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I mean the ones that hang on the walls: the information they impart is more valuable than we might think!
Take these two for example:
What these indicate may be obvious, however, a sign's effectiveness lies in more than just its message: its placement, wording and relevance ought to be taken into account, else navigating social protocol at Church can become awkward. Therefore, it's probably not the best idea to situate either of these signs near a baby-changing table where a standing individual's head can easily obscure them. Otherwise disaster of hysterical proportions might ensue. Imagine the following scenario with me, if you will, and yes, it is based on actual events:
A short-statured elderly lady; demure, reverently veiled, perhaps slipping a bit in terms of her situational awareness heads innocently towards the bathrooms. As she nears their vicinity she notices an open door, and a young man changing diapers at the wall station. At his side stands his wife and on his other side: the sign that might have changed what happens next. That poor soul, someone's dear grandmother, doesn't see any sign, only a baby being cleaned and a doorway leading to a sink in a tiled room. She doesn't look around, doesn't even notice that she's passed another door situated adjacent to a blue placard whose white letters spell 'Women.' No, an unforeseen surprise awaits her just through that open doorway, and, before the young man and his wife can stop what has happened, a profusely apologetic, completely cheek colored older women is quickly exiting the men's room before dissolving, along with those around her, into muffled hysterics at the back of a chapel.
Moral of the story: placement of a sign is as important as its message.
But messages are important, take this one, for example:
The fine print, which you can't see in the picture reads: otherwise you look like a weirdo. Seriously though - would that some people really took the time to read this one so that they could avoid looking a bit strange when they sit in the crying room by themselves!
Of course, if they are aware that they're in the crying room, then that's a different story. To begin with, if you know that you're sitting in a space designated for parents and their screaming children, then why on earth would you want to be there on your own (And further, why be annoyed when children in there are noisy?) Although many crying rooms may be located closer to the altar in some churches, do the muffled sounds of the mass and the raisins flying around the room really lend itself to any sort of profound spiritual experience? Wouldn't one prefer to hear the liturgy clearly and not have to fold one's legs every few seconds to avoid Billy-the-Toe-Crusher ?
I know I sure would.
The wording of signs at Church is also important. It took me a couple of times reading and re-reading this one before I finally figured it out:
Either way, this sign may still come in handy if anyone is ever tempted just to take off their shoes or haul in their groceries and just leave them unattended for awhile. 'Cause you just never know, you know?
As communication with parishioners via posted signs goes, placement, message and wording of cannot be underestimated. But they can also date the church, and we may want to consider dispensing with some altogether. And so I give you this treasure which is still a very common sight in most churches:
I realize that when the Church went all space-agey back in the 1950s and started replacing devotional wax candles with push-button candles, it might have been a bit confusing for some folks who stood before a shrine quite bewildered at what to do in the absence of candle wicks. They may have genuinely needed this placard back then, but, to be sure, we've come a long way. In this day and age we "get" buttons. Just take a look at this sign for confirmation:
Clearly if we know how to be careful with our cell phone buttons, we're going to be okay with pushing the 'candle buttons' at Church. Well yes, but what do we do with these placards you may ask? Meh, keep them, I say. They testify to a different time, and I appreciate that someone had to make a whole mess of them once (are they still made?). I'm just saying that I'm not sure they're necessary anymore.
The cell phone sign, on the other hand, we definitely need. As exciting as it is to hear the theme to the A-Team begin during mass, I doubt Christ ever used a ring tone to impart his message (and, as Catholics, shouldn't we always imagine our lives set to action-themed music anyway? I think so!). So please, please turn off the cell phone! The first 'ring' is annoying; if your phone goes off a second time: there simply isn't a penance for that. A third time and we all have to go to confession for thinking murderous thoughts - unless we're in the crying room, that is, in which case we're stuck in screaming child bliss. Read the signs at Church, please, and make yours and everyone else's experience there a bit more pleasant in a way that extends into eternity or, at least, into the correct bathroom stall! | <urn:uuid:fa39e45e-1bdb-4154-80d7-b9080f8ac4be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thetheologyoflaundry.blogspot.com/2011/08/reading-signs-at-mass.html | 2013-06-20T09:02:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975274 | 1,116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
March 21st, 2011 by thetvchick
The day is finally here! Tonight is the season finale of pretty-little-liars and I am confident it will be epic. I’m also confident that we will find out some answers to our big questions but not necessarily who A is or who killed Ali. Whatever the case may be, I can’t wait! I recently had the chance to catch up with the little liars themselves, and they had some intriguing things to say. Troian Bellisario, who plays Spencer, talked about the big finale, Spencer’s relationship with Melissa and Ian, and her new boyfriend Toby.
There is so much going on with Spencer! What can you tell us now that she’s a person of interest in Ali’s murder case.
Just that Spencer has a lot in her history that she wishes wasn’t there and it’s all coming to the surface.
What’s going to happen with her and Melissa’s relationship going forward?
It’s so hard because they just hit a new bond. And Spencer wanted to protect her and Spencer wanted to be closer and Melissa wanted that too, and then Ian got in the way again. And it became known that Spencer had a relationship with Ian, which I think she really wished Melissa had never known and it’s going to be a really big struggle. And especially with the fact that Spencer still believes that Ian is guilty and now she’s going to be the aunt to his child and it’s terrifying for her. In her eyes, she’s living with a murderer.
And what’s coming up with Spencer and Ian?
Ohhh, a lot more really tense private moments and a lot more pretending to be cool in front of the family.
Oh, CREEPY moments!
Like the milk sipping scene!
What was up with the milk? I made fun of him for a day with that milk. I was like “Get out of here with the milk!”
And what’s coming up for Spencer and Toby after that big fun house scene? I’m liking them!
I’m so glad that you are liking them. Just a lot of really great things. Toby is the only person who doesn’t tell a lie in Rosewood, and I think Spencer needs that.
Do you have a favorite moment from filming the first season?
There were so many great moments. There was one day where Keegan, who plays Toby, and I — we were super bored, they were filming another scene — and we snuck into the school’s music room and just jammed. And then most of the crew was jamming with us. And our set P.A. had to be like “Everybody off the instruments, we’re trying to shoot here!” And it was awesome.
And what do you want to see from Spencer going forward in season two?
Oh, well there’s a whole storyline about what happens between Spencer and Ali after Spencer follows her out. I want to see more of that.
What can you tell us about the big finale?
I can just tell you that it’s really crazy. If you thought that the mid-season finale was crazy with Mona’s party, things just — Spencer had this one line, I think it was in episode 11, when we first got back and Hanna was in the hospital — and she says it about Hanna but she says “This began with a murder. We were crazy to think it wouldn’t end up here.” So you got to watch out.
I know you obviously can’t spoil a lot but will we get answers to the big questions?
You’re totally going to get answers. But answers only lead to more questions.
Unrelated to the show, I know you want to be involved with The Hunger Games [Ed Note: They recently cast Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, but I think Troian could be great in another role in the movie]. Have there been any developments with that?
I just love the book series and I think that they have an opportunity with it to make a really great film. And if I could be a part of it, it’d be amazing. If not, I’m just so eager to see what they do with it.
Be sure to tune in tonight at 8 pm to ABC Family for the season finale of Pretty Little Liars!Tweet | <urn:uuid:bbac568b-dbde-4373-a46e-508a65cb7483> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thetvchick.com/interviews/interview-troian-bellisario-spencer-hastings-from-pretty-little-liars/ | 2013-06-20T09:17:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981226 | 951 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Cosplayer ninjagal6 > Costume of Hatsune Miku from Vocaloid 2
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
- Shirt: Thrift store find. Buttons were replaced to match my socks
Bow Tie: fabric left over from Sasami's pants. its a long rectangle for the neck band, a stout rectangle for the bow, and a strip to enclose the bow. there are two very small snaps to keep it on
suspenders: thrift store find
Gloves: white gloves were bought at the fashion district, black bands are made from an old headband.
shorts: I forget where they came from originally, but I sewed the white band on to the bottoms.
socks: Black and white socks from foot traffic. Then they were dyed with Dyson tropical blue dye using the hot water method.
- Personal Thoughts:
- So much fun running around in this thing!
I kept my ponytails laid on top of the grand piano in my house because I had some half theory that the ponytails wouldn't tangle. and maybe I was right since i'm not having tangle issues with the ponytails even though they are very long...
- Styling Notes
- the wig is my favorite part of this. I used it as a test of my skills so I went kind of all out on it.... base wigs: 1 Jaguar in Light Copper Red and another in Teal. I also got long clips in the same colors. Base: The back wefts of both wigs were removed and the blue was sewn onto the cap of the orange wig. Then the front third of the blue wig was removed and sewn underneath the front of the orange. the long bits are wefts removed from the ponytail clips. I then styled and cut they layers so each color blended the way I wanted it to. ponytails: half of each ponytail was removed and then the individual wefts were sewn back in and re attached to the claw clips. then each weft was layered to give the best peeks at the blue undersides.
- Wig Review
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Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
Bob Arum is saying that it's possible Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez could be in different fights on the same card in April.
It looks as if Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez could be returning to the ring in April, though not against each other. In an article from the Manila Bulletin, Bob Arum says that the two rivals could square off with separate foes on a doubleheader-style bill, a tease of what could come later if the pair does indeed have a rematch in the fall.
Here is an excerpt from the Manila Bulletin:
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum told the Bulletin on Wednesday that Pacquaio has already indicated his desire to return to the ring in April following the sixth-round knockout to Marquez last year in Las Vegas.
“While I was on vacation (in Cape Town, South Africa), (Pacquiao adviser) Michael (Koncz) reached out to (Top Rank matchmaker) Bruce Trampler, saying they want to fight in April,” said Arum from his Las Vegas residence.
Arum said Fernando Beltran of Zanfer Promotions is due to meet with Marquez about the possibility of him and Pacquiao appearing in a double-header against separate foes.
Arum said the proposed double main event should serve as a teaser to a planned slambang September showdown between Pacquiao and Marquez, saying it will be held during the height of the celebration of Mexican Independence.
“This is a more important celebration among Mexicans compared to the Cinco de Mayo (festivities),” said the 81-year-old Arum.
Arum has been known to make some pretty grand statements (frankly, all promoters have) so this should be taken with a big grain of salt. Having two of the sport's best-known fighters on the same card in two different fights is an awfully ambitious thing to do. The reason is that each man could draw his own strong gate. Promoters are typically not crazy about stacking cards because if, say, Pacquiao could sellout the MGM Grand by himself, why put another big name on the undercard when that other big name could fill up a different place by himself?
Golden Boy recently put Canelo Alvarez on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Miguel Cotto undercard against Shane Mosley in a move that goes against that line of thinking. They had Canelo fight Mosley in the MGM Grand, same location as the main event. This was different than when Canelo fought Alfonso Gomez on the pay-per-view undercard of Mayweather - Victor Ortiz. Canelo actually faced Gomez at the Staples Center in front of his own large crowd that night while the rest of the televised card was in the MGM Grand. In other words, two stars drawing two separate big gates equals more money. Therefore, I think it's wise to take a "wait and see" approach to this whole scenario.
Another issue for Pacquiao is the fact that he is currently on a medical suspension by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for 120 days. He is totally banned from any contact (sparring, for example) for 90 days. However, the suspension would be finished by the third week of April, just before this proposed card would take place.
Personally, I would be surprised if this happens. For one, with Mayweather coming back on May 4 it only leaves two weeks between this card and his. That would be very close together for two competing pay-per-views that each cost a good sum of money for the consumer.
Marquez has also said that he is considering retirement. It would truly be a great way for the Mexican great to end his career but, happy endings in boxing are seldom seen. The monetary lure of a fifth fight with Pacquiao may be too much to dismiss, regardless of how well he has managed his money up to this point.
And, finally, there is Pacquiao. Will he return so quickly after being knocked unconscious? And against whom?
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|Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocotts Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.|
|Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.|
Canning.The Friend of humanity and the Knifegrinder.
| My story being done,|
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.
Shakespeare.Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (The Moors defence before the Senate.)
|Her whole life is a well writ story.|
Davenport.The City Nightcap, Act I. Scene 1.
|No story, sir, I beseech you.|
Suckling.The Goblings, Act I. | <urn:uuid:adfb1fc8-6dae-402e-b509-6a67dfc69ebb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bartleby.com/77/1491.html | 2013-06-20T08:39:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.768416 | 157 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Marty Fedmowski Wins Indiana State Invitational
Oct. 5, 2002
Senior Marty Fedmowski continued to establish his credentials as one of the top distance runners in the United States with a first place individual finish at the Indiana State Cross Country Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 5. His impressive performance highlighted a day that saw the #12-ranked Butler men's cross country squad capture a third place team finish, while the Butler women's distance squad posted a fifth place finish.
Fedmowski out-raced the 178-runner field with a time of 24:26.8 on the 8K LaVern Gibson Championship Course, the same layout where the 2002 NCAA Cross Country Championship will be held. He finished nine seconds ahead of runner-up Peter Kiprono of Alabama.
Butler's men also picked up a "Top 10" individual finish from senior Mark Tucker, who came in eighth in 24:44.8. Rounding out Butler's top five runners were junior Brian Dunn, who finished 26th in 25:16.9, junior Steve Vernon, who came in 31st in 25:24.2, and senior Lennon Wicks, who wound up 52nd in 25:42.1. Senior Brad Bennett finished 64th in 25:53.7, while sophomore Bill Peterman was 86th in 26:42.7.
Colorado State won the men's title with 58 points, while Indiana finished second with 83. The Bulldogs tied with Nebraska for third place with 118 points. Navy finished fifth in the 20-team field, while #6-ranked Villanova came in sixth.
Butler's women, paced by senior Amber Gascoigne, turned in their strongest performance of the season and posted their highest team finish. Gascoigne finished seventh in the 6K women's race in 21:40.7, while senior Kelly Moring came in 22nd in 22:03.9.
Completing Butler's "Top 5" were senior Lissa Vogley, who came in 42nd in 22:42.5, freshman Maria Beitel, who was 57th in 23:04.8, and senior Bethany Gaskill, who placed 59th in 23:06.4. Junior Rholonda Ash came in 73rd in 23:26.2, while sophomore Monika Schneider was 74th in 23:27.7.
Arkansas won the women's crown, while Michigan finished second in the 20-team field. Villanova came in third, followed by Colorado State and the Bulldogs. Butler had the highest team finish among the six teams from Indiana. | <urn:uuid:07b91db7-fdca-466f-bbab-1c18fd8cb200> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.butlersports.com/sports/c-xc/recaps/100502aaa.html | 2013-06-20T09:09:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958128 | 537 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hoping to better serve organizations practicing the emerging art of DevOps, BMC Software has acquired application release automation provider VaraLogix.
VaraLogix's software provides the ability to package a multitier Java and .Net Web application so it can be automatically deployed in operational environments, along with needed databases, application servers and other required software. It recognizes common operating environments upon which applications run, including Web servers such as Apache and Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server), databases such as Oracle's and IBM DB2, and application servers such as JBoss, and WebSphere.
DevOps is the emerging practice of having an organization's development and operations teams work more closely together so they can develop software more quickly and with fewer bugs. The practice is especially favored by providers of Internet services, such as Etsy, which must continually develop and release new features to their services in order to stay competitive.
VaraLogix' flagship software, VaraLogix Q, will join a number of other DevOps-friendly software programs that BMC has already acquired. In 2010, BMC purchased Phurnace, which offered software for managing enterprise Java applications. And in October 2011, BMC purchased StreamStep, which provided a way to coordinate complex release schedules through a central Web console.
BMC is planning on incorporating the VaraLogix software into a new, as-of-yet, unnamed lifecycle management software product. "We believe this new product that will be a comprehensive solution for all the problems," DevOps teams face, said Jody Hunt, BMC's lead solutions marketing manager for DevOps. He noted that BMC now has software for process management, deployment automation and configuration management.
VaraLogix' software has been used by Apple, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle and Wells Fargo, among others. It has also established partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat and Oracle. Prior to starting VaraLogix, the VaraLogix' management team -- including CEO Tim Wall and chief technology officer Robin Fuller -- started build management software provider Build Forge, which IBM purchased in 2006. | <urn:uuid:6760a117-03cb-4f10-9c24-11cf7f2c31bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cio.de/index.cfm?pid=156&pk=2889856&p=1 | 2013-06-20T08:50:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938765 | 426 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Truth about the Obesity Debate
A growing number of public health activists are downplaying individual responsibility while blaming food and food companies for rising obesity rates. To make their spurious points, they spread a number of half-truths and myths about obesity.
- Activists argue that “junk” foods, such as cupcakes, potato chips, and fast food, are uniquely responsible for the obesity epidemic, even though they sometimes deliver fewer calories than the “real foods” activists promote.
- Kelly Brownell first proposed the idea of a “Twinkie tax” on foods that he deems unhealthy or “bad.” He has directed much of his advocacy towards convincing governments to tax sugar-sweetened drinks.
- Television’s Dr. Oz argued that there are chemicals called “obesogens” that are uniquely responsible for obesity. Dr. Oz also classified farm-raised salmon as an “obesogen” and recommended that his readers eat the usually more expensive wild variety.
What does the research say? A hefty number of studies has shown that the trend of rising obesity rates can be attributed not to increased intake of food in general (or any particular food) or to the influence of restaurants, but rather to less physical activity compounded by a variety of other factors that are constantly being explored.
- Researchers writing in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2004 found: “It is often assumed that the increase in pediatric obesity has occurred because of an increase in caloric intake. However, the data do not substantiate this.”
- Researchers writing in the Lancet in a 2005 study discovered: “These results suggest that habitual activity plays an important role in weight gain, with no parallel evidence that energy intake had a similar role … The composite findings from NGHS so far indicate that the drastic decline in habitual activity during adolescence might be a major factor in the doubling of the rate of obesity development in the USA in the past two decades, since no concomitant increase in energy intake was apparent.”
- In 2003, then-FDA Commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan told audience members in a speech at the National Food Policy Conference: “So it’s perhaps surprising that, in a debate that has often focused on foods alone, actual levels of caloric intake among the young haven’t appreciably changed over the last twenty years.”
- A 1999 Report of the Surgeon General on Physical Activity and Health found: “Only about one-half of U.S. young people (ages 12-21 years) regularly participate in vigorous physical activity. One-fourth report no vigorous physical activity.”
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation said in 2002, “More than a third of young people in grades 9-12 do not regularly engage in vigorous physical activity. Daily participation in high school physical education classes dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 29 percent in 1999.”
- Researchers writing in the publication Diabetes Care in 2004 discovered: “There was a steep inverse gradient between fitness and mortality in this cohort of men with documented diabetes, and this association was independent of BMI … Obese men with fitness levels greater than the lowest quartile were at no increased risk for mortality when compared with men in the reference group.”
- As society has become much more mechanized, we spend less and less energy on everyday tasks and chores. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic calculated that replacing manual chores — like washing dishes, mowing the lawn, and cleaning the car — with their automated versions can increase monthly energy expenditure by 8,800 calories, which could add up to 30 pounds a year.
- A 2010 Cato Institute Study challenged the belief that increased restaurant dining is the cause of American obesity and indicated that policies focused on reducing caloric intake at restaurants are unlikely to reduce obesity substantially. The study found that increasing taxes on restaurant food may alter where people eat, but is unlikely to curb an individual’s desire to overeat.
What’s the bottom line for me? Instead of focusing solely on food, focus on physical activity. The obesity equation has two parts: energy intake and energy output. Put another way, weight gain (or loss) is simply a matter of an imbalance of “calories in” and “calories out.”
- Citizens must encourage schools to increase the frequency and duration of physical education classes and recess, during which kids can expend energy.
- Being overweight isn’t in and of itself unhealthy. A growing body of research documents that people who are “fit and fat” have a lower mortality rate over a given time period than those who are thin and unfit.
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Brandon Kinnie bobbles a pass. Kinnie has been such a wonderful spokesperson for Nebraska - I want him to play well enough to get NFL money. Come On, Kinnie!
As always, this is my postgame overreaction. It's not intended to be a thorough review of the game, but a quick (and possibly EMOTIONAL) look at what took place.
If you're a Fresno State fan, I imagine that you're saying "What if Ameer Abdullah doesn't make a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, and then Taylor Martinez doesn't take that speed option at the end of the game for a long touchdown, and what if Napoleon would have had a B-52 at the Battle of Waterloo?
The first half was a mess. As fans we tend to pay too much attention to what the team is doing on the field, but as I watched the game I wondered what the hell Tim Beck expected of the offense. He kept trying to turn Martinez into an accurate passer, and that's not who Martinez is. The passing game in the second half was much more successful because of something that I called ‘area passing' in the game threads - having Martinez throw the long ball in the air and let his speedy receivers run underneath it.
When the other team stacks the box, and you have guys that can burn the field, what what you do? Good for Tim Beck for using the tools at hand.
If you were looking for sustained drives, that achievement still hasn't been unlocked yet. On the other hand, if you play EA Sports NCAA Football like my 12-year old, you loved this game. Just throw the ball up and someone will catch it. Woohooo! Then you get to the tough games and well, that doesn't work so much. And that's the main worry everyone has, right?
The problem? The offense is still too dependent upon Martinez, but I think it made some improvements. The offensive line played poorly in the first half, but somewhat made up for it in the second. On the drive in which Martinez scored on the speed option to put the game away, the line was making all or nearly all of their blocks. Hence why Rex Burkhead was getting great gains on the ground that we hadn't seen all night.
If you thought the defense played poorly, let me give you a different perspective. Carl Pelini got flat-out outcoached most of this game. Evidence of that was a Pelini blitz that was perfectly blocked by Fresno State late in the game. You don't get that without knowing exactly what your opponent is going to do, teaching your players and then putting it into action in the game. Good for Fresno State.
Brandon Kinnie. At this point, I think Kinnie has two catches for seven yards. This is not good. You might be included to say bench him and put in Jamal Turner, but we'll need Kinnie's physical nature for those tough games down the road (see: sustained drives).
Sustained drives. Lack of a consistent running game. It is a concern, but when the other team stacks the box you can't just wish a ground game to happen. End of the game, though, when we needed to run out the clock the ground game came through. The line made their blocks, the Burkhead was turned loose, and most importantly, Martinez put the game away on a speed option that was SET UP by the previous running plays.
That speed option - if you're thinking, well, it worked so well on that play why didn't we run it all night, and that's the key to putting the game away. I'm not sure why Beck didn't run it all night, but when it happened at that point in the game, Fresno State was so not ready for it. They had sold out to stop another Burkhead power run. That speed option was like an ingredient in a recipe. By itself, it means nothing. Take it out of the recipe, though, and you've made something completely different - "It's missing something", you say as you take the first taste.
If you have the chance, go back and watch that play. The most beautiful part of it is watching Burkhead as Martinez hits the corner. Burkhead knows he's gone, and in way, waves goodbye. It's just wonderful. It's worth all the angst the game caused in the first half. It was something that Shawn Watson never did, ever. It was progress.
Was this a good game? It was a typical "Fresno State takes on a BCS school on the road" game. The Bulldogs were tough. Derek Carr will be a future NFL quarterback like his brother before him (and hopefully won't get drafted by a team that allows him to be beaten to death in his first two seasons). Robbie Rouse ran all over our Blackshirts.
Back to that bit about Carl Pelini being outcoached, how the defense performed, and the season ahead. How many teams will Nebraska face the rest of the season with the combination of quarterback and running back that Fresno State possessed? Wisconsin, with Russell Wilson, Montee Ball and James White. Michigan State, with Kirk Cousins and Edwin Baker. And... uh.... uh...
Maybe that's giving Derek Carr more credit than he's worth right now, only time will tell.
Bottom line - it was a rough game, but we saw a Nebraska team that's evolving into a better team. It may not be the team you dream about, but that's the beauty of college football. For all the predicting we do, the projecting, what comes out at the other end may be something so unexpected. Tim Beck showed tonight that he could adjust to make it better. Shawn Watson never did. | <urn:uuid:a1c043d1-6dbe-4f98-9522-0c6845414e3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cornnation.com/2011/9/11/2417653/nebraska-cornhuskers-vs-fresno-state-bulldogs-postgame-offense | 2013-06-20T09:09:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98226 | 1,185 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
-- Catholic News Agency
Study Finds 84 Percent Of World Has Religious Affiliation
WASHINGTON D.C., December 19 (CNA) .- More than 80 percent of people around the world - about 5.8 billion individuals - identify with a religious group, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
"Christians number 2.2 billion, or about one-in-three" of the 6.9 billion people in the world in 2010, the study found, adding that about "half of all Christians are Catholic."
Released Dec. 18, the study examined censuses, surveys and population registers to determine the size, geographical distribution and age of the world's major religions.
As of 2012, the world contained about 1.6 billion Muslims, 1 billion Hindus, almost 500 million Buddhists and 14 million Jews, the analysis said.
Furthermore, over 400 million people, or six percent of the global population, adhere to folk or religious traditions. Less than one percent - about 58 million people - belong to other religions, including Jainism, Sikhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Wicca and the Baha'i faith.
In addition, the study revealed that approximately one-in-six people throughout the world have no religious affiliation. Numbering about 1.1 billion, this group is the third largest globally, behind Christians and Muslims.
"However, many of the religiously unaffiliated have some religious beliefs," the study said, including a belief in God or participation in religious observances.
In six countries - the Czech Republic, North Korea, Estonia, Japan, Hong Kong and China - the religiously unaffiliated make up the majority of the population. China is home to 62 percent of the world's religiously unaffiliated people.
Overall, the unaffiliated are about equal in number to the Catholic population of the world.
"Overwhelmingly, Hindus and Christians tend to live in countries where they are in the majority," the study noted, adding that Muslims and the religiously unaffiliated also live in countries in which they are the predominant group, but by a smaller margin.
Out of 232 countries and territories in the study, 157 have Christian majorities, the analysis explained.
"Christianity has spread far from its historical origins and is geographically widespread," it found, observing that 99 percent of Christians live outside the region where the religion started.
About 37 percent of Christians are members of Protestant, Anglican, independent or nondenominational churches, while 12 percent are Orthodox.
Other traditions that view themselves as Christian - such as Mormons, Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses - make up about one percent of the Christian population.
As a whole, Christians have a median age of 30, slightly higher than the overall global population median of 28.
In addition, the analysis revealed that Christianity has roughly equal numbers in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa.
"Of the major religious groups covered in this study, Christians are the most evenly dispersed," it said.
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Travel expert suggests tipping can 'make life a lot easier'
It is always important to understand the culture and climate of a destination before travelling there. With this in mind, a travel expert at Lonely Planet has suggested that people on solo holidays to Morocco tip more than they would at home.
Stefanie Di Trocchio, a commissioning editor for the travel and tourism organisation, noted that it is part of the culture to give a bit of change to anyone that helps you out.
"Tipping is an integral part of Moroccan life, and a few dirham for a service willingly rendered can make life a lot easier," she noted on the Lonely Planet website.
"Tipping between five per cent and ten per cent of a restaurant bill is appropriate. Also tip taxis, guides and small boys who help you find your way out of the complex maze of streets in the old parts of town."
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50 Questions: To what extent should I encourage competition between VCs?
Together with Nic Brisbourne of The Equity Kicker / DFJ Esprit, I am writing a series of 50 questions you should ask when raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year, after which we will collate the answers into a book. We view this as a collaboration, so please comment to help make this series even more useful. This is #49 in the series.
Nic Brisbourne has recently given his own take on the question of investor competition, which I looked at in an earlier 50 questions post on competitive tension. We both agree on the main points; narrow your options down to a few serious investors, and try to get them moving along the process at the same pace, so that you have two or three termsheets to compare. However, the social graces of negotiation are tricky at best, so to learn to skillfully manage multiple potential investors, you should read Nic Brisbourne’s post on encouraging competition between VCs as well as my own post on competitive tension. | <urn:uuid:b9e32d94-f8ac-4684-b928-2db364cadd41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gamesbrief.com/2012/04/50-questions-to-what-extent-should-i-encourage-competition-between-vcs/ | 2013-06-20T08:51:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954193 | 263 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Join us live in the Walking Ring on July 7 at Woodbine for Queen's Plate Day -- Bredar, Plonk, Kristufek & Brannan. And, we announce that Parx on Labor Day is our newest date!
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After placing blame for the GOP's failed attempt to overtake the Senate at her feet, Mort Kondracke — Roll Call editor and Fox News infotainer — gives his thoughts on Sarah Palin and her presidential ambitions…
"I think she's a phenomenon. I think she's a rock star. I think she attracts cameras wherever she goes, but she's a joke. Even within her own party, the idea that she would be the presidential nominee, among vast majorities of ordinary Republicans, is just unthinkable."
I wonder if, come February 2013, he'll retract that statement from his prison cell beneath the Lincoln Memorial. Or will the iron mask covering his face make it too difficult to talk?
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- The Huckabee surge can be traced back to… Mel Gibson.
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- Hey Barack, could you move out of frame a little? Thanks.
- Libertarians: Aw, come on, Ronnie, you know we're good together…
- For the love of God, WGA, please don't let it come to this!
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- Barack Obama might have trouble beating Hillary Clinton, but he'll probably beat Alan Alda.
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- So does this mean they hate us for our religion?
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- Raw meat — this article mentions Ron Paul and penises.
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From the Editors
Lisa Hajjar, Bassam Haddad, and Noura Erakat
Richard Falk and Lisa Hajjar engage in a discussion about universal jurisdiction, international law, and criminal accountability for gross crimes (torture, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity). The doctrine of universal jurisdiction was developed in the 19th century to combat piracy and slave trading on the high seas. The aim was to close a jurisdictional gap by allowing governments to prosecute these "enemies of all mankind" in their own national ...Keep Reading »
Lisa Hajjar teaches sociology at the University of California – Santa Barbara. Her research and writing focus on law and legality, war and conflict, human rights, and torture. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005). In addition to being a Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, she serves on the editorial committees of Middle East Report and Journal of Palestine Studies. She is currently working on a book about anti-torture lawyering in the United States.
Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011). Bassam is currently editing a volume on Teaching the Middle East After the Arab Uprisings, a book manuscript on pedagogical and theoretical approaches. His most recent books include two co-edited volumes: Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012) and Mediating the Arab Uprisings (Tadween Publishing, 2013). Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal a peer-reviewed research publication and is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the critically acclaimed film series, Arabs and Terrorism, based on extensive field research/interviews. More recently, he directed a film on Arab/Muslim immigrants in Europe, titled The "Other" Threat. Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report. He is the Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute, an umbrella for five organizations dealing with knowledge production on the Middle East and Founding Editor of Tadween Publishing.
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and writer. She is currently an adjunct professor of international human rights law in the Middle East at Georgetown University and is the US-based Legal Advocacy Coordinator for Badil Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights. Most recently she served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich. She has helped to initiate and organize several national formations including Arab Women Arising for Justice (AMWAJ) and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). Noura has appeared on Fox’s “The O’ Reilly Factor,” NBC’s “Politically Incorrect,” MSNBC, and Al-Jazeera Arabic and English. Her publications include: "Litigating the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Politicization of U.S. Federal Courts" in the Berkeley Law Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, "Arabiya Made Invisible: Between the Marginalization of Agency and the Silencing of Dissent" in a Syracuse Press anthology, and "BDS in the USA: 2001-2010," in the Middle East Report. She is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.com.
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Transportation and warehousing employment increased 1.9 percent year-over-year in August, the same rate as in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Transportation hiring slowed on a sequential monthly basis, however, increasing 0.13 percent in August compared with a 0.2 percent gain the previous month.
The BLS seasonally adjusted transportation employment figure for August shows a year-over-year gain of 83,500 jobs, but a gain of only 5,700 jobs from July.
Trucking, courier services and warehousing added 4,300 transportation jobs, while air, rail and water transportation lost 3,400 jobs in August, according to the BLS data.
Surveys by the Labor Department agency claimed 4,385,400 jobs for transportation and warehousing last month, a 5.8 percent improvement since February 2010.
That number is still 3.8 percent below the employment level in April 2008, the most recent peak month for transportation employment, according to BLS data.
Total non-farm employment increased by 96,000 jobs in August, the BLS said Friday, pushing the U.S. unemployment rate down to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent.
The increase was less than expected by many economists. Employment growth has averaged 139,000 jobs per month this year, compared with 153,000 in 2011.
While employment in health care and professional services, including food services and drinking places, was up, manufacturing employment declined in August.
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I have read that Lymphoma in cats is usually associates with Feline Leukemia. My cat, Daisy, has Lymphoma (based on bloodwork, a biopsy and x-ray), and we have 4 others cats. Daisy has had all her shots every year as well as the other cats. Is this something I need to worry about with the other cats now?
Also, Daisy was given a prednisone injection two weeks ago and the vet thought she had at the most 2 months left. He had taken an x-ray and he could see tumors in her chest cavity. The main tumor we noticed was on her neck and it grew rapidly. The vet is sure it's an aggressvie form of cancer. Anyway, she is also on Metacam (given 3 drops every 3 days) to help ease any pain and once she went on that she has done remarkable! She is no longer sitting in the corner, she's walking and jumping on furniture and sleeping with me again and doing great. I had heard it was damaging to their livers, but since she's terminal anyway we were willing to try something to give her comfort. She also gets Pro Gut every day to help settle her tummy and she appears happy again.
I guess my question is how do I know when it's time? I do not feel it's time yet and don't want to end her life too soon, but don't want to wait too late either as I don't want her to suffer. I do have a vet who is willing to be called at any time day or night to help us when it's her time.
Thanks for any information you can give me. (My vet is great, but I just wanted to get another opinion.)
I can empathize with you. We made a hard decision with our cat a few weeks ago. We knew she would never get better and when she stopped eating it was time. As far as we know she didn't eat much starting on a Tuesday, ate treats only until Friday morning and then stopped eating them too. She was uncomfortable and was probably bleeding inside. The attack wasn't like the attacks on the spleen. It was a bad weekend (we live in a tourist trap and it was crowded) and so we called the vet on Monday morning and took her in to end it then.
We had some metacam also from her surgery and had given her one dose on Sunday. After giving it to her, she perked up, followed me to the bathroom and jumped up on the counter from the toilet like in the old days, but the relief didn't last but 2 hours and she didn't eat during that time either.
We let her die with as much dignity that was left and didn't prolong her pain. Instead we were left with the pain to deal with on the loss in our lives. The other cat took it very hard and few days later we came home with another cat to try to replace the void in our lives. It was a young small shelter rescue which had been in the shelter for over 6 months and she is finally coming around and being social but she is still scared of the world.
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24/7 Real Media has four new Account Executives joining the New York team. FRANK BILICH joins from Vivendi Universal Net; JASON MERHAUT joins from The Comedy Lab where he was responsible for selling creative ad packages to companies like Volkswagen and Time-Life; JOSHUA LEFKOWITZ joins with past experience working for Treasure trivia.com, IPO.com and Zach's Investment Services; FABIANA ESTEVES has 5 years online experience mostly with Starmedia where she held a variety of sales, marketing and creative services roles working with blue chip companies such as Kraft, Budweiser, Sony and Coke. New Account Execs in other offices: MATT DAY joins the west coast team as an AE with online and entrepreneurial experience, and CHRISTINE SCHMIDT, an experienced interactive AE having worked in the space both domestically and abroad for the past 4 years, joins the Chicago office. | <urn:uuid:12b4eb95-3962-4d70-9943-7af358dffe75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/23748/new-account-execs-247-real-media.html | 2013-06-20T09:17:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928009 | 210 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The topic of pro and contra instanciation has probably been diskussed to death but yet heres another blog about the topic:
After playing warhammer online for around 10days now i fell in love with szenario pvp. i never was into online fps shooters like team fortress or unreal but in warhammer, even tough i find there could be more variety, i really love to play them. for people not familiar with war its usually taking 7-14 people from each realm (side) and let them fight an opponent team the same number.
all this happens in a closed area, an instance
heres the benefits of instanciation:
- fair matches can be guaranteed by letting the server pick
- even more complex matching mechanism could be implemented to even out not only numbers but also classes and levels
- hardly any lag issues due to limiting the numbers of participants and having a confined game space
- no afk/ waiting for class. players only wait for the instance/match to happen then jump into it. they can just go their normal mmo life (pve/questing/world pvp..) while waiting for the match to start
this is a good use of instancing but only a start imho
id like to see even more instanciation in war(hammer) like games
heres the improvements id like to see implemented:
- recruit people from all servers for the instance
- instanciate open world pvp/ sieges
- make more complex matching algorithms to ensure more even fights
- maybe even instanciate the public quests
now the usual argument against instanciation is that it breaks the immersion/ the feeling of a seemless world.
but it never is a world in the first place:
if you can run from one end to the other on foot thrue the whole country in one day, how can it be a world ?
in the world of warhammer their should be 100th of border keeps along a vast border. the realm should have population in the millions not in the 1000th.
now a server probably cant handle 1milion players so i suggest that the servers are like patched up parts of the realms where the player lives in and spends his/her every day live of keeping their village save and training for war.
yet when they hear the call of war i doubt it breaks immersion that they could go to their local recruiting officer to be shipped of to war on a distant battlefield (the instance) to return later to their local life | <urn:uuid:899d06d0-2153-4a38-8ba5-509367bb0635> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/craynlon/092008 | 2013-06-20T09:03:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938355 | 517 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Studies on Cytotoxic Secondary Metabolities of the Formosan Gorgonian Sinularia gibberosa and Isis hippuris.
In our continuing study on the chemical constituents of Taiwanese soft corals, the EtOAc extracts of a gorgonian coral Isis hippuris and a alcyonarian coral Sinularia gibberosa were investigated, respectively. Seven compounds, including 3£\,11£]-dihydroxy-24-methyl-22,25epoxy-5£\- furostan-18,20£]-lactone (1), 3-acetyl-2-deacetyl-22R-hippurin-1 (2), hippuristerone F (3), hippurin-1 (4), 22-epi-hippurin-1 (5), 3-acetyl-2- desacetyl-22-epi-hippurin-1 (6) and 2-desacetyl-22-epi-hippurin-1 (7) were isolated from I. hippuris. Three metabolites, 3£],11-dihydroxy-24- methylene-9,11-secocholest-5-en-9-one (8), 3£],11-dihydroxy-24-methyl-9, 11-secocholest-5-en- 9-one (9) and 3£]-hydroxy-11-acetoxy-24-methylene-9, 11-secocholest-5-en-9-one (10) were isolated from S. gibberosa. Among them, compounds 1¡V3, are new products. All metabolites 1¡V10 are steroids.
The structures of 1¡V10 were determined by physical and spectral analysis, including IR, MS, 1D NMR (1H, 13C) and 2D NMR ( 1H-1H COSY, HMQC, HMBC and NOESY ) and by comparison with the related physical and spectral data of the known compounds.
The cytotoxicity of the isolates against the P-388 ( mouse lymphocytic leukemia ), A-549 ( human lung adenocarcinoma ) and HT-29 ( human colon adenocarcinoma ) cancer cell lines were studied. Compound 9 and 10 showed significant cytotoxicity against P-388 cancer cell line. Metabolites 6 and 8 showed significant cytotoxicity against P-388 and HT-29 cancer cell lines. Compound 2, 4 and 5 exhibited potent cytotoxicity against the growth of P-388, A-549 and HT-29 cancer cell lines.
Advisor:J-N Lin; J-H Sheu; Y-G Wu
School:National Sun Yat-Sen University
School Location:China - Taiwan
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:sinularia gibberosa isis hippuris
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LG, Verizon, and VMware Demo Virtual Work Phone
Since no one wants to carry two phones, most people use their personal handset for work activities. The BYOD (bring your own device) trend has businesses struggling to make work-related data and apps available on workers’ personal phones--and secure. VMware has an answer, which its partner LG is demonstrating at CES 2012: a tool to create a virtual work phone on an employee-owned device.
VMware has extended its virtual machine environment tools to mobile devices with its Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). This is meant to solve four key issues: securing employee-owned devices that access corporate resources; managing all mobile devices from a single interface; allowing employees to use their own devices; and letting a wide variety of devices connect to the company network.
VMware MVP installs like any other app on an employee’s device. Once installed, the user taps an icon to launch the virtual machine, which takes over the screen and displays the work environment your business wishes to provide. This will include custom settings that provide the desired level of security as well as a private app store, where only apps pre-approved by your company can be installed.
VMware has announced partnerships with both LG and Verizon on the effort. It appears the partnership is going strong, as LG is showing off its Verizon Revolution phone running Android virtual machines in VMware’s MVP. While the Revolution is just a demo, LG says the technology will be available through Verizon and Telefonica in “the coming months” on new devices only. The main difference between the two carriers’ solutions will be that Verizon’s will use only one telephone number, but Telefonica’s can enable two numbers thanks to dual-SIM cards.
Though initially targeted at enterprises, this technology is likely to simplify and eventually find its way into small businesses. The catch is that it appears to only work on devices that have a VMware module loaded on them by the manufacturer or carrier. So far, VMware’s only hardware partners are LG and Samsung, and the only carriers are Verizon and Telefonica of Spain--and none have officially announced devices that will include the technology.
If, in the end, only select devices work with MVP, then it will limited to businesses that restrict employees to using only those devices. However, if it can be made to run on any Android or iOS smartphone, look for MVP to make waves in business as it brings order to BYOD.
For more blogs, stories, photos, and video from the nation's largest consumer electronics show, check out PCWorld's complete coverage of CES 2012.
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About Reproduction Sampler Kits and Graphs
Each Scarlet Letter kit comes complete with linen (cut to size with at least a two-inch margin on all four sides), ample sewing floss, detailed instructions and easy-to-read stitch diagrams, clear graphs and finishing instructions, a needle, a color photograph of the finished piece, and its historic background.
When we reproduce antique samplers, our goal is to as closely approximate the original materials as possible using linen grounds of an appropriate thread count, thickness, and color, as well as silk, cotton or wool flosses, carefully matched to the threads of the antique. To this end we use only the finest even weave linens imported from Scandinavia.
You can buy the full kit or the graph only for most of our samplers. The graph includes the detailed instructions and easy-to-read stitch diagrams, clear graphs and finishing instructions, suggestions for floss colors (DMC cotton and Au Ver a Soie, soie d’Alger silk) and a color photograph of the finished piece, and its historic background.
There is an alphabetical list that includes all of our samplers or separate lists by categories based when the sampler was stitched or the style. Also, check out our list of new samplers that have been recently added to this website. On our FAQs page, you'll find answers to many of your questions about counted thread embroidery.
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Navmar's Chester High School Scholarship
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation is pleased to announce a call for all interested high school students to apply for our $1,000.00 College Scholarship.
Applicants are selected based on the following:
- United States Citizen
- Resident of Delaware County Pennsylvania
- Student of The Chester school district
- High school senior
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Halloween Chocolate-Peanut Butter Fudge Crunch
What does every kid want more than to help actually carve a pumpkin? Pick the pumpkin from a pumpkin patch, of course! This year we took the kids to Wallkill View Farm in New Paltz, New York. It was a beautifully sunny fall day in the Hudson Valley.
But, the fun doesn’t stop with pumpkin patches, corn mazes and hay rides alone. Every Halloween needs something decadently sweet, so here’s an easy recipe for you and all those trick-or-treaters. If you’re handing them out, just wrap each fudge piece in wax or parchment paper and you have yourself homemade Halloween candy ready for that doorbell to ring. Since I’ve been addicted to Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for decades now (no joke!), I’ve given my fudge that flavor combination. But fudge is friendly and very forgiving, so mix in ingredients to match your favorite candy flavor profile.
What’s your favorite Halloween candy?
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Crunch
Makes: 16 pieces
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
2 sticks (8 ounces) plus 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
One 16-ounce jar creamy peanut butter
3 cups gluten-free crispy rice cereal or your favorite breakfast cereal
¼ teaspoon salt
3 cups confectioners’ sugar
1. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper. In a medium saucepan, melt half of the chocolate and 1 tablespoon butter over low heat. Remove from the heat; stir in 1 cup peanut butter, then 2 cups rice cereal. Spread the mixture evenly in the prepared pan; refrigerate until set, about 15 minutes. Wash out the saucepan.
2. In the saucepan, combine the remaining 2 sticks butter and the salt; melt over medium heat, stirring. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining peanut butter and the confectioners’ sugar. Spread half of the peanut butter mixture over the cereal layer. Top with the remaining 1 cup cereal.
3. In a small bowl, microwave the remaining chocolate at medium power until melted, 1 ½ minutes. Stir into the remaining peanut butter mixture. Spread evenly on the cereal-topped peanut butter layer; refrigerate until set, about 45 minutes. Cut into 16 pieces.
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“I wouldn’t have my little girl right now if it weren’t for Dr. Annelise Swigert.” says Jane Grieves. “And she helped save my life, too.”
On September 10, 2002, Grieves went to Fairview Southdale Hospital, eager to give birth to her second child. She was about to start pushing, when, without warning, her heart stopped beating. “I had an amniotic fluid embolism, which is extremely rare and has a 85 percent mortality rate,” she says.
Dr. Swigert performed an emergency C-section to save the baby, and a hysterectomy to save Jane. The Fairview team worked to get Grieves’s heart going again. Finally, several days later, after receiving 108 units of donated blood products and undergoing a second surgery, Grieves began to improve.
“I woke up feeling like an elephant had trampled over me,” she says, “but I didn’t remember a thing, not even going to the hospital that day.”
By the end of the month Jane was back at home with her husband, daughter Lindsey, and newborn daughter Lexi.
“I thank God every day that I get to be here to watch my children grow, she says. “I do believe that if I hadn’t been at Fairview Southdale, with Annelise and the other doctors there, I wouldn’t be here today.”
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Steamboat Springs My stomach was in a knot, and I was shouting loudly at my computer screen Sunday afternoon as Johnny Spillane, Todd Lodwick and Billy Demong sprinted toward the finish line in Whistler, British Columbia.
It was a strange mixture of elation and frustration that I experienced, and there’s a good chance some of you know exactly what I’m talking about.
If you are a fan of Olympic skiing, you might have experienced the same gut-churning angst that I did. I know that some of you just recorded the race and watched it later. But I can’t wait. I have to know as soon as it happens.
I was elated that Spillane made history by becoming the first American to claim an Olympic medal (silver) in the sport that has captivated much of Steamboat Springs. And it made me more than a little crazy that the race wasn’t televised live on the network affiliate in Denver as NBC had been promising all week.
I had planned my Valentine’s Day with an ample amount of romance, a little Nordic skiing of my own, and cleared out the schedule in mid-afternoon when the network promised live coverage of the Nordic combined race.
I was probably a little too primed for the event. By the middle of the ski jumping competition in late morning, I had the jitters and I went downstairs to fetch my barbell out of the garage. I hoped some wimpy bicep curls would take the edge off my excitement. But Lodwick and Spillane had put themselves in medal contention by placing second and fourth in the first phase of the competition, and the arm curls didn’t do the trick.
I checked the TV schedule again, once in print, again on the TV crawler and a third time on the Internet, then threw my gear into the car and made for the touring center, where I could fantasize that I was warming up for the Olympics myself.
Fresh from the thrill of victory, I returned to my TV at 2:30 p.m., popped the top on a bottle of 3.2 Bud Lite Lime and prepared for history to be made.
The clock struck 2:45 p.m. and NBC still was covering chunky Austrian men in Spandex hurtling down the luge run. There wasn’t an American contender in sight, and I grew increasingly perplexed.
I checked Universal Sports. Nada. I bounced over to MSNBC. Nope.
I jumped to the computer screen again and that’s when I noticed my colleague Luke Graham had already begun posting Twitter race updates to the Steamboat Pilot & Today Web page. They were still lugeing on the tube and the race was on!
More than 200 people were watching a live feed from Europe in Olympian Hall at Howelsen Hill, but it was too late for me to change plans.
I kept Luke on the screen and opened a second window to take another close look at the Vancouver Organizing Committee Web page and was stunned to see that people in the Midwest were watching the race live. Not only that, they were posting abbreviated race commentary to their Facebook walls, and VANOC was streaming those posts into a little box on the side of the Web page.
That’s when I began shouting epithets at the screen (I wasn’t shouting at you, Luke — you almost succeeded in preserving my sanity).
The Facebook posts went something like this: LODWICK!! Lowick’s in first place. He’s still in first place! They aren’t gonna catch himmmmmm!!
SPILLANE IS MAKING A MOVE!
SPILLANE!!!. Spillane is skiing from the front.
Where is Lodwick?
Is that Demong? Is Demong catching them?
SPILLANE is going to win the gold medal!!
They won’t catch him now.
LODWICK is coming back!!
SPILLANE WINS AN OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALLLLLL!!
By that time, I was just sitting in my little home office chair, my nerve synapses firing uncontrollably, a line of spittle forming on my chin. Just send for the men in the white coats. Send them now.
I have no desire to rip on NBC. Good golly, the folks at the network have done a remarkable job of filling in a schedule left decimated by the postponement of the Alpine downhill races that were supposed to begin coverage of the Olympics with the coronation of the amazing Lindsey Vonn.
And I have to say, the extreme slow motion photography used by NBC has given me insights into winter sports that I’ve never seen before — from the way a short track speed skater’s razor sharp blade slices a perfect curve in the ice, to the minute adjustments ski jumpers make by using their hands like the control surfaces on an airplane.
If I’m honest, when the delayed broadcast of the Nordic combined race finally appeared here in flyover land, I found myself shouting encouragement to all three U.S. skiers, even though I knew the die was cast.
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The Ravens have reached an agreement on a one-year contract with offensive lineman Ramon Harewood, according to his agent, Damien Butler.
Harewood was a restricted free agent, but the Ravens opted to not tender him at $1.323 million.
The former sixth-round draft pick from Morehouse came to terms with the Ravens minutes before he would have become an unrestricted free agent.
The 6-foot-6, 334-pounder started five games at offensive guard before being replaced by Bobbie Williams. Now, Harewood is hopeful of becoming a starter again.
"Ramon is happy to be back with the Ravens for one more year," Butler told The Baltimore Sun. "He's looking forward to being in the starting lineup the first week. He's looking to working with Juan Castillo and John Harbaugh." | <urn:uuid:01b9f8a6-7efc-468e-8923-5409b5af5f53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/bal-ravens-bring-back-ramon-harewood-on-oneyear-deal-20130312,0,2452115.story | 2013-06-20T08:38:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976564 | 170 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
External (digital) monitor does not activate when Nvidia Optimus setting is enabled in a Docking station
|Article:TECH192522|||||Created: 2012-07-06|||||Updated: 2013-04-24|||||Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH192522|
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When using Symantec Drive Encryption (formerly known as PGP Whole Disk Encryption), during boot, the external monitor connected via DVI-D or using another digital cable does not activate to show the Symantec Disk Encryption (formerly known as PGP) BootGuard log on screen.
Dell E Series laptops while docking in the docking station
HP Elitebook series while in docking station with external DVI-D or other digital interface
Lenovo T-420 series while in docking station with external DVI-D or other digital interface
PGP Desktop 10.2 and above
Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3 and above
Incompatible BIOS settings with Symantec Drive Encryption (formerly known as PGP WDE) Pre-boot Authentication screen (BootGuard). This is due to hardware limitations regarding the Nvidia Optimus Technology from the hardware vendor(s).
There are currently no plans to address this issue by way of a hotfix or Maintenance Pack in the current versions of the software or in a future release at the present time. This is due to this being a hardware limitation.
- Connect using standard VGA cable to at least one external monitor
- Disable Nvidia Optimus (sometimes called Switchable Graphics) in the BIOS
- Press Function-F8 on the keyboard (when both DVI and VGA is plugged in, only the VGA cable gets the video signal)
Note: Pulling out the VGA cable while it was displaying to an external monitor and leaving the DVI cable plugged in does not result in sending the video the DVI. You will have to reboot to re-route the signal correctly. The information in this article is subject to change as hardware vendors may introduce new changes to the specifications in the future. At the time of writing this article the reason this does not work is due to hardware limitations with the Nvidia Optimus Technology in its current implimentation from the vendor.
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Yeah so what you are seeing pictured is essentially a vibrator, sex toy thingy. This however has one small difference, you see the headphone jack? Yeah! I t plugs into your iPod, I reckon this contraption actually gets folk off in time to the music? Now when I found this I was a little sceptical so I had to check out the site, and yeah it exists! Check it out for yourself. pay attention to the flash add in the bottom corner where it has the iPod silhouette Ads and then zooms in their groins.
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I received this latest update on our tobacco crop this year and I thought it was interesting and I wanted to share it with everyone.
Obviously, 2007 was not a typical tobacco production year for any area of Kentucky. According to the Kentucky Farm Business Management (KFBM) program records for 2007, wide variation existed across the state. Post buy-out Kentucky has also seen considerable shifts in tobacco production. Some areas have seen sharp acreage declines, while other areas, especially western Kentucky, have experienced increases in tobacco acreage.
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From fashion shows to brunches to movie night, this women's ministry is all about fun! We love to come together and celebrate life.
Women's Retreat 2013! April 12-13
Plains Baptist Assembly, Floydada
A time to get-away from the busyness of the world and make time for an encounter with God.
Guest speaker Jody Wilson, worship music with Rachael Rogers & Mirabel Maggallanes!
Cost: $65 includes lodging & 3 meals.
Bedding & Bath towels are provided.
Fill out this form so we can gather a count for this years retreat!
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This is slang found in inner London meaning low trousers
Use looking buff in dose low batties
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Only planning to stay in your home for a few years? An ARM loan may be a good option for you.
Enjoy the savings of an ARM rate, lower than that of a comparable fixed loan, available in 3-, 5- or 7-year terms.
The initial interest rate on an ARM is usually lower than the rate on a conventional fixed-rate loan.
The ARM interest rate is based on an index that reflects current market conditions plus a margin which is added to the index. The index value varies and is available upon request or at application time.
Capitol Federal's True Blue® ARM loans include an annual cap and a lifetime cap. The annual cap limits the amount we can increase or decrease your interest rate annually. The lifetime cap is your maximum interest rate during the life of the loan.
ARM loan plans:
* 3/1 ARM - The interest rate on a 3/1 ARM will remain fixed at the initial rate for the first three years. After that, the interest rate will change annually based on the value of the index plus the margin, subject to annual and lifetime interest rate adjustment caps.
* 5/1 ARM - Identical to the 3/1 ARM except the initial rate is fixed for the first five years.
* 7/1 ARM - Identical to the 3/1 ARM except the initial rate is fixed for the first seven years.
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When I was young, my parents consistently used "Karmic Punishments", punishments that had a strong relationship to the misbehavior. They believed that this was more effective. Examples: ...
Technical model of how babies and young children learn suited to a parent with an engineering background?
Background: I'm looking forward to be a father come fall. My son will have Downs Syndrome, so there are a lot of early interventions we have to think about to support our son - logopedics, ... | <urn:uuid:9c3b2b18-7327-4558-bfbf-6c303421cc69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parenting?sort=unanswered&pagesize=15 | 2013-05-18T07:40:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96865 | 102 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
So my aim this year is about creating a wearable, co-ordinated wardrobe – which for me, means a lot more plains in the sewing diet. However, I’ve still been hitting the prints pretty hard so far:
That was supposed to change today, by finishing off a (hopefully) wearable plain muslin for the Clover trousers. I think I was lulled into over-confidence by fellow sewists’ accounts of easy fitting, and the fact that this simple pattern sews up so fast. I even put in mock flat fell seams! And battled on despite Mr B’s ‘helpful’ comment that they looked like Super Mario trousers….
But no, I couldn’t even face picking them back off the floor to get a proper picture for you (sorry, maybe later). After the indignity of a dowager’s hump, I’ve moved on to a ‘frowning crotch’ - oh, the horror. Plus loads of space down the back of the thighs (just the back, for some reason?) and weird little wrinkles in the seams at the calves.
Perhaps it’s because I haven’t been out of the house in 4 days (sickness) but I’ve seriously lost perspective. I will, at some point, gear myself back up for Clover, and go and read the sewalong and all the brilliant trouser-fitting advice out there. But right now, I’m too grumpy to sew. Didn’t it all used to be fun? Rather than this endless fitting palava?
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Last week, Disney Parks Blog Author Shawn Slater shared a look at the new Merida meet-and-greet experience that’s already begun at Magic Kingdom Park. But I’m happy to announce that Magic Kingdom is not the only one of the Disney Parks that’s getting in on the fun of the new Disney•Pixar film, “Brave.”
Through July 8, Epcot will serve as the setting for Brave – The Highland Games Tournament, a kid-focused offering that will include games like Mini Caber Toss, Cake Toss, Haggis Flip and archery. There will also be a kids’ playground with free enhanced wireless – which is great for us parents who can’t share cute photos of their kids on Twitter and Facebook fast enough!
Here’s a preview of the fun:
Brave – The Highland Games Tournament will take place on the Rose Walk (right where Future World blends into World Showcase), from 11 a.m.-7 p.m., daily. Park admission is required. | <urn:uuid:ff7d5acf-d182-444d-8634-d679b34df111> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/05/brave-the-highland-games-tournament-runs-june-1-july-8-at-epcot/ | 2013-05-18T08:33:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921412 | 220 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
That’s a hell of a way to start an expansion. Well done, Blizzard.
This entry was written by Bevans, posted on Dec 12th 2010 at 12:54 AM.
- Start of Hyjal even more epic than Vashj’ir. Me: That’s a cool fire towerHOLY SHIT, DEATHWING! HOLY SHIT, RAGNAROS! HOLY SHIT, YSERA! HOLY SHIT, MALFURION!
- This is why Blizzard is awesome
- Get your welfare epics whenever the hell you feel like it (updated again)
- This is stupid.
- What the hell?
- By far the weirdest creature in the game. It’s like half owl, half bear, and has antlers. Blizzard, I think you must be smoking some really GREAT stuff. | <urn:uuid:6f3979f9-f91e-4cd5-b365-4b6b58c30589> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dubiosity.net/baluki/2010/12/12/thats-a-hell-of-a-way-to-start-an-expansion-well-done-blizzard-2/ | 2013-05-18T07:46:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912291 | 190 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This response indicates that the correct response can be found under a different URI and should be retrieved using a GET method. The specified URI is not a substitute reference for the original resource.
This status code should be used with the location header, as described below.
303 See Other has been proposed as one way of responding to a request for a URI that identifies a real-world object according to Semantic Web theory (the other being the use of hash URIs). For example, if http://www.example.com/id/alice identifies a person, Alice, then it would be inappropriate for a server to respond to a GET request with 200 OK, as the server could not deliver Alice herself. Instead the server would issue a 303 See Other response which redirected to a separate URI providing a description of the person Alice.
303 See Other can be used for other purposes. For example, when building a RESTful web API that needs to return to the caller immediately but continue executing asynchronously (such as a long-lived image conversion), the web API can provide a status check URI that allows the original client who requested the conversion to check on the conversion's status. This status check web API should return 303 See Other to the caller when the task is complete, along with a URI from which to retrieve the result in the Location HTTP header field.
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com
HTTP/1.1 303 See Other Location: http://example.org/other
See also
- RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1)
- RFC 1945 (HTTP 1.0)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- List of HTTP status codes
- Cool URIs for the Semantic Web, see section 4
- Subbu Allamaraju. RESTful Web Services Cookbook: Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity. O'Reilly Media, 2010, p. 20.
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Christian Ponder not holding back Vikings
October, 21, 2012
By Kevin Seifert | ESPN.com
AP Photo/Andy KingThe Vikings held off the Cardinals despite quarterback Christian Ponder's terrible game.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Midway through the third quarter Sunday, Christian Ponder dropped back to pass. The Minnesota Vikings' quarterback took a few steps to his right and, seeing no open receivers, lobbed the ball out of bounds.
Immediately, a crowd of 61,068 at the Metrodome erupted in one of the loudest Bronx cheers I've ever heard in the usually friendly Midwest. A few minutes later, the crowd let out a pre-snap groan merely because the Vikings shifted into an empty backfield, thus guaranteeing a passing play.
It was that kind of day for Ponder, whose utterly forgettable game included two interceptions and 58 yards on eight completions. But I feel torn on the significance of Ponder's performance after reflecting on the Vikings' 21-14 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.
Has Ponder's three-game slump cast doubt on whether this team can compete for the playoffs? Or have the Vikings established themselves as a team good enough to overcome a slump at the game's most important position? The Vikings, after all, are 2-1 even as Ponder has committed seven turnovers in his past three starts.
Sunday, the Vikings got a touchdown and seven sacks from their defense along with 153 rushing yards from tailback Adrian Peterson. Ponder's outing prevented the Vikings from putting this game away -- he completed only one pass for 5 yards after halftime -- but it didn't scuttle the outcome.
"It's good to be disappointed when you're 5-2," Ponder said during a news conference in which he appeared alternately annoyed by his play and grateful to his teammates. Coach Leslie Frazier, of course, waved away questions about the long-term implications of a passing game that produced 58 yards, saying: "We got stifled in that second half but Christian is going to be fine."
We spent time earlier this season discussing Ponder's efficiency in the modest schemes the Vikings were game-planning for him. Sunday, I think they might have realized the advantage of a limited reliance on the quarterback. While Ponder flailed away, Peterson galloped through the Cardinals' defense that entered the game allowing an average of 3.9 yards per carry and routinely stacked an extra man (or two) at the line of scrimmage.
No matter. Peterson rumbled 27 yards on his third attempt, carrying safety Adrian Wilson and safety James Sanders the final 10 yards. He had six carries of at least eight yards and three of 17 or more yards.
Meanwhile, the Vikings' defense battered Cardinals quarterback John Skelton after safety Harrison Smith returned an interception 31 yards for a touchdown just 57 seconds into the third quarter. Smith staked the Vikings to a 21-7 lead and opened the door for their pass rushers to get after Skelton. Their season-high sack total came without a single blitz in the game, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
Defensive end Brian Robison recorded a career-high three sacks while defensive end Jared Allen added two more. Cornerback Antoine Winfield got credit for a sack by upending Skelton on a failed fourth-down run in the third quarter.
"Obviously," Peterson said, "Christian didn't play as well as he would have liked and as we would have liked today. But you have those games. That's why we are a team. The defense did a great job and we were able to run the clock out. Those things go hand-in-hand. I feel like we'll be OK."
On the other hand, the mistakes Ponder made Sunday came on what should have been simple plays. Flushed from the pocket in the second quarter, he threw high and behind tight end Kyle Rudolph. Ponder said afterward that he should not have thrown across his body but admitted: "As a quarterback, I can make that throw. That's an easy throw to make."
At this level, you want your quarterback to complete a pass to an open receiver who is standing 2 yards past the line of scrimmage, as Rudolph was. And it's also fair to expect him to throw the ball away on the play that led to his second interception just before halftime. Ponder said he was trying to get the ball out of bounds but his arm was hit just before he released the ball. In the end, however, he floated a pass that defensive end Sam Acho corralled to give the Cardinals a field goal opportunity.
The Vikings have asked less of Ponder this season than perhaps any NFL team has of its starting quarterback. Entering Sunday, his average pass was traveling a league-low 5.6 yards past the line of scrimmage. The next-lowest average was the 7.1 yards of Houston's Matt Schaub.
Ponder executed that approach to near-perfection in the Vikings' first four games before stumbling. But if any team is equipped for underwhelming performances from its quarterback, it might be this one. Peterson has at least 79 yards in six of seven games, and the defense has held opponents to fewer than 24 points in all but one game. As Frazier has stated many times, this is a team built to run the ball and play good defense above all else.
"The way we have tried to structure our team and the philosophy lends itself to win games like this," Frazier said. "When you are not completing a lot of balls down the field in a league where so many say that's the way you have to win, to be able to play good defense, to be able to have good special teams. ... For our running back ... to know they are going to be in eight-man fronts, nine-man fronts at times, and be able to rush for 153 yards, that's the formula for success if you're in a tough situation throwing the football."
I can't argue with that. We've now seen the Vikings soundly defeat the Tennessee Titans and hold off the Cardinals during this three-game stretch. They're 5-2 with a quarterback who hasn't always played winning football. They've found other ways to win games, and isn't that kind of the point? | <urn:uuid:b78515e9-bbc8-40eb-af8f-cafa917d6a31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/48089/christian-ponder-doesnt-hold-back-vikings | 2013-05-18T08:39:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982626 | 1,300 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Items where Division is " Engineering and Technology > Department of Chemical Engineering" and Year is 2003
Number of items: 2.
Maity, S K (2003) Modeling and Simulation of Solid-Liquid Equilibrium by Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory. MTech thesis.
Paria, S (2003) Studies on Surfactant Adsorption at the Cellulose-Water Interface. PhD thesis. | <urn:uuid:c2e74c16-c935-450c-bd15-52b8e06a1e37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/view/divisions/sch=5Fche/2003.html | 2013-05-18T08:18:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.790685 | 89 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Brussels, 11th November 2008
What are rare diseases?
Rare diseases are primarily disorders of genetic origin, but also include rare cancers, auto-immune diseases, toxic and infectious diseases and congenital malformations. They are life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases which are of such low prevalence (fewer than 5 per 10 000 people) that special combined efforts are needed to address them so as to prevent significant morbidity, perinatal or early mortality, or a considerable reduction in an individual's quality of life or socio-economic potential. It is estimated that between 5,000 and 8,000 distinct rare diseases exist today, affecting up to 8% of the population in total; that is an estimated 36 million people in the 27 Member States of the European Union.
Why has the Commission made tackling rare diseases a health priority at EU level?
The specificities of rare diseases - limited number of patients and scarcity and fragmentation of relevant knowledge and expertise - single them out as a distinctive area of very high European added-value. The need to pool together the still limited resources can therefore best be tackled and coordinated at EU level.
Furthermore, rare diseases remain largely invisible in healthcare information systems due to lack of appropriate coding and classification systems, which in turn imposes medical and financial barriers on receiving treatment. Misdiagnosis and non-diagnosis (often for as long as five years) are the main barriers faced by patients in the EU.
Additionally, the current EU legislative framework needs to be better adapted to rare diseases, for example by making provision for the establishment of reference networks.
What has been done so far at EU level to address rare diseases?
Rare diseases were highlighted as priorities in the Community Action Programme on rare diseases (1999-2003), the EU Public Health Programme 2003-2007, the Second Programme of Community action in the field of health (2008-2013) and the White Paper “Together for Health: A Strategic Approach for the EU 2008-2013”.
A substantial contribution to advancing knowledge on rare diseases has been provided for two decades through collaborative and coordination research projects supported by the successive European Community Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development. In the current framework programme, FP7, rare diseases have been recognised as a priority for research activities.
Under normal market conditions, the pharmaceutical industry is reluctant to invest in medicinal products and medical devices for rare conditions because of the very limited market for each disease. Under the responsibility of DG Enterprise and the EMEA (the European Medicines Agency) the European Commission is implementing a policy on Orphan Drugs. The Orphan Medicinal Product Regulation sets up the criteria for orphan designation in the EU and provides incentives to encourage the research, development and marketing of medicines to treat, prevent or diagnose rare diseases.
DG SANCO established the High Level Group on Health Services and Medical Care (HLG) as a means of taking forward the recommendations made by the reflection process on patient mobility. One of the Working Groups of HLG developed concepts for reference networks of centres of expertise, in particular for rare diseases, and the Commission has proposed a legal mechanism to put such networks in place through the proposed directive on the application of patient rights in cross-border healthcare.
What is the purpose of the Communication and Council Recommendation on rare diseases?
The Communication and Council Recommendation aim to provide a coordinated Community approach for ensuring effective and efficient recognition, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care and research in the field of rare diseases in Europe. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to:
Decision 1350/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council; point 2.2.2.
COM(2007) 630 final of 23 October 2007
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my back hurts so bad. someone seriously please just cut off the lower half of my body.
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Blu C Cafe – Christies Beach, SA
1/13 Beach Road, Christies Beach, SA, 5165
Location, location, location – potential, potential, potenial – I mean check out the view from the café - uninterrupted ocean views of Spencer Gulf, a beautiful park with playground – the inside of the Blu C Cafe was nice – but that is about all the good things I can say. And I don’t like to be negative – do a search on ‘Bad’ from the TAGS – and see what I mean.
Latte Quality – Bad – it was just…bad. My wife made me throw it away because of how much I complained about it. For starters – the milk was already in the jug from who knows how long ago – being that I waited f0r 10 minutes and the customers already served had cool drinks…then the frothing wand on the machine was dirty – covered in dry milk from previous use – the milk was frothed then sat aside while the shot was poured – again, coffee was already ground in the hopper. Check out the bubbles on the latte – photo before first sip.
Cost – $4.00 for regular
Coffee Supplier – Monjava Coffee
Fairtrade – No indication
Customer Service - - acknowledged my presence and value as a carbon based entity – but not much more; there was an employee at the counter when I walk in – she looked at me coming and left to go on a break – she came back twice to see if I was still waiting and then returned to her break. The other employee who also saw me enter, but went out the back on the other side of the shop, only came back in after I had rang the bell on the counter, twice.
Venue Suitable for:
- Quiet Chat, Deep and Meaningful, and/or Study and Reflection – As I said – the location and the potential of this place is just awesome – but bring your own coffee – or (dare I say it) go to Jamaica Blue or Gloria Jeans at Colonnades first. | <urn:uuid:525f247a-cc1e-4128-a871-022e27b2d6ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://makecoffeenotwar.com/2011/11/12/blu-c-cafe-christies-beach-sa/ | 2013-05-18T08:34:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969853 | 434 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The oyster pan roast is a New York City culinary landmark. Velvety, hearty and delectable, this popular comfort food has been served at the legendary Oyster Bar and Restaurant, located deep under the Beaux Arts grandeur of Manhattan’s Grand Central Station since 1913.
Despite its name, an oyster pan roast isn’t a roast at all but rather a seafood stew. Sandy Ingber, executive chef at the Oyster Bar and Restaurant, says that in preparing a pan roast, he uses a professional utensil called a steam jacketed kettle. The device is similar to a double boiler, but more intense. No worry if you don’t have one; Chef Ingber says the recipe takes longer in a double boiler but turns out fine. He does caution that the inside pot of your double boiler should be a perfect fit. Asked for other tips on preparing a distinctive oyster pan roast, he says “It’s a timing thing. After you add the half-and-half, you must take the mixture out of the pan the split second before it reaches the boiling point. Otherwise, the half-and-half could become mottled.”
You can find variations on the traditional oyster pan roast: here a trumpet mushroom, there a dash of nutmeg, there again an artichoke heart. Yet no version so soothes the soul as this one based on the Oyster Bar and Restaurant’s recipe.
—By Scott Rose
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My full name is Christopher Maraffi, but I go by Topher. I’m a performance artist, technical animator, educator, and author. In June 2010 I completed a Digital Arts & New Media (DANM) MFA at UCSC. My thesis was "Mimesis & Mocap", a multi-disciplinary (Theater Arts and Computer Science) performance study in creating believable real-time acting between live and virtual performers within a theatrical show. My two performances, "The Avatar Dance" and "The Magic Mirror Game", envision methods of re-creating classic dance and pantomime movements with a digital double, or Avatar. In the fall 2010 I will start a PhD in Computer Science at UCSC, continuing my collaboration with Theater Arts, to develop expressive and improvisational real-time synthespians. | <urn:uuid:be19fa46-e70b-4173-8dbe-f58cc75aedf3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rhizome.org/profiles/tophermaraffi/ | 2013-05-18T07:46:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917742 | 172 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Website domain power
The internet is filled with websites with domain names that are very descriptive of their content. It isn’t just done to make it easy to remember their site although it’s a nice side effect.
Web Domains get extra drawing power from the search engines when the words contained in the domain name are included in the content of the web site. That leads to more visitors and better exposure. It is possible to find a good web domain develop it and then flip it for profit. The web site should show good traffic and that will give the site lots of value. It carries a bit of risk. I have heard of others online touting a $2000 month by flipping multiple sites. The domain must have a good specific focus. I’ll use my site as a bad example because it does not suggest anything about the content of the site. If you find an opening for www.sellmyhouse.com it might stand a good chance of having value. The name of the domain should suggests what lies within. The opposite is also true if you have a domain of www.sellmyhouse.com and are trying sell fireplaces it won’t work either.
If your site is starting out something new a random name could work. After all who would have put a claim on www.google.com when it didn’t exist?
Nothing big just a bit of uncommon sense about the internet.
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News 8/FOX Rochester General Assignment Reporter
Cierra comes to News 8 after spending more than a year in West Texas. Originally from Southern Illinois, Cierra is excited to be back up North and is honored to serve the Rochester area.
After graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism Cierra's worked as both a newspaper and television reporter. Before News 8 she worked at NewsWest 9 in Midland, TX and at The Baytown Sun and KOMU in Columbia, MO.
While in college, Cierra interned at KCTV in Kansas City, MO and NBC's London News Bureau. The MU Tiger also spent a summer studying in Paris, France.
On her days off, you'll probably find her at a local bookstore browsing the travel section, curled up with a good book or writing. If you see her around town, feel free to say hi or send her an email firstname.lastname@example.org if you have a story idea. | <urn:uuid:9eb7a900-2d34-4974-9384-1b458859ed23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rochesterhomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=229636 | 2013-05-18T08:50:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945057 | 198 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Images have been appearing all over the internet of the Geminid Meteor Shower this week after some photographers captured some brilliant shots of the event unfolding.
It happened last night and some people said they saw up to 50 meteors an hour flying through the sky.
Many images have popped up with some showing exposure images of multiple meteors over time. However we felt this ultra bright one took the top spot and have included it with our article. Image credits go over to AstroPics.com
An Asteroid known as the 3200 Phaethon breaks away and creates the meteor shower we got to see last night.
Did you get any decent images, or did you find a cool one online? Let us know in a comment below.
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For a listing of CCMs click on Directory of Certified Consulting Meteorologists
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Reviewed by Colin Jacobson
Columbia-TriStar, widescreen 1.85:1/16x9, languages: English DD 5.1 [CC] & Dolby Surround, Spanish & Portuguese Dolby Surround, subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, single side-dual layer, 28 chapters, rated PG, 118 min., $27.95, street date 4/25/2000.
Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Actress-Winona Ryder, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, 1995.
Directed by Gilliam Armstrong. Starring Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Samantha Mathis, Susan Sarandon, Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Eric Stoltz.
With her husband off at war, Marmee is left alone to raise their four daughters -- her "little women." There is the spirited Jo; conservative Meg; fragile Beth; and romantic Amy. As the years pass, the sisters share some of the most cherished and painful memories of self-discovery, as Marmee and Aunt March guide them through issues of independence, romance and virtue.
Regular readers of my reviews know that I'm not just a man; I'm a man's man! So what in the world is a tough guy like me doing watching a "chick flick" as definitively mushy and sappy as Little Women? My job, I guess; Columbia-Tristar sent me a copy, so I suppose I'm stuck with it!
Admittedly, I wasn't too excited about the prospect of screening this film, but I must admit some curiosity. LW is a well-established classic of literature, but my knowledge of it remained quite weak; I never read the book and honestly knew little about the story beyond some extremely cursory facts. As such, I figured it'd be nice to finally have some comprehension of the tale.
Now that I've watched the film, I guess I can say that I know something about the story, but what a price to pay! 118 minutes of unadulterated pap, proto-feminist hogwash cast in the light of a gentle, semi-romantic period piece. I expected not to care for LW, and unfortunately, I got exactly what I expected.
Since I never read the book, I have no idea how closely this film hews to it, but I can state that a more appropriate title for this movie might be Little Woman. Yes, the March clan emerges intact with all four daughters and the annoying-titled matriarch "Marmee", but daughter Jo (Winona Ryder) clearly emerges as the focal point of the film, and for fairly obvious reasons; Jo appears as the most unconventional of the bunch, and definitely would be the one who the story's fans - the vast majority of whom I would estimate are female English majors who spend most of their time decrying the inequities of a male-dominated world - could most readily identify. Jo's sisters - who are all much more conventional and/or timid - get swept under the rug so we can focus on Jo's ever-so-modern boldness.
My disdain for this claptrap runs deep. No, it's not as bad as openly male-bashing films like Fried Green Tomatoes - possibly the worst movie ever made - but I genuinely dislike this kind picture, as I think it "empowers" women at the expense of men. Or something like that. Really, I had a hard time getting a handle on what the point of this film was. It has a lot of that "Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves" vibe, and the men in the movie are clearly viewed as nothing more than minor characters who are of uncertain usefulness - Father March is spoken of fondly while he's away at war, but once he's back at home, he becomes less than a non-entity - but the film can't quite rid itself of males once and for all, and it betrays an odd sentimentality toward romantic relationships.
What's it all mean? Who knows, but I think it's a case of a film that wants to have its cake and eat it too. LW won't go quite so far as to completed slam men, but it heads down that path, only to regain a romantic edge, probably because it allows for more conventionally happy proceedings.
The characters themselves never remotely rise above the level of stereotypes. Okay, Jo actually displays more self-doubt than most characters of her type, but she still seems pretty stuck in the "non-traditional woman" category, with all that entails. Meg (Trini Alvarado) never seems like more than a fairly shallow type who wants to marry, and Beth (Claire Danes) is just your sickly, kindly sort who manages virtually no personality at all. Amy (played by Kirsten Dunst as a young girl and by Samantha Mathis as a little bit older girl) also seems to lack definition, though at least she has a little spunk, unlike the exceptionally bland Beth. Dunst makes her the traditional semi-pesky little sister, while Mathis does absolutely nothing with the role; her portrayal equals the emptiness we see in Beth.
Sarandon has little to do as Marmee other than be the stoic center of the family, and she's believable as a pillar. In fact, with the exception of the stiff Mathis, all of the actors perform reasonably well in their parts, and the men in the cast adeptly portray the walking mannequins that are their characters. Unfortunately, none of them could even remotely overcome the triteness of the roles and make any of the parts - or the predictable and banal events of their dopey little lives - interesting or get me to care about the characters. As I watched Little Women, all I did care about was watching the display on my DVD player slowly - very slowly - work its way to that 118 minute mark. Once it did, I could happily eject this artificial and awkward pap from my DVD player.
Little Women appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. I've come to expect excellent transfers on Columbia-Tristar (CTS) DVDs, and this one did not disappoint me.
Sharpness generally seems very crisp and defined, although some gentle softness occasionally appeared; however, I believe those instances resulted from a combination of stylistic decisions and the warm, natural lighting used, so they don't seem to be problems due to the transfer. Jagged edges and moiré effects are largely absent, but I did see occasional "ropiness" due to the anamorphic downconversion on my 4X3 TV. Other print flaws like grain, speckles, scratches or marks were not apparent.
Colors generally seemed muted within the warm, candle-lit world of this film, but they appeared accurate and realistically-saturated. Black levels were very good, and shadow detail seemed appropriately dense but not overly thick. All in all, it's another visual winner from CTS.
If you expect a real "whiz-bang" soundtrack from LW, you'll be sorely disappointed. As for me, I didn't expect anything of the sort - quiet chick flicks don't usually inspire aural satisfaction - but was pleased with what I heard. The soundstage hews largely to the front but spreads nicely across those three channels; the forward image was fairly broad and spatially well-designed. The surrounds didn't have a lot to do, but they contributed some nice ambience and even occasionally tossed in some nice split surround effects.
Audio quality seemed perfectly fine. As one might expect, LW is a very dialogue-heavy film, and the speech sounded good, with a natural quality and strong intelligibility. The score appeared warm and lush, and effects were clear and realistic. I wouldn't use this soundtrack to demo my system, but it gets the job done very nicely.
Little Women appears as a "Collector's Series" title, and CTS have indeed included a few nice supplements. First up is a decent audio commentary from director Gillian Armstrong. Actually, when I initially fired up this track, I almost had to halt it immediately; Armstrong welcomes us with a greeting that mentions she's happy to have us since our presence must mean we love the story as much as she does. Wrong! Nonetheless, I soldiered through her commentary and found it to be a somewhat dull but generally informative offering. She covers a variety of details about the production and does so efficiently and engagingly, although she could stand to seem a bit more critical; like many commentaries, Armstrong rarely presents any even slightly negative views of the film. Nonetheless, it's a worthwhile track for fans of the movie.
Another addition is the presence of Thomas Newman' score on an alternate audio track. The score appears in full Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. As I've mentioned in other reviews, I'm not much of a fan of movie music, but for those who enjoy them, supplements like this make for a nice treat.
We find a decent "making of..." featurette that runs for nearly seven minutes. Like most of these, we don't see much in the way of production details; this piece was clearly intended as a promotional clip and functions along those lines. Still, it's watchable, as it presents sound bites from the major cast and crew members.
More "behind the scenes" information comes in the "Costume and Production Design Gallery". This section is presented as a video program that runs for eight minutes; the designs and their on-screen results are accompanied by narration from costume designer Colleen Atwood. The feature offers a nice look at what Atwood tried to do with her designs.
Two deleted scenes appear on the DVD. Each runs for about 50 seconds and neither offers much of interest, though the second one made for an unusual stylistic departure. These can be watched either with the original audio or with Armstrong's commentary, which reveals why the scenes were omitted.
A brief "Historical Timeline" offers seven "significant" dates in the history of LW, from its original publication through a few other Louisa May Alcott-related occasions and all releases of LW films. I could have lived without this; it's pretty dull.
As are the two trivia games we find. Each of these ask some pretty easy questions and purport to "reward" you with a prize at the end of the task. One "prize" is a "special clip" - which is just a very short bit of the movie and didn't seem too special too me - and the other "reward" simply lists the names of some of Alcott's books. What a waste of time!
Finally, we find trailers for LW and other CTS "family classics" Jumanji, Hook and Madeline. The DVD's booklet also contains some brief but interesting production notes. The package finishes with the usual (useless) talent files for director Armstrong, producer Denise Di Novi, and five of the actresses; CTS create the least-compelling biographies in the business (they can't even be bothered to provide more than a "selected" filmography!).
If you decide to discard my opinion of the film because you know you already like it, you'll be more than delighted with the DVD of Little Women. It offers very good picture and sound and tosses in a few nice supplements as well. However, if my dislike of the movie means anything to you, you'll pass on this sucker. I found the movie to be a tremendously sappy and irritating piece of work that I hope to never experience again.
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. — If President Barack Obama wins this swing-voting state, and a second term as president, voters like Paula Burky will probably be the reason.
"He understands women," said Burky, a Westminster resident who last month decided to vote for Obama.
Both the Democratic president and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, see women — specifically suburbanites from their 30s to their 50s — as critical to victory in Colorado as well as in other hard-fought places like Virginia and Nevada where polls also show close contests. That means this group of voters may also hold the key to winning the White House.
The state of the campaign in the sprawling Denver region — modest neighborhoods and upscale subdivisions near the city give way to retail complexes, industrial parks and front-range ranches at the outskirts — illustrates how the fight is playing out across the nation, and how both candidates are seeking to woo these female voters in different ways.
Obama has stirred passions among Colorado women by stoking fears about abortion rights, spending the past few weeks sharply criticizing Romney in ads for proposing to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and opposing the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
Romney, in turn, has paid for mail and automated calls in Colorado decrying Obama's handling of the sluggish economy's effect on women.
Just over 100 days until the election, polls in Colorado show a close race, though it's unclear how the electorate's psyche will be impacted by last week's shooting massacre at a suburban Denver movie complex and a summer wildfire season that has scorched countless homes and businesses.
For now at least, Obama has had the edge over female voters nationally and he is focusing on a particularly promising subset: college-educated women. Fifty-five percent of college-educated women preferred Obama in a June Associated Press-GfK poll, while 40 percent preferred Romney.
Women with college degrees make up 27 percent of Colorado voters, according to exit polls from the 2008 election, higher than the national average of 23 percent. That puts Colorado in league with other prime Romney-Obama targets, Virginia and New Hampshire.
Burky is among those who have gravitated toward Obama. She and her husband were unemployed for eight months until recently, while their teenage daughter was recovering from cancer. Burky was swayed by Obama's action last spring — opposed by Romney — to make it easier for women to obtain birth control, a move she said has economic repercussions.
"If women are choosing abortion because they are in dire economic straits, I have a moral obligation to vote for the candidate who is going to help them," Burky said.
Jill Wildenburg, an Obama supporter who lives in Englewood, calls the president's focus "huge because if women's reproductive rights are marginalized, then women are marginalized."
To press his argument that he's on the side of women, Obama sponsored a national women's summit last month in Colorado — in Jefferson County — featuring senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and "Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria. The week before he dispatched first lady Michelle Obama to Arapahoe High School in Centennial.
Obama is partly borrowing from the playbook of Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet's winning U.S. Senate race in 2010. Bennet narrowly beat Ken Buck after painting him as extreme in pointed TV ads about the Republican's opposition to abortion rights and popular forms of birth control. He carried Arapahoe and Jefferson counties by a combined 10,000 votes, about a third of his narrow margin over Buck.
"That portrayal of Buck is what beat him," said Democratic pollster Paul Harstad, an adviser to Bennet who also does polling for Obama's campaign.
Some Romney backers argue that Obama is attempting to distract female voters from the economy by emphasizing abortion.
"It has nothing to do with abortion," said Vickie Dow of Centennial, an upscale Arapahoe County suburb. "I'm worried about the economy. I'm really afraid things have gone downhill terribly."
Unemployment in Colorado was 8.2 percent in June, the same as nationally. It has ticked up slightly statewide and proportionally in Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, Denver's south and west suburbs where more than 20 percent of the state's population lives, after a slow decline over the past year when it dipped below the national average.
Romney, meanwhile, is seeking to court women like Debbie Brown of Centennial. She agrees with Republican pollsters who say that women are more acutely aware of economic ups and downs. Often household budget managers, women are more sensitive to fluctuations in the economy and see them as destabilizing to their families.
"It actually becomes a heart issue for them because they care so much about their families," said Brown, whose husband recently began working again after being unemployed for nine months.
Four years ago, Obama carried Colorado, which offers nine Electoral College votes, by 9 percentage points. The outcome in November is expected to be much closer, with recent public polls showing a tight race.
Romney views Colorado, which Republicans carried in every presidential election from 1968 to 2004, as a valuable potential pick-up. Obama aides argue that his 2008 victory is proof the Southwest's Republican trend is changing as Latinos, who typically vote Democratic, increase in numbers.
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| GEO Business|
| CFS financing average interest rate drops down to 39pc|
| Updated at: 1512 PST, Saturday, December 13, 2008|
KARACHI: Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) CFS financing average interest rate this week declining by 50 percent pegged at 39 percent.
KSE released figures said that KSE CFS financing this week declining by 0.60 percent amounted to Rs11 billion, while the average interest rate came reeling down by 50 percent to 39 percent. CFS financing interest rate this week on NIB shares stood at 100 percent, while among the other prominent companies in the financing included JSCL, OGDCL, National Bank. Arif Habib Securities and Pakistan Oil Fields. | <urn:uuid:5864eed8-7742-4e62-874e-04442afeaef4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.geo.tv/12-13-2008/30606.htm | 2013-05-18T07:38:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935574 | 152 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Business for Sale
The Business: In a futuristic business nirvana, owners of "virtual" corporations would be able to rent or outsource absolutely everything. Want to get in on the trend? Consider this four-year-old company, with locations in three major California cities and a fast-growing market niche--renting computer and audiovisual equipment to hotels and other businesses that host conferences, trade shows, and the like. Unlike many of its small regional competitors, this company has internally funded its own growth activities, thanks to its strong cash flow and quick turnover of older equipment. Now with no debt and a proven business model, it's embarked on an out-of-state expansion that should push sales into rent-a-hog heaven. The current owner wants to concentrate on another business investment; he plans to offer incentives to his 23 staffers to stay on after a sale.
Price: $6 million
Outlook: With about $23 billion in annual sales, the equipment-rental-and-leasing business is thriving; it's also ripe for consolidation, since most of the industry consists of 32,000 or so small local players. Having already proved it can outperform the industry norm (which is annual sales of about $800,000), this company could boost growth in two key ways: through more regional expansion or major product-line additions. Before you rent an armored car to cart away all the profits, though, keep one caveat in mind: both methods will be capital intensive, especially if you finance, rather than self-fund, that growth.
Price Rationale: If you're looking for an easy answer, forget it. Pricing an equipment-rental business is heavily subjective and depends on such variables as the age or obsolescence of the equipment, the strength of customer and supplier relations, and the extent to which the business is already leveraged. On the upside, this company looks good in all those areas; besides the absence of debt, its million dollars' worth of equipment is relatively new (and its aggressive used-equipment sales force aims to keep it that way). Strong relationships with three vendors and a large customer base are other pluses. Now for the downside: few companies ever sell for a price approaching one times gross revenues, suggesting that--short of a consolidation war--this business is priced at least $1 million too high. Our suggestion: keep your eye on recast earnings and make certain the current level of $1.5 million will cover a manager's salary, an equipment-investment budget, and any financing costs you plan to incur in making this purchase.
Pros: Rent-a-roll-up has a certain ring to it. Could this be the consolidation play of your dreams?
Cons: If you don't plan to merge or build your way into a powerhouse position, somebody else will. Do you really want to run just another rental business? --Jill Andresky Fraser
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Inc. has no stake in the sale of the business featured. The magazine cannot confirm the accuracy of financial or other information offered by the seller. Inquiries should be directed to Kris Karlson of Bowman/Hanson at 415-292-5227. | <urn:uuid:312432af-890c-4e3f-9049-5c31650eea25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inc.com/magazine/19980501/935_Printer_Friendly.html | 2013-05-18T08:51:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949935 | 682 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
EPFO looks to invest in infrastructure debt fund
Keen to get better returns on its investments, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation is looking at putting a part of its Rs 5 lakh crore corpus in the finance ministry's pet funding option for core sector projects — infrastructure debt funds (IDF).
The move, if it goes through, will also help the cash-strapped core sector that requires an estimated $1 trillion over the next five years.
"If we can invest in bonds of infrastructure companies such as Power Finance Corporation, we should also be able to invest in bonds of the IDF. There should not be any distinction," a senior EPFO official said.
The EPFO, through the labour ministry, has already begun talks with the finance ministry on the issue, the official said. A meeting between secretaries of the two ministries is expected to take place later this month to discuss easing of the EPFO's stringent investment pattern for this purpose.
With rising asset liability mismatch banking sector funds for long gestation core sector projects have largely dried up and the finance ministry has been pushing for more investment in the infrastructure sector by insurance as well as pension funds.
While the department of economic affairs had earlier written to the EPFO to invest in infra debt funds, the department of financial services has also asked the insurance regulator IRDA to relax norms for insurance firms to allow for greater investment in the infrastructure sector.
"We need more investment opportunities, if we have to better returns for our subscribers," the official pointed out. But concerns over risks entailed in such projects need to be addressed before the traditionally risk averse retirement fund manager will agree to invest.
With strict investment guidelines that allow a majority of its corpus to be put in government backed securities, the EPFO had in 2011-12 been able to offer just an 8.25 per cent return to its subscribers.
- Destitute, orphan students outclass rest in Andhra Class 10 exams
- To re-energise ties, PM wants to visit US, waits for confirmation
- NIA court says no terror link, frees 'Hizbul militant' Liyaqat on bail
- CBI arrests its coal allotments investigator on bribery charge
- ‘Cricketer-bookie Amit may have used Jiju to reach Sree’
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With all the school budget cuts over the past several years, art as part of the everyday curriculum is becoming a thing of the past in many schools. Here in San Diego County though, that void is being filled in various schools, thanks to ArtReach. ArtReach is a nonprofit organization that provides hands on art education workshops in our schools and they do this with the help of real, professional artists. Joining me this morning to talk about their program and how art can help in a child's development is ArtReach Board President, Sandi Cottrell and ArtReach Executive Director, Judy Berman Silbert.
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The iPad is a convenient eBook reader.
It’s portable, so you can carry your library with you. You can adjust font size and screen brightness for eye comfort and search the book for content. Images can be expanded and look stunning in color. A growing number of publishers are adding “enhanced content.”
Reading purchased books on the iPad is easy. Simply choose an appropriate app, based on the type of book you purchased (Kindle app for Amazon, Nook for Barnes and Noble, iBooks for Apple, Google Books for Google.) Library books, though,are “checked out” for a specific time period and then downloaded for offline viewing. When they are due, they no longer work on your iPad. Adobe DRM is the industry standard for this process, but Adobe Digital Editions and the iPad are not compatible. Bluefire Reader is a free app that allows you to check out and read ebooks from Lister Hill Library on your iPad. Here is how to use it:
1. If you don’t already have one, create an Adobe Account here. Save your user name and password, as you will want to use it on any other devices you might read books/PDFs on, including books from the public library.
2. Download Bluefire Reader from the Apple App Store. While setting up, you should authorize the account with your Adobe Account.
For publishers that offer the option to download and check out books (as the Ebsco Host ebook collection does), choose your book using your iPad. To download, you may need to create a personal account or use your Blazer ID/password. Follow screen prompts.
Once downloaded, you can choose to open in BlueFire Reader. After downloading, read the book later by using the Bluefire reader app.
Many publishers (such as Springer and eBrary) offer the option to download individual chapters as PDFS. There is no checkout required, but you may be asked to log into an account. Follow screen prompts. Once downloaded, you will be able enlarge images, print the PDF and to manage it with your other PDF documents.
Most public libraries use Overdrive software to loan audiobooks and ebooks for iPads and iPhones. It is simple to use as well. The instructions provided for other readers (except the Kindle) generally work on UAB ebooks as well. | <urn:uuid:bbf90b37-e945-4eb2-b908-434e1ade0c1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lhl.uab.edu/tech/?p=897 | 2013-05-18T07:49:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911209 | 488 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Awww, that is one well loved cat. When I was a newly wed we took in a little stray black and white kitten. She lived to be fifteen and was THE GREATEST CAT evah. I still miss her and she's been gone nearly 20 years.
This made me smile. I needed a smile today. Thanks!!!
We all need smilez like this. Gives me a little bit more hope to add to the small stock I have in my hope cupboard ... right next to the herbs and spices rack.
Sweet. And what a cutie.
There's a lot of bad in the world, but there's lots of good too.This kitty's body type looks like Minion's when she was young... probably why the story made me all mushy.
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On Twitter this morning, @secrunner made the following comment:
“I think it’s surprising that PCI still hasn’t developed a program to certify pen testers or at least standardize the approach”
In reply I stated that given the level of certification for ASV’s (Approved Scanning Vendors), I’m just as happy if the PCI Council would stay out of the business of certifying pen testers or creating a standardized approach. In reply @secrunner asked the following:
“In the spirit of PCI, isn’t even some standard (even a low one) better than none?”
The answer is, no, it’s not. To be more specific, my answer was “Low standards for a merchant are better than nothing. Low standards for a vendor are misleading at best, dangerous at worst.” Let me explain why I think this way:
When you go shopping, one of the last things on your mind is probably “How does this merchant protect my cardholder information?”. It’s one of the first things I think of, but that’s what I do for a living. Most people are just concerned about if their merchant is going to have their size or the best price on the new toy they want. They just assume the merchant has taken the necessary steps to secure their cardholder information. And if they haven’t, consumers know that they’re only responsible for the first $50 dollars worth of fraud, and even that is usually absorbed by their bank or credit card company. Sure, getting a new card issued to you is a bit of a hassle, but for most people it’s something that’s over and done with in a few minutes.
In this case, security is assumed and is not the primary concern of the person doing the purchasing. A default standard such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) is important and useful because it gives a baseline level of security for the industry to meet. It may not be the level of security the company really needs to protect themselves, but all too often this baseline is more than the company was doing prior to the standard. It may not be perfect security, but at least it pulls you up from the level of ‘low hanging fruit’.
Certifying a vendor as a ‘compliant’ or ‘certified’ is a completely different story. When an industry group such as the PCI Council makes a standard for a class of vendor and then certifies these vendors as meeting a certain baseline, this certification becomes one of the primary influencers in the purchasing decision. Using the ASV certification as an example, a merchant won’t even consider a scanning vendor for their company unless the PCI Council has already certified them. The merchant has to use a vendor who’s been certified otherwise they can’t submit the scans as part of their own compliance. A large part of why this works is that external scanning of web sites is a fairly well understood, repeatable and, most importantly, testable process. It can be easily automated and running the same test against the same site ten times will generally generate the same results every time (okay, maybe 90% of the time)
Penetration testing is an entirely different issue. Yes, there are automated tools. Yes, some pen testers don’t go much beyond that level. But the good pen testers I know treat penetrating a company’s defenses more like an art than a science. Metasploit and other tools are their paintbrushes, but it’s the person who’s using the tools that is actually making it possible to find the vulnerabilities in your company so that you can shore up your weaknesses and prevent someone else from finding them. This isn’t a process that easily documented, standardized or testable. It might be something you can do on a person by person basis, just as the PCI Council does for QSA’s now, but it would be nearly impossible to do for a company.
Let’s be honest, in the PCI-DSS, the idea of ‘penetration test’ is barely even defined. It has to have a network portion and an application portion, but the how’s and what’s of penetration testing are left up to the QSA to verify and validate. There’s no agreed upon standard in the industry of what makes a pen test a valid and acceptable pen test, let alone within the PCI community. If the PCI Council wanted to certify pen testing companies, the first major hurdle they’d run into is making up that definition. Then they’d have to come up with a way of testing companies’ adherence to the standards and create a certification program. This would be a huge battle to undertake and the benefits would be minimal.
Right now, it’s up to market pressures and QSA’s to determine what’s a ‘real’ penetration test. If someone created a penetration testing certification there’s only one group of people it’d help: marketing. Most merchants wouldn’t read the requirements for the certification, they’d just use the certification process as a check box to weed out potential vendors. And I can guarantee that the marketing teams would love that. And I doubt it would make the results of penetration tests any better; in my opinion it would simply mean that most companies would ‘dumb down’ whatever they’re currently doing so that it met with the minimum standards and no more. I much prefer seeing the merchant who’s having the pen test performed ask questions about exactly what’s going to be done and try to understand what they’re getting themselves in for. | <urn:uuid:0cd3f3b4-e7b8-4fa9-a832-2d30a4444490> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mckeay.net/category/simple-security/page/2/ | 2013-05-18T07:38:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955375 | 1,218 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
[mythtv-users] capture card setup, audio device options
cal at graggrag.com
Sat Mar 17 00:27:29 UTC 2007
>> On 3/16/07, Alan Calvert <cal at graggrag.com> wrote:
>>> A naive little question - the only options I'm seeing for audio device
>>> selection in capture card setup are the dsp's (ie, no alsa/jack). Is
>>> that normal?
>> Michael Lynch wrote:
>> Yes, but it is also a free-text area, meaning you can type whatever
>> you'd like in those boxes.
> Note the input device for capture cards can only be an OSS device
> (/dev/dspX). If you look in the source code you can see there are lots of
> classes for frontend audio out (OSS, ALSA, JACK, etc...) but there is only
> one input class for backend capture - OSS. If you type an ALSA device in the
> free-text field there, you won't get any sound.
> If I knew more about combining an AC3 stream as audio with an MP4 I'd take a
> crack as adding ALSA to backend capture. I have an STB with COAX/Optical
> audio out (DCT2525), and a sound card with COAX/Optical in. Would be nice to
> capture S/Video and AC3 rather than just basic stero.
Good answers, thank you all! I think I'm getting my head around it.
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Simple, yet elegant Communion Thank You cards
(Hazlet, NJ) - May 14, 2011
I received several compliments on these Thank You cards for my son's Communion. They look elegant, but without the huge price tag of other cards from different websites I looked at. They are printed on a very matte card stock, so there is no gloss on the photo, but all in all very pleased with these cards! | <urn:uuid:f8e729d6-d36f-4950-b5e2-ef5ce9ad2fd3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.personalizationmall.com/ProductReviews.aspx?productid=9587&sortby=3 | 2013-05-18T08:35:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965331 | 88 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It wasn’t so long ago that event planners would often higher local companies to help them source out local suppliers for their successful events. These local experts, commonly referred to as destination management companies or DMC’s, would assist the event planner in finding the perfect venue or suppliers. And then came the Internet. Event planning online has become a rapidly growing Internet community for meeting and event planners. A lot of traditional DMC’s migrated their services and began offering online searches to help these meeting and event planners.
Event Planning Online Has Changed the Way the Industry Sources Suppliers
When I first started in the meeting planning business I was with a full-service destination management company. In those days it was our job to know all of the top venues and suppliers in my area and then to be able to make recommendations, or proposals to my potential clients. Then, the company that had the best options and often the best price won the peace of business. Today unless those companies have adjusted their business models to accommodate event planning online than they are most likely suffering with less revenue. I started to see that happening in my own company in the late 1990s. It started slowly, basically from providing full event details (such as facility rental, transportation, caterer and entertainment) to all of a sudden only providing transportation for the event as the meeting and event planner found the other services directly online. For my company we saw the writing on the wall. We either adjust our business model or quite frankly we would become a dinosaur in the industry. We decided that we would revamp our business model completely. Instead of taking supplier quotes and marking them up to present them to our client we now were in a situation where we would provide a selection of suppliers and allow the client to search and make their own selection. So our business model went from marking up wholesale prices from suppliers to a model that was more in tune with today’s web businesses. We needed to get our revenue from supplier listings and advertising on our website. More about the challenges with that business model in a later post.
What has now happened is that meeting and event planners are getting exposed to great venues and suppliers without having to pay additional marked up costs. It’s a win-win for planners. For the service industries that service meeting and event planners it still is an adjustment period. What this means for planners is that they can now do their event planning online.
For those planners looking for sites that offer event planning online what they should be looking for is variety. A planner should not be penalized for doing event planning online and only being able to see suppliers that have paid to be listed on a particular site. A seasoned planner will soon realize that they are perhaps not getting the best selection of suppliers available. They’ll soon look for another site with event planning online.
I’m going to list a few sites here that you may want to consider for event planning online. The criteria for the sites has no scientific formula applied. Basically the sites are known as leaders of information within the meeting and events industry.
Welcome To The City, or WTTC.com is a great site that breaks down its suppliers by the various categories that a meeting or event planner would be searching. Planner accounts are free and you can set up as many events as you would like. Right now the company is focused in North America and has listings for 24 cities.
Cvent is known as one of the biggest in the industry. Cvent started in the industry as the leader in registration software and has expanded to include supplier listings. Cvent has supplier information for hundreds of cities were meetings and events occur.
Meetingplanner.com is another website for event planning online. This site offers supplier information in hundreds of locations as well. It also allows for suppliers to bid for certain events that planners are posting. It is also a free to use website.
Event planning online does help those that need to find venues and suppliers for their upcoming meetings or events. You can easily get bogged down by only Googling for venues and suppliers. Instead of doing generic Google searches why not try a site that is tailored to event planning online. Make sure the sites you are looking at do not preclude vendors that are only paying to be on those sites. By using a site that is specific to event planning online you’re sure to receive the best of the best for possible suppliers.
- 3 Tips for Event Planners Choosing Venues (plananevent.org)
- Party and Event Planning-How to Choose a Venue (plananevent.org)
- The Best Places to Find Event Planning Careers (plananevent.org)
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RE: Where to get 4kv 20ma NST?
Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
On 24 Sep 2002, at 7:58, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
> > >>>>>>>>>Actually, the rules are as follows:
> > 1. You must use a Franceformer 4020SE Open Frame transformer (4kV/20mA
> > rated with 115VAC input and with
> > shunts installed)
> The 115VAC input I can arrange (why on earth should Vmains make any
> difference??). What's wrong with a 230V transformer running off 230V?
> A transformer with a 115V primary and a Franceformer I cannot. I
> guess I'm barred even from entering the starting gates.
> The Vmains makes a huge difference. For example, someone uses a 115VAC,
> 4kV, 20mA transformer. If someone used
> a variac which can output up to 180VAC, then you then have possibly now a
> 6kV, 30mA transformer. Although this will
> ultimately kill the transformer, it is possible to work under short periods.
Ah - the use of a variac has to be cheating IMO. You will be starting
the race on an uneven footing right from the word go if variacs are
allowed. Sans variac, the transformers *will* in fact be equal.
> I'm not trying to barr anyone from entering any type of "contest." The
> event was mainly for a few individuals which attend a private tesla event
> each year, but now its seems to be expanding out worldwide. The whole goal
> of the competition was to be a competition in efficiency and build design.
> By using the same model transformer and same exact input requirements, this
> contest would be somewhat fair and accurate. Now by introducing all these
> other types of transformers etc... there is too much variability.
Well, I will just have to watch the competition from the sidelines in
that case. I'm not willing to part with in excess of NZ$150 to
qualify. To the best of my knowledge, those transformers are not
I would like to propose an amendment to the "rules": restrict the
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Back in June, MGM hired Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) to develop and direct a new movie based on director John Badham's 1983 thriller, War Games, which starred Matthew Broderick as a computer prodigy who almost starts World War III when he hacks into a military supercomputer. At the time, Gordon predicted that it would be "a long time" before the movie would be ready to go into production because they still had to "write it and then cast it." While it's likely still far from the casting stage, at least the project has progressed to the writing stage as Deadline has reported MGM has hired TV news producer-turned screenwriter Noah Oppenheim (Hardball, Today Show) to pen the script. more about the War Games remake >> Posted 08.22.11 by BrentJS
Do you want to play a game?
With MGM now out of the mountain of debt they were buried under, the studio is digging into their archives for one of their next projects with 1983's War Games. The movie starred Matthew Broderick as a high school student who uses his acoustic coupler modem to inadvertently break into a military supercomputer and, thinking he's playing a computer game, almost starts World War III.
Deadline reports MGM has hired director Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) to help develop the War Games remake into a more modern context. Gordon is not unfamiliar with gaming, having directed the 2007 documentary The King of Kong, which followed a battle between two men attempting to claim the highest score in the arcade console version of "Donkey Kong". In an interview with Collider, Gordon expressed his excitement about the project. gordon excited to head into falken's maze >> Posted 06.24.11 by Ryan
We're well seasoned when it comes to suspending disbelief and buying into a fairly incredible premise. But as technology becomes more advanced, it seems movie storylines are becoming even more implausible and outrageous. Disney's Tron: Legacy follows an abandoned son (Garrett Hedlund) who is transported into a computer world in order to find his missing father (Jeff Bridges). Digitizing a human being and placing him in a cyberworld could be a difficult plot for audiences to swallow ... if they hadn't already bought it in the 1982 original.
But Tron isn't the only movie to proclaim that "technology can do anything." We look back on 10 movies that take technology to the limit — and then kept going and going.
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James Birch promoted to senior vp at WBIT
James Birch has been promoted to the position of senior vice president, business affairs & general counsel, for Warner Bros International Theatres (WBIT). Based in Warner's London office, he will report to Millard Ochs, president of WBIT.Birch will continue to be responsible for all legal and development issues affecting the day-to-day operation and growth of the division.He was previously vice president, business affairs & general counsel, a post he was promoted to ...
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My wife likes the LCR. I was thinking about getting her the XS tritium sights OR the Crimson Trace laser grips. Forget about cost differences.
What would be most useful to a woman who's not a "gun chick"
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April 24, 2011, 10:24 AM
useful is what works best for her. and she wont know what that may be till she tries some on for size. your job is to find a way to expose her to the different items such that she can experience them. and than she can make her decision.
and what will be her carry method? depending on her carry choices a gun that 'fits' her may not carry well.
April 24, 2011, 10:57 AM
Conventional wisdom is that the CT grips have more felt recoil than the tamers.
I went with the XS dot upgrade.
April 24, 2011, 11:10 AM
The most useful is what SHE likes and works for HER.
You are very lucky that your wife is taking an interest in what you like.
April 24, 2011, 01:01 PM
I installed CT sights on my LCP, and am glad that I did. They are very hard to use. It takes two hands to activate the sights. But for that little gun they are a must no matter how hard they are to activate.
Now about the LCR See this review here (http://tinyurl.com/4yp3pvh), You will notice he says that the stock grip on the LCR is very comfortable, Very true. the best you will ever have. I sent my LCR to XS Sights and had them install the sights for me, well worth the time and money. They are great and extremely accurate. I just made a note to my self to practice shooting the LCR just pointing and shooting without using the sights. I would recommend keeping the very comfortable Hoque grip and getting the XS Sights Here (http://www.xssights.com/demo.html) They work just as shown in bottom video, No CT Sights necessary on LCR. And keep the comfortable grip for the wife so that she will enjoy the gun. | <urn:uuid:a0b176b6-759c-4f75-9864-83e8f2f29988> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-589242.html | 2013-05-18T08:49:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968418 | 503 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Coming To A Garage Sale Near You: Big Brotherby Doug Mataconis
Proving yet again that there is no limit to the extent to which the Federal Government will intrude upon our lives, the Feds are now turning their attention to that staple of American Suburbia, the garage sale:
WASHINGTON — If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you’d best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that’s been recalled by its manufacturer.
“Those who resell recalled children’s products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children’s lives at risk,” said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of recalls for thousands of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.
Staffers for the federal agency are fanning out across the country to conduct training seminars on the regulations at dozens of thrift shops.
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Tim Bug's Hidden Provocative SLAM Quote
I've been a fan of SLAM magazine ever since I happened upon Issue 1 (Grandmama!) rather randomly at a supermarket newsstand in 1994, and I have a collection dating back to Issue 8 to prove it (what did I ever do with Ish 1?!).
SLAM has always seemed to be a fairly polarizing magazine due to its hip-hop-flavored sensibilities and voice. Probably esp. so in the '90s, I think, when it was something closer to one of a kind, as opposed to now, when there are so many disparate styles and voices out here in the glorious Wild West of the basketball blogosphere (some of which owe a debt to SLAM).
I have always loved SLAM, in part just because I think it's a beautifully laid-out and designed magazine, but mainly b/c I've always felt that the magazine's voice has primarily been an expression of an unapologetic love of the game - nothing more, nothing less - more than anything else.
Back in the '90s before the Internet took off and allowed for a wide array of sources, NBA coverage was still primarily provided by a narrow set of reporters and commentators in the mainstream media, many of whom seemed to outright hate the league.
As such, I always found (and still do, to a certain extent) SLAM magazine to be something of an oasis - I'm just part of a community of readers who love the game, and it's a place where I don't have explain or justify why I like the NBA to anyone who doesn't get it.
To the point... I've always been amused at how the mainstream media seems to ignore SLAM to the point where the magazine is treated like it doesn't exist, or is an alternate universe, perhaps. Newsworthy and/or provocative quotes from the magazine rarely seem to surface in the MSM or in the mainstream discussion of the league.
As an example, I was recently catching up on the September issue and was reading the Tim Hardaway profile. The article - "The Education of Tim Hardaway" - was both about how Tim Bug developed his game on Chicago's South Side and at UTEP, and also about how Hardaway seemed to be genuinely trying to make amends for his hateful comments after John Amaechi came out of the closet - consistent with reporting from last year.
And then, lo and behold, after I jumped to page 87 to continue, I found this quote from Hardaway snuck in on the next-to-last page of content in the magazine:
- "I know for a fact that an NBA player came out to his team this year, and it wasn't a big deal."
Yet, a Google search of various subsets and combinations of the quote returned just one mention, on Interbasket (which is a fine site for coverage of the international game, I might add).
It's a tough one because it's hard to follow up on this particular quote with anything other than salacious and somewhat ridiculous speculation. It probably spotlights the fact that the complications of an active athlete coming out of the closet might be related to dealing publicly with the media and the fans at least as much as with one's teammates.
Still, the quote at least deserved a little bit of mention and discussion, didn't it?
UPDATE: Here's a little more context from the SLAM article for the Hardaway quote above:
- "I don't hate anybody," Tim Hardaway told me recently. "Look at my background, my past. I misspoke, and I apologized."
Hardaway has since learned that some of his closest friends have gay sons and daughters. So Hardaway quietly decided to walk the walk. He sat in on several all-day seminars at Miami's YES Institute, which provides support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens. "It's for kids who have trouble dealing with their sexuality," Hardaway says, insisting he never wanted his comments to be used to bash gay kids. "But I've learned that dealing with parents and relatives can be the most traumatic," he says, before quoting the high suicide stats among gay youth.
And he still thinks Amaechi could have "come out" to his Jazz or Magic teammates, instead of waiting until he was retired. "Trust us as teammates, let us deal with it," he adds. "I know for a fact that an NBA player came out to his team this year, and it wasn't a big deal. Be up front." | <urn:uuid:ae5b69e7-4f26-4fd0-9f87-32318aff8f7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thepaintedarea.blogspot.com/2008/10/tim-bugs-hidden-provocative-slam-quote.html | 2013-05-18T08:33:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982037 | 940 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Your Feb. 1 headline on the article about Hillary Clinton leaving her post as secretary of State reads: “Clinton exits stage with star still bright.” Your article said her career has been “widely recognized as stellar.” She should have shone some of that starlight on the events in Benghazi, Libya.
The four American diplomats who died there last September deserve the light of truth to shine on the events that ended in the tragedy.
Your article said Mrs. Clinton traveled to 112 nations while she was secretary of State. Too bad she never made it to the land of truth.
Clear sidewalks much appreciated
Making my Sunday morning walk more enjoyable were the sidewalks whose owners made obvious efforts to clean off snow and ice. I thank them for their sense of community and awareness that other people move through the world.
As for the sidewalks of other homes, my mother taught me that if I could say nothing nice about someone, I should say nothing at all. So I am saying nothing at all.
Lighthouse group welcomes help
On behalf of the board of the Port Clinton Lighthouse Conservancy, I thank everyone who joined us at the public meeting last month at which we discussed efforts to restore the lighthouse.
Judging from the strong attendance, there is a great desire to see the lighthouse restored and interest in what that could mean for the future of the city.
I hope this grass-roots campaign, which we have dubbed “Bring Back the Light,” will begin a necessary dialogue about the future of the lighthouse.
The conservancy plans public meetings to keep the community informed of the lighthouse project. Residents should tell city leaders how they feel about the preservation of this structure, and what part it should play in Port Clinton’s development.
President Port Clinton Lighthouse Conservancy
‘Thank you’ helps keep business
Most of the time I go through a drive-through or am at the counter of a fast-food restaurant, employees forget to say “thank you.” Those two words can make or break a person’s day.
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IFRC’s Joe Cropp is in Bangladesh to see the work of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society in response to the recent floods. This is his second post.
Bilkis walks out of the waste-deep water, a look of stubborn determination on her face. The mother-of-two carries a few possessions she was able to salvage from her flooded home – a cooking pot and a bag of random kitchen utensils. Her expression shifts between determination and despair as she explains how the flood waters swept away her home, only a month after she had moved here. “I have been hit by floods so many times in my life, that I can’t remember the last time,” she says.
We walk together along a narrow winding track to where she is now staying with her husband and two children. Each side of the track, which sits five metres above the flood water, is lined with small shelters of tarpaulin or tin, families sitting underneath. Down the steep bank it is possible to see their former homes, the water now flowing through the windows. Occasionally, people appear out of a flooded house, like Bilkis, trying to salvage whatever they can from the ruins.
Bilkis take me to her shelter, which was once part of a corrugated iron roof, now held up by two pieces of timber. She introduces her two sons and husband, his foot was badly injured in a work accident before the floods. It has left the tiny woman with a huge responsibility for her family. “We have survived floods before,” she says, the look of determination back on her face. “We’ll do it again.”
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Chargers' next opponent
Denver Broncos (1-3)
1:15 p.m. Sunday at Sports Authority Field
For the Broncos, it’s already wait till next year. That is, their monumental, league-approved decision to switch back from blue jerseys to orange for home games doesn’t go into effect until 2012.
So they have that to look forward to. Which is nice.
Otherwise, about all the Broncos have going for them in the current season is the same old advantage, the fact that visitors to their newly renamed stadium have to learn how to breathe all over again and that goofy stuff tends to happen a lot at 5,280 feet. The good news for the Broncos is that this Chargers game is in Denver, but the bad news is that it’s only the second of only three home games in a 11-week span.
Beset with an old-fashioned quarterback rivalry, hindered by injury to some of the few top-notch players they have, trying to recover from the McDaniels McDebacle and adapt to the run-oriented, defensive-minded system of the esteemed John Fox, the Broncos lost to both the Raiders and Titans by three points and beat the Bengals by two. And then they went to Green Bay, which is never recommended to great teams, let alone bad ones trying just to get to good.
Twenty-third in the NFL passing offense, 26th in rushing offense, the Broncos are 21st in scoring, 28th in scoring defense, 23rd in passing defense and minus-6 in giveaway-takeaway ratio.
Like the Chargers, the Broncos have a bye next week, and speculation is rampant that a loss to San Diego would make it the right time for Denver to make the quarterback switch from Kyle Orton to Tim Tebow.
Three players to watch
Kyle Orton, QB: There might be only one person in the Mile High City who believes the workmanlike, spectacularly unspectacular Orton is the right starting quarterback for the Broncos, and that one person is new head coach John Fox. How long that will last is seemingly the only question that matters in Denver. For the record, the only quarterback in the NFL with as many interceptions (6) as Orton (6) is Philip Rivers, and Orton has eight TD passes to Rivers’ five. And still there’s no comparison.
Tim Tebow, QB: Well, maybe. In the same regular-season finale of 2010 where Ryan Mathews teased Chargers fans with his long-awaited big game as a rookie, Tebow also did enough good things in the San Diego win to light a fire of debate that raged all offseason in Denver. Tebow threw two touchdown passes, ran for 94 yards and another score, but also was intercepted twice and missed on other opportunities. Oddly, Tebow’s still waiting to throw his first pass of 2011, and the Mile High City is holding its breath for him to do it.
Von Miller, LB: Elvis (Dumervil) is back in the building, returned from the pectoral injury that sidelined the Broncos’ best pass-rusher last season, but now his play is hampered by a shoulder issue. Denver drafted itself another defensive demon in Miller, the linebacker who was the second overall pick of the 2011 draft. He’s recorded a sack in three straight games, twice dropping Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. | <urn:uuid:51ebf102-8200-41d8-bcae-d954f31e0859> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/04/scouting-report-denver-broncos/ | 2013-05-18T08:21:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968369 | 711 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and "The Big Hog"
By Brad Wilson at Aug 30, 2012
(Regarding this blog, see also the recent blog by Jen Dalton, "Untimely Loss of Dairy Activist is Call to Arms," at Civil Eats, and my comments there.)
Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and "The Big Hog"1
At the recent “Assembly” of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance in Oakland California, some progress was made on principles for the organization, but concrete advocacy seemed to get left out of the picture. For example, the group was not able to take a stand against the dairy price crisis. More generally and more centrally to the intended mission of USFSA, the group was not able to concretely advocate on behalf of La Via Campesina and other similar groups outside of the US, for specific needed changes in the US farm bill. As we approached the end of all of this, I came to see that the “issues” we had identified were not at all “issues,” as defined in grassroots organizing.2 That is, they were not “something you can do something about,” as one participant put it. They did not involve a specific decision by someone who has “the power to decide.”3
Late in the meeting, as I raised these issues and spent the last of my political capital, the facilitators switched to the occupy method of group decision making, where you hold up your hands. One option is to make an X with your forearms to communicate a strong “No!” and I did so, which gave me another chance to speak about this “issue” problem.
I had essentially the same criticisms and concerns about the farm bill sessions at the conference of the Community Food Security Coalition, which was also held in Oakland over several days preceding the Assembly. During and after my participation in these events, there was little time to debrief people on my concerns and my apparently very different perspective and processes of participation, so I’m doing that now through a series of blogs.4 On the way home it occurred to me that to some extent I might need to turn to poetry effectively make the points I needed to make.5 That’s one reason for the symbolic communication that I’m using here.
My Farm, like Many Others, has a Serious form of “Family Farm Diabetes”
While writing my blog on “Farm Sovereignty,” a couple of symbols came to my mind. One is that my farm has “diabetes.” We’ve heard a lot lately about a relationship between cheap corn and the diabetes epidemic in the United States. In diabetes a person can lose a toe, a foot, a lower leg, a whole leg, and then another leg. Something similar has happened to our farms.
In my case, my grandfather, who lost his farm during the Great Depression, also had a bad leg, and he later lost that leg above the knee, and some years later died from causes that may be related to all of that. I recall that, after amputation, he said that the amputated part of his leg still hurt. I spoke about grandfather’s humiliation at losing his farm, and my Mother’s, during open mic at the CFSC conference, in expressing concerns about the history of blaming farmer-victims, and the ways that farmers today are blamed for being victims of the farm subsidy myth.6
The diabetes image is quickly reminiscent of the issue of farm accidents. Farmers can become accident prone in times of stress, times of crisis, as they struggle to make ends meet, working long hours on the farm or moonlighting, with tragic consequences. This stress can also lead to severe forms of psychological farm diabetes. On the other hand, even the best of our activists can become victims. It's part of the price of activism.
In writing about this I came to another image. Over the ages farmers have known of the horror of having a severe heart attack out in the hog pen. Those hogs, that are daily so glad to see you, will eat you alive. They’re not wild animals, or wild beasts, like Moby Dick symbolized, but this is a part of the hog’s nature.7 (Here note that the popular urbanized children's movie, Babe (the pig), featured small children tenderly reaching into a pen where a sow lay with newborn piglets.)
It occurs to me, therefore, that the “Big Hogs” of agribusiness have infected many farms with a form “diabetes” where you lose the farm, a piece at a time, first in small ways, the toes, and later limb by limb.
That’s what has happened to our farm, to my farm. My Dad struggled to keep it afloat over the years, and in fact built it up, with help from the labor of his growing children and the 1970s price spike. Over time the kids left home and he began dropping out of the livestock business. Then he struggled with how to retire and adapt the farming operation to the requirements of Social Security. He explored a variety of options involving relatives, family, neighbors and various renters. Along the way, he began to lose machinery.
By the time I returned to the farm permanently, I faced a family farm in a sort of chronic trauma, with stressed family relationships, aging machinery, and buildings and utilities in various levels of disrepair.8 Then Dad died and we divided up the farm. I inherited about 100 out of the 350 acres Dad had been farming, including the worst land, the farmstead, and most of what was left of the machinery. To recapitalize and to support my farm policy work, I sold off 35 acres at what seemed to be a great price. That wasn’t enough, however, so I sold off another 35 acres, at an even higher price.
Only in this way was I able to do 4 1/2 years of research on the food movement, and to take eight days off during the harvest season to attend the CFSC conference and related events.
“Farm Diabetes” is one way farmers have coped with agribusiness exploitation through the farm bill and free trade agreements. It’s part of the “presence” that what we incarnate when we clash with food movement leaders over their failure to grasp our issues, the dominant historical issues of farm bill justice.
From this perspective, we’re not looking for sympathy for our lost limbs, or inspiring principles. We’re looking for action, for leadership that actually knows the major issues, in proper historical perspective, and leads the food movement toward them. Especially, we need correct understanding and action on the biggest issues, those of the Commodity Title, of the Farm Bill, those that the Food Movement so hugely misunderstands. These are the issues that La Via Campesina so needs us to act upon. All too often, over oh so many years, they’ve been laid out in the hog pen, kicking away at the big hogs that the US Farm Bill has sent out to devour them (and in their case of farm diabetes, it’s not just imagery, it’s a “diabetes” of “undernourishment,” of “underweight children,” of starvation.
Clearly, platitudes and principles (that are sure to be misunderstood in the false paradigm of the food movement,) will not suffice. US Food Movement and US Food Sovereignty leaders have been slow to grasp this reality.
US family farmers, (the US farm justice movement,) are the key to fixing this US crisis of advocacy. Like the peasants in Least Developed Countries, we know something about “farm diabetes” that the food movement and the farm justice allies, (like the US Food Sovereignty Alliance,) seem too detached from. The dairy crisis is a prime example. Dairy farmers have been financially floored in the Big-Hog-Pen. They face rapid financial devastation, like hog farmers fell to during the 1990s with 8¢ hogs, like a huge mass of diversified and commodity farmers fell to during the 1980s Farm Crisis. For us, it’s personal. For us, it’s family. The family farm subgroup at the Assembly got at it best. It’s about “survival,” “despair,” and “divorce.” In the trauma of our experience, the “divorce” form of “farm diabetes” can be literal and legal, or it can be neighbors, siblings, parents and children that “divorce” each other.9
Here I’ve pointed to experiences of “farm diabetes,” such as in the recent dairy “heart attack,” where farmers struggle to call for assistance to the likes of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, from their positon on the floor of the Big-Hog-Pen. Obviously, this is a huge load to be brought into farm/food discussions, relationships, and processes. It upsets conventions and paradigms. On the other hand, it’s often like one of those giant a glacier stones out in the pasture, partly or entirely hidden from view. Part of my purpose here is to expose ourselves, within our various current, acute and chronic, historical traumas of family farm diabetes.
My other purpose here is to again state: enough already! It’s time for “allies” to take a stand, to step on board “The Farm Bill Train”10 and directly, concretely help lead US Farm Bill advocacy toward putting an end to US and global Big-Hog-Pen “Family Farm Diabetes.”
(Note: In light of a recent dairy-farming/far- activism tragedy,11 and other dairy farming tragedies, I've decided to post this blog today. I may edit it in the future.)
1. This blog is a classic illustration of the central thesis in Brad Wilson, “Hog Farming and the Human Spirit: My Sequel to Moby Dick,” which is my collected works related to farm justice issues, (unpublished). It's from the final volume, "My Quest to Speak our Word," from chapter 6, 'Beating the Big Hog: The Genius of Spirituality. For those who don’t know enough about the underlying controversy between the food movement and farm justice movement to know understand the controversy in this blog, google “Brad Wilson” and “food movement,” or find resources at: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/bradwilson and/or http://www.youtube.com/user/FireweedFarm#p/c/A1E706EFA90D1767. This blog also illustrates my thesis in “Pathos in the Processes of Social Change: Faith, Art and Organizing,” http://www.zcommunications.org/pathos-in-the-processes-of-social-change-faith-art-and-organizing-by-brad-wilson, which will be expanded in future blogs in this series (footnote #4).
2. See, for example, Shel Trapp, Basics of Organizing, http://www.tenant.net/Organize/orgbas.html#I9,
3. Brad Wilson, “How to Organize,” photo essay, http://www.zcommunications.org/albums/212. See especially picture #5; Brad Wilson, “How to Win: My Organizers Checklist,” http://www.zcommunications.org/how-to-win-my-organizers-checklist-by-brad-wilson.
4. I’ll link future blogs through comments to this blog, such as “Bashing Farmers 101,” in footnote #6 below. These blogs will be posted at http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/bradwilson and here at La Vida Locavore.
5. See Walter Brueggemann, Finally Comes the Poet: “.” See also my blog, “Pathos in the Processes of Social Change, http://www.zcommunications.org/pathos-in-the-processes-of-social-change-faith-art-and-organizing-by-brad-wilson.
6. Cf. my blog, “Bashing Farmers 101,” (forthcoming), which explores the challenges and dilemmas of fair and unfair farmer bashing. See also the “Blue Collar, Male PR” section of my blog “Farm Sovereignty.”
7. Note the related symbolism in Jesus driving demons out of people and into hogs. Cf. Hog Farming and the Human Spirit: vol. IV, My Quest to Speak Our Word. Cf. Richard Horsley, Jesus and the Powers. Cf. Brad Wilson, "The Genius of Spirituality: An Encounter with Shel Trapp," http://www.zcommunications.org/the-genius-of-spirituality-by-brad-wilson.
8. See Brad Wilson, Hog Farming and the Human Spirit, vol. VI, Reconciling the Drama of Delmar, (unpublished, "A Documentary Personal Case of Farm Family Crisis & Renewal").
9. According to Richard Horsley, in Covenant Economics: A Biblical Vision of Justice for All, these are essentially the issues of the Old Testament Covenant, including the ten commandments, (ie. ch. 3, “Mutual Support and the Protection of Economic Rights,”) and of Jesus gospel, as in the Sermon on the Mount, (ie. ch. 7, “Jesus Renewal of the Covenant,” for example, in the section “Love Your Enemies,” p. 110). Cf. Reconciling the Drama of Delmar, above in footnote #7.
11. See Jen Dalton, "Untimely Loss of Dairy Activist is Call to Arms," Civil Eats, 8/29/12, http://civileats.com/2012/08/29/untimely-loss-of-dairy-activist-is-a-call-to-arms/ | <urn:uuid:5a60f7bb-a178-4abc-9033-825962ef5c49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zcommunications.org/family-farm-diabetes-foodies-farm-justice-allies-and-the-big-hog-by-brad-wilson | 2013-05-18T07:39:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947451 | 3,055 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Lots of local films, new and archived, at Northwest Film Forum. Kickoff party is this Friday, and the festival runs through the 8th. Full schedule here, Regina Hackett on the “Movement in Place” shorts package here, and the festival trailer is below.
The Sound Transit art installations in the empty storefronts along broadway are slated to come down on October 31 (and eventually make way for the ST light rail station). The art is mostly smart, especially in the ways it uses the vacant spaces. Walk South from John Street, it ends a little ways past Denny. It’s a nice walk because of the art, and it also gives you a reason to stare hard at the buildings before they come down.
The photos are of Jason Puccinelli’s intallation in the former T&T Hair Salon.
This report just in from Robin R. on 25th Avenue E. on the lower East side of Capitol Hill. This isn’t the first time coyotes have come out of the woods of the Arboretum to attack neighborhood pets.
Around 3:30am this morning Jack, our beautiful and sweet neighbor’s cat, was attacked and killed by a pack of 3 coyotes. I woke up to a loud bang and jumped out of bed to find out what was going on. I did not see anything, but 5-10 minutes later I hear a horrible scream and ran outside. I was shocked to see 3 coyotes running down the block from my house. I chased and yelled at them and they dropped a cat, Jack, just barely alive. My husband followed me out and stayed with Jack while I went to wake up Jack’s owners, Jacqueline and Cole. While David was with Jack, the 3 brazen coyotes kept coming back. Sadly Jack died soon after that. For quite some time we watched the 3 coyotes running up and down the street, sidewalk, multiple yards over and over again. They were not afraid of us, just cautious. I was more afraid of them. Obviously they are very hungry and/or have little ones to feed. Last year Karen, JMark and Jasmin’s beautiful boy, Thomas, was also killed by coyotes. The city will not do anything about this. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I will be calling the city again. And locking down our cats at night. I just wanted everyone to be aware.
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The Columbus Blue Jackets won their second game in a row in Tuesday night's 3-1 win over the Minnesota Wild. The Wild went down early in the first period when David Savard picked up his first goal of the season, assisted by Vaclav Prospal and Grant Clitsome to put the Jackets up 1-0. The Wild were able to quickly answer however on a Nick Prosser goal assisted by Justin Falk and Carson McMillan to tie the game at 1-1 and looked like they might have found their rhythm.
That was the only goal the Jackets would surrender in the game however, as the Jackets scored two more goals on the night, one in each remaining period. Antoine Vermette picked up his seventh goal of the season on a power play in the second period, while Jeff Carter picked up his twelfth goal of the season in the third period. The Wild got fiesty in the third period, picking up eight total penalty minutes.
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In July, DHM Research conducted a poll of 1,200 residents in Idaho, Oregon and Washington about their environmental concerns. Water quality was the top concern for residents across the three states. EarthFix commissioned the survey to get a pulse of how Northwest residents are feeling about a variety of environmental issues.
DHM Research’s John Horvick was surprised to find that most of those surveyed thought water quality had not improved since the Clean Water Act was enacted 40 years ago.
Horvick says, “Because people do value their water so highly, I would have guessed that they would have said things had improved more over time.”
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Current or emerging issues paper
Pam Green, Chair, Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, 2006
This document was commissioned for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee. This and other commissioned documents support the Committee's Report but are not part of it.
- The multiplier effect
- Future NRM investment
- Transition arrangements to the new model
- Monitoring evaluating and reporting
- Improving governance - reducing red tape
- Ecosystem services
- Promote regional NRM delivery
Green P 2006, 'Progress in restoring our environment' paper prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra, <http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/emerging/nrm-progress/index.html>
Sustainable natural resource management (NRM) underpins the future of our country. Sustainable primary production is vital for the continued provision of Australian food and fibre to the burgeoning populations in urban areas and to export earnings. Equally important is the underpinning of rural and regional areas through sustainable natural resource use and provision of ecosystem services to the rest of the country.
Regional natural resource management is a unique programme, developed since 2000 that demonstrates Australia's great capacity for innovation and is of growing interest in other countries.
This report is a summary of the messages about progress in restoring the environment from the fifty-six NRM regions delivered to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council in April 2006.
Across Australia, the regional natural resource management model is working. Almost all of Australia now has accredited strategic regional NRM plans - an outstanding achievement.
Headline achievements of the Natural Heritage Trust and National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality through regional programs from 2001 to 2005 are:
- 1 550 km of riparian zones enhanced and protected by fencing and revegetation
- 60 000 hectares revegetated for groundwater recharge control to reduce the impacts of dryland salinity
- 1.2 million hectares of land revegetated and rehabilitated
- 200 million hectares is covered by active management plans for pest plants and animals
Some of the regional natural resource management regions have struggled to get traction on coastal and marine issues. However, this is slowly improving with these natural resources now taking their place in strategic plans and investment strategies. Further development is needed and support for closer partnerships between regional natural resource management bodies and local government will assist in these endeavours.
The natural resource management regions have started to form some communities of interest to share experiences and information. So far there are active groups talking across Australia on rangelands and large population areas, with coastal and marine due to start collegiate activity during the coming twelve months in 2006-07.
One of the keys to the success of the regional model is the way it can focus whole-of-government, community and industry efforts toward resolving natural resource management issues. There are many examples where each dollar invested in regional natural resource management by Australian and State and Territory Governments is leveraging significant returns, conservatively estimated at another $4 for every $1 invested.
A great example is in the Goulburn Broken region of Victoria, where grants of up to $20 000 to help farmers build strategic on-farm, off stream dams to harvest nutrient rich water from dairy farms have yielded a total investment of $200 000. This program delivers multiple benefits from reduced primary water use, reduced nutrient input to waterways, reduced artificial fertilizer use (and cost) to improved pasture production; a great example of win/win for farmers and the environment.
On a local level, such as in the upper south-east region of South Australia, salinity has been a major issue impacting on the productivity of farmlands. As a result of regional natural resource management investment, farmers are now reporting that the problem is turning around with pasture quality and growth and stocking rates starting to improve.
In the South-West Catchment Council of WA region, the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) investment in the Collie catchment will turn the water in a major river basin from being saline to drinkable-a world-class achievement. The Collie River catchment covers an area of 3 000 hectares and includes Wellington Reservoir which is primarily used for irrigation and has progressively become too salty to use in peak summer months with salinity levels exceeding 1100mg/l. Research has shown that the Collie River East contributes 54 per cent of the salt load into Wellington Dam. $15 million of Australian Government NAP investment will fund the implementation of a Collie River East diversion scheme that will divert salty flows in peak periods combined with further revegetation, habitat recovery, better farm management systems and changes to land use. A pilot diversion in 2005 has already resulted in the removal of 2 988 tonnes of salt from the system with a reduction in the salinity of Wellington Dam of approximately 35 mg/l. Over the next ten years the full diversion will reduce the salinity in Wellington Dam by 45 percent reducing salinity to 650 mg/l by 2010 and 550 mg/l by 2030.
None of this could be achieved without the work of the regional natural resource management bodies in developing key partnerships. There is still more to do in strengthening partnerships, particularly with local government, Landcare groups, industry and Indigenous communities. As with all relationships, these take time to fully develop and continued support of the regional natural resource management model will assist in this.
Based on experience to date, the regional NRM groups consider that the more funding streams that are concentrated through the lens of regional strategic plans, the more effective will be the outcomes. Continuing to split the investment streams through a multitude of unintegrated programmes weakens the regional natural resource management model and the impact of focussed, prioritised action. A particular strength of the regional model is the focus on problem causes, not just the symptoms.
There could be significant efficiencies gained by rolling the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the Natural Heritage Trust concepts together in a new regional delivery model.
The benefits of continuing Australia-wide funding programmes such as Envirofund, National Landcare Program and the Community Water Fund, are acknowledged. However, it is important that other government funded natural resource management programmes are more closely aligned with strategic regional plan directions.
It is also clear that climate change and its impact on our natural resources will need to be considered in future funding composition.
It is impossible to over stress the importance of a seamless transition from the current Natural Heritage Trust and the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality programmes to future arrangements. Experience tells us that interim arrangements generate uncertainty and cause major dislocation. It is the responsibility of Australian and State and Territory Governments to undertake their negotiations on the new shape of natural resource management investment in a timely and collegiate manner.
Natural resource management is all about people and their interaction with the environment. It is this element which is the greatest challenge and therefore requires the greatest attention. Once momentum and confidence in relationships are lost, they are incredibly difficult to regain.
The changes wrought on the natural resources of our fragile country require long term, budget line investment to preserve what is still in good condition, to repair the historical damage and to achieve the adoption of sustainable practices in natural resource use.
It is hard to find a destination without a roadmap. Natural resources are much more complex than a road system. Better ways to read the signposts that point to changes in resource condition are needed. Resilience and adaptive management are the keys to managing current and future challenges such as climate change. Strong monitoring and evaluation programs are vital to provide agreed quantitative and qualitative results of the investments in our environmental assets.
It will require government leadership to develop the nationally consistent monitoring, evaluation and reporting system that can deliver site, to farm, to landscape, to region, to state, to national coherence.
The natural resource management regions are striving towards strong governance, quality assurance in their operations and excellence in project management right across Australia. It is recognised that there is still room for improvement in these areas.
The goal is for governments to provide outcomes-based funding with confidence and, in return, streamlined, meaningful reporting is provided by the natural resource management regions.
There is government, industry and community interest in the purchase of ecosystem services from farmers and land managers. Ecosystem services are those environmental services of public benefit such as native flora and fauna, maintenance and regeneration of habitat, clean air, water, healthy soils, healthy rivers and waterways and fulfilment of cultural, spiritual and intellectual needs (VCMC/DSE 2003). 'Payment should be made to farmers and land managers for environmental services (clean water, fresh air, healthy soils). Where farmers are expected to maintain land in a certain way that is above their duty of care, payment should be made to them to provide those services on behalf of the rest of Australia' (Wentworth Group 2002).
Natural resource management regions already have comprehensive administrative processes and networks that would allow this to happen in a targeted and efficient way. Tightly targeted purchase of priority ecosystem services would be an important tool in the suite of incentives and contracts available to regional natural resource management practitioners in assisting landholders in their regions.
The bipartisan nature of regional natural resource management is one of its great strengths. Continued support and influence in promoting the benefits of the regional natural resource management programme throughout the community is extremely valuable.
In particular the more than 75 per cent of our population that live in urban centres need a greater awareness and appreciation of natural resource management as a crucial element in the economic, social and environmental well-being of Australia.
VCMC/DSE [Victorian Catchment Management Council/Department of Sustainability and Environment] 2003, Ecosystem Services through Land Stewardship Practices: Issues and Options. The State of Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne.
Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists 2002, Blueprint for a Living Continent, Away forward from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, WWF Australia
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The GGJ Research Committee is established to promote, facilitate, organize and conduct scientific and technical research activities related to Innovation, Experimentation and Collaboration, on behalf of the Global Game Jam Executive Committee, in order to:
- Promote the value of the GGJ as a global effort that can increase our knowledge of game-related topics and can lead to development of new ideas and methods.
- Better understand the three P’s of game development (People, Process, Products) within the context of the GGJ
- Use the GGJ as an example/experiment to study game development and education, and other related topics in game industry
- Use the GGJ as a global effort to study more general topics such as community building, group dynamics, identity, etc.
- Disseminate and promote the research findings to a wide audience through publications, workshops, conferences, etc.
- Work to create a better forum or conference for the above activities
- Allan Fowler, Waiariki Institute of Technology, New Zealand
- Jon Preston, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
- Mike Reddy, University of Wales, UK
- Mirjam Eladhari, Gotland University, Sweden
- Veysi Isler, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Foaad Khosmood, California Polytechnic State University, USA
- Ali Arya, Carleton University, Canada (GGJ research committee chair)
- Call for proposals [accepted proposals]
- Call for papers: inaugural workshop on the Global Game Jam (full Paper submission: March 4)
- Workshop on the Global Game Jam at 8th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG13) - May 14 & 17
- Join the GGJ-Research group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ggj-research
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Here’s an updated Table of Contents for these reviews so far:
Chapter One: Goal of OT Theology
Chapter Two: Verbal Meaning
Chapter Three: Historical Meaning of Biblical Text
Chapter Four: Finding the Big Idea
This chapter is so long and dense that I run the risk of either saying too much and exhausting you patient readers, or saying too little and failing to do justice to Sailhamer’s fascinating ideas. It’s another treat for the historical theologian, as Sailhamer explores the development of theories regarding the authorship of the Pentateuch, OT canon formation, and the theological significance of the compositional structure of texts. Here I will concentrate on issues of ideas, authorship, and the “compositional approach.”
“Finding the big idea,” for Sailhamer, means paying attention to the intelligent design of a text to find out where its author is taking us. As we gather clues – which may be as small as pronouns or as large as the whole Tanak – we begin to formulate an understanding of the “big idea” that the author intended to convey. But Sailhamer urges us to reread, ever more carefully, and always to be alert for details that check our understanding, on our way to an exegetically sound formulation of “the best (most valid) idea,” that is, “the one that explains the most and the most important parts of the Pentateuch” (152). “An idea,” he warns,
must not be allowed to drift like a distant cloud over the textual horizon. It must always be tethered to the text in ways directly associated with the intention (verbal meaning) of the author. Only then can such ideas be considered part of the author’s intention and find exegetical warrant in the text. (159)
Sailhamer’s own reading and rereading have brought him to a particular conclusion about the role of the law in the Pentateuch, especially in light of its rather late appearance (more than 50 chapters in!). He suggests that
the “big idea” of the Pentateuch is about both “obedience to the Mosaic law,” and “living by faith”…Ultimately, I believe, these two themes of law and faith will find their place alongside each other as a juxtaposition of law and gospel. The gospel, that is, justification by faith, is God’s means for our fulfilling the law (cf. Rom. 8:4). (156)
The current chapter sets the stage for a later exegetical defense of these “big ideas,” mainly by laying out Sailhamer’s conclusions about the authorship of the Pentateuch. He clearly assumes both the intelligent design of an original individual human author and the divine purpose underlying the text:
Behind our quest for the (human) author’s intent is, of course, the conviction that the divine intention of Scripture is to be found in the human author’s intent. (159)
But which human author? One set of Pentateuchal puzzles, of course, concerns questions of Mosaic authorship: Did he really have anything to do with it? If so, did he write the Pentateuch, or merely write it down? Did he use any prior written sources, or did he inscripturate (verbatim!) an oral revelation that had been passed along since Adam and Abraham’s time? What are we to make of the evidence of later editing here and there in the Pentateuch? Are these glosses random, or in any way related?
Sailhamer traces in this chapter some of the historical answers to the “Whodunnit?” question, beginning with the Reformers, who posited an unwritten but eyewitness oral revelation behind the material transcribed by Moses, especially in Genesis. Later evangelicals, he notes, were willing to concede that Moses may have used some written sources, but they gave little thought to how he put his book together. Finally Sailhamer offers a description of his own preferred “compositional approach,” summed up neatly as follows:
An evangelical compositional approach to biblical authorship identifies Moses as the author of the Pentateuch and seeks to uncover his strategy in “making a book.” (200)
Thus Sailhamer intends to account for the biblical witness to Mosaic authorship while also making up for the lack of discussion about what it meant for Moses to be that author. And here he makes his unique and intriguing contribution to that discussion: namely, the suggestion that there were really two human authors involved in the making of the Pentateuch. Not only does he attribute to Moses an intelligent, deliberate crafting of his material (whether gathered from other sources or composed himself), but he proposes that a second, chronologically later mind was behind (most of?) the editorial glosses that he identifies in the text of the Pentateuch. In fact, this later author/editor had the task of adding “redactional glue” throughout the Tanak, at the spots which Sailhamer calls the “compositional seams” of the text. We’ll hear more details about this later; the point here is that Sailhamer posits a single editor who held the big picture of the whole Tanak in mind, and so tweaked earlier texts now and again to reflect a theological message. As he puts it,
The present canonical Pentateuch is thus an updated version of the Mosaic Pentateuch produced, perhaps, by the “author” of the OT as a whole (Tanak). (200)
The idea of a “canonical Pentateuch,” which Sailhamer playfully dubs “Pentateuch 2.0,” requires some discussion of canon formation during the intertestamental time. I’ll not go into this here (though see the quote in the first comment below), but it’s worth checking out Sailhamer’s thoughts on this on pp.162-175, if you have the book. This is one area that I’m eager to see addressed in Reformed scholarly reactions to the book.
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[Gustaf] has been playing around with machine vision for a while and sent in his latest project in on our tip line. It’s a video based car radar system that can detect cars in a camera’s field of vision while cruising down the highway.
Like [Gustaf]‘s previous experiments with machine vision where he got a computer to recognize and count yellow cylinders and green rectangles, the radar build uses ADABoost and the AForge AI/Machine Vision C# framework. [Gustef] used an evolutionary algorithm to detect the presence of a car in a video frame, first by selecting 150 images of cars from a pre-recorded video, and the another 1,850 images were selected by a computer and confirmed as a car by a human eye.
With 2000 images of cars in its database, [Gustaf]‘s machine vision algorithm is able to detect a car in real-time as he drove down a beautiful Swedish highway. In addition to overlaying a rectangle underneath each car in a video frame and an awesome Terminator-style HUD in the upper right corner, [Gustaf] also a distance display above the hood of his car.
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@identica WTF are all those polls flooding my timeline? What the hack does it have to do with identi.ca service?
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Medical Marijuana Has 70 Percent Support in Florida
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The people of Florida overwhelmingly back allowing medical marijuana in the state. A new poll conducted for People United for Medical Marijuana and obtained by the Miami Herald found 70 percent of Florida voters would back an amendment to legalize medical marijuana and only 24 percent would oppose it. From the Miami Herald:
As many as seven in 10 Florida voters support a state constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana — more than enough to ensure passage and possibly affect the governor’s race — according to a new poll from a group trying to put the measure on the 2104 ballot.
Medical pot’s sky-high approval cuts across party and demographic lines, with Republican support the lowest at a still-strong 56 percent, the poll conducted for People United for Medical Marijuana, or PUFMM, shows.
The outsized support of Democrats and independents brings overall backing of the amendment to 70 percent; with only 24 percent opposed, according to the poll obtained by The Miami Herald.
Florida has unusual laws when it comes to the initiative process. It does not allow citizens to put initiatives on the ballot but it does allow citizens to put constitutional amendments on the ballot. For an amendment to be adopted though it needs to be approved by 3/5th of the voters in that election.
The fact that medical marijuana currently has such overwhelming support in Florida means there is a good chance an amendment could clear this high threshold if it did get put on the ballot. Getting on the ballot in Florida is no easy task. It requires just over 675,000 valid signatures.
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By Gary P. Caton | November 12, 2012
Despite the expectations and predictions of many astrologers for a repeat of the 2000 chaos, the 2012 election was mostly quick, clean, and decisive. (1) Why were so many astrologers fooled? Unlike the other classical planets, with their more predictable natures, Mercury is a wildcard. It is the archetype of the trickster, a shape-shifting shaman who blends into the nature of his surroundings like a chameleon. It is clear now that one cannot assume we’ll see similar results because Mercury was retrograde on Election Day in both 2000 and 2012. Mercury’s behavior depends a lot on his surroundings. With Mercury, more than any other planet, the devil is indeed in the details.
One of the most basic, and often overlooked, detail of any Mercury retrograde is the element within which it occurs. Mercury’s retrograde periods move through the four elements in a cyclical fashion, with four to six consecutive retrogrades occurring in a single element and 19 to 22 retrograde periods occurring over six or seven years before an element is repeated. (2) I call this phenomenon the “Mercury Elemental Year” because it is quite common for all three Mercury retrogrades in a calendar year to occur in the same element, or combination of two elements. For instance, in the year 2000, all three Mercury retrogrades happened mostly in the water signs, with the final retrograde of the year stationing direct just into the last degree of the air sign of Libra on Election Day. (3) This presaged a movement into the air triplicity for 2001.
In the following tables you will see the sign and degree of the Mercury conjunctions for 2000 and 2012. I use the inferior or retrograde conjunction of Mercury with the Sun as the elemental marker because it happens at the midpoint of the retrograde period, and thus whatever element Mercury makes the conjunction in is the element within which he spends more time in retrograde motion (for instance, the next inferior conjunction is November 17 in Scorpio. Mercury spends eight days retrograde in Sagittarius and 12 days retrograde in Scorpio — thus the water element is more accentuated than fire.
In 2000, Mercury made the retrograde (inferior) conjunction with the Sun on March 1 in Pisces, on July 6 in Cancer, and on October 29 in Scorpio. As mentioned above, Mercury went direct on November 7 at 29° Libra. The next inferior conjunction was on February 12, 2001 at 21° Aquarius, thus beginning the movement into the Air triplicity.
In 2012, however, Mercury’s retrogrades are moving from the fire to the water signs.
In 2012, Mercury had an inferior conjunction on March 21 in Aries and on July 28 in Leo. The next inferior conjunction is November 17 in Scorpio, and the following inferior conjunction will be on March 4, 2013 in Pisces. The retrograde will be primarily in the water element until 2014 and will not return to the fire signs until 2017.
This fundamental, or “elemental,” difference in the placement of the 2000 and 2012 Mercury retrogrades (within the six-to-seven year cycle through the elements) becomes even more important when one considers the fact that the United States of America was founded on July 4, 1776, during a Mercury retrograde period. In fact, in 1776 the Mercury retrogrades were transitioning from water to air signs, as in 2000.
In 1776, Mercury had an inferior conjunction on March 5 in Pisces, on July 11 in Cancer, and on November 2 in Scorpio. The next inferior conjunction was on February 16, 1777 in Aquarius, and the air cycle continued for another or so.
So, in both 1776 and 2000, the Mercury retrograde periods were moving from the element of water to the element of air. However, in 2012, the Mercury retrograde period is moving from fire to water. This then underscores a fundamental difference between the 2000 and 2012 elections — the 2000 election was resonating more strongly with the tone of the U.S. Sibly chart than the 2012 election.
Now, does this mean there will be none of the reversals characteristic of Mercury retrograde in this 2012 election? Absolutely not, only that they won’t show up in the same way as 2000. So then, what does this election mean when put into proper context?
In the chart for the election, cast for midnight at Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, where voting begins, we see that Mercury in Sagittarius is in mutual reception to Jupiter in Gemini.
In one of the best astrology articles I’ve seen in years, my colleague Austin Coppock describes the Gemini/Sagittarius axis as “The One and the Many.” (3) The premise of his article is that this axis acts in a way that mirrors the alchemical formula Solve et Coagula, meaning break apart and put back together. In Gemini things are fractured into countless diverse and unique pieces and in Sagittarius they come back together through some divine unifying principle. This is similar to the phrase on the Seal of the United States, E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One.
Accordingly, the results of the 2012 elections were diverse. Rather than hanging chads leading to the involvement of the Supreme Court, the really meaningful reversals brought about by the 2012 Mercury retrograde election are so vast (Jupiter) that they haven’t really come into focus yet. When seen as a whole, I think it is clear that historically this will be looked at as a re-alignment election. Candidates can no longer simply rely on the white male vote to get elected president of this country. The 2012 election results suggest to me that the white/male, straight/square/Christian electoral hegemony may soon be over forever.
Does this sound hyperbolic? Let’s take a look at each of these heretofore fixed cultural conditions, with respect to these election results.
White: Barack Obama became the first two-term President who is not white. He is now one of only 22 men who have won election to a second term. If he completes his term, he will be only the 13th President to do so. (4) Nationally, non-white voters made up 28% of all voters, up from 26% in 2008. Barack Obama won 80% of these voters, the same as four years ago, while 89% of Mitt Romney’s vote came from whites. (5)
Male: Four newly elected and six re-elected female Senators will join the 113th Congress, giving us 19 female senators. (6) This is the highest number of women senators in history. Incidentally, this result is consistent with Mercury retrograde being conjunct the Sun in the 2012 vernal ingress chart, which this author read as showing the possibility for advancement of women’s causes at an historical level. (7)
Straight: Gay marriage measures passed in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state, and the first openly gay person was elected to the Senate. (8) (9)
Square: Marijuana de-criminalization measures passed in Colorado and Washington state. This could be an important turning point in the “war on drugs” that has been raging in this country for 40 years. (10)
Christian: The first practicing Hindu congresswoman was elected and will take her oath of office on the Bhagavad Gita. (11)
In summary, it appears that Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius, in mutual reception with Jupiter in Gemini, has resulted in an election that would make the ancient alchemists proud. According to the formula Solve et Coagula, the old rigid electoral hegemony has been dissolved and has re-coagulated to a state more truly representative of E Pluribus Unum — Out of Many, One.
References & Recommended Reading:
(1) See for instance this post from the Astrology News Service
(2) Sullivan, Erin Retrograde Planets, Weiser, 2000
(8) Huffington Post
(9) Kera News
(10) Baltimore Sun
Bio: Gary P. Caton is an eclectic Astrologer who embraces an organic, process-oriented approach of spiritual exploration via the Living Sky. Gary has studied Spirituality for over 23 years. After exploring Shamanism and the Tarot, in 1993, his life was changed by a magnificent Dream where he was shown planetary alignments and became an Astrologer. Gary earned a degree in Counseling with honors and has developed a unique multi-discipline path to practicing Astrology over 19 years. Visit Gary at his website: Dream Astrologer | <urn:uuid:56e7f508-fd77-48c5-9ec6-5402dec5e18c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mountainastrologer.com/tma/all-mercury-retrogrades-are-not-created-equal | 2013-05-21T10:54:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953101 | 1,828 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The deals just kept coming in the first half of the year and thanks to increasing competition in the advertising agency and digital marketing businesses, the continued growth of social media and the need for analytics to make it all work, the next six months should resemble the previous ones, according to The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.’s tally of media M&A activity this year.
Highlights from the report:
– Buyers spent $23 billion in 1H 2011. That’s a 15 percent gain over the same period the year before, on a similar volume of M&A deals. The first half of 2010 produced a 61 percent surge in deal volume and a nearly four times increase in deal value over recession-weakened 2009 M&A activity.
– Interactive, marketing services and technology markets continue to account for the majority of deal activity and value. The B2B and B2C Online Media & Technology, Marketing & Interactive Services, and Mobile Media & Technology sectors made up 71 percent of total deals and 63 percent of deal value in the first half of 2011.
– Digital agencies ($806 million worth deals in aggregate) did 22 deals in the first half of the year — the most of any other category. Social marketing ($250 million) was next with 17, followed by 15 each for ad agencies ($827 million) and “data & analytics” ($473 million).
Despite the economic uncertainty, there are two reasons to expect more of the same for media M&A through 2012: major media companies, from ad agency holding companies like WPP Group and Publicis Groupe are constantly looking to expand their analytics and other digital capabilities, while extending their global reach as well.
Secondly, JEGI points out that private equity firms have over $400 billion in cash to put to work in the marketplace via the acquisition of both platform companies and add‐on acquisitions to existing platforms. In addition to providing the wherewithal to do more deals, the values of doing a transaction are likely to keep pace with demand of both PE firms and media companies to capture “the next big thing,” especially in social and mobile. Release (PDF) | <urn:uuid:b2b213cb-7a81-4857-aa92-cf144b845f66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://paidcontent.org/2011/06/30/419-ad-digital-agencies-will-keep-ma-activity-surging-through-end-of-11/ | 2013-05-21T11:09:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933428 | 447 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Prometheus had gotten pretty good reviews, so we decided go see it. Oh, but were we let down… So the special effects were pretty good and the 3D wasn’t too awful, but talk about plot holes you can drive spaceships through.
The main problem was that absolutely nothing seemed to have any consequences whatsoever: A discovery that overturns absolutely everything we know of history and biology? No matter, that won’t change measurement methods, technology or anything. You need a crack scientific team to explore a hugely important issue? Just gather random people with all the discrimination of a charter trip to Mallorca. You’re travelling through the galaxy, space and supplies at such a premium that people have to be put into hypersleep? Well, once they wake up, they’ll have all the amenities of a five-star spa hotel. Somebody tries to lock you up, so you had to beat them up and steal the use of expensive and prohibited equipment, leaving it all bloody and infested with parasites? No worries, nobody cares a whit. You have just have major abdominal surgery? No worries, a couple of painkillers will keep the wound from ripping open even if you keep hitting your tummy with every available object on the planet.
Still, the most egregious problem is the lack of understanding of biology. I forget how many films I’ve seen where they analyse the “DNA” of alien creatures. How likely is it that alien life should be DNA-based to begin with? Somehow people seem to have the idea that life is necessarily based on DNA, and once you have DNA, yeah, well, obviously you can combine it any way you see fit to make human-alien hybrids. However, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the proposal that alien life would come to Earth and start making jellyfish-alien hybrids, or fern-alien hybrids, though that would make at least as much sense, for some infinitesimal value of sense.
There is also a bizarre scene where the archaeologist protagonist starts inserting electrodes into a magically preserved alien head in order to…well, turn it alive again, as far as we can tell. She does it as a routine matter, which makes one wonder how archaeology is performed in the future. I would presume there would be even more protests from indigenous populations not only having their graves robbed but their ancestors turned into reanimated zombies. She then proceeds to put “50 amps” into the head. 50 A! No wonder it explodes.
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UT defense smothers Pioneers
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Alleman's Isabelle Anderson defends UTHS's Jen VanWatermeulen in fourth-quarter action Thursday evening in the Panther Den. UT won the game 39-20.
In a girls' basketball season that has been defensively spectacular, the United Township Panthers may have worked themselves into school and Western Big 6 Conference record books on Thursday night.
If only such records were kept for defensive wizardry.
In their stingiest defensive effort of the season, the Panthers held the Alleman Pioneers to just three converted field goals and 9.7 percent field-goal shooting in a 39-20 victory at the UT girls' gym.
UT sophomore assistant coach Carie Walker, who has longtime ties to the UT program, said she couldn't remember such a low field-goal number allowed.
"They work hard," Alleman coach Jay Hatch said in rationalizing UT's defensive showing. "Tonight they definitely worked harder than us and deserved the win and got it."
In some stretches, that defense was truly as amazing as the numbers illustrated.
In one fourth-quarter, 90-second stretch, UT center Katie Daggett had four blocks, and she finished with five. In the first quarter, as UT bolted to a 16-7 lead – Alleman's highest-scoring quarter – Jen VanWatermeulen had three of her game-high four steals.
"They've spent a lot of time working on defense," said UT coach Justin Shiltz. "And they are very coachable. They have bought into what we are trying to teach them."
As for Daggett, who also had team-highs of 12 points (shared with Jen VanWatermeulen) and eight rebounds as well as a pair of steals, Shiltz says the 5-foot-11 senior has become one of his best students of the game this season.
"No question she's the most improved player in the Big 6 this season. She wasn't on anyone's radar last year. Back when she was a freshman, she was pretty raw. Now she's absolutely the key to our winning, no question," said the UT coach, his Panthers now 16-11, 6-2 in the WB6.
"Jen and Jamie are the heart and soul of our team. They are not stat-sheet stuffers, but they make sure all of the girls are in the right position. They are leaders and wonderful girls to coach."
Those three definitely are part of something defensively special for the Panthers.
"Our magic number is five, the number of 3-pointers we want to hold a team to," Shiltz said. "When you play a zone, you can give up 3s."
With that in mind, UT not only gave up just three field goals to Alleman (13-13, 1-7 WB6) but allowed just five total in its previous game, a 23-17 loss on Tuesday to Class 4A's No. 9-ranked DeKalb in which Shiltz called it " defensive trench warfare."
"In the first half," said Hatch, "they got every loose ball, every rebound. That came from hard work."
The yield of 20 points topped by one UT's previous season's best, a 41-21 win over Geneseo in UT's ninth game. Outside of that loss to DeKalb, UT is 6-0 when holding teams to 29 or less.
In fact, UT's true magic number appears to be 50. When an opponent scores more than that, UT is 1-7; when a team scores less, it is 15-4.
"Defense is the major part of our game," said Daggett. "All we want to do is hold our opponent to as low a score as we can."
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Rave : 2001 : Uncle Ben... Psychic
In the letter page of ASM #30, Paul G. Wiener wants to know when Uncle Ben taught Peter that "with great power comes great responsibility". The answer he is given is "The immortal phrase uttered by Uncle Ben... is just one of those untraceable moments in the Spider-Man folklore."
This is just hokum of course. It's not even a retcon so much as it is sloppy thinking, a confusing of "Ultimate Spider-Man" lore with "Marvel Universe Spider-Man" lore.
The truth is that Uncle Ben taught Peter this lesson by being shot dead by a burglar Peter could have stopped but didn't. The utterer of the immortal phrase was Stan "The Man" Lee. Any pretense that Ben actually discussed this with Peter at any time in the past, that he was some sort of prescient Yoda only dilutes the power of the lesson when Peter learns it. So, guys? Cut this nonsense out! | <urn:uuid:1d4b5b9e-96fe-403e-afcf-485e323380de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spiderfan.org/rave/2001/0402.html | 2013-05-21T11:15:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959427 | 210 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Literary Feuds In 2012
If you think that little fights happen only among actors and actresses, that it’s only the Khans and the Kapoors that end up in a feud; then you are so wrong. The world of literature isn’t far behind. They have all together written their own book of feuds. So here are the top literary feuds of the year 2012:
Salman Rushdie v/s the world:
Where there is Rushdie there is always a controversy. The year began with the appearance that was later cancelled. His cancelled Jaipur Literary Festival appearance became breaking news. Rushdie and Chetan Bhagat ended up having a war on Twitter. The organisers at Jaipur Festival were stuck between the two famous writers.
Though Rushdie never made the Indian Trip this was a “fictional controversy at best.”
Amitav Ghosh v/s Salman Rushdie:
If you remember the year 2012 started with a spat. Rushdie was not allowed to attend the Jaipur Literary Fest because of the fatva against him. This feud was started by Amitav Ghosh. When Rushdie was making the news for cancelling his visit to India, Ghosh wrote on his blog “I have never attended the Jaipur Literary Festival; nor does a visit loom in the foreseeable future. This is largely (but not wholly) because I have no taste for tamashas.”
I think what he meant to say was that the relationship between the readers and writers has changed and the literary fest is no more a celebration of literature.
Whatever be the case the media and the literary world saw this statement by Ghosh as a call for war.
Girish Karnad v/s V.S. Naipaul
I don’t think anybody has forgotten about this little spat. If you have then here is the story.
Girish Karnad went after Naipaul who received the lifetime achievement award at the Mumbai Literature festival. Karnad who seemed to be have taken offense to this made use of the chance given to him by the organisers to the fullest. He called Naipual “Anti-Muslim”. When the organisers told him that his actions weren’t polite, all he said was “I don’t have to be polite. I’m following in the footsteps of Naipaul.”
In case anyone missed the first round he followed it up with a column in India Today magazine. Karnad wrote about Naipaul winning the Nobel Prize, “Many of us saw it as a result of his being a nice brown face spouting venom against Muslims.”
And Karnad did not stop at that, his next target was Rabindranath Tagore.
Girish Karnad v/s Rabindranath Tagore:
The Bengalis were shocked when Girish Karnad said “His greatness as a poet is there, his greatness as a thinker is there… he wrote plays, he certainly was a pioneer in breaking away from the unexciting commercial plays…he didn’t direct great plays. The point is he was a mediocre playwright.”
But he is not the only one to say this, there have been many other writers. Bengali dramatist Sekhar Chattopadhyay found some of Tagore’s plays too complex.
As I said before Karnad was on a roll this year. But personally, I think that Karnad has a right to his own views about other writers. The only problem was that it did not go well with the audience.
There were many other spats, but in future, remember that the main ingredients to cook a feud that will attract media coverage are as follows:
- Famous writers like Salman Rushdie, Chetan Bhagat, Girish Karnad, Arundhathi Roy and Tagore.
- Both the people involved in the feud should have Twitter accounts or a blog. However, Twitter is a better option since the whole world is on Twitter these days.
- Literary Prizes are a must, since they are the topic of the feud.
- The venue. A literary fest is the arena of the duel.
- There you go; you have cooked a literary feud for yourself.
As Mahesh Dattani, playwright writes in The Week magazine:
“Village people have their melas to fulfil their social needs like meeting friends and relatives from neighbouring villages. City people have their literature, drama, music and film festivals. The spirit is the same. To congregate and catch up on gossip with an apparent sense of purpose. In the city, sensation replaces gossip. So unless you can rustle up a good controversy, your festival isn’t really a successful one… So now, the pressure is on for future festivals to match up in scandal, sizzle and slur.”
So who is going to be making news in 2013? Time to place your bets everyone.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Human Computation and how
it is used for labeling images.
Now, Google has its own Image Labeler. I haven't played with it yet, but I have opted in as a publisher, so my site's images can be used by Google in this project.
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