki is Chad Reed, who returns to racing at Glen Helen after an injury during Supercross. The Discount Tire/TwoTwo Motorsports Kawasaki rider is healthy and ready to race again. Reed last won the Motocross title in 2009.
Yoshimura Suzuki's James Stewart will be back for the 2014 Motocross season. Although plagued by inconsistency over the last few years, the talented racer is always a force to be reckoned with. Not only did Stewart win the championship in 2008, he did so by sweeping every moto on the schedule that year. Added motivation for Stewart may come in the form of his brother Malcolm, who's stepping up to the premier class on the Lucas Oil/MavTV/Troy Lee Designs Honda.
Representing the factory Honda team are Muscle Milk Honda's Trey Canard and Justin Barcia. Barcia finished third in the premier class last year and former 250MX Champion Canard wound up fourth. Meanwhile, the GEICO Honda support team is in a holding pattern due to injury. Last year's 250MX Champion Eli Tomac and 2013 250SX East Champion Wil Hahn will campaign the series but both will miss early rounds while recovering.
Toyota/JGRMX/Yamaha rider Justin Brayton is also struggling with health issues, coming off of a broken foot and a fractured hand. Nonetheless, Yamaha factory's Brayton is slated to line up on the Glen Helen gate with teammates Josh Grant and Phil Nicoletti.
Other riders of note include Rockstar Racing Team KTM's Davi Millsaps, who hasn't raced since the final Supercross event of 2013, thanks to surgery and then a nagging injury. BTO Sports KTM's Andrew Short is one to watch this year, as are RCH Racing Soaring Eagle teammates Ivan Tedesco and Weston Peick. Local favorite Mike Alessi, riding for Smarttop Motoconcepts with teammate Kyle Cunningham, will do a one-off at Glen Helen and then race the Canadian series.
The game, as they say, is afoot.Tags: Chad Reed, GEICO, Glen Helen, Glen Helen Raceway, Ivan Tedesco, James Stewart, Josh Grant, Kawasaki, Mike Alessi, Motorsports, Red Bull, Ryan Dungey, Ryan Villopoto, Smarttop Motoconcepts, Yoshimura Suzuki


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A subtler way to draw attention to your eyes is to frame them with lush lashes. But a quick swipe won't give lashes presence. Instead, wiggle the mascara wand back and forth from the roots to the tips for maximum coverage, separation, and length.
Nothing kills a look faster than clumpy mascara, though, and the smudges it leaves under the eye (a look your grandma may have sported?). If your mascara consistently creates spidery lashes, check the brush: It may be too big for the smaller lashes, especially on the lower lid. (Clinique's Bottom Lash Mascara has a tiny brush that grabs the small lashes on your lower lid and coats them with just the right amount of color; $10, clinique.com). You may also be applying too much mascara, so before touching the wand to your lashes, dab its tip on a tissue to take off any excess. Mascara that's drying out also has a tendency to clump; never pump the wand in the base before applying, which introduces air into the product and dries it even faster. Use a Spoolie brush (try one by Sonia Kashuk, $2, target.com for stores) to free lashes of clumps.


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1. Bruce Springsteen
Wrecking Ball
The financial crisis inspired The Boss's angriest album in years with anthems for the new depression such as the raging Death To My Hometown.
Rebel folk, gospel resilience and an arsenal of samples and loops provided fuel, with the mellow Jack Of All Trades proposing desperate measures for desperate times.
Although a solo album, Wrecking Ball provided the foundation for a (still ongoing) triumphant E Street Band world tour and found a place for one last sax solo from the late, great Clarence Clemons on the redemptive Land Of Hope And Dreams.
2. Bob Dylan
In a career studded with life-changing moments, Tempest was a particularly remarkable achievement.
Now 71, Dylan delivered a 35th album alive with dark portents and bulging with the Americana he and his well-weathered road band have made their own.
More than able to stand beside past masterworks, highlights included the 45-verse, 14-minute title track inspired by the sinking of the Titanic, and the beautiful elegiac closer Roll On John, dedicated to his old buddy John Lennon.
An old master still at top of his game.
3. Dexys
One Day I'm Going To Soar
They said it could never happen, but 27 years after the commercial failure of his masterpiece Don't Stand Me Down, Kevin Rowland reassembled the group that made him famous.
His band remain a superb vehicle for Rowland's candid and impassioned soul visions as he tackled manhood, identity, love and loss.
Old and new faces are steered by Rowland's uniquely compelling style and the most moving vocals of his star-crossed career.
4. Paloma Faith
Fall To Grace
Hackney's very own purveyor of velour-lined soul sumptousness moved up a gear with her second album.
Up tempo string-stoked tristes, tough tear-stained ballads and cinematic splendour abound.
A top team including Björk/Madonna collaborator Nellee Hooper, Ed Sheeran producer Jake Gosling and Adele songwriting partner Eg White helped her design a series of emotionallybruised but grandly stirring songs, plus a tale about falling in love with a busker.
Faith most definitely pays off.
5. Bat For Lashes
The Haunted Man
With its iconic cover shot of a naked Natasha Khan, her modesty covered by a naked man draped over her shoulders, the lady's third album was both the most intriguing and the strongest of her career.
A range of collaborators including Portishead's Adrian Utley and pop polymath Beck helped provide rich and luminous backdrops.
The Haunted Man was a shrewd and seductive advance.
6. Jack White
Listeners were left to draw their own conclusions of the significance in the recently divorced ex White Stripes man toploading his debut solo album with dangerous femmes fatales liable to lead a chap to distraction, or worse.
Whatever the story behind songs such as Trash Tongue Talking, the subject matter allowed Jack's raging invective and raw humour to come to the fore.
7. Jesie Ware
A striking debut captured a sound and vision unique to the 27-year-old Londoner.
Being dismissed from Pop Idol at the audition stage a decade ago may have been the best thing to happen to Ware.
In the intervening years she's developed into a languidly sensual, dance inspired diva while fusing classic jazz influences of the likes of Ella Fitzgerald with 80s leading lights Prince and Grace Jones. It all suggests that Jessie has a starlit career to come.
8. Lianne La Havas
Is Your Love Big Enough?
Championed by both X Factor judge/Take That supremo Gary Barlow and American Indie favourite Bon Iver, Lianne bridged cultural divides with ease.
Her smokey note-bending voice and superlative guitar were equally at home on the French chanson of Au Cinema as on the angry Forget, while big piano ballads showed her more than capable of commanding Adele-style territory.
She's only 23 - a rich and interesting career undoutedly lies ahead.
9. Plan B
Ill Manors
Steadily carving out the most resourceful and varied career in contemporary British music, Ben Drew switched from the R&B concept of predecessor The Defamation Of Strickland Banks for a no-holds-barred look at life on an inner city estate.
The soundtrack of Drew's directorial movie debut, Ill Manors returns to the hip-hop terrain of his overlooked debut album, but with collaborators such as Labrinth and punk veteran John Cooper Clarke onside, the canvas is much broader, the writing more sensitive.
In the wake of last summer's riots it was particularly timely.
10. Cat Power
Determined not to be pigeonholed, Chan Marshall radically reconfigured the deep soul groove of her 2006 album The Greatest for this effort's lavish and pulsating pop techniques.
The journey into dark, angular and often upbeat pop utilised stark often electronic instrumentation and off-kilter percussion to allow the multitracked and overdubbed Marshall vocals to cast their considerable spell.


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Tallmadge -- Martin Wheel is rolling closer to the planned expansion of its West Avenue business.
The Tallmadge Planning and Zoning Commission voted May 1 to recommend City Council approve the company's request for the reclassification of its most recently acquired property at 360 West Ave. from commercial to industrial.
In January, Martin Wheel President Thomas Hartmann said the company bought the approximately 2 acre property to its west last October with that expansion in mind.
According to city officials, a vacant building, which was used as a warehouse by the former Tallmadge Beverage company until it went out of business several years ago, is the only structure on the property. The building is in poor condition and serves no purpose to the company, they said.
"We're basically going to level the building that's there and add an addition onto our current building," Hartmann said.
At the May 1 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, Darrell Ruthrauff, vice president and general manager of Kenda Tire & Wheel, a Martin Wheel division, said the company's manufacturing would remain in the existing building, while the new West Avenue property would be used for parking and the expanded building would be used for storage.
Plant Manager Jim Williams has said the project would add about 80,000 to 100,000-square-feet of warehouse space to the estimated 135,000-square-foot facility, which would allow the company to save money by closing its two rented warehouses in Akron and consolidating them into the building.
Williams wasn't able to estimate how much the building addition would cost.
City Economic Developer Dennis Loughry called Martin Wheel's plans "a piece of the revitalization of West Avenue."
Martin Wheel produces tires, tubes and wheels for, among others, lawn mowers, campers, golf carts and tractors.
Earlier this year, City Council approved vacating Sunrise Street, the short, no-outlet access road that runs in between the two properties and intersects with West Avenue, to make room for the expansion. The request also included the city deeding the property on which the street sits to the company.
Martin Wheel, a division of Americana Development, employs about 100 workers at its West Avenue facility. Hiring more workers for its staff is possible, too, but the number is unknown at this time, Hartmann said.
Williams has said construction for the addition could begin sometime in 2015 and last for seven to 10 months.
A public hearing has been scheduled during City Council's May 22 meeting.
Tallmadge Express Reporter Holly Schoenstein contributed to this story.
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Pacific Psychology & Comprehensive Health Clinic Partners With Returning Veterans Project
Operated by the School of Professional Psychology, the clinic will provide free mental health screenings to post-911 war zone military veterans beginning Monday, July 6.
Pacific University Celebrates Oregon Private College Week Aug. 3-7
The university is joining 10 other private, nonprofit colleges and universities in the state to participate in Oregon Private College Week. Prospective students who visit at least four participating institutions during the week will receive application fee waivers.
Pacific University in the News: June 22-28, 2015
Selected news stories featuring or mentioning the university.
Dance Slow Decades
"I've come to realize there's nothing to worry about, because you've all done your jobs correctly. Because if I am at all successful today and hereafter, it is a direct result of your support."
Vision for the Future
The Humphreys put the 'family' in Family Eye Care
Family Ties
Fourteen members of the extended Smith family have attended Pacific University over three generations. The Boxer Spirit is in their blood.
Domino Effect
The Ebola Domino Project uses art to bring awareness and support to the ebola crisis in Africa.
Land of Opportunity
Eddie Carrillo '15 fulfills dreams, for his family and himself.
Riding to School: MFA Student Rides Bike From Alaska to Forest Grove
Bike journey brings Sam Chamberlain MFA '15 to his final residency and graduation from Pacific's Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program.
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'On Faith' Contributor: Personhood Amendment Was Strategic Defeat for 'Radical Religious Right'
Initiative 26 -- which would have amended the Mississippi state constitution to include unborn children as persons protected under the law -- was rejected by Magnolia State voters last night.
In response, Georgetown professor and Washington Post "On Faith" blog contributor Jacques Berlinerblau quickly hacked out a post celebrating the temporary victory over the "devastating sleeper cell of a law" but warned that in losing, those dastardly villains on the religious right may have actually won (emphasis mine):
[T]he proponents of Amendment 26 probably also knew their cause was doomed once everyone from parents of in-vitro children, to physicians, to victims of rape, found out what it was actually about (that many of these folks were committed Christians is an interesting sidebar).
My contention is that while these activists may certainly hope (and pray) for victory, they understand their immediate task as tilting national conversations to a terrain upon which the radical religious right can better manouver.
...[I]n Mississippi and elsewhere the new parameters of the abortion debate will be defined not by "pro-life versus pro-choice" but "pro-personhood versus pro-life." If that shift actually ensues, then Amendment 26 was a stunning victory.
It was the Christian Right's ability to completely re-configure public dialogues and perspectives that was the mission accomplished of its most recent blustering.
In the interests of truth-in-advertising, the Washington Post should rename its religion blog from "On Faith" to "Piling On People of Faith."


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Re: problem with NonlinearFit
I suggest you check with WR. I have an older version of Mathematica, so
I'm not sure if what I'm about to say applies to your version. I tried
constraining the independent variables, but had no luck at all. I called
Wolfram to determine the problem and was told that it simply didn't work,
even though the book obviously shows that it will. You seem to have gotten
farther than I, in terms of constraining the independent variables, so you
might have a newer version of Mathematica than I.
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List of Recent M.A. Theses in Historical Archaeology
Cultural Continuity in a Nipmuc Landscape, by Joseph Bagley
Understanding Slave Subsistence in the Context of Changing Agricultural Practices: Paleoethnobotany at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, by Samantha J. Henderson
Architectural Debris and Construction Sequencing at an 18th-Century Rural Native American Household in Connecticut, by Timothy D. Hollis
"On Long Run Under the Blue Hills": An Archaeology of Tenancy on the Pennsylvania Frontier, by Thomas J. Kutys
Spatial Analysis and Subsurface Survey at a 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Site in Connecticut, by Starla C. Lane
The Huguenot Home: Consumption Practices and Identity in Early 18th-Century New York City, by Theodor M. Maghrak
Whitehall: Newport's History in a House, by Katherine Malone Tarascio
Indigenous Cuisine: An Archaeological and Linguistic Study of Colonial Zapotec Foodways On The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, by Michelle R. Zulauf
The Battle Of Chelsea Creek, May 27-28, 1775: KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis Applied to Heavily Urbanized and Coastal Marine Environments Boston, Chelsea, And Revere, Massachusetts, by Craig James Brown
Comparing Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Techniques in 18th-Century Yard Spaces, by Christiane Marie Carducci
Subsistence in the Shrinking Forest: Native and Euro-American Practice in 19th-Century Connecticut, by William A. Farley
Bound in Stone: A Landscape and Architectural Analysis of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, Connecticut, by Sarah L. Hasho
Household Spaces: 18th- and 19th-Century Spatial Practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, by Anna Katharine Hayden
Coastal Connections and Reservation Contexts: Eastern Pequot Collection and Consumption of Shellfish in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Ryan Hunter
Growing Up a Washington: Childhood in 18th-Century Virginia, by Heidi Elizabeth Krofft
Sheep and Wool in Nineteenth-Century Falmouth, MA: Examining the Collapse of a Cape Cod Industry, by Leo Patrick Ledwell
Firearms Curation in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth Century Maritime Contexts: A Comparative Study, by Edward John Rodley
Bones in the Landfill: A Zooarchaeological Study from Faneuil Hall, by Linda M. Santoro
"She of Gentle Manners": An Examination of the Widow Pomeroy's Table and Tea Wares and the Emerging Domestic Sphere in Kinderhook, New York, by Megan E. Sullivan
A Viking Age Political Economy from Soil Core Tephrochronology, by Kathryn Anne Catlin
An Emptying Village: Transformations in Architecture and Spatial Organization at Streamstown Village, Co. Galway, by Meagan K. Conway
Creating A Community: A Study of Boston's 19th Century African American Population, by Kate Ryan Descoteaux
Flint at the Fort: Investigating Raw Material Scarcity and Locations of Lithic Activity at Monhantic Fort, by John M. Kelly
Captain Pierce's Fight: An Investigation Into a King Philip's War Battle and its Remembrance and Memorialization, by Lawrence K. LaCroix
Farmstead and Household Archaeology at the Barrett Farm, Concord, Massachusetts, by Thomas P. Mailhot
The Marketplace of Boston: Macrobotanical Remains from Faneuil Hall, by Ciana Faye Meyers
Urban Consumption in Late 19th-Century Dorchester, by Jennifer Poulsen
Foodways, Commensality and Nipmuc Identity: An Analysis of Faunal Remains F\from Sarah Boston's Farmstead, Grafton, MA, 1790-1840, by Amélie Allard
Denison House: Women's Use of Space in the Boston Settlement, by Heather M. Capitanio
"A Good Sized Pot": Early 19th Century Planting Pots From Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, by Rita A. Deforest
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Native American Maize Agriculture at the Smith's Point Site, by Kelly A. Ferguson
Gentility and Gender Roles Within the 18th-Century Merchant Class of Newport, Rhode Island, by Nicki L. Hise
"King Prime of Fredonia Lane": An Archaeology of Leadership in Hyde Park, New York's Early Nineteeth-Century African American Community, by Trevor A. Johnson
Entertaining, Dining, and Novel Drinking: Rural Gentility and the Reverend John Hancock's Household, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1700-1750, by Katie L. Kosack
Production and Consumption on a 19th-Century Spanish New Mexican Homestead: Exploring Daily Life Through Faunal and Floral Analyses, by Ashley A. Peles
Modest Ministers or Posh Preachers? A Study of the Personal Adornment Collection of the Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington, Massachusetts, by Sarah Ann Stephens
Beef, Mutton, Pork, And a Taste of Turtle: Zooarchaeology and Nineteenth-Century African American Foodways at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, Massachusetts, by Michael A. Way
Provisioned, Produced, Procured: Slave Subsistence Strategies as Indicators of Plantation Social Relations at Thomas Jefferson's Popular Forest, by Jessica D. Bowes
"That Charm of Remoteness": A Study of Landscape Stability in Little Compton, Rhode Island, by Katharine M. Johnson
"She is Like the Merchants' Ships": Gender and Mortuary Practice From the Decline of Puritanism to the Rise of Mercantilism in Boston, 1650-1750, by Tess E. Ostrowsky
Dairying in 17th-Century Plymouth Colony, by Lindsay Anne Randall
Identifying 18th Century Hidden Landscapes at Stratford Hall Plantation Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Phosphorus Readings on Plowzone Samples, by Andrew P. Wilkins
From Coast to Consumer: The Archaeology of Smuggling in Eighteenth-Century New England, by Frank M. Carvino
Household and Status in 17th-Century Rural Rhode Island: A Case Study of the Greene Farm Midden, by Kaitlin S. Deslatte
Consumption and Colonialism: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Two Eighteenth-Century Sites on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, by Michael A. Fedore
Multi-Cultural Meals: A Zooarchaeological Study of the Plantation Core at Sylvester Manor, by Jonathan Ryan Kennedy
Daily Negotiations and the Creation of an Alternative Discourse: The Legacy of a Colonial Nipmuc Farmstead, by Heather Law
Consumption as Social Camouflage: "Mimicry" and Nipmuc Survival Strategies in the Colonial World, by Guido Pezzarossi
The Occasional Merchant: What Foodways Reveal About the Household of Thomas Richardson, Jr., 1761-1784, by Michelle Styger
From Forest, To Company Town, and Back Again: Historical Archaeology at the Copake Iron Works, by Frederick E. Sutherland
Visions of Grandeur: An Archaeological Investigation of Landscape Organization and Transformation at Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, by Gregory R. Dubell
Material Studies of Eastern Pequot Clothing in 18th- and 19th-Century Connecticut: Issues in Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology, by Jonathan K. Patton
Negotiating Colonial Markets: The Navigation of 18th-Century Colonial Economies by the Eastern Pequot, by Thomas A. Witt
Constant Changes: A Study of Anthropogenic Vegetation Using Pollen and Charcoal on the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut, by Susan A. Jacobucci
Porgy and Bass: A Study of the Faunal Remains from the Sandy's Point Site, by Jennifer T. Malpiedi
Fueling the Fire: An Examination of Inter-Relationships between Humans and the Environment through Colonial Caribbean Fuel Sources, by Sean Britt
Negotiating Boundaries of Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Lifeways on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut, by Craig N. Cipolla
Intentions of Independence: Medicinal Practice and Community Identity at Boston's African Meeting House, by Teresa Dujnic
Widow Pratt Privy, Newport, Rhode Island: An Archaeobotanical and Archaeoparasitological Analysis, by Diana S. Gallagher
"Functioning in Another Register": Manifestations of Colonial Interactions in the Material Culture of Sylvester Manor, by Jack Gary
Rock Art Preservation and Tourism: A Case Study in Brazil, by Samuel L. Gordenstein
A Documentary Archaeology of Magunkaquog, by Holly Herbster
Potsherds and People: Considering the Connections between Ceramics and Identity at the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut, by Julie A. McNeil
"Go Straight Ahead": Salem's Rise to Global Entrepot as Reflected in the Archaeological Assemblage from the Captain Stephen Phillips House, by George H. Schwartz
Common Threads: Katherine Nanny Naylor and the Context of the Cross Street Back Lot Textiles, by Carolyn C. Ruah
Whose Trash is it Anyway? A Stratigraphic and Ceramic Analysis of the South Grove Midden, Mount Vernon, Virginia, by Eleanor E. Breen
"Every Other House a Tavern": Individualism and Consumer Consciousness in the Taverns of Boston, by Giampaolo A. Di Gregorio
Tracing the Footsteps of Ritual: Concealed Footwear in Quincy, Massachusetts, by Jessica W. Geisler
A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Animal Husbandry at a Northern Provisioning Plantation: Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New York, by Sarah P. Sportman
Adaptation and Resistance. An Analysis of Native American Activity at Den Rock during the Contact Period, by Jeffrey R. Carovillano
Is Gender Etched in Stone? A Lithic Analysis of a Contact Period Native American Site, by Katherine F. Howlett
Historical Survey of Archival Cataloging Practices for Moving Image Material and the Implications for the Historical Research, by Keith A. Luf
An Analysis of Crystal and Crystalline Quartz Material from Magunco, by John Paul Murphy
"History From the Ground Up": Soil Micromorphology at a Long Island Plantation, by Eric L. Proebsting
"To the Place Where it Began": Seventeenth-Century Settlement Patterns in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia: History, GIS, and Archaeology, by David A. Brown
An Explanation of the Proportional Differences in Shellfish Between Two Features at the Sandy's Point Site, by Craig S. Chartier
Creation of a New England Gentry: The Winslows of Plymouth Colony, by Karin J. Goldstein
Archaeology and Microhistory: A 19th Century Physician's Saddlebag, by Melody Henkel
Coal Mining in Baldwin: How Industry and Culture Shaped a Landscape, by Kathryn M. Lombardi
Mapping Transformation in the Grubenhauser of Anglo-Saxon England, by Kate I. Lommen
Whitman on Track with the Old Colony Railroad: The Untold Story, by Zahava Esther Shaffer
Military Equipment and Methods of Warfare of the Samnites and Other Oscan Speaking Peoples, by Michael Thomas Burns
Stone Fruit: Thoreau's Native American Artifact Collection at the Fruitlands Museum, Molly Carocci
Teaching What Counts in Archaeology: A New Approach to Archaeology Education, by Jeffrey H. Kotkin
The Culture of Flowerpots, Hazel H. Lathrop
Soil Phosphate Analysis: The Evaluation of a New Testing Method, by Paul J. Mohler
Known and Potential Naval Shipwreck Sites in the Waters Off Massachusetts: Inventory, Assessment, and Management Strategies, by David W. Trubey
Soil Micromorphology of a Seventeenth-Century Native American Corn Field, by Douglas R. Currie


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I'm slipping and sliding on a patch of doubt this morning. Nothing I could write seems appropriate. I don't have a lot of time to write, and my heart is troubled. However, doubt means one thing: you see how things could be better and it gives you pause. Which path leads to the bright future? [Read More…]
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Welcome to this week's Carnival of Space. It's been a busy Universe out there so let's jump right into it.
The Urban Astronomer has an excellent recap of Hubble's observations of a very unusual asteroid. This asteroid not only has a comet-like tail, it has six of them. Oh yeah, and they apparently change.
Over at the Smithsonian's Air & Space blog, they discuss a very provocative issue: if we go back to the Moon, where should we go and, maybe more importantly, where shouldn't we?
In advance of the recent Maven launch to Mars, the good folks over at Universe Today feature an excellent video that summarizes where the Curiosity rover has been and also where it will be heading in the future.
One of the most famous objects in the sky - the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant – will be on display like never before, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a new project from the Smithsonian Institution. A new three-dimensional (3D) viewer, being unveiled today, will allow users to interact with many one-of-a-kind objects from the Smithsonian as part of a large-scale effort to digitize many of the Institutions objects and artifacts.
The biggest science news this week, by far, has been a new study suggesting that Earth-sized planets in habitable zones may be very common. This is exciting news – who wouldn't want to have more cosmic planetary friends out there that maybe one day we'll be able to explore? By the latest accounts, there could be billions of Earth-like planets out there in our Milky Way galaxy.
In continued recogintion of American Archives month, we've dusted off some raw data from recent Chandra press releases over the past year for inclusion in our openFITS collection. This brings the total collection up to 20 objects including supernova remnants, active galaxies, star forming regions, black holes, and pulsars and neutron stars. These data are ripe for exploration. The new data sets include the Vela Pulsar Jet, and supernova remnants
W49B and G1.9+0.3 (which also happens to be the Milky Way's most recent supernova remnant).
Every year, October is designated as American Archive Month. While many people may think "archive" means only dusty books and letters, there are, in fact, many other types of important archives. This includes the use of archives for major telescopes and observatories like NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence that the normally dim region very close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy flared up with at least two luminous outbursts in the past few hundred years.
This discovery comes from a new study of rapid variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding the supermassive black hole, a.k.a. Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* for short. The scientists show that the most probable interpretation of these variations is that they are caused by light echoes.
Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Who is Ada Lovelace, you might ask? She lived in the mid-19th century and is considered by many to be the first computer programmer. The goal of Ada Lovelace Day is help celebrate and promote the achievements of women in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (aka, STEM).
Of course, we at Chandra always jump at the opportunity to highlight the role that women play not only in the scientific endeavors of the mission, but also the computer, engineering, and other critical functions of the observatory. You can meet some of these fascinating women through our blog series, Women in the High-Energy Universe (also in a printable pdf handout).
The organizers of the Ada Lovelace Day hope that this event will spur discussion and further awareness about the irreplaceable achievements women are responsible for in STEM fields. Hopefully, more people from all backgrounds are drawn toward STEM topics both during their education and once on their career paths. And we look forward to helping explore the Universe with anyone who wishes to join the journey.
American Archives Month (each October) is an exciting time around here. We spend a lot of time working through the Chandra archive to bring you the best and most interesting objects in the X-ray Universe that have made their way across space and time (via photons) to Chandra's detectors.
It has been a personal goal of mine, since taking this job as Chandra science imager about four years ago, to create an interactive tool for the public to engage with the Chandra archive of released imagery in a new and innovative way. For this to work, a few pieces of the puzzle had to fall into place.
Less than 50 years after the first detection of an extrasolar X-ray source, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has achieved an increase in sensitivity comparable to going from naked-eye observations to the most powerful optical telescopes over the past 400 years. Many individuals have been involved in this phenomenal accomplishment, but in this contribution, we focus on one: Leon Van Speybroeck.
Leon Van Speybroeck (Credit: NASA/MSFC/K. Stephens)
Leon was one of a number of newly minted MIT physics Ph.D.'s (including Paul Gorenstein, Martin Zombeck, Ethan Schreier, and one of us (HT)) who in the mid-late1960's made the short move from the MIT campus to the revamped milk-truck garage a few blocks away that was the site of American Science & Engineering. It was there that Riccardo Giacconi had assembled an X-ray astronomy group that had discovered the first cosmic X-ray source during a short rocket flight.
These two images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show a large change in X-ray brightness of a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar, between 2006 and 2013. The neutron star - the extremely dense remnant left behind by a supernova - is in a tight orbit around a low mass star. This binary star system, IGR J18245-2452 (mouse over the image for its location) is a member of the globular cluster M28.


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When I first decided to use the prepaid model for Cranky Concierge, I knew a money back guarantee would be needed to instill confidence in clients. A recent client interaction, however, has made me think hard about it.
We recently had one client who decided to use our guarantee to get extra help with his trip-planning without paying. He had us start working on a trip to redeem award miles. We worked for quite some time to find what ultimately ended up being a very good itinerary for him. The only response we received at first was that the itinerary was "clumsy" despite it actually being quite good. He asked that we keep looking for something better. Our requests for further clarification on what he wanted were ignored. Eventually he told us that he had worked with someone else to get something better. He wanted his money back.
We have a money back guarantee, so of course we refunded the money without question. But I was still pretty angry about it. After all, we had worked hard to find him an itinerary that most people would have been very happy to take. He used us. But I was also angry at myself. Could we have made our money back guarantee clearer to avoid this? Could we have structured it differently?
When people ask about the money back guarantee, we explain to them that they should be going into this assuming that they're paying for our expertise and for us to do the hard legwork for them when it comes to planning their trip. The idea here is to avoid people asking for their money back just because they don't like the fare that's available or because the flight they want doesn't exist. (If they find a cheaper fare on their own, that's a different story.)
But not everyone asks about the guarantee, and we don't really go into detail about it unless they do. That makes me wonder if we should be more explicit about things. It's not an issue of changing the rules, because we'll still refund money without any questions asked either way, but it's an issue of trying to set expectations in advance.
On the other hand, it seems somewhat unprofessional to me if we really try to push this piece of our business. For most people, it's really not an issue, so maybe our pushing on it just helps put doubt into their minds about our service.
In the end, I decided to put this into perspective. I can count the number of people who have invoked the money back guarantee on one hand since we started more than two years ago. That tells me that we are setting expectations appropriately but it doesn't mean some won't take advantage. I suppose that's just the cost of doing business.
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This weekend there is a surf contest in Oceanside. There's a good chance you haven't heard of it. And if you have, there's a good chance you laughed, because it's called the Supergirl Pro. But this year there's a reason to take note: First, it was recently upgraded to an ASP 6-Star event, meaning it's the biggest women's event—and only 6-star—on U.S. soil. Plus, most of the Top 17 ASP World Tour surfers will be surfing in it, so if you're a fan of females you'll be able to get a much closer view than you did at the U.S. Open last week (imagine Huntington without the Sharpie-defaced youth and hordes hopped up on energy drinks). And lastly, Ms. Laura Enever will be competing. She stopped by before the event (her last of the ASP season) to talk contests.
Congrats, you finished off your second World Tour season ranked 8th, two spots up from your rookie finish last year. How did this year compare to 2011?
I learned so much last year that I took into this season. I started this year really well, going for the title—as we all do—and either equaled or bettered every single one of my results this year. I was pretty much safe halfway through the year, so it took pressure off and I didn't really have to go to the other 'QS events and I could just stay home and train. I saved my time and was just able to focus on the Tour. Last year I needed a result at the U.S. Open to re-qualify, and this year it felt really good to be safe and know that I was going to be on the 2013 World Tour.
So if you don't need to do 'QS events to re-qualify, why are you doing the contest this weekend?
Well I'm already here, and I think it'll be a good event. Also, it's so cool to have a sponsor like Paul Mitchell involved in it. I'm sure it's going to open doors, and I think a couple of the girls are connected to it [the Paul Mitchell brand] already, so that's incredible. I mean, to have a company like that come in, it's perfect—our hair is so damaged by the salt and sun [laughs]. I think most of the girls are doing the event. I think a few of the girls are heading home, but most are in it. The Supergirl was a Junior last year, so this is my first time doing the event. I got down there yesterday, and it reminds me of Huntington, but just not as crazy. I see the pier and think I'm back there. This morning was really fun down there. And on Sunday and yesterday afternoon it was so glassy.
After Saturday you're done with contest season. Are you bummed it's over so soon?
No, I'm so excited. There are no Hawaii events, so this is my last event of 2012. Really, it's a relief in a way. I'm going to go home in a couple weeks, then go to Bali with the family just for a holiday, and then go have a holiday on Maui, and then Mexico for a trip. After that we're pretty much in October and then in a couple months the Tour will start again. I'll probably just keep doing trips, train, work on my boards, and just see what happens. I guess right now it's all open. I think a six-month break is great—the best opportunity to do things out of the water as well. I love the fact that I have more passions outside of surfing and that with the girls tour ending halfway through, we have time to do all that. As for next year, we don't know yet what's going on with the ASP schedule…and I guess we probably won't know until a couple weeks before Snapper! [Laughs.]
Alright, so tell us why we should care about female competitive surfing.
Why not? I think everyone is realizing that women's surfing is in the most exciting place it's ever been. I mean, Lakey Peterson won the last event. All the rookies coming through are making semis and finals in most events. And then the younger girls still coming up are just getting better and better. Hopefully we can just make our Tour a bit more prestigious and get more sponsors and have more exposure, then I think we're balling! I mean everyone on Tour is so marketable right now, personality-wise and looks and everything. The Tour is in a really good spot, so who knows what will happen. We'll just have to see. I'm not worried.
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The Māori Party's role in Parliament is to be the most powerful advocates for our whānau – to carry your voice. We want a Government that understands the spirit of service enshrined in its own legislation. We want chief executives and senior leaders who will advance Māori aspirations with us and work with us to create employment, stop hunger and homelessness, ensure all our children have access to a great education and ensure all our whānau have access to quality health services. We want a Government to focus on our potential to do for ourselves.
- We will monitor cultural competency in all agencies to ensure the quality of services, and equity of access and outcomes to bring out well-being. Chief executives will be required to report six monthly on how they are progressing positive outcomes for whānau.
Cultural competency will be an employment standard in justice, health, education and social services.
We will call for an immediate plan from the Treasury and State Services Commission, seeking advice on:
- A result area for whānau that is measurable and for which we can hold chief executives to account. We want to implement a devolved service approach, with minimum compliance. We want services that are visible and responsive and organised around whānau.
- The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Treaty will be required to report annually to Parliament on the status of whānau and monitor state sector progress to improving outcomes for whānau.
- We want advice on a co-ordinated approach for low employment locations. We want innovation driving our services not risk management. Whānau are tax-payers too – we want value for our money as well.
Kia piki te ora o te whānau
We will apply the capability approach to public policy so that whānau have adequate income to enjoy the lives they value and whānau are supported to develop their potential.
- We will introduce a Cross-Government Accord (a 'wellbeing framework') to keep whānau free from all forms of violence; including physical, economic, sexual and racist including prevention of elder abuse and neglect.
- We seek to end whānau poverty by 2020.
- We will establish a $16 minimum wage.
- Extend the Tax Credit for all low income families.
- Enact an annual power rebate for low-income whānau; installation of low cost heating and insulating 10,000 low-income homes per year including rental properties.
- Inequality impact statement to be written into all new legislation including the likely impact on our children.
- Universal well child services to all children under 6.
- Review of vision and hearing testing as universal tests.
- Introduce legislation to encourage commercial banks to help meet the needs of borrowers in all sections of their communities (the Community Reinvestment Bill).
Broadcasting and Spectrum
Broadcasting is important to us. Our stories matter.
- We will maintain the current level of funding to Te Māngai Pāho and Māori Television.
- We require broadcasters to increase Māori content in peak times; increase programming that aims to educate our nation and all broadcasters on national broadcasting to be Māori language proficient.
- We will develop rangatahi Māori radio programming.
- We seek recognition that the spectrum is a taonga. We will negotiate 33% (15MHz) of 4G Spectrum (700MHz Band) and future allocations for Māori.
Business success has a key role in generating desirable social impacts in community wealth and wellbeing.
- We will support ethical business by placing value on longer-term business thinking including shareholders.
- Increase volume of 'better by design' programmes (NZTE) available for iwi and Māori to access.
Cultural Heritage
Cultural tourism strikes the balance between the economic benefits and protecting people, culture, landscapes.
- We will establish Peace Week, from 31 October to 5 November; to honour the heroism and the peacemaking heritage established at Parihaka.
- We will reintroduce a Private Members Bill to give official endorsement to Matariki and Puanga events.
- We will seek sustainable funding and support for Māori cultural events, perfoming arts and tourism opportunities to showcase Māori to the world.
Digital technology
There is a digital renaissance that Māori can and should take a lead role in ensuring current and future generations have access to digital content and supporting technologies.
- Work with computer manufacturers to assist with national rollout of Computers in Homes.
- Review the 2008 Digital Strategy to ensure it is meeting the requirements of our digital environment including responding to those with special needs.
- Expand employment opportunities in the information, computer and telecommunications technology sector through Ngā Pū Waea (rural and ultrafast broadband), including Māori cadetship in the digital creative sector.
- Invest in opportunities to migrate Māori educational content into the digital environment (te reo versions of digital publications and books re-versioned in a Māori framework).
- All citizens with access to email will have the option of receiving their mail from government departments via email. Those who opt for this, will receive a government subsidy on their internet connection bill.
We will advance the 'Be Accessible' initiative and the New Zealand Disability Strategy to achieve a fully inclusive society.
- We will establish a national Māori advocacy service.
- We will extend individualised funding; and promote the Circle of Friends to enable disabled persons to live the life they wish.
- Establish an annual Disability Employment Summit.
- We will investigate post-school options to ensure this first generation of children who have experienced mainstreaming can continue to succeed.
- We will individualise the resource for Day Services so that families can plan better to meet the needs.
Economic Development
Because iwi are major contributors to the economy, and owners of large natural resources, we support their investments in geothermal and water power plants. We want to also profile their successes, and support growth with academically based training programmes.
We will produce a Māori Economic Strategy to address the drivers that underpin investment in iwi/Māori. We will grow iwi/Māori participation in the economy by looking at:
- Growth models (Genuine Progress Index).
- Iwi Infrastructure/ Māori Economic Consortiums.
- Māori Investment Capital Funds/ Māori Bank.
- Māori Trademark and Intellectual property protection.
- Māori/Iwi Economic Sector Infrastructure.
- Māori representation on NZ Trade and Enterprise.
We will initiate Government joint ventures with industry to buy deep sea fish processors and boats to avoid bringing in foreign contractors and achieve at least 5000 local jobs.
- We will encourage businesses to set up public/private partnerships where small/rural communities could benefit from industry; the businesses could receive tax incentives for creating jobs in low income/high unemployment areas.
- Ensure early childhood education as the foundation to our future is affordable, available and responsive and includes initiatives such as PAFT, HIPPY, PAUSE, PAUA, kōhanga reo and whānau led centres.
- Initiate nationwide discussion about compulsory early childhood education.
- Encourage schools to engage with families to improve educational outcomes for young people – by increasing community literacy programmes, such as Reading Together; and working with families to improve their skills and qualifications.
- We place a high priority on the rollout of literacy and numeracy strategies for deciles 1-3 schools; and require that all children within the education system can read, write and count to their age.
- We will advocate for a culturally inclusive curriculum and open up ways where iwi, hapū can have direct input into local curriculum documents.
- Implement financial literacy as a core component of the New Zealand curriculum from year 7 and 8.
- We will investigate pastoral care models to ensure the appropriate support of Māori students in education.
- Guaranteed mana whenua representation on the boards of all state schools.
- We will review priorities based on an evaluation of progress achieved under Ka Hikitia.
- Review progress of the recommendations in the 1996 Smith report on Māori boarding schools, including reviewing the impact of scholarships.
- Nō te hapori, mo te hapori, i te hapori: We will promote inter-generational / whānau engagement in learning and participation in work, community life and civil society.
Tāpapa Mātauranga
We will take a values and virtues approach to schooling, expecting excellence and achievement for all students. We will promote the concept of self-managing schools which focus on whānau achievement and success. We will support:
- Roadshows to promote educational pathways in areas where Māori are under-represented – ie health science academies (Te Kura Pūtaiao Hauora) or science camps.
- Arts and performance institutes to nurture our creative potential; or sports academies to grow our talent.
- Initiatives to advance Māori academic leadership and scholarship excellence.
- Diversify the current service academy model to include trade skills, culinary arts, medical, horticultural and agricultural studies.
Education – Teacher Professional Development
- Embed nationwide implementation of Tātaiako: (cultural competence framework) by 2015.
- We will promote a three year recruitment drive for 200 Māori to enter into the teaching profession, especially those who are competent in te reo Māori. This will involve a bonding scheme where a scholarship will be paid in return for years of service.
- We will establish a multi-site Māori language teacher training centre and a centre for Māori educational excellence in teaching and leadership.
Education – Tertiary
To ensure that all people have the chance to pursue tertiary education, we will introduce a fee reduction policy to reduce fees to a nominal level over time.
- We will also increase access to student allowances, by reintroducing a universal student allowance – which will be set at the level of the unemployment benefit.
- Student loan debt repayments should only start when you start earning 1.5 times the average wage.
- There will be a five year grace period for repayments after graduation. Student loans will remain
- interest free.
- We will ensure Māori course and qualification completion is a criterion for performance link funding.
- We will advocate for increased Māori representation on tertiary governance bodies, including mana whenua and Māori student representation.
- Section 159G of the Education Act, which guides the operation of the Tertiary Education Commission, will be amended to refer to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Employment and training
We believe we must invest in employment opportunities for all school- leavers as a strategic investment for the nation.
- Extend Community Max; Māori trade training; cadetships and apprenticeships across growth areas.
- We will establish work based training incentives within public sector and local government ('job-taster' programmes) – rotation amongst different companies.
- We will announce a short term subsidy to business owners who create new jobs for the unemployed; take on trainees; or instigate career pathways. This will be aligned with a social marketing campaign to encourage employers to give a young person or a low-skilled person a chance of work.
- We will establish incentives for innovative employment opportunities such as a steel-framed housing pilot; or enterprise workshops (tourism).
- Strengthen the Careers Services to help whānau better understand NCEA and become whānau decision-makers on careers information; and establish a Whānau Recruitment and Employment Agency.
- We will reinstate the Training Incentive Allowance to support sole parents into work.
- We will support investment in Teen Parent Units.
- Encourage employers to develop part-time and flexible healthy working arrangements and subsidise childcare, to support whānau to benefit from quality time with their children as a vital ingredient in whānau ora and in doing so, addressing 'time poverty' as a cause of stress.
- Promote collaborative arrangements between WINZ, iwi and education providers for training opportunities.
- Work and Income will be required to publish all benefit registers each and every month. The benefit registers will be available by age, ethnicity, gender and location with targets negotiated with the Responsible Minister. Wherever possible WINZ will contract with iwi and whānau to assist with reducing unemployment; and to provide opportunities to devolve functions for whānau cooperatives to tender for contracts.
Government must invest in energy infrastructure and increase renewables in preparation for an oil-less world. Increasing grid efficiency and reducing energy use, more efficient water pipelines, sewerage systems, wind farms, and the rail system will also generate employment and training opportunities (labouring, manufacturing).
- Implement a renewable energy strategy to address our reliance on fossil fuels; to be developed in consultation with iwi; and which establishes a cross-party inquiry to investigate our response to the peak oil crisis.
- We support a moratorium on off-shore drilling to enable full consultation, particularly with mana whenua, on the appropriate mechanisms to ensure any adverse economic, environmental, social and cultural risks are managed.
- We will implement the Crown Minerals (Effective and Meaningful Engagement with Iwi, Hapū, and Whānau) Amendment Bill to ensure full consultation and negotiation with mana whenua / mana moana before any mining contracts are let.
We believe in the efficient use of water, energy conservation and the need for sustainable environmental management. We are concerned about water management; restoration of water quality; and environmentally sustainable land use that does not degrade our water systems.
- Develop iwi environmental monitoring and evaluation on the quality of water in our rivers, lakes, seas and rural water supplies to homes and marae; and develop options for improving the water quality as a result.
- We will ensure that iwi, as Treaty partners, are involved in the governance, management and decision-making on freshwater within their rohe.
- Expand the mandate of the Environmental Protection Authority to include crown minerals and freshwater.
- Transfer the role of kaitiaki back from the Department of Conservation to mana whenua.
- Retain and resource the Enviroschools / Kura Taiao.
- We will subsidise organisations to undertake environmental impact assessments to support businesses becoming more environmental friendly.
Foreign Affairs
- We support immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- We seek to bring the activity associated with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples permanently to Aotearoa.
We want our whānau to be the best that they can be and to be supported by an equitable, sustainable health system. We want to accelerate clinical and service integration; and achieve more of a focus on targets which enable public reporting.
- Prioritise oral health including instigating an annual oral health check for low income families.
- Continue to address the increases in diseases of poverty such as rheumatic fever and meningitis.
- Establish youth wellbeing centres in consultation with rangatahi.
- Bariatric surgery for at least 1000 more people each year to address obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
- Review the Health Act to ensure implementation of rongoa Māori.
- Investigate a co-management model for Māori statutory representatives on DHBs to increase their influence. New DHB representatives to be appointed by Minister responsible for Māori Health.
- Establish a health workforce project for pay parity to retain Māori nurses in iwi providers.
- Investment in development pathways for the non-regulated workforce (community health workers).
- Refocus Māori Provider development to focus on outcomes in areas where services need to grow.
- We will review the work conditions, pay and training opportunities for those working in the elderly, disability and home care sector.
We need to strengthen whānau capacity to identify housing solutions; improve agency capability to respond, and address homelessness, overcrowding and substandard housing.
- Devolve state housing to Māori and Pasifika community groups for whānau to purchase their own homes, including a rent-to-own scheme.
- Assessments for housing need of rentals undertaken by Housing NZ to be inclusive of whānau, e.g. accounting for health, social, cultural and economic wellbeing.
- We will promote the Lifemark design as a quality standard to ensure houses are accessible, usable and easy to adapt as people's needs change over time.
- Direct the Social Housing Unit to respond to the Auditor General's report into better utilisation of Māori land to support whānau initiatives into housing; including building on Māori land in multiple ownership.
- We will better match support available including a review of Kāinga Whenua loans and Māori Demonstration Partnership funds, to assist more Māori into affordable housing on their own land.
- Review adequacy of the accommodation supplement.
- Encourage whānau designed housing.
To compete globally it is important that new citizens share our understanding of history.
- All new citizens to complete a course in the history of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as part of receiving citizenship.
The Māori Party will push for a review into the entire justice system. We seek to restructure the Justice system upon the basis of the Treaty of Waitangi and the foundation of partnership. A justice system that encompasses te ao Māori, tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori—principles and practices of Māori justice. We will:
- Throw out the three-strikes legislation.
- Extend Whare Oranga Ake to every prison service.
- Initiate Computers in Cells to foster literacy and numeracy.
- Support whānau-focused alcohol and drug, addiction, recovery and restoration services; including in prisons.
- Reintroduce preferred lawyer status—legal aid.
- Review protocols around police use of guns and tasers.
- Develop a criminal justice strategy with emphasis on a community justice strategy and justice reinvestment.
- Introduce legislation to ensure that assets maintained by white collar criminals are able to be used to pay outstanding debts to investors.
Disestablish the Independent Police Conduct Authority
- It is important that the public has trust and confidence in New Zealand Police. The Independent Police Conduct Authority will be disestablished. Its functions will be transferred to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
- Agree on fair, appropriate compensation for the women who appeared before the Commission of Inquiry into Police Misconduct so all women are empowered to call Police when they need help.
Establish an Anti-Corruption Commission
Transparency International (NZ) has observed that "The numerous agencies in government responsible for minimising corruption represent a problem…. There should be fewer, more centralised, controlling agencies." We agree with them. It worries us that no agency has any obligation to report misconduct or serious misconduct incidents; and that we have no
reliable independent measure of corruption or inter agency co-ordination where incidents arise.
- The Commission itself will conduct investigations, and report to Parliament annually. It is possible that the Anti-Corruption Commission may absorb investigative functions of the State Services Commission; Serious Fraud Office, Judicial Conduct Commissioner and Conduct Panel and the Parliamentary Privileges Select committee.
Local Government
Major structural change in local government is needed to successfully engage Māori and secure their full confidence, trust, faith and participation in decision-making. This includes restructuring for greater power-sharing with Māori.
- Amend the Local Government and Resource Management Acts to require robust and accountable work practices by local government when working with mana whenua.
- Establishing mana whenua statutory boards at local government.
- Introduce the RMA National Policy Statement on Māori participation, including iwi/Māori management committees and treaty representation.
- Amend Local Government Act 2002 to ensure no district, city or regional council can charge the public to take books out from their public libraries.
Over half of the Maori population (53%) is under 25 years of age; one in four is under ten years. Investing in young people is essential if we are committed to investing in our future. The Investing in Young People initiative will place a greater focus on the preferences of young New Zealanders.
- We will establish internships, voluntary work and other vocational development including specialised programmes run jointly by employers and schools.
- Each school-leaver will be mentored by Work Brokers, to enable them to graduate with a plan which prepares them for employment including possible career opportunities and tertiary study options.
- We will focus on sectors with the biggest skills shortages: healthcare, infrastructure, finance and green energy, recognising that green energy developments will open up jobs that don't exist now.
- We will establish youth councils with statutory advisory roles in city and regional councils; and initiate a national summit for rangatahi.
- We will investigate the establishment of rangatahi rangatira – Māori youth leadership 'colleges' to better inform Government policy.
Research and Development
Successfully aligning investments in science and innovation with Māori business potentially will lead to 150,000 additional jobs per year in the New Zealand economy by 2060; and an additional $12b pa in GDP from the Māori economy.
- Establish a priority investment fund for Māori Research and,Development. We will promote collaboration between Māori entrepreneurs, scientists and innovators to improve opportunities, jobs and incomes.
- Create and resource a real and virtual incubation hub for hapū and iwi to test the economic viability of new ideas on the local and global market and to mentor researchers.
Social Development
- Establish a Ministry of Families inclusive of children, young people and whānau. The new Ministry will include functions from the Families Commission, the Children's Commission; Family and Community Services, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Child, Youth and Family and the Office for Senior Citizens. The new Ministry's focus will be on the care and protection of children and the prevention of family violence and sexual violence. We will support the delivery of frontline services to whānau to restore safety and wellbeing while still maintaining zero tolerance for violence. We will review the Domestic Violence Act 1995.
Social Hazards
Our commitment to strong, healthy families means:
- Alcohol taxation; minimum pricing and advertising are the most powerful tools to reduce alcohol harm. We seek to reduce hazardous alcohol intake, by removing alcohol from supermarkets and dairies. No outlets will be allowed to sell alcohol within 5km of schools. There will be increased community involvement in decision-making. We support an increase in raising the age of purchase (online and offline) from 18 years to 20.
- Enact the Gambling (gambling harm reduction) amendment bill to provide local communities with more power to determine where pokie machines may be sited, and in how the proceeds can be distributed.
- Introduce plain packaging and advance the tobacco control strategy for Aotearoa to be smokefree by 2025.
- Introduce an Inquiry to shut down loan sharks.
Sport and Recreation
- Establish a National Māori Sports Federation: Te Tira Rangaranga ā Rēhia with funding to assist Māori sports achievers at a national level and support Māori sporting codes to be self-sustaining.
- We will invest in the funding of youth co-ordinators and sports coaches to enable a wider range of afterschool activities for school aged children.
- Support funding for Māori women's rugby and advocacy for the Māori All Blacks for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
- Promote water safety skills including community swimming pools, increasing accessibility.
State Services; Treasury and DPMC
- Increase the pool of experienced Māori directors to provide better outcomes by requiring and reporting on Māori and Pacific representation on Crown Company Boards, State Owned Enterprises, Crown Entities, Crown Research Institutes and District Health Boards. TPK to provide training opportunities / governance.
- We will increase representation of Māori women and rangatahi Māori across all state sector appointments.
- Develop strategies to bring levels of salary for women to the same levels as their male counterparts for similar work.
The Māori Party has always advocated lowering the age of entitlement to New Zealand superannuation to 60 years for groups whose life expectancy is lower than average. A lower entitlement age will allow more equitable uptake of New Zealand superannuation for all citizens. All those who reach a certain asset threshold will be mean-tested.
- No tax on the first $25,000 earned.
- Incentivise small businesses to grow, by reducing unnecessary compliance.
- All food will be exempt from GST knowing that GST hits low income people disproportionately.
- Remove tax from prescription medicines and investigate the viability of green prescriptions.
- Implement financial transaction tax which curbs the ability of speculators to make tax-free profits from short-term investments in our financial markets. The tax would also raise significant government revenue.
We will reduce transport disadvantage, by shifting the focus of private car use to one where public transport, walking and cycling are core. We want to rebuild neighbourhoods, focus on community safety and be connected to our environment.
- Improving urban design and broadband, so that people are less likely to have to travel, or can walk or cycle.


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Springfield, Ohio — As anticipation grows for the 410 students set to graduate on Saturday, two other distinguished guests are now making their way to Wittenberg to be recognized along with the class of 2012. Philanthropist Virginia Ellis Franta, Wittenberg class of 1936, and Peggy Fox, Wittenberg class of 1967 and retired president and publisher of New Directions Publishing Corporation, will each be honored during the ceremony.
Described by chemistry faculty as the "angel of the chemistry department," Franta has provided annual support for student and faculty research for decades. Believing that students deserve the best teaching and equipment to succeed, Franta has remained continually engaged with the program, including being regularly informed about the accomplishments and plans of graduating chemistry majors. During her own years on campus, Franta actively engaged in music, Greek life and student government. Upon graduation, she had the opportunity to study biochemistry at the University of Gottingen, Germany, from 1938-39, and a year later married her husband, William.
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For decades, Fox has brought experimental literature to new readers and new writers. Founded in 1936 by a 22-year-old Harvard sophomore named James Laughlin, New Directions became Fox's home for more than 20 years. Advancing from associate editor to the top post at the company, Fox believed firmly in New Directions' vision of being "a place where experimentalists could test their inventions by publication." For Fox, her work enhanced collective understanding as she helped to bring new ideas, globalism, compassion and humility to today's literature. Fox will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters at today's ceremony.
Also receiving a honorary doctor of humane letters will be community change advocate Jennifer Vanica, Wittenberg class of 1976, and Commencement keynote speaker. Vanica, former president and CEO of the Jacobs Family Foundation and Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, has transformed the national conversation about community development while raising millions of dollars to change people's lives.
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The GOP Has Problems With White Voters, Too
With the national exit poll showing Obama winning with just 39 percent of white voters, a smaller share than any Democrat since Mondale, the emerging conventional wisdom holds that a demographic tidal wave of minority turnout cost Romney the presidency. As a result, Republicans are focusing on their poor performance with the burgeoning Latino population; even Sean Hannity says he's "evolved" on immigration reform. But while the national exit poll data give the impression that Romney got the job done with white voters, Romney's stellar national performance obscures stark regional differences that suggest the GOP has its own problem with white voters.
Romneys strong national showing among white voters was almost exclusively driven by historic support from Southern and Appalachian white voters. In many counties, Obamas performance was the worst by any Democrat since McGovern or, in some places, ever. Even a quick glance at overwhelmingly white, Southern, or Appalachian counties with a history of offering even limited support to Democratic candidates shows Obama performing anywhere from 15 to 30 points worse than Kerry did eight years ago. Obama even lost more than 50 points compared to Kerrys performance in several coal country counties in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
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can attest to this if you take my state of North Carolina for example. Obama lost North Carolina because of his slippage among white women in North Carolina. Every other group he held fast. Furthermore, when Romney and Ryan campaigned in North Carolina, they did not even attempt to bring their message to every ethnic group in the state. They were only appealing to just white people and much of their message was race baiting, which ironically they accused Vice President Biden doing in a stump speech right over the border in Virginia.
If you take a look at the electoral map, the divide in this country and within Congress lies with one region in this conutry which is mainly in the Deep South. The racial divide is in the South which the Republicans pander to with their race baiting.
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North Carolinian proudly voted for, and was thrilled, with Obama's reelection! Now if my district would just get rid of Virginia Foxx. Unfortunately the district reelected this foolish lady for another 2 years of stupidity. oh well.......


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Can you pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time? Too easy? Let's see if you can simultaneously play a side-scrolling shooter with your left thumb and a match-three puzzle game with your right.
The Australian-made Toybox is a devilishly difficult new addition to the App Store, and deserves to find an audience of masochists willing to seriously test their dexterity, coordination and patience.
The way the two distinct elements are fused is very clever.
If you shoot down a ship with a flashing light on it on the left hand side, you are given a puzzle piece that matches that ship's colour on the right hand side.
If you form a row of three blocks on the right, the screen is instantly cleared on enemy ships on the left.
If you manage to trigger a chain reaction clearing more than three blocks, you are rewarded with bonus points and an extra spaceship.
The controls are robust and responsive, with three different versions on offer.
The presentation is also appealing. The ships are inspired by retro-futurism, the puzzle pieces look like kids wooden blocks, while the quirky music is affected by the timing of your blasting.
Interestingly, each week a different level is released, giving you seven days to learn the ship patterns and climb the leaderboards before a new challenge is unveiled.
The top three players get the glory of their initials appearing on everyone's screens for the following week.
Unfortunately, if you would prefer a more traditional level structure, you're out of luck.
It's unlikely to be a game that you devote countless hours to as it lacks depth and variety. But as a quick time waster, Toybox is well worth the 99 cent asking price and you should definitely check it out.
What have you been playing lately?
- Jason Hill
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