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Buta Singh on shaky wicket, Bangaru Laxman puts up a stiff challenge

The twin constituency of Jalore-Sirohi in Rajasthan holds an unenviable record that would send shivers down the spine of many a seasoned politician -- it had never returned a candidate for a second consecutive term in the Lok Sabha.

However, sitting member and former Union home minister and Congress nominee Buta Singh is unperturbed in seeking a second term. In fact, he had himself fallen victim to the jinx and lost in 1989, having won the seat for the first time in 1984. He won it the next time in 1991, stayed away from the contest in 1996 and emerged victorious once again in 1998.

He says he will not fall a victim this time as he had contested the 1998 elections as an independent under a different symbol. This time he is relying on the Congress's 'Hand' symbol to work the magic.

The constituency is tied in a multi-cornered contest but the actual fight is between the Congress and the BJP which has fielded its vice president Bangaru Laxman who also heads the party SC-ST Morcha. The BJP had taken a strategic decision to put Laxman here as SC-STs and OBCs constitute about 75 to 80 per cent of the electorate.

Although a new face to the local people, Laxman, a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, is giving sleepless nights to the sitting member. During his earlier stint in the Congress, Buta Singh used to contest from Ropar Lok Sabha constituency in Punjab. He came to this constituency in 1984. He was accepted by the people who returned him with a comfortable margin, and he stuck to this constituency thereafter.

Bangaru Laxman, who is contesting his first Lok Sabha election, originally belongs to Andhra Pradesh and is a stranger here compared to Buta Singh who is well known in the region. However, despite his long association, all is not well with Buta Singh, who is suffering from a malady that afflicts politicians. As a grocery shop owner in the town puts it, ''Buta has made many promises to the people over the years which he failed to fulfil. Besides, the people are angry with him that after winning the last election, he never visited this region''.

Singh has promised, besides other things, to make available adequate drinking water in this arid region and bring the broad-gauge rail link to Jalore town which is the main demand of the people. He, however, has to his credit the setting up of an oil mill, which unfortunately is now closed, an agriculture research centre and an air strip at Sirohi.

The electorate also seems to be not happy with Buta Singh for joining the BJP after being elected. During his campaign, he had told the people that although he was contesting as an independent, he would join Sonia Gandhi's Congress which has a stronghold in the region. Buta Singh, who was communication minister in the Vajpayee cabinet, was, however, removed allegedly on corruption charges. He later floated a regional outfit, the Rajasthan Vikas Party, at the time of the last assembly election but has now returned to the Congress.

Bangaru Laxman, being new to the region, starts with a clean slate as far as having not made any promises in the past. He is centring his campaign on the speedy development of the region and the stability plank. With the backing of the BJP and RSS cadre, he has been trying to establish a rapport with the people, helped in no small measure by his fluency in Hindi. Buta Singh has accused him of playing up religious sentiments by changing his name to Laxman Bangaru to convey that just like Laxman's unstinted service to Lord Ram, he would serve the people.

The third candidate who can tilt the balance is Dr Kusum Meghwal, contesting on a Republican Party of India ticket. She is the sister of former Rajasthan home minister Kailash Meghwal, who has the distinction of defeating Buta Singh in 1989. Being a Meghwal, she could take away that community's votes which otherwise generally go to the Congress. Besides, she has as her poll symbol, the rail engine on which Buta Singh had contested the 1998 Lok Sabha election as an independent.

In this constituency, which has a very low percentage of literacy, the symbol, Buta Singh feels, may mislead the voters and work to her advantage.

Talking to this correspondent, Buta Singh alleged that the BJP had indulged in ''a dirty game'' as she is basically a BJP candidate and not of the RPI. He also conceded that victory won't be easy for him this time.

Electioneering in this constituency, spread over more than 10,000 sq km, is on a low key with few banners, pamphlets or hoardings visible. The emphasis is more on public meetings. Video and audio cassettes were seen being used by the Congress and the BJP.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had launched the Congress campaign on August 26 by addressing a public meeting here. Buta Singh is concentrating more on local issues like water, electricity and development. He also assails the BJP on the Kargil issue, alleging that the government had failed to act on intelligence reports about Pakistani activities on the border.

Bangaru Laxman in his speeches says that the people had tried and seen Buta Singh and now they should give an opportunity to a new entrant. As the National Democratic Alliance is bound to come to power at the Centre, if elected, he would be able to look after the development of the region. He also promises adequate water and expedite laying of broad-gauge rail line.

Jalore-Sirohi together has a joint voter population of 12 lakh in which OBCs account for 4.50 lakh and SC-ST 4 lakh. The dominant castes are Meghwals (2.25 lakh), Kallavi Chaudhary (Jats, 1.50 lakh), Umar, Gachi, Bheel, Gracia and Meenas (1.50 lakh), Jain, Rajput and Shrimali Brahmin (1.50 lakh) and Muslims (1.50 lakh). Feudalism continues to run deep in the region, with the upper castes trying to influence the others.

The caste factor would decide the voting pattern, says a photographer, Rajendra Saini from this town. There are allegations that liquor and money play a pivotal role in the elections. Candidates route the stuff through the Thakurs, the landlords who wield considerable influence among the masses. According to Saini, Kargil and Sonia Gandhi's foreign origins are not big issues in the constituency. People are more concerned about the local issues and development of the region. A large section of the people, he says, is angry with the state government for lowering the retirement age from 60 years to 58 years and for not paying retirement dues to the people even seven-eight months after superannuation.

Another shopkeeper said while Jalore district has always been a stronghold of the Congress, Sirohi favoured the BJP. Of the eight assembly seats, the Congress has won seven. Only the Jalore seat was won by BJP nominee Ganeshi Ram Meghwal in the last election.

Local leaders feel that this being the harvest time there are chances of low voting percentage. Rich traders and the business community are maintaining a silence, giving no impression whom they will support.

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Indian American community leaders to meet US lawmakers over Mumbai terror attacks

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On January 27th, the Indian American Task Force comprising over 150 leaders from across the United States, and representing over 2.5 million people of Indian heritage living in America, will assemble in Washington, DC to meet lawmakers, in order to express their outrage over the recent terror attacks in Mumbai [Images], and seek justice.

The entire world watched in horror as they saw these acts of brutal violence unfold on live television. The attacks, which started on November 26, 2008, and continued for three days killed 180 people, including 6 American citizens.

"We are here not simply to highlight terrorism directed against innocent civilians in India, but also because we believe that these developments in India represent a clear security challenge to the United States of America itself." said San Francisco-based Task Force joint coordinator, Mukesh Advani [Images].

For the first time these terrorists originating from Pakistan killed many foreigners living in India, including Jews and other citizens of the United States and United Kingdom. "Americans, Britons and Jews living in or visiting India were specifically targeted," Advani said.

The Indian American Task Force believes that it is in America's own national security interest to ensure the elimination of terrorist training camps in Pakistan, the source of these attacks.

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PSE’s New Baker River $50 Million Fish Passage System Generating Success in First Few Weeks of Operation

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The 1,000-ton apparatus floating above Baker Lake's 280-foot-deep bottom is designed to attract and safely capture young salmon for transport around PSE's two Baker River hydropower dams. The river's 2008 out-migration of sockeye, biologists estimate, is at least 70 percent complete. With more than 200,000 juvenile sockeye already collected, the out-migration is peaking as the second highest total run on record and may be on pace to shatter the existing record.

"We're thrilled by the results so far," said Cary Feldmann, manager of resource sciences for PSE and a member of the design team for the new fish collector. "Run timing is variable so it's still too early to make any definitive predictions, but if the current trend in (fish) collection holds, we should surpass the existing record of 289,000 fish."

PSE built the 285-foot-tall Lower Baker Dam in 1925. Upper Baker Dam, 27 feet taller, followed in 1959. PSE has pursued various strategies over the years to help salmon get past the dams, both upstream and downstream. One key effort was construction of the world's only successful floating system in the late 1950s to simulate swift river current behind a large, deep-water dam in order to attract and capture young salmon.

That original PSE "gulper" was considered quite successful in capturing juvenile salmon for a half-hour tanker-truck ride downstream and release into the Skagit River. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, the Baker River's sockeye runs suddenly and inexplicably plummeted, with a record-low 99 fish returning to spawn in 1985.

PSE responded by augmenting the first-generation gulper in the late 1980s with the world's first (and still only) deep-reservoir guide-net system. The 2,000-foot shore-to-shore, 280-foot surface-to-bottom net that PSE installed not only prevented small fish from entering Upper Baker Dam's turbines, but helped steer them toward the gulper. The enhanced system produced a dramatic turnaround in the number of juvenile sockeye reaching the ocean. In turn, the number of adult sockeye returning to the Baker basin steadily rose, reaching a record 20,225 fish in 2003.

Despite its effectiveness, Feldmann said, the old fish-transport system had basically worn out. But more importantly, he added, greater understanding of juvenile sockeye biology and their response to various hydrological conditions led PSE, fisheries agencies, and Native American tribes to advocate a new, more sophisticated surface-collector/guide-net system.

PSE's new floating surface collector, with four times the capacity of the old gulper, is a $50 million 130-foot-by-60-foot barge equipped with a series of submerged screens, water pumps, fish-holding chambers, a fish-evaluation station, equipment control rooms, and a fish-loading facility. PSE completed the collector earlier this year following 14 months of lakeshore construction.

The new collector's four primary water pumps - each eight feet in diameter - quadruple the old gulper's speed of simulated "river current" in Baker Lake, providing a stronger attraction for young fish. Further inside the new facility, after fish are captured, a specially designed system of submerged screens slows the water to prevent fish injury as pumped water is returned back into the lake.

Fisheries agencies hope for a 90 percent to 95 percent capture rate of Baker Lake juvenile salmon from the new fish collector. The old system, by comparison, had an estimated 60 percent capture rate.

Feldmann said fisheries agencies expect PSE's new floating surface collector, together with more than $100 million in other PSE fish-enhancement projects on which they're collaborating, to quadruple the Baker River's already rebounding sockeye numbers. These other projects, part of a proposed federal license agreement for PSE Baker River Hydroelectric Project, include improvements to PSE's man-made, but naturalistic, sockeye spawning beaches along Baker Lake; construction of a new fish hatchery for raising salmon and trout (with a target of tripling production of Baker sockeye fry to 14.5 million per year); PSE construction of a new trap-and-haul facility below Lower Baker Dam for upstream transport of adult salmon; and additional acquisition or enhancement of wetlands and riparian habitat in the Skagit and Baker river basins.

For more information about PSE's floating surface collector and to see a video on its design and function, visit PSE's Web site and click on the Energy & Environment tab.

About Puget Sound Energy

Washington state's oldest and largest energy utility, with a 6,000-square-mile service area stretching across 11 counties, Puget Sound Energy serves more than 1 million electric customers and 735,000 natural gas customers, primarily in western Washington. PSE, a subsidiary of Puget Energy (NYSE:PSD), meets the energy needs of its growing customer base through incremental, cost-effective energy conservation, low-cost procurement of sustainable energy resources, and far-sighted investment in the energy-delivery infrastructure. PSE employees are dedicated to providing great customer service to deliver energy that is safe, reliable, reasonably priced, and environmentally responsible. For more information, visit

About PSE's Baker River Hydroelectric Project

PSE's largest hydropower facility is the Baker River Hydroelectric Project. Located on a tributary of the Skagit River in northwest Washington, the project has two dams, each with its own powerhouse. The dams' reservoirs, Baker Lake and Lake Shannon, are fed by runoff from the flanks of Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan. Lower Baker Dam, completed in 1925, is a 285-foot-high concrete structure with 70 megawatts of power-generating capacity. The 312-foot-high Upper Baker Dam, completed in 1959, has a generating capacity of 105 megawatts. The project includes extensive salmon-propagation facilities and numerous amenities for public recreation. It also provides flood control for communities in the Skagit River Valley. A 50-year federal operating license granted to the Baker River Project in 1956 expired in April 2006. The project is now operating under an annual license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission while PSE seeks a new long-term license.


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During the course of this blog, we have often exbounded on the beauties of the national parks of Southern Utah. We have written about visiting them in spring, summer, fall and winter. We have suggested itineraries to make your vacation even better. We have told you about the secret places that few people ever visit, and about the popular crowd-pleasers. We have tried to be your vitural guide to a place of spectacular beauty. And most importantly, we at the Lodge at Red River Ranch, have tried to be the hosts you deserve.

As we begin this new year together, we hope to continue to bring you excellant service and quality advice. To commemorate our commitment to you, our loyal guests, we have posted this poem – left by one of our visitors. We think it captures our complex feeling about Southern Utah – the best spot on earth.

Traipse with me in the land of desert and storm
one leg dragging – longing to see the seen
one leg pulling – gasping to see the new.

Born of sweat, pink skin peeling to reveal,
torn from the womb of the earth,
the place where I belong.

The place I long to die.

And I cry stones of praise.

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Attacks on Obama working

But prepare for media assault if McCain gains ground

Even the liberal media have picked up on the fact that McCain seems to have held steady or even improved his poll standing in the last week or so (though Gallup has Obama with a 49-40 lead today it appears to be an outlier). This is especially impressive given Obama’s massive spending and his overseas trip, which appeared to be a big success for Obama, as even The Washington Times admits.

Obama did look presidential, which may also help him put to rest lingering doubts that some voters harbor. So why hasn’t Obama’s spending and overseas trip produced a bounce in the polls? It’s simple–McCain has been in full attack mode, and these attacks have been blunting the impact of Obama’s spending and successful trip.

My blog www.notwrightforamerica.com has often urged McCain to sharpen his attacks on Obama as the only real path to victory in a year that promises to be a bad one for Republicans. Obama has a very low burden of proof given his tailwind–he simply has to make himself marginally acceptable to the electorate, and he will likely win, as the public simply is not in the mood to elect another Republican president after Bush’s two terms.

That means McCain must attack constantly. McCain has given us a taste of what the rest of his campaign should look like, and it’s working. McCain blasted away on Obama’s opposition to The Surge, which Obama actually predicted would increase violence, and which even Obama now admits has had a positive impact. Obama is actually very much in a pickle here with seemingly contradictory positions on an imporant issue, and for a change, the media are not giving him a lot of breaks on this one.

McCain also made the valid point that Obama and a lot of other defeatists seem almost giddy about American defeat, and it’s fair to speculate that these defeatists’ previously improving electoral prospects were driving the giddiness. And McCain bashed Obama on his change of plans on visiting Landstahl military hospital in Germany, and quickly produced an ad for swing state consumption.

McCain can’t worry about the media backlash that his attacks are already generating from the Obama media. And thanks to the media’s fawning over Obama, McCain has a ready response to media attacks that are sure to escalate if this race tightens, which it will if he stays on the attack. That is, the media assault is just another part of the media’s love affair with Obama and their efforts to get him elected.

Swing voters must see Obama as extreme, risky and inexperienced for McCain to have a chance to win. That won’t happen unless McCain and his allies make that case to the voters directly by bashing Obama from now to November 4.

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School Choice: Another No Brainer

There are a few things politically where there are no downsides. The Keystone pipeline comes to mind as one of them. With the alleged environmental concerns evidently resolved to the satisfaction of the Governor of Nebraska and after two EPA studies indicating the same, it should come natural to Obama to now approve the pipeline. Of course, he will likely drag his feet, call for yet another EPA study and ultimately either kick the can down the road or ultimately deny it to pander to his liberal, environmentalist base. First, Canada needs to refine the oil and it is going to be refined somewhere one way or another. From an environmental standpoint, would it not make the greatest sense to refine it in a state of art American refinery rather than in Singapore or China where their environmental laws are lax or non-existent? Second, it creates jobs. Many of the opponents claim that it will only create maybe 5,000 permanent jobs and maybe 25,000 short-term jobs. By the math I am used to, 5,000 is greater than zero jobs and 25,000 is considerably more than zero jobs. Third, this meets the definition of a shovel-ready project that will be paid by private industry, not our tax dollars. I thought the goal of the Administration is to create jobs through the private sector by encouraging domestic investment. Isn’t TransCanada- the pipeline builder- a private enterprise investing in the United States? There are no downsides to this project.

Neither is there a downside to the concept of school choice. It in an unmistakable fact that public education is either stagnant at best or failing at worst with respect to academic achievement. Every year, despite massive infusions of federal tax dollars not to mention state tax dollars and local property tax receipts, we have not improved our performance. A bright line can be drawn to the point where we began to fall behind other developed countries when it comes to literacy and math and science performance. Once the federal government got involved in the business of K-12 education, we see the beginnings of the stagnation and decline. I am sure that ESEA was passed with the best of intentions in the 1960s, just as Bush’s No Child Left Behind was passed with the best intentions. But, the devil was in the details and like so many other areas, the federal government proved itself a terrible administrator over these good intentions. When you throw in empowered teacher unions to the mix, you achieve the quagmire we have today in education. A good case can be made that teacher unions- being unions- have the interests of the teachers first and foremost before those of the students. That is not to denigrate teachers, but their union representation sucks when it comes to looking out for the interests of the students as the citizens of Chicago discovered in September, 2012.

With regards to the states, expenditures on public K-12 education are the biggest item rivaled only be Medicaid. Obama’s idea of improving the public education system is typical liberal policy- throw more money at the problem. We constantly hear how making investments in public education now will reap huge rewards and dividends down the line. The only problem is that we have heard that line now since 1969 and the huge federal, state, and local expenditures on public education have only made the problem worse. When one considers that close to 30% of all federal expenditures goes to overhead, that is clearly a waste of money. Also, not every single dollar spent by the federal government even makes it into a classroom. On average, any school district in the United States receives only 9% of their revenue from the federal government, yet the federal government exerts close to 30% control over local school districts through edicts, mandates, guidelines, and regulations. Whole specialties have arisen around some of these. For example, many schools now have a curriculum development director- a job that used to fall to the either the local school board or the administration. In the public school where I substitute teach, there are at least three “teachers” walking around as “coaches” for other teachers in the area of literacy and math- “teachers” who never see a child.

So it is fitting that this is Education Choice Week, a fact I found out by watching Fox News as it would never be advertised in a public school setting. The fact is that most educational reform efforts that showed the greatest promise at the state/local level were ones that incorporated school choice into the mix. Whether we are talking about Washington, DC or Philadelphia or the state of Florida, where choice is given a chance, it usually has benefits. The best way to gauge this is through student performance on standardized tests like the NEAP or the SAT. In both cases, students in private schools generally perform better than their public school counterparts.

Nationally, the average per pupil cost of educating a child in grades K-12 (assuming no special needs) in a public school is $9,963 per year according to the Center for Education Statistics. The average cost of educating that same child, according to the same source, in a private school is $6,600 per year. That is a savings of $3,363 per pupil. Since the state or local government is going to pay for the education of that child anyway , would it not make greater sense to (1) spend the lesser amount while (2) giving the student and their parents a choice in where that child is educated? Of course, there are going to be private schools that will charge considerably more than $6,600. The DC voucher program was originally opposed by school officials there by arguing the cost. Eligible families could receive up to $7,500 in vouchers to send their children to a non-public school. The officials argued that the cost of private schooling in DC was five figures and that the $7,500 would not go that far. However, a study at the time showed that only 20% of DC private schools charged at least $10,000 a year with the average actually being around $4,800 a year- clearly not five figures, clearly below the national average, and clearly below the $7,500 in vouchers.

Just looking at the issue from the fiscal angle makes sense and should make this a no-brainer. As of 2012, there were 75.6 million students in K-12 schools. About 64.5 million were enrolled in public schools and 11.1 million in private schools. It needs to be noted at this point that charter schools are public schools, not private schools as many people believe. If just 20% of public school students were given a “choice,” that is 12.92 million students. Now assume a worst case scenario where a local private school in the area charged $7,500 per year and these 12.92 million kids received those vouchers for $7,500, and they transferred to the private school. That would result in a savings of $2,463 per pupil for a grand total savings of $31.83 billion annually. If the private school charged the $6,600 national average, then the savings would be $42.636 billion annually. Imagine that: a program that improves student performance for less money AND that gives a family hope and choice regarding their child’s education. The government is going to spend money on that child’s education anyway so it makes no sense to spend $9,963 per pupil per year when you can alleviate that burden through a voucher program.

There is a very good reason that private schools perform better than public schools, generally speaking. In a private school, parental involvement is greater and ask any teacher- public or private- and they will tell you that this criteria (parental involvement) is very important to student success. Of course the parent of a private school student is going to be more involved because the costs of that education are more proximate. While it may be true that smaller class size may play a role, the effect of class size on student performance is an area of debate. The magic number seems to be 19- anything over that number and you have a greater potential to run into trouble. However, there is generally no differences in academic achievement or performance between a class of 19 students and a class of 10 students. Thus, the smaller class sizes in private schools (generally speaking) is not a major determinant of their better academic achievement. Regardless, you will rarely see class sizes greater than 20 students in public schools. Many states mandate a maximum class size of 24 or 25 students.

Instead, because the costs are proximate, the parent of the private school student has a greater financial risk in that child’s education and is more likely to be involved. When the costs are spread out over many taxpayers, then that proximity is lost among an amorphous pool of people who contribute to any child’s education on any given day. The attitude becomes: “It is their job to educate my child; my taxes are paying their salary.” But, your tax dollar contribution towards that child’s public education nowhere approximates $6,600 or $7,500 or $9,963 per pupil per year. The same phenomena is seen with charter schools. The success rate of charter schools is about 50/50 and they are not necessarily the panacea to cure all educational ills. However, there does seem to be one factor that sets the successful ones apart- charter schools formed around like-minded students. A general charter school that is akin to a regular public school is less apt to succeed than a charter school centered around the performing arts, or science, or mathematics, or any other area of specialty. That is because the student AND the parents were given the choice and tend to be more goal-oriented.

What the teacher unions- not teachers- fear the most is competition from private, parochial and charter schools. But, it is a silly fear. The state is still likely going to pay, on average, $9,963 (lets just round that up to $10,000) per public school pupil regardless. They are going to reap savings from a voucher program since they will be paying less than $10,000 per pupil in a private school. Plus, they (the teachers) are likely to get smaller class sizes out of the deal. One of the biggest complaints I personally hear is about class size- “Geez…they put another kid in my room when I already have 18.” So, let’s see: smaller public school class sizes, parental choice, a $31-42 billion annual savings in expenditures, and a likely improvement in academic achievement plus we allow those at the lower end of the income strata an opportunity they previously lacked. Call it what you want, but this sounds like another no-brainer to me.

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Enough With Medicare!

M. Romney and his side kick, P. Ryan have to stop with the medicare campaigning.
The people who use medicare are NOT economy drivers.
WE ARE IN A DISPARATE ECONOMIC SITUATION and our “Conservative” candidates are talking
about Health Care!

What about Jobs, Oppressive Government Regulation, the Value of the Dollar, our Military and Borders, people taking their money and denouncing their citizenship from the U.S.A……….?
Wholly Cow!?

Do we really NEED to be dancing to the song being played by Obama!?
He is conducting the band, and our numskull candidates are dancing happily along, thinking that they will be selected “King and Queen” of the prom.

WE NEED to talk about the real problems of the U.S. to the REAL economy drivers, the young and the middle class worker.

Please, please, Gov. Romney, if you care at all about this country, get OFF the Medicare Merry-Go-Round!

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The premium online video sector is going to heat up as DiSH Network was given the nod in the recent Blockbuster auction and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the deal. DISH's offer of $320.6 million was selected as the successful bid following an auction conducted earlier this week, including the online service assets I imagine.Blockbuster already had a premium online video-on-demand service in place which means that DiSH could not even bother to rebrand the service and just continue it. It also gives them a vast library of titles at their disposal for rental and revenue generation. They could simply make an on-demand Blockbuster channel for their subscribers I imagine.

But the more interesting facet of the deal, to me anyway, is what it does to the online video-on-demand landscape. Blockbuster has been failing for some time and I bet some of  you didn't even know that you could rent on-demand from them. With the combination of DiSH's subscribers and distribution and now the assets of Blockbuster they could become a contender in a burgeoning premium online video arena.

This could pit them directly against Netflix who rents both physical discs and streams content online. The same goes for Amazon who just started offering loads of video streaming content to Prime members, a service which I likened to Blockbuster stores themselves in fact, and sells discs.

It could make for a four-horse race in regards to streaming films online until someone else like Google gets into the full swing of things with new YouTube initiatives or whatever. Who is that fourth horse?

Let's not forget about Best Buy who has Cinema Now and over 1,500 titles in that service ready to sell/rent to you. They also have some international distribution. While writing this article I signed up, installed the RoxioNow Player (which doesn't give you an option of where to install, which I hate) and even rented a film for $1.99 and am downloading the film to watch now. Netflix, Amazon and Blockbuster can't do that as they're all US only except for Netflix Canada. Granted, the selection for Cinema Now international is quite limited (18 rentable, 108 purchasable) but still, it seems they are leading the pack already in regards to crossing international borders.

This could all be bad for Netflix who has been having trouble with some studios that don't want to provide them with all their content anymore. Of course, they have, like YouTube, already looked to buying and producing their own content and therefore cutting out the middle man (broadcasters) and going straight to the production companies to get new content. This might also be what DiSHBuster will have to do as well in order to continue to compete. That could then give us a three prong online video race (much like TV used to be with just three networks coincidentally).

Since Amazon and Best Buy are first and foremost retail outlets, they could still benefit by then selling disc versions of the others' content and generating revenue as well as perhaps licensing some for streaming through their own services. In fact, the events of the first quarter of 2011 could be the very first major shift in how video is created, licensed and distributed. That will certainly give us something to talk about in the coming month.

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    They were thinking content and distribution like I said. They get the whole she-bang. Both online and physical distribution which means they can also do things like sell their DiSH stuff in the Blockbusters and offer Blockbuster content to their DiSH subscribers giving them thousands of films to rent on demand. Plus, it was fairly cheap. Remember, Google paid $1.65B for YouTube and that had never made money. Blockbuster was profitable at one point and simply lost sight of their target audience and didn't stay up to date with how things were changing.

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    I know that Comcast and Time warner provides cable tv and on demand movies for 30 bucks. But you do have to pay the new release movies for video on demand for 5 bux (which is a ripoff). I think Dish TV might do something of that same nature, except they will be separate parties with Blockbuster, so that customers can save a little more money using blockbuster monthly subscription for 8 bux. They also provide new releases that is under 4 bux (much cheaper than cable on demand movies)! I actually think that was a smart move with dish buying BB. Yet, I still dunno what the heck they were thinking.


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Schiaparelli Announces Collaboration With Christian Lacroix For New Capsule Collection

lacroixembedAs legendary brand Schiaparelli continues expansion and revival on the heels of the ever-popular Met exhibit, now another icon is joining the creative flow. Christian Lacroix will lend his mastery to a new capsule collection. The collection's fifteen pieces will be displayed at the original Schiaparelli salon in Paris beginning this July.

Lacroix released the following statement about the collaboration: “In this persona incarnating a true aristocrat, one finds a spirit where mathematics and literature as well as poetry coexist: Elsa is a sacred sphinge who never ceases to interrogate us while offering us new enigmas as answers. Art, theater and cinema…my wish is to reposition Elsa at the center of her maison and on the stage from which she once seduced the world.” And, according to, this is just the beginning. After the (we presume) critical success of Lacroix' collection, the brand will continue tapping top industry designers for further projects displayed at a yearly event at the 21 Place Vendôme salon.

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Amnesty International Annual Report 2011 - Senegal

Publisher Amnesty International
Publication Date 13 May 2011
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Head of state: Abdoulaye Wade
Head of government: Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye
Death penalty: abolitionist for all crimes
Population: 12.9 million
Life expectancy: 56.2 years
Under-5 mortality (m/f): 125/114 per 1,000
Adult literacy: 41.9 per cent

In southern Casamance clashes between the army and an armed group increased during the first half of the year; civilians were abducted and killed. Torture was regularly used by the police and condoned by the judiciary and led to the death of at least one detainee. Despite renewed promises by the government, the trial of former Chadian President Hissène Habré did not begin.

The conflict between the army and the Democratic Forces of Casamance Movement (Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance, MFDC) intensified. In March, the army shelled MFDC positions in villages around Ziguinchor (the main city of Casamance) after continuous sporadic attacks by MFDC members against military and civilian targets. Despite the consequent rise in tension, which further undermined the 2004 peace agreement, both parties continued to declare officially that they were ready to engage in talks. These had not started by the end of 2010.

In July and August, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Dakar, the capital, to protest against recurrent power cuts.

Arrests of armed group leaders

The army briefly detained several MFDC leaders and reportedly ill-treated some of them.

  • In March, two leaders of the armed branch of the MFDC, Bourama Sambou and Boubacar Coly, were arrested in the village of Belaye. They were held for four days without charge and reportedly ill-treated at the gendarmerie of Ziguinchor.

  • In May, four MFDC leaders, Mamadou Teuw Sambou, Pape Tamsir Badji, Joseph Diatta and Ansoumana Diédhiou, were detained in Dakar after being returned from Gambia where they had spent four years in prison. They were released two weeks later without charge.

Abuses by armed groups

Several civilians, including young girls, were abducted; some were reportedly sexually abused by members of the MFDC. Soldiers were also arbitrarily killed by alleged members of the MFDC.

  • In January, Didier Coly, a former army corporal, was shot dead in the village of Bourafaye Bainouk by alleged members of the MFDC who reportedly suspected him of being an army informer.

  • In September, MFDC fighters abducted four young girls in the village of Waniak. The girls were released some days later and were reportedly sexually abused.

Torture and other ill-treatment

The police regularly tortured suspects.

  • In July, Abdoulaye Wade Yinghou, aged 29, was arrested as he walked past a demonstration in a Dakar suburb. Witnesses saw police beat him with rifle butts during his arrest and at the police station. The following day, his family were told by police officers that he had died following a seizure or illness. An autopsy revealed facial injuries and broken ribs. An inquiry was opened but its findings had not been made public by the end of the year.

Despite official promises, most of the officials responsible for acts of torture and other crimes under international law continued to enjoy impunity. Torture was condoned by the judiciary, with prosecutors refusing to open inquiries into allegations of torture and judges sentencing people on the basis of information extracted under torture.

Impunity was facilitated by the fact that judicial proceedings against members of the security forces could only take place with the authorization of the Minister of the Interior (police officers) or the Ministry of Defence (gendarmes and military personnel).

Moreover, despite a law passed in 2009 that created a National Inspector of Places of Deprivation of Liberty, a key measure to prevent torture in detention, by the end of 2010 nobody had been appointed to this position.

International justice – Hissène Habré

Ten years after some victims of Chad's former President Hissène Habré lodged a complaint against him in Senegal, no criminal proceeding had been opened by the Senegalese judiciary. The authorities continued to claim that the only obstacle was financial and that the international community should find a solution.

In July 2010, following a joint AU-EU mission, a round table was announced to finalize the financial terms of Hissène Habré's trial. The round table was held in November, and European and African donors agreed to contribute to financing the trial. However, despite a promise to an Amnesty International delegation in Dakar in October that criminal proceedings would start very soon, there was no progress by the end of the year.

Hissène Habré and his lawyers continued to challenge Senegal's jurisdiction. In May, the Community Court of Justice of ECOWAS declared Hissène Habré's 2009 complaint against Senegal admissible. The complaint claimed that the prosecution violated the prohibition of retroactive criminal law in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, even though the crimes alleged were all violations of international law when they were committed. In November, the ECOWAS Court ruled that Senegal could only try Hissène Habré if ad hoc or special jurisdictions were put in place.

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  • September 1, 2010
  • 07:31 AM

Evolving regulation

by Becky in It Takes 30

Earlier this week, I commented in passing about the ubiquity of phosphorylation as a way of regulating protein activity in eukaryotes.  It’s been estimated that somewhere in the region of 1/3 to 1/2 of proteins are — at some time, under some circumstances — phosphorylated on serine, threonine or tyrosine, causing changes in protein behavior that [...]... Read more »

  • September 1, 2010
  • 05:32 AM

Were does Resilience against Depression Reside in the Brain?

by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD

Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult hippocampus in experimental [...]

Related posts:Were is Depression Located in the Brain?
Adolescents brain and Depression
Neurobiology of Psychosocial Stress and Depression
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Thomas Frodl,, Angela Carballedo1,, Andrew J. Fagan,, Danusia Lisiecka1,, Yolande Ferguson,, Ian Daly,, James F. Meaney,, & Dermot Kelleher. (2010) Microstructural Correlates of Resilience against Major Depressive Disorder: Epigenetic Mechanisms?. Nature Precedings. info:/

  • September 1, 2010
  • 05:30 AM

A proposed model to help select the best method for oil spill clean ups

by SAGE Insight in SAGE Insight

A model to predict rate of dissolution of toxic compounds into seawater from an oil spill From International Journal of Toxicology As we witness with dismay the media images of the environmental consequences of the current large scale oil spills there is an urgency to find effective ways of dealing with such incidents. Hundreds of [...]... Read more »

  • September 1, 2010
  • 05:17 AM

How Many Unique Papers Are There In Mendeley?

by Duncan Hull in O'Really?

Mendeley is a handy piece of desktop and web software for managing and sharing research papers [1]. This popular tool has been getting a lot of attention lately, and with some impressive statistics it’s not difficult why. At the time of writing Mendeley claims to have over 36 million papers, added by just under half a [...]... Read more »

Victor Henning, & Jan Reichelt. (2008) Mendeley - A For Research?. IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 327-328. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.128

  • September 1, 2010
  • 05:00 AM

Another Good Reason to Lose the Fat: Stop Urine Leakage

by Steve Parker, M.D. in Advanced Mediterranean Diet

 For overweight and obese women, loss of between five and 10% of body weight significantly reduces urine leakage.  According to the research report in last month’s Obstetrics & Gynecology journal, weight loss should be the first approach to urine leakage in overweight and obese women.
The other word for urine leakage is incontinence: an involuntary loss of [...]... Read more »

Wing RR, Creasman JM, West DS, Richter HE, Myers D, Burgio KL, Franklin F, Gorin AA, Vittinghoff E, Macer J.... (2010) Improving urinary incontinence in overweight and obese women through modest weight loss. Obstetrics and gynecology, 116(2 Pt 1), 284-92. PMID: 20664387

  • September 1, 2010
  • 02:05 AM

Segmenting Supply Chain Strategies

by Daniel Dumke in SCRM Blog - Supply Chain Risk Management

For researchers and practitioners alike it is important to differentiate supply chain strategies.

Not only Fisher (1997) showed, that there is no one-fits-all supply chain. But what are the criteria for should be used for supply chain segmentation?
Fisher focusses on on the product only, and he concludes, that a standard/functional product should be processed by a lean supply chain and innovative products by agile supply chains.
Continue reading "Segmenting Supply Chain Strat........ Read more »

Fischer, Marshall L. (1997) What is the Right Supply Chain for Your Product?. Harvard Business Review, 105-116. info:/

  • September 1, 2010
  • 12:20 AM

The Neuroscience of Self-Inflicted Harm

by Scicurious in Neurotic Physiology

I’m sure everyone here has heard of self-inflicted harm, or self-injurious behavior. The common word for it is “cutting”, and professionals and parents often worry about its presence in adolescent populations. But the population in which self-injurious behavior is most prevalent is actually in patients (adult or adolescent) with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder (formerly manic [...]... Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 10:18 PM

The Link Between Positive Psychology and Cancer Survival

by Walter Jessen in Highlight HEALTH

The seemingly common idea that a positive outlook will help someone in poor health is currently under scientific investigation. A special supplement of the Annals of Behavioural Medicine directly addressed this topic and a recent article in the Lancet explored the relationship between positive psychology and cancer pathology.... Read more »

Ondicova K, & Mravec B. (2010) Role of nervous system in cancer aetiopathogenesis. The lancet oncology, 11(6), 596-601. PMID: 20522385

  • August 31, 2010
  • 09:18 PM

The Wednesday Post - Frogs and Antibiotics!

by James Byrne in Disease Prone

A meeting of the American Chemical Society last week a group of researchers from the United Arab Emirates University presented some data showing they had collected and analysed frog skin compounds that elicited an anti-microbial effects from a wide range of species.... Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 09:00 PM

The Bad Language of Physics

by S.C. Kavassalis in The Language of Bad Physics

One of the things I sometimes find myself writing about is the “bad” language used by physicists.  Sometimes we say Riemannian when we really should say psuedo-Riemannian, sometimes we call something a metric when it really is a line element – the kind of nitpicky pet-peeves that practically everyone has about literature in their field.  Today, I’m going to be talking about the bad language in physics in a totally different context however.
Teepee Lattices, Future-Pointing Wigwams ........ Read more »

Regge, T. (1961) General relativity without coordinates. Il Nuovo Cimento, 19(3), 558-571. DOI: 10.1007/BF02733251

Galassi, M. (1993) Lapse and shift in Regge calculus. Physical Review D, 47(8), 3254-3264. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.47.3254

Kheyfets A, LaFave NJ, & Miller WA. (1990) Null-strut calculus. II. Dynamics. Physical review D: Particles and fields, 41(12), 3637-3651. PMID: 10012308

ALPER ÜNGÖR, & ALLA SHEFFER. (2002) PITCHING TENTS IN SPACE-TIME: MESH GENERATION FOR DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science , 13(2). info:/10.1142/S0129054102001059

  • August 31, 2010
  • 08:50 PM

Seabird Bycatch via Deep Sea Longlines is Vastly Understated

by Michael Long in Phased

Eric Gilman (Hawaii Pacific University, United States) and coworkers' 15-year study strongly suggests that deep sea longlines understate seabird bycatch by approximately 50%, reinforcing the serious threat to birds posed by longline fisheries. This news feature was written on August 31, 2010.... Read more »

Brothers, N., Duckworth, A. R., Safina, C., & Gilman, E. L. (2010) Seabird Bycatch in Pelagic Longline Fisheries Is Grossly Underestimated when Using Only Haul Data. PLoS ONE, 5(8). info:/10.1371/journal.pone.0012491

  • August 31, 2010
  • 08:33 PM

The Wednesday Post (1/9/10)

by James Byrne in Disease Prone

Enough of vaccines for a moment. I want to talk about frogs, frogs and antimicrobial agents. Normally I find it hard to remain interested in anything with a central nervous system but recently two frog related stories have caught my eye. First was this little dude. Are you kidding me, that thing is tiny. Sometimes [...]... Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 07:09 PM

Barriers to Long-Term Living Kidney Donor Follow-up

by Cristy at Living Donor 101 in Living Donors Are People Too

FYI: OPTN requires indefinite follow-up of all transplant recipients, but surgeons and transplant centers have consistently opposed following up on living donors. Keep that in mind as I give a guided tour of this article. Since 1999, UNOS has required transplant programs to report information about living donors at postoperative discharge, 6months, and 12 months (10). In June 2007, this reporting requirement was extended to 24 months (11).UNOS doesn't require anything; OPTN does. UNOS is simply ........ Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 06:49 PM

Are you high or low functioning? Examples from autism research

by Michelle Dawson in The Autism Crisis

If you are autistic and ever venture or are pushed into public, a near-certainty is that you will publicly be ranked and classified by total strangers. For example, you will be assigned to the "high end" or the "low end" of the autistic spectrum, according to whether you are claimed to have a good or bad outcome (I've been claimed to have both). Non-political observers may notice how ethically and scientifically problematic this is, but there are few discussions, formal or informal, in which aut........ Read more »

Akshoomoff N, Lord C, Lincoln AJ, Courchesne RY, Carper RA, Townsend J, & Courchesne E. (2004) Outcome classification of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders using MRI brain measures. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43(3), 349-57. PMID: 15076269

Farley MA, McMahon WM, Fombonne E, Jenson WR, Miller J, Gardner M, Block H, Pingree CB, Ritvo ER, Ritvo RA.... (2009) Twenty-year outcome for individuals with autism and average or near-average cognitive abilities. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2(2), 109-18. PMID: 19455645

  • August 31, 2010
  • 06:15 PM

… Sm;)e and whole Frontal Gyrus sm;)es with you

by Rift in Psycasm

[Wherein our hero smiles, and the whole Frontal Gyrus (and parts of the Occiptal Gyrus) smile with him.] Given that I’m leaving the country tomorrow night and I’m cramming some major assignment pre-deadline, I have to keep this post light. Here’s a mind-map a colleague and I put together. It was tiny piece of assessment, [...]... Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 05:33 PM

Monkeypox infections on the increase in Africa

by geekheartsscience in geek!

The incidence of a smallpox-like disease—caused by the monkeypox virus—has increased 20-fold in the Demoncratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past 30 years, according to new research published online in the journal PNAS. The findings suggest that, as smallpox vaccination programmes ceased in the DRC in 1980, people are now immunologically ‘naïve’ to orthopoxviruses [...]... Read more »

Anne W. Rimoin, Prime M. Mulembakani, Sara C. Johnston, James O. Lloyd Smith, Neville K. Kisalu, Timothee L. Kinkela, Seth Blumberg, Henri A. Thomassen, Brian L. Pike, Joseph N. Fair, Nathan D. Wolfe, Robert L. Shongo, Barney S. Graham, Pierre Formenty, E, & Major. (2010) Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination campaigns cease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005769107

  • August 31, 2010
  • 03:58 PM

The Clinical Neuroscience iPad Library

by William Yates, M.D. in Brain Posts

Carrying around a library of pdf files has now become easy with the introduction of the iPad and net book computers.  It is now possible to keep a library of key references that can be accessed at the patient bedside for reference use.  This brings up the question of what pdf files are most valuable for clinicians.   I have spent some time thinking about this and elected to come up with a dozen suggestions.  The criteria for selection included:Valuable for clinicians caring ........ Read more »

Davies P, & Koppel J. (2009) Mechanism-based treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 11(2), 159-69. PMID: 19585951

  • August 31, 2010
  • 03:35 PM

Measuring changes during graded exposure & acceptance treatment

by Bronwyn Thompson in Healthskills: Skills for Healthy Living

I have been pondering about the best way to monitor ‘Matt’s progress during graded exposure therapy for his avoidance of activities involving back movement. I introduced you to Matt yesterday. He’s a ‘man’s man’, a real bloke who, for the past four years since he had surgery for a prolapsed disc, has avoided things like … Read more... Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 03:32 PM

A Finch’s Ways to Find a Mate: 1) Peacock It Out, 1a) Meet as Many Friends as You Can

by Michael Gutbrod in A Scientific Nature

For those of you out there moping over how your disadvantageous (you might call it unlucky) genetic makeup has led to your not so attractive (others might call it ugly) appearance, there may be hope for you yet!  In the animal world, scientists Kevin P. Oh and Alexander V. Badyaev have found that more social [...]... Read more »

  • August 31, 2010
  • 02:58 PM

Unsafe Haven

by Journal Watch Online in Journal Watch Online

Being big and hairy is looking scary. The number of large mammals living in nearly 80 African reserves has dropped by more than half since the 1970s, according to a new study. Some reserves, however, appear to be helping big mammals hang on.
Protected areas (PAs) have become a major focus of conservation efforts around […] Read More »... Read more »

Craigie, I., Baillie, J., Balmford, A., Carbone, C., Collen, B., Green, R., & Hutton, J. (2010) Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas. Biological Conservation, 143(9), 2221-2228. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.06.007

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Architect Michael Marshall, AIA, was called by an acquaintance—telecommunications expert Paul Alston—last year and asked to design an accessory for the iPad. Marshall and his partner Paola Moya not only gained a new client from that phone call, but Alston has now joined the architects in launching a new product design company. Marshall and Moya already had discussed creating a products division that was separate from their architecture firm, and they had completed drawings for simple products like cutlery and dishes. Alston’s request and subsequent collaboration pushed them into establishing the new company, called InNuevo. Marshall describes InNuevo’s mission as producing “cutting-edge, uniquely designed products to accommodate and improve customers’ everyday activities through elegant design solutions.”

InNuevo’s latest innovative offering is the DOCKr, which is set to release in the fall with a retail price of $89.99. A docking station for an iPad plus a wireless keyboard, DOCKr is “a product design idea that leverages the utility of tablet devices with the advantages of laptop computers,” according to the company. The lightweight polycarbonate docking station holds any Apple tablet in both a horizontal or vertical orientation and remains open at various angles for the best viewing options. It also can be used without the keyboard as an iPad presentation stand. The hard plastic material acts as a speaker enhancer for better sound quality and protects the devices as a traveling case. Any of the five translucent colors can be personalized with a logo or name on the back cover. DOCKr is being manufactured in the U.S. and is available for pre-order on the InNuevo website.

Verbatim with Michael Marshall, AIA

How is designing a product different from designing a building?
It is similar (but at a tiny, tiny scale) to designing a building in that there’s a program or function for it. In this case I was studying an iPad to design an accessory and the idea for a docking station rather than just a case came from our partner, Paul Alston, who’s in IT.

We wanted to create a product that let people use the tablet as a notebook. From the start, we said we didn’t want any electronics involved. We wanted to keep it as simple as possible to help us get the patent quickly and to get it produced. Apple already has a wireless keyboard that a lot of people have, so we designed it to fit the Apple keyboard and the iPad.

We took these ready-made products and created the most memorable design that allows the two to speak to each other and act as one unit. The DOCKr makes it easier for people to carry the products or use them on a desktop. We knew we wanted to let people use the iPad in either position. Also if you’re not worried about using the keyboard and just need a presentation stand you can rotate the bottom of the DOCKr and use it that way. We purposely  made it translucent so you can see the iPad and keyboard as stand-alone products. Other products of this type really disguise the products, but Apple worked hard to design these elegant and beautiful products, so we just wanted to be the glue between the two of them. It’s functional and also a way to let people know you still have an Apple product.

What was the process for producing the DOCKr?
We started with sketches and then a video to show how it moves. Then we went into 3D design programs to refine and refine and refine. We took these drawings and found a patent attorney. They took our information and turned them into the proper drawings for the patent.  After that, we started discussions with manufacturers and one thing we decided early was to have it made in the U.S. Our product is designed and made in America. When you look at what President Obama is saying about how it’s important to have things made in the states to help make our country sustainable that’s an important aspect of this to us. We talk about sustainability for buildings, but we need to look at that for products and how we can contribute to economic sustainability.

Do you have plans for other product designs?
Yes. We set up a separate LLC to handle product design called InNuevo. The DOCKr is the first product and now we’re looking at opportunities for other home products. We’re hoping to do a line for the dining room and kitchen and have started working with a chef on this collaboration.

As a firm, we enjoy looking at total design and finding opportunities outside architecture to handle this economic conundrum we’re in. It’s about finding ways to combine art and commerce. As architects, we have this incredible training and all of these technological tools, so why not take advantage of that to complement our architecture business by doing other types of design.


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Builder: Tom Spring Construction, Otter Rock, Ore.
Carpentry: Paul Jordan Custom Carpentry, Salem, Ore.
Architect: Nathan Good Architects, PC, Salem
Size: 2,185 square feet
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Certification: LEED-Gold

The Hancock home reflects the owners’ love of rustic buildings such as barns, mining structures, and historic lodges. Douglas fir reclaimed from a 1930s warehouse was used for columns and beams, flooring, cabinets, paneling, doors, and interior trim. For added nostalgia, metal bolts and split-ring connectors from the disassembled warehouse were re-purposed into towel bars, coat hooks, cabinet pulls, and guardrails.

In addition to the look of the home, the clients and the design team focused on energy-efficient strategies including a well-insulated building envelope, an ultra-efficient heating and hot water system, reduced lighting and electrical loads, extensive natural daylighting, and a Zehnder HRV system.

The residence was built for durability and comfort in its harsh coastal environment, where 80 inches of rainfall a year is not uncommon and high winds pound horizontal rain at the sides of the buildings. In response to the threat of rising sea levels, the floor of the home was elevated 2 feet above the natural grade of the site. As a precaution to protect the home in the event of a tsunami, the side of the home facing the coast was constructed with a 4-foot high concrete wall to resist the surge and impact forces of debris.

Other sustainable features include:
--Marvin double-pane, low-E, argon-filled windows with a U-value of 0.28
--Closed-cell spray foam for sealing cavities around the top and bottom plate, door, windows, and other penetrations of the building envelope
--Ultra-efficient Daikin-Altherma air-to-water heat pump produces hot water for the radiant-heated floors and domestic hot water
--Salvaged kitchen and bathroom sinks


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Revere High Valedictorian to Attend MIT

June 4, 2014

Though only there for a short time, Karina Kalinina can still recall the rigid strictness of her suburban Moscow school when she was in the first grade.

The Revere High School (RHS) valedictorian remembers penmanship was taught with fervor, and how one small mistake could lead to a major penalty.

“Penmanship was stressed there and its very extreme in Russian schools,” she recalled. “I remember that I misspelled a word and used white out to correct it and ended up getting 4 out of 5 for that. It was very harsh. I wouldn’t have been a valedictorian there.”

Maybe not, but what Kalinina has become in Revere is perhaps much better – a focused student who thinks for herself, has endless academic interests and is headed next fall to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Kalinina came to America from Russia when she was 8, in 2004. The family came not for economic reasons, but rather to experience more of a democratic country and to allow their children better access to educational opportunities. Her father had been a biophysicist in Russia and, earlier, had been a scientist in the military. Once here, he began to work as a translator of technical documents for American companies. First, they were in California for four years, and then they moved to Texas for two years.

Finally, her parents, Boris Kalinin and Olga Kalinina, moved to True Street – just a short walk from RHS – when Karina was starting her freshman year.

It was a move that was also to provide better access to education.

“I think the primary motivation in moving to Revere is that the Boston area has so many top universities here,” she said. “I think it was very, very much for me to be able to go to some of the top universities like MIT…America is well known for its universities.”

And getting to one of those universities seemed to be the top order of business for Kalinina, who thrived at RHS, whether starring on the Debate Team or tackling Advanced Placement Calculus or even just learning to think for herself.

That was very different than Russian schools, she said.

“There is a real focus on memorization; many people sometimes say in Russian schools you wouldn’t be encouraged to think on your own or to interpret information, but rather to spit out information you read in a textbook,” she said. “If you had question on something, you would be encouraged to say what the textbook says and not what your own ideas are on the subject.”

That sort of learning is something that Kalinina took a complete turn away from, aided by the Debate Team and RHS Teacher Mark Fellowes.

“Mr. Fellowes often says that it’s important to allow students to think on their own and have their own ideas,” she said. “Even things I don’t have a strong interest in, like history, I’ve been able to develop my own ideas as to why things happened in history. That’s been very important to my development as a person.”

What did interest Kalinina at RHS was a Calculus class taught by Cheryl Szymanski.

Through her interest in math, and her lifelong curiosity in biology, Kalinina developed a desire to research artificial intelligence and neuroscience – particularly the brain.

“Now I realize science has clear objectives for me in the future because with science and math you can describe the world,” she said. “I am interested in biology because I want to know more about the human brain. It’s an area we haven’t explored fully. Physics is interesting to me because I like mathematics.”

And thanks to her hard work, the 18-year-old will get to pursue those studies in Cambridge at MIT – something she thought she had missed out on.

“I couldn’t believe it at first when I got the e-mail,” she said. “It was March 14. I applied early there and didn’t get in. I thought I wasn’t going to get in, but I did.”

Kalinina will graduate at the top of her class this Thursday, June 5, at Suffolk Downs. She is the daughter of Boris and Olga Kalinin. She has one brother, Dmitriy, 23, and a younger sister, Viktorya, 11 – who is at the Lincoln School and will attend the Rumney Marsh Academy next year.

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2. Nikon D810    $2,997 - $4,889

Nikon D4s

3. Nikon D4s    $8,700

Nikon D5500

4. Nikon D5500    $1,000

Nikon Coolpix S6900

5. Nikon Coolpix S6900    $170 - $215

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