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A lot of the game info here will be copy and paste from Silknor's GGL game, please read it over though for any changes from that game.
Phase One
Phase Two
1. You start with 250 energy. If you run out of energy you die.
2. You can bid for any number of roles, no bid can exceed 150.
3. 10 is the minimum bid, and your bid must be an integer.
4. You can only win one role, and if you win none, then you are a vanilla townie who starts Round 2 with 250 energy.
5. This is a sealed, second-price auction, meaning all bids are submitted by PM, and the winner of a role pays the next highest bid of another player. No information about your bid amounts will be revealed, except where explicitly stated. The second highest bid amount is paid by the second highest and the highest bidder when there are multiples of the same role available.
6. The exact rules aren't final yet, but for Round 2 (abilities), you can expect these rules:
Far more abilities than players.
Each player can win more than 1 ability.
You cannot bid so much that if you won each ability you bid on, you would start with less than 50 energy.
Masons will be able to PM each other to coordinate bids, as will scum.
How I determine who wins each role:
1. Take the highest bid in the whole game, that bidder gets that role and pays the next highest bid of another player. If no one else bid for the role, they win the role for no energy cost.
2. Remove that role from the bidding list, and remove all bids by the winner of that role from consideration.
3. Return to step 1 with the leaner and meaner bid table, until there is no player without a role bidding for a role which has not been taken.
4. Give any player without a role the role of vanilla townie, OR ANY OTHER ROLE NOT WON YET, they will have 250 energy going into Round 2.
The base energy values (may be modified by abilities or roles):
Starting: 250
Lynched: Lose (30+5*number of players voting for lynchee+10 if the day ended because of a hammer and not time ran out) energy
Not lynched: Lose 2*number of players voting for them energy
Mafia NK: Lose 70 energy
Available Roles:
Lonely Collector: You collect things other people wouldn't be interested in. You win if you survive until the end of the game. You may NOT bid on any powers during Phase Three, however, if any powers receive no bids, you get them by default at no cost.
2x Chocolate Townie: You are better than your average townie, by only a slight bit though. Your bids for powers get an additional 15% towards them, rounded DOWN. (Final value of X.99 would result in a X value.)
Police Chief: You are here to flush the mafia out of your city. Due to your pull within your organization, your bids count for 20% more, rounded up. towards all powers that have anything to do with determining someone's role, alignment, energy, or what they did/what was done to them last night. (Final value of X.01 would result in a X+1 value.) However, you may not bid on any powers besides the type described above.
Chief Surgeon: Your extensive background has afforded you some position within the medical field. As such, your bids count for 20% more, rounded up, towards all powers that have anything to do with preventing energy damage to others, or willfully transferring energy from one person to another. Willfully is defined as the person losing any energy, including yourself, who gives consent to the act of it being transferred. (Final value of X.01 would result in a X+1 value.) However, you may not bid on any powers besides the type described above.
Mafia Kingpin: You don't just run the mob, you run the whole city. You've got connections. You are the leader of the mafia, and have final say on all decisions. Additionally, since you are so connected, your bids for powers during Phase Three have 15% added to them, rounded UP.(Final value of X.01 would result in an X+1 value.)
Mafia Thug: You are always looking for your chance to shine, so you follow the orders from up high and look to make a name for yourself. You get a 10% bonus to your bids, rounded down, for all powers that deal energy damage to another player. (Final value of X.99 would result in a X value.)
Mafia Newbie: You are new to the family. You don't know much what is going on yet, but are eager to prove yourself. You have no additional abilities.
Ancient Vampire: You were old before history was recorded. You feed on the living in order to survive. You win when you are the last player remaining. Each night, you may bite a victim, dealing them 50 energy of damage, and gaining 25 back yourself. You must always feed, and can not withhold this action.
2x Vanilla Townies: You have no other special abilities, you are here only as fodder in this war for the city. (Can not bid for this role, it is awarded by default!)
Remember, you have 250 energy, you pay whatever the next highest player bid or 0 if you get vanilla townie by not winning any, or if no one else bid for the role you won. Minimum bid is 10, bids must be an integer. No bid can exceed 150. Phase Two will last about 72 hours.
Phase Three
1. The minimum bid is 10, and all bids must be integers (sorry mathemagicians!).
2. Along with your bids, you may submit a cutoff (any integer from 1 to your current energy minus 10) instead of accepting the default of 50.
3. You will always pay what you bid for an ability, even when your role modifies the effective value of your bid for determining who wins.
Bidding process:
1. Select the highest effective (eg. after account for all bonuses) bid.
2. If that player's remaining energy is cutoff+actual bid or greater, they win that ability.
This means you can never fall below your cutoff (50 if you don't submit one) in bidding. This prevents you from ending up with an energy lower than you wanted because you win more bids than expected. It also provides a system for ensuring no one ends up with negative energy.
If that player's remaining energy is less than cutoff+actual bid, remove that bid from the table and return to step 1.
3. Remove all bids for that ability (unless the ability can still be won by at least 1 more person, in which case just decrease the number of available copies of that ability).
4. Return to step 1 if there are still any bids left.
An X power kill means a kill that does X energy damage before accounting for any other factors.
At the start of each day, a list will be given indicating which NKs were used the respective targets for each. This will account only for targeted actions that deal energy damage as their primary function.
Summary of the Bidding Process:
You can submit as many bids as you like, and each can be as high as you like (the minimum bid is 10). You can also submit a cutoff (50 will be used if you don't submit your own), you cannot fall below this energy by winning abilities. You'll win an ability if you're the highest bidder (after account for scum bonuses) and winning it will leave you with at least your cutoff in energy. You always pay exactly what you bid for an ability. There's no limit to how many abilities you can win.
Note: This uses actual bids for the cost, not the next highest bid for the cost, as per the role bids.
List of Powers:
D:Flux Amplifier: Target one player. That player gains 15 energy and all other night actions that would reduce that player's energy tonight will be considered to have twice their listed power. (Eg. A player with 250 energy and a shield that deflects 30 energy off the strongest NK to target them each night is targeted by a 50 energy NK and Flux Amplifier. Their energy at the start of the next day is 250+15-2*50+30=195.)
T:True Believer: This ability must be used during the night. Sacrifice 50 energy (this effect occurs immediately after the next lynch) to inflict 25 damage on whomever you are voting for when time runs out/the hammer is cast.
C:Vengeance: If lynched and killed, may submit a night action to publicly (via mod post) reveal the alignment of 1 person who voted for you.
C:2x Empath: At the end of each day and night, the player is informed of the total amount energy spent the day/night.
Trickster: Switch this power with a random power of the player of your choice, then pay the cost of the received power. (Can cause the user to kill themself, and also just lose the power if targeting a powerless player)
2x Lynch vampire: You deal an extra 10 energy damage to lynch targets that you vote for and you gain 7 energy every time your vote leads to a lynch.
Lich: You do not die for having negative energy unless you are also lynched. You lose all but one other power and cannot vote if at negative energy. At the start of day 1 you must pick what the one power you can wield while undead is and it cannot be a power that costs you energy. If you gain positive energy at a later time, you may vote, but all your other powers that were lost are still gone, and Lich, will have no effect, as the undead may only rise once.
T:Shotgun: Each night you may deal 20 energy damage to target player and 10 damage to the two players adjacent on the player order list. (Skipping dead people's names.)
T:Poking stick: Each night you may deal 10 energy damage to target player.
Bee Hive Hat: If you are dealt energy damage then the targeting player takes 10 energy damage.
C:3x Scouter: Each night you can see what target players energy level was at the start of the night and at the end of the night. If it is over 9000 you lose this power. This costs 6 energy to activate.
Super Sayan Mode: One night per game you can change your energy level to 9001. To do this you must post, "RaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" during the preceding day phase. That night you are immune to roleblocks. The next day your energy returns to the amount that it was before you used this power. (Therefore that night you are effectively immune to energy damage and costs.)
C:2x Weapon Detector: Each night you can target a player and you will be informed what the theoretical maximum energy damage he could do to one player would be. This will not take into account faction powers such as the mafia NK.
D:Plain ol' Doctor: Each night you may target a player besides yourself. The first 70 energy damage to them that night will be prevented. This cannot prevent damage the deal to themselves with their own powers. This costs 20 energy to use.
C:Plain ol' Cop: Each night you can target a player and you will be told their faction. This costs 30 energy to use.
T:Poisoner: Each night you may target a player. That player is poisoned and loses 8 energy each night including the night you use the power. A player may be poisoned multiple times.
2x Demagogue: if currently voting for the person who is lynched at the end of the day, gain 20 energy if that person is scum, 5 if they are not.
Groucho: At the start of each day, send a "secret word" to the Mod. Each time someone who is not yourself uses this word, you get 1 energy. If you use your own secret word, you are penalized 50 energy per instance. Once you have earned 20 energy points in a day, it will be announced what the secret word was, and you will receive no further points for the use of the word.
T:Paper cut ninja: You may attack at least two and up to ten players in the night, inflicting a total energy loss of 12 points, divided evenly between your victims, rounded down.
Crooked Politician: Give 30 of your own energy to another player. In return, this person is compelled to vote as you have indicated during the gifting.
C:Quantum Detective: Holistic knowledge and New-Age bullshit allow you to divine information from the ether. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is a bitch though. Find out either the name or the energy level (decided randomly by mod) of the first person to use a power on you each night.
Escapologist: Years of circus skills training have paid off. You can escape from a Cardboard box within a paper bag while hanging upside down from a tank of sharks, so a little thing like hanging isn't going to phase you. Now, if only there was a useful way to use that diablo... The first time you are lynched, no damage will be done, except from other special powers effecting the lynch. After that lynching happens as normal.
Master of Disguise: Your masterful use of makeup and wigs combine with your flawless acting skills to make you the perfect chameleon, indistinguishable from the real thing.
You can select a player every even night with who to switch identities. Any powers used on you will hit them and vice-versa.
Vote Rigger: Your credentials from working as a Russian bureaucratic make you the perfect person to collect in the votes at the end of the day. And so what if they need a little 'massaging' to make the truth clearer. That's how democracy works, right? On top of your normal one, you get an extra, secret vote (PM to mod before day ends).
2x Top-Hat: What can I say? It's a hat. You look swave and sophisticated, debonair and dashing. Gain 50 extra energy, added at the start of Day Five, if you are still alive. And a hat.
C:inexpedient cop: A cop power that gives correct information on every aspect of the target's role and what powers they have, but takes 3 nights, this power would continue to work on the original target regardless of role/power-blocks or redirects. This power costs 15 energy per night while active.
D:Investor: Once per night you may invest X energy in the well-being of another person. If they are alive by the end of the next day and night they gain 1.5X energy. You cannot invest more than 40 energy per night.
Gambler: Once per night you may gamble X energy on the life of another person. If they are dead by the end of the next night and day cycle you gain 1.5X energy. You cannot gamble more than 40 energy per night.
D:Quack doctor: Once per night you may target another player. They have a 50% chance of gaining 50 energy and a 50% chance of losing 20 energy thanks to your questionable methods.
T:Paranoid Wiffle Bat Owner: Anyone who targets you during the night will lose 5 energy and be very annoyed.
2x Bribery: Every night you may choose to pay 15 energy in exchange for being able to dictate the results of any investgations on you, including energy ones. Will not work on the inexpedient cop.
C:In tune with nature: You are able to sense people's energies and always know everyone's Energy to within a 30 Energy error (40-70, 30-60, etc), usable at night only, and gives the values based on their start of day energy.
2x Attention Seeker: You crave the attention of other people, and to you there's no such thing as bad attention. If the day ends and you are not lynched you gain 3*(# of players voting for you) Energy.
A multiplier next to the power name means that many copies of it are available.
A C: before a power means it counts for the cop to bid for it. A D: means it counts for the doctor, and a T: means it counts for the Thug's bonus.
Phase Four
For Phase Two and Phase Three, all ties go to the first person chronologically to bid for the role or power. The cost of the role is the amount bid, since two players or more sent the same bid amount.
At this time, signups are closed! No more players can elect to play at this time. Replacement players are welcome to send a PM, however, I hope to need none.
Phase Two will last until I have recieved a bid PM from every player, or three days, whatever comes sooner. Failure to bid will result in a vanilla town, and being selected last for any chance of an upgrade due to a role not being bid on. If you do not wish to bid for any roles, please send a PM saying so.
Players may talk about the setup and the game right now, and during all phases of the pre-game. I simply caution not to tip your hand or point out some strat that may end up being used against you unless you wish to do so.
Signup List:
2. fearless
3. TheMaskedGecko
4. roband
5. T1mm01994
6. mpolo
7. ConMan
8. Mostlynormal
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It wowed festival-goers and film critics at Telluride. It was declared the best picture Oscar winner in Toronto. Madonna "visibly teared up" at Tuesday's New York Film Festival screening, even though she apparently spent a fair amount of time texting during the movie. (And, Papa, don't preach about her doing so or risk being called an "enslaver.")
Sunday night, the acclaimed historical drama "12 Years a Slave" finally landed in Los Angeles, screening for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the 1,000-seat Samuel Goldwyn Theater. It wasn't a packed house by any means. An eyeball estimate put attendance around 600 to 650 people. "Gravity," Alfonso Cuaron's space survival story, by contrast, filled the room to capacity last weekend, turning away late arrivers.
"12 Years a Slave" tells the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man who is kidnapped and sold into servitude in Louisiana. The film's immersive depiction of the misery of plantation life as well as hangings, near-lynchings, whippings, a rape and numerous other scenes of brutal punishment proved too much for a handful of academy members Sunday night, though the mid-screening walkouts were minimal.
Director Steve McQueen, actors Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard and Ejiofor, screenwriter John Ridley, cinematographer Sean Bobbitt and composer Hans Zimmer received loud, appreciative ovations when they were introduced at a post-screening Q&A. Kenyan actress Nyong'o, who portrays a slave Northrup meets at the plantation, received a particularly strong response when it was revealed that "12 Years" marked her film debut.
Reaction to the movie afterward was mostly positive, though, given the subject matter and its stark presentation, there was naturally not a whole lot of ebullient conversation as members left the theater.
"It's tough medicine, strong but necessary," said one academy member, who indicated she would be putting the movie high on her ballot. (Academy members didn't give their names because they are not authorized to comment on the awards consideration process.)
Apparently, though, it's not a dose everyone is prepared to take -- at least at the moment. Several academy members indicated they had difficulty convincing their cohorts to join them at the screening. Excuses ranged from the banal ("It's not a Sunday night kind of movie") to the procrastinatory. ("I'm just not in the right frame of mind to watch that one yet.")
"And my answer to that," said one academy member, recalling the conversation with a fellow voter, "was, 'When will you be?' And I suspect the answer may well be 'never.'"
Another member at the screening said he had spoken with a colleague who professed that after watching another movie dealing with America's painful racial history, "Lee Daniels' The Butler," he had his fill. "I've read all about the Civil War and slavery," the academy member said. "I don't need to see a movie repeating what I already know."
"Every story written about this movie begins with the word 'brutal,'" said a member of the academy's actors branch. "And I suspect that description might initially keep some people away. Initially. But this is a movie people need to see, and I suspect most members eventually will."
The academy screening began what will be a significant week for the movie. The filmmakers and actors will participate in another Q&A and work the room at a reception following a showing Monday night at the Directors Guild of America. The film then opens Friday in 15 theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Toronto.
A strong commercial reception, coupled with stellar reviews, would likely convince fence-sitting academy members to expedite their own viewings.
"Nobody wants to be left out of the conversation," one academy member said. "It reminds me of 'Schindler's List.' Everyone eventually saw it and admired it, but I don't know anyone who has seen it a second time. It's just too tough to take."

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The Raiders waived cornerback / kick returner Coye Francies and linebacker Travis Goethel on Tuesday.
According to the NFL's official transactions, Francies was waived with a "failure to disclose physical condition" designation.
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Francies entered the NFL as a sixth-round pick of Cleveland in 2009. He played eight combined regular-season games for the Browns from 2009-2010 before next seeing regular-season action with Oakland in 2012.
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Dyson Commercial Shoot
Great commercial shoot with Dyson! Loved working with the XO Group on this one. And big thanks to Broderville Pictures for casting!
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About Nick
A Boston native, Nick moved to NYC to pursue a career in acting after attaining his BA in Theater. Once in New York, he completed The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts' Film and Television actor training program. Since then he has been working steadily in film, television, and theater.
January 2018
Nick Jordan
What People Are Saying
"Nick Jordan and Broadway vet John Fennessy are the perfect matches for the roles. Mr. Jordan gives Joey INNER VULNERABILITY and SECRET LONGING FOR CONNECTION...This young actor uses his craft to portray...COMPLEX RANGE OF EMOTIONS AND LAYERS...These generous actors work well together in every way."
"Beyond the adaptation, there was plenty to like, as well. ACTORS WERE STRONG...Nick Jordan (Cash) PERFECTLY CAPTURED AN AFFABLE DOUCHE with the hair of a young Guy Fieri."
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The cast of characters and HIGH TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCES in Theater for the New City's production of A Hard Rain, make for memorable company."
"...and one of "Incident's" MOST COMELLING ACTORS, NICK JORDAN, who portrayed the duplicitous General's aide, McAllister, with DEFT MACHIAVELLIAN EASE, and who we shall surely see more of..."
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"Stillwell's aide...a DOMINEERING Nick Jordan." - Incident at Hidden Temple
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Working with Nick was a unique experience for me. When I finally found Nick and cast him, we did not have the luxury of an extended rehearsal period. However, Nick jumped right into the material and was more than ready and willing to put in the work to make up for the short time-span. Nick asked SHARP, THOUGHT-PROVOKING questions which allowed me to discover my story in new ways. Nick delivered what I wanted, as well as showing RANGE AND FLEXIBILITY in taking direction and making adjustments throughout a tiring and intense shoot. Nick's UPBEAT ATTITUDE to the project and the crew made everyone's lives easier, and I would be more than happy to work with Nick again in the future.
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{Ten for Tuesday} Screen Free Week Activities & Resources: Simple, Frugal Play Ideas & Quiet Time Alternatives
Introducing the Humanoid Giant Tablet! He calls it his special computer and is getting very creative with it already. Stay tuned for Humanoid 2.0 and new Apps, which I expect we will spend Screen Free Week developing! (P.S. Our giant cardboard box tablet was inspired by this Bottle Top Calculator from Learn with Play at Home).
I hope you enjoy this activity and the other ideas we are sharing to help you make the most of Screen Free Week! (I prefer thinking of it as making the most of a week unplugged with our families rather than ways to help you get through it. Don't just get through it, but unplug yourself a bit and enjoy!!) Here are 10 tips and ideas...
1. More Cardboard Box Creations -- Screen Free Week offers a chance to ditch the big talking box and the pinging/dinging small boxes (tablets and computers) and see what imaginative things happen with just a simple cardboard box. (Our cardboard box firetruck remains a favorite for the boys). We recently shared a round up of many of our favorite Cardboard Box Creations, and you can also find cardboard box innovations on my Recycle, Repurpose, Make It Better Pinboard, and I love the Cardboard Creations Pinboard of Housing A Forest. Or, just follow your child's lead.
Here is a closer look at the Humanoid 1.0. We use it for letter matching and spelling, and Wild Thing enjoys measuring. I included 4 straws, cut to different sizes, a stick, a stray toy piece and a long cardboard box piece. Wild Thing also realized the stick fit through the hole of the stray toy and created another way to play with his tablet.
|Impromptu version for Caterpillar
|Advantage over a Droid/iPad is that they can both play at once.
3. Play a Game (or 10)! A popular post on my blog is a post that features 10 Toddler Games That Only Take You...many are classic games that little ones love. Some of these are still great for PreK kids. For older children, try classic board games and card games provide a fun screen free alternative. Adventures in Mommydom recently shared several Active Games and Outdoor Games that would be great fun this week (or any week).
4. Bust the Boredom -- This round-up of Hotel Room Boredom Busters includes many simple and easy play ideas that can be done with items you probably have readily at hand -- they could be perfect in a pinch.
5. Just Pretend -- Pretend Play is perfect for a Screen Free Day or Week. Instead of watching their favorite TV show, encourage your child to act the show out themselves. My boys love it when we do a coffee shop and library adventure right at home (on days when getting out just isn't an option). They get to pick snacks to buy, select books to check out and play with our cookie sheet computer! Mess for Less has 30+ Pretend Play Ideas for further inspiration.
6. Have an Adventure/Try Something New -- Discover a new park or hiking trail. Try out a new playground or visit a new library. 52 Brand New is always sharing their new adventures with a weekly new experience, so she offers lots of inspiration. Hit up a thrift store and let each child select a new toy and/or new book. Better yet, before you go, have them pick some toys and/or books to take to the thrift store to donate.
7. Bring a Book to Life -- We love bringing books to life, as evidenced by our participation in the Virtual Book Club for Kids. Check out the VBCK FB page or Pinboard for activities, snacks and play related to many favorite children books. Read.Explore.Learn also has lots of wonderful ideas as does The Children's Bookshelf Pinboard. I love the fun ways we explored Boy, Bird Dog! by David McPhail, and Dr. Seuss and Mo Willems books always inspire lots of play and extension activities.
8. Help Others -- Create a Random Acts of Kindness Scavenger Hunt or commit to doing an act of kindness each night instead of TV time. Our Scavenger Hunt and these others RAK ideas should get you started. Or do your own version of these Happy Notes from Coffee Cups and Crayons.
9. Take It Outside!! -- Have a picnic dinner. You can do it in your own backyard or at a favorite park or lake. Go for evening walks or family bike rides instead of turning on the tube at the end of the day. Work on the garden together or create a family painting together outside. This Take It Outside! Pinboard is full of ideas.
10. Turn Up the Volume -- Our family loves impromptu dance parties and music time. We turn up the radio and make our own fun as we shake, spin, stomp and bop to our favorite tunes. We also like to pull out our musical instruments and make the music ourselves (the boys have toy drums and a toy guitar, and I play the piano). Or sometimes we just sing our favorite songs.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bill McCoy, Bucknell's new Director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Awareness, discusses how college campuses are building safe, friendly environments for LGBT students, faculty, staff and allies.
Question: What is the current climate for members and supporters of the LGBT community on college campuses, and how has it evolved over the years?
Answer: Offices that work with LGBT students on college campuses have varied histories. The first was officially created in 1971 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and universities continue to establish LGBT offices every year. Most of these spaces have an ally development program similar to Bucknell's Safe Spaces program. These programs tend to serve two purposes: one, to educate members of the institution's community on some of the identities within and common issues of the LGBT community and, two, to provide a supportive network of individuals willing to stand with the LGBT community in openly confronting homophobia and heterosexism.
There's been progress, and things are certainly better now than they were 10, 15, 20 years ago. Many variables affect how a particular office operates, such as an institution's size, geographic location or religious affiliation. Additionally, the LGBT community itself is incredibly diverse and different identities have very different needs.
Q: How do Bucknell's size and rural setting impact how you address the needs of the LGBT community and its allies on campus?
A: I've lived in Washington, D.C., and New York City. There, the LGBT university students had these major metropolitan areas and huge LGBT organizations as resources. Because of the difference in population here, I believe this office and my position really need to be seen as a community center in a much broader sense.
Bucknell is fortunate to have a lot of people invested in the topic and invested in making sure that this is a welcoming place. As part of that, I have a lot of folks asking "What can I do for you, and how can I help?"
Q: What advice do you have for people at Bucknell when it comes to being an ally to the LGBT community?
A: I think folks who generally will say they are supportive — who don't actively oppress the LGBT population and who want to be seen as supportive — could be pushed to the next level of truly being an ally. One way to be an ally is to use inclusive language to talk about partners, rather than assuming in casual conversation that a man would date a woman and a woman would date a man. We have to be critical of assumptions we're making about one's sexual or gender identity, even when those assumptions are unintentional or, perhaps, especially when they're unintentional.
Any individual or campus entity can be an ally to the LGBT community. Continually striving to understand more and critically evaluating your actions is fundamentally the process of being an effective ally. When I do trainings, I often tell potential allies that even with the best of intentions, they might not get it right all of the time. It's a learning process, and being open and able to accept feedback without rationalization is a true trait of an ally.
Q: Through your office, how do you plan to promote a safe, inclusive environment on campus?
A: I think it is the responsibility of this office not just to make LGBT students feel included, but also to ensure that they are included and to educate the campus community on how to be inclusive.
On a basic level, offices and campus entities can assess their activities, policies and procedures and think critically about specifics, even down to language on the forms they use. Institutions, including colleges and universities, sometimes ask for information that has little or no relevance to related decisions, or may not ask simple questions that would foster inclusion. For example, the Office of Admissions has begun this process by looking at the various ways it collects prospective student information and whether those forms show any bias, particular with regard to transgender identities.
While students are our main focus, we are also beginning to work now to separate out a group of out LGBT faculty and staff to create some social opportunities, to create some discussion opportunities, maybe to program specifically to their needs.
Some of the work done before I got here — in terms of laying the groundwork to make sure the Office of LGBT Awareness, the Women's Resource Center, Multicultural Student Services and International Student Services work together — is really great. It has poised us to move forward in a really inclusive atmosphere, both in all of our individual spaces and throughout campus as a whole, and really broadens the definition of diversity.
Interviewed by Andy Hirsch
New editions of "Ask the Experts" will appear on the Bucknell website on most Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters. If you have ideas for future topics or are a faculty or staff member who would like to participate, contact Molly O'Brien-Foelsch.
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DE Seedlings of the Anne Frank tree planted in different places in Europe
As a living memorial of the evacuation of their neighbors from the 2.distric of Vienna, a neigborhood with formerly many jewish residents, a seedling of the Anne Frank tree has been planted in November 2015. This was organized by the district managment, the 'Gebietsbetreuung', and supported by schools of the area. Many girls and boys attend this event, the local mayor and the head of the district management reminded in their speeches these dark times, in a text by Helga Fassbinder a link was drawn to the fate of refugees of the present time.
A few months earlier, initiated by Peter Velter, children of a couple of schools in Brabant, in the South of the Netherlands, planted a seedling of the great famous Anne Frank tree, too.
This is press report of a planting of a seedling in a town in the North of Germany, in Syke, at the entrance of a school for professional school.


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Thuringia, German Thüringen, historic region and Land (state) of east-central Germany. Thuringia is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony to the northwest, Saxony-Anhalt to the northeast, Saxony to the southeast, Bavaria to the south, and Hessen to the west. The capital is Erfurt. Area 6,244 square miles (16,172 square km). Pop. (2006 est.) 2,334,575.
Thuringia extends eastward from the Werra River (a headstream of the Weser) to beyond the Saale River as far as the Pleisse and northward from the Thuringian Forest and the northernmost parts of the Franconian Forest to the southern foothills of the Harz mountains. Much of the landscape of southern Thuringia is characterized by the picturesque rounded hills of the Thuringian Forest, whose northern slopes reach elevations of about 3,000 feet (900 metres). Lying between the Thuringian Forest and the Harz range on the northern border is the Thuringian Basin, a fertile agricultural region whose eastward-flowing streams are tributaries of the Saale. The southeastern portion of the state consists of the mountainous region of the Franconian Forest and the Vogtland. Extreme eastern Thuringia is traversed by the westerly offshoots of the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), while the Rhön Mountains extend into western Thuringia. A large reservoir is located in Thuringia on the Saale, which flows basically northward. Regrettably, Thuringia has suffered high levels of damage to its forests from pollutants originating from industrial activities in nearly all wind directions. Still, a unique red beech forest habitat has been preserved in the Hainich National Park south of Mühlhausen. Like the rest of Germany, Thuringia has a relatively temperate climate.
Thuringia's population is almost exclusively composed of ethnic Germans; there are no major indigenous ethnic minorities, and only a very small percentage of the population are foreign nationals. The state, which had been slowly losing population for decades, experienced a decrease in population of about one-tenth in the last decade of the 20th century.
Agriculture contributes only a relatively small amount to total economic output and employment, although half the state's land is given over to farming. Wheat, barley, sugar beets, rape, fodder crops, and market vegetables predominate in the basin's agriculture, and orchards and vineyards cover the slopes overlooking the Ilm River. The only notable industrial resources in Thuringia are deposits of lignite and potash worked in the northern part of the Thuringian Basin and natural gas pumped from the western part of the basin.
Thuringia is a relatively poor state by German standards, and, owing to severe economic problems following German reunification in 1990, its populace suffers from high levels of unemployment. The state's economy is now largely dependent upon service-sector activities, but industrial production, though diminished since 1990, is still important. The principal manufactures are automobiles and auto parts, metalworking, precision machinery and instruments, optics, electrical equipment, a much diminished textile sector, and biotechnology. Glass, wood, and toy industries are found in some towns of the forest valleys. Despite the economic problems that came with unification, Thuringia has one of the most significant concentrations of ''new economy'' activities among the eastern German states, including a biotechnology industry and the production of microelectronics, optics, medical and electronic equipment, and pharmaceuticals. Auto manufacturing is also important.
Erfurt, Jena, Gera, and Weimar are the main urban localities in the state and serve as regional centres for service activities. A modest tourist industry that largely serves German travelers is focused on cultural activities and historical sites in Eisenach, Meiningen, and Weimar and on the scenic beauties of the Harz mountains and the Thuringian Forest.
Thuringia's primary transportation facilities are east-west oriented rail and autobahn routes linking major cities in Saxony with north-south rail and autobahn routes in central Germany and the Rhine region.
The state of Thuringia is governed by a Landtag (parliament) and a minister-president, who is generally a leading member of the parliament's strongest party. Jena, Erfurt, Ilmenau, and Weimar are sites of universities. Weimar is also a major historical and contemporary centre for culture in Thuringia. The city was home to some of Germany's most important historical cultural figures, such as the writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the dramatist Friedrich von Schiller, whose former homes are now museums. Those museums, along with more than a dozen other buildings and parks throughout Weimar dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, were collectively designated the UNESCO World Heritage site of Classical Weimar in 1998. Weimar has numerous other sights, notably the Bauhaus museum, also a World Heritage site (1996), as well as art galleries, archives, and theatres, several of which occupy buildings with historical and architectural significance.
Erfurt, another cultural centre, is particularly well endowed with historic architectural treasures. Meiningen is home to renowned theatre productions, which have a long tradition in the city. The Wartburg, a castle located just south of Eisenach, is a World Heritage site (1999) not only because of its feudal origins but also because of its cultural heritage: Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German while in exile there.
The Germanic Thuringians appeared after about ad 350 and were conquered by the Huns in the second quarter of the 5th century, but by 500 they had established a large kingdom stretching from the Harz mountains to the Danube. As a result of the defeat of their king, Irminfrid, at Burgscheidungen (in the present-day state of Saxony-Anhalt), on the Unstrut River, by the Frankish kings Theodoric I and Chlotar I in 531, their territory was reduced to the Harz mountains and Thuringian Forest region and was governed by Frankish dukes. In the early 8th century the duchy was divided into countships to reassert royal authority, and St. Boniface converted the Thuringians to Christianity. In 908 the Thuringian March (frontier district), set up by Charlemagne against the Slavs, was seized by Otto, duke of Saxony, whose son, Henry I, duke and German king, halted a Magyar invasion of Thuringia at Riade in 933 and strengthened the defenses of the region. After the Saxon royal dynasty died out in 1024, the Ludowing family, through Louis the Bearded, controlled Thuringia. The grandson of Louis was made landgrave of Thuringia by King Lothar II in 1130.
Landgrave Henry Raspe was elected German ''antiking'' (against Conrad IV) in 1246; he died the next year. After a war over the long-disputed succession (1256–63), Henry III (the Illustrious), margrave of Meissen, of the house of Wettin, made good his claim and invested his son Albert with Thuringia in 1265. Thuringia thereafter remained a possession of the Wettins, and in the 15th century it was divided between Ernestine Saxony, Hesse-Kassel, and several smaller states. Prussia also received sections of Thuringia at the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) and after the Seven Weeks' War (1866).
In 1920, under the Weimar Republic, several old Thuringian territories (chiefly the Ernestine Saxon duchies) were merged into a new Thuringia, a state of republican Germany, with Weimar as its capital. The frontiers remained anomalous: Erfurt was still attached to the Prussian province of Saxony; there were enclaves belonging to Prussian Saxony or to Prussian Hesse-Nassau surrounded by Thuringian territory; and, conversely, parts of Thuringia were enclaves within Prussian Saxony. After World War II all Thuringia fell to the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany. With the administrative dissolution of Prussia, an enlarged Thuringia state was constituted within East Germany, with rationalized frontiers, including the southwestern part of the former province of Saxony and all the former enclaves; the capital was Erfurt. In 1952, however, when the East German states were dissolved, Thuringia was divided between the Bezirke (districts) of Erfurt, Suhl, Gera, Halle, and Leipzig. Following the reunification of Germany, Thuringia was reconstituted as a state with boundaries similar to those of its post-World War II predecessor from the former East German districts of Suhl, Erfurt, and Gera and from small parts of Leipzig and Halle districts. (See also Saxony.)
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France: The conquest of southern Germany…domain in southern Germany, subjugating Thuringia (about 531 Chlotar I carried off Radegunda, a niece of the Thuringian king), the part of Alemannia between the Neckar River and the upper Danube (after 536), and Bavaria. The latter was created as a dependent duchy about 555. The Franks were less successful…
Germany: The rise of the Carolingians and Bonifaceinto Franconia, Thuringia, and Bavaria, where he founded or restructured diocesan organization on a Roman model. In 742, with the support of the new mayors of the palace Pippin and Carloman, he played a large part in the first council of the new German church. By the…
Germany: The Hussite wars…irrepressible Hussites swept through Saxony, Thuringia, and Franconia in a destructive foray. Sigismund, exploiting the general alarm, reverted to the older system and demanded contingents from each prince and city. The response improved, and a large army invaded Bohemia, only to meet complete disaster in 1431 at Taus (now Domažlice,…
Reuss…former German principalities, merged into Thuringia in 1920. In their final years they comprised two blocks, separated by part of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. The southern and larger block, or Oberland, with Schleiz and Greiz as chief towns, was bounded east by the kingdom of Saxony, south by Bavaria, west by Saxe-Meiningen and…
Schwarzburg…in the new state of Thuringia (Thüringen).…
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Cary News: Community
Arts Notes: May 4
'It's Spring'
The Raleigh Symphony Orchestra's Free Spirits Ensemble will present "It's Spring" at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at The Halle Cultural Arts Center, 237 N. Salem St., Apex. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors at www.etix.com.
'Plaza Suite'
The Halle Cultural Arts Center will host performances of the play "Plaza Suite" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10; and at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 11, at 237 N. Salem St., Apex. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $10 for seniors at www.etix.com.
Marvelous Music series
Diane Shuur will present the last performance of the third Marvelous Music season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave. Tickets are $26 for adults, $24 for seniors.
The Cary Arts Center will host Crafty Connection, a series of arts and crafts activities for ages 2-12, before the concert. Activities, schedules and prices are online. For details, go to bit.ly/1dq37tS.
Hob Nob Jazz Series
The third year of the Hob Nob Jazz Series continues through Wednesday, June 4. Performances will be from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Koka Booth Amphitheatre, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary. Here's the schedule:
• May 14: Peter Lamb and The Wolves.
• May 28: Marcus Anderson.
• June 4: Stephen Anderson.
Tickets for individual shows cost $5 and the whole series costs $20. Admission is free for ages 12 and younger. Pets on leashes are allowed. For tickets, go to www.etix.com.
LIVE in The District Music Series
Park West Village hosts the LIVE in The District Music Series from 6-8:30 p.m. Thursdays through May 15. Concerts are in front of Stone Theatres – Park West 14, 3400 Village Market Place, Morrisville. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket. Here's the lineup:
• Thursday, May 8: Black Heart Kings
• Thursday, May 15: The Dickens
For details, go to www.parkwestvillage.net.
Sertoma Series
Cary's Sertoma Series of free concerts will run through early August. Concerts are at Fred G. Bond Metro Park, 801 High House Road. Here's the upcoming schedule:
• 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 16: Cary Town Band's "All Request Friday."
• 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17: VocalMotion and Audio Kudzu.
• 7 p.m. Friday, May 30: Triangle Brass Band.
Bring a picnic and chairs or blankets. Alcohol is not allowed, and pets must be kept on leashes. For details, call 919-469-4069 or go to www.townofcary.org.
'Twelfth Night'
The Cary Arts Center will host performances of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at 101 Dry Ave. Tickets will go on sale Monday, April 14. Tickets bought early cost $10 for adults, $8 for students and seniors and $5 for ages 5 and younger at the Cary Arts Center Box Office or www.etix.com. All tickets at the door cost $10.
Seven O'Clock Rock Series
Cary's third annual Seven O'Clock Rock series continues through Friday, July 18, on the corner of Academy and Chatham streets downtown. Free dance lessons start at 7 p.m., and free concerts start at 7:30 p.m. Here's the concert schedule:
• Friday, May 16: '50s-'70s Night with The Fabulous Daddy-Os
• Friday, June 6: Latin Night with Orquesta Internacional La Clave
• Friday, June 20: Swing Night wit the Tar River Swing Band
• Friday, July 18: Beach Night with Peak City Sound
For details, go to www.townofcary.org.
Movies by Moonlight
WakeMed Cary Hospital sponsors movie screenings at dusk, around 8:30 p.m., at Koka Booth Amphitheatre, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary. Here's the schedule of movies:
• Friday, May 16: "Frozen"
• Friday, May 23: "Gravity"
Tickets are $3, free for kids younger than 12. A portion of proceeds will benefit the WakeMed Children's Hospital. Picnics are allowed, but pets are not. Tickets are only available at the amphitheater box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. For details, call 919-462-2025 or go to www.boothamphitheatre.com.
'Opera in the Pines'
The N.C. Opera Orchestra and featured singers will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Koka Booth Amphitheatre, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary. Tickets cost $25-$37, free for kids under 14, at www.boothamphitheatre.com.
Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle
The Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 19, at the Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave. Tickets cost $9 at the Cary Arts Center box office or www.etix.com. For details, go to www.rtoot.org.
Granpaparazzi Photography Club
The Granpaparazzi Photography Club's artwork will be on display through Friday, May 23, at the Cary Senior Center, 120 Maury Odell Place, Cary. For details, go to www.caryartloop.org.
Jazz concert
Jim Ketch and the Triangle Wind Ensemble will play jazz music at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 25, at Koka Booth Amphitheatre, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary. Lawn tickets cost $16 for adults, $13 for students, seniors and active military. Tickets are free for kids younger than 12. Table seats cost $26. For details and tickets, go to www.boothamphitheatre.com.
'Feathers and Fur 2014'
"Feathers and Fur 2014," an exhibit by Cary artist Bobbi Hopp, will be on display through Tuesday, May 27, at the Herbert C. Young Community Center, 101 Wilkinson Ave., Cary.
Turkish tile exhibition
The Turkish House will host an exhibition of Turkish tile artwork at 7 p.m. Friday, May 30, at 303 E. Durham Road, suite F, Cary.
Celebration of the Arts Festival
The 11th annual Celebration of the Arts Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 7, in downtown Fuquay-Varina. For details, go to www.fuquay-varinadowntown.com/events/celebration-of-the-arts.html.
En Plein Air auction
A public auction of paintings from Fuquay-Varina's third annual En Plein Air Paint-Off will be from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, June 7, on Vance Street. The top three winners' paintings will be enlarged and placed on brick walls in the town's historic district and added to the public art program organized by Fuquay-Varina Downtown and sponsored by Bob Barker, Inc. For more information, go to www.fuquay-varinadowntown.com.


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Stereogum presents Enjoyed – A Tribute to Björk's Post
by admin on Sep.07, 2009, under Good Music, mp3
Superpower music blog, Stereogum, gives away completely free, downloadable collections from time to time. Their most recent offering is this tribute to the Björk classic, Post
Contributors to the disc include Dirty Projectors, Pattern is Movement and Xiu Xiu, among others. The styles and sounds are expansive here, without ever veering from the central core of Björk's ethereal musings.
I could yap on and on about Liars' sludgerocking "Army of Me" or the soft, subtle touch White Hinterland gives to "I Miss You," but what's the point when you can download it yourself and draw your own conclusions? And you really should do precisely that…by clicking here. Enjoy!


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Many developers are have a nagging sense of fear about the upcoming "multi-core apocalypse". Most of the software we write and use is written in imperative languages, which are fundamentally serial in nature. Parallelizing a serialized program is painful, and usually involves semaphores, locks, and comes with problems like deadlock, livelock, starvation and irreproducible bugs.
If we're doomed to live in a future where nearly every machine uses a multi-core architecture, then either (a) we have a lot of work ahead of us to convert our serialized programs into parallelized programs, or (b) we're going to be wasting a lot of CPU power when our programs only use a single processor element on a 4-, 8-, or even 64-core CPU.
At least that's the received wisdom. I don't buy it.
Yes, software that knows how to exploit parallelism will be different. I don't know that it will be much harder to write, given decent tools. And I certainly don't expect it to be the norm.
Here is some evidence that the multi-core monster is more of a dust bunny than a werewolf.
First, there's an offhand remark that Rob Pike made during his Google Tech Talk on Newsqueak, a programming language he created 20 years ago at Bell Labs to explore concurrent programming. It's based on Tony Hoare's CSP, the same model used in Erlang. During the talk, Rob mentioned that the fundamental concurrency primitives are semaphores and locks, which are necessary when adding concurrency to an operating system, but horrible to deal with in application code. A concurrent application really needs a better set of primitives that hide these low level details. Newsqueak and Erlang improve upon these troublesome primitives by offering channels and mailboxes, which make most of the pain of concurrent programming go away.
Then, there's Timothy Mattson of Intel, who says that there are just too many languages, libraries and environments available today for writing parallelized software. Timothy is a researcher in the field of parallel computing, and when someone with such a deep background in the field says the tools are too complicated, I'll take his word for it. The good news is that very few programmers work on the kinds of embarrassingly parallel problems that require these tools. Working on parallel machines isn't going to change that for us, either. In the future, shell scripts will continue to execute one statement at a time, on a single CPU, regardless of how many CPUs are available, with or without libraries like Pthreads, PVM or MPI. Parallel programmers are still in a world of hurt, but at least most of us will continue to be spared that pain.
Then there's Kevin Farnham, who posted an idea of wrapping existing computationally intensive libraries with Intel's Thread Building Blocks, and loading those wrapped libraries into Parrot. If all goes well and the stars are properly aligned, this would allow computationally intensive libraries to be used from languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/etc. without the need to port M libraries to N languages. (Tim O'Reilly thought it was an important enough meme that he drew attention to it on the O'Reilly Radar.)
This sounds like a hard problem, but adding Parrot to the equation feels like replacing one bad problem with five worse problems. If we're going to live in a world where CPUs are cheap and parallelism is the norm, then we need to think in those terms. If we need Perl/Python/Ruby/etc. programs to interact with parallelized libraries written in C/C++/Fortran, where's the harm in spawning another process? Let the two halves of the program communicate over some IPC mechanism (sockets, or perhaps HTTP + REST). That model is well known, well tested, well-understood, widely deployed and has been shipping for decades. Plus, it is at least as language-agnostic as Parrot hopes to become. (+2 points if the solution uses JSON instead of XML.)
Fourth, there's Patrick Logan, who rightly points out the issue simply isn't about a multi-core future, but also a multi-node future. Some applications will run in parallel on a single machine, others will run across multiple nodes on a network, and still others will be a hybrid of both approaches. Running programs across a network of nodes is done today, with tools like MapReduce, Hadoop and their kin.
If you have a grid of dual-core machines today, and need to plan out how to best use the network of 64-core machines you will have a decade from now, here's a very simple migration plan for you: run 32x as many processes on each node!
With that said, here is my recipe for taming the multi-core dust bunny:
- Determine what kind of parallelism makes sense for you: none, flyweight, fine-grained or coarse grained.
- Avoid troublesome low-level concurrency primitives wherever possible.
- Use tools like GHC's Nested Data Parallelism for flyweight concurrency (one program, lots of data, spread out over multiple CPUs on a single machine).
- Use tools like GHC's Software Transactional Memory for lightweight concurrency (many interoperating processes managing shared data on a single machine).
- Use tools like MapReduce and friends for heavyweight concurrency (work spread out across multiple cooperating processes, running on one or many machines).
As Timothy Mattson points out, parallel programming is fundamentally hard, and no one language, tool or environment is going to slay the dragon. I cite NDP here not as a perfect solution, but as a placeholder for a whole class of tools that exhibit of SIMD parallelism. Similarly, STM is a placeholder for a whole class of tools that exhibit MIMD parallelism. Sometimes you need one, sometimes you need the other, sometimes you need both, and sometimes you need neither.
And then there is the issue of virtualization. Perhaps the best use of a multi-core system isn't to use it as a single multiprocessing computer, but as a host for a series of virtual machines. Such a usage sidesteps all of the thorny issues around parallelism entirely, focusing instead on cost savings that accrue from server consolidation and simplified management. This is a very old idea that becomes more and more important as power efficiency in our data centers becomes a hot button issue.
Finally, there's a looming question about what to do about the desktop. If your laptop has 32 cores, what do you do with them? The simple answer is nothing. As CPUs get faster, they spend more and more of their time in an idle state. The only thing that changes in a multi-core world is that more CPUs are idle. Desktop programmers can spend a lot of time evenly distributing that idleness across all CPUs, or make very few changes, and use only as many CPUs as necessary. Operating systems and basic tools (emulators, compilers, VMs, database engines, web servers, etc.) will need to be multi-core aware and distribute their work across as many CPUs as are available. Some of that work is already done -- make -j has been around for years. Processing intensive applications, like audio/video codecs, image manipulation and the like, will also need to be multi-core aware. The vast majority of the programs we write will continue to be mostly serial, and rarely care about parallelism.
After all, authenticating a user doesn't get 32x faster on a 32-core machine.


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In a recent product introduction, New Holland announced that its new TJ 4-wd tractors set new power and efficiency records at the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory. If those claims sound familiar, they should. As part of the merged Case-New Holland's (CNH) "common platform" initiative, tractors from the red camp, Case-IH, now share their engine, frame and power train with their new blue brethren from New Holland. Now, when a Case IH Steiger sets a record, so does a New Holland TJ.
New Holland expects that, like the Steigers, its highly maneuverable, high-horsepower TJs will be well adapted for heavy tillage as well as for pulling earthmoving scraper pans.
The old New Holland 84 series tractors were strong pullers in their own right. But with the new platform, the TJ line adds more horsepower, higher torque and more 3-pt.-hitch lift capacity. That's a welcome improvement whether it comes as a unique package or a common platform.
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Though an identical gray chassis belies the common lineage of Steigers and TJs, there are a few more differences besides red or blue body panels. The TJ offers a less deluxe (and less expensive) standard cab that is not available on the Steiger. Meanwhile, the Steiger offers an optional luxury cab not available on the TJs. No matter what the trim and cab options, there's plenty of visibility and comfort to go around, including pressurized cab, heated ergonomic seat, automatic temperature control, power mirrors and a place to plug in a laptop computer.
The New Holland TJ also offers its pumped-up Megaflow hydraulic package as a factory- or dealer-installed option. Jim Fielding, New Holland product marketing manager, points out that hydraulic capacity of 90 gpm allows the TJ to handle some jobs better than a conventional Steiger can. "A TJ with Megaflow can pull a large air seeder and maintain full power to the orbit motor even when several other hydraulic operations are being performed simultaneously," he explains. "That can mean the difference between a plugged seeder and a productive day.
"For excavation work, Megaflow allows the TJ to lift three scraper pan blades where the Steiger could handle only two. That makes the TJ an even more efficient earthmoving machine."
You can't get Megaflow factory installed in a Case tractor, yet. Of course, because the $5,000 option can be dealer installed, there's nothing stopping you from having it added to a red tractor you already own. Behold the power of common platform design.
The price of the TJ tractors ranges from $116,000 to $220,000. For more information, contact New Holland North America Inc., Belleville, PA 17004, 717/355-1371, www.newholland.com/na.
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|8.3-liter/505-cu.-in. CDC
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At Long Last: the Music of Jeffrey Clark (and An Odd Political Twist)
I recently got the news that my old friend, the Austin musician Jeff Clark, was finally going to release a solo album. Granted, it's about 40 years after the glory days of Clark's iconic band Too Smooth, which was, in my opinion, the best rock act ever out of Texas. (Think about the implications of that statement. Yet I remain steadfast. Texas has had more per capita, excellent, and homegrown bands than probably any other state in the union, but TS was just outstanding and, regrettably, never "made it.")
In any event: yes, Jeffrey will in the next few months put out a collection of material spanning his career and including recently written material. There will be selected and re-recorded Too Smooth songs as well as highlights from Clark's subsequent group, 14K. I look forward to hearing a few gems from his wonderful but unreleased rock opera, Man of Fortune, and it should be fun to hear how his Muse is working all these years later on the brand new songs.
The first single is called "We Can Make It," and it'll be available for download from CD Baby on Wednesday, August 22. It's an instantly anthemic tune of artistic conviction from the 14K years, written when Clark was nobly rallying from the aforementioned and crushing disappointments in Major Label Land.
"We Can Make It" represents a poppier, more polished period in Clark's career. While Too Smooth was the Texas equivalent of an intricately arranged, twin-guitar prog/hard rock band, Clark's 14K material was more than competitive with acts like Toto and Journey.
"We Can Make It" kicks off with a staccato synth line and a floating, hot-air-balloon-race of a chorus affirming the conviction that, yes, 14K could still find music biz success. The driving verses, with Clark's tenor melodically exhorting the powers of positive thinking, were downright exhilarating way back in the day — and, if you're a fan of so called Classic Rock radio, you'll hear "We Can Make It" and probably scratch your head over why it wasn't in heavy rotation back in the '80s. Or, for that matter, on those same stations today.
The pristine new recording — which includes many of Clark's bandmates from Too Smooth — presents Clark sounding ridiculously young and inspired. Thirty years on, that's a beautiful thing.
Here's an odd twist. There was nothing political about the original song when Jeff wrote it. But: a video using the music from"We Can Make It" apparently has been or will soon be submitted to the Republican National Committee as a theme song for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Far be it from me to politicize in this space — and I'm not particularly aware of Jeff Clark's thoughts on the upcoming election — but it's definitely unique to hear a favorite tune from all those years ago in this context. (In the interest of fairness, here is a clip with no music but that nonetheless advocates President Obama.)
And, in a self-serving personal context to further clarify the whole political issue, check out this video Peter Huoppi and I made in another election year. I find it hard to believe that folks can be persuaded to vote one way or another based on a sign in someone's yard or one of those cookie-cutter candidate ads where the candidate poses with his family in one scene and wears a hardhat and shakes hands with factory workers in another scene.
Okay. With the caveats out of the way, I'm back to the original point: what's cool to me is that, one way or another, Jeff Clark's music is reaching a larger audience. He deserved it years ago and he deserves it now.
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