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Apple's WWDC keynote saw a host of new products and info; here's a quick review of the high points, culled from some trusty live-keynoting services from MacRumors, MacWorld, and Endgadget.
The keynote with a swipe at MS, with John Hodgman's PC character begging for fresh ideas. It began with a fun graph of OS X's exponential growth -- and that includes the iPhone, of course, because it runs OS X. The meat of the keynote started with Macs, though -- and if these things run in order of increasing excitement, then that's quite a sign of where computers fall into the hierarchy these days.
New improved laptops
Even so, they're enthusiastic about notebooks -- that's what most new Mac users choose -- and introduced a new 15" Macbook Pro. Improved battery life was emphasized: 7 hours claimed, with over five years (1,000 charges) of use possible before performance degradation started in. There's also a new, improved display and a built-in SD slot, because people like fiddling with little memory cards better than they life fiddling with USB cables, I guess. Oh, and, hey, 3 GHz chip, 8 GB of RAM, 500 GB hard drive -- personally, I would have showcased that before the SD slot, but I am not Apple marketing. And it starts cheaper, at $1,699 (though we'll have to fiddle with the now-down Apple Store before we learn just what the specs are at that intro price). 17" model has been boosted too, and both are available today.
But wait! 13" Unibody MacBooks got similar boosts, backlit keyboard, improved battery ... and a promotion in name to MacBook Pro as well, and a starting price of $1,199 (less than what I paid for my white plastic Macbook less than a year ago, cue tiny Mac nerd violin for the passage of time.) This leaves, I think, the plastic MacBook as the sole member of the MacBook line, which I guess makes the segmentation clearer. As was noted, this computer got a unheralded spec boost this month.
The Air also got an upgrade -- and, perhaps more intriguingly, a downgrade in price. The entry-level Air now checks in at $1,499 -- not netbook cheap to be sure, but perhaps more enticing for someone balancing specs and form factor (the Air currently tops out at a 2.13 GHz chip).
From notebooks our team segued to OS X, and Schiller gave the stage to Bertrand Serlet. His presentation began with some smack-talk about Vista and Windows 7, before announcing that Exchange support will be built into Snow Leopard. This is both (a) not news (if it hadn't been announced officially, it's been rumored for some time) and (b) not exactly jibing with the "Microsoft is dying" meme, but it's still nice.
Snow Leopard was billed as having 90 percent of its core components "refined"; the Finder is finally Cocoa, for instance. Despite the fact that this update has always been billed as an under-the-hood improvement, there are some UI tweaks -- Expose built right into the Dock, for instance, as you can click and hold an application icon to highlight its windows, Expose style. (I don't even use Expose and I can tell you that I will make heavy use of that feature.) Preview is faster; Mail is faster; Safari 4 is out today, for the last three OS Xes, though it gets extra features in Snow Leopard.
Included in those features is access to new improved Quicktime. As we've seen in screenshots from the beta, the new emphasis is on the content, rather than the Quicktime app. You can use Quicktime to trim and share video video via YouTube, MobileMe, or iTunes. (I'm assuming the QuickTime Pro distinction is don?) Safari on Snow Leopard also sees a radical improvement in JavaScript performance. (Could it woo me back from Firefox? Hmm, future blog post idea...) The Finder will also see improvements: Stacks allow more drilling-down; you can magnify thumbnails on the fly and skip through multi-page documents right in the Finder. Expose now allows you to work within documents while Expose is still active.
After this dog and pony show of new features, though, came the nutritious vegetables (was that metaphor terribly mixed?) of foundation improvements. In essence, Bertrand soft of admitted that the software hasn't kept up with the improvements to the hardware, what with universally 64-bit multicore chips and a the increased RAM capacities that come with them. Now, under Snow Leopard, all "major" system apps run in 64-bit mode.
Then there's there's Grand Central Station, an OS component that fields out processing to the various cores and chips inside your Mac. It also controls the number of threads spawned -- Mail, for instance, uses the same number of threads when idle that it does when active under Leopard, but under Snow Leopard will use fewer threads when it isn't busy.
Oh, yeah, and remember that thing about Exchange? Yeah, that's now built into the suspects you'd suspect: iCal, Address Book, and Mail. (Is this the death knell for Entourage?) Meeting invitations appear in your in-box; you can accept it in Mail or open it in iCal.
So, how much will all this cost you? Well, good news if you're a long-suffering always-OS-upgrading type: it will only be a $29 upgrade from Leopard. Oh, and bad news if you're clinging to that old G4 or G5: because Snow Leopard so focused on taking advantage of the last few years of hardware improvements, it's only available for Intel Macs (though it will work on all Intel Macs). Sadly for everyone (including me!) who found themselves getting unexpectedly excited during that litany, it won't be ready until September.
iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3GS
And that's pretty much it, right? Oh, wait, there's some kind of cell phone thingie Apple's selling now, let's hear about that. This segment began with some numbers fluffery (50,000 apps in the store! 1,000,000 SDK downloads! 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod Touches sold! 1,000,000,000 apps downloaded! Etc.!), and then a short film with teary-eyed developers talking about how awesome the platform is to build for, and how much money they're making and how awesome that is. (I tease, but this conference is for developers after all, so I suppose they need some ego boosting.)
Then we moved on to iPhone OS 3.0, whose features, including the much heralded copy and paste, were trotted out again (remember, there was a previous event that covered this). Some anxious laughter came when MMS was announced for AT&T "at the end of the summer." Spotlight for the iPhone will be right there on the home page. You'll now also be able to rent and purchase movies right from the phone.
Perhaps of more interest to the very geeky is tethering: the ability to share the iPhone's 3G connection with your computer. We all know that this has been technically possible for years, but now it's official, and it's available based on carrier support -- and guess which carrier isn't on the list? Ha ha, AT&T, obviously! The mostly American audience was not pleased, not pleased even a little. That was the second time during the keynote at which Apple conspicuously failed to cover for AT&T lagging behind, feature-wise -- when is that exclusive contract going to end, hmm?
MobileMe customers will be able to obsessively track their iPhones with something called "Find My iPhone," which shows where your phone is on a map, and, if you've lost it in your house, will send a message telling it to make a little chirp, even if it's been set to vibrate. You can also send it a remote wipe command, and can restore it later from backup.
There was more coverage of the stuff we already knew would be in the next iPhone OS version: push notifications, embedded Google Maps, turn-by-turn direction apps (Tom-Tom demoed one that looked particularly impressive), in-app purchasable content (though you'll only be able to use that in paid apps, apparently). Some iPhone 3.0 apps were shown, including impressive medical apps that allowed you to monitor a patient's vital signs remotely.
iPhone 3.0 will be available to the world in 11 days, on June 19th -- free for all current iPhone users, $9.99 for iPod Touch users. Developers get the Gold Master seed today, to double-check their apps before the go-live date.
And for hardware? Yes, the iPhone 3GS is quite real, my friends. The outside looks basically like the current model, but the inside is totally revamped -- processing speed is much faster, and it works with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. It also has a 3 megapixel autofocus camera (Schiller noted slyly that Flickr has more pics taken by iPhones than any other phone). You can just tap on the screen to focus the camera, which is pretty slick -- and, as rumored, it works as a video camera as well -- 30 frames per second VGA. You can edit videos right on the phone, and share it via YouTube, Mobile Me, MMS, or e-mail.
There are also some neat voice command capabilities -- you can just say "call John Smith" to call him, ask what song is playing currently, ask to play "more songs like this" (I'm guessing this works with the Genius). Voice control seems to be 3GS-specific, which is too bad -- after all, Google's iPhone app showed that you can do some voice control with the current hardware. And yes, that rumored compass is there too. You can also encrypt data, which is something businesses have been asking for.
As with the notebooks, there are promises of improved battery life: 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 5 hours of 3G talk, 9 hours of Internet surfing. It ships on June 19th with iPhone 3.0 at $199 for 16 GB of storage and $299 for 32 GB, in the US. And the existing iPhone 3G will still be available for $99 (THERE IS YOUR $99 IPHONE O MANY ANALYSTS WHO HAVE DEMANDED IT! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?).
And that was it. No "one more thing", but still pretty satisfying, no? Of course, there are those who will never be satisfied. Feel free to air your grievances or cult-like rapturous ravings in the comments!


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Fabio Gabrielli has under his belt various publications of essays and pubblications on several specialized Reviews in the field of anthropology, biology, medicine and the studies on consciousness.
At present, his research is focused on the biological and anthropological-cultural bases of depression, on the quantum and philosophical approaches to mental phenomena, existential dynamics of the disease and treatment.
He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Quantum Paradigms of Psychopathology (QPP) and of the Scientific Committee of the "Paolo Sotgiu" Research Institute for Psychiatry and Quantum and Evolutionary Cardiology.
Provided that we are characterized by what Bauman (1) calls pointillist time, a time with no cohesion, direction, telos, wrapped up in itself, capable of expressing only the immediate satisfaction, the eternity of the instant; we can't any longer organize our existence in a long-term project, but in the framework of the hurried culture, of the voracious consumption, according to Bertman (2).
So, Eriksen's (3) tyranny of the moment takes shape: "The consequences of this terrible haste are devastating; the past and the future seen as mental categories are threatened by the tyranny of the moment […]. In fact, the threat even concerns "here and now", since the following moment comes so quickly that living the present becomes difficult".
In a word, we have got used to a non-genuine restlessness, completely different from the Augustinian or Pascalian one, linked to the original desire to fulfil our human contingency, only fed by a forced, spasmodic tendency to frantically consume every product, almost vampirizing it, in order not to be excluded from the market, that is to say from the supreme ruler which establishes who belongs to the community and who doesn't.
A kind of restlessness that is really similar to the one depicted in this clear passage by Maria Zambrano (4): "A restlessness that is not that of the past, when life was full of adventures, since it is a restlessness we endure, that makes us feel like prisoners. It is a restlessness that comes from the outside, not a liberating activity that originates from the inside. The most degrading thing for a human being consists of being carried away, swept along as if he had hardly any option or it was hardly possible to choose, as if he couldn't take any decision because someone else, without even asking, is deciding in his place. This passivity manifests itself in the form of the worst loneliness. Not only we feel anxious, but we also feel subdued to an "unceasing loneliness". But loneliness is just like restlessness: loneliness is part of daily life; it is in the background of human life. And yet, the loneliness in a period of crisis is very different from the loneliness experienced by a bright man, since it is not caused by an increased lucidity and it can even imply an increased confusion. It is a loneliness caused by the restlessness, for we can't be sure of anything. We find ourselves alone because we are restless and confused."
The man of the crisis, devoted to the productivity, the efficiency, the functionality and the market, is restless, since the existential field of the "technological" possibilities he has is so wide that it generates powerlessness and dismay.
Obviously, you can't renounce anything if you want to stay in the fictitious community created by the Market, and at the same time, you feel anxious because, on the one hand it is structurally impossible to choose, the choice being denied in the name of all or nothing, and on the other hand the search for "something more", compared with the certainty of what you possess, is risky and therefore it could unhinge that very same certainty, in a wicked, vicious circle.
Anyway, a sort of turboconsumerism is prevalent and it has produced a progressive and radical oblivion for limits, temperance or sobriety, in other words for that anthropologic dimension in which one can see the existence as the recognition of his own and other people's finitude; an existence expressing economic frugality (5), existential patience and the necessary sedimentation of experiences, projects and love.
A new man originates from the turboconsumerist restlessness, as Aubert (6) says; a man who is always busy, always in a hurry, characterized by an auto-referential, familistic, rocky existence, impenetrable from the outside and impermeable against any emotional intrusion, focused on poor and mere biographic realities, or stuck in the emotional indifference, in which the individual is left behind and feelings are approached in a mean and managerial way.
The new transcendental characteristics of the existence, namely efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and consumption, are embodied by the technique, seen as radical metaphysical expression, as disguised nihilism (7) and they impose a social visibility based on unlimited work performances and eternal individual consumptions.
Those who can't keep up are excluded and the exclusion implies self-denudation, the violation of the body, the social invisibility, which in turn cause the shame that leads to depression (there isn't enough space here to contextualize and dialectically investigate whether the technique is neutral or not and, therefore, whether the man is to blame for the desire of power and the excessive efficiency or it is the technique that establishes not only the means, but also the ends of our actions, influencing ways of life, choices, ethic behaviours and the deeper meanings of history. Concerning this we'd like to recommend two essays: Galimberti's essay (8) about the non- neutrality of the technique, which influences our way of exist in the world, and Nacci's essay (9) dealing with the innocence of the technique, seen as human incorporation and not as a separate entity.
In a world in which the extent of what you can produce and consume tells how much you are worth, questions don't thrive, meaningful alternatives to hypertechnological life are not explored, ethic and existential provocations are not disseminated because, once the original interrogatives that normally harbours the human soul are eradicated, everything becomes standardization and indifference.
So, we can easily understand that a context in which the person is assessed on the basis of the goals he meets, the things he displays, the products he voraciously consumes in the moment, represents a fertile breeding ground for depression, since its genetic predisposition is amplified due to the fact that disposition and emotion, nature and culture, biology and soulology have always been closely intertwined.

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In prior years, most small powered amps featured a watered down version of the features of their higher powered cousins. However, it appears manufacturers have recently (and finally) been catering to those seeking smaller yet full featured amps. The market has been split into low powered Class A tube amps and small modeling amps until now. With the Super Champ XD, Fender has wisely released a hybrid amp crossover offering a 16 voice digital preamp coupled to a 15 watt 6V6 power amp feeding a 10 inch speaker.
The amp features two channels, a "dirty" channel featuring the 16 position voicing selector, volume, and gain knobs and a clean channel (mirroring voicing 4, Blackface clean, from the "dirty" channel) with a single volume knob. The channels share a two band EQ (high and low) and FX section featuring FX select and level knobs. Due to the stripped down controls, the amp captures the blackface vibe perfectly and from a distance you'd never know this wasn't a traditional Fender tube amp. I would've liked to see metal amp corners, but the amp is small and light enough to likely avoid the accidental bumps which happen when transporting larger amps.
The amp's tonal response is mixed. Across the board, the amp has a feel I can only describe as immediate. I switched back and forth between several different amps as I thought I was going crazy but there is a definite quickness to the attack which took a little time to get used to. Perhaps this is due to the inherently faster response of a 10 inch speaker versus 12 inch (all my other amps have 12 inch speakers). Some settings are very dynamic and respond fabulously to the guitar's volume knob while on others it's clear Fender is goosing the preamp with a compressor to emphasize emulated tube sag. So much so that a handful of models reach the maximum usable gain at around 2 with the rest of the dial simply further compressing the tone. That being said, many of tones from the amp are authoritative and accurate capturing the spit and spirit of the original amp's tones.
Clean tones were particularly impressive; the complex Fender chime is here in spades. I was extremely impressed with the ability of the amp to get bright without sounding the least bit harsh.
As you would expect, the majority of modeled tones are of Fender's own amps with settings 1-3 categorized as Tweed, 4-6 Blackface, 10 – 12 Hot Rod, and 15 Jazz King. The Tweed and Blackface settings are pretty nice; like an aural museum of historical Fender tones capturing the much of the character of those classic amps. Clean tones were particularly impressive; the complex Fender chime is here in spades. I was extremely impressed with the ability of the amp to get bright without sounding the least bit harsh. Equally impressive is the dark and smoky Jazz King setting. I didn't like the Hot Rod sounds nearly as well, but that's not surprising as I'm not a huge fan of their real world counterparts either. I was initially worried the lack of a mid range control would hamper the amp's tonal abilities (note that this is similar to the original EQ configuration of the Champ), and my worries were somewhat substantiated. A few of the tones would have been absolutely glorious with a little mid range cut and a bit more oomph in the low end.
Settings 8 and 9 are Fender's take on Marshall tones. While this pint sized amp can't capture the girth of a stack, the tones were workable with a tight but somewhat attenuated low end (especially on the more modern voicing of setting 9) response and nice mid range bark.
The rest of the settings were uninspiring at best. The "bright jangly" (Vox) description they give to setting number 7 is actually pretty nice at higher gain settings but exhibits a very overly compressed tone at lower gain settings. The highest gain modern tone settings are cursed with a fizzy top end and a low end which sounded detached; you'd be far better off with a distortion pedal.
Across the board, I would've liked a bit more thump in the low end. However, I doubt the 10 inch speaker could handle it (note that a large group of dedicated users are subbing out the stock speaker with an Eminence Ragin Cajun and claim much improved performance).
Far less impressive are the effects which seem as if they were added almost as an afterthought with controls so limited they are of little use. Additionally, as only one effect is available at a time the knob stayed on reverb pretty elusively with tremolo being the sole exception. As such, I would have much preferred a traditionally implemented reverb and perhaps tremolo available simultaneously rather than the DSP effects section.
The amp is loud for its diminutive 15 watt rating, but don't expect it to ruffle your pants. Cranked, the amp had some tube and chasis rattle which even further limits it's usage at high volumes. Tones are fairly consistent across its entire volume sweep but loose a little low end headroom and begin to exhibit some power amp breakup with the volume up around 7. While plenty loud for practice and recording purposes, in pretty much any performance scenario you'll need to mic it up.
Fender purposely limited the features of the amp to the bare necessities making the amp is a perfect introduction to those who would like to experiment with the flexibility of amp modeling without all the complex menu driven programming. It will be interesting to see where Fender goes from here…
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Treadle spinning-wheel with metal wheel and drawer in the frame. [SM (Verve) 13/02/2013]
Place details: EUROPE. UK. England North Yorkshire York. Cultural Group: European English Local Name: Unknown. Materials: Wood Plant / Metal / ?Iron Metal / Textile / Glue / Metal / ?. Processes: Inscribed / Carved / ?Cast / Glued / Cast / ?. Dimensions: Max H = 845 mm Diameter of wheel = 200 mm Maker: ?I. Jameson Field Collector: ?Judith Merrivale When Collected: By 1940 Other Owners: Judith Merrivale ?I. Jameson PRM Source: Judith Merrivale Acquired: Donated September 1940 Documentation: See RDF PRM Image: PR 74.L.85; Collections Digital Reference Photo 19/02/2013
KEYWORD: Spinning-wheel / Inscription / CLASS: Textile / Writing / ?.
Object description: Treadle spinning-wheel with metal wheel and drawer in the frame. The object has a small metal wheel at the top. In the frame beneath this is a drawer with a metal handle. The treadle and base of the frame have been covered with textiles which has been glued on. The treadle attaches to the drive wheel with a wooden connecting rod (a footman) [SM (Verve) 13/02/2013]
Accession Book Entry - Miss Judith Merrivale, ... Oxford - Spinning wheel with I. IAMESON OF YORK carved on drawer.
[Geographical] Card Catalogue Entry - exactly as Accession Book
Added [Geographical] Card Catalogue entry - Ref. Baines P 1977 Spinning Wheels p 159 Fig 64
Related Documents File - 'Very unusual wheel (?cast iron) so made because small wheel has no momentum and w'd [would] be difficult to keep turning. This is a "boudoir wheel" so called because ladies kept them in their b'm [bedroom] and retired to pass the time doing a little spinning. Not I think a wheel that w'd [would] have been used to produce serious amounts of spun fibre - more a social affair and an object of fine craftsmanship' [Notes made by Ian Kerr, who makes replica spinning wheels and examined this object on 12 October 2004] [ZM 12/10/2004]
Old Pitt Rivers Museum label - 1940.9.18 Miss Judith Merrivale, ... [see confidential field] [DCF Court Team 20/2/2003]
Display history: This object was previously on display in C.20.B - Spinning Wheels - Europe when the case was redisplayed during VERVE project in 2013. This object was put back on display. [SM (Verve) 04/09/2013]
Publications history, trails & websites: Reproduced in black and white on page 160 of Spinning Wheels: Spinners and Spinning, by Patricia Baines (London: BT Batsford Limited, 1977), where it is captioned ''Boudoir' spinning wheel. late eighteenth entury, made by John Jameson of York; wheel diameter 7 3/4 in. (20 cm).' and on the page 159 described 'A spinning wheel in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection has JOHN JAMESON carved on the inside rim of the drawer. It has a double band drive, unlike those in Bavaria, which provides some evidence that it was probably made here'. [MJD 21/11/2014]
Research notes: Alan Raistrik, independent scholar, examined this object during a research visit for VERVE on 2 April 2013. He made the following comments: This is an upper class wheel, known as a boudoir wheel. The cast iron wheel provides momentum. Probably spins fine thread such as silk or flax. The hooks are small and close together. Manufacturer is likely to be Jameson. [MJD 03/04/2013]
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Since 1975, Lux has been a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Lux is also a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine. A former Guggenheim Fellow and three times a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lux received, in 1995, the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his sixth collection, Split Horizons. His poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.
For a sample of Thomas Lux's work, see his page on Poets.org.
He is reading in the English Department on Monday, October 14th from 12-1 p.m. in #10302 of 5057 Woodward. Events are free and open to the public.
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We love music. We love free stuff. So it stands to reason that Danny de Zaya's One Track Mind has become a daily destination around here. Every day, One Track Mind offers a free, legal MP3 download of a new track from some hot new band or artist, in styles ranging from electronic to indie. Every track is reviewed and rated, so you know what you're getting. And once a month or so, all the tracks get packaged up in an easy-to-download zip file in case you're too lazy or forgetful to visit each day. Plus, there's a monthly podcast. And as if all of this wasn't already an embarrassment of riches, the blog is also beautifully designed.
The zombie zeitgeist is in full swing, spawning hit movies, best-selling novels and immensely profitable video games. Every city worth its salt has an annual zombie crawl, where zombie fans dress up as the undead and walk, en masse, among the unsuspecting populace. Denver, being particularly salty, has one of the biggest zombie crawls in the nation. The event celebrated its fourth year with a huge turnout — some reports put attendance at more than 4,000 zombies — and even those who didn't want to dress up as the walking dead could participate by marking themselves as allowable victims via duct-taped Xs on their clothes. Whether the eaters or the eaten, everyone had a good time, and word is that 2010 is a go for the fifth iteration. Watch your brains.
Documentaries seem to always get the short end of the reel in the film world: Nobody wants to see Food, Inc. when they can see Avatar instead. But docs do make a difference in our world, and although most major film festivals include a documentary segment, there are just a handful of documentary-only film festivals in the country. We have one of them. Last year, the Denver Film Society and Foothills Art Center joined forces to produce the DocuWest Fest, for which festival executive director Reilly Sanborn pulled together short, essay-form and feature-length documentaries. The festival might not have boasted the level of star power and glamour of some other film festivals we could name, but when movies are this intimate, educational and entertaining, who needs Hollywood? Lights, camera, more action!
As bee champs get older, do they keep their fine sense of spell? Find out for yourself at the monthly adult spelling bees hosted as fundraisers by Metro Denver Promotion of Letters, a non-profit teaching organization that provides free writing workshops for kids. Staged every third Thursday at the British Bulldog, 2052 Stout street,these beer-friendly bees are strictly for grownups, and each first-prize winner pockets a Bulldog gift certificate. Stop by and sit for a spell; it costs only five bucks to join in.
Iraqi-born Colorado artist Halim Alkarim is a true virtuoso. He's done gorgeous abstract paintings, stunning installations and, for his Robischon solo, The Witness Archive, hauntingly beautiful portraits in lambda prints on aluminum that are imbued with political content. The son of a critic of Saddam Hussein, Alkarim and his family (including his brother Sami, another gifted Colorado artist) suffered under the regime until they escaped to the United States a few years ago. Although the works in The Witness Archive were based on photos of real people, the resulting pieces look more like examples of digital animation. This is because Alkarim put his models in elaborate latex masks and took the photos using scrims — then retouched the resulting shots. As befits the show's title, these pieces all resonate with the piercing, unblinking eyes of the sitters.
In Big Lots, a powerful — and beautiful — show, Denver artist Wendi Harford presented a range of stylistic approaches, with works anchored by everything from graffiti-like looping lines to rigid stripes. In fact, the only unifying factor was the size of the pieces, since Harford favored monumental over intimate; her taste in color was notable, too. Harford was a protegé of the late Bev Rosen, her mentor at the University of Denver back in the 1970s, and these pieces very subtly referred to Rosen's work. A longtime artist who's kept a fairly low profile, Harford has typically not shown her work in commercial galleries, but that changed when she recently joined the stable at Robischon. We look forward to seeing more.


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How do you guys clean the side panels, near the speaker?
The panels get minor scuffs VERY easily it seems, and there are a few that just wont go away.
i;ve just been using armor all (sp) wipes...what do you guys use to clean the side panels?
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Idaho site completes demolition of
Cold War-era nuclear fuel reprocessing facility
A gravel mound, larger than half a city block and several
feet thick, is the only visible feature that remains at the
site of a Cold War-era spent nuclear fuel reprocessing
facility at the U.S. Department of Energy�s Idaho site.
About $44 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
funds helped Idaho Cleanup Project crews accelerate the
demolition of the facility that during its 40 years of
operation recovered more than $1 billion worth of uranium.
�The ability to retain our highly skilled workforce was a
huge contributor to the success of this project,� said Idaho
Cleanup Project Deputy Manager, Jim Cooper. �It was the
focus, innovation, and dedication of the CWI crews that
allowed us to take the EM Recovery Act funding and really
make a difference in Idaho.�
Crews began decontamination work at the Idaho Nuclear
Technology and Engineering Center�s CPP-601 facility in 2009
by removing asbestos from the interior and exterior shell of
the facility, removing contaminated interior duct work and
piping, grouting void spaces and preparing the structure for
demolition. In late summer 2010, demolition of the outer
structure began with debris removal occurring up until the
fall. Last year, a concrete grout cap was poured over the
area where CPP-601 once stood and this year several feet of
gravel were placed over the area.
CPP-601, a 244 x102-foot, six-level structure, was built
in 1953 and was used for the dissolution, separation and
chemical retrieval of uranium-235 from spent nuclear fuel �
essentially a recycling process. The reprocessing mission at
INTEC was terminated in 1992, following more than four
decades of uranium recovery. Recovered uranium was re-used
as fuel for government reactors for both research and
defense purposes.
The CPP-601 building housed numerous cells used for
processing radioactive materials, with thick, reinforced
concrete walls and shielding material, including lead. The
cells contained hundreds of vessels and miles of piping used
in the chemical processes to recover uranium from different
types of spent fuels.
During its history, CPP-601 processed more than 100
different types of reactor fuels from universities, test
reactors, commercial nuclear power plants and Navy vessels.
�This was a technically challenging project complete with
contaminated equipment and structures, asbestos as well as
numerous other hazards,� said CWI President and CEO Tom
Dieter. �I�m proud of our team for mitigating all hazards
and completing the facility demolition safely and ahead of
The CPP-640 Headend Processing Plant, a 66 x 89-foot
structure where fuel dissolution processes took place until
1984, was also demolished.
Demolishing these legacy buildings saves taxpayers
thousands of dollars a year in surveillance and maintenance
costs, as well as protects workers and the environment.
CH2M-WG Idaho, LLC, (CWI) is a partnership comprised of
CH2MHill and the URS Corporation that directs the Idaho
Cleanup Project at the Department of Energy�s Idaho Site
located 45 miles west of Idaho Falls. The 7-year, $2.9
billion project, funded through the U.S. Department of
Energy�s Office of Environmental Management, focuses on
early risk reduction and protection of the Snake River Plain
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"IT Department has issues"
- Work/Life Balance
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
- Comp & Benefits
- Senior Management
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I worked at CommScope full-time (More than 3 years)
--Mature SAP system with good opportunity to see a number of standard and custom business processes with large volume
--Strong manufacturing planning expertise
--Uskilled people managers in the IT department create a culture that's very closed and that does not value diversity of thought or other diversity in employees. My experience was negative in terms of culture.
Advice to Management
--Clean out your IT house and start again with professional IT folks who actually know how to be people managers as well. There are a ton of great people in the marketplace and you could build on your strengths to create a really great, supportive IT culture.
--"The Business" treats its people well; IT folks are not valued as much - note the large attrition from IT in 2011-2012
I have been working at CommScope full-time (More than 10 years)
Manufacturing excellence, tremendous amount of talented individuals, strong product portfolio with growth potential in many areas, ethical, honest, strong culture but changing from "community" to world class, stability in leadership,
Policies and practices are dated in many aspects, company promotes wireless/mobile lifestyle via products but struggles to realize the importance and benefits of flexible work scheduling, losing life work balance as cost cutting and more with less has and will continue to take its toll on the workforce
Advice to Management
Though issues are not CommScope centric it would be prudent to conduct an employee survey. Not sure what could be done, but people would appreciate being heard and would welcome opportunity to dialogue on issues critical to employees
Helpful (1)
I have been working at CommScope full-time (More than a year)
Great Pay and gracious number of paid Holidays.
Terrible benefits and company is run poorly these days.. Sending all our jobs to China.
Advice to Management
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Date: Thu Apr 10 16:44:22 EDT 2003
The exp-tagged code in CVS for MzScheme and Mred is now version 203.7. This version mainly cleans up some details in the concurrency primitives: * `thread-resume' now installs a transitive resume. That is, `(thread-resume t1 t2)' not only resumes t1 and potentially changes t1's custodian, it also arranges for each future resume of t2 to also resume t1. * Semaphore blocking is now "fair" in the usual sense: If a thread waits on a semaphore that is unblocked arbitrarily often, then the thread is eventually unblocked (no matter how many other threads also wait on the same semaphore). * `object-wait-multiple' now fairly selects among alternatives using psuedo-random numbers. The pseudo-random generator is specified through a new `current-wait-pseudo-random-generator' parameter. As a result, all else being equal, `object-wait-multiple' can be made deterministic by picking a seed for the generator. * Fixed event-handling problems in Windows. For example, under XP, mousing over the task bar now hilites task buttons, and non-roman input methods don't become temporarily wedged when used in DrScheme/MrEd. [This change was actually exp-tagged a few days ago.] * Fixed a crashing problem under OS X when using scroll bars. [This change was actually exp-tagged over a week ago.] * Added `tcp-port?'. Matthew
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Killeen Daily Herald
TEMPLE – Gov. Rick Perry met with a few of the Fort Hood shooting victims Saturday at Scott & White Hospital. He also thanked the community's response to the tragedy.
At the time of Perry's visit, five of the 10 shooting victims Scott & White received remained at the hospital. Two of those five were in the ICU on Saturday. Four victims were released and one patient was transferred to another facility.
"It is an honor for us to have met with several of these victims," Perry said during a press conference surrounded by camera's outside
the hospital. "We talked about these kid's families and what they needed. We cared on them and loved them," he added about the victims.
Even after the tragedy, many of the victims spoke about how proud they are to serve the country, Perry said.
"I believe the visits with the soldiers showed us that they are in great care and in high spirits," State Rep. Ralph Sheffield, said, taking the conference podium for a moment between Perry's comments and answering questions.
Sheffield and State Rep. Sid Miller were with Perry when he met with the victims, and they spoke briefly about the experience during a press conference outside the Temple hospital.
Perry continued later mentioning his meeting with Kimberly Munley, the civilian police officer responsible for stopping Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is suspected of the shooting rampage.
"I spoke with Sgt. Munley and thanked her for her work," Perry said. "Munley is very understated and a classic public servant. She is true professional. ... This is a selfless pubic servant, and you all should be glad to have her."
Perry also praised the efforts by the civilian emergency responders, the military and the doctors at local hospitals.
"People, especially neighbors, take care of their own," Perry said. "There is no telling how many lives they saved... they were able to flex in response to a violent situation."
That community support will continue as the Texas Rangers extends its services to the FBI and Fort Hood's Criminal Investigation Unit as the investigation into the shooting continues, Perry said.
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Recognize my GCC installation.
I'm at wits end trying to compile to C code. CompilationTarget->C yields
an error. CreateLibrary always ends in *failed. However, CCompilers[]
outputs this:
{{"Name" -> "GCC",
"Compiler" -> CCompilerDriver`GCCCompiler`GCCCompiler,
"CompilerInstallation" -> "/usr/bin", "CompilerName" -> Automatic}}
I've uninstalled and reinstalled GCC (Xcode), and it still doesn't seem
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Durham NC (SPX) Sep 11, 2013
Protecting key regions that comprise just 17 percent of Earth's land may help preserve more than two-thirds of its plant species, according to a new Duke University-led study by an international team of scientists.
The researchers from Duke, North Carolina State University and Microsoft Research used computer algorithms to identify the smallest set of regions worldwide that could contain the largest numbers of plant species. They published their findings today in the journal Science.
"Our analysis shows that two of the most ambitious goals set forth by the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity -- to protect 60 percent of Earth's plant species and 17 percent of its land surface -- can be achieved, with one major caveat," said Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.
"To achieve these goals, we need to protect more land, on average, than we currently do, and much more in key places such as Madagascar, New Guinea and Ecuador," Pimm said. "Our study identifies regions of importance. The logical -- and very challenging -- next step will be to make tactical local decisions within those regions to secure the most critical land for conservation."
Plant species aren't haphazardly distributed across the planet. Certain areas, including Central America, the Caribbean, the Northern Andes and regions in Africa and Asia have much higher concentrations of endemic species, that is, those which are found nowhere else.
"Species endemic to small geographical ranges are at a much higher risk of being threatened or endangered than those with large ranges," said Lucas N. Joppa, a conservation scientist at Microsoft Research's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.
"We combined regions to maximize the numbers of species in the minimal area. With that information, we can more accurately evaluate each region's relative importance for conservation, and assess international priorities accordingly."
To identify which of Earth's regions contain the highest concentrations of endemic species, relative to their geographic size, the researchers analyzed data on more than 100,000 different species of flowering plants, compiled by the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England.
Joppa and Piero Visconti, also of Microsoft Research's Computational Science Laboratory, created and ran the complex algorithms needed to analyze the large spatial database.
Based on their computations, Clinton N. Jenkins, a research scholar at North Carolina State University, created a color-coded global map identifying high-priority regions for plant conservation, ranked by endemic species density.
"We also mapped where the greatest numbers of small-ranged birds, mammals and amphibians occur, and found that they are broadly in the same places we show to be priorities for plants," Jenkins said. "So preserving these lands for plants will benefit many animals, too."
Without having access to the Royal Botanic Gardens' plant database, which is one of the largest biodiversity databases in the world, the team would not have been able to conduct their analysis, said Joppa, who received his Ph.D. in ecology from Duke in 2009.
Pimm and Jenkins lead the conservation nonprofit Saving Species, which works with local communities and international agencies to purchase and protect threatened lands that are critical for biodiversity.
"The fraction of land being protected in high-priority regions increases each year as new national parks are established and greater autonomy is given back to indigenous peoples to allow them to manage their traditional lands," Pimm said. "We're getting tantalizingly close to achieving the Convention of Biological Diversity's global goals. But the last few steps remaining are huge ones."
"Achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity's Goals for Plant Conservation," Lucas Joppa, Piero Visconti, Clinton N. Jenkins, Stuart L. Pimm. Science, Sept. 5, 2013
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Cave Story
Review by bambi300
"Put Metroid and Mario together. Then, put everything else you've wanted in a game, and you've got Cave Story!"
Cave Story is an amazing computer game with some elements of Nintendo games Metroid and Mario. It's completely free to download so I recommend playing it!
Gameplay - 10/10
Gameplay controls are very simple. 'Z' to jump, 'X' to fire your weapon, 'A' and 'S' to switch weapons, 'Q' to open your inventory, and arrow keys to move around, there's nothing to get, really. Movement is also really smooth.
On your journey, you'll see monsters, all differing in hit points and damage to you. Shoot them to eliminate them, and they'll either drop ammo, hit points, or weapon exp. Weapon exp. raises your weapon exp, and when it levels up, it will become stronger. There are a max of three weapon levels.
You'll explore many towns and places, with many NPCs to talk to.
It's all very organized.
Sounds / music - 9001/10
If I could rate that high, I'd totally do it. The music is awesome, very nice to listen to, fits the mood, and it's very hum-able!
Graphics - 8/10
The graphics aren't top notch, they're all pixel-y, BUT! it was MEANT to be that way. Other than the overview, the people, monsters, and landscape are still very detailed.
Story - 9/10
The story starts out with the main character waking up in a cave and he doesn't remember anything. It then continues on to where you go into a town full of little bunny rabbit monsters. Soon after you drop in, you'll find out that one of the-- wait, I'm giving too much away, play it yourself! :) The story is very compelling and insteresting.
Difficulty - Seven out of ten. (9/10)
Er, what I mean there, is that the difficulty is like seven stars out of ten. The actual rating for, like, the monsters and difficulty placement is nine out of ten.
Monsters and boss fights won't be too difficult in the first half, but after that, it'll start getting pretty hard. :]
Replayability - 10/10
Wow, with three different endings and three weapons that you can only get in one run of the game, replayability is at it's HIGHEST. You can also take on a challenge, such as taking no unneccessary (spelling check please) items or health tanks on the way to the end.
Overall - 10/10
Cave Story is amazing. Gameplay rocks, the music is AWESOME, graphics are nice, story is interesting, difficulty is challenging, and there are tons of things you can do another time around! And the best part of all, IT'S FREE! I recommend downloading this in your spare time, it's almost perfect. The only flaw I see, and I think it's very minor, is that it's too short.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 02/04/09, Updated 05/05/09
Game Release: Doukutsu Monogatari (JP, 12/20/04)
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Mahalo Revs Site Design, Home Page
Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 of the firm's web site. The new version of the site is looking to combine search, content, and Q&A. According to an email from Calacanis to his private email list, "Essentially what we're doing is making a bigger and better Wikipedia with a revenue-sharing model." Among other changes, the site's home page now features a prominent "ask any question" box, links to Mahalo Answers and How To pages, as well as ways to search and browse topics on the site.


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The roundup includes Riverside, Iowa, also known as the birthplace of James T. Kirk; the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in Seattle; the site of The Blob in Phoenixville, Pa.; and many more. (Peruse the comments for other suggestions.)
I'll probably stick around here this weekend, but it's nice to know spots where Ghostbusters and Spider-Man were filmed are just a subway ride away.
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Elizabeth Olsen: Lovely at LAX
Keeping up with her busy schedule, Elizabeth Olsen was spotted at LAX International Airport last night (March 15).
The "Martha Marcy May Marlene" actress looked stylish, as usual, sporting a burnt orange wide-rimmed hat with a beige jacket, tan trousers, and navy shoes.
And though she was used to the entertainment industry via her twin sisters Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Elizabeth has enjoyed getting to experience a booming career for herself as of late.
She told press, "I'm very well aware that this is a really cool time in my life, so I stick to gut decisions. If something doesn't work out in the end, at least I knew I had a clear reason why I chose that project to begin with. That's where I am right now. Eventually when I have a family, I will do as much animation as possible!"
Enjoy the pictures of Elizabeth Olsen arriving at LAX (March 15).
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Blondie, the Stranglers, the Saints
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, December 3
BATTLE of the punks was the subtext but there can only be one queen while Blondie is still standing.
Sure, Chris Bailey's Saints were ramshackle and snotty, delightfully contemptuous of their more popular songs as well as to be opening for "our foreign guests".
The Stranglers, minus key man Hugh Cornwall, had the black shirts and rough geezer attitude but their cover of All Day and All of the Night was the truest note in a confused set spanning Burt Bacharach, yobbo rock and Golden Brown.
None of those punks had the songs, let alone the unfeasible platinum quiff and shiny gold pants to defy the cruel march of time.
Debbie Harry's voice was in roaring form for the solid gold rush of Dreaming, Hanging on the Telephone and Union City Blue: the kind of opening salvo any band would kill for, if drummer Clem Burke didn't kill them first.
He was half Blondie's team as always, at least three limbs and the backbone of the FM radio propulsion that makes their random diversions into rock, reggae, rap and disco appear so seamless.
Chris Stein was cool as Keef: a grey mop and hooked nose beneath his shades, hefting the riffs to Call Me and Heart of Glass while leaving the fireworks to Burke and the new guys: young blood moonlighting from some planet where punks learn to play as well as pose.
Now officially of a certain age, Harry remains such a radiant picture of insouciance and style that when her voice did stumble, in the keening high notes of Atomic, a thousand others couldn't rise fast enough to catch her.


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"And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him." (Matthew 9:9)
"Hey! Follow me!" And around the big concrete cistern they walked, hopped, and ran. The older ones were the leaders and the younger ones quickly followed. Around and around the hole they went walking and jumping and having a great time. I stood off to the side watching – I was afraid to follow – afraid that I would fall into the big hole. But not my little brother! He ran right up and followed the leader, joining in the game until he tried to jump over the hole like the older, much bigger boys.
"Mom! Dad! Ronald fell into the hole!" My parents and their friends came running to rescue my little brother. Someone went down into the hole and rescued Ronald, and although he looked very hurt and badly shaken, he was okay after a trip to the emergency room.
Ronald got hurt that day because he chose to follow the wrong person. The activity they were doing was unsafe – but he didn't think about that because he was following someone else. It was not safe for anyone to play around that concrete cistern.
Whom are you following? Are you following Jesus or are you following another person? Are you following the things of Jesus or the things of the world? Jesus wants us to follow Him, much as He called men like Matthew to follow Him during His earthly ministry. It is dangerous to follow the people or things of the world. Follow Jesus!
We should follow Jesus by obeying His instructions.
My Response:» Am I following Jesus or this world? I can call on God to help me: "God, please give me the desire and ability to follow Your Son."
He That Cometh after Me
John 1:15, 27 "15John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 27He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose."
Because if Christ had not risen from the dead, we would still be in our sins and we would die and go to hell. 1 Corinthians 15:17 -- And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Regeneration is a work of God which gives us a new spiritual life. Another term could be "being born again." God has given man a choice to choose a spiritual life. (John 12:13) "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
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Blueberry Tart Socks by Deb Buckingham
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Blueberry Tart is a fun, easy pattern to memorize. It's simple, and the socks work up quick due to their length, or lack of length; that leave you craving to knit the second sock.
No second sock syndrome with these little tarts.
I've made this pattern to be worn on a medium/average foot.
Its stretchy fabric is clingy, but not tight. This pattern is versatile. You can dress it up or down depending on the yarn you choose.
These socks have top down construction on double pointed needles. Though, the pattern can easily be converted to knitting with any method that is your favorite.
Made with Superwash Merino wool, this delightful knit will feel as good on your feet as it does working in your hands. Only 1 skein needed to complete this pair.


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Dallas Lighting Market Features Contemporary Lighting Designs
Part of offering the latest in contemporary lighting designs is staying on top of the latest trends and technological advances in the field. Thingz buyers set aside time to attend the authority on all contemporary lighting, the Dallas Lighting Market. Held twice a year in the summer and winter, the Dallas Lighting Market takes place at the Dallas Market Center and showcases the best that leading lighting manufacturers have to offer.
Lots of Sparkle!
A lot of sparkle was to be had in modern lighting at this year's Dallas Lighting Market according to Home Furnishing News. The buyers from Thingz experienced a lot of shimmer throughout the showrooms. With thousands of product lines to be inspired by, attendees of the conference found themselves introduced to new products. With a keen eye for modern design, Thingz offers the Radin Square which is a chrome chandelier. Filled with sparkle, this product's reflecting crystals flow directly into the sparkle foretold in design at the Lighting Market.
Gold Accents
On January 15th through the 19th, the Dallas Lighting Market took place and in June on the 18th through the 24th it will happen once again. The show aims to introduce new technologies with a keen focus on environmental sustainability. 10times.com explains that manufacturers try to give buyers information about "recent policies added to the sector." One million square feet of showrooms and displays are available to browse with all different types of lighting for residential and commercial use. Gold accents and the use of gold in lighting was another top trend at the 2014 market according to Andrea Lillo on behalf of Home Furnishing News. Thingz' very own Half Moon Floor Lamp embraces this rich color and contrasts it with a dark brown wood. Mixing contrasting colors reflects the contemporary styling and modern use of gold.
LED Technology
LED technology was a huge focus at the Dallas Lighting Market. Moving forward, lighting will become much more LED focused. LED lights use up less energy than incandescent bulbs and can last longer. Buyers were educated by the American Lighting Association while at the market and enjoyed new debuted lighting companies. Many showrooms focused on LED technology. At Thingz, there are many LED options such as the Firefrost Pendant by Tech Lighting. Tech Lighting specializes in "unique hi-tech low voltage" lighting that is the future of residential lighting. This pendant can be equipped with a 5.8 watt replaceable LED module and comes in five different colors of glass.
Inspiration from Nature
Contemporary lighting accessories such as the Riesling are what make Thingz modern and unique. This futuristic pendant is inspired by icicles and is fit for a modern dining space. A lot of lighting at the Lighting Market resembled nature which is the new contemporary direction in interiors. Lighting companies such as Lite Master, Elk Lighting, and Crystal Lighting all were present at the show. Over three thousand buyers showed up to gain insights into where the design industry was headed and buyers from Thingz weren't disappointed with the nature-inspired lighting debuts. The Riesling is described as having "fluid beauty" with "rippled ice crystalline designs." With six bulbs, this lighting option will offer a lot of illumination with great style.
Advances in Design
Another LED light offered by Thingz is the Coronado Pendant. This light also by Tech Lighting comes with a replaceable 5.8 watt LED module. In true Thingz fashion, the movement toward LED lighting has already been recognized and there are many pendants offered with this technology in their inventory. Being exposed to such forward design keeps Thingz and their buyers leading in the design industry. By attending events such as the Dallas Lighting Market, Thingz is investing in its ever-growing contemporary line to offer its customers the very best in design.


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In an oration as part of human rights day event hosted by the Australian Human rights Commission, Mr Spigelman said the draft Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill published on November 20 went too far by attempting to protect people from being offended or having their feelings hurt.
In his speech, Mr Spigelman, who was with Aboriginal activist Charlie Perkins on the freedom ride around rural NSW in 1965, says that none of the existing Commonwealth acts, covering sex, disability and age discrimination, includes conduct which only offends. No other country has gone so far in their definitions of discrimination, and there is nothing in Australia's treaty obligations that requires this change.
Mr Spigelman noted that if the draft bill were enacted, discrimination in all areas would be affected by the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act that were used against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. Last September the Federal Court found Mr Bolt guilty of racial discrimination for causing offence to nine fair-skinned Aborigines in a column.
Worryingly, the draft bill does not include an objective test such as "reasonably likely to offend".
And, in an echo of the anti-discrimination legislation released by Labor in September, this draft bill also reverses the onus of proof. If the complainant presents a prima facie case that certain words or conduct caused offence, or has hurt their feelings, it is up to the respondent to disprove this case. Like the anti-discrimination bill, this legislation may be a sleeper issue for business. Sacked employees, for example, could quickly decide their feelings have been sufficiently hurt to take legal action. So we have yet another example of the government treating businesses as agents of social change, rather than as engines of growth.
One irony of this draft legislation is that it comes at a time when offensive material has never been more widely disseminated. by unions attacking so called scabs who just want to work. While unions vilify those who try to break their illegal blockades with harsh words and offensive posters, the bar has been lifted ridiculously high for businesses.
Any business that tried behaving like the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union would quickly find itself in court under the proposed laws. But a union that has repeatedly ignored Supreme Court orders to lift its blockades is unlikely to pay much attention to a human rights bill,
We would agree with Mr Spigelman that a proposed law protecting people from "offence" and hurt feelings is likely to greatly restrict free speech. There are too many groups in our society, of all political persuasions, ready to take offence and have their feelings hurt over disagreements, particularly if the perpetrator of the alleged hurt has deep pockets. Australia's human rights industry has developed far beyond any need to protect rights, given that Australia is already of the most free countries in the world
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Target: Ashley Rich, Mobile County District Attorney
Goal: To charge a man who severely assaulted his sister's girlfriend with attempted murder
On Thanksgiving, Mallory Owens was invited to her girlfriend Alex Hawkin's home for a family dinner in Mobile, Alabama. Disapproving of their lesbian relationship, Alex's brother Travis Hawkins, Jr. savagely assaulted Owens. She was hospitalized for multiple severe injuries that required extensive reconstructive surgeries. Travis was charged with second-degree assault and later released. Please seek justice for this blatant hate crime against Mallory Owens. Demand that Travis Hawkins, Jr. is charged with attempted murder.
This is not the first instance Travis has shown extreme violence and anger. Earlier this year, he hit Mallory over the head with a pipe wrench; however, no charges were filed. Though Owens' family has always disapproved of Mallory and Alex's lesbian relationship, Mallory stated that Hawkins' family was starting to open up to their sexual orientation. Unfortunately, Owens was wrong. Her list of injuries is extensive, from a broken nose to swollen-shut eyes. The disturbing photographs have been widely circulated around the Internet and show the graphic nature of the attack that took place.
Even worse, Mallory's sister said that Travis called her the following day to tell her that he would finish what he started. This attack was not just an attack; it was a hate crime. Unfortunately, Alabama does not list sexual orientation as an identity protected under hate crime law. It is not on the list of bias offenses. It is more than unfortunate that in these modern times that ignorance and hate crimes can easily be bypassed because of archaic laws. Demand justice for Mallory Owens and have Travis charged for attempted murder. All Mallory wanted to do was love her girlfriend. As for Travis, what he did was purely out of hate.
Dear Ashley Rich,
As you are well aware, Mallory Owens was brutally attacked by her girlfriend's brother simply because of her lesbian relationship with Alex Hawkins. The disturbing photos that have been widely circulated around the Internet truly show the graphic nature of what took place this past Thanksgiving. The most unsettling thing is that this assault was not an isolated one. In early 2012, Mallory was again attacked by Travis Hawkins, Jr. That time, she was hit on the head with a pipe wrench.
Travis has only been charged with second-degree assault – a far cry from justice for what truly happened that night and earlier this year. His attack was hate-filled and there is no telling what he will do next. He called Mallory the next day to tell her that he will finish off what he started the night before. Now he is out on bail and Mallory is disfigured in the hospital. She will have to endure countless reconstructive surgeries simply because she loved her girlfriend.
Though Alabama has yet to follow in the footsteps of other states that embrace human rights and equality for all races, genders, and sexual orientations, Travis should be charged with more than just second-degree assault. This was undeniably a hate crime. This was undeniably attempted murder. Please demand justice for Mallory Owens and charge Travis Hawkins, Jr. with attempted murder.
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A "SUBSTANTIALLY improved" plan for 176 new homes in Pershore was given the green light by councillors who voted in favour of the new housing estate.
The application by Persimmon Homes South Midlands was backed by every councillor in Wychavon's Planning Committee on Thursday as they unanimously supported the development to the north of the town.
As part of the plans up to 176 homes will be built on the site, on land to the West of Station Road and including land to the north and west of the Ford House.
This is a reduction of 14 homes compared to the original proposal of 190 dwellings and ensures none of the gardens of the homes are in a flood zone.
But despite improvements to the scheme, which borders another approved development for 260 homes, it was still not given the support of Pershore Town Council.
District councillor and Pershore Town Mayor Charles Tucker said: "While this is a development that has substantially improved during the design. In particular the concern that I and other like minded members had in relation to maintaining the local aspect along Station Road." He also noted the forward thinking approach to flooding.
But he added the town council were unable to support development to the north of the town due to their concerns on the road infrastructure and lack of a link road bypassing the Pinvin crossroads.
"You are looking at something like 550 homes to the west of Station Road with other developments in the area you are looking at maybe 750 to 800 dwellings," added Cllr Tucker. "Without the northern link road there will be substantial difficulty at certain times of the day in getting into that road.
"We can't do anything about it is basically what's being said."
Pershore district Cllr David Brotheridge, who proposed the development, said: "Despite the size of this application and the number of dwellings proposed there's been very little opposition. The report tells us there has been five letters of opposition.
"The only way we will see the much needed highways improvements is to take the contributions."
Another local member, Cllr Val Wood said she would like to see allotments on the site. This was backed by chairman Cllr Linda Robinson and Cllr Judge Pearce and a condition was added to ensure the inclusion of allotments.


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Expenditure on Environmentally Sensitive Goods and Services: Household Spending in Europe
Expenditure on environmentally sensitive goods and services has been analysed for the member states of the EEC, using the EUROSTAT Family Budgets data based on surveys carried out in 1988. Some data are also available from Germany, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The groups with low average expenditures spend a higher proportion of their budget on energy than those with high expenditures, but a lower proportion on transport, especially vehicle purchases. However, all groups spend a much higher proportion of expenditure on transport than on energy, although purchased (i.e. non-private motoring and public) transport is a small proportion of transport spending, even for low expenditure groups. Pensioners spend a relatively high proportion of their budgets on package tours, especially compared to the other 'at risk' groups.
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Research Handbook on Cross-border Enforcement of Intellectual Property
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Edited by Paul Torremans
The Research Handbook on Cross-border Enforcement of Intellectual Property systematically analyses the unique difficulties posed by cross-border intellectual property disputes in the modern world. The contributions to this book focus on the enforcement of intellectual property primarily from a cross-border perspective. Infringement remains a problematic issue for emerging economies and so the book assesses some of the enforcement structures in a selection of these countries, as well as cross-border enforcement from a private international law perspective. Finally, the book offers a unique insight into the roles played by judges and arbitrators involved in cross-border intellectual property dispute resolution.
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Shares of Internet radio provider Pandora (P) tumbled more than 9% in Friday morning trading after it posted quarterly results that topped analysts' expectations, but changed a user policy in the face the looming market entry of a new rival.
Pandora announced on Thursday that it will end its restriction on the number of hours that non-subscribers can listen to its ad-supported service on mobile devices. Earlier this year, the company had placed a limit of 40 hours per month on those users, the Los Angeles Times notes.
The company cited rising revenue from subscribers as the reason for ending the cap. However, Pandora is about to get some big competition in the form of Apple's (AAPL) iTunes radio, a free, ad-supported service, which is expected to launch in September.
Apple's entry to the Internet radio market comes as Pandora is facing increased competition from rivals like Spotify and a new on-demand service from Google (GOOG).
Pandora also announced second-quarter adjusted earnings of 4 cents a share, topping the 2 cents predicted by analysts. Quarterly revenue of $157.4 million also beat the $156 million that analysts had forecast.


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'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog' Goes 8-Bit
For fans of Joss Whedon's so-good-the-Emmy's-basically-made-a-category-up-for-it "Doctor Horrible's Singalong Blog," the only way to improve the musical would be to make it longer. Aside from a few canon comic book story expansions via Dark Horse Comics, however, those who've been humming its soundtrack since 2008 will just have to enjoy the next best thing: a fan-made 8-bit adaptation.
Doctor Octoroc, the mind behind "8-Bit Jesus" and other projects, has taken commendable pains to recreate Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day and Nathan Fillion's performances a (viewable, but not playable) NES style video game complete with a chiptunes soundtrack, RPG orientation and cute item management integration. The pace is crisp, the music is spot-on and there's an overall attention to detail that could only have been programmed with love.
Act one is currently up in full, while acts two and three are reportedly in the works and should be out in a few weeks. I'll certainly be waiting.
Check out act one at Doctor Octoroc's official site or here after the jump.
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"Slightly Used Soul" Is The Saddest Ebay Auction Ever
I believe I have discovered the saddest eBay auction ever. Albuquerque woman, Lori N., was auctioning off her "slightly used soul" for $2,000. Formerly a freelance writer, Lori's life changed completely after being hit by a drunk driver five years ago. She was in a coma, and suffered a stroke, many broken bones, a collapsed lung and lost one of her breasts. She figured since her body was shot, she might as well market her soul. For bidders on Lori's soul, she wanted to make it clear that what she would deliver is the "opportunity to save [her] soul." Along with the purchase will come a "certificate detailing the white and black marks on [her] soul." A spiritual car facts of sorts. But what she's truly hoping for from this auction is not money, but the chance to make contact with someone else's soul.
Ack. Heart wrenching. As of yesterday, no one had bid on her soul. So I logged onto eBay to give a sympathy bid — I can't afford the $2,000 asking price — but couldn't find Lori's soul. Maybe someone bought it? Or she decided not to sell after all? Lori, if you're reading this, I am here if you want to make contact with my soul, which is also slightly used. I'm sorry for all you've suffered. [Oddity Central]


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LANSING, July 13. The Michigan Public Service Commission is encouraging interested parties to file comments on The Detroit Edison Company's and Consumers Energy Company's electric restructuring implementation plans. Written public comments should be filed with the Commission by August 10, 1998. During the past two years the Commission has issued a number of orders to provide a framework for Michigan's electric industry restructuring. Electric industry restructuring is intended to permit new market structures to emerge that will allow competition to price electricity more effectively and at a lower cost than the current regulatory process. In the Commission's February 11, 1998 order the Commission directed MPSC staff to work with interested parties on problems related to the details of implementing electric restructuring. As part of that informal process, Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy voluntarily circulated draft implementation plans which were the focus of discussions at three public hearings. As a result of comments received, Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy revised their implementation plans and filed final plans with the Commission on June 30, 1998. Implementation plans address a myriad of electric restructuring issues, including: customer program participation process/requirements; bidding; service agreements; customer billing and collection and customer awareness and education. Copies of the plans are available on the MPSC Web Site at: http://www.cis.state.mi.us/mpsc/electric/restruct or by calling the Michigan Public Service Commission at 1-800-292-9555. Written comments should be sent to: Michigan Public Service Commission Executive Secretary P.O. Box 30221 Lansing, MI 48909 "Electric utility restructuring involves many complex issues and may have a significant effect on the costs of electricity in Michigan," said Chairman John Strand. "As the Commission continues to look at electric restructuring I encourage interested homeowners, commercial and industrial customers to share their thoughts and comments on this important issue." The MPSC is an agency within the Department of Consumer and Industry Services. Case No. U-11290 July 13, 1998 (Public Comments on Detroit Edison's and Consumers Energy's Implementation Plans)