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NASA Leaps for Open Source
(Katherine Noyes @ LinuxInsider) "When you really need performance/weight as in the space program, who are you going to call: an OS designed by salesmen in secret and in league with hardware suppliers," asked blogger Robert Pogson, "or an OS designed by computer geeks trying hard in the open to get the last bit of performance and reliability out of hardware?"
"Space: the final frontier." These may be the opening words of the Star Trek series so loved by geeks far and wide, but lately, they've been on the tip of more Linux bloggers' tongues than ever.
Why? Because Linux recently scored a major victory some 230 miles up in the sky. Specifically, Windows got the big heave-ho from the International Space Station, which has now boldly gone on to embrace Linux instead.
"We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable," explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor deeply involved in space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) operations.
Translation: "Ouch!" as VentureBeat's Jolie O'Dell sagely observed.
Of course, Redmond's pain is Linux's gain -- as increasingly seems to be the case these days. The result? An extra-bright starry twinkle in more than a few FOSS fans' eyes.
'It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist'
"GNU/Linux is out of this world," enthused blogger Robert Pogson , for example.
"When you really need performance/weight as in the space program, who are you going to call: an OS designed by salesmen in secret and in league with hardware suppliers, or an OS designed by computer geeks trying hard in the open to get the last bit of performance and reliability out of hardware?"
Indeed, "while it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the advantages of Linux, I guess it doesn't hurt, either," agreed Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien.
"As those of us who have used Linux know, it is indeed safer and more reliable," he added.
'A Natural Choice'
"Linux is everywhere, not just by its free nature but for stability, resource-efficiency and openness," Google+ blogger Rodolfo Saenz told Linux Girl. "NASA needed to rely on a powerful open OS to be modified at will, and they've got brilliant developers and resourceful engineers dedicated to research. GNU/Linux was a natural choice for them."
In fact, "I think it would be no surprise if they come up with a NASA closed-Linux distro in the coming years (or even months!)," Saenz suggested.
"Once more, GNU/Linux is an example that great minds (freely and passionately) work better than big corporations," he concluded.
'Easier to Centrally Manage'
It is "very cool that organizations like NASA are starting to take more and more notice of Linux," Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone opined.
"I predict that we're going to see more critical systems moving to Linux because of its open nature and its stability," Stone suggested. "Sadly, Windows XP didn't really set the bar all that high."
The move "makes sense," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack agreed. "Not only should it be more stable, it should be easier to centrally manage. And NASA uses mostly custom apps, so compatibility with Windows is not as important for them."
'Increasingly the Mainstay'
Similarly, "this is good news, though it suggests that the number of scientific tools available on such laptops makes the choice relatively easy," offered Chris Travers, a blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project.
"Presumably they didn't choose something like FreeBSD because of more limited hardware support there (this being said, my sense is that what hardware FreeBSD and the like do support is more stable than under Linux)," Travers added.
"Linux as a kernel supports a wide range of hardware, and *Nix environments (including both *BSD and Linux) are becoming increasingly the mainstay of scientific and engineering environments," he said. "I suspect this is one reason why Autodesk programs run so well under WINE."
'Everything Just Works'
Google+ blogger Brett Legree had a similar take.
"I think that this is awesome news, for the people who work in the ISS and for the Debian project," Legree told Linux Girl. "It makes good sense. Debian runs extremely well on hardware that was spec'd for Windows XP (i.e. in terms of the hardware 'power'), Debian is extremely stable, Debian handles upgrades and updates better than just about anything I have used -- did I mention that it is free?"
Although "sadly we won't be following the same path where I work when Windows XP reaches EOL (we will roll out Windows 7 and Office 2010 ... ), my own personal experiences at home show the sense in this," he added.
"My HP 2133 netbook runs better with Debian and LXDE than it ever did with Windows XP," Legree concluded. "Everything just works, right out of the box."
'This Is Where Linux Fits Best'
Last but not least, Robin Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor, had a bittersweet interpretation.
"To me, this is really nothing new and exciting," Lim told Linux Girl. "NASA has been using Linux more and more to power its space program. Most recently, they use three Android-powered Nexus One smartphones as part of a low budget experimental satellite program."
In fact, "this is really where Linux fits best," he added. "Its open source nature allows the end user to customize it to fit their needs."
Nevertheless, "it is another success in an area where GNU/Linux has had a long string of successes," Lim suggested.
'All About Apps and Choices'
At the same time, however, "this also highlights the one area where GNU/Linux is weakest: as a desktop computing platform for the average user," he said.
"With a consumer platform, it's all about apps and choices," Lim explained. "What GNU/Linux needs at this point is not a NASA endorsement but a company who can build a stronger software and hardware ecosystem around it -- in other words, an Apple, Google or Microsoft or maybe even Samsung.
"Maybe the community itself could give it a big boost," he suggested. "Retire 95 percent of the distributions and task the resources there to developing consumer Linux-compatible apps."
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The annual Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten Round-Up event will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.Thursday, March 20, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, March 21 in the Elementary school library.
Parents are requested to bring their child to the registration event. Staff members plan to visit with each prospective student to help determine classroom placement. See the March 20 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for more information.

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By Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas
One in a series
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012
VATICAN CITY — The work of the synod continues but another gift of this time together is the opportunity to build fraternity among those participating in the synod. This happens mostly over food in relaxed settings outside the synod meetings.
Last night I had the joy of sharing dinner at the Maronite Center in Rome with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai, who lives in Lebanon and is a member of this synod. The Maronite community is one of about 20 Eastern rites in communion with the Holy Father, all represented at the synod.
The patriarch had invited Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, Msgr. Ronnie Jenkins, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and me to join him and Melkite Patriarch Gregoire III Laham of Damascus, Syria, Armenian Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni of Beirut, and Syriac Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan, along with Cardinals Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and a highly respected expert on the Middle East, and Archbishop Peter Erdo of Budapest in Hungary.
The discussion over supper centered on the struggles in the Middle East and the plight of Christians who live in the land where Christ lived and walked. Will the Israelis and Palestinians ever resolve their conflict? Will the loss of life in Syria come to an end? Will the civil war in Syria spill over into other areas of the Middle East? Who will step in to help resolve the crisis in Syria? Will Christians be driven out of the Middle East?
While none of these questions were resolved, the angst and concern of these religious leaders in the Middle East was clear. There is a need to increase our efforts to advocate with the government of the United States to intensify our effort to support peacemaking in the region. Many innocent have died or been displaced. People are killed, "as if they are sheep." Tensions intensify. Solutions are elusive. The evening was an opportunity to express our concern for those who are suffering and to hear the cry for peace by these religious leaders.
The U.S. bishops hosted a lunch at the North American College last week for English-speaking bishops participating in the synod. It was an opportunity for bishops from Canada, from England and Wales, from Australia and New Zealand and from Ireland to meet one another, to get to know one another better and to share common concerns. American members of the hierarchy working in Rome were also invited. Likewise, the bishops from Ireland have invited all English-speaking bishops to dinner later this week at the Irish College in Rome.
The USCCB is hosting a reception for all those from the United States who are participating in the synod since the bishops, auditors, experts and fraternal delegates from the States live in different houses and have not yet had an opportunity to come together.
All these events are marvelous occasions to learn about one another in a relaxed setting as we work together in the synod. They are opportunities to discuss matters of common concern and consider ways to work more closely together.
Today Bishop Launay Saturne of the Diocese of Jacmel in Haiti spoke. I was most interested in his reflection in that Catholic Relief Services and American Catholics have had a keen interest in the recovery of this beautiful country so damaged by the devastating earthquake that struck in 2010. Jacmel, next to Port-au-Prince, received the most damage in the aftermath of the earthquake. Bishop Saturne expressed gratitude for those who rushed to assist his country. He reflected on the huge task of recovery that still remains, especially in rebuilding churches and schools. He struggles to find the time to attend to the pastoral needs of the diocese while trying to rebuild facilities. He prays that a diocese might adopt his diocese to assist in the recovery work that remains. He spoke of the depth of the faith in the people who suffered greatly from this natural disaster
Several bishops today spoke of the need to enhance our means of communication. Archbishop Claudio Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, raised a question whether written texts are the best means of communication. He emphasized the need to speak in a language accessible to people, especially those who are poorly catechized or simply not religious.
Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Indonesia spoke also of the need for the church to speak in the language of the people, especially the young. He raised concern about literal translations of texts and indicated that using the response "And with your spirit" means in his culture "And with your evil spirit." He suggested that translations must be sensitive to cultural nuance or they will fail to communicate the faith.
Most major themes regarding the new evangelization have been identified through the interventions by the synod fathers. We are moving forward to begin the development of propositions in the small groups later this week to give direction for the Holy Father's post-synodal exhortation. But before that begins, more fraternal delegates and the auditors who have yet to talk have an opportunity today and tomorrow to add their important perspectives.
The fraternal delegates — men and women religious leaders of varied denominations — who spoke today expressed gratitude to the Holy Father for the invitation to take part in the synod and expressed their shared hope for a new evangelization that would transform all religious bodies.
The presence of these ecumenical leaders reminded me of the great joy it has been in the Diocese of Tucson to work with a wide range of religious leaders on the issue of immigration. We have found a common ground for working together as Christians, Jews, and Muslims, all of whom have an understanding of the stranger as a brother and sister to be treated with dignity and respect. We have prayed together. We have stood in solidarity at the border. We have learned together. We experienced communion and a shared mission that transcended denominations.
We gather at this synod in communion with people of other faiths. Such experiences of communion, Frater Alois of the Taize Ecumenical Community, reminded us today, are powerful experiences for the young. The division of Christians is a scandal but when we come together in communion, the youth find trust and what it means to be a person of faith. "Faith can be born wherever there is an experience of communion," Frater Alois noted.
As we gathered in the afternoon today, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, interrupted the synod session to announce that it had been suggested to Pope Benedict XVI that a delegation of synod fathers should make a trip to Damascus, Syria, to show solidarity with those who are suffering from the violence and those who have been displaced from their homes and are living in fear. Cardinal Bertone announced that among those who would travel there probably next week would be Cardinal Tauran and Cardinal Dolan, who were present at our dinner the night before when we discussed the tragic situation in Syria.
This is a welcome gesture on the part of the Holy See since the violence in Syria causes deep concern for all of us. While the international community has not been able to stop the violence, the church by this delegation of bishops from many countries can bring the world community's solidarity and support to the Syrian people.
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Bishop Kicanas, of Tucson, Ariz., is chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services and is a former vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Also a former chairman of the U.S. bishops' Communications Committee, he is blogging from the world Synod of Bishops this month by special arrangement with Catholic News Service. He was elected an alternate delegate to the synod by the U.S. bishops and became a full delegate when Cardinal Francis E. George was unable to attend.


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Usually I meet choreographers before I interview them, or at least I have seen a concert or two of theirs. But having heard plenty of positive buzz and watched some captivating clips on YouTube, I was sufficiently intrigued about Andrea Miller to set up a Skype conversation with the New York-based choreographer this summer.
Unlike most of the artists I've interviewed in the last two years, Andrea isn't Israeli. However, she's no stranger to the Israeli contemporary dance scene. Prior to taking Manhattan by storm with her three-year-old company, Gallim Dance, Andrea lit up the stage as a member of the Batsheva Ensemble. I couldn't help but wonder if and how her fresh aesthetic had been affected by her time here in Israel.


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Learn about John Perry Barlow, a co-founder of EFF and a member of the Board of Directors from 1990 until his death in 2018.
Brian Behlendorf has been a fan of the EFF since the early 90's, when he first discovered the Internet as an undergrad at UC Berkeley, and saw both how essential and how fragile digital civil liberties were about to become. He carried that sense of purpose with him as he set up Wired Magazine's first web site in 1993, and then engineered the launch of Hotwired in 1994. In the same spirit of open standards and open source code that built the Net, Brian and 8 other individuals co-founded the Apache Group (and later the Apache Software Foundation), the team that built and gave away the popular Apache HTTP (Web) Server. Simultaneously he launched CollabNet, which brought the principles and tools used by the open source software community to large enterprises.
After 8 years leading CollabNet as its CTO, Brian left to work on the 2008 Obama campaign as a technology advisor, and then at the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, developing strategies for open access to data and APIs. Later he advised the Department of Health and Human Services on the launch of two Open Source software projects designed to accelerate the adoption of standards for the exchange of electronic health records. In 2011 he moved to Geneva to start a 20-month stint as CTO at the World Economic Forum, where he rebooted a 30 year old legacy environment with open software and open thinking. Brian is now back in San Francisco, and remains an advisor to the WEF. Brian also is on the Boards of Director at the Mozilla Foundation, Benetech, and CollabNet.
Prior to her retirement in 2015, Sarah Deutsch was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Verizon Communications, where she spent over 23 years in the Legal Department. She was responsible for Verizon's global IP practice, including copyrights, trademarks, patent licensing, and unfair competition. In the course of her career, Sarah also managed Verizon's privacy practice, and worked on a broad set of global intellectual property policy issues, including Internet policy, online liability, and advocacy. Sarah was one of five negotiators for the U.S. telecommunications industry in the negotiations that lead to the passage of the DMCA. She also served as a Private Sector Advisor to U.S. Delegation to WIPO Copyright Treaties and to the G8 Cybercrime Conference.
Sarah was the 2014 recipient of the Managing IP In-house Counsel Award at the America's Women in Business Law Awards. In 2009, she received Public Knowledge's President's Award for Extraordinary Dedication to Protecting the Free Flow of Information Over the Internet.
Prior to Verizon, Sarah was an associate in the law firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius. She holds a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law and a B.A. from Emory University. In addition to her current legal and policy advocacy work, Sarah serves on the Board of the National Center for Health Research and is an avid professional photographer. Sarah previously served on EFF's Board in 2005-2006.
David Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University holding secondary appointments in the Heinz School of Public Policy and the Engineering Public Policy Group. In 2003, he retired as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania where he held appointments as Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business and as a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of Communications. In 2000, he was appointed to be Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications Commission while on leave from UPenn for one year ending in early June 2001. While at UPenn, he co-directed The Penn Initiative on Markets, Technology and Policy. He was also Director of the Distributed Systems Laboratory - DSL where he managed leading edge research in Ultra High Speed Networking. He is a Visiting Professor of the Center for Global Communications of Japan -- Glocom of the International University of Japan, a Member of the Markle Foundation Taskforce on National Security, and a Member of the Advisory Boards of both the Center for Democracy and Technology and EPIC. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE and was the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to the computer communications field. He was awarded in 1997 the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity.
John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, early open source author, and co-created Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. He's spent 30 years doing programming, hardware and software design, management, philosophy, philanthropy, and investment. Along with being a board member of EFF, he is also on the Board of the Usenix Association, CodeWeavers, and ReQuest. He's trying to get people to think more about the society they are building. His advocacy on drug policy aims to reduce the immense harm caused by current attempts to control the mental states of free citizens. His advocacy on encryption policy aims to improve public understanding of this fundamental technology for privacy and accountability in open societies.
Brewster Kahle, director and co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years.
Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing transformational technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers.
Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995.
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management and Systems and the School of Law, where she is Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her principal area of expertise is intellectual property law, and she has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes. In 1997, she was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and has also been a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery. In 1998, the National Law Journal named her as one of the 50 most outstanding women lawyers in the U.S. She is a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Directors for the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. As a Contributing Editor of the computing professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, Pam writes a regular "Legally Speaking" column. A 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits. From 1981 through June 1996, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 14 books -- including the New York Times best-seller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is also a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer of Resilient. Photo by Josh More.
Gigi Sohn is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow and Public Advocate. She is one of the nation's leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. From 2013-2016, Gigi was Counselor to the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler. She advised the Chairman on a wide range of Internet, telecommunications and media issues, representing him and the FCC in a variety of public forums around the country as well as serving as the primary liaison between the Chairman's office and outside stakeholders. From 2001-2013, Gigi served as the Co-Founder and CEO of Public Knowledge, a leading telecommunications, media and technology policy advocacy organization. She was previously a Project Specialist in the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts and Culture unit and Executive Director of the Media Access Project, a public interest law firm.
Shari Steele was EFF's Executive Director for 15 years before retiring in 2015 and joining the Board of Directors. Shari served as EFF's Legal Director for eight years before she was named ED. She is also co-founder of Bridges.org, a nonprofit working to ensure sound technology policy in developing nations. She has spoken widely on civil liberties law in newly emerging technologies, including on the CBS Evening News, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, The Today Show, CNN, the BBC, and National Public Radio. As EFF's Legal Director, she advised the NTIA on hate crimes in telecommunications, the U.S. Sentencing Commission on sentencing guidelines for the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the No Electronic Theft Act, and the National Research Council on U.S. encryption policy. She has spoken about Internet law as part of the Smithsonian Institution's lecture series on the Internet, the ABA's TechWorld Conference, the National Law Journal's annual Computer Law Conference, and the National Forum for Women Corporate Counsel. A graduate of Widener University School of Law, Shari later served as a teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned an LL.M. degree in Advocacy. Ms. Steele also holds a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media from West Chester University.
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources for the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.
He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia, and as part of the OpenNet Initiative co-edited a series of studies of Internet filtering by national governments: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering; Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace; and Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. He has served as a Trustee of the Internet Society and as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which named him a Young Global Leader. He was a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Federal Communications Commission, where he previously chaired the FCC's Open Internet Advisory Committee. His book The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It predicted the end of general purpose client computing and the corresponding rise of new gatekeepers. That and other works may be found at JZ.org.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Price is right: Not much flair, but it's a start
Address: 935 Monticello Avenue
Neighborhood: Belmont
Asking: $212,500
Assessment: $297,000
Year Built: 1925
Size: 1,251 fin. sq. ft. / 200 unfin.
Land: 0.21 acres
Agent: Kay Sands, Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 434-825-6129
Curb Appeal: 5 out of 10
Given the inflation of some neighborhood real estate, we're suckers for a cute yellow three-bedroom Belmont farmhouse priced at $212,500. Although this property's appeal (front porch, big backyard) decreases when you step into the vanilla interior, it's still $84,500 below the assessment, and for that alone it's worth a second look.
Currently owned (and formerly rented out) by a London developer, the house has been expanded and remodeled since it was built in 1925, leading to a few quirks. For starters, the front door opens into a living space divided by a wall that stops a few feet from the entrance.
We inquired about the possibility of knocking it down, but the room on the left has a boarded-up fireplace in the dividing wall, which means it can't be demolished. But the fireplace could possibly be restored, according to the "best guess" of the agent. The living room on the right side has a storage closet with an accordion door beneath the staircase. The floors here are covered with a light beige carpet.
This room leads to a large laundry/mud room, the door to the back yard (note: the doorjamb is splitting), and a bathroom, both of which have received recent updates. Although the bathroom is ample, it's the only bathroom in the house— and next to the laundry room and the kitchen, at that– and the three bedrooms are upstairs. A new owner would be well advised to invest in a bathrobe.
The kitchen has been updated, and renovations are in line with the price of the house, according to the agent. Since the price is low, there's nothing fancy here. All appliances are Tappan, which probably didn't top off your Christmas wish list, but they're shiny and new (except for the refrigerator, which has some rust on the racks. It wasn't replaced during the upgrade). The cabinets are oak and the countertops a tasteful faux green granite Formica. The flooring here (and in the bathroom and laundry room) is linoleum styled to look like stone tile. There's space for a table and chairs as well, but there's no formal dining room.
Windows in the kitchen face the large back yard, one of the advantages of the place. The home is a little too close to busy Monticello Avenue in our view (things probably looked different in 1925), but there's plenty of space out back. The yard has a few old trees and is bordered on the left by an alley and a partial privacy fence, which we'd either expand to enclose the entire yard or tear down. The lot is big enough that a new owner could erect a rental or guest cottage back there, providing two benefits: income and protection from the alley.
There's an unfinished cellar/workroom at the rear of the house, but there's no inside access— it's accessible only from the yard. It might have been an original root cellar, although now the workroom area, with a tap for water, is lined with plywood.
Moving back inside, there's not much to say about the top floor of the house. It has low seven-foot ceilings, typical of an old farmhouse. The three bedrooms are small but adequate, with windows facing Monticello Avenue and overlooking the back yard.
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James S Saint wrote:Magnus Anderson wrote: In the first case, you are saying that language evolved long before the senses. In the second case, you are saying that thought evolved long before the senses.
I said that CONSISTENCY EXISTED before senses. And that logic is the consistency in language and thought in order to track reality (language and thought being almost the same thing).
Language and thought are not almost the same. They are very different.
The purpose of language is to communicate. The purpose of thought is to predict. Very very different.
You can express one and the same thought in any language you want.
You can think without talking. See for example animals.
You can talk without thinking. See for example humans.
Thinking has to do with how your actions relate to what happened in the past.
You can easily tell whether someone thinks or not just by observing how they act in relation to what happened in the past.
You don't need someone to speak in order to tell that they are thinking.
You don't have to open someone's skull, check if there is an adequate neurophysical process, in order to tell that they are thinking.
In fact, there might be nothing within one's skull other than darkness.
You try to look into one's skull deeper and deeper and you just keep seeing nothing but sheer darkness.
And yet, they would still be a thinking organism provided that their actions are sufficiently related to what happened in the past.
The extent to which one's actions are related to what happened in the past is the extent to which one thinks.
No need for language.
You can be completely incapable of communicating your thoughts and still be great at thinking.
In fact, you can be terrible at language, frequently misunderstood by others, and still be great at thinking.
The other problem is that . . . your emphasis is on language.
You say that language and thought are almost the same, yet, when you define logic, you almost always do it in terms of language.
You rarely say that logic is consistency in thought.
No, what you say is that logic is consistency in language.
What this suggests to me is that you think that language is more important than thought.
Which is backwards.
In fact, most of the time, when you criticize others, you criticize their language and not their thoughts.
You pay too much attention to superficial things.
You value what is superficial (words) more than what is fundamental (thought.)
That's my problem with you.
You are horribly superficial.
That's very annoying when people try to communicate with you philosophically.
Because instead of paying attention to what matters, which is thoughts, you pay attention to how they express their thoughts, which is language.
People who are interested in other people's thoughts -- basically, people who are interested in philosophy -- try to understand what other people are saying to the best of their ability.
Sometimes, they go to great lengths to understand what others are saying.
Sometimes, they use quite a bit of lateral thinking.
Of course, if it's too difficult they give up. But they don't accuse others of being bad thinkers merely because they are not good at communication.
I am not saying that it's not better to be good at communication.
I am saying that what matters on philosophy boards are thoughts.
And if someone has great thoughts lying beneath obscure words then . . . that's a gem right there although covered by shit.
Is a gem covered by shit of lesser worth than a gem that is not covered by shit?
I don't think so.
Some gem is better than no gem.
But this isn't merely because of your unwillingness to tolerate obscure language.
This is about your lack of understanding of what logic is.
That's the problem.
You put WORDS before REALITY.


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The Bromont Intersport International Invitational, presented by Cycle Lambert, scheduled for this coming week-end May 17th and 18th at Ski Bromont, has already beaten a participation record! 708 riders from around the globe have already confirmed their presence at this C1 level international mountain bike competition, not counting the 300 to 500 riders that usually register on-site.
Marie-Hélène Prémont, Olympic silver medalist and medal hopeful for Beijing, has already indicated she will be present (note: she also indicated to CC at the Madrid World Cup that she plans to attend), as well as several other well-known riders such as Jacqueline Mourao of Brazil and Mathieu Toulouse, a Quebec rider well known on the international circuit. All will be present to compete for top honours at one of the biggest mountain bike events in North America
Saturday May 17th: the top cross country riders will be in Bromont
The DEVINCI Canada Cup/Quebec Cup cross country events, presented by Michelin, will take place on Saturday, May 17th. Some of the top riders in North America will be present, including Marie-Hélène Prémont of Chãteau Richer, silver medalist at the Athens Olympic Games, Quebecer Raphael Gagné, 2007 U23 Vice National Champion and member of the Canadian National Team, as well as George Edward Duquette of Bromont.
The racing will begin at 9:00 am with the under 15 year old riders, followed by the Sport categories at 10:00 am. The Pro Elite men and women go at noon, and the day will end with the Expert categories at 2:30 pm.
Sunday May 18th: Downhill events on the World Cup course
Sunday at noon the downhill kamikazes take the Ski Bromont course by storm at crazy speeds during the Canada Cup downhill presented by Race Face. This event involves individual timed runs with participants attempting to get from top to bottom as quickly as possible down a specially prepared, gnarly course.
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These riders will be offering great performances all week-end as they begin their 2008 mountain bike season, definitely a sight to see. Also not to be missed, the Nissan UCI World Cup in August, to be run at the same site as this week-end's events.
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3 arrested in bogus funeral fundraiser for infant
Group held signs of infant found on Internet, police say
Three people were arrested in Modesto Tuesday after authorities said they fraudulently collected hundreds of dollars when they solicited money from motorists for a bogus funeral for an infant.
It began when police officers saw a man standing on the side of a busy Modesto road, holding a poster-size sign asking for "funeral donations."
Down the road, another man and woman had similar signs with the words "God bless," and "please help" next to a photo of an infant.
Police said Mark Barajas, 35, was standing near the intersection of Sisk Road and Briggsmore Avenue just after noon Tuesday. Nearby, 26-year-old Janie Barajas and 37-year-old Lisa Barajas were standing in the center median island holding the signs.
The officers saw the woman walking and collecting money from passing motorists as they waited for green lights.
Due to the traffic hazard, the officers asked them about the infant depicted in the posters.
At first, the three suspects told officers they were raising money to help pay for the funeral of an infant who died in Mexico.
Officers said that they later learned the trio was not being truthful.
Police said the group had come to Modesto from Fresno to collect money.
Investigators said they determined that the pictures were taken from the Internet and that the group had been in Modesto on Monday as well soliciting money.
Other photos, depicting a toddler, were also located in the truck of one of the suspects.
On Tuesday, the trio had collected about $400 from generous Modesto motorists.


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If you're a dictator then dictate on the floor…
Celebrity appearances are always super interesting to me, because it is such a clear indicator of where a celebrity brand stands. Birthday parties for Middle Eastern princes, front row at fashion shows, hip hop stars at Bat Mitzvahs…if you have the money, the celebrity experience – a performance, a personal shout-out, a photo – is up for grabs.
And that's especially true of A-list musical acts (like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift and Celine Dion), all of whom perform at private events for huge paydays.
Jennifer Lopez recently found herself at a party for the China National Petroleum Corporation and was asked to sing Happy Birthday to Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. I'm not smart and had no idea who this was, but did a quick Google search (ahem, JLO's team): he's dictator of Turkmenistan, has a penchant for white fur hats and runs a country with a horrible human rights record.
This isn't the first time a singer has been caught with her hand in the dictator cookie jar: Nelly Furtado, Beyonce, Mariah and Usher all made money performing for Muammar Gaddafi –and subsequently donated their earnings (supposedly) when they were criticised for it. After incidences like that, you'd think due diligence would be key, and JLO's people swear up and down that they did vet the event, but had no idea that there would be questionable guests. After the initial backlash, they released this statement:
"Jennifer Lopez and several other artists were invited and performed at a private corporate event for the China National Petroleum Corporation that was presented to their local executives in Turkmenistan. This was not a government sponsored event or political in nature. The event was vetted by her representatives, had there been knowledge of human right issues of any kind, Jennifer would not have attended. The China National Petroleum Corporation made a last minute 'birthday greeting' request prior to Jennifer taking the stage. This was not stipulated in her contract but she graciously obliged the China National Petroleum Corporation request."
Translation: JLO had nothing to do with it and was only singing Happy Birthday out of the kindness of her heart, because she is so accommodating and easy to work with.
I look at this gaffe as a best case/worst case scenario: at best her team dropped the ball when it came to protecting their client – the woman who pays them – or, at worst, her team knew and didn't care. But it's just Happy Birthday, right?
When a celebrity agrees to this type of arrangement, it's not haphazard; the negotiations about private planes and hair and makeup people and the exact number of songs and lighting and back-up dancers required… there is nothing left to chance.
This isn't a knock on JLO – it is business. She doesn't do anything out of the kindness of her heart (not when it comes to work) and I find it hard to believe she would deviate from her explicit contractual obligations. I can't imagine that, with her massive team around her and the months of negotiations that likely happened, someone just sauntered up to her before she went on stage asked her to give a shout out to Gurbanguly.
Does this fall on JLO? Not necessarily, as she relies on her managers to arrange her gigs, just like they rely on her to perform. But now that she does know, the responsibility of dealing with that money falls on her.
(Lainey: amfAR recently presented JLO with their Humanitarian Award. Is this irony?)
That $1.5 million has to go somewhere. And she only has a few choices: donate it, give it back, or hope like hell the Royal Baby is born and takes the heat off her. Obviously donation is the most palatable, but at of the time of this post, there's been no indication that she will part with it.
And all this for $1.5 million, which, I know it's a lot (a LOT) of money for us (particularly for a few hours work), but compared to what others seem to rake in for these types of appearances is… not that much? Mariah gets up to $3 million, Beyonce received $4 mill for New Year's Eve at the Wynn. JLO is actually the affordable option – and who wants to be the affordable option?
But you know who benefits from this mistake? This is the perfect opportunity for Casper Bear to swoop in and save the day (aka her ego), whispering to her being all "It's not you baby, the team messed up", explaining how he would have never let her get into this situation, he would have negotiated a higher rate because she's worth more than that, and he would have protected her, even taken the fall for her.
From Head Choreographer to International Bookings Consultant to eventual Manager and all-round Boss of Team Lopez? Don't doubt it.


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Closing racial and ethnic gaps in access to care
Did you know that 31% of Hispanics are uninsured, compared to 12% of non-Hispanic whites? Or that less than one-third of African American adults with diabetes receive the recommended services? Or that fewer than 40% of American Indian and Alaska Native adults over 50 have gotten screened for colorectal cancer?
April is National Minority Health month. Although we continue to make strides in improving health outcomes, it's clear that racial and ethnic minorities, low-income Americans, and other underserved populations still lag behind the general population. Racial and ethnic minorities often have higher rates of serious diseases, are less likely to get preventive care, and have fewer treatment options and less access to quality health care. They're also less likely to have health insurance than the general population. The Affordable Care Act is improving access to care for minority populations and other underserved groups in a variety of ways.
The Affordable Care Act fills in current gaps in coverage for the poorest Americans by creating a minimum Medicaid income eligibility level across the country. Beginning in January 2014, individuals under 65 with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for Medicaid, so for the first time, low-income adults without children will be guaranteed coverage through Medicaid in every state. Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility and enrollment will be much simpler and will be coordinated with the newly created Affordable Insurance Exchanges.
Starting in 2014, Affordable Insurance Exchanges will make buying health coverage easier and more affordable. These new Exchanges will offer one-stop shopping so individuals can compare prices, benefits and health plan performance on easy-to-use websites. Financial help will be provided to low-income populations, which will help ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health coverage, even if they lose a job, switch a job, move, or become ill.
The Affordable Care Act is also improving access to preventive care services. Research shows that use of preventive services is traditionally lower for minority populations, but now all people with Medicare can get a range of recommended preventive services without paying part B coinsurance or meeting the deductible. These include certain tests for breast, colorectal, and other cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease screening, and intensive behavioral therapy for obesity. A new benefit, a yearly wellness visit with your qualified and participating doctor, has also been added, and is also available without part B cost sharing. These free preventive services can help reduce health disparities and give everyone the chance to enjoy better health and a better quality of life.
People with Medicare also get a 50 percent discount on covered brand-name drugs while in the prescription drug coverage gap (known as the "donut hole"), and by 2020, the donut hole will be closed. This change will help relieve the financial burden for millions of seniors and people with disabilities across the country.
The health of racial and ethnic minorities is one of the focus areas for the Office of Minority Health at CMS. OMH works not only to serve as a resource and liaison within and outside of CMS, but to help improve CMS minority health data, report on CMS progress in reducing disparities, and represent minority health interests in all CMS activities.
The gaps in health outcomes won't change overnight. But with free preventive services, yearly wellness visits, and more affordable prescription drugs, we're helping to increase access to care, reduce health disparities, and strive for health equity.


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Day three of southeast-England-in-the-murk, and still a pool of smoggy gloom catches your throat and wipes out the middle distance. This little week of blogs, with which I had hoped to engage with the large-scale and chronic challenges highlighted by the University of Birmingham's Saving Humans theme, has — in the event — mutated into reflections on a local and acute threat to health and well-being. Such a change of focus may actually be for the better; perhaps through learning what pollution 'feels like' the debate about how to ameliorate the pollution that surrounds us every day can be reignited.
My suspicion is that there is a window of opportunity in public engagement with issues that are difficult to perceive directly most of the time. If nothing brings air pollution to our attention — really, tangibly to our attention — then we have to rely on expert opinion and 'white-coat fatigue' can set in. If we have to struggle through a pea-soup of pollution each and every day then it becomes easy to regard it as unavoidable and irremediable. But, in communities in which public engagement counts, sudden and perceptible reductions in quality of life can cause a commotion and galvanise governments into action.
Having issued the smog alerts and kept the message simple, scientific commentators are now beginning to fill-in some details. The analyses may, in the end, change our diagnosis of the event quite radically, reducing the role of Saharan dust and increasing the role of chemical production of particles in air travelling to us from Europe. A more complete diagnosis will enable policy-makers to consider options to minimise the risk of a repeat of these conditions in the future. Controlling local pollution would improve our chronic exposure to pollution and provide a little more 'head room' within which natural particle loadings and long-range transport of pollution can vary, but car bans and the like are unlikely to be a useful measure in the middle of episodes. International action to limit emission of the gases that react in the atmosphere to form particles looks to be necessary. Certainly we should not accept that there is nothing we can do simply because the particles did not, in the main, originate from within our borders.
International environmental regulation has enabled us to avoid catastrophic damage to the ozone layer and has outlawed many environmentally persistent poisons. Where, as in these instances, technological 'fixes' to industrial processes reduce the emission of pollutants, the chances of binding international agreement seem relatively high. Unfortunately, for smog, improving engine efficiency and fitting stack and tailpipe filters only gets us so far; human behaviour can subvert our best efforts. To go the next step towards clean air requires joined-up 'systems thinking' that, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change advocated this week, seeks win-win-win solutions, recognises that there will be unintended consequences, and privileges a love of life over incomplete measures of cost and benefit.
Professor Rob MacKenzie is Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research and Professor of Atmospheric Science, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.


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Hangover Helper: The Breakfast Bäco at Bäco Mercat, Los Angeles
Just what the doctor ordered.
When you're hungover, it's easy to get confused. Where did I park my car? Why did I get a replica tattoo of Petunia, the enchanting inktress from Nickelodeon's Adventures of Pete & Pete? Well, I can confidently say that exactly none of these questions will be answered in the following paragraphs. But I will say this: the breakfast bäco at downtown's Bäco Mercat is easily one of the best Hangover Helpers in Los Angeles.
If you're still confused when the breakfast bäco shows up at your table, you're not alone. Part flatbread, part pita, part gigantic breakfast taco, the Saturday-only breakfast bäco ($9) is an amalgamation of all things necessary to fix your foggy brain.
Warm, soft chunks of scrambled egg mix with juicy morsels of deep red chorizo, the sort of morning staples that play well south of the border. The creamy orange sauce tastes almost Mediterranean, but with the unmistakable Sriracha heat that Southern California has come to embrace.
The flatbread itself is from another dimension, where chef Josef Centeno rules over grains and makes them his tasty sandwich slaves. Warm, soft and slightly crisped, the wrapped bread provides the perfect brake pedal to a sandwich that's otherwise just a little bit out of control. You can't stop the breakfast bäco, or even provide an accurate description to the police sketch artist. You can only hope to contain it in delicious flatbread.
I feel like I should mention again that the breakfast bäco is only available on Saturdays, from 9am until 2:30pm. But you're only drinking on Friday nights, right guys? So it's not a big deal? Whew, good. I thought I was confused there for a second.
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RHDP - A Site Inspired by Rom Hackers [X-Post from PC]
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First off, I'd like to mention that I can't take credit for the entire idea. I'd like to thank Synchronous (PC) for the inspiration.
Now with that out of the way, I thought I'd get in touch with other members and see about making this into a Rom Hacking site (Note, it's not strictly Pokémon!!), although there have been a few speedbumps along the way. Some members who I've pitched the idea to have different ideas on how we should do it, and I thought I'd bring it to a larger demographic to discuss and map out, as well as fix issues that pertain to this potential project. First off, here's how I'd like to implement this whole thing:
The site will have three major components. The first, a Wiki, the second a forum, and the third, an IRC channel. I'll go in-depth with each.
1. The Wiki:
The Wiki will be the home of most of the site's content. It will contain tutorials, research, and odd bits of information on aspects of various games. I'd like to keep it incredibly organised though. Something like this:
2. The Forum:
The forum won't have as much a centering of attention. In fact, it's not the focus of the site. The point of the forum is to have a place for working on things, setting up new projects, etc etc. It'll be the starting place of most things on the site. It won't be as neatly laid out as the Wiki is, however, I'll think of something soon enough.
3. The IRC:
This will be one of the larger things to watch out for. The point of the IRC is for instant communication. People that are doing research projects can hop onto an IRC channel and get to work instantly. Users will be free to create their own channels for their projects, so that people that want to work with only their team members can do so without the interruption of others, or the ebb and flow of regular-use IRC channels.
As has been stated repeatedly in the past, Rom Hacking is dying because of a few things:
-A lack of interest
-A lack of creativity
-An increase in difficulty
What I'd like to have this site do is be able to educate, inspire, teach, and direct new and experienced Rom Hackers to ensure that the community stays tight to its roots. So another thing I'd like to see with this site is community relations. Be able to associate with various Rom Hacking/Research/Development boards, and be able to share information. This site is not designed to try and beat out other boards and sites (romhack.me, PHO, PC, jul, hcs64, etc etc), but to work alongside them, and with them, to create a network of sites.
As it stands now, there's also a few options. I've had both tossed at me. We can start in one of two different ways:
This is merely a WIP of the idea in my head. I'll probably flesh it out in time, however, I'd like to get some user feedback, and ponder upon what people have to say. If this is handled correctly, it could become a very big thing in the Rom Hacking world in a very short amount of time.
Thank you for your time, PHO. I won't soon forget it.
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Let it go!
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I don't know about you, but I would love to help contribute. I'm probably a bit rusty, but I like the idea of a central site where you can get all of this information. I also like the idea of working along side other sites to benefit everyone. I like the idea of a clean slate, also.
Count me in
After looking more at the PC post, are you trying to gather a lot of resources and persuade tools to be made in a single determined language and open sourced? Synchronous mentioned MEH a bit, and the whole problem with close sourced programs, so I was wondering if that was also a goal with RHDP.
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|13th November 2014, 06:43 AM
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|13th November 2014, 05:38 PM
Let it go!
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I talked to him and he mentioned that it would probably be either the QT language or the new C#, both utilizing the multi-platform ability.
|13th November 2014, 09:30 PM
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Oh, wow! I love this idea!
I've always wanted a wiki for ROM hacking that is actually up to date, and this would be a great way to organize all the knowledge that's been amassed!
I'd love to be able to contribute to a wiki, so if you want volunteers consider me volunteered.
|14th November 2014, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: With Sailor Mercury
Age: 29
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I'd say go for it! One of the main issues with the Hacking community is the lack of unity and communication so this will hopefully bring everyone (old and new alike) together again. As a long time PHO veteran and renewed Pokémon ROM-Hacker, I fully support this and will lend all that I can to the cause!
Slowly rebuilding my hacking knowledge...
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|14th November 2014, 11:08 PM
Balance and Ruin
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Just wanna mention that we now have a temporary IRC channel going until we can get on our own server. If you'd like to join, the server information is
Server: irc.romhackersonline.com
Port: 6667
Channel: #rhdp
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|20th November 2014, 11:09 AM
Lets Hack
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I don't know if its for common user like me but I will be very pleased to help with the site .
If you want i can help too.
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Monique necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
I am a Personal Assistant and started my own company by the name of Q 4 Me. My motto is 'Solutions Come Easy'. I need a distinctive logo that translates the quality I am offering.
Q 4 Me
As Personal Assistant my customers can hire me to perform a wide range of tasks. For example: organization of events, ladyspeaker at presentations, making appointments, answering your phone, coaching of secretaries, promoting companies. Bottomline is that I make lives of my customers much easier. Anything you can think of as long as it's on a business level. People who see me for the first time describe me as someone with a strong personality, a radiant glow and a beautiful smile.
I need a sleek and clean logo. The letter Q is my favorite letter and also my trademark. I am very fond of Italian design and modern looks. People who see my logo must be convinced that I am the right woman who provides high quality services on a business level. Feel free to use bright colours in your design.
Much fuzz, curly business, sweet colours, flowers or a lot going on.
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Voters looking for signs of progress toward a deal to resolve the fiscal cliff got none on Thursday, as congressional leaders appeared as far apart as ever.
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House Speaker John Boehner leaves after his weekly news briefing in the Capitol Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol December 13, 2012 in Washington, DC.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., each held press conferences to outline their positions on the fiscal cliff. And both party leaders appeared as unyielding as ever in their positions.
Boehner again urged President Barack Obama to issue a new plan to outline spending cuts, and he castigated the idea of raising income tax rates.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd explains why the fiscal cliff negotiations haven't fallen apart yet. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski then joins the conversation to talk about the situation in Syria.
And Pelosi said Republicans must "get real," arguing that Congress must "come to some agreement in the next couple of days or the very beginning of next week for us to have engineered our way to a solution."
Lawmakers and Obama must reach an agreement before Dec. 31 to forestall the cocktail of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes set to take effect unless Congress acts.
The level of spending cuts and whether tax rates should be increased continue to ensnare negotiations. But as Congress careens toward the end-of-year deadline -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., warned Thursday of work around the holidays -- the public posturing continues to highlight the differences that persist between Obama and congressional Republicans.
While giving an update on stalled fiscal cliff negotiations, Speaker of the House John Boehner references a chart, created by former GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, which he says illustrates Washington's "spending problem."
"We made a reasonable offer. It's now up to the White House to show us how their way to cut spending will give us the balanced approach that the president has talked about for weeks," Boehner said.
Amid additional speculation that striking a deal with Obama that raises takes would imperil his position, the Republican speaker also shrugged off the notion that he was concerned with retaining power.
"I'm not concerned about my job as speaker," he said. "What I'm concerned about is doing the right things for our kids and grandkids."


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text: What if the Nazis had a secret Moon base hiding from the rest of the planet since 1945? And quietly the space Nazi hold outs had been waiting until 2018 to strike the unsuspecting planet. This is the insane plot line for the ridiculous comedy Iron Sky. Get a sneak peek at a Nazi moon base in our exclusive clip from the movie.


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Sony Ericsson has revealed that it's got its eyes on Google's Android platform, which now only powers T-Mobile's G1 handset.
According to a report by Reuters, Dick Komiyama, President of Sony Ericsson, said at a media event in Sweden yesterday that the company is "certainly interested" in the Google-developed platform and that SE should "look at this application".
Komiyama didn't give a firm indication as to whether or not SE is planning to launch an Android-based talker. But he admitted that although the manufacturer is "studying the opportunity", it's "not in a position to do this at the moment".
When the G1 was launched earlier this week, a T-Mobile spokesman told Register Hardware that although the phone's exclusive to the carrier's network and the world's first phone to use Android, other manufacturers will be able to make use of the Google platform on rival phones.
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Rwdproductions necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Learn TV Production (name of website not business)
My company offers information about the television and film production business through the written word, audio and video products.
Currently I don't really have a logo, although I am using a title sandwiched between 2 icons. Go to: http://www.learnTVproduction.net
to see what I'm currently using.
Learn TV Production is the name of my website, therefore I want to continue using these 3 words in the logo.
Target market: 18 – 26, male and female, world wide,
I'm also currently using an icon of a handheld video camera and a film clapper board. These don't have to be used. Feel free to experiment. Although the title is Learn TV Production, I do discuss film issues as well, so there can be a mix of themes.
I think I want the logo footprint to be either circular, square or slightly taller than wide. On the screen shot you visited (above) I'm planning on moving the logo to the left side of the screen rather than running it along the top.
I want the logo to look more professional than what I'm currently using. Even though the shows within the TV business can range from humorous and light-hearted to serious and edgy – I want the logo to have a polished, authority look to it. It should be representing a company that has qualified experts with mucho experience working for it.
Color wise – I'm not sure. The deep burgundy-ish red font seems to work well on my site so you may want to stay with it but feel free to offer something else as well. Yellow or orange is what your chart seems to suggest.
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Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to bring down at least seven North America-bound planes in a Sept. 11-style terror attack.
A London jury found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, guilty of conspiracy to murder by detonating explosives on aircraft while they were in-flight. Four other alleged conspirators — whom the prosecution said were to have smuggled liquid explosives onboard jetliners disguised as soft drinks — were acquitted. The jury could not reach a verdict on an eighth man.
British and U.S. security officials said the plan was directly linked to al-Qaeda and guided by senior Islamic militants in Pakistan, who hoped to mount a spectacular strike on the West. The officials said British plotters were likely just days away from mounting their suicide attacks when police rounded up 25 people in dawn raids in August 2006.
Prosecutors said suspects had identified seven specific flights from London's Heathrow airport to New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal, as their targets.
British authorities estimate that, if successful, around 2,000 passengers would have died. If bombs were detonated over U.S. and Canadian cities, hundreds more would have been killed on the ground.
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I Stand with Bahraini Activists
Two weeks ago, Jaleela Al-Salman, a Bahraini teacher and vice president of the Bahrain Teachers Association, told me that the Bahraini security forces had tortured her when she was in detention earlier this year. Just after we spoke, masked men in civilian clothes broke into her home and abducted her again. There is a very real danger she will be tortured again.
Bahrain's pro-democracy protests have been the largest, proportionately, of any country in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of citizens have risen up to demand their human rights. The Bahrain monarchy has responded with a violent crackdown.
Human Rights First will deliver this petition to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States, Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo, and urge her to support release for Jaleela and other Bahraini activists fighting for democracy and human rights. Sign now!


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Let us go back in time. A simpler time of when there were kings, queens, and a peasant who wished to marry the beautiful princess. That is the plot of this hilarious campfire skit performed by two Boy Scouts of Troop 68 during their 2001 Laughs For Lunch Show. It is one of my favorie skits, and I bet you will enjoy it also.
With just a few props and a bit of practice your Scouts can use this skit to entertain troops and families during courts of honor or campfire programs.
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The increasingly popular narrative of modern monetary theory is causing people to question the Fed's monetary policy. Jim Caron discusses how applying this theory may have long-term economic risks.
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) represents a structural change in how we think about money, inflation and asset prices. It is an increasingly popular narrative that is widely discussed in the markets today. While the current debate is immediately unlikely to have a significant impact on asset prices, it has the potential to affect the future of economic policy in a way that may present longer-term risks.
As a basic breakdown of a complex topic, MMT can be understood in basic form to be the opposite of fiscal austerity. Fiscal austerity is the notion that a country's deficit—or rather, its deficit/GDP ratio—matters. This ratio is akin to a default-risk level. MMT, by contrast, suggests that the deficit/ GDP ratio is less important because as long as a country can print its own money, it can pay off its debts in perpetuity and without problems. In this theory, the creation of money by the government is what directs economic activity.
In its original formulation in 1905, this was called "chartalism," from the Latin charta, meaning token. While the first "M" in MMT stands for "modern," the theory is also referred to as "neo-chartalism" by those with a taste for economic history. There is nothing modern about it.
Under standard monetary policy, the Fed uses interest rates to affect the value of money. Lower rates mean cheaper money and an accommodative policy, while higher rates make money more expensive and lead to monetary tightening. By contrast, under MMT, the government would take over responsibility for the Fed's dual mandate of price stability (inflation) and full employment. It would change the value of money through a combination of the printing press and taxation. Printing more would direct economic activity (easing) and increased taxation would drain money out of the system (tightening).
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is."
– Yogi Berra
"In theory, MMT can work.
In practice, it is very unlikely to."
MMT is seeing a resurgence in popularity largely due to the belief that the global economy is in a "liquidity trap"—i.e., that interest rate policy as a tool to stimulate the economy is broken. In a liquidity trap, lower rates, no matter how low, will not stimulate growth, will not spur economic activity and will not increase employment. One of the explanations of why MMT has gained so much attention lately is "because it is a policy polemic for depressed times,"1 and there is indeed some validity to the liquidity trap argument. Japan's 0% rate policy, the ECB policy rates at -0.40%, low real rates of growth, secular stagnation and so on all act as cases in point. In situations like this, the fiscal side of the economy needs to step up.
Can MMT work? As Yogi Berra eloquently explained, "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." In theory, MMT can work. In practice, we believe it is very unlikely to. In theory, economic activity can be controlled by politicians through fiscal spending, if they spend when appropriate and reduce spending when appropriate—much like the way the Fed hikes and cuts interest rates. In practice, however, politicians (of any party) tend to become drunk with the power of the printing press and tend to invest and spend in inefficient projects. This generally leads to inflation rising.
Expectations of rising inflation due to MMT would have an impact on investing by potentially decreasing the value of cash flows in the future. The discount rate would thus be expected to rise and the present value of assets would fall. Financial assets, which were inflated under QE, would likely suffer, but real assets could benefit.
This would take time, however. During the first few years of MMT, the potential impact may be similar to that of a fiscal stimulus, to the benefit of GDP. If—or when—the markets sense this spending is mismanaged, it could lead to higher inflation and hurt financial assets. This is the general narrative today.
In our view, MMT is a risky economic experiment. It increases the size and the role of government in economic activity, despite overwhelming historical evidence that governments tend to be inefficient users of capital in comparison to the private sector. Under current monetary policy, the Fed simply sets the price of money and lets the "animal spirits," innovation and efficiencies from the private sector take over. While this system is not perfect, we believe it is better than MMT, as MMT is very likely to create inflation and erode asset prices in the long term.
The key question becomes when? In its early stages, MMT could generate positive results, as it looks similar to fiscal stimulus. Those gains could mask the longer-term deleterious impact of higher inflation and eroding asset values. In other words, MMT could fool us in the short term.
Despite being based on shaky economics, MMT's appealing politics have the potential to turn it into a real risk. If the U.S. or global economy falls into a recession, MMT may look like a good alternative in a time of economic stress as it provides a large fiscal impulse that seemingly works significantly better than lowering interest rates.
At the moment, the debate over MMT in the markets will only have marginal, if any, impact on asset prices and inflation. In our view, however, its growing popularity does present a longer-term risk that we will be watching closely, and we will adjust our portfolio positioning accordingly.
1 Palley, Thomas, Modern money theory (MMT): the emperor still has no clothes, 2014
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- Searching for bears in Misty Cove
- View from Patterson Bay
- Alaska
- Ford's Terror Sunset
- Ketchikan
- Kayaking
- Dawes Glacier near Endicott Arm
- Diving (Copyright Eric Lindberg)
- Bald Eagle
- Little Port Walter
- Creek Street in Ketchikan
- Hiking Adventure
- Kayaking Southeast Alaska
- Wood Carving Apprentice
- Wood Carver's Shed
- Humpback Whale and Calf
- Chief Shakes Tribal House
- Zodiac Cruising
- Paddleboarding
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Alaska Inside Passage - Western Coves
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On my eight-day active adventure trip through the Inside Passage, between Ketchikan and Juneau, there were so many memorable incidences that made time stand still.
I'll always remember the furry little sea otter faces as they bobbed up all around my kayak while I paddled down various inlets and bays in Southeast Alaska. Sea otters tend to cluster in groups on top of kelp beds, resting until the next dive for food. Occasionally, they scatter around so you never know where they'll make their next appearance, their little heads popping up out of nowhere, staring.
The motorized boats called Zodiacs can travel farther in a shorter amount of time and hone in on many wildlife sightings. However, there is something about the stark silence of a kayak slicing through water that seems to make the wildlife you do see, more curious.
Choose Your Adventure
This trip is so unique in that there is an enormous amount of things to do and see. You really get to pick and choose what the best options are for you!
We had the option to hike in parts of El Capitan Cave, hike around little Port Walter, an old cannery with lots of history; explore Mist Cove by kayak or foot, kayak unguided at nearly any time of day, or journey on zodiac rides. Thank goodness there will be a massage therapist on board and a Tempur-Pedic mattress to relax on at the end of every day!
There is an opportunity to visit a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) hatchery, as well as a private hatchery with the most amazing scenic views. You may opt for a full-day fishing charter or perhaps a fly-fishing adventure.
Also, this would be terrific trip for a multi-generational family where the grandparents could opt for a shorter land hike, take zodiac boat rides or stay on board to enjoy the scenery. The parents and children could stay more active on longer hikes and kayaking trips.
Whether you are embarking on the eight-day Eastern Coves, the eight-day Western Coves, or both trips in the 15-day Ultimate Adventure, I can almost guarantee that you will come back renewed and perhaps changed a bit as well. There is an unmistakable draw to Alaska that keeps people coming back over and over, and I believe these trips aboard small ships are the only way to experience the true Alaska!
On my overnight kayaking trip, we camped at the point of a small island, and could hear the humpbacks all night long as they passed by. The kayak guide was a real gem of an Alaskan woman who had been leading kayak trips for 20 years in the area. She skillfully guided us through passages, assisted us with kayaking technique (I had only "paddled" once or twice before in my life!), cooked up a mean beef stew for dinner that was accompanied by a cold beer and a warm fire, and she regaled us with tremendous stories of encounters with bears and other wildlife. I trusted her instantly due to the real bear claws on her hat and the fact that she could play a banjo like no other!
There were black bears scavenging for spring berries on shore, as we woke up one morning in Devilfish Bay. Dawes glacier in Endicott Arm was so close that you could hear the hissing and crackling like it was right beside you, and then it would sometimes calve, thundering down into the water. The Bald Eagles were high up in the trees, flying overhead, and so very near and majestic! I could have marveled at the giant Stellar Sea Lion colony forever with all of the sea lions, big and small, crawling over each other and sounding like a crazy symphony of sorts.
I did, however, lose count of how many humpback whales we saw, along with Orcas, but I will definitely remember the sound of them blowing out their blowhole. Once you know what that sound is, I don't think you can ever forget it.
Education was not overlooked at all! I thought that the immensity of the Alaskan landscape and the wildlife would be the high points of the trip, so I was surprised that the education program on board was so thorough. The expedition leader and guides were extremely knowledgeable, detailed and had years of experience in the area. There were several detailed lectures during the week about geology, glaciology and whales. Two college professors were on board and afterwards we discussed how everyone felt included and all questions were answered. We all disembarked feeling our curiosity had been satisfied!
Park rangers came on board for a lecture as well. The rangers travel in kayaks around different parts of Alaska waterways for nine days at a time, sometimes bivouacking on fjord walls before returning to land for two weeks. It sounds like a fascinating, but cold, job to me!
Cultural Experience
The trip was more than wildlife and great education though. An amazing cultural experience was ahead of us! In Ketchikan, we had a previous mayor of the town, a native Klingit, give us a delightful and humorous talk about the traditions of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian native people. The previous major returned on our second day of traveling when we visited the small native town of Klawock.
We hiked about a mile through old growth forest to a small woodshed where we watched a native Tlingit artisan craft totems and observed an array of specialized tools for carving wood. The local school has a wood program from which the craftsman will choose his young apprentices to be the upcoming artisans of the town. There was a totem carving demonstration, as well as a walk around to a lodge and handmade canoes. We felt honored to be part of this as the craftsman showed us the hash marks on the side of his woodshed that represented how many visitors had ever been there. I counted 35.
Small-Ship Experience
The motto of the guides on board and the expedition leader seemed to be, "Let nature guide the way!" They know, from their vast experience in the area, where the wildlife tends to be at what particular time of year. They will get you to the best spots that Alaska has to offer with an experience of the real Alaska. The small-ship experience is in stark contrast to the cruise ship ports that sport countless souvenir shops and where glaciers viewed through binoculars are so far away that hissing and crackling sounds are missed. And, of course, the amazing up-close encounters with the wildlife that occur over and over again add immensely to the small-ship journey. You come away from this trip realizing that the earth is alive!


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"Corsten's Countdown" is the first ever interactive electronic dance music Radio Chart show, and is renowned for showcasing the latest hits and future trends across the full EDM spectrum. "I'm very excited to be teaming up with Billboard Radio China as we continue expanding the reach of Corsten's Countdown. The team at Billboard Radio China have created an impressive platform for electronic music to reach Chinese fans and partnering with them enables us to bring the latest and greatest forward thinking trance music to this amazing country and audience," says Ferry Corsten.
In "Corsten's Countdown", Ferry Corsten introduces the best and latest dance tracks. The listeners can vote for their favourite track, right after each show. The 3 tracks with the most votes, will be played again the week after in the "Corsten's Countdown Top 3".If a track gets voted #1 in the "Corsten's Countdown Top 3" for 3 times in a row, it will become the "Corsten's Countdown Hattrick". So help your favorite track to become a hit and vote! http://www.corstenscountdown.com
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21 June 2013 at 11.03am | 11 Comments
Gloriana runs from 20 June to 6 July. Tickets are available now.
It will also be screened live in cinemas on 24 June, marking the close of the ROH live Cinema Season 2012/13. It will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 6.45pm on 29 June.
This production has been made possible thanks to the generous philanthropic support of the Britten-Pears Foundation, the Boltini Trust and Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson.