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text: Zack Cahill 2016-05-31T02:00:08-04:00 Zack Cahill http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/index.php?author=zack-cahill Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Zack Cahill Good old fashioned elbow grease. Should Kellogg's Frosties Have Less Sugar? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2758163 2013-02-25T08:11:37-05:00 2013-04-27T05:12:01-04:00 Zack Cahill http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-cahill/ For more reactionary commentators these headlines land at their feet like a large stick to beat the "nanny statists" with, distorting the argument with the suggestion that the government want to ban sugar. I don't believe in prohibition, but prohibition was not actually suggested as a serious option. What is worth talking about is the degree of influence the government should have on what we eat. Having never been forced to eat a donut at gunpoint I am aware of the personal responsibility argument. At some point we all make a choice about the foods we put in our mouths. Where I diverge from right wing rhetoric is in seeing this as the beginning of the conversation, not the end. Simply saying "it's all down to personal responsibility" and leaving it there achieves nothing. Yes at some point people choose what to eat, but a complicated set of social forces have led up to the point that you or I or anyone else makes that decision. The government already have an influence on what we eat and how fat we become, if we want to improve obesity levels in this country then we need discuss how to affect those forces without conflating it with balaclava'd government workers smashing through our kitchen window and snatching the bowl of Coco Pops from our hands. The question is not should the government have an influence it's how can that influence be used in the most positive and productive way possible without infringing on our liberties. We give companies the ability to advertise harmful foods to children in a misleading way. We make healthier food more expensive and harder to come by. We create living environments not conducive to active lives. We then chastise the obese for not exercising their personal choice as if they made that choice in a vacuum. Again, this gets us nowhere. Every example of successful public health initiatives shows that for people to make healthy choices they must become easy choices and they must become fashionable choices. Say what you like about the "foodie" movement - it most certainly has it's cringeable aspects and is largely a wealthy/middle class phenomenon - but it's proof of concept that large sections of the population can be incentivised and mobilised to seek out healthier foods. This in turn generates the market forces necessary to make such foods more accessible across the board. Personally I think Jamie Oliver's projects are on the right track precisely because he hasn't sat around and bitched about ideology. He's just got on with attacking the problem at both grass roots and political levels. Education alone doesn't work any better than the passive and defeatist "personal responsibility and that's the end of it" approach. We either believe in intervention or we don't, so lets try and fix this or shut up and pick up the NHS bill in 20 years time when we really are screwed. Why not discuss the idea of reducing the amount of a substance we know to be harmful in a food we feed to kids? If people want more sugar they can make the personal choice sprinkle it themselves. But this is just tinkering around the edges, more needs to be done... Why not look at how foods are marketed at children? Why not explore how to make it cool to care about food quality, not just for the well-off but for everyone? Why not look at ways to make our communities more conducive to leading active lives? While none of this is solely the government's responsibility, like it or not the government does have an influence on our health. But we have a pretty powerful influence on them. The question - is do we want it to be a positive one?]]> How to Be Smarter tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2169826 2012-11-21T04:54:39-05:00 2013-01-20T05:12:01-05:00 Zack Cahill http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-cahill/ This is not polymathy. A true polymath is not just okay, not just proficient , but positively TED-talk-worthy in a number of fields. Socrates and Plato were not just brilliant minds and orators, but also great athletes and soldiers. Leonardo Da Vinci was probably the most diversely talented human ever, excelling at painting, sculpting , architecture , mathematics , anatomy and more. He could probably even dance and cook, the bastard. These men were undoubtedly geniuses, gifted , practically superhuman. They picked the right parents, no doubt. But while we can't exchange the numbers we drew in the genetic lottery , we can do a lot with what we've got. The research on genius points to a few simple conclusions. You've got to be born smart, you've got to be interested in learning and you've got to be in an environment that facilitates this learning. Think The Beatles in Hamburg, gigging for hours every single day , compressing more practice into a few years than some bands get in their entire careers. Now you can argue guys like Socrates had it easier. After all, Greek high society had the benefit of a slave class. Perhaps if you had servants looking after your every menial task you'd have time to sit around in robes pondering the nature of existence too. We modern folk have no such luxury . And since man has yet to discover martinis that buy themselves or the self hoovering flat, we need to work and do other boring stuff not all of which is conducive to the attainment of genius. On the plus side, information has never been as freely available in so many convenient formats. So how can we use the modern tools of learning to build deep knowledge, rather than simply becoming overloaded? Read without restriction- read diversely, voraciously and with promiscuity. The internet's ability to build a profile of our tastes and steer us toward content we might be interested in is a double edged sword. An ever-helpful amazon account can lead us down increasingly narrow passages rather than allowing us to discover new areas of interest organically. Above all, don't confine yourself to books or magazines that feel relevant to your profession. I've heard "experts" suggest banning fiction entirely, as if swapping War and Peace for another retread of How to win friends and influence people style cliches is going to make you a more rounded person. Reading and research does not always have to have a direct , clear outcome. More often than not, truly creative thinking and breakthroughs come from unexpected sources. A piece of information from one field collides with a thought process from another and a new idea is synthesised. Its a form of alchemy that can't occur on an overly frugal or "specialised" information diet. Write- nothing clarifies your thoughts more than the act of distilling them to words on paper. This can be as informal as an exchange of ideas with a friend over email, or you could write a blog or keep a journal. Its highly individual but without a doubt writing about a subject will improve your retention of information while the process itself will spark new realisations and a deeper understanding. Take walks- "all truly great thoughts are conceived while walking" according to Nietzche, no intellectual slouch. And if that doesn't convince you here's Henry Thoreau ; "Methinks the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow," Examples of great thinkers and artists praising the benefits of a good old wander are not hard to come by. Perhaps the removal of walls and ceilings promotes unrestrained thinking, or maybe the physiological act of walking improves brain function. For me a walk acts as an "acceptable" break from reading, writing or other obligations. There's no nagging voice telling me I'm procrastinating, because my body is performing a task. This then frees up the parts of the mind that were preoccupied with "trying" to think , or were anxious about a lack of progress, to simply wander. Just as when the name of some obscure actor is on the tip of your tongue, often the best way to remember is to stop trying. The point is we can't always be in gather-and-consume mode. If researching is about the acquisition of information, then walking and daydreaming is about turning that raw information into real knowledge and creating something that is specifically your own and greater than it's constituent parts. So read, write and go for walks. Sorry if that's not particularly revolutionary, but then I never claimed to be a genius.]]> Lance Armstrong - The Danger Of Having Heroes tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1956969 2012-10-11T19:35:11-04:00 2012-12-11T05:12:01-05:00 Zack Cahill http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-cahill/ So this is not an article about drugs in sport nor a "did he/didn't he" invitation to debate. It's about the reactions to the story. The outpouring of emotion I've witnessed online, from the cynical to the mawkishly sentimental has made me uncomfortable and I'm not sure why. It seems people are genuinely upset about this, with the most emotional fitting broadly into one of two camps. On one side we have the die-hard supporters who will never believe Lance cheated no matter how much evidence surfaces. On the other side are those for whom it totally undermines not just the man but sport as a whole, and are sad and disillusioned as a result. I would suggest that both sides have attached too much of their own identity to someone who is, in spite of his impressive cycling ability, his recovery from cancer and his admirable charity work, still just a man. If Lance Armstrong inspired you in some way to do something you might not have otherwise done, or simply to feel better, no amount of doping allegations can change the fact that you did and felt those things. The man being stripped of his titles does not strip you of the feelings and actions he may have inspired. Heroes are dangerous things to have. Believing that a person's ability to cycle or run fast (or even sing a song well or write a compelling book) elevates them to the status of an inspirational "legend" makes it uncomfortable when that person turns out to be imperfect. The inclusion of Armstrong's cancer in the doping debate also feels odd. The fact that he survived the disease should have no bearing on whether or not he used drugs. Yet cancer is inseparable from the Armstrong legend, it is crucial to the simple narrative of hard work overcoming obstacles. This too is dangerous. The characterisation of cancer victims as battling heroes may be intended as encouragement but it has a dark flip side. Talk of "winning" or "losing" a battle against an illness has always felt like an ugly and unhelpful metaphor to me, because if I "lose" does that make it my fault? Armstrong is a hard working and talented individual who achieved great success. He recovered from a terrible illness thanks to medical science (the real hero in the cancer battle.) He does admirable work for charity. These things will always be true. Draw inspiration from his actions if you like, and if his story encouraged you to work for something you want that's a good thing. Regardless of any doping scandal, you still did those things, you own them, they can't be taken away. That's my two cents. Hashtag apathy.]]> Healthy Addiction? tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1918940 2012-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2012-11-29T05:12:01-05:00 Zack Cahill http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-cahill/ Her diet is average. She could do with more vegetables and perhaps fewer refined carbs but it's far from terrible. If you laid her weekly food intake out on a table it would be nothing like those vast heaving smorgasbords of beige stodge with which Gillian McKeith once shamed and frightened fat people into tears of submission. No, there'd be green things in there, and protein too. It's just that she doesn't really spend any time thinking about what she eats. There are far more interesting things in the world and when she's on her death bed she doubts she'll regret having that almond croissant in 1997. She probably has a stone to lose. That'd be nice. But the prospect of that extra effort, restriction and planning gives her a heavy, sinking feeling. The thought of missing nights out with friends or fretting about having some chocolate just doesn't seem like a worthy trade. She is surrounded by people she loves and who love her. She travels, has hobbies and a fulfilling, challenging job. Person B, let's call her Dorothy, is a hardcore gym addict. She is up at 6am most mornings for an hour of cardio before a breakfast of greens powder, coconut water and hemp protein. Plus her fish oils, vitamin D and magnesium. In the gym changing room she stares and squeezes anxiously at her stomach, wondering if she can already see the evidence of the one square of 90% dark chocolate she had last night, her reward for doing two training sessions that day. At the office she feels virtuous for declining the biscuits being passed around, brought in by a co-worker recently returned from a weekend break. At lunch the others gossip over lattes and white bread sandwiches while she eats chicken and broccoli from her Tupperware box. It's a Friday and she declines the invite to after-work drinks to get an extra gym session in and get to bed early. She read some where that the hours of sleep before 11 are twice as beneficial as those after. She rarely goes out, and rarely travels, as the lack of control over the food that's available in those circumstances gives her an anxious, sinking feeling. She feels a little separated from her friends, but she read online that if you feel your friends are not supportive of your weight loss goals then you should get new friends, and if they need to drink to be interesting then maybe they're not such good friends after all. Sometimes it's an effort to stick to her regime, sometimes she wonders if it's all worth it. But then she reads her written goals, and visualises her future body, that bit more toned like the model on the cover of Women's Health, and she pushes the negative thoughts away. My question is this; who is healthier? Person A or person B? Janet or Dorothy? Obviously, the answer depends on what we mean by healthy. If we define health in terms of aesthetics, body fat percentage and fitness, Dorothy is the clear choice. But is that all health is? The absence of illness and an arbitrary number on a scale? I don't think so. I'm not saying that training hard and paying attention to nutrition is a bad thing, of course not. I have a certain image in my mind of how I want to look, so I make choices in my life to keep me looking that way. I eat protein and vegetables, I lift weights. But this has more to do with vanity than health. If I'm a guest at someone's house for dinner and pasta is on the menu, I don't push it away and whip out a tupperware dish of boiled salmon, I say thank you and eat. If I am heading off on a weekend away I don't stress about a lack of control over food, I just make the best choices I can. Could I get to 5% body fat? Sure, I just don't want it bad enough to live in a world without Argentinian Malbec, steak and chips and whatever else I feel like having on occasion. I'm not saying either Janet or Dorothy is totally right. I've been on both sides of that fence, and, while I don't have all the answers, I like to think I'm closer to that mythical place of "Moderation In All Things" than its twin-town, the often mistook Land of Do-As-You-Please (I just referenced Enid Blyton in a fitness article. For God's sake won't somebody tell me how clever I am?!) We can draw an analogy with money. It's often said that money can't buy you happiness. This is false. If you are struggling each month to make ends meet and constantly stressed about paying for vital utilities, then money will absolutely make make you happy. It will get your head above water, allow you to relax and provide a few creature comforts. But at a certain point, when your basic needs are met, more money ceases to correlate with more happiness (unless, according to research, you give a large amount of it away) This doesn't mean you shouldn't pursue more money. If you want a nice car and a big house there's nothing wrong with that. But it may not make you happier, and if you have to hurt people, pass up other life experiences or neglect your friends and family to get there it certainly won't make you "better". The same can be said of fitness. If your body is restricting you from doing the things you want to do, then being fitter will make you happy. Where it becomes unhealthy, in my view, is when we begin to tell ourselves things like "when I weigh x amount I'll be happy". This is no different to a depressed millionaire telling themselves if they could just make another million they'd finally be happy. We will all have our own ideas of what constitutes health, and where to draw the line between moderation and laziness, between dedication and unhealthy obsession. My friend Sam talks about health in terms of reducing, as much possible,the self-imposed restrictions on your life so that you can have the experiences you want to have. If you want to rock climb don't be obese. If you want to be around to play with your grand kids, look after your heart. But if you're already fit enough to do the things you want to do, then the barrier to happiness is not your body-fat, it's something else.]]> Booze and Biceps tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1852191 2012-09-03T19:00:00-04:00 2012-11-03T05:12:01-04:00 Zack Cahill http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-cahill/ Alcohol is a deeply ingrained part of British life, and a real point of struggle for many of my clients. Now your bog standard fitness blogger will tackle this issue with something as useful and insightful as: 'Drinking is bad? Mmkay.' Or: 'It's a simple choice between being fat and unhealthy, or not drinking.' But in truth, it's not. For many it's a choice between socialising with their friends or not (the glib, pious personal trainer answer to this would be 'get new friends'). For others it's a choice between progressing in their career or not - ask any city professional where the best networking gets done and the most strategic relationships are solidified, and they'll tell you it's over drinks. Booze is a social lubricant, a rapport-building shortcut, and the lynchpin of just about any social occasion. So as trainers are we living in the real world when we tell our clients not to drink? I don't think so. I grew up in Ireland, which is effectively the international school for binge drinking, so this is a subject I know a little about. So do I think people need to cut out alcohol to get in great shape? No. The negative effects of reasonable alcohol consumption have, in my humble opinion, been overstated in the fitness world (also, given the fact that when any group of fitness professionals get together it tends to be as anarchic and alcohol fuelled as any office knees-up, it's pretty hypocritical). I've done eight weeks totally booze free, and honestly I can't say that it was worth it. That's my opinion, but the research seems to back me up. The oft -touted testosterone sapping effects for example, are so minimal as to be insignificant unless you are drinking heavily or daily. One study showed a 6.8% drop in testosterone following three weeks drinking three beers a day every day. I don't advocate drinking every day. Another showed a more significant reduction for 16 hours only after the equivalent of 10 beers. There is even some research to suggest that moderate drinking can improve insulin sensitivity (But what's moderate? That's another story)... The biggest issue with alcohol is it affects the liver in a way that causes any other calories you consume to be more readily stored as fat. This is compounded by the fact that we tend to make more indulgent food choices when we drink. I believe poor food choices while drinking or hungover have a greater impact on the waistline than the alcohol itself. So, how can we minimise the negative effects of alcohol while still enjoying the odd drink? I'm not saying you should drink as much as you like and there won't be consequences. But you're probably going to, so here are my suggestions: Keep it to once a week On the day you are going to drink, consume as little fat and carbohydrates as possible. Stick to protein sources like chicken and to green veg Alternate alcoholic drinks with sparkling water. The bubbles slow you down more than still water would Don't make stupid food choices the next day, get right back on track with eating proper food and keep it lower carb Stick to low sugar drinks - dry white wines or spirits. If you're having mixers make them sugar-free Though please don't take this as carte blanche to drink as much as you want. Binge drinking is neither healthy nor clever. It can be addictive, and, as importantly, it can cause you to sleep with ugly people. If you don't do it, you won't have to deal with the consequences...]]>


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At the LA Gay & Lesbian Center Theatre! I'll be playing the fiddle and doing a big song-and-dance number with hot backup dancers!
Alec and his remarkable cast return for a special, encore weekend!� It's the variety show Alec always dreamed of hosting, which means he's taking you on another wild ride through the ironies, lunacies and tarnished glories of the way we live and love now.
It's Pride Weekend! Come celebrate with the proudest Gaysian-American in the country!
Featuring: Calpernia Addams, Jason Currie, Jamison Hebert, Amy Hill, Kristen Lee Kelly, Kevin Stea, Keo Woolford
Friday & Saturday, June 6 & 7 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, June 8 at 7 p.m.


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NOTE: This is my short interpretation of the book that has possibly changed my life forever, if you are interested in my brief understanding of the book, please do purchase it or loan it from your local library so that you may understand it for yourself. After reading all I have written it sounds much like a professional book review, and I must say that I am just your average life loving human being, so please do not think I am a paid promoter or what not, I just want to share with everyone a great find.
Quick fact! "Did you know that Americans currently consume about 42% of their calories from fiberless animal foods and another 51% from highly processed refined carbohydrates and extracted oils. Almost half of all vegetables consumed are potatoes, and half of the potatoes consumed are in the form of fries or chips?" Did you keep track of the percentages? Well, if you didn't that leaves 7%! Yea, that is right 7% to fruit and vegetable consumption.
Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a great read. It is not quite a diet book, but it could be for some, but the overall goal of Joel is to encourage people to "eat to live" rather than to diet, lose their weight, and go back to eating just as they did before they lost the weight.
Joel encourages a 90/10 diet (food consumption, not the fad term), and by that I mean 90% fruits and vegetables and 10% meat, bread, dairy, sweets, etc. Joel also encourages that you shy away from eating processed foods completely; no frozen meals, no canned food, no "artificial" anything; eat UNREFINED plant foods. You may be asking the question "why limit animal products and dairy to only 10%?" most can understand the bread, pasta and white rice because of the "simple" carbohydrates, but the reason to limit meat and dairy is for the reason at the nutrient to calorie ratio (this is also a big part of the book, nutrient to calorie ratio will give you an idea of what is best to eat over something else), they are MUCH MUCH lower than that of unrefined fruits and vegetables.
The main goal of eating this way is to eat as little fat, "simple" carbohydrates and sugar (excluding natural sugar from fruit) as you can; as they turn into fat once digested by the body. This way of eating allows the body to receive all of the nutrients needed, on VERY little fat, thus using the fat that is already on the body as energy, rather than using the food consumed; which is a common problem for people who try to diet. People think that eating smaller portions help (still eating, meat, dairy and pasta), when actually it hurts because the body still digests the food into fat instead of using the fat that is already on your body. Secondly, with the idea of smaller portioning, you are starving your body of all the vital nutrients that it needs to function because you are eating smaller portions of food, let alone the wrong food. At the beginning of eating you will see that you will lose quite a bit of weight, and then begin to slowly lose less and less weight until you come to your "natural" body weight; when you stop losing weight completely.
Here are the main points of eating in the first six weeks of the start to "eating to live". The restrictions on some foods are lifted later:
1. Salad is the main dish; eat it first at lunch and dinner - this is because you tend to eat more of whatever you consume first because at this time you are the hungriest
2. Eat as much fresh fruit as you wish, but at least four fresh fruit daily - four whole fruits will run an average of 250 calories
3. Variety is the spice of life, particularly when it comes to greens - eat as many vegetables as you like, the more the better though be sure to heed point #4
4. Beware of starchy vegetables - limit to one cup a day
5. Eat beans or legumes every day - eat an entire cup daily, or more if you chose and the best thing is that they help prevent food cravings
6. Eliminate animal and dairy products - no dairy for the first six weeks, limit meat to either fish (white) or egg whites once or twice a week
7. Have a tablespoon of ground flaxseed every day - daily dose of omega-3 which help prevent diabtetes, heart disease and cancer
8. Consume nuts and seeds in limited amounts, not more than an ounce per day
9. Eat lots of mushrooms all the time - mushrooms make a great replacement for meat
10. Keep it simple
Breakfast, lunch and dinner simplified:
Breakfast - Fresh fruit
Lunch - Salad, beans on top, and more fresh fruit
Dinner - Salad and two cooked vegetables (1lb.), fruit dessert
At this point you must think that Joel is either a radical vegetarian or a hardcore vegan, but he offers both vegetarian and non vegetarian options. There are also many chapters in this book about how to help/prevent a range of health problems, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, etc. I will also say, that I am not implying that people who eat meat, as well as dairy, bread, pasta and rice are bad for doing so. I have come to the understanding that there are better options/ways out there and eat accordingly. But, I will finsih with; that I HIGHLY recommend this book, if you plan to diet and lose weight, or to follow the book to "Eat to Live", please give it a read, it might change your life.


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NVIDIA has been known for making kick ass video cards for almost 10 years now. While there has been some controversy about the NV30 (Geforce FX 5200/5500/5600/5700/5800/5900/5950) and benchmarks like Unreal Tournament 2003 and 3DMark 2003, the history of their cards has been a good one for the most part. But a couple of years ago NVIDIA decided to stray away from doing video cards.
The year 2000 saw the introduction of NVIDIA entering the console business with the Xbox. Along with the graphics portion of the Xbox, NVIDIA provided the motherboard, which included the North Bridge and South Bridge chips, the memory controller and other components that a chipset for a computer require. When the Xbox was introduced to the market in the fall of 2001, it marked the first time that a console used PC components in a significant way.
The fall of 2001 saw the introduction of NVIDIA into the chipset market with the first generation nForce boards. The nForce1 was a rather interesting chipset seeing much success in the market place. Late 2002 saw the release of the successor to the nForce, the nForce2. With this chipset, NVIDIA really came into its own as a chipset manufacturer. The vast majority of AMD Athlon XP motherboards sold today and in the past year or so have been based upon this chipset.
September 2003 saw the introduction of the first AMD Athlon 64 CPU. With this launch NVIDIA released the nForce3 150 chipset. Compared to the competition, the Via K8T800, the nForce3 150 had slightly lower performance and no native support for Serial ATA and Gigabit Ethernet. As a consequence of this, most people buying into the Athlon 64 platform have Via K8T800 boards.
NVIDIA first announced the nForce3 250 in early January of 2004. While a lot of hubbub has been made on the chip, boards are only now starting to hit retail. NVIDIA kindly provided us with a reference platform for the tests of this new chipset, and I will also be running benchmarks with our standard test rig to show performance of the board versus a nForce3 150.


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Flash Traffic | Political Buzz from Washington
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew wild cheers at a Democratic Leadership Council conference for comparing the Bush economic record (unfavorably) to that of the Clinton-Gore years.
That's just the beginning. Watch for Democrats to reclaim their "It's the economy, stupid," mantra as the Labor Day kickoff to the fall elections arrives.
Republican prospects for holding the House and retaking the Senate are increasingly endangered by a sluggish economy and the rash of corporate scandals rattling Wall Street. Pollster John Zogby is privately telling GOP leaders that "corporate scandals are driving the day" and reshaping the fall elections.
It's still early, but "it's hard for me to see a GOP Senate pickup." Mr. Zogby adds that he expects "a one- or two-seat Democrat gain" in the Senate. Mr. Zogby notes that President Bush's approval ratings have dropped to 62 percent and that almost one in three Americans now feels worse off financially than two years ago.
Gallup's David Moore echoes the Zogby analysis. Mr. Moore notes only one in four Americans believes congressional Republicans seek to protect ordinary Americans; a whopping 65 percent see the GOP as defender of large corporations. By sharp contrast, one in two Americans says Democrats side with ordinary Americans while only 36 percent believe they side with big business.
This could explain why only 42 percent of Americans now plan to vote GOP for Congress, down from 49 percent last month, while 48 percent plan to vote Democratic, up from 44 percent last month.
Mr. Moore is quick to add, however, that the unsettled electorate is likely to stay that way "for the next several weeks, as many voters have yet to focus on the issues that will dominate the election."
Most at risk, Mr. Zogby warns, is Republican Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole, who is running in North Carolina. She "could be the Geraldine Ferraro of 2002," a high-profile female candidate who loses despite fawning national media attention. "She's got to address the issues more," particularly the economy, says Mr. Zogby. He also believes Democrats have a serious shot at picking up Phil Gramm's GOP Senate seat in Texas.
A new poll finds GOP businessman Bill Simon in a dead heat with incumbent Democrat Gov. Gray Davis in the white-hot battle to be the next chief executive of California. Gov. Davis has already spent some $8 million in attacks ads, yet now trails Mr. Simon ever so slightly, 47 percent to 45 percent, according to an exclusive poll taken for San Francisco's CBS affiliate, KPIX Channel 5.
Still, Mr. Simon faces a daunting uphill battle. He's raised just $10 million since the primaries, compared to Gov. Davis's stunning $50 million. Worse for Simon: Gov. Davis has a $31 million, ready-to-spend political war chest; Mr. Simon has a sixth of that.
Two former Senate rivals are teaming up for a good cause. Bob Dole and John Glenn appear in a new TV public service announcement encouraging adults to mentor children, unveiled on July 30 at a White House ceremony.
The ads, sponsored by President Bush's USA Freedom Corps, end with the line "Mentoring Kids, Everyone Can Do Something" and the address of the group's website, www.usafreedomcorps.gov. Since the president began promoting more volunteerism after 9/11, applications to join the Freedom Corps are up 90 percent.
President Bush is coming to a theater near you: This summer brings the first two films to feature spoofs of Mr. Bush. Former Saturday Night Live comic Dana Carvey impersonates "W" in his new film, The Master of Disguise. A dead-ringer for Mr. Carvey plays the president in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, the spirited new kids' movie starring Steve Irwin of Discovery Channel fame. The real president has yet to see either film, but he has taken in a screening of Mike Myers's newest Austin Powers film in the White House movie theater instead.


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30 Years of U.S. - PRC Diplomatic Relations
High Levels Visits & Speeches
High-level visits have played an important role in the evolution of U.S.-China relations, beginning with the first U.S. Presidential visit in 1972 by President Nixon.
President Nixon: At the conclusion of President Nixon's February 1972 visit to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, the United States and China signed the "Shanghai Communiqué," in which both sides stated their intention to normalize diplomatic relations. This led to the opening of liaison offices in each country; Ambassador David Bruce was named to head the U.S. liaison office in Beijing and General Huang Chen became head of China's liaison office in Washington. Ambassador Bruce was succeeded by George H.W. Bush. (speeches in China)
President Ford: President Ford visited China in 1975, the first visit by a U.S. President following the opening of liaison offices. President Ford reaffirmed U.S. intentions to normalize relations with Beijing. (speeches in China)
President Carter: On January 1, 1979, the U.S. and China established full diplomatic relations, marking the event with the issuance of a second joint communiqué. Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited the United States January 29 – February 4, 1979, the first visit by a Chinese leader since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Vice President Mondale visited China in August 1979, at which time the two countries signed agreements on maritime affairs, civil aviation, and textiles, as well as a bilateral consular convention.
President Reagan: On August 17, 1982, the U.S. and Chinese governments signed a third joint communiqué, in which the U.S. announced its intention to reduce gradually over time the quality and quantity of arms sales to Taiwan and the Chinese promised to strive for a peaceful resolution of outstanding differences with Taiwan. In January 1984, Premier Zhao Ziyang toured Honolulu, Williamsburg, San Francisco, New York, and Washington D.C. and signed agreements with President Reagan on cooperation in science and industrial technology. Three months later, President Reagan reciprocated Zhao's visit with a six-day trip to Beijing, Shanghai, and Xian -- the first by an American president since Ford's visit in 1975 -- and concluded talks on peaceful nuclear cooperation. In July 1985, President Li Xiannian traveled to Washington, where he and President Reagan signed the nuclear cooperation agreement, initiated a number of new cultural and educational exchanges, and signed a fisheries agreement. Vice President Bush visited China in 1985 and opened the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu. (speeches in China)
President George H.W. Bush: In February 1989, President Bush visited the Chinese capital, where he met with Deng Xiaoping and General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. President Bush reaffirmed our "One China" policy and encouraged a peaceful resolution of cross-Strait issues. (speeches in China)
President Clinton: The first high-level summit after the Tiananmen massacre of June 1989 was in 1997, when Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited the United States. In connection with that visit, the two sides concluded talks on the implementation of the 1985 agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation. President Clinton visited China for nine days in June 1998. In addition to his official talks in Beijing, President Clinton participated in a televised exchange with students at Beijing University and a live radio broadcast in Shanghai. (speeches in China)
President George W. Bush: President Bush visited China four times during his presidency. He participated in the October 2001 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Shanghai. The President returned to China in February 2002, honoring a commitment he had made at the time of APEC to visit China as soon as possible once the United States had begun to implement policies to deal with the terrorism of September 11. President Bush visited China for the third time in November 2005. From Aug 8-11, 2008, President Bush made his fourth visit to China. He attended the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games and the dedication ceremony of the new U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
President Jiang Zemin visited the United States and met with President Bush in Crawford, Texas in October 2002, on the margins of the APEC summit in Mexico. President Bush hosted Premier Wen Jiabao in Washington in December 2003. President Hu Jintao visited the United States as Vice President of China in the spring of 2002. In September 2005, President Hu Jintao attended the High Level Plenary of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and met with President Bush. In April 2006, President Hu Jintao arrived in Washington for his first official visit to the U.S. as Chinese president. At the invitation of President Bush, President Hu Jintao attended the G-20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy in Washington on November 15, 2008. (speeches in China)
The Three Communiques
- Joint Communiqué of the People's Republic of China and the United States of America, Shanghai, February 28, 1972 (PDF - 20kb)
- Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America, January 1, 1979 (PDF - 11kb)
- U.S.-PRC Joint Communiqué, August 17, 1982 (PDF - 14kb)
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throughout the journey
"Terra" sung by the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso
In account of the initial invitation to participate in Lisbon in the project Encontros 05-06(an initiative of Alkantara festival in collaboration with the Brazilian festival Panorama Rio Dança), in which there would be a partnership with another creator, from another country, another culture, two words marked our meeting alongside the first considerations: contact and displacement. The former one in direct relation with the meeting itself and the last one due to the fact of our actual need to displace ourselves for this project. Out of these two words, which would maybe come to serve as the bridge between us two, we started to get interested in doing this contact in displacement, as a sort of continuous experimentation where the place itself would always be moving and moved. Reminding a bit the flâneur of the XIXth century, someone that wanders through the streets, observing each detail, without being noticed, without impressing himself onto the surrounding landscape, observer of the modern cities under a non-stop transformation, a witness of an amazing and subtle spectacle in front of his very eyes.
Aqui enquanto caminhamos / Here whilst we walk invests on the possibilities of inhabiting the urban space through another politics of sharing and of perception. Taken in a walk through the invisible, but sensible, archictecture produced by the pedestrians and their living of the urban space, the audience is also invited to imprint his/her own presence in real time and space.
Gustavo Ciríaco & Andrea Sonnberger
Around Alfama, a report on the residence in Lisbon.
August 2006
a kind of report......
So where to start, maybe at the beginning, let´s see.
So I started to occupy myself with the theme more closely.
I decided to read books about old gardens, about old structures in politics and communication systems and about the baroque periode cause for me these things related in a not thought-out way. And in the same time I started to read about a famous mountain climber called Reinhold Messner, who lost his brother "walking" with him to the top of the Nanga Parbat.
Then I came to Lisbon, a place with a "big" past.
The themes we talked about were very important for the project itself but also for my future work as an artist. They helped me to see things more clearly, sometimes they forced me to rethink other projects or even my going on as an artist, which was not such an easy process in thinking...but also a clearifying one. So beside the project itself with gustavo there happened a lot of things which are still on my mind and will feed me for a while.
Gustavo brought a lot of books and we read about "la dérive urbaine", about les flaneurs, about landart, about architecture..... and the most important reference was the book about the brasilian artist Hélio Oiticica. But I think gustavo is the better part to speak about those.
Beside the theory we started to walk around Alfama, an old part of Lisbon, which seemed for us the best place to experience a labyrinthic way of walking.
Alfama is full of theatrical places and stories and of course pigeons. I found at least two great places for an opera. We read the missing reports, the graffitis, we met a very ignoring dog nearly every day (he or she is small with a redbrown fur and a strange left ear and is always very busy), a lot of children, a parrot (who denied to talk with us when we tried to interview him), budgies, old people, some french tourists, some american tourists, some not speaking tourists, people working... we were passing by a scary butcher shop every day, which looks like hard core porno shop but is really a butcher´s.
So the question arose what we want to do there with the public, what is our aim (walking without an aim, loosing orientation, getting drunk by the labyrinth and starting a new kind of sensation?????)
We are still searching for a partitur of walking which we can transform to other places, a choreography formed by the architecture and by things found there (and maybe by a task), to invent a tactic which allows a spontenious and lively experience while walking through a specific place.
During the discussion on the last day in Lisbon we had the idea to surround the public existing of ca. 30 people by a rubber band while walking through the space.
Some last words by Nietzsche (at least I think they were his):
Andrea Sonnberger
Lisbon-Oiticica and Baroque gardens, a late report.
de onde nem tempo nem espaco
que a forca mande coragem
para gente te dar carinho
durante toda a viagem
que realizas no nada
através do qual
carregas o nome da tua carne
from where neither time nor space
may a force bring with it courage
so that we can give you love
throughout the journey
you undertake within nothingness
and through which you carry
the name of your flesh
"Terra" sung by Caetano Veloso
With the text of the original proposal in mind, and the key words contact and displacement, we started our research in Lisbon, august 2005. Alongside with us we had a book, a good companion "A estética da ginga a arquitetura das favelas através da obra de Hélio Oiticica" ( by Paola Bernstein) on, as the title itself tells, the architecture of the Brazilian slums through the work of Hélio Oiticica, a famous and one of the most interesting artists of the last decades, a Brazilian neo-concretist who moved from more bi-dimensional concretist concerned works to more three-dimensional, experiential, atmospheric, "penetrable" works ( as he himself called them in one phase of his career).
As we discovered as the research, the walks and the talks went on, the thoughts and experiences of Oiticica (present not only in the book of Paola, but in other books about his work) as the rich and inspiring analysis of Paola Bernstein gave us at the same time many echos to what we´re thinking in terms of performance and at the same time it provoked in us new questions and engendered new ideas. As the initial demand of the projetc Close Encounters was to create one piece which would have the contradictory characeristics of being a site specific piece and not being that once it was thought to be performed in different cities, in different localities, right from the beginning we thought not a about a place, a building in particular, but the surroundings of an urban space, a region, a group of streets, where not only archictecture would be forming its physicality, but also the very experiencing of that space by the people who inhabited it through walking, living, working, meeting people, playing and so on. We were inspired specially by the concept/ denomination of Parangolé carved by Oiticica. Well, I think I have to go into details on the origins of this term. I don´t have the book with me where I read about Oiticica´s works (my first contact with him some years ago), but I´ll try to remember it. If I´m not properly correct, please let me know it. Well, the story goes this way. Oiticica was still working with his father at the National Museum then, and to those who are familiar with Rio, this musem is located in the traditional Portuguese district / bairro of Sao Cristóvao. In his way there, from the bus, he saw a street man, a homeless guy building an unusual construction, a sort of house where the walls were coloured lines /strings held by some wood sticks. On one of these nearly imaginary walls, a paper was hanging where one could read: Isto é um parangolé. (this is a parangolé). Parangolé, a word, although completely unknown to me, which in the seventies meant confusion, chaos, or something very simple, very ordinary. Oiticica took this word and used it in a very particular sense which got more clear as he moved away from his first concretist aims, to works more related to experience. What he read in this parangolé was the existence of imaginary, invisible structures that were so much a part of someone´s experience of the world as the very concrete and material things. As he said, in open markets, in slums houses, in streetsellling, spaces were built up and inhabited producing an invisible architecture that was established purely through wish, habit and movement. Parangolé was also the name of a sort of chothes created by Oiticica for people to wear for the sole aim of experiencing it with movement. This piece of cloth had no form in particular. A kind of blanket cut in different shapes. That stroke my mind since the first time I read it. It was on a similar ephemerous and invisible thing that we got interested in working, something inherently in operation in our inhabiting of a city.
Another idea, or better saying, another universe was also present at the beginning of the research. It was Andrea who brought it into discussion, her particular interest in the Baroque, in its structures, in its way of conducting people´s perception. Andrea is probably the right person to write about this. Anyway... it was funny to realize that although this theme seemed strange to the initial ideas, its relation become a very curious and pertinent one, through the idea of labyrinth, dear to baroque structures. This idea connected us to Paola´s book and to the proper origins of dance as an artform.
One thing for each turn.
On Paola´s book:
the Brazilian favelas (slums) are real labyrinths in constant construction, without any architectonical or urban planning. built by hazard, with countless different materials, found according to its inhabitants´ luck or money. In it, not only the barracos (houses of very precarious conditions) made this urban landscape, but also the streets themselves, not obeying to any previous uniformity or plan, revealed an inconstant, irregular surface. For Paola, in general terms (please read for more accuracy her book) by "reading" the works of Oiticica, she saw a connection between this irregular landscape and the swing of samba, one experience interwoven with the other. In a labyrinth, one doesn´t have conscience of the whole, of the future, of the plan, something pre-experience. There, one has the experience, the presentness of his experience. For us it all made sense after a while that we should not have a plan shown to our spectators-participants. Instead of the experience of the street, we prefered the experience of the way (caminho), the aimless deambulation of the flaneur.
On Baroque:
The Ballet, originally a dance for the king and the nobles with the Court Ballet, became under the kingdom of Louis XIV, an intricate battle ground of social ascensions and falls. One had to master dancing to survive in that overcodified society. In order to serve as a guide for the dancing nobles, complex and beautiful patterns were drawn on the floor, something we relatively and easily can observe in some castles dating from that epoch. These designs were present not only the court dances, they were present in a myriad of other things, among them the garden labyrinths... A way of not only organizing one´s experience of the world, but also a way of submitting one to invisible structures of political power. Thanks to Bojana Cjevic´s acute help this connection with ideas subjacent to the Baroque was made more visible.
This way, we realized more and more the implicit implications of the urban places upon our very experience, and our wish to provide an experience where this would somehow be put forward and that would open space for people inhabiting it, in the sense another Bojana, this time the professor Bojana Kunst, curiously described in her lecture (the name of her lecture) the work in collaboration as something not planed, but submitted to casualness, to the ongoing present, to the process itself.
It´s important to say that alongside our research, we had guided visits with the participants of Close Encounters in some possible places for their performances, we had lectures, we had performances of the participants as well as the oral presentation of their works done until that date with further discussions of each other´s work. There were also meetings between each couple of choreographers and Bojana Cjevic on their researches and concepts and some discussions with topics that the group had chosen. For the Lisbon experience we chose as work strategy to take long walks around Alfama in order to map out its particularities through our perception of daily and ordinary things. At a certain point of our research, we set up two routes as a way to have a concrete circuit upon which set our investigation. This served as a good starting point. Once established these two routes, we walked through them in silence, registering the sounds and filming them. Our departure point was the Fado Museum, in the middle of and sort of located in front of Alfama. In its structure we found an old cistern where we felt very tempted to use it as an installation place related the walking. We had two different ways of filming the routes. One filming the path to be passed by and the second filming what we left behind us as we walked. These images and the sound were mainly captured for the instalation, but also to provide us more information of those places we walked through. In our observation of Alfama we paid special attention to how things were comunicated there, mainly through written papers glued to walls and light spots. We even produced a text using the same kind of form that people use there to ask for help, for instance, to find a missing cat. The use of texts as to ignite comprehensions or perceptions was very present then at the beginning of our project, though later being put more aside.
Many ideas came, many ones left us, but by the end of our sunny stay in Lisbon, we had some final decisions, among them we decided that we would walk with people in silence, avoiding the danger of them talking with each other nonstop what would certainly, we were afraid, provoke lack of attention and consequently the absence from the very experience of the walk itself which for us was so dear. The idea of an elastic band around them came later as something whose form, we hoped, would change according to the acidents and configurations of the walking path, and which would in establishing an inside and outside, produce in those people a sense of group, maybe even of identity.
" The study of a site specific consists on extracting concepts out of the facts produced by existent senses through direct perceptions. Perception precedes conception when it is applied to the definition or selection of a site. One doesn´t impose upon oneself a site, one rather exposes it be it interior, be it exterior. The interiors can be treated as exteriors and vice-versa. It´s the artists taht can better explore the unknown sites. exterior"
Robert Smithson - Collected Writings*
*Obs.: This is not the original text in English. It was translated from French into English due to the bibliography consulted be in French.
In our research we realized that it was important to have an established route for the walk, but which should not be showed in advance to the people that would walk with us. We had the idea of building up a labyrinthic route as a way of rendering the experience more present, once these people would not have the notion of the plan to guide their very experiencing of the walk. We would walk back and forth sometimes through the same streets, repeating paths, and sometimes going through the same market area, but on the opposite sense. This way we would see and maybe hear again the same places. The first part of the walk consisted this way basically of walking around these streets aimlessly, just as urban flaneurs. It is important to say that our starting point was the cultural center and that we decided that this walking group from 12 to 30 people would be surrounded by an elastic band and would tend to be silent, a pact we established with each group at the beginning of each session: we would tend to be silent, but everybody was free to talk whenever she/he felt the need to do that. Although we leaded the walk, the group was continuously confronted with the self arrangement inside the form as we walked through different paths, sometimes narrow, sometimes with troublesome surfaces which put people in close contact with each other and then suddenly releasing them into a wider shape and consequently more distant contact. The form of the group with the elastic band shaped itself this way upon the changing urban architecture.
Gustavo Ciríaco & Andrea Sonnberger


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Ghosts of the Past....
Analyzing the Wild, Wild West
A Webquest for 8th Grade History Students at Bloomfield Jr/Sr High School
By Mrs. Kristie Bladen, Media Specialist
Based on, and using components of, a project conducted by Melville Krebs, Virginia
IIntroduction | Task | Resources | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion
Teacher Notes
And You Thought They Were Only Cloning Sheep!
Imagine for a moment that you could travel beyond the grave to visit with the characters of the Wild, Wild, West......the good, the bad, and the ugly! Imagine that you are whisked back in time and could experience first hand what life was really like in the unsettled West of the 1800s. Would you find that some of the Wild West characters were true outlaws and criminals or were they "Robin Hoods" of their time as some considered the infamous Jesse James to be? Were the "good guys" always good or were their actions as scandalous as their outlaw counterparts?
Well, it's a new millenium and anything's possible. An American scientist with a passion for western movies has been secretly cloning characters of the Wild West. It all started with the 1995 exhumation of Jesse James' burial site. Since that first exhumation, top secret exhumations of burial sites have been occurring all over the West. DNA was collected and once cloning was perfected in animals, the cloning process was used with the DNA of those famous Wild West characters. They are now living in a top-secret underground facility in New Mexico. As students of U.S. History, you have been invited to this secret place to meet the characters of the Wild West. These outlaws, lawmen, and showmen are anxious to discover how history has portrayed them years after their deaths. You will be responsible for giving a presentation through a format of your choosing. You will need to be creative, yet accurate in your reporting. Remember, some of them have been dead for decades and are anxious to hear how their lives have been portrayed to today's society.
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The Task
Before visiting the New Mexico facility, you must learn about the times and historical figures of the "Wild West" in American history, and then choose a character that you find especially interesting to research further. You will write a short paper about your character and then use this person as the basis for your presentation. Your presentation must be historically accurate, but you are encouraged to be as creative as possible. The following questions will guide you in your research:
During what years did the period known as the "Wild West" occur?
What was life like in the West during those times?
What major things were happening in the United States then?
What were some of the reasons for the lawlessness of those times?
What specific states or territories are included in the "Wild West"?
What were the names of some of the outlaws, lawmen, Native Americans, and other important figures in history at that time? Pick one character and report about his/her life.
What were some of the most exciting or interesting events of this time? Where and when did they occur? Who were the participants?
What caused the end of this period of American history?
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You will use your history textbook, library books, Internet sources, and encyclopedias to find out information about this period of history. You must use at least THREE different resources and include them in your citation page. Below are some of the suggested references available in our library. You may use these to help find other sources not found in this list or you may bring in items of your own from the public library or your home.
Divine, Robert A., et. al. America: The People and the Dream. Glenview, IL: ScottForesman, 1994.
Library Books (Click here)
Internet Resources (Use the following:)
The Wild, Wild West
America's West
The Kansas Heritage Server
American Memory
Wild, Wild West's Favorite Links
Westward Expansion
The Wild West
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Encyclopedias (Available in the Media Center)
World Book 2000
World Book 1995
The New Book of Knowledge
Encyclopedia Americana
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The Process
1. You will be responsible for reading your history textbook to get a feeling for the time period. You will participate in class discussions and exercises with Miss Lincicome.
2. You will conduct research in the library and the computer lab with Mrs. Bladen and be responsible for taking notes on the information you find. You will choose a character that you want to know more about from your reading, research, or class discussions. Your notes should include the following information as well as answering the questions listed above in the Task section.:
*Background information--include dates and important information about this time period.
*Setting--give a description of the places where important events occur.
*Character descriptions--give biographical information about the character you have chosen to report on.
*Important events--give information about important events that happened during your character's lifetime and during the time of the "Wild West".
3. Using your notes, write a two page background paper about your chosen character giving historical, geographical, and biographical information. Discuss the important events that occurred in his/her lifetime and discuss why this person was/was not important to history of that time period. Your paper should have a title page, citation page, and in-text citation when necessary. See this link for help with citations/or ask Mrs. Bladen for help.
4. Based on your paper, create a presentation that highlights your character's life. When giving your presentation, discuss whether history has been kind to that person and whether history has given us an accurate, historical portrayal of the person. Possible formats for your presentation include:
* Original video--perhaps portray an important scene in your character's life or give an overview of the person's life--from beginning to end. You will probably have to have the help of classmates who are willing to work with you on this project. You may use a school camera during school hours, but will have to use your own camera at home. You may also use the video editing equipment during school hours and will need to arrange time with Mrs. Bladen to do this.
*PowerPoint--lots of possibilities here. Import pictures from the Internet and create a biographical presentation.
*Webpage--There are tons of websites devoted to the Wild West. Create your own using one of the free Internet building tools available on the web.
*Original skit--Write a skit with dialogue and stage directions to portray something about your character's life. Again, you'll need the help of classmates. Then act out the skit.
*Oral presentation with visuals (timelines, artwork, pictures, posters). Any kind of oral presentation, but must use some visuals to make the presentation more interesting.
Remember, these are the presentations that will be given to the Wild West characters in that underground facility in New Mexico, so you'll want to portray your character accurately, yet creatively! This part of the project will take a lot of thought and effort. Think about what you can realistically do well and practice, practice before giving your presentation to the class. Discuss with Mrs. Bladen before beginning.
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The following rubrics will be used to grade your project:
Research Process = 1/3 grade
Background Paper= 1/3 grade
Presentation--pick the correct rubric for your project= 1/3 grade
Power Point Presentation
Video Presentation
Oral Presentation
Web Page Presentation
Total score = 100 points
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By the end of this project, you will have learned a great deal about the Wild West, it's famous characters, and their way of life. You will have been given the opportunity to see how history has portrayed these people and decide for yourself whether your character was an outlaw or a hero. You will gain skills in creating and presenting a multimedia project to your peers (and to those famous folks out in New Mexico!). Hopefully you will have found this project to be interesting, challenging, and eye-opening. And last, but not least, I hope you will have had fun!
Who knows.....maybe someday they really will be able to clone Jesse James! His DNA is out there somewhere! It could happen! Would you want it to?
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Rose lovers are true romantics who, bewitched by scent and bedazzled by colour, strive to create a garden bed of luscious blooms. But putting scent and sentiment aside, many eventually arrive at a pragmatic point of view: climbing roses are a good deal. While they require no more space than a shrub rose, the long vertical growth of climbers delivers three or four times the flowers.
Cascading over a fence or draping a wall, the visual contrast of tender petals against rough wood, brick or stone creates an exquisite display of artistic tension. But to achieve these moments of rosy glory, we must first understand these plants and how best to use them.
Ramblers vs. Climbers
Climbing roses can be divided into two main groups, the antique ramblers and the modern climbers.
Ramblers are most often derived from old species types such as Rosa wichuraiana, R. multiflora and R. moschata, although occasionally modern breeders will create a new rambler cultivar by combining old ramblers and newer roses from different categories.
Ramblers usually have clusters of informal, often scented, five-centimetre-wide flowers, produced on many slender, pliable canes sent up from the plant's base. Without pruning and left to their own devices, ramblers will reliably produce large numbers of flowers all along their length. Growing from 3.5 to six metres tall, some ramblers are quite cold-hardy, and are perfect for scrambling up a tree or travelling across a pergola, creating a roiling mass of hundreds of flowers. Most bloom only once-for about six weeks starting in early summer - and require little pruning; just remove dead wood in spring and cut back to a manageable size every few years.
Modern Climbing Roses:
It wasn't until the mid-1900s that breeders focused on producing modern climbing roses that grew to a height of 1.8 to 3.5 metres and bloomed more than once per season.
Occasionally, a shrub-form rose will produce a cane that is noticeably longer and more vigorous than its other ones. This longer cane is characteristically different from the parent plant, and is the result of a spontaneous genetic mutation called a sport. If the sport is removed and vegetatively propagated, it usually results in a specimen with a climbing form and flowers identical to those of the parent plant. Some examples are 'Climbing Iceberg' (a.k.a. 'Climbing Schneewittchen'), a white floribunda sport; and red, clove-scented Altissimo (R. 'Delmur'), both reaching up to five metres tall and hardy to Zone 5. Modern climbers are sports of many categories of shrub-form roses, such as hybrid perpetuals, Chinese and hybrid teas, bourbons and floribundas.
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Today we have a very interesting interview with Milan Steskal, Digital Production Director of digita.sk
1 – Tell us, what projects are you currently working on?
I'm working on projects for local branches of companies like IBM, Samsung or Orange. I'm also working on a big project, which I can't share any details of. But it will be live pretty soon.
2 – In which social networks is your company present? From your experience, which one do you think is the most productive? Why?
Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is definitely more productive, because there are much more users there. On the other hand, all social media agencies are on Twitter, so we definitely can't skip it.
3 – Which tips would you give community managers to improve their job?
Be socially devoted. Answer your fans and your clients a.s.a.p. and reasonable, even the negative comments. Delete only the vulgar ones. Be consistent in your communication strategy. Social media profile is your mirror and using it well could turn you to love a brand.
4 – Do you think the profession of Community Manager will still exist in 4-5 years?
Yes, but in a bit different way than it is now.
5 – Do you think coupons and promo apps are productive and interesting for companies?
In general, yes. But companies should not use them just because others did, that would be a waste of both time and money. The campaign has to have a strategy and goals have to be set.
6 – Could you give our readers a killer tip to improve their social presence?
Use a photo of a sexy lady as your Facebook page cover photo. Now seriously. Be serious and fun. Don't post the same type of posts. Post photos, ask questions, use jokes sometimes, announce something big there. Make users engage with you.
7 – How do you think someone should address the issue of the negative comments or crisis situations in social networks?
Face the situation and resolve it. People know that no-one is perfect. Negative comment will help your reputation if you manage to resolve it quickly and well. If you have many negative comments, you may be doing something wrong and you should think about that.
8 – What tools do you consider essential to measure your social presence?
Social bakers provide pretty good metrics. Social media strategy should set the important ones of them. But engagement would be one of the most important for me.
9 – What's the future of social media marketing?
It will live with us for a few years. I think that it will become a usual part of our life, like searching on Google has become. But I think, that there is also something new what will show up in this decade and will change the Internet how we know it now.
10 – Finally, have you tried HiSocial? If so, what's your opinion?
No, sorry.
Thank you Milan for this interesting interview, and we hope you try HiSocial soon.
Milan Steskal is the Digital Production Director of digita.sk , the first full-service digital agency and one of the most awarded agencies in Slovakia
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go brit! Wednesday Night British Trivia Finished for the Season
By Go Brit | Mar 05, 2013
go brit! British Trivia night ended last Wednesday February 27th for the winter. Look for it start again next winter. Two teams, Obsessive Compulsion and Lizabet, will be in our next commercial. Be on the look out for the commercial to air this summer.
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If you're thinking about joining up with Sprint, you better be sure you're willing to stick with the contract. An internal Sprint document has been leaked that states the fee for early terminations is going up on September 9. It's not a modest increase either.
Sprints ETF is increasing from $200 to $350 for advanced devices. Advanced devices include smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks.
The good news is this new early termination fee is not for existing customers. Only contracts signed on September 9 or later will be subject to the new ETF.
By comparison, AT&T's ETF is "$325 minus $10 for each full month of your Service Commitment that you complete." Verizon has a $350 ETF and T-Mobile is the cheapest of the bunch with a $200 ETF.
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Hollywood is a strange beast -- projects come and go every day with a chance to bankrupt everyone but make one or two people a lot of money. This leads to the high demand for sequels, further installments that no one asked for in franchises that should have stopped either after the first film, or even before the pen hit the page. Another 'Austin Powers' hits this sweet spot perfectly, as Mike Myers is about to accept what is likely a huge sum to return in a fourth installment in the spy spoof series, according to HitFix.
Everything about this career move reeks of desperation for Myers, who last crashed and burned in 2008 with "The Love Guru." While he created various catchphrase-heavy characters from the three 'Austin Powers' films, his attempt to launch the vaguely offensive Pitka into the atmosphere failed miserably. Since then, he's retreated into the easy paychecks of the "Shrek" world and surfacing in a still-peculiar cameo in "Inglourious Basterds." Hungry for a hit, but still with too much ego to try the character-actor bit, Myers is resurrecting a one-joke concept that wore itself thin halfway through the first movie in this blockbuster series, the last of which grossed nearly $300 million worldwide. Who are you people?
No word on what the plot might entail, but we're sure that there's got to be a fresh-spin on the '60s-spy-unfrozen concept planned. Since 'Goldmember,' James Bond has been successfully rebooted, and, on a smaller scale, the 'Powers' style was already perfected by Jean Dujardin in the brilliant 'OSS 117' films, so where else do you take him? The guess is they follow the steps of another stuck-in-the-'90s franchise "Men In Black" and heavily employ time travel. Oh, and you can absolutely bet this will be in 3D.
Even with Myers' involvement, and the popularity of the 'Powers' films as catalog titles, it's hard to see how this is going to be an A-List offering. What does seem likely is that Jay Roach, who directed each installment, won't be back, though this is unconfirmed. If they couldn't lure him back into the fold for "Little Fockers," what chance do they have bringing him on to extend this single joke far past the breaking point? We do look forward to Fat Bastard fumbling with an iPhone, or Mini-Me getting stuck on some sort of conveyor belt. We also look forward to the cold, cold release of death.


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In tradition with the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" type of commercial, T-mobile has cooked up something fresh for their advertisement with a slight jab, or should I say a sharp poke into the eyes of its other competitors.
As some of you might know, this week saw the official partnership of Apple and Verizon (North America's largest network carrier) to unleash the iPhones under CDMA instead of its usual GSM build for AT&T. So far, everything was alluring and welcoming although not as spectacular for now because Red V's 4G isn't there yet.
Amidst of the announcement, the Magenta company managed to cook up something quite 'cute' to jab AT&T and Verizon.
Check out the video.
As you can see, T-mobile is belittling the inability of the two network carriers to go 4G and interestingly, Tmo picked a twins pointing out that these two (Verizon and AT&T) doesn't have their own personality and just sucking under Apple's iPhone 4 device. Anyway, things might change at the ending of the first half of this year as the iPhone 5 reveals itself and hopefully, 4G LTE of Verizon would finally be available.
By the way, for those who are interested, the chick on the video is Carly Foulkes. And sorry, she doesn't do adult-movies (yet).
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Kawasaki Completes "Flagship" Gas Turbine
Company's highest power output to meet anticipated worldwide increase in power generation needs
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has completed the development of a new 30 MW gas turbine called the L30A and recently launched it into markets worldwide.
Labeled by KHI as the flagship of its portfolio of gas turbines, the company said that not only does the L30A have the highest power output power in the company's product lineup, its thermal efficiency is the same or higher even though the L30A has a heavy-duty structure.
At ISO conditions, the L30A has 30.9 MW of rated output, 41.3% of thermal efficiency and 470°C of exhaust temperature, which KHI claimed makes the L30A engine more effective for co-generation and combined heat and power plant (CHP) applications.
The L30A is a twin-shaft machine and has a 14-stage axial flow compressor, eight-can combustors and a horizontally split casing for a gas generator module as a basic structure from the well-proven Kawasaki M7A and L20A series, the company said. For the L30A, KHI adopted the same configuration as its 1 MW class twin-shaft gas turbine, the M1F and 2.5 MW class Super Marine Gas Turbine (SMGT) research engine. In addition, KHI said the L30 was designed as an "easy-maintenance" engine on-site: for example, with multi Bore Scope Inspection (BSI) ports on the engine casing.
The newly developed 14-stage compressor has a pressure ratio of 24.5 with rated air flow of 86.5 kg/s. KHI's proven Dry Low Emission (DLE) technologies are adopted to its combustor design, and NOx emission of 15 ppm (15% = O2) has been achieved.
KHI added that a newly designed two-stage gas generator turbine employs the company's cooling design using conjugate heat transfer and flow analysis. A three-stage power turbine (PT) has the interlocking tip shroud type, which the company said reduces vibration level for wider operating range with lower pressure losses.
The adopted horizontal split casing structure enables the dismounting of hot parts including combustors, GGT blades and vanes for inspection or replacing on-site, said KHI.
During engine tests, the gas generator turbine blades' temperatures were measured. KHI said all the stages of turbine blades and the first and third stage blades of the power turbine were measured and confirmed to be below the temperature criteria. During the testing, GGT first turbine blades' temperature distribution was also measured with this system.
The measured results correspond to the calculated distribution of CHT flow analysis and were confirmed below the criteria, although KHI said there is a slight discrepancy in the temperature distribution. Power turbine vibrations were measured by using a telemetry system and were confirmed to be below the high-cycle fatigue limit, the company said.
The L30A DLE combustor consists of three burners — the pilot, main and supplemental burners. In DLE mode, the fuel for the pilot burner is shut down except for a small amount of fuel for maintaining minimum (torch) flame. As the load increases, the fuel distribution of the supplemental burner will be increased in order to keep lower NOx emission levels.
The DLE combustor engine test has been conducted and NOx emissions were confirmed to be less than the target value of 15 ppm from 50 to 100% of load range, the company said.
An application study of the L30A for a CHP system was carried out with typical inlet and outlet pressure losses. The L30A could produce 28.4 MW of electric power and 46.2 tonnes/hr of saturated steam. Total efficiency was 83.1%, verifying to KHI that the L30 CHP application "would be a very effective solution for maximum energy utilization."
The first commercial L30 CHP plant will be for a Japanese chemical company and its construction work started in July 2011. This plant will be in commercial operation beginning October 2012.
KHI's first industrial gas turbine was introduced in 1974 for standby use, and its base-load model was launched in 1984. Since then, KHI has been developing and supplying both standby and base-load models to customers in the 150 kW to 18 MW range. In 2011, KHI delivered 10 000 units worldwide. The company announced its first ultra-low emission model, which has achieved 9 ppm of NOx emission, with its M7A fleet in 2011.
Focusing on likely demand for the L30A, KHI said in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake in March 2011, the issue of energy security has become "highly evident" and the need for on-site power generation has been increasing in the country. It added that, worldwide, considerable demand is expected because of an ever-increasing power demand and increasingly stringent environmental protection regulations.
The company claimed the L30A is able to provide a flexible solution for such demands as an ideal gas turbine combined with a waste-heat recovery boiler in a cogeneration and combined heat and power (CHP) plant with a steam turbine.


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Hmmm, I was under the impression that email was collected to a schedule.AFter a quick check that would appear to be the case. :( I'll see if it's supposed to be run on a schedule.
Your description isn't a catchall account. A catchall account is used to receive mail for an address that doesn't have a mailbox on your server. So if you had an email addressed to firstname.lastname@example.com and that didn't exist it would get sent to the catchall account.
What you're describing for getting mail from your ISP account isn't easy (AFAIK) using fetchmail or getmail. They're both meant to get mail from one or multiple external accounts and deliver them to a single mailbox. The mailbox you describe at your ISP is called a multidrop mailbox and are usually not a good idea as fetchmail etc tend to get confused by the headers on those emails.
Having said that you could always set-up the account on your server that mail is delivered to with a filter that forwards a copy to the correct recipient - assuming that there aren't too many.


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pro9000 II and Colormunki chart on one piece of paper
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it comes down to the colormunki
its the colormunki device and software that limits me from using a program other than the printer driver to print the color patches that are needed to create the profiles.
it would have to come down to someone familar with the canon printer driver itself and even perhaps, specifically, the 9000 II.
thanks anyway for the input. I do use PSP X4 as well and have managed to adjust layouts when printing photos. i just need to figure out how to do it in the printer driver specifically.
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A child smiles from the driver's hatch of an Armored Security Vehicle, part of a display for Operation Santa Rescue, at The Loop Shopping Center in Methuen, Mass., Dec. 12, 2013. The program is designed to help needy families with toy donations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ray Boyington.)
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WWTC Cost Accounting students to hold sale
Published on Thursday, March 02, 2006
As part of a class project, students in the Accounting program at Western Wisconsin Technical College will be holding an original product sale on Wednesday, March 22. The sale will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. outside the cafeteria in the Kumm Center, 400 6th St. N., La Crosse.
Each year, students in the Cost Accounting course are divided into teams and asked to develop their own businesses by applying the skills they have learned in class. The students are then asked to implement their business and record their success. The sale of merchandise is one of the final stages of the project, but is critical to determining the overall success of the team.
This year, there are a variety of products ranging in price from $5 to $15. The following is a listing of the teams and the products they have created to sell:
• Elegant Essentials will sell handmade bracelets with many different designs and colors available. If interested, call ahead to order at 608.782.1674 or stop by the group sale on March 22.
• Dot-To-Dot Floral will be selling glass votive candleholders with floral designs painted on them. Email email@example.com to pre-order.
• SLJ Bath Scents will be selling six-ounce bottles of lavender/vanilla scented bath salt.
• Twisted T's is offering unique, tie-dye t-shirts in various sizes and colors.
For additional information about the products, sales, or student businesses, please call 608.785.9268.
To learn more about other WWTC programs or services, please call 608.785.9200 or visit the WWTC Web site at wwtc.edu.


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Li-Yi Wei
March 2008
Sampling is important for a variety of graphics applications include rendering, imaging, and geometry processing. However, producing sample sets with desired efficiency and blue noise statistics has been a major challenge, as existing methods are either sequential with limited speed, or are parallel but only through pre-computed datasets and thus fall short in producing samples with blue noise statistics. We present a parallel algorithm that generates all samples on the fly with desired blue noise properties. Our main idea is to subdivide the sample domain into grid cells and we draw samples concurrently from multiple cells that are sufficiently far apart so that their samples cannot conflict one another. We present a parallel implementation of our algorithm running on a GPU with constant cost per sample and constant number of computation passes for a target number of samples. Our algorithm also works in arbitrary dimension, and allows adaptive sampling from a user-specified importance field. Furthermore, our algorithm is simple and easy to implement, and runs faster than existing techniques.
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