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Library News Blog
EBSCOhost, the vendor for Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO, and others of our most popular databases, now provides an interface specifically for mobile devices like iPhones, Blackberries, and some Palm devices. Access any of the EBSCOhost databases through the separate mobile device page and select the database you want to search. Then search for articles (and in many cases read them) from anywhere you and your mobile device can access the Internet.
Posted Monday, November 9, 2009 - 1:35pm
The Lloyd Sealy Library will be open its regular hours this weekend, despite the bed bug treatment of other areas of Haaren Hall.
Saturday, Oct. 10 open 10am-6pm
Sunday, Oct. 11 open noon-5pm
Monday, Oct. 12, Columbus Day, closed
Posted Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 10:58am
We welcome our New Reference/Freshman Services librarian Marta Bladek, and congratulate her on successfully defending her English dissertation at the CUNY Graduate Center the day before she started!
Thanks to the Chancellor's Textbook Initiative, the Library now has a textbook collection of over 360 distinct titles, many in multiple copies. All volumes in the textbook collection are being cataloged and listed in the library catalog, CUNY+, and shelved behind the Reserve Desk on the lower floor of the Library. Textbooks can be borrowed for up to 3 hours, for use within the Library.
Check out the blog entries below for news about the Library's "film noir" video tour and our experimental federated search (more news about that to come later!).
Posted Friday, September 4, 2009 - 2:14pm
Our exciting new movie!
Written and produced by Karen Okamoto. Directed, shot and edited by Amala Lane . Starring Jiaying Wang. Featuring Bethany Davis, Quantae D. Davis, Imran Siddiqui, Kathleen Collins, Larry Sullivan. And introducing Kimberly Teets, Paulo Pinho, Vivian Lake. Camera assistants: Anoah Levine, Dan Gallagher. Special effects by Dan Gallagher.
This has been a collaboration between the Lloyd Sealy Library and the Audio Visual Services of John Jay College.
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 3:53pm
Listen to Chief Librarian & Associate Dean Larry Sullivan talk about the library's recently acquired Fraud and Swindles Collection, which includes an unpublished manuscript tell-all biography by William McMasters, Charles Ponzi's press agent. Broadcast in a segment entitled 'Books on Crooks' on CUNY radio.
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 9:22am
Do you want to search across all our databases? Or all databases for a subject area, e.g criminal justice or history? Try our new 360 Federated Search !
How federated search works:
A Federated Search searches across multiple library databases in one go. In the default basic search option, our federated search looks in the title field of each article (magazine, journal and newspaper articles) for the words you type in the search box. You can use the advanced search to search within the fulltext of the article, or in the subject headings, or in any other fields. The searching by subject enables searching across databases that specialize in certain disciplines, e.g. all our history databases, or all our criminal justice databases.
Is federated search a substitute for searching individual databases?
No, we don't think so! But it's a good starting point. Individual databases allow you to control your search far more than federated search does. If you use only the federated search, you may miss important articles.
Do you like federated search?
Email your thoughts to libinfo at jjay dot cuny dot edu
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 1:23pm
Any of the 3,200 examples in our Trial Transcripts Collection is sure to be an interesting read, including the few we have so far digitized.
In May, 2009 Newsday reporter Anthony DeStefano came in to the Lloyd Sealy Library to read one interesting transcript in which the defendants are charged and convicted of kidnapping and murder of 5 year old Joseph Varotta. Further research shows that they were linked by newspaper accounts to the famous "Black Hand".
DeStefano's article in Newsday today reports on the case based on his Transcript Research, but also mentions the New York Times reporting on the story.
As with most transcripts, the crime, investigation, trial and aftermath is further illuminated by these articles, as well as the fact that consistency in spelling of names was not a priority at that time. As DeStefano reports, research in the New York Times online archives or New York Times Historical File shows that the case was not over when the trial ended, and it's no surprise that it still resonates today:
Jun 12, 1921. FIND BODY IN RIVER GARBED IN CLOTHES VEROTTA BOY WORE; Father Identifies Apparel on Child Discovered by Boatman Off Piermont. DISCREPANCY IN HEIGHT Body Is Reported to Be Eight Inches Taller Than Victim of Kidnappers.WAS BURIED AT ONCE New Black Hand Letter Threatens Parent and Detective Fiaschetti With Death. New Black Hand Threat. Prays for Son's Return. BODY IN RIVER HAD LOST BOY'S CLOTHES Five in Tombs Silent. Will Exhume Body Today.
Jun 24, 1921. VAROTTA'S LIFE MENACED.; Black Hand Letter Is Sant to Father of Murdered Boy.
Jun 25, 1921 KIDNAPPING BEFORE JURY.; First-Degree Indictments Are Asked Against Five Varotta Suspects.
Aug 6, 1921. Varotta Murder Trial Tuesday.
Aug 18, 1921. VAROTTA IDENTIFIES KIDNAPPER IN COURT; Declares Raffaele Is One of Band That Demanded $500 Ransom. JUDGE CLEARS COURTROOM Precaution Taken to Protect Witness From Self-StyledBlack Handers.
Aug 19, 1921. DENIES VAROTTA CHARGES.; Raffaele Repudiates Confession in Kidnapping Case.
Aug 20, 1921. VAROTTA KIDNAPPER GUILTY OF MURDER; Jury Returns a First Degree Verdict After Considering Case for Seven Hours. PRAISED BY JUDGE TALLEY Decision Against Raffaele Is Reached After Jury Sees Photograph--Other Trials to Follow. Ransom of $500 Offered. Jury Considers Case 7 Hours.
Aug 23, 1921. VAROTTA KIDNAPPER SENTENCED TO DIE; Roberto Raffaele, First of the Band Tried for Murder of Boy, Protests Innocence. TO BE EXECUTED IN OCTOBER Prisoner, Half Blinded by Cataracts, Is Led by the Hand from Court Room to Cell.
Apr 17, 1922. ...Varotta Kidnapping Recalled. (bottom of article)
Apr 17, 1922. VEROTTA GETS NEW BLACK HAND THREAT; Warned Against Carving Details of Crime on Monument to His Murdered Son.
Jun 16, 1922. WOMAN FRIES EGGS TO TRAIL MARINO; Mrs. Nicoletti, Police Aid, Says He Promised Return of Boy Afterward Slain.
Jun 26, 1922. VAROTTA GETS ONLY $500; Father of Kidnapped and Drowned Boy Settles $25,000 Award.
Nov 30, 1922. PUTS OFF DEATH SENTENCES; Governor Reprieves Two Until March --One Is Varotta Boy Slayer.
Jun 29, 1923 VEROTTA KIDNAPPERS RECEIVE DEATH STAY; Marino and Cusamano Get Three Months' Respite -- Slayer Gets Last-Minute Reprieve.
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 3:11pm
SEALY LECTURE: Selling is the habit: Women and drug trafficking in North America, 1900 to 1970. Wednesday May 13.
Elaine Carey, Lloyd Sealy Library Fellow (and of St. John's University) will be presenting her research Selling is the habit: Women and drug trafficking in North America, 1900 to 1970.
This Lloyd Sealy Library Fellow Lecture will be held on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at 3:30 p.m. Location is Room 630T, followed by a reception.
Posted Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 11:19am
An unpublished biography of high-flying financial fraudster Charles Ponzi caught the eye of New York Times journalist Ralph Blumenthal, as he searched through the Lloyd Sealy Library's Special Collections. Blumenthal's article Lost manuscript unmasks details of original Ponzi has now been published in the New York Times. The mysterious manuscript was written by the man Ponzi hired to be his publicist, William McNasters - a spectacularly bad hiring decision, as McMasters decided to expose the criminal mastermind. Blumenthals's article has all the details...
Posted Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 12:38pm
Reserve librarian Kathleen Collin's new book Watching what we eat has just been published! Kathleen will be reading this evening at Book Court in Brooklyn. "Collins scours the archives to show how cooking programs throughout the decades reflect America's changing cultural mores. From James Beard to Rachael Ray, TV cooking hosts have brought this intimate brand of entertainment into the home, moving from educating the general public on the finer points of home economics to coaching us on developing our inner creativity."
Posted Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 12:09pm


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My Step-father, Mark Wheeler makes a very strong point about naming things as they are and not giving in to political correctness with popular terminology.
Murder is an act of violence not an act of responsibility and it is ridiculous for the media use the term "Terrorist claiming responsibility" for the horror of murder. We teach our children to be responsible citizens, and since when are murder and terrorism responsible acts?
Mark proposes changing the way these stories are covered and the words used to describe the perpetrators. When a terrorist group claims that they are behind a bombing, shooting or any other violent act they must be properly identified as the KILLERS or MURDERS!
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Second Osnabrueck Meeting Boosts PIM Development
Last year in January, Intevation invited the KDE PIM team to a meeting for a hackfest to their offices at Osnabrueck. This was such a great success, that everyone was glad Intevation invited several European KDE PIM team members a second time exactly one year later to polish and fix up Kontact and its components for the upcoming KDE 3.2 release. Last year the big decision was to make Kontact the successor to KolabClient. This year the plan was to make a a roadmap for future KDE-PIM Development. The developers took the opportunity to discuss complicated issues in detail and sit together for brainstorming or in order to fight evil bugs.
Meanwhile, Cies Breijs revamped the Kontact homepage. It's now back with a new design and more content and will be updated more frequently now. Thanks a lot Cies! Other thanks are due to Bernhard Reiter and Jan-Oliver Wagner and the rest of the Intevation
Kontact most of all has seen a lot of polishing to make sure it shines in its initial release. Several bugs have been tackled, KNode is now a true Kontact part, Kontact replaces all PIM applications seamlessly when running. Furthermore work has been put into speed improvements with ICal and IMAP and stability. GUI consistency fixes were not, of course, forgotten.
In order to be able to commit new features and ideas that arose during the meeting, osnabueck_branch was created. This branch will be merged back to to main development line ("HEAD") after the freeze for 3.2 is over. Improvements in this branch include the port of many config dialogs to KConfigXT and KCModules to allow for a smoother integration of config options in the next version of Kontact. KPilot integrates into Kontact and wishlist items have been implemented. For those interested in details, the developers summed up their activities during the meeting.
The developers decided on a seperate release for the KDE PIM applications. Cornelius Schumacher of KOrganizer and KitchenSync fame will act as release coordinator for KDE PIM 3.3. The developers agreed on a set of features (HTML composing, KitchenSync integration, Kolab and eGroupware Integration and Client-side IMAP filtering) as well as on a release schedule. Of course, features not listed on the release plan can also be added if they are mature enough.
To speed up compiling, Stephan Kulow and Michael Matz from SUSE generously provided an early version of icecream, a distcc-based tool for centralized distributed compiling which proved to be really helpful.
The KDE PIM Team will meet again in March at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 for a meeting with developers of groupware server projects to discuss and implement Kontact integration to enable you to make Kontact the best-connected groupware client available!
WebDAV support?
My employer uses MS Exchange (which seems to be very popular at least in the USA). Unfortunately I am unable to schedule meetings with KOrganizer in KDE 3.1.4 (although I have been able to download my calender from the Exchange serve! Great Job!), nor have I been able to use The Exchange Server's Global Address Book.
Does anyone know the state Exchange/webDAV support in 3.2, is anything being planned for 3.3? Currently Evolution + Connector seem to be the only option.
Thanks. You guys are doing a great job!
By David K at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: WebDAV support?
for what I've read, there is partial Exchange support, but it will be disabled in 3.2. coming for 3.3, probably.
By David at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
HTML mail support!
Yaaay! I can't wait to finally ditch Mozilla mail. I don't care if it's off by default, as long as it's an option!
Also: I'm assuming it'll send multipart/alternative with plaintext. Much as I like HTML mail, HTML mail without a plaintext fallback is evil.
By ac at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: HTML mail support!
Your assumption is correct. KMail will never send HTML only messages.
By Ingo Klöcker at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: HTML mail support!
What about displaying incoming HTML messages with embedded images?
KDE technology makes it reasonably easy, I think, I guess it's just a kioslave that ask Kmail for the MIMEd image in the message and gives it back to the KHTML viewer part...
By Julio Cesar Gazquez at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: HTML mail support!
It's on our todo list. It's more likely that we'll simply change the cid: URLs in the DOM tree to local file: URLs than that we'll solve this with a kioslave.
By Ingo Klöcker at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: HTML mail support!
Will this feature use the HTML WYSIWYG editor being developped for Quanta (I don't remember its name... Kafka ?) ?
By Macolu at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: HTML mail support!
No. At least not at first. A new Komposer framework is in development which will allow to plug several editor parts into the composer.
By Ingo Klöcker at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Error in story.
> Last year the big decision was to make KolabClient the successor to Kontact.
Do you not mean Kontact the successor to KolabClient? :-)
By George Staikos at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Error in story.
And maybe
> invited the KDE PIM team to a meeting
should have been some of the European members of the KDE PIM team.
By Don at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Error in story.
Note that we had to pay all our expenses (travel, accommodation) ourselves. Also note that members of the KDE PIM team came up with the idea for this meeting and just asked Intevation to host it (because of the good experiences of the first meeting in Osnabrück). So you could say that we invited ourselves. ;-) Intevation generously agreed to host the meeting and I take this opportunity to thank them for this.
So it's not Intevation that excluded anyone from the meeting. Instead the organizers of the meeting (maybe falsely) assumed that non-European members of the KDE PIM team wouldn't have had the resources (money, vacation from work) to participate.
By Ingo Klöcker at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Error in story.
The kdepim team of course consists of many more people than those present at the Osnabrueck meeting and we actually did ask some key non-european kdepim developers if they would like and be able to join us.
One of the great things about KDE is that it is a working virtual community which brings together people from all over the world. As nice and useful personal meetings are, we shouldn't forget that this is only one small piece of what makes KDE successful.
By Cornelius Schumacher at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Error in story.
Sounds reasonable to me.
By Joe at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Error in story.
Even more precise:
By Bernhard Reiter at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Version names
Will the separate PIM release really be called KDE PIM 3.3? IMHO that's a bad idea. If the PIM apps will still be released with KDE, then when KDE 3.3 comes out there could be version confusion ("Are you using KDE PIM 3.3 or KDE 3.3 PIM?"). If they will no longer be a part of normal KDE releases, then they should take their own version numbers and not try to stay in sync with KDE's.
By Spy Hunter at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
It's unfortunately the best of the bad cases. If we chose anything else, it would be a problem to later decide we would come back into the KDE release cycle. It's also possible that we decide to keep releasing kdepim separately from the other KDE parts.
It's quite uncertain wether there will be a KDE 3.3 release or it will be 4.0, so it might not be a problem at all. Should there be a KDE 3.3 release in, say, august, kdepim will most likely not be released with it.
By Bo Thorsen at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
Why not merge the KDEPIM 3.3 stuff into kde 3.2.1 and then you don't have to call it anything?
The naming issue will be very confusing. Waiting a month or 2 won't kill anyone and will allow it to settle in.
By put off release... at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
Read http://pim.kde.org/development/meetings/20040102/release.php (especially "Versioning scheme for separate kdepim release").
Also we are talking about 4-5 month, not about 1 or 2 month.
By Ingo Klöcker at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
Why not 3.2b ?
By Pedro Alves at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
> Also we are talking about 4-5 month, not about 1 or 2 month.
So why not wait some more and release it with kde 3.3?
btw, a shorter release-cycle for kde, about 6-9 month, would be nice!
By ac at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
KE should have a release cycle no longer than 6-7 months for intermediate releases. Only big point releases like 4.0 should take a year.
By Alex at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
We don't want to release in 6-9 months and KDE 3.2 is still not released after almost 12 months. Currently nobody knows when KDE 3.3 will be released (if ever because maybe we directly go for KDE 4.0).
By Ingo Klöcker at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
Then why not 3.2.01? Then when KDE 3.2.1 is released kdepim can still release 3.2.1 which will just be a more stable 3.2.01 and wont confuse people. Besides there is nothing more fun then a very minor version bump that has major functionality. It is like winning free stuff for a user.
By Benjamin Meyer at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
You mean winning free bugs, don't you?
By Cornelius Schumacher at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Version names
My opinion is that KDE 3.3 will turn into KDE 4 like you suggest, so I agree it probably won't be a problem. It could still be confusing anyway, but I guess your reasoning makes sense. As long as people realize it could be a problem, that's fine.
By Spy Hunter at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
I'm glad knode will be integrated. I would love to be able to mix and match my mail folders and news folders. Even if this is not in this release, it will likely push it towards that capability.
I just got an iPaq. I've been kicking around trying to get it to sync (I don't own a Windows machine - just various *nix). Raki, the KDE sync tool for SynCE almost works, but it would be ideal if it was built right into KDE PIM. Any idea if there has been any work on syncing Windows PocketPCs?
If there hasn't, I'm likely going to be installing Linux on it soon... :)
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Nifty! -> Raki
I'm also a owner of a Windows Mobile 2003 pocket pc (Dell Axim X5).
There is only one f#cking need, to keep windows xp running on my system!
I need MS Outlook to sync my:
with Palm.
Is there any plan or at least motivations, to integrate Pocket PCs also into KDEPIM ?
By Rene at Thu, 2004/02/19 - 6:00am
Re: Nifty!
same here, the only reason i have a windoze box now is to sync my pocketpc that i use all day long at work :)
By Jim at Wed, 2005/11/16 - 6:00am
About KPilot
Can I upload my KOrganizer schedule/calender to KPilot to my Palm and vice versa?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: About KPilot
Yes, with kpilot, were you can active and configure the KO rganizer Calendar and Todo conduits. It's working fine with me.
By jukabazooka at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
I got to know that a parallel event, the LinuxInfoTage(?) in Wilhelmshafen will be videoconferencing with Chemnitz.
By gerd at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Different is the Same ?
Can someone tell me the differences between Kolab & Kroupware ?
These apps look the same to me, but have different websites. If they ARE the same, why have different name ?
By Onion at Tue, 2004/01/13 - 6:00am
Re: Different is the Same ?
Kolab is the new name for Kroupware since it was criticized before. KDEPIM is the respective module in KDE CVS which includes all the PIM applications like KMail, Korganizer etc. and Kontact. Kontact is a shell integrating many of the stand alone PIM applications.
By Datschge at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Different is the Same ?
Kroupware was the name for work done under a (now finished) contract
Some KDE's PIM applications can act as a Kolab Client.
By Bernhard Reiter at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Different is the Same ?
Kolab is the groupware server. Kroupware was the name of the project to write a KDE client for Kolab based on the existing applications from the kdepim CVS module (KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressBook). The result of this project is in the kroupware_branch in CVS. It never got released as part of KDE.
With KDE 3.2 kdepim will include Kontact which integrates KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressBook and more into a single application. In the next release Kontact will include the Kolab client functionality.
By Cornelius Schumacher at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Re: Different is the Same ?
Kolab is the name of the Free Software project.
By Bernhard Reiter at Wed, 2004/01/14 - 6:00am
Crystal SVG 1.0 is out on kde-look
Get it while its HOT :)
By PBY at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am


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Sony president Kaz Hirai got his own specialized PlayStation 3 today, according to a tweet by fellow Sony exec (and SCE head) Shuhei Yoshida. It's custom made. And not for sale.
I have absolutely no idea what the red thing is. People have asked Yoshida on Twitter, but he hasn't responded yet. Anyone want to guess?
A special PS3 custom made for Kaz. Not for sale. [Twitter via NeoGAF]


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The Darkest Tide | Nadine Kanawati
The Darkest Tide, 2019
Tire Powder and Acrylic on Canvas
70 x 70 cm each
Nadine Kanawati
MA in Fine Arts, Lebanese University (2017)
Nadine Kanawati is a Lebanese artist, born in 1984 in Beirut. She holds a BA and an MA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University. Kanawati has a strong interest in art therapy in which she specialized after graduating. With an interest in advocacy, civil rights and her experience serving on the board of several non-profit organizations, Kanawati showcases the discomfort of being stuck in an eternal and endless cycle. She worked with several NGOs including the United Nations on multiple projects using art therapy techniques. In October 2017, she organized a workshop at the BCC (Breast Cancer Center). Kanawati participated in the inaugural exhibition of CUB Gallery in December 2017.


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Yes, there's always the classic turkey sandwich on white bread, with or without some crispy bacon and tomato, to help solve the bird problem after Thanksgiving. Why not, though, get a little creative and transfer that sandwich into a soft taco?
You can still use that bacon and tomato (as in salsa) but you also get to play with more vibrant flavorings like chili and fresh cilantro. Using a corn tortilla instead of a flour one also contributes its own taste and texture to the whole.
This recipe makes use of what was leftover on my Thanksgiving table: Celery and shelled walnuts or pecans. Use whatever you might have as well.
Consider turning those tortillas into hot enchiladas. Fill each with slivered turkey, refried beans, shredded cheese, diced poblano peppers. Lay the enchiladas in a lightly greased casserole, cover with tomato sauce, top with more grated cheese and bake at 350 degrees until warmed through, about 25 minutes.
To drink, beer is always a good option. "I would go with an earthier, spicier hefeweizen — a lighter-bodied style to match the simplicity of the turkey, but one with more spice and alcohol to duel with the salsa-and-jalapeno zip," says Josh Noel, my colleague and a beer writer. "Or else a bock, which has a nice balanced roundness, and should also stand up to those tacos nicely." Iced tea or Mexican fruit sodas also work.
Prep: 15 minutes; Cook: 12 minutes; Makes: 4-6 servings
12 (6-inch) corn tortillas
2 cups shredded turkey
¾ cup jarred chunky tomato salsa, plus more for garnishing
4 ribs celery, thinly sliced
1 small can (4 ½ ounces) chopped green chilies or 2 jalapeno peppers, thinly sliced
½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans
3 strips cooked, crisp bacon, crumbled
½ cup shredded cheese
½ bunch cilantro, coarsely chopped
1. Combine shredded turkey and ¾ cup salsa in a microwaveable container; heat on high until heated through, 1-2 minutes. Keep warm.
2. Lightly toast tortillas on both sides in a dry skillet over medium heat, about 30 seconds each. Place the tortillas on plates. Divide turkey among tortillas, mounding down the center of each. Top with the celery, chilies, nuts, bacon and cheese.
3. Spoon as much extra salsa as you like over the filling; top with cilantro. Fold tortillas over into a taco form. Serve.
Nutrition information per serving: 353 calories, 13 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 76 mg cholesterol, 29 g carbohydrates, 32 g protein, 450 mg sodium, 5 g fiber


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Telstar Ponies | GEOG8 | Released: 22/07/01
All through Telstar Ponies - and certainly made most overt on Voices From The New Music, our last album - I've had a vision of traditional folk melodies married to epic ballroom jamming all chewed through some fucked-up studio technique. There's a point right in the middle of Fairport Convention's 'A Sailor's Life' (from 69's Unhalfbricking) which has always obsessed me, where the whole group just start to move OUT and the music suddenly seems both impossibly ancient and dazzlingly prescient. I felt that no one had really taken up that mantle, and I wanted to wrestle with it, to take all these eternal melodies and apocalyptic folk songs and charge them with eroticism and menace, with a brooding, mysterious, even supernatural element.


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Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories for December 10
Christmas Gifts
Christmas Gifts
This Blog is pleased to join with other GeneaBloggers around the world in presenting this Advent Calendar over the next 24 days leading up to the Christmas celebration - a different topic each day. We will attempt to post on each of the topics. Our invitation continues to be open to other writers to join us here with your comments (See Nov 29, Dec 5, Dec 12, and Dec 19 posts here - laber 'Advent Calendar' - for the topics; or the link in the title, here).
Christmas Gifts
My favorite all-time Christmas gift was my Lionel electric train... in 1952. Here is a still from a movie of the train running... in 2005. Still beautiful, still runs. In a box, carefully cared for.... ;-)
Families are Forever... but the train is mine! ;-)


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I should start by mentioning that this scene doesn't exist.
I should start by mentioning that this scene doesn't exist. Well, sort of. I was at Clover Point, shooting the mountains in Washington across the Juan de Fuca Strait, and I made 18 images (6*3 exposures) for an HDR panorama. Unfortunately, when I combined the images in Autopano Pro, it didn't merge them all into one panorama as I'd hoped - not enough overlap for a couple of images. So, undaunted, I told the program to merge all of the images into one panorama, in one row. What it did was to overlay all 18 images on top of each other in one frame. Not quite what I'd anticipated, but interesting...Mike.
Cemetery in the fog. The fog gave motion technique a real boost, surreal. I missed the sunrise, but the fog helped out quite a bit.JMR
Post processed of course, but it started in camera with an unintended use of spot rather than averaging metering.


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You've probably been in a situation at some point where someone you're with makes a comment—about women, girls, people of color, queer people, poor people, whatever—that pisses you off, and you don't know if you should say something, or how to say something. We have too. So we talked it out on Facebook.
TAVI: So I'd like to talk about figuring out how to call people out when they say something that offends me as a girl, and calling them out in a way that will actually be effective. Like if you're with a group of friends and someone says that Rihanna deserved it, or in class when someone says that Jane Eyre needs to quit her whining and enjoy her life as a domestic governess, and you wanna say something, but you don't know how.
Most of the time I don't really care if people don't get what I'm trying to say or do, but in this case, I want them to understand. I feel bad if I don't say anything, because history (on a large and a personal scale) is full of people who maybe wanted to say something about injustice or inequality but knew that to do so would not make them many friends—and some really messed-up things happened or continued to happen for the sake of the comfort of the people who wouldn't or couldn't say anything. (This comment has been sponsored by Say Anything, starring John Cusack, coming out April 14th, 22 years ago.)
If I react in an angry way, I only perpetuate the Angry Feminist stereotype; if I'm nice, I feel like I'm just complying with the idea that women have to be nice and aren't allowed to be angry. Of course, discrimination can be very personal and beyond my own experience, and I wouldn't want to tell anyone how they're supposed to feel or react to anything they feel strongly about. So this isn't about deciding how angry anyone is allowed to be…I guess it's about figuring out how to use that anger.
LORI: This issue is so so tricky! Tavi, I think you hit the nail on the head when you describe a certain lose-lose element to calling people out on their bullshit. Speaking up can alienate people or get you quickly dismissed the next time something comes up, but staying quiet can feel like a personal failure or a soul-crushing moral sacrifice. There should be a name for this. The Pansy Paradox? Catch Twenty-[Something]?
I think it's more of an art than a science to determine when and how to call people out. But I feel like I trust myself to make those split-second decisions based on some loose criteria:
- Emotional energy. How am I feeling today? Shitty? Powerful? Bored? If I already have a lot on my plate and don't feel emotionally capable of engaging with douchebags or just some inadvertently offensive party, I'm not gonna. Feminism means taking care of women, including myself!
- Potential for impact/change. Is this person a card-carrying misogynist, or are they simply ill informed or ignorant? Sometimes people say stupid shit because they WANT to provoke, and sometimes weird comments are borne of true ignorance. I try to engage people and situations where it seems like there is room for growth and change and try to avoid situations where I'm feeding into some deliberate troublemaker's trap.
- Environment. Am I in a large group of people or a quiet, private place? Has this offending person made the offending comment in a space where it could be interpreted as particularly hurtful or threatening to people in the room? How much of a difference will it make to speak up right away, in that moment, as opposed to waiting until things have cooled down a bit? Am I putting myself or others in danger by speaking up?
PIXIE: I have found that it's always better to challenge people than to yell at them. "What do you mean by that?" or "Do you know what that word really means?" or "Did you know that's actually offensive?" is usually more effective than just saying, "That's offensive" without providing an explanation as to why. Nobody likes to be accused of being racist/homophobic/sexist, etc., especially people who don't realize that they're being that way.
ANNA: I remember when I first got into feminism, I REALLY got into it. I believed that the world could be divided into two kinds of people: those who identified as feminists, and those who just did not like women. I tried to "convert" everybody who didn't see things my way to the magic of gender equality.
Of course, I still believe that feminism is incredibly important and that we have a lot of work to do. But damn if my older methods weren't exhausting. Now, part of it is knowing when to pick your battles, as Lori alluded to—sometimes I have to ask myself, "Do I have the mental energy to deal with this sexist prick today? Or is this the type of thing I should try to ignore now and mock with my friends later?"
TAVI: I feel you on the first-getting-into-feminism thing! Lots of rage there. Which I fully support! I think it's so important to recognize unfair bullshit and be angry about it. And in the moment, when a person in one of my classes says something I take offense to, I do feel angry. But I've learned that going off on people or rolling my eyes to make them feel stupid or throwing all these terms of feminist theory at them doesn't really work. If anything it's gotten me stereotyped as The Feminist, and then nothing I have to say is considered because apparently I'm just looking for things to complain about.
Like when we read Things Fall Apart in English and we had to say whether we would want to live in the Igbo culture or not and one guy made a half-serious joke that he would because then he could have multiple wives and abuse them. Once I was literally met with applause for just for speaking up and telling that specific guy off, but it was way more the girls. I think the guys felt attacked.
So then…where's the place for this RAGE? What are some ways to express it when you don't wanna be perfectly nice and thoughtful, when you just wanna be mad, as you deserve to be, about how messed up things are?
ANNA: That reminds me of something that happened to me once at a party. I decided to call someone out for saying something, but I did it in one of those super-elaborate, trying-to-avoid-confrontation, "don't you think there is a better way to go about this conversation" kinda ways and it was followed by an awkward silence where I thought, Oh crap, now I've ruined this party for everybody. But my point was taken and the subject was changed and within minutes the tension was gone. Later, a woman came up to me in private and said, "I was thinking the same things but was too nervous to speak up."
The moral of this ambiguous anecdote is: sometimes when you think you are being the "humorless feminist," you might be saying something that everyone was thinking but didn't want to be the one to bring it up.
Melissa McEwan wrote a wonderful essay about the relationships between women and men for her blog Shakesville, called "The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck." There is this one line that particularly resonated: "Swallow shit, or ruin the entire afternoon?"
CINDY: Here are my two cents on "calling someone out":
- Always do it, and make yourself do it even if you feel uncomfortable. If you don't, they'll never learn.
- Always do it very calmly and nicely, which in turn means…
- Phrasing it pleasantly and politely (e.g., "Actually, I feel uncomfortable when you say that, because…")
- A lightness of touch/sense of humor where appropriate in doing it can help get through to the offender more effectively.
- Make your point. If the other party starts getting defensive and it starts heading down a bad path, close the dialogue down gently but firmly ("Anyway, that's how I feel and I just wanted to let you know. Now, let's talk about something else…").
ANNA: Humor is SO important. I mean, sometimes I have that feeling that Tavi mentioned where I think if I try too hard to be funny I am just buying into that "feminist are humorless" stereotype by being determined to prove them wrong.
I feel that this post by our own Sady Doyle on her site Tiger Beatdown is relevant here.
TAVI: I'd like to add though that sometimes it's just the wrong time, and you shouldn't feel guilty if you weren't sure how to say anything so you just didn't. Most of the time I've been glad I said something, though. Also, GUYS I THINK I ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION ABOUT THE RAGE THING! Because a bunch of rad zines just came in the mail. Zines! And music! And art! Taking all that anger and energy and doing something that makes you feel a release, feel creative and productive—and bigger movements, I think, like the energy at SlutWalk—are amazing. But now that I think about it, I guess I am composed when I wanna get my point across but I let Bikini Kill act as my therapy…
ANNA: Sometimes, having all that rage by yourself can feel overwhelming. But when you can channel it into an artistic outlet or political movement—I mean, goddamn. It's like an extra "fuck you" to the patriarchy when you can take all the shit they throw at you and turn it into something beautiful. ♦


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More than half of the oldest boomers are now fully retired, mostly because they are ready to stop working, a MetLife Mature Market Institute study found. Just 17% of retired boomers born in 1946 were forced to stop working for health reasons and 10% stopped working due to a job loss.
A fifth of retired boomers suffered a drop in their standard of living after retirement. For most, unexpected and high costs were the main reason, but 35% said they didn't have enough retirement income. Only 12% said they had enough but ran out.
GfK Custom Research North America surveyed more than 1,000 respondents at the end of 2012 on behalf of MetLife. All respondents were born in 1946; they turned 66, their full retirement age, in 2012.
MetLife found only 8% of boomers retired later than they thought they would, and of those, 26% kept working simply because they liked it. Some boomers are partially retired, with 14% working part time. Those partially retired boomers said they planned to retire at 71, up from 69 in 2011. Twenty-one percent are still working full time.
"They are poised to remain active and engaged. As their nests empty, they seem to be largely feeling healthy and positive," Sandra Timmermann, Ed.D., director of the MetLife Mature Market Institute, said in a statement. "On the negative side, a good half of this group may not have achieved their retirement savings goals and are not confident about paying for the next phase of their lives."
That could be encouraging them to seek professional advice, though. The report found over half of the oldest boomers have turned to an advisor, up from 36% in 2008. "While these oldest boomers may be realizing they need professional help in their retirement planning efforts, 13% still say they don't have retirement savings goals, and 34% are somewhat or significantly behind in their retirement savings goals," according to the report.
About 40% of respondents who are still working think their income in retirement will be about the same as their preretirement income. However, a third expect their standard of living to fall in retirement.
MetLife found 86% of respondents were collecting benefits, and 43% started taking benefits earlier than they thought they would.
Long-term care was a primary retirement concern for 31% of respondents, although less than a quarter own LTC insurance. An overwhelming majority want to age in place.
Overall, though, boomers are fairly optimistic about the future. Just 23% say they are pessimistic, and 42% say they're optimistic. The report noted that those who are still working were more likely to say they're pessimistic.


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Jackpot junket
SANDAG'S annual treat to Barona is just another slap in the face to San Diegans ("SANDAG returning to Barona for its annual retreat," Local, Feb. 2). And to add insult, they want to be at a place where it is quiet and secluded so that their Moment flows with inspiration. Really? Their silence will only be broken by the sound of "cha-ching!" If they need to go that far and to a casino to plan out how to spend our public money, then they need their inspiration from some other source. Shame on you SANDAG. Thanks to Mark Walker for that revealing article. – Pat Fierro, Bay Park
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Clearing the air
Your recent article on the effects of the San Onofre shutdown ("A year off the grid," Business, Jan. 27) needs some fact checking. The report commented on the extra pollution in San Diego due to our burning of more natural gas to make up for the lack of nuclear-generated power.
Natural gas (4 parts hydrogen, 1 part carbon) is one of the cleanest fuels available and contributes NO traditional pollutants. The byproducts of burning natural gas are water and carbon dioxide. Natural gas contributes none of the serious pollutants that are emitted from automobiles that cause smog, or sulfur from coal-burning that causes acid rain.
Water vapor is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is purported to cause global warming but if it is also affecting our air quality, we had better all start holding our breath. – Dave Hock, Poway
Defense cuts looming
In response to "Navy budget woes threaten 6,000 local jobs" (Local, Feb. 2): It's actually worse, and the Pelosi philosophy, "We'll have to pass the bill to know what's in it," applies: We'll have to experience more unemployment to know how bad it really is. But the crises will expand beyond the San Diego waterfront. It will affect our ability to influence international events.
The June 2012 "San Diego Military Economic Impact Study" opened with a comment: "The Budget Control Act of 2011 imposed automatic cuts to the 2013 budget which would impose devastating effects on the U.S. military." That was eight months ago, and the administration and Congress have been whistling past the graveyard ever since. The $1.2 trillion cumulative cut (Gates and sequestration) over a decade will hamper United States diplomacy.
The administration announced a strategy last year to pivot on Asia. Where are the gutted services in this calculus? Where will the ships come from to patrol the South China Sea without maintenance and fuel resources? The Defense Department has announced intentions to expand our Africa "footprint." Really? With what, a few Special Forces advisers?
Demonstrated weakness abroad has always led to ill-adventures by hostile interests. It reminds me of the old Fram oil filter ad: "Pay me now or pay me later." – George R. Worthington, Chula Vista
Concerning the lamentations of various generals about the "hollowing out" of our military, it is worth pointing out that we are among the least vulnerable nations in the world, surrounded as we are by allies on the north and south and oceans on the east and west. We are also stone-cold broke.
These facts together suggest that major reductions in "defense" spending are in order. We might also recall, as pointed out by Andrew Bacevich, that although we call it the Department of Defense, it doesn't actually do defense. Its purpose is to project American military power around the world. I don't think we can afford this any more. – Thomas Alden, Borrego Springs
Who needs fatigues?
If you don't think some women are big enough, strong enough, tough enough, mean enough or ready for combat, may I suggest your shopping at Walmart the first of the month! – James D. Lemon, San Diego
Looking both ways at red-light cameras
Mayor Filner announced Friday that he will discontinue the red-light camera program in San Diego ("S.D. red-light cameras about to be turned off," Local reports, Feb. 1). At the news conference to make the announcement, the mayor surrounded himself with police to emphasize his message of ensuring safety for San Diegans.
The dialogue surrounding red-light cameras too often fails to consider a major benefit of these cameras: safety. In San Diego, 22 percent of all traffic deaths are pedestrians, nearly double the national average of 13 percent. Our city needs traffic safety measures in our communities to make walking a safe choice for all. Red-light cameras are one tool in the toolbox to achieve these benefits, just as clearly-marked crosswalks, bike lanes and pedestrian walk signals.
Red-light cameras work to prevent injury and save lives of motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists and all other road users, and they are effective in changing the behavior of drivers. A 2011 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found red-light cameras reduced fatal red-light-running crashes by 62 percent in San Diego.
With the elimination of red-light cameras in our city, we are losing an effective tool to promote safety. We recognize this is only one measure of many. However, it does provide an opportunity for the mayor to put together a plan that will ensure safety for everyone on San Diego's streets – just as he stated in his campaign. We look forward to working with the mayor to create this plan. – Kathleen Ferrier, Policy Manager, Walk San Diego
As a Realtor who logs 20,000-plus miles countywide each year, over the years I have seen several rear-end collisions at intersections with these cameras, especially in the left-hand turn lanes.
Mayor Bob Filner has done a great service to us San Diegans and has made good on his campaign promise. Kudos to Mayor Filner for ridding our streets of this revenue-enhancement menace. – Edward Mracek, La Jolla
A rough start for Filner
In response to "Filner finally opens up to media on topics" (Local, Jan. 31): What is Mayor Filner thinking? I thought when a new mayor takes office there will always be changes and new personnel, and San Diego council members and all city workers would welcome him with open arms! But in this case Mr. Filner seemed to have made everyone mad. His arrogant attitude not talking with the media or board of directors, and even City Council members, has hade us all uneasy with his practice to do closed-door meetings. Me, personally – I don't want to give more drugs to people that have a sprained eyebrow! – Paul Caronna, Point Loma
The firearms debate
I wanted to shed some new light on the gun debate. Being a law enforcement officer and firearms instructor I get the public's fear of firearms. Let me just say this: Law enforcement and the military are not capable of being everywhere all the time, especially during a natural disaster where looting and civil unrest are very real threats.
I have read a number of articles where people have mentioned assault weapons in the hands of our citizens against a mighty military force such as the U.S. military would be useless. Why don't we poll Russian and U.S. soldiers who fought in Afghanistan how effective an untrained but determined civil militia can be against tanks, air support, etc. I want our society to be safe and prosper like most others do, but let's be logical in our approach not emotional.
I'll end with this, Since the maximum speed limit is 70 mph in California, why do we need and sell cars that exceed that limit? Addressing this issue before a gun debate would certainly save many more lives, including our children. – Dave DiCarlo, San Diego
[Sylvester] Stallone is correct when he states that "assault weapons" cannot be use for hunting ("Sly favors gun control," People, Feb. 2). True assault weapons, which have a fully automatic function, are not legal for general hunting use in any of the 50 states. The semi-automatic AR-15, which delivers only one shot per pull of the trigger and which is at the heart of the current uproar, however, is an outstanding platform for a multitude of shooting sports, including hunting. The remarkable adaptability, shooting comfort and accuracy of the AR and its small-caliber 5.56 cartridge have made it the first choice of many competitors in internationally sanctioned target competitions, as well as the highly specialized hunting of predators, such as coyotes.
These facts and more are readily available on any magazine rack to anyone interested in actual facts, rather than movie legends. – John Turner, San Diego
California legislators are lining up new legislation to try and further curtail the Second Amendment in this state ("Calif. lawmakers weigh range of gun controls," Jan. 30).
California already has some of the nation's toughest laws that the fees are trying to catch up with. Registration, background-check and gun-show loopholes that exist elsewhere do not exist in California, so it makes absolutely no sense to pile on more needless law. This knee-jerk reaction to external crisis only serves to punish law abiders and continue the incremental destruction of our liberties, one statute at a time.
Encourage your legislators to focus on job production and spending cuts in the state and cease their quixotic attraction to gun control laws that benefit no one. – William W. Bock Jr., Alpine
Work permits create path to citizenship
OK, let's take a look at the new immigration proposals, at least as I understand them:
First, to be eligible for amnesty (what else can you reasonably call it?) an individual must undergo a criminal-background check to determine if he/she has committed a crime. Well, if that person crossed into the United States illegally then they've violated a federal law. Is that not a crime? Ergo, all 11 million undocumented crossers are criminals. The reason for crossing is irrelevant, as Jean Valjean [in "Les Misérables"] unfortunately discovered. (Children who were brought along is another issue, as the president so correctly pointed out.)
Second, I personally cannot support any legislation that would grant to scofflaws something as wonderful as U.S. citizenship. That would make those who have tried to enter our country legally a bunch of chumps. However, deportation for the majority of these immigrants is out of the question. It's unreasonable and not doable. But there is a middle ground. In Canada it's called a guest worker program.
The United States discontinued its Bracero Program that worked so effectively for many years following World War II. That left our farmers, construction companies, the hospitality industry and others no recourse but to hire illegals.
Now politicians pandering for votes go way overboard in attempting to rectify the situation. I believe that work permits leading to permanent residency, not citizenship, would be more in line with what the American people could embrace and would be more likely to pass the House. – Jim Bartlett, Alpine
Debating belief
In response to "Local atheists believe billboard will help their cause" (Local, Jan. 31): The arrogance of atheists is seen in the U-T story about their promotional billboard, "Atheism A personal relationship with reality." If you believe in nothing, you can have reality; people of faith cannot.
The article was about how to expand their ranks and sow doubt about religion. Why? An atheist is a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being(s). What is the abiding need for converts to nothing? The majority of civilizations have maintained a belief in a higher power or intellect, whatever form. Whatever people get out of this – comfort, solace, need, intellectual satisfaction – the need appears to go back 300,000 or 50,000 or 13,000 years, depending on interpretation of the evidence, but clearly by the beginning of recorded history. Why deconstruct what may be a human need?
Silverman, president of American Atheists, said religion is the most divisive force in the universe; yes, for both good and evil. What is offered/gained by a belief in nothing, which can't even be logically stated? Name one great benefit atheism offers? The atheist's answer is "reality." Since God's existence or lack of existence can't be proven either way, atheists have no better claim than believers. But they have the truth, despite lack of any scientific support. Frankly, reality's overrated, and I'll take a little solace where I can find it. – Noel Spaid, Del Mar
What are San Diego atheists mad about this week?
Why would they even need a billboard to tout the reasonableness of their position?
1) The Boy Scouts reveal, to great acclaim, that they will relax the ban on gays. What about the child that has no belief in God, either through his own precocious reasoning process or by adopting the views of his parents? This boy remains on the outside and there is no general uproar that equality should extend to religion (or lack thereof) in this organization that enjoys tax-exempt status and is subsidized by all citizens.
2) The availability and financing of contraceptives through health care plans in religious nonprofits is again debated. Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and contraception is legal. While moral concerns may hinder financing by faith groups, why should they care if the government supports it? All the people that don't want contraception are already not getting it. Control of the womb is a core right for all women and especially for this those trying to climb from the depths of poverty. The number of children does affect family finances.
3) The reverend in the U-T article on Thursday ("Local atheists believe billboard will help their cause," Local, Jan. 31) "welcomes the debate." That's like welcoming the rising sun. The game is on; nonbelievers' numbers are growing rapidly and our voices will count more in the future. – Rick Stravinsky, San Diego
Regarding the "atheist billboard": I am a conservative Orthodox Christian and an American. As a Christian I cannot think of a single reason to be "offended" by this advertisement; it does no harm to me or Christ Jesus. Secondly, this is America, and if someone wants to spend a lot of money telling people what they do not believe in that is fine with me. Now how about some interesting news. – Robert Keirsey, San Diego
Many facets to anti-abortion effort
"Who is the advocate for these children?" John Martin asked in his letter to the editor, Jan. 29. We, the pro-life people are advocates for the unborn. Brian Clowes from Human Life International states, "The primary weakness of the pro-life movement is that it has too many fans and not enough team players willing to do something. You don't have to picket or sidewalk counsel outside an abortion facility; you can volunteer for a local crisis pregnancy center or help out with the newsletter of a local pro-life group or start a pro-life group in your church or school. Most Americans call themselves pro-life, but more than 95 percent of pro-life people allow pro-life activists to be their team on the field of battle. They never quite get around to doing something concrete for pre-born children. They are either too busy or too afraid to get involved directly."
This Jan. 22, the 40th anniversary of legalized abortion in our country did mobilize pro-lifers to take action and physically witness to the sanctity and dignity of life in the womb. We saw this in Washington, D.C., and on the West Coast Walk for Life as well as in San Diego. One-half million marched in D.C. and those who have had abortions are silent no more and have sought healing in D.C., San Francisco and San Diego.
We are all engaged in the struggle for life and we all have a role to play in it. So don't stand down, get involved for life. – Susan J. Kent, Rancho Bernardo
Debating the influence of wealth
Entrepreneur Dane Chapin should have done a little more, and more relevant, research before submitting his article ("Politicians hurting state by penalizing millionaires," Opinion, Feb. 1). Rather than doing a little math he should have read (like I did) the paper written by professors [Cristobal Young] and [Charles Varner] from Stanford and Princeton as referenced [Jan. 29] by letter writer [B. Chris Brewster]. They conclude in their paper that tax increases and tax cuts had very little effect on millionaire migration. Divorce had a far greater effect. Many million-dollar earners jump in and quickly out of that bracket. Many serial million-dollar earners who are not tied to the state (as doctors and lawyers and business owners tend to be), like Phil or Tiger, establish residences in more tax-friendly states like Texas or Florida early on in their soon-to-be and hopefully long-lasting lucrative careers.
Chapin argues that if Phil left the state, 4,400 wage earners would have to take up residence in the state to make up for the taxes California will no longer get from Phil. Mathematically that is true but simply looking at migration (both in and out) misses the mark by a very wide margin. Everyone who stays will pay more taxes. Even if a [bus]load of Phils leave and no one takes their places, the state still comes out way ahead.
Go east, Dane Chapin, maybe to Washington, D.C., where bad math is used every day to support bad arguments. – Paul Jester, Scripps Ranch
Mendacious politicians who pretend to tax the wealthy ignore the difference between income and wealth. Really wealthy people need no income, because they have enough money to live well for the rest of their lives and leave children wealthy when they die. But people with big incomes are often not wealthy, because they are deeply in debt, spending money as fast or faster than they are earning it, stimulating the economy, and creating jobs. High taxes on big incomes hurt poor and middle-class people who can't find good jobs. Really wealthy people with political influence are often beneficiaries of government subsidies not affected by taxes on income. – John Myers, San Diego
It's timing, not courage
Dana Milbank´s commentary, "Rubio's bold move" (Opinion, Jan. 31), described the wrong person taking a "courageous" stand. Colin Powell´s description of the "dark vein of intolerance" that permeates throughout the GOP, was a testament of true political courage. Judging by the out right vitriol from conservative pundits, or the strange silence by fellow Republicans, it is safe to assume that the former secretary of state's apt description and tough-love advice was not well received.
Marco Rubio has the fortune of being the RIGHT person, at the right place, in the right time. After the heavy losses the GOP recently suffered, out of the need of political survival, the party is a lot more susceptive to immigration reform, in a feeble attempt to get more Latino votes. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Brian Sandoval among other Latino Republicans, get the benefit of the party´s promotion to put a Hispanic face on the party. Sen. Rubio is not "courageous" as Milbank´s gushing "love letter" insinuates, he is nothing more than a beneficiary of excellent political timing. – John Payne, San Diego


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Cut the broccoli into small florets. Peel and coarsely chop the stems. Steam the broccoli until tender and crisp. Rinse under cold water. Drain and set aside in a large bowl.
Cook udon according to package directions. Rinse under cold water and drain. Toss in with the broccoli. Chill in the refrigerator.
To prepare the dressing, combine shoyu, oils, ginger juice, mirin and scallions. Finely chop the pickled ginger and add to the dressing. Mix and let sit for 15 minutes. Just before serving, toss the noodles and broccoli with the dressing. Garnish with sesame seeds or Eden Shake.
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Boston Globe Has Often Drawn Suitors But Never A Sale
The New York Times is trying, once again, to shed the Boston Globe.
The company said in a release it has hired Evercore to shop the paper, as well as rest of its New England assets, the latest twist in a 20-year, often tumultuous, relationship.
The Times tried in 2009 to shop the paper and at one point threatened to close it down amid some particularly tough union negotiations. After getting a few offers, the Times cancelled the auction. Speculation in Boston has really never gone away over who could buy it, especially after it exited its stake in the Boston Red Sox last year.
These names are regularly recycled:
Jack Connors, a wealthy and prominent Boston business man behind a national advertising agency, surfaced again last summer in a report in the Globe itself as having joined another bid attempt. The story, written by Brian McGrory who is now the paper's top editor, said Connors had joined a group headed by Aaron Kushner. Connors was reported to have been a part of bidding groups in the past as well.
Kushner had started a group of investors in 2010 with the goal of buying the paper. At that time his group, known as 2100 Trust, said it wanted to buy the "pillar" of the city.


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Ever since the debacle that was the referee lockout, there has been a sense in league circles that executive V.P. of football operations Ray Anderson could be on his way out — whether by choice or otherwise.
Coincidentally or otherwise, he could be on his way out.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports that the Raiders have had exploratory talks with Anderson regarding the possibility of joining the team in "senior executive front office job." Per Mort, owner Mark Davis is contemplating a restructuring of the organization.
Amy Trask has served as the Raiders' Chief Executive since 1997, but her involvement primarily comes on the business side of the operation. It's unclear whether and to what extent a restructuring would affect her role.
Before joining the league office in 2006, Anderson served as a vice president of the Falcons. Before that, he was an agent.


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Entrepreneurship Center names program director
Ebony Miller will be working at the downtown RIT facility opening early next year
Ebony Miller has been appointed program manager for the Saunders College of Business Center for Urban Entrepreneurship at Rochester Institute of Technology. Miller will be responsible for research, development, delivery and assessment of mission-related programming at CUE, which opens early next year at its new downtown location in the former Rochester Savings Bank, 40 Franklin St.
A resident of Greece, Miller previously served as senior staff specialist in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering's Office of Student Services. Prior to RIT, she worked as program coordinator at the Urban League of Rochester's Minority and Women Business Development Division.
"We are delighted to have Ebony Miller join the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship as our new program manager," says Saunders College Dean dt ogilvie. "This is a critical position at CUE and Ebony brings a wealth of experience to the center that will make an important difference to the programs we will be offering."
Delmonize Smith, director of CUE, says Miller's prior experience providing similar services to the Urban League is a true value-add for the center.
"We could not have identified a better professional to lead program development and implementation. With the addition of Ebony as our program manager, we are building an exceptional team capable of delivering on our mission—to help revitalize the regional economy and wealth within the urban community."
Miller says she looks forward to assisting business owners with growing their businesses and to educating aspiring business owners on entrepreneurship and identifying their needs. "It's something I'm very passionate about, so I am very excited about the opportunity to continue to do what I love.
"I see the most important aspect of my job as developing effective and efficient mission-related programs that will ultimately lead to increased revenue for the businesses we serve, a positive impact on the economic development within the City of Rochester, and RIT becoming the hub for urban entrepreneurship," she says.
Miller earned a BA degree in communications and a master's degree in communications and information technology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.


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This is an list of upcoming conferences, courses, and other events in the field of microscopy and image analysis.
|Conferences, Meetings and Symposia
|2016 Jan 13-15
|Quantitative Bioimaging (QBI) 2016
|Analysis of bioimaging datasets
|Delft, Netherlands
|2016 Feb 10-12
|13th Annual Advanced Imaging Methods (AIM) Workshop
|New and emerging light microscopy and time-resolved technologies and applications.
|Berkeley City Club
Berkeley, CA, USA
|2016 Feb 13-18
|SPIE Photonics West
|Laser, Photonics, and Biomedical Optics
|The Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA , USA
|2016 Feb 20-23
|Innovative imaging technologies: instrumentation, reagents, methods, etc.
|Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
|2016 Feb 21-23
|Bioimaging 2016
|Medical imaging and microscope/fluorescence image processing
|Rome, Italy
|2016 Feb 22-24
|Trends in Microscopy (TIM) 2016
|Grasping Higher Dimensions
|Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden – CRTD
Dresden, Germany
|2016 Feb 27-Mar 3
|SPIE Medical Imaging
|Advances in medical imaging and image processing
|Town & Country Resort and Convention Center
San Diego, CA, USA
|2016 Apr 13-16
|International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
|Biomedical imaging
|Clarion Congress Hotel
Prague, Czech Republic
|2016 May 24-27
|ELMI Meeting
|Light Microscopy
|Kölcsey Center
Debrecen, Hungary
|2016 June 11-15
|CYTO 2016: From Bench to Bedside
|Washington State Conference Center
Seattle, WA, USA
|2016 June 27-29
|2016 SLAS High-Content Screening Conference
|High-content screening
|Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden, Germany
|2016 August 28-30
|6th Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Symposium (SMLMS 2016)
|Single Molecule Localization Microscopy
|Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
|2016 Aug 31-Sep 3
|Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Conference 2016
|Light Sheet Microscopy, Image Analysis and Big Data Challenges
|Sheffield, UK
|2016 Sep 12-14
|Society of Biomolecular Imaging and Informatics's High-Content 2016
|Bioimaging and Informatics
|Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Boston, Ma, USA
|2016 Sep 29-30
|3rd international Workshop on Image-based Systems Biology
|Workshop focusing on automated acquisiton and analysis of high-content screening
|HKI-Center for Systems Biology of Infection
Jena, Germany
|2016 Oct 10-12
|BioImage Informatics Conference
|Bio-image informatics
|Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR
|2016 Apr 5-18
|Quantitative Imaging: From Cells to Molecules
|Course in quantitative image acquisition and computational analysis for light microscopy
|Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
|2016 May 4-13
|Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy (AQLM) 2016
|Comprehensive course in light microscopy for researchers
|Marine Biological Labs (MBL)
Woods Hole, MA, USA
|2016 May 20-27
|Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2016
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|MDI Biological Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME, USA
|2016 Sep 7-17
|Optical Microscopy & Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences
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Woods Hole, MA, USA
|2016 Oct 9-19
|Computational Image Analysis in Cellular and Developmental Biology
|Comprehensive course in image analysis
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It sounds like you might indeed have used lactose. A full cup of corn sugar in 5 gallons would have been overprimed and gushing after 3 weeks and you are seeing the opposite. I think this is the most likely explanation.Why the full cup, anyway? Standard priming would be 3/4 cup in 5 gallons.
FWIW, I don't use corn sugar at all anymore, ever. About 5/8 cup regular cane or beet sugar in 5 gallons is perfect. And it doesn't fluff, so it's pretty darned consistent.
Just keep in mind that whatever amount you used for corn sugar, you only need 80% as much of beet or cane sugar, as it's a little "stronger".
80% by volume, for sure. Not sure about weight. And the 80% is just a swag. Maybe it really is more like 87%. It's somewhere in there.
This all assumes that the sugars are 100-percent fermented, which is a pretty good assumption, but you can see that when you move to other priming agents (DME, LME, brown sugar, molasses, etc.) you start to get more hand-wavy because now each of your grams of priming agent has more and more unknown unfermentables in them (water content, probably the biggest).


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I love this show
Its great watching how they sort out all the problems they get.
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I love hustle sooo much!!! Matt Di Angelo who plays Sean Kennedy is sooooo hot!!! And he is a really good actor!!!!!!
Hustlelover 9:17am Sat 11 Feb Report Abuse
Shoddy writing, unbelievable plotting. Bye bye Hustle.
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Please Keep Hustle, Not Eastenders!! Why do the BBC get rid of the best shows & keep the rubbish?
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Hustle is an amazing series.both smart and funny. is there anyone that knows the music of Lorde fashion show 8Season 4 episode 4 ) thx
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This used to be one of my favourite shows, but now it all seems to be a little bit silly! As for the music, its so loud, and constant, whether in the background or used to emphasise part of the 'plot'. Lower the volume, please, we're not deaf!!!
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Old-man from Uncle
I've seen it around a bit. Over the years the trailers have registered, mainly because of Robert Vaughans' prescence( viva U.N.C.L.E ), but I've never sat down and watched an episode until tonight. It was pretty good. Apart from some foolishness with a bent Roulette wheel which has been salvaged from the murky depthes of the Mississippi and then cleaned-up for auction without anybody smoking the concealed machinery and its magnets. There was even a dammed great, star-shaped, 'cheat switch' to hand. But the story was well-told and the characters seemed ok. I'll prob watch it again
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Everybody knows by now, "Uncle" Lionel Batiste, bass drummer for Treme' Brass Band , 81, died on Sunday, July 8 after a brief bout with prostate cancer. "Uncle" Lionel had become a poster boy for the resurgent New Orleans music scene in the last few years since Hurricane Katrina. Long, lean, dapper, perpetually snappily dressed with a trademark gold cross and wristwatch worn over his knuckles, "Uncle" Lionel sauntered around the French Quarter and Frenchmen Street. He was the face on the New York City Times Square banner for Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary, "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise." His image graced the 2010 Congo Square poster for New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell, and of course, for the historic Treme' neighborhood bicentennial poster. It's 200 years in 2012 since the country's oldest historic African-American neighborhood was founded.
But more than becoming a visual icon of the city "Uncle" Lionel was a consummate musician and mentor to many younger musicians. The Treme' Brass Band's weekly gig on Wednesdays at the Candlelight Lounge in Treme' became a hipster and tourist destination after HBO's "Treme'" TV show began running in 2009, but there was nothing touristy about the music, or the joy that the music brought. "Uncle" Lionel was a direct link to an earlier time in NOLA, when traditional brass band music wasn't even especially well-known outside of the city. It grew out of the neighborhoods, and it was handed down in the old-school way, by the "older" guys teaching the younger ones. If you want to hear "Uncle" Lionel playing and singing, Treme' Brass Band records are available at Louisiana Music Factory, 210 Decatur St. in New Orleans, and for download at www.locobop.com. Sound of New Orleans, www.soundofneworleans.com, recently re-released its 1980s recording of Treme' Brass Band, "I Got a Big Fat Woman," and it's about as authentic as you can get.
The number of musical tributes and second lines to "Uncle" Lionel seems endless. The love keeps pouring out. Since he died on July 8, there's been the send-off at Kermit Ruffins' Treme' Speakeasy on Treme' Avenue, that very afternoon, with the Rebirth Brass Band. There was a spontaneous party on Frenchmen Street later that evening. Yet another second line, by the Treme' Brass Band before its Candlelight Lounge gig on Tuesday, meandered through the French Quarter and even made a stop at Preservation Hall. Another event at Sweet Lorraine's on St. Claude, with various local greats like Deacon John, Michael Ward and Kermit Ruffins, sprang up on Friday, July 13.
Treme' Brass Band had another regular gig at D.B.A. on Frenchmen Street on Tuesdays, and "Uncle" Lionel managed to get to that the Tuesday before he died, sitting in a wheelchair in the nightclub and signing memorabilia presented to him as he held court. Always the gentleman, he took care of the people who loved him, even when he knew he couldn't make it to the next gig. Didn't he ramble.
The final viewing of Lionel Batiste will be on Thursday, at the Charbonnet Funeral Home, located at 1615 St. Philip St. between 10AM and 5PM. His funeral will take place Friday, July 20, at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 805 N. Rampart St., in Armstrong Park . Viewing is from 9 to 11AM, and the funeral at 11AM. And, of course, a traditional jazz funeral procession beginning at Mahalia Jackson, continuing to the Mount Olivet Cemetery, 4100 Norman Mayer Blvd.


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Top 5 Things You Didn't Know About Alan Shepard, First American Astronaut in Space
50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight.
May 5, 2011 -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens.
He called his ship Freedom 7. His flight lasted all of 15 minutes and 28 seconds. He flew 116 miles above the earth's surface, was weightless for about five minutes, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean 300 miles from Cape Canaveral. He did not even have a window through which to admire the view.
But he became, that day, the first American ever to fly in space, and he is being quietly celebrated now.
"Daddy never thought of himself as a hero. He was just doing his job," said Shepard's daughter, Julie Shepard Jenkins, at a Florida ceremony Wednesday. His face appears on a new postage stamp to mark the anniversary.
Shepard died in 1998, and most Americans alive today were not born yet at the time of Freedom 7. So here are five things worth remembering about America's first astronaut. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six....
5: First American? He Could Have Been First in the World
NASA, America's new space agency, said it would start flying astronauts in 1960. Easier said than done. Shepard's Mercury capsule was complicated to build, and its control system delayed the flight for months.
Its Redstone booster rocket was more trouble. After a less-than-smooth first test flight with a Mercury capsule on top, a second was ordered. Shepard and his fellow astronauts objected. His flight was delayed from March to May 1961.
In the meantime, he was upstaged. The Soviet Union launched Yuri Gagarin on April 12.
4: And the Winner Is....
It may seem silly now, but Shepard's assignment to fly Freedom 7 was kept secret until the planned launch day. He was on a list with two fellow astronauts, John Glenn and Gus Grissom. On May 2, with the countdown in its final hours, it was Shepard who suited up and went to the launch pad. But the weather closed in and the flight was put off for three days.
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People who knew him say Shepard was not reckless, but he was a test pilot with 8,000 hours of flying time. Riding a space capsule -- especially one on which he would essentially be a passenger -- was not that much of a challenge to him.
On May 5, as he lay on his back waiting for launch, a control system glitch kept him on the ground for two extra hours. Launch had been planned for 7 a.m. but soon it was 9:30. Everyone was worried except for Shepard. His biggest problem, the world learned later, was that his bladder was full.
"I've been in here more than three hours," he called to the control center. "I'm a hell of a lot cooler than you guys. Why don't you just fix your little problem and light this candle?"
2: 'What a Beautiful View!'
That's what Shepard said during his five minutes of weightlessness, but he admitted later that the view wasn't much to write home about. In lieu of a window, Freedom 7 had a periscope that projected the view outside on a screen in front of him. Before launch, Shepard had flipped a gray filter into place because the rising sun was blinding.
After the launch he realized he had forgotten to remove the filter -- but the flight was so short, and the cabin so cramped, that he decided not to mess with it. Later astronauts would say they were moved by the Earth's beauty from space. Shepard missed it.
1: Once is Not Enough
Freedom 7 lifted off at 9:34 a.m. on May 5, 1961, and splashed down in the Atlantic at 9:49. Shepard wanted to go again. He argued for a three-day flight in 1963, but it was canceled. He won assignment to command the first flight of NASA's new two-man Gemini spacecraft in 1964, but then developed an inner-ear disorder, Meniere's disease. It caused frequent bouts of vertigo, and he was grounded.
Alan Shepard: 50 Years Since First American in Space
He was still a force at NASA, though, and kept lobbying for another flight. Finally, in 1969, after going in secret for corrective surgery, he was put back on active status -- and quickly assigned himself to command an Apollo moon flight. In 1971, on Apollo 14, he became the fifth man to walk on the Moon.
Years later he was asked what he thought his greatest accomplishment had been, and he said being chosen above the other Mercury astronauts to fly Freedom 7. Then he paused.
"I must admit," he said, "maybe I am a piece of history after all."


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Pakistan politics
Independents to play vital role in the formation Punjab government
LAHORE, Pakistan: After over a decade, the incoming Punjab government will see an interesting mix of lawmakers in the provincial assembly.
While PML-N — a political heavyweight in Punjab — has secured a strong position with 127 seats in the Punjab Assembly, it is only nine seats ahead of PTI.
In the face of close competition between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to form government in Punjab, independent candidates will pray a crucial role in forming the government in the country's largest province.
Out of the total 371 seats, a total of 149 seats are required to form the government in Punjab. With 66 seats reserved for women and eight for minorities, PML-N requires 22 of the remaining 74 seats. Similarly, PTI will need 31 independent candidates or members of other parties to join it in order to form the government in the province.
With 27 seats, independent candidates are the third largest group in the Punjab Assembly. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has bagged six seats and Pakistan Muslim League-Q has secured seven. With one seat each, Balochistan Awami Party, PML-Functional, and Pakistan Awami Raj will also represent their voters in the Punjab Assembly.
Sources familiar with the matter informed Geo News, PTI has invited 14 independent candidates to join the party so far. Party leader Jahangir Tareen and Chaudhry Sarwar are in contact with others.
Pakistan News
Independence Day: Sale of Kashmiri flags on the rise
Sale of Kashmiri flags, badges and other decoration items have gained impetus ahead of Independence Day after the federal government had announced to observe August 14 as Kashmir Solidarity Day.
MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Kashmir/KARACHI, Pakistan: Sale of Kashmiri flags, badges and other decoration items have gained impetus ahead of Independence Day after the federal government had announced to observe August 14 as Kashmir Solidarity Day, ARY News reported on Thursday.
As marking of 73rd Independence Day is right around the corner, the preparations have gained momentum as a huge rush of people were seen at different stalls of Kashmiri flags, national flags buntings, badges, set up by vendors in different areas of Karachi.
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All Karachi Tajir Ittehad Chairman Ateeq Meer said that people are very enthusiastic and passionate for purchasing celebratory items to mark Independence Day.
It must be noted that government has decided to observe Independence Day; 14 August, as Kashmir Solidarity Day and 15th of this month as Black Day to express harmony and solidarity with Kashmiris in their recent plight caused by the Indian government.
The national flag will fly half-mast on 15th of this month. A notification to this effect has been issued by the Ministry of Interior.
Pakistan News
Maryam's interview "stopped forcefully:" Nadeem Malik
An interview of Maryam Nawaz Sharif, a vice president of the PML-N, was "forcefully" taken off air soon after it was run, it was reported on Thursday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: An interview of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif was taken off air forcefully seconds after it started.
"Just came to know Maryam Nawaz Sharif's interview has been stopped forcefully just [a] few minutes after it started live," tweeted show host Nadeem Malik.
Hum News, the channel on which the interview was aired for a few brief moments, released a statement shortly after the incident, saying: "Hum News believes in a free and responsible media. Protecting freedom of expression is one of our core values. At the same time, we stand for the respect and dignity of [the] judiciary in line with our ethical values and the Constitution."
The development comes days after AbbTakk TV, 24 News, and Capital TV all had their broadcasts cut after screening a press conference by Maryam Nawaz.
Authorities say the three channels were unavailable due to "technical issues", but Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a global media watchdog, described the outage as an act of "brazen censorship".
It slammed the local authorities over the removal of three television channels from the country's airwaves, saying the move was "indicative of disturbing dictatorial tendencies" as pressure mounts on journalists in Pakistan.
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Maryam is the daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif — who is currently behind bars for corruption — and a recent press conference she hosted featured a judge reportedly claiming he had been blackmailed into convicting the former premier.
The move came as Prime Minister Imran Khan's administration vowed to block any media coverage and interviews of politicians "who are convicts and under trial".
Earlier this month, Geo News TV abruptly took an interview with former president Asif Ali Zardari off air shortly after it began.
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Several dead and dozens injured in Pakistan train collision
A collision between a passenger train and a stationary freight train near the central town of Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan has killed at least 10 people, with more than 70 others injured, according to police and hospital officials.
RAHIM YAR KHAN, Pakistan: A collision between a passenger train and a stationary freight train near the central town of Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan has killed at least 10 people, with more than 70 others injured, according to police and hospital officials.
The incident on Thursday took place at the Walhar railway station, located about 35km south of Rahim Yar Khan.
"The Akbar Express [passenger train] going from Bahawalpur to Quetta hit a freight train that was parked there at 7.40am," a local police official told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media.
Senior police official Umar Salamat told local media the collision took place because the passenger train was diverted onto the incorrect track at the station, hitting the parked freight train.
Rescue operations were under way at the collision site, with workers using equipment to get to some of those trapped in the train wreckage, local media reported.
The injured were taken to a nearby government hospital and to a more advanced facility in Rahim Yar Khan, hospital officials said.
Nine of the dead were taken to the government hospital, with more than 60 people injured in the wreck also treated there, Liaquat Chohan, a senior hospital official, told Al Jazeera.
"The injuries were of multiple types – many had fractures, others had bleeding wounds. Some were crushed under objects," he said.
At least one dead body was also taken to the Sheikh Zayed hospital in Rahim Yar Khan, where 11 of those wounded in the accident were being treated, hospital official Ilyas Ahmer told Al Jazeera.
"One person's leg was cut off [in the collision], and another is having serious chest surgery," he said.
'Emergency steps'
Pakistan's aging railway network carries both passengers and goods across the country, but suffers periodic derailments and other accidents due to aging infrastructure.
A major Chinese investment in the country is seeking to upgrade the main railway line that connects the length of the country, raising speeds and safety standards.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his condolences for those who were killed and injured, and ordered Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad to speed up work on the country's rail infrastructure.
"Have asked Railways Minister to take emergency steps to counter decades of neglect of railway infrastructure & ensure safety standards," Khan tweeted after the accident.