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Peaks with Lowest Ascent Quality Ratings

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RankPeakQuality Elev-M Location Prom-M Range (Level 3)Ascent Date
1.Denver High Point11731USA-CO0Southern Rocky Mountains
1.Black Mountain Overlook11073USA-NV Great Basin Ranges
1.Pickles Butte1940USA-ID128Idaho-Bitterroot Rocky Mountains
1.Smith Benchmark1323USA-NJ30Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Mine Mountain1262USA-NJ91Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Mount Pisgah1216USA-MA47Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Toronto High Point1212Canada-ON2Midwest-Great Lakes Area
1.Beacon Pole Hill1168USA-RI91Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Baltimore High Point1149USA-MD0Blue Ridge Mountains
1.Baldpate Mountain1146USA-NJ61Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.High Rock1129USA-MA65Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Bellevue Hill199USA-MA51Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Sand Hills191USA-NJ18Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.Hudson County High Point179USA-NJ15Northern U.S. Appalachians
1.North Shore Towers Country Club179USA-NY27Northern U.S. Appalachians
16.Ebright Azimuth1.02135USA-DE10Northern U.S. Appalachians
17.Dougs Peak1.07141USA-NY Appalachian Plateaus
18.Hawkeye Point1.07509USA-IA12Great Plains
19.Adams County High Point1.091727USA-CO5Great Plains
19.Hoosier Hill1.09383USA-IN91Midwest-Great Lakes Area
21.Vihorlat1.11076Slovakia706Carpathian Mountains
21.Blueberry Hill1.1110USA-NY Appalachian Plateaus
23.Smoky Hill Ridge1.111893USA-CO3Great Plains
24.Rainbow Point1.132778USA-UT232Colorado Plateau
25.Campbell Hill1.13472USA-OH195Midwest-Great Lakes Area

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p241 Chapter XXVII

School System. — A very liberal provision is made for the permanent support of common and academic institutions in this State. By an act of Congress, 500,000 acres of land have been set apart for the promotion of the cause of education. Some of these lands have been sold, and the proceeds safely invested for the benefit of schools. Much, however, remains still in the market, and will be disposed of as the wants and interests of these nurseries of knowledge demand.

There is to‑day about one million of dollars in the hands of the School Fund Commissioners, within the State, which is loaned at ten per cent, yielding an income of nearly one hundred thousand dollars. This amount, distributed among the schools of the Commonwealth, places them upon a footing not surpassed by any new State in the north-west.

State University of Iowa

This institution opened in some of its departments recently. It has been permanently located at Iowa City, the site of the Capitol, and is to have the use of the public buildings, together with ten acres of land, on which the same are situated. Two townships of land, granted by act of Congress, July 20th, 1840, for the support of a university, p242have been donated by the State to this institution, and constitute a permanent and munificent fund, upon whose interest to lean for support.

Branches of the State University

The Medical Department of the State University, is the College of Physicians and Surgeons, located at Keokuk, in Lee County. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction says: "The best interests of the State University demand that the law making the College of Physicians and Surgeons the medical department of the State University of Iowa, should be repealed, and that the University Fund be concentrated upon one object, and the building up of one institution, and not have it squandered by dividing it on different schools in various parts of the State, as by such means we will not be able to sustain a respectable institution in the State. One institution of learning, well sustained, is of more advantage to the people at large, than twenty only in name, as many of our colleges are in this State. One university, with an able corps of professors, and properly managed, will be sufficient for the accommodation of all the students who will attend a State University, and besides that, will be a credit to the State."

Branch at Fairfield. — One branch of the State University is established at Fairfield, Jefferson County, and is put upon the same footing with respect to funds and other details, as the present Seminary.

Branch at Dubuque. — Another branch of the State University is to be established at Dubuque. The trustees have p243been appointed, the site selected, and most of the measures necessary to the enterprise taken.

Normal Schools. — The State is divided into three districts, in each of which there was to be established a Normal School, for the education of teachers for our common schools. The law establishing these schools, located them at Oskaloosa, Mount Pleasant, and Andrew.

District Schools. — Of these, Jas. D. Eads, Esq., late State Superintendent, says:

"In many of the older counties that I have travelled through, the citizens have gone to work with a liberal and praiseworthy spirit, in erecting large and commodious buildings for educational purposes. The city of Keokuk takes the lead in having the finest building in the State, in the erection of which the citizens have expended nearly ten thousand dollars; and with a liberal spirit, they pay the Superintendent of the school eight hundred dollars per annum.

"Fort Madison, Burlington, Muscatine, Davenport, Lyons, Anamosa, Colesburgh, Marion, Rochester, Tipton, Denmark, Primrose, West Point, Centreville, Oskaloosa, Cedar Falls, and many other towns, have erected buildings which will stand as lasting monuments of the liberality of those engaged in so glorious an enterprise, and an honour to our young State.

"Iowa, young as she is, already commands a prominent position, not only in reference to the magnitude of her School Fund, but in the progress she has made in the organization of her districts, and the general establishment of free schools.

p244 "According to the returns of the County Commissioners, there are twenty-three hundred and fifty-five organized school districts in Iowa, and over one hundred and eleven thousand children between the ages of five and twenty-one years. When we consider, in connection with these facts, that our population is increasing with a rapidity almost unparalleled in the history of any country, and that in a very few years we shall equal in numbers the most populous of the Eastern States, it becomes apparent that we cannot be too active and vigilant in all that pertains to the education of the youth of our State, who are so soon to control the destiny of a great Commonwealth.

"While we congratulate ourselves upon the possession of so magnificent a school fund, as has been secured to us by the action of the General Government, and our State Legislature, we must not forget that much remains to be done on the part of the people themselves, before we shall fully enjoy the advantages of a universal system of free schools, of a character commensurate with the object of their organization, viz.: to give to every son and daughter of Iowa a thorough knowledge of all the essential elements of a good practical education.

"I have had the pleasure, during the past season, of visiting a large number of union or graded schools, in the larger towns of the State, and have been by highly gratified in witnessing the many advantages they possess, when properly conducted, over those schools which maintain separate organizations.

"As appears from the returns of the County Commissioners, p245the average sum paid to the district school teacher is less than twenty dollars to the male, and less than ten dollars per month to female teachers."

In all the thickly settled counties, common schools are convenient, and should the tide of immigration continue to flow as it has done, in five years not one county in ten will be destitute of the facilities for a sound education. The number and condition of public schools are given more particularly in the sketches of the counties, in another portion of this work.a

Blind Asylum. — An institution for the instruction of the blind was organized and put into operation in Iowa City, in the spring of 1853. It has been impossible, thus far, to procure suitable buildings for the accommodation of those wishing to attend, and an appropriation of $6000 has been made for the erection of appropriate buildings. The number of pupils at present in attendance is twenty-three.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum. — An institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, has recently been opened in Iowa City, which bids fair to do great service, even the present year, in extending to this unfortunate class, the light and knowledge which, but for education, they must be deprived of.

Academies and Colleges. — This State is well supplied with academies and colleges, some of which will compare favorably with those in the Atlantic States, while  all reflect credit upon the patriotism and enterprise of the Hawkeye State. We give herein a sketch of the condition of those p246of the principal schools of this class, concerning which we have been able to gain satisfactory data:—

The Burlington University

This is a literary institution of the Baptist denomination, located at Burlington, in April, 1852. The college edifice was erected in 1853‑4, and dedicated on the 4th of July, 1854. This building is 44 by 65 feet, three stories high, and its style of architecture and economic arrangement reflect great credit upon its founders and architects. The first annual catalogue of the institution was issued on the first of January, 1855, which reports 167 pupils, and a faculty of eight different teachers, with Geo. W. Gunnison, A. M., as principal. The school is now in a flourishing condition. The institution possesses available property to the amount of $20,000, and is nearly free from debt, besides $5000 secured and drawing interest, as the commencement towards a fund for enlarging their buildings. The plan of the institution provides for preparatory and collegiate departments, with courses of study for gentlemen and ladies. The gentlemen's course embraces 7 years — 3 preparatory, and 4 collegiate; the ladies' 5 years — 1 primary, and 4 advanced. Those desiring further information of the institution, may address the Principal, at Burlington, or Rev. Jas. A. Nash, President of the Board of Trustees, at Ft. Des Moines.

Davenport Female University

Female Eclectic Institute. — This institution, still in the first year of its history, is the only female seminary in the United States which, in the character and extent p247of its instruction, is founded upon the broad basis of a university.

By the scheme of its organization, provision is made for

1st, Twelve professorships in the sciences and letters, viz.: one each in Mathematical Sciences, Experimental Sciences, Natural Sciences, Ancient Languages, Modern Languages, English Language and Literature, Historical and Political Sciences, Logical and Aesthetical Sciences, Moral and Mental Sciences, Vocal and Instrumental Music, Drawing and Painting, Chirography and Book-Keeping.

2d. Two professorships upon the professions of the sex, viz.: one upon the Principles of Study in general and in particular; one upon the Principles of Teaching in general and in particular.

3d. One professorship upon Conversation and the Proprieties.

4th. One professorship upon the Trades taught in the University.

5th. One professorship upon Domestic Economy and Domestic Duties.

By the scheme of its organization provision is also made for granting eighteen species of diploma.

We cannot better exhibit the leading features of the Davenport Female University, than by an extract from a letter addressed by the talented and accomplished principal, Mrs. Caroline P. Lindsley, A. M., to the editor of the "Rock Islander." In her communication she states that the University "is designed to supply not only the great wants in the female educational systems of the times, but the wants p248of divers classes of our countrywomen, the wealthy as well as the indigent, genius as well as mediocrity. To this end it will furnish an extensive and thorough training:

"1st. For those who aim chiefly at distinction in the field of science and letters;

"2d. For those who aim chiefly at distinction in the professions permitted to woman;

"3d. For those who aim chiefly at distinction in the trades taught in the institution;

"4th. For those who aim chiefly at superior knowledge of the duties of domestic life;

"5th. For those who aim at commendable eminence in each of these general divisions of female effort and enterprise."

Three departments of the University are already opened, and if demanded by the proficiency of applicants, eight will admit pupils by the first Wednesday of September next, the commencement of the collegiate year.

The character and extent of the instructions, unapproached as they are by any female institute in the country, do not constitute, however, the only evidence of superiority. The University, while it takes the title of a great school of industry and learning, does not overlook the interests of those who have claims upon its beneficence. Accordingly it opens its halls, with scarcely the shadow of tribute, to those who seek its groves, to lessen the expenses of instruction by the pursuit of some trade, or to enjoy its advantages at reduced consideration. Hence —

1. Employment at the trades taught in the University is p249invariably given at living rates to young ladies who may desire to support themselves, in part at least, while prosecuting their studies.

2. The daughters of the clergy, without regard to faith, are entitled to tuition at half the established prices, and, upon the opening of the full term, will receive their tuition free, in every branch except painting and instrumental music, provided they board with the Principal.

Iowa Female Collegiate Institute, at Iowa City,
under the auspices of the I. O. of O. F.

"Articles of incorporation were adopted and recorded on the 29th of July, 1853, which place the institution under the particular auspices of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Iowa, and secures in the instruction and government of the school the same broad and liberal basis, and the same freedom from every species of sectarianism, which distinguishes that Order.

"It also offers to all Lodges and Encampments, contributing one hundred dollars to the funds of the institution, a perpetual scholarship; and to each individual contributor of the same amount, a scholarship for twenty years, or during his natural life. By this arrangement we hope to be able, at some future day, to offer free instruction to all poor orphan daughters of Order in the State. This, indeed, is a primary object had in view by the Board in the establishment of their institution, and will not be lost sight of in their future plans and labor for the permanent organization of their school.

p250 "During the past year the attention of the Board has been directed chiefly towards the collection of funds, and to the preparations for the erection of a suitable College edifice for the use of the institution.

"In this effort, very gratifying success has rewarded their labor. Notwithstanding the protracted illness of their agent has deprived the Board of his services for nearly one-half of the past year, yet they are happy to report the collection of about $8000 in cash, notes, valid subscriptions, and other property, as the result of their efforts.

"The City Council at Iowa City, at their regular meeting in September, 1853, donated to the Board an eligible site for their College edifice; and the Grand Lodge of the I. O. of O. F. of the State of Iowa laid the corner-stone of the College, October 27th, 1853, with the usual ceremonies of the Order."

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Female College, under the auspices of the I. O. O. F. of Iowa.

The edifice will be completed and ready for occupation by the first of July, 1855.

For further particulars, address F. H. Lee, Secretary, Iowa City.

See particulars of "Iowa Conference Seminary," of Mt. Vernon, and of the "Iowa Wesleyan University," "Mt. Pleasant High School, and Female Academy," in the sketches of Linn and Henry Counties.

Iowa College

This College is located in the city of Davenport, and occupies grounds of great natural beauty, overlooking a wide p251expanse of prairie on the north, and commanding on the south a fine view of the Mississippi River, and the adjacent cities.

It was founded in 1848, and is sharing in the general prosperity attending every enterprise in this attractive State.

The institution, under the care of well-qualified instructors, is furnished with a chemical and philosophical apparatus, and has a library of some 2000 volumes. With the new building soon to be erected, and a commodious boarding-house already in use, the College will be prepared to offer facilities for a thorough education, both in the preparatory and college departments.

"Ladies' College"

The above is the name of an institution soon be opened in the city of Davenport (we write under date of April 1st), under the direction of T. H. Codding, Esq., who is also its proprietor. The building, when completed, at a cost of $20,000, will present a front of 120 feet, and four stories in height, with a depth of 80 feet. The main building will be ready for reception of scholars on the 1st of May. Upon the selection of the site for the "Ladies' College," too much praise can scarcely be bestowed. Standing upon a lofty bluff, it commands a sweep of landscape scarce excelled throughout the region of the Upper Mississippi, while the broad summit of the hill, whose centre it decks, affords ample room for extensive promenades, and the gentle p252slopes which decline towards the lowlands, render it easy of access to pedestrians and carriages.

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Ladies' College, Davenport.

The aim of the "Ladies' College" is to prepare young ladies for the active and practical duties of life, which aim it is proposed to effect by a judicious combination of mental, moral, and physical training. Its proprietor says:

"The course of instruction will be thorough and complete, and at the same time very discriminating and select, avoiding everything of an entirely useless character, and substituting those branches whose tendency is to give vigor and elasticity to the youthful mind.

"The manner of teaching will be the most approved and improved known in our country or in Europe, giving the pupil the full understanding of her subject, while it is presented by the teacher in a style entirely new and fascinating."

To insure to pupils a thorough English and classical education, and familiarity with the languages, a large corps of experienced and accomplished teachers have been engaged as assistants to Mr. T. H. Codding and Mrs. O. Codding, the Principals and Superintendents of the Institute.

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On Pensions and Patriotism?

Campbell Clark of the Globe and Mail reports, Veterans’ complaints a tricky issue for Harper:
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends Remembrance Day ceremonies Tuesday, he will have cut short his attendance at an international summit in China to pay tribute. Yet for an increasingly vocal set of this nation’s veterans, he is guilty of paying too little attention to those who served.

His government has lionized Canadian military symbols, and sent equipment to troops in Afghanistan. Many Conservative MPs care; many see veterans as part of their natural constituency. So why did Mr. Harper’s government become a target for veterans? How did its image instead become Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino lecturing a medal-wearing vet not to point his finger, or dodging a veteran’s wife?

The answer depends on whom you ask – and that’s perhaps how things went wrong.

Many veterans say they don’t have big complaints. But a minority, notably among those with serious injuries – often newer veterans clashing with the Veterans Affairs bureaucracy – feel mistreated. And there’s a new crop of vocal advocates, too, who often think the big traditional groups like the Royal Canadian Legion, are not speaking out for seriously injured vets. The new breed are far more blunt.

Mike Blais, of Canadian Veterans Advocacy, regularly blasts the government on TV. Injured Afghan vets formed Equitas to sue the government for “arbitrary, substandard, and inadequate” benefits. Mr. Fantino meets many of them, but Don Leonardo, who founded Veterans Canada, doesn’t see much point any more. “It’s nice to talk. But show me some action,” Mr. Leonardo said.

Mr. Fantino’s office didn’t act on requests to interview the minister or a government spokesman on the issue. But inside the government, officials suggest the complaints are exaggerated, and promoted by a small group of activists. Budgets have gone up, they note, and in fact, during Mr. Harper’s tenure, spending on Veterans Affairs has increased at about the same rate as overall government spending. But there’s little doubt it has become a tricky issue.

This year’s Remembrance Day has become a particularly top-of-mind memorial after the Ottawa shootings and the death of Corporal Nathan Cirillo as he guarded the National War Memorial. This government wants it that way, and wants to be associated with the country’s military community.

Now, Mr. Harper’s government has appointed a Mr. Fix-It in the form of the country’s former Chief of Defence Staff, retired General Walter Natynczyk. He has stature in Ottawa, credibility with the military community and was part of Afghanistan-war-era efforts to expand support programs for military families.

That could be critical, because the experience of injured Afghanistan vets has certainly fuelled current criticism.

As troops in 2008 or 2009, many felt support from the public. But those who are injured go from being “members” of the Forces to “clients” of Veterans Affairs. Forces’ members go through a medical board when they’re released because of an injury, then a new one when they apply to Veterans Affairs, Mr. Leonardo said.

The case workers at Veterans Affairs Canada care, he said. “It’s not the front line. They’re the most caring people in the world. The problem is the policies, the bureaucracy at the top, the funding.”

Much of the anger grew from the New Veterans Charter, put forward by Paul Martin’s Liberals and tweaked by Mr. Harper’s Conservatives. It was supposed to be a new deal, but sparked complaints, particularly about lump-sum settlements injured vets received instead of pensions.

Part of the problem for the government is that different veterans advocates propose different prescriptions for change to a complex system. But many say they’re frustrated that oft-repeated consensus recommendations – such as increasing the earning-loss benefits, and paying reservists the same level of injury benefits as regular-force soldiers – have languished.

The Commons veterans affairs committee repeated those again this year, but the government’s response doesn’t say what it will do about them or when. The government did promise to phase in several changes, such as ensuring Forces’ members have a Veterans Affairs case manager before they are released, but couched many of their promises to act in thick bafflegab.

Pat Stogran, the retired colonel who served as the first Veterans Ombudsman from 2007 to 2010, said the problem, in his view, stems from the fact that senior bureaucrats run Veterans Affairs like an insurance company, “just trying to write these people off as an industrial accident,” rather than an agency to help vets, he said.

And the politicians don’t have a lot of drive to delve through the bureaucracy. Veterans Affairs ministers don’t have much power, he said. They usually don’t argue with their bureaucrats’ assessment, they are concerned mainly with party politics. “They’re really non-players in this. They’re fighting the opposition,” he said.

It also seems possible that the fact that complaints come from a minority of veterans with problem cases, the government accepts the idea that, for the most part, things are okay.

Mr. Stogran said it’s not all vets who feel unfairly treated. Most leave to go on with their lives. The hard cases, and complaints, come among the disadvantaged after being put in harm’s way. “No, it’s not the majority. It’s the ones who are injured, or have a close affinity to them.”
True, not all vets feel unfairly treated, but those that do are right to be hopping mad. Peter Rusland of Cowichan News reports, War vets still fighting for pensions, care, counselling:
Canada's proud military service remains largely based on patriotism, not pensions.

Cowichan's veterans are among those fighting for long-term remuneration and care, especially for the wounded.

Their frustration is reflected in a chain email circulating among folks such as retired Canadian Navy veteran Winston Teague, of the Malahat Legion.

That email basically demands pensions, medical care and other benefits for Canadian, British, Australian and American vets, of all ages and theatres, who risked their lives in battle.

The trick is finding fair levels of pension compensation and care through Veterans Affairs Canada.

Reaching that balance is a vitally important mission to Teague, and Cowichan's NDP MP Jean Crowder.

Vets of the Second World War, Korea, Cyprus, Egypt, Afghanistan, and other Canadian campaigns, basically get medical care, plus federal Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan cheques at age 65.

Vets such as Teague, 73, also receive a military pension based on years served.

But long-term Veterans Affairs Canada pensions are slim to nothing, unless vets served 10 years or more, he explained.

"I don't get anything from VA because my (military) pension (income) is too high — but I'm insulted about (VA provisions) for guys who fought in World War Two, Korea, and Afghanistan.

"I did 33 years in the Navy, so I get 66% of my military pension.

"The maximum you can get in a military pension is 70% of what you earned in the service during your last (or best) six years."

But many Canadians under fire served far less time than Teague. And there's the rub.

Teague is appalled how WW2 vets got medical coverage and a handshake; Korea vets got small VA pensions; Cyprus and Egypt vets got pensions based on half of their best six years pay, upon retirement, under a 25-year military program.

Current Middle East vets may get that same half-pension, but those wounded or released may not have served long enough to get anything from VA.

Instead, they receive lump sums based on pay contributions made overseas. The system outrages Teague.

"Without 10 years of service, it's the responsibility of the military to develop a plan for these Afghanistan and Iraq vets. Give them a pension based on at least half the income from the years they served," he suggested.

Crowder explained it's not that easy. The compensation package must be decided in conjunction with vets and their organizations, she suggested.

"You have different (military) classes, and pay structures so it's not a straightforward matter — but there needs to be some way of ensuring their service is respected," she told the News Leader Pictorial from Ottawa.

Pensions aside, Teague wants our war vets — many with PTSD and lost limbs — debriefed and retrained, through counselling, for civilian life, if possible.

He figured there are "at least a couple of hundred thousand Canadian vets in total."

"From discussions with veterans about the new and old military, there's a huge disagreement about (pensions, care, counselling) with (prime minster) Harper and his (Conservative) party — particularly his VA minister (Julian Fantino)," Teague fumed.

"He's an embarrassment to the country, and to our military."

Crowder said the feds must create a fair compensation plan.

"That hasn't happened. Every government sets priorities as to where their spending goes, and this isn't a (Tory) priority. "Veterans are entitled to other benefits, and our experience is they have to fight tooth and nail, and endless delays, to get hearing aids, wheelchairs and other benefits — every roadblock imaginable is put up."

Hopping through bureaucratic hoops isn't often possible as VA offices close, explained Teague.

"If someone already has medical issues, they're not well positioned to take on the government, and some vets don't go to the Legion," noted Crowder.

"If you ask people to serve their country, you need to be prepared to look after them when they come home."

Teague agreed.

"Pay attention to your veterans, listen to your Legions, and to veterans' advocacy groups," he urged Harper's feds.

"People we have left from World War Two reduces every week. An additional $500 a month would just be a new light in their lives.

"Ottawa has put us in total disregard; we're down around the dog level."
Quite frankly, I don't understand any policy that penalizes veterans that sustained injuries during their service. It's just plain stupid and the federal government should fix this mistake once and for all.

In the United States, Michael Virtanen of the Associated Press reports, Cuomo vetoes bill for veterans' pension credits:
Heading into Veterans Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation that would have authorized state and municipal pension credits for peacetime military service.

The legislation authored by Sen. William Larkin, a Hudson Valley Republican and combat veteran of World War II, would amend current law that provides up to three years' credit toward public employee pensions for military service during hostilities. Veterans would have to pay 3 percent of their compensation during those military years to the retirement system.

In his veto message Friday, Cuomo said it's an unfunded mandate on local governments that would incur $57 million in near-term obligations while ignoring recently enacted pension reforms. The measure would apply to every past member of the armed forces who is a member of any public employees' retirement system.

"If enacted, this bill would run roughshod over systemic reforms carefully negotiated with the Legislature to avoid saddling local property taxpayers with additional, unmanageable burdens," Cuomo wrote. He noted that the state associations of counties and mayors and the New York City mayor's office all voiced opposition.

A memo from Mayor Bill de Blasio said it would cost the city about $18 million a year and that a police officer with 17 years of service could qualify for 20-year retirement.

The Assembly passed the bill 133-1 on the last day of the legislative session in June.

Assembly sponsors said the U.S. now depends on a volunteer military, and to encourage citizens to join, the state needs to recognize all veterans by giving them pension access.

"Our veterans deserve this legislation," Larkin said in a statement when the legislation was sent to Cuomo two weeks ago. "It fixes a loophole that has excluded countless servicemen and women who served honorably. This has been especially difficult for women veterans who have not had the opportunity to serve in combat positions and have been excluded from many of the previous service credit bills."

Larkin said Monday he was extremely disappointed and would meet with staff to determine the best way to go forward. He questioned the administration's $57 million estimate, saying the cost would be far less.

Meanwhile, Cuomo signed legislation to increase the property tax exemption for veterans from $5,000 to $7,500 of assessed value and to establish a homeless veterans assistance fund authorizing gifts through a state income tax check-off. Another signed bill provides retirement credits to New York City workers called to active military duty between Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan. 1, 2006. A similar measure already applies to state workers.
I understand why Governor Cuomo vetoed this bill but agree with Larkin, the right thing to do would have been to fix the loophole and include servicemen and women who served honorably.

My grandfather, after whom I was named, left Crete at the age of 16 to go live in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he had relatives. He fought for the United States Army in World War I and received a pension for his service. My dad showed me his caps which he proudly kept. The bottom green one was his combat cap and the other blue one was his veterans cap from his veterans office in Argo, Illinois where he lived a few years after the war before returning to Crete where he married my grandmother and lived the rest of his life (click on image):

My dad also shared a story with me. When my grandfather and his fellow soldiers arrived in Europe to fight, they were all starving. As they sat there waiting for food, a German sniper shot his regiment leader right in the forehead. Terrified, they quickly scrambled and started fighting, forgetting all about their hunger.

I can share something else with you. My grandmother in Crete received my grandfather's pension benefits well after he died. She was always very grateful for that pension and spoke very highly of the U.S. Army and how well it treated its vets.

Unfortunately, times have changed. Below, Scott Pelley of CBS 60 Minutes profiles Robert McDonald, the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs. McDonald told Pelley about his personal mission to reorganize the troubled agency for his fellow vets and how they need many physicians, especially psychiatrists.

Also, Steve Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive officer at Blackstone, talks about Blackstone’s commitment to hiring 50,000 veterans by 2018 and the government’s push to get the business community more involved in the employment of veterans. He speaks with Stephanie Ruhle on “Market Makers.”

That's a great interview and you should listen carefully to Schwarzman's remarks because he understands the plight of veterans and the importance of diversity in the workplace.

Finally, if you haven't done so, please take the time to donate to the Stand on Guard Fund organized for the families of Nathan Cirillo and Patrice Vincent, the two Canadian servicemen who were murdered recently. Also, take the time to listen to Patrice Vincent's sister mourn the loss of a hero. We should all heed her message.

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Well into the 1970s LPs remained so expensive to acquire in Japan that the long-standing tradition of record listening clubs still existed. Certainly, such fraternities stretched back to at least immediately post-WWII, and most likely before. The central premise of these outfits was that ONE member would most likely be designated to spring for an album that other members of the club were interested in hearing but could not necessarily afford to buy, and then at a pre-determined time, all others would gather in a bar of coffee shop to listen to the recording in question, followed by a discussion afterward. Perhaps a bit of sake quaffing was also part of the equation.

Alhtough, CDs are still a bit pricey in Japan (just look at how much Japanese imports still cost on they are now cheap enough to have eliminated the main raison d'etre for such clubs. But old habits die harder in Japan than perhaps anywhere else in the world (!); thus, there still remain a healthy number of such fraternities in that country.

One that I am familiar with in particular is the Tokyo Vocal Jazz Appreciation Society, founded more than a quarter-century ago by Japanese jazz critic, Keizo Takada, who also happens to be a good friend. I have even attended one of their meetings and trust that will qualify me as an honorary member. I even hope that when I go to Tokyo again in December I might have the chance to present a program of my own, entitled "Female One-Album Wonders." (With cue cards in romanized Japanese!)

I would never dream of a program any less recherche than that. This is real serious stuff, as should be obvious by the program of their latest (6/25/05) gathering just sent to me by Takada san. The presentation, by Mister Noboru Uehara, was entitled "Minor Vocal Panorama: Smart and Sexy Male Singers and Vocal Ensembles." A brief speech is made before each record is spun, and then members listen in respectful silence in the darkened Beatnik-y cellar that reminds me a bit of the one in which Audrey Hepburn sang in Funny Face.

All of these "Smart and Sexy" sides are long out-of-print EXCEPT for the Troup and Derise, which come and go, and the very worthy Mal Fitch album, which I am proud to say that I've had a hand in bringing back into print come August 29th on SSJ Records. (I even had the chance to talk with Fitch for quite a while on the phone recently: "I'm eighty years old, but I'm not planning to die anytime soon.")

I recently release-produced a Tommy Wolf CD songbook in Japan. And Charlie Cochran is a friend (that is his very first ultra rare LP pictured here) of mine. He has a brand new CD available at cdbaby. But I must confess total ignorance of five of the singers or groups, i.e. Kime, Johnson, Hi-Fi's, Dick Lane, and Eddie Hazell (though I have been able to google varying degrees of info about them since receipt of the TVJAS program). And in the case of Johnny Holiday, a particular favorite of mine, I was completely unaware of the existence of the album from which his two tracks were drawn.

It is especially obvious from "Minor Vocal Panorama" that these Japanese vocal jazz fans, in the immortal words of Ricky Nelson, "don't mess around, boy."

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MAYBE IT WAS THE HEAVY BREATHING DEMANDED BY THE script. Or the sultry Charleston, S.C., and St. Francisville, La., locations that stood in for the antebellum South. Or the women’s bosom-enhancing bodices and the men’s sleekly tailored uniforms. Something was in the air during the 1985 filming of North and South, ABC’s Civil War miniseries based on John Jakes’s 1982 best-seller. How else to explain the real-life romances—and eventual marriages—of three couples who met while working on the show? “The period garb helped,” admits actor Jonathan Frakes, who played Yankee wimp Stanley Hazard. Frakes’s wife, Genie Francis (cast as Stanley’s sister-in-law, Brett Main Hazard), concurs: “The guys looked so dashing, and the women looked so gorgeous. We all looked good!”

So good, apparently, that the TV saga (which spawned a 1986 sequel and concludes next week with the three-night, six-hour John Jakes’ Heaven and Hell: North and South, Part III, premiering Feb. 27 on ABC) not only became the crucible for Frakes and Francis’s offscreen ardor but it also enabled then-assistant cameraman (and now director of photography) Don Fauntleroy to zoom in on his future male, actress Lesley-Anne Down (who plays invincible Madeline Main). And it swept James Read (Stanley Hazard’s Union general brother George) and Wendy Kilbourne (George’s wife, Constance) into each other’s arms—literally. Says Down, who like the other actors has been onboard for all three installments: “It was a very romantic set for a lot of people.”

Back in ’85, Read first locked eyes with Kilbourne at a dance-scene rehearsal. After that, he and Kilbourne, now 29, “did a mating dance of our own for about a month,” says Read, 40. “She gave me a gaze that said, ‘I’m here and you’re not leaving.’ ” He didn’t. The couple moved in together in 1987 and married the following year.

That come-hither stare also worked for Francis, 31, who had first met Frakes, 41, when both costarred on the short-lived NBC series Bare Essence in 1983. There, she says, “he treated me like one of the guys—which I loved.” But on the North and South set, she developed “a big crush” on him, she says, and flirted, southern belle-style, with “meaningful looks, giggling and fanning.” She was blushing, however, the night Frakes and Read took her and Kilbourne to a Bourbon Street strip joint to celebrate Genie’s 23rd birthday. “It was so embarrassing, I was dying,’ ” she says. “But it was funny.” Just a few weeks later, though, when Frakes proposed a weekend getaway, she balked. “I was scared,” says Francis, whose lack of an offscreen love life during her original stint as teenage Laura on General Hospital (to which she returned, nine years later, last fall) “made me a little more innocent than a lot of women at 23.” She suggested she and Frakes have a low-key, old-fashioned date. “We went to a McDonald’s and sat in a church parking lot and talked,” recalls Francis. “Our wild lives!” quips Frakes, who moved in with her a year after North and South wrapped and popped the question—on his knees—in 1987.

The courtship of Down and Fauntleroy blazed a bit more intensely. Their first day on the set, he says, “we were very chatty, and it just grew from there.” Three months later, says Down, 39, “we had a sexual encounter.” (“A rampant affair!” exclaims Fauntleroy, 40.) The couple still mark their May Day tryst—not their wedding the following year—as their anniversary.

There was a reason they waited so long to lie the knot. Both were married at the time—Down unhappily, she says, to director William Friedkin; Fauntleroy to Susan Ducat, a housewife. After Down divulged her affair, Friedkin filed for divorce and demanded full custody of their son, Jack, then 2. She and Fauntleroy suspended their careers to devote the next two years to the legal battle. “Having to fight for your child is worse than having to fight for your own life,” says Down, who (after finally reaching an amicable settlement in 1987) shares custody of Jack evenly with Friedkin. (Fauntleroy’s daughters from his first marriage, Season, 14, and Juliana, 12, spend weekends at the three-bedroom cottage that he and Down rent in Malibu.) Their wrenching experience with Jack “proved our mettle,” says Down, “as partners and as parents.”

Read and Kilbourne recently faced an even more harrowing ordeal: the loss of their unborn child in the final month of Wendy’s pregnancy last month. “We’re devastated, but we’re making a slow and steady recovery,” says Read, who shares a four-bedroom house in the San Fernando Valley with Kilbourne and their son Jackson, 3.

“I can’t imagine a cruder thing to endure,” says Francis. She and Frakes are themselves expecting a child—their first—in August. “Jonathan’s going to be a great dad,” Francis predicts. “One night I found him going through all these books to see what I should be eating.”

Meanwhile, the three North and South couples still keep in touch. Read considers Frakes a close friend, and the two like practical jokes. After Frakes (now in his final season as Cmdr. William Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation) remarked how much he was looking forward to working outside of Trek, he arrived in his trailer on Heaven and Hell’s Old West set to discover a Trek uniform in his closet. “It came with a pair of cowboy boots and a hat,” says culprit Read.

But mostly the couples prefer their own company. “If Donny’s doing a job, I’ll always ask if there’s a part for me,” says Down, who look a lead role in Munchy Strikes Back for the Disney Channel because Fauntleroy was the director of photography. “There’s nothing like lighting a beautiful woman through a camera,” says Fauntleroy, “and when it’s someone you love, it’s magic.”

Still, their favorite collaboration remains North and South. “It’s been a momentous journey,” says Down. Francis puts it more emphatically. “It was without a doubt,” she says, “the best time of my life.”


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There were no jokes this time – just the facts, as Jay Leno sees them.

In a detailed account of his side of the talk-show mess at NBC, Leno opened his lame-duck program Monday night seeking to set the record straight and try to repair relations with his – apparently temporary – Tonight Show successor.

“Through all of this, Conan O Brien has been a gentleman,” Leno said during the taping. “He s a good guy. I have no animosity towards him.”

For now, Leno said, it appeared that he would be returning as host of The Tonight Show at 11:35 p.m. after O’Brien apparently rejected moving to midnight.

“So that s pretty much where we are. It looks like we might be back at 11:30,” he said. “I m not sure. I don t know.”

Leno attributed the fiasco that sparked a war-of-monologues – with David Letterman talking potshots from the sidelines at CBS – to the ill-conceived idea of replacing him on The Tonight Show consistently finished at No. 1.
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He said the executives at NBC didn’t think he could sustain those ratings and wanted him replaced with O’Brien, who had gotten offers from other networks.

The problem was compounded, Leno said, when he wanted then to be released from his contract to go elsewhere. NBC countered with the 10 p.m. show, which he accepted against his better judgment.

“Didn’t seem like a good idea at the time,” Leno said, but added he was convinced because focus groups had liked the idea and because he wanted to keep his staff employed. He also claimed he was guaranteed two years on the air.

“Four months go by, we don t make it,” he said. “Meanwhile, Conan s show during the summer – we re not on – was not doing well. The great hope was that we would help him. Well, we didn t help him any, okay.”

That’s when O’Brien was offered the midnight version of The Tonight Show, Leno said.

“Next thing I see Conan has a story in the paper saying he doesn t want to do that,” said Leno. “They come back to me and they say if he decides to walk and doesn t want to do it, do you want the show back? I go, Yeah, I ll take the show back. If that s what he wants to do. This way, we keep our people working, fine. So that s pretty much where we are.”


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Message To New York Legislators: You Leave APPR In Place At Your Peril

If you make no changes to the teacher evaluation system in NY State, then all the changes you make to Common Core aren't going to mean a damn.

You see, the APPR teacher evaluation system is causing as much damage to children in this state as Common Core is.

Want to know why there is so much testing and rote learning in New York classrooms these days?

Because APPR forces it.

Students are taking so-called performance assessments in every grade in every subject every fall and every spring so that their teachers can be evaluated for the 20% local measurement of student performance component.

Another 20% of the APPR teacher evaluation system has teachers being rated using children's test scores, so there's an awful lot of test prep going on in NY State schools these days too, as those Common Core test scores which Governor Cuomo assures us won't count for students will count for teachers.

If a teacher's local and state test components come up "ineffective," that teacher has to be rated an "ineffective teacher" overall per Governor Cuomo's wishes - you can bet these scores matter to those teachers who want to keep their jobs.

On top of this, the 60% "subjective" component (as if the cut scores SED Commissioner King pulls out of his ass for state tests are "objective") means teachers are being observed somewhere between four and six times a year by administrators who are carrying into the classroom a rubric with 22 competencies on it that requires teachers to teach one way or risk a bad rating.

Many teachers in NYC have been told an effective lesson for every class must be built around a complex text that students wrestle with, any writing must be text-based, and every class must end with an assessment - no exceptions.

This is happening in art classes, gym classes, and vocational classes too, not just in academic subjects like ELA, history and science.

Every lesson in every class starts to take on a Groundhog Day veneer, with children reading complex  texts that they often have no interest in reading and writing argumentative essays about topics that they care nothing about.

If any teachers changes lessons up and adds something a little less "rigorous" for the day - say a text-to-self writing assignment, a creative writing piece, or something else less "Common Corey," they risk an "ineffective" or "developing" rating if an administrator comes into their classroom for a Danielson drive-by observation.

Children are coming to a joyless school environment every day to do the same kinds of lessons over and over, to go over the same test prep over and over, to take the same kinds of assessments over and over in part because of Common Core reforms, yes, but also in part because of the APPR teacher evaluation system.

So my message to you, members of the New York State legislature, is that you leave APPR in place at your own peril.

The rebellion against education reform that is firing up all over the state is not going to end if you delay high stakes for CCSS tests for students for a few years because there is so much damage being caused by Governor Cuomo's APPR teacher evaluation system too.

You leave APPR in place at your peril - there will be consequences for this political and educational malfeasance.

  1. Hey Perdido- I love your work! But you never mention opt-out, or refusing to take the tests. What do you hear about that? Where do you stand on that? Thanks!

    1. Opt out isn't as much on my radar, I think, because I'm a high school teacher and it's a requirement that students pass all five Regents exams w/ a 65 or higher.


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Is it the same operating system? Same version of the OS? same version of Perl?

In some cases, simply copying the files and directories from one system to another will work provided you put them in the right place. In most cases, however, a fresh install will be needed.

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Its between Same OS. WIll it work still if i just copy the directory of modules?

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It *may* work, but there are a number of things that could go wrong because of environment specific condtions (wrong paths, etc.).

The best is really to reinstall. But you can give a try if you wish, you'll find out soon.

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

AWP: Saturday

I fought through the long lines for coffee in the Hilton lobby and headed up to a 9:00 am panel: “Writing on Working, Working on Writing,” with Larry Heinemann, Chuck Taylor, Tom Nawrocki and Lowell Mick White. The topic was interesting to me, but the main reason I went was to hear Heinemann, the National Book Award Winner for Paco’s Story. And I did enjoy his anecdotes about how the soldier became a writer. Heinemann introduced the other panelists by reading a list of all the jobs they’d ever had (most were paperboys as kids), which was a cool exercise and since the discussion that followed wasn’t always exciting I made a list for myself. This panel might not have been the right choice for first thing in the morning, though.

At 10:00 I was torn. I wanted to hear Kevin Wilson read as part of the “Greensboro Review at Forty” panel, but instead I went to “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: Structure in Narrative” with Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Martone, Robert Boswell (subbing for Peter Turchi) and C.J. Hribal. Overall this was a pretty good panel and interesting to me, since structure is always an issue for me. Boswell started, talking about "Sonny’s Blues" and "In the Gloaming," and did a pretty close analysis of structure in both cases. Sam Chang looked at Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried," including a diagram and timeline of the action in the story, suggesting it’s even more brilliant than we know from casual reading. Hribal talked about “lateral moves” while looking at a Joyce Carol Oates story. And Martone delivered a killer essay on Gass’s "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country," and along the way talked generally about the notion of collage in fiction. If there’s anyone well-suited to talking about collage it would be Martone.

That seemed like a good time to take a break, so I sat at the Shenandoah table for a while. We were already out of journals to give away or sell, but I did sell a bunch of subscriptions, which was fun. Then I made a last pass through the bookfair, collected some more stuff and went to one last panel: “Designing to Entertain: Exploring the Novelists’ Desire to find Readers Among those Who’d Otherwise Rent a DVD” (I think that “designing” listed in the program was supposed to be “deigning” but never mind. The panel was Justin Cronin, Tom Barbash, Dan Chaon, Jennifer Vanderbes and Hannah Tinti. It was a good panel. Cronin’s comments were well-organized, but I preferred Chaon’s approach. Cronin is going after the audience he knows buys and reads books; Chaon doesn’t want to think about his audience, other than maybe one person who gets him.

Then I dumped my collected books and journals back in the room and hung out in the lobby, finally hooking up with buddies from Sewanee for a beer and then dinner in a decent little Mexican restaurant before heading over to the Sewanee Writers Conference party. The Sewanee people (Wyatt Prunty, Cheri Peters, Kevin Wilson) were all there and warmly welcomed a very healthy swarm of alums. Great party, fun people, and it was wonderful to reconnect with folks. But I’d also planned to attend the Queens party over at Max Lager’s, so I hurried there and hung out for a bit before making one last pass through the partiers in the Hilton lobby.

I had no idea that AWP could be so much fun. The conference is in NYC next year and I’m pretty sure I’ll go. See you there.

Mary Akers said...

This sounds wonderful, Cliff. I have GOT to go next year!

Kelly said...

It was great to meet you in Atlanta ... I just uploaded video from the "Deigning to Entertain" Panel (hear yourself laughing at Dan Chaon's comments!):


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   I've wanted a hedgehog for some time now. A few weeks ago I finally bought one. This thing is so neat looking, I couldn't stop staring at it at the pet store. In fact, I visited the pet store two consecutive days before I decided to go ahead and purchase it. And when I finally did, the owners didn't want to let the thing go. I sent two pictures so you can see how amazing he actually looks, but it still doesn't do justice; for seeing it live is a whole 'nother matter. After sunset watching what looks like a softball zigzagging all over the dark grass, this thing is just way too cool for school.

    Pokey runs like the dickens when he gets outside and doesn't want to go back inside. He likes to hide in his hunter green small chube (in fact, he almost lives in the thing). He is affectionate when he is sleeping during the day, but besides that, he would rather run outside in the dark. He also doesn't like getting picked up, and since he is quilling (when a young hedgehog starts to shed their baby quills and replace them with their adult quills), his quills are hurting a lot more than when I got him at the pet store. And... the ladies that live in the apartment think he is the cutest thing, because he gets into a defensive ball and his head pokes out.

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Duke Rallies, Beats Syracuse 16-10 In NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Duke rallied from an early deficit to beat Syracuse 16-10 on Monday and win its second NCAA men’s lacrosse title.

The Blue Devils trailed 5-0 in the second quarter.

Jordan Wolf had four goals for Duke (16-5). Josh Offit and Josh Dionne each scored three times.

But the real star for the Blue Devils was junior faceoff man Brendan Fowler, who won 13 straight at one point to give Duke possession for long stretches. Fowler won 20 of 28 faceoffs overall and was honored as the game’s most outstanding player.

The Blue Devils failed to score on their first 11 shots but closed out with 10 of the game’s last 13 goals.

Dylan Donahue led Syracuse (16-4) with three goals. JoJo Marasco scored two fourth-quarter goals 35 seconds apart, pulling the Orange within 13-9 with 7:36 to play.

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It happened to me at the water tower
I was on my way home on a misty night
Dreaming of dinner and a shower
A chill in the air, there wasn’t a soul in sight
When I stepped on a stick
I started to slip
And I fell in a hole

Well it seemed that the hole was never-ending
And deeper I fell into the silent black
Picking up speed my body bending
I was starting to think that I would never come back
When the air became thick
The air became cold
And everything froze

I tried to move but wasn’t able
I found myself frozen in a block of ice
I pictured by dinner on the table
A plate of asparagus would sure taste nice
When everything shook
The ice began to crack
And I felt it explode

I knew that at last I had escaped the violence
And headed for home as fast as I could run
I felt myself floating in the silence
And I pictured the water tower and the rising sun
But I didn’t look down
I stepped on a stick
And I fell in a hole

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Phillies Aim to #StrikeOutALS at Phillies Phestival

Tonight is the Phillies festival here in South Philadelphia where the Phillies will aim to strike out ALS. Since 1984 the Phillies raised over 16 million dollars for the ALS Association and the Greater Philadelphia chapter.

PHL17’s David Grzybowski sat down with Michael Fulginiti of Aston, Pennsylvania. Michael was diagnosed with ALS back in August of 2014 and tonight will be his first ever visit to the Phillies Phestival.

“ALS has taken away my ability to speak, eat and work, but what I miss most is the ability to eat speak and pick up my five grandchildren,” Michael Fulginiti said. “Having the Phillies support ALS gives those affected by this disease not only is underfunded but it receives little publicity in spite of the ice bucket challenge. I would like to thank the Phillies organization for the Phillies festival.”

This past weekend the Fulginiti family held an event called “An Evening of Hope” with their Family Strong Foundation. In just 5 short months the family raised $100,000 for ALS research.

Gates open tonight later this evening around 4pm. Fans can make a donation at

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Fallout from firecrackers in Philippines: 500 injured, homes gutted by fires, flights delayed

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Filipinos return to their burned homes to look for usable items after a pre-dawn fire in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines, Jan. 1. One person died as Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) firefighting units responded to at least 12 fires of varying degrees in the National Capital Region starting in the early hours of the new year. At least three of the incidents were believed to be related to firecrackers amid ongoing New Year's Eve celebrations, the BFP said.

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A Filipino man carries a burned bicycle after houses caught fire on New Year's day, Jan. 1, in Manila, Philippines. The fire broke out shortly after and left about 100 families homeless.

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Many Filipinos, largely influenced by Chinese tradition, believe that noisy New Year's celebrations drive away evil and misfortune. But they have carried that superstition to extremes, exploding huge firecrackers and firing guns to welcome the new year despite threats of arrest.

Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo said at least 65 people were arrested for using illegally large firecrackers.

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An elevated highway in the financial district of Manila is enveloped by smog caused by pyrotechnics and firecrackers the morning after New Year's celebrations on January 1. Hundreds of Filipinos were injured by firecrackers and stray bullets while fires gutted homes in the capital as revellers celebrated the new year.


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Landfill alternative to generate energy

October 22, 2007

A Michigan company could become the first in the nation to generate electricity by incinerating waste, thereby reducing the need for landfills.

SunCrest Energy, based in southwest Michigan, wants to build a facility that would incinerate trash at more than 10,000 degrees, converting it to synthetic gas that would power electricity-generating turbines.

The facility would make Michigan a leader in clean energy and alleviate landfill burdens from trash imported from Canada. The plant could be operational within two-years, the Detroit Free Press reported.

While a similar plant is being proposed for Florida, the Michigan project could wind up being the first plant of its kind in the nation, said the company's president and founder, Marcello Iannuci.

"We sent a man to the moon in 1969, but we're still burying our trash in a big hole," the Free Press quoted Iannuci as saying.

City commissioners are debating over landfill expansion or reducing imported waste levels. Macomb County Commissioner Paul Gieleghem, a Democrat, said the new clean-energy facility is "an incredible benefit for future generations."

Democratic county commissioners will hold a public hearing in November to discuss the matter.

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Online video forces change on TV industry

August 14, 2013 by Sophie Estienne
A man walks past Hisense super slim LED televisions at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas on January 10, 2009. Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.

Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.

"The gap between what consumers want and the way the industry is delivering it has grown so big that the industry now has to start to make some moves," Forrester Research analyst Jim Nail told AFP.

Viacom, Time Warner, Disney, 21st Century Fox, CBS—the second quarter results of the big US media groups confirmed that remain their cash cows.

For the first time this year, however, American adults are spending more time with the Internet than in front of —about five hours a day compared to 4.5, according to a study in eMarketer this month.

The independent market research firm notes that users sometimes use the Internet and watch television at the same time—and that video represents only part of online consumption.

That doesn't stop a group like Netflix, which offers films and original programming on demand, from growing and spawning imitators such as Amazon's online .

The formula is favored by youngsters who relish cartoons on their tablet devices and TV binge-viewers who watch multiple episodes of their favorite shows in one sitting.

Internet giant Google has joined the party with Chromecast, a device that plugs into the HDMI input of a TV set to provide streaming video.

Apple is meanwhile consistently rumored to be developing online television services.

A man James uses a Nexus 7 at Google's Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 27, 2012. Having turned print media upside down, the Internet now is disrupting television, forcing broadcasters to adapt to tablets and video-on-demand to hold onto views and advertisers.

"There will still be some linear real time viewing of TV for the Super Bowl or breaking news events ... but entertainment-based video will move to more on-demand," Nail said.

"If you own a TV station, you are in the same position as a newspaper. There will be other ways to watch content and you're going to be very challenged," he explained.

On the other hand, "if you are the content owner, you should not worry at all."

You might have to abandon cable distribution and get a slot on Netflix, but content is in such high demand "that you will be able to make money... It really shouldn't change your financial outlook or your survival."

Media groups see the risks in relative terms.

Time Warner chief executive Jeff Bewkes, whose corporation includes HBO and CNN, told financial analysts in a conference call that he regards Internet streaming as complementary to broadcasting—something that adds value to programming.

Viacom talks about adapting to changing public behavior.

"Certain kids are going to consume content on tablets, and if you want your content to have a shot at being consumed you have to have it on a tablet," its chief operating officer Tom Dooley said.

Viacom is "aggressively" positioning itself in the tablet market with distribution partnerships like the one it forged with Amazon for such children's shows as "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Dora the Explorer."

It has also launched what Dooley called a "phenomenally successful" mobile app for Viacom's Nickelodeon children's channel.

"Streaming continues to be a terrific growth driver for us," affirmed CBS chief Leslie Moonves, whose network has struck an exclusive deal with Amazon guaranteeing the profitability of its summer series "Under the Dome," based on a Stephen King novel.

Viacom and CBS have seen their income stemming from program distribution rights leap 28 and 22 percent respectively, due in part to the Internet effect.

For those who own content, the multiplication of online video services can have a favorable effect by bidding up the money they can get from selling distribution rights.

In Nail's opinion, there is "a lot more to do before (television companies) meet consumer demand and create the new business model they need to profit" from Internet-driven change.

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Grace Wu and Ranjit Deshmukh grow vegetables in their garden, bicycle to school each day, and are rarely seen in clothes more formal than blue jeans and t-shirts. Though they seem to live a quiet life, these two graduate ...

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Once known only as the slimy scourge of backyard ponds and lakes, algae is emerging as a superhero in the race for cleaner and renewable energy resources. But this hero is not without its Achilles' heel: Although its proliferation ...

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Improving energy conversion processes

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Justin R. Crepp

Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics

Penn State, BS, 2003
University of Florida, PhD, 2008
Office phone: 574-631-4092
Office: 339C Nieuwland Science Hall

iLocater web site

Research Interests

My research involves developing new technologies and observational techniques to detect faint substellar companions that orbit nearby stars. Specifically, I design and build instruments that operate at visible and near-infrared wavelengths to directly image and study brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. I also use the Doppler method to measure the radial velocity "wobble" of stars as they gravitationally interact with their planets.

I am leading a new observing program called "TRENDS" that combines the Doppler method with high-contrast imaging. When working in tandem, these two powerful and complementary techniques can yield an accurate measure of the mass of substellar companions using orbital dynamics.

Meanwhile, in the lab, I am working on a new instrument called "iLocater". The Infrared Large binOCulAr Telescope Exoplanet Recovery (iLocater) Spectrograph is the first fiber-fed Doppler instrument designed to operate behind an adaptive optics system. iLocater will identify terrestrial planets orbiting in the habitable zone of nearby stars by achieving unprecedented radial velocity precision at near-infrared wavelengths.

Kepler participating scientist

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