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We have a three part mission to: provide warmth and support, during the winter holiday season, to low-income Johnson County families; increase awareness and understanding of poverty in Johnson County; and give neighbors an outlet to help neighbors. Read More
RIGHT NOW WE ARE DISTRIBUTING MERCHANDISE FOR IMMEDIATE USE FOR COVID-19 RELIEF. In normal times we help our Johnson County neighbors who live below 150% of the poverty level. The neighbors living in poverty are moms, children, the clerk at the store, and others we interact with every day. Learn More
RIGHT NOW WE ARE OBTAINING AND DISTRIBUTING MERCHANDISE FOR COVID-19 RELIEF BY DONATING THE MERCHANDISE TO CHARITIES WITH IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS. In normal times we provide warmth and support to low-income Johnson County families at the Holiday Shop and through nursing homes. Read More
Volunteers are vital to the fulfillment of our mission. Over 150 volunteers serve year-round; over 3,000 volunteer slots are available seasonally. Learn More
We are helping right now. The need for funding to run the Holiday Shop is greater than ever due to spending our resources now and the increased number of neighbors who will be in need. We need your help so we can run the annual Holiday Shop. Funds and in-kind donations are needed in order to help our neighbors. Please consider donating. Donate
Thank you to all of our sponsors, grantors and community partners. Please take a moment to see who are our sponsors, grantors and partners. Sponsors-Grantors-Partners
We are planning to hold events starting in August. Stay tuned. EVENT DETAILS
Our monthly newsletters have a lot of information about our activities, committees, and events. Read Our Newsletters
The Annual Holiday Shop will be Dec. 4th through Dec. 12th, 2020. Volunteer sign up will open on Oct. 1st, 2020.
Every family visiting the Shop receives enough food for the entire family to have fully balanced nutritional meals for three days. Please consider running a food drive to help our neighbors.
Every client who needs a warm winter coat receives a coat. Imagine not having a winter coat for your child on a cold winter day.
A toy for all children. We try to obtain educational toys that are manipulative and promote literacy. Children without educational toys are at a disadvantage when starting school.
Laundry Detergent. Diapers. Toothbrushes. Tooth Paste. Hygiene products. Soap and shampoo. Toilet paper and paper towels. Imagine not being able to stay clean, not having toilet paper and/or not having clean diapers.
We distribute gifts for children, teenagers and adults. Often it is the only holiday gift a child receives. Many mom's cry when they find out their child will receive a gift this year.
One of each for every child of each family we help. Many of these items are knitted by volunteers. A true neighbor helping neighbor experience.
We give a new outfit to our client's children – newborn through 18. Many of these children/ teenagers will not receive any other new clothing this year. All clothing is new.
We have books for all members of all of our families. Each family gets to select books that interest them. Childrens' books are important to cognitive development.
Nursing home residents on medicaid, who are not receiving assistance from their own families, receive items such as lap blankets, sweaters, slipper socks, walker bags and more.
"I want to express my gratitude for what you have done for me through the Christmas Bureau. I have no close family left. That's why I am so grateful for your Christmas Bureau. Last year you helped me find a light jacket that fit me and I wear it around the house ALL the time. That way I can keep the heat lower. This year I got another jacket that fit, and I am so happy about that. I sincerely appreciate your volunteers that helped me find the foods that I wanted and could eat. Your volunteers were so helpful, cheerful and kind. I know some people don't recognize that there is poverty in Johnson County. There, however, are people like me. You are SO important to SO many people!! Thank you, one and all, for your kindness and your caring."


text: SAN FRANCISCO — The Earth at night looks more beautiful than it ever has before in these incredible new images from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite. More Earth From Space:Earth as Art: Stunning Images From Space Strange, Beautiful, Unexpected: Planned Cities From Space These super-high-resolution images, made possible by a new type of infrared sensor on the satellite, were revealed here at the American Geophysical Union conference Dec. 5. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite has a "day-night band" that can detect natural and man-made light with unprecedented resolution and clarity. It can resolve everything from the nocturnal glow of the atmosphere to the light of a single boat at sea. It can detect auroras, wildfires, the reflection of moon and star light off clouds and ice and the lights alongside highways. The sensor has six times better spatial resolution and 250 times better resolution of lighting levels than anything that came before it. The VIIRS instrument works by scanning in 22 different wavelength bands. For each pixel, it uses a low-, medium- or high-gain mode to accurately depict the light from each source. Low-light signals are amplified and bright lights are kept from being over-saturated. The data from the Suomi satellite is freely available to the public within hours, providing the first look at the Earth at night for most scientists. Previously, the U.S. Air Force had a suite of night-time satellites with low-light sensors, but the data wasn't nearly as good, was mostly classified, and was available only to a few scientists. Above: United States This image is a composite of data taken by the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. Image: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution version)Video: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterThe Nile River Valley and Delta This image dramatically illustrates the fact that around 97 percent of Egypt's population occupies the 5 percent of land around the Nile River and its delta. Image: NASA/NOAA, taken Oct. 13, 2012 (High-resolution version)Video: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDCAfrica This incredible image of the night side of Earth is a composite of data gathered by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012 and mapped over previous imagery of the whole Earth. Image: NASA/NOAA. (High-resolution version)The Arctic As polar darkness encroaches, it is harder and harder to monitor sea ice. Now the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite can keep an eye on the Arctic all through the winter. The satellite captured this image on Oct. 30, 2012. Image: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution version)Southern Lights This incredible image of the aurora australis over Antartica's Queen Maud Land and the Princess Ragnhild Coast was captured by the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite on July 15, 2012. Image: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution version)Idaho Wildfires The Mustang Complex Fire in northern Idaho can be seen in this image taken by the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite on Aug. 29, 2012. This was the best nighttime view possible of the fires, with each pixel showing around 2,500 feet, compared to the next best thing which shows nearly 10,000 feet per pixel. Image: NASA/NOAA. (High-resolution version)California This image of low-lying marine layer clouds on the coast of California was taken by the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite on Sept. 27, 2012. Image: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution version)Persian Gulf Moon Phases These images show the Persian Gulf through the phases of the moon from full on Sept. 30 to new on Oct. 15. Images: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution versions)Flat Earth This fantastic view of the whole Earth at night is a composite built from 2.5 terabytes of data from the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired in 312 orbits over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. Image: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution version)Airglow Airglow is a faint layer of light generated by chemical reactions in the atmosphere involving oxygen, nitrogen, sodium and ozone. Airglow occurs at all hours, and is sometimes called nightglow when witnessed in the dark. In the left part of this image taken by the Suomi satellite in April 2012, nightglow can be seen over Texas, with ripples caused by a huge thunderstorm. Image: NASA/NOAA. (High-resolution version)North and South Korea Though it is estimated to have half the population of South Korea, North Korea appears almost dark next to its brightly lit southern neighbor in this image. Only some faint lights representing Pyongyang can be seen. To the left of South Korea in the Yellow Sea, the lights of ships can be clearly seen, some forming a distinct line. Image: NASA/NOAA, taken Sept. 24, 2012 (High-resolution version)South America This image of South America taken by the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite on July 20, 2012 is lit up by Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in the north and Buenos Aires in the south. Image: NASA/NOAA (High-resolution version)

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Was this seriously on live TV?
CNN anchor Ali Velshi sheepishly had to ask that question on air, after network producers made the (fail) decision to segue from a clip of student protests in Europe straight into the explosive diarrhea scene from the film "Dumb and Dumber."
While the Huffington Post reports that the clips aired back to back, with no apparent editorial purpose, Mediaite has found the original source of the clip.
According to Mediaite, CNN used the scene as an introduction to a segment on unusual treatments for digestive diseases in men.
Why CNN producers chose to cut straight from the protests into Jeff Daniels having a bit of a graphic personal moment is still a mystery.


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So my infertility journey has been a long, stressful and draining (emotionally and financially) journey.
It's not something I wish on anyone. It's been 10 years of heartache, sadness and emotional trauma. I have gone through two laparoscopy, miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, iui treatments.
My doctor finally told us this year that I will have to use an egg donor to conceive.
I am looking for a black or mixed lady between ages 20-30 to be an egg donor. Preferably in Ottawa or Gatinaeu/Quebec.
I really want to be a mum, I know I will be a great mother, please help me make this lifelong dream come true.
God bless.


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Well I did watch the movie Mission Impossible 1,2 & 3. I am taking this to next level, I think it is high time for Mobile phones to have this feature of Self Destruction mode. Why?
You should have heard about the excellent feature of Mobile tracker from Samsung. Wow – Awesome, That Awesome didn't help my friend to get back his mobile.
What is Mobile tracker?
The owner of the mobile phone needs to store 2 sets of mobile number on to Samsung phone. After which in any case some one changes the SIM card of that mobile with a new SIM card, Immediately a SMS is sent to both the registered numbers of the new SIM card inserted or mobile phone number is revealed. So that the Owner can track who is currently owning his/her mobile.
Now back to story…
My friend had recently lost his mobile tracker enabled mobile phone, in spite of he calling up the current mobile owner, the phone has not yet reached his hands. He threatens to throw the mobile in to a WELL, rather he returns the mobile of fearing a plot to get captured by Cops.
So here is my simple suggestion, I am sure the mobile manufacturers are listening
This phone should have these features
1) Data Sync
2) Panic Mode
3) Self Destruction Mode.
Data Sync: Why can't all data be backed up instantly or atleast every day, week or month, Well I suggest that to happen automatically on a computer through Wifi or any other method possible. As soon as the user authenticates a particular computer and when the user is well inside the network it should back up the new updates, with out even bothering the Mobile phone owner.
Panic Mode: As soon as you loose your mobile phone, you send an SMS to your mobile phone with some unique keys. From then on any SMS on that mobile phone received will be forwarded to the desired number set by you, All voice calls in conference mode. The data card datas are completely erased.
Assuming the thief is smart enough, inserts a new SIM card, Panic mode automatically gets activated and any future communications are to shared with the 2 desired numbers already set by the owner of the Mobile phone. More of an enhanced mobile tracker. Let us say the thief is even more smart enough to have an SIM card inserted with little money re-charged, then SMS alone gets activated and when money recharged with sufficient money it should do with conference call.
Self Destruction mode: Assuming you spoke to the thief and is not ready for any deals. Then why the heck he should have your Mobile phone or even sell them. Start activating the Self destruction mode by just sending the SMS with a unique key, kindly note that SMS can be activated from any mobile phone. The mother board starts to melt down by alerting the user with a speaker phone voice activated for self destruction.
Happen to read from Seth Godin blog on
"Gil lost his cell phone"
I think Seth would appreciate my idea.
Kindly note: Mobile manufacturers, If you intend to use my idea, Kindly reward me. Let's discuss.


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After several years of economic stagnation, the timber company's possible development plan has area residents talking about growth.
HAWTHORNE — The recession was hard enough on the businesses in this town of 1,600 in eastern Alachua County. Then Georgia-Pacific closed its plywood mill just over the county line in Putnam County in 2011, eliminating more than 400 jobs and many of the customers who frequented the restaurants and stores in town.
Since then, the NAPA Auto Parts store, a car wash and a gun shop have closed and a large restaurant space north of town that once employed 40 people has sat empty for several years.
"I think Georgia-Pacific was the final straw that broke the camel's back," City Manager Ellen Vause said.
Other businesses have cut employees and are just trying to hang on to the employees and the business they have, said Donna Boles of Hawthorne Insurance Agency.
"It's a dying little town," she said.
But Boles said she is seeing a little bit more enthusiasm at the Hawthorne Area Chamber of Commerce as a result of changes in leadership at City Hall over the past couple years and the buzz building around the Plum Creek Timber Company singling out the area for economic development potential on its nearby lands.
Plum Creek has spent the past two years taking ideas from people throughout the county as it works on a long-term master plan for its 65,000 acres in Alachua County, making it the largest private landowner in the county.
While most of those acres are slated for conservation, with Plum Creek keeping the timber rights, the company has identified a handful of areas with development potential, including an area just north and west of Hawthorne as one of two areas they plan to focus on first for its development potential.
Preliminary ideas include trying to lure a major manufacturing tenant to take advantage of the nearby access to U.S. 301, State Road 20 and the CSX rail line that runs along 301.
After taking ideas from hundreds of people at its Envision Alachua meetings that started two years ago, Plum Creek brought its presentation to Hawthorne for the first time Wednesday night at Vause's invitation.
More than 120 people showed up in the cafeteria at Shell Elementary School to learn about the planning process and put in their two cents about what they'd like to see.
Following a presentation about the process to date, the audience was divided into 10 groups to talk about the assets and needs of the area that they then presented to the entire group.
Several people mentioned that they want to preserve their rural way of life.
"We want to keep the small-town charm, but with that you have to have some growth," said Ginger Stanford, who is on the staff at Shell.
Justin Williams, of Melrose, said he joined Plum Creek's Envision Alachua task force to ensure he can keep the quality of life he enjoys.
"The task force has worked very hard to protect the quality of life we all enjoy now," he said. "We also understand we are going through a period now that has tested that. It is strained. Change is needed, and opportunity must be allowed."
Several people also mentioned that the area needs vocational training such as a branch of Santa Fe College for apprenticeships.
Sherry Edwards said the local schools have space that could be used for such a purpose immediately.
Hawthorne City Commissioner Tommy Howard said the city needs more restaurants, after-school options for kids and health care facilities.
He said there is a concern that all the truck traffic on U.S. 301 passes through without stopping.
Task force member Rob Brinkman said the group recognized Hawthorne's amenities such as the highways and rail from the beginning of the process.
"There's been a lot of misimpressions, a lot of talk that Plum Creek is talking about bringing Haile Plantation to the east side of the county," Brinkman said. "Their focus is on economic development, creating jobs. Creating good jobs, jobs for all levels of education."
Planner Daniel Iacofano, of Berkeley, Calif.-based MIG Inc., said they see an opportunity on the rural acreage with agriculture returning to America's shores and the agricultural research coming out of the University of Florida.
Iacofano urged the audience to talk up Plum Creek's plans and get involved as people visit for this weekend's Hawthorne Homecoming.


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Pork Chops with Pineapple and Papaya Salsa
Everyone knows that ham and pineapple are a given! But don't overlook pork chops or tenderloin. A fresh and vibrant salsa with pineapple and papaya, crispy chunks of cucumber and fennel and a touch of chili heat make for a wonderful combination. I've added a sweet and sumptuous glaze for the pork with 5-spice and honey to round out the flavors!


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ProFit is designed to be the ultimate protein least squares fitting program. It has many features including flexible specification of fitting zones and atoms, calculation of RMS over different zones or atoms, RMS-by-residue calculation, on-line help facility, etc.
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ProFit now has more than 5000 registered users!
V3.0 addresses a number of new features and fixes mostly related to multiple structure and multiple chains as well as a number of minor fixes and new features requested by users:


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Slope producers lay out scenario with proposed oil changes
North Slope oil producers have laid out their vision of what's possible with new oil development if the state Legislature makes changes in the state's oil production tax. They've also highlighted the problems they face under the status quo.
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. President John Minge said he believes there is about $5 billion in projects the producers could tackle if lawmakers pass Gov. Sean Parnell's House Bill 110 or something like it this year. Many of the projects are within the existing producing fields.
Minge also outlined one new project BP is testing this year, in a layer of tight oil-bearing rocks in the Prudhoe Bay field that could add up to 200 million barrels of new oil reserves. However, the project is economically challenged and needs the tax change to make it happen, he said.
Minge spoke Jan. 6 at the Alaska Support Industry Alliance's Meet Alaska conference in Anchorage.
Mary Ann Kah, ConocoPhillips' chief economist, told Meet Alaska that her company's Alaska production is the highest-cost oil in its worldwide portfolio of producing assets.
On average, it costs ConocoPhillips $15.48 to produce a barrel of oil in Alaska compared to $12.32 per barrel in Canada, $10.24 per barrel in the Lower 48 and $10.15 per barrel in the North Sea. The company's production in the Middle East costs $6.98 per barrel, Kah said.
The figures for operating costs come out of ConocoPhillips' financial reports and do not include taxes, capital investments or transportation costs.
ConocoPhillips has lower costs than some other producers because it has the benefit of long-established infrastructure.
Kah said Alaska's challenges include high costs and the probability of only modest-sized oil discoveries, which combined with the high state tax rate effectively puts a damper on investments in new oil.
Citing data from consulting firm Wood Mackenzie, Kah told Meet Alaska that from 2000 through 2009 the average size of new commercially viable new oil discoveries in Alaska was about 80 million barrels. In Venezuela — which has a marginal tax rate comparable to Alaska's — it was about 380 million barrels, Kah said. In Kazakhstan, another producing country with comparable taxes, the average-size new discovery was substantially higher over the nine-year period.
"Kazakhstan has huge prospectivity. Investors there can afford the heavy tax," Kah said.
In his talk, Minge laid out BP's problems with declining production and rising costs. In 2006, BP spent about $1.2 billion in operating the North Slope fields it manages and produced 82 million barrels of oil that year. In 2012 the company will spend $1.6 billion for operations and produce 56 million barrels, he said.
"It is costing us one-third more to produce one-third fewer barrels, and not all operations costs are deductable from the state tax," Minge said.
The figures cited are for operations only and do not include dollars spent in capital investments.
Ironically, the boom in industry activity outside Alaska has driven up costs for the companies here in terms of specialized materials, supplies and services.
"Engineers can work anywhere. Our costs are being set by the global economy," Minge said.
Although it's an encouraging development, the surge of exploration drilling on the Slope this winter, paid for partly by state of Alaska exploration tax credits and direct payments, has also added to the strain on drilling rigs and services, and is helping drive up costs for the existing field operators, he said.
As for the producing companies' capital costs, a good share of those are for projects in the fields related to maintaining existing production, and not on finding new oil, Minge said.
"Only one in six of our North Slope employees work on projects related to developing more oil. The rests are in operations, maintenance and repair," he said.
Despite those problems, there are bright prospects for the North Slope if the economic environment improves, Minge said.
The project to test production from the tight sandstone rock of the Sag River formation is an example of one possibility. BP has approved a five-well program to test production from the Sag River, a shallow layer of tight rock overlying the western part of the large producing Prudhoe Bay and Milne Point fields, Minge said.
If the results are positive, it could result in a 200-well program and 200 million barrels of new oil reserves, he said.
"We need to crack the technology problems first, but if there are also improvements in fiscal terms," the Sag River could become profitable to develop, Minge said.
In a nearby project, BP also is testing methods of producing heavy oil from the Ugnu, a large potential resource with an estimated 22 billion barrels of oil in place. The company had encouraging results with the first test well, which produced at a sustained rate of 650 barrels per day for 117 days. Four more test wells are planned.
"What has encouraged us is that the (first) well is producing at three times the rate of heavy oil wells in Canada. The bad news is that costs are 10 times the cost of wells in Canada, so we have some work to do on cost reduction," Minge said.
The first test production well is off-line now for technical work but is expected to be restarted soon.
Minge said new production techniques developed for heavy oil also can be applied to large viscous oil resources known on the Slope, some of which is being produced now. There are about 11 billion barrels of in-place viscous oil resources in formations like West Sak and Schrader Bluff in the Kuparuk and Milne Point fields.
"If we can get just 10 percent of this it would be wonderful," Minge said.
The meeting in Anchorage Jan. 5 between the CEOs of the major North Slope producers and Gov. Sean Parnell that included Robert Dudley, BP's chairman, was significant, Minge told Meet Alaska.
"It would not have happened if Alaska wasn't very important to all three companies," he said.
While a major focus of that meeting was on natural gas, "we must remember that gas is several years out. For the next 10 years what's very important is sustaining our oil production," Minge said.
But if the three companies and the state can find alignment, many things are possible. "Out of alignment comes investment," he said.


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An administrative law judge has ruled Temecula Valley Unified School District cannot expel a special needs student arrested in a December undercover sting that targeted drug sales at three high schools.
In a ruling released last week, Judge Marian H. Tully said the district left the then-17-year-old student "to fend for himself, anxious and alone, against an undercover police officer," and that his actions to procure marijuana for someone he deemed a new friend were significantly influenced by his disabilities.
Tully also found that district officials knowingly allowed the undercover officer to contact the student -- who is not being named per U-T The Californian policy -- while failing to provide him with required counseling and services needed to treat behavioral disorders linked to autism and Asperger's syndrome.
The student -- who was to be reinstated at Chaparral High School within five days of the ruling -- did not receive required counseling during the weeks in which he was befriended by an undercover officer who asked the student to sell him his prescription medication, Tully said.
After the student refused, the undercover officer gave the student $20 to buy him marijuana, according to testimony in Tully's ruling.
"Finally, the fact that (the) student's instructors and therapists were unaware that (the) district knowingly exposed (the) student to difficult social interactions with an adult undercover police officer intensified the critical need for them to have properly implemented his (individual education program) in the areas of counseling and speech and language," Tully wrote. "Accordingly, the student's conduct that resulted in discipline is directly attributable to the district's failure to implement his (individual education program)."
The student was one of 22 arrested at three Temecula high schools in December on suspicion of drug sales -- including marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, heroin, LSD and illegal prescription drugs -- in the culmination of an undercover investigation that featured police officers posing as students.
"The Temecula Valley Unified School District continues to believe it acted appropriately and lawfully in cooperating with the Riverside Sheriff's Department's investigation and disciplining students involved in illicit drug sales to police officers at school," a district statement said. "It does not agree with the interpretation of the legal standards or assessment of evidence from the administrative hearing."
Temecula Valley Unified Superintendent Tim Ritter declined further comment.
Wendy Housman, the student's attorney, contended in a February due process hearing opened to the public by the family that the student was not a "drug dealer." She instead maintained he was a young man who has difficulty making friends and who was hoping to bond with someone "hounding" him with texts and calls.
Several of the student's teachers and therapists testified during the hearing, some indicating they believed he played up his "bad boy persona" to overcompensate for his disabilities and a lack of social skills that included slow speech and difficulties making eye contact.
At one point -- not long after the student transferred from Temecula Valley to Chaparral and was subsequently befriended by the undercover officer -- the student burned himself with a lighter in what one therapist said was a regression to self-injury behaviors related to anxiety.
The undercover officer allegedly told the student he "needed" the drug to relieve tension at home.
Although the district maintains that the student knew right from wrong -- the district's attorney said in February that he had a history of discipline issues and enough social skills to land a girlfriend -- Tully said the extreme social situations would have been difficult "even for typical high school students."
"Within three days of the officer's requests, (the) student burned himself due to his anxiety," Tully said. "Ultimately, (the) student was persuaded to buy marijuana for someone he thought was a friend who desperately needed this drug and brought it to school for him."
The student's parents did not return messages seeking further comment.


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Starbucks' CEO on Guns
Here's the Starbucks gun request the company made today. The company, which has some 10,000 stores and 160,000 employees in the U.S., is asking customers who carry handguns in open-carry states to please not bring their guns into the store. It's hard to believe this will be taken as controversial or as anything other than reasonable, fair and sane, but we are an interesting country.
I spoke to Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz this afternoon, by phone.
Why did you do this? Why does Starbucks have to have a position on people bringing guns in for coffee?
"We are not a policy maker and we're not on any level anti-gun. But over the past four months there's been episodes in and around our stores that alarmed us. Advocates on both sides [of the gun debate] began to stage events in and around Starbucks stores that mischaracterized Starbucks' brand and position. That was not in the interests of our company, our shareholders and employees. So open-carry comes, and we abide by the law. But it began to disturb us, the number of customers and children who became alarmed at seeing people in the store carrying guns. . . . We had a couple situations the past few weeks where some people walked in with rifles! [Some local Starbucks stores] became a staging area for the argument over Second Amendment rights. We're not pro-gun or anti-gun, and we decided to respectfully ask gun owners to leave their guns out of Starbucks."
Why did Starbucks become a theater of the gun debate?
"Our stores are a meeting place, coffee's been part of conversation for hundreds of years" he said. This fact "became a natural opportunity for people to use us as a staging ground."
How do you imagine this working—how do people who carry guns in open-carry states disarm themselves to get a cup of coffee?
"This decision was made through the lens of our values. . . . It's not a ban. We'll serve customers and not ask them to leave. . . . I personally have spent endless hours on this issue. I've spoken to passionate advocates on both sides." He notes that two members of the Starbucks board are former Defense Secretary Bob Gates and former Sen. Bill Bradley. The board voted in support of the request. "We viewed this through the lens of bipartisanship."
In the old Westerns, sometimes the saloonkeeper told the cowboys and ranchers to hang up their guns on a rack before coming inside and drinking. Did that sort of thing pass through your mind?
Interjection on speakerphone from Schultz's public relations aide: "Howard's from Brooklyn."
Your letter seemed particularly polite and eager to strike a fair minded tone. Did it go through a million drafts?
"No. What I tried to do was go through a lens of fairness."
Everyone probably asks you if you have guns. Do you have guns?
"I'm not gonna answer it because I don't think it's about me."
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Playground Witchcraft!
Yes, I said it.
You damned right! Girls on the playground are scary as hell! You know I'm right! You play these weird games with numbers and counting! At recess! Recess! A time when we're supposed to be getting AWAY from numbers and all that!
And everything you do is accompanied by chanting! Double Dutch, regular jump rope, tetherball…there is always some chant involved. Some ritual music with counting in unison and conjuring some sh#t. Like the three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. It's not singing! Not harmonizing! No, it's a steady scary-ass monotone drone, that, only from little girl's throats, can raise the dead!
True when we're lil' big heads we all sing sing-alongs. Christmas songs and tunes.
"Itsy bitsy spider when up the water spout…."
"Dashing through the snow…"
Even Barney
"I love you, you love me…"
But then something happens. When the full scale androgyny of toddlerhood wears off and chromosomes break to their perspective corners, girls start huddlin' up and recitin' curses! Yeah, they LOOK like harmless games from afar,,,but if you get in close and really listen the sh#t is terrifying.
Am I lying?
Ok then dig this…You ever notice the scary movie device of using girls chanting a lil song or game? Think about it. The craziest films that have ghosts or demonic little kids or some kinda horrible EVIL always has chanting girls with a tiny piano!
As a kid I once saw this movie with Elizabeth Montgomery in it. She played a woman who killed her parents. In it, girls chanted a song. I sang it in the house;
"Lizzie Borden Took that ax
Gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
Gave her Father forty-one"
My mother said, "Where did you get that from?"
"The TV" I said.
"We used to sing that in jump rope," she said.
A scene of horrific murder. A blood splattering homicide makes it to the top ten in skip rope hit parade? What kinda grizzly play is that? Which kid said, "Oooo let's do one on that woman that killed her parents…yeah, we all wanna do THAT!"
How about this one:
Ring around the rosie
A pocket full of posies
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down.
That, my friends, is a cute tune about the black death in Europe! A "ring around a rosie" was what the sore you'd get would look like. It was a deep pustule with a red ring around it. A "pocket full of posies" was based on the ineffectual cures they had then. It was believed that if you carried certain dried flowers and herbs you'd be immune to the plague. "Ashes, Ashes" is about the burning of the bodies. Usually dragged out into a large field where body fluids and more fleas would make it back to the village and they'd "all fall down" i.e. die.
And some lil' heathen bride to be put that horrific episode to song.
Get my point?
Let's Play
Ok so now let's talk about Patty Cake. Believe it or not, I did a report on this some time ago. I asked at least 30 women about it. Not being a "male" game and being very much a part of the incantations, I knew very little about it. First of all I don't recall it ever being called Patty Cake. For the life of me I believe it was called something else. I asked all of the women and they had varying opinions. Most of them were Black. What I got was that the general exercise of the game is Patty Cake but each chant was given its own title and rhythms. Mary Mack was one of my niece's favorites.
Every region (big city) had its own way of doing it. In LA they did it mostly straight ahead. Adding girls straight across. Two, Four, Six…this would lead to an over/under style which, when you add enough girls, is dope as hell. Chicago apparently did it in a circle as does New York. New Orleans had a line like soul train and the girls could walk down it and hit on either side. The more crowded the city the greater the probability that there was a circle or octagon or something that eventually could be the framework for a pentagram!
Hand patterns were another issue. At first it looked like clapping "once" was the basic, but as I watched some could get tremendously complex. Two claps then a hit. One clap hit twice then two more claps then a hit. If you watch the repeating patterns you can get a slight grip on the hits. Then it all makes sense. The songs themselves mean nothing to say…the meter of each line is the key. Where the accent or syllable hits is where a clap or hit is. To understand the repetition you have to know how long the song is. It's not just about knowing the song because most are short. It's about knowing where the METER is and when you'll repeat. I know this sh#t is too deep right? Not really.
Because HERE'S the deep part…
This game is an heirloom and, like streetball, has malleable rules that don't seem to have an origin. Big sisters or cousins, other girls and friends all contribute to this game. It's like the one thing that all women do. Plus, they control and continuously contribute to it. Each generation, somehow, learns a form and plays it. The songs change and even the patterns but the play…the play goes on.
No, I doubt sistas play Lizzie Borden anymore, but the rhythm is still there!
Go ahead and ask any group of older sistas. Let 'em talk long enough and they'll get to playing it! I've seen it over and over…They start reminiscing and get to playing.
Mary Mack
Too Tall
And one about a Sailor who went to Sea Sea Sea where, towards the end, there is some lewd-ass hip thrust that, quite frankly, should get EVERYBODY locked up, seven years old or not!
Really though, it was a great window into the mind of women. Most that I talked to didn't even know of the significance such play has in their culture. I know y'all got sports and games that are better compared to streetball, but I thought that this was female unique as it requires a connection to that thing, that woman-child thing we know nothing about. The best we can do is to try and impress you away from practicing your spells. It's almost like we know that sooner or later you'll turn that magic on us and get us to do whatever you want to. That you'll develop into this creature that we need so much that we'd cry and steal and kill and build and live to be with…regardless of our "strength".
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The Mimi Thi Nguyen Collection in Collaboration with the POC Zine Project
As a zinester and a scholar, it is an odd thing to be both an object of the archive and an interlocutor with them. Or, as the case might be, it is an odd thing to be both an object whose presence is perceived through absence and an interlocutor called upon to enact its retrieval. The story of this donation follows from just such an absence and call when my collaborator Daniela Capistrano, founder of the POC Zine Project, noted that archivist Lisa Darms' upcoming manuscript on the Riot Grrrl Collection at the Fales Library –about which Darms' tweeted, with an invitation to propose materials to include— could not address some of the most important zines by women of color, because at the time almost none of these zines are found in the archive. (It bears noting that the collection depends upon donations, and Darms' does not purchase zines for the collection.) In a Twitter exchange, Capistrano encouraged Darms to continue including zines by women of color lest an important but much under-observed contribution to the story continue to be subsumed to a "big picture" of riot grrrl as feminist movement. At the same time, Capistrano contacted me to compile some of those zines for a collaborative donation to the Fales Library. As the mission statement for POC Zine Project states, the archive and access to it are central: "POC Zine Project's mission is to makes ALL zines by POC (People of Color) easy to find, share and distribute. We are an experiment in activism and community through materiality."
There are two issues that concern us –myself, and Capistrano at the POC Zine Project– in general: For the first, we argue that the archive is not just a place for study, but must be itself an object of it. What is in the archive, and how did it get there? What are the criteria for assembling, organizing and presenting materials? Who selects and collects, shapes and donates their stories to an archive? What is not there? How do these materials and absences produce knowledges, including norms and teleologies? It is stating the obvious to observe that no archive is an authoritative source for grasping a record of the past; we know from postcolonial studies in which the archive is demonstrably an artifact of colonial frames that the story the archive –any archive— tells is provisional, partial. For this reason, some who are concerned with history making aim to create a more full archive, excavating from the cracks and fissures those stories and persons identified as absent (of course, this requires the recognition that absence matters). But the second question I wish to address here is bigger than just what is in the archive, and how a donation like this one might "correct" an absence— it is for me a concern about how the archive, the absence, and the excavation tell another, useful story.
Such bigger stories are about feminist historiography –how do we tell the story of feminist movement and teleology, and the place of women of color? I want to suggest that a donation from my collection and the POC Zine Project does not necessarily address the underlying troubles for feminist historiographies of riot grrrl movement. As the narrow scope of liberal multiculturalism has by now taught us, it is that inclusion and incorporation might be made to cover over more troubling queries about how women of color are included, incorporated, or otherwise made visible. I am thinking of feminist archives or retrospectives that too often "hold a place" for women of color to say their piece, but in such a way that contains their critique and segregates it from the story of the movement's contribution. We can see this logic operating in retrospectives of riot grrrl in which the story of race is contained as a chapter, or a part of a chapter, in its history, when it appears at all. Here then I cite Anjali Arondekar, whose For the Record considers these questions with regards to sexuality in the colonial archive: "The critical challenge is to imagine a practice of archival reading that incites relationships between the seductions of recovery and the occlusions such retrieval mandates. By this I mean to say: What if the recuperative gesture returns us to the space of absence? How then does one restore absence to itself? Put simply, can an empty archive also be full?" That is, it may be that the problem is not just a matter of historical invisibility (in this case, of people of color in punk subcultures) that would otherwise be corrected with further excavation and more visibility. The problem is this: Through what stories do absences become visible, and manageable? And does filling up that absence somehow hide the important stories that absence might tell us – about history-making, knowledge-making, movement-making? I wondered then, as I was pulling together zines by women of color (pre-1996) for this donation, how an almost-empty archive might lend greater substance to the story of epistemic violence that erases or otherwise contains our presence.
As I have said elsewhere, the archive is a political and cultural meaning making machine for the passage of objects into what Michel Foucault calls knowledge's field of control and power's sphere of intervention, and for "minor" objects in particular, we know well how troublesome such a passage might be. At the same time, myself and Daniela here wish to posit another historiographical gesture. That is, what if we refuse the emplottment of absence and subsequent redemption-through-presence that would render women of color as mere addition or supplement to the archives? What if the intervention –like this donation— becomes the story to tell about them?
The donations made from my collection in collaboration with the POC Zine Project and in conversation with Lisa Darms at the Riot Grrrl Collection is both a critique (broadly construed) and an alternate chronicle taking up questions about race and coloniality that cut across assumed feminist histories, investments and teleologies.[1] These pre-1996 selections from my collection point to not a side story in riot grrrl movement, but the story of encounter and contest, exchange and challenge – denoting not the singularity of riot grrrl movement, but its slide by other feminisms, fracturing and multiplying into other worlds. Again, as I have said elsewhere (and repeatedly on the first POC Zine Project/Race Riot! Tour in 2012), those other histories of people of color –here represented in the materials we donate together– are not an interruption into a singular scene or movement but the practice of another, co-present scene or movement that conversed and collided with the already-known story, but with alternate investments and forms of critique. These other stories of riot grrrl in particular and also punk at large unfolding enact historical and theoretical provocations with which we have yet to reckon.[2]
[1] I am grateful to my graduate research assistant Ariana Ruiz for the hours she put in copying and creating an inventory for the zines.
[2] Some of the material adapted here for this statement comes from Mimi Thi Nguyen, "Afterward," in Punkademics: The Basement Show in the Ivory Tower, edited by Zack Furness, New York: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2012, 217-223; and Mimi Thi Nguyen, "Riot Grrrl, Race, and Revival," in Women & Performance special issue "Punk Anteriors," edited by Elizabeth Stinson and Fiona I.B. Ngô, 22:2-3 (July-November 2012); 173-196.
Here is the full list of zines created by POC pre-1996 that were donated:
Behind These Fragile Walls #1
Boredom Sucks #8.5
Broken Thought #1 and #2
Cage #1, #2 and #3
Chica Loca 2
Chinese, Japanese, Indian Chief
Consider Yourself Kissed #2
Cyanide #1
Eracism #1 and #2
Evolution of a Race Riot
Exedra #4
Funeral #1 and #2
Hey Mexican!
Hey White Girl
Hijinx Zine #1
Hollyhock #3/War #1
Hollyhock #4.5
Housewife Turned Assassin! #2 and #4
Kreme Koolers #2 and #4
Mamasita #4
Marks in Time: The Very Early Go-Gos's
Messy Flowers 3/Lolita
My Broken Halo #2
Oppression Song #1
Photobooth Toolbox #2
Please Don't Hit Below The Belt!
Pure Tuna Fish #1, #6, #8, #9 and #10
Race Riot 2
Race Riot Project Directory
Screaming Goddess #1 and #4 (zine and artwork)
Secret Agent Girl no. 666
Suburbia #8/ Tennis and Violins #2
Tennis and Violins
The Bakery
Totally Fucked Up #1
Wild Honey Pie #9 and #10
You Might as Well Live #4, #5, #8 and #9
ywap! #13


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Renteria getting a feel for expanded instant replay
PITTSBURGH -- Rick Renteria was not aware he made history as the first manager to use Major League Baseball's expanded instant replay system until after the Cubs' game on Monday.
"It was interesting," said Renteria, who challenged a call at first base in the fifth inning when Jeff Samardzija was called out. The umpire's call was confirmed.
"[Replay] is kind of an organic, work in progress for everybody, getting a feel for its usage," Renteria said.
Does the Cubs' rookie manager like it?
"I think if it helps us clean up some plays, I think it's helpful," Renteria said. "I still think the umpires do a great job. They have a tough job to do and they don't want to screw it up, they want to get the calls right. We're emotionally vested in everything, and they're emotionally vested in doing a good job. We both have to grow a little thicker skin in dealing with each other the best way we possibly can."
It seems managers are walking deliberately from the dugout to talk to an umpire about a play, which gives the coaches and others in the clubhouse time to review the video before deciding whether to challenge a call or not.
"I think everybody's doing that," Renteria said. "I'm assuming they appreciate us doing that also, because they know it's getting reviewed. If there is a bad call or a close call, if it gets overturned, it gets overturned. They're allowing us to be able to do that.
"I think [the umpires] want to get the calls right," he said. "They've probably been living a pretty tough life with all the cameras around [and second-guessing]. They're human beings and they don't want to do things that affect the game. Maybe they're thankful about it."


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When it comes to being green, the music industry has a decidedly dirty history (and we don't just mean rock stars' unsavory behavior). For one, more than one billion CD jewel cases are produced each year in North America, most of which are made of polyvinyl chloride, a cheap plastic that's nearly impossible to recycle. Additionally, excess is the name of the game: A recent MusicMatters study revealed that tour buses contribute about 150,000 tons of carbon emissions annually, and one stadium performance yields anywhere from 500 to 1,000 tons of CO2. Even a midsize music venue goes through 470,000 plastic cups, 200,000 napkins, and 600 light bulbs every year.
But despite the biz's abysmal record, some labels are starting to green up their acts. While the four major labels (EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group) still have some work to do, smaller, more eco-conscious labels have started to pick up the slack. Take a look at who's doing what in the music industry. And tomorrow, be sure to check out which artists hold the environment near and dear to their hearts.
Major labels:
EMI: At its 2007 Grammy after party, the label shuttled guests around in Saturn hybrids and served up pesticide-free fare. Lee Trink, then-president of EMI subsidiary Capital Music Group, awkwardly told a Current TV reporter at the event, "There's a team, and hopefully they are experts, and hopefully they are accurate, and they come up with an assessment of how much energy is going to be used, and we put together a pool of money that will be used for things that will benefit the environment." But going green may not be top priority these days: The company issued a round of layoffs this summer and has been "restructuring" its central management due to a drop in sales. Folks at EMI did not confirm any other specific eco initiatives currently underway at the label.
Sony BMG: The label distributes music from 50 of its US artists in renewable and recyclable paperboard cases, and offers similar packaging for 40 Canadian artists and 22 UK artists. The company has also reduced the carbon footprint of its New York City offices by 31 percent through a "reducing, reusing and recycling" program.
Warner Music Group: CDs and DVD liner notes contain 30 percent post-consumer paper made from wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC); however, the inserts are packaged inside jewel cases. The label offset its 2008 Grammy after party, an event that included CFLs, biodiesel generators, recycled paper products, locally grown food, and organic soaps. This year, WMG offset CO2 emissions from its New York City offices and started WMGreen, its ongoing green initiative with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and renewable energy company NativeEnergy. "For us, [environmentally responsible behavior] has proven to lower the cost of paper and waste as well as strengthen employee morale," says John Esposito, WMG's US sales and retail marketing president.
Universal Music Group: CDs from 60 of Universal's thousands of artists are distributed in recyclable/biodegradeable paperboard sleeves. The company would not return phone calls to discuss additional greening efforts.
Smaller labels:
While the major labels efforts may seem paltry at best, these smaller labels are beefing up their eco-conscious efforts.
Parks and Records: The Bay Area-based label packages CDs in recycled office paper and donates 5 percent of each $8 CD to groups like Friends of the Urban Forest, the National Forest Foundation, and the National Arbor Day Foundation. The company also makes its own mail-order envelopes using catalog and magazine covers, bags, and other reclaimed paper. Parks and Records is "making the planet greener one song at a time," says founder John Fee.
Brushfire Records: The label, founded by singer Jack Johnson, powers its office and recording studio with solar panels, insulates its walls with 100 percent post-consumer waste (like blue jean scraps), and uses recycled shingles on the roof. Brushfire CDs, which are manufactured and distributed by Universal, come in recycled plastic trays.
Sub Pop Records: The Seattle indie stalwart has purchased renewable energy credits from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation since 2006. The label also ships advance copies of new releases in plastic-free, recyclable paperboard.
Kill Rock Stars: The label has purchased offsets from Bonneville Environmental Foundation since 2007, and is currently in talks with Brighter Planet to offset band tours. While the company still relies heavily on plastic jewel cases, it also distributes CDs in Digipacks, which can be made with recycled card stock. "We want to do everything we can," says president Portia Sabin. "And the bands are totally into it."
Earthology Recordings: A Minnesota organic farm powered by geothermal and wind power houses this not-for-profit label. CDs are packaged in a combination of recycled, soy-ink paper and 100 percent recycled/reclaimed jewel cases. The recording studio itself is crafted from reused materials like chicken coop wire and "other odds and ends," founder Craig Minowa recently told MTV. In addition to being a member of the indie band Cloud Cult, Minowa is an environmental scientist with the Organic Consumer's Association.
Green Owl Records: This Manhattan-based label packages all CDs in 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper, and is donating 100 percent of profits raised from a compilation released this April to the Energy Action Coalition. The label recently took three of its bands to Austin's South by Southwest in a tour bus powered by vegetable oil, and another band, The So So Glos, is touring this fall in a veggie oil-powered bus. Green Owl purchases carbon offsets from NativeEnergy, and offers customers the chance to recycle their used CDs for free. "We're doing the best we possibly can right now," says president Stephen Glicken. "We spend more money doing things this way, but it's better to act as an example now because there could be a sea change some day."
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I had bought an Altec Lansing 2.1 Speaker set last year. This was my first 2.1 speaker set and I had never used or heard properly speakers with woofer(especially in my own house). The new sound levels were amazing, I mean compared to a pre-historic 2.0 Creative, this baby was like "O' sweet honey" to my ears, literally.......
But pretty soon I got a li'l bored of the exaggerated bass and sounds of the new speakers. Then I began looking for solutions in the internet, and my sights fell on SRS Audio Sandbox. I never even imagined how good this piece of software could be. The presets "WOW HD" and "TruSurround" worked like a charm on my entry level baby and yet, my speakers now produced sound that was crystal clear, and a league ahead of it's own self.
Here's a description of the software:-
" SRS Audio Sandbox is the ultimate audio enhancement software for the PC. Experience amazing sound tailored to any PC speaker configuration - headphones, stereo speakers, or surround speakers, all with the click of a button. Users simply select their audio content (e.g. music, movie, game or voice) and then choose from many presets (i.e. rock music, classical, jazz, country, etc).
For users who want even more customization, SRS Audio Sandbox lets you personalize your audio through the use of advanced controls, which provide deep, rich bass, restore the clarity to vocal and high frequency sounds, provide 3D enhancement for stereo and mono content, and more.
Best of all, SRS Audio Sandbox allows users to experience surround sound on their PC, regardless of their speaker arrangement, even over headphones. SRS technology is able to overcome the physical limitations of poorly placed or small size speakers, delivering the best entertainment experience available on a PC.
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Cow left in Asda by protesting farmer promoted to store manager
A dairy cow which was left in an Asda supermarket in Middlesbrough last month has been put in charge of running the store, it has emerged. Daisy had been taken to the store by farmer Kevin Pritchard as part of a nationwide protest against falling milk prices but has proven to be the best placed candidate to run the store. [read...]


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If you're bringing your children to today's Welcome Performance of Swan Lake, they'll love the games and resources we've created around the story of the ballet.
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Welcome Performances are generously supported by Gregory and Regina Annenberg Weingarten through The Annenberg Foundation.


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Roma (people)
This article is a travel topic
Roma (people) live mainly in Europe.
Roma and Sinti are the largest national minority in Europe. The estimates of their numbers vary from 1 to 20 million. They don't have their own country but live in a diaspora all over Europe and beyond. This page aims at collecting pointers to places where Roma can be met and their culture can be experienced.
The Roma are a tribal people, and carried many of the traditional customs, values, and religious beliefs of India with them in their journeys. Their physiognomy is substntially the same as that of North India: straight dark hair, darker skin, shorter stature, a broader skull, a long nose, and dark pigmentation under the eyes.
Their non-European origin makes them an easy victim of discrimination and inter-ethnic conflict with local Europeans. The Romani language derives from Sanskrit and North Indian languages but they have no written language of their own, although foreign human rights groups have promoted a Latin- or Sanskrit-based alphabet in hopes of improved franchisement. Reincarnation, polytheism, intense superstition and propitiation of gods, a strong hierarchy, and various forms of gods of Indian Hindu origin all are expressed among the Roma in great variety. One village may have a different set of religious or clan ethics than another only a few miles away. In Romania, they are often called the Țigani. The Roma include many tribes, including the famous Sinti (named after Sindh province in Pakistan) and the Kalderashi.
At least 500 years ago (calculations vary), Roma settled in Eastern Europe during the Medieval period. Most avoided staying in the Middle East, likely due to its brutal persecution of polytheistic religions like that of the Roma, similar to their ancestors' experience in Muslim-dominated India at the time of their exodus. Most settled in what became Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania.
Smaller communities spread all over the rest of Europe. Most settled in dilapidated shanties, tent colonies, and ghettoes that were substantially segregated from the local populations, as is often the case today. There was and remains almost no assimilation due to obstinate inter-cultural antagonism. Over the past several centuries of their nomadic settlement in Eastern Europe and the Russian Steppes, they were treated as a bacillus or parasite and were frequently expelled, attacked, or even in the case of World War II, exterminated altogether.
Their non-Christian nature made them an additional target for angry Christian mobs. It was not only the Germans who massacred the Gypsies along with the Jews and homosexuals; Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, and Romania (all Axis nations) took the opportunity to put many of their Gypsies to death or do nothing to stop the exterminations.
All over Europe, mainly in the Balkans, in the south of Spain and South of France.
Stolipinovo district of Plovdiv
Saintes Maries de la Mer (Provence)
Romanes (Romane, Romani), Kale
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Budapest Gypsy Museum about the history of the Roma (Gypsy) people in Hungary
Like Jews, communists and homosexuals, they were targeted for extermination by the Nazis and millions perished.
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A local runner escaped Monday�s explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, crossing the line less than a minute before smoke and debris filled the air.
A local runner escaped Monday�s explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, crossing the line less than a minute before smoke and debris filled the air.
Shalimar�s Paula Piazza missed it by 15 seconds, according to her friend and fellow runner Michelle Underwood of Destin. Underwood had finished about a half an hour earlier.
Neither woman was injured, according to Rex Stinnett, a Destin man who has trained with both women.
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After finding each other in the chaotic aftermath, they sought refuge in a nearby building, where Underwood texted Stinnett.
�Very scary,� Underwood texted at about 2:45 p.m. �No phone coverage. The whole street is now closed � scared to leave.�
Stinnett urged the women to get away from the finish area, if they could, and to remove themselves from large crowds as soon as they could.
�Understand your fear,� he texted. �Thank you God. Please be safe.�
Jeff Harris, owner of Run With It, said he and other runners were following the women�s progress by tracking their bib numbers.
They were excited when Underwood finished and achieved a personal best at 3:32. Then they followed Piazza till they saw that her bib number had crossed the line four hours and eight minutes after she started.
Almost simultaneously, they learned of the explosions.
�We were freaked out, trying to get in touch with Michelle,� Harris said. �We knew she was there and looking for Paula. We were sick with worry, trying to find out any information.�
Though Harris has run marathons, he has never qualified for Boston�s, which he calls the Super Bowl of running.
�I truthfully don�t think it will affect the sport as a whole,� he said. �Anytime you have an event that draws numbers of people like this and has this kind of buildup, there�s always the chance that somebody is going to take advantage of it in a malicious way.�
He said he expects that increased security will be an outcome of Monday�s tragedy but said it�s not going to be easy.
�A marathon takes place over 26 miles,� he said. �How are you going to have security for a 26-mile race like you do a stadium where you can check every single person that comes in?
�Any crazy person could find a way to make their point.�
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Behind the lovey-dovey plainness of its title, Bullfighter and the Lady simmers with the conviction of trying to prove something right, almost as if it's the handiwork of a man with an axe to grind. The 1951 melodrama was the first important film for sportsman director Oscar "Budd" Boetticher. Boetticher, who co-wrote the story, added a lot of autobiographical elements to this sweaty saga of a white man in Mexico learning how to become a master bullfighter. Having gotten his start serving as technical advisor on Fox's 1941 blockbuster Blood and Sand, Boetticher was determined here to faithfully depict all the things about bullfighting which that overstuffed bauble glossed over. Where the earlier film portrayed the ring as window dressing for a Latin-kitsch romantic saga, Bullfighter and the Lady strips away the artifice and depicts the sport as a supreme sacrifice for men with the courage to endure it.
Uncompromisingly gritty and raw, probably the falsest thing about Bullfighter and the Lady is the blonde dye job on star Robert Stack. Olive Films' home video release presents Budd Boetticher's original version of the film, a two hour-plus opus which was restored by the film preservationists at UCLA.
Bullfighter and the Lady benefits a great deal from being filmed throughout Mexico and incorporating actual bullfighters (one of them, Antonio Gomez, even plays a supporting character here). The action mostly revolves around Robert Stack's character Johnny Regan, a champion skeet shooter eager to learn the ways of bullfighting under the tutelage of the veteran matador Manolo Estrada, compellingly played by Gilbert Roland. Observing a bullfight from the nosebleed seats with his married friends Barney (John Hubbard) and Lisbeth (Virginia Grey), Johnny expresses the need to meet the conquering matador in the ring in the hopes that he could learn the sport. At a swanky restaurant later on that night, he spies Manolo at a table with family and friends. After introducing himself, Manolo invites him to sit at their table, where he meets Manolo's wife, Chelo (Katy Jurado), a few other matadors, and an alluring young seńorita named Anita de la Vega (Joy Page). Johnny eventually convinces Manolo to teach him the ways of bullfighting in exchange for some skeet shooting lessons. Under Manolo's tutelage, Johnny works his way up from doing mock matches with other bullfighting students (wielding bull horns) to facing off against young bulls and cows in a practice ring. Seduced by the sport, he also falls for Anita while Manolo and his fellow matadors prepare for the big climactic match at Mexico City's largest auditorium. Johnny has the cockiness and fighting spirit to be adequately prepared, but is he truly ready for the big time?
Note: images do not reflect the contents of Bullfighter and the Lady's Blu Ray edition.
All told, the romantic aspects of Bullfighter and the Lady's storyline don't amount to much (mostly due to the curious lack of chemistry between Robert Stack and Joy Page), and the two hour-long director's cut contains a few scenes that drag. The acting throughout is very nuanced, however, and Boetticher's intimacy with the subject makes this perhaps the most realistic onscreen depiction of bullfighting ever done up to that point. The film takes on the sport in a straightforward and surprisingly unsentimental way, showing every grueling step of the journey toward a victory which is at best a short-lived thrill. Blood and Sand takes on a similar jaundiced viewpoint towards bullfighting, strangely enough, but in Bullfighter's case the disenchantment seems all the more sharp because it's backed up with authenticity. The script largely draws from Boettcher's own experiences training as a bullfighter, aided by expert use of indoor and outdoor Mexican locales (lovingly captured by cinematographer Jack Draper). Another clear advantage this has over Blood and Sand is the casting of genuine Latino actors in the Mexican roles - Roland, Page and Jurado bring a certain intensity and knowingness to their parts which would be lacking in a caucasian performer playing Latin. For the most part, Roland and Stack do their own bullfighting as well, in scenes that are filmed with more grit and gusto than the pallid Blood and Sand. The only element that left me wanting came with the lack of depth in the non-Mexican characters. Robert Stack does a great job conveying Johnny's Alpha Male ambition, but he doesn't have much in the way of background - and the purpose of Johnny's friends Barney and Lisbeth is left frustratingly vague.
Made by John Wayne's Batjac production company for Republic Pictures, Bullfighter and the Lady proved to be a bitter entryway into directing for Boetticher. Against Boetticher's wishes, Republic trimmed the two-hour film down to 87 minutes in order to fit it on a double bill. Until it was restored by archivists at UCLA, the shortened version was the only one available. This lengthier edition of the film supplements the basic story with lots of footage of training and bullfighting. While it does convey the brutality and exhaustiveness of the sport (especially in the climactic fight), this is one case where I'd have to side with the studio. Without knowing the ultimate fate of Bullfighter upon first viewing, it seemed compelling yet somewhat plodding and overlong by about twenty minutes. Still, it made something as barbaric and meaningless as bullfighting look fascinating.
The Blu Ray:
The restored 1.37:1 picture on Bullfighter and the Lady generally looks good, with the richly textured, mostly outdoor photography marred only by a few white specks. About 40 minutes in, there are some washed out scenes which appear to be sourced from inferior 16MM footage (likely removed for the edited, 87 minute-long original release), but mostly the image falls in line with Olive Films' other good-quality reissues of the Republic Pictures holdings.
As with other Olive reissues of vintage flicks, the film's serviceable original mono soundtrack is the sole audio option. Dialogue sounds somewhat ragged but all right. The weakness of an aged print is only apparent during the loudly pitched bullfighting scenes. No subtitles are included.
Final Thoughts:
A project befitting director Budd Boetticher and John Wayne's production company, 1951's Bullfighter and the Lady spares no testosterone in detailing the journey of an American athlete (Robert Stack) trying to make it in Mexico City's tough bullfighting scene. The romantic subplot may be hogwash, but the matador training scenes are made with a lot of authenticity and attention to detail. Even those who get queasy at the thought of bullfights will likely dig it. Recommended.


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Belgium and England are playing a game that neither team wanted to be in, as they'll be playing for third and fourth place instead of first and second, after their respective losses to France and Croatia. Despite being the highest-scoring team left in the tournament, Belgium was unable to score against France. England and their "Bring it Home" slogan will have to wait at least another four years as Croatia won the game in extra time, 2-1. The team has been here before, in 1990 when they finished fourth in the tournament, and they'll be hoping to better that with a third-place finish. Harry Kane was held scoreless for his second-straight game, so he's still chasing that elusive seventh goal needed to have the English goal-scoring record at a World Cup tournament.
The game at Saint Petersburg Stadium, St. Petersburg, starts at 5 p.m. local time, or 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific). You can watch it live on Fox in English, or in Spanish on Telemundo and NBC Universo through your cable company. If you don't have cable you can stream it via Hulu with Live TV, or fuboTV.
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Celebrate Opening Day with this collection of songs about baseball.
Today, everyone's team is even, no one's in last place and everyone has a chance to win the pennant.
It's Opening Day, the first day of Major League Baseball's marathon to the World Series. And if you can't be at your favorite ballpark, you can get some of the atmosphere with this collection of baseball songs.
Before you ask, we looked for Terry Cashman's original version of "Talkin' Baseball." We really did. But we couldn't find anything but the team-specific knockoffs.
Otherwise, we found a nice mix of rock, country, Broadway and other genres. We'll leave it up to you if you want some popcorn to go with these popular favorites.
"Centerfield," John Fogerty (w/Keith Urban)
"Glory Days," Bruce Springsteen
"The Cheap Seats," Alabama
"Rightfield," Peter Paul and Mary
Theme from "The Natural"
"The Greatest," Kenny Rogers
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"Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?" Count Basie Orchestra
"T-E-A-M," from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
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Juggling in Haskell and Gloss
Just sharing what we've been talking about in my classes at LSV (Little School on Vermijo) the past few days. It all started when a math teacher I follow on Google+ posted a link to this video on the mathematics of juggling, by Cornell professor Allen Knutson.
So we all watched the video, and talked about it… and then about midnight last night, I realized this would make a perfect introduction to Gloss simulations, which we're learning about in our Haskell programming class! Fast forward about 20 minutes of hacking, and we have this short program:
import Graphics.Gloss thePattern = [5,2,5,1,2] initial g = (-1, 0.0, [], cycle thePattern) step dt (hand, time, balls, pattern) = (newhand, newtime, newballs, newpattern) where (throw, newtime) = properFraction (time + dt) newhand = if throw == 1 then -hand else hand thrown = if throw == 1 then [ (hand, newtime, head pattern) ] else [] newpattern = if throw == 1 then tail pattern else pattern newballs = [ (bhand, btime + dt, height) | (bhand, btime, height) <- balls, btime + dt < fromIntegral height ] ++ thrown draw (hand, time, balls, pattern) = pictures [ juggler, pictures [ ball b | b <- balls ] ] ball (bhand, btime, height) = translate (50*x) (50*y) (circleSolid 10) where t = 1 - 2 * (btime / fromIntegral height) x = if even height then bhand else bhand * t y = if height < 3 then 0 else fromIntegral (height - 1) * (1 - t^2) juggler = pictures [ line [(-50, 0), (0, 25), (50, 0)], line [(-30, -100), (0, -50), (30, -100)], line [( 0, 25), (0, -50)], translate 0 50 (circle 25) ]
Feel free to check it out.
This isn't the best code in the world, because I deliberately write it to avoid as many ideas as I can that we haven't talked about in my Haskell class. Among those, for example, are any kind of user-defined data types, or any structured data other than tuples and lists! I've also used list comprehensions when maps and filters might be clearer, for the same reason: we've done list comprehensions in class! Those are coming soon, but for the time being, it's not too hard to see what's going on here. A couple notes about the world type:
- The state of world comprises four pieces of information: which hand will throw next, how much time has passed since the last throw, what balls are in the air, and what pattern is coming up next. Since we don't have user-defined types and it makes the math easy, I've described hands as -1 for left, and +1 for right.
- The balls in the air form a list, but each element of that list is another tuple, containing the hand the ball was thrown from, how long it has been in the air, and its height.
So like all Gloss simulations, we need to specify three things:
- The initial state. This is the left hand, no time since the last throw, no balls in the air, and the pattern sitting ahead of us. The cycle function turns a finite list into an infinite repeating one.
- The step function. This is where most of the logic sits… there are a lot of bits, but it does what you'd expect! Every second, a ball is thrown, and the hand switches sides. We update the balls to add to their time in the air, and keep only the ones that haven't landed. When a ball is thrown, we add it. And each time we drop a number from the pattern.
- The draw function. This draws the juggler and all of the balls. The balls are drawn with some faux-physicsy thing that, frankly, is just the result of fiddling and isn't an accurate physics simulation. I can get away with that when teaching middle schoolers! Hey, at least they follow parabolas; just not all with the same acceleration. In class I just skimmed over the math for where the ball appears, since the class right now is about the state type, and drawing is something they've been doing all year anyway.
Definitely a lot of fun. I encourage you to copy and paste the code above into http://dac4.designacourse.com:8000/sim and fiddle with the patterns and see what they look like!
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Matthias Felleisen / Feb 15 2012 4:48 pm
Do you explain to your kids that the Gloss simulation integrates for them? Your use of 'dt' suggests you do. If you don't, don't be surprised if your middle school kids can understand the idea of integration from your simulation framework. It's the same for our big-bang/world library. — Matthias
Scott Tucker / Feb 15 2013 5:45 pm
Thanks for finally writing about >Juggling in Haskell and Gloss �
Sententia cdsmithus <Loved it!
hayd / Nov 6 2013 11:39 pm
This was a really interesting video, thanks for sharing it. Unfortunately the links to designacourse no longer work. :(
I also have a stupid question: I can't get this code to compile (it complains about a lack of `main` function)…


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What about older, 30-amp RV connections for charging?
What about older, 30-amp RV connections for charging?
Use volkerize.com to search RV and KOA; it's common. Not as useful in winter, but very frequently relied on.
Most RV parks have both 30 and 50 amp connections. As you state the 30 amp is 110, the 50 is 240. The 50 is also a NEMA 14-50 which is the standard delivered with the car.
There are some older parks that only have 30 amp service, I would skip them and find a location with 50 amp. The difference in speed of charging is like a factor of 4 or 5.
In season you will be begging RV owners to barrow their 14-50 plug in the Midwest. I guess no one camps on the West coast. I have already used my TT-30 home made adapter because the 14-50s where all in use. My wife and I were camping so 12 hours was enough time to get the charge we needed. Between the hiking and sleeping there was no waiting.
I showed the adapter to the service manager here in St. Louis and he is going to suggest one be made to management. I'd rather use official adaptors then risk forgetting to turn down the amps and tripping a breaker that I might not be able to reset in some of the really old campgrounds.
A typical over the counter RV 14-50 to TT-30 adapter does NOT work.
This thread is the one you want.
I hope Tesla does make a TT-30 adapter. If they do they might remove the 20a max charging restriction they have when charging at 120v.
Instructions for making a home made TT-30 adapter are here:
Btw, TT-30s are found lots of places, not just RV parks. Marinas for ship to shore power. Temporary venues for powering vendor trailers. Large corporate parking lots for temporary trailer power.


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