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Farewell GWB
A prankish fate put George W. Bush in the oval office to keep America stupid. The nation was far from ready to see where it was going in the 21st century, and he was just the figure to keep it that way, with his void of curiosity, his allergy to reading, and his panderings to wealth-worshipping, Ponzi-loving, science-hating Jesus cultists. He goes out of office broadly regarded as an object of horror and loathing while the nation, now facing wholesale bankruptcy, struggles to imagine a plausible future, like someone who has just awakened from a cheap red wine drunk into the grip of a vicious hangover.
GWB was reputed to be an appealing personality off-camera, relaxed among his cohorts, full of fun, warmth, jokes, and nicknames. He was not quite as bad on-stage as his critics complained -- his natural obtuseness sometimes came off as candor -- but he was programmed by handlers with a range of poor locutions that eventually amounted to a world-view. For instance, the idiotic "war on terror," which served mainly to portray our adversaries as abstractions. His insistence on the term "victory" when speaking of our situation in Iraq actually fooled even his worst critics into thinking we were engaged in a "war," when for years it has been more accurately an awkward and lethal occupation.
I never believed that GWB actually tricked the nation on the "weapons of mass destruction" rationale for invading Iraq. Rather, the nation fooled itself into thinking that the war, in the first place, was anything but an act of vengeance for the gross injury of 9/11. After a couple of years, the public adopted the stupid narrative that they were "lied to," rather than recognizing the difficult truth that 9/11 had to be answered with lethal force, that international hostilities are far from wholly rational, and that Saddam Hussein got whacked because he was the Arab head-of-state who was the best candidate for getting whacked. A nation in thrall to psychotherapy, and self-esteem building programs, and the "win-win" bullshit of business Babbitry, couldn't imagine a tragic dilemma when one was staring them in the face.
GWB won reelection in 2004 -- running against the weak John Kerry, "a haircut in search of a brain," as Kevin Phillips put it so memorably, who was not smart enough to pander successfully (though he tried) to the dominant, Jesus-soaked Nascar fans who inhabit the Moron Crescent that runs from West Virginia south through Dixie and then west into Idaho. GWB was still riding pretty high when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the swamps and beaches east of Lake Ponchartrain, and the president failed to direct anybody to so much as air-drop bottled drinking water for survivors dying on rooftops and highway overpasses in New Orleans. The Left, once again, adopted an idiotic narrative to explain the event -- that Bush acted to punish African-Americans -- when plain incompetence combined with grandiose expectations for a televised happy ending to instead produce tragedy.
The fiasco in New Orleans was matched by the apparent failure to police Iraq back to stability, making the whole project appear feckless and futile, and GWB began his long swoon into discredit. But two other conditions were intensifying in the background, one the consequence of the other: peak oil and peak credit. As the primary resource of industrial capitalism reached its all-time production peak in 2005, the managers of the US economy allowed borrowing-from-the-future to replace productive activity as the basis for everyday life.
GWB barely acknowledged this compound problem. He asserted that America was addicted to oil, but he failed to take the idea a step further and say that our vaunted "way-of-life" could no longer be taken for granted. If anything, he endorsed the popular idea that a suburban lifestyle and WalMart consumerism was a Jesus-driven entitlement, and his circle in governance did everything possible to replace the industrial economy with an economy based on suburban land development and credit card spending -- which was enabled by fantastic experiments in finance that proved to be nothing more than an impenetrable web of swindles.
Those swindles began to unwind in 2007 and they now threaten to sink the USA as a viable enterprise. Their exact extent and nature still remain obscure, like the algorithms used to engineer the "alphabet soup" of fraudulent securities and recondite derivatives. In this stupendous failure, GWB is joined by his cohorts and minions in Republican polity, whose flamboyant misfeasance continues to make the credit blow-up worse by the minute. He leaves his successor, Mr. Obama, a predicament so dismal that the secession crisis of 1860 begins to look like a mere procedural quarrel in comparison. And despite the temporary crash of oil prices, the peak oil problem still looms very large in the background and has barely begun to work its hoodoo on what's left of the US economy.
The same prankish fate that elevated GWB may end up excusing or papering over his current ill-standing. Decades from now he might be remembered as the last national leader who presided over an orderly transition of power in a cohering federal system. The fickle public that longs for the last symbolic photo op, when Mr. Obama waves at the helicopter bearing GWB into the Texas gloaming, may soon turn on the new president for failing to return them to the Blue Light Special nirvana of days gone by.
To me, GWB will remain the perfect representative of his time, place, and culture. During his years in Washington, America became a nation of clowns posturing in cowboy hats, bethinking ourselves righteous agents of Jesus in a Las Vegas of the spirit, where wishing was enough to get something for nothing, where "mistakes were made," but everybody was excused from the consequences of bad choices. The break from that mentality will be very severe, and we may look back in twelve months and wonder how we ever fell for the whole package. The answering of that question will occupy historians for ages to come.


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This course introduces students to the histories of Asians in America, specifically as these histories are part of a broader Asia-US-Pacific history that characterized the 20th century and now the 21st. We will combine readings in history, literature, sociology, with community-based learning.nnThe course takes place over two quarters. The first quarter focuses on gaining knowledge of Asian America and discussion key topics that students wish to focus on collaboratively. During this first quarter we also learn about community-based learning, set up teams and projects, and develop relationships with community organizations. The second quarter students work with student liaisons (senior students who have experience in service learning) and complete their work with the community¿there are no formal class meetings this second quarter. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). Course can be repeated once.
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Art 142 is an introduction to the history of architecture since 1900 and how it has shaped and been shaped by its cultural contexts. The class also investigates the essential relationship between built form and theory during this period.
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If you thought that Padams and Javalis are reserved for the elderly, out of shape grandma's whose only body parts that can still somehow move is their face (well, even this is problematic if there is half a kilo of fat under your face's skin!), you should watch Alarmel Valli.
The evening of 28th was officially dedicated to the memory of Subbaraya Pillai, and the Shivagami Petachi AUditorium was fully packed despite the fact that the only announcement of this event was a small note in last week's Friday review. As Mrs. Parthasarathy declared, all the city's elite gathered that evening to watch Alarmel dance, and no parking space left in the school's compound. How elite were the VIP's could be seen by how brutally some rasikas were forced out of their seats in the first row, followed by even more embarrassing evictions of the lesser VIP's by the more "senior" VIP's. The fight for the first row seats reminds me of Subbaraya Pillai, who refused to sit in the first rows and was resentful of all these cheri VIP's. Doesn't Alarmel Valli gets annoyed while communicating with them? She probably does. On the other hand, just like Subbaraya Pillai, Nandini Ramani was seated in some 20th row on the 28th August.
Alarmel was indeed dancing well, as usual her dance was marked by midukku with liberal use of ottam adavus, light jumps, incredible coverage of stage space, a kulukku in her walk, talukku, an alakshyam as she flicks her wrist in the ullaasa nadai. Every slightest move was fully controlled and chiseled, lending it the artistic, and sometimes artsy, finish. Why Alarmel keeps doing mostly the same padams and javalis every time she does a performance in Chennai is bewildering. Anyway, she has changed her vocalist this time, and Savita Narasimhan was indeed singing with a delicate and powerful voice. Valli can afford to hire the best musicians, that's for sure.
Alarmel Valli's "style", if we can call it so, involves the elements that few other dancers can emulate. The soft and delicate movements are alternated with the sharp, accentuated moves that are probably aimed at not letting the rasikas fall asleep. Every hand movements are supported by the foot movements. And every step is done to the talam. (Something that I very rarely see!). Every "simple" movement is meticulously elaborated into a super-complex set. I noticed that the number of bhedas (and the range of their speeds and amplitudes) that she uses is considerable greater than any other dancer's. Priyadarshini Govind or Urmila Sathyanarayanan are nobodies compared with Alarmel.
Alarmel's background in Odissi could be seen in very rich and complex torso movements (some borrowed from Mohiniattam!) that "normal" Bharatanatyam dancers forgot about thanks to the founder of Kalakshetra's efforts. (Is this why so many professional Bharatanatyam dancers in Chennai take Odissi or Mohiniattam classes , I wonder?) Another thing they could learn is how to control their eye lashes. Alarmel has mastered these to a great extent. Usually, people are not even aware of how they open and close their eyes. But it does produce a very powerful effect.
Mrs. Parthasarathy rightly observed that Alarmel Valli's expressions do not cross that border after which they would turn into grimaces. I wonder how most of our other "senior" bharatanatyam exponents manage to produce so many ugly faces!
In the Yugame padam Alarmel Valli was portraying a miserable woman who was left by her lover. It was an attempt to depict a devotee's anguish at the separation from the Lord. It appeared that Valli has had no actual spiritual experience that alone would lend this padam more depth.
In another padam Valli was attempting to depicting a mother who was coaxing her child to come and eat something. The child was supposed to symbolize the devotee's soul who is turned away from the lures of the world. For anybody who has had this spiritual experience (if you had it, you can very easily recognize the other people who had the same experiences), it was obvious that Alarmel Valli has never had this direct spiritual experience, which rendered her padam rather weak.
Another padam that Alarmel did was about a woman who had an intimate encounter with her lover the previous night. This man embarrasses her in public by behaving in a rather rude manner. The spiritual symbolism here is quite obvious for anybody whose social life has been deranged by the direct spiritual experiences (if you watched Jim Carrey's "The Liar", you would realize how much a "successful" bharatanatyam dancer has to lie to reach the "top"). In fact, tears filled in my eyes, as the theme of this padam brought out the memories of certain realizations. The tears came before Valli started dancing.
There were no tears while I was watching Valli dance. The impression I had was like… While visiting some friends, I saw some nice fruits on the table, thinking that these fruits are so nice. On coming closer, I realized that the attractive looks were misleading: the fruits were made of plastic. Alarmel Valli's padams and javalis are sometimes like the perfectly-shaped and perfectly-colored apples, grapes and bananas which, nevertheless, are of little value since you cannot eat them. These will not provide the sustenance for your soul's spiritual hunger…. The artsy Bharatanatyam items have no real flavour, no taste, and are hollow inside.
If Amarmel Valli was a bit more open-minded and less proud of her achievements, should take abhinaya lessons from some 9-year girls. After all, Lalitha Sahasra Namam describes Devi as "Dhurga who is a nine year old girl" (not an old grandma). At this age, our abhinaya is not yet disconnected from our soul.
I always wonder why the "functions" are held before the end – not after – the performance. Had it been after the performance, the VIP speakers would surely face a very embarrassing situation with 99% of the spectators leaving before the speeches start. Mrs. Parthasarathy was again trying to promote her PSBB, stressing that many PSBB students are learning at Alarmel Valli's Dipasikha. She did not want to embarrass Alarmel Valli by asking why in the past 4 years there have been just one or two solo performances in Chennai by Dipasikha's students. Alarmel Valli brought one to dance in Chennai from… the USA, where Alarmel spends a lot of her time. Does she follow Subbaraya Pillai's tradition and teach very talented students there regardless of how much they pay? She teaches only one-to-one, right? Business skills are not the only thing that Alarmel Valli learnt in America: about 5% of her movements (aimed at impressing the average American cowboy) clearly appear to be borrowed from artsy ballet and modern dance. That's the application of lokadharmi, isn't it???
Another speaker who was boring the rasikas was Dr.R.Nagaswamy. In his senile imbecility he referred to Chokkalingam Pillai's relation with the 108 karanas. (There is no way Alarmel can do the more difficult karanas – unlike this young dancer). Why neither Chokkalingam Pillai nor Alarmel Valli wanted to talk about karanas is very simple: neither of them has ever known how to perform these. And the aging Alarmel is a bit too lazy to spend much time on getting fitter. Another idiocy that Dr.R.Nagaswamy was dwelling on was his idea of making a memorial in Vazhuvoor. Why this village has long forgotten anything related to Bharatanatyam is up to Chokkalingam Pillai to answer. Indeed, why did most of these village dance teachers left their villages and settled in Indian cities? Or American cities?
In a Sruti magazine's article of February 2002, we find many revelations.
To the question, "I read somewhere that, according to a treatise on abhinaya, one of the chief qualities of a dancer is that she be beautiful…", Alarmel replies, "I would like to think that for a dancer it is her inner beauty that counts. Take the example of the late T. Balasaraswati, one of India's greatest exponents of abhinaya. I have been transported, watching her perform at 60.She could make you see her exactly as she wanted you to see her. If you looked at her, you would see a beautiful, young, charming girl of 16″.
The inner beauty…. well, even the ugliest K.J.Sarasa are very beautiful inside if they are famous, rich or powerful. Alarmel is quick to dismiss the ancient scriptures as nonsense, and believes that both Bharata Muni and Nandikeshwara are idiots as they believed that natya in its material expression is to be the expression of the physical body too. But when Alarmel has to choose between a politically correct answer ("when we describe beauty, it is inner beauty and aesthetics we are talking about") and an honest answer.
Alarmel Valli still is quite sober: "Let me tell you something. Never take too seriously what dancers write! Even scholars are prone to make mistakes – not only factual mistakes but ones relating to interpretation as well."


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General Motors on Thursday named global engineering chief Karl-Friedrich Stracke to replace Nick Reilly as CEO of its money-losing Opel/Vauxhall unit, effective April 1.
Stracke will report to Reilly, 61, who continues as the head of GM's European operations and will be nominated to chair the Opel supervisory board. Stracke, a German native, has led GM's global vehicle engineering operations for the past 15 months.
GM said its latest management shift adds strength to GM Europe, the automaker's only unprofitable division in 2010.
"The European market and our European operations are important to General Motors, and these moves will ensure that we have the best leadership in place as we continue toward growth and profitability," GM CEO Dan Akerson said in a statement.
Stracke, 55, will be replaced in the global engineering role by John Calabrese, executive director of global vehicle engineering. Calabrese joined GM in 1981. He has held several key leadership positions in GM's global engineering operations.
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Stracke is a 32-year veteran of GM. He joins Opel/Vauxhall as the division seeks to return to profitability after reducing capacity by a fifth and cutting about 8,000 of its 48,000 workforce.
GM lost $1.76 billion in Europe in 2010. GM has said that it expects GM Europe to break even this year, before restructuring costs.
The change restores elements of GM's top management structure in Europe prior to GM's 2009 bankruptcy. Previously, the chairman of Opel's management board in Russelsheim reported to the president of GM Europe, based in Zurich, Switzerland. The head of Opel had focused mainly on German operations.
Reilly will also continue to oversee Chevrolet and Cadillac in Europe, in addition to serving on the Opel supervisory board. Reilly joined GM Europe in November 2009 after running GM's international operations based in China for three years.
"I will be staying in Ruesselsheim," Reilly said during a conference call Thursday. "As he (Stracke) gets his feet on the ground more, it will allow me some more time to look at the long-term strategic positioning in Europe."
Stracke is a mechanical engineer and joined Opel in 1979. He rose through several engineering positions to head Opel's plant in Bochum, Germany, from 1995 until 1999.
Later he was a director of product development at GM's technical development center in Russelsheim, Germany, then held several executive director positions in engineering in Germany and the U.S. before being appointed head of global vehicle engineering, in December 2009.
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In January, product czar Tom Stephens was moved to the job of global chief technology officer and was replaced by human resources executive Mary Barra.
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The latest technical glitch to frustrate the Affordable Care Act hit over the weekend and was a doozy.
Problems at a federal data center run by a Verizon company ground enrollment to a halt for healthcare.gov and for every state, even those where individual websites have been working well.
The problem appears to have been fixed, but a case still is building for delaying the enrollment period for Obamacare beyond March 31 of next year, the date to which the president extended it Monday.
Colorado's two senators have signed on to a letter with eight Democratic senators asking Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to push back the deadline.
"Individuals should not be penalized for lack of coverage if they are unable to purchase health insurance due to technical problems," the letter said.
The White House moved back the deadline six weeks, but the latest malfunction raises questions about whether the system will be fixed soon enough to give Americans time to shop for health care plans and enroll before penalties are levied.
The letter that Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall signed on to doesn't call for a specific extension of time, but we think that if the government is still struggling with gremlins by the end of November, another six weeks might be reasonable.
As things stand, there have been so many technical problems with healthcare.gov that Americans have been largely frustrated in their efforts to use the website to shop for insurance. But even in the 17 states that developed their own online health care marketplaces, like Colorado, there have been decidedly mixed results.
Connect for Health Colorado earlier this month reported only 226 people signing up for insurance, about one-tenth the number of people who signed up in Maryland, a state similar in size.
Numbers released Monday show the state exchange has signed up 3,164 people for coverage, a positive development.
At least one state has apparently been exceptionally good in creating its own marketplace and getting folks signed up: Kentucky. The Bluegrass State reports it has enrolled more than 26,000 people in coverage so far. Also, more than 50,000 have begun applications and more than 300,000 people have visited the state's site, kynect.ky.gov. New York, by contrast, has signed up some 40,000 people for coverage.
So it's clear that it's quite possible to run a state marketplace for health care successfully.
That brings us to a central point: The Democrats who've signed on to a call for extending the enrollment deadline are doing so because they actually want Obamacare to succeed and want to see millions of uninsured Americans sign up and get health insurance.
Meanwhile, Republicans who have fought for delays have done so in an attempt to buy time in hopes of making another run at the law and eliminating it.
And make no mistake, Obama- care is law, one upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as constitutional and one that President Obama ran for re-election on — and won.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the producer of the Golden Globes awards show Dick Clark Productions (DCP) are at war over an alleged breach of contract.
In papers filed yesterday [17] with the US District Court for the Central District Of California, the HFPA claimed that without its knowledge DCP signed a licence agreement on October 29 with NBC for the Globes that runs from 2012-18.
"DCP acts as though it has unilateral right to license the broadcast rights for the Golden Globe Awards on whatever terms it pleases, without HFPA's knowledge or authorization," the filing read. The suit targets DCP and parent company Red Zone Capital.
In a statement issued last night [17] DCP said: "The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, knowing it has no case in a court of law, is attempting to try this case in the court of public opinion.
"We are confident the case has no merit in either venue. Our respective rights under the contract are clear. The HFPA cannot unilaterally change the basis on which DCP and the HFPA have done business for almost three decades."
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SNF is No. 1 Broadcast of Sunday Night For 4th Straight Week
14.2 Overnight is Up 19% From Last Year's Week 4 Game
Rating Peaked at 14.9 Just Before Halftime
NEW YORK - October 4, 2010 - Last night's "Sunday Night Football" game recorded the best overnight for an NFL primetime game in October in 10 years and was the No. 1 program on Sunday night for the fourth consecutive week, according to overnight data released today by The Nielsen Company.
"Sunday Night Football" featuring the New York Giants 17-3 victory over the Chicago Bears, earned a 14.2 overnight rating and 22 share (from 8:30-11:15 p.m. ET), the best for an NFL primetime game in October since 10/9/2000 (Buccaneers-Vikings 14.7/23 on ABC).
Last night's game was 19 percent higher than last year's Week 4 SNF game (Chargers-Steelers, 11.9/19).
The rating peaked at a 14.9/22 from 9:30-10 p.m. ET with the Giants taking a 3-0 lead into halftime.
When the viewership is available tomorrow from Nielsen, "Sunday Night Football" is expected to be the most-watched Sunday night show for the fourth consecutive week. Last season, SNF was the most-watched Sunday night primetime broadcast in a record 15 of 16 (94 percent) weeks. In 2008, SNF won 13 of 16 (81 percent) Sunday nights after winning 11 of 16 in 2007 (69 percent) and nine of 16 in 2006 (56 percent).
DOMINATED ORIGINALCOMPETITION: Last night's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast dominated against original programs including ABC's Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters, CBS's 60 Minutes, Amazing Race and Undercover Boss and the season premiere of CSI Miami and Fox's The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy and the season premiere of American Dad.
NBC led the night among metered markets in primetime (7-11 p.m. ET) with a 10.9/17 topping the 8.1/13 for second-place CBS by 35 percent. NBC also beat Fox by 49 percent (7.3/11) and ABC by 76 percent (6.2/10).
1. Chicago, 39.7/54
2. Milwaukee, 21.9/33
3. Las Vegas, 20.6/33
4. New Orleans, 18.5/25
5. West Palm Beach, 16.3/22
6. Richmond, 16.0/23
7. Indianapolis, 15.8/24
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T9. Denver, 15.6/25
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I am now so addicted that I am signing up for this forum to see where I can go next to kiteboard with my BF of 12 years and my dog.
Besides kiting, I am into fast cars, dirty jokes, and good food!!! I am also a car forum veteran, so don't get smart. I know how to handle myself
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Here we are, in a Cubs baseball season that was deposited into the septic tank of history approximately 150 days ago. If you can name the Cubs current starting rotation, well, that's just sad. Get a life. The Cubs underperformed major-league caliber baseball again today, but let's forget about that and find something else to think about. We could celebrate the 172nd birthday of Thomas Nast by smashing piñatas in the form of GOP elephants and Democratic Donkeys (because Santa Claus and Uncle Sam should never be piñatas). We could muster as much excitement as possible over Saturday night's Toledo-Western Michigan game. We could lament the loss of the NHL preseason. Or, we could reflect on how, only 9 years and 2 days ago, the Cubs had one of their best days in history.
On the morning of Sept 27, 2003, the Cubs were half a game in front of Houston for the NL Central lead, with 3 games left to play. They had to play a double header against Pittsburgh because the previous night's game was rained out. Mark Prior started game 1 and would eventually go 6.2 innings, striking out 10, on his way to win #18 and a lifetime of arm trouble. He only threw 133 pitches that day which was OK, because he only threw 131 in his previous outing, so he was rested. Kyle Farnsworth and one of my all-time favorite Cubs, Joe Borowski, closed out the game. The score was 4-2. Josh Fogg took the loss. The offensive star was Situational Hitting, in a cameo appearance in Cubs history, as the Cubs scored 2 runs on sac flies and one on a bases-loaded ground out to short. The other run came on a Damien Miller home run, his last as a Cub. As the game was winding down, Houston lost to Milwaukee, setting up game 2 as the clincher.
It was a damn-good Pittsburgh team though (after all, they won 75 games in 2003), so a double-header sweep was unlikely. I have a distinct memory of the feeling of dread that the Cubs would be unable to sweep. Odds and Cubbishness argued for a split.
Game 2 featured the Bearded Wonder against Ryan Vogelsong, in the 7th start of his career. Turned out to be one of his shortest too–he lasted only 1.1 innings and gave up 6 runs. All the Cubs had to do was hold on and they'd clinch the division championship. Sosa hit his 40th HR and Moises Alou hit his 22nd. No one shook Alou's hand after his jack though. Matt Clement cruised, giving up no runs, 5 hits, and 1 BB through 7 before a run-scoring triple and a passed ball. The Cubs won 7-2. Despite the offensive explosion, no Cub batter had more than one hit or run-scored, and Mark GrudF7 had the most RBI for the game; two. I guess Situational Hitting stuck around for a nightcap. Even Koyie Hill, I mean Paul Bako, had an RBI and run scored on 1 for 3 hitting.
Riding the momentum of their division-clinching double header, the Cubs lost the next day but beat Atlanta in 5 games in the Division Series. I'm not really sure what happened after that.


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Members of the Waitsfield Planning Commission discussed the potential for a community member-owned solar orchard with Friends of the Northfield Ridge representative Peter Boynton at their October 14 meeting.
Boynton explained that a group of town officials and alternative energy experts participated in a conference call with Lauren Martindale of the Clean Energy Collective (CEC) the previous Wednesday.
"They're franchising their model outside their area and have done a
couple of projects successfully; they allow someone who either doesn't
have the resources or own a home to own some fractional part, one panel
up to a larger investment," Boynton said.
Waitsfield Planning Commission chair Steve Shea asked how residents would share ownership. Boynton said the orchard is similar to a co-op; residents can own a share or buy multiples.
"If you move out of the area they sell yours to another person; it's not completely clear how it works if it's above 150 KW, and how the regulatory process works. Also, where do you put it?" Boynton continued.
When asked how the solar installation would be financed, Boynton said the community is responsible for coming up with their own model and the CEC funding maintains the site and bills the utility - in this case, Green Mountain Power.
"They don't come find you a site," he added.
Shea said, "So the company would get the tax credits. The entity owning and building and supplying the equipment takes the tax credit."
"The issue is where are the taxes being generated that you're getting the tax credit against?" he continued.
Shea said that the key element is figuring out the methodology to get the tax credits.
Boynton said, "There is a lot to work out, on the regulatory and on the financial side.
Waitsfield Planning Commission member Ted Tremper said, "It's good that someone can get in at a small cost; that is the only advantage to me."
Boynton said, "This is not a model for anyone to make money on. It's not a corporate model."
The next step, according to Boynton, is to get more specific information, looking into a management model, and finding a site that doesn't have a lot of obstacles. "I'm not a developer; let's see if it has the right ingredients," he added.


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This post is also for Tara Cain's Gallery at Sticky Fingers. 2 for the price of 1! Well, we are having to economise these days…
I'd set myself a bit of a challenge with this. I'd decided that whatever came up using my usual random selection method I would use for the Gallery, the theme of which this week is "One Word". It could have been tough, but when I saw the photo that came up I was delighted. I knew immediately what my one word was:
Meet George.
Or more correctly, Lonesome George.
He lives in his own enclosure in the Charles Darwin Research Centre in Santa Cruz, one of the Galapagos Islands.
Why 'Lonesome'? Because he is truly the last of his kind, the last remaining Pinta Galapagos Giant Tortoise: the world's rarest animal.
In the 19th century whalers & sealers used the tortoises as a food source: they could live up to year without food or water so seemed perfect for long journeys at sea. Also, in the 1950s goats were released onto his island of Pinta, also as a food source. They then out-competed the slow-moving tortoises for their food, & also caused much erosion.
When he was found alone on the island by National Park Wardens hunting goats it was decided to take him to the safety of the Research Centre.
There are many other different types of giant tortoise there, including many lovely ladies. In trying to continue his species the staff there are only too keen to set George up with any lovely lady of his choosing, setting the ambience, choosing the finest cuisine to set the mood for lurve. You would think that this would be a gentleman bachelor tortoise's paradise, but apparently not. He's just not interested.
Very unpleasant things have been done to his private parts. Ladies skilled in the Art of Lurve have been brought in to attempt to, um, engage his interest. I kid you not! All to no avail.
I wonder if it's occurred to anyone that he might prefer the company of gentleman tortoises: must be worth a try, surely?
Personally I wonder if it's just time to just leave the poor old fella alone & let him live out the rest of his life with all the food, drink & shelter he could ever need. He's probably had a tough old life, he's in his 70s; isn't it time for a rest?
So for now, he's still Lonesome George, the last of his kind – & looks like staying that way.
Why not have a look at all the other One Words in Tara's Gallery at Sticky Fingers? (click the pic.):
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- Sterile giant tortoises used as Galapagos lawnmowers (newscientist.com)
- 'Lonesome George': Giant Tortoise, Last Living Geochelone Abigdoni, Gets Two New Mates After Prior Failed Attempts (huffingtonpost.com)
- Random Photo of the Day 2: Galapagos (drolgerg.wordpress.com)


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Buddhism for Beginners
Thubten Chodron (Author)
DescriptionThis easy-to-understand overview of the basics of Buddhism is an invaluable resource for the new or seasoned practitioner This user's guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions--beginning with "What is the essence of the Buddha's teachings?"--and provides simple answers in plain English. Thubten Chodron's responses to the questions that always seem to arise among people approaching Buddhism make this an exceptionally complete and accessible introduction--as well as a manual for living a more peaceful, mindful, and satisfying Life. Buddhism for Beginners is an ideal first book on the subject for anyone, but it's also a wonderful resource for seasoned students, since the question-and-answer format makes it easy to find just the topic you're looking for, such as: - What is the goal of the Buddhist path?
- What is karma?
- If all phenomena are empty, does that mean nothing exists?
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- What are the qualities I should look for in a teacher?
- What is Buddha-nature?
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Thubten Chodron, an American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun, travels worldwide, teaching and leading meditation retreats. Known for her clear and practical explanations of the Buddha's teachings, she is the author of Buddhism for Beginners; Working with Anger; How to Free Your Mind; Open Heart, Clear Mind; and Taming the Mind. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
"This book is written for people wanting to understand basic Buddhist principles and how to integrate them into their lives. . . . It will be of much benefit to its readers."--H.H. the Dalai Lama "Thubten Chodron has presented the Buddhist view on essential issues of spiritual development. . . . A tremendous resource for those interested in Buddhist practice."--Karma Lekshe Tsomo, president of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women "Chodron's plain English makes her beginner's guide nearly perfect for those new to Buddhism and those who simply want to learn more."--Booklist "A very compassionate book. Her approach is nonsectarian and emphasizes the basic unity found within Buddhism."--Ryo Imamura, Jodo Shin priest and professor of psychology at Evergreen State College "Her lucid, correct, clear, and convincing manner is highly commendable."--Ven. Dr. Havanpola Ratanasara, College of Buddhist Studies, Los Angeles "Ven. Thubten Chodron is especially skilled in presenting Buddhist philosophy and practices in ways that are easily accessible and practical for Buddhists who live in the Western world."--Ven. Hung I Shih, abbot of Jade Buddha Temple in Houston "This is the perfect gift for family and friends who wish to understand one's engagement with Buddhism. Thubten Chodron combines several decades of traditional training in Tibetan Buddhism with western psychotherapeutic relevance. . . . That quality of integration is where the Venerable Thubten Chodron is such a powerful writer and teacher."--Branches of Light
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Interior Designers across the world are now firmly on the eco-friendly bandwagon and pushing their designs to new environmentally savvy heights. One designer from South Africa has demonstrated how old vintage suitcases can be transformed into chairs! Katie Thompson graduated from Design Time School of Interior Design in Cape Town with the aim to make the ordinary rather extraordinary.
The "Suitcase Chair" is my favorite of Katie's designs, I just adore it's quirkyness and the white linen set against the pale blue case gives this piece a beautiful and delicate personality. Also, the clever recycling of what can be seen as "junk" is a fantastic example to their designers wanting to be more forward thinking.
The chair has a steel reinforced internal structure with the body is covered in 100% white linen, with the buttons draped in floral Liberty fabric. I'm not sure how much this piece is, but going by her other designs which sell from £600 upwards, my guess is that it's not going to be cheap, but neither is quality.


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Every time particle physicists look for the Higgs boson or any other members of a large collection of theoretical particles, they have to do a bit of statistics. Well, quite a lot of statistics, actually. The Standard Model of physics helps tell them what they'll probably see when two particles smash together at nearly light speed. To find something new, they have to look for places where the signals they see don't match up to the pattern predicted by the Standard Model.
Those predictions, however, require impressive amounts of computing power and are only approximations at best. There are some conditions where there are simply no effective methods of calculating the result with a classical computer. But a quantum computer doesn't have to play by the same rules, and researchers have now produced an algorithm that can solve the equations that dictate what goes on within particle colliders like the LHC.
The problem (or at least one of them) with simulating particle collisions is that it requires a combination of quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of the particles involved, and relativity, since the particles are moving at nearly the speed of light. Although these two descriptions of reality are incompatible in some ways, Quantum Field Theory (which Richard Feynman helped develop) can provide a description of the interactions of fundamental particles like quarks and electrons.
However, Feynman's equations don't apply to all situations, and there are many cases—like when a system is far from equilibrium—where they simply can't be solved, at least not with a classical computer. As the paper describing the new algorithm puts it, "Quantum field theory, which applies quantum mechanics to functions of space and time, presents additional technical challenges, because the number of degrees of freedom per unit volume is formally infinite."
So the authors of the new paper (one each from Caltech, Pittsburgh, and the NIST), have turned to quantum computing, explicitly simulating a system where two particles collide and scatter off each other. This may sound simple, but they note a couple of things that make matters a bit more complex. Some of the particles' energy may be converted into mass, meaning more particles come out of the collision than go in. In addition, the incoming momentum doesn't determine exactly how fast the particles that exit will be moving, but only influence the probability distributions typical of quantum objects.
The algorithm itself involves preparing a bunch of particles as quantum wave packets, then getting these packets to interact. The details of how to do this physically aren't specified, and the nature of the interactions are such that the authors describe things by saying, "within the interaction picture, our algorithm is more naturally described in the formalism of Hamiltonians and within the Schrödinger picture." The key thing is that, even though there is an indeterminate number of potential states, the algorithm allows the simulation to work with only a finite number of qubits.
Unfortunately, finite does not necessarily mean "small." The authors estimate that the minimum number of qubits needed is at least 1,000, and may be closer to 10,000. Considering that having more than a couple qubits working together is currently a major accomplishment, actually implementing this algorithm is left for the indefinite future.
That said, if we can ever implement this, it will be a validation of the promise of quantum computing. The algorithm can clearly solve some problems that classical computers can't touch. But the authors also compared its performance on related problems that classic computers can solve, and showed that the quantum version provides an exponential speed-up.
This gets back to the P vs. NP issue (where P are problems that classical computers can solve relatively easily). As an accompanying perspective points out, this is further evidence that the equivalent of P in the quantum world (called BQP, and representing problems that quantum computing handles relatively painlessly) probably includes all P problems, but is probably larger. That means there will be things that quantum computers really do handle well.
In any case, the perspective also points out that the development of effective quantum algorithms has sometimes led to insights that improved the algorithms we use on classical computers. So we may not need to build a 1,000-qubit quantum computer for the folks running the LHC experiments to see some benefits from this work.
Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1217069, 10.1126/science.1223010 (About DOIs).


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Conn. lawmakers to learn details of Newtown bill
HARTFORD — Families of Newtown school shooting victims asked lawmakers Monday to include a ban on existing high-capacity magazines like the ones used in the killings in a framework for bipartisan legislation addressing gun control and other legal issues spurred by the massacre.
During lengthy, closed-door caucus meetings Monday afternoon at the Capitol, rank-and-file lawmakers were learning more about the possible legislation, which was negotiated by legislative leaders.
Six relatives of victims from the Dec. 14 shooting traveled to Hartford on Monday to deliver a letter signed by 24 relatives. Some handed out cards with photographs of their slain children. In the letter, they demand that legislators include existing large-capacity ammunition magazines in an expected ban on the sale of magazines that carry 10 or more bullets.
A lawmaker who spoke on condition of anonymity because the proposed framework is still being discussed said it would allow existing large-capacity magazines to remain legal by grandfathering them into the law, but they would have to be registered with the state.
A clause allowing such large-capacity magazines to remain in the hands of gun owners would leave a gaping loophole in the law, said Mark Barden, whose 7-year-old son Daniel was killed in the shooting.
"It doesn't prevent someone from going out of the state to purchase them and then bring them back. There's no way to track when they were purchased, so they can say, 'I had this before,'" Barden said. "So it's a big loophole."
The gunman in the Newtown shooting blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and fired off 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle within five minutes. He went through six 30-round magazines, though half were not completely empty, and police said he had three other 30-round magazines in addition to one in the rifle. He gunned down 20 children and six educators, then killed himself with a handgun.
Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has voiced his support for the Newtown families' position.
"I have been clear for weeks that a ban on the possession and sale of high capacity magazines is an important part of our effort to prevent gun violence — simply banning their sale moving forward would not be an effective solution," he said.
Leaders are hopeful that a vote by the full General Assembly can be held later this week, possibly Wednesday, depending on how Monday's discussions progress, said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Fairfield Republican whose district includes Newtown.
"We're all hopeful in discussing with our respective caucuses that we'll be able to come forward and have a vote this week," said McKinney, adding how he's unsure whether changes to the tentative legislation will be made following the caucus meetings.
"I think it depends on how the caucuses go. If there's a large rebuke, then who knows?" he said, adding that he doesn't anticipate one.
Besides questions over whether to grandfather in large-capacity magazines, debate was expected over a section of the legislation affecting people with mental illness. People with knowledge of the framework said lawmakers are considering requiring people who commit themselves to a hospital for longer than 72 hours to give up their guns for six months.
Asked if the leaders each fully support the proposal they're discussing Monday with their members, McKinney said it was too early to say. They've been negotiating since early March, reviewing recommendations made by three legislative subcommittees that reviewed gun violence, mental health care and school security in the wake of the shooting.
"We're at a point where we each want to bring where we are to our caucuses to see if we're in a place that can move us to a vote this week," said McKinney, adding how he anticipates both Democratic and Republican leaders will ultimately back the final package.
He called the tentative agreement "the most comprehensive package in the country because of its breadth."
McKinney said people tend to focus on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, but he said "there's a lot here underneath the surface" addressing mental health and other issues.


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December 16, 2013 : By Drew Menard
On Dec. 7, the Liberty University Athletics Department lost one of its own when Darius Dixon, a freshman sprinter for the track & field program, was tragically killed in a car accident.
Earlier that same week, Dixon competed in his first collegiate event for the Flames, running in the 200-meter and 400-meter dash races in the Liberty Kickoff, held in the Tolsma Indoor Track Center on Dec. 4-5.
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La. governor says GOP needs to appeal to minorities
A possible 2016 presidential contender made a stop in New Hampshire on Friday.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal headlined a GOP fundraiser at the Radisson Hotel.
Jindal said one of his goals is to make the Republican Party more appealing to minority communities. He said the party wasn't inclusive enough during the last presidential campaign.
"We need to be fighting for 100 percent of the vote and showing every voter that our policies help them," Jindal said. "In terms of charter schools, school choice, education reform, there's a lot of children, a lot of parents whose kids are trapped in failing public schools all across the country. We need to be pursuing policies giving every one of those kids the chance or choice to go to a great school."
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