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The Hanover County Sheriff's Office anticipates traffic congestion in the Mechanicsville area during the NASCAR races to be held this week at the Richmond Raceway in Henrico County. Citizens are encouraged to plan in advance to avoid traffic congestion that will be caused by this event. On Saturday, April 2, the ToyotaCare 250 race will start at 1:30 p.m. Traffic will be congested on Meadowbridge Road all day, with the most congestion occurring late-morning and mid-afternoon (before and after the race). On Sunday, April 3, the Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Cup Series race will start at 3:30 p.m. Traffic will be congested on Meadowbridge Road all day, with the most congestion occurring mid-afternoon and late evening (before and after the race). For citizens traveling on I-295, the Route 301 (Chamberlayne Road) or the Route 360 (Mechanicsville Turnpike) exits are recommended as alternatives to the Meadowbridge Road exit. In addition, citizens are encouraged to avoid Atlee Road, especially on Sunday, and utilize Shady Grove Road as an alternative. On both days, deputies will monitor Meadowbridge Road closely and assist with traffic direction when needed. On Sunday, deputies will be stationed at each intersection on Meadowbridge Road to monitor traffic flow and render assistance to motorists in need. It is the goal of the Hanover County Sheriff's Office to facilitate the safe flow of traffic for this special event in such a way that causes minimal inconvenience to our citizens.


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Google steps up bid to stymie email snooping
Google stepped up its effort Wednesday to make it tougher for spies or anyone else to snoop on email, unveiling Chrome browser software for scrambling digital messages.
Google stepped up its effort Wednesday to make it tougher for spies or anyone else to snoop on email, unveiling Chrome browser software for scrambling digital messages.
A test version of a software tool called 'End-to-End' was released so Internet engineers can dabble with making mini-programs that plug into Chrome browser and encrypt Gmail messages in ways that shield them from eyes of everyone except senders and recipients.
'Emails that are encrypted as they're routed from sender to receiver are liked sealed envelopes, and less vulnerable to snooping -- whether by bad actors or through government surveillance -- than postcards,' Gmail delivery team tech lead Brandon Long said in a blog post.
Along with releasing the encryption tool, Google added a section to its Transparency Report showing what portion of Gmail messages were sent wrapped in encryption and similar information for digital missives received from other email services.
The report showed on Thursday that over the past month 69 % of outgoing Gmail messages were encrypted while only 48 % of the email received from other services was scrambled in transit.
In a move that promised to pressure other services, Google broke down how much message traffic received from them was encrypted.
US Internet service titan Comcast, which got a dismal ranking in the report, quickly stepped up to say it is ramping up message encryption.
'Many providers have turned on encryption, and others have said they're going to, which is great news,' Long said.
'As they do, more and more email will be shielded from snooping.'
The move by California-based Google comes as US Internet firms fend off privacy concerns provoked by US online spying tactics exposed by former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden, who has taken refuge in Russia.
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Three-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin is a contemporary folk legend. Colvin started playing guitar at the age 10 and went on to cut her teeth on the folk circuits of Illinois and San Francisco before moving on to the Fast Folk cooperative of Greenwich Village in New York City. During her solo music career, Colvin has appeared in off-Broadway shows and episodes of television shows such as The Simpsons and Treme.
After a period of relative inactivity, Colvin is back with not just a new album — All Fall Down — but also a memoir entitled Diamond In The Rough. Colvin says she was a little skeptical at first about being so open with her personal life in her new memoir. "I was dared to write the book. My manager said, 'You have a story to tell,' " Colvin says. After working up the courage, Colvin got personal about her past relationships and their effects on her songwriting.
As a companion album to the memoir, All Fall Down is her first release in six years and features guest appearances by Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Jakob Dylan and Bill Frisell. With themes reflecting on loss and redemption, All Fall Down showcases Colvin's thoughtful songwriting and musical range. In support of her latest release, Colvin recently played a World Cafe Live show in Philadelphia and sat down with World Cafe's Michaela Majoun to chat about her new projects.
This episode originally aired on July 13, 2012.
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Since the publication of his UN report charging Israel (and Hamas) with war crimes, Richard Goldstone has been subjected to a well-orchestrated delegitimisation campaign by Israel. Most recently, new "revealing information" was disseminated to the press, accusing the Jewish Zionist South African judge of sentencing 28 black South Africans to death during the apartheid years. "The judge who sentenced black people to death," said the speaker of the Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, "should not be allowed to lecture a democratic state defending itself against terrorists".
The ongoing character assassination of Goldstone isn't an isolated case, but should be seen as part of a large-scale state-branding exercise by Israel. In 2004, the Foreign Ministry hired a number of international PR firms to improve Israel's global reputation. In the words of Ido Aharoni, the head of the ministry's brand management team:
Every place has a brand … Brazil is about fun, Paris is about romance and Las Vegas is about sin … What is Israel about? … The conflict, and the context in which Israel is perceived is all about bad news, whether you agree with Israel or not.
The Foreign Ministry decided to draw attention away from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by emphasising Israel's stem-cell research and the young computer experts who invented instant messaging. Aharoni points to Dan Senor and Saul Singer's book Start-Up Nation as a paradigmatic example of how Israel can be celebrated. The problem, in Aharoni's view, is that "when we are given a chance to talk about Israel the only story we tell is about the conflict and it is a turn-off even among our biggest supporters."
Aharoni is convinced that by changing the story it tells about itself - by focusing on lifestyle and leisure, the environment, science and technology, art and culture, the people and heritage - Israel can change its international image.
Martin Kace, the head of the business consultancy firm Empax, disagrees with this approach. At the annual Herzliya Conference on National Security, he said:
It's true that the country has astoundingly high amounts of technological innovation; Israel is number one in the world in agricultural productivity, files more biomedical patents every year than any other country, is consistently top 10 in life expectancy, has a very active cultural and academic life, lots of Nobel laureates, great beaches, beautiful and scantily-clad people, a very active gay community and on and on … This is what the Israeli Foreign Ministry proposes as a platform for Brand Israel. It will fail miserably … because it asks people to completely re-contextualise Israel as they know it.
Kace does not propose that Israel end the conflict, but rather suggests that the conflict be incorporated into the Israeli brand, maintaining that Israel cannot deliver a credible brand message without acknowledging the ongoing strife. The idea, so it seems, is to present Israel as the Land of Security Know-How.
There is also a third strategy: to undermine the reputation of anyone who dares to question Israel's human rights record, and to obstruct the flow of unpalatable information that's gathered, organised, and distributed by rights groups and circulated by the international media.
Right-wing NGOs and social movements such as Gerald Steinberg's NGO Monitor and Im Tirtzu are doing much of this McCarthyist dirty work. Their blacklist includes not only individual critics of Israeli rights abuses, like Goldstone, but also local and international NGOs and their donors, particularly the European Union, the Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund. Naomi Chazan, the former Knesset member who now runs the New Israel Fund, was recently featured on giant billboards with a horn emerging from her head because her organisation funded human-rights NGOs that passed information on to Judge Goldstone.
These McCarthyist organisations are working with right-wing legislators. On April 28, 19 Knesset members introduced a bill that aims to close down any existing NGO if "there are reasonable grounds to conclude that the association is providing information to foreign entities or is involved in legal proceedings abroad against senior Israeli government officials or IDF officers for war crimes".
The Reut Institute, and a few other right-wing think tanks, have also joined the bandwagon, offering policy recommendations to decision makers. In "Building a Political Firewall against Israel's Delegitimisation" (PDF 428KB), Reut defined anyone who is critical of Israel as being part of a "delegitimisation network" and therefore an "existential threat".
According to Reut, this network is made up of "organisations and individuals in the West - mostly elements of the radical European left, Arab and Islamic groups, and so-called post or anti-Zionist Jews and Israelis - [who] negate Israel's right to exist based on a variety of political and philosophical arguments." The think tank concludes that the "delegitimisation stems from a rejection of Israel's existence, and therefore cannot be made to disappear by PR or policy". It accordingly argues that "branding the other side" (i.e. Israel's critics) is a vital part of the struggle over Israel's reputation and, indeed, existence.
This negative branding is an international effort. Noam Chomsky, who was recently prevented from entering Israel and the West Bank, has long been a target of witch hunters like Alan Dershowitz, but other less known actors are also playing a part. Mitchell Bard, the executive director of the American-Israeli Co-operative Enterprise, and Gil Troy, a historian at McGill University, recently published a position paper summarising the discussions of the Working Group on Delegitimisation at the 2009 Global Forum against Anti-Semitism. Bard and Troy suggest that it is crucial to "rename and reframe" the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS). "We need to point out how BDS crosses the line from legitimate criticism to historically-laden, anti-Semitic messaging." The report goes on to present the struggle against BDS as a war, using such terms as enemy, command centre, war room, fight, battle and battlefield.
But the branding campaign does not stop with human rights NGOs, their donors, individual critics or supporters of BDS. International humanitarian and human rights law - which emerged following the horrors of the Holocaust - is also under attack. This, at least, was one of the messages emerging from a conference organised by the Lawfare Project. The logic is clear: international human rights law is being deployed as a tool to criticise Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories and is consequently responsible for damaging Israel's reputation; it therefore must be curbed. This is an extremely frightening thought.
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Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2024
Sales And Use Tax Regulations
Title 18. Public Revenues
Division 2. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration — Business Taxes (State Board of Equalization — Business Taxes — See Chapters 6 and 9.9)
Chapter 4. Sales and Use Tax
Article 6. Specific Businesses Engaged in Retailing
Regulation 1583
Regulation 1583. Modular Systems Furniture.
Reference: Sections 6006, 6011, 6012, 6015, 6016, and 7053, Revenue and Taxation Code.
Modular systems furniture is tangible personal property, whether or not affixed to realty. A contract to sell and install modular systems furniture is a contract for the sale of tangible personal property and is not a construction contract. Persons who contract to sell and install modular systems furniture are retailers of the items which they sell and install, and tax applies to the entire contract price less those charges excludable from gross receipts or sales price pursuant to Sections 6011 and 6012 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. Retailers who claim a deduction for such charges should maintain complete and detailed records to support the amounts claimed. Such records should include, but not be limited to, a separate accounting of charges for installation labor, such as labor to affix, bolt, fasten, or hardwire panels to realty and labor to fasten or affix fully constructed components to fully constructed panel systems or other components. Charges for fabrication labor, such as labor to attach, assemble, connect, construct, or fabricate panel systems or components, labor to attach or connect one panel to another to form workstations or cubicles, and labor to construct or fabricate the individual panels, components, or accessories are subject to tax.
For contracts to sell and install modular systems entered into on or after October 1, 1999, ten percent (10%) of the total contract price, excluding charges attributable to freestanding desks, credenzas, lateral files, bookcases, worktables, returns, convergents, corner units, storage towers, chairs, footrests, and other property not attached to panels, other components, or realty, but including all other charges, will be presumed to be a charge for labor to install or apply the property sold. Retailers may claim the ten percent (10%) labor deduction in lieu of separately accounting for the actual installation charges incurred.
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Groove on the 60th anniversary of the 'Beat Generation'—the term coined in 1948 by 26-year-old writer Jack Kerouac for a band of cultural rebels who would soon seek safe haven on the West Coast.
The Bay Area had long functioned, and would continue, as a frontier for the rest of the nation and the world. In the middle of the last century, in the atmosphere of relative comfort that followed World War II, San Francisco began to attract spirits at odds with complacency, particularly from New York City, where Kerouac and his fellow Beats had been brainstorming.
Rejecting some of the core values of mainstream America, Kerouac applied his new term to a breed of 'new vision' poets and authors whom he encountered in New York, including literary friends Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and later Gregory Corso. And in the decade that followed, he migrated with most of them westward.
In the homey setting of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, fueled by good Italian deli food, coffee, alcohol, marijuana, and an assortment of other uppers and downers, the poets and authors fused with musicians, visual artists, thespians, filmmakers, and other free spirits to form a free-flowing group which 'San Francisco Chronicle' columnist Herb Caen dubbed 'Beatniks.'
They spoke a lingo that had been collected by jazzman Cab Calloway in his 'Hepster's Dictionary' of the previous decade. Living in modest 'pads' and on little 'bread,' these 'cats and kittens' found expression in art and on musical 'axes.'
As with the Forty-Niners of a century earlier and the Hippies of a decade later, the Beats generated legends about their lifestyle, which in turn attracted many more would-be participants from far and wide, while strengthening the group's cultural influence.
"I got a kick out of the counter-culture atmosphere," recalls Ned Eichler, who got to sample it in North Beach while working for his father's firm, Eichler Homes, before and after his stint in the Army in the early 1950s. "There was part of me that identified," he continues, "and the great thing about the Beats was, they didn't insist that you had to be like them."
Eichler developed an affinity for some, but not all, of the modernist modes of expression associated with the Beats in poems and novels. But he felt less in tune with their embrace of modern jazz, avant-garde painting, and experimental film, casually hip clothing, and a non-traditional approach to sexual and social relationships.
Some of these affects helped open minds and tastes for what was to come, with the Hippies, the Punks, and other subcultures in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Poet, playwright, and filmmaker ruth weiss, called by some the 'Goddess of the Beat Generation,' is one of the survivors, keeping the Beat spirit alive in appearances around the world. Having escaped Germany and the Nazis with her family as a child in 1933, weiss later divested her name of capital letters (in rebellion against her native tongue) and spent her teens and early 20s discovering America.
"And I ended up in San Francisco, right in North Beach, 'cause I knew it was a bohemian section," says weiss, now a spry 80. "I mean, Steinbeck and Saroyan...used to hang out at the Black Cat [on nearby Montgomery Street]."
Like many of the gathering Beats, weiss took on a variety of jobs in the 1950s, including posing clothed or nude for the city's growing number of art students. She read her poems publicly alongside Madeline Gleason, who'd started San Francisco's first poetry festival in 1947. She also frequented performances by jazz artists, with whom she'd previously kept company in Chicago and New Orleans.
A saxophonist boyfriend, weiss says, "really taught me to open my 'third ear'" to the sounds of the postwar form of progressive jazz called bebop, or just bop. "And then I was writing, and it was just the same kind of rhythm." Another musician coaxed weiss into reading her poems with jazz accompaniment. She went public with this performance at North Beach's Cellar club in 1956, creating a fusion of forms that became a trademark of the Beats.


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New Developments for Cap-and-Trade in California
There's big news for California's cap-and-trade program to control the state's greenhouse gas emissions on two fronts this week. Cara alluded to the first in her post this week about California Democrats gaining a supermajority in both houses of the legislature after Tuesday's election. The legislative development is important because the state legislature can probably take steps — with a two-thirds vote — to reduce legal vulnerability about whether cap-and-trade constitutes a tax, as I'll explain in a moment. The other big news is that next week the state will hold its first public auction of allowances under the cap-and-trade program. The auction will provide the first sense for how robust the market will be and at what price the first allowances will trade. One question looming over the auction is whether potential legal challenges to the program could affect auction prices. More about that too.
First, here's how the news that Democrats have secured a supermajority in both houses of the legislature affects cap-and-trade. California's constitution – as a result of the same Proposition 13 that lowered property taxes — requires that taxes used for general purposes be enacted by a 2/3s vote of the legislature whereas taxes used for specific purposes can be enacted by a simple majority (we explain this all in detail in an Emmett Center report you can download here) . What do tax requirements have to do with cap-and-trade? It is possible — though by no means certain — that the auctioning off of allowances and subsequent allocation of the auction revenue under cap-and-trade could be considered a tax under Prop 13. If a court considers the auction process to constitute a tax, then the way in which the auction revenues are allocated is highly significant to the legality of the program. AB 32 was passed with a majority vote, not with a supermajority. The Emmett Center has concluded that as long as the revenues from the auction are allocated for purposes related to greenhouse gas emissions reductions, a court is likely to find that if the cap-and-trade auction constitutes a tax, it will be considered a special or specific tax needing only a majority vote. But if the legislature allocates auction revenue to general purposes, then the auction could be an invalid general tax since AB 32 did not receive a 2/3s vote. Therefore to withstand legal challenge we have previously recommended that the legislature allocate the revenues for purposes closely tied to reducing greenhouse gases.
But now, the state legislature has a much more available legislative option to avoid constitutional attack. In allocating auction revenue, if the legislature reaffirms AB 32 with a supermajority vote (all the Democratic legislators) it can allocate the revenues for general purposes. Given that auction revenues are expected to bring in more than a billion dollars in the first year and as much as $14 billion annually in later years, the temptation to want to spend auction revenues for more general purposes like education will understandably be very high. The legislature probably now has the votes necessary to meet the 2/3s requirement for a general tax simply by reaffirming AB 32. That's a big deal. Cap-and-trade could now provide a large source of revenue to help the state resolve its ongoing budgetary woes (helped by the passage of a Proposition 30 on Tuesday, which raises income and sales taxes temporarily, but by no means solved).
Now for the auction next week. California will auction off more than 23 million 2013 vintage allowances and almost 40 million vintage 2015 allowances on Wednesday, November 14. The state has set a floor price of $10 per allowance but the big question will be how much above $10 an allowance will sell for. In addition to the question of price, there are still questions about the degree to which the cap-and-trade program can withstand legal challenge. The program has already successfully withstood a challenge by environmental justice groups. The state has also been sued by groups seeking to invalidate the offset component of the program (for a description of offsets see here) on the grounds that the offset protocols do not achieve real reductions in greenhouse gases. My best guess is that the state will also successfully defend the offset challenge, though some commentators believe the case may have merit..
We're also very likely to see — any day now — a more complicated and potentially more problematic legal challenge to California's cap-and-trade rules for the importation of out-of-state electricity. For a really thorough explanation of the problem, see here. Here's an abbreviated description of the legal issue. The state Air Resources Board has designed rules to prevent two potential problems in regulating emissions from the electricity sector. One problem is the potential for emissions to shift from in-state to out-of-state sources not subject to regulation. If in-state generation is simply shifted to out-of-state sources that aren't regulated and then the electricity is shipped back into California, no real greenhouse gas reductions occur. And the second problem is called resource-shuffling, which is really a form of leakage. Resource shuffling occurs when a carbon-intensive electricity generator (say a coal-fired power plant) that used to import coal-generated electricity to California shifts its California imports to a lower-generating source (natural gas or even a renewable resource) and sends its more carbon-intensive electricity to an unregulated state without actually changing its overall electricity mix. California gets the renewable source of electricity but another jurisdiction gets the carbon-intensive electricity with no net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
The state's Air Resources Board has drafted regulations that attempt to eliminate, or at least dramatically reduce, these problems of leakage and resource shuffling. The rules are complex and technical and for the most part are not likely to raise serious legal problems. But one portion of the rules pose at least one potential constitutional problem. For what are known as "unspecified sources" of electricity — that is sources of electricity outside of California that cannot be specifically traced to a a particular facility — California will subject those sources to its cap-and-trade system whether or not they meet a regulatory threshold of total greenhouse gas emissions. In-state sources and out-of-state specified sources will, by contrast, only be subject to compliance obligations under cap-and-trade if they emit more that a threshhold amount (25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent). Unspecified emitters will also be subject to a default emissions rate that is based on the average emissions from all unspecified sources. In-state sources and out-of-state specified sources will, by contrast, be subject to compliance obligations based on their actual emissions. The reason for the distinction is that if regulators don't know exactly what the source is of imported electricity they can't know what the actual emissions are. Instead they'll apply a default average rate to any emissions they believe are attributable to the importation of electricity into California. If they know the source they can measure the actual emissions. To put it simply, the reason California is treating unspecified out-of-state sources differently is not to favor in-state over out-of-state sources but instead to try to account for emissions that should rightfully be attributable to California electricity usage when the state lacks sufficient information to know where the electricity is coming from.
From a legal perspective, however, the question is whether — consistent with the U.S. Constitution — the state can treat in-state and out-of-state sources differently. This is the same legal issue facing California's low carbon fuel standard, and here's how I explained the dormant Commerce Clause issue in an earlier post:
The dormant Commerce Clause — which really isn't a clause at all but an implicit constitutional limitation on states' rights to regulate — prohibits states from discriminating against or improperly burdening interstate commerce. States may not, for example, explicitly favor their own businesses while discriminating against out-of-state ones. This "facial" discrimination, especially when geared at "simple economic protectionism," is virtually always impermissible. Leading Supreme Court cases include City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey andHunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Comm. Even a state statute that doesn't on its face discriminate against out-of-state commerce can still be found unconstitutional if it imposes an excessive burden on out-of-state businesses as compared to the in-state benefits the law produces. But the constitutional test for such "incidental" effects on commerce is much easier for a state to pass than the test imposed on state statutes that discriminate directly.
California will face two separate questions: first, is the state discriminating against out-of-state sources on the face of the regulations themselves? If so, the state faces a very tough constitutional hurdle. But it is possible that the state could prevail even if the regulation is found to be facially discriminatory since the purpose of the regulation isn't economic protectionism. We simply won't know how a court will treat the question until the state is sued and a court rules. If a court finds the out-of-state rule not to discriminate facially, then the state will have an easier time justifying the "incidental" effects on commerce.
So what does all of this legal uncertainty have to do with next Wednesday's auction? It is possible that the uncertainty could put a damper on auction prices if traders believe that the program could be partially invalidated. This dampening effect is likely to be particularly true for the Commerce Clause challenge because if out-of-state rules are thrown out compliance may be cheaper if the result is that leakage or resource shuffling occurs. If the offset case succeeds, by contrast, compliance would be more expensive because offsets provide an alternative means of complying with emissions reduction requirements. If offsets are eliminated, businesses subject to cap-and-trade will have fewer options to comply.
In short, California remains at the center of much of the country's action on climate change. The state is moving slowly toward fully implementing the most comprehensive system of greenhouse regulation in the world. Tuesday will be a big step forward.


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This blog post was originally printed in The Rutland Herald on August 5, 2014. Reprinted here with permission.
It wasn't all what they planned, but sometimes events demand art and action of the most immediate kind, with little planning.
At least, that was the view of a small group of artists in Goddard College's MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts residency that ended up putting together a moving, interactive display on Goddard's Plainfield campus Wednesday to reflect on the tragedy unfolding in the current Gaza conflict.
Part of the Gaza display will remain for some time, if rains don't wash it away.
The idea for the Gaza Memorial Wall art installation came in a lunch meeting between MFAIA students and faculty earlier in the week as they brainstormed about what art installation they could contribute to the college's larger "Art Crawl" that would add to the conversation on campus about the tragedy unfolding daily in Gaza.
Students Suchi Branfman, Donia Salem and Mary Munson, together with Goddard faculty member Gale Jackson, decided they could utilize the stone wall surrounding the college's maze garden as a memorial wall to honor the civilian victims of the conflict and recognize the separation between Palestinians and Israelis that has led to so much death and deprivation.
"Goddard has a tradition of social causes, using art as an archive medium, and in raising community awareness," said Salem, "so we thought we could do something along those lines. Ultimately, we felt there should not be any silence about what was happening in Gaza."
New Jersey artist Donia Salem, a dancer, choreographer and poet whose father is Egyptian, downloaded a graphical list of the Gaza civilian victims published online by the London Telegraph so that participants in the art installation could write victims' names in chalk on the stone wall surrounding the college's gardens, which would also represent the physical wall constructed by Israel that now separates Gaza and Israel. She also prepared a traditional Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dish, zaatar, with bread, olive oil, and spices, a food staple of the region.
California artist Branfman, also a choreographer, dancer and longtime activist and educator, rehearsed a dance piece entitled "Journey" about witnessing and finding one's voice. Connecticut educator and artist Mary Munson proposed laying stones around the Arabic word Saleem traced in chalk as part of the display to mirror a burial tradition and to signify the permanence of death for the Gaza victims and at the same time, the hope for peace.
In the Gaza Wall Memorial presentation Wednesday, dozens gathered quietly around the stone wall as candles were lit, Branfman danced, and readings were offered by Munson and faculty member JuPong Lin. The list of Gaza victims, at the time about 180, was laid out on a simple table along with the zaatar. Many of those watching soon stepped forward and began writing the names of victims in chalk on the wall. Some shed tears as they wrote in chalk or as they placed small round stones on the top surface of the wall.
"Their attention was drawn to it and there was a somber mood," said Munson. "The results were amazing."
"There were many that were clearly deeply moved," said Salem.
"I was very happy, and truly inspired by people's response to the installation," said Branfman. "People were part of the experience. It's often the most powerful when observer becomes participant."
As of Friday, major international news organizations were reporting the death toll in Gaza had exceeded 1,650 with 63 Israeli soldiers and 3 Israeli civilians killed, according to figures provided by the respective sides in the conflict. The UN estimated 80 percent of the Palestinians killed are civilians.
"Paying tribute to the Gaza civilians killed is important as they are the ones suffering the greatest" said Salem. "There is a striking disproportionate nature to the conflict."
Preparing Sunday to fly back to her home in Santa Monica, Branfman said she had gotten word that some of her friends at the California College of the Arts in Oakland are now talking about doing their own Gaza Wall Memorial, possibly on the wall surrounding a local school in Oakland.
Munson said Sunday she and Salem are talking about doing another wall somewhere in the Northeast between their homes in Connecticut and New Jersey.
"It would be cool if this was something that spread and was done elsewhere," said Branfam, "though, in a way, it would be unfortunate. I'd rather the conflict ended."


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Amazon has unveiled a trio of new services designed to make life easier for anyone parking applications atop its famous cloud.
As expected, the company is now offering tools for monitoring resources on its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, automatically boosting or reducing resources as they're needed, and seamlessly redistributing traffic across multiple geographic regions.
"We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS," Amazon's Jeff Barr wrote on the Amazon Web Services blog.
"You want visibility into resource utilization and overall performance. You want your application to be able to scale on demand based on traffic and system load. You want to spread the incoming traffic across multiple web servers for high availability and better performance. You want to focus on building an application that takes advantage of the powerful infrastructure available in the cloud, while avoiding system administration and operational burdens."
The key addition is auto-scaling, according to Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a so-called "cloud management" outfit that works closely with Amazon. "The auto-scaling service is something that has been lacking in many users' mind from EC2. We've often heard from people looking at EC2 the first time: 'You mean Amazon doesn't automatically launch more instances when my app is overloaded?'" von Eicken wrote this morning on the RightScale blog.
Amazon's Jeff Barr first announced the new services in October, and after some private beta testing, all three are now available as public betas in the US. European versions should be available "in the next several months." Yes, we asked. But the company couldn't be more specific.
Dubbed CloudWatch, Amazon's new monitoring tool tracks resource usage across your Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) server instances and Elastic Load Balancers. That includes CPU loads, disk I/O rates, network I/O rates, request rates, and request latency. All this is captured at one-minute intervals and stored for the next two weeks.
Using this data, the new Auto Scaling service can then expand or reduce resources as necessary. "Your Amazon EC2 instances will scale automatically based on actual system load and performance but you won't be spending money to keep idle instances running," Barr wrote. Basically, you set certain thresholds, and when those thresholds are reached, the service launches new server instances or terminates instances no longer needed.
Meanwhile, Amazon's Elastic Load Balancing service lets you distribute loads across instances in one or more "Availability Zones." EC2 is served up from two separate geographic locations - the US and Europe - and each is split into multiple zones designed never to fail at the same time.
AWS performance monitoring, auto scaling, and load balancing tools are already available from RightScale. But RightScale's von Eicken sees Amazon's new services as compliments to his company's existing offerings. "There are multiple layers here," von Eicken tells The Reg, after beta testing Amazon's new management services. "Services may have the same names but that doesn't mean you're getting the same thing."
There's auto scaling and then there's auto scaling. "Auto scaling itself is easy, right? Launching the next server is really not a big deal. The big deal is lining up everything up beforehand."
RightScale web-based service offers so-called server templates designed to facilitate the deployment of new servers, giving instances the power to reconfigure themselves depending on the situation. "One of the biggest challenges that people will discover with Amazon Web Services, with Amazon's Auto Scaling, is that it's very painful and very hard to bake everything a server has to do into a machine image. And the second image needs to be different from the first. We give you the tools to do this."
But there are some things, von Eicken says, that are better done by Amazon, deep inside its own infrastructure. Amazon's CloudWatch can monitor activity at the hypervisor level, for instance, and its Elastic Load Balancing services can balance at the IP and DNS level.
RightScale plans to feed CloudWatch info into its own monitoring tools, which provide a more visual look at resource usage. And while Amazon is load balancing on one level, von Eicken and company can facilitate balancing on another. "There are also cases where you want to take a complex website and break it up into multiple sub-sites and move them to different server banks...You have application-specific rules on how you break things up and load balance. Amazon doesn't really do that and we do."
Like the rest of Amazon's cloud services, CloudWatch and Elastic Load Balancing are priced on a pay-as-you-go basis. Amazon's full price list is available here. Meanwhile, Auto Scaling is available for free as part of CloudWatch. ®


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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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As I mentioned earlier, anyone who says you can't get a good drink in Pittsburgh simply isn't looking. In the last 2 -3 years there have been a number of great restaurants and bars in the 'Burgh that have put serious cocktail programs in place. So if it's been a while since your last tour of Pittsburgh's eateries and watering holes, it's time to take another peek and see what's out there.
However, we're not just serving great booze here in Pittsburgh ... we're also making it. In addition to some folks who make award-winning vodka, we've got a brand-spankin' new whiskey distiller. Located right outside downtown in the Strip District, Wigle Whiskey is currently turning out great un-aged rye and wheat whiskey, both of which are stocked by several of Pittsburgh's best eating & drinking joints.
Cocktail scholars and booze geeks alike know that Southwest Pennsylvania was ground zero for the Whiskey Rebellion, and Wigle takes its name from one notable participant (for the full story, visit the distillery and take the tour ... it's well worth it). In fact, whiskey production was once so widespread in Southwest PA that rye was frequently referred to as "Monongahela Rye" for the number of distilleries in the region surrounding one of Pittsburgh's three rivers. Thanks to Wigle, whiskey is once again being produced in our area.
As part of their plan to reintroduce Pittsburghers to their native spirit, the kind people at Wigle host monthly cocktail-making classes, and they recently asked me to swing by and pass along a few tips on how to make decent drinks. They also asked me to come up with an original cocktail using one of their whiskies, so my contribution for the evening was ...
2 oz. Wigle wheat whiskey
1 oz. Basil & black pepper syrup
.75 oz. Fresh lemon juice
Shake everything with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a basil leaf.
Basil & black pepper syrup:
1.5 cups demerara sugar
1 cup water
12-14 basil leaves, torn
2 tsps. freshly-ground black pepper
Combine everything in a saucepan over low/medium heat and stir until sugar is dissolved (do not boil). Cover and let sit for 1 hour. Strain out the solids and refrigerate.
I waved this drink under the noses of the powers-that-be at Verde and they liked it enough to put it on the menu (If I haven't mentioned it already, the fine folks at Verde allow me behind the bar a few times a week to make drinks for people and otherwise molest their liquor supply. They're brave souls.)
So if you're somewhere in the general Pittsburgh area, swing by and grab an adult beverage.* And if you prefer the sudsy stuff, Verde also features locally-made beer from East End Brewing, Pennsylvania Brewing, and cider from Arsenal Cider House & Wine Cellar.
*Get some food too. It's really good.
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When a cookbook offers two recipes to spice up your 10 cent package, okay fine I think it might be up to 85 cents now, of Ramen noodles, you know you have a gem in hand.
I was recently sent Fire In My Belly:Real Cooking by Kevin Gillespie with David Joachim. The book is the former Top Chef finalist and James Beard Award semifinalist first foray. With 120 original recipes and pages filled with beautiful photography, Kevin and David brings you traditional Southern fare with inspired reinventions of classic dishes, all created with the home cook in mind.
Some of chapters include "Foods You Thought You Hated", with recipes like asparagus salad and new and improved liver and onions. Others are "My Version of Southern Food", "World Classics Revisited" and "Junk Food."
I tried out two recipes from the book, Kevin's recipe for noodle ramen, which I've reprinted below and Cast-Iron Skillet Chicken with Farro and Brussels Sprouts. Both were supremely delicious, easy to follow recipes and a nice change of paces for dinner at home. I love the mix of Southern flavors Kevin and David bring to the book, but a little healthier, less guilty twist to it. In the beginning of the book, they describe in detail common ingredients found in the both and cooking methods. I think this is a wonderful reference for any unseasoned cook that picks up this book. Each chapter also begins with a personal story and it really helps you get into Kevin's thought process for the recipe and why he decided to share it with you.
- 4oz beef top round, thinly sliced
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 packages Ramen noodles with beef seasoning packet
- Fresh Ginger, sliced paper thin (10 slices)
- 1 teaspoon black bean paste
- 1 teaspoon tamari
- 1 teaspoon white soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon Asian fish sauce
- 1/2 Sambal Olek chile paste
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- pinch of ground cinnamon
- pinch of ground cloves
- 1 clove garlic, sliced paper thin
- 1 lime
- 2 large eggs
- 4 Shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup red onion, thinly sliced
- ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro
- 1 scallion, sliced
- 1/4 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon fresh Thai basil
- Place your beef in the freezer for about 20 minutes. You want it frozen just enough so you can easily slice it. Remove and slice across the grain into pieces as thing as you can get with a knife.
- Bring the stock, beef seasoning packets, ginger, black bean paste, tamari and white soy sauce to a boil in a medium saucepan.
- Fill a second pan with water, about 3/4 of the way and bring to a boil. Add the noodles and cook for 2 minutes, stirring to break them up. Drain and set aside.
- Add the fish sauce, sambal olek, salt, cinnamon, cloves, garlic and lime juice (about 2 tablespoons) to the stock - whisk and return to a boil.
- Crack 1 egg into a small bowl. Remove the pan from the heat and with a whisk, stir to create a whirlpool in the stock. Pour the egg into the center and stop whisking.
- Return the pan to the heat and cook the egg for 4 minutes, then with a slotted spoon transfer the egg to a small plate. Bring the stock back up to a boil and repeat with remaining egg.
- Divide the noodles between two bowls. Layer the mushrooms, red onion, some black pepper, cilantro, scallion and a little sesame oil. Tear the leaves of the Thai basil into the bowls. Divide the beef between the two bowls and arrange in a single layer on top. Top the beef with the eggs and ladle just enough of the broth into each bowl to completely cover the meat. The meat will cook in about 1 minute.
Fire In My Belly: Real Cooking by Kevin Gillespie with David Joachim. Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC. ISBN: 978-1-4494-1143-5
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Probability lessons may teach children how to weigh life's odds and be winners, by Mark Henderson, Science Editor
Professor Spiegelhalter's four rules of risk, which he says everyone should know
Stuff happens We cannot predict exactly how every precise event will turn out, but we can often predict the overall pattern of events surprisingly well
Compare like with like If you want to show that speed cameras reduce road traffic accident rates, don't just put them in places that have just had a run of accidents
What am I not being told? This person may well have got better after she took this wonder treatment, but how many other people's stories are not being featured?
Twice not-very-much is still not very much Increasing a tiny risk may not be so important: almost everything interesting might help and it might also harm. The trick is working out the balance for you
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Will you be braving the crowds and parking lot traffic to score exclusive deals on this year's biggest day for in-store shopping? If so, you'll need a strategy and some tools to arm yourself against Black Friday shopping insanity. Here they are.
Our goal is to get you in and out of the store as quickly as possible, and with as little damage to your psyche or physical person. The key, as with most survival strategies, is preparation.
Make Sure You're Going for the Best Deals and Add Them to Your Mobile Shopping List
Unless you're a glutton for punishment, the whole point of Black Friday shopping is to score deals you can't get elsewhere at any other time more conveniently. So it's important to make sure the Black Friday deals are really worth the effort of lining up to get them—and really something you, in particular, need to buy. (As you know, just because something is marked down substantially or even free, doesn't mean you should take up that offer.)
We've gathered some of the best Black Friday deals, but you can also scour Black Friday ads on sites like BFAds.net and TheBlackFriday.com to find products outside our curated lists. Again, you should only be looking for the impossible-to-pass-up deals you can only get by dragging yourself to the store for.
Once you've found the deals you want to grab, add them to a shopping list you can easily take with you (keep your list in Evernote, Simplenote, or Google Docs, or a dedicated shopping app like ShopSavvy).
Consolidate Your Shopping Trips
If the same item is offered at more than one store (e.g., the Playstation 3 Bundle), you'll save some time and parking aggravation by consolidating your shopping at one store—even if at a different store the item is a couple of dollars less. The time saved looking for parking and navigating a new store layout can easily make up for the difference. To wit, before you think about visiting several stores on Black Friday, consider the cost of driving there, spending time looking for a parking spot, pushing through a new crowd of shoppers later in the day, and falling in line all over again. Probably best to stick with one store, unless another one has an exclusive doorbuster item you really crave.
Get Up and Into the Store in Time
When should you get to the store? A few things to take into consideration: how hard it is to get the item and what it's worth to you. Besides just knowing something is an incredible deal, the store's Black Friday flier can tell you if the store is likely to run out of the product. Two signs: the flier lists a quantity per store (whether minimum quantity or maximum quantity) and/or the item is on the first or back page of the flier. For those items, you want to get there long before the store opens for any chance of scoring the deal. When we looked at whether it's ever worth lining up for Black Friday, we cautioned that if you want those doorbuster deals, that means standing outside the store the whole night before.
For other, less critical items, make a decision on what your time is worth. How much is the product discounted? (A price tracking site like CamelCamelCamel can give you price history and previously mentioned Decide.com will tell you whether an electronics product is worth buying now or waiting on.) If buying the item on Black Friday can save you $300, that's probably worth getting up at least two or three hours before your normal wake time to head to the store. Something that only saves you $30, even if it's 90% off, most likely isn't worth the effort.
Once you know what time you should get up, it's time to force yourself to wake after the previous Thanksgiving gluttony. Set your alarm and get ready to manipulate your body to wake the hell up, if you're not used to 1am shopping sprees.
Know the Lay of the Land and Use It to Your Advantage
Get where you need to go quickly so you can grab the items you want before the other members of the horde. Bing Maps can locate stores within shopping malls or you can use a dedicated mobile shopping mall directory/map like previously mentioned Point Inside for iPhone (which also shows you departments within major stores and available deals and coupons) or Android and iPhone app FastMall. If the store you want to buy from isn't mapped in one of those apps, you could do some pre-BF detective work and walk around the store before the rush to sketch your own map.
Another strategy is to start at the back of the store as soon as you enter, so there are fewer people to compete/contend with. Prioritize where you go based on: a) the most likely to be sold out items on your list and b) how far it is from the front of the store.
Bring Along Sustenance
If you plan on visiting more than one store or shopping for all of Black Friday, make sure you bring along a water bottle and snacks to keep you energized. Shopping for hours is a real workout, and if you really want to plow through that shopping list, you need some nutritional support. Make your own re-hydrating drink or homemade energy bar and make sure you get a good breakfast in before you start your day of shopping.
Master the Checkout Line
So you've culled your Black Friday items, strategically navigated to the right places, and armed yourself with enough food and water to last a sit-in. Now it's time to tackle checkout.
As with grocery shopping, going for the line with fewer people but more items will usually save you more time than the more people but fewer items situation (the breakeven point is 17 items). Lane 13 might also be worth looking at, thanks to superstitious shoppers.
Prepare for the Wait
Regardless of what you do, the bottom line is you're going to need some patience, because there will be a lot of waiting. People also get a little crazy around limited-time deals, so prepare for possible rudeness too. A few things that can help:
Load your phone with entertainment. Bring some videos to watch on your phone (You can use Handbrake to convert videos for Android or batch process videos for your phone using previously mentioned Any Video Converter, which also pulls down YouTube videos.)
Download some new music or free games (perhaps now's the time to turn your Android or iPhone into a retro game arcade).
And to keep your cool, you can even try a little meditation with the help of previously noted Buddhify.
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Ethan Saylor, 26, with Down syndrome, died in a cinema when he refused to leave
Witnesses say officers put him on floor and handcuffed him, and he died of asphyxiation
David Perry: Police need to learn to deal with people with disabilities without force
Perry: We all benefit from disabled rights, we will be old and disabled one day
One day last January, Robert Ethan Saylor, a 26-year-old man with Down syndrome, went to see the movie "Zero Dark Thirty." When it was over, Saylor briefly left the theater, then decided to return and see it again. The manager called security because Saylor didn't pay, and three off-duty deputies, moonlighting at the mall, came in to confront him.
According to Frederick County, Maryland, police statements, he swore at them and refused to leave. The deputies tried to remove him, despite Saylor's caretaker's warnings and pleas for them to wait and let her take care of it. What happened next is a little unclear, but witnesses say the deputies put Saylor on the floor, held him down and handcuffed him. Saylor, called Ethan by his family, suffered a fracture in his throat cartilage. He died of asphyxiation.
The death was ruled a homicide, but a grand jury failed to indict the deputies and they returned to work without charges.
My son has Down syndrome, so I have been following this case closely. But for months, it seemed as if only people in the disability community cared about it.
Petitions for independent investigations sputtered out with just a few hundred votes. Local reporting on the case never made a splash in national media. Meanwhile, the Frederick County sheriff investigated his men's conduct, ruled they had followed procedure correctly, and tried to move on.
Police violence against people with disabilities is not uncommon, but the cases don't seem to get a lot of publicity. Most people see the disabled as, at best, passive victims, objects to care for, perhaps to love, but not people with whom we automatically identify.
This is a mistake. We are all only temporarily able-bodied. Accidents, illness, and age wait for us all. What happened to Ethan Saylor could happen to you.
In July, his death began to get more attention. Heather Mizeur, a member of the Maryland House of Representatives and candidate for governor, seized on Saylor's story and called for new training for law enforcement. Debra Alfarone, an investigative journalist in Washington, began to broadcast and write about the case. A petition asking Gov. Martin O'Malley to investigate went viral in mid-August, garnering 300,000 signatures in just a week. This petition fueled a renewed, suddenly national, media narrative. Ethan Saylor and #JusticeForEthan are now an official cause.
What's next? An outside investigation either by the Justice Department or as part of a civil lawsuit might piece together the chain of events from the moment deputies confronted Saylor to his death on the cinema floor. We need an unbiased assessment of responsibility, not just to help the Saylor family understand – although that's important – but to help all of us understand what went wrong. When law enforcement officers encounter people with disabilities, things can go wrong very easily.
Dennis Debbaudt trains police on how to respond to people with intellectual disabilities, and argues that such cases require special tactics.
First, he says, law enforcement officers should ensure that they, bystanders and the person with a disability are all out of danger. If the situation is safe, Debbaudt says, officers need to take all the time that's necessary to resolve the problem without force. He tells officers that if the person with a disability isn't "aggressing into the officer's space," then there's generally no good reason to "aggress into theirs."
Saylor's aide was asking the officers to wait, rather than handcuff and arrest him, because he hated to be touched. To wait sounds a lot like common sense. According to both the officers' and witnesses' statements, no one seems to have been in danger, a deputy initiated contact only after Saylor swore at them, and witnesses report that the officers remained calm throughout.
At worst, taking more time would have inconvenienced other moviegoers – who, in any event, did not see their movie because of the death. I can't say whether the deputies did anything wrong; in fact, they may have followed their typical procedures to the letter. But with just a little more patience, Ethan Saylor could still be alive.
This tragedy raises questions about how people with disabilities fit into society.
The Americans with Disabilities Act suggests that employers must offer reasonable accommodations to workers with disabilities. That standard has entered the broader culture, even as we repeatedly litigate the meaning of "reasonable." Would it have been reasonable to let Saylor watch the movie for free? Would it have been reasonable to try to talk it out for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, delaying the start of a movie? Would it be reasonable to bar admission to people with disabilities?
Making sure we figure out how to safely include people with disabilities throughout our community matters to everyone. Here's a very different story with an equally tragic ending.
On August 2, John Wrana, a 95-year-old World War II veteran in Park Forest, Illinois, was scared. He didn't want to go to the hospital for surgery, because he didn't want to end up on life support. The staff at his assisted living community decided to involuntarily commit him and called the police. He threatened the staff with a shoehorn and a cane. The police came. They shot him with a Taser and and fired beanbag rounds at him. He died.
The Park Forest police say, "Attempts were made verbally to have the resident comply with demands to drop the articles, to no avail." The police claim he had a kitchen knife, but the family disputes this, saying there was no knife in the old man's room before the incident.
Unlike Robert Ethan Saylor, John Wrana was not born with a disability. He made it through WWII with his body intact. But he was only temporarily able-bodied, then age caught up with him. Once in the world of disability, confused and stripped of his power to govern his body, he encountered the police and was killed.
Disability rights are universal human rights, not abstract principles. But if it takes a personal reason to care about rights for the disabled, remember this: You might need them someday.
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OPERATION NAPOLEON - Arnaldur Indridason
Reactions to an author taking a detour away from a much loved series, or style (or both for that matter) can vary. Some readers love the chance to head into new territory, others find that departure too much of a step, and long to return to the familiarity of the series, the known characters or the styling. And as with everything, for this reader, it all depends.
OPERATION NAPOLEON is a thriller, set in Iceland, but based around the mystery of a plane that went down at the very end of World War II. To take this that little bit further again from the Erlendur Sveinsson Crime Fiction series, this book also has a central female character. Kristin is pulled into a dangerous world of secrecy and power games when all she is trying to do is discover the truth behind her brother's fate - there on that remote glacier.
I suspect that whether or not a departure from the known works is often to do with the quality of the storytelling. OPERATION NAPOLEON is, undoubtedly, a thriller. There are lots of nefarious goings on, there's danger and conflict, there's the unknown of what was in that plane, why there is so much desire to find it, and claim what it is carrying. So whilst there are many of the elements that a thriller requires, and the pace and plot that supports the discovery of those elements, there are some quintessentially "Indridason" elements to the story. There are some wonderful characters that the reader can identify and sympathise with - it always helps to have somebody to be "barracking for".
There is also the way that this author always manages to weave the landscape and the culture of Iceland into his books, and the way that he uses family relationships as a basis for characterisation and exploration. In this case we have Kirstin and her brother, and the two brothers whose farm sits at the base of the glacier. The relationship between both sets of siblings is interesting - perhaps more tantalising in the case of the farmers, but undoubtedly the motivation for Kirstin's involvement.
There is a bit of a twist in the tail of this story though, and fans of alternative history may find the final proposition a little difficult to swallow or even maybe a little confronting. Given that the book declares itself pretty well as a thriller, this reader found OPERATION NAPOLEON less problematic than other stories of the same nature, having said that, alternative histories do make me twitch.
The good thing about OPERATION NAPOLEON is that it has the basic structure, and many of the required elements of a thriller, but with sufficient characterisation, and a great sense of place and culture that would make the book appeal to readers less fond of the pure thriller format, provided that aspect of rewriting history isn't too firmly in your pet hates listing.
1945: A German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajökull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajökull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved--but will pay with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate. Her pursuit puts her in great danger, leading her, finally, to a remote island off Argentina in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon.
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Today, President Obama promised the American people that he had not forgotten the 20 innocent chidlren and six brave educators who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary more than 100 days ago. Standing with parents and teachers of gun violence victims, he urged Congress to take action that will protect other children and families from the pain and grief these families have experienced.
"As I said when I visited Newtown just over three months ago, if there is a step we can take that will save just one child, just one parent, just another town from experiencing the same grief that some of the moms and dads who are here have endured, then we should be doing it," President Obama said. "We have an obligation to try."
In January, the President put forward a series of common-sense proposals to reduce the epidemic of gun violence and keep our kids safe, and in his State of the Union address, the President called on Congress to give these proposals a vote. "And in just a couple of weeks, they will," he said.
In the coming weeks, members of Congress will vote on whether we should require universal background checks for anyone who wants to buy a gun so that criminals or people with severe mental illnesses can't get their hands on one. They'll vote on tough new penalties for anyone who buys guns only to turn around and sell them to criminals. They'll vote on a measure that would keep weapons of war and high-capacity ammunition magazines that facilitate these mass killings off our streets. They'll get to vote on legislation that would help schools become safer and help people struggling with mental health problems to get the treatment that they need.
"None of these ideas are controversial," the President said. "Why wouldn't we want to make it more difficult for a dangerous person to get his or her hand on a gun?"
And if you ask most Americans outside of Washington -- including many gun owners -- some of these ideas, they don't consider them controversial. Right now, 90 percent of Americans -- 90 percent -- support background checks that will keep criminals and people who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun. More than 80 percent of Republicans agree. More than 80 percent of gun owners agree.
"There's absolutely no reason why we can't get this done," President Obama said. But "there are some powerful voices on the other side that are interested in running out the clock or changing the subject or drowning out the majority of the American people to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all."
The President called on everyone to make sure their members of Congress were listening, that we hadn't forgotten what happened in Newtown or Aurora or Blacksburg or our pledge to do whatever we can as a nation to prevent future violence.
Nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. And that's why it's so important that all these moms and dads are here today. But that's also why it's important that we've got grassroots groups out there that got started and are out there mobilizing and organizing and keeping up the fight. That's what it's going to take to make this country safer. It's going to take moms and dads, and hunters and sportsmen, and clergy and local officials like the mayors who are here today standing up and saying, this time really is different -- that we're not just going to sit back and wait until the next Newtown or the next Blacksburg or the next innocent, beautiful child who is gunned down in a playground in Chicago or Philadelphia or Los Angeles before we summon the will to act.
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Rock Island Auction Company's February Regional Firearms Auction contained a vast assortment of collectables and antiques, from engraved Henry rifles, World War II firearms, and militaria, to modern gems such as new in the box shotguns, rifles, and pistols.
2014 started with a bang for Rock Island Auction Company with a record number of sealed bids — totaling around 17,000 — with many items exceeding their already high estimates.
The February 2014 Regional Firearms Auction exceeded expectations by posting $4.4 million dollars in sales. It boasted a 99% sell through rate for the three day auction, which contained nearly 6,500 firearms and 2,736 lots.
The auction featured a vast assortment of collectables and antiques — from engraved Henry rifles, World War II firearms, and militaria, to modern gems such as new in the box shotguns, rifles, and pistols.
A lot of interest was shown in the Tom Knapp "Shooting Star" Collection when two lots sold for $8,050 and $8,625 respectively. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of history from the man recognized as the greatest exhibition shooter of modern times.
The Charles Best Collection of Iver Johnson firearms was also quite a hit with collectors. These often unfairly maligned firearms saw a lot of bid activity and also some very attractive prices. An Engraved Iver Johnson Model 1879 Swing Cylinder Revolver sold for $4,312, while a Collector's Lot of Three Iver Johnson Air Pistols sold for a surprising $3,737.
Four Harrington & Richardson Revolvers from the Jim Hauff collection commanded $2,300. All three collections performed tremendously on the auction block.
Winchester and Henry firearms are always a staple in any RIAC auction and nearly 400 were auctioned off including a New Haven Arms Henry lever action rifle that brought a sale price of $25,875.
A desirable Winchester Model 1866 lever action saddle ring carbine also found a new owner, selling for $6,900.
A Winchester Model 12 slide action trench shotgun with U.S. Marked Receiver, sold for $3,737.50, yet another indicator of the hot trench shotgun market.
There is a sleeper in every auction, and this Regional Auction's was a Collector's Lot of U.S. bayonets and knives. It was an intense back and forth battle, achieving a sale price of $6,900.
Military arms were well represented with a U.S. Springfield Model 1903 bolt action sniper rifle with Winchester A5 Scope that commanded $4,600. Not to be outdone, four Enfield bolt action rifles left our doors for $4,025.
The ever-popular creations of Samuel Colt played a big role with an engraved gold and silver plated Colt Model 1860 Army percussion revolver featuring ornate cast grip that brought in an astounding $11,500.
A Colt Model 1862 Police percussion revolver with holster and inscription on the back strap exceeded the estimate by selling for $8,625.
Eyebrows — and bidder cards — shot skyward as 39 individual bidders vied for the chance to own an extensively engraved, antique, First Generation Colt Single Action Army revolver with factory letter. It went for $4,600. A Colt Model 1855 Revolving Rifle crossed the block for $4,312.
Other notable highlights included a scarce Smith & Wesson Model 320 Revolving Rifle with Stock and Case that sold for $11,500, exceeding the estimate. And a Tower Flintlock Carbine that went for $5,642. Two U.S. Bolt Action Rifles sold for $4,887.
Rock Island Auction Company holds five live auctions per year, two of which are Regional Auctions and are geared towards beginner collectables as well as modern sporting pistols, rifles and shotguns. The remaining three are Premiere Auctions and are built around important, rare, high condition, historic firearms and militaria. RIAC Premiere Firearms Auctions are considered by many around the world to be the crown jewel of collector firearms auctions. Its next auction is a Premiere Firearms Auction scheduled for May 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2014.
For more information regarding this sale or interest in selling with RIAC, please visit www.rockislandauction.com or call 1-800-238-8022.
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Immediately contact Animal Control and the Animal Care and Adoption Center in Longview TX to see if your pet has been brought in. If your pet is not there, file a lost pet report with the staff. You will need to come back to the shelter every 48 hours to see if your pet has been brought in. Check with your neighbors to see if they have seen your pet. You may also want to check the lost and found section of the local newspapers and place an ad there yourself.
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Please do not attempt to capture the animal. Many bites occur when unfamiliar humans approach or try to handle distressed animals, Please contact Animal Control (903) 988-4120. When calling the City of Kilgore Animal Control (903) 988-4120, about a stray animal, please give a detailed description of the animal (breed, color, size, collar, tags, etc). If you know where the stray animal belongs, let us know the address so we can make contact with the owner. Please provide your name, phone number and/or address in case the Animal Control Officer needs to get more information. Your information will be kept confidential.
Animal Control takes dogs to the Animal Care and Adoption Center in Longview TX. In Kilgore, we don't pick up cats, unless we see an injured one and then we will take it to the Animal Care and Adoption Center in Longview.
Wildlife picked up by Animal Control Officers is relocated and released in accordance with State and local laws. Loose livestock such as horses and cows are taken into custody by the county Sheriff and/or deputies.
Animal Control Officers are not normally on duty on the weekends and after 5 pm. All animal related calls during these times need to be referred to the City of Kilgore Police Department. You can call the Police Dispatch at 903-983-1559. Once the Police Officer is on scene, they will determine if Animal Control needs to be notified. Please do not attempt to capture or handle any unfamiliar animal.
If wildlife is frequenting your property, you need to identify what is attracting them. Wildlife is common in this part of Texas, and typically will not hang out at your house unless they are finding some type of food, water or shelter. Pet food left out during the evening hours and open garbage containers are typical examples of this problem. Removing access or their food source will often make them go away.
If some type of wildlife is digging up your lawn, it is usually an armadillo or skunk digging for grubs, worms, etc. Treat your yard with a pesticide to kill off their food source.
If you have crawl space under your house or damage to your roof that has open access holes, you are inviting wildlife to move in. Cover and repair all areas of access with solid, sturdy material. If we are unable to remove the wildlife we may suggest getting an exterminator.
We do not trap and remove healthy wildlife unless it in a space occupied by people. Wildlife trapped by accident or without approval will be released in the area in which it was caught.
It is illegal to leave any animal in any standing or parked vehicle in such a way as to endanger the animal's health or safety. Any Animal Control Officer, Police Officer, of Firefighter is authorized to use reasonable force, including the breaking of a window, to remove an animal from the vehicle whenever the Officer reasonably believes that the animal's health or safety is, or soon will be, endangered, and said animal shall be impounded. An Officer who removes an animal in accordance with this law is not liable for any resulting property damage.
Contact the City of Kilgore Municipal Court at 903-988-4101 to determine the amount of the fines. Remember, you have a date on the summons letting you know the latest date to respond to the Municipal Court.
Local ordinance requires that the owner or custodian of each domestic dog or cat shall have the animal vaccinated against rabies at four months of age and once a year after. The vaccination must be administered by a licensed Veterinarian. You need to retain proof of rabies vaccination in case Animal Control requests to see them. Failure to vaccinate your dog or cat against rabies can result in a fine and/or summons to the Municipal Court. Remember, vaccinating your pets is your family's first line of defense against rabies. Your pets are more likely to have contact with a wild animal than you.
Rabies is an acute viral disease that attacks the nervous system, resulting in paralysis and almost certain death once the symptoms appear. The rabies virus is present in the saliva of the rabid animal. The most common way the disease is spread is by a bite from an infected animal. Though rare, rabies also can be spread if the infected animal's saliva comes in contact with fresh scratches, open wounds or mucous membranes such as the lining of the eyelid. If left untreated, it is almost always fatal. You can find more information regarding rabies by clicking here.
If your dog or cat has been in contact with one of the following high risk animals: skunk, raccoon, bat, fox or coyote, contact the City of Kilgore Animal Control immediately for guidance. If the wildlife animal is dead or can be caught, then it may be shipped for rabies testing. Do not attempt to contain the wildlife animal yourself. You are also advised to consult with your veterinarian. Your pet may need vet care for injuries, and may need to be given a booster rabies vaccination if he is currently vaccinated, or a series of vaccinations if he is not currently vaccinated.
Leave it alone. Mother animals do not normally abandon their young, but may leave them hidden while they look for food. Mothers will typically come back for their young. Moving the young wildlife is not only stressful for the animal and increases the chance of injury to the person or animal, but could also result in criminal charges under State Law. If you feel that the animal is in danger, please feel free to contact the City of Kilgore Animal Control at 903-988-4120 or the Kilgore Police Department at 903-983-1559.
If you locate an injured animal, leave it alone. If you feel it is in danger or suffering, please contact Kilgore Animal Control at 903-988-4120 or the Kilgore Police Department at 903-983-1559. Again, if you try to rescue the injured animal, it could result in injury to yourself or more stress on the animal.


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Thursday, Oct. 3
The enigmatic Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros performs tonight at Champions Square. Julianna Barwick, a Louisiana native who also plays with vocal loops and other effects, opens. Info here.
Billed as celebrating the "unsung heroes" of American Music, the annual Ponderosa Stomp festival kicks off today. Besides concerts, the weekend includes a music history conference, a record show and tonight things kick off with a party. Info here.
Folk-rock outfit The Head and the Heart performs a free concert on Tulane's Lavin-Bernick Center quad. Info here.
Friday, Oct. 4
We've seen many iterations of A Streetcar Named Desire in this town, but Scottish Ballet's dance version is sure to be different. NOBA's season-opening show is set to a jazz-inspired score. Info here.
Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago and ZZ Top headline the Gretna Heritage Festival, starting tonight. The festival also features a German Beer Garden, Italian Village, rides and more. Info here.
Comedians D.L. Hughley and Eddie Griffin take the stage at the Saenger Theatre tonight. Info here.
Saturday, Oct. 5
… also at the Saenger, Kristin Chenoweth is backed by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at the theater's opening gala concert. I interviewed David Skinner, the Saenger's general manager, about the theater's opening for this month's New Orleans Magazine. Concert info here.
Celebrating the end of the summer art slump, Art for Arts Sake includes art gallery and museum openings around town and a block party and site-specific installations on Julia Street. Info here.
Fun., the band known for the ubiquitous "We Are Young," performs at Champions Square. Info here.
Sunday, Oct. 6
The hot band of the moment is the sister band Haim, whose music is reminiscent of the classic pop-rock of Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins but at the same time unique. In a moment of pop-culture synergy, the band recently covered Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" for a BBC series. Show info here.


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The Forsyth County Environmental Assistance and Protection Board is accepting applications for Special Environmental and Air Quality Awards to recognize innovative programs that reduce pollution and improve the environment in Forsyth County. The awards are open to businesses, industries, the general public, and other nonprofit organizations and local governments implementing environmental programs outside of their stated mission. Applications are being accepted for calendar year 2013 and can be downloaded from our website at:
Applications for the Special Awards must be submitted to the Advisory Board via the Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection no later than June 27, 2014. For proper review and consideration, applicants are required to attend the Advisory Board meeting on July 15, 2014. Applicants may provide a presentation outlining the reduction activities undertaken at their facility. Please address all correspondence to Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection, Attn: Peter DeVries, Forsyth County Government Center, 201 North Chestnut Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101-4120. Should you have any questions please call Peter Lloyd at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection (703-2430) or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.