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"Laid to Rest" is a terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hellbent on finishing what he started.
This is the synopsis of a really interesting movie, Laid To Rest. I saw the trailer on Bloody-Disgusting.com. Check out the trailer...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Laid to Rest...
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Tina and I watched the movie Outpost last night. It's and interesting movie that was very much like the movie The Bunker (2001) that we had watched a year or so ago. Both deal with WWII German soldiers and both deal with being in a "haunted" bunker. Outpost is about a "scientist" who recruits several ex-military mercs to take him to a 1940's German bunker in Eastern Europe. The Nazi's were doing experiments on their own soldiers to make them "invisible" in order to transport them without being seen. They developed a machine based on physics that was supposed to do just that. The machine would be worth billions if it truly exists. Once in the bunker, all hell breaks loose. The violence and gory are plentiful. Not a great movie, but entertaining enough! I have the trailer at the bottom of this post. Check it out and if it looks good to you, check out the movie!
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Another TFAV update...
If you are interested in following another clip from my book, go back to my post of May 22, 2008. This part at the end of this post continues from the 5/22/08 post. Also, I took my book to Professor D. today and he said he should be finished reading it in about a month. He's teaching summer school and is one of the busiest guy's I know. That's why I'm so thankful that he has taken an interest in my book and has been so helpful to me over the past five years. I'm hoping that there isn't too much more to do other than grammatical editing. The book is so much tighter and flows so much better than the original piece that I handed him about four years ago. I'm very happy with it. Anyway, read the old post and come back to this post to read more. As always, I will keep you all posted on new developments.
John Winthrop and the Arabella physically brought Jonathan to this new land, but hope was what drew him here. Jonathan wanted nothing more then to be at peace with his soul and his God. The religious movement of the day gave him hope that a new beginning in a new land would give him the peace he desperately sought. A revolution of his soul is what he needed. A revolution of his drive and spirit beckoned fulfillment. There was a revolution indeed, but Jonathan was not prepared for the results of such a change.
In the midst of the Puritan revolution, Jonathan was born. On the other hand, it would be more appropriate to say, he died. On a ship crossing the Atlantic in 1630, they traveled to New England looking for what they called freedom. The Puritans wanted a better way of life for their wives and children, a place to live and worship without the dreadful persecution of the church state called England. A better way indeed, they would show the masses a pure England in this new land. They set sail in late March of 1630 from Lincolnshire, England with hopes and dreams of a land they could call their own. Jonathan, too, was looking for this so-called freedom.
He was a complicated soul. Early in his life he had left the Church, unwilling to be tied down to what he felt was hopeless tradition. He was excommunicated, which according to the Church meant that his soul was lost and his body would never return to dust. He was damned. Little did Jonathan realize the impact this would have on his life… his very soul. He went from job to job making a meager living. He had found work with a wealthy man named John Winthrop, who was a man of faith, wisdom, and means… of which the young man had none. It was simple, yet honest work, around the house and in the fields. One day, Mr. Winthrop came and told all of his laborers, as they were toiling in the fields, "I am going to the new land across the Atlantic. It will be a new world in which to live, work, and worship. It will not be easy, but any one of you who want to go and help me have free passage." Many of the laborers were intrigued with the idea of a new land, a new beginning, and a fresh start. The young man had no idea just what a beginning it would be for him.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Couple things here today... Tina and I watched Asylum the other night. I put the review from my Netflix page down near the bottom of my blog in my review section. The movie started out pretty good, but the more characters they threw into the mix the weaker the acting became. The movie really wasn't that bad... up until one of the most important things in a movie (the ending!). It was CGI crap. Totally ruined it for me. I don't know how many movies we've seen where we really like it and then the ending just makes no sense or it just plain sucks! Happens more than I like! Anyway, enough about it... check out the trailer at the end of this post and I believe you will think this is a really great movie. It's not a total waste of time, but it could have been so much better!
I just wanted to thank several of my friends for visiting and commenting so often. There's several who visit and don't comment, but I'm thankful for any and all visits. So check out the trailer and the review! Thanks for the visit and check out the entire blog!
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Monday, July 21, 2008
New "Favorite" site...
I put in a link to my Netfix page for anyone interested in checking it out. It's very much like a blog page in that you can put different things of interest on your page. There are different movie or TV groups that you can join and discuss movies, old TV shows, just about anything. It's not really affiliated with Netflix; it's set up by Netflix members for all Netflix members. It's fun. As I have said before, I should get paid for all the Netflix free advertising I do, but it is a great company and is a great way to get the DVD's you want without having to go to a video store or wherever you rent your DVD's. Any way, go to the right side of my blog under "My Favorite Sites" and click on "Frank's Netflix page" and it will send you there! Enjoy...
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Psychological Horror....
Tina had to do a psych test for one of her classes and she wanted me to take it. She scored very high in many of the areas since she is a very outgoing person with a kind heart. HOWEVER... ol' Frank didn't do so well. Out of the five areas you are scored on, my highest score was AVERAGE!!!!! Average, was for emotional stability... at least I'm fairly stable. LOL! There are five areas: Extraversion Report, Agreeableness Report, Conscientiousness Report, Emotional Stability, and Openess. Your favorite horror fiend here scored low, and I mean LOW on the other four areas. We are talking in the less than 3% range for someone my age. I may be stable, but it looks like I can't stand people and I keep everything to myself! Damn accurate, if I have to say so myself... 20 years in retail will make you this way I guess! In honor of the greatest Psychological horror/thriller movie, Hannibal Lector (a very MAD doctor), I put a great clip set to the music of Papa Roach's Getting Away With Murder. I also have the link to the psych test. Enjoy the video and take the test!!! Interesting stuff!
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Friday, July 18, 2008
I put a new review in my review section near the end of my blog. Sorry for not posting in almost a week, but I haven't been online for a few days for many reasons. The movie Organizm is a movie Tina and I watched a week or so ago and I found it to be quite entertaining. It reminded me of the old horror movies I used to watch in my grandparent's basement with all the lights off and the door closed. It's a biological horror/thriller where we need to have just a few people, maybe just one or two, who are the only ones that can save ALL of mankind. It's a story that has been told over and over again for as long as I can remember. Yet, this one was interesting to me because of the characters involved. A man born in the 50's with scars on the palms of his hands, put there by his mother so that he would never forget... Well the thing he was too never forget was just about to happen at Lambert Army Base (loved the "Lambert" thing because that is my grandmothers last name). So he goes to the base to warm them and that is when all hell breaks loose. Read the review and watch the trailer at the end of this post... I'll try to keep up with more regular post, but life has a way of getting in the way. Enjoy the trailer...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Afraid to go in the water??? Jaws!
We went to York Beach, Maine yesterday and spent the day on the beach with Molli. She had a softball tournament in Rochester, NH today and tomorrow. So Friday we spent most of the day on the beach with just a little pinball time for me at the arcade right on Short Sands in beautiful York Beach... Tina grew up there and we try to go there at least once a summer... more if we can afford it. Friday night we stayed at Tina's cousin Patty's house in Somersworth, NH... swimming pool, hot tub, and great BBQ ribs! I had to sleep on the floor, but it was fine with me:) Woke up and had a little pool time before going to Molli's softball tourney. They played GREAT! They won 2 out of 3 losing the one game by one run and winning one of the games 15-1! Tina and I had to come home tonight because I have to close at work tomorrow and Tina has her finals. Molli is staying there with her dad and has three more games tomorrow... should be good. In honor of my day at the beach I thought I should have a clip of the greatest beach movie of all times... JAWS!!! Trust me, to this day I really don't like going in water where I can't see the bottom. Another problem living in the frigid north is the ocean water is NEVER warm! I touched my toes in it and it was so freakin' cold. Had a really good two days and look forward to going to York again, soon I hope! This Jaws clip is an extended trailer... creepy!
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Dog Soldiers...
I had a Netflix friend ask me about this movie the other day and it reminded me of how much I love this movie. Vampire movies (good ones) are my favorite, but werewolf movies have a spot in my heart as well. Dog Soldiers is a well written and well acted horror film. The concept is unsuspecting British soldiers on a training mission in the deep woods, come across a massacre of another group of British soldiers with their leader as the lone survivor. On their way out of the woods, they meet up with a woman who lives in the area. They end up getting trapped in a house and fighting for their lives. The special effects are great. The gore factor is quite high. How many will survive the night??? Watch the movie! The trailer is at the end of this post. This movie is well worth a watch!
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
This is one of my favorite sites to visit for all the updates, new releases, trailers, and news concerning all that is horror! I love going to the trailers section to see all the new horror movies that are coming out. This movie (Dorothy Mills) looks very creepy. The trailer is at the end of this post and you really need to see it. It revolves around a 15 year old Irish girl accused of attempted murder of a baby she was in-charge of. The trailer looks like she may have multiple personalities, but there seems to be much more to the movie and the village she lives in. Looks like a very good movie. Speaking of good Irish movies, Dog Soldiers is the best werewolf movie I've ever seen. Tension, gore, and a great story make this a keeper in my book. I have the trailer to that below the Dorothy trailer... watch them both!!! BTW, you can visit Bloody-Disgusting.com from the "My Favorite Sites" section on the right side of my blog...
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Friday, July 4, 2008
The Signal...
I watched this movie last night and I have to admit, I'm somewhat divided on it. A part of me found it to be very interesting and entertaining. The other part of me found it to be quite annoying. I'll explain... The movie centered around three characters who are thrown into total chaos because of a "signal" transmitted over TV, radio, and phone lines. The transmission causes "normal" people to become lunatic killers. Sounds a little campy, but it really wasn't too cheesy. The gore factor was way up there and not for the faint of heart. The annoying aspect was mainly the flashback segments, which were MANY! Another problem I believe was the direction of the movie. There were three writers and directors and I felt like I was watching three different movies. It seemed that the flow was disrupted because of the different directors and those annoying flashbacks. The crazy thing is, I found the movie to be entertaining. It was shot in 13 days on a very small budget. The behind the scenes special features were far more interesting than the movie itself. All in all, it wasn't that bad of a movie... it just could have been so much better! Have the trailer at the end of this post, check it out.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
TFAV1630 Updates...
Several things to mention concerning my book and my blog site. Saving the best for last, I'll start with the changes to my blog. The first is a video bar from You Tube with a ton of clips from horror movies and trailers. Put your cursor over the video to see the name and time of each video. I was able to use key words to get certain clips, so hopefully nothing unacceptable shows up! Under the Video Bar is a list of the sites I go to nearly every day. Just click on the site name and a window will open up to that site. Two of those sites are the ones I get all my new horror movie info from... great sites! I've added Ad sites after each post and the main Ad page near the middle of the blog. To be honest, a person does get paid from these ads, but in order to really make money you would have to have about 1,000 hits a day... I get about 3 or 4! However, if see an ad that interests you, by all means check it out. Clicking on an ad will just open up another window and you will not have to leave my blog. I also added a subscription link so that you can always know when I have put up a new post or comment. Finally, I added a Google Web Search to the blog.
Monday, I "finished" my book. I plan to print it out and take it to Professor D., and hopefully he will read it and give me more feedback on where I stand with it. I've rewritten it at least a dozen times, adding too and taking away from, to make it flow so much better. It's a great story... not just my opinion, I've had 2 other people read it who love it. One is a teacher and the other has a PHD and loves Steven King books, so I value their opinions and appreciate their help. Professor D. has helped me so much and I could never fully repay him... but I will try! I hope the book will be finished completely before years end so that I can get an agent and get it published... I'll put another section from it in a post in a few days.
I have a clip from several Bela Lugosi movies as Dracula in honor of my vampire book. Enjoy!!!
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Something Is Changing
Fifteen years ago, the international community designed the Millennium Development Goals, including that of halving extreme poverty, through a process that mostly took place in New York, behind closed doors. A few years earlier, the World Bank had developed the guidelines of the Poverty Reduction Strategy for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries from Washington, D.C. in a similar fashion.
Fortunately, this approach has changed.
Today, the process of identifying and consulting on the post-2015 development agenda has been opened to the general public including, importantly, those whom the goals are expected to serve. In fact, the United Nations and other partners have undertaken a campaign to reach out directly to citizens for ideas and feedback on the issues most important to them in the post-2015 agenda. Those who are formulating the post-2015 goals will no longer need to assume what the poor and vulnerable want: they will have a firsthand knowledge of what their priorities are.
The World Bank Group has explicitly stated that our new goals of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity cannot be achieved without institutions, structures, and processes that empower local communities, hold governments accountable, and ensure that all groups in society are able to participate in decision-making processes. In other words, these goals will not be within reach without a social contract between a country and its citizens that reduces imbalances in voice, participation and power between different groups, including the poor.
But this was not always the case. In fact, the role of the poor in development has steadily changed over time, although perhaps not as quickly as we may have wanted. The poor are no longer simply in a passive role, as recipients of assistance — they are now at the center of both economic and human development. The Poverty Reduction Strategy that I mentioned earlier opened the door for civil society to have a seat at the table with authorities in places where dialogue had been not an option until then. The World Bank's "Voices of the Poor" and "Listening to Africa" initiatives, among others, took a step further in our work to better engage with and understand those living in poverty and in vulnerable situations. Today, the World Bank Group unambiguously supports a strong voice and participation of the poor and the most vulnerable, and is actively engaging with stakeholders to ensure that these critical voices are included in decisions that affect them.
One example, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a World Bank Development Policy Loan on inclusive urban development that helped develop a participatory budgeting channel, resulting in 10% of the municipal budget for urban development being allocated through direct citizen engagement. The long-term municipal strategy "Belo Horizonte Vision 2030," with 12 results areas and 25 objectives, was also developed in that participatory way. Similar examples can be found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Dominican Republic. And there are many more examples – from online urban transport public feedback in Beijing to community development councils in Afghanistan or community-based justice for the poor projects in Sierra Leone – that illustrate the critical role of the poor in getting interventions right.
How Are We Moving Forward?
Bottom-up, it seems reasonable that we all continue investing in those interventions that give control of development decisions and resources to community groups, the poor, and the marginalized. In fact, we now know that Community Driven Development has been a key operational strategy for the delivery of services in the poorest regions, villages and households; and for the empowering of the poor. We also know that these interventions will need to confront challenges and work out problems, some as difficult as their scaling-up beyond a handful of communities (more so in conflict, post-conflict, fragile and disaster management contexts).
Top-down, initiatives like Mapping for Results have geo-referenced projects at the community level and has then provided technological tools to engage them in projects. For policymakers, the tools have helped visualize and geo-reference evidence on the efficacy of programs and interventions across the world. The innovative approach is enabling decision makers to plan more effectively and enhance citizens' social accountability. Information portals open to the global public include Open Data, OpenAid, Development Marketplace, and the soon-to-be-launched Visualize Inequality dashboard, and we can expect a more innovative use of technology associated with this data openness.
However, along with transparency, political willingness is indispensable. The Global Partnership for Social Accountability, for example, supports civil society and governments to work together to solve critical governance challenges in developing countries. As of today, 37 governments from all regions in the world have opted-in to the GPSA allowing the provision of direct funding to CSOs operating in their territories. In addition, more than 130 organizations have joined the GPSA as "Global Partners."
But going back to the post-2015 development agenda, the international community and national, regional and local partners all need to keep working towards the inclusion of gender equality, empowerment of women and marginalized groups and the promotion of equal opportunities as key focal areas. Let's make certain that this time we can ensure that these commitments respond to popular demand.
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Dear Jose,
Very interesting article and always honorable to talk about poverty (extreme, ultra, and others). I think all agree that any efforts are always welcome when it comes to poverty..gender equality ....but could these ill-informed call-to-action increase fragmentation, reduce opportunities for sustainability, and maybe even create more inequality.
Like you I have spent (still in LAC) most of my time in Latin America. The continent is probably one of the best example....when it comes to the poverty dilemma. It is host to a great majority of Middle Income Countries and the three countries that generate most wealth in the region are home to 60% of the poor in Latin America. It doesn't take a lot to do quick math and to see that unplanned "poverty" policies could even work against any sustainability concept for the region. Most countries in the region; can't generate sufficient energy, are built on crumbling infrastructures, and have little capability to generate taxes to mitigate social and environmental impact....and even if they would collect more taxes out of the informal economy...would it really serve the most needed.
I like your quick scan of some of the WB's work and project but how viable will it be for the region, Africa....or the rest of the world to be successful and eliminate extreme poverty. What will be the impact on food prices, on energy, on access to water? Will they be able to access education or health?
There are lots of APP that increases citizen's participation but what if no one is listening at the other end. I could map gazillions of roads in severe conditions but government can't fixed them. I could write about the poor conditions of the health care system but the govt doesn't have new money to fix them.
Is $1.25 a meaningful indicator?
If they drive? could any of the major cities in Latin America absorb them without careful planning and substantial investment!? Panama is a perfect example" small and manageable! but they can't generate new energies...people are on energy ration.
Could this unplanned growth worsen the current conditions? The region (Africa and Asia) as well is plague with low employment -- who will hire "them"?
I think it's very honorable to have these grand vision but we may do more harm to the one we want to help if these grandiose campaigns are ill-informed and lack long term commitment.
Transparency is a two way street. It is good the UN and the World Bank are more open about how decisions are made. And it is good that they demand the same from countries they assist. However, we still have to go a long way to ensure that investments in development do yield the maximum return. We must be transparent about the results we can. We can make things work or make excuses for not achieving the planned results. I prefer the former. We know the poor have worse health outcomes and die younger and that the high cost of health care bankrupts families everywhere. In global health, the bank has made many investments. It is time to look back and measure their ROI and find new ways to make things work. We need projects that strengthen the country's programs not weaken it. For example, polio eradication is good but not at the expense of the country's immunization program and of other diseases such as measles and TB that also need to be eradicated. We need projects that leave a country's health program working better than when it started and the health system delivering better quality care for more people. In the case of polio, we must eradicate it by improving a country's immunization program and ensuring the health system continues to immunize very child that is born at the right time with the right vaccine after the donors stop funding it. It is simple, not easy, though. We first have to realize that the old way to working in development does not lead to lasting results and donors have to be transparent because they are part of problem and the solution.

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Customer-specific gearbox solutions
The focus has always been on the user and function with Liebherr gearboxes. As such, versatile drive variants have been created over the years. The series products from our product portfolio serve as a basis for this. The gearboxes can be made as standalone units or integrated in the adjacent structure.
Use and function in the line of sight
Be it in deep foundation machines, concrete mixing systems or large dumper trucks – gearboxes from Liebherr are always application-specific and function-orientated. In this way, customers and users profit from a variety of special drives and types of construction. These are tailored precisely to the respective deployment situation.
Customer-specific special gearboxes
The KAT 700 chain drive was especially developed for a tensioner unit in a pipelaying ship. It is distinguished by planetary gearboxes integrated on both sides. The advantages compared with conventional solutions are, among other things, the integrated sprocket wheel as well as a reduced installation space and simple assembly.
From the possible planetary gear, spur gear and angular stage combinations, Liebherr manufactures special gearboxes as individual drive solutions. Here, the quantity and size of the electric or hydraulic motors are as variable as the number of outputs. There are various options for the type of output:
- Output via internal gear wheel
- Shaft-flange connection
- Output pinion
- Output shaft
- Special solutions
Autonomous or integrated gearbox
The BAT 180 drilling drive is used in drilling rigs to power the kelly bar. It is connected to two hydraulic motors.
With a view to the customer-specific requirements, Liebherr realises gearboxes either as standalone units or integrates them completely in the adjacent structure. Here, the components of the adjacent structure can also be included in the order, such as with the drilling drive.
Special gearboxes based on series products
The DAT 250 serves to drive the rotor blade adjustment of wind turbines. The angular stage makes it ideal for the restricted installation space.
Drive: electric motor
Output torque: 6,000 Nm
The DAT 1000 is so far the largest slewing drive that Liebherr has developed and manufactured. We implemented an output pinion here for the first time using a 50 module.
Output torque: 620,000 Nm
Output shaft module: 50
The FAT 700 features a spur wheel gear stage offset to the planetary gearbox axis. This means that the FAT 700 crawler tractor has greater ground clearance.
Drive: two hydraulic motors
Output torque: 170,000 Nm
The FAT 1500 is one of the largest travel drives from Liebherr. It is driven by two hydraulic motors via a spur wheel gear stage.
Drive: two hydraulic motors
Output torque: 1,450,000 Nm


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Instagram: No Plans to Sell Your Photos
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, said on Tuesday it has "no plans" to incorporate user photos into ads in response to a growing public outcry over new privacy policies unveiled this week.
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Instagram Chief Executive Kevin Systrom said in a blog post that users had incorrectly interpreted Instagram's revised terms of service, released on Monday, to mean that user photos would be sold to others without compensation.
"This is not true and it is our mistake that this language is confusing," Systrom said. "To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos. We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear."
But Systrom said Instagram may display users' profile pictures and information about who they follow as part of an ad - a social marketing technique similar to what Facebook uses in its "sponsored stories" ad product.
He added that Instagram will not incorporate users' uploaded photos as ads because the service wants "to avoid things like advertising banners."
Instagram, which is free to use, triggered an uproar this week when it revised its terms of service in order to begin carrying advertising.
Facebook bought the fast-growing photo service - now with 100 million users - earlier this year in a cash-and-stock deal valued initially at $1 billion. The transaction closed in September at $715 million, reflecting a decline in the value of Facebook shares.


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Part two of the Mob Wives reunion starts amidst the chaos of the Drita D'Avanzo and Ramona Rizzo. Renee Graziano is trying to separate the women, and Drita leaves the set. Joy Behar doesn't even get out of her seat. She's just watching the craziness. Finally the women come back to the sofas, where Drita and Ramona continue to scream and bleep and threaten to kill one another off camera. I think they even decide to fight it out after the reunion (in the parking lot, perhaps?), and there are accusations of being in a gang. They are too well-dressed for this nonsense. Carla Facciolo and Karen Gravano are trying to keep the peace, urging the women to speak nicely. Renee tries to redirect, and Karen jumps on her for interrupting Joy. Renee tells Joy how to run the show, and it actually makes sense.
Joy seems to have regained control and Drita and Ramona are able to discuss the fight without raising their voices…too much. The next confrontation highlighted is between Drita and Karen. Karen and Drita have different definitions of friendship, but they plan to respect their truce. Joy is concerned that once people start gossiping on Staten Island, the truce will disappear. Karen and Drita reveal that they have promised to go directly to the other to resolve any issues regarding the rumor mill. Ramona says that she and Carla have a similar agreement, but it seems that Carla still likes to talk about her. Joy was excited that she was able to keep the women calm for at least a few minutes. We need more Big Ang and less bleeping.


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"Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the well being of our own children is intimately linked to the well being of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs life-saving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. When one of our children is harmed by violence, someone else's child will commit it. The good life for our own children can be secured only if it is also secured for all other people's children. But to work for the well being of all children is not just a practical matter-- it is also right!" - Lilian G. Katz, Phd.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Cool Photo Gadget
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This interesting Op Ed piece points out that VOA could be in violation of US Public Law 94-350 by adhering to Russian media law with VOA FM broadcasts in Moscow. Of course, shortwave broadcasts continue to report VOA un-censored news:
(Source: Digital Journal)
Voice of America and Radio Liberty, funded by US taxpayers to promote media freedom abroad, self-censor news on two stations in Moscow to comply with Russian media law prior to Russia's presidential elections on March 4.
US government-funded media freedom broadcasters, Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Liberty (Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, RFE RL), have resorted to self-censorship of their news to keep broadcasting on two leased radio stations in Moscow in the days leading up to Russian presidential elections. Self-censorship affects only their radio newscasts on two AM Moscow transmitters, which are leased and paid for by the US government to rebroadcast VOA and RL programs. It does not extend to their other program delivery options, such as their websites. The newscasts on these stations were changed in response to a request from Russian operators of the transmitters who had warned that broadcasting political programming or poll results several days before the elections would violate Russian media law.
Because uncensored VOA and RL newscasts are still available online and, in the case of Radio Liberty, also through shortwave radio transmissions, a spokeswoman for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which manages and funds these two broadcasters, said that the restrictions "do not interfere with the ability of the Voice of America or Radio Liberty to cover the elections or to carry on with their other duties." In the case of the Voice of America, however, removing news even from some broadcasts may violate Public Law 94-350[…]


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Givat Shmuel, Israel – February 16, 2011 – Cimatron Limited (NASDAQ and TASE: CIMT) today announced that CimatronE 10 contains important enhancements for the mobile-electronic industry.
CimatronE 10 offers a new Lifter applicative tool and a new Insert applicative tool. The Lifter application uses commercial or user designed catalog parts to automatically create any type of lifter, no matter how complex. The Insert application creates multiple inserts simultaneously. Both applications automatically create pockets in the relevant mold plates.
"Cimatron's new applicative tools have the potential to dramatically simplify the design of complex molds, leading to significant time savings in mold design process" said Ira Bareket, Cimatron's VP Sales and Marketing.
"These applications are especially useful in the mobile and handheld device industries, where a large number of lifters and inserts are found in molds," said Mr Bareket. "In addition, the Lifter application offers significant advantages in the automotive industry where a quick, easy operation now replaces modeling for complex lifters."
In addition to replacing routine modeling operations, these applicative tools enable Early Machining to take place. As inserts and lifters, and their relevant pockets in the cavity or core can be established at a very early stage of design, they can also be machined earlier. Performing milling and wire EDM operations early significantly reduces overall delivery time.
Click here to view videos on the Lifter and Insert applicative tools.
|Lifters creation in CimatronE
|Inserts creation in CimatronE
About Cimatron
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Over at the New York Review of Books here's Gary Wills on Robert Caro's The Passage of Power:
Robert Caro's epic biography of Lyndon Johnson—this is the fourth volume of a planned five—was originally conceived and has been largely executed as a study of power. But this volume has been overtaken by a more pressing theme. It is a study in hate. The book's impressive architectonics come from the way everything is structured around two poles or pillars—Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy, radiating reciprocal hostilities at every step of the story. Caro calls it "perhaps the greatest blood feud of American politics in the twentieth century." With some reservations about the word "blood," one has to concede that Caro makes good his claim for this dynamic in the tale he has to tell.
There are many dramatic events, throughout the volume, that illustrate Caro's theme. I begin with one that could seem insignificant to those not knowing the background on both sides, because it shows that even the slightest brush between these two triggered rancorous inner explosions. Johnson, newly sworn in as president, had just come back to Washington on Air Force One from the terrible death of John Kennedy in Dallas. Robert Kennedy sped up the steps to the plane and rushed fiercely down the length of the cabin through everyone standing in his way (including the new president) to reach Jacqueline Kennedy. Understandable that he would first of all want to comfort the widow? Yes, but. This was the first of many ways Bobby (called that throughout) tried in the first days to ignore the man who had ignominiously, in his eyes, supplanted his brother by a murder in the man's own Texas.
Caro understands that Bobby was determined not to see Johnson, even if he saw him—so he did not see him. But Johnson saw him not seeing, and hated him the more. That is how hate narrows one—narrows what one wants to see, or is able to see, in order to keep one's hatred tended and hard.


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Millstone waste storage plan questioned at Waterford meeting
Waterford - Millstone Power Station officials fielded more than an hour of questions Wednesday about the design, inspection routines, radioactivity levels and technical aspects of the dry cask storage system for nuclear waste at Millstone, as well as big-picture queries and comments about the nation's nuclear waste policies.
About 50 people attended the meeting at Waterford Town Hall, hosted by the towns of Waterford and East Lyme to hear from the public about Millstone owner Dominion's plans to seek permits to expand its on-site storage capacity for nuclear waste. Millstone currently has 19 dry cask storage units on-site for spent nuclear fuel and has permission to expand its capacity to 40 units.
In June, however, it announced plans to seek permission from the Connecticut Siting Council to build 135 units, enough to handle all the spent nuclear waste from all three units at the site until the newest, Unit 3, is decommissioned in 2045.
There are currently about 1,638 metric tons of spent fuel stored in dry casks and in spent fuel pools at the 520-acre Millstone property.
The company could submit the application to the Siting Council as soon as Aug. 27. The Siting Council would conduct public hearings on the application before rendering a decision. The company hopes to begin construction in 2013 and begin moving spent fuel into the new units by 2015.
Bill Sheehan, chairman of the Nuclear Energy Advisory Council, a group that represents the public, asked five questions to begin the session, including whether the steel cylinders that hold the spent fuel rods could be moved out of the concrete casks to a federal repository for nuclear waste, if and when one is established. Brian Wakeman, lead engineer for dry storage for Dominion, explained that the cylinders are designed so they could be transported off-site.
Ed Saller, who said he lives near the power station, asked several questions, including about how the casks are inspected and whether nuclear waste from other power plants could be brought to the Waterford site.
Wakeman said small, remotely operated vehicles can be used to inspect the casks, and that the permit will be specific to waste from the Millstone plants.
"There will be no waste coming from off-site," Wakeman said.
One woman, who declined to give her name, said communities that agreed to host nuclear power plants did so with the understanding that there would one day be a federal repository for the waste. A proposal to establish one at Yucca Mountain in Nevada was scrapped in 2009, and there is as yet no replacement plan in the works.
"Are we going to become a dumping ground, or where is this going?" she asked.
"Your guess is as good as ours right now," replied Kevin Hennessy, Dominion's director of government affairs for the Northeast. "We have to believe the federal government will take care of this."
"We do?" responded several people.
Wakeman added: "You are no more frustrated than we are about this."
Ellen Gottfried of Waterford also expressed concern that the nuclear waste problem has not been solved.
"In light of this storage problem in this country, and in the world, are they building more nuclear power plants?" she asked.
"Yes," responded several Dominion officials.
"Too bad," she said.
Sal Mangiagli, who said he lives within a mile of the site of the former Connecticut Yankee plant in Haddam, asked about the radioactivity levels of the spent fuel in the casks. About 412 metric tons of spent fuel are stored in dry casks at the Connecticut Yankee site.
"They're immensely radioactive, these fuel assemblies," he said.
"Yes, they are," responded Wakeman.
Mangiagli added that while he is opposed to nuclear power, he believes dry cask storage is safer than storing the spent fuel in deep pools of water. He urged the company to speed up the transfer of spent fuel from the Unit 1 reactor out of the spent fuel pools into dry cask storage.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The Obama administration pressed Beijing on Thursday to accept a code of conduct for resolving territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, a difficult U.S. mediation effort that has faced resistance from the communist government - although it has endeared the U.S. to once-hostile countries in Southeast Asia.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' annual conference.
Sitting across from each other at a long table in a grand hall with chandeliers, Clinton stressed the different ways Washington and Beijing are cooperating. Yang spoke of building an even closer U.S.-Chinese relationship. Neither side spoke about the South China Sea while reporters were allowed in the room.
Several Asian governments have expressed worry about China's expansive maritime claims. Tensions have threatened to boil over in recent months, with a standoff between Chinese and Philippine ships and sharp disagreements between China and Vietnam.
China claims virtually the entire area and has created an entirely new city to administer it, sparking deep concern from rival claimants. The sea hosts about a third of the world's cargo traffic, has rich fishing grounds and is believed to store vast oil and gas reserves.
"The United States has no territorial claims there and we do not take sides in disputes about territorial or maritime boundaries," Clinton told foreign ministers gathered in Cambodia's capital. "But we do have an interest in freedom of navigation, the maintenance of peace and stability, respect for international law and unimpeded lawful commerce in the South China Sea."
Later Thursday, Clinton told delegates the U.S. was "intensely focused" on how countries were handling the different claims, singling out "confrontational behavior" in the disputed Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines, including the denial of access to other vessels. The actions she cited were China's, though she didn't mention the offending country by name.
According to Filipino officials, at different points earlier this year the Chinese attached fishing nets to ropes held by buoys to block entry to the sprawling lagoon at Scarborough Shoal, or tied several dinghies together with ropes. One official said the barriers were washed away by waves in recent storms. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the sensitivity of the issue.
"None of us can fail to be concerned by the increase in tensions, the uptick in confrontational rhetoric and disagreements over resource exploitation," Clinton said. "We have seen worrisome instances of economic coercion and the problematic use of military and government vessels in connection with disputes among fishermen. There have been a variety of national measures taken that create friction and further complicate efforts to resolve disputes."
ASEAN's 10 members announced earlier this week that they have drafted a set of rules governing maritime rights and navigation, and procedures for when governments disagree. But China is not a member of the group and hasn't agreed to anything.
The ASEAN countries are presenting their proposal to China at this week's conference in Cambodia's capital, though Beijing will probably want to water down any language that ties its hands.
Clinton said the tensions "underscore the need for agreement among all parties on rules of the road and the establishment of clear procedures for addressing disagreements," still an elusive objective a decade after Southeast Asian countries adopted it as their goal.
"We now look to ASEAN and China to make meaningful progress toward finalizing this code," Clinton added. She also suggested countries consider joint oil and gas exploitation in unresolved territories or other "creative ways" to avoid conflict.
A senior administration official said Yang, in his discussion with Clinton, cautiously signaled China's willingness to negotiate with other Asian nations on the code. The talks could start as early as September, said the official, who briefed reporters on the meeting on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, disagreements among ASEAN's members on Thursday were still holding up a concluding document for this year's meeting. How to address the Philippines' and Vietnam's disputes with China remained issues of contention, U.S. officials said.
For the United States, the difficult diplomacy ahead could be a major test of the Obama administration's efforts to "pivot" American power toward the world's most populous continent. Just speaking out on the subject already has helped the U.S. deepen ties with Vietnam, and relations are warming with other governments in the region.
But countless meetings between American and Chinese officials have not led to progress on a lasting solution.
Various longstanding disputes among China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei involve the area's busy sea lanes, and many observers fear the complicated web of disputes could spark a violent conflict.
The standoff between China and the Philippines in the Scarborough Shoal began in April when the Philippines accused Chinese fishermen of poaching in its exclusive economic zone, including the shoal. During the tensions, both sides sent government ships to the area though both have since withdrawn vessels.
Vietnam has protested a recent announcement by the China National Offshore Oil Corp. opening nine oil and gas lots for international bidders in areas overlapping with existing Vietnamese exploration blocks. Vietnam says the lots lie entirely within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.


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This morning it was pouring outside. Again. Instead of taking Topaz out on the trail as planned I decided I would do some speed work.
Have you ever run Yasso 800 s? I haven't for a long time. Since I began to run ultramarathons I've kind of let the speed workouts slide, other than the fat burning HIIT I do frequently enough.
Here is a description from Runners World:
My favorite track workout is "Yasso 800s," named after Bart Yasso, a friend, ultramarathoner, and Runner's World colleague. I like the workout because it's a great predictor of marathon-finish time. I'm sure it's more complicated than I make it, but for me the workout boils down to running two laps (800 meters) on the track at a sustainable, faster-than-usual pace.
The goal is to be able to run 10 800s, each in a minute-and-second time that matches your expected hour-and-minute marathon time. So, if you want to run a marathon in 4 hours and 30 minutes, you start with four or five 800-meter repeats and gradually work up to 10, running each in 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
With any interval workout, it's important to recover between repeats. During these rest periods, I try my hardest to look as if I'm actually doing a track workout. I walk to my water bottle, wipe off my face, bend over and gasp, fiddle with my shoes, adjust my shorts, and maybe do a little half-hearted but very intense-looking stretching. Hey, I look just as good resting as any other runner.
At the track, I learn from watching the runners around me. I watch their strides and arm swings, and try to copy those that look the best. And when I'm feeling really good,
I even talk to some of the faster runners.
Cooling down after a hard (my definition) track workout is one of the most pleasant running experiences. It's the perfect time to bask in the glow of your accomplishments. You know you've made a real effort; your sweat and fatigue tell you that.
And there's nothing like standing around afterward and complaining about a track workout to make you feel like a runner.
This morning I ran 2 miles at a 9 minute mile pace warmup, then banged out 5 of the 800's at 8 minute mile pace. I want to run a 3:45-4 hour Twin Cities Marathon this fall. The workout was awesome. I was able to hold the pace without a problem. My goal is to do 10 of these without dieing, in order to run a sub 4 hour at Twin Cities Marathon this fall.
I am running Grandmas Marathon this Saturday, but with all the miles I have put in recently it won't be a fast (fast for me is 4 hours) marathon. It will be a 4:20 ish I'm sure.
Today: 6 miles speed workout, 4 mile trail run with Topaz
M1: 6 whites, 1 egg, splenda, sf syrup, banana
M2: tuna pouch, carrots
M3: McDonalds grilled ceaser salad, ff dressing
M4: Myoplex Bar
M5: 6 oz salmon, cabbage
Weight is down to 133. Hoowah!!


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Watch Tight body, after many years of gymnastics
Laana didn't know much English, but she knew hand gestures which help out with what little English she did know. We found out her tight body was from many years of gymnastics, so we asked her to show us. She did a spit across Choky and Renato. They just opened her up from there. She was a kinky girl with an innocent smile. She loved cock so much that she wanted both of them inside her. They fucked her good and then hosed her down the top to her twat.


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I know Tricia writes amazing posts that captivate your interest and keep you reading until the very last. However, I am not that gifted in that area, but she needed these posted soooooooo, you get me with my non flowery posts, but HEY, at least there is something to download!!!
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Hong Kong, 2012-08-10 — /travelprnews.com/ — Dragonair today (Thursday, 9 August) announced that it has resumed scheduled operations to and from Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo since the weather is improving and wind speeds are within operational limits.
Dragonair is operating a full schedule of flights to and from Eastern China today. However, minor delays are expected due to the air traffic management at the airports during the recovery process. The airline apologises for any inconvenience this may cause and wishes for passengers' understanding.
The airline advises passengers to check the latest flight information on Dragonair website, www.dragonair.com, before departing to the airport. To ensure passengers receive the latest flight status updates via SMS or e-mail, they are advised to update contact details in Manage My Booking at the airline's website.
Dragonair has waived re-booking and re-routing charges for all tickets issued worldwide (irrespective of fare type) on or before 7 August for travel on Dragonair to, from or via Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo between 7 and 10 August.
The airline thanks passengers for their patience over the past few days.


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November…the time to give thanks! PJ Sharon here, and it's been a crazy busy month–what with editing HEALING WATERS, finishing up my Christmas novella, and taking my sweetpea to baby swim classes. Have I mentioned that I LOVE being a grammy?
The good news is that everything is coming together. HEALING WATERS, book three in the Chronicles of Lily Carmichael trilogy, is now available for pre-order and set for release December 23rd!
For those of you who can't wait for this final installment, I'm offering a Goodreads Giveaway of three signed copies (Giveaway starts tonight at midnight). Enter below between Nov. 13-Dec. 15th, or pre-order it now to make sure you have the ebook before Christmas!
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Speaking of Christmas, I'm putting together this nifty box set. Sami's Christmas Wish List (a brand spankin' new 30k novella) ties together all the characters from Heaven is for Heroes, On Thin Ice, and Pieces of Love in one heartwarming Christmas story. Since all the girls hale from the same fictitious CT lake town, the box set is aptly named The Girls of Thompson Lake. I'll be sure to let you know when it will be on sale!
I guess that's it for now. Back to work. But don't think I won't be enjoying the Thanksgiving pie this month. I'm grateful for countless blessings, as always…family time and pie nearing the top of the list.
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Toronto jazz singer Lara Solnicki could have become the next Beverly Sills, but instead is carving her own path as a jazz artist.
Once a Verdian soprano, Solnicki will showcase songs from her recent CD Whose Shadow? at the Toronto Jazz Festival June 21 in a one-hour concert at Lula Lounge.
An accomplished composer and poet with a four octave range, Solnicki gave up an opportunity to sing Madame Butterfly and a career in opera to develop her creativity in poetry and jazz over the last eight years.
"When I was at the Royal Conservatory of Music, I initially thought opera would be my career. But I ultimately decided I wanted to immerse myself in creative music, improvisation and writing poetry and found my home in contemporary jazz ," said Solnicki.
Thus far, Solnicki has received acclaim for both Whose Shadow? and her debut 2010 CD A Meadow In December, a selection of songs from the Great American Songbook of jazz standards that have been played on jazz radio stations across Canada.
In Whose Shadow?, Solnicki shows her flair for composing and drawing from her classical music training in many songs. In the song La Flute Enchanté, she combines a classical flute styling with her jazz arrangements while singing in French.
She draws inspiration from artists such as Peter Gabriel and Joni Mitchell interpreting what she describes as "art pop songs."
"I love the playfulness of jazz and the poetry of words in these songs."
Along with her artistic talent, Solnicki has a business flair that has made her widely known in jazz circles across Canada.
She has recorded with multiple award jazz instrumentalists and producers despite not being signed on a major record label and having no agent.
Solnicki may have drawn inspiration from her family. Born in Toronto, her parents, filmmaker Victor Solnicki and author Jill Solnicki gave her both the love of the cultural arts as well as the self-discipline to succeed in her career.
Jazz composer/singer Lara Solnicki performs June 20, 7:30 p.m. for the Toronto Jazz Festival at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. in Toronto. Admission is free. For further information, call 416-588-0307 or go to www.lula.ca


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A satellite which has an atmosphere, such as Jupiter's moon Io, and which also is inside a magnetosphere (unlike the Earth's moon), will leave a cloud of particles behind as it orbits the planet. This cloud of particles is called a torus.
Eventually all the particles in the cloud will be turned to ions. The presence of ions causes a number of noticable effects in a magnetosphere:
- slows down the magnetic field as it goes around the moon
- may drive currents
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I saw this when I was very young, so my memories are spotty.
I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was color or black and white (though my memories include color, so it's entirely possible.)
I remember aliens that were large, their bodies made up of thin tentacles (shaped kind of like Cousin It from the Addam's Family) and one eye in the top center of their bodies. They disguised themselves as humans, and only one man on the show could see them. I remember this man laying on a doctor's table or something and looking up, and the guy above him was one of these aliens. I think he flipped out and no one could figure out why because no one else could see the creatures.
There was also a woman who I believe was... psychic or magical or something? In my memory, she looked like a genie (I do not know if this is accurate) with a high brown pony tail and poofy genie pants. She used her abilities to disguise herself as one of the creatures. You could tell the difference because her eye was a different color than the other creatures. (In my memories, hers was blue, the creatures were dark?) They discovered her, I think, and she had to flee and had trouble changing her form back into a human because her powers were weakened.
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Hello! [Please go to second post in this thread first]
First of all, in attachments is SSCCE program which shows main problem.
You should complie it with (after going to folder javatest_SSCCE):
javac -d \javatest *.java
and run it from the same folder with:
java javatest.JavaTest
Instruction: You should now have a window with nice picture. Program is set to scroll always to 50% of width of the image.
When you press zoom in or zoom out it looks ok. But if you use slider and slide it about 100% you will see it is not in the center.
The best is to do this after starting the application.
It is happeining because all parameters of scrollBar are taken from previous state of application window and not from the current one:
[class ScrolledPictureViewer]
/* * Gets vertical scroll position in percentage */ public final int getVerticalScrollPosition() { //This is calculated from the previous state int maxPositionV = this.getVerticalScrollBar().getMaximum () - this.getVerticalScrollBar().getVisibleAmount(); int scrollPos = this.getVerticalScrollBar().getValue(); int percentage = 0; if(maxPositionV > 0) { //percentage = java.lang.Math.round(((float)scrollPos / (float)maxPositionV)*100); percentage = (int)(((float)scrollPos / (float)maxPositionV)*100); } return percentage; }
Here is code which directly makes zoom:
public void setZoom(float zoom) { this.picViewer1.setZoom(zoom); //Resizing picture and setting its new parameters this.picViewer1.refreshImage(); this.setScrollPosition(50,50); }
For me it's ok. First I'm resizing picture, so scrollbars should have correct sizes... but repaint is happening in other thread. How can i synchronize everything.
Target is to set always the same focus on picture during zooming, if I set scroll to 20% it should be always in position of 20% of the picture, but it's not.
I think answer on this simple question will solve most of my problems now.
PS. I don't want to post here all the code not to make mess. Everything should me in attachment.


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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. The first legislative attempts to assure African Americans an equal political and legal status were the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, 1871, and 1875. Those acts bestowed upon African Americans such freedoms as the right to sue and be sued, to give evidence, and to hold real and personal property. The 1866 act was of dubious constitutionality and was reenacted in 1870 only after the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. The fourth Civil Rights Act attempted to guarantee to the African Americans those social rights that were still withheld. It penalized innkeepers, proprietors of public establishments, and owners of public conveyances for discriminating against African Americans in accommodations, but was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883 on the ground that these were not properly civil rights and hence not a field for federal legislation.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1875 there was no more federal legislation in this field until the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, although several states passed their own civil-rights laws. The 20th-century struggle to expand civil rights for African Americans involved the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and others. The civil-rights movement, led especially by Martin Luther King, Jr., in the late 1950s and 60s, and the executive leadership provided by President Lyndon B. Johnson, encouraged the passage of the most comprehensive civil-rights legislation to date, the Civil Rights Act of 1964; it prohibited discrimination for reason of color, race, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation covered by interstate commerce, i.e., restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters. Besides dealing with the desegregation of public schools, the act, in Title VII, forbade discrimination in employment. Title VII also prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex.
In 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed, which placed federal observers at polls to ensure equal voting rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 dealt with housing and real estate discrimination. In addition to congressional action on civil rights, there was action by other branches of the government. The most notable of these were the Supreme Court decisions in 1954 and 1955 declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional and the court's rulings in 1955 banning segregation in publicly financed parks, playgrounds, and golf courses (see Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.).
In the 1960s women began to organize around the issue of their civil rights (see feminism). The federal Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, and by the early 1970s over 40 states had passed equal pay laws. In 1972 the Senate passed an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) intended to prohibit all discrimination based on sex, but after failing to win ratification in a sufficient number of states, the ERA was abandoned. Since the 1970s a number of gay-rights groups have worked, mainly on the local and state levels, for legislation that prevents discrimination in housing and employment (see gay-rights movement). In a further extension of civil-rights protection, the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) barred discrimination against disabled persons in employment and provided for improved access to public facilities.
See W. E. Nelson, The Fourteenth Amendment (1988); R. Berger, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (1989); L. W. Levy, Civil Rights (1989); T. Branch, Pillar of Fire (1997); F. M. Wirt, We Ain't What We Was (1997); A. Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890–2000 (2001); D. McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (2001); C. Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement (2001); C. Carter et al., ed., Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1973 (2 vol., 2003); J. Rosenberg and Z. Karabell, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes (2003); J. Carrier, Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement (2004); N. Kotz, Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America (2005); T. Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68 (2006); L. F. Litwack, How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow (2009); B. Ackerman, We the People, Vol. 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (2014); T. S. Purdum, An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2014); C. Risen, The Bill of the Century (2014).


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[5 houses by 5 practices] Hayhurst and Co: Hairy House, Hammersmith, London
In early 2010 we were commissioned to extend an oddly shaped, end-of-terrace Victorian house in Hammersmith, west London. Our clients, Lucy Carmichael (a design advisor at CABE) and her husband Gareth Langdon (a furniture maker), were keen to avoid the 'glass-box' or 'white render' kitchen-extension clichés, but did want to explore an approach that reflected the specific, almost awkward geometry of the site.
Located on the outside of a bend in the road, the house's plot widens from a 1.5m width at the back of pavement to almost 12m at its widest point. With the house's party wall and flank wall following the boundary lines of the plot, the plan fans out from a 6m-wide front elevation to a 9m-wide rear elevation. In doing this, it creates a 'mutant' form of a traditional Victorian plan, with a small trapezoid-shaped room between the rear reception and the stair compartment.
The size of this oddly shaped room, still used as a study, was sacrificed to allow the lowest leg of the split-level staircase to widen in alignment with the flank wall of the house. This kink in the circulation re-orientates the route through the house towards the centre of the garden and allows a slow and staggered transition from the Victorian house into its new extension.
The design of the extension-effectively a single room - evolved from the development of a series of spatial and material moves, which both complement and challenge the order of the existing Victorian house within the specific context of the site's geometry.
The internal ground level was lowered by 500mm to provide a 'Victorian' proportion to the room and enough height to modulate the ceiling profile to allow it to tilt up to the south-west and the afternoon sun.
The focus of the space to the side rather than to the rear establishes the different sectional relationships between inside and out: the side elevation has the flush inside-out relationship extending to a sunken terrace while the rear elevation is made up of a solid element carved to form an over-sized, trapezoidal-shaped picture window, with the sill sitting flush with the grass in order to visually extend the re-established ground condition from inside to out.
Contrary to the constructional logic of the existing house, the use of slate and timber are both conceived as 'thick' in function but 'thin' in material application. The slate on the soffits and reveals gives the appearance of a thick material whereas the coursing clearly conveys it is cladding. Equally, the timber is conceived as a thick ribbon carved to form steps, shelves and seats; however, as a surface, it is clearly clad in timber boards.
Working in collaboration with enlightened, design-literate clients added to the design process and allowed us a rare opportunity to pursue an uncompromised design approach to one of the most common, but also much-maligned, types of architectural work - the kitchen extension.
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