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Last year, 63 riders were involved in serious collisions, with an increase in motorcyclists from outside the area.
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The annual Operation Focus campaign starts this weekend and will run until early autumn, with police hoping it will reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured.
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In April 2011, the force said it was moving away from the controversial policy of actively stopping and talking to as many bikers as possible.
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"Responsible riders are welcome to visit the area and take in the stunning scenery and landscape, but even they face risk of death or serious injury by underestimating the risk posed by fatigue brought on by a combination of driving long distances and concentrating on navigating challenging and unfamiliar routes."
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MILWAUKEE -- After Blue Jays starter Drew Hutchison met with Dr. Tim Kremchek in Cincinnati for a second opinion on his injured right elbow, manager John Farrell said there was no new news to report. "The evaluation with Dr. Kremchek came back and was consistent with the sprain that was discovered with the first test in Toronto," Farrell said. "[Hutchinson has] taken that information. He's also gone back to Florida and reported back to Dunedin.
"He's going to go through some additional testing with our doctors in Florida, and then at that point, he'll take all the information gathered, sit down with his family and determine the next plan of action."
That next plan of action could include Tommy John surgery, which fellow starter Kyle Drabek had done by Dr. James Andrews on Tuesday. "I'm not saying that's completely ruled out," Farrell said. "But I think at this point, he probably needs another day or two to work through some things on his own behalf and certainly discuss some things with his family."


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Thank you, Alex, for that kind introduction.
I know that the discussions and debates going on in Washington right now are something you care about. And I want to talk today about the question of how we deal with our fiscal challenges: to explain why this is important, what should be done, the politics and the economics of a credible solution, and the perils and the promise of the negotiations now underway in Washington.
I chose this subject not because it is the only challenge that we face in economic policy. With unemployment still around 9 percent and millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes, seeing the value of their savings eroded, and feeling uncertain about their future economic security, we face formidable economic challenges. But our ability to deal with all those challenges will now be determined by our ability to restore long-run fiscal sustainability.
We spent the last decade piling on debt to pay for expensive tax cuts, a large prescription drug benefit, and two wars.
On top of this legacy of choices, we had to clean up the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
And we face unsustainable future fiscal deficits, caused, in part, by the dramatic rise in the number of Americans who will turn 65 in the next decade, combined with the fact that we now live longer and will spend more on health care.
Now we have to find a way to return to living within our means.
Our economy is very resilient and very dynamic. And as we continue to repair the damage caused by this recession, you can see encouraging signs of future economic strength in the pace of innovation by American companies in advanced technology, the improvement in the personal savings rate, and the breadth of strength in export growth.
But our fiscal problems are so pressing that they threaten to undermine the foundations of our future economic strength, our ability to protect our national security interests, and our capacity to sustain the commitments made by 13 presidents over 75 years to provide economic security to the poor and the elderly.
We now borrow 40 cents for every dollar we spend, and under current policies, our total federal debt burden will be almost as large as the entire American economy within the next decade.
We do not have the option of leaving this problem to another day, another Congress, another President.
It is true that we are now able to fund these deficits at very low interest rates, less than 3.5 percent now for a 10 year Treasury bond. But these rates are a reflection of confidence that we will act, not a justification for inaction. And they are unusually low now also because of the relative lack of other investment alternatives in a world still recovering from crisis and with the other major economies facing comparatively tougher problems than even ours here in the United States.
There is no way of knowing how long financial markets will give the American political system to get ahead of this problem. But it makes no sense for us to wait until they force action upon us.
As we saw in the fall of 2008, when confidence turns, it can turn with brutal force and with a momentum that is very difficult and costly to arrest. This is a threat we should pre-empt. If we don't, the economic damage and the human cost will be much greater. Confidence is much more expensive to recover than to keep.
If we leave our debt problems unaddressed, those who lend us the resources to fund our past and future commitments will eventually demand higher interest rates. Government borrowing in the future will crowd out private investment. With so much capital being required to finance government debt, interest rates are likely to increase for other types of borrowing. Higher borrowing costs for American households and businesses will discourage future private investment, lowering our capital stock, reducing our economic growth and depressing our standard of living.
The costs of paying higher interest rates will make us poorer. Every dollar in interest payments means a dollar in higher future taxes or a dollar we can't spend on more productive investments like education, our national security, or programs for the poor, the elderly or those with disabilities.
For all these reasons, the choice we face is not whether we start to get our fiscal house in order, but how we do it.
And to provide some context for the choices we must make now to preserve room for important investments in our future, consider the following facts:
In the United States of America today, 40 percent of children born each year are covered by Medicaid. If you are born today in hard-pressed communities in many American cities, like St. Louis or Baltimore, you are more likely to die before your first birthday than if you were born in Sri Lanka or Belarus.
In education, we're losing ground. For example, in Los Angeles, only about half the kids graduate from high school.
Over the next 25 years, the number of Americans eligible for Medicare and Social Security will nearly double, while the number of working age Americans will only increase by about 10 percent, putting substantial new burdens on working Americans.
We live in a dangerous world, with our young men and women fighting and dying to protect our freedom. We spend $700 billion a year on national security, and this is only about two-thirds of what we spent as a share of our economy during the Cold War.
The effective income tax rate for the wealthiest Americans—those earning more than $250,000 a year—is at its lowest level in 50 years. And the effective rate for the very rich—those earning over $10 million per year— has declined much further and is now around 21 percent.
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Clearly, we have some tough choices to make. To put us on a path to living within our means, we have to bring our deficits down, gradually but dramatically, over the next three to five years.
We need to cut the annual deficits, now roughly 10 percent of GDP, to the point where the overall debt burden begins to fall as a share of the economy.
This requires that we achieve and maintain what economists call primary surplus, which means that we cut what we spend, on everything except interest payments, to less than we raise in revenues.
For the United States, this means a deficit below 3 percent of GDP.
Achieving this is the essential test of fiscal sustainability.
But we can't do this too quickly. It has to be a multi-year process, with cuts phased in over time, that doesn't put at risk an economy coming out of crisis. With interest rates very low, we cannot count on the Federal Reserve to be able to offset the contractionary effects on economic growth of a lurch to excessive austerity.
If we put our deficits on a path to get them below 3 percent of GDP by 2015 and hold them there, with reforms that politicians commit to sustain, then the federal debt held by the public will peak in the range of 70 to 80 percent of GDP, and then start to fall.
The economic and political question is not whether but how best to achieve this objective. The debate we now confront is how to cut these deficits while strengthening our ability to grow and compete, protecting our national security interests, and preserving health care and retirement security for the elderly, the poor and people with disabilities.
Let me describe how the President proposes to restore fiscal responsibility.
First, the President proposes to reduce spending across the government while at the same time protecting the investments we need to strengthen the economy.
Toward this objective, the President has proposed cutting spending on government functions outside of national security, health care, and Social Security by more than $1 trillion over the next 12 years. These cuts will bring non-security discretionary spending to its lowest level since Eisenhower and will involve savings in other mandatory programs, including agricultural subsidies.
And on top of this, the President proposes to cut $400 billion in security spending, while making sure we maintain our capacity to meet our national security responsibilities.
The President's framework cuts government spending while at the same time financing productive investments in areas critical to future economic growth, such as education, research and innovation, infrastructure, and clean energy.
These investments meet two key tests: they have very high returns in terms of future growth and the private markets will not finance these things at an adequate level without the catalyst of government.
Alongside these investments, the President proposes to remake the corporate tax system so that it does a better job of promoting business investment in the United States.
Together, these reforms reflect the reality that the composition of spending cuts is hugely consequential to whether deficit reduction hurts or helps future economic growth.
Second, the President proposes substantial savings from Medicare and Medicaid, on top of the reforms in the Affordable Care Act. Together, these programs are about one-fifth of our budget, and because of the aging of the population, the increase in life expectancy and rising cost of new medical treatments, they are the main source of long-term deficits.
For Medicaid, the President proposes at least $100 billion in savings over the next 10 years, while making it easier for the states to administer the program.
For Medicare, the President proposes at least another $200 billion in savings over the next 10 years by harnessing the purchasing power of Medicare to control spending on medicine, doctors and hospitals. In addition, he would build on the fundamental reforms in the Affordable Care Act that were praised by independent health experts from across the political spectrum, including by requiring the Independent Payment Advisory Board to target cost growth in Medicare to GDP plus 0.5 percent.
And while Social Security is not the cause of our current deficits, the President has said that Republicans and Democrats need to come together to make changes to the program that will put it on solid footing well into the future.
Finally, the President's budget framework proposes changes to the tax code that will reduce the deficit while moving toward a more fair and simpler system.
By restoring the tax rates on individuals earning more than $250,000 to their level during the Clinton years; returning the estate tax to 2009 rates; and scaling back tax expenditures, the President's plan would generate additional revenue, without putting at risk future incentives for investment or growth.
The changes must be grounded in realistic assumptions about the path of future policies, the impact of legislative changes, and economic assumptions. Neither Congress nor the Administration should be able to use unrealistic assumptions about future economic growth or future political courage, or other forms of magical thinking, to minimize the magnitude of the reforms that will be necessary.
These changes will be difficult, but in this balanced framework, with the burden of adjustment shared broadly and over an appropriate time frame, then the overall economic impact will be manageable.
To make this framework credible, we need a mechanism that forces reform. So the President has proposed that Congress impose on itself a debt cap that would lock in the necessary reductions in deficits over the next several years and, as a failsafe, would automatically cut spending, including in the tax code, if the targets aren't met.
This is the fiscal policy equivalent of taking politics out of monetary policy, as we and most countries did some time ago by making central banks independent with a mandate to keep inflation low.
We need a debt cap so that politicians cannot choose to live with unsustainable deficits because they cannot or choose not to agree on how to spend within their means. It reduces the legitimate area for political debate on how to achieve a sustainable fiscal position, not whether to achieve a sustainable fiscal position.
Now, you can tell from the debate underway in Washington that there are big differences among Republicans and Democrats on how to achieve the reductions in future deficits we all know are necessary.
The divisions are greatest in three areas: how to best promote future economic growth, how to reform the tax code, and how to protect health care and retirement security for the elderly and the poor.
We believe the most realistic approach is to design a framework that forces the necessary political agreement on reforms.
To do this, we are working to negotiate a multiyear framework of debt caps and targets, with a substantial downpayment of specific cuts and policy reforms.
In order to be meaningful, the down-payment should be substantial relative to the total amount of deficit reduction needed. The fiscal plans that are on the table include roughly $4 trillion in total deficit reduction over the next 10 to 12 years so there is broad agreement on the ultimate goal and timeline.
The components of the down-payment need to address all parts of the federal budget, from national security to Medicare and Medicaid, and should be balanced by changes in revenue. It should include a mix of specific savings from mandatory programs and lower future discretionary spending. The more specific, the more believable and credible the framework will be.
These savings would be complemented by an overall cap on future debt and deficits, with a strong enforcement mechanism to force action on the remaining savings.
Here's how this mechanism would work. At the beginning of 2013 and annually after that, we will assess the magnitude of the deficit reduction required needed to bring down the debt as a share of the economy over the following five years.
Congress would have roughly nine months to enact legislation to meet the fiscal target. If Congress cannot agree on legislation, then, automatic cuts in spending and tax expenditures would go into effect for the following year that would put us on the path to meet our fiscal target.
The size of the remaining cuts in spending will depend in part on the future of the Bush tax cuts, which without new legislation will expire at the end of 2012.
The President has proposed to extend tax cuts that benefit the middle class and allow the tax cuts that benefit just the top 2 percent of Americans to expire. Allowing the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire will reduce future deficits by roughly $1 trillion over the decade ahead.
Overall, this is a reasonable plan. It includes a balance of short-term spending cuts and long-term reforms, so that we do not just push all the tough choices into the future. It is achievable. And it is better than the alternatives.
In fact, in a joint op-ed published yesterday, all four co-chairs of the Bowles-Simpson and Rivlin-Domenici bipartisan commissions endorsed a comprehensive approach that includes cuts to national security, entitlements, and discretionary spending, reform of the tax code that limits tax expenditures to increase revenues, and a strong enforcement mechanism—an approach consistent with the President's framework I have just outlined.
A few points on the alternative strategies that have been proposed:
Some have suggested we set a global cap on spending as a share of the economy at the level of the decade before the crisis, or even decades before that. This sounds appealing but it has no practical value as a device for fiscal restraint.
We cannot cap or reverse the aging of the population. As the Baby Boom generation ages, the number of Americans turning 65 and retiring will increase dramatically. As a result, capping spending at historical levels would force deep cuts in benefits to seniors and the poor, as well as in core functions of government such as national security and education.
Spending caps would not provide the government with the flexibility it needs to respond to future national security threats or future recessions.
And spending caps, even if set at more realistic levels, would not be sufficient to achieve fiscal sustainability. Without overall caps on debt and deficits, spending measures alone would enable future Congresses and Presidents to still try to live with higher deficits by cutting tax rates or shifting more spending into the tax code. Already we now "spend" as much in special tax preferences as we collect in federal income tax revenue.
The Ho House House Republican budget has deep spending reductions but devotes a significant portion of those savings to keeping tax rates at current low levels for the wealthy, not just the middle class.
This approach will not pass the Congress, now or in the future. Not just because any legislation today will require votes from Republicans and Democrats, but also because this alternative would require implausibly deep cuts in benefits for the elderly and the poor, and would reduce the rest of U.S. government spending to what it was before the modern era, or to the level more typical of some countries in the developing world.
The fundamental reality of our fiscal situation is that we will need to generate more revenue, and we will need to reduce the rate of growth in spending on health care and retirement security. Both are necessary. Neither alone can carry the full burden.
The essential contribution of the House budget is to show that if you try to deliver fiscal sustainability with no contribution from tax reform, then you have to make drastic cuts to critical government functions. According to the CBO, these cuts would, by 2022, raise costs for an average Medicare beneficiary by $6,500 a year, and would eventually reduce the total amount the government spends as a share of the economy, aside from interest and Social Security, to a lower level than at any time since World War II.
America can do better. And if Republicans try to impose that plan on this country as a condition for raising the debt limit, then they will own the responsibility for the first default in our history, with devastating damage to the nation.
Yesterday, we reached the debt limit, and because Congress had not acted, we were forced to deploy a series of extraordinary measures to prevent default.
These measures will give us until August 2 before we will no longer be able to meet our obligations securely. As I have said before, Congress must meet its responsibility to protect the Nation's full faith and credit by increasing the debt limit.
The debt limit, of course, relates only to commitments we have made in the past. Rather than debating whether we should pay our past bills and whether default would in fact be so bad; rather than designing schemes to allow us to continue to make interest payments by breaking our commitments to seniors and veterans; we should be working together to narrow our differences on how to solve the causes of future deficits.
But I want to emphasize again that if a fiscal agreement is not reached in the coming weeks, in advance of August 2nd, then the debt limit must still be increased. It simply is not an option for Congress to evade the basic responsibility to protect America's creditworthiness.
Our objective is to seize this moment when Democrats and Republicans now agree that deficits matter, that living within our means is not just an option but a necessity, and that putting this off for another day is no longer possible.
Our objective is to build a bipartisan consensus on a comprehensive, and balanced fiscal reform plan.
This will help restore confidence that Washington is up to the many challenges we face. It will help give businesses and investors the confidence to make long term investments in the United States. It will help preserve the strong economic foundations necessary for protecting our national security. It will give us the room we need to invest in the future.
Thank you.
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew delivered remarks on currency redesign at the National Archives Thursday, June 18, 2015. Secretary Lew's remarks expanded on his decision to redesign the $10 note.
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PLATTEVILLE, Wis. — This semester, 24 University of Wisconsin-Platteville elementary education majors, enrolled in Block I Pre Student Teaching, are contributing a combined 3,000 hours of support to area schools within the Platteville and Mineral Point, Wis. school districts.
UW-Platteville's School of Education has had a Professional Development School partnership with Mineral Point School District since 2011. Since then, both schools have been committed to delivering instruction that is standards based and embedded in best practices.
In May 2013 UW-Platteville and the Mineral Point School District were recognized for their partnership in pre student and student teaching. Additionally, both schools were awarded a grant from the Wisconsin Technology Initiative, a program designed to provide hardware and software to PK-12 school districts and universities for the purposes of collaboration and student achievement. A criterion for the grant was an established partnership between a PK-12 school district and university.
According to Lindsay Hollingsworth, UW-Platteville School of Education assistant professor, the success of the program comes from the partnership in the classroom and the hands on opportunity that students receive due to the willingness of Mineral Point to be a teaching school district.
Hollingsworth said this opportunity allows students in Block I, Pre-Student Teaching the opportunity to get into a classroom before their student teaching semester. Students are in the classrooms three hours every morning for 10 weeks. The pre-student teachers work in prekindergarten through fourth grade classrooms supporting literacy and math instruction.
"Students are really putting to use what they're learning in class," said Hollingsworth. "They teach, deliver lessons and support students. Then, they come to campus in the afternoon and continue to learn about philosophies and strategies."
Further, Nan Welch, UW-Platteville School of Education professor, said that during this pre-student teaching semester, students begin to transition from students to teachers.
"It's a nice bridge piece between observation hours and full responsibility for a classroom," said Welch. "Our goal is to support the development of their practice so that when they get to student teaching, they are confident in their skills."
Welch also expressed that pre-student teaching is crucial to students' professional identity. "It's a huge semester for their identity, moving from student to teacher, and it's so motivating for us to see them transition before our eyes."
Both Hollingsworth and Welch agreed that another benefit to the PDS program is that Mineral Point and Platteville teachers can mentor UW-Platteville students.
"They could easily say no," said Hollingsworth. "It takes time to build relationships, mentor the UW-Platteville students, and orient them to the procedures in their classrooms. But, they continue to say yes to us and we're certainly grateful for that."
Welch added that for teachers who accept pre-student and student teachers into their classroom, the benefits outweigh the costs due to the opportunity to have an extra set of hands, allowing for team teaching and giving extra time to struggling students in classrooms.
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NORTH ENGLISH — The Mid-Prairie wrestling team opened its season with dual wins over Wapello and host English Valleys on Tuesday night. The Golden Hawks edged the Indians 45-36 and defeated the Bears 49-24.
Jacob Adrian, Mid-Prairie's 145-pounder, 182-pounder Phirom Peterschmidt, 195-pounder Nearoth Peterschmidt and 220-pounder Ben Fiordalise each pinned their opponents in the Wapello dual. Mid-Prairie 138-pounder Johnny Beckler also won an 11-9 decision.
Adrian, 152-pounder Miguel Sanchez and 195-pounder Cody Mason each pinned their opponents in the English Valleys dual. Nearoth Peterschmidt won a major decision, and 170-pounder Cameron Tolander edged English Valleys' Brennen Grimm 11-10.


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A public forum is planned this week with the four candidates being considered to replace R.T. Finney, whose retirement as Champaign police chief becomes official in January. During a meeting Monday night at the Douglass Branch Library in Champaign, around 30 people participated in a discussion about issues that they felt the police chief candidates should address.
Champaign resident Artice James talked during the meeting about what it would take to make Champaign a safer community.
"The people need to be accountable for what happens in their community, and the police need to be accountable for their actions, and don't use for what they consider the blue code to protect the bad officers," James said.
Champaign resident Otis Noble III was there with his newborn son.
"You know, I always am encouraged by individuals getting a chance to kind of talk and get some of the things that they need off of their chests," Noble said. "So, in that vein, I believe there are some therapeutic qualities to what's happening this evening, but to be honest I think there's bigger steps to these conversations that I think are necessary."
The topic of police-community relations dominated discussions at the meeting. Some of the people who were there said police officers should be required to live within the city, while others touted a proposal to create a citizens police review board in the wake of the 2009 police shooting death of teenager, Kiwane Carrington and the recent arrests of two African American youth.
Comments from the meeting will be given to members of a subcommittee of the police chief search committee, who will come up with a final list of questions for the police chief candidates.
The finalists for the job will each address the public during a televised meeting Thursday at 7:00pm in the Champaign City Council chambers.


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New World Communications has announced that it has signed a deal with Global Crossing to deliver multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) IP VPN and international private leased circuit (IPLC) services to multinational enterprises in more than 500 cities in 50 countries.
Through the deal, the Hong Kong-based New World Communications (NWT) will use Global Crossing's MPLS-based IP network and its iMPLS service, an enhanced provider-interconnect solution that allows NWT to offer its regional customers a global MPLS-based IP VPN service reach with guaranteed performance service-level agreements (SLAs).
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Did you know that Facebook quietly changed the pixel dimensions for cover photos of Facebook pages a few months back? I didn't realize it at the time, though I did notice a small change in how things displayed. For reference, the old size was 851 pixels wide by 315 pixels …Read More »
Facebook Gives Pages a Facelift
I had heard that Facebook was testing a new look for pages. Not for personal profiles, we're talking about business pages. If you don't already have one for your business, make sure to read Verify Your Facebook Page for info about creating and verifying a page. Below is an example …Read More »
Verify Your Facebook Page
You may have noticed the lack of blog posts the last few days. I'm on vacation in Mexico and haven't written much. But I'm still doing research while here. I was recently having dinner with a local couple and they mentioned a resistance by many of the local businesses to …Read More »
Publish Your WordPress Content to Facebook Instant Articles
Facebook is certainly pushing to become the hub for more and more online content. For a few months they were testing a new program called Instant Articles and they rolled to out to all page publishers on April 15, 2016. First, let's discuss Instant Articles and how it functions and …Read More »
How to Spot a Facebook Scam!
I see "friends" getting their Facebook accounts hacked on a regular basis. It also is no surprise to me at which friends get hacked as they are often falling for blatant scams. When the latest scam got posted by a close friend, I warned the friend to delete it. What …Read More »
More Online Scams and Hoaxes Continue to Propagate
A little over a month ago, I wrote Facebook Hoaxes and Identity Theft. While the scams and hoaxes are different, way too many people are falling for them. Once again I ask anyone posting anything on Facebook (or any other online outlet) to verify what they are posting is indeed …Read More »
Facebook Hoaxes and Identity Theft
There are some of you who refuse to use Facebook and that is certainly your prerogative. Many of us get enjoyment, connection and business marketing from Facebook along with much more. Those of you who were active on the service were no doubt seeing people posting two hoaxes repeatedly in …Read More »
Select See It First On Facebook to View Page Posts
Do you realize that when you Like a page on Facebook that you may really see the posts from that page? It is not uncommon for only 1-2% of people who have liked a page to see their posts. Part of this is because Facebook feels those pages should pay …Read More »
How to Stop Facebook Game Requests
Among Facebook users, there are two distinct groups of users: those who play games and those who detest being bombarded with game requests. If you are one who hates the game requests, I'll show you the steps to make them stop. First you need to understand something about Facebook's motivation. …Read More »
How We Got Around Facebook's Silly Rule About Text in Dialog Boxes
Last week in my Monster Monsoons, Amazing Sunsets, Beautiful Flowers and Facebook's Dumb Rule post, I explained how Facebook's complete lack of common sense deemed that a post of a dialog box was in violation of their rules. I also complained loudly about this policy in Facebook Advertising Rules and …Read More »


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The launch of the new iPhone is just over a week away almost everything is known about Apple's tenth anniversary handset. It's unlikely there's going to be a earthshaking reveal to surprise the crowd, but Apple's latest smartphone is still able to deliver a shock. All of $1200 worth...
While there are a number of different options for device configuration and pricing, the consensus is forming around three storage options and an eye-watering price. The latest data point supports the widely held view of the iPhone's price.
The entry-level 64 GB model of the iPhone 8 is expected to come in at $999 plus tax, a mid-tier 256 GB model at $1099, and a top tier 512 GB of $1199. While that's a new line-up for an iPhone it does match the iPad Pro choices. Apple loves repeating patterns, so this is another nod towards the iPhone 8 being the 'Pro' smartphone in the portfolio.
Apple has maintained a $100 separation between the storage tiers, which leads to the curious situation of the first storage increase of 192 GB costing the same as the second increase of 256 GB.
Apple will also be maintaining the hefty profit margin of the iPhone 8 - generally assumed to be around thirty-five to forty percent - but consumers will be wondering what they will be getting when they pay the 'Apple premium'. Many of the new features that Tim Cook and his team will be introducing to the iOS ecosystem are common features on high-end Android devices. OLED screens, curved glass, dual lens cameras and wireless charging can all be found in handsets manufactured by the competition.
The wireless charging system may be based on the Qi standard but it looks like Apple will lock the iPhone hardware to only accepting charge from third-party devices that have been licenced by Cupertino.
The specially invited audience at The Steve Jobs Theatre when the iPhone 8 is unveiled on September 12th, along with talk of Apple taking existing technology and 'perfecting' it.
Does that justify the sticker shock of $1200 for a smartphone?
For a few members of the Apple family, yes that is a price worth paying. For the general public the iPhone 8 may look too expensive for what it offers.
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The jilted bride of celebrity chef Todd English was booked today on assault charges after the cook claims she bashed him in the eye last month.
Erica Wang turned up at the 13th Precinct station house Friday morning to be interviewed by cops about the Sept. 14 incident, according to her lawyer.
Wang pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree assault.
Cops say Wang and English were fighting Sept. 14 when she threw a metal watch at him, hitting English in the corner of his eye.
According to the criminal complaint, the attack caused English to "suffer a black and a bleeding laceration that required seven stitches and [caused] substantial pain."
The couple was scheduled to be married on Oct. 3 but English called it off days before, claiming Wang was abusive. She denied those claims in an interview with theNew York Post.
Instead of canceling on reception guests, Wang went on to party that night at the St. Regis Hotel, saying she felt the need to still entertain the invitees.
English has been a guest on Bravo's "Top Chef." He is the owner of the Olives chain, and other restaurants.
Wang's lawyer, Charles Clayman, says he believes the two will resolve the matter and go on to lead separate lives. English's representative won't comment.


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Evan Osnos: China: Truth, Rumors, and a Basket of Fruit
On his New Yorker blog, Evan Osnos comments on the recent riots in Xintang, Guangdong, the power of rumors in Chinese society, and the government's powerlessness as a purveyor of truth:
The town of Zengcheng had erupted in protests, with hundreds of migrant workers tipping over police cars, smashing windows, and torching government buildings. Police responded with tear gas and armored vehicles. It began on Friday evening, when Wang Lianmei, a twenty-year-old pregnant street vendor, and her husband, Tang Xuecai, had a run-in with security personnel who suspected that the couple had "illegally occupied the village's road to sell goods," according to the China Daily, a state-run newspaper. Word spread that police had injured the expectant mother and killed her husband, and by the middle of the night a crowd was pelting police with stones and bricks. By Saturday morning, the Party chief Xu Zhibiao had visited Wang at the hospital, and "brought a basket of fruit," the state media pointed out. "Wang and her fetus remained intact," the mayor declared.
It's barely the middle of June, and this is shaping up to be an especially long, hot summer in China. There was rioting in another Chinese city last week, unrest in Inner Mongolia, and—rare for China—bomb attacks in two other cities. While it's worth pointing out, as Jeremy Page does in the Wall Street Journal, that these show no sign of coördination, it's also worth asking: How did China come to find itself trying to outrun rumors with baskets of fruit?
Read more about the riots in Xintang via CDT.


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Take me out to the ballgame…up to 9,200 hot dogs will be consumed at the stadium today! Find out what's new at Camden Yards:
More gluten free foods. Camden Yards has had alot of requests for gluten free items. So, Charm City Market will sell hot dogs and sausages on gluten free buns. A gluten free crab cake is offered, even gluten free root beer. Hummus and veggies offered too.
Camden Yards in bringing in more local restaurants. Attman's had a booth at Oriole Park, but the menu was limited to deli sandwiches. Now the bologna dog, chicken soup and more. For dessert rainbow cake! Green Turtle and Hightopps Backstage Grille have booths. "Turtle Bites" (Green Turtle) and Mac-n-Cheese (Hightopps).
Carvel Ice Cream is available for the first time.
For the kids, Orioles Kids Magazine. It will have puzzles, games and players Q & A.
On the club level behind home plate, the Orioles have installed a display case for World Series trophies and other awards.


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The Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds is Not a 'Traditional' Game, Says Producer
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is in development for the Wii U and is looking to be another blockbuster entry into Nintendo's beloved franchise.
Not to be confused with The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD remake, the new game is "going well," according to an interview with series producer Eiji Aonuma in 4Gamer.
The Wii U's predecessor, the Wii, launched with a very well received Zelda game, Twilight Princess and then came to a close with another one, Skyward Sword. For the Gamecube, the star game was Wind Waker.
Nintendo always seems to turn it up a notch when it comes to their fan favorite Link's video game adventures. This will be the first game in the franchise to be made specifically in HD, and also made to utilize the Wii U's GamePad.
"Travelling while having the map displayed on the Wii U GamePad made it really comfortable [to play], and I believe this can also be done for other areas besides the ocean. Parts that I felt were fun while playing [The Wind Waker HD] will assuredly have an influence on the next title, without a doubt," he added.
Aonuma was recently quoted as saying he was tired of the Zelda series. He clarified his statements in the interview.
"When I say I'm tired, I'm not talking about making Zelda, but rather, the same constituent that has been used to make Zelda up until now," Aonuma responded. "While on the subject, in regard to how we've always done things the traditional way until now: 'Why does it have to be traditional?' That's the question I've been asking myself. If we don't change that, we can't make something new."
This next series, out on the 3DS and Wii U, will adopt the new vision for the franchise, reports Digital Spy.
"We're slightly approaching The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds with that mindset, and also the next Zelda title, which we intend to continue changing," he continued. "However, this brings us to the topic, 'Exactly what is The Legend of Zelda about?' Something that is 'traditional' is in a sense often something that copies previous works, so if you continue doing that, it gradually takes away from its uniqueness."
He continued, "So, by no means, am I tired of it," Aonuma said. "Rather, the more we change it, the more I get fired up. Having someone think 'Huh? Is this Zelda?!' at first, then 'Oh, it is Zelda,' is what we're going for. Something that wouldn't make it matter whether Link or Princess Zelda appear in it or not. Something where it wouldn't even matter if Zelda is actually a princess, or not."


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Hey, I am trying to read in input from the user such as a character that is followed by an integer, and depending on what that character is , perform different tasks.
I have come up with the following code which works fine for one char - one int:
Assume that the string that is passed to this function is: "a 53"
The integer value1 holds the value 53 from the above sample input, and so the printf statement prints "The value of val is: 53".Code:void tokenizeAstring(char string[]) { char *string1; int value1; string1 = (char *)strtok(string," ", "\n", "\t"); /*break up the string for the first time, now only number values will remain*/ while( string1 != NULL) { /*while string is not empty*/ value1 = atoi(string1); /*using the function atoi to convert a string into an integer*/ string1 = (char *)strtok(NULL," ", "\n", "\t"); /*assigns another piece to string, if this function is called propertly,*/ /*it will be NULL and end the loop*/ } printf("The value of val is: %d\n", value1); /*debugging check. If input was "a int", then value1 equals that int*/ }
My question is, how do i go about receiving two integers from the user (for example input would be "a 53 19") and store them in two different variables, the value1 that already exists and say to value2 that I would declare etc. When I try it on a modified version of the above example I get fragmantation errors, or the values equal zero. I have no idea what to do.


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Franklin University Announces Expansion of PromoWest Partnership
For Immediate Release: February 15, 2012
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Franklin University is pleased to announce it is continuing its partnership with PromoWest for an additional two year period to include the 2012-2013 concert series. The relationship, started in 2010, provides the University with an exceptional opportunity to expose a diverse audience to the University.
Through the partnership, Franklin University will have numerous branding opportunities at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, and the Newport Music Hall. "We are excited for the opportunity to continue our partnership with PromoWest Productions," says Vice President of Marketing and Domestic Expansion for Franklin University, Linda Steele. "The renewal of this partnership agreement continues the opportunity for Franklin University to showcase our brand in a unique outlet."
Under the terms of the sponsorship renewal, Franklin University will receive naming rights to two major concerts, signage in the outdoor plaza, at the main entrance walkway, main indoor balcony, and front of the main outdoor marquee at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion; signage above the main orchestra pit at Newport Music Hall; a rotating motion video on the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion's indoor and outdoor screens; placement on the home and partner websites; and logo and tag mention with linkage on all PromoWest Productions eNewsletters.
In addition to retaining environmental and web graphics, the University will also have a number of tickets to PromoWest concerts as part of their sponsorship, which will be distributed through a variety of public and student-focused promotions.
"We are proud to continue our partnership with Franklin University. Their team has the knowledge, understanding and unique ability to leverage their in-venue sponsorship components to creatively transition into mutually successful social media efforts," says Senior Director of Sales & Marketing for PromoWest Productions, Becky Long.
About PromoWest
PromoWest Productions is the largest full-service, independent entertainment company in the Midwest. For nearly three decades, they have been creating the premier concert experience by offering concert goers the most intimate engagement of today's finest entertainment. www.promowestlive.com.
Founded in 1902, Franklin University is one of the leading and most experienced educators of adult students. The University offers applied, in-demand undergraduate, master's and doctorate programs that enable adult learners to achieve their educational and professional goals. From entrepreneurs to CEOs, more than 45,000 Franklin alumni can be found around the world contributing to the communities in which they live and work. Students can take classes through Franklin through its Main Campus in downtown Columbus, Ohio, two central Ohio locations, in Beavercreek, at co-locations across Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and online. In addition, the University's MBA program is offered internationally through agreements with institutions in Europe and the Middle East. Further information regarding Franklin University can be found at www.franklin.edu.
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Pony Express Rodeo presented by the Gothenburg Roping Club
LITTLE BIT SIDEWAYS: David Sweeley of Blue Hill spills out of the gate in an unusual direction during the saddle bronc event at Sunday night's performance of the Pony Express Rodeo. The horse was injured in a nasty fall and Sweeley earned a re-ride. Cory Bullington of North Platte won the event with a score of 70.


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Delhi slum fire claims three children
New Delhi: In a tragic incident, three siblings including a six-month-old boy were killed and another child was injured when a fire broke out in a slum cluster in the city's New Usmanpur area.
Remains of the slum cluster. Pic/PTI
The fire gutted over a dozen shanties. Most of the people present on the spot believe that it was a short circuit, while others claimed there was no electricity at the time of the incident. "We reached there at around 11:30 pm when the tragic incident had already taken place.
So, we are still not sure about the cause of the fire," a police official said. Eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot that took around three hours to douse the flames, fire department officials said.
The three killed have been identified as Reena (10), Meena (7) and six-month-old Mubarak. Another child, Shakhuddin, was also trapped inside a burning shanty. He is now hospitalised with 60 per cent burn injuries, police said. His father Allah Rakha suffered burn injuries while trying to save the children.
Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal, who visited the slum cluster to take stock of the situation, said she would take up the matter with Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DLSA) to seek compensation. "Though nothing can compensate such a huge loss, we will write to the DLSA," Maliwal said.


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Mikkel Vang
If you want to eat this entire menu with your fingers, the corn can be served hot on the cob, brushed with the butter mixture and sprinkled with cilantro. To save space on your stovetop, you can boil the corn first, then boil the crabs in the corn-cooking water.
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- Active Time
- 15 min
- Total Time
- 25 min
- 6 ears fresh corn, shucked
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Garnish: fresh cilantro leaves
- Special Equipment
- a wide 6- to 8-qt heavy pot with a tight-fitting lid
- Bring 1 1/2 inches water (do not salt water) to a boil in pot, then add corn. Cook corn (water may not cover it), covered with lid, turning occasionally, until tender, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer with tongs to a large platter.
- While corn cooks, melt butter in a 1-quart heavy saucepan, then remove from heat and stir in lemon juice, salt, black pepper, and cayenne.
- When corn is just cool enough to handle, cut kernels off cobs in long, wide strokes with a large heavy knife, leaving kernels in clusters. Transfer to a serving bowl.
- Add butter mixture and cilantro to corn, stirring gently to keep kernel clusters intact. Serve warm or at room temperature.


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- David F. Karnosky and
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The effects of SO2 on in vitro pollen germination and tube elongation were examined for Populus deltoides (Bartr.), Pinus resinosa (Ait.), Pinus nigra (Arnold), and Picea pungens (Engelm.). Comparisons were made between pollen fumigated in a dry condition and then placed on the germinating media, and moist pollen fumigated while on the germinating media.
Moist P. deltoides pollen germination was significantly reduced at SO2 concentrations of 0.75 ppm and above. Populus deltoides pollen tube elongation was more sensitive to SO2 exposure and highly significant decreases in tube length occurred at 0.30 ppm for 4 hours. Tube elongation decreased linearly with increases in SO2 concentration. Frequent bursting of pollen tubes occurred at SO2 concentrations greater than or equal to 0.3 ppm for 4 hours.
Exposure to SO2 caused similar effects on pollen germination and tube elongation for Pinus resinosa, Pinus nigra, and Picea pungens. Moist pollen was far more sensitive than dry pollen to SO2 exposure. A 4-hour exposure to 1.4 ppm SO2 severely restricted moist pollen germination and tube elongation of the three conifer species. However, a similar exposure to 10 ppm SO2 had no effect on dry pollen of the three species.
Absorption of SO2 resulted in an acidification of the germination media. Germination trials on acidified media indicated that the resultant acidification could account for much of the reduced germination and tube elongation in P. deltoides but could not adequately explain the reduced conifer pollen germination and tube elongation.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Ever wonder about the effectiveness of pistol caliber carbines? I have. In this article on the Shooting Illustrated website you can see what I learned. The terminal bullet performance tests in gelatin might surprise you.
Pistol Caliber Carbines – Are They a Viable Option?
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Jeff Cooper opined more than once that the 10 mm Mag would make and excellent cartridge for a handgun caliber carbine. I expect the CorBon loads with the Barnes bullets would be a good penetrator as they do well in handguns…jim
Great article, Richard. I think it's a subject that truly needed some coverage.
Just curious, why were no 230 grain loads tested in .45 ACP? Too much penetration?


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While the in-transit crisis was resolved short of going to court, it is time to litigate other important matters. It has been years in coming, but it is now time to implement the last resort. The pending litigation discussed below is unprecedented and will be the most important in international hunting history. It will have worldwide impact. Counting the two polar bear suits, Conservation Force is launching no less than six suits against the USF&WS.
On January 6, 2009, Conservation Force and its allied partners filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the Secretary of Interior, Director of Wildlife and the Regional Solicitor for the Pacific Southwest Region. That notice arises from the USF&WS's seizures and forfeitures of trophy shipments because of mere technical and clerical mistakes. After a seizure the USF&WS has maintained that the trophy is "contraband;" therefore, the hunter's innocence or lack of personal fault is no defense. Hunters have had to forfeit their trophies regardless of the price of their hunts or their service to conservation.
In 2001, Congress passed a law to protect citizens from abusive seizures/forfeitures from government agencies. That was the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, 18 USC 983. The USF&WS, its Office of Law Enforcement and the Solicitors of the Department of Interior have repeatedly refused to honor the new legislation. Instead, they maintain the statutory protection intended for "innocent owners" is not applicable to wildlife seizures because they are "contraband." They repeatedly cite court cases that predate the reform of the law. And contrary to what they say, the law defining "contraband" doesn't include trophies at all.
We are of a far different view, as we have seen hunters lose everything from argali to elephant trophies. Consequently, Conservation Force has been waiting for the right case to arise and take to court for the benefit of everyone. We now have that case. Unless the USF&WS favorably responds to the notice, we will be filing a petition for declaratory and injunctive relief in Federal District Court to resolve the law and end the abusive regulatory practices once and for all. The case chosen is one where an airline lost the shipment documents, including the CITES export permit, on a leopard trophy. The airline explained the situation, and the export country issued a replacement export permit. There is a special CITES Resolution that provides for a replacement permit in such circumstances, but, as usual, the USF&WS did not honor it. Of course, it was not the hunter's fault at all, and the forfeiture of the trophy was an excessive penalty for a mishap that was absolutely harmless.
A petition for remission and then a petition for reconsideration was filed on the basis of the innocent owner defense and the CITES Resolution that expressly provides for replacement export permits in the inevitable cases of permit loss. The petition also rested on the excessive penalty or proportionality argument. It was denied in full by the Assistant Solicitor on the basis that the leopard trophy was "contraband." Who could be more innocent than a hunter waiting at home when paperwork is lost by the transporting airline and there is no dispute about the legality and identity of the trophy?
The case will establish once and for all whether the innocent owner defense applies to hunting trophies. It will decide if lawfully taken hunting trophies are "contraband" simply because of clerical and technical errors and mishaps, expirations, etc. It will decide the applicability of the US Constitution's due process clause to the property rights of hunters regarding their trophies. That is an important standalone issue by itself. It will determine the applicability of the "excessive" fines clause of the US Constitution to the forfeitures that have been taking place at an increasing rate when the penalty is disproportionate to the harm done. I repeat, the errors are after the fact and do not harm anyone.
We have confirmed that over the last several years the number of seizures and forfeitures has skyrocketed, and little consideration is being given to the innocence of the hunter/owner and no consideration is being given to the proportionality or excessiveness of the forfeiture to the technical offense that has done no harm. The Law Enforcement Office and the Solicitors treat trophy trade as "unfavored" trade instead of "conservation hunting." In most instances the hunting is favored by CITES and other authorities by quotas of the Parties at CoPs, non-detriment determinations and even enhancement findings. The Solicitors that should provide relief instead act as enforcement reinforcement. They turn a deaf ear because the trophies are, they claim, contraband.
It is long past time that we all join forces to do this through Conservation Force. We need your financial support to do it. Believe me, your trophy may be next if you have not lost one or more invaluable trophies already. Hunters pay for conservation in developing nations, but are treated like criminals at home upon the importation of their trophies. Enough is enough. It is growing far worse. There is no choice but to seek the help of the courts, but to succeed we must have your support.
A second notice of intent to sue that we have filed involves the failure of the USF&WS to issue permits at all when the species are listed as "endangered" and also the failure of the USF&WS to downlist foreign species when it is in their conservation interest to do so. This is not one suit, it is a multiplicity of suits that will have to remain confidential until each is filed. This is the year that the property interests hunters have in their trophies will be determined as a matter of law. It is directly at issue in both of the polar bear cases Conservation Force has filed (appeal in 9th Circuit for spring 2008 trophies and suit in D.C. to invalidate the species' listing). It will be directly at issue in suits filed for not timely downlisting different species and for failure to grant various enhancement permits. Ultimately, the suits will decide everything from the import of black rhino to China's argali.
On January 13, 2009 Conservation Force filed the 60-day notice of intent to sue on behalf of itself and those it represents, including seven (7) other organizations. These suits are long overdue challenges of the USF&WS's permitting and downlisting practices under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We dare not make public at this time anything more than the notice to sue until the suits are filed. The "Re:" to the notice reads "Obstruction of Foreign Programs/Failure to Issue Enhancement Permits." The notice reads as follows:
Dear Secretary Kempthorne and Director Hall,
This is a 60-day notice of intent to sue under the Endangered Species Act. It is for the illegal practice of not issuing trophy import permits for "endangered" listed species under the "enhancement" provisions of the ESA. That practice is contrary to published FWS regulations and violates the mandatory obligation to "cooperate" with the conservation efforts of foreign nations. The USF&WS has a history of listing foreign game species over the objection of foreign nations without rational consideration of the efficacy or the negative impact on the conservation efforts of the foreign nation, then not exercising its authority to support and encourage conservation programs through the issuance of trophy import permits that would "enhance" the survival of the listed species in the wild. For example, two such species are the Suleiman markhor taken in the Targhor Project in Pakistan and wood bison taken in the Yukon, Canada. Import permits applications for both of those have languished within the USF&WS for the length of the present Administration. The knowing obstruction of some of the foremost sustainable use projects in the world and the indifference to permit applicants' "due process" and property rights continues to be unconscionable and illegal. Those are just two examples.
The prior Administration was ready to correct these illegal practices, but this Administration has delayed and denied that reform. We know and understand that the USF&WS and DOI have recommended the enhancement practice and would have adopted it but for the failure of this Administration to accept the recommendations. That leaves us no alternative but to sue.
This is also notice for the failure of the USF&WS to make a timely 90-day determination on the petition to downlist the Yukon wood bison and a 12-month finding on the petition to downlist the Suleiman markhor in Pakistan.... We incorporate by reference herein all the prior pleas, requests, comments by Conservation Force and those it represents and diplomatic protest by foreign nations. This is final notice. In short, the Administration reneged. These suits will once and for all determine the applicability of the concept of sustainable use to the conservation and recovery of listed species. They will determine if hunters can be a force for the conservation of game animals. They will determine the rights and fair treatment of hunters themselves, as well as their conservation interests. I must humbly apologize to those hunters whose trophies have rotted while waiting for the promised reform within the USF&WS. The promises are over. But for the misleading promises given to us, we would have taken action before. Now we have no choice. Late as it is, it is now or never.
We need your support. Send your tax-deductible contribution to Conservation Force at P.O. Box 278, Metairie, LA 70004-0278.


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Man found dead in national park
A 43-year old Hilo man was found dead this weekend in his vehicle on Highway 11 in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
A park ranger discovered Steven L. Elliott in a white 2002 Ford pickup truck on the shoulder of Highway 11 near mile marker 35 at 9:34 a.m. Saturday. The truck was parked facing the Ka'u direction. Elliott's family has been notified, according to park officials.
The cause of death is unknown, and an investigation is being conducted by the National Park Service. An autopsy by the medical examiner is scheduled for today.


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Can Satan Deceive God's Elect?
from Sinclair Ferguson Apr 29, 2015 Category: ArticlesIn Matthew 24:24, Jesus warns His disciples, "False Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." Keep Reading
Do We Deserve Heaven?
from Sinclair Ferguson Feb 20, 2015 Category: ArticlesReligious people are always profoundly disturbed when they discover that they are not, and never have been, true Christians. Does all of their religion count for nothing? Those hours in church, hours spent doing good things, hours involved in religious activity—do they not count for something in the presence of God? Do they not enable me to say: "Look at what I have done. Don't I deserve heaven?" Keep Reading
By Grace, We Are Free in Christ
from Sinclair Ferguson Jan 30, 2015 Category: ArticlesIn John 8:34 Jesus underlined the bondage in which we are held by nature. On the other hand, He spoke about the freedom into which He brings sinners by grace: "If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed" (John 8:36). Keep Reading
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Robots and Riots
On April 7 the Blair School of Music's percussion ensemble VORTEX presented the Southeastern U.S. premiere of American composer George Antheil's Ballet mécanique in its original 1924 orchestration.
Composed for the abstract film of the same name by French artist Fernand Léger and filmmaker Dudley Murphy, Ballet mécanique is a musical treatise on the human becoming mechanical—a piece so far ahead of its time that it could not be played as written until 1999 when computer software was created by Tuft University's Paul Lehrman to synchronize the eight player pianos required for the performance. Lehrman joined VORTEX for the April event, which was only the sixth-ever performance of Antheil's original orchestration to be presented along with the original version of Léger's film.
Blair musicians had performed Antheil's later 1953 arrangement of the piece in 2002, but that version had been written in desperation, says VORTEX Director Michael Holland. Antheil had created a piece for which the technology required did not exist.
"When Antheil was creating [the 1953] arrangement, I think he was kind of throwing up his hands," says Holland. "By then he had been disgraced by the abominable performance at Carnegie Hall [in 1927], which was mishandled by the promoter who put it together.
"Antheil wrote for the sound—and this is key—the sound of three propellers: a large and small wooden propeller and a metal propeller. He didn't write for the propellers to be on stage. The 1927 promoter turned mécanique into an outrageous spectacle. He hung a garish 'jazz age' backdrop, smuggled an actual propeller onstage just before the concert, and he pointed it right at the musicians and into the audience. He turns it on, and music is flying off the stands. It's total chaos. A siren—never available in rehearsal—could not be controlled and screamed throughout Carnegie well after the piece was over."
Although riots ensued after the 1927 Carnegie Hall premiere, Blair's April performance was orderly. A delegation from the French Embassy and the Consulate General of France in Atlanta attended the performance, which opened with an introduction by the consul general's cultural attaché, David Kibler. Arshia Cont, scientific leader of the MuTant Team Project in Paris, spoke at a mini-symposium earlier in the day that also featured a robotics exhibit.
Read more about Ballet mécanique and the award-winning documentary Bad Boy Made Good, produced and written by Paul Lehrman.
Actors From The London Stage visited Vanderbilt University Theatre in February, performing Hamlet at the end of a weeklong residency. Actor Charles Armstrong, left, was one of the guest artists who led Vanderbilt students in workshop exercises during which the students interacted with Shakespearean texts. Students participating included (from left) Suolan Jiang, Nicole Gallop, Laura Winston, Mac Rackoff and Joel Derby.
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Lorrie Moore, a distinguished American fiction writer whose acclaimed short-story collections include Birds of America and Like Life, joins the Vanderbilt English department faculty with an endowed chair this fall. She will be the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English.
Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs (2009, Random House), was described in a New York Times book review as "her most powerful book yet, a book that gives us an indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11 and her initiation into the adult world of loss and grief." Honors for the book include finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Orange Prize: Shortlist, and Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Moore is currently the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her many fellowships have included those awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. She has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and elsewhere.
Read The New York Times' review of Moore's A Gate at the Stairs.
Pulling Strings
The Chicago Q Ensemble, which features Ellen McSweeney, BMus'07, on violin, has released a CD of string quartets by American composer Amy Wurtz.
"We immediately felt we wanted to share Amy's music with the world," McSweeney says. "The two quartets were head and shoulders above other contemporary works we'd read. They are full of challenging harmonies, textures and techniques found in most 21st-century music, but also have the qualities of great traditional string quartet works.
"We saw this not only as an opportunity to premiere two outstanding pieces, but also to help change the underrepresentation of women in new music."
Chicago Q is dedicated to collaboration with other art forms and championing works of living composers.
In 2012 they completed a residency at the Poetry Foundation that included six sold-out performances of Fjords, a collaboration with shadow-puppet performers Manual Cinema, composer Kyle Vegter
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The quartet was the 2011 fellowship ensemble at the Worcester Chamber Music Society summer festival. In the summer of 2012, they made their debut at the Gesher Festival in St. Louis, performing works of Golijov and Shostakovich.
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Hippocampus whitei
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855
Common Name(s):
Hippocampus novaehollandae Steindachner, 1866
Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Bleeker, P. 1855. Over eenige visschen van Van Diemensland. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam) 2(7): 1-30.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Project Seahorse
|Marsden, A.D., Foster, S.J. & Vincent, A.C.J. (Syngnathid Red List Authority)
There are no published data about population trends or total numbers of mature animals for this species. There is very little available information about its extent of occurrence or its area of occupancy. There have been no quantitative analyses examining the probability of extinction of this species. As a result, the assessors have insufficient data to properly assess the species against any of the IUCN criteria. A Data Deficient (DD) listing is consistent with that recommended by an assessment conducted for Environment Australia (Pogonoski et al. 2002).
Hippocampus whitei was previously listed in 1996 as VU A2cd under the 1994 criteria. This assessment was based on suspected past declines in occupancy, occurrence and habitat, as well as on potential levels of exploitation. In reassessing the species under the new criteria and with greater taxonomic understanding we find that no appropriate data on biology and ecology, habitat, abundance or distribution are available for this species. Further research is needed. Assessed as Data Deficient under the new criteria.
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|Range Description:
|A single specimen was found in the Solomon Islands, which is outside the probable normal range of this species (Lourie et al. 1999).
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Native:Australia (New South Wales, Queensland); Solomon Islands
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – southwest; Pacific – western central
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|Hippocampus whitei are found to depths of 25 m in shallow, weedy, inshore areas, in Zostera spp. seagrass beds, on sponges, and often under jetties on kelp holdfasts (Kuiter 1997). They are also found on manmade objects such as shark nets (A.C.J. Vincent, pers. obs.). Hippocampus whitei breed from October to April. Within this breeding season, they are site-faithful to a home range (averaging 8 m² for males, 12 m² for females: Vincent et al. in review) and are faithful to a single mate (Vincent and Sadler 1995).
This species may be particularly susceptible to decline. The limited information on habitat suggests they inhabit shallow sea-grass beds (Kuiter 1997) that are susceptible to human degradation, as well as making them susceptible to being caught as bycatch. All seahorse species have vital parental care, and many species studied to date have high site fidelity (Perante et al. 2002, Vincent et al. in review), highly structured social behaviour (Vincent and Sadler 1995), and relatively sparse distributions (Lourie et al. 1999). The importance of life history parameters in determining response to exploitation has been demonstrated for a number of species (Jennings et al. 1998).
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|Hippocampus whitei is caught for the aquarium trade, and mostly sold on the domestic market (Vincent 1996). The volume of this trade is unknown, but without appropriate management this trade might represent a threat to the species. Small numbers of H. whitei are probably also taken as bycatch in the southeast trawl fishery (Australian Fisheries Management Authority 1999).
|Conservation Actions:
|The entire genus Hippocampus was listed in Appendix II of CITES in November 2002. Implementation of this listing will begin May 2004. The Australian populations of this species were moved under the Australian Wildlife Protection Act in 1998, so export permits are now required. The permits are only granted for approved management plans or captive bred animals. Such management was transferred under the new Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 2001. Many states also place their own controls on the capture and/or trade of syngnathid fishes. Further research on this species biology, ecology, habitat, abundance and distribution is needed.
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From the Other Things I Didn't Know About What Goes Inside Geodesic Dome Pavilions Department:
Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison devote a chapter in their 2003 book, Architecture and nature: creating the American landscape to geodesic domes, including this description of Buckminster Fuller's original vision for the US Pavilion at Montreal's World Expo 67:
His [Fuller's] design of 1964 featured a dome nearly twice the size [of the 250-ft diameter, 3/4 dome by Fuller and Shoji Sadao that was realized] with a massive interior gallery. From this elevated vantage point, the viewer would focuse their attention inward to a hundred foot diameter Earth tranforming slowly into an icosahedron, before it opens up, unfolding like a flower as it descends to the floor. [what a sentence. -ed.] In this way, Fuller's "geodesic" globe transforms into his "Dymaxion" map of the Earth before the visitors' eyes, displaying the "one world island in one world ocean." And then it would come to life. Wired with tens of thousands of miniature light bulbs, this great map would begin to pulsate with patterns--showing world resources, electricity generation, the flow of transportation and communication systems across the Earth. This interactive display, this giant bio-feedback device, would be the playing surface of the "World Game." Assembling in teams or playing by themselves, visitors were intended to chart out optimal paths to link resources with industries and population centers, to streamline transportation flows and maximize satellite coverage The aim, according to Fuller, was to "make the world work successfully for all of humanity...without anyone gaining advantage at the expense of another."Since he had not actually been asked to design the exhibit, just the pavilion, this idea was rejected and replaced by a selection of quilts, duck decoys, and Cary Grand billboards.


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Bolu kojo, or green cake, is one of the delicious cakes found in South Sumatra. Bolu kojo is usually served at cultural events such as Lamaran (a proposal event), Ngunduh mantu (welcoming the son or daughter in law to the house and the family) and Yasinan (read a holy Qur'an together event). However, it can be served as breakfast or as meal to go with afternoon tea as well. The way to serve this cake is by cutting bolu kojo into thin slivers; this is sufficient because the taste is very sweet.
- 2 eggs
- 300g sugar
- 500g wholewheat flour
- 1 300g pack of margarine
- 500ml coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons green food coloring
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Warming the butter and coconut milk
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1Add 2 eggs to the mixing bowl Whisk well until smooth.
2Add sugar little by little. Stir occasionally.
3Add the flour. Stir the batter until smooth.
4Pour in the heated coconut milk. Stir well
5Pour in the melted margarine.
6Add the food coloring. Stir until it is evenly distributed throughout the cake batter.
7Pour the batter slowly into the cake pan.
8Steam the cake until cooked. Check the cake occasionally by sticking a toothpick or skewer into the cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is done.
9After the cake has steamed, slice and serve it hot. The bolu kojo is ready to eat!
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The War at Home: The Domestic Cost of Bush's Militarism
(The New Press, 2004, 165 pp.)
The attention paid to American imperialism has turned national focus away from a crucial dimension of foreign policy: the domestic politics of war. Frances Fox Piven examines the ways in which the war on terror served to shore up the Bush administration's political base and analyzes the manner in which politicians have used the emotional fog of war to further their social and economic agendas. The War at Home makes sense of these developments by putting the war in the context of history and by turning an unsentimental eye on the domestic motivations of American militarism. Piven is a distinguished professor of political science at The Graduate Center.
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