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Announced today, September 13, 2023, that Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus has been detected in mosquitoes in Massachusetts for the first time this year. The presence of EEE was confirmed today by the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory in the Town of Southbridge. No human or animal cases of EEE have been detected so far this year.
Today's finding increases the risk level of EEE to HIGH in our community including Dudley, Oxford, Webster, Douglas and Sutton.
Avoid Mosquito Bites ; Mosquito-Proof Your Home
Apply Insect Repellent when Outdoors. Use a repellent with an EPA-registered ingredient (DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide), permethrin, picaridin (KBR 3023), oil of lemon eucalyptus [p-Menthane-3,8-diol (PMD)] or IR3535) according to the instructions on the product label. DEET products should not be used on infants under two months of age and should be used in concentrations of 30 percent or less on older children. Oil of lemon eucalyptus should not be used on children under three years of age.
Be Aware of Peak Mosquito Hours. The hours from dusk to dawn are peak biting times for many mosquitoes. Consider rescheduling outdoor activities that occur during evening or early morning in areas of high risk.
Clothing helps reduce Mosquito bites. Wearing long-sleeves, long pants and socks when outdoors will help keep mosquitoes away from your skin.
Drain Standing Water. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water. Limit the number of places around your home for mosquitoes to breed by draining or discarding items that hold water. Check rain gutters and drains. Empty unused flowerpots and wading pools and change the water in birdbaths frequently.
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The SBJ Book Society, Square Books Jr.'s first official book club, is not your average book club. There are two age divisions with separate meetings. The Phase I group consists of ages 8 through 11 (with some exceptions) and Phase II consists of ages 12 through 15. Both Phase I and Phase II of the SBJ Book Society will choose, read, and discuss one exciting, quality work of fiction every month. We don't just pick any old book – we compare novels, new and old, and narrow our selection to the most intriguing and relevant titles. SBJ Book Society members are encouraged to write book reviews and post them to the Square Books, Jr. website (publishers and authors love this).
Publish Your Book Reviews Reader Reviews
The following site reviews were submitted by readers like you. Discovered (or created) a cool site we should know about? Click here to add URL.Bookhooks
May 5, 2006 -- From Adrian, a parent from Elora, Ontario, Canada, who is affiliated with the site
Bookhooks is an online book reporting center where students in grades 1 to 12 can publish illustrated book reviews. The free site also features literacy resources and games.
Amazing Story Club
April 26, 2006 -- From Sashank, 8 years old from Bandung,Indonesia, who is not affiliated with the site
It's a cool space for kids to publish their poems, stories and book reviews.Only good work from kids all over the world. They also have these role model interviews and a feed back section
America Writes for Kids
September 25, 2000 -- From Sandy, a reader from Springfield, Missouri who is affiliated with the site
Searchable by state and by alphabet, America Writes for Kids links to nearly l00 authors' and playwrights' webpages, along with many other useful resources in children's literature and theater for young audiences. Both book and play reviews are welcome in the guestbook and comments and reviews are published monthly. Click on "Missouri" to enter a contest and win a free book!
June 19, 2000 -- From Christina Lewis, a parent from Olathe, Kansas who is affiliated with the site
KidsBookshelf is a children's literature web site for kids, parents, and teachers offering book reviews, writing contests, recipes, crafts, games, an author/illustrator spotlight, links to other great sites, print and color pages, and links for teachers. We also accept stories, book reviews, and artwork from kids as well as articles and ideas from parents.
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June 6, 2000 -- From Carol Zimmerman, a reader from Stamford, CT who is affiliated with the site
As we enter the summer months, when kids really do need something to do, some 20,000 fourth through twelfth grade youth across the United States who have been touched by books would like to share with other kids their suggestions for reading. From Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, to Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the students are recommending the books that have changed their own way of thinking about the world.
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May 28, 2000 -- From Sandy Asher, a reader from Springfield, Missouri who is affiliated with the site
America Writes for Kids is linked to children's authors' and playwrights' Web pages, and is searchable by state and alphabet. It's also interactive: Tell the world about your favorite book or play, or click on "Missouri" to enter a contest and win a free, autographed book. Dedicated to promoting literacy and creativity by introducing young people to "real, live" authors.


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ABS Seeks Public Comment on 2006 Census Products and Services The Australian Bureau of Statistics today invited public comment on proposals for products and services from the next Census of Population and Housing to be held in August 2006. The information paper, 2006 Census of Population and Housing, ABS Views on Census Output Strategy, describes a strategy for providing products and services from the nation's largest statistical collection to business, community and other users of census data. Proposals include a comprehensive Internet based release strategy to disseminate census data, in addition to modifications to the previous 2001 census output strategy which are designed to make use of emerging technology. ABS clients and other users of census data are invited to comment on any aspect of the output strategy, using a questionnaire included with the information paper. The questionnaire can also be completed on-line from the ABS web site by following this link. Submissions are sought by 15 December 2004. Responses to the questionnaire will be used in preparing more detailed plans for 2006 census products and services and these will be presented for user and public comment in mid 2005. The census is the largest statistical operation undertaken by the ABS and generates an enormous amount of valuable information which helps planners, policy makers and researchers. Products and services from the 2006 census will be designed to assist and encourage informed decision making, research and discussion by government, business and the community. Copies of the information paper, 2006 Census of Population and Housing, ABS Views on Census Output Strategy (cat. no. 2009.0) and questionnaire are available from this link or by calling 1800 813 939. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window. |


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As far as I've understood, the list of items to be subscribed should be sent by the client(in may case a web client)
Is it possible to do the following scenario using lightstreamer?
Depending on the username password sent by web client, lightstreamer connects to the database and gets the list of items relevant to that user. then it sends them back to the client or subscribe those items automatically... and pushes data accordingly. (i.e. web client will send us only the username and we have to subscribe the relevant items for that user)


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I like the openness and verbosity of these reports (these forum stickies) when issues arise. It shows you guys are stepping up the QA game. I like it.
I had to uninstall Avast in order to update my Skylake CPU computer. I am running Defender at the moment as I am unclear as to where I should download the patched version to install Avast again. Can someone explain where this is located? The filename on the version released a few days ago which caused the problem do not reflect, as least to, me to be the patch version. Thanks for any help.
What happened to Browser protection? Is it replaced by Browser Extension? Also what is Antispam? Thanks to anyone who can explain these.
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A straight channel is formed in the Emriver model. Speed is x10. After flow begins, the channel slowly forms regular meanders and point bars. Note how the meanders tend to migrate in a downstream direction. The meander bends also expand the meander belt width until about 0:34, when they cease to move outward and migrate only in a downstream direction. Geomorphologists would argue that the channel reaches a point of stability then as sediment inputs to the reach match outputs and the reach no longer has net erosion. You can see this by observing sediment movement into versus out of the reach.
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"Gwendolyn Bounds has perfectly captured the sounds, flavors--indeed, the soul--of a quickly disappearing kind of small town life."
--Billy Collins, poet laureate, author Picnic, Lightning
"I would set aside a huge chunk of time to read Little Chapel on the River as it is a so superbly woven tale putting it down would cause heartache."
--Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming.
"Stunning. Little Chapel on the River is beautifully written, artfully crafted and lovingly told ....This is the rare first-person book that forces you to take a deep breath and reconsider how you live your life."
--Stefan Fatsis, author, Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Every writer knows that there is no more compelling story than an honest and close observation of a life, and Gwendolyn Bounds has surely done this.... charged with writing that glows with sensitivity and rings with truth.... I could not put it down."
--Dennis Smith, author, Report from Engine Co. 82, A Song for Mary, Report from Ground Zero, and San Francisco Is Burning (Sept. 2005)
"Reading Wendy Bounds's very fine book is much like a delightful night spent visiting a pub in Ireland: 'You remember it as you remember time spent in good company out in God's country.'"
--Frank Gannon, author of Mid-Life Irish
"A layered and vivid chronicle of perseverance and possibility. With a reporter's eye for detail ... Bounds weaves the strands of disparate lives, her own included,into a seamless, shining tale.
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The Volatility and Stability of Worldmaking as Techné
[ISEA 2011, Istanbul]
The panel discussion focused on the involvement of the technology of Worldmaking in participatory art practice.
Tuesday, 20 September, 2011 - 13:00 - 14:30
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mark-David Hosale - Dr. Sana Murrani - Prof. Dr. Alberto de Campo
Roy Ascott - Jerome Decock - Marcos Novak
The term techné is an ancient philosophical concept that was debated by philosophers such as Xenophon and Plato, as well as more contemporary philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Félix Guattari. In simplified terms techné concerns the art and craft of making. In particular the discussion of techné is not only concerned with what is made, but how and why it is made. The thinking of art practices (music, art, and architecture) as a kind of worldmaking refers to a techné that is seeking to explore art-concepts as expressive alternative realities through the development of self-reflexive and internally consistent art-worlds.
The Volatility and Stability of Worldmaking as Techné panel discussion will focus on the involvement of the technology of worldmaking in participatory art practice. Such practice can be found in all areas of art, however, the ones under scrutiny for this particular panel are: interactive, generative, prosthetic art, architecture and music practices that depend on the participation of observers for their vitality and development. The panel will challenge the level of involvement and integration of the observer within the generative praxis in a technoscientific agenda.
Paper Abstracts
Technoetic Architecture
by Prof. Roy Ascott
Technoetic architecture is an architecture that has a life of its own; that thinks for itself, speaks for itself, feeds itself, takes care of itself, repairs itself, plans its future, copes with adversity and anticipates our changing needs. Technoetic architecture is architecture that returns our gaze. It's not what buildings look like to us but what we look like to them. It's not what we feel about places but how those places feel about us. Technoetic architecture recognises that Second Life is the rehearsal room for future scenarios in which we will endlessly re-invent our many selves. Technoetic architecture recognises that what we build today in the immateriality of cyberspace will tomorrow materialise in nano space.
MetaDeSign "Designing a (possibly or seemingly infinite) range of possibilities"
by Jerome Decock
Although selling or exhibiting ideas as a work of art – a practice initially described as Concept Art - has become common practice, the resulting artefact is often constrained in space and time, materialized by traces, acting only as clues that can be only truly and subjectively captured by memories. Subcategory of the afore mentioned practice, Process art belongs, as its scheduling is suggesting, to the performance category, as a Rube Goldberg machinery cannot possibly acquire eternity and not even pretend or fake it.
Enter the realm of System Art, designing and linking processes while building a lexicon, effectively and practically ending up in not only creating the music but the orchestra and the instruments which go along with it. System Art can be categorized by analyzing the system's inputs and outputs, from the self contained algorithmic machine that belongs to generative systems to the hyperlinked globalized and realtime-expanding connective systems. It does allow for increasing complexity through the multiplication of parameters, historically linking itself to the concept of "Oeuvre totale", at least through the conjunction of media, where data can flow unobstructed thanks to digitalization.
Methodological by nature, System Art does borrow industrial methods and analytical approach, both in conception and production, only forgiving about deontology or efficiency as it does not want to be true as science or primarily profitable. It does spread the deeply human need to understand, control and trespass technology or as the cyberneticist from the 60's would put it, "aim for an unrestricted cooperation in between machines and minds". Still in its infancy, its status progressed from "utopia" to "prospective prototypes" and to "artistically and technically approved" in the last few decades.
This presentation will cover some "historic references" and "theory one-liners" and mainly a few examples extracted from the recently released monograph of LAb[au], organized by system type and praxis, complemented by some artist's works exhibited at Mediaruimte, LAb[au]'s curated artspace in Brussels, Belgium, covering an ever broader scope of actual practice and considerations in Digital Art.
"Πασαί Τέχναι βροτοίσιν εκ Προμηθέως": Prometheus and Epimetheus: Fields of Foresight and Hindsight in Worldmaking
by Prof. Marcos Novak
The concept of Techné has been intertwined with worldmaking from antiquity to the present. The nature of this relationship has not been constant, however. Running through from Orpheus, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Aristotle, and Zeno the Stoic, among others, these concepts were persistent elements of a complex but highly coherent worldview. Within this outlook, techné signified not only the techniques of making, but, more importantly, the significance of making. This was understood as something directed, as a vector, not as just a point. Moreover, this vector of making was itself embedded in a field of values that constituted the very meaning of "civilization." Contemporary approaches to techné, be they philosophical or practical, omit much of this directedness and embeddedness, too often resulting in technique void of meaning, the creation of works that are mutually canceling, and a contribution to the making of a world and worlds that are more broken than whole. This paper will discuss how the ancient insights are relevant -- and indeed imperative -- to our predicament with respect to contemporary worldmaking, both as art and as life.
Worldmaking, participation, and learning - experiments in collaborative creation
by Prof. Dr. Alberto de Campo
This paper will discuss a recent project realised with a mixed group of participants, and its evolving followup. Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum began as the idea of modeling (hypothetical) communication between creatures to be invented. Apart from acquiring practice in electronics, programming, and mechanical building, the guiding principle was having the team develop much of the concept jointly. Thus, many aspects of the project evolved from team discussions including just-in-time coding experiments occurring across several interrelated courses. Once the context (the Deep Sea) was decided on, the participants began to invent a variety of highly individual creatures, which share common brain functioning; communication between them is by telepathy, and expressed by sound, light and movement.
In essence, we loosely combined notions from works like Gordon Pask's Colloquy of Mobiles with a working methodology inspired by David Tudor's approach in evolving Rainforest. Given the positive responses from all participants, the approach is extended further in a followup project: Here, we start by looking at historic instances of cybernetic thinking and futurology, and will create a loose performative context for individual works involving systems such as playable chaotic synthesisers for audio and visuals - again, details will emerge from the flow of the project, and group improvisation (which we consider a cybernetic activity) will happen at different time scales, from planning to building to eventual performances.
Nonlinear Narrative As A Conceptual Framework for Media Art
by Assist. Prof. Dr. Mark-David Hosale
This article is a discussion of the core technical and aesthetic motivations behind my work as a media artist, which is built upon a nonlinear model of narrative form. The approach to addressing narrative issues in my work is derived from thinking of narrative not only as a story, but also as a model of knowledge. The question of nonlinear narrative is an epistemological exploration, and the stories we tell each other and ourselves are connected to the way we know, in terms of both content and structure. The structures of my works depart from this perspective. Therefore, I see my works as knowledge spaces that are a conceptual reflection of a modern understanding of knowledge and nature as a nonlinear narrative.
Nonlinear narratives are qualitatively transmodal (separation of data and representation), participatory (consumers and writers are one in the same), and indeterminate (the content and structure of information changes unpredictably). The qualities of nonlinear narratives are not only flexible; there is no steady state, they are in constant flux. The qualities of nonlinear narratives exist on strata, one is bound to the other, but they vary independently. It is the combination, transformation, and recombination of these varying qualities that results in the changing personae of nonlinear narratives.
The challenge of capturing the qualities of nonlinear narratives has led me to develop an abstract model useful in the conceptual analysis and practical development of nonlinear narrative in my work. This model is based on a composite of operations (data generators), structures (scaffolds for data flow), and characteristics (the interactive input and output representation of data), resulting in the emergence of the qualities of nonlinear narrative described above.
In this article I will describe the concepts and development of the nonlinear narrative model described above. The terms and ideas presented in support of the concepts put forth in this article are derived from a variety of sources, including the histories of art, music, and literature; concepts in philosophy (in particular Deleuzeian philosophy); and pattern language as found in the field of software engineering.
Worldmaking between Humanism and Machinism
by Dr. Sana Murrani
In a hyper-culture of change influenced by physical and cyber communities, worlds and networks, further speculations for the future of the field of architecture will necessarily be directly linked to this cultural and technological change. This change starts with the multiple identities of one's representation as seen in Facebook, Twitter, ordinary e-mail accounts and highly interactive mobile phone and other digital devices as well as avatars on Second Life, CyberTown and Active Worlds. The body is no longer seen as a physical entity composed of matter and energy but rather a volatile extension of our consciousness and experiential worlds of hybrids of physical, digital and augmented realities and virtualities.
Implications of such worlds are already evident in the participatory art practice, interactive architecture, cyberspace, multiple realities and neoplasmatic designs; all have contributed a great deal to creating parallel selves and other architectures where technology was and will always be at the heart of their worldmaking. Two decades ago or so, with the start of the age of information technology, architecture started allowing for collaborations with other fields such as computer science and participatory art practice influenced by the cybernetic methodology. Such technological experimentations create constant dialogues between humanism (through participation and interactivity), machinism (through experimentations and transdisciplinarity) and technology, to heighten the human experience. The paper will explore notions of techné and worldmaking as praxis for design expressed through a participatory interactive spatial installation.
Bios of the Participants
Roy Ascott
Roy Ascott is an artist whose research is invested in cybernetics, technoetics, telematics, and syncretism. He is the founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an international platform for art, technology and consciousness research, based in Plymouth University with nodes in Milan and Zurich. He has held senior academic positions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Vienna and Toronto, and is an Honorary Professor of Aalborg University Denmark,. His international exhibitions range from the Venice Biennale to Ars Electronica. A retrospective of his work was exhibited at Plymouth Art Centre in 2009, and at the Incheon International Festival of Digital Art Korea in 2010, and at Space Studios, London in 2011. His theoretical work is widely published, translated and referenced. He has advised media art institutions in Europe, Australia, South America, the USA, Japan, and Korea. He edits Technoetic Arts (Intellect) and is an Honorary Editor of Leonardo.
Jerome Decock
Jerome Decock is an media artist and electronic engineer who is one of the founding members of LAb[au]. Founded in 1997, LAb[au] is an artist group located in Brussels, Belgium. It has been founded with the aim to examine the influence of advanced technologies in the forms, methods and content of art. With a background in architecture their members and projects are concerned with the construct of 'space' and the way it can be planned, experienced and conceptualised in an information age.
Even if their projects can be classified as urbanism, design, art, music or dance they all are grounded on an architectural thinking. The attention lies in the relation between architecture, light, motion and sound and advanced technologies.
Following the cybernetics agenda, the projects of LAb[au] deal with processes and systems based on rules. The setting of these rules becomes the major artistic act, the creation process, defining the content and message of the artwork, it's architecture as code.
This method, which LAb[au] qualifies as 'MetaDesign', is determined by the technological and artistic parameters. It focuses on the transcription of information and its processes to textual, graphic, visual, sonic, spatial...forms, artefacts.
The group name of LAb[au] inhabits a phonetic and a written meaning – the one of the French pronunciation 'labo' standing for an experimental approach and the one of 'bau' (german word for construction) for the pragmatic realisation of projects.
This alliance between theory and practice motivated the group to found the gallery 'MediaRuimte' in the city centre of Brussels in 2003. The gallery work stands for LAb[au]'s typical function of a collaborative agency as for a trans-disciplinary work.
LAb[au] showed its work at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter (Cologne, 2010), BOZAR (Brussels, 2009), Emocao Art.icial (Sao Paolo, 2008), Club|Transmediale (Berlin, 2007), TENT. / Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2006), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, several times), Sonar (Barcelona, 2004), New Museum (New York, 2003), Nabi Art Center (Seoul, 2003), ICA (London, 2002), Bauhaus (Dessau, several times), Louvre (Paris, 2000), Ars Electronica (Linz, several times), ...among many others.
http://lab-au.com/ http://mediaruimte.be
Marcos Novak
Professor Marcos Novak directs the transLAB at UCSB. He is researcher, artist, theorist, and transarchitect. In 2008, "Transmitting Architecture", the title of his seminal 1995 essay, became the theme of the XXIII World Congress of the UIA (Union Internationale Des Architectes), the largest architectural organization in the world.
His projects, theoretical essays, and interviews have been translated into over twenty languages and have appeared in over 70 countries, and he lectures, teaches, and exhibits worldwide. Drawing upon architecture, music, and computation, and introducing numerous additional influences from art, science, and technology, his work intentionally defies categorization. He is universally recognized as the pioneer of architecture in cyberspace, of the critical consideration of virtual space as architectural and urban place, and of the use of generative computational composition in architecture and design.
He is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is affiliated with CNSI (the California NanoSystems Institute), MAT (Media Art and Technology), and Art. He named and was instrumental in the design of the UCSB AlloSphere (the three-story high sphere for the creation of immersive virtual environments, the largest such facility in the world) and created its inaugural project, the AlloBrain@AlloSphere, using fMRI scans of his own brain. He is currently working on a new Allotopes project for the AlloSphere.
In 2004, he was honored to become a Fellow of the World Technology Network.
Alberto de Campo
Prof. Alberto de Campo is a composer and performer, and teaches Generative Art/Computational Art.
After studying classical composition, jazz guitar and electronic/computer music in Austria and the U.S., he has worked as Research Director at CREATE, UC Santa Barbara, and taught computer music and sound art at Music University Graz and Media Arts Academy Cologne. He was the Edgard Varese guest professor for Electronic Music at Technical University Berlin in 2005, and was lead researcher in the SonEnvir project (2005-2007), an interdisciplinary research venture on sonifying scientific data from different domains. In 2007, he became Professor for Music Informatics at Music University Duesseldorf, and since 2009, he is Professor for Generative Art/Computational Art at the University for the Arts Berlin.
He explores a wide range of topics in collaborations with other artists and students: Code-based network music performance, biologically informed/inspired art such as the project Varia Zoosystematica, hybrid audiovisual performance instruments and interactive systems, and improvisation strategies in different contexts.
MarkDavid Hosale
Dr. MarkDavid Hosale is a media artist and composer. MarkDavid holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California; MarkDavid currently holds a position as an Assistant Professor in Digital Media in the Fine Arts Faculty of York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. MarkDavid has had works exhibited and performed internationally works in media arts and music at conferences, universities, and festivals and has given lectures and taught internationally at institutions in Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, and the United States.
MarkDavid's interests are interdisciplinary, but the connecting tissue comes from approaching art and music using nonlinear representations of information, time, and space. Another important focus is exploration of the connection between the physical and the virtual world. Whether as part of an installation or performance work, the virtual spaces he creates are technologically transparent, sophisticated and virtuosic, as well as intuitive to experience and use.
Sana Murrani
Dr. Sana Murrani is an experimental architect, and currently holds the position of Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Plymouth, UK. She studied Architecture in Baghdad University School of Architecture, graduating in 2000, and obtained her masters degree from the same school in 2003. She is a member of the Planetary Collegium's CAiiA-Hub in Plymouth, UK where she undertook her PhD under the supervision of Roy Ascott (President of Planetary Collegium). Murrani has a interest in architectural theory of transdisciplinary research particularly experimental and interactive work between the fields of technoscience and art/architecture. Her work investigates the impact of implementing second-order cybernetics and interactive technologies on the creation of temporary and generative situations in architecture through explorations of design processes derived from biological systems, different media of representation and perceptual experiences that challenge our consciousness.


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The not-too-anticipated Urban Outfitters that's opening soon smack-dab in the pulpy heart of Williamsburg is apparently also going to have a restaurant and bar. No liquor license application has yet been filed with the SLA, but buried at the bottom of an agenda of more than 50 bars and restaurants up for liquor licenses at Monday night's CB1 Brooklyn meeting was this totally non-cryptic nugget: "Urban Outfitters, Inc, 98 North 6th Street (new, liquor, rest)."
In March, Crain's reported Anthropologie had signed for a space at 242 Bedford Avenue, a.k.a. the future home of Whole Foods, while the quirk-purveyor of squirrel-femur necklaces, coffee-table books on papercuts, confusing "Billy Berg" socks, and other unnecessary stuff like Ophelia-chic turtlenecks would be opening at 102 North 6th Street, next to American Apparel.
Though the retailer is apparently looking to score a full liquor license, it's not immediately clear what form its restaurant will take. Some Urban Outfitters in other cities have in-house cafeteria-style cafés and sandwich shops, but signs point to this one being a little more upscale: Last year, Bloomberg reported that the corporation had merged shopping and eating at two of its Urban Outfitters Terrain stores, with restaurants serving menus of things like "$36 striped bass, $39 ribeye and a $19 vegetable plate." Terrain's president Wendy McDevitt said customers who eat lunch or drink wine will typically stick around the store for twice as long. "Food is becoming bigger and bigger in terms of entertainment value," said McDevitt, which is just another way of saying you'll spend more after a few pickle backs.
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Ferrisburgh school board to eye lower budget in April
FERRISBURGH — After discussion on March 18, the Ferrisburgh Central School board decided to ask Principal JoAnn Taft-Blakely and Addison Northwest Supervisory Union officials to come back at its April 10 meeting with a lower budget proposal to put before town voters.
That decision was made at the first FCS board meeting since its $3.62 million FCS budget proposal lost on March 4, 450-279, or about 62-38 percent. That defeat of an FCS spending plan is believed to be the first in the school's history.
That budget called for an 11 percent spending increase, driven in part by a special education cost shift within ANwSU that in its first year had the effect of increasing special ed spending at ANwSU elementary schools and lowering it at Vergennes Union High School.
But the board also proposed adding a new teacher and a modular classroom to help handle a large blended 5th- and 6th-grade class, a move that neither Taft-Blakely nor ANwSU officials endorsed.
Adding to the budget problems on Town Meeting Day was a paperwork snafu: Ballots mistakenly presented the previous year's $3.26 million budget. Several town officials had already predicted a budget defeat before the ballot mix-up, however.
Ferrisburgh residents also voted that day against the proposed $9.73 million VUHS budget, 435-294. Overall, that spending plan lost in the five ANwSU towns, 961-747.
The combined FCS and VUHS budgets would have led to an estimated 18 percent increase in Ferrisburgh's residential tax rate, the largest within ANwSU.
Taft-Blakely said board members asked her, ANwSU Superintendent Tom O'Brien and ANwSU business manager Kathy Cannon to sit down and come up with a proposal that would mean "a 4 percent net increase in education spending," half that proposed in their defeated spending plan.
"We'll come up with a menu of options to reduce the budget," she said.
Cannon confirmed that the board reluctantly agreed with administrators to forego the board's plan to add a classroom and a fourth teacher for the projected 57-member blended 5th- and 6th-grade class.
"They're not happy about it, but they felt they had to take that out," Cannon said. "They feel they do need another teacher, but because it was the last thing in, it should be the first thing out."
Cannon said the new level of spending being discussed might add about $240,000 to the current school budget and bring the total spending proposal to around $3.5 million.
Much of that increase will be due to the special education cost shift, which comes with some revenue to offset the additional expense.
Cannon said the actual increase in net education spending FCS and ANwSU officials are discussing is closer to $115,000.
Coupled with the projected 7-cent increase in the statewide school property tax rate, the FCS increase being discussed could still add about 14 cents to the Ferrisburgh school tax rate, she said.
The budget defeated on Town Meeting Day would have alone added about 20 cents to the rate, Cannon said.
Homeowners eligible for income sensitivity provisions of Vermont's school funding laws would not pay all of the increase. At least 60 percent of homeowners in Ferrisburgh are eligible for those provisions.
The VUHS board plans to meet Monday, March 24, at 6 p.m. in the VUHS library, and the session will be devoted solely to budget issues. Taft-Blakely said the FCS board hopes to hold its second vote on the same day as the second VUHS vote.
"We don't want people coming out at different times," she said.
Taft-Blakely also hopes Ferrisburgh residents will come out and make their voices heard at the FCS board meeting on April 10.
"We absolutely encourage the public to come to that meeting," she said.
Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected].
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It has indeed been quite a while since I've written anything here, but I'll try to keep it both short and focused. Longer rants on other topics should follow once I have some more time.
So what's going on in the X/Gentoo land, you ask?
Well, we're aiming to stabilize xorg-server 1.5.3 and a whole batch of other stuff Real Soon Now ™.
Why is this a big deal?
Because X is pretty much central when it comes to the desktop. While we can't risk breaking it too often, we can't afford staying with the current situation for stable users. Xorg 1.3 is old, unsupported, has unfixable bugs and it smells like that piece of meat in the back of your fridge.
But Xorg 1.5 doesn't do {feature X} or support {hardware Y}!!!
I know, and it's a tough call. We've been putting off the stabilization of newer Xorg servers precisely because of that. But now, we're in a situation where newer versions fix more bugs and support more hardware. Yes, some people will be pissed off and I'm not exactly thrilled about pissing users off. But we have to move on.
Can't you wait for Xorg 1.6 then?
No, because there are more users waiting for 1.5 than users who will benefit from 1.6. And by going to newer drivers now, we can help spot issues faster and get more bugs fixed for newer releases. With each new X release, the server handles less and less hardware details directly, leaving the kernel and X drivers do all the dirty work. Once we stabilize 1.5, going to 1.6 should be much easier than older upgrades.
Alright, you win, how can I help?
That's the spirit! I strongly urge as many stable users as possible to try this because, Xorg 1.5.3 will go stable one way or another. The sooner you test it, the sooner you can adapt.
- Go to the stabilization bug,
- Fetch the stabilization list "x11.stable.list" and append it to
- run
emerge -DuNav world
- Just to be safe, run
emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av
to rebuild your X drivers (portage may have updated things in the wrong order, better safe than sorry)
Once all this is done, you should have a brand new Xorg on your machine. Here's a quick list of things you should look out for :
- HAL support now actually works but may conflict with your xorg.conf, it can be easily solved though.
- the Intel driver is no longer called
, butintel
. You'll need to update your xorg.conf, otherwise X won't start. - the open-source ATI driver
now only supports Radeon chipsets. Rage Pro owners will have to usexf86-video-mach64
instead. - Please don't comment on the stabilization bug if you have issues. Either come talk to us on
or file bugs in our trusty Bugzilla
Please help us move away from Xorg 1.3 and into the present with Xorg 1.5. We'll take care of the future (aka 1.6) when this is done. 🙂
Edit: added bullet on Radeon support
Edit 2: added –one-shot to the emerge command


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Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine // Community // Scientific Divisions // Management Sciences and Patient Safety Division
The mission of the Management Sciences and Patient Safety Division (MSPSD) is to advance the leadership and management skills of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) members and to foster improved patient care through enhanced laboratory quality and error reduction.
This Division provides a forum for discussing issues related to the management of clinical laboratories including finance, marketing, personnel, information systems, government regulations, legal issues, and communications.
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Continuing Education
The Management Sciences and Patient Safety Division also offers the following certificate programs on leadership and management skills in the clinical lab:
You can also view graduates of the Clinical Laboratory Leadership and Management Certificate Program online.
ADLM Annual Meeting Activities
Each year, MSPSD opens the ADLM Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo on Saturday evening with a reception, meeting, and leadership symposium. The latter features a lecture by the recipient of the Division's Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Management Sciences and Patient Safety (announced the previous year). ADLM annual meeting attendees should plan on making the MSPSD Reception and Symposium the opening activity on their schedule.
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Boost your rankings and conversions by increasing your page speed.
Increase your page speed to improve user experience, boost conversion rates and get better organic search rankings.
Why is Page Speed Important?
As technology evolves and it becomes easier to enhance your website with frameworks, plugins, scripts, media content and more, it's critical not to overlook this fundamental user experience metric that can have visitors leaving your website before it has even rendered in the browser.
Today, with mobile internet usage exceeding desktop, page speed is an increasingly important factor that affects user experience, conversion rates and search engine rankings across the spectrum of your visitor's devices.
Research from Google shows that 53% of visits are likely to be abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load and the average load time for mobile sites is 19 seconds over a 3G connection.
It stands to reason that Google has considered page speed to be an important ranking factor for desktop searches since 2010 and more recently, has rolled out another speed update that makes page speed a top ranking factor for mobile searches.
Note: PageSpeed Insights is a useful tool from Google that analyzes your web pages on both mobile and desktop devices, and offers suggestions on how to improve performance.
Here, we'll talk about some of the key factors that contribute to the loading speed of your web pages and the steps you can take to speed things up.
Optimize Images
The file size of the assets requested by a webpage (including the file size of the web page itself) all contribute to page speed. High resolution images are one of the largest contributors to slow loading web pages. There are a number of ways to reduce the friction of an image heavy page.
Use the optimal image format for each image type.
For raster based images such as photographs, use the JPG format. Be sure to remove unnecessary image EXIF metadata such as camera and geo information. A small amount of JPG compression can go a long way. Start at 80% and move downwards until you start to see a slight reduction in quality.
For vector based images such as illustrations, icons and logos, use SVG or PNG formats. Remove unnecessary XML markup from SVG images.
Use the optimal image size for each responsive breakpoint.
Implement responsive images and deliver images that are the appropriate size for your visitor's device. This will prevent visitors with small screens having to download needlessly large images.
Minify HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Text files such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript can be 'minified' to remove unnecessary characters and spaces, resulting in a reduced file size. The following tools are available for free.
Remove Render-Blocking JavaScript
Inline JavaScript
If you have some small scripts that are relevant to a particular page, instead of referencing an external JavaScript file, it's better practice to place them inline in your HTML document using the <script> tag.
<script type="text/javascript">
// JavaScript code here
Asynchronous JavaScript
The async attribute can be added to any script tag that points to an external script file. This tells the browser to continue parsing the HTML document while the script is being downloaded. As soon as the script is downloaded, it will be executed.
<script async src="myscript.js">
Deferred JavaScript
The defer attribute is similar to async but it tells the browser not to execute the external script until the HTML document has been parsed. This method is useful for loading and executing scripts that are not essential for the initial rendering of the page.
<script defer src="myscript.js">
Reduce Redirects
HTTP Redirects are used to automatically send visitors from one URL to another. Each time a redirect occurs, a HTTP request-response cycle has to complete which results in a longer wait time for you visitors. Minimizing the number of redirects on your site can improve your page speed.
See this in-depth Moz article on SEO best practices for redirection.
Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that stores cached versions of your web pages on multiple servers throughout the world so they can be served quickly to the visitors who are physically nearest to each server.
This is especially effective for businesses with international reach and a high volume of traffic.
In addition to caching your web pages, CDNs utilize GZIP compression which can result in up to 70% reduction in file size for your text based files such as HTML, Javascript and CSS.
Leverage Browser Caching
When you implement browser caching, the next time that visitor browses your website, the browser can access the resources already downloaded from the previous session rather than having to fetch them again from the server.
See this extensive guide on browser caching from Varvy.


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I'm working now on the implementation of the following feature: Say I have a collection in mongodb with millions of entries (very big say 100M), each entry is of type
{"uniqId", "properties"}
for example:
{"uniqId" : "u1" , "properties" : ["p1", "p2"]}
I have a runtime component that should read the data by uniqId, and some batch process that should insert the data into this collection. There is huge amount of reads and very rare updates (once in a week)
The problem is that i'll get always the full file (that could be very big milions of lines) that i should insert.
The solution i think about is as follwing:
- There will be unique index on "uniqId" field.
- I'll have a timestamp field on each document
- I can use upsert operation to override the existed entries
- Each operation will be a bulk of some valuable amount (say 1000 documents)
- There will be a batch process that will remove the documents with 'old' timestamp
There is another solution:
- Each time create new collection and then swap between the new and the old one (but if i'll use sharding i saw that mongo does not support rename in that case)
Is this design seems to be OK? How it can influence on the mongo performance?
I have the mongo with replica set configuration, and i did not used sharding yet.
Appreciate any valuable ideas,


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As any serious macro or close-up photographer will tell you, a dedicated macro flash is an indispensable accessory.
One of the main challenges when shooting up close is that as the working distance decreases, so too does the light that reaches the camera's sensor. When using a macro lens at 1x magnification, there's around a two-stop exposure factor to consider, for example. While that's not much of a problem at the maximum aperture, maintaining a high enough shutter speed is more difficult when maximising the depth of field with smaller apertures. And at greater magnifications, there are even larger exposure factors to overcome, due to the closer proximity of the subjects.
Introducing additional lighting for macro photography is extremely useful, as it allows photographers to use a fast shutter speed while also stopping down the aperture to increase the depth of field.


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The camera closes in.
The screen swells with the wizened, hateful visage, under its ludicrous English periwig, of George Jeffreys, the original "hanging judge" of the Bloody Assizes as he sentences the innocent Doctor Peter Blood, convicted of having treated a man wounded in a battle of the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion, to a lifetime of slavery in the British West Indies.
Nobody watching the 1935 movie "Captain Blood" was particularly surprised at the irrationality of the verdict or the harshness of the sentence. Judicial processes meant to bolster authority, often at the expense of justice and humanity, were a feature of the English court system, and one of many reasons -- as most individuals of my own and older generations were taught in school -- that Americans fought for independence.
Not so today. Now our children and our grandchildren are often told by a politically-corrected educational establishment that there was no good reason for the American Revolution, and that we'd all be better off if the colonials then had respected and cooperated with authority. As far as justice is concerned, they're told the humblest person, accused of a crime, can always count on getting "his day in court".
I'm sure that's just what young Kenyon Ballew, his family, and lawyers expected when they went to court seeking restitution because a violent gang of police and federal officers, for some reason disguised as hippies, smashed through his front door one summer evening in 1971 -- on a fraudulent plea-bargained tip from a newspaper boy they had arrested for burglary -- and shot at him more than a dozen times as he emerged naked from his bathtub, paralyzing him for the rest of his life.
The Ballew case may not have been the first instance of the new police "philosophy" of fascist thuggery, moronic incompetence, and brutal unconcern over "collateral damage" that has since flooded over this nation like a dirty tide, destroying whatever pretense was left that this is a free country, but it was the first many of us knew of, and nothing would ever be the same. A line of causality stretches taut and straight from Ballew's suburban Maryland home in 1971 to Mount Carmel on the rolling Texas plains in 1993 -- and continues on to this day.
All of this comes to mind because of a recent federal trial, the case of U.S. v. Olofson in Milwaukee Wisconsin, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (instigators in both the Ballew and Branch Davidian atrocities) charged a National Guard Drill Instructor of "unlawful transfer of a machinegun" because, owing to a worn or broken part, it would sometimes -- very rarely, actually -- fire more than one round of ammunition with a single pull of the trigger.
This is not, in fact, any kind of illegal "enhancement", it is a dangerous malfunction. Len Savage, the expert I spoke with before I started this article tells me that when such a malfunction occurs, the particular weapon involved fires at three times the rate considered safe.
Olofson, it appears, was asked by a Robert Kiernicki to teach him to shoot. Olofson did, and even let Kiernicki take "his oldest AR-15" -- a semiautomatic version of our current military rifle the M-16 -- to a public range and practice. On Kiernicki's third time at the range, after firing 120 rounds, the rifle sputtered three times and jammed.
Law enforcement people present on the range swooped in, and in due course, Olofson was arrested, charged, and has now been convicted of a gun "crime" he never intended to commit or even knew he had committed, one that happened when he was miles away and someone else pulled the trigger.
The rifle in question was sent to the BATFE Firearm Technology Branch (FTB), who examined and test fired the weapon and declared it "just a rifle". Special Agent in Charge Jody Keeku asked FTB to re-test the firearm, this time using soft-primered commercial ammunition.
The FTB, which has no standardized testing procedures -- in fact, no written procedures at all for testing firearms -- tried again, this time getting the desired results. BATFE, with a self-admitted fifty percent error rate, then pursued an indictment against Olofson and paid Kiernicki "an undisclosed amount of money" to testify against him.
At the same time Olofson was being charged with unlawful transfer, because his rifle malfunctioned, and apparently had some M-16 parts (not the parts that would make it a machinegun) the BATFE removed another "machinegun" from its registry of such weapons because they deemed it to be an AR-15 with M-16 parts, but not a machinegun. Len can produce the documents to substantiate this extremely convenient contradiction.
Hear Len being interviewed on JPFO's podcast, Talkin' to America. Then proceed to The Olofson Case and see some of the legal documents associated with this case.
Be aware, however the court never had access to this information. When Olofson's attorneys requested that the court compel BATFE to produce these and other documents proving Olofson's innocence, BATFE's Chief Counsel's Office loftily informed the court that the documents involved contained "tax information" -- namely, a $200 federal excise tax stamp -- and that the court was therefore prohibited from seeing them.
All such documents -- even a BATFE letter to the manufacturer of Olofson's rifle mandating a safety recall in 1986 (due to its going "full auto" if it malfunctioned) -- were kept secret from the judge in the case, Charles N. Clevert, and the rest of the court. BATFE's Chief Counsel told Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad, who passed it along: "The Court will have take our word that the documents in question contain tax information, and contain no exculpatory evidence".
Haanstad claimed the law does not exempt a malfunction. He claims that it states "any weapon that shoots more than once without manual reloading, per function of the trigger is a machinegun". When Len, acting as a defense expert, took the stand, he asked, "Are you saying if I take my great-granddaddy's double barrel shotgun out and pull one trigger, and both barrels go off, it's a machinegun?". Haanstad cited the law (U.S. Code, Section 5845[b]), restating that "any weapon that shoots ... "
If your semiauto rifle breaks, you are now subject to federal prosecution. Even more ironic, those in the sporting culture, who have derided so-called "black guns" and "assault rifles" for so long, now face a real possibility of their expensive double shotguns being seized, and of possible prosecution, if BATFE's no-standards laboratory -- which has no procedures in writing and does all of its testing in secret -- can make it fire more than once with a single pull of the trigger. If there is information proving their innocence, BATFE can always claim it's tax information, and prevent both judge and jury from considering it.
Len and I differ on one central point in this mess, gun expert though he is. He is a tough, decent, bright, and courageous gentleman, and I have no desire at all to argue with him in public. He believes that the judge in this case conducted himself properly and points out that the man even chastized the federal prosecutors on at least one occasion because they had attempted to deceive him and the defense attorneys.
This is not a new thing. At one of the legal proceedings against Kenyon Ballew, back in the 70s, the prosecution brought in "evidence" of Ballew's "criminality" consisting of a can of black pistol powder which they claimed he was going to use to make grenades. In fact, he used it to load his only handgun, a replica of an 1847 Colt Walker revolver.
But it wasn't enough simply to produce the can. They brought in at the center of a long, long plank, its ends supported by a pair of theatrically nervous individuals acting as though what it held was nitroglycerin.
BATFE's conduct at the Olofson trial was subtler, but just as criminally misleading. What the judge should have said is, "You will tell your agency to produce those documents immediately, or I will have you locked up until they do. Bailiff!" The fact that he didn't say that makes him a bad judge, a weak judge, and anticonstitutional judge.
BATFE's very existence is a violation of the highest law of the land, in and of itself. How can this sort of stupendously outrageous crime go on for decade after decade? Answer: who signs a judge's paycheck?
BATFE drifts, utterly rudderless, without underlying principles, precisely like the entire United States government does today. The criminally totalitarian mind-set that permitted the creation of this agency in the first place -- despite the clear language of the Bill of Rights -- encourages wars to be waged without any legal declaration by Congress, and kidnapping and torture to become working policies of what was once supposed to be the freest country on the face of the Earth.
It does so because it suits those who profit, in terms of power and privilege or other ill-gotten gains, from such a moral and legal vacuum.
(Follow the Olofson case on JPFO)
A fifty-year veteran of the libertarian movement, L. Neil Smith is the Author of 33 books including The Probability Broach, Ceres, Sweeter Than Wine, And Down With Power: libertarian Policy In A Time Of Crisis. He is also the Publisher of The Libertarian Enterprise, now in its 17th year online.
Visit the Neil Smith archive on JPFO.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont city of only 17,000 souls just smashed the national one-day record for blood donations _ and it's likely to stand for quite a while.
After Rutland's 11th annual Gift of Life Marathon collected 2,337 pints of blood Tuesday, the regional Red Cross said it's unlikely to undertake another such drive because of the difficulty of staging it. Rutland required some 300 Red Cross staffers from New England and New York, 200 volunteers and thousands of donors.
"We had agreed that this would be the last time we went for a national record," said Steve Costello, one of the main organizers of the Rutland drive, which broke the previous one-day U.S. record of 1,968 pints set by Manchester, N.H., in 2011.
The online Guinness World Records says the one-day world-wide record of 43,732 pints was set in India in 2010.
The Vermont record comes as the nation's blood-collection system undergoes dramatic change.
It began with the Great Recession, when Americans who had lost their jobs and health insurance put off non-critical procedures. Blood-management programs, which include collecting blood lost during an operation and returning it to the patient, maximizing hemoglobin levels to prevent anemia, and using medications to reduce bleeding during surgery, are also contributing to the decline.
Mary Brant, spokeswoman for the Northern New England Chapter of the American Red Cross, said the organization supported the Rutland effort but agreed it would be the last big drive in the region.
"The logistics of an event this size are extremely complicated," said Brant. "Our goal is to collect blood as efficiently as possible ... and there are just other ways for us to do this, doing more blood drives, spread throughout Vermont."
When asked how a city of just over 17,000 could break a national record by such a margin, Brant said she didn't know.
"There's absolutely no way a city the size of Rutland should have this record," she said. "I have no idea why Rutland can do it and Boston can't."
Costello, a vice president at Green Mountain Power, said adding Castleton State College, about 15 miles west of Rutland, to the list of main sponsors gave this year's drive the boost it needed to set the national record on its third try.
Castleton State President David Wolk drove donors on a shuttle bus to collection sites. Vermont's lone congressman, Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, spent several hours greeting people at one of the five locations. (He was ineligible to give blood because of recent travel overseas.)
A change in state law that lowered the age threshold for blood donation from 18 to 16 _ not passed to help Rutland break the record, but to bring it in line with national norms _ helped bring in 90 Rutland High School students.
A few years ago, some people had to wait six hours before giving blood. This year, people were in and out in an hour and a half or less.
"It was as smooth as silk," Costello said.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's attorney general wants a judge to order Newtown school officials to release the records of the gunman who killed 26 people at an elementary school, including 20 first-grade students.
Attorney General George Jepsen wants Adam Lanza's school records to be released to the state child advocate office so its Child Fatality Review Panel can examine the Dec. 14 attack. The panel reviews unexpected and unexplained child fatalities.
The 20-year-old Lanza killed his mother at their home, then killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself as police officers arrived.
The Child Advocate's office first sought Lanza's school records in March, but Newtown school officials have not released the information.
District officials did not immediately return a phone message left Saturday.


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The President. Let me make a couple comments about the meeting we just had and be glad to answer a couple questions. You can lead it off, Fournier [Ron Fournier, Associated Press], in a minute.
I want to thank some of our Nation's leading economists for coming today to share their thoughts with me about our economy and the strength of our Nation, how best to make sure people can find work.
We had a great discussion about the plan that I laid out for the Congress to consider and to enact, a plan which focuses on job creation, a plan which recognizes that money in the consumers' pocket will help grow this economy, a plan that recognizes there are some long-term things we can do to make sure the investor feels comfortable taking risks in America. It is a plan that recognizes that economic growth is not as strong as it should be. It's a plan that's good for all Americans. It is a plan that addresses our needs, and it's a plan that Congress needs to pass.
These economists can speak for themselves after they leave, but they have given good advice and sound judgment, and for that, I'm grateful.
I'll take a couple of questions. Ron.
Diversity in Higher Education
Q. Sir, last week in this room, you came out against quotas, which have been unconstitutional for 25 years. You didn't answer the central question, and that is whether race can be used as a factor in admissions. Dr. Rice says it could be. Colin Powell says it should be. What is your position? Can it be used as——
The President. Well, my position is, is that as the—as the brief says, that there are clearly unconstitutional means to achieve diversity, there are race-neutral ways to achieve diversity—which I have put in place as the Governor of Texas—and that we'll leave the Court to define the outer limits of the Constitution.
Adam [Adam Entous, Reuters].
Q. Yes, Mr. President——
Q. You won't answer that question then?
The President. I just answered it.
Q. Whether or not you believe——
The President. No, I answered it. The courts will make the definition of the outer limits of the—and as Condi Rice said, she felt very comfortable in saying on national TV the decision I made was the right decision.
Q. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. The French are saying they would block a U.N. resolution authorizing force on Iraq. Are you frustrated by these comments? Can you still reach a consensus?
The President. Well, Adam, first of all, it's important for the American citizens and the citizens around the world to understand that Saddam Hussein possesses some of the world's deadliest weapons. He poses a serious threat to America and our friends and allies. The world came together, including the French, to say he must disarm. He's not disarming. As a matter of fact, it appears to be a rerun of a bad movie. He is delaying. He is deceiving. He is asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors.
One thing is for certain, he's not disarming. So the United States of America, in the name of peace, will continue to insist he does disarm, and we will keep the pressure on Saddam Hussein.
Angle [Jim Angle, FOX News].
Q. Mr. President, when do you intend to make a decision about whether or not the inspection process is—actually has any hope of really disarming Saddam?
The President. It's clear to me now that he is not disarming. And surely, our friends have learned lessons from the past. Surely we have learned how this man deceives and delays. He's giving people the runaround. And as many of my advisers said on TV this week, time is running out. I believe in the name of peace, he must disarm. And we will lead a coalition of willing nations to disarm him. Make no mistake about that, he will be disarmed.
Q. When—how do you decide when that moment comes that you need to make a judgment?
The President. I will let you know when the moment has come. [Laughter]
Q. Mr. President, who is in that coalition of the willing now? Are France, Germany out?
The President. You will find out who is in the coalition of the willing. It is very much like what happened prior to our getting a resolution out of the United Nations. Many of the punditry—of course, not you—[laughter]—but other punditry were quick to say, "No one is going to follow the United States of America." And we got a unanimous resolution out of the United Nations.
The United States has made it clear our intention, and our intention is to work with the world for Saddam to disarm. He's been given ample time to disarm. We have had ample time now to see that the tricks of the past—he's employing the tricks of the past today. He's giving people the runaround. He wants to play hide-and-seek. He's got a vast country.
He wants to focus the attention of the world on inspectors. This is not about inspectors; this is about a disarmed Iraq. He has weapons of mass destruction, the world's deadliest weapons, which pose a direct threat to the United States, our citizens, and our friends and allies. He has been told to disarm for 11 long years. He's not disarming.
This business about, you know, more time—you know, how much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming? As I said, this looks like a rerun of a bad movie, and I'm not interested in watching it.
All right, thank you all.
NOTE: The President spoke at 10:35 a.m. in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The Office of the Press Secretary also released a Spanish language transcript of these remarks. A portion of these remarks could not be verified because the tape was incomplete.
George W. Bush, Remarks Following a Meeting With Economists and an Exchange With Reporters Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/215426


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Miranda Lambert Checks Blake Shelton's Twitter Messages
If you follow Blake Shelton on Twitter, you know that 'The Voice' coach and country star has a reputation for tweeting after he's had a few too many drinks–and he's not shy about connecting with attractive women. We've all wondered at some point if Shelton's behavior bothers his sometimes sweet, sometimes fiery country star wife, Miranda Lambert. Turns out, if her hubby's feed becomes too much to handle, Lambert just unfollows him!
It's not that the 'Over You' hitmaker gets upset about Shelton's behavior, per say. She checks up on his Twitter account regularly, but it doesn't sound like those 140-character messages are real a point of contention for the country star couple.
"If I'm going to check up on someone, it is definitely Blake," the country music superstar told Us Weekly in an interview at CMA Fest on Thursday (June 7). "I like to see who he is following: they are all hot girls. I check his direct messages."
Lambert also admitted that Shelton's drunk tweeting does occasionally annoy his wife of just over a year and she has no problem taking care of that small issue.
"I unfollow Blake quite frequently," said Lambert, who now has more than 1 million followers on the social networking site. "Some days it is just too much."
We can't be sure, but she might be referring to Shelton's flirtatious behavior when he appeared on 'The Tonight Show' alongside Scarlett Johannson. Or it could be his comment about admiring Carrie Underwood's long legs at the 2011 CMA awards.
Despite Shelton's sometimes overwhelming Twitter behavior, Lambert loves working with her husband. On Wednesday night (June 6), she won a CMT Music Award for Female Video of the Year for No. 1 single 'Over You.' The award-winning songstress co-wrote the song about Shelton's brother, Richie, who was tragically killed in a car accident.
"There are so many things that are serendipitous about that song," she told Us. "There won't ever be another song like 'Over You' for me in my career…Sometimes when you write something so personal, you aren't sure if it will translate, and I feel like it really translated to fans."
'Over You' definitely translated to fans. Since its release in January, the single rose to the top of country charts, and showed some cross-over power when it hit No. 35 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.


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As-Sunnah Foundation of America
Now over a decade into a new century, we are witnessing a turn of history. There are tremendous global changes taking place. In these ideological, political and informational u
pheavals are signs and opportunities, as well as challenges for the Muslim Ummah to reclaim and restore the Islamic spirit and culture. Many Muslims in America are pious, affluent, educated, and have a great desire to build Islamic communities and educational institutions for themselves and for future generations. Unfortunately, the Muslim Ummah in general, and Muslim communities in America, in particular, are divided and often at cross-purposes, resulting in a great waste of energy, time and resources, while opportunities for Islamic renewal and da'wa are being lost.
In view of this situation, the As-Sunnah Foundation of America (ASFA) was founded by a group of concerned Muslims from many backgrounds and specialties who are striving to promote
A) The unity of Muslims
B) Understanding and awareness through education.
Therefore, ASFA has assembled a group of scholars and professors to teach, write, and translate from traditional sources of Islamic knowledge by authentic scholars of the various schools of fiqh (madhahib) and `aqida.
ASFA's intention is to emphasize the well-known Islamic principle that as long as a believer follows any School of Thought (fiqh), he or she remains within the boundaries of the community (Ummah) of the Prophet Muhammad , provided he or she accepts the way of the Sunnah and Shari'ah. This is in light of the verse "and indeed, this your ummah is one ummah and I am your Lord, so worship Me." [Anbiya, 21:92]. Indeed, as Islamic history bears out, the Muslim Ummah was never actually divided along the lines of these schools, but rather by selfish, political and national interests. The continuity of these schools provided the basis of stability for the Ummah. Like life itself, the Muslim Ummah is organically connected with its own geographical space and historical time parameters. When that connection is severed, confusion and division must result, as we are now experiencing as a community in North America.