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Guide to the Research Collections
An impressive number of the catalogs for the various collections found in the New York Public Library's Research Libraries have been produced in book form either by the library or in cooperation with other publishers. The divisions, collections, or subject areas represented are: American History Division; Arents Collection of Books Relating to Tobacco; Arents Collection of Books in Parts; Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Government Publications; Jewish Division; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Map Division; Music Division; Oriental Division; Rare Book Division; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Slavonic Division; Spencer Collection of Illustrated Books and Manuscripts and Fine Bindings; Theatre: Drama Collection, and Books on the Theatre; World War I Collection; and, more recently represented, the Dance Collection and the Local History and Genealogy Division. Only the following major subject areas are left uncovered: art and architecture, economic and public affairs, science and technology, prints, nonbook-form material in the Theatre Collection, phonorecords, and other audiovisual materials. All but the last four of these categories will, however, be included in the projected "Dictionary Catalog ... 1911-1971."
This will be a photographic reproduction of the approximately 11,000,000 entries under author, title, and subject in the main Public Catalog of the Research Libraries, which was established in 1911 with the opening of the Central Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and located in Room 315. Incorporated into the catalog at that time were entries representing the holdings of two predecessor libraries, the Astor Library (founded in 1848) and the Lenox Library (established in 1870). Excluded from this catalog are entries for books in non-Roman alphabets (Cyrillic, Oriental, Hebrew); entries for some special collections (such as Arents Collections and the Berg Collection); and some nonbook-form materials (such as manuscripts, maps, phonorecords, prints, and the like). When issued, this will be the only dictionary catalog (authors, titles, subjects) of a major research collection ever published. It will contain, moreover, many references to periodical articles.
This catalog (New York: The New York Public Library) is a cumulative list of authors, titles, and subjects representing books and book-like materials (including microforms and music scores) added to the collections since January 1, 1971. The first official issue of the catalog (January 1972) includes a selection of materials added to the collections during 1971. Some materials cataloged in 1971 were added to the Public Catalog only; other materials cataloged in 1971 appear in both the Public Catalog and the Dictionary Catalog; still others appear in the Dictionary Catalog only. Therefore, readers should consult the Public Catalog for titles published before 1972 that are not found in the Dictionary Catalog. The first issue of the Dictionary Catalog was followed by various cumulations and supplements which were superseded by a basic set cumulating all previous issues: there are bimonthly supplements to the basic set, and each segment of the basic set is cumulated on a rotation basis. The underlying principle of the cumulation cycle is to prevent the necessity of searching for an item in more than two sources--a cumulated basic volume and the more recent cumulative supplement.
New acquisitions in certain areas excluded from the Public Catalog are being or will be covered by the Dictionary Catalog. New materials from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (newly designated a part of the Research Libraries) have been covered since October 1972, and Cyrillic materials (with the entries in Romanized forms) have been covered since January 1973. From mid-1973 new book acquisitions of the Arents, Berg, and Spencer Collections have been cataloged in the Dictionary Catalog, and from January 1974 data for nonbook materials (e.g., sheet maps, motion pictures, and phonorecords) have been included on a selective basis, coverage to be systematically expanded. Since 1974, Hebrew works have been cataloged according to the ANSI Z39 Committee's computer-compatible transcription. See the introduction to the latest volume of the catalog for information on new cataloging policies. Oriental works will be covered in the future, along with manuscripts and prints at a later point.
Except where noted, the following catalogs published in book form were produced by G.K.


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Appendix C: Graduate Student Reinstatement Procedure
An individual who has been denied continued enrollment may petition for reinstatement to the K-State Graduate School and readmission to the same program or admission to a different program. Petitions are heard by a committee of the Graduate Council and a decision is rendered by the Dean of the Graduate School.
1. Guidelines for Reinstatement
a. The petitioner must contact the Graduate Program Director of the program to which she/he wishes to be reinstated or admitted.
b. The petitioner must obtain the support of the graduate program to which she/he wishes to be reinstated or admitted.
c. The petitioner must write a letter to the Dean of the Graduate School petitioning for reinstatement.
d. The supporting graduate program must send a letter to the Dean of the Graduate School indicating their willingness to support the individual's petition for reinstatement to K-State Graduate School specifying any conditions.
e. Upon receipt of the letters indicated above, the Associate Dean of the Graduate School will appoint a committee and schedule a hearing with the petitioner and program representative. The Associate Dean of the Graduate School will appoint, from the membership of the Graduate Council, three committee members, including one graduate student. A member of the Graduate School staff will be selected as secretary (without vote).
2. Hearing
a. Prior to participation of the petitioner and program representative, the hearing will be called to order by the Associate Dean of the Graduate School who chairs the committee (without vote). The role of the committee will be presented and discussed.
b. The petitioner will then be asked to participate in the hearing. The petitioner will have the option of having a program representative present during the hearing.
c. The chair will request the petitioner to present an overview of his/her request.
d. The committee may question the petitioner to obtain information needed to help in determining the decision to support or not support the reinstatement request.
e. The petitioner will be given an opportunity to summarize his/her request. The petitioner then will be dismissed from the hearing.
f. The chair will invite the program representative, if not already present, to join the hearing.
g. The committee will ask the program representative questions regarding the program's support for the petition. The program representative will then be dismissed from the hearing.
h. The committee will deliberate and a motion will be made and approved either to support the petition with or without specific conditions, or not to support the petition.
i. The chair will submit the committee's recommendation to the Dean of the Graduate School who will make the final decision.
j. A decision letter will be sent to the petitioner with copies to members of the committee, department head, graduate program director and program representative.
k. The petitioner's letter, letter of support from the graduate program, recommendation of the committee to the Dean of the Graduate School, and the response from the Dean of the Graduate School shall be placed in a file by the hearing committee chair. This file shall be retained in the Graduate School for at least three years following the conclusion of the reinstatement hearing. Each party may, at its own expense, copy the record or any part thereof at a place and time to be determined by the Dean of the Graduate School.
3. Enforcement of the Graduate School's Decision
The Dean of the Graduate School has the authority and responsibility to enforce the decision.

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2016 AMD #AMDRedTeam 1 Sweepstakes
Official Rules
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For All Entries: Limit one (1) Entry per person. Any Entries that do not comply with the above Guidelines will not be eligible to win a prize. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any Entry, the Authorized Account Holder of the email address used to register for the Sweepstakes will be deemed to be the Participant. The "Authorized Account Holder" is the natural person assigned the email address used to register for the Twitter account, as that is determined by the Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. The potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, illegible or misdirected Entries, which may be disqualified, or for any error, human, technical or otherwise. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules.
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6. Prize Notification and Delivery: Sponsor will notify a potential winner by Twitter Direct Message (DM) shortly after they are announced on the Drawing Date. Within twenty-four (24) hours of the Sponsor's DM notification, the potential winner must supply his/her email address and any requested information for the administration of the Sweepstakes. Potential winners will be required to immediately sign and return to Sponsor, a fully completed Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release ("Affidavit") in order to claim his/her prize. If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted, fails to respond to the notification within twenty-four (24) hours; or fails or refuses to fully complete, sign and return the Affidavit, he/she forfeits the applicable prize and the prize may be awarded to an alternate potential winner, selected by random drawing from among remaining Eligible Entries. Prizes will be distributed to the winner within 30 days of winner announcement upon completion of the sweepstakes. Failure to comply with any term or condition in these Official Rules may result in disqualification at Sponsor's sole discretion. Potential winner(s) may waive their right to receive a prize, in which case an alternate potential winner will be selected in the manner described above. Allow 6-8 weeks for prize delivery.
7. Winners and Prizes:
Approximate Retail Value (SEP)
Drawing Date
Choice of One (1) prize from AMD Red Team List
Based on table below
May 20, 2016 at approximately 3:30PM CT
AMD Red Team List:
- AMD Radeon™ R9 390 graphics card - $349.99
- AMD Radeon™ R9 390X graphics card- $429.99
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- Nintendo Wii U 32GB Console $299.99
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For All Prizes: Maximum one (1) prize per household, e-mail address, or Red Team forum user name for the entirety of the Promotion. In the event more than one Participant domiciled in the same household is selected as a potential winner, only the first potential winner from that household will be able to claim a prize. The total value of prizes awarded will not exceed-$429.99 USD. Approximate prize values as of May 9, 2016. Offer is subject to geographical limitation. Prices and exchange rates may vary, and dealer may sell for less. All aspects of the prizes not noted above (e.g., color, style, size, etc.) will be selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Prize must be accepted as awarded and may not be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash or otherwise, except at Sponsor's sole discretion or as contemplated herein. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value if the prize, or any component of the prize, cannot be awarded for any reason. Sponsor is responsible only for prize delivery; not responsible for prize utility, quality or otherwise.
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11. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible, to the extent permitted by law, for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Participant, printing errors or omission or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of Entries; or (5) any injury or damage to person or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from Participant's participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize, including without limitation, @AMDRadeon, @AMD, @AMDGaming, or @AMDFX Twitter followers. If for any reason a Participant's Entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, Participant's sole remedy is another Entry in the Sweepstakes provided that if it is not possible to submit another Entry due to discontinuance of the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, at its discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all Eligible Entries or, as the case may be, received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, unawarded, eligible prize claims.
12. Disputes: Except where prohibited, Participant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California or the appropriate California State Court located in Santa Clara County, California; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) under no circumstances will Participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and Participant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the Participant and Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of California or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of California. Some jurisdictions do not allow for limitations of certain remedies or damages and so this provision may not apply to you.
13. Sweepstakes Results: A list of winners will be posted on http://www.twitter.com/AMDRadeon on approximately June 13, 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter. Requests should be sent to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Requests for winner's lists must be received within four (4) months of the close of the Entry Period. Requests received after this time will not be honored.
©2016 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, Radeon and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Microsoft and Xbox One are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the US and other jurisdictions. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.


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Photographer Klaus Pichler gained access behind the scenes of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and captured the exhibits while they aren't on display. What he found were striking and often amusing views of sharks out of water, unexpected collections of cobras, and prehistoric humans stored alongside classical works of art.
Pichler spent three years photographing the depots, cellars, and storage rooms of various museum departments for his Skeletons in the Closet series, giving us a view of the museum that the public doesn't usually get to see. There are plenty of surprises in his photographs. Sometimes they're mere juxtapositions of the mundane storage spaces with the bones and taxidermied critters we don't see in day-to-day life. In other cases, the off-duty exhibits form strange and even dramatic scenes.
The photographic exhibit is just closing up at, appropriately, the Museum of Natural History, but you can see more of the photos from this series at Pichler's website.
Skeletons in the Closet [Klaus Pichler via Neatorama]


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| 11.2°C Belfast
Daniel Day-Lewis made history, while Ben Affleck's Argo won the top prize at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Adele was another Oscar winner with her James Bond theme Skyfall, while Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway and Quentin Tarantino also went home with a coveted golden statuette.
Day-Lewis became the first man to win the best actor gong three times, as he picked up the award for his performance in Lincoln. Accepting the Oscar from Meryl Streep, he said: "I really don't know how any of this happened, I do know I've received more than my fair share of good fortune in my life."
The nominees for best film were introduced by first lady Michelle Obama from the White House, before she named Argo as the winner. Director and star Ben Affleck paid tribute to the "genius" Steven Spielberg whose film, Lincoln, lost out in the category.
The Oscar for best actress went to Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook. The star, who stumbled on her way to the stage, said: "You guys are just standing up because you feel bad that I fell over and that's embarrassing."
Adele and songwriting partner Paul Epworth won the Oscar for best original song for the Bond theme Skyfall while the Oscar for best original score went to Mychael Danna for Life Of Pi. A tearful Adele thanked Epworth for "believing in me all the time, and my man, I love you baby".
Anne Hathaway won the gong for best supporting actress for her role in Les Miserables, while Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for Django Unchained and praised the film's director and his "hero" Quentin Tarantino for his work on the western. Tarantino then picked up the best original screenplay gong for the film.
Ang Lee won the best director Oscar for Life Of Pi and the award for adapted screenplay went to Chris Terrio for Argo. The award for costume design went to British designer Jacqueline Durran for Anna Karenina and there was another UK win when the Oscar for make-up and hairstyling was won by Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for Les Miserables.
Host Seth MacFarlane brought song and dance to the ceremony with the help of William Shatner as Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. There was also a James Bond special feature, including a performance of Goldfinger by Dame Shirley Bassey and a celebration of movie musicals, featuring numbers from Chicago, DreamGirls and Les Miserables.


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8 Bridges 2012
by, June 29th, 2012 at 02:40 PM (6822 Views)
Its water that connects us.
Having just spent 4 days in or on the Hudson, and covering over 50 miles, its impossible not to look south at the river as it winds through the highlands and widens out (and will again narrow before we reach the NY Harbor) and not imagine the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Pass Breezy Point, NY on the port; ditto Sandy Hook, NJ on the starboard... hang a right, and a week or so you can be somewhere between Florida and Cuba. Penny Palfrey won't wait that long. She is already well under way to Florida, with Cuba fading in the distance behind her.
Stage 5 of 8 Bridges is tomorrow. I am swimming! ...so is Rondi Davies, Grace Van der Byl, and Elias Falcon... thats it, just the four of us. Neither Rondi nor I finished this stage last year; Rondi, deciding to take an easy day got out after 4 hours; I (intent on completing every stage) resigned after 9 hrs 30 minutes... battling the flood for three and a half hours and getting stopped dead less than 200 yards from the Tappan Zee Bridge. In the world of open water, this is commonly known as unfinished business.
I will attempt to take care of business tomorrow. There will be some dark moments.... it is expected to be in the 90's, and water temps will be in the low 80's for a good stretch, thanks to the Indian Point nuclear power plant... sucking our energy while generating energy.
I'll be channeling Penny when things get rough, and draw some inspiration knowing that we are swimming simultaneously separated by a mere 1286.24 miles of water.


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Connecting to Bridges
Before the first time you connect to Bridges, you must create your PSC password. Depending on your preferences, you may want to change your login shell once you are logged in.
We take security very seriously! Be sure to read and comply with PSC policies on passwords, security guidelines, resource use, and privacy.
If you have questions at any time, you can send email to email@example.com.
Content of this document
This document will tell you how to
Create or change your PSC password
If you do not already have an active PSC account, you must create a PSC password (also called a PSC Kerberos password) before you can connect to Bridges. Your PSC password is the same on all PSC systems, so if you have an active account on another PSC system, you do not need to reset it before connecting to Bridges.
Your PSC password is separate from your XSEDE Portal password. Resetting one password does not change the other password.
Setting your initial PSC password
To set your initial PSC password, use the web-based PSC password change utility.
Changing your PSC password
There are two ways to change or reset your PSC password:
- Use the web-based PSC password change utility
- Use the kpasswd command when logged into a PSC system. Do not use the passwd command.
When you change your PSC password, whether you do it via the online utility or via the kpasswd command on one PSC system, you change it on all PSC systems.
Connect to Bridges
When you connect to Bridges, you are connecting to one of Bridges' login nodes. The login nodes are used for managing files, submitting batch jobs and launching interactive sessions. They are not suited for production computing.
See the Running Jobs section of this User Guide for information on production computing on Bridges.
There are several methods you can use to connect to Bridges.
You can access Bridges through a web browser by using the OnDemand software. You will still need to understand Bridges' partition structure and the options which specify job limits like time and memory use, but OnDemand provides a more modern, graphical interface to Bridges.
See the OnDemand section of this User Guide for more information.
You can connect to a traditional command line interface by logging in via one of these:
- ssh, using either XSEDE or PSC credentials. If you are registered with XSEDE for DUO Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), you can use this security feature in connecting to Bridges.
- XSEDE Single Sign On, including using Multi-Factor authentication if you are an XSEDE user
This document explains how to use ssh or XSEDE Single Sign On to access Bridges.
- ssh, using either XSEDE or PSC credentials. If you are registered with XSEDE for DUO Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), you can use this security feature in connecting to Bridges.
You can use an ssh client from your local machine to connect to Bridges using either your PSC or XSEDE credentials.
SSH is a program that enables secure logins over an unsecure network. It encrypts the data passing both ways so that if it is intercepted it cannot be read.
SSH is client-server software, which means that both the user's local computer and the remote computer must have it installed. SSH server software is installed on all the PSC machines. You must install SSH client software on your local machine.
Free ssh clients for Macs, Windows machines and many versions of Unix are available. Popular ssh clients (GUI) include PuTTY for Windows and Cyberduck for Macs. A command line version of ssh is installed on Macs by default; if you prefer that, you can use it in the Terminal application. You can also check with your university to see if there is an ssh client that they recommend.
Once you have an ssh client installed, you can use either your PSC credentials or XSEDE credentials (optionally with DUO MFA) to connect to Bridges. Note that you must have created your PSC password before you can use ssh to connect to Bridges.
Use ssh to connect to Bridges using XSEDE credentials and (optionally) DUO MFA:
- Using your ssh client, connect to hostname bridges.psc.xsede.org or bridges.psc.edu using port 2222.
Either hostname will connect you to Bridges, but you must specify port 2222.
- Enter your XSEDE username and password when prompted.
- (Optional) If you are registered with XSEDE DUO, you will receive a prompt on your phone. Once you have answered it, you will be logged in.
Use ssh to connect to Bridges using PSC credentials:
- Using your ssh client, connect to hostname bridges.psc.xsede.org or bridges.psc.edu using the default port (22).
Either hostname will connect you to Bridges. You do not have to specify the port.
- Enter your PSC username and password when prompted.
Read more about using SSH to connect to PSC systems
Public-private keys
You can also use public-private key pairs to connect to Bridges. To do so, you must first fill out this form to register your keys with PSC.
XSEDE single sign on
XSEDE users can use their XSEDE usernames and passwords in the XSEDE User Portal Single Sign On Login Hub (SSO Hub) to access bridges.psc.xsede.org or bridges.psc.edu.
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Walmart worker protests Thanksgiving hours
Store will open at 8 p.m. Thursday
A Kenosha woman is protesting Walmart's decision to open on Thanksgiving.
Mary Pat Tifft has been with the company for almost 25 years. She said many of her co-workers worry about losing their jobs if they speak out against Walmart. The Black Friday issue, she said, is just the start.
When she heard the company would start Black Friday sales at 8 p.m. Thursday, two hours earlier than last year, she couldn't let that pass.
"How can a company that's pro-family not allow its associates to be able to spend an American national, traditional holiday with their families?" she asked.
The store's move has propelled efforts nationwide by an organized group of workers to strike on the busiest shopping day of the year.
Citing low wages and poor work environment, company vice president David Tovar blamed the anger on a small group.
Tovar said any disruption would not impact store employees or shoppers. Meanwhile, Tifft said the Black Friday issue is secondary to worker's rights complaints.
"So much retaliation has happened to my fellow employees, to my fellow associates, the country because they found their voice and are willing to speak up," Tifft said. "And all we're doing is speaking up about the low wages and we just want respect."
When doors open at 8 p.m. Thursday, Tifft will take part in what has become a nationwide protest leading up to Black Friday.


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Outlook 2014: Markets vs. the Fed
What will the markets do now that the Fed has signaled its intention to keep the stimulus spigot going? Doug Coté, ING Investment Management chief market strategist, joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... you know we've been purchasing eighty five billion dollars for months and longer term Treasury and agency mortgage backed securities ... starting in January will be for deceased purchasing seventy five billion dollars of securities a month reducing purchases of Treasuries ... and mortgage backed securities by five billion dollars each ... that was Federal Reserve chairman Ben burn Anqi yesterday afternoon presiding over his last press conference is head of the central bank ... in delivering the message of the market loved it ... yesterday the least stock to get him back a little bit of that today even see the Dow down thirty two points ... not alot me as a driven I'm deeply read the Nasdaq fell more than a half percent ... and the Essen P down about half percent around eighteen hundred ... what will Markets do now that the Fed has signaled its intention to keep this stimulus Big telling ... Doug Cote ARII Angie Investment Management's chief market strategist ... Kit to on the MoneyBeat show with his take ... on things coming in today appreciated that ThyssenKrupp Rattler sure you weren't glued to the TV is everybody I was yesterday of finance ... what did you make of the Fed and what you make of what the Fed plans to do next year ... by his validation of what we've been saying is that the ACA not ... the economy is staying on its own two feet ... and really they should not taper its start tapering in September but because the Washington shutdown etc ... on they delayed it but they needed to do it because there creating bubbles and as time ... for the Fed to step aside ... so we are advocating that the mid December and died the Chairman Rene Kyi has another chance but when we open up December strong factions from housing was strong consumer ... they had to do it and died so we were ... encouraged ... and it is again it's a sign this is a validation that the economy is doing its own two feet ... the heat of the bulls in a room of a bubble lately ... do you think that look ... yes this is a good start tapering to small and now ... they didn't really get hard and fast time from or how they're going to wind it down when ... he ... said that the to keep rates lower for longer than people anticipated ... do you think you were not bubbles do you think they're already behind her ... well I'd ... not meaningfully idling ... than the ten billion dollars I think was higher then with the market expected yet the market ... on top ... but what I believe is they are going to and tapering ... by the end of two thousand and fourteen and the other then that so far behind the ... curve ... but we saw bubbles we saw in the kitchen is a bubble and in the ... currency of India and Indonesia ... that was quantitative easing induced ... as Eastern raising rates ... on on the markets turn pulling on revenue to real serious some are yet CF as that is dangerous we seen bubbles don't ... just deflate ... they gave birth and we can have that ... type type of uncertainty anymore ... so it's time ... to doing I think the Fed has done a phenomenal job job ... and I and am just encouraged that they did in December and in the lane or more hinges on the Gold There's has been to put up for the stock markets around the U S stock market ... and keep things is even killed as they can allow assets to rise ... do you think they continue to do that in twenty fourteen the thing with Darfur safety think the plane continues to work in twenty fourteen ... well what they're trying to do is they are now and in every currency gain ... they're trying to pass the mantle ... from the government from central banks back to the private economy where mow lawns because that's true market pricing mechanism ... so we can expect is some some increase in volatility ... and I think investors should shy away from volatility ... that's normal but high on a volatility at twelve thirteen fourteen on the decks ... at the key you can expect more of sixteen seventeen eighteen which is more normal by ... the fundamentals that cannot ... because corporate profits in two thousand fourteen I see going to hire twenty one dollars which is a new all-time record high of three high to very happy at ... Artnet to leave it there things coming in London that IAG appreciated thanks


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Around here winter can last for an eternity, or so it seems. When the first buds of spring make their long journey from fall-planted bulb, to green stem, to full-fledged flower it can only be described as glorious.
Which means it's time to plant some bulbs. Again.
Again because those rascally, yet cute (darn them), chipmunks ate all my crocus bulbs last year. More tulips it is.
Piling all those hundreds of bulbs to be planted into a basket reminded me of the last place I saw piles upon piles of bulbs, waiting to be plucked and planted into gardens all over, Terrain.
Terrain is the garden/landscaping/floral outlet of the business geniuses behind Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters. Which means, of course, it is impeccably styled and visually decadent.
One space might be just piles upon piles of beautiful twine, another neat rows of oil cans, another an antique armoire filled with flowers.
So while I ruminate on just where to plant all those bulbs I'll leave you with a little more Terrain eye candy. Happy almost Friday!
Any fun weekend plans already in the works? Perhaps planting some flowers and hope for the promise of next year's spring?
Note: While it would be nice to have padding in the pocket and Terrain loveliness all over my house they had nothing to do with this post, especially not monetarily. Ok, they did give some styling help, I suppose, by existing and letting me in the doors with a camera...


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Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde took their 9 day old son Otis for a walk in New York City on Monday (April 29). Olivia looks amazing!
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Ginnifer Goodwin was seen baby shopping at Bel Bambini in Beverly Hills, CA on Monday (April 28). Jennifer and her husband Josh Dallas are expecting their first child sometime next month.
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David Irving, http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/History_07 ... 90707.html :
and:"The bombing of Warsaw and Rotterdam were no precedents for the RAF's saturation bombing campaign; both cities were attacked for military tactical reasons, as is well established in the records. Winston Churchill in his six-volume history The Second World War subsequently claimed that "thirty thousand civilians" were killed in the Rotterdam raid on May 14, 1940. The city officials told me the actual figure was around 900, mostly from fires caused by the blazing margarine factory."
and:Hannover wrote:See this recent thread:
new book: 'Britain 1st to bomb civilians indiscriminately '
and excerpted from another thread:Hannover wrote:More on the British initiation of terror bombings of civilians here:
Hannover @ banning political parties / more attacks on German democracy
With a list of German towns, cities where the civilian population was illegally terror bombed long before German retaliation.
- Hannover
excerpts:Hannover wrote:http://www.fpp.co.uk/History/Churchill/ ... plies.html
..........the British, by their own admission, initiated unrestricted bombing of civilian areas ought to merit for them membership in the select society of "war criminals." The unbelieving reader need only consult the testimony of the British officials J. M. Spaight and Sir Arthur Harris, for incontrovertible proof of this charge.99 A decision of the British Air Ministry made on May 11, 1940, to attack targets in Western Germany instituted the practice of bombing purely civilian objectives. This "epoch-making event," as F. J. P. Veale correctly describes it, marked an ominous departure from the rule that hostilities are to be limited to operations against enemy military forces alone.100 Spaight, former Principal Secretary of the Air Ministry, makes the following amazing comment on the decision of May 11, 1940:
Because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of propagandist distortion of the truth that it was we who started the strategic bombing offensive, we have shrunk from giving our great decision of May 11, 1940, the publicity it deserves. That surely was a mistake. It was a splendid decision.101
But the "great decision," the "splendid decision" of May 11, 1940, which was ultimately to cost the lives of millions, including thousands of Mr. Spaight's own countrymen, was to have an even more grisly sequel, for, according to Sir Charles Snow who had charge of selecting scientific personnel for war research in Great Britain in World War II, F. A. Lindemann, a Cabinet member and confidant of Churchill, produced in early 1942 a remarkable Cabinet paper on the subject of the strategic bombing of Germany:
It described, in quantitative terms, the effect on Germany of a British bombing offensive in the next eighteen months (approximately March 1942-September 1943). The paper laid down a strategic policy. The bombing must be directed essentially against German working-class houses. Middle-class houses have too much space round them, and so are bound to waste bombs ...102
One wonders if it was the cultivated humanitarianism inherent in this decision to assure the death of more working class Germans per bomb which entitled the Allies, and in particular the British, to sit in moral judgment on German leaders at Nuremberg in 1946!
99. J. M. Spaight, Bombing Vindicated (London: Geoffrey Bles, Ltd., 1944) and Sir Arthur Harris, bomber Offensive (London: Collins, 1947).
100. F. J. P. Veale, Advance to Barbarism (Apppleton: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, 1953), p. 122.
101. Spaight, op. cit., p. 7.
102. C. P. Snow, Science and Government (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961), p. 48.Letter to PBS on fraudulent 'documentary' about the 'Blitz'
Dr. A.R. WESSERLE
16 March 1981
PBS Television "The Blitz"
Rarely have I come across a television broadcast more vicious in intent and more warped in execution than your recent "Blitz on Britain." As a survivor of the mass air raid executed against my native city of Prague, Bohemia, on the Christian Holy Day of Palm Sunday, 1945, by the Anglo-American strategic bomber force - a raid that maimed or murdered thousands a few seconds before the conclusion of the Second World War - I say this:
1. There can be no comparison between the brutality of the Anglo-American bomber offensive, on one hand, and the minimality of the German-Italian efforts, on the other. As the commander of the British strategic air offensive, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris shows in his Bomber Offensive (Macmillan, New York, 1947) 23 German cities had more than 60 percent of their built-up area destroyed; 46 had half of it destroyed. 31 communities had more than 500 acres obliterated: Berlin, 6427 acres: Hamburg, 6200 acres; Duesseldorf, 2003; Cologne (through air attack), 1994. By contrast, the three favorite targets of the Luftwaffe: London, Plymouth and Coventry, had 600 acres, 400, and just over 100 acres destroyed.
2. Anglo-American strategic bombers, according to official sources of the West German government in 1962, dropped 2,690,000 metric tons of bombs on Continental Europe; 1,350,000 tons were dropped on Germany within its 1937 boundaries; 180,000 tons on Austria and the Balkans; 590,000 tons on France; 370,000 tons on Italy; and 200,000 tons on miscellaneous targets such as Bohemia, Slovakia and Poland. By contrast, Germany dropped a total of 74,172 tons of bombs as well as V-1 and V-2 rockets and "buzz bombs" on Britain - five percent of what the Anglo-Saxons rained down on Germany. The Federal German Government has established the minimum count - not an estimate - of 635,000 German civilians were killed in France, Italy, Rumania, Hungary, Czecheslovakia, and elsewhere.
3. Both Germany and Britain initiated air raids on naval and military targets as of 3 September 1939. However, when the British attacks on port installations in Northern Germany ended in disaster, with a devastating majority of bombers downed - the Battle of the German Bight - Britain switched over to less costly night air raids on civilian targets such as Berlin and the Ruhr industrial region. By contrast, Germany replied in kind only in the winter months of 1940/41, a year later. Observers indubitably British, such as the late Labour Minister Crossman, the scientist and writer C.P. Snow, and the Earl of Birkenhead, have demonstrated that it was not Germany but Britain that, after May, 1940, unleashed an official policy of unrestricted and unlimited raids on civilian populations under its new Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and his science advisor, Dr. Lindemann. Professor Lindemann, the later Viscount Cherwell, coolly calculated that, by using a force of 10,000 heavy bombers to attack and destroy the 58 largest German cities, one-third of the population of Germany would be "de-housed." The assumption, of course, also was that out of those 25-27 million homeless at least ten percent - 2.5 to 3 million people - would be killed. On this score alone, Winston Churchill and his advisors deserve to rank among the maddest mass murderers in history. In fact, as West German records show, 131 German towns were hit by heavy strategic raids. Only the courage of the Luftwaffe pilots, the effectiveness of the air defense network and the strength of the fire fighting organization worked together to prevent a bloodbath to the extent envisioned by the Prime Minister.
4. Blood baths did occur when conditions were right. When the Anglo-American bombing policy reached its first grand climax in a raid on Hamburg that stretched over several days and nights in July, 1943, a minimum of 40,000 to 50,000 civilians burned to death. With the defensive power of the Reich worn down in the second half of 1944 and in 1945, the Anglo-Saxons indulged in ever more massive extermination raids against Europe. Communities of little or no military value, even if attacked previously, were now pulverized, preferably under conditions of the utmost horror. Christian holy days, and dates and sites of famous art festivals were select occasions for raids. Many of the most beautiful cities of Europe and the world were systematically pounded into nothingness, often during the last weeks of the war, among them: Wuerzburg, Hildesheim, Darmstadt, Kassel, Nürnberg, Braunschweig. Little Pforzheim in south-west Germany had 17,000 people killed. Dresden, one of the great art centers and in 1945 a refuge for perhaps a million civilians, was decimated with the loss of at least 100,000 souls. Europe from Monte Cassino to Luebeck and Rostock on the Baltic, from Caen and Lisieux in France to Pilsen, Prague, Bruenn, Budapest and Bucharest reeled under the barbaric blows of the bombers.
5. Nor did the extermination raids stop with Europe. Cigar-chomping General Curtis LeMay demonstrated in. the Far East that record kills could be achieved without resort to atomic weapons. By applying the lessons learned in Europe to the wooden architecture of the Asian mainland and Japan he raised "fire storms" which surpassed even those of Hamburg, n Japanese civilians were killed through bombing. Millions of others fell victim to it, from Mukden, Manchuria, to Rangoon, Burma. It goes without saying that LeMay and his colleagues could not have carried out their campaigns of mass annihilation without the backing of the highest political leaders in the land. In fact, the United States Government had placed orders for the immediate development of four-engined, superheavy, very-long-range bombers (the XB 15, the B-17, the XB 19, the B-24 and the B-29) starting in 1934. Thus, the Roosevelt Administration had begun to lay plans for offensive, strategic, global war back in 1933, the year of its inception. With the later exception of Britain, none of the other "large" powers followed suit: neither France, Italy and Germany, nor Soviet Russia and Japan the latter with extensive holdings in the Pacific. These are sobering facts. PBS, with its record of fine programming, has much to lose if it insists on presenting biassed reports such as "Blitz on Britain" or "UXB." If you care to tap the unplumbed depths of sentimentality, envy and hatred, start a comic strip. In the meantime, we'll change channels.
Give poor Alistair Cooke, who has been mightily discomfited of late, a much-needed respite.
Sincerely, Dr. A.R. Wesserle
Source: Reprinted from The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 381-384.
In addition:"As early as 1953 H.M. Stationary Office published the first volume of a work 'The Royal Air Force', 1939-1945 entitled 'The Fight at Odds', a book described as "officially commissioned and based throughout on official documents which had been read and approved by the Air Ministry Historical Branch." The author , Mr. Dennis Richards, states plainly the destruction of oil plants and factories was only a secondary purpose of the British air attacks on Germany which began in May 1940. The primary purpose of these raids was to goad the Germans into undertaking reprisal raids of a similar character on Britain. Such raids would arouse intense indignation in Britain against Germany and so create a war psychosis without which it is impossible to carry on a modern war. Mr Dennis Richards writes: "If the Royal Air Force raided the Ruhr, destroying oil plants with it's most accurately placed bombs and urban property with those that went astray, the outcry for retalliation against Britain might prove too strong for the German generals to resist. The attack on the Ruhr, in other words, was an informal invitation to the Luftwaffe to bomb London ". p. 122
This passage merely confirmed what Mr. Spaight had so incautiously disclosed in 1944 in his by then forgotten book 'Bombing Vindicated'. The popular belief that Hitler started unrestricted bombing still persisted and is, in fact, widely held at present day.
The third and last phase of the British air offensive against Germany began in March 1942 with the adoption of the Lindemann Plan by the British War Cabinet, and continued until the end of the war in May, 1945. The bombing during this period was not, as the Germans complained, indiscriminate. On the contrary, it was concentrated on working-class houses because, as professor Lindemann maintained, a higher percentage of bloodshed per ton of explosives dropped could be expected from bombing houses built close together, rather than by bombing higher class houses surrounded by gardens."
source: 'Advance to Barbarism - the Development of Total Warfare', by F.J.P. Veale, p.184-185
A big reason why the 'Allies' need the 'holocaust' storyline
- HannoverHannover wrote:Wielun and the numbers alleged in the Wiki are pure propaganda.Complete nonsense.It killed an estimated 1,300 civilians, injured hundreds more and destroyed 90 percent of the town centre. There were no military targets of any importance in the area.[1]
Look at the picture they provide, the actual damage was fairly minimal. Wielun was a military target and there was some minimal collateral damage, but clearly not an intentional civilian target.Just another fabrication that is easily debunked.Polish historian Jerzy B. Cynk, author of The Polish Air Force at War. The official history 1939-1943, wrote about the events: "Numerous direct support missions were also flown, with the heaviest attacks directed against the Polish cavalry and troop concentrations at Wielun."[9]
At 13:00 a German dive bomber wing, I./StG 2 led by Major Oskar Dinort via Nieder-Ellguth, were directed against this unit, followed a few hours later by Schwarzkopff with sixty Ju 87 Stukas of I./Sturzkampfgeschwader 77[8] Weather conditions were unfavourable during the day, with a visibility of only one kilometre and a practically closed layer of fog at 50 metres altitude.[10] Fog, mist and poor visibility thwarted many of the Luftwaffe's sorties planned for the morning of the first day of the invasion.[10] The dive bombers, facing intense anti aircraft fire, inflicted heavy losses on the Polish cavalry, and the advance was turned into a rout by 90 Stukas.[8] On their return home, four of the German Junkers Ju 87 bombers were shot down by the Polish 36 Academic Legion Infantry Regiment stationed nearby.[8] Three waves of attacks were carried out during the day.[8] The town was captured by the German Army on the first day of the invasion.[8]
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Once you retire, your sources of income change radically. Though you may supplement your retirement income with a part-time job, most of it will come from what you've saved and invested and Social Security. But here's something you may not know: it isn't how much you've saved, it's what you do with your savings. As James Nichols, Head of Retirement Income and Advice Strategy for Voya Retirement, said on USAToday.com: "The reality is, when you're moving into retirement, a big pile of money doesn't do you much good unless you know how to turn that into income."
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At this point you may want to bring in a financial professional to formulate a plan based on the pros and cons of your various income sources. For example, withdrawals from 401ks or Traditional IRAs are fully taxable. On the other hand, qualified withdrawals from Roth plans are paid out to you income tax-free. A well-designed and managed cash value life insurance policy can also potentially be a source of supplemental retirement income.1 And if you start drawing your Social Security benefit before age 65, you won't receive your full benefit. To maximize your income stream over the length of retirement (which could be over 30 years), you may want to think about adjusting some of your savings strategies today.
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How much income will you really need in retirement? One of the first things you can do to find out is to develop a realistic budget. Start with the basics: food, housing, travel and then go from there. You should also take into consideration the things you want to do when you retire and see how you can fit those into your budget too.
If you're using your current lifestyle to act as a starting point, you'll need to do the same for your current income. For example, if you earn $100,000 annually from your job, then after taxes, insurance and deductions, your net take-home pay may be about $75,000. That's the number you're currently living on and the approximate amount, after income taxes, you'll need in retirement if you want to keep living the way you do now.
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Verizon and AT&T are playing out their 3G coverage spat in court, with Verizon asserting that "the truth hurts" when it comes to AT&T's 3G coverage. Verizon's statement is just the latest in the legal battle that started earlier this month when AT&T filed a lawsuit over Verizon's "There's a Map for That" ad campaign—the gloves are off, and it's clear that both companies are willing to go to great lengths to push their own marketing agendas.
If these two companies were five-year-olds, AT&T would be screaming "VERIZON STARTED IT!" The network began running ads in October—meant to directly target Apple's and AT&T's "There's an App for That" ads—that showed a Verizon coverage map next to AT&T's. Verizon's map showed significantly more 3G coverage, and the ad stated "There's a Map for That" with the implication that AT&T's devices are no good if you can't get any coverage out in the middle of Podunk City, Iowa. The ads even stated flat out that AT&T's customers were "out of touch" where 3G coverage wasn't available. Oh snap, Verizon!
AT&T was understandably miffed. The problem was that Verizon was specifically showing 3G coverage on its maps, and not overall (2.5G/EDGE) coverage from both networks. Because Verizon's entire network is 3G while most of AT&T's is 2G (with 3G currently expanding its reach throughout the US), of course Verizon's 3G coverage map looks impressive compared to AT&T's. AT&T sent a nastygram to Verizon asking it to stop running the ads; in response, Verizon removed the words "out of touch" and added a note in microscopic print at the end of the ad that said "Voice & data services available outside 3G coverage areas."
The company could not have possibly expected AT&T to be satisfied with these small changes, and it wasn't. AT&T decided to file its lawsuit at the beginning of November, asking for a temporary restraining order and an injunction to force Verizon's ads off the air. AT&T argued that Verizon's use of the maps with large swaths of white space on AT&T's side was misleading to customers and implied that they would not be able to make calls or surf the Internet, despite the fact that AT&T's 2.5G network has supported millions of users for years before 3G became popular.
Now, Verizon has shot back with its own filing in the case. "AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon's 'There's A Map For That' advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon's ads are true and the truth hurts," reads the introduction. Ouch. Verizon continues on, pointing out that AT&T seems happy to parade around its 3G offerings in its own ads ("Nation's Fastest 3G Network") but is unhappy when completely truthful and accurate—even by AT&T's own admission—coverage maps are used side by side in Verizon's commercials. The company also points out that customers who want smartphones indeed have a strong interest in comparing the 3G coverage, not AT&T's slower 2.5G offerings.
This almost appears to be a pointless battle for AT&T to fight, as it seems Verizon has carefully covered its bum in all the right places. The captions under the maps clearly state that they're for 3G coverage—is it Verizon's fault that most customers have no idea what that means?—and the small print, while discreet, is there. The way AT&T might be able to succeed from here on out is to prove that Verizon's ads are misleading customers in the way AT&T believes they are, but that would likely have to involve studies and user surveys that will require time and money. As Verizon points out in its response, AT&T hasn't exactly shown that there's an emergency that would require the ads to come down immediately, so it seems that these ads will remain on TV for the foreseeable future.
Further reading:
- Verizon's response to AT&T (PDF, via Engadget)


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Before Women's History Month ends, please let me remind you that I believe the Family Forest® Project is the most woman-centered genealogy resource available, intentionally by design.
There was a telling scene in the excellent Faces of America program where Meryl Streep tells Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that basically, she is not nearly as interested in the lives of her male ancestors as she is in the women who stood with them.
Wow, that sums up the direction I have been steering the Family Forest® Project in for 15 years. Wouldn't cousin Meryl be the perfect celebrity spokesperson we need?
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NASFAA President Justin Draeger testified before members of Congress about the association's proposals for strengthening the Pell Grant Program, including the "Pell Promise," "Pell Well," and "Super Pell" concepts. The December 3, 2013 hearing of the House Subcommittee for Higher Education and Workforce Training discussed "Keeping College Within Reach: Strengthening Pell Grants for Future Generations" in advance of the upcoming Higher Education Act reauthorization.
View NASFAA's full written testimony >>
Read the press release about the hearing >>
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Q&A Part One: During the first segment, the witnesses answer questions regarding NASFAA's Pell Well proposal, how to address Pell funding gaps, and ways to reduce waste, fraud and abuse within the system.
Q&A Part Two: During the second segment, the witnesses answer questions about how rising college costs affect Pell grant recipients and issues surrounding college completion.
Q&A Part Three: During the third segment, the witnesses answer questions about remedial education among Pell recipients and the need for more data on the Pell program.
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One of the songs played from the earliest days of the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia mixed up the order of the verses, but this is the basic structure:
Well she's coming down the stairs, combing back her yellow hair (note 1)Notes
And I ain't gonna be treated this-a-way
And I ain't gonna be treated this-a-way
Well she went up to her room and she sang a fateful tune (note 2)
And I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow
Winds don't blow
And I'm going where those chilly winds don't blow
Well I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life (note 3)
Run me out in the cold rain and snow
Rain and snow
Run me out in the cold rain and snow
|Grateful Dead Recordings
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|Birth Of The Dead (note a)
|studio Jun 1966
|Birth Of The Dead (instrumental) (note a)
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|Anthem Of The Sun (2018 bonus disc)
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|Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 (note b)
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|Dave's Picks Volume 24
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|Dick's Picks Vol 20
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|Dick's Picks Vol 25
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|July 1978: The Complete Recordings
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|Dave's Picks Volume 20
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|Road Trips Volume 4, Number 4
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|Dave's Picks Volume 35
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|30 Trips Around The Sun
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|30 Trips Around The Sun
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|Dick's Picks Vol 9
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|Nightfall Of Diamonds
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|Eternity Blue
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|Grateful Dreams
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|88 Keys To Tomorrow
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|16 Jun 2004
|Mick's Picks, Volume 3
|Jefferson Starship (with Tom Constanten)
|Moved To Stanleyville
|Tom Constanten and Ken Foust
|The Promised Land
|Sagol 59 & Ami Yares
|Songs To Fill The Air (WFMU Pledge Drive)
|Chris Forsyth and the SMB
|Dead Air
|The Gladstones
|Phantom Ships With Phantom Sails
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Well I married me a wife, she gave me trouble all of my lifeRamsey's LP notes credit Cecil Sharp, who collected the first verse only from Mrs. Tom Rice at Big Laurel, NC August 18, 1916.
Ran me out in the cold rain and snow
Rain and snow, oh Lord
Ran me out in the cold rain and snow
Well she came down the stairs, combing back her long yellow hair
And her cheeks were as red as the rose
As the rose
And her cheeks were as red as the rose
Well I did all I could do, trying to get along with you
And I'm not gonna treated this a-way
This a-way, oh Lord
And I'm not gonna treated this a-way
Well she came in the room, where she met her fatal doom
And I'm not gonna treated this a-way
This a-way, oh Lord
And I'm not gonna treated this way
"Berzilla Wallin, who also sings the song, explains: 'Well, I learned it from an old lady which says she was at the hanging of - which was supposed to be the hanging, but they didn't hang him. They give him 99 long years for the killing of his wife... I heard the song from her in 1911. She was in her 50's at that time. It did happen in her girlhood ... when she was a young girl... She lived right here around in Madison County. It happened here between Marshall and Burnsville; that's where they did their hanging at that time - at Burnsville, North Carolina. That's all I know, except they didn't hang the man.'Blackman concludes that the song was a ballad written about a murder that actually happened in Madison County, probably in the 12870's, albeit incorporating some references to other traditional songs.
"The initial verses of this song resemble Grayson and Whitter's 'Never As Fast As I Have Been', Buell Kazee's 'Sporting Bachelors' and the song in Alan Lomax's Folk Song USA titled 'Sporting Bachelors'"


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Since the 1990s, Dolphin Research Center has committed ourselves to supporting our nation's military service personnel, veterans, and their families. In 2009, we first welcomed the Wounded Warrior Project to DRC, followed by our first visit by the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride in 2010.
Each year since, Soldier Ride has returned. In the meantime, there have been a number of other activities including Military Dolfriend, the Wounded Warrior Project's Project Odyssey, visits by military familes, caregivers and more. We welcome each one of these very special people and delight in sharing the dolphins and sea lions with them for the day.
Recently, the Wounded Warrior Project wanted to thank Dolphin Research Center and they chose a special way to do so by giving each of us a Wounded Warrior shirt. To acknowledge the gift we gathered as many staff members as possible to model our new shirts, and then sent the above collage to our friends at the Wounded Warrior Project.
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I thought this might interest those Trekkies out there. As all Trekkies would have already known, there will be a new 'Star Trek' movie coming out in December 2008, directed by JJ Abrams of the Alias, MI3 and Cloverfield (producer) fame. Starring Zachary Quinto from 'Heroes' as a young Spock and Chris Pine as a James T. Kirk from 'Princess Diaries 2', this upcoming 'Star Trek' version will spotlight on the crew's earlier adventures, before the crew even boarded the famed starship 'Enterprise'. Little information is known at the moment, as the producers are all tight-lipped about the plot, heck, even an official teaser has not been shown yet. However, it is widely rumored that the star actors from the original series will appear in this version, in some form or manner. Hhhmmm, interesting…Anyway, the official teaser will only appear in-front of the upcoming movie 'Cloverfield', also by JJ Abrams, on the January 18th and will go online 3 days later. Meanwhile, to satisfy the already salivating fans of 'Star Trek', here's a little fake teaser I found on 'Youtube' that had me convinced. Yes, it is a fake teaser, but one hell of a good fake teaser. Just hearing that Nimoy's voice just helps convince me on anything really. Check it out below:
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What Is Raltegravir?
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Who Should Take It?
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Raltegravir is taken twice a day. It will most likely be used by people who have very few choices of antiretroviral medications in pill form. If you take raltegravir with other antiretroviral drugs, you can reduce your viral load and increase your CD4 cells. This should mean staying healthier longer.
What About Drug Resistance?
The HIV virus is sloppy when it makes copies of its genetic code (RNA). Many new copies of HIV are mutations: they are slightly different from the original virus. Some mutations can continue to multiply even when you are taking an antiretroviral drug. When this happens, the drug will stop working. This is called "developing resistance" to the drug. See Fact Sheet 126 for more information on resistance.
Raltegravir has shown activity against HIV that already has resistance to several other HIV medications.
Resistance to raltegravir is not well understood. With combination therapy (taking more than one antiretroviral drug at the same time), HIV mutates much more slowly. Resistance takes longer to develop. It is very important to take antiretroviral medications according to instructions, on schedule, and not to skip or reduce doses.
Sometimes, if you develop resistance to one drug, you will also have resistance to other antiretroviral drugs. This is called "cross-resistance." Because raltegravir is in a new class of antiretroviral drugs, it seems to have almost no cross resistance with antiretroviral drugs in older classes.
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Raltegravir has not been studied with all medicines, over-the-counter drugs or vitamin or herbal supplements. Be sure your doctor knows about all medications and supplements that you are taking.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Guest Post: VIMP
"My mother."
"Oh, your mother! I'll squeeze her in."
"No, that's all right. We can wait our turn like everyone else."
I felt ambivalent, hearing this story. On one hand, I support a one-tier, publicly funded medical system, which is not the majority view among my more verbal friends. On the other hand, I think that if I can assist one of my colleagues in any way, I will do it. Our health care system is so tight and this is one of the last ways we can make it more pleasant for someone ill.
This comes up in the emergency room all the time, of course. I will see a nurse's relative, for example, ahead of the waiting throng, and usually, at my hospitals, this is not such a big deal. We don't have the 14 hour waits. But one day I saw several people ahead of time and I felt uncomfortable about it.
Meanwhile, I kept trucking along until, at 19 weeks of pregnancy, I passed some blood clots.
I woke my husband up and said, "I think I'll go use the bedside ultrasound in emerg. If the baby's okay, I can still make my appointment Montreal." Bedside ultrasound takes approximately zero skill after ten weeks of pregnancy, just to check on the baby.
I felt the baby roll—or was that the beginning of a cramp? After a minute, I felt a kick. And then two more. But then I remembered more about second trimester bleeding.
I woke Matt up again. "I have to get a real ultrasound. In first trimester bleeding, you want to know if the baby is alive. But in second trimester, you have to start looking at the placenta. If it's a placenta previa or an abruptio placenta..." My bleeding was painless. Therefore more likely a previa. Ultrasound was not always diagnostic, but it would definitely help. Me sticking an ultrasound wand on top of my belly was not going to help. I couldn't tell you whether there was a bleed or not.
"You may end up on six months of bedrest," said Matt.
I waited the marginally civilized hour of 6 a.m. to call one of my hospitals. The emergency doctor, who is also my friend, said she could arrange the scan.
I walked in just over an hour later and the nurse looked at my belly and asked, "Are you still bleeding?" So the word had gotten out.
That made it easier for me. I didn't have to explain, just let her take my vitals and breathe in relief when another nurse successfully found the baby's heartbeat with the Doppler. I ended up writing my own ultrasound requisition and paging the tech, who was already with the first patient, but the next slot was free.
The emergency doctor talked to the radiologist, who agreed to call me on my cell phone with the results. And pretty much immediately afterward, the ultrasound tech was ready for me.
And the baby looked good! The placenta was less than 2 cm from the cervical os, so that probably explained the bleeding.
Before lunch, the radiologist called me and said, "The baby looks fine." He wasn't convinced that the placenta was marginal, based on the views he'd seen, but he concluded, "Good news."
This is Very Important Medical Person treatment. Scanned two hours after I called, results another two hours after that.
Is this right? Should I just meekly line up at the ER and wait my turn with the doctor? By then, it would be too late for the 7:45 a.m. open ultrasound slot, so I'd have to wait and see if a spot opened up later that day. Then I'd wait for the radiologist to read the films in order. Then I'd wait for the ER doc to get the results. I'd wait for him to tell me said results, either before or after he called the ob for an interpretation.
I know that's the "right" thing to do, in some people's books. But I don't see the medical system like that. I see it as a resource that I understand and need to maximize. So yes, I could have hung around. But then I'd be one more patient clogging up the system. In and out and we're all happier.
I'm not a star. I don't get the red carpet rolled out for me. Paparazzi don't follow me around and sell my photo for thousands of dollars. But when I need medical treatment, I have doctors and nurses who will help me get it as quickly and pleasantly as possible.
Is that wrong?
-From an e-book by Melissa Yuan-Innes "The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room."
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I found this post to be a bit misleading. In the beginning, you give the example of a long waiting list to get an ultrasound. But as you point out much later, for an emergency, people still get pretty expeditious care. I.e. you shouldn't *have* to pull the VIMP card to get the treatment you need promptly. The first part of your post made it seem like -- at least to me -- that you'd have to wait forever for ANY kind of ultrasound, which isn't actually the case.ReplyDelete
Anyway, that point aside, I can completely understand using this "privilege" if you can't make it to a regular appointment because of your call schedule. In that case, I wouldn't even view it as a privilege, but something you have to do to keep yourself healthy enough to do your job.
One question though -- why go through the ED? Why didn't you call your Ob instead? Do they not do same day emergency appointments? Do Obs automatically refer 2nd trimester bleeding to the ER? Just asking because I don't know....
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM
This just happened to me. I'm a PGY 1, and became sick at work one day with an ectopic pregnancy. My senior resident called someone over in emerg, and by the time I got there the triage paramedics said, "are you the resident?" and whisked me right in. No waiting in the waiting room. I had my scan before my bloodwork even came back, about 1 hour after I got there. On admission, I was given a private room "for privacy", even though my insurance didn't cover it. There you have it, VIMP.ReplyDelete
Ironically, I returned to the ER one week later with pain and bleeding, and at that time no one knew I was a resident. No special treatment then!
I don't know how I feel about this, although it was certainly nice to feel so well cared for while sick.
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Yes, this is wrong. I don't think it's so wrong for a physician to be seen sooner so they can get on with their day and see their patients - but it's terribly wrong to say that you agree with socialized medicine and then give preference to other physicians' family members. Either you have a one payer system where everyone is treated equally, or you allow the market to dictate how healthcare is distributed so that everyone has a chance to buy better care for themselves.ReplyDelete
To the last anon: so, even if she actually made care marginally faster for everyone else, it's still wrong? Because that's what she did. She had an emergency and would have to be seen at the top of the list at least until the US results came back good. So none really had a longer wait because of her. If anything, the wait was shorter, because she arrived pre-worked-up, did her own paper work and off she went, as opposed to having to take up the time of the ER staff to do that. Marginal for everyone else, yes. But still: a time saving, not a time loss.ReplyDelete
I don't think this poster should get attacked for doing something that people do all the time, that is, give preferential treatment to relatives of employees. It happens in all fields, so if you work long and hard to become a physician or a nurse, you should be able to "maximize the resources" that you know inside out.ReplyDelete
I agree with Kathy. "Professional courtesy" is certainly not limited to medicine. People in all fields give preference to others in their field, others that they know, etc. Think of how many places offer a "friends and family" discount. How many lawyers do you know that don't get expeditious and seriously discounted legal counsel? There's no reason to act like it's a crime just because it's medicine. At least half of my doctors discount my copay. Just professional courtesy.ReplyDelete
I agree with Kathy, etc, too. This happens in every field. It doesn't bother me that DMV members and their family likely don't have to wait 2 hours on line to get a drivers license, so why is this different? When I was a resident nd got pregnant, an OB attending I knew told me if I was bleeding, just come right over for an US. (Never took her up on the offer, but still.)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comments, everybody.ReplyDelete
@OMDG: It never even occurred to me to go through OB, I guess both because I wanted to start the ball rolling ASAP (~6 a.m.) instead of waiting for them to get back to me (starting around 8 a.m. after change of shift). Maybe that's my ER bias. I wanted to get the U/S and then talk to OB after.
Thanks also for telling me it's a misleading beginning. I did my residency in Montreal, where it's much more of a wait for an U/S, especially an elective one, but I'm in Ontario now, so it would be more same-day service.
@Anon #2, I agree it's a gap between my ideals (equal care for everyone) and my practice (something's wrong with my baby, get out of my way). It worked out that I didn't impede anyone else's care significantly, but it could have. It's not what I would have predicted, going into medical school, but that's how it worked out.
@Anon #1, it does feel good to be cared for, doesn't it? And you didn't pull the resident card, they chose to do it for you, when they recognized you.
@Snarkyscalpel, Kathy, oumedbride, Fizzy, yes, professional courtesy exists in every field. I also didn't realize this until I started practising. So is this just a fact of life we should accept, without feeling guilty?
Thanks again!
One more thing.ReplyDelete
Some people may think the VIMP card is okay under certain conditions, like if you have to get back to your medical duties (OMDG), or if you aren't making other patients wait (SnarkyScalpel), or maybe if it's for a family member or life-threatening circumstances.
So when is it okay and not okay? I just think there are more shades of grey than you may first realize.
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2011 at 2:35 PM
All things being equal, meaning the level of urgency, it is only fair that this professional courtesy is extended. It happens in every field and I don't think medicine should be any different. If someone were more urgent that you, then of course she should be seen before you.ReplyDelete