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Feb 15 2012
Winter Trees: Sycamore
From a distance this massive white tree looks like a ghost in the valley.
It's an American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), also called buttonwood or American planetree. In Pittsburgh we call it a sycamore but in other countries this name can be confusing because it refers to other trees. In Europe the "sycamore" is a maple.
American sycamores are native to eastern North America from Maine to Texas, from Ontario to Florida. You'll find them along creeks and rivers, in bottom land but not in swamps. They like to be near water, but not in it, because they'll die if their roots are submerged continuously during the growing season.
Sycamores are easily identified by their bark which flakes off in big chunks to reveal the pale new bark beneath. They do this because their bark cannot expand as the tree grows. Look up the tree trunk and you'll see the characteristic ghostly white color.
In rural settings you can safely identify the flaky bark as a sycamore but in town we've planted London planetrees, a hybrid of the American sycamore and Oriental plane tree. The new bark on London planetrees is greenish-beige where the sycamore is white.
The seed balls of both species stay on the tree through the winter, breaking up in early spring. Each seed has a bit of fluff attached to help it disperse by wind or water.
One way to tell the difference between American sycamores and London planetrees is to look at the seed ball stems. On sycamores there is generally one seed ball per stem. On London planetrees two or three hang from the same stem.
Sycamore twigs zigzag from bud to bud. The buds form underneath the petioles (leaf stems) during the growing season and don't appear until the leaves fall off. Each bud is encased in a single scale and surrounded by the leaf scar.
Sycamores (and London planetrees) are both noted for their very large trunks which often become hollow with age. Champion trees have been measured at 167 feet tall with trunks 13 feet in diameter. The oldest trees are the largest. They can live for several hundred years.
(photos by Kate St. John)
Reminder: Meet me at Schenley Park Cafe &Visitors' Center at 1:00pm this Saturday for a Winter Tree Walk to practice your winter tree identification skills. So far the weather looks good (above freezing with no precipitation!). Click here for more information.
2 Responses to "Winter Trees: Sycamore"
# Mary Ann Pikeon 15 Feb 2012 at 12:30 pm
I love sycamores…there is something really beautiful about seeing the stark white trunk and branches in the winter, standing out in contrast to the gray-brown of most other trees. There are some huge stands of sycamore trees along I-79 north of Washington PA, and in my woodland wanderings I've come across some massive individual trees that must be a couple of hundred years old….some very impressive specimens grow in Boyce Mayview park in Upper St. Clair along the Chartiers Creek floodplain. If you want to contrast the American sycamore and London planetree, if I remember correctly, along Allegheny River Boulevard you can see planetrees lining the road where they were planted, and native sycamores grow along the river bank below them.
On thing I would like to know, planetrees often develop lumpy trunk as they age…they look like tumors are growing all over them. The native sycamores don't do this, at least I've never seen it. I was wondering if anyone knows why the planetrees get lumpy.
# FOLKWAYS NOTEBOOKon 15 Feb 2012 at 5:17 pm
One of my favorite trees — their white bark shines beautifully in the sunlight — great post — barbara


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TissuGlu is designed to meet surgeons' need for a strong, biocompatible, and easy to use surgical adhesive. TissuGlu is intended for the approximation of tissue layers where subcutaneous dead space exists between the tissue planes in large flap surgical procedures such as abdominoplasty. The clinical data submitted in the PMA supports the safety and effectiveness of TissuGlu as an alternative to the use of closed suction drains in large flap procedures, reducing the number of post-operative invasive treatments and improving the patient recovery process.
"The advancement of the PMA to the Panel meeting stage represents a large accomplishment and one of the final steps in the approval process by the Company," said Chad A. Coberly, J.D., Vice President of Clinical, Regulatory and Legal Affairs for Cohera Medical. "Over the last several months the FDA has largely finalized its review of our modular PMA submission, as well as its review of the Company and its major manufacturing and clinical partners. To date, all have passed the FDA preapproval inspections related to manufacturing, quality, and clinical trials, marking a great achievement in the PMA process."
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TissuGlu is targeted for use in large flap surgery procedures in which drains are used to control fluid output and seroma formation. There are approximately 1M US-based large flap procedures per year, growing at an annual rate of 4.8 percent that could utilize TissuGlu. The product has been on the market in the EU since 2011, and currently more than 1,500 procedures have been conducted bringing great benefit to patients, surgeons, and caregivers.
About Cohera Medical Cohera Medical, Inc.® is a rapidly growing medical device company that is actively developing a line of surgical adhesives and sealants. Cohera Medical's products are based on a unique chemical design that is resorbable, non-toxic, easy-to-use, and forms a strong bond between tissue layers. The Company's lead product, TissuGlu® Surgical Adhesive, is indicated for the approximation of tissue layers where subcutaneous dead space exists between the tissue planes in large flap surgical procedures such as abdominoplasty. TissuGlu® is currently approved for sale in the EU and is being utilized to eliminate drains or reduce complications in patients undergoing large flap surgical procedures such as abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), mastectomy, lymph node dissection, decubitus and latissimus dorsi flap procedures. The Company's second product, Sylys® Surgical Sealant, the first synthetic sealant designed specifically to help reduce anastomotic leaks, is currently under the CE Mark approval process. TissuGlu and Sylys are the first in a pipeline of technology that includes surgical mesh adhesives, hemostatic foam, bone adhesives, and drug delivery. Outside of the EU, TissuGlu and the other Cohera Medical products are currently indicated for investigational use only and have not yet been approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. or in any other market.
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By the end of the 110th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives could achieve the goal of providing broadcast-quality video of all hearings and the floor for download on the Internet.
This collection consists of a variety of materials prepared to demonstrate to Congressional officials that a substantial upgrade in the quality of their video record of hearings is in order. The collection consists of three types of activities. First, a large number of hearings were "ripped" off of the streaming media servers used by the U.S. Congress and posted to the Internet Archive and Google Video. Second, an unsolicited report was submitted to the Speaker of the House. Third, after a series of discussions with the Office of the Speaker, the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, and officials from the Committees on House Administration, Oversight, Judiciary, and Energy/Commerce, a series of high-resolution MPEG-2 streams from selected hearings are being posted.
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I am wondering what a General Contractor is legally allowed to do in an apartment building? Are they allowed to do anything that is plumbing related is what I am really interested in knowing.
My landlord is allowing his General Contractor to do plumbing work in a bathroom where there is a leak from the above apartments shower. I need to know if this is legal. Sorry I am posting this type of question here but can't seem to find the answer anywhere else.
Best to check with your local permits department. It will depend on jurisdiction and the scope of the work.
Best to check with your local permits department. It will depend on jurisdiction and the scope of the work.
It depends. If a general contractor s licensed in that particular trade, it's fine. However, a general contractor is , usually, the ober-seer of a project and brings in the traded required for the job i.e. plumbers, electricials, etc. Having said that, minor issues are usually allowable (such as leaky faucets, clogged toilets, running toilets, etc.) as any homeowner can also do these repairs. More complex jobs where the walls are opened up for plumbing corrections or where electrical issues are concerned, usually require a ticketed tradesperson. So, ask if he/she has a ticket. As to the other comments from Dave, it is always to check with the local building inspector (usually free and just a phone call away) because every municipality may have a little different control on the codes.
A quick answer is YES, that he being the person responsible for repair of damage done to THEIR building, he may affect immediate emergency repairs, or give appropriate notice that a qualified repairman will be entering you suite to affect the required repairs.It is his plumbing, so he is responsible, not you. If you find the work to be sub-standard, contact the management company, or owner of the building.
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North West Throws A Tantrum And Anna Wintour Looks Unimpressed At Kanye's First Fashion Show
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These pictures are unreal! Fabulous! Cheers! - Leah
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These pictures are unreal! Fabulous! Cheers! - Leah
See how excited they are, they are all happy happy after the bath and ready to make your tummy happy happy.
I would guess any crawfish available now would have to be pond raised? Folks around here don't even start to go after them until late Feb at the earliest. These would be spillway or Atchafalaya Basin crawfish. Best time to buy them is always after Easter as the prices drop considerably.


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Area faces prospect of lake-effect snow overnight
The lake-effect snow dusting the area this morning will taper off during the day and give Western New Yorkers a brief period of calm this evening before the open waters of Lake Erie deliver one final punch in 2013.
Overnight, a sturdier band of lake-effect snow is expected in the metro area, where it could drop between 3 and 5 inches of snow in some spots, according to the National Weather Service.
"We have advisories out for that lake-effect," said Kirk Apffel of the weather service. "It could impact the commute tomorrow before moving south later in the day."
The good news/bad news for revelers planning to watch the ball drop in downtown Buffalo Tuesday night is the snow will be settled in the Boston Hills and Southern Tier by then, but temperatures will be in the teens. With winds of 10 to 15 mph, it could feel close to 0 when the countdown to 2014 begins.


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For starters, Rays at Yanks, with things slipping away
UPDATE, 6:21: Maddon said Roberts is "still hurting" and it's unclear if he'll be available at all tonight or to start Saturday. ... The batting change was the result of wanting to "re-arrange the deck chairs" a bit and to clump together Longoria, Upton and Keppinger, who all have good numbers vs. Sabathia. ... With Longoria limited to DH today after playing the field from the ninth inning on Thursday, Maddon said that meant Keppinger would be at third so thus Carlos Pena would play first. .. Maddon said Price won't be on any limits, but is under orders to be honest if anything is wrong. ... Maddon said they canceled batting practice as much so the players could get an emotional/mental break and come in later. A few arrived as late at 5 p.m.
Yankees lineup:
Jeter dh
Swisher rf
A-Rod 3b
Cano 3b
Martin c
Jones lf
Granderson cf
Pearce 1b
Nunez ss
Sabathia p
UPDATE, 5:11: Roberts is not in Rays lineup, and the order is a bit different with Upton clean-up.
Jennings lf
Zobrist ss,
Longoria dh,
Upton cf,
Keppinger 3b,
Francisco rf,
Gimenez c,
Pena 1b,
Johnson 2b
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BREAKING: Having been swept by the Orioles and knocked a season-high four games out of a playoff spot, the Rays try - and perhaps, need - to get back on track tonight at Yankee Stadium, with David Price back on the hill opposing CC Sabathia.
Price, who missed his last start due to shoulder soreness, said there will be no limitations or concerns tonight, though manager Joe Maddon did make him promise to report if anything didn't feel right.
The Rays have a couple of lineup questions, primarily the availiability of 2B Ryan Roberts, who left Thursday's game with a bruised left shin.
The Yankees, who got in late from Boston, are not taking full batting practice on the field today.
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Shabuoth, one of the major holidays in the Jewish religious and national calendar, is being celebrated for two days beginning today. The holiday began officially tonight. The literal meaning of the word Shabuoth is "seven weeks," representing the interval from the second day of Passover.
It is bound up with the freeing of the Jews from their Egyptian bondage and the life of ancient Jewish Palestine as an agricultural nation. The day also marks the anniversary of the granting of the law to the Jewish people. On that day Moses descended from Mount Sinai, carrying the Tablets.
The day has been compared to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, for it marked the beginning of national and religious existence for the Jewish people.
On that day the Book of Ruth, the pastoral idyl in prose, is read in the synagogue, recalling to the worshipers that they were once an agricultural people.
Thirty-three boys and girls are to be confirmed by Rabbi William F. Rosenblum at Temple Israel of New York, 210 West Ninety-first street, in connection with Shabouth. The sermon will be "Torchbearers of Tomorrow." The confirmands include:
Ruth Altman, Franklin B. Beck, Charlotte J. Davis, Eleanor I. Engel, Adrienne B. Ettlinger, Charles J. Forst, Marjorie C. Fried, Marjorie E. Greenberg, Jean N. Guggenheimer, Joseph B. Heiman, Benjamin C. Herold, Jean P. Isaacs, Edna Jacobs, Robert C. Isaacs, Marjorie H. Jacobson, Phyllis F. Korn, Arthur Levy, Phyllis Levy, Carol J. Lewis, Phyllis H. Margolies, Rose H. Marx, George J. Michaelis, Martin Rosengarten, Norton L. Rothschild, Dorothy W. Rubens, Doris J. Samuels, Frank A. Seixas, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Betty Shulman, Margaret L. Solomon, Barbara R. Stren, Marjorie Sternberg and Irene A. Swartz.
Twenty-two young people will be confirmed by Rabbi Samuel J. Levinson at Temple Beth Emeth of Flatbush, Church avenue corner Marlboro road. The confirmands are:
Roslyn Lefkowitz, Dorothy Benjamin, Irwin Salzman, Doris Rosenbaum, Jacqueline Stember, Harriet Lewin, Bernard Ehrlich, Arthur Shapiro, Muriel Lerner, Harriet Levy, Joan Boochever, Rita Nathanson, Edward Souweine, Irma Walowit, Irene Hoffer, Helene Appel, Janet Rich, Norman Newman, Carolyn Miller, Richard Harmel, Beatrice Buttenheim and Dorothy Gottlieb.
A class of twenty-four boys and girls will be confirmed by Rabbi Israel Goldstein at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, 257 West Eighty-eighth street. The confirmands include:
Peggy L. Bernstein, Sylvia R. Butler, Jane E. Claster, Rose Cohen, Jeanne P. Florman, Ruth Goldberg, Janet Goldmuntz, Claire J. Halprin, Hazel I. Halprin, Marilyn F. Heine, Ilene Hoffenberg, Shirley E. Hurvitz, Florence M. Kossar, Martin Lazarus, Sylvia R. Liebel, William Levy Jr., Bette J. Schiller, Bobbye Muriel Schwartz, Grace M. Singer, Ruth F. Solomon, Geraldine C. Stein, Seymour Udell, Lois Uttal and Theodore Zimmerman.


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So what's everyone's take on this?
Certainly looks green and flat to me.
It's somethimg I always disliked about some fashion photography too: overlit, losing the whole point of the exercise, which is about look and emotional kick. But I believe it was a Hef thing. As he pays the bills... But then, some people also buy inflatable dolls, so perhaps plastic (rubber?) skin has its appeal and following.
Talking of Mr Hefner, he just took Playboy private for a cool $210 million, and got engaged with a 24-year-old.With the same math, the parents of my third wife haven't even been born, yet
I remember during all those years when I subscribed to the magazine that the foldout was always the single sad moment. The same shooters did beautiful 'general' stuff of the same girls in the normal parts of the issues, but the big format turned everything into still life, and that doesn't work with people. I wouldn't blame the photographers for that.
About the seminar: those guys sure have better jackets than our hosts at LL.
As far as fixing things "in camera" and not in Photoshop, well it is my understanding from when of their more creative shooters of the past, that is just not the case. Once upon a time when Playboy had the money, getting it right meant a re-shoot when necessary. Re-touching was forbidden for the centerfold. Now you can easily detect the Photoshop skin softening and retouching.
Photoshop didn't invent retouching, it just introduced it to the masses.Playboy was way ahead of the curve of the massively retouched image.Even before electronic retouching, working on dye transfers, if you saw a acetate overly on a playboy centerfold work print, there was so many china maker corrections you couldn't see the model underneath the acetate.Also the centerfold and cover were printed in Gravure.At the time Penthouse took nudes to a more realistic look, a little older, less retouched, a little more real, though they used a David Hamilton Fog filter which I believe cut down on some of the retouching costs.For brief moments, OUI was the the nude art magazine, but eventually came out in many styles, now I believe it's a wedding magazine.The branding of playboy was the girl next door.Penthouse, the lonely rich housewife.Oui was the European encounter.At least that's what I've been told.BC
I consider Jarmo Pohjaniemi as one of the best in the industry. He has created his own style which few do, especiallybeing mentioned along with Steve McCurry, Marc Chagall, Guido Argentini etc..


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A third type of fridge is the side-by-side design, in which the appliance is split vertically with tall, narrow fridge and freezer sections located beside each other. As a rule, side-by-side appliances tend to be the most costly to purchase, and are a little wider than top- and bottom-mounts to make up for overly narrow shelves. They are also considered less efficient at maintaining their temperature and therefore less energy efficient. On the flip side, narrow compartments can be useful, since narrow fridge doors require less floor space to open and close. Many side-by-side fridges also come with additional features, such as water and ice dispensers. Note, however, that such dispensers may require the help of a plumber to install.
Other variants of the side-by-side fridge include the French door-style, a three-door design where the fridge is accessed by a double door, allowing the shelves to be considerably wider. Those with larger storage needs may want to look at Pigeon Pair fridge/freezer combinations. Pigeon Pairs are designed to stand next to each other, but are physically separate. You can also look into chest-style fridges, which are accessed via a lid on top. Chest fridges maintain their temperature the best, but aren't as efficient for storage or ease of access, further more chest freezers all require manual defrosting.
Your new fridge is likely to be a vital part of the household, so it is probably worth investing in a model that is efficient. Look out for the standard Energy Rating label on each fridge that rates the energy efficiency of each appliance, and tells you how much energy it is likely to consume in a year. Labels that display more stars and lower kilowatt hours (kWh) will cost less to run.
Freezers need to be defrosted every so often. Generally, any ice build-up should be removed once it reaches a thickness of 5mm. Frost-free fridges and freezers eliminate the need for defrosting by using a fan to circulate dry, cold air throughout the freezer compartment. This process can be noisy and requires energy; however, it also saves some energy by avoiding temperature fluctuations caused by icy patches in the freezer.
Depending on the types of food stored in your fridge, you may need to adjust temperature levels. This is easier if each compartment has a separate control. Some newer models have moved from temperature control dials to digital controls, and some side-by-side models even include drawers that can be controlled separately.
Finally, when considering a fridge exterior, note that while a white painted vinyl finish is the cheaper option, stainless steel lasts longer, as there is no chance of rust. However, stainless steel can be marked by fingerprints and grease marks, though some fridges with a stainless steel finish are fingerprint resistant be sure to ask a sales person which models these include. Cleaning the inside of your fridge can also be made a little easier with shelves that are made from smooth moulded plastic or better still, safety glass, instead of wire. Safety glass shelves help contain spills and should preferably be in the freezer as well as the fridge. One-piece shelves will help confine spills and can be easily wiped down. Note also that shelves can have a tendency to crack, so it may be worth looking into shelves that are easy to remove and replace.
If you're willing to spend a little extra money there are technologies that you might consider investing in. Some fridges can include anti-bacterial treatments to make food last longer and prevent mould or mildew build-up. Many fridges use Multi-flow or other patented systems that circulate the air more evenly. Other fridges use twin fan systems which separate fridge from freezer which eliminates odours from travelling between compartments, keeps vegetables fresher, reduces freezer burn and is more energy efficient. Some fridges even have an LED display, which allows you to control the settings of the fridge and freezer. Newer refrigerators feature child locks which when selected will firmly lock the fridge door.


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What was not to enjoy at the 10th annual Corcoran Country Daze this year?
The event really took off this year with bigger than ever crowds making their way to the Corcoran City Park. The main attraction? Free games for families to enjoy, with even more free choices this year, from more giant inflatable attractions to more free games with prizes. Also new this year was a Choo Choo train that operated, for free of course, around the main carnival area.
But the annual celebration also features so much more, like free bands at night, classic car contest, free bird house making, petting zoo, face painting, animals rides, helicopter visit, arts and crafts vendors, music, softball tournaments, beach volleyball, a new 5K run, and more.
Any proceeds from the event go back to the community through the donations, scholarships and many events the NW Area JC's (formerly the Corcoran Area JC's) put on each year. (Photos by Aaron Brom)


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I created "Caily Bake" one day when there was a spaghetti squash laying around that i felt like doing something different with. I had made lasagna & pasta dishes for the family before, but I wanted to try something without pasta so that I could enjoy something gluten free while a work. Since the kids were eating a lot of pasta, I wanted to make them something little healthier that they could enjoy with their family. I ended up making a sauce with lots of vegetables and meat. I layered the spaghetti squash with the sauce, eggplant and different cheeses. Out of the oven came a delicious healthier version of lasagna that the whole family enjoyed. Now everyone loves it, the kids even ask me if they can have it for lunch, snack & dinner! I have made it on many occasions for "family meal time" with my friends since it can feed a lot of people. I always get asked how to make "Caily Bake", so finally here it is....ENJOY!!!!
Fresh Ingredients
Recipe & Instructions
- 1 lb beef or sausage. I like to use half a pound of each if I have both
- 1 jar of your favorite sauce. Sometimes I add extra if I have a lot of meat and vegetables. If you like it more saucy than meaty, add extra sauce.
- 1 1/2 cups parmesan cheese
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese. Add more or less cheese depending on how cheesy you are.
- 1 large spaghetti squash
- 1 large eggplant
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 zucchini
- 1 small package mushrooms
- 1 medium yellow onion
- 2-4 carrots
- Herbs & Spices to your liking. I typically use salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, basil, parsley, thyme, oregano, paprica. Use what you like. Sometimes instead of salt I use Goya Adobo seasoning which has salt, garlic & turmeric. It has become a seasoning I use frequently to add flavor to most things. Its really cheap at the grocery store, find it in the ethnic foods isle.
- Cut spaghetti squash in half. Scoop out seeds & place face down in a baking dish with 1/2 cup of water. Bake for 1 hour at 350 or until a fork pulls it apart easily. Make sure not to over cook or it will be mushy.
- Peel eggplant, cut into 1/4 inch slices, place on cookie sheet, drizzle with olive oil & a little salt, bake at 350 for 20-25 min. Flip over if eggplant starts to look too dry
- Cut onions, carrots, garlic, mushrooms & zucchini. Add 4 tablespoons butter or oil to a large pan and start cooking carrots, onion and garlic. After about 5 minutes add zucchini and mushroom & cook for a few minutes.
- Add spices. 2 teaspoons salt, few shakes of Adobo, pepper to your liking, 2 teaspoons basil, parsley, oregano, basil, thyme. 1 teaspoon paprika.
- Add meat & mix well until meat is cooked.
- Add sauce & mix well. Turn down heat and cook sauce for at least an hour while the spaghetti squash and eggplant cooks. If you have more time cook the sauce for a few hours, I like to leave mine on the stove for 6 hours on low or make it the day before. The flavors seem to come together very nicely when they have been in the fridge overnight or cooked all day. Always taste your sauce to see what it needs. Mine usually needs a little more salt.
- Once everything is cooked start layering the ingredients. Start with 1/3 of the sauce on the bottom of a large casserole dish. Add half the spaghetti squash, then half the eggplant. Cover with half the mozzarella and half the parmesan. Contunue with another 1/3 sauce, 1/2 the spaghetti squash, 1/2 the eggplant. Top off with remaining sauce and cheese.
- Bake at 350 for 45 minutes, let cool for 10 minutes & Enjoy!


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Adhiparasakthi means the primordial supreme power – She is the Mother Goddess who gives birth, nurtures, sustains and finally transforms all animate and inanimate in the universe. In nutshell, Adi Parasakthi is the energy that is manifest in everything. She is popularly referred as Goddess Shakti and she takes numerous forms to uphold dharma and protect Her devotees. She is mother, sister, wife and the fierce power that annihilates everything.
Adhiparaskthi form of mother goddess is worshipped mainly in
South India.
Tuesday, Friday, Amavasya (no moon day) and Purnima (full moon day) are the important days dedicated to Adi Parasakthi.
In Adi Parasakthi worship, she is the supreme. All animate and inanimate are born and die in Her.
Note – There is a popular Guru in
India known as Adiparashakti Adigal – Devotee of Adhi Parashakti. He
has created an Adiparashakti temple at Melvaruvattur in Tamil Nadu and his
disciples wear red color clothes. He follows the Siddha Tradition and leads a
family life.
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New York (Oct. 25)
Jacob Kirschenbaum, a member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Morning Journal, died here last night at the age of 61. Funeral services will be held Sunday.
Born in Galilee, Kirschenbaum came to the United States in 1900. Before he joined the Journal staff in 1915, he was a correspondent for many papers in this country, Canada, South America and Poland. He was also managing director of the Cleveland Jewish World.


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We can't turn our backs
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As I was reading Psalm 137 about the Jews who had been taken captive to Babylon as a result of their indifference to God, it occurred to me in the coming judgment, one will be hard pressed to find a harp, let alone a willow tree. See Revelation 8:7.
Luke 17:32 tells us things will indicate judgment is near. Genesis 6 describes conditions in that prediluvian age -- corruption, violence and unconcern. That same chapter tells of conditions in Sodom before the fire fell. Genesis 19 tells more about activity in Sodom.
From Hebrews third and fourth chapters, we see God has prepared a rest for the persons who qualify. In Revelation, Chapter 20, we see more about that 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ on Earth.
It is apparent God has a 7,000-year plan for this earth from Adam and Eve until the end of the millennium. From Adam and Eve to Abraham was 2,000 years, from Abraham to Christ was 2,000 years and from Christ until now has been roughly 2,000 years. There will be a period of time at the end of this dispensation which is called Jacobs Trouble or the Great Tribulation.
You may reason we have already entered the seventh millennium. According to our calender that is true. But I believe the person or persons responsible for separating B.C. from A.D. did not take into account the dispensations of law and grace did not divide until the resurrection of Christ. They tried to start our current calendar in Christ's birth year, but in reality Christ was about 4 years old. If my theory is correct, that would put us at about 1986. However Jesus said except the days be shortened, no flesh would be saved. Matthew 24:22.
I can't tell you the hour, day, month, year or even decade in which Christ will return for his own, but signs tell me it's very near.
As you read this you will have an awareness of an urgent need in your life, that is the Holy Spirit bearing witness all persons born of the seed of Adam need a redeemer. There is no need to get specific about our sins; we confess only to God.
Christ paid your debt via the most horrendous form of capital punishment. How can you turn your back on him?
Ed Foote
They are not always right
My wife had cochlear implant surgery in late 2008. The claim was turned into my insurance at the Wayne County Administration Building for approval and payment. The claim was rejected. We appealed this decision, but it again was denied.
Since Wayne County is self-insured, the Wayne County commissioners have the final say on these types of matters. The commissioners denied approval of the coverage because they said that this was a hearing aid and hearing aids are not covered by the county insurance plan. They further stated that if they paid for this, that they then would have to pay for all county employees' hearing aids.
At this point, we hired an attorney to file a brief in Wayne County Common Pleas Court asking the court to make a determination of whether a cochlear implant is a prostetic device or a hearing aid. A hearing aid would not be covered, but a prosthetic device would be covered under the insurance plan.
After many months, the court ruled in our favor. The court ruled that it is not a hearing aid, so in essence the commissioners won a victory by not having to pay for hearing aids, but must pay for this prosthetic device.
To make a long story short, the commissioners, against the Wayne County Prosecutor's advice, had their Canton law firm file an appeal with the Court of Appeals. The commissioners again lost and appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. The court would not hear the case and affirmed the lower court's findings.
Over three years and thousands of taxpayer dollars later, we finally got reimbursed for the money we had paid out of our pocket in 2008.
I believe the Wayne County commissioners think when they speak you must always listen and obey. In this case, it took three courts and thousands of wasted taxpayer dollars to prove that they are not always right, even though they always think so.
Michael Daugherty


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The Last Integrationist: A Note on Michael JacksonNews at Home
Michael Jackson first burst into public consciousness as part of the final flowering of Motown Records, a label founded in the 1950s in large measure to make black music that would be commercially appealing to white people. But by the time of its heyday in the mid-1960s, Motown had achieved its cultural pre-eminence as great American music. African American music, yes, and thus ineluctably somehow not quite pure (i.e. white). But set against the social and political drama of the sixties this was precisely what legitimated it. At the time and ever since, there have been those who have denigrated Motown as pop that pandered. But this has always been a minority position, even among African Americans themselves. The paradoxical essence of American identity is its mongrel character (or, if you prefer, its hybrid character). That's as true of the Anglo-American Benjamin Franklin, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, and the Russian Jewish immigrant Mary Antin as it was of Jackson.
By the late 1960s, the times were a changin,' even at Motown. The Temptations, Marvin Gaye -- even marvelously bright-spirited Stevie Wonder -- were realigning themselves on a landscape where Memphis, not Detroit, was central. Literally and figuratively, the national mood was a good deal darker, especially for African Americans. By the early 1970s it was no longer considered appropriate for anyone (with the possible exception of a child star) to uncritically embrace the paled appeal of racial integration. Popular music largely re-segregated, reflecting a society in which a seemingly permanent black underclass took shape and residential patterns that stubbornly resisted legal mandates for multi-racial schools. Overt racism was no longer permissible. But by the early 1980s, the music executives at MTV would make what seemed to be a rational assertion that white audiences would simply not be interested in seeing videos for a song like "Billie Jean."
Like Marian Anderson and Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson in his heyday almost entirely sidestepped racial conflict, and like them this was a big part of his appeal -- even as the inescapability of his racial identity was also part of his appeal. With Off the Wall in 1979 and Thriller in 1982, he staked a fully formed adult claim to the center of American life and miraculously straddled musical cultures, as well as the transition from album-oriented radio to music video. That he could not remain in the center says less about his tragically deformed personality than it does the ineluctable shifting of what constitutes the center at any given time. The rise of hip-hop pushed Jackson to the musical margins, even on hit radio. By the early 1990s, the Sidney Pointier of his generation, Denzel Washington, was playing Malcolm X in a Spike Lee film.
We of the early 21st century have another honor roll that lists names like Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, and Barack Obama. We no more wish these people to deny the particularities of their heritage any more than we would Abraham Lincoln to deny his poverty or F. Scott Fitzgerald his Irish Catholicism. Far from a barrier, such distinctions have become a veritable asset. There's a word we often use to describe this state of affairs: Progress. But progress always has a price. The death of Michael Jackson serves as a pointed reminder of its cost, who pays, and what a society loses when we become who we are.
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Jim Cullen - 7/1/2009
No: We don't know Lincoln was poor in the same way we know the world was round. Some people in 1492 believed the world was round, and this proved to be an empirically false assertion. Lincoln was not perfectly impoverished (rarely are people perfectly anything). Yes, he became a wealthy RR lawyer. But he understood himself to be born poor, was understood by others to be born poor, and by standards then and now had a childhood that could plausibly be considered one of relative material deprivation given his dearth of formal education, his hardscrabble living conditions on the frontier perimenter of the United States, etc. Seems to me, in any case, that there's a forest/trees issue here. Perhaps I should have substituted FDR's wheelchair for Lincoln's poverty. (Maybe not; race is not a disability, though a disability in one aspect of one's life may make things possible in another.) In any case the larger point would be the same: denial of aspects of our identities is no longer considered the "American" way.
J R Willis - 6/29/2009
Would you kindly provide sound sources for your Lincoln comments? Thanks in advance.
James W Loewen - 6/29/2009
Unfortunately, we're in a culture that "knows" A. Lincoln was poor, just like it "knows" that C. Columbus proved the world round, etc. He was a rich rr. lawyer, and his dad wasn't exactly poor, either, owning two farms at the time of Abe's birth. The cabin, of course, was pitifully small, but that's because it had to be cut down to fit into the Greek templet that Pope built for it in KY. As well, it's a fake.
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I had the chance to chat on June 12 with Jim Cranney, president of the California Citrus Quality Council, Auburn.
1:41 p.m. Tom Karst: Jim thanks for taking part in another Fresh Talk chat. As is my custom, I like to ask people how they got their start in the industry. How did you make your first connection to the produce industry?
1:44 p.m. Jim Cranney: I received my under graduate degree in Food Marketing from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. We visited the Philadelphia produce terminal as part of a class project and I became hooked on the scale and scope of the produce industry. Where does it all come from and how is it produced? How did it end up here?
1:45 p.m. Tom: Interesting. After school, was U.S. Apple your first job? Looking back at your time in the apple industry and with the association, what do you value and appreciate?
1:50 p.m. Jim: Actually, I had a more circuitous route to US Apple. I reported shipping point marketing information for fruits and vegetables in Southeast Michigan and apples in the mid-Atlantic region for USDA's Market News Service and bought fruits and vegetables for Heinz USA before joining US Apple.
1:51 p.m. I value the tradition and values of the apple industry. The people are genuine.
1:53 p.m. Tom: As you have shifted your professional focus to the citrus industry in California, what issues are you working on right now? What would you say are the top two to three issues that you are dealing with?
2:00 p.m. Jim: Many of the issues are similar, but in a different context. I'm still an advocate for growers. The biggest issue for the California citrus industry is the threat of hounglongbing (citrus greening). CCQC is taking the lead in developing a partnership with the Mexican citrus industry to identify ways we can work together to stop the spread of HLB. We strive to make sure the industry is meeting domestic and international regulatory standards and we are working with international standards setting bodies to generate more maximum residue limits (MRLs) to facilitate exports of California citrus.
2:02 p.m. Tom: You bring up the council. How is it funded and who are your members?
2:04 p.m. Jim: We are funded though the California Citrus Research Board which assesses growers for research and the type of services we provide.
2:07 p.m. Tom: Very good. I've got a tough question for you, relating back to the disease issues you mentioned earlier. I know that the Florida citrus industry is seeking new protocol about shipping fruit to California and other citrus states. Will you get involved in looking at that proposal? Do you have any opinion so far about the science relating to a new protocol allowing citrus from canker infested areas to be sold in California?
2:15 p.m. Jim: We are aware that USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is working on a regulation related to the canker question. We will have to wait to see what is proposed and respond to the science issues as they are raised. We collaborate with Florida of a wide range of issues and we want their industry to be successful as much as we want our own industry to thrive. We are all citrus growers and we have many of the same problems.
2:16 p.m. Tom: Jim, you have been generous with your time. One more question. Since you have moved to California, have you had a chance to explore the state a little bit with your family? What's your favorite destination in California so far?
2:20 p.m. Jim: Actually the trout fishing seems to be pretty good about two miles from my residence in Auburn, California! We are looking forward to exploring the state with the kids this summer. Wish us luck!
2:21 p.m. Tom: That should be fun. Jim thanks again.
Jim: It was my pleasure.


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Urges Agency to Avoid Guidance Which Could Stifle Innovation and Impact Patient Access to Diagnosis and Treatment
Washington, DC /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - In response to today's announcement that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will release a draft guidance in 60 days to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs), the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) urged the agency to exercise caution, and expressed concern that another layer of regulation could stifle diagnostic innovation and ultimately jeopardize patient access to timely and effective treatments. Historically, ACLA has opposed regulation of LDTs by the FDA, as laboratories are already subject to a comprehensive regulatory framework.
"Laboratories have been regulated for decades by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and by state law," said Alan Mertz, President of ACLA. "Under the CLIA framework, a thorough and detailed regulatory process, we've seen an explosion of innovation in laboratory diagnostics that has allowed labs to diagnose and measure disease with an accuracy and precision never before possible. This has changed how the medical world views and treats everything from rare diseases to infectious disease to cancer."
The announcement of the FDA's intent to issue guidance on the regulation of LDTs is required by the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 whereby the agency must give Congress 60 days notice and a summary of any such guidance or regulation impacting LDTs.
"The massive leaps in scientific and medical advancement that have occurred over the last quarter century have yielded a bounty of new tests created by highly trained physicians and clinicians that were not even imagined when CLIA was last updated in 1988," said Mertz. "To the extent that stakeholders have concerns about possible regulatory gaps under CLIA, ACLA has long supported enhancing the CLIA regulatory framework, rather than impose an additional layer of regulation based upon a different statute designed for manufactured products rather than laboratory testing."
Mertz concluded, "ACLA is reviewing the framework issued by FDA today and will provide comments on the draft guidance after it is published. We are committed to working with the Administration and Congress to ensure that innovation and patient access to the highest quality laboratory diagnostics continues."
The ACLA is a not-for-profit association representing the nation's leading national, regional and esoteric clinical laboratories on key issues of common concern, including federal and state government reimbursement and regulatory policies.
SOURCE: American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA)Copyright 2014 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved


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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 v. PORTLAND TIMBERS
Molding Box Presents Fan Appreciation Night Festivities at Rio Tinto Stadium as Part of
Claret-and-Cobalt's 7:00 p.m. MT Regular Season Finale
SANDY, Utah (Friday, October 21, 2011) – With the playoffs just around the corner, Real Salt Lake (15-11-7, 51 pts.; T-3rd in West) will return home to close out its 2011 MLS regular season slate tomorrow, Saturday, October 22, when the Utah side will play host to the Portland Timbers (11-14-8, 41 pts.; 6th in West) at Rio Tinto Stadium. The 7:00 p.m. MT kickoff in Sandy and all of the Fan Appreciation Night festivities surrounding the match will be presented by Molding Box.
A limited amount of tickets for Saturday's clash are still available and can be purchased over the phone at 801-727-2700, online at www.RealSaltLake.com or in person at the Rio Tinto Stadium Box Office between 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. on Friday and beginning at 9:00 a.m. on gameday,
Saturday's Fan Appreciation Night Features Hundreds of Give-aways for MLS' Best Fans1
Real Salt Lake and Molding Box are teaming up to thank the best fans in Major League Soccer by giving the first 5,000 fans in the stadium on Saturday night a free Nick Rimando bobblehead doll, but the giveaways don't stop there! After the game, Real Salt Lake players will be throwing hundreds of free RSL balls, t-shirts and much more into the stands thanks to several of the club's corporate partners, including: Ford, KFC, OhMyCrafts.com, Pepsi, Verizon, Vivint, WCF (Workers Compensation Fund), XanGo, and Zions Bank.
Real Salt Lake Teaming with Comcast and Halogen TV for Soles4Souls for Shoe Drive
Real Salt Lake along with Comcast, Halogen TV and Soles4Souls, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing shoes to millions of people around the world, are teaming up in an effort to collect 20,000 shoes in Salt Lake City for residents in need. Between now and December 31st, new and gently-used shoes will be collected at various locations throughout the city, including Rio Tinto Stadium this Saturday from 5:00-7:30 at the Comcast booth in the Carnival Real festival, located on the Stadium's East Lawn. For more information on other collection locations, visit www.Shoes4SLC.com.
Carnival Real Starts the Festivities at 5:00 p.m. for Saturday's Contest
Good times and giveaways are always available for the taking at the Carnival Real pre-game festival on the East Lawn of Rio Tinto Stadium, starting at 5:00 p.m. MT. Saturday's Carnival activities will feature booths and activities presented by several of RSL's partners, including:
Burger King ("Whopper Hopper" inflatable and Prize Wheel), Check City, KFC (Chuckin' for Chicken), Wasatch Property, XanGo (samples), Susan G Komen, State Farm (foam fingers), Sports Clips (free haircut coupons), Ford (bandana give away), Xinsurance, Comcast (Soles4Souls), KBER and Juan 106.
When Rio Tinto Stadium's gates open to the public at 6:00 p.m., fans will also have the opportunity to visit the Utah Department of Public Safety (Designated Driver/Responsibility Has Its Rewards sign-up) and Ford booths located on the Northeast concourse. In addition, fans can get more information on how to secure their seats at the best venue in MLS for Real Salt Lake's 2012 campaign at the "RSL Seat Central" window located on the East Concourse.
RSL Team Store "Special of the Week"
The RSL Team Store is doing some math that will benefit all fans of the Claret-and-Cobalt this weekend, taking the 33 points at home (and counting) thus far in 2011 and combining it with the seven years of tremendous support from RSL Nation to offer a 40% off sale this weekend! As a thank you to Real Salt Lake's most dedicated "Fans for Life," the deal will be exclusive to RSL's current and 2012 season ticket holders on Friday, while all fans will be able to take advantage of the discount on gameday this Saturday.
RSL faithful wishing to receive more information on any of the ever-expanding line of Claret-and Cobalt swag in the store are encouraged to dial the RSL Team Store Hotline at 801-727-2888, or visit the store in-person during regular business hours: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. MT, Monday-Saturday.
Lisa Johnson to Be Honored as Saturday's RSL/American Express "Hero Among Us"
Real Salt Lake and American Express are proud to recognize Lisa Johnson, as Saturday's recipient of the "Heroes Among Us" honor. Saturday's "Cancer Awareness Night" at Rio Tinto Stadium is a fitting time to welcome Johnson as latest honoree, as she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 and has since gone on to become the face of a breast cancer awareness campaign.
One year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Lisa was nominated by Smith's Groceries, where she is a customer service manager, to share her story on select Kroger-brand food packaging, ultimately being chosen for her inspiring story and refusal to give up the fight against cancer. Lisa then traveled to New York with nominees from other Kroger-owned stores to do a photo shoot with NFL quarterbacks Mark Sanchez and Eli Manning for a promotion that was a part of Smith's "Giving Hope a Hand" breast cancer awareness program, which has raised more than $18 million since its inception in 2006. This year's campaign raised an estimated $3 million for the cause, of which more than $148,000 will be awarded to Susan G. Komen chapters and the American Cancer Society across the Western United States.
To find out more about the Real Salt Lake/American Express "Heroes Among Us" program, including details on how to nominate candidates for the 2011 season and biographies of past recipients, visit the "Heroes Among Us" page under the "Community" section of www.RealSaltLake.com. In addition, candidate submissions can be returned via email to firstname.lastname@example.com, fax to 801-727-1469, or mail to the address below:
Rio Tinto Stadium
Attn: Heroes Among Us/Lesley Clark
9526 State Street
Sandy, Utah 84070
Miss the Lines, Not the Moment with RSLexpress!
There's one less reason to have to head up the aisle during this Saturday's regular season home finale against Portland, as the best way to "get your snack on" at Rio Tinto Stadium is through the RSLexpress in-seat delivery service. RSL express is making your life easier by offering a quick and convenient way for you to get your food – there's no need to waste time in lines, and you won't have to wait until halftime anymore!
RSLexpress allows fans to purchase food, drinks, and merchandise using their mobile phone, with their order being delivered directly to their seat in just minutes! It's easy to use RSLexpress, and creating an account is free – just visit www.RSLexpress.com to start enjoying in-seat delivery from a mobile device. For instructions on ordering from an iPhone, the mobile web, or via text message, visit the RSLexpress "How To" page, or call 877-762-6442.
Saturday's Group & Guest Recognitions
- National Anthem performer: American Nightingale (Bonnie Baxter & Evie Hastings)
- Color Guard: Utah National Guard
- RSL/American Express "Heroes Among Us": Lisa Johnson
- OhMyCrafts.com "Mom of the Match": Carol Andersen
- U.S. Bank Little Leo of the Game: Steven Reynolds
- Ceremonial Coin Toss: Harleigh Roberts
- RSL "Goal Gong" Ringer: Leeann Todd
- Mountain America "Dream Team" participants: Outlaws FC
- Ball Kids: Outlaws FC
- Pre-game Verizon Wireless "Parade of Kings" participants & recognized groups: American Nightingale, AYSO Section 9, AYSO Section 126, Basin Recreation, FC Idaho, Firebirds FC, Heber Valley SC, Infinity SC, Joga FC, NUCS Corinthians U9, Outlaws FC, Rangers SC, Susan G Komen for the Cure, Utah National Guard, Utah Soccer Alliance, Wasatch SC
www.RealSaltLake.com / www.RioTintoStadium.com / www.ESPN700Sports.com


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The Jindal administration's planned pension system for future state employees will be more costly than originally thought under a valuation approved by the Louisiana State Employees Retirement System on Friday.
The LASERS board — over the objections of Gov. Bobby Jindal's aides — voted to recommend a revised employer contribution rate upward to the Public Retirement Systems Actuarial Committee, which adopts official valuations of each state and statewide system each year.
The rate went from 26.4 percent to 27.8 percent because of a problem with the 401(k)-type pension plan the Legislature approved last year.
The action came a day after a state judge ruled that the so-called "cash balance" plan set to go into effect July 1 was not legally passed by the 2012 Legislature. An appeal is expected to be filed with the Louisiana Supreme Court to try to throw out the ruling and get the plan back on track.
LASERS Executive Director Cindy Rougeou said the increase is tied to a provision of the law dealing with "refunds" that was not written as intended "and will actually have the effect of the cash-balance plan being a little more expensive."
The problem is rooted in language related to when people leave the system and how much money they can take out, said Maris LeBlanc, deputy director for LASERS.
The law allows a member with five years of service or more to withdraw both employee and employer contributions, LeBlanc said. With less than five years, employees can only draw out their contributions, she said.
The cash balance law does not specify that a member must be active in the system, LeBlanc said. So, someone with two years of employment could depart but not take money out of the retirement system then wait three years and claim both employee and employer shares, she said.
Attorneys for the state's four statewide retirement systems "are confident that is the correct interpretation of the law as written," Rougeou said.
She said it would be simple to fix the problem in the legislative session that opens April 8, then the valuation could be adjusted back down. But the valuation had to be done based on current laws, she said.
Liz Murrill, attorney for the Division of Administration, protested the increased valuation.
Late Friday, Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols called the LASERS board action "an obstructionist tactic to not implement" the cash balance plan.
Nichols said it was clear throughout the legislative process that a member would vest after five years and be able to draw both employee and employer contributions when they leave.
"We found it highly unusual to revise the evaluation," Nichols said. "If there's ambiguity in the law, you always follow the intent."


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Listen to Johnossi Turn on the Rock in 'E.M.' – Exclusive Premiere
Sweden may be known most for its excellent pop music, but Johnossi's 'E.M' proves that some people in that country can rock just as hard as anyone.
Featuring guitarist John Engelbert on vocals and Oskar "Ossi" Bonde on drums, the song boasts a vintage '90s rock sound with its hard and steady rhythm section backing some mighty tasty guitar riffs. There's also a subtle layer of synths riding throughout the song, as well as some fist-raising background vocals that add an anthemic quality.
"I see everything, everything / Every memory I might have forgotten / And I still believe / There's a dream alive," Englbert sings in 'E.M,' which you can hear below in our exclusive premiere.
'E.M' comes from the duo's upcoming album 'Transitions,' set to release on April 29. It marks Johnossi's first U.S. release since their self-titled debut LP in 2007.
Recorded in 2012 at Rixmixningsverket, the studio owned by Abba's Benny Andersson, with producer and mixer Lasse Marten, 'E.M.' features some help from Peter Bjorn and John's Bjorn Yttling and Miike Snow's Pontus Winnberg.


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With George W. Bush possibly sustaining a lead of fewer than 400 votes after last week's statewide recount, the outcome in Florida, and thus the nation, has shifted to the most low-tech of fronts. Everything hinges on the absentee votes still drifting in from abroad, which are not expected to be fully counted until this Friday. Even more important, because they could easily reverse Bush's narrow lead, are the manual recounts that have been approved by local electoral commissions in Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia counties.
A commission in Miami-Dade was supposed to meet this week to consider a Democratic request for a hand count there as well. But on Saturday, as the tedious process was beginning elsewhere, the Bush campaign asked a federal judge in South Florida to disqualify manual counts anywhere in the state and certify the recount already completed. Democrats quickly put out word that Bush had liked hand counts in Texas. Three years ago, he signed a law recommending them to settle disputed votes.
Both parties had been saying for weeks that the presidential campaign would all come down to Florida. Neither of them suspected how much of it would come down to Palm Beach County. Or to the experience of people like Andre Fladell, 52, a Jewish chiropractor. At around 7 a.m., he punched his ballot at Orchard Elementary School in Delray Beach. On the way out, when he heard people complain that the ballot had confused them, he assumed they had not paid enough attention. But at lunch later with friends, Fladell says, he broke into a cold sweat when he heard them describe the correct punch hole for Gore-Lieberman. Fladell realized that he too had inadvertently voted for Pat Buchanan, a man who has had, to put it mildly, some problems with Jewish voters. "A ballot is supposed to lead me to my vote," says Fladell, who is now a plaintiff in one of several lawsuits seeking to invalidate the Palm Beach vote. "This one led me away."
Frustration with the Palm Beach ballot had begun to go public even before the polls closed. At the Lucerne Point residence community, poll workers were so overwhelmed by complaints that they had to draw a diagram showing where each ticket's punch hole was located. Theresa LePore, the Palm Beach County election supervisor who had signed off on the ballot design, soon arranged for a flyer to be distributed at polling places around the county that would help voters decipher it. LePore, a Democrat, told reporters that day that she had favored the design partly because it permitted larger type that was easier for older voters to read.
Around 4 p.m., Democratic National Committee officials put in an urgent call to TeleQuest, a Texas-based telemarketing firm, asking it to call thousands of Palm Beach voters to alert them to the complications on the ballot. Two hours later the company's phone clerks began making the first of some 5,000 calls. A TeleQuest spokesman said afterward almost half the people contacted thought they might have made a mistake when they voted.
"I don't think people understand the complexity of Florida," says Republican Lieutenant Governor Frank Brogan. "You can't take anything for granted about this state." Certainly not the electoral map. Over the past decade, the political power of Miami's conservative Cuban Americans has been challenged by an influx of non-Cuban Latinos who lean toward the Democrats. Non-Latino Democrats in the southern end of the state are balanced by white Republicans in the northern Panhandle, while myriad new immigrant groups have allegiances that are still up for grabs. Dario Moreno, a political scientist at Miami's Florida International University, points out that the mix was not usually inflammatory "as long as lightning didn't strike."
Lightning was striking everywhere by the early evening of Election Day, as hundreds of optimistic state Republicans gathered to watch the returns in the grand ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel in Tallahassee. When the networks first awarded Florida to Gore, around 7:50 p.m., the party mood deflated fast. In an upstairs suite, the state's usually boisterous Republican leaders were thunderstruck. "There was dead silence," says Brogan. "It didn't seem possible." Al Cardenas, the state's GOP chairman, was frantically checking returns on a laptop that showed Bush ahead in the few precincts that had reported. Knowing that the loss of Florida could discourage Republicans from bothering to vote in Western states, where the polls were still open, Cardenas put in the first of what would be more than 20 calls that night to Florida governor Jeb Bush in Austin, Texas, who was following returns on his laptop.
Even some Florida Democratic officials were surprised by the early awarding of the state to Gore. One explanation was that initial exit polls had been skewed by an early and especially large turnout of African-American voters for Gore. In the end, they would account for more than 16 percent of the state's overall vote, almost double the usual black vote. Less than an hour after the network announcement, the Republican response began to take shape. Brogan and the other officials in his suite went downstairs to the ballroom to announce that they had serious doubts about the networks' projections. "We didn't believe Florida was over," he says.
It wasn't. A few hours later the networks had taken the state away from Gore and given it to Bush along with the presidency.
After 2 a.m. the returns from two heavily Democratic areas, Miami's Dade County and Broward, where Fort Lauderdale is located, had cut Bush's lead for a while to as few as 200 votes. That was when Florida Democratic leaders started working their phones furiously, calling state attorney general Bob Butterworth, Gore's Florida campaign chairman. Butterworth himself was on the phone with senior Gore advisers in Nashville, telling them that the vice president should not concede. "You couldn't help feeling that something was being stolen from us," says a state Democratic chief.
At 4 a.m., right after Gore phoned Bush to retract his concession, Volusia County judge Michael McDermott ordered the building that houses the election supervisors, as well as the Dumpsters outside, sealed. At one point during election night, hundreds of votes for Gore had disappeared from the computer count, though they reappeared later. There is a history of election disputes in Volusia, among them the 1996 reelection of sheriff Bob Vogel, when a controversial count of absentee ballots put Vogel ahead of an opponent he had trailed on election night. That led two years later to a Florida Supreme Court decision that said elections in that state could be invalidated merely for reasons of Election Day error, even in the absence of outright fraud, so long as there was doubt that the outcome reflected "the will of the voters." But it did not specify when the remedy should involve ordering a new election, something Democrats have talked about for Palm Beach. And Florida courts have almost never gone to that length.
As the closeness of the vote became apparent, Democratic officials were also concerned about the absentee vote, which they knew could be decisive in an election as close as this one, but which had also been at issue in some famously disputed Florida elections of recent years. In the Miami Beach mayoral race three years ago, incumbent Joe Carollo, a Republican, won 51 percent of the votes cast at polling places. His challenger, ex-mayor Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61 percent of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number of absentee ballots. Carollo filed suit, claiming that Suarez forged signatures on absentee ballots.�In March 1998, Judge Thomas S. Wilson Jr. found massive fraud and ordered a new election. When Carollo appealed, arguing he should simply be declared the winner without a new election, the higher court agreed.
On Wednesday morning resentment over the Palm Beach screwup was high. The state Democratic party set up a toll-free number to allow people to call in reports of voting irregularities. If the election was turning into a mystery, then all of Florida would be vacuumed for clues. Questions mounted: When poll workers turned away people with the explanation that there were not enough ballots, when they illegally asked seniors for a Social Security number, was it an innocent mistake or deliberate obstruction? Meanwhile, a statewide recount of the Florida vote was already assured, triggered by a law that requires one for any election in which the winning margin is under one-half of 1 percent of the vote.
It was also on Wednesday that Jesse Jackson flew to Miami from Gore's campaign headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. Jackson was quick to insist that the issue was "not about black and white, it's about wrong and right," but his presence helped point up another angle to the Democratic challenge: complaints of what some black voters believed were subtle forms of racial intimidation, such as the police roadblock that was set up on voting day about a mile from a minority-neighborhood polling place in rural Wakulla County.
On Thursday more than 300 African-American students from nearby Florida A&M University came to the capitol in Tallahassee and staged a sit-in, demanding to see Jeb Bush and state attorney general Butterworth. But by this time frustrated Republicans were getting snippy too. That afternoon scores of counter-protesters arrived at the same site wearing Bush-Cheney T-shirts, shouting down pro-Gore demonstrators on the capitol plaza and waving signs that read "My grandmother can vote correctly... why can't yours?"
If she couldn't, it might have been because of the cardboard ballots used in the disputed counties. The machines that tabulate the punch cards often invalidate ballots in which voters have not cleanly broken through the perforated hole. A bit of cardboard chaff clinging to the puncture, officially known as a "hanging chad," is enough to confuse the counting machine, which helps explain how thousands of ballots can register a vote for some offices but not others. Of the more than 600,000 votes cast in Broward County, the machines found no vote for president on 6,686 ballots in a place that gave Gore 68 percent of the vote. In counties in which ballots were scanned by other means, the percentage was typically a fraction of 1 percent. In Pinellas County, when election officials removed the chaff from ballots before they were submitted for recount by the machines, Gore picked up an additional 417 votes.
When Bill Daley, the Gore campaign chairman, went before the cameras on Thursday to emphasize that the Gore campaign was ready to challenge the Florida outcome, lawsuits challenging the ballot were sprouting all around Palm Beach County. Many were spearheaded by citizens with Democratic party connections, though none of them yet had the official involvement of the state or national party. Jim Green, an ACLU lawyer in Palm Beach, was collecting statements from anyone who called his office. "All five lines here were lit up nonstop," he says. With union activists rounding up Florida notaries to take affidavits from the callers, Green figured that he would have 250 plaintiffs for the ballot-challenge suit he planned to file this week.
On Thursday night, Palm Beach County circuit-court judge Kathleen Kroll issued an injunction that barred the county from certifying the recount results until a hearing on Nov. 14. In this initial phase, Florida law gives lower-court judges considerable power to decide if a vote is valid and, if not, to rule on remedies. The initial thing to determine is whether the confusing Palm Beach ballot was illegal in the first place. Democrats contend that it violates a provision of state election law that requires each candidate's name to appear to the left of the corresponding punch hole. Republicans say the Democrats are reading the wrong section of Florida law. Though the Palm Beach ballots are cardboard, the cards are read by machines, and the law, they say, allows the names of candidates on "mechanical" ballots to be placed on either side of the hole.
Republicans also complained that samples of the ballot, which had been used before in Palm Beach without incident, had been published in the local paper and mailed to voters before the election. But Lillian Gaines, 67, a retired schoolteacher in West Palm Beach who is a plaintiff in one of the ballot lawsuits, says the sample did not show that the punch holes would not be aligned with the names. "This is what made it so confusing for people when they finally went into the booth," says her attorney, Harold Weiss.
The judges can also choose from any number of methods to determine whether the votes affected were sufficient to change the statewide outcome, since the central issue is which candidate will be awarded Florida's electoral votes. One of those methods is a statistical analysis of the kind that has shown that Buchanan's total of 3,407 votes in heavily Democratic Palm Beach was far higher than his tally elsewhere in the state. If a court decides that the election is invalid, it would still be necessary to rule on whether a new vote is the only remedy. Florida courts, like courts in most other states, have been reluctant to order new elections even in cases of outright fraud. But in a circumstance as novel and highly charged as this one, the past may not be any guide.
No guide at all. Jesse Jackson says the conclusion to this year's campaign is like a football game tied in the fourth quarter. "Overtime ain't agony," he said. "If you go to sudden death, that's wow-wee! That's shakalakalaka." By the end of this week, the Florida votes may all be counted and recounted, but the court rulings may still be pending, and the election of the president may still depend on how the dust settles in the Sunshine State. Shakalakalaka would be the word for it.
Reported by Tim Padgett and Kathie Klarreich/Palm Beach, Cathy Booth Thomas and Timothy Roche/Tallahassee, Brad Liston/Volusia, Jeanne Dequine and Mary Sutter/Miami and Viveca Novak/Washington


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April 9, 2010 BY Aaron Hope
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British actress Keira Knightley is to marry the singer with rock band the Klaxons, James Righton, the couple announced on Friday.
The 27-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star has been dating Righton, who also plays keyboards in the band, since early in 2011.
"I can confirm that Keira is engaged to be married to James Righton," Knightley's spokeswoman said, declining to give any further details.
Knightley, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for her performance in Pride and Prejudice, had previously dated her co-star in the film Rupert Friend for several years.
She and Righton, who is currently working on a third album with the Klaxons, have kept a low profile during their 15-month romance, rarely attending celebrity events together.


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MARIN amazes me. Decades of community effort have achieved a careful balance between the environment and our footprint upon it that respect its natural beauty.
A profound sense of community and a special sense of "place" has produced reasonable growth that has come about organically: A balance crowned by Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece of the Marin County Civic Center.
But lately it appears that may be about to change.
I don't consider myself an activist or an environmentalist, just a regular Marinite raising a family and working hard in the rush of modern living.
I didn't devote much time to local politics because things appeared to be in safe hands. Then I attended a Civic Center Station Area Plan Advisory Committee meeting.
I was shocked to discover that our time honored "balance" was being run over roughshod by a "high density near transportation" ideologically driven agenda that disregards its appropriateness in the location being considered.
The city of San Rafael is planning to develop very high-density housing — 35 to 44 units per acre (higher than any other new development in Marin and exceeding the Association of Bay Area Government's 30-unit per acre "urban" goal), near the proposed SMART train station at the Civic Center.
The advisory committee has decided to forever change the character of Terra Linda from a low rise one-to-three-story single family to four-to-five- story tall high-density housing. This completely disregards the fact that this new development will tower over anything in the valley and dominate the visual landscape right across the street from Frank Lloyd Wright's historic buildings, and forever destroy the scale and character of our valley — all in the name of "Transit Oriented Development."
I learned about all this attending a bizarrely staged advisory committee hearing. The committee sat around a U-shaped table on one side of the room, turned away from the audience, facing a wall. The public was seated facing another wall instead of the committee.
Considering what transpired that night, when we got up to make our comments, we may as well have been talking to the brick wall in front of us.
The public's concerns were unanimous. Affordable housing was needed, but the scheme was too high, too massive and too dense. It would degrade the neighborhood's character with buildings that were totally out of place.
It would add traffic to the Highway 101/Freitas Parkway freeway intersection that was already rated by Caltrans as the most dangerous freeway junction in Marin.
Yet after hours of public testimony, the committee passed it without changes.
We were left to wonder just how we were meant to have any input or if the committee was sincere about listening to the community. Its decision seemed a foregone conclusion from the outset.
Three weeks later, the scene repeated. This time 200 people showed up at the City Council meeting where the station plan was being reviewed.
After two hours of "listening to" community concerns (we want affordable housing but don't build over three stories high) the City Council concluded that no changes were required and passed the plan unanimously.
Not one council member reflected the validity of the public consensus with their vote.
One has to wonder who these officials really represent.
Where was the balance, not just with nature and the scale of the surrounding neighborhoods, but the balance of ideas and public discourse that we'd come to rightfully expect of our elected officials?
But what took place that night united us.
Today, seven neighborhoods, encompassing more than 6,000 voters, have come together as Quiet and Safe San Rafael to work for appropriate and sustainable housing solutions in San Rafael. Our goal is to bring common sense to the planning decision making process and preserve the balance Marin has always enjoyed — appropriately scaled growth that respects the character of this special place.
Richard Hall is a leader of Quet and Safe San Rafael. The group's website is at http://quietandsafesanrafael.org


text: I know we are 0-3 and mario williams has done nothng for us. I know we have been losing games in embaressing fashion, but honestly, the best of fans should have been ready for those loses. I wasnt expecting our run defense to be so bad, but give the team at lesat until week 6 to get things together. We have alsmot ALL new coaches, and hardley anyone at the positions they were at last year...i think on offense David Carr, Andre Johnson and Chester Pitts are the only people left at their old positions on offense and on defense Dunta Robinson, CC Brown and Glenn Earl are the only ones playing the same positions on Defense (3-4 to a 4-3 means everyone up front is doing something new). I'm not saying that everything is well and we dont have any problems, but to see how far and quickly the attitudes on this board have changed is incredible. You cannot call Mario a bust yet, really, thats *****ic...judge him after the season and judge him on how he actually played and improved if he does improve, not his stats (he's a DE people). Also, to those who think we should have drafted reggie now, but who had earlier supported mario...you are blind. I supported drafting bush before the season, now i know mario was the right, if not possibly unlucky decision. Our defense has played horrifically so yes, we definatly should have been taking the concensus best DEF. player on the board which we did. The offense has looked great all things considered and would be scoring many more points once the def. stops allowing 8min drives and getting the ball back to the offense. 3 and outs are part of football, just cause you have one doesnt mean thats the end of your possession for the quarter like it has so far this season.


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I want to log all SQL commands as an executable script file for use in performance testing. Currently there is a lot of information in the log that is generated that would not be executable. Below is an example of what I would want to see; which is just the SQL. Example of log output: Select a,b,c from calendar where a=12; Select a,b,c from calendar where a=13; Example: 1) I would take a snap shot of our production database. 2) I would then turn on SQL logging. 3) I would put the copy of the database onto a test server. 4) After a few days of logging the SQL commands I would copy the file to the test server. 5) I would then have a basic script that would display the start time, execute the postgres SQL log (pgsql -d database_name -f sql_log_file_name), and then display the end time. Now I can test configuration changes and index modifications on real world data to see what impact the changes would have. I just keep reloading the database, change the configurations settings, and then execute the script again. The key is that the SQL log be in a format that can be executed as a postgres SQL file. How do I do this? Thanks, Lance Campbell Project Manager/Software Architect Web Services at Public Affairs University of Illinois 217.333.0382 http://webservices.uiuc.edu
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Walkabout's review published on Letterboxd :
Utterly fascinating doc about the man who is pretty much the father of film preservation, without whom the films we now consider influential would not even be on our radar. Fascinating portrait of a driven nutball artist, and it will make you want to add at least a dozen movies to your watch list. Thanks to Brian Saur for adding this film to the Letterboxd queue.


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Gold Doesn't Shine For China
The International Monetary Fund last year announced it would sell 403.3 metric tons of gold to raise money for poor countries. This immediately sparked speculation that China would be a major purchaser–and the rumor spread through the market like wild fire.
But comments out of China Tuesday seemed to dampen this theory even more than news from the IMF last month. The IMF said in February it would begin selling the remaining 191.3 tons on the market because it couldn't find another central bank buyer.
Now China's chief foreign-exchange regulator Yi Gang said Tuesday at a news conference during the National People's Congress that "currently a few factors limit our ability to increase foreign-exchange investment in gold," putting out some of the fire that the country would buy big and buy publicly.
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The actor – accused of domestic violence against Oksana Grigorieva – claims she used the threat of releasing damning audio tapes to extort cash.
Gibson, 54, who has a daughter, Lucia, nine months, with her, alleges Grigorieva only released the expletive-ridden tapes after he refused the 40-year-old's demands .


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April 28, 2017
The Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is not a monolith.
Representing over 18 million people, AAPIs are a diverse, fast-growing population that includes Americans who identify with one or more of numerous East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander ethnic groups. Even the most populous of of AAPI sub-groups — Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Filipino Americans — individually comprise less than one-quarter of the total AAPI population.
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