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Another update on what I've been able to pick up on Ebay and the record store in the last month or so. I really haven't bought that much lately but I have a MAJOR want list going so I can concentrate on picking up certain releases.
Sea Hags – s/t (1989) – $13: Another one of those albums I thought I had on CD but really had on cassette. I've kept an eye on Ebay for this one because I wanted the original pressing from 1989 and not the new reissue from Rock Candy Records (although I hear it's a great reissue, Rock Candy puts out great product). I got lucky on this auction because there were three other Sea Hags auction ending around the same time and the supply outweighed the demand.
Wild Boyz – Unleashed! (1991) – $32: I finally got my hands on this rare Hard Rock indie after years of watching it on Ebay. UNLEASHED! used to go for hundreds of dollars in the late '90s/early 2000s but the price has come down considerably over the last few years. Usually the CD runs between $50 – $75 at auction so I was psyched to get this at $29 with $3 shipping. This also replaces the cassette copy I bought a couple years ago for $4 at a local record store.
Johnny Lima – Livin' Out Loud (2009) – $13: I have read a ton of good reviews on this album so I decided to get off my ass and pick it up! A lot of the online shops I usually order from were carrying this between $15 – $17 plus shipping so I Googled and found it a CD Baby.com for $12.99 plus shipping. That still wasn't good enough so I went to Johnny Lima's website and ordered it for $9.99 + $3 shipping AND he personally autographed the insert for me! Now that's a cool thing! I've played this non-stop since I got it in the mail…..within 2 days of ordering, great service! I'll be buying up the rest of Johnny's CDs thru his website soon.
Anvil – Hard 'N' Heavy (1981) – $13: I walked into my favorite local record store a couple weeks ago with my Anvil tour shirt on and one of the guys behind the register asked me if I had heard this album. I told him I had it on cassette from back in the day (I'm old!) but I would take that brand new CD copy he had in front of him! Not a bad price for the CD, especially when it's a Canadian import and the online stores are charging close to $20!
Anvil – Forged In Fire (1983) – $13: Seeing that I was buying HARD 'N' HEAVY I figured I might as well replace the cassette copy of FORGED IN FIRE as well! Again, $13 in the local store but close to $20 online for this Canadian import. Who knew that a Canadian import would be as expensive as a European? Just goes to show you that the Anvil resurgence is loud and proud! I would have grabbed METAL ON METAL (1982) too but that one had been bought earlier that morning.
Behemoth – Evangelion (2009) – $9.99: When I picked up the two Anvil CDs, the real reason i was in the record store was to pick up the new Behemoth album. I didn't want to miss out on the sale price for the limited edition that included a bonus DVD. Now I'm not the biggest Behemoth fan but one thing I promised myself was that I was going to check out more extreme genres of Metal, specifically Black Metal. I caught the video for 'Ov Fire And the Void' online and I thought the music was cool so I decided to pick this up.
Gwar – Lust In Space (2009) – $9.99: nothing beats a new Gwar record, especially when you get it the day it comes out for a sale price! Gwar have been one of those cult bands I've followed since high school. Back around 1988-1990 when I was a junior & senior, Gwar had released their first two records and were on MTV, we all dug the image and the tunes. LUST IN SPACE is my first new Gwar album since 1999's WE KILL EVERYTHING, I've missed a few in between that I'm going to have to pick up soon.
Ravage – The End Of Tomorrow (2009) – $9.99: You gotta love the $9.99 sale prices on the new Metal Blade releases! Ravage are from the Boston area so they are a local band for me. The band has been around since the late '90s releasing demos and E.P.s most of the time, although they have 5 self-released live albums! This is their second proper full-length album, the first one being SPECTRAL RIDER (2005). Check them out!
Swedish Death Metal (by Daniel Ekeroth) (2009) – $35: I have been eye-balling this book for a couple months now but the price tag has always discouraged the purchase. My birthday was 8/16 and I received a nice $40 gift card to the local record store so I made it a point to get over there and buy the book. Guess what happened? The copy I had been watching for months had sold! I ended up having the store order one and I had to wait another week. I've been reading this for the last week and it's going to take me a while because Death Metal isn't my usual thing and I am constantly stopping mid-page, running to the computer and Googling the bands so I can get some music samples…..the Want List is growing!


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Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador on American soil uncovered.
This "Let Women Die" act sounds unsettling.
Bad news for the Roswell UFO Museum.
Keep on the lookout for terrorists holding snowglobes.
The worlds largest virus is ironically called Megavirus.
The Kraken's lair discovered in Nevada.
Russian scientists are 95% sure sasquatch lives in Siberia, but my scientists say he lives on the sun.
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Wisconsin-like summer in Northeast Kansas
A recent NASA report reinforces the summer-long shiver for many people living east of the Rocky Mountains. Even us in Northeast Kansas know just how chilly the past summer has been. According to NASA, this summer goes down as the 17th coldest in Kansas history. I just cannot imagine how chilly this summer has felt for those living in Kansas all their lives. For me, this summer felt like a typical one down on the farm in Wisconsin.
The past two months, temperatures have averaged near 80 degrees by day, and near 60 degrees by night, in Northeast Kansas. Temperatures like these mirror those seen during a typical summer day and night in parts of Wisconsin. With average Northeast Kansas temperatures nearly two-to-four degrees below where they should have been this past summer; well, I cannot help but say I feel like I am forecasting the weather at home on the farm.
With fall just around the corner, the chance of seeing a really "warm" day is getting smaller. Safe to say that there is not any really "hot" weather in the forecast anytime soon in Northeast Kansas. So, feel free to relish in the comfort that the next week or so will still be perfect to leave the windows open in Northeast Kansas.
I am sure you have thoughts on this summer's weather. Are you thrown back a bit on how chilly it was? Did you like it? Would you have preferred a warmer summer? Would you mind it getting hot before really cold weather settles in? Let's hear your thoughts, friends.
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Thank you for the link!I've been experimenting with ventilated covers of a much cruder design this season. Being located in Sacramento, I would expect that you wouldn't have the requirements for insulation in the Winter, as I do.I'm curious to know how these covers are insulated to prevent condensation in the winter.It looks to be a very versatile system.BB
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ORCA Hosts Wilderness Exploration Summer Camp
Published: 06/02/2011 14:40:00
Next week holds a unique youth summer camp opportunity in Juneau, it's the first of its kind and will be a lot of fun for everybody involved, and one of the best things about it is that everybody CAN get involved because it's being held by ORCA , they're a part of Southeast Alaska Independent Living, an organization dedicated to inspiring personal independence for people with disabilities.
VIDEO: Next week holds a unique youth summer camp opportunity in Juneau, it's the first of its kind and will be a lot of fun for everybody involved. (Image: ORCA)
We spoke with Tristan Knutson-Lombardo, the Juneau ORCA Team Leader, who told us more about ORCA and the summer camp.
"ORCA provides recreation opportunities for people with disabilities, so all ages youth through adult and all types of disabilities. But what's unique about this camp is that we're opening up to all youth so whether you have a disability or not you're more than welcome to join this camp or any of our camps this summer.
So we'll do some animal tracking so whether we're either looking for tracks in the ground or the dirt, maybe we're feeling for things where animals have been,maybe picking up scraps of food or things like that, smelling, those kind of things. We'll also be going out and doing some animal sightings, so trying to see if we can spot any animals or what kind of animals we see. We'll also being doing just some general exploration, going out to a low tide, maybe out to Shaman Island out north Douglas there when it's real low to kind of explore and just take our time.
If you do have a disability we make it accessible, so whether you use a wheelchair or have a mobility or sight impairment, we just make sure that everybody can participate evenly and fully with the group; but you don't have to have a disability to participate in these summer camps."
The camp runs Monday through Friday next week from noon till around 4 or 4:30, and transportation can be arranged if needed. You can sign up or learn more by visiting www.sailinc.org or calling 586-0104.
According to Tristan; "This is the first time we've done this, we've never done an inclusive camp before so we hope that people really take advantage of it because we're going to have a lot of fun so we want people to come join us."
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Cyprus talks deliver bailout agreement
Tense negotiations between Cyprus and its international creditors have yielded a preliminary agreement that paves the way for the cash-strapped island nation to receive a 10 billion euros ($A12.51 billion) bailout, a diplomat said.
The agreement between Cyprus, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission still needs approval by the 17-nation eurozone's finance ministers, who were also meeting in the same building in Brussels.
Without a deal by Monday night, the tiny Mediterranean island nation of about one million would face the prospect of bankruptcy, which could force it to abandon the euro currency and spur turmoil in the eurozone of 300 million people.
Under the last-ditch agreement, Cyprus' second-largest bank, Laiki, will be restructured and holders of bank deposits of more than 100,000 euros will have to take losses. It was not immediately clear whether the holders of large deposits in the remaining Cypriot banks would also be forced to take losses.
The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity pending the official announcement, did not elaborate on how much large deposit holders would lose. Making them take a hit is expected to net several billion euros, thus reducing the amount of rescue loans the country needs.
To secure a rescue loan package, Nicosia had to find ways to raise 5.8 billion euros ($A7.24 billion) so it could qualify for the 10 billion euro bailout package. The bulk of that money is now being raised by forcing losses on large deposit holders as well as bond holders in Laiki bank, which will be split into a bad bank of toxic assets and a remaining viable core business.
But Cyprus resisted pressure by creditors to also unwind the country's largest lender, Bank of Cyprus, the diplomat said.
In Cyprus, Parliament President Yiannakis Omirou confirmed that a preliminary agreement had been reached after about 10 hours of negotiations in Brussels. He couldn't provide details but stressed the agreement "doesn't involve the resolution of the Bank of Cyprus."
The European Central Bank had threatened to stop providing emergency funding to Cyprus' banks as of Tuesday if there were no agreement on how to raise the 5.8 billion euros.
A plan agreed to in marathon negotiations earlier this month called for a one-time levy on all bank depositors in Cypriot banks. But the proposal ignited fierce anger among Cypriots because it also targeted small savers. It failed to win a single vote in the Cypriot Parliament.
Under the new agreement, average savers' deposits with all Cypriot banks of up to 100,000 euros will be guaranteed by the state in accordance with the EU's deposit insurance guarantee, the diplomat said.
In an illustration of the depth of the fear of a banking collapse, Cyprus' central bank on Sunday imposed a daily withdrawal limit of 100 euros ($A125) from ATMs of the country's two largest banks to prevent a bank run by depositors worried about their savings.
Cypriot banks have been closed this past week while officials worked on a rescue plan, and they are not due to reopen until Tuesday. Cash has been available through ATMs, but long lines formed and many machines have quickly run out of cash.
The international creditors, led by the IMF, were seeking a fundamental restructuring of the outsized financial system, which is worth up to eight times the country's gross domestic product of about 18 billion euros ($A22.48 billion). They say the country's business model of attracting foreign investors, among them many Russians, with low taxes and lax financial regulation has backfired and must be upended.
They also insisted that Cyprus couldn't receive more loans because that would make its debt burden unsustainably high.
Once the eurozone's finance ministers sign off on a bailout deal, the ECB is expected to continue providing liquidity to the Cypriot banks, avoiding an imminent collapse. Several national parliaments in eurozone countries such as Germany then must also approve the bailout deal, which might take another few weeks.
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We're all freezing here in Central PA, and everyone's looking for ways to stay warm.
So yesterday, I set out to learn some fun tips and trivia about the cold – and I was pretty interested in what I discovered. I learned a lot about the cold and how we all react to it.
So I want to share that with you so that you don't end up freezing your buns off this weekend.
- Pets should be kept indoors when possible and dogs should be kept on a leash at all times, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dogs lose their scent ability in snow and ice and are more likely to become lost in such conditions.
- Each year, snow shoveling leads to approximately 100 deaths and 11,500 injuries, according to a study by the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University College of Medicine. Researchers recommend talking to your physician before shoveling if you are concerned and making sure to use an ergonomically designed snow shovel if shoveling is your only option.
- It's illegal in Pennsylvania to "warm up" your car by leaving it unattended while the engine runs. According to the Pennsylvania vehicle code, Chapter 37, Section 3701: "No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit the vehicle to stand unattended without placing the gear shift lever in a position which under the circumstances impedes the movement of the vehicle, stopping the engine, locking the ignition in vehicles so equipped, removing the key from the ignition and, when standing upon any grade, turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway and effectively setting the brake."
- Eating "warm, high-calorie foods such as hot pasta dishes" helps keep you warm during cold periods, according to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
- The lowest temperature ever recorded in Pennsylvania was minus 42 degrees, recorded Jan. 5, 1904, in Smethport, McKean County, according to the U.S. National Climatic Data Center.
- If you're a runner or jogger, the Mayo Clinic said it's fine to continue with your exercise regiment, recommending layering and making sure to keep your arms, fingers, legs and toes warm. But, the clinic warns, "Exercising when it's cold and raining can make you more vulnerable to the cold. If you get soaked, you may not be able to keep your core body temperature high enough, and layering won't help if your clothes are wet."
- The American Red Cross recommends leaving the thermostat untouched during these periods of below- normal temperatures, saying that while the heating bill may increase, it could save you a more costly repair job if pipes freeze and burst.


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V-ZUG has understood design to be far more than just good looks for some time. For us, design is the art of combining function with aesthetics. A good design can certainly be love at first sight, but love must also stand a second glance – with a focus on working with the appliances from V-ZUG. Among other things, you will be sure to appreciate the ease of operation. The strikingly elegant FutureLine was developed with our design philosophy, which has already brought us major international prizes. It impresses with its clear, strong lines, encompassing the complete kitchen range. The appliances are aesthetically attuned to each other, forming a harmonious unit in your kitchen. Among our laundry room products, the new line impresses with its ChromeClass panel as an attractive item that can happily be displayed as a design element in the modern bathroom.


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Brandt Goldstein's work focuses on storytelling in law. His book Storming the Court (Scribner), a narrative account of the legal fight to shut down the American detention camp at Guantanamo in the early 1990s, was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year by Kirkus Reviews. Storming the Court has been translated into Mandarin and Korean and was acquired by Warner Bros. for development as a motion picture. Goldstein is currently writing a law-related novel and a nonfiction book about a landmark human rights case filed against an American corporation operating in Burma.
The recipient of a 2008 Ford Foundation grant to travel and speak in China, Goldstein has written about the law for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and Slate, and on other topics for the New York Times Magazine and CNN and NBC television. He is the co-author of a teaching text, A Documentary Companion to Storming the Court (Aspen), and a legal parody, Me v. Everybody (Workman; co-authored with Dahlia Lithwick of Slate), and with Lithwick and others, he founded an online journal of legal commentary. He is also the co-writer of an animated film optioned by a Los Angeles-based production company.
Goldstein graduated from Yale Law School and Brown University (applied mathematics and history), clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and practiced law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington. At Yale, he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, an editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and a Coker Teaching Fellow, and he shared both the Benjamin Scharps Prize and the John M. Olin Prize for a year-long study of panhandling on the streets of New Haven (later published in the Indiana Law Review and the Yale Law Report). Goldstein has spoken at more than fifty colleges and universities and has appeared on NPR (the Diane Rehm, Leonard Lopate, and Brian Lehrer Shows), BBC News, Voice of America, and a number of other radio and television programs. He has also served as an associate in research at Yale Law School and Harvard Business School (where he wrote M.B.A. case studies) and is a member of the D.C. Bar. A native of Ann Arbor, Goldstein remains a loyal Michigan football fan.
Courses taught: Selected Topics in Legal Journalism and Human Rights, Legislation & Regulation, and Civil Procedure.
Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President and Won. (Simon & Schuster, 2006).


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Shark Politics in Parliament
Yesterday's Boston Globe "Ideas" section featured an article by Prof. Marcus Rediker, author of the upcoming The Slave Ship: A Human History, titled "Slavery: A Shark's Perspective."
The article described a 1792 satirical essay by Scottish encyclopedist James Tyler, which Rediker says showed "a dark and daring kind of humor I had never known to exist among abolitionists." Taking the form of a petition to Parliament, the document asks the government on behalf of "the SHARKS of AFRICA" not to outlaw the slave trade, which provided them with so much food in the form of ill, injured, or suicidal captives.
Thus benefited, as your petitioners are, by this widely extended traffic, a traffic which has never before been molested, it is with the utmost indignation they hear that there are in Britain men, who under the specious plea of humanity, are endeavouring to accomplish its abolition.— But your petitioners trust that this attempt at innovation, this flourishing of the trumpet of liberty, by which "more is meant than meets the ear," will be effectually frustrated.The Boston Globe website supplies an image of the document, and Jack Campin of Edinburgh has transcribed the text. At least three American newspapers reprinted the essay between 1792 and 1807, the last one being The Friend of Salem, Massachusetts.
Should the lower branch of the legislature be so far infatuated by this new-fangled humanity as seriously to meditate the destruction of this highly beneficial commerce, your petitioners have the firmest reliance on the wisdom and fellow-feeling of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of Great Britain.
I wonder if putting this argument into the gaping mouths of sharks had a special resonance because one of the slave trade's defenders in Parliament had himself famously survived a shark attack. In 1793 Brook Watson (1735-1807) was an Alderman of London. He had grown up in Boston from 1741 until he went to sea as a cabin boy. In 1749 he was swimming in Havana harbor (where, legally, his ship should not have been trading) when a shark bit off his leg. The story of Watson's injury was well known in London.
During the Parliamentary debates of the 1790s, Watson made much the same argument as the "Sharks of Africa"—that the slave trade so benefited his constituency that the government must not shut it down. Watson also argued that the Newfoundland fishing trade would lose its main market without the enslaved populations of the Caribbean, and put forward an early "positive good" argument for slavery:
He held that those who had brought them from their own country had brought them to happiness, and wound up by telling the House that there could not be a more delightful scene than that presented by the dancing and other amusements of the happy slaves on a well-managed estate.It seems the "Sharks of Africa" agreed with Watson as much as Watson's leg agreed with that Cuban shark.
Today's image shows the painting that Brook Watson commissioned from John Singleton Copley in 1778 of his shark attack. This copy is in the National Gallery in Washington, and part of a very nice online exhibit. There's another copy at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.


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Marc Anderson started a thread recently on a Microsoft forum: "SharePoint Designer 2013's Missing Design View." If you're in the trenches of SharePoint, you might not have noticed the lack, but it's made a stir among SharePoint MVPs and other community leaders. (More on SharePoint 2013).
Marc wrote: "In SharePoint Designer 2013, the Design View is no longer available. Some of us MVPs have been talking about this since the beta release, most recently at SPTechCon for me. The general response from the real people we talk to about this – after a stunned silence – is "You've got to be kidding me!" I'm of the belief that this is going to cut a lot of people off at the knees."His post generated a long and mostly supportive thread from well-known names in the SharePoint community who value Design View in SharePoint Designer. It also generated opposing views from people who believe SharePoint Designer is part of what's wrong with SharePoint. Some conjectured possible reasons for Microsoft's actions. Some expressed hope that Microsoft would bring it back. Others said it was too late.
Ironically, one of the most realistic responses came from a SharePoint MVP who has built his recent professional life around SharePoint Designer. Asif Rehmani wrote, "Design View is not coming back and that's a fact. Now the question becomes: What do we do with all of the solutions that we have made using the Design View? How do you support it going forward? That's the Million dollar question on everyone's mind who is close to this functionality change."
Rehmani's written a great post on his website where he explains—visually, of course (this IS SharePoint Designer we're talking about)—what exactly has been taken away. Read his post: "SharePoint Designer 2013 Data View web part, List View web part – Design View is Gone!"
The why, the how, the implications—all have been turned over and thoroughly examined. It remains for Microsoft to decide whether to answer the questions. (Microsoft's SharePoint Designer (SPD) team said, in response to Marc Anderson's question in the comments on a post at that site, "We hear you all. We'll release a blog posting on the design view story shortly." )
It's rather surreal after a while to read the team's chirpy blog posts about new features and abilities while knowing that a chunk of the SharePoint community is upset about one not-so-new feature they wish were still in it—like watching kitchen knife sellers trying to pitch their 1,600 piece set of chef's knives to an audience of people who don't have hands.
I lean toward those who want Design View back, not because I used it, but because I sympathize with anyone who has had to deal with the loss of the tools they count on.
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Design organizations and schools all over the world are increasingly pondering the proverbial question: Do designers have the ability to change the world? In the face of the current worldwide economic crisis, it may be hard to be optimistic. Yet given the right engine for change, the answer, according to Project M's John Bielenberg, is a resounding YES—however, he would argue, it can only be done one community at a time. Through his intensive summer program, Bielenberg's students use design, writing, photography and other strategic skills to address global issues at the local level. From the rural American South to urban Iceland, Project M applies design thinking to help provide safe drinking water (Buy a Meter, in Hale County, Alabama) or turn abandoned lots into parks (This Is Not Grass, in East Baltimore, Maryland). Recently, Bielenberg went to Reykjavík as the nation's economy collapsed and led an M Blitz workshop, in which creative collaborators have just 48 hours to make a positive impact. As the recession continues here at home, we spoke to Bielenberg about his experience in Iceland and what Project M will do next to save the world.
Heller: For several years now you've been running Project M, an intensive learning experience—a global classroom, so to speak—with the objective to "change the world." What was the impetus for the program, and what does the M stand for?
Bielenberg: I was totally and completely inspired by Samuel Mockbee, founder of the Auburn Rural Studio for architecture in Hale County, Alabama. So, M stands for Mockbee, Maine (where I live), messages, mentoring, mavericks—not McCain—and more meanings to come.
Heller: You've held Project M programs in the rural South, in urban East Baltimore and in the rainforest of Costa Rica, and you developed the Mbulance to help victims of Katrina. Recently, you were in Reykjavík. Why Reykjavík? Iceland is not known as a third world country…
Bielenberg: I was asked to run a Project M Design Activism class at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, which happened to coincide with their recent economic and political meltdown. It was a perfect opportunity to use design as a response to their crisis, even though the country is fairly affluent. While I was there, the government was forced to resign by crowds of Icelanders banging on pots and pans in front of the Parliament building. It was too loud for them to carry on business! They told me that nobody had protested in Iceland for 40 years.
Heller: The Icelanders were melting. You say that "ability equals responsibility." Does that mean everyone on your M team is responsible for a small piece of the earth?
Bielenberg: [Laughs] I just think we all should just care about something deeply and use our skills as designers to do something about it. Maybe it's the earth, maybe not.
Heller: Let's talk about the Reykjavík project. What were the results of it and did it make the proverbial change?
Bielenberg: The Iceland group was engaged in something I call an M Blitz. It's a 48-hour project using design for the greater good. In this case, design was used to respond publicly to their current crisis. Several of the seven Blitz projects were covered in the Icelandic national news. They were all documented in 48-second YouTube videos.
Heller: What is the profile of your participants?
Bielenberg: There were about 40 young students from the architecture, graphic and product design programs. Most were Icelandic, but not all.
Heller: I presume anyone involved is serious about social issues. But how much are they willing to sacrifice to go the distance?
Bielenberg: I was overwhelmed by their energy, passion and courage... and secretly afraid that they might get injured or arrested. A couple of the projects were potentially dangerous and, while I wouldn't encourage risking life and limb, they kicked ass.
Heller: You have a motto that can easily be taken as a superficial saying: "Learn how to think wrong." What does that mean? Is wrong the new right?
Bielenberg: Thinking wrong is really about challenging our conventions, processes and orthodoxies, especially during the idea-generation phase of design. I believe that the process of thinking wrong is an antidote to how our brains create synaptic connections, or heuristic biases, to efficiently function in the world and produce predictable, but expected results. It's about generating a huge number of possibilities, before selecting or executing, and is based on the assumption that creativity, invention and innovation are good things. At Project M we use a variety of exercises to short circuit our biases and connect things that wouldn't normally be connected. It doesn't mean that the final project looks or feels "wrong."
Heller: What have you and your participants accomplished that is quantifiably life altering?
Bielenberg: I think of Project M as an incubator, or boot camp, for designers that share a common belief in the power of design to shape the future in a positive way. The true impact of Project M can only be measured when you evaluate the arc of the careers of the people who have participated. The actual projects we produce together are useful—I hope—byproducts of our brief experience together. However, I do think some of them have been successful, like connecting a hundred families to fresh water in Hale County, Alabama.
Heller: How do you keep Project M afloat?
Bielenberg: Good question! At this point it's completely self-funded. The participants share the cost of running the program, and all the advisors donate their time. There's no profit built into the model—just ask my wife, Dee. The good part of this is that we are completely free of external forces or agendas, like we might not be with corporate funding. This model might need to change at some point as Project M expands to meet increasing demand.
Heller: Do you foresee the economic slowdown as impacting the work of Project M?
Bielenberg: So far it's had a positive effect. Because of factors like financial collapse, global climate change and decreasing supply of fossil fuels, we are all a bit anxious and young people are increasingly interested in doing work that matters. I also think that the job market is so tight that they are looking for alternative creative outlets. I haven't seen this level of engagement since the 1960s! Also, there is no shortage of projects that we might care about addressing.
Heller: What do you envision as the future for Project M?
Bielenberg: As I mentioned before, there's a lot of interest and momentum in Project M and using design for the greater good. I'd like to offer more people more ways to participate. Although I'm not the type to have a business plan, I do have some expansion ideas. In addition to my traditional four-week Project M program in Alabama in June, I'm expanding to offer a two-week program in Maine in March. We're also establishing permanent design studios called Project M Labs in several locations. The first, built by the 2008 M Team, is in Greensboro, Alabama, and I am in conversations to open similar ones in Belfast, Maine, Baltimore, Maryland, and Reykjavík, Iceland. These studios will be staffed by young designers and work on ongoing projects, as well as help facilitate other groups coming through to have the M experience.
We're also launching the M Blitz movement, and I'm working on an M Blitz guidebook right now. The last thing I'd like to do is bring together M Expedition teams to travel to places and do projects. I've been talking to a group from the Dakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota about doing something there. I imagine this as a more functional version of Team Zissou, from the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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Weeks after the solar-array manufacturer Solyndra declared bankruptcy, the federally funded company remains under scrutiny.
Critics have good reason to be concerned; after all, Solyndra received more than $500 million in federally guaranteed loans, only to go under within 18 months of receiving the funds. Investigations of what went wrong are now taking place both in Congress and the White House. Whether anything untoward or illegal occurred remains to be seen.
But whatever happened with Solyndra should not obscure the bigger picture, namely the pressing need for the United States to develop solar energy as part of its effort to become energy independent.
In 2010, the U.S. spent $500 billion on foreign oil. The costs have increased annually due to soaring oil demands from other countries and America's growing reliance. Today, two-thirds of our oil comes from abroad - mostly from countries unfriendly to the United States. It's in this context that Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, legislation designed to help the U.S. develop alternative energy.
The Obama administration built onto the alternative energy platform. Using funds from the Economic Recovery Act, the administration has committed more than $11 billion in loans for 30 projects. Three, including Solyndra, have failed. However, the others have moved ahead. The administration anticipates spending another $5 billion over the next year.
Yet, even the current level of expenditure pales next to the commitment by China, which spent $30 billion on solar energy development this past year alone.
None of this diminishes the disappointment about the failure of Solyndra. Certainly, best practices lessons must emerge from the experience.
At the same time, it's clear that if the U.S. has any hope of every becoming energy independent, more alternative energy commitments must move forward. To do anything otherwise will doom us to permanent dependence.


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A look at August 23 minor league recap.
Down 8-2 the AZL Cubs came storming back to not only tie the game in the ninth, but score five in the 10th to win it. Dillon Maples started, but struggled with his control walking four and giving up four runs in just 1.2 innings. After Loiger Padron gave up four runs over 2.1 innings the rest of the pen did a pretty good job only allowing one more run to score. Chad Martin ended up getting the win as he struck out four in just one inning. Justin Marra had a good night at the plate going 3-for-5 with three doubles and two RBIs. David Bote and Trevor Gretzky each had two hits and two RBIs a piece in the win. Shawon Dunston had two hits and an RBI and Yasiel Balaguert drove in two runs of his own. Ben Carhart ended the night 1-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored and Anthony Giansanti scored two and knocked on in as well. This was a great comeback win for the Cubs.
Boise has been scoring a lot of runs lately and Thursday was no different beating Vancouver 11-5. Boise once again pounded out 17 hits to go along with their 11 runs. Albert Almora was back in the lineup and he went 4-for-5, including two doubles, three runs scored, and two RBIs. Wilson Contreras and Darien Martin each had three hits with Martin knocking in three runs and Contreras scoring three and driving in one as well. Dan Vogelbach and Stephen Bruno each had two hits, both collecting doubles. Rock Shoulders and Izaac Garsez both had a hit and RBI in the Hawks victory. Hayden Simpson started and got the win as he allowed three runs on six hits in five innings, while striking out seven. Brian Smith pitched two nice innings in relief not giving up a run and striking out two. Tyler Bremer finished this one off for the Hawks striking out two over the last 1.1 innings. Boise's magic number is now at two.
Behind Michael Jensen Peoria beat Beloit 6-1. Jensen was stellar pitching six innings allowing only one run on two hits, while striking out four. He is now 11-5 with a 3.47 ERA. Justin Berg and Larry Suarez combined to pitch the final three innings, not giving up a run and striking out three. Leadoff hitter Zeke DeVoss had a really nice game going 3-for-4 with a home run. Pin-Chieh Chen continued to impress as he had two hits, two runs scored, and two RBIs. Jorge Soler and Chadd Krist each had a double and Soler had an RBI. Timothy Saunders is human as he didn't have a hit in this, but he did drive in a run and Jacob Rogers contributed to the win with a hit and a run scored.
Robert Whitenack gave up three in the first and that was all Clearwater would need beating Daytona 3-0. On a positive note Kyler Burke pitched three scoreless innings in relief striking out three. Matt Iannazzo, Scott Weismann, and Jeff Lorick combined to throw the final two innings of the game. Offensively there really is nothing to report as Daytona only had three hits. John Andreoli, Ronald Torreyes, and Rebel Ridling were the only Cubs to have hits in the shutout loss.
After scoring five runs over the first two innings Tennessee had to hold on in this one beating Chattanooga 5-4. Austin Kirk started, but got a no decision as he wasn't able to finish five innings giving up four runs in 4.2 innings. He gave up four hits, walked five, and struck out six. Trey McNutt pitched a perfect innings and recorded his eighth win of the season. Brian Schlitter struck out three in two innings and Frank Batista earned his 24th save of the season as he pitched a scoreless ninth. At the plate Justin Bour was 2-for-4 including his 35th double and an RBIs bringing his season total to 109. Jae-Hoon Ha and Junior Lake each had a double and drove in two runs of their own. Rubi Silva and Michael Brenly each had a hit and a run scored in the Smokies victory.
A two run second was enough for Oklahoma City as they hung on to beat Iowa 2-1. Ryan Rowland-Smith started and took the loss giving up two runs in five innings. Marcus Hatley, Jeff Beliveau, and Esmailin Caridad combined to pitch the final four innings allowing only one hit and striking out five. Offensively speaking the Cubs had only six hits and one run, but there were a couple of good performances. Dave Sappelt was 2-for-4 including a double and an RBI. James Adduci also had a double in the this one and he stole his sixth base of the season. Tony Campana, Alfredo Amezaga, and Matt Tolbert all had a hit a piece with Amezaga scoring the Cubs only run in the 2-1 loss.
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South Rim by Night
A view of the Milky Way over the South Rim of the Chisos inn Big Bend
Winter in the Chisos
Fresh snow in the Chisos mountains of Big Bend
Rio Grande Canyons
Hot Springs Canyon and the Sierra del Carmens.
Wildflower Sunset
Fall meets Winter
Fresh snow in the Chisos meets the fall colors during December
Closed Canyon Curve
The view inside Closed Canyon in Big Bend Ranch SP
Volcano and Milky Way
Winter sunrise on the Rio Grande
Casa Grande in Winter
Rio Grande Twilight
The Rio Grande and the rugged Sierra del Carmen Range in sunset light. Big Bend National Park, Texas
Desert Sunset
Terlingua Creek Sunset
Sunset light over Terlingua Creek in Big Bend
The Chisos in the Clouds
South and North of the River
The Sierra de la Punta and Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
Ancient Mystery
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Welcome to the affordable community you've been looking for at Spring Villa Apartments in Spring Valley. Our community features contemporary architecture, resort-style amenities both in your apartment and around the community, and a great location in San Diego. Conveniently located just minutes away from Highway 125, Spring Villa offers a quick and easy way to central San Diego. Highway 125 also leaves you close to the U.S-Mexico border so that you can plan a weekend adventure to Baja California.
San Diego provides you with multiple options to explore during your time at Spring Villa. You'll have numerous attractions to choose from, like the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Zoo, and San Diego Sea World, and Seaport Village. There are also various casinos to enjoy like Sycuan and Barona Casino whenever you feel the need to play slots or Texas Hold Em'. These are just some of the few attractions you'll be close to while living in our apartments in Spring Valley CA.
Learn more about how to experience life with apartments in Spring Valley! The professional team at Spring Villa is waiting to hear from you and help with your apartment search.
You'll enjoy spacious and sensible floor plans at Spring Villa Apartments. Find an apartment in Spring Valley starting at 495 to 675 sq. ft. We offer a variety of one and two bedroom floor plan options to choose from, each with unique design accents. Each unit has been designed to maximize space and our resident's comfort. Invite your friends and family over for dinner or a small party with ample space in the patio, living room, and dining room.
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At Spring Villa apartments, you'll experience contemporary architecture that helps you come home and have peace of mind and convenience. Modern living and comfort, come together here at Spring Valley to provide you a warm welcome. Your home comes with modern and stylish rooms, complete with expanded closet space, a kitchen with a dishwasher, refrigerator, and a microwave. You'll have the convenience of air conditioning and central heating, so you'll stay comfortable no matter the temperature. Other amenities include a community laundry facility, reserved assigned parking, and a private patio or balcony.
Our Spring Valley, CA apartments also offer amenities for you to enjoy outside your apartment, such as a pool and heated spa, a playground, recurring resident activities and events, and a pet-friendly environment! All these amenities come with the added benefit of courtesy night patrol and a professional maintenance team that ensures you don't experience any inconveniences at Spring Villa. You can expect a timely response from both teams if you ever need their assistance.
In the heart of Spring Valley lies your home in the quaint community of Spring Villa Apartments.
Through the winding walkways and landscaped grounds of our apartments in Spring Valley, CA, you'll find a contemporary architecture of white trimmed windows and picket stairways that lead to overlooking balconies. Inside, Spring Villa apartment homes provide the utmost comfort and convenience, featuring appointed and contemporary kitchens, master bedrooms with attached baths, and quaint living rooms with cozy dining areas. Our Spring Valley apartments also offer amenities like a refreshing pool and a playground for spending time with the kids. Are you searching for apartments in Spring Valley? Experience the best in modern living at Spring Villa Apartments.
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Place yourself at the heart of dining, entertainment, and shopping options at Spring Villa apartments. Highway 125 is just minutes away, giving you convenient access to central San Diego, as well as East and South counties. If you prefer to walk, you have your choice of strolling through Spring Valley Community Park or Sweet Lane Community Park.
Some solid dining options near Spring Villa include Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse, BJS Brewery, Claim Jumper, and El Torito Mexican Grill. There are also restaurant chains like Rally's, Olive Garden, and Jack in the Box nearby as well.
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You can also keep yourself busy with some of the many entertainment options in southern California. You can take in some history and interactive exhibits with the San Diego Air and Space Museum, or you can spend the day with marine life at San Diego SeaWorld. There's also the San Diego Zoo to see animals from all over the world.
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'I see it as a great dinner, like a buffet, so many plates that obviously the flavour of one will affect the next one'
'It's my first time not trying to get out of jury duty': This year's Cannes jury is ready for the films to roll
Alejandro González Iñárritu, the president of this year's Cannes Film Festival jury, and the first Latin American to hold the post in the festival's 72-year history, isn't keen on the whole idea of sitting in judgment on movies.
"I will not call it judgment," he told the media in the festival's opening press conference on Tuesday. "I want to be impregnated by them." He also likened the festival's 10-day, 21-film competition – including new movies from Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch and Canada's Xavier Dolan – to a feast.
"I see it as a great dinner, like a buffet, so many plates that obviously the flavour of one will affect the next one. And there is no time to have the sorbet" to clean one's palate.
In one form or another, the question of streaming services has cropped up at every film festival for the last few years, and this was no exception. "I have nothing against watching anything in a phone, an iPad, a computer," said Iñárritu. "But I know that to watch a film [that way] is not the same."
He added: "To watch is not to see a film. To watch is something, to see is another thing, and to see is not to experience something. And cinema was born to be experienced in a communal experience." He compared the big-screen event to classical music; you can listen to Beethoven on crappy car speakers, and that's OK. "But it would be a very disastrous situation if there were not an opportunity to hear a hundred-person orchestra playing in a concert hall."
Iñárritu also spoke of Carne y Arena (Blood and Sand), his 2017 virtual reality exhibit at Cannes that put viewers in the shoes of a migrant trying to cross the desert into America.
"That was the way I responded to what I think is happening," he said. "Not just between the U.S. and Mexico but all the borders in the world." He referenced 1939, the year Fascist forces rolled across Europe (coincidentally postponing the very first Cannes festival, slated for that autumn), as the result of policies that blame and dehumanize asylum seekers. "We know how this story ends if we keep with that rhetoric," he said. "We think that we are evolving with technology and social media, but it seems that every tweet is a brick of isolation."
A lighter note was struck by director Kelly Reichardt, one of four women on the nine-person jury, who said she looked forward to a time when we no longer have to talk about "women directors" because they won't be seen as a special group trying to achieve parity.
She also echoed her fellow jurors in the honour of being chosen to serve. "It's my first time not trying to get out of jury duty."
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Having received my ice cream maker for Christmas, I began experimenting with recipes when it was too cold out to really enjoy them, and I just realized that now that the weather has turned warm and lovely, I hadn't yet made any ice cream this spring. There was also a half-carton of buttermilk in the fridge which was nearing its expiration date, as well as leftover cream, and my mind started to wander to the possibility of a buttermilk ice cream.
And why not? Buttermilk, although pretty funky on its own, in my opinion, tasting like weirdly thick, sour milk, is so fantastic in pancakes, waffles, bread, muffins... I wondered if it would simply lend a nice tang to the ice cream, like frozen yogurt, while providing a creamy rich texture.
While I would have loved to mix some fresh fruit into the ice cream, especially peaches, it's not peach season yet, and the thought of going to the grocery store at that very moment, when I wanted to make ice cream right now, wasn't very appealing. So, I poked through the cupboards looking for ingredients. I found an almost-empty jar of Nutella, and another of creamy peanut butter. Then rummaged around for vanilla, cocoa powder and espresso powder, and of course, salt and powdered sugar. And started mixing.
I tasted my concoction and began to suspect that I was a sweet genius. Although, usually when I start to feel too confident in the kitchen, I do something completely retarded, like leaving out a crucial ingredient, turning on the wrong burner, or forgetting something under the broiler until I smell it burning... Like when Bridget Jones cooks her birthday dinner for friends, believing that she's suddenly going to become a genius in the kitchen, but ends up with blue soup and some other weird, lumpy green pot of goop.
Sometimes I would like to freeze in time those perfect moments and forget all the other stuff, but all that other stuff, the mistakes - those are good things, too.
When you taste this ice cream, you can taste the chocolate-nuttiness of the Nutella. The creamy peanut-buttery-ness. The tangy buttermilk. The slight bitterness of the cocoa and espresso powder. All in a smooth, creamy, sweet mouthful.
It's mysterious. Complex. It leaves you wanting more. Having just seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I might even say it's the Daniel Craig of ice creams.
Buttermilk Ice Cream with Nutella, Cocoa and Peanut Butter
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- 1/3 cup Nutella
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 tablespoon espresso powder
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups low-fat (2%) buttermilk
- 2 cups heavy cream
Note: You can go much heavier on the Nutella and eliminate the peanut butter if you like, or even use just peanut butter, and the recipe will still turn out great; I just used what I had on hand.
Possible add-ins that would be delicious in this could be salted and toasted peanuts or hazelnuts, and bittersweet chocolate chunks.
In a mixing bowl fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the Nutella, peanut butter and vanilla until smooth, 1-2 minutes. In a separate bowl, combine the salt, espresso powder, powdered sugar and cocoa powder. Add the dry ingredients and 1 cup of buttermilk to the mixing bowl; mix on low to combine, then on medium for 2-3 minutes to blend thoroughly, scraping up the bottom of the bowl several times. Add the rest of the buttermilk and the cream, and whip for 4-5 minutes until light and frothy. If any lumps of undissolved cocoa powder remain, you can pour the mixture through a mesh strainer for a smooth ice cream base.
Freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions on your ice cream maker, then transfer to a container and freeze until firm, 4-6 hours.
Yields about 1 1/2 quarts
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Feathers Brooch in a tree branch slice - WEARABLE ART
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This brooch is called Feathers and is made on a real tree branch slice.
After collecting, cutting and sanding the slice, we paint it with acrylic white and then we transfer the image with a manual technique. Finally we varnish it.
The images are collages of hand or digital drawings, photographs and paintings made by me.
There is no paper, so you can feel its wooden texture.
The size can vary from 2.5cm to 4cm diameter.
The brooch you will receive it will be slightly different to the one on the picture due to the manual process I use to make them and because they are made in natural branch slices from different trees.


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the light source for all you romantics sadly it isn't the setting sun.
For all the hundreds of miles i travel each year with the the camera, it was such a pleasure to grab this one....on the spur of the moment after heavy snow i headed out 5 mins from my house for a night shoot.
Very, very nice!I might even be tempted to go the other way to what people are suggesting and clone out all the background bushes etc on the top of the snow line, making it even more graphical and simple, snow, tree, sky. It is a really good image as it is, but I would defintiely be tempted to hit the 'S' key and give it a try just to see what it looked like.Dave


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Never tired of nature's greenery though I rarely ever use green in my artwork. Summertime in Europe is so green and colourful and whether in large gardens or small pots out on the windowsill, people take advantage of introducing this verdant greenery or splashes of colour to bring life to the grey of old, ageing or decaying buildings which surround them. It is a contrast I adore, but here, rather than celebrate all the grey and decay that so intrigues me, I am celebrating all the greens.
From the hydrangeas in a walk around one of the parks in central Milan, to the trees outside the city of Carcassonne, and the greenery of peeped over hedges enjoyed on long walks, to the formality of the gardens of Marquessac and informal walks National Parks or in homes were we spent the night, and then onto the glorious gardens around Lake Como - Villa del Balbianello and the foreshores of Bellagio along to the Chinese Garden in the garden of Villa Melzi.
Who would think of green as just one colour and not a huge palette .....?
|Walking around the countryside near our villa in Lauzert.
|and peeping over hedges ....
|And my most favourite of gardens for its sheer expanse and formality (all green hedges or topiaries).
|I was here with Pip in 2000 three years after the garden was spread out along the hilltop, and sixteen years later I could admire how much more mature the garden had become.
|There a few of the Cabanas spread through the garden - they are typical of the area.
|The garden around the Chateau is magnificent but this garden then spreads for acres covering the whole of the hill upon which it sits and you can do the 7km walk around and take in 360 degrees of views over the Dordogne Valley.
|A long walk we did in Pilat - up to Cret de la Perdrix.
|One of the B and B's we stayed in - complete with well
|and ivy growing over all sorts of surfaces.
|The home was built in the 1400's and has been owned by the one family for 200 years. In need of massive renovation but I loved my stay here almost best - had the very best meal cooked by our hostess that night.
|Most of the produce for the meal from her garden.
|This peaceful scene of Lake Laux in the Italian Alps became Turin's Montville on a Sunday. Hundreds of people exited the city and came here to picnic on the green banks of what we thought was a completely secluded little spot!
|Ah ..... Villa del Balbianello.
|You may recognise the gardens from Star Wars or Casino Royal.
|I adored it here. Formal but not too ornate as some of the Italian gardens are with all their statues and flourishes.
|Fascinated by these topiaried oleanders and are planning some plantings like this in Montville.
|Looks like autumn in the middle of summer - very clever plantings in this Chinese Garden.
We arrived home a couple of days ago after a thoroughly enjoyable trip and so this is the last of the travel posts. I have been doing very little in the studio of late but will be back into it and hopefully working hard in September getting ready for the next of this years exciting Printmaking Projects.


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A record sixth straight U.S. ice dance title. A personal best at the national championships, with the highest score possible for their free skate routine.
And, most importantly, an all-but certain second consecutive trip to the Olympics for Charlie White and Meryl Davis.
The reigning Winter Games silver medalists danced their way to victory at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday to win their sixth national title — one more than the record five they had shared with American ice dance pioneers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto.
"Coming into this competition, there was so secret we were going after that sixth title, the sixth record-breaking title," Davis said. "It's such an honor for us."
With Davis' shaggy, blonde mop of hair whirling around the ice and White's tied back by a tiara, the world champions gave an energetic and emotional routine to "Sheherazade" by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They finished with 200.19 points — their most ever at nationals — thanks to a 119.50 that was a perfect score for the elements in their free skate.
"With the Olympics in the season, it really ups the ante," White said. "What a great time to be an American ice dancer."
Evan Bates and Madison Chock were second with 181.44 points and siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani, with 170.44 points, were third.
"I feel like rock stars," Alex Shibutani said.
Earlier, hometown favorites Simon Shnapir and Marissa Castelli won the pairs championship. The women's free skate was scheduled for later Saturday, with the men's long program Sunday.
The U.S. Olympic figure skating teams will be announced Sunday. The top three in dance and top two in pairs are expected — but not guaranteed — to get spots.
After showing up to a mid-week news conference in a Boston Bruins T-shirt and ski cap, Shnapir turned to a Saville Row-style shirt and tie — accessorized by a gun holster — for a James Bond-themed routine with Castelli that earned them the pairs title.
"I grabbed her hand and I said, 'Let's just stay out here for a second and enjoy this moment,'" Shnapir, of nearby Sudbury, said after the victory put them in position for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. "Who knows if we'll ever have an opportunity like this again?"
Skating to the music from "Skyfall," Castelli and Shnapir totaled 205.71 points to protect the lead they built with the top performance Thursday in the short program.
"Right now we're just still in shock ourselves," said Castelli, of Cranston, R.I. "We're just trying to process everything."
Felicia Zhang and Nathan Bartholomay finished second with 201.72 points. Caydee Denney and John Coughlin moved up to third, with 201.43, after receiving the highest score in Saturday's free skate.
"We didn't leave anything on the table. We skated just as hard and as passionate as we could," Bartholomay said. "We're both just completely on Cloud 9 right now. We are aware that second place is not locked in. But we gave it everything we had against some tremendous competition."
Skating in front of their home crowd on the rink the Bruins call home, Shnapir tossed Castelli high into the air for a triple twist and then threw her into a high-point value quad salchow that she finished with a fall — their only major mistake of the routine. He also did a triple toe loop when she went around twice, costing them some points.
They were shaken, but nor stirred.
"We left some points on the table, but we're really thrilled with the result here," Shnapir said, adding that they did not consider ditching the quad. "There really wasn't a decision. We'd been doing it all year. ... We don't make any changes last minute."
When they finished at the center of the rink where their hometown Bruins play, Shnapir struck the Bond pose: standing sideways with his hands up, ready to turn and fire. The crowd showered them with appreciation and the judges did the same, handing them scores of 132.58 for the free skate — the third best on the day, but good enough to protect their lead.
That's because they finished the short program more than six points ahead of the second-place Zhang and Bartholomay. The 2013 third-place finishers skated a clean program and earned 135.22 points to a mistake-free "Les Miserable" routine that brought the crowd to its feet.
Denney and Coughlin, skating to "Phantom of the Opera," earned the highest score of the day with 136.03. The 2012 champions sat out last year because he had hip surgery.
After years of narrow pairs fields, this year's competition was deeper, with a half-dozen teams capable of reaching the podium at nationals.


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Egbert Triangle
Richmond Ave., Forest Ave., and Willowbrook Rd.
Staten Island
Directions via Google Maps
This triangle commemorates Arthur Stanley Egbert (1893-1918), a member of a prominent Staten Island family, who fought and died in World War I (1914-1918). Arthur Stanley Egbert was born on July 6, 1893 and lived at 1288 Richmond Avenue. Before entering the war, he worked as a conductor for the Richmond Light and Rail Road Company. Serving as a Seaman Second Class for the U.S. Navy, Egbert died on May 31, 1918, when the USS President Lincoln sank. This site is dedicated to him and to the people of Graniteville and Port Richmond who died in World War I. The site was named Egbert Square on April 16, 1929. Years later, Commissioner Stern renamed the site Egbert Triangle to better reflect its shape.


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I was planning to share some Istanbul photos with new year whishes. I dont want to publish now.
Today, second day of new attacks on Gaza : Mosques in Gaza are calling on people to donate blood.
Hamas sources said there was no room in the hospitals to treat victims.
Israel said the strikes were in response to continued rocket fire by Palestinian militants against Israeli towns.
U.N. Security Council council said "The members of the Security Council expressed serious concern at the escalation of the situation in Gaza and called for an immediate halt to allviolence "
John Lennon said "
Everybody's talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Well it was sunday
bloody sunday
When they shot the people there
The crys of thirteen marty martyrs
Filled the free derry air.
Is there any one among you
Dare to blame it on the kids?
Not a soldier boy was
When they nailed the
coffin lidds!
Sunday bloody sunday
Bloody sunday's the day!
You claim to be majority
Well you know that it's a lie
You're really a minority
Oh this sweet emerald asle.
When Stormont bans
our marchers
They've got a lot to learn
Internment is no answer
It's those mother's turn
to burn!
Sunday bloody sunday
Bloody sunday's the day!
You anglo pigs and scotties
Sent to colonize the north
You wave your bloody
Union Jacks
And you know what it's worth!
How dare you hold on to ransom
A people proud and free
Keep ireland for the irish
Put the english back to sea!
Sunday bloody sunday
Bloody sunday's the day!
Yes it's always bloody sunday
In the concentration camps
Keep Falls and roads free forever
From the bloody english hands
Repatriate to britain
All of you who call it home
Leave ireland to the irish
Not for London or for Rome!
Sunday bloody sunday
Bloody sunday's the day!
(thx for correction )


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A research goal that I frequently see from folks starting to chase their ancestry back to Europe is "I want to know the original (or, correct) spelling of my last name." In many cases, there simply isn't a cut & dried original spelling. Spelling (whether names or any other words) used to be more fluid than today; people didn't carry around a driver's license with their name spelled the same way every time it was used for ID; and officials of various nationalities were in charge recording names on documents at different times. Imagine if every time you filled out a form, the spelling of your name depended on whether the current U.S. president was a Democrat or a Republican. That's kind of what it's like to chase down a name in the Slovak parish and census records. I've seen records in Latin, Hungarian, German, something written in Cyrillic, something that looked like Slovak or Czech but isn't quite either one, and occasionally, oh yes, Slovak!
I guess I was lucky that this whole question of the spelling of my surname had a known answer all along. I was always told by my father that the Slovak spelling of Michutka was "Mičutka," and that the little mark over the letter c made it sound like the English ch sound. That apparently was the way George Michutka's family spelled the name before they left Europe, and that's the way it is spelled today by our Slovak relatives.
(A brief aside: Slovak also has a ch letter combination, which expresses a totally different sound than the English ch. If you spell our name the English way in Slovakia, people will pronounce the name sort of like "Mee-hoot-kaa"!)
This doesn't mean that there aren't other spellings of our name in the Slovak parish records! Nor does it mean that George and family came to the U.S. and immediately and consistently spelled the name "Michutka."
If we look at George's baptismal record again, we see the name spelled "Micsutka"[1]:
|"Georgius Micsutka" birth & baptismal record, Makov, Slovakia, 29 April 1891
And if we look at another family record, this one the 1834 death record of ancestress Eva Kaličak wife of Martin Mičutka, we see both her maiden name and her married surname spelled with ts to represent the English ch / Slovak č sound, "Kalitsjak" and "Mitsutka"[2]:
|Eva Kalitsjak wife of Martin Mitsutka, died 5 June [1834], age 57, resident of Makov
As near as I've been able to tell, the ts spelling (Mitsutka) tended to be the Latin spelling of the name; cs (Micsutka) was (and still is) the Hungarian representation of the English ch sound. But… the Hungarian spelling shows up not only when the records were kept in Hungarian, but sometimes also when the records were kept in Latin.
I don't recall seeing any other variations in the spelling of our family name in the parish records of Makov.
BUT just to make things more interesting: about 8 or 9 miles south of Makov (as the crow flies) is the town Štiavnik. The name Mišutka[3] (modern Slovak spelling) occurs there, spelled Missutka in the old parish registers.[4] Phonetically, the sh and ch (English spelling) sounds are very close, articulated in the same spot in the mouth. When I found this, I wondered if š and č historically ever overlapped (that is, substitute for each other) in Slovak, and whether Mišutka and Mičutka might therefore be variants of the same name. I consulted Professor Martin Votruba of the Slovak Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. The answer was, linguistically, no, the sounds don't overlap in Slovak. But he pointed out that an alternate explanation might be a person moving to another village and his name being recorded slightly differently (heard wrong, remembered wrong by the recorder, etc), and becoming set in that form.[5] So far, I have found no apparent links in the parish records between the Štiavnik Mišutkas and the Makov Mičutkas, so if this possibility has some historical basis, the split in the name evidently occurred before the time of any extant records. So perhaps the two names reflect one original family a few hundred years ago, or perhaps the names arose independently and the similarity is mere coincidence.
And what does Mičutka mean? This is a question that regularly pops up in our family, and is one that I myself have asked of Slovaks and experts in the Slovak language. And the answer, that all-too-frequent answer, is always "I don't know." The only thing that can be said about the name is that the –ka ending is an old masculine diminutive suffix or other derivational ending.[6] My own personal semi-educated guess is that the name originally had meaning, but either the meaning has been lost, or the word underwent some change (came from another language, had a mispronunciation that became fixed, etc.) such that its original form and meaning can no longer be reliably determined. Today, to me, Mičutka and Michutka mean simply "all those people to whom I am related on my dad's side of the family."
Next Monday: What's in a name, part 2
[1] Sv. Peter a Pavol [Saints Peter and Paul] Roman Catholic Church (Makov, Slovakia), parish registers, inventory no. 610, volume II, 1836-1908, Georgius Micsutka baptism (1891, entry #43); FHL microfilm 2,003291, item 3.
[2] Sv. Peter a Pavol [Saints Peter and Paul] Roman Catholic Church (Makov, Slovakia), parish registers, inventory no. 609, volume I, 1796-1868, Eva Kalitsjak Mitsutka death (1834, entry 5 June); FHL microfilm 2,003291, item 2. In spite of the dates given on the cover of this volume of the register and on the microfilm title page, the death records in this volume go only to 1847, and are continued in the next volume and on the next reel of microfilm.
[3] Slovak š is equivalent in sound to English sh.
[4] I haven't searched these records as thoroughly as the Makov records, to see if there are different Hungarian vs Latin spellings.
[5] Martin Votruba, University of Pittsburgh, to Julie Michutka, e-mail, 24 September 2008, "Spelling representations."
[6] Martin Votruba, University of Pittsburgh, to Julie Michutka, e-mail, 27 December 2008, "Name Variations."
For a discussion of Slovak diminutives and what they do (and do not) mean, see the right sidebar at http://www.pitt.edu/~votruba/qsonhist/slovaklastnamesdiminutives.html#endingvariations.


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Ryan Braun returns to active roster, Ramirez on DL
Braun could start Tuesday
Ryan Braun is back, but Aramis Ramirez is out again.
It's been that kind of season so far for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Braun was activated from the disabled list on Monday after he was sidelined for a month with a bruised right thumb. While the 2011 NL MVP returned to the active roster, the Brewers decided to put Ramirez on the DL again with a nagging left knee injury.
"It's exciting more than it is a relief," Braun said. "Being on the DL is not something I enjoyed. Definitely made me appreciate the last six years having never spent time on the DL because it's just a lot of long, boring days. I excited to be back. I excited to be able to compete again and be able to contribute, hopefully contribute to some better baseball."
Milwaukee dropped two of three against the New York Mets over the weekend and is last in the top-heavy NL Central. The parade of injuries for the Brewers started in spring training, and a shaky bullpen and rotation have played a prominent role in their decline.
Braun is batting .304 with nine homers and 36 RBIs in 57 games this season. He was not in the lineup for the opener of a three-game series against Cincinnati, but he planned to test his hand again in batting practice and could be available to pinch-hit.
"It's not close to 100 percent, but we don't expect it to be close to 100 percent all year," Braun said. "So as long as it's good enough, I'm thrilled about that."
Ramirez sprained his left knee on April 5 and was placed on the DL the next day. He was sidelined for a month, but the injury has lingered. He is batting .271 with five homers and 26 RBIs in 54 games.
The move for Ramirez is retroactive to Sunday. Putting the third baseman on the DL right now allows the Brewers to use the upcoming All-Star game to minimize the amount of missed games for the slugger.
Logan Schafer got the start in left field against Cincinnati, and former Reds prospect Juan Francisco was at third for Milwaukee.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke also said before the game that right-hander Wily Peralta remains in line to start on Tuesday. Peralta was forced to leave his last outing in the sixth inning on Tuesday night at Washington due to a strained left hamstring.
"No restrictions," Roenicke said. "It's all going to be dictated on what's happening. If he feels something, then, obviously, we'll address that. As far as pitches and things, there's no restrictions."


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When you think of NURI, think of the Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency...but only for geospatial projects.
NURI stands for NGA University Research Initiatives. NGA, ofcourse, is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a combatsupport agency at the Defense Department.
The NURI project has been operating since 1997 and has alreadyawarded 103 grants to researchers at more than 60 universities toinvestigate topics related to geospatial intelligence. Each grantis for three years and generally amounts to $150,000 per year.
This year's awards (GCN.com/1201) range fromone for a research project on 'Spaceborne MagneticGradiometry after Swarm: Novel Approaches to Mapping theEarth's Magnetic Field Employing Nonlinear Magneto-OpticalRotation Sensors' to a project titled 'Purpose- AwareDynamic Graph Models for Representing and Reasoning aboutNetworks.'
Seem like a long way from digital mapping? Actually, no:Geospatial intelligence involves a lot more than mapping. NGA hasdistilled its research road map into these six broad topicareas:
A more detailed road map ' which Reith said is not public' deals with a broad spectrum of specific challenges. Theyinclude finding ways to track criminals or terrorists, detectingweapons of mass destruction and finding ways of discoveringrelevant data in a large database. Reith said the program'spriorities cover a lot of ground, 'from actual intelligenceproblems to helping the analyst out to display devices.'
Each year, a panel of senior NGA scientists ranks proposedtopics against the road map and then finalizes a list of specifictopics. Universities then write proposals on those lists of topicsare made with the input of other intelligence agencies.
The four topic areas for 2008 were:
As for the future? 'There are challenges out there that Isuspect we're going to see along the lines of data storageand data discovery,' Reith said. 'Something we hearback from people in the field is that, with all of the data sourcesthat are being provided, there's an awful lot of difficultyfinding the data that they need.'
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Another nail-biter
Got to love those three-run homers. Ruiz and Raul did the damage as the Phillies took game one. LA lefty George Sherrill had given up two runs in 30 appearances after joining the Dodgers on July 30. Left-handed hitters batted .128 with no homer in last 141 at-bats over two seasons. Raul took care of that hitting the first pitch he saw from his former teammate in Seattle. It turned out to be the game-winning blow.
Brad gets the save but Chan Ho should also get a save for his outing. He was really sharp. Madson got himself in a jam but also pitched out of it.
Phillies are 14-4 in their last 18 NLCS games. Under Charlie, they are 15-7 in the playoffs. Road record this year: 3-0.
Postseason Memories
A first baseman, Ricky Jordan played for the Phillies from 1988 through 1994. He also played for the Mariners in 1996. His postseason experience was 1993, the NLCS vs. Atlanta and WS vs. Toronto. He led the club with 16 pinch hits in '93. The 44-year-old resides in northern California.
What is your favorite memory of October baseball as a child?
"Watching Reggie Jackson hit home runs for the Yankees back in the 70's and becoming known as Mr. October."
As a player, what was the biggest change between the regular season and postseason?
"Having to rise to a different level, because more media and fans would be watching you on a bigger stage with more at stake."
What is your fondest personal postseason memory?
"Being in the starting lineup as the DH for the first World Series game back in 1993 against Toronto. As far as the fondest team memory, beating the Braves that year."
Where were you when the Phillies won the World Series last October?
"Well, I was back at home in California. After being at Citizens Bank Park for Game 3 and part of 4, I returned home because Game 4 got postponed for a couple of days because of bad weather. My Bad."
Postseason History
Phillies are 0-2 on this date, losing the 1983 World Series to the Orioles and losing the first game of the WS in Toronto 10 years later.
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Between the lack of sleep with the late games and stress from all the ups and downs, someone may have to resuscitate me after the heart failure. I must be getting old… ;O)
tough to win 1-0…padilla was nasty…live to play another day…and don't lose your last game of the season.


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