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$3 million awarded to 18 projects to create new humanities resources and develop new courses
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $3 million in grants for 18 projects to create new or revised curricula and instructional and learning materials in the humanities. Projects are intended to serve as national models of excellence in humanities education, drawing upon sound scholarship in the humanities and using scholars and teachers as advisers in the creation of classroom resources.
For example, Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus in Greenvale, N.Y., will develop an online teaching resource in art history, focusing on artworks by Rembrandt van Rijn that are held in U.S. museums. A language project by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles will use interactive technology and sophisticated language games for the study of Italian language and literature. The Associated Colleges of the South in Atlanta, Ga., will develop an online archive of visual materials for teaching French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. Several curriculum development projects focus on regional issues, including one by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams on the lives of five African Americans whose stories link a rural New England county with events and themes of national significance, and another by Pennsylvania's Ridgway Area School District on the role of iron, bituminous coal, and industry in the history of the state and nation.
"With innovative approaches and the latest technology, these scholars and educators will make significant humanities resources available to much larger audiences, both in and out of the classroom," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole.
Several projects will make significant documents and other primary source materials widely accessible for teaching and learning. For example, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque will develop a CD-ROM and online resources for students of American history and culture to examine the photographs of American families by John Collier, Jr., whose work was sponsored by the Farm Security Administration during World War II. The University of Texas, Austin, will develop a web-based environment bringing together digital assets of Presidential libraries to create a "Presidential Timeline" of 20th-century administrations, the major events they encountered, and the decision making process brought to bear on these events. Ohio's Ashland University will develop web-based lesson plans and interactive exercises to engage high school students in the study of "American Foreign Policy, 1887-1945: Overseas Expansion and Foreign Wars."
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"I believe there are places that have real power, places where the connection between nature and man is absolutely direct, without thought of any kind, places that penetrate you so deeply that they become part of you," writes Christian Brechneff in his newly published work The Greek House: The Story of a Painter's Love Affair with the Island of Sifnos.
For Gauguin, that place was Tahiti; for John Muir, Yosemite; for O'Keefe, the Southwest. And for Brechneff, a Swiss painter of Russian lineage, it was the Greek island of Sifnos – "a small island of the past, a living tradition captured like a creature in amber." For 30 years, beginning at age 21, on that starkly beautiful yet backward island out in the middle of the Aegean, the author lived, painted, and grew to eventually become more and more ... himself. (His mother was a Jungian analyst.)
Leaving the uber-conventional confines of Basel, Switzerland, confused about his identity – both national and sexual – the author takes flight and eventually finds himself on a remote Greek island. Standing there on the deck of the ferryboat, heading to this unknown land in the Cyclades archipelago, he recalls every sight and sound and contour, even the very odor of first contact: "I could smell for the first time the delicate scent of the island, like a package of spices and herbs suddenly spilled open in the palm of my hand."
Forever inspired by the magic of Sifnos, Brechneff returns year after year, through graduate school, through failed love affairs with both men and women, through professional zigs and zags, to the place where it was "impossible to be depressed" in order to recharge his battery and to paint, paint, paint.
Then one day, five years after his first visit, an islander, out of the blue, offers to sell him a house. The little whitewashed spiti (domicile) in the middle of an ancient village didn't even have running water or electricity. But Brechneff was enchanted, and being an all-or-nothing sort of person, he borrows the money from his parents ($7,500), and just like that, the tall, blonde, 27-year-old Adonis the islanders called calo pedi Christo (good little Chris) becomes a Sifniot. And for the next 25 years, as the proud owner of an island home, he rides a roller coaster of agonies and ecstasies, from painting beautiful morning sunrises in his new addition to managing lying property managers; from growing fruit trees to dealing with psychotic neighbors.
"The Greek House" is a mix of many different genres – travelogue, memoir, international real estate guide, anthropology, art – the kind of book that bookstores will have the devil of a time categorizing. From beginning to end, we see the rare and magical sights of a culturally pure island world as told through the eyes of a painter with its shadow-casting mountains, fig trees and olive groves, sheep and goats and mules and donkeys, dovecotes ("little stone pyramids worked together as in a house of cards"), and "crowning every peak ... monasteries and their churches, white, white against the blue, blue sky."
And, of course, there are the people – treacherous shop owners, fearless taxi drivers, wicked spinsters, jocular widows, world-renowned artists, spoilsport ex-patriots – a full and lively cast of characters. But please, don't call them charming! (Snake charming maybe.)
For example, when Brechneff's neighbor, the spinster Aphrodite and her mother Evangelia with whom he shares a courtyard wall, come over ostensibly to talk about one of the many renovations projects Brechneff has recently completed on his house, it soon becomes obvious that, well: "Then out of the blue, as her mother went on talking, Aphrodite, not so young anymore and never pretty, started to unpin her hair and let it down, shaking it out over her shoulders, a fairly terrifying sight, with her mustache and this long, thick graying hair, a grim, dark-faced wild woman, half Medusa, half Madwoman of Chaillot."
Brechneff wants to tell it all, and he does, unfortunately, detouring the reader through way too much information (in the slang sense of the phrase) as he splices in maudlin letters to the folks back home and wistful/regretful reminiscences of sexual misadventures that all feel forced. But there is an extraordinary freshness and youthful vitality to this book that transcends even its own flaws by virtue of the main character: the island of Sifnos.
By the end, both Brechneff and his beloved island have grown completely apart. Sifnos, 30 years later, like Brechneff himself, has completely changed. It's not so much that yachts and tourists and real estate agents have invaded, big time; rather, it's that the tall blonde, the islanders', adorable calo pedi Christo, has grown up.
Returning to the island after a long absence, his longtime friend, Apostolos, picks him up at the ferry and is driving him to his house. Realizing Brechneff is alone again, Apostolos says to him: "Christo … you need a wife." Brechneff describes the moment: "[I]t was like a slap. Not a hard one, but hard enough to bring someone to his senses. Me. Suddenly everything out of the car window looked different ... strange, unfamiliar, foreign. And in a flash I realized that I had no place here, that I was living in someone else's world. "
He sold the house in 2007, the same year as his civil union to Tim Lovejoy, Brechneff's longtime partner and the co-author of "The Greek House."
If you can't make it to a Greek Island this summer, "The Greek House" is the next best thing to being there.
Richard Horan is a novelist and nonfiction writer. His most recent book is "Harvest: An Adventure into the Heart of America's Family Farms."

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Timelapse video of the Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis taken during the evenings of March 18 and 19, 2013. Canon 5D Mark III and Canon 14mm f/2.8L USM II lens. Shutter speeds from 5s to 15s at ISOs between 2500 and 6400. Music courtesy mobygratis.com.
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Smith (Brinlee)
Another all-Smith week, but this was not boring work! The method of finding a family by looking at all "eligible" families with that surname over a large area (in this case, Tennessee) may sound tedious, but it's actually fun.
Last night my husband and I were sitting in the family room, each with our laptop, when I suddenly yelled out, "Another family knocked off!" My husband stared at me in surprise. "I thought genealogy was a gentle pursuit?" "No one killed them," I replied. "They're not even out of my database, but they just went from Category 1 (good fit) to Category 4 (very unlikely)." A Google search for "John Morgan Smith" + Fritz (one of John's sons) pulled up a Rootsweb message board post by a grandson of Fritz, who wrote that his "great-aunt Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Smith never married," but had spent her life taking care of another family member. So she's out. The fewer candidate families are left, the closer I feel I'm getting to finding "my" Lizzie Smith's family.
I also sent out an inquiry to the person who set up the memorial to Lizzie on Findagrave to see if she could provide me with the source for the information that Lizzie was "born in Knoxville."
(Forgot to mention this last week.) I started on the last batch of Moore obituaries. These were getting pretty far down in the weeds. This doesn't exactly wrap up this project, but will definitely complete the first stage. I'm thinking that next I'll start over with Samuel Moore (d. 1828, Greenville) and go down the lines again, noting and trying to fill in gaps, put inquiries out on the message boards, and check Ancestry, Family Search Record Search, etc., to see if new information pops up, and from there -- ? I'm not really sure what to do with it next. What form should I put this information in and what should be done with it?
To the person or persons who nominated me as one of the Family Tree Magazine's 40 Best Genealogy Blogs – thank you so much! I am honored by the nomination and by the company that the nomination puts me among.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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What is sleeping sickness?
Q: What is sleeping sickness?
A: Sleeping sickness, also called "human African trypanosomiasis", is a widespread tropical disease that can be fatal if not treated. It is spread by the bite of an infected tsetse fly (Glossina Genus), a species native to the African continent. More than sixty million people who live mainly in rural parts of East, West and Central Africa are at risk of contracting sleeping sickness.
The tsetse fly bite erupts into a red sore and within a few weeks the person can experience fever, swollen lymph glands, aching muscles and joints, headaches and irritability. In advanced stages, the disease attacks the central nervous system and people present with changes in personality, alteration of the biological clock (the circadian rhythm), confusion, slurred speech, seizures and difficulty in walking and talking. These problems can develop over many years and if not treated, the person dies.
The main approaches to controlling African trypanosomiasis are to reduce the reservoirs of infection and the presence of the tsetse fly. Screening of people at risk helps identify patients at an early stage. Diagnosis should be made as early as possible and before the advanced stage to avoid complicated, difficult and risky treatment procedures.


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17 March 2014
Delivering stability: securing our future housing needs
Barker Review of Housing Supply - Final Report - Recommendations
Final Report - see links below
Building on analysis presented in the Interim Report, Kate Barker presents choices for Government depending on its objectives for housing.
- The UK has experienced a long-term upward trend in real house prices, 2.4 per cent per annum over the last 30 years. This has created problems of affordability. In addition, the volatility of the housing market has exacerbated problems of macroeconomic instability and has had an adverse effect on economic growth. To improve macroeconomic stability and deliver greater affordability for individuals a lower trend in house prices is desirable:
- In order to deliver a trend in real house prices of 1.8 per cent an additional 70,000 houses each year in England might be required.
- To bring the real price trend in line with the EU average of 1.1 per cent an extra 120,000 houses each year might be required.
The Barker Review's final report sets out a range of policy recommendations for improving the functioning of the housing market:
- Government should set out a goal for improved market affordability.
- Additional investment building-up to between £1.2 and £1.6 billion per annum will be required to deliver additional social housing to meet projected future needs.
- Introduction of a Planning-gain Supplement to capture some of the development gains that landowners benefit from, to ensure that local communities share in the value of development.
- Establishment of a Regional Planning Executive to provide public advice to the Regional Planning Body on the scale and distribution of housing required to meet the market affordability target.
- Introduction of flexibility at the local level through the allocation of additional land in Local Development Frameworks, with the release of this additional land triggered by market signals.
- Establishment of a Community Infrastructure Fund to help to unlock some of the barriers to development.
- Local authorities should be allowed to "keep" the council tax receipts from new housing developments for a period of time to provide incentives for growth and to meet transitional costs associated with development.
- Structured advice has come to light in recent years on and implications of such actions.
- The report does not take into account claims due to thefts or crime and the cost of an approved security firm.
Final report of 'Delivering stability: securing our future housing needs'
The Barker Review is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page.
PDF file of Delivering stability: securing our future housing needs executive summary (91KB)
PDF file of Delivering stability: securing our future housing needs chapters and annexes (494KB)
Press notice, 17/03/14
Interim report (10/12/03), scope of review, consultation responses and commissioned research
Government´s response to the Barker review of housing supply (PBR 2005)
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PDF file of Housing Policy: an overview 18/07/14
A joint HM Treasury & ODPM policy document providing an overview of the Government's wide-ranging programme of policy measures to extend the opportunities for people to have a home that meets their aspirations. Published alongside a package of planning reform measures announced by ODPM.
Related link - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister website
PDF file of Extending home ownership (PDF file)
Pamphlet released by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Prime Minister setting out details of the Government's approach to extend the opportunities available to people to meet their aspirations and have a decent home at a price they can afford.


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It is an unfortunate fact that 6 out of 10 adults lead totally sedentary lifestyles. Even more problematic, only 1 out of 10 adults performs sufficient physical activity to attain measurable fitness benefits. No wonder a recent Ohio University study showed that 75 percent of American adults are overweight. Approximately the same percentage of men and women will experience low back pain, and about 50 percent will die from heart disease.
Perhaps because it doesn't take time, dieting is the preferred approach to weight loss for many people. According to a Tufts University study, 1 out of 2 women and 1 out of 4 men are presently dieting to reduce their bodyweight. Although low calorie diets may produce temporary results, the 33 billion dollars spent annually on diet programs has proved unsuccessful for permanent bodyweight improvements.
But why do less than 10 percent of dieters keep the weight off? Because keeping fat off is closely related to keeping muscle on. You see, average adults have two problems. One, they are adding about 15 pounds of fat every decade of life. Two, they are losing about 5 pounds of muscle during the same time period. So what the bathroom scale registers as a 10-pound weight gain actually represents a 20-pound change in body composition. If the body were a car, this would be analogous to driving a bigger automobile with a smaller engine.
While it is obvious we need to reduce our fat stores, it is just as necessary to replace our muscle tissue. We need larger engines (muscles) to burn more calories (both awake and asleep), so that we can eat reasonable amounts of food without gaining fat weight.
At this point, you may think that I am going to recommend regular aerobic exercise such as walking, cycling or stepping. You're right. Aerobic exercise is almost as effective as dieting for reducing body fat. In addition, it conditions your cardiovascular system and reduces your risk of heart-related diseases. But it does not replace muscle tissue, and it does take time . . . more on that later.
My best advice, however, is to do regular strength training to replace muscle tissue and recharge your metabolism. In addition, strong muscles may reduce your risk of osteoporosis (Tufts University research), colon-cancer (University of Maryland research), diabetes (University of Maryland research), low-back pain (University of Florida research), high blood pressure (University of California research), arthritic pain (Tufts University research), and depression (Harvard University research).
Perhaps you are convinced that a combined activity program (aerobic exercise and strength training) is a better health and fitness approach than dieting. Indeed it is, but you still may not have enough time for such an active lifestyle. After all, most of your active friends probably spend at least an hour a day on their exercise program.
Hour-Per-Week Exercise Program
We recently completed a study with time-pressured people to determine the practical benefits of relatively brief exercise sessions. This research, conducted at the South Shore YMCA, required the participants to train just 20 minutes a day, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, for a one-hour-per-week exercise commitment.


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About Bill
C.E.O. Bill Bailey L.L.C. dba Nodal Ninja
Bill Bailey is both a humanitarian and entrepreneur. He enjoys photography, travel and has a great deal of passion for running his company. Bill is widely respected in the community for his support to the arts and in bringing greater exposure to panoramic photography.
"It's not a concern that competition may gain benefit from much of our marketing and sponsorships. What I find rewarding is realizing that more people are learning about this fascinating field and the potential it holds to better our lives both artistically and financially."
Having resided in California most of his life Bill spent more than 15 years in Alaska, 6 of which was in the Air Force. He also owned and operated a successful photography business for 5 years (1994-1999) called Northern Exposure Photography of Alaska. His company traveled extensively throughout Alaska providing portraiture services to very remote villages and Eskimo communities. From Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands to Fairbanks, Ketchikan in the south to Barrow in the north and all points in between.
After selling his business he packed up and moved to warmer climates in California and, after marrying his lovely Aussie wife Kim, settled in Arizona. He wanted to venture back into the photography realm and was lured to the fascinating world of panoramic photography; from showcasing homes through the use of Virtual Tours to showing off personal panoramas from his travels. At least that was the plan. In 2004 Bill partnered with Nick Fan of Fanotec and together they built a company called Nodal Ninja that today stands forefront in the hardware industry for panoramic photographers.
"I enjoy the day to day operations of running Nodal Ninja, from marketing and distribution to website creation and speaking with customers. Over the last 10 years I have seen literally tens of thousands of panoramas. And our own Flickr group now hosts over 4500 sphericals. I'm always striving to better my own photography and I'm always in pursuit of the perfect panorama. I view every panorama with a keen eye, paying attention to detail, composition, and the overall feeling an image is seeking to convey. My personal work can be viewed at circularworlds.com – always a work in progress.
I want to thank Epson Pano Awards for the opportunity to judge in these awards. My thoughts, views and opinions will be as objective as possible. Good luck to everyone. And remember – you have to be in it to win it!"


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The DC Department of Public Works will hold its next monthly Household Hazardous Waste/E-cycling/Personal Document Shredding drop-off Saturday, December 7, 8 am to 3 pm, at the Ft. Totten Transfer Station*. The monthly drop-off is held every first Saturday, except holidays, at Ft. Totten, between 8 am and 3 pm.
During the monthly HHW/E-cycling/Personal Document Shredding event, District residents may bring toxic items such as pesticides, batteries and cleaning fluids to Ft. Totten, along with computers, televisions and other unwanted electronic equipment. Personal document shredding also is available that day and residents may bring up to five boxes of materials to be shredded. No business or commercial material will be accepted.
To accommodate residents whose religious beliefs prohibit them from using the Saturday drop-off, DPW will accept household hazardous waste and e-cyclables on Thursday, December 5 from 1 pm to 5 pm. While DPW normally offers personal document shredding during the Saturday event, items to be shredded cannot be accepted on Thursday, December 5 because these documents cannot be protected until the shredding contractor arrives on Saturday. (DPW usually provides this alternate drop-off day the Thursday before the first Saturday of the month.) For a list of all household hazardous waste and e-cyclables accepted by DPW, please click on the HHW link at www.dpw.dc.gov.
For a list of all household hazardous waste and e-cyclables accepted by DPW, please click on the HHW link at www.dpw.dc.gov.
DPW reminds residents that certain batteries (lithium-based and batteries greater than 9 volts) should be taped before being brought to Ft. Totten. Lithium-based batteries are most commonly found in cell phones, digital cameras and laptops. Also, hearing aids, watches and keyless remotes typically use button cells, containing lithium. To safely dispose of batteries with lithium or batteries of greater than 9 volts, put clear, masking or electrical tape on the batteries' terminals. Flat button batteries can be sandwiched between two layers of tape. Examples are pictured on the next page. Place these batteries in a separate container from other batteries that don't require being taped, e.g., A, AAA, C, D, 6-volt and 9-volt batteries.
*Directions to Ft. Totten, 4900 John F. McCormack Drive, NE: Travel east on Irving Street, NW, turn left on Michigan Avenue, turn left on John F. McCormack Drive, NE and continue to the end of the street. Directions from additional locations can be found at http://dpw.dc.gov/node/414922.


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LeTourneau University is inviting the public to get a close-up view of a new airplane that is making a big impact across the world.
A Quest Kodiak airplane is scheduled to make a stop-off at LeTourneau University's Abbott Aviation Center, 200 Airpark Dr., on a publicity tour for Mission Aviation Fellowship at 4 p.m. Monday, April 7. One of the two pilots, Scott Channon, is an LETU alumnus.
The Quest Kodiak is a new and impressive aircraft with a clean-sheet design specifically for missionary work in some of the remotest parts of the world with excellent performance. MAF currently owns 10 of these new airplanes.
The Kodiak is produced by the Quest Aircraft Company of Sandpoint, Idaho. It is powered by a turboprop engine that burns jet fuel, which is much more readily available around the world compared to existing aviation gasoline. The airplane is also equipped with very powerful and modern Garmin G1000 avionics system.
"LeTourneau alumni were very instrumental in the design and certification of the Quest Kodiak," said Fred Ritchey, LETU dean of the School of Aeronautical Science. "A number of our alumni were involved in the engineering side of the airplane including the head of engineering. Additionally, the chief pilot at Quest aircraft is a LeTourneau grad."
Ritchey said the community is invited to come see this new aircraft and learn more about MAF and LETU and how God is using missionary pilots to serve in the developing world. LETU offers an aviation degree program specifically suited to missions aviation.
Kent and Amy Embleton, 2012 graduates of LETU, are new MAF missionaries assigned to Mozambique, Africa, following the birth of their first child here in Longview in the coming months. They will be available, along with the Quest Kodiak pilots, Scott Channon and Tim Imbrock, and LETU missionary-in-residence Phil Manning to answer questions.
For more information, contact Kent Embleton at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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CUMBERLAND — Tami Wayboer spent the first day of the Cumberland County Fair on Sunday talking nonstop about her favorite subject: camelids, specifically, alpacas and llamas.
Wayboer fell in love with the shaggy South American animals in 2009 and just had to have one.
Now she and her husband, Bob, own 16 alpacas and two llamas along with four donkeys and three sheep at their Shadow Hill Farm in New Gloucester. She said walking among her llamas and alpacas is the perfect way to relax after a busy day at work.
"These animals are so therapeutic," said Wayboer.
Wayboer and dozens of other farmers are spending the next week talking to fairgoers about their animals, a major attraction at the eight-day annual agricultural exhibition, which can draw 50,000 people if the weather is good.
"This is all about animals, food and fun," said Mike Timmons, president of the Cumberland Farmer's Club, which runs the 142-year-old event.
On opening day Sunday, the cows, goats, pigs, miniature ponies and towering draft horses seemed to enjoy the attention. Samantha Grant, 19, of Gorham, who grew up going to the fair as a 4-H member, tended to a wall of calves standing quietly chewing hay.
"They are getting used to people," said Grant.
The calves are headed for the Steer Scramble event next Saturday when young 4-H members rope a calf. The 4-H members will spend the next year raising the calf for auction at next year's Cumberland County Fair.
Bringing animals to the fair is not an easy proposition, said Diane O'Brien of Baker Brook Farm in Windham. O'Brien was tending about a dozen Jersey, Holstein and Ayrshire dairy cows, part of her son Alan O'Brien's 90-head milking herd.
It is expensive and takes hard work to spend a week at the fair, she said.
The animals must be transported by trailer and their owners need their own trailer to sleep in at night.
O'Brien bathes the fair cows daily and spends the rest of the time cleaning up after them.
"We want to keep them clean so they are nice for the public," said O'Brien.
But O'Brien said the effort is worth it because it gets the word out about her son's dairy herd.
"I love the schoolchildren to see them," she said.
The fair also focuses on gardening, with judging of produce and a giant pumpkin contest. On Sunday morning a 1,196-pound pumpkin, raised by Edwin Pierpont of Jefferson, set a record for the fair, weighing in 66 pounds heavier than any previous entry.
The fair also inspires growers to share their own gardening successes. Bill Flies of Gray had just entrusted an enormous strangely shaped potato with Carolyn Small, superintendent of the exhibition hall. Small seized the opportunity to start a "name the monster potato" contest. "Whoever wins gets a potato pin," said Small.
It is such down-home touches that make the fair a favorite, said several visitors. Janet Baker of Windham said she grew up in Fryeburg before the Fryeburg Fair turned into an extravaganza that can draw 300,000 visitors. She said the Cumberland County Fair seems closer to its agricultural roots.
"This is more like what we remember when we were young," said Baker.
The fair continues through Sept. 28. The fairgrounds at 197 Blanchard Road are open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
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About Terry Hancock
Terry Hancock is a regular columnist for Free Software Magazine as well as Producer and Director for the "Lunatics" web video series.
Hey! Don't tease me, man. The Mandelbrot Turtle thing could work! I want a Mandelbrot Turtle Phone! :-D
There seem to be a few misconceptions about what I'm trying to do with Lib-Ray in some of the comments above. Rather than trying to hunt them all down, I've written an update to try to clarify:
"What Lib-Ray is and what it is NOT"
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2144275086/lib-ray-non-drm-open-standards-hd-video-format/ posts/225351
"I've seen some discussion of Lib-Ray on several different forums which appears to betray some basic misunderstandings about what it is and what it isn't. I'm going to start with what it isn't, because most of the problems seem to arise from mistaking it for these things..."
Hope this helps! :-)
Normally, I would agree with the advice to sit pat and let the lawyers do the talking. But this case is about public opinion and the nature of the law more than anything else.
It's political as much as it is legal.
It's unfortunate that Dotcom is neither attractive nor charismatic in person -- because that matters in politics.
I imagine that's not coincidence: with so many file locker services and file sharing services to choose from, the prosecutors could easily have gone shopping for just the right image they wanted on their "Wanted" poster -- they are engaged in politics and manipulation, not seeking justice.
In addition to the other arguments made against this, I would like to add this:
Using the term "property" to refer to intellectual monopolies causes a severe distortion of the debate for anyone who values private property, because "pro-intellectual property" positions are "anti-private property" positions. In other words, promoting intellectual property is only possible by violating the freedom of individual to be secure in their own private property.
Since this leads to a complete hash in logical terms, the use of the concept "intellectual property" is at best extremely confusing and politically motivated, even if you believe (as I do) that reasonable compromises can exist.
But in an honest debate we must acknowledge that state-granted monopolies on the use of information products must always entail a abrogation both of freedom of speech and of individual private property rights. Since these are both very serious things to violate, any such system has to be pretty limited to be reasonable. And that kind of reason is nowhere to be found amongst the proponents of "strong intellectual property" law.
Recommend you read this link and its citations:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-regulation-and-the-economics- of-piracy.ars
This article is obviously not "unbiased", but it is extremely well-referenced.
Perhaps the study that most meets your criteria would be the US Government Accountability Office study:
Said much the same thing myself: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/piracy_not_problem_sopa_not_solution
I recently spent some time exploring whether AFTRA/SAG actors could work on free-culture projects without violating union rules (for my project, which needs voice actors for animation, the relevant union is apparently AFTRA). It appears that they can.
I think it would be really cool to see that happen, and I want to pursue it. So, it's really encouraging to see the artists resisting the legacy entertainment industry's heavy-handed tactics. It gives me hope that I'll be listened to when I start proposing this.
Still... it's just 189 signatures so far, and I'm not even sure how we know these are union members signing it (aside from the comments).
Actually, new "rites" is what they're forcing onto us with the security theater business. "Rights" is what we've been abdicating. :-)
I found the graph really hard to interpret w.r.t. the subject.
It emphasizes relatively unimportant facts -- a histogram showing the distribution of "licit" media consumption. The secondary element is a histogram of "illicit" media consumption. Neither is what the article is about.
The thing you _wanted_ to communicate was that the percentage of illicit to licit use is increasing as we go to the right side of the chart.
To figure _this_ out, I have to mentally divide graphical bars of varying lengths (which may even be subject to optical illusion). As a result, the chart really doesn't help your point much. Just tabulating the numbers would probably be more effective.
But what would be a much better representation is to use a simple bar chart of the _percent illicit/licit use_ against the existing independent axis. This would normalize out the distribution information (which isn't very important), and make the relevant point (bars get bigger to the right) leap out at the reader.
Those all appear to be copyrights on collections of works.
How does the initial registration of a collection affect the copyright on the contained stories? Does that count as a "renewal" for the stories contained?
In some cases, the contained stories were already in the public domain at the time of publication. In others, they would have entered the public domain after publication, but well before the renewals.
I've never liked Netflix's streaming options. DRM. No Linux support. (And therefore) wasteful of bandwidth. Can't spool a whole movie, so I have to watch it in 5m snippets separated by 15m download. Plus it trashed the memory module on our Wii (only system in the house that would support it - I'm guessing it spooled to flash memory (!)). "Not interested, thank you."
Their DVD rental service is very good and fills a niche for rural customers who want access to a deep DVD catalog.
It has been good for that, and I'm not looking for the service to change. I'm delighted to (finally) be able to opt-out of their streaming business model and no longer pay for services I don't use.
Actually cell phone tech is a great example of why the strong IP model stunts innovation -- by comparison with the internet at large (dominated by the weak-IP models favored in internet standards development), cell phone networks are slow-growing, inefficient, and extremely limiting.
In fact, it's probably not unfair to say that most of the innovation that does exist in the cell phone space is really just parasitic use of the innovation from the internet at large -- almost every new cell phone feature you encounter is just a copy of something already in use on the web.
You might have a better case for the hardware, but even there the situation is ambiguous at best. The clear winners in hardware have been standardized commodity systems and even cell phones rely heavily on shared production of basic components and reliance on open standards for inter-component buses.
Yes, FLA is a problem.
I wrote about it in detail here:
My conclusion since then is that the only way Sita is going to get converted to an open format is if somebody with Adobe Flash's animator installed renders the files to SWF format and publishes those.
If/when that happens, I think I (as well as many other people) can probably get it converted to SVG (and after that, conversion to many different open formats becomes possible).
But I am NOT willing to install a proprietary operating system or to buy Adobe's animation software just so I can make this initial conversion from FLA to SWF.
Nor am I willing to reverse-engineer FLA format and write a conversion library. There doesn't seem to be much interest in doing that. In fact, AFAICT, the only reason SWF is supported is because you needed that to _play_ Flash animations (SWF was intended as an opaque distribution format -- like a binary, and because Flash is a product of proprietary culture for proprietary animators, FLA, which was intended to be a source format, is generally not distributed, so there was little demand for reading it).
To clarify -- we are talking about access to the original vector graphics, for the purposes of making more sophisticated derivatives. The _video_ is of course already available in several free/open standard formats on Internet Archive, if you are satisfied with video snippets or frame-captures from the film.
NO, the situation was not "forced".
Paley licensed the sync rights to the songs. With these payments, she was free to release Sita any way she wanted to.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Kreative Blogger Award
Many thanks to Linda Hughes Hiser at Flipside for this award, and congratulations to her for receiving it – she richly deserves it for her very entertaining and well-written blog.
I am now supposed to list seven things about myself and pass the award on to seven other bloggers. I'm going to rush "into print" with my nominations first (because I always seem to be late with that part) and will add the "seven things" part later.
My nominations are:
1. Leah at The Internet Genealogist
2. Elizabeth at Little Bytes of Life
3. footnote Maven at footnote Maven
4. Caroline Pointer at Family Stories and Texas Family Stories
5. Herstoryan at Herstoryan
6. Elyse Doerflinger at Elyse's Genealogy Blog
7. Tina Lyons at Tina's Genealogical Wish List
OK, it took me a few minutes to come up with them, but here are the seven things:
1. I love my immediate and extended family (that includes our cats).
2. We put bird feeders and a bird bath in our yard this year and I cannot believe how much I am enjoying watching the birds.
3. I am a 100% language geek.
4. I love to garden and could play all day in the dirt.
5. St. Nino of Georgia is my Patron Saint.
6. Genealogy may be one of the things that helps to keep me sane (and there is some dispute about that).
7. I have tons of ethnic music on my iTunes/iPod.
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You are such a honey. Yes, you are the first!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much.
Thank you Greta! You are such a sweetie pie!ReplyDelete
Congratulations, Greta! I love watching the birds at our backyard feeder too. And the squirrels!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for the award, Greta - that was sweet of you to think of me! I have to say, I can identify with a lot of your "seven things" too - especially the language geek one! When I was little I wanted to learn every language on the planet and to this day I still do, lol!ReplyDelete
Greta, thank you SO much for the award. I am very touched you would think of me. I too can relate to your list of seven - I think that is what makes this genea-community great we all have a little part of us that is the same. Cheers chica! :)ReplyDelete
Congrats on the award Greta and for passing it along to me.ReplyDelete
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Again, thanks Greta! I posted my 7 seven things: http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/11/giving-thanks.htmlReplyDelete
Thank you so much, Greta - very kind of you to think of me! We also have bird feeders in our yard. I put them up for my daughter, but I probably spend more time looking at them than she does!ReplyDelete
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Should Employers Be Able To Dock Your Pay For Not Following The Rules?
UPDATE: A rep for the pizza chain where this list was allegedly posted tells Consumerist that the items on this list are definitely not company policy.
It's one thing to get yelled at by your boss for using your cell phone or not wearing the proper uniform, but should — and more importantly can — your employer deduct money from your paycheck for these rules violations?
In this thread over at Reddit, one commenter posted a photo of a list of infractions and related deductions at his place of business, a pizza chain with around 200 stores in 13 states.
Among the items on the list:
-Friends/Family visiting while employee is working: $5
-Improper uniforms: $5
-Having any personal items in the kitchen: $5
-Not wearing an apron: $5
We've attempted to contact this pizza chain to see if this is indeed company policy or if it's just a rogue franchise owner. As soon as we have some sort of reply, we will update.
Whether or not such a policy is legal depends on the state. In this particular chain's home state of Michigan, for example:
[A]n employer can not withhold wages for disciplinary action. All earned wages are required to be paid on the scheduled pay date. Note: employers are required to deduct certain deductions as required by law or permitted through a collective bargaining agreement. Deductions, other than those required by law or collective bargaining agreement, require the employees signed written consent for the deduction.
However, this is not the case in all states, where the rules are not so clear.
That's why we want to see how common this sort of policy is. If you have stories of having your pay deducted for rule-breaking, share them in the comments. In the meantime, vote on whether or not you think this is a good thing for employers to do:
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The only surprise in the threatening behavior of North Korea is that Americans are so surprised when the North again foments trouble. They wonder if leader Kim Jong-un, like his father, is "crazy."
But he is simply acting in a way that brings the results he expects from a successful pattern of global extortion. It begins with threats, moves to negotiations, results in economic and political benefits for the North, and is then repeated after Pyongyang spurns agreements.
The way out of this conundrum is for the United States to try a more assertive stance that gives the US the initiative and puts the North on its heels – for instance, by sending Pyongyang a clear warning of preemptive action if America and its allies find themselves threatened.
Of course, putting North Korea on the defensive won't in and of itself mothball the country's nuclear program or bring a lasting peace to the Korean Peninsula. But it will put the US in a much stronger position to pursue those objectives.
The latest military precautions by Washington are useful to a degree. Welcome, too, are reports that the US and South Korea will respond "in kind" to any military provocations from the North. Still, because these are reactive, proportionate steps, they won't go far enough to change Pyongyang's behavior.
Mr. Kim's ratcheting up of tensions should convince the US and South Korea that the new leader has the same goals as his father, Kim Jong-il, and will repeat the cycle of threats. The young Kim, like his predecessor, wants to show strength and independence of action despite an economic dependency on neighbors. He wants to prove to the ruling clique his determination to stand up to adversaries.
The 30-year-old Kim probably learned from his father that bilateral talks with Washington hold immeasurable value: implicit US recognition and acceptance as a nuclear power, showing to all Koreans he is the key leader determining the future of the peninsula with a superpower. Meanwhile, South Korea is relegated to the position of a second-tier actor.
These selfish motives show that the North's political and military leadership is fundamentally disinterested in normal relations with the US. Indeed, they fear that normalization and opening up would spell the regime's end.
Successive US administrations have taken the high road, probing for mutual concessions to bolster stability on the peninsula. True, this approach has helped maintain a tenuous peace. It has given the US some access to an obscure regime and allowed the US to address difficult foreign policy problems elsewhere.
But unfortunately, past negotiations have done little more than temporarily constrain Pyongyang's provocations, and the downsides of talks have become more apparent in recent years.
Since Washington puts such a premium on stability through dialogue, its words of warning over time have lost their force and may even signal weakness to Pyongyang. Moreover, with every crisis, Washington seems much more concerned about containing the South Korean response while publicly calling for dialogue with the North. The North's leaders have taken notice.
And it gets worse. North Korea has taken advantage of America's altruism in negotiations to extract aid and de facto political recognition, while systematically ignoring or violating the terms of agreements.
To put an end to this, and to bring real stability to the peninsula, the US should find ways to tell Kim privately in clear and unmistakable terms that now things are different, given the North's claim that it will no longer abide by the armistice that halted the Korean War 60 years ago, and that it is at war with South Korea.
The message should also indicate that the US will defend itself and its allies even to the point of taking preemptive action against military moves it finds threatening – for instance, to disrupt North Korean preparations for short- or long-range missile launches or submarine operations that look to be targeted against US or South Korean forces, or even the US homeland. Washington should demonstrate its commitment to follow through, for example, by conducting close-in air and naval patrols, including overflights of the North. America has never undertaken the types of aggressive reconnaissance against the North that it routinely did against the Soviet Union.
If the US shows resolve, it will get the North's attention and put it on the defensive. That's what happened in August 1976. President Ford took the unusual step of placing US military forces on high alert in the region in response to the North's murder of two US Army officers in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. Pyongyang quickly backed down.
Such a US diplomatic shift would probably shock North Korea's main ally and benefactor, China, into action and get it to move against the North in ways that American diplomatic imploring has failed to do so far. In addition, South Korea and Japan would gain renewed confidence in the US security commitment, and other countries in Asia would view Washington as a credible partner at a time they fear Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
A tougher approach is not risk free. Kim Jong-un might believe Washington is bluffing, overplay his hand in response, and start a shooting war inadvertently or otherwise.
The US must accept these short-term risks and be prepared to respond forcefully if it ever hopes to end the cycle of provocative behavior and promote long-term stability on the Korean Peninsula.
There is nothing North Korean leaders fear more than a US that turns its full gaze on them with the intent of possibly doing harm. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, after identifying it along with Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil," Kim Jong-il disappeared in hiding for nearly two months.
Washington must now remember this lesson.
The author is a former CIA intelligence officer who specialized in the Korean Peninsula and China for more than a decade.


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Here is an interesting article from Nurse.com that addresses another aspect of the looming nursing shortage as our numbers age and retire. This article focuses on surgical nurses, but any specialty could be written about in much the same way. The median age of the nursing workforce is now late 40's to mid 50's. These are people who will be looking to retire at some point in the not too distant future. Who will be replacing them?
Please read the whole article and then come back here and let me hear your stories. We all have frustrations and can share personal experiences. Let's talk.
When 55-year-old Jim Stobinski, RN, MSN, CNOR, a seasoned Navy OR nurse, started working at a civilian hospital three years ago, he experienced a form of culture shock. He couldn't ignore the fact that nurses in the civilian OR were noticeably older than his colleagues in the Navy. The discrepancy was so significant that Stobinski started studying age distribution data from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and compared it to data from the Navy. As he analyzed the information, Stobinski became aware the nation may be at risk of an impending shortage of well-trained RNs in the OR.
"We are in uncharted territory," says Stobinski, director of surgical services at St. Luke's Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. "Our OR nursing workforce is getting older, the demand for surgery is increasing, and we have to bring new nurses into the profession to stay viable."
Luckily, organizations such as the AORN and hospitals throughout the country are pioneering strategies to not only recruit and train younger nurses into the OR specialty, but also to retain older nurses who have the coveted experience from which the next generation of nurses can benefit.
Age Breakdown
According to 2010 membership data from the AORN, which has more than 40,000 members, the average age of perioperative nurses in the organization is 52. That is five years older than the average age of licensed RNs as a whole, according to data from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. About 48% of AORN's members are over 50, and only 7% are under 31. The organization has yet to determine whether this data is representative of OR nursing as a whole. The AORN hopes to conduct a survey with perioperative directors throughout the country in the near future to determine whether their membership data currently reflects the age demographics in ORs nationwide; however, according to the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, there are more than 179,000 perioperative nurses in the U.S.
"The organization is concerned about these statistics," says Anne Marie Herlehy, RN, DNP, CNOR, AORN president-elect and administrative director for perioperative and cardiovascular services at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Ill. "We wonder what it will mean for the profession in 10 years."
One of the main reasons ORs lack younger RNs is related to changes in nursing schools, explains Herlehy. In the past, nursing students spent more time in the OR during clinical rotations, but now students often spend one day at most in the OR.
"Now that the nursing curriculum is so packed, there is less opportunity for nurses to get exposed to surgery," Herlehy says. "Few schools even offer it as an elective course."
To get the word out, AORN representatives attend events sponsored by the National Student Nurses Association, where they run an exhibit and talk to student nurses.
The AORN also offers a course called Periop 101: A Core Curriculum, a six-month program hospitals can use to train new perioperative nurses. The program includes reading, clinical assignments and suggested videos. Hospitals tailor the program to include mentoring, hands-on clinical experience and time with a preceptor. Students earn a certificate of completion for the class, which is open to new grads and experienced nurses who want to transfer to the OR.
Not only are hospitals offering this course, but now one Florida college is responding to the high demand. In January, Keiser Career College will begin offering Periop 101 at the Miami Lakes campus. After completing the course, nurses can go on to apply for OR jobs at the hospitals of their choice. When Terry Schmidt, RN, BSN, director of education at Keiser Career College,[…read the rest of the article…]


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Get Moist is a Melbourne based record label intent on exploring a diverse range of electronic music, promoting local and international artists. Our website will be regularly updated with upcoming events and releases. Please send through your original music using our Soundcloud drop box.
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Ben Maclachlan – "Difficulty" – Deep House Mix
Mr Ben Mac
Newcomer in the Melbourne Scene is recently turned 18 year old Ben Mac, coming from the Mornington Peninsula. As both a producer and DJ, Ben has built a strong reputation for his ability to get a crowd jumping, aswell as his own music; tracks being played at clubs across the state, with upcoming releases on well known labels such as Drugstore Recordings, aswell has his bootleg of 'Where the city meets the sea' gaining 100,000 views on soundcloud. Ben's musical diversity is highlighted through the wide range of genres you can expect to hear from him, however he specialises in deep/tech house, and on the complete opposite, heavy minimal. Expect to see a lot more of Ben Mac as he continues to develop his signature sounds across Melbourne and Victoria in 2014.
Matt Montgomery – The Lost Sounds MIxtape
Local Melbourne DJ Matt Montomery fronts up with his "Lost Sounds" mixtape.
Matt's younger brother Luke has been DJ'ing all around Melbourne for some time. Matt being the intrigued person he is wanted to give it a try. In less than a year Matt has done more than what some aspiring DJ's will do in their whole career. To what started off as a bit of fun and something to do, Matt is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with.
You can see Matt play alongside his brother at Wah Thursdays and more recently Fake Tits @ Tramp.
Tasty Treats Vol. 3 – Out Now!
Tasty Treats Vol. 3 out now on BEATPORT
DJ Tweek
Eddie Stephens
Code Luke
The third sampler installment released by GET MOIST, with four original tracks, each with a unique vibe of their own.
Dj Tweek (UK) brings his first solo track to the Label "Jazzy Shizzle".
Eddie Stephens, fresh from his last EP on the label, returns with a low end monster "Smack".
No stranger to getting moist, Clipping, brings us a souldful jam " The Way You Work".
After several releases on local and international labels, Code Luke is back with his track "One Day".
Get Moist Label Party at White Bar
Moisty's are coming out to play this Saturday the 23rd along side the regular cats from White bar.
There will be plenty of birthday celebrations, it's sure to be a good night slamming down a few beers and beats!
Hope to see you there for a little bounce and shake.
Dj's on Rotation :
Code Luke
Tee Pee
*FREE ENTRY all night*
Get Moist Funkin' It Up @ Wah Wah Lounge
Get Moist Funkin' It Up @ Wah Wah Lounge
To celebrate Eddie Stephens' new release. Broke Ass Nigga, on Get Moist Records with remixes from Lipsey and John Baptist.. we're teaming up with the boys from Wah Wah Lounge to bring you some moist tunes down stairs from 10-close!!!
Line up :
10-11 Rhyme
11-12 Tom Hornsby
12- 1 Code Luke
1-2:30 T-Rek
2:30-4 John Baptiste
4- 5:30 Silversix
5:30-Close – Eddie Stephens
Check out the track with the links below and jump onto Beatport to support the release!
See you at the bar for a beverage
Have a Moist Day!
Broke Ass Nigga EP – Eddie Stpehend With Remixes from Lipsey and John Baptiste
Get Down Saturday Night (Code Luke Revisit Mix) – Oliver Cheatham FREE DOWNLOAD
Get Down Saturday Night (Code Luke Revisit Mix) – Oliver Cheatham
Here is a new little bootleg/remix from our boy Code Luke of a great tune that Mr Cheatham created a long time ago, please check out his stuff and maybe even download this free revisit from my soundcloud or here feel free to check out my other tunes,
Hope you like and give this one a play, feedback welcome.
The song available for download is for promotional use only. I respect the artists and if you like this track you should support the artist and buy the original of it via buy link given! Ifsomeone has a problem with this promotional send us an email and we'll fix it : info(at)codeluke(dot)com(dot)au
Get Down Saturday Night (Code Luke Revisit Mix) – Oliver Cheatham
Broke Ass Nigga EP – Eddie Stephens (Get Moist Records)
Broke Ass Nigga EP – Eddie Stephens Feat Remixes From:
John Baptiste
Eddie Stephens drops his second E.P – "Broke Ass Nigga" on Get Moist Records.
Remix artists featured on the E.P include: Lipsey and John Baptiste.
With its driving leads and dope vocal hooks, Broke Ass Nigga will get the floor moving.
Lipsey makes his return on remix duties, jacking things up with his signature club vibe
throwing everything but the kitchen sink.
Newcomer to the label, John Baptiste, brings us a stripped back monster groove
with enough bottom end to test your woofer.
We hope you enjoy the Ep that is… "Broke Ass Nigga"
Broke Ass Nigga EP – Eddie Stephens With Remixes (Get Moist Records)
Peggy Sue! – Keep Calm And Bounce
Geelong based dj/producer, Peggy Sue!, drops in with his latest mix tape featuring a barrage of locally produced tracks, including a few from our very own label.
For a full track listing, check out the Soundcloud description.
1. The Boogie Man (Peggy-Sue! Edit)-Mike Metro
2. Southside Jam (Choobz Remix)-Wellsaid & Rubberteeth
3. Stupid (Mike Metro Remix)-Hey Sam
4. Bring Ya Booty (Benson Remix)-The Mane Thing
5. Little Green Men (Benson Remix)-Mushroom Mountain
6. Wherever (Choobz Got Bounce Remix)-Clipping
7. Body Girl (Peggy-Sue's Nek Minnit Remix)-Jesus!
8. Smooth (Clipping Remix)-Code Luke
9. Tits! (Benson Remix)-T-REK
10. Say What (Peggy-Sue! Remix)-Eddie Stephens
11. Unborn Living, Living Dead (Benson Remix)-Mike Metro
12. Over (Original Mix)-Hannah Wants
13. LunaPark (Club Mix)-The Clan
Electric Empire – Changin'
Electric Empire is fast becoming one of Australia's top music exports. But like many of their contemporaries, the group has taken the global route before hitting the headlines at home. And what an incredible journey it's been.
In less than a year, the four-piece has achieved more than most others would manage in a lifetime.
Electric Empire has toured the world, filling illustrious theatres and clubs, and playing some of the best-known festivals on the planet.
Do check out these killer groove specialists from melbourne their new EP "Changin'" on itunes
One of our favourite tunes from the boys is:
Have You Around – Electric Empire – ALSO has a Great Youtube Video Here
Tasty Treats Vol. 2 – Out Now!
The second sampler installment released by GET MOIST, with four original tracks, each with a unique vibe of their own.
Tony Wardan makes his debut on the label with his track Brick Lane Market.
Eddie Stephens returns, this time collaborating with UK producer DJ Tweek on – "In Your eyes".
Newcomers Chips! works his magic on- "Little More Swag" while Funk V. , from Mexico, drops his heavy hitter – "Omnimoxydrogen"
Tasty Treats Vol. 2 Out now on Beatport
Tony Wardan
Eddie Stephens & DJ Tweek
Funk V.


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Since it was founded in 2009, San Francisco startup Lookout Mobile Security has grown faster than its peers by smartly securing devices on the Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone operating systems. The big missing piece in their portfolio was Apple's iOS — and that changes today.
Lookout, whose software has been installed on more than 12 million devices around the world, today announced an app for iOS — and it's free. Lookout, as the app is known, provides users with three core benefits:
- Missing device location. Lookout can find a lost or stolen phone and make it start screaming, even if the phone is set to silent.
- Security features: a "system adviser" checks to see if your phone has the latest version of OS and whether it should be updated; another utility alerts you when you are browsing on an unsecured WiFi network; and location services walk you through how your apps are using your location data, letting you tweak the settings to your specifications.
- Contact backup and restore. If you ever inadvertently delete a contact, you can restore it right from the app.
Because Lookout works across platforms, you can also manage multiple devices from the company's website. (Or restore contacts from an Android onto your new iPhone.)
The app looks similar to the company's popular Android app but leaves out some of that version's core features, like scanning new apps for malware and a safe browsing mode that checks websites for phishing scams. In large part, this is because those haven't been problems on Apple's platform, says Kevin Mahaffey, Lookout's co-founder and chief technical officer. At the same time, a company survey found that 93 percent of iPhone users reported concerns about the security of data on their phones: clearly, there's a market opportunity.
Mahaffey notes that millions of people still won't bank online because of pervasive security fears.
"We need to fix that," he said last week in a conference room in the company's SoMa offices. "Nobody wants people to be fearful and uncertain about their mobile phones. We want to say, take the steps to protect yourself and then have fun with your phone."
As with their Android app, Lookout is likely to eventually unveil a monthly subscription service for users who want added protections. But that would likely be geared toward power users.
"The philosophy we have is, 90 percent of people should be extremely happy with the free app," Mahaffey said.
If the company's success on Android is any indication, they will be. Download the app here.


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Barnum teachers without contract since mid-2011
It has been a year and a half since the contract between the teachers and the Barnum School District expired. Negotiations have not been successful in securing a new contract.
"Our last contract expired at the end of June 2011," explained Linda Redetzke, President of Education Minnesota, Barnum, in a telephone interview. "We submitted the necessary paperwork informing the board of our intent to negotiate that spring. But the Legislature was talking about freezing salaries so we waited until we knew the results of the legislative session. Teachers' salaries were not frozen."
Redetzke explained that the teachers delayed further negotiations until after the referendum election that November and the audit later that month. The teachers had to review the audit, which delayed any action until after the holiday break. Further delays were caused when two members of the union's negotiating team were incapacitated for a time.
The team was finally able to sit down and set a timeline with finite dates early this year.
The group came up with a proposal and met with the school board's negotiating team in April.
According to information presented by the union, it asked for a 2 percent increase each year of the two-year contract.
The board proposed a 0 percent increase for teachers in both years.
The union proposal also asks for incremental increases for experience, called steps.
"The board insists on withholding those steps for the 2011-2013 years," the report stated. "It has already withheld steps in two of the four years of our last two contracts (2007-09 and 2009-11)."
Superintendent Dave Bottem listed the proposals that were offered by the board.
"At the first meeting with the teachers negotiating team on April 16, 2012, the board offered no steps and no lane increases in either year," he said. "They did agree to some language changes.
"When they met on June 26, the board offered no changes for 2011-2012, and 0 and 0 the second year of the contract. However, they can negotiate for the next two years, and a modified matrix of 2.5 percent was offered for 2013-2014 and 3.175 percent for 2014-2015.
In August the board came back and offered another proposal of no increase for 2011-2012. For 2012-2013, the teachers were offered a step and those at the top of the salary schedule would get a one-time payment of $1,000. And there would be a sunset on the teachers retirement health benefit for teachers hired after June 30, 2013. That would not affect the current teaching staff."
Supt. Bottem added that the teachers came back with the same proposal that they had presented in April.
In the information presented by the teachers union, comparisons were provided for salary increases in neighboring school districts.
They ranged from .50 percent for the 2011-2012 school year and 1.25 percent for 2012-2013 for the Moose Lake School District, to 1.90 percent for the first year and 1.85 percent the second year in the Hermantown School District.
"We've been reasonable," said Redetzke. "We asked no more that what the other school boards have given."
Three negotiation sessions and two mediation sessions have been held. The most recent mediation session was held on June 26, 2012. The union negotiating team turned down the district's last proposal on September 7.
"The vote was 51 to 2," said Redetzke. "And the offer that we presented to the members was a photocopy of the board's proposal. It was soundly defeated." The same offer was accepted by all of the other district employees.
Redetzke said that the board's next step was to dissolve the negotiating body, and asked the union for an new negotiating team.
"I'm not comfortable with that," said Redetzke. "They can't ask that of us."
The school board has turned the negotiations over to an attorney, Kevin Rupp of the law firm of Ratwik, Roszak and Maloney of Minneapolis.
The attorney met with Kevin Sandstede, the union representative from the Lake Superior Service Unit, on Monday, December 17.
"The board wants to take the personalities out of it," said Supt. Bottem. "Both Rupp and Standstede are experienced. Hopefully they can use that expertise to come to a resolution that both parties can accept."
The teachers union is looking for a settlement soon.
"There comes a time when this needs to be settled, and it needs to be fair," said Redetzke. "Our request is reasonable and competitive. We need to make sure that we can hire and retain good teachers. We are one of the 14 school districts in the state that has not settled.
"We urge the people in the community to contact Superintendent Dave Bottem and urge a settlement. The school district has a $2.3 million fund balance. That fund balance has grown, in part, because of concessions by the teachers … The auditor said that the school district is in good financial shape at the audit report in November."
Redetzke said that the teachers have been disappointed in the board's decision to hire an attorney.
"We feel that this move is neither an efficient use of taxpayer dollars nor an effective method of settling our contract," it was stated in a prepared press release. "We would prefer to see the funds spent on attorney fees go instead toward educational objectives. We also have faith in the arbitration process and would prefer to use a neutral third party arbitrator to reach an agreement. We believe that it is possible for all of us, as members of the educational community, to reach a reasonable settlement that ensures an equitable outcome for Barnum educators and supports quality teaching and learning in our district."
A swift resolution is the goal of both parties.
"The School Board and I appreciate the fact that our teachers continue to do an outstanding job of teaching even though the lack of a contract is weighing on them," said Supt. Bottem. "We want to resolve this issue as much as the teachers."
For more information, contact Redetzke at (218) 390-3413 or by email, firstname.lastname@example.com, or Supt. Bottem at (218) 389-6978, extension 1001, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or the Barnum School Board, contact information can be found at the school's website, http://www.barnum.k12.mn.us.


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Angel Signs from Archangel Raphael
By Doreen Virtue
Archangel Raphael is the supreme healer in the angelic realm and chief role is to support, heal, and guide in matters involving health. Raphael means "God heals" or "He who heals" in Hebrew. Many believe that it is derived from the Hebrew word Rophe, which means "medicine doctor. In Catholicism, he is Saint Raphael, the patron of healing, physicals, travlers, and matchmakers.
Anytime you call upon Raphael, he's there. The healing archangel isn't shy or subtle in announcing his presence. He wants you to know that he's with you, as a way of comforting you and alleviating stress along your way to a healthy recovery.
In this gallery, read the eight different ways Archangel Raphael may send signs to reveal himself. You will know Archangel Raphael is near when you see these signs.
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., is a fourth-generation clairvoyant and an author of over twenty books on angels including "Angels 101," "The Miracles of Archangel Michael," and "Signs from Above."
Reprinted from "The Healing Miracles of Archangel Raphael" by Doreen Virtue, with permission of Hay House Publishers. Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.


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Hurricanes senior Javi Salas pitches perfect game against Villanova
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami senior Javi Salas pitched a perfect game on Tuesday night against Villanova, the second in school history.
Salas, who was drafted in the 38th round by Minnesota last year, faced only four three-ball counts. The last of those was a full-count offering to Max Beermann with one out in the eighth, Salas setting him down swinging.
Left fielder Sebastian Diaz made a diving catch for the third out in the eighth, robbing Donovan May. And in the ninth, Salas finished it off in style, striking out Derrick May Jr. swinging to end the night.
Salas (1-1) entered the game with an 11-11 career record. He struck out six, and induced 11 fly ball outs and 10 more off of grounders, throwing 113 pitches.
The Hurricanes won 17-0.