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We all know that the new breed of diesel trucks is fast, and with a little tuning you can pump out massive amounts of power. But how does all that newfound performance transmit through your stock transmission? In most cases the answer is, "Not very well." When the stock transmission was engineered there were specific tolerances set in place that limit the amount of power that the components can handle. From your torque converter to the output shaft, a certain intensity is reached where slippage occurs. Damage results from trying to inadequately control whatever power increase that you are attempting to send through the stock components.
Not all transmissions are built alike, and the upgrades needed on one type of transmission may not be true for another. When we started building our '06 Dodge Ram 2500 with the 5.9L Cummins, we knew that it wouldn't be long before all that newfound power ("Turbo 2 Go," "Power Atop Power," "Easy Diesel," Sept. '07) would start showing the telltale signs that our transmission was on its way out. Good indicators that your automatic transmission might be damaged are prolonged shift intervals; jerking when the truck is under load; slippage, which you can usually tell by increased rpm accompanied by only a slight increase in speed or movement; and transmission fluid that appears or smells burnt.
To prevent our daily driver/weekend hauler from leaving us stranded, we gave the transmission experts at North America Diesel Performance (NADP) a call and explained what the truck was primarily used for and the power levels we were hoping to achieve. They suggested replacing the stock unit with one of their Heavy Hauler series transmissions. This complete replacement transmission includes a triple-disc billet torque converter, heavy-duty input and output shafts, and a full array of billet internals to give our truck's transmission the ultimate balance of strength and reliability. With our truck sporting 35-inch tires and 4.10 gears we needed to make sure that the added rolling resistance wouldn't be a detriment to our new transmission. Luckily for us this is something NADP deals with regularly, and thus they built a transmission that would assure us of solid shifting and holding while towing heavy loads.
We put our transmission(s) through a series of tests including before and after dyno runs and towing tests to note overall shifting characteristics. We were amazed at how much of a difference a built transmission could make. No longer were we experiencing slippage or power loss as the 800+ lb-ft made our four-door diesel feel like a rocket, but it also didn't snap our neck every time it needed to shift. For the installation we drove over to Inglewood Transmission where Mike Lovrich and his team of knowledgeable transmission masters installed our new 48RE transmission and gave us a look into the damage that happens to a stock transmission when power levels are heavily increased over stock.
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Imagine getting paid to eat ice cream all day, to go to the beach or to figure out how to make a race car go even faster.
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Americans often complain about the unfair stereotype of being an excessively litigious nation, suing each other because they don't like the weather...
...but guys, you have people like this. How can you be surprised we stereotype?!
A New York man has filed a class-action suit alleging that Apple's adverts and claims about its Siri voice-activated info system are bunk, guff, bosh, and bull – and no, that's not the name of the law firm he has hired. That firm is Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, which wrote in its complaint lodged in the federal court in San …
Has the customer tried to get a refund and cancel the contract? If a product is faulty, or has been sold under false pretenses then the users should be able to return them for a full refund (or exchange if it's just that particular product at fault).
If that basic right has been denied, then I fully support legal action... otherwise it's just a bid to grab fame/money.
It isn't that he can't get a refund (although, he is likely far outside the normal return window by now), it is most likely a bid for fame. HOWEVER, if he doesn't fight it (due to having an excess of time on hand is likely), but instead quietly returns the device as bunk vs adverts, how can such an errant advertising campaign be stopped? I can't say how many people I've spoken to that whisper to me in back corners about this "new thing" that is Siri and extolling the advertising-based knowledge of the wonders of this feature. They refuse to believe anything I say about Siri not living up to the hype. It's sad really. Good for this guy to actually call Apple out on their adverts.
"Cult of Mac theorizes that Siri's senility is due to Apple throttling the compute power it devotes to question-and-answer processing because of the high demand that the iPhone 4S's success is putting on its servers."
If (and I stress "if") it is the case that Apple have taken to restricting the available processing for Siri then the issue of "beta version" becomes a rather different issue. It is one thing to warn your customers (albeit buried in the small print) that the version is in beta and quite another to partially cripple yourself. It should perform as well as the given beta is capable of performing - not be artificially restricted because demand for a service that you yourself hyped with the launch of your product has proven to be more than you feel like devoting the resources to. I hope for the sake of Apple's enthusiastic customers that "Cult of Mac's" hypothesis is incorrect otherwise somebody is taking the piss out of them.
Beta or not, it's advertised as a finished product in the marketing materiel, fine print shouldn't matter, the capabilities the product is displaying should, especially when they are non-farcical (such as a flying car) but rather something people can realistically expect in the product.
Frankly marketers get away with far too much these days and need to be cut down to size.
Marketing is where the problem lies. Look at our own toothless ASA .. just when you think they actually do stuff, they rule that Siri works in the UK because "it can tell you the weather". Welcome to the future.
I should complain to the ASA about SyFy channel advertising "the greatest movies of all time" (none of which you'll have heard of).
Simple policy of course is to not believe anything you see, hear, or read in a commercial.
Unfortunately, my old college room mate and I both agreed to turn it off because it was so bad. This coming from someone who enjoyed "Hell comes to frog town", "Waxwork" (awesome) and "Cherry 2000". No T&A because it was on Rhonda Shear's 'Up all night' show in the U.S. We did enjoy "Hard to Die"... one of a group of women working inventory at a lingerie store (directly above the gun shop) is possessed (about a quarter of the movie is old footage from Slumber party massacre, if I remember correctly). Some of the pictures on the video sleeve aren't even from the movie.
Remember, this is the same ASA that has ruled it perfectly acceptable to use the word "unlimited" to promote a service with limits, as long as those limits do not affect a significant majority of users. That they don't actually specify what constitutes a significant majority is just the lunatic icing on the insanity cake. When a simple English word that's had the same unambiguous meaning for over 560 years can be rendered meaningless by the power of marketing, we are screwed.
I gotta say, anyone who actually believed these ads is an idiot.
They might as well have the guy say "remind me when to take my insulin" and Siri fires off an email to his physician and then parses the response into a daily calendar.
Meanwhile, I can tell my Android phone "navigate to X" and it knows exactly what I mean. Or I can tell it "evolutionary common ancestor of dogs and cats", not only because this isn't Jeopardy and I don't have to phrase everything in the form of a question, but because I know how Google works and I know that this is a pretty good search if I want to, you know, actually find relevant information.
The problem with what Apple's trying to do is that behaves very differently based on the KIND of search it thinks you're doing. For example, if I search on Google for Ruby Tuesday, I might be looking for a restaurant chain's locations, stock quotes, corporate website, or wikipedia article. Or maybe I'm looking for a recording of a Rolling Stones song, or a lyrics, or it's own damn wikipedia article - all of these things pop on page one and it's pretty sure one of them is what I want.
With Siri, it basically guesses what I mean, and 90% of the time it will assume I'm looking for a local business listing. Theoretically context words like "tell me how to go to Ruby Tuesday" can help but you never know what's gonna happen, but since Apple is too proud to do a Google search the usual alternative is goddamn WolframAlpha, like I asked it to differentiate secant squared or something.
"anyone who actually believed these ads is an idiot"
Yeppers. Consider that carefully. This is the reason for the existence of spammers, 419 scammers, phishing sites, pyramid schemes and the like. Because there are idiots that believe everything they are told, so these things continue to happen.
This is, after all, hardly the first time that Apple has been called to task because of advertising hype that was "inaccurate". For example, there was that case about the speed of response of iOS where people actually thought that the ad depicted the speed accurately then found that this was all nonsense once they bought the device and had to suffer the delays in real life. Or the bold claim that Apple were the first to put a RISC in a desktop machine (a claim they hastily retracted when Xemplar partner at that time, Acorn, reminded them about something they invented called ARM which sat in their Archimedes range that predated the PowerPC Apples by at least a year).
This doesn't necessarily mean that Apple themselves are at fault, but it does go to show that marketing types aren't all that trustworthy. Something that the late Douglas Adams pointed out at length.
Like all women(and men) givin that attention, Siri is self conscious and is on a diet.
Am I the only one that saw this coming? What happened here is there are too many 'beta' testers using Siri and its throttling her limited server based power. The exact same thing happened 2 weeks ago with the Raspberry Pi and, let's be honest, I don't know how well the reg would cope with Siri's level of demand.
But instead of giving back wrong answers, slow down the process allowing for the same level of error checking for everyone, and if too many people use it at once and the request line is too long, just send back a "server busy :("
The Woz comments "Now instead of getting prime numbers, I get listings for prime rib, or prime real estate."
Hmm. So Apple is storing everything asked of Siri at Apple, and basing answers on the cumulative questions asked by the GreatUnwashed[tm]?
Google syndrome, and a major privacy issue. Another reason to avoid iFads.
What if it is pondering the most asked questions and using them as a sort of response cache? How long before it inevitably leads you to porn sites ? You know, the one and only true answer to anything in the internet is porn....or 47.
I am getting my coat while I type this.
Could it be that they've let it at more information to decide on what you want and now it just too easily gets confused? Obviously the other explanation that they've not been adding enough servers to the backend while more and more iPhones are sold is also a pretty reasonable assumption. Either way it sounds like something that Apple should be rectifying.
...something as complex as what Siri is supposedly offering to actually work? No, just let me finish, please.
I have worked with things that were amazing at the time, such as the voice command feature of OS/2 v. 4, fifteen years ago... and it worked. If you didn't expect too much of it, and had a reasonably fast computer, and a reasonably good microphone, and so on and so on and so on.
To expect such a miracle-cure service such as Siri was announced at to work out of the box is ludicrous. Yes, the end customer wants it to work. Yes, Google wants it to work (and Apple _are_ using Google searches for the results; hence the current bias on business results... especially, if you look closely, businesses that do their advertising through Google...), and so does the end user. But the end user typically expects more practical results for their real-life problems than Google can sell them -- or any other commercial search engine. The search engines make money by brokering business, whether the user likes it or not.
Of course, Apple can only tie in to the search engines (whichever they are using!) by allowing those to do advertising... so I can totally understand why Siri service quality went down the drain since its introduction.
Sueing Apple over this, I think, is the wrong approach. They are allowing this process to happen, yes. But the drivers of it are the likes of Yahoo, Google, and so on, who are not interested in your finding the next filling station, but the next [fill-in-brand-here] filling station... because that generates revenue.
Might as well sue Oracle for providing the database software the search engines are running on -- pointless. If you expect anything to work as advertised... buy products that are not advertised. Anybody disappointed in what the advertised product actually offers should sue the advertising companies (or departments), not the manufacturer. Siri's a reasonable jumble of garbage, and that's what you get. The iPhone 4s is the same price (where I am) as the previous model a year ago, so there is no price hike. So, whoever complains, get off your high horse. The phone works, the service is deteriorating. Is that any news? News at all?
*shrug* OK, I know... I'll probably get a few thousand thumbs down and a bunch of flames...
If it didn't work then Apple should have advertised it not working, so that people knew it didn't work. But they didn't want people to know it didn't work, they just wanted the money.
It's not Oracle's problem that Apple advertised something which they don't supply.
Let me get this straight....
Siri is introduced last year and the fanbois praise Apple for producing the bestest voice-based AI thing EVAH!!! But after a few months it turns out that Siri is actually a bit shit, and now it is somehow Yahoo and Google's fault?
That would be acceptable, if Apple had slipped Siri into iOS as a beta, made no fanfare about what it can do and just announced that it was available, wasn't perfect, but, well just try it and see what you think.
However, Apple launched the 4S with a blaze of advertising, all cented on how fantastic it was, with Siri being the showpiece app, driving everything you could possibly want to do on your phone.
If you want to place Siri as the masterpiece of your new phone and tell the whole world how brilliant it is, don't be shocked if people don't accept "it's just a beta".
FAIL was the right icon to pick stizzleswick, it sums up your post perfectly.
If you bought a car and it only came with three tires would you sue Michelin? If you bought a sandwich and there was only one slice of bread would you sue Hovis?
The manufacturer is responsible for providing the features they advertised. If Siri doesn't work as advertised then Apple are liable. If it did work but is deteriorating then that is news because existing users need to know why they can't get the right results and potenial buyers need to know not to buy an iPhone 4S if Siri was the feature they wanted.
And, search engines don't run on Oracle databases. Go look up Big Table and Hadoop.
I'd have some sympathy if we were talking about some fly-by-night one-horse wonder - you take a chance on the quality of what you might end up with.
But Apple have deliberately cultivated their image of "it just works". They sell themselves at the top of the market as being a quality company providing quality products that add cool to their users. That strategy is undermined when "it just fails".
Of course another part of the strategy works really well - that of getting their users so invested in the image of being cool, hip and right that every time we see a problem like this the fanbase feels the need to come out and defend their ludicrous decisions to buy expensive shiny things that may keep them on the cutting edge of cool but keeps them well behind the curve in actual technological advances. Apple's biggest success comes not from being technically competent but from a thorough understanding that Edward Bernays was spot on.
stizzleswick - FAIL at everything.
Google's search is lame, and lamer than it was last year? Maybe, but not relevant.
Siri is beta? Maybe, but not relevant.
Oracle have a wonky database? Maybe, but not relevant.
The moon is Waning Gibbous tonight (wasn't that a BeeGee?). Not relevant either.
What IS relevant is that Siri was promoted as must-have functionality and shown to be capable of doing all the sorts of cool things that clueless guys usually depend upon their partner to do. But, wait, Siri doesn't live up to the hype. And it's not even anywhere near. To return info on prime ribs when asked about prime numbers is really poor.
THAT is the crux of the matter. The reasons suggested are mere excuses to cover over what is, in common language, known as a lie.
Anyone remember google bombing? I should think that the same thing happened with Siri as well; as Apple has no control over the supplying databases it's probably even easier. This, together with the popularity of the gimmick and the resulting back end overload makes it quite understandable that it doesn't work all that well. Even though I'm definitely not an Apple fan, I don't think any deliberate fault lies with them, they just advertised more than they could deliver (not uncommon really: the first 4wheel drive Audi 100 couldn't drive up a ski jumping ramp). The fault lies with the fanbois who want to believe every word of their favourite maker's adverts, much like slimming aids, stain removers, snake oil, religious promises and so forth...


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The Resurrection is described - not as an event that might have been recorded if there had been a cameraman around at the time - but as an experience in the people to whom he appeared.
This was a simultaneously intensely personal and powerfully communal experience. It changed the individuals who felt it and created a confident, other-centred community out of a group of frightened, broken-hearted self-doubters.
'Something strange is happening today'. A second century Christian writer in a beautiful teaching once tried to express the experience of absent presence that fills the emptiness after the burial of Jesus.
Everyone who has buried a loved one has felt this strangeness that follows the rituals and the companionship of family and friends. In the jokes and stories at the gathering after the service, there is permission, within the social conventions, to step aside briefly from the sense of loss and emptiness.
Under most legal systems through history death has been both the greatest crime and the greatest punishment. It is irreversible, absolute, and that is one reason why it is so terrible.
Another, of course, is that it is the loss that laces all losses. In anything we have ever had taken away from us by force or accident the fear of death has been aroused. When death finally comes it seems to prove that this fear is justified: eventually everything goes; so everything is ultimately meaningless.
He had always loved those who were his in the world, but now he showed how perfect his love was.
At the last ritual meal which Jesus shared with his friends he threw himself into it with such passion that he became it. The symbols of bread and wine, common fruits of the earth and staples of the daily local meals, occasioned both nourishment and celebration.
'Judas, who was to betray him; asked in his turn, 'Not I, Rabbi, surely?' 'They are your own words' answered Jesus.'
There are several revealing aspects around the theme of betrayal in the Passion story. Jesus is the one betrayed, most obviously by one particular disciple. But Jesus is also the one who foresees it and exposes it almost clinically. Judas plays innocent and says 'not I surely' and Jesus says – not for the first time – 'you said it not me'.
There are plenty who sit and talk. Fewer walk the talk. Even fewer are able to make the walking the ultimate and complete expression of the talking. By their actions they express everything that their words once meant. In this they acquire the pure eloquence of silence.
This point is a culmination of all that has been anticipated and understood in the past – a fulfillment of a prophecy. It is like walking towards the edge of a cliff and seeing it approach you as you walk towards it.
Our Holy Week retreat began on Bere Island yesterday. There are people here from different parts of the world as well as locals from the island and the Beara Peninsula which is an area of great natural beauty, both gentle and rugged.
Without passion there's no compassion. In the same way there has to be eros in the mixture if there is to be agape as well. If there's no force of attraction there's nothing to propel us into transcendence.
Passion can however break loose of this formula and become autonomous – just serving its own appetite and self-interest. It morphs into a rogue force in our psyche that causes devastation in the world around us. We bounce wildly from desire to exhaustion before we start looking for another object to desire.
John Cassian, the 5th century master of the spiritual life, advises us to say the mantra, continuously revolving it in the heart, 'in prosperity and adversity'.
The global economy illustrates the often dramatic ups and down of life. Boom periods where expectations and greed run amok lead to bust. Then times of austerity follow and, as always, inflict most hardship on the most vulnerable members of society.


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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Daniel Visits School/Daniel Visits The Doctor" Daniel Visits School - Daniel is visiting school for the first time and he's a little nervous until he learns that asking questions so that he knows what to expect is the best way to handle the anxiety that comes with new experiences. Daniel Visits the Doctor - Daniel is going to Dr. Anna for his checkup - but he is very anxious! Mom Tiger teaches him that talking about the situation will help him feel calmer, so Daniel makes a book with all the information he knows about the doctor. D
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Martha Speaks "Martha in the Hold/Get Along, Little Doggies" Martha in the Hold - Martha's family is going out West on vacation and Martha doesn't want to be left behind. But that cargo hold where dogs have to travel sounds scary. Can Martha find her ticket to ride? Vocabulary: (E) cargo, passenger(s), turbulence, arriv(e)(s)(ing)(val) , depart(s)(ed) (I) travel(ing), suitcase(s), flight, trip, Take(s) (ing) off. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Belfast and the Best of Northern Ireland" Rick tours bustling Belfast and looks at some of the city's politically charged neighborhoods. Then he heads for the Antrim Coast to enjoy Portrush, Ulster's Coney Island.G
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Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Europe's Getaways" Rudy visits country windmills in Holland and Mittenwald in the Bavarian Alps before cruising the Danube in Austria.G
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The Desert Speaks "The Gadsden Purchase Part 2" Beginning at the San Pedro River and heading west, host David Yetman and Naturalist Jesus Garcia of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, journey through some of natural wonders that would not be part of the United States if it hadn't been for the Gadsden Purchase. They drive through the "sky islands" of the Pinaleno Mountains, travel through the hard-core desert of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and visit the historic desert oasis, Quitobaquito Springs before finishing off their trip at the Colorado River near Yuma, the western border of the Gadsden Purchase. Additionally, they examine the different types of border fences that affect more than just the ecological relationship between the United States and Mexico. D
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Chef John Besh's New Orleans Buttermilk Fried Quail with Honey, Grandmother's Rabbit, and Bourbon Pecan Pie. D
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America's Heartland Research in Washington State shows farmers how to grow more wheat with less water. Chef Dave Lieberman heads for a New Jersey apple orchard and some sweet pork dishes. A young man leaves LA's city lights behind to help out on the family's Kansas farm. D
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New Scandinavian Cooking "Western Norway: A World of Apples" Host Andreas Viestad visits Hardanger, the "apple orchard" of Western Norway. Andreas makes an apple drink and bakes a traditional sourdough bread in an old wood-fired oven and prepares a hot apple dessert. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Great American Classics" Host Christopher Kimball heads into the test kitchen with test cook Bridget Lancaster to uncover the secrets to the ultimate Carrot Layer Cake. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried tests springform pans in the Equipment Corner. And finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison reveals how to make the best Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies. D
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P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Sweet Retreats" Allen draws inspiration from old Southern estates for two outbuildings where he tests herbs, fruits and vegetables.G
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Song of the Mountains The VW Boys; Patsy & Donna Stoneman. D
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Sesame Street "Cast Iron Cooks" Just as Alan finishes packing Elmo's lunch, the lights go down, the music goes up, and Superchef pops up and announces that Alan has been chosen as the next challenger on Cast Iron Cooks. Alan is not even sure what that is, but Chris and Elmo are excited to be his assistants. The first challenge is to prepare a bowl of P Stew, which is made up entirely of ingredients that begin with the letter P. Elmo, Chris, and Alan race around throwing P foods like pickles, peaches, and porridge into a pot. D
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Dinosaur Train "I'm A T. Rex!/Ned The Quadruped" I'm a T. rex! - Buddy travels to Rexville on the Dinosaur Train and meets Delores Tyrannosaurus and her daughter Annie. When he sees that he shares all the same features, Buddy learns that he is a Tyrannosaurus rex! Ned the Quadruped - Buddy and Tiny tour the Dinosaur Train and earn their Junior Conductor hats while their friend Ned, a four-legged, long-necked Brachiosaurus and regular Train rider, tags along. D
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Super Why! "Princess Gwennie Saves The Day" Princess Pea is feeling dramatic (as usual) and she and Red are staging a play. Princess is pretending she's a queen but Red doesn't know what to be! The super readers fly into the story of a princess with a silly sense of humor and a big job to do. They help Gwennie use her talents to save the day, and Red discovers her own special gifts. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Pick Your Friends/ Finola's Farm" Pick Your Friends - It's Valentine's Day and Nick and Sally disagree hotly on how to decorate the card they're making for the Cat. Does this mean they aren't really best friends? The Cat takes them to meet Sheldon, a tortoise who knows all about friendship. They learn that Sheldon's best friend is completely different from him and that being best friends doesn't mean you always have to agree. D
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Wild Kratts "Shadow: The Black Jaguar" Martin and Chris are trying to decide on their next wild cat adventure when they learn that Zach Varmitech has decided to "catnap" a Black Jaguar to use as a symbol for his new spybots. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Birders, Banders & Binoculars" They can be fierce predators and some of the gentlest of creatures. Some are rare, others are quite common; but they all have the power to bewitch and bedazzle. Birds live in a world that for us is the stuff of dreams and wonder. We take to the field to celebrate birds and the people who study, care for, and watch them.G
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Dialogue "Thomas Cahill: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" Host Marcia Franklin talks with the former director of religious publishing at Doubleday. He has authored four books of a seven-volume series entitled The Hinges of History, which recount turning points in Western civilization.G
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Bluegrass Underground "Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver" Singer/mandolinist Doyle Lawson is yet another deserving winner of a National Heritage Fellowship (2006). Lawson's band is known as the School of Bluegrass for its many high-profile alumni. This latest batch of hot young pickers lives up to that legacy, as Lawson leads them through state-of-the-art traditional and progressive bluegrass, as well as some of the most compelling a cappella Gospel harmonizing seen or heard anywhere. D
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Music Voyager "Memphis: Memphis Mojo" Memphis has played an important role in the history of blues, rock and roll and soul music. Host Jacob Edgar witnesses the meeting of young and old when blues veteran Bobby "Blue" Bland jams with 17-year-old guitar wizard Will Tucker. The elder statesman schools the young Tucker in the finer points of the blues, before a scorching performance at the B.B. King nightclub on Memphis's famous Beale Street.G
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Midsomer Murders "Worm in the Bud, Part 2" Barnaby and Troy find themselves thrust into a whirlwind of witchcraft, ancient potions, infidelity and land feuds that expose a chilling example of the consequences that can follow when parents believe they always know best. Part 2 of 2G
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Masterpiece Classic "Mr. Selfridge, Part 1" This mini-series is a dramatization of the real-life story of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the flamboyant and visionary American founder of the famous London department store that revolutionized the modern shopping experience. Created by Andrew Davies (Little Dorrit) with Jeremy Piven (Entourage) in the title role. Upstart American Harry Selfridge moves heaven and earth to build his visionary department store in London. D
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Call The Midwife "S2 E1" The second season begins in 1958. Returning from a long day of duties, nurse Jenny Lee finds the Nonnatus House community gathered to wish her a happy birthday, before she, Chummy, Trixie and Cynthia head off to the cinema. However, the midwife's good cheer is short-lived when the next day she is assigned a new patient, Molly Brignall.G
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Lark Rise to Candleford Celestia Brice Coulson (Samantha Bond) arrives in Candleford and becomes acquainted with Dorcas. Meanwhile, Dorcas begins "walking out" with James. In Lark Rise, Emma's father, Old Edmund (Paul Freeman) arrives to celebrate his birthday. Emma raises mixed emotions when she asks her father to live with them permanently.G
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Midsomer Murders "Worm in the Bud, Part 2" Barnaby and Troy find themselves thrust into a whirlwind of witchcraft, ancient potions, infidelity and land feuds that expose a chilling example of the consequences that can follow when parents believe they always know best. Part 2 of 2G


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Alcohol in the Atlantic
David Carey Jr.
Dating from the earliest times in Latin America, alcohol has played a crucial social, economic, political, and cultural role. Often reserved for politico-religious leaders, alcohol was a conduit through which power flowed in many pre-contact indigenous societies; indigenous drinkways (production, commerce, and consumption habits) were associated with communal ritual events and social prestige. Introduced to the Americas by Europeans, distillation profoundly altered the potency of alcoholic drinks for people who were accustomed to fermentation. Even as the social and cultural practices of alcohol consumption changed over time, alcohol continued to have political and economic implications in the colonial and national periods in Latin America. Fearing that inebriation bred disorder and recognizing that moonshining undercut their own revenues, colonial and national governments alike sought to regulate, if not control, the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. In nations as diverse as Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, and Guatemala, indigenous women came to play integral roles in the (oftentimes illicit) sale and production of alcohol. A cash nexus for moving labor and land and a crucial component of the economic system by which (often unscrupulous) labor brokers recruited workers, alcohol was a currency of local economies. As a commodity of local, national, and international significance, alcohol shaped the fate of nation-states.
People's class, ethnic, race, and gender identities all played into their access to alcohol. Although a person's choice of libation could define their position, some of the more fascinating histories of alcohol are punctuated with women and men who used alcohol to disrupt social conventions. Through the consumption of alcohol, rituals and ceremonies created and reconstituted community both within and across ethnic groups. Imbibing could also divide people. Even while they sipped their cognacs and brandies, elites portrayed indigenous people, the poor, and other marginalized people getting drunk on moonshine to discount and denigrate them. Often associated with (particularly violent) crime, alcohol was seen as a vice by many and excoriated during temperance movements. Yet defendants across Latin America took advantage of judicial systems that considered alcohol a mitigating circumstance in many crimes. As 20th-century evangelical sects that preached abstinence as the route to wealth and marital bliss grew to unprecedented numbers, traditional healers and biomedical practitioners continued to tout alcohol's medicinal value. In short, alcohol was a marker of social position and cultural identity, a crucial component in community and state building, and a commodity around which different cultural traditions, healing practices, and policing policies developed and evolved.
Benito Juárez and Liberalism
Guy Thomson
Benito Juárez was born on March 21, 1806, in San Pablo Guelatao, a Zapotec-speaking hamlet in Sierra de Ixtlán (renamed the Sierra de Juárez on July 30, 1857) in Mexico's southeastern state of Oaxaca. He died in the National Palace on July 18, 1872, as President of the Republic, an office he had occupied since January 1858, when, as President of the Supreme Court, he had succeeded the moderate Liberal Ignacio Comonfort, who had been driven into exile by a Conservative military revolt. During his fifteen years as president, a younger generation of Liberals, few of whom could remember the revolution of Independence (1808–1821), radically transformed Mexico's laws and institutions. In October 1855, when Juárez was the minister of justice in the newly formed Liberal government, he implemented the "Law of Restriction of Corporate Privileges," which is credited with setting in motion the wider Reform movement.
Between 1855 and 1860, in what was at the time called La Revolución but soon became known as La Reforma (the Reformation), Mexico moved from being a "Catholic Nation," in which many of the social and racial hierarchies and corporate privileges of colonial rule still held sway, to becoming a secular federal republic regulated by a liberal constitution based on the sovereignty of the people and equality before the law, reducing the legal immunities and special privileges of the army and the Catholic Church and establishing a single system of civil law that guaranteed a wide range of freedoms and social rights. In the face of a Conservative uprising in January 1858, which broadened into the Three Years' War (1858–1861), Liberals pressed ahead with an ambitious project of religious and civil disentailment (desamortización) that abolished corporate or communal property in favor of individual private ownership. The Liberal revolution was further strengthened in 1859 by the "Laws of Reform," which ordered the wholesale nationalization of Church wealth and the closure of nunneries and monasteries; barred Roman Catholicism, the national religion until 1857, along with any other religion, from external manifestations of the cult; and established a civil registry and a strict separation of church and state.
Conservatives, undeterred by their defeat in the Battle of Calpulalpan, in December 1860, and in spite of Juárez receiving his first full popular mandate in the elections of March 1861, redoubled their resistance to the Reform by encouraging Napoleon III's colonial ambitions, efforts that culminated in January 1862 in the occupation of Veracruz by forces from France, Britain, and Spain and the imposition of Maximilian Habsburg as emperor in April 1864. Juárez now led the defense of the Liberal republic on two fronts, and he retreated to northern Mexico, from where he coordinated resistance to the Empire.
Following the defeat of the Second Empire, which culminated in the execution of Maximilian alongside the principal Conservative generals at Querétaro on June 19, 1867, Juárez returned to the national capital wearing the twin laurels of Liberal law giver and savior of the nation. Although at his death, in 1872, he faced many enemies, especially in the Liberal camp, Juárez soon became enshrined as Liberal Mexico's undisputed founding father and moral guide, much in the mold of his contemporaries Giuseppe Garibaldi and Abraham Lincoln. Under his leadership, liberalism had become insolubly fused with patriotism in the republican victory over European monarchy—Mexico's second revolution of independence. La Reforma is recognized as a major watershed in Mexico's history on a par with the revolution of Independence from Spain and the Revolution of 1910–1917.
Border Wars in South America during the 19th Century
Peter V. N. Henderson
While Europeans basked in the glory of their so-called century of peace between the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815) and the onset of World War I (1914), Latin Americans knew no such luxury. Conflict became a way of life for Latin Americans attempting to construct nation-states. Liberals and Conservatives dueled with one another for political power, while caudillos (military strongmen) added their unique twisted logic to the political process. Historians have spilled considerable ink detailing these internal conflicts that complicated Latin America's struggle for effective state formation in the early national period but have paid much less attention to the external wars over disputed boundaries that involved every South American nation during the 19th century. As historian Robert Burr described it: boundary conflicts were the "congenital international disease of Spain's former colonies."
Brazil and the Paraguayan War: Conflicts and Interests
Francisco Doratioto
In 1863 and 1864, historical and political contradictions in the River Plate region led to civil war in Uruguay, creating tensions with neighboring nations in the region. The Brazilian government intervened both politically and militarily in Uruguay to address the interests of ranchers in its province of Rio Grande do Sul, to distract the attention of the Brazilian citizens from domestic problems, and to preserve the political influence of the Empire of Brazil on Uruguay. This action by the Empire clashed with the new Paraguayan policy of political interference in the River Plate region and resulted in the declaration of war against Brazil by Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López. This conflict broadened into the Paraguayan War.
Brazilian Independence: Change and Continuity
João Paulo Pimenta
Stemming from an accelerated and tumultuous process unleashed by European wars in the first decade of the 19th century, Brazil and Portugal split politically in 1822. In a sense, Brazil's independence reflects a number of peculiar characteristics within the context of the time due, in part, to three centuries of Portuguese colonization and to changes within the colonial system beginning in the second half of the 1700s. In other ways, however, Brazilian independence is linked to external events like the French Revolution, the independence of Haiti, and, above all, the wars of independence in Spanish America. The most profound and lasting consequences of the break with Portugal were the emergence of a Brazilian state and nation that until that point did not exist and that was consolidated over the course of the nineteenth century, as well as the nationalization of certain colonial institutions that were partially maintained. Historiography and national memory would later imbue independence with supreme importance as the foundational moment of the nation such that it has become a recurring theme in historical studies of Brazil.
Canary Island Immigration to the Hispanic Caribbean
Manuel Hernández González
The configuration of Canarian migration during the Conquest and colonization of the Spanish Caribbean was significantly influenced by its historic continuity, familial nature (with an elevated presence of women and children), dedication to agriculture, and contribution to the settlement of towns. This migration gave rise to quintessentially rural prototypes, such as the Cuban guajiro, linked to self-sustaining agriculture and tobacco; the Puerto Rican jíbaro, a coffee grower; and the Dominican montero or farmer from Cibao. All of these contributed a great many aspects of their speech, idiosyncrasies, and culture.
The migratory dynamic has evolved since the Conquest and includes such processes as Cuban tobacco colonization, the foundation of townships in Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico (in order to further analyze their adaptation to the economic boom of sugar plantations in Cuba and Puerto Rico), and the uprising of slaves in French Santo Domingo, as well as the cession of the Spanish portion of the island to this country in 1795. This event merits special focus, due to its great transcendence in terms of the signs of identity that emerged during the rebellion of the Canarian vegueros against the monopoly within the Havana context, and the defense of their configuration as a distinct people in San Carlos de Tenerife: processes that explain their response to 19th-century innovations in Cuba and Puerto Rico and to Dominican political avatars, as well as their attitudes toward criollismo and emancipation. Their singularities are reflected in the mass Cuban emigration that took place during the early decades of the 20th century.
Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial Art
Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Capoeira is a martial art that developed from combat games enslaved Africans brought to Brazil. It is systematically documented since the beginning of the 19th century in Rio de Janeiro and later in other port cities. During the 19th century capoeira was increasingly practiced by the poor free people, black and of mixed ancestry, and also by white immigrants. Capoeira gangs controlled their territories against intruders and allied with political parties until the Republican purge of 1890. Capoeira survived best in Bahia, where it remained more associated with other forms of Afro-Brazilian culture and acquired many of its features still extant in present-day capoeira. From the 1930s onward, capoeira masters such as Bimba and Pastinha modernized capoeira, leading to the emergence of the Regional and Angola styles. Bahian capoeiristas migrated to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in search of better opportunities during the 1950–1970s. There they and their students developed what later became known as "Contemporary capoeira" (Capoeira Contemporânea) which is the most practiced style today. Capoeira was and is practiced in various ways: as a friendly game or as a fight, as a combat sport, or as an Afro-Brazilian cultural activity. Since the 1980s, capoeira has undergone a process of globalization and is now practiced in many countries around the world. Capoeira is the only martial art of the African Diaspora that is known and practiced worldwide. Writing on Capoeira has rapidly grown in a number of disciplines, leading to the constitution of its own interdisciplinary field of study.
Caste Wars in Yucatán
Michele McArdle Stephens
The Caste Wars of the Yucatán tore apart the peninsula between 1847 and 1901. While the violence was not constant throughout the more than five decades between the start and conclusion of the war itself, the threat of rebel hostilities was ever present. Scholars have debated the origins of the war for many decades, with most recent academic treatments focusing on heavy tax burdens, poor working conditions for Yucatán's peasantry, and the loss of land that occurred during the second half of the century. Tensions between political leaders exacerbated relations with the Mayas in particular and the peasantry more generally. The emergence of the breakaway state of Chan Santa Cruz, in the southeastern part of Yucatán, allowed rebel forces to coalesce between 1850 and the early 1870s. Here, a "Speaking Cross" oracle gave direction to the rebellious Mayas, who crushed their enemies and exacted revenge against those who would not support their cause. The emergence of Porfirio Díaz as President of Mexico in 1876 led to a gradual "reconquest" of the areas held by the cruzob, or "people of the Cross." By 1901, the Mexican military ended the Caste Wars, though violent episodes still marred Yucatán until the early 1930s.
The Conjunction of the Lettered City and the Lettered Countryside in 19th-Century Mexico
William E. French
A persuasive literature has argued that the course of Latin American history from the arrival of Europeans to the present has been shaped to a large extent by a small but expanding group of literate bureaucrats, church officials, lawyers, and intellectuals, known as letrados, who made their lives in urban centers. Those marked by this combination of power, urban living, and the written word, an assemblage that Angel Rama has dubbed "the lettered city," utilized literature, history, the law, politics, and higher education to imagine the country into existence textually and to justify the hierarchies and inequalities that characterized their rule. Yet in Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America, writing has a long history in nonelite settings, a venue that, in recognition of this fact, has now been referred to as "the lettered countryside." Moreover, as understandings of a single literacy are giving way to a concern with "literacies," defined in the plural and operating in relationship rather than opposed to such things as orality and visuality, traces of literacy practices are being discovered in many locations. Foregrounding the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside is an attempt to bring these venues into conversation while doing away with the binary that associates literary with the city and orality with the rural.
Over the course of the 19th century in Mexico, although the written word was still pressed into the service of national imagining, a number of other characteristics shaped the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside. A struggle over secularization was one new development, as authority came increasingly to be invested in the written word itself rather than justified in religious terms. New forms of literacies emerged, especially those associated with the novel and other forms of publications, including newspapers, periodicals for and by women, and the penny press, creating new publics with distinct senses of themselves as communities of readers and listeners; oratory, public discussion of politics and other issues in various venues, and the phenomenon of indirect readers also brought together these two locations. As early as the 1840s, rural residents in some parts of the country had made writing their own, drafting political proclamations in which they defined such things as federalism in their own terms and asserted themselves in national politics. While elite diarists, both men and women, left traces of their emotional lives in various forms of life writing over the course of the entire period, ordinary people, including mine workers, agricultural laborers, and women who carried out household duties, wrote love letters to each other by the last third of the century, if not before. Composed and exchanged by means of cooperation, the use of intermediaries known as evangelistas, or by individuals with various degrees of facility in reading and writing, love letters served as privileged means of communicating the emotions they brought into being while often ending up as evidence in legal proceedings that continued to assert the prerogatives of the lettered city even as it came ever more intimately conjoined with the lettered countryside.
The Creole Circus and Popular Entertainment in 19th Century Argentina and Uruguay
William G. Acree Jr.
Theater in Argentina and Uruguay, which together compose the Plata river region of Latin America, has been a predominant form of entertainment since the 19th century. Theaters abound in Montevideo, while its sister city. Buenos Aires, has its own Broadway in the famed Corrientes Street. In the age of digital culture, the theater remains a mainstay of cultural life for Argentines and Uruguayans. The success of theater and the making of a theatergoing public in the region have their roots first in the variety of entertainment offered by hemispheric travelers to the region from the 1820s through the 1880s and then, most significantly, in shows put on by itinerant circus troupes in the countryside that only later filled urban theaters. From the mid-1880s through 1900 these circus troupes performed plays known as dramas criollos that dealt with rural traditions and explored issues of migration, social stratification, and tensions of economic modernization. These Creole dramas, like the narrative and poetic tales of gaucho heroes that informed them, became wildly successful, attracting spectators in the countryside and city alike, in venues ranging from makeshift tents to the most opulent theaters. They also became the namesake of the circo criollo, which referred as much to types of performers staging the tales as to the circus event where people flocked to see the new main attraction—the dramas. In effect, the Creole drama phenomenon expanded the presence of popular entertainment across the region and consolidated a theatergoing public. It also gave way to a new strand of modern popular culture in which storylines and characters reappeared in other media, and the impact of the Creole drama experience long outlived the spectacle itself.
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Holiday Gift Guide: Seven Acre Toys Matching Tattoo Memory Game
Have a small child you one day hope will follow in your tattoo footsteps but aren't sure how to plant the seed when they're so young? Or are you itching to do a long-term sociological experiment with family members' kids to see if they'll get tattooed when they turn 18, or maybe even make a homemade rig from that old VCR up in the attic before they're even of age? The Matching Tattoo Memory Game from Seven Acre Toys might be just the thing to get started.
Seven Acre Toys was founded by Chris and Hannah Blackburn (married master woodworkers turned toy company entrepreneurs) with the goal of creating better wooden toys that promote creativity and imagination. The Tattoo Game features six classic tattoo images, all drawn up by Chris himself (who recently visited Brian Mullen at Art Freak Tattoo in Providence for a full sleeve of dogwood flowers).
Here's more on the Seven Acre philosophy from Chris:
I tend to disagree and am hoping Drunk, Loud, and Arrogant will be the name of any future toy endeavors. Even better, Seven Acre Toys uses only FSC certified hardwoods that promote responsible forestry practices. Now, you'll have a clear conscience when you're one-upping all those other parents and their crappy non-green, made in China toys when you see them at the Knitting Factory's Mommy 'n' Me classes, or whatever the hell goes on there in the mornings.
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During the years following the Great Depression, brothers Harry and John Griffith left Kansas and boarded a westbound train seeking work in
California and hoping to take advantage of the promise the Golden State offered. By the 1950's, they had saved enough money to purchase land
and begin cultivating their first farm in California.
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Quite the blushing bride, isn't she?
The pearl was eventually returned to Spain upon Mary's death. This is astonishing, given her sister-successor's penchant for fine jewelry. You may recall Elizabeth was to later bid against the Queen Mother of France, Catherine de Medici, over the spoils left behind by Mary Queen of Scots. Some of those spoils included rare black muscades--pearls of a deep purple color. La Peregrina, in contrast, went back to Phlip "The Prudent" and became part of the Spanish queen consorts' collection, until she began the second leg of her eventful journey.
In 1808, Napoleon installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte as king of Spain after a successful invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. Throughout his reign, the elder Bonaparte accomplished little besides orchestrating his own abdication in an effort to return to the more salubrious throne of Naples. Finally deposed, he took with him part of the Spanish crown jewels, among them La Peregrina. Some of the jewels he sold while living in the United States. La Peregrina he willed to his nephew, Bonaparte III. The Emperor's wife Eugenie was a known connoisseur of pearls but during the couple's exile in England, they were forced to sell La Peregrina to James Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn, direct ancestor of both Diana, Princess of Wales and her sister-in-law Sarah, Duchess of York.
While in the duke's possession, La Peregrina did not have to go far to become completely lost to the world, at least temporarily. His wife Louisa Hamilton wore the pearl on a necklace. It was too heavy for the setting and fell out twice. Once in a sofa in Windsor Castle and the other at a ball in Buckingham Palace.
Can't you just imagine His Grace's remonstrations:
"What the devil? You've lost the blasted thing twice now."The Hamilton family eventually sold La Peregrina to Richard Burton, a movie and stage actor. I have it on very good authority that he was, and I'm quoting, "the best looking man that had come down the pike in a long time." $37,000 was the price the pearl fetched at Sotheby's and soon found its way, via Valentine's Day, into the possession of someone another authority has declared unequivocally to be the "most beautiful woman in the world." The pearl was as intrepid in Elizabeth Taylor's possession as it had been in Her Grace of Abercorn's. The actress lost it in the Burtons' suite at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Miraculously, it was found unharmed in her Pekinese dog's mouth. He was chewing on it like a bone!
"But my love," his wife replied with asperity, "it was you who insisted we buy it. And all because you wanted to impress the French empress."
"Fustian," he stammered. "The merest trumpery."
Here Ms. Taylor is wearing La Peregrina in the 1969 movie production, Anne of a Thousand Days.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Freshman Tara Feld earned league honors for the second week in a row following Yale's performance at a five-team meet held at Southern Connecticut State. Feld was named ECAC Rookie of the Week after leading the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish.
Feld, from Buffalo Grove, Ill., finished first among Yale
gymnasts and second overall in the all-around competition with a
score of 38.100, the highest score of her short career. Feld posted
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Major League Baseball All-Star summer charitable initiatives to benefit communities throughout New York City
More than $4 million planned toward 2013 MLB All-Star legacy projects
Major League Baseball and the New York Mets will host a series of community and charitable initiatives and projects leading up to the 84th MLB All-Star Game that will leave a lasting legacy benefiting communities throughout New York City and beyond. This MLB All-Star Summer community effort will support recovery efforts from Superstorm Sandy, impact the lives of underserved youth and local veterans, support cancer research, highlight the importance of environmental consciousness, and complement the midsummer celebration of Baseball and the New York Mets.
$4 Million Donation to Local and National Charities
MLB and the Mets plan to donate more than $4 million, through MLB Charities and the New York Mets Foundation, to MLB All-Star projects in the New York Metropolitan area and to support national charitable initiatives, including Stand Up To Cancer, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI), Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Make-A-Wish®, among others. Some of the local projects were identified in conjunction with the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. The funds will be raised from Gatorade All-Star Workout Day on Monday, July 15th.
MLB All-Star Summer Lasting Legacy Support
A significant portion of 2013 MLB All-Star Summer lasting legacy donations will be focused on communities throughout New York City to fund a number of worthy projects and causes, including the following:
- FirstStepNYC (PS/IS 41 in Brownsville, Brooklyn) - Funding for this project will help provide ongoing health, literacy and science activities in a newly renovated outdoor space for FirstStepNYC, a New York City mayoral initiative that draws from Educare, a visionary model of early childhood education. FirstStepNYC recognizes the value of investing in a child's first five years, when critical learning opportunities occur. The program will offer full-day, full-year comprehensive services focused on social-emotional, literacy and language, physical, and cognitive development for 116 children. The ultimate goal is to ensure vulnerable and at-risk children start off school ready, and remain on a path toward college and career readiness. The protected play-space for preschoolers and kindergarteners will be located within an interior courtyard at PS/IS 41, Francis White Elementary School in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The renovated courtyard will also feature a green area for gardening and science activities and a reading literacy corner. Scotts, the official lawn care company of Major League Baseball, will contribute to this project with product donations for the green area. The project will be assisted by Magical Builders, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that partners with community children, local and national businesses, and volunteers to renovate and improve the facilities of children's non-profit organizations across the country. Other key partners include the NYC Department of Education, SCO Family of Services, the Administration for Children's Services, and The Fund for Public Schools.
- Youth Field Renovations (Hinton Park - Flushing, Queens; and O'Donohue Park - Far Rockaway, Queens) - MLB All-Star Legacy funding will help renovate baseball fields owned by NYC Parks: Hinton Park and O'Donohue Park. O'Donohue Park, which is currently primarily used by the all-male private school Yeshiva Darchei Tova, will be made available, with assistance of local council members, to other youth leagues affected by Superstorm Sandy. Renovations to the two fields at Hinton Park, which will be made by Fields, Inc. in partnership with the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, will include new Astroturf; new home plates, bases and anchors, a portable pitching mound; repairs to fencing; and improvements to bleachers, walls and handrails. Hinton Park also will be the site of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2013 Jr. RBI Classic, an MLB event designed to provide hundreds of young baseball and softball players from Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities an opportunity to participate in MLB All-Star Week. O'Donohue Park renovations will include new infield mix, regrading of skinned infield and grass outfield to facilitate drainage, amending of existing soil, new sod, and a new irrigation system. The field also will feature new dugout fencing, backstop and refurbished outfield fencing and bleachers. O'Donohue Park will be renovated with assistance from Scotts.
- St. Albans Community Living Center (Jamaica, Queens) - With support from Rebuilding Together and Rebuilding Together NYC, the project will upgrade and improve the VA Harbor Healthcare System's (VANYHHS) St. Albans Community Living Center, which provides health care and support services to Veterans in the surrounding area and serves as a home and rehabilitation facility for many Veterans. The project will focus on upgrading an outdoor greenspace and recreation area, including accessibility modifications and the addition of an enclosed patio, providing residents independent, year-round access to a shared community space. Bank of America, the official bank of Major League Baseball, will support this project by committing its employees as volunteers and more than $75,000 in funding. Scotts will support this project with product donations. MLB is committed to supporting Veterans and their families, especially through the league's Welcome Back Veterans initiative (WelcomeBackVeterans.org).
- Boys & Girls Club Construction Project (South Queens Boys & Girls Club - Richmond Hill, Queens) - With assistance from Magical Builders, a new 3,000 square foot Teen Center and Café will be constructed. The Teen Center will include a technology lab, a college lab, classroom space, a lounge and a viewing balcony overlooking the new gymnasium. The center will serve high school students in the Metro Queens area, including Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Glendale, Howard Beach and Jamaica. The goal of the new Teen Center will be to enable teens who are often considered "at-risk" to become well-rounded, engaged citizens. The teens will participate in college tours, career seminars, job readiness training, dance classes and cultural trips. The new center is part of an overall $11 million capital improvement program being undertaken by the South Queens Boys & Girls Club, which will soon be renamed the "Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens." Additionally, Scotts will support this project's landscaping renovations with product donations.
- City Harvest - Funds will go toward supporting the organization's fleet of refrigerated trucks, which were damaged during Superstorm Sandy, and to helping feed New Yorkers in need. Founded in 1982, City Harvest is the world's first food rescue organization - dedicated to feeding the city's hungry men, women and children. In 2013, City Harvest will collect more than 42 million pounds of excess food and deliver it free of charge to some 600 community food programs throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
- Wheelchair Sports Federation - Major League Baseball and the Mets will donate 25 sports wheelchairs for adaptive athletes who participate in Wheelchair Sports Federation activities. Many potential and current adaptive athletes of all ages have financial issues due to their disability, and a special sports wheelchair is usually not covered by insurance and can cost up to $5,000.
Environmental Efforts
The 2013 MLB All-Star Summer will build on the continued commitment to the environment by Major League Baseball and the partnership with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) by incorporating a wide variety of environmentally-sensitive efforts, including:
- Raising awareness about the importance of "going green" via public service announcements in-stadium and environmental education materials online (MLB.com/green);
- Prioritizing recycling and composting of materials at events throughout MLB All-Star Week;
- Addressing energy and water usage through efficiency measures and by investing in renewable energy offsets and water restoration credits.
For more information, please visit allstargame.com or mets.com/2013.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults born between 1945 and 1965 should be screened once for hepatitis C, a government-backed panel recommended today.
The statement, from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), is stronger than draft recommendations published in November, which advised doctors to "consider offering screening" to members of the Baby Boom generation (see Reuters Health story of Nov 26, 2012 here: reut.rs/WsjtVA).
The final recommendations - which also call for screening people at high risk of hepatitis C, such as injection drug users - were published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The "moderate" net benefit of screening was supported by studies showing people with the chronic infection who take medicine and have a very low level of the virus in their blood - known as a sustained viral response - are at lower risk of liver cirrhosis, cancer and death.
"New evidence came out since the draft recommendation, which gave us greater confidence in the linkage between a sustained viral response and important outcomes," Dr. Albert Siu, co-vice chair of the task force, told Reuters Health.
The USPSTF also found that tools used to assess liver health and guide treatment are becoming safer, and that the harms of hepatitis C medication, including headaches and flu-like symptoms, are "small."
Hepatitis C is treated with a combination regimen of ribavirin and peginterferon alfa (also commonly known as Pegasys and Peg-Intron), to which newer drugs - known as boceprevir (Victrelis) and telaprevir (Incivek) - can be added.
Siu, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said the rate of hepatitis C among people born in 1945 through 1965 is about 4 percent, compared to about 1 percent among other Americans.
That difference is likely due to "risky behavior that was engaged in during this time," he said.
Many people living with hepatitis C are not aware they have the condition, the task force said, and may go years without showing symptoms.
Stanford University's Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, who worked on one of the studies that influenced the updated recommendation, told Reuters Health that screening middle-aged adults seems to be effective and cost-effective - but that there are other considerations as well.
"It's really important that when screening is rolled out, that we ensure that those people who screen positive have access to timely, high-quality treatment," he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/bN9DEh Annals of Internal Medicine, online June 24, 2013.


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Blanca and Ofelia giggled with their children on Thursday as they enjoyed a plate with the usual Thanksgiving fixings at the Salvation Army Glendale. The pair share an unfortunate bond: They are both victims of domestic violence and reside in a protective shelter.But despite their challenges, Blanca, 37, and Ofelia, 47, said they felt grateful for the help they have received from the nonprofit organization, especially the Thanksgiving dinner."This is great help for us because of the situation we are in right now," Ofelia said. "It lifts us up…We have to be mom and dad."Knowing that the organization supports them during their struggles, Blanca said, "gives them the strength to move forward."Blanca, Ofelia and their children were one group of more than 300 people who visited the organization for its annual Thanksgiving dinner. Some guests waited in line outside the organization's facility on the 300 block of West Windsor Road as early as 10 a.m. for dinner."This is more than just a meal, but it's also a chance for people to have a place to be, fellowship and to not be alone on this holiday," said Capt. Rio Ray, who heads up the organization.The dinner crowd was a mix between some familiar faces and new guests, including seniors and families, he said.The dinner, Ray said, was a perfect example of the community "coming together to make a difference in someone's life."Last year, the organization served dinner to 240 people. Still, they expected that number would increase this year, so they prepared more food this year."This is by far the biggest crowd we have ever had," Rick White, the organization's director of social services and volunteer coordinator, said Thursday.Fifty-eight volunteers catered to guests, who were treated to 23 turkeys —which were donated by the Glendale Hilton and Anoush Banquet Hall — and an array of side dishes, including stuffing, bread rolls and mashed potatoes and gravy. Dinner was topped off with a slice of pumpkin pie."It's a humbling experience to see the community come out on a holiday to serve the homeless and those who have nowhere else to go," White said. "What we are really trying to do is provide a human connection and a smile for people who have nowhere else to go."
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What % of americans get their 5 a day requirement? what % of kids?
According to government statistics based on the Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), about 24.3% of adults reported that they ate fruits and vegetables 5 or more times a day. However, the current recommendations for most adults are actually 7 to 13 servings a day, or 3 ½ to 6 ½ cups, depending on age, gender and activity level. According to the youth version of the survey, based on teens in grades 9 through 12, 20.1% consumed fruits and veggies 5 or more times a day. Recommendations for children are also based on age, gender and activity level, and range from 4 to 10 servings a day, or 2 – 5 cups. You can see how much you should be eating by clicking here


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Almost a couple of years after we learned that Anne Rice left Christianity, here are a couple of update interviews where she talks about how she feels about organized religion and her reasons for leaving Christianity.
In her original coming out statement, she declared:
Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out ... in the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being a Christian, Amen.
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She sounds and looks like a lady who has abandonment issues; she seeks a world in which she is not alone.
I wonder if one looks through a telescope and perceives the vast space and time and fources that keeps moons, planets, stars and galaxies moving in patterns or as chaos? I wonder if she looks through a microscope and sees all the elements that join together by natural forces to make the vast diversity of life. Putting together the images of very large and very small could be perceived by her or those who perceive god, whatever that is, as necessary for everything to work, not realizing that it is in the exploding star that cooks elements into forms that are reformed into other things, including humans and rabbits and everything else. Being one human being is not insignificant! it is full of wonder and needs no god to make all this happen.
"She sounds and looks like a lady who has abandonment issues; she seeks a world in which she is not alone."
She's cut herself off from all the communities (atheist and theist alike) she's been a part of though, …ironic, no?
Semantics. Nothing more. She's an artist. By default that makes her wishy washy.
"Semantics. Nothing more."
Do you mean, "quibbling semantics" in regards to what Christianity/Christian mean?
I think you are close,there-remember, Christians (at least of the Evangelical persuasion) don't consider themselves "religious" at all.Talk about semantics...so it wouldn't surprise me to hear someone announce they are leaving "Christianity", but that they still believe in the "Christ" part, just not the "ianity" part. -and if you feel yourself being pulled down that rabbit hole along with Alice, you are not alone...
Ha! that's not quibbling, that's just deception (self or otherwise).
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