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Philadelphia's chief medical examiner told jurors Monday he could not be sure if any babies were born alive at a now-shuttered abortion clinic run by a doctor accused of murder.
Dr. Sam Gulino examined 47 fetuses recovered from a clinic run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell after a 2010 FBI raid. Gosnell is charged with killing a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive.
However, Gulino said many of the bodies had been stored in a freezer, complicating his examinations because some fetal tissue degraded as it thawed.
Prosecutors maintain that Gosnell or his untrained staff killed at least seven babies after they had been born alive. Gosnell's defense lawyer has denied the charge, attributing any movement seen by staff to involuntary responses.
Earlier in the day, another city abortion provider testified, and drew stark comparisons between his work and Gosnell's.
Gosnell, 72, is also accused of performing illegal, late-term abortions and running a dangerously outdated clinic staffed by untrained workers.
Dr. Charles Benjamin said he performs abortions after 17 weeks gestation in a hospital - unlike Gosnell, who performed about 1,000 abortions a year at his clinics in West Philadelphia and Delaware.
Benjamin, by his own count, has performed 40,000 abortions over a 30-year career and testified as a prosecution expert. He is one of about four abortion providers left in Philadelphia in the wake of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's arrest two years ago. Benjamin said he doesn't do abortions after 21 weeks gestation, or three weeks shy of the 24-week limit in Pennsylvania.
He said that he has registered nurses on staff to monitor patients, and that only he or a nurse anesthetist give anesthesia, unlike Gosnell's clinic, where workers hired to clean instruments have testified that Gosnell trained them to administer potent intravenous drugs.
On cross-examination, Benjamin acknowledged that his practice once had an abortion patient die of sepsis, although he said the woman was his partner's patient.
He also conceded that first-trimester patients have the choice to be lightly sedated or only given local anesthesia. Defense lawyer Jack McMahon was trying to counter attacks by prosecutors that Gosnell let patients pick their anesthesia based on how much they could pay.
The trial is now in its fifth week, and could last another month.
An influx of reporters attended the trial Monday, spurred by criticism that some broadcasters were not covering the trial. A gag order prevents lawyers from speaking outside and no cameras are allowed inside the courtroom. Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart reminded jurors not to read or view anything about the case.
A White House spokesman said Monday that President Barack Obama is aware of the trial, and the spokesman called the case "unsettling."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said that Obama, as president, "does not and cannot take a position on an ongoing trial." But Carney added that "the things you hear and read about this case are unsettling."
Gulino described his bafflement when police in 2010 turned over bags seized at Gosnell's clinic with the 47 sets of fetal remains, along with medical waste and other debris.
"It was really an unprecedented situation," said Gulino, who talked to colleagues and searched medical literature. "There was no guidance for how to proceed."
Former workers have testified that Gosnell had the aborted fetuses in the freezer because of a billing dispute with his medical waste disposal company, which had stopped coming.
Gulino classified the remains by gestational age, concluding that 17 were aborted in the first trimester and more than two dozen in the second trimester. He believed that two were third-trimester babies of about 26 and 28 weeks gestation. However, he agreed with McMahon that estimates of gestational age are imprecise.
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Statement by National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Regarding Student Press Freedoms and Student Journalists at Grambling State University's The GrambliniteWashington, D.C. (October 22, 2013) —
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is troubled by the
adversarial pattern that persists between administrators and student
media at American colleges and universities particularly historically
black colleges and universities (HBCU). NABJ continues to stand in
support of a free and fair student press as an important voice that
should not be censored.
At the same time, NABJ believes student journalists should be unbiased
and conduct themselves at all times by the same high ethical standards
expected of all journalists.
NABJ is aware that the online editor at Grambling State University's The
Gramblinite was purportedly fired for allegedly using the student
newspaper to report statements from anonymous sources, and to post
photos of some of the University's failing facilities.
Another Grambling student journalist was subsequently suspended
following her participation in a student protest, sparked by complaints
about dilapidated campus buildings, and also the University's
student-teacher ratio. While both students have since been reinstated to
their duties, there remains a larger issue around the vulnerability of
the student press at HBCUS that must be addressed.
"These incidents involving The Gramblinite should have been used as
opportunities for teachable moments — especially in a learning
environment — on the issues of unbiased reporting, press freedoms and
journalistic integrity in the Digital Age, but instead have unfolded as
another series of unfortunate events between an HBCU administration and
its newspaper," said Errin Haines Whack, NABJ Vice President-Print.
With an eye towards ending this pattern, NABJ will convene a Student
Media Council to further examine the relationship between student
journalists and administrators, explore how to increase independence and
improve the state of student media and continue to raise awareness on
these issues.
Also of grave concern in the Gramblinite matter is the online editor's
use of anonymous sources in Twitter posts that was deemed inappropriate
by individuals close to the situation. The online editor stated those
criticisms are efforts to censors his/the Gramblinite's reporting.
"Admittedly there are concerns on both sides of this issue. We are very
disturbed that a fellow journalist, current or former, would attack or
question the validity or integrity of the student's reporting. As such,
we find it imperative that we not only support and lift up the inherent
value of the student press, but that we help ensure student reporters
enjoy the same freedoms, protections and considerations as all
journalists, even while adhering to the same principles," said Bob
Butler, NABJ President.
"We will not support the attempt to muffle authentic journalism on any
level — that does not edify what we represent," Butler said.
NABJ will continue to monitor the Gramblinite situation and situations like it, and will update the membership as appropriate.
–NABJ Board of Directors
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FEE and ERR99 – what are these, what do they mean, and why do I see them being talked about online all the time? Good questions, and if I had a few pages to cover all the instances, we could get into a great deal of detail… and quite probably help solve a lot of sleeping issues at the same time. So let's try to keep it basic, shall we?
|Both error codes will be visible in the top LCD screen on the camera
FEE is an error that is specific to Nikon. The camera not being able to read the minimum aperture on a lens causes this error. There are two common reasons that the lens will cause this error, and one common reason that the camera will cause this issue. On the lens, the two reasons are: 1) the aperture ring is not set all the way to the minimum aperture (the number on the aperture dial that is red or orange), or 2) the tab on the end of the aperture ring that holds down the f-min block switch lever is broken. The first problem is quite easy to fix – turn the aperture ring until it is set to the minimum aperture, and problem solved. The second means that the aperture ring has to be replaced, and the lens must be sent to a repair shop. On the body, the main reason is that the f-min block switch lever is broken. The f-min block switch is the switch that tells the camera that the lens is set to its minimum aperture, and this switch is triggered by a tiny lever on the front of some models of Nikon cameras. This lever usually is broken when someone who is not familiar with the camera system attempts to put the lens on incorrectly, although it can come from impact damage as well.
ERR99 is exclusively a Canon code, and this is the cameras way of telling you "Something is wrong with me and I have no idea how to interpret the information I've been given!" If you were to Google 'ERR99', you would quickly find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of information you can find (good, bad, horrible, and just plain wrong), so hopefully we can help separate the truth from speculation. True, it is a generic code for "I'm broken", but what we've seen here in the repair department is that there are two main issues that cause this error: 1) your shutter has blown out (or locked up, or is in some other way not functioning correctly) and will need to be replaced. Or 2) your lens has a damaged or broken aperture control unit. What this means to you as a photographer, is that you should do a little troubleshooting on your end before sending the equipment in to a repair shop (like KEH!). Once you get the ERR99, either when you are shooting or right when you turn on your camera, turn the camera off, change to a different lens, and turn the camera back on. If you still get the ERR99 either immediately, or when you press the shutter release, then the problem is in the camera. If the error does not occur, then most likely the problem is in the lens. Just to be sure, put the lens on another body and see if you get the error again.
Hopefully this has helped somewhat in your search for answers to strange error codes that seem to arrive from nowhere. There are, of course, many other reasons that both of these error codes will appear, but we felt that the most common issues are the ones that should be addressed. When in doubt, always send your equipment in to a reputable repair shop (*cough* KEH *cough*), for a technician to diagnose properly.
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The Designer's Dilemma. Changing the way we think about design to better tackle the challenges of environmentalism.
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The Whole Day on the Beach_Gizeh, Egypt 1966_F.C. Gundlach
Not only a photographer, but also a passionate promoter of photography
In 1967, F.C. Gundlach founded CC (Creative Color GmbH) with British and American partners, in 1971 PPS. (Professional Photo Service). Both companies offered service to photographers including black-and-white and color labs, an equipment rent-service, rent-studios and a photo bookstore. In 1975 he founded the PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, one of the first photo galleries in Germany dedicated to photography only. The gallery presented about 100 thematic and monographic exhibitions until 1992. Gundlach is professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and curator of photographic exhibitions, many of them dedicated to fashion photography.
Grit Hübscher_White atlas coat by Sinaida Rudow, Berlin 1954_F.C. Gundlach
In 2000, F.C. Gundlach committed his extensive photographic collection and his own photographic work into the F.C. Gundlach Foundation. The Foundation will preserve and present. In 2003, F.C. Gundlach was appointed founding director of the House of Photography in the Deichtorhallen by the Senate of Hamburg and dedicated his collection "The human image in photography" as a permanent loan. He also initiated the Triennial of Photography. With the F.C. Gundlach retrospective as the opening exhibition of the Fourth Triennial, the show honors its founder.
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Where have I been? Is there and back again too cliché? It's going to need to suffice in the short run. In short, I've been in Tamriel (kudos to those of you who know what that means). I've been choking on the ennui of the real world. And I've been trying to write. Especially since this year I turned 40.
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I hoping to re-connect with old friends, make new ones, discuss why Ancalagon the Black is the best dragon anywhere, why Martin Freeman was the best Bilbo ever, and even argue that if a faux dwarf/elf romance can be invented in a Hobbit trilogy than Mewlips should be inserted into a Silmarillion pentad?
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This article is the first in a new monthly series, which presents and examines an open-source project of interest to serious developers. We begin this series with GPars, a concurrency framework for the JVM that greatly facilitates actor-based programming. — Andrew Binstock
The GPars project makes concurrency easily accessible and safe to use on the JVM. In this article. I'll focus on the actor model part of GPars. We'll experiment with the various types of actors that GPars provides and see their typical usages. All the project's functionality is available from Java and from Groovy, with which GPars is most often associated.
Introduction to Actors
The concept of actors as an approach to organizing concurrent activities has recently gained new popularity (thanks to the Scala, Erlang, and other programming languages). Actors provide a programming model that gives stronger guarantees about concurrent code when compared with the traditional shared-memory-based abstraction. Actors are essentially well encapsulated active objects, which can only communicate by sending one another immutable messages asynchronously. Whatever state an actor holds internally, it cannot be accessed from outside the actor except by sending a message to the actor and receiving its reply.
Because actors handle incoming messages asynchronously, they themselves need to be active. One way to make an object active is to dedicate a system thread to it. With actors, however, you frequently need to scale beyond the number of threads available on the system. That's why actor implementations usually share threads among actors. If an actor has no work to do, it doesn't consume system threads.
Actors guarantee that there's never more than one thread at a time processing the messages of each actor. The actor's state can thus be modified safely from within its body without any other extra (synchronization or locking) effort. The actor's own code is implicitly thread-safe.
Actors in GPars
GPars is an open-source project that provides a Java implementation of actors, with a convenient API for direct use either from Groovy or Java. Actors perform three specific operations — they send messages, receive messages, and create new actors. Although not enforced by GPars, messages should be immutable or at least follow a hands-off policy in which the sender never touches the messages after the message has been sent off. This code shows an example of actors at work.
final class MyCounterActor extends DynamicDispatchActor { private int counter = 0; void onMessage(String message) { log("Received a string"); counter += message.length(); } void onMessage(Integer message) { log("Received an integer"); counter += message; } void onMessage(Boolean message) { log("Received a boolean"); reply(counter); } } public class DecryptorTest { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { Actor counter = new MyCounterActor().start(); counter.send("Hello"); System.out.println("Current value is: " + counter.sendAndWait(true)); counter.stop(); counter.join(); } }
In the Java examples in the preceding code, you find all the fundamental actor operations. Actors are being created, started, and stopped. Messages are being sent, received, and replied to asynchronously. The message themselves are immutable values. Let's go through these in detail now.
Creating Actors
Actors can be created either by instantiating the appropriate class (see main()) or using appropriate factory methods. The former approach is preferred when instantiating actors in Java, while the latter approach feels more Groovy-like.
Sending messages
Messages can be sent to actors using the send() method. Alternatively, the << operator or the implicit call() method can be used, when calling the actor from Groovy.
actor.send('Message 1') //in Java actor << 'Message 2' //using the << operator actor 'Message 3' //using the implicit call() method
A family of sendAndWait() methods is available to block the caller until a reply from the actor is available. The reply message is returned from the sendAndWait() method as a return value.
def reply1 = actor.sendAndWait('Message 4') def reply2 = actor.sendAndWait('Message 5', 10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
The sendAndContinue() method allows the caller to continue its processing while the supplied closure is waiting for a reply from the actor.
friend.sendAndContinue 'I need money!', { money -> pocket(money) } println 'Look, I can continue while my friend is collecting money for me!'
To send a reply to the currently processed message actor, use the reply method. The reply is sent back asynchronously just like normal messages.
When sending a message, a different actor can be specified as a recipient for potential replies. Since actors should rarely block waiting for replies, forwarding helps avoid architectural bottlenecks.
public class DecryptorTest { public static void main(String[] args) { Actor decryptor = new Decryptor().start(); Actor console = new Console().start(); //Specify an actor to send the replies to decryptor.send("lellarap si yvoorG", console); } } class Decryptor extends DynamicDispatchActor { void onMessage(String message) { reply(reverse(message)); } } //This actor will print out decrypted messages, //since the replies are forwarded to it class Console extends DynamicDispatchActor { void onMessage(String message) { System.out.println("Decrypted message: " + message); } }
Types of Actors
In general, you can find two types of actors in the wild: those that hold implicit state, and those that don't. GPars gives you both options. Stateless actors, represented in GPars by the DynamicDispatchActor and the ReactiveActor classes, do not keep track of what messages have arrived previously. This is the type of actor presented in the examples so far. You can think of these as flat message handlers: They process messages as they arrive. Any state-based behavior has to be implemented by the programmer.
Stateful actors, on the other hand, represented in GPars by the DefaultActor class, allow the actor to handle the implicit state directly. After receiving a message, the actor moves into a new state with different set of handlers to handle future messages.
A stateful actor doesn't provide independent message handlers. Instead, a stateful actor defines a body — a block of code to execute when the actor starts. Inside the body, the actor may check for messages any time by calling the react method. Depending on the actual message contents, the actor executes different actions.
Stateless Actors
DynamicDispatchActor repeatedly scans for received messages and dispatches them to one of the onMessage() methods defined in the actor. The DynamicDispatchActor leverages the Groovy dynamic method dispatch mechanism under the covers. Even if the class is implemented in Java, the messages are dispatched dynamically to the right message handler:
final class Decryptor extends DynamicDispatchActor { void onMessage(String message) { log('Decrypting a string'); reply(message.reverse()); } onMessage(Integer message) { log('Decrypting an integer'); reply(message + 12); } }
Additionally, when used from Groovy, message handlers can be added at runtime to alter the behavior dynamically:
myActor.when {BigDecimal num -> log 'Received a BigDecimal'} myActor.when {Float num -> log 'Got a float'}
The ReactiveActor class allows for more event-driven-like approach. You can also view it as an asynchronous function of a sort. When a reactive actor receives a message, the actor's body is run with the message as a parameter. The result of this is then returned in reply.
final def doubler = reactor { 2 * it } println 'Double of 10 = ' + doubler.sendAndWait(10)
Defining a Reactor in Java is only a little more verbose:
Closure handler = new ReactorMessagingRunnable<Integer, Integer>() { @Override protected Integer doRun(final Integer value) { return value * 2; } }; final Actor doubler = reactor(handler);
Stateful Actors
The stateful type of actors will probably be familiar to those who know actors in Scala.
def actor = actor { loop { log 'Waiting for a gift' react {gift -> if (myWife.likes gift) reply 'Thank you!' else { reply 'Try again, please' react {anotherGift -> if (myChildren.like gift) reply 'Thank you!' } } } } }
As you can see, you create new actors with the actor() factory method passing in the actor's body as a closure parameter. Once started, actors run their body top to bottom, reading messages from their mail-boxes along the way. Inside the actor's body you can use loop() to iterate, react() to receive messages, and reply() to send a reply to the currently processed message.
Notice the implicit state transitions of the actor. The first message that arrives is handled by a different handler than the second message in the sequence.


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A fight over beer or cigarettes ended with a Butler couple injured and behind bars.
Police arrested Mark A. Graham, 55, and Lorraine D. Kozub, 56, following the domestic dispute at their apartment on Spring Street.
Officers were called to the home for the altercation and found the defendants. Both appeared to be intoxicated.
Kozub told police that Graham grabbed her by arms and pulled out "chunks of her hair," according to court documents.
Graham's account, documents said, was that Kozub hit him in the face.
He said the fight started over beer. She said the fight was about cigarettes.
Both defendants were arraigned on charges of simple assault and harassment, and were placed in the Butler County Prison on $5,000 bail each.


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I have a simple requirement: I want to put some ships (I have some mesh models) on a body of water, with islands, and play with various collision avoidance and command and control algorithms. So I need a environment where I can modify object behaviour but where the world and its mechanics are already coded. I was expecting that this would be trivial to find as this is such an obvious requirement for say, AI experimentation. But I haven't found anything open source or commercial. I've looked at Glest, Delta3D, Spring, Unity, ORTS, Strive, and VBS2. I looked for, but never found, the Homeworld Engine. I also found Breve, Lagoon (seemed perfect), ECSLent, but these were/are either no longer supported or documentation (if it exists) is confusing enough that it isn't clear what can/can't be done or how to go about it. Interestingly, it seems like you have to roll your own if you have a need eg. Breve, Lagoon.
So I'm putting the question to you: is there a virtual environment out there, with physics, that would allow a person to focus just on behaviour creation? What have I missed? Thanks for any guidance you can provide.


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By SVAKSHA on 2010 March 9 [Tuesday], 22:40:00 - DiversityFail - Permalink
Hi $PersonsName,
As I write this mail the words "Out the creeps publicly" uttered by a devel (who shall go nameless) comes to my mind and hence i'd prefer to not be anon and back my words under the pseudonym 'svaksha'. Do feel free to trim my long train of thoughts and I wont be offended if it does'nt make it to your article as /self is too late in all probability -- my mental resources are wound up around a lexical parser atm.
Initially when i used to hear all the women speak about their experiences i took comfort in the fact that i am not alone in hoping for change. But i had not factored in the possibility that change is tougher when "clueless new idiots" follow in the steps of "sexist old timers". Over the years the attitudes towards diversity still remains sexist, especially within the Indian community where cronyism is normal.
My observations are largely India-centric salted with some experiences on international lists and sans a timeline ...
The usual personal mails asking for personal details under the guise of "i want to volunteer" or guised as a personal interview (since when did marital status become relevant to floss contribution?). Another peculiar one was a guy writing emails in different scripts despite my requests that i didnt understand them. It was when i requested a friend to translate them that i realised why -- personal questions in a non-english script meant fewer people would know he was asking personal questions.
Then there was this instance of a jerk trying to crack into my server when he became aware of my gender. I was happy with the anonymity --- Very very few folks (i trusted) knew my location and real name but that changed when I founded the Ubuntu-Women project, was termed a "militant feminist" (a pejorative term for Feminazi?).
This pejorative was echoed in the Indichix (LC-India) mailing lists in 2008 to avoid answering the question of 'controlling a woman's group by proxy' - hmm...cronyism and elitism is gender-neutral These personal attacks descended into personal life queries (hint:: the coffee, splenda thread) by one Indian male who subscribed to a grrls-only mailing list by pretending to be a woman. So much for the "cultured_Indian"!
Other experiences include, an smtp header spoof of my mail id to send a sex-related email to Ubuntu lists ; an indian gentoo devel in his interview wanted to be stuck in a lift with me even while he admits to never having met me. Another was the death threats from "mikeeeeusa" on DW which went off-list ~~ IIRC around 5 women were the initial targets but Clytie (an AU contributor) had threats sent to her teenage daughter too.
http://eaves.ca/2009/07/06/structurelessness-feminism-and-open/ has a point I could relate to viz.elites and cronyism -- both of which are true as far as the local Indian floss community is concerned. I've heard past incidents of getting cronies to use social engineering (a bully's crony will pretend to be your friend and find out where you work, etc..) and use pressure tactics (complaining to your superiors/boss@work --the easiest way to bully an individual who fears losing his/her livelihood) to silence disagreeing voices -- This may probably not be sexist as it happened to an indian male (who shall remain anonymous) floss volunteer, but i'm writing this to highlight a deeper and more serious problem within the fragmented Indian floss community.
Pretending to support women racks up the good_publicity_karma (hence commercially lucrative via corporate sponsorship for privately controlled commercial conferences pretending to be a community event) while one can continue to be being elitist and deny decision making power via "cronyism" (the elites will use red herrings and out-shout newbies or anyone who disagrees with them with cries of "show me the code") on the side -- a very subtle game that is hard to decipher on a superficial level.
However, when subtle aggressiveness is reserved for the local community members only very few folks outside that circle are aware of it. This small subset of highly aggressive Indian men will never exhibit this negative attitude on the international project lists and irc channels where they _do_ participate, because it will permanently damage their reputation. This is never good for business or landing a job in future. Also, international lists and irc channels have lesser bystanders[0] taking care of SEP[1].
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem]
If readers are thinking its a malaise with the whole Indian community or a cultural baggage, its not. There is a lot of positive stuff happening thanks to many individuals who are polite and respectful and dont feel threatened by (wo)men. There are many men and women who continue their good work on an individual basis but unfortunately they are relegated to the back-burner by pompous self-promoting jerks. I'm personally hoping to see a truly open community initiative like LCA or debconf (and others like it) happen in India.
Regarding including links and threads, i am undecided. The marketing gimmick "bad publicity is still free publicity" is another reason why I prefer to avoid blogging too much about negative behavior as it can acquire a cult-like halo and an easy way to fame for other men or newbies, especially when they see peers getting away with it. While technical misdemeanors (like a ddos attack,...) are punished quickly i've not yet heard an a$$hat being ostracized or boycotted from the community and this despite there being discussion and more discussion and protests about the said negative behavior.
Besides, the online world is so small that there is the danger of forming a mental picture of an individual and getting over-familiar via blogs, twitter, irc, lists, etc... Its possible that judging folks during real life meetings based on these preconceived assumptions is another cause of social behaviour problems.
I dont have any magic answers and have always believed that community action is the best way to solve the problem. Yet, getting women to speak-up openly against the negative attitude is a lot harder, especially when they feel they will not get any support as the lone voice, statistically speaking. Few folks will want to waste their time tackling a regular barrage of red-herrings and logical fallacies. Example: Using the term "we" is purposely misinterpreted as taking over control and using "I" is interpreted as "the problem is singular in nature" and since _one_ person is statistically too small to figure in change, the status quo continues --This tactic works very well in situations when no change is desired.
Y'all probably are aware of all this so i'll stop as i've got to leave now.
As you've probably guessed, the above was my mail sent to a private un-archived women-only list. I'm also reproducing (with permission) an exchange with another floss contributor who wrote after he read the above e-mail:
: And you cant have a community of human beings and donkeys right? That's why I refuse to believe most of the Indian FLOSS communities are communities at all. I dont care and I dont bother.
That is the scary bit...everybody stops caring. When I stop caring its just downhill then. Somewhere we have to make an effort to build the community, sustain it and grow.: You have to make sure the community is worth it. [emphasis mine]
Wow, that last line really hit me hard and brought me to my senses. His thoughts were echoed by another person, "dont beat your head against a wall, it will bleed".
Both said words that I cannot forget.
Do some people behave differently in public and in private? Yes, my (Indian) floss experience proves this is true. Pretense is an individual's negative attitude and India is not exactly famous for the way it treats its women-folk. That these negative social attitudes magnify themselves on the internet is not at all surprising because evils minds will learn to use tools like tor and fake email id's/online profiles to stalk women online. They dont have the courage to do it in the open with their real identity and face the ensuing repercussions.
Why expect women to say *Stop harassing, stop stalking* ? Given the low female participation, women are an even smaller percentage in the existing scheme of things and the lack of space to speak up within projects is another crucial point that gets overlooked. Instead of telling women how to adjust to sexist bullying, men within a project must learn to speak up if they wish to see change. Most times that action is taken against those who manage to offend those in power, else in floss communities sometimes one can get away with any negative behaviour with zero repercussions.
In my years within most Libre software projects, the common thought that surfaces is the expectation that "change is slow" because positive results with respect to reducing sexist behaviour takes time. I disagree. Is it that women have to be offended with negative attitudes or sexism for action to be taken? Why cant a lone individual (irrespective of gender, nationality or any other criteria) say "stop being a jerk" and get tons of community support. If there is a lack of community support, its due to apathy and a lack of firmness and strong action with low tolerance to negative behaviour by every person involved in the floss community. This is not as easy as typing this blog entry was, since it needs impartial and strong leadership qualities.
If we dont want a gesellschaft instead of a community where people care for others, then attitudinal change on an individual level is the need of the hour. FOSS Communities are mostly made up of individual people who use the same technology they create and although women (add foo-group of choice) are a subset, they should not be the diversity tokenism card for spin doctors trying to prevent a PR disaster!


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UH Manoa School of Law hosts book reception for authors of "The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development"University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Carol Mon Lee, (808) 956-8636
William S. Richardson School of Law
HONOLULU — David Callies, the Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's William S. Richardson School of Law, is a co-author of the recently published book, The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development. A collaborative study that examines the role of customary law in creating natural resource management systems, its publication will be celebrated by the School of Law with a book reception for the authors on Tuesday, June 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Moot Court Room and the Courtyard of the School of Law (2515 Dole Street).
Callies collaborated on the book with Peter Orebech, Fred Bosselman, Jes Bjarup, Martin Chanock, and Hanne Petersen, who are all internationally known scholars and teachers spanning the globe to include Norway, Sweden, Australia, Denmark, and the United States.
Through case studies from Hawaiʻi, Greenland, and Norway, this book provides valuable insights into methods of managing resources in a sustainable way. The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development is available for purchase from Cambridge Press.
Callies teaches real property, land use planning, state and local government and an advanced writing seminar at the School of Law. He is a graduate of DePauw University, and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a LL.M. degree from the University of Nottingham. He is also a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and has served as past chair of the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaiʻi State Bar Association and the Section of State and Local Government Law of the American Bar Association.
In addition to The Role of Customary Law, Callies is a recognized expert in land use laws and is co-editor of the annual Land Use and Environmental Review with Dan Tarlock. This is Callies' fourteenth book.
For more information about the reception, contact Ming Chi at email@example.com or (808) 956-6545.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/law


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Can you guess which one of the 12 participating designers this little darln' is?
I will give you a hint - it is not me.
(Isn't it amazing that we had to have such a big TV for such a little TV screen?)
The person who guesses right will win fat quarters from my new fabric line Frolic.
(There will be a drawing if there is more than one winner.)
Go to each designers blog (see list at bottom of blog)
Hurry along and hop from blog to blog - the contest ends Saturday November 7th.
Check in on Monday November 9 as we begin our 12 days of Christmas. Gudrun from GE Designs is the "Project Designer" for Day 1. She will have a Christmas project posted on her blog. Check it out on Monday http://www.gudrun.typepad.com/
The topic for the day is "A Childhood Memory from the Holiday".
All 12 designers will be blogging on this subject. Hop from blog to blog and join in the fun.
Please spread the word about our hop on your blogs, guilds, quilt groups, shops, chat sites......and mark all the blogs in in your favorites folder.
Good luck with your guesses.
From my heart,


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Northwest Community necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
Northwest Community Credit Union
Northwest Community Credit Union is a member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperative born and raised in Oregon. We've been a feature of the Pacific Northwest since 1949. Our mission is simple: build member wealth. While we started helping forestry workers meet their financial needs, times have changed. Today, more Oregonians play in the great outdoors rather than work in them. Our "community charter" allows us to assist most Oregonians throughout the State.
Northwest Community Credit Union--Northwest of Banking—is a charismatic brand. We use the term charisma become it is our technique to be memorable and garner more attention than our size and budget would indicate or allow.
Northwest of Banking is both an internal and an external message. First it's an internal organizational commitment to create and deliver the best possible products and services. As a market message, it is designed to address two challenges: Make clear that Northwest Community Credit Union is an alternative to banking as usual and that Northwest Community will exceed your expectations.
As a not-for-profit cooperative, we are not preoccupied with delivering profit to remote investors. The only "investors" we need to satisfy are our customers—what we call members. In a nutshell, that's what we mean by Northwest of Banking.
We want our new website to appeal to modern, youthful Pacific Northwesterners. Our ideal visitors are people who are busy working, going to college and playing and want to spend minimal time at the bank. Our busiest branch is our website. We want it to be modern, hip, and technologically cutting-edge.
• We would like a professional, clean looking home page design that communicates our professionalism, our unique Northwest character and sets us apart from our industry and our peers.
• We focus not only on local people, but also their communities. We are an industry leader in social media. We want our new site to help us improve our community work by facilitating connections among and between our members and prospective members.
• It needs to be made very obvious that we really are just one click away.
• We are looking for a home page layout that we can tweak to create other templates for the interior pages. We will be using multiple technologies to create the site, so we will need to adjust the design as we move forward with our site redesign.
• Please provide the design as a layered psd file with any other graphics so they can be manipulated for further modification.
• Refer to the wire frame mock up for more layout details. See attached file.
Today, most financial institution websites are indistinguishable. Our website needs to be logical and easy to navigate, yet it must also be an authentic extension of our slightly quirky, charismatic Northwest brand. A big part of our brand is personality. Our web site should help visitors feel that they're just one click away from talking with a real person. (We'll give you logo files and other printed materials to work with and TV ads to see, which we think are probably the best of our media at conveying our Northwest-y-ness.)
Here are some of the must have's, feel free to take creative license with the rest.
• Refer to the wire frame mock up for more layout details. See attached file.
• Use existing logo (files provided). Please don't alter it in any way, besides scaling it to fit the location on the page.
• Font for image-based header text should be Cafeta and should be all in capitals.
• Font for image-based lowercase text should be Avenir (please use a san serif font of your choice if you do not have Avenir).
• Preferred web-safe font for text is Tahoma, Geneva or other similar sans serif font.
• We must have these elements on the page: (image rotator and on-line banking login. See wire frame mock-ups for details.)
• On-Line Banking login must contain existing fields and remain together. Background color and size of the boxes can change, but this form will always need to be iFramed in from our vendor, where we have minimal design control.
Why a new web design?
Our Northwest of Banking brand strategy was launched in 2009. The brand work started inside the organization and has slowly been introduced to the public through printed materials and physical branch enhancements. Our website has been one of the most challenging items for us to tackle. We want our new website design to reflect the attitude and energy of the new brand. Additionally, we acknowledge that our existing site is quite dated. We are not attached to any of the existing design elements.
For more about us, you could check out our blog: http://thatssonorthwest.com
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/ layout packs in a dizzying amount of promos/attractions while avoiding the feeling of being too cluttered.
http://www.umpquabank.com/ layout and information are clean and visually appealing.
http://woot.com/ Simple, clean, fresh, extreme focus.
http://www.cafeyumm.com/ site reflects brand completely – simplicity – communicates more than just product – fun in navigation, very interactive, fresh.
http://www.starbucks.com/ works the whole brand – communicates exactly what they want.
https://www.vancity.com/ Style! Functionality!


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Tagged: Illich Salazar
Going International: Mariners Sign Brayan Hernandez
The Mariners organization is pleased to welcome a special player into the fold with the signing of 16-year-old Venezuelan switch-hitting outfielder Brayan Hernandez.
Mariners Director of International Operations Tim Kissner and coordinator Emilio Carrasquel worked very hard to make this signing official and it all culminated yesterday.
Everybody in the organization is happy to have him on board and ready to make contributions on the field. The 6-foot-2, 175-pound Hernandez has been followed closely by the team, specifically by Carrasquel and scout Illich Salazar who is the area scout.
"[Hernandez] is a young man with tremendous physical ability and projection," said Carrasquel. "We had the chance to see him with our International Director Tim Kissner and we always knew he would be a good acquisition.
"I believe he is a player, for his age, that combines all five tools that you need in baseball. He's still developing and we are very happy that the Seattle Mariners have reached an agreement with the family and agent for Brayan Hernandez."
Hernandez, for his part, was beaming after realizing that he would be joining the Mariners organization.
"I'm proud to be able to wear a Seattle Mariners uniform and I'm very happy because this is a dream that I've always wanted, to wear this uniform," said Hernandez. "I never thought that I'd be here with them but thanks to God, everything worked out. I worked hard for this and it is a joy to wear this uniform, to be able to represent it and in the future be able to lead it to a World Series."
Over the weekend, Hernandez visited with the team, met with the staff, worked out with the club and took batting practice.
"[Meeting Felix Hernandez] was a beautiful experience," said Hernandez. "And it was always a dream to stretch out my hand to Cano and it felt very good to do that."
Once out on the field, you could see the emerging talent shine. During batting practice, the young switch-hitter sprayed line drives all over the field and also hit a home run into Edgar's Cantina in left field and hit a few off the wall.
"He's a very interesting young centerfielder from Venezuela who we like his current ability and there is still the projection left with him" said Kissner. "He's a plus athlete with plus instincts and tools. He's an intelligent young man with good instincts for the game and all the tools that we have seen we like and we think that he can continue to grow. That's probably the most intriguing thing, his ability to play the game but still the upside that he has left."
Here are a few audio clips from Brayan Hernandez (in Spanish), Tim Kissner and Emilio Carrasquel (in Spanish) about the signing:
Brayan Hernandez on signing with the Mariners:
Brayan Hernandez on choosing Seattle:
Brayan Hernandez on meeting some of his favorite players:
Tim Kissner on Brayan Hernandez:
Emilio Carrasquel on Brayan Hernandez:
Here's a slideshow from Brayan Hernandez weekend with the Mariners:


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For many baby boomers who gave up on being a guitar god before turning 30, the next best thing is achieving a level of success that allows them to afford a vintage Stratocaster or Les Paul of the same era that was played by the heroes of their youth. If they're successful enough, they can afford the actual guitar. Eric Clapton's 'Blackie" sold for $959,500 in 2004, the highest sales price on record for a publicly sold guitar. Who knows what it would sell for now?
The one true rock star of musical instrument prices, however, goes much farther back than the 1960s. Think Antonio Stradivari from the 1700s. His violins regularly sell for millions, with the "Lady Blunt" Stradivarius auctioned off for nearly $16 million in 2011. The previous record for a Stradivari violin was $3.6 million in 2010.
While few HNW clients can afford such stratospheric prices, many do own high value instruments. They may be accomplished musicians themselves, or have children in rigorous music programs, or both. In many cases the instruments can represent a significant part of the contents value of their homes. We've seen collections of more than 50 guitars of varying types and grand pianos valued at more than $100,000. HNW clients often count their instruments among their most prized possessions from both a monetary and emotional standpoint.
That double-take on value makes it especially important to insure the instruments properly, and wealth advisors have an opportunity to strengthen their relationships with clients by helping HNW clients manage the risks associated with this asset class. Here are six considerations to keep in mind.
1. Secure coverage with a valuables policy.
As with precious items in general, the most prudent approach is to insure the instrument collection with a valuables policy, also known as scheduling. Unlike a homeowners policy, a valuables policy includes coverage for loss due to flood or earthquake. Valuables policies also typically have no deductible, and they allow the owner to declare a specific value for the instruments in advance of a loss. The best policies will then promise to pay at least the specific declared value, even if a damaged or stolen instrument could be replaced for less at the time of loss.
2. Keep the declared value of the instruments up to date.
The valuables policy will not fully service its purpose if the owner fails to declare an adequate value for the instrument. Most do so initially, but many fail to keep the replacement cost up to date. Remember, instruments can appreciate in value over time. For high-quality stringed instruments, especially, the common belief is that age and repeated playing improves the sound. In addition, the supply of a famous make and model year only diminishes over time, due to accidents or museums that purchase the instrument and effectively remove it from circulation.With some instruments staying in families for generations, replacement values could be worth three or four times the original purchase price. The Lady Blunt violin sold for more than $200,000 four decades ago. Should the instrument be destroyed or stolen, the owner runs the risk of only getting a small fraction in compensation for it. To keep values reasonably current, we suggest having valuable instruments professionally appraised at least every three to five years.
3. Seek valuables policies that provide market value coverage.
For protection in between those appraisals every three to five years, seek valuables policies that provide market value coverage. This benefit, usually available from carriers that specialize in serving HNW families such as ACE, will pay the market value of the item just prior to the loss up to 50% more than the scheduled amount on the policy.
The market value can also play an important role in settling losses when an instrument has been damaged and repaired. Although the instrument may essentially look and sound the same after the repair, its history of damage may result in a loss of market value. Some companies will appreciate this loss in value, while others may not, saying the instrument has been sufficiently restored for all practical purposes.
4. Be aware of coverage limitations and requirements when playing for pay.
Not surprisingly, many HNW clients who own fine instruments play them exceedingly well and find time outside of their careers to be involved in bands or ensembles that perform at various venues throughout the year. Or perhaps they enjoy teaching others how to play. If they receive income for performing or teaching, they need to be aware that standard industry valuables policies may require a special endorsement to maintain coverage for the instrument. Policies from HNW-market carriers may be more lenient in this regard, as long as the income is incidental.
5. Use only reputable and well insured repair shops.
More so than precious works of art, musical instruments may need to be restored or adjusted from time to time. Guitars for instance, occasionally require tweaks to insure the necks remain true. Owners should be aware that many policies, even those from HNW-market carriers, may not cover damage to the instrument while it is being repaired or restored. Therefore, the owner should be careful to bring the instrument only to specialists that are well established and have adequate coverage in the case damage or theft occurs when the instrument is in their possession.
6. Beware of intentional acts.
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British group Rixton paid tribute to Ariana Grande today by releasing a cover of Grande's summer hit 'Problem,' which is topping the charts worldwide.
The band sent Grande a congratulatory message for hitting No. 1 on the UK charts, and surprised fans with their cover of 'Problem.'
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1. What's your name & Your Company Name: Dorothy Arrington, Purple Cupcake Soaps
2. Why did you decide to go into business? What was your motivation? How long have you been in business? The business name was changed to Purple Cupcake Soaps last year, after two years as a soap making company. Under the old name of The Purple Cupcake, I ran a cake decorating company since 2005. I decided to officially leave cake decorating after becoming a single mom and the passing of the law HB32. HB32 allowed anyone to run a bakery from without regulation, and the next thing I knew everyone was doing it. However, I didn't want to loose my decorating skills. Another cause that was close to my heart was using natural medicine and products, from this I decided to create more natural soaps and lotions. All of my products have a sweet tooth personality, whether they look like a dessert or smell like one.
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When it comes to medical marijuana, the Obama administration"s Justice Department seems out of control.
The president says he has "bigger fish to fry" than targeting pot smokers in Colorado and Washington, where voters in November legalized recreational use. But, in California, where voters legalized medicinal use way back in 1996, the feds continue to act like bullies.
Under federal law, pot use remains illegal. The Justice Department has said it will not go after patients and caregivers operating within state law. On the other hand, it has said it will aggressively pursue for-profit marijuana enterprises.
What that means remains unclear. The ambiguity has come to a head in a case involving Harborside Health Center, officially a non-profit and the nation"s largest medical marijuana dispensary with locations in Oakland and San Jose.
Rather than file a direct legal case against Harborside, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag has gone after its landlords. Haag is trying to take away the properties under federal forfeiture laws that allow seizures of buildings that house illegal drug business.
The two landlords responded by trying to evict the tenants. In the Oakland case, an Alameda County judge ruled that under state law the company was running a legal business and had not violated its lease. A judge in the San Jose case ruled the other way, but Harborside is appealing.
Both landlords meanwhile went to federal court, where a judge ruled that they cannot use U.S. law to force the dispensary to shut down. So the property owners remain under a threat of losing their properties, but unable to evict their tenant.
All of this prompts the larger question: Why aren"t the feds going directly after Harborside? The answer is political and legal. Prosecuting Harborside would raise the profile of the cases and spotlight the policy inconsistencies within the administration about marijuana. Also, the federal government remains on shaky legal ground because it had promised for years not to go after operations that are legal under state law, but it now seems to be doing so.
We understand the feds don"t want medical marijuana operations to become a center for crime and financial greed. The voters of California agreed with that. State law requires that medical marijuana operations are not to be for profit. It seems Harborside complies with that. If it doesn"t, that"s another matter. But so far, the federal government hasn"t proven that point.
Meanwhile, we hear a consistent theme from federal prosecutors that they don"t seem to like large marijuana dispensaries. We"re unclear what size has to do with this. If anything a few larger, well-run operations are easier to regulate than scores of small outfits.
For now, the administration has inconsistent marijuana policies. It"s time for Attorney General Eric Holder to decide whether he"s going to follow the lead of the president or continue to let his prosecutors run wild. We"re tired of the latter.


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There's an MLB baseball program for kids called Pitch, Hit and Run. Well, say hello to Roy-O. He pitched, hit and ran during last night's win that evened the series and sent both teams on charter flights to San Francisco.
For the Phillies, the five-hour plane ride on a Delta charter was much more enjoyable than being down 0-2.
Roy-O was dominant as a pitcher, allowing one run, another home run by that Cody Ross, who thinks he is Babe Ruth. Perhaps we should roll the ball to home plate when he comes to bat. Roy-O also singled and scored a run while running through a stop sign by third base coach Sam Perlozzo.
J-Roll got the big hit (bases-clearing double) that broke the game wide open.
Game # 2 hasn't been the most successful venture for the Phillies. They entered last night only 3-15 in their postseson history. That includes 1-7 in the NLCS and losses in their previous four.
Ratings Win
While the Phillies and Eagles didn't go head-to-head as they did the previous Sunday, the Phillies had a 33.7 rating and 47 share. For the Eagles' 1 p.m. game, 28.0/54.
Both teams will work out at AT&T Park, the Phillies at 2 in the afternoon and the Giants at 4. Interview room schedule includes Charlie, Cole, Bochy and Cain.
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The Phillies had the second-best road record in the NL, 43-35 (San Diego, 45-36). They'll need that as they haven't fared well in this 10-year-old park, 14-24. The Giants were 49-32 at home this season, among the top seven teams in the NL.
When first opened, the park was called Pacific Bell Park. Then SBC Park and AT&T Park since 2007.
Left field foul poll: 339′
Left-center alley: 364′
Right-center alley: 421′
Right field foul poll: 309.
Capacity: 41,503
The Park is built adjacent to San Francisco Bay. 77 home runs have splashed into the bay, an area called McCovey Cove. Of those 77, 55 by the Giants. The Phillies have not made a splash but have given up three (Nelson Figueroa, Jose Mesa and Rodrigo Lopez).
Between the Park and McCovey Cove is an area called the Portwalk. Fans can walk along this area and take in the scenery of the Bay Bridge and much more, including peeking through the fence to see the game.
There are four statues honoring Hall of Famers who played for the Giants, Willie Mays, McCovey, Orlando Cepeda and Juan Marichal.
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MONTGOMERY | Alabama's economy should improve this year, but not by much, economists said at the annual Center for Business and Economic Research conference held Wednesday.
MONTGOMERY | Alabama's economy should improve this year, but not by much, economists said at the annual Center for Business and Economic Research conference held Wednesday.
"There are a lot of good things going on in Alabama," said Sam Addy, the center's associate dean for research and outreach director. "(Alabama's economy) is somewhat better."
The annual conference by the center, which is housed at the University of Alabama, also featured analysis by a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Retirement Systems of Alabama Chief Executive Officer David Bronner.
Addy said the state's outlook for 2013 includes a 1.7 percent increase in gross domestic product and a 1.1 percent increase in employment.
"That's not a bad story there," Addy said.
Total tax receipts will slow, however, to 3.5 percent, from 5 percent in 2011 and 3.8 percent in 2012, he said.
Addy said the number of jobs in Alabama increased by 12,700 from 2011 to 2012.
"A clear improvement of unemployment is good for the state as well," Addy said.
Still, 24 percent of the state's available workers remain are either underemployed or unemployed — 482,391 underemployed and 171,200 unemployed. And it may be 2015 before the state sees significant recovery from the recession that began in 2008.
The outlook for the Tuscaloosa metro area for 2013 is mildly optimistic: a 0.4 percent growth in employment. The area's gross domestic product could grow by 1.5 percent.
The area's economy in 2012 was partly a reflection of continued recovery from the devastation by the April 2011 tornadoes, which decreased the housing stock and wiped out some retail businesses.
Center officials said housing took a hit in 2011, but more single-family and multifamily homes were started in 2012. Businesses that were destroyed by the tornado began reopening or rebuilding in new locations.
A total of 2,700 nonfarm jobs were lost during the fiscal year ending in October 2012, reducing Tuscaloosa metro payroll to 91,200. Most the decreases were in service-providing industries, while state and local governments lost 2,300 jobs, the center said.
Tuscaloosa's underemployment was 16.8 percent, representing 23,040 people.
The University of Alabama, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International and local automotive suppliers along with construction of the new state psychiatric hospital were bright spots in 2012.
Each University of Alabama football game generated between $15 million and $18 million for the local economy, depending on the opponent.
The Tuscaloosa metro area population increased by 0.8 percent to 221,553, and the area's 3.5 percent increase in per capita income was on par with the state's growth, the center said.
The metro area's median family income was $56,500, higher than the state's average of $55,400 but just below the national average of $60,000.
Alabama produced 880,000 vehicles last year, many of them for the important export market.
"It's a good story for the state," Addy said.
The bad news is the nation's economy is still in the doldrums and the federal government is saddled with debt.
The last four years saw a dismal official growth of 2 percent coupled with high debt, said David Altig, executive vice president and director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
"Economists on the street say it was less than one-half percent," he said.
Bronner said Alabama's economic future will depend largely on the auto industry, aerospace and tourism. He said expanding Medicaid and accepting more than $1 billion a year in new federal dollars is akin to economic development in the health industry.


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Presidential candidate Barack Obama didn�t like coal. He told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008 that it was his intention to �bankrupt� coal-fired power plants.
President Barack Obama�s administration doesn�t like coal. White House science adviser Daniel Schrag earlier this year told the New York Times �a war on coal is exactly what�s needed� to combat climate change.
So Friday�s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it will not just impose restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants that no coal-fired plant can meet, but also by next year impose similar restrictions on existing plants, shouldn�t have been a surprise.
The EPA actually floated the restrictions last year, but backed off because of some potential legal issues.
This time, its attitude reflects an overt declaration of war, and coal producers seem quite ready to engage the fight on both the legal and public relations fronts.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says it�s up to coal producers whether they want to be �part of the diverse (energy) mix in this country,� and all they have to do is �invest� in technology that allows them to meet the new restrictions.
Coal producers say that technology simply doesn�t exist, and these restrictions will drive power rates up and put people out of work.
That�s not complete hyperbole. According to the Energy Information Administration, 42 percent of electricity production in the U.S. was generated by coal in 2011; and according to Department of Energy statistics from the same year, 88,000 miners working in about 1,300 mines produced nearly 1.1 billion tons of coal.
Except for net coal produced, all those national numbers are trending downward. Fewer people are getting their electricity from coal, and fewer people are working in fewer mines. More energy producers are switching to natural gas, which can easily meet the greenhouse gas limits.
However, there still are a lot of people whose lights and paychecks depend on coal. Waging war on the industry is going to painfully disrupt lives. We can understand the arguments about coal being a dirty energy source but it�s going to take more than 10 cents, and maybe even more than 10 years to create such clean-coal technology from scratch.
We just wonder if declarations of war, restrictions that can�t be met and telling an industry �you�re on your own, figure it out and make it happen even if it bankrupts you and people get hurt in the crossfire,� is the best way to get where we need to be.
A version of this editorial first appeared in the Gadsden Times, a Halifax Media Group newspaper in Alabama.


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Last fall, I wrote about my expectations for the new TV season here and here. Now that the season finales are all wrapped up I thought I would go over the shows I initially reviewed to see how the shows, and my comments on them, panned out. I'll go over the freshman shows at a later date.
The Office: With the departure of Steve Carrell I still had high hopes that the show would continue putting out the same high quality comedy even though the departure of its main star forced the show to switch gears. As I said last fall…
Although I have been a loyal Office fan, I admit that my interest has waned a bit the past few seasons. I mean, how long are they going to film this documentary? But the addition of James Spader's Robert California has breathed new life into the show. Spader showed up in last year's season finale as an interviewee to replace Michael Scott as Manager. The couple of minutes of screen time was so compelling, that I would consider it Emmy worthy. Truly, great acting as Spader's character shows himself so supremely confident that he intimidates the search committee into selecting him. As the new season opens Jim's to-the-camera interview reveals that Robert California immediately drove to Florida and talked the CEO out of her job, a concept that seems totally plausible given how Spader is portraying the character. I think James Spader is a great addition to the show, and actually may have been the only direction the show could go into that would continue to make The Office worth seeing.
So what happened? I lost interest. Spader was not on the show frequently enough to retain my interest, and I stopped making the show a "must see" program. From what I've heard from other Office fans, my opinion is fairly widely shared. Andy (Ed Helms) taking over as manager struck me as kind of a clunker. Although the character is entertaining in small bites, I never was enamored with the character and couldn't care less about his relationship with Erin. Maybe that's just me though since the show will be back next fall. Perhaps my mood will change by then.
The Big Bang Theory: My theory that Leonard and Penny would get back together panned out, although in extreme slow motion. I'm not sure a couple who had been together, broke up for over two years, and then got back together would actually get back in such careful, baby steps, and in such a totally unromantic way that these two did, however the romance/non-romance of Leonard and Penny is one of the key building blocks of the show, so if you really want to stretch it out over several episodes, this is the way to do it.
Otherwise the general quality of the show remains strong and entertaining and I'm enjoying the budding romance, if that's what it is, between Sheldon and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik). Although they have been technically dating for two seasons, the relationship has only been one of convenience, to keep both of their parents off their backs. However now Amy Farrah Fowler (for some reason it feels more natural to use her full name) wants to bring that relationship to the next level via B.F. Skinner-like operant conditioning. I can see that some fans might have some hesitation that a real romantic relationship for Sheldon could change the character, but my gut feeling is that even aspies need love too and a Sheldon romantic relationship could work. We'll see how this plays out next season.
Two And a Half Men: Since I wasn't a regular viewer of the show, I probably wouldn't have even commented on it other than the very public mental breakdown (what else would you call it?) by Charlie Sheen, that lead to him being fired from the show. It was still a popular moneymaker so CBS wanted to continue it, adding Ashton Kutcher to the cast, in what I felt was as TV-plausible way to integrate him into the cast as possible without hiring some prize winning novelists to carefully craft a high concept season opener. But high concept isn't what this network show is about. Still, it's not the same show, and the ratings for this show have been steadily declining all season. Not declining so much that this show won't be back next fall. But I doubt if it can eek out any more seasons after that, and that's probably for the best.
Community: Community is of course my absolute favorite sitcom. It follows in the tradition of Arrested Development in that the show has a sometimes sophisticated and complicated storyline, requiring the viewer to actually pay attention, and has lots of Easter eggs that will pay off several episodes later. Also, like Arrested Development it suffers from perennially low ratings. That's to be expected of course. A majority of people are not interested in paying close attention to a sitcom. They're popping popcorn in the microwave, and fielding homework questions from the kids at the same time.
The low ratings lead to Community being taken off the air in November of last year until finally returning to the schedule in March after a fan protest. When the show returned in March, it was evident to me that the producers had already decided that they were probably going to be cancelled. I mean nobody; NO BODY does a parody of Ken Burn's Civil War unless they know this is their last hurrah. That episode, awesome as it was, would have been totally impenetrable to an outsider. And that's the problem with Community, and similar shows like it. At a certain point, the inside jokes, self references, and knowledge of the characters become so obtuse that only a hardcore fan would get the jokes. Any casual user would be flummoxed. I'm not the only one who's made this observation. It's a real problem for a struggling show trying to attract an audience. What new audience could sit down to watch an episode like Virtual Systems Analysis, and have any idea of what was going on? The average guy sitting down on his couch to channel surf would have not understand this episode in the least. If they were familiar with Star Trek: The Next Generation's holodeck, they might understand what the Dreamatorium is supposed to be, but the finally detailed psychological profile that the show has built up on Abed for three seasons would be incomprehensible. And the fantastic acting by Danny Pudi would probably go unnoticed. Pudi played not only several versions of his own character Abed, but a version of Jeff Winger, not as he was, but as Abed imagines him to be. That's not only heavy writing, but heavy acting. If you know what he was trying to do.
In spite of Community trying to sabotage itself for the last part of the season by doing some of the most brilliant avant garde comedy on television, it got picked up for another season for a 13 episode order. How the show can push the envelope any more than it already has I don't know, but I'm perfectly willing to watch and see.
Related articles
- The Surprising Lessons of This Past TV Season (theatlantic.com)
- James Spader Is Quitting The Office (tv.com)


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Motorists will pay more as the next phase of toll increases kick in at Port Authority bridges and tunnels on Sunday.
Cash tolls on the George Washington Bridge, Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel, Goethals Bridge, Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing will increase $1 to $13.
Tolls for E-ZPass users will go from $9.50 to $10.25 during peak commuting hours and from $7.50 to $8.25 during off-peak hours.
The Port Authority last raised tolls in September 2011.
The bistate agency said it needed to offset security-related projects following the 9/11 attacks, a drop in revenue caused by the global economic slump, and the $11 billion World Trade Center complex.
Port Authority tolls will next go up on Dec. 1, 2013 unless a lawsuit against the increase is successful.


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Are Haren and/or Drew available? If so I wouldn't waste my time bidding up Lee if that means the price ultimately goes up for Haren. Although for my money I'd go after a shortstop as hard as starting pitching, but I would look to strengthen the pen.
Are Haren and/or Drew available? If so I wouldn't waste my time bidding up Lee if that means the price ultimately goes up for Haren. Although for my money I'd go after a shortstop as hard as starting pitching, but I would look to strengthen the pen.
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But the Reds really haven't been in this situation in the last ten years. The last time they truly were in contention was 1999. That year they got Juan Guzman for B.J. Ryan, and Guzman was very effective for the Reds down the stretch. Sure, they kinda were in contention a few times, but they were more than a few players away from really contending. I think it was more that the teams just weren't that good, than the trade didn't work out, or at least some of both.
I think this year the Reds are actually a better team than 1999, and one key player can make them into nit just contendere, but favorites.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
Not sure how people are worried about how Lee would hold up in GABP but think Haren is a good idea...I just don't get it.
Haren is my first choice. I've said it in other posts, Price was his pitching coach thru his 2 best years. Do not underrate that connection and what it could do for Haren.
The absolute best packages I would do for Lee is:
Alonso, Francisco and Boxberger
Alonso, Francisco, Sappelt and Del Rosario
Alonso and Bailey (include Francisco for League)
Alonso, Valakia and Maloney
Any conversation including Wood, Joseph or Mez ends the discussion.
Lee and Wood being on the same staff could benefit Wood tremendously. They already are offseason workout partners. If just a little of Lee rubs off, Wood could be as good as a #2 or #3.
Take your pick Seattle.
Haren and Drew I'd give up more.
Start with Bailey, Alonso and Sulbaran
1 of Francisco, Heisey, Cozart or Frazier
1 of Del Rosario, Fisher, Valiquette, Smith or Ondrusek
If you can't be a good example... then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels...
I wouldn't include Ondrusek in a trade unless a legit bullpen guy also makes his way to Cincy in that trade or soon after. Logan has been a real bright spot since coming back up.
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Just get him. I don't care about the details.
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If you can't be a good example... then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels...
The last three years:
xFIP 3.25
xFIP 3.50
This year Lee has been better, but some of that is due to his pitching in Safco, as his xFIP indicates. He is actually more of a flyball pitcher than Haren, which is why some have concern over how good he will be in GABP.
Add in that Haren is under control for an extra year, and it's really hard to defend that Lee is light years better than Haren, if he is better at all.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
They want Francisco? Sign me up! I wouldn't think twice about trading Alonso and Francisco to the M's for Lee. If they want Wood too, I think the M's have to send something else back to us. However, I would probably move forward with that.
As long as they aren't parting with Chapman, Mesocaro and Y. Rodriguez, I'll be happy.
If you have a losing record at Reds games, please stop going.
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