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Castroville resident Daniel Tapia, a UC Santa Cruz alum, won the California International Marathon over the weekend, according to preliminary results.
Tapia crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 16 minutes, 29 seconds — with a 37-second lead over second-place finisher Tesfaye Alemayehu [Antioch]. Christopher Kipyego [Kenya] was third in 2:17:58.
Alisha Williams of Colorado Springs, Colo., won the women's race in 2:34:57. Clara Peterson of San Anselmo took second [2:35:36] and Natalia Sergeeva [New York] took third [2:38:20].
LaSelva Beach's Peter Stanger, 60, was the sole person from Santa Cruz County to place in the top 10 of an age division. He was seventh in the men's 60-64 age group, finishing in 3:37:32.
Results included in this report are from runsra.com. Results at the time of this post were still considered preliminary.


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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Treasure Chest Thursday: A Monkey Doll
This little monkey doll belonged to my Dad, who was born in 1939 and passed away last October. We don't know who gave it to him, but his older brothers distinctly remember that it was his toy. Later, the monkey lived for years in my grandmother's cedar chest; when she died in 1979 it went to my Dad. I brought it home with me when he went to a nursing home in 2008. It's a good thing I dragged this little monkey down from his shelf, as I see that the paint is quickly peeling off his little composite head. In fact, there is a pile of it laying around where he was sitting. I didn't notice that going on when I brought him home last year and I'm sure I would have. This gave me a strange feeling this morning, associating the disintegration of this doll with my dad's death. So, I wrapped him up and put him in a storage box. We'll see how he's doing next year …
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- Dr. Bill (William L.) Smith said...
Thanks for sharing this story. It brings back memories of toys from my past...
Keep these ancestor stories coming!
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I have passed the Ancestor Award on to you for your wonderful blog. You can pick it up on my blog here: http://oldstonesundeciphered.blogspot.com/2010/05/ancestor-approved.html
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PREMIER Center Becomes Sioux Falls City Property on August 1
A specific takeover day and a general plan for the outer panels for the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center were revealed to the Sioux Falls City Council Tuesday.
The bimonthly Event Center report states that on August 1st construction is essentially complete and the City of Sioux Falls will take control of the $117 million structure. Before the Jason Aldean concert on October 3, the city plans to host open house events to show off the new building.
However, mystery still surrounds the bulging outer covering of the PREMIER Center. It is not yet certain who will be held responsible for the flaws. City Attorney Dave Pfeifle says the materials and installation process is being investigated by a third party. The hope is that by October, the City will have options on how to fix the siding and an idea of who will be liable.


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Dan Wahlin (Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and Silverlight) founded The Wahlin Group (www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in .NET, Silverlight and SharePoint consulting as well as online and onsite training solutions. Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin.
Among the promises of frameworks such as Silverlight, Microsoft's plug-in for developing rich Internet applications, are lower development costs and shorter development cycles -- not to mention much more engaging and interactive Web content. But Silverlight also provides a broad range of networking features that can be used to access distributed data. Standard SOAP services such as those created using Active Server Methods Extension (ASMX) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technologies can return a specific contract, and REST services can return custom data structures. Silverlight also supports direct socket communication for applications that require data to be pushed to them in real time.
While these features work well, there's a price in terms of complexity because they rely on an asynchronous programming model and require code to be synchronized between Silverlight and server projects. Microsoft recognized the challenges of the asynchronous model and that sharing data validation rules between projects could be tricky. To simplify the process, it has developed WCF RIA Services, a data exchange and validation framework for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. Silverlight applications can also use WCF RIA Services to authenticate users, check roles, access profile provides, query and modify data and even share data annotations.
Getting Started with WCF RIA Services
Once WCF RIA Services is installed, new templates appear when you create a new Silverlight project as in Figure 1.
The Silverlight Business Application template builds on the standard Silverlight Navigation Application template, but adds authentication and WCF RIA Services support into the mix. The WCF RIA Services Class Library allows re-useable code to be encapsulated into a project that can be shared across one or more Silverlight projects. In this article I focus on the Silverlight Business Application Template.
To get started using WCF RIA Services you'll need to add a domain service class that wraps a LINQ-to-SQL or Entity Framework model into the Web project. It's important to note that other ORM frameworks such as nHibernate aren't supported out-of-the-box, but can be integrated into WCF RIA Services by deriving from a base class named DomainService and overriding the appropriate methods. Brad Abrams provides an introductory look at using nHibernate with WCF RIA Services at http://tinyurl.com/kmbkfl. Figure 3 shows a simple LINQ to SQL diagram added into the Web project that models tables in the Northwind database.
Once the ORM model is completed the project must be compiled so that the new objects are accessible to WCF RIA Services. After compiling, right-click on the project, select "Add --> New Item", then select the domain service Class template. The Add New Domain Service Class dialog window will appear which allows the desired DataContext or ObjectContext object to be selected (depending upon which Microsoft ORM was added into the project). The dialog window allows the entities that should be exposed by WCF RIA Services to be selected as well as whether or not the entities should support editing features (insert, update, delete). A metadata class can also be generated for each entity in cases where custom data annotations need to be applied for data validation. Figure 4 shows the Add New Domain Service Class dialog.
Once the domain service class is added into the project it can be customized. Listing 1 is an example of the methods added into a domain service class for the Customer entity in Figure 3.
[EnableClientAccess()] public class NorthwindDomainService : LinqToSqlDomainService<NorthwindDataContext> { public IQueryable<Customer> GetCustomers() { return this.DataContext.Customers; } public void InsertCustomer(Customer customer) { this.DataContext.Customers.InsertOnSubmit(customer); } public void UpdateCustomer(Customer currentCustomer) { this.DataContext.Customers.Attach(currentCustomer, this.ChangeSet.GetOriginal(currentCustomer)); } public void DeleteCustomer(Customer customer) { this.DataContext.Customers.Attach(customer); this.DataContext.Customers.DeleteOnSubmit(customer); } }
A few things that are important to point out in the code shown in Listing 1 include the EnableClientAccess attribute which makes the class and its methods accessible to client applications such as Silverlight. Also note the IQueryable<Customer> type returned from the GetCustomers method. Any method returning IEnumerable<'T> or IQueryable<T> is treated as a query method by default in a domain service.
In situations where a single object needs to be returned as opposed to a collection the [Query] attribute can be used as shown next. This example sets the QueryAttribute's IsComposable property to false since the client won't need to perform query operations (sorting or filtering) on the returned object.
[Query(IsComposable=false)] public Customer GetCustomer(string custID) { return this.DataContext.Customers.Where(c => c.CustomerID == custID).SingleOrDefault(); }
The other methods in Listing 1 automatically handle performing insert, update, and delete operations respectively due to their name being prefixed with Insert, Update or Delete. In situations where methods don't start with one of the built-in WCF RIA Services keywords, attributes can be applied above the methods as in Listing 2.
[Insert] public void NewCustomer(Customer cust) { this.DataContext.Customers.InsertOnSubmit(cust); } [Update] public void SaveCustomer(Customer currentCustomer) { this.DataContext.Customers.Attach(currentCustomer, this.ChangeSet.GetOriginal(currentCustomer)); } [Delete] public void DestroyCustomer(Customer cust) { this.DataContext.Customers.Attach(cust); this.DataContext.Customers.DeleteOnSubmit(cust); }


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The cold's affect on fingers and toes
With all the outdoor winter sports that people participate in, many are suffering from cold fingers or toes. There is a medical explanation called Raynaud's phenomenon, a condition in which blood flow to the fingers and toes slows down. It is caused by cold weather, or a sudden drop in temperature, resulting in a whiteness or violations-bluish color and numbness of the fingers and toes.
When the body gets cold and the core body temperature drops, the sympathetic nerve sends a signal to constrict the smaller vessels in the fingers and toes, restricting blood to the arms and legs, and in turn increasing it to the internal organs to protect them from cold. In severe cases, there may be a breakdown in the tissue in the ends of the fingers and toes, resulting in sores which may even lead to ulcerations.
Protection in cold weather is most essential for Raynaud's sufferers but is important for everyone as unprotected skin can freeze quickly when the temperature or wind-chill is below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Frostbite is another cold-related condition. There is a real danger of frostbite to the feet when sports shoes get wet; there is less blood flow as the blood vessels close up. As a result, the skin turns white. When the skin temperature reaches 59 degrees, the body attempts to rewarm the skin by opening the blood vessels and increasing circulation to the surface. The skin will begin to feel warm, tingling and turn red. However, with further drop in temperature, the blood vessels begin to close up again. If the skin is allowed to freeze, it will be white in appearance and feel hard to the touch. If frostbite is suspected, get indoors immediately and seek medical attention if necessary.
The best treatment of cold related conditions is prevention. Dress in layers of loose clothing. Wear mittens which bring fingers closer together for added warmth. Most importantly, use polypropylene or wool socks, and use Gortex athletic shoes or spray your shoes with silicone to keep out the cold and wetness. The blood flow takes longer to get to the toes in the cold weather. Wear a hat to prevent heat from escaping the body.
Dr. Robert F. Weiss, a Sport Podiatrist, was a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the 1984 & 1988 Olympic Marathon Trials.


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Noma Bar was born in Israel in '73 and his simple illustrations of simple shapes in tandem with negative space are incredible.
He studied graphic design at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and has been publish a zillion times in a zillion magazines. The man has even put out two books! I know that a ton of designers have put out books, but it's still amazing. How many books do you have out? That's what I thought.
Obviously what makes his work so great is that he's able to capture so much with so little. Wether that's capturing a story, a personality, or an idea. I love how his work, while simple and easy to digest, makes you think. What makes his work stand out isn't what he puts on the page but more what's triggered in the viewer by what's on the page (like that whole 'art happens within the viewer, not on the canvas'). You're forced to think about it.
I'll be the first one to tell you that a design shouldn't make you think (read Don't Make Me Think. just do it), but in that case of Noma Bar I think it works.
HOWEVER some of his work can be 'once you've seen one you have seen them all'. Just make a head shape and put a reference to that person where the eye should go. It's very clever the first few times, then it's gets to be a bit "c'mon, Noma. don't you have more?"
You should still be going out of your way to check out his work and learn that you don't have to say much to say a lot.


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Edit: It was pointed out that this was a problem with H2, NOT Derby... not sure how I missed that, I've updated (Thanks Nick)
Our team recently started using H2 for local development, with our production database being DB2. One nice thing is that the sql dialects for these are nearly identical and you don't need to change the dialect to get things to mostly work. We did, however, hit a snag with our boolean type fields. By default, the values for a boolean object default to "1" and "0" (or 1 and 0) when using the db2 driver and definition the column as a char(1), but when using the h2 jdbc driver (with the DB2 hibernate dialect), the values were getting translated to "true" and "false" which was breaking because obviouly you cannot store 4 characters in a 1 character field.
After googling the problem, it turns out a lot of people have run into this and there aren't any obvious solutions floating around. The best bet we could find using hibernate 3.5 was create a custom user Type (based on the hibernate delivered YesNoType) and annotated all our booleans to tell hibernate to use this type to map these fields. The user type we ended up with looks like the following (based on YesNoType).
package org.shamalamading.dong;
public class OneZeroType extends org.hibernate.type.CharBooleanType {
protected final java.lang.String getTrueString() {
return "1";
protected final java.lang.String getFalseString() {
return "0";
public java.lang.String getName() {
return "OneZeroType";
We then modified our Hibenate entities to use this type as follows:
package org.shamalamading.dong;
@Table(name = "REPORT_TBL")
public class Report implements Serializable {
@Column(name = "ACTIVE_FLAG", columnDefinition="char(1)")
private Boolean active;
public Boolean getActive() {
return this.active;
public void setActive(Boolean newValue) {
this.active = newValue;
Now when persisting to database and setting values, hibernate will set "1" as true and "0" as false. This helps when using H2 and db2 together because of the differences in how the drivers natively handle booleans. On an additional note, I think it's interesting that in DB2 (or database) land, it seems pretty common for "0" or 0 to represent "false", but in programming land, it's much more common for 0 to represent "true" and "everything else" to represent false.


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I have a confession to make. When all those around me were screaming and swooning over The Beatles, my favorite group was The Supremes.
Turns out I was not alone.
Diana Ross and her pals were the single most popular American group of that era, and their sales worldwide were right up there with the Fab Four. Motown was the definition of American music in the mid-1960s.
It was that sound — Barry Gordy's brash combination of rhythm and blues with a bouncy rock and roll edge — combined with the flash and the choreography, and songs that had a kind of stick-to-your-ribs familiarity, I couldn't get enough. If you're like me, then you are going to enjoy "The Sounds of Motown," a revue filled with familiar favorites now at the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater in Claremont.
Unlike some tributes, this show doesn't try to tell the life story of either Gordy or his company. Rather, it simply collects a group of talented performers to recreate (at least in general tone) the music and the group dynamics that made Motown Records. Martha and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder are all represented, as is, rather inexplicably in that she was not a Motown artist, Patti LaBelle. By the end, folks are ready to get up and dance.
Some renditions ring truer than others, of course, and even among a very talented cast there are standout moments. Roshanda Johnson's version of "Neither One of Us" leaves one wishing there was more Gladys Knight music in the show than there is, and her "Lady Marmalade," however inexplicable in this revue, is terrific to listen to.
Then there's 7-year-old CJ Wright proves earnest and impressive covering parts associated with the youthful Michael Jackson. Gary Lewis manages a variety of styles well, Jessica Mason makes a nice Mary Wells, and Desmond Clark's "Do You Love Me" and "Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie)" are just plain fun.
Indeed, all of the cast has impressive talent. Eric Bailey, Paul David Bryant, Allisonne Crawford, Lawrence Cummings, Jo Rhea Dalcour, Jazz Madison and Valentina Merchant each have moments where they shine, and the whole cast blends well together — a neat trick in itself.
Director John LaLonde keeps the thing moving along at just the right pace to avoid those "we've all got to change costume now" lags. Plus, the cast is joined by a poundingly good live band, giving the whole enterprise a specific energy.
Now, there is always an issue when one is providing covers of songs whose original performances are permanently imprinted in people's brains. There are occasions where a harmony isn't quite as harmonious as one remembers, or a tonality doesn't match the particular timbre of the original singer. The decision to rotate performers to the "up front" spot means those tonalities sometimes shift from song to song by a single artistic group, which can be disconcerting. Still, this ensemble works together to bring the essence of Motown alive enough that by the time they ask folks to feel free to get up and dance, it's what you want to do.
As always at Candlelight Pavilion's main productions, the show comes along with a fine dinner. And that is special too, of course, as this is the last dinner theater in the greater Los Angeles area. But I have to admit, the nostalgia is pretty sweet.
See more of Frances Baum Nicholson's reviews at stagestruckreviews.com.


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THE man accused of sparking a mid-air drama and fears of a hijack on board a Virgin flight from Brisbane to Bali told police he "thought the cockpit was the toilet door".
Matt Christopher Lockley, 28, told police he was asleep for most of the flight but woke up after a meal arrived. He then thought he had lost his bag and wanted medication from it.
After talking to a passenger next to him, the crew asked him to sit at the rear of the plane.
He then needed to go to the toilet.
Bali police spokesman Hery Wiyanto said: "He thought the cockpit was the toilet - he thought he was banging on the door to the toilet."
In his depressed state, Lockley claimed to have been "having hallucinations that somebody followed him and wanted to steal his bag", Wiyanto said.
It is understood he will not be formally charged by Indonesian police, according to local media reports.
Police who questioned him into the night in Bali said he repeated: "I am not drunk, I am not drunk."
Before leaving Brisbane he had only: "two Voltaren, four Panadol and two cans of Coca-Cola," police said.
Police sources say that he also claimed he was banging on the cockpit door because he wanted medication from his luggage.
And cabin crew described him to police as being unstable and appearing paranoid.
He was restrained at the rear of the aircraft and didn't put up a fight when officers arrested him on arrival at Denpasar airport.
Lockley was today taken to a Bali hospital where police learned he was being treated for a medical condition.
He was travelling to Bali in search of his Indonesian wife, whom he hasn't seen in two weeks, Wiyanto added.
"We will question him again after his health has returned," he said, describing Lockley's state as "exhausted".
He had been visited by friends and consular staff, and police were not treating him as a hijacking suspect.
Police sources in Bali have told News Corp Australia that Lockley also answered in Bahasa Indonesian displaying a knowledge of the local language.
He also told police he never intended to harm anyone during the drama which occurred about 30 minutes out of Denpasar.
"I didn't harm anyone," he told police during questioning.
Lockley was last night taken to Bali police headquarters in Denpasar for questioning where he was held overnight.
Police took blood and urine samples to test for alcohol or drugs and seized medication from him.
He was also examined by psychiatrists after his arrest.
Police have yet to indicate what charges Lockley will face, if any, after his dramatic arrest at gunpoint yesterday.
The incident sparked a major drama, causing Denpasar airport to close and go on high alert when it was initially reported he was a hijacker.
Indonesian authorities are investigating how the false hijacking signal was sent.
Dressed in flip-flops, white shorts and a T-shirt, Lockley was arrested by military police and taken in for questioning after the Virgin Australia flight landed safely at Ngurah Rai airport.
The mid-air drama began when the plane's crew pressed an emergency button which sent an automatic signal to air traffic controllers in Denpasar and Makassar.
It was about 30 minutes before the plane's scheduled landing time and the plane was 180 nautical miles from Denpasar.
Authorities in Bali believed the plane had been hijacked and rushed to put in place emergency procedures.
Co-manager at Bali airport, I Gusti Ngurah Ardita said that Lockley's condition looked "unstable".
Photographs of his arrest show him being led from the Virgin Australia plane by heavily armed military police.
He was initially taken in for questioning by the military which has jurisdiction at the airport but was later handed over to Bali police who said they would interview him along with the plane's cabin crew.
Police revealed Lockley is the holder of a Queensland driver's licence and had a licence to perform high-risk work and a plumbing industry council card, which were displayed during a press briefing.
Under Indonesian aviation law a person who commits an act to endanger flight safety and security faces two years in jail or one year for those who disturb a flight.
Bali Police Chief, Inspector Benny Mokalu, said no-one had been injured in the incident.
All passengers had left the plane and gone to the hotels and holidays.
He said that after banging on the cockpit door, Lockley had been taken to the cabin crew area and was sitting there when heavily-armed police entered the plane at Ngurah Rai airport.
Insp Mokalu said that cabin crew had told police that Lockley appeared to be "paranoid" but it wasn't clear why.
Col Sugiharto Prapto Waluyo, the commander of base operations at Ngurah Rai, said information was first received about 2pm local time when it was reported that the plane had been hijacked.
Treating the information seriously, Bali police, military and airport officials immediate went into hijack mode. The airport was closed and personnel were deployed to handle a hijack drama.
"We received information about a hijacking at 2pm local time from the airport general manager and air traffic control Makassar. We then conduct the procedure, as the initial information is a hijack.
"We didn't know if there was something dangerous in the plane or not. Is there a bomb or what. When the plane landed we steered the plane to park in two seven runway because we can't communicate with the pilot," Col Waluyo said.
In dramatic scenes, police had positioned a vehicle in front of the plane after it stopped and armed officers raced to the scene.
"We implemented the hijack arrest procedure as we didn't know if it's a hijacker or not. Our team then caught him, handcuffed him and brought him from the plane.
The Virgin Australia flight 41 from Brisbane to Bali had 139 passengers on board including 137 adults, two children and six crew members
As the drama unfolded, air traffic control in Bali diverted seven incoming flights to Surabaya, in East Java, one to Lombok and five flights were delayed and stopped from taking off.
Initial reports from Indonesian military and media that suggested the plane had been hijacked was quickly dismissed when it became apparent the would-be cockpit impostor was reportedly a drunken or drug-affected Australian passenger.
Lockley was alleged to have been banging on the cockpit door of the plane, causing the pilots to become worried about a hijack. This was later dismissed.
Virgin's Bali manager Heru Sudjatmiko said it was a "miscommunication".
"I repeat, this is just a miscommunication. How the miscommunication occurred, I cannot answer because I wasn't there. But it's not true to say that the plane was hijacked," Mr Sudjatmiko told Idonesia's Metro TV station.
"I don't know exactly what happened when the pilot communicated with the air traffic controller at Ngurah Rai," he said.
The Denpasar City Police chief Adj. Commissioner DjokoHariutomo told Kompas media that a drunk passenger tried to enter the cockpit of the Boeing B737-300 plane.
"We deployed a lot of personnel because we are informed that an aircraft was hijacked," Djoko said.
Palani Mohan, a passenger on a Garuda flight that was about to take off from Bali, said they were told an alleged hijacking had taken place at first, which would delay their flight.
"I saw at least five vehicles including military-style trucks, filled with men in uniform, rushing towards the plane.
"Then the Virgin plane taxied away, followed by the convoy of security forces. The flight attendant said it's been taken off to a different part of the airport.
"Bali airport seems to be in lockdown, we've been told no planes will be departing or arriving. The pilot's not allowing anyone off our plane."
A Virgin Australia spokesman said one other flight was affected en route from Sydney to Denpasar, and was diverted to Darwin Airport.
It was a decision made by the Indonesian authorities to shut Denpasar Airport, leaving multiple flights in the lurch.
"It depends on crew hours, but it is most likely that the plane will be refuelled tonight and then continue on to its destination," the spokesman said.


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IRVING, TX — TRT Holdings, the parent company of Gold's Gym International (GGI), is showing its appreciation for the company's performance this year with an influx of capital.
TRT is investing more than $20 million into Gold's 62 corporate-owned clubs. The investment is earmarked for new equipment and other improvements at the corporate clubs.
Without giving specific revenue figures, Joel Tallman, senior vice president of franchising and global operations for GGI, says earnings from franchising, licensing and corporate operations are exceeding company expectations this year.
"This is definitely a reflection of the excitement of TRT and the performance of Gold's Gym over the last year," Tallman says. "It creates a foundation for purchasing built off of the 62 corporate gyms, and then the ability to offer those negotiated pricings and those savings and volume discounts to our franchisees both domestically and internationally. It really is the first time we've had that kind of leverage with millions of dollars in pure purchasing power."
Gold's is experiencing its biggest growth internationally. The company has 165 international clubs, with an additional 200 clubs in the pipeline and 17 new countries signed, Tallman says. Mindful of that growth, Gold's recently launched its new global vendor program, designed to give vendors exclusive access to GGI's network of franchisees and franchise training.
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Justice and the Kurds
Turkey's Kurdish Question
Imagine that you head a foreign delegation on its way to Turkey to protest to the authorities on behalf of that country's unhappy Kurds. If you are important enough, you might be met at the Ankara airport by Hikmet Cetin, the outgoing speaker of the Turkish parliament. But Mr. Cetin himself is a Kurd, with a good command of Kurmanji, the most widely spoken Kurdish dialect, and he will defend the regime's policies toward the Kurds. You might have better luck with some of the members of Turkey's newly elected parliament, some 25 percent of whom will be of Kurdish origin. But many of them are rich landowners who enjoy excellent relations with the government. You might reveal your sympathies to one of Turkey's capitalist czars—say, Halis Toprak (whose Toprakbank has been valued at $1.7 billion). But he is a Kurd who does not protest treatment of other Kurds. In the 1980s, Istanbul had a Kurdish mayor, who was supported by plenty of the city's migrant Kurds before he was undermined by allegations of corruption.
Imagine, if you can, Slobodan Milosevic boasting about his Albanian blood. Turgut Ozal, Turkey's reforming prime minister for much of the 1980s, made his partly Kurdish ancestry public and succeeded in changing Turkey's law forbidding the use of Kurdish languages—although he did not lift restrictions on their being taught in schools, and it remains illegal to speak Kurdish in political speeches. Wherever you look in modern Turkish society—loyalist Turkish society—you find Kurds, and many of them show no signs of opposition to the Turkish state.
The presence of assimilated Kurds at the heart of modern Turkey is baffling to foreigners acquainted only with claims of Kurdish nationalists and their allies. The Kurds, runs this account, are Indo-Europeans who had established themselves in eastern Anatolia at least two millennia before the Central Asian Turks settled in that part of the world; their unfortunate descendants have been bullied into abandoning their identity in the harshly monocultural Turkish repub-lic established seventy-six years ago by Kemal Atatürk. In recent years, the nationalist account continues, the Kurds have been represented by Abdullah Ocalan, the fugitive leader abducted four months ago from Kenya and taken back to Turkey for trial on charges of treason—a trial widely expected to result in his execution by hanging.
With all this firmly in mind, foreigners visiting Turkey may look for a cleavage between Turk and Kurd as clean and unambiguous as that which divides Jew from Arab, Serb from Albanian. Furthermore, they may expect to find Turkey's twelve-million-odd Kurds (roughly 19 percent of the population, according to the historian David McDowall1 ) standing firmly behind the fifteen-year insurgency conducted by Mr. Ocalan's Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast. But neither assumption stands up to scrutiny. Many Turkish Kurds—estimates range from one half to two thirds—live outside the war zone, and a lot of these have a negligible emotional attachment to Mr. Ocalan's insurgency—and even less regard for his authoritarian socialist ideology.…
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Still, for a restaurant that's not diet specific but, rather, serves a diverse clientele, getting to no on GMOs can be a heavy lift.
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There's plenty of room at the bottom (Nov, 1960)
This is a condensed version of a talk titled "There's plenty of room at the bottom" that Richard Feynman gave in 1959. It is generally considered to be the first speech about nanotechnology.
There's plenty of room at the bottom, says noted scientist as he reveals —
How to Build an Automobile Smaller than this dot -> .
At 42, Richard Phillips Feynman, Ph.D., enjoys world renown as a theoretical physicist, local fame as a "marvelous" performer on the bongo drums, and campus admiration as a man with a pixyish humor that turns a lecture on quantum electrodynamics into a ball. You'll see why when you read his impassioned and witty plea to think small.
This tall, slim, dark-haired scholar helped importantly in developing the atomic bomb and watched its first test explosion. In 1954 he won the $15,000 Albert Einstein Award, one of the nation's highest scientific honors.
He is capable both of exuberant fellowship and of rather stern withdrawal, especially when pondering intricate problems. Even his heavy thinking has a light touch, however. In deepest thought, while pacing the floor, he slowly flips a silver dollar back and forth across the fingers of his right hand by carefully controlled movements of the knuckles. It's no easy trick even when you have nothing else to think about.
Born in New York City in 1918, he graduated from MIT in 1939 and got his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1942. He was a member of the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell from 1945 to 1950. In 1950, he began his present job as professor of theoretical physics at Caltech.
Dr. Feynman loves music, children, camping in the wilds, and unpremeditated jaunts to faraway places. He boned up on Portuguese to become a visiting lecturer for two seasons in Brazil, and learned Spanish under forced draft to go to Peru and poke around Inca ruins.
The accompanying article is condensed from a speech (addressed to an American Physical Society meeting, not the Pasadena Rotary luncheon). The full transcript appeared in "Engineering and Science Magazine," published at the California Institute of Technology.
Exploring the fantastic possibilities of the very small should pay off handsomely — and provide a lot of fun, too
By Richard P. Feynman
Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
PEOPLE tell me about miniaturization, about electric motors the size of the nail on your small finger. There is a device on the market by which you can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. But that's nothing. That's the most primitive, halting step.
Why not write the entire 24 volumes of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" on the head of a pin?
Let's see what would be involved. The head of a pin is a sixteenth of an inch across. If you magnify it 25,000 diameters, the area of the head of the pin is equal to the area of all pages of the encyclopedia. All it is necessary to do is to reduce the writing in the encyclopedia 25,000 times. Is that possible? One of the little dots on the fine halftone reproductions in the encyclopedia, when you demagnify it by 25,000 times, still would contain in its area 1,000 atoms. So, each dot can easily be adjusted in size as required, and there is no question that there is enough room on the head of a pin to put all of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica."
IMAGINE that it is written in raised letters of metal that are 1/25,000 ordinary size. How would we read it?
We would press the metal into plastic and make a mold; peel the plastic off very carefully; evaporate silica into the plastic to get a very thin film; then shadow it by evaporating gold at an angle against the silica so that all the little letters appear clearly; dissolve the plastic away from the silica film; and then look through it with an electron microscope.
How do we write it? Reverse the lenses of the electron microscope to demagnify. Ions, sent through the lenses in reverse, could be focused to a very small spot. We could write with that spot as we write in TV, by going across in lines, and having an adjustment that determines the amount of material that is deposited.
Don't tell me about microfilm!
THERE is plenty of room at the bottom—not just room at the bottom. I want to show what is possible according to the laws of physics. I am not inventing antigravity, which is possible only if the laws are not what we think. I am telling you what could be done if the laws are what we think; we are not doing it simply because we haven't yet gotten around to it.
How many times when you are working on something frustratingly tiny, like your wife's wrist watch, have you said, "If I could only train an ant to do this!" I suggest training an ant to train a mite to do this. What are the possibilities of small but movable machines? They may or may not be useful, but they surely would be fun to make.
CONSIDER an automobile. Suppose we need an accuracy of 4/10,000 of an inch. If things are more inaccurate than that in the shape of the cylinder and so on, it isn't going to work very well. If I make the thing too small, I have to worry about the size of the atoms; I can't make a circle out of "balls" if the circle is too small.
So, let's say I make the error, corresponding to 4/10,000 of an inch, correspond to an error of 10 atoms. I can reduce the dimensions of an automobile 4,000 times, approximately—so that it is 1/25 inch across.
In such small machines the forces go as the area you are reducing, so that weight and inertia are of relatively no importance. The strength of material is very much greater in proportion. The stresses and expansion of the flywheel from centrifugal force, for example, would be the same proportion only if the rotational speed is increased as we decrease the size. On the other hand, metals have a grain structure and this would be very annoying at small scale. Plastics and glass are very much more homogeneous, and so we would have to make our machines out of such materials.
THERE are problems associated with the electrical system—copper wires and magnetic parts. The magnetic properties on a very small scale are not the same as on a large scale. The electrical equipment won't simply be scaled down. It has to be redesigned to work again.
Lubrication involves some interesting points. The viscosity of oil would be higher and higher as we went down. If we change from oil to kerosene or some other fluid, the problem is not so bad.
But we may not have to lubricate at all! We have a lot of extra force. Let the bearings run dry; they won't run hot because the heat escapes away from such a small device very, very rapidly.
This rapid heat loss would prevent the gasoline from exploding, so an internal combustion engine is impossible. Other chemical reactions, liberating energy when cold, can be used.
What would be the utility of such machines? Who knows? A small automobile would only be useful for the mites to drive around in, and I suppose our Christian interests don't go that far. However, although it is a very wild idea, it would be interesting in surgery if you could swallow the surgeon. You put the mechanical surgeon inside the blood vessel and it goes into the heart and "looks" around. It finds out which valve is the faulty one and takes a little knife and slices it out. Other small machines might be incorporated in the body to assist some inadequately functioning organ.
HOW do we make such a tiny mechanism? In atomic-energy plants they have materials they can't handle directly because they have become radioactive. To unscrew nuts and put on bolts, they have a set of master and slave hands. By operating a set of levers here, you control the "hands" there, and can turn them this way and that so you can handle things quite nicely.
Most of these devices are made rather simply. A cable, like a marionnette string, goes directly from the controls to the "hands." But things also have been made using servo motors, so that the connection is electrical rather than mechanical. When you turn the levers, they turn a servo motor, and reposition a motor at the other end.
I want slaves to be made one-fourth the scale of the "hands" that you ordinarily maneuver. So you can do things at one-quarter scale—the little servo motors with little hands play with little nuts and bolts; they drill little holes; they are four times smaller. Aha!
I manufacture a quarter-size lathe; I manufacture quarter-size tools; and I make, at the one-quarter scale, still another set of hands again relatively one-quarter size! This is 1/16 size, from my point of view. And after I finish doing this I wire directly from my large-scale system to the 1/16 servo motors. Thus I can now manipulate the re-size hands.
IF YOU work through a pantograph, you can get much more than a factor of four in one step. But you can't work directly through a pantograph that makes a smaller pantograph—because of the looseness of the holes and the irregularities of construction. The end of the pantograph wiggles with a relatively greater irregularity than the irregularity with which you move your hands. In going down this scale, I would find the end of the pantograph shaking so badly it wouldn't be doing anything sensible. At each stage, it is necessary to improve the precision of the apparatus. Having made a small lathe with a pantograph, we may find its lead screw irregular—more irregular than the large-scale one. We could lap the lead screw against breakable nuts that you reverse in the usual way, until this lead screw was, at its scale, as accurate as our original lead screws, at our scale.
We can make flats by rubbing unflat surfaces together in three pairs—and the flats then become flatter than the thing you started with. So we improve the equipment by working awhile down there, making accurate lead screws, Johansson blocks, and all the other materials that we use in accurate machine work at the higher level.
WHEN I make my first set of slave "hands" at one-fourth scale, I am going to make 10 sets. I wire them to my original levers so they each do exactly the same thing at the same time in parallel. Now, when I am making my new devices one-quarter again as small, I let each one manufacture 10 copies, so that
I have 100 "hands" at the 1/16 size.
Where am I going to put the million lathes that I am going to have? There is nothing to it; the volume is much less than that of even one full-scale lathe. If I made a billion little lathes, each 1/4,000 the scale of a regular lathe, there would be plenty of materials and space available. In the billion little ones there is less than two percent of the materials in one big lathe.
There is the problem that materials stick together by the molecular attractions. After you unscrew the nut from a bolt, it isn't going to fall down, because the gravity isn't appreciable; it would even be hard to get it off the bolt. It would be like those old movies of a man with his hands full of molasses, trying to get rid of a glass of water.
But ultimately we can arrange atoms, the very atoms, all the way down!
Up to now, we have dug in the ground to find minerals. We heat them and we hope to get a substance with just so much impurity. But we must always accept some atomic arrangement that nature gives us. We haven't got anything, say, with a "checkerboard" arrangement.
WHEN we have some control of arrangement we will get an enormously greater range of properties that substances can have, and of things that we can do.
Consider, little coils and condensers (1/30,000 inch or smaller), one right next to the other, over a large area, with little antennas sticking out.
Is it possible to get a whole set of antennas to emit light as an organized set of antennas emits radio waves to beam the radio programs to Europe?
If we go down far enough, all our devices can be mass-produced so that they are absolutely perfect copies of one another. We cannot build two large machines exactly the same. But if your machine is only 100 atoms high, you only have to get it correct to one-half of one percent to make sure the other machine is exactly the same size—100 atoms high!
We can do chemical synthesis: A chemist says, "Look, I want a molecule that has the atoms arranged thus and so; make me that molecule." He mixes this and that, and he shakes it, and he fiddles around. And, at the end of a difficult process, he usually does succeed in synthesizing what he wants. By the time I get my devices working, so that we can do it by physics, he will have figured out how to synthesize absolutely anything, so that my devices will really be useless.
But it would be possible (I think) for a physicist to synthesize any chemical substance that the chemist writes down. Put the atoms down where the chemist says, and so you make the substance. The problems of chemistry and biology can be greatly helped if our ability to see what we are doing, and to do things, on an atomic level, is developed.
You might ask, "Who should do this, and why should they do it?" I pointed out a few of the economic applications, but I know that the reason that you would do it might be just for fun.
Let's have a competition between laboratories. Let one laboratory make a tiny motor and send it to another lab which sends it back with a thing that fits inside the shaft of the first motor.
To get kids interested, I propose some kind of high-school competition. Even the kids can write smaller than has ever been written before. The Los Angeles high school could send to the Venice high school a pin which says on it, "How's this?"
When they get the pin back, in the dot of the "i" it says, "Not so hot."


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I'm Frank, the creator and webmaster for this website. I'd like to briefly explain how this website, and all the websites in the BeMoreCreative.com family, evolved from my personal interest in quotations.
My wife and I began our married life working for seven years as volunteers in Zaire (now DR Congo) with Mennonite Central Committee – she as a nurse and I first as a teacher and later as a public health manager. By 1981 I had completed a Masters (at Johns Hopkins) and Doctorate (at Tulane) in International Health, and was hired by USAID to manage a large health systems development project based in Kinshasa. The SANRU Basic Rural Health project which I helped to manage developed 100 decentralized health zones to provide primary health care for more than 10,000,000 people. That is, however, another story told better at http://SANRU.org.
In 1986 I wanted to make a Christmas gift calendar for my wife using Print Shop and my Apple //GS computer. I decided to make 53-page weekly calendar with a motherly/homey quotation at the top of each page. Browsing through a copy of "The Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", I did indeed find the quotes that I was looking for, but in the process also became hooked on quotations about creativity. I began collecting quotations relating to creativity and soon had enough to make a page-a-day calendar featuring creative-related quotations.
I soon amassed several thousand quotations, and began reading more about the creative process. I was intrigued by books like "A Whack on the Side of The Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovation" by Roger Von Oech. However, it was in reading his sequel entitled "A Kick in the Seat of the Pants," that I made a creative connection that my collection of quotations could be used to illustrate components of the creativity process. After more research, including "Pathfinders" by Gail Sheehy I ended up adopting a creative process, called Creative Quotations, based on five steps/components -- Foraging, Reflecting, Adopting, Nurturing, and Knuckling Down. Those five terms, while admittedly a bit out of the ordinary, spell out the word "FRANK" when you take the first letter of each word. This was, you see, my way of personalizing the creative process.
In fact, I credit my ten years of "survival" as a project manager in Africa in part to my personalization of the creative process, and its application to project management. Over the following years I found that I could link most of my collected quotations with one of those five components. I also found that given a dozen or so quotations from a famous person that I could usually create a meaningful set of Creative Quotations by that person which illustrated, directly or indirectly, their thoughts on the creative process – from "Foraging" to "Knuckling Down."
In 1991 our family was evacuated from Zaire due to political and economic instability. At that time I began working as a freelance consultant in International Health. I also began looking for opportunities to share Creative Quotations to a larger audience so that readers could learn from the insights of famous creative people -- "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved in quotations" (Isaac D'Israeli). Creative Quotations is intended to challenge people readers to think creatively by looking for connections between quotations and the creative process -- "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (William Plomer).
The evolution of the Internet provided me with the medium that I was looking for to share my quotation collection first as "CreativeQuotations.com" and later on a broader platform of "BeMoreCreative.com." That also eventually led to the creation of this website where I've thematically combined quotations on a selected topic with online links for purchasing products related to that topic. The CreativeHardwareStore.com, for example, was inspired by the quotation that "Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store" --Robert Wieder.
In conclusion, I invite you to browse this website while "thinking, working and living more creatively." And keep on the lookout for connections along the way that may inspire your creativity.


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Hyundai Elantra Exterior Problems
Hi, I have a couple of scratches on my Elantra (pewter color) that I want to try to fix. I went to Autozone and checked out the Duplicolor products...apparently, there is nothing for Hyundai. Are there any colors from other makes/models that would be similar to Hyundai's pewter?
If they are small scratches, you might be better off just getting the factory touch-up kit from a Hyundai dealer, and maybe get a very narrow brush i.e. artist's brush, as the brush that comes with factory touch up paint is too wide for scratches I've found. For large scratches, one option is automotivetouchup.com. I ordered custom-mixed paint for three cars there, including a '01 Elantra and '04 Elantra. It comes in spray cans. It's a little pricey, as you need to order both the base (color) coat and clear coat, but the color match was good (I got champagne and red for the Elantras, white for a Mazda).0
wonderwall Posts: 126my 05 elantra came with touch up paint. my wife's 07 didn't...0
Cool! I had to pay extra for touch-up paint for both my '01 and '04 Elantras.0
I own a 2007 Silver Elantra SE and just waxed it. I ran my hand over the car in several places and it was rough. I thought the dealer 'forgot' to wax it so I decided I'd just do it myself. Upon looking at the paint a little closer there are actually black specs embedded in the paint or clear coat. It really looks like there is a tiny spot with no paint, just clear coat. Is this a problem with the paint or clear coat or is this just how the paint on a new car is supposed to be?0
You need to take it to the dealer. The black specs could be from airborne contaminants, e.g. "rail dust", or signs of a problem with the paint job. Either way, you want the dealer to see it ASAP so they know it was that way from the start.0
Took it to the dealer and was told it must to be 'rail dust' or sap. They told me to get a 'clay-bar' and rub the affected areas and that should take the contaminants off. I did this and it worked. Just re-waxed the area where the spots were and all is smooth!!0
scalaron Posts: 1The bumper strip that protects the door panel on my 2004 Elantra was torn off recently.
Is this a DIY job or should I have it done at the dealers.
The door is not dented. I don't think I can use the old piece.
Some of the clips are still in their holes while others are broken or missing. Would someone give me step by step instructions on how to replace it?
I just bought a 2006 Hyundai Elantra hatchback and it has the black side molding (bumpers) that runs from front to back midway on the doors. This creates an ugly black line down the side of my white car. I suprised they continued to style the car this way through 2006...it makes the car look dated...more like a 1999 model. Most cars now have fiberglass side molding that is painted the same color as the car.
Anyway, is it possible to paint these black moldings on the side? Can I make them the same color as my car to make them less noticable?0
doohickie Posts: 949Yeah, you can. I think you also might be able to buy the side moldings for an Elantra Limited and put those on, although your hatchback color may not have been available on the Limited so they might need to be painted as well. I think the Limited trim pieces have a chrome strip in there.
Not sure why you think that looks dated; lots of cars still have black belt trim. And.... I'm just wondering- if you don't like it that much, why did you buy the car?0
I love the car...the price was great and it had low miles. It's exactly what I want, except for the side moldings. So, I can live with it like it is, but if I can paint them or replace them with fiberglass, then even better.0
Don't know if this will help any, but the black trim is there on purpose to make the car look more "European", e.g. like a Saab. In fact the Saab hatch appears to be the car Elantra was targeting when they styled the '01-'06 hatch, IMO. I like the black trim (my car is red), not only the looks (kind of sporty I think) but I like the fact that if someone hits the trim, it doesn't put a gouge in paint as with painted trim. Think about it... that white-painted trim could quickly get all nicked up, and with black below the paint it will look... well, not too good.0
theplain53 Posts: 4my 2002 elantra came with small creases in the tops of the doors and a faint crease in the side of the door,( i bought it new) you only see htem at the right angle but they are all there, i saw it was a problem with most 2002 elantras that were made before the problem was corrected in the welding of the door panels together. i went to dent pros but they couldnt get at them due to the safety re enforcement in the door panels.
does anybody else have this problem.?? did hyundai do anything about this problem0
durtybyrdz Posts: 11I actually own an 07 Elantra and WANT black side body molding for that sporty look on the XD. Having a hard time finding them. All I can find are the same color style moldings, go figure.0
g_designer Posts: 18I only had my 07 Elantra SE since August. The alloy wheels make the disc brakes very visible. I've noticed an amount of rust on both of the front disc brake calipers. Looks like insufficient galvinization. Should I be concerned over this? Is this under warranty? Thanks guys/gals for any info.
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Input Checking & Price ShoppingMay 15, 2003
This morning as I dutifully hopped onto Amazon.ca to order my copy of Jeffrey Zeldman's new Designing With Web Standards and bump his sales rank of 89 up even further, a few little nits popped up that need picking.
The Canadian equivalent of a zip code is called a Postal Code, and comes in the format A1A 1A1 (where A's are letters and 1's are numbers). This standard has been around forever, and only a few possible variations exist. The correct separator is a space; however, hyphens, periods, and even no space at all are some of the more popular deviations.
I'm fond of using a hyphen myself. It's been how I've done it for as long as I can remember. Amazon.ca told me this was invalid though, and refused to process the form until I replaced my hyphen. The programming logic to account for this variant is so simple that it makes me wonder how this got past Amazon's quality control; it's on the same level as forcing someone to enter their credit card as '4123412341234123' rather than '4123 4123 4123 4123'.
According to Jeffrey, the book is making its way to the various bookstores, which means that Amazon is still reporting it as 'soon to be released'. When pre–ordering a book, I expect it's going to take some time to reach me, so I don't need of any sort of priority shipment. Well, Amazon only offers Express and Priority shipping, piling on added expense to the final total. Even for pre–ordered merchandise. Is it too much to add an option for plain old regular post?
Canadians already get screwed on books, price–wise. We pay a premium for American books so that cross–border shopping is discouraged. It's not uncommon for $20US books to have a sticker price of $35CDN, resulting in over $40 paid for a single book after tax. And those are the cheap ones. My final total at Amazon.ca for Jeffrey's book after shipping and tax were accounted for: $47. (Chapters.ca has a sticker price of $53, which probably works out to well over $60 after GST and shipping)
I'm in San Francisco in a few weeks. Borders is around the corner from where I'm staying. It will be cheaper to import it myself. So much for shopping locally; go Canada.


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The Jazz Arts Collective, Standards Ensemble and Mainstream Ensemble of Hope College will perform on Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The program will begin with the Mainstream Ensemble performing "Body and Soul," by Heyman and Green, and "So Long, Eric," by Charles Mingus. The Mainstream Ensemble is directed by Rob Hodson, who is an associate professor of music and chairperson of the department, and includes senior Zach Pedigo of Chippewa Falls, Wis., bass; junior Michael Reynolds of Tampa, Fla., piano; and junior Wayne Titus of Canton, drums.
Next, the Standards Ensemble will perform "Rain Waltz," by Fred Hersch, and "Bolivia," by Cedar Walton. The Standards Ensemble is directed by Brian Coyle, who is a professor of music and director of the jazz studies area at Hope, and includes sophomore Jared DeMeester of Grand Rapids, bass; senior Larry Figueroa of Holland, piano; junior Luke Panning of Holland, violin; and junior David Webster, drums.
The Jazz Arts Collective will close the show by performing "Rocker," by Gerry Mulligan; "Desafinado," by Antonio Carlos Jobim, arranged by Matt Harris; "Mine is Yours," Bob Mintzer; and "Reunion," by Gigo Gryce, arranged Alan Ferber. The Jazz Arts Collective is directed by Brian Coyle, and the performers include: freshman Scott Cathey of Ada, trumpet; Jared DeMeester, bass; sophomore Michael Graverson of Hamilton, guitar; sophomore Daniel Langholz of Ramstein, Germany, trombone; freshman Jarred Mackey of Jenison, percussion; freshman Matthew Milliken of Fenton, alto saxophone; sophomore Christian Nikkel of Holland, guitar; Zach Pedigo, tenor saxophone; Michael Reynolds, piano; senior Jeff Sweers of Jenison, trombone; and Wayne Titus, drums.
The jazz chamber ensembles (Standards Ensemble and Mainstream Ensemble) afford students the opportunity to perform in the classic small-group combo setting. The ensembles vary in size and instrumentation and place a creative focus on improvisation and group communication. All of the ensembles perform works from the classic jazz repertoire. The more advanced jazz chamber ensembles also perform repertoire from the contemporary jazz world. These ensembles also place an emphasis on original student and faculty compositions. The jazz chamber ensembles are open to anyone interested, regardless of experience with jazz.
The Jazz Arts Collective is the premier large jazz ensemble at Hope College. The collective places a creative focus on ensemble communication and improvisation. Comprised of a rhythm section and flexible instrumentation, this select group performs compositions and arrangements from across the full spectrum of music. The collective's repertoire ranges from the great historical jazz composers such as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, to works by modern jazz masters like Vince Mendoza, Jim McNeely and John Hollenbeck. The Jazz Arts Collective frequently performs commissions, works by emerging young composers, and originals by Hope College faculty and students. The ensemble also collectively reinterprets and re-imagines the music from the 20th century classical repertoire.
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Though only a .1 release, Jelly Bean feels like a major upgrade to the Android platform. Project Butter makes the operating system feel smooth and fluid, addressing one of the bigger criticism of Androids past. When the 4.1 OS was unveiled at Google's I/O developer conference, Google told us that the Nexus devices would receive the update in mid-July.
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WASHINGTON, April 28 - The government of a United States territory in the Pacific said Thursday that it had been unable to determine what work was performed for a $1.2 million contract awarded to a close associate of a Washington lobbyist at the center of a growing corruption scandal here.
The no-bid contract to promote "ethics in government" was awarded in 1996 to David Lapin, a rabbi whom the lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, later hired to run a private Jewish school, now defunct, near Washington. The contract was one of several totaling about $9 million given to Mr. Abramoff and his associates that have provoked questions about the lobbyist's activities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Those activities included a 1998 trip arranged for Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, who is facing ethics questions about his relationship with Mr. Abramoff. Democrats in Congress have also said that two of Mr. DeLay's former staff members improperly influenced island elections in part to assure that Mr. Abramoff continued to win contracts there.
Mr. Lapin's brother, Daniel, a Seattle rabbi who has long promoted conservative causes in Washington, introduced Mr. DeLay and Mr. Abramoff, the lobbyist said, shortly before Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994.
In audits in late 2001, the Marianas government said that it had overpaid for eight years of lobbying contracts with Mr. Abramoff, that he had been paid without a contract in some cases and that it had been difficult to justify his hiring based on his work.Continue reading the main story
The investigations of Mr. Abramoff in Congress and by a federal grand jury in Washington have looked into accusations of fraud in his dealings with Indian tribes, but two weeks ago, the ranking Democrat on the Congressional committee that oversees the islands demanded that the investigation be expanded to include his work in the Northern Marianas.
The islands, an American commonwealth with a large garment industry that employs mostly Chinese laborers, hired Mr. Abramoff in 1994 to help its government fend off legislation imposing American standards on wages and working conditions. The contract was awarded by Gov. Froilan Tenorio, under fire from the Clinton administration for what it labeled the islands' exploitive labor practices.
The audit, conducted after Mr. Tenorio left office, found that the islands had paid $9.5 million to lobbyists, most of it, $6.7 million, to Preston Gates & Ellis, the lobbying firm where Mr. Abramoff then worked, and $500,000 to the firm Greenberg Traurig for eight months in 2001 after Mr. Abramoff moved there.
In addition, Mr. Abramoff had lobbying contracts with the textile industry trade group there. Supportive columnists with The Saipan Tribune, owned by the owner of the largest garment business in the commonwealth, have said he is a star in Washington because of his prowess in deflecting Congressional efforts to tighten labor laws.
Mr. Abramoff's biggest year, according to the audit, was 1997, when Preston Gates earned $3.1 million from the commonwealth. Around that time, the commonwealth hired David Lapin. The Lapin brothers are from South Africa and met Mr. Abramoff on one of his trips there. Mr. Abramoff later helped Daniel Lapin found Toward Tradition, a Seattle group that describes itself as working "against anti-religion bigotry," and remains a board member.
In a 2002 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Abramoff said he first met Mr. DeLay through Daniel Lapin, who would meet frequently with members of Congress to press conservative causes.
Pam Brown, the attorney general for the Marianas, said Thursday that the government had been unable to determine what work David Lapin had done.
"We haven't been able to figure out what the deliverables were," Ms. Brown said. "He was tasked with providing some sort of ethical parameters for government work. That's all I know at this point. We're more amazed at the cost."
A woman answering the phone at Strategic Business Ethics in California, where Mr. Lapin is chief executive, said Mr. Lapin could not be reached for comment because of the Passover holidays.
Mr. DeLay, whose foreign travel arranged by lobbyists has drawn criticism in Congress for possible ethics violations, visited the Marianas in 1998 with his wife and daughter and three aides. Upon his return, he declared dead a bill that Democrats had hoped to pass raising wages and controlling immigration in the Marianas.
In 1999, Mr. DeLay's former chief of staff, Edwin Buckham, and his former spokesman, Michael Scanlon, both of whom later worked with Mr. Abramoff in his lobbying firm, visited the islands to persuade two local lawmakers to change their votes for speaker of the islands' House of Representatives. The DeLay associates wanted the two legislators to support the candidate of the garment industry, Ben Fitial, who was close to Mr. Abramoff, and promised that federal contracts to the islands would follow if they did.
Mr. Buckham later represented Enron in its bid to build an energy plant in the Northern Marianas, and when Enron lost to a Japanese concern, Mr. DeLay worked to get the bidding reopened.
"For years, Mr. Abramoff lobbied to protect a Marianas industry that exploited tens of thousands of women workers, many of whom were channeled into the island sex trade," said Representative George Miller, the California Democrat who called for the investigation of Mr. Abramoff's work in the Marianas.
He noted the audits and added that newspapers on the islands had reported this week that Mr. Fitial admitted he had won the speakership because of the work by Mr. DeLay's associates. "Given the evidence in the public reports, it's long past time for Congress to investigate allegations of undue influence and corruption," Mr. Miller said.
Correction: May 14, 2005, Saturday A headline on April 29 about a $1.2 million contract awarded by the Northern Mariana Islands to a rabbi for training in government ethics misstated a key point of the article. The article said the government of the islands had been unable to determine what work was performed by the rabbi, David Lapin, an associate of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- not that Rabbi Lapin had been questioned about the contract.
During the preparation of that article, Rabbi Lapin could not be reached for comment. In a subsequent comment to The Times, he said his fees were standard for the work he did. But that comment was erroneously omitted during the editing of an article on the subject that was published on May 6.Continue reading the main story