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The Village of Cucchiarone
The village of Cucchiarone belongs to the municipality of Latina, in the province of Latina, region Lazio.
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For the province of Latina, to whom Cucchiarone belongs, on 2020-05-25 are reported 535 cases. In the previos day there were 531 cases, thus having a variation of 4 cases, i.e. 0.75% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
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The village of Cucchiarone is 6,79 kilometers far from the same town of Latina to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Latina also belong the localities of Acciarella (16,08 km), Acqua Bianca (6,07 km), Aereoporto di Latina (9,18 km), Agora (3,07 km), Argilla (6,05 km), Astura (13,45 km), Baia d'Argento (-- km), Bassianese (4,48 km), Borgo Bainsizza (12,02 km), Borgo Carso (7,85 km), Borgo Faiti (10,72 km), Borgo Grappa (9,75 km), Borgo Isonzo (2,98 km), Borgo Montello (14,07 km), Borgo Piave (4,10 km), Borgo Podgora (6,99 km), Borgo Sabotino (9,46 km), Borgo Sabotino - Foce Verde (7,37 km), Borgo San Donato (15,15 km), Borgo San Michele (8,34 km), Borgo Santa Maria (9,97 km), Campolazzero (4,01 km), Campomaggiore (7,28 km), Campovivo (12,35 km), Canneto di Rodi (11,42 km), Capograssa (8,88 km), Casal Delle Palme (7,82 km), Casal Traiano (13,25 km), Case sparse (-- km), Casermette (3,62 km), Casilina (6,10 km), Chiesuola (4,65 km), Cicerchia (3,56 km), Cioccatelli (6,76 km), Colle Cavaliere (13,17 km), Cooperativa (18,66 km), Crocefisso (6,44 km), Don Luca (7,25 km), Epidaffio (3,30 km), Farneto (4,99 km), Ferriere (15,42 km), Foce Verde (10,05 km), Fogliano (7,64 km), Foro Appio (10,75 km), Gionco (4,20 km), Giulia (10,57 km), Gorgoglicino (3,61 km), Latina Scalo (8,96 km), Latina Stazione (8,73 km), Le Ferriere (16,78 km), Litoranea (5,28 km), Macchia di San Giovanni (13,70 km), Macchia Grande (11,25 km), Mazzacornuda (7,75 km), Nascosa (3,62 km), Novella (10,83 km), Pantanello (7,05 km), Pantano D'Inferno (7,86 km), Pecoraro (8,94 km), Piano Rosso (10,23 km), Piccarello (3,70 km), Piscina Rodi (10,43 km), Piscinara Destra (5,68 km), Prato di Coppola (5,44 km), Quadrato (0,23 km), Quadrato I (13,01 km), Quadrato II (11,92 km), Riserva Tatti (6,82 km), Roma (11,85 km), San Pietro (11,86 km), Santa Croce I (7,29 km), Santa Croce II (8,76 km), Santa Fecitola (4,91 km), Santa Rosa (11,48 km), Scopeto Madonna Gulia (6,80 km), Sisto (8,57 km), Tor Tre Ponti (7,13 km), Torre Nuova (4,43 km), Uccellara (3,55 km), Valli D'Oro (5,14 km), Via Migliara 44 (7,62 km).
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Latina.
Please notice that in what follows no statistic nor population data are available at the moment: the same are available for the Italian places having al least the status of municipalities ad for most of the villages too.
The distribution of the most commun family names is equally unavailable.
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Last week, judges Tom Colicchio, Emeril Lagasse, Hugh Acheson, and Wolfgang Puck put the last of the Top Chef Seattle hopefuls through the ultimate chef test. The chefs who were deemed too salty, too sweaty, too full of themselves, and too boring for reality TV were eliminated.
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Alright, alright, alright! Padma Lakshmi is in the house, err, kitchen, and she's feisty. John decides to talk to his teammates while Padma is still dishing out instructions for the Quickfire challenge. She puts him in his place. Manners by Bravo lesson number one: don't talk over Padma. Standing beside Padma in a quiet and single-file line, as not to bring on Manners by Bravo lesson number two, are three past Top Chef contestants. Surprise! Josie Smith-Malave (season 2), C.J. Jacobsen (season 3), and Stefan Richter (season 5) will be the judges for the first blitzkrieg (okay, a little dramatic, but I love that word). Chrissy remembers Stefan; he's an evil villain who looks like a thumb.

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Films often remind me of other works of art- poetry, novels or paintings. Alexandra, a film by the Russian director Alexandr Sokurov, reminds me of nothing more than a painting, a still. An old woman visits her grandson fighting in the Second Chechen war. Her eyes become our eyes looking in on the life of the camp and on the relationship between grandmother and grandson. They enable us to understand the nature of what it is to be a soldier in the 21st Century in particular conflict. Like a painting, the film does not explore the 'before' or 'after', the tragic history of colonialism and terrorism that has brought Russia into Chechnya and Chechnya into Russia: rather like a painting it provides a still of what life has to offer for the soldier on the front line from the civilian perspective.
The first thing you notice about the film is the heat. Sitting in the British Film Institute, watching the film, all I could think about was how much I required a glass of water. Characters, especially our grandmother are continuously complaining about the heat. Beads of sweat run down the heads of the young soldiers. The dust is ever present and the barren land reinforces the image of heat. Within the camp, the world is sterile, metallic and dusty. Sand and fire are the materials of a particular type of nightmare: there are no trees here and I immediately thought of the science fiction horror of Visitor to a Museum as a natural counterpart. There is something of hell in every military barracks.
Alexandra comes into the barracks and meets the troops and her own grandson. Two things immediately strike you: the first is that this is a world of young men without any women- old or young. The young men behave as any young men do: but you can see they are bored. They are condemned to wait in the dust for whatever is coming next. Furthermore their boredom is bleak. Alexandra's grandson tells her that he will never marry: firstly because he knows that marriage in his own family has turned to disaster (a comment by Sokurov on Russian marriage as a whole) and secondly implicitly because he knows he will die in Chechnya. So he makes do with a succession of girlfriends from St Petersburg. The barracks has removed him and his fellows from the civilisation of their contemporaries- and plunged them into a strange half light, bored they wait for a bomb at the side of the road or to be ordered into committing an atrocity.
We follow Alexandra discussing with her grandson their own family and we glimpse the loss from the other direction. Having lost her own husband, living in loneliness and confronting her own mortality the old woman wants and requires companionship. As the light dims, she wants to see her family- war has taken this as it takes all other things away. As she departs on the train to the north, the viewer of the film knows both that this is the last time that grandson and grandmother will ever meet, and that this is a tragedy.
Sokurov never comments directly on the war itself- but affords us one last glimpse of the tragedy that it embodies. Alexandra leaves the camp and goes to a market one day: she meets there a Chechen woman and goes back with the Chechen woman to her house and has tea. The ties that bind are more powerful in this case than the division of war and nationality: so Alexandra relates to the Chechen woman who comes to bid her farewell at the station and her son whose political protests she treats with patient, stoic, grandmotherly practicality.
Sokurov never tells us that the war is unjust, never says that Russia should not be fighting it. He just shows us the cost of the war. A viewer inclined to optimism might say that the last exchanges show that war should never happen. A viewer inclined to pessimism might say that wars like the poor are things that we always have with us. The gods play dice and make us their sport- despite the cost to us all and there is nothing we can to stop the roll of the die. Sokurov allows us to understand the costs and pity the individuals who bear them: perhaps that is all that we can do.
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The jury is out. Zoos and aquariums are poised to make a big impact on the environmental education front, and particularly with respect to climate change literacy. Information from a new study suggests that zoos cater to a demographic of individuals who care about the planet and their concern is linked to the connection the visitors have for the animal ambassadors in these living institutions.
The final report of a survey submitted and analyzed by the Climate Literacy Zoo Education Network (CLiZEN)–a consortium of AZA zoos and aquariums led by the Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo–indicates that zoo-goers are ripe for learning about climate change and contributing to climate change mitigation.
"We have long suspected that people who visit zoos and aquariums care more about environmental issues and that their sense of care is tied to the connection they feel to the animals they see in our institutions. These findings give us the opportunity to help visitors understand climate change and to provide educational information about what they can do to make a difference," said Alejandro Grajal, Ph.D., senior vice president of conservation and education for CZS.
The results of the survey indicate that zoo and aquarium patrons use their visits to these facilities as opportunities to engage in discourse with their companions about peoples' relationship to nature and consider zoos to be trustworthy resources for learning about climate change mitigation issues.
Eighty-six percent of patrons surveyed conveyed a strong connection to the animals at these facilities. This strong sentiment was correlated with a concern for global warming. "Personal connections with animals are strongly related to our visitors' climate change conviction and concern and their desire to do more to help save the environment," said Stuart D. Strahl, Ph.D., president and CEO of CZS. "Zoos and aquariums have an opportunity to foster strong connections between visitors and the animals in our care.
The findings will help zoo and aquarium scientists and educators develop climate change literacy programs for the more than 20 million people who visit these natural history institutions annually.
A free e-book entitled Climate Change Education: A Primer for Zoos and Aquariums is available for download for educators, zoo practitioners, and anyone interested in learning more about climate change at www.lulu.com. The e-book will be also available through Barnes & Noble and the Apple iBooks app beginning May 4, 2012.
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From the capsule that was used to rescue 33 Chilean miners trapped underground to the food they ate while awaiting help, NASA provided expert advice to the Chilean rescue team.
The miners spent over two months trapped almost half a mile underground after an access tunnel caved in. NASA sent a four-man team, including an engineer, two doctors and a psychologist, to Chile after the Chilean government approached the United States Department of State seeking assistance. The agency provided consultation on the design for a capsule that could be sent down a small shaft to return the miners to the surface. It also advised in areas such as diet and exercise to keep the miners healthy while they awaited rescue. (NASA wasn't the only space agency to contribute — the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency sent specially designed "space underwear" designed to alleviate discomfort and reduce odors.)
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said that the agency's contributions to the rescue effort were a great example of an Earth-bound application of lessons from spaceflight. "For decades, the people of this agency have learned to live, work and survive in the hostile environment of space," Bolden said. "Our expertise in maintaining physiological and psychological health, and our technical and engineering experience in spacecraft design all proved to be valuable in a situation that is far from our traditional scope of work. I am proud of the people of this agency who were able to bring the experience of spaceflight down to Earth when it was needed most."
One person who saw a strong parallel between living space and the experiences of the miners was Skylab II astronaut Owen Garriott. Failures in two of the thrusters in his crew's Apollo command module during a 1973 mission to the Skylab space station called into question whether the vehicle could be used to return the astronauts safely to Earth and led to a rescue investigation into how best to bring them home.
Garriott said that several aspects of the mine rescue operation echoed aspects of his Skylab experience, and provide a good blueprint for dealing with similar crises:
–Establish communications with home. A communications link used to allow each miner to talk to loved ones on the surface was similar to a system used on Skylab. Garriott said that this provided a "very positive connection to things at home." In the case of Skylab, it was a turning point in space-to-ground communications, which in the past had been more tightly controlled. "Now, it is a very obvious positive morale booster and also keeps the control center very 'honest,"" he said.
–Establish a leader. Strong leadership is invaluable in dealing with a situation like this, Garriott said. The NASA training and military background of many astronauts make this a natural process in the agency, and Garriott said the role of leaders both in the mine and on the ground was important in the Chilean rescue operation.
–Provide good food. "The miners were just about to run out of the stored rations, and topside rescuers very promptly started sending them down more and better food, eventually even hot meals," Garriott said. "On Skylab, all meals were planned beforehand, but were very positive for morale and well-being. Skylab [had] the best food ever flown!"
–Give everyone responsibilities. Rather than focusing on the concerns over their spacecraft, Garriott's crew, which also included Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean as commander and Jack Lousma as pilot, poured their energy and attention into their work. Upon their return, they were dubbed the "supercrew" for accomplishing 150 percent of their mission objectives. Similarily, Garriott said, shifts were set up in the mine so someone was always working, and miners were given tasks like cleaning, preparing the tunnels for the rescue and exercise, vitally important when activity is limited. "Everyone needs real work to do," Garriott said.
–Train a medical officer. "I was it on our Skylab mission, but everyone wanted to participate and was trained for it," Garriott said. And, also as on Skylab, Garriott said the medical miner was helped by the communication link providing "telemedicine" connections with experts on the ground.
–Pay close attention to the morale. "Seems like they did this well, following much of the 'common sense' procedures first employed on Skylab," Garriott said of the Chilean rescue.
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The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters - from T. rex to Napoleon - the Minions find themselves without someone to serve and fall into a deep depression. But one Minion named Kevin has a plan, and he - alongside teen-age rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob - ventures out into the world to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow. The trio embarks upon a thrilling journey that ultimately leads them to their next potential master, Scarlet Overkill (Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock), the world's first supervillainess ever. They travel from frigid Antarctica to 1960s New York City, ending in modern London, where they must face their biggest challenge to date: saving all of Minionkind...from annihilation. Featuring a sound-track of hit music ... Written by


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He doesn't need help.
Fred with Peter Webber, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, and Ronda Faloon, Cape Ann Museum.
Since 1993, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Commonwealth Awards have been given every two years and celebrate achievement in arts and culture. Specifically,
"The Commonwealth Awards shine a spotlight on the extraordinary contributions made by the arts, sciences, and humanities to education, economic vitality, and quality of life in communities across the state."
See the full list here. Yo-Yo Ma (1997) and David McCullough (1999) are two notable past recipients. Prior city or town wins include:
Somerville (1993)
Northampton (1995, same year as Aerosmith)
Boston via Clara Wainwright (1999 First Night, Quilts—including Gloucester)
Springfield (1999 Library and Museums)
Cambridge (2003)
Worcester (2009, same year as Peabody Essex Museum)
Haverhill (2011)
Barnstable (2013)
Gloucester (2015) and Plymouth (2015)
Maritime Gloucester, Cape Ann Museum, Art Haven, Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester Stage, Cape Ann Cinema, HarborWalk, the City Archives, the partners of the two Cultural Districts, and more all mentioned this special day.
Joey and guests summed up the honor on Podcast 120: "Without having the narrow blinders of us living in this community, can you really think of another community (other than Boston and one that's our size)…Where else would have as vibrant an arts community?" Well, nearly that quote. Hmmm. Nominate GMG for 2016 in media?
Congratulations to the other 2015 winners:
Malcolm Rogers, Beverly Morgan Welch, Town of Plymouth, Pittsfield Barrington Stage Co, Highland Street Foundation (see Free Fun Fridays GMG post), Barr Foundation, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Artsboston, WBUR, WGBY, Holyoke Enchanted Circle Theater, Amherst Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Cambridge Science Festival, Boston Conservatory, and the Worcester Art Museum


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Michigan girl attacked by raccoon released after 1st surgery
10-year-old girl successfully undergoes 1st in series of surgeries to restore nose after being mauled by raccoon
ROYAL OAK, Mich. – Charlotte Ponce arrived in a little red wagon Wednesday to greet reporters at Beaumont Children's Hospital in Royal Oak.
She said the time she has spent at the hospital has been "pretty cool."
"I like the playroom. I like to read books and play with stuff in the other room," she said. "I think it's really nice here."
Charlotte, 10, underwent the first of a list of surgeries she will need since a raccoon attack left her without her right ear, nose, part of her lip and cheekbone. Surgeons plan to rebuild those features over the next two years. On Wednesday, doctors said the first operation went very well.
"What you see here is not a finished nose," said a member of the surgical team. "We completed the first stage of reconstruction of her nose."
Stage one created the nasal lining. In 6 to 8 weeks, Charlotte will be ready for step two which includes using part of her ribs to build a foundation to support her new nose.
"I saw her look at herself in the mirror and she kind of went like, 'Huh,' and it didn't even phase her," said her mother, Sharon Ponce.
With a bouquet of balloons and a wagon filled with good wishes, the family headed home to Spring Lake in west Michigan. The will be back at Beaumont in a few weeks for the next surgery. They are excited for the next step in Charlotte's recovery.
"This has been amazing," Sharon said. "It's been amazing for her and for us."
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For the newest Chicago Booth Full-Time MBA students, day one of business school began, fittingly, with a little competition.
In teams of 15, armed with three campus maps, pens, a camera, and a to-do list, they clambered up from the classroom level of Harper Center and out into the 90-plus degree afternoon of September 9 for a fast-paced scavenger hunt.
Meet "At Least Eight," a team from the Harper cohort, with members from at least eight countries, speaking 14 languages among them. They set out, confident in their prospects for victory.
At Least Eight's first stop was the Nobel Laureate display wall, where other teams stopped to get the first item on the list—a photo with a Nobel Laureate.
Then, led by Vanessa Douyon, a former recruitment manager in New Orleans, they gathered in front of Robie House, the prairie style Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, for a quick picture before heading south to the Midway.
"The scavenger hunt was definitely not what I pictured while I was fine-tuning my application," Douyon said. "But now that I'm here, I couldn't imagine a better way to get to know the campus and the people I'll have the privilege of working with."
Robie House, check. Human pyramid, check. Toilet paper–mummified classmates, check.
And for 10 points, Vanessa, along with Xavi, Martin, Linh, Yosy, Corey, Morgan, Jason, Fernando, Maria, Hagar, Georgi, Siddharth, Cliff, and Caroline contorted their bodies, just so, to spell out B-O-O-T-H. Siddarth Doshi, a former management consultant from India, was the self-sacrificing crossbar for the letter "H."
Stacey Ergang, associate director of student programs and events, who coordinated the event, said the scavenger hunt was designed to help the first year students learn more about the campus and to get to know their colleagues. "Despite the heat, it was a success and students had a good time with it," she said.
The scavenger hunt was designed primarily for fun, but cohort pride and prizes of Booth gear also were at stake. The Walker cohort teams amassed the most points for the overall title.
First place in the single team category went to "Boo Davis," of the Davis cohort; second went to "Blue Label," of the Walker cohort; and third went to "Rain Maker," of the Harper cohort.
And if there had been a prize for most creative group name, the "James" team of the Bond cohort would surely have been a contender.
The "James" team did inspire an impromptu honorable mention award from the judges. They were the only team to take a photo with a Nobel Laureate in person—University of Chicago economics professor Roger Myerson—not just a picture of a recipient.
"I think we've all heard alumni loud and clear when they've told us that the most important part of our experience will be the people we meet along the way," Douyon said. "Nothing kills first-day-of-school jitters like intense competition, free cupcakes, and mummy-wrapping people you just met."—Chelsea Vail
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Tennis Signs Local Product
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State tennis coach Robert Cain announced the signing of Grant Maddox to a National Letter of Intent. Maddox is completing his senior year at Greenbrier High School where he has played for Coach Blaise Miranda.
"Grant is in an awesome situation being he has a year to work on his game prior to putting on a TSU uniform," Cain said. "Upon his arrival, there will be no expectations placed on him because of the make-up of our team. His responsibility will be to get to know our system and working on his game. He is a very hard working young man with a huge upside to his game."
Maddox led GHS to a 2013 District Championship. The local product has amassed a 60-9 record including undefeated seasons in his sophomore and junior seasons. In doubles action, Maddox claimed district and regional championships in 2012. He also earned an individual District championship in 2013.
Maddox has won numerous individual tournaments as he has totaled a 40-15 record in the USTA 16's and 18's divisions. He has increased his skills over the last year as he has worked with private instructors including Cain and Wilson Webb. Maddox played basketball at GHS and is a member of the National Honor Society, BETA Club and Future Business Leaders of America. He intends to major in Business Administration at TSU.


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1. Real estate. There is a two-year inventory of single-family homes available on the market. Additionally, 5.5 million home mortgages are in trouble. A healthy percentage of them will join the houses-for-sale market in the next 24 months, adding to an already bloated supply. The real-estate industry is a large employer, and until these homes are absorbed and until we get back to a "normal" pattern of foreclosures, unemployment will remain high in the real-estate business.
2. Federal government indebtedness and growth. In just 12 months, the U. S. national debt has increased from $9.4 trillion to $11.3 trillion, a 20% increase in one year. In 1991 it took $2.60 of debt to produce every extra dollar of GDP growth. By 2001 it took $4.65, and by 2008 it took $6.12. Most of the borrowing has been by the government. That is why there is an increasing amount of borrowed funds necessary to produce each extra dollar of GDP.
Government debt is inefficiently used. It is not invested in plant and inventory that will produce more jobs and income, but, rather, it is given away in the welfare system to people who are unproductive. As long as we continue to bury ourselves in public debt, our economy will continue to struggle with growth.
Government debt is never paid off, and government debt requires a constant stream of interest payments that burden the taxpayer and, therefore, burden the economy, because those funds would otherwise have gone into productive investments. Unbelievably, U.S. government securities are now on the watch list by the S&P Bond Rating Service. S&P is looking hard at reducing the AAA bond rating. How can the richest country in history, whose dollar is the world's reserve currency, carry on with less than an AAA bond rating?
3. "As GM goes, so goes the nation." This famous saying was coined more than 50 years ago by GM Chairman Charlie Wilson, and he was right. As General Motors grew, so grew the U.S. As debt, pensions, poor management and untenable labor contracts have put GM on the verge of bankruptcy, so is the U.S. government on the verge of bankruptcy.
The U.S. government is really illiquid and only sustained by taxes and the fact that the dollar is the accepted world's currency. How much longer the dollar will be the world's accepted currency is unknown because our government is managed like GM: bloated, ridiculous pensions, overpaid and inept employees whose jobs are protected and borrowing money without restraint. At this point, the U.S. government needs to borrow $7 billion a day just to meet its "obligations." GM and the U.S. government are really in exactly the same boat: unmanageable, intractable and hopelessly in debt.
4. Wall Street. Wall Street encompasses the entire U.S. financial spectrum: banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, stocks and bonds, etc. Wall Street, as we knew it two years ago, has disappeared. A combination of Wall Street greed and government involvement with Wall Street has turned our monetary system upside down. Most of the funds to elect high-ranking government officials, including the president, come from Wall Street. Most of the U.S. government financial organizations, such as the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury, are run by former Wall Street executives whose buddies are still churning out multi-million dollar bonuses at their former Wall Street firms.
Under the "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" theory, the government allows Wall Street to package securities in an unsafe and overleveraged way, because a lot of the money earned therefrom comes back to keep those politicians in office. Therefore, when the main source of funding for elections — Wall Street — gets in trouble, it is logical that the government would bail them out with taxpayer dollars to keep the merry-go-round going. Wall Street firms and banks get re-capitalized at taxpayer expense, and the same old Democratic and Republican regimes do the same old things to confiscate our dollars and perpetuate their own power.
5. Bear markets in the free economy. Bear markets exist for the purpose of correcting the faults, scams, greed and inefficiencies that grow out of the preceding bull markets. Today, however, the failures are being bailed out with massive infusions of capital, contrary to free market theory that "bad businesses need to go broke, be re-capitalized with new money and invigorated with new management."
To continue to keep them afloat is a politician's response to a crisis that, in most cases, was created, or allowed, by the politicians themselves. This "new deal" will ultimately generate more havoc as the downward spiral repeats itself because the problem has never been fixed — it's only being sustained with a Band-Aid.
6. Stock markets. In bear markets, the steady liquidation of securities by those who need cash will frustrate the market's attempt to rise to new levels. With high unemployment, the economy's cash flow will not be able to increase. People will supplement their financial needs by liquidating securities, thereby keeping the stock market suppressed.
Based upon the above economic realities, it is now evident that values in America will continue to undergo reassessment. Although impossible to estimate, it's reasonable to assume that values, once readjusted, will end up at 60% to 80% of where they were before the recession started. Stock markets were selling at unrealistically high values, and real estate was selling at unrealistically high prices. What's interesting is that while prices may take significant drops in value over the next few years, those values will be blown out of the water by inflation sometime in the next five to 10 years.
What we may expect to happen
We have entered a less indulgent world, which is probably more realistic than the one we enjoyed a few years ago, a world in which most people will live more frugally. Less waste and lower expenditures, coupled with more savings, will come eventually and will help pull us out of this economic morass.
It would be helpful if our government cut back on expenditures and reduced, got rid of or put a cap on huge welfare programs that drain the Treasury. Banks have been saved with lots of cash from the Fed, which the public will pay for with interest payments ad nauseam. Eventually, they will begin to lend again. The smaller banks are already lending, and the bigger banks are being encouraged to do so by the Fed and the Treasury Department. However, with everybody still shell-shocked, it is not easy to reopen the loan vents.
An active-and-lending banking industry is necessary to increase the velocity of money. The velocity of money is the frequency of its turnover. The greater the spending in an economy, the greater the velocity, (turnover) of money. Cash held in the bank is most useful to the economy when banks are lending and businesses are spending.
Countries in crisis need to learn to live within their means after periods of excess. Exports must be increased, and imports must be cut. Our trade imbalance, which has been horrible the last several years, is getting a lot better as U.S. expenditures for frivolous items is reduced.
Cicero said in 55 B.C.: "The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." Amen.
More than 2,000 years later, many empires have come and gone, of which the United States is the latest. It is unlikely that our politicians will follow Cicero's advice — or even our own U.S. Constitution. We will, therefore, stumble along until things get better, just because we are well-educated, hard working and creative people.
De Tocqueville said in the early 19th century, "a good government's greatest job ought to be to accustom the people, little by little, to do without their government." Expecting that government will not do the right thing, the prudent investor will be best advised to sit on the sidelines with cash, high-grade, short-term bonds and stocks that pay a high dividend, that sell at a low price-earnings ratio and that are rated "A." The conservative investor will let the market unwind itself and the economy de-leverage itself, without making any major securities investments until times are more stable and predictable.
Caveat Emptor.
George Rauch, Longboat Key, is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.


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Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
Matt Garcia
In September 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) held its first convention in Fresno, California, initiating a multiracial movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers (UFW) and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California. Led by Cesar Chavez, the union contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest, including the most successful consumer boycott in the history of the United States. Chavez welcomed contributions from numerous ethnic and racial groups, men and women, young and old. For a time, the UFW was the realization of Martin Luther King Jr.'s beloved community—people from different backgrounds coming together to create a socially just world. During the 1970s, Chavez struggled to maintain the momentum created by the boycott as the state of California became more involved in adjudicating labor disputes under the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA). Although Chavez and the UFW ultimately failed to establish a permanent, national union, their successes and strategies continue to influence movements for farm worker justice today.
The U.S.–Mexico War
Omar Valerio-Jiménez
The United States–Mexico War was the first war in which the United States engaged in a conflict with a foreign nation for the purpose of conquest. It was also the first conflict in which trained soldiers (from West Point) played a large role. The war's end transformed the United States into a continental nation as it acquired a vast portion of Mexico's northern territories. In addition to shaping U.S.–Mexico relations into the present, the conflict also led to the forcible incorporation of Mexicans (who became Mexican Americans) as the nation's first Latinos. Yet, the war has been identified as the nation's "forgotten war" because few Americans know the causes and consequences of this conflict. Within fifteen years of the war's end, the conflict faded from popular memory, but it did not disappear, due to the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War. By contrast, the U.S.–Mexico War is prominently remembered in Mexico as having caused the loss of half of the nation's territory, and as an event that continues to shape Mexico's relationship with the United States. Official memories (or national histories) of war affect international relations, and also shape how each nation's population views citizens of other countries. Not surprisingly, there is a stark difference in the ways that American citizens and Mexican citizens remember and forget the war (e.g., Americans refer to the "Mexican American War" or the "U.S.–Mexican War," for example, while Mexicans identify the conflict as the "War of North American Intervention").


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Thursday afternoon finally brought relief to Ashley Walker.
MOHEGAN — Thursday afternoon finally brought relief to Ashley Walker.
"I've been the last cut three times in a row, so to kind of make it to the next day is a huge accomplishment for me, I think," Walker said prior to suiting up for her first official game as a member of the Connecticut Sun on Saturday night against the New York Liberty.
What was the worst part was the waiting, something that Sun coach Anne Donovan made excruciating by waiting until the last possible minute before deciding Walker and Natasha Lacy would stay with the team.
"You can barely sleep the night before. 'What did I do to make it, what did I not do?' You analyze everything," Walker said. "What is (Donovan) looking for, what is she not looking for? But in the end, you have to leave it in God's hands."
There was one thing that Walker knew, which was she had a good preseason. The University of California grad put together two double-digit point performances, grabbed 10 rebounds against Minnesota — a huge plus for a team that might run a deficit in that department — and was 5-for-13 from 3-point range.
She said she has had strong performances before in previous stops in Seattle and Tulsa, but they didn't pay off. Part of the reason for that is Walker is a 'tweener.'
At 6-foot-1, she's small to play center in the WNBA. She is probably better suited for forward, but with no real backup for Tina Charles, Walker may have to fill that role. In the past, that lack of a defined role may have hurt Walker. However, it may have helped with the Sun.
"The fact that (Donovan) likes that about me, that she can use me in different ways, it helped me and made my game better," Walker said.
Seattle took Walker with the 12th pick in the 2009 draft, but in a situation similar to Connecticut's first round pick this year, Kelly Faris, Walker broke her foot in camp.
"That was my first injury ever; it was devastating," Walker said. "I had gone four years of college and was never injured. Become a pro, break your foot. So, I learned how to be patient, wait for your opportunities and grow your game."
She played 13 games for Seattle in 2009, but was waived the following season. Tulsa picked her up, but played in only two games.
There were times when she felt it was time to look for something else.
"Training camp is hard, and at the end of it, you're so tired and so sore, why did I do it again not to have a good result?" she said. "But, it makes you a better person and a better player to go through trials and tribulations and fight for something you really believe in. I really believe I can be a part of this league."
Lacy hangs in
When Anne Donovan took over as head coach of the Connecticut Sun, she began talking about one thing, defense.
That was fine with Lacy.
Defense has been her forte in stops in Tulsa, Los Angeles and Washington. In 2011, she was fourth in the WNBA in steals per minute while with the Sparks.
"I loved it, and when I originally signed on here, I already knew that," Lacy, a 5-11 guard from Texas-El Paso, said. "Not that (the Sun) were a bad defensive team before, but they can score with anybody, but it's just getting that stop."
She feels she brings a new defensive intensity that Donovan can pluck off the bench whenever she feels the Sun have to turn it up a notch.
"It's something different that I bring that I don't think they had before," she added. "The starters, and Renee (Montgomery), and the others who come in early are experienced. They know how to win. But I give them that little extra thing that they need and Anne knew they needed."
Signing with the team and making the team still were two different things. Despite being a veteran, Lacy was battling more than her share of anxiety of the evening before the final cut was made.
"I couldn't eat, I had trouble sleeping and I still had to wake up and come to practice on (Thursday)," Lacy said. "When I met with (Donovan), she asked me if I grabbed lunch and I said I did, but I didn't know if it was going to sit well. It's just nerve-wracking, because it could have gone either way. I take my hat off to Jo(hanna Leedham) and LaToya Williams. They had a heck of a training camp."
Lacy is happy to be able to stay in Connecticut, although not necessarily for basketball.
"Connecticut was actually my favorite place to visit and play because I loved to go down to the casino after the game and play poker," Lacy said.
Funny enough, now that she's a member of the Sun, she can't do that anymore. It's a small price to pay stay in the WNBA.
Sun help Oklahoma
The Sun donated the proceeds of tickets sold between May 21 and Saturday night to the victims of the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma.
"We're really excited to help," Sun general manager Chris Sienko said. "It's just a small part. There's a lot more people who can do a lot more than we can do. But it's been great to see the fans purchase tickets once they knew what we were doing."
The money will be donated to the American Red Cross to help with those relief efforts.


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Friday, 12 June 2009
adapting a lens to fit the mount
With this philosophy clearly in mind I had a go at fitting my lens onto a new adaptor I bought on eBay in an attempt to mount a Computar 12.5mm f1.3 TV lens onto my G1.
I've previously bought an Elgeet lens and RJ Cameras adaptor which worked fine, and looked like this.
But the Computar wouldn't fit in the recess (by a long shot) and RJ Camera said it couldn't be done. So I bought another adaptor from a fellow on eBay called hawkpeng2003, which I expected would be close ... what follows is my small journey to get it going...
The bottom of my lens looks like this:
and comparing it to the RJ Camera mount:
it just clealy wasn't going to fit.
Well, the diagrams from Hawkpeng2003 on his site looked promising, particularly this one:
Here is my adaptor (and the lens in the background)
The dot you see on the lower left is the alignment dot. Note also the chamfer on the contcentric inner edges of the mount. The actual dimensions of the lens matched the dimensions of the mount in the diagram above from HawkPeng2003, but it did not take into account the square edges on the lens, and his adaptor has chamfered edges.
All of them other edges on the lens were within the sizes he quoted except one ... the second inner edge.
So armed with my trusty Leatherman I set to work to carefully file that second inner edge back. Here's the result:
Now, prior to working I used some masking tape around the mounting thread to form a protective 'tube' which I pinched off. This was just to keep filings and finger prints off the lens.
Now as you can see the lens and the mount will go together better:
and boy, its close as you can see ... but the chamfer matches (well perhaps its got some clearance too).
but it fits and finally I can screw it down properly so that the alignment mark comes very close to perfect.
the final check is that the alignment mark on the adaptor comes quite close enough to that of the lens to give me quite good infinity focus (even with the magnifier).
Here it is on the camera
and it takes great images
Thanks HawkPeng
Have fun.
26 comments:
- snatre said...
Hi Obakesan,
Very interesting post. Do you have any idea about the old X-ray lenses like Kowa 1.1/77mm. What mount are they? Is it possible to fit them onto micro 4/3 or to 4/3 for macro?
- 28 June 2009 at 16:45
- obakesan said...
Hi there
sadly I don't have any experience with those lenses. Please let me know if you do find out.
- 28 June 2009 at 18:29
- Phototransformations said...
Wondering how this lens is working on your G1. I'm considering a similar lens/adapter combo. Is there substantial vignetting? Is it fairly sharp?
- 12 October 2009 at 03:07
- obakesan said...
lens is working out ok ... vignetting and samples can be found here:
- 12 October 2009 at 03:37
Thanks Obakesan, I got this lens and did the modification. However I also removed the focus lock screw underneath the rubber focus ring. This gives more focus ring rotation to achieve perfect infinity + closer focus possibility.
good work!
- 13 April 2010 at 23:23
Just thought i'd say that the "final check" alignment mark on the lens is neither here nor there.
It doesn't have any particular position, seeing as its totally adjustable after loosening the 3 grub screws on the chrome collar and rotating the lens through 360 degrees... once the C-mount screw has seated home fully against the mount.
So unless you know the latter has been achieved, you cant take that mark to mean anything.
- 14 March 2011 at 05:27
- obakesan said...
good point. I can confirm that it does screw down to meet the surface firmly.
- 14 March 2011 at 07:03
- Lens Wide-Open Photography said...
I have one that focuses to infinity but minimum focusing distance is about 3ft., nowhere near .4m indicated on the focusing ring. Have you adjusted this as well?
- 7 April 2011 at 23:11
- obakesan said...
focus close is simply extending the lens further from the mount. Often the markers for distance are (quoting from "Pirates of the Caribbean") more like a guide line.
You can get closer focus by just unscrewing the lens a little on the mount (be careful it does not fall off, you will know where that point is) as both are just threads right?
Also you can get small 'extension' rings which allow you to mount the lens further from the mount for very little on ebay ... they are just simply threaded tubes. I have an example of these for FD lenses on this page
the C-mount ones are much more compact
- 8 April 2011 at 07:03
- Jeroen Wolf said...
Nice work! I have the Pentax 6mm 1.2 and have a C-mount which seems to miss the second 'outer ring' on your lens.
The rear barrel is 1mm too wide to fit the adapter. Is it safe to just 'shave off' the metal on the barrel? (btw: any idea why don't they make adapters that fit these lenses?)
- 12 April 2011 at 17:49
- obakesan said...
I believe so ... although the bottom will (like mine) look that wee bit ugly
- 12 April 2011 at 19:07
- Jeroen Wolf said...
Thanks. I'll ask someone with the proper gear to keep damages to a minimum!
- 12 April 2011 at 20:10
These are links to C-MOUNT 1/2 and 2/3 fast wide angle lenses that probably would fit GH2 and would fill the ETC 2.6x sensor area (some lenses needs modification in body or rear barrel):
the rule to find the 35mm equivalent focal lenght is:
C-Mount focal lenght / 8.3 x 43,2 = full frame 35mm equivalent
Observation: I do not know if some of them are fish eye
Kowa 4-10mm
Kowa 3.5mm
Kowa 4.5mm
Kowa 6mm
Tokina 6-15mm
Pentax 4.2mm
Pentax 4.8mm
Pentax 6mm
Pentax 6mm (other)
Fujinon 6mm
Fujinon 3.8-13mm
Tamron 4-12mm
Ikegami 4-12mm
Arecont 4-10mm
- 21 April 2011 at 22:51
- Shrigg said...
Very useful post! The newest Hawks adapter is quite a bit slimmer although my computar 12.5 f/1.3 still needs chamfering for infinity focus. Same with my Pentax 6mm f/1.2, although much more chamfering is needed since the lens does not step down like the computar.
- 8 June 2011 at 01:45
- Jeroen Wolf said...
I don't understand. I had someone grind down the rear barrel of my Pentax 6mm, grind some of the adapter when it wasn't enough and I still don't get infinity... drives me nuts.
I want to grind down more of the adapter but have a question before I do so: can the lens sink in too far? If I grind down another 2mm, could it be that that would be too much and affect the functionality of the lens?
- 8 June 2011 at 20:18
- obakesan said...
Joren ... do you know if the base of the lens is actually making it to touch the bottom of the adaptor? Need to be sure that the flat surfaces are meeting. Try a thin piece of paper and see if when you screw the lens on, that the sufraces are squeezing it together.
- 8 June 2011 at 21:02
- Jeroen Wolf said...
Here's a link to the adapted lens+adapted adapter. The inner ring of the adapter is not completely ground down but the surface of the rear barrel seems on par with the edge of the adapter...
But maybe I have to grond the adapter until the inner ring is completely gone! (that's why I asked: can the lens sink too deep?)
thanks for your assistance!
- 9 June 2011 at 19:31
- obakesan said...
I'm sorry, but that picture doesn't tell me anything about how the adaptor and the lens are interacting, what you've ground off the lens and how.
- 9 June 2011 at 19:43
- Jeroen Wolf said...
I posted 6 more pictures that should give you all the info you need.
thanks again,
- 10 June 2011 at 01:07
- obakesan said...
Hi Jeroen, this is an interesting experience in communication. Looking at your first picture I can see I was not clear enough. I meant the meerest tiddle bit of paper (think 2mm x 2mm) to just sit in there and as you tighten up the lens you will "feel" it if the two surfaces (the adapter and the lens back) touch. that way you know if it is screwing down to the right amount.
I see from your other pictures that you are using the RJ Camera adaptor (as in my first image in this blog). This one will just cause heaps of hassle for you and you will not be able to be modify the adaptor without it becoming dangerously thin and risk braking.
I have annotated your image here:
do demonstrate a couple of things.
1) do not grind down the back part of the lens near the thread, that will cause you problems in getting infinity properly in focus. Instead you need to grind down the outsides of the cylinder to allow it to fit against the surface of the adaptor.
2) you really need to think about the lens you have when picking an adaptor OR be willing to do heaps of modification.
From what I hear the Pentax is a tough one to mount, but that it can be machined down (again, I stress on the outside of the cylinder not the base) to fit and there is quite some amount of brass which can be removed to have it fit.
- 10 June 2011 at 14:30
- Jeroen Wolf said...
Thanks again. I tried your piece of paper but I can't feel if it's a proper fit...
However I ordered an adapter like yours (your link doesn't work anymore but I found an identical adapter)
When I have it I will try again and start grinding if I don't get infinity. I'll keep you posted!
- 12 June 2011 at 02:00
- obakesan said...
good luck with that, probably it'll fit without further adaptation :-)
remember, grind the diameter of the rear barrel of the lens, not the length of the cyclinder.
- 12 June 2011 at 09:06
Good and inspiring but alas, so-oo 0.5 mm away from what I need to do myself with my just-purchased Pentax 6mm TV c-mount lens on my GH2.
I really hope that many people have done this before me!
- 28 June 2011 at 16:10
- obakesan said...
I guess its worth keeping in mind that not *EVERY* C-mount can be adapted to work (and in particular not on every adpator). So before spending bucks on a lens best to check out its dimensions :-)
- 28 June 2011 at 16:17
- Jeroen Wolf said...
Well, it took a while but I wanted to tell you it worked. The adapter I bought that you had did not do the trick but I bought a Dremel (small drill-like machine) and shaved some more off the outer ring. After 2 tries I got it! So I wanted to say thanks for your patience and sound advice.
Jeroen Wolf
- 30 September 2011 at 22:15
- Unknown said...
Just saw this. I have a similar problem with the Kern Switar 50mm f1.4 on the NEX-C count. It's just about 1 to 2 mm shy of getting to infinity, if I file the edge of the lens. But I can't bring myself to doing this to a beautiful lens.
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