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Are analyzer vendors ignoring new standards?
A Product Roundup of process analyzers finds vendors avoiding mentioning NeSSI or PAT compatibility like the plague. Whats keeping them from adopting the new standards, we wonder?
AS WE noted last year, the newest standards in the process analyzer world are the New Sampling/Sensor Initiative (NeSSI) and Process Analytical Technology (PAT). The NeSSI/ANSI/ISA76-99.02 (2002) standard defines modular sampling systems, while the PAT initiative recommends procedures for improving food and drug manufacturing by measuring materials and processes.
Last year, we lamented that, except for one product in the roundup that followed, manufacturers seem to be avoiding these standards and recommendations like the plague. This year, not a single new product mentioned NeSSI or PAT compatibility. As always, that doesn't mean the products don't support the standards. However, one would think the vendors would say so if they did.
It's interesting to note that market researchers are backing away from predicting market numbers. In their presentation to the 51st Analysis Division Symposium in Anaheim, PAI Partners (e-mail to email@example.com) waffled considerably. They reported that NeSSI is experiencing "increasing numbers of successful field installations," there is an "expanding list of NeSSI-compatible components, and "progress is periodically reported at OPAC, Pittcon, ISA AD, ISApo and IFPAC" conferences. But it offered no numbers, which is an unusual position for a market research company.
Similarly, when discussing PAT, PAI waffled again on the market numbers, but added, "Virtually all major pharmaceutical and biotech firms have dedicated staff focused on PAT." Their survey of PAT end users indicates that 100% use PAT for in-process testing for process control, and 70% use it for improving or upgrading existing processes. So, somebody is using the technology, even if vendors are laying back.
PAI, with whom CONTROL columnist Terry McMahon is a partner, is probably the most knowledgeable market research company when it comes to process analyzers. If it declines to make market predictions, it probably means analyzer vendors are leery of the technology.
Overall, PAI says the worldwide process analyzer enterprise (total spending by end-users and their engineering contractors on analyzers, sample systems, integration services, operation and maintenance) is about $5 billion now, and is expected to reach $5.5 billion by 2008. Electrochemical analyzers comprise about 31% of the analyzer segment of the enterprise total, with the remainder of this segment more or less evenly divided among chromatographs, photometers, oxygen, liquid and "other." The chemical processing industry is the biggest user, buying 69% of the analyzers.
Product Roundup:
Process Analyzers
Scaly Sensor
CaGuard detects scale build-up on heating elements, which insulates them, causing them to overheat and eventually fail. As scale builds up on its sensor, this controller continuously analyzes the temperature output signal. Using feedback diagnostics, the sensor works with the controller to alert the operator when cleaning cycles are necessary, or when an element may be experiencing an over-temperature situation. More info at controlglobal.com. Chromalox; 800/443-2640; www.chromalox.com
Elemental Analysis
ICAP 6000 Series compact ICP emission spectrometers are suitable for general and elemental analysis in the environmental, petrochemical, metal, food and beverage, geo-chemical and cement industries. A distributed purge system offers reduced gas consumption and improved performance for elements such as arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te). More info at controlglobal.com. Thermo Electron; 800-532-4752; www.thermo.com
Double Sheet Detectors
These 18-mm diameter, ultrasonic, thru-beam sensors identify misfeeds for a wide variety of media, including paper, cardboard, thin plastic and foil, where such distinctions are required to protect machinery and/or avoid waste. The detectors are IP67 protected, and detect zero, one or two sheets of material with weights from 10 g/m2 to 2000 g/m2. The detection threshold is adjustable to the material thickness for each application. Pepperl+Fuchs; 330/486-0001; www.am.pepperl-fuchs.com
RH Transmitter
Series RH two-wire transmitter measures humidity or humidity and temperature. The polymer capacitance sensor is not affected by condensation, fog, high humidity or contaminants. The humidity/temperature version provides dual 4-20 mA output signals with an accuracy of 2% RH and 0.9 °F at 72 °F. An outside air model also is available. Dwyer Instruments; 800/872-9141; www.dwyer-inst.com
Ultrasonic Leak Detector
UltraPro AG500 ultrasonic leak detector and electronic stethoscope has an Automatic Gain Control that filters the signal to provide the best signal-to-noise ratio, suppressing background noise and pinpointing leaks. This eliminates the need for adjustment knobs and filter switches. Monarch Instrument; 800/999-3390; www.monarchinstrument.com
Total Chlorine Analysis System
Model TCL System includes a sample-conditioning system, analyzer and sensor, and measures total chlorine in water, including seawater. It reduces cost of ownership over the company's previous models by employing readily available, low-cost reagents, and reducing the frequency of reagent replacement by as much as eight times. More info at controlglobal.com. Rosemount Analytical; 714/ 957-8880; www.emersonprocess.com
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HOUSTON - Police located a stolen pickup truck taken from a construction site and tried to the pull the driver over, but he doesn't stop until the tires are worn down to the rims.
Officers spotted the stolen truck on Little York after they received a report about a truck taken around 12 a.m. Friday.
Harris County deputies said the chase ended at De Walt Street and Veterans Memorial Drive around 1 a.m. when the driver's tires got down to the rims.
The suspect then got out of the vehicle and tried to get away on foot but was caught and taken into custody, according to deputies.
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In this class students will learn how to use Csound, a powerful and versatile sound synthesis and processing software environment, for electronic composition, production, and innovative sound design. Students will design sounds and compose pieces using classic synthesis techniques such as additive, subtractive, waveshaping, wavetable, granular, and physical modeling. Students will learn how to use Csound as a plug-in for Ableton Live and the iPad to produce innovative sound design for TV, film, multimedia installations, and games. Students will also use Csound as the basis for graduate-level research in computer music and music perception.
This course explores working in situations which typify the demands of commercial music production. This includes composing in a wide variety of idioms, to specific stylistic direction, and under common constraints that effect commercial music composition. These projects require the student to draw upon their skills in composition, electronic music production, and sound design. This course will confront the student with issues and problems common to the working composer, music producer, and sound designer.
An overview of the electronically produced/processed voice, with exploration of: human voice mechanics; formants in speech and singing; time-stretching granular techniques; channel and phase vocoders; parametric EQ; and formant (fixed) filters. Theoretical underpinnings and practical examples of the transformative power of convolution are presented. Synergistic dymaxion music composition approaches that exercise elements learned in class are suggested, as alternatives to familiar software sequencer production. Students are provided weekly hands-on access to EP/D labs, where a variety of software and hardware systems are available. This course culminates in a public concert, and is suitable for those who recognize the central role that electronically produced and processed voices play in: video games; animation; advertising; contemporary songwriting; and telecommunications.
This course serves as both an introduction to basic programming concepts and Max software. Max is a powerful and intuitive multimedia programming language that can be used to design MIDI, audio, and video applications. Students gain an introduction to problem solving and musical representation using basic math through exercises in practical applications as well as algorithmic composition techniques. Projects can include drum machines, groove boxes, softsynths, samplers, audio processors, remixers and their use with common controllers. Students will also learn how devices programmed with Max can be used in Ableton Live. The class culminates in student presentations using software designed for the class.
In this course, students will examine the technical and creative processes involved with adapting electronic composition and production for live performance. Topics to be covered include the development of repertoire in various electronic genres, hardware and software integration, set organization and improvisational strategies, expressive real-time control, and considerations for solo and group presentation.
This course focuses on the study of the generation of original, exotic sound textures and unusual synthetic instrumental timbres derived from acoustic sounds recorded from studio and field sources. Digital signal processing and studio production techniques as used by the industry's top game and film sound designers are discussed and practiced.
In this class students will learn to program musical examples and projects in the C programming language. Working initially from the Terminal application, using the GNU Compiler Collection on Mac OS X, and later with Apple's XCODE Integrated Developer Environment (IDE), the student will write musical programs that do algorithmic composition, software synthesis, and signal processing and in the process more deeply understand the underlying algorithms that power all electronic music programs. This software engineering class is the first step toward the design of synthesis and signal processing tools. It will provide a marketable technical skill which is often a prerequisite for industry jobs in sound design and game audio, as well as for graduate programs in computer music and music technology.
This class provides the student with an opportunity to create portfolio pieces of original compositions using software and hardware tools. We will study a variety of approaches to composing and realizing works with an emphasis on developing the use of line, rhythm, harmony, orchestration and form. Weekly assignments include electronic realization of musical excerpts, readings by composers, listening, and analysis. Technical topics will be explored by the group as needed.
A project-based course covering basic design principles and production techniques used in producing sound for animation. Students will work in collaboration with senior animation students at the Massachusetts College of Art to produce three short animation projects. Animation is a part of practically every form of entertainment that uses visual elements, from feature films and television programs to video games and websites. Most, if not all, musicians will work with this medium at some point in their career. Class meetings will explore the historical roots of sound and music for animation through screenings, case studies, and assigned readings. From this, students will develop the skills necessary to analyze an animation and create a variety sound elements: music, sound effects, and vocal elements. At various times throughout the semester, the class will meet at MassArt in joint meetings with student animators for directed review of their work.
Building on skills developed in the EPD core curriculum, students design and produce audio content for the kinds of real-world production projects they might expect in their career. Working in the EPD studios, students will produce content that ranges from spoken word to sound and music mixed in surround. Students are introduced to techniques and applications that are essential for pursuit of a variety of professional opportunities in the areas of sound design and audio production for film, video games, broadcast media, as well as all types of music production.
In this class, students develop the basic electronics skills necessary to do creative circuit-bending, to modify and rewire sound-making toys, and to build custom performance interfaces using game controllers and a wide variety of sensors. Students breadboard and build a custom analog synth. They develop sensor-based controllers using the Arduino and program them using the Processing language. They design and program their own interactive games and audio/video remixers. Using these skills, students will develop strategies to control a range of hardware and software synthesis systems. By the end of the course, a student will have developed their own expressive MIDI and audio control system.
A precursor to EP-491, Advanced Seminar combines master class and private lesson settings for the electronic production and design major. Master class topics include group assessment of each student's portfolio work, group critiques, and technical instruction as needed. Assessment and analysis tools are provided to discuss music composition/production as well as the integration of music and sound design for picture and games. Business and career preparations will also be discussed. The private lesson component allows each student to develop skills and musicianship with direct mentoring from the instructor.


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Sachin Tendulkar ended a year-long wait for his 100th international century and admitted the constant media speculation about when he would achieve the milestone had been "mentally tough" to deal with.
The Little Master, who began his international career in a Test match against Pakistan in November 1989 and who has amassed over 35,000 international runs, achieved the magical feat with a clipped single to square leg off Shakib Al Hasan in the 44th over of India's Asia Cup contest against Bangladesh in Mirpur.
Tendulkar said the relentless talk about his 100th hundred had been draining, and hoped his achievement would encourage others to "chase their dreams".
"I was not thinking about the milestone, the media started all this. Wherever I went - the restaurant, room service - everyone was talking about the 100th hundred," he told television commentator Ramiz Raja in quotes reported by www.espncricinfo.com.
"Nobody talked about my 99 hundreds. It became mentally tough for me because nobody talked about my 99 hundreds. I started off the season batting reasonably well. I was luckless. I am not playing only for my hundredth hundred. It doesn't matter how many 100s you score, you still put your head down, grind it out and do the job for the team."
Asked if he had a message for his fans, Tendulkar added: "Enjoy the game and chase your dreams. Dreams do come true. I had to wait for 22 years for India to win the World Cup."
N Srinivasan, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), described Tendulkar as a "colossus".
"Ever since he made his international debut in November 1989, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has strode cricketing arenas the world over, like a colossus," Srinivasan told www.bcci.tv.
"He has broken old records and set new benchmarks. He has been an inspiration to billions, and an ornament to the sport. March 16, 2012 will never be forgotten by cricket-lovers.
"On behalf of the BCCI, I would like to congratulate Sachin Tendulkar for completing a century of international centuries."


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From the Chief's Desk
Welcome to the Exeter Police Department's internet web page. It is my hope that you find this page informative and useful. I began proudly serving this community in March of 1990 as a police officer, and on September 1, 2005 I was appointed by the city council to Chief of Police. It is my vision that we as a department become actively involved in the community of Exeter, and be viewed as more than just the person in a uniform driving the car with the red lights in your rear view mirror.
The Exeter Police Department is currently staffed by 18 full time Police Officers, 10 Reserve Police Officers, and 2 civilian employees. The officers of this department are highly committed individuals who are truly proud to serve this community with the utmost in professionalism. These dedicated individuals have the training and ability to work anywhere in the state and I am proud that they chose to work for us.
With all of the emerging trends in law enforcement and increases in technology to better assist us in performing our duties, it is my desire that we never lose sight of what we have always done well, and that is one on one service to you the citizen. It is my desire to provide our officers the best in equipment and on going training to ensure that we continue to provide the citizens of this community with the highest quality of law enforcement service possible.
In addition to the above mentioned staff, the department is also highly proud of our Police Chaplains Program and our Explorer Post. The Chaplains are available to assist members of the community in times of crisis and the Explorer program is a great introduction to the law enforcement profession for our youth. If you would like further information or assistance regarding either of these fine programs please call us and someone will be happy to talk to you.
If I can be of any assistance or answer any questions or concerns that you might have, please do not hesitate to call, email or just plain stop by.
Clifton "Cliff" Bush
Chief of Police


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Dyal_SC wrote:
CanadaBBQGuy wrote:
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I'm glad the gravy wasn't "smurf" colored this time! Looks faaaaantastic!
OK - now that one needs an explanation, or at least a link to the original thread it was on....
As requested...
That's... just... wrong.
Looks like someone zapped a bunch of Smurfs in a blender and poured them on top of the plate. I like this current meatloaf better.


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HOUSTON - A northwest Harris County school was evacuated Tuesday after a bomb threat.
Klein Independent School District officials said the bomb threat was found written on a boy's bathroom wall at 8:15 a.m. at Klein Oak High School, 22603 Northchase Drive. It said "bomb today at 10:30." Two students found it and reported it.
The school was evacuated while police used bomb-sniffing dogs to search the building.
Nothing was found and the all-clear was given. Classes resumed a short time later.
The following information was given to parents through Klein Oak's ParentLink system.
"This notification is being sent to you to inform you that Klein Oak High School completed a search of the campus as a result of a possible bomb threat this morning. Please be advised that nothing was found and the threat has been determined to be false.
Klein Oak administration also received information that there may be a weapon brought to campus. A thorough and expeditious investigation of the matter was conducted by the administration, and the information was found to be a rumor. The Klein ISD Police Department was also made aware and involved in the investigation.
Please be assured that the Klein Oak administration and Klein police will continue to work diligently to keep our school safe and secure for our students, faculty, and staff.
False threats are treated in a serious manner and anyone determined to be responsible for a false threat is subject to school discipline as well as criminal charges. Please discuss this information with your children and let them know they should speak with an adult if they have concerns instead of spreading rumors or posting false information on social media outlets. If you or your children have any information related to these threats, please contact me. We appreciate your help in this matter."
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Welcome to NFTE Baltimore's Volunteer Homepage
We deliver entrepreneurial education to 17 sites throughout the city. Volunteers provide valuable experiences, share personal stories, and are business mentors to our students. Our volunteer-guided field trips to local businesses and class visits from businesspersons help students to connect their classroom learning to the world around them.
Our volunteers
Our volunteers are diverse individuals—corporate executives at major national and international companies, entrepreneurs, young professionals, retired executives, and mid-level managers—who represent all aspects of business operations. They are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship and helping students define their pathway to prosperity. Our volunteers' efforts have a direct and lasting influence on the personal and professional successes of our young people.
Become a NFTE volunteer
By lending your talent and time, you can present new perspectives on the NFTE curriculum to students. As a volunteer, you can choose from several exciting opportunities that range from one-hour, one-day classroom options to multiple-days service with a school or class on a regular basis. Our program manager and staff are available during volunteer assignments to lend support and guidance. To find an opportunity that interests you and fits your schedule, review the brief descriptions of our four principle volunteer positions here.
Are you ready to join us as a volunteer? We hope you are. The process is clear and simple. Click the "new volunteer application" button and complete the application. You can also contact Darlene Ajayi at email@example.com or 443.721.6052 for more information about volunteering.
Our program model
Our program model is a stimulating classroom-based curriculum. Through the development of an original business plan using a NFTE experiential approach, we engage students by imparting the fundamentals of entrepreneurship education. We help students realize that core school subjects are relevant to their lives and can help them succeed.
Students learn throughout the year what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and the skills necessary to launch, manage, and grow their own business. They start at the very beginning with opportunity recognition, move into market research and business finances, and conclude by presenting and defending their original business plan.
Our student participants
The students we serve in Baltimore range from ages 11–18 and are enrolled in local middle and high schools, and are active in community-based organizations. They come from low-income communities in major cities across the country, which are often rife with crime, violence, and high dropout rates. However, we instill hope and improve students' lives through entrepreneurship education. The strong financial literacy skills that they learn help them to make and manage money.
We encourage our students to stay in school and help them recognize business opportunities that create pathways to success. Our students gain tools for success and actively participate in the world of business and entrepreneurship, which leads to a revised vision they have of themselves and their future. They graduate with the necessary presentation, leadership, and problem-solving skills for continuing their education and contributing to the economy by becoming business owners or joining the workforce.


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After surging on Thursday, the equity and commodity markets were under general pressure Friday morning. Corn futures were no exception. In addition to broad weakness undercutting prices, traders cited prospects for a good planting window in early May, which will almost surely see a torrid pace of seedings. That might get the bulk of the 2013 U.S. corn crop off to a good start after recent rains. May corn slipped 1.75 cents to $6.435/bushel just before lunchtime Friday, while December fell 7.0 cent to $5.2425.
Tight spot markets and strong basis levels continued supporting nearby soybean futures in the face of the general market decline Friday morning. Conversely, the deferred contracts dipped in concert with their many counterparts. Traders were quick to cite the potential for a shift from corn to soybean plantings in some areas if the planting window expected next week is not repeated at times during May. Others pointed to position squaring before the weekend. May soybeans climbed 6.25 cents to $14.2975/bushel late Friday morning, while May soyoil added 0.03 cents to 49.80 cents/pound, and May soybean meal added $2.9 to $417.2/ton.
After proving very strong Thursday, the wheat market seemed to suffer a relapse of recent weakness Friday morning. The negative tone to the various equity and commodity markets probably weighed upon prices, as did some profit-taking/position-squaring before the weekend. Having the Wheat Quality Council tour set to start Monday probably encouraged many to exit positions before those results start filtering into the market at that time. May CBOT wheat futures dropped 7.0 cents to $6.9425/bushel around midsession Friday, while May KCBT wheat lost 2.5 cents to $7.6125 and May MGE futures skidded 2.25 cents to $8.21.
Cattle futures were narrowly mixed late Friday morning as traders awaited the outcome of cash trading for this week. Producers and packers are clearly bargaining aggressively on animals likely to come out of feedlots this week. Futures incorporated a moderate rise in country values earlier this week, but the lack of cash action to this point has very likely prompted second thoughts on the part of many. Mixed midday wholesale quotes were not helpful either. June cattle edged 0.05 cents lower to 122.80 cents/pound just before the lunch hour Friday, while December skidded 0.22 cents to 128.00. May feeder cattle futures fell 0.27 cents to 141.92 cents/pound, and August tumbled 0.80 cents to 151.35.
The hog market sustained its recent advance Friday morning, despite the generally bearish market environment and mixed cash and wholesale news. Country prices east and west of the Mississippi River diverged significantly, while pork cutout dipped from its Thursday afternoon quote. Nevertheless, bullish traders have good reason to anticipate a major seasonal surge in cash hog and pork values during the coming weeks. May hog futures climbed 0.20 cents to 89.17 cents/pound around midday Friday, while the June contract surged 0.50 cents to 92.32.


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MUMBAI – Indian gold retailers Tuesday reported brisk trade as an auspicious two-day Hindu festival got under way, after weeks of subdued business due to a jewellers' strike and weak global sentiment.
The Akshaya Tritiya festival is considered a lucky time for Hindus to purchase the yellow metal and is subsequently a crucial sales period in India.
But traders had been sceptical about business this year after a recent nationwide strike by jewellers, protesting against the doubling of gold import duties and the imposition of an excise duty on unbranded jewellery.
"Our initial feedback indicates better consumer uptake than what we anticipated earlier," said Ajay Mitra, director of the World Gold Council for India.
Rajesh Mehta, chairman of India's largest manufacturer and exporter of gold jewellery, Rajesh Exports, was also upbeat about demand.
"We are seeing people queueing up since shops opened at 6:00 am," he told AFP.
The three-week jewellers' strike ended earlier this month after the government promised to consider their demands.
Its move to increase import duties in last month's budget was a bid to reduce gold imports by the world's biggest bullion consumer and lower India's current account deficit.


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Fox News And The NRA Write The Script For Romney On U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
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For months the National Rifle Association and Fox News have been pushing the fringe conspiracy theory that a proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty puts Second Amendment rights at risk. Now Mitt Romney is bringing that claim to the presidential campaign, parroting it on the stump.
As ThinkProgress reported, during a town hall event in Ohio yesterday, Romney said:
ROMNEY: Turning to the United Nations to tell us how to raise our kids, or whether we can have the Second Amendment rights that our Constitution gave us, I mean, that is the wrong way to go, right? Do not cede sovereignty. I'm happy to talk there. I'm not willing to give American sovereignty in any way, shape or form to the United Nations or any other body. We are a free nation. We fought for freedom and independence. We are going to keep freedom and independence.
But contrary to the conspiracy spun by the NRA and Fox and now repeated by Romney, the ATT only seeks to regulate the international import and export of conventional and small arms, and is not aimed at domestic gun regulation governed by U.S. sovereignty. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of State has stated that it will not enter into any treaty that contains "restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution. There will be no dilution or diminishing of sovereign control over issues involving the private acquisition, ownership, or possession of firearms, which must remain matters of domestic law."
The idea that the United Nations can determine "whether we can have the Second Amendment rights that our Constitution gave us" germinated at the National Rifle Association in the mid-1990s when CEO Wayne LaPierre began to speciously warn of "global gun grabbers."
But despite an utter lack of explanation by its pushers about how the U.N. could use a treaty to trump the United States Constitution, the conspiracy has survived over the years and has reached its zenith as ATT negotiations are finalized.
In the first week after negotiations began on July 2, Fox News featured seven appearances by opponents of the treaty compared to zero appearances by proponents. Instead of offering a cogent critique of the ATT, each guest has instead delved into conspiracy theory. Indeed, there are stark similarities between Romney's Wednesday warning and the commentary of Fox News contributor Dick Morris who claimed on July 5 that the ATT "will take the gun control issue away from the Congress and give it to the United Nations as part of an international treaty."
Romney's ATT comments were not the first time that Fox News served as the conduit between factually vacant right wing theories and the Republican presidential campaign. On Monday, Fox News deceptively edited and then hysterically promoted comments made by President Obama about small business owners. The false narrative found its way into Romney's campaign by Tuesday afternoon.
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STOURBRIDGE'S Nick Cruchley insists he can't wait to jump again after defending his pole vault gold at the BUCS Gatorade Nationals.
The 24-year-old headed to Sheffield's English Institute of Sport on Saturday, February 22, the scene of his 2013 triumph in the same contest.
Despite winning both the indoor and outdoor BUCS crowns last year, Cruchley decided to take a step away from athletics. However, he is back this season and is looking to make up for lost time.
And that was evident as the University of Birmingham student successfully held on to his title with a height of 5.40m, his best ever indoor jump.
The result has shown Cruchley that he was right to return to the sport this season and he admits he is far from over just yet.
"It's a competition I like winning. It sounds silly but I do like this comp a lot, so I am really happy with the gold medal," said the sports and material science student.
"Obviously having done indoors and outdoors for two years running, it's great to get another indoors title and it will set me up well for my next competition.
"We've got a good group of British guys hitting 5.30m and 5.40m, so we are getting strong.
"They are going to push me and it's nice to have a group of guys here to constantly compete with," he added.
"Jump higher, that's my aim. Just do what I'm doing, jump as high as possible and enjoy what I'm doing. There is qualifying for the Commonwealth Games but there are three guys quite a bit ahead of me."
The world of pole vaulting was turned upside down just days before Cruchley stormed to BUCS Gatorade Nationals gold, with Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie breaking Sergey Bubka's two-decade old world record.
And Cruchley admits that the feat has given him some impetus to push on this season.
"If you asked me a couple of years ago if anyone could break the pole vault record, I would have said no," he added.


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Library History
On June 21 the fourth annual Art in the Park drew over 1000 visitors who wanted to buy arts and crafts from local artists.
In June Susan Gabbay resigned as director after five years in that position. According to an article in the Liverpool Salina Review, Mrs. Gabbay " wanted to spend more time with the individual patrons and concentrate on the day to day affairs of the library ." Fay Golden, Children's librarian, was named as her successor beginning July 1. Mrs. Gabbay became the Assistant Director.
Using the plans drawn by the architectural firm of Sargent, Webster, Crenshaw and Foley construction was completed in less than fourteen months. The library closed on August 22 for three weeks so that materials and staff could move into the new half million dollar building located on the corner of Tulip and Seconds Streets. The ribbon cutting ceremony took place on September 21, 1975 with County Executive John H. Mulroy as the guest speaker. Other dignitaries included Liverpool Central School District Board President Arthur D. Little and Margaret A. Horner, Acting Director of the Onondaga County Library System, and D. Kenneth Sargent, the Project Manager. About two thousand people attended! Circulation set a record of 1,039.
Service hours once the new building opened were Monday through Thursday 10-9, Friday and Saturday 10-5, and Sunday 1-5. Previously the Sunday hours had been from 12 noon until 3. The library continued to be closed Saturdays during July and August and closed Sundays during June, July and August.
Programs from the Dedication and Open House listed the following Library Board of Trustees: President, Bruce N. Johnson, Vice President, Sharon Fulmer, Secretary, Dr. James Klaiber and trustees Patricia Swanson and Stuart Krupkin. Library Staff at that time included Director Fay Ann Golden, Assistant Director Susan Gabbay, Adult Services Librarian, Margaret A. Trinca, Children's Librarian, James W. Shults and Senior Clerk, Dolores Turcotte. Other clerks were Virginia Henderson, Yvette Cuppins, Esther Norton and Carol Pouliot. Typist was Wilhelmina Loucks. Pages at that time were Julie Henderson, Elizabeth Burden, Brian Turcotte, Kerima Gabbay. The Custodian was Francis ( Frank) Burgess.
Unfortunately vandalism took place the early weeks that the new building was open and staff were forced to park their cars on the street. Gas caps were stolen and tires were slashed. Discussions began about hiring a security guard.
A Christmas party was held for the staff at Fay Golden's house on Cambridge Street in Syracuse.


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For example, I used to think that Nasrallah was very faithful, but now I see that he supports the communist Syrian regime. My brother, your beard is down to your waist and you have a seven-meter turban round your head. I thought you were pious and were a Muslim? Why are you supporting people who recognize no Allah or Book? They are Marxists at heart. They have a Leftist mindset, but loudly strike their breasts and say they are Muslims, saying, "Come, O Mahdi..." Fine. But what about the system? The system is communist. Why do you support a communist government, my brother? You say you are devoted to the Qur'an and walk around in turban and robes, totally based on the Sunnah, you say. And that is all fine, masha'Allah. You must live by Islam and the Qur'an. Muslims are being slaughtered. The Red Syrian Army that recognizes no Allah, Book, religion or faith, is slaughtering Muslims, and you are watching. At least enter Syria, my brother. Say, "We will not permit Muslims to be slaughtered, so stop doing it." "No, what Syria is doing is right," he says. I really thought that Nasrallah was very faithful. I never thought that such a Muslim would make any concessions regard Islam. We look at their roots and they have one foot in Venezuela. One in Red China, and another in North Korea. They go hand in glove with Chinese experts. What kind of faithfulness is this? How is that being a Muslim. What support for the Mahdi? What army of the Mahdi is this? I fail to understand. There is a need for Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) to appear, in all respects, right across the world.
They are crude and loud and make people uncomfortable. Most women go crazy. They can do something crazy when you least expect. They can display the most amazing hypocrisy and disloyalty. But you always know what a Muslim will do. Even if angered he will be just and reasonable. Because he knows that Allah can see and hear him. So he never departs from justice and equity. He is always reasonable and forgiving and gentle. When people are irreligious though, they go crazy. They eat away at themselves out of stress. They become addicted to drugs. Then they try tranquilizers. If that doesn't work they add things to their cigarettes and smoke crack and things like that. They become aggressive and break windows and glass. They start self-harming. They become really foul, may Allah forbid.
(Advice to people who find reading books boring)
Some people say, "I do not like reading books." That may be. People may find it boring. But giving books as presents is delightful. Not enjoying reading is only 1% of it. Insist on giving books. Encourage people to read them. But my advice to those who find it boring is to open the book somewhere in the middle. Read three sentences. Then read two sentences from some other page. That will have the same effect, insha'Allah. Allah will produce the appropriate sections, the passages they need. That would be marvelous, insha'Allah.
(For sincere faith)
If you are honest and sincere, Allah will always draw you close to faith. Of course, lofty faith is a great blessing. But Allah sometimes gives average faith, or below average faith. And sometimes lofty faith. You just cling to Allah. They are all valid. Allah even accepts just submission. "Do not say you believe," He says. "You did not believe," He says. Allah tells them to say, "We have become Muslims [We have submitted]." Almighty Allah even accepts that. You must be honest. Look at the proofs of Allah. Love Allah. But you must always think the best of Allah. Allah must not be doubted. You will be disgraced afterward if you do. You will be humiliated. Always think in Allah's favor. Then you will realize that He is right. People think the worst of Allah and are then disgraced. They are always humiliated. One must always think in favor of Allah.
The love of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) comes from faith. Anyone who loves Allah will love Hazrat Mahdi. Anyone who loves our Prophet (saas) will love Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh). And anyone who hates Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will hate the Prophet (saas), may Allah forbid. Anyone opposed to Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is opposed to Allah. Because Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) espouses Islam and the Qur'an. This fear of Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) is unbelievable.
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Pronunciation: tem-blêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An earthquake.
Notes: We would all expect an earthquake to be called a trembler, but what is this temblor, with no R after the T and ending on -or? Today's Good Word is the Spanish word for "earthquake" pure and simple—no embellishments or refinements. Because it was borrowed quite recently, it has no family of related words. It is a lexical orphan.
In Play: If you have too many fair-weather friends and want to separate them from the real ones, here is a very Good Word to work with. Say something like, "I love California, but wouldn't want to live there because of the temblors." Most of your friends will jump to correct you, "I think you mean 'tremblers', don't you?" But you will have a copy of today's Good Word in your pocket to prove that you are correct. Only your true friends will talk to you after this.
Word History: Today's Good Word is the Spanish word for a large earthquake. Like other Romance languages, Spanish inherited Medieval Latin tremulare "to shake, quiver" as something like tremblar but along the way lost the first R. The loss of Rs after a consonant doesn't occur often, but occur it does. English pang was prang in Old English and speech came from Old English spraek (compare German Sprache). Notice that when the U dropped out of Latin tremulare, the resulting ML combination also caused problems in Romance languages. French and Spanish inserted a B between them (French trembler, whence English tremble). Italian, on the other hand, just dropped the L: tremare. (Today we thank Chris Berry for shaking us up with this interesting borrowing from Spanish.)


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Production is scheduled to kick off in March 2013 in China and New Zealand. Robert Sidaway, Iain Brown, Steve Sachs and Chun-Yi Yueh produce and James M Vernon of Media Funds Management and Hyde Park chief Ashok Amitraj serve as executive producers.
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Friars hope to add top guard to 2014 class
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
It's been no secret that Providence College wants to add another point guard for the upcoming 2014-15 season and the opportunity to land one could be just days away. After falling short on the Devonte Graham sweepstakes (Graham committed to Kansas), Ed Cooley and the rest of the PC coaching staff are set to welcome Lanphier High School's Larry Austin this weekend.
Austin, a 6-foot-1 point guard out of Illinois, was granted his release from Tennessee following Cuonzo Martin's decision to take his services to the University of California in mid-April. In reopening his recruitment, Austin has heard from more than thirty schools according to his head coach, Blake Turner. Fortunately for Cooley, Providence has surfaced as one of three schools that Austin has decided to visit.
This past weekend, Austin was on the campus of Xavier University and he will be traveling to Providence this weekend. Turner also believes that he plans on visiting California-Berkeley at a later date.
In terms of where the Friars currently stand with Austin, Turner reported Tuesday that his star guard has heard from Ed Cooley a lot. "He really likes him. He thinks that he is a good coach and he likes what they did last year as well as the recruiting class that they have coming in. So he's excited for this visit."
Turner also pointed out the friendship between Austin and fellow 2014 class member Jalen Lindsey. "I'm not sure how much they've talked but Jalen has definitely been talking Larry," he said. Lindsey and Austin's friendship dates back to when the two first met in 8th grade, at various AAU camps - a relationship that has apparently held strong to this day.
During Austin's final season at Lanphier he led his team to the best start in school history at 25-0 and finished his senior year averaging 23 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals. It's quite the stat line for a player who saw his national notoriety drop in the past year or so. At one time, Austin was ranked in the top 30 by national recruiting websites but he has since seen his stock fall and he currently sits outside of the Top 100 in ESPN's national recruiting rankings.
"Larry's junior year was sort of up and down," Turner explaned. "There was a coaching change and he was really worried about which school he would be going to, as well as what people were saying about him. I thought that really affected his game because he wasn't playing loose and free and his numbers showed it. Once he committed to Tennessee, he wasn't worried about that stuff anymore, and he wound up having a stellar senior year.
"He was First Team All-State on every ballot."
Austin's commitment to Tennessee wasn't the only thing that helped propel him in his last year as a high school player, however. Having played on several USA basketball teams, including the 2011 U-16 team that went on to win the gold medal, that experience has helped him become the player that he is today. Players to note on that gold medal-winning roster include Jabari Parker, Aaron Gordon and Jahlil Okafor.
"It was a tremendous experience for him. He really played well over there," said Turner. "He was the starting point guard and that was when he really solidified himself as one of the better guards in the country, especially from a defensive perspective." In the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship, Austin averaged 7.2 points and 4.4 assists a game.
Overall, Austin sounds like he would be a great find for Cooley, especially with so few guards left on the board. Turner also shared a little bit about what type of person Austin is outside of basketball. "Larry is a leader on and off the court," Turner said. "He is very active in his church, and he serves as one of the youth beacons there. He is a member of the National Honor Society and was named Academic All-Conference."
Austin may have slipped outside of the highly political "Top 100" rankings but his head coach is confident that he can succeed at the next level. He doesn't believe that Austin will drag the recruiting process on for much longer - which could be a good sign for PC heading into the weekend.
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Robert J "Bobby" Gruss, Cpl. AAC
19 August, 1944 — Tonopah, Nevada
Stories and Pictures from Bobby's cousin, Patti Johnson of Collins, Ohio... best known for her GR-8 Research for the 57th Bomb Wing and Barbi Connolly, 57th BW Researcher and Historian for her Dad's 321st Bomb Group/MTO, B-25's. WW II.
Albert and Mary Gruss' parents were both born in Czech, Albert and Mary were born in Ohio. Their children (and they had 11 living children) 2 of their sons, Albert and Robert were born in PA. In the 1930 Census, Albert was 8, Robert was 6 (born 1924)Robert J. "Bobby" Gruss was born in 1924, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the Second Son of Albert T. and Mary Elizabeth (Nee Skrovan) Gruss. His Big Brother, Albert M."Al" Gruss was about three years older. Bobby attended Lakewood High School, where he was a member of the Football Team. He Graduated from Lakewood High School in June of 1943. World War II was raging on both fronts, all across Europe and in the Pacific. After Graduation, Bobby played Minor League Baseball with the Batavia Clippers, a Class D Team, and an affiliate with the Cleveland Indians. The Batavia Clippers played in the Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, and consisted of six teams. Bobby was quite the hitter, with a batting average of .329, and a slugging percentage of 415. Bobby was ranked in the top ten, securing the 10th spot, in just 20 games and 82 bats with 27 singles, 4 doubles and 1 home run.
Robert served in the USAAC, DNB (Died Non Battle)
Gruss, Robest J. AAF Cpl. 8-19-1944 2022 Robin Avenue Tonopah, Nevada H.S.1943 Cpl. Robert Gruss died while on a routine flight near Tonopah, Nevada. He had trained to be an aerial gunner on a B-24 Liberator. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery.
My Cousin, Robert J. "Bobby" Gruss, Cpl., DNB~WW2~19 Aug 1944 (Patti Johnson)Bomber Group Training; The reason for this change was that the range could not be used successfully as a fighter training area. Possibly due to Tonopah's 6,000-foot (1,800 m) elevation and design problems with the Airacobras, the planes and pilots were being lost in crashes at an unacceptable rate. In addition, the extreme temperatures of over 100 degrees in summer had a negative effect on the P-39's performance. It was decided to change the operation to a high altitude bomber training base to train crews of the Consolidated B-24 Liberators. On March 31, 1944, its training functions being taken over by the 442nd Army Air Force Base Unit. The major activity, however, continued to be the training of replacement crews for B-24 operations. This B-24 program continued until the end of the war. During this time the Tonopah base was one of the largest military operations in Nevada and had one of the largest post exchanges in the 4th Air Force. This exchange, opened in August 1942, paid many dividends which were used for the benefit of the enlisted men. On Nov. 13th, 1943, it paid a dividend of $10,741.48, one of the largest recorded. The base also had a large bakery with a related doughnut shop. This shop. during 1943 and 1944, sold an average of 400 dozen doughnuts a day. In October, 1944, there were 66 B-24 aircraft available for the training program. At that time there were 1,264 officers and 5,273 enlisted men.
Tonopah Army Air Field was a World War II United States Army Air Force training airfield located seven miles east of the central business district (CBD) of Tonopah, a city in Nye County, Nevada, USA It was active between 1942 and 1945. Name: Gruss, Corp. Robert J.
Date: Aug 26 1944 Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #032.
Notes: Gruss: Corp. Robert J., U. S. A. A. F., beloved son of Albert and Mary (nee Skrovan), brother of Albert, jr., grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Gruss, sr., and Mrs. Sophie Skrovan, passed away suddenly Aug. 19 at Tonopah, Nev. Friends may call at late residence, 2022 Robin ave., Saturday after 11 a. m. Funeral Monday, Aug. 28, at 9:30 a. m. from SS. Cyril and Methodius Church. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Jos. B. Misencek in charge.
National WWII Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Registry~NARA~War Department Files
Honoree Hometown Service Source
CPL Robert J. Gruss ID: 35067530
Branch of Service: U.S. Army
Hometown: Cuyahoga County, OH
Status: DNB


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The 2001 NIKE U.S. Women's Cup marks the first tournament competition for the United States since the kickoff of the WUSA. The tournament will be an early test for U.S. head coach April Heinrichs as she begins to formulate plans for next year's CONCACAF qualifying round for the 2003 Women's World Cup to be held in China.
"This will be the first time our players will come together after playing in a pro league for six months," said Heinrichs. "The most exciting aspect is that they will enter the tournament in peak physical and technical condition after having trained daily, and competed in games weekly, while having their competitive edge sharpened. We will come together as a team at a higher level than ever before. We certainly have to get used to playing together again and playing at that speed, but we will the hit the ground running faster than we ever have for a world class event."
After Germany and Japan open the tournament on Friday, Sept. 7, at a venue to be determined in Chicago, the first of three doubleheaders involving the U.S. women will take place on Sunday, Sept. 9, at Soldier Field. The USA will face Germany (Noon CT) in a match broadcast live on ESPN, followed by long-time Asian rivals China and Japan (2:30 p.m. CT). The tournament will then move to Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, site of matches at NIKE U.S. Women's Cup '99. China and Germany will play at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, followed by the USA playing Japan at 9 p.m. in a match broadcast live on ESPN2.
The tournament concludes on Sunday, September 16, with a crackling doubleheader as the USA faces China at Noon CT in a game broadcast live on ESPN. That match will be followed by an MLS contest featuring the defending champion Kansas City Wizards vs. the Colorado Rapids in Kansas City's regular season finale. The USA-China match marks the first time the two teams have met on American soil since the historic 1999 Women's World Cup Final, won by the USA in dramatic fashion on penalty kicks.
Tickets for the 2001 NIKE U.S. Women's Cup go on sale online and at Ticketmaster on Friday, June 8. Ticket prices for the USA-Germany and China-Japan doubleheader at Soldier Field range from $18-45 and can be purchased at all Chicago area Ticketmaster outlets or fans can order by phone by calling 312/559-1212. Tickets for the doubleheader in Columbus featuring China vs. Germany and the USA vs. Japan range from $18-40 and can be purchased at all Ohio Ticketmaster outlets (614/431-3600) and the Columbus Crew Stadium ticket office. Fans can also call 877/CREWFAN for more ticket information. Tickets for the doubleheader in Kansas City, Mo. range from $13-28 and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets in the Mid-America region and at the Arrowhead Stadium ticket office. Fans can charge by phone by calling 816/931-3330. Group discounts are also available for the tournament doubleheaders. Fans can get more detailed information on NIKE U.S. Women's Cup tickets by logging onto www.us-soccer.com.
The USA has faced Germany at Soldier Field before, winning 4-2 on June 28, 1998, in a friendly match. The next time the two teams met it produced one of the greatest games in U.S. Soccer history as the Americans came from behind twice to defeat Germany, 3-2, in the 1999 Women's World Cup quarterfinals.
The two teams last met on July 22, 2000, in Braunschweig, Germany, as the USA recorded a 1-0 victory in the DFB Jubilee Tournament on a goal from Tiffeny Milbrett. Germany will be coming off the 2001 European Women's Championships taking place in Germany from June 23-July 7 as they try to win their third consecutive continental crown.
"Germany will come to the U.S. Cup very played-in as a national team as all of their players will have come straight off their league into the European Championships," said Heinrichs. "We could easily have the European champions in this event."
The USA has a score to settle with Japan as the last match between the two teams yielded a 1-1 draw in the USA's final game of 2000 after 13 consecutive wins for the Americans over the Japanese. Atlanta Beat star Homare Sawa scored for her country while the Bay Area CyberRays Brandi Chastain had the USA's lone goal.
"After our game against Japan following the Olympics, one of the things I'm convinced of is that they are a harder team than they were in the Women's World Cup," added Heinrichs. "They are more assertive and certainly more dangerous and confident in the attacking third. They could be a surprise team that upsets one of the other three teams."
The USA has to go back eight matches to find the last time it beat China in regulation as Tisha Venturini scored the winning goal in stoppage time for a 2-1 victory in Hershey, Pa on April 22, 1999. The USA lost, 2-1, three days later at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. The next meeting was the Women's World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. China defeated the USA 1-0 at the Pacific Cup in Australia on May 31, 2000, but the USA rebounded to win the tournament after China lost to Canada on penalty kicks in group play.
The USA and China played to 1-1 ties at both the DFB Jubliee Tournament in Germany in July of 2000 and in the opening round of the 2000 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The two teams played twice in January in China, as a young U.S. team performed extremely well, giving up a last minute goal in a 1-0 loss in Panyu before tying the powerful Chinese 1-1 in Hangzhou.
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text: Elections 11 September 2012 How the fighting talk fizzled from Mitt Romney's Republican Party The GOP has allowed the Democrats to seize their ideological heartland - patriotism and defence. Sign up to the Staggers Morning Call email * Print HTML Mitt Romney is in Ohio again, his fifteenth trip to this state this year. He pledged yesterday at a campaign rally in Mansfield, about three hours east of Hicksville, to protect the military from coming budgetary cuts to defence, known as the "sequestration". He was undermined by the fact that a majority of congressional republicans – his running-mate Paul Ryan included – voted in favour of it. This is the latest in a series of similar embarrassments for the Romney campaign. The Grand Old Party, as the Republicans are known, has been comprehensively outflanked and routed on the subject of the military, and are ceding vast swathes of territory on what just eight years ago was their home ground: patriotism and defence. The evidence is clearest in the candidates' speeches to their national conventions. In his acceptance speech in 2004, George W Bush used the words "troops," "Iraq," "Afghanistan," "battle," "soldier," "terror" and "safe," and their derivatives (safety, terrorist, terrorism and so on) a total of 58 times – fifty-eight – to John Kerry's 11. This pattern reversed in the 2008 election. John McCain used the above words just nine times in his acceptance speech, while Obama used them 29 times – though the effect of this was somewhat lightened by McCain's own war record, on which his campaign dwelt incessantly. This reversal is even more dramatic in the conventions just past. While Obama did tone down the fighting talk, using those words above just 11 times, Mitt Romney did not use any of them. Not even once. Remember that this is the presidential nominee from the party of George W Bush, the party that forged the neo-conservatism of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney; remember also that this is the party that coined the phrase "war on terror". Not once did this man who wants to be elected Commander-in-Chief of the world's most powerful military mention the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; not once did he mention terrorism, or war. Veterans and soldiers merited not one single solitary mention. Ryan, too, failed to hint at even the existence of any of these things in his speech. John McCain was a war veteran; in fact he had a long and distinguished military career. Mitt Romney is not, and nor is this a deficit his running-mate fills; indeed, as mentioned before, Ryan voted in favour of sequestration of the military budget. The Democrats are planting banners and occupying what used to be the Republicans' ideological heartland. Perhaps their party leadership simply got complacent, unable to conceive that the Democrats could steal a march on them in this way. Perhaps the rise in influence of the Tea Party on the far right, with their small-government and big-God ideals, has something to do with it. More likely is that, given the Romney-Ryan ticket's paucity of foreign policy heft, their campaign tacticians are scared of bringing up the subject and allowing the President to play his trump card: the killing of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011. The Obama campaign has just brought out a new poster which says :"Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska; Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching Rocky IV". They are also firing broadsides into Romney's pledges to protect military spending while reducing the deficit; this was the bullseye of Bill Clinton's barnstorming "arithmetic" line in his speech last week. Yesterday in his Ohio rally, Romney ran to one of the few remaining Republican safe zones left – religion – pledging to keep God in the public sphere and in his party's platform - a thinly-veiled reference to the Democrats' omission of the word from theirs. But, in front of a military crowd, the blow failed to land. Today is 9/11, the anniversary of the day that changed America – and American foreign policy – forever. Today will be a day of solemnity and remembrance for both campaigns, and for the nation. Romney is spending the day in Reno, Nevada, addressing the National Guard Association conference alongside a brace of generals. But it seems like too little, too late. Those horrific attacks, eleven years ago today, lit a fire deep in the belly of this country. It seems to have fizzled and died in the belly of the Republican Party. › Morning Call: pick of the papers Mitt Romney didn't use words like "soldier", "terror" or "safe" once in his convention speech. 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Speech by Ambassador Wittig in honor of Fritz Stern on the Occasion of the Sander Prize Award Ceremony
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"I am delighted and humbled to have been chosen as a speaker in honor of Fritz Stern. I could not imagine a better first award-winner of the Sander prize! And I am particularly pleased to announce to you tonight that I have been authorized by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel to transmit her warm personal greetings and congratulations to Fritz Stern as he receives this wonderful prize. This is certainly a rare tribute that the Chancellor pays to a man for whom she feels enormous respect and affection.
Fritz Stern arrived in New York City in October 1938. His family was driven out by the Nazis just a month before the "Kristallnacht". The Sterns looked for a place to live. Instead of moving to Washington Heights, already known as the "Fourth Reich" because of its large community of German refugees, they settled down in Jackson Heights in Queens, a greener borough than Manhattan. Fritz was 12 years old. He was awestruck by this new world, yet overwhelmed by the thrill of freedom. But it came with a price: tremendous insecurity. What a difference to the shielded world of his hometown of Wroclaw –Breslau in German - , a prosperous and culturally vibrant Silesian city, home of a famous university, where the Sterns and their forebears – mostly physicians – had led a life as highly respected members of a proud "Bildungsbürgertum"!
Fritz had one important asset: A battered old typewriter! So in the midst of a difficult transition from the old world to the new he became the "letter-writer" of the family. While his parents had to keep the family afloat, Fritz communicated with their scattered relatives in the old world and the new acquaintances in New York. Letter-writing became a passion, an inner impulse of the 12-year old.
Soon he delved into politics: He appealed to New York's great mayor, LaGuardia, to run again for office. He applauded Erika Mann, the eldest daughter of Thomas Mann, for her book on German education called "School for Barbarians" – a subject Fritz knew about, having suffered himself from exclusion and emerging hatred as the sole "non-Arian" in his school back in Germany. Observing the world around him with curiosity and engagement, writing profusely and with enthusiasm, and – like a good archivist - keeping carbon- copies of his letters - it seems that the young Fritz, who had to arrive prematurely at the threshold of adulthood, bore the seed of the later master historian already in him.
Expelled by the Nazis and belonging to a family of converted Christians, he became an American and a Jew, yet he symbolizes what many have called the "Jewish-German symbiosis". Certainly he had already found the main topics that would shape his lifelong interest as a historian: Germany's role in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Before embarking on that road, he briefly hesitated to decide which path to take: To follow the family tradition or his inner calling? He consulted no lesser an authority than Albert Einstein, a family acquaintance. Einstein was clear. He told young Fritz: "That's simple: Medicine is a science, and history is not. Hence, medicine !" What a blessing that Einstein –for once –was not right! And what strength and resolve of the young Fritz Stern to rebuff a genius!
Fritz Stern's brilliant early work "The Politics of Cultural Despair" identifies one of the intellectual root causes of the rise of Nazi ideology. The attack of influential intellectuals in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (Lagarde, Langbehn, Müller van den Bruck) against modernity and liberalism - though hardly a uniquely German phenomenon- fell on particularly fertile ground in Germany, thereby undermining the fragile democracy of Weimar. Stern's warnings against the temptations of German cultural pessimism kept recurring at later junctures of the post-war Federal Republic of Germany.
Of course, his undisputed masterpiece is the work on Bismarck and Bleichröder, his Jewish banker, called "Gold and Iron". Stern had invested 16 years of scholarly life into this book about the relations between Germans and Jews. He discovered that Bleichröder not only supervised Bismarck's growing fortune, but was deeply involved in politics and international finance – even serving intermittently as Bismarck's secret agent. Bleichröder epitomized what Stern called "the anguish of assimilation": As a patriotic parvenu and the wealthiest man in Germany, he became the ideal target for the rising anti-semitism. The Historian Golo Mann, another child of Thomas Mann, called "Gold and Iron" "one of the most important historical works of the past few decades".
The Historian Fritz Stern produced towering masterpieces – he was moved by the lure of working in archives, but he was also imbued with what he himself called "intellectual-political wanderlust". He liked to venture into new territory. As no other historian before him, he was intrigued by the German-Jewish pioneers of the modern scientific age, the second "Geniezeit" at the beginning of the twentieth century:
His masterful portraits of Albert Einstein, Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy and the greatest luminary of Breslau, and of Fritz Haber, Nobel-prize laureate in chemistry (and incidentally a family friend and godfather of Fritz Stern – hence the name Fritz), those portraits are works of unparalleled intuition and sensitivity, recalling an era of German scientific excellence that prompted Raimond Aron to once say to Fritz Stern: "It could have been Germany's century!"
What is so alluring about Fritz Stern's way to approach history? First of all, the illuminating force of his own personal experience. His history is never bloodless positivism, it is underpinned by engagement and concern. For Fritz Stern, being a historian always means being a writer! His prose is a clear, artful narrative. He rarely theorizes. Hence the sheer pleasure of reading Fritz Stern. One reviewer compared his Bleichröder-book to a great nineteenth century novel: I am sure Fritz didn't mind that comparison. Literature has always had a firm place in his intellectual cosmos. How could it be otherwise with a home back in Breslau, where Heinrich Heine poems were read to the children and learned by heart. The novels of Theodor Fontane were as important to his insight into nineteenth century Germany as any other historical source.
Fritz Stern believes in the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history, no "Weltgeist", no iron-clad laws that predetermine the fate of nations and individuals. For the historian that means: The past contains the seeds of many futures and is open to ever-changing interpretations.
Fritz Stern is a great believer in the power of ideas and the power of the individual to make a difference in history: Not only groundbreaking decisions of leaders, but also acts of courage of individual citizens that can acquire historic force. He has a penchant for dissenters and resistors. Stern is a historical portrait artist. His intuition, his sensitivity, yes, and his refined sense of historic drama stand out. And usually –somewhere – there is a biographical thread that binds him to his figures. Take his exceptional latest book (together with his wife Elisabeth Sifton) on Bonhoeffer and Dohnanyi: Two German resistors against Hitler. What helped him to capture the essence of their personalities with sympathy and profound knowledge of their milieu? Their families were linked in the Berlin of the 1930s.
Undoubtedly Fritz Stern is the master historian of contemporary Germany, but to us Germans he is much more than that: He is one of the "good spirits" (ein "guter Geist") of the Federal Republic of Germany. His own life story reflects the catastrophes but also the hopes of twentieth century Germany. He became not only an engaged observer of postwar Germany, but a coveted adviser and –if need be – an admonisher. I cannot think of any intellectual from abroad who commands such enormous moral and political authority in my country.
That it would turn out that way was far from self-evident. By the end of the war, the young Fritz felt relief but also intense hatred vis-a-vis the Germans. How could it have been otherwise in the face of Auschwitz! But a couple of years later came the turning point: Fritz Stern attended the ceremonies commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attempt on Hitler's life made on July 20, 1944. In his splendid memoir "the Five Germanys I have known" he described that day as a moving, even purging experience - meeting the families of those who had risked and lost their lives in the resistance against Hitler and yet were still denounced by many Germans as "traitors" ("Vaterlandsverräter").
"I looked at the people in the courtyard – old, distinguished and sadly proud, dressed in mourning, faces hardened and humbled by suffering – I felt a sense of shame for my indiscriminate hatred of Germans." Five and a half decades later, on July 20 2010, Fritz Stern returned to Berlin to honour the resistors against Hitler in the Bendler-Block, that bleak place where Claus von Stauffenberg and his circle were executed. His great speech to me is one of the most perceptive and sensitive accounts of the men and women of the 20th of July, of their milieu, their predicament, and their soul-searching.
Fritz Stern became a benevolent companion, a "Weggefährte", of the Federal Republic of Germany. As a great American liberal, he knew about the fragility of freedom and the human potential for evil. Having studied the dangerous consequences of illiberal "cultural pessimism" and of the popular misconceptions of the so-called "unpolitical Germans" (as epitomized in Thomas Mann's famous book of 1918), he is a fervent advocate of civic engagement. This is his message: Freedom is the greatest good of modern times, and civic participation in the "res publica" is both a duty and a privilege!
There was no greater joy for him than the peaceful revolutions in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin that led to Germany's reunification. He coined the famous phrase of "Germany's second chance". Indeed, a rare gift for nations. Contrary to many Western observers who looked at German unification with apprehension, if not fear, Fritz Stern embraced it without reserve, labeling the year 1989 "the brightest moment in Europe's darkest century."
Fritz Stern had the rare opportunity to translate his insights, the historian's lessons from the past, into practical advice and political guidance for the present. Richard Holbrooke, the ebullient and innovative Ambassador to Germany, recruited him as "Senior Adviser" to the American Embassy in the mid-90s. What a memorable return to Germany: Fritz Stern as a diplomat – shaping US-policy in Bonn. He lived in both countries, trying to bring them together both intellectually and politically.
Fritz has been endowed with a gift for friendship. Myriads of Europeans and Germans can testify to that. Two stand out in particular. He called them "life-changing friendships": Ralf Dahrendorf and Marion Gräfin Dönhoff – both exceptionally brilliant, liberal, transatlantic minds. And there is Helmut Schmidt, the admired statesman whom he befriended and whose official biography he was at one point tempted to write. It seems to me that friendship for Fritz Stern is not just an essential ingredient for individual happiness, it is a political category in the Aristotelian sense: "Philia – the friendship for the good – is the glue that binds citizens, the "polis" together. A body politic reduced to political power play without "philia" becomes soulless.
We owe to Fritz Stern "philia" (and I include here his wonderful wife Elisabeth) and we owe to him wisdom – never propounded in the style of a righteous "praeceptor", but offered with humility, with rare generosity, and a fundamental human attitude. His life was shaped by the catastrophe of national socialism. As a historian, he grappled with it, yet admitted that after a life of scholarly study, the triumph of the Nazis in Germany -a country of culture and education – retained ultimately a residue of something utterly inexplicable. He warned us – we who had never been tested nor tempted - against moral haughtiness in dealing with the past, in which people didn't know what we know now.
May I add a personal note here: it was this enigma of the rise of the Nazis that turned me, as a young man, into a student of History and Political Science – and Fritz Stern became one of my intellectual lodestars!
Fritz Stern once said: "German-American understanding was a dictate of history, of politics and of my own life. I am a citizen of one country – the United States. But my love belongs to two languages."
Germans are immensely grateful to Fritz Stern's persistent benevolent, sometimes critical, involvement in post-war German Affairs. He helped us to gain confidence on the path to a responsible liberal democracy and to win the trust of our neighbors, our transatlantic friends, and our partners in the world. The lessons of the past – so wisely formulated by Fritz Stern – guide us in dealing with today's challenges. I am therefore confident that we will not miss our "second chance". In times of crises more than ever, the German people and their leaders will not forget that our future is inextricably linked to the well-being of a peaceful and prosperous Europe and a strong transatlantic partnership.
As a German, as a historian, and as a friend it is my great privilege to honor Fritz Stern tonight. He has given us so much: His scholarly work, his humanity and his friendship!"


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In the late 1950s in the Ozone Park section of New York City, the family of Peter and Marguerite Lazzara would gather around the TV set on Sunday nights to watch "The Ed Sullivan Show."
The variety format appealed to the family, especially to the youngest of their three children, Bernadette. She started acting and singing early, and grew up to international acclaim as Bernadette Peters, winning multiple awards and rating a star of her own on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Peters will be singing some of the most popular songs in the standard repertoire for "One Enchanted Evening" with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra on Thursday.
With her trademark curly brown hair and eternally youthful, pixie-like countenance, who would guess it's her 65th birthday?
The show takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the theater of the Ernest Morial New Orleans Convention Center, and Marvin Laird guest conducts.
Peters is a three-time Tony Award winner, with roles in dozens of Broadway productions, feature films, TV shows and made-for-TV movies, plus concerts, recordings and even a couple of books to her credit. Shouldn't she see herself as a Renaissance woman?
"I don't know," was her modest reply. "I just do what I do and try to do the best I can. I sing songs that I connect to, and if I connect to them the audience does also. Basically I know my job is to be there to entertain, whether it's funny or real or dramatic."
Peters' New Orleans audience is likely to hear two of the songs she performed live in her most recent Broadway production of "Follies," plus a sampling of classics from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," Stephen Sondheim, Peggy Lee and possibly even the Disney theme song, "When You Wish Upon a Star."
"I love working with a large orchestra, and I've heard such wonderful things about the Louisiana Philharmonic," Peters said. "I am really looking forward to performing with them."
Peters is no stranger to the Crescent City, having done shows at the Fairmont (now Roosevelt) Hotel and playing a role in the Lifetime TV movie "Living Proof," starring Harry Connick Jr. In that 2008 film, based on a true story and shot in New Orleans, she portrayed the first woman saved by a drug developed to treat breast cancer patients.
"I actually got to meet the woman I was cast as and the doctor who developed the drug," she said.
Peters' acting career began at the age of 3 with appearances on an early 1950s TV show called "Juvenile Jury," followed by appearances on "Name That Tune" and "The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour."
By the time she was 9, she was a card-carrying member of Actors Equity. Now, after more than six decades in the field, she sees musical theater as once again appealing to younger generations.
"They're going back to that," Peters said, citing Justin Timberlake's recent appearance on the Grammy Awards program sporting a 1940s look.
"The cultural scene is wide open for anything. I'm noticing a lot of young people at my shows, especially when there's a college nearby and they're studying musical theater. They are there and are really having fun."
Peters' fans will have several opportunities to see her on TV this spring, with the resumption of the NBC show "Smash."
Portraying the role of a former stage actress whose daughter is a rising musical comedy star, she will be in the April 9 and 16 episodes, singing two original compositions by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman of "Hairspray" fame.
Last season, she was in two episodes of the show and sang "Everything's Coming Up Roses." The role, centered on the Broadway scene, is something, Peters said, "I can definitely relate to."
Ticket prices for the Bernadette Peters LPO concert start at $20 and are available online at http://www.LPOmusic.com or by calling (504) 523-6530. The concert is two hours with a 20-minute intermission.


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I'm not sure how dark of a knight Batman is, but director-writer Christopher Nolan certainly seems to be comfortable with his dark side. In Batman Begins, he posited the tragic origins that led Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) to adopt a secret identity and scours the streets as a vigilante on the side of right. In that film, Batman's mentor and later nemesis, Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson) saw the bleak, stylized city of Gotham as a diseased boil of humanity that needed to be erased. It was an almost Faustian dialectic, with Luciferian Ra's in a face-off with God-like Batman, arguing with biblical vehemence over whether mankind could — should survive.
Then came The Dark Knight — a longer, crazier movie that really did explore the two sides of mankind (represented, late in the film, with the villain Two-Face). There, Heath Ledger's iconic Joker — a character without an apparent alter ego, a raging id unleashing meaningless chaos on a city of beings he held in contempt. There was no reason, no logic behind Joker's trail of havoc; he was torturing the citizens of Gotham (which now looked less like a comic-book fortress and more like New York City) with mind games merely to prove an obscure point about human failings. Unlike Ra's, his mission was merely destructive.
With The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan seems to be attempting to bridge these similar but unconnected attacks of Gotham into a unified principle. Once again, the villain is a demonic, Joker-like entity operating entirely on evil impulse. We learn a little about Bane (Tom Hardy), who lives his entire existence behind a mask that gives him the skull-like appearance of a tiger perpetually gnashing its fangs. Who he is seems almost irrelevant again — it's what he represents, the lesser angels of mankind.


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A teenage fundraiser from Horsforth is organising her second fashion show in aid of sick children.
Fourteen-year-old Beth Hare who started fundraising at the age of ten, has so far raised a total of £45,000 – more than half of which went to Martin House Hospice.
She is also hoping to raise a minimum of £300,000 to build Smile Cottage, a place where families can go and spend quality time and build happy memories when they are faced with the news that their child has a very short life expectancy.
Now she is planning the second Style for Smiles annual fashion show, which will be held on Friday, February 28, at Headingley Experience, Headingley Carnegie Stadium. The event is being staged in conjunction with the organisers of the prestigious Leeds Fashion Show.
Capital FM Radio Breakfast Show Presenter, JoJo, is to host the evening, which is being supported by a wide range of designers and fashion houses Bethany thanked everyone for their support and said: "Last year's event raised over £3,000 and I have my fingers crossed that this year we can raise even more."
The evening will begin at 7pm with a shopping experience and entertainment from band The Ivy's, with the catwalk show starting at 8pm. It will culminate with an auction of outfits donated by the designers taking part in the show – giving the audience an opportunity to bid for a rare or one-off design.
Bethany, of Horsforth, was treated to the photo shoot, in the run up to the fundraiser, by make-up artist Pamela Clare and Leeds Fashion Show's Rhonda Richards, who will be helping with the event.
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There was reason for Disney to feel some anxiety going into the opening weekend of Oz The Great And Powerful: Box office to this point in 2013 has been dismal, with the mediocre Melissa McCarthy comedy Identity Thief the only true breakout hit; another $200 million fantasy, Jack And The Giant Slayer, had tanked badly the weekend before; and reviews of the film have been largely unkind and of the blood-in-the-water variety. But $80.2 million later—and another $70 million overseas—the company brass could celebrate, perhaps by treating themselves to a wild four-day learning bender at Epcot Center. (Poor Jack And The Giant Slayer, competing for the same family audience, dropped an astonishing 63%, putting it on pace to flop worse than John Carter.) Meanwhile, the poorly received Colin Ferrell/Noomi Rapace thriller Dead Man Down, from the director of the Swedish The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, sputtered into four place on opening weekend with just $5.35 million in receipts.
In limited release, Roadside Attractions scored a minor success with the Matthew Fox-Tommy Lee Jones war movie Emperor, passing the million-dollar threshold on 260 screens with a respectable $4,012 per screen. Nick Offerman's virtual residency at the Music Box in Chicago over the weekend paid off big time for Somebody Up There Likes Me, which had by far the strongest per screen average at $38,500—but unless Offerman multiplies and does Q&As at arthouses across the country, it's likely that number will drop precipitously on subsequent weekends. In other news, the Michel Gondry experiment The We And The I enjoyed a solid $12,300 on one screen and Beyond The Hills, Cristian Mungiu's follow-up to 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, collected $6,000 per screen on three screens.
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January 21, 2013 at 1:00 pm Valerie at Inner Child Fun 1 comment
This idea for crafty coloring fun is brought to you by Melissa & Doug, written by our Blog Ambassador Valerie Deneen.
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Do your kids enjoy coloring? Do they spend lots of time doodling and drawing? Do you need a simple activity that encourages siblings to share, cooperate, and get along?? Then this collaborative coloring activity is for you!
To do your own collaborative coloring activity at home, you will need at least one other drawing companion, some crayons, and a large sheet or tabletop roll of drawing paper. Begin by explaining that the kids have just 30 seconds to draw on a section of the paper, set a timer.
When the timer goes off, it's time to switch places with someone else, and continue the other person's drawing for another 30 seconds! Continue for a few minutes, or until your masterpiece is complete.
This simple activity can help encourage kids to share supplies, let go of perfection in their artwork (and enjoy the process!), and learn to get along with others. My kids quickly realized that my older daughter was great at drawing buildings, for example, while my little one was happy to help fill in the details with windows and doors. Once she was done, my oldest would take her turn again and fill in some people scenes in the windows, and on and on they went!
I also love that we had a colorful mural when they were all finished — a great keepsake to remember our time together! There is no wrong way to do this, so gather up those crayons & paper and get creative!
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PROPOSALS for a massive shake-up which would see the number of Dudley councillors cut by a third have been rejected.
At a meeting of the full council last night (July 14) a motion from UKIP group leader, Cllr Ken Turner, was thrown out by a majority of ten votes.
Cllr Turner had proposed a reduction of the number of councillors for each of the authority's 24 wards from three to two.
His plan also included a change the timing of elections for the authority to once every four years where voters would choose a councillor for every seat.
Currently a third of members are elected at each election to serve four years, meaning the borough has local elections in three years out of every four.
Councillor Turner says modern communication technology means politicians can work much faster and get through a greater workload so three councilors per ward is unnecessary and a cut would save cash.
The plan had the support of the council's Conservative group but was sure to be defeated when the leader of the majority Labour group, David Sparks, gave it the thumbs down.
Cllr Sparks said: "I am not against the principle of the reduction of membership but Dudley is a metropolitan district and all of them have the same system. If there is going to be change there should be change in all of them.
"This is not right to do this."
Dudley's leader added when Electoral Commission decided 72 councilors was an appropriate number for Dudley the borough's population was 305,000 and would be unlikely to change its mind because since then the population had increased to 317,000.
He also argued there would be little cash saved under the scheme because if there were just two councillors per ward they would need to be paid to work full-time.


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