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It was like a scene from The Brady Bunch. Well, before they went all Hollywood on us and recorded "It's a Sunshine Day." My family was in a church basement, watching my sons and several other neighborhood kids perform "Bring it On," a one-act play about dealing with a bully. The best part? You couldn't find any of the parents' fingerprints on the performance.
There were just nine kids in the play, and yet, 10 of my family members, including all four grandparents, filled up a third of the metal folding chairs that the kids had put out for their audience. It was, after all, my sons' very first performance, and my 10 year-old was the lead. My eight year-old had three parts: a kid named Gary, the narrator and God, whose job was to knock down the walls of Jericho, which were made up of cardboard bricks from the church preschool.
We were all very proud of them. We were also amazed. How did these kids memorize all those lines, songs and dance moves in just 20 hours of drama camp that week? And, how did they do it without personal acting coaches, voice lessons, choreographers and other trappings of modern parenting? After all, we live just 30 miles from Broadway. Certainly there's a retired musical director whose time is for sale. For the right price, I'll bet we could have hired someone who trained the children in the Broadway production of Mary Poppins. But we didn't.
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Instead, our kids learned from the church's very capable Director of Youth and Children's Ministries how to deliver their lines and when. My boys practiced at home with each other, occasionally reciting their lines at the breakfast table. Now and then, I heard them sing along with a CD of the play's songs that their teacher had given them. But that was it. I had little more to do with the play than ironing their shirts for their dress rehearsal. And that's exactly how it should have been.
In the church basement that night, I caught a glimpse of something I hadn't seen since my summer camp's production of Oliver! 30 years ago: Kids creating something wonderful without the "supervision" of parents. This wasn't about beefing up college applications for the Yale University School of Drama. It was about – dare I say it – having fun. My boys sure did, and so did their family.
Their drama camp teacher plans to put on another play during the school year, and we've already promised to sign up. But the retired Broadway directors, choreographers, acting coaches and voice teachers won't find jobs here. Won't it be challenging for them without all that quality supervision? Won't it be nothing more than a bunch of kids in a church basement putting on a play? Yes, just the way we like it. Bring it on.


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Have a blast at our classic History Detectives party—or customize your birthday experience with a Featured History Party ! All listed prices are for parties of up to 12 child guests (including the birthday child) and include planning and party staff, paper goods, balloons, birthday poster, goodie bags, pizza, juice boxes, bottled water, and cake. Each additional child guest (up to 25 maximum) is $35. Adult guests receive free Museum Admission and are welcome to join the celebration or enjoy the Museum galleries during the party.
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Don't Expect the VA to Improve Overnight
The acting VA secretary told Senators it will take years to correct the department's troubled course -- but an extra $17 billion could certainly speed things up. By Jordain Carney
For anyone still under the impression that the embattled Veterans Affairs Department will be able to turn itself around quickly, think again.
Instead, acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson told members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday that it would take years for the department to rights its wrongs.
"I believe in as little as two years the conversation can change. That the VA can be the trusted provider for care and benefits," Gibson said.
Gibson ticked off a list of issues currently facing the VA: a culture of intimidation, an overfocus on metrics, and a lack of clinical staff and accountability. To help overcome these challenges, the VA will request an additional $17.6 billion for fiscal years 2014 through 2017 to help fill gaps in medical care and IT and add new VA facilities. It would also include the money to hire an additional 10,000 clinical staff, including 1,500 physicians.
"We haven't historically managed to requirements, we've managed to a budget number," he said. "... I will not hold back on asking for resources. … [But] I don't want a penny in there that we couldn't justify."
The VA's budget has grown in recent years from $100 billion in 2009 to $154 billion in 2014. But veteran advocates have long criticized what they view as an entrenched practice within VA leadership to be hesitant to ask for additional resources.
And senators seemed to acknowledge that the department requires more than a short-term fix. Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders warned: "While it's important we put out the current fire, unless we effectively deal with the long-term capacity problems, we'll be back here year after year."
But how senators will move forward—and if more money is needed–remains unclear.
"This committee has been, I think, very, very generous to the VA," said Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb. "... It was almost like we would salute when [former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki] said what he needed, and out the door he would go with more money."
Johanns said that instead of more money, the VA needs more competition from private care.
Gibson's appearance before the committee comes as the VA has been embroiled in scandal in recent months from allegations that staffers within the VA's health care agency cooked the books on how long veterans waited before they received a medical appointment. The VA Inspector General is still investigating approximately 70 VA locations. Gibson said the investigations are scheduled to wrap up by mid-August.
That scandal has spread in recent weeks to allegations of retaliation against whistleblowers and suspicious data in the VA's disability claims process.
"The culture that has developed at VA and the lack of management accountability is reprehensible. It will not be tolerated," said Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina.
Members of a conference committee are now trying to reach an agreement on legislation that would expand veterans' access to non-VA care to make sure more veterans get timely access to care.
Though reforming the VA has bipartisan support, lawmakers are currently squabbling over how much the legislation should cost. Sanders—echoing a broad statement this week from House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller—said he believes the committee can "reach an agreement very soon."
The CBO released a revised estimate last week on how much the Senate's VA bill would cost. The organization said the legislation would cost $38 billion a year—down from its preliminary estimate of $50 billion.
Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said he is "very concerned that this conference committee will end up taking a step backward for veterans' health care. … We need to make sure we step up to the plate, give them the resources they need, and then hold them accountable."
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It's nearly November and most NFL teams are still an inconsistent mess, which makes it hard for predictions, but good for weekly coverage.
This Week's Articles
Captain Comeback Week 7: Old vs. New, Eli Manning Upstages RGIII – Cold, Hard Football Facts
Random fact: all six quarterbacks to lead a game-winning drive this week are over the age of 30, which hasn't happened since at least 1995. Yep. Another record for Eli Manning, CBS changes Tom Brady's stats a week after I pointed out their interesting Week 6 graphic, and a list of Matt Hasselbeck's game-winning/game-tying TD passes, which oddly slant heavily towards his brief time in Tennessee.
Eli Manning Has New York Giants Soaring Under the Radar Again – Bleacher Report
I rarely write a puff piece, but if I do, it's going to have a lot of interesting data. This is on Eli Manning and the New York Giants, making note of how they have started 5-2 or better for nine straight seasons, tying the NFL record set by Dallas (1975-83).
I also took a step in the direction of quantifying the difficulty associated with fourth quarter comebacks by looking at Eli Manning's 23 comeback wins and using win probability. Expect more on this in the future.
Following a Legend: Andrew Luck Week 7 vs. Cleveland Browns – Colts Authority
Luck had a career-low 35 drop backs this week, but the Colts went into a shell again after taking a 17-13 lead in the third quarter. Find out why Luck needs more shotgun in his diet.
Just What Is Going On With the AFC? – NBC Sports
The 2012 season will be the year we remember the NFC regaining control of the NFL as the dominant conference. NFC teams are 19-9 against the AFC so far this year, and have won three straight Super Bowls. Find out how they've swung back control, and a breakdown of all 16 AFC teams into their respectful tiers of quality.
The Thinking Man's Guide: NFL Week 8 Predictions – Bleacher Report
This week's previews include a look at Dick LeBeau's 14-1 record vs. rookie quarterbacks since 2004, how impressive Andy Reid's 13-0 record after a bye week really is, Josh Freeman's lost comeback magic (which he did not need on Thursday), and expecting a career day statistically from Andrew Luck in Tennessee. Also the shortest Broncos/Saints preview out there.
More Scam than Superman: Cam Newton is NFL's Worst QB in the Clutch – Cold, Hard Football Facts
Cam Newton can at least argue he is consistent, as his stats are very similar to this point last year, as is the 1-5 record. The other constant trend is his inability to close games at a historic rate, producing a 1-12 (.077) record at fourth quarter comeback opportunities. Here are the worst records I have been able to find so far (min. 10 attempts):
You cannot pretend to be Superman if all you ever do in the face of adversity is wilt under the pressure.
2012 NFL Week 8 Predictions
Why is it so hard to trust our gut? I knew Tampa Bay had the on-field advantages, but basically picked Minnesota since they had the better record and were the home team. 0-1 to start the week, which I have a feeling won't be pretty after going 12-1 last week.
Winners in bold:
- Panthers at Bears
- Chargers at Browns
- Seahawks at Lions
- Jaguars at Packers
- Dolphins at Jets
- Falcons at Eagles
- Redskins at Steelers
- Patriots at Rams
- Colts at Titans
- Raiders at Chiefs
- Giants at Cowboys
- Saints at Broncos
- 49ers at Cardinals
Bah, that's a lot of road teams. Lions, Eagles and Cardinals win at home, is what my gut says, and I'm not listening again.
Season results:
- Week 1: 12-4
- Week 2: 11-5
- Week 3: 4-12
- Week 4: 10-5
- Week 5: 10-4
- Week 6: 5-9
- Week 7: 12-1
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I have come to the end of the road - I can not begin to grasp the extent of this White House email debacle. Well, it was fun when Al Gore had his problems with email, so now we can watch the other side enjoy themselves.
The Anon Lib has a good Karl Rove - Valerie Plame connection:
What's particularly preposterous about this explanation is that the White House's dual email system was almost surely the subject of intense discussion in early 2004, when emails were subpoenaed in connection with the CIA leak investigation. In fact, the seemingly inexplicable delay in turning over the most discussed piece of evidence in that case, Karl Rove's email to Stephen Hadley, makes a lot more sense now that we know Rove does 95% of his email on a separate RNC account. This would also explain Patrick Fitzgerald's apparent assertion that "many emails from Cheney's office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy."
Per Dan Froomkin, there is a 2004 tie-in:
Until 2004, all e-mail on RNC accounts was routinely deleted after 30 days. Since 2004, White House staffers using those accounts have been able to save their e-mail indefinitely -- but have also been able to delete whatever they felt like deleting. By comparison, the White House e-mail system preserves absolutely everything forever, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.
The timing and motivation of the 2004 switch is not explained - the obvious non-Plame guess would be that in 2004 the re-election effort ramped up and folks realized there was a modest records preservation issue in play. The obvious Plame guess (obviously) is that the inability to comply with the Fitzgerald document requests produced red faces and a flurry of memos.
Clown show. Expletive deleted clown show. Someone ought to ask Fitzgerald where his emails came from, not that he will say.
MORE: I am not seeing any spine-stiffening reaction from the right at Memeorandum, but do feel free to leave a link to anything that might help talk me off the window ledge here. (No hurry - the rain sort of suits my mood, and I am on the first floor).
GOOD POINT! Fred Thompson wouldn't lose emails! Neither would Rudy. Hillary, OTOH, will lose anything not nailed down. Hmm, I would feel even better if Bush had campaigned on a promise to maintain deceit and denial in the White House. Bu we are looking forward!


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Pros: Clear and durable adhesive protection for your 5G iPod's front and rear surfaces, importantly including complete Click Wheel protection. Three pieces can be used individually or together. When properly applied to a clean iPod, looks invisible on iPod's screen.
Cons: No protection for iPod's top, bottom, or sides, doesn't completely cover iPod's back edges. Not cheap, though mitigated by superior quality and durability.
Only weeks after Apple released the iPod nano in September, Japanese case and sticker specialist Power Support released an updated version of its Crystal Film Cover Set (iLounge rating: B+), durable clear stickers that protect the iPod's entire face, and part of its back. Now the company is doing the same for the fifth-generation iPod ($15), with only one small difference: the size of the stickers.
Each Crystal Film Set includes a total of three stickers: a "3-D" Click Wheel protector that is contoured to properly cover the iPod's controls, a face protector that covers the rest of the iPod's flat front surface, and a back protector that covers the majority – but not the entirety – of the 5G's metallic rear. The added front and rear protection is an evolution of the cheaper Film Sets Power Support has sold for earlier iPods, which contain control and screen protection, but nothing for an iPod's body. Now you can apply all three stickers, or only the one or two you prefer, depending on what portion of your iPod you want to scratch-proof, or what is otherwise exposed inside of your favorite case.
To the extent that these parts of the iPod are covered, they're covered wonderfully: as with past Crystal products from Power Support, you will hardly know that they're on most of the iPod when properly installed, and the stickers are durable and scratch-proof. Video on the 5G iPod's covered screen is as close to perfect as we've seen, and the residual portions of the iPod's front and rear surfaces are similarly clean – far closer to the 'invisibility' promised but not delivered by InvisibleShields.
The only portions that look different from a factory-fresh iPod are the Click Wheel's surface, which takes on a glossy appearance when covered, and improperly sealed parts of the iPod, which will show small air bubbles. Both of these differences are, from our perspective, trivial: having scratched our Click Wheels' glossy center buttons, and seen so many past iPod cases without control protection, Power Support's 3-D Wheel Film has traditionally been the first sticker we've wanted to apply, and it's still better than the protectors we've seen to date from other companies. Similarly, the air bubbles are easy to avoid or remove: we strongly recommend that you make sure your iPod's face is truly (and we mean truly) clean and dust-free before application, then gently work out the few air bubbles that appear. On our first application, the only bubbles that remained were from dust particles (seen in our photos below); repositioning of the sticker was fairly easy, as no gooey adhesive is used to attach the Film to your iPod. As with other stickers we've tried, keeping dust out during application was the biggest challenge.
Given that the Film offers clean face and rear protection, why doesn't it earn our highest recommendation? As with the nano version, there are two obvious reasons. First, its coverage is not as comprehensive as recently released competitors such as InvisibleShield; the iPod's back is not fully covered around the edges, and there's no protection for its top, bottom, or sides. Second, there's the price. We were more enthusiastic about recommending past, cheaper versions of Crystal Film, because they were simple and highly useful add-ons for cases that lacked screen and/or Click Wheel protection. But a lot has changed over the last year. Power Support's prices for Crystal Film have gone up, and the case market has become more competitive and sophisticated. With the releases of the iPod nano and 5G, many companies now integrate Click Wheel and screen guards into their cases, and still sell them for reasonable prices. Marware's Sport Grip for iPod nano, as just one example, includes screen and Click Wheel protective film with a rubber case for under $10. Even Power Support sells an iPod nano Crystal Jacket for $20, including the complete FIlm set. In that context, is $15 really a reasonable price for nano or 5G stickers alone?
You'll need to decide what best suits your usage model: if you're 'not a case person,' yet still want to protect the most visible portions of your iPod without interfering with its screen visibility, Crystal Film is a solid alternative. Assuming you don't need side, top or bottom protection, and don't mind the price, you'll find it to be both durable and amongst the least noticeable protective stickers out there. But if you're going to buy a case anyway, you may well find that adequate screen and control protection is now included in the package for a more reasonable overall price.
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Company and Price
Company: Power Support
Website: www.PowerSupportUSA.com
Model: Crystal Film Cover Set for iPod 5G
Price: $15.00
Compatible: iPod 5G (with video)


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In which we memorialize the dumbest punditry connected to the schoolhouse massacre in Connecticut by measuring it against the thoughts of Megan McArdle, who believes that human-wave attacks by toddlers would have been the best solution.
We find ourselves at The National Review, which just yesterday was panhandling the better neighborhoods for people to pay the legal fees it's going to incur because slandering climate scientists can be expensive. Here we have Charlotte Allen, who thinks the basic problem was that there weren't enough manly men around Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.
There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K-6 school), all the personnel - the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the "reading specialist" - were female. There didn't even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza's knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school's public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak - but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.
OK. I've thought about it. THEY'D ALL BE DEAD NOW, TOO.
Give Allen credit. At least she's upped the age for the schoolchildren who should be used for suicide missions against armored gunmen into the pre-adolescent range. (She also seems to be under the mistaken conclusion that former offensive tackles are bulletproof.) More to the point, the evidence says that Victoria Soto, who was buried today, put herself between the gunman and her students, just the way that manly-man Secret Service dudes are supposed to do in case someone takes a pop at the president.
American conservatism has been rendered a parody of a burlesque of a puppet show. And Charlotte Allen should be shunned by decent people. Hell, people who think like this should be shunned by bacteria.
Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children.


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The unexpected cost of going public
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For many entrepreneurs struggling to secure funding, an initial public offering is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In one swoop financial concerns are cast aside, the fledgling venture can grow into the company it was always meant to be and the young founder becomes a millionaire overnight.
While all this may well be true, research from Shai Bernstein, an assistant professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business has found that there is a price to pay. Those technology companies that do go public see their innovation slow down and in time they become less daring and less ambitious with their in-house research. In fact Prof Bernstein finds that newly public technology companies become more reliant on outsourcing their technology.
In an analysis of the patent data of almost 2,000 companies Prof Bernstein has discovered that after a technology company goes public it is far more likely that there will be a brain drain with the leading inventors more likely to leave the company. Those that remain show a steep decline in "innovation quality".
Prof Bernstein compared those companies that completed a public offering with those that began the process but then withdrew their IPO registrations. He discovered that the quality of patents (measured by how often they were cited) declined by 40 per cent over a five-year period after the companies went public. For those companies that remained in private hands the quality of their patents remained the same.
Prof Bernstein suggests one reason for the steep decline in innovation in public companies may be that when companies do go public, their top innovators have often become millionaires overnight and have no incentive to remain at the company. Management incentives may also be different following an IPO, with board members becoming more cautious because they face market pressures and concerns about takeovers.
Does going public affect innovation? can be read at Stanford GSB's research paper series.
● Advertising is an expensive business. But if companies want to ensure that they are spending their money wisely they could do well to pay attention to research from Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the marketing department at Harvard Business School.
Prof Teixeira and colleagues set out to discover if advertisers were striking the right balance when advertising – how much entertainment should be included and how much should be brand promotion?
In partnership with MIT Media Lab and Affectiva – which has developed an online facial tracking system for testing advertising – Prof Teixeira randomly selected 275 people and showed them a sample of 82 advertisements for 30 brands. While they watched the advertisements, webcams using special software tracked every individual's facial expressions, noting changes – for example, what made them smile or laugh. Measuring these changes then allowed the team to assess what advertisements were perceived to be interesting.
The academic team discovered that while some entertainment was important in securing a viewer's interest too much entertainment led to a loss of interest and reduced the viewer's link to the brand.
Viewers do need to associate a brand with fun, Prof Teixeira says, but he warns advertisers that fun is not enough. "You have to show the brand and then entertain. That's when the conditioning occurs. The other way around – entertain then brand – doesn't work as well."
"Why, when and how much to entertain consumers in advertisements? A web-based facial tracking study" will be published shortly.


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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — the most recent arrival to Mars orbit — carries what is arguably the greatest camera ever sent beyond Earth orbit. Called HiRISE, it can capture color images with resolutions as high as 25 centimeters per pixel. Here's a circumstance when using Imperial units makes sense: that is just about one foot. Look at a full-resolution HiRISE photo, and each pixel covers about exactly the amount of space that your feet would span if you were standing on the surface of Mars.
To get a sense of how great these images can be, check out the HiRISE view of Curiosity landing, or these gorgeous lava swirls, or a favorite Martian feature called White Rock, or north polar avalanches in action.
There's one more thing that makes HiRISE special. Unlike any of the other spacecraft cameras I've talked about so far on nerdist.com, HiRISE is one that you, yes, you, can command to take photos of your chosen spots on Mars. Why? How?
Because of its extremely high resolution, HiRISE images only cover very small areas, and there's no way that the spacecraft will live long enough for HiRISE to photograph all of Mars. In fact, it'll just cover a few percent of the surface. So you have to be choosy, and the HiRISE team has invited the public to participate in the choices. The program is called HiWish, and it's accessible to professionals and amateurs, grownups and kids. I've made 10 or so requests, and gotten five back. Here's my most recent HiWish image:
Anybody can make a HiWish, though to be successful, you have to do a little homework. Here's the HiWish website. A while ago I wrote a post explaining how the process works. In brief: the HiWish website shows you a map of Mars, and when you zoom in enough, they show you red boxes outlining areas where HiRISE images have already been taken. They also show you white boxes, which are other people's HiWish targets. Clicking anywhere on the map plunks down a new white box; that's all you have to do to select the area you want to photograph.
But you're not quite done yet. The HiRISE team also wants to know why you think that's a good spot. "It looks cool" is not a particularly good reason, nor is "there's an alien base there." They want a scientific justification. You may say: but I'm not a scientist.
Oh yes, you are!
Are you curious? Do you want to know why things happen? Do you investigate things you're curious about? You're a scientist.
Here are short versions of some of the explanations I've used when I make HiWish requests:
- This feature looks like a very fresh crater.
- The wall of this crater seems to have exposed layers.
- There are lots of HiRISE images covering the western parts of this canyon, but the coverage is sparse in the east. This image could be used to compare to the other ones. Also, other images in this area are just gorgeous, and I want to see more.
- An earlier image in this spot shows a crater that formed in 2006. I would like a second photo to see if the crater ejecta has faded.
- There is a HiRISE image of this spot that shows cool topography. I want a second image of the same spot from a different angle so we can see it in 3D.
One thing that I've found works very well is to start by browsing lower-resolution pictures. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has another camera, the Context Camera (or CTX), which takes images at lower resolution than HiRISE (6 meters per pixel). Each CTX image is huge, so over the course of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's six-plus years at Mars, CTX has wallpapered the majority of the planet with images already. Below the HiWish map interface, you will find a checkbox next to an orange word, "CTX". Click that and the map will show you the footprints of CTX images. Clicking on each orange Google Map pushpin will open up a text balloon that contains a link to a web page where you can browse that image. If you see something really cool-looking in a CTX image, but the CTX image doesn't have quite enough detail for your taste, that's a good spot for a HiWish request. Explain what you see in the CTX image to justify the HiWish request.
I've talked with Alfred McEwen (the HiRISE principal investigator) about this program, and he's actually been disappointed with how few people are using it. When I try to get people to use it, they usually tell me they don't want to try because they don't figure they can succeed. That's just laziness. This isn't a lottery; If you do better than clicking randomly, and write any kind of justification at all, you have a good chance of your choice being accepted. Go try it out!


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Where You'll Find Bed Bugs in Boston
They hide during the day and feed at night. They're looking for warmth (preferably, between your sheets). They want your blood.
Part infestation and part psychological torture, Boston has seen a surge in bed bugs in the past 10 to 15 years, according to city inspection officials.
Although the Allston-Brighton neighborhood a reputation for used furniture that bed bugs might inhabit (hence "Allston Christmas''), it's not the only neighborhood where residents should take precautions against these pests.
According to John Meaney, Assistant Commissioner of Boston's Inspectional Services Department, bed bugs have spread to every neigborhood of the city as more and more students (who move the most often) move here and adopt used beds and other furniture off of the streets.
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A common misconception about bed bugs is that their presence is tied to uncleanliness. Bed bugs simply rely on their human hosts to move them, either on used furniture, luggage, clothing, and used mattresses, for instance. "It doesn't mean the person isn't clean,'' said Meaney.
Bed bugs live and breed in the dark crevices of furniture, usually the seams of mattresses, crevices in box springs, and the backsides of headboards, giving them their name. But they can also hide out behind pictures, under old wallpaper, and under floor baseboards.
In Boston on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, the Inspectional Services Department began making their rounds of streets in Boston, tagging furniture, mattresses, and carpets left on streets and yards with orange "Beware of Bed Bugs'' sticker tags. These tags not only warn area residents to leave the used furniture alone, but also alert landlords to dispose of the tagged items before a new tenant carries them right back into the residence. Saturday and Sunday the inspector officials will be out in full force, citing illegal dumping, but also tagging suspect items as the mayhem of movers clean out furniture and get ready for September 1.
Inspectors will also be speaking to tenants they see moving out, not only to interview them about bed bugs, but to inquire about the heat, sanitation, and maintenance of the residence they're leaving.
"We want to make sure what needs to be done is done before people move in, because once they do and they realize there are bed bugs or other pests, they aren't happy,'' said Meaney.
Although bed bugs aren't known to transmit diseases, according to the CDC, the pests can cause severe allergic reactions to their bites that range from a small bite mark to anaphylaxis. The bites can also cause skin infections, but more than likely, the pests actually drive people crazy. Anxiety, insomnia, as well as other physical reactions to emotional stress are common because getting rid of bed bugs is a such costly and frustrating process.
There are 22 U.S. states and one territory with laws addressing bedbugs. Massachusetts is not one of them, but landlords in Boston are responsible to make sure the apartments are pest and rodent-free. Boston Inspectional Services holds the cases and complaints of bed bugs open for six months since removing them takes repeated treatments and monitoring.
Are you worried that your apartment might have bed bugs? Report the complaint to the City of Boston Inspectional Services Department.
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NEW: U.S. Embassy condemns "senseless targeting" of Christians and other Iraqis
In Iraq, a car bomb explodes outside a church after Christmas services; another targets market
Taliban claim responsibility for the embassy attack in Kabul, Afghanistan
Many Christians have fled Iraq over the past decade, report says
Two car bombs targeting Christians killed at least 38 people in southern Baghdad on Christmas.
In Afghanistan, two rounds of "indirect fire" hit the U.S. Embassy compound in Kabul, but no one was hurt.
The incidents highlight the security challenges with which both Iraq and Afghanistan are grappling.
Both countries have had a heavy U.S. military presence until recently.
The departure of U.S. forces from Iraq has done little to curb the near-daily cycle of violence. In Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials are working on an important security pact to outline the future of American troops in Afghanistan.
18 dead in Christmas Day attacks near Iraq churches
Iraq attacks
In Iraq, a car bomb exploded outside a church in southern Baghdad just as worshipers were leaving a Christmas Day service, killing many. In another attack Wednesday, a car bomb went off at an outdoor market where many Christians shop, police said.
Altogether, at least 38 people were killed and some 70 others were wounded, the Interior Ministry said. The bomb outside the church killed 27 and wounded 56. The market attack left 11 dead and 14 wounded.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad condemned the attacks – in the Dora area of Baghdad – targeting "Christians celebrating Christmas."
"The Christian community in Iraq has suffered deliberate and senseless targeting by terrorists for many years, as have many other innocent Iraqis. The United States abhors all such attacks and is committed to its partnership with the Government of Iraq to combat the scourge of terrorism," according to a statement released by the embassy.
Iraq has experienced an uptick in sectarian violence this year as tensions simmer between the disaffected minority Sunni community and the Shiites, who dominate the government.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom notes that many people in small religious minority communities in Iraq, including Christians, have fled the country over the last decade and those that remain are "particularly vulnerable," facing "discrimination, marginalization, and neglect."
Sectarian warfare, especially between Sunnis and Shiites, raged during the Iraq War. Half or more of the pre-2003 Iraqi Christian community is thought to have left Iraq, the commission said in its 2013 annual report.
In 2003, there were thought to be 800,000 to 1.4 million Chaldean Catholics, Assyrian Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East members, Syriac Catholics and Orthodox, Armenian Catholics and Orthodox, Protestants and evangelicals in the country, the group said.
Now, according to community leaders, the estimated number of Christians stands at around 500,000, the report said.
Afghanistan attack
Two rounds of "indirect fire" hit the U.S. Embassy compound in Kabul, the embassy said. No one was injured.
"At approximately 6:40 local time in Kabul, approximately two rounds of indirect fire impacted the U.S. Embassy compound. All Americans are accounted for and no injuries were sustained," the embassy said in a statement Wednesday. "The Embassy continues to investigate the attack."
The embassy did not elaborate on what kind of rounds were fired, or where in the compound they landed.
A claim of responsibility was posted on the Taliban's official website. The group said it fired missiles at the U.S. Embassy and the main base of NATO, which leads the military coalition known as the International Security Assistance Force.
The incident comes at a pivotal time in U.S.-Afghan relations. The two countries are working on an important security pact. The deal will lay out the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014 when the NATO-led force of some 80,000 troops is scheduled to leave.
This month, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was in Afghanistan and said the security pact will be agreed upon despite a failure so far to forge a deal.
CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Joe Sterling contributed to this report.


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10:33--Final thoughts...No real product news here today. It was rumored that Apple might leave MacWorld with a whimper, and it seems to be so. Schiller tried his best, but if Jobs won't give up his best material--iPhones, new computer platforms, etc.--it's hard to give a compelling keynote. Now for us at Pop Mechanics, it's straight to the airport to catch a plane to Vegas for CES. See you there!
10:32--That's definitely it, cause they just brought out Tony Bennett "The Best Is Yet To Come." Well...it won't be coming at next year's MacWorld, cause this was the last one.
10:29--Also, iPhones will be able to download songs over 3G.
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10:26--New pricing, three tiers: 69 cents, 99 cents, $1.29. Starting today, 8 million songs DRM free on iTunes plus. By the end of the quarter, all songs will be DRM free. Seems like it will require upgrading songs to iTunes plus. Hmm...how much will that cost?
10:26--No, wait, it's about iTunes. First, the tooting of the horns. 6 Billion songs sold. 75 million accounts.
10:25--No Mac Mini? Oh wait, One last thing...
10:24--Price stays the same $2799. Ships later this month. This is really a pretty low-volume notebook for them, strictly for pros who'll pay. If this is the biggest launch here, that's pretty small potatoes.
10:19--Battery is Lithium Polymer. Can recharge up to 1000 times.
10:15--New battery is integrated (boo!), but lasts up to 8hrs (yay!)
10:13--Not much new here, same glass trackpad from existing MacBooks.
10:12--6.6 pounds. Pretty light for such a notebook. You can also pay $50 for anti-glare.
10:10--One more thing is the new 17-in. MacBook Pro. Has same design and structure of new smaller MacBooks.
10:09--Still talking about iWork.com. Feeble applause.
10:05--Now Schiller is showing off the web-based functions of iWork, iWork.com. Seems like its screaming for a connection to MobileMe. Actually, seems sort of a confusing overlap with MobileMe.
10:00--Oh lord, he's describing databases. I think I hear snoring.
9:58--I'm sort of surprised how much of this presentation is about software. I'm also surprised that the audience isn't more restless. These folks want new, cool products.
9:53--New app for iPhone called Keynote Remote. Pretty slick way to get iPhone pro users to switch to Keynote. Costs 99 cents. Still, though, fighting Microsoft Office is an uphill battle in the corporate world. Most professionals like the idea that they can carry a memory key with a presentation, carry it to any office in the world, plug it into a laptop and know that that laptop has PowerPoint on it.
9:50--Now Schiller is showing off iWork. Keynote has new features that are largely based around transitions. One of the text transitions gives a hat tip to Obama. "Read what you want into it," says Schiller.
9:50--iLife 09 will be $80.
9:45--Holy revenue generator, Batman! Artist Lessons cost $4.99! There's a demo from guitar legend John Fogarty Fogerty from CCR, anybody in this audience remember him?
9:43--Schiller is showing off one last app, GarageBand 09. Main new feature is called learn to play, which shows you how to play instruments such as guitar, piano, etc. Also a few artists, such as Sting and Norah Jones will help teach you how to play their songs.
9:35--Makes one wonder what the difference will be between iMovie and Apple's semi-pro software FinalCut Express.
9:34--Ah ha! There introducing a new iMovie. A new advanced editing timeline, extra features such as greenscreen, integrated maps for travel videos, video stabilization skimming and separate audio editing.
9:27--Still demoing iPhoto 09. Isn't there any other software in iLife?
9:22--Demoing how iPhoto works on his Mac. Organizational logic is pretty good. But I've got to say that most of this functionality is already available using free software. Obviously, this is free for anyone who gets a new Mac, but I'm not sure it's worth purchasing the software as an upgrade.
9:17--Also, iPhoto is introducing geotagging of photos, plotting them on maps as well. They're calling it Places. Hey! Places and Faces!
Schiller says that iPhoto will also have auto export to Facebook and Flickr. All the geo and personal data will be uploaded with it. Hmmm…privacy concerns?
9:10--New version of iPhoto in iLife will include Face Detection and Face Recognition, allowing you to automatically recognize similar photos of people you photograph a lot. Google introduced this sort of feature in Picassa last fall.
9:08--Phil Schiller just came to stage. Expresses thanks for everyone showing up. How humble. Claims that it's incredibly exciting time at Apple. He's giving the standard startoff speech about how business at Apple is doing. He's running down a list of new international stores.
Says today is all about the Mac. Last year was biggest in company for Mac--9.7 million Macs. Lot's of gee shucks aren't we a great company stuff from Schiller.
Says he's got three things to talk about. First, iLife 09, no surprise there.
9:01 --Okay, we're in the keynote, and typical cool kid music is playing—must be a sign I'm getting older that I can't ID any of it this year. Outside, there were no signs hinting at any new products, just a big banner proclaiming that Macs are now the greenest laptops on the market.
8:45--This is Senior Tech Editor Glenn Derene, live from MacWorld 2009, Apple's last swing at this event. I'm sitting in the press lobby at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, waiting for the keynote to open, and it's like the low expectations for this event are a news story in itself. Yesterday, Apple's CEO, the mighty Steve Jobs, had to issue a public letter explaining his absence from this keynote, dismissing rumors that the pancreatic cancer which he has battled for years had returned. It turns out that he did, indeed, bow out for health reasons, but, thankfully for him (and Apple), his dramatic weight loss of late is due to a hormonal imbalance, which he is currently undergoing treatment for. In his letter, Jobs sounded positively annoyed at having to explain his personal health issues, but it seems that so long as his company's stock rises and falls with his pulse, his health is accountable to the public.
In a few minutes, Philip Schiller, Apple's VP of product marketing, will take the stage instead, and the rumor mill of what's to be announced here couldn't be emptier—updates to iLife and iWork and maybe a new Mac Mini. But we reserve the right to be pleasantly surprised.
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We are victims of Government-Sponsored Study Inflation. In 2001 a study for the Scottish Executive argued that drink cost the country about £1bn a year; in 2004 another report estimated the cost at £1.1bn before, in 2007, yet another claimed that hangovers and bar-room brawls and liver disease and all the rest of it cost £2.25bn. Chicken-feed in comparison to this year's numbers.So here too we can suppose that you can do the sums any way you please and that, consequently, it probably helps to decide what you want the result to be before you begin the whole sorry process.
The hundreds of millions of pounds it says are lost through "pain" and "grief" is nowhere balanced by the equally arbitrary figures once could concoct for all the (life-long!) joy and contentment alcohol brings. To say nothing of its positive impact on the birth-rate. (Happy, boozy pregnancies almost certainly outnumber booze-related premature deaths. This must be worth billions in the pro-drink column. These are the workers of the future!)Factor in the social cohesion - to use a favourite piece of government-speak - provided by public houses and the happiness-inducing impact of a dram at home and it seems to me that the ruinous impact of drink has, unsurprisingly, been vastly over-stated.
The alcoholic drinks market is valued at more than £30bn per annum, with around one million jobs estimated to be linked to it. Excise duties on alcohol raise about £7bn per year and, like other sectors, the industry pays local and central taxes.


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Observatories routinely release "holiday themed" heavenly photos come late December, and this time the Hubble Space Telescope bears good cheer for 2012 in the form of a cosmic Christmas ornament.
The Hubble photo depicts a planetary nebula that resembles a ribbon and glass bauble. While past holiday seasons have brought us a cosmic wreath, a nebula as snow-angel and an orb-like pulsar (spinning star) that resembles an ornament, this year's photo is a little more on the abstract side.
The central, circular shape of the nebula, called NGC 5189, can be seen as an ornament made of blown glass, and the reddish knotted structure that flows around the middle looks like a tangled ribbon that holds the ornament in place.
A planetary nebula is one of the last stages in the life of a mid-size star like our sun. The dying star sloughs off its outer layers and shoots them out into the universe, resulting in the "ribbon-like" filaments surrounding the middle of the star. At the center of the nebula is a densely packed white dwarf star whose mass is stuffed into a volume about the size of Earth, but the entire planetary nebula is the size of our solar system.
Although the sun might be destined to meet the same fate as this ornamental nebula, our closest star won't run out of fuel for at least another 5 billion years.
Launched in 1990, Hubble orbits the Earth snapping high resolution images of nebulas and other bodies in our galaxy and beyond. Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 took this photo of NGC 5188 using specific filters adjusted to capture the colors of oxygen, hydrogen and fluorescing sulfur atoms.
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Milford man loses battle with insurance company
Blue Cross Blue Shield considers cancer treatments experimental
Milford's Scott Ellmore was battling for his life as he was fighting Blue Cross Blue Shield's refusal to cover what he believes are life-saving treatments still considered experimental.
Last week, Ellmore lost that battle with the insurance company, but hopes he won't lose the battle for his life, our news partners at the Milford Daily News reported.
"The glimmer of hope is gone," Ellmore said. "Every decision I make has a dollar sign attached to it. I have a whole lot of things I wanted to see and be here for in five years. I don't know if I'll be here for three or four years without the money. When my money runs out, it'll kill me."
Last month, the Daily News shared Ellmore's story: He was given six months to live without treatment and just a bit longer with chemotherapy by his doctors at Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston when he was first diagnosed with Stage 4 esophageal cancer in September 2012.
Nearly a year later, Ellmore says he's doing well, a fact he credits to alternative treatments not yet approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and, therefore, considered experimental by his insurance company.
While his insurance covers some of his oncology medications, he has to pay for the bulk of his roughly $2,500 weekly treatments out of pocket.
"The oncologists upheld our previous decision and agreed unanimously that there is no evidence to support that the services you are receiving are safe or effective and that they are considered experimental, unproven, and not the standard of care," reads a reply letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield, noting an independent review was performed by three physicians at the state's office of patent protection.
The insurance company notes Ellmore has access to "world-class, in-network" medical institutions like Dana Farber.
Ellmore was seeking coverage for the treatment he receives called insulin potentiation therapy, that he first traveled to Germany to find and now undergoes once a week at the Linchitz Medical Wellness Clinic in Glen Cove, N.Y. The treatment uses insulin to reduce sugar levels and targeted chemotherapy to battle the cancer.
With the treatments, Ellmore's doctors at the clinic say they've seen a decrease in the size and number of his tumors.
However, Ellmore knows he needs to buy time for treatments at least through next January and may need treatment for the rest of his life – which is why his battle for insurance coverage was so important.
With this final denial, friends of Ellmore are continuing their fundraising efforts to help fund his treatments.
Maria Newman, a friend of the Ellmore family, is hoping to raise another $50,000 to help Ellmore get six more months of treatment with the help of two raffles, one for luxury suite tickets to a Celtics game and a week-long rental home on Martha's Vineyard.
Raffle tickets can be bought and direct donations made online at www.gofundme.com/helpscott.


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A mysterious water leak that forced NASA to abort a spacewalk on Tuesday (July 16) shows just how perilous it can be to venture outside the protective confines of the International Space Station.
Tuesday's two-person spacewalk was supposed to last 6.5 hours, but mission controllers called it off after just 92 minutes when water began collecting in the helmet of European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano.
The leak impaired Parmitano's communications system and, if allowed to progress further, could have choked or drowned him during the spacewalk, NASA officials said. [See photos from NASA's aborted spacewalk of July 16]
"I would say today was certainly a very serious issue," lead spacewalk officer Karina Eversley told reporters Tuesday.
Extravehicular activities (EVAs) like the one undertaken Tuesday by Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy are complicated maneuvers with many elements of risk, NASA officials said.
A micrometeoroid strike could breach an astronaut's spacesuit, for example, exposing him or her to the vacuum of space. Or a key system could suffer some sort of malfunction, as happened Tuesday, threatening a spacewalker's ability to communicate, breathe or navigate back to safety.
Every spacewalk is planned out in minute detail to minimize the risks while giving astronauts the best chance of completing their scheduled tasks, officials said. But just getting everyone back inside the International Space Station safely is the primary goal every time, they added.
"We don't take EVAs lightly at all," said spacewalk flight director David Korth. "Everyone that goes out the door — we try and do our best to meet the requirements, but when the crew is back in at the end of the day, that's success."
NASA officials are still investigating the cause of Tuesday's leak, which introduced 34 to 51 ounces (1 to 1.5 liters) of water into Parmitano's spacesuit, with most of it gathering in his helmet. The number one suspect at the moment is the suit's cooling system, Eversley said, adding that the problem is a new one for spacewalk officers.
"We have not seen a situation like this before," she said. "Overall, I would have to say that our [space]suits are very robust. They're well designed, and we don't very often have problems with them."
Glitches have cut spacewalks short before. In 2004, for example, a pressurization problem with NASA astronaut Mike Fincke's oxygen tank ended an EVA after a mere 14 minutes.
Tuesday's spacewalk was designed to help prepare the orbiting laboratory for the arrival of a new Russian module later this year and perform a variety of maintenance and repair work. The tasks will be completed at a later date, after engineers determine the cause of the water leak, NASA officials said.
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June 2, 2010 -- The FDA has approved twice-a-year Prolia (denosumab) injections to treat osteoporosis in patients at high risk of fracture.
Prolia is a so-called monoclonal antibody -- a fully human, lab-produced antibody that inactivates the body's bone-breakdown mechanism. It's the first "biologic therapy" to be approved for osteoporosis treatment.
Prolia is approved only for specific types of patients:
- Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and high risk of fracture (that is, previous fracture due to osteoporosis or multiple fracture risk factors).
- Patients with osteoporosis for whom other osteoporosis treatments have failed.
- Patients who cannot tolerate other osteoporosis treatments.
The clinical trials on which Prolia approval is based lasted for three years. Over that time, postmenopausal women taking Prolia had fewer fractures and increased bone density.
Prolia targets a chemical signal called RANK ligand, an essential part of the body's natural process for breaking down bone.
Normally, the body constantly breaks down and rebuilds bone. Low estrogen levels in postmenopausal women unbalance this process in favor of bone breakdown.
That's where Prolia comes in. The drug slows the bone-breakdown process -- but also slows the entire bone-remodeling process. Over the long term, it's not yet clear what this will mean. Doctors are warned to be on the lookout for osteonecrosis of the jaw, atypical fractures, and delayed fracture healing in patients taking Prolia.
Another possible downside to Prolia is that its target, the RANK ligand, plays several roles in the immune system. In clinical trials, women taking Prolia had a higher risk of serious infections leading to hospitalization, including heart infections. Skin reactions such as dermatitis, rashes, and eczema also were reported.
The most common side effects seen in patients taking Prolia are back pain, pain in the extremities, muscle and bone pain, high cholesterol levels, and urinary bladder infections.
The drug also appears to lower calcium levels. Patients with low-blood calcium levels should not take Prolia until the condition is corrected.
Amgen, which makes Prolia, has established a "risk evaluation and mitigation strategy" to help patients understand the drug's risks. The company has also set up a surveillance program to monitor more than 4,500 women already taking the drug.
Compared to other biologic therapies, Prolia has a relatively moderate price. It's wholesale cost is $825 per injection or $1,650 per year. The drug will be available as early as next week.


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This may not have relation with Perian, but I guess people may know.
I've used to import DVD videos (MPEG-2 video with AC3 audio, generally) on Premiere Pro with Snow Leopard with no problem, but have no luck on Lion (it displays the message "unsupported compression format"). Lion comes with MPEG-2 support for the Quicktime X player, yet it seems that Premiere relies on the Quicktime 7 codecs, which don't support MPEG-2 on Lion. I did the Squared 5 solution to put the old MPEG2 component back, but the videos still don't import correctly on Premiere. Only the "video" track appears and is a completely black still at 0fps. Only the video "length" is correct. If I import the audio demuxed, says that it don't recognize the format. The video plays fine on MPEG Streamclip, yet the last time I exported a MPEG-2 video from there in another compressed format to use in Premiere, the Premiere output video ended with the colors all wrong. Quicktime 7 plays the videos, but sans audio. It frustrates me a lot especially since I could import the very same videos directly in Premiere without problem with Snow Leopard.
Importing MPEG-2 videos on Premiere Pro on OS X Lion
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TOL -The TEXT OF LIGHT GROUP: 3 CD in metal box
The hit list: Alan Licht, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Ulrich Krieger, William Hooker, Mike Barnes and DJ Olive (not always all of them together) play live to accompany 16mm films, and these recordings, of live performances - missing the visual component - are varied, intelligent and restrained, and mostly can bear repeated listening. In a vast field, this collection seems to offer a broadly representative and rather better than average glimpse into cross-medial, non-egotistical improvisational strategies.
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November 6 will be a critical Election Day, with high stakes for our nation and our local community. I urge my neighbors here in Hoboken to come out and vote to re-elect President Obama and Senator Menendez; the Kids First team of Ruth McAllister, Jean Marie Mitchell and Tom Kluepfel for Hoboken Board of Education; and to vote yes on the election-reform ballot questions 1 and 3 and no on the rent-control ballot question No. 2.
Two years ago, I risked foregoing job security to start my own business. The scariest danger of all was giving up my employer-subsidized health care. In the end, we decided to make the investment in our future by purchasing our own health insurance and proceeding with the business plan, and fortunately, things have worked out, and our business is now thriving with four employees. But in pondering the dilemma, one question occurred to me – how many innovative, job-creating ideas never take flight because their bearers can't afford to go without employer-sponsored health insurance? Access to health care is a job engine that sparks enterprise, and I thank President Obama for fulfilling the crucial and historic task of overhauling our nation's health-care system. For that, he has my vote once again.
Similarly, my life has been impacted in overwhelmingly positive ways by the incredible work of the Kids First team and their tireless reforms of our public school system. As the father of a 2 ½ -year-old with a second child due next month, having public schools we can rely on is critical to my family's ability to thrive in Hoboken, a city we love. This team has faced years of threats, intimidation and stonewalling by the plunderers who once controlled the district. The Kids First trustees are a dangerous threat to those who were accustomed to living high on the hog at the expense of our city's children and taxpayers, and who wish to return to looting the public trough for expensive steak dinners and other atrocious indulgences. Commissioners McAllister, Mitchell and the rest of the reform team conducted a thorough audit that pulled the veil off the patronage mill and set our district on the right track to truly serve the kids first. We must continue the progress, not return to the era of self-serving cronyism. Please join me in voting for McAllister-Mitchell-Kluepfel in ballot positions K-L-M.
Finally, when I first moved to this area in 2001, I was thoroughly confused when I saw municipal-election signs in early spring, and presumed there was some obscure primary that wasn't relevant to me. I was stunned when I learned that this was, in fact, the regular municipal election, a system clearly designed to fly under the radar and control turnout to preserve the status quo. I am ecstatic at the opportunity to consolidate elections to the nationally recognized Election Day. Please join me in voting "yes" for Hoboken questions 1 and 3. Similarly, to protect tenants who make up such a valuable component of our community, please vote "no" on Hoboken question 2.
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archons är´kŏnz, –kənz [key] [Gr.,=leaders], in ancient Athens and other Greek cities, officers of state. Originally in Athens there were three archons: the archon eponymos (so called because the year was named after him), who was the chief officer of the state; the archon basileus, who was primarily connected with sacred rites; and the archon polemarchos (the polemarch, or military commander), who—theoretically, at least—had military leadership. Six more archons, the thesmothetae (thesmothetes), were later added; they were junior officers, generally in charge of the courts. The archons were elected, and after they had served and their records had been approved, they entered the Areopagus. Solon, Hippias, and Themistocles were archons. After 487 BC the archons were chosen by lot; the office, which had previously been limited to the two upper classes, was opened to the third class. Thereafter the archontate declined greatly in importance. The lists of eponymous archons kept after the 7th cent. BC are a valuable source of history.
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POLICY OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF PEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE Tuesday, November 13, 1984 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1993 Physical Facilities
Equipment will be properly maintained.
Any person in charge of equipment belonging to the college should supervise the use of the equipment to prevent damage or misuse. If the equipment is under a repair/maintenance contract, the person in charge should telephone the proper company and request service. If the equipment is not under a repair/maintenance contract, a purchase order should be properly completed and processed for the service.
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A Pasteurized, carbonated, blueberry flavoured drink with addition of magnesium and vitamins (vitamin C, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12) from Poland with recommendations by former football players Adam Nawałka and Jerzy Dudek.
Price: £0.50 from Tesco for a 250ml can.
Along the top of the can it has the national flags of Russia, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Spain (the simpler civil ensign for civil use version), Italy, Czech Republic, Portugal, Switzerland (again), Germany (again), Austria, Romania and the Slovak Republic. I assume this is were this product has been sold previously… it's a good way to sell to nationalists I guess…
Packaging information (copied exactly as it is on the packaging)
The Original Premium Vitamin Drink
Pasteurized carbonated blueberry flavoured drink with addition of magnesium and vitamins (vitamin C, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12)
Magnesium + vitamins : Vitamin C, niacin, Vit. B6, B12
Magnesium contributes to normal muscle function, contributes to normal psychological function.
100% of daily requirement for vitamins: C, niacin, B6, B12 in 250ml of the product.
Swiss Vitamin formula – developed by the Swiss laboratory
Sport Champions recommend: Jerzy Dudek
The best trainers recommend: Adam Nawałka
Ingredients: water, sugar, acidity regulator: citric acid; carbon dioxide, magnesium citrate, concentrate from carrot, guarana extract (0,01%) (containing caffeine), aroma, vitamins: vitamin C, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12.
Best before: for the date and batch number see the bottom.
Keep in a dry and cool place. Do not free.
The package contains one suggested portion of the product. Remember to preserve balanced diet and healthy life style. Manufactured in the EU.
[The can also has this information in Polish.]
Nutritional value in 100ml // 250ml (portion)
Energy: 207kJ / 49 kcal // 518kJ / 123 kcal (6%)
Fat 0g // 0g (0%)
of which saturates 0g // 0g (0%)
Carbohydrate 12g // 30g (12%)
of which sugars 12g // 30g (33%)
Protein 0g // 0g (0%)
Salt 0g //0g (0%)
[( ) = Reference intake of an average adult 8400kJ / 2000kcal]
Vitamin C 32mg (40%) // 80mg (100%)
Niacin 6,4mg (40%) // 16mg (100%)
Vitamin B6 0,56mg (40%) // 1,4mg (100%)
Vitamin B12 1,0mg (40%) // 2,5mg (100%)
Magnesium 75mg (20%) // 187,5mg (50%)
[( ) = Nutrient reference values]
Recycling: The can is aluminium and can be recycled.
Pink in colour… If you drank it straight from the can you probably wouldn't realise. It taste like an energy drink… because that's what it is. I forget the exact brand it tastes like but Monster wouldn't be too far off the mark. Not unpleasant. It tastes 'pink'… that flavour of 'pink' sweets and artificially flavoured drinks have. A laboratory created half way between raspberry and strawberry. It taste ike candy floss. Apparently, according to the can, it's blueberry. Yes okay let's go with that… but quite an artifical taste of blueberry no doubt composed of scents A453, R692 and E7330 in specific quantities in the laboratory to emulate the flavour of blueberrys…
Texture wise you only notice the carbonisation immediately after swallowing it.
So… yeah… if you want to try it then go for it… you already know if you'll be disappointed on not when you buy it. Or better yet just get a soft drink, with the same amount of sugar, or a coffee and improve your diet so you get all the nutrients from better sources.
The claims they make are ridiculous… 'contributes to normal muscle function, contributes to normal psychological function'… those are such ridiculous, yet vague, claim they might as well rename it Panacea and say it is a cure for all known ailments. A modern day snake oil. It's a caffinated, sugar filled, drink which in past generations would have been sold as a study aid and is now instead rebranded as a sports or energy drink. It's sugar… as much sugar as a normal soft drink but with added vitamins.
The recommendations are from Adam Nawałka who is currently the manager of the Polish football team (who is his player career had played for Liverpool and Real Madrid) and Jerzy Dudek a former Polish football team goalkeeper.
The English is grammatically a little incorrect in some parts of the translation but I suppose no one cares as it's not as if anyone actually reads the information but they still need to cover themselves legally.


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Small locality near Augsburg, where Jews were living at an early date. About 1559 they were under the protection of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, despite the request for their expulsion made by the municipal council of Augsburg, which body had driven the Jews from that city in 1440, and feared that they would return thither if allowed to settle in Pfersee. In 1617 an imperial mandate was sent to the lords of Neuburg, Krumbach, Thannhausen, Binswangen, and Pfersee not to curtail the Jews, wherever settled, in their privileges, nor to restrict in any way their right of residence. In 1789 there were in all 400 Jewish families at Pfersee, Hürben, Buttenwiesen, Fischach, and Ichenhausen, the principal community being at Pfersee, which was the seat of the district rabbi for the Swabian communities.
The "scholars of Pfersee," , are well known. In the middle of the sixteenth century Rabbi Libermann, contemporary and friend of Rabbi Josel of Rosheim, officiated at Pfersee. More famous was R. Enoch Sundel, who left Poland in 1648 or 1649, at the time of the persecution by Chmielnicki, and went to Prague, whence he was called as rabbi to Öttingen and later to Pfersee. He was the author of many rabbinical works. He was succeeded in 1680 by his son Judah Löb, who continued his father's "Reshit Bikkurim" and wrote other works. Judah Löb was followed in the beginning of the eighteenth century by R. Judah Löb b. Issachar Bär Oppenheim of Worms, a nephew of Chief Rabbi David Oppenheim of Prague, and the author of "Minḥat Yehudah." His successor was R. Isaac Seckel Ettenhausen, who wrote the collection of responsa entitled "Or Ne'elam," and was succeeded by R. Benjamin Wolf Spira of Prague, who died in 1792.
About the middle of the nineteenth century many Jews settled at Augsburg, including a number from Pfersee. This much decreased or entirely dissolved the community, and there are now (1904) no Jews in the town. The University of Munich has in its possession a valuable parchment manuscript of the Talmud, originally from Pfersee, on which Rabbinovicz based his "Diḳduḳe Soferim."
- Israelit, 1867;
- Fischer, Gesch. der Juden in Augsburg;
- Geiger, Zeit. für Gesch. der Juden in Deutschland, 1889;
- Monatsschrift, xxii. 508;
- Löwenstein, Günzburg und die Schwäbischen Gemeinden.


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WASHINGTON — The Rockies crawled out of a bad month after Monday night — the worst June in franchise history — following one whopper of a metaphor in the sixth inning at Nationals Park.
With Bryce Harper at bat for Washington, reliever Rob Scahill got the call from the Rockies' dugout to give an intentional walk and load the bases. Catcher Wilin Rosario stood up with his arm out, asking for a pitch away from Harper. But Scahill threw a ball in the dirt that bounced up and hit Rosario in the crotch.
Worse yet, after that inning devolved even further, the Rockies stumbled their way to yet another loss, falling to the Nationals 7-3.
It was a game to forget in a month to forget.
Scahill went into the sixth inning leading 2-1 and went out trailing 6-2.
Colorado went into June with a 28-27 record and went out far below .500. The Rockies (36-47) trail the first-place Giants and Dodgers by 10½ games in the NL West.
The Rockies' 8-20 record in June was worse than their 9-18 performance in June 2012. That season, they finished with a franchise-worst 64-98 record.
"Just show up and try to win a game each day," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "You try not to look in the rearview mirror. You try not to look ahead at what the challenges are. You just show up each day and try to win the game."
Before they dissolved Monday, the Rockies rallied in the sixth with two unlucky doubles. Drew Stubbs hit a long liner to center that would have been a triple, but it bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. Troy Tulowitzki then knocked a long shot to left that fell about 6 inches shy of a home run.
After Ryan Wheeler's sacrifice fly, Colorado had a 2-1 lead. And it seemed the Rockies were bound for just their third win in 14 games.
Rookie pitcher Yohan Flande started well, allowing one run and six hits through 5L innings. To start the sixth, Flande gave up a single, allowed a walk and struck out Adam LaRoche. He was then pulled by Weiss.
"Flande was throwing the ball really well. But the first two guys got on in the inning (against) a guy making his second major-league start," Weiss said.
"You want to get out in front of stuff before it happens to a kid like that. So I wasn't real comfortable with the Zimmerman matchup — and went and tried to match up right there. It didn't work out."
Then the Nationals started batting practice. Ryan Zimmerman doubled in a run. Harper walked. Ian Desmond doubled down the left-field line to clear the bases. And Desmond scored on Wilson Ramos' groundout.
"We took a 2-1 lead and I go out there with a job to do — try to get out with limited damage," Scahill said. "And I wasn't able to limit the damage."
Harper returned to the Nationals' lineup after missing 57 games because of thumb surgery. But this town loves to argue about anything. And there was some controversy about where to re-
insert Harper in the field — Danny Espinosa, one of the better second basemen in the National League, went to the bench.
The Rockies wish they had that controversy. Monday, they lost another pitcher — right-hander Jhoulys Chacin, who has a strained shoulder. Amazingly, he is the Rockies' 10th player on the disabled list and the sixth starting pitcher.
There probably won't be much controversy when any of those — likely starting with third baseman Nolan Arenado this week — return to the Rockies' lineup.
"It's frustrating, for sure," second baseman DJ LeMahieu said
of the Rockies' June swoon. "We just have to keep going. It just takes one game to turn it around. Hopefully that comes sooner than later."
Jhoulys Chacin was placed on the 15-day disabled list June 29, becoming the 10th player this season to be on the list and the sixth starting pitcher. Chacin suffered a right shoulder inflammation.
Chacin has gone 1-7 with a 5.40 ERA after missing spring training. He spent a month on the disabled list because of a shoulder strain.


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This month's COG (for which I am late…the dog ate my homework, Teacher Jasia!) asked us to Research From Scratch by starting a search on someone else's family tree. When I began my own family research about 21 years ago, there were not any records available on the internet. Lately I've wondered how much I could have found if I had waited until today to begin my search and how much easier it would have been. This challenge was an opportunity to find out. The subject of my experiment: actor-singer-dancer-director Gene Kelly. As most visitors to this site have since surmised, Gene Kelly is what I call my "other gene hobby." Gene was well known for his smiling "Irish eyes", but I was curious about his Canadian and German ancestry as well. Starting from scratch, how much could I find in a few hours? In that short amount of time, I learned a lot about his ancestry. But I also learned some research lessons that I'd like to share.
Start by interviewing your family, but don't believe everything they say as fact.
When I began my own research, I started by asking my parents questions about their parents and grandparents, and I also referred to an interview with my grandmother when I was in grade school and needed to complete a family history project. That same advice holds true today – you need basic facts about a family to begin your research. In the case of my subject, I couldn't actually talk to Mr. Kelly. So instead I turned to the only biography that was written during his lifetime in which the author interviewed Kelly himself.
The book is Gene Kelly by Clive Hirschhorn (Chicago : H. Regnery, 1975). While it is not entirely accurate – especially since it begins with the incorrect birth date of its subject – it was a way to get basic information about his brothers and sisters, parents, and grandparents – as close as I can get to acquring the info from Gene himself.
From the first chapter of the biography, I learned enough basic facts to begin my research on the Kelly family:
- Gene's parents were James Patrick Joseph Kelly and Harriet Curran. They married in 1906.
- Both came from large families; James was one of eleven children, and Harriet one of 13.
- Harriet's father, Billy Curran, "had emigrated to New York from Londonderry in 1845…via Dunfermline in Scotland." Billy met "Miss Eckhart", of German descent, married and moved to Houtzdale, PA. They later moved to Pittsburgh.
- Billy died before 1907 from pneumonia after he was left in the cold at night after being robbed.
- There were 9 Curran children, and 4 who died, but only 7 are named: Frank, Edward, Harry, John, Lillian, Harriet, and Gus.
- James Kelly was born in Peterborough Canada in 1875
- James died in 1966, and Harriet died in 1972. Of Harriet, Mr. Hirschhorn says, "No one quite knows whether she was 85, 87, or 89."
In addition to Gene's parents' info were the basics about their children. In birth order, the Kelly family included Harriet, James, Eugene Curran, Louise, and Frederic. Gene was born on August 23, 1912. This is plenty of information to begin a search. But, don't believe everything you read or everything your family members tell you – sometimes the "facts" can be wrong, and only research will find the truth!
Census records are a great place to begin your research.
Back in 1989, my research began at the National Archives with the U.S. Federal Census records. Of course, back then the first available census was from 1910, and none of the records were digitized. Today, I still think census records are the best place to start researching a family. I used Ancestry.com and began with the 1930 census. Despite many "James Kelly" families in Pittsburgh, PA, it was relatively easy to find the entire Kelly clan. As I continued backward with earlier census records and Harriet Kelly's Curran family, I found some similarities to issues I had in my own family research:
- Names can be misspelled. I expected this with Zawodny and Piontkowski, but not with Curran! The Curran family is listed as "Curn" on the 1900 census.
- Ages are not necessarily correct. It seems that Harriet Curran Kelly has a similar condition to many of my female ancestors – she ages less than ten years every decade and grows younger!
- Information can differ from census to census, and these conflicts can only be resolved by using other record resources. Despite birth year variations for both Gene's mother and father, James Kelly's immigration year differed on each census as did Harriet's father's birthplace (Pennsylvania, Ireland, or Scotland?).
- Finding in-laws is a bonus, and a great way to discover maiden names. If I didn't already know that Harriet's maiden name was Curran (from Gene's biography – and it is also Gene's middle name), I would have discovered it on the 1930 census since her brother Frank Curran was living with the Kelly family. Also, I knew Harriet's mother's maiden name was "Eckhart" from the biography, and the 1880 census of the Curran family lists her brother and sisters – James, Jennie, and Josephine Eckerd.
In the few hours of research on census records alone, I was able to trace Gene's father only to 1910 after his marriage to Harriet. In 1900 he was single, and I was unable to find a recent Canadian immigrant named James Kelly. Gene's maternal line ran dry with the Curran's in 1880. William Curran and Mary Elizabeth "Eckhart" married after 1870. There are too many William Curran's from Ireland to determine the correct one, and I was unable to locate the Eckhart family prior to 1880.
Naturalization records provide the best information – after 1906.
Ancestry.com also provided James Kelly's naturalization record. In addition to confirming his birth in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1875 (also found in Ancestry's World War 1 Draft records), the petition lists his immigration information and the birthdates of the first 4 Kelly children (youngest son Fred was not born at the time of his father's naturalization). Unfortunately the record does not list the birthplace of Harriet other than as Pennsylvania. Was it in Houtzdale, PA, where her parents resided in 1880 or elsewhere?
Although Ancestry has Canadian census records, I was unable to definitely find James Kelly in Ontario on the 1881 or 1891 census.
The internet helps you find a lot of information, but not everything is online.
Census records can only get you so far before you need vital records. While many states also have these records online, Gene Kelly's ancestors settled in the same state as mine, Pennsylvania, which is not one of the "friendlier" states when it comes to accessing vital records. If I were to continue with the Kelly research, vital records would have to be obtained offline. It would be useful to obtain the marriage record for William Curran and Mary Elizabeth Eckhart, which may have occurred in Clearfield County since that was their residence in 1880. Finding this record would reveal both sets of parents' names and possibly birth information for William and Mary Elizabeth. For the Kelly side of the family, I would likely attempt to obtain James Kelly's birth record in Peterborough.
[Side note: I have met several of Kelly's relatives. One cousin has delved deeper into the Peterborough roots of the Kelly family as well as James Kelly's maternal line, the Barry family. There is an interesting newspaper article on a house that may have belonged to the Canadian Kelly's called One Little House Leads to Many Connections.]
I was able to confirm many of the intial facts I started with, but I didn't learn any essential information in addition to those facts. Specifically, I hoped to learn more about Gene's maternal grandmother's German roots, but I was unable to find out anything more about the Eckhart – Eckerd family using Ancestry.com alone. More offline research is learn more about this branch of the family. I did learn more about Gene's aunts and uncles – this is important because researching collateral lines can lead to important information about shared direct ancestors. Finally, I learned that it is much easier to start from scratch now than it was 21 years ago. Even though the record sources I used were the same, digitization and the internet has made it much faster to find information! And easier, which is great because it will hopefully prompt more people to start from scratch! What are you waiting for? Start researching your family!
[Submitted (late) for the 97th Carnival of Genealogy: Research from Scratch]