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Site Plan Approval Applications
Under Section 41 of the Planning Act, the Council of the City of Mississauga passed a Site Plan Control By-law, designating all of the lands within the municipality, with certain exceptions, as a Site Plan Control area.
The Site Plan Approval process is a key component of the implementation of the policies in Mississauga Official Plan. These policies are contained in the Urban Structure, Character Area and Land Use Designation sections of the Plan and relate to technical matters such as transportation, environment and design.
The City's Zoning By-law also implements the objectives and policies of Mississauga Official Plan. The Zoning By-law controls the use of land in the municipality. For example, it states exactly:
how land may be used
where buildings and other structures can be located
the types of buildings that are permitted and how they may be used
the lot sizes and dimensions, parking requirements, building heights and setbacks from the street.
If your development proposal is subject to site plan approval, a pre-application meeting with the Planning Services Centre is required, prior to submitting a site plan application. The pre-application meeting will allow City staff to identify application submission requirements and high level issues which will assist in reducing the time required to obtain approvals.
New detached homes /renovations in some areas of the City are subject to site plan approval. Site Plan Infill Residential Drawing Checklists will assist in preparing your drawings.
The following forms and documents pertain to the Site Plan Approval process.
Site Plan Application: Process Guidelines (706 KB) (pdf)
This manual is intended to be read in conjunction with the Site Plan application form and other information related to Site Plan applications.
Pre-Application Meeting Requests (0.33 MB) (pdf)
Prior to making a Site Plan application, applicants are required to attend a pre-application meeting with the Planning Services Centre.
Application for Site Plan Approval (0.16 MB) (pdf)
Required for all types of Site Plan applications. This application form includes "Schedules" which form part of the application.
Commenting Agency Fee Collection Form for Site Plan Applications (0.06 MB) (pdf)
Where a subject property is within a Conservation Authority screening area, separate plan review fees are required.
Replacement Housing, New Dwellings and Additions Guidelines (3.87 MB) (pdf)
Available to assist homeowners and/or their agents to meet the design requirements for these types of site plan projects.
Green Development Strategy (1.05 MB) (pdf)
This brochure outlines the Stage One Green Development Standards that applicants will need to consider when preparing their Site Plan application.
Parking Utilization Studies - Terms of Reference (0.43 MB) (pdf)
In some cases, a parking utilization study is required to justify parking reductions from current Zoning By-law standards.
Site Plan Undertaking - Homeowners (0.03 MB) (pdf)
Required for all Site Plan applications to ensure the applicant completes the site works as shown on the approved drawings.
Site Plan Undertaking - Corporations (0.03 MB) (pdf)
Letter of Credit (0.02 MB) (pdf)
Required when securities are held by the Development and Design Division until the site works have been completed to the satisfaction of the Division. Certified cheques or bank drafts are acceptable forms of security.
Landscape - Reduction of Letter of Credit (0.05 MB) (doc)
Certificate of Inspection is required for all requests for site inspections, except for hoarding inspections and inspections for new dwellings, replacement housing and additions. The inspection fee must accompany the inspection request. The certificate must be embossed with the OALA seal and signed by the Landscape Architect.
Landscape - Inspection of Final Site Works (0.05 MB) (doc)
Standard Format for Cost Estimate (0.12 MB) (pdf)
Costs for Site Works are an integral part of the Landscape Plan Approval. Landscape Architects are to submit an Estimate of Total Costs for the project, based on the information contained in the Standard Unit Costs for Site Works chart.
Unit Cost for Site Works (0.04 MB) (pdf)
Accessible Sign Detail (0.86 MB) (pdf)
Sign Placement Details as per the City of Mississauga Accessible Parking By-law #10-2016.
Site Plan Hoarding Detail (0.05 MB) (pdf)
Development and Design's Tree Hoarding Detail.


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Gertrude "Gert" Willens, of Longboat Key, died Sept. 8. She was born April 15, 1913.
Mrs. Willens is survived by her son, Alan, of Oaks Bluff, Mass.; daughter, Kathy, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Wiegand Brothers Funeral Home and and Crematory, in Sarasota, was responsible for arrangements.
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Your Spiritual Gifts Assessment
The Spiritual Gifts Assessment helps individuals identify their God-given gifts for living faithfully as Christian disciples day by day and find meaningful ways to use their gifts in connection with others through the community of faith. The process helps people understand the nature of spiritual gifts and ways to enhance the effectiveness of their gifts by linking together with others.
Please be aware that this online assessment is designed to introduce you to the gifts of the Spirit. To more deeply understand your spiritual giftedness, we recommend that you explore your gifts in a group setting such as your local church. Enjoy!


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With all new Apple laptops comes a new port - Thunderbolt. It promises to deliver super-fast transfer speeds to Thunderbolt drives or devices, so getting a file from A to B isn't something that takes you longer than getting across town on a Friday night in rush hour.
So can the super-fast, super-expensive Little Big Disk solve your storage needs?
It's called the Little Big Disk because it is just that - an oxymoron - Big in file size, small in actual size - geddit? Anyway, random naming jokes aside, the small drive measures 85x40x145mm in size and weighs 650g. That's surprisingly heavy for the size of the box, and that's most likely down to the fact that it is made of metal. The metal is clever though, its ribbed design acts as a heatsink to save firing-up the internal fan constantly.
The front of the unit features the only button on the drive, and it just so happens that it glows blue when on. We suspect blue was chosen because red would remind you of HAL9000 and give you the hebegebies.
Memories of the scene "What are you doing Dave..." who echo in your mind every time you went to delete a file. Frightening.
Back to the design of the Big Little Disk and the back of the hard drive casing features the power socket, and two Thunderbolt ports. Frustratingly there are no other interfaces like Firewire or USB and that means that if you've not got a Thunderbolt port on your computer you're stuffed.
While that might seem like a stupid statement on a drive clearly advertised as designed for Thunderbolt, it means that if you want to plug your drive into your colleagues computer you had better hope they had upgraded to a brand new Mac.
Thunderbolt and the daisy chain
Thunderbolt technology was initially developed by Intel and originally called LightPeak. You can have up to six Thunderbolt devices connected to each other in a big daisy chain. That can be six hard drives, a couple of monitors (depending on which Mac you have), or a combination of the two.
While we weren't able to test the system with multiple Thunderbolt hard drives, we were able to test it with a standard monitor with a DVI to DisplayPort adapter. While our MacBook Air took a few seconds to recognise the connection, it works as it should.
While the Big Little Disk looks pretty, we aren't too fussed about looks here. We want performance, and the knowledge that the drive is going to perform.
Rather than opt for a standard hard disk drive giving you a 1TB of data, here you get two 120GB SSD drives that work together to deliver 240GB of storage. That will either be on-par with the hard drive in your computer - if you are a MacBook Air user - or faster, if you are a MacBook Pro user who hasn't upgraded to an SSD already.
For testing purposes we used a 1.8GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Air with 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM running the latest build of Mac OS X - version 10.7.2.
LaCie promises average data transfer rates of around 480MB a second and we easily achieved this. It took us under five seconds to transfer a 1.45GB file from the MacBook Air SSD drive to the Little Big Disk. On the return it took six seconds.
Transferring a 43.71GB iTunes folder with 8008 files took us 3 minutes 16 seconds. That's damn fast.
Our final test was to see how quickly we could create a Time Machine image of our system with the drive connected. The system backed up our 143.73GB image with almost 1m files in 57 minutes.
In the box you'll get a handful of LaCie utilities including Intego and LaCie's own Backup Software even though the drive is Time Machine compatible. MacBook Air users be warned this comes on a CD.
There is no doubting the speed capabilities of the Little Big Disk. File transfer whether it is a single file or multiple files are fast. Thunderbolt certainly lives up to its claims.
On the design front, the Little Big Disk is small, stylish, and will look good on your desk, although we did notice some light leakage from the power light at the side of the device. Something we didn't expect on a device this highly-designed.
So what's the catch? Well the small drive isn't very portable. The accompanying power pack is still pretty large, and there aren't any other transfer options as a backup. Then there's the price. In the UK it's £750 ($899 in the US) and that's a hefty prize for something that will expand your storage, especially if you aren't too fussed about the speed. Laughably, you don't even get a Thunderbolt cable for that price.
If the price or portability isn't an issue, then this this is certainly the best way to expand your Mac with a drive that will be as fast, if not faster, than your current internal offering. Just make sure you know how you're going to use those blistering transfer speeds, because if it is just to store your MP3 collection this new super fast tech will be wasted on you.


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Kevin James is about to get slimed.
The "Paul Blart" star has been tapped to host the 2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, airing live from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, March 27.
"I have been lucky enough to live more than my share of dreams — a hit TV show, a hit movie, a beautiful family, and, of course, that prize-winning watermelon I grew last summer," said James. "Yet throughout it all, I've had this nagging feeling that my journey wasn't complete. Oh, sure, it's been quite a ride, but it lacked something… something green, slimy, oozing, slippery and dangerous! That's right — there's been no slime… until today! In short, I guess you could say hosting the Kids' Choice Awards completes me."
Vampires, monsters and robots dominated the movie categories with "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" sinking its teeth into five nominations for Favorite Movie, Favorite Book (The Twilight Series), Taylor Lautner for Favorite Movie Actor and its "Cutest Couple" duos, Rob Pattinson/Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner/Kristen Stewart.
"Monsters vs. Aliens" nabbed three nominations for Favorite Animated Movie and Favorite Voice in an Animated Movie (Seth Rogen, Reese Witherspoon) and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" crushed with three nods for Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Actor (Shia LaBeouf) and Favorite Movie Actress (Megan Fox).
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" also got nods for Favorite Movie, while Zac Efron ("17 Again"), Tyler Perry ("Madea Goes to Jail"), Sandra Bullock ("The Proposal," "The Blind Side") and Zoe Saldana ("Avatar") compete in the Favorite Movie Actor and Favorite Movie Actress categories.
Three-time Kids' Choice winner Miley Cyrus, scored four nominations: one each for Favorite TV Actress ("Hannah Montana"), Favorite Movie Actress ("Hannah Montana: The Movie"), Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song ("Party in the USA").
Two time KCA winner Beyonce, makes the list again to compete in the Favorite Female Singer category against Miley, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, who are also nominated for Favorite Song.
First time Kids' Choice nominees President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will compete in the brand new category for "Cutest Couple" against "Twilight"love triangle heart throbs Rob Pattinson/Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner/Kristen Stewart and "Avatar" hotties Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana.
The new category was chosen last year by kids who were asked to submit their ideas for new favorites they would most like to see added to the 2010 show.
Find out who wins when Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards airs live on Saturday, March 27 (8-9:30 PM ET/PT).
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Leominster is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1740 and was previously called Lancaster. It can be found in Worcester county and is a part of the Northern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at City Hall, 25 W. St., Leominster 01453. On the attached map, Leominster is shown as 14 in Worcester county.
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Power Windows - Windows Media Encoder
Giving away music is a timeless promotional strategy. But when you give away a song, shouldn't you get something in return? This article will show you how to transform a free audio file into an effective online promotional tool. It's easy to do and doesn't require fancy programming skills. You just need a little-known feature of Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder (WME): the ability to insert URL scripts into an audio file.
When an audio file contains URL scripts, a browser window opens and a specified Web page appears anytime the song is played on a computer connected to the Internet. That gives you the power to show photographs, lyrics, band information, and even advertisements each time your song plays. It turns a free song into an effective marketing tool, helping build traffic at your Web site, increasing sales at your e-commerce pages, and forging a direct connection with your listening audience.
WME is cool free software, but it's not the most intuitive or user-friendly concoction ever to come out of Redmond. Therefore, I'll cover in detail the steps required to insert URL scripts into your music. I'll also provide a quick look at some ways of measuring your audience and converting traffic into sales. (If you don't have WME, you can get the latest version at Microsoft's Web site. See the sidebar "Online Resources.")
To insert URL scripts into your audio files using WME, you must have a Pentium II/200 MHz with Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME, or NT 4; an Internet connection; one or more songs that you want to (and have the right to) distribute; and a Web site where you would like to increase traffic or build revenue. That could be your own Web site or your pages at an aggregate site such as MP3.com or Vitaminic. With those pieces in place, you are ready to proceed.
Download and install WME and then select the song you wish to encode. (WME accepts WAV, ASF, WMA, and MP3 audio-file formats.) You may need to extract the track from a CD or record it through your sound card and save it as a WAV file. You'll get the best results if you use WAV files as source material; working with previously compressed (ASF, WMA, or MP3) audio files causes a further loss of sound quality.
Choose the Web pages that you want to show your listeners. For your own ease of use, open each target page in a Web browser, click in the browser address field to highlight the URL and then copy (Control + C) and paste (Control + V) each URL into a text document. Save the URL list in a convenient place because you'll need it when you begin encoding.
Take some time when selecting your URLs; you are creating a form of packaging that is as salient as any album cover. Pick pages that won't detract from your music. Band photos, bios, lyrics, news, or commerce pages are naturals (see Fig. 1). Any page that pays you for traffic or listeners is also a good candidate — members of affiliate referral programs or MP3.com's Payback for Playback take note. Don't choose pages that automatically play sound, because they'll interfere with the listening experience.
Once you have finished the preparation work, load WME. Unfortunately, WME is not preconfigured for inserting URLs into audio files, so you must create a new encoding Session and Profile.
When you launch WME, a Welcome dialog appears. Select Create a Custom Encoding Session by clicking on the second radio button from the top. Click on OK or press the Enter key to exit the Welcome dialog.
The New Session dialog now appears. That dialog includes several tabs; the Sources tab is displayed by default. In the Sources tab at the bottom of the dialog are the "Source types for this session." Deselect Video and then choose Script.
Just above the Source types, click on the New button to open the New Source Group dialog. In the middle of the New Source Group dialog, click on the Audio menu. At the bottom of the Audio menu list, click on "Browse for file." Use the resulting Open-file dialog to locate and select the song you plan to encode. That dialog will close once you select a file, and you will return to the New Source Group dialog.
In the New Source Group dialog, click on OK or press the Enter key to confirm your audio-file choice; then, exit the dialog. You will now be back at the New Session dialog (See Fig. 2). Click on the Display Information tab at the top of the dialog. Type information about your song — title, author, and copyright, for example — in the fields provided. The information will be displayed in the Windows Media Player as your song plays.
Next, click on the Profile tab at the top of the New Session dialog. Click on the Manage button on the right side of the box. You will now see the Manage Profiles dialog, which specifies the output-file attributes. Because none of the factory preset Profiles support Scripts, you must make a custom Profile.
Click on the New button on the right side of the Manage Profiles dialog. You now will be in the New Profile dialog. Type a unique name, such as "my custom profile," in the Name of Profile text field.
Choose your source types by deselecting Video and then choosing Script. Compressed is the default Output setting; leave that as is, or you'll end up making a WAV instead of a WMA file.
Click on the Next button or press the Enter key to go to the next page of the New Profile dialog. In the Common Stream Settings page, click on the Audio Format pop-up menu (second from the top) to reveal the format choices. Scroll through the Audio Format menu and select the desired output format (see Fig. 3).
For high-quality music, select one of the 44 or 48 kHz formats. Bit rate (displayed as kbps) determines the sound quality of your output file; higher bit rates sound better than lower rates but result in larger file sizes. If file size is an issue and you don't mind the loss of stereo image, try one of the mono settings that are available at bit rates as fast as 48 kbps.
At the bottom of the Common Stream Settings page, in the Script section, enter a numeric value in the Script Bit Rate field. Microsoft documentation recommends 1,000 bps as the setting for that application. Lower values result in slower Script execution; higher values offer no noticeable benefit.
Click on the Finish button to exit the New Profile dialog. You are now at the Manage Profiles dialog; click on the Close button to exit. You will return to the New Session dialog, and your new Profile should be displayed in the Profile pop-up menu. If you do not see your new Profile and it is not listed in the Profile pop-up menu, you probably forgot to select Script in the New Profile dialog.
Click on the Output tab at the top of the New Session dialog. Deselect Broadcast Encoded Output and select Encode to File. Click on the Browse button to open the Browse for Output File dialog. Use that dialog to navigate to the location where you want to store your new file. That could be any folder on your computer or the desktop.
Type an original name, such as "my new file," in the File Name text-entry field. Check that "Windows Media Audio files (.wma)" is displayed in the Save as Type pop-up menu.
Click on the Save button or press the Enter key to exit the Browse for Output File dialog. Exit the New Session dialog by clicking on the OK button or pressing the Enter key. You'll see a prompt indicating that WME "has been customized to show only the panels you need." Click on the OK button to exit the prompt.
You have now finished configuring WME and have returned to the main encoder display. You're ready to start encoding!
Open the text file you created during the preparation stage and position it onscreen so that your list of URLs is visible and accessible without a lot of extra mousing around (see Fig. 4). Locate the Script panel in the lower part of the WME window directly beneath the General, Display Information, and Connections tabs.
Click on the Start button in the lower-right corner of the encoder window. Click on the URL Script command button (the little globe icon with the chain links) in the Script panel. In your text file, click and drag to select the first URL in the list. Copy the selected URL to the Clipboard.
Now go back to the encoder. Click on the Script data text-entry field next to the Insert button. Paste the URL from the Clipboard into the Script data field and click on the Insert button. Your first URL has been inserted into the encoded audio; repeat the process for your other URLs.
In your text file, click and drag with the mouse to select the next URL in the list. Copy the selected URL to the Clipboard. Double-click on the Script data text-entry field to highlight the previous entry and then paste the URL. Click on the Insert button. Continue copying, pasting, and inserting until you reach the end of your URL list.
Observe the File Progress bar in the lower panel; when you reach the end of the song, click on the Stop button. You'll receive a prompt asking, "Are you sure you want to stop encoding?" Click on Yes or press the Enter key.
If you're slow with the mouse, WME continues encoding while waiting for you to confirm the prompt. Fortunately, that warning can be skipped by going into the Tools menu/Options dialog/General tab. Deselect "Warn before stopping encoding."
Looping is an important feature in WME. When WME reaches the end of the source file, it returns to the beginning of the song and continues writing to the output file until you click on the Stop button. That's nice if you're broadcasting — it lets you turn on the audio and leave it — but it's a drag when encoding to a disk file.
You can't turn off the looping feature, so you must click on the Stop button to end encoding. You'll want to time your stop accurately by watching the File Progress bar. Otherwise you'll cut off the end of your song or append an unwanted bit of the beginning onto the tail end of your output file. Catching a good cutoff point isn't difficult, but it's a bit of a hassle. A few moments of silence at the end of your source file provide a margin for error.
Another minor drawback of WME is that it does not let you listen to the audio when you are doing a file conversion. Therefore, you can't tightly synchronize URL insertions to specific points in the song. Even without tight sync, however, you've just turned your song file into a muscular marketing machine.
Most file-sharing networks, such as Audiogalaxy, support sharing of WMA files. Because of the huge amount of traffic and high level of interest in music on those networks, they are excellent places to distribute files and find new fans. My little unfamous band sees as many as 100 downloads per day from such services.
WMA files are also perfect for e-mailing because they are smaller than similar-sounding MP3s. Just make sure your contacts want and expect to receive such an attachment before you send it, or hostility may result.
Naturally, you can place links to your WMA files on any page of your Web site so visitors can download or even stream the audio (see the sidebar "Easy Streaming"). WMA files with URL inserts are not appropriate for embedded play in Web pages, however; the page flips when the URL script is executed, thus interrupting playback.
Make sure you keep track of your hits when you start pushing listeners to your Web site. Utterly corny old-fashioned visible Web counters ("You are visitor number 00014 since January 1, 2000") may actually work to your disadvantage.
A hip metric solution is offered by WebTrends Live. The site's free Personal Edition service counts an unlimited number of pages. No real programming and no log files are required. When you sign up, you get a chunk of HTML code. Paste the code onto the bottom of your Web pages. The HTML adds a little button, and you're set to go. Periodically check into the WebTrends Live reporting area, view its easily understood charts and graphs, and watch your traffic grow.
However, what good does all that traffic do if you can't make money from it? One route is to get into the CD business.
If you don't already have a disc to sell, MP3.com offers the DAM CD program. You incur no risk or investment, the company presses discs on demand and handles order processing and fulfillment, and you split the money with MP3.com. Unfortunately, the sound quality is not pristine; to make the discs, MP3.com takes MP3 files and converts them to WAV files. Because MP3.com doesn't work with uncompressed files, DAM CDs never sound as good as CDs that you burn yourself (from WAV or AIFF files) or discs that are professionally replicated.
If you have a CD-R drive or if you already have a CD, you can set up your own sales area. That used to be expensive and cumbersome, but now poor musicians can take secure credit-card transactions just like the big shots. CCNow offers a turnkey e-commerce system that is perfect for independent artists. It handles the merchant account, credit-card authorization, and customer service; it even provides the shopping cart. You just link to the cart from your sales pages; then, ship and confirm the orders as they arrive in your e-mail. Even cooler, there's no setup fee and no maintenance charge; CCNow simply takes a 9 percent cut of each sale.
A wise person once said, "If we did this just because we loved music, we'd call it the music art instead of the music business." Even if you are a music lover, you deserve to make money from your efforts. If you've put the time and energy into building a Web site, make sure you're getting some hits. Experiment with these techniques. They can help cultivate your Web traffic, increase your sales, and enhance your connection with your listeners.
Todd Souvignieris president and cofounder of Exploit Systems (www.exploitsystems.com), a firm that enables e-commerce through peer-to-peer file sharing. He also plays bass with the group War in America (www.warinamerica.com).
Check out Audiogalaxy Satellite for setting up file sharing on your computer.
This site offers turnkey e-commerce systems for small online businesses.
The 500-pound gorilla of band sites is now a creature of Vivendi Universal.
Vitaminic is the European equivalent of MP3.com.
War in America
See URL scripts in action. Download or stream at this site.
WebTrends Live
Visit this site to find tools for measuring Web-site traffic.
Windows Media Encoder
Free downloads and documentation are available at this site.
Windows Media Player
Free Windows and Macintosh versions are available at this site.
Streaming is a snap. You'll need to make an ASX file, or metafile, that points to a WMA file. First, upload your WMA file to any convenient place on your Web site. Then, create a text file in Notepad or another text editor. The file must contain the following text:
Save the text file under any name (with no spaces) with the extension ASX after it (for example: mysong.asx). Next, upload the ASX text file to your Web site. Finally, create a link on any Web page to the ASX file. For example, if you named your ASX file mysong.asx, link to: http://www.yourwebsite.com/mysong.asx.
When visitors click on this link, Windows Media Player will launch, the file will be streamed to them from your Web site, and if you have embedded any URL scripts, those Web pages will open for the listener.


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|Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
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7.1 Introduction
The key problem to be addressed is the response of the climate system to changes
in forcing. In many cases there is a fairly direct and linear response and many
of the simulated changes fall into that class (Chapter 9).
These concern the large-scale general circulations of the atmosphere and ocean,
and they are in principle represented in current comprehensive coupled climate
models. Such possible large-scale dynamical feedbacks are also influenced by
small-scale processes within the climate system. The various feedbacks in the
climate system may amplify (positive feedbacks), or diminish (negative feedbacks)
the original response. We often approximate the response of a particular variable
to a small forcing by a scaling number. A prominent example of such a quantification
is the equilibrium global mean temperature increase per Wm-2 change
in the global mean atmospheric radiative forcing (see Chapter
9, Section 9.2.1).
While many aspects of the response of the climate system to greenhouse gas
forcing appear to be linear, regime or mode transitions cannot be quantified
by a simple number because responses do not scale with the amplitude of the
forcing: small perturbations can induce large changes in certain variables of
the climate system. This implies the existence of thresholds in the climate
system which can be crossed for a sufficiently large perturbation. While such
behaviour has long been known and studied in the context of simple models of
the climate system, such thresholds are now also found in the comprehensive
coupled climate models currently available. Within this framework, the possibility
for irreversible changes in the climate system exists. This insight, backed
by the palaeo-climatic record (see Chapter 2, Section
2.4), is a new challenge for global change science because now thresholds
have to be identified and their values need to be estimated using the entire
hierarchy of climate models.
To estimate the response properly, we must represent faithfully the physical
processes in models. Not only must the whole system model perform reasonably
well in comparison with observation (both spatial and temporal), but so too
must the component models and the processes that are involved in the models.
It is possible to tune a model so that some variable appears consistent with
that observed, but we must also ask whether it comes out that way for the right
reason and with the right variability. By examining how well individual processes
are known and can be modelled, we can comment on the capabilities and usefulness
of the models, and whether they are likely to be able to properly represent
possible non-linear responses of the climate system.
Examples of some processes in the climate system and its components that have
been dealt with in the Second Assessment Report (IPCC, 1996) (hereafter SAR)
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Acision Hires New SVP and GM for APAC
Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, have announced the appointment of Michael Frausing to the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager for its Asia Pacific region.
Based in Singapore, Frausing will be responsible for managing Acision's local business operations and will play a pivotal role in cultivating customer and employee relationships, strengthening the company's regional presence and bolstering the business.
As an industry expert who has worked in telecommunications for 25 years, Michael brings a wealth of capability and knowledge to Acision having successfully driven revenue growth and strategic account acquisition with leading wireless and telecommunications service providers worldwide.
Prior to joining Acision, Michael was the head of global sales at GE, where he focused on energy storage for the telecom, grid and UPS segments and helped implement strategies to grow the sales team, as well as penetrate and increase market share. Michael also worked at LGC Wireless where he grew sales from $12 million to over $100 million in less than a five year period.
He also spent 15 years at Ericsson in various sales leadership positions, primarily selling a broad range of telecommunications solutions to carriers worldwide.
"Michael's leadership position comes at a crucial time for Acision as we nurture relationships with our local customers and support them as they start to deploy IP and Enterprise Messaging solutions in the region. His wealth of experience will be an asset to the team as we make important steps in shaping our business and building our expertise in messaging services," said Jorgen Nilsson, Chief Executive at Acision. "Michael's exceptional track record across many different markets including APAC means he understands the cultures and salient points in driving success and credibility, and will be instrumental in taking our business togreater heights as we push out a range of new messaging services in this market."
"I am committed to expanding Acision's Asia Pacific footprint and creating new avenues for customer growth," said, Frausing. "My main focus will be to position Acision as a driver of innovation and leverage on our expertise in mobile messaging tocreate new opportunities in an evolving mobile ecosystem. As Asia Pac always has, and continues to be, an early adopter and driving force of new technology, I am looking forward to working with the team and our customers to introduce some of our new, innovative messaging propositions and ensure their success in this market."


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Faust wrote:The fact is that almost all immigrant groups assimilate. In a generation or maybe two at the most. But they also bring with them their culture. What do you want? Just a bunch of Englishmen? Great at rock music, horrible cooks.
Let's get real, here.
Immigration in large groups changes our culture and its not for the better. Due to too much diverse immigration, traditional American family values have been decimated, wholesome families no longer exist, even the religions that kept families together, going to church together, sharing a Sunday meal together, every Sunday no longer exist in mass and nothing worthy has replaced what children used to gain in stable, middle class, heterosexual, two parent families in part due to immigration.


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Igbo, a language of over thirty million native speakers living predominantly in South-Eastern Nigeria, and which, due to immigration, now has a significant native-speaker representation in North America, is categorized as an endangered language due to sociolinguistic factors resulting in decreasing native-speaker competence. In North America and everywhere else where Igbo is spoken, modern professional families often have neither time nor the knowledge of the oral traditions to transfer to their children. We are stepping in to provide an avenue for the Igbo child/family to learn language, values, customs, ethics, etc., through media contents such as video lessons, cartoons and folktales.
This collaborative and interdisciplinary project focuses on preserving the Igbo language, which, according to the UNESCO and endangered language scholars, will be extinct in 50 years. This website is designed to be a Learning Management System, and an online language centre where adults can access video lessons and animations; young learners, cartoons and animated videos; and parents, cartoons and language tools to teach Igbo to their children.


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Monday, December 10, 2012
KLCC to Bukit Bintang - Aircon Tunnel/Walkway...
12 comments:
- Aziela said...
Wow, this is indeed a useful information Pak Idrus. Thank you so much for sharing it with us, especially people like me whom always out of century though I work in KL.
- 2:53 pm
- seniorsaloud said...
Enjoyed reading about your 'little adventure'. Next one to try is take the Go-KL free shuttle from KLCC to Pasar Seni for a tour of downtown old KL, if you haven't already done that.
- 5:02 pm
- Al-Manar said...
I doubt I relish walking that distance. Leave it to young people like you and wife!
- 9:24 pm
- Zendra-Maria said...
Salam Pak Idrus, I should try this too. It beats walking nowhere on the treadmill, and walking on uneven ground outside exposed to the elements. But then I'd have to break my vow never to step into the Pavillion which took over my old school... hmmm
Oh yes, perhaps the authorities can install a walkalator... which might be handy for Pakcik Hassan :)
- 2:33 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
Aziela, thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting.
Well now that you know it is time to walk to the Pavilion form KLCC. I surely going to be fun.
Have a nice day.
- 9:14 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
el-f, Lily thanks for the visit and the good words on this posting.
Well was your suggestion that move fast-forward my visit to the new tunnel/walkway. Had it not I would still have postponed taking that walk. I am glad that I did and as you have read I did enjoy the walk.
Would try the other place as I move on.
Have a nice day.
- 9:19 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
Al-Manar, Pokcik Hassan thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting.
I am as old as you and if I could do it surely you could do it in good time. Try it the next time you are here. If need be I shall accompany you for a coffee at the Pavilion.
Have a nice day.
- 9:21 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
Zendra-Maria, thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting.
The tunnel/walkway is a good project for the public and was fully financed by Petronas. I did enjoy my walk there and I believe you would too, after all it is just 2 kilometre both way and in the cool comfort of air-condition.
There are many exits on the Bukit Bintang side and if you still did not want to visit the Pavilion you can always take the other exit that may lead you to the other part of Bukit Bintang.
Happy adventure In the tunnel Zendy.
Have a nice day.
- 9:27 pm
- Temuk said...
Tersipu-sipu pula pada Pak Idrus, sebab walaupun umur baru "80 tolak 16", rasanya tak akan mampu menyaingi Pak Idrus dalam acara berjalan kaki itu. Kalau di tengah panas, lagilah hangus!
- 11:42 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
Temuk, thanks for the visit and the good words.
Kita orang tua jadi kita jalan mengikut cara kita lah. That is why it take 20 minutes to do that 1 kilometre in an air-condition tunnel/walkway.
I believe you could do it in record time. Come over to the KLCC and have coffee with me and then we can walk together to the Pavilion.
Have a nice day.
- 10:58 pm
- mamadou said...
Pak Idrus
Interesting. Saya masih belum terokai kemudahan yang Pak Idrus ceritakan ini.
Moga kemudahan yang ada lebih memebri munafaat serta membahgiakan warga kota
Terima kasih Pak
- 4:15 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
mamadou, thanks for the visit and sharing your view on the subject of this posting.
This project is a good one for the rakyaat and it makes it easier for folks to commute to and from KLCC - Bukit Bintang - KLCC. I would be doing it more often from now onward.
Do try.
Have a nice day.
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The Watch Dog is a canine superhero from Dog City. Introduced as the title character in "Who Watches the Watch Dog?," is an old comic book hero suddenly returned to the spotlight when he appears in person to foil the Labrador Gang. He wears the image of a pocket watch on his chest, carries hourglasses which act as gas canisters, and constantly uses time and clock related gadgets and metaphors.
The Watch Dog's name is a take-off of Alan Moore's Watchmen, as are some of the themes in the episode. However, the character borrows aspects from other heroes. His costume and car recall Batman, his nickname is "The Bark Night," and his creator (and, as it turns out, alter-ego) is Fob Canine (a spoof of Batman creator Bob Kane). In the fashion of Superman, he stands for "truth, justice, and the Canine Way." He makes use of a florid introduction ("I am the precious sands in the hour glass of society, I am the time that wounds all heels, I am.... the Watchdog!") and effects a dramatic disappearance with the use of gas canisters and smoke, borrowed from Disney's Darkwing Duck, which aired concurrently in syndication. The Watchdog even uses a two-way clock radio, inspired by Dick Tracy's famous two-way wristwatch.
Ace Hart discovers that Fob Canine and the Watch Dog are one and the same and in league with the Labrador Gang (actually Canine's comic artist employees) as a publicity stunt to bring the Watch Dog back into the public eye. Ace agrees to help the group with one final stunt, as long as it signals the Watch Dog's retirement. The plan is complicated by the intervention of Bugsy Vile, but the Watch Dog summons the courage to actually save the day. Canine and his crew subsequently take a bus to Cleveland to start their own comic book company.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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Now I'm doubly amazed!
You just wanted to be the first to post in the forum.
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How many times must one fix something before it is fixed?
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If Guns Kill People, Do Pencils Misspell Words?
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Just when you think things can't get any goofier, Texas comes through. Generous people, great food, a dynamite music culture, but the institutions of government beggar belief—and is according to my Texas friends. The recent Texas Bored of Education's rulings on science and history curricula win its majority members coveted spots in my personal Flat Earthers' Hall of Fame.
And now the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has made my day, reviving my hopes that I can carve out a reputation as mad, bad and dangerous to know. They have banned the magazine I edit from all their prison system.
This is not a first, and, frankly, Texas has a lot to live up to. Five years ago, an unfortunate subscriber to All About Beer got locked up in Florida. The laser-sharp team from the Florida Department of Corrections swooped on the poor fellow's mail and barred the magazine on two grounds: "(2)(c) It depicts or describes procedures for the brewing of alcoholic beverages, or the manufacture of drugs or other intoxicants," and "(2)(k) It otherwise presents a threat to the security, good order, or discipline of the correctional system or the safety of any person."
The Department's Literature Committee reviewed the magazine—possibly the only literary body that has ever done so—and gave their verdict in all caps: SECURITY THREAT.
And the letter was signed by Jeb Bush. Beat that, Texas!
The Lone Star State banned the mag for similar reasons, although without the benefit of a literature committee. An 'x' in a box identified our offense: "Publication contains information regarding the manufacture of explosives, weapons or drugs." Yes, there we are, a magazine on beer, with our close pals: bombs, guns and crack.
Then, in the Remarks section, the specific concern read: "Page 82 contains detailed information on the manufacturing of alcohol." Here is an excerpt from the incriminating page, written by our rabble-rousing homebrewer, K. Florian Klemp:
Steep 0.5# black patent or Carafa I and 1.0# 60L or Caramunich III malt as you would for any extract brew, add water and 5.0# of Munich or amber malt extract to get 3.5 gallons of wort. Bring to a boil and add 1 oz of East Kent Goldings hops, boil for 20 minutes and add Irish moss. Boil for another 20 minutes and add 0.5 oz of Willamette hops and turn off the heat. Add 2 lbs of buckwheat honey and steep for 5 minutes. Chill, add to your fermenter and pitch English or American ale yeast.
If an inmate has never brewed beer, he will be no closer to doing so after reading this paragraph. And if he already understands brewing fundamentals, this will only make him long for a good supply of East Kent Goldings to spice up the little Cheerio-fueled fermentation project he already has going under his bunk.
Beer is not an explosive, a weapon or a drug. It's just one of many things that inmates are not allowed to experience while they are guests of the state. It may cause the subscriber some sadness to read about something he cannot have behind bars, but I can't help but suspect that beer gets singled out for special treatment. An understanding of aeronautics might conceivably contribute to a prison break, but I'll bet you the powers that be don't ban Hang Gliding Magazine.


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Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I've read or used from across the internet. Here are the top ten of the items that I linked out last week. Typically, these are the tweets from things I read in the evenings and then share throughout the afternoon with the "Reading" title. Let me know if you find these useful or interesting.
Last week's top 20 "Reading" Links
- 8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks [272 clicks]
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- SHEDDING LIGHT on VSS & VDI Backups in SQL Server – Microsoft SQL Server Tips & Tricks [24 clicks]
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Leeann Brady overcame severe hardships to build a better life for her family. Ironically, though, the last milestone she achieved has caused unintentional heartbreak for her child.
Brady's 18-year-old son, Kyle, has been a student at Wachusett Regional High School in Holden for three years, after graduating from Thomas Prince School in Princeton in the same school district. A special needs student with mental retardation, Kyle has thrived in the school district and was taught by a speech therapist to communicate through sign language.
"He's loved it there," Brady said. "He's had a lot of changes in his life, and it's been a long road to get him to this point."
In 2004, Kyle lost his 13-year-old brother to an illness. At the time, Brady's husband was unemployed and collecting SSDI for post-traumatic stress suffered as a U.S. Marine during Operation Desert Storm. Brady said she fell into a deep depression, and the family moved to an in-law apartment in her sister's home in Rutland.
Four years ago, she and her husband divorced. Brady remarried in 2011, earned a nursing degree in May and works at a rehabilitation facility in Athol. Last month, after living in her sister's basement for seven years, Brady found a single-family Cape in Hubbardston. The price was right, and the family moved in mid-October.
"It was a milestone and a dream come true," Brady said. "It's important that I make a better life for my son."
Kyle had started the school year in September. Soon after, Brady had a meeting at Wachusett to discuss changes to her son's Individual Education Plan, or IEP, and said she asked his teacher about school choice, which allows students to attend schools out of their district. She said Kyle was eager to walk down the aisle and graduate with his class in the spring.
It was not to be, however. Even though the family moved just 500 feet from the Rutland line, and the "Entering Rutland" sign can be seen from their driveway, Kyle had left the five-town district and was ineligible to finish the year at Wachusett. His last day was Nov. 9.
Brady said she's tried unsuccessfully to speak with Superintendent Thomas G. Pandiscio. She said his secretary informed her that her appeal for school choice was rejected. She also said the teacher denied that Brady ever asked her about school choice, even though an email from Brady to the teacher indicates that she had.
"Kyle is a bright, enthusiastic and loving boy," Brady said. "All he's ever talked about was walking on stage with his friends, getting his diploma and making his mommy cry with pride."
Her husband, Robert Brady, said Kyle isn't in school now because the lengthy IEP hasn't been started at Quabbin Regional High School.
"They treated him as a number instead of an individual," Robert Brady said of Wachusett officials. "There was no empathy whatsoever."
On Friday, Pandiscio said he's bound by state residency requirements and that the slots for school choice were filled by the time Brady applied. He agreed that exceptions can be made, but said they're typically for families whose planned purchase of a house in the district is delayed.
"This is a student who's living in Hubbardston and not coming back," Pandiscio said. "Of course I feel bad for this child. But I don't make the rules… It would have had to be done under a wink and a nod… At the end of the day, I have to serve 7,000 kids."
Brady said her son only needed six more months to graduate. In a letter to Pandiscio, Brady's sister said the situation is "even more heartbreaking" because Kyle can't understand the situation and thinks he's being punished.
"I'm not one for stirring the pot," Brady said. "But a mother must do right by her child. What's more important than a child's education and future?"


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
A lot of people do not like much Proof of Stake (PoS) coins as quite a lot of these do not have a long lifespan and are generally considered a loss of time and money, however there are some coins that have endured the test of time. Some of these coins might be an interesting option to invest into by buying and making some profit from the staking and future increase in their value, below we have compiled a short list of some such coins with a bit more details about each one and a link to the announcement thread on Bitcointalk where you can get additional information to help you make a decision. The focus of the list are coins with higher annual interest rate as if there is just 1% or less per year you can only hope to gain profit by long term increase of the value of the coin. When considering PoS coins that might be interesting for long term investment you should look for ones with higher interest rate that start at about 5% annually, but be careful with ones that have a very high interest rate as that might not be that good. Other things to look for include an active and bigger community of users, the coin being traded on larger altcoin exchanges such as Bitttrex or Poloniex with a decent volume. Check our list below with some such coins that we consider that are worth checking out in more detail if you are interested in making investment in Proof of Stake coins, the list may be missing some coins, so feel free to point additional ones in the comments below…
List of PoS coins to check out:
– BlackCoin (BLK/BC), currently PoS only, fixed stakign reward of 1.5 BLK + fees time dependent, traded on Bittrex and Poloniex with big volume, active community.
– CoinMagi (XMG) – M7M, PoW and PoS, up to 5% annual interest rate, traded on Bittrex and Poloniex, small volume, active community.
– Diamond (DMD), Diamond-Groestl, 0.2 DMD PoW, 25% annual interest rate for PoS, decreasing further in time, traded on Bittrex, active community.
– Mintcoin (MINT), currently PoS only, 10% annual interest rate to further decrease to 5%, traded on Poloniex, large volume, active community.
– OKCash (OK), currently PoS only, 20% annual interest rate to decrease further to 6%, traded on Bittrex, small volume, small community.
– HyperStake (HYP), currently Pos only, up to 750% annual interest rate with limitations on how much coins you can stake driving actual rate lower, traded on Poloniex, small volume, active community.
– Hyper (HYPER), currently PoS only, 5% monthly interest rate to further decrease to 2% annual, traded on Bittrex, small volume, active community.
– Quotient (XQN), currently PoS only, 1618% annual interest rate for PoS (max reward cap?), traded on Bittrex, small volume.
– Reddcoin (RDD), currently PoS only, 5% annual interest for PoS, traded on Bittrex and Poloniex with big volume, active comunity.
– ZeitCoin (ZEIT), currently Pos only, 15% annual interest rate to further decrease to 5%, traded on smaller exchanges only, small volume, active community.


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[Minor update: Nov 24th, 2013. Created: Feb 4th, 2009. This is still a work in progress.]
Hi, I am Atanu Dey. Thanks for visiting my blog on India's economic development.
I live in San Jose, CA, and work with Niti Digital in Mumbai.
You can contact me by writing to me atanudey at gmail.
A brief bio:
I am an economist with a background in development. I did my doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley. My PhD thesis title was, "Universal Service Obligation Imposed Cross-subsidies: The impact on the demand for telecommunications in India." Prior to going back to school, I worked at Hewlett Packard in the Silicon Valley in their computer systems division. (Building 44 in Cupertino, just in case you were wondering.)
While at UCB, I was also a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University 2001-02. During that time I developed a model for the development of rural India. The model is called "RISC — Rural Infrastructure & Services Commons." I used the RISC acronym as a play on words, since Vinod Khosla co-authored the concept paper with me. (RISC also stands for "reduced instruction set computing," something that SUN and HP had pioneered, and as is well-known, Vinod is a co-founder of SUN Microsystems.)
The reason I have some familiarity with computing is because I studied computer science at the post-graduate level. After an MTech in CS from IIT Kanpur, I had gone to do my PhD in CS at Rutgers University but I got out with an MS in CS because I liked the idea of working for HP in California.
Working for HP was fun but I was more interested in understanding why India was poor. After being with HP for seven years, I quit to wander around India, US and Europe. I did that for five years. It was a great learning experience for me and gradually I understood that economics informs the question of poverty better than any other discipline. Though rather late in life, I realized that I was an economist — all these years I had no clue that I was one because I had never been exposed to economics. During my extended sabbatical (or voluntary unemployment, if you will), I read a lot more than I used to and slowly it dawned on me that I had to study economics formally. It is a hard subject in any case, and on top of that, I am not disciplined at all. Getting a PhD in a subject is a good way to learn the subject. At the very least, you get a decent foundation.
I believe in foundations. If you have a good foundation, you can build excellent things.
Of course, it was not easy for me to get admission to a PhD program in a good university, considering that I had precious little (none actually, not to put too fine a point on it) formal exposure to economics in my previous academic training. But persistence matters. This is perhaps the only "entrepreneurial" thing I have ever done.
You may say that I have attention deficit disorder. I did my undergraduate from Nagpur University in mechanical engineering. Then I moved to CS, and then to economics after a few years of product marketing at HP.
In any event, after I finished my PhD, I toyed around with the idea of working for a consulting firm. I did not pursue it when I realized that it involves a lot of work on other people's terms even though the money is good. Fortunately, I had work in short-term consulting which paid the bills. I was in no hurry to get a regular job. A friend, Reuben Abraham, then at Columbia University, introduced me to Rajesh Jain in April 2003. We all share a common interest in the use of technology in development.
Rajesh Jain persuaded me to move back to India to work with him. What I admire about Rajesh is his capacity to work hard, think big, and his can-do attitude. I am not impressed with money because I don't need much of it anyway — beyond a certain modest amount needed to live a rather frugal life. What impresses me is hard work and persistence in the face of adversity — two qualities that I don't have.
I think I am plenty smart. But then you may ask the quintessentially American question: If you are so smart, why aren't you rich? The answer is easy. To be rich, you have to be both smart and hard working. Unless of course you are completely corrupt — as big-time criminals and politicians generally are. (I realize that those two sets have considerable overlap.)
I am not rich because I don't work hard. Let that be a lesson to you.
Seriously though, I have worked with Rajesh since late 2003. This blog is his idea. I used to write a blog while at Berkeley — "Life is a Random Draw". I have taken it down because it was getting spammed too much. This blog is broadly about economic development. More about the blog in the "Read this First" tab. (Under construction. Do visit in a couple of weeks.)
Living in India after living two decades in northern California is hard, especially so if the move is from Berkeley (where I spent the previous eight years) to Mumbai (a city with nothing to offer me.) After a little more than a year, I left Mumbai for Pune. Pune is better than Mumbai in some respects. I work remotely from home.
Well, that is about it. More to come.
Meanwhile, be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Jan 24th, 2012 Update:
I moved back to the San Francisco Bay area in June 2010, and now I live in San Jose although I continue to work with Rajesh Jain in Mumbai. I usually visit India about twice a year and spend a few weeks traveling around India and meeting people.
In other news, I have published a book, "Transforming India." Please take a look. Thanks.


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Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in East Mt. Airy hosted a truly groundbreaking event on Sunday, May 20.
The event, accompanied by a Mass, marked the formal introduction of the Anglican Catholic parish of St. Michael the Archangel, which worships at Holy Cross, into the Roman Catholic communion. St. Michael's is the first Anglican parish in Greater Philadelphia to be received into the U.S. Ordinariate and one of the first nationwide.
The Mass was celebrated by Monsignor Jeffrey Steenson, Ordinary of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, a non-geographical structure established by Pope Benedict to provide Anglicans with distinctive liturgical elements of their church while moving them to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
The Church of St. Michael the Archangel began as the Episcopal Church of St. James the Less in East Falls, which was founded in 1846.
The congregation of St. James the Less left its historic property in East Falls in 2006 and has not had its own church since then. The congregation had disaffiliated itself from the Episcopal Church in 1999 and had become a member of the Anglican Church in America.
The local Episcopal diocese sued for the property in 2001 and subsequently won the case.
The Rev. David Ousley, its rector since 1983, is one of 60 Anglican priests preparing to be ordained as Catholic priests, starting in June of this year. He was ordained a Catholic transitional deacon at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput on Saturday, May 12. The parish and all its members had already been accepted into the Catholic Church on April 2.
Explaining his decision and that of his parish to leave the Episcopal Church, Ousley said, "The root issue was authority of Scripture, as understood within the tradition."
While individual dioceses and the Episcopal Church as a whole were moving in the direction of following the spirit of the times, Ousley and his fellow parishioners at St. James the Less were not willing to do so. Upon disaffiliating from the Episcopal Church, the parish joined the more traditional Anglican Church in America.
When asked why he and the parish decided to join the newly established Anglican Ordinariate, Ousley said the move to reconvene with the Catholic Church seemed like the right thing to do, "The catholicity of the church is important to us, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to be assured of the catholicity of any of the Anglican church bodies in the United States," he said. "We were afraid of ending up with the externals of the faith but losing the substance.
"Then Pope Benedict's offer and his stated desire to preserve the Anglican patrimony moved us to consider whether the schism, which began in the 16th century between the Church of England and Rome, was any longer defensible.
In other words, have the Reformation issues been substantially resolved? These factors all moved us to reconsider the things that divided us from the Roman Church, and to consider the opportunity that the Holy Father put before us. This entailed study and lengthy discussions, which eventually led us to where we are now."
Ousley explained that while St. Michael the Archangel Church is located within the geographical boundaries of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, it is not actually within its hierarchical structure and has its own Ordinary, Monsignor Steenson.
He has all the powers of a typical Catholic bishop, but he heads a diocese constituted of all those formerly Episcopal parishes and priests who are now full members of the Catholic Church, rather than a geographical territory typical of a Catholic diocese.
In his sermon at Sunday's Mass, Steenson recalled that he and Ousley had been friends since 1983 and that they and many traditionalist Episcopalians had suffered many wounds during the intervening years. But now, he affirmed, was the time for joy in celebrating their entrance into full communion with the See of St. Peter.
"The parish [of St. Michael the Archangel] has, I would say, a sense of joyful anticipation," Ousley said. "This is a time of many changes, but we are looking forward to what God will do with us in the days ahead, rather than backward to what we have lost. The parish is in one way 165 years old. Yet we are also new. This is a new start for us, which is exciting and more than a little daunting."


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My understanding is that Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland and Czech Republic are effectively safe and qualified already.
Switzerland can be overtaken by Latvia if LAT finish 5 spots higher than SUI.... not impossible but I expect SUI to show up in a big way this year to clinch that spot.
LAT can overtake SVK if they finish 4 places ahead of SVK. This isn't quite so impossible to imagine.
While NOR, BLR and FRA can technically still overtake SVK, I'm not counting chances here. They will be fighting for home ice advantage in the final qualification tournaments.


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Thanks to Dancing with the Stars, the penultimate episode of No Ordinary Family was exiled to Saturday night, all but ensuring that nobody will see it. Which is a real shame, because this might actually be the show's best episode.
"No Ordinary Future" is the first episode I've seen in ages that makes me think this show might actually deserve a second season. Let's just quickly run through the story - Stephanie's new powers allow her to run into the future, where she witnesses her family being hunted by the military, their powers exposed. Back in the present, George and Jim investigate the shooting death of their friend, Detective Cordero, and they soon realize dirty cops are involved. Meanwhile, Daphne deals with her boyfriend Chris's demands to use her powers to improve his life, while Lucy Lawless's Mrs. X revives Rebecca Mader's shapeshifter Victoria to figure out just what's going on with Katie's pregnancy.
I was massively dubious that the show could pull off Stephanie's time travel, but I've got to admit...it more or less works. The mini-apocalypse she sees is suitably chilling - I particularly liked George's self-sacrifice after J.J.'s unbelievable (but predictable) stupidity manages to give away their position - and the resolution in which Stephanie works out how Jim reveals their powers to the world, and then Jim uses that knowledge to avoid their fate, is well-executed. There was nothing revelatory about this, but it was very competently executed, with some nice style to boot.
This episode was also a nice showcase for Kay Panabaker as Daphne, who has quietly turned in some amazing work on this show. The show still skirts around really considering the morality of her telepathic abilities - indeed, the Powells' ultimate decision to mind-wipe Chris seems decidedly immoral, particularly in the wake of their reaction to Joshua doing the exact same thing to Daphne, and the episode seems to just assume it's OK because our designated heroes decided to do it. But leaving that aside, the earlier mini-conflict she has with Chris about her powers does raise a few mildly interesting questions, and Panabaker and Luke Kleintank both do a nice job with the material.
In particular, the final scene where Daphne accidentally wipes Chris of all his memories is very effective, partially because Kleintank does a good job undoing all the character changes we've seen in his stint on the show, but mostly because Panabaker has such a painful look of heartbreak on her face. And I say all this as someone who is usually bored stiff by all the kid-centric plots. Still, the two main plots for this episode were nicely thought through and executed with a certain panache. That's a winning formula as far as I'm concerned.
Don't get me wrong - there's still a lot of things that bug me about this show. George and Jim talk about the murdered Detective Cordero as though he was a great friend of theirs, but we haven't seen him since December. It feels dramatically cheap to bring back this minor character just to kill him off, particularly because our heroes act like he was a crucial part of their lives. And his wife comes across a lot more like a plot contrivance than someone whose husband was just brutally gunned down.
Stephanie remains painfully slow on the uptake, and her decision to keep her future visions to herself because Jim doesn't need the extra stress really doesn't make much sense. I also can't think of a good reason why Dr. King isn't the prime suspect for the person who would tip off the government about the Powells, and yet he's only mentioned once in the entire episode. Speaking of missing the obvious, Daphne really shouldn't be that surprised that Chris completely forgets his time with her - after all, that's what happened to her when Joshua wiped her mind.
And to be sure, there's nothing terribly original about this episode's plot - hell, we've seen more or less the same sort of thing on Heroes, and that is never a comparison superhero shows want to court. The dirty cop story teeters dangerously on the brink of incoherency, and there has to be a better way to kill off George than assassinate him in front of a crowd of dozens of cops.
So yes, if you want to pull this episode apart, you certainly can. Like every other No Ordinary Family episode, it's a mess of logical holes and clumsy plotting. But here's the crucial difference - I don't particularly want to pull it apart, because the hour of television I just watched was more than good enough on its own terms.
I know that some of you have criticized how seriously I take the show, arguing that it's churlish to point out the show's logical problems when really it should be judged more on whether it's enjoyable or not. Part of the reason I can't buy into that argument is that, most of the time, I find that No Ordinary Family's plot contrivances and clumsy characterization far outstrips whatever light entertainment value the show has to offer. But for this week, the show was easily entertaining enough to paper over its faults.
That may sound like a very weak defense of the show, and I suppose it is. But that's the thing - this show has hovered so relentlessly around mediocrity that it's difficult to differentiate between the good and bad episodes. This is not a classic hour of television, and it doesn't even belong in the same conversation as actual examples of superior science fiction television that's on at the moment like Fringe or Doctor Who. That should be a given.
And yet...if I could believe this show was capable of putting together a whole season of episodes as good as "No Ordinary Future", then I'd be legitimately sorry to see it go. By now, that seems a moot point - as I noted last time, the show is as good as cancelled, and there doesn't seem much point in imagining a decent episode aired on TV's worst night is going to do anything to change that.
Still, it's nice to see the show go out with a touch of dignity, with a reminder of what it was capable of when everything (or, at least, enough things) fell together just right. Here's hoping the finale can do as good a job as this episode, and I might actually be able to look back on No Ordinary Family with a touch of fondness.