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UN Definition of Genocide
UN Definition of Genocide:
The United Nations defines genocide as "any… acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such…"
Both the Koranic policy of Jihad and Dhimmitude are both directly genocidal, by this definition:
First, the Koran describing Jihad:
When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds, then set them free, either by grace or ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. – 47:4
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. – Sura 2:98
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. – Sura 2:161
Fight unbelievers who are near to you. 9:123 (different translation:
Muhammad is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another. Through them, Allah seeks to enrage the unbelievers. – 48:29
Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate. – 66:9
Allah has cursed the unbelievers and proposed for them a blazing hell. – 33:60
Unbelievers are enemies of Allah and they will roast in hell. – 41:14
O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them. God does not guide an unjust people. – 5:54
Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme – 8:39
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. – 8:67
Allah will humble the unbelievers. Allah and His apostle are free from obligations to idol-worshipers. Proclaim a woeful punishment to the unbelievers. – 9:2-3
When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. – 9:5
Believers! Know that idolators are unclean. – 9:28
The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of hell. They are the vilest of all creatures. – 98:51
Fight them so that Allah may punish them at your hands, and put them to shame. (verse cited in Newsweek 2/11/02)
Second, Dhimmitude, a policy of deliberate Cultural obliteration
For those not killed by the invading Muslims, they might be allowed to live as Dhimmis; their lives are spared if they surrender to a set of humiliating and oppressive laws and regulations that demand subservience and guarantee the eventual extinction of their culture.
The Pact of Umar is a fundamental document in prescribing the condition of tolerated "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) living within Muslim-controlled states.
Dhimmi are granted the right to practice their own religious rites in privacy. The protection of their persons and property was also part of the pact but the punishment for infringement was less severe than for a Muslim. During aberrant fundamentalist movements, these rights varied or did not apply.
To secure their rights, dhimmi would pledge loyalty to their Muslim rulers, pay a special poll-tax (the jizya) for adult males, and in general show deference and humility to Muslims in social interactions.
While the conditions of the Pact were authoritative, the level of enforcement varied, as shown by the existence of churches constructed long after the Muslim conquests.
We Christians:
1 – We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries,
2 – churches,
3 – convents,
4 – or monks' cells,
5 – nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins
6 – or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims. . . .
7- We shall not give shelter in our churches or in our dwellings to any spy,
8 – nor hide him from the Muslims. We shall not teach the Quran to our children.
9 – We shall not manifest our religion publicly
10 – nor convert anyone to it.
11 – We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it.
12 – We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and
13 – we shall rise from our seats if they wish to sit.
14 – We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the headgear, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair.
15 – We shall not speak as they do,
16 – nor shall we adopt their honorific names.
17 – We shall not mount on saddles,
18- nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our persons.
19 – We shall not engrave Arabic inscriptions on our seals.
20 – We shall not sell fermented drinks. (i.e. Alcohol)
21 – We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims.
22 – We shall only use clappers in our churches very softly.
23 – We shall not raise our voices in our church services or in the presence of Muslims,
24 – nor shall we raise our voices when following our dead.
25 – We shall not show lights on any of the roads of the Muslims or in their markets.
26 – We shall not bury our dead near the Muslims.
27 – We shall not take slave who have been allotted to the Muslims.
28 – We shall not build houses over-topping the houses of the Muslims.
Once again, the UN Definition of Genocide:
The United Nations defines genocide as "any… acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such…"
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Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragonès, Mark Evanier, William Stout, Tone Rodriguez, Bill Morrison, and many more appear at Meltdown Comics on Saturday, August 16, 2014 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM to sign THE SAKAI PROJECT!
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On Saturday, August 16, twenty-two members of the cartooning community will descend upon Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard to sign copies of Dark Horse Comics' recently released book "The Sakai Project" to help raise money for the medical bills of fellow cartoonist Stan Sakai, creator of Dark Horse's "Usagi Yojimbo" comic book, now in its thirtieth year.
Fundraising efforts were initially spearheaded by the Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS), an organization of professional comic book artists and writers of which Stan Sakai is a member. Organized by artist Tone Rodriguez, CAPS began collecting original art last December for an online auction to lend a helping hand to Sakai, whose wife Sharon has been suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. As art poured in from the cartooning community, many pieces were custom drawings of Stan's samurai rabbit creation Usagi Yojimbo.
Bill Morrison, a member of CAPS and an art director at Bongo Comics (publisher of "The Simpsons"), approached Sakai's publisher, Dark Horse, about collecting these wonderful images into a book to also benefit the Sakais. Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson was enthusiastic about the idea, and offered to pay for the book's publication so that all sales could go to the Sakais. Bill Morrison proceeded to volunteer his time to edit the book in tandem with Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley which was designed voluntarily by noted book designer Serban Cristescu. The result is a beautiful 160-paged hardcover art book featuring interpretations of Usagi Yojimbo by some of the top cartoonists in comics today.
Between the online auction and the book, the cartooning community came together in a unique way to help one of their own. Now twenty-one artists local to Los Angeles will gather one more time to help their friend with a fundraising book signing event.
Attending the signing event will be "The Sakai Project" contributors Sergio Aragonès ("Groo the Wanderer", "MAD Magazine"), Mark Evanier ("Groo" writer), Tom Luth ("Groo" and "Usagi" colorist), William Stout (noted illustrator), Ricardo Delgado ("Age of Reptiles"), Jeff Keane ("Family Circus"), Rubèn Procopio ("Batman 66"), Dean Yeagle ("Playboy"), Bill Morrison (editor of "The Sakai Project"), Tone Rodriguez ("The Simpsons" comics), Steven E. Gordon, Anson Jew, Benton Jew, Aidan Casserly, Chad Frye, Brad Rader, Patrick Scullin, Robert Stanley, Mark Dos Santos and Mike Kazaleh all joining with Stan Sakai ("Usagi Yojimbo") himself.
Books will be sold for $45 each, or if fans already have the book, they will be charged a nominal $15 to have their books signed by the artists in attendance.
In addition to "The Sakai Project" book, there will be limited edition prints available exclusively at the event of four images from the book by artists attending the signing: Sergio Aragonès, Stan Sakai, William Stout, and Bill Morrison.
The event will take place on August 16 from 4-6pm at Meltdown Comics & Collectibles, 7522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046. Thanks to Meltdown, all proceeds go to Sharon & Stan Sakai to help with their medical bills.
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But as folks point out, the world of politics, policy and gov't funding is language driven. And we cannot avoid the catch-22 of trying to sell arts education without ever being able to really capture and sound-bite the public value and purpose of art. Tempting concepts like creativity and imagination may be equally difficult to pin down, as Sam says, and may or may not be the memes we need to close the deal.
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I'm pretty sure that Britney Spears would not let through someone to the next round of X Factor when she was hosting if they sounded like she did in this not yet auto tuned version of Alien. It sounds awful. I mean really bad. It is amazing what they can do in a studio to make someone sound really good. This is the opposite of really good.


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Better Living magazine
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Better Living was a Du Pont employee magazine created and published by the company's public relations department. The magazine, which began publication in 1946, featured the company's popular advertising slogan "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry."
- In keeping with this branding, its issues featured photojournalistic essays celebrating Du Pont products' contribution to improving American standards of living, features depicting Du Pont employees at work and at leisure, updates on Du Pont activities at home and abroad, and articles extolling free market values and the role of citizen consumers in postwar America.
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- Image: "Arlington worker Horace Franklin poses proudly amid a miscellany of useful goods made of plastics", from "Plastics Worker: His Job Traces the Basic Pattern of Du Pont Research, Production," Better Living, vol. 3, no. 3 (May/June, 1949), p. 20. Click here to view the full issue.


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I think we are overdue for another piece of Smørrebrød (Danish open faced sandwich) and lets make it a festive one. I love smoked salmon and I love caviar. Of course I don't use expensive caviar, just good old Lumpfish, and so for the purpose of this post we'll leave the expensive stuff for the Czars and the Royals. But I am picky about my smoked salmon. I don't care for salmon that is too soft in texture, I prefer for it to be firm and not fall apart when I separate the slices. There is nothing worse than mushy salmon. The mustard I used was a Swedish mustard with dill, but any sweet mustard will do. Happy New Years to all of you!
Ingredients: Smørrebrød – Røget Laks (Smoked Salmon)
1 slice white bread
butter, optional
dill or Boston lettuce
smoked salmon
caviar (lumpfish)
mustard with dill (or any sweet mustard)
Butter bread if desired. Here I used dill as my base, but you could also use a nice fresh lettuce, for example Boston lettuce. Arrange smoked salmon in a decorative fashion. Top with a little caviar (lumpfish). Add a sweet mustard to the plate for dipping. Enjoy with an ice cold beer. Skål and Cheers!
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations by one day to Friday, January 4, 2013, 5.p.m. PT. (The original date was Thursday, January 3, 5 p.m. PT). Members may vote online or submit a paper ballot. Any votes received after the deadline will not be counted.
"By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible," said Ric Robertson, Academy COO. "We're grateful to our global membership for joining us in this process."
In order to accommodate the extension and maintain security, the online voting system will be closed for two hours only (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PT) on Thursday, January 3. The system will re-open at 7 p.m. PT on January 3 and remain available to members until 5:00 p.m. PT January 4.
This is the first year the Academy is providing its membership the opportunity to vote online. Several voting resources are available to members, including assisted voting stations in Los Angeles, New York and London, and a 24-hour support call center.
The nominations and final Awards ballots will be tabulated and verified by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to ensure that all aspects of the balloting process are accurate and secure. In the majority of the categories, PwC will tabulate the ballots using the preferential voting system.
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2011 Sebring International Raceway Event - Wide Open
TrackGuys puts the pedal to the floor at Sebring International Raceway
Another Memorial Day weekend brings with it another TrackGuys Sebring Sensation at the historic Sebring International Raceway in Central Florida. While Editor Turner sips a beverage on the beach, all the cool kids are at Sebring for some open-track fun.
Truth be told, TrackGuys' owner/lead instructor Jeff Lacina says they continually try to get a different date, but the only other one available is in August, and there's no way you want to be open-tracking in Central Florida in August. It's hot in May, but it's sweltering in August. We'll take Memorial Day weekend over August any day.
TrackGuys arranges open-track events at several venues across the nation to make it possible for anyone to have an enjoyable day at the track, and learn something along the way.
"TrackGuys is serious about fun...but we are also serious about education," says the Track Guys website. The goal is to provide fun yet educational performance driving events, and each year the Sebring Sensation is exactly that.
Horse Sense: TrackGuys offers a number of events across the country. Hit up the interwebs at www.trackguys.com for the specifics.


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TOKYO (AP) Pitcher Masahiro Tanaka wants to move to Major League Baseball next season but his Japanese team doesn't want to let him go.
MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball's new posting system caps the fee for players at $20 million, less than half what Japanese teams received for pitchers Yu Darvish and Daisuke Matsuzaka.
"I informed my team that I would like them to allow me to test my abilities in Major League Baseball next season," Tanaka said at a news conference on Tuesday after a meeting with Rakuten Eagles President Yozo Tachibana.
Tanaka, a 25-year-old right-hander, went 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA with the Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Pacific League during the regular season. He will not become eligible for free agency until after the 2015 season and can move to MLB only if the Eagles agree to post him.
The Eagles, who won the Japan Series, voted against the new posting agreement in balloting by Japan's 12 teams on Monday and say they want Tanaka to remain with them for next season.
[RELATED: Giants check on Mark Mulder, Masahiro Tanaka]
"We told him he is very important to us and we'd like him to stay," Tachibana said.
Under the rules of the three-year agreement announced Monday, a Japanese club may make players available between Nov. 1 and Feb. 1 and may set a price of up to $20 million.
Starting with the day after a player is posted and continuing for 30 days, any big league team willing to pay the fee may attempt to sign the player. A major league team pays the posting fee only if it signs the player, and the fee is then payable in installments, with the timing dependent on the amount.
A player who is not signed may not be posted again until the following Nov. 1.
Under the previous agreement, which began in 1998 and ran through last offseason, there was no cap on bidding and only the MLB team with the highest bid could negotiate with the player.
Boston obtained Matsuzaka from the Seibu Lions before the 2007 season for $51,111,111.11, and agreed to a $52 million, six-year contract. Texas got Darvish from the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters before the 2012 season for $51,703,411 and gave him a $56 million, six-year deal. Darvish finished second in this year's AL Cy Young Award voting.
After the initial three years, the new agreement will continue on a one-year basis unless either side gives notice to terminate 180 days before it is scheduled to renew.
While Japanese teams were not happy with the cap on prices, some major league teams had objected that only the richest clubs could afford to bid on top players.
"We are pleased to have amicably reached an agreement that addresses various issues raised by all parties," said Rob Manfred, MLB's chief operating officer.


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One of Israel's leading strategic analysts says the country's leadership believes air strikes can set back the Iranian nuclear programme by three to five years
Ronen Bergman, an investigative journalist and analyst on the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has written a long piece for the New York Times magazine, asking the question on many people's minds: Will Israel attack Iran?
Bergman's answer, which comes in the last paragraph, is yes:
After speaking with many senior Israeli leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012. Perhaps in the small and ever-diminishing window that is left, the United States will choose to intervene after all, but here, from the Israeli perspective, there is not much hope for that. Instead there is that peculiar Israeli mixture of fear — rooted in the sense that Israel is dependent on the tacit support of other nations to survive — and tenacity, the fierce conviction, right or wrong, that only the Israelis can ultimately defend themselves.
Bergman is one of a small circle of heavyweights in the Israeli media who spend a significant amount of time with the politicians, spies and generals who are going to make the ultimate decision. So his assessment carries more weigh that your average Israel-Iran analyst. Here is one of the key paragraphs:
The Israeli Air Force is where most of the preparations are taking place. It maintains planes with the long-range capacity required to deliver ordnance to targets in Iran, as well as unmanned aircraft capable of carrying bombs to those targets and remaining airborne for up to 48 hours. Israel believes that these platforms have the capacity to cause enough damage to set the Iranian nuclear project back by three to five years.
Three to five years seems a very confident estimate. The US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, reckoned in December that such strikes could set the Iranians back one or two years "at best". Bergman also talks to a Mossad veteran, Rafi Eitan, whose own estimate was "not even three months".
Bergman spent a lot of time in recent months with the Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, and is particularly revealing on his strategic thinking. He does not necessarily share Binyamin Netanyahu's apocalyptic view of Iran's intentions, but believes a nuclear Iran will be more aggressive and harder to counter.
"From our point of view," Barak said, "a nuclear state offers an entirely different kind of protection to its proxies. Imagine if we enter another military confrontation with Hezbollah, which has over 50,000 rockets that threaten the whole area of Israel, including several thousand that can reach Tel Aviv. A nuclear Iran announces that an attack on Hezbollah is tantamount to an attack on Iran. We would not necessarily give up on it, but it would definitely restrict our range of operations."
At that point Barak leaned forward and said with the utmost solemnity: "And if a nuclear Iran covets and occupies some gulf state, who will liberate it? The bottom line is that we must deal with the problem now."
Bruce Riedel, a former CIA Middle East specialist, takes the opposite view, arguing in Lebanon's Daily Star today that even with the bomb, Iran would not be an existential threat to Israel. Riedel's view probably reflects the majority outlook at the CIA and the White House. Bergman examines this divergence in American and Israeli assessments, and wonders how much notice Israel would give Washington of an attack. Matthew Kroenig, a former Pentagon advisor now at the Council on Foreign Relations, reckons it will be "an hour or two, just enough to maintain good relations between the countries but not quite enough to allow Washington to prevent the attack".
Jeffrey Goldberg has put out a piece in The Atlantic in response to Bergman, suggesting that Bergman's analysis might be premature, and pointing out that the same people that Bergman talked to had previously convinced Goldberg that the attack would come last summer. Clearly, Israeli has a motive in conveying the impression that an attack might be imminent, to stir up urgency in the West to confront Iran. Ultimately, as Bergman admits, only Netanyahu and Barak really know how much is bluff and how much real intention.
That is a lot more interesting stuff in Bergman's piece. He is bringing out a book this month, called The Secret War with Iran, (clarification: an updated English version of his 2007 book of the same title) which sounds like it will be a gripping read, and of course the NYT article helps drum up interest and sales. In it, Bergman gives a colourful description of a meeting in January 2011 with the outgoing Mossad boss, Meir Dagan, who has argued vehemently against an attack on Iran.
We were told to congregate in the parking lot of a movie-theater complex north of Tel Aviv, where we were warned by Mossad security personnel, "Do not bring computers, recording devices, cellphones. You will be carefully searched, and we want to avoid unpleasantness. Leave everything in your cars and enter our vehicles carrying only paper and pens." We were then loaded into cars with opaque windows and escorted by black Jeeps to a site that we knew was not marked on any map. The cars went through a series of security checks, requiring our escorts to explain who we were and show paperwork at each roadblock.
This was the first time in the history of the Mossad that a group of journalists was invited to meet the director of the organization at one of the country's most secret sites.
Presumably there will be much more of this in the book. However, when it comes to covert operations, as with the nuclear programme, there are things that Israeli journalists know but cannot say, and must attribute to non-Israeli sources. For example, Bergman does not say outright that Israel is behind the assassinations of Israeli nuclear scientists but reports lots of nods and winks in that direction. Here is an example of the journalistic animut (opacity):
Operating in Iran … is impossible for the Mossad's sabotage-and-assassination unit, known as Caesarea, so the assassins must come from elsewhere. Iranian intelligence believes that over the last several years, the Mossad has financed and armed two Iranian opposition groups, the Muhjahedin Khalq (MEK) and the Jundallah, and has set up a forward base in Kurdistan to mobilize the Kurdish minority in Iran, as well as other minorities, training some of them at a secret base near Tel Aviv.
Is Bergman really channeling Iranian intelligence here, or laundering something he knows by attributing it to Iranian intelligence? Hard to know for sure, but it certainly reads like the latter. So his NYT piece and probably his book will no doubt tell us a lot about Israel's intentions but not as much as Bergman undoubtedly knows.


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To enrich the quality of community life and promote activities through creative programming for people of all ages and abilities, while protecting open space and natural resources for future generations.
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The Wilmette Park District stands against racism, hate, discrimination, prejudice and intolerance. We are committed to providing a safe, equitable and inclusive environment where all are welcome and treated with dignity and respect. We believe that providing this opportunity for all is core to our mission.
Park District History
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The Early Years
The Wilmette Park District has come a long way since its first meeting was held February 17, 1908. Louis K. Gillson was elected president of the new five-member Board of Commissioners at that meeting--other members included Rev. Edward J. Vattmann, David Maney, Horace G. Drury and Peter J. Cuneen.
The Park District was created at the suggestion of Col. Robert McCormick who, in 1907 while serving as president of the Sanitary District of Chicago, noted the excavation of a drainage canal connecting Lake Michigan with the North Branch of the Chicago River would result in about 22 acres of "made land" dumped into Lake Michigan between Washington Avenue and the canal inlet. Under state law, organized Park Districts could take possession of unoccupied "made land" to be used for park purposes at no cost.
Citizens promptly petitioned for an election to organize a Park District. An election was held in January of 1908 and the first Board of Commissioners was designated. Of the 211 votes cast, 174 were in favor of establishing a park district and 37 were against. The Park District, a distinct and independent municipal body, encompassed the entire Village of Wilmette--which had a western boundary at the center line of Ridge Road. A portion of northeast Evanston was also included but later chose to be annexed to Evanston.
The new Park District immediately set out to acquire the canal's "made land" and established a goal of creating a continuous lakefront park stretching north from the new harbor basin. Although the Park District did not officially acquire the canal acreage until state legislation was passed on May 25, 1911, a combination of purchases, property condemnations, lease agreements and a gift of land from Northwestern University soon resulted in one nearly continuous stretch of land between Lake Avenue to 70 feet north of Forest Avenue--including all riparian rights.
The first park development was begun in 1910 between Lake and Forest Avenues with the grading and installation of drainage, planting of trees and sodding of a bluff area which at the time was being eroded by waves. Street lights and sidewalks were also installed. Later construction of a pier for the Wilmette Harbor and placement of shore protecting bulkheads gradually developed a sandy beach area of 10 acres where only one and a half acres had originally been obtained. In 1916 the park on the bluff was named Ouilmette Park in honor of Wilmette's first citizen, Anton Ouilmette, whose residence was located near the intersection of Lake and Michigan avenues.
The Park District discovered the acreage created by the canal excavation was almost exclusively an impervious blue clay. It was not until 1917 that the first trees could be planted in soil which had been coaxed into existence through a series of cow pea and mullet plantings which were plowed under to create humus matter. This area became known as Washington Park.
Between 1911-1914 the Park District purchased a total of 11 lots to create West Side Park, known today as Vattmann Park. In 1914 the Park District began purchasing land east of Michigan Avenue between Washington and Lake avenues in hopes of creating a continuous lakefront park. The Park District acquired the "Church Triangle" at the intersection of 11th Street, Lake and Wilmette avenues in 1916 and leased Bateman Park (Sheridan Road and Michigan Avenue) from the Sanitary District of Chicago the same year.
The canal right-of-way at the east end of Greenleaf Avenue became the site of the first public ice skating rink in Wilmette and the present day Wallace Bowl was used as the Village dumping ground for eight years. In June of 1916 the Wilmette Woman's Club was granted permission to establish public bathing facilities along the lakefront at the foot of Lake Avenue and north about 300 feet. The Wilmette Beach was thus established. After one year of successful operation by the Woman's Club, the Park District purchased the beach equipment and opened a municipal beach--taking over responsibility for the maintenance of the facility.
Slow, Steady Growth
Following its founding in January, 1908, the Wilmette Park District, under the leadership of President Louis K. Gillson, began a slow, steady growth designed to acquire and preserve land for the recreational enjoyment of village residents.
In 1917 the first trees were finally planted in the impervious blue clay that made up the landfill now known as Gillson Park. The years between 1912-1915 had been spent almost exclusively in attempts to get the 22 acres of landfill in a usable condition--teams of horses pulled grading equipment across the clay to establish a topography. Plank floats and block and tackle were employed as needed to rescue teams that became mired up to their backs in sticky blue clay sink holes.
When the Village of Gross Point merged with Wilmette in 1924 its residents did not favor joining the Park District, so the Park District only encompassed the area up to Ridge Road. A referendum in 1946 expanded the Park District to Hibbard Road and by 1956 it finally included the entire village.
Because the early Park District did not cover the entire village, a referendum was held in 1926 to create a Playground and Recreation Board, under the jurisdiction of the village, which levied an annual recreation tax and provided limited recreational programming to residents for 47 years--until 1973 when the Recreation Board merged with the Park District.
In its early years, the Wilmette Park District oversaw only the physical facilities of the parks: land, buildings, structures and maintenance equipment. The Park District dedicated itself to careful growth which was achieved through land purchases, gifts, leases and trades.
Forest Park, located at 18th Street and Forest Avenue, was purchased in 1926. The WPA began construction in 1936 of an outdoor amphitheater at the Lakefront--that outdoor stage was officially dedicated as the Wilmette Outdoor Ampitheatre in 1946 and later named Wallace Bowl in honor of Gordon Wallace, superintendent of parks from 1936-68. Earlywine Park, at 14th Street and Wilmette Avenue, was added to the Park District in 1947. In 1949 the first pieces of property were acquired which have grown over the years to become Thornwood Park, Dartmouth and Thornwood Avenues; and Maple Park, 4th Street and Maple Avenue.
The 1950s and 60s saw a rapid expansion of the Park District. In 1951 the first land was acquired for Hibbard Park, Glenview Road and Skokie Boulevard. In 1954 acquisition of land for Community Playfield at Locust Road began. Langdon Park, first known as Sand-Lo and located at Chestnut Avenue and Sheridan Road, was acquired between 1956-57. West Park, south of Lake Avenue and west of Laramie Avenue was acquired in 1961; Shorewood Park, Elmwood Avenue and Green Bay Road was added to the Park District in 1964; and Avoca Park, Iroquois Avenue west of Romona Road ,was leased from Avoca School District 37 the same year and remains a leased property. The land that became Centennial Park was acquired between 1967-72.
In 1968 voters narrowly defeated a referendum that would have located a swimming pool, children's park, bath house/warming house, natural ice rink and toboggan hill in Community Playfield. Subsequent acquisition of the land that is now Centennial Park led to the construction of a sports complex facility there which now includes a pool, eight indoor tennis courts and two indoor ice rinks.
Facilities and Programs Expand
The early 1970s were a time of tremendous growth for the Wilmette Park District. Property purchases and strategic alliances formed between the Park District, the Village and Wilmette Public School District 39 laid the foundation for what has evolved into today's Park District.
In 1971 the Park District proposed a sports complex on the site of the Loutsch Farm, on Old Glenview Road. Now known as Centennial Park, the complex consisted of six indoor tennis courts and combined swimming facilities. The tennis courts were paired in three modules, each 12,000 square feet, which were connected and constructed at different levels. A smaller module housed supporting facilities for both the tennis and swimming areas.
The Park District put the proposal to referendum as part of a $1.78 million parks renovation plan that also included construction of the Gillson Beach House and a small Community Center which is now used by the Wilmette Junior High School as its Resource Center. Vigorous campaigning community wide resulted in the approval of the referendum in February, 1971. The Centennial Tennis Courts opened for business in October 1972.
Less than a year after the 1971 referendum was approved, Northwestern University decided to sell its 106-acre golf course on Lake Avenue and approached Wilmette with a proposal. Legal wrangling about the value of the property and community fears of a massive subdivision development on the site mobilized community groups and residents to lobby for the preservation of the open land. The Citizens to Save Open Space committee (SOS) backed a Wilmette Park District tax bond referendum to purchase the golf course.
In June 1972 a $4.4 million referendum was approved overwhelmingly 5,704 to 785 and in November of the same year a Cook County Circuit Court judge set a sale price of $4.2 million on the property. Rehabilitation of the golf course was set as a priority by the Park District and a practice driving range, four new greens, 10 new tees, an automated irrigation system and four small irrigation lakes were created as part of a major renovation plan.
Just four months after winning approval of the golf course referendum, both the Park District and Village Board were presented with petitions from citizens demanding a referendum requesting the Park District purchase and preserve an 11-acre tract of land on the Mallinckrodt College property at Ridge Road and Elmwood Avenue.
The property was already under a purchase agreement between the Society of the Sisters of Christian Charity and a developer who planned to construct 43 single family homes on the site. A joint referendum was held by the Park District and Village on January 16, 1973. The proposal failed and consequently a portion of the land was developed.
A 1973 merger of the Village's Recreation Board with the Park District set in motion the expansion of recreational programming. The Park District leased Village Green (now Howard Park) from the Village an arrangement which still holds today. It also leased the adjacent Curtis Curling Center which has since been converted to The Atrium, a senior housing complex. The same year the Wheeler family made a gift to the Park District of the land that has become Wheeler Park, located at Oakwood Avenue and Catalpa Place.
In 1974 a small site on Lockerbie Lane and the Frontage Road near the Edens Expressway was acquired by the Park District and designated Lockerbie Park.
The same year (1974) the Park District purchased a 4.8 acre site near Skokie Boulevard and Hibbard Road with the aid of a federal grant. Originally slated to become a playground, staff studies and input from area conservationists underscored the need to preserve the open space in an environmentally friendly manner. A nature learning center was then developed over the course of several years, featuring about one-half mile of six-foot-wide paths and nature trails, a shallow pond, foot bridge and a man-made waterfall. A wide variety of trees, shrubs, wildflowers and native Illinois grasses were carefully chosen and planted. Bicycle racks, bird feeders, viewing areas and photo blinds, along with a small parking lot, completed the project, and in 1981 the Park District dedicated the Stephen R. Keay Nature Learning Center. The Keay Center was named for the late director of the Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association. The center was built to accommodate the special needs of the disabled.
Following intense lobbying efforts by figure skating and ice hockey enthusiasts, the Park District built Centennial Ice Rinks--one full sheet of ice and one studio ice rink--at the Centennial Recreation Complex in 1975. Two additional indoor tennis courts were also added to the tennis facility at that time.
In the late 1970s, while the Wilmette Park District was steadily growing, the schools were experiencing major drops in enrollments. Three schools were closed and sold, including Bell School, located at Skokie Boulevard and Glenview Road. The Wilmette Public School District 39 Board of Education also closed Highcrest School, but retained ownership for possible use as a school in the future should the school age population ever increase.
In 1978, District 39 leased Highcrest to the Wilmette Park District in return for facility maintenance and the acceptance of a lease renewed on an annual basis. The ensuing ability to gather all recreation programming under one roof at Highcrest revolutionized the way programming was delivered in Wilmette and was soon being imitated by several suburban neighbors. Classes grew from 240 offerings in 1978 to 1,475 in 1994, when more than 21,000 registrations were taken for Wilmette Park District recreation programs.
The 1980s saw slower, but steady, growth for the Park District. The Green Bay Bike Trail which traverses Wilmette as part of a multi-community project was completed in 1981.
In 1982 the Park Board determined that age and the elements had taken their toll on the Wallace Bowl, which was originally dedicated as the Wilmette Outdoor Ampitheatre in 1946. The Ouilmette Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded to raise money for a complete rehabilitation of the Wallace Bowl and restore the historical site as close to its original state as possible.
The rejuvenated Wallace Bowl was rededicated in July, 1984, and included new stone terraces topped with Douglas fir benches; a new drainage system, new lighting, an enlarged stage and new landscaping and paved pathways allowing access for those with disabilities. Wallace Bowl is now the home of the Park District's summertime Starlight Theatre which provides a unique outdoor setting for musical and dramatic performances offered to the public free of charge.
The Lakeview Center, located in Gillson Park, was dedicated in 1989 and offers shelter to park patrons as well as a beautiful site for meetings and parties nine months of the year.
The action picked up in the 1990s, as attention turned to tot lot renovations and improvements in Lakefront operations which included the construction of a new Gillson Park Tot Lot and a sand volleyball court in 1991. Overlook Drive was reconstructed to include a larger walkway, benches and dune grasses to help reduce the amount of drifting sand. A picnic shelter was added in 1992 and a network of interior sidewalks were built to reduce the amount of on-street pedestrian traffic in 1992. The seawall was reinforced by adding rip-rap in 1998, and the Gillson Park tennis courts, which had originally built in 1929, were completely demolished and reconstructed in 1999.
In 1994 the Wilmette Public Schools District 39 Board voted to reopen Highcrest as a school, and the Park District was forced to seek a new home. The Board of Park Commissioners decided it was time to draw a blueprint for the future of recreational programming in Wilmette. Extensive public hearings, news media coverage, professional and staff studies, and debate pointed overwhelmingly to a preference by the community for a single site location as the home of a Community Recreation Center.
The former Bell School, which had been developed as an office site, was purchased by the Park District in February, 1995. After extensive renovation and some new construction, the Community Recreation Center was dedicated in October, 1995. The 95,000 square foot Community Recreation Center immediately became the programming hub for the Park District with classes in art, dance, the performing arts, gymnastics and sports. The Early Childhood Center, the Center Fitness Club, a state of the art gymnastics facility and the Meskill Senior Center all opened at the same time. A sports gymnasium was completed in 1996 and an auditorium, which was funded in part by a $720,000 state grant, was completed in 1998. The Auditorium now serves as home base for The North Shore Theater of Wilmette and the Wilmette Children's Theatre as well as other community-based performing arts groups and activities.
A New Millennium
As the century drew to a close, age began to catch up with the outdoor pools at the Centennial Recreation Complex. The Park District's Community Relations Committee, a citizen review group, researched the scope of a replacement facility and the feasibility of a referendum to fund such a project. Months of extensive study and public hearings determined residents wanted to retain an outdoor pool facility with added amenities such as water slides and a zero depth leisure pool. On November 7, 2000, voters approved up to $10 million in general obligation bonds to reconstruct the outdoor pools at Centennial Park. On August 12, 2001, at the end of their 30th season, Centennial Pools were closed and demolished. Less than 10 months later the new Centennial Family Aquatic Center was dedicated and opened for business on June 8, 2002.
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Park District joined the efforts to raise disaster relief funds by creating a "Reach Out Wilmette" campaign. A series of community-wide special events, which included a patriotic variety show, a 5K Run, aerobics specialty classes, and a Blood Drive raised over $10,000 in funds for aid to victims of the attacks.
As 2001 was drawing to a close, a group of residents demanded the Park District purchase the 17-acre Mallinckrodt College site which included the former college building and 14 acres of open land. The site in question was owned at the time by Loyola University and was already under contract with a developer who planned to build single family homes there. Open land advocates, historic building preservationists and proponents of senior/affordable housing banded together and petitioned the Park District to go to referendum over purchase of the property.
Only 16 months after the $10 million referendum that funded the reconstruction of the outdoor pools, more than 55% of the voters in Wilmette approved a March 19, 2002, referendum giving the Park District the authority to issue up to $25 million in bonds to purchase, improve and maintain the Mallinckrodt site.
The Wilmette Park District purchased the Mallinckrodt property for $20 million from Loyola University of Chicago in September, 2002. In May, 2003, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources approved a $2 million grant to the Wilmette Park District under the Open Land Trust program for the preservation of 5.22 acres of open space on the site. The grant helped offset the acquisition costs of the property and in return guarantees the acreage will be held in perpetuity for public conservation, open space, and natural resource-related recreation purposes.
Throughout 2003 the Park District and the Village of Wilmette worked together to find a viable plan for the adaptive reuse of the former Mallinckrodt College building. It was not until July, 2004, that a sales agreement was reached which would transfer ownership of the building from the Park District to the Village of Wilmette for sale to a developer who planned to convert the building into condominiums for seniors.
In an ironic twist, while the Park District was working to settle the future of its newly purchased Mallinckrodt property, an early morning fire destroyed the Terrace Restaurant and damaged the clubhouse at the Wilmette Golf Course on July 13, 2003. Thirty years earlier the Park District's purchase of the Golf Course from Northwestern University had been a stumbling block in the passage of a referendum which would have approved the acquisition of 11 acres of open land also on the Mallinckrodt site. That portion of the property was developed into single family homes.
The fire damage to the Wilmette Golf Course club house rendered the building unusable. The facility was relocated to trailers in the parking lot in order to minimize loss of playing time for golfers while reconstruction plans could be developed. Following demolition of the old structure, construction of a new club house began in the fall of 2004. The new Wilmette Golf Club was dedicated on August 14, 2005.
In August of 2004, in the midst of rebuilding the Wilmette Golf Club, the Park District took up a more than 20 year old cause advocated by the community's young residents--the construction of a skate park. Requests for a skate park came not only from skateboarders, but also from village youth commission advocates and police authorities who recognized the need to provide a safe alternative to skateboarding in the public right of ways--both for skaters and pedestrians. Beginning in the summer of 2005, the Board of Park Commissioners held public hearings to gather input from residents on a proposed site.
In August, 2005, following an outpouring of community response on both sides of the issue, the Board choose Hibbard Park, adjacent to the Park District's Community Recreation Center as the site. It was not until July 10, 2007, that the Village's Board of Trustees approved the necessary zoning variations that would allow construction of the skate park to become a reality. Completion of the skate park was expected in the Fall of 2008.
In the meantime, the Park District moved ahead with the rejuvenation of the nearly 14 acres of open parkland on the Mallinckrodt site. New walkways, quiet contemplative spaces, park benches, a natural outdoor ice area were defined along with a small arbor-like structure at the western boundary of the public parkland and openings in the south wall at both Harvard Street and Cambridge Lane for pedestrian access to the park. New landscaping included 71 trees, 437 shrubs, and native plants including 8,671 perennials and 531 ornamental grasses.
Under the terms of the Mallinckrodt sale agreement, the Park District retained about 7,000 square foot of space on the ground floor in the south wing of the structure. The interior was renovated as community recreation space and named The Mallinckrodt Center. In addition to being available for community activities the Mallinckrodt facility serves as the home of the Meskill Center--the hub of the Park District's programming for Adults 50 and over.
On October 21, 2007, Mallinckrodt Park and the Centennial Gazebo, named in honor of the Park District's 100th Anniversary, were dedicated to the community.
Starting from 22 acres of sticky blue clay landfill, the Wilmette Park District has become the guardian of over 300 acres of parks and open land including Gillson Park and Beaches; Keay Nature Center; Community Playfields, Mallinckrodt Park and a portion of the Green Bay Bike Trail. Five facilities including the Lakeview Center; Centennial Recreation Complex; the Community Recreation Center; the Wilmette Golf Club and the Mallinckrodt Center house Park District programs and activities. Neighborhood parks can be found in 15 additional locations throughout the village. A wide range of recreation programming encompasses children and adults from four months old to seniors.
The Park District is heading back to its roots to conduct an in-depth study of the Lakefront--centered in the 59-acre Gillson Park. The goal of the study will be to create a blueprint for the future use of all park district land and facilities stretching from the Wilmette Harbor on the south to Langdon Beach at the north.
As the Park District entered its second century of service to the residents of Wilmette it committed itself to a new mission statement: "To enrich the quality of community life and promote wholesome activities through creative programming for people of all ages and abilities, while protecting open space and natural resources for future generations."


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Pore Clogging Ingredients in Skin Care
Do not ever put anything on your skin or your hair without checking the ingredients first, even if it says "won't clog pores" or "noncomedogenic" on the bottle. No government agency oversees this so skincare companies can claim their products promote clear skin and have pore cloggers in their ingredient deck.
Many professional skin care products, natural skin care products, organic skin care products and even acne skin care products can have pore-clogging ingredients. There are many ingredients that sound wonderful for your skin, but can be some of the worst offenders. Natural oils like cocoa butter and coconut oil which are found in many "organic" skin care lines will wreak havoc with acne-prone skin. Other oils such as jojoba, olive and lanolin are mildly comedogenic and can be a problem if formulated with other comedogenic ingredients.
The prescription product Retin A (the cream form) has isopropyl myristate – a potent pore-clogger. Some other prescription products are comedogenic as well. Many over-the-counter acne medications also have pore clogging ingredients. "Oil-free" products are not necessarily safe either. These are all the ingredients that can aggravate acne.
Content provided courtesy of Face Reality Acne Clinic
|Acetylated Lanolin
|Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol
|Algae Extract
|Butyl Stearate
|Cetyl Acetate
|Cetearyl Alcohol + Ceteareth 20
|Chondrus Crispus (aka Irish Moss or Carageenan Moss)
|Coal Tar
|Cocoa Butter
|Coconut Alkanes
|Coconut Butter
|Coconut Oil
|Colloidal Sulfur
|Cotton Awws Oil
|Cotton Seed Oil
|D & C Red # 17 (can also be listed without D&C)
|D & C Red # 21 (can also be listed without D&C)
|D & C Red # 3 (can also be listed without D&C)
|D & C Red # 30 (can also be listed without D&C)
|D & C Red # 36 (can also be listed without D&C)
|Decyl Oleate
|Dioctyl Succinate
|Disodium Monooleamido PEG 2-Sulfosuccinate
|Ethoxylated Lanolin
|Ethylhexyl Palmitate
|Glyceryl Stearate SE
|Hexadecyl Alcohol
|Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
|Isocetyl Alcohol
|Isocetyl Stearate
|Isodecyl Oleate
|Isopropyl Isosterate
|Isopropyl Linolate
|Isopropyl Myristate
|Isopropyl Palmitate
|Isostearyl Isostearate
|Isostearyl Neopentanoate
|Laminaria Digitata Extract
|Laminaria Saccharina Extract (Laminaria Saccharine)
|Lauric Acid
|Mink Oil
|Myristic Acid
|Myristyl Lactate
|Myristyl Myristate
|Octyl Palmitate
|Octyl Stearate
|Oleyl Alcohol
|PEG 16 Lanolin
|PEG 200 Dilaurate
|PEG 8 Stearate
|PG Monostearate
|PPG 2 Myristyl Propionate
|Potassium Chloride
|Propylene Glycol Monostearate
|Red Algae
|Sea Whip Extract
|Shark Liver Oil (Squalene)
|Sodium Chloride (Salt)
|Sodium Laureth Sulfate
|Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
|Solulan 16
|Sorbitan Oleate
|Soybean Oil
|Steareth 10
|Stearic Acid Tea
|Stearyl Heptanoate
|Sulfated Castor Oil
|Sulfated Jojoba Oil
|Stearyl Heptanoate
|Wheat Germ Glyceride
|Wheat Germ Oil


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Administration's attorneys now have until Monday to hand over documents from internal GWB investigation
TRENTON – Lawmakers looking into the George Washington Bridge lane closures will wait until Monday for attorneys hired by Gov. Chris Christie's administration to turn over documents from their internal investigation.
The legislative panel softened on its initial Friday deadline when attorneys from the Gibson Dunn law firm released a list naming the subjects of 75 interviews that took place for the internal investigation that cleared Christie of blame for the September 2013 lane closures that snarled traffic in Fort Lee over a period of four days.
In a joint statement, panel leaders Assemblyman John Wisniewski and Sen. Loretta Weinberg said: "We're in receipt of the list of those interviewed by Gibson Dunn for its report, which has been shared with our entire committee, and we have agreed to give them until noon on Monday to provide the interview memoranda. We'll review what they provide and decide our next steps."
They declined to release the names on the list.
The production of the list headed off a showdown, at least temporarily. Wisniewski had threatened that the committee would issue a subpoena if records from the internal investigation weren't handed over by the end of this week.
Gibson Dunn's 366-page report left Christie and his current staff in the clear and depicted his former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, and a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey former executive, David Wildstein, as rogue operators who orchestrated the lane closures, with Christie being kept unaware for months.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new breed of nanobots is being designed to assist doctors by going where no surgeon or technology has gone before.
Working at the scale of molecules, these micro-machines are taking their cues from bacteria and the way in which they find their way around the human body. If they are successful, they could bring about a new type of molecular surgery and a different perspective to our own inner space.
The engineers and scientists working on the development of these nanobots -- the size of only a few molecules -- believe they could reach liquid parts of the body difficult or impossible to get to using today's medical practices, precisely delivering drugs to areas such as the eyeball cavity or arteries in the heart.
They might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at their most basic level these medical micro-robots are man-made protein "machines" that produce movement through chemical reactions.
Dr. James Friend, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Monash University in Australia, is developing a nanobot propelled by a tiny rotor motor measuring about five-millionths of a meter.
A simple injection would place the tiny machine into the body and it would swim to its intended target.
"We aim to provide doctors with a means to avoid major surgery and extend the capabilities of doctors to diagnose and treat patients. The powerful micro-motor will have its own power supply and be perform tasks by remote control," said Friend.
One of the most difficult tasks when developing these nanobots is creating and maintaining propulsion.
Ordinary rotors do not work on such a small scale, so Friend's micro-robot project has a special flagellated propeller, mimicking the swimming behaviour of E.coli bacteria. A strange inspiration perhaps for a potentially life-saving device.
At such a minute scale, everyday forces such as gravity are not the main obstacles to be overcome. The main challenge is overcoming viscousity, which means that completely different engineering principles are involved.
From an engineering perspective, when it comes to making micro-machines, nanotechnology has a distinct advantage over electromagnetic motors.
While conventional electromagnetic motors spin much faster, when scaled down to tiny sizes they lose torque. An electromagnetic motor that has 1mm diameter would not even be able to overcome its bearings.
With funding from the Australian Research Council, Friend's team hope to have a completed model by 2009.
Bacteria to the future
Taking queues from bacteria more directly comes the microscopic mechanical device being developed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Tokyo.
Yuichi Hiratsuka and his team are creating biological motors powered by an actual bacterium called Mycoplasma mobile. In nature the bacteria infect the gills of fresh-water fish, but does not cause any disease in humans.
Hiratsuka and his team believe they could power micro-pumps on computer chips by harnessing the bacteria, likes mules to a mill wheel. The chips could be designed to analyze blood or drug compounds, in essence acting as a mini laboratory travelling through a person's blood stream.
As the devices are hybrids of inorganic and biological material, there are no wires, plus Hiratsuka believes that the nanobots could even repair themselves by using glucose in the blood stream to, in effect, refuel.
The key to moving the tiny motors comes from the nature motion of the bacterium Mycoplasma mobile. Seen under a powerful microscope, the bacteria appear pear-shaped and move along in a sliding motion.
After studying the bacterium, the team realised that it moved towards its tapered end. Attaching them to a cog made from silicon, Hiratsuka believes that it could force the rotor to turn at a rate of 2.6 rpm.
However there is some skepticism that remotely controlled man-made nano machines whizzing around our bodies will be the silver bullet for medical science, at least in our lifetimes.
It might not sound as dynamic, but instead of an all-new nano-machine with a synthesized rotor motor, one adapted from an existing bacteria would be a better bet.
Using a linear motion it could crawl along an existing line of proteins already within the human body, thereby eliminating any other complications, such as the need for its own power supply.
"Bacteria have developed all sorts of ingenious ways to travel around the body and reach all sorts of areas over millions of years. Rather than try and synthesize a bacterium, it seems more likely that we could take a virus or parasite that we already know about and tweak it," Justin Molloy, Royal Society University Research Fellow, told CNN.
Loaded into a solution, a nanobot could start its amazing journey inside a human's blood stream from an injection.


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Complaints about President Obama's State of the Union address on both sides of the political divide (which was obscured but not obliterated by the evening's novel seating arrangements) seemed to miss its point and purpose. Like every successful speech of its kind, Mr. Obama's message resonated on more than one level. So while he conceded little ground to the right, the president nevertheless sought to draw his adversaries–and even more so the independent voters who temporarily sided with them–into the American story he told.
The meaning of that narrative could scarcely have been clearer. Mr. Obama articulated a vision of the nation's future shaped by an idealistic view of our past, in which government encourages growth, opportunity, and the pursuit of happiness by an inventive and industrious people. If that isn't the whole history of America, it is certainly an appealing theme–and one that contrasts powerfully with the partisan negativity and apocalyptic pessimism voiced by the Republicans.
Gently but persuasively, the president suggested that the electoral turn toward the Republicans last November was a mistake, and began to explain why.
The problems that we confront as a developed nation in an era of new and rising powers, he said, extend well beyond deficits and debt. While those fiscal issues certainly pose a real threat to our future prosperity, so do the deficits in our educational system, our physical infrastructure, our scientific research and our broadband capacity. If we focus solely on the fiscal deficit–and insist on reducing it by mindless, ruinous budgetary policies–then America will be set firmly on the path of national decline.
Therefore, said Mr. Obama, we must find ways to finance the essential investments that will equip Americans to participate successfully in the global economy, from high-speed rail to renewable energy to decently compensated teachers. Much of his plea for modernization fell on deaf ears among the Republican Congressional majority, of course, whose leading intellects don't necessarily accept the scientific consensus on climate change and nurture grudging doubts about evolution.
The president cannot expect the Republicans to move his agenda forward during the next two years, but he can start to demonstrate why their own agenda is empty and stagnant. In that task he was amply assisted by the (two!) sourly partisan and negative rejoinders to his speech from the other side. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the Tea Party diva, repeated the same stale talking points that always issue from her mouth when she isn't inventing fables about our history. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the new House budget chairman, failed again to indicate how his party will restore fiscal balance–let alone how they mean to address the central questions of education, science, technology, and infrastructure.
With grace and openness, Mr. Obama invited the Republicans to engage those issues, as well as the more immediate debates over health care, taxes and the budget. He reminded them and the public that Democrats stand for fiscal equity. He urged the nation's millionaires to give up their obscene tax breaks and set forth a deal to close loopholes and lower rates if every corporation pays its share of taxes. He explicitly rejected cutbacks that would fall most heavily on the most vulnerable and offered a spending freeze far less destructive than that proposed by the Republicans.
If the true state of the Union is more perilous than Mr. Obama dared to admit, he certainly began to describe the real challenges before us–and by implication, the obstacles that can only be removed at the next election.


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WASHINGTON — The seemingly endless winter dumped a half a foot snow on the ground in parts of the South, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and many areas Tuesday morning saw something even more unusual in March: a blast of arctic air that sent temperatures plummeting into the single digits.
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport broke a 141-year-old record low temperature, reaching 4 degrees. The National Weather Service said the low reached early Tuesday broke a 5-degree record set on the day in 1873. It was also a record low for the month of March. Dulles International Airport — also outside Washington — tied a 1993 record for the month at -1 degree.
Both airports broke record lows two days in a row.
Schools and government offices along the East Coast were closed Tuesday or delayed opening. Virginia State Police said slickened roads were factors in three traffic deaths. And authorities in Maryland's Prince George's County said a 60-year-old woman died after shoveling snow there.
Blame it on a return of the "polar vortex."
"That is the buzzword this winter, the polar vortex. That cold air just kind of migrates around the poles and the extreme northern latitudes all the time," said Jim Lee, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Sterling, Va. "The jet stream enables that colder air to move down the East Coast."
Monday's snowstorm followed a pattern that's become routine. Schools and government offices were closed. Federal workers stayed home — the fourth weather-related shutdown this season. Young adults gathered on the sloppy, slushy National Mall for a semi-organized, afternoon snowball fight.
Tourists, who flock to the nation's capital 365 days a year, were seeking out whatever activities they could find.
The National Air and Space Museum was the only Smithsonian institution open, and it drew a crowd. Among the visitors were Russ Watters, 60, of St. Louis, and his 14-year-old son, Seth, who was touring Washington with his 8th-grade class.
"We're trying to find stuff that's open, so this is open," Watters said.
The storm had a major effect south of the Mason-Dixon line. Governors declared states of emergency in Virginia and Tennessee, where there were hundreds of traffic accidents and tens of thousands of power outages. Nearly 3,000 flights were canceled Monday.
In Falls Church, Va., daredevils took advantage of another snow day by sledding down a steep hill behind an elementary school. Maya Luera, 11, said she wouldn't be so happy in June, when the school year will be extended because there's been so much snow.
"I'm more of a summer person, so I'd rather have more free time in the summer than the winter," she said.
Associated Press writer Matthew Barakat in Falls Church, Va., contributed to this report.
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B.C. recorded 50 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, heading into a long weekend with public health officials renewing their warnings to stay safe as summer activities and rising coronavirus infections continue.
Case numbers have climbed in recent days, with the total for July 31 topping the 41 new cases reported July 29. There has been a cluster in the Okanagan after a series of infection events related to parties around Kelowna. Interior Health is keeping a list of potential exposure sites, including resorts, a spin studio, restaurants and bars identified this month.
No new community public exposures were reported Friday, with monitoring and contact tracing continuing for active outbreaks previously identified on Haida Gwaii and at Fraser Valley Packers, a berry processing facility near Abbotsford.
Fraser Health, the region with the most B.C. cases since the pandemic began, had no reported community exposure sites as of Friday. Island Health has no current community warnings, and Northern Health has recorded no community outbreaks since the pandemic began early this year.
Vancouver Coastal Health has current public exposure warnings for Vancouver, Sandman Suites on Davie Street July 7 to 16, and the No5 Orange strip club on Main, July 1, 3, 4 and 7.
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control has an updated list of cases reported and possible exposures during flights to and within B.C. As of Friday it listed 17 domestic flights and 17 international flights, mostly to Vancouver from cities including Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Seoul, Korea, and two outbound flights to Seattle and Hong Kong.
One new health care outbreak has been reported, at Dania Home, a nursing home and assisted living residence in Burnaby. The only other one with ongoing outbreak protocol is at Holy Family Hospital, a long-term care facility in Vancouver.
Yukon's government also issued an alert Friday for possible exposures in Whitehorse and Dawson City. Yukon's chief medical officer was notified Thursday evening of two people who tested positive after returning from visits July 20 to 22.
"We can make this B.C. Day holiday weekend one where we find the right balance," Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said in a statement. "Having those important social connections with our friends and family, while taking precautions to protect ourselves and those around us. Let's socialize safely by keeping our groups small, using the layers of protection and giving everyone enough space to stay safe, whether at a backyard barbecue, on a friend's boat or enjoying a nearby park."
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An Afghan policeman turned his gun on his colleagues at a police checkpoint in the country's south, killing seven policemen, a provincial official said Wednesday.
The incident late Tuesday night in the Uruzgan provincial capital of Tirin Kot was the latest among so-called insider attacks in which Afghan forces or gunmen in Afghan police or army uniforms turn their weapon on Afghan colleagues or NATO allies.
Earlier Tuesday, a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops at a military university on a base west of Kabul, killing an American major general and wounding about 15 U.S. and coalition forces, including a German general and two Afghan generals.
The slain American, 34-year-old Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, was the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. About half of the wounded were Americans, several of them reported to be in serious condition.
In the Uruzgan attack, provincial spokesman Doost Mohammad Nayab, said the attacker opened fire and shot and killed seven of his colleagues at the checkpoint, then stole their weapons and fled in a police car.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assault but Nayab says the shooter had Taliban connections and blamed the insurgents for the attack.
Insider attacks in Afghanistan rose sharply in 2012, with more than 60 coalition troops — mostly Americans — killed in 40-plus attacks that threatened to shatter all trust between Afghan and allied forces. U.S. commanders imposed a series of precautionary tactics, and the number of such attacks declined sharply last year.
On Tuesday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid praised in a statement the "Afghan soldier" who killed Greene. He did not claim his group carried out the attack, although in the past the Taliban have encouraged such actions.
Such assaults are sometimes claimed by the Taliban insurgency as proof of their infiltration. Others are attributed to personal disputes or resentment by Afghans who have soured on the continued international presence in their country more than a dozen years after the fall of the Taliban from power.
Afghan policeman turns on his colleagues, kills 7
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An Afghan policeman turned his gun on his colleagues at a police checkpoint in the country's south, killing seven policemen, a provincial official said Wednesday.


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Raspberry Pi port, piCore-13.0 is available!
1) I have not been able to get Xorg going. When installing graphics-220.127.116.11-tinycore.tcz, the screen goes blank and the external monitor switches off. Ctrl-alt-bksp still works, and the text screen seems to have been switched to a higher resolution.Mounting Xorg despite this, makes the PC freeze requiring a hard reset.
wireless_tools.tcz for tcV3..lists wireless-KERNEL.tcz as a dependency..I don't think this is correct...no such extension
Note this is the same laptop that had problems with kernel panics booting from tc2.0...thru .2.8
2) My netbook only shows the power button and the sleep button after installing acpid and accompanying files. None of the other function keys are responding.


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Bill Kristol Says Obama Allowing UN to Investigate Israel, White House Denies
Smarmy lie-machine Bill Kristol "reports" that the Administration will support "an effort next week at the United Nations to set up an independent commission, under UN auspices," to investigate the flotilla raid. The White House responds that Bill Kristol sucks.
Bill Kristol, a Republican operative who's made a career posing as America's most intelligent neoconservative, despite being wrong about every aspect of the Iraq war, as well as every other thing he hazards a guess at, wrote in a Weekly Standard EXCLUSIVE this morning that Obama — perhaps out of his extreme and visible hatred of Israel — will of course support the UN in its much desired lynching of Israel over its trigger-happy flotilla killing spree.
There's a classic Kristol moment here, see if you can spot it!
While UN Ambassador Susan Rice is reported to have played an important role in pushing for U.S. support of a UN investigation, the decision is, one official stressed, of course the president's. The government of Israel has been consulting with the U.S. government on its own Israeli investigative panel, to be led by a retired supreme court justice, that would include respected international participants, including one from the U.S. But the Obama administration is reportedly saying that such a "kosher panel" is not good enough to satisfy the international community, or the Obama White House.
See? He just couldn't resist implying that Obama administration officials are running around calling the more Israel-friendly suggestion a "kosher panel," all the time, as one of their constant Jew jokes that they must make all the time given their seething hatred of Israel and all Jews.
The White House responded quickly and sharply, saying Shut Up Bill Kristol:
The White House official said the administration continues to support "an Israeli-led investigation into the flotilla incident that is prompt, credible, impartial, and transparent."
"We are open to different ways of ensuring the credibility of this Israeli-led investigation, including international participation, and have been in intensive talks with our Israeli partners in the past few days on how to move forward," said the official. "We know of no resolution that will be debated at the UN on the flotilla investigation next week."
Regardless of whether you think the White House should allow the UN to take Israel to the woodshed on its own, the Obama administration, or any White House, is not very likely to sign on to such an idea so readily. Bill Kristol just enjoys worsening the Obama-Israel relationship with poorly sourced bullshit for his own personal amusement, really.


text: Today is Friday, Oct. 4, the 277th day of 2013. There are 88 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. James R. Hoffa was elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The family comedy series "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on CBS. On this date: In 1777, Gen. George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pa., resulting in heavy American casualties. In 1822, the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, was born in Delaware, Ohio. In 1861, during the Civil War, the United States Navy authorized construction of the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor. In 1887, the International Herald Tribune had its beginnings as the Paris Herald, a European edition of the New York Herald. In 1931, the comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps. In 1958, the first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York. In 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 3, a space probe which transmitted images of the far side of the moon. In 1960, an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-188A Electra crashed on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing all but 10 of the 72 people on board. In 1970, rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room. In 1976, agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks. In 1980, fire broke out aboard the Dutch cruise vessel Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska, forcing the 520 people aboard to abandon ship; no deaths or serious injury resulted. (The ship capsized and sank a week later.) In 1991, 26 nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica. Ten years ago: A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders. Five years ago: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in New Delhi, where they lauded but did not sign a new agreement opening up U.S. nuclear trade with India. The U.S. military said it had killed an al-Qaida in Iraq leader (Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi) suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad, several other recent bombings and the 2006 videotaped killing of a Russian official. A North Korean news agency reported on leader Kim Jong Il's first public appearance in nearly two months. One year ago: A day after his first debate with Mitt Romney, which had been widely seen as a victory for Romney, President Barack Obama suggested that his Republican rival hadn't been candid about his policy positions during the faceoff. The Nielsen company said an estimated 67.2 million people had watched the debate; it was the biggest TV audience for a presidential debate since 1992. Today's Birthdays: Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 84. Actress Felicia Farr is 81. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Sam Huff is 79. Actor Eddie Applegate is 78. Author Jackie Collins is 76. Author Roy Blount Jr. is 72. Author Anne Rice is 72. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 72. Baseball manager Tony La Russa is 69. Actor Clifton Davis is 68. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, is 67. Actress Susan Sarandon is 67. Blues musician Duke Robillard is 65. Playwright Lee Blessing is 64. Actor Armand Assante is 64. Actor Alan Rosenberg is 63. Actor Christoph Waltz is 57. Actor Bill Fagerbakke (FAY'-guhr-bah-kee) is 56. Music producer Russell Simmons is 56. Actress-singer Wendy Makkena is 55. Musician Chris Lowe (The Pet Shop Boys) is 54. Country musician Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard (Sawyer Brown) is 53. Actor David W. Harper is 52. Singer Jon Secada is 52. TV personality John Melendez is 48. Actor Liev Schreiber is 46. Actor Abraham Benrubi is 44. Country singer-musician Heidi Newfield is 43. Singer-guitarist M. Ward (She & Him) is 40. Actress Alicia (ah-LEE'-see-ah) Silverstone is 37. Actor Phillip Glasser is 35. Rock singer-musician Marc Roberge (O.A.R.) is 35. Actor Brandon Barash is 34. Actress Rachael Leigh Cook is 34. Actor Jimmy Workman is 33. Bassist Cubbie Fink (Foster the People) is 31. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jessica Benson (3lw) is 26. Actor Michael Charles Roman is 26. Figure skater Kimmie Meisner is 24. Actress Dakota Johnson is 24. Actress Leigh-Anne Pinnock (Little Mix) is 23. Actor Ryan Scott Lee is 17. Thought for Today: "Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested." -- Guinean saying.


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It was 103 degrees outside and we were melting. "Where are the trees? There aren't any trees here," moaned Leah. There were no shadows to hide from the relentless sun. Even the clouds had forsaken us. Fortunately, they had drifted into the distance, providing the coveted contrast that landscape photography almost always requires.
With the mercury steadily rising over the Black Hills of South Dakota the past few days, and the forecast not cutting us any slack from the heat, we bit the bullet we dodged in Belle Fourche, and decided to leave early the next day for Badlands National Park.
Except it was almost noon by the time we got underway. We really did try to get leave on time, but life got in the way, and in a small way it was a small blessing. We mapped a route to our destination with a way-point to Walmart, since we needed an assortment of groceries and dry goods, and I needed a new camera chip, having filled the last chip with nearly 4000 shots–half of them from StreamingThruAmerica locations.
"Make sure when you format this chip, that it's compatible with your camera," the associate advised. "Otherwise, you have three days to return it."
"When are you planning on doing that?" Leah asked.
"As soon as we get back to the truck," I answered, "I'll insert it into the memory card slot, and I'll know right away if it's working."
That's when I discovered that I left the camera battery charging in the Airstream.
So we rode back to Rapid City to retrieve the battery and stow the groceries. "But if I hadn't bought the chip in the first place," I rationalized, "then we would have driven all the way to Badlands, and realized that the camera was useless. No battery, no camera; no camera, no photos; no photos, no blog."
"Right! Meanwhile, it's cooking outside! And we're going to get there, and not be able to do anything. Why don't you put that in your blog?" Leah announced with a healthy dose of sarcasm. The heat had definitely taken a toll on human relations. From that moment, neither one of us felt like making the trip, but we also couldn't imagine missing a National Park, so we d(r)ove into the fire, hoping to adapt to our inhospitable surroundings, much like Badland's earliest pioneers.
We drove across a 45-mile stretch of I-90 East, counting 60 Wall Drug billboards and road signs along the way.
"We should go there," Leah informed.
"It looks like another South of the Border," I hedged.
"But it looks like fun," she tempted.
"We'll see," I relented.
We arrived at Badlands National Park during the hottest part of the day. Even the bugs were in hiding. Crossing into the park at the Pinnacle Entrance, we took an early side-road to Sage Creek Basin Overlook in the hopes of spotting wildlife along the prairie. But the animals had better ideas other than baking in the blistering sun.
Instead, we admired the scarred lunar landscape of Pinnacles Overlook,
and claws of vulcan mounds crawling across the Hay Butte Overlook. It resembled a box of burnt streudel.
We backtracked through Roberts Prairie Dog Town–mindful not to pet a varmint potentially infected with bubonic plaque–and continued along Badlands Loop Road to Ancient Hunters Overlook, trying to imagine early tribes scouting the lowlands for buffalo,
much the way I was location-scouting for worthy photographs of black Pierre Shale.
We continued our air-conditioned trek to Yellow Mounds Overlook, where the surrealism was so profound, we had to leave the comfort of the cab to explore by foot…
leaving us to wonder how 35 million-year-old fossilized soil could weather into something so beautiful, yet other-worldly.
Burns Basin Overlook, while stunning in its desolate vastness, was beginning to look like every other overlook. I feared we were becoming "geo-jaded".
But that feeling quickly faded after we sighted a bighorn sheep lounging on a breezy slope, surveying the best way to Wall Drug.
I stealthily walked around the cliff edge as far as I could to score the best possible angle without falling into the abyss.
It was a standoff–both of us locked into position. She remained frozen as a statue, but I held my crouch under the blazing sun until my subject finally cooperated.
Leah was waiting in the truck with the air conditioner running. "I can't take much more of this," she vented. "It's just too hot out there, and I can't even bother to get excited about any of this. You're out there taking pictures while I'm stuck in the truck, and it's not fun for me."
"Tell you what," I negotiated, "We're at the point of no return, so we have to finish the park drive. But I'll make it quick, and I'll buy you an ice cream at Wall Drug on the way home."
Fortunately, the road opened up to grasslands on both sides, and a 45 MPH speed limit. We made good time until we arrived at Panorama Point, and the light was perfect.
"Go ahead," she conceded, "we're already here." I tight-roped across a knife-edge ridge as far as I dared…
to capture the enormity of the jagged peaks.
Just around the bend, I discovered the Big Foot Pass Overlook, on the right side of us,
followed by the White River Pass Overlook on the left side of us.
It was overwhelming.
We ended our tour at the Ben Reifel Visitors Center, where Leah enjoyed the film presentation, while I strode across the prairie grass for a closer look at The Wall.
I kept my promise to Leah, driving to Wall just as the weather was quickly changing.
The silos at the end of town re-created an ironic juxtaposition to the Badlands scenery.
Rain clouds gathered against gray skies, and the temperature dropped enough to cool rising tempers. But after a diet of Badlands drama under theatrical settings, I found it nearly impossible to buy into the Wall Drug über-kitsch experience.
Occupying 76,000 sq. ft. of retail space in downtown Wall, it's a fascinating rags-to-riches story from the Great Depression, and it stands as a titanic testament to American consumerism.
Still…the donuts were fresh, and the 5⊄ coffee was hot,
…and most importantly, it brought a smile to Leah's face.