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Holiday House-Block Throw
Inspired by Land of Lincoln from designer Tara Lynn Darr of Sew Unique Creations [2]
Quilt Tester: Laura Boehnke
1 yard cream tone-on-tone (blocks)
1 yard green tone-on-tone No. 1 (blocks, binding)
1/2 yard green tone-on-tone No. 2 (blocks)
1/4 yard total assorted green prints (house block roof)
1/8 yard solid cream (house block)
3—3/8-yard pieces assorted red prints (blocks)
1/2 yard red-and-white print (house block, middle border)
1/8 yard light tan print (house block)
1/8 yard solid tan (house block)
3/4 yard green floral (hidden square blocks)
1-1/4 yards green wavy floral vine print (inner and outer borders)
4 yards backing fabric
71" square batting
Acrylic ruler with 45º marking
Finished quilt: 63" square
Finished blocks: house: 20" square
Hidden Square: 5" square
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabrics.
Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.
Cut Fabrics
Cut pieces in the following order. Click on "Download this Project" for patterns and tips for making and using templates. Cut inner and outer border strips lengthwise (parallel to the selvages).
From cream tone-on-tone, cut:
14—3-3/4x21" strips
1—4-1/2x8-1/2" rectangle
2—3-1/2x4-1/2" rectangles
2—2-1/2" squares
1 each of patterns A and A reversed
From green tone-on-tone No. 1, cut:
7—2-1/2x42" binding strips
12—5-1/2x6-1/4" rectangles
2—2-1/2x8-1/2" strips
1—2-1/2x6-1/2" strip
2—2-1/2" squares
From green tone-on-tone No. 2, cut:
12—5-1/2x6-1/4" rectangles
2—2-1/2x10-1/2" strips
3—2-1/2x6-1/2" strips
From assorted green prints, cut:
1 each of patterns B and D
From solid cream, cut:
1—2-1/2x10-1/2" strip
1 of Pattern C
From assorted red prints, cut:
14—3x21" strips
1—2-1/2x8-1/2" strip
From red-and-white print, cut:
6—1-3/4x42" strips for middle border
2—2-1/2x6-1/2" strips
From light tan print, cut:
2—1x19-1/2" strips
2—1x18-1/2" strips
From solid tan, cut:
2—1x20-1/2" strips
2—1x19-1/2" strips
From green floral, cut:
18—5-1/2x6-1/4" rectangles
From green wavy floral vine print, cut:
12—3x42" strips for inner and outer borders
Cut Fabrics
1. Sew together a cream tone-on-tone 2-1/2" square and a green tone-on-tone 2-1/2" square to make a chimney segment (Diagram 1). Press seam toward green tone-on-tone. The segment should be 2-1/2x4-1/2" including seam allowances. Repeat to make a second chimney segment.
2. Referring to Diagram 2, sew together chimney segments, two cream tone-on-tone 3-1/2x4-1/2" rectangles, and one cream tone-on-tone 4-1/2x8-1/2" rectangle in a row to make a chimney unit. Press seams toward cream tone-on-tone rectangles. The chimney unit should be 18-1/2x4-1/2" including seam allowances.
3. Referring to Diagram 3, sew together cream tone-on-tone A triangle, green print B triangle, solid cream C piece, green print D piece, and cream tone-on-tone A reversed triangle in a row to make a roof unit. Press seams toward green print pieces. The roof unit should be 18-1/2x4-1/2" including seam allowances.
4. Sew together two green tone-on-tone No. 1—2-1/2x8-1/2" strips and one red print 2-1/2x8-1/2" strip (Diagram 4). Press seams toward green tone-on-tone strips. Add a green tone-on-tone No. 1—2-1/2x6-1/2" strip to top edge to make adoor unit. Press seam toward green tone-on-tone strip. The door unit should be 6-1/2x10-1/2" including seam allowances.
5. Referring to Diagram 5, sew together three green tone-on-tone No. 2—2-1/2x6-1/2" strips and two assorted red-and-white print 2-1/2x6-1/2" strips in a row. Press seams toward green tone-on-tone strips. Add green tone-on-tone No. 2—2-1/2x10-1/2" strips to top and bottom edges of row to make a window unit. Press seams toward green tone-on-tone strips. The window unit should be 10-1/2" square including seam allowances.
6. Sew together door unit, a solid cream 2-1/2x10-1/2" rectangle, and window unit to make a house unit (Diagram 6). Press seams toward solid cream rectangle. The house unit should be 18-1/2x10-1/2" including seam allowances.
7. Referring to Diagram 7, sew together chimney, roof, and house units to make block center. Press seams in one direction. The block center should be 18-1/2" square including seam allowances.
8. Sew light tan print 1x18-1/2" strips to opposite edges of block center (Diagram 8). Add light tan print 1x19-1/2" strips to remaining edges. Press all seams toward light tan print strips.
9. Join solid tan 1x19-1/2" strips to opposite edges of block center (Diagram 8). Add solid tan 1x20-1/2" strips to remaining edges to make a house block. Press all seams toward solid tan strips. The block should be 20-1/2" square including seam allowances.
Assemble Hidden Square Blocks
1. Sew together a cream tone-on-tone 3-3/4x21" strip and a red print 3x21" strip to make a strip set (Diagram 9). Press seam toward red print strip. Repeat to make 14 strip sets total.
2. Place one strip set right side up on your work surface with the cream tone-on-tone strip at the top. Top with a second strip set right side down and red print strip at the top (Diagram 10). Cut layered strip sets into six 3"-wide layered segments. Do not separate layers.
3. Repeat Step 2 with remaining strip sets to cut 42—3"-wide layered segments total.
4. Sew a layered segment along one pair of long edges to make a block unit (Diagram 11; note that red print in upper layer is still at top). Press seam in one direction. The block unit should be 5-1/2x6-1/4" including seam allowances. Repeat to make 42 block units total.
5. Lay a block unit on work surface with wrong side up and red print squares in the upper right-hand and lower left-hand corners. Align the 45° angle of the acrylic ruler with left edge of block unit. Referring to Diagram 12, slide ruler up or down until its right-hand diagonal edge is 1/4" from seam intersection; use a pencil to draw a diagonal line on block unit. Repeat with remaining block units.
6. Layer a marked block unit atop a green tone-on-tone or green floral 5-1/2x6-1/4" rectangle; pin. Sew together with two seams, stitching 1/4" on each side of drawn line (Diagram 13). Cut apart on drawn line to make two triangle units. Press each triangle unit open, pressing seam toward green tone-on-tone or floral, to make two hidden square blocks. Each block should be 5-1/2" square including seam allowances.
7. Repeat Step 6 to make 84 Hidden Square blocks total.
Assemble Quilt Center
1. Referring to Quilt Assembly Diagram, lay out hidden square blocks in sections around house block, rotating Hidden Square blocks as shown. Quilt tester Laura Boehnke deliberately placed her blocks so their green triangles would create radiating diamonds of color.
2. Sew together blocks in each row of top section. Press seams in directions indicated on Quilt Assembly Diagram. Join rows; press seams in one direction. The top section should be 50-1/2x15-1/2" including seam allowances. Repeat to make bottom section.
3. Sew together blocks in rows in left- and right-hand units of center section. Press seams in directions indicated. Join rows; press seams in one direction. The units should be 15-1/2x20-1/2" including seam allowances.
4. Add left- and right-hand units to house block to make center section (Quilt Assembly Diagram). Press seams toward House block.
5. Sew together top, center, and bottom sections to make quilt center. Press seams toward center section. The quilt center should be 50-1/2" square including seam allowances.
Add Borders and Finish Quilt
1. Cut and piece green wavy floral vine print 3x42" strips to make:
- 2—3x63" outer border strips
- 2—3x58" outer border strips
- 2—3x55-1/2" inner border strips
- 2—3x50-1/2" inner border strips
2. Cut and piece red-and-white print 1-3/4x42" strips to make:
- 2—1-3/4x58" middle border strips
- 2—1-3/4x55-1/2" middle border strips
3. Sew short inner border strips to opposite edges of quilt center. Join long inner border strips to remaining edges. Press all seams toward inner border.
4. Sew short middle border strips to opposite edges of quilt center. Join long middle border strips to remaining edges. Press all seams toward middle border.
5. Sew short outer border strips to opposite edges of quilt center. Join long outer border strips to remaining edges to complete quilt top. Press all seams toward outer border.
6. Layer quilt top, batting, and backing; baste. Quilt as desired.
7. Bind with green tone-on-tone No. 1 binding strips.


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William Thomas Cummings, pictured viewer's left in the above photograph, is known for the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes." This is the story of the priest behind the phrase.
Born in 1903 he studied at Saint Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California and was ordained a priest in 1928. Wanting to be a missionary priest he joined the Maryknoll Order. In December 1941 he was serving as a missionary priest in the Philippines. On December 7, 1941 he showed up at the American Army headquarters in Manila in white vestments and offered his services as a chaplain. The commandant of the Manila garrison attempted to talk him out of it. He was 38, old for a combat chaplain, and he was nursing a back injury. He was also near-sighted and lean as a rake. Father Cummings vehemently replied that he was determined to be an Army chaplain. Commissioned as a first lieutenant, he joined the Army in its epic retreat to the Bataan peninsula, where American and Filipino troops, on starvation rations and wracked with malaria, would make a heroic stand for months against the Japanese Imperial Army.
Believing themselves deserted by the US, the troops sang this bit of bitter doggerel:
We're the battling bastards of Bataan,
No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam.
No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces.
And nobody gives a damn.
General Douglas MacArthur, in command of all American and Filipino troops in the Philippines, continually pleaded with Washington for a relief force to Bataan. Shamefully, some of the messages from Washington indicated that a relief force was being put together. These were lies. After Pearl Harbor the US simply lacked the naval assets to successfully reinforce Bataan. Any attempt to do so would almost certainly have led to a military disaster for America. MacArthur refused an order that he leave Bataan, and stated that he would resign his commission and fight as a volunteer. He finally left after a direct order from President Roosevelt, but refused to be smuggled out in a submarine, instead going by PT boat to demonstrate that the Japanese blockade of the Philippines could be penetrated. After he arrived in Australia he was shocked to learn that there were no plans for the relief of the Philippines. His main goal throughout the war thereafter was the liberation of the Philippines and the rescue of the American and Filipino POWs.
On Bataan Chaplain Cummings quickly became an Army legend. On Good Friday 1942 at a Bataan field hospital undergoing bombardment Nurse Hattie Bradley witnessed Father Cummings in action: More piercing screams. Scores must be dead or dying, she was convinced. She dashed into the orthopedic ward for help. There, panic was on the verge of erupting. Then she saw the chaplain…standing on a desk. Above the roar of the airplanes, the explosions and the shrieks of the wounded, his voice could be heard: "Our Father, who art in heaven…" Calmed by his prayers, the patients quieted." Father Cummings did this in spite of one of his arms being broken by shrapnel from a bomb.
On Bataan he was always with the troops near or on the front line. He said innumerable Masses, administered the Last Rites to the dying and helped with the wounded. His field sermons were memorable. In one of them he made the famous observation that "There are no atheists in foxholes." The quotation was passed on in the book "I Saw the Fall of the Philippines" by General Carlos P. Romulo, one of the Filipino troops evacuated from Bataan, which was published in 1942.

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Sept. 5, 2005
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons soccer team closed out its trip to Indiana Sunday afternoon with a 3-0 loss at IUPUI in Indianapolis.
Bethany Copeland started in goal for the third straight game for the Lady Bisons who fell to 0-4 on the season. Copeland recorded three saves.
IUPUI was credited with 24 shots, 11 in the first half and 13 in the second. Lipscomb had three shots in the first half and two in the second..
Six of the IUPUI shots were shots on goal. Three of Lipscomb's shots were shots on goal with midfielder Laurie Babcock, forward Sarah Hennum and Kali Rellinger each making one shot.
Midfielder Angie Pilat scored the only goal of the first period at 17:14.
In the second half Stacy Downing scored twice for IUPUI. She stole a goal kick for her first goal at 51:23 and then put in a shot after long throw at 86:40.
IUPUI made six corner kicks. The Lady Bisons did not have a corner kick.
The Lady Bisons do not play again until Sept. 13 when they travel to Birmingham, Ala., to face Birmingham-Southern at 6 p.m.


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December 15. 2012 9:49PM
Ian Clark's Pop Culture Club: A true classic never goes out of style or loses its appeal
It's a testament to just how good a video game is when it can be released 14 years later and still hold up.
The original Baldur's Gate came out in 1998 and was an immediate hit for developer Bioware and publisher Black Isle Studios. Now, Baldur's Gate is back in an "enhanced edition" from Overhaul Games.
The original is hailed as one of the greatest fantasy role-playing games of all time. It spawned a sequel, Xbox and Playstation versions, as well as several more games built off the same engine in the Icewind Dale series.
The game is based in the forgotten realms setting of the Dungeons & Dragons universe and uses the second edition rules of the tabletop RPG.
Players start by creating their character. Those characters can be anything from the classic D&D stable - thief, fighter, cleric or wizard. Many of the specific offshoots, such as rangers, druids and bards, are also available.
There is a good deal of customization available. Players can choose everything from race (all the D&D standards are there - elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc.) to hair color and clothing details.
Once you've built your character, the story kicks in and you start your adventure by leading your mentor, the wizard Gorion, out of Candlekeep, a giant fortress that acts as a massive library.
You are accompanied by your friend Imoen, who is a thief and decent archer. As the game progresses, you will encounter numerous other characters that can join your party, up to a maximum of six, including yourself.
This allows you to build a party balance to your liking. All this allows for interesting interactions between characters who might have opposite alignments morally.
Each of the characters have their own specific voices, as well. Some of them are amusing. The ranger known as Minsc is a fan favorite, along with his pet hamster named Boo.
The story itself is excellent. It offers a nice mix of combat and other interactions in a large world. You can also encounter famous D&D characters, such as the wizard Elminster and the fighter Drizzt.
So, just what is new in this enhanced edition? Overhaul Games boasts that there are more than 400 new features, chief among them are new characters that can join your party and a new adventure called "The Black Pits."
The game has also been updated with an improved interface for modern computers, along with various tweaks to the graphics. The game is available for direct download from beamdog.com for $19.99, or for tablet devices such as the iPad.
I don't have a tablet, so I got it for PC, but I have heard from friends that the interface on a tablet device can be a little tough to get used to.
I played through the original game when it came out and I am enjoying revisiting it again. It really is a classic.
If you never played the original - or loved it the first time - do yourself a favor and download it now. Check out baldursgate.com for more information.
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Manchester says it'll stay with AMR for ambulance service
July 03. 2013 12:11AM
MANCHESTER – American Medical Response is the winner.
After a lengthy and tense debate, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Tuesday voted 10-3 to award AMR, the city's current emergency ambulance provider, another 2-1/2 year contract. The contract was fiercely contested by AMR's competitor, American Ambulance of New England, and in the weeks leading up to vote, company officials traded allegations of impropriety and deception.
The decision capped a dramatic rehabilitation of AMR's reputation. The company faced a deluge of complaints in 2011 and 2012, the first two years of its contract, over large bills and aggressive collection practices.
During much of the debate, the majority of aldermen appeared to be inclined to send the contract back to committee.
But the willingness of AMR to agree to last-minute amendments and the emphatic support of Fire Chief James Burkush appeared to sway several aldermen. AMR President Ted Van Horne told the aldermen that he was wiling to make the contract 2-1/2 years rather than 5-1/2 years, as called for in the request for proposals and extending to 180 days the length of time it would wait before sending a bill to collections.
Burkush was asked if he would stake his reputation on his recommendation of AMR.
"Absolutely," he said. "As fire chief, I have to look at the resources in front of me. The resources here are working very well... The new management has been very responsive."
Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy has been highly critical of the process by which AMR emerged as the Burkush's pick. He was a member of the ad-hoc committee that reviewed the proposals, and he stressed that a majority of the department heads and members of the committee backed American, according to meeting minutes.
Roy also pointed to the lack of disclosure in AMR's proposal of legal action against the company, in particular a 2011 corporate integrity agreement it signed with the U.S. Inspector General stemming from an investigation into Medicaid overbilling in AMR's New York office. Roy said the lack of disclosure should have disqualified AMR from the contract, according to the terms of the RFP.
"This is bad business. And if we let it stand, it's bad government," Roy said. "This reeks of favoritism. The department head alone made the choice."
Last week, an attorney for American suggested that choosing AMR for the ambulance contract may violate public bidding laws.
At one point in the debate, City Solicitor Tom Clark was asked if there were any legal concerns about moving forward with the process.
After a long pause, he proposed discussing the matter in non-public session. Following the closed-door meeting, a motion was made to back the administration's committee recommendation of AMR.
Both AMR and American flew in top executives to make the case for the contract.
Brendan McNiff, American's chief operating officer, stressed that he left AMR late last year in part because of concerns about how the company was being run.He said he was confident that he could set up a superior service with American. "I set up the system here, and I'm confident I could it again," McNiff said.
In response to the questions from the aldermen about AMR's billing issues, General Manager Chris Stawacz said, "We've had no problem taking care of people in street. We dropped the ball when we got to the hospital. In the last six months, we've had almost no complaints."
Mayor Ted Gatsas has also expressed support for AMR in recent months, citing the changes its made, including setting up a local billing office and establishing a provider agreement with Anthem, the city's largest insurer.
Voting to back the recommendation for AMR were Aldermen Joyce Craig, Ron Ludwig, Garth Corriveau, Barbara Shaw, Phil Greazzo, Normand Gamache, Dan O'Neil, Joe Kelly Levasseur, Patrick Arnold and William Shea.
Voting against the motion were Aldermen Roy, Pat Long and Ed Osborne.


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I wrote yesterday about liberal attacks on employers who communicate with their employees about politics and about how particular policies would impact their businesses. I noted that in this respect, the Citizens United decision has been interpreted as leveling the playing field between companies and unions, which have been telling their members–both willing and unwilling members–how to vote for many years. I argued that most workers identify their own economic interests closely with those of their employers, as they should. It therefore makes sense for employers to communicate with their employees about public policy. If an employee isn't interested in, or persuaded by, his employer's views, he can simply ignore them.
I linked to a left-wing site called In These Times that attacked Mitt Romney because he encouraged employers to communicate their views to employees. But it didn't stop there. In These Times went on to attack the left's bete noir, the Koch brothers, on the same ground:
This theme was picked up by a left-wing law professor named Garrett Epps in The Atlantic. Epps refers, but doesn't link, to an article in the Wichita Eagle based on interview of Charles Koch and Koch Industries' Rich Fink. The Eagle story is generally sympathetic to the Kochs; Epps, of course, is not:
On Sunday, In These Times broke the news that Koch Industries mailed at least 45,000 employees a voter information packet that included a flyer endorsing Romney and a letter warning, "Many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences [of a bad election result], including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills."
Actually, the Koch brothers have received many, many death threats, and it is not unreasonable for them to believe that such threats are encouraged by the steady stream of vitriol directed at them by the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, and, left-wingers like Garrett Epps. These were the incidents itemized in the Wichita Eagle story that Epps derided as "unbecoming self-pity:"
The main theme of Koch's comments is the common but unbecoming self-pity peculiar to the rich and powerful. He and his brother David are being picked on, he says.
Summer 2010: Austan Goolsbee, then Obama's chief economic adviser, commented on Koch Industries' tax status during a briefing with reporters in Washington, accusing the company of not paying taxes.
Under federal law, it's a crime to improperly access or disclose confidential tax information, according to [Koch Industries General Counsel Mark] Holden, who suspects the administration was trying to intimidate them because of their political views.
"It was false and malicious, too," Holden said. "We pay a lot of taxes."May 2012: Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, said in a video that the campaign is "going to call their BS," referencing the Kochs. "Really?" Holden said. "If my kids said that to me, they'd be going to their room. This is the deputy campaign manager? This is the discourse in this country?"
May 2012: David Axelrod, Obama's senior political consultant, told the media in a telephone conference that Mitt Romney is being aided by "the (political strategist) Karl (Rove) and Koch brothers' contract killers in super PAC land," according to news accounts.
"And when you have Axelrod, one of (Obama's) top campaign officials, saying we are contract killers — I mean, I don't know how somebody in the administration can say that about a private citizen," said Charles Koch. "The attacks are unbelievable."
"It's frightening because you don't know what they're going to do," he said. "They have tremendous power. They can destroy just about anybody, whether you are totally innocent or not."
July 2012: U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., read a statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate accusing the Koch brothers of being "two of the biggest sources of secret money in politics."
With photos of the Koch brothers as a backdrop, captioned "The Koch Brothers: Subverting the Democratic Process," Lautenberg spoke for three minutes, accusing the brothers of picking their preferred politicians.
"If these wealthy individuals want to pick our next president, they should have the muscle and the courage to stand up and say so, tell everybody … what they want to do to our democracy. They don't have the courage," Lautenberg said.
Lautenberg also read a list of Koch Industries' consumer products into the record, detailing the various companies the Koch brothers own. Koch officials called that action tantamount to inviting a boycott by consumers.
The attacks have forced the brothers to increase security around themselves and their families, both said. David Koch said Obama's criticisms might tempt disturbed people to hurt them.
And that doesn't begin to count the many slurs that have been directed against the Kochs by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and other leading Democrats. No doubt, if the Bush administration had harassed and denounced liberal citizens who opposed its policies, leading to hundreds of death threats, Epps would have seen the matter quite differently.Epps cites the letter that Koch sent to its 50,000 or so U.S. employees, and weaves it together with a reference by Rich Fink to George Washington and the Founding Fathers ("[W]hat do you say to the Founding Fathers? … You say George Washington had too much influence? We … should have spread the influence around?"). Epps pushes the boundary between hyperbole and lunacy:
Were [the Founders] seeking to create a Koch-style libertarian utopia — a country where established wealth helps itself to public resources and the common people deferentially tug their forelocks? Hardly.
So how are the Koch brothers ("established wealth") helping themselves to public resources? They have consistently opposed all forms of corporate welfare. Actually, it is government at various levels that helps itself freely to the Kochs' resources, and those of their employees. And "common people tugging deferentially on their forelocks?" Epps, like so many leftists, lives in a fantasy world. Actually, America has historically been a land where common people achieve extraordinary success, and sometimes wealth, by working hard and being independent and creative, not by being toadies and currying political favor. That's the way conservatives, including the Koch brothers, want to keep it.
The roots of "American exceptionalism" lie in the idea that ordinary Americans would be masters of their destinies — not serfs to a hereditary nobility, not servants of established wealth. If you want a picture of the Founding generation's nightmare, consider the election packet recently sent to 45,000 employees of Georgia-Pacific, owned by the Koch Brothers. In no uncertain terms, the packet explains which candidates in national and state races employees are to vote for.
This spectacle — of working people dependent on rich employers who presume to dictate their politics — troubled the serious thinkers among the Founders.
Epps does not, of course, quote the Koch letter, which you can read here. It said:
So Epps's talk about "serfs" and "servants," and "explain[ing] which candidates in national and state races employees are to vote for," and about "working people dependent on rich employers who presume to dictate their politics," is sheer left-wing fantasy. What actually worries Epps and his ilk is not that Koch's management might "dictate" employees' votes–we have the secret ballot, they can't possibly do that–but rather the likelihood that those employees will betray Marxist dogma by favoring government policies that allow their own company, as well as the economy in general, to prosper.
To help you engage in the political process, we have enclosed several items in this packet. For most of you, this includes information about voter registration deadlines and early voting options for your state. At the request of many employees, we have also provided a list of candidates in your state that have been supported by Koch companies or by KOCHPAC, our employee political action committee.
I want to emphasize two things about these lists. First, and most important, we believe any decision about which candidates to support is – as always – yours and yours alone, based on the factors that are most important to you. Second, we do not support candidates based on their political affiliation. We evaluate them based on who is the most market-based and willing to support economic freedom for the benefit of society as a whole.
If you are concerned about our economy, our future and enhancing the quality of life for all Americans, then I encourage you to consider the principles of your candidates and not just their party affiliation.
Like many leftists, Epps mentions the Founders only to slander them. The pro forma nod he gives to George Washington et al. is merely a prelude to the Marxist ax-grinding that follows:
To many Americans on the right, the "Founding Fathers" (the phrase, as Jill Lepore reports in her book, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History, was coined by that world statesman, Warren G. Harding) are gods. They have to be perfect, or America might not be perfect.
Let's pause there. One leftist, Epps, quotes another, Jill Lepore. Did President Harding, a far more formidable figure than Epps realizes, originate the phrase "Founding Fathers?" I don't know; the Encyclopedia Britannica says it dates to the 19th century. But who cares? Epps's only point is to diminish the Founders, the ultimate objective being to undermine the authority of the written Constitution and the rule of law, as Progressives have done for more than a century.
And where does this nonsense about the Founders being "gods" and "perfect" come from? Not from any conservative I've ever heard of. Again, far-left fantasies breed endless straw men. The conventional conservative view is that the Founders were men and women of exceptional talent and vision who did an excellent job of creating a nation and writing a Constitution. So, does Epps agree with that description or not? He is coy, but I am pretty sure he doesn't. Epps continues:
That's why crackpots like Michele Bachmann insist that the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention were actually seeking to abolish slavery. There's no evidence of that; but, like the story of Joshua making the sun stand still, it just has to be true.
I don't know Epps, but I know Michele Bachmann, and based on Epps's article, she would run intellectual circles around him. I don't know precisely what Michele said about the Constitutional Convention and slavery, but it certainly is true that most of those present at the convention believed slavery was a retrograde institution that was on its way to extinction. Many thought that the Constitutional provision allowing Congress to ban the slave trade as of 1808 represented a death sentence for slavery, and Congress did indeed ban the importation of slaves as soon as it was able to do so. That, of course, was before cotton revolutionized the economics of slavery, and the Democratic Party became the world's leading pro-slavery organization, a status that it retained for many years, even after the 13th Amendment was adopted.
Epps's denigration of the Founders continues:
This paragraph is dumb in ways both small and large. Adams wasn't "old rich;" he was never rich, period, although he made a good living for a while as a lawyer. More fundamentally, Epps suggests a Marxist diagnosis: the Founders' "vision" was a function of their economic interests. This is profoundly stupid. If the Founders had wanted to pursue their economic interests, they would not have rebelled against England, as most wealthy Americans did not. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives and their fortunes as well as their honor, and a good number gave up both. Washington, as Epps admits, could have made a lot more money supervising his estate than commanding soldiers at Valley Forge; the same could be said of all the others. For that matter, Washington possibly could have been a king and certainly could have been president for life, if he had so chosen. It is hard to imagine a Marxist explanation of his career.
The fact that the Koch brothers are billionaires seeking to augment their fortunes doesn't, in and of itself, make them a different breed of cat than the Founders. Some of them (Jefferson, Adams) were old rich; others (Washington, for example) were new rich; and some (Hamilton, for example) wanted desperately to become rich. Economic interest — the Virginians' dependence on slave labor, Washington's holdings in Western real estate, Hamilton's vision of wealth as a commercial lawyer — influenced their vision of what the new country should become. The Koch brothers aren't morally pure, but neither were the "founding brothers" of the Revolution and federal period.
But if Epps's view of the Founders is dumb, his attack on the Koch brothers ("billionaires seeking to augment their fortunes") is almost equally stupid. If the Koch brothers were really devoted to augmenting their fortunes through politics–given that they are multi-billionaires, the proposition is dubious at best–they would be "green energy" magnates. They would seek political influence in order to obtain loans and guarantees from the federal government to fund businesses that are otherwise not viable, and they would pay lavish salaries and bonuses until the money runs out, and then stick taxpayers with the losses. Businessmen who want to make money through politics are very comfortable with the Obama administration.
Charles Koch anticipated Epps's charge and rebutted it in the Wichita Eagle article linked to above:
Charles Koch says his enemies accuse him of maneuvering "so that we can be free to plunder or exploit people, exploit our employees, exploit our customers.
"And if that's true, why are we the only large company that's doing this?" he asked. "If this were the easy way to make money, why wouldn't they be doing it?"
It is obvious that the Koch brothers' lonely stand in favor of freedom is a matter of principle. You don't have to agree with them; Epps obviously doesn't. But it is not plausible to assign a mercenary motive to their efforts.
I am tempted to stop here, but since Epps doesn't, let's trudge on a little farther. He concludes with a dark vision of contemporary America:
Washington founded a new nation. The Kochs seem to want to re-found it to their liking.
I think it is obvious that the Kochs, like pretty much all conservatives, want to preserve the virtues of the original founding that have persisted through most of our history.
As James Fallows (a far more temperate figure than I) has explained recently, the last decade or so has begun to seem like a slow-motion coup d'état. Political forces unfriendly to our form of government have begun to transform it from within.
Actually, I think there is some truth to this. The extraordinary expansion of the administrative state over the course of the Obama administration is certainly anti-democratic, and could be described (with some exaggeration, to be sure) as a "slow-motion coup d'etat." I don't think that's what Epps has in mind; but if not that, then what?
Political institutions are being crippled by hostile federal courts and paralysis-minded office-holders;
Huh? What political institutions? What "hostile federal courts?" Is he talking about the Obamacare decision? I don't suppose so. And who are the "paralysis-minded office-holders?" Is Epps referring to the fact that Congress doesn't pass the far-left legislation he would prefer? But Epps is a member of a tiny minority. We live in a democracy. "Our form of government" dictates that far-left policies favored by only a few are unlikely to become law.
the right to vote is being sharply cut back;
Really? How? Where? I assume Epps refers to the efforts, occasionally successful, to prevent voter fraud by requiring identification at the polls. Like they do in Canada and Mexico. But how is any legal voter's right to vote being "sharply cut back?"
workers' ability to resist employer domination is being destroyed;
Well, it's true that wages are falling. But that isn't because of "employer domination," it's because of the Obama administration's horrible policies that depress economic growth and destroy wealth. Other than that, what on Earth can Epps be talking about?
secretive money is coming to dominate electoral politics;
President Obama has raised around $1 billion for his re-election campaign, the most in the history of politics, including unknown amounts of illegal contributions by foreign, fictitious or otherwise unlawful donors. Is this what Epps is referring to?
state courts are increasingly handmaidens of insurance companies and mining interests;
It's fun to get a whiff of that old-time Marxist religion, isn't it? Maybe we will see more of that as American industry rebounds under the Romney administration.
women's hard-won gains will be reversed.
Really? What "hard-won gains" are those? The right to own property? To vote? To receive equal pay for the same work? To graduate from college in greater numbers than men? Or is this just another tiresome abortion reference? In which case it is misplaced, since the libertarian Koch brothers are pro-choice.
More partisan hackery. For the record, the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4-3 all-Democrat majority, tried to steal the election for Al Gore by finding that the trial court that heard Gore's challenge to the vote count had abused its discretion in making findings based on the evidence before it. That holding was completely groundless and obviously incorrect. (If you ever want to stump a liberal, ask him where, precisely, the trial court abused its discretion in making the findings that it did. In fact, Gore's lawyers were lucky that they weren't sanctioned for filing false affidavits. But no one remembers that now.) If it had been a Florida state race, the Supreme Court presumably would have left it alone, but the Court couldn't in good conscience allow partisan Democrats to steal the presidential election for Gore when there was no rational basis for finding that the trial court had abused its discretion. By any objective standard, Bush won Florida. And it was only close because the TV networks collaborated with the Gore campaign to call Florida for Gore when the heavily-Republican panhandle was still voting. That was one of the great unexplored scandals of our political history.
If these trends continue, the America of 2025 will look nothing like the republic we lived in when the coup began in 2000, with the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore.
The Kochs may actually be the founding fathers of this new nation. God save my grandchildren from living in a republic "founded" by such as these.
Actually, Garrett, your grandchildren should be so lucky. America is in decline, not because of Bush v. Gore but because government spends money like water, Congress has run up a $16 trillion debt, and federal policies discourage economic growth at every turn. The Koch brothers want to restore American freedom, prosperity and greatness. If your grandchildren are lucky, they, and we, may succeed.


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October was the second time I've ever exceeded 160 miles - never thought I'd be running the volume I do now.
Vege, I don't have any marathon taper tips since I've never run one. However I have read about lowering the volume in the last couple weeks, but not the quality. Meaning a short tempo or two in the taper-time would be a good idea. I usually reduce the length of my runs in the week before a HM and I normally don't run the two days just before a race. I haven't a clue what I would do if it were marathon distance.
MT, thanks for posting that lighthouse photo. Glad the storm wasn't worse for you. Hooray for a pain-free run; that's wonderful news. Let the healing continue!
Go as long as you can, and then take another step.
160 miles in a month!!! That's so awesome!!!
Yes, that's what I have been hearing lately. Cut the volume, but keep the intensity for at least one run a week during taper. I've adjusted my training plan to reflect doing that. We will see if it works
If not I'll do something different next time, LOL.
I finished off October nicely with a 17km Goldilocks run, not too fast, not too slow, just right!
Started November with 13kms, about 8 miles. I tried to tempo the last 5k but misjudged the pace and had to stop and walk for a minute then finish it off. My pacing recently is horrible- I cannot seem to figure how fit or unfit I am.
PBs since age 60: 5k- 24:36, 10k - 47:17. Half Marathon- 1:42:41.
10 miles (unofficial) 1:16:44.
Here's an inspirational running video I came across last night. I just LOVE it!
Here's an inspirational running video I came across last night. I just LOVE it!
Loved it all... except for one line.... I have been running for 5 years... and my thighs STILL rub together!
Nice vid!
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2017 Goals1) Run more than 231 miles2) Be ready for HM in the spring
Run Fastah 2018
October is usually the month I struggle with as the weather gets colder and I've got a bit of a break from races. Not that I run a ton of races. I started this month by signing up for a 5k I've never run (Santa Shuffle) on December 01 in support of the local Salvation Army. It's a fundraiser, but hopefully it'll be fun. I'll have to get a Santa hat and some bells for my shoes.
Today we woke up to ice on our windows and it's so icy out that they aren't even recommending in-city travel. It's black ice everywhere. We had snow Friday, some melting yesterday. It's just a mess out there and I haven't got out for long run yet. I'm at my highest mileage ever for a year so I'm not really sure how this month will go. Maybe I'll keep mileage in the mid-80s or maybe it will drop. Will see.
"Don't feel like running today...suck it up and run ...you're an athlete." (John Stanton, founder & owner of The Running Room)
Three half marathons later, I got a number. Half Fanatic #9292. :)
That race sounds fun Meg! We have a Reindeer Run here on Dec 1 that I might do. Sounds similar. everyone dresses up and it's an all around good time. BEER afterwards at a local brewery makes it even more fun
It was 82 here yesterday! That made my long run a little harder, but not too bad. Today it's back into the 60s and getting cooler all week long. We normally don't have a great Fall here in the lowcountry, but this years is pretty nice.
I imagine that getting up and heading out in the snow every morning would be a little draining. That would definitely require some mental toughness to get the miles in. I admire you northern runners for your tenacity! When the bed is so warm...and there is ice on the window...I'm not sure I could make myself get out!
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Quiet in here lately....everyone must be out logging mad miles (and km) and too busy for runningahead. Or at least, that's the story I'm going with.
Meg certainly lead the parade with her ice storm earlier, but winter weather arrived this week in northern New England...I had to dig around in my 'locker room' piles to find winter layers as runs this week have been in the high 20's and low 30's (F). Woke up this morning to a few inches of wet, sloppy snow. Nothing major at all, but sure signs of the season settling in.
Vegefrog & Matt - hope the marathon training is going well for you...that's just such a daunting load of running. Impressive.
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Not done much running since my HM. Heading out to do 18km on trail on Sunday at a relaxing pace. I will call it recovery running though I hardly raced the HM!
Personal Race Records:
M 3:52:48 (Auckland 2011), HM 1:38:16 (Taupo 2010), 10km 45:05 (Sir Barry 2010), 5km 20:21 (How Pak 5km 2010)
2012 Goals:Run the 75km Hillary Trail in a day (done 10/3/2012)
Happy to say I got out for a 7.3 miler last Sunday on that day that started off so icy. It was mostly really really slushy by the time I got out. It melted and we have no snow. Now we're under a snowfall warning for 15-25cm/6-10" over tonight and tomorrow. Craziness!
Quiet in here lately....everyone must be out logging mad miles (and km) and too busy for runningahead. Or at least, that's the story I'm going with.
I'm here! ... but it has kind of been a bit like that!
Weather here is great for running right now (sorry Meg, MT & Simon!!!) and the Marathon training is going OK - not spectacular but steady.
To be honest the hardest run of the week for me is the mid week semi-long run. Up at 5:45 am for a 5 miler is fine but up at 5:00 am for 9 miles is crossing a line that has me struggling to haul myself out of my pit!
Since my 12 mile "BONK!" a few weeks ago I have done decent long runs of 16 and 18. I made a deal with myself that it my 18 miler took me more than 3 hours I would not go for 20 this weekend. I got round in 2:57 and my recovery has been fine this week so I am going to go for 20 miles this Sunday. After that it's taper time as I have a week in Belize which I am likely to have to run around and not during.
Vege - what did you decide on your taper? I agree with HF that it's quantity not quality that you should reduce. Does not apply to me (as I have no "quality" runs) but you have some intervals etc.. going on. Are you going to keep em?
HF - Nice work on the miles. Solid!
Keep warm all y'all warriors of the frozen North!
Wishing Magical Movember Miles to all!
Checking in after the last weeknight run for the week. It was an easy effort with no after effects from increasing the pace of my tempo miles last night. After about 5 weeks spent getting comfortable with 8:57, I've moved up to 8:49 (TM settings sure land on odd numbers). My tempo runs these days are typically 3 miles within my Wednesday night 8-miler. It's really working out well for me in that I'm not sore or tired the next day. At some point, once I get to a tempo speed I like, I'll try stretching out the one mile increments to eventually string some together like 2x2 or 1x3, with even longer stretches as the long term goal. That's my plan anyway.
I've moved up to 8:49 (TM settings sure land on odd numbers).
I've moved up to 8:49 (TM settings sure land on odd numbers).
I was thinking about this on Wednesday (snow day, put me on the treadmill twice). And I was all (in my conversation with the treadmill), "I don't want to run 6:57 or 7:03 damn you, I want to run 7:00!" Then I thought about how silly that was, because if I were outside and aiming for 7, I'd surely end up at some much higher standard deviation than 6:57 to 7:03.
And the phrase "tempo pace I like" struck me too. There sure are some days I like tempos, and then there are others where I write the run's obituary before it starts. Yesterday I did not like my tempo pace at all.
You're putting in some good work though. Keep it up.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Kev. You are so right about this: "if I were outside and aiming for X, I'd surely end up at some much higher standard deviation!" I hadn't thought about that.
I like putting the tempo miles in that mid-week medium-long treadmill run because it just flies by because of the extra effort involved.
I've been invited by my trail running buddy and her doggies to go to a trail running birthday party tomorrow for a friend of hers. It will be a trail I've hiked before, but not run. The plan is 10 miles and then a potluck hot lunch at someone's house who is making a Mexican Bean/Pasta Soup. I'm bringing cornbread muffins.The weather is supposed to be perfect. I think it will be a LOT of fun and I'll be meeting all new people - who like to trail run!! How great is that!
MTA: I was listening to some podcaster talk about pacing in regard to trail running. He said that you can expect your pace to be as much as 2 minutes slower (than if you were on the road) at the same effort due to the changing terrain. That makes me feel a whole lot better about the speed of some of my Saturday trail runs and a whole lot prouder of some of my race efforts. It also goes a long way to explaining the sideaches that come up in the races.
The trails in my area are all heavily wooded so the GPS gets poor reception- also they are tight and twisty so with all the doubling back you really get a short reading.
I just don't bother trying to estimate the pace but it is certainly much slower than roads or paths, enjoyable though.
Not much running for me this week, sore left Achilles, but hope to get out for 10 miles or so tomorrow.
I am planning to buy some very light "minimalist" shoes and gradually work them into the rotation, I think back to the Adidas I ran in back in high school which were probably similar. The idea is to strengthen my ankles and improve flexibility to avoid problems like the tight Achilles tendon.
They also would be good for 5k races I assume.


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Michael McGuinness sees last month's court decision on the Council on Affordable Housing as a win.
Just not the kind you crack open a bottle of Bollinger over.
"This win … might need some additional work," said McGuinness, CEO of the development group NAIOP's New Jersey chapter.
The case centered largely on COAH guidelines that say a municipality accrues its affordable housing obligation as a percentage of the residential building and job growth that occurs within its borders. Under that so-called growth share formula, the ratios are based on statewide data on projected housing need, employment and residential growth.??
But the state Supreme Court in late September agreed with opponents of the concept, noting towns can effectively avoid building affordable units by not allowing development. The 3-2 majority also took issue with the formula because its initial calculations are not specific to individual regions.??
The court ordered COAH back to the drawing board, demanding the much-maligned council create new rules within five months.
That's an opportunity, said McGuinness, who said an end to the growth share formula may soften some of the negative connotations towns sometimes have regarding commercial development.
"It at least removes that stigma that connects the two," McGuinness said.
There's also a legislative opportunity. The door is open for the Legislature to amend the Fair Housing Act to allow for some form of growth share that would then be constitutionally permitted. McGuinness expects legislators to seize the opportunity.
But while McGuinness isn't speculating on what will take growth share's place, he does have a firm opinion on the 2.5 percent commercial development tax that was included in the third round rules and, by default, removed: Don't bring it back.
"That would be our hope," McGuinness said. "(It's) something that we'll shoot for."
McGuinness said many other states don't feature the tax at all, and with the recent passage of New Jersey's incentives bill, it would make sense to leave it off and make development in the state that much more attractive.
Kevin Moore, an attorney with Sills, Cummis & Gross P.C. who argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of NAIOP, said while it's "quite conceivable" that the Legislature will look to amend the FHA, it's impossible at this point to predict what's next for COAH.
One thing he is pretty certain about, however, is that the fight is far from over.
"I don't think this was the last chapter, so to speak," Moore said.
But Ed Boccher, an attorney at DeCotiis, FitzPatrick & Cole LLP, said the court reversed its hard-line stance on affordable housing regulations in its latest ruling.
Boccher, who represented COAH in its early days while working in the state attorney general's office, said the court punted to the Legislature and Gov. Chris Christie's administration for help.
"All it's really done is assured years more of debate and litigation," he said.
The majority opinion is "lacking in any kind of guidance," Boccher said, and given that COAH has met only twice in as many years — with more vacancies than it has appointed members — it's "perhaps a tad unrealistic" to imagine the agency coming up with any meaningful progress in five months.
Nor has he been given any indication that COAH will even try.
"I think the question is going to be, 'What happens in five months, when COAH doesn't adopt the rules?'" Boccher said.
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The Denver Broncos have waived QB Adam Weber, RBs Austin Sylvester and Jeremiah Johnson, WR Britt Davis, D'Andre Goodwin, Greg Orton and Eron Riley, TE Dan Gronkowski, OL Stanley Daniels, Adam Grant and Eric Olsen, DL Jeremy Beal, Ronnell Brown, Jeremy Jarmon and DeMario Pressley, LB Alvin Bowen, CB Brandon Bing and S Kyle McCarthy. The team also released WR David Anderson. RB Brandon Minor (undisclosed), WR Jamel Hamler (back) and CB Syd'Quan Thompson (Achilles') were placed on Injured Reserve, ending their 2011 seasons.
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Kanye West dominated the hip-hop world in 2012 and was rewarded with a whopping 17 nominations for the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards. West's 17 nods are amazing considering the show only has 19 total categories.
Following behind West are 2 Chainz (who takes his place among the greats with 13 nominations) and Drake (who scored 11). West's widely-varied noms include Best Video of the Year for 'Mercy,' Impact Track for 'Murder to Excellence' with Jay-Z, MVP of the Year, Hustler of the Year, Producer of the Year, and Video Director of the Year.
The most awkward category has to be Best Live Performer, where Kanye competes against his collaboration with Jay-Z, the Throne. Who does Kanye root for in that category? Does he want to win as a solo artist, or for his team-up with his 'N—-s in Paris' partner?
One of the big oversights seems to be Nicki Minaj, who received just one nomination, and that wasn't even for her music. She's up for the Made You Look Award, which recognizes the most fashionable artist, against West, 2 Chainz, Big Sean and A$AP Rocky.
The 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards take place on Sept. 29 at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center and air on Oct. 9. Comedian Mike Epps hosts for the fourth year in a row.
2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards Nominees:
Best Hip-Hop Video:
2 Chainz feat. Drake – 'No Lie'
A$AP Rocky – 'Goldie'
Drake feat. Lil Wayne – 'HYFR'
Wale feat. Miguel – 'Lotus Flower Bomb'
Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Big Sean and Pusha T – 'Mercy'
Reese's Perfect Combo Award:
2 Chainz Feat. Drake – 'No Lie'
Drake Feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga – 'The Motto'
J. Cole Feat. Missy Elliott – 'Nobody's Perfect'
Wale Feat. Miguel – 'Lotus Flower Bomb'
Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Big Sean and Pusha T – 'Mercy'
Best Live Performer:
A$AP Rocky
J. Cole
The Throne (Jay-Z and Kanye West)
Kanye West
Lyricist of the Year:
J. Cole
Kendrick Lamar
Kanye West
Video Director of the Year:
A$AP Rocky and Sam
Benny Boom
Chris Robinson
Kanye West
Hype Williams
Producer of the Year:
J. Cole
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Kanye West
MVP of the Year:
2 Chainz
J. Cole
Rick Ross
Kanye West
Track of the Year:
'Cashin' Out' – Ca$h Out
'I'ma Boss' – Meek Mill feat. Rick Ross
'Ni**as in Paris' – The Throne
'No Lie' – 2 Chainz feat. Drake
'The Motto' – Drake feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga
CD of the Year:
'The Dreamer, The Believer' – Common
'Take Care' – Drake
'Cole World: The Sideline Story' – J. Cole
'Watch The Throne' – Jay-Z and Kanye West
'Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition' – Young Jeezy
DJ of the Year:
DJ Drama
DJ Enuff
DJ Envy
Funkmaster Flex
DJ Khaled
Rookie of the Year:
2 Chainz
A$AP Rocky
Ca$h Out
Meek Mill
Made You Look Award (Best Hip-Hop Style):
2 Chainz
A$AP Rocky
Big Sean
Nicki Minaj
Kanye West
Best Club Banger:
'Cashin' Out' (Ca$h Out)
'The Motto' – Drake feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga
'Same Damn Time' – Future
'Ni**as in Paris' – The Throne
'Mercy' – Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Big Sean and Pusha T
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'LiveLoveA$AP' – A$AP Rocky
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You can view the Proceedings from this event here.
Objectives of this conference
- Evangelization of EA, TOGAF® and ArchiMate® to drive wider adoption in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE)
- Sharing knowledge and experience within the region and globally regarding business and EA best practices and implementation
This event will promote Enterprise Architecture knowledge, practice and professional development as a discipline that leverages business strategies and supports the alignment and integration of different practices. The focus will be on strategic innovation, management of business processes, risk management and information security, TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, and convergent technologies known as Open Platform 3.0™ (big data, cloud computing, mobility, social networks & enterprises and application architectures).
What you will learn
- How organizational change is being addressed by industry experts in aligning business needs with information technology, and increasing business value from EA
- What tools and knowledge are needed to introduce meaningful Enterprise Transformation
- How TOGAF and EA can be successfully integrated with other disciplines and best practices
- How to construct, support and improve the EA practice inside different kinds of organizations
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- The process of Enterprise Transformation
- The role that EA, as currently practiced, plays in enterprise transformation, especially transformations driven by disruptive technologies
- How organizations move from an IT-centric to an enterprise-centric position that includes a more complete view of the business and not just IT
- How organizations better achieve their business objectives by adopting TOGAF and EA thinking and processes as part of the enterprise
- Transformation management principles - making the whole process more a matter of design than chance
TOGAF®, the defacto global standard, is used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency. TOGAF® has been adopted by more than 80% of the world's leading enterprises as the architecture framework and development method of choice, and continues to be evolved by the members of The Open Group Architecture Forum. TOGAF Certification has been achieved by tens of thousands of individuals worldwide.
The TOGAF framework enables organizations to effectively address critical business needs by:
- Ensuring that everyone speaks the same language
- Avoiding lock-in to proprietary solutions by standardizing on open methods for Enterprise Architecture
- Saving time and money, and utilize resources more effectively
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Just as an architectural drawing in classical building architecture describes the various aspects of the construction and use of a building, ArchiMate offers a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. This insight helps stakeholders to design, assess, and communicate the consequences of decisions and changes within and between these business domains.
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The issues addressed below are issues for a wide variety of users, and have myriad implications, as has been repeatedly noted, for internationalization as well as accessibility, not to mention general usability.
The main point in any discussion about abbreviation markup is that it provides the user with a level of granularity that makes documents more accessible to all users; the user may choose to ignore them, expand them automatically or on demand, but no matter how the abbreviation markup is ultimately rendered client-side, there are certain attributes which not only enhance human understanding, but enable machine differentiation between types of abbreviations and their individual characteristics, regardless of rendering or implementation. Moreover, a more robust for/id association mechanism would allow authors to reuse expansions by pointing to an initial expansion -- or, preferably, a site-wide dictionary of abbreviations and their acronyms:
thus making it far easier for authors to implement, especially if they can do it once and forget about it, until prompted by an ATAG compliant authoring tool to add an association between text contained in an abbreviated element, and the site's global expansions list, which -- ultimately -- will lead to their wider use, as has been the case with a universal or multiple stylesheets associated with a document instance with the element.
is the classic example in English, as is "Dr." -- the abbreviations for both the words Doctor and Drive.
Another obvious example is the French abbreviation for Mademoiselle, but for those who know French primarily as a spoken language, the abbreviation conventions of French may cause confusion and comprehension problems, due to the fact that those conventions familiar to the end user differ greatly from those used in a document instance. Additionally, the abbreviation "Mlle." sounds like "mwlee" when pronounced using a text-to-speech engine that doesn't support natural language switching on the fly -- or, far more often, due to the author's failure to supply a lang attribute which would trigger automatic natural language switching on the fly by a text-to-speech engine, translation software, or for the purposes of rendering a "non-standard" (from the end user's point of view) set of glyphs:
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is recasting the focus of its $2 million Grand Challenge from autonomous vehicles to autonomous networks, putting the agency one step closer to creating the mythical Skynet. The latest in a series of major innovation competitions sponsored by the agency is intended to "drive automation revolution in information security."
Teams participating in the Cyber Grand Challenge will build fully automated network defense systems that compete against each other by evaluating software, testing for vulnerabilities, creating security patches and applying them to protected computers on a network, DARPA said. The concept is similar to computer security tournaments involving trained experts, but in this case unmanned systems will be competing.
The evolution of cyber-attacks and malware is driving the need for automation in IT security analysis. Thus the goal of the Cyber Grand Challenge is to create a self-patching system that could respond to attacks, and even go a step further by reconciling security problems before they happen. "Today, our time to patch a newly discovered security flaw is measured in days. Through automatic recognition and remediation of software flaws, the term for a new cyber-attack may change from zero-day to zero-second," DARPA program manager Mike Walker said in a written statement.
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The cyber competition will take place on a "network framework purpose-built to interface with automatic systems," according to DARPA. Competitors will have a series of challenges, including a qualifying event where a collection of software will be analyzed. Teams that qualify will need to automatically identify, analyze and repair software flaws. Top experts from various computer security disciplines, such as reverse engineering, formal methods and program analysis are expected to participate. The agency said it will host teaming forums on the official Cyber Grand Challenge websiteto promote extensive participation.
A select group of top competitors will join the Cyber Grand Challenge final event, scheduled for early to mid-2016. In that event, each team's system will be required to automatically identify software flaws and scan the network to find affected hosts. The highest scores will go to systems that are most capable of protecting hosts, scanning the network for vulnerabilities and maintaining software function.
The winning team will receive $2 million. $1 million will go to second-place competitors, and third place teams will get $750,000.
This isn't the first time that DARPA has shelled out millions of dollars for such a competition. The tradition of DARPA Grand Challenges started with self-driving cars. In October 2005, Stanford University's robotic vehicle, Stanley, won $2 million for beating out the competition and finishing a 132-mile course through the Mojave Desert. The Robotics Challenge -- focusing on autonomous robots -- followed. That challenge kicked off in October 2012 and is scheduled to run through 2014, with three planned competitions, one virtual and two live.


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Could someone tell me about this game...it appeared to fallen out of the sky...out of nowhere, what in the world it is it?
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Sam Asano's Let's Invent: Successful inventors solve problemsSAM ASANO
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Part I: Basic Principle A good invention is based on the conservative principle of developing a solution to a problem. And, ladies and gentlemen, problems are everywhere, believe me. I receive emails and phone calls from readers stating that they couldn't find problems to solve. They seem to indicate that this world no longer offers a plethora of problems. All problems that should be solved have been solved.
I say "that's farthest from truth." There are currently, as well as in the future, so many problems, large and small, and all of them are shouting at you to solve them.
Our 99 percent inventors should stick with the principle to solve only painful and existing problems. Never mind those problems that seem vague and are products of one's imagination or wishful thinking. In the history of inventions through modern times, successful ones are all solutions to existing problems.
However, I am beginning to notice inventions that are not necessarily tackling the existing painful problem, but are working on problems that would or might occur in the near future. Namely, these are predictable problems that may possibly explode in our face in the near future. That's what we hear from the promoters of these inventions.
A case in point: Driverless automobiles.
Do you know what the problem the driverless automobile is trying to solve? If you ask me, I would say I don't know. Just last week, this column discussed the problem of high-beam headlights and associated driving lights that blind oncoming drivers. One thing quite clear is the fact that there is plenty of readily available technology to solve the headlight-aiming problem, but for some reasons the automobile industry doesn't seem interested in solving the issue.
In a coffeeshop discussion I had with at least 10 patrons, I found that all of them had been annoyed with the intense glare and wondered why the problem couldn't get resolved. A woman said to me that she sometimes had a strong urge to ram her brake pedal to stop her car so the tailgating car would plow right into her.
Last week's column was about "thinking outside of the box." I often encounter inventors who seem unable to do so even though "thinking outside of the box" doesn't cost them anything. Sandwiched between the high-beams of oncoming cars in front and intense glare of the high-beams from tailgating cars, I had trouble navigating down a narrow mountain road. At that time, after I get a bit accustomed with having to drive inside the bright beam of lights, I came up with an idea quite similar to the driverless auto concept. Namely, I'd eliminate all outside views, through which all the blinding lights come in. Then I'd watch the display monitor on the dashboard, which displays the frontal high-resolution radar view, whose epicenter is located on the front cowl. However, the image processing software would modify the rays to look as though the scene would look like viewed from my eyes.
The solution was certainly out-of-the-box thinking, but not that far-fetched. I believe all of the tools necessary to do this are easily available. A set of mechanical modifications has to be made for the car. Both rear view mirrors need to be dis-aimed, and the inside rear view mirror needs to be capped to shut off the spurious beams of lights. This solution is not the driverless auto system at all. The driver is very much in control. It is just aiding his/her vision.
I am also aware that proper technology is available to automatically reconfigure the high-beam headlights when nearing an object. This system would adopt a distance measuring radar (Yes, all radars measure the distance), and control beam angle. This is a relatively simple addition to the cars. I wonder why this hasn't been adopted industry-wide as it is a significant safety measure.
By the way, I have this stupid question that I have been harboring for a long time. What are the driving lights for? What purpose do they serve? Back when the auto headlights were the old-fashioned sealed beam, it might have made sense to augment front near spot with the driving lights. Now that the main headlights have been so much brighter, I do not see any reason to have them mounted on the front bumper as decoration. The worse feature of the driving lights is that its broad beam cannot be focused, and they are usually aimed poorly. Another issue I see is that they could be separately turned off, but almost nobody does. So the confrontation with an oncoming car with high-beam and driving lights assaults the driver with a flood of glare. Perhaps someone from the auto trade could answer my question. Why driving lights? Now back to the driverless auto. My first question is: What problem is it trying to solve? I have to admit that I really don't know for sure. I am an average suburban driver who drives about 20,000 miles a year in commuting to my office in Boston. I have been doing this for some four decades. In that long period spanning some 800,000 miles, I have never felt that driving is an unbearable chore that I would like to get rid of. In fact in many days in spring and fall, driving is a pleasant experience that cannot be easily replaced. In fact, today's modern and well-designed highway systems provide an experience similar to automatic driving without a "driverless" system.
So, tell me why do we need the driverless auto?
To be continued.
Shintaro "Sam" Asano of New Castle, who speaks and writes English as a second language, was named by MIT in 2011 as one of the 10 most influential inventors of the 20th century who's improved our life. He is a businessman and inventor in the field of electronics and mechanical systems and is credited as the inventor of the portable fax machine. He developed a data tablet used in the retail point of sale to capture customer signatures when credit cards are used. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Antony Polonsky wins prize for work on Polish history
'The Jews in Poland and Russia' honored as best Polish history in a foreign languageProfessor Antony Polonsky has been awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum Prize for the best recent Polish history written in a foreign language. The award was announced at the International Congress of Polish History and Book Fair held in Krakow this month. The prize was established by the Polish Senate and is awarded every five years.
Polonsky, the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, earned the honor for his three-volume monograph, "The Jews in Poland and Russia." The work is a comprehensive political, social, economic and religious survey of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe from 1350 to the present.
"It's interesting that they regarded a book on the history of Jews in Russia as a book on Polish history," Polonsky said. "It shows how much the country has changed. It reflects a broad concept of Polishness, which includes Jews."
Polonsky is a native of Johannesburg, South Africa, and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and Oxford. He spent his student years as a Marxist-Leninist sympathizer and joined the ranks of the Solidarity movement in Poland, but his views changed with the defeat of the first Solidarity movement in 1981.
He began researching Stalinism and the treatment of Poland in the post-World War II era, and later, Solidarity, but he also found Poles and Jews were divided by incompatible views of their shared past. Reconciling the two became the heart of his life's work.
"I would like from the bottom of my heart to thank the speakers of the Senate and the members of the committee who have given me this prize," Polonsky said in his acceptance speech. "I have, however, one small reservation… I do no consider myself a foreign historian of Poland. I studied here and what I know about the history of Poland I have learned from Polish colleagues. What is more, in some sense I consider myself a Pole, or rather a Jewish Pole or Polish Jew."
Polonsky founded Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, which he has edited for the past quarter century. The journal became an important resource for contributors to new understandings of Polish and East European Jewry.
He began teaching at Brandeis in 1991 and two years later was given the Walter Stern Hilborn Chair in Judaic and Social Studies. From 1995 to 1998, he chaired the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. In 1999, he was appointed the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, which he continues to hold jointly at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., and at Brandeis.
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- Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after his death his worth as a writer was recognized. Bartleby is a novella, which first appeared in Putnam's Magazine. The narrator is an elderly lawyer who helps his clients with mortgages, titles and bonds. The lawyer's office has two employees Nippers and Turkey. Turkey is a drunk and Nippers has indigestion. The office is able to function because Nippers indigestion is at a time when Turkey is sober and Turkey is hung over when Nippers is feeling better. Bartleby is hired in the hopes that his temperament will calm down the office. As the story progresses Melville brings a sense of the human condition as seen through the eyes of a lowly employee.
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I found this forum a week ago when I was desperate for some answers. Since then I have been reading here for encouragement and advice and thought it was time to post myself since I feel like I am hitting a wall.
My son will be 5 weeks on Sunday. Breastfeeding has been quite the challenge for us. He had a poor latch in the beginning which resulted in me getting very cracked, bleeding nipples. We went to the lactation consultants and got it worked out. I thought we were over the hurdle. A few weeks later, I started feeling a lot of pain again. The pain at latch-on was excruciating, nursing was becoming painful, and the pain was starting to continue between feedings as well. However, he wasn't doing any damage to me so I couldn't figure out what was going on.
After a few days, I decided I had enough and called the lactation consultants again. I went in that night to make sure we weren't still having latch issues, which she said we weren't. After a lot of discussion she determined I was having vasospasms and due to the pinkish/red shiny look of my nipples, I also might be dealing with thrush, although neither he nor I showed any other signs of it.
She suggested I call my doctor and his pediatrician to get meds for the thrush, but my doctor wouldn't call me in anything since they weren't convinced I had it. The lactation consultant told me I could put a few drops of my son's Nystantin on my nipples after each feeding while treating him. I've been doing this for 36 hours now and so far, am not seeing much of a difference. I am also taking some pretty heavy duty probiotics three times a day and cut out all sugar from my diet. When I went to feed him this morning, it took a few times to get him latched and I realized I had blood coming out of one of my milk ducts so now I am wondering if it's getting worse. So my questions are:
1) Can vasospasms cause latch on pain and pain while nursing? I thought I asked the lactation consultant this, but we talked about so much I can't remember her answer. I'm hoping this isn't something I am just going to have to live with.
2) Has anyone treated thrush this way, and if so, how long did it take for the pain to improve? Is there anything else I should be doing to treat this? I'm willing to call my doctor again, but I have my postpartum checkup on Monday and just thought I'd wait until then to discuss it, but also don't want to be in more pain or get worse over the weekend.
3) Does it sound like there could be something else going on here that I am missing?
Sorry this is so long. I just am desperate and need advice. I'm tired of cringing when feeding time comes around and gritting my teeth through it. Breastfeeding is the only choice for me, so quitting is not an option, but I also don't know how much more of this pain I can take. I feel like I am learning to manage the vasospasms and the pain between nursing has definitely decreased, but I welcome any advice or experience in dealing with either of these. Thanks!


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Department store catalogs aren't generally known to be controversial—but one online activist group is condemning JCPenney for its portrayal of a same-sex couple with kids in its Mother's Day catalog, reports HuffPost Gay Voices.
After its failed boycott of JCPenney earlier this year, following the retailer's hiring of Ellen DeGeneres as its spokeswoman, the conservative anti-gay group OneMillionMoms.com (a ministry of the American Family Association) is back in its efforts to demand that the retailer "remain neutral in the cultural war," as the OMM site explains—i.e., not showcase anything other than a "traditional" (as they refer to themselves) heterosexual family.
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The pages in question (shown here) feature a presumably lesbian couple and this copy: "You'll often find Wendi, her partner, Maggie, and daughters elbow-deep in paint, clay or mosaics. 'Even as babies, the girls [Raven and Clover] toddled around in diapers, covered in paint,' said Wendi."
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"OMM has so many issues to cover we had no choice but to move on earlier in the year but have decided to revisit this issue and speak out again," reads the OMM site. "It is obvious that JCP would rather take sides than remain neutral. JCP will hear from the other side so they need to hear from us as well."
Plus: Gay Parents More Accepted Than Single Moms
The OMM call to action asks that concerned parents speak with local store managers, despite previous failure to solicit anything beyond a "Thank you" and quick exit from those managers in response to OMM's complaints re: Ellen DeGeneres. OMM states, "Managers will also have to answer to corporate for the loss in sales from traditional families, so we will give them the proof they need to back this up when we tell them we will no longer be able to shop with them until they take a neutral stand."
As Parenting is a brand that stands for modern families (that's right, we recognize that families come in all kinds of iterations), we applaud JCPenney's inclusion of a variety of families in its Mother's Day catalog, including a range of ethnicities, a child with Down syndrome, and a single mom. Parenthood is hard enough without us attacking each other for our choices or situations, amirite?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to find my wallet so I can hit JCPenney over my lunch hour.