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2017 was a strong year for the timeshare industry with $9.2
billion in revenue in the U.S. and $19.7 billion globally. Even amidst several
natural disasters that threatened the vacation experience in various locations,
our industry showed its resilience to adversity by contributing $79.5 billion
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backbone to several communities around the world. And with 9.2 million
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protecting owners. Our State Affairs team experienced big wins in Florida and
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Our laboratory is interested in the mechanism by which T cells and antigen presenting cells migrate into tissues to mediate their function. We have focused on two areas that are important in cancer biology. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is a common treatment for patients with refractory malignancies, however, the widespread use of this form of therapy is limited by the occurrence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Our group was the first to show that chemokines are involved in the affector phase of GVHD (1). We followed this with a manuscript that demonstrated that T cells are the major source of CCL3 and that this chemokine had different effects on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells (2). We found that the chemokine receptor, CCR5, when absent on T cells leads to accelerated GVHD due to increased activity of the CXCL10/CXCR3 axis and perhaps impaired migration of CCR5-expressing Treg cells (3,4).
Our group was the first to demonstrate that chemokine receptors are critical in the migration of regulatory T cells during GVHD and that the inability of these cells to migrate to specific organs enhanced organ-specific GVHD (5). Our assessment of the function of specific proteins in migration during GVHD was recently published as a review in Blood in 2005. Quite recently, we were the first group to demonstrate that T cells polarized to the Th17 axis mediate significant GI tract, lung and skin GvHD (6) and that blocking the function of a specific chemokine receptor, CCR7, (7) or the NF-kappa B pathway (8) are pharmacological targets for the prevention of acute GvHD. Our current work focuses on the role of T cell subsets and proteins important in the migration of T cells in the biology of GvHD.
Most recently, we have focused on the function of immune cells that block the anti-tumor activity of other immune cells after cancer vaccination. We have found that regulatory T cells play an important role in this process (9). However, much of our work has focused on the role of myeloid-derived suppressor cells, which are immature myeloid cells, that block anti-tumor immunity. Recently, in collaboration with Jenny Ting, my co-leader for the immunology program, we found that NLRP3 blocks the function of cancer vaccines by inducing the recruitment of MDSCs to the tumor site (10). This important finding may offer new approaches to enhancing tumor vaccination. We have a long-standing collaboration with members of the CVI to evaluate viral vectors to induce anti-tumor immunity (11). Additionally, we have collaborated quite closely with the Van Deventer laboratory to investigate the mechanism by which immune-like cells potentiate the ability of metastatic tumor cells to grow in the lung (12).
Additionally our group and our collaborators have been the first to in vivo imaging of eGFP transgenic T cells as a method to track their migration in GVHD and their interaction with tumor cells in GvL (13, 14) and have recently begun to use intravital imaging to evaluate the interaction of APCs, T cells and regulatory T cells in the biology of GVHD.
Finally, we are enrolling patients on a trial designed to test the activity of vaccine therapy against HER-2/neu when combined with conventional therapy for patients with metastatic breast cancer. Early data from this trial has shown an improvement in survival in patients that develop an immune response to vaccination.
Awards and Honors
- 2012: Guest Associate Editor: Blood
- 2012: Plenary Session Presentation on Th17 Cells in Acute GVHD at American Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation Meeting
- 2011: Presidential Symposium AAI Meeting San Francisco CA
- 2011-present: Editorial Board Blood
- 2009-2012: Editorial Board Journal of Clinical Oncology
- 2009-2012: Editorial Board Journal of Clinical Oncology
- 2007-2010 Member TTT study section
- 2006 Elizabeth Thomas Chair of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
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It's time to ask some tough questions about US policy regarding Egypt. The most pressing being what that policy is, exactly?
I agreed with the easily assailable decision by the Obama administration to refrain from labeling the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi a coup. It still is my belief that doing so might be consistent with US law, but would not be helpful to Egypt. Instead of taking funding away from the military which, since it now directly controls the Egyptian till, would simply divert the lost funds from other places (causing even more distress to an already reeling Egyptian economy) it would be better to use the aid as leverage to push the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) toward an inclusive political process that would include drafting a broadly acceptable constitution and, with all due speed, re-installing a duly elected civilian government. Continue reading


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What's the best way to prepare your horse's legs to wear cross-country boots? How do you prevent rubbing and excess moisture? Woodburn, our regular model (not to mention top event horse having come in second at Rolex this past Spring) shows us how it's done with a bit of help from his groom, Emma Ford.
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Emma noted that this prep is particularly useful for horses who are prone to issues related to moisture like scratches or fungus as well as those with sensitive legs. It's all about the prevention! I hope this was helpful for you and your horse. Good luck out on cross-country! Look for Woodburn out there today at the World Equestrian Games to see this set up in action.


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Hell Interrupted – Part 3
Tim Barnett and Greg Koukl explain why the most natural reading of the full corpus of Scripture on Hell supports the church's historical position of eternal conscious torment and not nonexistence.
Hell Interrupted - Part 2
Conditionalists—those who hold to the annihilation of the wicked at the judgment—insist that Jesus' and John's descriptions be interpreted in light of other passages, texts they think give an entirely different picture. Fair enough. We'll take a look at their arguments.
Hell Interrupted - Part 1
In recent years, opposition to the doctrine of endless punishment by those who are rethinking Hell has gained enough popular momentum that "conditional immortality"—also known as "annihilationism"—has begun to make significant inroads into mainstream Christianity. This trend must be answered and that's what Tim and Greg do in part one of this Solid Ground.
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More Robots = More Jobs
A busload of visitors walked into one of the highly automated factories in the compound of FANUC Corp. at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Oshinomura, Yamanashi, Japan. It was the first day of a five-day Open House event in mid-April: By the end of the fifth day, over 4,000 customers will have made the trek here to see the company's latest innovations in robots, CNCs and robomachines.
Across the 20 factories here, more than 2,700 robots are at work. This factory is arena-huge, but quiet and clean, with rows of untended machines going through their paces. In fact, the place is so automated that when a single worker is spotted, down a long row of machines with what looks like cleaning or lubricating equipment, his presence draws the attention of the entire crowd of visitors: they turn from the mechanized choreography going on about them to gawk and comment on this one gray-clad fellow, standing out like a cat crossing concrete.
It's not just that he stands out, but that the fact of him makes the place seem even more completely, majestically machinelike in contrast. It's like the single imperfection in a Japanese rock garden that somehow increases the beauty of the whole. The traditional argument for implementing robots and automation are reinforced by this sight: namely, that machines can replace human workers and do their jobs faster, more accurately, and with greater endurance.
So it's rather counterintuitive to hear FANUC America President Rick Schneider argue—passionately—at this event that the reason U.S. companies should invest in his company's products is to keep more, not less, of those imperfect human workers around.
"A number of customers are saying that with automation, they can be competitive globally," Schneider explained. "These are customers that bring in robots and automation for manufacturing—and we see their companies thrive, grow, and do well. And actually, in a lot of cases they're adding people.
"There's that paradigm that people have that if you add automation, it's taking jobs," Schneider acknowledged. "But once you lose your factory [to cheaper offshore sites], then all of the jobs are gone. The general premise that I have is that manufacturing is going to go to the locations that have the best manufacturing technology and processes—lean manufacturing, robotics, automation." All of which are available in the US.
Schneider has been a proponent of this version of the reshoring argument since at least 2004, when FANUC in the US began its collaborative "Save Your Factory" initiative. The technology on display at this year's Open House in Oshinomura in many cases seems designed to bolster a view of robots as partners of workers rather than merely their replacements. The newest and perhaps best example: a prototype collaborative robot that can work next to or directly with a human worker without the need of safety fences.
The robot has a soft plastic covering—green, to differentiate it from the company's regular (bright yellow) robots—over multiple force sensors: As was demonstrated at the event, it senses when it comes into contact with a person—instantly and safely coming to a complete stop. It also has a touch-sensitive hand guide that allows an operator to guide the robot's tool to a new location. (I tried it myself, and it's very cool. With the lightest of grips, I could move the end of the machine's mighty arm to any location: it responded instantly, like a powerful but perfectly trained creature. It almost purred.)
The company's message couldn't be more clear: Robots can work alongside workers and keep them—and their jobs—safe.
Michael C. Anderson is senior Editor for Manufacturing Engineering Media. This article was re-published with permission from Manufacturing Engineering Media.
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Jrue Holiday scored 10 straight points down the stretch, Evan Turner finished with 22 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Charlotte Bobcats 100-92 Saturday night.
After going 1 for 9 in the first three quarters, Holiday got 11 of his 14 points in the fourth to help the Sixers win for the seventh time in 11 games.
Spencer Hawes had 19 points and Thaddeus Young and Damien Wilkins each scored 15 for Philadelphia.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 21 for Charlotte, which has the worst record in the NBA. Gerald Henderson, who had 35 and 34 in his previous two games, finished with 19.


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Nigeria Announces Offshore Oil Worker Restrictions to Battle Coronavirus
Nigeria's petroleum regulator has ordered oil and gas companies to reduce their offshore workforce and move to 28-day staff rotations as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, according to a circular seen by Reuters.Health experts fear a widespread outbreak in Africa's most populous country, which has about 200 million inhabitants, and the country is keen to protect oil production, which provides 90% of much-needed foreign exchange.A coronavirus case on an offshore rig could spread quickly among workers and have a potentially devastating impact on production.
Empty Tankers Depart Venezuela; Sanctions Cancel Cargo
Three large crude carriers (VLCCs) chartered by units of Russian oil major Rosneft to transport Venezuelan oil left Caribbean waters empty on Saturday after the cargoes were canceled due to sanctions, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and a document from Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA.The vessels - which would jointly export some 5.7 million barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude to Asia - had waited for weeks near Venezuelan waters to load, but the cargoes were canceled this week due to sanctions on PDVSA and Rosneft's trading units, according to a PDVSA export program.
Four Passengers Die on Cruise Ship with Coronavirus Outbreak
Four passengers have died on board the MS Zaandam, a cruise ship currently off the coast of Panama with dozens of guests suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel's operator said on Friday.Zaandam had been on a South American cruise that departed Argentina on March 7 and had been scheduled to end in San Antonio, Chile on March 21. Nobody has disembarked from the ship since it docked in Punta Arenas, Chile nearly two weeks ago.Holland America Line, the operator, said in a statement it "can confirm that four older guests have passed away.
USNS Mercy Arrives in Los Angeles
U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) arrived in Los Angeles, Friday to support the nation's COVID-19 response efforts.While in Los Angeles, the ship will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients currently admitted to shore-based hospitals, and will provide a full spectrum of medical care to include general surgeries, critical care and ward care for adults. This will allow local health professionals to focus on treating COVID-19 patients and for shore-based hospitals to use their Intensive Care Units and ventilators for those patients.
Dredgers Make Way for USNS Comfort in New York
Dredgers are expediting operations in New York to make way for the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort, which will dock in the epicenter of America's COVID-19 outbreak to assist hospitals that become overrun by the pandemic.Dredging contractor Donjon Marine Co., Inc. was contacted last week and asked to begin dredging Manhattan Cruise Terminal's Berth 4 in anticipation of the arrival of the ship, which under the order of President Trump will serve as a relief hospital facility for non-coronavirus patients needing hospital care. The ship's 1,000-plus beds will help free up space for infected patients in NYC's land-based hospitals.


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Texas knocks off West Virginia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Javan Felix scored 19 points, on 8-of-13 shooting, as Texas beat West Virginia 80-69 on Monday night.
Cameron Ridley added 12 points and 12 rebounds for Texas (13-4, 2-2 Big 12). It was Ridley's fourth double-double of the season. Isaiah Taylor and Martez Walker each tallied 10.
West Virginia (10-7, 2-2) lost for the second straight time in Big 12 play after starting its league card at 2-0. The loss for WVU marked the first time the Mountaineers had been downed by double-figures this year.
Juwan Staten, who entered the game ranked fifth in the league in scoring (17 points per game) and second in the conference in assists (6.1), finished with 23 points and five assists. He was followed by Terry Henderson's 16 and Remi Dibo's 10. It was Henderson's fifth straight double-figure effort for the Mountaineers. True freshman Brandon Watkins had five blocks.
Texas' double-digit nod changed a previous five-game, all-time set between these teams which had been decided by 11 total points. The series is knotted at three apiece.
Ridley, a 6-foot-9, 285-pound sophomore, has reached double figures in scoring nine times this season.
The Longhorns entered the bout as the Big 12's leading rebounding squad with an average of 41.8 per game. Texas owned a 49-30 cushion and grabbed 39 defensive rebounds to West Virginia's 19. The Longhorns held a 34-30 edge in points in the paint and enjoyed a 12-5 lead in second-chance points.
That was due to the work of Jonathan Holmes (12 rebounds) and Ridley, who each doubled the Mountaineers' leading rebounder, true freshman Brandon Watkins, who hauled down six caroms. Watkins enjoyed five blocks in 14 minutes.
To pace itself with the board-hungry Longhorns, West Virginia had to find points from outside and beyond the three-point arc.
West Virginia connected on just 4 of 25 triples (16 percent) and were 37.7 percent (26 of 69) from the field. At one point, the Mountaineers missed 15 consecutive three-pointers.
Eron Harris entered the game as the league's second-leading scorer (18.1), but scored just six points before fouling out. He was 3 of 11 from the floor, 0 for 7 from beyond the arc.
After trailing by 14 at the half and 19 about three minutes into the second-half action, West Virginia showed signs of life.
The Mountaineers rattled off seven straight points at one stint and were down 48-36 with 15:23 to go. The Horns stretched their lead back to 19 with 12:24 showing.
West Virginia got it down to 14 twice, but the Longhorns, who started going to the line midway through the second half, jutted out to an 18-point lead with 7:34 to go.
Demarcus Holland's field goal with 2:25 left pushed Texas ahead by 15, but Mountaineers climbed with 78-67 with 1:22 left.
West Virginia took the two games against Texas in 2012-13.
This year, Texas has out-rebounded opponents 14 times in 17 games. The Longhorns are 12-2 when shooting 40 percent or better from the field.
The Longhorns are the Big 12's youngest team, starting one freshman, three sophomores and one junior. The Mountaineers are close behind. They started two juniors, two sophomores and a freshman.


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The DEL's research on entrepreneurship in engineering is conducted with support from the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, or Epicenter. Epicenter is funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. 1125457) and directed by Stanford University and VentureWell (formerly the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance). Epicenter's mission is to empower U.S. undergraduate engineering students to bring their ideas to life for the benefit of our economy and society. Stanford University Professors Sheri Sheppard, Tom Byers, and Kathy Eisenhardt are the Principal Investigators of the Epicenter initiative.
Over the past three years, the Epicenter Research Team has been conducting a large, multi-method, national study of entrepreneurship in engineering known as the Fostering Innovative Generations Study, or FIGS. As part of FIGS, the team is pursuing three major Research Questions (RQs). Each of these questions addresses an important gap in existing knowledge about entrepreneurship education for engineers:
- an examination of how entrepreneurship programs for engineers work from the ground up (RQ1);
- an exploration of how engineering students' innovation and entrepreneurial interests evolve over time and are influenced by educational and workplace experiences (RQ2); and
- a study of how engineering students and faculty perceive and learn entrepreneurial content in traditional technical environments (RQ3).
Here is a summary of our three core questions:
Research Question 1 - Program Models
What are current models of educating engineers for entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial thinking?
In this research, the unit of analysis is the entrepreneurship program, and the focus is on programmatic contexts for entrepreneurship learning. This mixed-methods research builds on the work of Standish-Kuon and Rice (2002), Shartrand et al. (2010), Besterfield-Sacre et al. (2011), and Duval-Couetil, Shartrand, and Reed (forthcoming).
See here for our Technical Brief on the findings of RQ1: http://epicenter.stanford.edu/resource/us-based-entrepreneurship-programs-for-undergraduate-engineers.
See here for a link to our recent presentation on RQ1 at the OPEN 2014 conference in San Jose, CA: http://www.slideshare.net/EpicenterUSA/epienter-research-session-open-2014
Research Question 2 - Student Interest
What are undergraduate engineering students' innovation and entrepreneurial interests, abilities, and achievements? How do these interests, abilities, and achievements change over time? Which educational and workplace environments/experiences influence the development of their innovation and entrepreneurial interests, abilities, and achievements?
Here the unit of analysis is the student, and the focus is on the development of student interests in innovation and entrepreneurship as measured by behaviors, attitudes, and experiences. This is conceived as a longitudinal, survey-based project that builds on the work of Damon and Lerner (2008), Eesley (2011), Duval-Couetil, Reed-Rhoads, and Haghighi (2012), among others. Our longitudinal survey will be launched in Winter 2015 to engineering students at upwards of 25 institutions across the U.S.
We also have been working with colleagues at Tufts University and Stanford University to analyze and compare engineering and business students' entrepreneurial intentions as part of their Young Entrepreneurs Study (YES). This has resulted in one award-winning conference paper (see Jin et al. at http://epicenter.stanford.edu/resource/epicenter-research-papers-asee-2014) and two journal manuscripts under review/in progress.
Research Question 3 - Curriculum Development
How can fundamental engineering curricula be reframed to stimulate integrative thinking, especially entrepreneurial thinking?
In this research, the unit of analysis is the technical engineering classroom (inclusive of faculty, students, and curricula), and the focus is on the process of entrepreneurship learning in the context of a statics course. This work draws from Kolb's learning theory and studies of scenario-based learning experiences. This research has resulted in an award-winning conference paper (see Schar et al. at http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/6565/view).
Initially tested at Stanford, the SBL techniques in this research are currently being rolled out and tested at Univ. of Wisconsin (Madison) and UC-Merced.
Research Team
| Sheri Sheppard
Principal Investigator
Epicenter at Stanford University
| Anna Breed
Stanford University
| Helen Chen
Stanford University
| Emanuel Costache
SageFox Consulting
| Carolyn Estrada
| Shannon Gilmartin
Stanford University
| Michelle Grau
Nueva School
| Qu Jin
Stanford University
| Angela Harris
Stanford University
| Mark Schar
Stanford University
| Angela Shartrand
| George Toye
Stanford University
| Autumn Turpin
Stanford University
| Ari Turrentine
Our Senior Research Advisors are:
- Mary Besterfield-Sacre - University of Pittsburgh
- Samantha Brunhaver - Arizona State University
- Nathalie Duval-Couetil - Purdue University


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Hi Shad,
I might have the simspeed bug easally reproducable now.
Last night I hammered one block on my rear (unfinished) tower and we had the simspeed bug (5 people online at the time).
This morning I logged in - I was alone on the server - and hammered one block: immediate drop from 1.00 to 0.10.
If you give a backup to DeepFlame he might be able to debug that.
In the end I DO think it is simply the amount of blocks in 1 grid, or on 1 claim.
I will refrain from logging in and building untill further notice. I might have to go in this weekend to pay tax for my claim.
Emma Roid
Holy cow, that's it Emma! I just flew over to your place, added another block and it froze. I was already reporting it to DF and we are going to do further testings. But I am afraid your grid is currently dead
Thank you so much!
Please just leave my claim as is for now. I won't touch it untill you hear from Keen :).
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Hi Shad, If you wake up: can you give the server a kick? It has been down for several hours now, and it is a Saturday
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Hey shad! soo.... my castle fell a bit more and the server is laggy as all hell. Thought i should warn you in advance!
Hi Shad, can you approve my application? I really would like to build for a few hours as it is the weekend.
Hope you are online.
Filutak -
Hello Shad, if you don't mind I just write some words here - When the "sim speed topic" is locked.
I'm sorry if what I wrote sounded somehow offensive or accusingly.
What I wrote, I wrote on the basis of the information I found here on the forum, on the topic of the forum and partly in the game. Based on the information I did not know what it is the opinion of people from Keene ...
So I apologize again. I have full confidence in any decision you make
Hi Shad, I didn't see the sim freeze thing since the update yesterday. But might also just be because there where not many people online.
Will have another look tonight.
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I always hate to throw out a perfectly good pumpkin - even if it's just into the compost pile.
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While the pumpkin is cooking, I carefully wash my seeds in a colander. I discard the strings and extra pulp.
Then I place the seeds in a baking dish (I like my stoneware), drizzle with EVOO and a pinch of salt. I let the pan sit on the stove until the pumpkin pulp is cooked. When I pull out the pumpkin, I pop in the seeds. Let them roast at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until they are brown.
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Grover Norquist: Romney A 'Poopy Head'
Grover Norquist: Romney A 'Poopy Head'
Discussion: Mediaite, BobCesca.com and Mock, Paper, Scissors
JM Ashby / BobCesca.com: Doof Quote of the Day
Grover Norquist: Mitt Romney painted as 'poopy head'
Grover Norquist: Mitt Romney painted as 'poopy head'
Discussion: msnbc.com
Joshua Chaffee / msnbc.com: Are Republicans breaking ranks with Grover Norquist?
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The GOP's media cocoon — A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self defeating.
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: The Conservative Political Media Complex
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard: Liberal Media Takes Aim at Conservative Media
Bette Noir / Rumproast: Tax Cut Kabuki for Dummies
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: The GOP's demographic problem — in 1 chart
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Politico wants conservatives to stop reading alternatives to Politico
Elmo Voice Kevin Clash Denies Sex w/ Underage Boy — Takes Leave of Absence from Sesame Street — Takes Leave of Absence from Sesame Street — EXCLUSIVE — Kevin Clash — the man known as the voice of Elmo — has taken a leave of absence from Sesame Street in the wake of allegations …
Discussion: Above the Law, NewsBusters.org, BuzzFeed, Gawker, nation.foxnews.com, The Raw Story, theGrio, New Jersey Online, The Hinterland Gazette and Gothamist
Staci Zaretsky / Above the Law: Sonia Sotomayor and Sesame Street (Part Deux): Be a Lawyer, Not a Princess!
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org: BREAKING: Gay Minor-Sex Scandal on Sesame Street Starring Kevin Clash, Voice of Elmo
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Elmo Voice Actor Kevin Clash Exits Sesame Street Over Allegations of Underage Sex with Teen Boy
Vicki Hyman / New Jersey Online: Sesame Street's Kevin Clash, aka Elmo, denies charges of underage sex
Jen Carlson / Gothamist: Elmo Voice Actor Kevin Clash Accused Of Sex With Underaged Boy, Leaves Sesame Street
Jill Reilly / Daily Mail:
Voice of Elmo on leave from Sesame Street after he was accused of having 'sexual relationship with underage boy'
Voice of Elmo on leave from Sesame Street after he was accused of having 'sexual relationship with underage boy'
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and The Other McCain
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Please Don't Tickle Me, Elmo — Or: What's the Muppet Age of Consent?
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress — Sinema will follow Tammy Baldwin, elected to the Senate, as the second out LGBT woman in Congress. — Image by Ross D. Franklin / AP — WASHINGTON, DC — Kyrsten Sinema is the victor for a House seat in Arizona …
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Associated Press:
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema beats GOP's Vernon Parker in Arizona's 9th Congressional District
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema beats GOP's Vernon Parker in Arizona's 9th Congressional District
Discussion: Ballot Box, Poliglot and Towleroad News #gay
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box: Democrat Sinema wins Arizona House race
Justin Snow / Poliglot: Krysten Sinema Becomes First Out Bi Member of Congress
Press Pass:
White House Grand Bargain offer to Speaker Boehner Obtained by Bob Woodward — Below are documents obtained by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that show a grand bargain proposal the White House was prepared to make in order to reach agreement with the House Republicans last year.
Discussion: AMERICAblog, Business Insider, The Incidental Economist, The Huffington Post and The Agonist
Gaius Publius / AMERICAblog: Leaked deal memo for last year's Grand Bargain: "Obama willing to go quite far"
Lucas Kawa / Business Insider: Leaked Documents Show Obama Was Willing To Go Further For A Grand Bargain On The Debt Ceiling
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist: The grand bargain … I've posted them below.
Steve Hynd / The Agonist: Grand Bargain Blues
New York Magazine:
The 2013 Campaign — The shiniest such prize would be the achievement …
The 2013 Campaign — The shiniest such prize would be the achievement …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The New Math — A number of TPM Readers have written in this morning saying, "Josh, how can you of all people be surprised that Republicans or at least Republican pollsters had created their own alternative numbers reality (or in Megan Kelly's now immortal words, "Math you do as a Republican …
Discussion: Paul Krugman
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
GOP's Red America forced to rethink what it knows about the country — HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — She arrived early to take apart the campaign office piece by piece, just as she felt so many other things about her life were being dismantled. Beth Cox wore a Mitt Romney T-shirt …
Discussion: Power Line, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and Shakesville
Kaili Joy Gray / Daily Kos: Republicans still having a sad about America's decline into socialism and decay because Obama
BooMan / Booman Tribune: It'll Be Okay, Ms. Cox
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Here Are Some Fun Things to Read
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Tea party activists blame losses on Republican establishment — Angry tea party activists say Mitt Romney was too moderate and the GOP undermined 'true conservative' candidates. — Mitt Romney advisor Ed Gillespie, speaking to reporters after the second presidential debate …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
The Republican Clown Car Campaign
The Republican Clown Car Campaign
Discussion: protein wisdom, The Lonely Conservative, Right Wing News and National Review
Susannah Fleetwood / Right Wing News: Romney Lost Because Republicans Behaved Like Undisciplined Clowns
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
MSNBC, Its Ratings Rising, Gains Ground on Fox News — On Tuesday night, with a minute to go until the polls closed in the battleground state of Virginia, the MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews received word through their earpieces that the state was too close to call …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: MSNBC Gains Ground on Fox News
Dylan Byers / Politico: MSNBC rebuts Ezra Klein rumors
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: The Business of the Ideological Media Is Business
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: NY Times Report: MSNBC Knuckle-Dragger Ed Schultz May Lose His Show To Washington Post's Ezra Klein...
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org: NYT: Ed Schultz Could Be Replaced By Ezra Klein
Jon Nicosia / Mediaite: MSNBC's Ed Schultz May Lose His Show To Washington Post's Ezra Klein, Reports NY Times
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC: Finally: The Ezzy Show?
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: REPORT: MSNBC's Liberal Bulldog Ed Schultz Might Lose His Show To Ezra Klein
Donald Douglas / American Power: MSNBC, the 'Anti-Fox' Network, Sees Itself as Voice of Obama's America
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Cornel West: Obama A 'Republican In Blackface,' Black MSNBC Hosts Are 'Selling Their Souls' — During an interview last week with Democracy Now, author and activist Cornel West offered harsh criticism of President Barack Obama, calling him a "Rockefeller Republican in blackface" …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Cornel West Blasts Obama
Jeff Wise / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated) — Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force's Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull …
Discussion: The Verge, The Agonist, Mashable! and The Raw Story
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable!: McAfee Antivirus Founder Wanted for Murder [REPORT]
Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story: Antivirus software developer accused of murder in Belize
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
'We the People' Petitions Filed in Nineteen States Seeking Permission to Secede from the Union — In the aftermath of last week's presidential election, residents in at least nineteen states have put up petitions on the government's "We the People" petitioning website seeking the right to secede from the rest of the country.
Discussion: Daily Dot, Trail Blazers Blog, Truthdig, Pirate's Cove and The Lonely Conservative
Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot: 20 states petition the White House for secession
Robert Wilonsky / Trail Blazers Blog: Texas secession petition on White House website fast approaching 25,000-signature threshold
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: White House Inundated With Secession Petitions
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
No Meat on Mondays in Los Angeles — (CNSNews.com) - The Los Angeles City Council is urging all residents to observe "meatless Mondays" from now on. — A resolution adopted on Oct. 24 reads: "Be it resolved, that the Council of the City of Los Angeles hereby declares all Mondays …
Discussion: protein wisdom, Michelle Malkin, Associated Press, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin: Reminder: It's 'Meatless Monday' in Los Angeles
Tiffany Hsu / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. to become world's largest oil producer before 2020, IEA says — The U.S. will soon briefly bypass Saudi Arabia in oil production. (Patrick Fallon / Bloomberg / November 12, 2012) — This post has been corrected. See below for details. — The U.S. will become the world's top producer …
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Real Time Economics, IEA and Donal
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In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes — It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers and iOwnTheWorld.com
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org: BREAKING: Romney Got ZERO Votes in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions! Zero!
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Romney Got No Votes In 59 Philadelphia Precincts?
Deborah Montesano / Addicting Info:
Outrage Builds As Arizona Continues To Count Votes — Nearly a third of votes cast in Arizona remained uncounted the day after the election. Most of them were probably cast by Latinos, organized and newly registered by multiple civil rights groups in the state to combat candidates …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: Turnout Steady in Swing States and Down in Others, But Many Votes Remain Uncounted
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Dear readers, a break from the tedium of Frasers, McFadyens, Dougalls, et al.
With a mixture of pride and humility, I congratulate the Puslinch Pioneer on its 35th anniversary this month.
Wot, you say? What is a Puslinch? And why does it have a Pioneer?
Puslinch is a township on the south end of Wellington County, south of Guelph, Ontario. It has almost two hundred years of history as an agrarian community, settled predominantly by Scots, with good pockets of Germanic and English natives. Enviable farms, churches, and villages grew. The inhabitants shared typical rural customs and traditions—maintained despite increasing 20th century pressures on three sides from Guelph, Hamilton, and Waterloo Region. Highway 401 came to intersect Puslinch; commercial gravel production flourished; commuters with city jobs began invading to find quiet homes; Guelph began annexing land for its own mushrooming satellites.
In 1976 two youngsters were surveying the vast vegetable garden my late father-in-law had lovingly cultivated on my century farm. Incomers, both of us. Grumbling about the lack of official council communications that affected local life. Grumbling about arms-length suspicion from our entrenched farming neighbours. We didn't want to live in a bifurcated community. We wanted to signify our empathy for both tradition and the changing reality. Also, we were a bit giddy from liberal ingestion of anti-allergen medication. Late spring, you know.
The Puslinch Pioneer was born. As a newspaper circulating within the township, it aimed to bridge the conscious gap between "us and them." We began with a $100 donation and a borrowed gestetner! Initially, suspicion deepened, if anything. But we learned a great deal about things agricultural, historical, and political. Running on a shoestring, we worked out delivery methods to township homes. We exposed some shady practices of the council and its administration. It took time for acceptance, ... not without controversy.
The ink flowed. Supporters emerged. Advertisers slowly overcame their shyness. We went to commercial printing. New reporters joined us. Editors changed from time to time.
Yes, the old-timers were right. The incomers did change the local demographic. But slowly, gradually, the newspaper's advisory board began to reflect the "old" township names. Not only acceptance, but togetherness. Today the Puslinch Pioneer is a tradition in itself, a vital community organ. It's the only newspaper in Ontario consistently operating with all volunteer personnel. Possibly in Canada.
28 June 2011
3 comments:
- Cathy said...
I didn't know you were a youngster then Mom! :o)
You and Judy must feel so proud to see that paper still going strong.
- Wednesday, 29 June, 2011
They should fete the founders
- Thursday, 30 June, 2011
Yes, we were so young -- and idealists to boot. We even played at being Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. Them were the days, Brenda! Slainte to you my friend. You were the real catalyst. I was a 'tan yn dy galon' (I've been trying too to recall the name of that old musical of the 90s in TO about Canada's Celtic roots. Had the word 'fire' in the title. Even the Star archives has nothing!) THAT was you!
- Saturday, 02 July, 2011
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San Antonio Symphony guest conductor and guest piano soloist Barry Douglas arrives in San Antonio on Tuesday. His concerts are on Friday and Saturday at the Majestic Theatre. He is flying in from appearances in Asia. However, he makes his home in Paris and in Ireland. Sounds like a tough commute!
His major international career as a pianist was established since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, Moscow. In 1999 he founded Camerata Ireland, an all-Irish chamber orchestra, with players from both Northern and Southern Ireland. He is still their music director. Here is a photo of the ensemble:
The Symphony program this weekend is:
Mozart in Old Style
8 p.m., Majestic Theatre
Barry Douglas, conductor and piano
Rossini Overture to La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
Górecki Three Pieces in Old Style
Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D major, "London"
The work that is perhaps most unfamiliar on this program is the short work by Górecki that opens the second half. Górecki is one of those composers that, to the general public, is only know for one blockbuster work. In his case, it is his Symphony No. 3. That symphony was written in 1977, but was almost completely unknown until 1992. That year a recording of the symphony went viral and sold over 1 million copies. It took the Classical music world by surprise. Yet, it didn't lead to a renewed interest in most of his other compositions. The Symphony program notes has this to say about the Three Pieces in Old Style:
This work was premiered on April 30, 1964, in Warsaw, Poland, by the Ensemble Con Moto ma Cantabile. It is scored for string orchestra.
Henryk Górecki, along with Kryzsztof Penderecki, was one of the leading composers to come of age in Poland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, his style was that of the avant-garde, but it evolved without knowledge of modern music from outside the Soviet Bloc. Górecki's first success was winning the 1961 UNESCO Youth Biennial first prize for his First Symphony. His reputation was bolstered by being awarded the UNESCO Composers' Rostrum in 1973. In 1976 he received two commissions from West German Radio for his orchestral work Canticum graduum and his Third Symphony.
Three Pieces in Old Style is one of the more traditional works of the avant-garde period. In fact, it is so traditional that its normalcy was the unusual element during a time when dissonance and serialism was the norm. This brilliant work is built around the old church modes that were the basic for ancient music in the Western tradition. Because of this approach, the resultant harmonies do not pull the ear toward expected resolutions, but rather hang suspended in the soundscape as their own isolated entities. Górecki also used the unique melodic approach of distributing individual notes of the melody throughout the ensemble. Once a note is played, it is held, usually until all other notes of the phrase are sounded. The resultant halo of sound allows the composer to build interesting harmonies. Other annotators have pointed out that the two outer movements do not include a single accidental. This is purely modal music.
In the first piece, Górecki uses two alternating chords throughout the movement and the music adheres to even phrase lengths. Along with the halo effects, this approach creates a haunting atmosphere that is at once peaceful and melancholy.
Górecki's second piece is more festive, although it is written in a minor mode. There is a dance-like quality to the music and Górecki creates a very traditional sound. In reality, nearly every chord is spiced with dissonance, but the rhythmic propulsion and delightful melody make this music quite pleasing.
The final piece is more introspective. It is based on a Polish wedding song from the Renaissance, but Górecki layers it in such a way as to disguise the source. This is experimental music at its best – creating captivating sonorities from a string orchestra that allow the listener to consider new possibilities for something that is very familiar.
©2012 Orpheus Music Prose & Craig Doolin
This concert will transport you from Italy to Poland to London. All directed by a conductor who lives in Ireland and France and just finished an Asian tour. Don't you wish you got frequent flyer mileage with your Symphony tickets?
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23-September-2013 – 1764 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth map
This map is the companion map to the blog article of:
Map of Poland 1764 – Polish Coat of Arms By Province
that was also written on 23-September-2013.
The actual herby (coat of arms) are shown on the website:
http://www.wawrzak.org/news_updates.htm on the page:
http://www.wawrzak.org/herbyziempolskich.htm where there is one for each province in the Commonwealth or its fiefdoms.
Some provinces, like Kurlandia, Moldavia, or Moskwa were only a part of the Commonwealth for a short period time.
The Duchy of Prussia is also shown.
07-May-2013 – 1910 Russian Poland Partition road map
These two maps are not in Cyrillic even though they are for the Russian Poland partition. The map also has French words, so it was probably printed in France and used Latin alphabet for cities, towns, and villages on the maps.
The map with the grid is an index map. The other map (#24) is the area around Pacanow.
27-March-2013 –Today's map is from a project I did with the PGSA to index the villages and note the parishes. This is for the area of the STOPNICA powiat.
This map is from a gazetteer:
The Illustrated Geographic Atlas of the Kingdom of Poland
(Atlas Geograficzny Illustrowany Królestwa Polskiego)
The Atlas/Gazetteer was published in 1907 in Warsaw, Poland.
To see the index from PGSA click here .
This Russian-Poland map is my first map. I found it in a Digital Library in Poland. Its publication date was 1820 so it is a public domain map.
It has a nice feature that the cities and map text are in both Russian and Polish. This is a nice way to get used to seeing Russian (and Cyrillic) and having an equivalent Polish Translation of the Russian into Polish (or vice versa). Perhaps the hardest thing in reading Russian language church records for Poland is how do I translate the proper nouns? How do I evolve my transliteration of Russian sounds into Polish letters and a final translation. This map can be a beginning of your learning by being a kind of Rosetta Stone.
As I said it is from 1820. This means it is post Napoleon and his wars and is also after the Vienna Congress that reset borders after all of the carnage of the Napoleonic Wars.
The upper right shows the names of original 8 Wojewodztwo / Gubernya in the Polish Kingdom (fiefdom to Czarist Russian Empire). Notice that some former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Wojewodztwo just became Gubernya and directly a part of the Russian Empire, even though they were a part of the "Polish Kingdom & Lithuanian Duchy" prior to the three partitions and the subsequent Napoleonic Wars that altered these partitions.
Click on the map to see a full image.
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NEW YORK – November 30, 2012 – NBC Olympics won four prestigious Olympic Golden Rings awards — three Gold and one Silver in the four categories it was eligible, including Gold for Best Olympic Program — last night in Lausanne, Switzerland at the International Olympic Committee's biennial awards ceremony. The Olympic Golden Rings are awarded by the IOC to honor broadcasters for their outstanding coverage of the Olympic Games. Last night's awards were specifically for the London Olympics.
NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel was in attendance in Lausanne to accept the four awards on behalf of the entire NBC Olympics division, who won Gold in the following three categories for the Games of the XXX Olympiad:
· Best Olympic Program: NBC Olympics presented 5,535 hours of Olympic programming across numerous NBCUniversal's platforms. The 2012 London Olympics became the most-watched event in U.S. television history with 217 million viewers, and primetime on NBC averaged 31.1 million viewers.
· Best Olympic Feature: "Measure and Motion" opened NBCUniversal's coverage of the London Olympics. The film highlighted the major stories of the Games and London as the host city with collected work from around the world produced by the NBC Olympics Features Unit.It was voiced by British actors Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt and aired on NBC just prior to the Opening Ceremony. To see the full film, click here.
· Best On Air Promotion: NBCUniversal's campaign explored many of the unique themes of the Olympics, such as teamwork, global unity, and perseverance, as well the compelling stories of high-profile U.S. athletes. While using contemporary music and editing techniques, the campaign was crafted to be human and personal while revealing the themes that make the Olympics the extraordinary event that it is.
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This year, clips from countries around the world were judged by an international jury, with winners receiving their prizes in Lausanne, Switzerland, in the presence of IOC President Jacques Rogge. Members of the IOC Radio and Television Commission attended together with representatives from the Olympic rights-holding broadcasters, the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games in London, Sochi and Rio, International Sports Federations and the City of Lausanne.
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