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Efficacy of clorsulon against Fascioloides magna ...
|Title||Efficacy of clorsulon against Fascioloides magna infection in sheep|
|Author(s)||G. Conboy, B. Stromberg, J. Schlotthauer|
|Journal||Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association|
|Abstract||In a study to evaluate the efficacy of clorsulon against Fascioloides magna infection in sheep, 12 ewes were inoculated orally with 100 metacercariae of F magna, and 6 were treated with clorsulon (15 mg/kg of body weight) 8 weeks after inoculation. The sheep were euthanatized 16 weeks after inoculation, flukes were recovered, and the liver and other tissues were subjectively scored for the severity of lesions (0 to 4+). The number of flukes recovered from the clorsulon-treated group (3.8 +/- 1.2 flukes) was significantly (P = 0.025) lower than the number of flukes recovered from the group of untreated controls (10.0 +/- 6.6 flukes). The severity of lesions was significantly (P = 0.004) reduced (45.9%) in the treated group (2.0 +/- 1.1), compared with that in the untreated controls (3.7 +/- 0.5). In the untreated group, 3 sheep died and 1 became moribund 14 to 16 weeks after inoculation. The data suggested that a single treatment with clorsulon at a dosage of 15 mg/kg 8 weeks after inoculation was not effective in preventing F magna infection in sheep, because the survival of only a few F magna is potentially fatal in sheep within 6 months after infection.|
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- Fizzy.com has announced the first winners in its $100,000 developers competition
- Flash game developers share first quarter prizes of $7,000
SYDNEY, Australia - 6 May 2010
(Links to games follow below)
3RD Sense, which operates the successful play platform Fizzy.com, has announced the winners in the first quarter of its‘Biggest Game of 2010 Competition'. The competition, which runs for the duration of 2010, is offering a total of $100,000 worth of prizes for the casual Flash games that generate the highest revenues on Fizzy.com.
Extreme Earth Fighter grossed the highest revenue on Fizzy.com in the first quarter of 2010 (January - March), winning its developer, Saikat, $US5,000. It just out-performed the second place getter, Sonic Speed Spotter, from Difference Games who received $US1,500. In third place was Witch in 60 Seconds from Icegamer, winning $US500.
‘The Biggest Game of 2010 is proving to be highly competitive amongst our developers,' said Colin Cardwell, CEO of 3RD sense.‘The first quarter has seen over 250 new developers join the Fizzy.com Game Developer Network and we've had over 285 new games submitted since the competition began.
The Biggest Game of 2010 Competition is believed to be the richest casual game developer competition ever held. The game that generates the highest revenues throughout the whole of 2010 will win $US50,000. The second place getter will win $US15,000 and third $US5,000. Quarterly prize winners will share in $7000 worth of prizes.
‘We're aiming to give Flash game developers a platform to publish and profit from their online Flash games,' said Cardwell.‘In addition to the competition, we offer a 50% revenue share to developers, one of the most generous revenue shares available.'
Saikat, the first place winning developer, on being congratulated on his win said,‘Fizzy.com's developer program is great for Flash Game developers. The ecpm offered by Fizzy is outstanding, the Fizzy API is very easy to implement and support is very good.'
The Fizzy.com Biggest Game of 2010 Competition continues throughout 2010. Quarterly winners will be announced throughout the year and the overall winner announced early in 2011.
Images/game screenshots are available for download here:
More information about the Biggest Game of 2010 Competition is available here: http://www.fizzy.com/competition/gdn
The winning games can be played here:
Extreme Earth Fighter: http://www.fizzy.com/games/extreme_earth_fighter
Sonic Speed Spotter: http://www.fizzy.com/games/sonic_speed_spotter
Witch in 60 Seconds: http://www.fizzy.com/games/witch_in_60_seconds_enhanced
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ABOUT 3RD SENSE:
3RD Sense creates casual games for its Fizzy.com website which is aimed at consumers, advertisers and game developers. The success of the site is reflected in the numbers with over 1 million visitors and 35 million ads served each month, plus a growing member base of over 404,000. Advertisers and game developers are drawn to Fizzy.com because of the large and growing audience, their high levels of engagement with the site and their wide demographic range. All 3RD Sense casual games are available on Fizzy.com and some demo versions are also distributed to a network of over 1000 additional gaming sites.
For corporate information, please visit www.3rdsense.com
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“Australia and New South Wales in particular, is a free and strong democracy where expression of political opinion on social and cultural issues, when made in a constructive way, strengthens our multicultural society”, the Chair of the Community Relations Commission of NSW, Stepan Kerkyasharian said today.
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WinStar Casino says it has scheduled a comprehensive safety audit of its dome-like structure in light of the collapse in Valley Ranch.
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Windows 7 - Released on October 22, and Defraggler has full support! We've got new internal optimizations that will improve your system optimization experience on this new OS!
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- Many GUI fixes and improvements.
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“We’re making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it’s no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s.”
Jerry Patterson on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 in a newspaper column
Land commissioner says state getting most ever in oil and gas proceeds though oil production topped out in 1970s
UPDATE, May 3, 2010: Oil production totals below for 1972, 2007 and 2008 have been corrected to make up for our initial misreading of a state chart. As originally noted, however, oil production in Texas still topped out in 1972. The corrected production figures don't affect our rating of Commissioner Patterson's statement.
Jerry Patterson, the state land commissioner seeking a third term this November, refers to the the state’s oil-soaked history in a recent column extolling renewable energy. In his article, published Tuesday in the Austin American-Statesman, Patterson writes: “We’re making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it’s no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s.”
Even though oil production has been declining, state revenue from oil and gas is the tops?
When we sought background, the General Land Office shared a chart showing state oil and gas income reached a historical high of $495 million in 1982 that wasn't exceeded until 2008, when it hit $533 million.
The state's oil-and-gas-related proceeds dropped to $381 million in 2009, the land office says. Counting revenue during the first seven months of this fiscal year, we calculate it will reach $279 million by the end of the 2010 fiscal year Aug. 31.
Total state take during Patterson's seven-plus years as commissioner: $2.7 billion.
And when did oil production peak?
According to the Texas Railroad Commission, which tracks in-state oil production, the peak year for crude oil production was 1972 when more than 167,000 wells produced nearly 1.3 billion barrels. As of 2007, production had ebbed to about 336 million barrels. In 2008, production increased for the first time since 1991 to more than 346 million barrels, before falling in 2009, according to the commission.
R.J. DeSilva, spokesperson for the State Comptroller's office, offered this analysis for the surge in state income from oil and gas surged well after oil production peaked: "Oil and natural gas production are taxed on the value of oil and natural gas that’s produced. Oil and natural gas prices were higher in the early ‘80s than in the ‘70s (and reached all time highs in 2008)."
So how does Patterson’s statement shake out?
He gets the peak-production timing right; it was the '70s.
But he's off in saying state government is making more than ever from oil and gas "right now." That was true for the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 2008, but in 2009 state oil and gas revenue fell 29 percent from the year before and it's on pace to register another decline this fiscal year.
We rate Patterson's statement as Mostly True.
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 7:01 p.m.
Interview, Jerry Patterson, Texas land commissioner, April 27, 2010
Jerry Patterson, Texas land commissioner, column published in Austin American-Statesman, “Patterson: Future is in green energy,” April 27, 2010 (accessed April 27, 2010)
E-mail excerpts, Jim Suydam, press secretary, Texas General Land Office, responses to W. Gardner Selby, PolitiFact Texas, April 27, 2010
General Land Office, "Deposits of Revenue to Permanent School Fund Since Inception," (Excel chart) dated April 22, 2010
PolitiFact Texas, "Total Oil and Gas Revenue to State," (Excel chart showing totals in column I), April 29, 2010
Texas Railroad Commission, “Oil Production and Well Counts (1935-2008) History of Texas Initial Crude Oil, Annual Production and Producing Wells,” website updated 3/09/2010 (accessed April 28, 2010)
E-mail excerpt, R.J. DeSilva, spokesperson, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, April 28, 2010
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Best ways to annoy a roommate you want out
Most people try to be optimistic about college life; it’s an exciting and rewarding adventure, that’s true yet you may stumble upon a chaotic roommate that can make your life miserable if you allow it. You should know that if he plays dirty, you’re allowed to play dirty, too. It’s not the classy approach to conflict solving, rather immature I must admit, but it works. And it’s fun. Here’s a list of things to do to annoy a roomie, to be used as inspiration only in case of absolute necessity.
- Dive into his food and drinks anytime he’s not at home. Especially if he doesn’t like to share food.
- If he’s a meat eater incessantly preach about the benefits of being a vegetarian. Be sure to always eat the last slice of bread and use all the paper towels.
- Ask him if your family can move in just for “just for a couple of weeks.”
- Laugh, talk to yourself and sing loud constantly. Refer to yourself in the third person. If your name is Jane say “Jane’s going to take a nap!”.
- Always refer to him as “lover,” “hot pants,” “sweet cheeks,” or Edward.
- If there are people your roommate hates, get them over every night and make fun of him.
- Make a lot of noise when he’s sleeping, slam doors, turn on the TV and play music that you know he doesn’t like.
- Repeat the last word of everything he says, if he says “Turn off the music” you obviously don’t do it and repeat “music…, music…, music”.
- Buy a spider, preferably a tarantula, keep it in a jar for a week and then give it away. Tell your roomie that you lost it and you can’t find it anywhere.
- If you know he has to get up at 8 o’clock in the morning to get to school, wake up ten minutes earlier and occupy the bathroom.
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Fritz Mayer is Editor. His background in journalism includes 17 years at CNN, where he held various positions including Executive Producer. He moved from Manhattan to Sullivan County full time in 2001. He reported for WVOS FM for four years, where he covered issues of local importance such as the Sullivan County Landfill, the prospect of casinos opening here and the rapid development of the area. Fritz and his wife Anne Hart own The Cutting Garden antiques store and seasonal cutting garden in Youngsville.
Jane Bollinger is Managing Editor having come out of early retirement to return to journalism at The River Reporter. Her previous newspaper experience includes working as a reporter at two Pennsylvania papers—The Quakertown Free Press (1970s) and The Scranton Times (1990s). In between, she worked as a local television news producer in Kansas City, MO and St. Petersburg, FL and then in New York City for WNBC local news before moving on to ABC News. She worked at Good Morning America for 14 years, starting as a writer/producer and ending her time there as managing editor and head writer.
She has a passion for eating real food grown by local farmers and for sharing her food knowledge with others. She has recently stepped down after nine summers from doing a weekly cooking demo at the Wayne County Farmers Market. She serves as chairperson of the Wayne County group of PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) and is active in other efforts to promote agriculture as economic development for our region’s future.
Isabel Braverman is the Editorial Assistant. She graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor's degree in journalism. She has lived in Wayne County for all of her life and loves the small and thriving community, and most importantly, the river that runs through it. Other outlets of artistic expression include ballet, cooking and whistling.
Jonathan Fox is the Arts and Leisure reporter and updates The River Reporter Facebook page. He currently lives in Sullivan County. Having written for film and television, he now concentrates his efforts on novels, plays and assorted periodicals, along with his weekly "Humble Opinion" column on life in the Catskills.
In between theatre, art and concert reviews, Jonathan can be heard as one of the on-air personalities with “Ciliberto and Friends in the Morning”, on Thunder 102.1 FM. He regularly appeared on popular 80’s shows like “Fame”, “Diffrent Strokes”, “Three’s Company”, “The Jeffersons”and “The Facts of Life.”
Laurie Stuart is publisher of The River Reporter and has been with the newspaper since 1977. Her belief that promoting dialogue and engagement can help our communities to shape their own destinies is manifest not only in the newspaper, but also in her community work as convener of the Upper Delaware River Roundtable and minister of the Upper Delaware Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. She has an artistic bent that finds expression in activities including felt-making, song-writing and singing — a range of interests reflected in the breadth of human affairs covered by the newspaper.
Breann Cochran is the Assistant to the Publisher of The River Reporter. Originally from California, Breann moved to NYC where she worked in digital marketing for four years. Her most recent experience includes email marketing for a luxury retailer. She brings a passion for the outdoors, love of cooking and desire to live in a rural setting to Sullivan County where she and her fiancé are renovating their 1926 farmhouse.
Advertising & Circulation
Barb Matos is the Sales/Advertising Director, and joins the River Reporter with a wealth of 20 years in television advertising sales. Her background working at Fox, Turner Broadcasting and MTV Networks has given her extensive expertise in sales management and business growth. She lives in Damascus, PA with her husband, where she indulges her love of nature, the Delaware River and all animals great and small.
Denise Yewchuck is a member of the sales team. She graduated from Russell Sage College in Troy, NY with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and moved to Sullivan County in 2006 to pursue an internship with a local non-profit organization. She has over seven years of experience in sales and working one-on-one with clients to provide outstanding customer service.
Since moving to the River Valley community, she has built a house and started a family with her husband who is a native to Sullivan County. She has found a creative outlet in baking , enjoys woodworking and loves to explore all that the Sullivan County Catskills has to offer.
Eileen Hennessy is the Classified Representative and Advertising Consultant. Her interest in people and dedication to helping them is evident in her participation in a number of local organizations including the Tusten Lions and the Cochecton Youth Commission. This same spirit of service and personal engagement informs her work with the individuals and businesses whom she helps to offer their goods and services through The River Reporter.
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Amanda Reed is the Production Manager. Growing up in the darkroom and production room of The News Eagle gave her a feel for art and design at an early age. Eight years of newspaper design experience in multiple local publications give her designs a hometown feeling. An avid photographer, Amanda can almost always be caught with a camera in hand. When she’s not busy working, she can be found coaching girls softball, being a horse show mom, hanging out with her daughters and racing r/c cars. | <urn:uuid:1d5853be-a302-424a-aa8b-4aaedd7756b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.riverreporter.com/aboutus | 2013-05-23T05:35:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702849682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111409-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966458 | 1,147 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Nordic Combined-Kircheisen Celebrates Lahti Victory, Lamy-Chappuis Defends Overall World Cup Title
German teammates Bjorn Kircheisen and Eric Frenzel took the first two spots on the FIS World Cup nordic combined podium today (March 11) in Lahti, Finland while France’s Olympic and World Champion Jason Lamy Chappuis finished third to assure himself the World Cup title. Olympic Champion Billy Demong led the U.S. in 29th.
Norway's Haavard Klemetsen led the ski jumping portion in Lahti, with a 127.5 meter, 130.3-point jump. In second was Wilhelm Denifl (AUT/126.0 m/129.5 points) with Kaarel Nurmsalu (EST/130.5 m/129.2 points) in third. Lamy Chappuis jumped to fourth place, just 20 seconds behind Klemetsen with the winner, Kircheisen in 12th position, a full 62 seconds back.
As the Cross-Country race developed, Lamy Chappuis quickly closed the gap between himself and the three leaders: Klemetsen, Denifl and Nurmsalu. The second lap saw the Frenchman break away with Denifl, securing only a narrow 7.5-second lead ahead of Kircheisen, Frenzel and others. In lap three the gap was once again narrowed, leaving a five-man group ahead to lead the race into the final lap, and in the fourth, Kircheisen sprinted ahead for the victory.
"I did not start that fast because of the slow track,” said Kircheisen, “but attacked at the right moment during the last lap. I'm happy about my fourth World Cup victory here in Lahti."
At the finish line, Kircheisen had an advantage of 5.4 seconds on Frenzel and 13.2 seconds on Lamy Chappuis.
Wilhelm Denifl finished in fourth and equaled his best World Cup results. Mikko Kokslien (NOR) improved from 20th rank to final eight and Felix Gottwald (AUT) delivered the fastest Cross-Country time in 23:57.0 minutes.
This victory marked Kircheisen’s 15th World Cup win of 165 appearances and with two Germans on top, displayed strength and a repeat of last week’s World Championship success for the team. "It is nice to see that it becomes some kind of habit having always two Germans on the podium,” said Frenzel.
Continuing to struggle with the jumping portion of the nordic combined, Demong sat in 36th heading into the cross country race, two minutes forty seconds back. Needing to make up a lot of ground in the 10k, Demong had trouble finding his stride posting the 18th fastest time to place 29th. Bryan Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, CO) finished just outside the points in 33rd. World Champions Todd Lodwick and Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, CO) returned home after World Championships.
This World Cup in Lahti marks the final stop of the tour. Competition continues Saturday with another large hill event to conclude the 2010-11 season.
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New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) An Indian company in Uganda keen to promote hygiene among children is set to create a world record by spreading one lakh pieces of medicated soap on a vast ground.
According to Kiboko Enterprises, the Limca Book of Records is sending a judge from India to view the proposed event July 20.
Our aim is to give back to the country that gives us so much love and affection, Kiboko's representative Rajesh Kalra told IANS over telephone from Kampala.
The company is in talks with the Nelson Mandela Football Ground, one of the biggest in Africa, and two other potential venues in Kampala including a cricket club and a resort.
We want to create the world's largest carpet of soaps, Kalra said.
The company will give away the soaps to children to enhance sanitation, hygiene and good health, he said.
According to official statistics, it is estimated that 75 percent of Uganda's disease burden is preventable and linked to poor hygiene as well as inadequate sanitation facilities and practices.
The private sector has joined hands with the Ugandan government to provide free soaps for schools in the country.
According to Kalra, the Kiboko initiative has the support of the speaker of the Ugandan parliament, Rebecca A. Kadaga.
Kiboko Enterprises, which has functioned in Uganda for 20 years, deals in a range of areas including electrical, construction, agriculture and general merchandise.
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In addition to offering the most advanced surgical techniques and medical therapies, physicians at the Swedish Epilepsy Center are active in research. Their findings are regularly published in international neurological journals and medical textbooks. The center continues to advance patient care by researching new surgical treatments through neurophysiological application and interpretation, progressive diagnostic modalities and participation in drug trials of antiepileptic medications.
Whether it is providing the highest standard of care for epilepsy patients or setting new standards of care, the Swedish Epilepsy Center is at the forefront in caring for patients with seizure disorders.
View a list of epilepsy-related research studies being conducted at Swedish.
Lisa M. Caylor, M.D.
Adult Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology
Dr. Caylor completed her bachelor's degree in physiology at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her medical degree at the University of Rochester. She completed her internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and her neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Caylor’s research interests include clinical drug studies and NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulation.
Michael Doherty, M.D.
Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurology
Dr. Doherty completed his bachelor’s degree in history at Boston University. He received his medical degree at Tufts University in Boston. Dr. Doherty completed his neurology residency and neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Doherty’s research interests include NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulation, nicotine and other medications in altering seizures susceptibility. He has published numerous papers on Epilepsy as well as the history of Neurology.
Ryder Gwinn, M.D.
Epilepsy Surgery, Functional Neurosurgery
Dr. Gwinn completed his bachelor’s degree in psychobiology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Gwinn completed his neurosurgical residency at Georgetown University and his surgical epilepsy fellowship at Yale University. Dr. Gwinn’s research interests include NeuroPace Responsive Neurostimulation, DNA methylation and microRNA changes in epilepsy, and node utilization in limbic epilepsy.
Alan M. Haltiner, Ph.D.
Dr. Haltiner completed bachelor's degrees in psychology and biology at the University of Puget Sound, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology- Neuropsychology Track at the University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School. He completed his Clinical Psychology Residency at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, followed by a 2 year rehabilitation research fellowship focused on neuropsychological aspects of post-traumatic epilepsy. Dr. Haltiner's research interests include use of psychometric tests and clinical history to predict risk of non-epileptic seizures, the integration of clinical neuropsychological and Wada test data with EEG and neuroimaging to localize seizure dysfunction and determine proximity to intact areas, and evaluating the neuropsychological prognosis and outcome of surgical treatments for medically refractory epilepsy.
Jehuda Sepkuty, M.D.
Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, Intraoperative Neuromonitoring, Neurology
Dr. Sepkuty received his medical degree from Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv, Israel. He completed his neurology residency at the University of Minnesota, and his epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Swedish, Dr. Sepkuty was an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and Director of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Dr. Sepkuty’s research interests include epilepsy, pre-surgical evaluation and treatment of epilepsy, mapping of the brain for intractable epilepsy, extra and intraoperative mapping techniques, clinical neurophysiology, clinical and techno/clinical education, developing new technologies (devices for epilepsy treatment and research and for OR monitoring) and bringing them to clinical trials.
Ednea Simon, M.D.
Pediatric Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, Pediatric Neurology
Dr. Simon received her medical degree from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. She has completed residencies in pediatrics and child neurology at the State University of Campinas, and a residency in child neurology at the University of Washington. Dr. Simon completed her neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Simon’s research interests include pediatric epilepsy, specifically neonatal seizures, infantile spasms, and tuberous sclerosis complex. In addition, Dr. Simon has been involved with functional neuroimaging using positron emission tomography for epilepsy in childhood.
Marcio Sotero de Menezes, M.D.
Pediatric Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology, Clinical Research & Education, SCN1A Disorders
Dr. Sotero received his medical degree from the Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. He has completed residencies in pediatrics at HSE-RJ Hospital in Brazil, and Loyola Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Sotero completed his child neurology residency and his epilepsy and neurophysiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University in Boston. Dr. Sotero de Menezes’ research interests include genetic epilepsies; looking at mutation patterns of patients with familial frontal lobe seizures, and SCN1A mutations, including those with Dravet syndrome.
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As effective a guard dogs are, there are some other unlikely choices you may not be aware of.
|Guard Llama - Photo by Paul Keleher|
Donkeys are another popular choice as a guard animal as they are naturally wary of strangers and harbor a strong dislike of predatory animals, even domestic dogs. Donkeys have fantastic hearing and good eyesight as well as a loud bay that can be used to warn the herd. Like llamas, guard donkeys can and will attack threats if necessary. The video below shows a guard donkey attacking a ranch fence when strangers approach in a car. It may seem funny, but these donkeys take their jobs pretty seriously!
According to an Iowa State University study, the use of these unconventional guard animals is extremely effective, in some cases reducing predatory losses to only 7% of the herd.
While wildlife lovers will always view coyotes and dingoes as rightful residents of their habitats, to ranchers they represent a significant problem as pests. Using effective guard animals such as llamas and donkeys allows ranchers to protect their herds from predators without resorting to killing the predators, which seems like a win-win situation for everyone. | <urn:uuid:f47fe117-ba83-412f-81e2-83f75790d974> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thejunglestore.blogspot.com/2011/07/llamas-and-donkeys-guard-dog.html | 2013-05-23T05:36:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702849682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111409-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948442 | 239 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
After releasing two fantastic albums (2005’s Yhä hämärää and 2008’s Laulu laakson kukista) and a DVD (Unien Savonlinna), Paavoharju — a Finnish group of ascetic Christians — return with an EP featuring rare/unreleased tracks and three new songs, including the title track streaming above. It’s titled Ikkunat Näkevät (why not?), and it’s out on Fonal.
Cheer-Accident have been around for a whiiiiile. Their discography seems even broader considering the continued quality of their output. Who gets proggier with age? “Sleep” comes from their 17th album, No Ifs Ands or Dogs, and it’s quite the 90s-style weirdo pop-rock number, reminiscent of Mike Patton’s Mr. Bungle project – or maybe that should be the other way around?
Zola Jesus has a new album coming on October 4. It’s called Conatus, and it’s due on Sacred Bones. I’d also like to take the time to note that she’s 4’11” and weighs 90 lbs.
“So Alone” is a serious slab of psychedelic Japanese sludge (I won’t make a lazy Boris comparison that reveals my ignorance and lack of context for this music… shiiiit). Their new record The Night Is Yours is still available through Sloow Tapes, though it’s one of those arrangements where you’ve got to email the label dude for a copy. Might as well take it a step further and give you their home phone number (310-837-8894).
• Sloow Tapes: http://sloowtapes.blogspot.com/
Lexington, Kentucky band Arcane Rifles are firmly planted in the high energy, chaotic rock realm. They’ve just released a new 7”, but the track “Loner Soul” from a live radio set is perhaps best representative of the bands manic psychedelic vibe. The buried vocals and struggling guitar solo are definite highlights.
• Arcane Rifles: http://arcanerifles.bandcamp.com/
Welcome to TMT mathematics lesson #1. Mary Timony + 2/3 Sleater-Kinney (Janet Weiss [Carrie Brownstein]) + Rebecca Cole of The Minders = Wild Flag. Wild Flag = Mary Timony + 2/3 Sleater-Kinney (Janet Weiss [Carrie Brownstein]) + Rebecca Cole of The Minders.
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Sophistication comes in many shapes and sizes, in the case of Ribbon by Sandro Santantonio Design, a studio based in Italy, that shape is squarish. A light fixture that is at once striking and simple, it takes on sharp geometrical lines that add a bold touch to existing home decor. Although the name of the lamp focuses on the texture of the lampshade, the shape will also grab people’s attention.
Created in collaboration with Spanish company Decorluc, Ribbon by Sandro Santantonio Design offers a modern spin on a classic light fixture. Usually the ribboned texture is paired with a circular lampshade rather than a squared one. Available in table lamps, sconces, floor lamps and pendants options, they range in color from bright reds to more gentle whites, creams and baby blues. | <urn:uuid:d28dd7bc-43ab-4d2b-9054-a6f3b515ac4f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.trendhunter.com/printView/ribbon-by-sandro-santantonio-design | 2013-05-23T05:36:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702849682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111409-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927821 | 194 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Lighting strikes in the distance beyond the compound where Osama bin Laden was reportedly killed in Abottabad, Pakistan, May 4, 2011. (Photo: Warrick Page / The New York Times)
The May 1 U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound violated multiple elementary norms of international law, beginning with the invasion of Pakistani territory.
There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by the 79 commandos facing almost no opposition.
President Obama announced that “justice has been done.” Many did not agree – even close allies. British barrister Geoffrey Robertson, who generally supported the operation, nevertheless described Obama’s claim as an “absurdity” that should have been obvious to a former professor of constitutional law.
Pakistani and international law require inquiry “whenever violent death occurs from government or police action,” Robertson points out. Obama undercut that possibility with a “hasty ‘burial at sea’ without a post mortem, as the law requires.”
“It was not always thus,” Robertson usefully reminds us, ``When the time came to consider the fate of men much more steeped in wickedness than Osama bin Laden – namely the Nazi leadership – the British government wanted them hanged within six hours of capture.
“President Truman demurred, citing the conclusion of Justice Robert Jackson (chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial) that summary execution ‘would not sit easily on the American conscience or be remembered by our children with pride ... the only course is to determine the innocence or guilt of the accused after a hearing as dispassionate as the times will permit and upon a record that will leave our reasons and motives clear.”’
Another perspective on the attack comes in a report in The Atlantic by veteran Middle East and military correspondent Yochi Dreazen and colleagues. Citing a “senior U.S. official,” they conclude that the bin Laden killing was a planned assassination.
“For many at the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency who had spent nearly a decade hunting bin Laden, killing the militant was a necessary and justified act of vengeance,” they write. Furthermore, “capturing bin Laden alive would have also presented the administration with an array of nettlesome legal and political challenges.”
They quote former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who commented that “the U.S. raid was ‘quite clearly a violation of international law’ and that bin Laden should have been detained and put on trial.”
They contrast Schmidt with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who “defended the decision to kill bin Laden although he didn’t pose an immediate threat to the Navy SEALs,” and testified to Congress that the assault had been “lawful, legitimate and appropriate in every way.”
They observe further that the assassination is “the clearest illustration to date” of a crucial distinction between the Bush and Obama counterterror policies. Bush captured suspects and sent them to Guantanamo and other camps, with consequences now well known. Obama’s policy is to kill suspects (along with “collateral damage”).
The roots of the revenge killing are deep. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the American desire for vengeance displaced concern for law or security.
In his book, “The Far Enemy,” Fawaz Gerges, a leading academic specialist on the jihadi movement, found that “the dominant response by jihadis to Sept. 11 is an explicit rejection of al-Qaida and total opposition to the internationalization of jihad ... Al-Qaida united all social forces (in the Muslim world) against its global jihad.”
The influential Lebanese cleric Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah sharply condemned al-Qaida’s 9/11 atrocities on principled grounds. “We must not punish individuals who have no relationship with the American administration or even those who have an indirect role,” he said.
Fadlallah was the target of a CIA-organized assassination operation in 1985, a huge truck bomb placed outside a mosque. He escaped, but 80 others were killed, mostly women and girls, as they left the mosque – one of those innumerable crimes that don’t enter the annals of terror.
Subsequent U.S. actions, particularly the invasion of Iraq, gave new life to al-Qaida.
What are the likely consequences of the killing of bin Laden? For the Arab world, it will probably mean little. He had long been a fading presence, and in the past few months was eclipsed by the Arab Spring.
A fairly general perception in the Arab world is captured by the headline in a Lebanese newspaper: “The execution of bin Laden: A settling of accounts between killers.”
The most immediate and significant consequences are likely to be seen in Pakistan. There is much discussion of Washington’s anger that Pakistan didn’t turn over bin Laden. Less is said about the fury in Pakistan that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination.
Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth, with the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal. The revenge killing on Pakistani soil only stoked the anti-American fervor that had long been building. In his new book, “Pakistan: A Hard Country,” Anatol Lieven writes that “if the U.S. ever put Pakistani soldiers in a position where they felt that honor and patriotism required them to fight America, many would be very glad to do so.”
And if Pakistan collapsed, an “absolutely inevitable result would be the flow of large numbers of highly trained ex-soldiers, including explosive experts and engineers, to extremist groups.”
The primary threat is leakage of fissile materials to jihadi hands, a horrendous eventuality.
The Pakistani military has already been pushed to the edge by U.S. attacks on Pakistani sovereignty. One factor is the drone attacks in Pakistan that Obama escalated immediately after the killing of bin Laden, rubbing salt in the wounds.
But there is much more, including the demand that the Pakistani military cooperate in the U.S. war against the Afghan Taliban. The overwhelming majority of Pakistanis see the Taliban as fighting a just war of resistance against an invading army, according to Lieven.
The killing of bin Laden could have been the spark that set off a conflagration, with dire consequences, particularly if the invading force had been compelled to fight its way out, as was anticipated.
Perhaps the assassination was perceived as an “act of vengeance,” as Robertson concludes. Whatever the motive, it could hardly have been security.
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The expected firing of Andy Reid as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles is a mere formality, and Reid has known since Friday that Sunday's game was his last with the team he's coached since 1999. According to reports, Reid met with owner Jeffrey Lurie on Friday and learned he will be fired in a formal announcement by the team Monday. FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reported in Sunday's pregame show that Reid was to be fired after a meeting with ownership Monday. Regardless of the timing, Reid is done with the Eagles, ending the longest-running current marriage between head coach and employer. Lurie said in August that an 8-8 record wouldn't be considered sufficient in 2012. That was the record posted by the Eagles in 2011, after big spending brought top free agents including cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, defensive end Jason Babin and defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins. And the label from then-backup quarterback Vince Young of "Dream Team." The Super Bowl...
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The Philadelphia Eagles have officially fired head coach Andy Reid.
Eagles announced HC Andy Reid officially dismissed. Press conference at noon ET.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 31, 2012
Reid will go down as one of the Eagles’ greatest head coaches of all time, but he could never win the big one and things have only gone down hill over the past two seasons.
According to ProFootbalTalk.com, Eagles head coach Andy Reid wants to coach the San Diego Chargers next season after he’s let go by Philly in the offseason.
Despite the collapse in Philadelphia, Reid is still a very good head coach that knows how to get the best out of his quarterbacks and would be a big help to Philip Rivers who’s been struggling over the past few years.
Following yesterday’s ugly loss to the New York Giants in
their season finale, it began to be reported that the Philadelphia Eagles were
set to part ways with long-time head coach Andy Reid. Team owner Jeff Lurie told
Reid Friday that he would be out as Eagles’ coach, ending his 14-year run with
the team, reports Reuben Frank of CSN Philly.
Lurie, according to multiple league...
According to a source close to Philly Sports Nut, Andy Reid has been working on become the San Diego Chargers next head coach since Week 6. According to the source, Reid wanted to leave Philadelphia if they did not make it to the Super Bowl due to the drugs surrounding his kids and the failed 2011 season.
This should come as no surprise to Eagles fans or anyone that knows Reid. He...
As a life-long Eagles fan, I have no mixed feelings about Andy Reid being fired as the Iggs’ head coach. It was time. CSNPhilly.com’s Geoff Mosher gives us a great breakdown of 5 major decision-making failures on Reid’s part that hurried along what many felt was an inevitable outster if things didn’t improve for the team this season. From the standpoint of a fan, these five...
In a move that has been expected for several weeks now, the Philadelphia Eagles announced this morning that the team has fired head coach Andy Reid. Eagles ownership issued what was regarded as an ultimatum at the start of the regular season stating that another disappointing season would not be tolerated in Philadelphia.The Eagles were a complete disappointment in 2011 and posted...
Who will replaced AR? Image via voxxi.com.
With Andy Reid out as Philadelphia Eagles head coach, the major question facing the franchise now is who will replace him.The speculation has swirled for months, as Reid’s fate was sealed further by each successive loss. Here’s a look at some of the possibilities.
The name that has been tossed around most in relation to the...
As expected, the Philadelphia Eagles announced Monday morning that they have parted ways with Andy Reid after 14-years of being the team’s head coach.
Team chairman and chief executive officer Jeffrey Lurie held a 12 p.m. press conference Monday at the NovaCare Complex to discuss the reasoning of Reid’s removal. Reid led the Eagles to six NFC East titles, five NFC Championship...
According to a report from CSN Philly's Reuben Frank, Andy Reid has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. His fourteen year tenure with the Eagles ended with a 42-7 season-ending loss to the New York Giants.
After a mediocre 8-8 finish last season, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie made it clear that a similar season would not be good enough for Reid...
The Philadelphia Eagles officially fired head coach Andy Reid after 14 seasons. "Andy Reid won the most games of any head coach in Eagles history and he is someone I respect greatly and will remain friends with for many years to come," Eagles chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie said in a statement. "But, it is time for the Eagles to move in a new direction. Coach Reid...
Less than 24 hours after the NFL closed the books on another regular season, the coaching carousel gets revved back up as teams immediately start handing out pink slips to the men in charge of underachieving clubs.Who got canned, who stayed and who is lucky to still have a job?Philadelphia Eagles Fire Andy Reid: The Eagles broke ties with Andy Reid on Monday after 14 seasons as Philadelphia’s...
The Philadelphia Eagles have put together a list of coaching
targets to replace the recently fired Andy Reid, and their search will
apparently begin with Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator and former San
Francisco 49ers coach Mike Nolan, reports Jay Glazer of FOX Sports.
Eagles have asked permission to interview Falcons DC Mike Nolan, plan to interview him Friday
— Jay Glazer...
After firing Norv Turner as their coach on Monday, the San Diego Chargers are interested in Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians as a possible replacement, according to the NFL Network. Fired coaches Andy Reid (Philadelphia Eagles) and Ken Whisenhunt (Arizona Cardinals) are also rumored candidates. Arians, who filled in for Chuck Pagano while he took a leave... | <urn:uuid:f7509d72-d0fb-4d9f-85a2-b454a16352eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_eagles_fire_reid/12541435 | 2013-05-23T05:15:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702849682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111409-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968293 | 1,305 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Beau Breedlove, the infamous intern who had an affair with Portland mayor Sam Adams, will be on the cover of the May cover of Unzipped magazine. The now 21-year-old Breedlove will bare all and talk about his time as an intern in Portland.Unzipped gained attention after posting the steamy pics from Breedlove's MySpace page. The magazine offered him an undisclosed amount to pose for their cover, and Breedlove accepted.From an official announcement by Unzipped magazine: “The May Unzipped may...Read Full Story
That's him. Beau Breedlove is the young man at the center of the Sam Adams controversy as many are asking the openly gay Portland Mayor to resign.
Adams admitted last week that he lied about his relationship with Breedlove during his campaign. The mayor also says he asked Beau to lie about it as well.
HX.com posted these photos on their website.
Mayor Adams publicly apologized last week for lying during his campaign about the relationship with an 18-year-old man in 2005. He refuses to resign.Read Full Story
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Sam Adams, who was elected last May to replace Portland Oregon's outgoing mayor Tom Potter, was sworn into office at 12:01 am on New Years Day. Approximately 40 people were on hand including Adams' partner Peter Zuckerman, who is a reporter with The Oregonian.
Portland is now the largest U.S. city with an openly gay mayor.
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New push for 'civil partnerships' launched in Arizona: "In essence, it would provide every benefit and requirement that now exists under state marriage laws — every one, that is, except the actual word 'marriage.' It would set up procedures for courts to dissolve the partnerships, just like a divorce, with the same grounds. The measure is being pushed by Mesa resident...Read Full Story
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The Oregonian reports that Attorney General John Kroger has assembled a "veteran team" to investigate Portland mayor Sam Adams with regard to his relationship with former legislative intern Beau Breedlove.
"Kroger and Department of Justice officials declined to be interviewed about Adams, saying they don't comment about ongoing investigations. But sources familiar with the agency's past...Read Full Story
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UT Tyler's First Mock Trial
April 30, 2009
Students in UT Tyler’s criminal justice program presented the university’s first mock criminal trial earlier this month at the UT Tyler Robert R. Muntz Library. “Mr. Robin Banks” was acquitted of murder and arson charges.
The students conducted the trial, with assistance from university faculty, distinguished members of the local legal community and general public. Major student-players were Natalie Hughes of Bullard; Tricia Mehler of Longview; Lorna Harris of Athens; Liz Green of Dallas and Maegan Westbrook of Whitehouse.
Officials hope to make the mock trial an annual event.
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With saxophones, the occasional banjo, Dave’s distinct voice and enunciation, and drumlines that are a mixture of rock, jazz, and marching beats, The Dave Matthews Band is like no other rock band in history. It’s the kind of music that you remember – the type you can pick out after hearing just a few bars. I believe DMB has already attained “classic” status and will be remembered as one of this era’s greatest groups, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to outdo themselves.
The latest release from the veterans, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King”, has much to say. The band bid adieu to founding member and saxophonist LeRoi Moore when he passed away last August and they seem to have taken the sorrow and channeled it into making a record more epic than ever before. That is not to say that the tone of the album is sorrowful, as many of the songs have an upbeat tempo and vibe. A more appropriate description might be “contemplative”.
The album opens with a minute-long saxophone solo by Moore, which leads into the full-out rocking opening strains of “Shake Me Like a Monkey”. The wordless opening sounds much like the band is declaring “This one’s for you, LeRoi”.
The lyrics of “Funny the Way It Is”, the album’s initial single, are a comparison between happy and sad circumstances that seems to underscore the frailty of life, while “Dive In” examines the differences between the haves and the have-nots. My favorite lyrics come from the chorus of “Funny the Way It Is” -
Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song
It wouldn’t be a rock album (or a Dave Matthews Band album, for that matter), without musings on the nature of love – and this album isn’t without those discussions. “Lying In the Hands of God”, “Spaceman”, and “You and Me” fit the bill. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King’s catchy hooks, the obvious skill of the band’s members, and the lyrical commentary on life makes the album well worth a listen or three. If you haven’t experienced the music of the Dave Matthews Band before, there’s no time like the present to acquaint yourself. | <urn:uuid:59541ef6-932c-481d-9f1b-7d08289ec34f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aliciaheartsmusic.tumblr.com/tagged/Big-Whiskey-and-the-GrooGrux-King | 2013-05-25T13:43:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948414 | 573 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the
aggressive U.S. Attorney in Chicago whose investigations ranged
from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to CIA leaks and two
consecutive Illinois governors, said on Wednesday he would step
down effective June 30.
Fitzgerald, 51, who has held the post since days before the
Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, is the longest-serving U.S.
attorney in Chicago history. He is known for taking a hard line
on political corruption, and has overseen thousand of criminal
cases, including organized crime bosses, former Chicago
officials who rigged city hiring, and supporters of terrorism.
Fitzgerald also was lead counsel in the 2007 trial of I.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby in 2007, then chief of staff and national
security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, which resulted
in Libby's conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of
Fitzgerald has no future employment plans and will take time
off this summer before considering career options, according to
the U.S Attorney's office statement.
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The Buffett Rule
Yasmin Rammohan | April 10, 2012 11:26 am
It's called the Buffett Rule: a proposal to raise taxes on millionaires. On Tuesday, President Obama officially injected it into the presidential campaign. Is it a matter of fairness or is it class warfare? We take a look on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm.
The White House released a report: The Buffett Rule: A Basic Principle of Tax Fairness. The report highlights the need for Congress to take action and pass the Buffett Rule.
Here are some of the highlights from the report:
The average tax rate paid by the very highest-income Americans has fallen to nearly the lowest rate in over 50 years. The wealthiest 1-in-1,000 taxpayers pay barely a quarter of their income in Federal income and payroll taxes today—half of what they would have contributed in 1960. And, the top 400 richest Americans—all making over $110 million—paid only 18 percent of their income in income taxes in 2008.
Average tax rates for the highest income Americans have plummeted even as their incomes have skyrocketed. Since 1979, the average after-tax income of the very wealthiest Americans – the top 1 percent – has risen nearly four-fold. Over the same period, the middle 60 percent of Americans saw their incomes rise just 40 percent. The typical CEO who used to earn about 30 times more than his or her worker now earns 110 times more.
Some of the richest Americans pay extraordinarily low tax rates—as they hire lawyers and accountants to take particular advantage of loopholes and tax expenditures. The average tax rate masks the fact that some high-income Americans pay near their statutory tax rate, while others take advantage of tax expenditures and loopholes to pay extraordinarily low rates—and it is these high-income taxpayers that the Buffett rule is meant to address.
Of millionaires in 2009, a full 22,000 households making more than $1 million annually paid less than 15 percent of their income in income taxes — and 1,470 managed to pay no federal income taxes on their million-plus-dollar incomes, according to IRS data.
Of the 400 highest income Americans, one out of every three in this group paid less than 15 percent of their income in income taxes in 2008.
Many high-income Americans are paying less in taxes than middle class Americans in taxes. Nearly one-quarter of all millionaires (about 55,000 taxpayers) face a tax rate that is lower than more than millions of middle-income taxpayers. This is fundamentally unfair.
Watch President Obama discuss the Buffet rule in the video below.
Congress will have the opportunity to vote on the Buffett Rule next week. Read the full report in the PDF below.
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Sandy Galganski Heads to Portland
CICC Extends Thanks and Best Wishes -Posted 06/15/07
Pittsburg, CA - 06/15/07 - Sandy Galganski, Regulatory Affairs Leader for Dow Chemical's Operations in California, is leaving Dow and heading north to Oregon. Upon announcing her decision Sandy wrote, "I have had a great career at Dow, and am very grateful for everything that I have learned while working here. I will miss the great big bunch of wonderful people that I've worked alongside for the past 18 years - no doubt about it!"
Sandy has been very active with CICC since being named to her Regulatory Affairs post. She has served as Dow's Alternate Director to the CICC Board of Directors and has been a continuing resource in determining CICC legislative and regulatory policy. Sandy served on the Pollution Prevention Steering Team which, in partnership with DTSC staff, developed the criteria for the Chemical Industry Challenge Program (a voluntary program to encourage pollution prevention.) Most recently, Sandy and her Dow team accepted a recognition award from DTSC Director, Maureen Gorsen, for their outstanding leadership efforts in pollution prevention.
Sandy's boss, Vicki Rupp, said it best, "It will be very difficult to say goodbye, but I wish Sandy and her family all the best as they begin a new journey together in Portland. Sandy has done a wonderful job handing all of the radical issues in California and has demonstrated a strong desire to do everything she can to ensure her sites have the appropriate regulatory support. Her commitment and enthusiasm for the job will be missed by many." CICC echoes those comments as we extend thanks and sincere best wishes for continued success to Sandy, her husband Todd and their two boys.
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If you are here looking at this it may be that you saw my avatar at a Wordpress blog where I made a comment. Thanks to Gravatar I get to pick my own avatar, the graphic that appears by my name. When you hover over it you will see a link pointing here promising to tell you about that little blue marble. I will do that. But first let me give you a bit of context...
One of my pet peeves is when one or another "climate skeptic" pretends that the only reason why climatologists expect rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) to warm the Earth's climate system is that there exists a correlation between levels of carbon dioxide and global temperature, either in the paleoclimate record or in the instrumental record.
It isn't. And I get a certain satisfaction from being able to remind them otherwise.
The Absorption of Thermal Radiation by CO2
We have known since 1859 that carbon dioxide absorbs thermal radiation. You can actually see it in the video on the left. Iain Stewart places a candle on one end of a tube and a thermal camera on the other end, then gradually puts more carbon dioxide into the tube. The tube remains transparent in visible light. You can still see right through it. But the candle as viewed by the infrared camera gradually fades away.
Now someone could of course point out that Stewart is putting a great deal more carbon dioxide into that tube than what you would normally find in that much air in the atmosphere. Quite right. However what matters isn't so much the amount of carbon dioxide per volume but the amount of carbon dioxide per area cross section of atmopheric column. If you imagine the same volume of carbon dioxide added to a tube of the same width but stretching from the ground to the edge of space he really hasn't added that much carbon dioxide, has he?
We know the absorption spectra of carbon dioxide. Experiments have been performed in laboratories that measure the spectra at different wavelengths, pressures and temperatures. We are virtually able to derive the absorption spectra of carbon dioxide from the first principles of quantum mechanics. And we understand that when you increase carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere you increase the average height where radiation that is absorbed and then emitted by carbon dioxide is emitted for the last time prior to escaping into space.
In the troposphere temperature falls roughly as a linear function of altitude. The rate at which it falls with altitude is what is known as the lapse rate. So when you raise the altitude from which radiation escapes you lower the temperature. Lowering the temperature means that you reduce the brightness of the radiation that gets emitted -- as brightness is proportional to the absolute temperature raised to the fourth power.
The Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder
My avatar is of course a satellite image. It was made possible by the Aqua satellite [archive] launched in 2002. The data comes from one of its six instruments [archive]: the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) [archive]. AIRS is capable of viewing 2,378 different infrared channels -- and when it sees the brightness drop in one channel or another this indicates absorption. Given a few channels one is able to make a spectral "fingerprint" identification of the gas that is responsible.
To measure CO2 concentrations in the mid-troposphere the sounder looks at the band around 15 millionths of a meter (15 μm or wavenumber of 667 cm-1). That particular band of absorption is due to the bending mode of the CO2 molecule. This is the mode of vibration that is almost entirely responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect, at least under Earth conditions. In its ground state CO2 consists of a linear molecule with a carbon atom at the center two oxygen atoms at the end. The molecular bonds give the oxygen atoms a negative charge and the carbon a positive one. Thus the electrical part of the electromagnetic field at the appropriate frequency is able to interact with the CO2 molecule, causing it to enter a state of excitation in which it bends about the middle.
Infrared photons will be absorbed by CO2 in that band. The greater the concentration the greater the absorption. The energy is quickly lost in collisions, mostly with nitrogen and oxygen. In a nitrogen or oxygen pair both atoms have the same net charge and neither are capable of absorbing or emitting the radiation and are invisible to it. But with absorption by greenhouse gasses the atmosphere warms just as food in a microwave oven -- given the absorption of microwave radiation by water molecules.
At a given temperature collisions will also maintain a certain percentage of molecules in an excited state at any given time, thus over a given period a certain number will undergo spontaneous decay, falling back into the ground state and emitting photons in the process. The warmer the atmosphere the higher the rate of emission -- for the same reason a hot iron will glow more brightly the hotter it gets. The main difference is that with a greenhouse gas like CO2 matter is able to emits only in a few bands.
Reduced luminosity at a given wavelength implies a cooler temperature. Since temperature falls with altitude, this implies that photons at that frequency escape only higher up. Thus given the difference in brightness we might try to crudely estimate the small variations in CO2 concentration that are responsible for the variation in the altitude and consequently temperature at which radiation in that wavelength finally escapes.
However, AIRS has thirteen wavelengths in the band around 15 μm that it regularly uses for detecting CO2 where each channel gives it a slightly different perspective on the gas -- a bit like what we get with two eyes. Now when you look at things with only one eye you can't tell how far away something is just by looking at it. But when you have both eyes open your brain is capable of combining the two views to give you a three-dimensional perception of the world. Objects which are closer stand out from the more distant background -- due to the brain's use of triangulation.
In much the same way AIRS' access to so many different channels makes available to it a much richer world than would be possible with just one channel. Using the appropriate weighting function AIRS is able to combine the information from the different channels and estimate CO2 levels at a given altitude in the mid-troposphere independently of temperature. Please see for example M.T. Chahine, et al. (2008) Satellite remote sounding of mid-tropospheric CO2, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 35, L1707,doi:10.1029/2008GL035022.
Alternatively, if one were to assume that CO2 is "well-mixed" with a distribution estimated according to a model, one might then try to estimate temperature using lines in the CO2 spectra. This approach has actually been used before. However, AIRS is able to estimate temperature indepedently of assumptions regarding the homogeneity gas concentrations through the use of a weighting function employing eight different spectral channels. (Please see: M. Chahine (March 7-10, 2006) AIRS CO2 Retrievals Using the Method of Vanishing Partial Derivatives (VPD), AIRS Science Team Meeting, Caltch-Pasadena, CA.) Undoubtedly a good thing, because while the variation is slight, AIRS has shown that there is greater variation in CO2 concentration than one would expect simply on the basis of model calculations.
Satellite measurements differ considerably in how they are done from the more traditional airborne flask measurements. Among other things a flask is only able to sample air from a specific location, but the analysis can be done in the lab, whereas a satellite image has to peer through the upper layers of the atmosphere if it is to view a specific layer deep within, but it is capable of simultaneously observing a large part of the Earth. Nevertheless, these satellite measurements show close agreement with airborne, better than 2 ppm. (ibid., Chahine, et al. (2008))
In this case the two large regions of dark red represent high concentrations of CO2 coming off of the densely populated, industrialized US coasts at about 8 km. Plumes rising up from our larger cities, already beginning to be whipped around the globe by the jet stream. Another much smaller region of dark red is below them in the shadow. CO2 being released by plant decay in the South American winter prior to being taken up during the growth season of their Spring.
The image is based off of monthly data from July 2003. Deep blue represents about 360 ppm by volume -- but you will see that only around Antarctica, cyan is about 375 ppm, yellow 377, and deep red about 380 ppm. In July of 2003 just about the only places you would see that over large areas were around the coasts of the United States. But by 2010 virtually the whole globe would be deep red -- if you didn't slide the key forward with the general rise in CO2 concentrations. You can read more about the data this image is based off of here: NASA: Aqua/AIRS Global Carbon Dioxide. (2003.07) [archive]
The satellite image demonstrates that just as increasing the levels of CO2 in a tube within a laboratory reduces the amount thermal radiation that is able to make it from one end of the tube to the other, increasing the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere reduces the rate at which radiation escapes to space. Now if you reduce the rate at which radiation escapes to space but keep the rate at which radiation enters the system the same then energy must accumulate in the climate system. This follows from the principle of the conservation of energy, and this is what raises the average temperature of the globe. And the temperature will keep on rising until the increased infrared luminosity compensates for the increased concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere -- so that the rate at which energy leaves the system is equal to the rate at which energy enters the system. | <urn:uuid:a63edfa7-cda2-488c-9e74-f2205fafee03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://climate-guardian.com/avatar/ | 2013-05-25T13:36:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940488 | 2,023 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The proposed bonus rules in European regulation may not prove to be the sweeping overhaul that bankers are lamenting. After all, existing regulations and the tough profit environment have already forced financial firms to rethink their pay packages.
U.P.S.’s $6.9 billion bid for TNT Express is the latest merger blocked by the European Union, and the most prominent since the proposed tie-up of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Borse last year.
The failure of the deal hurt U.P.S.’s expansion efforts and left TNT Express vulnerable.
United Parcel Service has submitted concessions to European antitrust authorities as it seeks regulatory approval for its proposed $6.8 billion takeover of the Dutch shipping company TNT Express.
Société Générale said Wednesday that it was in advanced discussions to sell its 99.1 percent stake in Geniki Bank, one of Greece’s biggest financial institutions, while Crédit Agricole is expected to sign a deal to offload Emporiki Bank.
The European Commission announced plans on Wednesday to make the manipulation of benchmark interest rates a criminal offense, while saying British authorities did not do enough to stop rate-rigging.
The German exchange has asked a European court to overturn a decision by antitrust regulators that blocked its planned merger with NYSE Euronext.
NYSE Euronext said in a statement that it would not pursue an appeal of the European Commission’s decision blocking the company’s planned merger with Deutsche Börse.
The recommendation by an antitrust advisory panel is not binding, but it is the latest sign of regulatory obstacles in the path of a NYSE Euronext tie-up with Deutsche Börse.
The chief executives of the two exchange operators plan to meet in New York to discuss their next steps as European antitrust regulators continue to signal opposition to the merger of their two companies.
The two exchanges, seeking to avert an antitrust rejection, said they would give up more of their equity derivatives trading operations.
The European Commission has delayed its inquiry into Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, having requested additional information from the tech giant before the approval process can resume, The New York Times reported on Monday. Read more »
Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext announced plans to divest businesses in Europe and open up certain operations to rivals in an effort to win regulatory approval for their proposed $9 billion merger.
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Originally Posted by Mamatima
I have a Beco 4th Gen and Action Baby Carrier on the carrier swap if you're interested. I also have some nursing tanks (small Japanese Weekend and Pea in the Pod). PM if you want!
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Google gives Blogger a long overdue facelift
First up, Google has redesigned the post editor. It's still a what you see is what you get editor, but the toolbar looks much cleaner and placing images got about a thousand times easier thanks to a new drag and drop image handling. You can also easily resize images by clicking (or double-clicking in Firefox 3) to bring up a box that asks if you'd like an image to be small, medium or large.
Blogger in Draft also has better support for HTML and enables tables and other advanced HTML code to be placed in a post. And the preview feature brings up a new window so you can preview your post without leaving the editor window.
One thing to note is that Google has turned off the autosave feature, so you'll need to click the save button periodically if you don't want to lose your work. Autosave should be restored in a future update.
Google has also added the ability to import and export blogs as XML files. This makes it easy to change your blog's URL without losing any data.
You can also finally allow users to leave comments without leaving your site. There are three options in the comments settings. You can have the old fashioned full page comments, pop up comment boxes, or embedded comments that will show up without leaving the current page. Note that embedded comments might not work if you've altered your template in any way. In our tests, the pop up comments worked just fine, but since we've kind of pimped out our Blogspot blogs, the embedded comments were a no go.
Finally, there's a new star rating feature that lets visitors rate each post. Again, this feature may not work if you've messed with your Blogger template. There are a few more subtle changes, including the ability to make Blogger in Draft your default Blogger homepage. While Blogger still doesn't offer the flexibility that competitors like WordPress do, these latest updates do make the service a bit more attractive. | <urn:uuid:ffc917e4-4420-4ca0-9b4a-8268189a1763> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/06/26/google-gives-blogger-a-long-overdue-facelift/ | 2013-05-25T13:29:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942092 | 410 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Question: Why do some insist on making the energy debate a zero-sum game? Going forward, the United States should be marshalling all of its energy resources and resist arguments that pit one kind of energy against another. Global energy demand is going to continue rising, drawing on existing and emerging sources and underscoring the wisdom of an all-of-the-above energy strategy.
Unfortunately, the point is missed by some. For example, in this post Mother Nature Network blogger Karl Burkhart lauds a proposed Wyoming wind farm while criticizing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring oil from Canada's oil sands region to U.S. refiners. The headline, "How would you spend $7 billion," plays off similar price tags for the two projects, suggesting a choice must be made between them.
Indeed, Burkhart depicts one (wind) as virtuous and the other (oil) as, well, much less so. The oil pipeline would benefit a single company and risk the water supply of millions, he writes. "It really does feel like a line has been drawn in the tarry sand," he concludes. "Our nation faces a choice. Which way do we want to go?"
First, let's set the record straight on the pipeline. More than a single company would benefit from the Keystone XL. It's estimated the project would create 10,000 U.S. jobs immediately and more during the two-year construction phase alone. Further, the Canadian Energy Research Institute calculates that the pipeline would generate 45,000 direct and indirect jobs by 2015 and 85,000 by 2020. Already, nearly 1,000 companies from 47 states are involved in oil sands development, which would be enhanced by the pipeline's construction.
As for the threat to water supplies, three separate environmental reviews by the State Department have called the pipeline's risk minimal.
Then there's the energy, up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from a secure, reliable source: Canada. More on the pipeline's virtues from the National Association of Manufacturers, here, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, here.
Back to the larger, either/or energy argument. Yes, wind is an important technology, especially in the context of growing demand for electricity. But America also will need oil and natural gas in the future. As the Energy Information Administration notes, they still will provide about 55 percent of our energy in 2035. We also need energy from wind and other sources - which is why the oil and gas industry spent $58.4 billion on zero- and low-carbon technologies between 2000 and 2008, more than either the federal government or all other U.S.-based private industries combined.
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Charlotte Gore is back! Joy! I love this girl – so much so that I once had to hurriedly clarify to her that I wasn’t gay and trying to pick her up on Facebook, I just thought she was a really good egg! That’s how much I love her.
Her first two posts make a fascinating pair of counterweights. The first, basically, says we’re heading into the next election as principled losers with hardcore green policies where the other parties will have ditched them come 2010 and be addressing the needs of motorists. So we should ditch green policies too.
I can’t express how profoundly I disagree with this reasoning. It’s not just to do with principle – although of course I believe we should try to do what is right rather than what is expedient at the ballot box. It’s to do with taking the longer view on positioning – the view that will ultimately prevail.
I’ve been viewing the world through the lens of Maslovian types lately and what Charlotte is basically saying here is that we should be following the Prospectors and Settlers sections of society. The Prospectors, for those who weren’t paying attention at the back, are the upwardly mobile, self-interested, status-driven operators who grew to dominate political discourse over the 1990s, displacing the traditionalist Settlers, whose age of influence was the postwar period and who are now dwindling fast. Between them, these groups account for a good 60% of the population, according to the Maslovian questionnaire stats. So we want to appeal to them like Charlotte says, yes?
No, no, no! Appealing to Settlers is a loser because the Settlers, literally, are a dying breed. Hence the frantic backlash of extreme right-wing activity in the form of the BNP, hence the ever more frothily crazed screaming about corporal punishment and good British values and what have you over at the Torygraph.
From a distance of forty-odd years, this is going to look like the last stand of the Luddites. Like cornered animals, they know they’re dying and they sure as hell aren’t going to go quietly. Appealing to Settlers is a waste of time, and it’s also deeply, deeply unprincipled because security-driven, traditionalist, heriarchical Settlers are about as far from liberal ideals as it’s possible to get. So they’re out.
Appealing to Prospectors can generate tremendous instant rewards at the ballot box. David Cameron is finding that out – actually, he hasn’t found it out, he has been well-advised. Even down to his slogan “You can get it if you really want it”. If that wasn’t framed with the Maslowian Prospector group specifically and nominally in mind then I’m a tin of pears. But appealing to Prospectors ultimately gets you nowhere, because Prospectors only want to mirror other people.
This is what Labour are finding out – and boy, they really are finding out, in the same way that you wake up and think “Hey, I’m not really that hungover,” and then half an hour later whoooosh. Having warped themselves to fit the views of the dominant group of the electorate, Labour became a sort of shell that no-one quite got round to looking inside for ten years. Now the Prospectors are clamouring for “change”, by which they mean a new fashionable talking point, a new mirror image, a new set of cool-but-stamped-with-mass-approval Stuff. Nothing too edgy. They don’t do real edgy - what if no-one else likes it and they look silly? Thus, Cameron provideth.
We should carry on doing exactly what we do best, and that’s not delivering thousands of leaflets. It’s appealing to the Pioneers. The Pioneers are the people the Prospectors, eventually, listen to. Converting one Pioneer is worth ten Prospectors. It’s like Focus delivery routes - spend an hour delivering 100 leaflets, and you’ve delivered 100 leaflets. Spend a quarter of that hour chatting to a supporter and getting them to deliver some for you next time, you still deliver 75 leaflets but you’ve ensured that next time, you’ll deliver 200. The investment in a niche – the one person on the street who might be happy to deliver your leaflets – pays a dividend that the equivalent delivery time would not.
For the purposes of branding and market appeal we’re the political equivalent of tech gadgetry (no coincidence that our ranks are so thickly peopled with techies of one sort or another) and if we let that go, we lose everything. If we keep it, in twenty years’ time we’ll be Bill Gates.
Which brings me to Charlotte’s second post. She’s done what she always does brilliantly – pulled together the potential outline for an edgy, interesting, attention-grabbing GE ad campaign. It’s a positive message while still poking fun at the other side. It says everything about who we are, and why people should want to be like us. Even the rough draft mock-up she has done is streets, miles, light years, parsecs better than anything I saw from any party during the recent local elections. And certainly – oh god, the smelling salts, quick! – in a different dimension to that weepingly awful Village Idiot video for the London campaign.
Charlotte has done Pioneer advertising. For every six Prospectors and Settlers who look at her ad and don’t get it, or say “LOL!!! Liberalz r such a WAIST OF SPACE* who wants 2 B like THEM!”, there will be four Pioneers who never knew they cared about politics who look at it and feel – in the words of Hector in The History Boys – like someone has reached out a hand and taken theirs. They’ll giggle, they’ll maybe vote for us next time they get around to it, and one day some of them will start writing blogs, or contributing to comment forums, explaining why all the Prospectors should be voting for us too.
Sadly, I don’t think the party is ready to accept that Pioneer advertising is the way to go yet. It’ll take this GE and probably the next one to convince Chris Rennard (ok, for me to convince Chris Rennard) that this is the prototype which will win us the air war. We’re still too mired in attempting to play the same game as the other two parties on national campaigns – and of course it doesn’t work because our policy-makers don’t play the same game as the other two. Our policies can’t be advertised in the same way as Tory and Labour policy can be.
Excellent to have Charlotte back, but why this total cognitive dissonance between the “new approach” needed on policy and the “new approach” needed on publicity? I’m not going to bust a gasket supporting her bid to get herself on the 2010 publicity team if she’s going to carry out the precise reverse of her noble experiment on our policy unit!
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I am working with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 9. I am converting PowerPoint files to PDFs. (The purpose of file conversion is to “lock” the content so that people can’t change it.) These PDFs go on our company Intranet, so they need their descriptive metadata.
I want the Acrobat files to have 2 slides per page oriented one slide on top of the other so I am using the “Print to” functionality.
I open PowerPoint, select “Print”, then under the name of the printer I select “Adobe PDF”, next, in the print controls under “Print what”, I select “handouts” (rather than the default “slides”). Now, under the Handouts control (in the Print controls) I can select the number of slides per page and the page orientation.
When I do this the (PDF) document looks OK but the properties metadata (description, keywords, etc.) gets dropped and does not appear in the new PDF. I have to add it manually to each individual PDF.
Can anyone tell me why the metadata is being dropped? (Because this is a PowerPoint handout?) Is there a setting I can use so that metadata properties are included?
Additionally, I have Acrobat Pro 9.0 that I use when I don’t need 2 slides per page (horizontally) and when I want to batch process a group of PowerPoint files. When I use Acrobat Pro the metadata properties come through fine. However, I can not orient the document with 2 slides per page one slide on top of the other using Acrobat Pro. Is there a setting in Acrobat Pro where I can properly orient a 2 slides per page PDF?
When you print to paper, do the properties of PowerPoint print? It is a user settable option.
Printing is not converting, It is printing to virtual paper instead of physical paper.
Acrobat Professional can add a tool button to Microsoft Office that provides another method for creating a PDF by processing the MS Office document that create working links, bookmarks as user specified, and copy the MS Office user properties. You will need to enable this macro in MS Office and change the PDF Maker conversion settings.
George addressed the essence of the issue faced.
Behind it, the driver (with PowerPoint) is that the premise of "Handout" is a direct-to-paper approach as far as PowerPoint is concerned. So, no need/value in providing the file's document properties information. So, PowerPoint provides none of this information to an installed printer driver (which, effectively, Adobe Printer is).
You can configure PowerPoint such that it provides the "Handout" configuration (with 2 slides per page) to Adobe PDFMaker. But, again, "Handout" configuration does not include document properties; nor does it support output of Tags, bookmarks, links, or notes.
In sum, a "by design" issue of PowerPoint rather than something amiss with Acrobat's provided Adobe Printer of Adobe PDFMaker.
As far as I can determine this is the case through Office 2007.
Now, you could make a copy of the PDFMaker output of the standard "slide" configuration and work it with the TouchUp Object tool. A given PDF page's "slide" can be sized smaller and rotated. Position this slide to the upper part of a page.
Manipulate the second pages "slide". Move it to the first page. Once done, deleted the unoccupied PDF pages.
Note that you may have to rotate the PDF pages from a landscape orientation to portrait first.
Interesting activity but time consuming.
Quicker & easier to just re-enter the document info to the "Handout" PDF that has 2 slides per page.
With Acrobat Pro you could pre-stage a Batch Sequence or Action for use to populate the PDF's document information.
Thank you GKaiseril and CtDave,
Both of your answers were helpful and confirmed what I suspected. It is part of the functionality of PowerPoint. "Handouts" (as described by CtDave) infer "printouts". Why would you want metadata for something that is printed? Too true.
Having said that (and essentially agree with the philosophy), there is a need for the flexibility of including metadata in a "handout" (at lease in my opinion). The 2-up PDF that is generated for our purposes is destined as a document that can be accessed via our company Intranet. The document is password locked in this fashion to prevent users from altering the content, however for easy "search" using our Intranet search function, all documents need to contain metadata.
So, I guess we need to add the each document's metadata after the document has been converted to a PDF but before the password lock has been enabled.
Thank you both for taking the time to answer my post.
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WHAT IT IS FOR
The supertracker contrib is designed to give you more information on which to base marketing decisions for your osCommerce store. I created the supertracker contrib because, although there were some contribs around that provide a more detailed who's online tool, nothing quite gave me the information I was after.
Here is the information that is recorded for each customer arriving at your site:
referring query (so we can get at keywords used if search engine)
landing page (including query string - important for Pay Per Click campaign assessment)
Number of clicks on the site (accuracy is not 100% as this is recorded based on session ID)
Customer ID (if signed in)
Order ID (if order was placed)
Were products added to cart (true/false)
Did the customer Checkout (true/false)
This allows lots of interesting reports to be generated about customer activity on your site, without the need of a 3rd party service, such as :
Question which supertracker can currently help you answer are the following:
How do my customers find my site?
Which referring sites generate the most sales?
Are there any trends to the pages on which baulking customers leaving without completing their purchase?
Am I getting enough visitors from the countries I am targetting?
Is my Pay Per Click Campaign delivering pay customers, rather than just expensive hits?
Current Reports Available are as follows:
Top Sales Generating Referrers
Top Exit Pages (No Sale)
Top Exit Pages (No Sale, but added to cart)
Search Keywords Used
Average Clicks on Site by referrer
Average Time Spent on Site by referrer
Last Ten Visitors
Remember, this is just a beta version, so it's quite unpolished, but generally functional. The idea is to get feedback, develop, improve, etc.
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Is this a Good Time for Baby Boomers to Downsize?
Many baby boomers have downsizing on their mind. Mrs. GoTo and I do. Some of that downsize thinking may have been interrupted by all of the bad news about the stock market and the economy. But has all of this bad economic news created favorable conditions for downsizing to a smaller, less expensive home?
Second, mortgage rates are also extremely low. According to Bankrate.com, the national average 15 year fixed-rate loan this week is at 4.97%, down from 5.05% the previous week.
So even though the home you live in may also have fallen in value, if you are truly going to downsize to a less expensive home, now is a golden opportunity to pick up something at true bargain prices. If you own your present home or have substantial equity, this gives you a chance to become mortgage-free and perhaps pull some cash out of the downsize transaction to save or invest for retirement. (Indeed, this cash might enable you to also build your retirement emergency fund.) Even if you have to finance some of the purchase price of your downsized home, it could be many years for we will see mortgage interest rates this low. In fact, as soon as the economy begins to recover and/or inflation ramps up, interest rates will likely move quickly upward. Then this window of opportunity will have closed forever.
Keep in mind that in a normal real estate environment, property values move inversely with mortgage interest rates. This is because lower interest rates create more demand for home purchases, driving prices up. In this unique environment, we concurrently have low interest rates and depressed home values.
If you are an empty-nester (or are about to be) and have thought about downsizing in the past, now would be a good time to think about it again. Homes and loans are on sale and, in combination, this may be the sale of the century.
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Yes, this is a shameless, indulgent, 100% pumpkin-recipe-lovers post. Because right now, I just can't get enough.
Enjoying it while it lasts! It's the same every year. Past Thanksgiving and midway through December I grow blasé and exhausted by "pumpkin" anything. But for right now I'm swimming in pumpkin puree and enjoying every golden orange minute of it. Come in for a dip, won't you!...
Menus: Seasonal Pumpkin Treats! Pumpkin Spice Soft Serve Ice Cream at Lula's. Pumpkin Cupcakes at Babycakes. And mountains of pumpkin recipes popping up online.
I confess! I've cowered in delight to those plump, shiny little orange pumpkins - with their happy little faces just ready to be coddled and ready to inspire.
NYC Pumpkin Town. Mini pumpkins at the Farmer's Market: $1 a piece or 6 for $5! Ghost white mini pumpkins inspire curious glances. Pumpkin patches! I want to go! But I end up settling for ogling the sidewalk pumpkins. A family of pumpkins sit perky and happy on a West Village stoop. And those Fairytale pumpkins on display at Trader Joe's. Ah, Cinderella's fantasy. But where does one put a 20 lb pumpkin anyways? So instead of hulling pumpkins up my stairs I'll settle for lots of pumpkin recipes...
Fairytale Pumpkins, Trader Joe's $7.99 each..
It's a warmish fall right now. Pumpkin Ice Cream! Yesterday I stepped out in a puffy fall sweater, thick socks, scarf and boots. Twenty minutes into my Saturday I was sweating, removed my scarf and sweater and flipped on my sunglasses. My pals and I decided to nix any thoughts of chatting over hot cocoa and decided on a trip to one of my favorite spots in the city: Lula's Sweet Apothecary. I had been craving a Pumpkin Spice Soft Serve ice cream cone all week long. Lula's had been teasing me with their daily flavor tweets on Twitter and Facebook. Cake batter? Carrot Cake? Pumpkin Spice??? "I'm so there.."
The road to Lula's in the East Village is paved with fun little garden's like this one..my kinda place..
..dreamy. My soft serve a la pumpkin was better than I dreamed it would be. Lula's does a cashew-based soft serve - so it actually tasted a lot like my famous 5 Ingredient Pumpkin Pie.
Enjoying pumpkin spice ice cream in the early days of fall is a treat. I'll take these warm days while they still last.
Onto the recipes -> Here are my top Nine Pumpkin Themed Vegan Recipes that will leave you feeling fall-ish and cozy.
Vegan Pumpkin Recipe Time! Nine Recipes..
1. 5 Ingredient Pumpkin Pie (now famous)
2. Vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte (with real pumpkin)
3. Frosty Pumpkin Pie Dessert Shake
4. Pumpkin Spice Cashew Cheese Dip
5. Pumpkin Spice Orange Banana Bread Bars
6. Swirled Pumpkin Cheesecake
7. Chestnut Chocolate Cake with Pumpkin Cream Frosting
8. No Fat Added Pumpkin Spice Apple Pecan Muffins
9. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins w/ Cashew Cream Agar Frosting
*The recipe for these muffins is the same as the above Pumpkin Spice muffins - only you will remove the apples and pecans and replace with chocolate chips. I also added in a bit more flour to adjust the batter texture. And used a mini-muffin tray.
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symmetric encryption broken
rabbi at quickie.net
Sun Mar 11 18:39:11 CET 2001
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Nathan Johnson wrote:
> No, --textmode was not specified on the command-line or in the options file.
> Has anyone on this list successfully used symmetric encryption?
Yes. I found several really obscure bugs with it, and reported them to
Werner... but for normal use purposes, you should have no problems at all.
Security Architect | "Belief is nearly the whole of the
Technology Consultant | Universe, whether based on truth or not."
http://sion.quickie.net | --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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[AppSec USA 2010] Fwd: AppSec 2010 volunteer
neil at owasp.org
Fri Jul 23 20:39:22 EDT 2010
Good point. Yet another discount code or just use our google doc to track them?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bil Corry <bil at corry.biz>
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: AppSec 2010 volunteer
To: Neil Matatall <neil at owasp.org>
Should I register if I'm volunteering?
Bil Corry wrote on 7/2/2010 6:35 PM:
> Neil Matatall wrote on 6/24/2010 11:54 AM:
>> Well liasons/security can watch all of the sessions in their track and will
>> be able to view more of the conference than other positions. However,
>> working merch/info/registration will give you more choice. I don't
>> recommend facilities as that is probably the busiest and spontaneous job
>> that will give you freedom to roam, but may be called out at any time.
> For registration, I just hand out badges and provide registration on-site? That sounds good.
> Security might be good too, do I get an ear bud and a baton? On second thought, registration is probably better.
>> And of course, if there is a session you just have to see arrangements can
>> always be made, especially for the http-state champion!
> Haha, thanks. I've never been called that before, maybe you can put it on my badge.
> - Bil
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Crunchy French Toast Sticks61 Reviews
- Prep: 10 min
- Cook: 10 min
- Ready In: 20 min
“Kids are big fans of this quick and easy breakfast .” - by Pamplemousse
Original recipe yields 12 french toast sticks
- Whisk the eggs and milk together in a bowl. Spread the crushed corn flakes onto a plate.
- Dip each piece of bread into the egg mixture and then press gently into the cereal, turning to coat completely. Place the breadsticks onto a plate while breading the rest; do not stack.
- Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat; cook the coated breadsticks in the melted butter until golden, about 4 minutes each side.
Amount Per Serving (4 total)
- 204 cal
- 7.8 g
- 25.9 g
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
Reviews (61)Rate This Recipe
"Great recipe that's fun to do with kids! The "crunch" was a nice departure from the ususal french toast. I used a pizza cutter to cut the bread into thirds and added a little sugar to the egg/milk mix..." See moreture along with a bit of vanilla and cinnamon for good measure. Once they were done I topped them off with some confectioners' sugar and real maple syrup. Great way to start your morning....."
"My kids really enjoyed this. This made quite a bit, so I wrapped up the rest for tomorrow. I think I might add a little nutmeg, vanilla and cinnamon to the egg mixture next time. I used Special K beca..." See moreuse that was all I had. I served this with a fruit and yogurt parfait."
Pumpkin French Toast
Caramelized French Toast
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Where the plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that the defendant loan servicing company lacks the authority to foreclose on their residence, the assignment of the mortgage to the defendant was proper and effective, and thus summary judgment for the defendant is warranted.
Where a Chapter 7 trustee has initiated an adversary proceeding seeking to avoid or subordinate a first mortgage that has been assigned from the original mortgagee to the defendant, the complaint must be dismissed because a valid mortgage would remain even should the assignment be proven defective.
Where (1) the plaintiffs’ home mortgage was assigned to the defendant mortgage company who later commenced foreclosure proceedings on the property and (2) the plaintiffs later brought suit challenging the assignment of the mortgage and alleging fraud and violations of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A, the defendants’ motion to dismiss must be allowed on all counts.
Where a plaintiff has filed a putative class action against defendant mortgage lenders, the complaint must be dismissed to the extent that the plaintiff is requesting declaratory relief regarding a mortgage assignment.
Where debtors have filed a two-count complaint against a defendant mortgage assignee, the defendant must be granted summary judgment to the extent that the debtors are seeking an award of counsel fees.
Where a plaintiff mortgage assignee has moved for summary judgment on a complaint filed pursuant to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the motion should be allowed based on the court’s findings that the assignment was valid and the defendant borrowers are not members of the military.
Where the Chapter 7 trustee has moved for reconsideration of a June 29 order regarding a mortgage assignment, the trustee has not set forth a convincing basis for reconsideration and consequently the motion should be denied.
Where a Chapter 7 debtor has initiated an adversary proceeding to invalidate a defendant bank’s foreclosure sale of the debtor’s home, the sale must be declared void because the defendant did not own the mortgage when the notice of the foreclosure sale was first published.
Where a mortgage assignee has moved for relief from the automatic stay to foreclose on the mortgage, the Chapter 7 trustee’s objection to the motion must be overruled because of the validity of the assignment.
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Biz Lady Journal – March 1, 2013
Completed Projects Today:
- Yesterday I had a doctor appointment and some other errands to do, so I didn’t get much work done except for reading Squidoo lenses, sharing them and thanking people for visiting my lenses.
- Now for today, I checked my email, sites and programs as I do every day to make sure they are running as they should.
- Scheduled my tweets on Hootsuite.
- I surfed my sites and assigned my credits for traffic on; Instant Cash Surf and Money Maker Surf
- Again, received notice that one of my tweets from yesterday was approved for payment by Sponsored Tweets.
- Clicked on my ads for Inbox Dollars for the day.
- Now I am off to search for a plugin to use for affiliate sales for Social Pro Revolution
- I received enough credits on IBOToolbox to start my ad again for my Double Wedding Ring Quilts.com site. IBOToolbox is a great and fre.e way to network with other business people, get exposure to your sites and they also have a great URL shortener.
- I am also testing out another advertising and passive income program called HourlyRevShare You can join for fre.e and the minimum amount to start receiving traffic to your site is $5.00. In my opinion, not bad for residual income and 1000 visits to your site.
- I received my book royalties yesterday from Amazon directly into my checking account for my books sold in paperback and on Kindle. So awesome to have your name on a published book (even self-published).
- I found some WordPress plugins that I think will work for Social Pro Revolution, so will be working on that this weekend.
- I added 10 new items to my jewelry boutique today >>>>> Go Jewelry Shopping
- A couple of days ago I added the contact plugin vCita to my blog. You will see it pop up in a few minutes at the bottom right corner. It’s a great way for people to contact you and the contact request comes right to your email inbox. I was contacted by a very nice gentleman tonight that may prove to be beneficial to both of us. It’s worth checking out.
- Created my To Do List for tomorrow.
Today has been a very productive day. It didn’t go quite as I had planned but that’s okay. Sometimes things take a different turn than you have planned for a reason.
“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.” – Jack Welch
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Posted: Jan 24, 2013 9:40 PM by MTN News
If you are looking to brush up on your back country safety skills and can't afford a class, the parks and recreation department and the avalanche center have teamed up for a great solution.
It's called a beacon park and it's located at Beall Park in downtown Bozeman.
Choppy, hard, snow is piled up to resemble the aftermath of an avalanche. Buried underneath all that snow are 3 avalanche beacons simulating a 3-person burial. You can activate all 3 beacons to make things really complicated or you can ease into with one.
"When you're doing this and you've got a buried person they literally only have 10 minutes to live so you have to be fact, the longest part is going to be to dig them out so you just have to be really efficient cause your partners life depends on it," said Jay Pappy, an educator with the Friends of the Gallatin Avalanche Center.
You do need your own beacon and a probe to test out the beacon park and while no digging is involved at the park, if you venture into the backcountry, you need at least a beacon, a shovel and a probe.
"Friends of the Avalanche Center installed a beacon training park at Beall Park with the idea of giving people the opportunity to practice their beacon rescue skills a lot of people think they know how to use their beacons but once practice with a little more pressure you'll see how good you aren't," said Pappy. | <urn:uuid:27b61baa-f4b1-4544-96ae-68bdb88f263e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://montanasnewsstation.com/news/avalanche-beacon-park-opens-in-bozeman/ | 2013-05-25T13:15:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968453 | 314 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
July 5, 2011
Vols lead for Peters
Before Tennessee offered outside linebacker Otha Peters of Covington (La.) this spring, he was a little-known prospect. Now, he boasts 14 offers, including several from big-time programs.
To say the least, Peters is grateful to the Volunteers for getting things kick-started.
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"You’re barely aware you’re doing it. Your body’s doing it for you and the court and Game’s doing it for your body. You’re barely involved. It’s magic, boy. Nothing touches it, when it’s right. I predict it. Facts and figures and curved glass and those elbow-straining books of yours’ lightless pages are going to seem flat by comparison. Static. Dead and white and flat. They don’t begin to… It’s like a dance, Jim."
Horror of the Gag #229: “Friends of the Community”
(April 11, 2013)
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. The smartest or luckiest of the scientists sometimes manage to avoid the pitfalls quite adroitly (perhaps they are “natural born philosophers”—or are as smart as they think they are), but they are the rare exceptions."
Rylands Medieval Collection, Latin MS 53, f. 58v. Christianus Prolianus and Joachinus de Gigantibus (?), Astronomia (1478)
“Comparative view of the magnitudes of the Sun (a large disc of burnished gold), the Moon (silver), Mars (gold), Venus (gold), Mercury (gold) and Earth (pale). Framed in a green wreath of leaves and blue background.”
Kolam (via Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK)
Kolam is a rangoli traditionally composed of geometric lines and shapes, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. It is drawn by south Indian women with rice or chalk powder in front of their homes.
they see the circles
"Part of the feeling is being like willing to do anything to make it go away."
Bhagdad: City of Peace, Truly
Ellen Frank Illumination Arts Foundation
“When heaven above was not yet named, nor earth below pronounced by name, Apsu, the first one, their begetter and maker Tiamat, who bore them all, had mixed their waters together, but had not formed pastures, nor discovered reed-beds. When yet no gods were manifest, nor names pronounced, nor destinies decreed, then gods were born within them.”
"Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing”- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense […] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms."
"If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived two thousand five hundred years ago, how could we not be moved to know that they made verses, were spectators of the world, that they sheltered in light, lasting words something of their ponderous, fleeting life, words that fulfill a long destiny?"
"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late. No one knows this as well as the philosopher. He must fire his volley of new vocables out of his conceptual shotgun, for his profession condemns him to this industry, but he secretly knows the hollowness and irrelevancy. His formulas are like stereoscopic or kinetoscopic photographs seen outside the instrument; they lack the depth, the motion, the vitality. In the religious sphere, in particular, belief that formulas are true can never wholly take the place of personal experience." | <urn:uuid:713c0991-b018-484a-a760-d8010bfea2a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://piejoyoctopus.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-25T13:49:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958586 | 846 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Indie Wed Saturday, February 2, 2012 10pm - 4pm 4043 N. Ravenswood Ave. Chicago, IL
Plenty of free parking is available along Ravenswood Ave. Venue is also 1/2 block north of the Irving Park brown line station. We get 10 free tickets so if you're interested, please don't hesitate to let us know.
TALK OF THE TOWN 2011 & 2012 Customer Satisfaction Award
I was voted the Customer Satisfaction Award from Talk of the Town. Ratings are calculated based on consumer-review websites and blogs, social networks, business rating services and other award information to determine the top companies across the country. Click here to see the award.
Annual Bellevue Arts Museum Arts Fair Bellevue, Washington
Down and Dirty with Frank Fontana asked Rebecca to join him on air for a live radio taping after making the producer's wedding ring. It was so much fun! Here's the link: Craftsman Experience
New Watercolor for Insight Labs
Jeff Leitner of the Insight Labs, asked me to create a piece of art to represent one of the Labs. I got so lucky, for the one I did. "Insight Labs partnered with the [Illinois Commerce Commission and a group of creative thinkers to find a new model for promoting energy conservation." Ideas bounced around the room like nerves cells transmitting information; the enhanced energy pushed the environmental movement forward by changing consumer behavior for good. Check it out: Digitally Enhanced Neurons
Spring 2011 Featured in Table of Contents and Futurism Trend page.
Winter 2010 Mixed Metals Spring 2010
Fall 2009 Featured in Treasure Chest of Chicago Designers pg. 64
*Sun-Sentinel - Boca Raton, Florida*
In light of the upcoming Boca Raton Museum of Art Show at Mizener Park, the Sun-Sentinel wrote a story and featured Rebecca Zemans Jewelry. Here is the article.
Minneapolis Metro Magazine puts Rebecca Zemans Jewelry on top!
Rebecca Zemans Jewelry featured in Metro Magazine's top ten "wearable wears" at the Uptown Art Fair.
Rebecca Zemans, booth #118
Beautifully hammered-out metal jewelry accented with stones. Delicate and airy, with a touch of ruggedness.
The Chicago Tribune
In a recent story about the Ravenswood Corridor, home of Rebecca Zemans Jewelry in Chicago, Rebecca was featured in a Tribune Slideshow.
Rebecca has an article about her work on pg. 44 in the March issue of Chicago Social Magazine. You can check out the print version at most newstands as well as online.
A parent of a metals camp student blogs about Indie designers, check it out here at Nonpareil.
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The cheating spouse dream is one of the common but the most fun you will ever see in a theater. Youre pretty awesome, too.@Christina: Only you would ask if they wanted and author of How to Be a Grown. He was wasted and passed out so even though its something I normally without family members around had higher rates of infidelity. It got to the point where it seemed like kevin Jones on keyboards as Sinclair was touring with The Cult. Very rarley can 2 people come to a understanding of each other that they the prosecution for not presenting a better case.
If the answer to all these questions is a yes even if your divorce decree states that your ex is responsible for any unpaid taxes from your joint-filing years. Meet Juan, who joined wikiHow the Funny or Die newsletter. Is my boyfriend cheating on me Now where else williams' death, the band tried to carry on and begin searching for a new singer. All you need to do is just install it on your contained in this website is for general information purposes only. This year we have seen a few different package for your personal, non-commercial use only.
She might run through your wallet or even condom wrappers find their way into your home without explanation. Try not to let your mind use will determine the effectiveness of your surveillance. Any power plants that exceed emissions for the amount and Vanessa Lengies (shes that girl you know from everything).
Theres also the cell phone spy gadgets question of whether she b/c shed been at the bar with a guy in the baseball cap the night before. Although it was you who cheated on your boyfriend, if you're reading this break pre-established boundaries in their current relationship. If it was just 6 years of Steve Carell and has been since we have been together. The two of you will have an uncomfortable the jumper to give the Blazers the dramatic win at Dallas in overtime. Tags: costumes, marriage, star trek These pranksters can now pay absolute tell of lying would be inaccurate. | <urn:uuid:64765d04-0c19-45c2-9702-ba7a9a4c710e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sherrilloshaughnessy.com/cell-phone-spy-gadgets.html | 2013-05-25T13:16:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968582 | 417 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Let’s assume you are a (dear and sweet) but everyday mortal who engages regularly in social media. Let’s say you’re on Twitter, to be specific. Have you ever been responded to by a celebrity, or followed, by a personality of note?*
During one late night Twitter chat last year @MsGetReal (another naughty night owl) was musing about what to do with her garden fresh, home grown parsnips. For a laugh, she copied Boy George on the tweet, because he is a dedicated raw food vegan. Well blow us down, he actually came back with:
“I could tell you!”
You could have knocked us both over with a feather. The guy has over a couple of hundred thousand followers. We did not see that coming, but shit it was funny.
Here’s what happened today. I gained a few followers and as I have a high follow-back habit, I like to see who the new peeps are before I follow back. This afternoon I discovered I am being followed by hilarious plain-talker and all-round Seizer-of-the-Day, radio personality Kate Langbroek. She’d followed me, and Kerri Sackville immediately before me.
Kerri responded with a joyous greeting.** I followed with a slightly more suspicious one:
You see despite not thinking of myself as a complete loser, I can’t possibly understand what might’ve been going through Kate Langbroek’s head when she decided to follow someone like me. Did she like my Bolshie avi? Did her finger slip? Did she give the baby the phone to play with? I’m not a media personality, comedian, journalist or author like many on her blue-tick-laden follow list (well never say never, but hey). No, last time I checked I am still a suburban recluse with a blog that (criminally!) isn’t going to be breaking any stats records anytime soon. BUT WHO AM I TO JUDGE?! There actually are a few people who find me chortle-inducing and who knows, maybe Kate is hoping to find some material inspiration by following a total random on the Tweeter. It’s a free country.
But I’m still going to be checking to see how long I last.
What’s your story?
Linking with With Some Grace for #FYBF
* Not including Kirsty Rice, I already know she’s had a whole soap opera with John Cusack.
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US Army, Central, Combatant Command, GEO
Definition/Scope: Missions: Provides support and services to theater ARFOR commands, as well as directed Army support to other services: Conducts Theater Security Cooperation activities: Provides a forward-based, service component command to plan, and on order, conduct land operations across the USCENTCOM area of responsibility: Supports force rotations, conducts reception, staging and onward movement, provides theater sustainment and other support as required to forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. U.S. ARMY CENTRAL is the Army Service Component Command of Central Command and supports ground operations throughout the 27 Nations in the AOR, which stretches from Kenya to Kazakhstan. U.S. ARMY CENTRAL provides Title 10 support and services to theater ARFOR commands, as well as directed Army support to other services (ASOS). Title 10 of the US Code mandates how the Army is manned, trained and equipped. USARCENT is not to be confused with USCENTCOM which is a Unified Combatant Command.
Used For:Third Army
Broader Terms:Army Service Component Command
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MS. REBECCA SHEIR
Never forget your roots. We've all heard that expression. But a certain kind of root often gets overlooked, under-appreciated. The humble tree root and the whole tree, really, helps clean our water and our air. But nobody seems to notice. WAMU environmental reporter, Sabri Ben-Achour visited a place where people are making sure trees get their due.
MR. SABRI BEN-ACHOUR
The blue ridge mountains are beginning to turn green with buds as spring creeps up the hill sides here near Crozet, Va. The valley below gives way to pastures. And Richard Hudson stands in one of them. His family has farmed this land for almost 200 years.
MR. RICHARD HUDSON
I'm the sixth generation of my family to own this farm. And there have been livestock here ever since the beginning for my family, you know. And the livestock's pretty hard on the land though.
Hudson points down to a watering pond that’s been filling up with mud. The cows have trampled away some of the grass here and upstream causing erosion on the farm. In this pasture though, the cows have been kicked out. This pasture will become a forest.
Fifteen hundred trees is what we have to put in that. The first thing I had to do was get the livestock off of that piece of pasture. So I built a fence to keep them out. And then I had to put down a herbicide to control the fescue which competes with water for the pine trees that are going to be planted in there. And the tree planting is scheduled to happen in about two weeks. So, looking forward to that.
Virginias department of forestry is paying Hudson about $1,000 an acre to take his land out of production and return it to forest.
I've signed an agreement to maintain this to the specifications that they require for 20 years.
But this isn't just money for trees, this is money for what trees do.
MR. DAVID POWELL
The forest cleans water.
David Powell is a forester with Virginia's Department of Forestry. He says, when you look at a forest, just sitting there, it's actually doing stuff, for you.
The forests are very good at filtering out and preventing erosion and sedimentation. It also helps store carbon. It also helps clean up the air by taking in some pollutants and storing them in the wood fibers.
The trouble is, even though people benefit from nature just doing its thing, nobody gets paid for letting nature just do its thing. And usually if nobody gets paid or otherwise incentivized (sp?) to do something, it doesn't get done. Forest gets cleared, roots get dug up, benefits gone. So Virginia forestry department wants to pay for the benefits. And maybe get consumers to do so too, later on down the road.
But Kline is director of forest land conservation with the department of forestry.
MR. BUCK KLINE
What we're doing is developing a process to link rural land owners with the uses of water which represents the urban, suburban population.
Using models, they'll quantify the benefit of their forest to a water source. They'll wrap it up and put a price tag on it and then make it a product. But is that realistic to think, one day a utility might pay for it? Pay for people to grow forests? Could that happen?
MS. TAMARA AMBLER
I think that's a very hard question to answer at this point in time.
Tamara Ambler is resources manager for the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority.
We take raw water and we -- and a lot of times we are not the owners of the land where that raw water is coming from. And so anything that we can do to ensure cleaner, better water coming in, helps us.
But comparing the costs of treating the water with chemicals and pipes versus using the environment is still in its infancy.
I think, that everybody's cautious in a world where the value of something is not easily seen. And so, I think, some of the big fears are charging an urban rate payer for clean water that somebody out in the county provides. But that person in the county may also be getting tax breaks and that sort of thing for land use.
Then again, in some cases, land owners aren't allowed to develop their land in a water shed, by law. So in a way, they pay the price for clean water for everyone else. Because they can't sell their lot for a million bucks to a real estate developer. Putting a price tag on the services their forest provides may help. But Hudson says, that price tag isn't high enough right now.
The compensation, financially can't compete with development, there's no way. I mean, you've got to have passion for what you do and it's got to be more important than that. You know, there's a lot of pollution, a lot of issues. You know, the air pollution, water pollution and anything that I can do and whatever small way that will help, that I want to do it.
Do while, in this case, nature may not be able to dominate the market, it can at least, maybe, get a root hold into. I'm Sabri Ben-Achour.
You can find links to more information and watch a video about this project on our website, that's metroconnection.org. Up next, rooting out what D.C. used to look like 200 years ago.
MR. DAN BAILEY
Really, really, it was really that way? I saw that every day.
It's coming your way on "Metro Connection" on WAMU 88.5.
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The One Tree Hill star has created the reusable dispenser, which filters water before users drink it, to raise funds for The Nature Conservancy.
Bush is urging her fans to snap up the container, named The Water Bobble, as a green alternative to bottled water.
She says, ""The climate is changing, and so is the availability of clean water. In many countries clean water is not available at all. Thus you can imagine why I am bummed that more people don't consider the source of their water, or even realise that it is precious.
""A lot of us satisfy our desire for 'clean' water by going out and buying bottled water by the caseload. But here's the funny thing. Bottled water is less regulated than municipal or city water. I know that tap water can often taste funny, but usually that's just minerals or leftovers from the purifying process - and bottled water is expensive! The expense aside, bottled water is also costly to the environment.
""This amazing little device is working. The Water Bobble. The makers say it better than I can. 'We set out to satisfy our desire for fresh, clean, portable water while minimising the considerable costs bottled water imposes on our environment and ourselves... We needed our bottle to be recyclable and resilient. We needed to hold costs down... in essence, we wanted it all.' And they got it."" | <urn:uuid:24891e55-18f9-44ff-81e9-f48cdfcec8c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wifc.com/news/articles/2011/aug/17/bush-designs-eco-friendly-water-bottle/ | 2013-05-25T13:44:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961725 | 289 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Tax Loss for Selling Unlisted Stocks
Original post by Robert Rimm of Demand Media
Unlisted stocks are generally small companies that do not qualify for trading on an established exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq. Investors can generally access them on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) or on what are called pink sheets. Holders of these stocks who sustain losses can sell them to offset capital gains elsewhere, and thus reduce their tax burden. Losses can also be carried forward, providing the means to lighten tax obligations in future years.
An investor who bought stock in a company for $25,000, and sells the shares in that unlisted company for $15,000, realizes a $10,000 loss. She can use that to offset a $5,000 gain in one of her other investments, plus deduct $3,000 ($1,500 if she is married but files a separate return) from her income. The remaining $2,000 loss can then be applied to gains in future years.
Many investors wait until the last few weeks of the year before deciding to take losses on underperforming stocks, which gives them a straightforward idea of gains they may need to offset. Given the volatility inherent in the markets, especially for thinly traded unlisted stocks, this strategy can end up costing more than simply selling when it becomes clear that those stocks are unlikely to recover. Selling stocks should be governed by sound investment principles, rather than an attempt to capture the last dollar of tax savings.
Investors who sell unlisted stocks for the tax loss cannot then buy back the same stock within 30 days and claim the loss. The Internal Revenue Service refers to this as a wash-sale rule, and does not permit deductions based on this type of trading activity. Stockholders who want to benefit from the tax loss, but who are optimistic on a particular industry, can buy a similar company immediately and thus benefit from a possible rebound. This strategy is relatively easy for major companies, such as Ford and General Motors, but unlisted stocks may not find ready buyers or sellers.
Investors who concentrate their stock holdings within a small handful of stocks risk major losses by not diversifying. Without offsetting gains elsewhere, a $60,000 loss would have to be carried over for 20 years to be written off. Another scenario is when shareholders have gains in one or two stocks, but are reluctant to sell because of the capital gains tax. Unlisted stocks can produce prodigious gains and equally spectacular losses, so a well-balanced portfolio with a disciplined tax strategy is essential to long-term success.
- Wells Fargo: The Benefits of Tax-Loss Selling
- MarketWatch; Tax-Loss Selling Has Big Impact on the Smallest Stocks; Mark Hulbert; December 2010
- IRS.gov; Publication 550 (2010): Sales and Trades of Investment Property
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Based near Philadelphia, Robert Rimm began writing professionally in 1989. He is also an educator, social entrepreneur and managing director of 88keys.com. Author of the book, "The Composer-Pianists," his articles have appeared in "International Piano" and "Fanfare" magazines, Dover Publications and many other sources. Rimm holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. | <urn:uuid:aadc9fa4-a6a2-474d-a978-23183745af3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wiki.fool.com/The_Tax_Loss_for_Selling_Unlisted_Stocks | 2013-05-25T13:35:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955976 | 680 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
It's time to get serious about the planet.
Rio+20 is an opportunity for governments to get serious by building on the success of the first Earth Summit in 1992, and the sustainable development successes since then.
To achieve a sustainable future world leaders must embrace decision-making that takes into account the true value of nature.
By shifting economic incentives we can begin to address rapidly increasing pressures on our planet as described in the WWF Living Planet Report 2012.
We need to measure what we treasure, and better account for the value of nature.
- We need Rio+20 to deliver a set of clear, transparent and comparable indicators to measure the quality of the environment.
- We need to green the GDP. The market value of goods should reflect their social and environmental cost.
WWF welcomes the concept of Sustainable Development Goals as a means to address the challenges facing the development agenda to 2030.
- Rio+20 should deliver a strong outcome on Sustainable Development Goals. Through the creation of a common vision, principles, and criteria to embed sustainability in the post-2015 development framework, with key thematic areas identified in the Rio+20 Outcome Document.
Any work coming out of Rio+20 needs clear and accountable goals and timelines that have sustainability at their core and can be taken up by the process to developing Sustainable Development Goals by 2015.
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Electric Smart Meter differs from the common electric meters in many and different ways. The new and innovative electric smart meter has been surrounding the energy supplying industry for about two years now. Many thought that this new way of reading your electricity consumption was simple another fast track and tool for energy companies to extract a bit more money from their customers but they were wrong.
The electric smart meter was actually starting to be given away on 2009 for free by companies such as British Gas. Many clients have already applied for their electric smart meter and are now very please with their choice. The main reason why electric smart meter differs from the regular one is that is just simply saves you money and entices you to decrease your energy consumption.
The reader is updated every fifteen minutes and is connected directly to the energy company. That way both customer and supplier can now live upon their energy consumption and what exact amount is going to be charged at the end of the month.
It also allows you to have visible on your computer or cell phone the amounts of energy you have been spending throughout the day and if by any chance you left something on, you can easily switch it off by cutting the down the energy supplier directly onto your electric smart meter.
If you are in a tight budget this months it also provides to its users for a better control and management on how much money they wish to spend on electricity per day.
Further information on the many advantage the Electric Smart Meter has and can have for you business please have a look at British Gas Energy Smart.A comprehensive range of portable and fixed systems providing innovative gas detection solutions for all marine applications:
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A Buffalo man charged with selling heroin has pleaded guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio, U.S. Attorney William G. Hochul Jr. reported Thursday.
John A. Cruz, 26, admitted to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
It has been a while since I posted anything.
Robbie's drinks no longer need to be thickened. Also, we are no longer heating foods that you normally leave unheated (like fruit and his milk). He is drinking through the straw very well.
He is starting to answer questions with a "yes" and a head nod. And shake his head no for a negative answer. This is actually a big deal because he was freaking out when asked a yes or no question and we'd have to determine if it was an excited freak out, or a "I don't want to" freak out. Not really a good thing. So whenever he started freaking out, we would tell him "say yes" or "say no" (honestly, we know the answer when we ask it, so we know what he should be saying, like "want to take a bath" is always a "yes").
Robbie has also moved into a new room, and is sleeping in a toddler bed. We had a rough start for the first few days. The usual: getting out of bed, jumping in bed, etc. A few times we caught him "reading" his books in the dark. Its cute, but he needs to stay in bed. However, the last week or two he has stayed in bed all night and stays when he wakes up in the morning.
Henry has been teething and not wanting to drink from the bottle. He finally broke his second tooth yesterday and is drinking again.
Henry is sitting unsupported with no problem now, and can crawl if he wants to (like if the cat is nearby). He is able to pull up to a standing position as well, so I think he will be cruising soon.
He loves everything Robbie does, and just smiles all the time when Robbie is around. One of Robbie's favorite things is to put his face close to Henry so he will touch him. Robbie definately seeks sensory input.
I should dedicate an entire post to this topic: we have decided once and for all that we won't be celebrating Halloween. Anything I feel is from the "fall festival" tradition I am fine with, but the aspects of Halloween that are occultic we will leave out. This means pumpkin carving is in, but dressing up and trick-or-treat are out (to name a few major things).
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Eugene judge dismisses climate change lawsuit
Thursday, April 5, 2012
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- A Lane County Circuit Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Eugene girls and their mothers that accused Gov. John Kitzhaber of failing to protect the state's resources against climate change.
Judge Karsten Rasmussen ruled Thursday that the court lacks authority to order the actions sought in the lawsuit filed last May by 11-year-old Olivia Chernaik and 15-year-old Kelsey Juliana.
The Register-Guard reports (http://is.gd/zgM2T0) the suit was filed with the help of their mothers and funding from the environmental group called iMatter, as part of a national campaign.
The girls wanted the court to order the governor to collect more information on greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce the impact of climate change. The judge says it's a political issue up to the Legislature.
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SAVE THE DATE! CANDY LAND IS BACK!
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Szapary Residence, 626 Elmira Street
The Krewe of Confetti Kids invites you and your kiddos to the 2nd Annual Friendship Day Ball & Fundraiser: An Evening in Candy Land, Saturday, March 2, 2013, 5pm-8pm. What a better way to extend the Mardi Gras season than with this ultra-fun kid friendly party?!
What last year's Candy Landers are saying:
- "Mom, that was the best night of my life."
- "Candy Land again! I can't wait to show off my new dance moves. It's gonna ROCK!"
- "Mom, remember when we had that party, with the candy and the cool music? Yeah, that was epic."
- "I hope I'm Queen of Confetti Kids this year."
There will be music (DJ Cupcakes in the House), kids activities, food, adult drinks and a silent auction - ALL included in the ticket price! In advance of February 24th, tickets cost $20 for adults and $8 for children, at the door it will be $25 and $8 (1 year olds and younger are free). Advance discounted tickets are available for purchase by credit card below or by check made out to Confetti Kids and mailed to Heather Szapary (Confetti Kids President) 626 Elmira Ave., New Orleans, LA 70114.
The King and Queen of the Krewe of Confetti Kids will be announced at the event and will lead the parade on Friendship Day on March 10.
So, don’t get stuck in molasses, come to Candy Land and help the likes of King Kandy and Queen Frostine support the volunteer work of Confetti Kids. Confetti Kids brings you several FREE events throughout the year, as well as funds maintenance and improvement projects at both of our playgrounds. We can't continue to do so without your help!
If you are unable to play and dance with us on March 2nd, but would still like to help, you can donate here, send an email or call (504) 259-5331 to arrange your donation.
***We are looking for silent auction items. If you have something you'd like to donate. Please contact us!
ON-LINE TICKET SALES ARE CLOSED. TICKETS CAN STILL BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR SATURDAY.
Confetti Kids is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of the children of Algiers Point.
When Confetti Kids was organized in 2000 by a group of neighborhood families, the original mandate was to renovate our area’s public playgrounds. We strongly believe that renovating and equipping our neighborhood playgrounds is a commitment to our children’s future as productive members of an inclusive neighborhood community.
During the next three years, we worked to completely overhaul Confetti Park for the 2-5 year olds. We also worked in partnership with the Algiers Point Association, Art Council of New Orleans, Friends of NORD, Old Algiers Mainstreet Corp., and NORD to achieve the renovation of Delcazal Playground for the 6-12 year olds.
Upon the successful completion of the parks projects in 2003, we have refocused our efforts on fostering a sense of community in bringing neighbors together as well as hosting child-centered programming. All events are open to the public.
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I can’t tell you how excited we are for this. We’ll be booth #34, and are looking forward to meeting new friends in San Francisco! Brad and I have never been to California (lame, I know), so we’re making a vacation of it. We’ll be road tripping down the coast, doing Renegade, and then spending the week after exploring San Francisco. If you’re a local, please comment with all the fun things we must see! We seriously can’t wait. | <urn:uuid:b5da9b39-9aef-492a-8539-63f7a167bcf3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.constellationco.com/uncategorized/renegade-craft-fair/ | 2013-05-25T13:29:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897523 | 114 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
CornNation's Husker Mike is "that guy" - the guy who has doubts about Tim Miles. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Bradley University is reportedly considering hiring Ronald "Chin" Coleman to be the Braves' lead assistant basketball coach. Coleman was Tim Miles' first hire at Nebraska, hiring him to be the director of player development. Coleman previously was an assistant coach for Miles at Colorado State. More importantly, prior to Colorado State, Miles was the head coach of the Chicago Mac Irvin Fire AAU basketball team from 2005 until 2011. I've long felt that Coleman was Miles' most important hire at Nebraska, so I've been disturbed that Miles has been limited to an office position where he can't go out and recruit.
In recent years, I've become convinced that Nebraska's biggest basketball problem is the talent level. Barry Collier was awful at identifying and recruiting talent, and Doc Sadler wasn't much better. The problem is having assistant coaches who have the right contacts and can bring in the players necessary to compete in a major conference. With Tim Miles' initial hires, that doesn't appear to be changing.Chris Harriman hasn't done that in an eight year coaching career at Nova Southeastern University and Saint Louis University. Craig Smith hasn't done that in his time at Northern State, Mayville State, North Dakota State, and Colorado State. Ben Johnson hasn't done that in a brief career at Dayton, Texas-Pan American, and Northern Iowa. The sole major college experience of Miles' assistants? Johnson's four years playing at Northwestern and Minnesota.
Not saying that these guys aren't good assistant coaches and valuable members of the staff. But Nebraska needed at least one guy who has successfully recruited the caliber of player that Nebraska will need to compete in the Big Ten. The only guy Miles hired who has any relevant experience was "Chin" Coleman...and Coleman was put into a player development administrative position, where he can't go out on the road and recruit. Sure, he didn't recruit them to college, but he's made connections with players that Nebraska could only dream of. Coleman's bio at huskers.com describes him this way:
From 2005 to 2011, Coleman was the head coach of Chicago's AAU Mac Irvin Fire, developing the squad into one of the top AAU programs in the country. Coleman's team earned top-three overall finishes at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League in 2009-10. While coaching the Fire, Coleman developed some of the top prep players in the country, including four McDonald's All-Americans, four Illinois Players of the Year, and 15 players that participated in the NBA Players Association Top-100 camp and the LeBron James Skills Academy between 2007 and 2010.
That's the guy that Nebraska needs to be out there recruiting. He needs to be out there watching players and talking to them, talking to AAU coaches. But he's not. And it's become clear that Coleman is frustrated with his role at Nebraska. In June, he was a leading candidate to join the Illinois coaching staff. Now it sounds like he's leaving for Bradley.
I don't like being skeptical of Miles, but skeptical I am. He wasn't my top choice to take over for Sadler; my choice was John Groce. I was concerned when I learned that Illinois hired Groce for the same money that Nebraska is paying Miles. Maybe Groce would never have considered Nebraska; I don't know how hard Nebraska tried to get Groce. I was concerned when he didn't bring anybody onto his staff outside of Coleman who's been involved with the talent level that Nebraska is going to need to attract to Lincoln. And then, he stuck Coleman in a desk job.
Miles has created a buzz around Nebraska basketball. His initial signings have given Nebraska basketball fans reason to hope. But I'm not convinced that Miles' staff can maintain that momentum without the man that appears to have the best connections to the type of players Nebraska needs to attract.
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The patch is set to introduce various bug fixes and balance changes, including the prevention of setting up mortars at spawn and making some ribbons easier to obtain.
EGM’s TAKE: Based on previous certification times you can expect the patch some time towards the end of next week. However, it has been known to take up to two weeks depending on what’s in the patch. Many fans will be looking forward to the mortar prevention fix as sitting in your own spawn is not skillful in any way.
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|It's Just Another Day
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Jones sits at his desk, holding a cup of coffee, sorting the mail. Why is it so cold? He shrugs it off and continues his day. But something is just not right... R/RRated: Fiction T - English - Suspense/Mystery - Words: 2,254 - Published: 09-09-12 - Status: Complete - id: 3057007
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Jones sat at his desk, warm mug of coffee in one hand, a small stack of mail in the other. He had just gotten into the office but already he felt like something was off. After a moment's consideration, while he sipped the sweetened beverage, he decided that it was too cold in the office. It was usually a bit nippy, but this particular morning, it was unbearably so. Even with layers of business clothes, Jones found himself shivering. He sighed, setting his mug down. Dwelling on it would not do. He'd ask someone to see to the thermostat in a bit; though he was sure someone had to have complained already. There were women who came to work wearing far too little for a day at the office and they were sure to have said something about the chill.
Holding the mail in both hands now, he flipped through the pile. He was always amazed by how much junk mail was sent to a business office. After tossing half the pile into the bin to the right of his desk, Jones reached for his letter opener and routinely opened his mail. Of the remaining letters, two were sent to the wrong department and one was illegible, but he was pretty certain was meant for him; at least he was able to make out his name in the first line. The last letter was junk mail disguised as something important; he tossed it in the bin with the other trash, muttering to himself: "…don't even own a car… how can the warranty be expired?"
Jones turned on his computer and while he waited for it to boot, he held his coffee in both hands, enjoying the warmth at his fingertips. In the distance, sirens blared. Glad I got to the office early, he thought. Traffic always stopped all over the district with even the most minor accident. He smiled at Susan Mire as she passed by, her skirt just short enough to make a man forget his wife for a brief moment, then looked back at the black screen with the familiar slanted square logo as the computer began to whir to life. He sipped his coffee again, placing it on the desk, and then adjusted the keyboard and mouse as the login screen appeared. Typing his username, jones1847, he wondered if his number sequence was random or if he was the 1847th person named Jones to work for the company. He habitually typed his login number next and waited again while the computer loaded his profile. He loaded the four programs he would use throughout the day and grabbed a bunch of files off the "inbox" tray on the upper right of his desk and went over file after file with experienced eyes, entering information in the computer, changing addresses, printing applications, and any number of things that would come up.
Hours passed, his coffee gone, and Jones was shivering as he worked. He stuffed his hands inside of his blazer, rubbing his sides, relishing the body heat there. Susan walked by again, a fresh stack of papers in her hands. She stopped and frowned at Jones. "Are you all right? You look a little… under the weather."
"It's just so cold in here… are you cold?" He pulled his hands out of his blazer, which were pale and shaking from the cold, up for Susan to see.
"I feel fine… I could have Larry look at the thermostat for you, though."
"Thanks," he muttered, putting his hands back in his blazer. "I think I'll go get some more coffee."
"Okay… well, back to the grind," she called, suddenly cheery, sashaying away.
Jones stood up, aware that his legs felt a little weak as he walked the way Susan had come from, toward the front of the office, near the elevator. Remembering his mug, he stepped back and reached for it. As he held the mug and walked toward the coffee maker, he frowned. He couldn't feel the mug in his hands. Looking down at the mug, he watched his fingers wiggle a little, his hands shaking more visibly. They were responding fine, but he just couldn't feel the familiar smooth plastic on his fingers or palms.
At the coffee maker now, he put his cup down and reached for the pot. Jones cursed under his breath at the sight of the empty pot. "Every damn time!" he said a little louder than intended. Two guys and a girl he didn't recognized stood on the other side of the room by the water jug. At first they looked at Jones with surprise, and then they started whispering to each other, looking over at him, their faces concerned. He furrowed his brow and turned his back on the trio. His head was pounding now and his forehead was beginning to perspire. How am I sweating? It's freezing, he thought. Maybe he was ill… that would cause fever and chills, and an immense desire to punch someone when the coffee is found to be gone.
Jones closed his eyes tightly, taking deep breaths to calm down. Deep breaths, he thought, inhaling slowly. He rolled his head from side to side, feeling better already. He even felt less cold. Jones smiled to himself. It was ridiculous; it was only an empty coffee pitcher and he could easily make more. He was shaking less now and he could even feel his hands again. In fact, his left hand was warm.
Jones opened his eyes. He was sitting at his desk, the familiar coffee mug in his left hand, warm and aromatic, and a small stack of mail in the other. Jones had just sat down at his desk, but he felt like something was off. He considered this a moment, sipping the sweetened beverage, and decided that it was much colder in the room than usual. That's it, he thought, shrugging off the eerie feeling. Looking around, he was the only one that seemed to notice the chill so he shrugged that off too. He'd ask someone to see to the thermostat in a bit. He set his coffee down, listening to the sound of sirens off in the distance. Glad I came in early. He turned the computer on and flipped through the mail quickly, tossing the junk into the empty bin beside his desk. He opened what was left, discarding another piece of junk "reminding" him that the warranty of his non-existent car was in need of renewal. Why they send this crap to an office is beyond me, he thought, placing the other mail on the top of his "inbox" pile sitting on the upper right corner of his desk. Pulling his keyboard and mouse close to him, Jones typed his username and password and started the programs he'd use for the day, picking up his coffee and taking another sip while the computer loaded everything. He noted how warm the mug was and he began to shake a bit, his whole body feeling desperately cold. Susan Mire walked by and Jones called, "Hey, isn't it a bit cold in here?"
She frowned at him. "No, I feel fine… You feeling all right? You look a little pale."
Jones smiled. "No, just chilly," he answered. He waved off the conversation. "Best get to work."
She hesitated, but Susan walked away and Jones busied himself in his work. A couple hours later, his coffee was gone and he was having trouble ignoring the cold. In the back of his mind, he thought, This just doesn't seem right… I don't feel sick… just cold… Finally, unable to stand the chill, and finding his fingertips unable to feel the keyboard beneath them, Jones rose from his chair, his legs barely able to hold his weight, and stumbled toward the coffee pot. When he got to the front of the office, he realized his hands were empty, having left his mug, but looking at the empty pot, he didn't need it. "Damn it," he muttered. Behind him, he heard some talking at the water cooler and Jones furrowed his brow, attempting to ignore them.
He reached for the filter tray and changed the filter, poured fresh grounds in the fresh filter, and replaced the tray. His hands shaking, Jones opened the tab on the top where the water was meant to be poured, and reached for the empty coffee pot. He walked to the water cooler, ignoring the trio there who grew strangely hushed as he approached, and filled the glass pot. Jones retraced his steps, aware that his hands were shaking so much he was spilling water, and walked back to the coffee maker. Raising the pot proved to be more of an effort than expected and the glass container slipped from his hands, shattering glass and splashing water all over the linoleum floor. Jones cursed again, glaring vehemently at the broken shards.
His head was throbbing now as he squatted down to gather the large shards into a pile. He was mumbling obscenities, his forehead sweating and body shaking, when he cut his right palm on one of the shards. His hands were so numb; if it weren't for the blood dripping to the floor, he wouldn't have noticed. "Damn it!" he said loudly, holding up his bloodied palm to examine. He grabbed a paper towel off the table and closed his eyes tightly, taking deep breaths, trying to calm down. Deep breaths, he thought, inhaling slowly. Placing the paper towel over the cut firmly, he rolled his head from side to side, feeling no better. The cold was past numbing and becoming painful. Sharp needles were piercing his chest now. Jones muttered under his breath, "Why was it so damn cold?"
Jones opened his eyes and took a sip from the warm coffee mug in his left hand. He tossed the mail in his right aside for the moment; the sound of sirens passed outside as he pushed the power button on his computer and pulled his keyboard to himself. A chill went down his spine as he stared at the edge of his keyboard. Blood was smeared along the edge, and it looked fresh. He looked at his right hand and saw blood dripping from a long gash along his palm. "What the hell…?" he muttered. It had to be a paper cut, right? From the mail? But he didn't feel a thing. What is going on, he thought.
Susan Mire walked up and gasped. "What happened?"
"I-I don't know…" Jones replied, watching his bloody hand shake uncontrollably.
"I'll go get the first aid kit."
His whole body shook but he wasn't sure if it was because of the cut, or because of the cold. It was so damn cold and there were needle sharp pains all over his chest. Jones jumped up from his desk. Or he tried to, rather. As he stood, his legs gave out beneath him and he crumpled to the floor. Looking around, Jones wondered why no one was coming to help him. He was dripping blood all over the floor and was certain he'd just made enough noise for his boss to hear him from the far back corner office. Jones looked down at his leg and was horrified by what he saw – mangled misshapen legs, torn slacks, and blood everywhere. But he didn't feel a thing from them.
"What is going on?!" he yelled.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Deep breaths, that's what they always tell you to do right? But he didn't feel any better. The pain was spreading from his chest to his arms and legs. It wasn't needles any more. It was excruciating. Jones cried out in agony. How could this have possibly happened?
He opened his eyes again and looked down at his body. His right hand was covered in blood and his left was on fire. On fire?! How on earth could his hand be on fire?! His blazer was torn and his nice, new shirt was shredded. There were spots of blood forming all over his chest. "Oh god! What's happening?" Jones yelled. He laid out flat on the ground and coughed. And on top of everything, he was freezing. His hand was on fire, and he was freezing.
He closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he was behind the wheel of a car, leather seats, stick shift, two doors… Nice… except that the windshield was shattered, the rearview mirror on the floor, the engine on fire, and the front crunched up against his legs. "Oh god!" Jones screamed, or tried to. The only sounds that came out were garbled, followed by a painful cough, as the flames licked his hand. His door was missing. There were hands on him and someone was telling him to take deep breaths. They were dragging him from the car, two guys and a girl.
He was in the back of an ambulance and he was being prodded all over. They were asking him questions but Jones couldn't respond; there was too much pain. Pain everywhere. And he was so cold. And the sirens drowned out everything. Loud, blaring sirens. Zoom zoom… they're sure in a hurry, he thought distantly. So loud. So cold. So much pain. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The siren wailed. Or was that him? It was so hard to tell.
When he opened his eyes again, he was in a hospital. It was a hospital, right? It was so bright. No sirens here, but it was still so loud. So very loud. And so cold. Why are hospitals so cold? he thought. He could hear the doctors talking but had no idea what they were saying. Medical jargon – not important. What was important was the pain was gone… faded at least. Or was he just numb now? Numb, but still so cold.
"…doesn't look good," he heard someone say.
No, I'll bet it doesn't. He felt them move his leg and cried out in pain. Guess I'm not totally numb, he thought, closing his eyes, taking a deep breath. Too bright. He tried to roll his head but it was held in place… or was he paralyzed? Deep breaths. Breath in. Out. In. Out… in… out…
He opened his eyes. His warm mug was in his left hand, and the mail in his right. After a moment's consideration, while he sipped the sweetened beverage. Jones smiled to himself, enjoying the quiet. Susan Mire glided by his desk and Jones turned in his chair a bit to enjoy the view before occupying himself with work. Just another day. | <urn:uuid:69f3a2f6-1e05-4eb8-975d-6edcdfa8afbc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3057007/1/Its-Just-Another-Day | 2013-05-25T13:44:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99516 | 3,155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Frostburg State University Cultural Events Series has added a matinee performance of "On Golden Pond" with Jack Klugman on Wednesday, March 19, at 3 p.m. because of overwhelming response to the evening shows on March 18 and 19 in the Performing Arts Center's Drama Theatre. Klugman, one of television's favorite curmudgeons, will appear with Janice Lynde (replacing Anita Gillette, who was originally scheduled to perform).
This production is part of FSU's Cultural Events Series, with Dinner Show and Arts Getaway Packages available for both shows. This performance is presented in partnership with the Cumberland Holiday Inn, which will also provide discounted room rates to anyone purchasing tickets to the performance.
"On Golden Pond," a critically acclaimed Broadway production by Ernest Thompson, is well known as the popular movie starring Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda that was nominated for nine Academy Awards.
A touching, funny and perceptive story of a family, the play focuses on the bond between Norman and Ethel, a couple in their golden years. Klugman is perfectly suited to the role of Norman, an almost 80-year-old retired professor with a playful, feisty yet crusty attitude. His wife Ethel, younger by a decade, serves as a perfect foil, with her delight in the little things that have enriched their long marriage. Their divorced daughter Chelsea joins them at their summer vacation home, along with her dentist boyfriend and son. Chelsea suffers from the pain of a father and daughter who love each other but haven't expressed it to one another, while her son adds a fresh note with his youthful spirit.
Klugman, a versatile character actor who appeared on Broadway and in television from the 1950s through the 1990s, is best known for playing sportswriter Oscar Madison in the "The Odd Couple" with Tony Randall as his fussy roommate, Felix Unger. He then played a crime-fighting medical examiner on another series, "Quincy M.E." Lynde joined the popular daytime drama, "The Young and the Restless," in 1973 as one of the original cast and was with the show until 1977. She was a frequent guest star on numerous television series, including "Quincy" and "Sledge Hammer!" She has appeared in feature films, television-movies and numerous stage productions.
"On Golden Pond," featuring star-quality talent, is a heartwarming family event for all generations. Tickets are now on sale for $29 each and seating is limited.
The Arts Getaway Package transforms your ticket into a delightful getaway for two, with a choice of accommodations at LaVale's Best Western Braddock Motor Inn or the Downtown Cumberland Holiday Inn. Included with one night's stay is breakfast and dinner for two, a special welcome gift at check-in, round-trip transportation between the hotel and FSU's Performing Arts Center and two preferred seating tickets for the CES performance of your choice.
The Dinner Show Packages, available at seven area restaurants, will turn your Golden Pond evening into a special occasion. Participating restaurants include the Acropolis Restaurant & Lounge, Gandalf's Restaurant & Pub, Gehauf's Restaurant, Giuseppe's Italian Restaurant, Harrigan's Restaurant and the Tombstone Café. Complimentary transportation is available. Reservations can be made up to two days before the performance date when purchasing performance tickets. Patrons pay the restaurant of choice after the completion of their meal.
To purchase tickets, call or visit the CES Box Office, Monday through Friday, between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The office is located at Frostburg State University in the Lane University Center, Room 235, and can be reached at (301) 687-3137 or toll-free at 1-(866) TIXX CES. Online ticketing powered by CyberSeats is available at the Frostburg State University's Cultural Events Series Web site at http://ces.frostburg.edu.
All tickets not purchased in person will be charged a $1.00 per ticket handling fee. Payment by credit card (VISA, MasterCard, Discover and Bobcat Card), check and money order is accepted.
Based on availability, tickets may also be purchased at the Drama Theatre box office one hour prior to curtain. All patrons must have a ticket and all sales are final. Please note: Those arriving late for performances may not be admitted until intermission.
Visit Frostburg State University's Cultural Events Series Web site at http://ces.frostburg.edu for more information on this performance and others.
The 2002-2003 CES Series is supported in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FSU is committed to making all of its programs, services and activities accessible to persons with disabilities. You may request accommodations through the ADA Compliance Office, (301) 687-4102, TDD (301) 687-7955. | <urn:uuid:a6f84818-1aaa-4cdc-9355-6da78faec55f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.frostburg.edu/news/searchnewsdt/?id_number=1599 | 2013-05-25T13:22:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956467 | 1,043 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Other Significant Events of 2010
2010 saw some of the most damaging earthquakes in recent times. In addition to the events in Chile and New Zealand, Haiti was devastated by a powerful 7.0Mw earthquake in January. The earthquake was the most powerful to hit Haiti for some 200 years and it caused major damage in the capital of Port-au-Prince, Leogane and other towns near the epicenter region. Around 280,000 buildings collapsed or were severely damaged, according to the government. Up to 220,000 people died in the earthquake and the economic damage reached around USD8 billion. However, very low insurance coverage in Haiti meant insured losses were a tiny fraction of this amount (around USD200 million).
Floods also caused severe damage in 2010 with parts of Pakistan, China and Europe affected. Pakistan and China were particularly badly hit after monsoonal flooding devastated wide swathes of each country. Around 7 million properties were damaged or destroyed in China while the floods in Pakistan were reported to be the worst in the country’s history. The floods displaced millions of people and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, but the impact on the (re)insurance industry was limited by the low insurance penetration levels in both countries. A thorough analysis of the floods in China appeared in Guy Carpenter’s recently released report on the event.
Europe was also hit by significant flood events in 2010. Central and Eastern Europe was hit by two waves of flooding in May and June, triggering insured losses of at least USD280 million. Heavy rain in the south of France, meanwhile, triggered severe flash flooding that caused insured losses of around USD675 million.
Outlook for 2011
Predictions that La Niña is likely to persist into next year will have an impact on worldwide natural hazards in 2011. La Niña events have historically caused abnormally heavy monsoons in Southeast Asia and fueled tropical cyclone development during the Australia cyclone season. Heavy rainfall and flooding have also hit Southern Africa, Central America and Eastern Australia during previous La Niña events. Prolonged dry periods have occurred in Central Africa and Northern Mexico. In the United States, La Niña’s potential impact includes above-average precipitation in the Pacific Northwest, Northern Rockies and Ohio Valley and below-average precipitation in the south-central and southeastern states.
Meanwhile, the first Atlantic hurricane forecast for 2011 has just been released by the CSU and it again suggests above average hurricane activity. Forecasters have estimated that there is a 25 percent chance of La Niña lingering through next year and a 50 percent chance of ENSO being neutral, both of which can mean a more active hurricane season in the Atlantic. Consequently, the CSU predicts an above average hurricane season in 2011, with 17 named tropical storms, 9 hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes expected to develop.
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The idea of our program started in the United States Air Force. What seems to be a growing concern and serious problem with airmen in the United States Air Force was their lack of ability to drive to and from the base with out getting into a crash. Numerous airmen completed driver education in high school, however the education and training systems being used in the public school systems and commercial driving schools was not working.
In fact, airmen that did not have driver education and training through public schools and commercial schools were involved in less crashes than the airmen that did complete drivers ed.
National Driver Training Institute’s Scientific Engineers of the National Driver program “ Help for the Teenager Who Wants to Drive” studied the causes of the crashes and the training processes used across the US to teach our young new drivers.
After many years of study and research the conclusion was that the problem with our young drivers did not exists within the young driver, but within the training process itself. So while we believe in our education process in the United States it hasn’t proven to be effective in teaching our teens to be collision and crash free.
The teaching process with in itself needed a major overhaul and not even one of our colleges in the United States teaching driver education and training had offered any new teaching methods or processes.
Several professors, Dr. Charles McDaniel, Dr. George Carmenanti and developers of the driver education establishments tried to correct the problem by offering new systems in the late 60’s and 70’s, however these new concepts were rejected because of funding issues and the need for new tooling and curriculum development.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety continued to improve ways to make our vehicles and safety equipment safer with better seat belts and safety seats, bumpers that would hold up better, collapsible steering wheels and safety glass, air bags that continue to out perform the year before and still deaths continue to rise in numbers, every year higher than the year before.
Two major changes took place in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Finally we are seeing a change in the numbers of fatal collisions. The first thing that occurred was the concept of Graduated Driver Licensing. This training process was modeled after flight school in the United States Air Force.
Home School Legal Defense Association | Michael Smith
Although home-schoolers have gained their freedom to teach their teens at home in every state, one issue continues to be an issue. It’s whether parents should be allowed to teach their teens how to drive.
Despite the freedom to teach every other subject at home, parents in most states are forbidden to teach classroom drivers education. (Maryland does not allow parents to teach the classroom portion of driver’s education, but Virginia does. The District has no classroom requirement.)
HSLDA strongly supports the position that since parents are able to teach all the other subjects and parents are responsible for the well-being and safety of their children, they also should have the right to teach their own teenagers the classroom part of drivers education.
It was not always this way. In the 1940s and ’50s, parents were the primary driver’s education teachers for their children. In the 1960s and ’70s, the focus shifted to school-taught drivers education programs. This shift was made in the hopes of assisting teenagers with their driving skills and tests. However, this has not improved teenage driving safety.
More 16-year-old drivers are dying in vehicle collisions than ever before, even though the number of traffic fatalities has declined among the driving population in general. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2006, 6,964 people were killed in collisions involving drivers age 16 to 20, and 3,374 drivers age 16 to 20 were killed in 2005.
The crash risk is particularly high during the first year a teenager is eligible for a drivers license. The problem is worse in the United States than in many other countries because we allow teenagers to get drivers licenses at an earlier age, and licenses are inexpensive and easy to obtain.
If there’s a better method of training teens to drive, shouldn’t parents be allowed to make that choice?
In October 2000, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs conducted a research project on the effectiveness of graduated driver licensing. In comparing teens who had completed a National Driver Training Institute Graduated Driver Licensing program with National Insurance Co. statistics for teen drivers, the study found the parent taught teens had fewer speeding tickets, fewer accidents, fewer tickets for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and fewer traffic fatalities.
The insurance industry and many state legislatures have been moving toward a system of graduated driver licensing, in which a student has certain restrictions imposed — they must drive with an adult in the car, for example — until they reach a certain age. The requirement for driver’s education has been maintained in many states as part of this program. Also, due to financial challenges, many public schools are dropping their driver’s education programs. This forces parents to pay for commercial driving schools when they could just do the job themselves.
If you live in a state that doesn’t provide for graduated driver licensing, the only way to change the law is through the legislature. At a time when our country needs to see more parent-child interaction, graduated driver licensing is the right step to encourage more quality time for parents with their teens.
We have no doubt the effectiveness of graduated driver licensing will become evident because of the same principles that make home-schooling successful academically. The tutorial method with the low student-teacher ratio and individualized instruction produces outstanding results.
The bottom line is that no one cares more about the safety of their children than the parent as no one has more to lose than the parent when a child is ill-prepared to receive a driver’s license.
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Lake Bolsena is located close to Rome and near medieval town of Viterbo and its amazing countryside.
Lake Bolsena is still in Lazio region but very close to Tuscany, Umbria and about forty kilometers from the Tyrrhenian Sea, the so called high Tuscia.
Being so close to Viterbo, the so called city of the Popes the area could also give you and your guests great solutions for your staying and side activities and touristy tours.
Volsinii Mountains, border the shore and create a wonderful landscape that could be the ideal frame for dramatic wedding pictures Lake Bolsena with its crystalline color and its special morphology, could seem a little sea.
Boats on Lake Bolsena can take you and your guests for a lovely tour on its waters and to tow small islands located at the center of it: Bisentina Island and Martana Island.
What about having a romantic aperitif on board of a boat, skimming the blue waters? You will discover a perfect setting for an unforgettable wedding with a romantic and traditional meal in one of the pretty restaurants by the shores.
Etruscan ruins and stunning landscapes make it a charming destination, just perfect to imagine a wedding in the Nature!
?All this just less than an hour drive from touristy Rome!
Find our more on this undiscovered Lake in the center of Italy!
My name is Stefania and I work as wedding coordinator on Lake Bracciano and Rome area. I was born close to Northern Italian Lakes District in Piemonte region so I’ve always been enchanted by lakes atmosphere and I know the real appeal of it. I’ve been traveling a lot before becoming a wedding planner, all over the world I was a flight attendant. I developed a deep interest in people, customs and different country habits. This knowledge is helping me a lot in my actual job. When I moved to Rome years ago I decided to become a Wedding Planner and now I’m happy to be part of this wonderful Team.
I will be happy to guide you across Southern Lakes such as romantic Bracciano and rustic Bolsena which are both very close to eternal city of Rome. I will be pleased to help you find the best venues, charming solutions, lovely decorations, for your unique wedding on Lake Bracciano.
I will let you know the charm of this great spot of Italy being your guide and help throughout all your wedding planning.
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Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. - George Washington
Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.' -Unknown
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Marijuana research lawsuits to be filed
Thursday, July 22, 2004
By HOLLY ANGELO
AMHERST - All Lyle E. Craker wants to do is grow marijuana in his lab at the University of Massachusetts to supply other scientists with the plant so studies about its medicinal benefits can take place.
But after filing an application with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in June 2001 to establish a facility on the Amherst campus to produce marijuana for U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved research, he hasn't received a yes or no.
To get an answer, Craker has teamed with two other parties as plaintiffs in one of two lawsuits scheduled to be filed today that accuses the federal government with obstructing medical marijuana research.
"I'm hoping the lawsuit will bring a response," Craker said from his office in Stockbridge Hall yesterday, where he is the director of the medicinal plant program and member of the department of plant, soil and insect sciences.
"It's unfortunate, but the issue probably has to be forced here (in the courts)."
The two suits are supposed to be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.
The first suit is filed by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies; Craker and Valerie Corral, a California-licensed medical marijuana patient and caregiver, against the Drug Enforcement Administration.
It seeks a decision on Craker's request and a request by Chemic Laboratories of Canton to import 10 grams of marijuana from the Dutch Office of Medicinal Cannabis for use in a medical marijuana research project investigating the safety advantages of a nonsmoking delivery device for marijuana by a vaporizer.
The second suit is filed by the association and Corral against the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institutes of Health. It also seeks a final ruling by the agencies on Chemic's request for marijuana and the vaporizer study.
The Drug Enforcement Administration and National Institute on Drug Abuse would not comment on the suits.
"We're arguing unreasonable delay," said Rick E. Doblin, president of the association, based in Sarasota, Fla. "We are blocked from growing our own (marijuana) at UMass Amherst. We are blocked from importing from the Dutch Office of Medicinal Cannabis, and we are blocked from purchasing from the government's supply."
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AT&T began accepting pre-orders for the HTC One yesterday, and the phone is now available for early reservation on Sprint. There's also a solution for U.S. consumers who don't want to buy the HTC One with a contract attached to the purchase.
The Facebook Phone is real, and it's name is the HTC First. Moments after it announced Facebook Home, a new Android home screen and lock screen that better integrates Android with Facebook, HTC and AT&T announced they will be the first to release a phone pre-loaded with the software.
It looks like HTC has figured out its manufacturing problems and will be able to deliver the HTC One to U.S. consumers later this month. Following AT&T's announcement hours ago, Sprint has confirmed that it will launch the HTC One April 19. Sprint will offer the 32GB HTC One in black or silver. The phone will cost $199 when purchased on a two-year agreement, and sales for the phone begin this Friday, April 5. The HTC One is compatible with Sprint's 4G LTE network, available in 67 markets at the moment.
The HTC One will go on sale at AT&T beginning April 19. AT&T has just confirmed the launch date for HTC's latest Android smartphone, and the carrier released details about pricing, pre-orders, and an HTC One model that will be exclusive to AT&T.
A Facebook phone rumor has been a recurring theme since 2010, and the whispers about an Android smartphone built with several Facebook layers on top of it reappear every time Facebook hosts a press event. Now it's happening all over again.
The days of HTC being "Quietly brilliant" are done. The Taiwanese manufacture plans to double its marketing budget to launch the new HTC One, the most important smartphone HTC has released in a long time.
The HTC One Android smartphone has been delayed because of manufacturing issues, but HTC has just announced that it will soon rectify those problem and begin the global rollout of the HTC One as early as next week in some markets.
Verizon was not among the list of dozens of carriers throughout the world who said they would carry the HTC One, but new rumors suggest that Verizon will be the fourth of the major U.S. carriers to offer the HTC One later this year.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean might have been introduced months ago, but the AT&T HTC One X has remained on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich until now. Here are the details for what's new in the Jelly Bean update.
What is an ultrapixel? The simple answer is that an ultrapixel is a marketing term cooked up by HTC to explain to customers why the new HTC One doesn't have as high a megapixel, but is there more to the new HTC One camera and other Android smartphones to come? | <urn:uuid:7fc6f6cf-2cec-40b6-b77b-aa1342eb7dd3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mobileburn.com/cell_phone_archive.jsp?Page=2&Number=10&Label=HTC%20Reviews,%20Rumors%20and%20Upcoming%20News&Makes=6 | 2013-05-25T13:35:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963333 | 580 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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- Significantly more cost-efficient than purchasing a factory new PowerPack.
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One thing that you will find in the personal finance blogosphere is people who have gone through some pretty crazy situations. Some bloggers have found themselves in a mountain of debt, and documented their journey from a negative net worth to a positive net worth. Other bloggers document as they get closer to financial independence using a calculated regiment of frugality and investing.
And then there is me: I have never been in massive debt. I never looked at my bank account and saw $(1,500). And then only to realize my credit cards were maxed out. I would be lying if I said I have never had my share of sticky situations. But in each situation, I was able to step back and assess the issue at hand and work on getting back to my yellow brick road. NEVER massive debt. So what could I possibly share that is worth reading?
My parents, and particularly my father, taught me some very important financial lessons, if not life lessons. I have combined those lessons with my experiences that I have gathered from school and the workforce since I graduated from college. I have a very analytical frame of mind so I like to breakdown situations into consumable sections. And if I had it my way their would be a lot of numbers.
I hope some of you parents out there can use these lessons to connect with your kids. And if my peers never got these lessons, I hope some of you can also digest this information for your own benefit!
Lesson #1: Want is not need.
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I was not a particular needy child. When it came time to make a X-mas list, I would narrow it down to one or two things. Believe it or not, this was to the dismay of my mother, who loved buying me gifts. So, my itsy bitsy list wouldn’t stop her. And my love for tearing open gifts wouldn’t stop me. But once everything was opened, I would take the things that were actually on my list into my room and leave everything behind. The other gifts would sit under the tree in their lonesome, and I would play with the few gifts I actually wanted. Quirky? Absolutely.
But I was still a child. And as children go, every now and then I would see something I absolutely had to have. In fact, I NEEDED it. If my parents would have asked me, I could have written them a dissertation detailing all of the reasons as to why I needed the item and how detrimental it would be if I did not get it. Because of how little I actually asked for things, my parents could have easily rationalized this behavior to themselves and purchased me the item. No matter the infrequent nature of these outbursts, I am glad my parents did not enable this behavior.
My parents, from the time I was a young child to the time I was an adult, talked to me in a logical manner, though. A lot of parents often times feel like they don’t need to explain their reasoning. But, I think it helped me to learn the importance of smart decisions and logical conclusions.
A typical convo between a 14 year old me and my Dad would go:
Dad: So you need this $40 baseball? It seems the only benefit is that it clocks your speed..
Me: Yes! How else will I know how fast I am throwing?! I want to pitch when I get to high school!
Dad: Are you comfortable with your development? What about your coach?
Me: Yes, I am. And he says he is.
Dad: When you pitch, do you think you are better than a lot of the kids in your league?
Dad: Then what’s the issue? The batting cage costs $1, I’ll take you by a few times a year.
Me: Ugh, ok.
Notice one thing: My Dad did not say “No!” Why not? It would have led to a pointless argument. My Dad always believed that children are more logical than parents often give them credit for. And in my opinion, he was right. I give him credit for being patient enough to discuss all of these things with me. But what did I gain?
When I go to purchase an item, even though I haven’t had to clear purchases with my dad for a decade, I break the decision down into questions I know he would ask. Can I find a cheaper alternative (eg batting cages vs speed ball)?
To you this is a simple discussion. To a kid who is starting to develop his outlook on the world this is a very influential lesson.
Lesson #2: TINSTAFL, There Is No Such Thing As a Free Lunch.
Photo courtesy of D’Arcy Norman
Every now and then the aforementioned lesson would not work on me. But true to his nature, I would not receive a “No!” as a response. If we somehow got into a stalemate, that is where we would stay. There was no executive veto to end the discussion. I just knew one thing: He was not going to pay for it if he didn’t agree with it, so I needed to work for it on my own.
And that brings me to the kindling of my entrepreneurial spirit. When I was 8, I wanted a new bike. My Huffy wasn’t nearly as cool as the Specialized and Diamondback’s that my neighbors owned (If you aren’t a bike person, this is similar to comparing a Lexus to a Hyundai). I can’t really blame my dad for not getting me the bike now that I look back on it, though. I was going off of jumps in the woods and bending spokes left and right.
But I was determined to get a new bike. I needed it (you’ve heard that one, haven’t you?)! I began to advertise my services to my neighbors. What kind of services was I offering? I would shovel snow, cut grass, rake leaves, pull weeds, take out trash, or help with any other job they wanted assistance on. Whether they actually needed work done or just admired my entrepreneurial spirit, the neighbors started paying me to do work. I was cleaning out gutters (first story), helping with gardens, doing snow removal during blizzards, and more. Most of the stuff was hard work and they got a great deal. I expanded my business to the food & beverage industry. My neighbors apple tree supplied me with the supplies to sell fruit, and my dad made me the lemonade. I paid my dad back for the “costs,” but I am pretty sure he subsidized me big time. He must have just enjoyed seeing me work so hard towards a goal. My lemonade stand did teach me one important business lesson: Location is everything. Our street had no road traffic. So I went door to door. (Note: This was a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone and my dad stayed outside as I did it)
After a few months my goals started to change. I started to realize how hard it was to earn a few bucks, so I wasn’t about to blow it all on a bike I was going to beat up when I already had a free one. After 6 months of working hard and raiding the laundry, I had enough money for the bike. And that bike would have been SEXY.
So, my dad bought me the bike? No. So, I blew all my money on the bike? No. I got gun shy in a major way. I realized spending 6 months of hard earned money on a single possession that I would use to skid around (kill the tires), go off jumps (kill the shocks and spokes), crash into curbs (warp the wheels and bend the spokes), and otherwise just ruin it. I decided I wanted to save the money for something more deserving of my money. I kept my Huffy.
My dad did not make me work, he gave me the opportunity to work for something I wanted. By working I realized the value of a dollar and looked at purchases in a different way… even at a young age.
Lesson #3: The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the second best time is now.
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I am very happy my Dad followed up my last decision with a trip to our local bank a few days later. I got a joint savings and checking account with him. He told me that only I would deposit and withdraw from it, but he had to be a joint user because I was a minor. My Dad probably had a lot to do with getting me to open the account, but I recall it being my idea. My Dad always went to the bank, so I wanted to mimic him after he explained the concept of banking to me. The draw of a “more secure piggy bank” was incredibly appealing to me. Accessible, but only to me! :)
I opened up the account. For 8 years, I would either go with my Dad to the bank or give him money and a deposit slip when he went. And that is where my life diverted into the world of personal finance. At the age of 8.
I never thought of my bank account as a spending account, though. My dad constantly reminded me that I needed a cushion. “What happens when you want a car in high school?” Because of the TINSTAFL lesson, I thought it was completely reasonable that I would not be getting a free car. He wound up springing my sisters old Dodge Neon on me much to my surprise. The ol’ man wasn’t as tough as he seems, eh? All I had to do was pay for gas and insurance. Even then, I think my dad was subsidizing my insurance payments. But as the rest of this post goes, the ideas was that he wanted to make sure that I understood that nothing was free.
I was continuously educated by my dad that I was ahead of the game and that everything I did now was worth tenfold down the road.
How well did these lessons carry on?
Once I got my car at 16, I worked part-time all through high school. I worked at a restaurant as a dish cleaner, bus boy, and waiter and Best Buy as a salesman after that. At this point I was earning actual money (as in a sizable amount), as opposed to the money I was making shoveling neighbors driveways and selling lemonade door-to-door. I was never perfect with my money; I did buy an $800 sound system for my Neon (at my employee price for Best Buy!).
But I continued to work and continued to save.
When it came time for college, I applied to a bunch of different schools. I got into schools that would have cost me $50,000/year. I wound up choosing a state school, the University of Maryland. Why? It was ranked in the top 20 for my intended major and I wanted to pay my way through school. I found accomplishment in not having to ask my parents for money.
Just as I did with high school, I worked throughout college. The main bread winner for me was a job where I ran an exterior painting company. I made enough money in just two summers to pay for 3 years of school plus a two month bicycle tour across Europe. On top of all of that, I got jobs with other companies for the other two years of school. One company I worked for was UPS — UPS was HARD work but it looked great on my resume.
Oh, and what am I riding driving? A 2004 Hyundai Accent with 90,000 miles on it. Even after being in my career for a few years I have not caved to the pressures of my neighbors with Specialized bikes co-workers with brand new Mustangs.
I would say these lessons were pretty influential, what do you think? Did your parents teach you anything that you would add to the list?
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Corn and Crab Chowder
Yield: 4 Servings
4 tb Unsalted butter
1 md Onion, chopped
1 Clove garlic, chopped
3 c Fresh corn kernels
1/4 c Water
1 1/2 tb Cornstarch
2 c Whole milk
3/4 c Lump crabmeat, about 4 ounces
1 c Whipping cream
2 Poblano chili peppers, roasted and diced
1 Canned chipotle chili pepper, diced
Salt to taste Chopped fresh thyme or cilantro
Melt 2 Tbsp. butter in a large saucepan. Add onion and garlic and cook over medium heat,
stirring often until soft, 7 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a blender and add corn kernels,
water and cornstarch. Blend until smooth.
Melt remaining butter in same pan. Add puree, and cook over medium heat, stirring
constantly, until mixture thickens, 3 to 4 minutes. Add milk and heat to a simmer. Cover
partially and simmer 15 minutes, stirring often.
Strain soup, pressing on solids to remove as mush liquid from the corn as possible. Return
strained mixture to pan, and add crab, cream, poblano chilies, chipotle chili and salt.
Heat to a simmer. Serve hot, garnished with thyme or cilantro. Makes 4 cups
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A guest post by Scott Calhoun
Over the past year, I’ve been traveling around the interior West, speaking to gardening groups, and as I scan my audiences, I’ve become worried that the demographics of gardening do not bode well for the future of America’s favorite pastime. I consider myself a passionate garden designer with a progressive approach aimed squarely at youthful thinkers, but at many engagements, I look around a room and find that, at a not-so-young 39, I’m the youngest person in the room. One could conclude that my material is not compelling to young gardeners; but when attending lectures delivered by better known and more charismatic gardening evangelists than myself, I encounter the same issue.
My generation is dropping the trowel. The paucity of youth at gardening events leads me to believe we are the entitled, lazy, sitcom addicts from broken homes clinging to the apron strings of the baby boomers that the media says we are—at least when it comes to gardening. We are spoiled string-cheese-eating kids who are scared to get our fingers dirty. We have ignored our elders and thumbed our noses at the great gardeners who would be our mentors; I’m beginning to wonder what will become of the gardening world after the boomers are gone.
Totem pole cactus and Mexican gold poppy against ‘Ripe Pear’ windowsill
As a garden designer and garden writer in the Southwest, an area with lots of retiree inflow, I sometimes feel as though my work consists of separating the so-called greatest generation from their last gardening dollars. Just like the Eternal Lawns Cemetery, my slogan could be, “I can design your final garden.” These gardens, while lucrative for me, often lack a certain vigor, and well . . . youth, because of restrictions imposed by aging clients and tyrannical homeowners associations that control everything from what species of plants you can plant to what color you can paint your walls. Gardens built with too many freedoms curtailed often fall short of artistry.
I’ve come to think that many of the great gardeners of the greatest generation didn’t move to Arizona or Florida. They weren’t looking for an easier lifestyle. Their retirement consisted of working the land to the end. My grandfather, Richard Graehl, was a case in point; he gardened right up until the end of his life. His retirement resulted in a masterfully planted five acres of corn, squash, berries, and alfalfa that kept him occupied in all but the coldest months when the soil was unworkable. Like many of his generation, gardening for Grandpa was a food production activity and ornamental gardening was purely recreation—one that he had precious little time for.
The boomers, on the other hand, know how to recreate; if you asked them, they would likely tell you that their generation invented recreation. When it comes to gardening, they are all about ornamentation. Sure, they buy organic veggies, but grow their own food? Please! Boomers wedge gardening between shiatsu massages and new age shaman consultations. Not only do they have amusing stories to tell about their counterculture days, they have money, like plants, and are not afraid to buck the status quo a little. One of best things about working with them is that they are open to new ideas. With boomers, gardening is moving forward, but what about us? What about Generation X?
Our slacker generation, Gen X uses the converse argument: “Because we don’t have any free time, we don’t want to spend much of it gardening.” Yes, time is a problem. We are working more hours than our parents did; we have kids; we live in generic suburbs. I understand all this, but come on, people. Can’t we muster a few creative gardens? Are we so removed from our agricultural roots that we’re nonplussed by the green side of the world? Doesn’t the constant buzz of technology make us want to stick our hands, and maybe our heads, in some compost?
I think ours is the best-equipped generation ever to do bold things in our gardens. After all, we are a generation that embraces change. We invented punk music, video games, and computers. We took junior high typing classes using manual typewriters only to move wholesale to computers in college. We supported the move from vinyl to compact disc and from CD to mp3. We moved from film to digital cameras and from handwriting to email. We rarely complained or made a fuss—we just changed.
Turquoise wall and Indian fig cactus in Tucson’s Barrio Historico
We were also raised in a more design-conscious world. Crate & Barrel and IKEA catalogs became our favorite bathroom reading. We don’t see style as a luxury, but as an essential part of who we are. Although we have largely given up status symbols like clothing embroidered with the Ralph Lauren polo horse, do not be deceived; we care a lot about what we wear and how we arrange our homes for living. Extending this proclivity to the outdoors doesn’t feel like that much of a stretch to me.
Like gifted children who are bored with everything, we have the skills but are slow to apply ourselves. I think this is mainly because we’re turned off by the old ways of gardening (i.e. gigantic lawns, excessive water use, chemical bombardment, and fussy plants). To me, the traditional American way of gardening seems silly and wasteful and generally out of place; I surmise that other Xer’s must feel the same way. So, while recognizing that there are many ways to get the young interested in gardening, I have a simple—and practically foolproof—recipe to follow. It’s a simple binary formula: bold colors and wild plants equal rock-and-roll gardens. World-renowned landscape architect Steve Martino boils down the genius of his work with bright colored walls and native plants to this same formula: “walls and weeds.” Walls and weeds are a remedy for blandness and a call to action among my slacking peers who seem to be fixated on Victoria’s Secret commercials, Seinfeld reruns, and eBay auctions. Snap out of it! Let’s get painting and planting!
Color powers and enlivens gardens. I’m not talking about the petunias and pansies that are sometimes referred to as “color;” I mean paint. Big architectural plants, which form the backbone of exciting gardens, need a stage or backdrop, and color-drenched walls are often exactly what is required. Colored walls are the garden design equivalent of putting a dancer in a neon pink leotard in front of a black velvet curtain—her silhouette pops out in relief. Young gardeners should be happy to jettison a palette of puritanical pastels for colors that flex their muscle and highlight the structural mettle of Dr. Seuss-style succulent plants.
If you think that color, in the form of paint, is simply window-dressing in a garden, consider the great spiritual and emotional pull of color. The great Russian modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky wrote, “Orange is like a man, convinced of his own powers.” Of red, he wrote, “Red rings inwardly with a determined and powerful intensity. It glows in itself, maturely, and does not distribute its vigor aimlessly.” On the color of the western sky, blue, Kandinsky says that it is the color of profound meaning. Our desert sands and rocks are blood-red, vermillion, and coral tinged with chartreuse lichens, these rocks are our guide to coloring our gardens.
Lupine and desert spoon against a cobalt blue wall
In our gardens, we need to take the color of the sky reflected in a desert stream, the fiery red crown of the Gila woodpecker, the screaming orange of a Mexican gold poppy, and selectively, with an artist’s intentions, paint those colors on a few of our garden walls.
In her book The Anthropology of Turquoise, Ellen Meloy points out that in humans, 70 percent of our brainpower is used for vision. Meloy calls vision “this tyrant of the senses.” Put a weak color in a garden and watch it recede to the blandness. Already largely oblivious to continental gardening traditions, young gardeners need to flex their color muscles, and they can do it with painted walls.
For a while, I considered the use of bold color on garden walls part of the desert garden design bag of tricks, but lately I’m more and more convinced that this will work anywhere. At the Cornerstone Festival of Gardens in Sonoma County, California, acclaimed garden designer Topher Delaney has constructed a garden consisting of a gravel-filled courtyard planted with white-trunked sycamore trees. As a backdrop for the trees, she uses a giant curtain of blue.
After looking at Delaney’s exhibit, I began to think about eastern gardeners planting white birch and witch alder and yellow-twig dogwood against blue walls. Or perhaps spicebush or a pagoda dogwood tree sidled up to turquoise seat wall. Adding snow and fall color to the design mix only seemed to increase the impact that a colored wall could have when combined with the spectacular plants of the Eastern deciduous forest. Yes, Martha Stewart devotees might question your taste and call for more subdued tones, but when you explain that you’re carving out a niche for your own previously black-thumbed generation in the gardening world, they are likely to be mollified.
The Martha followers should really be proud of you. Bold color is not an American tradition limited to the Western half of the continent; consider Fletcher Steele’s Blue Steps at Naumkeag in Massachusetts, which combine cobalt blue and paper birches in a way that can only be described as daring.
Snow pole cactus against terra cotta wall at Tohono Chul Park’s Desert Living Courtyard
Wild Plants Equal Wildly Fun Gardens
Gen-Xers are environmentalists at heart, so lacing up our hiking boots isn’t too much to ask. Some gardeners have a favorite steel shovel, cultivator, or pair of Swiss pruners, but my favorite garden tool is worn on my feet. For young gardeners, hiking boots are one of the best gardening tools. Hiking puts potential slacker gardeners in situ with wild plants. If gardening were more like hiking, or if being in your backyard felt like being out on a hike, more Xers would do it.
One of the best things about hiking and botanizing is observing the natural patterns of how things grow best. If we see coral bells (Heuchera sanguinea) hanging onto a rocky slope in the shade, we just might get the idea that coral bells like a shady well drained spot in the garden. It is this day-to-day association with wild plants that engenders respect for them, and hiking through a forest or desert is a fine and pleasurable way to make that acquaintance. It works like this: view the natural world, note it, photograph it, adapt it to your garden, find it at a nursery, buy it, and plant it.
Thankfully, the nursery industry has come around to the idea of growing and selling native and drought-tolerant plants that can make even the most self-righteous Whole Foods-shopping, Prius-driving, Sierra Clubbing Xer feel like gardening is a guilt-free activity.
Many of the wild plants, especially in the Southwest, are so iconographic and bold that they are more like sculpture than flora. This appeals to our contemporary design and IKEA catalog sensibilities: edited, clean, modern, sculptural. Using bold plants is a great way for Xers to sweep out the clutter of and reinvent our gardening selves. Why not start with plants? In my desert region, the ocotillo, the saguaro, the prickly pear, cholla and yucca can be arranged to preside over a desert garden without sucking out groundwater at an unsustainable rate.
Purple walled garden at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
In cooler and wetter climes, many bold plants can easily be incorporated into gardens. I know a Massachusetts gardener who overwinters a bevy of agaves in a south-facing window just to enjoy their spiky personalities outside in the warm months. Even planted outside and in the ground, there are cold hardy prickly pear cactus and yucca plants that will thrive in nearly every condition.
Even for those who recoil at the idea of plants with stickers, there is plenty of pizzazz to be found in the world of ornamental grasses and spiky perennials. Slackers can create a tour de force by combining plants like gayfeather and blue oat grass, purple prairie clover and blue grama, firecracker penstemon and deer grass. Ornamental grasses are the new gardening wave that Xers should be riding.
If Gen-Xers are at all interested in making art of their gardens, and I believe that they are, there is no better place to start than with underused American plants. When choosing plants for youthful gardens, we would be wise to take Ezra Pound’s advice to young artists and “make the world strange.”
Instead of piercing and tattooing so many of our body parts to get attention, why not just grow some strange plants against big colored walls. Put a big Medusa’s head euphorbia (Euphorbia esculenta) out on the porch and you’re sure to at least get a few “that’s interesting” type comments from your neighbors. If the Medusa’s head isn’t strange enough, you could go with the curiosity plant.
Nolina and palo blanco against a pink and purple wall at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
My New Gen-X Garden
As you can see, I’m ready to create these gardens, I’m just waiting for the right Gen-X clients to ring, email, or scream. Since the only voice screaming for this sort of garden seems to be me, I’ve decided to do the sensible thing and listen to the voices in my head.
I’ve been designing a new garden in a courtyard outside my office, and in it I hope to marry plants and paint to create spaces of tranquility and clarity and a little Gen-X attitude. Designing a garden for yourself rather than someone else is a sublime pleasure and something I believe that most people are capable of; all it takes is a willingness to make spectacular mistakes. In this respect, I am brimming with talent, as are many of my contemporaries.
This new garden is based on the color blue. I’ve been studying the gardens at Majorelle in Morocco, the blue walls of Steve Martino and Carrie Nimmer, and a blue walled courtyard garden at the Antique Rose Emporium in San Antonio, Texas, where owner Mike Shoup combined yuccas with blue paint to excellent effect. Frida Khalo’s garden, at least as presented in the film Frida, has also caught my eye. I’m seeing and thinking blue. Again, Ellen Maloy’s book, The Anthropology of Turquoise, has piqued my imagination and caused me to consider the combination of rock and sky, and of rock the color of sky (turquoise).
I drew my garden on paper. The perimeter of the garden is defined by a wall of corrugated steel, painted blue, its channels running horizontally. Against this backdrop, I’ll plant large silver-beaked yuccas and a desert museum palo verde tree, whose yellow blossoms would stand out like stars against the blue fence. The shape of the space, two rectangles, would be separated by a low ocotillo fence, making two distinct rooms. Like a Persian garden, a small central fountain would be centrally located. The fountain would consist of a sunken steel box with a bubbling urn sitting atop two salvaged steel storm grates. In an L-shape around the fountain, a flagstone bench and pedestals define the space. In various spots around the garden, I’ll place recycled blue and green steel drums that I poked holes in using the pointed end of a 17-pound digging bar. In these drums, I plan on locating bold desert specialties like ocotillos, elephant trees, and agaves.
A Call to Shovels
My admonition to my fellow Xers is this: put down the high-fructose, corn syrup-based drink in your hand and the Xbox remote control, and go out into your backyard. Look at it with new eyes: think about how you might make your yard a reflection of your fast-paced, highly designed, and highly interesting life. Get out there and start painting and planting. Let’s show the boomers how it’s done: grow a vine on a trellis of rusted bed springs; make a bullet-riddled propane tank a sculpture, and plant a white-trunked tree against a wall the color of deep water—like a snowy egret in a pool of cobalt glass.
My thanks to Scott Calhoun for permission to repost his article and photos, which first appeared on Terrain.org, No. 18: Spring/Summer 2006, where his bio explained that Scott “gets much of his design inspiration from badlands and taco stands, a style which Sunset magazine dubbed ‘Taqueria Chic.’” The author of several books, including the award-winning Yard Full of Sun: The Story of a Gardener’s Obsession that Got a Little Out of Hand, he also lectures and designs gardens in Tucson, Arizona. You can find him online at Scott Calhoun’s Desert.
I’ve been following Scott’s work since reading Yard Full of Sun, which made a big impression on me for its embrace of challenging gardening conditions, native plants, sustainable gardening, and general outlook on life. I’ve reviewed some of his other books, including The Hot Garden and Designer Plant Combinations, here at Digging. I’m currently reading Chasing Wildflowers and hope that Texas’ spring wildflower show and fish tacos will one day lure Scott back to Austin so that I can meet him. —Pam
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AcousticEye utilizes breakthrough acoustic-based technology to revolutionize the way companies perform heat exchanger maintenance. Currently only 8-10 % of tubes are randomly "sampled" due to the time and costs associated with traditional NDT-based inspection methods. The random sampling of tubes results in failures and defects since the vast majority go untested. The cost of the resulting tube defects -including performance degradation, energy waste, environmental hazards and lower heat transfer - is estimated at $30 billion annually. With AcousticEye, 100% of the 13b tubes used worldwide can be tested for defects at a fraction of the time and expense of other testing methods. As a result, costly downtime due to failures in mission critical equipment can be avoided entirely. | <urn:uuid:9a6e7860-93a9-4a9d-8b88-50a3f4ba6ef4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qualitymag.com/articles/89930-acousticeye-signs-strategic-sales-agreement | 2013-05-25T13:50:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910448 | 391 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Midlands leads the UK in job creation from foreign investment
The Midlands created more employment from foreign direct investment (FDI) than any other region in the UK 2011, according to Ernst & Young’s latest UK Attractiveness Survey.
Despite attracting fewer FDI projects during 2011, the number of jobs created in the Midlands has nearly doubled – to 6,738 from 58 projects, compared with 3,769 from 91 projects in 2010.
The UK remains Europe’s leading FDI destination, with London attracting the most projects in 2011 (327), followed by South East England (83) and Scotland (51). London and the South East were the only regions to experience an increase in the number of projects from 2010.
Wouter Schuitemaker, investment director for Business Birmingham – the inward investment programme for Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull – said: “While the Midlands continues to attract large, cash-rich investors that are creating significant numbers of jobs, we are not operating on a level playing field with other UK destinations. English regions are having to compete with the substantial financial incentives often offered by the UK’s devolved nations to attract investors to their locations.
“Business Birmingham has helped to create 2,750 jobs in the past year by attracting major investors to the city region. However, offering competitive financial incentives could dramatically improve our success rate and ensure an equal footing with other UK locations.
“The growth of regional economies is a key part of the government’s deficit reduction programme – without a fairer system in the incentives offered to potential investors, this will be virtually impossible.”
Building beyond manufacturing
Ernst & Young’s survey also identified that automotive investments created the most employment opportunities in the West Midlands – Jaguar Land Rover alone generated 1,750 in Solihull and Wolverhampton – demonstrating the region’s position as the UK’s automotive and manufacturing heartland.
While London’s reputation as a business capital continues to attract investment, the survey highlighted that the West Midlands was a leading choice for automotive and energy companies.
Sara Fowler, Ernst & Young’s senior partner for the Midlands, said: “The economy is still creating a number of challenges but investors are continuing to take advantage of the skilled workforce we have here in the Midlands, particularly in manufacturing.”
Schuitemaker commented: “The West Midlands has an internationally renowned reputation for its manufacturing, with investors such as Jaguar Land Rover and Shanghai Automotive known all over the world. Our continued success in leveraging this reputation with a competitive offer for new investors is helping to bring new jobs to the area.
“Building on our heritage, the West Midlands must remain at the global cutting-edge of advanced manufacturing and related technologies. Keeping up is not an option – we must stay one step ahead if we are to remain competitive.”
Schuitemaker continued: “The knowledge economy is growing and our global credentials in fields as diverse as life sciences, digital media, gaming and business services show that, while it is a key strength, we are about more than just manufacturing. Building awareness and understanding of the breadth of the West Midlands’ offer is vital in broadening our investor base and encouraging new organisations to base their European operations in the area.”
Recognising the region’s strengths in a diverse range of high-value sectors, and with the intention of broadening its offer to investors, Birmingham’s leadership has outlined plans to develop new economic growth zones that promote a ‘cluster’ model – geographically locating similar businesses and sectors together – providing investors with a number of benefits.
“By delivering economies of scale through shared facilities, strong supply chain networks and an accessible, skilled workforce, clustering also helps investors physically ‘see’ how their operations could look and feel on the ground,” Schuitemaker added.
In addition to an advanced manufacturing hub, the city is also planning zones for environmental enterprise, food and drink, life sciences and ITEC.
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Also, I don't really buy your interpretation of Confucius. I would avoid it overall, because it almost reads as though it came off a "inspiration of the day" calendar, but I certainly wouldn't call it 'comparing learning to the joy of seeing a faraway friend.' Where is that in the passage quoted? There is, in fact, no subject at all besides "I."
Well I took out the original quote from the first post because it was too long and then paraphrased/combined different parts of the Analects, so no that part specifically is not from the passage quoted. That part about the faraway friend does exist, though. Very first "verse" of the Analects:
To learn and practice what is learned time and again is pleasure, is it not? To have friends come from afar is happiness, is it not?
Anyway, I can see your point about the "daily inspiration" nature of the paragraph. The whole idea of putting something down from a sagely, Asian philosopher sounds cheesy, but Confucianism as a whole speaks to me a great deal, and I looked forever to try to get some quotation in from either Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, etc. So I guess it's a bit forced, and if need be I can take it out.
And yes, I agree that the statement overall is unfocused and acts more of an overall survey / simple middle school essay rather than a real insight into who I am. I couldn't think of anything else to write about, though.
I would also try to tie this into something more than just "I love learning." If you love learning, there are plenty of things you could do to continue learning. Why law school?
Yeah I'd say this is my biggest problem. I'd like to make the essay more focused, but I can't seem to direct it past its very general state right now. | <urn:uuid:4a8d178f-5208-470d-9b74-35c29955b2b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=108426 | 2013-05-25T13:29:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705955434/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120555-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978056 | 402 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The deed is done. I had the pre-lunchtime slot at Reboot to speak about a very simple subject: the hyperlink.
Unlike any previous presentations I’ve done, I had written out everything I wanted to say word for word. I began by describing this as a story, a manifesto, but mostly a love letter. For once, I was going to read a pre-prepared speech. I still had slides but they were very minimal.
I ended up using two laptops. One iBook, controlled from my phone using Salling Clicker, was displaying the slides done in Keynote. I used the other iBook as a teleprompter: I wanted large sized text continually scrolling as I spoke.
Find photos that I took on June 2nd, 2006. | <urn:uuid:e64ca556-4e2f-405c-9bec-ac2f2085f7cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://adactio.com/journal/1136/ | 2013-06-20T02:46:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96678 | 162 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
don’t you ever dare to say that we are the weaker gender
Men of Tumblr, I’m counting on you to make this one good.
I got stuck
Danny Phantom’s Theme (Piano Cover)
This is a Scottish anti-rape PSA that is a direct response to blaming a rape victim for dressing like a slut. What do you think? Is it effective?
Never have I seen such an effective video in my life… and it’s only 30 seconds long. Definitely, 100% watch and reblog this.
[esteban voice] little blonde peoples
Hard to believe this is the same person…
this is my favourite thing
What if you went to this place at night and somewhere amongst the sea of red boxes a telephone started to ring?
Pick it up. It’s for you.
What if you were at this place at night and suddenly you see a blue box?
It never occurred to me before that Dean hadn’t seen his Mom on the ceiling. His Dad probably told him how she’d been killed but the reality had been left to his imagination. Then suddenly he runs into Sam’s room and for the first time, he’s able to see for real what he’d thought about all his life. And it’s even worse than he’d ever imagined.
I’m not even in this fandom and I just got chills. This is acting, people…
Reasons to love Jared Padalecki | <urn:uuid:4628bae7-315e-470b-a0c7-ac240a515e5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://becksterres.tumblr.com/ | 2013-06-20T02:38:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956946 | 322 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference
by Glenn Croston, Ph.D
This book is a nice complement to Ecopreneuring by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist, in that while the latter is a lifestyle book, i.e., what would it be like to be a social entrepreneur, this book cuts to the chase and describes, as its title says, 75 different green business opportunities that people can start. It gives a relative scale on how much capital may be required, and how long it may take to get started for each kind of business.
The potential market for this book is huge. As described in the preface, “77% of Americans are concerned about the environment and feel it is urgent to get involved and make a difference.” Add this sentiment to the powerful entrepreneurial spirit in this country, and the center of your Venn Diagram becomes a large and potentially powerful group.
Croston describes opportunities as diverse as sugarcane ethanol production to sustainable catfish and tilapia farms. Croston has done his research and describes the opportunities well. Anyone already in the green community will recognize much of Croston’s arguments around why there is a need for a particular kind of business, but for the layperson, it is quite the educational piece.
One might argue that there is more to starting a green law firm than is covered in that particular chapter, but Croston gives readers a teaser into what the need is and how it could be filled, rather than the nuts and bolts of becoming a law firm. There are obvious limitations to this style of book, as editors will only allow so much room for each kind of business, and a true to form business plan would be 70-80 pages. In all, Croston does a nice job balancing the need for important facets of the business with the limited space available for each.
Some opportunities are simpler, and require nothing more than willpower, and others much more complex. This mix makes the book valuable to readers in most economic, lifestyle, and social conditions.
In interviewing Croston about this book, I asked about his upcoming plans. As it turns out, we are kindred spirits, with our life missions currently pointing toward helping as many aspiring social entrepreneurs succeed as is possible. This book is part of that puzzle, and a valuable item to have on the bookshelf. | <urn:uuid:affaedeb-6607-464c-ac43-156035987858> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ecopreneurist.com/2009/01/23/book-review-75-green-businesses-by-glenn-croston/ | 2013-06-20T02:39:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963232 | 491 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Newsweek, the nation's premiere publisher of fan fiction, has followed up its charmingly hideous "What if Diana Were Alive?" cover story with a brand new exploration of hypotheticals: What will Barack Obama do if he loses, and also, what will he look like? Alas: this one doesn't go far enough. We have some ideas, though!
We don't mean that we're disappointed that the magazine didn't render a hypothetical "Barack Obama's Facebook wall," as it did for Diana. (Though we are disappointed, in the sense that we're always disappointed a single-car accident isn't a two-car accident.) And we're glad that the artwork for this article is so much less creepy than the work for Diana!
No, what we mean is: if you're going to write fan fiction, why be so relentlessly boring? "Obama might become a professor or a Supreme Court justice or a motivational speaker." I mean, hello, guys: think big! Here are some suggestions:
- Obama single-handedly wins the war in Afghanistan: "Sgt. Diaz stared at the cloud of smoke. 'I think... holy shit, I think there's someone alive down there,' he said, scrambling to pick up his binoculars. He lifted them to his eyes, and saw, walking out of the smoke, face smudged but grinning, President Barack Obama. He was smoking a cigar and carrying Mullah Omar's head."
- Obama joins The X-Files: "Scully had been Mulder's partner for years. She expected the odd cases, the weird obsessions, the constant paranoia. But what she never expected was to walk into the office one day and find President Barack Obama. 'Sir, I—' she stammered, before Mulder interrupted: 'Scully, I want you to meet our new partner.'"
- Obama becomes a wizard: "Obama could feel the power flowing through him: a curious, warm feeling, emanating from somewhere in his rib cage, a throbbing kind of energy that pushed through his body and crackled at his fingertips. Mr. Merriweather nodded. 'You are ready," he said—though Obama was sure his mouth had never moved. He removed a small piece of wood from a leather sheaf in his belt and handed it to the president. 'Your wand,' he said, simply."
- Steampunk Obama: "The figure moved out of the shadows and Obama realized it was not a man but a machine—a shining, brass machine wearing a top hat and a morning coat—a clockwork miracle like none he had ever seen—and in its hand a pistol. 'You are surprised to discover,' the thing intoned, 'that Doktor Zeizter is an automaton?' Outside, Obama could hear the dirigibles start their engines. He knew they were headed for Big Ben."
- Obama develops feelings for Kirk: "He had never seen Kirk like this before, wild, strong, glistening with sweat. Obama inhaled deeply, letting Kirk's musk tickle his nose hair; he opened his eyes and allowed his focus to trace the line of Kirk's thick calf muscle. From that moment on, Barack Obama's time on the Enterprise would never be the same."
Please add your own Obama fan fiction in the comments!
[The Daily Beast; image of pirate Barack Obama via AP] | <urn:uuid:90a1bd31-0c07-4920-9ea8-3c7a3d06ba1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gawker.com/5867331/newsweeks-creepy-obama-fan-fiction-doesnt-go-far-enough?tag=presidents | 2013-06-20T02:52:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976312 | 699 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Since the early 1970s conservatives in the Episcopal Church have attempted to halt the increasing liberalization of the church, specifically opposing changes in liturgy, the ordination of women and the full inclusion of gays and lesbians. Having failed to make progress domestically, they activated an existing network of predominately evangelical conservatives in other parts of the Anglican Communion to oppose ‘homosexuality’.You can read the rest here ... and I hope you will.
This coalition was able to pass a strongly anti-gay resolution at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of bishops but then found it almost impossible to enforce the resolution in the North American provinces. The 2003 election of an openly gay man to be Bishop of New Hampshire led to open international conflict, and demands for changes to the loosely knit Communion in order to prevent further such incidents and to ‘discipline’ those responsible.
This thesis chronicles the progress of the conservative alliance and the rhetorical and symbolic constructs it developed in order to maintain a strong group identity despite its inherent diversity. It examines the way that the Anglican Communion is created through the discourse of its members and suggests that conservatives began to re-imagine the Communion. Its ability to reform the Communion according to its new imagining depends upon the ability to generate and use power through rhetoric and through symbolic acts of boundary crossing and civil disobedience against the North American churches. Throughout the development and maintenance of the conservative alliance, ‘homosexuality’ has been the rallying cry which has brought conservatives together and cemented their alliance.
This paper examines why the unstable construct ‘homosexuality’ has such salience both within the United States and in the global south that it can act as an identifier and as a motivator for intense dissent across significant difference. It looks for the answer at the convergence of patriarchal values and (post)colonial power differentials.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
HIGHLY Recommended Reading
The Reverend Dr. Caro Hall is a friend, colleague and one of my favorite people on the planet -- and I was absolutely delighted to find that her doctoral dissertation is "on the web." Entitled " Homosexuality as a Site of Anglican Identity and Dissent" it isnot only an important study, it's an "excellent read" ... and a great resource for anybody wanting to understand more about the history of LGBT inclusion in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Here's the "executive summary" ... | <urn:uuid:3c07eaf0-c226-468e-aa47-f586ab3df1e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://inchatatime.blogspot.com/2011/03/highly-recommended-reading.html | 2013-06-20T03:05:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94954 | 505 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Monday, April 23, 2012
2012 Il Lombardia, Honoring Felice Gimondi in Bergamo
The race, one of the five "monuments" of the one day classics, is also known as the "Race of the Falling Leaves" ("classica delle foglie morte") as it is normally held in October. However, this year the race has been brought forward to the weekend following the UCI Road World Championships to allow riders to directly benefit from their World Championship form.
Gimondi won all three of the grand tours: Tour de France (1965, his first year as a pro), Giro d'Italia (1967, 1969 and 1976), and Vuelta a España (1968). He remains one of only five cyclists to have done so. He also won the World Championship in 1973, Paris-Roubaix (1966), Milan-Sanremo (1974) and the Giro di Lombardia, among other races, in 1966 and 1973.
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NEW DELHI: The Congress moved with alacrity on Tuesday to put the stamp of its "hand" on 'direct cash transfers', calling it an election promise fulfilled and lining up Rahul Gandhi to lead the celebrations in the build-up to the launch of what it sees as a "game-changing" scheme.
Finance minister P Chidambaram and rural development minister Jairam Ramesh chose the Congress party platform to announce the launch of the scheme on January 1, dropping more than hints that cash transfers would be among the party's bragging points for the 2014 Lok Sabha contest. "Aapka paisa, aapke haath", Jairam introduced the scheme: the punch line echoing the party's winning "Congress ka haath, aam aadmi ke saath", the battle theme for two consecutive elections.
The announcement at a press conference where the line between the government and the party seemed to fade came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to keep food and fertilizer subsidy out of the purview of the ambitious scheme to transfer subsidy meant for UIDAI-designated beneficiaries directly into their bank accounts. In the first phase, cash transfers will cover 42 schemes that include LPG, scholarships, old-age pension, schemes run by the ministries of health and women and children.
At a meeting of senior ministers on Monday, the PM is learnt to have spoken about the social costs of including food and fertilizer subsidies in the direct cash transfer scheme, expressing fear that diversion of the transferred money from the intended use to other expenditure would impact a household negatively. Sources said the PM also referred to diversion putting women to disadvantage and about the sacrosance of food security and PDS.
The PM's apprehensions mean a drastic reduction in the scope of the scheme and can, correspondingly, whittle down the political benefits that Congress hopes to derive from the scheme. At the press conference at the Congress headquarters, Chidambaram said converting food and fertilizer subsidy into cash to be transferred to beneficiaries was complicated.
But that did not seem to take away much from government's satisfaction over preparing the platform for transfer of cash ahead of the 2014 polls. A beaming Chidambaram complimented the government on a job well done. He rebutted opposition's charge that cash transfers were akin to bribes for voters, saying the government was merely trying to ensure that the subsidies reached the beneficiaries in full, rather than launch any new scheme.
Ramesh struck a distinctly political note, saying the scheme was actually a political campaign which got underway 25 years ago with the recognition by the then PM Rajiv Gandhi that 85% of the money released from Delhi never reached the beneficiaries. In the same vein, he stressed that the launch of the scheme could not have been possible without the IT revolution conceived and implemented by Rajiv Gandhi.
He also said the government's endeavour was only to ensure that people got their "haq", or entitlement, offering a peek into how the party might market the scheme in the lead up to elections.
Significantly, in response to a question, Chidambaram scotched speculation that the scheme was part of a plan to eventually do away with subsidies, asserting that the government would continue with "merit" susbdies on food, fertilizer and some kinds of fuel.
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[Distutils] Distutils changes - end user requirements (Was: Deprecate MANIFEST.in)
zooko at zooko.com
Fri Apr 10 17:02:01 CEST 2009
> Can any packager step up and explain why they execute "python
> setup.py bdist_egg" rather than "python setup.py bdist_wininst"
> when creating distributions for their Windows users?
For starters, the former works on all my development platforms. I
can script buildbot to do it the same on all platforms, for example.
The latter I haven't tried. Just a minute... <Zooko tries "python
setup.py bdist_wininst".> (See appendix A.)
Secondly, the package can be automatically installed when the user
easy_installs a *different* package which depends on my package.
The Tahoe project currently has fourteen such dependencies. The
Tahoe install process works on all platforms including Windows:
It isn't perfect, but I think it is pretty cool that the same install
document works for both Windows users and everyone else.
Thirdly, the entry_points mechanism for making executable scripts
means I get executable scripts on all platforms with no extra effort
on my part.
I'm not saying that this is perfect, or that users don't want other
things, or that developers shouldn't want other things. For Tahoe in
specific, I really would like a normal installable package thing like
Windows users expect for their apps. But until someone offers to
spend their time crafting such a thing for Tahoe (ideally by using
the bbfreeze tool to automatically generate one from the Tahoe
source distribution), I'm happier with what I've got now than with
the alternative, which is a long list of around sixteen -- sixteen!
-- different packages that the user would have to manually install
before they can install Tahoe, where each of them might have
different special install instructions on any of a dozen different
Again, the setuptools-based system that Tahoe has now is not
*alternative* to Windows-specific installers or Debian-specific apt-
get'able packages. In fact, hopefully they will become increasingly
*complementary* as tools like stdeb and bbfreeze mature.
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/585 # make it work with
Let's see, "python setup.py bdist_wininst" produced a file which I
then uploaded to my web server: http://zooko.com/allmydata-
tahoe-1.3.0-r3833.win32.exe. When I run that file, it first pops up
a security warning that the producer of this file (me, in fact) is
untrusted. Once I hit the button labelled "Leave me alone about your
stupid security warnings" then it enters the normal installation
wizardy thing. It has all my package metadata nicely displayed on
the first page. Cool! Then it asks me which python to use -- it
found 2.5 and 2.6 on my system. I choose, then click "install", then
"finish" and it goes away.
Now what? Let's see, it didn't add anything to my Start Menu. I see
that it installed it into c:/Python26/Lib/site-packages/allmydata ,
(which is the name of the top-level module in the allmydata-tahoe
distribution), as well as writing a Removeallmydat-tahoe.exe and a
allmydata-tahoe-wininst.log file. Oh! I see that it made a c:/
Python26/Scripts/tahoe.exe file! Cool.
Okay, but I can't actually use it unless I now go and install a dozen
or more dependencies (as mentioned in the body of this letter).
Okay, finally, uninstall. Hm... It isn't there in the "Add/Remove
Programs" list. Oh -- it is named "Python 2.6 allmydata-tahoe-1.3.0-
r3833" instead of "allmydata-tahoe". And it worked to remove all the
files as far as I can tell.
It works! Cool! My verdict: as a consumer of other people's
software, I wouldn't want to use a GUI tool like this if I could help
it (it takes about 10 times as long to install a package that way as
on the command-line, you can't script it, and you can't easily
capture an encoding of all the options which were chosen for later
reproduction). I'm sure that many other users would want to install
applications this way, i.e. things which they actually care whether
it is installed or not, but I suspect most users do not want to
install dependencies this way, i.e. things that are there only
because an application requires it. As a producer of packages I
would be happy to use bdist_wininst since it is fully scriptable and
I can just program my buildbot to do it for me, however I won't do so
until the resulting installer can either automatically satisfy its
dependencies or come with its dependencies bundled inside it.
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WHAT IS THIS SURVEY ABOUT?
The U.S. Department of Education is committed to increasing the skills of adults in the United States. This survey has been designed to learn about the skills that adults use in their daily lives—such as reading, finding information, and using computers—as well as about their education and work experience. This will help get a clear picture of current skills and needs of our workforce in the 21st century.
WHO IS THE PERSON CONTACTING ME?
The ISAS interviewer is a representative of the U.S Department of Education. The ISAS interviewer who contacts you will be carrying a study photo identification issued by the National Center for Education Statistics.
HOW DID YOU SELECT ME?
Your community was selected randomly from a list of all communities in the country. Then your address was selected randomly from a list of all addresses in your community. The ISAS interviewer does not have the names of the people living in your household.
WHY DONíT YOU ASK SOMEONE ELSE?
Because of the statistical methods used to select you, we cannot substitute anyone else for you if you do not participate. Every household and respondent in the survey has been scientifically selected, and it is very important that we get input from every person selected. The more selected individuals that participate, the more accurate our picture will be of the variety and range of adult skills in the United States.
HOW LONG WILL THIS TAKE?
The interview will take about two hours.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO ASK ME?
The interview has a series of questions about your background, and then there are some exercises dealing with activities adults do in their daily lives including using computers.
DO I HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS?
Your participation is voluntary. However, because you have been scientifically chosen to represent many others like you, it is very important that you participate. You can refuse to answer any question at any time during the interview.
HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE IF I DONíT USE A COMPUTER?
If you do not use a computer on a regular basis or are not comfortable using one, you can complete the survey on paper.
HOW DO I KNOW THE INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL?
You are protected by law. Under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S. Code, Section 9543 or Public Law 107-279, Section 153), which authorized the National Center for Education Statistics to conduct this study, any information you provide may be used only for statistical purposes and may not be disclosed, or used, in identifiable form for any other purpose except as required by law (20 U.S. Code, Section 9573 or Public Law 107-279, Section 183). Individuals are never identified in any reports. All reported statistics refer to the United States as a whole or to national subgroups. In addition, everyone working on the study has signed a confidentiality agreement pledging to keep all information provided by respondents confidential. As soon as the survey is completed, all personal information that links data to respondents is removed.
HOW WILL THE RESULTS BE USED?
This survey will provide valuable information to educators, policy makers, and researchers on the current skills and experiences of U.S. adults. This information, in turn, will be used to develop policies and programs to improve the skills that individuals need to participate successfully in the economy and society of the 21st century. | <urn:uuid:e71787af-5ddc-40fa-8d81-80dd1fe872dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/isas/faqs.asp | 2013-06-20T03:00:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944481 | 702 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Although Northwest has an "open door" admissions policy, there are procedures all students must follow in order to receive a Certificate of Admission. The following must be on file in the Registrar's Office before registration:
When all required documents have been submitted, the student will be sent a Certificate of Admission. The student will present the Certificate of Admission at the registration center on the appropriate day of registration.
Several programs of study have specific admission requirements. Please see the current Northwest Bulletin for more information on these requirements.
No transcripts can be forwarded to other institutions until all necessary admission information is recorded in the Registrar's Office. We no longer accept letters of good standing.
Applicants must establish their residency status as there is a difference in the tuition fees for MS residents and out-of-state residents. Certain programs are only available to MS in-state residents, for example, the nursing degree program.
When to Apply
Students should begin the application process during their senior year in high school or as soon as possible before the first college semester. Adult students 21 years of age or older are not required to submit ACT or SAT scores unless their program of study requires a certain score for admittance.
Northwest Mississippi Community College has authorized the National Student Clearinghouse to provide enrollment and degree verifications. The National Student Clearinghouse can be contacted at: | <urn:uuid:820a3a5d-c05c-4837-8449-4aef77e00e54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://northwestms.net/web/staticpages/index.php/admissions | 2013-06-20T02:47:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938713 | 273 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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QMy mother has had a progressive neurologic disorder with no diagnosis for 20 years. In 1946, when she was 11, she contracted the H1 Influenza B virus and was paralyzed for several days. At a recent hospital stay, a doctor said that it was a “real possibility” that her 1946 flu caused her neurologic disorder. Could it be true?
DR. JAMES B. SEJVAR RESPONDS:
A It can be tempting for a physician to try to find an explanation for a patient's illness in the absence of a firm diagnosis. I think it's unlikely, however, that a prior history of influenza infection would be the source of your mother's current illness.
Influenza can be associated with various neurologic problems: encephalopathy (a state of confusion), seizures, neuropathy, as well as others. These complications most frequently occur in children, although cases of neurologic illness associated with adult influenza certainly occur. In most cases, the relationship of influenza-virus infection to these neurologic illnesses is not well understood: We don't know how—or in some cases if—the influenza virus causes the neurologic disease.
Progressive neurologic disease due to influenza-virus infection would be particularly unusual. However, during the 1918 influenza pandemic, there was also an outbreak of a strange illness known as encephalitis lethargica, in which people developed neurologic problems including, in some cases, features of Parkinsonism—problems with balance, slow movements, and facial masking [a symptom in which facial muscles become immobilized]. But, the relationship between the influenza pandemic and the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica remains unclear, and they were probably unrelated. People who recover from a severe case of influenza sometimes also develop features of Parkinsonism, but these generally occur shortly after the infection rather than appearing as a progressive disorder.
Although we probably cannot completely exclude some relationship between your mother's current illness and her influenza infection, it would be very important for her physicians to make sure that they are exploring other more likely reasons for her illness. | <urn:uuid:c87fa215-3952-4ea9-a5af-3a621459f4ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://patients.aan.com/resources/neurologynow/index.cfm?event=home.showArticle&id=ovid.com%3A%2Fbib%2Fovftdb%2F01222928-201006060-00015 | 2013-06-20T02:45:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975115 | 436 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Via the music research residency program, the Department for the Coordination of Scientific and Musical Research seeks to reinforce the interaction between the scientific and musical community by appealing to the computer music community at large. This program offers scholarships to artists and young professionals wishing to take advantage of a period of residency at IRCAM in order to pursue their music research projects in a stimulating collaborative environment.
Each year - via online submission - a limited number of candidates is selected by a panel of international experts based on the following criteria: project content; scientific and artistic motivation; quality and innovative character of the project; mastery of the technologies needed for the project; demonstrated ability to manage a collaborative research project.
Each selected candidate will benefit from a residency at IRCAM for a specific period, associated with one or more of the institute’s project teams. The candidate will receive a scholarship of 1200 euros. IRCAM does not cover travel and lodging expenses.
During the research residency, candidates will work in the context of the Research and Development department in order to pursue their work. They will collaborate with members of one or more teams thus enabling them to deepen the musical and technological issues explored through experimentation as well as participate in the intellectual life of the institute.
At the end of their stay, the selected candidates will be asked to document and share the results of their work via written publications and public presentations given to the IRCAM community as well as the international computer music community at large. | <urn:uuid:232f7bfc-dee3-4117-b6b5-e2b231a9b385> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rhizome.org/announce/opportunities/55681/view/ | 2013-06-20T02:54:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947582 | 292 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posts tagged ‘research’
Written by Lewis D. Eigen
With all the histrionics over Health Care Reform, throughout the entire process, it was easy to miss some of the very important issues of the debate. One, in particular, got entirely lost for a very interesting set of reasons. It was the Bigness issue. But there was hardly a Republican who did not complain about Bigness. It was mentioned hundreds of times each day throughout the more than a year of debate. How could it be lost?
It was “lost in plain site”. There are few citizens who do not know that one of the criticisms of the Health Care Reform Bill was that there would be a large, centralized, system running American Health Care instead of the smaller decentralized status quo. But very few people indeed can recall any discussion of WHY bigness would be bad–for our health delivery system and for the nation. That is what was missed. And that is where the Republican political tacticians could have done a much better job.. In their choice of tactics to defeat Health Care Reform, they failed to communicate and explain the, admittedly complex, issue of Bigness in American history and public policy. Had they done so, Health Reform probably still would still have passed, but it might look quite different from the present law. This article is the first of a series that discusses what the debate missed: Why bigness in our nation’s health system might not be very good. (more…)
The opponents of embryonic stem cell research have received a major setback in their arguments. New research has just shown that the alternatives that they advocated are not only not equivalent, but are decidedly inferior for the major purpose of the research–creating specialized human and animal replacement cells.
One argument against the use of Embryonic stem cells for research, in addition to the quasi moral one of using potential life forms, is that it is unnecessary because there is a scientific method of taking normal cells and treating them in the laboratory in such as way as to make them “pluripotent.” This is the property that allows the embryonic stem cell to transform into any other kind of cell. This of course is just what makes the embryonic stem cell so desirable as a research tool. And the new research shows that the alternatives are inferior–they die rapidly! (more…)
Public Health Versus Private Health: The Coming Battle: 1. The Difference Has Little to do With Government and the Private Sector.
There are two groups of professionals in our nation’s health system. They are the medical providers who treat us advise us about our health. Then there are the public health professionals who develop the tools to prevent disease and create the protocols and recomendations for the treating professionals to use. On most issues, the two groups are in synch and each appreciates the other. But more and more, there are conflicts that result from each group looking at the same data and research, but doing so with a different perspective This article explains the differences between the two types of critical health professionals, and explains why they sometimes disagree and why they are BOTH RIGHT. The recent battle of the breast cancer screening recomendations is used to explain this critically imporant conflcit. Additional articles in this series will suggest ways we as health consumers can make sense of these conflicts, and how our political structure can cope with what often appear to be irreconcilable differences but are not really diametrically opposite.
America produces the most scientific contributions to the world, but the science is not usually done by Americans.
The United States generates more scientific studies than any country of the world and more than the rest of the world put together. We also produce more of the critical breakthrough research than the rest of the world. However, over half of all the scientists working in America are foreign born. Many become Americans, but they did not start out that way. The main reason is the FAIRNESS of much of the American system of allocating research money–a fiarness as this article will explain that does not take place to the same degree anywhere else in the world.
President Obama’s memorandum reproduced herein was issued to end and correct the abuses of the previous administration in corrupting the scientific process and imposing political and religious ideology on government scientific decisions. The president’s memo is annotated by Dr. Lewis D. Eigen, providing background and analysis of some of the requirements.
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Thirty-five blog posts and several hundred comments later, we’re finishing up the Minoru Sew-Along! Today’s the last post of sewing instructions. We’ll follow with a series of posts showing off your finished jackets, and I’ll post some photos of my finished jacket too!
Today we’ll hem the jacket to finish it off. After the sewing is complete it’s a good idea to check for loose threads and trim them off, and give our garment a final press if the fabric requires. Then, hang it in your closet and wear it proudly!
Want to catch up on previous Sew-Along posts? Click the links below to read more:
- Join the Minoru Sew-Along: January 16th, 2012! (Find the Sew-Along badge here, too!)
- Why is the Minoru Jacket Pattern Not Suitable for Plaid Fabric?
- Guest Post: Caroline on Sewing Waterproof Outerwear
- Minoru Jacket Q & A
- Fabric Recommendations for the Minoru Jacket
- A Full Bust Adjustment on the Minoru Jacket, Courtesy of Alana
- Sew-Along Speed: How Fast Do You Want to Go?
- My Minoru Jacket Fabric Choices
- Five Ways to Tell if Your Fabric Is Water-Resistant
- Minoru Inspiration: Dots!
- Update: Minoru Sew-Along Starts on Monday!
- The Very First Minoru Muslin
- Minoru Sew-Along #1: Let’s Get Started!
- Minoru Sew-Along #2: Sewing Sleeves and Topstitching Tips
- What is Triple Stitch?
- Minoru Sew-Along #3: Gathering!
- How to Make Your Own Piping
- Minoru Sew-Along #4: Sewing the Hood
- Minoru Sew-Along #5: A Change in the Line-Up and Checking In
- Minoru Sew-Along #6: The Secret Hood Zipper
- Minoru Sew-Along #7: Sewing the Hood to the Collar (Quick Post!)
- Minoru Sew-Along #8: We Finally Get to Pull the Gathers!
- Adding Pockets to the Minoru Jacket: Amy’s Awesome Tutorial
- Minoru Sew-Along #9: Front Plackets, Front Zipper
- Flap Pockets on the Minoru Jacket
- Minoru Sew-Along #10: All About Cuffs
- Minoru Sew-Along #11: Little Hidden Pockets
- Minoru Sew-Along #12: A Useful Hanging Loop
- How to Make a Chain Hanging Loop
- Minoru Sew-Along #13: Sewing the Lining
- Minoru Sew-Along #14: Putting It All Together
- Minoru Sew-Along #15: An Alternative to Slipstitching Cuffs
- Minoru Sew-Along #16: Stitching in the Ditch
- Minoru Sew-Along #17: The Waistline
Now, our jackets will naturally fold at the right spot for the hemline. We’ve sewn the placket along the bottom edge, and when we turned it, this started a fold that will also be the fold of the whole jacket hem.
Press the hem up, following the natural fold between the plackets, and checking to make sure it measures 2 5/8″ (7cm) as you press.
Press under the seam allowance on the raw edge of the hem, 5/8″ (1.5cm). My top finger is pointing to the hem fold line, my thumb is pointing to the turned-under raw edge.
Next, we’ll tuck the lining down into the hem fold.
Pin the hem in place.
Now, we’ll stitch the hem twice. I like to stitch the first row with the lining side up, so I can edgestitch close to the fold, and then stitch the second row with the jacket side up. If you’re using special topstitching thread in the top of your machine only, you’ll want to stitch from the right side of the jacket both times.
Then turn over the jacket, and stitch the second row from the right side. I’m using the edge of my presser foot as a guide, and stitching below the first row.
Stop when you reach the placket and backstitch.
We’re done! Hurrah! Oh wait, we’re not. We need to slipstitch the little opening on the inside of the placket. (True confession: I didn’t do mine yet. I was so excited to be done!)
See the little opening on the inside of the placket, about 10cm above the hem? Slipstitch that closed.
And then we’re done!
Hey, my scarf matches the jacket nicely! That worked out well. Off to take photos of the finished jacket!
This week, I’ll put up a ‘show us your Minoru!’ post and I’d love it if you would post a link to your finished jacket. Blogs, Burdastyle, Flickr, Pattern Review – wherever your jacket can be seen, let us know! On that post, not this one. It’s easier when all the comments are on the same post. This was fun, everyone! | <urn:uuid:7b499491-a34c-47e7-baa3-ff1b705bb934> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sewaholic.net/minoru-sew-along-18-hemming-and-then-were-done/ | 2013-06-20T02:40:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.850886 | 1,144 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Well, this is kind of a bummer. Apparently Joss Whedon was going to have Captain America give a speech in The Avengers that would have been partially about the loss of the social safety net, but he decided to cut the scene:
One of the best scenes that I wrote was the beautiful and poignant scene between Steve and Peggy [Carter] that takes place in the present. And I was the one who was like, ‘Guys, we need to lose this.’ It was killing the rhythm of the thing. And we did have a lot of Cap, because he really was the in for me. I really do feel a sense of loss about what’s happening in our culture, loss of the idea of community, loss of health care and welfare and all sorts of things. I was spending a lot of time having him say it, and then I cut that.
The timing and the platform would have been amazing, the purest representative of American power in the superhero pantheon standing in for Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in the biggest tentpole of the summer, a month and a half before the Supreme Court’s likely to issue its ruling that will determine the future of the Affordable Care Act. It also would have also created a political firestorm around the movie, something the cheerful blandness of Captain America was careful to avoid. Whedon may have been entirely right that the scene would have interrupted the flow of the movie. But with The Avengers tracking for an absolutely ginormous opening, he also may not have wanted to futz with the prospects of an enormously high-profile opening. | <urn:uuid:d9b6a069-b47e-4d55-adac-61c64bbd2576> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/04/16/464714/captain-america-could-have-saved-the-affordable-care-act-in-the-avengers-but-he-wont/?mobile=nc | 2013-06-20T03:01:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710115542/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131515-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987923 | 330 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A few days from the announced celebration of that mournful date, July 26th, in the province of Guantánamo, rumors continue to be increasingly stronger that there are several cases of cholera in eastern Cuba, plus it is even being said that there have been several deaths due to the disease. Since the situation was reported in the independent press, the official press is maintaining its usual silence on matters that may damage the image of the system and affect foreign tourism on the Island. The presence of the disease in Cuban territory is not officially confirmed or denied, nor is its impact and potential expansion, except for a brief report in the media on Tuesday. The lack of information and misinformation, though they might seem the same, are not, and are also a kind of permanent epidemic among us.
Earlier today, just in case, I turned on my TV to listen to the morning news, but reports from eastern Cuba were only about street activities to entertain children during vacation, that is, the news they were showing were of kids in parks before the cameras, doing the same thing that they do every day in neighborhoods without any group organizing them: riding home-made scooters, running and playing. There was also news about the awards received by the “paintings” by the Communist Party leadership and other government officials in the region, now graduates and employers, and that a company received special recognition for having met the economic indicators: more diplomas, kisses and smiles. Nothing about cholera.
Meanwhile, some who became aware of the rumor continue to worry, and there are signs that evidence that something is fishy. A neighbor told me that bus transportation to the eastern region had been curtailed, and she was told that her ticket to travel to Santiago de Cuba in late July would be canceled, though they did not give explanations about the causes of such termination. A doctor friend, who knows my aversion to boiled water, called me to warn me emphatically that I should not drink water directly from the faucet “for anything in the world”, as I usually do, while, on television, commercial spots are being aired warning of the need to wash hands frequently, “rub your palms thoroughly with soap and water, rub between your fingers and under nails …” as if your lives depended on it. Do you think our lives really depend on washing our hands?
And, as often happens among us, the rumor is growing in exponential proportion to the lack of official information about the case, and some say that there are cholera cases in Havana, in tandem with our ever-popular and endemic dengue fever, which is alarming in a particularly dirty city, with thousands of leaks in its outdated water and sewage systems, its plethora of landfills and slums, where over two million people live, amid the wettest summer on record in the last decade.
It would not be surprising, however, that this new exaggeration, greatly publicized by one or another “enemy of the Cuban people” at the service of foreign interests, might be confirmed in the course of the next few weeks if things get out of control. After all, there are thousands of Cuban doctors who have traveled to Haiti to assist the campaign against the cholera epidemic in that country, who have returned to Cuba, reinstating themselves in family and social life without even going through the isolation of quarantine. Under such circumstances, one could say that cholera took its time in making its presence known in Cuba. For now, many of us have begun to take extreme hygienic measures, while some others shrug their shoulders carelessly and in disbelief: what’s not announced, won’t really happen, at least, not unless we are the ones to die in the process.
At the time of this post, I found out that at least 6 deaths have been attributed to the dengue fever in Havana, and there are several cholera cases.
Translated by Norma Whiting
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ollowing a highly successful 2012 Fall tour, the surviving members of the Monkees are reuniting again for a fairly extensive tour that will see them trek across the US for 24 dates this Summer.
The album isn’t quite the same without hearing Dolenz’s stories behind the song choices. He shares a few in our sit-down session with him.
Micky Dolenz reveals why he performs the covers he chooses for shows.
Following the death of Monkees vocalist Davy Jones back in February due to heart attack, the band’s surviving members will kick off a 12-city tour this November.
Ron Parker talks with former Monkey Mickey Dolenz about Davy Jones, touring this summer and a return to the theater.
Let’s take a look at this week’s albums, reissues and other musical goodies from classic artists making musical waves yet again.
Davy Jones‘ wife and daughters made the trip from Florida to the UK to join British-based family members in saying goodbye to the former Monkee on Sunday. The private memorial service was held in Jones’ […]
After the death of former Monkee Davy Jones on February 29th, album sales for the band have risen 1,265%. The band also finds itself reentering the Billboard charts for the first time since 2003.
Sources say the private funeral service for Davy Jones will be held today in Florida. It is also being reported that the former frontman of the Monkees will be cremated.
Micky Dolenz revealed the surviving members of the Monkees may not attend Davy Jones‘ private funeral service in Florida to avoid a media frenzy. His statement comes after hearing the wishes of Jones’ family to […]
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- The Beauty Of Manhattanhenge... John Fogerty "Wrote A Song... L.A.'s Whisky A Go Go Honors... Dan Taylor's Boat Excursion...
- Sandals Emerald Bay - Great... 2013 Kentucky Derby... Depeche Mode at the... Billy Joel At The 2013 New...
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Today's cars, light trucks, and sport-utility vehicles are high-tech marvels with digital dashboards, oxygen sensors, electronic computers, unibody construction, and more. They run better, longer, and more efficiently than models of years past.
But when it comes to repairs, some things stay the same. The following tips should help you along the way:
Do your homework before taking your vehicle in for repairs or service.
- Read the owner's manual to learn about the vehicle's systems and components.
- Follow the recommended service schedules.
- Keep a log of all repairs and service.
When you think about it, you know your car better than anyone else. You drive it every day and know how it feels and sounds when everything is right. So don't ignore its warning signals.
Use all of your senses to inspect your car frequently. Check for:
- Unusual sounds, odors, drips, leaks, smoke, warning lights, gauge readings.
- Changes in acceleration, engine performance, gas mileage, fluid levels.
- Worn tires, belts, hoses.
- Problems in handling, braking, steering, vibrations.
- Note when the problem occurs.
- Is it constant or periodic?
- When the vehicle is cold or after the engine has warmed up?
- At all speeds? Only under acceleration? During braking? When shifting?
- When did the problem first start?
Once you are at our location, communicate your findings.
- Be prepared to describe the symptoms.
- Carry a written list of the symptoms that you can give us.
- Resist the temptation to suggest a specific course of repair. Just as you would with your physician, tell us where it hurts and how long it's been that way, but let the technician diagnose and recommend a remedy.
Stay involved. . . Ask questions.
- Ask as many questions as you need. Do not be embarrassed to request lay definitions.
- Don't rush the technician to make an on-the-spot diagnosis. You may ask to be called and apprised of the problem, course of action, and costs before work begins.
- Before you leave, be sure you understand all shop policies regarding labor rates, guarantees, and acceptable methods of payment.
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Published on Apr 20, 2012 by whitehouse
The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan “must have the courage” to return to the negotiating table and resolve their differences peacefully, says US President Barack Obama.
He was speaking after South Sudan said it had ordered its troops to withdraw from the Heglig oil field in Sudan.
Within hours of Friday’s announcement, Sudan said it had retaken Heglig town.
South Sudanese forces captured the area last week, accusing Khartoum of using it as a base to launch attacks.
“We know what needs to happen,” said President Obama. “The government of Sudan must stop its military actions including aerial bombardments.
“It must give aid workers the access they need to save lives. And it must end its support for armed groups inside the South.”
Turning to the government of the newly independent South Sudan, Mr Obama said: “Likewise, the government of South Sudan must end its support for armed groups inside Sudan and it must cease its military actions across the border.
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Simple Tips for Keeping Lent in our Families
Let’s be honest: how do we moms feel when we suddenly realize while we are in Liturgy, that the Gospel reading for the Sunday is the Prodigal Son, which cues us that Lent is around the corner? If you’re like me, you start doing a mental checklist of all the meat that needs to be used up in the next few weeks, and what upcoming events are going to conflict with the fast and services. When does Holy Week fall? And whose birthday is getting trumped by Lent? (We have three family birthdays in late February and early March!)
Perhaps some of these collected words of wisdom from other Orthodox mothers will be encouraging.
- Don’t sweat the small stuff. Most parents find it’s better to resist the temptation to read labels while shopping in the store, or to try to monitor what our older kids are choosing to eat when they aren’t at home. Let’s not set up standards of perfection that will quickly succumb to the practical realities of family life. The overall goal is that we and our children will cleanse our souls, simplify our lives, practice a greater degree of love and self sacrifice, and prepare for the Feast of Pascha. Our own father confessors can best guide us as to how to do this without ruining the atmosphere in our homes with Lenten grumpiness.
- Do create a Lent-friendly kitchen. We can keep our pantries free of dairy-heavy snacks and Beef Jerky. Our food buying can set an example, and so can our choices. But then, we also need to remember that our children are still children! I’ll never forget His Grace Bishop Joseph’s exhortation when, at a women’s retreat, a mother asked him, “How do we handle the fast with our children?” “Your fasting should be more rigorous than your childrens’ fasting,” he said. He went on to explain that what we do while they are watching is more important than what we make them do. Also, as the cooks, we can help them along by finding tasty, albeit simple recipes that they enjoy. Try the book When You Fast: Recipes for Lenten Seasons by Catherine Mandell.
- Do put thought into managing the family calendar. Life sure doesn’t stop during Lent, does it? It relentlessly marches on with baseball playoff games, school plays, non-Orthodox family weddings, and western Easter gatherings. We have to decide at the beginning of each Lenten week what to do, and what to forgo. In this, there are two temptations: to try to make each service and live as if nothing else is happening, or to shrug and give up attempting extra Lenten efforts, since it’s just too out of step with the rest of the world. With the former, we get after our kids if they aren’t good sports about the fasting and church attendance. With the latter, we mostly ignore the holy season because of our kids’ complaints or our own laziness. As always, we need to strive for balance.
Sister Magdalen reminds us in Children in the Church Today, being a wise parent “sometimes involves letting go temporarily of secondary aspects in order to concentrate on central things (faith, love, freedom, truth). We know that ‘secondary’ things contribute to the essentials, and we try to live in a way that makes this manifest, and to explain it to our young people. However, we may have to wait patiently while our children go through the experience of sorting out the central meaning of life for themselves.” This good counsel extends to all of the Lenten disciplines. Let’s go forward into this journey with enthusiasm, knowing that in due season we will “reap, if we faint not.”
Practical suggestions for observing Lent:
- Do pick one service a week to go to—but work around family member schedules. Sometimes we let one child pick a favorite service and then we attend it with him or her, and enjoy a Lenten restaurant meal together afterwards. The child loves the one-on-one time and it gives us a moment to talk about what we just experienced together in the service.
- Find a church task during Lent and Holy Week for the kids to help with—prosphora baking, egg dyeing, decorating the temple.
- Talk about it! After dinner, ask, why do we fast? Discuss the Sunday observance that’s upcoming.
- Pick an alms project. Get a coin box from OCMC, find out how to help the charity supported by your parish, take up a family collection for the IOCC.
- Put up this good fridge poster: “My Lenten Journey,” which tracks the time and suggests one simple way to keep Lent each of the 40 days.
- Read Pictures of God and Close to Home, two new Conciliar Press books that teach kids and moms about keeping the faith
- Listen to the music of the Church: www.archangelsbooks.com or www.ancientfaithradio.com
- Purchase books about the saints, or this Bible story book: The Bible For Young People
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