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Well, this week's book threw me for a loop, and not for any reason I'd ever have imagined.
This is a 1970s classic. Lois Duncan wrote several books about teens and put them in danger, sometimes physical, sometimes supernatural. I devoured her books as a young adolescent. I loved being terrified, and she was darned good at it.
Still is. Summer of Fear holds up very, very well by itself. In a nutshell: Rachel and her family (parents, two brothers) live a comfortable and happy life in Albuquerque until Rachel's aunt and uncle die suddenly, and their only daughter, Julia, comes to live with them. Everyone but Rachel adores Julia. Which is why no one but Rachel suspects there's something not quite right about Julia, something sinister, something deadly...
Awesome, right? It's a page-turner, even for this adult.
This edition? Made me want to cry. It's a 2011 reissue, and apparently Duncan has decided that she should update several of her most popular titles to be more current with today's technology, etc. Be more relevant to those mod, groovy kids. And so this edition has forced-in references to email, cell phones, digital cameras, Photoshop, and Harry Potter.
The problem with this is that it's done in a very half-assed way. It's as if Duncan thought that if she sprinkled a few quick references here and there, voila! Twenty-first century novel. But it doesn't work that way. Let's face it--changes in technology have affected our lifestyles in profound ways, affected our thinking, the way we socialize with each other, the way we work in the world.
Even though these things now show up, they stick out for how out of place they are, and seeing them just raises additional questions. If the primary characters in this book are ages 15-17, why don't any of them mention the internet? Google? Facebook? No one has a Facebook page???
At one point, Rachel mentions her mom took her cell phone away. Like that would stop any enterprising teen--good grief, they *all* have cell phones. When she begins to suspect that Julia has otherworldly powers, what does Rachel do--Google it? Oh, no. Nope, she goes to the library and checks out some books. Because that's totally what a 15-year-old today would think to do first.
Three teenage girls go clothes shopping at the mall, and not one of them sends a text. Heck, none of them even receives a text, because none of them seem to have a cell phone. Ever seen a gaggle of teen girls at the mall? What are the chances at least one of them isn't going to be glued to her phone?
You know what else they do with their phones? They take pictures. Photos play a major role in this book, and ignoring today's cell phone camera culture is ludicrous. I have a vision of a 16-year-old girl today reading this book and coming upon Rachel's suspicion that Julia won't show up in a photo because she's a witch. I think the first thing that girl is going to say is, "Well, look her up on Facebook! Take a picture with your phone!"
My disbelief was so far from being suspended that I cast a jaundiced eye on Rachel's mom, supposedly a professional photographer with an extensive career working with magazines the likes of Seventeen and (another late addition) American Girl. But with a jaunty "Rachel's mom doesn't like digital cameras" dismissal, all of her work is done with film and negative and developed in her darkroom before being mailed to the magazines. Why do I have a really hard time buying that in 2012?
There's a short interview with Duncan at the end of the book:
"The biggest challenge in updating these stories and bringing them into the present day was the dramatic change in technology since the time they were written...I had to find ways of getting rid of those communicative devices in book after book."
Mrs. Duncan, it is not so simple. To really make this book be set today, you would have to do more than toss in a couple of tech tools and then have someone's mom take them away. You would have to change the plot significantly. There's no way Rachel would turn to the public library first. She'd be online, researching. Or even if she went to the library, if her family didn't have a computer (not likely, given that the family seems pretty progressive and well to do), she'd start with a computer there. She would text people. She would try to find Julia online, look for her via Facebook. And oh, what Julia could do with Facebook!
Which leads me finally to the question of: why bother? Great books hold up regardless of when they were written. I don't hear a great outcry for Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca to be updated to 2012. Harriet the Spy works just fine without additional gadgets. You know why? Because the characters and plot are so interesting that we're willing to go back in time. GIve today's teens some credit--I think they might be interested in comparing and contrasting Rachel's actions in 1976 with how they'd handle it today, and honestly? It's scarier to think of Rachel having no cell, no internet, no Facebook to help her cope with the sinister Julia. It's a glimpse into another time and place, but with a situation that's timeless in how scary and frustrating it is.
If this book didn't belong to my local library, I would have heaved it across the room with all my might, so great was my disappointment. Thank goodness I still have my childhood copy of A Gift of Magic to read in a couple of weeks.


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The 19th FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship will take place in Debrecen, Hungary early in October (2nd to 10th October 2010).
This will be the largest World Championship event ever to be held. 123 Competitors from 5 continents and 33 countries will compete for top honours in this prestigious event.
After their recent successes, France will have the most competitors – 8 pilots followed by Japan who will field 7 pilots. This year, for the first time, pilots from Serbia will be participating. The main competition event will be accompanied by a Fiesta event. The 2010 World Championships will be directed by well known director, Matijs de Bruin assisted by an experienced team of officials.
Event Web site
In the website you can browse the list of competitors.
Schedule event
The event is preceded by two days of official practice flying on 28th and 29th September. Pilots can register from 30th September to 2nd October, when practice flying continues.
The event itself gets underway with an opening ceremony and lunch on Saturday 2nd October followed by an evening nightglow in the centre of the town. Sunday is the day for the general briefing and another nightglow.
The competition starts in earnest on Monday 3rd with the first competition flight in the morning and the last competition flight on the morning of Saturday 9th. The whole event winds up with the awards lunch on Sunday 10th.
Officials and organisers
You can see the list of the officials and the organisation team on the event website.

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Presentation of Legion of Honor to Pierre S. du Pont
L-R: Irénée du Pont, Margaretta du Pont Carpenter, P.S. du Pont, Pierre Donzelet, French Cultural Attache
Original accession number: 1969.002
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Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954
Du Pont, Irénée, 1876-1963
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Halle's ex charged after 'brawl'
Gabriel Aubry has been charged with battery after he allegedly attacked Olivier Martinez.
The Canadian model was booked with bail set at $20,000 once he was released from hospital, after being treated for a broken rib, facial contusions and a possible head injury, following an alleged brawl with his ex Halle Berry's fiance.
Andrew Smith, Commanding Officer, LAPD Media Relations and Community Affairs Group told People: "He was booked for a private persons arrest for batter. Bail is $20,000."
The fight reportedly occurred when Gabriel was dropping his and Halle's four-year-old daughter back to her mother's house yesterday morning and Olivier tried to speak to him about the ongoing custody dispute between him and Halle.
After Olivier said to Gabriel "We have to move on," the Canadian model is said to have pushed the French actor and tried to punch him in the face but Olivier blocked it and then a full blown fight broke out.
Gabriel and Halle - who split in 2010 - have been at odds ever since she tried to convince a judge to allow her to move to France with Nahla, a move which was recently blocked by the courts.
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Photographer's 'soul-crushing' video of starving polar bear goes viral
"This is what starvation looks like"
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More than a million people have viewed a photographer's video showing an emaciated, dying polar bear.
The "soul-crushing scene" captured by Paul Nicklen and conservation group Sea Legacy is being used as a moment to recognize the seriousness of climate change. A warming climate has decreased the habitat for polar bears.
"This is what starvation looks like," Nicklen wrote in an Instagram post with the video. "The muscles atrophy. No energy. It's a slow, painful death."
In an interview with National Geographic, Nicklen explained why he didn't intervene and try to help the bear.
"Of course, that crossed my mind," Nicklen said. "But it's not like I walk around with a tranquilizer gun or 400 pounds of seal meat."
By capturing the scene, he hoped he could at least preserve the bear's memory and push the conservation on climate change in a positive direction.
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- Plain silver is usually suitable for everyday wear unless it is a fragile design. It can be cleaned with a silver cleaning cloth that most Veatge jewelry comes with. More difficult or stubborn tarnishing may require use of a commercial cleaning metal polish or silver foam.
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- Enamel is suitable for occasional wear only and should not be subjected to long exposure to sunlight. It should be treated very carefully and must not be dropped or knocked. Direct exposure to cosmetics and cleaning agents may affect color and finish. It should be cleaned with a soft silver cloth or warm soapy water.
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Blues For An Alabama Sky, written by Pearl Cleage and directed by Sheldon Epps, starring Robin Givens, Kadeem Hardison, Kevin T. Carroll, Tessa Thompson and Robert Ray Manning, Jr., opened at the Pasadena Playhouse November 6 and will play through November 27, 2011.
This play is excellent packed with love, friendship, social politics and tragedy. Against the backdrop of 1930's Harlem, five characters navigate through their lives looking for themselves but find each other.
Givens gives a highly enjoyable performance as the tortured Angel. She gives Angel levels and degrees of emotion, which play excitingly well with her co-stars.
Carroll gives a riveting performance as Guy and manages to steal almost every scene.
Hardison and Thompson both portray enchanting characters, in different ways, that manage to draw in the audience.
Manning presents a character, who garners deeper questions about the themes and points of the play.
An outstanding cast gives and outstanding performance with social issues and circumstance that are still relevant to this very day. Blues For An Alabama Sky is definitely a play worth seeing.


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Archive for August, 2018
August 20, 2018
VR@50 Reception at the Siggraph 2018 Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre on August 13, 2018. Computer graphics legends including Ivan Sutherland, Henry Fuchs, Bob Sproull and Henry Gouraud discussed their early research in the 1960s. Google researchers were also on hand to take a photo with their experimental lightfield camera.
tags: Adobe co-founder, Alan Kay, Alvy Ray Smith, Apple, AR, Bob Sproull, co-founder Pixar, computer graphics, computer scientists, Ed Catmull, Facebook Reality Labs, Fred Brooks, Google, Harvard University, Henry Fuchs, Henry Gouraud, Ivan Sutherland, Jen-Hsun Huang, Jensen Huang, Jim Blinn, John Warnock, lightfield camera, Martin Newell, Nelson Max, newells teapot, NVidia co-founder and CEO, Siggraph 2018, Turner Whitted, UC Davis, University of Utah School of Computing, VR, VR@50 Reception
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Event photography from a corporate yacht charter excursion around English Bay, Stanley Park and Burrard Inlet. A great
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Equity futures are very near flat after being both up and down overnight. The Dollar is moving sideways just below overhead resistance that is located at 88.8. If it breaks above that then the Euro is also likely moving lower out of another but smaller sideways triangle. Those triangles in the currencies are being reflected in equities. Below is a 5 minute chart of the DOW on the left and S&P on the right:
Those are descending wedges. Under normal circumstances, those wedges would be expected to be terminating patterns and that prices would break up. However, if we are in wave 3, and the last two day's action sure looks like it, then prices may just slide right out the end of those wedges and spill downwards like water obeying the call of gravity. This is what happened to these patterns in '08 – so I think this is an important point as they are forming just above key support in the 1,040 SPX area. Break the currency triangles and throw the dollar higher, then we spill out the bottom of these. Currencies hold and we bounce.
Bonds are also moving sideways. Oil is up a little this morning, while gold set another all-time new high at $1,253.90, which follows yesterday's new all-time closing high.
Yesterday's close took the Transports, the NDX, and the RUT to a close beneath their respective 200 day moving averages. Both the Transports and the Industrials made new lows together, this is confirmation of the bearish trend. Both the Industrials and the SPX closed below the closing lows of last February.
From the highs of this April, the indices have fallen:
DOW = -12.8% (-1,443 points)This places the S&P 500 in the same place we were NINE months ago, last September! If that weren't bad enough, it also places prices where they were in January – get this – 1998! That was more than 12 years ago, and I want to be clear, stocks overall did NOT perform that well! No, always keep in mind that these are indices and they suffer from substitution bias – buying and holding individual stocks will net you poorer performance overall.
Notice on that chart above that we are sitting right on the 200 MONTH moving average. Note, too, that the RSI and monthly Stochastic are on monthly sell signals just coming down out of overbought.
But don't worry if you happen to believe that stocks always go up and thus you buy and hold "for the long run." No, Bernanke, who has done such a wonderful job of forecasting the future notes that recovery "won't feel terrific." Gee, that's nice. I guess he means unless you are a central banker.
He warned the unemployment rate will remain high "for a while," explaining, "that means that a lot of people are going to be under financial stress."
So, with all that stress, where are the bailout trillions for the people? I mean when the financial system was "under stress" we threw trillions at it, but when the people are under stress what action do we take???
Oh, Ben has a plan - "the Fed will raise interest rates from a record low before the economy returns to "full employment," Bernanke said. That's nice.
According to reports, Bernanke talked about the need for U.S. leaders to take control of the nation's deficits over the medium term, some three to six years from now, in a way "that will allow us to bring our fiscal house in order over a long period of time."
But when asked if the nation has such a plan, or if he's seen one, Bernanke said: "No. Not yet. I don't."
Hmmm… Guess he doesn't want to talk about Freedom's Vision because that would mean he's out of a job! It would also end the central banker debt-backed money box paradigm which is key to finding any true solution.
There are no worthy economic reports today, yesterday's Consumer Credit report stunk up the joint again. First, the March number that was reported as +$2 billion was revised downward to show a $5.4 billion contraction, gee, nearly 300% off in the totally opposite direction of what was originally reported. Nice.
For the month of April, non-revolving credit supposedly rose $9.4 billion, but revolving credit (credit cards) fell by $8.4 billion leaving a net $1 billion supposed increase. Here's Econoday:
Consumer credit rose $1.0 billion in April in a gain far offset by a $7.4 billion downward revision to March which now shows a $5.4 billion contraction. Non-revolving credit, reflecting strong car sales, jumped $9.4 billion in April but was offset by a nearly as large of a fall in revolving credit. The drop in revolving credit reflects the month's slowing in ex-auto retail sales.
Vehicle unit sales firmed further in May pointing to a gain for the non-revolving side. But early retail indications for May are flat, pointing to offsetting weakness on the revolving side. Consumer spending has been an important factor for first-half strength, reflected to a degree in this report where a record contraction came to an end in January. But improvement in this series has been choppy and will no doubt turn on progress in the labor market, which for May was very soft.
This is a very weak Consumer Credit report, it shows that people are not out spending wildly with their credit cards.
Yesterday John Williams at Shadowstats.com revised his calculations for M3, the largest measurement of money supply, and it came in at negative 5.9%! He says that it is a "Post-World War II Record drop" that "signals intensifying business contraction." He goes on to say that a "renewed recession will set [the] stage for U.S. Solvency Crisis and Severe Inflation Threat."
John has been in the hyperinflation camp for quite some time, calling it "imminent" on several occasions. Yet, that's just not what we're seeing, we are seeing contracting money supply, contracting credit, and we're seeing contraction in the shadow banking world of derivatives. Will this bring about hyperinflation? I do believe that their reaction to a deflationary spiral could lead to it yes, but that would mean massive printing without debt backing that printing for it to happen – OR, it can also come about because we have so much debt that people just lose confidence in our ability to ever repay. Either outcome is the same in the end, no one wants to hold your money. Right now, though, because everyone is trying to get out of DEBT, they NEED our money. Again, watch the 88.8 level on the dollar.
Bernanke, buddy, there's something less than genuine about you… and listening to you talk, frankly, pisses me off.
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Welcome to the world of Hatched and Patched. We are located in the Stables of a 130 year old Heritage Inn next to my shop the Home Patch which is located in the gorgeous historic town of Bathurst just west of the Blue Mountains.
I am Anni Downs and i am the creator of all the patterns, books and fabrics under the Hatched and Patched label. My style is vintage country with a touch of whimsy. I combine stitchery, applique and piecing to create quilts, bags, tablerunners, plus many other bits and pieces.


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These days are critical for observations of AH Her - please try to observe it and report your observations to the AAVSO International Database. The astronomers really need to see how the minimum interval evolves optically and when the minimum actually occurs, particularly because AH Her is behaving erratically, for correlation with their spectroscopic and optical data. AAVSO Alert Notice 483 [3] has details.
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High Point Pittsburgh is a proposal for transforming the one-acre rooftop of the 64-story U. S. Steel Tower, the largest highest place atop any building on Earth, into a publicly accessible facility that will function as a culture and entertainment complex, a downtown first-day attraction, and a world-class visitor center, while demonstrating cutting-edge sustainable design and technologies.
High Point Pittsburgh is the product of a multi-year investigation primarily conducted on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.
The proposed two-story, glass structure covers the entire roof area, creating over 60,000 square feet of space on two interior levels, including a venue for concerts and other live performances, an art gallery and gift shop, two 30-seat video theaters, along with a restaurant, café, bar, and rooms for private functions. The entire facility is capped by a glass-walled, open-air, rooftop promenade, which offers an incredible 360-degree panorama of Pittsburgh. Check out "Pittsburgh's loftiest view," courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
This video provides a 90-second overview of High Point Pittsburgh, the concept that has evolved during the Investigation. You can also tour High Point Pittsburgh via this interactive, virtual simulation.
The U.S. Steel Tower
Standing 841 feet from Grant Street to its roof line, the U. S. Steel Tower has ranked as Pittsburgh's tallest building since it opened in September 1970. Four decades later, it remains a unique and iconic structure recognized internationally for several aspects of its design and construction. Also significant is the building's flat, triangular rooftop. Measuring over an acre in area, it closely mimics Pittsburgh's Point in both outline and orientation.
Most remarkable is the fact that while more than 180 other buildings around the world stand taller than the U. S. Steel Tower, its roof is the largest, highest flat space on top of any building on Earth, the planet's highest "artificial acre."
The High Point Pittsburgh Investigation
Centered at The Frank-Ratche STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, this Investigation has conducted a multi-year succession of coordinated projects on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University that has involved more than 400 students and faculty members, as well as valued input and feedback from myriad off-campus experts.
This 11-minute video, The Roof of the World, produced by Len Caric and broadcast on WQED TV, provides further background on both the building and the Investigation.
In the ideal, High Point Pittsburgh will become southwest Pennsylvania's "highest common denominator," a high-visibility, self-sustaining facility and important local asset that will advance the area's regional, national, and international reputation, help to re-define ideas about public/private partnerships, and foster a reevaluation of the potential of high rooftops everywhere.
You can Like and follow the project on Facebook or visit our News page for the latest updates on our progress.
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Swindon Business Lunch: Networking, Mastermind and Learning
Join us for an enjoyable and productive lunch with a mix of facilitated networking, masterminding and learning. The format is designed for you to connect and form business relationships with other like minded business professionals who know the real value of building a network.
12:00: Open Networking - Meet other attendees informally
12:20: Welcome – Introduction from host
12:25: NRG Lunch - Served at your table
12:30: Introduce yourself to others on your table
13:15: Mastermind Session at each table
13:55: Expert Speaker will share their expertise on a business topic
14:25: Host and member notices
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The philosophy governing the Henderson Detention Center is that one's loss of freedom is, in itself, sufficient punishment. All inmates will be treated with dignity and respect.
This division provides detention services for City misdemeanants, United States Marshal Service inmates, Immigration and Customs Enforcement inmates, U.S. Park Service, Clark County inmates, and Boulder City Police Department misdemeanor arrestees.
The Division is organized under the Office of the Chief of Police and The Deputy Chief of Support, overseen by a Corrections Captain. The Corrections Division currently maintains a staff of approximately 114 employees, including Corrections Officers, Sergeants, Lieutenants, Detention Center Technicians, Central Control Room Operators, Classification Technicians, Cooks, and Police Administrative Specialists. This division manages an average daily inmate population of approximately 503 inmates. Unless remanded to adult status by the court having jurisdiction over the case, juveniles are not housed in this facility.
Medical and mental health care is provided by a contracted medical service provider which includes 24 hours nursing care, weekly physician and psychiatric visits as well as basic dental care.
Should you have questions not addressed here, or would like to talk with the Detention Center Staff, please contact us at 702-267-5245.
The Henderson Detention Center has zero tolerance for sexual assault or abuse. If you would like to report a sexual assault or abuse that has occurred within the Henderson Detention Center, please call (702) 267-5245.
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Add a little glycerin to your soap bubble formula and you'll have super-strong beautiful bubbles that, if you wear cotton gloves, you can hold in your hands. Add a little glycerin to sulfuric acid and nitric acid and you won't read the rest of this post because you'll blow yourself up. We're going to take a quick look at how the chemistry of these two effects are linked.
I find chemistry vexing. Although chemists do wonderful things, the way chemicals interact with each other makes me think not of science, but of an over-complicated version of Magic: The Gathering. Every combination can be modified in so many different ways that it all just seems arbitrary. There's a lack of order. Case in point - glycerin. This is an oily, vaguely sweet-tasting substance that's made during the processing of fats. Usually it's made with animal fat, but it can be derived from plant oil as well. Glycerin is shaped like a rough "w," and at each of the crowning peaks is what's known as a hydroxyl group.
A hydroxyl group is a oxygen and a hydrogen atom bonded together. The hydroxyl group is a marker of alcohols, and it's what makes glycerin, which seems so viscous that it should pool on top of water like an oil slick, dissolve into water perfectly. Because the oxygen in water molecules (H2O) pulls the electrons closer to it than to the hydrogen molecules, the oxygen side of the molecule has a slight negative charge, while the hydrogen side has a slight positive charge. The hydroxyl groups (OH) have a negative charge, and so they interact strongly with the water molecules. Very strongly. A quantity of glycerin left out in the open will grow twenty percent by grabbing water out of the air. A drop placed on the tongue will dehydrate it so fast that it blisters. (But properly processed, glycerin can help hydrate, as well. It's used in moisturizers and creams to retain water molecules and seal in moisture.) This is why it's used in bubble solution. A bubble breaks because its large surface area gives water a major chance of evaporating away into the air. Glycerin and its hydroxyl groups grabs water out of the air and keeps water in the bubble, keeping it from breaking.
One wouldn't expect the points of the "w" of glycerin to act exactly the same way when exposed to nitric acid as they do to water, but the difference in behavior seems excessive. Instead of water molecules attaching themselves to these attractive, negatively-charged hydroxyl groups, positive nitrogen atoms attached to a couple more oxygen atoms grab hold (shouldering away the hydrogen in the process). What results is an explosive that still outperforms many modern compounds. And instead of being a nice stable liquid that will keep together, it's so reactive that a too-fast drip can make the entire thing explode. The production has to be cooled to keep from exploding as it's being made.
The oxygen that gets dragged, along with the nitrogen molecules, to the crown points of the "w" is the oxidizer. Any type of burning will need oxygen to keep going, and with three oxygen atoms attached to each of the tips of the "w," this has plenty. The body of the "w" has carbon atoms, which serves as fuel. The fact that the whole thing can erupt by being hit too hard is just a fun bonus, Magic-style. The same base, a slightly different molecule on each tip, and it makes all the difference between a bubble and a boom.
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Work Trucks Traveling to Help with Clean Up in the NorthEast
While traveling on I-81 in Virginia, Rock & Dirt's Sales Manager took this photo of Chippers and Chipper Trucks. We can only assume that these trucks are traveling Northeast to help the affected parts of the country clean up after Hurricane Sandy. Some of the equipment needed for the clean up efforts may also include bucket trucks, generators, skid steers, dump trucks, light towers, backhoes, and wheel loaders.


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On Wednesday, May 14th, The Institute for Software Research International and the Master of Software Engineering Program welcomed the arrival of eleven women from South Africa. Having initiated their program at a distance in Cape Town, the women will continue their graduate studies on campus for the next six months. Chosen by the government of South Africa for their ambition and promise in the field of software engineering, these talented individuals underwent an intensive selection process in order to qualify for admittance to Carnegie Mellon's renowned program. They will return to their country with a world-class education that includes practical, application-based knowledge in the domain of software engineering.
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American Legislative Exchange Council, Brennan Center, Brennan Center for Justice, Kris Kobach, New York Times, New York University School of Law, Voter suppression, Wichita Eagle
In my post a few days ago, I described how a 96-year-old woman may not be permitted to go to the polls in 2012 even though she has been voting for 70 years since she was in her 20's. I also said that this is not an isolated incident but an effort to disenfranchise certain voters. A new report by a non-partisan law institute shows that at least 5 million voters will be adversely affected by the new restrictions on the right to vote. In particular, new legislation will negatively impact seniors, college students, Hispanics, and African Americans, among others. These findings indicate that the new wave of restrictive voter regulations may be less about fraud and more an effort by conservatives to steer the vote their way by suppressing voting rights of those who tend to vote Democrat.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice:
This year, in every case but one, strict voter ID bills were introduced by Republican legislators. Newly elected legislators introduced about a quarter of these bills.
The Brennan Center for Justice "is a non-partisan public policy and law institute," according to the report written by Wendy R. Weiser and Lawrence Norden on October 3, 2011." The center is located at New York University School of Law and focuses its work on voting rights, campaign finance reform, racial justice in criminal law, and presidential power to fight terrorism.
According to the Brennan Center, 33 states have new regulations. The reports says:
This new wave of changes may sharply tilt the political terrain for the 2012 election…
- These new laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.
- The states that have already cut back on voting rights will provide 171 electoral votes in 2012 – 63 percent of the 270 needed to win the presidency.
- Of the 12 likely battleground states, as assessed by an August Los Angeles Times analysis of Gallup polling, five have already cut back on voting rights (and may pass additional restrictive legislation), and two more are currently considering new restrictions.
States have changes their laws so rapidly that no single analysis has assessed the overall impact of such moves
The Brennan Center cites two major reason for these new changes:
- Republican control of state houses with friendly governors, many of these changes taking place as a result of 2010 elections. "The first is the stark shift in the partisan makeup of the state legislature after 2010…there is typically a sharp partisan divide over the issue of strict voter ID requirements, with Republicans generally pushing more restrictive measures and Democrats generally opposing them." the Brennan Center report says. "As a result of Republican electoral success in state houses across the country in 2010, proponents of strict voter ID bills were able to garner much greater legislative support than in the past."
- Priority. Again, this is more a Republican agenda than Democratic, and is also a result of the 2010 elections. "Many of the Republican legislators and election administrators swept into office in 2010 made voter ID…a major legislative priority," according to the Brennan Center report.
The Brennan Center says that there is a possible third reason for the successful wave in 33 states for these new laws suppressing the right to vote and, you guessed it, it comes down to SPECIAL INTERESTS! The Brennan Center says:
Another new feature of the legislative landscape was the reported involvement of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative group made up of state legislators and business and other interests…a powerful conservative group that brings together state legislators and private interests to develop and support state legislation and policy.
And "support" they do! According to the Brennan report:
ALEC…boasts that each year more than 1,000 bills based on its models are introduced in state legislatures, and that approximately 17% of those bills become law.
Some politicians and others who support these new restrictive laws claim that there has been widespread voter fraud. But these claims of voter fraud may prove to be false if the state of Kansas is any indication. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been using voter fraud to push new voter restrictions through the legislature and has been successful in his efforts to get it through the 83-member Kansas House.
But, according to The Wichita Eagle:
Before the Senate joins the House…senators should demand better evidence of voter fraud than Kobach has turned up so far…the local incidents look more like honest mistakes than voter fraud – ballot applications signed by well-meaning relatives, mail-in ballots with signatures that didn't match those on file, a parent trying to vote for a student off at college – and, in the end, the ballots went uncounted…Saying voter fraud is rampant doesn't make it so.
In one case, Kobach claimed that someone who died in 1996 had voted in August, but Kobach's claim proved false. The Wichita Eagle reports:
The Eagle found the Wichitan very much alive ("I don't think this is heaven, not when I'm raking leaves," the man said.)
The New York Times isn't buying voter fraud either, instead calling it a "myth" in its editorial a few days ago. According to the New York Times:
Of course the Republicans passing these laws never acknowledge their real purpose, which is to turn away from the polls people who are more likely to vote Democratic…In all cases, they are abusing the trust placed in them by twisting Democracy's machinery to partisan ends.
I agree that something stinks here and it appears as if there is a concerted effort to suppress the vote which is money-backed by special interest. Even though 33 out of 50 states have currently passed these voters' rights suppression laws, it is still relatively early in the election process and hopefully voters' rights groups and other advocates may be successful in overturning them or amending. I say that they may be successful but that will only be dependent on whether or not the public itself becomes aware of the fraud being committed against them.
- Brennan Center For Justice – Voting Law Changes in 2012 | Full Report – pdf
- Waiting for Evidence – The Wichita Eagle
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- Voting Law Changes in 2012 | Brennan Center for Justice (policyabcs.wordpress.com)
- Editorial: The Myth of Voter Fraud (nytimes.com)
- Advice to a Wary Voter: If Your Vote Didn't Count, It Wouldn't be Suppressed (thevalleyvoice.org)
- The Myth of Voter Fraud – NYTimes.com (policyabcs.wordpress.com)
- Victoria Coats: Protecting Or Suppressing The Vote? (huffingtonpost.com)
- The Real Voter Fraud Scandal (usnews.com)
- Dems Fear Voter Suppression Could Cost Them 2012 (huffingtonpost.com)
- Enough of the Hurt Feelings, Pay Attention to Voter Suppression (alternet.org)
- Advice to a Wary Voter: If Your Vote Didn't Count, It Wouldn't be Suppressed (kaystreet.wordpress.com)
- Voter ID laws target rarely occurring voter fraud (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- The GOP War on Voting (citizenthink.wordpress.com)
- Republican Legislators Plan to Restrict Ballot Access (beavercountyblue.org)
- Republicans Busy Making It Harder For Democrats To Vote (alan.com)
- Voter Suppression … Crystal King, DSCC Political Director (ynative77.wordpress.com)
- Ballot security: Benign term with sordid history (nydailynews.com)
- Voter ID laws target rarely occurring voter fraud (sfgate.com)
- Five Million Voters Could Be Kept From Polls in 2012 (maboulette.wordpress.com)
- Courtesy Of The GOP, Jim Crow Is Back In A National Voter Suppression Campaign (themoderatevoice.com)
- The GOP And Voter Disenfranchisement (jonathanturley.org)
- New State Laws Could Impact 2012 Vote (blogs.wsj.com)
- New State Laws Are Limiting Access for Voters (nytimes.com)
- Same-day voter registration at issue in Maine (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Debunking the Brennan Center (electionjournal.org)
- Voting Law Changes in 2012 | Brennan Center for Justice (wpvins.wordpress.com)
- The myth of voter fraud (strongerdemocracy.org)
- The Myth of Voter Fraud – NYTimes.com (wpvins.wordpress.com)
- Progressive States Network: Conservatives Push Voter Suppression Nationwide (acpp.info)
- The truth about voter suppression (salon.com)
- Minority Vote Suppression: Ohio Republicans Pass Restrictive 'Jim Crow' Voter ID Law (therealwithdarylanddevon.wordpress.com)
- The truth about voter suppression – Salon.com (mbcalyn.wordpress.com)
- Judith Browne Dianis: Democracy Under Attack (huffingtonpost.com)
- Tom Humphrey: Flaws in Tennessee's voter ID law could be fixed with ease (knoxnews.com)
- State Voter ID Laws Draws Controversy (abcnews.go.com)


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Well, here it is again.. Monday and of course it's a Magical Monday over at the Paper Cupcake's Blog! Not so magical for my kids, because it is their first day of back to school. Although, I think truth be known they are pretty excited to be back to see all their friends, not so glad when homework kicks in!
Any how, this week's challenge is brought to us by Jessie Fitzhenry and she wants us to use our punches! I personally love my punches so it is no big deal to pull mine out, because most likely some are already out. We are to use the freebie this week given to us by Paper Cupcakes called "Joyful Ride". I was going towards a masculine card with this image, but then I started punches some flowers and the rest is history! Pretty simple card and I colored my image with my colored pencils and chalked my sky.
Well, that's it for me for today, I have lots to get accomplished with the kids back in school, now I need to get back into my own routine again! Thanks for stopping by and have a joyful week!
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The Student Life section of Utah State Today highlights work written by the talented student journalists at Utah State University. Each week, the editor selects a story that has been published in The Utah Statesman or the Hard News Café or both for inclusion in Utah State Today.
Getting the Most out of House Traditions
By Brooke Larsen, staff writer, in The Utah Statesman, Tuesday, January 22, 2013
In an apartment on Darwin Avenue, students gather as the musician plays a piece on his flamenco guitar. They sip herbal tea through filtered straws, enjoy a casual atmosphere and even further their love lives as part of a weekly custom known as Music and Mate Monday.
This and other traditions are becoming an integral part of USU's social atmosphere. In many locations around campus, students meet regularly to attend these gatherings.
David Steiner, a senior majoring in economics and Spanish, holds Music and Mate every Monday at his home known as the Blue Light House.
"In short, mate is a South American loose leaf herbal tea," Steiner said.
Each Monday there is a musical spotlight in which a few numbers are played while mate is served. Cellos, pianos, guitars, electric guitars, flamenco guitars and violins have all made appearances. Rap music has been featured too, Steiner said. "We try to have a variety in our music," he said.
The underlying purpose of the event is to bring people together.
"Music and mate is a really casual atmosphere where it's easy to have conversation," Steiner said. "When it was first started two years ago, the point of it was trying to get people to meet other people. The culture rooted around mate in South America is spending time together and talking to each other, and we try to bring some of that here."
Steiner said in the spirit of inclusiveness, everyone's invited.
"Mate Monday is by no means exclusive," he said. "Anybody is welcome to come chat and hang out."
While most in attendance meet new people, some find romantic interest.
"We have set people up a few times," Steiner said. "We've invited two different people we wanted to hook up, casually introduced them to each other and tried to get them to exchange numbers."
USU fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon has a weekly tradition of its own — SigEp Sunday. Jake Taylor, a junior majoring in psychology, is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He said SigEp Sunday originated six years ago in an effort to cast a better light on the fraternity.
"SigEp Sunday started so people would get over the fear of going to a fraternity house," Taylor said. "We wanted people to see that it's just fine and that they can come have a fun time and meet other people."
Every Sunday, the SigEp boys make a dessert for their guests. Ice cream sundaes are often the go-to choice, but cookies and brownies are known to be in the mix as well.
"The number of people in attendance varies from week to week, but we usually have a solid 30-plus people," Taylor said.
Taylor said inspirational quotes and interesting stories are read. The Larry H. Miller biography has been quoted, as well as passages out of the Quran and Gandhi enlightenment.
"This Sunday tradition is something that will continue on," he said. "We will keep having SigEp Sundays now and in years to come."
At the apartment on Darwin Avenue known as the Pink House, Schuyler West and his roommates have been holding the weekly event known as Treat Night in their apartment on Darwin Avenue since fall of 2011.
West, a senior majoring in psychology, said the treat each week is always different.
"We try to mix it up every time," West said. "We had an interesting French spread put on toast last week called 'speculoos.' We've had Chinese food, red bean dessert soup, chocolate-covered popcorn, cereal krispie treats, cheesecake cups, pistachios and wassail, just to name some."
Treats usually run out pretty quickly, he said.
When Treat Night first began, West and his roommates shouldered the responsibility of preparing treats each week. Now, whoever wants to make the treats can do so.
"This year we've been having volunteers make the treats because it got too expensive to make it ourselves every week, especially with the big turnout we've been getting," West said.
Although the event is focused on treats, West and his roommates have paper and markers laid out on a table to encourage people to draw pictures. At the end of the night, some of these pictures may make it to the already covered walls of drawings done by Treat Night attendees.
"We are a little more selective these days with the drawings put on the wall since it's gotten so full," West said. "They have to be particularly good to get put on the wall."
West said Treat Night is a chill, fun environment.
"It's just a real good time," he said. "We just enjoy doing it and like having a lot of strangers come over and meet other strangers."
In an effort to promote Treat Night, West said they have a Treat Night Facebook page.
"We have 135 people in the group right now," he said. "We pretty much invite everyone we see."


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David Cameron has waded into the row over Kevin Pietersen's ejection from the England cricket team, insisting there is a "powerful argument" for keeping him in the side.
There has been a backlash since the controversial star batsman was told earlier this week that he would not play for the country again.
Speaking on BBC Radio Lancashire, the Prime Minister stressed he would leave decisions to team selectors.
But branding Pietersen "remarkable", he expressed sympathy with the views of television presenter and celebrity interviewer Piers Morgan, who has been leading criticism of the move.
"I am an enormous fan of Kevin Pietersen and I have had some of my most enjoyable times watching him tonking the ball all over the park," Mr Cameron said.
"His average is remarkable. It is not often I have a sympathy for Piers Morgan but I thought he was making quite a powerful argument this morning on my radio.
"But I will let the England selectors pick the England team, I think I had better stay out of this one."
Asked whether Mr Cameron was supportive of England captain Alastair Cook, the Prime Minister's official spokesman told a Westminster media briefing: "Whenever an England team takes the field, the Prime Minister is absolutely right behind them and their captain, of course."
The spokesman dodged the question of whether the PM had confidence in the England cricket team's management, telling reporters: "When it comes to decisions around the management of the England game, that's one for the ECB."


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I actually have a content oriented post scheduled to go up today (assuming that I have time to get it finished and my brain/thoughts cooperate!), but I wanted to interrupt my regularly scheduled post to let you all know that I have been invited to be a guest on the Twisted Nether Podcast this Saturday – June 18th!
The podcast starts at 8:00 pst and as I understand it there will be a live session where the audience will have the opportunity to comment and ask questions throughout the show. If you've ever wanted the opportunity to make me squirm….er, ask me a question, now is your chance! I'm very much looking forward to it, and it should be a lot of fun. I hope you will be able to join me! If you can't and there's something you'd like me to touch on, leave a comment below and I'll see what I can do!
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The children that came for the month of Tishrei to be by the Rebbe, stood together for a group picture on front of 770, as there visit is coming towards a close.
Tags: 770, Kids, Picture of the day
Menachem Gopin – Crown Heights to Mussia Gniwisch – Montreal, Canada
L'Chaim: Tonight (Wednesday) at the JCM
Laibel Orenstein – Crown Heights to Rochel Aboutboul – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
L'Chaim: Tuesday Night at FREE
Zalman Denburg – Coral Springs, FL to Chanie Gorkin – Crown Heights
L'Chaim: Tonight (Tuesday) at FREE
Levi Milworn – Crown Heights to Faigy Donin – Crown Heights. L'Chaim: Tonight (Thursday) Oholei Torah Hall
Moshe Coleman – Crown Heights/London to Simcha Davoudpour – Beverly Hills, CA
Baby boy to Raffy and Chana Filler (nee Stein) – Crown Heights
Sholom Ber Liberow (Ben R' Zalman) – Flatbush, NY to Chaya Braun (Bas Harav Yosef Yeshaya) – Crown Heights
Mendel Fayershteyn – Crown Heights to Gitty Lipszyc – Ft. Lauderdale, FL L'Chaim: Monday Night at the Oholei Torah Hall
The L'Chaim of Menachem Gopin of Crown Heights and Mussia Gniwisch of Montreal, Canada took place at the Jewish Childrens Museum in Crown Heights. Photos by ChabadInfo.com photographer Shneur Reinitz • Photos
At a Lubavitch wedding in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, the Litvisher Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Sholom Ber Sorotzkin of the Ateres Shlomo Yeshiva network in Eretz Yisroel was seen dancing to 'Yechi' and the song 'Geulah' • Watch
The Lubavitch Yeshiva in Poconos celebrated Yud Daled Kislev, the Rebbe and Rebbetzin's wedding anniversary with a lavish banquet in their Zal which was transformed into a beautiful hall. The meal was followed by spirited dancing • Photos
The L'Chaim of Laibel Orenstein of Crown Heights and Rochel Aboutboul of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil took place Tuesday night at the FREE Shul in Crown Heights. Photos by ChabadInfo.com photographer Avraham Elkabets • Photos


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There are two different words used for salvation in the Old and New Testaments (ye shuw' ah and soteria). but they both have the same meaning: deliverance, safety, healing and soundness. This may come as a surprise to some who believed their salvation only guaranteed them a place in Heaven. Let me quickly say that if it were the only provision that salvation offered, it certainly would be enough; but when God saved you, He had more in store for you. Many scriptures bear witness to this fact. Galatians 3:14, which tell us the blessings of Abraham are ours, is only one example. You can receive all the other promises of God the same way you received your deliverance from the kingdom of darkness.
Romans 10:9&10 states: "that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." That is the procedure for receiving all the other promises of God . . . . believing and confessing. When the confession of your lips harmonizes with the confession of your heart, you will then have the thing sought after. A search of the letters to the Churches in the New Testament will give you a vivid description of who you are in Christ if you are a believer. It may not be manifest in your life at this moment, but that is still part of your inheritance as a child of God. Let's use an example. Philippians 4:19 proclaims "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." You might say this is definitely not true in your life because you have nothing but lack. Well I want to tell you there is a difference between "facts" and the Truth. God's word is true regardless of what may be manifest at any particular moment in your life.
We should take God's Word, personalize it, and begin to confess it. Our example from Philippians would then read, "My God supplies all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus". Repeat it aloud and often because faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). As you hear God's Word, the belief in your heart will grow and, as we said before, when the confession of your heart harmonizes with the confession of your mouth, you will receive. We just used that Philippians scripture as an example. There are a multitude of other promises you should personalize and use. When you start this process you might encounter some difficulty. Your mind might balk at confessing things which haven't been actualized as yet. You need to override those objections and boldly declare what God has said about you. In addition to that you must persist! Your confession is planting seeds of faith in your heart. They won't bear fruit overnight. Just as the farmer must be patient, you must be patient. It may take weeks or months, but if you continue and don't faint, your harvest will be bountiful!!!


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Deputies: Car thieves arrested in Linda after foot chase
Cars stolen from Olivehurst, Linda
The Yuba County Sheriff's Office located five stolen vehicles in the Olivehurst and Linda area Saturday after trying to stop a green Acura with a defective tail lamp.
After officers tried to stop the vehicle, the driver attempted to evade the deputies through trees in a field, deputies said.
The vehicle hit a large hole, officials said, causing significant damage to the vehicle. The driver and passenger exited the vehicle and fled.
Passenger Agustin Sanchez, 28, stopped after a short distance and deputies detained him. The driver, 28-year-old Marcus Pace, continued running westward to the Countrywood Apartments. Officials apprehended him at the apartment complex.
Authorities discovered the Acura was stolen from Olivehurst, but hadn't been reported yet. Another deputy investigated a suspicious Saturn on McGowan Parkway, which was found to also be an unreported stolen car from Plumas Lake.
Deputies said a surveillance video showed Pace and Sanchez exiting the stolen vehicle.
Police found three more stolen vehicles in the Olivehurst and Linda area. Pace was arrested for the theft, as well as another stolen vehicle recovered Friday on Country Club Road.
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Software Cluster
The Software-Cluster is Europe's most powerful network of companies and training & research institutions in the area of software development. The cluster region spans a wide area in the southwest of Germany around the cities of Darmstadt, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken and Walldorf. The cluster's main area of expertise is business software. In other words, software for managing business processes within and between companies. Among the members of the Software-Cluster are the most important German software companies, SAP AG and Software AG. However, the cluster also includes numerous medium-sized companies, which are specialists and innovative leaders in their specific areas, as well as Germany's leading computer science faculties at the universities in Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken and leading research institutions, such as the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) in Karlsruhe. This bundling of software expertise within a specific region is one of a kind in the global software sector.
Dr. Harald Schöning, Vice President Research of Software AG, is the spokesman of the Software-Cluster.
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Why We Seek Learning
The Lord commands us to actively "seek learning, even by study and also by faith" (D&C 88:118). We seek learning not only because it is a commandment—we seek it because the desire to ask, to seek, and to find answers to life's questions was planted in our hearts by our Heavenly Father. He wants us to continually seek eternal truth because this is central to how we come to know Him. Through sincere study of the restored gospel, we learn of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. We learn who we are, why we are on this earth, and how we should live in order to enjoy happiness and peace in this life and a fulness of joy in the next.
Learning by Study
The gospel of Jesus Christ is rich enough to challenge and inspire the brightest mind, yet simple enough to be understood by a child. While gospel study does not require formal academic training, it does involve reason and mental exertion. The Lord expects us to "seek … diligently." In our search for truth, we read, ponder, and analyze information and weigh its reliability. We examine the assumptions behind various theories, as well as our own thoughts, and seek to place facts in their proper context. We are discerning and careful, always remembering that our knowledge is incomplete but growing. We continually seek the Spirit and hold to our faith.
Learning by Faith
Because our perspective and knowledge are limited, we find spiritual truths only if faith is part of the formula. "Faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true" (Alma 32:21). Faith, which starts as a belief or even just the desire to believe, requires mental and spiritual exertion. We express our faith by the words we speak and by acting on the truth we have already received. As we do, our faith grows, and we are given greater knowledge by the Spirit and by our experience. It does not come all at once, but line upon line. In the meantime, the hope produced by our faith serves as an anchor to our souls, making us sure and steadfast as we seek to learn and gain knowledge (see Ether 12:4).
Faith and reason are like the wings of an airplane—both are necessary to keep the plane in flight. If from our limited perspective reason appears to contradict faith, we continue our study while steadfastly holding to our faith. We would not discard faith any more than we would detach a wing from an airplane in flight!
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Our search for truth will be fruitless if we neglect the Source of truth, God Himself. As we seek learning by study and also by faith, we continually turn to the word of God as found in the scriptures, the words of living prophets, and personal revelation through prayer.
A Promise
As we patiently and diligently seek learning by study and also by faith, we will "grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created [us], or in the knowledge of that which is just and true" (Mosiah 4:12), for He promises, "Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me; ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you" (D&C 88:63).
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After a six-month assessment of varsity sports that drew widespread criticism from alumni and caused anxiety and worry for athletes and coaches, the University of B.C. ended its controversial sports review Friday with largely the same lineup of teams on campus.
The university downgraded women's softball and four small ski teams while maintaining 24 of its 29 varsity programs.
At one point Friday while trying to explain how the review was a shining moment for UBC athletics, outgoing president Stephen Toope described pre-review varsity growth as higgledy-piggledy. To his academic credit, higgledy-piggledy is a word. It means messy.
Perhaps UBC should have named its review the higgledy-piggledy.
Instead, it was called the Sport Targeting Review, then renamed the Sport Review Project when people assumed the targeting part meant that, well, varsity sports were being targeted for elimination.
Vice-president of students Louise Cowin, who initiated and drove the review, insisted from the start it was not about money, yet everyone talked about sustainability and varsity teams were asked to generate funding.
Cowin's "think-tank" of experts "re-imagined" the model for athletics, placing international/national/pro sports at the top of the five-tiered totem, then changed it. And right until the end, UBC administration kept moving the goalposts, announcing Friday that four varsity teams not yet out of danger — men's baseball, hockey and field hockey, and women's rugby — are now expected to be become completely self-funding.
The seven biggest winners — men's and women's basketball, swimming and volleyball, as well as the Thunderbird football team — will receive more money because they aced assessment criteria that places a premium on athletic excellence, infrastructure and private funding.
Men's hockey, baseball and field hockey and the women's rugby program will have until at least the end of the 2014-15 school year to show progress toward self-sustainability.
"I have to be clear here: should this funding fail to materialize, we would have to reconsider the status of these teams," Cowin said. "This funding criterion is really the tipping point for these four teams."
"We had a meeting this morning and told our players we are retaining varsity status, and the whole room just erupted," men's hockey coach Milan Dragicevic said before the Thunderbirds' playoff game Friday in Edmonton against the University of Alberta. "Everyone was very, very happy knowing there is going to be a hockey team. Obviously, this was weighing on their minds. But it has also been a huge rallying cry for our team this season."
Toope said $4.8 million has been pledged by donors to support varsity sports since the review began. He said the annual athletics budget, which will support a new tier of competitive club teams, is being increased to $6.4 million from $4.8 million.
Men's hockey, with the second-largest budget among UBC teams at $420,000, looked highly endangered during the review. But bolstered by private donations, including a $125,000 gift from Vancouver clothing company Lululemon, as well potential partnerships with the Vancouver Canucks and Vancouver Giants, UBC hockey successfully argued for its existence before the assessment committee.
"I want to be really clear that there's a desire to be flexible here and to work collaboratively to reach a desired result," Toope said of the four teams being asked to pay their way. "We're not going to set an arbitrary cutoff that's unrealistic for them to achieve. But we believe we can make dramatic progress over the course of the next couple of years.
"This review has energized the broad UBC Thunderbird community, sometimes in quite forceful ways. Alumni, supporters, sports organizations, community groups — they've told us they want to be involved and they want as many teams as possible to remain varsity. We have listened to that input.
"I actually believe that this is the start of a Renaissance for varsity sports at UBC."
The program is already the most successful in Canada in terms of championships.
Pressure on Toope from athletics alumni, who have donated $50 million to the school during the last 10 years, may be why 24 of 29 varsity teams survived.
"I'd like to be gracious and say the university has responded well to the large amount of community support," Dr. Derek Swain, an organizer of alumni resistance, said of the high survival rate. "I think it is a little disappointing that the expectation is (four teams) should be entirely self-funding. I have a suspicion that over time that may well change. We'll be looking at a new administration very soon."
Another alumnus who attended the press conference on campus, attorney and former hockey player Kerri Farion, was less generous.
"I think the process has been anything but transparent and clear," she said. "The misrepresentation of the facts (by the university) has been extraordinary here."
The review was originally scheduled to conclude this spring, but was fast-tracked. Toope leaves UBC in June.
"This idea that they sped up the process to keep away from the anxiety they were creating?" Farion said. "My own opinion is it got sped up because the varsity alumni were getting a lot more organized and (UBC) was afraid of the snowball fight that would soon be happening."


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The brinkmanship that has been on display over the Cypriot financial crisis makes obvious to all but the wilfully blind the level of political determination in Brussels to save the euro at all costs. No amount of empirical economic evidence – or misery for ordinary people – matters when the dreams of the continent's elite are threatened.
After the French and Dutch rejected the European Constitution in 2005, the then European Commissioner for Communications, Margot Wallström, put it perfectly. She and the other EU cheerleaders had invested "a lot of energy and political capital" in the project, she declared, and they were not going to give up on it. No matter what the people said, no matter what the economic realities were.
Five years later, this delusion in the face of brute reality has reached its apogee in Cyprus.
How can it be that the German parliament gets to vote on the wholesale theft of money from richer Cypriot depositors, while the Cypriot parliament has no such voice? Instead the theft is labelled "restructuring" – and as such there will be no Cypriot democratic oversight of the economic rape of their country. Be under no illusion: this is being done not to solve the Cypriot economy, but to save the euro. The crashing irony is that, in their February elections, the Cypriots threw out the Communists. One could ask why they bothered.
But at what cost is the euro being saved? What we can see here is an almost deliberate attempt to set the people of Cyprus against each other. By restricting the damage to those who have deposited 100,000 euros in the bank (rather than across the board, as was the previous suggestion) they will be undermining social cohesion, pitting those with against those without. It destroys any pretence that the EU has at its heart a belief in democracy, or in those warm words so often repeated about it being the guardian of essential "European" qualities. In truth it was only a fair-weather friend and its behaviour in this storm, as in others, is to drop these benevolent ideas like hot stones.
Worse still, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutchman who heads the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, has made it clear that this is now the template for all eurozone countries. Think about that for a moment. These politicians really believe that all the money in the eurozone is actually theirs – as if people have it on sufferance, and not by rights. Since Dijsselbloem spoke, bank shares in Spain, France and Italy have collapsed: citizens of these countries not unreasonably fear the worst.
All this is done for the European elite's devious ends. One of which is the so-called "Target 2". This is the eurozone bank clearing system, by which private transfers of money from one member to another are cleared through the national central banks. If, for instance, 100 euros is moved from a Greek bank deposit to a German bank deposit, the Greek central bank ends up owing another 100 euros to the Bundesbank (through the European Central Bank).
At present, the Bundesbank is owed 600 billion euros thanks to Target 2, mainly as a result of capital flight from Mediterranean countries. But, unlike with normal debts, the debtor countries have no contract or understanding about how this should be repaid.
Cyprus has just been granted a 10 billion euro bail-out loan from the other eurozone countries. But the irony is that Cyprus is already in receipt of a bail-out worth 7.5 billion euros – this is the Target 2 debt of the central bank of Cyprus. And they are desperately trying to prevent this growing as a result of further capital flight.
Perhaps this is the most ominous result of the Cyprus debacle. While the details of the controls to prevent money leaving Cyprus are not yet known, they will quickly lead to euros in a bank account there being worth less than euros in bank accounts elsewhere.
I have been saying this since the start of the latest chapter of the crisis: that the level of risk and the prospects of contagion are such that those who have deposits in other southern European countries should get them out as soon as possible. Don't just take my word for it. The economist and journalist Anatole Kaletsky yesterday made his support for my comments utterly clear on Twitter: "Anyone with more than 100,000 euros in a French, Spanish or Italian bank is crazy if individual, or criminally negligent if a company director."
There is, however, a silver lining to all of this – a small one, but possibly the most important aspect in the whole sorry debacle. Cyprus is different from Greece, different from Ireland and different from Spain and Italy. In Cyprus we have a population that would prefer to leave the eurozone than comply with the privations of Germany and Brussels. We have a parliament that has already voted down one scheme, and is thus barred from debating this one. We have a Cypriot archbishop who supports his people rather than the EU. They are not happy and they are pointing to a new reality.
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Listing Date10/17/20
Year Built1985
Lot Size0.07 Acres (3,093 SqFt)
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4-bedroom townhome with attached 1-car garage steps to all the amenities Eagle-Vail has to offer. Overlooking the Eagle-Vail Golf Course with beautiful mountain views. Next to the community garden;, driving range and putting green;, community pool and clubhouse;, pickle ball and tennis courts. New carpets in the bedrooms, Two wood burning fireplaces, New windows throughout. Lower level family room set up as the perfect man cave or entertainment area with a wine room. 3-minute walk to Eagle-Vail Ski Shuttle. Low HOA fees.
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