text: Thursday, May 31, 2012 New in the Literature: Predicting Functional Performance After TKA (J Orthop Res. 2012 Apr 26. [Epub ahead of print]) Poorer performance preoperatively on the Six-Minute Walk Test (6MW), Stair Climbing Test (SCT), and Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) was related to poorer performance in the same measure after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), say authors of a study designed to develop a preliminary decision algorithm predicting functional performance outcomes to aid in the decision of when to undergo TKA. Age and decreased mental health were secondary predictors of poorer performance at 6 months on the TUG and SCT, respectively. These measures may help further develop models that predict thresholds for poor outcomes after TKA, the authors add. One hundred and nineteen patients undergoing primary unilateral TKA were evaluated before and 6 months after TKA. A regression tree analysis using a recursive partitioning function was performed with TUG time, 6MW distance, and SCT time as measured 6 months after TKA as the primary outcomes. Preoperative measures of functional performance, joint performance, anthropometrics, demographics, and self-reported status were evaluated as predictors of the primary outcomes 6 months after surgery. Individuals taking 10.1 or more seconds on TUG and aged 72 years or older before surgery had the poorest performance on TUG 6 months after surgery. Individuals walking less than 314 meters on 6MW before surgery had the poorest performance on 6MW 6 months after surgery. Individuals taking 17 or more seconds to complete SCT and scoring less than 40 on the SF-36 mental component score before surgery had the poorest performance on SCT 6 months after surgery. APTA member Michael J. Bade, PT, is lead author of the article, which is published in Journal of Orthopaedic Research. APTA members Joseph A. Zeni, PT, PhD, Jennifer E. Stevens-Lapsley, PT, MPT, PhD, and Lynn Snyder-Mackler, PT, ScD, SCS, FAPTA, are coauthors. Comments I use these tests frequently. Using these tests as a predictor for TKA outcome is an excellent idea. Thank you for "PT in motion - New Now". Posted by mark sunderman, PT, GCS on 8/9/2012 2:20 PM I'm not sold. What about family support, quality of care, etc? Are you measuring their effects on these measures? I hate the notion of age being a predicting factor of outcomes. For some this will have an influence, but for others they easily outperform a clinicians expectations regardless of age. This study seems to strengthen that bias that can impact a clinicians approach. One thing about algorithms: they are mathematical in origin and human nature doesn't always fit the equation. Posted by Trevor D'Souza -> AGSc?J on 11/10/2012 11:50 AM


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"The Birthday Party" was Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's first full-length play, and its 1958 London début left audiences and critics scratching their heads. Brimming with contradictions, non sequiturs and cross-talk, "The Birthday Party" — like the Pinter plays that would follow — is a tough nut to crack. My advice: don't attempt to crack that nut, to decode what the play means. Better simply to experience it, to feel beneath the lobbed bits of dialog for whatever emotion resonates most deeply. The drama's current incarnation at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Upstairs Theatre allows theatergoers to do just that, thanks to a crack cast and astute direction by ensemble member Austin Pendleton.
Adding to the production's accessibility is an alley configuration (set design by Walt Spangler), with the rectangular stage in the middle and audience members seated close to the action on opposites sides of the effective set, the dining room of a modest boarding house in a seaside English town. The room looks normal enough, but looks, especially Pinteresque looks, can be deceiving. This boarding house has a sole boarder.
That boarder is Stanley (ensemble member Ian Barford), an unemployed pianist with no visible means of support who mostly keeps to his room. Hiding from gangsters? Going through a mental breakdown? Witness protection program? With Pinter, the possibilities are endlessly sinister.
The older couple who run the boarding house — Meg and Petey, whose day job is renting out deck chairs at the seashore — take a parental interest in Stanley. Motherly Meg (Moira Harris, a member of the original ensemble, returning to Steppenwolf after many years away) wakes Stanley to summon him to a breakfast of cornflakes, fried bread and tea that Stanley, unshaven and still in his pajamas, declares undrinkable — before pouring himself another cup. Petey (John Mahoney, a veteran of more than 30 Steppenwolf productions in between film and TV work) appears at the beginning and end of the play, but like a father who has to be at work, misses the birthday party for Stanley at the center of the play — although Stanley insists it's not his birthday. At the end Petey reclaims his paternal role, telling his boarder, "Stan, don't let them tell you what to do."
"Them" is the mysterious twosome of Goldberg (ensemble member Francis Guinan) and McCann (Marc Grapey), who show up at the boarding house to rent a room for the night — or perhaps to reclaim Stanley as a member of some nefarious organization or to haul him away to a mental institution; again, with Pinter, we'll never know for sure.
The final role is that of a young neighbor named Lulu, played by Sophia Sinise in her début at Steppenwolf. Sophia Sinise shares the stage with her mother, Moira Harris, married to Steppenwolf founding member Gary Sinese.
What the director and this experienced cast bring to Pinter is a willingness to trust that the dialogue, however little sense some of it makes, can be a vehicle for communicating emotions beyond words. When the non sequiturs fly fast and furious — Goldberg replies to Lulu's "I trust you" with "Gesundheit!" — decoding the dialog does not seem as profitable as simply listening to how it is spoken. With Pinter, the tone can be wickedly funny one minute and menacing the next, sometimes alternating rapidly, as when a party game of blind man's buff quickly degenerates into violence.
One sign that Pendleton's strategy is working is that the production never seems to flag but holds the audience's attention no matter how inscrutable the dialog. Pinter may not be for everyone — and don't come to this birthday party expecting sweetly iced cake — but Steppenwolf's production will give you access and let you decide for yourself.
"The Birthday Party"
The Upstairs Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago
Through April 28, 2013
Tickets $20 – $78; (312) 335-1650 or Steppenwolf.org
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Janney Montgomery Scott hired an ex-Morgan Keegan advisor with more than $200 million in client assets and several million in annual production, the firm said Tuesday.
While this is bad news for Raymond James Financial (RJF), which acquired Morgan Keegan in April, it shouldn't detract from the strong advisor retention that RJ has achieved over the past few months, experts say.
"They've done a fabulous job with their rate of retention," said recruiter Rick Peterson of Rick Peterson & Associates in the great Houston area, in an interview at AdvisorOne. "Frankly, it surprised me."
According to results of the quarter ending June 30, which were released late Wednesday, Raymond James has kept more than 900 of the roughly 1,000 Morgan Keegan advisors and managers it could have potentially added through its acquisition. (The deal was announced in January and completed in April.)
"I knew the Morgan Keegan reps were all in discussion with somebody else … and could have signed on [to other firms] with better [compensation] packages elsewhere," added Peterson. "It came down to the camaraderie and the uniqueness of the firm; they did a great selling job."
As expected, Raymond James executives are upbeat about how their retention efforts have done, as well.
"While departures are driven by individual reasons, we are naturally disappointed when any advisor decides to leave the firm," said Tash Elwyn (left), president of Raymond James & Associates Private Client Group, in a statement. "We recognize that competitors can be very aggressive with their offers, but we are nonetheless very proud of the overall retention rate of both our newly affiliated Raymond James | Morgan Keegan advisors as well as our existing advisors."
As Elwyn points out, RJ is "continuing to recruit high-quality, experienced advisors to all of our channels. Since April, 10 advisors have been recruited thanks to the leadership of former Morgan Keegan managers, he adds.
On Wednesday, Raymond James said that Elisabeth D. Baldwin joined the firm in Gainesville, Ga., from BB&T Wealth Management, where her team managed more than $100 million in client assets. Previously, she was a financial advisor for Wachovia Securities.
On July 17, Raymond James said it had hired Tom Shoup, formerly of Morgan Stanley, to join its employee broker-dealer's Atlanta operations. He has managed almost $300 million in client assets and had $1.3 million in yearly production.
Some 150 RJ|MK advisors and branch managers attended Raymond James & Associates' July Summer Development Conference, along with about 450 RJA advisors and their families, according to Elwyn.
"The appeal of a firm such as Raymond James, with a client-first culture and conservative management, is not lost on those seeking an alternative to the Wall Street firms with their ongoing irritants," concluded the RJ executive.


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This is one of the most well-known monuments in Madrid. Built between 1769 and 1778 under the orders of King Carlos III, it was designed by Francisco Sabatini and erected as a triumphal arch to celebrate the arrival of the monarch at the capital. The granite gate is 19.5 metres tall and is elegant and well-proportioned. The façade features a number of decorative elements with groups of sculptures, capitals, reliefs and masks, among others.
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OUTFEST, the world's leading organization that promotes equality by creating, sharing, and protecting LGBT stories on the screen, continues to broaden its efforts to give novice filmmakers the opportunity to share their voice. The latest incarnation of this mission is an exciting new program called Fusion Lab. While there are several components to Fusion Lab, the newest, most innovative feature is "a pop-up shop style micro-cinema and media lab." At the Fusion Lab fledgling filmmakers are encouraged to leap headlong into the practical experience of filmmaking. Filmmaker workstations include film cameras to rent and editing equipment to edit your films for free. Staff at Fusion Lab will be on hand to assist Lab attendees in creating short films through the filmmaking process.
The Fusion Lab will also host filmmaking workshops taught by Outfest alumni. Fusion Lab seeks to connect with local organizations to attract novice filmmakers who will learn about the art and craft of media making. Workshop teachers will include: Alex Kondracke (Hung, The L Word) on writing, Jamie Babbit (But I'm A Cheerleader, Drop Dead Diva) on directing, George Reyes (filmmaker & educator) also on writing, Carlos Portugal (East Side Story, East Los High) will focus of both writing and directing, and Augie Robles (CSI, Mosquita Y Mari) who will focus on editing theory.
Fusion Lab program will of course include screenings. A free film screening series begins March 7th and will continue every weekend throughout the month. Four programs of audience favorites and award-winning short films from Outfest and Fusion will screen at Fusion Lab. Highlights include: Couples Therapy (Mike Rose), The Perfect Ones (Nao Bustamante & Matt Johnstone), Divorcio (Jacinto Astiazaran), Revolution (Abdi Nazemian & Erica Kraus),The Queen (Christina Choe), Greetings From Africa (Cheryl Dunye), Billy & Aaron (Rodney Evans), Kissing Bandido (Augie Robles), and El Abuelo (Dino Dinco). To ensure a seat for screenings, make your reservation now.
The Fusion Lab Free Film Screening Series programming is as follows:
- Friday March 8 7:30: Welcome To My World
- Saturday March 9 7:30: Catch Me If You Can
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Fusion Lab is a unique chance for interested novices to have an immediate, hands-on experience with creative expression through the world of filmmaking. Fusion Lab is supported by a grant from the Irvine Foundation. Highland Park was selected as the inaugural location because of its rich history, cultural diversity, and commitment to artists. The 2014 Fusion Lab will take place in Leimert Park.
Check out what's happening at the headquarters of Fusin Lab in Highland Park, and take the opportunity to glean the world through a different colored lens.
Outfest will also celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival on March 22nd and 23rd.
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Karezes are indigenous sub-surface water management structures and the only source of water for irrigation and human needs in the remote, mountainous drylands of Balochistan, Pakistan. The reduced influx of water due to clogged channels and conveyance losses was a huge factor in low productivity and food insecurity in Qila Iskan Khan village, forcing the villagers to migrate to other areas in search of livelihood.
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Karezes are indigenous sub-surface water management structures and the only source of water for irrigation and human needs in the remote, mountainous drylands of Balochistan, Pakistan. The reduced influx of water due to clogged channels and conveyance losses was a huge factor in low productivity and food insecurity in Qila Iskan Khan village, forcing the villagers to migrate to other areas in search of livelihood.
The issue was resolved through an innovative and integrated approach; the underground water channels were cleaned and fixed with perforated UPVC pipes. These small channels were then combined into one main channel and water was transported through a 14-inch wide 2,060 feet long UPVC pipe to a newly constructed earthen water reservoir. The reservoir was then lined with geo-membrane to reduce further seepage losses. With the water conveyance losses reduced to almost zero and opening of the inlets, water flow from the Karez has increased fourfold.
With increased availability of water, the community has started coming back to restore their land, allowing the agricultural activities to take place with great enthusiasm. The outcome was immediately visible as the irrigated land increased from 40 acres to 93 acres over last few months and as of 2011 stands at 310 acres.Taking opportunity of the increased water, the community has started growing vegetables, which has provided them with alternate source of food while ensuring economic stability. The vegetables are in great demand in the nearby villages now and even being supplied to the provincial capital Quetta.
A farmer can earn up to 500 rupees for a crate of bell peppers in the nearby Pishin market and 800 rupees for a crate of tomatoes. During the packing season, the farmers pack about 1000 crates of a single produce like the tomatoes and are now able to send at least 2 truckloads of the produce everyday from the village to the market. With an investment of 2.3 million rupees, the community has been to earn 14.2 million rupees in a single year. The project, up to a greater extent, addressed the food security needs of the community with a rapid impact on the livelihood of the people. It is worth-mentioning that the total cost of the project was Rs. 2,300,000/- out of which the community contributed 20%.
As an integrated solution, IUCN also established a 40,000 container plants' tunnel nursery where indigenous bushes are promoted for the rehabilitation of de-graded rangeland to support livestock, in addition to introduction of low-delta crops including almond, pistachio, olives, and pomegranate.
This demonstration project is highly successful and has a great potential for replication. The sustained flow of water from the Karez will ensure food security for the people of Qila Iskan Khan in the coming years.
Qila Iskan Khan is a village of 40 households, located on alluvial fans of Kan Hill Range in the Pishin District of Balochistan province in Pakistan and bordering with Afghanistan. With an average annual rainfall of 200 mm, it is an arid mountainous area. The village economy is agro-pastoral, dependent on the waters of a karez.
The intervention was identified during an extensive scoping of the selected river basins in Balochistan under IUCN's Balochistan Partnerships for Sustainable Development (BPSD) programme. The major drivers for selection of the intervention included; environmental and livelihood degradation in the area, level of community's willingness to change, potential for success, and demonstrability.
The success of the initiative can be attributed primarily to the community's keenness to improve their livelihood through self-help, financial assistance by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands through BPSD, and technical skill and motivation of IUCN staff to work under strenuous field conditions. These three actors were hand in hand from planning to implementation.
The communities in Qila Iskan Khan and surrounding villages are the custodians of initiative's sustainability. They have witnessed how the power of self-help and a combination of modern techniques can tap into existing water resources and can turn around the entire village.
The intervention is aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity and the resultant food and livelihood security through sustainable management of water resources using the indigenous knowledge and mechanisms with a combination of modern techniques.
This is in line with the 6th World Water Forum's Economic, Food, and Water Security Regional Target with an emphasis on green growth and in support of economic, food and water security. The initiative also contributes to the following elements of the Framework of Action:
· Water allocation, management and investment supporting green growth, having explicit food and nutrition security and poverty reduction targets.
· The water and food nexus.
The initiative had very clear tangible outputs, including:
· Rehabilitation of main channel (628 meters) downstream of daylight point using 14" UPVC pressure pipe.
· Construction of main water storage tank (34 x 34 x 1.23 meters), lined with geo-membrane (0.25 mm).
· Construction/rehabilitation of secondary water storage tank (50 x 20 x 1.2 meters) lined with geo-membrane (0.25).
· Cleaning of channel and mother well of the karez (1,000 meters).
· Construction of eyebrows (micro-catchment areas) for water conservation.
· Construction of 2 washing pads for women.
· Construction of a nursery tunnel with 40,000 container plants
The graph below shows the impact in terms of agricultural productivity and food security:
A joint committee of IUCN and the Community monitored the implementation, keeping in view the following indicators of success:
· Consensus of community as a result of community mobilisation
· In kind contribution by the community to the interventions in the ratio of 20:80
· Increase in the availability of water
· Increase in area under cultivation
· Increase in average yield
· Crop diversification
· Net increase in the income of the farmers
· Ease in household chores for the women
The initiative addressed the food security issue of the community to a great extent, with a healthy impact on their livelihood as well. With a total cost of US$ 27,000, out of which about 20% was contributed by the community in kind, the outcomes have been very encouraging. Hence, this is a replicable model with the financial assistance of multilateral and bilateral donors, and the national and provincial governments. The model developed is simple and can be easily implemented with the help of communities.
The solution is expected to work well in communities with limited livelihood options and potential to diversify crop patterns. The technical knowhow and backstopping can be provided through intermediary organizations.
The key elements of replication would be necessary finances, community mobilisation and zeal to improve their lives.
This yearlong initiative took place with an investment of about US$ 50,000 (for inputs and human resources). However, the most important contributor was community's enthusiasm to bring about a change, without which this initiative could not have been implemented in a remote and tribal village.
IUCN was able to develop strong liaisons and establish its credibility within the community through respect for cultural norms and financial transparency. The key lesson learnt is that if a genuine need is addressed through community's participation, it not only sustains but also results in positive outcomes
CIDA has committed limited funds to expand the initiative under its Balochistan Responsive Fund. The model is being shared with a broad range of donors and partner organizations, such as Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, for possible replication and up scaling.
IUCN Pakistan (www.iucnp.org) through its Country Office and the Balochistan Office would be available to share more information and details.
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Irfan Ali Bakhtiari
IWRM Coordinator, IUCN Pakistan
Marker Cottage, Zarghoon Road, Quetta, Pakistan
Tel. +92 (81) 2840450
Email: email@example.com
1. "Of Pearls in the Sand", an 11 min documentary by award winning filmmaker Umbreen Butt on Iskan Khan. Produced by IUCN Pakistan.
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/72211516@N04/
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EVERY DAY we are revealing the exciting new team of bloggers lined up for this website, www.anglersmail.co.uk
Very soon (from Monday, July 30) we'll be having live blogs, one a day, covering the whole spectrum for modern coarse angling.
Here, Angler's Mail gives a warm welcome here to Team Pallatrax crew, and in particular their media man Clint Walker, who will be part of the BIG FISH blog team. He's just fished in what turned out to be a brilliant Action Replay feature for our magazine. It's in an issue to be published soon.
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PALLATRAX is an innovative bait and tackle company based in the heart of the Devon countryside with a strong following amongst those anglers who seek to do things a little bit differently; it's what sets us apart from the rest…
Pallatrax MD Simon Pomeroy stated: 'Pallatrax are extremely pleased to be asked to be part of the brand new blogging squad at Angler's Mail magazine. We are looking forward to sharing our experiences, high and lows, red letter days and odd disasters with a host of new readers who will find out more about what we do… we have lots to tell you!'
Regular Angler's Mail readers will know that we now sponsor the magazine's prestigious Specimen Cup, with a range of great tackle prizes, cash prizes, discounts and more. Weekly, monthly and annual top specimens are rewarded, caught by anglers of all abilities. But what about the other guys behind the tackle and bait?…
At Pallatrax, we have a dedicated group of anglers who make up our Media Team, under the guidance of angler and contributor, myself, Clint Walker. The team's been put together over the last 12 months to highlight everything that goes on at Pallatrax.
Some top names you may be aware of include Martin James MBE – a highly respected author, angler, and presenter of BBC Radio Lancashire's At the Water's Edge weekly fishing show. Gary Newman, expert contributor to Angler's Mail, is one of our 'all rounders'. Likewise, there's Tony Miles, who has just released his latest E-book 'Top tactics for big barbel'. There are many other top notch anglers too.
One of the main reasons for the composition of our Team is to provide regular content and words for our company website (www.pallatrax.co.uk) and to avoid the need for an unwieldy group of 'field testers' which we feel may not be as manageable as a smaller, more focussed group. We think it works, and the reports we get suggest our customers, friends and users do too…..
So who is in our gang? We have a wide cross section of anglers, from relative newcomers to confirmed old stagers, carpers, river experts, matchmen and general specimen anglers, authors, regular magazine contributors, outstanding photographers and superb anglers.
We all pull together to form a compact team who believe in what we do, and more importantly, follow the whole Pallatrax ethos of using quality products in our angling…. hopefully, during our brand new blogs, here in the Big Fish Blog section, you will get to find out a little more about them!
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A missing California girl contacted her mother via Facebook, saying that she's married, pregnant and living in Mexico.
Alisa Wheeler, 15, of Taft, disappeared last June with an adult boyfriend named Roi, who was already married. Now it appears the man she's married to in Mexico is a different person, a 23-year-old man named "Chino," according to KERO-TV in Bakersfield. When she first vanished, authorities feared she might be taken to Mexico by Roi and sold into prostitution.
Her mother, Sheri Simonek, and the rest of Wheeler's siblings in the Bakersfield area started seeing a therapist after Wheeler disappeared June 21. Then Simonek received a Facebook message last Friday from what appeared to be her daughter apologizing for disappointing her and that she was now married, pregnant and living in Baja California. Wheeler contacted Simonek twice over the weekend.
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"When she, I guess, got down there, he was married and she left," Simonek told the TV station, saying that Wheeler likely latched onto another man to survive in Mexico. "I believe she wants to come home, but she is scared for the man she is with now thinking that he is going to go to jail."
Simonek said she would pay for both newlyweds to move back to Taft and help sort out her new son-in-law's paperwork. Authorities won't intervene because even at 15, Wheeler can be legally married in Mexico, Simonek told KERO-TV.
For those who worry that Wheeler might be coerced into sending Facebook messages, the Facebook page, "MISSING: Alisa Wheeler . . . PLEASE HELP FIND HER!" (reportedly run by a family friend), wrote on Sunday that Wheeler decided to come home.


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Outside of Joe Frazier's Gym in North Philadelphia, the sidewalk is littered with an empty handle of Gordon's gin, a yellow flash of caution tape and scattered pebbles of broken glass.
Inside the gym, which isn't a gym anymore, there are couches and mattresses for sale.
More than a year after Frazier's 2011 death, preservation advocates are seeking protective designations for the building in a campaign that is a sign of a larger cultural shift in the historic preservation community. At the movement's heart is a push for inclusiveness in a field that has long privileged the stories and accomplishments of influential white men and paid little if any attention to anyone else.
'We've done an analysis over the past year,' said Stephanie Toothman, the National Park Service's associate director for cultural resources. 'The percentage of sites that specifically represent women and groups such as African Americans, Native Americans and Asian Pacific Americans ranges from 3 to 8 percent.'
Compared with the makeup of the U.S. population, that percentage is minuscule. Women make up slightly more than 50 percent of the population in the United States and white men account for about 36 percent of the overall population, according the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
'They often say that history is written by the winners, but it's also narrated by the people who have the podium,' said Page Harrington, executive director of Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, the Washington, D.C. headquarters for the National Woman's Party throughout much of the 20th century. 'So if you have fewer women in leadership positions - in universities, or writing textbooks, or in Congress - you have fewer of those stories that are necessarily making their way into the public spectrum that the next generation of scholars looks at, and so on, and so on.'
The fight to save Frazier's gym seems appropriately symbolic for a man who fought his way to the top.
Frazier was an underdog before he became a champ. He worked in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse, where he practiced throwing punches on slabs of beef hanging in a freezing meat locker. Sylvester Stallone borrowed that training habit for a montage in the boxing film 'Rocky.' And while Philadelphia erected a statute of Stallone's fictional boxer, the fate of Frazier's gym is uncertain.
'Philadelphia is the capital of boxing and I believe Joe Frazier's gym is the White House,' said Frazier's son, Marvis Frazier, in a 2011 documentary. Frazier began working out there in 1968. It's where he trained for the 'Fight of the Century' in 1971, when he beat Muhammad Ali to defend his title as undisputed world heavyweight champion.
'JOE FRAZIER'S GYM' is still etched into the face of the building at 2917 N. Broad St. Little pairs of boxing gloves are stenciled on either side. In big red letters underneath: Home Gallery Furniture & Bedding. A sticker on the window advertises 'knockout prices.'
Today, there are chocolate-colored sofas where the boxing ring and punching bag used to be, and headboards in what was once Frazier's locker room. The brick walls have been painted a docile yellow. Mylar balloons shaped like stars bob from strings tied to sofas and bed frames. The furniture store owner didn't respond to interview requests but locals are encouraged by the idea that the building, which is for sale, might be recognized officially and protected as historic.
'Hopefully in a few years, it will go back to what it used to be,' said an employee who didn't want his name published.
Outside, a broad-shouldered security guard stood watch. 'It's the neighborhood,' he explained with a shrug.
He didn't have to say more than that: Joe Frazier's gym is in a part of Philadelphia where barbed wire sprouts from fence tops, storefronts warn people wearing hoodies to keep out, and the homicide rate is nearly three times higher than it is in the rest of the city.
'This is a place that is a more humble architectural resource,' said Stephanie Meeks, who runs the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded preservation advocacy group. 'But it's really important from the standpoint of an iconic American sports figure and the significance that he had.'
What's worth saving? As preservationists look to be more inclusive, they're also reassessing long-held notions about what ought to be preserved. The passage of time inevitably prompts re-evaluation of what is historically significant; usually about 50 years passes before something is in the running for historic protection. Paul Lusignan, whose job is to review applications for National Register of Historic Places designation, remembers when the skyscrapers of the 1950s and 1960s were considered 'the enemy' to preservationists. To scholars in the 1980s, the post-World War II era ushered in a spate of 'cold, unfeeling' architecture, he said.
'Modern buildings were coming in and destroying Victorian architecture, so we were trying to protect Victorian architecture,' said Lusignan, 54. 'Now we're looking and saying, 'No, some of these modernist buildings, though they may have demolished something else nice, are significant in and of themselves.' That's always been changing. As time has moved on, people have looked at different things.'
More recently, preservationists have expanded parameters to include historic designations for modest bungalows, airplanes, water towers, even gas stations. The National Park Service has thus far 'drawn the line at cars,' archivist Jeff Joeckel says.
The idea that an unassuming brick building where a young boxer turned into a champion - miles away from Independence Hall or the street where Benjamin Franklin lived - might join Philadelphia's ranks of historic treasures is one that wouldn't have gained much traction in the past.
At the same time, preservationists are looking beyond the built world altogether, which requires disassociating ideas about historic significance from Western values.
'In most native communities, the spiritual aspects of life and their worldview are not separated from everything else,' said Valerie Hauser, director of the Office of Native American Affairs at the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. 'So that's a basic disconnect. We often - on the federal side, or the nonnative side - are challenged to understand the significance to a tribe, say, or a Native Hawaiian organization, that maintaining the view shed of the mountain could be important.'
In Hawaiian culture, slices of land traditionally were divvied up into ahupuaa: long uninterrupted strips that extended from the mountains down to the shore. Development over the years - particularly on the island of Oahu, which includes Honolulu - has broken many of those sacred mountain-to-ocean links.
'There's still an inherent tension between the nonnative side of preservation and the native side of preservation,' Hauser said. 'We're still trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. We're still going through growing pains, but we have at least gotten to the point where we sit and argue and recognize that they have a place at the table. Philosophically, it's recognized. Policy-wise, it's recognized. Legally, it's recognized. But operationally, it's more challenging.'
The way forward The Obama administration has listed inclusiveness among its priorities for historic preservation efforts going forward. Outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made it clear in a recent statement that 'we need to change' the low level of representation of women, specifically among National Park System sites.
One of the steps his department took late last year was to officially affiliate the Sewall-Belmont House with the National Mall. That administrative restructuring means that when people research sites to visit, Sewall-Belmont will be listed among better-known Washington landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
'Secretary Salazar wants the history of minorities more accurately represented but also more equally represented, and that's been something that he's been focused on,' said Sewall-Belmont's Harrington. 'But if there is no actual funding for it, it's going to limit what we can do. You have to ask yourself: What is the dollar amount it would take to get where we need to be? And it's astronomical.'
Federal advocates also are working to find ways to engage people on the local level, since national historic designations must begin with state nominations. That means finding ways to connect with individuals and groups that often aren't accustomed to considering their own stories and histories as eligible for broader recognition.
Back in North Philly, preservationists are cautiously optimistic about the campaign for Frazier's gym. They plan to complete a study on whether it's possible to turn it back into a gym or some kind of community center, 'the type that Joe Frazier had in mind for the building,' said John Gallery, former executive director of the Philadelphia Preservation Alliance.
A 1974 New York Times article described the gym as it was in those days: Huge boxing photos and an oil painting of Frazier hanging on the original red brick walls, with bright blue carpeting with dark wood paneling. It was a gym 'of relative splendor,' and seemed especially lavish in the shadow of 'the grimy North Philadelphia railroad station.'
In Frazier's fighting days, he had a reputation for taking punches - smirking and chuckling at the ones that hurt the most - and biding his time before striking down his opponent.
Frazier's legacy on North Broad Street seems distant now. It's been 42 years since the Fight of the Century, which pitted a heavyweight so nimble he could 'float like a butterfly' against Frazier's dogged and sometimes-clunky style. Ali, who was 5 inches taller than Frazier, was favored by many to win that night. In an article published the day of the fight, a New York Times reporter described what it would look like when Frazier inevitably lost: His chortling giving way to dizziness and the loss of spatial relationships, the eventual relief of going down.
But that isn't what happened. Joe Frazier won.
And on the wall of his gym, which is now a discount furniture store, he put up an enormous photo - 8 feet wide and 6 feet tall - from that night. The photographer had captured the moment just before Ali dropped from Frazier's spectacular left hook. Ali's face was caught in an expression of dull surprise, like he couldn't believe he was about to fall, or that the fight would actually end the way it did.


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Knocking Off Eight Items from the Bucket List
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Last year, Mo and I traveled down alongside the Mississippi river, attempting to cover [Eight States in Eight Days], but ended up covering [Seven States in Nine Days]. This time, we decided to go overseas, to knock off a few items from her [bucket list].
I would like to thank Delta Air Lines for letting Mo and I take this trip using frequent flyer miles, Hertz Rental Cars for offering a sweet deal on a tiny Hyundai i20 car, the Gran Hotel Benahavis for their hospitality, and the incredibly warm and helpful people of Atlanta. I am glad that my language skills in French, Spanish and Arabic came in quite handy!


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- "Listen, I got a shit load of money that needs to be picked up from my warehouse in Callahan Point. I don't trust anyone else to do this."
- ― Salvatore Leone
The Trouble With Triads is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories given to protagonist Toni Cipriani by Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone from his home in the Saint Mark's district of Portland Island, Liberty City.
Toni drops by Salvatore's, with Salvatore just about to take his new car out for a spin with Maria. Before he drives off, Salvatore instructs Toni to pick up a large amount of money from a Leone warehouse at Callahan Point. He states that he does not trust anyone else to do the job and that Toni is the right man to do it.
As Toni reaches the warehouse, however, the Triads use explosives to blow up the place up, setting the remains of the building on fire. Toni manages to save all the money before it goes up in flames and kills a number of Triads, who flood in to try to kill him. As Toni heads back to Salvatore's mansion, more Triads chase after him. Despite this, Toni manages to safely return back to Sal's place with the money.
- Several members of the Triads - Killed by Toni Cipriani for blowing up the Leone warehouse and attempting to kill him, as well as attempting to burn Salvatore Leone's money.
- Several members of the Leone Family - Killed in the Leone warehouse explosion caused by the Triads.
The reward for completing the mission is $1,500. The mission Driving Mr. Leone is unlocked.
- The name of the mission is a play on the Star Trek episode The Trouble With Tribbles.
- Any vehicle parked within the compound of the warehouse will be severely damaged from the bombing, making them vulnerable to hostile Triads if the player chooses to use them to return to Salvatore's house. Only a couple of minor collisions will be enough to make the vehicles burst into flames and explode.
- Salvatore's sports car seen during the first cutscene of the mission is depicted to have crashed into a tree near his house when the player returns from Callahan Point.
- There is no reference to this in the cutscene of the next mission, Driving Mr. Leone. The vehicle is locked and cannot be taken, and if the player saves the game before returning for the next Salvatore mission, the vehicle will be gone. But it can be pushed into a garage before saving to obtain this car with unique color abilities. PSP users can blow this up during mission and push into garage with Rhino and this will keep all special abilities.
- The way the game damages the car is throwing it over a cliff a couple of times: video
- In GTA III the warehouse is owned by the Triads and is blown up by the Leones; the opposite happens here.
- This mission becomes considerably easier if the Firefighter sub-mission is completed first, as it renders Toni fireproof.
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Dementia guide
What to do if you have just been diagnosed with dementia
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About dementia
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Living with dementia
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How you can help
If you have just been diagnosed with dementia, you may be feeling numb, scared and unable to take everything in.
Give yourself time to adjust to what a dementia diagnosis means for you.
You may find it helpful to talk to a counsellor at the memory clinic if they offer this kind of support.
You can also contact a helpline of one of the dementia charities. Try:
- Alzheimer's Society's National Dementia Helpline on 0300 222 1122
- Dementia UK Admiral Nurse Dementia Helpline on 0800 888 6678
If you can, talk to family and friends about your feelings around a dementia diagnosis.
When you feel ready, it's time to create an action plan for the future while you're still able to make clear decisions for yourself.
Get assessed
Your local authority has a duty to carry out a care and support needs assessment to establish which services you may need.
To arrange an assessment, contact social services or your GP.
Find out more about how to get an assessment for a person with dementia
For further information, read Alzheimer's Society's guide to care and support assessments.
Services and support
Find out what's available locally so you're prepared and able to call on this support as and when you need it.
Services arranged by local authorities vary between areas, but may include home care services, equipment and adaptations for your home.
Some services, such as community nursing, are arranged through the NHS. Ask your hospital consultant or GP for details.
Charities such as Age UK, Alzheimer's Society and Dementia UK provide a range of services, including information, helplines, support groups, lunch clubs and home care schemes.
Read more about what to expect from social services and the NHS and where to find sources of help and support for people with dementia.
Find local dementia services and information
Make a will
It's a good idea to make a will if you have not already. This ensures that when you die, your money and possessions go to the people you choose.
A person with dementia can still make or change a will, provided you can show that you understand what you're doing and what the effects will be. Your solicitor can advise if this is the case.
Read more about dementia and legal issues, including making a will.
Put your papers in order
Make sure all your important papers can be found easily. These might include bank and building society statements, mortgage or rental documents, insurance policies, your will, tax and pension details, bills and guarantees.
Consider setting up direct debits or standing orders for your regular bills. This means they'll be paid automatically from your bank account each month.
Find out more about managing someone else's banking
Claim benefits
Make sure you're claiming all the benefits you're entitled to.
In particular, check whether:
- you're eligible for Personal Independence Payment or Attendance Allowance
- your carer (if you have one) is eligible for Carer's Allowance
Other benefits you may be eligible for include income support, housing benefit, council tax relief and pension credit.
Age UK has useful information on benefits and how to claim them.
Lasting power of attorney
You can appoint 1 or more people as "attorneys" to manage your affairs, including your finances, property and medical treatment, should it become necessary.
You can choose anybody you trust to be your attorney – usually a close friend or family member – but they must be over 18.
Find out more about power of attorney
Advance care planning
You may wish to make an advance care plan so you can have a say in your future medical care or where you'd prefer to be cared for.
Making an advance decision enables you to refuse, in advance, a specific medical treatment or procedure should you become unable to decide for yourself.
Find out about advance care planning
A diagnosis of dementia does not necessarily mean you have to stop driving immediately, but you're legally required to inform the DVLA and your car insurance company promptly.
The DVLA will contact your hospital consultant or GP for further information on whether you can continue to drive safely.
Read the Alzheimer's Society factsheet on driving and dementia (PDF, 941kb) for more.
Take care of your health
It's important to look after your physical and mental health when you have dementia:
- Depression is very common in dementia. Talk to your GP, as there are a range of treatments, including talking treatments, that can help.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- Exercise regularly. This could be a daily walk, gardening or trying tai chi.
- Ask your GP if you'd benefit from flu vaccination and pneumonia vaccination.
- Have regular dental, eyesight and hearing check-ups.
See your GP if you feel unwell, as things like chest or urine infections can make you feel very confused if not treated promptly.
Find out more about living well with dementia
Create your life story
Memory books can be a helpful way of stimulating your memory and reconnecting you with your loved ones in the future.
Essentially, it's a "This Is Your Life" compilation of photographs, notes and keepsakes from your childhood through to the present day. It can be either a physical book or a digital version.
You may also want to create a digital or online playlist of your favourite musical soundtracks.
Dementia books on prescription
Reading Well Books on Prescription for dementia offer information for people diagnosed with dementia, as well as their relatives and carers.
GPs and other health professionals can recommend titles from a list of 25 books on dementia.
The books are available for anyone to borrow free of charge from their local library.
The books are also available to people who may be worrying about dementia symptoms but do not have a formal diagnosis.
Find out more about the Reading Well Books on Prescription for dementia titles
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Please Don't See This Movie
Shawn, Marlon - I tried watching White Chicks. I did. I desperately tried watching. I even kept watching ten minutes after I wanted to stop watching. I just couldn't do it. I'm sorry. But not as much as you should be.
White Chicks was the in-flight movie during a recent trip to Los Angeles. It was so bad it made me ashamed that I was en route to where they make such terrible films. It was boring, trite, and offensive. Or at least the first eleven minutes were. That's all I watched before deciding to instead do the in-flight crossword puzzle. I figured that with the crossword puzzle, it would actually take me a few seconds before I knew the ending.
That's right - ten minutes after I wanted to stop watching was just 11 minutes in. It's rare that a movie is so bad you can decide it sucks in just a minute. Especially when you're in a situation where you desperately want to be entertained. If I were on a plane with nothing to do, I'd even watch "The Bachelorette." That show, by the way, should not be called "The Bachelorette." It's 25 guys trying to nail one girl. If Carson Daly hadn't have already taken the title, I'd recommend the show be "Last Call."
"White Chicks" opens with the Wayans Spawn in a sting operation where there job is to catch drug dealers by mocking Hispanic people. To "blend in" undercover as two Hispanic guys, the Wayans' yelled random Spanish words and danced a lot. Aside from that being fairly insulting and terribly dull, it also displayed an acute lack of faith in the audience. Their characters, who are smart enough to become undercover FBI agents, are not smart enough to actually be undercover. And somehow, I wasn't smart enough to stop watching for eleven whole minutes.
Martin Lawrence's "Blue Streak" did the same thing. To get cheap laughs (though I can't imagine from who), Lawrence's characters were over the top and horrifically inconsistent. But that might be part of the genre. You know the genre I mean - terribly bad movies that somehow get made anyway.
"White Chicks" is one long race joke. And it's the same joke we saw in "Malibu's Most Wanted" and "Bringing Down the House" and a billion other movies and TV shows, especially if they star anyone from the Wu Tang Clan.
These movies are based on the premise that it's funny when black people are different. Or maybe it's not funny at all because we've seen these same jokes done over and over again, and they weren't even funny the first time. We get it - black people like rap music and white people don't. Black people can dance and white people can't. Shawn Wayans can't make a good movie and neither can Marlon. That's not a generalization that you find in "White Chicks," it's just a conclusion you'll come to after watching it.
In an effort to save money, airlines have cut back severely. The snacks are smaller, passengers have to pay for meals, and most of the flight attendants aren't even hot anymore. But the one thing they've left untouched are the terrible, terrible movies. America West, if you're listing - please take "White Chicks" and give me back my peanuts.
The movie was so bad that actually read the in-flight magazine, which included lots of articles on why every city in America is the best city to visit right now. It also included articles about politics, written by people with such little political expertise that one writer's main credit was working on her father's political campaign 30 years ago. The article was still more entertaining than "White Chicks."
I did glance up at the screen every so often when I was between stories and managed to see a very angry FBI director yelling at his charges (of course), two drunk guys wake up with each other (of course), and an old fashion dance-off (of course). I'd have put the headphones back in to see who won the dance-off, but in that situation, everyone loses.
I was happy to see that very few people on the plane were watching the movie. A black gentleman across the aisle from me seemed equally disgusted at how bad the film was. That's one way that white people and black people are similar - we both think that "White Chicks" is a terrible movie.
Or maybe he just really wanted to do the crossword puzzle.


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Lil sexy asian girl who like to ba naughty and get pleasure))
I m lil sexy asian girl, I m student and my free time spare here.. I likes to be naughty and like everything sexy and funny and has some #fantasies! I like #twerking, playing some sexy games, #teasing, doing a hot #strip, playing with my happy fingers))). Dont be shy with me just tell me...
You just name it! I probably did it and loved it! Seriously, though, nothing gets me going like trying something new and exciting, rawr!
Showing off for people who don't really appreciate it.


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What happens when you take an ordinary golf cart and stuff it with a Hayabusa engine? Great, great, wonderful things.
What I mean when I say 'wonderful things' is actually massive burnouts. And easy engine stalls.
But still, this is a top shelf hoonage machine. Now I need to find a way to get one of these into my grandma's country club.
(Hat tip to Automatch!)


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Grow your business
Posted by Lotg on July 02, 2004
When I was just a young thing (a couple of days ago - snicker), the verb 'grow' was associated with things organic. In recent years, it's become cool to say 'Grow your business'.
We used to say things like 'help your business to grow', but we didn't say 'grow your business'.
We used to grow flowers, and grow trees, but I don't recall that we ever grew anything non-organic. I have looked up a range of dictionaries, and technically it appears there is nothing incorrect about saying 'grow your business', but it does seem to be a recent abhorration to me.
Is this use of the word 'grow' generally acceptable? Or is it just a case of me needing to 'grow' with the times?
- Grow your business ESC 02/July/04
- Grow your business Brian from Shawnee 03/July/04
- Grow down??? Lotg 03/July/04
- Grow your business Brian from Shawnee 03/July/04


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Born: 22 April, 1912 Higher Walton, Lancashire, England Died: 8 October, 1953 Voice: Contralto
It was a voice touched by the gods given mortal expression for all too brief a time. Yet in a professional career which spanned little more than a decade, Kathleen Ferrier left an indelible impression on music lovers the world over. It was a hauntingly beautiful voice, the rarest of female voices, a true contralto. Her vibrato was just a bit faster than most, but Ferrier used this to great emotional effect.
She made her stage debut in 1946 in the world premiere of Britten's Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne and sang Gluck's Orfeo there in 1947. It was however as a recitalist and oratorio soloist where Ferrier made her deepest impression. She was beloved of Bruno Walter who made memorable recordings with her of songs and Mahlers Das Lied von Der Erde.
In the beginning of her career, Kathleen Ferrier recorded for EMI, but she switched to Decca, preferring the warmer sound of the newly developed FFRR technique, pioneered by the Decca engineers. For such a short career, she was a prolific recording artist and her discs have rarely been out of print.


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Dreams and artistic expression are often intimately related. Particularly over the past century, as psychoanalysis taught western culture to view dreams as "the royal road to the unconscious" and a progressively secularized society turned to culture, both high and low, rather than religion for shaping myths and frameworks of meaning, this link has been repeatedly acknowledged. Many of the narrative strategies of modernism and post-modernism borrow from the non-linear, associative, fragmented world of dreams.
The two new books from Arsenal Pulp Press under review here, Australian author Tom Cho's extraordinary book of short stories, Look Who's Morphing, and local poet Billeh Nickerson's latest collection, Artificial Cherry, are no exception. Although very different works, both authors infuse their dream landscapes with characters and narrative elements from popular culture. They both have produced texts infused with a fierce, transgressive eroticism inflected with anxiety. And both manage to locate their work at the intersections of the world of dreams and the world of pop in ways that are fresh and engaging.
The Melbourne-based Cho has a serious reputation in his own country, with Look Who's Morphing selected as one of 200 Australian works for a national literacy project, Reading Australia. The 2009 Australian release was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and Pacific), Age Fiction Book of the Year and Melbourne Prize Trust's Best Writing Award. Look Who's Morphing was Cho's first full-length work, although he has published shorter fiction extensively. Vancouver publisher Arsenal Pulp is releasing a North American version of this work in April.
Transformation is one of the abiding themes of art, with roots that go back as far as Mesopotamia's Gilgamesh and his transformative love for Enkidu, the Wild Man who is changed into a beloved companion, and, more recently, to Ovid's Metamorphoses and Kafka's The Metamorphosis. It is tempting to suspect that the challenge Cho set himself was to re-imagine the transformed objects of desire from Ovid in a modern, commodity culture-soaked setting. His narrator, often identified as "Tom Cho," will suddenly change identity in mid-story, and tells stories that echo and modify plot lines and tone from mass culture artifacts as various as mainstream movies like The Exorcist, Dirty Dancing and The Sound of Music, classic fairy tales like Pinocchio, self-help TV like the Dr. Phil show, science fiction like I, Robot and cheesy porn. None of the transformations are explained; simply rendered in a flat, matter-of-fact tone that enhances the dreamlike character of all his work. While some readers may find Cock Rock, the extended story that draws heavily on the rebarbative tropes of the worst straight pornography, to be disturbingly sexist, a close read suggests that Cho is satirizing, not endorsing the misogyny and narrative flatness of porn.
The reader should not imagine that the protagonists and narrators identified in the stories as "Tom Cho" overlap in terms of attitude and values with the author. As in Cock Rock, many of the stories adopt a kind of narrative distance and ironic perspective on the events presented. The author has a more sophisticated intelligence than the sometimes simplistic and deadpan voice of his narrator would suggest.
Similarly, local poet Billeh Nickerson displays a far more complex sensibility in Artificial Cherry than some of his subject matter might indicate. Because his work is genuinely witty and topical (see especially his hilarious account of CBC radio host Shelagh Rogers calling him a slut on air and the tender and amusing Anthony's Glass Eye) and laced with knowing references to pop culture figures like doomed Playboy bunny Dorothy Stratten and Elvis Presley and his impersonators, some readers might be tempted to see Nickerson as a trader in ephemera, all trivia all the time. That assessment would be a mistake.
Nickerson is busy in these poems with transformations of his own. From the gossipy accounts of poetry readings across Canada to the simple, piercing grief of Red Mailboxes, a compressed meditation on loss, Nickerson is fusing a sometimes-confusing mix of pop culture, personal vision and scenes from memory into shapely and oddly compelling poems.
Petrified, which captures a moment in a hotel room as two old friends reflect on life, love, loss and time, is one of the most artfully crafted and moving of the poems in this book, while the title work, Artificial Cherry, meditates on the nature of art and artifice, and on the unpleasantly compelling power of the popular culture the author mines for his material.
In celebration of Asian Heritage Month four authors read from their new works: Tom Cho reads from Look Who's Morphing, Kevin Chong reads from Northern Dancer, Doretta Lau reads from How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? and Nancy Lee reads from The Age. Event is May 30, 7 p.m. at Pulpfiction Books, 2422 Main St. Lunch Poems at SFU will be with Billeh Nickerson and Heather Haley on June 18 at noon in the Teck Gallery at SFU's Harbour Centre Campus, 515 West Hasting St. For more info: sfu.ca/publicsquare/upcoming-events/lunch-poems/readings/2014/18June2014.htmlTom Sandborn lives and writes in Vancouver, and has experienced a few metamorphoses of his own during his nearly five decades here. He welcomes feedback and story or review tips at firstname.lastname@example.com


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William b. 1839 is the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Farmbrough) Rose (seen in a separate photo) and is the 2 x great grandson of my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read.
William's wife is Elizabeth Sarah Dodwell b. 1841.
I have included a transcript of Diary Extracts from Annie Humphreys and John Hughes Cox on another page here – see the menu on the right – and will add part of Annie's diary extract here as it is appropriate!
"1864 Oct. 17th Today I suppose Miss Dodwell has changed her name into Mrs. Rose. I hope they will be happy and think in all probability they will. I believe them to be much attached to each other".


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The N.C. Coastal Land Trust added another 678 acres of protected land near military bases this week through a partnership with the state, the Marine Corps and the Navy.
The N.C. Coastal Land Trust added another 678 acres of protected land near military bases this week through a partnership with the state, the Marine Corps and the Navy.
Luken�s Island peninsula in Carteret County, located across Turnagain Bay from Cherry Point�s Piney Island Bombing Range, was placed in trust to protect the Marine Corps� ability to keep flight paths clear around their main base in Havelock along with their Auxiliary Outlying Landing Field at Bogue.
The ability to keep Piney Island Bombing Range free of residential development is also aided by these conservation projects, according to Janice Allen, deputy director of the Coastal Land Trust.
�We are proud to have completed another acquisition of development rights at Luken�s Island,� Allen said. �We have completed 15 such �dual� military/conservation projects since 2006, protecting more than 7,500 acres of valuable wildlife habitat and preserving water quality while helping our local military bases.�
The protected tract features pine and hardwood forests, sloping down to estuarine marsh along the banks of Brown�s Creek, a relatively pristine tidal creek, according to Allen. Luken�s Island protected land is adjacent to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission�s 1,300-acre State Game Lands property that is open to the public and west of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service�s Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge.
As a result, this project contributes to a growing network of protected riparian areas along the Neuse River and multiple tributaries within the lower Neuse River estuary.
N.C. Coastal Land Trust purchased the development rights of the property. The owners may continue to hunt the land, but can never develop it as a subdivision or use it for industrial purposes.
Money to protect the property came from grants totaling about $2.58 million from the North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund and grants from the Department of Defense�s Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative.
The Coastal Land Trust, which works with landowners to save special lands, has helped protect more than 49,000 acres in coastal North Carolina since 1992, according to the organization. The trust has offices in New Bern, Elizabeth City and Wilmington and a website at coastallandtrust.org.


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DC Obscenity Case Thrown Out
Judge Richard J. Leon of the federal district court here in DC just threw out the government's obscenity prosecution I wrote about a few days ago. Via Mike Scarcella of the Legal Times:
Leon today ruled that the prosecution, led by Criminal Division trial attorneys Pamela Satterfield and Bonnie Hannan, failed to give enough evidence to jurors to prove that any one defendant, including Stagliano, violated the law. On the original indictment, Stagliano faced up to 32 years in prison.
By granting the defendant's motion to dismiss the case for lack of evidence, Leon likely short-circuited any future Supreme Court case resolving the circuit split over internet obscenity. The Stagliano case may be the last live Bush-era obscenity prosecution, and neither sets of counsel from the Ninth or Eleventh Circuit cases sought certiorari to hash out whether national or local community standards should apply in a jury's assessment of obscenity sent over the internet.
Meanwhile, the grounds for appeal in the Stagliano case to the DC Circuit would appear to rest not on any First Amendment issue, but rather on Leon's procedural and evidentiary judgment. However, I question whether there would even be an appeal in this case, given the Obama administration's apparent return to more lax Clinton-era enforcement of federal obscenity law.
UPDATE: The Washington Post provides some stats:
"The government said, 'We have been getting convictions on the most extreme stuff, so we can be a little more aggressive and put pressure on the entire industry,' " Richards said. "This case was the tail end of Bush administration obscenity prosecutions. Now it remains to be seen whether the Obama administration makes enforcement a priority."
Justice Department statistics show prosecutors charged 361 defendants with obscenity violations during President George W. Bush's years in office, nearly twice as many as under President Bill Clinton. In 2009, 20 defendants were charged, compared with 54 the previous year.
UPDATE II: Politico's Josh Gerstein notes that "the judge's ruling cannot be appealed."
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Uh…why can't it be appealed? Gerstein gives no reason, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of anything that "can't" be appealed eventually. I'm pretty sure a judge can abuse his discretion by granting a directed verdict. It may be reviewed at a high level of scrutiny, but I'm pretty sure any "final judgment" of a district court can be appealed higher.


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Scribus 1.3.3 Release - Printemps
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3, codenamed "Printemps". The 1.3.3 release is the fourth development version working towards a new stable 1.4. Within this release period over 200 bugs and feature requests were completed mostly focused on useability and correctness. See the release announcement for some of the major changes. Download GNU/Linux source, RPMS and Debs from Scribus Sourceforge downloads or get pre-built versions for Windows or Mac OS X.
Just for reference, "Printemps" is French for "Spring" (as in, the season).
Long live Scribus!
By james at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
thats funny, i was just about to ask "why do all scribus release names are in french?". Is the release dude french or just learning?
By patcito at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
I hope nobody here needs help for such a simple word.
By Flavio at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
I know I did. And it is a shame to admit I had French classes in school for a few years. :P
By blacksheep at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
Grrrr. Why is this a simple word? For you perhaps, for me not. It doesnt even closely resemble any word for spring in any language I know.
By Martin at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
Well, as a native french speaker, and english learner, I must admit that the word "Printemps" is not that evident to understand for non-frenchies...
By the way, its pronounced "Pray-tah"... although an english speaker would probably break his jaw trying to say it with the "really right" pronounciation :)
By PaT at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
Well, "printemps" looks like the words in the other romanic languages
not very far for english neither :
By jmfayard at Sat, 2006/04/01 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
As a spanish speaker, printemps looks as much as primavera as the word printing in english does.
Or like pringoso.
By Roberto Alsina at Sun, 2006/04/02 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
I speak Portuguese and I wouldn't get it. But after you mentioned, I can see some resemblance.
By blacksheep at Mon, 2006/04/03 - 5:00am
Re: Printemps
So after Liberté and Égalité, no Fraternité ? No Choucroute either ? I am quite surprised by printemps, but well, spring is here at least/last.
So what's next... 1.3.4 will be "Galerie Lafayette" ? "Redoute" ?
By oliv at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
The joke will be lost on any non-french, non Paris or suburbs living french, I'm afraid.
By Ookaze at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: Printemps
Printemps, Redoute, Fnac and many more are own by the same guy.
I prefer Printemps as the season. Nice to see the snow melting :)
By JC at Sat, 2006/04/01 - 6:00am
Re: Primavera
I am from Brasil. I never saw snow in my hole life.
By Nelson Rubens at Sun, 2006/04/02 - 6:00am
Re: Primavera
Well... snow. It is mostly white. It is also cold and now it is even very wet as it is melting away. There is plenty of it left still here in the southest part of Finland.
By hebe at Tue, 2006/04/04 - 5:00am
I just used Scribus
I just used Scribus 1.2.4 to layout some booklets for a family event, and wow! They came out looking great, and it was no effort at all! And, I was using an outdated version...Can't wait to try this one. Thanks, Scribus Team!
By Benjamin Kudria at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: I just used Scribus
I write freelance for a UK computer mag, Micro Mart (http://www.micromart.co.uk). Today they began a 5 part series by me on Scribus, and I persuaded the editor to let me submit the piece in PDF from Scribus (normally I send text and pics and they lay it out) It looks OK, in fact if I could afford to use the same font it would look perfect!
Now they want an 8 week 3 page per week series on using Scribus with a simple 'test' at the end, and this is a mainstream PC user mag not esoteric Linux developer publication. We're getting there!
By Phil Thane at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
opentype features
Does Scribus 1.3.x support opentype features, e.g. "locl"? It seems Scribus 1.2.x has hot support for them.
By Andrey V. Panov at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: opentype features
"hot" is really "not".
By Andrey V. Panov at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: opentype features
A lot more coming soon... :)
By Craig Bradney at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Good over-all effort
The page layouts come excellent. However the interface seems somewhat less mature. Petty display problems on the windows build are showing up. And yes! it is quite intolerant towards fonts.
By Manik Chand at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: Good over-all effort
Thanks, yes there are some display issues, but we are basically rewriting the whole display system, coming in 1.3.4-1.3.5 is the new text layout and rendering system. Yes, we are particularly strong in our stance on fonts.. if its broken at all, we reject it (due to the fact that everything we produce gets tested by commercial RIPS etc). We will be changing this in future to allow single glyphs in fonts to be broken and rejecting only those.
By Craig Bradney at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
I'm thrilled with Scribus
I'm pleased there is a new release. This product just gets better. I have used it to print thousands of flyers and with great results! Keep up the great work!
By Kevin Colyer at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
deb packages
Am I blind, or are there really no deb packages on the download site?
By Frank at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Re: deb packages
Try http://debian.scribus.net. Information is there on how to setup your repositories etc in your system for various forms of Debian.
By Craig Bradney at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
Any chance of KDE integration?
I'd really like to use e.g. kioslaves with scribus. I appreciate they want to remain crossplatform - maybe when kde4 is out they can become a true KDE app?
By mikeyd at Thu, 2006/03/30 - 6:00am
international input
I cannot type in Russian in this version, it seems international input in X is broken.
By Andrey V. Panov at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: international input
This input work on another computer, so it may be configuration specific.
By Andrey V. Panov at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Otf fonts in pdf
As I can see Scribus embed text with OTF/CFF fonts into pdf as bitmaps. Have you plans to embed outlined OTF/CFF fonts into pdf?
By Andrey V. Panov at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: Otf fonts in pdf
Correction, Scribus exports OTF as scalable vector outlines.
Yes, there is a great deal of work going in 1.3.4/1.3.5 to support far more advanced OTF features. :)
By mrdocs at Wed, 2006/04/05 - 5:00am
No Debian for 1.3.3.
I followed the direction on the debian page posted above and I get sribus 126.96.36.199. Anyone else having the same problem
By tikal26 at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: No Debian for 1.3.3.
No, I didn't get the same problem. Of course, you did notice that you had two packages and the one providing 1.3.3 was the scribus-cvs one, didn't you ?
By W. at Sun, 2006/04/02 - 6:00am
transparent png's
Is it planned to support transparent png's and so on in the future?
By psy at Fri, 2006/03/31 - 6:00am
Re: transparent png's
Transparent pngs are supported by scribus already!
Note: the default background colour for an image frame is white, so when you insert the transparent png, you see the white image frame background. If you want your png to have a truly transparent look, seeing thru the image frame as well, you need to set the image frame's background to none.
By Jonathan Dietrich at Mon, 2006/04/03 - 5:00am
does it support ODF?
I couldn't find the answer searching http://www.scribus.net/ and http://wiki.scribus.net/ for "ODF" (no matches) and "Open Document" (odd results).
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Applications/Scribus says Scribus 1.3.1 only "Supports import of text/draw files into text and image frames".
By S Page at Tue, 2006/04/04 - 5:00am
Re: does it support ODF?
Scribus has a built in .odt importer for OASIS documents, along with an .odw importer for drawings. OpenOffice.org 1.x formats are also imported .sxw .sxd
There are detailed notes on the importers in the builtin help browser.
By mrdocs at Wed, 2006/04/05 - 5:00am
Without CUPS
When configuring I get this: WARNING:
libcups could not be found. Printing functionality will be limited.
What are the limitations? Do I need to install CUPS even though I don't use it to print?
Note that I don't use CUPS because it fails to find fonts.
By James Richard Tyrer at Tue, 2006/04/04 - 5:00am


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AJournot necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 520 diseños de 110 diseñadores freelance.
Converge Students
I am a youth pastor for an innovative new church that has recently started a youth group in an effort to reach out to high school and middle school students. We have decided to give our youth group an identity.
Since our area is so diverse in both culture and background, our purpose it to bring our students together in one place, for one purpose, at one time. This art of convergence is what inspired us to name our youth group "converge students".
Our aim is to attract local high school and middle school students to come investigate what we do. The youth group's design intent is to look clean and simple, but yet have an attractive, artistic flair in everything we do.
When students see our logo, we WANT them to ask questions. We want them to wonder who we are, what we do, and what our purpose is. We want them to come check out what we do.
Here is what we are looking for in the final design:
1) Logo Style - We like the look of a linear logo (See Attached), but please feel free to change it up
2) Clean Font - (Sans Serif) we really like the look of lowercase sans serif! Here is an example of where the inspiration for the font and linear style came from: http://www.gatheringnetwork.org/
3) Color - Orange and Black are our primary colors, but please feel free to experiment with greys and whites and possibly other colors
4) Clean & Simple - We don't want a grunge or messy look. Here is an example of what we don't want: http://convergestudents.org/
5) Icon - Converge Students needs a small, but innovative and attractive icon used in the logo that stands out to our intended audience
6) Extra Wording - Move, Study, & Live will be our three focus points. We want to implement these into the logo design
7) Exclusions - Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
I have attached a starting point logo that I designed. Please take a look at it for further thoughts/considerations. This logo is what we ended up selecting to post on 99designs.com because we liked how it looked. However, THIS LOGO STYLE IS NOT SET IN STONE FOR US - WE WANT SOMETHING CREATIVE!
The files we will need are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Thank you so much for your design work!
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Bulawayo Climate & Weather
The climate in Bulawayo is a humid subtropical climate due to the city's high altitude. As with most of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo has three main seasons: a dry, cool winter season from May to August, a hot, dry early summer from late August to early November, and a warm, wet late summer from early November to April.
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text: Friday, July 12, 2013 2013 Post-House Packet Available Online A Post-House Packet containing draft final language for all motions acted on at the 2013 House of Delegates (House) in Salt Lake City is posted at the 2013 House of Delegates webpage and on the House of Delegates community. Official language for new and amended positions will be updated on the APTA website by September 23, in conjunction with the posting of the official House minutes to the House community archive. In the meantime, the position that was rescinded at the 2013 House (Direct Access and Attainment of "Physician-Status" as Applied Under the Medicare Program HOD P06-05-16-08) has been removed from the APTA website. A summary of the 2013 House has been prepared in Word and PowerPoint to serve as foundational elements for newsletter articles and presentations to educate members and nonmembers on the actions taken by the House. Those summary resources can be found along with other post-House content in the House community within the 2013 archive documents. The livestream of the entire 2013 House remains available to APTA members here.


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I have those same feelings and fears about the series coming up Brian... I worry it's not gonna live up to my expectations much the way E1 was a flop when compared to the classic trilogy's quality overall.My love of the toons is unending though, they were done well. Especially if you were able to watch them with that feeling they were stories being retold with exagerration and things, but based in the truth (if that makes sense). They were just great fun and excitement then...I remember watching every episode when it premeered and getting all anxious waiting for it to come on... It was fantastic. Everything from the goofy Separatist General in the trenches to the fast-paced action of Grievious stealing Palpatine... There was just a ton of great stuff int here.Even the episodes that stood alone (not my favorites) were still great... The Quarren/Mon Cal episode with Fisto was really nice even though it didn't tie to anything... And the Windu bit where he gives his cloak away like the old Steelers Coke commercial from the 70's. That stuff's classic to me. I just really hope the new series is able to match that quality. It's a lot to live up to in my eyes.Same as I hope the live action TV show is able to parallel the great way that Episode III was done. If it was done half as well as say Deep Space 9 or The Next Generation (the last half of the series anyway) I'd say it's got legs to be a hit itself.
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ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Grass lawns brought indoors are helping students at Cornell University in New York deal with the stress of final exams, school officials said.
The school's Department of Design and Environmental Analysis has used sections of turf to creating grassy oases of calm in the lobbies of two libraries as well as two science buildings on campus, a university release reported Wednesday.
"Being in touch with nature helps people be calmer, and they feel refreshed and productive," school Administrator Eveline Ferretti said.
The first indoor lawn was installed in the school's Mann Library in the fall.
"The library is the perfect place for it," Ferretti said, noting "it's great to see people willing to lay down in the grass and just relax there. The main goal is really to make people happy."
Marcia Eames-Sheavly, director of the Garden-Based Learning program, said she understands the calming allure of grass.
"We know from research that time spent in nature fosters diverse facets of our well-being, from cognitive function, to lower stress levels. [Indoor lawns] are easy to create, and do not require elaborate materials."


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — For the 17th straight year, Dr. Leslie Sabina has hit just the right note with ASCAP.
The chair of St. Bonaventure University's Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Sabina was honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers with another MusicPlus Award. ASCAP has given Sabina, director of SBU's music program, a MusicPlus Award every year since 1995.
Awards are granted by an independent panel and are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer's catalog of original compositions as well as recent performances in areas not surveyed by ASCAP. The award comes in the form of a monetary grant.
"The award is important because it gives recognition to composers who don't work in mainstream pop or TV," said Sabina. "There are literally hundreds of thousands of composers throughout the world who belong to performing rights organizations such as ASCAP, so to actually have a board bestow some cash for compositions — in my case, jazz — well, let's just say, it's very much appreciated."
The award recognizes Sabina's steady compositional output, and that his compositions are performed year after year in recognized venues.
"It definitely validates a continually long run of compositions that others feel are worthy of programming at concerts," said Sabina, the composer of 50 big band and saxophone quartet works published and internationally distributed by Kendor Music Inc.
For more than 50 years, the MusicPlus awards have recognized writer members each year for substantial performance activity in media and venues that are not included in performance surveys, or whose works have unique prestige value.
"The ASCAP Plus Awards program has been extremely beneficial to our members," said Paul Williams, ASCAP president and chairman. "Those checks serve not only as an additional revenue stream, but also as encouragement to continue pursuing their craft."
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How well can you use proper grammar, and what grammatical tendencies might you exhibit in your writings?
I have a knack for using perfects, which sometimes works against me.
It's obviously impossible for you to determine your own competence for writing with proper grammar, so you can use benchmarks as a means of branding your ability.
A relevant composition on the relationship between an individual's overall linguistic understanding and their grammatical capabilities: http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/vo.../81/pdf/81.pdf


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August 9th, 1971, fell on a Monday. Day 221 of 1971. Decade: 1970s.
48 years, 9 months and 29 days have passed since August 9th, 1971.
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The Billboard Charts in 1971 were dominated by the likes of Dawn, Three Dog Night, Rod Stewart, The Bee Gees, Carole King, Melanie, The Osmonds, The Temptations, The Raiders, Isaac Hayes, Donny Osmond and Cher.
U.S. President Richard Nixon was named as the Time Person of the Year in 1971.
Movies released in 1971 included Fiddler on the Roof, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, Diamonds Are Forever, Billy Jack, Summer of '42, The Last Picture Show, Carnal Knowledge, A Clockwork Orange, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Harold and Maude, Klute and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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"Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America" (Viking), by Dan Balz
Heading into the 2012 presidential election season, President Barack Obama had been weakened by GOP resistance to raising the debt ceiling, the economy was struggling and Democratic focus groups found voters deeply dispirited about the direction of the country.
So how did the Republicans let this election slip away? That's at the heart of Dan Balz's excellent book on the last election, "Collision 2012."
The book covers the oft-reported skill of the Obama campaign's use of online campaigning, fundraising and voter targeting, and reaffirms the Democrats' growing demographic advantage among Hispanics, the contrast of the conventions and the debates.
But a major factor was the Republican struggle to find a general election candidate who could win over swing voters while appealing to an increasingly conservative GOP base.
The Republicans are maneuvering now in the early stages for 2016 and struggling with attempts to remake the party's image, which makes Balz's account of the GOP contest in 2012 very timely.
Mitt Romney entered the race with "a glittering record of success, a resume that was enviable in both the public and private sectors, and a huge personal fortune. What he lacked was a clear political identity," Balz writes.
Romney's awareness of his vulnerabilities surfaced during a Christmas vacation in December 2010. Balz tells how Romney's son Tagg recalled his dad's hesitance. It might be difficult for a moderate from Massachusetts who happened to be Mormon to win GOP primaries. And there was concern that Romney's support for a Massachusetts health care plan could cost him conservative support.
"Even up until the day he made the announcement, he was looking for excuses to get out of it," Tagg Romney said. But Romney, encouraged by wife Ann and Tagg, was convinced there wasn't a stronger Republican candidate likely to run.
Potential strong GOP rivals bowed out, clearing the way for Romney, and a series of conservative Republicans took their turns as his chief rival. Their success highlighted Romney's difficulty winning a loyal conservative following.
"The field of candidates included no one who seemed to have the attributes that could provide a center of gravity to a party still searching for someone to define its post-2010 character," Balz writes.
While seeking to fend off conservative challengers, Romney had to take positions or make statements, especially on immigration, that would haunt him in the general election campaign. The Obama campaign skillfully took advantage of those vulnerabilities.
Romney was hurt by his immigration stances and his biography should have been an asset in troubled economic times, but his campaign had done little "to inoculate him" from coming attacks. Romney's claim at a conservative gathering that he was "a severely conservative governor" wasn't a hit with activists, who thought he was trying to impersonate a conservative, Balz writes.
The GOP nomination battle had been wildly unpredictable and it had highlighted that the party's base was pulling it to the right and out of the mainstream, Balz says.
Romney said after the election that it wasn't for him to say if the election was a sign of problems for the party. He maintains the party principles are right for the country, though he acknowledged that it had to more effectively woo Hispanic voters.
The Republican Party announced after the election that it was clear the party had to actively appeal to minorities, especially Hispanics. And it would have to pursue positions with more appeal to a broad range of voters. But the conservative base of the GOP has made it difficult for party leaders to reset the party's image.
In the run-up to the next presidential election, candidates are already lining up. The challenge for the GOP is to find someone who can provide "a center of gravity" and broad appeal, and survive the intense pressure of a primary campaign with a good chance to win the White House.
Book offers close look at GOP opportunity fumbled
"Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America" (Viking), by Dan Balz