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Packed into the pages of this sturdy Sesame Street board book is a collection of tongue-tripping rhymes about everyone's favorite Sesame Street Muppets, including Elmo, Grover, Ernie, Bert, Betty Lou, Herry, Hoots the owl, and Oscar. The rhyming language and singsong rhythm of tongue twisters are key concepts in language development for babies and toddlers. The humor and playfulness of the tongue twisters in this collection will give toddlers a fun into into the world of wordplay, the foundation of a lifelong enjoyment of the written and spoken word. This book is ideal for use in pre-school classrooms as well as parent/child sharing.


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The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for digital archives (aka "institutional repositories") containing digital content (aka "digital libraries"). It allows people (Service Providers) to harvest metadata (from Data Providers). This metadata is used to provide "value-added services", often by combining different data sets.
Initially, the initiative has been involved in the development of a technological framework and interoperability standards specifically for enhancing access to e-print archives, in order to increase the availability of scholarly communication; OAI is, therefore, closely related to the Open Access movement. The developed technology and standards, though, are applicable in a much broader domain than scholarly publishing alone.
The OAI technical infrastructure, specified in the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), currently in version 2.0, defines a mechanism for data providers to expose their metadata. This protocol mandates that individual archives map their metadata to the Dublin Core, a simple and common metadata set for this purpose.
Funding for the initiative comes from various organizations including the Joint Information Systems Committee.
PictureAustralia is an example of OAI-PMH in action. PictureAustralia harvests image data from Australian libraries, universities, museums and galleries. It then provides a single search system to access all the images.
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- Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals
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Castelli, Donatella. "Open Archive Solutions to Traditional Archive/Library Cooperation." [PDF] LIBER Quarterly 13, no. 3/4 (2003): 290-298.
Cole, Timothy W. "Using OAI: Innovations in the Sharing of Information." Library Hi Tech 21, no. 2 (2003): 115-117.
Comba, Valentina. "Open Archives Initiative (OAI) 3 Workshop." Library Hi Tech News 21, no. 3 (2004): 6-7.
Crawford, Walt. "OpenURL Meets Open Access." American Libraries 35, no. 2 (2004): 52.
Foulonneau, Muriel, and David Dawson. Open Archives Initiative—Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Practices of the Cultural Heritage Actors. [PDF] Bath, UK: Open Archives Forum, 2003. Expert Report 3.
Fox, Edward A. "Open Archives Initiative." D-Lib Magazine 6, no. 6 (2000).
Harnad, Stevan. "The Self-Archiving Initiative". Nature 410: 1024-1025 (2001)
Hunter, Philip, and Marieke Guy. "Metadata for Harvesting: The Open Archives Initiative, and How to Find Things on the Web." The Electronic Library 22, no. 2 (2004): 168-174.
Kiernan, Vincent. "'Open Archives' Project Promises Alternative to Costly Journals." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 December 1999, A43.
Lagoze, Carl. "The OAI and OAI-PMH: Where to Go from Here?" [video] In CERN Workshop Series on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the Benefits of OAI (OAI3), 12-14 February 2004 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2004.
Lagoze, Carl, and Herbert Van de Sompel. "The Making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Library Hi Tech 21, no. 2 (2003): 118-128.
———. "The Open Archives Initiative: Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework." [PDF] In Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 24-28, 2001: Roanoke, Virginia, USA, edited by Edward A. Fox and Christine L. Borgman, 54-62. New York: ACM Press, 2001.
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Lynch, Clifford A. "Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative." ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 217 (2001): 1-9.
MacColl, John, Marieke Napier, and Philip Hunter. "Developing an Agenda for Institutional E-Print Archives." Ariadne, no. 29 (2001).
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Obama and his globalist handlers – who ultimately want every gun confiscated – understand that the American people by and large support the Second Amendment. This is why the president patronized hunters and shooters with an oily sleight of hand.
"I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals," Obama said. "That they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities."
In fact, according to the founders, guns – including AK47s in the modern context – belong in the hands of the citizens and their state militias,...
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Short Sale Homes in St. George
Short sales and foreclosures are very similar in nature, but the process of a short sale is slightly different than that of a foreclosure. Before a home is foreclosed a current owner has the option to make an agreement with the bank to quickly sell the home in order to cover unpaid expenses as well as, avoid heavier credit problems. This process also allows a former homeowner to avoid bankruptcy and the bank is able to escape the complicated foreclosure process.
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No One Rocks A Fedora Like Yoko Ono
Fedoras have made such a comeback recently that they're now normal, as opposed to trendy. But few celebrities or style geeks have mastered the swagger of a fedora like Yoko Ono. I love how she's giving someone not pictured in the photo the side-eye that's framed by the brim of her hat and sunglasses. That's a "Bitch, say what?" look if I ever saw one. [NYC, 12/22/10]


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marketing campaigns of yore; specifically, the Maidenform ads of the 50s and 60s, which are a strange, wonderful amalgam of glamorous surrealism and post-brainstorm despair.
Here are a few to start us off
The Maidenform bra print ads featured a woman wearing her underwear in public doing something different each time. The copy always read: "I dreamed I (insert the relevant activity) . . . in my Maidenform bra." Check them out
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> I need this to be able to route LAN packets to the WAN, but servers
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I don't think this is possible today ..
But this would be a great feature to add..
To be able to add inbound nat to an opt-inteface rather than just to WAN-interface. By this be able
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I've made a change in the outbound NAT where you're able to make outbound nat rules on WAN and all
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The Strange Death Of The Tea Party
They came by the hundreds. Or the tens. Possibly singly or in very small groups. It is hard to say exactly how many as scattered news reports have confused just how few people showed up to a series of right-wing rallies held across the nation this past Saturday. There were lots, though – several dozens, at least — just ask the data-mining and fundraising outfit that organized them.
The protesters had a message, though, and they proclaimed it loud and clear across the land to any who would listen – mostly the homeless, the odd passersby, and bored local news crews who were forced by their bosses to show up. Their cry, which reverberated throughout the land of conservative talk radio, was that King Obama – the dreaded and most cruel bringer of health care reform – would not take their guns away from them.
Crying as one, the assembled enjoined their fellow citizens to fight back against the unnatural tyranny of universal background checks, the banning of high-capacity magazines, and any attempt to infringe upon the rights of the mentally deranged to arm themselves to the teeth. These brave patriots, rallying to the cause of freedom – if not the rights of children to not be blown apart by gun-wielding maniacs – declared that they would stand up to that foreign-born socialist tyrant currently residing in the White House.
If you missed this nationwide rally of well-armed Second Amendment "resisters" this past Saturday – billed as a National Day of Resistance by Tea Party groups and associated right-wing Internet sites – then you aren't the only one. Reports indicate that 121 such rallies were held with perhaps a couple hundred participants each, meaning that anywhere from 24,000 to 50,000 people nationwide may have shown up at these right-wing protests.
Death of Tea Party by pro-gun backlash?
At first blush, this seems like quite a large number of people. After all, to get that many rugged individualists to all come out on a frigid Saturday in February for a collective action like this takes some amount of organization and motivation. Could this, at long last, be the pro-gun backlash that political pundits have been warning the nation about since gun control advocates made the first, timid suggestions on guns in the days and weeks after the massacre of school children in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14?
If it is, it is a decidedly tepid one. Fifty thousand is a lot of people, but, by way of comparison, consider that nearly a million people turned out to watch President Obama's second inauguration ceremony on the National Mall. This was down from the nearly two million individuals who showed up to watch his first inaugural four years earlier. This is also on the low end of the number of individuals who participated in an Occupy Wall Street march on Wall Street in May.
It is also a far cry from the numbers that Tea Partiers could rouse at the height of the movement's inchoate backlash against the Obama administration in 2010. Then, the Tea Party was an active, well-financed force that could not only influence elections, but was popular enough to bring 87,000 to 100,000 people out on the National Mall to hear Glenn Beck speak about restoring America's honor. All that, however, appears to be in the past; now, even Glenn Beck has been relegated to the back pages of American cable television.
The recent elections also point to the decidedly deflated state of the Tea-Party Right. In 2010, for instance, the Tea Party was able to channel conservative rage against the President and his party into sweeping gains in Congress — especially in the House of Representatives where the GOP gained a crushing majority that ousted Nancy Pelosi from the speakership. In the Senate, Republicans gained seven seats in 2010 and brought forth Tea Party darlings like Rand Paul of Kentucky, Marco Rubio of Florida and Scott Brown of Massachusetts. The Left, it seemed, was on the run and President Obama destined for a single-term presidency.
A bare two years later, the 2012 elections delivered a stunning rebuke to a political movement that seemed on the cusp of overturning America's leftward turn in 2008. The GOP's candidates for Senate, nearly all Tea Party extremists, were soundly defeated. The House remained in conservative hands, but only did so due to such egregious partisan gerrymandering that only a huge landslide could have dislodged them. Even then, Democrats still made gains in that body. Then, of course, we come to Mitt Romney – the Republican candidate for the White House that many on the right were sure – certain, even – would win. Instead, he was handily defeated by a confident Obama campaign.
Rush Limbaugh declares defeat
Even Rush Limbaugh, the fire-breathing radio conservative who launched a thousand imitators, has recently admitted defeat. Declaring that he was ashamed that his country had devolved into, in his words, a mass of "uneducated, low-information" voters, he announced recently that, "the Left has beaten us." "We're outnumbered," he said, and in a democracy, "People get what they want, they vote what they want and they get the way they vote."
Indeed. Which begs the question, how did a movement that had accomplished so much in 2010 fail so dramatically in 2012? What happened to the rage? What happened to the huge numbers? How did the Tea Party collapse so suddenly and so quickly to the point where "nationwide" rallies are now relegated to coverage by local news outlets and vigilant left-wing media?
Pundits, political experts and political operators each offer their own explanation. The current narrative pushed by mainstream commentators is that Republicans, in classic fashion, overreached by pushing forward candidates so extreme in their views that there was no way they were going to win in a general election. This may be true, but in 2010 equally extreme candidates were pushed forward and won convincingly. Moreover, the GOP is not completely the same as or in lockstep with the Tea Party movement and overreach doesn't explain the dénouement of the movement as a whole.
Some blame it on Mitt Romney
Another explanation centers less on the GOP field as a whole than their presidential nominee in particular. Mitt Romney, goes this argument, was a bad candidate – a moderate masquerading as a conservative who was so wooden, phony and out of touch that he repelled voters. Again, this may be true but it also does not explain how widespread GOP losses were in 2012 and the degree to which, again, the movement itself has withered away.
A third explanation is that a combination of national-level forces – demography, economic recovery, and the like all coincided to dampen right-wing enthusiasm and turnout. 2012, in this story, offered a fundamentally different political environment than 2010 and each factor cited above worked to first let the steam out of the Tea Party engine and then send it into reverse. Of the arguments about why the Tea Party has dissipated as a political force this seems the most likely, but consider an addendum to this theory.
What if it turned out that there was no there, there to begin with – that the televised mobs bearing Lipton Iced-Tea bags and flying American flags were really never as big, powerful or menacing as they were made out to be? What if they were mostly the product of a concerted effort by billionaire industrialists to gin up the perception that a mass, grass-roots movement that opposed regulating Wall Street and enacting health care reform actually existed? What if it turned out that conservative media served as an echo chamber for this effort, in the process magnifying its perceived importance far out of proportion to the power it actually wielded? What if the rest of the media, looking for a story, helped create one?
That would mean the Left's defeats in 2010 were not so much a product of an irresistible force meeting and unmovable object, but of a timid Progressive coalition so bruised by 30 years of defeat that it could not recognize when the political tide, at long last, had finally turned. If so, then that timidity in the face of a cornered and wounded opposition gave time and space to a disorganized, dispirited enemy that then used it to regroup and counterattack with the political equivalent of a Potemkin village – nearly driving the Left from the field in the process.
Going forward, it would be a tragedy if the Left allowed the faux populism of the Tea Party right to intimidate it, and so prevent Democrats from accomplishing progressive policy goals. We should remember the old maxim, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." The next time self-styled patriots show up dressed as Minutemen we should remember that for all the sound and fury of the Tea Party Right, it doesn't signify much of anything at all.
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Fitness of the immediate future
As the first waves of 2012 crash against our temporarily cloud-covered shores, we usher in with anticipation a brand new season in the local health and fitness industry.
In Malta we can pride ourselves with some top notch fitness professionals who continue to do a great job of keeping our scene up to date with all the latest methods and madness the wellness world has to offer.
Something I've always loved locally is the commitment to a down-to-earth sort of common sense that has thankfully prevented some of the more ridiculous offerings of the international fitness industry from ever reaching our islands; but what can we expect to see in the new year? Which offerings both old and new will prevail over the next 12 months and which will fall by the wayside?
Funky new training methods often build their credibility upon attacks on more traditional existing systems. The number one gym tradition that remains firmly on the receiving end of constant bombardments of criticism are our trusty traditional cardiovascular machines.
New types of group fitness classes are the first to declare themselves more fun and addictive than "boring old cardio training". Commercials touting new abdominal training gadgets just love to depict pained and burnt-out gym users in agony on the treadmill and other bulky gym machines. But is it really the end for our good old friends? Despite their decidedly uncool image, 'bulky' gym machines have stood the test of time and I doubt we will see any demise in their use this year.
While new gadgets will continue to flood the market and prey on our lazy desires for better bodies in exchange for little to no physical effort, it is indeed only a matter of time before everybody realises that almost anything of value only comes in exchange for at least some investment of quality time and effort.
Cheesy fitness infomercials in a climate where consumer spending increasingly forfeits the frivolous, have their days numbered. Tried and tested traditional home fitness equipment like domestic exercise bikes and dumbbell sets on the other hand have never been more in demand. Vendors of home equipment have reported consistently healthy sales figures through the economic storms of late, as more people opt for the cost-effective train-at-home option.
Group-fitness classes continue to evolve and innovate, attracting the more sociable fitness enthusiasts among us. One phenomenon that certainly took the industry by storm last year was Zumba; a fusion of basic Latin American dance and traditional aerobics moves.
Catapulted and assisted in no small part by a highly slick international marketing campaign, this new group-fitness craze has lasted longer than many industry players initially predicted. Zumba have also successfully made the tricky transition into our very own homes by resurrecting the dormant home fitness DVD genre.
Now you can once again enjoy umphing up and down in front of your TV set in the comfort of your own home. And if you fancy something a little more chilled out, while yoga suffered somewhat of a near death experience last year, it also seems to be enjoying a second wind coming into 2012.
The internationally renowned hardcore method of training known as crossfit is now pretty much here to stay. The system has sparked a back-to-basics revolution the industry has been in dire need of. For the first time ever, crossfit was practiced in Malta last year and I hope the movement continues to gain momentum. We will certainly be delving a little deeper into the crossfit sensation again on these very pages in the near future, so keep your eyes peeled.
If you want to grab your fitness by the scruff of the neck and beat yourself into better shape this year, then crossfit is ready and waiting to lock horns with you.
Word through the grapevine has it that several new fitness centres will be opening up on the island in the coming months, showing that the local appetite for better fitness is finally starting to catch up with European leaders.
While the lack of physical activity promotion in Maltese culture remains the topic of much debate, fitness professionals are playing a major role in successfully instilling awareness among the population. As long as we continue to push the simple message that physical activity and healthy eating can help eliminate almost every major deadly disease attacking western civilisation today, then more people will continue to take their first logical steps into our fitness centres and health food shops.
So will 2012 bring about the end of the world? According to NASA, probably not, but it could very well bring about the end of the world as we know it. If we define the "world as we know it" as one in which millions of people in its supposedly developed quarters die needlessly every year of easily preventable diseases, then it's seriously about time we moved on.
The most valuable investment of internet-surfing time you could possibly make today is a little research into the benefits of light to moderate exercise, and of simply cutting down on processed foods and replacing them with ones more natural and plant-based. If nations in 2011 could prove revolution is not just the stuff of history, then why not follow their lead and kick-start your own personal health revolution in 2012?
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It was only a decade ago the University of Winnipeg was one city block with a gym across the street, a seemingly forbidden fortress that fenced off its front doors and at night pulled up the drawbridge over the moat.
Then Lloyd Axworthy walked into the president's office.
Ten years later, the campus has a theatre on Colony Street, the Buhler Centre across Portage Avenue where once stood an army surplus store, mixed housing being built south of Portage, student life in the former dumpy old bus depot, an indoor soccer complex about to open, a pedestrian mall on Spence Street and, two blocks west, a glittering science complex.
Lots of concrete, lots of monuments and incredible new amounts of square footage.
But in the face of retirement, Axworthy wants to talk about people.
Increased enrolment breaking the 10,000-student barrier, sure, but Axworthy primarily feels proud of the students who might otherwise have never dreamed of going to university and of the people living in the neighbourhood who had never set foot on a university campus and saw it as a place they didn't belong.
That's why Axworthy thinks it's such a big deal he's signed a charter with more than 20 community groups to give them first dibs on the best one-third of the time the new RecPlex indoor soccer and recreation facility will operate. The university gets one-third, and the rest goes to people and groups who can afford to pay to rent it.
"I just couldn't believe such a facility would go into my neighbourhood and they were talking about the community -- it was surreal," marvelled Chino Argueta, director of the Youth Agencies Alliance. "I'm really looking forward to the laughter and the smiles of the kids and families bringing it to life. That's community development at its best."
Argueta said the community will have the facility from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and for significant periods of Saturday and Sunday still being worked out, with the U of W arranging for equipment donations -- sports galore, both games and skills development, dance, drumming -- the gamut of experiences.
"It's not a barrier, it's not an unknown, it's a place where they're welcome," Argueta said. "It's a place where they might see themselves when they finish high school. When they're 18, it's, 'I know the U of W, I've been there many times,' " he said.
Axworthy said residents would ask him a decade ago, "Why do we get checked by security? Why do you have a fence around your front yard?"
There really was "a sense you had to pull up the moat at night. People don't talk about it anymore, but we had to work hard."
It thrilled Axworthy the Opportunity Fund has named a bursary to honour him and his wife, Denise Ommanney -- the fund that enables inner-city young people as early as Grade 4 to earn scholarship money through academic achievement and community work, which has opened up the U of W to 1,500 students and counting.
"It's had a huge impact on the university by opening the doors to far greater diversity," Axworthy said. "The demographic changes going on in the city were most visible right here," with a downtown alive with aboriginal people and new Canadians from places such as Sudan and Somalia.
But not within the forbidden fortress.
"It wasn't being reflected at the university when I arrived," Axworthy said. "We established a task force on access."
With every public institution in sight running capital fundraising campaigns, the U of W had never done so: "I couldn't quite figure out why."
Axworthy brought in younger aboriginal staff such as Jennifer Rattray, now the associate vice-president of indigenous, government and community affairs, and now-Minister of Child and Youth Opportunities Kevin Chief "to develop the notion of early education" and battle the dropout plague in the inner city.
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His big regret is never getting all or part of the Bay. It was there for the taking for $1, but renovations would have run $9 million and ongoing operations would have been onerous.
"We just couldn't pull it off -- there was a case we couldn't get the partnership we needed," Axworthy said. "We don't have a real high-powered design centre like the Parsons Centre in New York City. I thought the Bay would have been ideal."
Axworthy also dreamed of an above-ground walkway connecting the campus to the rest of downtown -- $4 million to the Investors Group building across Colony, $8 million to the Bay/Portage Place.
"If you could provide a venue of easy access over the Berlin Wall of six lanes of traffic... it would have a big economic impact, a social and cultural one."
Axworthy would have liked to go even further afield and tie the Sherbrook Pool by a short green path into the Duckworth Centre and RecPlex, but, "It comes down to the land costs."
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Public bodies talk transparency all the time -- Axworthy walks the walk.
People out on the street will be able to see what's going on inside the new RecPlex. Be it indoor soccer, ultimate Frisbee, flag football, baseball practice, it will all be visible through triple-pane, ball-resistant windows along the street.
"Jennifer (Rattray) and I knocked on the doors along here. People said, 'We need a place to gather, a place where the neighbourhood can meet, or bring our kids'," said Axworthy.
The $40-million project officially opens June 17 and will host activities come the fall.
It's 52,000 square feet, linked at the second level to the Duckworth Centre with three east-to-west indoor soccer pitches opening up into a full field. They're flanked by a 60-metre spring track and jumping pit at ground level. There will also be baseball batting cages.
There are only six dressing rooms, but each player will have a locker, so that six teams who've just come off, or are waiting to go on next, can use the rooms while six others are on the field.
There's a student lounge on the second level that can be transformed into part of the bleachers running along the Spence Street side. At one end will be a wellness centre and some retail and restaurant space.
There are both a community gym with a rock-climbing wall and a Thomas Sill Foundation multipurpose room ventilated to the outside: "We can do powwows and drums and smudges."
Just in case you can write a seven-figure cheque that would clear the bank, the naming rights are still up for grabs.
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Turning serious, Axworthy reiterated the U of W is historically underfunded compared to the University of Manitoba and Brandon University. "The granting formula doesn't take into account any growth," he said.
He insisted all these new facilities won't be a burden on the operating budget he leaves his successor -- that budget already has serious pension costs and relies heavily on leaving jobs vacant to balance the books.
But it goes far beyond just money.
"The political system has to catch up with the changes going on in universities and colleges -- it's not the traditional two semesters of 15 weeks. We're becoming the learning centre for a wide variety of people."
Ontario and B.C. are leading the way in trying to assign each school a specialty to teach, a move Axworthy considers a major blunder: "It's something policy-makers have to resist. There are pressures to try to homogenize the system -- what makes it thrive is competition, diversity."
The U of W needs to invest in online learning, as should every school in Manitoba, he said. "We're under-universitied in Manitoba, if that's even a word.
"If I can leave one lasting contribution, it's to begin a process where that can be resolved."
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Axworthy at 74 isn't taking on another full-time job anywhere, but he's on the board of Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO), the Aspen commission on food security, the UN committee on the world court and is involved in Jim Carr's campaign for a federal LIberal nomination in Winnipeg South Centre.
"Strangely enough, all the years in politics I dealt with NGOs, but I never belonged to one," Axworthy said.
His advice to his yet-to-be-revealed successor?
That the U of W should be fundraising for access, not monuments.


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Restaurateur indicted over Social Security, tax filings
Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, March 9, 2008
The owner of several Hot Rod Cafe restaurants in Mukilteo and Mountlake Terrace has been indicted on charges of failing to pay his employees' Social Security taxes to the federal government and filing fraudulent tax returns.
William Robertson, 67, of Everett, who has a history of restaurant-related tax problems, was arrested by federal agents last week in New Mexico. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Authorities say that from 2004 to 2005, Robertson withheld $39,454 from employees' paychecks for Social Security, Medicare and income taxes, yet failed to pay that money to the federal government.
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They add that between 1992 and 1996, Robertson operated various restaurants and failed to make tax payments on behalf of his employees. At the time, the IRS fined him more than $491,000, but he tried to evade those penalties by filing false income tax returns, authorities say.
Last Friday, a U.S. magistrate judge in New Mexico released him on a $5,000 unsecured bond and ordered him to appear in Seattle to face the charges.


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Anger Management Solution
Came across this band, and remained stuck on this song. Althought i knew the band before (as it's not new) i never really listened to their song.
Our love is like a perfect sky
Deep blue and the sun is shining
But it seems that sometimes
There have to be some clouds
And suddenly I feel this destructive anger
Deep inside
And suddenly I feel this destructive anger
Is about to rise
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I loved my pets so dearly. R.I.P Junior and Skittles. I'd love to have a kitten or a bunny again. Maybe someday soon I will live in one place and one country long enough to have one. Have any good pet stories? Or any pets that you want to remember?


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Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat - not just an ordinary yacht, but the world's largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup.
On the wings of Lewis' celebrated storytelling, the listener takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Clark tries to persuade the investment bankers that Healtheon IS the new Microsoft; we get queasy as Clark pits his boat against the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. And in every brilliant anecdote and character sketch, Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the 21st century.
©2001 Michael Lewis; (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
I really enjoyed this audiobook. Beautifully narrated. Especially the antitrust trials with microsoft. I must have gone back to that part about 10 times, very funny.
Old & fat, but strong; American, Chinese, & Indian (sort of); Ph.D. in C.S.; strategy, economics & stability theory; trees & machining.
"A fun book about Jim Clark"
This book gently pokes fun at a man who one of the most widely acclaimed entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Jim Clark is not the richest man in Silicon Valley, or the richest tech entrepreneur, but he is widely regarded as the most entrepreneurial of the super-rich in Silicon Valley.
The book presents him as a likable, slightly tormented, mild misfit. Of course he's a man of nuclear will; all great entrepreneurs are. But this book doesn't portray him as a bellicose tyrant, the way Steve Jobs is often portrayed. And it doesn't portray him as a borderline autistic, diabolical businessman, they way Bill Gates is often portrayed. The portrayal is closer to a character on the popular TV show, "The Big Bang Theory". There is something in the portrayal that it is funny and likable in a way that is similar to almost every geek I've ever known. In this regard the book is very well written. And the narration was excellent.
On a personal note I inherited the office that Jim Clark inhabited as a grad student at the University of Utah, about a decade after him, where I too earned a Ph.D. in computer science. When I moved into the office I found a raincoat and an umbrella standing in the corner, made to look like a mannequin without the mannequin. It was referred to as the "Invisible Grad Student". Rummaging through the pockets of the raincoat I discovered an old printout, on old style computer paper, of the department student directory. Jim's name was highlighted. After asking around I discovered that it was widely believed that the Invisible Grad Student was the work of Jim Clark. But all that was known for sure was that it had at one time been his office. When I pointed out that this might be valuable and inquired about rather the department wanted to keep these artifacts in a safe place, the items were stolen. Since at that time all the grad students had keys to everybody else's office, the list of suspects was intra
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"Disruptions and Disruptors"
"Never was a man's love of risk so beautifully amplified by his environment as Clark's was in Silicon Valley."
― Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
I did like Lewis' exploration of the relationship of Investment banking and the information technology companies that seemed to weed up in Silicon Valley during the late 90s. The normal venture technology relationship seemed to invert in Silicon Valley. Power shifted from the money men to the idea men, or perhaps not even the idea men, but the risk men, the development men. It was, and still is, a bit of an aberration in business space and time. This book focuses on Jim Clark, who ended up wet-nursing three different IT start-ups (Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon).
Like his fellow Princeton New New Journalism master, John McPhee, Michael Lewis does a phenomenal job of finding and fleshing out the exact right person to serve as the locus for an even bigger story. This book is nominally focused on Jim Clark, but really is about the technology bubble of the late 1990s. Jim Clark just happens to be a near perfect example of the best and worst of that particular place and time in America's economy.
Not my favorite Lewis. Not because it isn't well written, but mainly subject matter. I'm more of a value man (Graham & Dodd), not a kamikaze investor. The whole idea of the New New thing is both interesting and a bit repellant to me. I love disruptive businesses, but I'm just not a fan of the smoke and mirrors of the early parts of these businesses.
"Desperately in need of editing; painful narration"
Michael Lewis is a great author and I've enjoyed many of his books - both traditional and audible formats. This book doesn't seem to have the characteristic voice and insights of Lewis, perhaps reflecting the influence of Reizen.
I'm a big fan of this non-fiction genre.
The narrator attempts to give voices/accents to the individual characters in the story. The result is distracting and irritating. For example, his attempt to embody the Indian characters sounds half-way Irish and all the way irritating. I almost stopped listening to avoid being subjected to any more of this narration.
The book itself is too long, punctuated by long descriptions of scenes of minute conversations or details that simply don't sufficiently add to the story to justify inclusion. I would edit the book by 20%. I would also replace the narration.
If you are a fan of Michael Lewis and looking for a book that reflects his quality of writing and insight, skip this one.
"An adequate story with an overzealous narrator..."
The story of Jim Clark is very interesting, but it's hard to make an entire book on his effect on Silicon Valley, as well as differentiate how his interaction with Venture Capitalists is different than Google's or shaped a path that simply wasn't available previously. Michael Lewis does his best though, and it would make for a fun listen if not for a narrator that feels it's necessary to "perform" every character uniquely. The choices for accents and tones proves extremely distracting from the story, and affects the listeners appreciation of Michael Lewis' work.
I love listening to audiobooks! Not just audiobooks but any auditory spoken-word artform. Favorites include: 'Gunsmoke', 'Paul Harvey', etc.
"Poor narration, Great Story"
Love Michael Lewis and he delivers a very interesting story of the why and what of when Silicon Valley gave birth to the Internet Economy through Jim Clark. Absolutely fascinating.
Only problem with this audio book is the narrator. He reads way too fast, is too monotone and towards the end, loses his voice so the reading sounds gravelly in a less-comprehensible rather than cool way. He also attempts to ethnically sound like the characters and he does this rather comically. For example, for the Indian programmers he tries to imitate he comes off as a southern hick trying to imitate a heavily accented and stereotyped Indian. The imitation is both comical and insulting. If this book had a decent narrator, it would so much better.
"Not as good as his Wall Street books. "
I enjoyed Flash Boys and The Big Short. Those stories had me looking forward to each commute to find out what happened next. I grew tired the repetitive description of the protagonist's personality by the middle of the book but hung on hoping you would get better. The voice talent was amazing however and kept my interest.
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"Not as interesting as I had hoped"
I read both of Steve Jobs's biography's as well as several nonfictional books about the financial crisis and the world of investment banking. So I thought this book might fit right into this type of category book: new economy, new technology and one genius creative mind.
Well, given these expectations, it was a bit anti-climactic. I simply couldn't care for the main character this book focusses on, nor his interests (boat-boat-boat). I didn't feel I got to know him at all through this book, it was as if I could only look at him from afar, or through a window.
The book kept its distance, and I guess therefore it's no surprise I almost immediately forgot its contents after finishing it, that's how very little impact it made.
"seeing story about an awesome guy"
I wish it right keep going! cool story. still relevant today. Clark was an animal :)
I've read many of Michael Lewis' books and was captivated with the others but this one fell flat. He spends WAY too much time talking about Jim Clark's boat. Also, I'm pretty sure he made a bet with someone that he could use the word "grope" a thousand times in a book - spoiler alert: he won the bet.
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[Federal Register: May 29, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 103)]
[Page 32126-32127]
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Finding of Exception Pursuant to Section 501(f) of the Mine Act
AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is granting an exception to certain mandatory safety standards to the Mathies Mine pursuant to section 501(f) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act).
DATES: This notice is effective upon publication in the Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ray McKinney, Administrator for Coal Mine Safety and Health, 1100 Wilson Blvd., Room 2424, Arlington, Virginia 22209-3939; phone: 202-693-9502; fax: 202-693-9501; E-mail: email@example.com.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is granting to the Mathies Mine in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania an exception to certain mandatory safety standards for the purpose of allowing researchers from Carnegie Mellon University to conduct an experiment by testing a self-propelled, robot device in the mine. This exception is granted pursuant to section 501(f) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act).
Section 501(f) of the Mine Act states that:
The Secretary is authorized to grant on a mine-by-mine basis an exception to any mandatory health or safety standard under this Act for the purpose of permitting, under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, accredited educational institutions the opportunity for experimenting with new and improved techniques and equipment to improve the health and safety of miners. No such exception shall be granted unless the Secretary finds that the granting of the exception will not adversely affect the health and safety of miners and publishes his findings.
The robot device, known as ``Groundhog,'' will conduct an exploratory underground survey of a haulageway through a section of the Mathies Mine which has been unoccupied and in non-producing status for one year. The haulageway consists of two naturally ventilated passages from the storage yard to the preparation plant. Groundhog will start its exploration at the storage yard portal, pass through the entire length of the haulageway, and emerge at the preparation plant portal. During the course of this experiment, no miners or any other personnel will enter the non-producing mine.
This experiment demonstrates new techniques and equipment which will improve the health and safety of miners by mapping unknown mine areas without endangering miners. Mathies Mine submitted a plan to MSHA which governs all phases of the experiment at the mine. This grant of exceptions to mandatory safety standards is based on MSHA's approval of the terms and conditions in that plan. A copy of the plan may be obtained from MSHA at the address noted above. MSHA finds that the granting of this exception to underground coal mine safety standards will not adversely affect the health and safety of miners. Mathies Mine is therefore granted an exception to all safety standards for underground coal mines governing mine ventilation, mine examinations, and electric equipment (30 CFR subparts D and F) for the duration of the experiment.
Dated: May 23, 2003.
Dave D. Lauriski,
Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 03-13529 Filed 5-28-03; 8:45 am]


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Queensland residents today win the right to bill neighbours up to $300 for the cost of cutting overhanging tree branches.
The new neighbourhood disputes law, which takes effect this morning, is designed to clear up the process for dealing with fence and tree issues.
But the opposition last night warned the changes would put extra pressure on the tribunal in charge of resolving disputes, after the body recently called for more funding so it could do its job properly.
The new Neighbourhood Disputes Resolution Act replaces the 60-year-old Dividing Fences Act, providing "more effective remedies" to resolve disputes about dividing fences and trees.
The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, rather than the courts, will be responsible for dealing with tree and fence disputes that get out of hand.
Under the laws, a person can issue a notice to a neighbour whose tree has branches hanging more than 50 centimetres over the boundary and less than 2.5 metres above the ground, with the tree-keeper urged to cut them within 30 days.
If the tree-keeper does not respond to the notice and does not cut the branches, the neighbour can call a tree lopper to chop the overhanging limbs, or do it themselves, and then recover up to $300 from the owner in "reasonable expenses".
No more than $300 a year can be claimed through this notice process.
More serious cases can be heard by the tribunal. QCAT can now decide on disputes over trees when it is claimed a neighbour's land is affected.
Land is deemed to be affected if the overhanging tree could cause within the next year serious injury or damage, or unreasonably interfere with the neighbour's use and enjoyment of the land.
This may include interference with television or satellite reception but not small amounts of flowers and fruit falling to the ground.
Attorney-General Paul Lucas said Queensland previously had no legislation covering backyard trees so people had to pursue disputes through the courts.
Mr Lucas said the new legislation also updated the old fence law, featuring a clear definition of a sufficient dividing fence and how the cost should be split.
"These modern laws clearly spell out neighbours' obligations in relation to fences and trees to better reflect a 'fair go' all round," he said in a statement.
"[However] first and foremost, we want to see neighbours communicating with each other about these matters and trying to reach a resolution."
Shadow Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie backed the new laws, but raised concern some people may be ripped off because tree loppers knew they could quote up to $300 for reimbursement.
Mr Bleijie said QCAT could face a big increase in its workload due to the new law, at a time when it was warning about the need for more government funding.
"I can tell you, through my office, people are writing and ringing every week saying, 'When does it [the neighbourhood dispute law] start?'" he said.
"It will place an extraordinary burden on QCAT."
QCAT – created in late 2009 to replace a raft of Queensland tribunals – already handles building and tenancy disputes, discrimination claims and challenges against government agency decisions, along with many other matters.
In an annual report released last month, QCAT said it was bracing for the introduction of the new neighbourhood dispute resolution law.
QCAT executive director Mary Shortland said the law's commencement would pose a challenge to the organisation, which would look for ways to manage demand.
QCAT's president, Justice Alan Wilson, also argued the organisation's ability to function effectively had "nearly reached its limits" and it needed to be funded adequately.
Justice Wilson said he was concerned QCAT would have to reduce the speed with which it ran hearings and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, given the financial constraints.
"The concerted efforts of members and staff to do their very best with existing financial resources cannot overcome the fact that the tribunal lacks sufficient funding to perform its operations as well as it might," he wrote.
QCAT received $15.7 million in government funding last financial year, plus $3 million in application fees and other user charges. Its operating costs were $18.8 million.
It is understood QCAT has been allocated $15.9 million in government funding for the current financial year, slightly more than last year.
Mr Lucas said last month the government had "provided increased funds" to QCAT and would monitor how the new neighbourhood dispute resolution laws operate over time.
"However, they're designed to reduce, not increase, disputes between people and to avoid, as far as possible, court proceedings," he said.
The disputes law applies to trees in urban areas but there are some exceptions, including when a block backs onto a public park.
More details can be found at www.neighbourhooddisputes.qld.gov.au.
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I want to be an officer, but I must be able to do a minimum of 21 pushups to pass my test. I'm getting under the muscle mentor gummy bear implants this weekend. How long until I can start training for my physical exam? Any advice? Risks?
When Can I Do Push Ups and Sit Ups with Breast Implants?
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Post operative exercise.
I usually have my patients wait about 6 weeks before doing anything strenuous with their core. And I always warn them that if their implants are under the muscle, upper body work including pushups will feel weird but that they will get used to it. Also, I warn my patients to start our slowly and not push too hard.
I operate on a lot of very fit patients and this time off from heavy workouts can be very challenging for them. I encourage my patients to walk, walk and walk. It's hard to hurt anything by walking and walking gets a little bit of the endorphins going in most of my patients.
Learn more: http://www.sowdermd.com/blog/when-can-i-wear-my-flak-jacket-after-breast-augmentation/
Push ups after breast augmentation.
I tell my patients to avoid such strenuous exercise for 6 weeks postop, then to begin cautiously. Remember to listen to your body: if it hurts, throbs, or swells, stop for a while and slow down, then try try again carefully.
Activity after breast augmentation
I generally recommend no heavy lifting or strenuous activity for 3-4 weeks after breast augmentation surgery. After 4 weeks, you can resume activity as tolerated gradually. Hope this helps.
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Push-ups after breast implants / Ejercicio tras aumento mamario
Thank you for your question. I usually restrict elevating the arms above the shoulders for 2 weeks, starting there progressive physical activity. Since you are getting submuscular implants, I usually restrict pectoral exercises (push-ups) for at least 6-8 weeks depending on the case. Consult your board certified plastic surgeon to get a final opinion.
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Gracias por su pregunta. Generalmente limito los movimientos de los brazos por encima de los hombros por 2 semanas, momento en el que se inicia actividad física progresiva. Como en su caso se colocaran implantes submusculares, en esos casos se limitan los movimientos intensos sobre los músculos (como las pechadas) por al menos 6-8 semanas, dependiendo el caso. Consulte su cirujano plástico certificado, pero obtener una respuesta final.
In our practice we like to tell our patients to wait 8 weeks before continuing your normal workout activities. In regards to advice, listen very carefully to your Post -op instructions from your surgeon do as they say. Good luck
Strenuous Exercise After Breast Augmentation
While I don't place my breast augmentation patients on any restrictions from normal activities after breast augmentation, strenuous physical activity should wait a few weeks. You will probably feel comfortable doing pushups again at three to four weeks after surgery.
Learn more: http://www.eppleybreastaugmentation.com
Exercising after breast augmentation
Although recommendations vary from surgeon to surgeon, I advise my patients not to engage in any strenuous physical activity for at least 4 weeks after surgery. In addition, it is important to start training back at a beginner's level and not the level you left off at before surgery. This may seem like a long time but it is really important not to do too much too soon in order to ensure your best possible results. Be sure to keep in touch with your surgeon's office after surgery, attend all post operative visits and follow the post operative instructions provided to you.
Exercise and breast implant surgery
Of course, you should check with your surgeon, but I usually tell my patients that exertion like push-ups or weight lifting should wait about 6-8 weeks. Light aerobics I allow them to start at 3-4 weeks.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Sillof's Workshop brings us Faster, Empire! Strike! Strike!
I've sung the praises of Sillof's Workshop before. He's back with a hilarious commission from comedian Patton Oswalt: a Russ Meyer take on Star Wars. As Wikipedia explains, "Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!."
Can you pick out the Star Wars characters in the picture above? If you're stumped, or even if you're not, follow the link for more.
Sillof's Workshop: Faster, Empire! Strike! Strike!
I've just discovered Patton Oswalt's blog entry explaining his admiration for Sillof (which I have shared for some time now). It's a lovely piece of writing and a fitting tribute to Sillof, who is clearly more than just a guy who's good with his hands. It is also a nice little memorial to film critic Roger Ebert. From Oswalt's post:
What's bittersweet about the whole thing is, Roger Ebert never got to see these. I turned him on to Sillof's site last year. He especially loved the Noir Wars figures.
And I sent him the title logo of this set as a tease just a few months ago. As someone who'd worked with Russ Meyer (Ebert was going to write the collaboration between Meyer and the fucking Sex Pistols, fer chrissakes) he was more than intrigued. But I never rush an artist, whether they're going a poster or album cover or especially something like this.
By the way, I too love Siloff's Noir Wars. See my post from August 2011.


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It's been nearly 10 years since department store heir and scion R.J. Jordan was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his wife Kaithlin, whose body has never been found. Now as Jordan sits on Death Row, counting down the weeks to his execution, a staggering discovery on Miami Beach is about to give him a second lease on life….
Ace crime reporter Britt Montero, responding to a radio transmission overheard at police headquarters, is among the first on the scene when the floater washes up-young, blonde, beautiful, wearing nothing more than a single Tiffany earring and a diamond wedding ring. There's evidence of a struggle, but not much more to go on, until a standard fingerprint check tells a different tale.
For this is no ordinary floater. In fact, this floater is about to make front page headlines-just like she did when she was murdered by her playboy husband almost a decade ago. Because this floater is none other than Kaithlin Jordan, and it's clear that's she's been very much alive and living the good life, at least until the waves washed in her body just a few short days ago.
But what brought this mysterious woman back to Miami, with all of its notoriety, heartaches and broken dreams? And why, after so many years of hiding, would Kaithlin risk it all to return to a city where so many people would remember her face and her name?
For Britt Montero, the answers to those questions will reveal a story far sadder than the torrid tales of infidelity and domestic violence that cost Kaithlin's husband 10 years of the hardest kind of time. Too bad the truth won't be easy to find. Because in a city where money talks, and "don't ask, don't tell" is the rule of the game, Britt's getting nowhere fast, although the answers are closer than she ever imagined.
One thing's certain. When it comes to the tragic life and death of Kaithlin Jordan, everyone who knew her has something to hide: the exonerated husband who swore all along that he didn't kill her; his socialite mother, who hated Kaithlin for ruining the lives of her husband and her son; the down-on-his-luck lawyer whose newfound fortune is inextricably tied to Kaithlin's demise; and even Britt's mother, who knew Kaithlin well as a young girl and then as a young bride. But for all of their secrets, do any of them really know what happened to Kaithlin since the day she disappeared, or who'd want to kill her-the second time?
In You Only Die Twice, seventh in a series of acclaimed Britt Montero mysteries, Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter Edna Buchanan brings back her alter ego in a modern-day interpretation of Double Indemnity that will keep readers guessing until the last page is turned.


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Valley couple launch DocumentTrunk
DocumentTrunk, a digital database that proactively communicates while safely storing consumer's most precious life documents, announced its launch, Thursday, and is now available to the public. DocumentTrunk's web-based program is a long-term solution to secure and store consumer's estate planning documents to reduce the common risks, fraudulent activity and challenges associated with the last wishes… Read More →
Fennemore Craig elects 3 Phoenix directors
Fennemore Craig, a law firm, announced the promotion of Kevin Green, Stacie Smith, and Stephanie Tribe to Director in the firm's Phoenix office. "It is an honor to welcome Kevin, Stacie and Stephanie as directors and owners of the firm," said Steve Good, managing partner of Fennemore Craig. "Their promotion is well-deserved and is a… Read More →
Quarles & Brady Adds Dana Law Firm to Practice
The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that Matt Dana, a premier estate planning attorney in Scottsdale, will be joining the firm on November 1, along with two associates and two paralegals on his team. Their affiliation with Quarles & Brady will build on the work of Quarles & Brady attorney… Read More →
Expert offers advice on estate planning
Hope Leibsohn is an estate and tax planning attorney with Sherman & Howard. She has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of estate planning involving wills, trusts, charitable techniques, estate freezes, and other sophisticated wealth transfer strategies. Az Business got Leibsohn's views on estate planning. Az Business: Who should have an estate… Read More →
Szkatulski Joins Sherman & Howard's Scottsdale Office
Sherman & Howard L.L.C. announced the addition of Jennifer Szkatulski to its Scottsdale office. Jennifer, who has practiced at the firm as a consultant since 2012, will join the firm's estate planning group as an associate. Sherman & Howard's estate and tax planning attorneys work with high net worth individuals, families, business owners, entrepreneurs and… Read More →
Louis Silverman, Kristel Patton Merge Practices
Valley attorneys Louis Silverman and Kristel Patton, both members of Wealth Counsel, who have co-presented many financial workshops on estate planning during the past several years, have formed a business partnership that merges their practices. Silverman Patton, PLLC is operating out of offices at 3231 S. Country Club Way, Suite 101 in Tempe, which originally… Read More →
Identity Thieves Targeting the Deceased: Plan Now
Identity theft is always a difficult and frustrating situation and could take many years to repair the damage done to one's credit. However, today millions of Americans are being haunted with an even more disturbing situation: learning that a criminal is using the identity of a deceased loved one to apply for credit. An ID… Read More →
Ryley Carlock Expands Corporate Practice in Phoenix
Ryley Carlock & Applewhite has added Amber D. Curto as an associate in the firm's Estate Planning and Corporate Practice Groups. "Ryley Carlock is committed to the recruitment of young talented attorneys like Amber, who can assist our shareholders in finding the best possible solutions for our clients," stated Managing Shareholder Rodolfo Parga. "Amber brings… Read More →
JacksonWhite Names First Female Shareholder
JacksonWhite P.C. announced that attorney Susan Court was made a shareholder of the firm. Court joins 12 other attorneys at JacksonWhite who share the distinction of shareholder. Court joined JacksonWhite in 2005 and focuses her practice on elder law, probate, guardianships, conservatorships, and estate planning. Court assists clients with end-of-life issues including incapacity, mental illness… Read More →
Morris, Hall and Kinghorn marks milestone
Morris, Hall and Kinghorn PLLC was honored at the annual Spring Summit hosted by the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys. This April's conference in Philadelphia, PA was especially meaningful, both for the Academy and for MHK. The conference marked both the 20th Anniversary of the Academy, and MHK's proud affiliation as members of the… Read More →
Wanslee Elected to Gust Rosenfeld Executive Committee
Gust Rosenfeld announced that Madeleine C. Wanslee has been elected to its Executive Committee, the governing body of the firm. Wanslee is Co-Chair of the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights Practice Group. Her practice focuses on creditors' rights and related state and federal court litigation, including commercial and consumer bankruptcy, loan workouts, foreclosure, deficiency… Read More →
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Enterprise University, an educational program offered by Enterprise Bank & Trust, will continue its Spring 2013 courses with an April 2 class on "Personal Fiscal Fitness: The Critical Components of a Financial Plan." The morning workshop includes a continental breakfast and will focus on wealth accumulation, retirement funding, estate planning and ensuring financial goals are… Read More →
Estate planning firm names managing partner
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The law firm of Jaburg & Wilk, P.C. announced that Michelle M. Lauer joined the firm as an Associate to assist with Special Needs Trust Matters, Elder Law and Insurance Defense. Lauer has accumulated over fourteen years in the legal industry gaining experience in Commercial Litigation, Probate, Adult Guardianships, Estate Planning, Utilities, and Appellate. "We are… Read More →


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Giant fossil sloths, microscopic pollens in amber, fragile pottery sherds, and ancient meteorites—for 100 years the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has provided a home for objects like these, along with the curators, research labs, storage areas, and exhibitions necessary to study and display them.
Since our doors first opened in 1910, the Museum has inspired curiosity and learning about the natural world and our place in it. Building upon our extensive collections, we have been at the forefront of scientific exploration and research, as well as groundbreaking public exhibitions and education.
Visitors to this temporary photographic exhibition opening May 29, 2010 can explore the Museum's history through documentary photographs of important milestones—from laying the cornerstone for the building to modern DNA and genomic research. The photographs capture the incredible diversity of science research and education at the Museum.
Explore our history and share your voice in contributing to our vision for the century ahead as we help solve the problems of global warming, habitat loss, and changing societies.
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If Old Media can cook their numbers to make their favored candidate look good, they will.
Earlier today, I covered two cooked AP-GfK polls (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog). The pollster dramatically changed the party-ID makeup of the second poll to include a much higher percentage of Democrats, and watered down the strong-GOP component of the Republicans sampled. As a result, the two poll results, taken together, fabricated an illusion of Barack Obama momentum, and John McCain decline. The results couldn't be more bogus; holding the mix constant from one poll to the next would have caused John McCain's lead from three weeks ago to shrink by about 1%.
Its also seems that if Old Media can't use a poll to fabricate its way to the result it wants, it simply ignores it. Two examples from the same poll will demonstrate this.
On Wednesday, NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock noted that ABC ignored its own national poll conducted with the Washington Post that showed a 4% national edge for Barack Obama -- down from 9% the previous week.
Yesterday, the Washington Post's Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta didn't totally ignore the poll (full results are here). Like ABC, they ignored the topside result just mentioned, which is pictured below:
Instead, the two reporters focused on questions that emphasized potential negatives relating to McCain's vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin:
With the vice presidential candidates set to square off today in their only scheduled debate, public assessments of Sarah Palin's readiness have plummeted, and she may now be a drag on the Republican ticket among key voter groups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Though she initially transformed the race with her energizing presence and a fiery convention speech, Palin is now a much less positive force: Six in 10 voters see her as lacking the experience to be an effective president, and a third are now less likely to vote for McCain because of her.
A month ago, voters rated Palin as highly as they did McCain or his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, but after weeks of intensive coverage and several perceived missteps, the shine has diminished.
Cohen and Agiesta wrote over 1,100 words, yet never named a single "perceived misstep," let alone "several." That also seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that the Alaska Governor has committed no real missteps. Naming the ones that are "perceived" would be embarrassing -- not to Ms. Palin, but to the reporters and the Old Media establishment they represent. Just take your pick from Charles Martin's accumulated list of myths and rumors, now up to 97 (the first 85 are here; scroll through his content or search on each relevant number to find the rest), and you'll see what I mean.
Here's an obvious question: If Palin's alleged negatives on experience and readiness are such a "drag," why did Obama's lead over McCain get cut by over half in one week in that very same poll? The crosstabs, which are fairly consistent between the two polls, don't appear to explain McCain's improvement. Logically, whatever caused McCain to gain has to be a more important factor than the negative items relating to Palin that the WaPo reporters chose to dwell on.
No wonder Mr. Cohen and Ms. Agiesta ignored their own poll's overall result.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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She had a wholesome, down-to-earth screen presence, and for three or four years, young audiences made the onetime preteen model a pop phenomenon.
Her most popular films are frequently televised, but not all of her memorable movies are available on DVD. They show a career that, though short-lived, left its mark on popular culture.
The former Alexandra Zuck had her breakthrough role in Vincente Minnelli's The Reluctant Debutante (1958), which is not on DVD. Nor is A Summer Place, a box office powerhouse in 1959 that co-starred the late Troy Donahue. It was one of the first movies to hint to teens that it might be OK to have sex.
Dee enjoyed her peak year in movies in '59, with A Summer Place, the classy soaper Imitation of Life and the role with which she was most identified, the lead in Gidget. Last year's Riding Giants surfing documentary credited Dee and the movie with the explosion of surf culture in the early 1960s.
Dee married co-star Bobby Darin in 1960 when she was just 16. By the time they divorced in 1967, her screen career was basically over at age 22. Other actresses took the Gidget role sequels, and Dee set off no pop-cultural explosions taking over the "Tammy" role from Debbie Reynolds. Her image was so youthful that producers balked at casting her as a grown-up.
Besides Gidget, Dee's other wavemakers on DVD include:
•Imitation of Life, a smash from master tear-jerker Douglas Sirk.
• 1961's underrated Come September, the comedy where she met Darin (he memorably sings Multiplication to her).
Dee isn't in 1978's on-DVD Grease, but Stockard Channing and Olivia Newton-John channel her to sing Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee.


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