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The Big One-Dollar Book Sale returns to IU Northwest the week of Oct. 22 - 25
Popular event offers books of all varieties and genres
Tuesday Sep 18, 2012
The sale's hours are from 9:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. The last day of the sale is Thursday, Oct. 25.
The books span all genres and varieties, including popular fiction, literature, non-fiction, specialty titles, and many used textbooks. All books will cost one dollar Monday through Thursday, with discounts for quantity purchases.
The IU Northwest Anthropology Club, which hosts the semi-annual event, will accept book donations during the sale.
The Big One-Dollar Book Sale has grown from a modest fundraiser into a major event at IU Northwest, with hundreds of students, faculty and community members turning out to take advantage of great deals on terrific books.
Funds raised through the book sale are used to support Anthropology Club scholarships, academic achievement awards and club-sponsored special events. The club has been able to donate thousands of dollars each year for student field-research stipends and other academic undertakings thanks to the community's generous support of this event. The sale typically takes place each autumn and spring.
Anyone wishing to donate books to the sale may bring them to the event. Those who wish to donate large quantities of books may contact Associate Professor of Anthropology Robert Mucci at (219) 980-6607, or they may notify someone at the sale so that arrangements can be made to pick up the donated books from the donor's vehicle.
The Moraine Student Center is located at the southeast corner of the main campus parking lot at 33rd Avenue and Broadway in Gary, one half-mile south of I-80/94.
For information about parking at IU Northwest, including a new practice for issuing temporary visitors' permits, please visit http://www.iun.edu/parking/.


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Peter Saati
Mystery Team
At age 7, pint-sized sleuths Jason, Duncan and Charlie solved all manner of kiddie mysteries in Oakdale. Now, at 18, the Mystery Team is about to leave their Encyclopedia Brown-style tactics in the dust with their latest case: a real murder. High jinks ensue in this goofy, fast-paced caper comedy written by and starring Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson and Dominic Dierkes. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

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American Idol Update
Update: Everyone safe for another week!
We will have to tune-in next Wednesday and Thursday to see which two will go home.
Love the song 'One Mississippi' from Brett Eldredge, and even though it's not a well know song, I think this was Dexter's best vocal performance so far. Hope he got the votes!
Bonus: CJ and Dexter singing 'Alright':
Last night America witnessed eight performances worthy of winning the American Idol crown, but only seven can continue their journey. Who did you cut, America? Find out tonight!
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
The integrated navigation system with strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS), Beidou (BD) receiver and Doppler velocity log (DVL) can be used in marine applications owing to the fact that the redundant and complementary information from different sensors can markedly improve the system accuracy. However, the existence of multisensor asynchrony will introduce errors into the system. In order to deal with the problem, conventionally the sampling interval is subdivided, which increases the computational complexity. In this paper, an innovative integrated navigation algorithm based on a Cubature Kalman filter (CKF) is proposed correspondingly. A nonlinear system model and observation model for the SINS/BD/DVL integrated system are established to more accurately describe the system. By taking multi-sensor asynchronization into account, a new sampling principle is proposed to make the best use of each sensor's information. Further, CKF is introduced in this new algorithm to enable the improvement of the filtering accuracy. The performance of this new algorithm has been examined through numerical simulations. The results have shown that the positional error can be effectively reduced with the new integrated navigation algorithm. Compared with the traditional algorithm based on EKF, the accuracy of the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system is improved, making the proposed nonlinear integrated navigation algorithm feasible and efficient.
In modern marine navigation, the strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS) is widely used due to its advantages of being more compact and autonomous. However, accumulated navigation errors are inevitable in SINS and may become considerably conspicuous in the long-term. Consequently, it is often aided with other sensors, e.g., global positioning system (GPS) and Doppler velocity log (DVL)
One outstanding feature of BD is that it is an active inquiry-response positioning system. The user's position information is sent to the ground central control system through two satellites and then processed by the ground central control system. Then, the processed information is sent back to the satellites, and finally the estimated user's position is sent to the user by the satellites [
To solve the multi-sensor asynchronous problem, a SINS/Beidou/STAR integrated navigation system based on the federal filtering algorithm was built up [
In this paper a novel asynchronous algorithm for the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system is proposed on the basis of CKF. Meantime, new nonlinear system and measurement models are also established for the measurements from SINS, BD and DVL. Taking multi-sensor asynchronization into account, a new sampling principle is proposed to make the best use of individual measurements. Even better, CKF can not only reduce the computational complexity, but also improve the accuracy of the navigation solution. The results from simulations showed that the proposed algorithm is superior to the conventional one. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The description of the error differential equations of the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system and the nonlinear filter named CKF are presented in Section 2. Section 3 shows the new sampling principle and the new asynchronous integrated navigation algorithm. Numerical examples along with specfic analysis are given in Section 4. Section 5 concludes this manuscript.
Traditional linear differential equations are obtained under the assumption that the misalignment angles are small, so modeling errors are inevitable due to the nonlinearity of the true error model [
In this paper,
The nonlinear attitude error equation of SINS can be derived as follows:
The SINS velocity error equation is given by:
Suppose that
Because both of the gyro and accelerometer errors are composed of a constant error vector and a zero-mean Gaussian white noise vector, their differential equations are:
The position error equations comprise the longitude error
The location information can be received directly from BD. The major error sources which affect the measurement accuracy of BD are the error of the BD receiver, the track error and the multi-path effect. To focus on the asynchronicity problem of multi-sensor systems, only the clock error of a BD receiver is taken into account here, including the clock bias and the clock frequency drift [
The DVL functions as a sensor that measures the frequency shift of an acoustic signal, either transmitted or received by a moving object, which is proportional to the velocity of the moving object [
According to the working principle of the DVL, one can obtain the velocity and the drift angle relative to the seafloor. Thus, the measurement errors include the velocity drift error
Consider the following discrete-time nonlinear state-space model:
CKF is proposed to solve this nonlinear filtering problem on the basis of the spherical-radial cubature criterion. CKF first approximates the mean and variance of probability distribution through a set of 2
A set of 2
Under the assumption that the posterior density at time Time-update:
With the new measurement vector
CKF uses cubature rule and 2
The nonlinear model for a SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system is established under the large azimuth misalignment angle in this paper. Considering the following error states: the longitude error
The corresponding state equation is written as:
The state function
To solve the problem of asynchronism, a new method is proposed to establish the measurement equations. The multi-sensor measurements can be pre-processed separately. Then, the central fusion blends all of the pre-processed data to obtain the optimal state vector. Here, the measurements are divided into two groups: pseudo-ranges and pseudo-range rates as the measurements for the SINS/BD filter, and the velocity errors as measurements for the SINS/DVL filter.
The measurement equation for the SINS/BD filter is [
The velocity error measurements between the SINS and the DVL are as follows:
In this subsection, a CKF-based novel nonlinear algorithm is structured to solve the asynchronicity problem. In general, the smaller the sampling interval one uses, the higher system accuracy one can achieved, but accompanied with a larger calculation burden. A proper sampling interval should be designed accordingly. Now, a new sampling principle is presented. If the sampling interval of SINS, BD and DVL are
Using this sampling criterion Δ
If only the measurements from SINS and BD are available at time Similarly, if only the measurements from SINS and DVL are available at time If all measurements from SINS, BD and DVL are available at time If no measurement is available at time
If only the measurements from SINS and BD are available at time
Similarly, if only the measurements from SINS and DVL are available at time
If all measurements from SINS, BD and DVL are available at time
If no measurement is available at time
The solution accuracy of the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system can be improved enormously via CKF whilst the asynchronous problem is solved by this method. Besides, the computational cost of the BD control system of the ground center can also be reduced by using this sampling principle.
Simulations were performed in this work. Their results are presented in this section. Suppose that the swing dynamic model of a marine vehicle is given by:
The initial conditions of different sensors are presented as follows:
The initial latitude and longitude: The initial velocity components: The acceleration due to the gravity: The initial misalignment angles: The SINS gyro constant drifts: The SINS gyro random noises: The SINS accelerometer constant biases: ∇ The SINS accelerometer random noises: The constant bias of the BD clock error: Δ The frequency drift of the BD clock error: The correlation time: The DVL velocity drift error: The DVL scale factor error: The DVL drift angle error: The correlation times of
The initial latitude and longitude:
The initial velocity components:
The acceleration due to the gravity:
The initial misalignment angles:
The SINS gyro constant drifts:
The SINS gyro random noises:
The SINS accelerometer constant biases: ∇
The SINS accelerometer random noises:
The constant bias of the BD clock error: Δ
The frequency drift of the BD clock error:
The correlation time:
The DVL velocity drift error:
The DVL scale factor error:
The DVL drift angle error:
The correlation times of
Under the same simulation conditions, the nonlinear algorithm based on CKF was used to estimate state vectors for the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system. The solution was compared with the CKF solution only using the measurements from SINS/BDor from SINS/DVL. Assume the sampling intervals of BD and DVL are 0.5 s and 0.1 s, respectively, while the sampling interval of the fusion center is 0.05 s. First, the alignment lasted 15 min, and then the navigation was performed. The simulation results are presented in
To prove the superiority of the proposed nonlinear asynchronous fusion algorithm based on CKF, another simulation was carried out with the traditional fusion algorithm based on EKF introduced in [
As can be seen from
In this manuscript, a novel nonlinear integrated navigation algorithm based on CKF was proposed in order to solve the multi-sensor asynchronicitybproblem and reduce the high calculation load of the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system. The main focus of this work was on establishing of a nonlinear system model and proposing of a new sampling principle to take multi-sensor asynchronism into account. The superiority of CKF was analyzed theoretically for the situation with the nonlinear system and measurement models. To verify the new navigation algorithm, numerical simulations were carried out. The results showed that the proposed nonlinear fusion algorithm based on CKF cannot only solve the asynchronicity problem of the SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system, but also significantly improve the navigation accuracy of the nonlinear system without imposing any additional calculation burden. However, under the assumption made in this study that all sensors in the integrated system were independent, the fusion results were suboptimal. Our future work will focus on a fusion algorithm that is suitable for multi-sensor asynchronous systems with the correlated noises.
The authors would like to thank Yonggang Zhang, Qian Sun and other reviewers for their helpful comments. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51179039, 61203225) and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (No. heucf041420).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
The schematic of the velocity errors measured by the DVL.
The sampling principle of SINS/BD/DVL integrated navigation system.
Flow chart of novel algorithm based on CKF.
Sailing track of the marine vehicle.
Motion states of the marine vehicle.
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|2. Accelerated motion
|3. Uniform motion
|4. Accelerated motion
|5. Uniform motion
|6. Accelerated motion
|7. Uniform motion
|8. Accelerated motion
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Simulation Results with different sensor data.
Simulation results with different filters.


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Backdrops Count: The NYC Hotels Where Trump and Clinton Addressed the Faithful After Election 2016
By Terry Trucco
Election night 2016 was full of surprises, but not from the standpoint of anyone familiar with New York City hotels. Donald Trump's post-election festivities unfurled in a ballroom of the New York Hilton Midtown, a go-to venue for big-ticket political events (the 53-year-old hotel boasts that it's hosted every U.S. president since JFK).
And while Hillary Clinton chose the cavernous Jacob Javits Convention Center for her election night headquarters, we don't know of any New York hotels with sprawling glass ceilings. (Clinton watched the election results from a suite at the plush Peninsula Hotel, which happens to be situated across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, coincidentally or not.)
But Tuesday was another day. And in a surprising move, the Clinton campaign selected the 6,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom at The New Yorker hotel as the setting for their candidate's eloquent concession speech. (more…)


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"You can say that because you've got the gun," Voronoff said.
Voronoff looked like a man who did not believe his own ears.
It was Voronoff who, as far as he knew them, had revealed the plans of the attack to the Ogrum.
No one here appears to know anything of the whereabouts of Dr. Voronoff.
Michaelson and Voronoff, awakened by the hysterical cries of the youth, were sitting up.
Voronoff had not been a member of his group but he had assumed the man had attached himself to some other group!
Craig's first dazed thought was that Voronoff's presence outside, among the Ogrum, was impossible.
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A striking figure with a black complexion was Voronoff, a Russian prince whose precise antecedents were unknown to his mates.


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Grosse Pointes
GP Schools officials talk technology
By April Lehmbeck
Posted February 20, 2013
GROSSE POINTES — When it comes to technology, it's possible that more is better in a highly technical world, as long as it's used effectively.
That seems to be true for schools these days, as well, with many districts looking at integrating more and more technological resources for their students each year.
Grosse Pointe Schools Superintendent Thomas Harwood gave a presentation to the school board concerning technology at the Feb. 11 board meeting.
He talked about many aspects of student technology use, including the importance of using technology for student research. He also discussed the importance of students learning how to analyze what they're seeing while doing online research as one component of technology education.
He discussed the importance of technology in student learning at all levels.
"We are at a pivotal point in the school system regarding our technology and a point where we have to make some major decisions in how we move forward to provide an infrastructure and support system for how students will best learn," Harwood said. "For our students, technology is just part of their existence.
"We have youngsters who have grown up in the digital world and they are entering into our schools and we need to make sure that we provide them with the windows of knowledge and opportunity that exist," he said.
At the end of a lengthy presentation, Harwood asked that a steering committee and a teacher taskforce be created. He also said the district needs to look to expert outside consultants to determine what they need with hardware and software.
"If we know where we're going, we'll have a better sense and a better-laid plan on how to get there," Harwood said.
District officials want students to be 21st-century learners so that they are ready for the jobs of the future. They want students to have the skill-set needed for any profession, Harwood said.
The district needs to communicate where it is going with its technology plans, he said.
"We want to look at how we engage and empower students," Harwood said.
One issue that the district is looking at is the district's current infrastructure so students and teachers can best utilize the tools available.
"Right now, our infrastructure is old," Harwood said. "It's been identified as being old. The bandwidth is not where it should be. Our wireless system is not where it can be."
When it comes to technology, mobile devices for students would be beneficial.
Instead of carrying heavy textbooks, students can have access to educational information and lessons through a mobile device, he explained.
Harwood discussed Boyne City Public Schools' innovative use of technology to integrate lessons that incorporate the Common Core Standards, including the use of mobile devices.
The district needs to look ahead at what its future students will be using, he said.
The major stumbling block in initiating any of the plans the district might pursue, if the various groups working on the district's financial future decide to move forward with upgrading and adding to the technology in the district, would be financial constraints.
"We may need to take a look at a proposal of a 2013 technology bond, which we (would) take a look at proposing that bond … on the November ballot," Harwood said.
Several board members had comments about the presentation and upcoming talks on technology.
They wanted to make sure the integration of technology is done so that student learning is measureable and the use of technology is effective.
"I think it's very important that, as we look for the approach, we think about, will it get integrated into the district so that we can effectively follow the progression, so that we don't introduce something at third grade and we have nothing at fourth grade to build off of it," board Trustee Tom Jakubiec said.
Harwood said he felt integrating additional technology would be helpful in making that happen more readily.
Treasurer Brendan Walsh said he knew that there would be much more discussion in the future while they work through the process, and Walsh looks forward to taking part in the discussion.
He questioned raising the issue of a technology bond at this point in the discussion.
"I'm personally very cautious of entering that dialog with a preordained position around a technology bond," Walsh said.
Secretary Lois Valente also felt the talk of a bond was premature, but was excited at how the presentation focused on student learning.
"I'm excited to see this," she said. "I still feel that there's going to be a little bit of work in front of us."
Harwood said he introduced the technology bond, after his focus in the presentation on student learning, because that is a question that comes up when discussing these types of issues — how they will be able to finance any changes.
However, he said it wasn't the focus of his presentation.
Seriously, how many committees does it take for the GPPSS board of education to do something. Right now we have a state government and a federal government that is willing to spend money on the things the board has been discussing. This may never happen again.
I've talked about this in more detail on my blog.
The students on our district don't need more committees, they need action.
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Ukrainian government intercepts also purport to reveal Ukrainian separatists acknowledging they controlled SA-11 systems.
"She also has amazing hair," Farrow said of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
"I am an old lady and the medicine I get from the pharmacy has directions in Ukrainian," she says.
But Russian mercenaries and other troops wound up seizing power in the Ukrainian province of Crimea anyway.
As is the way with the Ukrainian Orthodox, the service was not spoken, but sung.
One step toward accomplishing this was the suppression of Ukrainian literature.
"Yes, your excellency," answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his head.
Would the tattered and torn Ukrainian peasant clothes that they all now wore be sufficient disguise?
There is, for example, a Ukrainian family from the Russian Ukraine.
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Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:38 PM
el_bryanto (11,178 posts)
Does taking a younger male to see strippers encourage him to see woman as property?
Younger male - say 14-17; an age when they would probably need an adult to go along and approve it.
Edited to add - we'll assume the strippers were female. I'm guessing the opposite side of the question would be a whole different thing.
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Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:40 PM
msongs (44,126 posts)
1. might depend on if the strippers were male or female eh? nt
Response to msongs (Reply #1)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:41 PM
el_bryanto (11,178 posts)
2. That's a good point, actually.
Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:50 PM
Orrex (55,385 posts)
3. Did he get a receipt?
Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:54 PM
cthulu2016 (10,960 posts)
4. "encourage"... as in tend more toward than away? Sure.
I wouldn't take a young boy to a strip joint, certainly.
But the poll is a big waste of time because as phrased, encouragement is a 51%-49% sort of thing.
Watching the superbowl also encourages a person to see women as property. As do beer ads, dresses with bows, probably lipstick...
Response to cthulu2016 (Reply #4)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:57 PM
el_bryanto (11,178 posts)
5. I don't know if its the same thing - the Medium is the Message
TV and Commercials on TV are essentially passive - unless you live in a home where TV usage is heavily monitored, you are going to see that kind of thing, but without, necessarily, approval from an adult. The message conveyed by the action of taking your son, getting them through whatever barriers there are, and letting them see naked woman conveys a mindset in a different fashion. It's pervasiveness (in the case of woman as objects on TV) vs. depth (in the case of taking someone to see strippers).
Response to cthulu2016 (Reply #4)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:13 PM
octothorpe (962 posts)
10. I don't understand the whole 'view someone as property' thing...
I've never seen a TV ad, poster, stripper, or whatever, and thought to myself "wow, look at the great piece of property." How many people actually think this way? Do you? Any other guys on here think of women as property? Or maybe I just don't get it?
Response to octothorpe (Reply #10)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:57 PM
el_bryanto (11,178 posts)
15. Plenty of people historically have thought of woman as property
And plenty of people today think that way as well.
Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:01 PM
Tierra_y_Libertad (50,414 posts)
6. More likely it will lead to impure thoughts and possible repetitive motion injuries.
Response to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #6)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:05 PM
Orrex (55,385 posts)
7. To be fair...
those were probably going to happen anyway.
Response to Orrex (Reply #7)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:13 PM
NewJeffCT (45,046 posts)
9. True
I'm sure most young men don't need much encouragement to have "impure" thoughts.
I think I had impure thoughts about half the girls at my high school and maybe even more than half the young women in my college dorm. Not to mention, the young women in the various classes I had throughout college.
Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:07 PM
Yo_Mama (8,299 posts)
8. I truly doubt it
However, if the boy had been raised in a family culture disrespectful of women, it might not be a good idea.
Generally, a person's attitude towards women starts earlier. When teen lust kicks in that adds another factor, but none of the boys I went to HS with really changed their attitude toward women once they reached the books-over-crotch stage. If they were nice guys before, they were nice guys after, sometimes blushingly. If they were jerks before, then they became jerks with erections.
You know, sex is a very natural part of human life. It has to be integrated into one's world unless one is in the small minority who never have much interest in sex. If a father chose to open the conversation by taking his son to a strip club, the results would vary depending on the relationship they had and how it was handled.
The worst misogyny seems to occur in societies that are extremely sexually repressive, like Saudi Arabia. But there men are not taught that they can restrain themselves, and they are never exposed to females who are not related as persons. So they grow up and are just clubbed by sexual desire and the good/bad woman dichotomy.
Response to Yo_Mama (Reply #8)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:18 PM
LadyHawkAZ (6,197 posts)
11. I wish I could rec a reply.
Best explanation ever.
Response to Yo_Mama (Reply #8)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:30 PM
NewJeffCT (45,046 posts)
12. well said
also wish I could rec a response.
Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:35 PM
Glaug-Eldare (1,089 posts)
13. I really don't know. I think it depends on what you think walkin' in.
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A person with healthy attitudes will understand that the dancers are just that -- dancers, performers, women who are employed to entertain and titillate. A healthy person already knows that they are human beings like them.
A person with unhealthy attitudes may very well consider the dancer-audience relationship an expression of the power he feels he should have over women -- that she is serving him because he's better than her, not because it's her employment.
I've got no psych training, but that's what I imagine could happen. Then again, the attitude of the person taking them there could have a lot of impact. A young person who's encouraged to disrespect the dancers may well develop worse attitudes, and one who's encouraged to simply enjoy the show may not.
Response to el_bryanto (Original post)
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:37 PM
ismnotwasm (32,317 posts)
14. Sexual objects
Without feelings or desires of their own.
Property, no, at least not as in personal property. There's a much larger problem here, but I won't go into that in the context of your thread.
A Stripper is basically selling services, not her person, although she can be become subsumed in that culture and loose herself, her identity of anything other than a sexual object. In fact society itself sees her that way.
Some are content
Others are going to school or whatever, and plan on NOT being strippers for lifetime career.
Some have been coerced, or forced or find sex work is their best economic choice.
Personally, what I would do is arrange for a young man to talk to one, ask why and how she choose this profession. It would help humanize her.


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When reading the article "House agrees on A.G. probe panel" (Tribune, July 4), my wife and I couldn't help but notice Al Hartmann's accompanying photo depicting House Republicans gathered during a caucus meeting to discuss HR9001.
That photo epitomizes everything wrong with our state Legislature white Republican men, sitting around a table drinking Cokes and not one woman or minority at the table, let alone a cup of Starbucks!
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Compiled by Laure Neuville (May 1996).
Placed on this site with permission of the author.
Author's Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography on the subject. It only contains the texts for which I had complete bibliographical data. Wide surveys of lesbian literature such as Jeannette Foster's Sex Variant Women in Literature or Bonnie Zimmerman's The Safe Sea of Women generally have at least a few paragraphs about pulp novels; the same goes for socio-historical surveys such as Lillian Faderman's Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers or John D'Emilio's Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities. Because the space given to pulp novels is minimal in these books, they are not included here.
Lesbian Identity and Pulp Novels, Off our Backs, vol. IXX, no 8, August/September 1989, p. 10. [report on a paper given by Jane Lindsay Miller at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, Towson State University, Maryland, June 1989]
1950's Lesbian Novels Reissued by Naiad Press, Publishers Weekly, 222, Feb. 11th, 1983, p. 44.
Those Wonderful Lesbian Pulps: A Roundtable Discussion, part I, San Francisco Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 4, no 4, Summer 1989, p. 1-4.
Those Wonderful Lesbian Pulps: A Roundtable Discussion, part II, San Francisco Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 5, no 1, Fall 1989, p. 7-8.
ADAMS, Kate. "Making the World Safe for the Missionary Position: Images of the Lesbian in post-World War II America" in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, Karla JAY and Joanne GLASGOW (eds), New York/London, New York University Press, 1990, p. 255-274.
ALLISON, Dorothy. "A Personal History of Lesbian Porn", New York Native, May 24-June 6, 1982, p. 22-23. Reprinted in Allison's essay collection Skin.
BANNON, Ann. [Letter], The Ladder, vol. 5, no 1, October 1960, p. 24-25.
BANNON, Ann. Then and Now: Speaking to Women Through Fiction, Hot Wire, vol. 4, no 2, March 1988, p. 48 + 62. [original publication: Hot Wire, vol. 1, no 1, Nov. 1984]
BARALE, Michle Aina. When Jack Blinks: Si(gh)ting Gay Desire in Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, H. ABELOVE, M.A. BARALE and D. M. HALPERIN (eds), New York/London, Routledge, 1993, p. 604-615.
BATSLEER, Janet. Pulp in the Pink, SpareRib, August 1981.
BENNS, Susanna. Sappho in Soft Cover: Notes on Lesbian Pulp, Fireweed, 11, 1981, p. 36-43. [reprinted in Fireworks. The Best of Fireweed, Makeda SILVERA (ed.), Toronto, Women's Press, 1986, p. 60-68.]
CHRISTIAN, Paula. "Another Author Heard From...", The Ladder, vol. 5, no 5, Feb. 1961, p. 19-20.
CORINNE, Tee and OVERMAN, Caroline. Valerie Taylor InterviewÈ, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, 25, Winter 1988, p. 61-72
FORTIER, Muriel. La littrature populaire lesbienne des annes 1950, in Actes du colloque international Homosexualit et lesbianisme: mythes, mmoires et historiographie, tenu la Sorbonne, Paris, 01/12/1989, GREH et al., Lille, Cahiers Gai-Kitsch-Camp, 1990, srie histoire, no 2, p. 48-66.
FORTIER, Muriel. Correspondance - Livres la page, Treize, vol. 10, no 1, hiver 1993, p. 26-27.
GRIER, Barbara [signed B. G.]. Ann Aldrich Does a Re-take, The Ladder, vol. 2, no 4, January 1958, p. 12.
GRIER, Barbara [signed B. G.]. Time Has Brought A Change, The Ladder, vol. 2, no 6, March 1958, p. 18.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature in 1959, The Ladder, vol. 4, no 5, February 1960, p. 14-17.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature in 1960, The Ladder, vol. 5, no 7, April 1961, p. 12-13 + 16-19.
GRIER, Bannon [under the pseudonyme Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature - 1961, The Ladder, vol. 6, no 5, February 1962, p. 6-11.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. [review of] The Stange Women, The Ladder, vol. 6, no 10, July 1962, p. 25.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature in 1962, The Ladder, vol. 7, no 4, January 1963, p. 6-13 + 26.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. [review of] We Two Won't Last, The Ladder, vol. 8, no 1, October 1963, p. 18-20.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature in '63, The Ladder, vol. 8, no 5, February 1964, p. 12-19.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature in '64, The Ladder, vol. 9, nos 5/6, February/March 1965, p. 19-23.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature in 1965, The Ladder, vol. 10, no 7, April 1966, p. 17-19.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. "The Lesbian Paperback I", Tangents, vol. 1, no 9, June 1966, p. 4-7. GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. The Lesbian Paperback II, Tangents, vol. 1, no 10, July 1966, p. 13-15.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON] and STUART, Lee. The Lesbian in Literature. A Bibliography, San Francisco, Daughters of Bilitis, 1967.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature, 1966, The Ladder, vol. 11, no 6, April 1967, p. 8-13.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. Lesbian Literature, 1967, The Ladder, vol. 12, no 7, May/June 1968, p. 7-15.
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON]. The Lesbian Paperback, The Ladder, vol. 13, nos 9/10, June/July 1969, p. 18-23. [reprint of the Tangents articles].
GRIER, Barbara [under the pseudonym Gene DAMON], WATSON, Jan and JORDAN, Robin. The Lesbian in Literature. A Bibliography, The Ladder, Reno, 1975.
GRIER, Barbara (also known as Gene Damon). Lesbiana. Book reviews from The Ladder , 1966-1972, Reno, Naiad Press, 1976. [The Lesbiana columns, which were a monthly feature of The Ladder, started in March 1957. The ones published before December 1966 have not been collected, but they often featured pulp titles.]
GRIER, Barbara and REID, Coletta. The Lesbian Paperback, The Lesbians' Home Journal, Baltimore, Diana Press, 1976.
GRIER. Barbara. The Lesbian in Literature, Tallahassee (Florida), Naiad Press, 1981.
GRIFFIN, Gabriele. From Twilight to Limelight: Writings on Lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, chapter 2 in Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in Twentieth-Century Women's Writing, Manchester/New York, Manchester University Press, 1993, p. 40-61.
HAMER, Diane. I Am a Woman: Ann Bannon and the Writing of Lesbian Identity in the 1950's in Lesbian and Gay Writing: an Anthology of Critical Essays, Mark LILLY (ed.), London, MacMillan, 1990, p. 47-75.
JUHASZ, Suzanne. Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love, New York/London, Viking Penguin, 1994.
KOSKI, Fran and TILCHEN, Maida. Some Pulp Sappho, Margins, Special Issue: Lesbian Feminist Writing and Publishing, no 23, August 1975, p. 41-45. [Reprinted in Lavender Culture, JAY, Karla and ALLEN, Young (eds), New York, Jove/Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1979, p. 262-274.]
LOOTENS, Tricia. Ann Bannon: a Lesbian Audience Discovers its Lost Literature, Off Our Backs, vol. 13, no 11, December 1983, p. 12-20.
LOOTENS, Tricia. Ann Bannon: a Writer of Lost Lesbian Fiction Finds Herself and Her Public, Off Our Backs, vol. 13, no 11, December 1983, p. 14-15.
LOWENSTEIN, Andrea. Sad Stories: A Reflection on the Fiction of Ann BannonÈ, Gay Community News, vol. 7, no 43, May 24, 1980.
LYNCH, Lee. Cruising the Libraries in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, Karla JAY and Joanne GLASGOW (eds), New York, New York University Press, 1990, p. 39-48.
MILLER, Jane Lindsay. Lesbian Identity and the Pulp Novels. Paper presented at the 1989 National Women Studies Association Conference at Towson State University (Maryland), June 1989.
NESTLE, Joan. 'Desire so Big It Had to Be Brave': Ann Bannon's Lesbian Novels, unpublished article, January 1983.
NEUVILLE, Laure. Le roman d'amour lesbien existe-t-il?: le cas des 'pulps" des annes 1950 et 1960È, unpublished paper presented in the session Roman d'amour ancien et moderne, Congrs de l'ACFAS, McGill University, May 1996.
RUBENS, Charlotte. '50's Lesbian 'Pulp' Author: an Interview with Ann Bannon, Coming Up!, November 1983, p. 16.
RUTHCHILD, Nancy M. Lesbian Books: a Long and Painful Search, Mother Jones, 1, April 1976, p. 63-5.
SILK, Kay. Lesbian Novels in the FiftiesÈ, Focus, August 1973, p. 4-7.
SMITH, Artemis. Artemis Smith Speaks for Herself, The Ladder, vol. 3, no 10, July 1959, p. 14-16.
SMITH, Artemis. Artemis Smith Speaks for Herself, The Ladder, vol. 4, no 10, July 1960, p. 15-16.
SMITH, Libby. Lesbian Pulp Novels, 1955-1968. Unpublished article, Department of History, Graduate Division, University of Pennsylvania, 1984.
STRANG, Lennox. The Lesbian in Contemporary Literature, The Ladder, vol. 3, no 5, February 1959, p. 16-18.
TAYLOR, Valerie. Five Minority Groups in Relation to Contemporary Fiction, The Ladder, vol. 5, no 4, January 1961, p. 6-13 + 16-22.
THEODORA. The Life and Death of a Lesbian Novel, The Ladder, vol. 5, no 3, December 1960, p. 16-17.
TILCHEN, Maida. Ann Bannon: The Mystery Solved!, Gay Community News, January 8, 1983, p. 8-12.
USZKURAT, Carol Ann. Process, Perspective, Politics and Meaning: The Search for a Way to Read Lesbian Romantic Paperback Fiction 1950-1990È, unpublished paper given at the Women's Studies Network Conference (London, 1990).
USZKURAT, Carol Ann. Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress in Outwrite. Lesbianism and Popular Culture, Gabriele GRIFFIN (ed.), Boulder (Colorado), Pluto Press, 1993, p. 26-47.
WALTERS, Suzanne Danuta. As her hand crept slowly up her thigh: Ann Bannon and the Politics of Pulp, Social Text, no 23, Fall/Winter 1989, p. 85-101.
WEINSTEIN, Jeff. In Praise of Pulp: Bannon's Lusty Lesbians, Voice Literary Supplement, no 20, October 1983, p. 8-9.
WEIR, Angela and WILSON, Elizabeth. The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture in New Lesbian Criticism. Literary and Cultural Readings, Sally MUNT (ed.), New York/Oxford, Columbia University Press, 1992, p. 95-113.
YUSBA, Roberta. Twilight Tales: Lesbian Pulps, 1950-1960, On Our Backs, vol. 2, no 1, Summer 1985, p. 30-31 + 43.
YUSBA, Roberta. Odd Girls and Stange Sisters: Lesbian Pulp Novels of the '50, Out/look, Spring 1991, p. 34-37.
ZIMMER BRADLEY, Marion. Lesbian Stereotypes in the Commercial Novel, The Ladder, vol. 8, no 12, September 1964, p. 14-19.
ZIMMER BRADLEY, Marion. Writing Gay Novels for Fun and Profit, section 3, Novel Lover, 3, Feb. 15, 1982, p. 1-4. [Although I haven't seen them, Novel Lover, 1 and 2 are probably of interest, as the text published in no 3 is a sequel.]
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30 Seconds To Mars - Poem by Aldo Kraas
Today I went to Orlando
And when I was there I was invited to visit Nasa
So I went to Nasa while I was in Orlando
But my dream now finally came true
Because I was dreaming for a long time about going to mars
And I went to the dressing room with the others austronauts to have a Shower and after we all were finished we dried our bodies with the towel And we changed into our astronaut suit and shoes
Them we went for dinner and the dinner was roastbife with mashed Potatoes and gravy
After dinner we boarded the Discovery Space Shuttle
And in 30 seconds we were flying up in the air
Also I looked out of the window of the Discovery Space Shuttle
And I saw Orlando but it was very small from the top of the sky
Due to the attitude that we were in the sky
To be honest with you we were flying at 30,000 ft above the sky
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XTO, the subject of Exxon's affections, is a specialist in the production of shale gas, a source of energy that while long known has remained largely ignored due to the technical challenges of its extraction and the historical abundance of easier conventional gas sources.
But some major advances in extraction techniques, helped along by some high domestic gas prices in the past few years, have seen shale gas emerge as one of the United States' major energy sources.
So profound has the impact been that many liquefied natural gas import terminals around the US are now sitting idle.
XTO's portfolio of shale gas assets stretches throughout the central US states from Texas up to Wyoming. Its efforts in shale gas have seen its reserve base grow to almost 14 trillion cubic feet of gas, with the company's discovery costs among the lowest in the sector.
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My Husband is taking All my Salary and Only Gives me enough Allowance for Food!(262 Posts)
Hi Everyone,
Im just hoping if anyone could help me with a piece of advise.
I am married for 3 yrs plus now, and I've been working for nearly 1/2 year now, My husband is taking all my salary since then, and he only gives me little money for my food. He scolds me everytime I overspend a bit even for a food. And if I ask him to buy me something, sometimes he will buy but most of the time not, and he just tell me this is not good for me.etc..
In normal days when I buy food for the two of us, he will always ask me how much the food costs, and where is the change, and would ask me to calculate the spending and the money left, and I have to return the change to him.
Sometimes he treatens not to give me more money because i always overspend. I would cry feeling helpess and sad coz i feel that im losing my selfworth and confidence. he always tells me he loves me and how much i mean to him, but whenever he is angry, he will use all unneccessary words, such as,(you're bloody or f***G stubborn) and sometimes he would kick me.
I ask him why does he need to say hurtful words and kick me, he will say I deserve it for being stubborn and for not listening to him, and that I need to be discipline, I really dun understand as Im always obedient to him, i even stand up when he ask me to just for him to punish me by kicking me.
He is ok and romantic, sweet when he is not angry, but if he is angry, he always tell me there a limit to his patience, I feel so hurt, as i feel that he does not respect me. he controls evrything in the house. Sometimes Im thinking of leaving him, but i am sacred to do so. as all my salary goes to him. I do not have any savings.
I have my parents to look after too and want to help them by sending them some money, but most of the time I cannot help my parents as I dun have money, I have to ask my husbands permission first whether I can send some money to my parents, sometimes he will send money.
Is it right if my husbands continues to keep my salary? Is it a good Idea for me to move out frist and sort out my feelings? I love my husband and care a lot about him, but I feel that I cannot live with him anymore. I am very sad and confused for years now. I got no one to talk to as I do not have any family or relatives in this country except my husband.
Sometimes I prayed for myself to change and be patience towards him, but i am very tired and emotionally broken that I cant bring myself to talk to him.
What should I do...? what is the right thing for me to do without hurting anyone.?
Hello Imverysad, I have been keeping an eye on your thread and am so sorry for the situation that you find yourself in.
I was just wondering how you are?
I hope that your plans to move are going positively.
Hi HappySunflower, Thanks for asking, for your concern and reading my thread...I am not really sure if i am ok or not.
I've already moved out, today is my 2nd day since i left home (Infact My H was very angry at me about something the other day, and yesterday He chased me out of the house and told me to F***k Off and dissappear from his life)
Right now, I am having a 'mixture feeling' I am heart broken for what he said to me that day(told me to get out and never come back) and at the same time i feel a little bit calm and not anxious about something, or should I say, i dont feel pressurized and scared.
Though I am lonely and sad of what has happend
to my M, i think this is the best for both of us.
And I would like to thank everyone out here for supporting me and guiding me through. For your time and patience reading my thread and responding to my questions. Thanks guys for your help...
ImverySad, I'm so glad to hear your update.
Although it was a horrible way to end things, maybe it is better in the long run - I hope you can now stop feeling sorry for him and responsible for him, and focus on yourself.
Onwards and upwards.
You have shown a lot of courage and it sounds as if he didn't want to be "left" so controlled your leaving . No bad thing as it demonstrates where his priorities lie. Wishing you the best as you move on.
Hello - just read all this. Well done on getting out.
I would just say be prepared now for him to start begging you to come back, showing remorse, saying he'll change, buying presents etc.
You need to remember his true nature - he will want you back because currently he has no-one to control, no-one whose money to steal and no-one to kick, literally or metaphorically.
He might also suddenly start having "crises" that only you can fix, threaten suicide, or some other crisis. Do not be fooled.
Well done, Iam, well done! I am so relieved you are now safe and away from him, but be careful about what Katisha said.
At the time he thought he won by chucking you out, but never forget - YOU are the real winner here.
You now have the opportunity to make a wonderful life for yourself. Keep him out of it.
Good points above.
I don't think I've mentioned this as it wasn't really the same situation (casual boyfriend and we didn't live together), but I once had a boyfriend who was violent. He was violent once and that was it, I left and didn't look back.
But, afterwards he went round telling people he'd left me. Not that I cared... Then he wrote me letters telling me he hated me. Whatever. These were interspersed with letters begging me to come back.
Thankfully I'd learnt by then that any communication - even saying "sod off, you bastard" - just prolonged discussion, and there was really nothing to discuss.
So pleased you're out.
Remember, any contact with him will just prolong the hurt, so don't respond to any contact he makes to you.
NotGoodNotBad, thanks, yes! right now my focus is on my Parents, work and how to improve myself and gain my confidence back. Though its very painful to go through this (separating with him) but i gotta put a stop worrying for him...and start to rebuild and get my life back which I've lost for years..
I would say, it feels good to be free..especially when nobody nags at you and controls you, tells you what you should do and what not...
Thanks LIZS what ever his reason of chasing me out and got angry with me over small things, that doesnt really matter anymore, now even though im still in shocked, but i feel better and not worried on 'what he would do to me or say hurtful things' I feel relief now..
Hi Katisha, Thanks! Yes! you are right, you really have a point there, he may ask me to go back and start afresh with him(that's what happend the last time, when i left, he asked me to come back)
But, this this time, if he will ask me to go back and start to apologize,..I will not buy it anymore..as I am really exhausted enough to go thruogh that truoble again. Though I still care abuot him and love him, but i will not use that reason to go back...I've made up my mind. Its better to be alone and take care of my parents instead.
Thanks Jux , i'll bear that in mind, Yes! i agree with you..I am the winner here and should be proud of myself that i had the courage to get out safely..
Katisha, (He might also suddenly start having "crises" that only you can fix, threaten suicide, or some other crisis)...
I doubt he will say this things to treaten me..but if does,,i am prepared to back to my homeland and live with my Parents then.
But I hope he will not do that kind of things just to get me to go back to him..
AgathaF, thanks for the reminder.. you can be sure that i will not get in touch with him... i need a break and im tired going through the same cicle over and over again.
Sweetie,I'm so glad that you have left.I've had a very bad feeling that if you had stayed he might have killed you.God bless and look after you.Keep strong an never underestimate the power of Mumsnet. Mx.
O honey, EMBRACE YOUR FREEDOM WITH ALL OF YOUR BEING as it is the most satisfying, rewarding and fulfilling state that you have been in for a long and lonely time.
Allow it to empower you and make you impervious to any demands your h and other abusive males may try to impose on you either now or in the future.
Light a candle or make whatever devotion you feel is appropriate to the goddess of mumsnet and of women everywhere and thank her for your liberation.
And let your courage and resolve to live your life on your terms be an inspiration to others. You truly deserve a florist shop's worth of and I salute you
Would you promise yourself that, if he does get in touch, you will re-read this thread remembering how you were feeling when you wrote each post? And could you promise yourself that if you feel that you should or want to go back to him, that you will start another thread, or continue this one? (You don't need to answer, by the way.)
Just as a reality check.
thanks so much izzyizin, that was nice and heart warming
Yes, I am finally free, thanks to people here in mumsnet..they are really amazing, i mean all of you here, it has been a great help..and I still cant believe that I am already out..i mean is this for real?
I am really grateful to all of you here, for your time and energy reading my thread, giving me strength..thank you once again! for believing in me and for making me realise that the life i had was not good..God Bless you guys..
I am getting strong because of your support, i would say you all comforted me when i needed someone to listen and understand what i was going through.
Ha ha ha ha ha! He chased you out of the house to hurt you and make you feel small, fully expecting that you would come crawling home begging him to let you in. But instead you have called his bluff, you have done what he "asked" and left, and you are so much happier and better off without him.
I'll bet he is very confused as to how his plan could have gone so wrong.
Ahhhhh, it serves him right!
Well done ImverySad!!!!
Well done Imso, great news.
YES IT IS!!! It truly is FOR REAL!!! You ARE free to be yourself and no longer have to live in fear of your h and the emotional, verbal, financial, and physical abuse he used to make you subservient to, and dependent, on him.
He will come begging, honey. Tears will run down his face as he pleads with you to please please please just give him another chance. He'll sob as he tells you he loves you so much and he's so very sorry for hurting you.
He'll say he doesn't understand how he could have treated you with such disdain and cruelty, and he'll give every impression of being truly grief-stricken as he says that the only reason he can think of is you mean so much to him, and he loves you so desperately with every fibre of his being, that he was scared another man would steal you away from him or that you'd leave him of your own accord.
He'll look you in the eye as he swears on his, your, his dps, and a motley assortment of other lives and swears by all of the gods that he's learned a bitter lesson and he'll never, never, hurt you again - may the great god strike him dead if he should ever raise a hand to you.
If you don't capitulate and pack your bags and immediately go home with him, he'll continue in the same vain on maybe another couple of occasions before reverting to type as his threatens you with every kind of dire consequence if you dare to think you can get away from him and do what you want.
Whether he's uttering pleas or threats, take NO notice of anything he says and continue to relish your newly recovered ability to live your life the way you ^you want it - and have a good one in which you make the most of every blessed day, honey.
Hi imverysad
You are free to dance now. you can watch the Korean programmes! You don't have to be scared about being kicked. You are free!!
Much love to you. I am still praying for you often. xx
Thank You BanjoPlayingTiger..,for your prayers..
Yes I can dance freely now (its my way of distressing and excersing) and watch the television without worrying if my h can see what im watching..
I would say, though its a little lonely being alone, and miss him..(not that i want to go back with him), but I can laugh loud now feel so free and not afraid of anything now.
And eventhough i dont know whats gonna happend to me in future, but i will live my life day by day and try to enjoy life and enjoy my freedom which ive lost for so many years...
Thanks everyone...
I'm sure your future will be happy. I think you just need a little time to find out who you are, and to learn to love yourself.
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The Trail Tech X2 70W halogen universal dual sport headlight is for motorcycles where a model specific headlight is not available. The dual sport version uses lamps that meet DOT requirements, but it is not stamped DOT. Adjustable clipped beam directs the light towards the road and out of the eyes of oncoming traffic.
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The Portland-Montreal pipeline carries crude oil from South Portland, Maine, to Montreal. The company, Portland Pipe Line Corp., is considering a reversal of the flow to bring tar sands oil to ports in Maine.
Several towns along the pipeline's right-of-way passed nonbinding resolutions Tuesday to oppose pumping tar sands through the state, joining 42 towns statewide, according to 350 Vermont, a branch of the grassroots environmental action group 350.org.
Environmental groups oppose using tar sands oil because of the energy intensive extraction process; fuel derived from tar sands generates 17 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuel throughout its life cycle. The heavy crude is also difficult to clean up when it spills, they say.
In Vermont, towns hosting the pipeline fear a spill would be devastating to the state's waterways and local communities.
Tim Simpson, a selectman in Sutton, said some residents are concerned about pumping tar sands oil through town because the mud-like material is infused with chemicals necessary to loosen it up.
"As far as the tar sands go, there seems to be a fair amount of concern," he said. "It's the chemicals they put in it to move it."
The town, which currently hosts a pump station, had been quiet on the issue given the lack of information about the proposal, Simpson said.
But environmentalists warn the 60-year-old pipeline is not suited to pump a new, heavier Canadian crude.
Jim Murphy, senior counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, said tar sands oil creates a pressure flux as it moves through pipelines, wearing down the structure over time.
"It's similar to stretching a paper clip," he said. "You keep bending it, eventually it breaks."
Cleaning up a pipeline spill is nearly impossible, he said, pointing to a pipeline rupture in 2010 that dumped 840,000 gallons of tar sands oil into Kalamazoo River in Michigan, much of which sank to the river bottom.
"They've done three dredges now and there is still oil all over the river bottom," Murphy said. "And that was four years ago."
Canadian regulators are expected to decided whether to allow Canada's Enbridge Oil to reverse the flow of its pipeline to bring tar sands from the west to Montreal refineries as soon as Thursday.
If approved, the decision would bring tar sands from Alberta to Vermont's doorstep, says Johanna Miller, energy and climate program director for the Vermont Natural Resources Council.
Environmentalists say Vermont – which has spent years moving toward its clean energy goals – has a chance to speak up against the trend of moving heavy crude into the country.
"It's about either we have a clean, advanced energy future where we transition to renewables, we really invest in conservation, we really look at demand side solutions – but also in new forms of generation that are cleaner," Murphy said. "Or it's extreme fossil fuels. And tar sand is emblematic of that."
Portland Pipe Line Corp. would have to obtain an Act 250 permit from the state before the plan can move forward. The company has yet to apply for the permit.
350 Vermont wants to require President Barack Obama to sign off on the pipeline switch – the same presidential permit pending over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to Texas.
Several towns voted Tuesday to request state and federal officials to review the environmental impacts of pumping heavy crude through the state.
According to a 2014 report by the National Resources Defense Council, in 2012, about 22,000 barrels of tar sands crude arrived in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states each day, accounting for less than 1 percent of the region's total demand for oil.
In 2015, this amount is expected to increase to more than 5 percent, and more than 11 percent by 2020, the report states.
Environmentalists say if heavy crude makes its way into Vermont's fuel mix it would set the state back on its clean energy targets. According to its nonbinding Comprehensive Energy Plan, the state aims to use 90 percent renewable energy by 2050.
The 13 towns voting against the pipeline reversal Tuesday were Albany, Barton, Glover, Hartland, Jay, Richmond, Sheffield, Stannard, Strafford, Sutton, Westmore and Wheelock. Shelburne residents endorsed the measure in a nonbinding voice vote.


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"The heartbeat of Bethel College"
As a Christian college, Bethel prioritizes and promotes spiritual expression — it is our mission to train you to be ambassadors for Christ. Chapel is often referred to as "the heartbeat of Bethel College," uniting the Bethel community for a time of worship through music and teaching.
To do this, we ensure that you have access to opportunities, resources, and experiences that allow you to engage Christ and a community of believers through a variety of formats. From chapel services to Bible study groups to charitable service opportunities, spiritual strengthening awaits you.
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SAPD looking for missing mother, son
Updated 7:08 am, Thursday, September 26, 2013
SAN ANTONIO — A 16-year-old mother who was last seen with her 1-year-old son earlier this month has been reported missing and police are asking for help locating the pair.
Noemi Gonzales was last seen Sept. 7 in the 1100 block of Mission Road. According to the police report, she told the person who eventually reported her missing that she was taking her child, Reshaud Gonzales, for a walk.
The person who reported her missing, whose name is redacted from the report, told police she doesn't think Gonzales has "the intention of returning."
The police report indicated both Gonzales and her son were born in Houston, and police believe that's where they may be now.
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Noemi Gonzales is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, 134 pounds with brown hair and eyes. She was last seen wearing a black tanktop and black multicolored leggings.
Reshaud Gonzales is described as 2 feet tall, 30 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. He was last seen wearing a white shirt and blue shorts.
Anyone with information is asked to call the SAPD Missing Persons Unit at (210) 207-7660.


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In Memoriam
Remembering Willa KimBy Stephen Hiltner
Anyone who wades into The Paris Review's files—particularly material from the early days in Paris, in the 1950s—enters a kind of historical haze. It's difficult to separate the fact from the fiction, the magazine's real history from its lore. Reliable records are hard to come by. Certain documents, contracts in particular, are nonexistent.
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Business Law
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Hello, I will be assisting you
1) There are no trade-offs between the option of licensing and consulting because the two are not mutually exclusive i.e. you can have both going at the same time. Licensing simply means that you give someone the right to use your brand (as an example) or your store design (as another example). Consulting means, that you actively go into the other person's business and consult them. You can (and should consider) doing both.
As far as obligations and liability, the threshold of liability for each option (and the combined option) would depend on the extent of services you will be providing. In general you should not be making as promises, guarantees or warranties as to the performance of the licensed brand or your ability as a consultant. Take a cue for language used by franchise agreements as to how to use a non-committing language effectively to describe what you will be doing. Obligation wise, that would depend on the length of time you plan to offer your services or make the license available and any on going support you plan to offer if at all.
2) you are correct to identify the licensed brand + consulting are your options to franchising, although generally I would not agree to the statement that one needs 30 stores to justify the expense of creating a franchise as I have seen chains of 5-10 stores go through the process. I would agree that there is tremendous competition in this category.
Finally, be mindful not to represent your consulting/licensing agreement as de-facto franchises by requiring a % of rev share of demand that they buy your products exclusively.
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Thanks much Attorney. A couple of followup points:
1. I will go with Licensing (to use my brand) and consulting (to train them on systems, processes, etc.). After they setup the business , they would most liklely buy the Supplies (Yogurt Cups, posters, etc) as it will have our company name, brand, etc. Basically, they will buy these products but I am not enforcing them to buy. Do you see any issue with that? or anything I need to think through?
2. I have heard something that Franchise Vs Licensing one difference is that "you can do only one thing" in license and "can do 3 in Franchise" - like, Give brand in licensing and take one time fees, but in Franchise, give brand, training., operational expertise, and take Royalty and sell products (can't do these 2 in license). I assume that is true, Right?
Generally speaking a franchise is a license issued to someone to operate a business using a common brand name, a common operating support system and involving the payment of initial and/or ongoing fees. If the arrangement you propose would have these three components as part of your offering, then you would in fact be offering a franchise, whether or not you choose to call it a license.
Not forcing them to buy you product or to force them to adhere to certain design or methods is key but not the end all and be all. The topic of what is and isn't franchising and gray area of licensing vs. franchising is extensive and is largely controlled by specific state law. I don't want to mislead you and say that you can do something when there might be a state where you're actions could constitute franchising. Since you will have a lot at stake when you are ready to begin marketing your services, I would then contact a franchise attorney and have the attorney list the "safe" states that you can freely go into and the states where you may have some issues in. That would be the most prudent course of action.
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The 10 Coolest Startups Of 2012
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A Year Of Change
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OCALA, Fla. -- An Ocala man's hopes of getting a good night's sleep were dashed when a car slammed into the side of a brick home and pushed the couch he was sleeping on away from the wall.
Police said a patrol officer stopped a white Buick sedan for a traffic violation Saturday morning. When the officer went to speak with the driver, the vehicle sped away, police said.
As the officer searched for the vehicle, dispatchers received a call from a man from the same area claiming someone drove a car into a house. The vehicle had hit a wood electrical pole before cutting through the front yard and hitting the house.


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(CNSNews.com) - Cuban exile groups are criticizing a report on CBS' 60 Minutes, which they say made it look like Cuban-Americans are propping up the Castro regime. Despite criticism of the report, which focused on the money U.S. residents are sending to their relatives in Cuba, CBS is sticking by its story.
"I think [CBS is] missing the major point. The major point is that there is a distinction between people who care for and love their family members and people who support dictatorial regimes. People sent money to family and relatives in the bad days of the Soviet Union and people don't want their family members to starve in Cuba," said Dennis Hays, executive director of the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF).
According to the 60 Minutes feature, Cubans use the American dollars to buy modern appliances and other goods at shopping centers, but the money ends up flowing into the coffers of the Castro government, undermining the U.S. trade embargo that is in place against Cuba. The U.S. dollars are crucial to Castro's economic survival, the report stated, especially after the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, cut off aid to Cuba several years ago.
However, Hays believes the CBS report began with what he called a "false premise."
"The false premise is that people helping their families is somehow the same as advocating support for Castro," said Hays.
Hays didn't say whether the CANF, one of the Castro government's biggest critics, would file a protest against CBS. "We're taking a look at it," said Hays. 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl did not interview anyone from the CANF for her report.
Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes defended the broadcast.
"We make no apologies for the piece. I think we touched every base," said Hewitt in an interview with CNSNews.com.
Stahl did interview a young Miami couple that fled Cuba several years ago, so they could, according to the broadcast, send U.S. dollars back home to their family. She also interviewed Rep. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who is one of three Cuban-Americans in Congress, and who opposes the practice of Americans sending U.S. dollars to their relatives in Cuba.
Frank Calzon, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba, also said the 60 Minutes report failed to make an important distinction.
"I don't believe anybody could be against a mother or a child sending money to Cuban relatives. It is legal. That money goes to relatives. The money made from tourism does not get to the Cuban relatives because it goes directly to the government," Calzon said.
"Cubans have had for 40 years very little economic freedom," he added. "What Castro has done is create a beggar mentality. You can send money to your relatives to buy food but you cannot send money to relatives so they can start up a dry cleaning establishment or a restaurant or a small manufacturing company.