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Last-minute holiday gifts for car lovers: Five fun automotive-themed holiday presents
December 9, 2012
Aftermarket navigation, infotainment and Bluetooth wireless connectivity
The gift-giving season is upon us, and we've assembled a quick list of holiday car gifts just right for the car lover in your life. Before you give in to slipping cash in a card, check out a couple of high-tech tools and toys we tested this year.
Add aftermarket infotainment technology to your car for a fraction of the cost of buying it from the dealership.
Aftermarket technology add-ons can modernize a car for a fraction of the price of buying the equipment from the vehicle manufacturer.
Recently we tested Parrot's latest consumer technology—the Asteroid range of aftermarket infotainment systems comprised of the base Mini, larger Tablet and a fully integrated Smart system. These products offer varying degrees of infotainment features and are powered by Android technology; don't worry, they're compatible with all smartphones. Here's the breakdown:
• Smart—The top-of-the-line Smart model includes apps, navigation, video, music and hands-free calling. It has a 6.2-inch color touchscreen and GPS antenna for a complete navigation system. The Asteroid Smart suggested retail price is $599.
• Tablet—The Tablet includes apps, GPS, music and hands-free phone use. It has a five-inch color touchscreen and integrated GPS antenna. It can be installed on the dashboard or windshield like a GPS unit, then paired with a wireless touchpad that is mounted in a convenient location. It can access apps via 3G, 4G, Bluetooth, USB or a Wi-Fi network. The Asteroid Tablet has a suggested retail price of $399.
• Mini—The Asteroid Mini provides apps, music and hands-free calling. It has a 3.2-inch color screen, and comes with a GPS antenna and wireless remote control that attaches to the steering wheel. It connects to the Internet via 3G, 4G, Bluetooth or USB. Its suggested retail price is $299.
Have fun maneuvering this little CarBot through your office
Lowrider coloring book
These tiny remote-control cars use a smartphone as the controller and are a ton of fun. Simply download the free DeskPets app and the digital remote control appears on your phone's touchscreen (works with iPhone, iPad, iPod and Android phones). These little cuties rev their engines and honk their horns like any other remote-control car but use a USB port to recharge instead of an adapter. Plug the CarBot into your laptop and when it's through charging the lights will flash and the engine will rev to alert you it's ready to roll! CarBots cost about $30 and can be purchased through amazon.com. Keep an eye out, too, for TankBots and TrekBots.
Grab a box of freshly sharpened crayons, these pages await your creative finishing touches.
Cool car accessories
This nifty gift costing less than $10 is pretty amazing. Illustrated by Oscar Nilsson, the coloring book contains 32 lowrider images spanning 60 years of this automotive art form.
For the person who loves bacon as much as they love cars.
*Honorable mention
If you love bacon as much as you love cars, marry the two by dangling a bacon air freshener ($2.99) from your rearview mirror. This terrific idea was one of our favorites featured on www.thinkgeek.com. Another was the package of superhero family decals ($10.99) for your rear window; beats stick figures any day.
These Bluetooth equipped stickers combined with a smartphone app will ensure you never loose your keys again.
Available in 2013
StickNFind—Never lose your keys again with a Bluetooth-capable sticker. Apply the quarter-size sticker to your keychain, TV remote or anything you tend to misplace. An app on your smartphone will help you locate the object within 100 feet of your smartphone. The battery inside the sticker is said to last about one year. StickNFind stickers are not available in stores yet, and won't be for about a year, but consumers can pre-order them at www.indiegogo.com. The pre-order price is $35 for two stickers.


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Chris Buffa (Modojo): Gran Turismo PSP was years in the making. In fact, the game appeared alongside the system in 2004, but didn't officially debut until 2009. Fans waited five long years to get their hands on a portable GT, only to discover a game devoid of online multiplayer and a Career mode.
Even if it doesn't arrive (a portable version), at least we can look forward to a [possible] remote play option.
I hope 1 of the best racing simulators ever made make it onto the vita the playstation portable was incredible I can only imagine what the vita will have to offer :)
GT on the PSP was pretty good, it was just everything was a bit too squashed on the screen and was hard to identify a few corners and marking and yeah no career mode and lack of car upgrades was sucky. A PS Vita game would sort this problem without a doubt.
To be honest, as long as remote play on the Vita is good I'll rather have that with GT5 and let them focus on GT6 or Tourist Trophy


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Bill Kristol posts the message from "Joe Biden" sent to millions of low-information Democrats and others on the Democratic Party's email list:
From: Joe Biden [email protected]
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:38:20 -0400
Subject: This is important
There's never been as much distance — at least since I've been alive — between where the mainstream of the Republican Party is and the Democratic Party is.
It's a chasm. It's a gigantic chasm.
I'm not talking about the character or even the quality of the minds of the Republicans in Congress — they're not bad guys. But they don't get it.
It's never been more important to elect and support Democrats who are going to have Barack's back, both in D.C. and across the country. Chip in $5 or more to do just that before tomorrow's fundraising deadline.
This isn't your father's Republican party.
When I asked several Republican senators after they voted against background checks, not one offered an explanation on the merits of why they couldn't vote for them. But almost to a person, they said, "I don't want to take on Ted Cruz. I don't want to take on Rand Paul. They'll be in my district."
We need people in Washington who are going to listen to their constituents — not to Ted Cruz. Help support Democrats before midnight tomorrow:
"Joe Biden" has served in Washington since 1973. Good to know that he felt closer to the mainstream of the Republican Party in the days of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush than to the GOP mainstream today. "Joe Biden" apparently didn't get a chance to take in Jay Cost's article on "Republicans in the good old days." It might have set his "mind" at ease.
You don't want to try to confuse "Joe Biden" with facts that belie the party line. When I hear the word "chasm" in the vicinity of "Joe Biden" (or Joe Biden), it's not the distance between the two parties that comes to mind. It's the space between his ears.
The same thought applies to the votaries of the Democratic Party to whom this message is addressed. The quotation related by "Joe Biden" has the earmarks of a fraud. Bill is a fan of Donald Westlake's Dortmunder novels, and this message represents a caper a la Dortmunder:
Apart from its general amusement value (and even though he was just repeating lines he delivered weeks ago), there's one striking thing about this email:
It's undoubtedly a lie. It's inconceivable that "several Republican senators" would have told Joe Biden they'd voted against background checks because of fear of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. That might be the kind of thing you'd say to a close colleague of your own party—though even then, most senators have too much self-regard to say it to anyone, even if it were true. But there's no way Republican senators would say this to Joe Biden.
And the proof is in the alleged quotation. Biden claims GOP senators told him Cruz or Paul "will be in my district." But they're senators. They don't have districts. They would have said, if they'd said anything at all, "they're going to be in my state."
Bill derives a moral to the story: "If you're going to invent a quotation, at least make it a plausible one." Here I part company with Bill. The distinction between districts and states is way too subtle to raise the eyebrows of this message's intended recipients.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Kelli O'Hara will be taking a break from singing Gershwin songs on Broadway early next year — to sing Rodgers & Hammerstein tunes with the The New York Philharmonic.
The Philharmonic said Monday that O'Hara, currently starring in "Nice Work If You Can Get It" at the Imperial Theatre, will appear as Julie Jordan in a production of "Carousel" running from Feb. 27 to March 2.
The musical includes such hits as "If I Loved You," ''June Is Bustin' Out All Over," and "You'll Never Walk Alone." O'Hara is set to return to Broadway after "Carousel" closes.
Joining O'Hara will be Nathan Gunn as Billy Bigelow, Stephanie Blythe as Nettie Fowler and Alexander Gemignani as Enoch Snow. John Rando will direct and Rob Fisher conducts.
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Library News Blog
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
We are always expanding our special collections which document criminal justice, broadly and deeply. This is a selected list of recent acquisitions.
Rare books
Jennaway Pearson, Sum of our Parts: An Examination of Death Rituals in America. Washington D.C., 2014.
We recently acquired this beautiful book by the book artist Jennaway Person; the book is based on her MFA Thesis project. It exists in four copies, one in the artist's collection and one is at the Library of Congress. This book features silkscreen, zinc plate etchings, letterpress, on handmade cotton rag paper, with audio recording in a custom built pine box inlayed with one of the zinc etching plates. Each sheet features the name and prisoner history of a selection of prisoners executed in Texas 1982-2013. An MP3 player holds recordings of each prisoner's last words. One interesting aspect of this book is that the ink used to portray barbed wire was infused with ground glass.
Images from a recent exhibit of Sum of our Parts by Jennaway Pearson
Suringar, Willem Hendrik and Moreau-Christophe, L.M., Translator. Considerations Sur La Reclusion Individuelle Des Detenus. Precedees d'une Preface et Suivies du Resume de la Question Penitentiaire. Paris: Chez Mme Bouchard-Huzard, 1843.
A discussion on Pennsylvania's system of separate confinement, which influenced European penology at this time. The authors were leading prison officials in Holland and France.
The Great Canals Scrip Fraud, Minutes of the proceedings and report of the evidence in the investigation of the case, by the grand jury of Sangamon County, Ill. At the April term of the court of said county, 1859. Springfield, Illinois: Daily Journal Steam Press, 1859.
This pamphlet describes the investigation into the issue and cover up of 'canal scrip' fraud, which implicated then Illinois Governor Matteson for larceny for using state funds to purchase these bank note substitutes. Boxes of this scrip had apparently been purchased, allegedly with state funds and then stored in the State Capital Building and discovered much later. Although the Governor was cleared of all charges, the Grand Jury voted to publish the proceedings of the trial. This item is an addition to our existing Fraud and Swindles Collection. Only eight copies are known to exist of this pamphlet, none in New York State.
Image: Illustration of a canal scrip, from John M. Lamb. (Nov. 1977) "The Great Canal Scrip Fraud." The Magazine of Illinois 16/9: 57-60
An Illustrated Catalog of Knowles Improved Fire Pumps. New York and Boston, 1885.
This trade catalog features many illustrations and descriptions of pumps which supplied water to fire suppression systems in large buildings. According to this pamphlet and to an advertisement in American Machinist, Knowles pumps were dependable and the industry standard. This will be a great resource to those researching early urban fire prevention systems. We are now the only library on record that holds this pamphlet.
Image: Advertisement for Knowles Steam Pumps in the front pages of American Machinist 9 (1882) from Google Books
Report of special committee to the Prison Association of New York on convict labor. 1885
This report is an early criticism of the system of prisoner labor in New York State, which it characterizes as akin to slavery. Our recently digitized Annual Reports of New York State Prisons, available on the Internet Archive details what work the prisoners were assigned inside and outside the prison grounds. In just a few pages, this small pamphlet reviews an issue in corrections that still resonates today. Consider for example this statement on page two: "…on the broadest grounds of public policy, the convict's reformation is more profitable to the State than his prison labor can be." Only five libraries are known to have this report.
The life of Anson Bunker : "the bloody hand," the perpetrator of no less than fifteen cold-blooded murders, amongst which were the great Nathan murder of New York City, and those of his three wives, and several others in various parts of the country: his horrible confessions and terrible doom. Philadelphia 1881.
A sensational and lurid first person account of fifteen murders committed by Anson Bunker, including all three of his wives. We are one of the few libraries that hold this edition.
Images: Two of the many illustrations in The Life of Anson Bunker from an earlier edition available digitally from Harvard Libraries
Manuscript collections
William Preston Papers — (40 linear feet) Bill Preston was professor and chair of John Jay's History Department from 1973-1988 and the author of Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903–33. We thank Bill's children, Michael, Margo, Evie and Lauren for donating his papers to the Lloyd Sealy Library. We will be processing this collection soon; a preliminary inventory is available from the Library's Special Collections Subject Guide.
Records of the Town of Brookhaven Police Department (Suffolk County) — (½ linear foot) This collection is also the papers of Edward E. Bridge who organized and oversaw this town's police force from 1937 to 1959. On January 1, 1960 Brookhaven, along with many adjacent towns, joined forces to create the Suffolk County Police Department. A finding aid is available from the Library's Special Collections Guide.
Journal of Kansas City Police Matrons Miss Anna W. Taggart and Elizabeth Burns 1904-1909 (one volume) — This journal records the activities of female police officers working in Progressive Era Kansas City. Daily observations and activities include arrests of prostitutes, burglars, murderers as well as interactions with abandoned infants, runaways, drug abusers, domestic violence survivors and much more.
For more information or to make an appointment to see any of these in our Special Collections Room, please contact Professor Ellen Belcher.
Ellen Belcher
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:40am
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
The amount of material that the library has available for both students and faculty in our collections can seem a bit overwhelming to approach. There is a plethora of information available; students in particular may be unaware of how much the library has for them or even where to begin looking. Regardless of whether you are a professor or a student, a good place to get started would be with our subject guides.
You may be wondering, what are subject guides? They are a listing of available resources put together by librarians to help users locate materials that they can use in their research and papers. Subject guides can vary but usually contain lists of suggested books, databases and journals, links, and sometimes pictures and video on whatever topic the guide is discussing. It is a roadmap of extremely helpful, relevant, and academically acceptable knowledge that a librarian constructed for users to use.
From all the guides available at the Library, the best one to recommend to somebody just beginning to learn about doing research would be our "How to Use the Library" guide. For anyone looking to improve their bibliographies and citation skills, our guide "Citing Sources: APA, MLA & Chicago Styles" may be invaluable. If you are a student having a hard time figuring out if an article or journal is academically acceptable, take a look at our "Evaluating Information Sources" guide. Anyone looking for a source of valid statistics should take a look at our Statistics guide. We also have specific guides for English 101 and Speech 113 classes in particular.
It is also never too early for students to begin to think about the types of careers that they can pursue after their time here at John Jay College, particularly in criminal justice fields. Students who are interested in career resources at the library as well as internship sources, exam study guides, and generally how John Jay College can help you launch your career should take a look at our "Careers in Criminal Justice" subject guide, as well as our "Careers in Forensic Science" subject guide.
Also as distance education has become more prevalent, subject guides have become crucial in helping faculty and students who will never actually step foot on the physical campus. The library has guides on many topics that would be helpful to those involved in distance education such as our ebook guide, available at guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ebooks and our guide "Finding Legal Information: The Absolute Basics." Graduate students, who may only be able to visit the campus in the evenings, if at all, may find our "Graduate Student Resources" guide to be very useful.
Meanwhile, faculty will find our "Faculty Scholarship Resources" guide and our "Information Literacy" guide to be very helpful as they pursue their teaching and scholarship both on and off campus. And of course as part of fostering a sense of belonging to the wider John Jay College community, there is a guide on library exhibits, which allows for graduate and distance students to experience some of the many displays and materials that faculty and students who visit the physical library regularly are able to enjoy.
This academic year, we introduced several new guides for students on a variety of subjects including guides on classics, emergency management, gangsters, Shakespeare, and several history guides on events like the Holocaust and world wars, as well as eras such as Reconstruction and the Depression. We have also made major updates to existing guides such as "Corrections," "Crime in New York 1850–1950," "Fire Science," and "Security Management."
Subject guides from the Lloyd Sealy Library offer faculty and students, both on and off campus a gateway to begin their studies and improve their research. Feel free to take a look and encourage your students to take a look as well!
Mark Zubarev
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:31am
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Two new Annual Review subscriptions: Statistics & its Application, and Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior
Our collection of Annual Review journals provides critical literature reviews of primary research in 18 disciplines including the social sciences. Most recently we have added subscriptions to the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior, and the Annual Review of Statistics & its Application.
This is the landing page of the Annual Review of Statistics and its Application. You can browse current and past articles from this page. The single search bar on the upper right allows you to search for articles within a specific Annual Review journal or across all the Annual Review content we subscribe to.
Launched in March 2014, the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology & Organizational Behavior focuses on industrial psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. Topics covered include motivation, leadership, gender and diversity, and research methodologies. The Annual Review of Statistics and its Application covers tools and developments in statistics such as new theories in methodologies and applications in the areas of economics, psychology and sociology among others. Both reviews can be searched by clicking on the title of these journals from the main page of Annual Reviews. Once you click on the title you can enter your keywords into the single search bar at the top, or browse current or past issues. You can also search across the 18 disciplines we subscribe to via the single search box appearing at the top of each screen or via the Advanced Search option.
Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, Latino Studies, and Psychology
The Library now subscribes to the African Studies, Latino Studies, and Psychology subject collections of Oxford Bibliographies. They provide annotated citations and introductory overviews for a range of topics, including authors (e.g., Chinua Achebe in the African Studies collection) and concepts (e.g., borderlands from the Latino Studies collection and lie detection from the Psychology collection). The annotated sources include books, journal articles, websites, data sets and archives. Each citation can be saved to a personal account and emailed or exported to a citation management program (e.g., RefWorks). Citations also include a convenient link to the CUNY+ catalog and WorldCat, both of which allow users to search for the availability of the item at John Jay or other libraries. Some citations also include a link to Google Books.
Sample citation from the Lie Detection in a Forensic Context bibliography. Each citation can be saved and exported. Links to the CUNY+ catalog, WorldCat, and Google Books are provided.
Oxford Bibliographies provide a range of search features. Researchers can browse bibliographies in each subject collection by an alphabetical title listing or search across subject collections via the single search box at the top of each page or through the advanced search. The advanced search options also allow researchers to limit searches to specific types of citations, for example primary documents or multimedia sources.
From the main page of a subject collection, you can browse bibliographies by title, or you can search for bibliography topics using the search bar at the top.
Researchers who are new to a field and are looking for key sources to start their research will find these bibliographies to be useful.
aggregates research related to online marketing and e-commerce by drawing data from over 4,000 sources, including companies, research firms, consulting companies, universities and government agencies. Although the marketing and e-commerce focus of this database may not seem relevant to research agendas at John Jay, students and professors may be interested in the Internet and mobile adoption data made available by eMarketer. The database provides forecasts up to 2019 for topics such as the number of mobile phone users, broadband households and Internet users in different countries. Other topics include social media usage by specific groups such as millennials in the United States, the number of mobile phone users by race and ethnicity, as well as data about digital privacy and security. Search results can be filtered by format and source types such as charts, reports and industry articles.
The image on the right is a chart from eMarketer illustrating the demographic profile of mobile phone owners in Peru, 2013. Charts can be emailed and downloaded as a PDF, JPEG or Excel file.
Karen Okamoto
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:22am
Paola Rojas, from the library to border patrol
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Paola Rojas was one of Saundra's favorite "babies." Paola worked six years as a Sealy Library College Assistant, graduating with a BS in Criminal Justice in 1998.
After graduation, the sweet-faced, Spanish-speaking Paola was hired by the United States Border Patrol to carry a gun and enforce the Arizona border. She did her new job with the same good cheer and competence she displayed while working for the library. Although the western style grew on her, Paola was happy to move back to friends and family in New York three years ago. You might find her now at one of the airports as an investigator for Customs, or at a New York Yankees game.
Though Paola keeps up with Saundra Dancy and the college assistants she worked with years ago, the rest of the library staff were happy to catch up with her again at Mrs. Dancy's retirement party.
Janice Dunham
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Ed. note: We misspelled Paola's name in the print newsletter. We regret the error.
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:06am
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Saundra Dancy, the Sealy Library Circulation Supervisor, celebrated her birthday on March 30 by retiring from John Jay College. She was aided and abetted in this decision by her husband, Darryl Dancy, who retired from John Jay's Facilities Department during the previous month. While we wish them both well in their spring bower in Pennsylvania, the College will surely miss them.
Saundra arrived at the Library nearly twenty-five years ago upon the high recommendation of Margaret Schultze, for whom she had worked in Human Resources. Saundra's bright spirit, ready smile and quick intelligence was immediately apparent. It wasn't long before she had mastered the arcane details of library circulation: "unlinked item records," "pick list," "Aleph conversions," "library stops," "local patron," "global records," and so many others. Where Saundra always shined the brightest, however, was in her management skills.
The Library has a revolving crew of fifteen college assistants and four or five work-study students who zip in to work for a few hours between classes. Our students are subject to the vagaries of student life everywhere, plus dependent families, no previous work experience, and special immigrant status. At the center of the maelstrom, Saundra dependably orchestrated crises and continuity, going well beyond work responsibilities to mentor, cajole, encourage and help our John Jay students one after another. An indication of the influence she had on so many young lives was the number who flocked lovingly to her retirement party on March 20. Their tributes to Saundra Dancy and how she changed their lives were reminiscent of the things we usually hear at faculty retirements. The role Saundra played in the College was in the best spirit of our educational enterprise. We are grateful for her presence among us.
Janice Dunham
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:05am
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
This loving couple, Nadyia Middleton and Miguel Onativia, both John Jay graduates, met, courted, and exchanged their first Valentine's Day gifts in the Sealy Library.
When Miguel wanted to surprise Nadyia and ask her to marry him, of course it had to be in the Library. With the help of Jerylle Kemp, Director of Alumni Relations, and the fond participation of everyone present in the Sealy Library on December 13, Miguel and Nadyia became engaged (please notice the ring). In July they will married. (But not in the Library.)
Janice Dunham
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 11:02am
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Larry Sullivan's review of the Morgan Library and Museum's exhibition, "Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection" was published in the Spring 2015 newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP). His book review of Ruth Ahnert's The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2013) was published in the same issue of the SHARP newsletter. He also gave the lecture "The Brownsville Boys: Jewish Gangsters of Murder, Inc." in the Jewish Experience series at The Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center on March 27.
Kathleen Collins had a chapter entitled "The Rise of the 'Foodie' and the Role of Mass Media" published in The Routledge History of Food edited by Carol Helstosky (New York: Routledge, 2015).
Robin Davis presented "Taking Care of Digital Efforts: A Multiplanar View of Project Afterlives" at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention in Vancouver in January. She presented "The Internet is your business card" in April as part of the "Social Media: Finding a Platform" workshop organized by the Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR), as well as presenting "Who does the Internet think you are?" at the 2015 LACUNY Institute.
Marta Bladek was a presenter in the "Altmetrics: New Measures of Scholarly Impact" workshop organized by OAR in May.
Janice Dunham
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 10:58am
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
In a 1916 Atlantic Monthly article, Samuel Crothers coined the term "bibliotherapy." In 1970s America the use of books as therapy for prisoners became fashionable among rehabilitationists. Reading is always good, but researchers carried out few studies for outcomes. From the 1980s affective bibliotherapy caught on, especially among cognitive behavioralists, who based their practice mainly on the reading of moral fiction and self-help books with stories or models that could improve behavior among prisoners, the mentally ill, addicts, and others. In truth, the concept of reading for therapeutic behavioral modification reached back at least to the Middle Ages and even beyond.
A recent addition to Sealy Library's Special Collections offers a prime example of bibliotherapy in early 19th century France. In 1819, French King Louis XVIII founded the Society for the Improvement of Prisoners. One of the Society's first actions was to hold a competition for authors to write edifying fictional literature to distribute among prisoners. An anonymous donor provided 1000 francs as a prize for the winning novel. In 1821, the contest ended with a mere ten books passing the first cut. After further examination, only two novels were in competition: Antoine et Maurice (Paris, 1821) by Laurent de Jussieu (nephew of the famous French botanist) and Laurent, ou les Prisonniers by Jean-Marie Achard-James (Paris, 1821). Jussieu's novel won the prize, perhaps because the protagonists in the novel were not already incarcerated, but received the light and reformed before their criminal behavior put them in prison. In Laurent, however, the protagonist was a convicted criminal and his moral actions while behind bars had an ameliorating effect on his imprisoned colleagues.
We were fortunate to obtain a first edition of Laurent, the only copy outside of France where one resides in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and another in the Bibliothèque de Lyon. This most rare book once again showcases our international reputation for criminal justice materials.
—Larry Sullivan
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Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 10:51am
CUNY is building an institutional repository, CUNY Academic Works, dedicated to collecting and providing free access to the research, scholarship and creative work of the University. Faculty are encouraged to post their works here. Details of publishers' self-archiving policies may be found on the SHERPA-RoMEO or in your publisher's contract. In service to CUNY's mission as a public university, content in Academic Works is freely available to all.
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Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 11:27am
The Lloyd Sealy Library now provides access to the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.
IEEE Xplore® provides full text access to high quality technical literature in all areas including computer science and information technology. It contains more than 3 million full-text articles and documents, from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
Powerful search tools help you find the most relevant research quickly by title, author, abstract, affiliation and content type such as leading industry standards. A proven resource for computer science students. Some of the top searched terms are: cloud computing, image processing, data mining, and network security.
IEEE, a not for profit organization, is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. It publishes 170 journals and magazines each year and sponsors more than 1,200 annual conferences globally. Every month, IEEE adds more than 20,000 new documents including: more than 4,000 journal articles, more than 15,000 new conference papers, and over 40 new and revised standards.
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Five trees were transformed into works of art representing the community of Burstall last week as part of the annual Fall Fair celebrations and fundraising events.
Journalism. A lot has been written about it, especially in the last few months in an age where the roles and responsibilities of journalists have been called into question south of the border as President Donald Trump introduced people to the idea of "alternative facts".
K Lazy T Angus, west of Seven Persons, was host to a successful day of learning through the Southern Alberta Angus Club, Aug. 19.
Many of us have probably spent the last week asking ourselves, 'where did the summer go?' It seems like just last week it was the end of June, school had let out, graduation parties were underway and the warmer weather had arrived. Now, here it is, the inevitable return to school, darker evenings and cooler mornings as fall approaches.
Writer Charles Dickens was paid per word. I would pay writers to add one particular word to reports of traumatic events. The word is "physical" and it would precede "injury" and "recovery."
The Badlands Baseball Academy in Oyen is starting to find its stride when it comes to the baseball program with a fully-prescribed roster for the upcoming school year.
The South East Alberta Watershed Alliance (SEAWA) has received provincial government funding to be able to undertake a two-year riparian restoration project and officials are looking for landowners to take part.
Although there was no 4-H multi-club in Bindloss this year — the first time in 40 years there has been no club — a celebration of 4-H is still set to take place July 22.
Officials in Val Marie and Grasslands National Park (GNP) are gearing up for a big celebration the end of July in honour of Canada's 150th anniversary and inviting home-grown hockey legend Bryan Trottier to be part of the events.
Has anyone else been feeling like Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations are a little all over the map?


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Homer Hooks, one of the five new members inducted Wednesday into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame, gave credit to the 170 giants of the industry on whose shoulders he stood.
LAKELAND | Homer Hooks, one of the five new members inducted Wednesday into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame, gave credit to the 170 giants of the industry on whose shoulders he stood.
"I'm delighted to walk in the ranks of such people as Ben Hill Griffin Jr. and all the people who preceded me into the Hall of Fame," Hooks, 92, of Lakeland, told 360 participants in the Citrus Hall's induction luncheon at Florida Southern College.
Hooks joined J. Brantley Schirard Sr., 73, CEO of Schirard Citrus Inc. in Fort Pierce, as the only living inductees of the 2013 class.
Schirard, whose family business includes about 1,000 grove acres and a fresh fruit packinghouse, said he was most proud of developing more than 16,000 acres of grove and his three children who followed him into Florida citrus careers.
"God, family and country, in that order, and everything else will take care of itself," Schirard said in his acceptance speech.
The three posthumous inductees were scientists (two professionals and an amateur) who made gigantic contributions to Florida citrus.
They were:
Francis Dancy, a 19th-century grower and breeder who in 1867 introduced a new citrus variety that bears his name, the Dancy tangerine, which became a staple of the fresh fruit industry. He also is credited with sustaining Florida citrus through new grove planting, particularly after a devastating 1835 freeze.
Paul Harding, a U.S. Department of Agriculture citrus researcher for 38 years who developed the first reliable maturity standards that tell growers when their fruit is ripe enough to harvest. Without the standards, growers could not consistently deliver quality fruit to the market, his citation notes.
Matthew Veldhuis, another USDA scientist whose career included 28 years heading the agency's research lab in Winter Haven. After arriving there in 1944, he supervised a research team that developed the production process, still used today, for frozen concentrated orange juice, which introduced the beverage to the American breakfast table and transformed the state's citrus industry to the nation's top OJ supplier.
"Both in the case of Mr. Harding and Dr. Veldhuis, the citrus industry owes so much to science," said master of ceremonies Adam Putnam, the Bartow native and Florida agriculture commissioner.
Raised in a citrus family in Clermont, Hooks graduated in 1943 from the University of Florida with degrees in journalism and political science. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he returned in 1947 to become a reporter at the Tampa Tribune, where he covered Florida citrus.
That work led to a 1948 offer to work for the (citrus) Canners League of Florida. After returning to the Army in 1951 to serve in Korea, Hooks became a marketing manager at Florida Citrus Canners Cooperative in Lake Wales, now Florida's Natural Growers, the nation's third largest OJ retailer.
Hooks was recognized chiefly for his eight years as the chief executive of the Florida Department of Citrus beginning in 1957.
The department is a state agency that promotes Florida citrus products.
In his first year and again five years later, Hooks dealt with the market fallout from destructive freezes.
"I remember I paid a lot of attention to reassuring consumers citrus from Florida is still a good product," Hooks told The Ledger after the luncheon.
"We reminded people state law prohibits shipping damaged citrus."
His citation also credits Hooks with expanding the market for Florida citrus products into Europe.
To this day, England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany rank among the top 10 export markets for the state's fresh citrus.
Hooks also waged a successful fight against Tang and other synthetic drink products that led to a Federal Trade Commission order banning advertising misleading consumers that they tasted like 100 percent OJ.
"He declared war on Tang and won," Putnam said.
Ben Dancy, the great-great-great-grandson of the tangerine breeder, gave a tearful speech accepting the award for his family.
"I'll proudly display this in my house," said Dancy, 55, of Fellsmere.
Robert Harding accepted the honor on behalf of his father, noting he left a legacy of intellectual achievement to the next two generations, which includes eight people with Ph.Ds or medical degrees.
On behalf of his father, John Veldhuis told the audience his father frequently worked up to 80 hours a week at the former USDA Winter Haven lab, which was relocated to Fort Pierce in 2011.
"He was very dedicated. He loved it," Veldhuis said.
[ Kevin Bouffard can be reached at email@example.com or at 863-401-6980. Read more on Florida citrus on his Facebook page, Florida Citrus Witness, http://bit.ly/baxWuU. ]


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The remake of 'When Harry Met Sally' that everyone has been waiting for is finally here. Starring Billy Crystal, Helen Mirren and featuring the many talents of Rob Reiner, Adam Scott, Mike Tyson, Rob Riggle, Maya Rudolph, Jennifer Crystal Foley, Mike O'Malley & Josh Fadem.
Starring: Billy Crystal, Helen Mirren, Rob Reiner, Adam Scott, Rob Riggle, Maya Rudolph, Jennifer Crystal Foley, Mike Tyson, Mike O'Malley, Josh Fadem and Ali WongFeaturing: Jenifer Lewis, Andrew Miller, David Sherman, Sara Wells, Renee Taylor, Noell Caroll, Martin Dusig, Catherine Lydon Soccer Girls: Ella Foley, Anya Maynard, Ella Jean-Sprecher, Tess Feldman, Scarlet Orner, Maeve Carney, Poppy Miller, Blusette MillerBirthday Girls: Dylan Foley, Tess Feldman, Ella Jean-Sprecher, Zoe Jean-Sprecher, Laila Mortensen, Scarlet Orner, Zoe Jean-Sprecher & Arrena DornDirected by: Lindsay CrystalWritten by: Mike Foley and Howie MillerExecutive Producers: Billy Crystal, Mike FarahProduced by: Allison Hord, Betsy Koch, Samantha SprecherAssociate Producer: Liz Lanteri Director of Photography: Clyde Smith Edited by: Pat BishopColor Correction: Dustin BowserAssistant Director: Tim Ketchersid2nd Assistant Director: Matt MazanyScript Supervisor: Kristin OwingsProduction Designers: Alexi Gomez, Caity Birmingham, and Martin Vallejo Sound: Chad Ubovich for BoTown SoundVFX: Tooth Animation by Dentity FXDental Prosthetics by Gary ArcherSFX Makeup: Peter MontagnaSFX Makeup Asst: Steve LaPorte Hair/MU: Joy ZapataHair/MU Asst: Norma Lee Wardrobe Stylist: Wendy GreinerWardrobe Asst: Liz DicksonKey Costumer: Dana Loats Camera Operator: Mat AlcornAsst Camera Operator: Ian JayGaffer: James ChildresKey Grip: Chris RauchBest Boy Grip: Joel MarichG&E: Casey Desmet, Paul Brown, Cody Caldwell, Mike Primm, Matt RogersDIT: Thatcher Kelly EPK: Jordan Martin Still photographer: Tiffany RoohaniProduction Assistants: Alistair Walford, Paul Heikens, Andrew Grissom, Eric Norwine, Saba Zerehi, Russ Fung, Jon ZiskalSpecial Thanks to: Hollenbeck Palms, Bill and Peggy Heideman, Paul Linden, Gene Dugan and Alternative Rentals and Gary Archer


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Increasingly, our patrons are asking about downloadable ebooks and audiobooks for children. You can search our online catalog for downloadable materials, and when you connect to our partner provider - Indiana Digital Media (also known as Overdrive) -- you can further limit your search to juvenile materials. These items can then be downloaded to a number of different mobile devices.
Many parents and teachers have also turned to TumbleBooks, an online collection of animated picture books and "read-along" chapter books, as another way to access ebooks for children. Available for free through the library's website, TumbleBooks offers a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles especially for young children. (Find a link to TumbleBooks on the right side of the Children's Services home page: mcpl.info/childrens.)
You cannot download TumbleBooks stories to read offline later. However, you can now read and view these stories directly from a mobile device with wireless access. TumbleBooks responded to the growing popularity of iPads by reformatting a number of titles so they can be viewed on the iPad. (The stories were originally animated using the Flash plug-in, which is not compatible with the iPad.) Now, when you use an iPad or iPhone to access the TumbleBooks Library, the TumbleBooks website automatically directs you to their site for Mobile Devices and features stories that have been reformatted as Quicktime videos which can be viewed with these devices.
Don't get turned off by the video format before you give it a try. The words display on the screen so that children can follow along and each sentence is highlighted as it is read aloud. Beginner readers especially benefit from hearing stories read fluently and expressively, as this helps to develop their own fluency skills.
TumbleBooks cautions that their Library for Mobile Devices is still in development. It does not offer all the features and options that the original site currently provides. The original site includes chapter books that the reader can choose to read on their own, or choose to have the story read aloud. And, you can search the complete collection in a variety of ways, including by subject, reading level, or language (English, French or Spanish).
But TumbleBooks assures that "in the next few weeks, visitors to the site will see new content for all of the categories - including new educational games, quizzes and book reports built specifically for the iPad and mobile platform. Every TumbleBook in the Story Book, Language Learning and Nonfiction categories will be converted to an iPad compatible format. All the National Geographic videos - and the books they are paired with - also will be available in the new site for Mobile Devices."
So follow along as the ebook options for children continue to grow. Let us know what you think, and how we can best help you find the stories - in whatever format - that meet the needs and interests of young readers.


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I'm Al, I live in the south of England (where we are currently having a monstrous heat wave), and I've been gaming since 2002. The vast majority of the time I've been involved in the hobby has been running games in various editions of Dungeons & Dragons but I've also run World of Darkness, Burning Wheel, a bunch of d20 games (like Star Wars Saga), and some smaller indie games like The Shadow of Yesterday.
I've been aware of Savage Worlds for a number of years but only in passing - it wasn't until late 2011 that I picked up the book and started to run games. Since then I've largely been running Pathfinder APs* using Savage Worlds (for me it's just a better fit to my playstyle than the Pathfinder rules).
I came across Shaintar by accident about 24 hours before the end of kickstarter, and I decided right then and there to get involved. For me, Shaintar is a setting that generates the kind of stories I've been participating in for years, and all with the streamlined (yet still deliciously crunchy) rules of Savage Worlds.
I'm also very interested in becoming involved in Justice & Life. I've never participated in a living campaign.
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Lead by industry veterans John Romero and Josh Sawyer, Midway's San Diego studio revives the classic adventure with this epic action-RPG. Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows fuses fantasy fighting action with the strategic RPG collecting and customization elements for solo play, co-op and an online community.
Centuries ago, four immortal heroes set out to kill the most powerful emperor their age had ever known. They failed, and for their crimes, three were crucified on a great tree at the bottom of the world. Mysteriously set free, the heroes set out to finish what they had started, only to find that they must now save their tormentor from his own dreams and madness. If the ancient heroes cannot undo the emperor's deeds on their own, his mad plans may tear apart the world.
A PC version of this game was originally planned, but now only the console versions are available.
The historic series returns as an action/RPG heavy on the action, and a little smarter on the RPG. Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: Canceled
Publisher: Midway Games
Also available on: PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360
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LeRoy Butler: Church cancels event over support of gay NBA player
Former Green Bay Packers player LeRoy Butler said late Tuesday that a Wisconsin church canceled his appearance because of his support of a gay NBA player.
NBA player Jason Collins became the first active major-sports athlete in America to state that he was openly gay.
Butler gave a note of congratulations on Twitter on Monday, tweeting "Congrats to Jason Collins."
On Tuesday night, Butler also tweeted that a Wisconsin church will likely cancel his appearance because of his support of Collins.
"Wow, I was schedule to speak at a church in Wis., and a member said that the pastor wants to cancel my event," Butler said in a tweet.
In the following tweet, Butler said the reason given was "because I said congrats to Jason Collins on Twitter."
Butler also tweeted that he was told that he could continue with the event if he "removed the tweet, and apologize and ask god forgiveness."
Butler indicated that he turned down that request, saying "Only god can judge."
He said he lost about $8,500 but told SportsRadio 1250 WSSP it was worth it.
"As a man, you gotta stand for something. You can't just let people, just because you can't agree with their beliefs, let them push you around. I can't do that. I think there's other people out there, parents dealing with kids going through this, we gotta put a stop to some of this," Butler said.
He has not disclosed when the event was to take place, nor what church was involved.
On Wednesday afternoon, Butler tweeted, "I have received an apology from the church, but mainly thanking me for not releasing the church name."


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BILIN, West Bank (AP) — Residents of this Palestinian village have planted flowers in hundreds of spent Israeli tear gas grenades to honor those killed during their weekly protests against Israel's West Bank separation barrier.
Mohammed Khatib, a village organizer, said Wednesday that the unusual garden is meant to show that life can spring from death.
Bilin has become a symbol of Palestinian protests against Israeli policies in the West Bank. The village's struggle to regain land taken by the barrier was the subject of "Five Broken Cameras," a documentary nominated for an Oscar last year.
Palestinians say the barrier, which cuts into the West Bank, amounts to a land grab. Israel says it's needed to keep Palestinian attackers out.
The Bilin garden commemorates Bassem Abu Rahmeh, a protest leader who was killed in 2009 when a tear gas grenade struck him in the chest during a demonstration. Bassem's sister, Jawaher, died nearly two years later, a day after a weekly protest during which villagers said she inhaled Israeli tear gas.
During West Bank protests, Israeli troops often fire tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and occasionally live rounds, portraying them as appropriate means against Palestinian stone throwers.
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Book Clubbed
Why writers never reveal how many books their buddies have sold.
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There's a huge demand for metrics on the success or failure of popular-culture products: BoxOfficeMojo reports how much business 36 films did at the box office yesterday. Each week, Nielsen lets the public know the ratings of the top 10 television shows. Billboard ranks the top 200 albums. (This week's No. 1, the Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way, sold precisely 525,829 copies last week.) Click on the Blogads order page, and you'll see measures of weekly and daily traffic for hundreds of blogs.
Still, there's at least one sector for which we lack reliable and transparent market data: books. Sure, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today publish best-seller lists. But these lists don't tell us precisely how many copies of each book have sold or the difference in sales between No. 1 and No. 101 or between the leading fiction title and the leading nonfiction book.
The data does exist, of course. BookScan, a Nielsen service started in January 2001, tallies retail sales from chains like Barnes & Noble and Borders, from Amazon.com, and from stores like Costco (but not Wal-Mart). James King, vice president for sales and service at BookScan, suggests that the database captures about 70 percent of sales for a typical hardcover book. As such, BookScan has emerged as a powerful tool for the editors and agents whose employers pay several thousand dollars a year to subscribe. But in the hands of journalists and polemicists, BookScan data has becomes a blunt instrument to humiliate, minimize accomplishments, and express joy at the misfortune of other writers.
On occasion, as in this essay in the New York Times Book Review by Rachel Donadio, which flagged the impressive sales of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America (412,000, according to BookScan), flattering figures are presented. Generally, however, when a book is a smash hit, publishers will gladly leak numbers to reporters so they don't have to use BookScan. More frequently, BookScan figures, which undercount actual sales, are an excellent conveyor of schadenfreude. They're used to show how the vulgar prosper, as in this article which shows how many books James Frey sold (subscription required) after Oprah recommended them. Or to show how the mighty have fallen: In February 2005, Josh Benson noted in the New York Times that sales of former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman's book were even more moderate than her politics, having sold "just over 4,000 copies since its release in late January."
Edward Wyatt of the New York Times has been a connoisseur of disappointing BookScan figures. Last December, he gleefully noted that Martha Stewart's The Martha Rules,which had garnered a $2 million advance, sold a not-very-good 37,000 copies, and he cited even smaller figures for Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown("just 26,000 copies") and Myla Goldberg's Wickett's Remedy("only 9,000"). In November 2004, he cited BookScan figures to show that the finalists for the fiction category of the National Book Award were a bunch of poorly selling obscurities.
BookScan data also become cudgels wielded in political and ideological debates. Last week, Andrew Sullivan joyfully posted on the market failure of Mary Cheney's memoir: "She got a reported $1 million advance. She has had a blitzkrieg of publicity. And according to BookScan's data yesterday, she sold a total of 1,633 books last week. Her year-to-date sales are 4,091." Take that! (But then again, we knew that Mary Matalin's right-wing book imprint wasn't such a good idea.) Earlier this spring, when Matt Drudge excitedly noted that Crashing the Gate, a book co-authored by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, had low BookScan figures, right-wing bloggers like Roger Simon ran with it and trumpeted the comparative success of right-wing über-blogger Glenn Reynolds' book. Oops, turns out InstaPundit's book wasn't so hot either, as Glenn Greenwald and other bloggers noted.
BookScanning has become popular for a few reasons having to do with the culture of journalism and publishing. In general, the publishing world treats money the way old-line WASPs once did—as a subject that genteel people simply don't discuss. The only question considered to be more indelicate than how much one was paid to write a book is how many copies it has sold.
In addition, many magazine and newspaper journalists—the type of people who most frequently deploy BookScan data—are either frustrated book authors, failed book authors, or moderately successful ones. It makes us feel better about ourselves when we see recipients of undeservedly large advances do poorly. (For the record, I, too, have BookScanned. I used data from the service extensively in this article about business narratives and in another piece to suggest that Steve Brill was doing better as an entrepreneur than as a writer.)
There's an etiquette to BookScanning. You BookScan your enemies to take joy in their failure or to aggravate the agony you feel at their success. You don't BookScan your buddies, your colleagues, or your editors. That's partly to protect the BookScanned from the embarrassment of having others know that the project on which they labored for five years racked up sales in the middle three digits. And partly to protect the BookScanner from the embarrassment of knowing just how successful the guy who sits in the next cubicle has been. After all, the only thing worse than seeing friends fail in the literary marketplace is seeing them succeed in the literary marketplace.
BookScan also has its own karma. There are probably a bunch of authors laying in wait for the day when Edward Wyatt writes his first book or when Andrew Sullivan's next volume comes out. To paraphrase Bob Dylan (whose Chronicles, Volume 1has sold 370,000 copies in hardcover, according to BookScan), the scanner now will later be scanned.


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Recently, Locus published an online discussion of the work of Samuel R. Delany with a bunch of different writers and critics, primarily aimed at discussing Delany's status as the newly-crowned Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Plenty of interesting things are said there, and the participants include a number of people I'm very fond of (both as writers and people), but the particular focus ended up, I thought, creating a certain narrowness to the discussion, especially regarding the post-Dhalgren works, and I thought it might be nice to gather a different group of people together to discuss Delany … differently.
So here we are. I put out the call to a wide variety of folks, and this is the group that responded. We used a Google Doc, and the discussion grew rhizomatically more than linearly, so you'll see that we sometimes refer to things said later in the roundtable. (This makes for a richer discussion, I think, but it may be a little jarring if you expect a linear conversation.)
So here we are. I put out the call to a wide variety of folks, and this is the group that responded. We used a Google Doc, and the discussion grew rhizomatically more than linearly, so you'll see that we sometimes refer to things said later in the roundtable. (This makes for a richer discussion, I think, but it may be a little jarring if you expect a linear conversation.)
I hope people who didn't have time or ability to join us in the "official" roundtable will feel free to offer their thoughts in the comments — as will, well, anybody else. Therefore, without further ado and all that jazz...
Matthew Cheney has published fiction and nonfiction in a wide variety of venues, including One Story, Locus, Weird Tales, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere. He wrote the introductions to Wesleyan University Press's editions of Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, Starboard Wine, and The American Shore (forthcoming). Currently, he is a student in the Ph.D. in Literature program at the University of New Hampshire.
Craig Laurance Gidney is the author of Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories and the YA novel Bereft.
Geoffrey H. Goodwin is a journalist, author, and rogue academic with a Bachelor's in Literary Theory (Syracuse University) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Naropa University). Geoffrey writes fiction; has taught composition and creative writing in a wide range of settings; has interviewed speculative writers and artists for Bookslut, Tor.com, Sirenia Digest, The Mumpsimus, and during Ann Vandermeer's helming of Weird Tales; and has worked in seven different stores that have sold comic books.
Keguro Macharia is a recovering academic, a lazy blogger, and an itinerant tweeter. Sometimes, he writes things on gukira.wordpress.com or tweets as @Keguro_
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including Love is the Law and The Last Weekend. His short fiction has appeared everywhere from Asimov's Science Fiction to The Mammoth Book of Threesomes and Moresomes.
Njihia Mbitiru is a screenwriter. He lives in Nairobi.
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Continuing in my series on the De Luca family, today's topic will be Peter Louis De Luca, Sr.'s WWI draft registration card. As noted in previous posts, Peter and Clementina, along with their daughter, Mary, arrived at Ellis Island in Sep 1907 and had made their way to St. Louis, Missouri, by 1910. By 1918 at the time of the draft registration, they were living in Knobview, Phelps County, Missouri. Knobview is now called Rosati, and is about 90 miles southwest of St. Louis in central Missouri. According to Steve Zulpo, author of the website on Rosati history, a large group of northern Italian immigrants settled Knobview in 1898, and the primary industry became vineyards and the wine industry. Over the next several years, families in the St. Louis area were directed to Knobview by the Italian consulate. Perhaps this is how the De Luca family found out about Knobview and the other Italian immigrants there. Steve says the De Luca family arrived in Knobview in 1912. Since Peter was a farm laborer in Italy, perhaps he had had enough of crowded city life and wanted to return to the farming industry. Knobview became Rosati in 1934 when the residents petitioned the post office to rename their town after the first Bishop of St. Louis and the first bishop west of the Mississippi, Bishop Joseph Rosati. For even further information on Rosati, please visit Steve's website.
The US declared war on Germany and officially entered into WWI on 6 Apr 1917. The Selective Service Act was passed in May 1917, which authorized the President to expand the US military. Because of this Act, every male between 18 and 45 was required to register for the draft. Of course, not all of the men who registered were drafted. I have not found any evidence that Peter was drafted, but he did register for the draft on 12 Sep 1918.
This draft registration card gives Peter's birthday as 4 Oct 1875, which conflicts with what we've found so far in the 1910 US census and in the ship passenger list. These both suggested he was born in either 1877 or 1878. Was he trying to appear older in order to avoid the draft? Another important item to note is that it says he was a citizen of Italy. This means he had not been naturalized yet, though the 1910 census did say he had filed his first set of papers. Peter is now working as a self-employed farmer, and Clementina is listed as his closest living relative.
Stay tuned to find the De Luca family in the 1920 US Census!
Links to other posts in this series:
De Luca Family: Intro
De Luca Family: Immigration Records
De Luca Family: 1910 US Census
De Luca Family: 1920 US Census
De Luca Family: 1930 US Census
De Luca Family: Death Records


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Ah, the choices one must make. I find it so hard to pick up the PowerBook and leave home without stuffing it with every conceivable application I just might have a use for, even ones I haven't used for months. So, I love AutoDoubler's (or one of the other transparent compressor's) ability to cram more stuff on the drive.
Unfortunately, the PowerBook only has 4 MB of RAM. Funny how 4 MB of RAM no longer seems like enough. It can be difficult to use Apple's DiskCopy, which needs 1792K of RAM, to duplicate a 1.44 MB disk, for example. The problem is that AutoDoubler uses 363K of System heap (you can reduce this by shrinking AutoDoubler's cache) and the DiskDoubler INIT wants another 163K. ATM 2.0.3 wants 111K plus whatever the font cache size, typically 128K, is set to, an argument for using TrueType instead on a PowerBook.
The terrible choices become: (a) expand the awfully expensive PowerBook RAM, (b) dump enough stuff to backup so that compression isn't necessary, or (c) buy a bigger hard drive, which is also expensive, but not as expensive as RAM. Using virtual memory isn't practical because it requires at least 5 MB of free space on the hard disk and it runs the hard drive all the time, draining the battery so fast that the PowerBook requires household current.
My solution was to order a Quantum GO 80 hard drive from APS for $439 and pay $40 for my local "authorized Apple technician" to install it. That turns out to be about $100 less expensive than our campus store probably will offer the Apple upgrade for (they haven't received a price sheet yet, but they usually charge about 80% of list). Although expected by the end of the month, the GO 120 isn't shipping yet and at $699, it costs more per MB than the GO 80. Because my PowerBook is my "backup" Mac, I figured I could live with 80 MB. After all, I'd been squeezing stuff into the 40 MB drive, which equalled an uncompressed 50.5 MB.
The GO 80 (82K capacity actually, and APS PowerTools makes 80.8K actually usable) was installed yesterday. The extra space is wonderful, but wow is it NOISY (compared to the Connor which simply "whirred" some - colleagues say even the Connor is noisier than the drives that ship with many DOS laptops). The only drive test I've run is Speedometer's; it claims the GO 80 is 60% faster than the Connor (the price one pays for sounding like a coffee grinder?). Sure enough, expanding all the files and not using AutoDoubler and DiskDoubler have given me 526K more RAM to run applications. Adding a few things I didn't have room for on the 40 MB drive has left me at 59K on the drive. After one day, I'm happy but I keep finding neat new programs I'd like to have at my fingertips. I may yet regret not having gone for the GO 120 ;-). I still have the Connor as a backup in case the machine shop sound of the GO 80 turns out to be a symptom of trouble. I've thought about looking for one of the cases that could make the Connor an external drive, but I don't really expect I'd use it much that way. If anything interesting (unusual) happens with the GO 80, I'll report it here.
Has anyone else installed a GO 80? Did I mention that mine is loud enough to hear across the room? Is yours?


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Obama rules out US military action in Ukraine
Aug. 28, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is ruling out the possibility that the U.S. will take military action to address growing violence in Ukraine.
Obama says the U.S. will stand firm with its allies to address the conflict in Ukraine, where the U.S. says Russia is backing pro-Russian separatists. But Obama says a military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia in the region, quote, "is not in the cards."
But Obama is pointing to the NATO alliance as a deterrent for Russia. He says although Ukraine isn't part of NATO, other nearby nations are. He says the U.S. takes its commitment to defend NATO allies "very seriously." Obama will attend a NATO summit in Wales next week.
Obama spoke amid an escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine and fresh signs of Russia's involvement.


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The Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University announces its spring season of seven public presentations, which serve as a mechanism for people to explore current topics that may be familiar only in passing.
The Forum hands the microphone to the thinkers, doers, experts and opinion leaders–and then to the audience–to discuss issues that affect us all. Equal time will be provided for speakers' remarks and audience members' questions. As always, no Forum speaker goes unquestioned and no view goes unchallenged.
Guns Don't Kill People; the Media Kill People
6:30 – 8 p.m. Thursday, March 21
Suffolk University Law School, Moot Court Room, 120 Tremont St., Boston
The media shape how we see things and have framed the national conversation on guns as "pro-gun vs. anti-gun" despite most perspectives being much more nuanced. Moderator Edward Powell, executive director of the Boston Foundation's StreetSafe Boston, shines a spotlight on how the media's view of reality exacerbates gun violence. He speaks with John Rosenthal, founder and chair of Stop Handgun Violence and a gun owner, and Charlton McIlwain, associate professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, to identify how TV, Internet, and newspaper reporting paints an inaccurate picture of how guns affect communities of color and engages in fear-mongering that fails to prevent further tragedies.
Whose Choice Is Death?
6:30 – 8 p.m. Thursday, April 18
Suffolk University Law School, Main Function Room,120 Tremont St., Boston
The Massachusetts referendum on physician-assisted suicide was rejected by a slim margin this past November. Voters appeared to be torn between seeing this way of ending life as dignified or as "playing God." Ford Hall Forum Vice President Jack Wrobel moderates a debate that illuminates the issue from each side. Marcia Angell, M.D., who supported the "Prescribing Medication to End Life" initiative, and Guy Maytal, M.D., who was opposed, present facts, feelings and unintended effects, knowing that legalizing physician-assisted suicide is an issue that may well be revisited in Massachusetts.
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6:30 - 8 p.m. Friday, April 26
C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St., Boston
For the past 32 years, the Ford Hall Forum's Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award has honored individuals or organizations that demonstrate extraordinary commitment to promoting and facilitating the thoughtful exercise of our right to freedom of expression. The first award recipient was Norman Lear in 1981. Since then, the Forum has recognized such luminaries as Rosa Parks, Peter Seeger, Ted Turner and Gwen Ifill. This year the Forum pays tribute to recently retired Congressman Barney Frank, a Ford Hall Forum favorite who has appeared seven times since 1979.
Hell in a Handbasket: The Decline of Taboos
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St., Boston
Not long ago, we lived in a world where cursing was verboten; only sailors had tattoos; and smoking marijuana was limited to bohemian artists and students. This forum will ask whether these personal expressions and acts are today met with less disdain than in the past or if these trends are a harbinger of societal disaster. "Miss Conduct" etiquette columnist Robin Abrahams moderates the discussion with Melissa Mohr, author of Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, Margot Mifflin, author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, and Bill Downing, former president of MassCANN/NORML, which works for the decriminalization of marijuana.
Hope Arab Springs Eternal
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Thursday, May 16
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St., Boston
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Suffolk University Government Professor Robert Laffey guides a discussion on post-Arab Spring sociopolitical changes with Elizabeth F. Thompson, author of Justice Interrupted, who will provide an update on happenings in the Middle East. They will look at how much closer Middle Eastern countries are to having functioning constitutional governments than they were in the spring of 2011, along with the unique challenges and opportunities each country has faced in building new governments. They also will address the role of culture in emerging politics and economic impacts.
The Chinese-American Dream
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Thursday, May 23
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St., Boston
Twenty years after penning her first memoir on growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, author Anchee Min has released The Cooked Seed, the true story of her journey to, and within, America. Min will discuss her trek from a land of deprivation to one of surrounding bounty that is just out of her reach. She works five jobs at once and suffers rape, exhaustion and divorce. As these personal events shape her world view, they culminate in the biggest shift of all: the birth of her daughter. Suffolk University English Professor Elif Armbruster moderates as Min present her unique immigration narrative.
Rise of the Individual
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30
Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St., Boston
The Internet has opened an entirely new world of communication and, therefore, organization. The advance of this technology presents challenges that require restructuring of government systems, safety measures and concept of ownership, as well as related legal implications. While the Internet is touted as the prime conveyer of a bold, new democracy, it also ushers in sharper methods of surveillance and control. Moderator Dharmishta Rood, a fellow in the Harvard University Psychology Department, leads Nicco Mele, founder of EchoDitto and author of The End of Big, and Kevin Bankston, director of the Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, in a bold discussion on how the Internet is giving rise to the individual.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah Residents of at least 1,500 homes in northern Utah were being evacuated Friday after high winds kicked up a fire started by target shooters.
The near 4,000-acre blaze started Thursday near the Saratoga Springs landfill, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. High winds then helped fan the flames onto tinder-dry grasslands.
Authorities were initially worried as flames moved toward property owned by an explosives company. But as winds kicked up, the fire began moving toward Saratoga Springs, and crews began focusing on saving homes, said Jason Curry, a spokesman for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.
On Friday, fire officials were calling in additional aircraft and extra ground crews.
Bureau of Land Management officials say they believe the blaze was caused when a bullet hit a rock and sparked the fire. This is the 20th target-shooting related fire this year in Utah, they said.
Curry said one firefighter had suffered minor burns, and no structural damage had been reported.
Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said he feared the fire could take down the areas power grid, shutting off electricity to up to 7,000 homes.
Several power poles and transformers ... up and down the fire lines have burned, Tracy said Friday evening. If the fire gets a couple more critical poles and drops that grid, wires down on the ground, it will black out this entire area.
A continued mix of hot, windy and extremely dry conditions has raised the fire danger across Utah and parts of Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.
At a wildfire burning on over 68,000 acres in northern Colorado, some homes were being evacuated Friday because of several spot fires started by winds outside the main fire. Some of those residents were evacuated after the fire flared up on Sunday and had only returned home Wednesday.
The mix of conditions that makes it easy for new fires to start and spread and cause existing fires to flare up is expected to last through today there.
The fire west of Fort Collins has now destroyed at least 191 homes. Its also blamed for the death of a woman found dead at her ranch.
Gov. John Hickenloopers office said Friday that the governor has signed executive orders releasing $6.2 million more in state disaster money to fight the fire and two others.
The northern Colorado fire will have $5 million more available, on top of $20 million made available by a previous order. The fire has qualified for 75 percent federal reimbursement for firefighting costs, Hickenloopers office said. A fire near Lake George will get $1 million, and the Stuart Hole fire in Larimer County will receive $200,000. The disaster money is coming partly from reserve funds.
In Colorado, heat and low humidity is also a concern at the 1,150-acre wildfire burning near Lake George, which is 57 percent contained. A fire burning for over a month near Pagosa Springs has grown by about 1,300 acres. Two ranches have been evacuated.
In Nevada, a wildfire that has charred nearly 12,000 acres of rugged terrain in northeast Nevada near the Utah line is 60 percent contained. It was started by a planned burn that escaped June 9.
In California, residents were allowed to return to homes and cabins near a 385-acre fire near Sequoia National Park, and firefighters fully contained the blaze Thursday. A body was found at the scene of a small brushfire in the San Fernando Valley and authorities were trying to determine whether it was dumped there.
In Wyoming, crews were preparing safety zones where firefighters can flee in case a wildfire that has scorched more than 4.5 square miles in Medicine Bow National Forest makes a run. Its 10 percent contained.
In New Mexico, a fire that has destroyed 242 homes and businesses, the largest in state history, has blackened 463 square miles in the Gila Wilderness and is 80 percent contained. Meanwhile, a 360-acre fire along the Rio Grande on the northern edge of Albuquerque was 50 percent contained. Nearby residents were on alert, but no one has been evacuated.
In Arizona, officials battling a wildfire in eastern Arizona say theyre prepared for high winds and low humidity. Firefighters have created containments lines around the community of Young and burned out fuel ahead of the fire. Crews are reinforcing those lines and patrolling for spot fires. The Poco Fire is nearly 12,000 acres and 25 percent contained. More than 740 people and several helicopters are fighting the fire.
In Hawaii, the largest wildfire of the season has scorched at least 5,200 acres on the Big Island.


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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:25 pm
Two days ago the kite community on Isla Holbox was elated to be informed that we could kite on the Isla again. I had gone to Tulum for a few days of wave riding with a fresh south east wind and was pleased to hear the news. Today with a norte blowing in we were kiting when a group of about 30 angry people showed up. Fortunately the Harbor Captain arrived to diffuse the situation. Long story shortened: all though there is permission it has been rescinded for the moment because of the sociopolitical climate. Bummer
Don't be planning on kiting here yet. Will update.
Don't be planning on kiting here yet. Will update.