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The Story behind the Surreal Photograph of Salvador Dalí and Three Flying Cats
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This is a wonderful collection for Dali fans! Whether you are looking to expand your fine art collection or purchase the gift of art for another, please consider one of our twelve images. We have an international following and have worked with both seasoned art collectors and first time Dali clients all over the world. We welcome all inquiries!
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Three decades ago, surrealist Master Salvador Dali pre-signed several hundred sheets of paper for the express purpose of producing hand-signed limited edition lithographs. Our principal secured all known remaining paper from Dali publisher Levine & Levine, and selected twelve stunning Dali images in order to create "The Final Editions of Salvador Dali." These magnificent images have never before been published as hand-signed lithographs. Once these editions are sold out, they will never be available in this form again.
The Printing
This magnificent collection of lithographs has been masterfully executed by one of Dali's original chromistes, Jean-Pierre Remond of Paris. The press that Mr. Remond used is one of only a few remaining old-style lithographic presses still in use in the United States. Master Dali himself printed many of his lithographic editions on this press.
Type of Paper
Our collection of authentic Dali prints are printed on Arches, Japon and Rives paper. All of the 22" x 30" images are available on both Arches and Japon paper. Arches paper is a high quality air-dried 100% cotton paper of warm white color. Rives, also cotton is more heavyweight. Japon is creamier in color, has silk-like fibers and has the lightness of a woodpulp paper. No two sheets of Japon paper look exactly the same. Collectors often prefer Japon paper although there is no actual superiority or durability when compared to the other two.The Lithographs
This is a collection of twelve images, which are renderings of original Dali works of art from varying periods of his illustrious career. The original painting of the image Invisible Face (Ruin of the Head of Medusa on Landscape) was created for Edna Woolman Chase in 1941.Spectral Horse (Molecular Equestrian Figure) was created after a watercolor which dates from 1952. Disintegrating Mother and Child (Dynamiques Raphaelesque) is from an original drawing on paper also from that year. The Don Quixote Trilogy, The Warrior's Heard, The Story of Don Quixote and The Gift of Mandrino are thought to be autobiographical as they resemble an aging Dali.
Each of these lithographs was signed, in pencil, by Salvador Dali. All signatures were verified by official Dali archivist, Albert Field, in 1999 prior to his death in 2003. Mr. Field took the extraordinary measure of counter-signing on the reverse of each archival sheet. Each fine art lithograph is shipped with an original certificate of authenticity from the publisher.
Signature: This lithograph bears Salvador Dali's original signature in pencil and is signed and verified as authentic on the reverse by Dali Archivist Albert Field.
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Publisher: ARA Productions, LLC whose corporate office is located new Yale University in New Haven, CT.The company (ARA Productions) has been in the fine art business since 1999.
Salvador Dali is one of the most famous and prolific artists of the twentieth century, his fantastic imagery and flamboyant personality made him the best known artist of the Surrealist movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Born in Figueres, Spain in the northeastern province of Catalonia, Dali trained in the early 1920s at the Madrid Academy, where he perfected his realistic and meticulously detailed style.
Salvador Dali was one of the greatest Surrealist artists, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. In 1934, the Surrealists censured Dalí. Toward the end of the decade he made several trips to Italy to study the art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1940 Dali fled to the United States, where he worked on theatrical productions, wrote, illustrated books, and painted. A major retrospective of his work opened in 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and traveled throughout the United States.
Salvador Dali's work can be found in the permanent collections of major museums internationally. Among them the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Venice, and the Tate Gallery in London. The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida is dedicated solely to Dalí's work, and three museums in Spain are part of the artist's legacy, the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, the Gala Dali Castle Museum-House in Púbol and the Salvador Dalí Museum-House in Portlligat. The world's largest Dali painting can be seen at Elena Bulatova Fine Art at City Center,Las Vegas.
BIOA blend of reality and fantasy characterized both his personal life and his artwork. In the Catalonian town of Figueras, near Barcelona, the artist Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904. His family encouraged his early interest in art; a room in the family home was the young artist's first studio. In 1921, Dali enrolled at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Although Dali did very well in his studies, he was expelled from school because of his eccentric dress and bizarre behavior.
It was at this time that Dali came under the influence of two forces that shaped his philosophy and art; Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious, and Surrealism's unconscious dream imagery. It was under the influence of the surrealist movement that Dali's style crystallized into the disturbing blend of precise realism and dreamlike fantasy that became his hallmark. Against desolate landscapes he painted unrelated and often bizarre objects. These pictures, described by Dali as "hand-painted unconscious dream forces", were produced by a creative method he called "paranoiac-critical activity". Dali's most characteristic works also showed the influence of Italian Renaissance masters, the mannerists, and Italian metaphysical painters Carlo Carra and Giorgio de Chirico.
During World War II, Dali and his wife, Gala, took refuge in the US, before returning to Spain. His international reputation continued to grow, based as much on his showy lifestyle and flair for publicity as on his prodigious output of paintings, graphic works, book illustrations, and designs for jewelry, textiles, and stage sets. Dali died in Figueras on January 23, 1989.
DaliLithographs.com is proud to present The Final Editions of Salvador Dali- twelve intriguing Salvador Dali lithographs with Dali's original pencil-signed signature. If you are a Dali fan, you will be delighted as you recognize and identify classic Dali symbolism and his varied techniques and influences as you view the collection in our gallery.
Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. "Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision," he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of "paranoia-criticism," a philosophy of art making he defined as "irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena." In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips. "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure," he once said. "That of being Salvador Dalí."
Spanish, 1904-1989, Figueres, Spain
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I consider myself a Mac power user. I love OS X and I'm very comfortable with it. Nevertheless, I'm also a geek, seeking to improve and enhance my experience, to boost my productivity and do more with less. That's also the philosophy behind my current product.
A couple of months ago, I discovered Keyboard Maestro (KM), a general purpose macro program for Mac. It is probably not the prettiest Mac app I came across. The macro editor could use some refinement and the icons it uses can make your eyes bleed. Yet, it gets the job done. Big time. It is very lightweight, not adding more bulk to your bloated OS. It is easy to use and encourages you to add macros and improve your workflow. It quickly became an essential part of my arsenal.
You can read about it on the product web site. I also recommend the Mac AppStorm review, published a couple of weeks ago. Me, I'm just going to share some of the macros I personally use. This should give you some ideas as to what you might do. Most are really easy to implement once you're familiar with KM unless stated otherwise (e.g. where I used AppleScript). If you have particular question on how I implemented something, feel free to ask in the comments and I'll share my implementation.
The macros are bound to a keyboard shortcut or to the KM menu. You can also assign them to a floating buttons palette. Some may argue that most of these actions can be achieved simply with the Keyboard control panel. That's not exactly the same. For example, take my "plain text paste": turn the cmd+V to paste without the formatting and shift+cmd+V to regular paste. This can be done from the Keyboard preferences for all apps that support "Paste and Match Style" in the Edit menu. Many apps do. However, it will not work it dialog boxes where the menu is disabled. With KM it will work just fine if you use the right sequence of actions. You get my point, this just works better and has far more options.
General Purpose
- The home/end buttons work on my Mac as they should. Enough said...
- Zoom Window. Again, critically missing.
- I usually work with two display, so I have shortcuts for zooming on the primary display and on the secondary.
- I have shortcuts for placing the window in the left/right half of the screen, for viewing files side-by-side.
- Copy front window path. A simple AppleScript that copies the unix path of the front window to the clipboard. Programmers and other Terminal users should appreciate this.
- Turned Paste to plain text paste for most applications. The original paste gets its' own shortcut.
- There's a built-in clipboard history which I use and love. There are many utilities for that, but KM is simple and gets the job done.
Chrome and web browsing
- New Chrome window - simple keyboard shortcut saves you from reaching for the Dock, right clicking, etc.
- Open the selection - No matter where you are, it will copy the selection and past it the address bar of a new Chrome tab. If it's a URL, the URL opens. If it is not, Chrome will Google it for you. Very handy.
- Open incognito - opens the current window/tab in an incognito window. I use it for testing my web site, see how it looks like to non-registered users.
- Quit turned to close - too many times, I hit cmd+Q instead of cmd+W. I decided to simply cancel the quit and turn it into close.
- Paste Link - assuming you have a URL in your clipboard, will add this as a link of the currently selected text.
- Skip track in last.fm - I use the official Mac Last.fm client, rather than the Flash based web site. I assigned a shortcut that will skip the current track.
- Paste in new HTML file - this macro will create a new HTML file, paste the clipboard in the body area and apply HTML tidy on it. If you are using a CMS (I use Drupal), but wish to use TextMate to edit your content, this is a great time saver.
- New note - will open a new note for editing. This will open the specific note window rather than the Evernote main interface (notes list). I use Evernote like a text editor and this simply creates a new "file" quickly. It takes some AppleScript to do this, I will write a blog post about it.
- Export to HTML - takes the note, converts it to HTML and exports it to a TextMate HTML file. It also formats the file and removes many unnecessary tags. Again, some AppleScript hacking here.
- Typing shift+cmd+return will add a semicolon before moving to the next line.
That's it for now. I hope this gives you some ideas. You can find more example macros on the product web site. If you have some useful Macros that you've written yourself, you are welcome to share in the comments. Personally, I think the author of KM should cultivate a wiki of useful macros, but that's a different subject.

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The State Board of Education today adopted a resolution establishing proficiency levels for New Jersey's new Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment (GEPA). The test, administered for the first time this year, currently measures student performance in the areas of language arts literacy and mathematics.
"The board's action today is a necessary step towards fulfilling our commitment to ensure that students possess essential knowledge and skills," said Commissioner of Education David Hespe. "The test is linked directly to our state academic standards as described in our Core Curriculum Content Standards. Over the next several years, the test will be expanded to reflect the standards in different content areas after they are formally introduced in the schools," he said.
The GEPA, which this year replaced the Grade 8 Early Warning Test, was administered to nearly 90,000 eighth graders in March 1999. Local school leaders use the results to determine appropriate instruction based on students' performance. It is also used at the local level to ensure that the curriculum prepares students for the skills and knowledge that they must demonstrate on the exam.
Ellen Schechter, assistant commissioner for the Division of Academic and Career Standards, and Clyde Reese, director of the Office of Assessment, described the steps that led to the adoption of the proficiency standards. They explained how definitions or descriptions of proficient and advanced proficient student performance in language arts literacy and mathematics were developed by Department of Education staff and groups of educators. Using those definitions, the state-level panels of educators participated in a rigorous judgment procedure to arrive at cut scores that distinguished the partially proficient student from the proficient student, and the proficient student from the advanced proficient students.
"The judges in the GEPA standard setting study were excellent representatives of the larger community of committed, professional educators that are leading New Jersey's schools," Reese said. "Their level of involvement and their depth of knowledge are to be commended."
Because of the need to carry out the proficiency level setting process, the 1999 GEPA results will be reported to districts in August. Next year's results will be reported to districts in June. The results of all state tests are reported annually in the New Jersey School Report Card, a detailed statistical profile of every school in the state. Statewide test summaries are presented annually to the State Board of Education, usually toward the end of the calendar year.
Students do not pass or fail the GEPA. Their scores will place them in ranges of advanced proficient, proficient, and partially proficient. Students who score in the advanced proficient and proficient ranges probably are meeting state standards and probably do not require remedial help. Students in the partially proficient range are at risk of failing the high school graduation test in the 11th grade and will need remedial help.


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Mixed messages
For the past few days, I have been visiting my son, Roman, and his family. My grandkids, ages six and four, are starting to remind me of a misspent youth with my erstwhile gang of young ruffians who looked at life with more humor than sense.
Children get their speaking skills together and enjoy communicating during the formative years from about four to seven or so. As vocabularies improve and the ability to pronounce more diffi cult words becomes easier, they manage to speak in increasingly complex sentences that soon turn into an endless narrative on their ongoing, minute by minute review of life as they see it . . . or . . . as they want you to remember it. The latter is the operative phrase that we shall address today.
Those of you who have children, especially older children, are well aware of that which I am speaking. The next generation quickly learns that if they talk continually and fast, their nattering soon turns into nothing more than background noise that parents tune out.
By the time children become teenagers they have mastered the technique of hypnotizing their parents with continual and dull verbiage. Using said technique to its best advantage is an acquired skill.
A shining example of a master of this fine art was Pookie Grossberg, my boyhood friend. Pookie had a way of telling the truth the right way at the right time. This allowed him to commit the most dastardly deeds and walk away with impunity. By the time Pookie was a teenager, he was an undisputed expert.
Whenever Pookie did something that he knew would come back to haunt him when his father found out about it, Pookie would wait until his dad came home from work. That was the ideal time.
As soon as his father sat in his easy chair Pookie would burst into the room and tell his dad about his day. Pookie's dad did not have the heart to stop his children from talking to him, but he would invariably listen to the news and just tune Pookie out. He would occasionally nod his head and grunt while Pookie ranted on nonsensically.
Pookie would talk about driving to school, report on every class in detail, tell his dad what he had for lunch, and as he talked he picked up the pace of his delivery until everything he said would blend into one indiscernible word. By this time his father didn't even bother to nod or grunt.
When Pookie saw his father's eyes glaze over, he knew he had him, and Pookie would do his magic. "AfterschoolIdroveacoupleoftheguyshomebutwestoppedatthepoolhalltoshootafewracksandonthewayIgotaticketfordoingfiftyinaschoolz nesoyourinsurancewillprobablygoupaboutfiftypercent." Then he would stop.
Pookie's dad would notice the abrupt change and usually say something like, "That's good, son. I'm glad you had a great day. Now let me watch the news and I'll see you at dinner." And Pookie would say, "Sure thing, Dad," and walk away smiling.
His father heard, "I got a ticket for doing 50 in a school zone so your insurance will probably go up about 50 percent," but it didn't register. However, when the insurance bill came and Pookie's dad would get so mad he could barely speak, Pookie would calmly say, "I told you about it last week when you came home and you said, "okay.""
His father then felt guilty for not listening to his son, and that totally disarmed him. The conversation would end with his father sputtering, "Well . . . be more careful and don't let it happen again."
Pookie's technique worked well. However, other methods accomplished the same end. Kinky Boswell, another member of our ragtag group was the most adept at the half-truth. If his father asked, "What did you do today?" Kinky would tell him that he took his mom's car to the garage.
He would leave out the part about stopping at the garage to get a quote for fixing a fender that he dented when he hit a fire hydrant when he was trying to park. When the bill arrived, Kinky's dad assumed it was for something his wife did, and wouldn't press the issue. But just in case Kinky was confronted, he knew he could say, "I told you I took mom's car to the garage."
If these scenarios seem all too familiar, try to remember, we did the same thing as we tried to survive growing up in a system we can't understand.


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uGet is a download manager app for Linux.
The latest version comes with a new "Mirrors" (multi-source) feature and a new look regarding the App Icon, Tray Icons and Logo (displayed above in the About window).
The blog post lists everything that is new and explains what the new "Mirrors" feature is.


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The Cleveland Browns placed OG Jeremiah Warren, OG Ryan Lee, CB Royce Adams, CB T.J. Heath, WR Tim Smith, WR, Anthony Armstrong, TE Martell Webb, TE Keavon Milton, DE Cam Henderson, LB Caleb McSurdy and LB Keith Pough on no-recall waivers Monday, Aug. 25. OT Randall Harris and WR Jonathan Krause were waived with a waived/injured designation, and RB Edwin Baker was waived with an injury settlement designation.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed OG John Malecki, OL Ryan Lee, WR David Gilreath, WR Toney Clemons, TE Jamie McCoy, LB Marshall McFadden, CB Josh Victorian and FS DaMon Cromartie-Smith to their practice squad.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have released CB Terrence Frederick, CB Josh Victorian, LB Brandon Hicks, LB Marshall McFadden, DE Corbin Bryant, DE Ikponmwosa Igbinosun, DE Jake Stoller, RB DuJuan Harris, WR Tyler Beiler, OL Ryan Lee, OG John Malecki and OT Chris Scott. The team has also placed LB Sean Spence (knee) on Injured Reserve, ending his 2012 season.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed undrafted free-agent OL Ryan Lee (Furman). Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
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The bid to change Kroger Co.'s policy comes after Mr. Bloomberg's groups, including Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, have had mixed results in backing candidates in elections and trying to influence changes in government gun regulations. The groups...


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As NCSE previously reported, Chris Comer, the former director of science at the Texas Education Agency who was forced to resign over a dispute involving "intelligent design" creationism, filed suit in federal court, seeking an injunction against TEA's "policy of neutrality with respect to the teaching of creationism in the Texas public schools." The Dallas Morning News (July 3, 2008)
NCSE seeks a communications coordinator, who will be responsible for NCSE's overall communications strategy, reporting to the executive director. Tasks include:
Chris Comer, the Director of Science at the Texas Education Agency (TEA) who was forced to resign over a dispute involving intelligent design, has filed suit in Federal District Court for redress.
The pro-"intelligent design" movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring Ben Stein, opened June 27, 2008 in theaters across Canada. The opening is significantly smaller than the movie's April debut in the United States, with only 36 theaters in 7 provinces showing the movie, according to Expelled's official website. It is not playing in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, or the territories.
Louisiana's Governor Bobby Jindal signed Senate Bill 733 (PDF) into law, 27 years after the state passed its Balance Treatment for Evolution-Science and Creation-Science Act, a law overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987. Jindal's approval of the bill was buried in a press release issued on June 25, 2008, announcing 75 bills he signed in recent days.
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Nasalis larvatus
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Nasalis larvatus (Wurmb, 1787)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Nasalis capistratus (Kerr, 1792)
Nasalis nasica (Lacépède, 1799)
Nasalis recurvus Vigors & Horsfield, 1828
|Taxonomic Notes:
|There is very little difference between the two subspecies, and indeed N. l. orientalis is not recognized by all authorities (M. Richardson pers. comm.)
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A2cd ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Meijaard, E., Nijman, V. & Supriatna, J.
|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B. (Primate Red List Authority)
The species is listed as Endangered as it has undergone extensive population reductions across its range, and ongoing hunting and habitat destruction continue to threaten most populations. Numbers have declined by more than 50% (but probably less that 80%) over the past 3 generations (approximately 36-40 years).
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is endemic to Borneo, occurring in Brunei, Indonesia (Kalimantan) and Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak). It was orignally found over the whole of coastal Borneo, as well as on the satellite islands of Berhala, Sebatik and Pulau Laut (Groves 2001).
N. l. larvatus
It has the same range as the species as a whole, with the exception of northeastern Kalimantan.
N. l. orientalis
It is restricted to northeastern Kalimantan, Indonesia.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia (Kalimantan); Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak)
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|In Sarawak, less than 1,000 animals are thought to remain in patchily distributed populations. In Sabah, the only remaining large populations are in the Kinabatangan flood plain, and around Dewurst Bay in the Eastern Deltas. Brunei estuaries support one population. The species is in greater abundance in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), where Meijaard surveyed the population. The Indonesian populations range in size from over 1,000 to less than 100, depending on past and current threats (Meijaard and Nijman 2000). The Pulau Kaget Nature Reserve population in South Kalimantan has reportedly been extinct since 1997 (Meijaard and Nijman 2000). Also, the population in the Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan which would have numbered in the thousands up until the early 1990s, has now been decimated due to conversion of the coastal swamps to shrimp farms (E. Meijaard pers. comm.).
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species is associated with riparian-riverine forests, coastal lowland forest, including mangroves, peat swamp, and freshwater swamp forest (Boonratana 2000). It rarely ranges far from its local habitat's waterway (Meijaard and Nijman 2000). It has been suggested that it is restricted to the coastal areas and areas near rivers because the interior has soils that are low in minerals and salts, which are a necessary part of its diet (Bennett and Sebastian 1988). It is found at low elevations, up to no more than about 350 m asl (Meijaard and Nijman 2000).
The species is mostly folivorous (about 52% of all feedings) and frugivorous (about 40% of all feedings), and prefers young leaves and unripened non-fleshy fruits. Monthly diet of this species changes with availability throughout the year (Yeager 1989). Boonratana (2000) observed this species swimming across the Kinabatangan River in northern Borneo, and frequently across its tributaries. The home range size of a focal one-male group was 220.5 ha (Boonratana 2000). Boonratana (2000) reports that this species never entered agricultural lands, nor areas used intermittently as log dumps for logging operations carried out in the area before and during the study. This species returned to the river every night at the study site of Sukau, moving inland during the day (Boonratana 2000). It avoids areas with heavy deforestation, such as agricultural land (Salter and MacKenzie 1985). Where there is no hunting the species can persist in disturbed forests and secondary habitats.
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|As well as being hunted for food, the species is also hunted for bezoar stones, an intestinal secretion used in traditional Chinese medicine.
|Major Threat(s):
Because of this species' association with riverine and coastal habitat, the major cause for its recent decline is thought to be habitat destruction. People favour these animals' habitats for logging, cultivation, and settlement. The planned land use for Central Kalimantan cited by E. Meijaard illustrates this tendency, with much of the riverine forest being marked for conversion. Clearing riverbanks and mangroves has a significant impact. Forest fires, especially those along the rivers, have a major impact on distribution. The 1997-1998 Bornean forest fires were thought to have destroyed the greatest proportion of remaining habitat of any primate in Kalimantan.
The species is relatively lethargic and easily hunted; with little effort entire populations can be hunted to extirpation. Opportunistic hunting of Nasalis larvatus for food occurs; the species is also hunted for bezoar stones, an intestinal secretion used in traditional Chinese medicine. Hunting has been felt most significantly in the Bornean interior, but is increasing in coastal areas (Meijaard and Nijman 2000).
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This species is listed on CITES Appendix I, and is protected by law throughout its range (Meijaard and Nijman 2000). In some portions of its range its legal protection suffers from governmental and institutional deficiencies, including lack of conservation funds and knowledge, and poor and inappropriate management (Meijaard and Nijman 2000). It is known to occur in 16 protected areas: Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, Gunung Palung Nature Reserve, Kendawangan Nature Reserve, Kutai National Park, Lesan Protection Forest, Muara Kaman Nature Reserve, Mandor Reserve, Tanjung Putting National Park (Indonesia); Bako National Park, Gunung Pueh Forest Reserve, Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve, Klias National Park, Kulamba Wildlife Reserve, Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sungei Samunsam Wildlife Sanctuary, Ulu Segama Reserve (Malaysia). It formerly occurred in Pulau Kaget Nature Reserve (Indonesia), but is now extirpated there.
This species is almost never seen in captivity outside of Asia, as, owing to their dietary specialization on particular leaves and other vegetable material, they are hard to keep alive (E. Meijaard pers. comm.).
|Meijaard, E., Nijman, V. & Supriatna, J. 2008. Nasalis larvatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T14352A4434312. . Downloaded on 16 October 2018.
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Creek County is located in east-central Oklahoma, and part of the Tulsa Metropolitan area. It is bordered by Pawnee County to the north, Tulsa County to the east, Okmulgee County to the southeast, Okfuskee County to the south, Lincoln County to the west and Payne County to the northwest. Creek County contains a total area of 970 square miles of which 956 square miles is land and 14 square miles is water. It is drained by the Cimarron River and the Deep Fork and Little Deep Fork of the North Canadian River. Heyburn Lake is contained within the county, and Keystone Lake is partially within Creek County.
Major Highways crisscross the county, State Highway 66 (Historic Route 66), Turner Turnpike/Interstate 44, US Highway 75 ALT, State Highway 16, State Highway 33, State Highway 48, State Highway 51, State Highway 97, State Highway 99 and State Highway 117.
In 1825, the Osage Nation ceded the territory where the Federal Government planned to resettle the Creek Nation and other tribes after their expulsion from the southeastern part of the United States. The Creeks began migrating into this area, where they and their black slaves settled to begin farming and raising cattle. Railroads gave an important boost to the local economy. In 1886, the Atlantic and Pacific railroad built a line from Red Fork to Sapulpa. In 1898, the St. Louis and Oklahoma City railway connected Sapulpa and Oklahoma City.
Present Creek County was established at statehood with a population of approximately 18,365. The town of Sapulpa was initially designated as the county seat. This decision was challenged by supporters of the town of Bristow. On August 18, 1908, an election was held to choose a permanent seat. Sapulpa prevailed, however, the dispute did not end there. After a series of court cases, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in favor of Sapulpa on August 1, 1913. Oil was a major economic boost to early Creek County. The Cushing-Drumright oilfield opened in 1912, creating boom towns such as Drumright, Kiefer and Oilton.
Creek County is comprised of numerous cities and towns: Bristow, Drumright, Kiefer, Mannford, Oakhurst, Sapulpa, Slick, Depew, Kellyville, Lawrence Creek, Mounds, Oilton, Shamrock, Milfay, Olive, Bowden, Gypsy and Silver City.


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A new mobile learning lab rolled into Western Excelsior for the first time this week.
By providing more training in electronic programing and circuitry, the company hopes to encourage employees to come up with new solutions to old problems and work toward greater automation.
"We really don't want a person doing a job that doesn't take advantage of their humanness," said Kyle Hanson, the business unit manager. Western Excelsior makes erosion control mats out of straw, aspen and synthetic materials. They also manufacture wood pellets for stoves.
This is the first time the $300,000 electronics lab has been used since it was unveiled in November.
Southwest Colorado Community College's lab, housed in 48-foot trailer, is equipped with hands-on tools to teach the basics of circuitry, programming and other skills and hosting classes for employees once a month through April.
On Monday the maintenance team started with the basics of electric circuits and will eventually learn to read the blueprints of an electrical system.
Hanson hopes that by the end of training the company will have collaborated on one of the automation opportunities with the instructor and constructed a prototype of a new system that will help cut out repetitive labor.
Hanson also hopes to do more and more on-site manufacturing of needed parts.
The training was funded by a $36,990 Colorado First and Existing Industry Grant. Part of the money was also used for in-house training to identify areas in the production line that could be improved.
The mobile lab is one of three at the local community college. The college also has one for mechanical systems and welding. The welding lab has been used at three mines regionally including one in Utah since November.
"The best way for these workforces to get their training, is to get it on location," said Tomas German-Palacios, operations coordinator in Pueblo Community College's Economic and Workforce Development Division.
Pueblo Community College started using mobile learning labs in 2005, and German-Palacios said he believes that having the training labs locally will be an economic draw.
"It makes the workforce of this area much more valuable and can potentially bring in additional companies in the future," he said.


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October 03. 2013 8:48PM
Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Oh, how things have changed
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz is greeted by teammates after scoring in the ninth inning against the Orioles during Sunday's game. (REUTERS/Doug Kapustin)
Rays' roadshow pulls into Boston
-- A year ago this morning, the most senior members of Red Sox management met at
Larry Lucchino
's house in Brookline to take a necessary step in steering their franchise forward. Owners
John Henry
Tom Werner
joined the club president there, as did General Manager
Ben Cherington
, and they invited
Bobby Valentine
, too — but only for the purpose of telling him his managerial tenure in Boston would last just one season.
A year later, Sox brass will gather again on the fourth of October, except this time instead of in Brookline it'll be at the corner of Brookline Avenue and Yawkey Way, and with a far different focus and feeling than they had a full calendar earlier. Despair and dysfunction has yielded to happiness and hope. Embarrassment has been overcome with beards. Worst has turned to first.
It's been a remarkable turnaround, really, the franchise having so quickly fixed its ills that the Sox will today host the Tampa Bay Rays in the opener of a best-of-five division series, entering the postseason as the top seeds in the AL playoffs just 365 days after axing the manager who oversaw the club's worst season in 46 years. The juxtaposition between then and now is incredible.
And it's significant — because the date isn't merely a cute, symbolic coincidence. It's a demarcation.
The year that began with Valentine's dismissal was about rebuilding, and redemption, and restoring the faith of a shattered fan base. But the year that begins with
Jon Lester
's first pitch this afternoon is about winning a World Series. It's about making the most of the position they've put themselves in, about seizing opportunity, and about showing that Cherington has already succeeded in his mission to build the "next great Red Sox team" — no longer about worrying where the last one fell apart.
There are some who have already declared this season a success, solely on the jump from 69 to 97 wins, and the climb in status from the outhouse to the penthouse. And that's fair. What the Sox did over the previous six months was certainly unforeseen, and its unexpected nature made the journey all the more enjoyable.
But now the expectations should change. Boston put itself in first place with a win on April 1, and it was still there on May 1. Still there on June 1, July 1, August 1, September 1 and October 1. The Sox spent 164 days atop the division, trailing after only 18 of 162 games, and never entering any game with a losing record. They were the only team in the majors to never lose more than three games in a row, and they lost even that many in succession only five times.
They outscored their opponents by an aggregate of 197 runs, finishing the season with the best offense in all of baseball, and ranked among the AL's top five in pretty much every offensive category. On the other side, their starting rotation was nearly the equal of the vaunted staff the Rays bring with them to Fenway Park — Boston's earned run average was 3.84, Tampa's 3.81 — and at one point their closer retired 37 batters in a row.
So they've been consistently excellent from start to finish. They're well equipped in almost every facet of the game. They approach the game with the attitude and attention to detail that facilitates success this time of year. And with that combination of character traits and talents they've done exactly what they set out to do at the start of spring training.
In other words, they've met their own expectations while exceeding those of others — so it's fair for everyone to raise the bar, with a ring at stake.
"We've got a good group of guys, good group of baseball guys, that understand day‑in and day‑out what they need to do to succeed," Lester said Thursday. "And from there I think we kind of took it and ran with it. (Manager
John Farrell
) and the coaching staff has done a great job of guiding us through a couple of slumps through the season, but everybody is prepared, everybody was ready to go from day 1, and I think that showed."
Everybody was motivated by the chance to establish their place in the history of a proud franchise. For the holdovers like Lester, the motivation was to prove that the collapse of 2011 and the calamity of 2012 were not something they deserve to be associated with. For the host of new players brought in with chemistry and character in mind, the motivation was to come in and change the culture.
Both sides have succeeded
"This was part of the mindset at the end of last year, a strong desire to rewrite what took place," said Farrell, whose team took 12 of 19 games from the Rays this season. "There was embarrassment that was shared by those who remained or that had been here. And I think when you think of
Johnny Gomes
Shane Victorino, David Ross
, all the guys that have signed here or traded for, they felt this was a rare and unique opportunity to come in here and put Boston back on the baseball map that might have not been there the last three or four years.
"So, to a man, this was the mindset in spring training: to get back to the level that's been accustomed here in Boston."
And they have. It's October 4 again, and the Red Sox' priorities are the same today as they were on this date six times in the seven seasons from 2003-09 — and far different than they were on this morning in 2012.
That makes the last year a resounding success. But it's the next year that matters more than anything now, regardless of how fun the ride has been so far.
"It's been a joy to be around," Lester said. "I never thought just being around this market for a couple of years, I never thought you could actually do that here. It's a pleasant surprise, and hopefully we can continue to carry it over for the remaining time that I'm here, the other guys are here, and really just have fun playing the game."
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"Between Political Inertia and a Lack of Vision for the Region"
Mr. Buchen, Germany pledged before it took control of the European Union that it would work hard on the current frozen peace process in the Middle East. Here we are six months later and Portugal has now the directorship in the rotating presidency, so has the German government fulfilled its commitment?
Stefan Buchen: We must not be allowed to deceive ourselves; the Middle East does not hold such an important position in German foreign policy even when it held the presidency of the European Union. Despite the many visits by the foreign minister and the German Chancellor to the Middle East and some of the Arab countries, the region and the Arab-Israeli conflict occupy no priority in Germany's foreign policy. The files that the German presidency of the European Union focused on included, in truth, climate change, the proposed treaty to replace the constitution and the relations with the United States.
But the German government, and in the words of the Chancellor herself, had promised to re-activate the peace process in the Middle East during the period of her presidency.
Buchen: Yes, the government promised but did not fulfill its pledge. I know that Chancellor Angela Merkel had issued statements at the beginning of the German presidency to the Union declaring the possibility of moving forward on the peace process in the Middle East which she later realized was a very naive statement and that the possibility was absent. That is why we notice that Merkel and her foreign minister Steinmeier focused on other areas.
If one were to ask you on the most important accomplishments in the past six months in the Middle East, what would you say?
Buchen: I do not see any accomplishment whatsoever in the German file. We saw how the last Sharm al-Sheikh summit did not succeed in covering up the failure of European policy in resuscitating the peace process in the Middle East. What I want to say is that Germany, as well as Europe, have ceased to be active players in this field. The role of the Union is limited to reacting on what is going on in the Middle East.
When Hamas took control of Gaza there was a reaction on the part of the European Union and when a terrorist operation takes places in the south of Lebanon we do hear a European response. The short of this is that neither Germany nor Europe are initiators in the region.
Dr. Hadil Qazaz, you are in Ramallah, in the center of the conflict, and you have heard Mr. Buchen state that there have not been any accomplishments and that Europe is incapable of doing anything. How do you personally assess that matter in the light of the promises issued by the German government?
Qazaz: I agree with Mr. Buchen in that there has been no achievements during the German presidency of the European Union on the region for two main reasons: one is that the German government lacks experience with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict and here I would like to emphasize the large difference between the position of this government and that of its predecessor whose foreign minister Joschka Fischer took a very serious and pro-active role with regard to the conflict.
The other reason is objective and has to do with what is occurring on the ground which does not permit anyone to interfere. The political reality in the region is a paralyzed reality, the winning of a radical Islamic party in the last elections is rejected by Germany and other European governments whose refusal to deal with it has complicated the situation even further and limited any role it could play in the region.
You mean Hamas?
Qazaz: Yes, in their opinion there is no Palestinian partner they could negotiate with which is an excuse not to accomplish anything seriously. You have asked me if there has been any change. Yes, a slight but relevant one and that is the multiple visits undertaken by officials to the region which in itself is educational whereby the facts of the conflict on the ground could be assessed as well as the realities of the many parties to the conflict.
Dr. Rudolph al-Qarih, you are a researcher and an Arab academician who follows closely the Arab-European relations. How do you assess the last six months of the German presidency to the European Union?
Al-Qarih: Let's be honest, the German presidency is being held accountable to a lot more than its share with regard to the foreign policy of the European Union not to mention that there are many agendas in the region especially the American that has defined - by its aggressive position in the region and especially in Iraq - the roles of the other players.
I do not agree with Mr. Buchen in what he says because asking the German presidency to the EU to be held accountable for a lot more is not permissible. I believe that the European policy oscillates between political inertia and a lack of vision for the region. The German presidency was overwhelmed with issues related to the European Constitution which exposed the many diverging positions and aims that weakened the European foreign policy.
It is true that Minister Steinmeier has expressed many times in front of the European parliament his wish that Europe would propose an independent vision to the Middle East but the many conflicting positions within the European family did not allow for that to take place.
The Arab world though, is betting on an independent European role separate from the American strategy, is there a division in the Union regarding this matter with some active members insisting on coordinating a plan with Washington - was that a factor at all in the less than expected achievement of the German presidency to the European Union?
Al-Qarih: The problem is that the Arab themselves are divided on that matter and there is no unified Arab position on the conflict in the Middle East and what is expected of Europe. As for the Union, the internal political situation does not allow Europe to follow a cohesive foreign policy independent from its Atlantic counterpart.
Mr. Buchen, can one relate the poor role played by the European Union to its dependence on the American policy or do you regard it as a part of a structural weakness related to the Union?
Buchen: I don't think that Europe likes to depend on the policies of the United States in the Middle East; we saw that in 2003 when both the German and the French government opposed the war in Iraq. It is known that there exists sharp criticism in Europe toward Washington's policy in the Middle East and its position with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Europe itself feels weak and thus places its political priorities in other areas.
We saw for example how the Chancellor spent a long time in the Gulf during her visit to the region. Germany, and Europe in general, wants to focus on economic areas signing trade treaties with the countries in the region. I believe that Europe has become convinced that finding a final solution to the problem of the Middle East has become an impossibility and that is why we see it focusing on containment instead of finding integral solutions.
Is it impossible or is it because of Washington that Europe does not
want to pressure any parties especially Israel?
Buchen: It doesn't matter; I will give you an example. When Europe tried to interfere by placing border guards between Gaza and Egypt to stop the arms smuggling, what happened? The smuggling continued. So what's the use? The second example is the spreading of the German fleet across the Lebanese coast that has not accomplished anything until now; we have not heard that it has managed to stop any arms smuggling to Lebanon.
Maybe the arms smuggling to Lebanon does not go via a sea route?
Buchen: It is possible that this is the case. What I want to say is that all these measures are tokens and do not produce any result. Europe is looking after its own economic interests before anything else and that pertains to its relationship to the Arab world. It is avoiding being trapped in Iraq, especially France and Germany, and it is also avoiding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Dr. Qazaz, should one then say that was is required of Europe is to establish an independent policy from the United States or is it totally incapable of doing so thus relying on Washington as the principle supporter to Israel?
Qazaz: I believe that what is required is for Europe to take an independent route but unfortunately until now such a role is absent. In fact, the opposite is true. The European Union, headed by Germany, has come closer than ever before to the American policy in many of the issues.
As with regards to the Palestinian file the European Union is in complete agreement with the conditions imposed by Washington on the Palestinians and especially after the last legitimate elections - a position that has produced a catastrophic result. At the same time, Germany rushes to support the Palestinians at the expense of the other party, that does not mean that I support what is going on in Gaza but I believe that a serious European interjection would lessen the embargo imposed on the Palestinians.
Dr. Qazaz, do you think the choice of Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, as a representative of the Quartet in the Middle East would serve the American policy or would he strengthen the European role in such a sensitive region?
Qazaz: How do you expect him to strengthen the European role when you know that it is Blair who, as a European counterpart, ensured the cover for the invasion of Iraq and the American involvement in the Middle East to which we pay the price for as does Europe right now? How can the one who instigated the fire become at the same time its extinguisher? The appointment of Tony Blair was not a European choice but a suggestion on the part of the American president George Bush and was reluctantly accepted by Javier Solana and Gordon Brown.
This all happened when Poland sneakily planned to weaken the European ability to articulate a foreign policy. I don't think the appointment of Tony Blair is a good idea for the Middle East or for the aim of setting an independent European position from Washington. That does not mean that what is required is that Europe should confront Washington, not at all, Europe has to delineate her own position and Blair is not a service in that direction.
Mr. Buchen, what is your position on the choice of Tony Blair as a representative of the Quartet in the Middle East?
Buchen: This appointment weakens the Quartet and the European Union because it was conducted without the knowledge of big states like Germany and France. It is essentially instigated between the United States, Russia and Britain.
Dr. Qazaz, there are various Palestinian reactions to the appointment
of Blair as representative of the Quartet so for example, Mahmud
Abbas has welcomed it while Hamas has rejected it, how do you regard
this matter?
Qazaz: I think the parties that welcomed the appointment did not have any other choice. If some active European states did not know about the appointment, do you think that the Palestinian party, the weaker one in all this political equation, would know about it? The appointment of someone like that - as close as he is to Bush's policy and neo-conservatives in the American administration is nothing short of a hegemonic takeover of the Quartet and thus would not indicate any serious step on the peace process.
When Germany took the presidency of the European Union, the talk then was about a road map, now everyone acknowledges that the road map is over and what is going on now is more dangerous than before. Therefore, Blair's appointment is nothing but a new dimension to a difficult stalemate.
The forum was conducted by Ahmad Hissou
© Qantara.de 2007
Translated from the Arabic by Mona Zaki
The European Union and Palestine
EU Policies Frustrate Policy Aims
If a Hamas-Fatah unity government is formed, the EU should work with it if it adopts a platform reflecting the Quartet principles, argues Muriel Asseburg in her analysis
Middle East Diplomacy
Germany Has Mixed Record as Mediator
Germany has begun playing an active role in pursuing a diplomatic solution to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. It's not the first time German diplomats have gotten involved in the region and this conflict. Peter Philipp reports
Middle East Quartet Meeting in Germany
No Tangible Progress, But Important Signals
The Arab states are to be involved more strongly in revitalising the peace process in the Middle East in future. That is the outcome of the meeting of the "Middle East Quartet" in Berlin this week. Rainer Sollich comments


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Tour of the Month: The Salisbury Connection
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Through intellectual leadership, philanthropy, and industrial investment, Stephen Salisbury II (1798-1886) and III (1835-1905) profoundly shaped the community in which they lived. The dynasty began with Stephen I (1746-1829), a Boston transplant who arrived in Worcester in 1767 to open a branch of the family's mercantile business. In 1797, he married Boston native Elizabeth Tuckerman (1768-1851), who in her own right helped shape her adoptive town. In this special partnership, tour both the galleries of Worcester Art Museum and Salisbury Mansion, owned and operated by Worcester Historical Museum, for an in-depth look at the art, style, and lives of one of Worcester's influential families.
The tour is free at both institutions. Tour begins in the Lancaster Street Lobby of the Worcester Art Museum. Tour size is limited to 20; portions of Salisbury Mansion are not handicap-accessible.
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Associated Industries of Massachusetts Collection
Founded in 1915, the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) is the largest non-profit, nonpartisan association of employers in the state and a "voice for business." As a lobbying organization, the AIM focuses on issues affecting employers of all size in the state with goal of supporting job growth and economic activity and advocates for fair and equitable public policy. The organization also provides services for management and human relations professionals to increase workforce productivity and to improve workforce recruitment and retention.
Approximately half of this small collection consists of AIM newsletters from the 1940s and 1950s, with the other half consisting of newsletters relating to lobbying efforts in the early- to mid-1980s.
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Richard Rubin
Friday, 26 April 2013 09:12 AM
U.S. lawmakers are weighing how far they can go in altering one of the most politically sensitive provisions in the tax code: the deduction for home mortgage interest.
While pledging a "careful, thoughtful review," House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp asked witnesses at a hearing for ideas on how to transition to a new, still-unspecified system. That's a signal he's considering changes that could be disruptive to real estate markets and looking for ways to soften those effects.
Camp's scrutiny of the mortgage interest deduction is part of his plan to rewrite the U.S. tax code, curtailing breaks and lowering tax rates in a way that doesn't increase the federal government's total collections. He wants his committee to approve a bill this year.
Changing the mortgage interest deduction could affect real estate agents and home builders, along with the appliance and furniture industries.
In 2012, 34 million households, or 22 percent of tax filers, claimed the home mortgage deduction. That cost the federal government $68 billion in forgone revenue, according to estimates from the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
The deduction is available only to the one-third of taxpayers who itemize their deductions and tend to have higher incomes. More than three-quarters of the benefit in 2012 went to households with annual incomes exceeding $100,000.
Still, the tax benefit is less skewed toward the nation's highest earners than some other breaks, such as lower rates on long-term capital gains.
Deduction Critics
At the hearing, Camp hosted several critics of the deduction, including Eric Toder of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and Phillip Swagel, who was a Treasury Department official for President George W. Bush. Toder said the deduction doesn't increase homeownership rates and instead encourages buyers to borrow more or buy bigger homes.
"The key is really to focus the tax benefits more carefully," said Swagel, now a public policy professor at the University of Maryland.
Economists and bipartisan groups have suggested ideas for curbing the mortgage interest deduction without eliminating it. Those include lowering the $1 million cap on the amount of a loan that can be deducted and preventing owners from claiming the break for second homes.
Second Homes
Representative Sander Levin, the top Democrat on the committee, said he would be wary of eliminating the tax break for second homes. Many residents of his district in central and northern Michigan have "small second homes" elsewhere in the state, he said.
"It's something we need to be careful about in our proposals," Levin said.
President Barack Obama has proposed limiting the deduction and other individual tax breaks to the value they would have in the 28 percent bracket. Under that plan, someone in the top tax bracket with $10,000 in mortgage interest would receive a tax break of $2,800, not the $3,960 they get today.
The government also could convert the deduction to a credit, which would equalize treatment across income groups.
Any of the proposals could be phased in to minimize the immediate effect on real estate markets or tax bills.
Representative Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat, said she wants to ensure changes wouldn't make it more difficult for working-class families to afford a home.
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"I'm a little bit skeptical of changes to the tax code that would have the effect of putting that goal out of reach," she said.
Real estate industry representatives who testified at the hearing warned about the potential economic costs of changing the deduction.
Gary Thomas, president of the National Association of Realtors, opposed altering the deduction, in part because of who benefits from the current system.
"It is young middle-class families with children who already carry more than their fair share of the tax burden," he said, citing numbers for who takes advantage of the deduction, not the size of the benefit.
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Title: The Star Formation History of M33's Outer Regions
Abstract: The halos of disk galaxies are believed to contain the first stars formed in these systems. As such, their properties reflect those present during the early epochs of galaxy formation and thus hold the clues to several long-standing questions. In the Local Group, only three galaxies, the Milky Way, M31, and M33, possess classical halo populations. The stars in these halos are either members of star clusters or members of the field population. To obtain a complete picture of the stellar content of a galactic halo, both the cluster and field stars must be characterized. In the case of M33, several studies have concluded that the halo clusters span an age range (5-7 Gyr) that is substantially greater than that present among the halo globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way (2-3 Gyr). This suggests that the formation of the M33 halo GCs proceeded quite differently as compared with the Milky Way halo GCs. In contrast, we know very little about the halo \bf field population of M33. Not only is there a dearth of information regarding the ages and abundances of the field stars, but we know almost nothing about the structure and extent of the M33 field halo population. The present proposal will begin to remedy this situation by constructing deep color-magnitude diagrams for a large region extending from 20 to 50 arcmin (9 to 21 kpc in deprojected distance) from the center of M33. Some of the questions we hope to answer are: what are the star formation and chemical enrichment histories of the disk and field halo stars? How far does the disk extend from the center of M33? At what distance does the halo begin to dominate over the disk? Answers to questions such as these are vital to a complete understanding of star formation and galactic structure.
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Well I think I have to beg, borrow or steel and scrape together the money to rent a pump.
When the counselor at WIC originally told me that they have loaner hospital grade pumps, she neglected to mention that those are actually only for the Medical emergencies like premie babies that require exclusive pumping and are not the pumps loaned out to normal mom's going back to work.
The loaner breast pumps for normal babies, Are ONLY for exclusive breast fed babies of mothers that are going back to work or school.
Apparently I don't fit either since low milk supply doesn't qualify as medical necessity in the States guidelines
Since I work for myself and am having to supplement due to low milk supply, I don't qualify for the other pumps (which are not hospital grade and apparently and in no way hands free, she said you have to control the speed with your thumb while pumping so would NOT be able to do any massage or compressions while pumping unless you just did single pumping and used only one hand for massage/compressions.)
Sigh. At this point I think I really need the good hospital grade rental pump at least for a short time to get the supply up. I really hope it works well for me cause I can't afford to pay and have it turn out to hurt me too.


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Classic Elite's "Blackthorn" yarn blends undyed alpaca and wool to create a chunky counterpart to Classic Elite's Vista yarn. This plump and squishy yarn comes in naturally heathered colors that are waiting to be knitted into something fun and warm!
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This talk will outline how citizens can participate in scientific research in public settings. The discussion will go over what makes a good research project, and how to balance effectiveness, ethics, and public interest.
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Several examples of public science projects will be shared, and the discussion of research ethics will review several famous cases addressing issues of privacy, risk and the public good.
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Daily Voice bankruptcy talks proceed
Daily Voice received no competing bids to buy news websites for 41 communities in Westchester County, New York and Fairfield County.
The company was in bankruptcy court Monday in White Plains, N.Y., aiming to obtain authorization for the founder and two shareholders to buy the business for $800,000.
Founder Carll Tucker and two shareholders are the prospective buyers. They are offering $100,000 cash while taking ownership in exchange for $550,000 in pre-bankruptcy secured debt and $150,000 in financing for the Chapter 11 effort.
Daily Voice filed for Chapter 11 protection on May 7, facing a lawsuit filed by workers alleging violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The employees contended they weren't exempt workers. The still-pending lawsuit had cost $500,000 in fees and precluded raising more financing, according to a court filing.
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WikiLeaks: Intel strong-armed Russian apparatchiks
Cryptographic end run
Updated A WikiLeaked cable reveals that Intel was able to arm-twist Russian apparatchiks into letting it import 1,000 development platforms that ran afoul of import restrictions imposed by the government of that
worker's paradise struggling economy.
To bend the Russian bureaucrats to their will, Chipzilla used the magic word that unfailingly dissolves regulations here in the 21st century: jobs.
According to the classified US State Department cable, dated November 3, 2009, and brought to our attention by Thinq.co.uk, Intel held back-room talks with Russian regulators to seek a waiver of that country's stringent restrictions on the import of computing equipment with cryptographic protections.
Although the cable notes that in 2006 Russia had "agreed to streamline and simplify its procedures for the importation of items containing cryptographic information," that streamlining has yet to occur. "Nearly three years later, progress in meeting the terms of this agreement has been slow and its results minimal."
Intel, however, wanted to import 1,000 development platforms that used encryption to protect the company's intellectual property, but under the Russian regs, the only way they could do so would be to go through a rigorous, months-long investigation of those platforms by the Russian Federal Security Bureau — a process, the cable explains, that sparked "concerns about the violation of intellectual property through reverse engineering."
Intel, apparently, wasn't happy with that risk — or, for that matter, with a delay of six months while the Russians pored over their encryption secrets. In order to get a waiver, "Intel capitalized on the [Russian government's] desire to develop Russia as a knowledge-based economy," the cable reports.
A deputation of Intel "advocates" huddled with a group of Russian officials that included president Dmitry Medvedev, and told them that if Chipzilla couldn't import the development platforms, "Intel would have to lay off over 200 [Russian] engineers," and that "R&D work in Russia would have to move to India or China."
The Russians caved. Intel was allowed to import the 1,000 development platforms without scrutiny, but with a promise that they wouldn't be made commercially available, and that "Once Intel is finished with the platforms they must be submitted to a designated state-run industrial waste disposal company for their destruction.
What assurance may have been agreed upon to ensure that reverse engineering won't occur at that state-run demolition site wasn't explained. ®
The cable refers to one of Intel's advocates as being "CEO Craig Barrett," who held that post only from 1998 until 2005, when he was replaced by current CEO Paul Otellini. US Embassy personnel, apparently, haven't kept up with Silicon Valley musical chairs.
An Intel spokesman has responded to this article with a statement regarding the WikiLeaked cable and its assertion that the company had threatened to move jobs out of Russia:
This was a routine matter that we undertook in our own behalf and on behalf of our customers and distributors. We were not seeking to change the rules but to merely improve the process by working with officials just as we do with governments around the world. That effort was successful.
We are not about to speculate about why the author of the cable thought we would move jobs or anything else contained in the cable. We are very happy with our operations and our employees in Russia.
And so the various and sundry ripples caused by WikiLeaks tossing its load of confidential cables into the international pond continue to spread.


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Tom Bates, Mayor
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District 5 – Laurie Capitelli
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District 6 – Susan Wengraf
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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people in suburban Washington are sweating through a punishing heat wave under orders to avoid long showers, turn off sprinklers and think twice about flushing the toilet.
Carwashes, day care centers and fast-food restaurants shut their doors Wednesday. And the military base that is home to the president's Air Force One was reduced to essential operations.
The reason for the restrictions: urgent repairs to a nearly 50-year-old water main in Prince George's County that authorities said was in danger of exploding.
More than 200,000 residents and businesses in the county are under mandatory water restrictions, possibly for days, while the mercury is expected to climb into the 90s.
The warning to the public came late Monday night, giving people about 24 hours to stock up on bottled water and prepare for days without washing clothes or dishes.
Still, things could have been worse. Officials initially warned that faucets could run dry for several days during the repairs.
But on Wednesday, officials said they were able to divert enough water to keep it flowing. They said the water main should be back in service in two or three days if nothing unexpected happens.
"If we continue to conserve we're confident that the system will remain full while we complete the repairs on the pipe and return it to service," said Jerry N. Johnson, general manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.
Johnson said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon that a fiber-optic detection system found 37 cracks in the nearly 50-year-old concrete main in a period of four to five days. Had the 4 1/2-foot main not been shut down, it would have exploded, possibly creating a large crater, Johnson said.
The concrete pipe was installed around 1965.
Crews were able to avoid shutting off water to residents because they were able to close a large valve nearby. The valve had faulty gears that had to be modified in order to work properly, Johnson said.
Residents were told to postpone using dishwashers and washing machines, to limit the flushing of toilets and to take short showers.
Johnson defended the commission's decision to warn people they would be without water because he said it didn't become apparent until late Wednesday morning that a work-around was possible.
"We know that businesses had to shut down. We caused some angst," Johnson said. "But we're very pleased that it ended up this way as opposed to the pipe blowing out or having to shut it down and having people without water."
Joint Base Andrews, which is home to Air Force One and has 16,000 residents and workers, shut down all but the most critical operations. A base clinic was accepting only emergency patients.
At the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor on the Potomac River, the hotel had closed Wednesday, affecting a small number of guests, but planned to reopen Thursday.
At a kidney dialysis center in Oxon Hill, a tanker truck pumped water into the clinic, which uses 5,000 gallons a day. And a Shoppers Food Warehouse just off the Capital Beltway in Oxon Hill was restocking the shelves with hundreds of jugs of water after customers bought them all.
Residents were delighted the crisis wasn't as bad as they feared.
"Thank the Lord!" said Tina Wiseman, a cashier, after learning that her water would not be shut off.
"I can't live without water for five days. I'm clean. I take a lot of showers," she said.
John Smith, a bus driver who lives in Temple Hills, had two 24-packs of bottled water in his shopping cart when he found out his water would not be shut off. He said he planned to buy them anyway, but grumbled: "Fine time to tell everybody."
"I just went home and filled my bathtubs up. I've got eight other buckets around the house," he said.
Tony Hall of Washington was surprised by the effects of the water crisis.
"I went to McDonald's, and they were closed. It takes a lot to close down a McDonald's," he said. "If a McDonald's closes, the world is about to come to an end."
Gresko reported from Washington. Associated Press reporters Sarah Brumfield and in Washington and Brian Witte in Annapolis contributed to this report.


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Lost cemetery proves costly for DVM in building new practice
LaSalle, Ill. — Unexpected costs can creep into construction projects, but Dr. Steve Dullard couldn't have anticipated the discovery of a 150-year-old cemetery when he went to break ground on a new veterinary practice.
Dullard, Dipl. ABVP, owner of Ancare Veterinary Clinic with locations in Mendota and Spring Valley, and president of the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association (ISVMA) and past president of the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP), has been planning to build his new practice since 2007.
In fact, he purchased a 202-acre plot that had been used as farmland for the last 100 years. It was marketed as ready-to-build with a retention pond. While city leaders had mentioned there was an old cemetery that had fallen off the books somewhere in that area, he felt it was safe to proceed.Dullard says the property had last been purchased by a group of physicians who intended to build a practice. The group eventually fell apart, from what he was told, and a title search came up clean. After receiving his state permits to start construction, Dullard says he began clearing trees in November 2010. On the second day of clearing the trees, Dullard received notice from the state informing him that his property was the site of an old church cemetery.
"We were just clearing trees," Dullard says of his surprise at receiving the notice. "This was supposed to be a ready-build piece of property."
The sanctioned church cemetery was used from about 1835 until around 1857. At that time, it was allegedly dismantled by the Catholic Church and sold to some private land managers for profit. All the gravestones were removed, but Dullard says there were still roughly 1,400 unmarked grave shafts on the property.
Cattle had grazed and farmers had tilled the land for more than 100 years without a problem, and Dullard says even many of the old-timers around town knew nothing about the cemetery. It was on plat maps a long time ago, but disappeared at some point, and church documents claim all the remains in the cemetery were moved.
But about 70 percent of the grave shafts contained human remains, and Dullard says he has had to pay to excavate and move more than 700 remains so far.
He has been able to move enough of the remains to move forward with construction while work on the rest of the property continues, Dullard says. But re-interments had to stop in December 2011 because of the weather.
The discovery of the cemetery set Dullard's project back more than a year. He says he was able to work out an agreement with the state to contain the costs of relocating the remains in the cemetery. Otherwise, removal and reinternment costs would have been prohibitive.
"We don't know exactly where it's going to end," Dullard says. "In Illinois, there's a law called the Human Skeletal Remains Act. They basically require this really extensive archeological type of process. It is so cost-prohibitive, nobody could ever afford to do it."
But, ethically, he can't sell the property—for which he paid a premium price—without disclosing the cemetery issue.
The state mandates that if a cemetery is found on a property, the owner must strip all the topsoil and investigate the grave shafts individually at a cost of $1,000 to $3,000 per grave shaft. With the number of grave shafts on his site, that would have put Dullard's cost to mitigate the cemetery alone at between $1.4 million and $4.2 million.
"They make it so punitive cost-wise you could never deal with it. It kind of gets down to the point where you have to decide, are you going to make things so punitive for business where they can't do anything?" Dullard says. "I had to figure out some type of remedy."


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We don't want to let your birthday pass by without a special cheer. So if you haven't already done so, we'd love you to add your birthday to your profile.
To do that, click on the User Control Panel near the top of the message board. This should take you to it:
When it opens, click on the Profile tab. Scroll down to the bottom of that page, and you'll see the birthday section. You don't have to add your year (I don't think).
Once you've done that, we'll be told when it's your birthday.
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Tactile Printing Market - Growth, Share, Opportunities, Competitive Analysis, and Forecast 2016 – 2025 - Credence Research(October 06, 2017)
According to a new market report published by Credence Research Inc "Tactile Printing Market - Growth, Share, Opportunities, Competitive Analysis, and Forecast 2016 – 2025," the global tactile printing market was valued at US$ 1,250 Mn in 2016 and is expected to growth at a CAGR of 4.5% through the forecast period 2017 – 2025. Countries across the world including India, China, Japan, the U.S., UK, Germany and other are increasingly investing in braille printing technology is driving the demand for tactile printing market. Rising demand for customized tactile solutions is another major triggering factor for the global tactile printing market. Tactile printing technology is used in various customized products such as in games, Braille wristbands, Braille musical cards, pins, switches, visiting cards, location labels, stickers (Braille tactile custom stickers), street names, greeting cards, recorders, calculators, Braille calendars, jewelry and many more.
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Based on printing application, the global tactile printing market is segmented into maps, audio maps, zoom maps and books. Tactile graphics are commonly used in creation of graphics and accounted for the largest revenue share of 40.0% in 2015. Tactile map is an assists visually impaired people because they can provide geographical information about distant places, with information about unknown places and guides in finding route between two places. The market for tactile maps is expected to witness significant growth with increasing awareness about the use of these maps among visually impaired people. In addition, continuous research on this technology to improve effectiveness of tactile maps is also expected spur the demand for this segment. Tactile book is the second largest application segment. These books are used by visually challenged people and children. Different types of tactile books include experience book, theme book, routine book and object book. Tactile zoom map is advanced version of tactile maps and introduced specially for people who can read braille structure and no previous interaction with tactile maps.
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North America is the largest market for tactile printing and accounted for around 37% of revenue share in 2016. North America is expected to maintain its dominating position through the forecast period due to increasing government support in the U.S. and Canada for development of tactile maps and other related technologies for physically challenged people. Asia Pacific is expected to witness the fastest growth with increasing number of vision impaired people in the region and increasing awareness about this technology.
The global tactile printing market is highly fragmented and most of the organizations dealing in this market are non-profit organization. The market has high potential and low entry barriers resulted into the entrance of new users and increasing market competition. The increasing awareness level amongst the population has led the introduction of new players within this market.
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Manufactures are focusing on new product development and product portfolio expansion in order to strengthen their position in the global market. The key market players of the global tactile printing technology market are View Plus, Brailler (Perkins), American Thermoform, Braigo Labs, Braille Plus Inc, Braille Works Inc, Index Braille AB, NIA Technologies and various others.
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