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A photo of an anti-hate advertisement from a local bar was making the rounds on Twitter Thursday morning.
Grandad's Bar on NW 23 Street in Oklahoma City placed the ad in the latest Oklahoma Gazette to clear up its stance on a situation that happened at the establishment.
"We had a situation recently that is sad and embarrassing and will absolutely not be tolerated," Proprietor Greg Seal said in the ad. "So, if you have any problem with another type of person that might lead you to verbally or physically abuse them, or even cause a scene at the bar, DO NOT COME HERE."
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Brazil's new stadiums seek post-World Cup events
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Once the World Cup and its traveling circus leaves town, four gleaming stadiums that cost $1.6 billion and hosted massive crowds will echo noisily as their owners struggle to find a use for them or even partially fill them.
In the western Brazilian city of Cuiaba, Chilean and Colombian fans produced sellouts at the Arena Pantanal of 40,000 at the World Cup. The next big game at the $260 million stadium is July 20 — Paysandu vs. Cuiaba for the championship of Brazil's Serie C, or the third division. Officials are hoping for 4,000 fans.
Similar letdowns await at least three other new stadiums built for the World Cup: in the capital Brasilia, the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, and in Natal on the northeastern coast.
None of them has a big-time team, which means no permanent tenants to fill the stands, pay the bills or service the debt. Those venues cost about $1.6 billion, lavish spending that could have been aimed at rundown schools, shabby hospitals and poor public transportation, instead going to white-elephant football stadiums.
Government auditors say the bill for the Brasilia stadium will reach $900 million, the most expensive football venue ever built after Wembley Stadium in London.
Brazil did not require all 12 stadiums used at the World Cup. FIFA demanded a minimum of eight, but organizers decided it would build four more than were needed, mostly to satisfy local politicians.
"The only thing worse than spending a bunch of money on a stadium, is spending a bunch of money on a stadium that no one uses," said Victor Matheson, a sports economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. "No academic economist thinks that spending money on sports facilities is a particularly good investment."
All four stadiums bill themselves as multi-functional venues that can also play host to social and cultural events, and conventions. They have websites advertising themselves and looking for occupants.
Mauricio Guimaraes, who heads World Cup projects in Cuiaba, said the stadium might host agricultural fairs, business events and "could provide an incentive for the area's third- and fourth-division teams to seek promotion."
In Natal, the stadium will hold a Serie B match next week between America and Bragantino that is expected to draw about 3,000.
The situation is similar in Manaus and Brasilia.
Jose Maria Marin, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, said several times that finding uses after the World Cup would "all depend on the creativity, the imagination of the owners and the operators of these stadiums."
History suggests the four are ill-advised outlays. But even if they are, it's a tiny expense for a country with a $2.5 trillion economy. If the World Cup pays off in international goodwill, more tourism and boosts the re-election chances in October of President Dilma Rousseff, politicians — if not economists — will conclude it's been worth it.
Recent World Cups and Olympics have left expensive relics.
The $600 million Cape Town stadium from the 2010 World Cup has hosted just seven football matches in four years. It was the postcard image of South Africa's Cup, built on the seashore and under Cape Town's famous Table Mountain. Officials argue it will pay off in time.
The future is worse for a stadium built in the northern city of Polokwane, which has no major sports team and no way of generating revenue.
The symbol of Beijing's 2008 Olympics, the Bird's Nest's stadium, sits as what Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes recently called "a mausoleum to honor wasted public money."


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12-4-0, AFC East Division · 2006 NFL Season Summary
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Scored 385 points (24.1/g), 7th of 32 in the NFL. Allowed 237 points (14.8/g), 2nd.
Differential of 148 points (9.2/g), 4th. Expected W-L: 12.2-3.8.
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A "New Media" Installation by Yueh-mei Cheng at Community Arts Center April 7 to 30
April 2, 2009
HANCOCK, MI - Artist Yueh-mei Cheng will create a spatial-temporal chess board in the Kerredge Gallery at the Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock, this April.
The New Media installation, titled "TIME. SPACE. BEING." will be on display from April 7 to 30.
An opening reception for the artist will take place at the Community Arts Center Thursday, April 9, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
New Media art describes creative projects that make use of emerging media technologies such as digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, and interactive art technologies. Their aim is to explore the cultural, political, and aesthetic possibilities of these tools.
The genre emerged in the 1990s as the Internet and electronic communication methods began to pervade modern society. New Media projects are often completed in collaboration with other artists.
Cheng says her multi-media installation places each visitor in a unique position to play his/her own mind game of 3D visual chess. Derived from her meditative experiences, "TIME. SPACE. BEING" creates images that echo the existential reality of meditation.
Cheng adds that in art, time, space, and beings are interwoven and inseparable. She says that in this art installation, one's internal vision is represented by pictographic images and metaphoric symbols.
The letters of the alphabet become beings that live beyond the ordinary dimensions of perception, invoking the ancient mystics. The viewer's sense of time and space is influenced externally by the artist's imagined appearance of form, color, light, and sound.
To create the installation, Cheng is collaborating with artists Aaron Radzwilowicz, sound design, Jonathan Soper, computer animation, Donica Dravillas, glass design, and Karl Larson, electrical support.
Yueh-mei Cheng is an associate professor of studio arts at Finlandia University. Her most recent book, "Visual Chess" (2008), is closely related to the topics of this installation.
For additional information, please contact the Copper Country Community Arts Center at 906-482-2333.
Photo cutlines: Untitled images from the multi-media art installation, "TIME. SPACE. BEING" created by Yueh-mei Cheng and collaborators


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Coupe comes to Berkeley after serving as the women's head coach at Santa Clara (2004-06). Before taking the job with the Broncos, he was the men's assistant head coach at Fresno State (2002-04) and the interim head coach at his alma mater, Sacramento State (2002). Coupe is ranked among the top three tennis players at Sacramento State, where he played from 1993-1995.
He led Santa Clara to a very successful, record-setting 2004-05 season. Santa Clara finished the campaign with its best record in the history of the program at 16-7, and the squad also was nationally ranked for the first time.
While at Fresno State, the Bulldogs advanced to the 2004 NCAA Tournament, after reaching their highest national ranking of 30. The season before, Fresno State advanced to the round of 32 at the NCAA Tournament. Under Coupe's guidance, the No. 1 doubles team was ranked as high as No. 20 in the country and qualified to play in the NCAA Doubles Championships.
Serving as the men's interim head coach at Sacramento State, Coupe led the Hornets to the 2002 Big Sky Championship and a birth into the 2002 NCAA Tournament. He took over as head coach when Sac State was 5-10, and the Hornets ended the season 12-10.
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I pulled out the latest issue of Green Futures for a bit of light relief. It instantly lifted my mood as it reminded me just… how exciting sustainability issues can be.
Transferable quotas are the key to conserving stocks, study shows
The risk of fish stocks collapsing can be cut by half if fishermen agree on a system of 'catch shares'.
That's the conclusion of a major study led by Professor Christopher Costello of the University of California, which examined over 11,000 commercial fisheries around the world.
It could be the key to reversing the potentially catastrophic decline in some of the world's major fisheries, and help to promote sustainable fishing.
Under catch shares systems, individual fishermen, communities, or co-operatives are allocated a percentage share of a total allowable catch within a particular fishery.
Catch shares – effectively a form of individual transferable quotas (ITQ) – date back to the 1970s, but are still relatively rare. The study found just 121 in operation, mostly in the US, New Zealand, Canada and Iceland. They are almost unheard of in Europe and the UK, but where implemented they provide a vital "stewardship incentive" which motivates fishermen to conserve stocks, Costello says.
Costello's work was triggered by mounting concern over the speed and scale of fisheries decline. "One widely reported study has suggested we could see a global collapse of fish stocks by 2048. The question we asked ourselves was, 'can we do anything about it?'"
"So we decided to look for lessons learned in management institutions around the world. This led us to a theory that has mostly been put forward by economists, but has been largely untested to date, with only anecdotal evidence to support it. The theory is, if you assign rights to individuals to some form of asset, they have an incentive [to safeguard it]."
Based on the results, Costello concludes that just 9% of global fisheries would be in danger of collapse if they had implemented some form of catch shares system back in the 1970s. Current estimates suggest one third are in danger. "Our projections show that if ITQs had been implemented at 100% of fisheries, they could wholly offset the current decline. That is the most striking result."
The study's welcomed by Rupert Howes, CEO of the Marine Stewardship Council, the international marine eco-labelling and certification programme for sustainable seafood. "Anything which gets the incentives right has to be a good thing. ITQs can do just this by ensuring fishers have a long-term interest in maintaining the health and productivity of the fishery upon which their livelihoods ultimately depend. They are a powerful management tool available to fisheries regulators and management agencies." – Mark Lupton


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Anderson Bloomer died at his late residence at Navesink on Tuesday morning,
aged 82 years. He was at one time one of the leading dockbuilders of New York.
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CNN said Dozens of people showed up at the Tea Party. The News media has always tried to downplay the huge numbers of Great American Patriots that come to the Tea Party events all over the USA. So how big was the event? Well, here's an aerial view of the rally - showing JUST ONE section of the crowd. Liberal CNN is full of crap as usual!
And here's one more picture for you for now - it's another aerial shot, this time of Highway 95 leading to-and-from Searchlight. Get this: the photo was taken at 1:35 PM Pacific - more than 1 1/2 hours after the rally ended, and yet thousands of cars still were trying to get to the rally location:
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Attention to environmental details goes beyond product development. At both new and existing operations, Quigley focuses on best practices that include both energy savings and environmental stewardship. "We try to include the latest technologies, including the most efficient insulation and the most modern controlling equipment for curing temperature and humidity," says Quigley. "We also recycle water and concrete waste."
Roof tile production is different from other concrete manufacturing. Sand, cement, and water are mixed in a continuous mixer. The cement-sand slurry is batched at a consistency that is near zero-slump. Perfecting the consistency allows fresh concrete to be moist enough to accept and imprint texture from the form on which it's placed, but firm enough to be self-standing.
The freshly mixed concrete is fed into the tile-making machine. The extruder head drops the fresh concrete onto aluminum molds (pallets) that travel on a conveyor. As the conveyor draws the form from the extruder head, a steel roller contours and smooths the fresh concrete's upper surfaces. The concrete is further compacted with the tile machine's troweling slipper, normally mounted just downstream from the roller.
The tile machine's guillotine then slices the soft tiles to the design length and punches nail openings, using a vertical action.
The freshly shaped tiles, still on their own individual pallets, are loaded onto racks and placed into curing chambers. Following hardening, the tiles are demolded and palletized standing on edge.
Like block plants, most roof tile plants run product through as batches based on color, shape, and surface texture. Some plants may have as many as 25 different styles in their portfolios.
Producers have a wide range of production methods from which to choose. Manufacturers offer manual machines that produce 10 tiles per hour. But most producers in the United States run production lines that average from 120 to 160 tiles per hour.
One of the greatest challenges is meeting customers' color expectations. European consumers prefer red, black, and brown. But as roof tile sales have expanded throughout the world, so have color and tone variations. Most tiles are integrally colored in the fresh mix using liquid and granular pigments. Several tile manufacturers now offer new top-facing techniques for a wide color spectrum.
One technique involves spraying acrylic paint on integrally-colored tiles. Another alternative is to apply a colored slurry to the extruded tile during the molding process before compaction and curing.
"We're very particular about the elements involved in our manufacturing practices," says Quigley.
For more information, visit Hanson Roof tile atwww.hanson.biz/us/rooftile,and the Tile Roofing Institute atwww.tileroofing.org.
Architects consider concrete roof tiles design features on their structures. To meet their demands, Hanson Roof Tile recently released a new product in Southern California and Arizona. Boosted caps are packaged without the roof tile pan, making it easier for installers to create the desired look. "Designs incorporating boosted tiles have become extremely popular in the West," says Dylan Walters, Hanson's general manager in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
"Boosted tiles help to distinguish one building in a cluster of structures or to add depth and color to an individual home," says Walters. "Boosting lends itself to Spanish- or Mediterranean-style architecture. Now, architects and builders have a cost-effective method of adding this unique architectural feature to any roof."
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One way to calculate absenteeism is UAR = NUA / EWH
UAR is the unscheduled absence rate
NUA is the number of absences
EWH is the total work hours of all employees for the period (e.g. the month)
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Managing Gnome Fonts
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The Commonwealth of Virginia requires all state employees who travel more than twice a year to enroll in the travel EDI program. After travelers are enrolled in the program their reimbursement checks will be electronically deposited (EDI) directly into their selected bank account. To enroll Institute travelers must complete a Travel EDI Enrollment Form and forward it to the Comptroller's Office along with a voided check or deposit slip. You may also sign-up for the Commonwealth's REDI VIRGINIA EDI notification system. Follow the directions to sign-up and you can elect to be notified by email when your reimbursement is being deposited.
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Midday Roundup: Sebelius clings to job despite botched exchange rollout
Exchange fiasco. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she has no intention of resigning her post, despite calls from Republicans and some Democrats following the disastrous rollout of the Obamacare exchanges. People close to her say she's focused on fixing the problem, and the White House claims she has the president's full confidence. But now that the media's no longer focused on the partial government shutdown and the debt ceiling fight, stories of failed enrollments and inoperable websites could erode the administration's optimism. "I am the first to admit that the launch was rockier than we would have liked," Sebelius said earlier this week, insisting that after two weeks the system has seen vast improvements. But on Wednesday, would-be insurance shoppers said they still couldn't log on, according to The New York Times. The administration has yet to release numbers on how many people have signed up for healthcare coverage, but an independent market research team tracking it estimates only 83,000 of the 564,000 who made the attempt actually walked away with a policy.
Final blow. The Kansas Supreme Court voted unanimously this morning to strip former state Attorney General Phill Kline of his law license, citing "clear and convincing evidence" of professional misconduct. Kline's fight with the state's legal and political establishment started in 2003 when he began investigating Planned Parenthood and late-term abortionist George Tiller. Kline discovered they regularly performed abortions on girls younger than 15 but reported only one of 166 cases during 18 months to the authorities as child rape. Despite mounting evidence and eventual misdemeanor and felony charges filed against the abortion providers, state officials attacked Kline personally, politically, and professionally. Kline now teaches law at Liberty University. (Read more of WORLD's coverage of the Kline case here.)
Bodies recovered. Kenyan officials say two charred bodies pulled yesterday from the rubble of the Westgate Mall likely belong to two of the attackers killed in a four-day firefight with the country's security forces almost a month ago. Newly released graphic security camera footage shows four militants affiliated with Somali-based al-Shabaab walking through the mall shooting victims. Sixty-one people died in the attack. Kenyan security forces initially estimated as many as 15 attackers might have been involved but recently revised that number to just six. Norwegian officials suspect but have not confirmed that one of the bodies found this week belongs to Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, a 23-year-old Norwegian citizen of Somali origin.
Back to the picket lines. Transit workers in San Francisco went on strike late last night, stranding about 400,000 commuters who use the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system to get to work. BART employees are fighting for better salaries, healthcare plans, and pensions. According to the transit authority, workers average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in annual overtime. They pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance. This is the second time this year the union members have resorted to a strike. BART General Manager Grace Crunican said the transit authority can't agree to something it can't afford.


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- Smoking was everywhere, from airplane interiors to hospitals to the neighborhood breakfast bar. And its negative health effects were not widely acknowledged.
- The typical family had a working father and stay-at-home mother. Society and economics was geared to support that lifestyle.
- Gays were well-closeted and few dared to peek out. Those who did were often openly shunned.
- Conditions like ADD/ADHD and Aspergers and many others were undiagnosed and even bipolar disorder seemed less that understood by most.
- Most houses had a single telephone (though some people illegally added another independently purchased phone off their single land line).
- Most homes had a single TV B&W and not usually larger than 20". You had access to three networks, which went off air about midnight.
- Computers were huge devices, used almost exclusively by scientist and engineers. And of course there was no internet.
- No American had flown in orbit.
- All regular global communications went through wire as experimental communication satellites were just being tested.
- Cars had no seatbelts and just AM radios.
- There were no microwave ovens or listing of nutritional content or even ingredients on food packaging.
- The American south was well segregated and laws remained on the books in many states criminalizing interracial marriage.
- The average life expectancy for an American was age 69.
- CPR just came into being.
- There was no consumer level way to enjoy video recording or playback. If you missed a film at the theater, you just had to hope you'd get to see an "edited for television" version broadcast some day... or find a 16mm copy and projector.
- We had no clear views of any planetary surface besides the Moon. And nothing had ever visited that far. And we had not even visited the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
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I could go on, but it's clear a lot's gone down in half a century that has made us live very different lives today. So my question to you all is what do you see as probable changes in human existence between now and 2060? Will the visions of transhumanism and nanotechnology change us in dramatic ways especially when driven by the carrot of even more accessible social communications? Will genetic engineering start to redefine us as species? Just how will society and science change the way we live our daily lives?
There's so many ways this could go but as the unchanging character of the male business dress shirt shows us, sometimes though we CAN change, we choose not to. So your thoughts?
One thing that doesn't change is that this is the point where I try to flaunt new DA art by others that you may not have noticed! Dive in!
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Hmm, the future...
Technologically, the work of the Indian researchers(1) to modify phytoplankton to create hydrocarbons will bear fruit, probably after being purchased by a major corporation that is already involved in the energy sector. With good marketing & distribution, homes across the world will be equipped with solar panels that produce fuel for increasingly efficient cars. This will of course be then superceded by safe Hydrogen storage, allowing for HFC power plants to be made accessible to the public, knocking the internal combustion engine on the head in most situations. Computers will continue to advance, though a truly concious AI will not be arriving - not due to lack of hardware, but rather because nobody knows how to code for self-awareness & all it entails. As the frequencies continue to fill-up, signal degredation will increase, so wired links may experience a resurgence of popularity for things that don't move about much or are important to have the best signal quality. Manned space exploration will be set back decades by accidents in commercial space ventures such as the plans to move asteroids to earth for mining, but space-tech in general will continue to advance with cheap micro-probes being launched in salvos toward stuff(2) to be studied. With the multiple signals returning from these probes, each giving different but overlapping readings, the data gained after processing would be vastly superior to that of sending one big probe - & if a few of the micro-probes fail it wouldn't be the end of the mission. While the tech to clone & edit human DNA will be more widespread, it's use for any purpose other than removal of disease from the gene-pool will be highly regulated. Militaries will ignore this regulation, probably with disasterous results(3).
Socially, corporations will not rule the planet, because they have governmnets to do that under their orders. There will have been a false-flag WMD terrorist attack at some point, which will have been used as an excuse to tighten security laws, that will then be uncovered & the scapegoats made responsible will be removed from power, leaving those really responsible in an unchanged position of power. Environmnetally, the aforementioned work of Shilpi et al, along with constantly improving efficiencies of tech & widespread use of recycling techniques will hold off environmental change just enough so that those in power can ignore it or just make token efforts to combat it & still win votes, get people to buy their goods, etc.
Sorry about the cynical tone of some of my entry, hardly a nice thing to be reading on your birthday (happy birthday, by the way). Still, you gotta take the rough with the smooth.
1 Shilpi S. et al, 2010, PROSPECTS OF DIATOMS AS THIRD GENERATION BIOFUEL
2 Yes, I know "stuff" is a bit vague, but since you could put any kind of sensors on the probes, you could study so wide a range of things that it's the only term that fits.
...for four and a half months. My Dad brought his newborn boy to a Kennedy rally in town that Fall, so I may have been one of those cliched infants kissed by a (famous) politician in a photo op
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Funny, you and I are only about 4 years apart!
Am one year older than you apparently, so all of this journal really matches up with my observation too.
Did you practice to duck and cover in school? We did for my first year, then it mysteriously disappeared.
What I remember is about the same. For some reason, it really felt back then that we were all closer together. Even with just one phone and vacuum tube television. We had no FB or twitter but somehow we knew what everyone on our city block was doing, and more about the neighborhood. Today, I know crap about what my neighbors are doing and am okay with it, no biggie. I do know whats going on in remote villages and outposts around the world. I can read blogs from McMurdo and Amundsen Scott plus onboard the ISS, but the guy across the street apparently moved out last week and I missed it!
Where are we going with the future and technology? I honestly don't know, and I sometimes snicker at those who think that they do know.
Suffice it to say that it may be really fascinating when it happens.
I know what you mean about feeling closer back then. Maybe it's because we had so little in the way of solitary distractions that we just naturally engaged, face-to-face. These days it seems people barely know their neighbors.
In the 1960s they predicted bases on the Moon and Mars, and food pills, and all the rest of that stuff. None of it happened, and they utterly failed to see our current communications-obsessed culture with its wi-fi and cell phones and iPads and so on.
50 years from now? Who knows?
2060 ? Good question... I think we will be closer to cyberpunk I'm afraid. It is possible that the gulf stream stop and lead to a major change in Europe, in consequence large movements of population and possible war. I see more and more the possibility of a new cold war between US and China.
The vast majority of the human population will live in very large towns with a very large difference between rich and poor, probably even larger than today.
Communication technology will continue to change the world and will probably replace cars as sign of social success, in fact it's already the case in some area today. I'm note sure that we will see cyber eyes and cyber limbs in the street, I think nanotech and genetics will solve this kind of problems.
Robots can also be a major change, armies and security services will be full of robots, but I'm not sure that they will be available to everyone for a simple reason : it seems far too easy to make of them very efficient weapons. Or if this append we will see security systems almost everywhere.
Now we just need something to pack more energy in a very small volume
I think we'll be seeing more ubiquitous robots enter our lives as well. Household servants would be good for things like getting the mail, taking out the trash, etc. But I would think that this would exacerbate an already big problem of obesity in America and other civilized nations (though certainly it's worse here than in other parts of the world).
Here are my predictions:
There will be a human colony on the Moon and mining of He3 will have begun. This will be a joint Chinese / Indian venture.
Broadcast television will have finally stopped. Thousands of entertainment channels and viewing options will flood consumers with options. While a few will still go viral and become huge financial success stories, these will tend to be kitten video collections, while real quality entertainment will find it harder to find an audience. Startup shows will take a long time to grow a loyal audience, but as they do, the ability to keep selling previous episodes along side current ones means new viewers will be able to catch up, and as ratings rise, overall revenues will rise as well.
A joint mission to Mars will have been accomplished by a consortium of world governments. Probably sent to rescue a mars colony established by commercial reality TV folks.
Someone, somewhere, will have been breeding dogs that are smarter and smarter. In about 50 years, dogs as smart as teenagers prove especially troublesome.
Despite troubling warning signs and exclamations of imminent collapse, the United States of America will still exist, and have a robust economy.
After the death of President Putin, the Russian Federation endures a string of dictators until a new revolution takes place. After shedding more territory, the remaining Russia will emerge as a real democracy.
The European Union, in response to the situation in Russia, finally adopts a constitution, creating a federal system of government with shared sovereignty among the member states.
From the standpoint of half a century, the slow moving democratic reforms taking place in China will almost be noticeable by the world at large, but will benefit billions of Chinese in their everyday life.
The African Union will begin making moves to transform into a more unified government in a similar manner to the EU. They will have a much harder time of it than Europe did.
The South American Union will have overtaken both the AU and the EU in solidarity, with most of the world looking at it as a United States of South America.
In Canada, the Northwest territories will get a better name, and Nunavut will become a province.
After the death of Kim Jong-Un, China will negotiate a trade and mutual protection treaty with South Korea, and allow the DPRK to be merged back into Korea. This will probably be accomplished with more than a little deception and a dramatic betrayal of the northern leadership. However once the dust settles, North Koreans will express their undying love for the Chinese.


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- Sport Triathlon
- Athlete Profile Intermediate
- Program Length 6 days a week for 13 weeks
This is the sister plan to the famous "Thirteen Weeks to a Thirteen-Hour Ironman Distance" plan and is appropriately titled "Thirteen Weeks to a Sub-Thirteen Hour Ironman Distance Race." If it is possible to train to successfully finish an ironman distance event in 13 hours with 13 weeks of preparation, not training over 13 hours in any given week; how about breaking the 13-hour mark in 13 weeks of training? It is that very question that inspired me to design this plan.
This plan is for the experienced triathlete, who currently averages 12 hours of training per week. You can swim two to three times per week for about an hour. You ride two or three days per week and a three-hour ride is easy and normal for you. You run two or three days per week and can comfortably run long for between 1:30 and 1:45.
Weekly training hours for the plan are between 7:15 and 18:00. To best utilize the plan you need to know your T-Pace in swimming (see the Swimming Intensity document on my Training Plan page) and heart rate zones discussed in the Intensity document.
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NORFOLK - The city of Norfolk has approved ordinances that change sections of city code dealing with connecting a building's sewer pipes to the city system. At this week's meeting of the mayor and City Council, City Attorney Clint Schukei explained that the ordinances make it clear that it is generally undesirable to terminate a building sewer in a manhole, but that occasionally that might be acceptable. The ordinances provide a procedure for requesting access to a manhole. They also clarify that a single $20 fee covers both a request to attach to a main or to the manhole. The ordinances were passed on all three readings Monday night, and will become effective upon publication.
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You remember, years ago, when America was the home of the brave and the land of the free?
Ty the Guy OUT!
The comics industry saw three major creators retire this week, and it's worth noting their passing.
You remember, years ago, when America was the home of the brave and the land of the free?
Ty the Guy OUT!
The comics industry saw three major creators retire this week, and it's worth noting their passing.
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This is a Christmas story my father told me when I was young.
You can see where I get my spirit of the holiday from…
Ty the Guy OUT!
Here are a couple of the Christmas Covers I've done over the years…
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Tagged Chistmas, comics, elves, holidays, humour, North Pole, Santa Claus, satire, webcomics
There's so many Comic Book related TV shows on the air this season that a dedicated fan cannot keep up.
But worry not, I am here to make sure there's nothing you're not privy to…here is…
It's actually a hell of a show, pun intended….and but for the empty vessel of an actress playing Zed, they've won over the viewing audience at casa Templeton-Smith.
Who says this isn't the DC age of odd TV?
Your bonus moment today is completely unrelated to Constantine or sorcery in general, except the kind of sorcery you get with cleverness. I recently came across some of my artwork being used on one of the most wonderfully fun websites on the internet called SUPER-TEAM FAMILY: THE LOST ISSUES! Here's the image…
That's my cover from Batman and Robin Adventures #20 being used, only the original DID NOT have Samurai Jack on it…that was added by the fun team at SUPER-TEAM FAMILY: THE LOST ISSUES.
Here's another one they did, using artwork I drew from the famously pulped Elseworld's Annual some years back…
Holy cow! That's a Jack Kirby Namor added to the artwork! That's too much fun.
Here's one using a Superboy figure I inked over some Kevin Maguire pencils…
There are HUNDREDS of these covers over at the LOST ISSUES website (only a dozen or so use images from comics I worked on, though), and every one of them is a grand hoot.
Go, check 'em out if you haven't already!
I'm in the middle of the most crazy deadline pressures of my adult life this last week as I wrap up Batman-Green Hornet and gear up for a quick, but fun visit with Spider-Man. I'm so, so, so close to the bone with the deadlines that any waking moment not devoted to drawing Adam West and the gang is immoral and cruel to my editor (and colourist and letterer), so I'm afraid I have to run some RE-RUN TOONS this weekend. (Only the second time I've done this in over four years of Bun Tooning! I'm NOT a failure. I'm NOT!)
Since it's Batman (and eventually Spider-Man) that are knocking my calendar days around, I figure it's only fair to re-run some Bun Toons that feature 'em.
Bonus Comics on a Deadline Moment featuring my two favourite cartoonists:
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This rabbit themed internet cartoon series is nominated for a JOE SHUSTER award this evening as webcomic of the year.
It's not going to win. That's a stone cold guarantee.
However, I have been informed of other plans.
I keep alternating between being very honoured and wondering if Canada is just so small a country that they've run out of actually deserving people to induct after ten years of doing this, and have moved down to the second tier.
It all started at a five thousand watt radio station in Fresno…where inexplicably they published the above comic book.
Tomorrow will be the 10th year that The Joe Shuster Awards will be giving out awards to deserving Canadian comics creators. The ceremony will take place in the Back Space, the event space that shares an address with The Comic Book Lounge & Gallery.
This year, Ty is again nominated for Web Comic Creator. Fingers crossed! (Although everyone on the list is so amazing…and we're both kinda pulling for Attila Adjornay who has been nominated for his beautiful Metaphysical Neuroma). But…win or lose, Ty will be inducted into The Canadian Comic Book Creators Hall of Fame (along with Cy Bell and Edmond Good).
The event starts at 8pm (doors open at 7pm); gathering afterwards to give people a chance to talk and look at some of the artwork from past Shusters. Check the website for information on all the nominees, and bios of the Hall of Fame inductees.
There's little you need to know that isn't in the comic this week…except you should understand that EVERY word in this is verbatim true.
(click on the toon to make it bigger if it's hard to read.)
PS: If you want to check out the school, the website is found HERE, but there will be no promises of SWAT teams in the future.
today is my youngest son's fifteenth birthday, so your BONUS moments involve the lad. He was ten when I wrote this:
this was one of the FIRST Bun Toons I did, back when the internet was in black and white.
It's hard to tell, but Sean is the one in the lavender shirt. He was thirteen when I wrote this one. Happy Birthday Boy!


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After three years of research, I've decided on fiberglass window replacement, total tear out. I've narrowed it down to three companies; Fibertec, Fiberframe (Comfort Line) and Inline Fiberglass. Has anyone used any of these or perhaps another line besides Anderson, Milgard, MW or Marvin? I have read all your comments and appreciate everything everyone has said. Dealing with replacement companies is a real treat. This is one industry that needs a total rehaul!!
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We carry the Milgard,Comfortline and are looking at the Inline. We also sold some of the Marvin new construction fiberglass units. We had some issues with the Marvin's, nothing serious but felt they hadn't advanced to the level of the other three. Milgard's douglas fir interior if your looking for a wood interior is the nicest of the bunch and covers the jamb liner which most don't. Comfortline and Inline's oak interior would rank second and Marvins stainable interior third. In as far as energy efficiency Inline offers higher performing glass packages but not really necessary unless your way up North. Milgard now offers Super Spacer and Sun Coat Max which gets your u-value close to .30. Both Marvin and Comfortline's glass is made by Cardinal using the XL Edge a very good glass pack both around .30 One of our concerns with all fiberglass products for this part of the country (Wisconsin) is the cavity filling. Another fiberglass company out of Canada (Accurate Dorwin) addresses this with foam filling. Because the lineals have large hollows the interior of the frames get pretty cold and can have condensation, the foam filling eliminates that as fiberglass is not a natural insulator like wood or vinyl.
Were a proponent of fiberglass products and believe properly installed should be the last window anyone would ever need. Good luck with your research.
Were a proponent of fiberglass products and believe properly installed should be the last window anyone would ever need. Good luck with your research.
Thanks so much for your response Windowmann2000, this certainly has been a journey. I live in the southeast, 100 miles south of Atlanta. While we don't have the extreme cold (although we can) we do have extreme heat. I'm from Michigan originally so I know what your talking about. My home is Dryvit (EFIS) and neither Milgard or Marvin warranties EFIS homes, bummer. I currantly have wood casement windows which almost span floor to ceiling. This is a wonderful site and I do appreciate everyone's imput. I look forward to all your responses. Thanks a mill...Kat
katmartin-- Just wanted to let you know about Pella's Impervia window. You certainly have made a great decision about wanting fiberglass windows for your home. One thing you should be cognizant of is how these (fiberglass) windows are made. I could type out all of the advantages of Pella's Impervia window, but why don't you check them out for yourself at www.pellaimpervia.com. If you are interested, I can get you the contact information of a sales manager for your local Pella distributor.
katmartin, how's your quest going. For your area I think Marvin would be best. Get the glass with the best SHGC # from them and the window will serve you well and if the price is not competitive look at Comfortlines Next Generation, another good choice. Pella.....NO
Ha, quest it is!! I emailed Accurate Dorwin, the company you suggested. It took a couple of weeks but I finally got a reply. He asked what size windows I need and I emailed back that I'd like the best method of measuring and asked for suggestions. That's been many weeks ago, geeze.I do have his name and number so maybe I should just call. I told him of my experience with replacement window companies, hopefully they don't use the same tactics, maybe I scared him off, LOL. I do have AAMA's video and handbook which I need to read. Unfortunately, Marvin is not warrantied in EIFS (Dryvit) homes so their out. Are you still impressed with Accurate Dorwin? You've been the only one to respond, except a rep. from Pella, no thank you, ha. THANKS A MILLION!!! It'd be nice to have someone with experience measure all my windows. I don't ever want to do this again! Your one in a million, great advice keep up the good work, it is appreciated!!
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After the snub from ally JD(U), BJP today embarked on some damage control by attempting a patch up with the party even president Nitin Gadkari spoke of approaching several UPA constituents to discuss a possible Presidential candidate.
Gadkari complained the government had not consulted his party, the principal Opposition, on the issue. BJP would have considered it had the government come up with the name of a person, who is independent, impartial and fair to reach a consensus, he said.
A day after differences surfaced in the NDA, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj today met JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, who is also the NDA convenor, and is believed to have tried to patch up issues with him on her remarks on the Presidential election.
Sources said the meeting came about after senior BJP leader L K Advani expressed the view that NDA should not appear divided on a Presidential candidate.
Differences surfaced in the NDA yesterday over Swaraj's remarks that the BJP would oppose any Congress move to nominate Pranab Mukherjee or Vice President Hamid Ansari as a candidate.
Yadav took serious objection to her statement saying it was not his party's view and the issue had so far not been discussed in the NDA.
After the meeting between Swaraj and Yadav, both parties have agreed not to air views on the issue till a meeting of the NDA is held and a decision is taken on the Presidential candidate.
"What Swaraj had said was the BJP's view. The matter had not been discussed with other NDA partners, including JD(U). A meeting of the NDA will be held soon to discuss the matter," a senior BJP leader said.
JD(U) has reportedly conveyed to BJP that Swaraj's comments about Ansari not having 'the stature' to be President has put the party in difficulty in Bihar. It has been wooing the sizable minority community in the state and her comments would antagonise them.
RJD, JD(U)'s main political adversary in Bihar, was the first to publicly say that Ansari can be a candidate for President.
"Regional parties play an important role in gathering votes. We will decide after discussion with them, with NDA and other small political parties... and even with some parties under UPA," Gadkari told reporters in Indore.


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We wrote about the 7 must-have filmmaking tools we discovered at CES 2014, but over the past few days at CES 2014, we've seen countless other cool gizmos intended to entertain and/or make your life easier, including smart watches, wireless speakers and lots of snazzy cell phone cases. Some of these gadgets probably won't ever rise above the level of curiosities or conversation pieces, but a few could become household items in the next few years -- or not. Decide for yourself.
Here are the craziest, coolest gadgets from CES:
1. RoboThespian: This interactive robot can communicate in various languages. He's mostly used in science musics and public places, but we envision a "Her"-like world in which we all have RoboThespians of our own. Find out more about RoboThespian here.
2. iRobot Scooba 450: A friendly robot is great, but If you like your robotics hardworking and useful, look no further than the iRobot Scooba 450, which can scrub your floors. Find out more about iRobot Scooba Floor Scrubbing Robot here.
3. Mother: Mother is watching and tracking your every move. This little tracking device, which uses small sensors called "cookies," can monitor up to 24 tasks at once -- the company said it could monitor how much coffee is left in the jar, whether the kids got got home from school in time and whether they've brushed their teeth before bed. Creepy, cool or both? Find out more about Mother here and decide for yourself.
4. June: Wearable tech is all the craze here at CES, but June is the first wearable tech that we've seen that is something you might actually want to wear. Produced by Netatmo, the June, which the company calls a "personalized sun protection coach," is a beautiful bracelet with classy credits: it's designed by French jewelry designer Camille Toupet and is available in gold, platinum, and gunmetal. Not only does it look nice, but it's also handy: it's got a photolvotaic cell which syncs to your iPhone via Bluetooth and can make sure you're not getting too much sun exposure. But do you really need a smart bracelet to tell you to wear sunscreen or put on a hat? Mashable thinks so. It was included in Mashable's Best Tech of CES 2014.


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What is the best way to get country code? As of now I know two ways one is to get by TelephonyManager and another by Locale which is the other best & unique way to find country code in android.
Try this,
There are always huge discussions about this, and I never understand why developers and companies go for the complex way. The language selected by the user, means the language he/she wants to see always in his/her phone. They don't intend to have apps in a different language than others or the system.
The choice is very straight forward: Use Locale (to get the language the user selected as preferred), or make your best to piss them off showing them information in a language they already said they don't want to see things in.
To get the country code use:
It is better than
I solved it by IP Address. You can get IP Address of your phone. If you are using wifi then it will IP address of wifi hotspot or IP of your Mobile Service Provide server so from that IP you can send to web service or something to track country of that IP Address there are some sources(database) available if internet which provides country of IP here is the example http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup.
I think ip is the best way because it will give you the country where the phone is at the momment,
If you do it by
you got the country where the user select the country so you can have selected England, and you can be in Spain and maybe you need to know where is him at the momment
Example: imagine that your app can buy something ONLY in england, the user is from Spain but he is on holidays on England and he want to buy your product ... if you use
that user wont be able to buy your product,so the ip is the best way i think
There is an excellent article by Reto Meier: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/06/deep-dive-into-location.html
It describes different techniques to get location of an android device, including source code. Next, when you have location, it's easy to get country for it - use can use online web-service or offline database
You can use this code to get ISO2:
And this to get ISO3:
Hope this helps


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Poems, Basketball Poems, Inspirational Poems, Motivational Poems (page 7)
Everything you wanted and more winner vs loser, basketball poems HERE
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Win or lose you still have fun. Win you Win. Lose you still are a Winner. I doesnt matter if you lose you are still having fun. When i lose my games i just say we can do better and we need to practice. If you lose dont think you are a loser cause your not. If you win your games go to other team and say good game you did a nice job and dont make fun of the other team. Cause rember if you lose the other team might be making fun of your team. So treat other people like you want to be treated. And i am sure you want to be treated good.
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Hi, earlier this yr Rheinbote did a thread here on Civil Aviation on the Boeing 737/757 RS study http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo...eneral_aviation/read.main/4286853/
However the complete article / details were not available by that time. Now they are :
Some bullets :
Boeing sees a market requirement Intra/Trans Asia, North America and Europe
Twin aisles
Short / medium haul, 2500-3200 nmi, Boeing resists calls for more range
Around 757-300 capacity, 250-300 seats.
Concepts were discussed with European Airlines
Boeing acknowledges the 787-3 is compromised being a derivative of the long range 787-8
Potential return to "more hydraulics"..
Good engines would IMO be crucial. I wonder if the LeapX / GTF could handle the required 40-43 klbs. Last week I started a more technical discussion on new engines / open rotor progress on Tech/Ops. http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/258685/
I have the feeling Airbus and Boeing purposely keeping a low profile but are all but sitting on their hands on the 737/757/A320 successors.
The enormous 737 / A320 backlogs IMO ain't what they look like, both Airbus and Boeing are cutting back production. Who wants to get their 737 in 2014 for use until 2039? Is it a smart investment?
The article seems to confirm the A321 and 737-900ER are not the 90% replacement for 757-200/ 757-300 /767-200/ TU154/ A300/ A310 some claim it to be. Of course airlines use 739/A321s, 757 wear out and there simply exist no alternatives at this moment.
Last month Airbus also indicated it is looking at broader solutions then just A320 series replacement. Quote of interest on the GTF : "Airbus is considering this new technology as a fallback technology should open-rotor not work out.
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By instilling a love of exercise at an early age, we intend to create a lifelong habit of caring for one's physical and mental well-being. This class is taught with regard for different ways of learning. Auditory, visual and kinetic cues are given throughout each class making it accessible to many children. This class is taught by a senior teacher and observed by our teacher trainees. It is open to children aged 6-11 years.
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Main OfficeLocation: Forchheimer, G-09 Phone: 718.430.2180 Fax: 718.430.8738Main security desk extension: 2019
Neil Kaplan, CPP, Chief of Security & TransportationPhone: 718.430.2180
Campus Emergency: 718.430.4111
49 Precinct: 718.918.2000
The security and transportation office is responsible for maintaining Einstein's Jack and Pearl Resnick campus as a secure place for work and study. The office is responsible for a variety of services that includes issuing and verifying ID cards, providing locksmith services, assigning and policing employee parking, assisting with campus postings and conducting investigations.
The office also oversees the provision of transportation services for medical students during their clerkships, and operation of a shuttle service for members of the Einstein community to/from the 180th Street subway station. Its officers also offer an escort service that is available around the clock to anyone who would like to be accompanied to another destination on campus or to their parked car.
In relation to investigations and other events on campus, office staff maintain a daily crime log and fire safety log. The logs for the most recent 60-day period are available for public inspection, upon request, during normal business hours, and information for prior periods is available upon request, with at least two business days' prior notice. [These logs include all crimes, fire-related incidents and other serious incidents reported to the security department that occur on campus, as well as incidents that may occur at non-campus buildings or properties in the nearby vicinity, on public property or within the security department's jurisdiction, or crimes reported to the security department by the NYPD. An incident is posted into the log by the security department within two business days of its receiving a report of an incident. The security department may exclude reports from a log in certain circumstances, as permitted by law.]
In conjunction with its efforts to maintain campus security and safety, the security office also helps to spearhead Einstein's Campus Emergency Notification system. This system is used in the event of a major emergency to send text, phone and e-mail messages designed to keep members of the campus community informed and safe from any potential danger.
On this site, you can find additional information about these services, as well as relevant forms and helpful tips regarding keeping you and your property safe and secure.
What if I need to reach the security office after business hours?The security desk at Forchheimer operates 24 hours, 7 days a week. The security personnel there can be reached by calling 718.430.2019.
What do I do if something is missing from my office/lab?If you suspect that something has been removed from your office or lab, please call the security office immediately. An investigation will begin and a report will be written.
How can I safeguard my computer?As a free service to the Einstein community, we install cables to prevent theft of Einstein computers, small equipment, scales, etc. All requests should be made using an iLAB Work Order Form, which should be submitted online.


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Feb. 21, 2013
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The men's basketball game between Alabama and Florida will be televised on ESPN, Southeastern Conference and ESPN officials announced on Thursday. The contest will tip off at Noon ET (11 a.m. CT) on March 2 in Gainesville, Fla.
Currently, the Crimson Tide (18-8, 10-3 SEC) is in sole possession of second place in the SEC standings, trailing the Gators (21-4, 11-2) by one game.
Next Saturday's contest will be the only game played between the two schools on the hardwood during the regular season.


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I run a Powershell script on a computer that has no Internet connection. But it takes about 30 seconds to start it. How do I solve it? I have run ngen.
There is a known issue with certificate revocation list checks and .NET (which PowerShell is built on). Check out this post about the .NET issue.
Sounds like it might be trying to do a DNS lookup, and waits for it to time-out. I presume it doesn't take ~30 seconds to start on a machine with internet connection? You could try setting a bogus DNS resolver on the working machine, and see if it takes ~30 seconds there too.


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Rough Breathing/Smooth Breathing
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 | 7:00pm
Doors open for full bar and table service at 6:00pm. Full menu will be served.Moonshine Room at Club Café
John Fonville Music for Sarah
Marti Epstein Origami
Rane Moore, bass clarinet
Curtis K. Hughes flagrant
Nicholas Papador Variable Rates
Roger Zahab spunky twenty-eight
Curtis K. Hughes vestibule
Sarah Brady, alto flute
Lee Hyla Mythic Birds of Saugerties
Rane Moore, bass clarinet
Elliott Carter Esprit rude/esprit doux II
Robert Kirzinger Menagerie Landscape No. 4
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Curated by Marti Epstein and Sarah Brady
The Score Board is a group of New England-based composers serving as BMOP's vanguard of composer-advocates through volunteerism, direct support and activities, community-building, and curating BMOP's annual Club Concert series.
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- Ticketing FAQ
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- A Fine Centennial
- Apollo's Fire
- BMOP and the Abstract Truth (Amherst)
- BMOP and the Abstract Truth (Tufts)
- BMOP/sound Celebrates Five Years
- Bang Theory (Bowdoin)
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- Bang Theory (Wellesley)
- Blizzard Voices
- Bolcom with BMOP
- Boston ConNECtion
- Child Alice
- Chozubachi: Water, Noise, and Nature
- Club Concert #1
- Club Concert #3
- Club Concert
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- Committing Mayhem from a Hidden Position
- Death and the Powers
- Double Trouble
- Dual Passions
- Electroacoustic/Acousmatic: Works with and for electronics
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Four Saints in Three Acts
- Fromm Players at Harvard
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- Gen OrcXstrated
- Gunther Schuller Memorial Concert
- Luminous Noise (Bowdoin)
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- Magyar Madness
- Monsters of Modernism (Bowdoin)
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- Olly, All Ye, In Come Free
- Resilient Voices: 1915-2015
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- Sangita: The Spirit of India
- Strange Bedfellows: Unexpected Concertos
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- Tod Machover: Hyperstring Trilogy
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Private equity firm Ares Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have completed the $6bn acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group.
The luxury goods retailer's private equity owners Warburg Pincus and TPG made a return of around 2.5 times from the exit. The two firms are set to receive $3.1bn in total from the sale and a dividend payout from last year, well above the $1.2bn they each invested in 2005, according to Bloomberg.
The buyout firms bought into Neiman ahead of fellow private equity firms including Blackstone, Bain Capital, Thomas H Lee Partners and KKR.
Last month it was reported that Ares Management and CPPIB were in advanced talks to buy Neiman Marcus, which had filed for a $100m IPO earlier in 2013.
Neiman Marcus CEO Karen Katz said, "We are very pleased with the successful outcome of this transaction. We look forward to partnering with Ares Management and CPPIB. We believe the future for Neiman Marcus Group is bright."
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It's the never-ending question: is Canada in a housing bubble or not? Peter Aceto, President and CEO of ING Direct Canada and the seventh largest originator of mortgages in the country, has an inside look at whether home prices are now irrationally exuberant.
"No I don't think we have a bubble like the one we saw in the U.S., but we do have some issues -- it's more of a British Columbia and Ontario issue," he tells BNN.
Of more concern to Aceto is Canadians' decade-long love affair with debt.
"It's disappointing to see our use of credit in this country," he says. "In the last five, six or 10 years our savings rates have gone down and our debt rates have gone up and we're starting to look a little bit like our American friends."
His word of caution for Canadians: "don't take on more debt than you absolutely need."


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Slackware 14 Released
After five beta cycles, Slackware 14.0 arrives with many improvements and enhancements. The latest version offers two desktop environments: Xfce 4.10.0 and KDE 4.8.5.
According to the website, these desktops utilize udev, udisks, and udisks2, as well as many specifications from freedesktop.org. These allow admins to grant use of hardware devices according to users' group membership, thus enabling use of USB flash sticks, portable hard drives, CD and DVD media, etc., without requiring sudo, the mount, or umount command.
Slackware uses the 3.2.29 kernel, with performance features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI, and ATA RAID volume support, SATA support, software RAID, LVM, and encrypted filesystems. Kernel support for X DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to Linux.
Slackware has two Linux kernel options: huge and generic. The huge kernel contains built-in support for just about every driver in the Linux kernel. In the generic kernel, nearly every driver is built as a module. Slackware's Linux kernels come in both SMP and non-SMP types. The SMP kernel supports multiple processors, multi-core CPUs, HyperThreading, and other optimizations. The developers recommend using the SMP kernel – even on single processor machines if it will run on them. Note that on 64-bit machines, all kernels are SMP capable. You can read the long list of changes and additions at: http://www.slackware.com/announce/14.0.php. Slackware Linux 14.0 is available for download from the central Slackware FTP site.
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I go to school in Washington DC, which has a very high crime rate. Bikes there, even on campus, are snatched up within minutes, if they aren't locked up.
I'm just a beginner at biking. I've only ever owned wal-mart mountain bikes (which I've nearly never used off a road). This year, I want to get a bike for riding around the city (for errands, for trips to a metro station, etc), and for exercise. Unfortunately, I don't know which bike to get.
I will be riding only on pavement, but the bike should be able to handle uneven pavement (there are a few cobblestoned roads nearby), sand (from sanding the streets in the winter), and whatever weather I happen to be riding in.
I've narrowed my search down to fitness/commuter bikes. (I'm reluctant to get a mountain bike, since I won't be doing any real mountain biking, and because they won't be the best for longer rides and exercise.) I like the idea of the straight handlebars, mostly because I've never used drop bars before, and because I hear you need to be mostly upright to keep a good eye on traffic. I am considering the Giant FCR3w, the Trek 7.3FX, and the Specialized Sirrus (possibly the women's model). These are at the upper limits of my price range. What do you think? Would these be good bikes for what I have described?
I am nervous about buying a new bike, because of how much theft goes on in the area (or in college campuses in general), and because they could be less expensive. I was considering looking at some used bikes (with Craigslist, probably), but I don't know which types are good, or how to check that they're in good condition. I don't really want to have to put in too much maintenance--that would just discourage me from riding, since classes don't give me much extra time. Should I still go for a used bike? How would I go about that?
I'm basically looking for any tips or advice anyone wants to give me. Thanks so much!


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NH does second ORT conversion - at Hooksett toll plaza on I-93
2012-08-23: New Hampshire DOT has its second open road tolling (ORT) project under way at the Hooksett toll plaza on the I-93 Turnpike north of Manchester. Central toll lanes of the 14 lane plaza are being closed off this week to allow demolition of booths and islands so that 2x2 ORT lanes can be constructed through the center.
Three old toll lanes are being removed each direction in the center to make way for the four ORT lanes - the extra space being needed for shoulder, offsets, and a central barrier.
Two cash toll lanes are being added in each direction on the outside of the old plaza so that on completion there will be six cash/mixed lanes each direction in addition to the two ORT lanes/direction.
Throughput in the old plaza which had 5 cash/mixed lanes and 2 separated E-ZPass lanes was calculated at 5x425veh/hr + 2x1100veh/hr or 2125+ 2200=4325veh/hr/direction.
Bottleneck with three lanes feeding into 4325 veh/hr/direction plaza
This constituted a bottleneck since the highway on each side is 2x3 lanes or about 6,000veh/hr/direction. Congestion has been regular in peakhours weekdays, and at weekends and holidays in the summer when the area gets vacationers and visitors from the south.
New capacity should be 6x425 (2550) cash + 2x1800 (3600) ORT or 6150v/hr total.
That's about a 40% increase and matches the roadway capacity.
Safety should be improved too with clear separation of transponder equipped cars from those that stop to pay.
Routinely 80k transactions/day, average daily 68k
This is a busy toll plaza 25m transactions/ year - average daily 68k with the traffic routinely going over 80k/day on summer weekends.
The project involves some improvements to bridges nearby, an extra lane for a distance southbound and the normal repaving work. The construction contract by local firm RS Audley is for $22.9m. Open road toll equipment costs $1.3m, preliminary and construction engineering and administration costs $2.5m for a constructiion total of $26.7m.
Design and project management is by HNTB. The new toll systems are an extension of work at Hampton with the prime designer Xerox/ACS with Telvent doing the open road lanes.
The open road tolling uses Idris loops in the concrete pavement and SICK laser scanners overhead to do vehicle detection, tracking and classification in a redundant arrangement, while Kapsch antennas and Badger readers do the E-ZPass transponder data transfers. Cameras from JAI are positioned for front and rear imaging.
No new right of way was needed and since the project was conducted within a existing toll plaza, environmental permitting costs were minimal. (ELABORATION)
Open road tolling is supposed to start mid-June 2013 and the project is due for completion October 2013.
New Hampshire's first open road toll conversion was on I-95 at Hampton and opened June 2010.
A third ORT toll plaza is in design for the Central or Everett Turnpike US3 at Bedford on the southern outskirts of the Manchester area.
COMMENT: This project will be a big improvement in the level of service for motorists over what they've had to date - much better throughput through the toll plaza, much less time wasted in queues, reduced emissions and fewer accidents. All plus, so far. However the question will remain for many as to whether this ORT+cash isn't a second best solution as compared with going all-electronic and taking cash toll collection right off the road.
Rebuilds of old lane-constrained toll plazas into ORT+cash like this have a capital cost about three or four times the capital cost of going all-electronic and they also continue the higher operating costs of cash toll collection versus transponder/license plate tolling.
The open road toll lanes also invite motorists without transponders to violate by speeding through the center lanes and those motorists must then be pursued for payment by camera imaging, license plate lookup of owner's name-&-address and billing-by-mail - as in all-electronic tolling.
Supporters of keeping cash collection at the sides (ORT+cash) argue the volumes of image/lookup/mail collection will be less than cashless or AET, and losses from uncollected tolls therefore will be smaller.
Whether any saving there justifies the higher capital and operating costs of ORT+cash seems doubtful.
But NHDOT is one of a number of state tollers, mainly in the northeast, who still shun all-electronic as too radical, and risky, and who see ORT+cash as more prudent and conservative.
Of course there are still tollers reluctant to dispense with gates.
TOLLROADSnews 2012-08-23 ELABORATIONS ADDED: Aug 24 14:00