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Map of Quetta in Pakistan
Quetta Climate
Quetta is a non-capital city in Pakistan, Asia.
Best time to visit Quetta
The best time to visit Quetta will be when the average temperatures are at a comfortable level (between 20°C / 68.0°F and 30°C / 86.0°F on average) which is during months May, June, July, August and September. Other great months to visit Quetta are March, April and October when the average temperatures are a little cooler but still between a pleasant 10°C / 50.0°F and 20°C / 68.0°F. If you don't mind bringing a coat, you might also enjoy visiting Quetta during January, February, November and December but average temperatures are fairly cool (between 0°C / 32.0°F and 10°C / 50.0°F).
The warmest time of year in Quetta is in July when it is 27.9°C / 82.2°F on average, but could get up to 35.9°C / 96.6°F maximum. On the other hand, the coldest time of year in Quetta is in January when it is 3.7°C / 38.7°F on average, but could get down to -3.4°C / 38.7°F minimum.
Quetta Climate Chart
Below are the climate charts for Quetta which resides in Pakistan.
Temperature tables
The first table is for the average temperatures across the year in degrees Celsius. The cells that are BLUE show the coldest months and the cells that are PINK show the hottest months.
This second table is for the average temperatures across the year in degrees Fahrenheit. Cells in BLUE are the coldest months and cells in PINK are the hottest months.
Rainfall figures
This table is for the amount of rainfall (both in millimetres and inches) in Quetta throughout the year.
Sorry but we don't have data for the total number of rainy days in Quetta.
Quetta Climate Graph
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Below is the climate graph for Quetta with both the average temperatures throughout the year in degrees Fahrenheit and also the average total rainfall in inches.
Climate in December in Quetta
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A Pax Christi healing Mass by the Rev. Robert Joel Cruz is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church, 529 La. 20, Chackbay. The rosary is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by Mass at 7 p.m.
The theme of the event is "Love Series: Gifts of the Holy Spirit." Music will be provided by Mark and Hannah.
St. Joseph's Altar: The Feast of St. Joseph is scheduled for Friday. Displays of altars are scheduled throughout the area.
St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church's altar is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 27 at the
church's Life Center, 3723 La. 307, Kraemer..
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church's altar is scheduled with a Mass at 7 a.m. Friday at the church. Viewing ends at 4 p.m.
The Thibodaux Health Care Center's St. Joseph's Altar is from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday at the center, 1300 Lafourche Drive.
Christ the Redeemer's St. Joseph's Altar is scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday at the church, 720 Talbot Ave., Thibodaux.
Donations are being accepted at all altars.
Car show: A car, truck and bike show is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 28 in the Thibodaux Civic Center parking lot, 310 N. Canal Blvd.
All makes and models and years can compete.
Craft booths will be set up and food will be sold. Awards will be given to the top 25 and also 11 best-of classes. Children will be allowed to vote for their favorite and an award will be given in the Kid's Choice
For information, call Corinthia at 633-9812. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society.
Luminaries: If you are interested in purchasing a luminary or making a donation in someone's name to the American Cancer Society, call Corinthia at 633-9812.
Luminaries cost $10 each and will be lit at Relay for Life scheduled for April 9 at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. They can be purchased "In memory of" or "In honor of" someone diagnosed with cancer.
2010 Carnival queen: Laila Marie Andras, daughter of Jimmy and Mona Andras, served as the queen for the Krewe of Choupic. She is the granddaughter of Philip and Bernice Bourgeois, and Jerry and Gale Andras. Laila was able to ride in the parade and lead her brother, Jace's, kindergarten parade.
Krewe of Choupic: The Krewe of Choupic's monthly meeting was March 2. The Carnival krewe elected new officers at the meeting. The newly elected officers for 2010-11 are Mona Andras, president; Tifany Percle, vice president; Sheila Boudreaux, secretary; and Charlene Chauvin, treasurer.
The krewe's members would like to congratulate its 2010 royalty, Dexter Cancienne, king; Dorina Landry, queen; and Guy Clement, grand marshall.
The club's next meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Chackbay Volunteer Fire Station, 100 La. 304.
Church service: Robert Abel will conduct two rights of renewal and revival scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church's Ladies Altar Society is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the church rectory. This is a potluck meeting.
Easter news: An Easter Floral Memorial is accepting donations for flowers for the altars at St. Lawrence the Martyr, St. James and Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic churches.
Place your donation and names of those to be remembered in an envelope and drop in the collection basket at your respective churches.
The church's Ladies Altar Societies are sponsoring these memorials.
An Easter-egg hunt for newborns to 12 year olds is scheduled for 2 p.m. March 28 at St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church.
Another Easter-egg hunt for newborns to 12 year olds is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. March 28 at St. James Chapel in Choctaw. Don't forget your Easter basket.
Conferences: University Baptist Church's annual women's conference is scheduled from 8 a.m. May 15 at the church, 904 Menard St., Thibodaux.
Dr. Jude Jackson from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary will be the conference's
guest speaker. For information, call 446-5818.
A baptismal seminar is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. March 25 in Modular Building B at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church. Parents and godparents must attend.
Babies will be baptized following the 10 a.m. Mass on Easter Sunday, April 4. To register for the seminar, call the rectory at 633-2903.
A World Wide Marriage Encounter Weekend is scheduled for March 26-28 in Lafayette. Don't you think you and your spouse deserve a romantic weekend away together? To register or for information, call 1-888-469-3735.
Last supper: St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church is celebrating the Last Supper of Jesus by holding a sedar meal scheduled for 6:30 p.m. March 31 in the church's Life Center.
Tickets are on sale after Mass at the church office. Tickets cost $8 per meal. Only 130 tickets will
be sold.
The meal will be hamburger steak, green beans, potatoes and bread pudding.
Mass: A healing Mass and luncheon is scheduled for 10 a.m. March 27 at St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Church's Life Center for the shut-ins and sick of the community. A potluck luncheon will follow.
Palms: If anyone has palms, area churches would like for you to bring the palms by Wednesday to your respective church. Clean your palms for Palm Sunday celebration.
Mid South Wrestling will have its fifth-annual carnage for a cure fundraising event for Relay for Life Sunday at the Chackbay fairgrounds. The gates will open at 1 p.m. and the match will begin at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $10 each and children under 10 get in for free. Concessions also will be sold. For information call Johnny Louviere at 633-7789.
Birthdays: Philip Bourgeois, March 2; Jennifer Morvant, Melissa Boudreaux, March 3; Hunter Andras, March 7; Ivy Legendre, March 10; Doral Legendre, March 11; Alberta Rome, March 17; Hilda
Melancon, March 20; Brittany Bourgeois, March 21; Dorina Landry, Shirley Legendre, March 23; Jace Andras, March 24; Alice Mars, March 26; Justin Andras, Derland Alleman, March 28; Elsie Landry, Brenda Guillot, March 29; Mary Boudreaux and Dominic Blanchard, March 31.
Ward 6: Special altars planned for Friday
A Pax Christi healing Mass by the Rev. Robert Joel Cruz is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church, 529 La. 20, Chackbay. The rosary is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by Mass at 7 p.m.

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Redford Tells Albertans Corporatism is More Important Than Education
The Redford government gave Shell, $745 million back in 2012 to build the Quest CCS plant outside Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. At a time when our budget is operating under a deficit, the Premier is spending our taxpayer money to prop up billion-dollar corporations. That is what we call old fashion crony capitalism.


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You walk down a long hall and make a U-turn into a stark, brightly lit, empty white room. Inside, a man crouches in a corner. It's disconcerting, until you realize it's a mannequin but then it starts to move. The work, TO MAKE A BLIND MAN MURDER FOR THE THINGS HE'S SEEN (Happiness Is Over-Rated) (2002) by Los Angeles artist Daniel Martinez, is part of "Indelible Images (Trafficking Between Life and Death)" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The MFAH organized the exhibition under the direction of Gilbert Vicario, assistant curator of Latin American art. It's a well chosen and provocative show featuring politically charged, often poignant works by Latin American and Latino artists.
As you stand watching the figure in Martinez's installation, the mannequin lowers his head and turns his wrist to display a red gash. His hands, which clutch razor blades, take a swipe at the wounds on one wrist and then the other. The man throws back his head and laughs maniacally as he stares vacantly into space.
"Indelible Images (Trafficking Between Life and Death)"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 5601 Main, 713-639-7300
Through April 30
The mannequin is an animatronic figure made of cast silicone stretched over a fiberglass skeleton. The pigment is wearing off at his neck, but his hands are incredibly realistic, bone and tendon seeming to show through the flesh. Other lifelike details include razor stubble, slightly crooked teeth and a receding hairline -- Martinez modeled the figure on himself.
The figure's actions are creepy, but of course animatronic figures are creepy in general (just look at Dick Cheney). There's always something incredibly disturbing about them, even -- or especially -- the seemingly innocuous Disney World versions. They look close to human, but their eyes never connect and they never move correctly. What you get is something that presents itself as human, but in the most unnatural and disturbing way.
This quality plays right into Martinez's hands. Each movement of the figure is punctuated by a hiss of air from the computer-controlled pneumatics. Martinez has dressed his double in the navy-blue work clothes we associate with maintenance workers in the United States. The wrist-slashing janitor becomes a metaphor for desperation spurred by socioeconomic inequality.
Labor, poverty and violence underlie the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. Walking long distances to work at low-paying jobs at foreign-owned maquiladoras, hundreds of women along the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border have been sexually assaulted, murdered and dumped in the desert. Their killers remain at large. In her DVD Anapra (2005), Margolles presents nighttime images of the desolate landscape surrounding Ciudad Juárez. The camera films rocky, lonely roads dimly illuminated by the headlights of a car. Occasionally the car passes another vehicle or an isolated house. City lights blink far in the distance. You watch and wonder: Is this the route someone walked on the way to her death? Is this the road a killer drove along to dump a body? In the darkness and remoteness, you feel anything could happen. Margolles creates tension out of completely banal and uneventful footage. You keep expecting the headlights to happen upon a body, a crime.
Margolles, who spent more than a decade as a forensic technician in a Mexico City morgue, brings a biological element to her conceptual sculptures. In front of the video are three concrete benches; the concrete was mixed using the water that washed the body of an eight-year-old girl killed in her Ciudad Juárez home while her mother worked at a maquiladora. Suddenly the concrete becomes like a reliquary for the suffering of the murdered girl. The cool, impersonal, minimalist forms of the benches are now weighted with grief and tragedy. Sitting on the benches seems a sacrilege, so you stand behind them as the video plays out like a record of the girl's fate.
For Lote Bravo (2005), Margolles collected sand from more than 100 locations in and around Ciudad Juárez where the bodies of sexually abused and murdered women have been found. She packed the sand into more than 100 bricklike shapes; they're neatly stacked up like cordwood, representing two massive walls of corpses. Each brick is a link to a murdered woman. It's a rough and poignant monument that begs for these women to be remembered. Margolles makes art like a detective, collecting evidence and trying to find enough to get to the heart of the thing.
The idea of using objects to symbolize a body also occurs in the work of Cuban-born artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. His 1991 sculpture Untitled (For a Man in Uniform) was made at the time of the first Gulf War. Gonzalez-Torres, who lost a lover to AIDS and eventually died of it himself, was attuned to death and loss, not to mention the political climate for gay men. The sculpture consists of a mound of lollipops piled in the corner of the room. Originally, his 220-pound candy pile, the weight of a beefy male specimen, was created with Astro Patriot Pops. Patriot Pops, bizarrely introduced during the Gulf War, were red, white and blue lollipops with a cylindrical, distinctly phallic shape.
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The work is re-created with a fresh candy pile each time, as viewers are each encouraged to take away a piece, causing slow disintegration of the "body." But the manufacturer quit making Astro Patriot Pops in 2002, and the current version of the work was re-created with circular lollipops in the same colors. (FYI, the red ones taste like Robitussin.) While this may be conceptually legitimate, it ain't quite the same effect as the phallic red, white and blue candies Gonzalez-Torres selected, which were a more obvious jab at nationalism and military homophobia.
Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz remembers the dead in equally ephemeral materials. For Pixels (2003), he created portraits of assassinated men using sugar cubes painted with coffee -- materials associated with his native country. The grids of sugar cubes act as large pixels; painted with brown coffee, they create abstracted but recognizable images. The faces are hazy and pale, seemingly taken from bad newspaper photographs, but you can tell the images are postmortem; their heads loll to the side, seemingly streaked with blood or dotted with bullet holes. We don't know who they are or why they died, only that they're dead and they died violently. The portraits could melt away with a glass of water -- the nature of the materials is a reminder of how fleeting life can be.
Muñoz also addresses violence in Ambulatorio (1994-95), which shows an aerial view of his hometown of Cali, in which we see an urban mass of buildings and housetops cut by city streets. Cali, home to more than two million people, is also inextricably associated with drug-related violence. Placed on the floor, the work's approximately 22- by 20-foot grid of photographs is overlaid with panels of shattered safety glass. The cracks in the glass radiate out over the entire city. No one is exempt.
Vicario has pulled together an extremely well curated show built around intriguing ideas and interesting artists. The result is an exhibition that remains seared on your brain long after you have left it.


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October 12, 2008
What can I say, I'm your average Joe. I'm a suit and tie guy that hopes for the day that I will be able to do something that I love for work. I watch anything and everything competitive. Oh how I wish they still had the ESPN reality show, I would have applied.


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At Last, Retailers Have Completed the Final Step in Co-Opting Christmas Entirely
Rejoice, cash strapped minions, REJOICE! Bow down to this finely-crafted idol, which shall forever remind you your duty to spend, spend, SPEND during the month of December! If you don't, you'll be doomed to a lifetime of fiscal responsibility! *Shudders*


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SEATTLE -- The five-team Pacific-10 race has basically become a single-elimination tournament.
This weekend, two big games in Washington could get rid of a couple contenders. All four teams have only one loss, and can't afford another.
No. 10 Stanford plays at No. 11 Washington, and No. 9 UCLA is at No. 16 Washington State. The fifth team with one loss, No. 8 Oregon, is home against Arizona State.
''Nobody's ever won it with two losses,'' Washington State coach Mike Price said of the conference title, though in fact it has happened several times. ''It's a single-elimination tournament we're running now.''
Price's Cougars haven't been this good since their 1997 Rose Bowl season with Ryan Leaf at quarterback. Washington keeps on winning in the fourth quarter. UCLA has one of the best running backs in the nation and a stingy defense. And Stanford's been the shocker.
Much of the national focus was expected to be in Oregon this fall with the Ducks and Oregon State, but its neighboring state to the north has stolen some of the attention.
Washington State lost for the first time last week to Oregon, and UCLA was handed its first defeat by Stanford.
''That's what makes this game Saturday such an exciting football game,'' UCLA coach Bob Toledo said.
''It's like two wounded animals,'' Price said. ''Any time you've got a wounded animal backed into a corner, look out. We're expecting UCLA to come in here fired up.''
Bruins' tailback DeShaun Foster knows the importance of this weekend.
''It shows how good a conference it is,'' said Foster, the fourth-leading rusher in the nation at 143.9 yards per game. ''You've got to stay undefeated to try to win it.''
Stanford beat UCLA by stopping Foster. Well, pretty much. The Cardinal held him to 77 yards on 21 carries. Foster was the country's top rusher at the time.
That could be trouble for Washington's running game, which has struggled in recent weeks, though Willie Hurst rushed for 185 yards in the Huskies' 33-31 win at Arizona State last Saturday.
But Washington has won 12 straight at Husky Stadium, the longest home winning streak in the conference. And Stanford hasn't won in Seattle in 26 years.
''I think the rest of the country has realized that this is one of the most difficult places in the nation to play,'' Cardinal coach Tyrone Willingham said.
Yet Washington could easily have lost a few more games by now. Somehow the Huskies keep finding a way in the fourth quarter. Last week, they came back in the final period to beat the Sun Devils in Tempe, Ariz., their fifth such come-from-behind victory this fall. They did it five times last year in their Rose Bowl season, too.
Stanford's victory over UCLA gave the Cardinal consecutive wins over top-five opponents for the first time in school history. This is their best start since also beginning 5-1 in 1992.
Still, Willingham won't say whether it's the best team he's coached in his seven seasons at Stanford.
''I think it's far too early to really think about that,'' he said. ''I think you judge teams by what they have accomplished, and we still have five games to play and there are no midseason awards I'm aware of. So, we've done really nothing yet.''
Maybe not in the coach's eyes. But Stanford is back on the national football map.
''We're excited we're getting this national attention, but we also look at it as a distraction,'' offensive guard Eric Heitmann said. ''Football is so much more fun when you're winning games, and we don't want to do anything to take away from that.''
At least some of those involved in the chase for the Pac-10 championship are enjoying the craziness of the close standings.
''It's kind of theatrical,'' Washington inside linebacker Ben Mahdavi said. ''It's kind of nice.''
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, November 2, 2001.
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Pull Up A Chair…
Lucky at 3 months, Christy Hardin Smith.
Sometimes, you can look up and realize that time is just streaming by you. I had one of those moments this week, when I was cleaning out photos from my desktop and stumbled across this picture of the stray puppy we have taken in to our family. When Lucky showed up in our driveway, he picked the perfect day for a pitiful entrance — it was pouring the rain down, and he huddled, shivering, under my car and whimpering softly as he looked up at me with those big, puppy eyes.
He knew a softie when he saw one, clearly.
He has tripled in size since we first took him in — and it has only been a couple of months. Not only that, but he eats like crazy. Hence, the rapid growth, I suppose, but it's hilarious to watch his insane gobbling versus the dainty nibbles of our 11 and a half year old miniature dachshund.
I walked into the living room yesterday afternoon, and found The Peanut and Lucky curled up together in a big, comfy chair in front of the television, watching Toy Story and eating cheerios together. Now THAT was some comfort for the both of them. And it reminded me of all of the good things that we so often have in our lives that get taken for granted, or the small comforts that we have that we forget when they get drowned out in the daily din and turmoil.
Egregious reminded me recently of my tea cabinet. I put it together when we first moved to our house, and it was really just a convenient way for me to stash my tea somewhere that I could make a mug quickly and conveniently while I was unpacking yet another box with The Peanut in her pack-n-play and our dachshund digging her little snout into the box to check for wayward tidbits and treats. (You never know when you'll find a doggie biscuit, apparently.)
Mr. ReddHedd makes fun of me because an entire smallish cabinet in our kitchen is now devoted to assorted teas, my teapots, my tea strainer, and various and sundry other items. But, for me, it's a cabinet of comfort, and one that I have turned to on days when things were crazy as a sort of deep sigh moment — filling the teapot with loose leaf tea, filling the kettle and waiting for it to whistle, and then tying on the tea cozy to keep it warm once it's finished steeping and I've poured the first cup.
It's really the rituals in the face of craziness around us that keep us grounded.
And so, I thought we could talk a bit this morning about how we are all dealing with the inevitable march forward — whether we are prepared for it or not. How we've been seeking comfort (got a new recipe to share? I'd love it.). And what we've been doing lately to give back a little to someone else who needs a hand. Let's talk a bit of comfort and joy this morning. Pull up a chair…
PS — Here's what Lucky looks like these days:
Lucky at 6 months, by Christy Hardin Smith


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If engineers suspect they don't have the best EDA tools for the job, they shouldn't be quiet and complacent - they should be assertive and complain. Promoting that kind of environment is one of seven "rules for methodology investment" presented by Jonah Alben, senior vice president for GPU engineering at NVidia, in a keynote speech Jan. 29, 2013 at the DesignCon conference in Santa Clara, California.
Alben started his fast-moving, half-hour speech by noting that EDA is the key to advancing technology. Yes, Moore's Law tells us that technology advances 2X every two years, but that's only part of the story. "If we were using the same tools and methodologies we used 30 years ago to build our chips today, we couldn't use all the transistors the fab guys have cooked up for us," he said.
In spite of the value of EDA, Alben said, companies tend to under-invest in EDA - "and I'll put my own company in that bucket as well." One reason is complacency. With so many challenges and concerns every day, it's hard to convince people that it's really important to invest in next-generation EDA technology. But this kind of thinking is a "dangerous habit," he said.
"You might think engineers complain a lot, but I find they don't complain enough," Alben said. "They have a certain toolset, they get used to its quirks, and they don't speak up when everybody else in the company is speaking up about what they want to see." He noted that "engineers tend to find a way to live in whatever environment they're put into."
Seven Rules for Methodology Investment
Alben's "seven rules," drawn from NVidia experience, are helping the company "find the right level of methodology investment," he said. The rules are as follows:'
Cool New Stuff
Alben then moved on to what he called "cool new stuff," talking specifically about GPU-accelerated EDA as his company's next big EDA investment (NVidia is a major provider of GPUs). He said that NVidia is working with EDA partners to develop ways to accelerate logic simulation, signal integrity, SPICE simulation, and gate-level simulation using GPU-based compute platforms. With SPICE, for example, the company has seen a 6X acceleration in model generation. Logic simulation can run 3X faster with testbench overhead taken into account.
"It's amazing how far the industry has gone, and exciting to think about what the next 15 years are going to bring," Alben concluded. "I'm very excited to see how things turn out."
DesignCon runs Jan. 28-31 in Santa Clara, California. Cadence is exhibiting and presenting three papers. For a description of Cadence activities at DesignCon, click here.
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I am still trying to figure out why Broussard gets slandered.
Maybe I don't watch ESPN enough to get a true understanding. When I have seen Broussard on TV, he doesn't come across like someone you wouldn't like.
He does have "sources", but don't they all?
Sometimes he is wrong about his stories, but that happens to everyone at ESPN?
Maybe he should embrace it, because when they are making parody videos of you, you must be doing something right.
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For the third time in a few months – fourth if you count the recent union delegates' meeting and march on the 9th of April – construction and other workers marched through the city in a show of support for CFMEU Secretary Martin Kingham. By lunchtime of this, the first day of hearings proper, one of the two charges against him had been dismissed on the grounds it was essentially a duplicate of the other. At each of these marches, the representation of workers across the board has shown a widespread and growing awareness amongst unionists that this case brought against Martin Kingham is, as he said himself today, not about him at all, but part of a long-planned and systematic attack on the fundamental right of workers to organise. Unionists realise that a victory for the government over the CFMEU would be only a prelude to a devastating sweep against hard-won rights of all workers – nurses, teachers, the hospitality trade, the textile and clothing industries, emergency services and so on and so on.
[Martin Kingham cleared by magistrate – lunchtime Friday 2 May]


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Luminaries Series Features Jeannette Wing
October 29, 2013 | By Microsoft blog editor
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Jeannette Wing is corporate vice president of Microsoft Research. As such, she oversees Microsoft Research's core research laboratories around the world—and Microsoft Research Connections.
That much is true, indisputably. But her personal biography goes so much deeper than that. The above description doesn't mention her academic career, which included more than 27 years at Carnegie Mellon University, where she served on two occasions as head of the Computer Science Department. It doesn't include her three years as assistant director of the Computer & Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Nor does that bare-bones bio refer to her fervent belief in the concept of computational thinking.
Now, though, there is a resource that can provide a deeper, more well-rounded introduction to Wing, her research passions, and her vision for the future. That can be found on Channel 9, beginning Oct. 29, as part of its Microsoft Research Luminaries series.
The series launched Oct. 16 with a video about Ivan Tashev and his significant contributions to the audio system behind Kinect in both Xbox 360 and the forthcoming Xbox One.
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"Computational thinking is the thought processes for formulating a problem, and expressing a solution to that problem, in a way that a computer, either a human or a machine, can effectively carry out," she explains. "More simply, I like to think of computational thinking as just the thought processes that a computer scientist would use in solving a problem."
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You never know how your 15 minutes of fame will transpire. Skylar Bayer SM '11, who earned her master's from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Biological Oceanography, can thank scallop gonads.
Bayer is currently working on her PhD at the University of Maine and studying scallop reproduction. Due to a mishap involving a fisherman, jars of gonad samples, and an unlocked blue Chevy four door, she lost all of her intended research samples.
The fisherman's wife took to social media and soon the scallop debacle made the Deep Sea News and the Bangor Daily News. Bayer writes for and edits the blog Strictlyfishwrap and later wrote two posts about it, "Found: My Lost 'Nads," and "Why My 'Nads Are So Important." From there, it was apparently just a short jaunt away from the Colbert Report staff. They picked up the story and blew it wide open. Watch the video "The Enemy Within—Dr. Skylar Bayer" then scroll down for the Q&A with Bayer about the experience.
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Were you happy with the way the segment turned out?
Yes! Very much so. I thought it was perfect, and it was a lot of fun. The producers on the Colbert Report were kind, low key, and just generally great people. I've gotten hundreds of fan emails from scientists saying how much they liked it and that it actually made them a) interested in my research and b) made me seem, as a scientist, like a human being with a sense of humor (and likeable).
So it went over very well with my research community (and my family, friends, and a lot of other people it turns out). I was told by people (and read this on Deep Sea News) that it's a lot of people's life goals to get on the Colbert Report. At least among young scientists.
How exactly did you prepare?
I prepared by thinking about what I wanted to say and focus on in my interview. I also spoke with Ari Daniel Shapiro PhD '08, an MIT-WHOI alum, who does a lot of science stories for radio. He asked me a few hard questions and gave me some tips on what to say. He said that it's helpful to figure out your one-liner that you want to say about your research. You want to be as clear as possible.
One other important piece of information that I learned while talking to our university PR contact and Ari was that you can always say no to answering certain questions. You're allowed to say what you want, no one is going to force your hand as much as you think they are. At least, that was my experience.
How long did the filming take? Was it scripted or not?
The filming for my interview and b-roll shots was about four hours. For the interview, they just ran the camera the whole time (no retakes). The two producers and their hired camera and sound crew went to Mount Desert Island the day before for interviews with Andy Mays, Michelle Mays, and Gail Garthwait. It wasn't scripted at all. Since I don't get to see the questions ahead of time, my responses are the first time I've heard the questions from the producers. They want to capture real responses from people, not scripted ones; I think it turns out better for the show.
Anything you'd like to add?
I'm trying to recruit more writers for my blog, Strictlyfishwrap. I'd love to get more MIT students, actually. They're always doing great stuff.
Editor's note: The blog is a vehicle for (mostly) grad students to hone their writing and focuses on anything oceanographic: marine biology, ecology, and policy. Bayer is seeking a variety of content, including "anecdotal stories, commentaries on science life, field work (of all kinds, even terrestrial), cruises, fishermen meetings, teaching undergrads, being poor, job hunting, [and] balancing life."


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Tuesday evening I attended a Borough Council meeting at which the issue of the closing times for bars was discussed yet again.
Before that issue came up, however, I watched as some police officers were given commendations for breaking up a fight on the beach last year between two rival gangs of Bloods.
These guys really deserved the awards. Just two of them managed to rout 35 rioting gang members in a fight that took place on the beach last summer after the borough's 2 a.m. bar closing.
Between listening to that and the arrest reports from the prior week, I could understand why the people of Point Pleasant Beach want to close those rowdy boardwalk mega-bars at midnight.
The ordinance setting that closing time was adopted last month. The bar owners appealed to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, however, even though the state statute gives municipalities the explicit power to "limit the hours between which the sale of alcoholic beverages at retail may be made."
Not much wiggle room there. Other Shore towns have met no resistance from the ABC when implementing midnight bar closings to quiet what Beach Mayor Vince Barrella terms "the power drinkers" who spill out onto the sidewalks late at night.
Still, Barrella offered a compromise. At the meeting the Borough Council voted to offer the bars a 1 a.m. closing time.
That certainly sounded reasonable to me. Business at the many smaller bars in town tends to peter out by 1 a.m. anyway. As for the bigger bars, they would still have 15 hours or so per day to get their patrons potted.
But yesterday afternoon Barrella called to tell me the bars had rejected the deal.
"Given what the law is, how do you walk away from this offer?" Barrella asked me.
I'll take a wild guess: Because you have lots of friends highly placed in the Christie administration.
I suspected that scenario earlier this month when the Republican-run county government told the borough it can't enforce on county roads a plan to restrict after-midnight parking to residents.
That sounded good – until you learn that the county permits Seaside Heights to actually rent out parking spots to homeowners on county roads in that borough.
If that doesn't smell fishy, then neither does week-old flounder.
And the same goes for the ABC. Why are they even hearing the appeal on this case? Some towns, such as Seaside Heights, like to keep their bars open till 3 a.m. Meanwhile Seaside Park right next door shuts its bars at midnight. Either way, it's no business of the state's.
So why is the state so involved here? One has to wonder whether the bar owners are using their political contacts inside the Christie administration to push for what would be unprecedented interference in the affairs of a small town.
But one will not have to wonder for long. We'll know by the close of business Friday whether the ABC will be issuing some last-minute edict to save the bar owners and the power drinkers.
If that occurs it won't reflect well on the governor. Our half-Italian governor is on the record as opposing the image the "Jersey Shore" crowd has given the state and its Italian-American residents. Why would he be upset when an Italian-American like Barrella, who's a law professor by the way, works to develop a more wholesome image for the Shore?
And of course Christie is on the record as defending small-town governments against the overbearing intrusions of the Trenton crowd. So why would he want to intrude on an affair that is none of Trenton's business?
Are we going to see yet another one of those backroom deals that have made new Jersey pols infamous all over the country?
Or is the ABC going to let the appeal process run its course?
We shall see.
ADD: The more I think about this, the more I realize something is wrong with the ABC's treatment of this issue. Barrella informs me that ABC Director Michael Halfacre insisted that the two parties come up with a compromise, which is what the borough did. But why is the closing hour any business of the ABC? The law clearly gives that power to the town. Moreover the mission of the ABC is to promote moderation in drinking. That was clearly the goal of the earlier closing time. It seems to me that Halfacre has already abused his authority by insisting on any concessions at all from the borough. This is no more of an issue than if the bars insisted they had the right to stay open till 3 a.m., as in Seaside. Would that prompt a call for a compromise from the ABC? Apparently so.
Very fishy.
ALSO: Before commenting read this prior post of mine on the various ignoramuses who predict that the town would go broke if the bars shut early. As I explained there and here, the Shore towns with the highest property values and lowest taxes are those with the fewest bars, not those with the most. Mantoloking has perhaps the lowest property taxes in the state and it doesn't have a single business, never mind a bar. Ocean City doesn't even permit BYOB and it's in the top five for municipal property values.
So don't post some clueless comment about how the town will lose money from the bar closing. It won't. As I also noted the tax revenue from the bars goes not to the town but to Trenton.
The question for Christie is why he doesn't give suburban towns a fair share of state aid. I've yet to get an answer.


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Temperatures are forecast to reach 27C (80F) in the southeast of England on Wednesday.
Sky News Weather Producer Joanna Robinson said: "Central and southeast England will be very warm and humid, with probably the highest temperatures of the year so far."
The heat will trigger some heavy showers and thunderstorms across southern England and East Anglia, lasting into the night.
For those further north and in the west of the UK and in Ireland it will remain drier but not as hot.
On Thursday, temperatures will fall back to the low 20Cs.
The welcome warm blast follows what the Met Office said was the coldest spring since 1962.
There was a mean temperature across March, April and May of 6C (43F), which is calculated as being 1.7C below the long-term average.
This year's cold spring was a talking point as leading scientists and meteorologists gathered at the Met Office to discuss the UK's unusual weather patterns in recent years.
They also looked at what might have caused the cold winter of 2010/11 and the wet summer of 2012.
Professor Rowan Sutton, of the University of Reading, said: "There will always be a lot of variability in British weather, but recent persistent patterns - such as the series of wet summers since 2007 - are unusual.
"This spring was the coldest for over 50 years, 2012 was the wettest in a century and December 2010 was the coldest on record, with national records dating back to 1910.
"We discussed a range of research exploring how recent UK weather could arise from purely natural processes, such as cycles in the oceans, but we also looked at the influence of higher levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Spell vendors are non-playable characters in the world of Skyrim where players can buy spell books from. These spell books teaches the main character new magical tricks that it doesn't know yet. In case you're in dire need to learn a specific spell, spell vendors can be found inside cities and towns in Skyrim, and are pretty easy to find.
1Travel to a city or a large village. There are quite a few cities that you can visit to find a spell merchant. Cities like Morthal (North of Whiterun), Solitude (northwest of Morthal), and Winterhold (northeast of Morthal) are some of the places you can visit.
- Large towns like Whiterun—the first town you'll find yourself in once you start the game—and Riften (southeast-most corner of the map) also has a spell merchant residing inside.
2Head inside the town hall or castle. Each city or town has its own castle or town hall, respectively. These buildings are very easy to find since these are the largest structures in the area and are watched by guards (though the main character is free to enter anytime).
3Head to the throne of the Jarl. Once you're inside the city's castle or town hall, head further inside until you see the Jarl's throne (which is right in the middle).
- Jarls are the leaders of each city or town that reside inside the castle or town hall.
4Look for a robed character. Once you get to the Jarl's throne, look around if you see any non-playable character that wears a hooded robe. You'll often find one right beside or not too far from where the Jarl is—often located inside the rooms right next to the Jarl's throne.
- Spell merchants are mages in nature; they wear a hooded robe of any color, without any armor whatsoever, regardless of their race (Dunmer, Elf, Man, etc.).
5Approach the robed character and talk to it. That character will start to ask if you want to buy some spells or books.
- Other spell merchants, like those in Winterhold, will tell you a short story first before asking you to buy some items.
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text: All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.


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RTCA said Brady will host the RTCA dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on June 8. Brady tweeted: "Looking forward to RTCA dinner performance. I like shutting folks up and this [is] another chance to do what I do live. Just part of the job."
Louis C.K., meanwhile, explained to TheWrap his reasons for dropping out of the dinner after Fox News host Greta Van Susteren objected to months-old tweets in which he went over the top in insulting Sarah Palin.
Also read: Louis C.K. Interview: 'America's a Family. We All Fight With Each Other'
"I wasn't going to stand there and defend something I didn't really feel like doing anyway," C.K. said. "I wasn't that excited about it, I didn't want to cause them problems, I didn't think it was what they invited when they hired me. And I didn't think about it much. It was like one morning I woke up, I heard there was static. I'm in production (on his FX comedy, "Louis"), so I have no reason to be in conflict with anybody right now."


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PyMetasploit is a full-fledged msfrpc client library for the Metasploit server (msfrpcd). The library features an easy-to-use object-oriented approach to accessing all the features available within the Metasploit framework. With only a few simple lines of code, developers can select exploit/payload/auxiliary modules, configure them, and execute them.
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Federal authorities are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest in the arson fire set Tuesday night at Santa Sophia Catholic Church in Spring Valley.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has joined with the sheriff's bomb-arson unit to investigate the fire that was reported about 8 p.m. at the church on San Juan Street near Conrad Drive.
"There were things about this fire scene that would lead me to believe ... it was started intentionally," sheriff's Detective Anthony Calvert said Wednesday. He said he could not elaborate because of the ongoing investigation.
The fire caused $50,000 in damage to the church's main building, officials said.
Anyone with information about the fire is asked to call the Sheriff's Department at (858) 565-5200 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
When the fire started, two community events were being held in buildings across a parking lot from the church's main sanctuary. Those buildings were not damaged, and no one was injured, sheriff's officials said.
The Rev. Jacob Bertrand wrote on the church's Facebook page that the sanctuary would be locked while authorities investigate and repairs are made.
"It is with thanksgiving we acknowledge God's goodness in that the fire was discovered early and we have very manageable repairs," Bertrand wrote.
Daily and weekend Masses will be held in Prendergast Hall, but several upcoming community events have been canceled, including a spaghetti dinner on Saturday.
"Say some prayers for justice as it is needed as well as mercy upon the poor soul or souls who did this damage," he said.
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"We're up and running and really see no disruption to our clients," said Bob Watkins, a franchise co-owner for Ameriprise Financial.
The other business, Home Instead Senior Care, also had to make some adjustments to continue business.
"Our caretakers go into the clients' homes, so the office phones were rolled over to the cell phone, and that's how we're handling everything," said Alicia Shelton, office manager for Home Instead.
The fire, which was coming through the roof when a passerby spotted the blaze about 8 p.m., heavily damaged the two-story office building, according to the Oconee County Fire Department. Some sort of electrical problem seems to have sparked the fire, which started upstairs in the Ameriprise side of the building, according to the state fire marshal's office, which was asked to assist in the investigation.
"We lost pretty much everything, but we got some files - that was it. What the fire didn't damage, the water did," said Shelton as she and other employees were moving into a new facility Monday.
"We may have lawn chairs for our office (furniture)," she said.
Ameriprise owned the building and leased space to Home Instead.
"I met with the fire marshal (Sunday), and he doesn't know yet if he will require us to tear down the building, but either way, we will rebuild where it is," Watkins said.
Watkins responded to the fire Saturday night as volunteers from Oconee County battled the blaze.
"I looked at those guys up in the attic while it was on fire thinking to myself, 'It's just stuff.' We were terrified they were going to get hurt," he said. "Our hats are off to them."
Watkins had made a contingency plan for what to do if the building ever was damaged, he said, but never thought he'd have implement the plan.
"I never expected Saturday afternoon when we closed up that we would never be able to go back into that building," he said, adding he contacted the corporate office, and computers and other office equipment arrived at the new location the next day.
The only irreplaceable items lost in the fire were keepsakes from clients such as pictures and retirement party notices, Watkins said.
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Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault confirmed the diagnosis via the club's Twitter account on Wednesday night.
Booth, who was acquired from Florida in October, has totaled five goals and 13 points in 25 games with the Panthers and Canucks this season.
The club recalled forward Bill Sweatt from Chicago of the American Hockey League as an emergency replacement for Booth, and also assigned forward Victor Oreskovich to Chicago.


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Read Robinson's "Brief History of Portsmouth"
Cheap rent and cheap thrills
Over the past 20 years, I've rented five offices inside the official perimeter of the Portsmouth Historic District. With commercial real estate downtown hitting over $30 per square foot triple-net, a small businessman has to stay on the move, scavenging for affordable space. That's why you'll never find us at street level.
My company was born in a third floor walk-up apartment on Pleasant Street. There were eight gerbil-sized dormer rooms renting for a total of $235. I paid half the rent and took half the rooms as a parade of roommates marched off to better digs. When the last one bought a fancy condo, I bit the bullet, shouldered the whole lease and opened a business in the first four rooms. I had one employee, no air conditioning, no clients and a $1,500 high-tech typewriter that could hold an entire paragraph in its memory.
Snooping around at the back of the building a year or two later, I noticed an open window, crawled in and found 4,000 square feet of empty space that had once been a sporting goods shop. The landlord rented the whole thing to me, including the entire third floor in which I was already living for a total of $650 a month, and he paid for the renovations. Readers with calculators will quickly note that the lease came to less than $1.50 per square foot, currently the price of warehouse space in Gonic, if you can find any. I subdivided and sublet the office to a group of independent artsy friends for $650 and - shazam! - got a free apartment in the bargain.
I was talking about these very same "good ol days" with a fellow downtown merchant on a glorious August afternoon last week. He was watering his outdoor flowers in the new improved Market Square when a handsome well-dressed couple stopped and said: "You gentlemen look like you're from around here."
We did, of course; there was no fighting it. We acquiesced to their request for dining suggestions and offered up a litany of restaurants. Portsmouth is, as the Boston Globe says, the dining capital of the northeast, so the recitation took a few minutes. "Have you tried the tapas bar?" I suggested finally, pointing toward the big new building down Market Street. Suddenly the couple was giving us that look New Yorkers reserve especially for people who try to clean windshields at stop lights.
"TA-pas," I repeated, enunciating more clearly. "You know, it's like a Spanish pu-pu platter. Did you think I said topless bar?"
They laughed with embarrassed relief, apparently surprised to find such suave cosmopolitan gents with a taste for world cuisine in a hick New Hampshire town. Sure we only heard about tapas two weeks ago, but, that's how fast things happen here in Market Square.
Truth be told, back when I was paying those low office rents, there really was a topless bar on Market Street. It was called the Oxcart Pub for no reason other than that there was a figure of a burro with a cart in the window which was otherwise draped from public view. There was another one called The Cave on Bow Street. The waitresses actually wore transparent blouses made out of what looked like low-grade mosquito netting. The establishment sported black lights, loud music, peanut shells on the floor and bathrooms you wouldn't visit without an armed guard. The room was painfully dark, since the windows that opened onto the scenic harbor and tugboats, had been boarded up. The waitresses looked bored, watched TV and chain smoked. It was about as sexy as a college seminar in Human Reproduction.
It was a tough crowd by today's standards. People in the bars used to hurt one another sometimes, but they usually used fists. Today you can find more violence on TV, see more sexy outfits at the mall and hear more profanity in a junior high playground. We didn't know it then, but we were watching the waning hours of Portsmouth, the seaport. Tough bars and cheap offices were the final beachheads. The Port City was evolving from mariners and merchants to boutiques and brewpubs. If Portsmouth stands for anything, it stands for business and the amazing ability to adapt a petite downtown center to a constantly shifting clientele.
Take my first office on Pleasant Street, for example. During my short era in town the bottom floor has been an insurance agency, a video store, a carpet store, a record shop, an Indian restaurant, a saloon and a hair salon. A little suite on the second floor was occupied by a dentist and then a lawyer and now a career counselor. A few weeks after I moved out of the top floor in the early 80s, I went back to find my video room converted to a B'hai Temple. In the old days, George Washington stayed in a tavern across the street. It burned, was rebuilt, burned again. I knew it as the Elk's Club Lodge. Today it's an auction house. I've seen the garage next door become a pottery shop, an ad agency, a real estate office, a cyber café - all gone now.
Like shifting partners in our sexually "liberated" era, the downtown faces change with fast-forward speed. Each new tenant arrives, brimming with dreams, flush with borrowed cash and dizzy with hope. I know; I've been there time and again. Within three years, most small businesses are dead. For all the fuss we make about our historic houses around here, it's the commercial buildings that see most of the action. Some of these great old homes haven't been lived in for a hundred years. Next door, scores maybe hundreds of companies may have come and gone. I'd bet this town can count ten mercantile ghosts to every residential one.
And there's no end in sight. Today the Szechuan Taste is Tequila Jacks, The Codfish Aristocracy, once a home saved from North end urban renewal, is Cafe Mediterranean. Ye Olde Post Office building now sells sushi, while the new Post has been replaced by a newer one. The hardware store has become Shalimar Indian Restaurant. Victory Spa is Victory Antiques. Green's Drug Store was a bank, then Federal Cigar, now Starbucks. The stately old Custom House will soon be Shoofly Pie, a kids bookstore. Two venerable former banks in Market Square now sell crafts and clothes. Teddy's Lunch is Café Brioche. Moe's Sandwiches, once next to the old pawn shop is now City and Country. Moe moved a block away to the site of the former travel agency (and his real name is Phil, anyway). The Kearsage Hotel is a deli and place selling running apparel. There's no more Ranger Club, no more Golden Memories, no Excalibur and now even Elvis, the teen club, has left the building.
Nineteenth century journalist Charles Brewster who started this column long before me, was proud to say that he walked around the planet without ever leaving downtown Portsmouth. I'm not far behind him, but sometimes I get lost a block from the office. Things are so different.
And it's the same all over town. A power plant becomes a prestigious office building, a warehouse is now a costly condo, a school becomes a city hall, which then moves into an abandoned hospital building. We are, as Richard Candee reminds us in his book "Building Portsmouth," a city of recycled structures. Rarely do we see a new building, like the ones at 10 Pleasant Street or 100 Middle. They are exceptions to the rules of rehab, refurb, rehash and renovate. That's why, despite all the change, Portsmouth looks so much like it did in 1800.
But looks are deceiving. We are slowly being re-engineered for the future. You can see it when you study the old photos. This is a softer city, despite the return of brick and granite and cobblestone. Sidewalks are widening to accommodate the flow of tourists. Obstructions are being removed -- replaced by information kiosks and cops on bikes. Gutters are gone, wires go underground, trees spring up, antique lamp posts rise, flowers bloom, public bathrooms disappear. Even the minute droppings of our last remaining horses never hit the pavement. Things smell better. The salty air is filled with freshly ground coffee, baked breads, exotic foods.
The only thing that hasn't changed, it seems, is my salary. But the
ride is worth every penny. Stay put, Franz Kafka once said. Don't
move. The world will come and grovel itself at your feet. That's
certainly true in downtown Portsmouth. I don't miss the topless
waitress, but I sure loved that old rent.
By J. Dennis Robinson
© 1999 SeacoastNH.com
Early photo courtesy of the Portsmouth Athenaeum.
Other photos by J. Dennis Robinson
Don't miss Dennis Robinson's new column "Seacoast Rambles" every other week in Foster's Sunday Citizen at your local newsstand.
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Broom of the System
The Lottery
As The Crimson reported on Friday, Harvard College is conducting a review of its abandonment of early admissions. While the admissions department is to be commended for thoughtfully evaluating its own policies, I wish it would conduct a more comprehensive review of Harvard's admissions process. Indeed, I wish it would consider abandoning the admissions process altogether in favor of a randomized lottery.
The best way to do this would be in conjunction with other universities. Chad Adelman of the think tank Education Sector has proposed adopting the system used to match medical residents to hospitals. High school seniors would apply to a single admissions body and list their school preferences in order. Schools would set a minimum SAT score and high school GPA so that they do not admit students who truly cannot handle the work, but, otherwise, schools are randomly matched with students who list them as a preference.
SNAP, Crackle, Starve
If you go to a Wal-Mart on the last night of the month, you'll notice an odd scene. After 11 p.m., customers start to pour in, but they all check out after the clock strikes midnight. A similar phenomenon occurs at Kroger's supermarkets and other 24-hour stores. The reason, as The Wall Street Journal's Miguel Bustillo reported last week, is that electronic benefit accounts for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP, colloquially known as "food stamps") refresh at midnight on the first of every month. Since the recession hit, this has led to increased midnight business, so much so that Wal-Mart has had to increase staffing at those hours to keep up and make an effort to keep shelves stocked for the period.
The people conducting the midnight runs are not just poor, but poor enough that even waiting until morning would leave them without needed food. "If you really think about it," Bill S. Simon, President and CEO of Wal-Mart U.S., explained to Bustillo, "The only reason someone gets out there in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and they have been waiting for it." These are workers for whom even living paycheck-to-paycheck isn't enough to keep food coming in regularly. And with food stamp rolls increasing from 26 million in 2007 to 41 million this year (and still growing), these midnight rushes are only going to become more popular in the foreseeable future.
Always Wanting More
While mostly frustrating and depressing, the ongoing debate over how to handle the expiring Bush tax cuts has been educational in at least one way. I honestly did not realize how many people think someone earning $250,000 a year does not qualify as "rich." The cutoff is important, as the Obama administration is proposing letting tax cuts on those above that income expire, but some in Congress are insisting that people who make more than about 98 percent of Americans aren't wealthy. Jim A. Himes '88, a congressman from Connecticut and, relevantly, a former Goldman Sachs vice president, said that $250,000 a year doesn't make one "really rich." Senate Minority Leader A. Mitch McConnell introduced a plan to extend all the Bush cuts—and increase the national debt by $4 trillion–by claiming Obama's plan would target "the people who've been hit hardest by this recession" (a claim he later was forced to retract, excuse me, "clarify").
Suffice it to say, if you're making over $250,000 a year, you have not been hit harder than the millions of workers who've run out of unemployment benefits or the tens of thousands of families who have been forced into homeless shelters over the past two years. And if you're making that much and still inclined to deny your place among the rich, stop. Just stop. Just 2.1 percent of households earn over $250,000 a year. They earned almost five times the income–$52,029–of the median household in 2008. As writer Daniel Gross says, "You're rich. Get over it."
Call Me Phone Snatcher
Even in a media environment as frenetic as the one in which we currently reside, the speed with which technology news site Gizmodo somehow became a martyr is remarkable. On the morning of April 19, Jason Chen, Gizmodo's editor, announced that the site had "found" a prototype of the next edition of the Apple iPhone and proceeded to post pictures, videos, and detailed technical specifications of the device. The site followed up that evening with an account of how Gizmodo "found" the device. In short, an Apple employee—whom Gizmodo outed, even posting a couple of his Facebook photos—brought it to a bar, where he left it by accident. Another bar patron proceeded to steal the device and sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000. The same day, Apple demanded the device returned, and Gizmodo agreed. That Friday, April 23, police obtained a search warrant for Chen's residence and seized several computers, hard drives, and other electronics.
Given that Chen likely used at least some of these devices to arrange payment for the iPhone, they are certainly relevant to any investigation into both the initial theft and Chen's purchase of the stolen goods—a crime punishable by a year's jail time in California. But rather than accept that people who commit felonies tend to get search warrants exercised against them, activists and media outlets reacted to the search by leaping to Chen's and Gizmodo's defense. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a generally admirable civil libertarian group focused on protecting rights online, declared the search warrant illegal, agreeing with Gizmodo's belief that California's shield laws intended to protect journalists meant that police could not seize computers containing Chen's notes and data. A representative of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press called the search "an incredibly clear violation of state and federal law." Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" even got in on the act, mocking the police for giving Chen the "meth lab in the basement treatment" and implicitly referring to Apple's lawyers as "Appholes." On both a legal and moral level, the reaction is bizarre.
Party Down
No concept gets quite as much abuse in American politics as partisanship. Those in power love to blame it for stopping legislation from advancing. When Senator Jim Bunning shut down the Senate to prevent a bill extending unemployment benefits from going forward, the White House blasted the action as "blatant, partisan obstructionism." The opposition in turn attacks as "partisan" the legislation it obstructs. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing their opposition to financial reform, members of the Senate Republican Caucus declared: "We are united in our opposition to the partisan legislation reported by the Senate Banking Committee."
The use of "partisan" as an epithet is rooted in two impulses. The first is the common perception that the electorate finds partisanship unsavory; the second is that it prevents Congress from getting things done. As President Obama put it to a House Republican retreat in January, "I don't think [the American people] want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship," with the connection between the two left unexamined.


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Lou Emma, Twila May and Ira Earl Longwell with their cousins
Bottom row, second and third from left, Lou Emma and Twila May Longwell
The others in the photograph would be cousins to Twila May, Lou Emma, and Ira Earl. They had 32 first cousins on their mothers side - Elliott Family.
Twila May, Lou Emma, and Ira Earl were children of Winfield Scott and Mary Elizabeth Elliott Longwell. The Longwell family lived in West Freedom, PA before moving to Cleveland, Ohio.
Photo taken about 1900.
Submitted by Joyce E. Bennett, granddaughter of Lou Emma Longwell Baker


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