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I love getting little sneak peeks into books…they will give me that little push towards picking up the book if I like the writing style. Beauty from Pain by Georgia Cates was released yesterday, and I’ve got an excerpt from the book and a giveaway to win an e-copy at the end of this post!
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Romance
They agreed on three months…but their love knew no boundaries.
Jack McLachlan is a winemaking magnate and easily one of Australia’s most eligible bachelors. His success and wealth make him no stranger to the complications of romantic relationships and that’s why he goes to extreme measures to avoid the hassle. He prefers simplicity in the form of a beautiful female companion with no strings attached. He arranges relationships like business deals and they’re always the same. No long term relationships. No real names.
It’s his game and his rules. He’s content to play as usual, but when Laurelyn Prescott enters his life, his strategy must change because this player is like none he’s ever encountered. His world is turned on its head after he begins a three month affair with the beautiful American musician. Nothing goes according to plan and as he breaks more and more of his own rules for her, she’s exceptionally close to becoming something he never thought possible. His ultimate game changer.
Not recommended for younger readers due to sexual content and language.
About Georgia Cates
Georgia resides in rural Mississippi with her wonderful husband, Jeff, and their two beautiful daughters. She spent fourteen years as a labor and delivery nurse before she decided to pursue her dream of becoming an author and hasn’t looked back yet.
When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about writing. When she’s being domestic, she’s listening to her iPod and visualizing scenes for her current work in progress. Every story coming from her always has a song to inspire it.
Jack McLachlan’s POV
I sit in the dark corner and scan the room like a starved predator searching for prey. I haven’t chosen her yet, but the woman who will share my bed for the next few months is in this room right now.
I watch a lovely blond approach my table. “What can I bring you?” Hmm. A waitress – not at all my usual taste.
I have a type. Attractive. Mature. Refined. This barmaid meets the attractive requirement well enough, but she’s void of refinement or maturity as displayed by her choice of apparel – a white, barely there tank top and frazzled cutoff denim shorts. She doesn’t do it for me. Plus, my last two companions were blond. I want a different flavor this time, but no redheads. I want a brunette. A beautiful one.
I remind myself I’m not in Sydney where I have an endless variety of sophisticated women from which to choose. My choices are more limited in the small town of Wagga Wagga, but that doesn’t mean I have to settle for the first attractive woman I see.
“I’ll have a Shiraz.”
I’m prepared for a more prolonged relationship this time – three whole months instead of the usual three or four weeks. I’m looking forward to keeping this one around a little longer, and that’s all the more reason to be certain I make a wise choice.
I begin my search of the club with the first table toward the front of the room. A brunette beauty sits with a group of women. I watch her for a while, but decide she’s too friendly with the woman sitting next to her. Lesbians aren’t in my repertoire.
I spend the next hour scanning the club and come up empty-handed. I’m discouraged. No one stands out as the one and this club is by far my best bet for meeting single women in this town. Maybe I should consider coming back another time when it’s not open mic night. Tonight, the place is crawling with boozed college students. Tonight’s search has been a failure, but at least the karaoke was entertaining.
I’m finishing off the last of my wine before I leave when an announcer from the club takes the stage and asks for the next singer to step forward. A small group of people across the room nominates one of its own. My view of the poor bastard is blocked by the crowd of intoxicated kids standing between us, but I’m certain this is going to be another delightful train wreck.
The club erupts into cheer and chants. “Do. It. Do. It. Do. It.” A young woman walks onto the stage and stands with her back to the crowd as she lifts a guitar from its stand. She lifts its strap over her head and then tosses her long brown hair over one shoulder. When she’s finished settling the guitar into place, she circles around and sits on the stool in the middle of the stage.
She’s beautiful. And somehow overlooked during my search. She’s wearing a short ivory dress and a denim jacket with brown cowgirl boots. She bares her thighs as she lifts her feet to rest on the bottom rail, but she’s careful to push her dress between her legs so she doesn’t provide a peep show to the crowd.
She strums the borrowed guitar a few times and then leans into the microphone. “Is everyone having a good time tonight?”
She’s American. I think. Her accent sounds different – not like what I’ve heard in the past. The crowd erupts into a drunken cheer and I hear a man’s voice yell over the crowd, “It’s better now, sweet thing!”
She smiles and adjusts the mic. “I’m not from around here. It’s my first night in Australia.”
“Leave with me and I’ll make you feel right at home!” a man shouts from the back of the room.
She ignores the fat, ugly bastard yelling at her. “I don’t know what kind of music Australians like, but this has been one of my favorites for as long as I can remember.” She strums a few more chords. “This is ‘Crash Into Me’ by the Dave Matthews Band.”
She sings it slower than the original, putting her own twist on it. Her voice is raspy and sexy, her eyes closed. She oozes eroticism. She tilts her head and opens her eyes when she begins to sing the chorus. I swear it feels like she’s looking right in my direction, singing to me. “Oh, and you come craasshh … into me. And I come into … you … And I come into you … in a boy’s dream … in a boy’s dream.”
The stage lights shine in her face and common sense tells me she can’t see me sitting in the dark corner at the back of the club, but that doesn’t stop me from hoping. She finishes the chorus and shuts her eyes again. Her long legs bounce against the rail of the stool to keep rhythm and I fall victim to her siren’s song. She has bewitched me. And I want her.
She’s the one.
From reading this excerpt from Jack’s POV and having read one from Laurelyn’s POV as well, I am pretty sure that this book will be really good. I’m picking up my copy ASAP! But, if you’re interested, you can enter the giveaway below for an e-book copy of Beauty From Pain. This giveaway is international and runs from now until February 6. The winner will be contacted on February 7 and should receive their copy from Smashwords from the author after February 16.
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Depression: Moving Forward
Recognize and Overcome Depression
Overcoming a difficult time in your life can be hard. Everyone gets a little down sometimes amidst life’s challenges. But there are times when sadness, loss of interest in life, and trouble with sleep or appetite can hang on for weeks. These problems may get in the way of the things you normally do. When this is the case, depression may be the cause.
Depression is more than just feeling bad or upset after a troubling event. It is a serious medical condition. And it’s very common. Each year, millions of Americans suffer with depression.
People who are depressed often get better—and continue to improve over time—with treatment.
It’s important to remember, though, that depression is one of the most treatable illnesses. Treatment works in about 80 to 90 percent of depression cases. And this often happens in just a few weeks, given the right care.
This issue of Your Source, you'll learn about:
- The different types of depression
- Recognizing the warning signs of depression
- How to help a family member who may be depressed
- How treatment—often including professional counseling and medication—can help beat depression.
If you, a family member or a co-worker suffer with depression, don’t try to go it alone. Get help from a health professional. There are many tools you can access to help you cope with depression and move forward.
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When a Family Member has Depression
Depression can strike anyone at any time, in good times or bad. Although external factors such as a tough economy can appear to be likely causes, in truth the source of depression isn’t always known.
Seek Help as Soon as Possible
If you think that someone in your family—young or old—is suffering with depression, it’s important to recognize the symptoms and assist the person in getting help. Children, adolescents and elders will need the most help and guidance.
Your family member may not agree to get treatment right away. They may need to hear from you and others—more than once—that that they deserve to feel better, and that proper treatment will help. Be persistent in getting help for them!
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Try to learn as much as you can about depression and the services available to you through your organization’s health benefits. Psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists diagnose depression and provide counseling or psychotherapy. The most common treatments for depression are professional counseling, anti-depression medication, or a combination of the two. Encourage your family member to stick with the treatment plan. This includes taking prescribed medicine exactly as directed. Improvement may take several weeks.
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- Remember to take seriously any threats to self or others the person may express. Seek professional advice.
- Finally, take care of yourself. Supporting a depressed person can make you feel “down in the dumps.” Make sure you get out and do something for yourself.
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April 29, 2013 by dianahom
How sweet it is to receive a letter from a friend! All 200+ of our children have received letters from their sponsors and friends and they are so excited to write back. Thank you to everyone who wrote to the children for Write to Your Child Month!
All the children receiving letters
April 18, 2013 by dianahom
The month of April brings all the children home from boarding school and reunites the Children’s Home. Across the nation, Kenya school systems have breaks during the months of April, August and December. This month, the children are enjoying being all together again. They are spending their time playing, tending to the gardens and baking bread. Please pray for them and our house parents and staff as they spend the month together before all the children return to school in May.
April 17, 2013 by dianahom
Linus (security), Benja (security), Reuben (kitchen), Abraham (kitchen), Aaron (herdsman) and Mr. & Mrs. Kemei (house parents) enjoy their time away.
A little time away can refresh and strengthen a person. This is what our house parents and Kipkaren Children’s Home staff experienced when they took a day trip to the Uganda border where they were able to spend time together as a team, enjoy a new environment, browse the local shops and take time to pray. The ladies enjoyed their time as they found nice clothes, handbags and shoes at affordable prices. (more…)
March 12, 2013 by Micah Albert
Sunset on the shores of Lake Victoria, Tanzania. (Photo by Micah Albert)
March 12, 2013 by dianahom
At the end of 2012 we said farewell to Katie Cook as she transitioned out of ELI to focus on community development in her neighborhood. We were very sad to see her go. She has been a huge part of ELI serving as the Short Term Team Ministry Coordinator and then the Community Engagement Coordinator. Katie was first introduced to ELI 4 years ago when she invited ELI to be a beneficiary of her non-profit business, Africa Hope, which sold t-shirts to benefit charities working in Africa. We were so drawn in by her compassionate heart, creativity and energy that we needed to have her as our new Short Term Team Ministry Coordinator. She did a great job preparing teams and interns serving in ELI, Kenya. Her care for people has been evident to so many as she spent her time to listen to people’s concerns, answer questions, train and pray for each person. There are many who can say she was more than a coordinator, but, she was a friend and mentor.
February 24, 2013 by dianahom
Ilula Children’s Home Form 1 (Freshman) Boys
By Amy Rogers and Cathy Lessig
We are thrilled this year that Concord Boys High School in Eldoret, Kenya, has invited over twenty boys from ELI’s Children’s’ Homes in Ilula (15+) and Kipkaren (5) to attend their school. We are excited our boys have a great support system for each other! (more…)
February 22, 2013 by dianahom
By Cathy Lessig
Today one of the boys from the Kipkaren Childrens’ Home had an incredible day!
He traveled to Nairobi for an overnight trip.
He was awarded a secondary school scholarship which includes tuition for the next four years, books, school uniforms, a stipend plus leadership development, career guidance, and mentoring.
He shook the hand of his president, Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki during a commissioning ceremony held at State House!
Who is this boy? (more…)
February 19, 2013 by dianahom
What is your favorite greeting? Here’s a chance to say hello to your sponsored child! We invite you to participate in our annual Write to Your Child Month, where we hope to send all 200+ children a message from their sponsors. Be sure to send in your letter by March 18th!
February 15, 2013 by dianahom
The husbands in Ilula invited their wives to a special Valentine’s Day celebration where they enjoyed good food, special company and fun conversations in celebration of their love for one another. What a good God we serve!
February 7, 2013 by dianahom
Linda, one of our children in the Ilula Children’s Home, just received news that she passed the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam. This is a huge feat! This means she is able to join high school. Along with the 20 other children in Ilula and 6 children in Kipkaren who passed the KCPE exams, Linda waits for the results of what high school will accept her. We’re hoping to hear from schools starting next week. This is a huge milestone for children who would never been able to go to school if it were not for the Children’s Homes. One life at a time we are caring for orphans and giving them a hope and a future.
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Technology / Attributes Of Procedure-Based And Goal-Based Information Activities
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Ch 1 - McNurin & Sprague
Review Question 10) List several attributes of procedure-based and goal-based information activities. Which do you think are most important? Why?
Attributes of procedure-based information activities include (with examples):
•High volume of transactions – transactions associated with the stock market.
•Low cost (value) per transaction – transactions associated with mechanisms that output to a screen what a customer has bought at the grocery store.
•Focus on process – the steps a worker routinely makes on their terminals to place an order to buy stock for a customer.
•Focus on efficiency – the steps a manager makes to be sure that employees have the right information at their fingertips.
Attributes of goal-based information activities include (with examples):
•Measured by results – a system which counts how many of a certain product has been bought and if in fact the quota has been met for the month.
•Focus on effectiveness – a system that performs up to the standards that its documentation said. This will help the organization and the manager obtain an objective not only more quickly but also more correctly.
•Focus on problems and goals –a system that helps with or outputs data which helps render a problem and ultimately obtains a goal.
The attributes that are most important regarding procedure-based are:
Focus on process –By having a process an organization communicates precise guidelines to help ensure that daily actions and decisions are consistent with organizational values, strategies and objectives.
Focus on efficiency – By having a system or standing plan that describes what actions are to be taken in support of policies.
The attributes that are most important regarding goal-based are:
Focus on effectiveness – Goals clarify what the organization expects and are included in the plan or strategy for doing its work. Even though every good plan is flexible, it also maps the route to a result and or goal. When such a process is done effectively it is usually successful.
Focus on problems and goals – Develop strategies for evaluating the team’s processes and outcomes. When a team sets goals – it uses the team’s purposes as a starting base to define its goals. Goals are a form of clear and desirable performance targets. The basic premise is that task goals can be highly motivating if they are properly set and if they are well managed. Goals can give direction to people in their work to help solve problems.
Discussion Question 2) Do we really need a major change in the way the information system’s function is structured? Aren’t the necessary changes just minor modifications to accommodate normal growth in computer uses?
Yes, I feel we need a major change in the way information systems are structured. We must change with the times and can’t rely on one stagnant function or process. Technology can change very rapidly, so a minor modification may not be enough to change with the times. As technology and business change – IS will change as it has from the 70’s to the 90’s. The case study regarding Mead is a good example as they changed their business structure/model with the times.
Ch 2 - McNurin & Sprague
Discussion Question 1) The definition of a vision is not the responsibility of the CIO. It is the responsibility of the CEO and the other senior executives. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
I disagree because a majority of the vision in today’s market place is technology based. Therefore a CEO and senior executives will not have a good grasp of technology. The power of visualization is helping teams achieve their goals – all members need to understand the team vision, the projected consequence of the work – make sure everyone on the team has a mental picture of what the final result will be like – how it will feel – what it will provide. The CIO will be more vocal to the employees in these aspects then a CEO or upper management.
The five principles of visionary only strengthen my point:
1) Challenge the process – be a pioneer encourages innovation and ideas.
2) Be enthusiastic – inspire others through actions to share the vision
3) Help others to act – Be a team player and support others efforts and talents
4) Set the example – provide a consistent role model for others
5) Celebrate achievements – Use emotion to rally hearts as well as minds
Discussion Question 2) Do you agree that the “rules of the game have changed†enough to warrant redefinition of the CIO’s role. Won’t the primary responsibility continue to be managing IT? Aren’t there other executives that are better prepared and perhaps better motivated to know the business and its vision.
I agree that the “rules of the game have changed†and feel the CIO role will continue to change as technology and business practices come into play. CIO is now not only someone who must understand recommendations for technology but understand business as well. The primary responsibility of IT in the future will be more of a mixture of information technologies and major business practices, which in essence will help with a strategic business unit (SBU).
Other executives are not better prepared because the CIO is the vision who provides over-sight, strategic planning and management direction on all information technology and information infrastructure programs.
Ch 1 – McNurin & Sprague
Question 1 – “Information systems are now viewed as system “products†and users have become “customers.†Pg 12
Haven’t information systems always been viewed as system “products†and users “customers†or is this a new concept?
Question 2 – “The wave of the future is applying information technology to goal-based activities, where the enterprise is more important than the process†pg 15
By applying IT to goal based activities is this short changing these processes especially low volume of transactions, high value (cost) per transaction?
Ch 2 – McNurin & Sprague
Question 1 – “Visions are seldom original, Peters notes. A visionary may be the person who focuses attention on an idea at a point in time, but that visionary is likely to have heard it from someone else.†Pg 43
Wouldn’t the visionary see the new idea or concept in their mind and not have heard it from someone else? Or wouldn’t the visionary use the “heard†idea but have the insight to relate the vision to the times and expand and develop the plan?
Question 2 – “Developing a systems architecture is no longer a technical exercise; it is now a strategic business unit.†Pg 48
If developing a system is no longer a technical exercise how does it physically get implemented?
Ch 1- Gates
Question 1 – “Some subsidiaries accounted for products from our manufacturing corporation in Ireland based on their cost; others used a percentage of customer price as the cost.†Pg 9
How could subsidiaries in different countries account for products from manufacturing using different basis? It seems this would be an accounting nightmare and make other countries stronger then others.
Question 2 – “Companies should spend less time protecting financial data from employees and more time teaching then to analyze and act on it.†Pg 18
Why should a company give financial data to employees and risk exposing sensitive company data to employees who might not stay with the organization long enough to benefit and may turn the information that is known against the company?
Ch 2 – Gates
Question 1 – “With a third party to handle logistics and with help from our partners for the Big Day events, the plan would entail just two new head counts and cost a total of just $1.5 million.†Pg 30
Do you feel this number of $1.5 million to set up such an event is realistic for a small to mid-size company whose revenue may be in this ballpark?
Question 2 – “To begin creating a digital nervous system, you should first develop an ideal picture of the information you need to run your business and to understand your markets and your competitors†pg 37
Should this form of action be the case – no matter what – even if an organization is not creating a digital nervous system?
Important Points and Why
Ch 1 - McNurin & Sprague
1) “It has become easier for new companies to enter major industries such as airlines, banking, telecommunications, trucking and others because of deregulation.†Pg 6
The three important aspects in today’s IS world are transportation and finance and communications. These aspects have made it so a once small company can now enter a major market and be profitable. A great example of this is currently Turner Broadcasting. Without deregulation one or two companies would have the stronghold in the three above aspects which in turn would hamper the success of other organizations.
2) “Information workers are increasingly mobile. Communication technology has developed to the point where information work can be done anywhere with a laptop computer, cellular telephone, and modem.†Pg 7
This has changed the IS professional (sometimes for good or bad). The good aspect is that it allows work to be done anywhere. The bad aspect is that it is hard for one to get away from work they are always at the disposable of the firm.
3) “Local area networks (LANs) connected to wide area networks (WANs) allow computer connectivity to be at a level akin to that of voice connectivity provided by the worldwide telephone system.†Pg 11
The network changed IS – especially now that the client/server has allowed better processes to be created and managed so that in essence work can be done faster and information can be archived and obtained easier and quicker then ever before.
4) “Information systems are now viewed as system “products†and users have become “customers.†Pg 12
This shows the strength to which IS now has in the market place. By viewing the system as a product, an information systems importance of system quality, information quality and systems success has been recognized as key ingredients in developing a competitive advantage.
5) “The wave of the future is applying information technology to goal-based activities, where the enterprise is more important than the process†pg 15
By applying such information technology system quality: (Measures of the Information Processing System Itself), information quality: (Measures of Information System Output), information use: (Recipient Consumption of the Output of an Information System), user satisfaction: (Recipient Response to the Use of the Output of an Information System), individual impact: (The Effect of an Information System on the Behavior of the Recipient), and organizational impact: (The Effect of Information on Organizational Performance) will be used which in essence will help the organization obtain its goals.
Ch 2 - McNurin & Sprague
1) “Today it is also important to understand the environment in which business operates because the rules of competition have changed and are likely to change even further with full-blown electronic commerce.†Pg 36
Businesses right now, especially major some major companies are reluctant to go into e-commerce. The business section of the New York Times on Sunday Feb 23 reported on this short-siding and stated that while many companies are taking a back-seat to e-commerce – other firms are going with full-fledge systems and advertising campaigns. This scenario shows that some companies understand the environment while others don’t.
2) “Visions are seldom original, Peters notes. A visionary may be the person who focuses attention on an idea at a point in time, but that visionary is likely to have heard it from someone else.†Pg 43
Visions are what drives this industry’s technological advancement. Without it – the rapid pace of technology would not be as strong.
3) “Although it used to be considered strictly a technical issue, implementing an IT architecture has really occurred in tandem with rethinking company operations – how it works, what it does, with whom it works, and so on – because the architecture should support new ways of operating.†Pg 47
Those that go into IT and know it is more technical will benefit. Those that don’t won’t fit in IT correctly into their business model.
4) “Developing a system’s architecture is no longer a technical exercise; it is now a strategic business unit.†Pg 48
Those companies that realize that a system’s architecture is a vital part of the business mix will achieve great success in the future because they will have the tools necessary to prosper.
5) “Yet another trend that has required IS executives to forge partnerships or alliance with other companies is the move to reduce the number of suppliers.†Pg 52
In a flooded market of suppliers, it is becoming easier to go with a company like Lanier where under one roof a firm can get all their product needs as well as the support they desire. However companies such as Lanier charge 8-9% more for each product due to this convenience.
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I'm creating a flash site, that you can download stuff from, I need a log to know what the people are downloading and when. I know that I can't simply load the XML log file, add to it and then save it again as this may overwrite an entry that happened during the upload/download of the xml log?
Any ideas how to do this, or even better are there any components to do this?
Yes, I do understand you can do that, however, what happens if two or more people are downloading, and attempt to write the XML file back! Some data is going to be lost. Do you understand now?
To make this clearer,
Person A decide to download a file, and the site reads the XML to the client machine.
Person B decides to download a file at that same time and reads the XML file.
Person A writes the XML back to the server and with the new information in it.
Person B writes the XML back.
Oops! XML on persons B machine doesn't have the information from persons A XML so therefore lost.
Again thank you for the reply.
OK! This is my theory to solving this problem I have.
I'll have two xml files, the first being the log itself, the second we can call a lock file also xml.
The lock file consists of:
<file lock="false" />
When a person clicks to download a file, the swf downloads the lock file and checks to see if the lock property is false, if it is then it is set to true and sent back, then it can freely download and modify the log, then the lock file is set to false and sent back.
If on the other hand the lock property is true, it'll wait an amount of time before loading the lock file again, until the lock file says it is OK to load the XML log.
I'll do some tests over then next few days and keep you posted.
Just thought of an even better way of doing it! Which solves the multi-access to a single file problem.
Having not a single log file but one for each user IP, in other words, have a seperate log file for each computer that logs in.
If I save the XML as the users IP address and then there is no problem as no one else will have that IP address.
OK! Problem solved.
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Originally Posted by benanderson89
You need to firmly establish the context of your sentences. Also sarcasm.
Strange how you should say the clock directly relates to wattage.
Current Gen Ivy bridge Mobile Processors as a prime example:
i7 2630QM - 2.0GHz 45W
i7 2860QM - 2.5GHz 45W
i7 2640M - 2.8GHz 35W
If its directly related to wattage then why the hell has the 2.8 got a 35W TDP? Please explain your logic.
The reason the QM range will need a higher wattage is because its on chip features require a higher power draw - screw the clock speed. Its clearly shown to be irrelevant here in processors of the same generation and family.
Are the 2630 the 2640 and the 2860 not different models? Take any one of those chips and run it at different clock speeds and get back to me.
If that doesn't convince you then explain why Intel uses variable clock rates in its new chips to manage power usage.
It was to establish that clock and wattage mean nothing when two CPUs with different specs but identical clock and wattage can perform vastly different. By your logic they should be neck and neck. Also, why couldn't you pit an x86 and a Sparc together to see which performed better? I think that would be a rather interesting comparison.
Your inability to read for content is amazing, this discussion was never about different CPUs with different specs. It is about what happens when you up the clock rate on any given chip. Point in fact they run hotter.
As to the x86 and Sparc comparison the two chips aren't even designed for the same types of workloads. Well that and it just pulls the discussion off track which seems to be your goal here.
Yes, there are more important factors. But saying someone goes for a light machine because they are a weakling just shows the idiocy on your part. I wanted a really lightweight machine when I attended University because it was on my back the majority of the day in a bag full to the brim with stupid-thick text books. Because I also needed something powerful for programming.
I can see where you might not like that, however I stand by my remarks. It is silly to focus on weight at the expense of all other features. Frankly I suspect that this was a big factor in the Netbook failure.
The HP ProBook my dad has is a BRAND NEW SANDY BRIDGE MACHINE. Its not an old 'prime' computer from 6 years ago, its brand spanking new! You say thinness sacrifices performance, up to a certain point (sub notebooks), yes. Though the MacBook Pro clearly out performs the ProBook and yet is strangely thinner AND lighter.
So its low wattage but it isn't. What? Compared to other CPUs yes, but its still a Low Wattage, Low Voltage CPU.
ATOM as it currently stands is pretty much a worthless offering. It is not low wattage in the sense of the common ARM chips. Further at slightly higher wattages you can get much better performance out of AMDs Zacate/Ontario chips.
I own two iPads (1,2), an iPhone 4 and an iPod touch. So yes I have clearly seen an iOS device to base it upon. But my point still remains - by your logic of wattage = performance, why do the ARM CPUs seem to outperform or be neck and neck with the Atom when the atom has a higher clock and higher wattage (2~10 vs 0.5~2)? You have been harping on about wattage and clock rate equating to better performance?
You have not seen an ATOM based iOS device, unless of course you work for Apple. Thus you have no idea how an ATOM based iOS device would function. In any event you missed that point just like you missed the point on wattage.
With the AMD and Intel comparison I was making, I was highlighting your statement of "higher clock = better performance". The AMD V140 and Sandy i7 are both current Gen CPUs. The AMD runs at a higher clock rate, yet performs far worse. You either need to explain yourself better or rethink the statements you are making.
I'm really wondering how in the hell you will make it through school, you repeatedly twist simple statemeevenings false representations even after I've repeatedly explained where your problems is. there is no value in comparing clock rates between different manufactures hardware, you can't even do it with different chips from the same manufacture. It isn't my statements that are messed up, it is you that have taken the wrong position and the try to pull in totally unrelated information into the argument.
Maybe you are trolling or maybe you just don't grasp the technology, but you have yet to address anything I've said.
No, the wattage would not increase above 45W. I have a 2.0GHz i7, the 2.5GHz i7 in the same family/gen is still 45W TDP. When my i7 turbo boosts to 2.9GHz, its still 45W TDP. I think you might be confusing wattage with voltage. In which case yes you would be correct. Voltage governs the clock rate, though I shouldn't need to tell you how over-clocking works since you apparently know everything :roll:
Again you are referencing material that isn't related to the argument. Ask your self why the wattage stays at 45 watts when turbo boosting. I will help you along here, it is because the chip either turns off or throttle some of the other cores on the chip. When that core turbo boosts to 2.9GHz it is expending a lot more power than at its base speed. It really seems like this concept has gone completely over your head. Increasing clock rate increases power in CMOS circuits, it always has and always will.
Look at this another way, if you take that 2.0 GHz chip of yours and over clock it's base frequency will it run hotter?
Also, to answer your question of "why do they charge more for higher clock rates" - they do to make money, but is always poor value. Over-clocking has shown that all it takes is a minute increase in voltage to up the clock rate to the level of the top-of-the-line processor of the same family/gen and gain the same performance.
OK what do over clockers concentrate on to get those chips to operate reliably over clocked? Usually the first thing an Over clocker installs is a better than stock heat sink. Why? Because the chip runs hotter. Why does it run hotter - well two things impact this. One is the bump in voltage and the other is the increase in clock rate.
All comparisons I've made are new and recent processors. I think you may be confusing generation with family.
I honestly think you are confusing wattage with voltage. A higher clock rate increases the voltage.
The definition of voltage is "Voltage is equal to the work which would have to be done".
No I'm not confusing anything here. If you increase the voltage to a processor core you increase disapated power. By the way the clock rate does not increase voltage on most processors, people do that from their BIOS settings. Wattage does go up with clock rate though, it is a rather fundamental point too.
I was showing that a processor with a 299MHz clock could outperform a 700MHz processor (that by your logic is impossible)
My god are you dense or what? Seriously where have I ever said such a thing? Seriously where do you come up with this stuff?
from the same generation despite its lower wattage and vastly slower clock speed, yet the Emotion Engine came out on top because of its on chip features. Not its clock rate and wattage
. Funny how that works.
I'm beginning to think you have a reading comprehension problem because even a troll would not make such convoluted arguments. This discussion has never been about how specialized processor perform in comparison to more run of the mill processors. It is about what happens when you up the clock rate on a given processor. When you do that you increase performance and increase the power disapated. There is no magic here, it is the way CMOS circuits work.
What may be causing you some confusion is that modern processors actively manage power. They do that by turning off cores and adjusting clock rates. This only goes to prove my point though, one can adjust the power disapated by a processor by adjusting its clock rate dynamically. Don't buy this from me then read some of Intels documentation.
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The Clarkston boys basketball team sent a message to the OAA Red on Friday night, thrashing North Farmington for a 50-31 victory.
Clarkston and North Farmington were tied at the top of the OAA Red standings heading into Friday night's match up but the Wolves made sure that the game was never within reach for the Raiders.
Clarkston senior Jordan Dasuqi scored 27 points to nearly match the score of the entire North Farmington team. Dasuqi shot 6-for-10 from three point range, hitting his first four attempts from beyond the arc.
"I have to be confident," Dasuqi said. "I have to set an example for the younger kids. That is a big thing right now, we have only three seniors that really play a lot. (Coach) is always talking about how our seniors don't lead. Just showing our confidence, showing and and coming every single day is what I've been trying to do. If I miss five, I'm going to keep shooting."
And shoot Dasuqi did, putting up 21 of Clarkston's 50 shots while shooting 42-percent from the field.
Clarkston (9-2, 5-1 OAA Red) also had its defense up for the task, holding North Farmington (9-4, 4-2) to just two points in the first quarter to building a 17-2 lead at the end of the frame.
"I liked our defense," Clarkston coach Dan Fife said. "I thought we did a nice job on defense and we did a good job on blocking out."
After setting the tone early, Clarkston kept the pedal to the metal, picking apart the North Farmington defense while remaining stifling itself.
"It was too early to be impressed," Fife said of the first quarter lead. "They're too good of a team. They're well coached. I never think they'll let up."
Dylan Hancook added 10 points for Clarkston as the Wolves managed an easy win with just two players getting onto the score sheet with double figures. Fife is pleased with what his young team has been able to accomplish but still believes that he can get a lot more out of his players.
"We're too young to let up," Fife said. "We can't do that."
For North Farmington, nothing went its way. The Raiders' shooting was colder than the snow falling outside, going just 2-for-14 from the floor in the first half and going 1-for-11 from three point range. The free-throw line was the only saving grace for North Farmington as it shot 9-for-12 from the line.
Things couldn't even improve in the second half for the Radiers, shooting 1-for-7 from behind the arc. North Farmington shot 10-for-33 total from the floor.
"We haven't been shooting the ball real well in the last couple of games," North Farmington coach Todd Negoshian said. "We haven't played well but that is no excuse. Clarkston came in here tonight, I thought they controlled the tempo of the game."
It wasn't just poor shooting plaguing North Farmington either. The Raiders struggled on the boards all night while committing turnovers and giving up plenty of open shots.
"You can skin the cat anyway you want," Negoshian said. "They played better than us. We didn't shoot the ball, we turned it over, we didn't rebound. We didn't play hard. Clarkston took us out of our comfort zone. Ninety percent of it was because of them tonight."
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New Year’s Resolutions
Along with eating healthier and getting more exercise, here are some of my New Year’s resolutions:
1) Stop being apocalyptic. Stop expecting America to experience a crisis that “wakes” people up and changes everything. The American capitalist class has steadily ground down the working class majority since the early 1970s with no meaningful resistance and there’s no apparent reason this can’t continue indefinitely. Things don’t magically get better just because they’ve been lousy for a long time.
Git along, little sheeples, nothing to see here: thirty million Americans under or unemployed, 50 million with no health insurance, 47 million on food stamps, declining real wages and leisure time for almost 40 years, full speed ahead with illegal wars and robotic warfare, the slow strangling of prudent savers to give money to speculators (through prolonged artificially low interest rates), indefinite detention and assassinations of American citizens, immunity from prosecution (or even any investigation) for government-approved criminals -- from CIA torturers to spying telecom companies to Wall Street fraudsters, and the ongoing flash crash back to feudalism from trillions of dollars stolen in tech, housing, commodity and credit bubbles. If it walks like a crisis and quacks like a crisis but people don’t treat it like it’s a crisis, then it’s not a crisis. Through it all, no one of any import stands up and screams, “That duck has no clothes!” And there’s still no Million Gun March on Washington.
2) Look on the bright side of America’s closeness to Israel. The Great and Little Satan are arm in arm and jumping off a cliff together -- they are happy and we should be happy for them. Clarity is always good. The latest outrageous act committed by an Israeli settler automatically becomes the baseline that will be defended by every American politician. Countries that confuse their interests with other nations are the Fool walking off the mountain in the Tarot card deck. Buh-bye! Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians also flushes out all those closet Custers on the American left. People who deny justice for victims of a land and water stealing ethnic cleansing project will always undermine (or walk away from) any movement for peace or justice -- they are neo-cons in waiting.
America’s right wing doesn’t see the Israeli/Palestinian “issue” through the Nazi genocide portal so much as through the Native American genocide portal: they are cheering on the cowboys and cavalry. While they are having their masturbatory massacre fantasies of dark-skinned people, it’s good that the rest of the world sees America’s first black president warmly embrace the Bull Conner of the Middle East -- it’s a reminder that America can never be trusted and that America’s foreign policy is mainly a play thing used by politicians to get elected. Support of Israel is America’s warning label, a skull and crossbones that says America doesn’t mean anything it says about freedom, equality, democracy, or one person one vote. “Separate and unequal, segregation now and forever!” says Barack Obama, where it concerns Palestinians.
3) Stop listening to people who talk about the “1% versus the 99%.” This phrase must have been thought up by someone who believes capitalism is basically good but some miscellaneous fiends just ruined it for everybody with their “cronyism” etc. They never tell us how the capitalist class got such a crushing financial advantage to begin with. Here’s the answer: They got all this money by stealing it from you at work each day where you are paid only a tiny fraction of the vast wealth that you help create. The capitalists siphon off the surplus booty for their opulent lifestyles plus assorted payoffs to the other purposeless parasites and anti-evolutionary freaks that comprise the tax, insurance, real estate, advertising and public relations industries. And don’t forget about the petty cash to bribe United States Senators. You work and pay for all of it, including your own enslavement. If you understand and believe this, you are now a Marxist -- that didn’t hurt, did it? The problem isn’t the 1%, it’s 100% the capitalist system because it’s based on theft.
Other reasons to reject the “1% versus the 99%”: First, if we look at the people who respond to the “bread” component of the American empire’s bread and circuses, we find that millions are doing perfectly fine and feel they have way too much to lose by any change in the current system. On the “circuses” side of the equation there are plenty of people content with blaming their problems on immigrants and minorities and glorying in the spectacle of killing the latest Muslim villain of the month. ( In Obamaville there are only two street signs and they both point in the same re-election direction: Dow Jones Green, Muslims Blood Red -- it’s kind of a Christmassy-type intersection.) And if we add in all the members of the working class who either are ignorant of their own class interests or actually aspire to be members of the capitalist class, we might find that the percentage of “us” versus “them” doesn’t look so favorable.
Instead, I urge a different kind of percentage to move the debate forward. I believe that America will start to turn around at the exact moment that the capitalist class becomes more afraid of the working class than we are of them. As soon as 51% of us performs this judo, America begins to get well. Working out the expression of losing our fear is the only real issue. The capitalist class hasn’t had to give back anything in nearly 40 years and nothing really significant since the Great Depression. The 1% versus 99% is meaningless -- 51% of the capitalist class being scared shitless for their lives is priceless.
4) Stay positive. No matter how bad things look for non-human animals and nature, one day Guyeah! (my version of Gaia) will prevail and that blight known as humanity will be gone or have to significantly (whimsically and ahimsacally) start over. O happy day!
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to play a little Tetris. You don’t have any Tofutti Cuties on ya, do ya?
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The Lost Blogs #16
Only one thing comes to mind when I think of Osaka: 焼き yaki! Yaki-tori, okonomi-yaki, tako-yaki, yaki-soba. Yaki-everything. Everything grilled!
We spent a weekend in Osaka back in January. Traveling by local trains to save money, it took 4 hours on the way there, and 5 hours on our return trip. We stayed in the strangely decorated Dotonbori Hotel, which has recently been featured in a blog as being one of Japan’s most stylish strange hotels. Actually, the hotel itself is not that strange. It has weird human-sized face statues on the outside, which made it easy to find, but the interior is that of your average business hotel. The rooms are small and basic, but clean. The rooms can also be quite cheap, especially considering its location in Dotonbori. It’s also only a few minutes walk from the city subway exits.
On our first day in Osaka, we spent our day in Umeda, also known as the Kita (North) district. We were able to do some shopping inside the HEP (Hankyu Entertainment Park) complex, and also had lunch and dessert in their food court. The dessert is one of my highlights of this trip. Have you ever eaten ice cream from a shoe before? I hadn’t, which is why I knew I just had to order the Cinderella Parfait, which came served in a glass slipper.
In the evening, we headed to Namba, also known as the Minami (South) district to explore Dotonbori and the Shinsaibashi Shopping Arcade. We skipped Den Den Town because we’ve been to Akihabara in Tokyo before, and we also skipped seeing Amerikamura as well. We were mostly there for the food. I ate some of the best okonomiyaki I have ever had at Mizuno Okonomiyaki, where the food was actually cooked for us by the chef. Then, we ate at Daruma Dotonbori, which is supposedly the original kushi-katsu restaurant. I always thought that the original kushi-katsu was pork, but it is actually beef. The skewered cheese and skewered mochi were also very delicious. On Sunday, we stayed in Dotonbori to continue our food itinerary. We ate yakisoba for breakfast, followed by a serving of takoyaki.
Our last stop in Osaka was to visit the reconstruction of Osaka Castle. The castle was destroyed in 1615, rebuilt in the 1620s, and then struck by lightning and burnt down in 1665. The reconstruction interior is now highly modern and even features an elevator for easier accessibility. The museum is large and can take a couple of hours to see everything, especially if you take your time to follow the 3-D video tour. I thought it was a little strange.
Although it is one of the largest cities in Japan, I feel pretty satisfied with having spent just a weekend there. It is famous for its food, and I tried everything I wanted to eat there. But, I’ll probably be making a repeat visit for a day to show my sister around. Mmm. I can’t wait to eat okonomiyaki there again.
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…and I’m not, particularly – anyway: Hot Air is covering this pretty obsessively. Possibly too obsessively for their long-term mental health, but that’s their call, not mine. Everybody’s got their own breaking strain.
One piece of advice, though? – If you’re getting to the point that you can’t see straight (or are there already), now is an excellent time to turn off the computer, eat a sandwich, have a nap, and disengage until you can center your chi energy, or whatever. If you’re not thinking clearly, then almost by definition you’re not operating optimally. Seriously. Take a breathing exercise, or something; you’re no good to anybody all tangled up inside, including (not incidentally at all) yourself.
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Oracle RAC and the Lamport algorithm
The Lamport algorithm is fast and scalable in RAC as it generates the SCNs in parallel and the SCNs are assigned to the transactions
Another algorithm that is simpler than Dr. Lamport's bakery algorithm is based on the broadcasting operation after a commit operation, and this is the default SCN generation algorithm in single instance Oracle implementations. In this method, the SCN is broadcasted to the participating nodes immediately after a commit operation. This ensures that read consistency is at the highest level so that the participating nodes know the current state of the transaction irrespective of the workload. This method puts additional load on the systems, as it has to broadcast the SCN for every commit; however, the other nodes can see the committed SCN immediately.
The initialization parameter max_commit_propagation_delay limits the maximum delay allowed for SCN propagation to the participating nodes and controls the SCN scheme used in the OPS/RAC environment. This parameter defaults to 7 seconds (700 centiseconds) in most of the platforms except for the Compaq Tru64 UNIX. When we set the max_commit_propagation_delay initialization parameter to any value less than 100, the broadcast on commit algorithm is used. The alert log is updated immediately after startup with the method used for SCN generation.
Let's start the second instance and check the reconfiguration event entries in the alert.log:
SQL> startup nomount;
In the alert log of the second instance we see this:
Mon Aug 29 17:40:35 2005 lmon registered with NM - instance id 2 (internal mem no 1) Mon Aug 29 17:40:37 2005 Reconfiguration started (old inc 0, new inc 2) List of nodes: 0 1 Global Resource Directory frozen Update rdomain variables
Now two nodes in the clusters have internal IDs of 0 and 1. The rest of the messages are pretty much the same as in the first instance's alert log file.
Use the following table of contents to navigate to chapter excerpts or click here to view RAC Troubleshooting in its entirety.
|About the book:|
|Oracle Database 10g: Real Applications Clusters Handbook Learn to implement Oracle real application clusters from the ground up. Maximize database availability, scalability, and efficiency. Find RAC concepts, administration, tuning, and troubleshooting information. You'll learn how to prepare and create Oracle RAC databases and servers, and automate administrative tasks. You'll also get full coverage of cutting-edge Oracle RAC diagnostic tools, backup and recovery procedures, performance tweaks and custom application design strategies. Buy this book at McGraw-Hill/Osborne|
|About the author:|
|K Gopalakrishnan is a senior principal consultant with the Advanced Technology Services group at Oracle Corporation, specializing exclusively in performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery. He is a recognized expert in Oracle RAC and Database Internals and has used his extensive expertise in solving many vexing performance issues all across the world for telecom giants, banks, financial institutions, and universities.|
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In Trey Songz new music video for “Can’t Be Friends” he sings about a relationship post-breakup, and the hard time that he has with remaining friends when they are no longer together.
“I wish we never did it / And I wish we never loved it / I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain’t no way we can be friends.
Watch Trey go insane thinking about his lost love in the official video for “Can’t Be Friends” below:
“Can’t Be Friends” will be featured on Trey’s upcoming studio album titled “Passion, Pain and Pleasure,” which is scheduled for a September 14th release.
Anthony Mandler directed the emotional video and I swear Trey’s reading my mind right about now…
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Red-Burning Galaxies Hold the Key to Galaxy Evolution
August 5, 2011
A research team of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has identified the location of red star-forming galaxies around a galaxy cluster situated four billion light years distant from Earth. A panoramic observation with the Subaru Telescope yielded the result. Scientists surmise that such "red-burning galaxies" are in a transitional phase from a young generation of galaxies to older one; they may demonstrate the dramatic evolution of galaxies in the environment surrounding the cluster. The key areas for understanding how environment shaped galaxy evolution in the past universe may be where red-burning galaxies are most numerous, in small groups on the outskirts of the rich cluster rather than within it.
The birth of galaxies occurred more than ten billion years ago in the ancient Universe. Assembled under their own gravity, early galaxies formed into big clusters or small groups. During the process of assemblage, their properties changed in relation to their surrounding environments, just as human traits change in the contexts of their lives. For example, galaxies grouped in high-density environments such as clusters tend to be elliptical or lenticular while solitary ones tend to be spiral galaxies. How galaxies form and evolve is one of the biggest mysteries in recent extragalactic astronomy.
When and how did patterns of galactic formation become established and evolve? To address this question, many astronomers are investigating distant clusters of galaxies where assemblage of galaxies occurred in the early universe. A research team led by Dr. Yusei Koyama used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) to carry out a panoramic observation targeting a relatively well-known rich cluster, CL0939+4713, located four billion light years away from Earth (see Fig. 1). The team used a special filter that can detect the hydrogen-alpha (Hα) line emitted by ionized hydrogen four billion years ago (see Note 1). Koyama's team members carefully compared the images taken with and without the special filter and then identified more than 400 galaxies showing an excess of Hα in the special filter images (see Fig. 2). Such narrow-band "excess" galaxies are likely to be star-forming galaxies. Surprisingly, Koyama's team found that an unexpectedly large number of star-forming galaxies had red colors. Even more interesting was the location of these red-burning galaxies; they reside primarily in the group-scale environments located far away from the main body of the cluster (see red symbols in Fig. 2 and also Note 2).
These findings raise some intriguing questions. What is the physical origin of these red-burning galaxies? Why are they concentrated in groups and not in clusters? No one, including the research team members, knows the answer yet. At a minimum, the strong Hα emissions clearly show that the red-burning galaxies are actively forming new stars. Therefore, their red colors are likely to be produced by dust rather than by old stellar populations (see Note 3). The researchers expect that the strong gravity of the main cluster will cause the groups where the red-burning galaxies are most numerous to merge with it. The most significant result of this research is that the properties of galaxies are indeed changing in relatively sparse environments before they are finally absorbed into a very rich cluster.
The research team noticed that the number of old galaxies, without active star-formation, appeared to be increasing in the group environments, exactly where the red-burning galaxies are most numerous. This suggests that the red-burning galaxies are related to the increase in old galaxies, and that they are likely to be in a transitional phase from a younger to an older generation. The finding that such transitional galaxies are located most frequently within group environments shows that galaxy groups are the key environments for understanding how environment shapes the evolution of galaxies.
The research team emphasized the important contribution of the unique wide-field capability of the Subaru Telescope for accomplishing this research, because its panoramic imaging revealed the location of the transitional galaxies. The same research team now plans to conduct a new observation to identify the physical origin of the red-burning galaxies discovered in this study. This should be an important and exciting step toward a more complete understanding of the environments shaping the galaxies in the present-day universe.
The results presented here were published in the paper, "Red Star-Forming Galaxies and Their Environment at z=0.4 Revealed by Panoramic Hα imaging" (Koyama, Y. et al., 2011, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 734, pp. 66-78).
- Yusei Koyama (University of Tokyo/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, JSPS research fellow)
- Tadayuki Kodama (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/Subaru Telescope)
- Fumiaki Nakata (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/Subaru Telescope)
- Kazuhiro Shimasaku (University of Tokyo)
- Sadanori Okamura (University of Tokyo)
1) The research team used a narrow-band filter called NB921, which transmits light within a very limited wavelength range, around 918 nm. The Hα line (656 nm in the rest-frame and an excellent indicator of star formation) emitted four billion years ago is expected to fall in this narrow-band filter due to the redshift effect. Therefore, a galaxy showing an excess emission in the narrow-band image is a strong candidate for being a star-forming galaxy associated with the targeted cluster. Note that galaxies having emissions in this band but at different redshifts may sometimes confuse the identification of narrow-band excess galaxies. However, this can be easily clarified by using broad-band color information.
2) A star-forming galaxy is dominated by blue, short-lived O- or B-type stars and generally appears blue. However, once star formation has ceased, the blue bright stars soon die and then the colors of galaxies change to red. Therefore, interpretation of the red-burning galaxies discovered in this research is challenging, because these galaxies show red colors, which suggest weak or no star formation, as well as strong Hα emissions, which suggest active star formation, at the same time.
3) If a galaxy contains a large amount of dust, the color of the galaxy becomes redder. This "dust reddening" occurs because the dust in galaxies tends to absorb bluer light, which has a shorter wavelength, more effectively than redder light, which has a longer wavelength. Therefore, it is likely that the red-burning galaxies identified in this study are such dusty galaxies. A firm conclusion awaits mid- or far-infrared observations, which can directly identify the dust emissions. | <urn:uuid:d808598a-d364-477e-a819-a151cc3a21e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease/2011/08/05/index.html | 2013-06-20T09:36:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711240143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133400-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919914 | 1,387 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Re: Subclipse 0.9.15 update breaks my eclipse
Jeremy Aston wrote:
> Just a thought... Is this related to the lack of a javahl lib in
> 0.9.14 and above?
yes, if you are running OS X you will have to download a copy of javahl
and install it. Details are on the main subclipse page. I don't use OS
X, so i can't really help you much.
Downgrading is possible, but if you are using eclipse 3.0 it is rather
difficult to remove plugins and features. After removing the plugins
and features you don't want try starting eclipse with a -clean option.
If this doesn't work you could try deleting the org.eclipse.osgi
directory in <eclipse_home>/configuration. PLEASE back up your
workspace before doing thins "just in case". (i deny all responsibilty
if anything goes seriously wrong)
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Gosh, my hormones must really be out of whack! I am feeling very down, blue, sad, depressed, hormonal, menopausal, lonely, weepy, and any other sad word you can think of. I've literally been crying off and on all evening long. I hate this!
Even though I really think it is just my hormones I start going through reasons why I'm sad. I miss my husband because he's been working a lot, we haven't gotten to text much while he's at work, I miss our daughter who is away at college, I'm stressed about a big decision I need to make, my husband and I haven't had much "cuddling" time recently. The list can go on and on. But honestly, even those things are bugging me they shouldn't be making me cry this much. It's crazy! I suppose that is where the hormones & menopause come into the picture.
I've been trying to just take really good care of myself tonight. I'm blessed that I don't have to work or really have any major responsibilities. I've been letting myself cry as much as I need to, lots of crocheting, reading, and catching up on television shows. Unfortunately, that isn't helping too much. Maybe I need a few more days of just babying myself.
The hard thing is going to be when my husband gets home from work. He's so sweet and will probably be able to tell right away that I've been crying. He'll ask what is wrong and I don't know what I'm going to say. Probably just that my hormones are out of whack. I really hate to load all of this stuff on his shoulders. He shouldn't have to worry about me all the time. He shouldn't feel like my happiness depends on if we've had much time together, if we have texted any, or if we've been having lots of sex. He has a lot of things on his shoulders and even though they are nice and broad I shouldn't heap more on to them!
Hopefully writing here will help me. I struggle with thinking things are terrible when I'm hormonal like this. I read serious problems into little things. I don't want to do that this time. I just want to realize that it's hormones, that I need to really pamper myself for awhile, and that I'll be feeling better before I know it!
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That's not good. Whilst the dust seals melting is no safety issue, the cracked piston is a HUGE worry. If there is a single case of this occurring in a non-tracked car, I can feel a recall coming on! You just don't mess with brakes!
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Do you know how much you are paying your current investment or financial advisor? Investment and financial counseling/planning is one of the few fields where consumers often have no idea how much, in total, the services they are buying cost them.
Fees and expenses are major culprits in destroying the performance of investment portfolios. For example, a $250,000 portfolio earning 8% annually grows to $592,000 over ten years with total fees and expenses of 1% per year. However, increase those costs to just 3% per year and the same investments are worth only $493,000; virtually $100,000 less for the investor!
Advisors, brokers and planners often use high-expense mutual funds in addition to charging commissions, loads and other fees. To make matters worse, they refuse to provide their clients an itemized list of fees and expenses. Investors end up frequently paying 3% or more each year unaware that their pockets (or portfolios) are being picked.
According to the CFA Institute, the average annual expenses of equity mutual funds are over 1.40%, and that does not include broker fees, commissions, loads or other costs imposed on investors. Moreover, it represents the costs of owning the funds only with no counseling or advice as to what investments are appropriate for you.
No Insight Wealth Management client is paying more than 1.25% annually in total fees and expenses, including our fees. IWM uses low (or no) cost securities such as index and exchange-traded funds, stocks and bonds to implement the investment strategies it tailors to the specific needs of each client. Moreover, our investment philosophy emphasizes long-term investments with low turnover to minimize investor costs and taxable capital gains.
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With its 6" size and wing-like features, this deadly soft plastic falls slowly in the strike zone. The double tail emits a vibration that entices fish, even in murky water. Each is salt-impregnated for extra bite-holding power. It’s often used on a Texas or Carolina rig. Per 8. Size: 6". Colors:(001)Amber Black, (009)Watermelon Seed (022)Pumpkin, (062)Black/Red Swirl, (100)Black Sapphire, (120)Watermelon Candy, (202)Junebug, (283)Watermelon Magic, (284)Green Pumpkin Magic, (304)Watermelon Red Magic, (542)Green Pumpkin, (996)Watermelon/Red Flake. | <urn:uuid:8692af41-26e5-472f-bd29-0661d0cdc9b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cabelas.com/product/Fishing/Soft-Baits/Creatures%7C/pc/104793480/c/104772780/sc/104285880/Zoom-Brush-Hog/1222196.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Ffishing-soft-baits-creatures%2F_%2FN-1100345%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_104285880%3FWTz_l%3DSBC%253BMMcat104793480%253Bcat104772780 | 2013-06-20T09:31:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711240143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133400-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.764119 | 160 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Just a few more days... Until then, here's one of my favorites: Lie on your back, preferably with some kind of lumbar support to maintain your lordotic arch. Pull one knee to your chest without allowing your hips to rotate AT ALL. Hang out with the knee to your chest for a little while, fighting that pelvic rotation. Once you've loosened up a bit in that position, begin trying to straighten that leg without changing your knee and pelvis positions -- you may not be able to straighten it very much at all, but that's fine. Hold that, making sure that pelvis is static, for 20-60 seconds.
I've found this to be one of the best ways to make sure my clients are not absorbing some of the stretch with their lower backs and actually stretching the hamstrings. It also seems to hit the lateral part of the leg a little better, which tends to not receive as much of a stretch in other positions. Thanks to Kelly Starrett of San Francisco CrossFit
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- Recent Fourth District Foreclosure Trends
- Guhan Venkatu
- Some U.S. states have seen their foreclosure rates fall since the housing bust and recession. Some have seen them rise. In the Fourth District, for example, foreclosure rates remain at or near historic highs. Which outcome a state will experience seems to have a lot to do with the kind of process that is used in the state to resolve foreclosures.
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By Bruce Wood
It's a pretty good bet that when players from New Orleans powerhouse St. Augustine High School were breaking off long gainers, blowing past dazed defensive backs and running down receivers at the Tulane football camp in the '90s, Tulane head coach Buddy Teevens was watching intently.
Check out the St. Augustine Wikipedia page and you'll see why. The site lists no fewer than 19 former Purple Knights who went on to play in the NFL, including former New England Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis. Tyrann Matheiu, the "Honey Badger," is another well-known product of St. Aug, which had no fewer than 14 players accept football scholarships a couple of years ago.
One of the Tulane campers from St. Augustine when Teevens was coaching in the Big Easy was a kid named Cortez Hankton. Although he was a good enough student to get recruiting letters from Brown and Columbia as a high school senior, the young receiver wasn't high on Tulane's radar. And Teevens, who was offensive coordinator and receivers coach for the Illini by the time Hankton started hearing from recruiters, never called.
Overlooked by BCS programs, Hankton headed 450 miles to Texas Southern, one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs) in Houston. There he would go on to be a four-year starter, a two-year captain, the school record-holder for season and career receiving yards, and a third-team, Division I-AA All-America.
But the NFL, like big-time football schools four years earlier, did not come calling for the 6-foot, 200-pound receiver who set a record with a 99-yard touchdown reception in college.
Undrafted out of Texas Southern, Hankton signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars and went on to catch 17 passes as a rookie. A year later he saw himself on SportsCenter after he hauled in a 14-yard fade from Byron Leftwich with 45 seconds left to give the Jags a 22-16 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
He went on to play four years for the Jags, signed with the Minnesota Vikings in '07, and then spent the '08 season on injured reserve with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Released in the final round of cuts by the Bucs in '09 - too late in the process to catch on with another NFL team - he instead signed with the New York Sentinels of the United Football League. He was nominated for the UFL Offensive Player of the Year the next season as a member of the Florida Tuskers and celebrated a championship with the team a year later when the Tuskers played as the Virginia Destroyers.
It was while playing his final season of pro ball that Hankton, who spent one season as a volunteer receivers coach at a high school in Orlando, Fla., was surprised to find himself catching the coaching bug while playing for head coach Marty Schottenheimer and coordinator Terry Shea.
"Before the championship game with the Destroyers I talked to Schottenheimer and Shea, who were big-time coaches," he said. "They were always asking me, 'Do you want to get into coaching?' I had just started considering it. Before that I said I would never do it. Coaches put in too much time. They are in the office too much.
"What I started to realize is they find a way to have time for their families. They have an opportunity to do something that they love. So before my last game the decision was made. I started working the next day on my package and my resume to get ready to approach the coaching profession."
For as accomplished as he was on the field, and for as bright and personable as he is face to face, Hankton didn't find doors swinging open for him. And so he did what he could do to help his chances, working as a volunteer assistant for player personnel at the University of Central Florida, evaluating and breaking down film of potential recruits among other responsibilities.
Hankton's big break came courtesy of fellow Texas Southern grad James Jones, the former Dartmouth defensive line coach now at the University of Northern Colorado.
"I was really getting frustrated because I wasn't even getting opportunities to interview for jobs," Hankton recalled. "That was hard for me. I felt if I could just get in front of somebody they would really appreciate my knowledge of the game, the way that I present and can articulate the game to players.
"James knew they were looking for somebody here and that I wanted to get into coaching. When he called and asked me if I'd be interested I said, 'Without question.'"
Dartmouth needed a replacement for Jarrail Jackson, whose departure for Washington State cost the Big Green not just its wide receivers coach but also a huge recruiting presence in Oklahoma and Texas. Although Hankton didn't have any real coaching experience, Teevens was intrigued enough by what he learned to offer him an interview. And Hankton, who always believed he would win the day if he could just get in front of a head coach, proved he was right.
"I got a good read on him from my friends in New Orleans," said Teevens. "I was very impressed when he came up. The thing that I've been excited about is his ability to communicate. I saw that when I met with him.
"He is always prepared. He has a good mind for the game. Obviously, he's a guy who played five or six years in the NFL so he has seen just about everything. I knew he'd be a very good recruiter because of his work ethic. People in New Orleans and Texas know about him and there's going to be an attraction because young men Google coaches."
He certainly gets a vote of confidence from Kirby Schoenthaler, Dartmouth's top receiver a year ago. "He played pro football for six years or so, so he knows the game," Schoenthaler said. "He's incorporated some new stuff with tennis balls and soccer balls to teach us. I've enjoyed playing for him and learning from him."
And Hankton has enjoyed every bit of his college experience, right down to helping clear equipment off the field at the end of practice.
"My parents instilled in me to always show appreciation to people for the things they do for you and I don't think I've stopped thanking Coach Teevens for this opportunity yet," he said. "I'll always be grateful."
So grateful, in fact, that when he got a call about playing again in the UFL just days before Dartmouth camp was to begin he said thanks, but no thanks. He'd rather keep learning the ropes from the veteran coaches around him while working with the Big Green's deep and talented group of receivers.
"I have a good group of guys that are really competing for playing time on Saturdays," he said. "We have 20 receivers and it is hard to pick my top six right now. They bought into the philosophy of being accountable, having a good attitude and having the right approach every single day."
Which pretty much describes the kid from St. Aug who ended up not at Tulane or Illinois or at Florida, but instead found success at an FCS school in Texas.
"Coach T didn't recruit me then," Hankton said. "I have to give him a hard time about that now. But everything happens for a reason."
Teevens might have overlooked Hankton 15 or so years ago, but he's confident that he came away with a treasure when he finally did reel him in, even if he is a rookie coach.
"People say it's taking a risk," the head coach said, "but I've got a gold mine in terms of what he's bringing to us."
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Did you know that cardiovascular disease claims more women each year than the next FIVE leading causes of death among women? We’re talking half a million women a year die of heart disease!
Lung cancer and breast cancer are ranked second and third.
While these statistics may sound scary, there is some encouraging news — heart disease is mostly preventable. You read that right... PREVENTABLE! Your healthy lifestyle (or lack of it) will make all the difference in the world.
We need to learn to love and respect our hearts to keep them strong and healthy! So how do we do that?
The answer to this is two-fold. And it goes back to that same old song and dance: diet and exercise.
We have to understand that inactivity is one of the major risk factors in developing heart disease. The antidote to the inactivity problem is establishing a new habit of moving — something as simple as walking out the door each morning for 15 minutes and turning around and coming home equals 30 minutes of aerobic activity—the American Heart Association’s recommendation for exercise.
It doesn’t have to be expensive and difficult to be effective. Keep that in mind.
That 30 minutes of walking is going to affect every muscle in your body, especially the most important muscle of all — your heart. That little bit of movement each day is like investing a portion of your paycheck every month into a savings account so you can have something in your retirement years. By the time you need your little nest egg, it will be built up and providing you the comfort you need in your older years.
That is what exercise will do for your heart, too.
But what does that look like? We all know that toned muscles are stronger than untoned muscles. We’ve all seen pictures of body builders and know what toned muscles look like (not that I’m saying your muscles need to be THAT toned!). Movement helps your muscles to grow, your body fat to diminish and your heart to get stronger.
Cardiovascular exercise — that would be walking, jogging, running, swimming, dancing, mowing the lawn — is what builds healthy heart muscle. The way to exercise your heart ... Continue
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Drive to Restore Wildflowers 12 April 2012
New drive to restore our lost wildflowers
Green–fingered groups from across Northern Ireland are set to get into the gardening spirit this weekend in an attempt to bring back Northern Ireland’s lost wildflowers.
Around 150 square metres of wildflower meadow will be sown across the province this weekend — marking the launch of the UK’s biggest environmental campaign, RHS Britain in Bloom 2012. Groups and schools from Londonderry, Lisburn and Ballymena among many others will be sowing some of the millions of wildflower seeds provided by the RHS over a 48–hour period.
They will be among 1,200 groups from across the UK getting involved.
Helping to launch the first National Gardening Week — which begins on Monday — the scheme will help revive the province’s wildflower populations.
In serious decline for a number of decades, some 97% of wildflower meadows were lost across England and Wales between the 1930s and 1980s.
Presenter Sarah Raven — who has presented Bees, Butterflies And Blooms on the BBC — said the UK was “in a process of rediscovering our love for wildflowers” and the project was a valiant attempt at rejuvenating much of the lost wild plant life.
The event will take place on April 14 and 15. For further information or to find out how you can get involved visit the website at www.rhs.org.uk/getinvolved
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First Look At Angelina Jolie in ‘Maleficent’
The actress reveals a menacing look as the Mistress of Evil from the classic fairytale, ‘Sleeping Beauty’.
Disney has released a first-look photo of Angelina Jolie in Maleficent, which tells the story of the Mistress of Evil, the villain from Sleeping Beauty. The studio has promised that the film will reveal the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse the baby, Aurora.
The film's been knocking around for years - with Tim Burton rumoured to be attached at one point - but the reigns were eventually handed over to Oscar-winning production designer, Robert Stromberg (Avatar, Alice In Wonderland), who will make his directorial debut with the role.
Joining Jolie (who will also executive produce) in the film is Elle Fanning as Aurora/Sleeping Beauty, Sam Riley, Sharlto Copley, Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville.
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While preparing my year-end review entry (coming Friday), I began ruminating about the music I grew up with. How much of it is truly great twenty years later? What were the best albums of the 1980s? (Using Garrison Keillor's definition of "good" as discussed yesterday, which albums are "sticky"?)
Here are my favorite albums from the 1980s:
15. Culture Club - Colour By Numbers (1983)
One of only two albums I ever shoplifted (a story for another time), this was destined to become one of my favorites for years. I'd been mildly interested by the songs from Culture Club's first album — particularly "Time (Clock of the Heart)" — but I fell in love with the obtuse "Karma Chameleon". So much in love that I was willing to steal this from the PayLess Drugs in Woodburn. To my surprise, the entire album was impressive, breezy and light, soulful and true in a way I'd never heard before. (I was only fourteen.) To this day Boy George's melodramatic "Victims" makes me misty.
14. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (1988)
Though it's her song "Crossroads" that's become a personal anthem, Tracy Chapman's debut album has stuck with me more than the follow-up. I don't listen to it much anymore, but I think of it often. I used to hate "Fast Car", but now that I'm older, its lyrics have more resonance. The entire album — a testament to growing up poor and black — might seem irrelevant to a young white man like me, but something about it got in my soul, wormed its way into my center and stayed there. This is a fine album.
13. Asia - Asia (1982)
Yes, I'm serious. This and its follow-up (1984's Alpha) were two of our most-listened-to albums growing up. This album was the first that Jeff and I bought with our own money. It was the first album I bought from the iTunes Music Store. Why do I love it so much? The power chords! The cheesy lyrics! The bouncy synths! This is accessible 80s power rock at its finest.
12. Duran Duran - Rio (1982)
I was a sensitive boy, almost a fop. Duran Duran's sparkling emotionalism made me feel at home. These guys wore their hearts on their sleeves. Forget "Hungry Like the Wolf". This album's gems were songs like "Lonely in Your Nightmare", "Hold Back the Rain", and "Save a Prayer". I was just feeling the first pangs of teenaged angst when this was released, and it helped to ease the pain. This album is a pleasure to hear now, a smooth ride down Memory Lane.
11. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits vol. 1 and 2 (1985)
Billy Joel? Yes, Billy Joel. His music was always there in the background as I was growing up — and I loved his mournful tune "An Innocent Man" — but I never really heard him until he released this double-album. It's filled with one great song after another: "Piano Man", "Entertainer", "Stranger", "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant", "Movin' Out", "My Life", "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me", "She's Got a Way", "Allentown", "Goodnight Saigon", ad infinitum. There's something comforting in Joel's voice, something that feels like home.
10. Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)
The critical darling of 1986 (along with Peter Gabriel's "So"), Graceland seemed inaccessible to me at first. I bought it on a trip to the beach, a date with Lena Doak. We listened to it on the ride home, and I didn't know what to make of it. This didn't sound like the Simon and Garfunkel stuff I'd grown up with. It was all, well, African and stuff. In time, however, I wore my tape out. I listened to it that much (especially the beginning to "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"). In college, this was one of those albums everyone owned, and you could hear wherever you went on campus. (But especially at The Bistro.)
09. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
I used to hate the songs from this album, an album that I've never actually owned. Yet so many songs from this — seven — were radio singles that I feel I know the album well. And now that I'm older, I appreciate it more. These songs weren't written for a fifteen-year-old; they were written for a thirty-year-old. Or forty-year-old. These are songs of growing older, of living life. These are songs about real people in real situations, a sharp contrast to the fluff I was listening to at the time.
08. Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
A brilliant album! This was like a shock to the head when I first heard it, so different from anything else I knew. Raw, emotional, direct. I remember sitting in Nicole's bedroom, the two of us raving about Purple Rain. There were a number of popular singles from this album, but it really works best as a single whole. I used to love when "Purple Rain" was played at a high school dance; the song wasn't particularly sexy, but it was a slow song and what? six or seven minutes long. Awesome! Sad to say, I no longer own this album in any form. I'll have to fix that, and soon.
07. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
Yes, Michael Jackson has become a joke, a faint parody of himself. And even in 1982 and 1983 people mocked him. But that doesn't change the fact that Thriller was everywhere back then. It charted top-10 singles for a year. The songs were simple but catchy. Even the cool kids on the back of the bus listened to this album (though only for "Beat It", which they played as loud as they could on their boomboxes). Once in a while, when Kris is not home, I listen to Thriller. It's only human nature.
06. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (1984)
Probably another surprise to many of you, but not if you know me well. This album is amazing, filled with track after track of great music. I consider "Time After Time" to be the #2 song of the 1980s — "Every Breath You Take" is #1, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is #3 — but everything here is good: "When You Were Mine", "Money Changes Everything", "All Through the Night", "Witness", etc. The b-sides to the singles were also fantastic. It's hard to remember it now, but there was a time when Cyndi Lauper was just as popular as Madonna. To my mind, she's certainly the better musician. (Note: one reason this album was great was that Lauper's back-up band was The Hooters, a group that produced the minor hits "And We Danced" and "All You Zombies".)
05. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)
Now we're getting to the really good stuff. To most people, Frankie Goes to Hollywood is all about one song: "Relax". This is sad because "Relax" is only a minor part of this double-album masterpiece. And make no mistake, Welcome to the Pleasuredome is a masterpiece. From the opening of "The World is My Oyster" to the rampaging "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome", the first of this album's four sides sweeps the listener along at breakneck speed, sixteen minutes of bliss. The second side is more pop-oriented, featuring the singles "Relax", "War", and "Two Tribes". The second record returns to a moody, breathtaking exploration of love and lust, highlighted by the outstanding erotic "The Ballad of 32". This album caused me great alarm in the mid-eighties; I was certain that homosexuality was a diabolic practice, and the openly gay themes espoused on the album — one song is "Krisco Kisses" — bugged me. But I liked the music. Ah, the moral dilemmas of youth.
04. The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985)
I was an angst-filled sixteen-year-old, and this record was the soundtrack to my life. It's filled with songs of sorrow and pain: "Baby Screams", "Screw", "Sinking". Yet through it all runs a thread of hope — "Close to Me" fairly breathes with life and love. Twenty years later, this album remains one of my favorites. What's more, I love any song that covers a tune from The Head on the Door. I can't help it. I've a weak spot for them. (My favorite is Ben Folds' cover of "In Between Days", a roaring piano-pop interpretation.)
03. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
I was driving to Portland to see Amy Ratzlaf, who had just returned from a year in Germany. A folk song came on the radio, but one like I'd never heard before. I loved it. When the announcer identified it — "Closer to Fine" by the Indigo Girls — I pulled off at the nearest exit to buy the album. And that was just the beginning of the rest of my life. Amy and Emily have been a constant presence in our lives for fifteen years. We try to see them in concert whenever they're in town. Check out my latest audioscrobbler list. What group have Kris and Iistened to in the past three months? The same group we listen to most in any three month period: the Indigo Girls. I like to think that Kris and I are responsible for spreading the Indigo Girls around Willamette, largely due to the fact that we pushed them on our friends, and Kris played them all the time in The Bistro.
02. U2 - War (1983)
I've written before about my love affair with U2. This is where it all began. A cold, bleak album discovered during a cold, bleak winter. War is a raw and wonderful work from men who have something to say (a decided contrast to their overhyped and shitty How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, released last month — a shoe-in for worst album of the year). The songs here are haunting and beautiful, from the bleak "New Year's Day" to the angry "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the peaceful, hopeful "40". It's hard to imagine a better album...
01. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
...but here it is. My favorite album of the 1980s. A true masterpiece. U2 steered from their standard power-rock to something more ethereal here, producing an album of kaleidoscopic sounds. True, there aren't many catchy singles to grab hold of — "Pride (In the Name of Love)" comes closest. The Unforgettable Fire begins quietly with the gentle lyrics of "A Sort of Homecoming":
And you know it�s time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow,
Across the fields of mourning —
Light in the distance.
And you hunger for the time,
Time to heal, desire, time —
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape.
A dream landscape is what U2 created with this album. A dream landscape that's difficult to explain, a dream landscape that must be heard. The centerpiece is "Bad", a tender lament about drug addiction (to be echoed later in The Joshua Tree's "Running to Stand Still"). The other songs are wonderful, too, and they lead perfectly into the coda, the gentle "MLK".
Obviously this list is biased toward the first half of the decade. I sincerely believe that's when the best music was being produced, but more than that, I didn't buy as much music after I graduated from high school. I lost touch with pop culture. (And that's not a bad thing.)
Also — just as obviously — this is a list of my favorite albums, the ones that have stuck with me. These aren't the only albums I like from the 1980s, but only the ones that have stuck with me most. There are many other albums hovering just off the list that I think are very, very good. (Stuff from The Police, Dire Straits, a-ha, New Order, ABC, Stevie Nicks, etc.)
And that's how you turn a two-minute meditation on your drive to work into a two-hour weblog entry. It's a good thing it's a slow time at work right now...
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2006 — Rating the Bond Films: The Connery Era In which I watch and review every Sean Connery Bond film.
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To help photographers Apple introduced two new cables. One cable connects the Lightning port to a USB port so users can connect a camera to their iPad or iPad MIni. The second cable connects the Lightning port to an SD card reader so users can plug-in an SD card to import photos and videos.
Apple also announced two new Lightning cables for video output. One cable is the Lightning to VGA adapter which will connect the iPad, iPad Mini or iPhone 5 to most projectors.
The Lightning to Digital AV cable is a Lightning to HDMI adapter designed to output video to HDTVs. Both of these cables ship in 2-3 weeks and start at 49.
With the fourth generation iPad Apple now has a Lightning port in every modern iOS device. Despite the lineup Apple remains the only company that makes Lightning cables and accessories. Apple only makes about half a dozen accessories, most of which are adapters.
Apple will hold a Made for iPhone seminar in early November where it will talk to third-party manufacturers about making accessories for the new Lightning port. Manufacturers can start making third-party Lightning accessories after that meeting, but only a few are likely to arrive in stores by this holiday.
Some unauthorized accessories will likely go on sale sooner thanks to the hackers who cracked the authentication chips Apple uses in Lightning cables. These accessories won’t make it into Apple Stores, but will likely find their way to other websites sometime in the next few weeks. | <urn:uuid:075ecde6-ce43-42f1-bf01-448bd4468597> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/10/23/apple-now-selling-lightning-to-vga-lightning-to-hdmi-camera-cables/ | 2013-06-20T09:22:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711240143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133400-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922786 | 294 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
You pay so is this practically the same as EGS? I think they just spin it no testing to see if the sperm are x or y...not sure!
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I believe it is ericsson method. Their odds are 60% chance of conceiving the desired gender. Reguarl sex is only 50%, so it basically gives you a 10% jump. Not good enough in my opinion.
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[photos] A tiny bit of family history
Some of my Falwell ancestors on my Grandmother Lake’s side were early settlers in Panola County, Texas. My distant cousin Mary Falwell Henderson visited the old family homestead years ago and took photos. Dad recently sent me some of the photos, along with a scan of a will from 1865 which is very difficult for me to read due to the copperplate hand. Most of the photos aren’t likely of general interest, but I was rather struck by this one:
Life in the old days was a lot, lot harder.
(Yes, I am apparently related to Jerry Falwell, who was neither moral nor in a majority, but you can’t help who your family is.)
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John goes on vacation to Helopisa. Immediately, a foo bird sh*ts on him. He asks the first person he sees where he can wash it off.
"No! No!" the person says. "You cannot wash it off! That is good luck. The ancient foo bird has chosen you. You must never wash it off."
"Hey, I can live with good luck," he thinks.
But, after a while, it starts to stink. Every time he is about to wash it off, someone appears and says, "No! You cannot wash off the foo bird sh*t." So he leaves it on.
After a week, people on the street start avoiding him. Finally, he washes it off. At dinner time, he gets dressed and leaves the hotel. At the first intersection he comes to, he is hit and killed by a truck.
The moral of the story: "If the foo sh*ts, wear it."
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Ribbon Ceremony Held for New Elementary School in Alamo
ALAMO - Dozens of people gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday for the opening of the Marcia R. Garza elementary school.
The school has been dedicated in honor of Marcia Garza and it is the newest elementary school for the PSJA school district. The school is named after Garza, who served as a teacher, counselor and principal in the PSJA school district for more than thirty years. The elementary opened it's doors in August for about six hundred students. Mrs. Garza passed away four years ago from cancer and leaders say she left a huge imprint in the community. Elementary Principal Claudia Gonzalez said, "Marcia Garza was a very positive individual, very strong person. She was a leader in this community, not only in her school at Garza Pena elementary, where she was a principal, but also in the community itself in Alamo." | <urn:uuid:18f7eda5-f5dc-462b-aa20-bf1795560c0b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kveo.com/news/ribbon-ceremony-held-for-new-elementary-school-in-alamo | 2013-06-20T09:31:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711240143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133400-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979087 | 193 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
James Beard Chef Packages On Rue La La
Food writer and chef James Beard has been gone for years but his food legacy lives on, his name inspiring visions of amazing meals. Private sale shopping website Rue La La has teamed up with James Beard Foundation to offer a trio of "Evenings with Celebrity Chefs" packages. The sale goes live on July 7, 2010 at 11:00 am Eastern Time and will run for 48 hours. After the jump are details of the three James Beard events available for purchase at exclusive Rue La La rates:
VIP Access to Chefs & Champagne: New York, July 24th. The James Beard Foundation's annual summer gala in The Hamptons will have Martha Stewart as the honoree. The wines of Wolffer Estate Vineyard will be served along with tastings from more than 30 chefs, many from James Beard award-winning restaurants. Rue La La guests will get to attend a one-hour VIP reception to mingle with the chefs, have advanced silent auction bidding, reserved seating, VIP after-party access and a VIP gift bag.
Just a few days later, on July 29 in Boston, the Celebrity Chef Tour Dinner takes place. The Celebrity Chef Tour began in 2004 as a way to bring the unique experience of dining at New York City's historic James Beard House to cities around the country. Rue La La members can enjoy a meal hosted by celebrity chefs Tony Maws (one of America's top 10 new chefs by Food & Wine Magazine), Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot at Maw's restaurant, Craigie on Main in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rue La La guests will also receive one complimentary bottle of wine.
The third offering is an evening at the esteemed James Beard House in New York on August 5. A five-course Bohemian Mexican dinner by Chef Rene Ortiz, who runs the highly acclaimed restaurant "Le Condesa" in Austin, Texas will be served. Rue La La members will have an exclusive cocktail reception before general guests arrive to mingle with the chefs. | <urn:uuid:52c383f2-b9cd-477e-8811-e3bdc7a2424f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.luxist.com/2010/07/05/james-beard-chef-packages-on-re-la-la/ | 2013-06-20T09:59:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711240143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133400-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940337 | 416 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Scott Stephenson is CompositesWorld’s conference director. He has been involved with carbon fiber composites since 1983 when he started working for Fiber Materials Inc. (Biddeford, Maine), a leading manufacturer of carbon/carbon composites. Since 1997, Stephenson has organized conferences and published studies to provide industry executives with strategic information about and analyses of the advanced materials and technologies that drive innovative product development.
It’s well known that aerospace industry qualification requirements create a high barrier of entry for new resins, fibers, adhesives or manufacturing processes. Aerospace OEMs — commercial aircraft builders, in particular — are forced to establish, early on, the materials and processes that will be used to manufacture a new aircraft. The use of alternatives to qualified materials and processes, although feasible, requires requalification, which can be prohibitively time-consuming and expensive.
Convincing a Boeing or Airbus to requalify a new material or process, then, is not easy, even when the case for the new technology is compelling in terms of saving time and money. One alternative for manufacturers of composite materials and processes is to introduce the technology into the military aerospace market first, where U.S. Department of Defense funding can offset some of the cost of qualification, and then target a larger commercial application.
It was in this regulatory environment that Quickstep (North Coogee, Australia) found itself in 2001, following development of its out-of-autoclave fluid heating technology for the molding of composite structures. Dale Brosius, president of the company’s U.S. subsidiary, Quickstep Composites LLC (Dayton, Ohio), spoke at CompositesWorld’s Carbon Fiber 2010 conference this past December in La Jolla, Calif., and updated the audience on Quickstep’s efforts to move its technology into the production manufacturing environment.
The Quickstep process uses a composite tool that floats on a bladder over a heat transfer fluid. This structure is surrounded by a pressure chamber. Computer control systems and the use of hot and cold heat transfer fluids allows for rapid curing of composite components without an autoclave. The temperatures, dwell times and mold pressures can be customized for individual parts and applications, and the use of heat transfer fluids allows for a rapid transition from one thermal state to another.
Brosius reported primarily on Quickstep’s recent success in landing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) development contracts with the U.S. Air Force for the manufacture of composite structures on the F-35 Lightning II. The first, a Phase I contract awarded in 2009 to Quickstep and manufacturing partner Vector Composites Inc. (Dayton, Ohio), was to develop a viable out-of-autoclave cure cycle for Cytec Engineered Materials’ (Tempe, Ariz.) Cycom 5250-4 bismaleimide (BMI) prepreg combined with Hexcel’s (Stamford, Conn.) IM7 carbon fiber using the Quickstep process. The companies evaluated laminate quality and mechanical performance and compared the results to an autoclave baseline. The industrial partner was ITT Integrated Structures (Salt Lake City, Utah).
Brosius said the Phase I work produced 32 panels using 21 unique process combinations, with various bagging schemes, thermal profiles, dwell times, vacuum levels and fluid pressures. He said the best performance was found when the vacuum levels inside the part and above the part were controlled independently. This permitted the extraction of air and void-forming gases, while also providing required compaction at gelation.
The subsequent Phase II contract, awarded to Vector and Quickstep, expands the work to include Cytec’s Cycom 977-3 epoxy structural prepreg, in addition to Cycom 5340-4 BMI. The 27-month effort involves development of a database of mechanical properties relevant to the critical design inputs, including hot/wet conditions; demonstration of manufacturing technology using prototype full-scale structural components that represent the blade seals and stabilizer spars on the current F-35 design; and subsequent destructive or fatigue testing. The effort includes production-capable tooling design and manufacture and demonstration of the intended manufacturing steps. Also on the docket is a cost analysis and comparison of autoclave and Quickstep’s processes, based on actual parts, to build a case for industrialization. Other partners include ITT Integrated Structures (blade seals), London, U.K.-based BAE Systems (spars) and Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin (F-35 prime contractor).
In summary, Brosius noted that the Quickstep process might allow the use of an existing design allowables database with a relatively modest qualification effort. To date, both the epoxy and BMI resin systems have been successfully cured with significantly shorter cycle times and validated via a preliminary screening matrix. Since the Carbon Fiber conference, Quickstep also announced the commercialization of the Quickstep process equipment (see “Editor's Picks," at right), which makes the process available for licensed purchase by other composites processors.blog comments powered by Disqus | <urn:uuid:f7b8a57d-c313-44f2-9a96-2244423a66d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mmsonline.com/columns/an-out-of-autoclave-progress-report | 2013-06-20T09:59:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711240143/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133400-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909178 | 1,057 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Ella C Pittman Elementary School Apparel
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Category: Opinion Written by Courier Newsroom
If we had believed all the horrid, negative TV ads put out by right wing media advertisers against President Obama last year, he would not have been re-elected. Fortunately we saw through the false rhetoric. We now have Republican media operatives working against Bill Peduto to manipulate the minds of African-American voters. Disappointingly, some African-American voters are blindly drinking the poisoned Kool Aid fed through TV and mailings, believing the falsehoods that Peduto did not support Homewood and the Hill District. Seriously folks? Have we forgotten the lessons we learned just last year about ads? They can be purchased lies. The statements about Bill indeed have been lies.
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:54
Category: Opinion Written by Raynard Jackson
(NNPA)—I have travelled all over the world and have spent many years of my life studying the history of the world and can’t recall any instance of a surviving civilization without an intact family structure—mother, father, and children.
I fully understand that the march towards modernity waits for no one. In communications, we went from teletype to telephones; from newspapers to radio; from radio to TV; from TV to mobile devices.
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:01
Category: Opinion Written by CNN
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder at the 32nd annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service, May 15, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, honoring law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
by Ruben Navarrette
(CNN) -- "Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. ... My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use." -- President Barack Obama, memo to heads of executive departments and agencies, 2009
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 05:00
Category: Opinion Written by Courier Newsroom
by Fred Logan
We are all very sad to hear that the August Wilson Center is in deep financial trouble and may close its doors. But don’t let anyone try to tell you that the local Black community is to blame for AWC’s plight. The May 11, 2013 Post-Gazette reported that AWC has a multi-million dollar debt and is laying off its staff.
Some fools are bound to argue what they always do: They will also charge that the Black community does this and that with its money but doesn't support black institutions as much as it should. Even if this is true in general, we still, in this case, are not the blame for AWC.
The local Black community at large never pledged or signed an oath that it would take on ACW’s financial burden. It was never polled on support for AWC.
On a very bright, but cold and windy weekday morning several years back, I was at the AWC’s groundbreaking with Aisha White. We stood there trembling in the cold under a great big white tent. Bill Robinson, Dan Onorato, and several other elected officials were on the platform to speak. At the time, Neil Barclay was AWC’s CEO. He said the center had raised $27 million of its $38 million total costs. And it looked to raise most of the $11 million shortfall in the Black community. That was my first time hearing that.
Aisha White stays up on what’s going on around town. So, I asked her if she had heard that before. She said, no she had not. I asked her if she thought AWC could raise the money in the local Black community and she said she doubted it very much. I agreed with her 100 %. A lot of Black people I have talked with since then were also very doubtful. Time has proven us correct.
Richard Adams told me several weeks ago that he was surprised and impressed to hear recently that Black people in Allegheny County have the combined annual income of some $1 billion.
That is a lot of money. But what are the total annual living expenses for Black people in the county? Subtract the basic living expenses, food, shelter, clothing, transportation, education, etc. from that $1 B and what is left, if anything, is the Black “discretionary” money for things like AWC.
A very important financial question to ask here is this. If the Black community had pledged to underwrite the center, did AWC have the staff wherewithal to collect the money? It would be a major labor-intensive task to collect that money which would come in in dribbles from local Black people. We can argue abstractly on what the Black community should do. But the official government statistics have said that Black people in the greater Pittsburgh area are the most poverty stricken Black people in the top 40 US metropolitan regions. That says concretely what we can do.
Fund raising is organization as much as it is commitment. The African American church assemblies its congregation weekly and collects offerings from its members who need what the church provides. It is very difficult to image a more efficient revenue raising mechanism.
In contrast, the local Black community loved the Harambee II Black Arts Festival during the festival’s heydays some 20 years ago, and would have given the festival financial support. But the Harambee organization was over burdened with programming, logistics, etc., and did not have the organization to collect individual contributions. One year, Harambee made donation envelops and forgot to put a return address on them. The late Beverly Lovelace was a staunch Harambee patron. On her own, she sent a donation to Harambee each year during its heydays. I ran into her once and she laughed and told the truth. She said she know you all need the money but are too stretched out to solicit it.
That was Harambee.
Carl Redwood, Dessie Bey, Vernell Lille, Connie Bailey, Vickie Bey, Sam Black, Augustus “Gus” Brown and some other sophisticated Black arts patrons have pointed out to me a variety of important issues to ask about AWC. I will only ask one of these non-financial questions.
I knew August Wilson only well enough to speak when we met. I saw five or six of his plays and read some of his essays on art. I saw his 1989 lecture at the Harambee II Black Arts Festival and a year or so later heard him speak at the Hazlet Theater on the Northside. Based on this and from talking with people who knew August much better than I did, for example Rob Penny, I ask, would August himself preferred, and would the Center be more politically and culturally situated and more financially solvent, if it was located on Centre Avenue in August’s beloved Hill District and not on Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh?
Someone is bound to say the question is based on hindsight. Yes, that’s true, but it is still a valid question to ask.
Since the steel mills left town decades ago, countless multimillion dollar projects have gone belly up, Lloyd and Taylor’s, ad infinitum. In each case, we are told the blame was the local market, a recession, mismanagement or some other systemic economic factor. What you have never heard argued and what you will never hear argued, by Black or White folks, is that the local White community at large is the blame for any of these White led failures because the White community did not support them.
In the face of this, fools will still try to blame the Black community for every Black led project that comes along and fails. We are morally, politically, and culturally obligated to tell them they are wrong, not that this will convince all of them, and defool each and every damn fool.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:46
Category: Opinion Written by Louis 'Hop' Kendrick
LOUIS 'HOP' KENDRICK
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column recognizing those Black people, who served in the role of judges at every level. Several people reminded me that I had omitted two Black females and both have served in Wilkinsburg. The first Black magistrate elected in Wilkinsburg was Judge Alberta Thompson and she served until she decided to retire. The second is the incumbent magistrate, Judge Kim Hoots, who currently is serving her second term in office.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 15:20
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Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924 / Kennington / Surrey / England)
LIKE the sway of the silver birch in the breeze of dawn
Is her dainty way;
Like the gray of a twilight sky or a starlit lawn
Are her eyes of gray;
Like the clouds in their moving white
Is her breast's soft stir;
And white as the moon and bright
Is the soul of her.
Like murmur of woods in spring ere the leaves be green,
Like the voice of a bird
That sings by a stream that sings through the night unseen,
So her voice is heard.
And the secret her eyes withhold
In my soul abides,
For white as the moon and cold
Is the heart she hides.
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An excellent charcuterie and tapas bar in the heart of El Born district whose former owner realized, after running the bar for some time, that like a gynecologist, the sacrifice of working where others had fun was no life for him. Too much reading of ‘Fifty shades of grey’, perhaps. So he decided to sell and put up a hardware store for bondage games instead!
But the waiters, bartenders, butchers and regulars were not wiling to see how the atmosphere they had built would vanish and turn into the thorny subject of role games played within the confines of obsessive relationships. So some of them got together and bought the place from the BDSM renegade and managed to keep the soul of the bar within the satisfying boundaries of couples wishing to explore their imaginative limits by setting some sort of co-owned cooperative horizontal management economato.
This bar offers a variety of first quality tapas, salads, sausages and types of cheese, accompanied by a selection of Catalan wines. Its original flavors and friendly service would make the perfect sparking system for firing a long night together that would end up with breakfast on bed.
The 2 fromages salad is big enough to fulfill two empty stomachs, but you must taste the typical Catalan bread n’ tomato.
Gavinet | Bars, Coffee & tea, Snacks, Restaurants (Tapas) | Fromage salad € 8
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New Mercedes C-Class Coupe revealed
The CLK returns! Merc’s small coupe finally unveiled as firm celebrates 125 years
Mercedes-Benz has lifted the lid on the new C-Class Coupe. Finally.
Two years after production of its swoopy BMW 3-Series competitor slinked off into the sunset, Merc has unveiled a new two-door coup' which will make its debut at the Geneva motor show next month.
Set to battle with the BMW 3-Series Coupe and Audi A5, the new Cee Coupe shares styling with its saloon sibling and gets four full seats, together with multi-link independent rear suspension, and three-link McPherson struts up front.
The C-Class Coupe also comes with ‘Agility Control' as standard; the dampers change depending on road conditions sent via impulses. Float along and the dampers soften up, but give it a dose of Stig - sending impulses through the shocks - and the dampers firm up.
We'll get the AMG sports pack as standard when the C Coupe drops in the UK in June, which includes sports suspension, speed-sensitive steering, AMG bodystyling and 18s.
Three petrol engines and two diesels will kickstart the range: a 2.2-litre diesel in 170 and 204bhp guise, a 1.8-litre petrol with 156 and 204bhp, and the range-topping 3.5-litre V6 with 306bhp and 272lb ft of torque, good for a 0-100kph time of six seconds while returning 17.65 kpl.
What do you think? Certainly wouldn't kick it out of bed, at any rate. And let's not forget: slightly flared arches, bonnet vents and (probably) a 5.5-litre turbo'd V8...roll on the AMG version.
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Turned down the role of Rihcard Hoover in the movie Little Miss Sunshine which would eventually go to Greg Knnear.
He won the Emmy for "Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie" in 2007 for his role as Tom Harte in AMC's Broken Trail.
He was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2007, for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for his role in Broken Trail.
Thomas was nominated for an Oscar in 2005 under the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Sideways (2004)
Thomas had thought of retiring from acting and was spending most of his time on his ranch in Texas when he was asked by director Alexander Payne to star in Sideways (2004)
His father is an Army officer/health care worker, while his mother is a homemaker.
Thomas worked out in a gym for more than 6 months and put on more than 10 pounds of muscles to play the lead villain Flint Marko/Sandman in Spiderman-3 (2007), at director Sam Raimi's request.
Thomas was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) in 2005.
He is engaged to actress Mia Zottoli, with whom he has a daughter with, named Cody, who was born in 2004.
Thomas made his directorial debut with Rolling Kansas in 2003.
Thomas started in the entertainment business as a radio personality.
He graduated from Harlingen High School in 1979, and subsequently went on to attend the University of North Texas.
He is the third of six children in his family.
Thomas: (referring to his sex scenes with Sandra Oh in Sideways (2004)) For a while, I was through with acting, and then Alexander Payne called me up and said 'Hey, Thomas! I have a script I want you to read! It'll be great; you get to sleep with my wife!'
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Hello, and thanks for reading my profile! I have quite a bit of experience teaching reading, reading comprehension skills, and phonics. I am great with the elementary school age and middle school students. I have worked for the San Diego Unified School district for 10 years in special education. I also ran classes utilizing Linda Mood Bell and Read Naturally. I get very serious teaching my subjects, because our time together is not that long. I'm very friendly and outgoing, and also very compassionate. My students love me!! I also have an AS degree in Speech Pathology as an assistant. Even though I am licensed to do therapy, I utilize my skills with reading and reading comprehension. My experience entails all spectra of special ed, including Down's syndrome, autism, speech impediments, etc. I am also gifted with a natural healing ability which causes my students to automatically relax, which makes for great learning.
I can also help with accent reduction. I am one of the few people in the world gifted with all speech sounds.
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YHA Tauranga is fantastic accommodation in the heart of the Bay of Plenty. Backpacking guests can explore the delightful gardens and admire the quirky hidden garden art, tucked away around every corner. We have hammocks, sun loungers and picnic tables where you can chill out in the sun or the shade and appreciate a sense of calm and relaxation right in the heart of Tauranga.
Budding chefs and backpackers on a budget will really enjoy the excellent cooking facilities, with a large fully equipped kitchen with pizza oven, rice cooker, sandwich maker and even fresh herbs to pick in the garden.
YHA Tauranga backpackers provide you with lots of free to use equipment for your entertainment – including sports equipment, DVDs, a well stocked library, board games and a guitar.
The hostel is only a 5 minute walk from the Central Business District, where you can find an extensive range of international restaurants, cafes, art gallery, nightclubs and bars as well as the local bus depot and two cinema complexes.
All of these great amenities and our knowledgeable and friendly staff makes YHA Tauranga the perfect accommodation for your exploration of our beautiful Bay of Plenty.
"Well-equipped, modern and welcoming hostel in secluded grounds a 5min walk from Tauranga centre…" -The Rough Guide to New Zealand
From Auckland and the north of Tauranga, take the “city centre” exit from the expressway, as you get nearer the city you will see a large flagpole on the roundabout, stay in the left-hand lane when turning right at the roundabout, we are the first street on the immediate left, the hostel is at the end of the cul-de-sac.
From Rotorua, Te Puke or Whakatane, stay on state highway 2 until you come to the Te Maunga roundabout, go straight through and follow the signs that say Tauranga city centre, go over the free harbour bridge and continue on the expressway, staying in the left lane. The next roundabout is Elizabeth Street exit, turn left into Elizabeth Street and then immediately turn left again into Elizabeth Street extension (cul-de-sac).
From Hamilton, Matamata, follow State highway 29 to Barkes corner roundabout, turn left into Cameron Road/City Centre and you will pass the Golf course and Racecourse, follow Cameron road all the way into the CBD, at the Elizabeth and Cameron Road traffic lights turn left and into the righthand lane, go down the hill, before the roundabout at the bottom of the hill turn right into a cul-de-sac street. The YHA is at the end of this.
Intercity stops at the I-site on Willow Street, you can get a taxi from across the road, which will cost $5, or walk past the I-site and up Spring Street, then along Cameron Road until the traffic lights, turn right and go down the hill and right again where you will see the YHA at the end of the road. (10-15 minute walk).
Shuttle buses will drop you at our door.
4 kms from Tauranga Airport.
If you are arriving by plane to Tauranga, you can get a taxi for about $20, hopefully you could share with someone else going into town to make it cheaper.
YHA offers a range of accommodation to suit groups of all types. Find out how YHA can help your group with their accommodation, transport and activity needs.
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July 14th, 2008 by Rosa
Lily O’Briens was extremely generous in the array of chocolate samples they sent me. I got a ton of their delicious truffles, and I got two sets of their luxury bar assortments. Ten bars of chocolates was more than I could ever eat, so I shared one set plus my second honeycomb crisp and sticky toffee bar (because I had a box each of the honeycomb crisp and sticky toffee truffles). I kept the remaining milk, organic milk, and organic dark bars to taste.
The organic milk bar (photo below) had a surprisingly great snap for milk chocolate. It had a thick and creamy melt as good milk chocolate should. I got strong vanilla notes in a bar that was sweet, but not too sweet.
Compared to the organic bar, the non-organic milk bar was lighter in color and less sweet. Its flavor was duskier; I got strong caramel notes. It was also much thicker than the organic version, throat-coatingingly creamy that lingers in the back of the throat.
Finally, the organic dark (photo below): the smell was sharp and a bit acidic, which was reflected in a sour tinge to the flavor. It was quite dry, giving the bar a crisp snap.
I enjoyed the milk bars and would give them an OM. As for the dark bar, it was nice, but I’ve had better, so an O. for that. Either way, I haven’t heard any complaints from the 7 beneficiaries of the bars I gave away.
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The Abstract Collective of Western Australian artists converge on a love of colour and the impact of the natural environment. Each artist investigates and explores key influences through a diversity of starting points, texture and hue to create a vibrant and stimulating display of contemporary abstract expression.
The painting group, from diverse backgrounds and ages creates works that are executed in a variety of techniques as they explore the physical environment and how it impacts on our emotions and perceptions; the internal dialogue portrayed in an array of colour, line and movement.
With more than 40 artworks on display and for sale, Abstract Collective starts on 16 November 2011 and runs until 27 November 2011.
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Droplist ToDo – Rapid lists with optional Dropbox sync ($0.99) by Bloomingsoft is a list to-do manager that syncs with your Dropbox account.
Yes, I’m sure that we are all aware that there are a plethora of to-do and list managers out there already. But there is a new one out that should be given a look at: Droplist.
Droplist combines to-do list management with your Dropbox in a well-designed interface that resembles a wood-framed corkboard with your lists as pieces of notebook paper pinned on. The graphics look great on the Retina Display and really give the app some pop.
Now, since the app uses Dropbox (though this is really optional), the first thing you’ll probably want to do is to set up your Dropbox with the app. Then it’s time to start making those lists and be productive!
Your lists can have a main title and subtitles if needed, with the option to add more items at the top. WIth this, you can even create a multiple-part list. When adding the list items, you simply type and press enter to create a new task – Droplist will automatically format your list with the checkboxes. You can also switch between a header item and a task item with the icon that appears (cycling between a big T and a checkbox).
What’s great about Droplist is that you can also create subtasks by tapping on the indent button that appears when creating a new task. Unfortunately, it appears that you can only create one subtask, so there isn’t the possibility of creating a subtask within a subtask, though no one would probably need to be that precise, right?
When you finish creating your list, the items can be rearranged manually with the Sort button in the corner. You can also swipe to delete and tap and hold on an item to edit. Tapping an item will mark it off as done.
The list can also be emailed with the plain text list formatting, and reminders can be created for your list. These reminders can be set for a day and time, so you can always be sure to get your stuff done (hopefully).
A great feature of Droplist is that you can copy over lists from email, the web, or anything else you have a list in and drop it in the app. Droplist will automatically turn this copied text into a list in the app, no additional work needed! It’s a great feature to have when you share a shopping list by email with your spouse or get emailed a list of things you need to do. Many list formats are supported, so if it looks like a list, it will most likely have no problem being dumped into Droplist.
I’ve noticed that Droplist does automatically sync when you go back to the main listing screen or delete a list, but when editing a specific list, you’ll have to manually hit the refresh button. This can be a bit annoying, and I hope that the developer addresses this in future updates. But if you go back to the main screen, the app does automatically sync any changes.
Since Droplist syncs with Dropbox, your lists are editable on any other computer or third-party Dropbox text editor app.
There is a very useful Help section that will explain everything about the app and also mention known bugs. Currently, the app may sync an old version of a list if your device has an incorrect date, and if lists are edited in their plaintext files, small changes may not show up when refreshed in the app (the fix is to add some lines of blank text below the list). This is great because it shows that the developers are aware of issues and will inform users, also showing that they are working on fixes.
You can also view the About information as well as contact the developers with feedback or suggestions. The app also supports full landscape mode to view and create/edit lists.
I found Droplist to be a pleasure to use and at the introductory price of $1, if you haven’t found a task list manager for you, then give Droplist a whirl. You may be surprised. | <urn:uuid:72c753ae-9863-462b-a61a-750e788ba759> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/03/quickadvice-droplist | 2013-05-18T07:38:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929254 | 880 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
WCA Annual Convention & Tradeshow 2012 is the largest regional carwash show and rated the best regional carwash show in the country. WCA Annual Convention & Tradeshow 2012 will give you access to the industry’s key decision makers, connect with and solidify relationships to take your business to the next level. Join the WCA Annual Convention & Tradeshow 2012 for educational and idea exchange sessions by leading experts, new products and innovations displayed on the tradeshow floor, and the opportunity to discover the latest industry trends.
WCA Annual Convention & Tradeshow 2012 will be held on September 19-20, 2012!
111 W Harbor Dr.
San Diego, CA 92101
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Contractors look to franchises as a way to pool resources
The popularity of franchising is growing among plumbing contractors who are looking to take their businesses to the next level during difficult economic times. One of the most compelling reasons is that, in a franchise operation, the franchisor provides business expertise that otherwise would not be available. This business expertise includes established systems, marketing and advertising plans, management guidance, administrative support and training.
However, plumbing contractors interested in franchising still need to research which franchises are the best fit for them.
“People need to do their homework,” says Judy Howard, director of franchise relations for American Leak Detection, based in Palm Springs, Calif. “They have to realize that just because they’re buying a franchise, it’s not going to be easy. They’re going to have to put in the work. It does take time and it does take effort, but at the same time, there’s the satisfaction of growing your own business.”
Franchisors get picky
An increase in the popularity of franchises also means that many franchisors can be selective about who they choose to be a franchisee.
One such franchise is Mr. Rooter, which has more than 450 franchises across North America and is the largest plumbing company in the United Kingdom and Canada.
“We’re at the stage at Mr. Rooter where we are very cautious and careful about who we bring in so that we really manage and protect the brand,” says Mary Kennedy Thompson, president of Mr. Rooter, a division of the Dwyer Group, Waco, Texas.
Prospective franchisees attend a discovery day orientation to learn about Mr. Rooter’s code of values, its franchises and what to expect from the Mr. Rooter system.
“We’re looking for people who are the right culture match and who will put the customer first,” Thompson says.
After the day long meeting, a committee examines the prospective franchisee to determine whether the franchisee is the right fit for Mr. Rooter.
“From the time [the franchisee] says they’re interested to the time that all parties are ready to commit is probably a couple of months because I don’t believe into rushing into that,” Thompson says.
All new Mr. Rooter franchisees attend basic training at the company’s headquarters in Waco, Texas. The training includes information about business systems, managing people, marketing and customer interaction. Mr. Rooter also provides yearly regional meetings that include training sessions in best practices as well as an annual meeting that allows new franchisees to meet with longtime franchise owners familiar with the Mr. Rooter system.
“We invite a lot of [new franchisees] to come to our meetings because we think that face-to-face contact gives them the input and the feedback that helps them understand whether we’re a good match,” Thompson says.
In addition, Mr. Rooter hosts a management training series several times a year as well as a series of webinars for franchisees who cannot attend a regional or annual meeting.
Thompson says an established system is attracting more contractors to the idea of franchising, particularly during a recession.
“It’s been a tough few years for everybody, and there’s not a lot of room to make mistakes these days,” Thompson says. “People are moving more towards franchising because we have a system, and it’s a proven system that can help them move to the next level. There’s just not the room for the kind of mistakes that used to be made maybe five years ago.”
Thompson says the cost to start a Mr. Rooter franchise is from $26,000 to $100,000, depending on the population of the territory.
“Our franchisees often will start home-based, and then once they pick up speed, they’ll move into a shop when they have a certain number of technicians,” Thompson says.
Many of the contractors interested in franchising with American Leak Detection contact the company through its website, according to Howard.
Once the prospective franchisee requests information online, Howard sends out the additional information that spells out details and the cost as well as a “request for consideration” form.
“If they’re willing to fill out the request for consideration form, that’s an indication that they’re not just midnight clickers,” Howard says.
The franchisee then attends a discovery day at the company’s office in Palm Springs, Fla., and if all approvals go through, the parties would sign a contract.
Franchisees also attend a mandatory six-week training program that includes field and classroom training. The franchisees also meet with American Leak Detection’s managers, directors and other key personnel who will help the franchisees order such things as business cards and uniforms.
“We start working with them to get everything in place so that when they get home, they’re ready to open for business,” Howard says.
The estimated initial investment to start a franchise with American Leak Detection is from $83,000 to $200,000 depending on whether the franchisee needs to buy a vehicle, rent office space or purchase additional equipment, according to Howard. There also is a training fee of $4,500, which does not include living expenses or travel during the six-week training period.
American Leak Detection has most of its territories available in the Northeast, including New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Delaware and northern Virginia, Howard said.
You’ve got friends
The greatest advantage to franchising, according to Howard, is strength in numbers.
“One of the big things is that you’re not in business by yourself,” she points out. “You have your own business, but you’ve got a proven system. If you’ve done your homework and you’re buying into a system that you love and you love the work, then you’re not totally alone. You’ve got support and you’ve got some name brand presence.”
Donald MacDonald, CEO of North Billerica, Mass.-based Rooter Man, said more plumbing contractors are looking to take advantage of the training and support they receive from a franchise.
“[Plumbing contractors] don’t have the expertise by themselves to take on all the different hats that you have to wear in a business — advertising, marketing, hiring, training and firing,” he says. “There also has been a surge in franchising in the past few years because of people being aware of the branding.”
Contractors interested in franchising with Rooter Man receive an information package that includes references from successful franchisees. Prospects also receive a federal disclosure document that contains financial information on the franchisor as well as all of the franchises in the system.
Rooter Man franchisees receive ongoing support and training, including an initial two-day training session in which franchisees learn how to implement the systems in the company’s manuals. Rooter Man also offers an on-the-job training program as well as programs that teach marketing, operations and human resources. Franchisees receive 11 comprehensive manuals that teach them the skills to master their business. Additionally, Rooter Man franchisees from across the country frequently host training events and seminars throughout the year.
“Franchises learn a lot from each other,” MacDonald says. “They work together because they’re not threatened. Because they’re from different parts of the country, they’re not worried about their competition. They can open up and find out what’s working for the other guy and what they can do to help them increase their business.”
MacDonald says the initial fee for a territory with a population of 375,000 would be $7,950. Rooter Man’s franchise system also has no royalties as a percent of revenue, meaning Rooter Man franchisees do not pay a royalty based on a percentage of sales. Rooter Man royalty fees are a flat rate fee based on population. MacDonald said the fee is $125 per 125,000 population.
Additionally, most Rooter Man franchisees are able to begin their business in their homes, and therefore avoid high start-up costs due to such things as rent and utilities.
Beating the big boxes
One franchise that continues to expand is Pittsburg-based Mr. Waterheater, with plans to grow the business from Pittsburgh with the best opportunities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and surrounding states.
The Mr. Waterheater franchise operates from a combined warehouse and office facility located in an industrial park or other non-retail locations. A franchise territory of 50,000 to 100,000 households is typically what is awarded, but can be customized for the market area. Water heater replacement for residential customers is the primary business that can expand to commercial customers and offer additional plumbing services.
Like most other franchises, Mr. Waterheater has a business model, and ideal franchise candidates must be able to manage employees, make decisions and have ambitious goals for growth. The franchise owner does not need to be a plumber or own a plumbing business. However, the franchise owner must comply with the local building code with permitting and licensing requirements that may require employing a master plumber.
Mr. Waterheater also has a franchise training program, called Mr. Waterheater University, which teaches new owners everything they need to know to run a successful franchise operation. Franchise training in Pittsburgh combines classroom, field training and operations training.
The initial franchise fee is $9,900. Franchisees also pay a territory fee of 25 cents for each household in the territory they are granted. The estimated total initial investment will range from $47,075 to $156,000.
Like Mr. Rooter, Sarasota, Fla.-based Benjamin Franklin Plumbing is very selective and has a rigorous qualification process.
However, for those who do make the cut, the franchise has developed a strategic business system that delivers daily, monthly and annual training modules.
Success Academy provides training for comfort advisors, technicians and other professionals within the industry. Clockwork University teaches every aspect of the plumbing industry, from technical aspects to communications and administrative operations. The franchise also offers Gearing Up 101, which is a four-day introduction to franchise operations held at the company’s Sarasota headquarters.
In addition, “operating excellence” manuals guide franchisees through the entire turnkey operation of running a business. Annual events also provide opportunities to network and brainstorm with other franchisees through hands-on classes and business sessions.
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Let's get that persistently annoying housefly at your place a new hobby. Let him ride a bike! The smallest bicycle in the world has no practical application for humans. Researchers at Swiss-based GF AgieCharmilles played around with the capabilities of small wire electrical discharge machining (EDM) to produce a micro sized mountain bike. Check this out : The tiny cycle was machined out of 1-mm-thick Inox stainless steel (steel alloy with a minimum of 11% chromium by mass) using a 0.020-mm wire. The smallest internal radius measures a mere 0.013 mm it seems, with a tolerance of +/- 1 μm!!
Check out the width of the headtube - 30 microns. Thats about the average diameter of a human hair.
EDM is a thermal machining process that shapes electrically conductive, hard metals by using precisely controlled sparks that occur between an electrode and a workpiece, in the presence of a dielectric fluid (an insulator that becomes an electric conductor at a certain voltage).
Here, the electrode is the cutting tool and it does not make contact with the workpiece, instead maintained at a distance called sparking gap. Hence, there is no tool stress. Sparking occurs in the frequency of anywhere between 2000 to 500,000 sparks per second. As each spark occurs, a small amount of electrode and metal is vaporized. This causes the sparking gap to widen and the next spark occurs at the point with the closest gap. What is interesting is that the vaporized metal and electrode forms a cloud in the dielectric. When the spark is turned off, this vaporized cloud hangs suspended in the same and solidifies to form an EDM chip. This chip is then removed by flowing dielectric through the sparking gap.
According to Design News, one of the biggest obstacles to overcome in achieving these ultra-small features in the bicycle was in controlling the sparking gap. The Head of R&D Micro Machining Dr. Ivano Beltrami of the Swiss company said, "That means first being able to electronically measure a distance between electrode and work piece at the level of only a few (two to ten) micrometers and second being able to keep the gap width relatively constant." It's particularly difficult, he said, because of the particle contamination in the dielectric and the stochastic nature of the spark formation.
Asked if the wheels on the bike actually spin, Beltrami replied "No, it's challenging enough to actually have the wheels at all."
I agree with him. It'd take something of a miracle to make working bearings for those wheels. But you never know, considering the pace with which nanomanufacturing is coming up. For instance, check out how the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) custom-engineered seemingly frictionless bearings a few billionths of a meter in size.
Here's the EDM process I described to you above in action! Enjoy.
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Here are some facts from her website:
~Her husband works with Anthropologie and that's where she gets most of her wardrobe.
~She wears OPI nail polish in Bubble Bath (I love her nails!).
~She attributes her trim physique to her genes, eating fresh, and not stuffing herself full.
~Besides Italian she loves Japanese food.
~Her famous blue and white measuring spoons and pastel measuring cups are also from Anthropologie.
~She's in San Francisco at Williams and Sonoma today! So close, yet so far.
Also, a thank you goes out to these awesome bloggers for giving me blog awards. This past few days have been particularly hard for me so getting these awards definitely brightened my mood.
The Punctuation Mark
My Closet, My Life
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Dr. Jim speaking in Calgary this Friday: And the Lord Human made Huey, Dewey, Louie, Wall-E, and Eve. The Deification of Humanity in Silent Running and Wall-E
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 3:11 pm by Dr. Jim
Please come…. please…
The paper was originally intended for an SBL session in 2012 (Chicago), but I had to back down after another new section was approved for two sessions instead of the expected one, so I ended up over-committed. Anne Moore, my good friend from the University of Calgary was on the Bible and Film committee, so felt a little betrayed, so I will be making good my treachery! I don’t know where ST 130 is on the U of C campus, but I suspect I will get there, sooner or later! I think I will start with a nice Midrash on Genesis.
Also, a BIG apology to Douglas Trumbull, director of Silent Running for misspelling his name on my abstract. The error is mine, not the person who made the poster at the U of C!
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Seven days ago I was sitting in my hotel room getting ready to leave for a dress rehearsal for TEDx Grand Rapids. I sleep horribly in hotel rooms, so I was half awake and nervous, having practiced my talk for the 70th time. This morning I’m sitting at my desk in Palo Alto and as I look back I’m still stunned at the professionalism and the passion of everyone involved in the event. I’d like to share some of the things that stood out for me from the event, the talks, and the people I was honoured to meet.
Grand Rapids is a city in Michigan that has recently undergone major transformation and has become the poster child for urban revitalization in this US state. In a recent FastCompany article, Rick DeVos talks about the startup culture that has emerged there over the last few years. When I arrived at my hotel I was immediately diverted from the entrance by the sound of swing music emerging from the end of the street. There I found an open plaza with people arm in arm swing dancing bathed in the incredible summer evening light they get in West Michigan.
TEDxGR was run by an inspired and passionate team of volunteers. What surprised me was how everyone was thanking each other – the organizers were extolling the values of the speakers, who were in tow endlessly appreciative of the work they do behind the scenes; the audience members I interacted with were all so grateful for the talks and the whole experience, and in turn I couldn’t help thanking them for turning up, paying the admission and being part of it. It gave me a wonderful sense for how much of an ecosystem an event like this can be when done right. There’s a feeling that everyone plays their role and their part and that those roles are defined and clear. There’s no imbalance somehow in the value exchange that’s taking place. Everyone gets something from anyone else.
The TEDx Talks
The line-up was typically TED: diverse and inspiring. It ranged from life-changing personal stories to how one man faked an entire religion and became a guru to how gaming is being applied to healthcare. All of the talks were incredible but these were the big take-aways for me:
We have the capacity to turn even the worst ‘failure’ into an opportunity
Linda Ragsdale’s moving tale of how the traumatic experience of losing a friend and being shot during the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008 was powerful not just because of her brilliant storytelling, but it showed how when something so awful happens to some people, they turn that experience into something good. Linda decided to teach the world a simple lesson: to draw peace dragons. The dragon is traditionally a symbol of Peace, not aggression, and in reminding us of this simple fact, and the fact that we can all draw, and not to be inhibited, she aims to help us overcome our blindness to each other’s differences. She recently surpassed her goal of teaching 10,000 children to draw peace dragons around the world.
Creativity = taking multiple perspectives
The format of the TEDx event was refreshing in comparison to other conferences I’d attended, and interspersed between the longer 18 minute lives talks were some relevant talks from other TED events. One that stood out for me was this one from Raghava KK, where he talked about how creativity can be thought of as a process of taking different perspectives and how that’s one of the most important lessons we need to teach the next generation.
We can create change through crafting our own illusion
Vikram Kumaré is a fictitious guru invented by filmmaker Vikram Gandhi. His new documentary film tells the story of how he created a new religion and a cult following in order to understand the nature of religion, faith, and personal transformation. In a hilarious yet poignant talk, Vikram taught us a useful lesson, about the power of illusion. About how we are all of us crafting our own stories through the use of our own ‘avatars’ – our Facebook or Instagram photos are what we choose to share with the world – we are crafting our own identities through these media. Vikram urges us all to control our own experience by writing our own stories and through doing so, begin to change our situation.
Pursue something you love, put your idea out there, and change people’s lives
That’s the message of Edwin Martinez‘ talk about coffee. Edwin’s family grew coffee in Guatemala, and he has developed a process that paved the way for over 10,000 small producers to begin exporting and selling direct in the global marketplace, and in his talk he taught us a thing or two about coffee. For one, it’s a fruit, and Edwin says coffee is actually fruit juice, when you think about it. It turns out that measuring the sustainability of coffee is really hard. There are about 32 links in the coffee chain – 32 links between that person who planted the seed for the plant to grow, and you purchasing your latte in your local cafe. We generally only interact with the last two links in that chain. Edwin also explained how environmentally it’s hard to produce consistency of good coffee year on year, and therefore our traditional ideas about which brand is sustainable may be flawed, because being loyal to any brand may just be the problem. “If you’re pushing yield, you’re probably pushing the environment”. Good coffee is made from ripe berries, the best berries come from hilly places, which are hard to get to, and you never know exactly when the crop will be ripe, so it means multiple trips back and forth to the hillside to reap the best yield. In order to do this though, workers need the right incentives. My takeaway from Edwin’s eye-opening talk was that the pursuit of quality is something we should all strive for, especially when we are following our passion.
“Mismatched Instincts and Supernormal Allurements”
Michael Dowd is an American evolutionary theologian and bestselling author and talked about human nature from an evolutionary biology standpoint. He explained how many of our human flaws can be explained by our evolutionary attraction and difficulty with resisting what he calls supernormal stimuli: sugar, salt, fats, in fact any processed substance – most of the food we eat today wouldn’t have been recognisable to those living 100 years ago. He talks about how these temptations are not our fault, but they are our responsibility both individually and collectively to manage. “We have to tell our kids about supernatural allurements and mismatched instincts”.
We can learn resilience, but it’s not always innate
Joan Borysenko wrapped up the day talking about resilience. She gave a moving personal account of her own traumatic experiences growing up and shared things she has learned through her own research and life about what it takes to become more resilient. It turns out that some of us are born more resilient to change and stress – those born to parents who have been through serious trauma are less resilient. However the good news is we can learn to flex this muscle and here’s her tips for doing that:
- Be realistic about the situation you are in and take action immediately
- Find a way to see the bigger context e.g. through faith
- Use creativity to explore different routes out of your problem
- Connect to others (this human social connection calms the limbic system)
- Exercise to change the brain’s chemistry (also fights depression)
- Be aware of how you are responding each time a stressful experience happens
- Find ways to laugh at yourself or the situation
Finally I’m grateful for the opportunity to have been part of this. Thanks to Steelcase, everyone at TEDxGR, Steve Frazee, Jennifer Jurgens, and everyone who made it all happen. I was overwhelmed by how professional the whole event was. If you have any reflections from the event or any questions, please get in touch. | <urn:uuid:b27ec990-2487-4682-8143-9b87812d0f47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://firmfollowsform.com/?p=339 | 2013-05-18T08:38:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967012 | 1,656 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Sevilla PR spoils USSF Div2 Champions Home Welcoming PartyBy: BoriQa | November 3rd, 2010
Just after winning the 2010 USSF Div2 Championship this past Saturday in North Carolina, the Puerto Rico Islanders returned to the field last night to play Sevilla FC-PR, in what was each teams’ opening match in the 2010 SuperCopa DirectTV of the Puerto Rico Soccer League (PRSL).
The SuperCopa is this year’s qualifying tournament for the Puerto Rico spots at the 2011 Caribbean Football Union’s (CFU) Caribbean Clubs Cup, which in turn is the qualifying tournament for the 2011-12 CONCACAF Champions League (CCL).
The Islanders won the 2010 CFU Caribbean Clubs Cup back in May, and played in the 2010-11 CCL where they dismantled the L.A. Galaxy in the preliminary stage; routed the Salvadorian Champs (FAS) and came from behind to defeat the Mexican Reigning Champion Toluca at Bayamón in the Groups Stage, only to succumb on their last match in Honduras to Olimpia, who moved on to the CCL Quarterfinals.
Prior to their 2010 SuperCopa debut, the USSF Div 2 Champion Islanders were presented with their trophy to the crowd at Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium.
The Islanders started the match against Sevilla with a mixed starters-bench lineup: Cody Laurendy (GK), Alexis Rivera, Anthony Allison, Edwin Miranda, Jonathan Faña, Salem, Logan Emory, Henry, Osei Telesford, Richard Martinez, Shaka Bangura
Newly acquired (for the SuperCopa) Carlos Morales (#25) substituted an injured Bangura at the begining of the 2nd half. Another new orange acquisition, Mohamad Mashriqi (#27) was also available on the bench last night.
After a scoreless 1st half, the Islanders opened up the scoreboard on the 71st minute with a goal from Anthony Allison after a free kick bounced back to the forward, who headed the ball into the Sevillian net.
The game was almost over with a win for the Islanders, when with only a few seconds to go in the 2-minutes stoppage period, Logan Emory commited a desperate foul inside of the box on Sevilla’s Puerto Rican National Chris Megaloudis, who had got through the Islanders defense.
Referee Javier Santos immediately pointed for the penalty kick, and what happened next became very confusing.
As the players were lining up and getting ready for the penalty kick, just before Referee Santos whistled for the kick, the Puerto Rican marksman Megadoulis shot the kick, which the Islanders backup keeper Laurendy guessed correctly jumping to his right, blocking the shot to preserve the 1-0 for the Islanders.
But as per FIFA rules, Referee Santos called for the penalty kick to be replayed, because technically (despite all the players being ready in their positions) he had not whistled to start the penalty play.
Megadoulis took his second penalty shot to the left side of Laurendy (who again jumped to his right) and scored the tying alajuelazo for the 2008 PRSL Champ Sevilla FC-PR to earn the draw against the newly crowned USA 2nd Division champions.
Some of the missing Islanders on the bench last night included: Kendall Jagdeosingh and Keon Daniel, who were both playing for the Trinidad & Tobago National team in the Digicel CUp; and Christopher Nurse who was playing for Guyana in the same tournament. | <urn:uuid:3f7817d5-12d4-4105-9591-f2a2ec7c0b09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://islanders.theoffside.com/puerto-rico-islanders/sevilla-pr-spoils-ussf-div2-champions-home-welcoming-party.html | 2013-05-18T08:19:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949979 | 747 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Meet The Preppers [VIDEO]
As most of you know according to the Mayan Calendar and many world scientist the end of the world is coming this year. You can’t turn on the news or change a channel lately without seeing someone speak about the Apocalypse. And if you haven’t heard, there is a group of survivalist who are being called “Preppers.
Preppers have been in the process of turning their sheds, garages, basements and other parts of their life into staging areas for when the world turns to dust. Preppers have been stockpiling freeze-dried food, cartons of canned chicken with a shelf life of 15 years, survival gear, a system for purifying polluted water, first aid kits and lots of weapons and ammunition.
The National Geographic Channel has a new show about preppers which debuted last night (Tuesday).
If the world does come to an end What one thing would you like to keep if you happen to survive such an event?
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Too Cool For School: 3 Books On Scandalous Teachers
Originally published on Mon July 9, 2012 9:01 am
One of my graduate school professors frequently made his students cry. Never mind that we were grown adults. A single cliche used in a class paper could result in public humiliation. And yet the competition to get into his class was fierce. No honor surpassed the chance to be taught (and belittled) by such a masterful mind.
Tyranny like this abounds in campus fiction. There, heads of the classroom are often as selfish and manipulative as despotic heads of state. They turn their students into pawns, and they get away with it because students are impressionable and easily infatuated. Here are three books about teachers whose lessons hide plenty of booby traps: Each is a textbook case of leading the vulnerable student astray. | <urn:uuid:ac65fd55-79c0-463a-a1ea-d257e950511e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://krwg.org/post/too-cool-school-3-books-scandalous-teachers | 2013-05-18T08:33:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97285 | 201 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tornadoes killed more than 500 people in the U.S. last year — the highest number in decades. Already this year, 63 people have died, and the tornado season doesn't hit its peak until June.
But tornadoes don't have to be as deadly. Experts say some deaths could be prevented if people would do one more thing when taking cover: wear a helmet. It's a message safety advocates are preaching, but that message hasn't resonated with federal officials just yet.
'It Was Like A Vacuum'
On April 27, 2011, a horrific outbreak of tornadoes roared across the Southeast, killing more than 300 people. Some of the twisters were more than a mile wide and stayed on the ground for hours. Alabama was particularly hard hit.
"How far back do you go that day? It seemed like a normal day," says Jonathan Stewart.
He'd rushed home just minutes before a tornado swallowed up his neighborhood in Pleasant Grove, Ala. Stewart, his wife, adult daughter and 8-year-old son crowded into a tiny shower stall. It didn't take long for him to feel the house shift and become weightless — and then an explosion.
"I remember being sucked out of the house, and it was not being blown about, it was not walls blowing around. It was like a vacuum, and it sucked us out," Stewart says.
'I Actually Saw Him Up In The Air'
In an instant, Stewart's family was gone. Lisa, his wife, peered up into the swirling sea of debris and saw her son, Noah, floating above her — high above her, Lisa says: "I actually saw him up in the air, stuck up in it, being tossed around as high as the power lines."
Noah was twisting, churning, flying through the air, held up high by the tornado's angry winds. And then, Noah remembers, "the wind just immediately stopped, and I was going down headfirst, and then I think my helmet just cracked."
Noah had on a baseball helmet — the kind used in Little League with a strap and face guard. He was the only member of his family wearing protective headgear that night. In pictures taken that night, Noah's face appears fine, with just a few scratches; his parents, however, look beaten up.
Noah had other injuries, and went to Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Dr. Mark Baker was working in the emergency room that night. He says most of the 60 children treated for storm-related injuries suffered some sort of head trauma.
"Children's heads are relatively large compared to the rest of their body. So during a tornado, where they're thrown by the wind or an object is thrown into them or a building collapses, it is most frequently the head that is injured," he says.
Baker says because of Noah's helmet, his injuries weren't more severe. Doctors at Children's Hospital realized they needed to do more. They partnered with a local television meteorologist to produce a PSA to tell parents that helmets help save lives during tornadoes.
Other outreach is happening, too.
At a recent Birmingham Barons baseball game, safety advocates handed out 125 bicycle helmets as part of a giveaway for tornado preparedness.
The Fulton family of Trussville, Ala., was standing in line with their three kids.
"We didn't even think anything about it last year, and then we started hearing how much safer things were once it happened and that you should wear them," says Alan Fulton. "And it's like ... 'Why didn't we do it?' I don't know."
His wife, Melissa, says wearing helmets during severe weather is "a great idea; it just never occurred to us."
'Their Silence Is Deafening'
One reason it might not have occurred to the Fultons is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is silent on the topic.
The CDC website tells motorcyclists to wear helmets because they save lives; ditto for bicyclists.
But if a tornado is bearing down? The CDC recommends people use their hands to protect their heads. It makes no mention of a helmet.
For three months we tried to interview someone from the CDC, but the agency would only email a statement, which said: "The scientific evidence from helmet use during tornadoes is inadequate to make a recommendation."
This has angered safety advocates such as Russ Fine. "I think their silence is deafening," he says, "and I'm embarrassed for them — terribly embarrassed for them."
Fine's team at the Injury Control Research Center at the University of Alabama in Birmingham completed one of those scientific reports. It found many tornado deaths around the region last year could have been prevented if people had worn helmets. He doesn't understand why the CDC hasn't embraced the research.
"Will it 100 percent absolutely, positively save your life? Probably not. But it's a whole lot better than having no helmet on, and that's a no-brainer," he says.
The Beginning Of A Change
Advocates don't expect the federal government to change its recommendations anytime soon. They liken it to how long it took to get the message out about wearing seat belts or quitting smoking.
"It's the beginning of a change where research changes in the way people respond and they're advised to respond," says Sandra Koplon, of the Alabama Head Injury Foundation.
Others, such as tornado safety advocate Renee Crook, who organized the helmet giveaway at the Birmingham baseball game, says ultimately it's up to the people, not the government, to stay safe. "You have to have a plan. You chose to live here. You need to be safe. You need to be aware. You need to have a way of listening to the weather, and know when it's coming, and be prepared."
Still, many people go to government websites to learn about what vaccinations they should receive when traveling overseas, or how long to cook a certain kind of meat. Advocates hope it won't be long for the CDC to add a line about wearing a helmet when a tornado is bearing down on a community. | <urn:uuid:391ad2c7-8159-4bfe-9121-399fdcd794bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/npr.php?id=151358259 | 2013-05-18T08:22:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984331 | 1,268 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Is that one in the thing that looks like a safe with the door open?
Yes! I was not quick enough but I was going to say the safe as well... And I wonder if I don't see also another one reflected in the mirror on the desk in front of the blue bottle...
I only spotted the one in the safe myself. On second look I have to agree with Eva: there's a second one in front of the blue bottle. Is that a Domino???
What's that black item in the handbag behind the boy's back? Maybe a 3rd Filo?
I would say three inside the safe, stacked? And I think the thing in front of that bottle is a beauty case...
I will declare the winner and the correct answer tomorrow... heheOf course the whole thing could be a hoax... it might not be a Filofax organiser....Chuckle chuckle....
oh Steve.. you're mean today! Did you miss 'beer o'clock'?? (kidding!!)
OK bowing to pressure and threats on my future supplies of Filofax inserts and beer....1. There is only one organiser in the photograph;2. Yes it is a Filofax.. ok yes I was mean to suggest otherwise;3. Yes it is in the wardrobe safe;4. People how could you confuse a Filofax for a Christian Dior make-up bag?I would have thought you would know the difference, and give us chapter an verse on which model year etc it was... surely knowledge of expensive handbags and accessories goes with Filofax expertise....OK I've had enough fun from this one.. So I think we can declare Yvotchka a clear winner in all of 13 minutes...CongratulationsSo if you have a 'suitable' picture in which your Filofax just happens to be in the shot... but not too obvious, please email it to us..
That was easy. Everyone keeps their Filofax in the microwave.
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Steve, you're very naughty teasing the Philofaxy regulars like this!!Thanks for hosting the photo - I've been sniggering away to myself for a couple of days now :)Yvotchka - you're far too observant :) I actually didn't realise that the Filofax was in view (it's the Yellow Hearts Personal one that I reviewed on here not too long ago) until a friend pointed it out whilst browsing my holiday photos on Facebook. | <urn:uuid:697e142a-32db-4647-9ab2-7fc6cbbd690a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://philofaxy.blogspot.com/2010/07/find-filofax-ii.html | 2013-05-18T07:39:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965594 | 527 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A MOUTH-WATERING and expanded programme of events has being unveiled for the 5th Annual Savour Kilkenny Food Festival which takes place over the October Bank Holiday weekend, 27th – 31st October 2011.
Once again the walls of Kilkenny Castle will form a spectacular backdrop for the Festival with a free open air food market on the Parade Plaza and in the Design Yard where foodies can taste and buy the very best of local and regional produce in a bustling, autumnal setting.
In a new development this year, the Set Theatre in John Street will be the location for a range of cooking demonstrations and tasty events, with celebrity chefs Donal Skehan and Catherine Fulvio, topping the bill.
Skehan, who is often referred to as Irelands answer to Jamie Oliver, is hosting “A Taste of Craft” demonstration in association with the Crafts Council of Ireland which is celebrating Year of Craft 2011. The dynamic young chef will showcase food with the work of local craftspeople.
Catherine Fulvio makes a welcome return by popular demand after her successful appearance last year. Popular Kilkenny-based chefs, Anne Neary of Ryland House Cookery and Edward Hayden of Edward Entertains, will also feature over the weekend hosting a Made in Kilkenny Tapas workshop and a Sinful but Delicious Desserts demo.
The Avonmore Live Celebrity Cook-off will feature Anne Phelan TD, John Walsh and Edwina Grace of KCLR96FM, and an All Star Hurler with MC RTE broadcaster, Brenda O’Donoghue.
Budding amateur chefs will have an opportunity to show off their culinary skills with the Caulfield’s Supervalu Kilkenny Masterchef Final.
This year the Savour Festival is encouraging friends and supporters to buy a special Festival Wristband which will give people access to all the cooking demonstrations and events over the weekend. The wristbands are now on sale for only €10 from the Savour Kilkenny headquarters in The Maltings, or the Kilkenny Tourism office. They can also be purchased online at www.savourkilkenny.com
Other highlights of this year’s expanded Festival programme include:
- A debate titled “The Great Irish Food Fight – is traditional Irish Cuisine an embarrassment of riches – or just an embarrassment? This will form the centrepiece of the Savour Kilkenny Food Camp in the Newpark Hotel on Friday October 28th and will be chaired by John McKenna of the Bridgestone Guide.
- The Dame Alice Medieval Banquet on Sunday October 31st in the Kilkenny Castle Kitchens.
- A Feast of Chefs – 5 Kilkenny chefs, 5 courses under 5 arches” in Campagne Restaurant on Thursday October 27th.
- Seafood Workshops by six Kilkenny chefs in The Fishman’s Market Stand on the Parade Plaza.
- A Young Producers Market in MacDonagh Junction.
- Pop Up Allotment on the Canal Square.
- A Taste of Kilkenny Food Trail Tour.
- A Nutrition for Sport and a Healthy Lifestyle seminar with speakers including Kilkenny All-Ireland Hurling Star Michael Fennelly.
- Interactive Cooking demos for children and a kiddie cook off
Local restaurants are putting on their best bibs with many organising special Savour events including: Savour the Lady Helen dinner in Mount Juliet Hotel in Thomastown, Savour the Romance in Café Sol, Savour Kilkenny Tasting Menu in Zunis, Sensory Dining in the Clubhouse Hotel and a celebration of Kilkenny Artisans Food in Statham’s Restaurant.
This year the Savour Festival tentacles will reach out right around the county with events in Thomastown, Paulstown, Castlecomer, Stoneyford, Graiguenamanagh, Freshford, and Callan.
Stalls for the open air food market are still being offered at a nominal charge – and hotels, restaurants, cafes, cookery schools, chefs and shops from the city and county are advised to reserve their space as soon as possible by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org
Ger Mullally, Chairman of the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival Committee, said at the official programme launch in the National Craft Gallery that the festival was delighted to offer an expanded and more diverse programme this year.
“We hope this festival will help local food producers, retailers, restaurateurs’ and hoteliers to meet the significant economic challenges in the present difficult environment for business and consumers.
“Kilkenny’s reputation as a food destination is increasing and we will reflect this by exhibiting the best Kilkenny and its hinterland has to offer by way of food. The festival is one of the building blocks to the development of a strong and vibrant food culture throughout County Kilkenny.”
He thanked the main sponsors Glanbia, Kilkenny County Councils, LEADER, Electrocity, Pallas Foods, Bord Bia and Failte Ireland, the Crafts Council of Ireland, Caulfields, and FBD for their support. | <urn:uuid:81297de0-5c90-436a-890a-e78df863f428> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://savourkilkenny.com/2011/kilkenny-to-savour-its-local-food/ | 2013-05-18T08:33:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916662 | 1,086 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The juries are out in the Pakistani Taliban case and the Steve Steiner Mutual Benefits money laundering case. If you hear anything, shoot me an email and I will post it. Thanks! | <urn:uuid:2dc2d0cd-9050-4c3b-865a-c99e9f8ceee1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sdfla.blogspot.com/2013/02/verdicts-today.html | 2013-05-18T08:49:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87457 | 116 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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There are many challenges a parent will encounter when raising their child. There is not one standard method to do so. Dennis examines the question, "How good can we make our kids?" In summation, we should forget about the word "make." Do parents truly possess the ability to raise the good crop of society? Dennis responds with a goal rather: "We should strive to make them as good a human being as they can be. Only God knows how anyone or children can be." | <urn:uuid:5579e024-2606-444e-8a61-c050604b2bc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stores.dennisprager.com/PROD/PI76.html | 2013-05-18T07:39:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936233 | 131 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Washington-Virginia Ry. Co. v. Real Estate Trust Co. - 238 U.S. 185 (1915)
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Washington-Virginia Ry. Co. v. Real Estate Trust Co., 238 U.S. 185 (1915)
Washington-Virginia Railway Company v.
Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia
Argued April 29, 30, 1915
Decided June 14, 1915
238 U.S. 185
Whether a corporation is doing business within a district so as to have submitted itself to the jurisdiction, and was present therein so as to warrant service of process upon it, depends in each case upon the facts proved.
In this case, while the corporation operates railways outside of Pennsylvania and has its general office and keeps one of its bank accounts outside of that state, it has an office in the Eastern District and that state, where its president and treasurer reside, and has an office and keeps bank accounts within that District, and under all the circumstances of the case, held that the corporation defendant had submitted to the local jurisdiction, enjoyed the protection of the laws, and therefore service within the District on its president was sufficient to give the district court jurisdiction.
The facts, which involve the question of whether the plaintiff in error had been properly served with process so as to give the district court jurisdiction of the action, are stated in the opinion. | <urn:uuid:7a255390-4591-4daa-82c6-fd60e954923c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/238/185/ | 2013-05-18T08:18:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969198 | 283 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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As nifty as this is, I found myself gravitating away from it, and toward my Nars eyeshadow duos.
Dior would still be my choice for what I think of as traditional eyeshadows...but I've found Nars to be far more versatile.
The one I have is a gift ...it is an adorable smaller size, perfectly proportioned quint...a full size of these is $49.50 on Sephora.com. Is it worth it?
The short answer is, yes and no. Yes, it is worth the price if you find a quint that works for you. Buying the colors separately...assuming you could find shadows of this quality to buy separately...would easily add up to more than that.
The "no" answer...well, it is fifty bucks. Like any other fifty bucks, it's well to spend it wisely.
I'm using this slowly, I can say it's fantastically luxurious. You do notice the difference (being a Dior shadow virgin, kindly allow me to spill), in fact you notice it right away. The shadows are very fine and soft and almost creamy (an odd thing to say about powder eyeshadow). The application is smooth; the stuff just glides on. As you would expect, you don't need lots of shadow to get the effect you want. Hence there is that strange economical aspect that has come with other luxury items I've tried in the past.
Beige Massai is decidedly warm. Think Nars Babylon warm. These neutrals are not really neutral although they appear that way in the pan.
Let's start with the left-hand shade, the creamy light beige one. (This pic is as good as I could get it with my "old" digicam; the colors are accurate in tone but are quite a bit more intense in real life.) This reminded me a bit of MAC Brule. It's not quite Brule; it's a lighter, somehow pinker(?), finer version of Brule. If Brule is your tasty beer, the creamy beige shade of Beige Massai is your glass of good wine.
Moving on to the peach shade...it's to die for! If you can wear warm colors (this shade literally is on a par with the orange one in Nars Babylon), and especially if you have green eyes.
I will imagine this quint works with any eye color, but I would recommend it more heartily for green, or possibly blue, eyes.
Next...that unique reddish terra cotta shade. Here is your green eye popping shade. A pop of this placed in the crease hardly seems to show, yet brings your eyes out so nicely.
Now...the medium golden brown shade. It is golden, not in the metallic sense but so golden in tone. I put some of this on my lids the other day, half expecting it to be either too dark for that (I have small lids) or else too neutral and dull. Not at all! It's quite wearable. You just place and go. The golden tone keeps it from looking muddy.
Finally, the center deeper brown shade. Again the dread...of someone who survived the "earth tones" of the 1970's...but this too, is more than a plain old deeper brown shade. It's...delicate. It feels a bit coppery on somehow. Again there is that green-eye-popping thing going on. Again there is that "place and go" quality; even a crease idiot could handle this (I'm not that good at creases). Heheheh! How about that.
I hope this review has been helpful. I seldom want to write a favorable review without picking apart for whom I think it would work, and for whom I think it wouldn't. If you can't wear warm shadows, this is not for you. (I'm sure there are other quints that would work better.) For this kind of price, I strongly feel you should be 100% happy.
I feel this quint is geared toward green eyes, possibly blue. It would work with any eye color (as long as your overall coloring is warm enough) but again, other quints may better suit hazel or brown eyes.
The quality itself fully deserves a 10 rating even with the heavier price tag. | <urn:uuid:3f4805ec-0d63-4c69-956d-0e9be866f687> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thebroadroom.net/reviewpost/showproduct.php?product=661&cat=86&limit=views&date=1084850312 | 2013-05-18T08:39:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95283 | 926 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The sordid saga of the headquarters move of the San Diego County Republican Party moves many, including me, to challenge City Councilmen Gary Felien and Jerry Kern’s view that they are the most qualified of the five on the Oceanside City Council to review Oceanside city government and recommend reforms.
Perhaps you didn’t know the Republican headquarters has moved since the party website still has the old Oberlin address. You better update your address books since the headquarters moved in December and rent is now paid for the same address that houses the San Diego County Republican Party chair’s financial planning business office. Lots of things got broken in this move, including the Oberlin office lease.
Recent discussions on the lack of financial wisdom and budgetary wastefulness of this headquarters move have been so heated and angry that comments on the Republican favored website SDRostra had to be restricted.
“Local GOP Turpitude,” an article on SDRostra, refers to the investigation of the office move personally performed by Tea Party leader Leslie Eastman. Eastman, after gathering information from both county Republican Party leadership and the owner of the former headquarters building on Oberlin, reviewing photos and researching alleged rental issues, referred to the move as “stealthily” done, potentially opening the party to insider financial abuse, wasteful of donor money which paid for discarded items, fraudulent and creating the probability of a budget busting and time draining “needless” court case.
Eastman was unable to find any factual basis for the reasons Republican Party officials gave for breaking the Oberlin lease. Scads of office equipment, supplies, boxes of material and even plants, were discarded by party officials without a thought about selling them to recoup any donated dollars that may have paid for them. (templeofmut.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/palin-and-krvaric-the-gop-at-300-am/)
Checks signed by county Republican Party treasurer Gary Felien paid for discarded items, are now paying rent for questionable shared address office space, and would pay for any adverse decision in a lease breach lawsuit.
So what does this messy county Republican Party headquarters move have to do with Oceanside’s three councilmen, Felien, Feller and Kern? All are elected members of the San Diego County Republican Party Central Committee, which is the governing and decision making body of the county Republican Party just like the Oceanside City Council is for Oceanside.
Two of those three Oceanside council members who, as Republican Party governing body members, must have participated in the decisions which Tea Party leader Eastman describes as fraud, waste and stealth have been posing as financial experts who can solve all of Oceanside’s problems.
Knowing the result of the thoughtless, financially wasteful decisions made by members of the governing body of the county Republican Party as expressed by Eastman, red flags must be raised regarding Kern and Felien’s use of requested extra staff time to assist in making recommendations for what they consider to be “government reform” in Oceanside.
Can those who did not stop the use of stealth, the fraud, the abuse and the waste that Tea Party leader Eastman alleged was evident in the Republican Party headquarters move make credible city government “reform” recommendations in their roles as Oceanside leaders? How can they clean up Oceanside government if they can’t even clean up the county Republican government?
If Tea Party leader Eastman is correct in her analysis of the San Diego County Republican Party office move decisions approved by county Republican leadership, any budget recommendations by Kern and Felien will need thorough investigation for evidence of the same flagrant monetary waste, crony capitalism and abusive attitude Eastman concluded was shown in the party leaders office move decision making. The question must be asked: Were Oceanside voters duped into electing a fox to guard the Oceanside henhouse?
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“approximately one million people worldwide die by suicide each year.
this corresponds to one death by suicide every 40 seconds.
or about 3,000 deaths by suicide daily.”
Everyone reblog this please
stop this makes me so sad because once it hits 0 that means yeah I’m alive, but someone else isn’t.
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At meeting with GCC: Opposition insists on Saleh departure
At a meeting with foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh on Sunday night, the Yemeni opposition insisted on the need of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit. It was decided to hold another round of talks between the GCC countries and the Yemeni government, according to a statement released after the meeting.
The statement said that the delegation of representatives of the Yemeni opposition "expressed its commitment to the initiative of the GCC countries from 3rd of April this year."
The statement noted that "it was agreed to continue dialogue and consultation in the future and there will also be another round of dialogue and consultation between the GCC and the Yemeni government," without specifying a date.
The leader of the Yemeni opposition Sultan Alatawani (Nasseri) told reporters after the meeting, "We are with the initiative issued by the Gulf countries on the third of April but we reject the paragraph that was issued in the final statement of the Foreign Ministers of the GCC in April 10 which refers to the transfer of powers of the President. We demand the resignation "of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. | <urn:uuid:b5679c07-5661-450e-a600-563d8e319e8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/meeting-gcc-opposition-insists-saleh-departure | 2013-05-18T09:01:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965855 | 231 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
With back-to-school shopping, function trumps fashion
By Tiffany Esshaki
C & G Staff Writer
The back-to-school season is upon us once again, which means it’s time for youngsters to tuck away their swimsuits and flip-flops in exchange for jeans and sweaters, and maybe even a new outfit or two. But as families head out to their favorite stores this fall, educators hope that parents will consider more than style when selecting classroom apparel.
“The word that we use consistently is appropriate, both for behavior and apparel,” said Fred Proctor, principal of Groves High School in Birmingham. “There are a lot of really beautiful outfits that are not necessarily appropriate for school.”
At Groves, Proctor said, he sees a range of clothing that isn’t suitable for school halls. From girls’ clothes that are too revealing to boys’ clothes that don’t fit correctly, or graphics on both groups that are too suggestive or are offensive to other students or teachers. He said that clothes, especially for teens, can not only reflect on the student, but can sometimes be a distraction in class.
“I think it can be a disruption for the person who’s wearing the clothes and for those who have to encounter it. Today’s fashions take away a ton of mystery because they’re more reveal than conceal,” he said. “I think some of our kids have been kind of immune to (inappropriate dress) because it seems to be less and less of a surprise what people are wearing.”
Proctor outlined a few key elements of the dress codes at Groves that he thinks can be used universally when planning what teens and tweens will be wearing to school this fall. He recommends that parents ensure that girls aren’t wearing tank tops with thin straps, and boys shouldn’t be wearing tanks at all, in his opinion. Skirts should be longer than a student’s fingertips when her arms are at her sides or be a couple inches away from the knee, and shorts should also be a proper length. Fit is another important consideration, he said.
“If your son has a 28-inch waist, then please don’t buy him size 34 pants. Parents, monitor what your kids are wearing and then ask yourselves, ‘Is it appropriate for school, or a work situation?’” he said. “Ultimately, we’re preparing our young people for the work world. So, what’s appropriate for a professional setting?”
Clothing concerns aren’t just a matter for parents of older students, though. The younger set also needs to be dressed in a way that won’t get in the way of the learning process.
In St. Clair Shores, parents have been turning to Connie’s Children’s Shop for nearly 60 years to pick up clothes for their little ones when it’s time to go back to school. Denise Kort, owner of Connie’s, said that since 1954 her store has been known for selling not only quality clothes, but tasteful styles appropriate for the classroom.
“Our clothes are age appropriate. I try and stay away from that Britney Spears look. I think the reason parents do shop here is because they know they’re not going to have that fight with their kid in here about what is and what isn’t appropriate.”
Kort’s store works with private schools in the area to provide students with uniforms, but there’s also a wide selection of playwear for public school students.
“In public schools, they’re probably a little more lenient. Stay away from flip-flops. It’s not more appropriate, but you want them to be comfortable,” she said. “Shorts are appropriate, as long as they’re the right length. And I’d probably say if they’re going to wear tank tops, (straps) should be three fingers across.”
She and Proctor both agree that what’s printed on clothing can make just as much of a statement as the garment itself. Kort said she doesn’t stock many clothes with pop-culture designs on them, such as celebrities or slogans. Proctor said that for tweens and teens, graphic designs on T-shirts can be unsuitable for school and sometimes even offensive.
“We don’t allow T-shirts that have any offensive or harassing type of graphic,” he said. “We also don’t allow weapons on a (clothing), and they can’t allude to any substances. Nothing with a beer logo or any inference to drugs or alcohol or anything like that.”
It’s also important to make sure the items being purchased for school are essential parts of a young student’s wardrobe that will be worn often, instead of items chosen only for their “cool” factor. Kort said back-to-school shopping, when done right, can go a long way through the year and can fit any budget. | <urn:uuid:8201796f-1794-40da-9f35-b7c8bd62acb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.candgnews.com/print/57293 | 2013-05-18T09:00:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965953 | 1,096 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Adobe have announced the release of Lightoom 4 (LR4). You can find more details here.
They have reduced the price slightly too; the full version costs £237.60, while the upgrade costs £76.25. You can get LR4 even cheaper if you purchase it with one of the CS5 or CS5.5 suites. NAPP members should also be able to receive further discounts on these prices.
Interestingly, Adobe have announced the support of additional cameras including the Nikon D4, D800 and D800e as well as the Canon EOS-1D X, Powershot G1 X, S100 and a handful of Fuji Finepix models.
There is going to be a lot of coverage of the software over the next few days and weeks. DPReview have some coverage already here; Scott Kelby here and Michael Reichmann at Luminous Landscape is already promoting their training course that they have provided for this software since the first version here. | <urn:uuid:595a9466-574c-4496-b45a-da1c071e26b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cbphotoblog.com/?p=1475 | 2013-05-18T09:00:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381630/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967407 | 201 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Wis. gov: I took "bold political move" on budget
Public employees, labor supporters and activists continue demonstrations in Wisconsin's state capital for a fourth day Friday, protesting Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip most public employees of most collective bargaining rights.
The cuts could impact nearly 300,000 public workers, many of them teachers, whose massive protests forced school closures around the state.
Fourteen Democratic senators even fled the state to postpone a vote they are likely to lose.
"We decided to slow the process down, and the only way to do that was for us to leave the state," said Jon Erpenbach. "Republicans can't move forward with this legislation unless we're there."
Simply put, the plan requires most public employees to contribute more to their pensions and health care plans, while losing their right to collective bargaining, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers.
Walker said he was hired to fill a $3.6 billion budget hole, and that his plan is saving 5,500 state workers' jobs.
It is an emotional issue in the state that gave birth to public worker unions 75 years ago.
"To take and throw away the contract and say 'It's balancing the budget' is bull crap," said Marty Winchester.
Yet five unions are specifically untouched by the bill, including four - the Wisconsin State Troopers, the Milwaukee Police and Firefighters Associations, and the West Allis Professional Police - that endorsed Walker in the recent election, reports WISC.
Walker denied that the unions are getting political payback.
"I think that's utterly ridiculous," Walker told WISC. "The statewide police union, the statewide firefighter union endorsed my opponent. If [it] was rewarding political allies, it would be ridiculous to exempt them if that was the reason."
On "The Early Show" Walker told anchor Chris Wragge that there were 310 police and fire unions across the state that did not endorse him, but said the exemption for police and police employees was a security issue.
"For us it's simple: We cannot compromise public safety in this state," Walker said. "We've seen what's happened unfortunately with a number of our schools. It is illegal to strike in this state. We can't compromise our public safety.
"But the bottom line is we've got to balance the budget, the people are here, the thousands of protesters, union protesters - at least those from Wisconsin; there are plenty of others coming in from across the country - but those from Wisconsin have a right to be heard. But the millions and millions of taxpayers of the state have a right to be heard as well.
"We can't raise taxes to balance the budget or we'll cripple the economy that already has about a 7.5 percent unemployment rate," Walker said. "To show that we're open for business, we've got to make it easier to put people to work here, and asking employees to pay half the national average for health care is truly a modest request."
On "The Early Show" Walker said his position has not softened. He characterized his proposal as "a bold political move," but added that it was a modest request of public sector employees.
Despite the turnout of protesters, which has forced the closure of schools, Walker said the "vast majority" of the state's 300,000 state and local government employees have reported for work, "just like we pay them to do."
"The state senators who are hiding out down in Illinois should show up for work, have their say, have their vote, add their amendments, but in the end we've got a $3.6 billion budget deficit we've got to balance," Walker said. "And I think for most people in the middle class outside of government, they understand what we're asking for is still a lot less than what most of our average taxpayers are paying."
Walker also denied that his proposal is trying to break the unions.
"No, Wisconsin has the strongest civil service protection system in the country," he said. "It was there several generations before any collective bargaining was ever approved in this state. Our workers have protections today, they'll have protections after this bill passes. What you've got are union leaders who don't like the fact that they're not going to be able to mandatorily enforce that every one of the workers here in state and local government have got to be a part of the union. That's why they're here. That's why the national money is here. That's why the national union leaders are coming here."
Walker suggested that the money members pay to their union would be better spent paying into the government's health insurance.
"In the end it's a better deal for those workers at the state and local level to get their dues back, to be able to have the option of joining or not joining, and take that $500, $600 and apply it to the health care and pension costs we have."
"I toured manufacturing plants all across the state this week. Most of those workers - middle class, working class blue collar workers - are paying 25 percent to 50 percent of their health care premiums. We're just asking for 12.6 percent. Again, I think it is a modest request. It's a bold political move, but it's a modest request. And I think the majority of taxpayers in the state understand, even those who work in union shops outside of government."
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John Gage is a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He left Sun Microsystems, a company he helped found, in June 2008. At Sun he was responsible for their relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy, and for alliances with the world’s leading research institutions.
In 1995, Gage created NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources of world high-technology companies to all schools and libraries to connect them to the Internet. Since then over 500,000 volunteers have wired over 50,000 schools and libraries in the United States. NetDays are planned in over thirty countries for 2002.
Gage is on the board of NetDay and Schools Online, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting the world one school at a time.In late 1999, President Clinton appointed John to his Web Based Education Commission, which issued its report December, 2000.The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government named Gage as one of five distinguished journalists and scholars to be its 2000 Fall Fellows. He taught a course on Technology, Media, and Governance during the fall semester, 2000.
Gage is also a frequent host on Sun’s Digital Journey - an ongoing series of Web-based multimedia programs that seek to gain a more complete understanding of new and emerging technologies in their business, social, environmental , and cultural contexts.
Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and left Berkeley in 1982 to join Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems.
He is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and ElectronicsEngineers (IEEE), and the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society (ISOC).
Gage has served on scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Multimedia Super Corridor project of Malaysia. He has also been a member of the Board of Regents of the US NationalLibrary of Medicine, the Board of Trustees of Fermi National Laboratory, and the External Advisor Council for the World Bank.
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Cook with Jamie: Three wise moves! Shredded Brussels, spicy ham hocks, turkey wellington – why not try something out of the ordinary this Christmas?
When it comes to the big Christmas dinner I’m all about the traditional stuff, but I know some people like to mix it up each year.
Actually, even I like to get a bit funky with sides, finding shortcuts to make life easier, or alternative eats for when you’re not feeding a big army.
So if you’re looking for something a bit different, here are my twists on some of our Christmas staples.
And if you’re not comfortable messing with the big day, don’t worry, these recipes are perfectly suited to any festive occasion.
First up, it’s an impressive turkey wellington and, I have to admit, I’m proud of this one. Dad and I were talking about how some smaller families might not want a whole turkey, so we came up with this recipe. It looks fantastic and stretches the meat much further.
The pastry and mushrooms wrap the meat to help hold its juices, and the best bit is that you can assemble it a day ahead and leave it in the fridge until you’re ready to cook.
Next up, I’ve tackled that old favourite, the Christmas ham, but I’ve turned things on their head by using ham hocks, which are actually a lot easier to do.
Believe it or not, jerk seasoning is Christmassy – the spices are pretty much the same ones you’ll find in mulled wine and mince pies.
Finally, I’m giving a bit of love to the most debated veg we Brits cook at Christmas – Brussels sprouts. You either love or hate these little guys, but I hope that trying them in a new way will change your opinion if you’re in the haters crowd. They’re super quick too – you just rattle them through your food processor and get them into a pan with some gorgeous flavours. Happy days.
Grated zest and juice of 2 clementines
2 cinnamon sticks
1 heaped tbsp sugar
225g (8oz) dried cranberries
1.6kg/3lb 8oz (approx) free-range turkey breast, skin on
½ a bunch of fresh thyme, leaves picked
Grated zest of 1 lemon
2 x 500g packets puff pastry
1 free-range egg, beaten with a little milk
2 fresh rosemary sprigs, leaves picked (optional)
For the mushroom stuffing
25g (1oz) dried porcini mushrooms
8 smoked streaky bacon rashers, thinly sliced
½ a bunch of fresh thyme, leaves picked
6 garlic cloves, unpeeled, squashed
10 fresh sage leaves
2 large onions, peeled and finely chopped
600g (1lb 5oz) mixed mushrooms, chopped
A good swig of marsala
10g (¼oz) unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Place the clementine zest and juice, cloves, cinnamon and sugar in a small pan and simmer over a very low heat for 4-5 minutes, then remove the cloves and cinnamon. Add the cranberries and cook until rehydrated, then turn off the heat and leave to cool. Once cooled, blitz briefly in a food processor or with a hand blender.
Place the turkey breast skin-side down on a board. Gently slice into the natural join of the breast muscle to open it out, season well and drizzle with olive oil.
Spread an even layer of the cranberry mixture over the breast, pushing it into the nooks and crannies, then sprinkle over half the thyme.
Fold the breast back into shape to seal the mixture inside, and push a couple of cocktail sticks into the edge to keep it together. Season the outside of the turkey with the lemon zest, the remaining thyme, a small pinch of salt and pepper and a drizzle of oil.
Rub it all into the skin, then transfer to a roasting tray, cover in foil and roast for 60-70 minutes, or until just cooked through.
Meanwhile, for the stuffing, soak the porcini in a cup of just-boiled water.
After 5 minutes, stir with a fork so any grit sinks to the bottom. Fry the bacon and thyme in a pan with a splash of oil over a medium heat for 5-10 minutes, or until golden and crispy. Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Add the garlic, sage, onions and drained porcini to the pan and fry for a couple of minutes, till the porcini start sizzling.
Add the fresh mushrooms and continue to cook for 15-20 minutes until golden, soft and sticky with caramelly edges. When the pan is dry, add a good swig of marsala and continue to cook until it’s evaporated. Stir in the butter till combined, then season. Transfer to a food processor and blitz till it’s a mixture of smooth and chunky. Leave to cool.
Once the turkey and stuffing have cooled, assemble the wellington. Heat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Roll out each pack of pastry to roughly the size of an A3 sheet of paper (one lot will be the base, and the other the lid).
Spread half the mushroom stuffing over the middle of the base in an area the size of your turkey breast.
Place the breast on top and spread the remaining stuffing over the breast so all of it is covered. Lay the second sheet of pastry over the top and mould it around the breast, gently pushing down to seal the edges. If you’re left with lots of pastry at the sides, trim it to around 5cm (2in) then twist and tuck around the edges (like in the picture).
Brush with the beaten egg, place on a roasting tray and bake for 50 minutes, or until risen, puffy and golden. If you want delicious crisp rosemary on top, pick the leaves off 2 sprigs, drizzle with a bit of olive oil and sprinkle over the wellington 20 minutes before it’s finished cooking.
4 x 500g/1lb 2oz (approx) fresh, quality ham hocks
1-2 clementines, halved
For the jerk seasoning
5 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
3-5 scotch bonnet peppers (depending on how daring you’re feeling), deseeded and chopped
4 red shallots, peeled and roughly chopped
1 bunch of chives, roughly chopped
1tbsp caster sugar
12 fresh thyme sprigs
3 fresh bay leaves
2tbsp each ground allspice, ground nutmeg
and ground cloves
125ml (4fl oz) golden rum
125ml (4fl oz) malt vinegar
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. For the jerk seasoning, blitz everything in a food processor until smooth. Rub the seasoning all over the hocks, drizzle with oil, then place in a roasting tray. Add the clementine halves then cover the tray with tin foil. Roast for about 3½ hours, until the meat is tender and falling off the bone. Once cooked, squeeze the clementines over the hocks, then shred the ham with forks, discarding bones and any wobbly bits of fat. Serve hot, or keep the meat in the fridge and serve cold later. Any leftovers can be pressed into a terrine, crisped up in a pan and tossed through salad, or used to make sandwiches with limey mayo and cheese.
BRUSSELS WITH RUSTLE
500g (1lb 2oz) Brussels sprouts
A large knob of butter
4 smoked streaky bacon rashers, finely sliced
2 fresh sage sprigs, leaves picked
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 garlic cloves, finely grated
Push the sprouts through the fine slicing attachment of a food processor, then fill the bowl with water.
Add a good drizzle of olive oil and the butter to a large pan over a medium heat. Add the bacon, sage and a pinch of salt and pepper and cook for 5-10 minutes, or until lovely and crisp.
Drain the sprouts, add to the pan and turn the heat up – it doesn’t matter if they’re still a bit wet, that will help them steam. Fry for 10 minutes or till soft. Add a splash of water if needed.
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Decorating for Halloween [Pictures]
Halloween doesn't scare Melanie Brzozowski, an event design consultant for Chef's Expressions. She treats the holiday with the approach she takes to other seasonal events. Here some of her ideas for Halloween decorating.
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Welcome to Dick Wightman's Home Page
Featuring information about the Ballard Southern Railroad (On30), building and flying kites for the Rainbear Skydive Teddy Bear Parachute Corps, shooting and building classic traditional D longbows, quilting on antique treadle sewing machines and other interests that may catch my fancy from time to time.
Welcome to my home page. I am a retired performer and am still commonly called Captain Dick, sometimes Doc Wightman, names I and my ventriloquist figure friends performed under for many years. I still do an occasional show, but I spend most of my time now involved with the collection and restoration of antique sewing machines, model railroading and traditional archery. I am the web master for Treadle On, the antique sewing machine collector and users site, which is huge and which is separate from this site. There is a link to Treadle On below. This site is devoted primarily to my other interests so that the 2000 members of Treadle On don't have to be burdened with them.
For antique sewing machine and quilting activities: www.treadleon.net
Ballard Southern Railroad - Model railroading has been an inteterest of mine off and on since 1964. I have modeled in HOn3, HO, N, O, G and currently in On30. For the last 30 years I have been interested in a system of once abandoned, now active, trackage in the community of Ballard, WA, an area of Seattle. My railroads have reflected this interest. This link takes you to the current Ballard Southern pages, which include the construction of the current railroad, historical archives on the backstory of the Ballard Southern and a tour of the actual trackage of the Ballard Terminal Railroad, a busy three mile line that is an excellent "railroad you can model". Included are photo collections of a switching run and a walking tour of the entire line, with pictures of buildings and principal features that would be of interest to those modeling it.
Rainbear Skydive Corps - I have had a deep interest in kites for many years. I was active in building kites in the 1990's, but allowed that activity to go dormant when I became interested in archery and bow building. Recently ( 2012) I have been picking up the kites again. My specialty has been power lifting kites and parachuting teddy bears. Back in the 90's I founded the Rainbear Skydive Corps and wrote the "Rainbear Skydive Corps Training Manual", a guide to making fluted sled kites, parachutes and all related paraphernalia. The Corps is active once again and the training manual is currently available in PDF format. A second, revised, edition is planned but does not have a target date yet.
The primary liftting kite for the Rainbear Skydive Corps is a not very well know design called the fluted sled. The Rainbear home page has a good bit of info, as of course does the book. Here is a link to an extensive presentation of the making of a new power kite for the Corps:
Making a Fluted Sled Kite
Traditional Archery Activities - A few years ago, I became very active in traditional archery. Age and health problems dictate that I can now shoot only light draw weight bows. This led to my learning to build traditional longbows, specializing in bows of light weight, which has become a passion for me. I try to share all of my building experience through these archery pages and to promote the use of light bows to prolong the shooting life of archers. I continue to go to 3D shoots and on occasionally hunting adventures and share these as well. This link will take you an extensive set of pages covering all of my shooting and bow building activities. These pages are especially aimed at providing information of use to beginning bow builders.
Howard Hill Bows - I founded and maintained the Howard Hill Longbowmen group for a period of about six years. I had to give up this effort, but so much valuable information was collected and posted to the site in that time that there was a call to not let it disappear. These pages still need a lot of re-working, which I hope to get to over time, but I hope that by posting them here, those folks who want to refer to them can still do so.
My Quilts - I got interested in old sewing machines because someone persuaded me to try quilting as a traditional activity. I quickly learned that there are no sewing machines made today that even approach the quality of the old ones, pre-1959. I have restored and used many old machines in my quilting. My current favorite is an 1895 Singer Model 28 treadle. All of these quilts were made on treadle and hand crank sewing machine.
Dulcimer Activities - I have played folk music and done variety entertainment for over 40 years. When I found myself unable to play guitar due to mucscle problems, I took up the mountain dulcimer, since playing it required pressing strings rather than squeezing them. I became quite interested in the instrument. Very recently I discovered the bowed dulcimer, which is a rich, deep sounding variation that is bowed in the manner of a cello. I can't say that I'm a particularly good musician but the dulcimer does keep me interested in and performing some folk music.
Bulletin Board - A convenient spot to post announcements and pictures that I want to share with interested parties. Subject to frequent change.
Here are a few pictures, if you're wondering what I look like:
... quilting on vintage treadle sewing machine.
Dick With Barney and Fred
Performing circa 1990-1995
This was our borchure promo photo.
At the time I retired, I was one of only five people still making hand carved wood professional ventriloquist figures.
I used to be involved in the design of large power lifting kites. Here I'm flying a large fluted sled kite. In optimum conditions, this kite can lift you off the ground.
... sailing on "Isle of Wight" circa 1980. We lived on and cruised this boat for ten years.
... with vintage York longbow.
... with Hill style longbow I built and a very good 50 yard plus shot on this moose target.
10527 12th Ave. NW
Seattle, WA 98117
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I can’t help it. I turn vacations into garden-touring marathons. So when my husband Jeff suggested we visit Quebec for our 20th anniversary, I figured he was safe. I assumed that French Canada was, if not tundra, probably solid forest. But it turns out Quebec City is one big garden, or so it seemed to me, coming from brown and dry SoCA. Everywhere I looked, I saw hanging baskets abundant with flowering vines. Back home, such things would desiccate in a day.
“Here,” I said, thrusting the camera into Jeff’s hand. “Take my picture.” I didn’t tell him I already was planning a GGW post about Quebec City, and needed a person in the photo to show the scale of those giant red flowerpots.
What surprised me (perhaps it shouldn’t have) were exuberant beds full of plants way too tender for a climate even locals describe as severe. Obviously what’s a perennial in SoCA (given ample water and rich soil) can be grown as an annual even in the far northeast. Shown here, forming the backdrop to a composition consisting of pink gaura, yellow daisies and purple Verbena bonariensis are burgundy-leaved cannas—a small-flowered variety that was a mainstay of many of the flowerbeds I saw. I wonder if it’s a kind with corms that can overwinter here in the ground.
The gardens surrounding Quebec’s parliament are impressive, colorful and extensive. When you consider that a 20-foot flowerbed is more than enough for most of us, imagine the labor involved in maintaining hundreds of yards of floral borders.
I was beat after walking all over Quebec City’s historic district and touring the Museum of Civilization. Then I saw the museum’s rooftop gardens. Another hour flew by, effortlessly (at least for me).
Terraces in the museum’s garden were planted with vegetables. Metal tubes above them suggested vine tendrils, and lent the garden a wonderful sense of vitality and whimsy.
The museum garden is called the Jardin Nourrir, or Nourishing Garden, and—as exemplified by this landscape sketch of one of the areas—is instructional as well as entertaining.
What a great idea: Install a blackboard in the garden, on which to write memos and sayings.
Statuary throughout the rooftop garden engages adults and children alike.
I wonder how difficult it is to dye playground sand blue. “Here, put some in your hand while I take a photo,” I instructed my husband. “That way, people can see its texture.”
“You should blog about this,” Jeff said.
He knew what I had been up to, all along.
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Published 1/22/2013 in ObituariesKathy Sullivan, 74, Garden City, died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at the Kearny County Hospital in Lakin.
She was born Feb. 17, 1938, in Garden City, to John and Kathryn "Katie" Mader.
She married to Eugene Sullivan Jr.
A longtime resident of Holcomb, Mrs. Sullivan worked as a waitress at the Red Baron Restaurant and Wheatland's Restaurant.
Survivors include her five children, Stephanie Uthe of Springdale, Ark., Michelle Sarles of Garden City, Jana Hamill of Garden City, Tim Sullivan of Oceanside, Calif., and Laci Sullivan of Lakin; three brothers, Albert Mader of Garden City, Joe Mader of Garden City and George Mader of Colorado; a sister, Annabelle Newsome of Garden City; 12 grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; a brother, Jim Mader; and three sisters, Geraldine William, Millicent Yount and Mary Katz.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Garnand Funeral Home in Garden City.
Burial will follow at the Valley View Cemetery in Garden City. There will be no calling hours.
The family request memorials given to the donor's choice, in care of Garnand Funeral Home of Garden City, 412 N. Seventh St., Garden City, KS 67846. Condolences may be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Stephanie you and Summer are in my thoughts and prayers. so sorry for your loss and I remember her fondly as a friend and coworker.
Posted by: Dee Gray on 1/24/2013
Always In thoughts Never forgotton
Know your in a better place, and no longer suffering.. I wish I could of seen you before this.. But I want you to knw that I am Thankful for all the childhood memeries and experiances that u shared with me and my siblings..My mother Kay will miss you and loves and will always carry your edvice and streaghts that you have taught her over the years.. god be with all the family and friends through this hard time...
Posted by: S. Kristina Salas on 1/23/2013
I remember Kathy as a waitress-and I loved her wonderful smile & personality-plus! Bless her spirit!
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That morning the world was nothing but water: angry, white capped, gray. All signs of land had disappeared. Even the floating islands. A chill wind blew. On our way to the market town of Mopti, from Kabara, the port of Timbuktu, I shivered beneath the blanket I shared with Margaret, our tour leader, while we huddled in the prow of the motorized pirogue.
Adele, a corpulent woman in her late sixties, one of twelve tourists aboard, was seated on the bench behind me. “Fifteen years ago I opened a hair salon in San Diego. It was the smartest move I ever made,” she began. I turned to look at her and wondered how she could think about a hair salon in the middle of the Niger River where, the day before, we had spotted hippos lounging at the water’s edge or resting their square-jawed heads on the surface of the water.
We had seen fishing boats with beautiful patchwork sails made from rice sacks, and near-naked fishermen setting traps and casting nets. We had gone ashore in bright sunshine to see a settlement of nomads, then mud villages where Songhai farmers, Bozo fishers, and Fulani herders lived.
Money! She’s talking about money in the middle of the Niger River!
In a Bozo settlement, tall lanky men slapped their thighs and doubled over in loud, raucous laughter while pointing at Adele and the other obese women in our group.
Along the sandy banks, we had seen termite mounds taller than houses, thorn scrub, Diospyros trees, fields of spiky stalks where millet was harvested, and fields of calabashes. We had seen carmine bee-eaters, pied kingfishers. On a floating island where weavers had woven nests in the reeds, we had seen a fisher eagle. We had heard the piercing shrieks of blacksmith plovers.
Adele’s chatter about her hair salon and how much it had cost her to open it tore the fabric of my thoughts. Money! She’s talking about money in the middle of the Niger River!
Recalling all we had seen the day before helped me control my anger.
Margaret had pointed out Calotrope, a plant of the milkweed family with sap deadly to humans that cows eat in the dry season. I had asked why dead cows along the bank were so evenly spaced. Guiere, our native guide, told me they were victims of hyenas, disease, or old age, which didn’t answer my question but I didn’t press him. At night, we had camped out in tents on the shore under the pearly luster of the moonlit sky.
This memory game reminded me of a game I played when I was a child. Unable to fall asleep at night in my grandmother’s bedroom, I would remember in painstaking detail every piece of furniture, every object d’art, every framed photograph in her crowded living room. This helped me forget how frightened I was when my father left my mother and me, and we had moved in with my grandmother.
It was so much easier to be angry at Adele and blame her for spoiling my experience than it was to admit I was afraid. But afraid of what? The pirogue seemed sturdy enough. I wasn’t afraid it would capsize or sink. I wasn’t afraid of drowning.
That morning when we awoke, the air had cooled but it wasn’t until we were out on the river that the cold wind and waves assaulted us. In a matter of hours, the Niger had changed dramatically.
What was it about this stretch of water that denied the very existence of land? Any shore, even a shore with decaying cow corpses would have been a relief. The water swallowed some of Adele’s words. How did it decide which ones? There were times when I swear that water was filled with something nameless and invisible that followed us like a malevolent spirit, as formless as my fear.
“Where are we?” I managed to ask, relieved to hear the sound of my voice, no matter how small.
Gazing into the grayness, Margaret said, dully, “Lake Debo.”
“Lake Debo?” I repeated. But she didn’t answer.
A lake? How could this be a lake? I recalled crossing the Atlantic from New York to Casablanca, years ago, aboard a Yugoslav freighter. I loved being on the water; I didn’t want that journey to end. This lake seemed larger than the Atlantic. Weren’t lakes surrounded by land? Why couldn’t I ask?
I looked over at Margaret. She seemed so distant. So unreachable. I imagined the flask in her hand under the blanket. It was never too early for her to take a swig.
If only there were a dictionary aboard, I thought, I could look up the word “lake.” The sight of words would comfort me. The orderly rhythm of lines. The shapeliness of letters. The white spaces on the page.
If only Caroline were sitting beside me; Caroline, a spry Canadian journalist of seventy-four who, like me, was here on assignment for a national magazine. Unfortunately, she was sitting in the rear of the pirogue. Caroline was married to the oldest quadriplegic in Canada and had whispered to me that they still had great oral sex. The others mockingly called her “The Butterfly,” jealous of her slender figure, her nimble steps.
I had little tolerance for my other companions, who were not the seasoned adventurers I had expected. Instead, they were wealthy retired people, who had traveled frequently on costly tours like this one, snapping pictures non-stop for their families back home. Even when witch doctors chased them through the fetish market in Bamako, they kept taking pictures though Margaret had told them they had to ask permission first. The witch doctors would have smashed their cameras had not her local staff intervened.
These tourists were game to camp out so long as the boys, (as they called them), piloted the pirogue, pitched the tents, cooked the food, uncorked the vintage wines, and drove the jeeps that carried us over miles and miles of empty roads. I had been astonished to hear Adele say she had toured one-hundred-and-thirty-five countries. I didn’t know how many countries there were but I knew I had seen no where near that number. How could I expect these tourists to understand my penchant for traveling alone on public transport, eating food at local markets, sleeping in cheap hotels?
I wondered about myself. Where was that brave traveler now? Had she stayed home? Without Caroline to hold my hand, what could I do to keep myself together? I felt the heavy dark clouds closing in on me. In vain, I scanned the grayness for a line dividing lake and sky. The fear of losing myself in the water’s hypnotic pull snapped me back to Adele’s voice. “All my life, my mother was my closest friend. We went everywhere together.” Whatever else she said about her mother is lost to me now. But I recall turning towards her, wanting to shake her and shout, For god’s sake, shut up!
For the first time, I noticed her blue eye shadow, as she launched into a tale about the man she dated for eighteen years. “I married him only after my mother died. I needed a companion,” she said, “but he will never replace my mother.”
I could imagine her at dawn, sitting up in the sleeping bag in her tent on the sandy shore, unzipping her make-up case, pulling out her mirror, applying blue shadow with a brush to hide the purple veins that streaked her heavy lids. I felt a twinge of pity for her. Was Adele afraid too? Is that why she was talking so much? Suddenly, despite the strong wind whipping the waves, the cold spray flying in my face, I wanted to say something to calm her, but what could I say when I couldn’t even calm myself?
Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including Certain People (Coffee House Press). A new edition of her novel, The Dreaming Girl, will be published by Ellipsis Press in fall 2011. Since 1991, she has taught private writing workshops. Recently, she has completed a new story collection and is working on her version of a memoir. A visual artist as well, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she has exhibited worldwide. She can be found at RobertaAllen.com
Passion according to G.H., a novel by Clarice Lispector.
In the maid’ s room of her penthouse in Rio, an upper class woman is shocked into a journey of self-revelation and spiritual rebirth. Using language in ways that are completely her own, she manages to delve deep within the human psyche.
American Genius, a novel by Lynne Tillman.
Instead of plot, we have the twists and turns of the narrator’s mind—her observations, obsessions, and recollections—in what seems to be an artist colony, filled with interesting characters.
My Happy Life, a novel by Lydia Millet.
An unnamed woman locked in a room in an abandoned mental hospital finds it impossible to cast blame.
The Spare Room, a novel by Helen Garner.
This Australian writer depicts with enviable insight and clarity three weeks in the fifteen-year friendship of two women, one of them seriously ill.
Superworse, a novel by Ben Greenman.
Introduced by a fictional editor, the author sets the stage for a remix of stories from a previous book threaded together with new ones in various genres. They are sharp, funny, brilliant.
The Portable Virgin, stories by Anne Enright.
Out-of-kilter characters live in strange realities in this Irish author’s precise and witty prose.
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The apartment rental market in Hartford showed modest improvement in 2010, with average monthly rents increasing 4.3 percent in the last three months of 2010, compared with the same period a year earlier, according to a new report Tuesday.
From October through December, the average monthly rent for an apartment in Hartford increased to $977, from $937 a year earlier, according to Rentjungle.com, an apartment search engine and research firm that tracks rents based on advertisements.
But the gains were uneven throughout the year: strong through spring and summer but weakening in the fall. The average rent in Harford, which includes an area 10 miles from the city's center, rose as high as $1,036 in July-September, but then fell nearly 6 percent, to $977, in the last three months of the year.
The decline at the end of last year came as the outlook for job growth in the state remained anemic for well into 2011.
"Rents were up significantly in the first three quarters of 2010 in most markets," said Jon Pastor, Rentjungle.com's chief executive. "The fourth quarter saw a slight flattening of that trend, but nothing that would be considered a reversal."
Rentjungle.com's survey is based on 3,000 advertisements a month in Hartford, and 36,000 throughout Connecticut.
Brian Lemire, incoming president of the Connecticut Apartment Association, said he believes the Hartford market is in much better shape than it was a year ago, but said has not yet seen increases comparable to those outlined in Tuesday's report on properties that he manages.
That may be because he manages larger and, in some cases, more upscale apartments. The increase, he said, may be driven by smaller complexes and multi-family houses.
Lemire said fewer concessions — such as a month of free rent — are being offered, and there is less turnover than a year ago. More people may be staying put because they are feeling a bit more secure in their jobs, and there haven't been any major layoffs recently, he said.
"People may have a better mindset than they did in the past," Lemire said.
Although the job market remains weak, the demand for apartments also could be strengthening as people displaced from foreclosed houses look for apartments. Also, potential homebuyers may be putting off purchases to wait out the economic recovery, choosing apartments instead.
All sizes of apartments in Hartford showed year-over-year gains in the Rentjungle.com survey with one-bedroom apartments increasing the most, by an average of 9.7 percent, to $841 from $795 a year ago.
But compared with the third quarter, average monthly rents in the fourth quarter rose only for one-bedroom apartments, easing back for both two- and three-bedroom units, the survey found.
Elsewhere, the rent picture in Connecticut remained mixed. Tuesday's report included 10 other cities and towns in the state with three — Meriden, Middletown and Naugatuck — seeing year-over-year declines. Naugatuck saw the steepest drop at 8.5 percent.
Reprinted with permission of the Hartford Courant.
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Design Star 2012 Goodbye Ep. 9
Hear how the departing designer feels about not being the next Design Star.
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Royal Hashemite Court (Jordan)
King receives reply letter from education minister
Amman, 3 September 2012
His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday received a reply letter from Education Minister Fayez Saud in which he commended King Abdullah's recent letter to the teachers and students on the first day of the school year.
The minister said that the King's letter laid out a work methodology and a roadmap for achieving the objectives of the education process and addressing various challenges.
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10 Make-Ahead Main Dishes
You can make and chill this family favorite ahead. When ready to serve, spoon on the red chili sauce and bake.
Make these burgers the night before for a quick grilled meal the next day.
In this recipe, fat bell peppers are stuffed with zucchini, chickpeas, and quinoa, a protein-packed grain with a mild, nutty flavor.
Prepare the zesty peanut sauce up to 24 hours ahead. At mealtime, brush the sauce on chicken pieces and fire up the grill.
Lasagna is one meal that's always better the second day, after the sauce and cheese have set.
A hearty pie with potatoes and ground beef makes the perfect comfort food for winter supper.
Marinate these tangy ribs in the refrigerator overnight, then pop them in the oven after work for a super simple dinner.
Let this salmon soak up the sweet and spicy marinade for a full 24 hours. When it's time to grill, wood chips add a deliciously smoky flavor to the fish.
Flavored with chili sauce, chipotle, and beer, this juicy meat makes a manly meal.
Tangy caper mayonnaise makes a sophisticated substitute for plain old tartar sauce. Both the crab cakes and the sandwich spread can be made up to 24 hours in advance.
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- Last Updated: 12:50 PM, March 21, 2013
- Posted: 12:46 PM, March 21, 2013
Jenny McCarthy has been buzzed about as Joy Behar’s possible replacement on “The View,” but now she’s set the record straight.
McCarthy said that since she has own VH1 show, she won’t be permanently sitting next to Barbara Walters and company on the ABC gabfest. However, the bubbly blonde will be guest-hosting once Behar leaves.
"I will be helping them while they're looking,” she said to "Extra."
The “Jenny McCarthy Show” host seemed flattered at the question but continued, “I can’t [because] I have my own show…maybe someday in the future.”
Behar will exit the long-running daytime talk show in August when her contract expires.
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In the first of two games against the Miami Heat in China, the Clippers were so bad at the free-throw line that it could be considered an international incident, and ultimately, it helped cost them in a 94-80 loss Thursday.
DeAndre Jordan was the prime offender, missing nine of his 10 attempts in the loss.
Miami Heat's Mickell Gladness, left, goes for a basket over the Clippers' Blake Griffin during the NBA China Games at Wukesong Arena in Beijing Thursday.
As a team, the Clippers shot 11-of-27 (40.7 percent) from the line.
LeBron James led Miami with 20 points, and Ray Allen scored 15 off the bench for the defending NBA champs.
Blake Griffin scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the loss. Jamal Crawford added 16 points off the bench, but combined with Griffin, the pair committed 11 of the Clippers’ 25 turnovers.
The two teams play again Sunday at 9:30 p.m.
Some observations from the game
- There are definitely on-court chemistry issues that need to be ironed out. So many of the Clippers’ 25 turnovers were completely unforced, leading to a pretty ugly performance on the offensive end.
- Blake Griffin finally got going in the third quarter, getting out into transition and knocking down some mid-range jumpers. It’s still worrisome, though, that the Clippers didn’t get the ball to Griffin more on the block earlier and more often.
- Willie Green struggled for the second game in a row, and you have to wonder if he’ll stay in the starting lineup or if he’ll give way to Matt Barnes or Jamal Crawford.
- Speaking of Crawford, he’s certainly capable of getting his own shot. But when the Clippers went with all reserves in the second quarter, the offense looked clunky and unorganized.
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Debi Sommars knows all about organic growth.
Her business, Portland-based Sommars Ovens, has literally grown one customer at a time. Her product, organic granola, is gaining popularity as the organic-food movement becomes more mainstream.
What began as a hobby in her kitchen has become a multistate business in only five years -- a far cry from the late nineties, when she was living in Southern California and baking 2-pound batches of organic granola for friends and family.
Then she moved to Portland with her husband, Mark Rosenbaum, a financial adviser who recently served as Mayor Tom Potter's campaign chair.
While grocery shopping one day, she noticed entire aisles devoted to organic products. "It was mind-boggling to me," she said. "It wasn't like that in Southern California."
A business idea was born.
She visited the Small Business Administration's SCORE office for business advice. She researched the organic- foods market, discovering annual double-digit growth. She rented test kitchens and tinkered with her recipe.
Her company now bakes about 25,000 pounds annually and is on a trajectory to double production every year.
The former investment adviser's products now are in stores and company and college cafeterias from Northern California to Seattle. It also has a private label product which accounts for 10 percent of sales. Though she won't reveal revenue, she says her self-financed, 4-person company is expanding and profitable."She's taken this further than I thought she could," said Eric Davis, store director at Lamb's at Stroheckers in Portland, which carries her products.
Sommars is quick to point out that she doesn't merely sell granola. She sells "organic" granola. Organic generally implies foods with no pesticides, hormones or genetically modified organisms. A fall 2003 survey by Whole Foods Market found that more than half of all Americans had tried organic food. Almost a third said they had increased their consumption of organic food and beverages in the previous 12 months.
Sales of natural food products in Oregon and Washington reached $887 million in 2003, an increase of 18 percent from the previous year, according to the trade group Natural Food Merchandiser.
Sommars, who has become somewhat of an organic evangelist, knew none of this when she began making her own granola 10 years ago. She is wheat-intolerant, so she began baking organic, wheat-free granola for friends, who started asking for packages to take home.
After moving to the Northwest and deciding to go into business, Sommars was forced to alter her recipe. Larger batches required different ingredients. "I had to modify it a lot," she said. "What works in 2-pound throws doesn't work in 200-, 500- or 2,000-pound throws."
Despite her company's rapid growth, she still self-distributes her products -- Some Nut Granola (with almonds), No-Nut Granola and granola with flax seed.
In Oregon, Sommars Ovens products are in Lamb's at Stroheckers, City Market, People's Co-op, Wizer's Markets, Market of Choice and Palisades Thriftway. She visited each store to pitch her product. She also did in-store demos herself, handing out samples to customers. "I got a lot of feedback that way. I wanted to know what people were thinking," she said.
The region's emphasis on healthy eating, combined with her passion and local address, helped sell her product. Lots of companies make granola, but few produce the organic variety.
Retail sales account for half of company revenue. The college market comprises 40 percent. Sommars calls the growth of her business "serendipitous." Those in the grocery industry, however, are much more generous. "She's sharp. I've been doing this a long time and I've seen so many products, but the difference with her is, she really believes in what she's selling," said Davis. "Her next step now is to find a distributor."
Sommars Ovens granola is also sold in several cafeterias on college campuses, including Willamette University in Salem and Reed College in Portland. Dan Sprauer, director of operations at Bon Appetit cafeteria at Reed, said Sommars' granola "is as good as I've ever eaten." He buys about 200 pounds of granola every month at $1.78 per pound, about 35 cents less per pound than competitors.
Sommars, who calls herself a "social entrepreneur," recently signed a contract with a distributor in the lucrative and largely untapped Southern California market. Other lines of potential business include school vending machines, and she's preparing a marketing campaign based around the healthy attributes of organic granola.
She is also open to the possibility of outside financing.
"First of all, [growth] needs to be very thoughtful," she said. She pauses.
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March 27th, 2012, 09:12 PM
I Played one of these at a guitar center in Florida and fell in love!!! too bad i live in Oregon. I am having trouble finding one of them round here. :cry: If anybody is selling one, I am looking in to purchasing one. I have NO color preference and DONT really care how it looks, as long as it plays like the champ its supposed to be:mrgreen: Late me know PLEASEEEE where i can get one. Maybe you or a buddy has one for sale, or you came across an internet ad that I didnt see. My budget is $200 bucks (which is about how much they go for these days) Have a great day!
March 27th, 2012, 10:24 PM
This one's mine: http://www.tdpri.com/phpclassifieds/showproduct.php?product=29245&title=u-speavey-reactor-ax&cat=9
A bit above your target price, but it's worth it. Plays and sounds great (I just don't personally care for the neck). There's a small ding on the front near the bottom of the body, smaller than a pencil eraser, and a couple small scuffs on the bottom edge. That's it for flaws. If you're interested, drop me a line at akcarlson at gmail
March 27th, 2012, 10:34 PM
I just listed a Peavey T15 with Ferrite pickups and case from 1982 for $170.
It's in the classifieds.....
March 28th, 2012, 01:29 PM
Guitar Center has two listed in their used gear. Shipping to a store near you is very cheap and you can return it to your store if you don't like it. Search here:
June 26th, 2012, 12:18 AM
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Peter Harrison (Aeiko) - South Devon, England
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Aeiko is the online creative identity of UK designer Pete Harrison. After graduating from University he quickly became one of the UK’s top up and coming designers. Since then he has worked in agencies in London, and freelanced in mainly graphic design, typography and web design for a variety of high profile clients. He currently resides in South Devon designing and developing his clothing label’s Funkrush (www.funkrush.com)
Boyan - Peters work is stylish and exciting. It is full of expression and energy but is in no way overwhelming or excessive. The rest of his work is equally well composed and similarly sleek.
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Sounds like: Early Green Day without the fat basslines or affected accents; the Cars without synthesizers; Cheap Trick without all the heavy sociopolitical commentary; a dude version of the Donnas.
For fans of: Pizzeria Pretzel Combos, The Drew Carey Show, singing along.
Latest release: 2008’s These Are the Good Times People, of which the lead single, “Mixed Up S.O.B.,” avoided any possibility of radio play by requiring its catchy chorus to be extensively bleeped.
Why you care: Because of band leader Chris Ballew’s very interesting solo projects. While departed fellow guitarist-singer Dave Dederer started a band with Guns N’ Roses’ 11th-most important member, Duff McKagan, Bellew, under the name the Giraffes, went on to record lo-fi solo albums in his basement about the stuffed animals of his childhood that are intensely weird and undeniably ingenious. Also, he’s got a toddler-oriented project called Caspar Babypants that’s much better than similarly situated indie rock-for-kiddies projects. And, last, because the Presidents of the United States of America are going to give the crowd everything it wants—specifically, the band’s massively popular 1995 self-titled debut, which it will perform in full, including “Lump” exactly as fans remember it, plus one extra round on the chorus.
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Dark Chocolate: Like our Chocolate Cashews, there's no heavy enrobed chocolate here, only a dusting of cocoa. These are light and crunchy almonds that won't have you asking yourself if the snack you just had was a nut or a piece of candy. Our Dark Chocolate almonds provide the satisfaction without the guilt. That sounds sweet to us!
Ingredients: dry-roasted almonds, evaporated cane juice, tapioca syrup, cocoa (processed with alkali), natural flavors, corn starch, vanilla extract
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I don’t know about you, but I’m always in search of miraculous undergarments to hold my post-childbearing body together. I’m what you’d call thin-limbed, but that means that I carry all my weight in my midsection. BLERGH.
I’ve written about several shapewear pieces over the last year or so that I’ve been running Chic Critique, but I think I’ve just discovered the best one yet. This is exactly the sort of thing I’ve been looking for. It’s the Unbelievabra Ultimate — “a bra/cami/torso slimmer all in one ($85), for the woman who wants an all-in-one bra solution.”
Here’s what they say about it:
Solutions: The miracle product’s unique patent pending design eliminates all visible bra lines, back bulges, and even the feared “muffin top,” effectively and comfortably providing superior breast support as well as slimming of the waist, tummy and back. The Unbelievabra additionally boasts molded foam cups and adjustable straps with no back bands or closures to make the undergarment practically invisible under clothing. And the hem does not roll up! The support, extended back coverage and moisture-wicking qualities of The Unbelievabra’s cropped style, “The Shortee” also makes it a great alternative to the traditional sports bra!
Content: Made from breathable cool-tex microfiber that wicks moisture from the body to keep wearers dry and comfortable all throughout the day.
Size Range: The Ultimate and Shortee Unbelievabras come in an expansive twenty-five sizes ranging from cup sizes A through E.
Founder: Stay-at-home mom turned entrepreneur Staci Berner created the Unbelievabra after not being able to find a bra/shaper that had all of the features and benefits she both needed and wanted. She developed the Unbelievabra while balancing home life with a passion to create a comfortable figure-flattering garment that all women would love to wear:
“I was searching for a bra that could provide great support and shaping for my breasts, while smoothing and slimming my back all in one. I looked everywhere and bought dozens of bras and shapewear products claiming breast support and the elimination of the dreaded back fat, but none provided all the features I needed. So I took matters into my own hands and created my first prototype. When I showed friends, the response was always WOW!!, the difference is unbelievable! (hence the name),” Staci Berner, Co-Founder, Shapeez.
Here’s what I say about it: This is exactly what I’ve been looking for all my life. Well, at least for the last five years. It eliminates the dreaded back fat AND muffin top. The molded cups provide a nice shape, and the support it provides is impressive. It doesn’t QUITE keep the girls where they should be, but that’s not obvious to anyone but myself, and that’s a problem I have with traditional bras as well. In other words, that could be me, not the product. I love that it’s not so tight that it’s restricting, and because there is no binding strap around your back, it’s actually more comfortable than wearing a traditional bra.
The bottom stays put if I tuck it into my jeans. If I wear it over the top of them, however, it does ride up. (But it does not roll up, as they promise.) The riding up is not really a problem, but it’s more comfortable if it’s tucked in so it stays in place. It’s not so long that it makes an unattractive line across your bum as another shapewear product that I’ve tried.
All in all, I’m thrilled. I’ve been wearing it almost every time I put on jeans or slacks. If you’re looking for an all-in-one piece of shapewear, I highly recommend you give Shapeez a try. | <urn:uuid:cfc3c999-798f-4365-9781-9f8f6fd8560f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allthingschic.net/2009/04/shapeez.html | 2013-05-21T11:01:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950409 | 905 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This site began as my experimental test bed for the Amos commentary. That commentary which became known as Amos: Postmodern Bible is available here, in a changeable development form. A stable and therefore citable edition has now been peer-reviewed, and published as the first "volume" of a planned series Hypertext Bible Commentary (see here to buy on CD or visit on the web here).
On this site are also some other Bible study notes that I prepared. So currently it contains:
Study Notes on Jonah (including an introduction to Hebrew narrative)
To find out about me either visit my sites, or read a short autobiography (its a few years out of date now) or look at my CV.
Other sites I run include:
I make short videos (many are about the Bible or teaching the Bible)
5 Minute Bible podcasts about the Bible that aim to be short crisp and provocative, introducing serious biblical studies
my blog Sansblogue with thoughts about hypertext, teaching the Bible and life in general
Images of Archaeological Sites in Israel: Focusing on the Iron Age with some short introductory videos
PodBible: the Bible podcast the CEV read by real people (not an American actor) a chapter a day or the Bible in a year
Children's bedtime stories: some read (including Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories) some animated including some Beatrix Potter
Ancien Testament: méthodes d'étude: an introduction to the academic study of the Old Testament (in French)
This page is part of the Bible.gen.nz website.
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[Bioperl-l] Test related Suggestions
Nathan S. Haigh
N.Haigh at sheffield.ac.uk
Thu Jul 5 10:58:30 EDT 2007
Quoting Chris Fields <cjfields at uiuc.edu>:
> On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:
> > One more suggestion:
> > It would be extemaly useful if we had a standard way of testing
> > that a when a
> > file is read into a bioperl object and then written out again into
> > a same
> > format, the input and output files are identical. If not, the test
> > should
> > show where the the differences start (showing all the differences
> > would just
> > clutter the screen).
> > This standard method/subroutine should be used to test all sequence
> > and other
> > text file IO.
> > Any takers?
> > -Heikki
> I agree. There are some 'round-trip' tests with genbank.t or SeqIO.t
> that do some checking, I think, but something like this would be of
> use. However, what if the test file is old (as many in t/data are)
> and the format has changed? GenBank and EMBL, for instance, have
> gone through several changes to format.
Is there any way to distinguish variants apart other than just layout? e.g. a version number of the likes?
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It is the people who are the best at what they do who are the most difficult to write about. How do you document the seam which is so well constructed that it appears seamless? I’ve been trying to figure out a way to explain the concierge position for quite some time. Pfister Chief Concierge Peter Mortensen is a terrific storyteller, in addition to being an stellar concierge. Peter has a love for both the arts and Milwaukee history, both details which lead him to the story he tells below.
Peter and I traveled to record this piece…
That’s the best way I can describe this Narrator experience. My last few posts will be going live over the next couple of days and my successor will be at work getting acquainted with the speed and rhythm of this sparkling old gal on Wisconsin Avenue. From an artistic standpoint it’s been like getting to eat chocolate cake for breakfast every day. The staff have been great. They’ve been generous with information, gracious in introducing me to guests and other coworkers, and ever tolerant of my constant game of 20 questions.
Every day I’ve arrived…
This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the Wisconsin Dancesport Championships. The company has a long history with the hotel as they’ve held the annual event at the Pfister all these years. This high-heeled party brings dancers from across the country to compete at their specialized steps.
It is interesting to see the dancers’ posture and gait change depending upon which dance is announced. For example, to an untrained eye (mine) the tango appears stiff and exacting. The foxtrot takes on a more sly, playful, and sensual body movement. During waltzes dancers’ bodies become languid and…
“I’m going to be 22.”
That was Joe’s answer when I asked how old he was. His response was shared with a grin in that adorable way that only people up to a certain age are excited to tell you how old they’re going to be.
Joe started with the Pfister as a busser at the ripe young age of 18. After time spent cleaning tables Joe moved on to being a food runner and from there he has become a bartender. Joe bartends upstairs in Blu on occasion but most nights you can find him downstairs…
There tend to be patterns of why people live where they live. Often times they got a job nearby, or that’s where they went to school, or possibly their spouse’s family is from the area.
Roc is a concierge at the Pfister and his path to Milwaukee definitely did not follow any of these typical routes. Roc and his Quaker lineage hail from Northwest Indiana. In his home state Roc had been a teacher of Latin, German, and English before becoming involved in starting non-profit organization. The organization provided the beginnings of what we now know as…
I was sitting in Timothy Westbrook’s studio this afternoon. It is a few days after his first successful gallery showing and already the man is back at work. While Timothy constructed new fabric joining cassette tape and wool I listened to the repeating slick/slack/creak/crack sound of his loom in motion. With the new dress in the works I sat thinking about the ongoing, timeless, human dialogue we seem to have termed “The Great Conversation.” This may seem strange or lofty material to be considering at work, but when surrounded with artwork on every wall you…
A young girl
tells her grandfather
she’s learning to write.
the yellow pencils
and blue lined paper
She tells him she’s learned
how to write her name.
“Well that’s magnificent!”
“I’d love to read your handwriting.
Will you write something for me?”
She shakes her head,
you can’t read it yet,
“I’m just practicing.”
Her grandfather smiles
and leans down to whisper
gravelly grinning decades next to her face
that is the great secret.
The Medici Family were bankers from Tuscany, Italy. Their initial family monies were made in the textile industry and they were influential in developing the double entry bookkeeping system. During the renaissance they owned Europe’s largest bank.
I’m sure their advances in bookkeeping are fascinating but that is not generally why the Medici name has survived throughout history. The Medicis were great patrons of the arts and sciences. Artists so highly regarded we don’t bother speaking their entire names; Masaccio, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, and even Galileo.
The first time I saw a concert in Summerfest…
You work at a hotel. A man checks in to the hotel with arms in plaster casts sticking straight out from his body. Later in the day the man calls down to your desk and explains that he’s not certain how to get himself dressed for the day.
What do you do?
Concierge Roc tells the story of how he teamed up with Annie, the Pfister’s Head of Housekeeping, to satisfy the needs of a guest in a whimsically compromising situation. No matter the job at hand, they’re always glad to serve.
Travelers. Travelers everywhere. Transient folks of every stripe walking, running, sitting, working, swimming, eating. Carrying luggage. Grabbing a cup of coffee. Adding sugar to their tea. En route toward somewhere. Arriving from someplace else.
Ah, airports. All of humanity distilled to a small area becoming a sudden, immediate culture. Unique and specific to that individual moment. The energy of not knowing what awaits on the other side of the tarmac touchdown chirp. I haven’t seen an airport in awhile but all the travelers inside this hotel make me feel as though I’m spending my time in a…
The Pfister specializes in weddings. They seem to happen here every weekend, sometimes a few concurrently. Here’s a poem about something we’ve all seen at weddings: The Generations Dance. You know, the one where all the married couples get up and gradually leave as the number of years they’ve been married are ticked away by the announcer.
* If you’d like to hear a spoken recording of this poem, please scroll to the bottom to listen or download *
Without further ado…
After the bride and groom
their first as
man and wife…
As mentioned in an earlier post I’ve put considerable thought toward how to chronicle Jeff, his playing, and more specifically his playing at the Pfister Hotel. There are several occasions when I’ve left the hotel and driven home in silence because after hearing him at the piano anything on the radio sounded like a frivolous muck.
Different ways to “capture” Jeff battled with one another in my head. Photographs, photographs of his hands, photographs of his facial expressions while playing. Brief videos of the way his hands dance across the keys. Recording the audio of him playing…
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post I was able to see Wild Institute founder Chris Heeter speak during UW-Milwaukee’s Women Leaders Conference. Chris’ speech struck a chord with me on many levels and I knew I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to document a few of her philosophies for the blog.
Assuming her canine companion would like some grass respite I suggested we walk four blocks to the Lake Michigan lakefront. While walking I did the best I could to record our conversation, not trip on Tuu Weh’s leash (Chris explains her name…
This is the one I’ve avoided writing. The elephant in my room. The profile I’ve put off for five months while I watched and listened quietly in the background, leaning against a column with my arms crossed wondering how it happens and how to write about it.
Every time I’ve listened to Dr. Jeffrey Hollander play the piano I’ve had a clear desire to write about him, to chronicle the man and his work. I’m a music fan but I’ve never been a musician. I can converse in a limited manner regarding jazz…
I said I’d move here
for two years-
no more than two years.
That was my limit.
suggested a promotion
but said I had to relocate.
I was so sure
I’d move right back
that I considered
sub-letting my apartment
instead of ending the lease.
My friends all joked
that I was moving to Milwaukee
to become a cowboy.
That was fourteen years ago.
Before moving here
I thought this place
was a small town
and couldn’t wait
to get back to the city.
Ah, big brother Chicago. Just two hundred years ago we were part of the same Illinois territory.
People come to Milwaukee for many reasons. Business. Dinner. Conventions. Celebrations. Sporting events. Art openings. Museums.
Visitors ask certain key questions which lead me to conclude they’re not from Milwaukee. This line of conversation usually takes place after someone says, “So how do I get a cab around here?” or “This place is great, where else should I visit?” Or they call the water drinking oasis a fountain instead of a bubbler.
I’ve noticed a trend of Chicagoans visiting us just…
To my dismay I realized that the UW-Milwaukee Women Leaders Conference scheduled to take place at the Pfister Friday, March 30th was sold out. I’d hoped there was a possibility to watch from the perimeter and take in a little of the conference.
Thursday evening I was in the lobby lounge speaking with pianist Dr. Jeffrey Hollander regarding a Pfister blog I’ve been working on about the man. There was a woman seated at the table closest Jeffrey and the three of us talked for a bit. In conversation I asked if she was local or from…
That was the first thing out of his mouth when I mentioned I’d been shopping for a house.
“French doors can brighten up any space. If there is no doorway, build a doorway. Anything can be done. Of course, it’s easier if a house is exactly how you want it when you first walk through but that’s not realistic. Floor plans can be changed, walls can be built or removed, it all depends what you’d like to do. But the first most important thing is whether you like the house and whether you like…
The Pfister has received countless compliments on their Marcus Celebrated Chefs series. Many of the compliments centered around the hotel’s Executive Chef Brian Frakes. People talked about how generous he was with his knowledge and always sent them home with extra food. Guests went home energized with new ideas of how to invigorate their home cooking.
It turned out I’d met Brian briefly when I first came on as narrator. Concierge Peter Mortensen was giving me the introductory tour and we walked downstairs by the kitchen. Brian and I briefly shook hands and exchanged greetings. There were so…
Do you remember 1964, what happened after blues and rock and roll exported across the Atlantic Ocean and came back from a stop in England? The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five, The Animals, Donovan, The Rolling Stones, and of course The Beatles. When those four lads arrived in the States there was pandemonium along every stop. Each airport was crowded with admirers. Imagine a limousine driver trying to wade through a sea of screaming high school girls. These four gentlemen had not a moment to themselves once they hit stateside. Countless young ladies tried anything just for a handshake, a…
What is the meaning of life? I do not know and I’m quite sure many people are closer to having a conclusion than myself. The best I’ve managed to piece together is finding something you love and devising a way to make it pay your bills. Individuals who have successfully accomplished that have always fascinated me.
As an example I offer the sommelier. Their job is to become a walking wine database. How does one do this? Naturally, drinking wine is a large part of the job. But one can’t just become a lush and start wearing…
One day I was sitting in the lobby lounge waiting for something to happen. It can be a strange feeling to think qualitatively about conversation, hoping for a moment of random brilliance to spring from a happenstance stranger. This random Tuesday evening my mind started drifting for all the typical reason’s one’s mind wanders from the task at hand while working. Bills, or maybe errands forgotten or neglected. Maybe the current song grabbed my attention and reminded me of another song which presented a memory of an old friend and I pictured the car they drove which stranded…
Saturday afternoon I swung in to Mason Street Grill. The restaurant wasn’t open and jazz played quietly while the fireplace crackled to an audience of empty bar stools. This Saturday was a sunny thaw of a day which followed a sudden Friday snowstorm. Roads now cleared by snowplows and sunshine generally forecasts a busy night for bars and restaurants. I was hoping to sit down and speak with Heather Kanter-Kowal, the restaurant’s assistant manager and sommelier. A sommelier is certified as a wine expert and anyone who has been able to pursue a field they love…
A friend once told me that when she moved to Portland, Oregon she had a difficult time finding a job. Portland has become a bit of a mecca for young liberal folks looking to live the relaxed western life. However the city is a famously difficult place to find employment. She encountered this problem, but only until she informed potential employers that she was from Milwaukee. “Oh, you’re from the Midwest?” One possible employer said during an interview, “We’ll figure out a position for you. No problem.” It seemed she had cracked the code.
I was reminded of…
Saturday afternoon I was hanging out in Shelby’s studio watching her work on a painting of the Milwaukee Art Museum. She was searching to find her way through the piece. A stroke here, a stroke there. Step back, consider. Wipe with a moist towel, then determine another stroke. Having this rare intersection between a writer and a painter makes me feel like we’re living inside of Frank O’Hara’s poem Why I Am Not a Painter.
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IFTA eFile (International Fuel Tax Agreement)
Get Organized for IFTA eFile
There are two login methods for eFiling your IFTA Quarterly Diesel Fuel Use Tax Return.
- eClient Login – Enjoy the benefits of becoming an eClient:
- eFile your return
- View prior eFiled returns
- Personalize your own User ID and Password
- Change your business and personal e-mail address online.
You can register as an eClient if you are registered with the BOE as a business owner. If you are an accountant, tax professional or employee, you must complete form BOE-91-A and submit a valid Power of Attorney. The forms must be mailed to the Motor Carrier Office at P.O. Box 942879; Sacramento, CA 94279-0065.
- Express Login - Directly eFile a return
- Enter the account number and
- Enter the Express Login code
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Since there is no registration with Express Login, it is quick, easy and convenient to use when you’re in a hurry or having someone eFile your return for you.
Where can you find your Express Login Code and Account Number?
Your Express Login Code is a unique eight digit alphanumeric code. This code can be located or obtained from the following sources:
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To complete your return quickly and easily, you will need to report the following information (by fuel type) for all qualified motor vehicles in your fleet during the filing quarter:
- Total miles (taxable and non-taxable miles) traveled in all IFTA jurisdictions
- Total non-IFTA miles (taxable and non-taxable miles) traveled in all non-IFTA jurisdictions.
- Total gallons of fuel placed in the tank in all jurisdictions (IFTA and non-IFTA).
- The name of each jurisdiction you traveled in.
- Total miles traveled in each IFTA jurisdiction.
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Polydrons for All Ages!
Young students enjoy creating 2- and 3- dimensional shapes using the Polydron squares and triangles included with kindergarten and first grade Bridges Packages. Yet this manipulative is adaptable to a wide variety of ages and abilities. When I taught a group of 4th-6th grade gifted students, I brought along a set a Polydrons. Imagine my surprise when the majority of children selected the Polydrons during choice time; it was clearly the most popular activity. They were quite fascinated by this math manipulative and used it to create many geometric structures. If you're looking for more Polydron teaching ideas, download a free user guide. | <urn:uuid:b935a00c-ed13-43bb-8a80-cc5553773b3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bridges1.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/blog/201011/polydrons-all-ages | 2013-05-21T10:49:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960159 | 137 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Why is the global economy constrained by the energy cost of energy?
[ Please address correspondence to Dr. Youngquist, P.O. Box 5501, Eugene, OR 97405. ]
Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 20, Number 4, March 1999 © 1999 Human Sciences Press, Inc.
The use of oil has changed world economies, social and political structures, and lifestyles beyond the effect of any other substance in such a short time. But oil supplies are limited. The peak of world oil production and the beginning of the irreversible decline of oil availability is clearly in sight. This paper examines the role of oil in two contexts: Its importance in countries almost entirely dependent on oil income, and the role of oil in world agricultural productivity. Possible alternatives to oil and its close associate, natural gas, are also examined. Countries almost solely dependent on oil income are chiefly those of the Persian Gulf region. The prosperity which oil has brought to these nations has resulted in a rapidly growing population which is not sustainable without oil revenues. World agriculture is now highly dependent on oil and natural gas for fertilizers and pesticides. Without these, agricultural productivity would markedly decline. As a base for the production of these materials, oil and natural gas are irreplaceable. Lifestyles and affluence in the post-petroleum paradigm will be quite different from today. World population will have to be reduced if it is to exist at any reasonable standard of living. At that time concern will be much more centered on obtaining basic resources, especially agricultural, by which to survive.
No other substance has so changed the world and affected so many people in such a short time as has oil. Oil has become a vital part of industry, agriculture, and the fabric of society at large. Oil by its derivatives, gasoline, kerosene, and naphtha, fuel more than 600 million vehicles worldwide. But oil is a finite resource, and we are using it at an exponential rate. There will soon be a post-petroleum paradigm. What problems lie ahead in adjusting to it, and what will be some of the major aspects of life at that time?
Little has been written in detail about the world after oil. Some people seem to believe it will not happen, at least not to them. Governments and societies at large face crises when they arrive, rather than anticipate them and take preventive or ameliorating action. The focus of the discussion about oil, when it does occur, has generally been regarding the peak date of oil production, with geologists favoring an earlier date and sociologists and economists suggesting a later time (Campbell, 1997; Campbell & Laherrere, 1998; Anderson, 1998; Fouda, 1998; Edwards, 1997; Hatfield, 1997; Ivanhoe, 1995; Lynch, 1996; Adelman & Lynch, 1997).
Forecasting the date when world oil production peaks is useful and important, but whenever it occurs, the more important concern is what begins to happen after that. Rather than spending energy debating the date of peak, the issue to be addressed is that the beginning of an irreversible permanent time beyond petroleum is coming into view. One fact makes this crystal clear. The world now uses about 26 billion barrels of oil a year, but, in new field discoveries we are finding less than six billion. The world is going out of the oil business. Then what?
That oil production will peak and then decline is not debatable. If the more optimistic are right, and the peak date is a little further away than most geologists now predict, this would simply exacerbate the problems, for it means that the population at the turning point of oil production will be even larger than it would be at an earlier date, and it will be then more difficult to make the adjustment toward life without oil.
Envisioning what the post-petroleum paradigm will be like involves consideration of myriad facets of the world scene. The worldwide decline of oil production, ultimately to the point where it is insignificant relative to demand, will have many ramifications, changing world economies, social structures, and individual lifestyles.
This paper presents two especially significant aspects of the post-petroleum paradigm, together with an assessment of alternatives to petroleum. The two matters considered are:
· The effect of the decline of oil production in the countries which are almost wholly dependent on oil for their survival.
· The effect on world agriculture of diminishing and eventual depletion of oil and closely associated natural gas supplies, and the corresponding effect on the ability of agriculture to feed the population.
Some countries have become almost totally dependent on income from oil. What happens to economies and social structures which have been built largely or almost entirely on the base of a nonrenewable resource--oil? This is the situation of the Persian Gulf countries of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman. Iran and Venezuela, with modest agricultural bases, are not quite so dependent on oil, although both countries get most of their foreign exchange from the sale of oil. Elsewhere, both Libya and Brunei are almost totally oil-dependent.
The arrival of oil wealth brought changes to all these countries more rapidly and more profoundly than has happened in any other nations of the world at any previous time in history. Saudi Arabia made the transition from a largely nomadic culture, to a highly organized, wealthy nation in less than 60 years. To a large extent this is true of all the newly oil-rich countries.
Before they had wealth from oil, all of these nations were underdeveloped. There were no government social programs, very limited medical facilities, and the infrastructure of roads, public and private transport, and electric power was negligible.
The arrival of oil money brought great social and economic changes to these countries. Among other things, various social programs were inaugurated, all of which were designed to support people at a higher standard of living. These include subsidized food supplies and free or low-cost medical care. In the largely desert nations, imported and subsidized food supplies are a particularly pleasant change from the limited diets of the past. But what has been the result?
Contrary to the common idea that increased prosperity results in a reduction in birth rate and population growth, Abernethy (1993), with several examples, makes the point that economic development may spur population growth. With better expectations for the future, more children can be afforded, and improved medical care means a better survival rate. Abernethy's view is fully validated by what has happened in the newly oil-rich nations. With the social programs supported by oil income, and the Muslim tradition of large families, the growth rate of all the Gulf nations (which are all Muslim) and Libya, also Muslim, has been well above the average for the world which is about 1.6%. For example, the annual growth rate and doubling time' of the population in Saudi Arabia and in Libya is 4.1% (doubling in 17 years), Kuwait 6.0% (doubling in 11.6 years), Qatar 6.5% (doubling time 10.7 years), and United Arab Emirates 7.3% (doubling time 9.6 years). As a result of these high growth rates, about half the population of the Arab world is now under the age of 15, portending a continued and perhaps even an increase in the population growth rate over the next two decades (Fernea, 1998). Also, this new generation is the first to live predominantly in cities. This has been made possible by oil wealth which allowed people to move beyond primarily agrarian and nomadic economies. (This is similar to what happened earlier in the United States when the need for farm labor was greatly reduced by oil-powered machinery, and people moved to the cities to engage in manufacturing and other enterprises.)
As early as within two decades, by some estimates, even the Gulf nations, now holding most of the world's oil, will be experiencing a decline in oil production. Higher prices may cushion the economic effect of this decline, but inevitably, as oil deposits are consumed, oil income will eventually cease to be significant. Prosperity and anticipation of continuing good times has been the experience in the oil-rich nations until recently. But now oil income has begun to increase less rapidly than in the past, and the population continues to grow. In the case of Saudi Arabia, which holds the largest oil reserves of ~ny nation, the government has actually been running a deficit, and various social programs and subsidies are having to be curtailed. One of the reasons for the brief drop in oil prices in early 1998 was the fact that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were overproducing their OPEC oil production quotas in order to maintain their oil income to keep their social programs afloat and the citizenry content.
Reed and Rossant (1995) write:
Experts are calling it the Gulf Disease. The roots of the problem are the same across the Gulf. The era in which ruling families could use seeming endless oil revenues to buy the loyalty and silence of the population is coming to an end. Cash-strapped governments are cutting back on social services while the stream of rich contracts which helped oil the economy dwindled to almost nothing (p. 54).
How the increase in population affects per capita wealth is illustrated in further remarks by these authors:
A population explosion has also helped sharply erode per capita gross domestic production from more than $12,000 in 1982 to little more than $7,000 today . Some 3 million Saudis -- 44% of the labor force -- work in the public sector where salaries have been frozen for almost a decade. This year, in a huge departure from traditional largesse, King Faud is more than doubling the fees charged residents for electricity, water, and other services... Such erosion of the desert welfare state sorely strains the paternalistic social contract between the ruling AI-Saud clan and the population.
Chandler (1994) writes:
Although much of the oil windfall of the 1970s was invested wisely in Saudi Arabia -- on hospitals, roads, and bridges, seaports and power plants and the like -- a huge proportion was devoted to social programs which cannot possibly be sustained in a nation whose population is growing at a rate of nearly 4 percent a year, one of the highest rates in the world (p. 41).
The Saudis do understand the finiteness of their oil resources. They have a saying "My father rode a camel, I drive a car, my son rides in a jet airplane -- his son will ride a camel." It may be more than one generation beyond the present before the Saudi oil is depleted, but it inevitably will be. Without some other large economic base, and none is now visible, huge adjustments will have to be made in lifestyles and probably in population size. It will not be easy.
Kuwait is oil. Its less than 7,000 square miles hold more oil than does the United States in 3.5 million square miles. It was a very rich prize in a conveniently adjacent small package that Saddam Hussein wanted. Kuwait has no income tax, housing and utilities are subsidized, medical care is free, and the government gives every couple on their marriage more than $7,000. It has its own airline, Kuwait Airways, which flies Boeing 747s on regularly scheduled service from New York and London to Kuwait, and the government has built an olympic-sized ice skating rink. Kuwait has invested considerable money abroad and recently has been earning more money from these enterprises (including a large chain of gasoline stations) than it does directly from oil exports. Kuwait's hope is that when its oil runs out, these foreign investments will continue to support Kuwait's way of life. However, the gasoline stations abroad (symbol on the signs in western Europe is "Q8") may then not produce much income, and the population growth rate which is now doubling every 11.6 years, may exceed the rate at which the investment income grows. It will be an interesting example to watch. Kuwait has virtually no agricultural base, and all its manufacturing is oil-based (petrochemicals). Kuwait has become an oil supported welfare state beyond any other of the Gulf nations (Reed, 1996).
Venezuela, which holds more than half the oil reserves of South America, also has a number of social programs supported by oil revenues. However, in a preview of things to come, in 1989, when oil income briefly faltered, the government had to change its free spending ways. When government subsidized bus fares and previously cheap gasoline prices were raised, riots erupted in Caracas and 17 other cities. More than 300 people were killed, 2,000 injured, and several thousand arrested. The government had to rescind these increases (Moffett, 1995).
In 1995, with continuing increase in population and per capita oil revenue unable to keep up, troubles arose again. University students threatened street demonstrations if such things as cut-rate hot lunches, and public transportation costs were raised. In 1996, the Venezuelan government, because of a deteriorating economy, made application for a $2.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (Vogel, 1996).
Oil revenues in Venezuela have not kept pace with the growth in population and the corresponding growth in costs of social services established during more affluent oil income years. 'Oil production and income have gone up, but population growth has outraced the oil statistics. Venezuelan oil output is expected to peak within ten years. Population growth is 3.5% annually which means a doubling in 20 years. By the next population doubling oil production will be declining.
It is not when the last drop of oil is pumped, but rather the peak of production (maximum daily amount) after which there is an irreversible decline in oil production, which is important. Then all social and economic programs based on oil income will have to be curtailed. Countries, such as Kuwait, which have been investing some of their oil income abroad may be able to sustain their social programs to a modest degree, but if the growth rate of population continues, it is very doubtful that the income on a per capita basis can equal the income now received from oil. Most countries now are consuming their oil income as it comes in.
The peak of world oil production, by the most recent studies is now projected to occur sometime between 2003 (Campbell, 1998) and 2020 (Edwards, 1997). Of special interest is that in March, 1998, the International Energy Agency, for the first time forecast a possible date of the peak of world oil production stating: "... a peaking of conventional oil production could occur between years 2010 and 2020" (International Energy Agency, 1998). In more detail, a study has just been completed projecting the peak of oil production in 42 countries (Duncan & Youngquist, 1998). The largely oil-dependent countries and their estimated peak years are Kuwait, 2018; Oman, 2002; Syria, 1999; United Arab Emirates, 2017; Yemen, 2002; Saudi Arabia, 2011; Venezuela, 2005. Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, Libya, and Brunei have already passed their peaks. Qatar's oil decline is cushioned by huge gas deposits now being developed. Both Bahrain and Iran have seen increasing unrest as the decline in oil income has undermined the standard of living. Iran passed its peak of oil production in 1973. With the population now increasing much beyond what the declining oil revenues can support, Iran will be the first oil-rich Gulf nation that within 10 years will be poorer than it was twenty years ago. Population growth dilutes the available oil wealth base.
Iraq's peak of production is expected in 2011, but may be delayed further by the current U.S. oil embargo sanctions. However, note how the present lack of oil income is hurting the citizens of Iraq, becoming desperate for basics of life, including food and medicines. Relief shipments are being sent in. But, when the time arrives that Iraq will have little or no oil to sell, how will Iraq support its people? Oil has been 99 percent of Iraq's source of foreign exchange, and they are not even now self-sufficient in food supplies. Will the rest of the world indefinitely make up the difference when Iraq has no more oil to sell for food? Or, importantly, will the traditionally food exporting nations at that time even have surplus grain to sell?
The effect of the depletion of world oil and its close associate, natural gas, on overall world food production cannot be ignored.
A second aspect of the post-petroleum paradigm is not confined to the oil-rich, oil dependent countries, but relates to the world as a whole. How the decline and eventual depletion of oil, and its close associate, natural gas, will affect world food production is of vital importance. Bartlett (1978) succinctly makes the point: "Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food" (p. 880).
These three factors have combined to produce the green revolution which has so greatly increased agricultural productivity during this century. Two of these elements, mechanization, and petrochemicals, are provided by oil and natural gas.
The mechanization of agriculture has put huge acreages economically into cultivation, which could not have been possible with only human and animal labor. In the U.S. in the early 1900s, teams of 20 or more horses pulled huge combines and plows slowly across the fields. And all during the winter these horses had to be fed, drawing upon plant production which otherwise, at least in part, could have been used for human food. Now vast acreages can be plowed, planted, and harvested by means of huge machines which run on oil derivatives (diesel or gasoline). Machines do not have to be fed (fueled) when they are not working.
Crops are hauled to central collecting and processing points from widespread and often relatively remote areas by huge trucks for which the only fuel that can presently power them is oil. Food is distributed to cities and to remote areas by vehicles largely run on oil. About 2% of the working U.S. population now provides all the food for this nation, which is the world's largest grain exporter. Oil and natural gas make this possible.
For most people, their chief relationships to oil and natural gas are as a source of energy for home heating and cooking, and fuel for personal vehicles. The very important roll of oil and natural gas in agriculture, beyond the obvious fueling of agricultural machinery, is often unknown. But these raw materials are the base for fertilizers by which to increase crop yields and for pesticides to protect crops from insects and diseases and to control weeds that compete with food plants. The most widely used fertilizers are compounds of ammonia, made from natural gas.
The "green revolution," which has enabled the Earth to support so many more people now than in the past, is a combination of genetic engineering in plants, mechanization, and the petrochemicals provided by oil and natural gas.
Emphasizing the importance of petrochemicals, Pimentel (1998a), states:
If the fertilizers, partial irrigation [in part provided by oil energy], and pesticides were withdrawn, corn yields, for example, would drop from 130 bushels per acre to about 30 bushels.
However, this is assuming legumes can also be used to provide a little nitrogen. Without the use of legumes, yields would decline to about 16 bushels per acre. This is about the corn yield in developing countries.
The additional hundred bushels has been produced from "ghost acres" which do not exist except in the form of the fertilizers, largely made with natural gas, and oil for pesticides. When the "ghost acres" provided by oil and natural gas no longer exist, the agricultural productivity will be dramatically reduced.
The gains which genetic engineering have made for agriculture will remain, but probably to a lesser degree than we have them at present. Brown and Kane (1994) report that "... fertilizer has been at the center of advances in world food output during the last four decades" (p. 122). But they further observe "... the new varieties [from genetic engineering] have high yields precisely because they are much more responsive to fertilizer than traditional ones." Thus it is doubtful that another great productive "green revolution" leap forward can be made in the future. When less and less fertilizer and petrochemicals will be available, total worldwide agricultural productivity seems certain to fall.
Pimentel and associates have researched the role of energy in agricultural systems, and present significant statistics. Pimentel (1998a) states:
Approximately 90% of the energy in crop production is oil and natural gas. About one-third of the energy is to reduce the labor input from 500 hours per acre to 4 hours per acre in grain production. About two-thirds of the energy is for production, of which about one-third of this is for fertilizers alone.
Fleay (1995), noting that Australia is the world's fourth largest wheat exporting country, discusses the importance of oil and gas in that country's agricultural production, particularly to offset Australia's relatively poor soil. Fleay (1995) states:
Fertilisers have played a key role in offsetting nutrient-poor soils for our agriculture this century... A dramatic twenty-fold increase in nitrogen fertiliser use has occurred since 1965. Fossil fuels are needed for fertiliser manufacture -- 1500-2500 MJ per tonne for superphosphate... However, nitrogen fertilisers use natural gas or petroleum as a feedstock and had an energy intensity of 37,000 MJ per tonne in 1980 (p. 15).
Fleay makes the summary statement:
A very large proportion of the world's population depends for food from high agricultural yields achieved by the use of fossil fuels. The world may only be able to support a population of 3 billion without this input · Petroleum is a key fuel ... The principal grain exporters are the U.S.A., Canada, Europe, Australia and Argentina -- all highly dependent on petroleum-based industrial agriculture.
Grant (1996) notes the critical importance of petrochemicals to farmers, stating:
... the dependence on pesticides and herbicides has risen dramatically because they would lose part or all of their crops if they stopped spraying... (p. 27).
The 50-year rise of yields is slowing or ending, and the world is paying a high and rising price for the effort to keep raising yields. Countries that have become dependent on high yields should be seeking to escape the squirrel cage of rising demand. Countries that are not yet hooked on commercial fertilizers should recognize their potential limits and costs, and look to controlling demand -- population growth -- rather than hopefully relying on higher food yields to solve their problems (p. 28).
Civilization exists on the crops grown in topsoil which around the world averages no more than a foot in depth. It is food or famine for the human race, and humanity has known famine in the past, and knows it now in places. There are now two trends clearly on collision course: First, population is growing at the astounding rate of nearly a quarter of a million a day, and is highly and increasingly dependent on oil and natural gas for food production. Second, the end of petroleum supplies are clearly in sight · Gever and associates (1991) have presented an excellent book-length analysis of the future without oil with special reference to food, and see large problems ahead.
We are now living not only on "ghost acres" but also living on "ghost centuries" -- the past centuries, back to more than half a billion years, when petroleum including natural gas formed at various times in the Earth's crust. We are rapidly consuming these resources inherited from eons past, and those centuries, now ghosts of the past, will soon have their petroleum resources exhausted.
We are fortunate to be living in what has been called the Age of the Hydrocarbon Man. This time includes coal, oil, and natural gas, of which oil is the most important. But it will be but a brief bright flash in human history -- at the most perhaps two hundred years. We are already more than half through the time of oil. Natural gas supplies will last only a bit longer.
With the imminent decline of petroleum (including natural gas), the question becomes what are the alternatives? Over the years, and more recently since the oil crises of the 1970s, the search for alternatives to petroleum has increased. A variety of alternatives have been identified, and most have been tried to a greater or lesser extent.
Alternatives to petroleum can be grouped into renewable and nonrenewable sources. Ultimately the renewable must completely fill the gap left by the depletion of oil, for the nonrenewable beyond oil which include coal, nuclear, oil sands, shale oil (so far an unrealized source), geothermal energy, and hydro-electric power, will also ultimately be gone. (Note: Dammed reservoirs eventually all fill with silt, and all geothermal electric power facilities show some decline to a greater or lesser extent. In the longer term, neither hydro-electric power nor geothermal energy for electric power generation is a renewable resource). The renewable include wind, solar, biomass, tides, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), and the possibly unattainable fusion.
When one examines suggested alternatives to petroleum, two facts stand out. First, the use of oil and natural gas as a huge supply of raw material for myriad petrochemical products importantly including fertilizer and pesticides, is unrivaled. Second, energy is energy in a sense, as it is defined as the ability to do work. The common thought is therefore that one energy form such as electricity can substitute for another energy form, gasoline. But, clearly this is not readily the case. A gallon of gasoline has the same energy content as one ton of conventional electric storage batteries. Physics of the storage of electricity cannot compete with the convenience of gasoline where a five gallon can of gasoline can be carried, if needed, hundreds of miles to a remote location to be used in some machine. The equivalent would have to be several tons of storage batteries.
The inability of fuels to be easily interchangeable in their end uses is a major problem. The fuel to effectively power the huge machines used in large scale farming, or even in smaller operations with smaller machines, beyond gasoline or diesel, is not yet in sight. The versatility of oil in convenience of handling and transport, and in end uses (motors of all sizes, useful in all climates, able to be stored over long periods of time in remote areas) is unequaled by any other energy source.
Oil derived from plants is sometimes promoted as a fuel source to replace petroleum. However, a comprehensive study by Giampietro and others (1997) concludes: "Large-scale biofuel production is not an alternative to the current use of oil and is not even an advisable option to cover a significant fraction of it." The facts and experience with ethanol are an example.
Ethanol is a plant-derived alcohol (usually from corn) which is used today, chiefly in the form of gasohol, a mixture of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline. Because it is used to some extent (mostly by federal mandate in certain places and at certain times) it is commonly thought that ethanol is a partially acceptable solution to the fuel problem for machines. However, ethanol is an energy negative -- it takes more energy to produce it than is obtained from ethanol.
Pimentel (1998b) states:
Ethanol production is wasteful of fossil energy resources . . . This is because considerably more energy, much of it highgrade fossil fuels, is required to produce ethanol than is available in the ethanol output. Specifically, about 71% more energy is used to produce a gallon of ethanol than the energy contained in a gallon of ethanol.
Furthermore, ethanol production from corn cannot be considered renewable energy. Its production uses more nonrenewable fossil energy resources both in the production of the corn and in the fermentation/distillation processes than is produced as ethanol energy (p. 5).
Pimentel also points out the negative environmental effects of producing ethanol from corn:
Increasing ethanol production will increase degradation of vital agricultural and water resources and will seriously contribute to the pollution of the environment. In U.S. corn production, soil erodes some 20-times faster than soil is formed.
Located in the premier corn-growing region of the world, scientists at Iowa State University (Reilly, 1988) state that ethanol production is an energy negative. Ethanol production survives by the grace of a subsidy by the U.S. government from taxpayer dollars. Continuing the production of ethanol is purely a device for buying the midwest U.S. farm vote, and may also be related to the fact that the company which makes 60% of U.S. ethanol is also one of the largest contributors of campaign money to the Congress -- a distressing example of politics overriding logic.
It is important to note that the end product of many alternative energy sources such as nuclear, hydro-electric power, wind, solar, geothermal, and tides is electricity, which is not a replacement for oil and natural gas in their important roles as raw material for a host of products ranging from paints and plastics, to medicines, and inks. But probably the most vital of all uses is to make the chemicals which are the basis for modern agriculture. Electricity is no substitute.
A recent review of the future prospects of all alternatives has been published. The summary conclusion reached is that there is no known complete substitute for petroleum in its many and varied uses (Youngquist, 1997). The distinguished British scientist, Sir Crispin Tickell (1993), expresses a similar view: "... we have done remarkably little to reduce our dependence on a fuel [petroleum] which is a limited resource, and for which there is no comprehensive substitute in prospect" (p. 20).
The oil-rich countries are clearly building economies and social structures on nonrenewable wealth. But the entire world is also doing so, particularly with regard to agriculture. The social, political, and economic ramifications of this fact will be huge.
With the present rate of population growth, when oil supplies are essentially depleted, the world population will be substantially larger than at present, perhaps even double what it is today. The inevitable conclusion is that in terms of today's living standards and food supply, the situation then will not be sustainable. (Pimentel & Giampietro, 1994a, p. 250). In a later more numeric statement Pimentel and Pimentel (1996) state:
Even tripling the food supply in the next 40 years would just about meet the basic food needs of the 11 billion people who will inhabit the earth at the time. Doing so would require about a 10-fold increase in the total quantity of energy expended in food production. The large energy input per increment increase in food is needed to overcome the incremental decline in crop yields caused by erosion and pest damage (p. 291).
Almost all of the energy Pimentel and Pimentel state would be needed would have to come from oil and natural gas. Thus the relationship which exists between population and oil and gas resources cannot be exaggerated. Oil and gas eventually will be gone. Even if conservation and other measures may reduce the demand, at best, this is not likely to significantly extend the time of oil and gas, and reducing the demand seems unlikely against the increasing food needs of a growing population. Decreasing use will only be caused by decreasing available supplies.
A future without oil is difficult to visualize in detail, but some aspects of the post-petroleum paradigm can be anticipated with some degree of certainty.
All possible economic energy sources will have to be used, but replacing oil in its great energy use versatility probably will not be completely possible. Replacing the role of both oil and gas in agricultural production will be the most critical problem, and may not be entirely solvable.
World population will have to adjust to lesser food supplies by a reduction in population. Pimentel and Pimentel (1996) state: ... the nations of the world must develop a plan to reduce the global population from near 6 billion to about 2 billion. If humans do not control their numbers, nature will." Because stopping and then turning around the freight train of population growth can only be done gradually, this is a project which should be started now (Cohen, 1995). If it is not done, famine on a large scale is likely to ensue.
The excellent personal mobility of those people now fortunate enough to enjoy the use of automobiles and airplanes will be greatly reduced.
The lifestyles of the high energy consuming nations will become much simpler. Nations which do not enjoy high energy use have less to lose and may not experience relatively large changes.
The focus of society at large will be much more directed toward securing the basics of existence than is now the case, particularly in the affluent societies where abundance is taken for granted and the good life lived accordingly.
Scientists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists will increasingly be concerned with the effects of the depletion of oil. Mitigating social and economic strains will have high priority.
Reaching and passing the peak of world oil production will be the most important happening in human history to date, affecting more people in more ways than any other event. It will happen, and during the lives of most people now living.
The fast approaching peak and then the irreversible decline of petroleum production is not a myth. Until 1998, the International Energy Agency never projected a peak in world oil production. But in March, for the G8 Energy Ministers' meeting in Moscow, the IEA stated that a peak in world oil production is likely to occur between the years 2010 and 2020. This is in general agreement with other recent estimates already cited. Perhaps this signal forthcoming event will now get the worldwide serious attention it fully merits. So far political circles have generally ignored the matter. Governments have a very short range vision.
Present society seems to have come to the comfortable conclusion that no great problems can now overtake us. The thought that "Scientists will think of something" is a popular public placebo by which to ignore the facts. Will something come to the rescue?
Pimentel and Giampietro (1994b) have warned:
Technology cannot substitute for essential natural resources such as food, forests, land, water, energy, and biodiversity... we must be realistic as to what technology can and cannot do to help humans feed themselves and to provide other essential resources (p. 250).
Bartlett (1994) has observed the general complacency about the future and writes:
There will always be popular and persuasive technological optimists who believe that population increases are good, and who believe that the human mind has unlimited capacity to find technological solutions to all problems of crowding, environmental destruction, and resource shortages. These technological optimists are usually not biological or physical scientists. Politicians and business people tend to be eager disciples of the technological optimists (p. 28).
What Bartlett is saying is that "We scientists might NOT be able to think of something."
To put it bluntly, science and technology cannot indefinitely rescue the human race from whatever predicaments into which it gets itself -- the overriding one now being population size, its current exponential growth, and how it can be supported in the future.
The debate on the date of oil production peak should be secondary. Concern should be turned toward the fact of the fast approaching post-petroleum paradigm, and developing both social and economic programs which will allow the human race to survive then in a reasonable degree of affluence. Degree of affluence is important, and therefore the size of the population should be further defined not as how many people can the world support, but how many people should the world support. Various estimates have been made, and the consensus among scientists is that the figure is considerably less than the population size of today.
The social and economic means to achieve this adjustment without chaos are not within the province of the geologist, the chemist, or the physicist. They are social, economic, and political matters. Those in leadership first need to recognize the facts, then convincingly get the facts across to the general public, and then see that logical actions are begun. What has to be installed is a global "will to do." We are all now on the increasingly unsustainable populated commons.
In a remarkably perceptive book, The Next Million Years, written in 1952, Charles Galton Darwin describes historic changes in the human condition, calling these "revolutions." He states there is one more revolution clearly in sight:
The fifth revolution will come when we have spent the stores of coal and oil that have been accumulating in the earth during hundreds of millions of years.., it is obvious that there will be a very great difference in ways of life.., a man has to alter his way of life considerably, when, after living for years on his capital, he suddenly finds he has to earn any money he wants to spend . . . The change may justly be called a revolution, but it differs from all the preceding ones in that there is no likelihood of its leading to increases of population, but even perhaps to the reverse (p. 52).
Kennedy (1993) summarizes both concern and hope for the future:
What is clear is that as the Cold War fades away, we face not a "new world order" but a troubled and fractured planet, whose problems deserve the serious attention of politicians and publics alike... The pace and complexity of the forces for change are enormous and daunting; yet it still may be possible for intelligent men and women to lead their societies through the complex task of preparing for the century ahead. If these challenges are not met, however, humankind will have only itself to blame for the troubles and disasters that could be lying ahead (p. 349).
Facts do not
cease to exist because they are ignored.
1 To compute doubling time in years, enter the percentage rate (i) into the formula, 70/I = years to double.
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Youngquist, W. (1997) GeoDestinies: The inevitable control of Earth resources over nations and individuals. Portland, Oregon: National Book Company. | <urn:uuid:830cca2c-4565-47b5-82a2-77b87c46ce22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dieoff.org/page171.htm | 2013-05-21T11:15:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950175 | 9,190 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I have a fade tourney bag, blue in color that has been used but not abused for sale! I have taken great care of this bag. It has never been left in the vehicle, even overnight. I store all my disc golf gear in the house and out of the sun ( except my basket). It has no rips or tears in the cloth and has faded very little. I got this bag a few years ago and now I am looking to upgrade. To let the people that don't know about this bag know its capacity currently it carries 9 drivers, 5 mids and 7 putters. It could possibly hold 1 more driver comfortably. I am wanting $30 if picked up or $40 shipped for the bag. I currently do not know where the factory strap is but if I do find it before it is sold I will include it with the bag.
I also have a Z Nuke for sale, red in color, 170 grams, ink on inner rim, light scratches on flight plate, no nicks or cracks. 8 out of 10 condition.
I would like $10 shipped on the disc or I will include it in the sale of the bag for $5.
Message me for pictures!
Bump!!! Feel free to make me an offer!
i AM INTRESTED
sure i'll take the disc got pics of the bag?
Here is a link to some photos of it. The 1st photo is the only one that is not recent.
Bump!!! Still for sale!!! Found a few more discs around the house as well.
Champ Metal Flake Destroyer- 175 grams- new - $20
Cryztal Sparkle Zone- unknown- new - $30
Blizzard Boss- 150 grams- new - $18
ESP Pulse SS- unkown- used 6/10 (lots of ink on back, light scratches, no nicks) - $15
This disc was originally made for the A3 1 Disc Challenge, mostly in FLX plastic, very few were made in regular ESP.
Prices for these discs include shipping!
Selling to help pay my way to The Discraft Michigan State Championships.
BUMP!!! NEED GONE!!!! $100 FOR EVERYTHING SHIPPED!!!
Nobody wants to make an offer?
honestly I want the bag, but I'll have to wait 2 weeks to payday to get it from you.
I wont be able to hold it for you Ron... I would if I could but the cut off for sign ups for the State Championships is the 24th so I am hoping to have everything gone before that. | <urn:uuid:78c9bd6c-2835-4a27-9d17-ddba0c51ca98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discgolfer.ning.com/forum/topics/fade-tourney-bag-for-sale | 2013-05-21T10:58:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968322 | 550 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
As a long-time observer of Israeli government policy vis-à-vis the Palestinian people, I don’t understand why Israel’s leaders feel they must loudly trumpet their opposition to Palestinian statehood and/or basic rights. On any given day, we get to hear that virtually anything Palestinians do or say is The! Worst! Thing! Ever! (and, of course, woe betide any who might venture the opinion that, hey, maybe not).
I say this because, as per the usual, the hyperbole surrounding yesterday’s statehood vote at the United Nations General Assembly was a thing to behold: Palestinian President Abbas’s decision to go to the U.N. was “pure diplomatic terror”! His speech was “venomous”! Members of Knesset try to burn the Palestinian flag!
Yet if we’re to be brutally frank, bluster and threats are entirely unnecessary. Israel doesn’t need to convince the world of its position or to take extreme measures to make sure that Palestine’s nascent statehood dies in the cradle. All Israel needs to do is stay its decades-long course and keep sending out bulldozers.
Witness the report that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s morning-after response to the statehood vote is 3000 new housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as expedited work in the E-1 “envelope,” a development project intended to geographically join Jerusalem to the settlement of Maaleh Adumim and thus cut the West Bank in half. And thus destroy territorial contiguity for any Palestinian state. And thus drive a final nail in the coffin of the notion of two-state peace.
Though impressive in scope, there is, in fact, nothing new in these plans—indeed, even though Netanyahu committed to President Obama upon taking office that he would not build in E-1, that piece of it can’t be considered a breach with the past either. After all, Israel is forever promising the U.S. one thing and then doing quite another, in particular with regard to the settlements.
Remember the 2003 George W. Bush-backed Road Map to Peace? Here’s what Israel agreed to there, signing its name alongside that of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia:
Government of Israel immediately dismantles settlement outposts erected since March 2001; consistent with the Mitchell Report, GOI freezes all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements).
Yeah. Not so much.
And remember the vaunted/vilified ten-month “settlement freeze” of 2009? In response to pressure from the Obama administration, Netanyahu announced a ten-month moratorium on building in the West Bank (though very pointedly not in the legal fiction that is East Jerusalem) in November; on January 1, 2010, Haaretzreported that
Despite the construction freeze, dozens of settlements in the West Bank are experiencing a building boom… According to data collected by Dror Etkes of Yesh Din, and by Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, construction is being carried out in more than 50 settlements and in two other industrial zones.
All this building was made possible largely by the fact that while the White House was wrangling with Netanyahu earlier in the year, construction crews were furiously pouring foundations—because any construction already underway was allowed to continue under the “freeze.”
And just in case anyone’s harboring any doubts about what might happen after Israel’s upcoming elections—the results of the recent Likud primaries should serve as a bracing corrective.
Yesterday’s UNGA vote was a historic moment, and who can tell but some lasting, tangible good may come of it. I don’t know how individual Palestinians are feeling about their nation having achieved “non-member observer state” status. Honestly, if it were me, I imagine I might have wept last night, and possibly thrown a party.
But I’m not Palestinian, and from where I sit, the vote hardly matters. Unless and until the international community, and at its head the President of the United States, should decide to hold Israel to international law and its own signed commitments, a right-wing led Israel will continue to take daily unilateral action to change the facts on the ground so that a viable Palestinian state becomes a literal impossibility.
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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, CHERRI BOMB & IT BOYS JOIN CAST
Joining the Vans Warped Tour at Alexandra Palace on 10th November FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, LA’s all-girl rockers CHERRI BOMB and US WARPED Tour sensation IT BOYS.
“We’ve shared so many great memories being a part of such a prolific tour like Warped and to play the UK Warped show will be rad,” says FFAF frontman Matt Davies. “It’s going to be insane. It’s gonna be off the wall…”
IT BOYS are equally enthused, stating: “We are so excited about extending our Vans Warped Tour experience from the USA to our home away from home the UK! Catch us Nov. 10th at Alexandra Palace!” | <urn:uuid:8222859d-d193-42ed-aac5-8950735ad98a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://festivalseurope.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/vans-warped-tour-uk-2012-2/ | 2013-05-21T11:16:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.806162 | 189 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The FINANCIAL -- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media,
Dunja Mijatovic, expressed concern today over legislative steps towards
re-criminalizing defamation in Ukraine .
“I call on all members of parliament to reject the proposed amendment, which would represent a serious setback for media freedom in the country. Criminalizing speech in a modern democracy means stifling debate and protecting public officials from criticism, and can only lead to self-censorship on the part of the media,” said Mijatovic.
The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine adopted yesterday in a first reading an amendment to the criminal code introducing the crime of libel. As the OSCE reported, the new article would introduce penalties of up to three years of imprisonment.
“I sincerely hope that this amendment will not be adopted in the second reading, so that the media in Ukraine can continue its important role of informing the society on issues of public interest without fear of facing criminal charges,” said Mijatovic.
“As I pointed out in a letter sent to Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko on 14 September, this is truly an unfortunate development. In 2001 Ukraine was among the first countries in the OSCE region to decriminalize defamation and it was due to this important reform that Ukraine has achieved its reputation as one of the most liberal legal media environments in the region.”
The Representative concluded her statement by offering her Office’s full assistance to the ongoing legal reform in Ukraine . | <urn:uuid:22a418f0-a91d-494e-b3f5-26871033777f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Ukraine/116253_Ukraine_plans_to_re-criminalize_defamation_a_%E2%80%98setback%E2%80%99%2C_warns_OSCE_media_freedom_representative/ | 2013-05-21T11:02:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942644 | 317 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Department of Development may sponsor an anniversary celebration for
a Wisconsin corporation if, but only if, the department determines that the
event will benefit the State of Wisconsin and will promote business, economic
development, or tourism. State and local public officials may accept food,
drink, and lodging offered in connection with the celebration to the extent
that the items are provided by the Department of Development.
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