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Obama named Time's person of the year. Hatch makes sharp U-turn on Boehner's cliff plan. Utah food tax spike likely to pass the Senate.
Happy Thursday. Jon Huntsman is back. Well, somewhat. The former Utah governor and ex-presidential candidate has been more active on his Facebook page and Twitter and penned an op-ed for the conservative Human Events this week on why the Republicans, and conservatives in particular, are the ones who have the path forward for America. [HumanEvents]
-> Does this hint that Huntsman could be running in 2016? A Huntsman aide says the GOP is in need of advice these days and Huntsman's voice needs to be heard. That's not, for the record, how one shuts the door to a future bid.
Topping the news: President Barack Obama: Time Magazine's 2012 Person of the Year. [Time]
-> Buzzfeed offers up the 22 reasons it was a banner year to be a Mormon. [BuzzFeed]
-> Congress awaits the president's signature on a bill that would allow local officials who oversee federal funds to run for public office. The changes stem, in part, from former Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner and others who faced job losses over broad language in the law. [Trib]
-> Sen. Orrin Hatch said he was against Speaker John Boehner's Plan B to avert the fiscal cliff but later said he was for it and urged House members to adopt it. [Politico]
Tweets of the day: From @daveweigel: "Hang on: Karl Rove is reporting that there's still a chance Romney might win Person of the Year."
Happy birthday: To Mandy Rogers.
Thanks: A big shout out to USU's Betsy Blanchard who has helped produce Political Cornflakes since August and should be congratulated for surviving a semester in the Tribune's Washington bureau.
In other news: Senate President-elect Wayne Neiderhauser predicts that the proposal for a 3 percent bump in Utah's food tax would likely pass the Senate, but he is uncertain about its popularity in the House. [Trib]
-> A state audit finds problems with how the state's regulators are dealing with health care workers with addiction problems. [UtahPolicy]
-> Utah Policy continues with its top stories of the year: With No. 5 how Ben McAdams ran a perfect campaign. [UtahPolicy]
-> Following the resignation of three State Department officials , Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he still has more questions about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya for those holding positions of higher authority. [Trib]
-> Sen. Mike Lee praises the late Judge Robert Bork as one of America's brightest legal minds. [Examiner]
-> Utah legislators look to increase safety in the state's schools by investigating procedures practiced elsewhere. [Trib]
-> Environmental and antipoverty groups ask the Utah Transit Authority to lower rider fares, but the UTA's 2013 budget includes a 6 percent price hike. [Trib]
-> Pat Bagley offers his take on the deadly role of guns. [Trib]
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WASHINGTON — Emboldened by a commanding House majority and Senate gains, Republican leaders vowed Wednesday to roll back the size of government and, in time, the nation's sweeping health care law. President Barack Obama, reflective after his party's drubbing, accepted blame for failing to deliver the economic security Americans demand while saying of his health overhaul: "This was the right thing to do."
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Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
He called the election a Democratic "shellacking" and lamented that "we lost track of the ways we connected with the folks who got us here in the first place."
"Some election nights are more fun than others," he said.
Obama said Tuesday's results confirmed what he's heard from voters across the country: People are frustrated. He said the lesson of election was that he hasn't made enough progress in creating jobs.
After two years with fellow Democrats leading Congress, Obama now must deal for the rest of his term with the jarring reality of Republican control of the House, a diminished Democratic majority in the Senate and a new flock of lawmakers sworn to downsize government at every chance.
"I've got to do a better job," he said, "like everybody else in Washington." And he took responsibility for not doing enough to alter the ways of the capital, whether its hyper-partisanship or back-room dealing. "We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn't change how things were done."
Republicans sounded less conciliatory in the first blush of their victories from the midterm elections Tuesday.Video: Boehner claims mandate to repeal health bill 'monstrosity' (on this page)
"Change course we will," said Ohio Rep. John Boehner, the speaker-in-waiting, describing the outcome as a clear mandate to shrink the government. That echoed the unrelenting demand of tea party activists whose energy and votes helped to fuel the largest turnover in the House in more than 70 years.
The capital awoke — if it ever slept — to a new political order. With their lopsided win, Republicans are ushering in a new era of divided government and dethroning Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a prime target of their campaign.
Repealing the health care law, with its mandates and subsidies to extend health insurance to nearly all Americans, has been a Republican rallying cry for months but Obama, with his veto power, and the Democrats still in control of the Senate stand in the way. Several Republicans indicated their challenge to the law won't happen overnight when they take power.Video: Obama remarks on midterm elections (on this page)
"I think it is important for us to lay the groundwork before we begin to repeal this monstrosity," Boehner said. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who survived a tea party challenge in Nevada, said "I'm ready for some tweaking" on the health care law but would fight its repeal. Obama, too, indicated he was open to changes, saying Republicans who complain about the burden on small businesses might have a point. But he was not about to see his signature achievement unravel at its core.
In the heady election aftermath, some Republicans cautioned their own that they have work to do in building public trust when many Americans are fed up with both parties.
"We've been given a second chance and a golden opportunity," said Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, No. 2 Republican in the House. But, he added, "People want to see results."
Sizing up the power shift, Reid said he wants to preserve Obama's health care law and let taxes rise on upper income Americans, but "I'm not bullheaded."
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Christie acknowledges federal subpoena
- Obama says Fox News's O'Reilly 'absolutely' unfair in extended interview
- Christie security officer hit with shoplifting charges
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
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"If we need to work something out with the people who are really rich, I'll have to look at that," he said. "If there's some tweaking we need to do with the health care bill, I'm ready for some tweaking. But I'm not going to in any way denigrate the great work we did as a country, and saving America from bankruptcy because of the insurance industry bankrupting us."
The Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, sounded anything but humble in declaring "we are indeed humbled and ready to listen." At a news conference with Boehner, McConnell said Republicans will cooperate with the other side to the extent Democrats "pivot in a different direction." He predicted enough Democrats may support the GOP on spending and debt matters to achieve action on that front.
Obama called Boehner to congratulate him late Tuesday. He also spoke with McConnell and top Democrats in a series of conversations that reflected the shifting balance of power. Boehner said Pelosi called and "left me a very nice voice mail" when she missed him, and they will speak later.Vote: Agree or disagree with Boehner on health plan?
Incomplete returns showed the GOP picked up at least 60 House seats and led for four more, far in excess of what was needed for a majority. About two dozen races remained too close to call.
Republicans gained at least six Senate seats, and tea party favorites Rand Paul in Kentucky, Mike Lee in Utah and Marco Rubio in Florida were among their winners. Their comeback was aided by independents, who backed GOP candidates for the first time since 1998.
Not all the tea party insurgents won. Christine O'Donnell lost badly in Delaware, for a seat that Republican strategists once calculated would be theirs with ease until her stunning upset victory in the primary.Story: With governor wins, GOP gains clout to fight health law
In Nevada, Reid dispatched Sharron Angle in an especially costly and contentious campaign in a year filled with them.
The GOP also wrested 11 governorships from the Democrats, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maine among them, and gave two back, California and Hawaii.
NBC News, msnbc.com staff and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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You hear strange things in Detroit. While I was visiting my parents this year, I watched the city's annual Thanksgiving Day parade on TV. At the end, Mayor Dave Bing, the former Detroit Pistons star, climbed up to Santa's sleigh to deliver the key to the city. "Thank you so very much for coming, Santa," Bing said. "A lot of us thought you weren't going to come because of the problems we're having in Detroit. But because you're here, we know things are going to turn around for us."
Bing never has been as smooth on the stump as he was on the basketball court. But his words reveal something fundamental about the psychology of a city that has struggled for decades to stop its population from leaving. I was born around the time the Renaissance Center was built in the 1970s. The tower, which dominates the skyline as it looms over the Detroit River at the foot of the city, was supposed to be a rejuvenator. Yet for as long as I can remember, we were always waiting for something to happen — for people to come, for things to get better.
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Mark Binelli's new book, "Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis," offers a portrait of a city that is more polarized than it has ever been — and that's saying something for a town known for being in the most segregated region in the nation. This is no take-down job, though. Binelli, who grew up in the Detroit suburb of St. Clair Shores, clearly loves his hometown — and he loves it enough not to engage in mindless boosterism. Instead, he digs in, attempting an ambitiously well-rounded look at Detroit's many contradictions.
From the opening pages, Binelli's book feels like home. He describes how he and his friends — and I would argue much of the city — "beheld any mention of the city in popular culture with a special thrill." Those mentions — whether it was Eddie Murphy's Mumford High T-shirt in "Beverly Hills Cop" or a Time magazine story about what would happen if the Soviets dropped an atomic bomb on the city — confirmed what we somehow innately knew: Detroit was a great city. However incongruous it may have seemed given the city's fortunes, Detroit always has maintained a strong streak of pride.
It's pride tinged with playful irony, though, and Binelli captures that. It's a coping mechanism that grows out of the cognitive dissonance inspired by decline. It functions like a family dynamic: I can joke about my brother, but you'd better not joke about my brother. Same goes for Detroit. And it's clear here that Binelli is part of the family. Consider his description of the city's once controversial, yet truly beloved, memorial to the boxer Joe Louis: "The sculpture is twenty-four-foot, eight-thousand-pound black fist pointing directly at Canada." At Canada, folks.
Binelli employs throughout a touch of gallows humor that felt familiar. When I was home for Thanksgiving, in fact, my parents made me guess which local institution had been raided by the FBI, as if it were a parlor game. To be clear, they were outraged that the Detroit Public Library might be caught up in corruption. But you use humor to cope when you hear bad news so often.
"Detroit City is the Place to Be" is a study in tension: between humor and disgust, between insiders and outsiders, between ruin and progress. Although race is still very much core to the story, class is as much the great divider today. After the economic collapse, with the auto industry still on its knees, reporters from around the world came to Detroit to chronicle the fallout. Artists looking for cheap space came, too, and a counterintuitive narrative arose. Certain pockets of the city, including the section now known as Midtown — which incorporates Wayne State University and its affiliated medical center, the Fox Theater and the ballparks — started to feel more like a livable city. Apartments filled up, and a grocery store opened. Nearby, the city's Eastern Market brims with life every weekend, drawing in small farmers and new foodie entrepreneurs.
As Binelli points out, that two-mile section of town received roughly $2 billion in investment during the past 10 years, while the other 130 square miles of the city have steadily declined, leaving behind vast fields of blight — and people without the means to move out or otherwise improve their circumstances. A drive from my parents' house, which is literally across the street from the western border of Detroit, into downtown demonstrated just how vast the gulf has become. Even the so-called Copper Canyon neighborhood — named for the Detroit police who used to live on the edge of the city to comply with now defunct residency rules — is now marked by vacant foreclosed houses and plagued by crime that's getting less and less petty.
The Detroit Free Press just reported that the poverty rate among children in the city's public schools has hit 51 percent — and 65 percent in the enclave of Hamtramck.
The strength of Binelli's book is that he takes his time examining each of the forces that are at work behind these statistics. He spends time in the neighborhoods, chatting on the porches of folks who haven't left — even when most of their block has been torn down. He heads to the union halls and to the annual North American International Auto Show, teasing out the long-term effects of an industrial decline. He looks back, taking full advantage of the long view, to re-examine former Mayor Coleman Young's legacy. He hits the history books, offering the broader historical underpinnings of the city's culture. And he hangs with the newcomers, the euro-tourists indulging in so-called "ruin porn" and artists who seek to make Detroit a backdrop to their exhibits.
This portrait of the city easily could have turned into an unwieldy mess, but Binelli keeps the plates spinning. It does, occasionally, suffer slightly from a little too much ego. I'm not sure he needed to tell us how much one of his interviewees reminded him of his grandmother or that he got too high with his neighbors to go back to watch a film crew stage an explosion on the grounds of his old high school.
At times, Binelli sacrifices depth for breadth. He doesn't have time, nor is it his goal, to provide a fully nuanced portrait of how some of the city's most destitute people manage to get by. But those are flaws I can look past to see the broader, more complicated picture.
Ultimately, Binelli ends his book with an optimistic conclusion that could feel almost disingenuous, considering the despairingly divided city he has mapped in previous chapters. He writes, "The truth is, my optimism was proving tenacious. I couldn't say why."
But then I remembered my Thanksgiving trip. Intellectually, I knew it was ridiculous to be excited that there were maybe a half-dozen storefronts open in the old Hudson's department store area of Woodward Avenue. And having driven just through the rest of the city, it almost felt ludicrous that a high-end shopping mall from the suburbs would open an outpost downtown. But the beginning has to start somewhere, right? Even when I was a student at Wayne State and there was next to nothing there, it felt like it held promise. Now that it had attracted not only a couple shops but a community organizing center, it really did engender hope.
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Maybe it's a luxury granted by the fact that I grew up knowing Santa Claus would always come, even in tough years, but I still believe in Detroit. And clearly, so does Binelli.
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NEW YORK: On May 30, The Climate Group States and Regions Alliance and the Government of Quebec hosted a discussion with a group of the world's leading state and regional governments on policies to promote the deployment of electric vehicles.
The discussion was the first in a series to take place under the newly launched EV Policy Initiative – a forum for sub-national governments to share experiences and best practices on EV policy.
Participants included Basque Country, Brittany, California, New York, North Rhine Westphalia, Ontario, Quebec, Sao Paulo, and Saxony.
The discussion shed light on a number of the key challenges and opportunities facing state and regional governments today in the implementation of EV policies. Insights included:
Gabriel Audet, representing the government of Quebec, said: "The EV20 Policy Initiative is of great value to the Government of Québec because it allows our policy makers to gain insights into leading state and regional governments' innovative EV policies, and to discuss topics relevant to the implementation of Québec's EV Action Plan."
Evan Juska, Head of US Policy, The Climate Group, said: "In many cases, these governments are pioneering – working to achieve something that has never before been achieved. So the learnings that come out of a group like this can be really eye-opening, and can serve as a guide for others."
The EV20 Policy Initiative will further explore these and other issues in the coming months. A follow up discussion focusing on ways governments can effectively increase consumer awareness is planned for August.
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Exhibition List
Below is a list of exhibitions curated by Ellen Lupton, 1986 to the present. Many of these projects also included a published exhibition catalog. Each exhibition is a collaborative effort involving other designers, architects, writers, curators, conservators, educators, and other museum professionals. Curating is a critical and visual practice that uses research, writing, and design to tell stories with objects and images. Design is a key component of the curatorial process.
Design for a Living World. Exhibition curated by Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller for The Nature Conservancy. TNC commissioned ten designers to create original product prototypes using materials from ten endangered landscapes. Designers included Yve Béhar, Maya Lin, Isaac Mizrahi, Ezri Tarazi, Kate Spade New York, and Abbott Miller. On view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, May 2009-January 2010. Exhibition design: Abbott Miller, Brian Raby, Jeremy Hoffman, Kristen Spilman/Pentagram.
Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1734–2008. Spring 2008. Co-curated with Sarah Coffin, Gail Davidson, and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel.
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006. December 8, 2006-July 29, 2007. Co-curated with Barbara Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, and Matilda McQuaid.
Second Skin. Presented at Entry 2006, Essen, Germany, August 27–December 3, 2006.. Produced by Vitra Design Museum.
Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005. May–October, 2006. The evolution of dining through the design of flatware.
Solos: New Design from Israel. January–April 2006. Survey of experimental objects and furniture created in Israel. Curated with Ezri Tarazi.
National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now. April 2003-January 2004. Co-curated with Susan Yelavich, Donald Albrecht, and Mitchell Owens.
Skin: Surface, Substance and Design. May-September, 2002. Looks at the convergence of natural and artificial life as seen in contemporary furniture, fashion, architecture, and media.
National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now. March-August 2000. Review of recent developments in architecture, graphic design, and product design, co-curated with Donald Albrecht and Steven Skov Holt.
Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection. Winter 1999. Organized in association with Williams College Museum of Art.
Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture. Fall, 1996/Winter 1997. Critical survey of graphic design in the United States between 1980 and 1995, focusing on aesthetic, cultural, and technological changes.
The Avant-Garde Letterhead. Spring, 1996. Organized by the National Design Museum and presented at the national headquarters of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York. Co-curated with Elaine Lustig Cohen.
Elaine Lustig Cohen, Modern Graphic Designer. February 7 – May 23, 1995. Monographic exhibition on a designer active in the 1950s and 60s.
Living with AIDS: Education through Design. December 1, 1993 – January 2, 1994. A national survey of contemporary AIDS posters addressed to diverse audiences, including women, children, people of color, and straight and gay men.
Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines, from Home to Office. August 1993 – January 1994. An exhibition about the design and representation of objects which have been central to women's work in the twentieth century, including the telephone, typewriter, washing machine, and electric iron. The exhibition travelled to the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, Spring 1994.
Framing the Art of Jewelry. August 2007. "Exhibition in Print" for Metalsmith magazine, the publication of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Exhibition held at SOFA/Chicago (2007) and Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Portland, OR (2008).
Swarm. December 2005–March 2006. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Works of contemporary art and design that reflect the logic of the swarm (simple structures yielding complexity).
Comfort Zone. January-April 2002. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Exhibition of portable fabric structures by contemporary artists and designers, responding to human needs for comfort, safety, escape, and survival.
The Process of Elimination: The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste. May-August 1992. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Co-curated with J. Abbott Miller. This exhibition looked at the history of the American bathroom and kitchen, 1890-1940, in relation to the rise of a consumer economy.
(selected projects)
Graphic Design in the Netherlands: A View of Recent Work. January 1992. Exhibition of posters, books, stamps, and corporate identity by emerging Dutch designers.
The Bauhaus and Design Theory, from Preschool to Post-Modernism. April 1991. Co-curated with J. Abbott Miller.
Dennis Livingston: Social Graphics. October 1990. The information graphics of a social activist.
Writing and the Body. April 1990. Curated with three design students, who examined the history of writing, sign language for the deaf, and AIDS in advertising.
Anthon Beeke's Stage: Holland's Illusionist Poster Designer. February 1990. Posters, magazines, and other graphics from the 1970s and 80s.
Numbers. September 1989. Co-curated with Alan Wolf, professor of physics. The culture and science of numbers.
MIT/Casey. April 1989. Work by a prominent American modernist working from the 1960s through the 80s.
Period Styles: A History of Punctuation. March 1988. A typographic, grammatical, and literary history.
Global Signage: Semiotics and the Language of International Pictures. March 1986. The history and theory of modern pictographic sign systems.


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Landmines are proof that the human race is made up of total assholes. Leave it to SCAMP—engineered by a firm with the poetically twisted name Humanistic Robots—to clean up that little mess.
SCAMP stands for Specialised Compact Automated Mechanical-clearance Platform. True to its name, it's an automated rolling cage containing six pistons which apply pressure to the ground, which it touches using metal disc rollers that can withstand a limb-flinging blast from a landmine. The key is the pressure it applies to the ground—it's a 100-to-300-pound deep-tissue massage that gets a landmine all turned on.
From what I can tell from these images, the automated part comes from that steering tractor you can see behind the platform in the second shot. I suppose it's also possible to push it with a manned tractor, like in the first shot.
Core77 says that the inventor—Humanistic Robots founder Josh Koplin—developed the SCAMP after trips to wartorn stretches of Bosnia, Afghanistan, Cambodia and other countries. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the advantage is that this sucker can clear an acre in a day, versus the 20 square feet a very brave person can manage on his or her own.
There are apparently up to 100 million landmines currently on the ground, in 85 countries. Even at an acre a day, that's a lot of work for a lot of SCAMPs. Good thing the DoD is already handing the company cash ($US2 million just this past month), so that they can get something out there rolling around in explosives-laden ground by end of 2009. [Core77 and Philly.com, with more great pictures]


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Kicker uplifts: Star Cavalier helps local fan
As the place kicker for UVA's football team, Connor Hughes is used to saving games. But one local fan says Hughes helped save his life.
Forced to have his foot amputated after a workplace injury in 2000, 34-year-old Tom Woodson had spent several years adjusting to his prosthetic. Though it was uncomfortable at times– particularly when he had to wait for a shuttle to take him to UVA football games as detailed in a Hook article ["Access denied: Stadium parking irks handicapped fan," News, September 16, 2004]– he'd adjusted to life with a disability. But on June 25, disaster struck again. Woodson and his wife, Angie, were leaving Smith Mountain Lake near Roanoke when he lost control of their car.
Though Angie incurred only minor injuries in the collision, Woodson suffered lung damage and broke his pelvis and numerous ribs. The devoted Cavalier fan spent three months in UVA intensive care many of them on a ventilator.
But things started looking up when Hughes paid a visit.
"When I first met Tom, he was in critical condition and could hardly move his head over to greet me," says Hughes, who was introduced to Woodson in early August by a mutual friend. "My being there, though, brought a smile to his face," he recalls.
Since that time, Hughes has visited Woodson at the hospital once a week, or he calls from the road. First topic of conversation: UVA football.
"I'll go in there, and articles about me will be posted all over the walls," says the Williamsburg native who was named a semifinalist for the 2005 Draddy Trophy award, known as the "Academic Heisman." "He'll joke with me about last week's game, and we'll talk about the future."
A fourth-year religious studies major and sociology minor with a 3.1 GPA, Hughes is also a leading candidate for the 2005 Lou Groza Award, given to the nation's best place kicker.
"If I had a son, I would want Connor to be his role model," says Woodson, who was transferred from the hospital to rehab in September and credits his progress to Hughes. "I owe him so much."
The admiration is mutual.
Hughes started wearing an armband with Woodson's initials at the Maryland game because he couldn't visit that week and was unable to reach him by phone. In the Cavalier upset over Florida State, Hughes wore it again and went 4/4 in field goals.
"I'll continue to wear it until he's fully recovered," Hughes says.
Woodson, who runs parking garages throughout Charlottesville, says his recovery is in the "final stages." He hopes to attend the Virginia Tech game on November 19.
Hughes can't wait to see Woodson cheering in the stands.
"He's a blessing to hang out with," says Hughes, "and a huge encouragement for me and my playing."
Tom Woodson and Connor Hughes


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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Hawaii Eats: Alan Wong
Alan Wong is the godfather of Hawaiian cuisine. Around twenty years ago, he and a handful of other chefs created a new haute cuisine, blending classical technique with the global intersection of foods and the fresh produce that can be found in the islands. It had been ten years since I visited his flagship restaurant located in a nondescript office building on King Street, and I wondered if it was still great or had faded. I needn't have worried.
Alan Wong offers an a la carte menu as well as two tasting menus: one made up of classic dishes from the restaurant and a pricier chef's tasting menu. Since I hadn't been in a decade or so, I chose the classics, and I was not disappointed.
I won't run through all of the dishes but there are a few that were really memorable. A "soup and sandwich" included a mini kalua pig and foie gras sandwich served with a tomato soup. I expected to love the sandwich, but while it was good, I really found myself loving the soup, which had two parts, a tangy red soup and a rich, cream colored soup, served in a yin yang design.
The seafood lasagna featured lobster and scallops in a cream sauce wrapped in a single lasagna noodle. It looked very rich but the distinct flavors of the perfectly cooked shellfish cut through the richness.
Lastly, the "mini coconut" dessert consisted of a haupia sorbet in a chocolate shell, cut to look like a coconut. It was both amusingly presented and delicious. Haupia is a traditional Hawaiian coconut gelatin-type dessert. I'm generally a big fan of coconut sorbet and this one was as smooth and rich with coconut flavor as I could have wanted and it was well complemented by the dark chocolate shell, like a sophisticated Mounds bar.
Alan Wong, he's still got it.
Alan Wong
1857 South King Street
Honolulu, HI 96826
(808) 949-2526
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Community-led development "The Apache Way"
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Infra, the Apache Infrastructure team, works on your behalf to keep the ASF hardware and software functioning reliably, securely, and smoothly. Infra is happy to help you if your project runs into a problem related to the servers, website, download mirrors, email, and so on.
To make things easier for you (and us!) here's a guide to where to direct your questions, or where to make use of a self-serve option to do what you need to do.
Check our Selfserve portal first to see if you can do there what you need to do.
If your query concerns an Apache project, contact the project directly. Start from their http://{project}.apache.org/ homepage.
If a service is down, unresponsive or failing, check the status page. If the issue appears there, Infra probably already knows about it.
If you have a feature request for software that ASF servers run, such as Jira,
and you can't make it happen by changing the configuration (e.g., editing
httpd.conf), Infra cannot make the change. Report a bug to the upstream project (Atlassian for Jira).
Someone involved in your project, like the volunteer moderator or the admin of the project wiki, can probably make simple fixes like configuration changes and karma grants. Raise the question on your project's mailing list, or to the project PMC.
That depends on what you want to do. If this chart doesn't help, Infra maintains a publicly accessible Slack channel, and you can ask there whether to create a bug report or do something else.
|If you are...
|and want to...
|then contact...
|report a security vulnerability in a service that runs on apache.org
|You may optionally encrypt the email to the following set of keys: https://home.apache.org/keys/group/infrastructure-root.asc
|report a security vulnerability in an Apache project
|Apache Security Team
|The Security Team is not part of the Infrastructure Team.
|report that a service is down (and http://status.apache.org/ doesn't show that)
|Slack channel
|Slack preferred, email to
firstname.lastname@example.com is an acceptable alternative. The infrabot twitter feed may contain information about current outages and maintenances.
|a newly-invited committer
|ask a question about your committership
|a committer
|regain access to your account; resetting your password didn't work
|See "Regaining account access", below.
|If commits fail, double-check that you are using https:// (not http://).
|a supplier (you donate or sell hardware or services to Apache)
|Passwords should be encrypted or sent by other means (to be coordinated)
|submitted an ICLA in the past
|change your contact details of record
|Fax or snail mail are possible too; see https://www.apache.org/foundation/contact
|prospective official download mirror
|request being listed as an official download mirror
|see the "new mirror" documentation
|Please email
email@example.com if you have any questions.
|existing official download mirror
|ask a question concerning your mirror
|Questions not suitable for public discussion may be sent to
email@example.com (currently an alias with limited distribution).
|report a problem with a download mirror (other than it being out of date)
|the Apache project whose product you were trying to download
|The project will escalate to infra if necessary.
|unsubscribe from a mailing list
|See unsubscription instructions
|a committer
|change your account details
|Selfserve at https://id.apache.org/
|Details include forwarding email address, password, and SSH or PGP public keys of record.
|a PMC
|request account creation for a newly-elected committer
|See docs for details
|a newly-accepted podling
|create podling infrastructure (site, lists, etc)
|See below
|a podling that has just graduated
|migrate resources from Incubator locations to TLP locations
|See below
|an existing PMC or podling
|request mailing list creation
|Only Members and Officers (this includes all PMC chairs) can submit the form.
|a committer or PMC
|add/remove mailing list moderators
|create a JIRA ticket
|Feel free to follow up via Slack channel or file a Jira ticket if no reply after 48 hours or so
|a committer or PMC
|change Jenkins (nee Hudson) build settings
|email firstname.lastname@example.com
|Some tasks can be done by project members having
hudson-jobadmin karma; ask your dev@ list
|a PMC
|request Infrastructure to do something
|create a JIRA ticket
|See "On Requests" and "Providing needed information", below.
|an Officer of the ASF
|ask an organizational question (as opposed to technical)
|VP Infrastructure, or firstname.lastname@example.com
|The target audience for this item is the Apache Board of Directors, the VP Fundraising, etc.
|posted to an Apache mailing list
|edit the mail archives
|Public Forum Archive Policy
|Virtually all requests are denied.
|discuss something publicly with the Crack Infra Team
|Archives: https://firstname.lastname@example.com - ASF Members only!
|ask Infra a question
|The users@infra mailing list should be considered a semi-public list as many Apache committers --- not only Team members --- are subscribed.
|get your IP unblocked
|The users@infra mailing list should be considered a semi-public list as many Apache committers --- not only Team members --- are subscribed.
Finally, if you would like to volunteer, please join Slack channel and introduce yourself.
The podling creation process is as follows:
The IPMC vote passes.
The podling is added to the IPMC's
podlings.xml summary file with
(See notes about that, and other initial tasks.)
Request INFRA to create the podling's DNS entry by going to JIRA and asking for podling DNS for your new podling (include the podling's name)
After DNS is created, an ASF Member or PMC chair files mailing list creation requests.
Infra creates the lists and which will also notify the IPMC of the mailing list creation.
An Incubator PMC member who is also an ASF member or a PMC chair edits
asf-authorization-template and adds a
[/incubator/podling] section.
If the section refers to an
@podling group, a definition of that group, as a
comma-separated list of availids (usernames), MUST be added to the
[groups] section. Alternatively, just set
@incubator = rw as the section's
If the podling wants to use SVN, an Incubator PMC member runs
svn mkdir ^/incubator/podling. The commit
mail will get delivered to the mailing list created earlier.
If the podling wants to use GIT, one of the mentors should submit a request via https://selfserve.apache.org/
The podling community sets up a project site.
An ASF Member or PMC chair files a website creation request.
If additional services (e.g. Issue Tracker, Wiki, Blogs, etc) need to be created (beyond what is listed above), file a ticket via JIRA using appropriate categories and as much information as possible. To save everyone's time, consult "Providing needed information" before filing each ticket.
Once your podling has graduated to a TLP, create the following Jira tickets:
Create a "Graduate Foo to TLP" parent ticket.
Create a "Foo TLP: common tasks" ticket as a sub-task of (1).
This ticket will handle: DNS entry, Unix/LDAP group creation, PMC Chair karma,
mailing list migration, native Git repository migrations (but not git-svn
mirrors), Subversion public tree migration, buildbot config
changes, website migration.
There is no need to file individual tickets for these tasks.
In the ticket, specify the LDAP name of the TLP --- that is, the 'foo' in 'firstname.lastname@example.com'.
For each additional service that needs configuration changes as the result of the migration, create another sub-task of (1). (If you have N services, create N sub-tasks.) "Services" here includes everything pointered below, including (but not limited to): Subversion private tree, git-svn mirrors, issue trackers, wikis, continuous integration (Jenkins, Buildbot, Continuum etc.)
See Flex's graduation tickets for a good example.
Note that the new PMC chair is still responsible for using Whimsy as appropriate. The group membership is initialized on a best-guess basis, but the chair must check that it's accurate and add/rm people as needed. The Committee data, however, is initialized directly from the Board resolution and as such should be correct.
If you forgot your password...
Try to reset it at https://id.apache.org/reset/enter. That will email your @apache.org address (which forwards to your non-apache email account) a short-lived password reset link. (The link may be encrypted to your PGP key.)
Decrypting the e-mail - one way to do this is as follows:
Save the e-mail contents as a text file, e.g. password.txt. Open a shell command window, and run the following command:
gpg -d password.txt
This should decrypt the file and display the output in the window
If you have lost access to your registered email address, you will need to file an additional ICLA with Secretary. Follow the directions for submitting an ICLA. Include your current Apache id on the ICLA and mention in your cover email that you are requesting a change to your email address.
If that didn't work, you need to email root@. In your email, mention the following information:
Your username.
The fact that you have tried a self-service password reset, and why it didn't work. (Was the mail received? Did you decrypt it successfully?)
Why you need to regain access to your Apache account --- e.g., if it is to work on a foundation project, name that project; or if you are a foundation member, state that.
Whether you have SSH access to
minotaur.apache.org (or to a PMC
jail/zone/VM) via public-key authentication
Whether you ever set up OPIE on any
*.apache.org box. (This is only
applicable to people who had root on PMC VMs.)
Whether you have access to the private part of a PGP key associated with your Apache account.
Whether the contact information on your ICLA is valid.
(ASF Members only) Whether the contact information in your members.txt entry is valid.
Whether you are able to send a new ICLA, with the same signature as your original one, which specifies new contact information.
Whether there is any other way in which we (infra) might satisfy ourselves that you --- a person asking us to reset the password of a given @apache.org account --- is the legitimate owner of that account.
Note: please do not ask other ASF committers or Members to email root@ and vouch for you.
This section applies to everything from "add a moderator" through "create an account for a committer" and up to "set up a new TLP".
See list of services we run. If you want something that isn't listed, get in touch --- it might be possible to support it (especially if the feature request is equipped with volunteers who will help maintain it --- hint, hint).
Briefly, if there is a dedicated webapp, use it; if not, file a JIRA ticket. The complete answer is in the table above. Please read the table before filing a ticket - often you or someone in your PMC can effect the change without involving infra at all.
Do ask in your project whether someone has the karma to implement the requested change before asking infra. (This eases the load on the infra team: we are a dozen volunteers looking after 100+ projects, so we delegate what we can.) The moderators and volunteer admins of the project's issue tracker and wiki can often address issues with those services.
Do aggregate requests: instead of sending five emails each asking for one more moderator to be added, send one email asking for five moderators to be added.
Do CC your PMC on emails. In JIRA tickets, it is helpful to link to a thread that demonstrates PMC consensus. (If you request a significant or major configuration change, we will probably ask for that link if you don't provide it.)
If you create a JIRA ticket, do create it in the right JIRA component. (If it's not obvious which component is the right one, it's a bug in the documentation.) (This helps our volunteers efficiently spot outstanding tasks in their areas.)
Be patient. Remember that everyone is a volunteer.
Research your topic. See the developer information homepage.
Thanks. Making requests following these guidelines might be a little effort, but saves time for all involved.
|If you ask us to..
|then we need to know..
|Promote a podling to TLP
|See above
|Create a podling
|See above
|Load Subversion history
|URL and checksum (or PGP signature) of a dumpfile; proof of IP rights
|Produce with
svnadmin dump --incremental --deltas or
svnrdump. The paths within the dumpfile should be relative to the project root (e.g., to
|Load Git history
|URL and of a repository or an export stream; proof of IP rights
|If linking to a file, provide PGP signature or checksum. If to a remote repository, you will be asked to review and sign off on the import ("Yes, that is the repository and history we asked to import and have IP rights for") before it will be writable.
|Create an svnpubsub-based site
|SVN URL of the compiled site (directory containing HTML files)
|Git is not supported by svnpubsub. Use the webreq app.
|Create an svnpubsub-based Dist area
|Create or ask to create dist release dir. Specify release area only or release and dev areas. Mailing list for commits to go, if omitted the default is the project commits list.
|Any existing release dir will be blown away (archive releases remain). A release or KEYS/NOTICE file will be asked for upon creation.
|Create a project blog
|project name, brief one-line description of the project, and Apache usernames (and fullnames) of 1+ editors
|Create a blog account (for an editor)
|The Apache username (and fullnames) of the editor
|Non-PMC members need to demonstrate PMC consensus too (link to a lazy consensus thread suffices).
|Create a moin wiki
|Moin is deprecated and no more Moin wikis are being created.
|Please plan on using Confluence instead.
|Create a confluence wiki
|wiki name, destination for commit mails, and confluence usernames of two+ community members - volunteer space admins
|Go to selfserve and follow the prompts.
|Set up your project on Review Board
|Project name, which svn/git branches to support
|Create a JIRA project
|Key name (e.g.,
INFRA), JIRA usernames of 1-2 project members - volunteer project admins, mailing list address to which JIRA notifications should go
|Go to selfserve and follow the prompts.
|Migrate your project's SVN to Git
|Please use self-serve to create your intended Git repo(s). Run svn2git locally using this authors file and push once the conversion result is confirmed. File an INFRA ticket to mark your SVN repository readonly. Optionally, file a ticket to temporarily disable commit emails for when you push your converted clone.
|Grant a committer SSH access to a
puppet-ed VM
|committer's availid (username), VM hostname
|The committer must add his key to id.a.o beforehand.
|Grant a committer root access to a
puppet-ed VM
|committer's availid (username), VM hostname
|The committer must already have SSH access, and must set up OPIE beforehand.
Don't see here what you're looking for? See above for other cases.
Then reopen it. Usually we ask that you do something as you reopen it, so do that too (or say why you didn't).
Background: we tend to close issues that are not actionable upon by us for an
extended period, since we use the
INFRA queue as a todo list. In our
workflow, this kind of close/reopen cycle is a matter of ordinary routing
(much like reverting a commit that broke the build
There could be a few reasons: some areas are staffed mainly by volunteers, so may have longer turn-around times (relative to other areas); sometimes we're busy on backend projects (e.g., installing new hardware via our remote hands) and have little time for user-facing tasks; sometimes an issue blocks on prerequisite new hardware to get shipped, installed, and configured, which takes time; sometimes we're just backlogged and are working on issues ahead of yours in the queue; and sometimes we do tickets of a certain category in batch, and yours will be done in the next batch in a few days.
If you'd like to inquire as to the status and ensure your issue
doesn't get lost, feel free to add a comment to the relevant JIRA issue
(if any) to that effect, or email the
users@infra list with a
question. If the matter remains unresolved after that, feel free to
escalate the matter to the VP, Infrastructure or to the
operations@ privately-archived mailing list (everyone may post to it).
The following describes how to page root@ people when there is an absolutely urgent problem, such as a malicious cracker having an active root shell on archive.apache.org. This is only intended for pressing, ASF-wide problems that must be handled at once, even if that means waking people up in the middle of the night or having them miss their flight.
Normally, pinging
#asfinfra or emailing
root@ or
suffices. Pinging people privately (via email, Slack, or twitter) is generally
discouraged as then only a single person is aware of a request. . If all of these
have been exhausted, or are not sufficiently timely, the last resort is to look
up root@ people (see list of names here or here) and call them or SMS them.
Finally, the VP Infrastructure has the authority to
contact third parties directly. The contact information is available
to him via
Reminder: this facility is for emergency use only. It wakes people up.


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Angrezi Bhutta (Corn and Tomato Curry) Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Once summer really kicks in, I have the problem of picking up a bunch of tomatoes and looking solely to Italy for inspiration. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, but it is nice to experiment a bit with the summer bounty. Armed also with some fresh sweet corn, I tried to find a recipe that didn't simply add olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
A lot of cuisines have a way with tomatoes, and I soon became overwhelmed with options. But I settled on this winning recipe from Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries. It's another perfect example of why I love vegetarian Indian cuisine so much. The complex curry powder helps balance the sweetness of the corn, and the tomatoes break down into a thick sauce. Serve this with some naan, and you'll have a simple meat-free meal.
- Yield:3 to 4 people
- Rated:
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons Madras curry powder
- 1 large tomato, cored removed, finely chopped
- 3 cups fresh corn, (cut from approximately 3 ears of corn)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons cilantro, finely chopped
Pour the oil into a large skillet set over medium-high heat. Toss in the onion and stir-fry until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
Add the curry powder, and stir well. Cook until very fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Add the chopped tomato. Cook until it is soft, about 3 minutes.
Pour in a cup of water, and add the corn and salt. Stir well. Bring this mixture to a boil, and then reduce heat to medium-low and cover. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring every other minute.
Turn off the heat and add the cilantro. Stir and then serve.
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- Page 2 SSX – The Verdict Review
- Intense, high-speed racing and spectacular stunts
- Brilliant courses in awesome mountain scenery
- Fantastic autolog-style online features
- No traditional multiplayer options
- Tricks and combos can take getting used to
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £37.49
If there's one game that SSX reminds us of, it's Criterion's 2010 stunner, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Like that game it's an unashamed franchise reboot, albeit a reboot of a franchise that disappeared quietly around five years ago rather than one that had become a running joke. And like Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, SSX takes what we all loved about the best games in the series, then wraps it up in a new graphics engine, with a new sense of scale, a more freeform structure and a mass of very clever online features.
Most importantly, though, SSX achieves what Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit achieved before it – it doesn't simply put the series back on the map, but makes it feel essential. Just as Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is the best Need for Speed, so SSX is the best SSX game we've ever had.
This isn't a realistic snowboard simulation. While EA brought in masses of satellite data to recreate whole sections of the Rockies, the Alps, the Himalayas and others, the game's wide and open courses are festooned with icy tunnels, chunks of downed planes, snowbound alpine villages, industrial debris and ridiculous, spiralling rails for your snowboarders to grind along. Boarders fly into the air, pull off ludicrous gymnastic somersaults and land hundreds of feet below without so much of a hint of slipped discs or shattered knees.
Some courses even require you to don one of those wingsuits used by the nuttier kind of basejumper, so that you flip off a ramp over a chasm, deploy your wings and glide gracefully to the next slope. If you're looking for the realism of the early Amped games, you're not going to find it here.
But then SSX works on a bigger level. It's a thrill ride, half high-speed racer, half supercharged stunt showcase, and on this level it's astonishingly good.
Events generally take two forms. On the one hand, there your races, where you and one or three rivals try to hit the finish point at the bottom of the mountain first. On the other hand, there are trick events where it's all about building up the highest score on the way to the finish.
Either way, tricks – spins, grabs, flips, rail-grinding moves and the rest – fill up a boost gauge, and this can either be used for a temporary burst of speed, or saved until you go into a Tricky mode, where boost is unlimited for a short time and you can pull off even more outrageous stunts. Keep chaining tricks together and you unlock a second-level mode, where even bigger signature moves become possible.
On top of this, tricks can – and need to be – strung together in combos for bonus multipliers, but if you tumble, hit an obstacle or make a bad landing, you lose the current string. As a result, there's always a level of strategy to playing SSX. Do you keep pulling off tricks to build your combo at the risk of losing all, or do you pause for a second, bank the points and start again? Do you boost now and catch up with your rival, or hold back and use Tricky mode to catch up?
We say strategy, but to be honest there's not much time for conscious decision making. The action in SSX is fast and intense, requiring the kind of zen-like focus that fans of Wipeout, Burnout and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit will know all about. And it's an overwhelming sensory experience as well.
The riders have a slightly cartoon style to them, but they have detailed clothing and convincing animation, and the landscapes are just beautiful. There's only so much you can do with snow and ice, but SSX gets around this by giving each of the game's nine areas a theme, whether it's the trees and granite of the Rockies or the industrial ruins of Siberia, and it's the kind of game where flares go off as you race past them and everything that can glow, does glow.
The soundtrack is phenomenal too. It's not just the content, though the game's mix of indie rock, dance, electronica and dubstep works perfectly well, but the presentation. Tunes are mixed in and out to match the action on the screen, and there's even a cool repeat effect that chimes in when you're grinding along a rail seeing how many times you can spin. Like Dead Space or Bioshock before it, SSX sets a new bar for audio design in its genre.
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sbell22 brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 7 Designs von 2 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I need a simple flash object: the surface of a cylinder, quartered and tilted
at a slight angle; and slowly rotating (a rotation about every 15-20 seconds; I need to be able to set the speed) as shown here in my hand sketch:
Each of the four surfaces has a short (5 to 20 character) text label and any of the four surfaces (representing the four major content areas of the site underneath). Some lighting or gradient effects could likely be used to nice effect.
This 3D object is supposed to create a sense of aura and excitement about the content that lurks underneath, in the site that this object sets at the front door of.
I've run over a dozen successful design contests here and have a track record of always providing detailed, honest but encouraging feedback on every post, treating participants with due respect, and being fair. I also pay promptly by PayPal upon completion of the contest, and often do follow-up projects with the designer.
no brand name yet
This is for a splash page of a test website; I will imbedding this flash object into a html "splash page", clicking on it will launch you into the site. Rhino.com does something sort of like this, but that is too spread out and with more objects; I am looking for a tighter, cleaner, simple design.
I am using CS3/Flash on a Mac and can tweak. The surfaces should be medium green with a black background. For an idea of the color scheme of the site underneath, i've also put a snippet of an early comp of the homepage online (this is going to change alot, but it will do for these purposes):
I am a decent web developer (Joomla/PHP/CSS/HTML/SEO/CS3 etc) but am at the training level wrt Flash design. I do want to be able to open this object, change the aspect ratio, color, or text to do the fine-tuning. So please design it accordingly and comment your code, allow color, rotation speed, and text to be changed by a Flash neophyte.
- A quick, clean Flash design result that conveys "there is awesome, exciting content in this site"
- colors compatible with the scheme of the site I'm working on - this will be the spash page. It's a medium shade of green, perhaps with some lighting effect, set against a black background.
- Another thing I want is to see what you talented designers come up with! this should be fun, i haven't run a Flash contest before, but looked at some of the other ones.
- a long drawn-out design process (shooting for 48 hour contest duration; 72 max)
- a Flash object that isn't well documented, or that I can't modify in Flash per above
- don't struggle with this if you have questions - I like getting questions, answer them right away; and other designers will probably benefit from them being asked, too. So fire away if anything is not clear!


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Bringing in ELEMENTS of the earth into Fine Art
My "Elements" series is a creative blending of semi-precious stones and unique pieces of the earth with traditional fine art. I love finding and using things that were created by nature such as semi-precious stones and sea shells, using them in unique and creative ways.
"I've never seen anything like it" Is the biggest comment I get.
The semi-precious stones I use in my Elements series come from all over the world from various sources. Most of the stones I use have been collected throughout the year in order to work out my compositions and then incorporate them into my paintings.
Each semi-precious stone has individual properties generating energetically from the stone. The energy can be felt by wearing the stone, touching the stone and will fill your room where the art will hang.
I encourage people to touch the stones on the art to resonate with its properties. I include properties of the stones with the descriptions. Some stones are healing, energizing, loving, and calming. Some resonate with different chakras and evoke emotions.
I love working with and showcasing the unique beauty found in each semi-precious stone. I hope you enjoy these unique works as much as I enjoy creating them.
Stones Used:
Amethyst: Treats insomnia, relives tension, helps overcome grief and loss, brings about spiritual awareness, constricting thinking and acting, good for skin, alleviates pain, lowers blood pressure, releases imbalances. Connects with spirituality and provides contentment. Clears the aura and relieves dysfunctional energy located within the body. Useful during meditation to promote and maintain a calm and peaceful state. Encourages sobriety, promotes sleep and combats headaches. Good for third eye chakra. Sign of Pisces, Virgo, Aquarius & Capricorn.


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"Understanding the content of a poem or a play or a novel is essential, but I also want my students to learn how to appreciate the internal qualities of good writing."
Kentucky poet Maurice Manning has published five books of poetry, including The Common Man, which was one of three finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His first collection, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has had works in publications including The New Yorker, Washington Square, The Southern Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
Manning has given poetry readings all over the country, from Penn's Store in Gravel Switch, Ky., to the Library of Congress.
He describes his teaching style as "congenial;" he conducts ongoing conversations about literature with his students.
"More than anything, I think I teach my students how to read in a particular way," he said. "For example, I would explain the 'logic' and beauty of a simile or an image. These are literary devices, of course, but writers use them to give their writing rigor and purpose."
Good writing is an integral aspect of a liberal arts education, and Transylvania puts an emphasis on helping students improve their writing in all classes and about all subjects. Manning said he sees good writing coming from good thought, and that is what he hopes to teach his students.
"There is a powerful connection between reading and thinking," he said. "If a student learns how to read with depth and focus, then he or she will most likely start thinking that way, too. And then the student's own writing will develop and mature."
Read columnist Tom Eblen's account of his visit with Manning on his farm near Springfield, Ky. (The Lexington Herald-Leader, August 2013)


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Keyshia Cole Receives Backlash for Michelle Williams Super Bowl Critique
Keyshia Cole, a singer-songwriter, drew the ire of a number of people after she spoke out against Michelle Williams, who performed alongside Beyonce Knowles at the 2013 Super Bowl halftime show.
While Knowles brought Destiny's Child members Williams and Kelly Rowland to join her for a short medley of the group's songs on the big stage, Cole tweeted her disapproval of one of the performers.
"I think I was frightened to blink for a sec. Then Michelle sung and woke my (expletive) up from my daze," Cole exclaimed to over 200,000 followers on the social networking website. "She's always (expletive) the groove up."
Although Cole managed to give Knowles credit for her portion of the performance, a number of people sounded off on the singer for critiquing Williams. One person recalled a particular song that Cole performed in an underwhelming manner.
"You! of all people! How about your 'Eye is on the sparrow' rendition," one person tweeted.
Another person agreed with those sentiments, saying, "that's probably what Michelle thought when she heard 'Eyes On The Sparrow.'"
Yet another person chastised Cole for speaking out against Williams and doubted that she would ever have the same opportunity to perform during a Super Bowl halftime show.
" ... And when was the last time you performed at the Super Bowl?" the person questioned.
Things seemed to take a turn for the worse when Cole posted a photograph of herself laughing with the caption, "You Mad?" an hour after posting her initial comments.
One person responded by questioning, "What were your first week sales again? oh ok."
While some people supported the R&B singer by saying, "I love you," others defended her.
"Ignore the haters, why should you have to explain yourself to strangers? Just ignore the immaturity. You're better than that," one fan told Cole.


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Tom Marble initially worked at Sun as Chief Technologist for emerging customers in the USA before joining the Java Performance Group. He next served as the technical lead for the Operating System Distributor License for Java (DLJ) project. In February of 2007, he assumed his current role as OpenJDK Ambassador where he facilitates the growth of the OpenJDK Community in an effort to promote Java technology ubiquity, compatibility, adoption and innovation.
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Thank you to all of you who participated in the Creative Challenge this month. There were so many fabulous choices that, as always, it was really hard to choose.
TOP THREE (chosen by the SNS Designers):
1. Mansi #56
2. Mel #44
To celebrate the month of LOVE, all Featured Artists also receive an exclusive SNS digi of their choice. (Don't forget to contact Anne to claim your prize.)
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Here are some of our favorites (in no particular order):
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#73 - Leeann
#20 - Vinita
#79 - Scrapp Ellen
#36 - Mikha Adriani
#21 - VA's Creative Clutter
Congratulations to all our Winners and Honorable Mentions!
The Top Three winners will each receive two digis of their choice and the Random.org winner will get to choose 1 digi. All the above participants gets a badge - download it right away by clicking on the tab at the top of the page and proudly display it on your blog.
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05 February 2013 - Stanmore Implants ('Stanmore'), specialists in the design and manufacture of patient specific and modular orthopaedic implants, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Sculptor Robotic Guidance Arm ("Sculptor RGA") for precision implant placement in unicompartmental knee surgery, also known as partial knee resurfacing.
Partial knee resurfacing only replaces the parts of the knee that are worn out and painful rather than cutting away the entire joint This preservation technique retains the natural ligaments around the knee, reduces surgical damage to tissue and is less invasive compared to total knee replacement. Sculptor RGA utilises a robotic guidance arm to assist the surgeon's operation of a cutting tool, limiting the removal of bone to a pre-defined safe area using Stanmore's patent protected 'Active Constraint' technology.
Stanmore's unique personalised procedural approach to surgery seamlessly integrates advanced technologies. From proprietary planning software, personalised implants are designed in-house, then manufactured and placed precisely. During surgery, bone is removed corresponding to the implant shape whilst a tracking arm determines and monitors the location of the patient ensuring that the surgeon accurately prepares the bone surface to match the implant precisely.
This new and unique approach to the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee has been used at a number of leading centres in the UK since the first patient specific personalised knee was implanted in July 2011 and builds upon the earlier clinical work undertaken using the Active Constraint™ technology featured in the Sculptor RGA™ device. Active Constraint™ technology has been shown to provide better functional outcome at 7 year follow up for partial knee surgery compared to the saws and jigs currently used in most knee surgery procedures, which are prone to a much higher degree of placement error.
The Sculptor RGA will be introduced in the United States for unicompartmental knee surgery in a limited release to a select group of surgeons from mid-2013, as Stanmore continues its evidence based approach to new product introduction. The Company is also developing additional applications for Sculptor RGA with the goal of broader commercialisation next year.
Brian Steer, Executive Chairman of Stanmore, said:
"Following this FDA clearance for Sculptor RGA we are excited by the opportunity to bring our personalised approach to knee surgery to patients in the United States. Robotic technology represents a major advance in orthopaedics, providing accurate placement that is critical to implant longevity and reproducibility along with tangible cost benefits, making access to robotic surgery more widely available to patients. Stanmore is now looking forward to working further with surgeons to continue to develop innovative solutions for the global orthopaedic market."
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By combining Sculptor RGA technology with patient specific partial knee implants, Stanmore's goal is to provide surgeons with a bone conserving solution that is personalised for the patient, is affordable and offers clinical benefits and cost effectiveness versus current treatment options. Initially, the Sculptor RGA is approved for use in unicompartmental knee replacement, a global market estimated to be 150,000 procedures per year with a market value of approximately $450 MM.
Stanmore is backed by leading investors including Abingworth, Imperial Innovations and Ivy Capital and intends to seek like-minded co-investors in 2013 to further support the commercialisation and growth opportunities offered by its unique technologies and market positioning.


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KSMQ Public Television presents Arrival: Women's Visions for a New Home, a half-hour documentary that explores Minnesota's ever-changing cultural landscape. Arrival share the stories of four women who came to the United States as immigrants or refugees after surmounting intense personal challenges in their countries of origin. These courageous women are now engaged in their new home using their strengths and voices to construct a brighter future in Minnesota, for Minnesota.
Arrival was created in coordination with the African Women's Alliance and Casa Guadalupe Multicultural Communities. It recently received a Bronze Telly Award. Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable TV programs; this year there were nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.
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trillaaa necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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Hello designers! Hope all's well wherever you are on this green earth!
My name is Ron and I'm starting a mobile social network for foodies called BonApp.
BonApp is short for bon appetit. If you don't know what bon appetit means, it's the ultra-popular French phrase for "enjoy your meal". And BonApp is also a play on the word "Apps", it's a "good app".
What I want my social network to achieve? I'd like to put the world's menu in the palm of the people's hands. I'd like to create a business that allows user's to find a meal that they truly desire at a price that they can afford, while at the same time promoting restaurants who cater great eats.
I imagine the BonApp company to be:
w/ a lot of Soul.
So the logo has to embody that.
Foodies with Smartphones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry).
People who like to eat good food. People who like to go journey throughout the city to eat that good food. People who like to have experiences. People who like to create memories.
The requirements for this contest is:
A logo
A favicon
A iPhone App Graphic
The logo has to be one that can be manipulated afterwards. meaning it looks good with the graphic alone, text alone, when they're both together. And such.
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Andy Murray made short work of big-hitting Frenchman Jeremy Chardy as the Olympic tennis champion cruised into his fourth successive Australian Open semi-final.
Murray was largely untroubled as he won 6-4 6-1 6-2 to move into a last-four clash with the winner of the meeting between Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Murray has yet to drop a set in Melbourne and never looked like doing so against the world number 36.
"Today was the best I have played (in the tournament)," the Scot said. "I struggled in the last few rounds a little bit and my last opponent (Gilles Simon) was struggling physically so it wasn't much of a match. Jeremy has beaten some great players so I had to come out sharp."
As for the remaining semi-final, Murray revealed he would only give it brief consideration. He added: "I'll watch a little bit but not the whole match. I will get an early night and hope that Roger and Jo play for four or five hours!"
The Scot was gifted the early initiative as Chardy, making his first appearance in a grand slam quarter-final, opened with two double faults and a netted high backhand volley. Murray then struck again to go 3-0 up. A booming ace finally got Chardy on the board before he got one of the breaks back.
Chardy was finally starting to warm to his task but, despite getting to deuce with Murray serving for the set, he could not find a way through as the Scot edged in front.
Chardy won their most recent meeting at the Cincinnati Masters last year but he found himself in deeper trouble at the start of the second set as Murray capitalised on some wild shots to establish a 3-1 lead. And Murray broke for a fourth time in the match to move further ahead.
Serving at 4-1, Murray slipped 15-40 down but saved the break points. He held for 5-1 and then broke again with Chardy beginning to look disheartened.
And a comeback never looked likely here with Chardy's game starting to disintegrate. He was broken once more after putting a weak forehand in the net to hand Murray a 2-0 lead.
The third seed saw another break-point chance come and go for 4-0 before Chardy held, but it mattered little as a beautifully constructed point saw Murray surge 5-1 ahead. He missed out on the chance to win the set on his serve, yet he promptly won the next game to go through in one hour and 51 minutes.


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Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop in New Zealand is where artists and crafters have made everything from the Lord of the Rings creatures and armor, to King Kong's dinosaurs. We're visiting Wellington, and took a tour.
Every visitor gets a chance to take a peek into the Weta Cave, which is packed with memorabilia from the many films whose props and creatures came to life in the Workshop. We have tons of pictures from there, as well as a haunting series of images of the full-size boat set from King Kong, which has been rusting away majestically at a nearby dock.
Though we couldn't take any pictures in the Weta Workshop proper, we did catch some tantalizing glimpses of cool stuff being created by humans - and by a bunch of 3D printers. We also got some amazing snaps of the trophy case in the Workshop conference room, packed with a bunch of monsters and armor. Oh, and a few golden men.
Look out for more Weta goodness tomorrow - we got an exclusive interview with Greg Broadmore, creator of the Dr. Grordbort's universe, as well as some very personal time with his ray guns.
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I used to do a lot of writing besides the stuff that has to get done at work. These days, not so much. I want to change that with this blog. The main thing I want to use this for is to chronicle and try to figure out how journalism will get paid for in the coming years. There's been a lot of talk about, and some experimentation with, ways to answer this question, but so far the way forward isn't all that clear.
As other options started to get shaky, people began looking at a non profit option (some dignified it with the word, "model" – yeesh) for journalism. Instead of it being seen as marketFAIL – if you can't sell stuff to support the journalism, the thinking goes, then "the market" obviously doesn't want you so get outta here – now some are seeing it as the wisest way forward – after all, it should allow you to diversify your revenue stream to include both "real" money and contributions. Other experiments are going all the way, rejecting traditional sources of revenue like advertising or subscriptions, and just doing the donation route.
Well, a lot of the thinking and doing in all this is coming not from people who actually think about non profits and fundraising, but from biz dev refugees from the commercial media, or from journalists themselves who are by and large, making it up as they go along.
I figure I can at least apply a fundraising filter to all the talk, to see if what's being proposed and test makes sense from the point of view of fundraising practice. Maybe that'll be useful. At least it'll give me a place to think about it.
The flip side is that the journos who are trying out the new stuff are coming up with some pretty interesting approaches to fundraising – so it's a two way street. And so maybe I can carry some of that back into the fundraising trade, too.
So that's mainly what I'm starting this blog to do.
Me? Maybe there are people who actually choose to spend their working time as a fundraiser. I sort of fell into it, being (back then, anyway) a young, low-cost white boy looking for a cause and who could write decently.
I've been doing non profit stuff since the mid-70s. I worked for a few years back in the Bronx and Brooklyn doing street level work – fundraising, project management, organizing. Worked in the arts in the 80s out in the Bay Area (mostly with a great ensemble, Traveling Jewish Theatre), and fell in love (again) with the theater during that time. In the 90s and early part of the new century, I shifted over to the environmental scene, ending up running a pretty large size development department at Earthjustice (nee Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) for several years (at some point, if there's a lesson to be shared, I'll have to tell the story of why I left). I joined up with Mother Jones in 2003 (I was a subscriber way back), and that's where I am today, and why this question is on my mind.
Oh yeah: I did get a PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz along the way.
I'll probably also use this blog for more personal stuff, too – health issues are on my mind these days. If I'm not posting for a while, I hope that's because I'm out backpacking somewhere majestic. Probably rant some, too, when it's called for.
(Update March 2010: I'm now the publisher of Mother Jones, too.)