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CPT for F-1 Visa Students
Curricular Practical Training (CPT) is a structured educational program which combines classroom learning with productive work experience in a field related to a student's academic program. CPT is available to F-1 students who have been lawfully enrolled on a full-time basis in a U.S. university for at least one academic year. The work experience must be integral to your established curriculum.
Attendance at a CPT Information Session is REQUIRED for those seeking to participate in an internship. Check Handshake or the ISSO website for available dates and time. You will need to complete this session prior to requesting an experience.
Please review the frequently asked questions below and the ISSO's website.
IT IS UNETHICAL TO CONTINUE TO INTERVIEW FOR POSITIONS ONCE YOU HAVE ACCEPTED AN ASSIGNMENT (whether paid or unpaid).
Frequently Asked Questions About CPT
|Are there any fees required to participate in CPT?
Are there any fees required to participate in CPT?
The Career Center does not charge any fees; however, there is a $100 fee assessed by the International Student Services Office every semester in which you are placed in an internship. This fee covers processing costs related to securing the appropriate work authorizations in compliance with USCIS regulations. You are also responsible for paying for tuition and fees associated with the internship class in which you enroll.
|Am I eligible for CPT?
Am I eligible for CPT?
You may determine your eligibility by reviewing the Eligibility and Process for Internships and the ISSO CPT webpage.
|What is the CPT process?
What is the CPT process?
Update your Handshake account and upload a resume.
Attend a mandatory CPT Information Session. You will need to register through CometCareers. After this session and your eligibility has been approved, you will be able to search and report your internships through CometCareers.
Search and apply for internships. Review your Career Center resources, attend a Career Event/Workshop and review CometCareers postings.
Accept an offer. Provide the employer with the Sample CPT Offer Letter located in the Resource Library of your CometCareers account. Review the offer carefully before you accept. Once you accept an offer with a company, you are bound to this commitment. You must stop applying and interviewing for other positions immediately.
Report your internship via the "Report an Internship" link in CometCareers. Be sure to upload your Offer Letter as a PDF. This request will be sent to your Career Consultant for review and may need additional approval from the course professor.
Your Career Consultant will contact you to schedule an appointment to complete your paperwork: CPT request to ISSO and course registration. Please allow at least one business day for the ISSO to process your new I-20. The ISSO will email your UTD account when your CPT I-20 is ready to pick up.
Pick up your new I-20 from ISSO and review page three to confirm the details of your CPT employment. Your I-20, pa Begin your internship once your start date arrives. Your authorization is valid only for the dates and employer listed on your I-20.
Read your course syllabus and complete your assignments and follow-up with your professor.
Note - You are only allowed to work in an internship during the dates that are approved on your I-20. Any work outside of those dates can be considered illegal employment and have an impact on your future immigration status.
|What is the difference between Curricular Practical Training (CPT) and Optional Practical Training (OPT)?
What is the difference between Curricular Practical Training (CPT) and Optional Practical Training (OPT)?
CPT provides employment or training opportunities for students while they work on a degree. It is an integral part of the curriculum, authorized by the ISSO, and is usually for a period of a semester. OPT provides employment or training opportunities for students after they complete a degree. It is authorized by the U. S. Immigration Service. OPT participants have a number of immigration benefits and requirements. For more immigration information regarding CPT and OPT see the International Student Services Office and plan to attend one of the ISSO OPT workshops.
|Can I participate in CPT in my 1st semester back at school after completing OPT?
Can I participate in CPT in my 1st semester back at school after completing OPT?
No. You must complete one semester (fall, spring or summer) and re-establish yourself as a UTD student in good-standing and meet the ISSO guidelines.
|Will my CPT time affect my Optional Practical Training (OPT) after graduation?
Will my CPT time affect my Optional Practical Training (OPT) after graduation?
If you have more than 364 days of full-time CPT, you lose eligibility for OPT. Please review the ISSO's CPT limits.
|When can I pick up my CPT authorization (on form I-20) and when can I start working?
When can I pick up my CPT authorization (on form I-20) and when can I start working?
Processing time is one business day unless the CPT information is received after 4:00 PM in which case a second day is required. The ISSO will email your UT Dallas account when the CPT I-20 is ready for pickup. Bring a picture ID and pick up the CPT I-20. The authorization is on page three of the I-20. You may begin working once you have your CPT I-20 and the CPT beginning date has arrived. Any work done before CPT is approved is unauthorized employment and a violation of your F-1 status.
|If I am doing a CPT extension or a continuing CPT, do I need to be reauthorized?
If I am doing a CPT extension or a continuing CPT, do I need to be reauthorized?
Yes. Turn in your application 10 days or more before your current CPT expires. You may pick up your CPT extension on the same schedule as listed above.
|As an F-1 student may I work full-time on a CPT assignment and go to school part-time?
As an F-1 student may I work full-time on a CPT assignment and go to school part-time?
Yes, but you will need authorization. Your offer letter will state the number of hours you are permitted to work. You will be approved for full-time or part-time CPT which will be reflected on your CPT I-20.
If you are participating in a full-time CPT for the majority of the semester (12 weeks or longer), you are able to reduce your enrollment for one semester and still be considered a full time student for immigration and UT Dallas purposes. Please review the ISSO CPT webpage for additional information regarding reduced enrollment.
|Can CPT be authorized for either full-time or part-time?
Can CPT be authorized for either full-time or part-time?
CPT may be either full- or part-time. Part-time CPT is limited to 20 hours or less per week. Full-time CPT is anything more than 20 hours per week. Your offer letter will state the number of hours you are permitted to work which will determine whether you are authorized for full-time or part-time CPT.
|Do I have to register for a CPT course?
Do I have to register for a CPT course?
Yes, your CPT authorization is based on course credit for your internship or co-op program. If you withdraw from or do not pass your CPT course, you are not authorized to work and you may be in violation of your F-1 status. In addition, if you fail a CPT course, you are no longer eligible for CPT authorization through the UT Dallas ISSO for future semesters.
|Do I have to carry a full-time course load when I do CPT?
Do I have to carry a full-time course load when I do CPT?
Part-time CPT requires full-time enrollment at school during any long semester or first semester in a new program.
Full-time CPT that lasts at least 12 weeks is considered full-time enrollment for immigration purposes for one long semester per year. In the next long semester you will be required to carry a standard course-load unless approved for reduced enrollment by the ISSO based on another reason, such as a documented medical illness. Note: Check with your academic program to learn if there are additional enrollment limits.
|May I work on campus while doing a CPT? May I keep my graduate teaching or research assistantship?
May I work on campus while doing a CPT? May I keep my graduate teaching or research assistantship?
No, you may not work ANY additional job while you are participating in a CPT assignment.
|Can I get CPT authorization first and then find a job?
Can I get CPT authorization first and then find a job?
No. CPT work authorization is granted for a specific employer and for a specific period of time, usually corresponding to a semester.


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Linux is going to get Even Faster for Gaming ?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:54 am
Open for discussion.Linux is going to get Even Faster for Gaming
a Q & A is going on now on the phoronix Fourms and the Wayland Developers claim it is going to be even faster then Xorg it's going to make the Linux vs Windows Gap greater
Quote Originally Posted by USERNAMEREMOVED
With the advent of Steam for Linux and the non-stop news about upcoming games for it, I'd like to ask a question which might be interesting for all the "gamers" using Linux: Does Wayland have any direct impact on playing games on Linux, like for example input lag (which people seem to complain about), performance improvements, gamepad support and so on? Or will there be next to no difference from the current situation?
Eric Griffith
Gaming under Wayland should be better than X in terms of performance, even gaming under XWayland should be better than stock X because we're taking out round-trips and "Workaround" code. Input lag I expect to better as well since its simplification of the stack. Gamepad support I'm not sure about honestly, it might come down to pure and simple kernel driver support.

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MASSENA, N.Y.—The fourth-ranked Plattsburgh State Cardinals (2-0, 2-0
SUNYAC) scored four second period goals to erase a 2-0 deficit and hand
the SUNY Potsdam men's hockey team (2-1, 1-1) a 6-4 defeat at Massena
Arena on Saturday night. Ten different players scored in the contest.
The Bears started with two quick goals. Just over a minute into the game
freshman forward Billy Pascalli (Deer Park, N.Y./New York Bobcats) tucked
the rebound off a shot from sophomore defenseman Erick Ware (Huntsville,
Ala./Kenai River Brown Bears) under Cardinals senior goalie Josh Leis
(Kitchener, Ontario/Listowel Cyclones) for a 1-0 advantage. Junior
assistant captain Mike Arnold (Didsbury, Alberta/Kingston Voyageurs)
recorded the second assist on the play. At the 9:49 mark, sophomore
forward Ken Simon (Norwell, Mass./Philadelphia Revolution) beat an out of
position Leis after the puck was deflected in front and the Bears led 2-0.
Junior defenseman Kevin Carpenter (Dever, Colo./Notre Dame Hounds) and
freshman forward Mike Riley (Brantford, Ontario/Brantford Golden Eagles)
assisted on the goal. Potsdam freshman goaltender Austin Keiser (Dunwoody,
Ga./Boston Bulldogs) stopped all nine shots he faced in the first period.
Plattsburgh responded with a vengeance in the second period. Six minutes
in, sophomore forward Alex Brenton (Kanata, Ontario/Kemptville 73's)
tipped a shot from the point past Keiser to cut the gap to 2-1. At 11:35,
sophomore forward Mark Constantine (Haddonfield, N.J./The Hill School)
scored a power-play goal to knot the score at 2-2. Junior forward Nick
Jensen (Helsingborg/Bismarck Bobcats) scored another man-advantage tally
to give the Cardinals the lead for good at 17:07. With just over a minute
on the clock, senior forward Jared Docking (Toronto, Ontario/Toronto Jr.
Canadiens) had his own pass deflect back to him in front of the goal and
found the back of the net for a short-handed tally and a 4-2 lead.
Three minutes into the final stanza, Arnold forced a Plattsburgh turnover
at the blue line and took it home for a Bears short-handed goal. At the
12:51 mark, the Cardinals regained their two-goal lead on a goal from
freshman forward Connor Gorman (Shrewsbury, Mass./New Hampshire Monarchs)
. Potsdam responded with a power-play marker at 18:09 as sophomore forward
Trevor Cope (Swartz Creek, Mich./Atlanta, Jr. Knights) wrapped the puck
around Leis to make it 5-4. Pascalli and senior captain Brett Waters
(Uxbridge, Ontario/Markham Waxers) notched the assists. With 1:13 on the
clock, Bears Head Coach Chris Bernard pulled Keiser for the attacker.
However, Cardinals sophomore forward Alex Jensen (Helsingborg,
Sweden/Fairbanks Ice Dogs) sealed the win with an empty netter with 45
seconds on the clock.
Leis finished with 20 saves to earn the victory, while Keiser stopped 28
shots. Plattsburgh outshot Potsdam 34-24. The Cardinals were 2-7 on the
power play and the Bears were 1-6.
Potsdam finishes its five-game home stand as Fredonia and Buffalo State
invade Massena Arena next weekend. The Bears host the Blue Devils on
Friday and the Bengals on Saturday. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m.


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Toto Wolff has been promoted from nonexecutive to an executive director of the Williams F1 race team.
The Austrian bought a stake in Williams at the end of 2009.
Wolff's new title reflects how closely he has been working with Williams F1 founder Sir Frank Williams, especially since the sudden departure of former chairman Adam Parr earlier this year.
"Toto's new role, working closely alongside myself, is about Williams looking forward and managing the successful running of the company," Williams said. "I am looking forward to our new working relationship, and I have every belief that this partnership will help take Williams F1 from strength to strength."
Wolff added: "I have been a shareholder in the business since 2009, and I am really looking forward to being able to take my responsibilities to a new level. I know that together we will work tirelessly to make the group and team as successful as [it] can be."


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The 10 Worst Reality Show Tragedies — So Far
A helicopter crash over the weekend took the lives of three people in California who were filming for a new reality TV show for the Discovery Channel. The network hasn't released the name of the show or the victims. Although a tragedy of this magnitude is rare for reality TV and otherwise, it's not the first time that death has crept into the production of popular shows. Here's a look back at ten people who achieved some level of reality TV fame only to see it all come crashing down
Steve Irwin
The world-famous "Crocodile Hunter" died in 2006 while filming underwater in his native Australia. The 44-year-old outdoorsman was shooting a documentary, called "Ocean's Deadliest," on the Great Barrier Reef when a stingray stung him in the heart. "It's a huge loss to Australia, he was a wonderful character, he was a passionate environmentalist, he brought entertainment and excitement to millions of people," Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.
MTV shot eight episodes in 2009 of 'Gone Too Far,' a series that followed the life of DJ AM as he helped young addicts get sober, before the show was tabled as a result of DJ AM's untimely death. Police discovered drug paraphernalia at the apartment of the 36-year-old, and because of this the network ultimately decided not to air the show, though some people believed that DJ AM's death only made the message of the series that much clearer and louder.
Ryan Jenkins
Just months earlier in 2009, the reality television community was enthralled by another strange saga when a manhunt began in pursuit of Ryan Jenkins, who allegedly murdered his ex-wife and model Jasmine Fiore. Jenkins was eventually found dead, having committed suicide. The case made national headlines because Jenkins had been a contestant on 'Megan Wants a Millionaire.'
Joey Kovar
He was troubled, but also beloved. Last summer, the sad tale of 29-year-old Joey Kovar came to an end from what appeared to be a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol. Kovar had appeared on 'The Real World' and 'Celebrity Rehab,' where he had won the hearts of his fans. In the days before his death, Kovar reportedly wrote on Twitter: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us... Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Brian Lee Randone
He had appeared on the TV beauty pageant 'The Sexiest Bachelor in America,' but there was nothing admirable about his other claims to fame: Brian Lee Randone murdered his girlfriend, an ex-adult movie actress in 2009. He beat and choked Felicia Lee during a domestic dispute at the apartment they shared, and when he discovered that she was unconscious he called 911, but it was too late.
Russell Armstrong
Everyone tunes into 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' for the drama, but the off-screen drama is what grabbed people's attention in 2011. Cast member Taylor Armstrong's husband Russell Armstrong committed suicide when the cameras weren't rolling. Just three weeks later, an episode of the show aired on Bravo in which cast members shared their feelings about the tragedy. Armstrong was 47.
Joseph Cerniglia
Did Gordon Ramsay lead a young chef to commit suicide? That's what everyone wondered in 2010 after Joseph Cerniglia jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge. Cerniglia had been a contestant on 'Kitchen Nightmares,' where Ramsay had asked him some pretty harsh things like, "Why did you decide to go into business if you haven't got a clue how to run a business?" We may never know why Cerniglia really did it. But just a week later people were asking the same questions after another Ramsay-chided chef killed herself.
A 7-year-old on "The First 48"
A police officer was charged in 2011 in the slaying of a 7-year-old girl who was shot to death during a police raid on her home, while a reality television show crew captured the episode. The officer's gun accidentally discharged. The film crew was on hand to film a part of A&E's 'The First 48' reality TV show. The tragic event led to an outcry for more discretion on the part of reality shows, when filming in dangerous situations.
Najai Turpin
The forgettable 2005 NBC show 'The Contender'which focused on up-and-coming boxers is only really remembered for the tragic death of Najai 'Nitro' Turpin, age 23. His suicide didn't appear to be connected to his appearance on the reality show, as Turpin attracted attention for his positive portrayal and attitude. His sister said, "He was so excited. He couldn't wait to see the expressions of people when they saw him on TV. He reached his goal. He got to TV. He was famous."
Paula Goodspeed
This 'American Idol' reject took her own life inside of a car near the Los Angeles home of Paula Abdul in 2008. Paula Goodspeed had appeared on the FOX competition in 2006 and had a particular affinity for Abdul, even possessing the license plate "ABL LV." It was Goodspeed's dream to perform on "Idol," but the judges eliminated her.


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I have not been keeping up with the Switch threads, nor noticed them as I only read the topics that look interesting to me, but the way I understand kiteforum is this...
Anyone can post about whatever brand they want, but if a manufacturer starts flooding the forum without paying for advertising, Toby calls them out on it. I've seen in the past that they do get a few free passes, but can't go overboard for the reasons Toby already pointed out.
That's what I have observed...you are free to post about a brand which doesn't advertise here. I'm guessing the Switch posts got out of hand which is causing some above average filtering to get things back in check.
There are some brands that are much more represented here than others, and that is due to the passion of that particular user base OR a company which pays for coverage (then their reps are tolerated, if they disclose their brand affiliation). Could also be the company saying "if you liked your demo (and the deal I just gave you) please post a review!" And within reason, that seems tolerated here also.
Let the Switch uprising die down, if they don't advertise and end users are stoked about the product and want to talk about it, I'm guessing it'll be okay.


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Many people will be sitting down this week to a feast of turkey with all the trimmings. The traditional Thanksgiving meal also offers a varied menu for the word person.
Many people will be sitting down this week to a feast of turkey with all the trimmings. The traditional Thanksgiving meal also offers a varied menu for the word person.
Take "trimmings," for instance. Trimming has a dual personality: It can subtract from something or add to it. And with trees, it can do both.
We usually think of trimming as pruning or lopping off unwanted portions, but trimming a Christmas tree also can mean adding all the decorations.
And this is the sense at the Thanksgiving table as well: The trimmings aren't parts removed from the turkey but all the side dishes.
The only side dish involving parts removed from the turkey is giblet gravy, but the less said about giblets the better. Suffice it to say that the word comes from an Old French term for game and appears to go back to the days when falconry flourished.
"Sweet potato" and "yam" often are considered the same thing, but they aren't. "Yam" is from the Portuguese "inhame," which probably came from a West African name for the plant.
"Potato" is from the Spanish "patata," which was derived from a name in Taino, a language spoken by an aboriginal people of the West Indies. The white potato is a member of the nightshade family (which also includes the tomato and tobacco), and the sweet potato is a member of the morning-glory family.
As for the dish that's basically a mixture of bread and seasonings, you can call it "dressing" or "stuffing." The latter is more descriptive, although actually stuffing the turkey with it and then serving it can be risky.
Even so, if you're serving salad, you probably have other dressings on the table, so why not give stuffing a role, too.
That's "role," as in a part to play, not "roll," as in dinner rolls.
Early U.S. settlers adopted the name "cranberry" from the Dutch "kranebere." Before that it was known by the British "fen berry," which it certainly is. A fen is "an area of low, flat, marshy land; swamp; bog," and that's where cranberries are grown.
And now for the main course. According to Webster's, "turkey" is a shortening of "Turkey-cock," which was originally applied to the guinea fowl. That bird was sometimes imported by way of the country Turkey and for a time was identified with the American fowl.
The turkey was considered superior to the bald eagle as a symbol for the United States by Benjamin Franklin. Congress adopted the Great Seal, which included a depiction of an eagle, in 1782.
In a letter from France to his daughter on Jan. 26, 1784, Franklin wrote:
"For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country.
He is a Bird of bad moral Character. ...
"For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America. ..."
This tasty bit of American history is given a hilarious treatment by satirist Stan Freberg in his sublime 1961 album "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Vol. 1, The Early Years."
According to Freberg, it was all a mistake. A confused cook put the turkey in the oven instead of the eagle.
The turkey was supposed to be the centerpiece.
Barry Wood is a Rockford Register Star copy editor. Contact him at email@example.com or read his blog at blogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/.


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W.W. Grainger Inc. tomorrow will complete a migration, several months in the making, of the majority its customers to a new e-commerce platform, the B2B retailer of maintenance, repair and other products exclusively tells Internet Retailer. With updated navigation and order management tools, the platform, designed for Grainger's corporate clients, allows up to 1,500 staffers to log into a single business account and place, approve or track orders via the web or with one of Grainger's mobile commerce sites or apps, the merchant says. Helping to foster the platform's utility across devices, Grainger tomorrow also will unveil a new iPad app.
"We're part of customers' daily habits," Geoff Robertson, vice president of e-commerce planning and strategy for Grainger, tells Internet Retailer. "We want to be indispensable."
With a Grainger account, a business manager can set each employee's spending limits, along with restrictions on who must approve an order before it is submitted to Grainger. Then, as orders are made and adjusted, Grainger updates the appropriate employees in the chain. For example, after a facility manager notices a shortage of safety gloves in a warehouse and requests new ones via the Grainger app on the iPad she carries with her throughout the facility, her supervisor will receive a push notification from the Grainger mobile app on his smartphone, or, if he's logged into the e-commerce site, an alert at the top of the page, asking him to approve the order. As soon as he does, Grainger processes the order and updates the facility manager via her iPad app of the order's status. Grainger also notifies the manager when the order is shipped.
Shoppers can also browse products in a new way using Grainger's iPad app. The app displays four-by-four arrays of tiles with product images that a shopper can tap for more information. Using geo-location, it can tell a customer at which nearby Grainger stores the products he's viewing are available. The app also displays estimated shipping time if a customer wants to order it via mobile. Or, he can search by ZIP code to arrange for a future pickup or shipment to another location. Shoppers can also create and edit lists of commonly ordered products—perhaps spare parts for a particular facility—and share them with other members of their organization using the app.
Customers that use Grainger's mobile sites and apps approve orders 40% faster on average than those who don't, Robertson says. Additionally, one in five Grainger orders placed on a mobile device are picked up in one of the retailer's 360 U.S. branches, which is significantly higher than the number of web orders picked up in stores, he says.
The retailer built the iPad app in-house after analytics revealed that many customers were trying to use its iPhone app or access the mobile site on their iPads, says Michael Cooney, senior product manager for mobile. Mobile apps have almost a 9% higher conversion rate than the m-commerce web site for Grainger, and shoppers come back to apps more often, he says. Overall, 14% of Grainger's traffic now comes from mobile devices, a number that continues to grow. In response, the retailer is increasingly adopting a "mobile-first" approach to future web developments, he says.
Online retail is also growing for Grainger. Today, one-third of its sales come from the web, and the retailer predicts web orders will account for 40% or 50% of total sales within the next few years, says Paul Miller, vice president of global e-commerce. Last year Grainger booked $2.70 billion in web sales, up 23% from $2.19 billion in 2011, according to Internet Retailer estimates. On top of those sales, customers are increasingly starting their product searches on Google Inc.'s search engine and turning to social media for buying suggestions, both of which indirectly influence sales both online and offline, Miller adds.
Accordingly, Grainger has expanded the number of paid search keywords it manages from less than 10,000 in 2010 to more than 5 million today, he says. It's also added more customer reviews and recommendations and updated shopping functionality, such as the Live Chat with Photofeature it added to its iPhone app last month. With the launch of the new platform, Grainger's web site is also now fully available in Spanish. Customers can click a button at the top of any page on the site to toggle between languages.
The retailer's significant e-commerce and m-commerce updates come after it opened in May an e-commerce headquarters in downtown Chicago. Grainger decided to add a city office rather than rely on its headquarters 30 miles north, in Lake Forest, IL, mainly to attract and have better access to the developers, Miller says. The Chicago office, which houses a single team of staffers who work on both web and mobile commerce, feels more like a software startup than the offices of an 86-year-old industrial supplier. The 300 employees charged with developing the retailer's web-based technologies skew very young, dress casually, post humorous images on the walls and don't work in a set space, instead moving around as their projects and teams change every few weeks.
Grainger is No. 15 in Internet Retailer's 2013 Top 500 Guide and No. 92 in the 2014 Internet Retailer Mobile 500.
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30 April 2009
(All photographs in this post via The Sartorialist)
I saw a this blog post the other day that seemed to summarize three abiding interests of mine all at once — death, style, and the inability to articulate important things. It opens:
I won't try to write about what he meant to me, because I am not a good enough writer to express that level of sentiment.
This appeared on The Sartorialist, a blog about fashionable people captured in situ on various city streets — in Melbourne, Milan, Paris, New York. Not the first place you'd expect to read about death but there it was.
I have been thinking about dead fathers a lot recently — as well as about elder parents in general, the difficulty of losing these people. My friends & I are all getting to that age or, rather, the people who raised us are. And then The Call comes. With stunning regularity nowadays. Without rhyme or reason. "It's not like they were 80." "But she was fine just last week." "You saw what in the hospital?"
But the thing is, that's not what is said in these circumstances. I backtrack. "Was it unexpected?" I check in. "Are you okay?" I struggle. "— — —" As if anything will help…
How are we supposed to talk about these things?
I appreciate how the post I quoted opens with a powerfully inarticulate one-two punch. It's a tough thing to acknowledge that you don't really know what to say, and it is a brave and revealing thing to say it artlessly. I'm reminded me of one of my favorite quotes, from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein…
Wittgenstein puts everything in such poetic terms. But even better is the courage to stumble, then try to say something anyway. It's more vulnerable, more human, less self-conscious, and I appreciated that.
Of course, also, there was the simple nostalgic act of posting old pictures. (Accompanying the post is a series of images from 1964-65 of the author's dad — a writer/producer/director for television — on location, in many of the same cities where The Sartorialist finds his subjects.) They're well curated, of course. And the context add depth to the entire enterprise. It turned the blogger's obsession with style into a kind of reflection on where he came from.
This is how I got here.
I won't claim to say I noticed a difference in the pictures that have come in the aftermath. But that's not how we benefit from experience is it? It's not an all-at-once thing. The skill of seeing things, really seeing things, accretes over time, like lines around the eyes. The Sartorialist is a casual master at showing how pictures can speak more clearly than language ever does.
Also recommended is this recent New Yorker profile of Bill Cunningham, the guy who has been doing much the same job as The Sartorialist, only for the New York Times. This typically dense, New Yorker-ish paragraph just about sums up what's so unexpected about the piece:
It's awesome when those we expect to be fashionable, frothy and fabulous turn out to be pragmatic, monastic and deep.
* = Odd Latinate spelling of the word "vendor" from the original. O, New Yorker you pretentious devil, you!
Posted by Alec Hanley Bemis
Tags: Death, Fashion, Parents, Photos, The Sartorialist


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Time to Press Forward, Not Back Down
December 13, 2012
The below article originally appeared in the Bay Journal News Service earlier this week.
The Susquehanna River and its big dams have been in the news lately. A handful of Maryland county officials would like you to believe the dams are the primary ill of the Chesapeake Bay.
They claim that because sediment reservoirs behind the Conowingo Dam are at capacity, instead of trapping pollutants during storms, the dam now allows two pollutants—phosphorus and sediment—to flow downstream at alarming rates. They argue that years of restoration progress have been erased and that current bay restoration efforts do not address these issues. And finally, these local leaders contend that Maryland's investments in restoring the bay would be "futile" and all of the efforts to help our local waters should now come to a standstill.
Well, as chair of the Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) for the Chesapeake Executive Council, which includes the state governors, Environmental Protection Administration administrator and other senior officials who guide the cleanup effort, I write today with good news—every bit of scientific information available says they are wrong on all counts.
First, they claim 80 percent of the pollution to the bay comes from the Susquehanna River. This figure is not in any of the scientific information I've seen and no expert I've contacted knows where the number comes from.
Second, the nutrients and sediment passing through the Susquehanna's dams, under all conditions, are indeed accounted for in the state-of-the art tools the bay restoration scientists use.
Third, while storms do increase the freshwater and pollutants flowing through the dam, they by no means erase the progress we have made. For example, the large grass bed on the Susquehanna Flats, located right where that river meets the bay, withstood the flow of fresh water and sediment downstream during last fall's storms precisely because we put time and effort into restoring it to health.
And finally, whatever pollutants get past the dam primarily affect the northernmost tidal waters of the bay and its rivers.
So let's talk about things that are true.
The recent introduction of pollution limits in the effort to clean up Chesapeake Bay recognized that we could no longer point our fingers at someone else. We all have to do more to protect our local streams and by doing so, help the Chesapeake Bay. Many Pennsylvania and Maryland localities are already investing wisely in projects to restore their own local waters and send cleaner water downstream.
In Lancaster, Pa., even before the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint was established, we changed our thinking and began to put projects in place to stop polluted runoff before it reaches local waters. We are continuing to invest our money in sewage treatment and stormwater infrastructure, using green technologies and following our comprehensive green infrastructure plan.Meeting our local goals will be costly in the short term, but recent studies done in and on our city actually show a cost savings in the long run. In other words, if we postpone what has to be done, future generations will bear an even greater financial burden. So we are building Lancaster into a more appealing, livable community right now, with more trees, gardens and healthier waters, all of which give us a better chance of attracting new residents and economic growth.
So, why, LGAC members wonder, would any county
or city spend their citizens' dollars on lawyers to fight against clean water
rather than using that money to improve their communities and their local
Maryland's county officials should recognize that their counties and towns have the most vital interest in the bay. If they give up their efforts, many in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and other states will use that as an excuse to do nothing. Rather than pulling back or arguing, I would expect Maryland localities to fully appreciate the value of clean local waters and set the example for all of those upstream.
There is so much financial
assistance available, so many creative "green" engineering firms at work and so
many solid, new ways to manage polluted runoff that we are dumbfounded by the
resistance from these local leaders toward cleaner local waters for their
communities and the bay.
To the extent Conowingo Dam is an issue, let's get the right people to the table to talk constructively about the facts and solve the problem. The timing is perfect because the license for that dam is up for renewal.
Enough of creating diversions and pointing fingers to distract from the work that is so sorely needed. It's time to recognize that we are all in this together. It's time, past time in fact, to get busy on the work we were entrusted to do as our communities' leaders.
—J. Richard Gray
J. Richard "Rick" Gray is Mayor of Lancaster, Pa. and the Chair of the Local Government Advisory Committee, an independent group of elected local leaders from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia that advises the Bay Program's Chesapeake Executive Council.


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It starts with a home-made Yorkshire pudding. We add a beef burger then load it with succulent roast beef, gravy and top it all off with another home-made Yorkshire pudding, stuffing and three pigs in blankets! Served with mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, carrots, peas and braised red cabbage.
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Buffalo Cauliflower Wings
Florets of cauliflower in a smoky BBQ coating, served with mixed leaves and a kickin' Buffalo sauce.
Crispy Potato Skins
Served with a blue cheese dip.
Lamb and Mint Kofta Bites
Minced lamb with rosemary, mint and balsamic, chargrilled to perfection, served with flatbreads and a yogurt and mint dip.
Prawn Cocktail
Prawns with a tangy seafood sauce. Served with brown bread and butter.
Brie Dippers
Oozing Brie in a crispy seasoned golden breadcrumb, served with caramelised red onion chutney and mixed leaves.
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Garlic Bread
Cheesy Garlic Bread
Golden Breaded Mushrooms
Button mushrooms in crispy golden breadcrumbs. Served with BBQ or garlic mayo dip.
Cheesy Nachos
Tortilla chips, cool salsa, melted Cheddar cheese and jalapeños. Served with guacamole and sour cream dips.
Soup Of The Day
Please ask for today's choice. Served with half a baguette and butter.
Bourbon Chicken Bites
Golden chicken bites tossed in Bull's-Eye Tennessee Whiskey BBQ sauce, served with mixed leaves and blue cheese sauce to dunk.
Crispy Buttermilk Chicken
Succulent strips of buttermilk chicken coated in crispy breadcrumbs, with sweet chilli sauce or garlic mayo for dipping.
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Cone of Onion Rings
Served with BBQ sauce for dunking.
Garlic Bread Selection
A selection of garlic bread slices. Served three ways: classic garlic, cheesy and salsa 'n' cheese.
Cone of Onion Rings and Popcorn Chicken
Served with BBQ sauce for dunking.
The Filler
Buttermilk chicken goujons, garlic bread, home-made potato wedges, breaded mushrooms and onion rings. Served with garlic mayo and BBQ dips.
Quick Bites
All are served with tortilla chips and a dressed mixed leaf garnish
Chicken and Bacon Club Sandwich
On toasted white or brown bloomer bread.
Steak and Onion Melt
Melts are served on a baguette with melted Cheddar cheese.
BBQ Chicken Melt
Melts are served on a baguette with melted Cheddar cheese.
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken breast in a mild tikka masala sauce. Served with rice, naan bread, a poppadum and mango chutney.
Roasted Vegetable Jalfrezi
Spiced mix of roasted potatoes, red onion and mixed peppers in a jalfrezi sauce. Served with naan bread, a poppadum and mango chutney.
Sausages and Mash
Pork sausages on a bed of mashed potato, topped with red onion gravy. Served with garden peas.
Smothered Chicken
A roasted chicken breast, bacon and Monterey Jack cheese smothered in your choice of BBQ or Thai sweet chilli sauce. Served with chips, onion rings, corn on the cob and coleslaw.
Steak and Ale Pie
British beef slow-cooked in a rich Hobgoblin Ale gravy and encased in a hand-finished combination of shortcrust and puff pastry. Served with chips, garden peas and gravy.
Beer Battered Fish and Chips†
Marston's Pedigree beer-battered fish. Served with chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce.
Chicken, Leek and Cider Pie
Chicken breast in a creamy cider gravy with buttered leeks, all encased in a hand-finished shortcrust pastry. Served with chips, peas and gravy.
Button Mushroom Bourguignon Pie
Herb-flecked vegan suet pastry with a rich chunky button mushroom, shallot and red wine filling topped with flaky puff pastry. Served with chips, peas and gravy.
Mexican Chilli Chicken Melt
Tender chicken strips in a spicy beef chilli sauce, topped with melted Cheddar cheese. Served with rice, tortilla chips and sour cream.
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Cod and Crispy Bacon Rarebit
Grilled cod loin smothered in a smoky Stilton and mature Cheddar cheese sauce and topped with crispy bacon. Served with garlic and herb baby potatoes, peas and carrots.
Minted Lamb Shank
Tender slow-cooked lamb shank in a minted gravy served with mashed potato, fresh carrots and garden peas.
Beef Lasagne
Our own secret recipe served with garlic bread and a side salad.
Vegetable Lasagne
Courgettes, aubergines and red peppers, layered with sheets of pasta, served with garlic bread and a side salad.
Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
Soft flour tortillas topped with BBQ cauliflower florets, sweet chilli coleslaw, shredded little gem lettuce and kickin' Buffalo sauce. Served with lime and coriander rice and corn on the cob.
Breaded Scampi†
12 crispy golden whole tails of Whitby scampi. Served with chips, garden peas and tartare sauce.
Grilled Fish and Chips†
Lightly seasoned and grilled fillet of cod or haddock with chips and a side salad.
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Our beef steaks are aged for a minimum of 21 days to big up the flavour!
8oz Sirloin Steak
Garnished with onion rings and half a grilled tomato. Served with chips and peas.
10oz Rump Steak
Garnished with onion rings and half a grilled tomato. Served with chips and peas.
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12oz Ribeye Steak
Cooked to your liking and garnished with onion rings and half a grilled tomato. Served with chips and peas.
10oz Gammon Steak
Grilled and crowned with a fried free-range egg or pineapple ring. Served with chips and peas.
BBQ Ribs and Chicken
Pork ribs in BBQ sauce and a grilled chicken breast. Served with chips, coleslaw and corn on the cob.
Rack of Ribs
Two half racks of sticky BBQ baby back pork ribs, covered in extra BBQ sauce. Served with chips, onion rings, corn on the cob and coleslaw.
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Mega Rump and Scampi †
10oz rump steak with golden Whitby scampi, served with half a grilled tomato, onion rings, chips and peas.
Mega 16oz Horeshoe Gammon Steak
Served with chips, two grilled pineapple rings, two fried free-range eggs and peas.
Mega Mixed Grill
A 5oz rump steak, 10oz gammon, two sausages, beef burger, half a chicken breast, lamb chop and two fried free-range eggs. Served with half a grilled tomato, onion rings, chips and peas.
Mega Chilli Cheeseburger
Two beef burgers topped with buttermilk chicken goujons, piled high with British minced beef and flaked salt beef chilli, crowned with two golden Brie dippers. Served on a toasted burger bun with chips and coleslaw.
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Mega Curry
Choose any two of our curries from the list below, served with rice, naan bread, two poppadums, three onion bhajis, mango chutney and yogurt and mint dip.
Go XL
Go on, add another burger. Served with a glazed toasted bun with chips and coleslaw.
Plain and Simple Burger
Choose from a beef burger or crispy buttermilk chicken goujons. Served with Heinz Classic Burger Sauce.
Cowboy Classic Burger
A beef burger with bacon and Monterey Jack cheese, with Heinz Classic Burger Sauce
BBQ Chicken Burger
Crispy buttermilk chicken goujons, topped with Monterey Jack cheese and covered in BBQ sauce.
Plant-Based Burger
A plant-based burger, topped with BBQ jackfruit and served with chips and sweet chilli coleslaw.
Ultimate Burgers
All our ultimate burgers are fully loaded, crowned with golden onion rings and served with chips and coleslaw on the side.
Black and Blue Burger
A beef burger topped with a grilled flat mushroom and melted Stilton cheese.
Buttermilk Chicken and Chorizo Burger
Crispy buttermilk chicken goujons topped with Monterey Jack cheese, a chorizo pinwheel and BBQ sauce.
Tennessee Chicken Burger
Grilled chicken breast topped with Bull's-Eye Tennessee Whiskey BBQ sauce, bacon and Monterey Jack cheese.
Bacon and Brie Burger
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Super Salads
The usual suspects are all here... Mixed leaves, red onion, tomato, cucumber, grated carrot, crispy onion bits and a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar... then the rest is up to you!
Simply select your tasty topper from Option 1, then add your sumptuous side from Option 2!
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Chip Toppers
Holy Smokes Chips
Topped with a smoky cheese sauce, crispy cauliflower wings and kickin' Buffalo sauce, finished with crispy onion bits.
Sloppy Joe Chips
Topped with British farm-assured minced beef and flaked salt beef chilli and Monterey Jack cheese, finished with crispy onion bits.
Chicken Katsu
Topped with buttermilk chicken pieces, katsu curry sauce and finished with spring onions and crispy onions.
Served with a choice of either ice cream, cream or custard
Hot Puddings
Jam Roly Poly
Jam Roly Poly sponge served with custard.
Apple Pie
A classic served warm with custard.
Chocolate Crownie
A blend of gooey, chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate brownie. Served with vanilla flavour ice cream.
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Rich and gooey. Served cold or warm with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Rhubarb & Ginger Pudding
Cookie crumb layered with chunks of rhubarb and topped with a gingerbread sponge, served warm with vegan vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Chilled Puddings
Red Velvet & White Chocolate Cheesecake
A large slice of chocolaty red velvet sponge layered with smooth white chocolate cheesecake. Served with double cream.
Millionaire Gateau
Layers of chocolate sponge with white and dark chocolate mousse. Finished with millionaire's shortbread and caramel. Served with ice cream and chocolate sauce.
Banoffee Pie
A digestive biscuit case filled with toffee fudge, banana pieces and topped with a layer of cream. Finished with a dusting of chocolate crumbs and gold chocolate pieces, served with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Sicilian Lemon Muffin Cheesecake
A crunchy biscuit base with a tangy lemon cheesecake studded with chunks of lemon muffin sponge. Topped with cream and more chunks of lemon muffin sponge. Served with double cream.
White Chocolate and Summer Brûlée-Style Tart
Summer punch infused strawberry compôte, peaches, raspberries and blackcurrants baked with cream and white chocolate. Finished with a brûlée-style topping. Served with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Praline Chocolate Tart
A rich dark chocolate tart, filled and finished with swirls of coconut milk and praline in a luxury nutty case. Served with vanilla flavoured ice cream and chocolate sauce.
Ice Creams
Butterscotch Sundae
Slices of banana and toffee sauce, in between layers of banana, butterscotch and vanilla flavoured ice creams. Topped with squirty cream, caramel crunch pieces and a sugar curl.
Chocolate Indulgence Sundae
Chocolate and vanilla flavoured ice creams, chocolate sauce, all layered underneath squirty cream, more chocolate sauce, crumbled chocolate pieces and finished with a Cadbury® Flake!
Lemon Drizzle and Blueberry Sundae
Chunks of lemon drizzle sponge and blueberry compôte in between layers of vanilla flavoured ice cream, topped with more lemon drizzle chunks, compôte, squirty cream and a sugar curl wafer.
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Flat White
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The Vanishing Rings of Saturn
Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope. Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.
Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line. Efrain Morales Rivera sends these pictures taken through a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (see above).
"The rings have narrowed considerably in the last year," he reports. "The Cassini division (a dark gap in the rings) is getting hard to see."
Four hundred years ago, the same phenomenon puzzled Galileo. Peering through a primitive spy glass, he discovered Saturn's rings in 1610 and immediately wrote to his Medici patrons: "I found another very strange wonder, which I should like to make known to their Highnesses…." He was dumbfounded, however, when the rings winked out little more than a year later.
What happened?
The same thing that's happening now: we're experiencing a "ring plane crossing." As Saturn goes around the sun, it periodically turns its rings edge-on to Earth—once every 14-to-15 years. Because the rings are so thin, they can actually disappear when viewed through a small telescope.
In the months ahead, Saturn's rings will become thinner and thinner until, on Sept. 4, 2009, they vanish. When this happened to Galileo in 1612, he briefly abandoned his study of the planet. Big mistake: ring plane crossings are good times to discover new Saturnian moons and faint outer rings.
It's also a good time to behold Saturn's curiously blue north pole. In 2005 the Cassini spacecraft flew over Saturn's northern hemisphere and found the skies there as azure as Earth itself. Saturn is a planet of golden clouds, but for some reason clouds at high northern latitudes have cleared, revealing a dome of surprising blue.
For years, only Cassini has enjoyed this view because from Earth, the blue top of Saturn was hidden behind the rings. No more: "Now that Saturn's rings are only open 8 degrees, we can finally view its northern hemisphere's beautiful teal blue colored belts and zones, which really did look blue through my 10-inch telescope," reports Dan Petersen of Racine, Wisconsin, who took this picture on Feb. 24, 2008.
Galileo never understood the true nature of Saturn's rings. He didn't know that they were a disk-shaped swarm of orbiting moonlets ranging in size from microscopic dust to tumbling houses. (Scientists still aren't sure, but they may be debris from a shattered moon.) He didn't even know the rings were rings. Through his 17th-century telescope, they looked more like ears or planetary lobes of some kind.
Yet, somehow, his intuition guided him to make a correct prediction: "they'll be back," or Italian words to that effect. And he was right. Saturn's rings opened up again and scientists resumed their study. In 1659, Christaan Huygens correctly explained the periodic disappearances as ring plane crossings. In 1660, Jean Chapelain argued that Saturn's rings were not solid, but made instead of many small particles independently orbiting Saturn. His correct suggestion was not widely accepted for nearly two hundred years.
Almost 27 ring plane crossings later, we still marvel at Saturn. Even with rings diminished, she is still a breathtaking sight through the meanest of telescopes. Indeed, this is a good week to look. On Tuesday, March 18th, and Wednesday, March 19th, the nearly-full Moon and Saturn will be lined up in the same part of the evening sky. That makes Saturn unusually easy to find: Go outside after sunset and look around for the Moon; Saturn is the bright golden "star" nearby.
Point your telescope and, well, just try not to gasp.
Looking Ahead : If you miss the March 18-19 encounter, try again on April 14-15. The Moon and Saturn will be close together and the rings even narrower. Mark your calendar!
Source: by Dr. Tony Phillips, Science@NASA


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In September '07, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. In an effort to maintain my sense of humor while integrating this new reality into my life, I started this blog, which has become my public journal, an opinion column, and a rough draft for my book. MS prompted this project but it's also about life in general. My life, that is.
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When Craig J Clark decided to make a music video for Jonathan Coulton's killer-AI theme "Still Alive," he decided to avoid the usual Portal references and instead mashup horror movies from the public domain. And he recast Sara Quinn's version of GlaDOS with the decapitated heroine from the classic B-movie The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
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Ron Palillo, best known for playing Arnold Horshack on the 1970s TV show "Welcome Back, Kotter," died early Tuesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 63.
Palillo's agent confirmed his death to NBC News. Palillo had a heart attack and died in his sleep, agent Jacqueline Stander said.
"He just couldn't have been more fun and intelligent or talented," friend Stacy Sacco told The Palm Beach Post. "He was an amazing human being."
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On "Welcome Back, Kotter," Palillo played Horshack, the class clown, who was part of an incorrigible group of students known as the Sweathogs. Some of Horshack's best-known catch phrases included, "That was very impressive, Mr. Kotter!", "Ooh-ooh-ooh!", and "Up your nose with a rubber hose." In an interview with the Associated Press, Palillo said, ""While I loved him [Horshack], I really loved him, I didn't want to do him forever."
"Welcome Back, Kotter" ran for four seasons on ABC, from 1975 to 1979, and also starred Gabe Kaplan (as Mr. Kotter), John Travolta, and Robert Hegyes.
The young Travolta, who played "sweathog" Vinnie Barbarino, gained acclaim during the show's run, and went on to star in "Saturday Night Fever," in 1977. Robert Hegyes (pronounced Hedges) played Juan Epstein, a Puerto Rican-Jewish character who would always try to skip class with a note signed "Epstein's Mother." Hegyes died in January of this year.
Palillo also made guest appearances on such TV shows as "The Love Boat," "The A-Team," "CHIPs," and "Murder She Wrote."
Palillo was born on April 2, 1949, in Cheshire, Conn. He attended the University of Connecticut, after which he lived in New York City for about four decades, until his recent move to Palm Beach County, in 2009, according to The Palm Beach Post.
In 2009 he hold The Post that he loved Palm Beach County, where he served as artistic director for the Cuillo Centre for the Arts, for which he directed and acted in "A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline" and "The Phantom of the Opera."
Palillo had been teaching acting classes at G-Star School of the Arts, a charter school in Palm Springs, Fla., for about three years, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Palillo is survived by his partner of 41 years, Joseph Gramm, a retired actor.


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"Virgin of Tenderness" Icon of the Mother of God of the Pskov Caves
The "Tenderness" Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God was found in the monastery of the caves in 1521, and was transferred to the city of Pskov by the pious Christians Basil and Theodore. The Icon is particularly renowned for the deliverance of Pskov and the Pskov Caves monastery from the army of Stephen Bathory (1533-1586) in 1581. It is commemorated on May 21, June 23, August 26, October 7, and on the Seventh Sunday of Pascha.
The Tenderness Icon of the Mother of God is of the Eleousa (Umilenie) type, and is regarded as the patroness of the city of Pskov.
The October 7 commemoration was established in thanksgiving for the deliverance of Pskov from the invading army of Napoleon in 1812.


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Presley Obasohan is fighting foreclosure on his home by Bank of America. Mr. Obasohan lives in Dorchester, Mass.—the most diverse neighborhood in Boston—where building values have sunk to half or less of mortgage loan debt. Presley is trying to save his home for his daughters. He has petitioned; he has pled. He has waited on hold and stood in line. But on Friday, Presely decided enough was enough and he joined the Right to the City Alliance in a mass action of civil disobedience.
Along with 23 other Boston residents, he was proudly arrested for siting in at the Boston headquarters of Bank of America.
"I blocked the doors at Bank of America so that my neighbors, and me, can stay in our homes," Presely told the press. "So many people have been thrown out of their homes or lost their jobs needlessly because of mistakes made by Wall Street banks. Yet it's the banks who are now rewarded with billions in tax refunds. It's time to fight back!"
Why Bank of America?
As of March 2011, Bank of America had more homes in foreclosure than any other bank in Boston, with two-thirds of these in "majority minority" neighborhoods. Sixty-one percent of Bank of America's subprime mortgages were concentrated in these same neighborhoods, revealing a pattern of pushing bad loans on people of color and the poor.
On Friday, Bank of America announced that it would begin charging customers $5 per month to use their debit cards. This comes after receiving a $4.2 billion dollar tax refund and ramping up foreclosures on distressed homeowners in recent weeks, according to new data from the foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac. August 2011 saw the largest monthly increase in foreclosures since August 2007, right after the housing bubble burst.
"Across the country, we are seeing the same story: the mortgage bubble created by Wall Street pushed predatory lending on urban communities, and since the bubble burst the fallout has been catastrophic," said Rachel LaForest, executive director of the Right to the City Alliance, which led the protests. Unemployment and foreclosure have hit communities of color first and worst. But it is urban communities who are at the forefront of the movement to fight back. We are took this direct action to demand payback from Bank of America."
Building an Alliance
This confrontation with B of A came at the end of a raucous march of over 3,000 people carrying colorful banners and banging drums to confront the nation's largest lender over its role in the economic crisis. The march was led by members of City Life/Vida Urbana, who carried signs that told their stories of predatory lending and foreclosure in Boston. As the rowdy procession snaked through downtown, they were joined by members of UNITE/HERE picketing at the Hyatt Hotel, and CWA picketing at Verizon Wireless.
When the march arrived at the Massachusetts headquarters of Bank of America, the crowd chanted "The banks got bailed out, we got sold out" and "Bank of America, Bad for America" as nervous bank employees peered through the glass. The civil disobedience team managed to block the entrances to the building, and to occupy the lobby of the bank itself. As they were arrested one by one, they were led through rows of cheering demonstrators shouting, "We stand with you!"
The Right to the City Alliance is a national movement of urban economic and racial justice organizations, deeply rooted in the neighborhoods that have been hardest hit by the implosion of the economy, and where centuries of economic and racial oppression compound the crisis. Right to the City built an impressive coalition of over 50 organizations including the SEIU-inspired umbrella MASSUNITING, with progressive organized labor, the Green Justice Coalition, the Youth Jobs Coalition, the Immigrant Rights movement, and a diverse array of progressive groups.
Take Back The Block, #Occupy the Hood
On Saturday, Right to the City took their message into the neighborhood. The Four Corners area of Dorchester has been ravaged by foreclosures. Led by the community organizing powerhouse City Life/Vida Urbana, the group staged an occupation of a wrongly foreclosed home, hoping to return it from the hands of Deutsche Bank to its rightful owners—a family that was evicted and has left the area.
The action team cleaned the home, brought in donated furniture, hung art on the walls and a banner off the porch. Hundreds toured the house and cheered from the street, while music played and children danced.
Meanwhile the youth of Roxbury's Alternatives for Community & Environment took over an abandoned lot and created a community garden. They asked people to stand with them for a blessing ceremony of the garden, and asked for food to grow strong and the land and community to heal and be healthy. They told the story of their journey to the 2010 US Social Forum, and how they had toured a community garden created by young people in Detroit, and been inspired to create a similar project in Boston. Right to the City supported their vision and tied it to a movement building action about the banks and the political moment. It was indeed a powerful occupation.
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These bold actions in Boston unfolded in concert with the #OccupyWallStreet protests and the launch of #OccupyBoston, an offshoot inspired by the now famous encampment in Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan. The growing popular sentiment against Wall Street was an inspiring backdrop for the action, and indicates a growing frustration with the economic status quo by people from all walks of life.
But what was different about this action was that it was organized and led by community-based organizations, led by people of color, and rooted in communities of color. This leadership shaped the message, the coalition building strategy, and the demands on Bank of America and other corporate targets. The march was organized long before the occupation of Wall Street or the hastily planned takeover of Dewey Square next to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The community organizations that planned it are deeply rooted, with long experience uniting people around similar issues. After this action, they'll continue that work.
So what is the role of community organizers and progressive leaders in this moment of #occupy momentum? After the dramatic mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the #occupy meme is spreading like wildfire and progressive forces are rapidly aligning around the protests.
As #OccupyWallStreet enters its third week MoveOn.org, Van Jones and his new organization Rebuild the Dream, organized labor, and community organizations have vowed to march downtown in solidarity with the protests this Wednesday.
On Sunday night, the Greater Boston Labor Council appeared at the General Assembly of #OccupyBoston. They pledged their solidarity and invited the group to meet with them to discuss how to build together.
At smartMeme, we have always been interested in "Psychic Breaks:" moments when the dominant narrative unravels and there is an opening for a new story to take hold on a massive scale. We saw this opportunity come and go in 2008 when the stock market collapsed and $700 billion was given to financial giants. Underprepared and shell-shocked progressives mostly stayed home and kept quiet while the Tea Partiers harnessed common sense opposition to bailing out the rich into a movement that was cynically designed to support the status quo.
But we believe that #OccupyWallStreet is re-opening that window and provoking another such psychic break moment, one that can amplify common sense progressive demands for structural change. At least we hope so.
We have an opportunity to offer a narrative explaining what has happened, how we got here, and how we can move forward together. We are faced with the potential of rooting this insurrectional energy into a strong social movement that can rival the Tea Party and change the story about our economic system—a movement that could unite behind real solutions to the economic and democratic crises we face. The actions by Right to the City this past weekend in Boston offer us an instructive model on the kind of analysis and organizing strategy that is necessary now.
But we must be agile and graceful and bold enough—like the ballerina on the bull of the #OccupyWallStreet poster. We must be visionary and courageous and tenacious enough—like the youth of Roxbury blessing their occupied garden. And we must be brave enough, like Presley Obasohan, to put our bodies on the line and commit civil disobedience against the banks and for the people and planet that we love.
If we can do this, and build in good faith together to harness this moment and channel the momentum towards fundamental, structural change in how our economy and political system function, we just might be witnessing the stirrings of the new world that beats in our hearts. Let us dance to that beat, sing to the beat and march together to the beat, all the way down to Wall Street. #OccupyTogether!
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The Beckhams will have to work for their food this Christmas.
David, Victoria and sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz will be joining "Hell's Kitchen" star Gordon Ramsay and his family in the kitchen for a holiday meal, the celeb chef told the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
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"Christmas Day is a big day and we are going to have lunch with David and Victoria. We'll all be together," he told the paper, adding that everyone would be lending a helping hand.
"The secret about cooking with families together is delegating, so we'll all be doing something I'm sure," Gordon said. "So there will be no lazy fingers, everybody's going to be jumping on. Whether it's Victoria doing the roast or David carving the turkey or [my wife] Tana making the sauce or me doing the Christmas pudding, we'll all be helping each other."
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However, the celeb chef added that Victoria would be staying far away from the more "gory" parts of the preparations.
"No, no she's not very good at the gory parts," he said. "But it is very rare you find a turkey now with the giblets in it."
And Gordon said that after their late lunch, things may get a little racy.
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"Then the kids will be ready for bed by 6.30 - 7 PM. It will be fantastic," he said. "And then we can all start playing naked Twister at 8."
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Said the psychologist Jonathan Haidt, quoted by Michael P. Lynch, who says:
According to Haidt, not only are value judgments less often a product of rational deliberation than we'd like to think, that is how we are supposed to function. That it is how we are hardwired by evolution. In the neuroscientist Drew Westen's words, the political brain is the emotional brain.That reminds me: new Supreme Court term starts today.
Often "reasoning" really seems to be post-hoc rationalization...
... we tend to accept that which confirms what we already believe (psychologists call this confirmation bias). And the tendency goes beyond just politics....Lynch thinks Haidt goes too far:
Critics of reason, from Haidt to conservative intellectuals like Burke and Oakeshott, see reason as an inherently flawed instrument. As a consequence, they see the picture of politics I've just suggested — according to which democracies should be spaces of reasons — as unfounded and naïve. Yet to see one another as reason-givers doesn't mean we must perceive one another as emotionless, unintuitive robots. It is consistent with the idea, rightly emphasized by Haidt, that much rapid-fire decision making comes from the gut. But it is also consistent with the idea that we can get better at spotting when the gut is leading us astray, even if the process is slower and more ponderous than we'd like.Haidt's new book is "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion."


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Felipe Contepomi scored a try and added 17 points with the boot as Argentina came from behind to beat Italy 37-22 in their one-off Test in San Juan on Saturday, becoming his country's record points scorer in the process.
The Pumas skipper - who overtook the legendary Hugo Porta at the top of the charts - cancelled out an early penalty from Kris Burton, the Italy fly-half, but the 21st-minute sin-binning of Julio Farias-Cabello paved the way for the Azzurri to go 10-3 in front with a converted penalty try.
However, Argentina responded well, with Tomas Leonardi crossing for a try while Contepomi continued to be accurate with his boot as the home side opened up a 15-10 lead at the interval.
Contepomi then added another penalty at the start of the second-half, but Italy hit back with a try from scrum-half Edoardo Gori after 53 minutes to close the deficit to three points.
The Pumas soon pulled away though, with Rodrigo Roncero, Leonardo Senatore and Contepomi all touching down before Mauro Bergamasco grabbed a late score for Italy, which Riccardo Bocchino converted, to give the result less of a one-sided look.


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The College of Charleston is a mid-sized university made up of six separate undergraduate schools. Through our general education curriculum – and your own intellectual curiosity – you'll probably take classes in all of them. (We also have an Honors College, a School of Professional Studies, and a graduate school.)
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The School of the Arts faculty is made up of professional artists, musicians and arts administrators who, along with its 900 majors and talented graduate students, are a source of artistic inspiration to the rest of the campus and the Charleston community. Majors: art history, music, studio art, theatre and dance, arts management, historic preservation and community planning; graduate programs: teaching the performing arts and arts management.
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The School of Business programs help students develop the skills they'll need to enter the workforce right after graduation – whether they choose to remain in the area or move on to major markets around the globe. Majors: accounting, business administration, economics, finance, hospitality and tourism management, international business, marketing; graduate programs: MBA and accountancy.
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What is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (Enlarged Prostate)?
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a noncancerous condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlarged. BPH affects about half of men between the ages of 50 and 60, and approximately 80% of men over 80. As the prostate grows in size, it can press down on the tube where urine flows out of the body (the urethra) and cause urinary problems.
Medication can relieve mild to moderate symptoms of BPH, such as frequent urination, incomplete bladder emptying, a weak urine stream, and straining while urinating. However, other forms of treatment may be more appropriate if you have pain with urination, frequent urinary tract infections, or are unable to urinate. The size of your prostate and the severity of your symptoms will determine the type of treatment you need. If your prostate is not very large, your doctor will likely recommend a transurethral procedure. This minimally invasive technique involves the insertion of a scope into the urethra. The most common transurethral procedures for BPH are:
- Transurethral incision of the prostate or TUIP, where the surgeon uses the scope to make small cuts in the area of the prostate that meets the bladder. These cuts will open up the pathway for urine and allow it to flow with more ease.
- Transurethral needle ablation or TUNA, where needles are inserted through the scope and into your prostate. The needles use radiofrequency waves to destroy excess prostate tissue.
- Laser prostate ablation, where lasers pass through the scope to melt away the part of your prostate causing urine blockage.
- Transurethral resection of the prostate or TURP, where the inside of your prostate is trimmed and removed one tiny piece at a time using the scope.
Most transurethral treatments for BPH, like TUIP, TUNA, and laser prostate ablation, are done in the doctor's office or outpatient surgery center. TURP and simple prostatectomy, however, need to be performed in the hospital and require an average stay of one to three days. You should wait a week before doing any strenuous activities after a TUIP, TUNA, or laser prostate ablation, and about four to six weeks after a TURP or simple prostatectomy. Although these treatments improve BPH symptoms for most patients, it is important to be aware of the risks involved, such as urine control issues, tightening of the urethra, and erectile dysfunction.


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A Chinese business newspaper claims that Apple has begun production on a mini-iPad and will launch the device next month.
China's Economic Daily News wrote (in Chinese) the report that states Apple supplier, Pegatron, has begun manufacturing the devices and that Apple will launch in October, according to Computerworld. Photos of what is believed to be a mini-iPad prototype have already been leaked, although they didn't seem much different from a regular iPad without any scale.
Pegatron is supposedly going to build half of the new tiny iPads while Foxconn will do the rest. The device will go for $299 and have a 7.85-inch display, much like a longer iPod touch, according to Computerworld.
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Supposedly Apple is doing this to provide a cheaper alternative to all those people buying Amazon Kindle Fires. Perhaps, or maybe Apple would just like to diversify devices to appeal to more people -- and make more money.
While it's likely that Apple is working on a smaller version of an iPad, despite Steve Jobs' views, we are skeptical that it will be available in October. That's 30 days away and seems awfully fast with no buzz, advertising or events around it. It would definitely make sense to start selling the devices before the Christmas shopping season, but October just seems almost too hurried to be believed.


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so the day came...Labels: Current Affairs
My ex-housemate and I have been planning to meet but didn't got the chance to do so for a long time. Until today.
We chatted about this and that, and suddenly she said she hadn't seen some of our mutual friends for years. I was surprised, those were her good friends.
"Everytime they ask me to go out with them, I refuse. They have now become very rich," she said: "I feel intimidated."
I nodded though I didn't actually share her view. We then talked about other things.
Going home I was very sad. Adult life has messed with us ore than we care to admit.
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When the season's final whistle blew in Lancaster County last month, Chestnut Hill Youth Soccer Club's Under-12 boys travel soccer teams concluded an unforgettable 2012 seasons marked by record-breaking performances and unprecedented levels of participation.
For the first time ever, a CHYSC travel soccer team — the U-12 boys Blue Lightning — finished undefeated in an Inter-County Soccer League Elite Division, ICSL's highest level. The U-12 boys White Lightning also made history, competing in ICSL Division 1, the first time that a CHYSC B-team has played at that level. And perhaps most promising for the club's future, enrollment and volunteer coaching participation grew enough to sustain a third travel team in one age cohort, the Black Lightning, another club milestone.
The Blue Lightning built such a big lead in the ICSL's Under-12 Boys Elite 8v8 Division that they clinched the crown before Halloween with a 3-2 win against the Anderson Monarchs. The Blue Lightning closed out the ICSL season with a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Soccer Club Dynamo and a 6-2 triumph against the Lighthouse Azzurri to finish with nine wins and one tie in league play.
Blue Lightning Head Coach Peter Lubowitz acknowledged that many were skeptical the team could compete for the Elite title after finishing a distant second place to Hunter United in Division 1 in 2011. The team's expectations quickly changed in September after a gritty win against a Hunter team that had trounced the Blue Lightning twice last season.
"Our first ICSL game, when we fought hard to come from behind and win 2-1 at Hunter, really set the tone for the whole season," he said. "That's when I knew this team had the potential to do something special."
Averaging almost four goals per game, the Blue Lightning's offense was fueled by top scorer Philip Burckhardt, who returned after a year's absence to bolster the team's already potent arsenal of forwards and offensive midfielders, led by Caleb Perline, Max Lubowitz, Colin Smith, Luke Feeney and Marco Goldberg. Coach Lubowitz acknowledged the selfless play of Jacob Sternberg-Sher, who took on a new role as defensive midfielder. The Blue Lightning's back line was anchored by defenders and co-captains E.T. Cripe and Sam Webber, fearless goalkeeper Stuart Fleming and defender Noel Forrest, who rejoined the team in November after breaking a leg bone in mid-season.
The White Lightning also made an enormous competitive leap in 2012. After an undefeated championship campaign last year in Division 3, the White Lightning bypassed Division 2 and jumped to Division 1. The team quickly showed they belonged, announcing their arrival with a 7-2 season-opening win over the Langhorne Gunners. Any doubts about the newcomers were permanently erased three weeks later when they pulled off a stunning 3-2 upset on the road against the division's eventual champions, the Horsham Union. The White Lightning finished the ICSL season 4-4-2.
White Lightning Head Coach Mark Clugston was proud of the way his team handled the promotion to Division 1.
"Every time they faced a new challenge, they really rose to the occasion," said White Lightning Head Coach Mark Clugston. "They boys performed very well for themselves."
Defender Stephen Clugston anchored the White Lightning from the back, supported by rangy goalkeeper Jack McDonald, who stopped most of the penalty kicks he faced. Forwards Will McHugh and Morgan Plant tormented defenses all season long with their speed, as did midfielder Robert Spain. Coach Clugston praised CHYSC newcomers Edwin Stitt and Sam Johns, both of whom blossomed into major contributors at midfield, as well as dependable Jackson Craig, Jack Heil, Abi El and Simon L'Tainen.
The Black Lightning came into being after a record number of U-12 boys showed up for tryouts in the summer. Head Coach Dave Younkin stepped in to lead a team with five first-time travel players to a 3-5-2 season in ICSL Division 4 in the squad's first year of play. A highlight of the season was a 4-2 win at Falls United in October. After losing three consecutive games, the Black Lightning rallied, playing their best game of the season — even earning post-game praise from the referee for their style of play and sportsmanship.
"I'm so proud of the amount of progress our players made," Younkin said. "By the end of the ICSL season, our kids were playing a thoughtful and strategic brand of soccer."
The Black Lightning were led by stout defender Tre Douglas, who was cited by Younkin for his relentless effort, as well as a core group of heady midfielders and defenders: James Nalle, Malcolm Campbell-Sydor, Miles Gomez Younkin and Malachi Shapiro. Charles Bristol and Patrick Fehm were superb in goal and sacrificed field time to help the team. Carlo and Sante Filippini put their speed to use as forwards, and Wiley Corlett and Cam Marrow made essential contributions.