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Sneak Preview: Eddie Huang's Xiao Ye
"Xiao Ye's cuisine is typical night market fare—or what Huang likes to call 'booty call food.'"
Leave it to Eddie Huang, the man who put the street back in Taiwanese street food, to name the dumplings at the soon-to-open Xiao Ye after a member of the Wu Tang Clan. When your dumplings pay tribute to a gangster rapper, you best come correct. And Huang does. Each translucent triangle is packed with Duroc pork—custom-ground by Pat LaFrieda Meats—and very little else except some flecks of crunchy Napa cabbage. "There's no green onions, no oyster sauce, no nothing, so you taste the meat," the Taiwanese chef told me over a sneak preview lunch yesterday.
Huang, who skyrocketed to fame with Baohaus's sumptuous pork belly gua bao has turned to the cut again for Xiao Ye's xian rou, or salt-cured pork. "It's the only one with a normal name," Huang said of the traditional Taiwanese dish.
Huang bathes the belly in soy sauce and wine for a day before double cooking it. First comes steaming, then batter frying. The end result is meltingly tender, unctuous slices of pork with a crispness around the edges. So what if it doesn't have a wacky name. It's still delicious.
Like the pork belly Huang's fried chicken marinates for a day. Unlike the pork belly, this dish has a wacky name: Trade My Daughter for Fried Chicken. (Apparently yen shu ji, or salt-fried chicken, just doesn't convey the bird's cravability.) Since I don't have a daughter, I can't say whether I'd trade her for a plate—but the succulent fried chicken dusted with crushed peanut and crushed chilies is certainly addictive. It's so juicy that one might be forgiven for mistaking it for a pork chop (as did another blogger who was present).
Huang's favorite dish at Xiao Ye, the Everything But The Dog Meat Platter, is aptly named. It's a riff on traditional Taiwanese red cooked pork that's in keeping with today's meaty times. Joining pork spare ribs and pork belly in a three-hour braise are oxtail, and depending on availability, short rib or beef rib. Combining beef and pork is a departure from tradition as is the addition of tomatoes. Huang uses them to add a punch of "natural MSG." The meats are ringed around the mound of rice and served with a sidecar of the braising liquid to pour over.
I also tried Huang's tarofongo, which is his take on Dominican mofongo. In place of mashed plaintains and pork there's fried taro, Chinese sausage, green onions, garlic, and soy. Huang says that Xiao Ye's cuisine is typical night market fare—or what he likes to call "booty call food." Something tells me that's the type of eating that Ghostface Killah could get behind.
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Dong Zhou wrote:Tried Sword in the Stone, can see certain Disney traits like use of animals for humour, the old style of animation and so on. The idea for Merlin's character isn't bad but they don't quite pull it off and humour doesn't work, struggled to be interested in the characters. Did love Fred Darian's sung opening narration
This is one of my favorites from classic Disney!
I finally saw Inside Out the other day! I thought it was very clever and thoroughly enjoyed it!

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Diamonds Cause Children to Drop Out of Schoolby Erin 07/12/2012 09:28:00 0 comments 1756 Views
Koidu — Sierra Leone's diamonds fuelled the 1991-2002 civil war, and are now boosting economic growth, but at the same time they are keeping thousands of children out of school.
At a mine resembling a lunar landscape outside Koidu town in Kono Region - the diamond mining heartland in northeastern Sierra Leone - thousands of young men dig and shovel gravel in search of the precious stone.
"I had to support my family so I dropped out of school. When I could not find a job in my home town I came here," said 21-year-old Mumuni Diallo, who arrived in the mining fields when he was 17.
"I am very tired. I have been digging this pit for months, but so far I have found nothing. Still, in mining, every day is a new possibility," said Diallo, explaining that he was lured by tales of people striking riches.
About 70 percent of Sierra Leone's youth are unemployed.
Twenty-year-old Alhadji Gborie, who left his home town of Lungi near the capital Freetown for the mining fields, blames the government for failing to provide jobs.
"There is too much talk from the president. Let him come here and work for a day to see how it is," said Gborie, standing in a thigh-deep, muddy water hole.
On 17 November Sierra Leoneans re-elected President Ernest Bai Koroma for a second term of office, helped by the fact that the country has seen extensive infrastructure improvement and economic growth in the past five years.
Driven by exports of gold, diamonds and iron ore, the country's economy will grow by up to 21.3 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, but this wealth has yet to filter down to most ordinary Sierra Leoneans.
"In many families, children are becoming the breadwinners," Esate Konteh, from a local NGO in Kono Region, told IRIN. "When the civil war ended in 2002, many families had lost one or two parents. Some of them had their limbs amputated and could not work or were not eligible for employment."
Children are paid 10,000-20,000 leones (US$3-6) a day and 40,000 leones if they find diamonds. In Kenema, to the east of the capital, and Koidu around 3,000 children are estimated to be working in the mines, but there are no official figures and the number might be much higher, Konteh said.
Youths work either in mines, open pits or riverbeds.
Marginalized youth
"If you work in the pit you don't go to school. These youth have been marginalized in society from a very young age. Some of the boys were forced to take up arms during the civil war. When they returned home they were met by burnt down houses. Some of them have lost all their family members... This makes it even harder for them to find work and almost none of them returned to school," said Denis Lansana of local NGO Network Movement for Justice and Development.
Youth training programmes funded by the World Bank and the International Red Cross have only been partially successful, he added.
"With no skills and no other possibility to find work, the mine is an easy way to get rich," said Lansana, adding: "Diamond mining is just more attractive and lucrative than woodwork or farming. The children enrolled in classes ended up selling their textbooks before returning to the pit."
"Our aim is that no children should work in the pits. However, this is hard to control as we have no means to follow up on the [government] ban [on children working in mines]," said Sahr Tamba, a director at the Ministry of Mines.


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bsarer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
The brand name is "Gigsby." (including dot). The website is gigsby.com
Gigsby.com is a new web application for the electronic dance music community to do networking and business. We are a looking for a logo design for Gigsby to place on the website and on all our marketing material.Our web application's name is Gigsby. (including the dot). The website's name is Gigsby.com. Will be operational soon.
This web application brings electronic dance music artists, event promoters, and agents together to make more and better gigs happen. It gives users a social/professional networking environment to identify, find out about, meet and collaborate with other people in the industry. In addition, it provides agents, artists, and promoters with specialized tools to identify talent, market talent, book gigs, and gain access to 3rd party service providers for miscellaneous needs. The web site content includes text, photographs, news feeds, audio/video content, interactive communication and collaboration tools and ads.
The professional community of Electronic Dance music industry.
Artists: We are targeting live performing artists (DJs) who may or may not be producers (song writers). 18-40, party monster
Talent Agents and Agencies: Agents sign artists and work with promoters to book gigs for them. Agencies have multiple agents and artists. Age: 18-50. Business-like.
Promoters: Promoters book gigs. They hire artists through agencies. They are responsible for all logistics, organization, etc. Age: 18-40, party monster
Though it varies, this is typically a 20-40 of age, urban, party-loving community of professionals that make a living off electronic dance music.
ps: note that promoters use designers to design flyers and other promo material every single time they organize a gig. A great logo on Gigsby.com may generate additional business for the winner of this contest.
We are looking for a logo design with an icon for the Gigsby. brand. This design will be placed on our website as well as any promotional material and will define the key visual elements of our brand such as color palette, font, and overall look and feel.
It is critical that the design reflects
(1) the main purpose of Gigsby. :"a place for electronic dance music community to network and make gigs happen".
(2) reflects Gigsby's founding principles and personality (see below)
(3) Resonates with the target audience
(4) sets the stage for further brand development
What are the elements of Gigsby's personality:
Warm, artist and community friendly, fun-loving, partying, enjoying life... Yet it is a place where business gets done.
So it must strike the right balance between the social/professional network and a place where commercial contracts are signed. You can think of it as a big professional networking cocktail. You walk around, mingle with people, shake hands, close business, sip your drink, move on... It is fun and business-like at the same time.
Gigsby's founding principles must also be reflected:
We love dance music.
The Gig is the heart and soul of dance music
We want more and fun gigs to happen
Hence, Gigsby....
Elements that we like to include are:
An icon for Gigsby.
The characters "Gigsby."
Establish a color palette of 3-4 colors to be used on all visual material moving forward.
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Current SCTCC students enrolled in Pre-Paramedicine major
- Apply to the Paramedicine program during open application period when you have met the prerequisite requirements.
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- It is the student's responsibility to inform SCTCC of mailing address, telephone number, or e-mail address changes.
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Apply to SCTCC as AS/Pre-Paramedicine major. If you are new to SCTCC you must submit a college application, application fee, high school and college transcripts. If you are a former SCTCC student you must contact Admissions to reactivate your application (320-308-5089). Applicants will be accepted to the college first, not to the Paramedicine program. To complete the on-line SCTCC admission application click here.
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In the NOTES/COMMENTS type "Paramedicine Application."
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Official Transcripts from Non-Minnesota State colleges and universities must be received well before the application period deadline and should be mailed to the SCTCC Records and Registration Office – 1540 Northway Drive, St. Cloud, MN 56303
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British socialite and the richer, less talented version of Agyness Deyn, Peaches Geldof (daughter of Sir Bob), has wowed us with her wild antics once again. The 19-year-old has married an American rocker (and handsome ginger) Max Drummey from the band Chester French in a quickie Las Vegas ceremony. Peaches first met the 23-year-old Max, who is also a Harvard graduate, two years ago. Congratulations and good luck you two! Your love is gonna make it, we can feel it. [The Sun]
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BEIJING, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The Chinese Parliament Friday expelled disgraced Bo Xilai, a step that could lead to the once superstar politician facing trial on several accusations.
"The Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (Parliament) on Friday announced the termination of Bo Xilai's post as the NPC deputy," the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief report.
Bo, the former powerful head of the Chinese Communist Party in Chongqing and a rising political star before his downfall over a series of scandals that have rocked the country recently, had earlier been expelled from the party and also removed from public office by the Political Bureau of the party Central Committee after being accused of abuse of power, violating party discipline and others.
Friday's parliamentary action meant Bo has lost his immunity from prosecution.
In August, Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, received a suspended death sentence in the poisoning death of British businessman Neil Heywood. Later, Bo's former deputy and police chief was also sentenced to a jail term.
The scandals surrounding Bo have surfaced at a time when the Communist Party, needing to maintain its image both at home and abroad, prepares for its once-in-a-decade change of leadership later this year.
"There is conviction across China that the CPC Central Committee's handling of Bo's case reflected the CPC's clear stand and steadfast determination to fight corruption," Xinhua had reported earlier.
"Cadres and citizens have vowed to concentrate on their work and wholeheartedly promote development, so as to prepare for the upcoming 18th CPC National Congress with perfect achievements."
The official news agency said many had "agreed that Bo's violations had caused negative consequences to the party and the country."
During the time he was the party boss in Chongqing, Bo had been popular, enjoying much local support.


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Harold Garden
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Riverbank, California
Harold W. Garden died July 22, 2012 at the age of 99. He was born to Joseph and Sarah Garden in Stoney Creek, Connecticut. He graduated from San Francisco State.
He was a longtime teacher at Pleasanton Grammar School, beginning his career there in the early 1940's. Garden taught 7th grade and it was his favorite grade to teach. He was a teacher and principal for 33 years. He retired as principal from the Oakland School District. Garden also was a probation officer for 8 years.
Garden loved to teach and help children and adults learn to read. He believed people should read at all times. He had a great sense of humor, and loved life. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Sally and Save Van Houten (Riverbank), grandson Joseph Crume (Germany), granddaughter Mickie Crume and great-granddaughter John Crume (Moscow, Russia).
Deegan Funeral Chapel in Escalon handled private services for the immediate family, including burial at St. John's Catholic Cemetery in Escalon, CA.


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I've thought of selling a couple original castle sets (Yellow castle, jousting tournament, soldiers set, etc.) if I could find someone willing to pay whatever its valued at, but Ebay seems very tough to follow with Legos and value. I've got a ton and honestly should just start unloading what I can. I'm probably sitting on some kind of goldmine with all this crap.
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Six highlights in your travel week | 29 June
While the colder weather starts to bear down on much of Australia, holiday makers should seriously consider an escape into Broome time, as the locals of the north-western pearling town describe it.
Broome, with daily temperatures currently hovering between 25 and 30 degrees, is the natural starting point for exploring the spectacular Kimberley region, but there's plenty to do in the town itself.
Iconic Cable Beach, with its 22 kilometres of soft white sand, stunning Indian Ocean sunsets and famous camel rides, draws its name from the long undersea telegraph cable that was laid in 1889, connecting north-west Australia to Indonesia and opening up communication to the world.
And then there's cuisine. Broome's multicultural heritage — Aboriginal, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian and European — along with its coastal location have influenced the variety of cuisines on offer throughout the town.
Taste the many flavours of Broome at the Courthouse Markets on a Saturday or Sunday morning, try pearl meat at a pearl farm, take a culinary journey through Japan at Cable Beach Club's Zensai, enjoy local seafood at The Wharf, and head to Matso's Brewery for some serious tasting.
Visit www.visitbroome.com.au
Aurora Expeditions has launched a new Kimberley Coast cruise deal for 2019, with a second person flying free.
The deal is available on all 2019 departure dates for the 11-day Broome-to-Darwin and Darwin-to-Broome voyages booked before July 31 this year, regardless of whether travellers are accompanied by a partner, a family member or a friend, and offers savings of up to $1400 per couple.
The cruise journeys through the maze of nearly 3000 islands along the coast, landing daily to explore the area's natural beauty and attractions, including sprawling landscapes, beautiful gorges and lush waterfalls.
Phone 1800 637 688 or visit www.auroraexpeditions.com.au
The author and illustrator of the Ruby Red Shoes series of books, Kate Knapp, will bring her own brand of magic to the Mary Poppins Festival in Maryborough from June 29 to July 8.
During the festival, Kate will be exhibiting her work and doing readings.
The historic Queensland town of Maryborough was the birthplace of PL Travers, the author who created Mary Poppins.
There'll be plenty to do for festival goers, despite an unforeseen delay in renovating the Story Bank, the former bank building where Travers was born.
Activities will include a creative writing workshop hosted by visiting author of the Extreme Adventure series Justin D'Ath, a Kids' Party Confidential with comedian and author Sean Murphy, and the festival's major event, A Day in the Park, on July 7.
That will include the grand parade, nanny race and chimney-sweep challenge.
Combining two world-class experiences into one 13-night package, Ecruising is offering guests the chance of a two-night stay at New Zealand's Huka Lodge, followed by a nine-night cruise from Auckland to Sydney on board Cunard's elegant Queen Elizabeth.
Departing Sydney on 24 February next year, the package is priced from $7539 per person twin-share for a Princess Grill suite, a saving of more than 50 per cent.
Those who book by June 30vwill receive up to about $1200 on-board spending money per suite.
The package includes a one-way economy-class flight from Sydney to Taupo, as well two nights of pre-cruise accommodation at The Hilton Hotel Auckland.
While at Huka Lodge, guests will enjoy a two-night stay in a Junior Lodge Suite with access to lodge's many facilities, pre-dinner drinks and canapés, daily breakfast and a gourmet five-course dinner, transfers and a tour of the stunning Waitomo Caves en route to Auckland.
Ports visited on the cruise include the Bay of Islands and Port Arthur.
Phone 1300 369 848 or visit www.ecruising.travel
World Expeditions has expanded its Africa and Middle East portfolio, adding 16 new itineraries, including alternative routes on Mt Kilimanjaro as well as treks in Uganda, Morocco and Ethiopia.
World Expeditions has a long history in evolving the concepts of African adventures for its discerning and active travellers, having pioneered the first commercial treks of Mount Kilimanjaro's remote Northern Circuit and Shira Routes, while keeping the choices diverse with the Lemosho, Machame and the Rongai routes also on offer.
Interest in mountain trekking has expanded, from just Kilimanjaro, to include Mount Kenya, new trekking routes in Uganda's Mountains of the Moon (the Rwenzoris), Morocco's High Atlas and the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia.
New trips include 'Festivals of Ethiopia', which takes in two of the country's most important and fascinating festivals, the Genna and Timket Festivals.
Phone 1300 720 000 or visit www.worldexpeditions.com
Off the Map Travel has launched a new Arctic midnight-sun glamping experience, with guests staying in a Lavvu — an indigenous Sami tepee — next to white sandy beaches and clear turquoise seas.
The new experience also includes the chance to fish for your dinner and learn traditional Scandinavian wilderness cooking in the Lofoten Islands, on the banks of one of Norway's most picturesque fjords and framed by the Arctic peaks beyond.
As the Lofoten Islands are at 68° North, above the Arctic Circle, the camp also allows guests to experience the long Arctic summer days – and even the 24 hours of uninterrupted Midnight Sun in June and July.
For those wanting to give a little back to the island, guests staying at the camp can also join a beach clean-up, including a presentation about major impacts of plastic in our oceans.
A two-night glamping experience is priced from about $2670 per person based twin-share, including a wildlife cruise, a visit to goat farm, Lofotr Viking Museum visit, kayaking experience and a fjords hike.
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Both of Connecticut's U.S. Senators, Joe Lieberman and Dick Blumenthal, would seem to have a great deal in common with besieged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Mr. Lieberman, due to retire from the Senate at the end of his term, clawed his way into the U.S. Senate from his previous position as Connecticut's Attorney General, as did Mr. Blumenthal.
Mr. Holder was cited for contempt by the two senators' congressional colleagues in the House on Thursday, June 28. The charge brought against Mr. Holder is that the Attorney General has refused to surrender to Congress documentation the Congress has determined it must review to discover what role Mr. Holder's Justice Department may have played in "Fast and Furious," a disastrous scheme in which agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, a department under the supervision of Mr. Holder's Justice Department, facilitated the purchase of guns by Mexican drug dealers. One of the guns, it was later determined, was used by drug dealers to murder U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Somewhat like Antigone, his family is calling out for justice..
Mr. Blumenthal had the opportunity to question Mr. Holder last November.
The following is a transcript of Mr. Blumenthal's interrogation of Mr. Holder:
"Sen. Richard Blumenthal: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Mr. Attorney General for being here today. I've listened to all the questions and all of your answers, and I want to thank you for effectively addressing many of the questions surrounding Fast and Furious and dispelling any doubt that you are determined to uncover all the facts surrounding some of the very regrettable circumstances here. Just so we understand a lot of names have been mentioned here – Attorney General [Michael] Mukasey, Kevin O'Connor who happens to be a former U.S. Attorney in Connecticut, and others in the department now – there's no evidence before us here that they knew or participated in any wrongdoing, is there?"
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: Yes, I hope my testimony was clear. I just don't know.
This pitiful excuse of an interrogation is what one of Mr. Blumenthal's former associates at the attorney general's office might call "a walk through the roses." No one would have been surprised if Mr. Blumenthal had reached over and planted a wet kiss on Mr. Holder's cheek. Perhaps if Mr. Holder had been a small entrepreneur who owned an herbal distribution business in Connecticut or a pellet sales business, Mr. Blumenthal might have sunk his vampire fangs into Mr. Holder's neck. This is, after all, the bully who gets off on breaking butterfies on wheels.
"Blumenthal: It has been. Thank you. Also that there's an ongoing investigation, which eventually will disclose whether or not and who knew about what was going on. I want to thank you for being so candid and straightforward on that point. I want to join my colleague, Sen. [Chris] Coons in expressing my determination that there should be more assistance and sufficient support for our police on the streets of Connecticut, in our neighborhoods, as well as the firefighters and other personnel that I would regard as law enforcement, which are really in more than one sense the cops on the beat who protect us day in and day out. Despite the very excellent performance by the FBI, they're the ones who do the bulk of the law enforcement for our nation, and I appreciate and thank you for your support. I think perhaps for me one of the most important aspects of your testimony today is really the vigor and intensity that the Department of Justice is devoting now to stopping gun trafficking and drug dealing and gang violence on our borders and throughout the country, but most particularly in connection with the Mexican gangs that pose such a threat to Americans as well as Mexicans. As I understand your testimony, there have been record numbers of seizures, arrests, prosecutions, convictions, and extraditions, is that correct?"
"Holder: That is correct. We have moved substantial number of resources to the border in an attempt to stop the flow of guns into Mexico, to stop the violence along the border. We have worked in the interior of Mexico with our Mexican counterparts in training, in trying to come up with ways in which we could fight the cartels. Our Mexican counterparts have sacrificed a great deal and even with their lives in this fight, and we have tried to be good partners in their struggle.
"Blumenthal: Would it be fair to say that the Mexicans are increasingly becoming good partners in this effort?
"Holder: Yes. I think so. I think through the use of vetted units, through the use of other techniques that we have shared with them, through their growing sophistication with the use of electronic devices, I think they are becoming more proficient in this battle.
"Blumenthal: There's no question that the Department of Justice under your leadership will continue to work on disrupting and dismantling these gang-led efforts or other efforts on drug trafficking and gun dealing and so forth.
"Holder: Yes, this will continue to be a priority. Too often when we describe it as a southwest border problem when the reality is that it's a national problem. What happens along the southwest border can have an impact in Connecticut, can have an impact in Chicago. And the person, his name has been mentioned a lot and I think deserves a little bit of credit here. The person who has been leading the effort for the Department of Justice is Lanny Breuer, the head of our criminal division. He has devoted an inordinate, a huge amount of time to this fight, has established good relationships with counter-parts in Mexico, and has been a person who really stood for in this country in developing good techniques to reduce that level of violence and the danger that the cartels pose to this country.
Considering the seriousness of the House's citations – two actions, one criminal the other civil were brought against Mr. Holder by Mr. Blumenthal's colleagues – Mr. Blumenthal's interrogation of Mr. Holder was, some would say, much more mild than most of the interrogatories initiated by Mr. Blumenthal when he was Attorney General of Connecticut. Then he was a man on fire to uncover the truth and right moral wrongs. Since his elevation to the senate, 99 percent of the man's pluck has gone out of him.
The criminal contempt charge could be referred to Obama appointed U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, who answers to Mr. Holder, an obvious dead end. Flunkies, when their patrons are under attack, tend to use the law as a shield to protect them from legal arrows shot in their direction. A deputy attorney general already has written to House Speaker John Boehner that he would not pursue prosecution because the Justice Department does not consider the withholding of information from Congress to be a crime.Mr. Blumenthal is not incapable of criticizing the highly politicized Justice Department. In March, 2012, according to a CBS report, Mr. Blumenthal chastised Mr. Holder for failing to investigate energy speculators, many of whom are hedge fund operators living and paying exorbitant taxes in his state. Heggies were one of Mr. Blumenthal's targets when he was plying his trade as Connecticut's Attorney General and vowing as U.S. Senator to represent his state's interests rather than narrow partisan interests.
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If you use Music Memos with iCloud, song ideas in your Library automatically update to iCloud. If some ideas look like they're continuously updating, your iOS device might not have enough storage space. You can use your iOS device to check its storage.
Go to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage. You'll see a list of your apps, and how much storage each one uses. For more information about its usage, tap the app from the list. Cached data and temporary data might not be counted as usage.
Depending on the app, you might be able to delete some of its content, or delete the app and all of its content. If your device is almost full and iOS can't free up space on your device, you might get a Storage Almost Full alert. If you see this alert, you'll need to manually remove some content.


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|Fraggle Rock
|Air Date
|March 14, 1983
|Written by
|Jerry Juhl
|Perry Rosemond
While Gobo is in Outer Space looking for Matt's postcard, Doc decides to board up the hole in the wall leading to Fraggle Rock. While Gobo dodges Doc and Sprocket, his friends launch a rescue mission. Mokey and Boober work on breaking the boards, while Red and Wembley try to rescue him by following Marjory the Trash Heap's advice: "Don't cry over spilt milk."
- This episode marks the first appearance of the swoopfoomer.
- During the mail call Doc receives a letter from Kermit, perhaps an inside reference to Kermit the Frog.
- "Kick a Stone" is sung to the same tune as "The Way I've Got to Go" from the later episode "All Work and All Play."
- While this is the tenth episode of the series, it was recorded in April 14, 1982 as the second. It's also the shortest episode of the series. Due to its length, it's the only episode that aired on The Hub to feature the full version of the opening sequence.
Video releases
- Fraggle Rock: Complete First Season (HIT!, 2005)
- Fraggle Rock: Complete Series Collection (HIT!, 2008)
International episode titles
- Denmark: "Græd ikke over spildt mælk" (Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk)
- Finland: "Gobon matka"
- France: "On ne pleure pas sur le lait renversé" (We Do Not Cry Over Spilt Milk)
- Germany: "Macht nichts, Gobo" (That's Alright, Gobo)
- Japan: "ゴーボーの大ピンチ" (Gobo in a Big Pinch)
- Netherlands: "Huil niet om gemorste melk" (Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk)
- Norway: "Ikke gråt over spilt melk"
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Feature Flick: Power-To-Weight 101 – Compact Car vs. Police Bike, Bike Wins
The Russians have made dashcam videos famous, but even before our comrades created the video meme, police departments in the U.S. started employing video cameras on its patrol vehicles and officers to protect themselves, as well as citizens from abuses and false accusations. Today, we get a perspective of a rural high-speed chase from the vantage point of the officer. Of the three videos on the Florence, Alabama Police Department YouTube channel, this one is the runaway hit with over 2 million views since it was posted last week.
It's the pursuit of a late-model Mazda 3 sedan by a motorcycle patrol officer, riding what appears to be a BMW R 1200 RT-P police-duty motorcycle. These law-enforcement workhorses have become more popular across the country, displacing the formerly ubiquitous Kawasaki KZ1000P in many departments.
But before going too far in the weeds about the history and technicalities of police bikes, the simple fact is, unless you're driving a Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren MP4-12C, or Corvette ZR1, and even if you are, motorcycles generally enjoy a vastly superior power-to-weight ratio to cars, even ultra-high performance cars. This suspect found out the Mazda's 148 hp carrying around 3000 lb was no match for the BMW's 109 hp hauling 800 (estimated weight of bike's wet weight + 200 lb rider).
People have various opinions of law enforcement, and especially just after having received a traffic citation. But the inescapable fact is, evading police in pursuit rarely ends well. The violations, as you can hear verbally in this video, continue to rack up, adding to the civil and criminal penalties, and making the outcome that much worse when you finally get apprehended. Yes kids, it's a bummer to get a traffic ticket, but trying to run away from it doesn't make things better.
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Sentencing for Jeffrey Truman rescheduled
SYRACUSE >> Sentencing for a man convicted of arson for a 2006 factory fire has been postponed.
Jeffrey Truman Sr., 54, will now wait until spring for sentencing. This is roughly the fifth time sentencing has been postponed since last fall.
Most recently, it was scheduled to take place Thursday, Valentines Day, in federal court in Syracuse.
The new date for sentencing is April 9 at 11 a.m. in Syracuse.
Truman's case began in 2006 with a fire that was set in the Stanton Paper Box factory fire on North Warner Street in Oneida, that ended up leveling the building.
He was later acquitted in a Madison County Court trial, Truman was tried at the federal level and found guilty in 2010 of arson and two counts of mail fraud related to the arson case.
After the November 2010 federal trial ended, presiding Judge David Hurd overturned the jury's verdict, acquitting Truman of all charges. Hurd's decision was then appealed by federal prosecutors in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which reinstated the federal jury's original conviction.
The case was returned to Hurd in District Court July 25, 2012 for sentencing.
At that time, Hurd recused himself from the case because, while he accepted the Circuit Court's decision, he believed Truman should be acquitted and might even be innocent.
On Thursday, court officials for the Northern District of New York couldn't give a reason for the rescheduling.
However, Federal prosecutor Ed Broton said that the number of adjournments is a little unusual.
"But this has been an abnormal case," he said, recounting case history that includes the original federal judge recusing himself, and a September detention hearing being held before U.S. District Court Judge Norman Mordue to determine whether he would be jailed prior to sentencing or remain free on bail.
Mordue ordered Truman to be placed in federal custody pending his sentencing.
Broton also added that when a sentencing is adjourned at the federal level, it is done prior to the scheduled court date and not in open court. Attorneys receive a very brief explanation of the change through an electronic case filing system they use.
For Thursday's adjourned sentencing all Broton knew is that the change was not made by his office nor the federal public defenders office, but was perhaps adjourned by the judge for scheduling reasons.
Speaking to past sentencing adjournments, Broton believes that at least one instance had to do with a pre-sentence report not being complete. However, that has since been completed.
A pre-sentence report is completed by a member of the probation department and typically contains detailed information about the current and prior convictions on the record of the person to be sentenced as well as biographical information and an interview conducted with the person to be sentenced.
When sentenced, Truman faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and up to 70 years in prison for his federal convictions.
Truman's attorney, federal public defender Lisa Peebles was unable to be reached for comment on Thursday.


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Launch Windows, open a folder or file, install, remove or run a program - just about everything you do on a PC results in Windows writing to the Registry. And over time that means the Registry files will grow, as they contain more and more "slack space", gaps where old entries used to be.
This isn't particularly harmful, but it does waste a little memory and hard drive space. And so you might like to try Registry Compressor, a small and simple tool which can defragment your Registry, removing this slack space (nothing else - this isn't a Registry cleaner) and cutting the files down to size.
We've no reason to believe this is dangerous - it's a simple enough process, and worked fine on our test PC - but plainly if there is a problem and your Registry is corrupted, then it will be a disaster. So only run Registry Compressor on a system which has been fully backed up. And close down all running programs before you launch it, too.
With that done, launch Registry Compressor, click Analyze, and after a few seconds it'll present some figures on how bloated your Registry files might be. On our test PC, some of the smaller hives were anything up to 9 times larger than they needed to be, but overall this wasn't a major problem: the total size of our Registry was currently 172MB, and Registry Compressor claimed it could reduce this to 168.99MB, a 1.75% saving.
If you'd like to make this saving on your PC, simply click "Compress", and after a second or two (it's very quick) the program will tell you it's done, and recommend you reboot. We did so, checked again and our fragmentation had dropped to 0.1MB, or about 0.06%.
Is this worthwhile? We saw no apparent performance difference. Still, when you're optimising your PC then all these smaller tweaks can add up, and it's so quick and easy to use that you might want to give Registry Compressor a try. Just be sure you use it with care; backup your system and close programs beforehand, and reboot your system immediately afterwards.
Version 1.1.0:
- Now supports the command line /silent or /s and can now also reboot the system if you want it to.
- Code changes and cleanup, program is now 330kb smaller.
Registry fragmentation isn't a major PC performance issue, but it can waste a little RAM and drive space, and Registry Compressor recovers this with ease


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A two-seated version of the classic Jane Sofa, the Jane Loveseat has button-tufted cushions and a stainless steel base that complements simple design with stylish upholstery. Its trim steel frame neatly rises into a plush loveseat with a strong mid-century vibe. The Jane Loveseat has a button-tufted seat and back, and can be easily inserted into nearly any decor scheme.
What's To Like:
- Metal base, button tufting ... class dismissed. We love the look.
- Equally at home in a modern space as it is in an eclectic home, the Jane Loveseat is a master of adaptability.
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- Overall dimensions: 30" h x 63" w x 36" d
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- Coordinate with matching Jane Bi-Sectional Sofa, Jane 3-Seat Sofa, or Jane Lounge Chair
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Overall: 30" h x 63" w x 36" d
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The first generation of these Low Carbon Growth Plans (LCGPs) have shown that many developing, as well as developed countries, are willing and able to commit to ambitious actions on climate compatible growth, based on their own national development priorities and as a contribution to meeting our collective global climate change challenge.
LCGPs should be seen primarily as policy instruments which support state governments and institutions in sovereign decision-making. However they can also support global goals by providing national strategic context to the abatement and adaptation efforts for which countries receive international recognition."
"Climateworks Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, Project Catalyst and McKinsey & Company supported twelve countries with low carbon growth planning activities prior to COP 15. This assistance focused on sustainable development, GHG mitigation and climate resiliency based on country priorities and a strategic vision. Example activities included assistance with development of marginal abatement cost curves and assessment of economic impacts."


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A new assessment by IUCN reveals for the first time the good conservation performance of natural World Heritage sites. The IUCN World Heritage Outlook provides unique insight into how the world's natural sites can be preserved over time.
Launched today at the 38th annual meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Doha, Qatar, the IUCN World Heritage Outlook aims to close a knowledge gap on natural World Heritage sites by compiling assessments of each natural site inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Until now, less than half of all natural sites – those affected by serious conservation issues – have been regularly tracked through joint monitoring by UNESCO and IUCN, in its role as advisory body on natural World Heritage.
The World Heritage List includes natural, cultural and mixed sites, with natural sites representing 10% of the planet's total protected area.
Developed by IUCN and its World Commission on Protected Areas, the IUCN World Heritage Outlook now also profiles well-managed sites, as well as drawing attention to the need to improve the prospects of sites under threat. This marks a first step toward recognising the role that World Heritage sites have in pioneering conservation success.
"These sites are designated as the world's most valuable places and should demonstrate the highest standards of conservation. But once they are listed, we often don't hear about them unless a serious problem requires attention," says Cyril Kormos, Vice Chair of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. "It is time that well-managed sites are given the recognition they deserve to lead the global conservation movement."
The IUCN World Heritage Outlook now features conservation outlook assessments for 75% of all natural World Heritage sites, and all site assessments will be completed in the coming months. Initial results indicate that, among over 100 sites that have not been monitored by IUCN over the last 10 years, four in five show either a 'good' or 'good with some concern' conservation outlook.
Three elements are evaluated in each site to produce conservation outlook assessments: World Heritage values, threats to these values, and the effectiveness of protection and management. This makes it the first tool to catalogue the management efforts which are invested in the conservation of natural World Heritage.
"Our target is that all World Heritage sites should have a good outlook – the credibility of the World Heritage Convention is at stake and so is our ability to conserve these exceptional places for future generations," says Tim Badman, Director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme. "This new system is a major step to help natural World Heritage gain more support where it is needed."
The website is open for feedback and assessments will be revised if new information becomes available. IUCN will present full global and regional reports at the 2014 World Parks Congress, 12-19 November 2014.
Facts & figures:
• There are over 160,000 protected areas but only 222 natural World Heritage sites.
• Natural World Heritage covers over 10% of the total surface covered by protected areas.
• In the past 10 years, less than half of all natural World Heritage sites were monitored at least once by IUCN and UNESCO.
• The IUCN World Heritage Outlook aims to assess all natural sites, including for the first time well-managed sites.
• The Conservation Outlook Assessments look at three elements: values, threats, and protection.
• Over 400 experts worldwide are consulted in preparing the conservation outlook assessments.
• www.worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org
For more information contact:
In Doha: Célia Zwahlen, IUCN World Heritage Programme Communications, m +974 305 33 889, firstname.lastname@example.com
Arab States: Lara Nassar, IUCN West Asia Information, m +962 777 888 522, email@example.com


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Please take and share this short survey on poetry, protest, Occupy & Gezi Park! You will be helping a Comparative Literature student at İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. Click the image below, or go to this link:
Poetry, Occupy, and Gezi Research
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No Due Date: Books of The People's Library
Do you remember the OWS Library books? What they looked like. How we labelled them. How they were organized? Perhaps you picked one up and saw that we had written "OWSL" across each side with a permanent marker. Perhaps you saw one with our stamp on it, or even a bookplate. Or maybe you were writing with that marker, or cataloguing them, or sorting them.
So, where are these books now? On November 15, 2011 under orders from then Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the City of New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) dismantled and destroyed the People's Library of Occupy Wall Street under the pretence of "cleaning" the park. Along with the kitchen, medical tent, residences of occupiers and more in Zucotti Park, all of the library's books, zines, newspapers, media, computers, and other materials were thrown into trucks by sanitation workers and brought to a DSNY garage on 57th Street. Of the approximately 3,600 books seized that night, only 1,003 were recovered. Of that number, 201 were so damaged while in the possession of the City of New York that they were made unreadable. Thus, at least approximately 2,798 books were never returned or were damaged beyond repair.
But. Some books remain. Some were checked out and taken home, and passed around. Do you have one? I do. I have the first book ever entered into our catalogue. It was the book I chose to keep as a memory of our library. Here it is in our LibraryThing catalog, at the bottom of page 190. Hakim Bey's "T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series)":
When TAZ was donated, I held onto it, keeping it close. For me it was a perfect book for our occupation, for our library – at least, for what I imagined both to be. We all had that one book, or books. Those certain books we loved, that we were surprised to see when they were donated – that we smiled at between the piles of romance novels, Bloomberg biographies, and other less-wanteds – those books that you just knew someone gave because it made so much sense for it to be in this library.
I'm writing about our books now, about what one of our librarians called the "dregs of the library" – what was left after the attack, what was salvageable, and unsalvageable. Do you have an OWS library book? Don't worry, there is still no due date, we don't want them back. We want them to keep living out there. But I would love to hear the story of your book, whether you were an occupier, a visitor, a volunteer, a working group member, a patron, anyone – tell me your People's Library book stories. And share a photo if you can of your book(s).
Post in the comments, and email me your story, your photos, anything you'd like to share. I'll post your stories here if you want that, so others can hear about where the books ended up, or not, it's up to you.
Filed under Announcements, Catalog, Ephemera, Rob
Librarian Is My Occupation: A History of the People's Library of Occupy Wall Street
As bicyclists, joggers, and tourists looked on in bemusement, three exhausted individuals pushed a broken-unwieldy-wooden-wagon-thing-on-two-wheels across the Williamsburg Bridge. It was July 21, 2012, a hell of a day to push something heavy through Manhattan and Brooklyn. It is impossible to know exactly what the onlookers thought of those pushing the cart, but it is likely they did not recognize that what they were watching was working group members from the Occupy Wall Street People's Library moving the last remnants of the collection out of a storage unit and to, alas, another temporary home. It may be that three sweaty people pushing a giant wheeled crate does not make most people think of libraries, but the People's Library had always been dogged by others' ideas of it.
We should know. We've heard them all…
"Librarian Is My Occupation: A History of the People's Library of Occupy Wall Street" was written by two members of the OWSL working group, it was included in the book Informed Agitation. The full text of the chapter is available by clicking the above link (or the picture).
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The Dayton Project, Occupy & Oral History
The Dayton Project is an oral history project on Occupy created by Kyle Pitzer, a student in the public history program at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio. you can follow his efforts to interview and transcribe and hopefully, he writes, turn some of that material into a radio story on his project blog here.
I wanted to share the project here because we often privilege the textual when thinking about libraries and information – but oral forms are important methods of building, sharing, and passing on knowledge, stories, history, and experience.
You can contact Kyle about the project here.
Filed under Oral History, Rob
Wrapping Up
Dear friends of the People's Library, we recently hit a turning point in the history of our beloved library. As you may remember, last spring we reached a settlement with the city and it's various departments and officials. We received $47,000 and a not-quite-apology. We got lots of questions about what we were going to do with all that money.
As the city and the NYPD have made it an impossible thing to plant libraries such as we once had, we knew it would be futile and wasteful to attempt such a thing. Further, we are tired and busy, and many of us have moved on to other projects and several have left NYC for less hellish homes. Besides which, money being power, and power corrupting… we didn't want it. After all, it wasn't really about the money, it's just that money is how capitalist government says it's sorry. Earlier on in the lawsuit process, we were offered a settlement without the not-quite-apology. We didn't take it.
Anyway, we had no use for it, but we knew there were lots of groups that could use it. We drew up a list of groups we'd like to help out, divided, and wrote some checks.
Of course, it wasn't actually that simple. There was a ridiculous group video conference, where we spent more time trying to get the damn thing to work than actually talking, for example. It obviously took a while. I'd especially like to thank Michele, Danny, and Zachary for staying on top of it and doing most of the legwork. I'd also like to thank our liaisons from Finance for helping us out along the way. And, as always, big thanks to our lawyers.
For transparency's sake, here's the list of groups we gave it to. We've held on to a little bit for things like maintaining the domain registrations of the blog and what-have-you.
- Word Up Community Bookshop
- The Brecht Forum
- Bluestockings Books
- Queers for Economic Justice
- National Lawyers Guild
- Food for Thought Books
- Waging Nonviolence
- Reader to Reader
- Silvia Rivera Law Project
- OWS Jail Support / Just Info
- Indiana Prison College
- Free University NYC
- Books Through Bars
- Housing Works
- NYC Anarchist Black Cross
- Pink and Black
- Urban Librarians Unite
- Queens Café (new community space in Queens)
- Leadnow
- Free Press
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Demand Progress
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Queens Library Foundation
- New York Public Library
- New Alternatives
- Bailey House
- Lesbian Herstory Archives
- Interference Archive
- American Indian College Fund
- Brooklyn Base
- Tamiment Library
- OWS poetry Anthology
So, that's pretty much it, y'all. It's been great to serve you as your faithful librarians. You'll hear from us occasionally as we work on further projects. And next time things go all insurrection, we'll be there, too, books in hand.
Filed under 11/15 Eviction, Announcements, Cops, Donations, Friends of the Library, Jaime, Lawsuit
Call Congress! Rally in the streets! Get up, get angry and get involved, but remember that change requires more than just one phone call or attending one rally! The surveillance currently being conducted by the NSA has been going on for several years now and it has relied on the collusion of Internet companies, telecoms, government, and most importantly it has relied on the passivity of a population easily distracted by fancy electronic gadgets. So, restore the fourth, but also…
Take steps to secure the privacy of your personal devices (a resource guide)
Keep in mind that Paranoia is not a tactic, systemic critique is needed
Remember, that "More than Machinery we need humanity"
Recognize that a bias towards surveillance may be embedded in some of the technology you use
And as you fret about the panopticon be wary of falling for a Panoptic Con
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Southern Weekly: Of Cock-Ups and Conspiracies
By Russell Leigh Moses
Observers outside of China tend to see events here as being shaped by a calculating Party apparatus. More often than not, however, incidents are shaped by either cock-ups or conspiracies.
The recent censorship efforts at the newspaper Southern Weekend might well be both—and neatly summarize the problems and possibilities surrounding the early efforts of new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to stimulate the political system.
The screw-up part is easy to see. After all, the sudden, secret switch of the New Year's editorial by Guangdong propaganda chief Tuo Zhen has already backfired badly. The decision brought protests inside and outside the paper's facilities, and started a firestorm of criticism on Chinese social media.
In fact, Tuo's move is the sort of heavy-handedness and abrupt intervention by officials that Xi's supporters have been objecting to since they took office—the sort that leads not only to collusion and corruption but wider anger when more creative alternatives are not discussed. Of course, Party cadres look to protect themselves from censure by Beijing by being too soft.
But that was the old regime, Xi's camp has been hinting, by praising local officials that operate with more innovation towards the masses—such as efforts by cadres in Shanxi to follow-up local petitions and grievances personally. Now far more than before, anticipating public reaction by the masses is central to whether Beijing will support moves by local officials to problem-solve. As Xinhua's coverage of a speech by new security czar Meng Jianzhu put it, cadres need "to take the initiative to respond to social concerns, to maximize the 'positive energy' of public opinion."
Tuo failed to do that, and just messed up. Or so the story goes.
But what if the events surrounding the squelching of the Southern Weekend editorial are more complicated than just another overreaction by an official? What if the nice, neat narrative of the forces of press freedom fighting against the Party hacks and henchmen bent on hijacking the truth isn't nearly true?
The suppression of Southern Weekend's editorial might have been the default response, but surely Tuo Zhen must have had backing somewhere to make a move that he knew would not pass unnoticed. Likewise, the editorial staff there had to realize that calling for a firmer and faster move towards constitutionalism was bound to provoke anger from some strong voices in the Party ranks.
So, there are political agendas at work in the Southern Weekend case, amply demonstrated by the confrontation in the streets and online in the past few days, between conservatives supporting the clampdown on the paper's staff and reformers who see this event as a way to test Xi's commitment to political change.
Those crowds didn't appear accidentally; neither side is moving independently, without some political backing in the system here.
For those into conspiracy theories, the whole situation could be read as part of a larger political confrontation brought about by Xi and his colleagues who are pushing the Party to do things differently.
While Hu and his allies sought to shape the society—supporting the indigent, while stifling the unconvinced and the angry--Xi's approach thus far has been about reformatting the Party. Strikingly, Xi has said little about social problems (beyond confronting abject poverty and instilling a sense of justice); he's said even less about loosening restrictions on reporting or allowing editorial critiques of the Party. But it's already becoming clear that Xi thinks that he can save China by saving the Party---making the Party an agent for change, instead of the usual obstacle.
That's encouraged reformers inside the political system, as well as those citizens who've been equally frustrated by the lack of vision under the previous leadership and who had heretofore opted out of helping the country and simply helped themselves.
Securing Southern Weekend's editorial for publication would have been a further step forward toward political restructuring—not just Party reform. That's probably why it was written, and that's why it might even be resurrected in some form in tomorrow's edition.
At the same time, conservatives in the Party can be anything but pleased. Xi's early commands had to have made them uneasy, for they must know that even shifts in style (shorter meetings, smaller meals, and the like) could be the start of something more substantive. Their effort to suppress the Southern Weekend editorial is a clear signal to Xi's forces to slow down and shut up.
If these recent events were not some lone act of a misguided official working off the old, wrong script, then these are dangerous early days. If these disputes within Party ranks start leaking out into the streets, ink might turn out to be not the only substance that gets spilled in the weeks to come—accidentally, or on purpose.
Russell Leigh Moses is the Dean of Academics and Faculty at The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. He is writing a book on the changing role of power in the Chinese political system.


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a cap for adventure: simple, rugged, distinct. unlined, unstructured waxed cotton ball cap that has been thoroughly field tested in the elements.
soft and malleable canvas-stiffened peak. see below for more information on the camper cap.
style: 6-panel ball cap
color: barn red
shell: waxed cotton
lining: none
inner band: cotton
peak: canvas stiffener, waxed cotton exterior
The Camper is a classic 6-panel ball cap. This unstructured, unlined cap features a narrow band and low crown and can be worn by both men and women. The cap is based on a sample cap I made in 2012 for a photo shoot. The cap was never fully finished, but I lent it to friends to wear and wore it myself on many occasions. It sat on a car dashboard for a week, accompanied me on a couple camping trips, and even floated down the Buffalo River after a canoe flipped. Still, the cap held up beautifully and only became more attractive. The canvas-stiffened peak is incredibly malleable and can be worn a number of ways. It can safely be rolled to be stuffed into a pocket or bag.
If your waxed Camper becomes soiled, I recommend brushing off debris, or wiping with damp cloth. Air dry.
Do not use soap on waxed cotton, as it will remove the waxy finish. If your waxed Camper becomes dry, redress with Martexin Original Wax.
To properly determine your cap size, measure the circumference of your head at the widest part, or where your caps generally sit, using a soft measuring tape or string and ruler. See the chart below to determine your size. (Measurements are all +/- 1/8")
I recommend buying a cap that will fit snug (not tight) upon the first wear. With just a little bit of time, the cap will shape and mold to your head, providing the perfect, comfortable fit.
*Everyone wears his or her cap differently and every manufacturer has different size specifications. I developed my size chart based on inch measurement with 3/8" increments between sizes.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > October 2007 > Service day participants cover Plainview with paint, assistance
Service day participants cover Plainview with paint, assistance
PLAINVIEW – Students and staff from Wayland Baptist University painted the town of Plainview Saturday for the Second Annual Degree of Difference Day – almost literally.
With 21 different work sites scheduled for the day, teams set out around 9 a.m. to lend their hands and servant's hearts to helping local agencies, churches and other entities. This year's projects included much painting work as several entities took advantage of the university's offer for free manpower for the day.
"It seemed like almost everyone needed us to paint this year, which the students all enjoyed last year, so it worked out great," said Teresa Young, co-organizer of the event with Development Director Hope English. "Our only problem was that folks underestimated how quickly we would get the work done, so some teams finished faster than we thought they would. Our students and staff just jumped in there and got the job done and were so efficient."
Teams composed of faculty and staff members as well as students descended upon sites for the morning spreading out over town for cleanup efforts in places like the city cemetery, a home location of Allegiance Behavioral Health Center and two agencies of the Central Plains Center, which needed floor waxing, buffing, carpet cleaning and some paint work. Trees were trimmed at the Girl Scout Hut and weeds pulled among other efforts at Plainview Christian Academy. A major cleanup effort occurred in east Plainview, where the Pioneer basketball team and others joined Primera Iglesia Bautista in an effort to beautify that neighborhood.
Many others, though, taking brushes and rollers to many city walls, helping paint the James Hearn Activity Center at Happy Union Baptist Church, the College Hill Daycare Center, the Wee Care Child Care Center, the Whiteaker Center, the Compassionate Care Pregnancy Center, Habitat for Humanity, Jericho Fellowship Church and other locations. A group joined members of churches in painting and beautifying the 18th and Houston site of the new Chalice Christian Church, which shares space with Good Samaritan Pentecostal Church.
The Flying Queens women's basketball team and members of the Pioneer Baseball team stayed close to home for the day, helping paint trim on Wayland's married student housing duplexes and doing cleanup and weeding in some areas. A choir group gathered at the Museum of the Llano Estacado for some cleanup as well. One team visited a local nursing home, playing the guitar and visiting residents, painting nails for female residents if they desired. Still another team worked with Plainview Main Street to stain planters that will be used to beautify the downtown area, and a crew of staff gathered to make lunches and deliver them to the workers.
"All told, we had about 275 people working for the morning, and I think we got a lot accomplished across Plainview," Young said. "We painted and cleaned and had a good time. I think the students enjoyed working with their professors and staff folks and just enjoyed giving back to the community."
The sentiments of a few students proved that theory true.
"This provided an opportunity to share Christ's love through work and not just talk," said Jon Clifton, a junior from Sunrise Beach, who was on one of many painting crews for the day. He also noted he enjoyed the fellowship with other students and faculty.
"To know that we helped out in bettering our community feels really good," noted Rosemary Ribera, a freshman from Canyon who served on the crew with Main Street, painting vases.
Though the work was hard at times and dirty with all the painting involved, students enjoyed the bonding time and helping community agencies.
"Today showed me that with hard work you can accomplish anything," said Joe Brown, a freshman from Sugarland and a member of the Pioneer basketball team who worked in East Plainview. "When we first got here the weeds were taller than me and in abundance. With hard work we cleared it out."
"I really enjoy getting out into the community and serving," noted Lisa Hamilton, a senior from Slaton who painted in various locations. "Although I am covered in paint, I am excited and would love to go do some more!"
Joanne Jacob, a junior from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, concurred, summarizing the feelings of many about the work day.
"It feels good to know that whether you work with someone face-to-face or behind the scenes such as painting or doing dirty work, you're still making a difference in someone's life by filling a need," she said. "I absolutely loved getting dirty with paint this year. It was so much fun!"
Besides the efforts in Plainview, a few of Wayland's external campuses got in on the action as well, planning service projects for the week before DOD Day. The Lubbock campus has been selling WBU t-shirts to raise money for the Diabetes Walk held in that city, and the Amarillo and Albuquerque campuses held blood drives in conjunction with local blood centers. The campus in Fairbanks, Alaska – which is housed on Eielson Air Force Base and Fort Wainwright – has planned a collection drive for November to send supplies to troops deployed overseas.
The plan for the third Degree of Difference Day – slated for October 2008 – will be to involve WBU alums wherever they live in service efforts to their own communities as well, in celebration of the university's centennial.


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I've been investigating the use of IPSec to limit internet connectivity and access to ports. The OS that I have is XP Pro SP2 and I have free ZoneAlarm. I've managed to set it up to do what I set out to do (as an academic exercise!). Having reviewed some of the articles available, it strikes me that IPSec is almost exclusively used within Windows 2000 or either Windows 2000 server or 2003. I've found little which mentions XP explicitly.
I realise that Windows 2000 and Windows XP are derivatives of the same basic OS so I suspect that much of what's written about IPSec relating to Windows 2000 will apply to Windows XP, but is that supposition correct? I get the impression that IPSec is being phased out (or has been already) but is that true? If so, what's taken over in XP? I know that there's Windows Firewall but, having played around with it, it doens't seem as flexible as IPSec to block traffic or ports. Maybe I'm not using it correctly!
I realise that some of the command line utilities are specific to the various Windows operating systems that I've mentioned. The use of IPSec seems a really useful technique and I can hardly believe what I'm perceiving about it being less used within XP than Windows 2000. Is my perception correct?
Thanks for your time (and patience!).


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chapcrap wrote:My word is Midweek. Good for 17 points, but I used 2 vowels, so I'm down to 15.
However, I reserve the right to change my word after I look at the British dictionary since apparently it has made up words in it.
Yeah it has quite a few that are not in our version.


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(Gray News) - A camera operator at the El Paso, TX, rally for President Donald Trump was shoved and verbally harassed by a man wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.
Ron Skeans with the BBC said the man pushed him hard from his blindside Monday, twice nearly knocking him and his camera over.
"I didn't know what was going on," Skeans said, per BBC.
The assailant was pulled away by a blogger who had been nearby. A campaign official for Trump suggested the attacker was drunk, BBC reported.
"The man was removed by security, and Ron is fine," said BBC spokeswoman Charlotte Morgan to The Washington Post. "The president could see the incident and checked with us that all was OK. It is clearly unacceptable for any of our staff to be attacked for doing their job."
The man was captured by Skeans' camera yelling "(expletive) the media" after he pushed the cameraman.
Harassment of the media has been a regular thing at Trump rallies since the 2016 campaign. The president often points out the gaggle of reporters in the crowd, who in turn boo and jeer them, and he has commonly referred to the media as "fake news" and "the enemy of the people."
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I agree with Brian's statement that more and more of us are getting weary of the basic line. Not that there aren't some good things happening, but the sheer quantity of product and the percentage that are repacks and paints make it less interesting and more inimidating. I find myself looking to significantly slow down my Hasbro purchases in general, although there is enough excitement to keep me around the line to pick up the things I do like. Some of the ships that are coming out (Hailfire droid and Mace's starfighter) interest me, many more do not (just too many repaints, even if Anakin's sith starfighter looks cool).
I have a prediction that '07 is going to be a bit of a turning point for Hasbro. Reason being, EU. There's just way too much EU coming out next year. I think the McQuarrie figures will do decently, but I think anything else EU related is going to move slowly and force Hasbro to change strategies mid-year. It's not to say that there's no interest in EU, but that interest is more Hardcore fan based and there are a lot more casual collectors out there than we realize.
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Choreography by: Peter Martins
Music by: Igor Stravinsky
With a poker table backdrop for dancers dressed as playing cards, the whimsical Jeu de Cartes pairs fleet-footed choreography with Stravinsky's boisterous and wildly rhythmic score.
Stravinsky composed Jeu de Cartes (Card Game: A Ballet in Three Deals) for the first Stravinsky Festival mounted by Balanchine at the Metropolitan Opera in 1937. The original version featured dancers representing the four suits in a deck of cards, with the joker as the central character. Years later, Balanchine suggested that Peter Martins choreograph an abstract version of the ballet to the same score. Martins created the ballet for the 1992 Diamond Project and in 2002, commissioned Ian Falconer to create a fanciful new set and costumes.


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This course will examine the regulation of drugs, medical devices, and biologics (e.g., vaccines) by the Food and Drug Administration. These categories of products are the primary products of the emerging biotechnology and genomics industry, as well as the traditional pharmaceutical industry, and therefore is critical for students who are interested in representing life science companies or medical research institutions.
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Red Cross offers $1,000 scholarship for student's best tweet
Red Cross offers $1,000 scholarship for student's best tweet
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A Penn State student has created a social media campaign that will present one participating college student with a $1,000 scholarship from the American Red Cross.
The contests asks students to post a 30- to 60-second video to Twitter in response to the question "What do you cross your heart and hope to give?" The most re-tweeted entry will receive the scholarship.
Officials at the American Red Cross of the Greater Alleghenies Region sought a way to recognize college students -- who help the Red Cross collect 6 million units of blood each year -- and Penn State public relations major Marissa Miller came up with the contest. Miller, a junior from Johnstown, Pa., completed a communications internship with the Red Cross this summer. Funds for the scholarship were donated by RDM-Johnstown.
"It's exciting to have a scholarship opportunity that's just fun," Miller said. "There's no application or essay, just a student's creativity and how people react to it."
Twitter submissions for the scholarship application may be sent to @redcrossGAR using #crossmyheartRED as the hashtag. More information may be found at the Red Cross Greater Allegenies Region website at www.redcrossblood.org/crossmyheartRED.


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"Know I've done wrong,
Left your heart torn
Is that what devils do?
Took you so low,
Where only fools go
I shook the angel in you
Now I'm rising from the ground
Rising up to you
Filled with all the strength I found
There's nothing I can't do"…From the song 'Love Me Again'…written by John Newman and Steve Booker—
We are not layers of flash and fear and afraid of flash and a million directions without notions of where and how to go or leave or approach or fade away. We are not human…we are alive—life—simple of reason and always on our way away to leave or stay or afraid to simply fade away…Climb now— branches high—winter nigh—leaves not springing—sprung—prior budding and climbing high and tucked just below frost line—mountain soft and night-time slow. Tree high and not moving twin-spin—slower—motion still.
Foreign—not home and light-year long—away from places seen and spaces known before earth-fall—tunnel bright—tunnel sight—and—a space of place between real—and among the magic ones. Planet guided—peace pleased—run coming to streaks of night flash and day dash and a clash of two…And! They come by copter churn-twist-chop—by lorries-engines-rush—by cart-horse-pull—by men stretch-manned-carried—and all wounded ones or twos or many more or less and behind the layered flash of red-pink-nights—we wait and wonder and gather-to-elves notions—of life to stay or life to pass away—today.
We are the daughters and sons of earth and of the starry heavens. Our history is alive—simple and true—except when suppressed and distorted for unnecessary gains and a perversion called wealth…We are the eternity of spirits—no need beginning and never ending. Such is the sweetness of life. Symmetry with no form except wind and rain and careful storms of chaos and figure. Go figure—the here or the now and still history is not preformed or manufactured except through the controllers—of spins and twists and the thrill of the lie. Or—go figure with the smile of Leonardo or the Lady's laugh or the chatter of many minds or—just a few—of many hearts. Is it better to flee or better to dig livelihood from the bottom of one's own grave?
Arrives—those machined boxes machine-sweet—and together in minds of same or alternates where we twirl the whirl and call the laugh or two as boxes open and away we—they separate into some things or less or the loneliness of crowd bridges or twin screw moments of those spaces of time without seconds. And! Yes robots—we—search blood and find taste good in mingle – tingle moments—touch-amazing—touch not those imagine sources of unnecessary wariness and one becomes another and brief the flashes together spread the separate into singularity no more than once…Again—again and again.
Wind across this liquid—sunlight and thick wave dance—lights and slivers of silver and gold. Followers watch for scraps or bits to fall toward their reach either diving for something new or rocking gently on this clear sea of warming suns and moonlight's dance of song and silence. Our nature to run with and from the many or the few? See often through the curved ceiling of doorway when curved light enters twenty-one tiny windows round these openings to escape places and leave regions. Still more a spirit than the body proper until chemicals of doubt and satisfaction rule body self ending sometime in time without mere reasons to be except—a rhythm to complete.
We are the daughters and sons of earth and of the starry heavens. Our history is alive—simple and true except when suppressed—through layers—distortion—or flashes of fear—tears…We are the eternity of spirits—never having to begin and never ending. Such is the sweetness of life.
And! Beautiful you are…
'Love Me Again'…performed by John Newman


text: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Guide Introduces Realities and Complexities of Managing Health at Home A new guide from the National Academy of Sciences aims to help information technology designers and developers create applications for consumers to achieve better health at home. It also can assist home health professionals in selecting tools to complement professional home health care services. Consumer Health Information Technology in the Home: A Guide for Human Factors Design introduces designers and developers to the practical realities and complexities of managing health at home. It discusses the range of people involved in achieving health in everyday living—such as healthy people, those with chronic conditions, people with disabilities, older adults, and children—and the types of health tasks they do, including monitoring blood glucose, exercising to maintain muscle strength, preparing appropriate meals, and changing bandages. It also addresses the physical, social, and community environments of the home and calls for cultural awareness within cultural groups and between them when designing technologies. A checklist is included to help ensure that equipment and technologies fit the 3 home environments in which health tasks are performed. For example, physical environment considerations examine if the product contains layout templates (to help users choose space wisely) and is durable, waterproof, and easily cleaned. Considerations for social and community environments assess whether the device is inconspicuous, blends into the rest of the home, and allows for both private and shared use.


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A few days after the earthquake, the U.S. government decided that Haitians living in the United States would be eligible for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. However, there has been much confusion about who can apply, how you apply and what happens after you apply for TPS.
For example, only Haitians who were living in the United States before the earthquake are eligible for TPS. As Alicia Zuckerman discovered, some Haitians refer to TPS as "Ti Pelen Sosyal"– Kreyol for "L'il Social Trap"– because they fear that they may be deported if they apply.
Others see it as their only chance to legally take advantage of many opportunities in the United States.
The government predicted that up to 200,000 Haitians living in the United States could be eligible, but as of January, 2011, with the application deadline a week away, just under 62,000 have applied. (The original deadline was in July. At that time, there were 55,000 applicants. Government immigration officials say the deadline was extended in hopes of attracting more applicants.) So why are the numbers so low? Fees, fraud, and most importantly, fear, according to Cheryl Little of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center [update: now called Americans for Immigrant Justice]. Little and other immigrant advocates have been urging all eligible Haitians to apply before the application period ends, since this may be their only chance to stay in the country legally. However TPS is temporary, and whether the TPS period will continue to be extended for Haitians (as it has for Nicaraguans and Hondurans) or eventually expire (as it did for Rwandans and Bosnians) remains to be seen.
Under the Sun co-host and senior producer Alicia Zuckerman collected the stories of Haitians traveling down the long and winding road to TPS in the six months after the earthquake. Click on the player above to listen to what they found on that path.
Luders, the man who was hoping he'd be eligible for TPS in spite of his traffic offenses, has learned that he is not eligible.
His wife is a U.S. citizen. She has petitioned on his behalf, so they are trying to raise the money to apply through that route, which is considerably more expensive. Luders and his wife are not sure if they'll be able to raise the money.
In this piece, immigration attorney Cheryl Little says she cannot imagine a scenario in which the U.S. would deport Haitians any time soon. Six months later, after several years of a moratorium on all deportations to Haiti, the government now says it is resuming deportations of people with criminal backgrounds. (At the moment, this does not apply to Luders.)
The application period for TPS is scheduled to end January 18, 2011.


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In addition to supporting individual studies and reports, the Foundation provides research training awards to emerging researchers to help ensure their continued work in the field of IBD throughout their careers.
In fact, many of today's most prominent researchers received training awards from the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation early in their careers.
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