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For many of us, our first exposure to F.W. Murnau's seminal Nosferatu was via the video for "Under Pressure," by Queen and David Bowie — surely the feyest team-up in pop-music history. All the creepy highlights were on display — the shadow of Count Orlok's talons falling over his sleeping prey while Bowie sang "Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn." Yep, it sure is, especially if you're gay in 1922.
Murnau's homosexuality, we're told, would've been more or less accepted in his Berlin artistic circles. Germany, indeed, was one of the gay-friendlier spots in the world until the Nazis took power. Murnau, who unlike James Whale was never quite "out," may have seen the writing on the wall: the gays' idyll of freedom couldn't last — the shadows were creeping in. (Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party the year before Murnau's film was released.) Nosferatu can be taken as a double-edged commentary on the rise of murderous intolerance and the moblike view of the Other — gays, Jews, gypsies — as diseased vermin to be exterminated. The plague of hatred created its own "plague" to hate.
Here, Count Orlok (Max Schreck) always brings ugly, poisonous predators with him: rats, mosquitoes, even a hyena. Nature is rotten with loathsome things that snap and suck; the movie's Van Helsing counterpart, Professor Bulwer (John Gottowt), cheerfully shows his class what a Venus fly trap can do. These creatures of the night seem to be Orlok's only companions; unlike most other screen Draculas, Orlok has no circle of "brides" in his thrall. He's essentially a bachelor, and he becomes fixated on poor Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim), who's sent to Orlok's castle to close a real-estate deal. Orlok wants to buy a house in Wisborg right across the street from Hutter's house. I'm sure he does.
So Orlok, with his variety of fabulous hats (to hide his baldness, or, one assumes, the rodentoid points of his skull and ears), falls for Hutter the oblivious heterosexual twink. (The homo-analysis is almost over, I promise.) Towards the end, Hutter's wife Ellen (Greta Schröder) sacrifices herself to lure Orlok to her and keep him detained with her "pure" blood until the sun rises; much in contrast to every other Dracula, he doesn't seduce her, she seduces him. And he doesn't seem all that thrilled about it; it's not a romantic moment — he just needs her blood. His penalty for lying with a woman is death. Meanwhile, the Renfield surrogate Knock (Alexander Granach), who certainly comes off as a money-grubbing Jewish stereotype (he laughs heartily when thinking of how rich the Orlok deal will make him), is pursued by a mob who thinks he's the source of the town's "plague."
Aside from all this, Nosferatu is a classic of mood and shadow; Fritz Arno Wagner brings terror out of silhouettes, particularly when all we see of Orlok is his grasping shade. Despite the goofiness of the early sections, with Hutter laughing uproariously every time he so much as sees the word "vampire," the movie gets darker and more infested as it creeps along. When Hutter arrives at Castle Orlok, all laughter is over; we get that famous intertitle, perhaps the most gorgeously haunting line in all of horror cinema: And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.
Notoriously, Nosferatu is a sort of bootleg of Bram Stoker's Dracula; denied the rights to make an official Dracula film by Stoker's widow, Murnau forged ahead anyway, changing the character names, which didn't actually help his case. (Ironically, the novel is now in the public domain — as is Nosferatu itself, in the U.S.) Now, Murnau wasn't particularly enamored of horror; Nosferatu was his only foray into the genre. Why, then, did he flout the law in order to adapt Stoker's book? (The impetus to make the movie didn't even originate with Murnau — Albin Grau, the film's producer and production designer, was the one who wanted to make a vampire film.) A guess: Murnau, like James Whale after him, saw that the best way to make an indelible film statement about the Other was to cross the bridge and meet the phantoms. Murnau, of course, couldn't have known that he was predicting a much more literal plague, wherein gays were persecuted for "spreading death," some six decades before AIDS. Whatever the reality, Nosferatu stands not as "the first vampire film" (it wasn't) or even "the first Dracula film" (it kind of was), but as most likely the first horror film to express something beyond simple chills and thrills. Though it sure as hell expresses those, too.


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I finally finished Bernard Lewin MW's great book, What Price Bordeaux?, and want again to recommend it. It's not a book about how Bordeaux tastes, it's about the historic, legal and social underpinnings of what may be the world's greatest, most important wine appellation.
Perhaps because he edited a biology journal, Lewin is a rigorous reporter. Whenever there's a question that needs to be asked, Lewin asks it. In re: the concept of appellations, he is the ultimate skeptic, wondering over and over again why the Classification of 1855 should remain relevant, and throwing down gauntlets that the Bordealais may find it difficult to jump over.
He has a great way — you could call it Socratic — of asking questions that practically answer themselves. "Do any of the existing [Bordeaux] classifications really make a useful difference?" This refers to the fact that chateaux move up and down in quality over the years regardless of their official level, so who cares if, say, Sociando-Mallet is a classified growth or not? (It isn't.)
"And does the range of variation become so broad as to lose utility when a class is as large as the 46 Grand Cru Classés" of Saint Emilion? Lewin doesn't answer his own question, but you find yourself thinking, Well, yes, it probably does become too broad.
And this, on the terroir the Bordelais so treasure: Given the intensive human intervention in the Médoc (beginning with draining the swamps), and given the fact that individual parcels pass between different chateaux with some frequency, "Do they [chateaux] provide unique representations of conditions that can be found only in their specific vineyards? Or are they brands, representing commercial margues…?" Once again, Lewin's lips are sealed, but you can infer his answer. Commercial marques, anyone?
My own feeling, which has evolved over years since I began studying wine, is that there's less than meets the eye to the classic Bordeaux argument of terroir. I think the First Growths are Firsts because people were willing to pay the greatest amount of money for them 200 years ago, which allowed their proprietors to lavish the greatest care possible upon the vines, which improved the wines, etc. etc. ad infinitum.Throw in the Snob Factor — "I can afford Lafite, too bad you can't" — and we have a system petrified in time.
I think the Classification of 1855 is irrelevant, but also represents the greatest marketing triumph in the history of wine (or, possibly, the second, after the Champenois). I think when you classify 46 chateaux as Grand Cru Classés, the title does lose meaning: it's like all the children in Lake Woebegon being above average.
There are lessons to be absorbed here in the States, and especially in California.
1. Let's never, ever classify vineyards or wineries. It's a no-win proposition.
2. Human perceptions of brands are stubborn and persistent. It's nearly impossible to alter the typical view that Lafite, say, is better than Talbot, even though it may not be. That's good news for wine brands that have implanted themselves into the consumers' psyche, bad news for brands that haven't.
3. There's no such thing as terroir. Yes, there are better and worse places to grow wine grapes, but the place in and of itself is not enough. You need the right vineyard management and winemaking techniques. Even the latter — good winemaking technique — is not enough, if the grapes are not perfect. The combination of terroir plus human intervention is called cru. That's why there are Grand Crus in both France and in California.
4. California's Grand Crus will survive this economic mess, just as Bordeaux's got through civil war, the Napoleonic Wars, devastating phylloxera, war with Prussia, and two World Wars in the 20th century, with a Great Depression inbetween. Not to mention Jerry Lewis.
I go to Seattle today, a city I love, to drink wine with my friend and colleague, Paul Gregutt, who I expect will play a little music on his guitar. I'll try to post your comments, although it's sometimes tough on the road. Have a great weekend!
But no matter what, let us vow, here and now, forever and for all time, to keep that beloved 100 point rating system.
Your comment on Bordeaux terroir reminds me of Kermit Lynch's in Adventures on the Wine Route. Paraphrasing roughly, he says he couldn't comprehend how there was any terroir in a place so flat as Bordeaux. Is there terroir beyond Bordeaux, perhaps?
Considering the approach to elevage in Bordeaux (and Napa)–many months in small, new barrels–terroir probably isn't that important. You need good raw materials, yes, but the winemaking techniques are going to have greatest influence. Maybe for a similar reason collectors fixate on celebrity winemakers in Napa.
I have a feeling that for other varietals and regions, cru has much more terroir than human intervention.
Terroir exists, it's just difficult often impossible to see as a consumer or critic. Where you really see it is as a winemaker. If you have a vineyard of a single variety that rests on varying soils or with varying exposures you see the vines grow differently, grapes ripen differently and naturally, you ferment and age them in separate lots. Over a few years you see characters that come through consistently associated with certain parts of the vineyard. Often in blind tasting after the harvest as you begin to think about assemblage, the identity of a block is obvious based on previous years experience. Blending diffuses this character. Oak covers this character. Brett hides this character. Letting grapes raisin on the vine destroys this character. Terroir exists and is common, winemakers just get in the way. They didn't at one time.
Morton says "Terroir exists; winemakers just get in the way. They didn't at one time".
And yet, I can taste distinct differences in wines from one side of Rutherford to another, from Tokalon to Rubicon to Corison all on the West Rutherford Bench. Winemakers can get in the way, but the suggestion that terroir, or the character of an area, does not exist in Napa or Bordeaux is folly. Even in the drained swamp that is Bordeaux' left bank, the differences in grape flavor from Margaux to St. Estephe is sufficient that it makes a whale of difference to the wines in question.
Okay, so is Morton all wet? No, of course not. Angelus and Pavie-Maquin on the Right Bank are examples of where the regional character is lost to a deeper, richer character that derives from the grapes and winemaking. Does the loss of terroir kill those wines dead in their tracks? Maybe to Morton, and that's OK, but not to Parker apparently.
Same for wines like Hewitt, whose character is always an amalgam of ripeness and West Rutherford Bench. So, yes, it is obvious that terroir can be reduced. But what is less obvious to me is whether loss of terroir means a reduction in the ability of the wine to please those who drink it.
Put it this way. Terroir exists. Does it trump all else in the final analysis?Not on your nelly.
Thats an interesting comment you made, Steve. I remember having a discussion on terroir with our winemaker and he considered the human effort in wine(vineyard management, winemaking techniques) a part of his definition of terroir. I say it's interesting because, being from France, he didn't never mentioned Cru to me, or made that distinction something separate from his understanding of "Terroir."
Terroir certainly and most obviously exists in distinctive climats; one would be a fool to argue with the examples in the Cote d'Or or the Mosel. But, in the nature-versus-nurture dialectic, it may be either obscured or revealed by human intervention, never invented by it.
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There are thousands upon thousands of extensions for the Chrome browser. Out of that haystack, which of those needles can you use to make your everyday browsing more efficient? Here's a rundown of five timesaving extensions you can add to Google Chrome to make your browsing life faster and easier.
1: Shareaholic
This might be the extension I use the most, day in and day out. With this handy extension, sharing a page on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and so on, is just a button click away. And with Shareaholic, you don't have to worry about making use of a URL shortener, like tinyurl.com. You can select any of the services you want to associate with your Shareaholic installation by clicking the Options button and then selecting them the list.
2: Quick Note
Quick Note is a little extension that gives you a fast way to take notes when you need them, without having to worry about opening up another application. Just install this tool, open a new tab, click on the Quick Note icon, and take your notes. With Quick Note (and a Diigo.com account) you can sync all of your notes on line — for free — so you can access them through any Google Chrome browser.
3: Sexy Undo Close Tab
The name might make you chuckle, but what this little extension can do will make you sigh with relief. How many times have you accidentally closed a tab, only to find yourself having to dig around for that page you just lost? With Sexy, you can get that tab back with the click of a button. And Sexy doesn't just remember the last tab you closed. It keeps a history so you can reopen any tabs you've closed.
4: Webpage Screenshot
Webpage Screenshot lets you take incredibly fast screenshots of either a full Web page or only the visible portion of a Web page. You can then save the image to your computer, print it, or share it. Images are saved as .png files. There are also tools that allow you to create pointers, boxes, text, and more to make it easier to highlight specific spots on a Web page. These tools are helpful when you're trying to point out rendering errors or when you need to show end users exactly where to find that button or link they need to click on.
5: Proxy Switchy
If you're a mobile user and you need to be able to quickly switch from one proxy server to another (without having to go into your browser's configuration), this is the tool for you. With Proxy Switchy, you can set up numerous proxy servers so that all you have to do is click the Proxy Switchy button and select the proxy you want to connect to. You can even configure rule-based switching to set up auto proxy detection and switching. There is also proxy switch logging, so you can monitor what proxy servers have been used.
Other extensions?
Obviously, there are plenty more extensions out there to ease the burden of time-consuming/time-wasting browsing tasks. But these five are the best I have found (to date). Have you found a Chrome extension that optimizes your browsing time? If so, share it with your fellow TechRepublic readers.


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Exclusive: Steve Cohen's fund to get into reinsurance business
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
Cohen, who runs $14 billion SAC Capital Advisors in Stamford, Connecticut, recently told investors he plans to launch SAC Re, a reinsurer based in Bermuda, early next year.
The billionaire stock picker, long known for delivering high double digit returns, is following other well-known hedge fund managers such as David Einhorn and Daniel Loeb into the reinsurance market.
To get SAC Re up and running, Cohen recently tapped insurance industry veteran Simon Burton to oversee the new venture, said the people, who are not authorized to speak about the matter publicly.
A spokesman for SAC declined to comment.
For years, hedge fund managers have been known as big risk takers, but more recently a growing number have also move into underwriting risk.
In September, Loeb, who runs the $8 billion Third Point LLC, told investors he is founding Third Point Re. Prominent hedge fund manager Einhorn has also been involved in reinsurance for some years with his Greenlight Capital Re Ltd <GLRE.O>.
"I call it the sheep theory," said industry consultant Andrew Barile. "When one sheep leaves the barn they all follow and it is exactly the same with the hedge funds. When one successful manager makes the decision to go into reinsurance, the others follow."
The timing among hedge funds appears right, industry consultants said, noting that prices in the reinsurance industry are now low, but likely to rise as the economy improves.
"We haven't had a lot of new reinsurers launched in the last five years, but that is clearly changing," said Barile, who runs Andrew Barile Consulting Corp Inc.
For hedge funds, this may be a savvy way to raise new money during tough times. Not only are there more hedge funds competing for capital, but investors are becoming stingier, especially now that many hedge funds are nursing heavy losses, industry experts say.
In reinsurance essentially acts as a safety valve for insurance companies in that an insurer pays a reinsurer to cover part of its losses between certain thresholds.
Cohen told investors he hopes to raise about $500 million in capital and that all the money would be invested in SAC funds. Cohen recently closed his flagship fund to new investors. Loeb did the same thing earlier this year.
Burton, who will run SAC Re, cemented his insurance credentials as deputy chief executive of Lancashire Holdings, where he was also chief executive and chief underwriting officer of the group's Bermudan underwriting subsidiary, Lancashire Insurance Co.
The new reinsurer will concentrate on property, where hurricanes and other disasters can cause substantial damage, and on casualty, where the scope of losses may be lower, but they occur more frequently in medical malpractice or workers' compensation claims.
For decades Cohen, 55, has been admired for his ability to read stock market moves and he returned 30 percent on average every year to clients. But those steady and strong returns have also put him and his firm into the spotlight as the U.S. government investigates whether SAC's winning bets may have been aided by insider information.
To date, neither the $14 billion fund nor its founder has been accused of any wrongdoing.
(Additional reporting from Ben Berkowitz in New York; editing by Matthew Goldstein and Andre Grenon)


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We've missed the drama, fun, and fashion of Jane By Design all spring, so we're obviously super pumped about tonight's premiere! For those of you who want to start tuning in tonight (or are equally obsessed), here's a recap of what went down in the mid-season finale.
High school student Jane (Erica Dasher) thinks she's applying for an internship with world-famous fashion designer Gray Chandler Murray (Andie McDowell), but she's offered a full-time job! The only people that know she's living a double life are her older brother, Ben (David Clayton Rogers) and her BFF, Billy (Nick Roux).
Billy was dating cool-girl Lulu (Meagan Tandy), but when she didn't want to take things public, he broke it off. His breakupcomes back to haunt him when he's arrested for helping his misguided brother, Tommy (Rob Mayes), rob a bank - and his judge is Lulu's dad! He was sentenced to spend several months in juvenile hall - but not before telling Jane he's been crushing on her!
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Billy's confession was complicated by the fact that Jane's cute coworker, Jeremy (Rowly Dennis) was also about to confess his love to Jane right before getting a text message from Gray's ex-husband, Beau (Oded Fehr). Oh, and did we mention Jane's boy toy, Nick (Matthew Atkinson) kissed Lulu? Yes, our girl Jane is totally right to be confused.
Meanwhile, at work, Jane accused her coworker India (India De Beaufort) of stealing Gray's company's lookbook (she did steal Jane's wedding dress designs earlier) - and she was fired on the spot! We later find out that Jeremy's been leaking designs to Gray's ex-husband all along - and felt totally guilty for hating India's pretentiousness all season.
Jane By Design premieres tonight at 9 p.m., but you can watch first five minutes of tonight's episode here!
What did you think about Jane's reunion with Billy? Let us know in the comments section!


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[Update 3:57 p.m.] U.S. House Speaker John Boehner has assured lawmakers that the House will vote on $60 billion in aid related to Superstorm Sandy by January 15, a group of lawmakers from New York and New Jersey told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
[Initial post, 2:22 p.m.] New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he doesn't know why House Speaker John Boehner didn't allow a vote on a $60 billion aid package to help Superstorm Sandy victims Tuesday or Wednesday, but he's steamed about it.
"There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering" of Sandy victims, and that's Boehner and the House Republican leadership, Christie told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
"Shame on you. Shame on Congress," Christie, a Republican, said.
Christie is just one of many New Jersey and New York politicians upset that the House did not consider the aid proposal on the final two full days of the 112th Congress. A new Congress will be sworn in on Thursday. The Senate had passed a bill that would have provided billions of dollars in aid to victims, but the process will begin anew with the new Congress.
Sandy killed at least 113 people in the U.S. and left millions of people without power after running up the East Coast in late October. The storm hit hardest in New York and New Jersey.
Christie said he was given assurances that the House would consider the package after it dealt with the fiscal cliff deal that it passed Tuesday night. But late Tuesday, he said, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told him that the "authority for the (Sandy) vote was pulled by the speaker."
Christie said he then "called the speaker four times last night, and he didn't take my calls."
"Every day that we don't begin to get this aid are days that we can't get people back in their homes, get businesses reopened. ... It's absolutely disgraceful," Christie said.
Getting the fiscal cliff deal passed in the House undoubtedly held up the relief measure, and many conservative House Republicans opposed the size of the Senate bill. Some said there were many unrelated provisions in it for items that were not emergency needs.
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, told reporters off the House floor late Tuesday that "leadership was all-consumed with the cliff procedure ... and they really have not had the time to devote to this because of that."
Up until Tuesday night, GOP leaders were working toward a plan of splitting up the vote into two measures: one providing $27 billion for immediate needs and another amendment offering $33 billion for longer-term recovery efforts.
Rogers said he was ready to move his scaled-back bill but did not give a timetable for the vote in the next Congress.
"FEMA has plenty of money, there's no immediate needs," he said, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
U.S. Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who also is upset that the House didn't vote on the package, told CNN Wednesday that Rogers "doesn't know what he's talking about."
"The FEMA money is not going to rebuild businesses, that's not going to provide food and shelter, and it's not going to reimburse the local governments," he said.
The bill included grant funding for owners of homes and businesses, as well as funding for public improvement projects on the electric grid, hospitals and transit systems to prevent damage from future storms.
King called the House leadership's move a "knife in the back." Boehner did not immediately respond publicly to King's assertions.
Michael Steel, Boehner's spokesman, said the speaker is "committed to getting this bill passed this month."
Everyone wants more money for some sort of aid. But no one wants to raise taxes on the middle and lower classes. How will 1 percent of the population going to support the other 75 percent. Fubar'd
It really is a travesty. As Gov Chrisie states in his press conference, NY and NJ put FAR more money into the hands of the Federal Govt than they ever get out of it. Shame on Congress for not passing the disiater relief bill. I truly belive this may be one of the worst, if not the worst, Congress in history.
Wouldn't you distance yourself from the GOP base if you were considering a Presidential run?
Shame on Christy- haven't a drop of respect for the man. Has he been kicked out the party yet? and if not – why not?
I dropped the Republican party 5 years ago because I could not reconcile what they swear is not elitism, racism, bullish behavior and political disgrace. I should not have to be so proud of Christie or King for standing up and doing and saying what's right. This should be standard. Hopefully more reps will move to the center based on how they can best serve the country they are paid by. The longer they stick to their outdated ideologies and hostage taking ways, the further they distance themselves from their base and all Independants like myself. Good job Christie and King. No, great job. Stay on that same path.
Global warming lol – you guillble idiots you believe anything. you sheep of the government mind numbed robots- is this the example you want to leave for your kids? let any con- scam artist on the street corner control your mind? think The 1938 hurricanne on LI killed hundreds, 1900 galvestton killed 8000 – hurricane camelle 1969 largesst ever to hit US – that was durig the coming ice ages. open you eyes – you fools


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ARRRGH ! It actually went wrong the way I imagined it would .. Broken links everywhere ... disoriented forum-goers hitting dead ends ... misinformation scattered amidst the dust ... Next time , use REDIRECTS ! (and if necessery new articles and restructuring and ... whatever it takes). Meanwhile , I added an info text at the top of the article.
The bit on Americanizing is a way of driving traffic to the writers site. Have left the simple version that was already there and deleted the spam.--Brian 20:59, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Brian: I was requested by forum members at the Raspberry Pi Forum to add it to the Wiki. It was in no way an attempt to drive traffic to my site. I thought it was useful information with screenshots - that's why I wrote it, the Raspberry_Pi Twitter page retweeted it and a forum member asked me to add it to the Wiki. See this link for further details: [1] Regardless, if you feel it is not a useful resource, there is no need to link to it. --Rohan Kapoor
How about a separate page, intro to the command line & SSH for beginners, which is linked to from here? I know the command line sint the best place to throw new users, however a lot of extra software is installed via the command line. Nickweb (talk)
Keyboard Mapping
This information is not quite correct. Maybe it is out of date? It didn't work for me when I tried to change the mapping from en_UK to en_US. I will try to update it. For example, the command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-data" returns an error that the console-data package is not installed on the system. The correct process can be found here: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Re-mapping_the_keyboard_with_Debian_Squeeze Cmbuck 02:49, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Update instructions from Debian to Raspbian?
Now that Raspbian is the Reccomended Distribution, shouldn't we have instructions for Raspbian, as that is what Beginners, which this article is aimed at, will be likely using?
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While we were in Cromwell, we heard the odd crash of thunder in the distance and given that there were 5 days of storms in that region, we seem to miss it all 🙂
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After leaving Weedons, were headed into Christchurch to get some more toilet chemicals and then started the trek north to Hanmer.
It is years since we were last at Hanmer and its a great place.
We headed into the NZMCA park which I've driven past numerous times but this was our first time in it. What a neat spot. We'd only just pulled up and I was levelling up Rafe when I met our next door neighbours Tony and Beryl from Motueka, who were heading south to catch up with family in Arrowtown. They had a nice little Bailey caravan and having lived in a bigger model earlier were seasoned caravanners so it was really interesting chatting to them.
We were joined by their caravan by John and his girlfriend from Australia who was a real character. He had been part of the television series Outback Truckers so it was great to catch up with them too.
The next morning, we took Rafe into Hanmer which is about 7 k's from the park and had a swim and lunch in the hotpools. While were there, out rolled these huge black clouds and it was all on with the thunder and the lightning. Even in the daylight you could see the lightening.
We got back to the park quite late and a new van had come in while we were out. Brian and Rose from Motueka. We got talking to them too and it turned out that they lived only a few houses away from Tony and Beryl 🙂 A small world.
We all got together between Rafe and Brians Motorhome and enjoyed a cold drink and a laugh or two. The Thunder and lightening hadn't finished yet but we all had umbrellas which I thought was very stoic !
The Hanmer park doesn't have any water, rubbish or any extras and as I said, its 7ks out of town but given that there is no freedom camping in the area, the options are very limited but its a great wee park all the same and comes it at the same great price as all the other NZMCA parks. 🙂


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LOS ANGELES -- On a tree-lined corner of Studio City filled with modest homes, flower gardens and neighbors who chat across back fences, two wiry celebrities are engaged in a green grudge match.
The good-natured competition between actor Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye, the host of the educational series Bill Nye, the Science Guy began when Nye moved into the neighborhood two years ago. Since then the two moderately famous and slightly geeky environmentalists have matched wits over whose home can leave a smaller carbon footprint.
Neighbor Frema Rood, 83, who lives between the two houses, said the competition started the day after Bill moved into the neighborhood.
"Bill announced it: 'I'm going to best Ed Begley at his own game. I'm going to get him,'" she recalled. "He ordered panels for the garage, then rain barrels, then he had his windows done and he put in a vegetable garden."
Nye, 52, pins the source of the rivalry on Begley, who became envious of Nye's new solar panels while filming a segment of his HGTV green living show called Living with Ed.
"Ed instantly got a little twinge — you could see it," Nye said. "My system, being 15 years younger, has a couple of nice little features that he doesn't have."
To liven up the segment, the neighbors pretended to spar over who had the better system. But in this city where the rich and famous jockey to be the first behind the wheel of a new alternative-fuel car, the jokes have given way to an environmental turf war.
Nye trumped Begley's old solar panels with a system that shows when he's making more power than he's using. Begley pushed to offset his wife's 20-minute showers with rain barrels to water the plants.
Begley long ago installed an Astro Turf lawn to save on water. He composts his garbage, cooks in an outdoor solar oven and grows his own produce. His sprinkler system electronically checks the forecast and shuts down if it's supposed to rain.
Instead of using pesticides, Begley lures slugs and snails away from his plants with trays of beer that kill them. Nye, who also has plots overflowing with produce, keeps raccoons away with an electric fence powered by a matchbox-sized solar panel.
The white picket fence that surrounds Begley's two bedroom, 1,585 square foot bungalow is made of recycled plastic milk cartons pressed into boards. Nye used the recycled plastic lumber to build a patio cover, and convinced Rood to use the same type of boards to repair their shared white fence.
While Begley calls the rivalry a "a friendly, humorous one-upmanship," he admits there are parts of the competition that are quite serious.
"He has these great copper rain gutters that I covet," Begley said.
Given Begley's 20-year head start, Nye admits that he may never fully catch up to his neighbor, who was green long before it was considered cool. Nye has called Begley the inspiration behind many of the changes he's made, including illuminating his American flag at night with a light bulb powered by a tiny solar panel.
Begley's daughter, Amanda, still remembers the days when her friends thought her father was a nut. His early electric car would start puttering out of energy as it climbed hills, and he would ask his daughter's friends — self-conscious teenage girls — how much they weighed.
"Now it's different," said Amanda Begley, now 30. "He went from being the kookiest guy around to the cool guy that everyone's calling and asking questions about things instead of just thinking, you know, that he was out of his mind."
These days Begley has his own all-purpose biodegradable cleaner called "Begley's Best" and is regularly approached by inventors to test new products.
Nye remains confidently in the lead in terms of aesthetics and order. Begley has wires poking out of appliances, bricks piled high and red rain barrels are an eyesore against the actor's blue home, Nye said.
"Ed claims — and this is an extraordinary claim — that he doesn't care how things look as long as they function well," Nye said. "I'm not in that camp. Things have to look good or don't bother."
Begley said his wife is not a fan of the barrels either. He admitted the barrels were unattractive but claims he didn't know they came in different colors and styles.
Begley has since settled on a new plan that should be acceptable to his wife — an underground cistern to store the water. More importantly, does he think his latest innovation will make Nye jealous?
"He already is," Begley said.


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Edit: Unfortunately, the images originally included in this post are gone, because of hosting problems in late 2009. My apologies.
I touched on an idea in the last post, of running a tabbed terminal emulator on a graphical desktop, and partitioning each emulator with dvtm. The idea was that it would allow an immense number of console-based programs to simultaneously co-exist, in a way that really has no impediment aside from your own needs and your ability to keep track of all those things.
The fact is though, that part of that idea stemmed from using both dvtm and screen in tandem on my Thinkpad, which is running completely without X and throwing everything against the framebuffer. And the amount of flexibility there is likewise staggering.
Maybe this screenshot (framebuffershot?) will give you an idea.
See, screen itself can do split screens, and you can bounce between applications individually, pane by pane. And as you can see there, dvtm is quite happy to further segment the available screen space into smaller and smaller areas.
It's like those Russian dolls.
Perhaps its just me, because of the proximity of it all, and the immediacy of how flexible the two are together. But to know that screen itself is keeping everything neatly bundled together, and can show two or three at a time, and all that on an 800×600 screen … it's staggering, and cool at the same time.
This is a clean installation of Crux, by the way. Start times at 550Mhz are just over 12 seconds, and I have .screenrc set up to spawn dvtm with elinks, calcurse and alpine all at once. moc is on one window, mc on another, and htop (in a much-customized state) is on the last.
And best of all, I have my customized version of MPlayer for watching my DVD rips on the framebuffer. What in the world was I bothering with X for?! 😯


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My mother and me, drinking champagne at her 90th birthday party in Ellicott City, MD (Photo: David Cash)
This piece was posted in Little Patuxent Review on 31 January 2012.
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Compared to others in the developed world, the United States is a young nation. Only 13 percent of us were over the age of 65 in 2010. And only 15 percent of those lived with their children, compared to 65 percent in Japan and 39 percent in Italy. Thus most of us have little day-to-day contact with the demographic that will–sooner or later–include each of us. That the elderly remain invisible to many is not only their loss but also ours.
When my mother moved from Michigan to Maryland to live with me at age 83, it was a revelation. I already knew that she was smart and strong. (Any survivor of two world wars ravaging her homeland, Latvia, was that by definition.) What I didn't know was how funny and fun-loving she could be once the burden of starting over in a strange land was lifted. The smiling lady who emerged was one that I recognized from old photographs of us as war refugees in Austria. I also didn't know how hard it was to grow old and face death–my mother did "not go gentle into that good night"–and how much I would miss her once she was gone.
When I heard that Christopher Kennedy, renowned poet and son-in-law of a Latvian childhood friend, had lost his mother as well, I asked him to switch subjects for the essay he had agreed to post here. He was kind enough to go from addressing audacity, the theme of our upcoming issue, to the elderly. Not unrelated topics, as it turns out.
Chris, who heads the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University and has authored poetry collections such as Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, winner of the 2007 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, was granted a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, which he is using to produce a major work about his late mother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Here's what he said about her final years:
My mother passed away two months ago. Her heart stopped in her sleep. She was 95 years old and had been suffering from Alzheimer's for the last three years of her life. She was, by any standard, an elderly person, but those last three years, difficult and troubling to be sure, allowed her to transcend the limitations age imposed on her.
By that I mean her proclivity toward time travel, which allowed her to experience the present populated with characters from her past. I was at various points her brother Tom, just home from reconnaissance over Anzio; her brother Joe, the star athlete; and her father William, the deputy sheriff. My job was to be a good character actor, slipping in and out of my roles as fluidly as she slipped from 2009 to 1945.
Of course, this was the upside. My first experience of her dementia, which I knew to be more than a "senior moment," was when I was summoned to her assisted living facility. I was told that she had a vitamin deficiency and was dehydrated. I drove her to the ER. On the way, she told me very emphatically that she was not pregnant.
As she was 92 at the time, I had no reason to doubt her. But there was no irony in her voice; in fact, she was trembling. I began to ask questions about her concerns, and it became clear that she thought she was a teenager and I was driving her to the hospital to have the baby. She told me again that she couldn't be pregnant. "I've never even dated," she insisted. I wrote the following prose poem about the incident:
Memory Unit: Pregnancy Scare
On the way to the hospital, my 92 year-old mother tells me she can't be pregnant. I've never even dated, she says. I don't know what to say. I explain that she's deficient. Vitamin B. Precautionary measures. But when I check her in, the woman at the desk says she'll need to go to the fifth floor, the psych ward, where she spent a few weeks the year before. The doctor asks her to disrobe, and she tells him she's not pregnant. He seems impatient, unwilling to humor her. I tell her it's all right. No one thinks you're pregnant, I say. The doctor excuses himself. He's red-faced, impatient. A nurse appears with a hospital gown, tells my mother to put it on. Why? my mother asks, near tears. I take the gown from the nurse and set it down on the metal table next to where my mother sits. She'll be fine, I say. The nurse seems about to speak, then thinks better of it. She looks at the doctor. They leave the two of us alone. Now what? my mother asks. I don't know, I say. She says, the least you could do is ask me to dance.
I knew in that moment that my mother, as I had known her, was gone. Over the next three years, I learned about numerous other selves contained within her. I found out about the good speller, the shy teenager, the waitress, the bride, the young mother, the victim, the widow, the grandmother, among many other facets of the woman who gave me life. I gained a perspective on the elderly that I would never have had were it not for my mother's illness. Interacting with those various selves gave me the opportunity to know more about my mother even as she lost more and more of the world around her.
A few days after my mother died, I prepared for her calling hours by helping to put together a photo collage. As I sifted through old pictures, I was struck by how happy she seemed. Whether it was walking down the street with her waitress friends or walking down the aisle with my father, there was a subtle joy that I had failed to see when she was alive. It occurred to me that I hadn't been able to properly perceive her until I saw all those different selves, clustered together, smiling back at me, forcing me to acknowledge the depth of her person and the richness of her life.
Though my own mother remained as sharp as the proverbial tack until her death at age 91, medications administered to ease her pain took their toll. She became uncontrollably agitated at the hospital, and orderlies subdued her by strapping her into a straightjacket–baby blue, patterned with small pink flowers. It was a terrible time for both of us, but I still smile when I recall an incident that occurred after she was admitted to the ER for the last time. Lying there, doped up on OxyContin, plastered with Fentanyl patches, battered and bruised from a fall, she reached up and smartly slapped the face of a male nurse who had lifted her gown to assess the extent of her injuries. "How dare you!" she said.
Our elderly have fascinating stories to tell, and the telling benefits everyone. Whether through journal therapy, literary publications like Persimmon Tree or Passager that are set aside for seniors or more mainstream outlets, the more experienced among us can share their wit and wisdom and gain a greater sense of self-worth in the process.
And lest it be said that those substantially over 65 cannot compete with their younger counterparts, nationally acclaimed novelist Pauls Toutonghi, who worked with me in writing the original "On Being Invisible" piece, compiled what could be construed as an answer to The New Yorker's "20 under 40″: his own "8 over 80," part of "In Praise of Older Men (and Women) Writers." Not to steal his thunder, but here's the list:
I'm sure somewhere there are comparable lists of poets and visual artists.


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Shirley Ann Tindall, 87 of Gowen, died Thursday, June 21, 2012 at Spectrum Health United Memorial Campus, Greenville. Mrs. Tindall was born January 11, 1925 in Carson City, Michigan the daughter of Floyd and Rose (Jansen) Blanton. She retired from Grand Rapids Public Schools as a school bus driver for Lincoln School. Surviving are two sons, Randy (Lynn) Tindall of Holland, Rich (Barb) Tindall of Lowell; 4 grandchildren, Kurt (Jill) Tindall, Sarah (Jim) Rienks, Dana (Clint) Dickinson, Richie (Ashley) Tindall; 8 great grandchildren; brothers, Howard (Violet) Blanton, Donald Blanton, Terry (Barb) Blanton; nieces and nephews; best friend, Oma Werner; and many other dear friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elwin in 2010; son, David in 2009; brother, Douglas Blanton; sister, Orvina Slaughter. Services were held Monday, June 25 at the Bliss-Witters & Pike Funeral Home, Cedar Springs. Interment East Nelson Cemetery. Chaplain Joan Cornelison officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to Hope Network.
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Today's News: Our Take - Downton Abbey: Was Thomas' Downfall Deserved?
[Spoiler alert! The following contains details from Sunday's episode of Downton Abbey. Read if you dare risk the wrath of the Dowager Countess.]
Downton Abbey's Thomas finally got his comeuppance, but was it enough? Or was it unfair treatment?
On Sunday's episode, the sneering servant was finally outmaneuvered by his fellow downstairs nemesis O'Brien (Siobhan Finneran) who convinced him that footman Jimmy (Ed Speleers) reciprocated his romantic feelings. Thomas (Rob James-Collier) made his move by kissing the unsuspecting sleeping Jimmy, who was shocked and disgusted by the unwanted advances.
Playing matchmaker for Downton Abbey's lovelorn servants
Although Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) planned to allow Thomas to resign for the infraction and leave with a good reference, Jimmy (counseled by O'Brien) threatened to report the incident to the police unless Thomas was sent off packing without one. Through the actions of Mr. Bates (Brendan Coyle) and Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), Jimmy backed down and Thomas stayed on at Downton as under butler.
Thomas is not an easy person to like, but he's not entirely unsympathetic either. We examine the reasons why his character and this incident created such a division among Downton's residents.
Karmic payback
Why he deserved punishment: Thomas is despicable! He's a wholly selfish person who revels in making his fellow servants unhappy and will not hesitate to employ underhanded means to get what he wants, like when he got his hand shot on purpose so he could be discharged from the Army or when he stole the Crawley's family dog so he could be seen as a hero when he "found" her and get promoted to valet. His recent pranks against O'Brien and her nephew Alfred (Matt Milne) almost assured retaliation on her part.
Why he didn't deserve punishment: The aggravation and embarrassment they suffered, however, aren't in balance to the loss of his job security. For a servant without reference, Thomas could have easily become destitute or be forced to resort to less savory means of income (like Ethel's descent into prostitution). Although he mentioned living with a cousin in Bombay, to give up the life he knows for one of uncertainty is a hefty price to pay for an unpleasant personality.
How Downton Abbey broke our hearts
Why he deserved punishment: For the time and place, homosexuality was treated as a crime, which is why both Jimmy and Alfred wanted to report him to the authorities. The more religiously conservative members of the household also felt that Thomas brought his repugnant sin into the house. "I cannot hide that I find your situation revolting," Mr. Carson told him. "You have been twisted by nature into something foul," to which Thomas replied, "I'm not foul Mr. Carson. I'm not the same as you, but I'm not foul."
Why he didn't deserve punishment: Religious views should not affect whom one hires in a domestic situation. As for homosexuality being deemed a crime, it appears to be a matter of imperfect, outdated laws not quite catching up to the current moral climate. Most of the older members of the household already knew that Thomas was gay and were surprised that it was even an issue. The notoriously old-fashioned and conservative Lord Grantham even told Bates, "If I had yelled blue murder every time someone had tried to kiss me at Eaton, I would have gone hoarse in a month."
Sexual harassment
Why he deserved punishment: No one -- regardless of age, gender or sexual preference -- should be subject to unwanted advances in the workplace. Jimmy had every right to be angered and offended by Thomas' unexpected kiss, when Jimmy was not only unaware but also unable to protest.
Why he didn't deserve punishment: It's not harassment if the attentions are invited or desired, such as when the American maid Reed and Alfred made out in the larder. We have no idea why Thomas would trust O'Brien on the matter, but he was misled to believe that Jimmy would welcome his attentions.
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Kawasaki Aircraft initially manufactured motorcycles under the Meguro name, having bought an ailing motorcycle manufacturer, Meguro Manufacturing with whom they had been in partnership. Later formed Kawasaki Motor Sales. Some early motorcycles display an emblem with "Kawasaki Aircraft" on the fuel tank.
During 1962, Kawasaki engineers were developing a four-stroke engine for small cars which ended in 1962 when some of the engineers transferred to the Meguro factory to work on the Meguro K1 and the SG, a single cylinder 250 cc OHV. In 1963, Kawasaki and Meguro merged to form Kawasaki Motorcycle Co.,Ltd. Kawasaki motorcycles from 1962 through 1967 used an emblem which can be described as a flag within a wing.
Work continued on the Meguro K1, a copy of the BSA A7 500 cc vertical twin. and on the Kawasaki W1. The K2 was exported to the U.S. for a test in response to the expanding American market for four-stroke motorcycles in which case it was rejected for a lack of power but by the mid-1960s, Kawasaki was finally exporting a moderate number of motorcycles. The Kawasaki H1 Mach III in 1968, along with several enduro-styled motorcycles to compete with Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda, increased sales of Kawasaki units.
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"Where Growth and Fun Walk Hand in Hand"
- Algonquin Park Ontario summer camping for girls
- Private secure Algonquin lake with water access only
- Camp established since 1925
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- Campers benefit & develop from interaction with role model Counselors
Camp Tanamakoon was established in 1925 and girls return year after year to develop camp skills right in Ontario's pristine Algonquin Park. Parents can be comforted with the knowledge that Camp Tanamakoon prides itself on staffing with Counselors that are responsible, energetic, fun loving and exhibiting outstanding leadership skills. In fact most of our Counselors are former campers themselves and they return every year as role models for the children. The Counselors work under the supervision of Camp Directors and a Doctor and Nurse reside full time at the camp to supervise campers' health.
Camp Tanamakoon is dedicated to the highest standards and preserves the traditional camp values while promoting the self esteem of our young campers. The program provides flexibility and the needs of each camper are taken into account. Your child will quickly feel she is part of the Tanamakoon family and will want to
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Campers live in comfortable wood cabins or platform tents. Younger campers have live in counselors. Accommodation placement is determined in consultation with the camper families in advance of the camp season. From time to time special trips are arranged for the older campers outside of the boundaries of Algonquin Park. These excursions are called tripping and include mountain biking, kayaking and canoe trips to the Ottawa and French rivers.
Daily activities for younger campers are structured so that they can obtain a foundation of camping skills. Programs are filled with exciting new learning experiences and skill development. Older campers can deviate from standard programs to allow for individual interests. All activities are planned and supervised by trained Counselors who pay attention to the needs of each child. Regular activities include such things as environmental studies, wood crafting, racquet sports, mountain biking, climbing wall, archery, fitness, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, windsurfing, arts & crafts, live theatre acting, pottery, music and miniature horse care - just to name a few. Swimming classes include Lifesaving and Red Cross instruction. A safety system is in place to ensure your child's camp experience will be safe and accident free.
Camp Tanamakoon will provide your daughter with an exceptional experience that she can apply to situations and challenges that may arise throughout childhood development and adult life. It is a wonderful opportunity for children to experience a real wilderness setting and develop a true appreciation for our natural environment. We invite you to take a good look at our web site. We can also provide you with a CD and brochure reading material. We are always happy to answer any detailed questions you may have. Camp Tanamakoon prides itself in offering an Ontario girls camp experience that is second to none.
We would also like to leave you with this thought. Algonquin Provincial Park is one of the few places left on the planet where things are fairly much as they were since the beginning of time. Camp Tanamakoon is located right inside Algonquin Park and as such it gives the campers a sense that there was a time where things were quite different - before cities developed - and an understanding that food on the table did not always materialize from a grocery store. Campers come to realize that there is a bigger picture out there than just video games and shopping. At Tanamakoon they are surrounded by the majesty of nature and it is an experience that is an important element in a child's development. It can't be bought at a store, or absorbed in an urban environment. Tanamakoon teaches respect for our natural surroundings and provides an example that translates to a lifelong awareness.


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Southern California fire officials warned Monday that the state should take caution during a brutal fire season that projections suggest could be the worst to hit the region in a century.
"We're going to have a very volatile fire season," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said at a Monday afternoon news conference, who noted it could be the worst in 100 years.
The warning comes nearly a week after a monstrous wildfire began to cut a deadly path through Colorado Springs, killing two people and destroying nearly 500 homes. The Black Forest Fire – the most destructive blaze in Colorado history – was 75 percent contained Monday.
California officials advised that projected weather conditions – a menacing mix of warm, dry Santa Ana winds and scant rainfall – may make the looming fire season the most devastating in 100 years.
"Fire conditions in southern California are at levels we have not seen in many, many years," California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Director Ken Pimlott said Monday. "That is the case across all of California."
The blazes on the forecast are expected to wreak extensive havoc across wide swaths of the state, endangering lives and natural resources, Pimlott said.
"These aren't fires that just burn out in the forest and in the brush lands," Pimlott said. "These are fires that directly impact the state's natural resources and the very water that we drink and the air that we breathe."
Officials are bracing for roughly 2,600 fires across 51,000 acres – a 75 percent increase from the annual average over the last five years, according to Pimlott.
A 30,000-acre drought-fueled powerhouse blaze ripped through the region in early June, forcing thousands of evacuations and threatening thousands of buildings. The fire destroyed at least six homes.
The devastation wrought by the massive Colorado wildfire should serve as a "wake up call" for Californians, Pimlott said.
"All we need to do right now is look on the news and see what's occurring in Colorado and Colorado Springs," Pimlott said. "The exact same conditions exist in California."
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Statistically speaking, the days that follow Christmas and other year-end holiday celebrations show a higher spike in depression and suicide. Today's post is is a new 9 minute video from MormonMessages which offers some insight and solace. Produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the message comes from a talk by LDS apostle Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, originally given at a CES Fireside at Brigham Young Univeristy on Sept. 7, 2008 – entitled "Lessons From Liberty Jail", combined with beautiful photography, and touching movie clips. It stands as a powerful reminder that we are never really alone, and there is always hope. I encourage you to watch!
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Most sanitation costs in rural and peri-urban areas are borne by households and when these are taken into account, the per capita costs are actually higher than those for water. State expenditure on capital maintenance, operation and maintenance, and direct and indirect support costs for sanitation is minimal in all four research countries of the WASHCost project. Households in Africa are spending surprisingly high amounts on soap. These are some of the findings that were presented at the IRC Symposium in The Hague on 16-18 November 2010.
The WASHCost project is working with partners in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique and in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh to collect and analyse cost data for water and sanitation services in rural and peri-urban areas. The overall aim is to build better cost data into country systems to increase the quality of services, especially targeting issues of poverty, equity and cost-effectiveness.
WASHCost is completing the third year of the five year project which is run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in the Netherlands and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. An intensive year of data collection is being analysed but preliminary results were revealed for the first time at the IRC Symposium in The Hague.
Some of the sanitation-related findings include:
- In Andhra Pradesh, India, households spend from US$ 150 to US$ 227 on their toilets in addition to the Government subsidy – which is supposed to cover 90% of the costs
- WASHCost researched ten villages in Andhra Pradesh that had won the NGP [Nirmal Gram Puraskar] award for becoming 'open defecation free' and found open defecation again being practised in nine of them. This "slippage" relates to the failure of sustainability of large hygiene interventions
- In Mozambique, all sanitation construction costs are borne by households. Going from traditional pit latrine to a higher level of service implies at least 50% more capital costs per person per year
- Pit latrines are widely used in Burkina Faso and in Mozambique and last a long time without much maintenance. However, they are not considered as safe in government norms
- In Ghana, communities spend US$ 26 per capita per year on soap, more than the per capita cost of a small town water system. In Mozambique, households are spending up to 5% of their cash-income on soap. This average of US$ 12 per capita per year is more than the per capita expenditure on hygiene promotion interventions
Related web site: WASHCost
Source: Peter McIntrye, IRC, 27 Nov 2010


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An Op-Ed blog by April DeConick, featuring discussions of the Nag Hammadi collection, Tchacos Codex,
and other Christian apocrypha, but mostly just the things on my mind.
featuring discussions of the Nag Hammadi collection,
Tchacos Codex, and other Christian apocrypha,
but mostly just the things on my mind.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Dr. Franklin Trammell
8 comments:
- Julia Ergane said...
Will Dr. Trammell be publishing his dissertation? I am sure it will take a little while; but, I look forward to it.
- March 15, 2014 at 1:03 PM
- Unknown said...
Congrats to Dr. Trammell! It sounds like an interesting piece.
- March 15, 2014 at 1:46 PM
- Himself said...
Agreed! we need more of the early understanding of Roman Christianity.Nuair a shuíonn an coileach péacoige ar a thóin, níl ann ach turcach
Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.
- March 15, 2014 at 3:06 PM
- John Dash said...
Congratulations! I am very much looking forward to reading your work.
- March 15, 2014 at 10:22 PM
- lightseeker said...
Congratulations, Dr. Trammell! I have long sensed that a very early form of Christianity was mystically oriented, and have been searching for scholarly info about this. It sounds like your dissertation is something I'd love to read. I do hope your work is published soon. Thank you for your valuable contribution/research and insights!
- March 17, 2014 at 10:24 AM
- Unknown said...
According to Walter Bauer "primitive Christianity" never existed. was never existed, and the earliest heresies were simply varied understandings of Jesus' message that arose in different geographical localities. Paul and his theology are but one misunderstandings. In fact Christianity did not appear until after 65 CE in the Gentile world.
- March 22, 2014 at 6:52 PM
- Unknown said...
Correction to above comment: According to Walter Bauer "primitive Christianity" never existed, and - - .
- March 22, 2014 at 6:59 PM
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7 February 2019
The UNESCO-Pearson Initiative for Literacy is launching its Guidelines for Designing Inclusive Digital Solutions and Developing Digital Skills on the occasion of International Literacy Day, which this year examines integrated approaches to literacy and skills development.In an increasingly digitised world, people need digital and literacy skills to work, live, learn and communicate productively. Without these skills, people face marginalisation not only in the physical world but in digital realms as well. Fortunately, digital exclusion is avoidable.
Purposefully designed solutions can help people—even those with very low literacy levels and nascent technology skills—navigate digital spaces and benefit from relevant applications, such as those that connect users to health services, support refugees or help farmers improve productivity.
Person as author: Vosloo, Steve Document code: ED/PLS/YLS/2018/03 Collation: 42 p., illus. Language: English Year of publication: 2018 Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO [5219]
Download the guidelines
Permanent link: http://en.unesco.kz/designing-inclusive-digital-solutions-and-developing-digital-skills


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EDGE Press Room
EDGE Media Network Named Top 10 Social Healthmaker on HIV and AIDS
For Immediate Release April 7, 2014
New York -- Today, EDGE's Health Editor Winnie McCroy were labeled as the 5th most influential expert on HIV by Sharecare, a leading health and wellness engagement platform.
The "Top 10 Social HealthMakers on HIV and AIDS" list was compiled via a proprietary algorithm based on more than 100 individual social metrics developed by WCG, the leading digital marketing and communications agency.
"We're thrilled to be included," said McCroy of EDGE's presence on the list. "We think our efforts in covering HIV and AIDS are tremendous, but it's great that others notice our work."
According to the CDC, 11 million people in the US currently are living with AIDS, and an additional 55,000 become infected with HIV each year.
The full list of "Top 10 Social HealthMakers on HIV and AIDS" can be found at https://about.sharecare.com/press-releases/sharecare-names-top-10-social-healthmakers-hiv-aids
EDGE is the largest network of local Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) news and information in the world, serving over 1 million dedicated readers each month the web at edgemedianetwork.com and on iOS and Android mobile platforms. We are dedicated to the delivery of local, national and world content targeted to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community in a fair, entertaining and interactive format. We cover the LGBT community around the world and locally in Atlanta GA, Atlantic City NJ, Austin TX, Baltimore MD, Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Charlotte NC, Chicago IL, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Dallas TX, Denver CO, Detroit MI, Fire Island NY, Ft. Lauderdale FL, Houston TX, Hudson Valley NY, Indianapolis IN, Key West FL, Las Vegas NV, Los Angeles CA, Miami FL, Minneapolis-St. Paul MN, Nashville TN, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Orlando FL, Palm Springs CA, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, Providence RI, Provincetown MA, Sacramento CA, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA, Seattle WA, and Washington DC. You can also access content via Twitter @EDGEMediaNet and on Facebook (@EDGE Media Network).
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Hidden Kaimuki gem
Yesterday's brokers' opens revealed some new listings that realtors think will be hot properties this weekend, such as this home on Hanole Place in Kaimuki. It's not just that the house is cute; the 96816 area is considered to be a popular neighborhood right now.
"It's a very private location off of Ocean View Drive and sits on a knoll, so you get views out to Koko Head and a good breeze," says Shaila Campbell of Island, REALTORS.
Campbell says the 83-year-old home has been in the family for more than 60 years, and has been maintained well. Aside from the dated design, the home does show almost like new. The tatami room extension, which opens out to the yard, was built in the 1970s; the newest upgrade is the roof, which was done two years ago.
The two-story home was built so that the levels connect seamlessly for one-family living, but you can opt for multi-family living, as the upstairs has two bedrooms and 1.5 baths, while the downstairs has two bedrooms and one bath with a separate entry.
The residence is a spacious 2,205 square feet, but there are lots of built-ins. As you walk through the home, you'll find a lot of bookshelves and—my favorite—lots of shoe racks.
You can see the home yourself at the first open house this Sunday from 2 to 5 pm. (Click here for more details.)
Money talk: $865,000 fee simple
Contact: Shaila Campbell, Island, REALTORS, 808-741-7455, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Dior Homme's Robert Pattinson campaign release has been an exercise in masturbatory extension. If you build it up that much, with so many teasers to teasers and teasers for trailers, it better be amazing. Is it? The short film will be released on Sunday. At this point though, unless you're a Twi-Hard, I feel like you stopped caring 3 weeks ago, maybe more. It's doubtful that Pattinson would have had anything to do with the strategy of such an exhaustive roll-out though. Is he the type to be embarrassed by it or do you think there's a part of Justin Timberlake in Robert Pattinson after all.
While Pattinson's slow jerk has lasted half the summer, Kristen Stewart's latest fragrance reveal has been the exact opposite. No warning whatsoever and check it out, her latest ad for Balenciaga Florabotanica, just dropped on us, no advance necessary. The casual way it's been executed like this, almost as though it's a shrug, or an afterthought, makes the opposite seem overly indulgent, non? And she looks great. Much better styling than last time.
Also attached – Stewart in Berlin yesterday working on a new film.


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Rainey, Joseph Hayne
Rainey, Joseph Hayne, 1832–87, first African American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, b. Georgetown, S.C. The son of a free man, he fled to the West Indies during the Civil War. Returning to South Carolina, he served (1867–70) as a Republican in the state senate. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1870–79) he was a leader in the fight to secure civil rights for the newly freed slaves.
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Slowly but surely, bringing your own device to work is becoming mainstream. Though security concerns remain, Gartner estimated this month that by 2017, half of employers will stop providing employees with machines.
BYOD is a widely acknowledged trend. Not so widely acknowledged, but equally important to productivity and data and network security, is its lesser-known byproduct, BYOS.
BYOS as a growing force in the enterprise
Whether you expand BYOS to Bring Your Own Service or Bring Your Own Software, the acronym's central meaning remains the same: many workers want to share and access company data without using enterprise software. To give just one example, over 2 million businesses use Dropbox, and those business users save over 600 million files on the service every workweek, according to a Dropbox spokesperson.
Workers are getting accustomed to using their own laptops and phones; it's not surprising that they want to use their preferred file hosting services, social networks, and productivity applications as well. Having a choice is especially important to Millennials, who have been using consumer software for the majority of their lives. In the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report, 56 percent of college students said that if a potential employer banned social media access, they would either find a way to get around the ban or outright reject a job offer. And that's just social media access.
It's impossible to predict the future, but the evidence suggests that BYOS won't be a short-lived trend. A future where employees regularly use non-enterprise services and applications could be desirable—if IT professionals navigate the security challenges with caution.
Establish clear policies
The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland said it best: if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. It's difficult to choose the right tools for securely using non-enterprise services if you don't have well-defined policies.
First, policymakers must identify the most sensitive data in the enterprise. The criteria for highly sensitive data vary by organization, but there are three main types: data that would give competitors a significant edge, private customer data, and data that requires protection to comply with industry-specific laws. This data should be kept off non-enterprise services entirely, or at least encrypted at the file level.
When it comes to less sensitive data, companies should decide which non-enterprise services and applications are secure enough and which ones pose too many risks. Like a good diet plan, this method gives employees options—but only healthy ones. To keep employees involved, companies could survey them to determine which services and applications are already popular.
Check non-enterprise services for security holes
When deciding which services to accept, it's wise to go beyond reading reviews and ask for the results of a vulnerability scan.
Most companies that make popular file hosting services and productivity applications do a good job of describing their security features to potential customers. However, asking for concrete proof eliminates a certain amount of doubt. It also puts emphasis on the fact that your company expects network security to be taken very seriously.
In all likelihood, many companies have up-to-date reports at the ready. Even if they don't, they can easily scan their code for vulnerabilities using services like Hewlett-Packard's Fortify On Demand, which offers free, standard, and premium scans. The premium scan supports the scan of over 20 programming languages and looks for cross-site scripting and SQL injection.
Protect sensitive data
Even after choosing non-enterprise services carefully, IT administrators should select the right tools to prevent highly sensitive data from winding up on one of them.
Both network- and endpoint-based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions stop employees from sharing sensitive data, whether the attempts take place through non-enterprise email accounts, social networks, or file hosting services. Network-based solutions detect sensitive data as it gets sent out of the enterprise network; endpoint-based solutions examine user activity that takes place on laptops, tablets, servers, and so forth. Some solutions, such as RSA Data Loss Prevention, notify users when they've attempted to violate a company policy, thus encouraging awareness of the rules.
As effective as DLP solutions can be, they don't cover everything. It's important to ensure that only the right people can access sensitive data in the first place. Varonis's Data Governance Suite, for example, includes two components: DatAdvantage and DataPrivilege. The former records user activity, shows which users can access which folders, and makes recommendations upon perceiving superfluous access. The latter allows data owners to review permissions and grant or revoke them where necessary. (It should be noted that on May 22, Varonis announced the launch of DatAnywhere, a Dropbox-like service for the enterprise.)
Embracing the BYOS trend might still seem risky, but it's important to remember that consumer software companies aren't the enemy. Those who threaten enterprise networks and the data they carry are, and network and data security policymakers must keep that real threat in mind, considering consumer software and service providers as potential allies.
"We're constantly working to improve systems, policies, and procedures that protect our user's data," the Dropbox spokesperson I spoke to wrote in an email, noting this month's new development: single sign-on (SSO) for Dropbox for Business customers.
They have a vested interest in security, too.
How does your organization handle BYOS security? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.


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Report: Drought intensifies in Kansas, Nebraska
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ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Rains that eased or stabilized parched conditions in some key farming states haven't helped growers and ranchers in Kansas or Nebraska, where the severity of the drought continues to spike, a climate monitoring center showed Thursday.
Storms that rolled through swaths of the nation's midsection last week offered some respite to farmers punished for months by the widest U.S. drought in decades. Nonetheless, rainfall so late in the growing season might not meaningfully improve yield expectations that the federal government has downgraded for two straight months.
The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday showed that the amount of the contiguous U.S. mired in drought dropped less than 1 percentage point to 61.8 percent as of Tuesday. The portion enduring extreme or exceptional drought _ the two worst classifications _ also eased, to 23.68 percent from 24.14 percent.
In Iowa, the nation's leader in corn production, the amount of land classified in those two most-serious categories dropped 7 percentage points to 62.05 percent over the past week, thanks to the recent storms.
``Other areas, such as the Southern and Central Plains, were not as lucky and continued to dry out,'' the National Climatic Data Center's Michael Brewer wrote in the update, released weekly by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
The amount of land in Nebraska suffering exceptional drought spiked by 19 percentage points to 22.5 percent, while the number in Kansas jumped from 38.6 percent last week to 63.3 percent now. Illinois, another key supplier of corn and soybeans, saw its conditions abate slightly, with the amount of land in the two worst drought categories slipping from 81.18 percent to 79.54 percent.
The U.S. Agriculture Department has twice slashed its forecast for this year's corn and soybean output because of the punishing drought in the nation's breadbasket. It forecast the nation's biggest harvest ever in the spring, when farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn _ the most since 1937. But the agency has cut its estimate twice since then and now expects the nation to produce 10.8 billion bushels, the least since 2006.
If that estimate holds, the federal government says it will be enough to meet the world's needs and ensure there are no shortages. But experts say food prices will almost certainly climb as corn is a widely used ingredient in products ranging from cosmetics to cereal, colas and candy bars.
The USDA's latest estimate predicts corn farmers will average 123.4 bushels per acre, down 24 bushels from last year in what would be the lowest average yield in 17 years. But the yield would still be as good as nearly a decade ago, when the average was about 129 bushels in a year without drought.
The drought stretching across the U.S. from Ohio west to California is deepest in the middle of the country.


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When your child becomes interested in becoming a competitive swimmer, it is important to know what to expect. In addition to the swimming lessons that will teach your child how to swim properly using the appropriate techniques, there are pieces of equipment you will need to buy to get him ready for his life as a swimmer. Making sure he has what he needs for practices, and ultimately meets, is important to his success.
One of the first things your child will need is an appropriate suit for practices. The one for the meet can come later. A good lap swimming suit will provide him with all the support he needs without restricting movement or causing additional resistance. As long as you get a suit made from quality material that is designed for low resistance, your child will do well at practice. Once he is on a team, you can worry about a swim team suit.
Personal GearThere are a few more pieces of personal gear your child will need to begin swimming at a competitive level. Because hair can really slow you down in the water, a good swim cap is necessary to reduce that resistance. In addition to the swim cap to reduce resistance due to hair, you will also need to buy a good pair of swim goggles. These goggles serve a dual purpose: protection for your eyes and the ability to see.
Other Optional Gear
While the above is absolutely necessary to enter the world of competitive swimming, there are other things that are nice to have along the way. A good backpack or tote bag will allow you to carry all your gear with you without getting your regular clothes wet. Your child can also benefit from certain training tools, such as swim fins, paddles and kickboards, to help perfect technique and build strength so your child can grow as a swimmer.
As you consider entering your child into the world of competitive swimming, you will also need to consider the costs associated with giving your child a good shot of doing well. This includes buying a quality swim team suit for your child, as well as a swim cap and goggles to allow him to learn to swim fast. In addition, you may need to purchase some other items your child can benefit from in his journey to becoming a contender on a swim team.


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Foreign net selling of Bursa equities picks up to RM320.3mil
KUALA LUMPUR: Net selling of domestic equities by offshore funds accelerated in the previous week to RM320.3mil, more than five times the amount registered in the week prior.
According to MIDF Research, more than half of the net outflow was recorded on Thursday as RM196.3mil net value left the Malaysian market.
The fund flow on Bursa Malaysia was in line with developments in the region as foreign investors continued to pull out of Asian equities for the fourth straight week.
"Based on the provisional aggregate data for the seven Asian exchanges that we track, investors classified as 'foreign' sold US$3.01b net last week, slightly lower as compared to a net selling of US$3.41b in the previous week.
"Out of the 26 trading weeks so far in 2022, there has been 19 weeks of net selling and seven weeks of net buying," said MIDF.
Meanwhile, local institutions on Bursa Malaysia turned net buyers for the week with RM182.7mi net inflow.
Local retailers maintained their net buying pree for the fourth week with RM137.5mil net purchases.
In terms of the sector, industrial products and services, technology and energy saw the highest net outflow by foreigners amounting to RM124.6m, RM83mil and RM60.1mil.
Biggest net buying by foreigners was in utilities with RM19.6m.
There was growth in average daily trade value (ADTV) among foreign investors by 10.14%. Retail investors and institutional investors saw declines in ADTV by 7.56% and 13.85% respectively.


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Prep Wrestling: Hononegah pounds Dakota in key dual match
Hononegah pounds Dakota
ROCKTON — The Hononegah wrestling team handed Dakota a 39-17 defeat Thursday at home in a big dual match between two state-ranked teams.
With the win, the Hononegah improved to 8-0 overall on the year. Dakota dipped to 7-2 on the year.
Hononegah, ranked No. 4 in Class 3A by Illinoismatmen.com, won nine of the 14 bouts, highlighted by a four pinned matches from Brady Powers at 113, Keegan Powers at 120, Tyler DeMoss at 170 and Matt Jacobs at 195.
"Tyler DeMoss was huge," Hononegah first-year coach Jason Glodowksi said. "Brady and Keegan was good with big pins and Matt Jacobs. All were big points."
Dakota, ranked No. 1 in Class 1A, won five bouts with victories from Carver James at 160, Daniel Zimmerman at 220, Josh Alber at 132, Greg Krulas at 138 and JJ Wolfe at 145.
From the early goings, it appeared it would be a much tighter match. Hononegah took the first match with Braden Zalapi winning 12-8 over Dakota's Nate Olsen. Dakota answered with Carver James' 15-3 decision over Hononegah's Zach Benkovich at 160. Hononegah's Tyler DeMoss broke that tie as he pinned Jared Packer in 1:42, giving the Indians a 9-4 lead. From there, Hononegah earned two more wins from Jake Flower at 182 and Matt Jacobs at 195 to lead 18-4.
"It was a lot of big momentum swings," Glodowski said.
Zimmerman earned his win with a 5-2 decision over Hononegah's Blake Zalapi at 220. Hononegah's TJ Babcock went 5-0 against Dakota's Chris Jensen at 285. That match sparked another run for the Indians, who won four more matches before Josh Alber got a 15-7 win over Hononoegah freshman Christian Fausel. Fausel led 2-1 at the start of the match over Alber, who is ranked No. 8 in the country by intermatwrestle.com.
"I was happy with myself," Fausel said. "He (Alber) is a good wrestler, so he did what he had to do, but I did what I needed to do and I am proud to be able to help the team."
Dakota closed the match earning victories from Krulas and Wolfe.
Brenda Young; 815-987-1388; byoung@rrstar,com; @brendafyoung


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September 19th, 2011
Squaring Pat Robertson's Alzheimer's remarks with the Bible
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
(CNN)– Televangelist Pat Robertson's comments last week advising a husband to divorce his Alzheimer's-stricken wife drew criticism from Robertson's usual theological allies.
"This is more than an embarrassment," wrote Russell D. Moore, dean of the school of theology and senior vice president for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. "This is more than cruelty. This is a repudiation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Many Christians in the Twitterverse and in other online spaces also expressed disapproval of Robertson's comments, which came in response to a viewer of his "700 Club" TV show asking about a friend who started dating another women after his wife developed Alzheimer's disease.
"He says that he should be allowed to see other people, because his wife as he knows her is gone," the viewer asked. "I'm not sure what to tell him. Please help."
Robertson acknowledged the situation is a "terribly hard thing" but said the viewer's friend is right. "I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again, but to make sure she has custodial care and somebody (is) looking after her."
When his co-anchor pushed back against that advice, Robertson acknowledged the marriage vow of "Till death do us part" but said that Alzheimer's is "a kind of death."
Criticism from the medical community seems to be less harsh than that from Christians but has nonetheless been forthcoming.
Here's Eric J. Hall, founding president and chief executive officer of the Alzheimer's Foundation of America:
In a Facebook post Thursday, Robertson's show, "The 700 Club," acknowledged the criticism without taking anything back:
- CNN's Elizabeth Landau contributed to this report.
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