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By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) _ What next for South Africa?
This racially charged country that, on Nelson Mandela's watch, inspired the world by embracing reconciliation in all-race elections in 1994 is again in the global spotlight after the loss of such a towering historical figure.
It is a time not just for grief and gratitude, but also a clear-eyed assessment of national strengths and shortcomings in a future without a man who was a guide and comfort to so many.
"It's a new beginning," said Kyle Redford, one of many outside the home of the anti-apartheid leader who became the nation's first black president. "The loss of a legend is going to force us to come together once again."
He acknowledged that there is a "sense of what next: Where do we go? What do we do? And how do we do it?"
Mandela's resolve rubbed off on many of his compatriots, though such conviction is tempered by the reality that his vision of a "rainbow nation" failed, almost inevitably, to meet the heady expectations propelling the country two decades ago. Peaceful elections and relatively harmonious race relations define today's South Africa; so do crime, corruption and economic inequality.
Mandela remained a powerful symbol in the hopeful, uncharted period after apartheid, even when he left the presidency, retired from public life and shuttled in and out of hospitals as a protracted illness eroded his once-robust frame. He became a moral anchor, so entwined with the national identity that some jittery South Africans wondered whether the country would slide into chaos after his death.
"Does it spell doomsday and disaster for us?" retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked rhetorically Friday before declaring that no, the country will not disintegrate.
"The sun will rise tomorrow and the next day and the next," said Tutu, who like Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting apartheid and promoting reconciliation. "It may not appear as bright as yesterday, but life will carry on."
A series of violent events since last year intensified worries over the state of the nation. The August 2012 shooting deaths of 34 striking miners by police at the Marikana platinum mine recalled, for some South Africans, state killings under apartheid. In February, a Mozambican taxi driver was dragged from a South African police vehicle and later died in a jail cell.
At the same time, tourism surged. Despite labor strife and credit-rating downgrades, resource-rich South Africa hosted Brazil, Russia, India and China at the "BRICS" summit in March. It has the biggest economy in Africa and aspires to continental leadership.
Mandela's death will not destabilize race relations in the country, contrary to some fears, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
"For many years now, South Africans have got along with one another largely peacefully without Mr. Mandela having been active in the political sphere," Lerato Moloi, the institute's head of research, said. "In fact, Mr. Mandela's passing may be cause for many to reflect on the remarkably peaceful and swift racial integration of many parts of society, including schools, suburbs, universities, and workplaces."
Moloi said in a statement: "Although some of this had started to occur before 1994, as a symbol of racial reconciliation and forgiveness Mr. Mandela will be viewed by many as having played a pivotal role in creating such a society."
Mandela's life epitomized the fight for freedom and equality, said Human Rights Watch. It pointed out that South Africa's education and health sectors are inadequate and the country remains divided by racial separation and deep economic inequality.
"Almost two decades into its democracy, South Africa is not the country that Mandela had said he hoped it would become," the group said.
President Jacob Zuma evoked the idea of the 95-year-old Mandela as a beacon for the ages when he announced his death on Thursday night.
South Africans, Zuma said, must be determined "to live as Madiba has lived, to strive as Madiba has strived and to not rest until we have realized his vision of a truly united South Africa, a peaceful and prosperous Africa, and a better world."
Mandela, also known by his clan name Madiba, admitted to weakness and failings, yet rose to greatness in a way that no contemporary or successor could match.
Zuma, for example, has credentials as an anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned with Mandela. But he and the ruling African National Congress, once led by Mandela, have been dogged by corruption allegations that have eroded support for the government. In the days before Mandela's death, South African media were filled with reports on the alleged lavish use of state funds for construction at Zuma's family compound.
The scene outside Mandela's house embodied the mixed picture in South Africa, where political sparring between the ruling party and the opposition has sharpened ahead of national elections next year, the 20th anniversary of the pivotal vote in which Mandela became president.
Mourners outside the home mingled in an inclusive, celebratory atmosphere that prompted the Rev. Inigo Alvarez, a Catholic priest, to declare: "Now we experience what is South Africa, all kinds of people, all kinds of regions."
Yet ANC activists in yellow jumpsuits pasted posters on the perimeter walls of the Mandela compound and handed out leaflets presenting the party as the heir to his tradition. In death, Mandela was still drawn into politics.


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Located just outside of the eye is the eye wall. This is the location within a hurricane where the most damaging winds and intense rainfall is found. The image below is of a hurricane (called cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere). Image by: OSEI Eye walls are called as such because oftentimes the eye is surrounded by a vertical wall of clouds. The eye wall can be seen in the picture above as the thick ring surrounding the eye.


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When mayors put their stamps on cities, their legacies often remain physically.
It's hard to deny that Thomas M. Menino, a larger-than-life figure in Boston politics who served as mayor for 20 years, left his stamp on the city. Going around town, it's easy to spot instances of his physical name remaining on city signs seven months after he left office.
Boston.com recently asked the office of current Mayor Marty Walsh what the timeline was to replace the outdated Menino signs. Walsh's office, according to his press secretary, is not in a hurry to replace the Menino signs since city resources can be spent in better ways. Additionally, there's no central sign database with the locations of all the Menino-branded signs, so there's no effective way to launch a rapid sign-changing operation.
Menino's name footprint is far-reaching. Boston magazine found at least 1,182 Menino-branded signs around the city last year. (The former mayor was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and started chemotherapy in March.)
Sign-changing and name-changing issues are common in many cities and states when there's a shift in administration. They're easy to criticize as a waste of local resources.
In Chicago, former Mayor Richard M. Daley's name lingered on city signs much like Menino's in Boston. "I actually did send a message out, I don't want time wasted changing a bunch of signs and wasting taxpayers' dollars," current Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in 2011, according to The Associated Press.
When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett took office in 2011, he maintained a practice started by then-Gov. Ed Rendell to keep the sitting governor's name off welcome signs. In 2004, Rendell, according to Allentown's Morning Call, had state crews cover up his name on state welcome signs and replaced them with the state slogan, "State of Independence." In 2012, a state representative even introduced legislation that would prohibit the Pennsylvania governor's name on welcome signs, according to the newspaper.
Earlier this year in South Florida, the Hialeah City Council approved legislation to remove the name of a former mayor from city hall, according to The Miami Herald. The council had previously OK'd an ordinance barring future municipal building renamings for living officials or their relatives.
Sign removal or name changing can be touchy subject depending on the official being honored.
(Photo of former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry by Flickr user Tom Bridge using an Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license)
In 1991, the District of Columbia then-mayor, Sharon Pratt Kelly, made a concerted effort to remove former Mayor Marion Barry's name from signs around the nation's capital and even appointed someone to oversee a special signage and graphics task force, according to Washington City Paper.
Barry, who had been arrested and convicted of drug possession during his third term as mayor, was angry with his successor's name-changing operation. In the case of one municipal building, the Frank Reeves Center, Barry took corrective action when he successfully ran for a fourth term as mayor after his release from prison.
From "Mayor for Life," Barry's recently released autobiography:
"I felt it was a misdirection of energy and a shot at my legacy in Washington. You can't remove a person's name like that. There's one argument to disagree with how a person ran the city, but it's another argument to slight a city leader personally. I felt that taking my name down from a city project that I was totally responsible for developing was blatantly disrespectful. So after she took my name down from the Reeves Center building, when I got back into office, I put my name right back up. I was not going to allow anyone to erase my history in the District."
Barry, who today is a member of the D.C. Council, can still point to his name on the side of the Reeves Center, where it remains, for now. The Reeves Center is part of a controversial proposed land swap involving a development deal that would pave the way for the construction of a new soccer stadium and see the municipal building relocated to to Barry's home ward.
"I'm thoroughly, 100 percent, 1,000 percent supportive of it," Barry told Washington City Paper last year.
(Photo of a Boston neighborhood sign with Menino's name by Flickr user Adam Pieniazek via a Creative Commons Attribution Generic 2.0 license)
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Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) is perhaps the worst invasive species in Wisconsin, to date. It forms dense, nearly pure stands that displace all other species from large areas of wetlands, especially sedge meadows. Colonizing plants soon spread by rhizomes to form ever larger clones. When in flower, the branches of the inflorescences tend to spread out and may be any shade of color between medium purple and bright green. After pollination occurs (early June) the branches close back on the central axis to assume the appearance of a spike and the flowers eventually turn to a light tan color and may remain on the stems well into the fall and winter. Leaves often exceed 1 cm in width, broader than virtually all other grasses in our wetlands, except for common reed grass (Phragmites australis). Control of Phalaris is extremely difficult and there are few if any examples of longterm success in heavily infested sites in disturbed landscapes. Although the plants can be killed by a variety of methods, vigorous re-invasion is common and none of our native species appear to be capable of competing with Phalaris in a disturbed landscape. Wetlands receiving a large share of water from ground water are more resistant to invasion. Recommendations for control of Phalaris are similar to those for Phragmites australis. As in all invasive plant control problems, the best return for limited resources rests in prioritization of sites, regular monitoring for early discovery and removal, and vigilance thereafter. Because Phalaris does not usually produce large numbers of new seedlings, one of the most effective means for control is to monitor susceptible areas and destroy any new plants before they can expand vegetatively. This is especially true in cases where wetlands have been disturbed, or in recently created or restored wetlands. When an established wetland vegetation of native plants is in place, the incidence of colonization by Phalaris is much reduced and expansion of the clones is much slower. Application of herbicides can be effective in killing established populations of Phalaris, but may also kill other, more desirable plants in the area and if the site is not monitored thereafter, any surviving plants can quickly reoccupy the area. Expectations are low for restoring large, long-established populations in disturbed landscapes. |


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You've seen worse than the new legal thriller Closed Circuit, but you've also seen a lot better. Despite breathless proclamations about "the biggest, most high profile murder case in British history" and timely trappings of closely held government secrets threatening to come to light, it all turns out to be rather boilerplate.
The film begins with CCTV footage of a London bombing, which sets the stage for the trial of suspected terrorist Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto). But while the title alludes to that footage—itself a symbol of the privacy citizens have ceded in the last decade or so—it also refers to the inescapable system that keeps those "in the loop" in the loop with those kept "in the dark": a system in which a travesty of justice seems inevitable.
That's a problem for two well-meaning lawyers: defense barrister Martin Rose (Eric Bana) and Erdogan's Special Advocate, Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall). Rose has only landed the case under suspicious circumstances (the apparent suicide of his predecessor), and the mutual presence of himself and Simmons-Howe represents a major issue, in that they're bound to disclose their prior relationship. That would mean one of them dropping the case, which neither has any intention of doing.
And so the otherwise justice-minded duo fudges the law at the outset of their work, which also requires a total blackout of communication while a determination is made as to how much secret evidence may be withheld from the view of Rose and the public "in the interest of national security." It's awfully difficult to swallow Martin and Claudia jeopardizing the hugely important case on an technicality that's a) obviously bound to come around and bite them and b) predictably the very reason Martin was put on the case.
Just when you suspend disbelief for those shenanigans, the paranoid-thriller mechanics set in, and Closed Circuit starts to feel an awful lot like business as usual. Snarky commentary about the "fair and transparent" legal system does mean a couple of delicious scenes between Bana and the great Jim Broadbent, who expertly plays the Attorney General as a politician who's simultaneously discreet and shameless. The supporting cast is filled out nicely by Riz Ahmed (canny as Hall's overseer), Ciarán Hinds (as Martin's confidant), and Julia Stiles (as a ruthless reporter).
"There is no right way out of this," Martin frets to Claudia, and that the film stays pretty well true to that conclusion says something for the screenplay by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things). But the direction by John Crowley (Intermission, Extraordinary Measures) is little more than competent, allowing the electricity to escape from this Closed Circuit.


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After about an hour's worth of air traffic congestion delays around JFK airport, I finally departed New York City yesterday evening en route for Vilnius, Lithuania… one of my favorite inconspicuous corners of Europe.
The route took me through Helsinki, Finland for a brief connection, and I was on the ground long enough to witness something truly bizarre: a complete and utter lack of people.
I could practically count on two hands the number of passengers milling around the airport this morning during peak business hours… it was almost something out of a zombie movie.
Ordinarily I would have seen hundreds, thousands of people… and I have in the past as I've traversed this route many times before. And no, today was not a holiday.
Helsinki's airport functions as a major transfer point, especially for European business travelers criss-crossing the continent or flying to Asia, which makes airport traffic an interesting proxy on the European economy (though not necessarily a reflection of Finland's).
While a single example is not enough data to draw any significant conclusions, I mentally filed the observation as another snapshot of Europe's deteriorating economic situation.
It reinforces what I observed here several months ago when I was last on the continent in April; it was as if a dark cloud was hanging overhead, and the general mood was absolutely sour. People seemed to be capitulating all hope and starting to make peace with the fact that their economic futures have been squandered by a stupid experiment.
Of course, I'm referring specifically to the 'euro experiment'… however the euro is merely a symptom of a much larger experiment– that of fiat currency.
It wasn't all that long ago that money was actually made of something scarce– a real asset that couldn't be conjured at will by an appointed bureaucrat.
In time, money supplies grew to be controlled by governments and banking cartels in the form of worthless pieces of paper. Since then, it's devolved further to strings of bits in a giant database; our money supply is nearly all digital.
As my friend Tim Price characterizes it, what passes as 'money' today is merely an abstraction of an abstraction of the real thing.
The euro experiment was merely a commingling of 17 different national fiat experiments… albeit a remarkably stupid one.
Under the normal fiat game, a country would at least have to stand on its own two feet and con(vince) the market that its particular brand of monopoly money was sound.
With the euro, even the trashiest economies in Europe were able to pass off Germany's credibility as their own. And now, finally, after more than a decade, the market is calling that ridiculous bluff.
Spanish bond yields have risen to a euro-era record, well north of 7%. Italian bond yields are 6%. The talking heads on financial news are going bonkers… nobody can fathom these countries staying afloat with interest rates being so 'high'. And they're right.
What's funny is that the 20-year average of Italian 10-year bond yields since 1993 is 5.9%. They're currently priced at 6.06%. Italian bond yields aren't spiking, they're just reverting to the mean. The real spike hasn't happened yet.
Italy is in such dismal shape that having to borrow funds at 'average' rates is going to push it into insolvency… the government can only limp along if it can borrow at absurdly low rates that don't even keep pace with inflation.
Perhaps more than anything, this shows how truly broken the system has become… and what a colossal failure the experiment has been.
Of course, before things completely break down, they'll resort to the same old tactics that bankrupt governments have relied on in the past–outright confiscation of wealth, capital controls, and financial repression.
It's already happening across the continent, in fact.
In Greece, the government is helping itself to people's savings at will, in their sole discretion… and forcing businesses to 'prove' the tax purity of their funds.
In Italy, the government has colluded with several banks (like BNI) to freeze customers out of their accounts with no warning or explanation.
ATM limits are being imposed at many banks across the continent, and Euro leaders are openly discussing more severe controls to stem potential capital flight.
The conclusion to draw from all of this is clear: finance the government, save the banks, screw the people. This reality, coming soon to a western civilization near you.
This article was written by Simon Black and originally published at Zero Hedge


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What were your favorite gifts, both to receive and to give?
I have been blessed to receive many special Christmas gifts from family members and friends over the years. The first Christmas that I remember was in 1970, when I was three-and-a-half years old, and we lived in Kake, Alaska. The gifts from family in Michigan had arrived after Christmas (packages always arrived on a slooooow boat from Seattle), and we couldn't open them until after Dad returned on January 4th from a business trip for The Salvation Army. Reading Mom's thank-you letter to my Grandma and Grandpa DeVries helped bring back more memories:
Miriam has had me read "Sparky" a few times already and is now working on her spirograph. She also liked the modeling clay and her 2 pretty nightgowns. She has not looked at "The Magic Clothesbasket." (not yet anyhow.) She also was excited over the pictures you sent and showed them to us several times. [1]
I absolutely loved these books, and had them for years! Someplace for Sparky was about a little engine who was constantly told he was too small to do anything useful. He found a place where he was just right for the job, pulling the children's train at a fair. I'm sure my grandmother thought this was a great story for me, and it was, as I was always the tiniest child around (even as an adult, I'm still a "shorty" at 5' 1/4"!). The Magic Clothesbasket was about a boy named Paul who used his imagination to turn his mother's clothesbasket into a train, plane, boat, and a myriad of other things. In the end, his mother finds him fast asleep in the basket, tuckered out from his adventures. I don't have these Whitman Tell-A-Tale books anymore, but I remember them vividly!
I also remember my spirograph. It was an original 401 as shown in the link above, and I used it for many years. I especially loved having pens of different colors: black, blue, red, and green. Do you remember the smell of modeling clay (not Play-doh)? I sure do! It came in long tubes of various colors, and I enjoyed playing with it for quite a while.
I have many, wonderful memories of gifts I received in subsequent years. I can also remember playing with other gifts that I received in earlier years, but I don't actually remember opening them at the time. For instance, I remember dolls that I played with and loved for many years that I received as gifts at earlier Christmases. One of these was Mattel's Drowsy doll. In this link here, I had an African-American version of the second doll pictured. The reason I had a black baby and not a white one is that with her jet-black long hair and dark complexion, she looked more like the Native American babies I was in contact with than the Caucasian one did. I called her "Mimi" because she said, "I'm sleepy," and I thought she was saying, "I'm Mimi."
My favorite memories of giving have been the ones involving my own children. When they were little, we always tried to find toys that were both educational and fun, like Legos and Tinkertoys. We also picked out their favorite Disney or other classic children's movies on VHS. Now as teenagers, they enjoy gift certificates so that they can pick out their own gifts (my daughter especially likes clothes shopping); or as my son likes to do since his birthday is two weeks after Christmas, combine his Christmas and birthday certificates and money and buy himself something big (like a Ninendo Wii, etc.). The looks on their faces when they're opening their gifts or gift cards are always priceless!
[1] Letter from Faith (Valk) Robbins (P. O. Box 427, Kake, Alaska 99830) to Adrian and Ruth (Hoekstra) DeVries (464 Kenwood St., NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505) 6 January 1971; held in 2007 by Robbins (current address unpublished for privacy reasons).
This post is a part of the "Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories" meme created in 2007 by Thomas and Jasia. You, too, can write your own Christmas memories, either for your personal journal or blog. Visit Geneabloggers to participate and to read others' posts on these topics.


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The Royal Bank of Scotland has earmarked an additional £400m to cover the cost of compensation and refunds relating to mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), says leading PPI Claims Company Missoldppiclaims.info.
The nationalised bank has released figures for the last quarter showing a pre-tax loss of£1.26bn, a proportion of which is due to the allocation of a further £400m to its PPIcompensation fund. In a move echoed around the banking industry in recent months, RBS now has increased its total PPI allocation to now stand at £1.7bn. However, it is unlikely to be the end of the compensation claims for the beleaguered bank.
Its recent computer problems resulted in significant numbers of RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank customers being locked out of their accounts for days, a mistake which has cost£175million so far with a further £50m of compensation put aside.
RBS is also part of an investigation by regulators in the UK, US and Asia – including the fraud division of the US justice department – over the part it played in the manipulation of the LIBOR inter-bank lending rate. With settlement negotiations imminent, the fines that could potentially be applied RBS believe could have a "material" impact on the company.
Despite the problems, RBS showed operating profits for the third quarter increased from£650m to £1bn, while bad debt fell by £159m and staff costs were 5% lower due to a 7% reduction in staff.
Stephen Hester, chief executive of RBS, said: "The extraordinary challenges which RBS faced following the financial crisis are being worked through successfully. The five year restructuring plan is now in its later stages with important work still to do, including an emphasis on dealing with reputational issues now that the bank's safety and soundness has advanced so well."
A spokesperson for leading PPI Claims Management Company, Missoldppiclaims.info said: "It's good to see RBS recognising its responsibilities towards customers that were mis-sold PPI policies, in particular the responsibility to put customers first and treat them fairly. This can be seen in its decision to increase lending to its business customers even though there was a downturn in loan applications, but it would be good to see a similar helpful response to borrowing for its non-business customers with personal loans and residential mortgages.
The reputational issues Mr Hester refers to are likely to be industry criticisms that RBS customers play second fiddle to the short-term interests of shareholders and staff. As a result, RBS has relaxed its lending position towards its small and medium (SMEs)businesses, which has led to a an increase of new lending by 3% since the second quarter despite a 25% drop in SME loan applications due to the Olympics and doubts over the stability of the UK economy.
Analyst Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "There is no doubting the immensity of the task RBS has faced in executing its turnaround plan, nor indeed the progress made so far."
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I admit it, the only parts I heard were the boring parts.
I got a late start on the evening, grabbing my iPhone as I dashed out the door. I fumbled my way into MLB At Bat and noted, with a certain cheerful approval, that it was already 2-0 Mets. Walking to pick up Emily in the top of the second, I heard a modest Mets uprising, with my phone cocked up by my ear and people on the street regarding me with the usual mixture of disdain/interest/envy. (I get the first reaction, but the other two baffle me: The game is on the radio. That's the whole point. You could be listening yourself if you would part with an extremely modest amount of money and plan slightly ahead.) Willie Harris lined out to end the second, I met Emily and we got a cab, and the Tigers did nothing of note as we coaxed the cabbie down to Red Hook.
At the Good Fork we of course weren't going to be listening to Mets-Tigers, though my wife made a tacit concession by not objecting to the phone placed on the table between us, silent but updating itself with Gameday highlights, the little batter figurine turning right and left as warranted. The Mets, I kept noticing, kept batting. There were two outs, but suddenly it was 3-0. Then Jose had tripled. Then it was 4-0. Every time I glanced over, the Mets still somehow weren't out. Then, with Jason Bay up, there was that vaguest of digital-age pronouncements: In play, run(s).
They weren't kidding. Bay had done something we all thought the Mets had forgotten how to do: He had hit a ball over the fence with a teammate on first and another teammate on second and yet another teammate on third. Hooray Jason Bay! Hooray everybody! My iPhone put up a silhouette of a new batter and a line of dispassionate explanatory text. Confronted with the Mets' first grand slam in 299 days, I was somewhat more excited. Long ago, I had a Motorola SportsTrax, and in the first days I didn't know how to use it or what it was telling me with its Artoo-Detooesque bleating and chriping. For some reason we had a work retreat scheduled for a Saturday in lower Manhattan, so around the fourth inning of a Mets day game we were sitting around some conference table drinking bottled water and eating Cosi sandwiches when my little pager went ballistic, whistling and blatting and flashing every part of its LED screen.
"Gentlemen," I said after peering at the screen for a moment, "I believe that's the grand-slam noise."
An inning after Bay's feat in 2011, the grand-slam noise sounded like this.
Me: Ha. No way.
Emily: What?
Me: Beltran.
Emily: You're kidding. [appreciative laughter]
By the time we were done and walking back up Van Brunt, the fireworks were over and the Mets and Tigers were just trying to get back to the hotel and their homes (respectively) without aches and pains. (Seriously, how is it that Jose Reyes can go 4-4 and it feels like the undercard?) Perfunctory play-by-play took us as far as a bus stop, where my phone gave a final sigh of expiring batteries and lapsed into silence. I didn't mind — if ever a lead was safe, it was this one. When I got home, SNY was showing a happy Bob Ojeda and Chris Carlin, and I knew all was well.
Sorry I missed it? Sure, a little. But glad it happened? You bet.


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For those of you who use watermarks, I have a question for you! Do you always place them in the same spot on your image or do you randomly choose a place where it suits your card but doesn't obstruct the details too much? The reason I'm asking is because I had a hard time placing the watermark on this one. Maybe it needed to be grey or black instead of white. I guess I have to go shopping for a new watermark. ;)
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Statement by Ambassador Zhang Yishan, Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations at the 58th Session of the General Assembly on Agenda item 160 "Global Road Safety" |
2004-04-14 00:00 |
In celebration of World Health Day this year, the World Health Organization and the World Bank have published the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention. The Chinese delegation would like to avail itself of this opportunity to convey its heartfelt thanks to the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the experts from various countries for preparing this report. We believe that the recommendations for improvement put forward in the report could serve as an important basis for all governments in seeking better road traffic safety. At present, the situation of global road safety is very grave. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road accidents each year and 50 million are injured, resulting in a direct economic loss of more than US$ 500 billion. It is projected that by 2020, traffic death toll will reach 2.34 million, and traffic injuries will become the third leading contributor to the global burden of disease and injury, well ahead of AIDS, tuberculosis, lower respiratory tract infection and other diseases. It is worth mentioning that 90% of all traffic injury accidents happen in the low-income and middle-income countries, and the percentage is still increasing. These facts demonstrate amply that traffic injuries have become an increasingly serious public health problem. If effective preventive actions are not taken, traffic injuries will lead to even more serious economic and social consequences to all countries, especially the developing countries. Mr. President, As is pointed out in the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, road safety is not simply a question of accidents. Traffic injuries can be prevented and controlled by means of rational analysis and appropriate measures. To that end, all governments should shoulder the primary responsibility, with the business, health, education and media sectors as well as non-governmental organizations joining hands in a common effort. We support the close cooperation among the General Assembly of the United Nations, all the regional Economic and Social Commissions, the World Health Organization and the World Bank in continuing to pay close and greater attention to this problem. It is our belief that with concerted efforts by the international community, the goal of reducing global road traffic injuries will be achieved. Mr. President, China is a developing country with 1.3 billion people. It is also faced with a grave situation in road traffic safety. From 2001 to 2003, traffic death toll in China exceeded 100,000 each year, with injuries averaging over 500,000 and economic losses of about RMB 3 billion (equivalent to more than US$ 300 million) annually. A lack of safety awareness on the part of drivers, poor road conditions and traffic environments, and inadequate management standards are the major causes of traffic injuries. The Chinese government attaches great importance to the work on road traffic safety. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council have repeatedly given important instructions to firmly reverse the trend of increasing road accidents. The State Council has asserted that it is a goal of the current government to reduce traffic injury accidents significantly from the current high rate, bring it basically under control, and reduce it year by year hereafter. In order to achieve this goal, the State Council established last year an inter-ministerial joint-session mechanism for road traffic safety, with the Ministry of Public Security as the lead department and the participation of 15 governmental bodies, to coordinate and plan the work of road traffic safety. Last October, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adopted the Road Traffic Safety Act. The primary purpose of this law is to protect the safety of people. Taking full consideration of the many risk factors in road traffic, this law codifies the various preventative measures in legal terms, in particular with clear provisions for the safety of vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians. The law will enter into force on May 1 this year. We are sure that it will play an important role in improving road traffic safety and preventing traffic injuries. Thank you, Mr. President. |


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If America's economy were a minority, Barack Obama would be guilty of a hate crime for the things he's done to it. If the economy were a kidnap victim, Barack Obama would be telling it to "put the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again." If this were the movie Saw, Obama would have the economy chained to a radiator and he'd demand that it cut off its own foot to escape. Had Obama literally done nothing except watch Gilligan's Island reruns since he was elected, not only would the economy be in considerably better shape today, but he could learn a lot of tips from the Skipper on how to properly handle Joe Biden.
Instead, because of Barack Obama, we've had the weakest economic recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. Just to give you an idea of how bad things have gotten because of Obama, we would have to create 15 million new jobs just to get the ratio of employed Americans up to the same place it was in 2007. We've also had 37 months of 8% or higher unemployment, which again, is the longest streak since FDR was in office. This is no accident. Barack Obama may not have created the recession, but he is personally responsible for the anemic recovery.
1) Gas: Solar, wind, and algae are bad jokes. All of them combined supply roughly 2% of the energy in America and that's probably being generous.
Obama can talk about how important all of those energy sources will be in the future, but the reality is that's very iffy. They might be important or they might be about as relevant as whale oil in 50 years. Our economy runs on coal, natural gas, nuclear power and most importantly, oil. By refusing to drill ANWR, blocking the Keystone Pipeline, fighting offshore drilling, slow walking drilling on federal land, trashing fracking, and attacking oil companies on a regular basis, the Obama Administration has driven up the cost of oil. Not only does this take money out of the pocket of consumers, it increases the cost of just about everything in the economy via higher shipping costs. Despite the phony rhetoric you hear about reducing gas prices, Obama's own Secretary of Energy has said he wants to "boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe b>." That's more than $8 a gallon.
2) Obamacare: Obama's attempt to take over health care has been an unmitigated disaster. The CBO now projects the cost of Obamacare has doubled to 1.76 trillion, it says 20 million Americans could lose their health care, and premiums will increase between 10-13%. Obamacare also will implement a number of new taxes and makes it difficult for many businesses to project their health care costs over the next few years — if they don't stop providing health care to their employees altogether because of the law. The bigger corporations that can afford to do detailed estimates, like AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, Deere, Valero Energy, AK Steel, 3M and McDonald's, are projecting large cost increases and some of them are already threatening to drop their employee coverage as a result. If Barack Obama's actual goal had been to drive up costs for American businesses and make them less likely to hire people, he couldn't have intentionally come up with anything much better than Obamacare.
3) Regulations: American businesses were vastly over-regulated before Obama got into office, but he has kicked things into high gear. Hundreds of new regulations are being added each month. There are different ways to estimate the staggering compliance cost for all of these regulations, but the numbers go as high as 84 billion dollars. That's 84 billion dollars A YEAR that could be used to expand businesses, buy new equipment, and hire workers to increase production instead of doing paperwork for the federal government. If anything, given the state of the economy, Obama should be working to dramatically lower the number of new regulations instead of increasing it.
4) Uncertainty: Businesses don't know if the Bush tax cuts will expire or continue, whether Obama will raise taxes or not (Bet on "yes" if he's reelected), what new regulations are coming, what industries Obama may take over, which businesses he will be demonizing next, whether Obama will bend the law to help his union allies (See what was done at GM and Chrysler along with blocking a Boeing plant for examples of that) — it's pure chaos. This is why American corporations are sitting on record high cash reserves instead of expanding, hiring, and looking for bargains created by the recession. Obama has made it impossible for them to even plan a few years ahead.
5) Spending: While Obama's incessant tinkering with the economy has created short term uncertainty, his rampant over-spending has created long term uncertainty. The government has been going into debt for years, but Obama has ramped this up to levels never before seen in human history. At a time when even Barack Obama admitted we needed to cut back on spending, he racked up bigger deficits in just 3 years and 2 months than George Bush did in two terms. Now America has lost its AAA rating, Obama is still adamantly opposed to making any spending cuts, and for the first time, it seems entirely possible that America will end up defaulting on its debt within a decade or two. That would lead to an economic Armageddon that America might never truly recover from. Because this possibility is now on the horizon, it's impacting the ability of businesses to make long term plans. How do you make a 15 year business plan when America may be a westernized version of Zimbabwe by then?


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Stand-up paddleboarding, the next big thing on Dillon Reservoir?
It started as a way for Hawaiian surfers to take photos of tourists trying to surf. They would use canoe paddles to power their longboards farther out into the ocean to get good shots. Now stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) has become an everyman sport.
In other parts of the country the sport has exploded in the last few years. From flatwater to whitewater, paddleboards are increasingly becoming a staple of watersports. In some parts of Oregon, if there's flatwater, there is probably someone stand-up paddleboarding on it. It's become part of a morning workout routine for some avid SUP'ers. There's even paddleboard yoga.
Here in Summit County, the sport appears to be on the rise. Area retailers say the easing of restrictions on Dillon Reservoir could lead to the sport growing quickly here. Until this year, paddleboarders were required to wear wetsuits or dry gear if they were going out on the reservoir. It was an ill-informed safety measure that a group of locals successfully petitioned to change.
The argument was that the average paddleboarder will spend about as much time actually in the water as a kayaker or any other boater, since a paddleboard is almost as stable. The necessity of a wetsuit to protect against cold water temperatures was unjustified. On top of that, standing on a paddleboard, in the sun, while wearing a wetsuit, could actually make a paddler more prone to overheating.
With the lifting of the restrictions, things are beginning to change.
"People are kicking the tires," said Matti Wade, owner of Ten Mile Creek Kayak in Frisco, after answering some questions from a curious Breckenridge couple.
"We saw it in Hawaii," the woman said, "and we were thinking about giving it a try."
Wade fields questions daily from people who stop in his shop and are interested in the sport. Around here, the word is getting out, but slowly.
"I don't know if many people know that we do them," said Jen Shimp, office manager at the Frisco Bay Marina, of paddleboard rentals. The marina began renting paddleboards earlier this year.
Quick learning curve
One of the reasons they think it will catch on is the quick learning curve.
"It transcends age and ability," said Wade. "They (beginners) get it pretty quick."
Shimp tells people who come in to rent a board to start on their knees, rock back and forth, then gradually work their way to a standing position. "It's all about balance."
Shimp said it takes the average person about 15 minutes to get a feel for it. "By the time they get back in, their having a blast!"
When to go
For Dillon Reservoir, it's best to get out early in the morning or late in the afternoon, because the wind typically picks up around 10 a.m.
Before the wind picks up, the reservoir is often completely flat. Early in the morning there's also less boat traffic. Rowers, kayakers and paddleboarders often witness a variety of wildlife in the morning hours. It's not uncommon to see an osprey carrying a fish back to a nest. Shimp called it "picturesque paddling."
Evenings, when the wind dies down, are also a good time to have a pristine paddling experience.
Hard or Soft?
The next question for any prospective paddler is whether to go for a hardshell or inflatable paddleboard. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Inflatables offer portability and a lower price point. They're also good for anyone looking to use them in a river, since they'll stand up to contact with rocks and flex in rapids. But what you gain in practicality you lose in performance on flatwater.
"Once you go hard-boarding you never go back," Wade said to a customer.
A hard board will track much better in flatwater, meaning you glide on top of the water instead of pushing through it. The result is a more efficient paddle stroke, and it's easier to cover more distance. The difference is bit like that between a whitewater kayak and a touring kayak.
While there are sturdy inflatables out there, Wade cautions, "Be leary of cheap inflatables online. If the price is too good to be true, there's usually a reason for it."
He's seen a number of people come into his shop asking to have leaks repaired on cheaper boards. That said, a well-made inflatable will stand up to a lot of abuse. They require a good air pump to get them rigid enough to perform well.
Where to rent
The Frisco Bay Marina now rents hardshell paddleboards. Kodi Rafting, a retail shop in Frisco, rents inflatables. Ten Mile Creek Kayak offers demos of both hardshells and inflatables. Rates vary between $35 and $75 depending on style of board and length of time. Ten Mile Creek also offers lessons, and Kodi Rafting has guided tours on the Colorado River that start with some flatwater instruction.
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I'm making a mint chocolate stout. I've made it before; I added 1.5 ounces of fresh spearmint to the last 10 or 15 minutes of the boil. It turned out alright, but it's not as strong as I'd like. The obvious answer would be to add more mint. But before I make it again, I'd like to utilize your collective experience.
When is the best time to add mint without imparting off flavors?
Should I add it to secondary? (Last time I scooped it out before fermenting)
What type of mint would go best with the roasted malt notes?


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NEW YORK - Older men who spend several hours walking each day are less likely to have a stroke than their peers who rarely walk, a new study suggests. And walking pace didn't seem to matter.
Researchers said few studies have looked specifically at how both walking speed and walking time or distance are linked to stroke risk.
"Stroke is a major cause of death and disability and it is important to find ways to prevent it, especially in older people who are at high stroke risk," Barbara J. Jefferis told Reuters Health in an email. She led the research at University College London in the UK.
"Our study suggests that maintaining an active lifestyle, specifically by spending more time on all forms of walking, could be an important part of stroke prevention strategies in older people," Jefferis said.
She and her co-authors analyzed data from men enrolled in a long-term British heart study.
The men entered the study in 1978 to 1980. In 1998 to 2000, when they were in their 60s and 70s, they filled out surveys about how often they were physically active.
The new analysis includes 2,995 men who had not had a stroke or heart disease at the time of that survey. Researchers followed them for another 11 years.
More than half of the men walked an hour or less each day. About one in six reported walking more than two hours per day.
During the follow-up period, 195 of the men had a stroke. The researchers found that the more time men spent walking, the lower their risk of stroke.
Men who walked four to seven hours each week were 11 percent less likely to have a stroke than men who walked for three hours per week or less. But that difference could have been due to chance, Jefferis and her colleagues reported in the journal Stroke.
A stronger finding was that men who walked the most - for more than three hours each day - had a two-thirds lower risk of stroke than those who spent the least time walking.
Walking pace was also tied to stroke risk, such that average-pace or brisk walkers had a 38 percent lower risk of stroke than slow walkers. But distance walked explained that finding: men who walked at an average or brisk pace also walked further than their slower peers, according to the study.
The findings don't prove walking prevents strokes. But they could not be explained by factors known to increase a person's risk of stroke, like age, blood pressure and cholesterol. More recently identified markers of stroke, such as proteins associated with inflammation, blood clotting or heart muscle damage, also weren't behind the link.
"What we found was that all of these factors explained only a small amount of the relationship between time spent walking and onset of stroke," Jefferis said. "This suggests that there may be other factors operating which explain why walking protects against stroke."
Her team's study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research and the British Heart Foundation.
Although it only included men, Jefferis said other research has suggested walking is good for women, too.
For instance, a team of Spanish researchers reported late last year that women who walked briskly for at least three and a half hours per week had a lower risk of stroke than inactive women (see Reuters' Jan. 3, 2013, story here.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), close to 800,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke every year, and strokes are the most common cause of serious long-term disability.
"Getting into the habit of walking every day for at least an hour could protect against stroke," Jefferis said. That can include walking that is done while running errands, walking for leisure in a park or just walking around indoors.
Both the World Health Organization and CDC recommend adults get at least two and a half hours of moderate exercise each week.


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A Grand Rapids-based produce supplier is recalling about 5,400 cantaloupes distributed to independent grocers, because of possible Listeria bacteria contamination.
Heeren Brothers Produce said Tuesday that it distributed the cantaloupes to small, independent Michigan grocers July 23-26. It says the cantaloupes may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The fruits are Athena Cantaloupes, but have no stickers or other markings that identify them as such.
Listeria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and others with weak immune systems.
Symptoms include high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
There are no reported illnesses from the recalled cantaloupes.
The company says that consumers with questions may call it at 616-452-2101, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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With the Dual Tap Delay, Visual Sound successfully integrates digital and analog technology and brings two delays together in one unit with a master tap tempo.
Visual Sound is among the fastest-rising manufacturers in the effects business. Touring pros who use the Nashville pedal company's wares in their rigs include Robben Ford, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, and Gym Class Heroes.
The Dual Tap Delay is the first pedal from the company's V3 series, and the first new delay offering from Visual Sound since the GarageTone Grease delay. With the Dual Tap Delay, Visual Sound successfully integrates digital and analog technology. But it also brings two delays together in one unit with a master tap tempo, so players can tackle the challenge of needing, say, slapback and long delays in a single tune.
Striking Gold
Powered by a 9V DC power supply, the
Dual Tap Delay is enclosed in a sleek gold
casing that is slightly smaller and thinner
than a Line 6 DL4—which is to say, it's
big, but still more compact than a lot of
dual-pedal devices. This casing is home to a
very streamlined, clean layout that basically
features two delays side-by-side with the
signal path going from delay 1 into delay
2. There are two sets of independent knobs
for each channel: time division, which gives
you four rhythmic repeats to choose from
(eighth-note triplet, dotted-eighth, eighthnote,
and quarter-note), manual delay time
(with a corresponding switch below that
chooses between manual or tap modes),
repeats, and effects level. With a modulation
knob for adding a chorus-like sound
to the repeats, delay 2 can also approximate
mild tape warble for a touch of cranky
Under the knobs are two very tiny tone pots for each channel, which act as high-cut controls for the repeats, as well as footswitches for turning each channel on or off. The unit's tap-tempo switch requires only two taps to set the speed. The pedal's rear panel features jacks for input, external tap or click input, output 1, and output 2.
Kickin' the Bucket
Armed with a Gibson Les Paul Standard,
I plugged the Dual Tap Delay into the
effects loop of my Fender Super-Sonic 1x12
combo. The first thing I noticed was that
the Dual Tap Delay is extremely quiet and
well behaved, which is a big deal when
you're talking about delay. There have
been many occasions where I've run things
into my effects loop and was greeted with
squealing or crackling noises. It's worth
mentioning that the potential for a delay to
exacerbate noise issues is considerable.
The Dual Tap Delay uses a custom programmed DSP chip for the basic delay and time functions. The controls and tone shaping sections are all analog however. And if you just listen with your ears, rather than fixate on the digital side of the pedal's construction, you'll find the Dual Tap Delay to be among the warmest delays on the market.
My explorations began with the chorus/ verb setting suggested by the included instruction sheet. The setting subtly thickened my tone, especially when I goosed the modulation knob a bit. With a little overdrive, it can sound massive—giving my guitar an authoritative voice that could cut through a dense mix, even though the delayed tone itself is pretty girthy. When I cascaded a longer delay from delay 1 into the modulated delay 2, the blend became positively arena-sized.
The tone controls also make a huge difference in contributing an analog or digital flavor to the sound. Fully counter-clockwise gives you a darker tone. As you rotate the knob, the repeats become crisper and more defined, but not harsh or cold.
Good Time for All
With the clearly labeled time division knob,
which visually displays the different possible
rhythmic subdivisions, I was quickly able to
get delays in time with specific rhythms with
the flick of a switch. Although it may seem
like a no-brainer to have the different rhythms
visually laid out on a knob, many delay units
that offer exact rhythmic subdivisions do not
clearly or conveniently label the beat division
options and many leading delays only illustrate
subdivisions in the manual, which isn't much
use when you leave it behind at some bar gig.
The Dual Tap Delay offers four of the most common rhythmic subdivisions, although since Visual Sound went this far, it would be nice to see some longer or shorter patterns like half-notes, quarter-note triplets, and 16th-notes. But the Dual Tap Delay offers the subdivision most delay users will reach for—the dotted-eighth delay, which spawned many of the Edge's famous guitar parts, as well as Eddie Van Halen's jaw-dropping "Cathedral." And with the ability to cascade delays and employ dual outputs, U2 fans might finally find the delay pedal they're looking for.
The Verdict
For all its capabilities, the Dual Tap Delay
provides a refreshing simplicity—and this
simplicity doesn't come at the expense of
happening tones. The Dual Tap Delay
is incredibly lush and full sounding, and
enables dramatic delay effects that can
transform a bland passage in a big way.
Most impressively, the Dual Tap Delay
inspires playing rather than tweaking. In
the end, that's what it's all about. And the
elegance of Visual Sound's engineering
should be praised on that count, along with
the sounds this fine delay will add to your
bag of tricks.
Buy if...
you want a gorgeous sounding, complex delay that doesn't require a manual to get up and running.Skip if...
you absolutely need a bpm or delay time display.Rating...


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Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1960s
Alpha Phi Omega photographs [cutting down trees and building structure], 1977
Alpha Phi Omega photographs [color negs only], 1979
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1981
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1983
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1984-85
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1985-86
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1988
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 1997
Alpha Phi Omega photographs [Fall sectionals], 1999
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 2000-2001
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 2002
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 2003
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, 2005
Alpha Phi Omega photographs, no date
Alpha Phi Omega photographs (1 of 2) undated
Alpha Phi Omega photographs (2 of 2) undated
Alpha Phi Omega slides, 1976-78
Alpha Phi Omega slides, no date
Various materials [correspondence, publications, reports, newsletters, rosters, etc.], 1968-79
Various materials, 1983-84
Various materials, 1985-90
Minutes, executive committee and chapter meetings, 1948-59
Winter 1953-Fall 1959 (contents: photos, newspaper clippings, correspondences, meeting agendas, Rosters)
Fall 1959-Fall 1963 (contents: photos, newspaper clippings, correspondences, publications, event publicity)
Fall 1970-Spring 1976 (contents: events '70-'76, annual special projects, member profiles '75-'76)
1976-Fall 1983 (contents: photos of members and events, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondences)
Fall 1984-Spring 1985 (contents: APO Event Photos)
Summer 1985-Spring 1987 (contents: correspondences, meeting announcements, event photos, membership rosters)
Spring 1987-Spring 1990 (contents: APO Event Photos)
Fall 1989-Spring 1991 (contents: info on APO, event photos, membership rosters)
1991-1993 (contents: event photos, rosters, correspondences)
1993-1994 (contents: event photos)
1994-1995 (contents: event photos and information, publications)
1995-1996 (contents: event photos, publications)
1983 Anniversary
Photo Album:
VHS Tapes:
"APO Fall Sectionals 1999" 10/23/99
"Earle M. Herbert video as Fall '93 namesake"
"Final Version"
Fall 1957-58 Pledge Class
Membership Roster 1960-64
Correspondence of Torch and Trefoil 1957
Member Forms Classification
Forms Aut & and before (mostly pledge tests) 1958-60
Chapter Program 1957-8
National Bulletins 1955-59
Gamma Beta – San Jose State, correspondence, 1950-58
Letters from Past Presidents on 30th anniversary 1958
Advisors, correspondence, 1957-58
Miscellaneous Correspondence, Spring 1958
Correspondence Relating to Pledging 1955-57
Thirteenth National Convention 1953
Miscellaneous Administrative, 1962-64
Inter-chapter Correspondence
Duplicate Forms – Nineteenth Sectional Conference (Stanford)
Miscellaneous from National Office 1957-58
Twenty-First Sectional Conference (Cal)
Fifteenth National Convention ('58)
Fourteenth National Convention
Fall 1958 Pledge Class
Pre-Registration Projects
Conferences and Administrative 1950-73
"Keep Campus Clean" Campaign 1957-61
19th Sectional Conference – April 1958 (1 of 3)
19th Sectional Conference – April 1958 (2 of 3)
19th Sectional Conference – April 1958 (3 of 3)
Current Membership Folder 1956-59 (1 of 2)
Current Membership Folder 1956-59 (2 of 2)
Perm. File (assorted memos, correspondence) 1958-60
Alpha Phi Omega #1 [5 pages describing the campus]
Financial records 1986-91
Torch and Trefoil 1948-49
Torch and Trefoil 1950-57
Torch and Trefoil 1957-59
Torch and Trefoil 1960-69
Torch and Trefoil 1970-78
Torch and Trefoil 1981-89
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In our current sequel-centric, brand-name-repurposing movie climate, Scary Movie 4 represents a triumph of commerce, but—let's face it—a bankruptcy of art. It's all upside for Dimension Films, a subsidiary of Disney. Shot quickly and deceptively cheaply by industry stalwarts led by director David Zucker, Scary Movie 4 pokes gentle fun at a bunch of game cameo players and hit movies (mostly of the horror and science-fiction genres) that audiences can smugly recognize. Only one this time—The Village—is a Disney movie getting extensive free publicity, but lest we forget, Scary Movie 3 unexpectedly scored a record-breaking opening weekend three years ago.
So what have we here? Anna Faris, doing her fetching Judy Holliday-on-Valium routine, and ever-welcome Regina Hall each return for a fourth go-round as the Dumb Blonde and the Happy Ho, respectively. Faris' Cindy runs into Hall's Brenda on the way from The Grudge to The Village, by way of War of the Worlds. Scary Movie newcomer Craig Bierko inhabits the elaborate War of the Worlds parody, license for a coda spoofing Tom Cruise's effusive romantic announcement on Oprah. A Saw spoof bookends the picture, which also features unfunny flashback takes on Million Dollar Baby and Brokeback Mountain.
At first, the familiar, sure hand of David Zucker seems enough for a lark, even though he's set the bar lower with each passing year (after My Boss' Daughter, inheriting the Scary Movies from the Wayans clan was a fait accompli). The once tasty ingenuity of Zucker—and Jim Abrahams, who joins Zucker and Craig Mazin for screenplay credit—displays many of the same ingredients (knockabout slapstick, a high scatology quotient, wanton racial stereotyping), but the dish has turned. For about a half hour, we stick with Zucker, but the head-slamming and lame double entendres ("That's okay—I've taken balls in the face before") wear out their welcome with a good forty-five minutes to go.
Oh, I've got no particular beef with the sporadically amusing Scary Movie 4, and its large and comfortingly familiar cast (aww, Leslie Nielsen's back as the dim-witted President, ripe for a bit of Bush-bashing). I just don't see much entertainment value—or, certainly, a shelf life—in a contrived string of mildly amusing parodies of bad movies. Here today, yawn tomorrow.


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Twelve Apostles Posters
The Twelve Apostles in the Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia, are a popular tourist spot due to the way it has evolved and due to the formations of limestone that have appeared there. The whole coastal area, along the Great Ocean Road, is studded with outstanding geological formations, many of which have formed through the last tens of years. The Twelve Apostles make a great subject for an art print, canvas art, home décor and a great variety of other poster products.
Natural beauty - the Twelve Apostles
Bring those stunning rock formations that rise up majestically from the Southern Ocean on Victoria's dramatic coastline into your home with a gorgeous poster or art print. The natural beauty and magical appeal of the Twelve Apostles is more than poster worthy. Pick one of the many motives and decorate your home. How about a poster with the view of the Twelve Apostles at sunrise or sunset as they change color from dark and foreboding in shadow to brilliant sandy yellow under a full sun?
Twelve Apostles - a must see location
Being one of Victoria's major tourist attractions, the Twelve Apostles attract approximately two million visitors a year. Only a couple of hours away from Victoria's capital Melbourne, the Twelve Apostles are a popular destination for day or weekend trips and are best remembered in form of a poster or print. The beauty of these beautiful rock stacks certainly makes it worth anyone's money!


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In traffic research, planning, and policy-making, there is a tremendous need for detailed information about traffic incidents and mobility behaviour. Consequently, there is an equally large and diverse range of statistics, empirical studies, and mobility research. Many relevant sources of data are known to only a small group of well-informed users or the usefulness of such data is limited by a lack of methodical supplementary information. The "Traffic Clearinghouse" at the DLR Institute of Transport Research serves as a centralized point of contact that closes this gap. The clearinghouse is oriented towards scientists and institutions that collect their own data as well as those who wish to take advantage of these research results. These include not just scientific institutions, but traffic planners and policymakers as well.
Data offering
The data offering provides access to a large number of data sets. These include detailed meta data as well as references to potential uses and sources. While this meta-information is freely accessible, the owner of each data set must approve access to the data itself.
How do you access data?
Data may be obtained by placing an advance order with the clearinghouse. Following agreement with the owner of the data, the released data is usually provided to the customer in the form of a CD-ROM sent via regular mail.


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If you have prescription drugs in your medicine cabinet that you no longer need, the Dover Police Department has a drug take-back container; you are invited to use it. The container is self-serve and there is no paperwork or questions involved - it is as easy as returning a library book in a drop box.
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The speed varies depending upon the area. The speed (unless otherwise posted) is 20 miles per hour in a school zone, 30 miles per hour in a thickly settled district, and 40 miles per hour outside the thickly settled. In no case is a speed greater than 40 miles per hour permitted.
Yes! Dover is an extremely safe community. We have one of the lowest crime rates of communities our size in the state.
No; Dover streets, for the most part, are public ways. We cannot bar people from using them but we can, and do, require they observe the laws.
There are no biking lanes on Dover's streets. State bicycle laws can be accessed on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts website. The Conservation Commission and the Parks and Recreation department have information on off-road biking.


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Differentiated Goods Duopoly
Do you think Pepsi tastes different from Coke? In other words, do you think Coke and Pepsi make them taste than different? IO theory has a stylized model to provide some intuition.
Brands compete more vigorously with brands that are close substitutes. Some brands have common characteristics that other brands lack. Before we go on let us provide a little bit of intuition to what we mean by close substitues. More importantly, what are not close substitutes? Salt and sugar definitely aren't substitutes - think of putting salt in your cup of coffee! What are close substitutes? How about a hamburger and a turkey-burger. For most they would probably be close substitutes, that is if one is unavailable you can do with the other. Now consider a line, where the ends represent stark opposites in the taste of some product, say biscuits. That is one end means you have a salty biscuit and the other end represents a biscit which is very sweet. In other words each product is "located" at a particular point in product characteristics space. So in this linear stretch biscuits produced in the middle are a bit salty and a bit sweet. The same idea of product characterestics can be viewed as "location theory", where instead of choosing the product characterestics the firm decides where in the linear stretch would they put there store. So, consider products sold at nearby stores that are close substitutes. The following lays out a sketch of models that deal with such problems.
Consider, a long street that is of a fixed length, like the boardwalk in Atlantic city which stretches along the beach. Suppose that the consumers are distributed evenly along the beach and that they prefer to buy from the nearest vendor. Some ice cream vendors with pushcarts want to sell ice cream on the boardwalk. If two ice cream vendors are given the rights to sell ice cream here, and the price that they sell at is fixed, where would they locate?
Suppose we put one vendor a quarter of the way along the boardwalk and the other vendor at three quarters of the way along the boardwalk. So the consumer half way along the boardwalk will be indifferent between the two ice cream vendors. Also each vendor has one half of the market share of consumers.
But do the vendors have an incentive to stay in these locations? Suppose the vendor L moves a bit to the right. It will then have some of the other vendor's consumers without losing any of his own. Vendor R can reason exactly the same way and would like to move a bit to his left. So continuing this way the only "equilibrium" is for both vendors to locate in the middle of the linear stretch.
The story above can serve as a metaphor for the original product differentiation problem as well. It suggests that "monopolistic competition" would result in too little product differentiation in such an environment and would induce firms to make their products similar to that of the other firm. In terms of the biscuit characterestics, it would mean that both the firms would like to produce biscuits which taste quite similar and can be close substitutes of each other.
The argument above should convince some of you fence sitters that Coke and Pepsi might not taste all that different and are in fact close substitutes. If there are still some left who could swear that Coke and Pepsi are very different, they should consider the following situation. You go to a local restaurant for a glass of Coke. The store-keeper replies that he is out of Coke, and so he can offer you Pepsi or root beer! Now what would you order?
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IBM Offers Students Free Cloud For Application Development
JazzHub offers tools to help developers understand how to collaborate to build apps for the smart products and devices that are driving new levels of software design complexity.
June 8, 2011
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IBM launched a new initiative at its Innovate2011 conference this week to bring more students into the world of collaborative software development. IBM's JazzHub, a free cloud-based software development service, is aimed at bringing IBM's Jazz development environment to higher education environments.
According to IBM officials, the proliferation of smart products and devices is driving new levels of software design complexity. The demand for software development and engineering skills is expected to grow significantly, as evidenced by the U.S. Department of Labor In its 2010 Career Guide to Industries that predicts that computer systems design and related professions will add about 656,400 jobs, and realize a 21% increase over the next decade, placing it among the top growth professions.
In anticipation of that demand, IBM is looking to fuel a paradigm shift in the software development process by equipping educational entities with JazzHub and other new collaborative software tools as well as projects to equip software development teams with the knowledge to effectively build highly complex and intelligent applications.
IBM's initiatives include the creation of three new communities aimed at enabling diverse development teams to work more efficiently. The tools associated with those communities are geared towards facilitating innovation across dispersed team, allowing them to build software design skills that favor the collaborative software development process.
IBM hopes providing the technology behind JazzHub to educational institutions will help to shift how future developers are educated and taught how to work in large, cloud-based development teams. The key technology offered by IBM is Rational Team Concert, a tool that uses social networking concepts to build applications by incorporating tracking, work-item tracking, source control management, continuous builds, iteration planning, and highly configurable process support into a single tool that favors interaction between users.
JazzHub enables university teams to develop directly on IBM's Jazz.net website at no cost and serves as an open ecosystem for students to build new and innovative software applications. Registered university teams can begin development in under a minute, and use the Jazz.net project dashboards to evaluate the status of the project, IBM said. JazzHub is powered by IBM Rational Team Concert, a team-based development solution for both traditional and agile planning, and gives software and systems engineering students an ecosystem with tools that make software development and deployment a social experience, IBM said in a release describing the initiative.
During a panel discussion hosted at the Innovate2011 event, Gina Poole, panel moderator and vice president for marketing at IBM Rational, said, "Colleges and other higher education entities are the breeding ground for new ideas and concepts, by encouraging collaboration during group projects, quality, speed and cooperation all increase, while advancing education."
The primary theme the panel focused on is that a new way of thinking and collaboration is needed to develop increasingly complex application development projects, and that the next generation of programmers and developers will need new skill sets and collaborative understanding to be able to develop the next generation of applications.
It's obvious that IBM hopes that by encouraging a paradigm shift in development practices that such a shift also will lead to adoption of the company's tools, such as Jazz, Rational, and others. Leveraging the education market should prove to be a good way for IBM to seed a paradigm shift, by focusing on teaching the next generation of programmers new skills and different ways of collaboration.
Aditi Mukherjee, a panel member and a lecturer at the University of Florida, said, "Teaching students new ways to visualize application development has always been a challenge. Jazz.net has enhanced collaboration and proves to be an important tool for shifting how students think about building applications and interacting with team members."
IBM touts Ration Team Concert as an extensible platform for collaboration and offers SDKs, partner plugins, and other configuration and add-on elements that allow users to tune the platform to meet their specific needs.
"Collaborative development leads to improved applications with higher quality and improved functionality," according to Dan Griffin, a manager for Jazz.net at IBM Rational. "That pretty much sums up the importance of developing new methodologies and team interaction for advanced software development projects."
Employees have more ways to communicate than ever, but until the mishmash of tools gets integrated, productivity will suffer. Also in the new, all-digital issue of InformationWeek: A buyer's guide to enterprise social networking. Download it now. (Free registration required.)
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There are a lot of different possibilities for security cameras on the market today for you to choose from for all of your home surveillance needs. The board cameras are relatively small and compact. They feature a lens that is directly mounted onto the circuit board. These types of cameras tend to be used the majority of the time in a discrete application.
Bullet cameras are going to differ in their appearance from the other common security cameras. They have also been referred to as lipstick cameras because they are small and cylindrical, as well as bring encased in metal housing. The dome cameras are typically half spherical cameras that can be used in a discreet location like the board cameras.
Fixed cameras are also referred to as box cameras and normally only consist of the body of the camera, a lens, power supply cord and a bracket that you normally have to purchase separate from the system. When most people think of a camera they tend to think of this type of camera.
The majority of these cameras are going to come in either an indoor or an outdoor model. There are even ones that come equipped with night vision technology which is going to combine the camera with the infra red LED for the optimum night time viewing capabilities. Since there are so many choices available, it is hard to know which one is going to be the best for all of your needs.
Color security cameras are becoming more and more popular as the need for home security rises. There are a lot of people who are debating on purchasing a color camera for their home security, but at the same time they also wonder if a black and white camera would be able to do the job.
Even though black and white security cameras are cheaper than their counterparts, you should consider a few different things when deciding how effective they are going to be for you compared to the color cameras. Color security cameras have been integrated with a CCTV system that will work together n conjunction with the Charged Coupled Device technology. This technology means that the cameras are going to convert the pictures that have been captured through the camera lens into electronic data.
The technology is not as expensive as you may think it is and it provides some of the best in quality images that are not as susceptible to noise as their counterparts. The majority of cameras, which are used for surveillance purposes, have a viewing size of between ¼ inch and one inch. However, the average size varies between ¼ inch and 1/3 inch and the market for CCTV is overflowing with this type of camera.
If you are looking to have a more advanced quality image when there may not be as ample lighting conditions, you may want to choose a larger format for optimum performance. Listed below you will find the pros and cons of the color security cameras versus the black and white cameras.
Color Security Cameras versus Black and White Security Cameras
It used to be that color security cameras were only used for corporations since they are a lot more complicated and expensive than their counterparts, the black and white cameras. There were few businesses that could afford this particular type of technology.
Due to the increased cost factor of the color security cameras, they were almost non-existent in the average consumer's home. However, in today's society the prices have been dramatically reduced and the market is able to offer a lot more options in color cameras that homeowners everywhere are able to afford.
The majority of security camera experts are going to tell you that a color security camera is going to be a lot more effective because it will be able to identify colors. For example, if you have an intruder that you are looking for, knowing the coloring of their shirt could be the determining factor to catching them down the road.
However, the black and white cameras are a lot more suited for locations that do not have a lot of light. If you are using the camera on the inside of your home, a color security camera is going to prove to be your best choice.
When looking through the different options, you may find that the color cameras are going to be able to switch between color and black and white as the lighting situation calls for it.
Technical Aspects of the Color Security Cameras
It doesn't matter if you are considering a high tech wireless color camera or their counterpart hardwired models because there are a few things that you need to be on the lookout for.
Signal to Noise Ratio
The signal to noise ratio is actually the balance between the actual information in the picture and the static, or image noise. If you have a ratio of 40db, which shows that the signal is going to be 100 times stronger than the surrounding noise. This is going to produce an image quality that is acceptable and considered average. However, a 60 db ratio will exhibit an excellent image quality, whereas, a 30 db ratio is considered poor and is not recommended for use.
It is not just the camera itself that can insert noise; low lighting conditions and poor wiring will also introduce static into the security system.
Resolution is one of the most vital aspects of a security camera system. The greater level of resolution that is produced by the surveillance camera, the sharper the picture is going to be.
When looking for your new security camera, you should try to look for one that has horizontal television lines with average numbers or approximately 350 to 400 television lines. Some of the higher resolution cameras will have 500 television lines or higher for resolution. If you are looking to upgrade your existing camera model, you can do so by paying a relatively modest fee. Before you look into purchasing a high resolution camera or upgrading your existing one you want to make sure that your video camera is going to be capable of supporting the higher resolution cameras, otherwise you are just going to be wasting your time and money in the long run.
Sensitivity to Light
Light sensitivity is measured in terms of lux. If you have lower lux sensitivity, you are going to be able to see better in darker lighting conditions. However, you will be able to find plenty of color cameras that are going to have a lux sensitivity of one to 0.5, which means that they are able to perform in poorly lit conditions. If you have the assistance of an infrared lighting system, a camera will be able to work with a lux rating of zero.
Options for Color Security Cameras
You have the option of purchasing a color security camera and recorder all in one convenient package. This complete package is going to give you an easy to use digital video recorder that has a built-in motion detector and a color CMOS camera that can record videos in real time through the use of a removable SD memory card. It is going to feature night vision technology that will automatically switch to black and white recording as the lighting conditions demand it. You can choose to use this security camera at home, work, stores and any other indoor location that is going to require the use of a watchful eye to make sure that everything is taken care of when you are not able to be there.
If you are looking for a security camera that is simple to use and doesn't cost you a fortune, there are plenty of options to choose from. One of the top color security cameras is the Looker. It is the perfect product that will give you what you need at a price you can afford. It is extremely easy to use and affordable for almost any budget. It offers a digital video recorder that does not involve any expensive equipment or advanced assembly techniques.
You simply place the camera where you want to record and the device begins to do its job automatically for you right off the bat. There is the option of choosing to have the recording done on a continual basis or only when there is motion detected. It comes complete with an AC adapter that allows you to run the device at almost any indoor location. There is also a built-in battery that will cover you for an hour after the power goes out, so you are always protected and prepared with this handy little device.
• Color security cameras are going to be a little more expensive than their black and white counterparts.
• There are cameras that are available that can switch back and forth from color to black and white when the situation warrants it.
• Make sure to choose a signal to noise ratio of at least 40 db to receive an image quality that is acceptable.
• In order to receive a sharper picture quality, you should choose a security camera that has around 350 to 400 television lines.
• If you have a lower lux rating, you are not going to need as much lighting for the camera to be effective.
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The extraordinary history of Coggeshall Abbey in Essex, a Cistercian monastery dating from the 13th century, has been revealed thanks to the efforts of a volunteer at the National Trust's Coggeshall Grange Barn.
The Barn, which was once an integral part of the Abbey, is one of the oldest surviving timber-framed buildings in Europe.
Members of the local community of Coggeshall saved the Barn from demolition in the 1980s, before it was taken on by the National Trust. More recently, volunteers at the Barn helped to secure funding from the Local Heritage Initiative in 2006 to begin research on the Abbey's history. The research reveals tales of murder, feuds and power struggles, along with fascinating details of everyday medieval life.
The research, which took two years, was undertaken by a volunteer, historian Michael Horne. He examined eight original Coggeshall Abbey manuscripts along with many other documents housed at records offices and libraries in the UK. His research has resulted in the most complete history of Coggeshall Abbey to date.
Among the stories uncovered were:
Murder mysteries - intriguing references were made in Abbey records to several murders in 1175, 1182 and 1187. Ralph of Coggeshall, resident from 1180, later becoming the Abbot, failed to mention them in his writings, but referred to Knights Templar disappearing from the Abbey. There are descriptions of monks being fined or punished for murder - but no indication of who was murdered... or why.
Royal relationships - since the Abbey's establishment in 1140 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda, the records revealed monarchs giving privileges and powers to the Abbey. Reigning Kings also took irregular payments from the Abbey in the form of money or wool, and in the case of King John, stealing horses from the Abbey.
Power struggle - a host of privileges bestowed by monarchs increased the power of the Abbey over the town, creating a power struggle between the two. The Abbey began by fencing itself in, then diverting the local river, and finally building a chapel which directly challenged the local church. In 1223, an agreement brought the feud between the Abbey and the local church to a climax, but tensions resurfaced and continued throughout the 13th century, and later as part of national concerns such as the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and the Poll Tax, beginning in 1377.
Everyday happenings in Coggeshall - amidst all the high drama and intrigue surrounding the Abbey, many details of Abbey and village life were recorded. They included the granting of a weekly market in 1256 by King Henry III; the imprisonment of the vicar for illegal fishing in the Abbot's pond in 1293 (part of the continuing struggle between the abbey and the local church); and the annual gift of a tun of wine for the Abbot in 1345 from King Edward III.
Historian and researcher, Michael Horne said:
'The research findings have really helped to open up the history book on Coggeshall. They have gone a long way towards making the Barn, and its relationship to the Abbey, a strong part of the living heritage of the town today.'
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Adults £2.90, Child £1.30, Joint ticket also available with Paycocke's (£4.60/£2.30)
Prices due to change next season - new prices not yet known
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- Disabled toilets
Booking & Payment Details
- Credit cards accepted (no fee)
- On-site light refreshments
- Picnic site
- Children welcome
- Facilities for groups
Meeting, Conference & Wedding Facilities
- Facilities for corporate hospitality
- Free Parking
Property Facilities
- Dogs Accepted
- Public toilets
- Smoking not allowed
Site Features
- National Trust Property
Target Markets
- Accepts groups
- Coach parties accepted
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By Road:From the A120 : Follow signs.The nearest railway station is Kelvedon, which is 3 miles away.


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Additional services and permits may be required and/or obtained for your event. These include liquor permits, police officers, fire prevention services, emergency services, and street closure equipment.
Unless your event is a private party (by invitation only, not open to the public, no charge to attend and no charge for alcohol) a Special Events Liquor Permit is required from the City Clerk's Office. You need to be a nonprofit 501c3, or have sponsorship from a nonprofit to be eligible to apply for this permit. The permit is $100 and the City Clerk's Office needs a complete application 30 days in advance of the event. There must be food available when alcohol is served. For more information, please contact the City Clerk, Julie Franklin at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Vendors that serve food at events in Routt County must have a retail food license. Applications for Temporary Food Events and Event Coordinators are located on the Routt County Environmental Health website. Please submit information 45 days before your event.
Mobile food trucks will also need approval through the Fire Department.
A permit is required for tents 400 square feet or greater and are inspected by Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue. A tent is a structure, enclosure, or shelter, with or without sidewalls or drops, constructed of fabric or pliable materials supported by any manner except by air or the contents that is protects.
A permit is required for cooking tents of any size and are inspected by Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue. A cooking tent is usually a membrane structure that a vendor uses for cooking with a gas-, solid-, or liquid-fuel burning equipment (example: grill).
Liability insurance coverage not less than $1,000,000 must be provided for all events within City limits. The City of Steamboat Springs MUST be listed as an Additional Insured.
The following require a sales tax license from the City of Steamboat Springs:
Block parties will go through the event permit process. An application will need to be submitted and the street venue will need to be reserved.
Please contact Rachel Lundy at email@example.com or Tara Cusack at email@example.com to reserve your venue.
Other facility rentals including the Community Center, Olympian Hall, or sports fields will continue to be reserved through the city's website.