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Trustees Report (May 31, 2013) shows reduced cost growth, longer Medicare solvency
The Medicare Trustees projected that the trust fund that finances Medicare's hospital insurance coverage will remain solvent until 2026, two years beyond what was projected in last year's report. "The Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund is projected to be solvent for longer, which is good news for beneficiaries," said Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A number of factors have contributed to the improved outlook, including lower-than-expected Part A spending in 2012, and lower projected Medicare Advantage program costs. Recent data from the Medicare Advantage program indicate that certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act will help reduce the growth of spending in this program by more than was previously projected.
Final Rule Upholds Increased Rewards, Penalties For Wellness Participation
Employers will be able to increase rewards to workers who participate in wellness programs under final rules released May 29, 2013 by the Obama administration. The final rules have raised concerns among advocates who represent people with chronic or severe illnesses, as well as among some employers. They allow employers to increase workers' financial stakes from 20 percent of the cost of their health premiums to 30 percent, starting next year. Participating in tobacco cessation programs carries a maximum reward or penalty of 50 percent of the cost of an employee's health plan. Such programs can have a big effect on workers' and employers' pocketbooks. Workers who participate could qualify for hundreds, even thousands of dollars' worth of premium or deductible discounts. Those who don't participate would pay much more toward their own coverage, thus lowering employer's costs. Proponents say wellness programs encourage people to make healthier choices and could slow health care costs related to obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. But studies looking at whether such programs save money and change long-term behavior — or simply shift more of the cost of health insurance to workers — have produced mixed results.
House Republicans Seek Doctors' Feedback On Medicare Payment Draft
The draft proposal would include an "improved" fee-for-service model, Republicans said. In that model, doctors and medical specialty organizations would work with the Department of Health and Human Services to develop quality measures for specific provider groups. Physicians' performance would be assessed based on those quality measures, and they would get incentive payments for good performance. Future payment updates would be based on physicians meeting those quality measures. The proposal does not outline how to pay for the cost of replacing the SGR.
Health Law Is Fostering Competition, U.S. Says
The new health care law is injecting more competition into health insurance markets nationwide, drawing additional insurance companies into states long dominated by a few carriers, Obama administration officials said May 30. Such competition offers the prospect of more choices for millions of consumers who will be shopping for insurance this fall. Companies entering the market could also put downward pressure on prices, partly offsetting factors that tend to increase premiums (Pear, 5/30).
Next Battles Over the Affordable Care Act are Predicted To Be Ugliest Yet
The White House and Republicans are preparing for an "epic battle" over the selling of Obamacare tied to the opening of online insurance marketplaces Oct. 1. News outlets describe how GOP lawmakers are increasingly calling for an independent probe of HHS Secretary Sebelius.
Analysts: Medicare Costs May Keep Declining
Innovations adopted and accelerated by the 2010 health care law will continue to force down overall Medicare costs, according to industry analysts and studies, even as the economy continues to improve. Those changes include new payment plans, improved efficiency and a move toward consumer-driven insurance plans that started before the law's passage. They influenced the $618 billion drop in projected Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next decade that was reported May 15 by the Congressional Budget Office. That report showed that costs for the two programs in 2012 were 5 percent less than projected in early 2010, and the CBO data are expected to foreshadow the spending projections in the annual Medicare trustees report scheduled to be released this week (Kennedy, 5/30).
'Workplace Wellness' Fails Bottom Line
According to a report by researchers at the RAND Corp, programs that try to get employees to become healthier and reduce medical costs have only a modest effect. Those findings run contrary to claims by the mostly small firms that sell workplace wellness to companies ranging from corporate titans to mom-and-pop operations. ... The report found, for instance, that people who participate in such programs lose an average of only one pound a year for three years. See: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/13/WorkplaceWellness/rpt_wellness.pdf
High-End Health Plans Scale Back to Avoid 'Cadillac Tax'
While most of the attention on the Obama administration's health care law has been on providing coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans by 2014, workers with employer-paid health insurance are also beginning to feel the effects. Companies hoping to avoid the tax are beginning to scale back the more generous health benefits they have traditionally offered and to look harder for ways to bring down the overall cost of care. In a way, the changes are right in line with the administration's plan: To encourage employers to move away from plans that insulate workers from the cost of care and often lead to excessive procedures and tests, and galvanize employers to try to control ever-increasing medical costs. But the tax remains one of the law's most controversial provisions. Bradley Herring, a health economist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, suggested the result would be more widely felt than many people realize. "The reality is it is going to hit more and more people over time, at least as currently written in law, " he said. Mr. Herring estimated that as many as 75 percent of plans could be affected by the tax over the next decade — unless employers manage to significantly rein in their costs.
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On paper -- or, you know, a monitor -- a trade between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs involving offensive tackle Branden Albert makes too much sense.
After all, the Dolphins have a void at left tackle following the defection of Jake Long to the St. Louis Rams. The Chiefs, meanwhile, likely are targeting a left tackle with the No. 1 overall pick at next week's 2013 NFL Draft, a move that would lead to a positional eviction notice for Albert.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" that the Dolphins indeed have interest in Albert, a former first-round pick who's been a solid five-year starter for the Chiefs.
SI.com's Peter King reported Monday that the Chiefs are willing to trade Albert for a high second-round pick. The Dolphins are in possession of two second-round picks -- at No. 42 and No. 54.
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I'm completely disgusted with the mother-daughter hard-core porn performers of Tampa.
Known professionally as the "The Sexxxtons," Jessica, the mother, and Monica, the daughter, have created a kinky tag-team website and just released a DVD to promote their family-owned porn business based in Tampa, Florida.
Both mother, a blonde, and daughter, a brunette, often engage in sex in the same room with the same male or female partner – but they insist it's not incest.
And Jessica is arguably the world's worst mother.
"We don't have a problem doing two-on-one," Jessica, 56, told The Huffington Post. "We will have sex with one man, but not interact with each other."
The Huffington Post verified the women's identities by reviewing both women's driver's licenses, and their private Facebook pages, as well as private family photos going back 20 years.
Monica, 22, explained with a straight face that she and her mother never touch each other so I guess that makes the show acceptable.
"It's not easy to do," she said. "Our lips never touch and that can be a problem when filming."
In an age where so many young women are abused, exploited for prostitution, kidnapped and sold into the billion-dollar sex-slave industry, it's even more unnerving to learn that a mother would willingly engage in pornography with her own daughter.
"I enjoy the sex and I enjoy being with my mom," Monica said. "During the scenes I think about how we're going to be filthy rich."
Filthy rich? How about just plain filthy?
"I've always been an exhibitionist and sex just oozed out of me," said Monica, who claims she lost her virginity at the age of 12.
"It was my idea," she added. "I dropped out of school in ninth grade and figured this was a good way to earn money. The money was part of the reason, but also was fun, and having sex with hot guys."
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police in the Maldives arrested former President Mohamed Nasheed on Monday after he twice failed to appear before a court to face charges that he illegally ordered the arrest of a judge while in office.
Nasheed, who has said the military ousted him in a coup earlier this year, was arrested while campaigning for next year's elections. His arrest could trigger protests by his supporters who have previously clashed with police in the Indian ocean archipelago and who say the charges against him are politically motivated.
Police spokesman Hasan Haneef said Nasheed was arrested on Fares-Mathoda island, in the Gaaf Dhaal atoll, around 440 kilometers away from the capital Male on Monday and was being brought to Male by boat.
"He is in police custody in order to be produced before courts on Tuesday," Haneef added.
On Sunday, Hulhumale magistrate court issued an arrest warrant on Nasheed after he twice defied summons to appear before courts. The same courts, two weeks ago, ordered him not to leave the capital, Male, without the court's permission. Nasheed defied that order too.
Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party condemned the arrest, saying it was politically motivated.
"This morning, at 9:45 a.m., 50 heavily armed masked police in full riot gear and wearing gas masks smashed down the door of a house where President Nasheed and his campaign team were staying and took him into custody," the MDP statement said.
"The police used disproportionate force to arrest Nasheed. They landed on this tiny island dressed in full SWAT gear and carrying weapons. They behaved aggressively, and sometimes violently, towards Nasheed's supporters," said Ahmed Naseem, former foreign affairs minister in Nasheed's government, in the release.
Police came in speedboats, and coast guard vessels were also seen near the island. Except for two police media officials, all the police were in full riot gear, fully masked with tear gas guns, it said, adding that Naseem and Nasheed's ex-press secretary were pepper sprayed and dragged from the house.
Naseem also said the arrest was "aimed at solely at preventing him from campaigning ahead of the presidential elections."
The party said last week that the Hulhumale court itself was created in violation of the constitution and therefore is illegal. It also said Nasheed may not get a fair trial.
The charge against Nasheed carries a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment or banishment to a remote island.
The United States urged all parties to respect the rule of law and the constitution.
"We urge all sides to remain calm, reject the use of violence and to avoid rhetoric that could increase tensions. It is our expectation that former President Nasheed be given every due process that the law allows," the U.S. Embassy in Colombo said in a statement.
Nasheed was a democracy activist and political prisoner before becoming president in the Maldives's first multiparty election in 2008.
He resigned as president in February after losing the support of the military and police during widespread protests triggered by the secret arrest of a senior judge.
He insisted that he was ousted in a coup and was forced to sign his resignation at gunpoint, but an inquiry commission concluded that he left office legally. He was charged in July with illegally ordering the judge's arrest.
Nasheed's party has said the case against him is aimed at preventing Nasheed from campaigning ahead of next year's elections.
But Abbas Riza, spokesman for current President Mohammed Waheed Hassan, last week rejected that allegation, saying the court order was "the usual practice, according to the country's law."
Nasheed's supporters have held frequent protests in recent months demanding early elections. Hassan has said he will hold elections in July 2013, the earliest time permitted by the constitution.
Maldives is an island nation of 300,000 people off southern India. Tourism is the main industry of the chain of nearly 1,200 islands blessed with sandy beaches and coral.


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Donut of Misery
This post is just a quick plug for the Donut of Misery. Created by members of the military, the donut is used as a countdown to when deployment ends. I've modified it slightly to countdown the end of my surgery rotation. I'm already at the 50% mark.
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military wife said,
i want one
kristen said,
i would like one 🙂
Oorah Wife said,
If you google "donut of misery" you should be able to download an excel file, then just put in the start date and the end date and itll tell you everything. But you have to save it when you exit, or itll stop counting!
serving in the military said,
I'm currently in the military and i heard about this from one of the docs that i work with. I modified it to when i leave my current duty station. It's a great thing!
lori said,
how do i get the donut?
kristen said,
i hv tryed the google thing but its not workin not to sure how to get a donut
Lizzzard said,
My husband is in Korea and we've been using the Donut of Misery since the week he got there. It's been a life saver. . .especially when it started actually making it look like it w as SOON when he was coming home.
We talk about it all the time. . . it's a great and fun thing to have and his son and I look at it often to remind ourselves how much time has passed and how long we have to go till Daddy goes home!
alisa said,
just got it. my hubby left only a week ago. so i have a long time. till i see him again.
pa girl said,
what if u dont have excel?
Half M.D.: Microsoft has a free reader to look through Excel charts.
Joann said,
Then you aren't able to download it, I believe you have to have Excel
marg said,
It works with openoffice.org (the freeware office suite made by Sun Microsystems), too.
Arlene said,
Thanks for sharing this; my husband just told me about it since he's deployed, and I was having trouble finding a link to the xl file until I found your post. 🙂
heidi said,
hi my hubby is getting deployed soon and i would like to get one of these started for me and my son, can you send it to my email please!!!!!?
Half M.D.: You can just download it right here.
Sailor's hunny bunny said,
I use it even for the short underway periods. I love it.
SSG's Wifey said,
i just downloaded this, although he will be home in October, it actually does look like we've accomplished this deployment. thanks for it, i found out about it just now from a friend who's husband came home last week. we will be pcs'ing in january so i'll use this then too. yay!!!
Ami said,
Everytime I try to download this I get a read-only file with Open Office. Am I doing something wrong?
Half M.D.: Try right-clicking the file –> "Properties" –> and unclick "Read only" to see if that changes anything. I don't use Open Office—so I'm not sure if the program has some incompatibilities with the Excel file.
Amazia said,
why wont the % come out
David L. Petty Sr. said,
My name is David L. Petty Sr. and I wanted to let you know that I developed the Donut of Misery when I was MSgt David L. Petty and deployed to CENTCOM after 911, in April of 2002. The story behind it is that I was scheduled to retire in Dec 2001 from the Air Force after 21 years. I had a retirement date and everything was set and then the planes started crashing into the World Trade Center, the field in Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon. During the immediate mobilization that followed everything including retirements were frozen. I din't want to retire then anyway and immediately volunteered to deploy to support CENTCOM. I expected to go to the deseart but was told that I would be a backfill and stay in Tampastan. Most people would have been happy to spend more than 9 months in Florida courtesy of uncle SAM but I wanted to be in the fight. When I first got there we were very busy and I was happy. After we developed the continuity books, op-plans, and training manuals, there was only enough work for 2 people to do and it only took 15 min each day to do it. When you are wokring 12 hours a day and have literlly nothing to do and can't go anywhere because the bus onlr runs every six hours and you weren't allowed to bring a car, you eventually get tired and cranky. You learned to put up with it though, elevated your concerns of waste, but knew fellow soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen were fighting and dying. After my fourth involuntary extension of what was originally supposed to be a 90 day deployment, and with nothing better to do, I sat down one night and developed the Donut of Misery. When I deployed to Afghanistan in January of this year (as a civilian having been retired from the Air Force since 2004) I was delighted to see that the Donut had survived. There have been a few cosmetic changes but the code is still pretty much in tact. Originally the Donut was one whole donut with its color gradually turning from red to green as time to go home got closer. Now the donut is two pieces and I knod of like the modification. Now thats the whole story and I hope you liked it ….. Diode out.
"Diode" Dave Petty
Herat Afghanistan
Elysia said,
The link isn't working anymore. Can you fix it or is there anything link? Thanks so much!
Elysia said,
is there another****
SpaGirl said,
Diode – Thanks, man! This rocks. Used it the first time my hubby left, and will be using it again. Glad to hear the back story. Thanks for your service!
Christina said,
Thanks "Diode." This is awesome! My hubby and I have FINALLY reached the halfway point of his deployment. It's nice to actually see it in "black in white" or in this case, red and green! It will be great watching the green fill up the donut from here on out!!
Emmy said,
how do you modify the comment at the bottom to say different things?
Brandie Desso said,
How do you download the DOM if you don't have Microsoft Excel? I need help, please if anyone knows, could you help me!!
sam said,
how do you do this when you dont know the date they will be home?
Donut Of Misery (@DonutOfMisery) said,
We created a free online Donut of Misery for anyone who doesn't have Excel, it's free and we tried to make it look as nice as possible. Check it out at http://www.miserydonut.com


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CNN Films' "Girl Rising" tells the stories of girls across the globe and the power of education to change the world. Are you inspired to help the cause of girls' education around the world? You can make an impact in many ways, but by just being aware of the issue, you can spread the word. By acting in your own community, you can make a global difference.
CNN and Impact Your World don't accept donations but do help you find reputable places to give your money and time. "Girl Rising" is the centerpiece of 10x10, a global campaign to educate and empower girls. It has created the 10x10 Fund for Girls' Education.
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A New Day Cambodia is a nonprofit organization providing shelter, food and education to Cambodia's garbage dump scavenger children. Sokha, who is featured in "Girl Rising," was one of those children.
CARE USA works to help educate girls in some of the poorest, most desperate parts of the rural areas in the mountains of Peru. Senna from "Girl Rising" was helped by this organization.
GirlUp -- United Nations Foundation is a campaign inspiring American girls to take action for girls in countries such as Ethiopia, Guatemala and Liberia who face a lack of access to education and are susceptible to child marriage, high maternal death rates and HIV infection.
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Plan International USA tries to give girls around the world access to food, water, education, financial security and protection from sexual violence and exploitation. Yasmin, the girl in Egypt in "Girl Rising," was part of a Plan International USA program helping to keep street girls safe.
Room to Read focuses on helping young girls develop literacy skills and a habit of reading. Their hope is to create a legacy of gender-equal education in developing countries such as Nepal and Cambodia. Suma from "Girl Rising" had the chance to learn because of Room to Read.
World Vision supports girls' education in many countries through many initiatives. Two of the girls in "Girl Rising" are World Vision-sponsored children: Ruksana from India and Azmera from Ethiopia.
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SustainX announced today it's received $14.4 million in funding from GE subsidiary GE Energy Financial Services, Cadent Energy Partners, Polaris Ventures, and Rockport Capital.
The New Hampshire-based company is a start-up that grew out of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2007, and has been developing a compressed-air energy storage unit intended for integration with smart grids.
Simply put, its innovative storage unit uses compressed air to store, then generate electricity. But unlike other compressed-air storage units, which use a compressor to store air underground, SustainX stores the air in a standard tank located above ground and uses a hydraulic piston system and hydraulic motor.
Electricity initially runs the hydraulic piston system to create and store high-pressure air in the tanks. Then, when electricity is needed, that high-pressure air is channeled to drive a hydraulic motor that powers an electric generator. The system uses isothermal compression and expansion to keep the air at a consistent temperature to maximize efficiency.


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Friday, December 26, 2008
Back to work and off again
On my secondary route I got one "welcome back!" and one "oh, crap", otherwise it was as if I hadn't been out for six weeks. There was some rude talk that I wasn't happy with but with just the one day I decided to let it go until after vacation.
My elementary kids are the best! Several of them gave me hugs as they got on and told me how much they'd missed me. And I assured them that I'd missed them too. It was a wonderful surprise, hugs are rare and usually happen at school.
My car-pooler forgot that the motor in the car window is broken and I forgot to remind her. Hopefully it won't be snowing in the morning when I take it in to be fixed.
We went to my sister's Christmas Eve to visit, play steal bingo and visit. Mom will be staying there through the weekend. There kerosene company let them run out so it was a cold morning there. They had a service truck out there quickly but it took them three hours to get the furnace going again. brrrr! Yesterday John and I had a quiet day by ourselves and checked in with everyone by phone.
John got me a new external hard drive so I backed up a few things and then did a few other things. When I went to use my computer again I got the blue screen of death :( We'll play with it some more tomorrow but I think the motherboard is gone. It's still under warranty but I hate the idea of starting all over - again. Why can't they make a motherboard that I can't kill in less than two years?
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Apple, I both look forward to and dread going back to work. It still takes me twice as long to get ready in the morning (shower, dress, groom) and I while I did some driving before the snow hit, I am very nervous about driving on it now as it will definitely require two hands. I am worried I might have to do some tight quick turns to navigate on these awful roads, and I know I won't be able to do it without injuring my shoulder. Taking city buses to and from work aren't an option; they've been running so late and people are terrible around here about keeping their sidewalks clear, so even getting to a bus stop is nigh impossible.ReplyDelete
I also know that I will be simply exhausted my first few weeks back. But I miss my co-workers and of course, the kids!
Good luck to you when you return to work again after the holidays!
Apple, I hope things will be smooth from now on at work.ReplyDelete
As for the motherboard, ICK. I hate having computer problems. I have 3 backups of everything all the time, I'm so nervous. But I take a risk every time I take the laptop out on a road trip and do a lot of updates. I guess I should be backing those up, too...
Hi Apple!ReplyDelete
I nominated you for the Proximidate Award! Please go to http://findyourfolks.blogspot.com/2008/12/proximidade-award.html for more information!
Happy Holidays!
The kid that said, "oh crap" cracked me up! The party's over!ReplyDelete
We've sure had our share of snow this December! Ross and I chuckled about your 'oh crap' greeting. From one of the rude talkers perhaps? ;)ReplyDelete
I do hope your computer problem turned out not to be the motherboard and is fixed by now. What a sinking feeling that causes!
We enjoyed our quiet Christmas day...and then a couple of noisier and more chaotic ones with the kids here. It was fun :)
Hope you and John had a lovely Christmas too.
60º here today. Quite a change!


text: And the future of robotics education in Africa is ... Chupa Chups? When the African Robotics Network announced their $10 robot design challenge this summer, co-founder Ken Goldberg was careful not to share too many expectations, lest he influence contestants' designs. But he never imagined one of the winning entries would prominently feature a pair of Spanish lollipops. The challenge, hosted by AFRON co-founders Goldberg and Ayorkor Korsah, emphasized inexpensive designs to help bring robotics education to African classrooms. Goldberg announced AFRON's 10 winners in three categories today at Maker Faire, including the lollipop-laden Suckerbot and traditional (roaming) category first prize winner Kilobot, a Harvard-spawned three-legged, vibrating, swarming robot. "The ingenuity that has come from all over the world to address this problem is just astounding," Goldberg said in an interview with Wired Design. "And we're very excited about the next step, which is that once they're awarded, some of them will become available products." The contest had a few simple restrictions, including the loose $10 target; entrants from around the world had to build a prototype, offer instructions on a website, and make the whole plan open-source, software included. The winners were little, an inch or two in size and up, never more than a foot long. They were sourced from cardboard, old cell phones, and circuit boards. They performed simple tasks: navigating, following lines, even communicating with each other. "It's a mix of people who really ... want to make this happen," said Goldberg. "No one here did this just to say 'here's something, a thought experiment'." Designs were judged by a 6-member jury of robotics industry professionals, and compiled by Goldberg and Korsah, who are professors at the University of California in Berkeley and Ashesi University College in Ghana, respectively. Suckerbot, designed by Thomas Tilley, a computer scientist living in Thailand, started with a hacked PlayStation controller, and wound up winning first prize in the tethered robot category. In this case, the tether is the controller's USB cable, and Tilley attached the rumble motors to a pair of wheels. Suckerbot's list of parts comes to $8.96, but the real genius is the Chupa Chups. Tilley needed a way for the robot to sense if it ran into something, so he stuck a lollipop in each joystick. Whenever the Suckerbot bumps something, the weight of the sucker tips the joystick forward, and a signal is sent to the processor. Many of the robots were created specifically for the challenge. Kilobot, however, was years in the making. Created by a Harvard robotics team, including Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal, and Christian Ahler, it was meant to be a multi-unit swarming robot. Having to build 1024 pieces made the project well suited for the event. "If you're going to build a lot of robots, you need to have them be cheap and easy to make and easy to use," said Rubenstein. "So all of those things also aided in the AFRON challenge." "I think there is a great need for — not only in Africa, but even in the U.S. — low-cost robots that you could use for education," Rubenstein went on. "There are people who try to make that now, but they're only in the hundreds of dollars for an educational robot." http://www.youtube.com/embed/GnyDAuqorGo Photo: Courtesy of AFRON. Video: Courtesy of KilobotSecond Prize, tethered category: Baobot Baobot can sense collisions and follow a line, for starters, but the Arduino-based bot allows students to modify its abilities, or control it directly through the tether. The "Bot of Knowledge" — named after Africa's Baobab tree — comes as a complete robot or an assembly kit. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONThird Prize, tethered category: Afrobot Alexander Reben built the Afrobot primarily from cardboard, not just to keep cost down, but because it's easy to work with and modify. Reben simply poked holes in the body to mount light and infrared sensors, and used zip ties to secure the microcontroller and wheel motors. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONFourth Prize, tethered category: RoboArm The RoboArm wasn't just built for Africa; it was built in Africa, as a senior project at the Obafemi Awolowo University. The arm has five joints, including a gripping pincer, and uses clear plastic for the structure and scavenged motors. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONFirst Prize, roaming category: Kilobot Kilobot is a circular circuit board with three twiggy legs, two vibrating motors that help it go forward or rotate, and advanced sensory abilities, all for around $14 in parts. It's cute, but it really gets interesting when you program a group of them together — a swarm. They'll interact, avoiding each other, playing follow-the-leader, or even performing foraging simulations. "The idea is to have large groups of robots working together to complete a task that they can't do on their own," said Kilobot's Michael Rubenstein. "So you think of ants, working together to complete a task and stuff like that." Photo: Courtesy of KilobotSecond Prize, roaming category: SwarmRobot SwarmRobot spawned at the Xinchejian hackerspace in Shanghai, prior to the AFRON challenge, but with many of the same goals. The AFRON model came in with $9.51 in parts, but it's extensively customizable — Xinchejian members built many variations with different components. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONThird Prize, roaming category: SEG Equal parts Segway and origami, the MIT-designed SEG robot slings it's body between two wheels made of folded polyester. SEG navigates via an infrared sensor, and a brass counterweight keeps the motor stationary while the wheels rotate. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONFourth Prize, roaming category: DiscBot Although the prototype DiscBot cost well over $10 to make, as did many of the machines of other entrants, a large-scale production run could bring it under $10 per unit. The kit is based on laser-cut basswood, with an Ardunio processor and light and ultrasound sensors. Attach a pen, and DiscBot can be programmed to create a detailed drawing, thanks to its precise stepper motors. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONFirst Prize, self-contained category: MITBOTS The self-contained, or all-in-one category required entrants to build robots that require no external computer to program them. MITBOTS uses an ARM processor and a touch sensor to let students program dozens of functions into the plastic (grades 4-6) or metal (grades 7-12) robot. Their site also offers schematics and lesson plans for students. Photo: Courtesy of AFRONSecond Prize, self-contained category: N-Bot N-Bot connects to a scavenged or donated smartphone which acts as the robot's brain, though it can also be run tethered. N-Bot can take advantage of sensors already on the phone, like voice recognition, GPS, accelerometer, and camera. Photo: Courtesy of AFRON


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CANADIAN BANKS Should Shut Down the Accounts of All Individuals Affiliated with the Islamic Regime in Iran0 comments - published on Sunday, July 15, 2012
For Immediate Release
CANADIAN BANKS Should Shut Down the Accounts of All Individuals Affiliated with the Islamic Regime in Iran
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT Should Shut Down the Iranian Embassy
July 15th 2012-Toronto
TD Bank has started closing the bank accounts of Iranian-Canadians under recent changes to the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulation, Canadian financial institutions are forbidden from providing financial services to anyone in Iran or for the benefit of Iran.
The Canadian Government has also taken a tougher stand against the Islamic Regime Embassy in Ottawa. On Tuesday July 10th 2012 Canada's Foreign Affairs Department issued a warning to Iranian diplomats who may be using the Embassy to recruit Iranian-Canadians to serve the Islamic Regime's interests.
Many high ranking individuals affiliated with the Islamic Regime in Iran including Mahmoud Reza Khavari the former head of the Melli (National) Bank in Iran come to Canada each year bringing along millions of dollars for investment purposes.
Canadian Banks must cooperate with the Canadian Government to identify all individuals associated with the Islamic Regime in Iran and to freeze their accounts. Millions of dollars brought to Canada by these individuals are monies stolen from the people of Iran and must be returned to the people of Iran once the current dictatorship is overthrown and a democracy is established in Iran.
In an interview with the National Post on Thursday July 11th 2012, Sayeh Hassan an Iranian-Canadian criminal defense lawyer and a pro-democracy activist stated "[Iranian-Canadians] call it the 'house of terror (the Embassy) , ... I don't want to see Canada become a safe haven for the Islamic regime and those affiliated with the dictatorship, rather than a safe haven for people who are running away from the dictatorship."
In an interview with The Source Ms. Hassan stated "Iranians would not support any type of military intervention in Iran, the International Community and especially Canada can support the pro-democracy movement in Iran by isolating Iran politically, shutting down the embassy and allowing the Iranians in Iran to overthrow the Regime.
Canadian Government needs to cooperate with Canadian Finacial Institutions to prevent Canada from becoming a safe haven for individuals who are affiliated with dictatorship regimes such as the Islamic Regime in Iran!
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Block Party Rocks
The Recording Academy Los Angeles Chapter hosted its first-ever GRAMMY Block Party for a crowd of more than 900 people on July 31 at The Academy's national headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.
The GRAMMY Block Party featured performances by singer/songwriter akaCassidy, YouTube sensation Charice, Latin/folk group La Santa Cecilia, GRAMMY-winning artist Raphael Saadiq, and Nashville recording artist Chuck Wicks, with musical direction provided by Rickey Minor, who was recently named music director for "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."
All proceeds from the event benefited the MusiCares Nashville Flood Relief Fund, which was established by The Academy and its affiliated MusiCares Foundation in response to the devastating and life-altering effects of the recent floods that unexpectedly hit Nashville and its surrounding areas this spring. The block party raised more than $30,000 to help those in the music community that are victims of the floods.


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Well the NORAD one "The official page of NORAD Tracks Santa, providing up-to-the-minute information on Santa's journey" Thanks to Danny on searchengineland for the tip and more than comprehensive article on the Tracking Santa topic Rob Technorati Tags: Track santa,Twitter
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Windows 7 the Swiss way
These are too funny to pass up. "Windows 7 is designed to simplify your everyday tasks, work the way you want, and make new things possible." This one is my favourite 🙂 Thanks to Alessa (my boss) for the spot Rob Technorati Tags: Windows 7,Swiss
2 New articles on getting the most from Windows Live Movie Maker
Just wanted to point out these 2 great articles about Windows Live Movie Maker which I am guessing will be something that you might be using over the holiday period. Turn your old video into digital memories using Windows Live Movie Maker "Do you have a lot of old home movies stuck on old analog…
Problems with power consumption and battery life in Windows Vista?
Then use this latest Microsoft Fix-it to… "Automatically detect system settings that can affect power usage, such as timeout and sleep settings, display settings, and screensavers, and restore them to their default settings. " it fixes such things as: Period of time before the computer goes to sleep is set too long Screen saver is…
Popular Social Networks Around the World – Part II
Back in June I pointed out the great work by Vincenzo who had plotted a visualisation of the Favourite Social Network by Country, well he has now updated it. (Click for larger map) Interesting to see the 'colonization of the world' by Facebook as compared to June. Rob Technorati Tags: Facebok,social networks
Avatar Windows 7 Theme
One film I want to see over Christmas / new year is Avatar which looks superb However if you want to get some Avatar on your Windows 7 PC you can download the Avatar Windows 7 Theme from the personalization gallery. Rob Technorati Tags: Avatar,theme,Windows 7
I'm a PC in 6 Indian languages via the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool
Just wanted to point out this great new language tool from Microsoft India – Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool "Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool helps you enter Indian language text easily into any application in Microsoft Windows or on any page on the Web. The primary input mechanism is transliteration. Additionally, it provides a visual…
A Day in the Internet
A Day in the Internet – thoughtstream Via @kcarruthers Rob Technorati Tags: internet,facebook,twitter
Internet Explorer 8 for Play.com
Hot on the heels of the Tesco customised IE8 news from earlier this month is play.com customised Internet Explorer 8 Download Internet Explorer 8 for Play.com Nice job with features such as search suggestions, visual top sellers and an accelerator. Rob Technorati Tags: IE8,play.com
Super visualisation of browser market share
http://www.axiis.org/examples/BrowserMarketShare.html Love the way where if you hover over a section you see the data. I am guessing this is just for the web site highlighted on the page. Thanks to Andrei for the link. Rob Technorati Tags: axiis,visualisation


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text: Heating and cooling rates depend on density via the ionization balance and via the rates for the heating and cooling per ion. In the previous subsection we have shown that at the highest densities we consider the recombination rates can be enhanced by 3 body recombination, or reduced, by continuum lowering and collisional ionization. The former process is dominant at high densities for H I and He I, while the latter dominates for moderate densities for other ions. Since the thermal balance in a photoionized gas is dominated by H and He when the ionization parameter is low (i.e. log(), and by more highly charged ions at higher , we expect the heating and cooling to be affected differently at high densities in the two different regimes. Although the dependence of cooling rate on ionization balance at low densities is not generally monotonic (c.f. figure 6), for many ions the heating rate is greater at lower ionization parameter. The per ion heating rate depends on the photon flux rather than the gas density, while the per ion cooling rate is suppressed by collisional deexcitation. Figure 11 shows the dependence of heating and cooling rates on density and temperature, in a form analogous to that of figure 10. Curves show cooling (dashed) and heating (solid) rates at 5 temperatures spaced logarithmically between between 10K and 10 K, for log()=2 and a power law ionizing spectrum. For highly ionized species heating rates are decrease slightly with density, while cooling rates increase. H and He I behave in the opposite way, owing to the increase in recombination (which increases the neutral fraction and hence the photoionization heating) and to the collisional suppression of radiative decays (which decreases the net radiative cooling).


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Fox Sees "Amnesty" Everywhere
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Fox News host Dave Briggs claimed that a new immigration policy, which will postpone deportation proceedings of certain undocumented workers in order to prioritize convicted criminals, is "perhaps blanket amnesty." Fox News has a long history of labeling immigration policies "amnesty," a term that has been shown to produce a more negative reaction than describing a policy as "a path to citizenship."
Fox's Briggs Claims New Immigration Policy Is "Perhaps Blanket Amnesty"
Fox's Briggs Claims New Immigration Policy Is "Perhaps Blanket Amnesty." On the August 19 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, guest host Dave Briggs teased a story about the Obama administration's decision to prioritize convicted criminals for deportation by saying:
BRIGGS: And the courts want them out, but the president wants to give illegal immigrants, [who are] ready to be deported, a second chance. He's going around Congress -- perhaps blanket amnesty. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/19/11]
Poll Shows "Amnesty" Is Loaded Term ...
Pew Research Poll Found More Respondents Opposed Immigration Reform When Described As "Providing Amnesty To Illegal Immigrants." From a research brief published by the Pew Research Center on November 23, 2009:
When Congress and the president abandoned efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007, public opinion was quite conflicted. A Pew Research poll found that, among those aware of the legislation, more people opposed (41%) than supported (33%) the bill being considered by the Senate, but a solid majority of 63% of the general public supported the bill's main objective to provide a "path to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants. At the time, support for this principle was bipartisan, with nearly as many Republicans as Democrats favoring it. And even when the provision was described as "amnesty," a majority still supported it -- though by a smaller margin of 54%-39%. Republicans were evenly divided on the question when the policy was described as "amnesty."
The report included this chart:
[Pew Research Center, 11/23/09]
... And Fox Routinely Uses "Amnesty" When Discussing Immigration Policy
DREAM Act
Kelly: "Critics Call" The DREAM Act "A Pathway To Amnesty For Illegals." On the November 23, 2010, edition of Fox News' America Live, host Megyn Kelly introduced a segment on the DREAM Act by saying, in part, "Critics call [the bill] a pathway to amnesty for illegals." She then brought on Fox host Gregg Jarrett, who said: "You know, for millions of illegals, the DREAM Act is a propitious title because it would fulfill their dream of jumping right to the front of the line and becoming U.S. citizens. Those who oppose it call it a veritable nightmare, granting amnesty right away to more than 2 million illegal immigrants, and in the end, maybe as many as 6 million or more illegals." [Fox News, America Live, 11/23/10, via Media Matters]
Gallagher: "I Think It's Front Door Amnesty." On the November 23, 2010, edition of Fox News' America Live, Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher described the DREAM Act by saying: "The analogy I keep using ... is that we feel sorry for these children of adults who made a bad decision and broke the law to come into the United States, but it would be like saying if one's parent is a bank robber, the child gets to keep the money and the proceeds from the bank robbery. I'm sorry, most Americans don't accept this." Gallagher later said of the bill: "I don't think it's backdoor amnesty; I think it's front door amnesty." [Fox News, America Live, 11/23/10, via Media Matters]
Guilfoyle: DREAM Act "Encourages People To Essentially Seek An Amnesty." On the November 23, 2010, edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle claimed that the DREAM Act "incentivizes illegality and encourages people to essentially seek an amnesty by saying, 'Sure, I'm going to be in the military.'" [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 11/23/10, via Media Matters]
Fox Nation: "Shamnesty: Reid Putting The 'Lame' In 'Duck.'" In a December 1, 2010, post, Fox Nation linked to a story about Democrats attempting to advance the DREAM Act with the headline, "Shamnesty: Reid Putting The 'Lame' In 'Duck.'" [Fox Nation, 12/1/10]
Malkin Called DREAM Act "Reckless Illegal Alien Amnesty." On the December 2, 2010, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin said: "There are so many political payoffs that are currently in the pipeline. Foremost among them, Harry Reid trying to ram through this very unpopular, expensive, and reckless illegal alien amnesty DREAM Act." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/2/10, via Media Matters]
Hannity Called The DREAM Act "Basically Amnesty." From the December 8 edition of Fox News' Hannity:
SEAN HANNITY (Host): Actress Salma Hayek admits she was once an illegal immigrant in the U.S. Now the House this very night by the way passed 216-198 the DREAM Act, which is basically amnesty. [Fox News, Hannity, 12/8/10, via Media Matters]
Chris Wallace On Bloomberg's "Path To Citizenship" Support: "Isn't That Amnesty?" On Fox Broadcasting Company's Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, "You support a path to citizenship. Question: Isn't that amnesty?" [Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox News Sunday, 4/24/11]
Temporary Protections For Haitians Following Earthquake In Haiti
Fox Nation Equated Temporary Protections For Haitians In The U.S. With "Amnesty" For "Illegal Aliens." A January 15, 2010, Fox Nation headline asserted, "Obama Moves to Grant Amnesty to Haitian Illegal Aliens." [Media Matters, 1/15/10]
For the truth behind Fox Nation's "amnesty" headline, SEE HERE.
ICE Policies And Border Enforcement
Fox Botched ICE Policy To Claim Feds Were Granting "Backdoor Amnesty." In August 2010, several Fox News anchors claimed that a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy meant that only illegal immigrants with criminal records would be deported, with several Fox News hosts labeling it "amnesty."
For the truth about the ICE policy, SEE HERE.
Dobbs Claimed Obama's Border Efforts Are A "Foundation" For "Unconditional Amnesty." On the August 9, 2010, edition of Fox News' America Live, guest Lou Dobbs called a pending border security bill "a modest border security piece of legislation," and claimed "it would give [the Obama administration] the foundation to say, we did something about border security ... and then move ahead and have their way on the issue of unconditional amnesty." Dobbs later claimed that "we are not seeing a commitment to actual detention and apprehension." [Media Matters, 8/30/10]
Immigration Reform
Fox Nation Relabeled Immigration Bill "Amnesty Bill." In a July 9, 2009, post, Fox Nation linked to an Associated Press (AP) article about an upcoming immigration bill under the headline, "Schumer: Amnesty Bill Ready by Labor Day." The original AP headline was, "Schumer: Immigration bill to be ready by Labor Day." [Fox Nation, 7/9/09, via Media Matters]
Fox Nation: "House Dems Introduce Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill." In a December 16, 2009, post, Fox Nation linked to an article about a proposed immigration reform bill under the headline, "House Dems Introduce Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill." [Fox Nation, 12/16/09, via Media Matters]
Kelly Said Immigration Reform Bill Would Grant "Amnesty To Illegals." On the March 19, 2010, edition of Fox News' America Live, host Megyn Kelly claimed that a bill that would launch a "major immigration overhaul" would "grant amnesty to illegals after asking them to pay a fine, among other things." [Fox News, America Live, 3/19/10]
Fox Aired "Hate" Group's Claim That Obama Promised "Mass Amnesty" In Exchange For Health Care Votes. On the March 21, 2010, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Sunday, co-host Dave Briggs introduced a segment by asking, "Did [President Obama] agree to amnesty for illegals in exchange for votes [for the health care bill]?" During the segment, Briggs' guest Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), claimed that Obama "promised mass amnesty for 13 million illegal aliens in exchange for getting the support of the Hispanic caucus" for health care reform. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated FAIR an anti-immigrant hate group. [Fox News, Fox News Sunday, 3/21/10; Media Matters, 3/30/11]
Fox & Friends Referred To Immigration Reform As "Amnesty." On the May 12, 2010, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson referred to upcoming immigration reform as "amnesty." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/12/10]
Fox Reporter La Jeunesse: Senator Boxer Is A "Big-Spending Liberal" While Carly Fiorina Opposes "Amnesty" For Immigrants. On the June 9, 2010, edition of America's Newsroom, reporter William La Jeunesse described the senatorial race in California by calling Senator Barbara Boxer (D) a "big-spending liberal" and saying that her opponent, Carly Fiorina, opposed "amnesty" for undocumented immigrants. [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 6/9/10]
Kelly: "A Group Of Republican Senators ... Are Demanding To Know If The Administration Plans To Grant Amnesty To 11 Million Illegals." On the July 27, 2010, edition of America Live, Kelly said, "A group of Republican senators -- a dozen, to be exact -- are demanding to know if the administration plans to grant amnesty to 11 million illegals here in the United States." [Fox News, America Live, 7/27/10]
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Mozzarella in Carrozza Panini
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 4 servings
- Total: 20 min
- Prep: 10 min
- Cook: 10 min
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
2 large anchovy fillets
1/4 teaspoon minced Calabrian chiles, or pinch red pepper flakes
Freshly ground black pepper
3 eggs
Grey salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
8 slices country-style bread, each 1/3-inch thick
1/3 pound whole-milk mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
- Saute the minced garlic in olive oil in large saucepan. Add the whole anchovy fillets and chiles or red pepper flakes, season with pepper, to taste. Allow to saute in heat for about a minute, then remove from heat. Pour into a bowl, set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk eggs, seasoning with salt and pepper, to taste. On another plate, place flour, and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Heat a large nonstick skillet or a griddle over moderate heat. When it is hot, lightly oil the griddle if it is not nonstick. Butter 1 side of each bread slice, then put 4 slices, buttered side down, on a work surface.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Is that King Tut? Help me out on this one :) I guess I better go to the exhibition and find out!
Frida likes to ride her bike around town to go get flowers for her hair:
Cycling and walking are great ways to actually stop and see what is going on around you, plus, it is better for the environment :)
Frida on her bike is up for grabs on ebay.
23 comments:
Yes it is a King Tut exhibition...I just saw it here in the states & it was amazing. You will love it! I love it when walks and bicycle rides led us to new discoveries.
- September 26, 2009 at 7:18 PM
- Tammy said...
I wet to the King Tut exhibit many years ago. It was fabulous. Very interesting artifacts. So much gold. It's amazing. Hope you went or are going to go. You won't be let down.
- September 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM
- elsiee said...
that is such a beautiful photo of YOU the Egyptian statue fades into the background!
- September 26, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- beeinstitches said...
Oh! Love Frida's hair flying out behind her. She must be SPEEDING on that bike! Look out!
The big sculpture is an Egyptian god - either Anubis, God of Embalming, or Seth, God of the Desert and Brother of Osiris. The picture on the big poster is one of the containers of King Tut's body parts, I think. Definitely go see the exhibit if you get a chance. I saw a TV show on how the exhibit was moved and installed - unbelievable work!
I wonder what little Frida would think of the exhibit?
- September 26, 2009 at 9:23 PM
- nollyposh said...
i feel great joy in my heart when i visit with you Tascha ~Thankyou~ so much for that X:-)
- September 26, 2009 at 10:48 PM
- nollyposh said...
(Ps) That's Anubis - The Egyptian God of Embalming with the head of a jackal
- September 26, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- oldblackcatboo said...
and I am LOVING your jacket!
- September 26, 2009 at 11:43 PM
- tascha said...
Thanks for letting me know who that is. I thought he looked like a dog with a man's body. Very interesting how the Egyptians had such a strong connection with animals. Mainly the CAT (my personal favorite)
- September 27, 2009 at 12:33 AM
- Janine said...
I love fridas hair, flying in the wind
- September 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM
- julie Haymaker thompson said...
Good for freida everyone needs exercise!!
- September 27, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- aliceinparis said...
Anubis is what I thought and then wondered how I knew that! Wow, if you have a chance to see the King Tut ex, go do it. Egyptian things amaze and intrigue me.
Sweet Frida:)
- September 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM
- sMacThoughts said...
I'm lucky to live in a walking town (nyc, manhattan) ... you see so much by walking everywhere and feeling the weather on your skin as you do so. It's good for the soul!
- September 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- cheekyradish said...
Ah- funky Tut....
I love the latest Frida.
- September 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM
- Deb Harvey said...
You will love King Tut! We saw the exhibition in Seattle about...whoa...29-30 years ago??? Where does the time go!?
What a great photo of you, and I love your Frida!
- September 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Gerushia's New World said...
I'm really enjoying your particular idea of "Frida". The harshness that I sometimes see in other depictions of Frida is downplayed here. I like that. Your Frida is like Frida in her childhood.
- September 28, 2009 at 8:09 PM
- suze said...
Love your jacket and your hair. I have to confess...I colored my gray hair.
Love little Frida. I just finished making someone a Frida bag.
- September 30, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- bLu eYd YoGi said...
You are just GORGEOUS!!! you know that, right? :)
I'm doing a FUN collab video!!! COme over to my place & tell me your DIRTY LITTLE SECRET!!!
- September 30, 2009 at 12:28 PM
- julie Haymaker thompson said...
Hi Tascha. I realized I had never clicked the follow your blog button after I lost all my links a while back and I had not been by in a while. Boy do we count on all those links and things to keep us knowing what we are missing out on!!
- October 2, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- Dean Grey said...
I'm glad your Toronto surroundings inspired this latest Frida painting.
She sure looks like she's having fun on that bike!
- October 3, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- taro said...
Hola mi nombre es Valeria, quiero felicitarte por tus maravillas !!!besosss, desde Argentina !
- October 4, 2009 at 1:50 AM
- Liz said...
tascha... haven't been to your blog in a while... googled "tascha" and it was in the number one slot! you are so amazing, really... your art always makes me feel so so so GOOD!
- October 10, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- *jean* said...
we went to see the tut exhibit in indianapolis....the gold artifacts, especially the jewelry, were incredible...as is the story of finding the tomb...
bastat is the egyptian cat goddess...
- October 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Stel.la said...
Loove it!!!
- October 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM


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"Hyperlocal" is this made-up word that all of the news industry uses now without really understanding what it means to describe news sites like The Batavian. I think what we do is just good, old-fashioned -- the way newspapers used to do it -- local journalism. But it's such a radical concept -- to concentrate coverage on just one community, even though it's very old school, that the industry had to give a name to the business model.
The Batavian is unique among "hyperlocal" news sites in that it actually makes money -- not a lot, but we keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. There's only a handful of other sites in the United States that can make the same claim. So, when these conferences come up, I periodically get invited to talk about how and why we can get sponsorships from, say, more than 100 local businesses.
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Honoraria, Anonymity, and the Klan
The essay below for our thirty-day series about John Paul Stevens was written by Gregory Magarian, a professor at Washington University School of Law who clerked for Justice Stevens during the 1994 Supreme Court Term.
When I completed my clerkship with Justice John Paul Stevens in July 1995, I knew that fortune had smiled on me twice over. First, I got the rare opportunity to begin my career assisting an extraordinarily wise, humane, and brilliant jurist in his important and exciting work. Second, the Term when I happened to land at the Court featured several prominent cases in my greatest area of interest "" First Amendment free speech law. What I did not realize then was that Justice Stevens"™ leading role in those First Amendment decisions provided a microcosm of the approach to free speech controversies that he would develop over thirty-five years on the Court. I have called Justice Stevens a "pragmatic populist" on free speech matters. That label denotes a focus on the real world consequences of the Court"™s First Amendment pronouncements, with particular attention to how those decisions influence the capacities of ordinary people to participate in, and benefit from, public discourse. Justice Stevens"™ free speech opinions from 1994-95 exemplify that pragmatic populism.
Justice Stevens began his free speech work that Term by authoring the majority opinion in United States v. National Treasury Employees Union. One distinctive feature of the Term was that Justice Blackmun had just retired, making Justice Stevens the Court"™s senior associate Justice. This status meant that he assigned majority opinions in cases in which the Court"™s "liberal" wing prevailed. Having spent a decade (1975-1986) as one of the Court"™s two junior Justices, he understandably took several meaty, interesting majorities for himself, most notably U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton. While not at that level of prominence, Treasury Employees made an important contribution to public employee speech doctrine. Justice Stevens"™ majority opinion overturned a ban on federal employees accepting honoraria for speaking and writing, as the ban applied to employees below grade GS-16. The opinion found that the honorarium ban imposed a significant burden on speech while doing little to advance the government"™s interest in avoiding actual or apparent abuses of power.
Treasury Employees might seem to contradict a prominent strain in Justice Stevens"™ free speech jurisprudence. He retires as the Court"™s most vocal defender of campaign finance regulation against First Amendment challenges, and he has declared bluntly in Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC (2000), that "[m]oney is not speech." He has advocated an expansive view of the government interest in avoiding actual or apparent corruption as a justification for campaign finance regulations. See McConnell v. Federal Election Comm. (2003). Why, then, would he reject a regulation that did not ban speech itself, but instead only payment for speech, and that the government justified in anticorruption terms? The answer, I think, has something to do with the relatively low status of the plaintiffs in Treasury Employees. In the campaign finance context, Justice Stevens has eloquently criticized a view of the First Amendment that safeguards the capacity of the powerful to dominate political debate. In Treasury Employees, lower-level employees simply sought to preserve a minimal financial incentive to contribute to public discourse. Justice Stevens has similarly defended political outliers"™ use of financial incentives to press their positions "" through an economic boycott in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. (1982), and through payment of petition circulators in Meyer v. Grant (1988).
Several weeks after announcing the Treasury Employees decision, Justice Stevens once again vindicated ground-level expressive interests in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm. (1995). His majority opinion in that case struck down an Ohio regulation that barred the distribution of anonymous political leaflets. As he had in Treasury Employees, Justice Stevens drew upon historical lessons, noting the prominence of anonymous advocacy in the development of our political culture. He acknowledged the importance of the government"™s interests in preventing fraudulent statements and informing voters about the sources of political messages, but he found Ohio"™s blanket prohibition on anonymous advocacy too broadly drawn to satisfy exacting First Amendment scrutiny. He stressed the importance of anonymous leafleting in allowing speakers to express themselves frankly on political matters without sacrificing their personal privacy.
As in Treasury Employees, Justice Stevens in McIntyre might seem to have contradicted his own free speech commitments. He has taken a leading role in making the First Amendment a facilitator of an honest, transparent political process that maximizes the information available to voters. Thus he has authored what sadly remains the Supreme Court"™s last serious effort to check the two major political parties"™ anticompetitive impulses, Anderson v. Celebrezze (1983), and he led the First Amendment charge against political patronage systems in Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990). Justice Stevens"™ democratic ideals may stem from his background as a Republican who came of age amid the notoriously shady Chicago Democratic machine. Indeed, I suspect that experience influenced my least favorite of his later majority opinions, upholding state photo identification requirements for voting in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board (2008). In the end, however, McIntyre advances Justice Stevens"™ vision of politics rather than undermining it. As his opinion makes clear, this is a case about not just anonymity but leafleting "" a medium of special value to political speakers of modest means. In this respect Ohio"™s regulation resembled the ban on residential political signs that a Stevens-led majority struck down in City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994). Like that restriction, and the federal honorarium ban in Treasury Employees, Ohio"™s prohibition of anonymous leafleting discouraged public commentary by speakers with limited expressive means but potentially important ideas.
Beyond his majority opinions, the 1994 Term also yielded a significant dissent by Justice Stevens in a different sort of free speech case. In Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board v. Pinette (1995), the Court sustained an injunction that required Ohio to let the Ku Klux Klan place a cross alongside other unattended displays in a public forum "" not just any public forum, but the state capitol grounds. Justice Stevens was the sole dissenter. While his primary disagreement with the Court focused on the Establishment Clause, his analysis implicated the Court"™s application of the public forum doctrine under the Free Speech Clause. In Justice Stevens"™ view, placing an unattended display on property so closely associated with the state sent an unavoidable message of religious endorsement. Accordingly, he would have allowed, indeed required, the state to reject the religious symbol notwithstanding the forum"™s general availability for expressive activity.
Even more than his majority opinions in Treasury Employees and McIntyre, Justice Stevens"™ Capitol Square dissent might seem to clash with important elements of his free speech jurisprudence. Every one of his First Amendment opinions cited here has, in some way, stressed the importance of making expressive opportunities available to a wide range of speakers. The public forum principle, for all its inadequacy and inconsistent application, embodies the Court"™s strongest commitment to some measure of distributive fairness in the free speech field. Why would Justice Stevens in Capitol Square take such a narrow view of that principle? Certainly his stalwart commitment to a separationist view of the Establishment Clause goes some distance toward explaining his position. In free speech terms, Justice Stevens"™ Capitol Square dissent illustrates his preference for case-specific analysis over inflexible doctrine. In general, giving people access to the government"™s resources distributes expressive opportunities more equitably. Here, however, adherents (albeit hardly exemplars) of the nation"™s dominant religion sought to use public expressive space to project a message of power and stature. Justice Stevens"™ dissent casts Capitol Square as a case in which validating the general principle without regard for the particular circumstances confounds the purpose that gives the principle its force.
Justice Stevens"™ First Amendment opinions from the 1994 Term reveal a great deal about his general approach and broad convictions in free speech cases. More than any other Justice during his tenure on the Court, he has disdained rigid doctrines, categories, and standards of review in favor of a pragmatic analysis that focused on how to provide the widest possible range of speakers access to expressive opportunities. Treasury Employees and McIntyre were hardly Justice Stevens"™ first significant majority opinions in free speech cases, but their common themes and proximity in time heralded his newly prominent role in shaping the Court"™s free speech jurisprudence. His influence in this area would reach its apex in Reno v. ACLU (1997), which rejected sweeping indecency regulations for the Internet, and the aforementioned McConnell campaign finance decision, which he coauthored with Justice O"™Connor (and which the Court"™s present majority appears intent on dismantling). Reno struck down one major federal regulation while McConnell upheld another. Both decisions, however, advanced the inclusive and informative qualities of democratic public discourse.
The pragmatic populism of Justice Stevens"™ free speech jurisprudence reflects his personality and character. By the time I had the privilege of working for him, he had developed the quiet confidence of someone who knew very well how to apply his remarkable gifts to his critical job. He took the work very seriously. But, whether or not anyone believes me, not once did I see him waver in his kindness, humility, or essential decency. This great man never for a moment acted as if he was more important than anyone else "" to the extent that he seemed genuinely interested in the thoughts, such as they were, of a vastly ignorant and inexperienced law clerk. No wonder that his First Amendment opinions resonate with the conviction that the powerful must not dominate public debate, because everyone has something valuable to contribute to the discussion.


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Heading to a family vacation on Long Island, I'm not really in any rush to get there at any specific time. All that's ahead is time on the beach , so it seems silly to get worried and rush to go relax. So instead of crossing the Thames and getting to the ferry as quick as I could I turned North and found a fantastic Lemon Pie cone.
Cows and Cones takes up the space of one building in the midst of Alice Acres Farm in Gales Ferry. This spot is easy to find as it's on the Military Highway that leads to the north entrance to the submarine base. Any military thoughts stop at the address, as when you tun off the road you're in a perfectly rural setting with a chicken coop, and cows hiding from the sun in the intense heat.
The farm market and greenhouse provide a fantastic setting, but the building itself is made for ice cream. There's a significant overhang on all sides of the building that keeps out the rain and provides shade, and enough room for a batch of tables behind the building. There's a pavilion just a few more steps up the hill and it has another ten picnic tables beneath it. Heck, even the overflowing flower beds that you have to walk through to approach the window are just the cherry on top.
Alice Acres opened back in 1995 , but Cows and Cones didn't open until the summer of 2007; it seems like they took that time to refine their recipes before opening. The tastes that I had were all a treat but the actual prospect of pieces of pie in the Lemon Pie ice cream was was far too alluring when the lemon flavor was as bold as it was. I went with a sugar cone.
There wasn't any meringue in this, but to be honest, I kept imagining it with each bite that I took. The pie crust was buttery and sweet, so much so that I kept expecting to find out that the crust had chips of meringue embedded with it. The lemon was tart and sweet with the tart driving the taste toward key lime while remaining very much lemon. This was worth however long a side trek it took, the sort of ice cream place that you are more than willing to drive to as a destination in itself.
A quick jog back south puts me on 95 and over the bridge into New London, and just as quick to the ferry across the sound. The only issues on this trip are that I've found all of the ice cream on the North Fork. Or maybe there's something to find…
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