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Updated at: 01/31/2013 6:37 PM
By JIM FITZGERALD
(AP) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The Associated Press. "He did a good job, let me try to make another good job of it."
In 2009, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III safely landed a US Airways flight on the Hudson after striking a flock of geese. All 155 people aboard survived.
De Priester said she wasn’t "terribly worried" about the landing, but "I was concerned by how long we would be in the water."
Her experience with gliders helped her position the plane as it lost altitude Sunday evening.
"It was falling, well, not like a brick, but 400 feet a minute, and we were only at 1,200 feet to start with," she said. "I instantly pulled the nose up so we were gliding down."
"I was pretty sure about my aviation skills and I had a lot of faith about the universe," said De Priester, 39, a native of the Netherlands who lives in East Windsor, N.J.
As they descended, she guided the plane from the shoreline out over the river, but not to the middle.
"I didn’t want to be too far from shore," she said.
Distress calls went unanswered, she said, and she feared no one would know where they were. Her first call was to the man she lives with, saying "Don’t panic, we’re going to make a water landing."
Her passenger, Christopher Smidt, also called home first, but he then called 911.
"He made sure we would be found," De Priester said. "He was my hero."
Smidt said Tuesday that De Priester deserved all the credit.
A boatload of Yonkers police officers, plus the 12-year-old son of one of them, pulled the De Priester and Smidt out of the icy river after 20-30 minutes.
Unlike Smidt, De Priester said the cold water did not immediately affect her.
"I didn’t feel anything because my adrenalin was pumping so high," she said. "It was really like I was swimming in the tropics. I was going to swim to shore, no problem."
By the time she was rescued, however, "The cold was starting to kick in. I felt numb, I couldn’t move anymore."
She said she still has some numbness in two fingers and under one arm, "but they say it will go away." She says the accident hasn’t wrecked her dream of forming a flight club, but she’ll have to wait for the insurance money before buying a new plane.
"I was so sorry to see that plane, blub, blub, blub, sinking in the river," she said.
De Priester says she has an idea about what went wrong, but can’t say publicly until government investigations are over.
"There was a mechanical failure of some sort," she said. The motor was sputtering and we lost thrust." | http://hbispace.com/printStory/wnyt/index.cfm?id=2910909 | 2013-05-18T10:52:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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A home on the field : how one championship team inspires hope for the revival of
Cuadros, Paul
Adult Nonfiction 796.334 C
Cuadros, Paul
Adult Nonfiction 796.334 C
Summary: "A Home on the Field" is the triumphant true story of a team of Latino high school students and their coach who fought against the prejudices of their school and small Southern town to win the North Carolina state soccer championship.
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The Winter Prince
Wein, Elizabeth.
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Wein, Elizabeth.
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Summary: Medraut, the bitter, illegitimate son of King Artos, is tempted into joining Morgause, the king's treacherous sister, in a plot against Lleu, the legitimate Prince of Britain.
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Lippman has won the Edgar award for her mystery, Charm City. She has received several other awards, and I think she is an excellent writer. I always look forward to her new books. Her latest is And When She Was."
Life gets very busy, especially if you're a to-do list junkie like me. Every now and then I need to read a book like Life's Too Short to Fold Fitted Sheets by Lisa Quinn. Check it out!
I’ve seen Eric Spindler’s books on our shelves often, but hadn’t really investigated her until today. I had not realized that she lives in New Orleans. She’s received several awards, so I picked up Watch Me Die. This is a suspense novel with romance thrown in, if you like that kind of book. At the beginning of the book, someone has killed an elderly priest at a New Orleans Catholic church. The murderer has also spray painted “He will come again to judge the living and the dead” upon the church’s stained glass windows. There are numerous twists and turns and a surprising end.:
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the system, ... has served for a century as Miami-Dade County’s safety net healthcare system for the poor and uninsured. But money and management woes in recent years have pushed the system to the brink of failure time and again. Last week, its executives said it would run out of cash in July unless drastic measures are taken.The Bid for Jackson Health
The latest drastic measure proposed was a take-over by a for-profit corporation, one that we have heard of before:
A Massachusetts hospital chain led by a Cuban American heart surgeon with family ties to Miami has sent Jackson Health System a non-binding 'expression of interest' letter, offering to take over the financially troubled public hospitals, invest $600 million in capital and assume $500 million in debt.
The $1.1 billion offer from Ralph de la Torre of Steward Health Care System was delivered Tuesday morning to members of the capital committee of the Public Health Trust, Jackson’s governing body.
Questions Appear Immediately
The proposed deal immediately raised questions and concerns. The very nature of the deal was unclear:
Trust member Ernesto de la Fe said he wasn’t sure if the company was proposing a straight-out sale, while other board members said they thought the offer envisioned 'a public-private' partnership.
Also, in a follow-up story by the same reporter, there were questions about the rapid time-table,.There were questions about the company which proposed to buy Jackson:
'We need to know a lot more about this company,' said Sal Barbera, an adjunct professor at Florida International University and a former hospital executive.Would the Mission be Upheld?
Steward has existed only since November, when Cerberus Capital Management finalized a $895 million deal to turn six Catholic hospitals into a for-profit entity. Steward has since bought two other small hospitals. Altogether, the Steward system has 1,565 licensed beds. Jackson has 2,100. De la Torre has been a hospital executive for less than three years.
That’s 'a very short track record,' said Mark Rogers, a Trust member and former chief executive of the Duke University Hospital.
The issue of whether a private, for-profit company would respect the mission of a safety-net hospital came up quickly,
Alan Sager, a health policy professor at Boston University, said some Steward facilities are money losers in poor neighborhoods. 'Some of us had a lot of questions' about the Cerberus take-over and how the investment company could squeeze returns for investment out of hospitals that were struggling as nonprofits.
'We asked repeatedly. We never received answers,' Sager said.
He said his fear is that patient care will be reduced to make profits. 'I think there should be concerns about preserving essential patient care in Dade County' if Steward took over Jackson, he added.
'If the object is merely to cut costs to make money … then that is not the right approach for Jackson,' said Rogers, the former Duke executive. 'Clearly some costs have to come out, but we have to invest in new programs to maintain the quality of medical care that Jackson has always provided.'
One day later, John Dorschner again writing for the Miami Herald raised more questions about why a large private equity company would want to buy a money-losing public hospital system? First he noted,
While the human face on the $1.1 billion bid to buy Jackson Health System is a Cuban-American heart surgeon with strong family ties to Miami, a vast and powerful entity looms in the background: Cerberus Capital Management.
The company, named for the mythological three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades, is one of the biggest private investment firms in the United States, and it is the owner of Steward Health Care, the Boston hospital group that this week said it is interested in buying Miami-Dade’s public hospitals
So,
The question that perplexes some Trust members is why such a big-time investment firm would be interested in a healthcare system with three public hospitals that lost $244 million in fiscal 2009, is expected to lose $105 million in fiscal 2010 and is projected to run out of cash in July unless drastic measures are taken.
The concern, again, was whether Cerberus would uphold the current mission of the hospital system:
Trust Treasurer Marcos Lapciuc said Thursday that Cerberus is 'in the driver’s seat' on this deal, not Steward. 'They are going to expect some return on their investment. This is not going to be charitable donation,' he said.
Of course, the central mission of the current Jackson Health System would seem to be charitable.
To build the health of the community by providing a single, high standard of quality care for the residents of Miami-Dade County
The implication of "single, high standard" is that applies to all residents, regardless of financial status or ability to pay.
More Questions
The CEO's Short Term Focus
There is good reason to question whether Steward Health Care, formerly Caritas Christi, and now owned by Cerberus Capital Management would uphold that mission. As we noted recently, the Steward Health Care CEO seems to have a very short-term focus, suggested by the track record of the Cerberus CEO, who quickly left an organization he had aggressively promoted, suddenly switched from the Republican party to become a big contributor to the Democratic party, abandoned his medical license after developing a good reputation as a cardiovascular surgeon, and famously was quoted, "burn the boats on the beach, baby." Would he support the long-term commitment needed to make both the Massachusetts based and now the proposed Florida based hospitals, most of which are safety net hospitals, succeed?
"Leakage Reduction" - a Threat to Physicians' Professionalism?
As we also noted recently, the main tenet of his business plan seemed to be to reduce "leakage," to make sure patients who start within the system are referred within the system and do not "leak" elsewhere. The problem with this is that physicians are supposed to decide how to manage patients, and specifically to decide where to refer patients in the patients' interests, not just to keep money flowing to the health care system. "Leakage reduction" may possibly threaten physicians' first commandment, to make decisions to maximize benefits and minimize harms to individual patients, before all other considerations. Also, as we noted earlier, since Steward Health Care purchased not only some Massachusetts hospitals, but a big network of physician practices, there could be a risk that the physicians who are now employed by a private equity group would be pushed to make referral decisions for financial reasons, rather than in the best interests of the patients.
Note that a recent (posted 9 February, 2011) advertisement for a Senior Medical Director (physician leader) of the Caritas Christi Network Services, the physician group owned by Steward Health Care LLC, said the Director's first goal would be:
This position will have a leadership role in all aspects of the CCNS system, including responsibility and accountability for:Keeping Company with Gun and Ammunition Manufacturers and "Mercenaries"
- Lead/Mentor/Support IPA based Medical Directors (at both the IPA and Pod level) to achieve Medical Management goals and objectives in Quality, Leakage, Utilization, and Risk performance
There are also questions about whether the corporate culture of Cerberus Capital Management would be compatible with the management of safety-net hospitals. Cerberus has some current investments in firms whose operations seem oddly askew from providing medical care to patients regardless of their ability to pay.
First, Cerberus owns the biggest manufacturer of firearms and ammunition in the US. As reported by BusinessWeek last year,
Cerberus had more than DPMS [Firearms] in its sights. From April 2006 to January 2008 it bought three other firearms companies: Bushmaster, Remington, and Marlin. And it kept adding to its collection. Cerberus now controls 13 brands in a holding company it created, Madison (N.C.)-based Freedom Group. With sales of $848.7 million in 2009, Freedom Group is the largest gun and ammo maker in the U.S. That means Stephen A. Feinberg, Cerberus' founder and managing member, is the country's top civilian gun magnate.
In addition,
Luth, the rifle maker, says that when he arrived at Cerberus' Park Avenue offices to negotiate a deal in 2007, he discovered that Feinberg and several of his partners 'are real gun guys.'
Also, as reported by the New York Times, Cerberus recently bought one of the biggest "private military contractors,"
DynCorp International, the private military contractor, said on Monday it has agreed to sell itself to Cerberus Capital Management for $1.5 billion, as the private equity industry continues to return to its core business of deal-making.
Cerberus will pay $17.55 a share for DynCorp, a 49 percent premium to Friday’s closing price of $11.75. DynCorp now has 28 days under a 'go-shop' provision within the deal agreement to find a higher and better offer.
While DynCorp has continued to win new contracts from the federal government, it has also been the subject of controversy over the years for its assignments in Iraq.
That controversy was amplified in an article in The Nation by Jeremy Scahill, entitled "The Mercenary Owners, They Are a Changin' (Sort of)
Black.Summary whistle blower contract for the Iraqi Police Training Program.' More recently, the company was in the news facing allegations its training of the Afghan National Police was shoddy, including allegations its trainees didn't know how to adjust the sights on their AK-47s. If the Cerberus deal goes through, it will mean that the publicly-traded DynCorp will go private, meaning that it will be infinitely more difficult to get information on the company.
Cerberus seems to have had a dream of owning its own mercenary business for at least a few years. In April 2008, the company was reportedly looking to buy Blackwater. The deal apparently fell through because of concerns over Blackwater's reputation.
So we have come a long way from 1980, when the US American Medical Association gave up the rule that the practice of medicine should not be "commercialized, nor treated as a commodity in trade." (See posts here and here.) Now we have private equity firms buying or trying to buy formerly non-profit safety net hospital systems to be included in portfolios that can include gun and ammunition manufacturers and private armies. Now we have physician networks owned by private equity firms focused on choking off "leakage." Such ownership may initially inject lots of money into the system, and may eventually profit the new private owners, but what will we give up in this brave new world of commercial safety-net hospitals and for-profit physician practices?.
Coda
The title requires apologies to Warren Zevon, who famously performed "Send Lawyers, Guns and Money."
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They own an army of mercenaries? Oh my. | http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/send-mercenaries-guns-and-money.html | 2013-05-18T10:40:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
EDF
US-based charity the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have been very successful in achieving major environmental breakthroughs over the past four decades. Their focus is on global warming, oceans, ecosystems and human health.
EDF’s approach is unique among environmental groups in that they are willing to partner with business and utilise incentives that help the human population as well as deliver much needed environmental change.
EDF’s old site, though rich in scientific content, did not focus clearly enough on the work EDF does or its successes. Added to this, calls to action relating to donation and taking action were sporadic and inconsistent.
Prior to starting any design work, we carried out an in-depth evaluation of the site and interviewed many key stakeholders, gauging their feelings about what the site needed to achieve for EDF, who it was for and how best we could convey EDF’s personality. This research fed into the development of a new information architecture and associated html wireframe (created for usability testing).
During this part of the project we also worked with EDF’s writers to encourage the development of story-based content that would resonate with the majority of the site’s audiences much more effectively than the existing ‘dry’ copy. This type of content also needed to have a goal that could be portrayed through strong calls to action. In other words, if there was no associated call to action to a story then it shouldn’t be published.
Following testing we moved on to creating a new visual design for the site. We worked closely with EDF’s brand guidelines but extended areas like colour palette where it was needed to convey perceptions such as warmth and clarity. Imagery plays a big part in the new design as well as the use of serif fonts for main copy and sans serif for instructional text.
Finally, we developed a suite of HTML/CSS/Javscript templates that EDF’s web team integrated with the Drupal content management system. We created responsive designs that react to browser window sizes including a homepage that responds to window height as well as width.
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Greenfield Care Center of Fairfield
Overview
! Special Focus Facility: This home is being closely monitored because of a history of bad care.
Greenfield Care Center of Fairfield
1260 Travis Blvd, Fairfield, CA 94533 (707) 425-0669
- Medicare/Medicaid: Medicare and Medicaid
- Number of Medicare/Medicaid beds: 90
- Ownership: For profit - Corporation
- Continuing Care Retirement Community: No
- Part of a chain: Yes
Last updated April 18, 2013. | http://health.usnews.com/best-nursing-homes/area/ca/greenfield-care-center-of-fairfield-055189 | 2013-05-18T10:52:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Bad habits that children have can cause heart problems later in life, according to a new study.
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- No longer an adults-only issue, heart health has become increasingly problematic for American children.
An array of factors has been deemed key to a healthy heart by the American Heart Association, including maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active on a regular basis, eating a healthy diet, not smoking and keeping blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels normal.
But half of U.S. kids meet just four or fewer of these health criteria, according to a report, Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics -- 2012 Update, which was published in Circulation.
[Read: Dark Chocolate May Lower Risk of Heart Disease.]
And, among those in high school, 30 percent of girls and 17 percent of boys do not get the recommended 60 minutes a day of physical activity, the report noted.
In addition, a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in five children had abnormal cholesterol levels, which prompted the American Academy of Pediatrics to issue new guidelines recommending that all children 9 to 11 years old be screened for high cholesterol levels.
"A number of things are happening to impact children's heart health," said Dr. Stephen R. Daniels, professor and chairman of the pediatrics department at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora and a spokesman for the American Heart Association. "One is the increase in prevalence and severity of obesity."
"Obesity drives a lot of risks in adults, and that seems to be true for children, too," he added. "The concern is that we may now have a generation of children that are destined for heart disease as adults."
More than one-third of America's children are currently overweight or obese, according to the CDC. Nearly 20 percent are obese.
[Read: Glucose Challenge in Pregnancy Could Predict Heart Disease.]
Children who are overweight or obese are far more likely to have high blood pressure than their normal-weight peers. They're also more likely to have high cholesterol levels, according to the CDC.
Dr. Vivek Allada, clinical director of pediatric cardiology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, explained that pediatric cardiology has been changing over the years. In the past, he said, adult-type heart disease was much rarer and congenital heart disease was more the norm for pediatric patients.
"In some sense, congenital heart disease is fixing plumbing, but acquired heart disease requires fixing the lifestyle," Allada said. "We're very good at fixing leaks or unclogging blocks, but fixing the lifestyle requires a multi-player team approach that involves the physician, the patient, the family and the school."
Though children, like adults, can take medication to bring down their cholesterol levels, health experts agree that it's more important to instill healthy lifestyle habits in children.
"You can't replace heart-healthy living with a pill," Allada pointed out. "This is a marathon, not a sprint, and you need your cholesterol down for your life. We want you to build good habits. You have to focus on diet and exercise. It's also important to eliminate soda and simple sugars, not to smoke, and to watch your salt intake. There are multiple factors we have to take into account."
Allada and Daniels agreed that heart-healthy living has to be a family affair.
"Parents need to find a way to make the healthiest choice the easiest choice," Daniels said. "We didn't all decide as a population to start having unhealthy lifestyles simultaneously; it's an issue of convenience. We need to figure out how to work with or eliminate the unintended consequences of what we do every day."
In the home, he said, that means parents have to pay attention to diet and activity levels. "Parents really are in charge of the home environment and have a tremendous opportunity to build a healthy environment at home," Daniels explained. "Allow children to make choices among healthy options. It promotes a kind of self-efficacy and equips children to do better."
As for physical activity, he said to make sure it's something the whole family enjoys.
"Be active, but make it fun and enjoy it," he advised. "Figure out what the kids like to do."
More information
The American Heart Association has more on helping kids develop healthy habits.
A companion article has details on a 12-year-old girl's fight against heart trouble.
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Top Neurologists in Maryland
There are 66 top neurologists in Maryland on the list of U.S. News Top Doctors. These physicians were selected based on a peer nomination process. Within this list of best neurologists in Maryland, 19 have been named to a highly selective list of America's Top Doctors (ATD) by achieving national recognition for outstanding work.
Showing 66 | http://health.usnews.com/top-doctors/directory/best-neurologists/best-in-maryland?state=MD&specialist=Neurologists&doctor=Name&hospital=Hospital+Name&doctor_gender=&sort_by=name&specialties=033&specialties=153&specialties=007&location=Maryland&specialty_plural_urlname=neurologists&page=3&distance= | 2013-05-18T10:44:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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GMOs and Monsanto
Posted in food activism on Mar 13th, 2012
Earlier this year, I kept hearing an ad on my local news radio station (WTOP in the DC Metro Area) which made me angry. It was an ad run by Monsanto touting how they are a part of the sustainable movement. Now, sustainable to those of us who are proponents of healthy food, is defined [...] | http://healthyfoodnaturally.com/2012/03/13/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Asthma
Over 34 million Americans suffer from asthma, a chronic and recurring inflammatory disease affecting the bronchial airways.
Healthy Goods offers a number of vitamin, mineral, and herbal products to provide support to the immune and respiratory systems of those suffering from asthma. These natural formulas may help you manage symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, inflammation, and chest tightness.
Many of our products...More > | http://healthygoods.com/natural-treatment-products/asthma-natural-treatment-products.html?brand=137&particles_removed=151 | 2013-05-18T10:56:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Bacterial Overgrowth
Bacterial overgrowth has become a fairly common condition because of the frequent use, and sometimes overuse, of antibiotics, antacids, and other medications that wipe out friendly intestinal bacteria.
Those with chronic digestive problems such as gas, bloating, diarrhea, and/or constipation are often told they have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), ...More > | http://healthygoods.com/natural-treatment-products/bacterial-overgrowth-natural-treatment-products.html?food_restrictions=27 | 2013-05-18T10:32:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ever wonder how many fake followers you and your friends have? What about the follower count for big brand like Toyota, or a soccer star like Cristiano Ronaldo, or even [gulp] the President of the United States?
Here are a few brands that are on Twitter we took a look at to see what their 'true' Twitter follower numbers were, using the Status People Fake Follower Check tool.
@BarackObama = 31% fake, 39% inactive, 30% good. This takes Barack's Twitter follower count from 18.8 mil to 5.6 mil followers.
@MittRomney = 16% fake, 31% inactive, 53% good. This drops Mitt's Twitter follower count from 902,178 to 478,154 followers.
@Toyota = 8% fake, 32% inactive, 60% good. This takes Toyota's Twitter follower count from 99,158 to 59,495 followers.
@Cristiano = 42% fake, 32% inactive, 21% good. This drops Cristiano's Twitter follower count from 12.5 mil to 2.6 mil followers.
@RicohTweets = 9% fake, 21% inactive, 70% good. This takes Ricoh's Twitter follower count from 3,168 to 2,218 followers.
Surprised by the results? What does this tell us about socila media data and the importance of having access to accurate Twitter stats? How much do folloers really matter in a world full of of fake fan bases and unused social meda accounts? | http://heardable.com/blogs.php?user_id=7&blogentry_id=383 | 2013-05-18T10:42:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
And (now don't fall off your seat!) I combined it with another challenge, using the fab sketch from this week's Freshly Made Sketches #28. As soon as I saw this sketch, I saw a Z-Fold card!
Not having any house-type stamps made it necessary to improvise, but I think the paper-pieced house turned out kinda cute.
So, if you're mojo seems to have left the building, as mine has this week, pop on over to either (or BOTH) of the challenges and get some inspiration!
Stamps: Baroque Motif, Party Time
Cardstock: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery, plus Daffodil Delight DSP and Melon Mambo DSP (retired)
Ink: Certainly Celery and Basic Black Classic
Accessories: Scallop Trim Border Punch, 1-3/8" Square Punch, Small Heart Punch, Pearls Basic Jewels, White Gel Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals, Tombow Mono Multi
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Oh my goodness that is such a super cute card! I love that little house, and the Z-fold is a brilliant idea! Thanks for joining us at ColourQ this week!
Your paper house is adorable - and I love the "grass"! Very sweet card!
I just love your card. It is so bright and cheery. The hearts and house are darling!
Oh my gosh - lookit that house! How Cute!!
This is super cute! I love the house and the z-fold card is a great idea for this sketch challenge. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches and colourQ!
Brilliant idea for the sketch, Cindy! What a great card! Glad you joined us!
Really lovely card Cindy.
Such a pretty card, Cindy, lovely for a house warming! Love all the bright yellow! Thanks for joining us this week at the ColourQ.
You've hit the big gong on the cute meter with this one, Cindy! Those colors really are happy! | http://heartsdelightcards.blogspot.com/2012/03/happy-new-home-fms28-and-cqc130.html | 2013-05-18T10:11:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When I came across this ADORABLE snowman today, I had to use him right away. He is from Melonheadz Illustrating. You MUST go check out this blog treasure!!!
When we come back after Christmas (on January 2nd....how yuck is that!), we teach contractions. We have already talked about them in several of my reading groups but have not talked about them whole group with my train wreck story....and they L-O-V-E that story!
Here is a little *freebie* for a matching game. I hope you enjoy it! I love ALL of the D.J. Inkers snowmen....too bad we rarely see snow in East Texas!
clip art by DJ Inkers and Melonheadz Illustrating
Here is a fun little *freebie* to use in your math stations during the next few weeks. My kiddos LOVE this game. If you want to grab my other 50 chips games, click here.
Please don't forget about my AWESOME giveaway! Here is one more shirt that Sewing Sassy can make!
I would LOVE a heart note if you grab these *freebies*!
17 heart notes:
"Snow" cute. On some of your puzzles pieces the fonts are different I believe.
You are so right! Some of the fonts are different! I used Smiley Monster and that font won't do uppercase letters. On the contraction puzzles with "I" the font is different. =)
Thanks for the freebies! You are awesome.
2B Honey Bunch
Such cute freebies! :) Thank you for sharing! You are sooo sweet! :)
Cheryl
Crayons and Curls
<3 <3 <3 Thanks for the contractions game- exactly what I wanted this week :) New follower!
Buzzing with Ms. B
Printing the contractions on cardstock as we speak!!! They are adorable!!!
What's your train wreck story?????? Is it a book? Or a personal story? Do tell! I also found melonzhead today, too!
I can't believe you go back on the 2nd. YIKES! We have 3 weeks off and don't go back until the 9th. We have 5 furlough days on that 3rd week - the pay cut hurt but I am really looking forward to the time off now! :)
A Teeny Tiny Teacher
Thanks for the freebies! I love the 50 chips game but I think I will have them put the chips on and subtract to get them off. Mine are pretty good at addition facts but subtraction is a whole different story!
Your snowy contractions are adorable! Also love your 50 chips games (downloaded the Christmas and your previous ones). Thank you so much for sharing your creative work:)
Heather,
NO NO NO NO NO, my principal does not read my blog! I would DIE! :)
That cracks me up about that one principal not allowing the use of dice. They're so great for math!!
A Teeny Tiny Teacher
<3 Love these freebies! Thanks for sharing- can't wait to print and use.
Jan-- who can't seem to get Blogger to give her account permission to post comments:(
Love those snowmen contractions... THANKS!!!
Dragonflies in First
Thank you for sharing the Snowmen Contractions and the Christmas 50 Chips Activities with my students!
This is awesome! Thanks for pointing me toward it! I don't know how I missed it!!
Jennifer
First Grade Blue SKies
Going to play with the Snowmen contractions tomorrow- have to get through 3 more days. Thanks :)
SO cute! And I downloaded your assorted 50 chips one from the past too. Thank you for that link as well.
Merry Christmas.
Hi Heather!
I just followed a tip on this wonderful freebie from Teeny Tiny Teachers shout out to you!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Julie
Ms. Marciniak's First Grade Critter Cafe
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Blinded Colony
Blinded Colony is a melodic death metal band from Karlshamn, Sweden, formerly known as Stigmata. They are currently unsigned and recording the pre-preproduction of their third studio album. They have recently released 5 new tracks on their website.
Blinded Colony was formed in January 2000, by guitarists Johan Blomstrom and Tobias Olsson, and singer Niklas Svensson. At that point the band was known as Stigmata. In June 2000, the band began recording their first demo, Painreceiver, and two new members were recruited, Christoffer Nilsson to play drums, and Annika Haptén, a singer. Later that summer Staffan Franzén was officially announced as the bass player. After finishing the recording of Painreceiver, the band performed shows around Sweden, but began to lose faith in the endeavor. Due to lack of interest the band went on hiatus.
Six months later drummer Christoffer Nilsson decided to leave the band, and Staffan Franzén switched from bass to drums. Shortly after ...
Blinded Colony discography
- Country: Sweden
- Genres: Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal
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Helbraun Levey and O'Donoghue is a great team of attorneys to help with any of your needs, from closing a deal to getting your restaurant the grade it deserves. As a new business owner I needed help with the Department of Health. After my initial inspection and being closed due to licence issues and reopening to three more inspections, I needed help with all the inspection reports and getting the grade I deserved. I contacted the firm and asked David (who by the way did a great job closing my deal) if he had anyone who could help. He put me in touch with his partner Kevin. I sent him all the reports and pictures addressing the issues the DOH claimed to be violations. A few weeks later I received an email from Kevin saying " It's an "A" ". He made it very easy and quick for me to get through this. I will continue to use this fine team of attorneys in any of my business needs and highly recommend them to anyone who needs representation or is unhappy where they are now. Its well worth it. Thank you David, Kevin, Jeffery and everyone at Helbraun Levey and O'Donoghue.
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“I have been a client of Helbraun & Levey for many years. They have helped me with many business issues including: - Community board dealings - Liquor license renewals - Underage drinking summons - Alterations I have found that they have provided a personalized service rarely found nowadays when dealing with law firms. They were there for me every step of the way, and my results with them have been fabulous."
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"David Hebraun and his firm helped my wife and I in the purchase of a small glass and mirror business and the formation of an LLC to hold the business assets. His experience with small businesses allowed us to proceed through closing with great efficiency and maintain harmonious relations with the seller and his wife while we negotiated the details of a trust based contract. We expect to use David's firm as our business develops in the future. "
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Kevin O'Donoghue was recommended from a business associate of mine when I was having trouble with my former partner in a bar I owned for 3 years with that person. I was a wreck and felt like I was in over my head. Kevin was pretty much a godsend in that he calmed me down and let me know that he would take over the situation. In the end Kevin got me 30 percent more than I believed I would get for my half of the business and I got paid in less than half the time. I will be forever in his debt.
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"David was invaluable to me in helping resolve a bad business partnership. He stuck with me through many court appearances and succeeded in selling the business after three other large corporate firms had tried and failed miserably. He restored my faith in attorneys and did it graciously and with the utmost competence. He is the only attorney I have met to date, who when he tells you he will get something done, truly delivers. He is a gem. I would never use anybody else. "
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"I wholeheartedly recommend the services David Helbraun and Joseph Levey. In my world, David Helbraun has been a calm voice of reason for several years. As a landlord in Brooklyn, I have had my share of frustrating days at the courthouse. I have worked with half a dozen legal firms and a blur of faces. Anyway, it is because of David’s steady state of reason why I am able to find any humor in any of this at all. David really kept my spirits up at times when I was just so tired of the New York legal system’s treatment of small landlords who are “blessed” with rent regulated apartments. He kept our goal in sight, followed up with our delinquent residents and resolved their accounts with a level of professionalism that no one could dispute. I was very impressed. And later when one of them not only decided to completely disregard the obligations set in her lease, but to actively seek out ways to destroy my property, David introduced me to his ‘closer’, Joseph Levey. Nothing shakes Joseph! He looked at the situation from several angles, did his research, anticipated responses and moved to head them off. He followed up, kept me informed and throughout the process, just like with David, I always felt he had my back. You just cannot ask for more than that."
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Opening a new business can be very stressful, but dealing with the various state agencies can be downright dreadful. Anyone who is working towards a new venture into the restaurant business knows just how important having the right people on your side can be when dealing with State Liquor Authority. Your liquor license is one of the key aspects to providing a full service bar and restaurant to your customers, and without it your chances of success are slim to none. When we came across Helbraun and Levey, we were incredibly inundated with the demands of the Department of Buildings, and the construction on our building. Without Joseph Levey we would have never been able to navigate the SLA, and complete the process required in order to be awarded a liquor license for our place of business. What you don't realize is that the SLA requires an enormous amount of personal and professional information about you,your background and your intentions for your anticipated bar/restaurant. You have to deal with someone that you can trust, but that also knows the SLA in and out. That person is Joseph Levey. We had so many problems with other city and state agencies, that slowed down our ability to meet our SLA deadlines, and required us to request extensions and waivers, etc. Levey walked us through the whole process, and with extreme care and attention to the amount of duress the whole experience was having on us and our business. Joseph Levey is a consummate professional. He knows the SLA in and out, but also knows and understands people; particularly those people who are putting their life savings into starting a new business while dealing with the DOB and nasty neighbors. He is a great lawyer and a terrific listener, and will help you get from point A to point B with your best interest at heart at all times. | http://helbraunlevey.com/clients/testimonials/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Erica Mena Threatens Ex-Boyfriend
Erica Mena is threatening to expose ex-boyfriend DJ envy after he called her a “bird” on the radio.
Yesterday the very married DJ Envy, admitted on air to having an affair with the ‘Love and Hip Hop” star. However, during the on air confession Envy called Erica a liar and a bird and now Erica is threatening to expose Envy using pictures in her new tell-all book.
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She took to Twitter to blast Envy:
Being that you told your wife Everything & Now Your calling me out my name I decided let's show her Pics In my book #underneathItAll April—
Erica Mena (@Erica_Mena) February 25, 2013
No "insecure" man lies to many woman about being married so he can have his cake and eat it too! I'm sorry but that's a lame excuse Gia! Smh—
Erica Mena (@Erica_Mena) February 25, 2013
Up & At it! Feeling good! Time to clear this elephant out the room and explain the TRUTH Finally #LoveandHiphop—
Erica Mena (@Erica_Mena) February 26, 2013
Now that the cat is out of the bag beauties, are you interested in reading Erica Mena’s book or are you over this drama?
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Suppressing OS X mount fail errors
I'm trying to set up CCC on my wife's MBP to emulate the behaviour of Time Machine, i.e. runs totally silently.
I've set it to back up every hour, on the hour, to my Linux box, disabled the CCC progress dialogues, disabled Growl notifications, and set it to e-mail me each time it completes.
Everything is working just fine and dandy except for one small niggle. If the Linux box is down, or her MBP is not on our home LAN, an message pops up saying the the server could not be found. The style of the dialogue makes me think that it's generated by OS X rather the CCC.
Is there anyway to disable this? I'm guessing that OS X is throwing this up in response to CCC calling the API to connect to the server.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Mike Bombich on 20 Jul, 2012 01:22 PM
Can you submit your logs to me for review? The easiest way to do this is from within CCC:
A screenshot of this error message might be helpful as well. I think you might be right, I think it could be coming from the OS.
Thanks,
Mike
3 Posted by parish on 20 Jul, 2012 04:35 PM
Hi Mike,
Log submitted - CCC Report ID: 10576
Screenshot attached
Thanks!
Support Staff 4 Posted by Mike Bombich on 20 Jul, 2012 05:09 PM
Yeah, that's from the OS. I can see that CCC is automatically skipping the task without presenting the error (presumably as you requested in the Settings tab). Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to suppress the OS's message. I really wish I could, too, in fact I'd prefer to not have the OS's UI involved at all (e.g. if you change your network volume's password, the OS will then provide a username/password prompt).
Mike
5 Posted by parish on 20 Jul, 2012 05:36 PM
Thanks for confirming that Mike. Shame though. Wonder how TM manages to avoid such messages if it can't find the backup volume? I guess it either uses undocumented APIs or it has it's own code for mounting volumes??
Anyway, it's not the end of the world, but if you're ever poking around in the UI code I think it would be good if you could figure a way to create a "Technophobe Mode" where CCC is (damn, that message just popped up again while I was typing this lol) totally silent. That is probably the only area where TM is better than CCC. It doesn't bother me, or anyone else who's chosen to use CCC I imagine, but when you set it up on a Mac belonging to someone who is completely non-technical it would be good if they don't have to interact with it at all. That's where an animated menu bar icon, like TM, would be useful; that way, I could place it next to the clock and just tell my wife "if that little thing next to the clock is spinning round, wait until it stops before shutting down your laptop" - simple.
P.S. An idea for an icon - three C's inside one another and for animation have the inner one rotate clockwise, the centre one static, and the outer one rotate counter-clockwise.
6 Posted by sn on 03 Aug, 2012 06:53 PM
I hate to throw this in the ring, but Chronosync has that functionality; it just silently skips the task when it can't mount a share. I used to have this running in conjunction with CCC (which I much prefer, actually just bought a licence). Leaving it to Chronosync to try to mount the share, and CCC to do the actual copying when the share appears.
Me too I'd love it if that OS error message didn't come up!
Support Staff 7 Posted by Mike Bombich on 04 Aug, 2012 02:19 AM
CCC has this capability, and I believe that parish was using that (the option to "Silently skip this task if the source or destination is unavailable"). The problem is that CCC is trying to mount the volume at all, and that that attempt is failing. Within CCC, I'm not presenting any UI indicating that mounting the volume failed, the UI comes from the OS.
There is a workaround -- I could simply not try to connect to the server if the network connection is down. But this counters the paradigm that developers are encouraged to follow:
success = "Try the task"
if (!success)
// Deal with the error
vs:
try = "Might this task succeed?"
if (try)
// Try the task
The problem with the second paradigm is that things are constantly changing, and it's possible that by the time you get to the "try the task" phase, the conditions have changed and the outcome will be different from what you expect (I know that seems unlikely in this trivial example, but this is the basis of a "race condition" () and it's actually quite common). Long story short, we've learned to not make assumptions, rather to try to do something, then gracefully deal with the error if it doesn't succeed. Unfortunately, in this case, the application that isn't dealing gracefully with the error is the OS, not CCC.
Getting more specifically into network connectivity, things are even less cut-and-dry. For example, I can't just ask the system, "Do I have a network connection?" because the answer is "it's complicated". Instead, I get a list of "flags" that indicate the characteristics of the network connection:
kSCNetworkFlagsTransientConnection
kSCNetworkFlagsReachable
kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired
kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionAutomatic
kSCNetworkFlagsInterventionRequired
kSCNetworkFlagsIsLocalAddress
kSCNetworkFlagsIsDirect
Some of those indicate that you have an active connection, others indicate that it will work if you try. Oh, and these don't actually say anything about the network connection per se, they're actually referring to whether you have a route to a specific host. So if you have a source on the local LAN and a destination across the Internet, things are yet more complicated.
Anyway, my point in all of this is that you could go to great lengths to make a guess about whether you'll get a connection to a network volume, but there's a chance you'd be wrong and not attempt a connection when it would have worked.
All that said, I can offer a compromise. I used to do the network connectivity check in the past. After years of "don't do that" at Apple's developer conferences, I finally changed that behavior about 18 months ago. Bringing it back was trivial. In the attached version of CCC, you can do the following to get the old behavior:
Let me know how that works for you.
Thanks,
Mike
8 Posted by sn on 04 Aug, 2012 01:10 PM
Hi Mike,
many thanks, much appreciated. I'll check it out!
Best,
sn
9 Posted by DK on 19 Sep, 2012 10:09 AM
This comment was split into a new private discussion: Suppressing OS X mount fail errors
Hi,
We have the same concern. We would like to use CCC for our users' (about 50) laptops to backup to our internal AFP server. Typically most people take their laptops home and having the OS X dialog pop-up 1/hr would get old quickly. So they'll be on a network, just not the right one.
A work around we have begun testing is to set the scheduled task to not start until way off into the future (years), then we have a launchd script initiate the task every hour. The script tests a couple of things to verify that it's on the proper LAN, then if everything checks out, it runs the task with the custom CCC kill signals (i.e. kill -USR2 $cccPID). We followed the Automator script posted in other threads.
An example test is to ping the AFP server via the bonjour name (e.g. afpserver.local) this shouldn't work if you're not on the correct LAN. We're starting to see if we can use 'nc' to test for connectivity to the open AFP port. ( /usr/bin/nc -z afpserver.local. 548 ) While this is not 100% reliable, we think it's okay for us. It's also a little ugly and would much prefer to have CCC handle everything by itself.
Would it be possible to build into CCC a check to see if the AFP (or whatever) share is up before trying to mount it? I know for instance 'mmap' has some scanning scripts they use to discover what AFP shares a server has available. (Sorry, I just know it exists, not how it works.)
Thanks!
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Global warming and that the leaders of the world aren't doing enough fast enough.
If you claim a political party affliation, which is it?
none
Which religion (if any) do you follow?
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Emails allows you to view email messages automatically sent by FrontlineSMS which were triggered by incoming text messages
Why would I want FrontlineSMS to
send emails?
If you're running a global
campaign and you want mobile phone owners to text in their address so you
can send out information packs, or you're asking them to 'sign' a
petition, you may want to send this information on to your head office or
forward it on to an administrator who works in another office. You could
forward the messages as new text messages, but these will incur additional
costs, and in some cases international SMS rates. A quicker and cheaper
way would be to have the incoming text message converted to an email, and
then for FrontlineSMS to send the message over the internet for you to a
recipient of your choice. Details on how to set up email forwarding are
covered in the Keywords
help screen
Re-sending and removing emails
Any emails that have been
sent by FrontlineSMS are listed on the email screen
[1].
If the computer is not connected to the internet, the messages will be
held until a connection is made, at which point FrontlineSMS will begin
sending automatically. If you want to manually re-send an email (perhaps
it didn't arrive, or there was a problem with the recipient's Inbox being
full), highlight the email in the list and click
Re-Send Selected
[2].
If you'd like to remove an email from the list, highlight it and click
Delete Selected
[3]
TIP: If you
delete an email which has not yet been sent, it will be removed from the
queue permanently and not be sent. If you select the
Delete Selected
[3]
option for an email
which has already been sent, it will just be removed from the list on the
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Value Pack FAQs
What is Value Pack?
Value Pack is an exciting offer that includes Entertainment Pack, Learning Edge and PC Tune-Up products together.
To learn more about Entertainment Pack, click here.To learn more about Learning Edge, click here.To learn more about NetZero PC Tune-Up, click here.
To sign up and begin enjoying Value Pack content, just click here. Value Pack costs $12.95 per month. If you subscribed to these services separately, it would cost $16.85 per month.
How much does Value Pack cost?
Value Pack costs $12.95 per month, and provides you with all of the products contained in Entertainment Pack, Learning Edge, and NetZero PC Tune-Up.
If you were to subscribe to each of these services separately, it would cost $16.85 per month. If you were to subscribe to all of the individual services in each package (such as MLB.com in Entertainment Pack, and Boston Test Prep in Learning Edge), it would cost you over $60 per month!
What are the system requirements?
In order to enjoy Value Pack content, your computer should meet these requirements:
PC Users:
Mac Users:
To get the most enjoyment out of Value Pack, NetZero recommends that you use a high-speed Internet connection.
Please note: Some features in Value Pack may not work with Windows 98 or ME, and may require a Pentium 4 processor or higher (for Windows users), or may require OSX 10.3 and 1GB RAM or higher (for Mac users). Boston Test Prep requires Mac users to have Netscape Navigator 6.2 or higher.
Can I have Value Pack and Family Pack?
No. Existing Family Pack members who wish to get Value Pack will no longer have access to Family Pack content. Current Family Pack subscribers can upgrade to Entertainment Pack and take advantage of all the expanded features for only $8 more per month.
NetZero is no longer accepting new subscribers for Family Pack.
How do I sign up for Value Pack?
If you wish to subscribe to Value Pack, just click here.
Do I have to be a NetZero member to get Value Pack?
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How do I access Value Pack?
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I'm having problems with Value Pack services.
If you're having any problems accessing any of the Value Pack services, or if you need technical support, please click on the Help or Support links on the individual Web pages. NetZero does not provide technical support for any Value Pack services.
Technical support for NetZero PC Tune-Up is provided by Synacor. For technical help please email tss@synacor.com, and be sure to provide your NetZero Member ID in the email. | http://help.netzero.net/support/pc/vp-faq.html | 2013-05-18T10:40:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
You can remove any of your subscription calendars. You can’t remove
calendars we provide with Yahoo! Calendar, such as the Flickr calendar
(but you can hide them).
You can also remove a shared to do list. To learn how, take a look at the Can I Get It All Done? tutorial. The following shows you how to remove a subscription calendar.
To remove a subscription calendar:
Make sure your calendars are visible by clicking
the calendars and search icon (
).
Click the calendar you want to remove (below the line of calendars), then select Edit Calendar from the menu.
The Edit Subscribed Calendar page opens.
Click the Delete button near the top of the page (you aren’t actually deleting the calendar, you’re just removing it and its events from your Yahoo! Calendar).
A confirmation window opens.
Confirm the removal by clicking the Yes button.
The calendar and all of its events are removed from your calendar.
Though you can’t undo this removal, you can always ask your friend to share the calendar with you again. If the calendar is public, you can re-subscribe using the iCal address.
To remove a subscription to do list:
If you don’t see your to do lists on the right side of your Calendar, select Open in New Window from the Calendar’s Options menu.
Right-click the list in you want to remove, then select Edit To Do List.
The Edit To Do List page opens.
Click the Delete button at the top of the page, then confirm that you want to delete the list and ALL of its items. (You are only deleting the list from your calendar and not from its owner’s calendar.)
When you subscribe to your friends’ calendars or to do lists, you can keep up to date with one another. If you have a favorite team you want to track, and their schedule uses the iCal format, subscribe and view their calendar in your Yahoo! Calendar. You need never miss an important event again. | http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/cal/cal/cal_subscribe5.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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so im trying to get rid of the red.. didnt work but i love this colour. just cant sort my roots out as theyre yellow. :(
im so happy weve booked and paid to go away now. super excited.
since he went to uni we both put in so much more effort to spend time together and do things :-)
going to bed happy!
so today i went for a drive, ended up getting lost all round bradford. hahahah. what a ponker. :’)
so hope my dad lets me borrow his satnav and actually drive to huddersfield on friday.
need to see thornten, its only bloody monday.
feel so shit now after a good weekend.
meh.
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Good evening, World. your rulers. They promised you order, they promised you peace, and all they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
I seek to end that silence. I want to remind this world governments remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, educate yourselves and educate others, fight for your rights, and together we shall give them not only a fifth of November, but years that shall never, ever be forgot.
Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
“There are so many things we’ve been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren’t you.”. - Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times columnist and journalist
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Flight of the Frenchies – an amazing must-see-video documenting the explorations of a few brave individuals as they base jump and tight rope walk in the most incredible locations.. proposed debit usage fee.”
BoA’s shares dropped 6 percent in the wake of the announcement. Several banks recently decided to scrap similar test programs, while others canceled existing fees.
“It’s a sign of consumer power in action,” Norma Garcia of Consumers Union was quoted as saying. “This is a sign of the marketplace working.”
As much as I have boycotted showing models in my website for a long time,
I just had to share this photo shoot.
Adam Levine and his girlfriend, Victoria’s Secret model Anne V, are too hot.
I don’t understand what happened to his torso in one of the pictures, though…
But apart from the terrible editing job the Photoshoppers did for Russian Vogue,
these pictures are so sexy.
We are in the midst of a painkiller epidemic. A new CDC report found that more Americans die every year from overdosing on prescription pain pills, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, than die from heroin & cocaine combined.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that the number of prescription drug deaths, about 40 a day, has more than tripled over the past decade.
“We are in the midst of an epidemic of prescription narcotic overdose,” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said yesterday during a telebriefing.
The most recent statistics, from 2008, show 36,450 drug overdose deaths. Of those, 20,044 were from prescription drugs, and 14,800 of those were narcotic painkillers — nearly four times the painkiller death toll of 4,000 in 1999.
Superagent Ari Emanuel never told his wife Sarah that he was about to be immortalized in “Entourage” by Jeremy Piven — playing Ari Gold — because “I didn’t think the show would go anywhere,” he told the crowd at a recent visit to PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, N.Y.
The William Morris Endeavor agency CEO confessed his pessimism for the show’s prospects even though “Entourage” was based on and co-created by his client, Mark Wahlberg. The HBO hit ran for eight seasons and is now headed for the big screen.
Sarah eventually learned about Ari Gold and his wife, Melissa, played by Perrey Reeves, from her girlfriends. “He said Ari Gold’s personality was based on him, but the show’s not a real depiction of his marriage,” our tipster added.
Facebook Is Serious Business: Detectives in Des Moines arrested a 30-year-old woman suspected of setting fire to the house of a long-time friend because she recently de-friended her on Facebook.
Jennifer Christine Harris was charged with first-degree arson and is currently being held in the Polk County Jail. No one was injured in the blaze, but the family’s garage was destroyed.
According to home owner Jim Rasmussen, Harris and his wife Nikki recently had a falling out “because she ended their friendship on Facebook.” It seems the source of the conflict involves a party event that Nikki created on Jen’s behalf that received “a lot of ‘declines’.”
When asked to name a person who might seek to harm, Rasmussen offered Jen’s name. A subsequent police investigation strengthened suspicion of her involvement.
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The handbags in this collection of Chanel Fall 2011 Handbags may be limited in number but that does not mean that you should forget it altogether.
The handbags are complementary to the whole Chanel Fall 2011 line. Karl Lagerfeld did not feature Chanel’s famous quilted designs and it also features a starker take on Chanel classics.
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At Comic-Con on Friday, I moderated “The Spirit” panel with Frank Miller, Deborah Del Prete, Jaime King and Gabriel Macht, but really, the star of the show was Samuel L. Jackson, who hit the stage knowing full well that the audience belonged to him. It was great talking to Sam backstage as well and he mentioned his upcoming work in the movie “Lakeview Terrace.” It sounded intriguing and left me wanting to know more — and this morning I got my wish thanks to John Horn, one of the top journalists at the L.A. Times (or anywhere else). Here’s an excerpt:
The Los Angeles Police Department and race relations factor prominently in a number of celebrated dramas, including “Crash” and “L.A. Confidential.” The upcoming thriller “Lakeview Terrace” pushes the often combustible mix of law enforcement and ethnic identity into a notably different direction: the film’s racist police officer is black.
Many events conspire to drive LAPD Officer Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson) off the deep end, but one of the film’s more incendiary ideas focuses on the role of interracial romance. Part of what transforms Turner from a man with a badge into the neighbor from hell is the newly married couple next door: Chris Mattson (Patrick Wilson) is white, while his wife, Lisa (Kerry Washington), is black.
“It was a different take, something that is not often portrayed,” said James Lassiter, who with actor Will Smith produced “Lakeview Terrace” for Sony’s Screen Gems. Race, Lassiter added, “is not the singular driver of [Turner's] hate. But he is a racist.”
It’s not just that Turner disapproves of his neighbors’ latte-sipping lifestyle, which includes indiscreet romantic encounters, liberal friends and — the horror! — a hybrid car (Turner’s a giant SUV-driving right-winger). Turner,.”
Read more on Jackson and “Lakeview Terrace.”
– Geoff Boucher
Photo by Chuck Zlotnick/Screen Gems
wow, interesting. you know what would be cool? is if the times (to which i am a subscriber) started a blog about comics and actually covered comics.
wouldn't that be interesting? | http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/samuel-l-jackso-4/ | 2013-05-18T10:42:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Ten years ago, in 2002, NVIDIA released the original Dawn tech demo to show off the capabilities of its new GeForce FX line of graphics processors. A decade later this memorable demo is definitely due a refresh and here we have it. The new Dawn demo is called A New Dawn and everything has been enhanced thanks to the advances and power of modern hardware.
NVIDIA says that the original Dawn demo was “…the first time a fully animated and totally credible character was brought to life in real time.” The new demo doesn’t need to take any shortcuts to achieve the realism depicted on screen, the new environment is fully animated and lit beautifully, and she exists within a forest, among fellow woodland creatures. At its peak, the new environment within which Dawn lives is rendered with 4 million triangles. In 2002 the environment never used more than seven thousand triangles.
2002 Dawn, below
2012 A New Dawn, below
Hair
Looking at Dawn’s fully animated flowing hair in the new demo shows a dramatic improvement too. In the original demo her hair had 1,700 stationery strands set in super-strong hair gel, now the demo has 40,000 animated natural looking hairs which blow in the wind and partially reflect environmental lighting. NVIDIA are particularly proud of New Dawn’s hair .”
Skin
The New Dawn’s skin is lit using a sub-surface scattering shader. .” Click on the re-sized image of dawn below, to really see some skin detail.
click for close-up
Download
The new DirectX 11 demo allows you to move the camera, change the time of day, alter special effects and more. The New Dawn demo is designed to show off the GeForce GTX 690 graphics card but due to feedback following the demo announcement last month it has been tweaked to run on GTX 680 and GTX 670. Get it from NVIDIA’s servers here (just under 800mb).
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Atlanta Announces New Exhibitors for Jan.
23540 Thu, 12/22/2011 - 12:31pm
ATLANTA–AmericasMart is preparing for the International Gift & Home Furnishings Market and the International Area Rug Market next month with more than 25,000 square feet of new exhibitors and more than 100,000 square feet of expanded and relocated showrooms, the company said.
New showrooms on floors 9-13 of Building I in January include Home Source International; Catstudio, which is moving from High Design to Floor 9; Elegant Lighting; Made Goods; BIMA Trading, which is sharing the showroom with Bella Fiore, which takes just over 1,000 square feet in Building 1 with Shantalle’s Studio; A’Homestead Shoppe, Inc.; AICO Distinctive Bedding Designs; Art Addiction; Ateliers C&S Davoy, which moves from the Temporaries to its first permanent showroom in Building 1; John Beard Collection; and White X White.
Relocating and expanding showrooms on Floors 9-13 include j. douglas; CODARUS; Pasha Home Furnishings; Go Home Ltd.; Furniture Classics; Sterling Industries/DIAMOND/Bailey Street; Blue Ocean Traders; Regina-Andrew/Home Philosophy; Design Legacy by Kelly O’Neal; Bramble Now; Diana White & Associates; Europe 2 You LLC; Bliss Studio; Red Label; Boutross Imports; Picture Galleries; and Tritter Feefer Home Collection.
Among the new and expanded Floor 14 Home & Design showrooms debuting in January are Control Brands; The French Bee; AFK Fine Furniture for Children; French Market Collection; Gabby; Ibolili; and New Growth Designs. | http://hfnmag.com/floor-coverings-rugs/atlanta-announces-new-exhibitors-jan | 2013-05-18T11:03:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The Gift of Product
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By David Gill
Both consumers and retailers have a wary eye on the economy and their circumstances—but the mood at this month’s New York International Gift Fair and Gift & Home Textiles Market Week is optimistic.
The Gift Fair will take place at its traditional locations—New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94. The Gift & Home Textiles Market Week will be located, as usual, at 7 W New York and 230 Fifth Ave. in New York City. Both markets are scheduled for Aug. 12-18.
Illustrating the upbeat mood, as of mid-July, attendee and exhibitor numbers were in fine form, according to GLM, the show’s owner and manager. “We’re ahead in both areas in preregistrations of both February and August of last year,” said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM senior vice president. “We have a number of divisions that are sold out. In fact, we haven’t had this many divisions sold out a month out.”
The textiles section in particular has seen an enthusiastic response, Belshaw said. “Textiles is sold out for the first time in several shows,” she said. “It will be a very strong presentation with expansions in several current exhibitors and new companies coming in.”
One of the manufacturers that is enlarging its exhibit space is Sferra, a long-standing exhibitor which has always had a prominent space, and which is celebrating its 120th anniversary in business. “We’ve added 20 feet to our booth and spent over $85,000 upgrading and refurbishing it,” said Paul Hooker, Sferra’s president. “We have major new introductions including some very fun, festive items that we feel will be show stoppers. I don’t think we have ever been more excited about a New York gift show.”
Across town at 7 W, Chris Collins, the showroom building’s vice president and general manager, has taken heart from the activity at recent shows elsewhere in the country. “The mood in Dallas (at the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market in June) was extraordinarily positive,” said Collins, who attended that show. “The buying was active but cautious. So I’m very positive going into the New York markets.”
Collins also believes the New York markets have the loyalty of retailers on their side. “Buyers have been coming here forever,” he said. “I really believe there is allegiance to the New York shows historically.”
Collins also said that, given the continuation of the economy’s struggles with high unemployment and commodity prices, retailers will approach the New York markets in a wary mood. “The cautiousness factor among retailers is stronger and stronger,” he said. “Retailers will be less likely to spread their dollars around and will stick with vendors that they trust. But the beauty of the gift industry is its flexibility. The influx of fashion is keeping it alive.”
One added feature—the return of the Gourmet Housewares Show as a new section in the Gift Fair—is expected to help all of the trade-show venues in New York City. This show will return after an absence of one year (see separate story on the Gourmet Housewares Show in the housewares section).
“The independent specialty gourmet channel has attended NYIGF in the past, but I think we’re hoping to drive more traffic for these retailers from outside the New York region,” Belshaw said. “It will help other areas of the gift fair such as kitchen textiles, casual tabletop and gift areas with specialty foods. It will be helpful because these stores are creating merchandise stories about cookware and serveware that go with these other categories.”
The Gourmet Show should also help in other parts of the city. “I think the Gourmet Show will help 7 W,” Collins said. “It’ll create some enthusiasm and intrigue. It’s always been difficult to pull people out of the Gift Fair, but we’ll be a few percentage points up.”
Whether these shows will point to stronger business looking ahead remains open to question, however. The economy’s stagnation remains a sticking point for the gift trade. “The recent high unemployment figures coupled with our debt crisis is spooking the economy again,” Hooker said, “so, as usual, customers will be looking for great value and quality from us. Not price—quality and value.”
Consumers’ cautiousness will continue to rule the gift marketplace going into the all-important fourth quarter. “It’s almost alarming,” Collins said. “Anyone who’s been in businesses related to this is asking, ‘Where is it all going to end?’ I’m not sure if anyone knows that.”
The holidays could spur some extra business, as they do every year, but even here the outlook is doubtful. Belshaw said, “Five or six years ago, retailers were buying large chunks of inventory every six months. Now they are not buying as deeply. They are waiting to see how certain brands perform. They are also looking for new products that they can turn around quickly.” | http://hfnmag.com/home-textiles/gift-product | 2013-05-18T10:53:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Harbinger: Salton Not for Sale
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NEW YORK–Salton Inc., the entity created by the merger of Salton and Applica last year, is not for sale, according to a statement from Harbinger Capital Partners, the company’s owner.
Harbinger issued the statement yesterday in response to press reports that said the company is on the block. The statement said that “both Salton and Harbinger remain committed to our long-term partnership and to the strategy of positioning the company as a leading marketer and distributor of a broad range of high-quality consumer products.”
The statement added that, with the integration of Salton and Applica complete, “the combined company is exploring various strategies to optimize its capital structure and capitalize on organic and external growth opportunities.” David M. Maura, chairman of Salton and vice president and director of investments of Harbinger, added that the company’s operating income has grown from $5 million to $40 million in the merged company’s first year of operation.
Terry Polistina, Salton’s chief executive officer, said the company is using its relationship to Harbinger to seek “synergistic acquisitions” to help build the company’s value. Polistina said Salton generated more than $65 million in cash flow over the past five months, which was used to pay down debt. He added that Salton expects to generate close to $100 million in free cash flow this year, which will be used to pay down more debt to prepare for other mergers and acquisitions. | http://hfnmag.com/housewares/harbinger-salton-not-sale | 2013-05-18T11:02:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Andrea Lillo
The informal entertaining and living trends of the home have resulted in more options for the floor.
Designs—even if they are traditional—are cleaned up, and shapes mirror what’s happening in furniture.
“The trend toward more casual dining and entertaining has increased the need for new rug shapes and sizes,” said Elise Demboski, industry public relations/marketing consultant for such companies as Wools of New Zealand and Karastan. “The formal dining rooms of yesteryear are taking on a more relaxed mood, centered by oversized round tables.” Karastan recently responded to this demand with the 10-foot round rugs, she said. “These large rounds complement consumer’s lifestyles not only in size and shape, but also in style.”
Being square works for Kaleen. “The hottest thing now is cafe and pub tables, and those pieces lend themselves to square rugs,” said Joe Barkley, executive vice president. “We’ve been successful going after that market,” he added, and Kaleen’s square rugs include product from the Tara collection.
Though 70 percent of Jaipur’s business is in traditional looks, Asha Chaudhary, chief executive officer, has seen a shift toward transitional, with “more relaxed and open patterns,” she said. “They’re not ornate or heavy,” she said, but are softer and more delicate.
“Traditional is our signature look, but the definition of traditional has changed,” said Elizabeth Miller, senior vice president of design for Karastan. “There is a consumer out there who considers herself traditional, but wants simpler looks that are easier to decorate with, and which are a whole lot less fussy.”
And Karastan’s Studio by Karastan Artworks brand, launched three years ago, “allows us to do looks that are more transitional, not contemporary at all, but very livable,” Miller said. As Karastan’s opening-price-point brand, it is sold in the same channels as its Karastan brand, she added. “Retailers were very pleased when we brought the line out for the consumer who couldn’t afford Karastan, or had Karastan in other rooms and wanted a more transitional look for another room,” she said.
Consumers may not even be aware of all the decorating possibilities with rugs, such as layering them over carpet, insetting one into a carpet, adding stair runners, utilizing rounds and squares, or customizing an odd size from broadloom, Demboski said. “Qualified, well-trained designers will be able to utilize rugs in ways the customer may not have considered,” she said, if retailers offered at-home decorating services. “Once an on-staff designer is in a home, the purchase opportunities take on a whole new life.” — Jennifer Alexis contributed to this report. | http://hfnmag.com/print/16176 | 2013-05-18T10:53:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Hide&Seek started life in 2007 as a festival of social games and playful experiences on London’s South Bank. Our aim was to create an environment where anyone who wanted to could experiment with making games, and where adults were invited to play together in public. The festival was transformative for us, our first experience of creating public play, and feedback from players was amazing; and so the studio was born.
In the last five years, we’ve.
We continue to produce a range of events for public spaces – we’ve had 12,000 people playing in the streets of Edinburgh on New Years’ Day, made a building come alive with play for Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, and placed 99 Tiny Games right across London. And we support the work of other makers through the Sandpit (a thriving network of games-makers) and the Hide&Seek Weekender (an annual festival of playing in public).
Hide&Seek is about its people. The studio is comprised of people who combine a passion for and a depth of understanding of game design with a willingness to look beyond the boundaries of existing game forms. We value collaboration, co-creation and partnership, and pride ourselves on being able to work in any context.
Our values are built around the belief that play – as a theme, a way of being, and design tool – is integral to understanding how culture will develop in the 21st century. | http://hideandseek.net/story | 2013-05-18T10:53:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
If you’re a college-aged woman who is feeling lack of self-esteem about your looks and weight, frustrated with trying to find a diet and exercise program that fits your busy lifestyle, discouraged about the lack of healthy options at the school cafeteria, think that money holds you back from investing in your own health and wellness, then you need to check out the 8-Weeks To Wellness System For College Women!
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McMinnville 34, Glencoe 31: Senior Rylan Blair rushed for 126 yards and two touchdowns to lead McMinnville to a win over visiting Glencoe.
In their second game without injured star running back Spencer Payne (emergency appendectomy), the Grizzlies (5-3, 4-2 Pacific Conference) set the tone with 290 rushing yards as a team. By the end of the first quarter, McMinnville had surpassed the 63 total rushing yards it had the previous week..
The game featured a combined 170 penalty yards. Glencoe had 90 and McMinnville had 80.
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Himalayan Kitchen offers you a variety of beverages, both warming and refreshing. We have unique and authentic drinks from three different countries within the Himalayan region: Nepal, Tibet, and India.
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Our kitchen plays host to some very talented chefs, all skilled in specific styles of cooking. Wangchhu's focus is curry dishes, Karma blends spices and dishes from his homeland to create an amazing array of flavors to suit any appetite, while Gam works his magic with the clay-lined Tandoor oven.
If you are curious about a menu item please ask your server and be sure to let them know your preferences so they might suggest something new and adventurous that fits your taste.
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Karma was born and raised in the remote Mt. Makalu region of northeast Nepal. As a certified mountain guide and professional photographer, Karma has traveled extensively throughout the Himalayas. His travels helped him learn the nuances of Himalayan cooking...
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Downtown Ice Rink Planned for Vacant Lot
The rink would be a temporary use for 1923 Walker Ave., though an extended cold-weather streak is needed first.
Staff of the village and park district in Clarendon Hills are partnering to put up an ice rink downtown.
Village of Clarendon Hills community development director Dan Ungerleider said this week he was working on an agreement with the owner of the property at 1923 Walker Ave., the large, open space behind Scapa Italian Kitchen, that would allow the Clarendon Hills Park District to put up a temporary ice-skating rink in an effort to attract residents downtown.
"It just seems like a natural fit," Ungerleider said.
Village manager Randy Recklaus commended Ungerleider's idea at Monday's village board meeting.
"It will be a fun thing that is also helpful to downtown," Recklaus said.
The park district, which puts up similar skating rinks during the winter at Prospect Park and Hosek Park, would need only a day or two to assemble the rink after the village reaches its agreement and takes care of grading, superintendent of parks Michael Fletcher said.
The rink would be approximately 90 feet by 110 feet. Fletcher said the rink would be lit and there will be picnic tables where users can put on and take off their skates.
"One teeny tiny issue," Village President Tom Karaba said Monday when the idea was introduced. "The weather."
Indeed, the rink would need three to five days of temperatures below freezing to be usable, Fletcher said.
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a bit of topic but as Clutter made me realise, I post it here...
I was watchin a playslist in iTunes whiles Clutter was copying
album art and I saw the playlist grow in size! I had wondered
where iTunes stores the album art and know I know.
After adding album art to a Macy Gray mp3 it was 3.7 instead
of 3.6 mb. Imagine if you do it to your whole library of
zillions of songs!
Also my iPod started updating all those songs again, so less
space on my HD and iPod.
Weird isnt it, I didnt know you could copy stuff like album art
into an mp3.
bye the way, LOVE Clutter :)
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I thought the problem was with the USB driver, but this explains a lot. However there is still no fix from Apple. I even went as far as downloaded the xnu and msdosfs sources for both 10.2.8 and 10.3.4, but there was far too many changed in the msdosfs code between those two to easilly figure out what the problem is, and I really dont have time to delve too deeply in to the code.
What is preventing IDG from releasing patches? The Apple OS Licence? (I admit, havent read it through with thought) How about just pointing in the right direction? I would really like to get this working as I need to move stuff between windows and my mac, and would like to use my USB-IDE harddrive for that. NTFS just wont do, as I cant write onto that, and I even had some trouble reading it (some files would show, and some not).
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By: Connie Blaszczyk, Managing Editor, Resource Center
It’s rare that a website captures a company’s brand while managing to be fun and engaging. That’s exactly what CLEARLINK, a Utah-based company that provides content and conversion services for top consumer brands, has accomplished.
CLEARLINK’s website breaks all the rules -- with a 3-D navigational Rubix Cube:
And an interactive ping pong game:
These fun apps serve a serious function -- simultaneously demonstrating CLEARLINK's creative vision while driving employee engagement and their recruitment strategy. In fact, the site plays a key role in their plans to more than double their current 300+ employee base by year-end.
Surprisingly, the site’s design resulted from a crisis in how to demonstrate the company brand. The solution, while simple, may strike fear into some CEOs: allow employees to create much of the website’s content and messaging.
Lest you think this tactic can only work for “cool” companies with “cool” employees, read on to find out more about CLEARLINK’s savvy recruitment strategies.
Monster: The site appears designed to accomplish multiple purposes.
CLEARLINK: We designed the site to speak to multiple audiences: our clients as well as potential employees. Recruiting really is and was the primary purpose, though. What we’re after are “big brains,” as we call them -- the creative minds that will help us achieve our growth goals. We wanted to embrace transparency, letting candidates explore who we are instead of telling them on an “About Us” page.
Monster: Has this helped streamline CLEARLINK’s recruitment process?
CLEARLINK: We get endless feedback from our recruiting team about candidates referencing how our site alone made them want to join our team before they even entered our building. A big portion of our workforce is Gen Y -- they want to be part of something unique and authentic.
The site sells the candidate on the company, reducing the burden on our recruiting team of pitching us to candidates. Candidates are already bought-in to our culture and picture themselves on our team before they set foot in the building.
Monster: The Employee Referral program offers cash incentives and accounts for over 75% of the company’s new hires by existing employees. What about the remaining 25%?
CLEARLINK: The downside of employee referrals is the lack of volume control. We can motivate our employees and keep the program top of mind, but we can’t automatically turn the volume up when we need to urgently scale. We use a more controllable mix of local media and career portals like Monster.com to help fill positions quickly.
Monster: The Working in Utah 101 feature on the website includes a Top Ten list of reasons to live and work in Utah. What portion of CLEARLINK employees are from out of state?
CLEARLINK: We’re just now at a point that recruiting out of state candidates is becoming a bigger part of our strategy. In fact, our last three corporate hires have come from out of state companies like Google, Netflix, and TaylorMade.
Monster: This area of the site includes short job descriptions. Why include these?
CLEARLINK: We’ve revised our job description format a few times over the past year to find the balance that shows our company culture and personality without scaring off professionals with our informality.
Monster: The Top 10 Reasons to Work Here graphic is very cool -- it both demonstrates the company’s design prowess while presenting employee feedback in a very fun way.
CLEARLINK: We actually started this page with a witty top ten list created by our copywriting team, but it didn’t feel authentic. We switched gears and asked our employees what they love about working here. They brought authenticity to this piece and the design needed to match their exceptional comments. It’s also consistent with the content that’s being posted real-time on our company Facebook page
People always ask us how we get our employees to say such great things about us on our site and FB profile, but we really don’t try. Our efforts go into their daily interactions with the company and how we make them feel about themselves and their work.
Monster: Any suggestions for companies who want to freshen up their company website? How do they best start?
CLEARLINK: Start with your employees! Avoid the urge to sit down with the executive team and map out the website. The executive level perspective of what the company is and means to its employees is sometimes skewed. Plus, employees feel some level of ownership and pride of the site when they play a role in developing it.
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Daniel A. Willis
About me
I have been writing historical non-fiction since 1996, and entered the world of historical fiction in 2012 with my first novel, “Immortal Betrayal.”
I am an acknowledge expert on Europe’s royal families and have consulted on many nwewspaper articles or have written human interest pieces myself.
I also write alternative history stories which are submitted to a variety of magazines and ezines.
I live in Denver.
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The Second Objective
Mid-December 1944 was not a good time for the American forces fighting the Germans on the Franco-German borders. The seemingly defeated Germans unleashed a deadly surprise offensive on December 16, 1944, in a previously quiet sector in the Belgian Ardennes Forest. The German attack was a desperate gamble that included one incredibly daring plan—infiltrating English-speaking soldiers behind Allied lines to both disrupt Allied rear areas and to assassinate General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander-in-chief! Operation Greif is commanded by SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, the SS units are sent on their missions. One young German soldier, Bernie Oster, is placed in a unit under SS Hauptsturmführer Von Leinsdorf. The anti-Nazi Oster has no desire to play any part in a Nazi victory but must follow along or risk death at Von Leinsdorf’s hands.
Pursued by an American team led by civilian policeman Earl Grannit, the assassination team’s progress is certain to grab, and hold, the reader’s attention. The action is fast-paced, the story is exciting, and Mark Frost’s settings are believable. While Von Leinsdorf seems to be a stereotype of the Nazi thug found in hundreds of other World War II historical novels, Oster and Grannit are much better developed character types. The Second Objective is a fast-paced historical adventure about a relatively little-known event.
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Sandy Stress – how to deal?
[Continuing the Your life back on track article series from Jessica Kasevich of JK Therapy...]
How do deal with stress and anguish from Hurricane Sandy
By Jessica Kasevich
I am sorry that many of you have experienced such tragedy as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
It is sad to see our town is in such disarray and our citizens struggling. It is my goal that this letter will help you understand many of the normal feelings that arise as a result of being exposed to such a traumatic event such as Hurricane Sandy, ways in which to manage these feelings and or symptoms and community resources available to you. I hope that this information will decrease any stress you may have and increase your vision for a better future for you, your family and the community of Hoboken.
Many of your are probably feeling STRESSED, tired of wondering if your power and heat will be turned on or wondering how long you will have to wait in line at the gas pumps, hoping that the stressed out motorist plowing through the intersection will stop, wishing for a warm home cooked meal and a hot cup of coffee.
Some of you are dealing with the loss of a loved one, your home, car and possessions. Whatever losses you are dealing with know that it is normal to feel an array of mixed emotions: anger, frustration, fatigue and sadness.
Please monitor these symptoms in the upcoming weeks and months and know that if they persist you may be experiencing Depression or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and know that this is common after such a horrific and stressful tragedy.
How do you know if you are experiencing Depression or PTSD?
According to the National Center for PTSD the following are symptoms that you are experiencing:
- Feeling sad most of the time
- No longer enjoying activities you use to engage in
- Change in sleeping or eating patterns
- Difficulty concentrating or focusing
- Feeling down on yourself
PTSD:
- Nightmares or flashbacks of the tragic event
- Something you hear, smell or see triggering you to feel like you are reliving the event (police siren)
- Avoiding situations that remind you of the event (Downtown Hoboken, 2nd and Madison) or thoughts, (keeping busy so you don’t think about the trauma you experienced)
- Feeling Numb: Difficulty expressing emotions, not having positive feelings toward others
- Hyper-arousal: Feeling keyed up, trouble sleeping, feeling jumpy
How to decrease onset of Depression and/or PTSD?
According to the National Center for PTSD, Survivors should:
- Decrease exposure to media coverage as watching the events over and over again increasing the likely that one will develop Depression and or PTSD
- Take deep breaths to decrease anger if the feeling surfaces
- Plan ahead for future hurricanes to increase sense of safety
- If children are watching media coverage point out the helping professions, fire fighters, police to increase sense of safety instead of fear
- Solicit questions from children. Fear of the unknown is worse than knowing
- Spend time with others: Social support or lack there of is a major factor in recovery from Depression and PTSD. Those without family or social support have a higher rate of lingered symptoms then those who do
Other Resources:
- If symptoms of Depression and PTSD linger and life becomes difficult to mange it is advisable to seek help from your doctor and or a therapist
- Local support Group in the area The Depression and Bi-Polar Support Alliance located at 880 Bergen Avenue 6th Floor Jersey City. Contact: Randall Goya: rgoya@yahoo.com for more information
- Hoboken University’s Out Patient Mental Health Center: 506 3rd Street Hoboken 201-792-8200
I hope this letter has helped and I welcome the opportunity to get your life back on track by fielding any concerns or questions you may have about Depression or PTSD.
Feel free to contact me at: or via email at Jessica @jktherapy.comHoboken NJ
Jessica you left out the stress caused by lack of television and cell battery charge. Would that kind of stress require therapy to overcome?
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This therapist takes NO INSURANCE. What a joke.
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LOL I saw that too. A huge Joke..
Hey Hobokenites I know a lot of you are going through a tough time but come on by and pay me loads of money!
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woman has no shame or class-boycott this
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For the past three months I have been writing articles for Hoboken411. When I was first introduced I explained my branding, that my company is geared toward helping our commuter community as illustrated by my logo, webpage, and tagline: your life back on track (referring to the Path) and pictures associated with being a commuter: Path and maps. I am sorry if many of you first time readers today were not aware of my branding.
I also know that many people do not have insurance and have provided information on a free support group in the resource section of the article and the Community Mental Health Center associated with Hoboken University Medial center which provides counseling services on a sliding scale fee. Many therapists do not take insurance as the panels they apply for such as Oxford, and HBCBS have not been accepting new clients for quit sometime. This is my experience and the experiences of many other therapists. As mentioned in my website I do provide my patients with monthly statements for them to use as a tax write off under medical expenses.
The intention of the posting was to help people become aware of symptoms of depression, anxiety and possible PTSD. I do not believe people should have to live with these symptoms if there is help out there to alleviate them. As mentioned in the article if symptoms persist please contact your doctor or a therapist so you can get your life back on track. Again, I welcome any questions you may have.
Best,
Jessica
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Bashing someone who wants to help others is lacking class, that’s for sure.
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If she wanted to help she’d do it for free for group sessions or whatever….but capitalizing on a disaster is tasteless and NOT in the spirit of what we are about in Hoboken.
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I need stress relief from socialists who think others should pay for their luxuries.
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CityGirlinHoboken this ones for you:
I have never read such a stupid reply to a blog in my life! This woman Jessica is trying to help us . I suggest that instead of having your nails done, your hair done, and buying the new outfit , you should save your pennies to get a good therapist.. you are clearly delusional. Should the police do their jobs without pay? Should the nurses do their jobs without pay? Should everyone just give you everything for free because you think they should?
I suggest you re-read Jessica’s post and get the help
you need ( its clear you are too busy bashing people to read clearly).. but she did give us free advise and free resources.
I have lived in NJ all my life ( we stick and pull together) .. you clearly have no idea what that means ..if you want to say you are a city girl then leave NJ now! thank you
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yeah city girl: read much? guess you missed what Jessica K. ( gave you FOR FREE)
READ BELOW ( IF YOU CAN READ)
Other Resources:
▪If symptoms of Depression and PTSD linger and life becomes difficult to mange it is advisable to seek help from your doctor and or a therapist
▪Local support Group in the area The Depression and Bi-Polar Support Alliance located at 880 Bergen Avenue 6th Floor Jersey City. Contact: Randall Goya: rgoya@yahoo.com for more information
▪Hoboken University’s Out Patient Mental Health Center: 506 3rd Street Hoboken 201-792-8200
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If have a problem with that I suggest you “take it to the voting booth today” you are old enough to vote right? because your you reply is very childish.
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I WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR *MY* NON EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE. DADDY? GOVERNMENT? DADDY? INSURANCE COMPANY? DADDY?:
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Therapy is BS…. Suck it up, deal with the problem – now move on.
That will be $100 – payable to Head Shrinker!
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You think shameless self promotion is bad – try this… Last wek I got a Robo call from an affinity group that regularly solicits my donorship hoping that I was doing Ok.
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I am getting tired of reading that this post was (shameless self promotion).. people read the post! before you leave a stupid comment .
There was No Self Promotion In IT! ??? COME ON PEOPLE how crazy are you?
Jk was just trying to help.. if you bothered reading.
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Funny, calling people crazy on a post concerning a therapist… this is stressing me out what to do laugh, cry, scream, sing or DANCE!!!! Dance I Say…..
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Canucks trade Mike Brown to Anaheim for Nathan McIver
From Canucks.com:
Vancouver Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis announced today that the Canucks have acquired defenceman Nathan McIver from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for right wing Mike Brown. McIver will report to Manitoba.There is a hell of a lot of grit in McIver, that's for sure.
McIver, 24, has spent the 2008-09 season with the Anaheim Ducks. In 18 games played, McIver registered one assist, was +2 and recorded 36 penalty minutes. Prior to joining the Ducks, the Summerside, PEI native was a member of the Vancouver Canucks.
In 18 games played with Vancouver, McIver recorded 59 penalty minutes. He also played a key role for the Manitoba Moose over the span of three seasons. Since 2005-06, the 6’3”, 205-pound defenceman has played in 172 games, recording 16 points (5-11-16) and 402 penalty minutes for Vancouver’s AHL affiliate.
McIver was drafted 254th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
Brown, 23, dressed for 20 games this season with the Canucks had one assist and 85 penalty minutes. The Northbrook, IL native was also drafted by the Canucks in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, in the 5th round, 159th overall.
Here are some McIver fights at YouTube.
Anaheim had originally claimed McIver off waivers from the Canucks just prior to the season starting.
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But yeah,good to get rid of Brown. He was useless offensively, and I hated the way he fought. To much huggin and clinchin...
Nice blog!
Spec7: Thanks, man!
Billy: Gillis went on record today saying that O'Brien is not getting traded.
Go Canucks!
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Welcome to the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge. We are getting set to launch this new Challenge blog on Tuesday May the 8th, we hope you will join us in the fun. Get your Christmas cards done early. Follow along each week or whenever you wish.We will have a variety of different challenges. Thanks for stopping by, and we'll see you then.
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Vick co-defendant and dog torturer Purnell Peace: 18 months.
Vick co-defendant and dog torturer Quanis Phillips: 21 months.
Wow. Blam! Judge Henry Hudson has balls the size of footballs! He's sacking these thugs with the maximum range of sentencing guidelines and he's tackling wrongheaded Vick fans who insist on making this a race issue.
This is not a race issue. This is an animal cruelty issue. Believe me, animal rights activists wish all the white, green and yellow guys engaged in this barbaric activity would go to prison too.
Experts agree that Vick's contrite act isn't going to help him much. Even though he has checked in early to the HorrorDay Inn and has been ordered to put $928,000 into an escrow account for the doggie care of his ex-dogs, he still has to face Judge Hudson for his federal smackdown on December 10th.
Picture Vick on December 10th: He'll be standing in his American gangster suit, looking all browbeaten and hangdogged, pleading for mercy from a guy who loves and probably sleeps with his Bichon Frisé (btw, Bichons are used as bait dogs in dead game fighting).
Pete McEntergart in a hilarious article, commented on the current Vick experience right here on Fannation: "Mike Vick woke up in a cold sweat at the thought of a cellmate "getting behind center."
I know some serious Dog-loving football fans who would like to bet on Vick's "cellie" (what they call cell mates at Pelican Bay super max prison) in a dead game match.
Whoever is coaching Vick right now is the best coach Vick's ever had-and the most needed one. He/she must cost as much as his humungous doggie care bill, but boy, is it worth it to quell the vengeful feelings that are stirring in the hearts of dog lovers everywhere. I admit his public relations scheme is working on me. It's the best PR strategy I've seen in the celebrity I'm-so-sorry-I-messed-up circus.
But is Vick truly sorry? Or does he just want his football career, his cash, his mansions, endorsements and his star status back? We know he has at least 12 months to think about it. | http://hollywoodjinky.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/04/1140968-mike-vick-and-his-federal-smackdown | 2013-05-18T10:41:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When it comes to Washington night life, Hollywood on the Potomac is right at the forefront to connect with the best and brightest.
As the year winds down, the Washington Post wants to know who on twitter in DC is leading the charge as best bloggers, organizations and insiders in their 2nd annual D.C. Tweeps contest.
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Among this year's nominees is our very own Brendan Kownacki--nominated as 'favorite nightlife insider'. Take a minute and go over to vote for all your favorites.
Vote now, vote often (oops, that may be unethical). Oh, never mind, this is Washington, so just do it.
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Tickets
Tickets for this event are $20 if you buy early or $30 at the gate.
If you are under 18 years old then you must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to attend this event.
The Burning Man principles may speak against commercialization, but our event exists inside a world that runs on the market. Therefore we unfortunately must run a price for the tickets. Presale tickets are available at Planet X. Two locations with one in Spenard and another in Muldoon.
Location
Directions to Holos:
Trip takes about 2.5 hours from Anchorage Airport. Go North out of Anchorage, through Wasilla, and to mile 114.5 on the Parks Highway. Turn Right onto Suisitna River Road (to the left is Petersville Road-there are clear signs for that) at 1.7 miles in you will turn right onto Bradley Road and follow the road to the end – it will dead end at Boots Bison Ranch and the Holos event. Some landmarks are: at 4.2 miles in from Parks Highway there is a curve to the right and a big clearing, At mile 5 in from Parks Hwy the is a one lane bridge – after that you go up the hill and curve a little to the right and then to the left we will be straight ahead to the left after the barn and the big field, you can’t miss it.
Radical Self Reliance
Radical self reliance is one of the Burning Man principles. This means that you are responsible for your own survival in whatever environment the festival takes place in. Alaskan wilderness may not be as rough as the Black Rock Desert, but there still are some things to consider when planning to spend the night under Alaska’s stars.
Self reliance means that you should only depend on yourself for lasting the period of time given. Please make sure to bring the necessities of day to day life. This means bring your own food, water, and shelter. Although we plan on having a small first aid booth please think of bringing your own first aid kit just in case of small cuts and scrapes.
Alaska is known for our insane mosquitoes that stop at nothing to get a taste of your blood. For this reason we think it’s necessary that you bring bug repellent in order to make your stay as comfortable as possible. This event is happening in the deep woods of Alaska and is near a water source, so the mosquitoes will be there at the event in full force!
Bears are also a threat in the Alaskan bush. Although they tend to stay away from large groups of people we will also have large amounts of food around which may lure them into our area. Take precautions and keep your food sealed whenever possible. Your local outdoors store will sell bear spray and bells in case you plan on venturing further into the woods away from the central area of people.
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Well, folks, if all goes well, this section of the website will be dedicated to the photos that people take at our sessions - after all, I've seen you all there, snapping away with your digital cameras and whatnot and, well, I figure you can share the wealth, so to speak.
If you take a picture at one of the sessions and like it and want to share, send it to me, and well, if I like it as well, I'll post it here - and maybe even give you a point of experience or something like that for providing me with supplemental LARP goodies that I can post and use. I'll try to give credit where credit it due and all that.
So, feel free to check out the photos, folks, take some of your own, and enjoy!
Session Twenty: ...Between Myself and the Powers of Darkness; November 8th, 2003.
Session Twenty-Five: Sleeping in Flame; April 10th, 2004 (also the Second Anniversary of the Game).
Session Thirty: Rage Against the Dying Light; September 18th, 2004.
Session Thirty-One: Child Across The Sky; October 9th, 2004.
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Crest Nicholson to launch refurbished homes at Orchard Gate in UK
Published: 18-Jan-2013
British home builder Crest Nicholson will launch the Legacy Collection’ at Orchard Gate in Shoreham-by-Sea, UK which includes refurbished upgraded homes with a 21st century makeover.
Maintaining the originality and character, the Legacy Collection consists of the renovated East Lodge, West Lodge and Refectory buildings, which were built in 1901. Featuring a modern makeover, the Legacy Collection includes spacious one, two and three bedroom luxury apartments, duplexes and cottages. The homes are equipped with a contemporary kitchen featuring Bosch appliances and co-ordinating granite worktops.
Adding more luxury elements to the homes, the renovated homers feature luxury bathrooms, designed by Villeroy and Boch, which are finished with Roman glass bath screens, Porcelenosa ceramic tiles and Chrome Hansgrophe mixer taps.
Combining historic buildings with all the comforts of modern, affordable living, the properties also feature oak panelled doors and energy saving gadgets, including low energy downlighters.
Presenting a new 21 century luxury living to the homebuyers, the ‘Legacy Collection’ at Orchard Gate will be launched on 19 and 20 January 2013. | http://home.worldinteriordesignnetwork.com/news/crest_nicholson_to_launch_refurbished_homes_at_orchard_gate_in_uk_130118/ | 2013-05-18T11:01:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Is the house tight enough and the occupant load high enough to require ventilation?
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Good question.
It's US government housing on a military base in Germany - kind of a mix between German and American design (think of committees here combined with language barriers). Most German homes in this area do not have active ventilation systems but do have moisture issues if they aren't opened up frequently. Locals open their windows for five or ten minutes once or twice a day to reduce humidity and get fresh air in the houses. These US houses were built in the past three years, and I like to think they used some Passivhaus concepts, but they didn't site them for optimal passive design.
House size: 1500 square feet, three occupants (plus cat). Radiant floor heat (central hot water plant). Wall construction is block (concrete) and if it is typical for this area, has foam exterior insulation on the outside covered by a stucco topcoat. The only wood framing is in the roof, which is tile.
The west exposure has two large sliding doors 36 sf each and all rooms except the laundry have at least two windows. The windows seem pretty well insulated but the frames are leaky. Both full baths have operable windows. The airflow with the HRV doesn't vent humidity well enough and there is no direct exhaust fan from the baths, so we tend to crack the window for a few minutes after each shower.
I really don't think the HRV works as they had hoped/planned. The vents are 4-inch diameter. Ductwork in the attic is uninsulated metal and all exposed runs in the attic are a good 10 - 20 feet long. The attic is about 20 degrees colder than the rest of the house but much warmer than outside. I think any heat they might have recovered from the kitchen, baths, and laundry dissipates through the ducts in the attic before it gets to the heat exchanger.
We don't own the place or maintain the systems and will be headed back to the states in the summer, but I'd like to be a good steward for the next residents of this house.
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As I recall, HRV's have a drain tube to help eliminate this issue & that might have been the main issue / might still be an issue. Personally if you can handle opening the windows for a few minutes each day - I would pull the core & let it all melt / drain away
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Very interesting. I would think that you are correct that there might be moisture issues. Paul Raymer whom is on this site would be great person to ask directly. He has probably forgotten more than I know about ventilation.
The system from your description appears to be lacking any defrost mode that would solve this problem. With as harsh as the winter has been in this area this might be an anomaly due to unusual conditions or simply a design flaw
Have you tested your humidity levels?
You might need a dehumidifier in the conditioned space to control the moisture effectively
very good article about HRV and ERV here
keep us posted on what you find out
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You might actually have a tight house there. The typical HRV I see is installed in a large, leaky, custom home with a couple of people living in it, and they're sitting there with their mittens on with the ventilation running continuously. I get funny looks when I suggest they might not need it.
The installation sounds flawed, and if you're not going to fix it, I would turn it off during conditions cold enough to freeze the core, and crack windows for ventilation.
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I am surprised that you are having this issue in Germany. They are well ahead of North America in both efficiency of units, and proper installation. The HRV should have a defrost mode, either with unbalancing motors to provide more exhaust than intake, to warm the core, or a pre-heater. I am also surprised at the installation, which sounds to be poorly done. There are two issues immediately;
1) The system should be checked for balance. By commissioning it, you can make sure that the supply and exhaust flows are balanced. If they are not, the HRV will not perform well, excessive condensation in cold weather can occur, and then frost.
2) Running ducts in an attic that is up to twenty degrees colder than the house is not good either. Exhaust air is pre-cooled prior to entering the HRV, and supply air is cooled before it gets to the rooms in the house.
Balancing the system and insulating the ducts in the attic would both be beneficial, and may resolve some of the frost issue, as well as improve performance and result in warmer air coming in to the house.
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Barry,
This is a combo American-German house. The US government contracted the design and construction and it ended up being a mix of US vs.German norms/standards -- perhaps a case of too many cooks in the kitchen with an added language barrier and US QA folks overseeing the work who aren't necessarily familiar with German engineering.
That said, the system has a frost warning light (which never lit), so I think it does have a defrost mode which may not be operating properly. Your suggestions make perfect sense too.
Unfortunately, because Uncle Sam owns the house, they maintain it. If it were my house and system, I would get it commissioned and maybe do something with the ducts. Uncle Sam has a contractor maintaining the houses and we have to rely on what they do. He changed the filters and it subsequently warmed up outside, so the system seems to be working properly now. I think the unseasonably cold temperatures (-17C) were beyond the design for the system. Normally the temperature gradient between the attic and house isn't so high - we were in the extreme freeze that hit all of Europe over the past few weeks.
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One other thing I noticed yesterday - the dryer vent is located about a foot from the HRV intake vent on the outside wall of the house. When the dryer is running, the HRV can easily be pull in warm (and moist) air!! Germans use condensing dryers that don't vent to the outside and wouldn't encounter this issue!
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Please let us know if cleaning the filters and the core cured your problem.
There should be a drain for condensation. The drain tube should have a loop in it with water trapping/preventing air leakage through the drain system. If yours does not have a drain, since clearly condensation is occurring in your climate, have one installed.
Some ERV/HRV's have defrost cycles to prevent the core from icing solid like that. If it ices again the cycle may need to be adjusted.
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Thanks.
When I pull the core, I don't see a drain but there is a tube that runs directly from the base of the unit to the sanitary vent line for the house, so I believe it does drain but don't see a loop.
I had the flu last week and didn't get up to pull the core until yesterday. Temperatures were an unseasonably cold -17C here for about two weeks but it warmed up above freezing over the past five days. When I pulled the core, it was dry, so it must have melted and drained or airflow dried it out.
The indicator panel on the HRV unit has lights to show how it's operating, and there is a frost light (which wasn't lit when the system was iced up), so I think that may be the failure spot.
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To the guys who deal with these units all the time, would an ERV be more of an approiate unit than an HRV?
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in general, I would say no based on the climate there, but Martin Holladay did a pretty good write up on this issue here:
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You wouldn't know it from the lack of blogging, but I have been having a sewing spree. My work wardrobe was suddenly very bare after a zip broke on one pair of trousers and another pair was ripped. Time for some new work clothes.
Zara inspiration
I wanted to make something similar and Vogue 1127 seems to fit the bill, with a few modifications.
I copied the collar on the Zara top - all that was involved was doubling over the collar from the pattern rather than ruching it quite so much.
The ties would have been nice but they are cut on the bias and are very long so take up masses of fabric (the pattern says 3.1 metres is required for the blouse in a size 14). I didn't have quite enough fabric.
The blouse isn't difficult and it's a gorgeous pattern. The only thing to note - it is hugely wide and I had to take off about an inch and a half on each side seam. It also works best for a thin fabric. The georgette I used was not a very light one and it got a bit bulky around the ruched collar ends.
I'm definitely going to make another one of these, this time as per the pattern.
In one of those odd coincidences, March Burda Style has a pattern which is even more like the Zara top. It has the raglan sleeves, which Vogue 1127 does not.
And to go with the top ...a pencil skirt with a wide hip band and pockets from March 2009 Burda magazine.
My version is in a black stretch heavy satin. I made a couple of pairs of trousers out of this fabric and was sad to see it finished, and then was ecstatic when I found a 6 metre end roll at my favourite fabric shop reduced to $3 a metre!
I love the style and it feels great on. The hip band has a girdle like effect which is even better.
The sides are tapered in a bit more than the Burda version. The construction of the hip band is also a little different. Burda has only an unfaced hip band and a narrow rectangular facing strip around the waist. That seemed very unfinished to me, so I cut 2 hip bands and entirely faced it. It looks and feels better.
So what next? Half way through a pair of brown trousers and raring to go with some autumnal clothes.
Great morph of a pattern. The outfit looks professional but modern. I don't know if you did it on purpose, but I like how the white part of the print resembles a "V" shaped yoke on the front near the neckline.
Both pieces add up to make a great outfit. I'm sure your sewing will last longer than Zara's!!
I love the fabric you choose for the top. It makes the design look amazing! | http://homemadecouture.blogspot.com/2011/04/vogue-1127-and-burda-32009-skirt.html | 2013-05-18T10:30:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Great Buy!! MAKE AN OFFER! A Good House in a good neighborhood. Nice ocean views from living room. House is freshly painted. The lot is larger than most in the neighborhood and has many beautiful tropical plants and fruit trees. Some of the wood floors and the windows are original which adds to its plantation style charm. With some personal decorating touches this place will become very comfortable - a Sugar Plantation Style treasure to preserve. MAKE AN OFFER! | http://homes.yahoo.com/Hawaii/North_Hilo/39-123-kukui-village-lp:41030ed2f9fcff5f186be78daefd86db/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Traditional drainage splash block are heavy to move and leave an unsightly spot in the lawn. They can become overgrown, leaving the lawn looking unkempt. Grounds keeping around the Mystic Garden cascading dishes is easy and trouble free. Simply pull the dishes and stakes out of the ground and set aside. Dishes are easily reinserted into the original holes saving time and frustration.
Water that drains too close to the foundation of your house can cause a wet or damp basement, crumbling to the brick or block foundation material and damage to building siding.
Our Garden Dishes ensure that excess drainage is carried over 4 feet away from the walls of your house. You will find that the Garden Dishes out-perform typical cement splash blocks or aluminum pipes and have a much more attractive appearance.
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By Atiya Jones
Even though the risk of HIV is low for lesbians there are still some activities that can put women who have sex with women at risk for HIV infection.
Sharing Sex Toy – Toys such as vibrators and dildos should always be cleaned in between people if they going to be shared. A condom can also be used. It’s best if toys aren’t shared at all
Oral Sex – Even though the risk is low through oral sex anything involving bodily fluid causes a risk. And it increases if a there is a sore or cut in the mouth or genital area or if someone is on her period. To make oral sex safer a dental dam has to be used. A dental dam is a latex barrier that is spread over the vagina to protection the mouth from coming in contact with vaginal fluids or blood.
S & M – Rough sex which may result in bleeding and breaks in the skin such as fisting increases the risk for STDs
Semen Donation – When trying to get pregnant a woman should always know her donor’s medical history and risk factors as in sexual history and drug use.
Drug Use – Just like with any other group sharing needles during drug use increases the risk for HIV.
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Wall Street Journal
Consistent. Logical. Incisive. That defines The Wall Street Journal's editorial policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Passing the Checkpoint
Palestinian doctors lie about the death of a newborn baby. When the truth comes out, did the media report the correction?
Counter-Efforts
While HonestReporting's 20,000 members fight anti-Israel bias in the media, some pro-Palestinian groups are trying to get in on the action, too.
Wash-Post White-Washes the Bloody Hands
A vile, insulting screed from the Washington Post tries to win sympathy for the bloody-handed Ramallah lyncher.
Newsweek’s ‘Bizarro’ Reporting
Joshua Hammer presents the Middle East as an upside-down topsy-turvy distortion of facts.
Trifecta Awards
The tide may be turning, as more reporters take the bold step of reporting the unadulterated facts.
Dis-Associated Press
Earlier this month, HonestReporting presented several cases of biased reporting by the Associated Press. Unfortunately, that trend is continuing.
Toronto Star’s Biased Contenta
19 years after Ariel Sharon is cleared by U.S. and Israeli courts, the BBC dredges up old accusations and suggests the Israeli leader should be tried for war crimes. | http://honestreporting.com/media-critiques-resources/hot-topics/west-bank/page/34/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Oklahoma City Thunder came out with a big win in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, taking down the Miami Heat 105-94. Miami jumped out to an early lead and held on through the half, but OKC’s defense came out strong in the third quarter and failed to let up the rest of the game, holding the Heat to just 40 second half points.
The combination of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook alone scored 41 second half points.
This was a big game for the Thunder to win. Besides the fact that you always want to win your home games to keep home court advantage, historically, if you win Game 1, you have a 65% chance of winning the title. All the talk lately was of Miami’s back-to-back wins against the Celtics to close out the series, but now the Thunder have all the momentum.
OKC’s defense was able to take huge strides from the first half to the second half. Thabo Sefolosha was strong guarding LeBron James, with his length and speed providing a benefit against someone with James’s athleticism. He was helped immensely by the work of Nick Collison, who played excellent help D, forcing James and the other Heat players into tough shots around the hoop.
If OKC is able to maintain this level of play, as much as their young squad excels on offense, it will be the play of their big men that make the difference. With two incredibly defensive-minded starters down low in Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins, the Thunder already have a formidable front court that will hamper the ability of James and Dwyane Wade to get to the hoop. With consistent backup play out of someone like Collison, the Heat should expect some low scoring quarters.
The Thunder bigs forced the Heat into jumpers throughout the game. Miami took only 22 shots at the rim as compared to 36 from OKC. From that range, they shot 59% for 26 points, while the Thunder shot 72% for 58 points, a massive difference. Shots at the rim are generally expected to fall and holding the Heat in particular to such a low number of shots along with a low shooting percentage is what put the Thunder ahead.
Miami took an astounding 44 shots from outside of 10 feet last night, making only 16 of them. Everyone knows the mid-range jumper is the least effective shot in basketball, and forcing the Heat to take those shots at such a high rate all night put the Thunder in an excellent position to win.
Oklahoma City seemed to have a great strategy going into last night’s game. They know it’s impossible to hold down James and Wade; those two will score their points and they combined for 49 last night. But 49 points isn’t going to win them the series. More importantly, the Thunder were able to hold Chris Bosh to a mere 10 points and the Heat bench to only 6 points. Shane Battier had a surprisingly effective offensive night, going off for 17, but it is unlikely he will be able to maintain any sort of offensive consistency to be much of a threat for the series.
The other factor that led OKC to a win in Game 1 was their ability to limit fouls. James shot only 9 free throws as compared to the 17 he shot in Game 7 against Boston. Wade shot 5 free throws and the team as a whole only shot 18. Oklahoma City, on the other hand, shot 20-27 at the line.
Smart play and defense were what mattered last night. The Thunder are a young and relatively inexperienced team, but they played with the look of a seasoned champion in Game 1. Miami will come back strong in Game 2 on Thursday, but if OKC can carry over their effective play from last night, that may not make a difference. | http://hoopsduo.com/2012/06/996/thunder-d-cools-the-stifling-heat/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Hope College will present two films
later this month in conjunction with national Black History
Month.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The film "The Biography of W.E.B. Dubois" will be
presented in two parts on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 20-21,
and "The Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings Story" will be
presented on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Both films will be shown in
the Maas Center conference room at 7 p.m.
"The Biography of W.E.B. Dubois" explores the life
and career of Dubois, who lived from 1868 to 1963, from the
era of Reconstruction to the era of Jim Crow. As a scholar-
activist, he founded the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and organized the
first Pan-African Congress, in addition to being a prolific
writer. His most famous work was "The Souls of Black Folk."
"The Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings Story" is
a PBS Adult Learning Service video that features a dialogue
about family history, race relations and America's response
to the controversy surrounding the relationship between
Jefferson and Hemmings. The half-hour program presents a
discussion between Wayles Jefferson, who traces his roots to
Jefferson, and his wife Martha, and Tina Andrews,
screenwriter of the television miniseries "Sally Hemmings,
An American Scandal."
Additional information about the film series may
be obtained by calling the college's Office of Multicultural
Life at (616) 395-7867, or on the office's web site,. | http://hope.edu/2001/02/06/black-history-month-films | 2013-05-18T10:21:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Flying Dutchmen host a new football opponent in the College of Wooster for their 37th annual Hope-Holland Community Day game on Saturday, Sept. 7. Kickoff at Holland Municipal Stadium will be 1:30 p.m.
All Hope football games are broadcast by WHTC-AM (1450) and WFUR-FM (102.9). The WHTC broadcast can also be heard on the internet -- [2].
Hope played its first football game 100 years ago, bowing to Muskegon High School 36-0 in 1902. The Flying Dutchmen didn't play their first game against a collegiate opponent until 1908, losing to Benton Harbor College 19-15. It wasn't until 1918 that Hope's schedule was played entirely against collegiate opponents. This is actually the 93rd season of Hope football. The Flying Dutchmen have an alltime record of 367-286-38.
The Flying Dutchmen are seeking their first season-opening game victory since 1993. This is the 24th year that Hope is playing its home games at Holland Municipal Stadium. Hope was 5-0 at home in 2001, marking just the fourth time since 1979 that the team was unbeaten at home.
Hope and Wooster are meeting on the gridiron for the first time. A year ago the teams had one common opponent in the MIAA's Kalamazoo. Hope stung the Hornets 29-15 while Kalamazoo edged Wooster 39-37.
Each team has a pre-season Division III All-American candidate. Hope senior punter Vince Scheffler was recognized for the second consecutive year. He has a career average of 38.1 yards per punt. Wooster sophomore middle linebacker Tim Cline was a first team all-conference (NCAC) honoree in his first collegiate season, averaging 10.5 tackles per game.
Hope returns 40 letterwinners and 14 starters from a 7-2 2001 team. Wooster returns 38 letterwinners and 18 starters from a 4-6 team.
Both teams suffered major losses in their 2001 receiving corps. Hope graduated Brian Adloff and Mike Gle who combined for 124 receptions and 18 touchdowns while Wooster lost all-conference receivers Chris Cabot and Darryl Simmons who together had 89 catches and 13 touchdowns. Experience-wise, Wooster has the advantage at running back. Hope lost its top rusher (John Sloothaak, 765 yards) while Wooster returns its leading ground gainer (Scott Jones, 823 yards). The teams return veteran quarterbacks. Hope's Phil Butler set school marks for completions (159), yardage (2,156) and touchdowns (23). Wooster's Jeff Spraggins (injured in sixth game) and Justin Alaburda netted over 2,000 yards in the air.
As part of the pre-game festivities, Mayor Albert McGeehan will present a resolution to Hope College President James E. Bultman celebrating the long association of Holland and Hope.
The Holland West Ottawa marching band, under the direction of Dean Christopher, will be featured at halftime. Also at halftime, the Commissioner's Cup of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association for the 2001-02 school year will be presented to President Bultman and the athletic staff. Hope won all three all-sports awards of the MIAA last season (men, women and total program) for the second consecutive year. Hope has won the Commissioner's Cup a record 24 times, including seven of the last nine years. MIAA Commissioner David Neilson will make the presentation.
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As you may have read or heard, we are under a heavy, sustained attack by the porn industry, by the group Anonymous, and by literally tens of thousands of pornography advocates. Let me explain:
Last Friday, on her airplane flight to speak at a conference in Houston, our executive director, Dawn Hawkins, witnessed the man in front of her viewing violent pornography on his iPad – he wasn’t hiding it and it was of young girls and may have been child porn.
The Delta flight attendant refused to ask the man to refrain from looking at it. So Dawn told him to stop and then, when she left the plane, reported the man to Delta and to the airport police because, especially if it was child porn, it must be reported as a violation of federal law. Then she made a short YouTube video about the experience to call attention to the need for airlines to protect passengers from those, like this man, who view porn on planes.
Soon after the video was up, the porn industry, through their trade magazine, Adult Video News, attacked Dawn in an editorial, not the man looking at porn on the plane, for being uncomfortable at being forced to look at porn in a public place.
Then a foul-mouthed man posted a YouTube video harshly criticizing Dawn for the same, but this video was viewed by tens of thousands of porn supporters who made very threatening, sexually-oriented comments about Dawn.
This led to the international group “Anonymous” taking up the cause of attacking Dawn. They somehow got Dawn’s personal cell phone number, as well as her parent’s personal information, and posted it on their website urging people to harass her. Both Dawn and her family have been under sustained attack with threatening calls for the last 24 hours. (I had not realized that promotion of pornography was such an important issue with Anonymous – the group that has been hacking many corporate and government websites!)
I now fear for Dawn’s safety.
Can you imagine the depths of depravity of the attackers? What did Dawn do but bravely stand up for what is right – when no one else would! Her attackers are outraged and are urging public support for the man and for the right to view pornography on airplanes.
Now our office is under attack as well. We had to take down our websites temporarily to prevent these people from doing what they said they would do – hack them. Many are also calling our office with harassing messages.
We have instituted security measures to protect Dawn and our staff. We are in contact with the FBI. That is all I can say on this so far.
When Dawn and our staff got involved in this fight, we all knew that we were up against many distorted people. We recognized that this would not be easy.
We want you to know that bullying tactics will not stop us from declaring the truth - that PORNOGRAPHY HARMS! Not only have millions of lives been harmed, but there is now a wealth of evidence - scientific proof - that pornography is wreaking havoc on our society. It seems that NO FAMILY is untouched.
We will not let the pornographers and their patrons to win this war. Please continue your support and help spread the word to other supporters.
We are grateful for the support of so many of you – YOU know what we are up against. In addition to the hateful messages and threats, we have received many messages of support and encouragement. A majority of Americans are on our side.
Please keep Dawn and our staff in your prayers.
Patrick A. Trueman
President & CEO Morality in Media
P.S. Here's the account of Dawn's encounter on the airplane. The public, tight, confined space of an airplane is NO PLACE for pornography, especially violent, pseudo-child pornography.
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HOTEL HTML/CSS TEMPLATES
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Starwood Summer Sale – 50% off at 600 Hotels
Starwood Hotels & Resorts is running a global summer sale under which 600 participating hotels are offering as much as 50% off.
Offers available include the Sheraton Kauai with rates from $189 per night, W Times Square with rates from $199 per night and Sheraton Boston Hotel with rates from $139 per night.
In Mexico, Le Méridien Cancun Resort & Spa has rates from $92 and the St. Regis Punta Mita is offering rates from $239. Travelers to Asia Pacific will enjoy deep discounts at properties including Le Méridien Bangalore with rates from $107, W Hong Kong with rates from $219 and Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo with rates from $120.
Book by July 20 for stays between July 16 and October 12, 2009. Reserve online at or by calling 866-924-8704 and asking for “July LTO.”
Also, if you’re interested in a summer spa getaway with Starwood, book in before July 31 at participating Starwood Hotels & Resorts in the Caribbean, Florida, Alabama, Texas, the Carolinas and Georgia.
Under this promo, Starwood will fork over daily spa credits worth $100. For every night you reserve, you get $100 worth of free spa credits, which you can spend on anything you want.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- There was very little "off" in the offseason for Reds third baseman Todd Frazier, who managed to cram a whole lot of activity into just a few months.
For starters, there were two major personal milestones. Frazier got married, and he and new wife, Jackie, bought their first home, in his hometown of Toms River, N.J. Then came Hurricane Sandy, which brought devastation that Frazier and his family were fortunate to escape unscathed. After the storm beat up New Jersey, he donated his time and effort to raise funds for those who were not as lucky.
"I'll tell you one thing, it was one of the fastest offseasons I've ever had," said Frazier, who was drafted by Cincinnati in 2007. "Something came up every day. It flew by. The only downtime I got was the honeymoon. It was good. I got two big things out of the way. We're still working hard to get back to where we need to be in the community."
And then there was his job. Frazier was anointed the new regular third baseman shortly after his 2012 breakout rookie year. He spent considerable portions of his winter making sure he was ready to replace eight-time Gold Glove winner Scott Rolen.
Reds manager Dusty Baker gave Frazier the assignment of improving his footwork.
"I worked out five days a week, mainly on my footwork at third base," Frazier said. "It's all about reaction, but that first step is really big. I'm working on that a lot here, too."
Frazier batted .273 with 19 home runs and 67 RBIs in 128 games last season and finished third in National League Rookie of the Year voting. However, his peers voted him as the Players Choice Award Rookie of the Year. It was a strong outcome for a player who began the season in Triple-A and who lacked a regular spot in the Majors.
Among NL rookies, Frazier was second in RBIs and with a .498 slugging percentage. He was tied for second with six triples, third in homers and 10th in batting average.
Frazier, who turned 27 last Tuesday, is the epitome of a player not squandering an opportunity. From May 12 to June 16, he started 28 of the games Rolen missed while on the disabled list with a shoulder injury, and he hit six homers with 19 RBIs. When cornerstone first baseman Joey Votto was out from July 16 to Sept. 3 with a knee injury, Frazier batted .305 with eight homers and 32 RBIs in 47 games, including 36 starts at first base.
The contributions were pivotal as the Reds did not miss a beat without Votto or Rolen during their drive to win the NL Central.
"We're going to give him an opportunity to play," Baker said. "He's a strong man. He brings some good things to the table and some good things to the team. Not only with the game in how he plays, but the personality of a winner. He's not scared or intimidated by anybody."
When Rolen became a free agent contemplating retirement last fall, the Reds were quick to name Frazier as their projected starter. The door was left open for Rolen to return in a reduced role. It still remains open, but Rolen decided last week not to commit to the team.
Frazier was never worried about Rolen's decision affecting his status.
"I went in thinking it was my spot," he said. "You have to have that confidence and a positive vibe about yourself. If you go in and think you don't have a spot, you're hesitant. You don't want to be hesitant in anything you do."
The Reds have gotten an extended look at what Frazier can do. But there is still work to be done for him to become a complete player, Baker acknowledged.
"It takes time to see how a young player makes adjustments to how a league learns him and how to pitch him," Baker said. "A lot of times that affects your fielding. He worked hard this winter. We told him to go home and work on his first step agility, and that's what he did. It's not called the hot corner for nothing. You end up reaching if you don't have that quick step. We take pride on defense here. He's worked hard at it."
Frazier enlisted the help of Ed Hefernan, a retired speed and agility coach in New Jersey, three days a week during the winter to make him more nimble.
"That ball down the line, it's getting to it instead of letting it get by," Frazier said. "My forehand is good and my backhand is pretty good, but it's not good enough."
Since the day the former Rutgers shortstop was a first-round supplemental pick of the Reds in the 2007 Draft, Frazier has moved all over the place. He's played first base, second base, third base and left field. It's been the same during his brief time in the Majors.
Now Frazier has a new home in New Jersey, and a place to call home on the field.
"It's huge. I don't have a lot of gloves anymore, only four or five instead of nine," Frazier said. "To work at one position is great. That was my ultimate goal. Being a utility guy was awesome. If I had to do it again, I would. It was great for me. You never knew where you'd be that day, and now to work on one position is fun. It's awesome even being a starter. It's something I've dreamed of my whole life. Like last year, once you get that opportunity, take off with it. You have to prove yourself year after year and day after day."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130218&content_id=41756604&vkey=news_cin&c_id=cin | 2013-05-18T10:22:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
How to Install Linux from USB stick
There are many reasons why you might want to install Linux from a USB stick/drive. For example, you may not have a CD/DVD burner available or you simply do not want to waste a blank CD/DVD medium. If this is the case the UNetbootin utility can become quite helpful to you.
1. Step 1: Install UNetbootin
On Ubuntu Linux or Linux mint distribution install UNetbootin by using a following command:
$ sudo apt-get install unetbootin
Once UNetbootin is installed you can start this application with:
$ unetbootin
The following UNetbootin window appears on your screen:
2. Step 2: Download bootable ISO
If the Linux distribution you wish to install from USB is not available from UNetbootin's drop down menu you will need to download it manually by downloading its installation ISO image and saving it to some arbitrary location for later use.
3. Step 3: Prepare your USB stick
There are a few requirements given by UNetbootin before you are able to create bootable Linux install USB. These are:
- your USB drive has at least one partition formated with vfat file system
- the above partition is mounted
You can verify this with
# fdisk -l
and
# mount
- the last and the most obvious requirement is that your mounted partition has enough free disk space. Free disk space should be at least equal to the size of your ISO image you have downloaded earlier. To check for free disk space on your USB stick execute a command:
$ df -h /path/to/my/usb/stick
4. Step 4: Create bootable USB
Once you have ISO image and UNetbootin ready, insert your USB stick into your PC's USB port and start UNetbootin. UNetbootin's interface is quite self explanatory. It gives you two choices, either let UNetbootin download ISO for you or select ISO manually. Next, select your USB stick followed by appropriate partition and you are ready to go.
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The discipline of Economics is much different from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology which are mostly based on Materialism! Why?
When we study the science of Physics we are dealing with material objects and the substance of matter/energy. Physics deals with objects within our Spacetime Universe and which are outside our minds (consciousness). Everything that we observe within our Universe is some ‘thing’ or ‘object’ and all of these items are composed of matter/energy. This makes Physics a science and philosophy of Materialism. Chemistry and Biology also use mostly the philosophy of Physics within their disciplines to study their elements, chemicals, cells, and DNA information. Science has now identified some 118 elements (in total) with copper, silver, gold being unique elements within this total.
The important point to understand is that the entire discipline within Physics, Chemistry, and Biology are mostly a study of ‘material’ objects and substances. Many historical economists have attempted to adopt the model of the materialistic science as an applicable model for Economics and Monetary issues. The model which we call Keynesianism was mostly conceived and then presented as a materialistic model…with ‘numbers’ and ‘math’ viewed as ‘material’ things.
This model, however, is really fallacious as (in reality) ‘numbers’, ‘math’, and all the ‘equations’, ‘index’ number representations, and ‘derivative’ concepts utilized within Keynesianism should be viewed as psychological (non-material) phenomena. Keynesians have used ‘math’ as if ‘numbers’ were items of matter/energy (and not ‘forms’ within our minds). The philosophy of Dualism (which started with Socrates/Plato and later Descartes) is clearly revealed when human beings act within an environment of a marketplace.
Human beings are much more than material objects and material substances (as represented within Physics, Chemistry, and Biology). Human beings live and act within TWO realms of reality (a duality) and this action is obvious when we observe human behavior within a marketplace. Let’s look at a couple of examples where the philosophy of Dualism is evident and prevalent. When we go to a Super-market environment (say like Wal-Mart) and shop for food, clothing, and items of shelter we experience all kinds and quantities of objects (goods) within this environment. We could call this environment a type of marketplace. What do we do and experience within this marketplace?
First of all, we use our Mind‘s to evaluate the ‘prices’ of goods as we do our shopping. We think about the ‘value’ of each item that we plan to purchase. Is this ‘value’ right for our immediate needs and wants? We witness the ‘prices’ for alternative items and do comparison shopping prior to selecting a final item(s) for our shopping basket. This process of evaluation and contemplation transcends all of the sciences of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. The ‘prices’ which we observe are really subjective units which were derived by the management of Wal-Mart. Also, the quality and ‘value’ which we contemplated during our shopping experience was an internal process which we experienced within our non-material consciousness. What does this suggest for the discipline of economics and money?
This process of thinking, contemplation, planning, and evaluating is really a psychological process which transcends materialism and physical science. Prices are non-material derivations. Value contemplation is a non-material process. Our eventual decision to buy goods or products at given ‘prices’ reveals the ‘Dualistic’ nature of our shopping experience. The objects and goods which we purchased were all part of the science of Physics. The mental decision-making processes, however, transcends Physics. The ‘name’ for this philosophy within economics can be called DUALISM. The philosophy of Dualism recognizes what Keynesianism has ignored and attempted to hide from their MODEL of reality. Human beings are NOT material creatures. Rather, human beings, are psychological/spiritual beings who experience TWO realms of reality as they live and act within a marketplace.
The philosophy of Dualism was given meaning by the Greek philosopher Plato. Plato revealed most of his philosophy after learning reality from his mentor Socrates. Later in the 1600′s the French philosopher that we call Rene Descartes expounded his view of reality which also suggested that Dualism was a meaningful philosophy. Basically, Dualsim proposes that human beings live and act within TWO realms. These two realms are different as one realm consists of matter/energy (the material) and the other consists of a psychological realm of mind (non-material). This philosophy gradually developed into what we now call the ‘Mind/Body’ problem. What is the difference and can this difference be demonstrated in the marketplace?
Economics and money reveal the reality of Dualism in the marketplace. Money emerged as an ‘idea’ of one’s Mind (some 6000 years ago) and then became a ‘name’ for some commodity that was traded in a marketplace. Later this commodity became a ‘proxy’ for valuation of other goods within a marketplace. Then a currency ‘name’ emerged as the money commodity was defined precisely. This led to specific ‘names’ for a currency (like Shekel, Denarius, Drachma, Dollar, Pound, Yen, etc.). This ‘name’ is then defined in terms of the material commodity so it can serve as a ‘counting’ or ‘pricing’ tool within a marketplace negotiation. Later, the currency ‘name’ was redefined and changed as politicians and money cartels emerged to manipulate ‘value’ and ‘prices’ for various intended goals. New ‘shell’ games emerged to confuse and control the marketplace.
Anyway, the philosophy of Dualism has been part of economics and money since ‘day one’. Money is a tool which allows participants in a marketplace to ‘value’ other goods, assets, and concepts. Money also allows ‘power’ brokers (politicians, money manipulators, and money speculators) to further confuse and deceive those within a marketplace. Today, we have specific Central Bankers who have access to the process of money creation. These Central Bankers have an operational system which allows them to create ‘money’ proxies ‘Out of Nothing’…simply typing in virtual numbers (digits) into a computer screen and then calling these ‘numbers’ legal tender for all debts (public and private). This operational process further reveals the philosophy of Dualism in action.
For the United States of America, we have a policymaker by the name of Ben Shalom Bernanke (Central Banker and FED Chairman). Mr. Ben Bernanke has exercised a policy called Quantitative Easing (QE) in recent years where he creates virtual numbers (called dollars) for his System Open Market Account. He is allowed to create these ‘numbers’ (digits) via this process of typing…with no operational oversight from any of our elected representatives within our Congress. All this is considered legal and lawful as this operation by Ben and Company is being allowed under the legal authority of an Act called the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Ben and Company (also called the Federal Open Market Committee) can act and operate similar to a Centralized Dictatorship via their ‘independent’ legal cover called the Federal Reserve Act.
The philosophy of Dualism is revealed by Ben and Company as they create new ‘money’ units from their ‘thinking’ (mind) and then ‘type’ in virtual ‘numbers’ into their computer screen (all this is done at the New York Federal Reserve Building by the trading Desk manager). Ben gives the Directive as it emerges from the Federal Open Market Committee’s secret meeting and the Desk Manager types in the digits (called legal tender dollars) into the System Open Market Checking Account. Is there anyone in the United States of America who understands this ‘shell’ game as it is being played? Does Ben even understand what he is doing and the role he is playing as our Fed Chairman, as our Money Dictator, and as our Shell Game Operator? My observation suggests that his behavior is difficult to discern. Few other than select elites can even talk to him or challenge his policies or behavior.
So what is my conclusion given all this past history and information? Personally, I would suggest that our American Capitalistic Economic System is ‘Over and Done’. We now have ‘imaginary’ money created via the MIND or Consciousness of mostly ONE person (Ben Shalom Bernanke). Ben operates a Shell Game System where he is ‘independent’ from any real-time Congressional Oversight. He thinks up his schemes and machinations and calls this process Lawful and Legal and Constitutional and Just. Ben hates any real commodity (like gold or silver) as lawful money (as specified in Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of our Constitution). Our entire Economic System has evolved into a DEBT system where DEBT has become unsustainable and impossible to repay.
The one website which reveals our current unsustainable situation is:. This site shows that our current deficit is $1.1 trillion, our National Debt is now nearly $16.3 trillion, our Total Public and Private Debt is nearly $59 trillion, and our Unfunded Liabilities are $121.6 trillion. We have some 47.7 million Americans on Food Stamps and some 68.7 million on Social Security. Our demographics show that the over 55 group is growing and our S.S. payers (those who fund our retirees) is shrinking. When will this debt and operationally bankrupt system collapse or start to collapse? We can witness the beginnings of a collapse as of today. Our representatives and the financial elites are at logger heads over any process or procedure for dealing with our situation. There is no mathematical solution to all these issues.
We now need to recognize that we NEED a New Economic Model going forward. Keynesianism is basically over and done. Our World financial situation can be categorized with one word: DEBT. This ‘debt’ is unpayable and most informed experts now recognize this reality. We all need to get ready for a change that is revolutionary and Global in nature. Now is the time to get your DUAL nature (mind and body) ready for this coming CHANGE. Dualism is reality and Mind over Matter must prevail with any New Economic System. That is my missive for today: I AM,.
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STEUBENVILLE - Jefferson County Behavioral Health System has received about $750,000 for the continued operations of a homeless shelter and for the construction of a second building to house the homeless.
Lisa Ward, Jefferson Behavioral Health Services community support program administrator, said the agency recently was informed the Ohio Development Services Agency has provided $270,300 for the continued operation of the Beacon House at 732 N. Sixth St.
The Beacon House, which has 10 single room and opened in 2006, provides a variety of services to homeless people, including mental health and drug and alcohol treatment, job seeking and availability of a variety of community services. The Beacon House also offers a drop-in center, where homeless people can go for a hot shower or to wash clothes and find out about services available to provide help.
Ward said the Ohio Development Services Agency recently completed an audit of services provided by the Beacon House and found that 88 percent of those served stayed with the program for seven months or longer.
"It is nice for the state to see we are meeting the standards and providing a benefit to the community," Ward said.
Ward said the operational grant is competitively applied for every two years. She said the funding of the Beacon House so far hasn't been affected by state budget cuts.
Ward also is in the process of applying for an annual federal Housing and Urban Development grant that will provide $256,545 in operating money and $81,200 for supportive services for the Beacon House.
Ward said the Beacon House wouldn't be able to provide services without the two operating grants.
She said 18 people have been residents of the Beacon House during the past year. She noted a person recently came to the homeless shelter after discovering her rent was tripled. The landlord said he could get more money in rent from the oil and gas industry workers.
Ward said the problem of homelessness is growing in Jefferson County.
Social workers will conduct the annual homeless count in January, and she expects an increase. Ward said other homeless shelters, such as the City Rescue Mission and Hutton House, are constantly full.
Jefferson Behavioral Health also recently received word the agency was approved by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati for partial financing for construction of the Lighthouse Haven, which will be constructed in the 400 block of North Sixth Street. Lighthouse Haven will have eight efficiency apartments for single persons and four family units.
Ward said there is a strain on local resources to find housing for families.
The Federal Home Loan Bank will provide $498,000 for the $1.7 million project. The Ohio Department of Mental Health has committed $500,000 and the remainder will come from the Ohio Housing Financing Agency. Ward said Jefferson Behavioral Health will only have to pay the interest owed on the Federal Home Loan Bank financing.
Ward said Jefferson Behavioral Health's application ranked in the top 10 in the state for the Federal Home Loan Bank funding of homeless shelter projects throughout the state.
Ward said ground will be broken on the Lighthouse Haven in late summer or early fall.
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A special series: 'Deadbeat Illinois'010912
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The series features a searchable database of the unpaid bills as of Sept. 8, provided by The (Moline) Dispatch/Rock Island Argus, at
Part 1 -- Deadbeat state: Illinois owes billions in unpaid bills
Belleville (Ill.) News Democrat
Part 2 -- Unpaid bills undercut state's business partners
The Register Mail, Galesburg, Ill.
Part 3 -- Deadbeat Illinois: Unpaid bills squeeze nonprofits
The Jacksonville Journal-Courier
Part 4 -- Ill. universities cope with chronic late payments
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Part 5 -- Late payments complicate Illinois prison operations
Belleville (Ill.) News Democrat
Part 6 -- Deadbeat Illinois: If all else fails, beg ... to a politician
The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.
How 'Deadbeat Illinois' came to be: a Q&A with AP's Illinois news editor - copy below
Highlights of Illinois members' coverage and reaction:
Special series explores state's financial mess
Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.
Editorial: Paying the price for legislators' failure to pay bills
The Jacksonville Journal-Courier
Susy Schultz: We also do it by the numbers
The Daily Journal, Kankakee, Ill.
The Deadbeat State of Illinois (in effect) Forces Nonprofits to Loan it Money
The Nonprofit Quarterly
State delays, then cuts, burial payments to local funeral homes
Quincy Herald-Whig (references Deadbeat Ilinois-related sidebars)
Suburban businesses struggle as state stiffs them on bills
Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill.
Opinion: Dancing with the State (debt)
Belleville (Ill.) News Democrat
Papers expose state's dirty little secrets
A view of the project by the managing editor of The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus
State's backlog of bills infuriating
The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.
Britt: A lot of people being disappointed by 'Deadbeat Dad'
Gatehouse News Service
For health care providers, state owes much more than vouchers show
The News-Gazette, Champaign, Ill.
Governor pushes state's deadbeat ways
Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill.
Our Opinion: Numbers are bad, no matter the politics
The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.
Our view: Our deadbeat government
The Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, Ill.
Behind numbers are real people hurt by late bills
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.
A scandalous policy of paying late
Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill.
Illinois embraces deadbeat policy
Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa
Editorial: Deadbeat? Say, no more
Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa
Editorial: Illinois' leaders must start leading
The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.
10/21/2011
How 'Deadbeat Illinois' came to be: a Q&A with AP's Illinois news editor
In this Q&A, Chicago-based News Editor Hugh Dellios of The Associated Press recalls the evolution of the “Deadbeat Illinois” series, whose stories have been appearing since Sunday, Oct. 16.."
What was the genesis of this project?
Ever since the start of the national “Broken Budgets” project, Illinois/Indiana Bureau Chief George Garties, Springfield, Ill., correspondent Christopher Wills and I had discussed the need to do a state-level project that involved the members. Garties was a big proponent. After the spring session of the Illinois General Assembly, Wills and I noted how the legislators had done virtually nothing to solve the state’s backlog of billions of dollars in unpaid bills. Wills suggested getting hold of the database of bills and distributing it to members. We started in June by showing member editors some select numbers from an early version of the database. They were quite receptive to the idea, and I crafted a formal project proposal that we sent out via email and the wire in early July.
How did you and AP go about enlisting member newspapers into the effort?
We invited all members to join us in a conference call in mid-July. On that first call we had editors and reporters representing two dozen members from across the state. We stressed how the project had to be a joint effort, and how a key to its success would be the long reach of the AP membership telling the story of the unpaid bills in as big and comprehensive a way as possible. In follow-up conference calls, we opened the floor for members to help shape the project, and they helped decide when to publish and what elements to include. Garties and Chicago Assistant Bureau Chief Patrick McDowell kept the idea in front of members in their conversations and in their weekly email newsletter.
How did the papers contribute to the report?
We enlisted specific member papers to write some of the stories, and found some willing volunteers. Some members pitched stories at us, such as the (Peoria) Journal Star wanting to write a story about the state losing tens of millions of dollars in late-pay penalties. On later calls, a core group of energetic members emerged. One member, The (Moline) Dispatch/Rock Island Argus, created a searchable version of the database as a reporting tool and interactive feature for readers/viewers. The Journal Star drew up the project logo. The (Springfield) Journal Register began collecting all the stories from across the state in its state government-focused Web site, The Dome. As we neared the deadline, members helped sharpen and broaden some of the stories with questions and observations from their own reporting. For instance, The (Champaign) News-Gazette found a nursing home owed $3.3 million when the database had them down for only $47,000, and that became the Day 3 sidebar. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reported out the unpaid bills’ impact on the state’s prisons, but we channeled into their story some good feeds from the Journal Star and The (Kankakee) Daily Journal.
What was your biggest surprise in leading such a statewide effort?
How enthusiastic the members were to engage. Several editors mentioned that, with their resource and staffing challenges, it had become hard to do investigative projects like this. One of them noted how the project showed that newspapers were still the best forum for rolling out a project with this kind of depth and reach.
What would you say has been the impact of the findings?
Illinois’ unpaid bills problem has been festering for three years, and each member had probably done a smaller, anecdotal story on it. But through Chris’ budget expertise and the database, we were able to show how stiffing vendors and social service agencies -- essentially turning them into unwilling lenders to the state -- had become a routine way of managing the state’s budget. By enlisting the membership, we were able to capture the full scope of the problem and how it affected small business people and care providers in every corner of the state. Through FOIA work by AP Political Writer John O’Connor, we were able to capture the haphazard, at-times arbitrary process through which some bills are expedited for payment, opening the door for political connections to play a role.
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Sunday Times (London)
January 13, 2013
by Irwin Stelzer
Wall Street has taken to thinking in terms of walls. There is a "wall of money" waiting to sweep into stock markets and into corporate investments if only investors could climb the "wall of worry" constructed by America's politicians who can't seem to put the nation's finances in order.
There is little doubt that investors are sitting on the sidelines behind a wall of money.
Companies are hoarding billions here and abroad as they wait for some signal that the politicians can govern sensibly, and some indication of the costs they will face once the thousands of regulations being drafted are finalised.
Nor is there any doubt that businesses and consumers are facing a wall of worry or, more precisely, worries. To adapt Claudius's lament, "when worries come, they come in battalions, the people muddied and unwholesome in their thoughts". Some of these worries are justified, others are not.
Let's start with realistic concerns. Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve Board is printing money at an unprecedented rate in order to keep interest rates low, and plans to keep doing so until the unemployment rate drops to at least 6.5%. The government is borrowing $40 for every $100 it spends (don't try this at home), and the Fed is printing money with which to purchase the IOUs the government is issuing. Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, fears that the Fed has gone too far and for no purpose: "Just throwing money at the economy is unlikely to solve the problems that are keeping a ... worker from finding a good competitive job."
Enter the bond vigilantes. At some point investors will decide, as they did in the case of Greece and some other eurozone countries, that the only way the American government can pay its debts is to print still more money, and repay its creditors with dollars worth far less than those it borrowed. At that point the interest rates they demand will shoot up, driving up mortgage rates, aborting the housing recovery, making it costly for consumers to use their credit cards and throwing the economy into recession. This is a legitimate worry, one that makes the rulers of our biggest creditor, China, more than a little nervous.
A second worry with a realistic basis is that what has come to be called "the new normal" for the American economy includes an irreducible unemployment rate of 7.5%, with all the social costs that implies. Even if the Fed target of 6.5% is attainable, some economists reckon that at the current rate of job growth and labour force participation, we won't get to that target until 2020. Others guess that even if the economy grows at an annual rate of 2.25% — it is now growing at less than 2% — it will take 5.4 years to get the unemployment rate down to 6.5%. The importance of removing impediments to economic growth is demonstrated by a second computation: if the economy were to grow at a rate just one percentage point higher — 3.25% — unemployment would drop to the Fed's target in only 1.8 years.
A final and wholly realistic brick in the wall of worry relates to the regulatory and fiscal policies of the Obama administration. Its regulatory agencies have now filed their agendas for 2013: the new rules add up to tens of thousands of pages, with more to come for Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. These are not likely to stimulate growth or create jobs other than for bureaucrats. As for fiscal policy, the chances for compromise on taxes and spending are fading: the president says he won't negotiate on raising the debt ceiling and that the rich must pay still more, the pips not yet having squeaked, at least not so that he can hear them; Republicans say no new taxes. And the president has nominated Jack Lew, a long-time adviser to the Democratic party and a recognised expert on budget matters, to replace Tim Geithner as Treasury secretary. Republicans find Lew abrasive, unbending, and given to storming out of meetings when there is opposition to his positions. Little prospect of policy peace in our time.
So there are things worth worrying about. But there are others that should not interfere with a good night's sleep. One such is that America will default on its debt. Yes, by March the government will no longer be able to borrow unless Congress agrees to raise the debt ceiling, which Republicans say they will not do unless the president cuts spending, which he will not do unless the Republicans raise taxes, which they will not do. Or so they all say. But even if the government is forced to live on current tax receipts, it will have enough cash to cover interest payments 10 times over.
Nor need anyone worry that the government will be shut down by a Republican refusal to renew current spending authorisations. They tried that when the Clintons occupied the White House, and paid dearly at the polls.
Finally, in my view there is no need to worry that the economy will lapse into recession. The job market is improving. The recoveries in the housing market and car industry are accelerating. Technology and entrepreneurship are enabling America to tap huge new supplies of low-cost energy, attracting new manufacturing facilities that once located elsewhere, "reshoring" to use the popular phrase.
On the political front, the president has indicated a willingness to consider some reining in of entitlement spending, perhaps by slowing the cost-of-living escalator, perhaps by means testing some benefits, while Republicans have said they favour tax reform that would increase Treasury receipts without raising income tax rates. Perhaps these twain shall meet.
Most important is what Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani of Goldman Sachs' Investment Strategy Group notes in her just-released Outlook. The US has enormous "structural advantages": abundant natural and human resources, the rule of law, a "magnet for ... attracting highly educated talent ... dominance in academic excellence at the university level ... [and] in research and development". And much more.
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Because I am apparently incapable of letting lying dogs lie, I wrote to Jonah Goldberg last night, enumerating some of my problems with what I understand to be the main points of his book. He wrote back in “a somewhat snarky note” (his words, not mine) saying that my message was an “absurdly long email with lots of throat clearing and name-dropping.”
It’s ironic to me how Jonah seem to confuse “name-dropping” with reference. In the academic world, that’s how research works, by referencing relevant scholarship. Incidentally, I mentioned Walter Laqueur, Michael Mann and Roger Griffin, because I was quoting from their definitions of fascism, as well as Hannah Arendt, because her understanding of totalitarianism is important and relevant to Jonah’s confused argument. If he’d like to know what name dropping sounds like, he should take a look a little closer to home (interestingly enough, I had to subscribe to his blog’s feed to find that link, because the archives seem to be closed, at least to my IP address):
There are lots of quotes from historians and intellectuals I could have used to back up my various arguments, particularly from Gregor, J.P. Diggins, Michael Ledeen, Friedrich Hayek, Gene Edward Veith, Ludwig von Mises and, perhaps most of all, Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn. That I didn’t discuss their ideas and arguments at length should not be mistaken for a lack of influence on my thinking.
When you use a scholar’s work and give him or her credit, that’s called research. When you quite literally write a list of people’s names without saying anything about their ideas, that’s name dropping.
In his message, and later on his blog, Jonah insists that I suggest that “it’s right to call American conservatives fascists,” which just isn’t true. That’s a straw man; unlike Jonah, I haven’t called anyone a fascist. It just so happens that my academic field is ethnic cleansing and genocide, so I really don’t appreciate the misuse of terms like fascism and genocide, a phenomenon that Jonah purports to be combating with a book that mirrors that misuse. It just so happens that in his appearance on C-Span, in a moment of intellectual honesty and good faith, he had the following to say about his book:
One of the points of the book is this revisionist history, basically, not to put too an un-intellectual point on it, is to say, “I know you are but what am I?” I mean there is some of that, I will grant you, because I’m sick of being called a fascist.
Really, I’m not making that money quote up. That’s actually what he says, verbatim, and you can check the video (about 1:24 in) for yourself (via Crooks and Liars).
I’ll respond later to his substantial charges, but in the meantime, his response is here and my original message reads as follows:
Dear Jonah,
You’ve mentioned that you’d appreciate constructive criticism and thoughtful engagement from liberals, so I decided that I’d drop you a note. I’ve got a few points (some more important than others) that I’d like to make:
1. On your blog, you often disparage comments by liberals who haven’t yet read your book in its entirety; however, you’ve put up several positive notes from presumably conservative correspondents who have also not read the book. Doesn’t this seem a little contradictory to you?
2. Your book isn’t on sale in Beirut, where I live, so I can’t give it a look. This means that in order to give your argument a fair shake, I’m limited to your blog, the Salon interview, the book’s jacket and your Heritage talk. I suppose in order for me to fully understand your book, I’d have to know, at a bare minimum, exactly how you define fascism and liberalism. This is an important point, and perhaps if you were to explicitly state the definitions you’re basing your argument off of, people would have a better time engaging it. As it is, the way you talk about liberalism and fascism seems fairly fuzzy. (You might just say, “read the book,” and fair enough, but if you’re truly interested in engaging people who may not have the time or inclination to read 500 pages of your argument, this might be a good way to get the ball rolling.)
3. In the Salon interview, you state, “you have environmental groups giving out kits and instructions about how to have environmentally conscious sex. You don’t have conservative groups talking about what kind of condoms you should use or what positions you can be in. That kind of thing doesn’t really go on.” This seems exactly backwards to me. I’ve never heard of any liberal groups in the US trying to codify sexual behavior. On the contrary, the liberal position has been that the government should stay out of the bedroom. On the other hand, conservative groups, particularly religious ones, have traditionally supported laws like the anti-sodomy law that was ruled unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
4. I listened to your Heritage talk, and your comment near the beginning struck me: “Except for the murder, bigotry and genocide, what is it exactly that you don’t like about Nazism?” I think that this is the heart of the issue, but perhaps not in the way you might believe it is. What made the Nazis terrible wasn’t their views on animal rights, vegetarianism or even economic policy; it was precisely the “murder, bigotry and genocide.” Unless you’re arguing for a causal relationship between things like vegetarianism and genocide, I’m not really sure I understand why it’s important that Hitler didn’t eat meat. The things you mention in your talk and Salon interview, and presumably in your book, seem to me to be neither here nor there. Consequently, due to their (at most) tangential relationship to what makes fascism historically important, none of these things is mentioned in the definitions of fascism that I’m familiar with.
For example, Walter Laqueur, in his book Fascism (p. 22), states, “Fascism was, above all, nationalist, elitist, and antiliberal. It was militarist, and whenever the country it occupied was sufficiently strong, it advocated imperialism and territorial expansion.” Earlier, he says it would be hard to improve on Roger Griffon’s definition, which states that fascism is a “genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of popular ultra nationalism.” In his books Fascists and The Dark Side of Democracy, Michael Mann, for his part, defines fascism as “essentially a movement committed to extreme organic nationalism and statism, claiming to transcend social conflict, especially class conflict, by using paramiliary and state violence to ‘knock both their heads [labor and capital] together.’” None of these conceptions of the fundamental essence of fascism include views on animal rights or whole foods. That’s because, ideologically, vegetarianism was not a very important part of Nazi doctrine. On the other hand, Mann finds four essential features of fascism: a cleansing form of nationalism, statism, a class transcendence, and paramileratism. The second and fourth features can apply to nearly any ideology (in the case of statism, depending on what sphere is controlled by the state: economic, social, personal, etc.) of the right or left, whereas the third is diametrically opposed to socialist thinking. Finally, the first (and arguably most important) feature is markedly absent from liberal thought but usually a large part of contemporary conservative thought.
5. If, as Arendt has shown, both the left and right can lead to different incarnations of totalitarianism, it seems disingenuous to imply that all instances of state control are equal, and equally totalitarian. I don’t think you’d argue that banning the use of iPods while crossing the street is as pernicious as, say, suspending habeas corpus and reserving the right of the executive branch to use “coercive interrogation techniques” on people being indefinitely detained without access to a court of law. All state interventions into the lives of the citizenship are not equivalent.
6. Finally, you make it a point of stressing that you’re not accusing liberals of being fascists; but if that’s not what you’re doing, then I suppose I don’t really understand what the point of your book is. If someone lists the points that I have in common with a serial killer, it’s not really important unless those traits lead to killing people. If Jeffrey Dahmer and I both enjoyed chocolate ice cream and preferred spy novels to period fiction, it doesn’t hold that I would share, in any way shape or form, the features that make Dahmer exceptional: being a cannibalistic murderer. To list our shared interests, then, is either to imply that I might share in his murderous tendency or to merely make a list of useless trivia. Neither seems very intellectually serious or interesting to me.
Looking forward to your response,
Sean
Give up the ghost, my fran.
By: Anonymous on January 14, 2008
at 9:41 am
You know I’ve got a low tolerance for this sort of thing, mang.
By: sean on January 14, 2008
at 10:37 am
This sort of thing being books like Goldberg’s…
By: sean on January 14, 2008
at 10:53 am
Goldberg’s response to you amounts to, liberals have called conservatives fascists, so here’s a taste of your own medicine. Nyaa, nyaa, nyaa.
That looks to be his real agenda, trying to get an apology for any liberal who has ever hinted that conservatives are fascist.
By: Enlightened Layperson on January 14, 2008
at 4:31 pm
I’ve been keeping an eye on posts about Liberal Fascism, because I dislike rank revisionism of any sort. (Will Doubleday start publishing David Irving now?) Goldberg is so clearly overmatched against anyone with any sort of reasoned discourse (& unlike you, I think there’s plenty of fascism on display in the modern-day Republican party — I wish I didn’t feel that way) that his repetitive and childish response seems to be a dismissive “well, that’s a liberal, so I won’t bother to engage him.” And then of course, claim that there are no liberals making any sort of coherent ripostes to his inane horror of a book.
Thanks for the post.
By: Anonymous on February 23, 2008
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Hamilton Street Grill (Yaletown)
I now understand why Arieanna said it was her favorite restaurant a couple of years ago when I requested a list of the favorite restaurants of people (remember that post?). We went for dinner to Hamilton Street Grill recently to celebrate Arieanna’s 30th birthday, and the experience was simply spectacular. The service was outstanding (my waitress was definitely an absolute sweetheart), and the company was bar-none. Airdrie and I had a fantastic time catching up at Arieanna’s birthday, and it was great to see other close friends of both the Schwebers and myself.
Located in the trendy Yaletown area of the city, the Hamilton Street Grill has a great location..
Admittedly, the Hamilton Street Grill touts itself as a steakhouse, and I recognize if people think it’s kind of ridiculous that I stuck to seafood at a steakhouse, but I’m not terribly drawn to steak in Canada (Mexico, that’s another thing). Besides, the food was SO DAMN GOOD. I ordered Garlic Prawns (pan seared with garlic butter and lime) to start ($12, not a bad price point for an appetizer, but on the higher end of the scale – this is Yaletown, after all). I wish my prawns had had MORE garlic, but what they didn’t have in garlic sauce they made up with garlic bread. Really nice presentation too, and huge prawns. I could have had the prawns for dinner and be happy.
For dinner, I chose the wild salmon with vegetable risotto and balsamic reduction ($24, at the medium-high end of the scale, but pretty common for any restaurant that does fine dining, and a really big portion). The salmon was cooked perfectly, it was flavourful without being overpowering. It also included some shavings of green onion that complimented the slightly tart flavour of the risotto.
I could have stopped there but I ordered a chocolate mousse for dessert ($8, in hindsight a mistake because I was too full to eat it all). Drinks at the Hamilton Street Grill are delicious but lethal (I had chocolate martinis at $10 and a couple of other nice sweet martinis, which totally gave my wallet a big hit)
Overall, I totally would come back for dinner to the Hamilton Street Grill, but perhaps be a bit more frugal (there’s plenty of good items that are great value for money and that I could have had, but I went all out – also, the drinks added to my bill!)
Disclosure: I paid for my dinner on my own dime. No portion of our dinners was complimentary. We didn’t receive any special treatment even though it was Arieanna’s birthday (we didn’t expect special treatment either). Chef Neil Wyles did kindly recharge my iPhone for 30 minutes, though, as the battery was totally depleted.
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Archives Collections List
Botanist, United States Department of Agriculture explorer
Letters, 19001925
HI Archives collection no. 12
Folder file, Oversized drawer 27
Letters to Orator Fuller Cook (18671949), 18911949
HI Archives collection no. 163
1 small green box
Fairchild, David GrandisonHI Archives portrait no. 7
Biographical note
David Grandison Fairchild (18691954) was an agricultural explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.), 18981933, and served as chief of the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction for much of that time. He was also a collaborator for the Division of Plant Introduction (1933?).
Content note
This collection consists mainly of photocopied correspondence between Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop (18461927), with a few letters to Fairchild’s wife, Marian Hubbard Graham Bell (18801962). The letters reveal the personal closeness between the men and Lathrop’s fatherly and professional concern with the development of Fairchild’s career. Among the correspondence are a letter of recommendation (14 November 1900) from Lathrop to James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, suggesting that Fairchild be put in control “of all the scientific and practical work of plant introduction, from foreign countries, and of such plant expansion in America”; Lathrop’s reference to the “mess,” apparently in the Bureau of Plant Industry Section of Seed and Plant Introduction (12 June 1903); Lathrop’s letter to Fairchild (6 September 1903) bitterly criticizing the U.S.D.A. for giving Fairchild the same salary he had received before working several years with Lathrop, and mentioning the Department’s “indifference” or “criticism” toward Lathrop’s “efforts on behalf of the growers, manufacturers, and consumers” of the U.S.; Fairchild’s letter (25 February 1922) to Lathrop discussing his interest in establishing some support (analogous to patents) for the discoveries of plant breeders; and Fairchild’s letter (25 January 1925) to Lathrop while plant collecting in Ceylon with the Allison V. Armour Expedition.
The originals of these letters are at the Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami. Researchers may use the copies here, but should refer to the Fairchild Garden for permission to cite or quote. Some of the correspondence between Fairchild and Lathrop (19011913) was published in Adventures in a Green World: The Story of David Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas (61 pp., 1973, Coconut Grove, FL, Field Research Projects; HI Library call no. LA D735A)..
His papers are at Fairchild Tropical Garden:
Consult Fairchild Gardens for permission to quote.
Search the Smithsonian field books for "Cali":
Contents
Two file folders
File folder 1
21 items
Correspondence between Barbour Lathrop and David Fairchild, 19001925. All photocopies. Some typed letters signed, some autograph letters signed.
14 November 1900: Lathrop to James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture
10 September 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
14 September 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
12 June 1903: James Wilson to Lathrop
6 September 1903: Lathrop to Fairchild
11 October 1903: Lathrop to Fairchild
6 May 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
23 June 1905: Lathrop to David and Marian Fairchild
18 July 1905: Lathrop to Marian Fairchild
19 July 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
24 May 1920: E. D. Ball, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S.D.A., to Lathrop. Notice of Renewal: lease on land (located on Ogeechee Rd, Chatham County, GA) to the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, for experimental purposes.
6 July 1920: Fairchild to Lathrop; mentions “Mr. [Joseph] Rock, an explorer of the Hawaiian Islands”
25 September 1920: Lathrop to Fairchild
25 February 1922: Fairchild to Lathrop
9 December 1924: Lathrop to Marian Fairchild
20 February 1925: Fairchild to Lathrop
14 January 1925: Fairchild to Lathrop
17 February 1925: Lathrop to the Fairchilds
24 March 1925: Lathrop to the Fairchilds
8 May 1925: Lathrop to the Fairchilds
23 October 1925: Lathrop to Fairchild and other friends
File folder 2
31 items
Contains correspondence between Barbour Lathrop and David Fairchild, 19011913. Original autograph and typed letters signed, plus some typewritten transcriptions of these letters.
2 November 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild; telegram from Lathrop in San Francisco to Fairchild in Geo. Brown Penitentiary, Yuma, AZ, requesting reply to letter of 1 November 1901
10 August 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
11 October 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
27 October 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
1 November 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
7 November 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
17 December 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
19 December 1901: Lathrop to Fairchild
22 July 1902: Lathrop to Fairchild
24 July 1902: Lathrop to Fairchild
26 July 1902: Lathrop to Fairchild
17 September 1902: Lathrop to Fairchild
5 February 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
18 March 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
4 April 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
19 October 1906: Fairchild to Lathrop
12 September 1913: Bryan Lathrop to Marian Fairchild
11 October 1913: Lathrop to Fairchild
Typed transcriptions of letters:
16 July 1901
11 October 1901
21 October 1901
27 October 1901
1 November 1901
7 November 1901
17 December 1901
19 December 1901
22 July 1902
24 July 1902
Handwritten notes, lined paper:
17 September 1902: Lathrop to Fairchild
June 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
1 November 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
9 November 1905: Lathrop to Fairchild
The author of these notes is unknown. The notes appear to be partial or complete transcriptions of four Barbour letters, but only two of these are contained in our collection. The source of the text of the November letters is unknown.
Fairchild, David Grandison
Date: April 1915 (at age 46)HI Archives portrait no. 6
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30-Second Jordan, Lindsey and Rex PSA on Sportsmanship
By Randy York
Rex Burkhead, Jordan Burroughs and Lindsey Moore came to Nebraska from different states with diverse backgrounds and played different sports, but they’re bound by the same competitive principles and share a keen sense of sportsmanship.
“Sportsmanship is an attitude,” says Burroughs, Nebraska’s Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler.
“Sportsmanship is a sign of class,” says Moore, the record-breaking four-year starting point guard on the Husker women’s basketball team.
“Sportsmanship is a way of life,” says Burkhead, NU’s Academic All-America running back and 2012 captain of the Allstate Good Works Team.
Burkhead, Moore and Burroughs all have impeccable reputations as Huskers, and that’s why the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame (NHSSHOF) asked them to be part of a Public Service Announcement on sportsmanship, so younger kids could view them as the role models they are.
All three Huskers quickly accepted that request, and Burroughs will be an important ambassador on Tuesday, Feb. 5, when the NHSSHOF, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Athletic Department, hosts the first-ever combined Sportsmanship Pep Rally at Waverly High School’s main gym.
Burkhead is training for the NFL draft and Moore is in the midst of her team’s regular season, but Burroughs will be among an all-star cast of Huskers who will share their thoughts about sportsmanship with more than 1,500 middle-school students from across Nebraska.
Nebraska Athletic Director Emeritus Tom Osborne will be the keynote speaker for a 90-minute program that goes beyond sportsmanship and addresses the issue of anti-bullying while discussing the importance of respect, pride, total-person development and life skills.
“Sportsmanship for Life and this pep rally are designed to reinforce Nebraska’s standards, principles and values,” said Larry Munksgaard, executive director of the NHSSHOF. “Our goal is a well-organized event that will reflect this state’s work ethic, character, morals, integrity, commitment, honesty, passion and our state’s national reputation for sportsmanship, which is so well exemplified by Lindsey, Jordan and Rex.”
Others who will join Osborne and Burroughs at the Sportsmanship Pep Rally are Husker football student-athletes Kenny Bell and Ameer Abdullah, Nebraska basketball representatives Trevor Menke and Dominique Kelley, Husker volleyball playersMeghan Haggerty and Sheridan Zarda and Waverly native and NU track and field captain Anne Martin. The Waverly High School Pep Band will provide pre-event entertainment, and the Nebraska Cheer Squad and Mascots will target their entertaining message to middle-school students.
Nebraska softball coach Rhonda Revelle, a nationally prominent motivational speaker, will help wrap up the event that also features the Spin-tacular Basketball Show led by Bruce Crevier and his family from Jefferson, S.D.
“The basketball show is top-level entertainment that includes a strong message of hope for this generation,” Munksgaard said. “They’ve performed in more than 35 countries and will help make our inaugural pep rally an inspiring one for everyone involved.”
Keith Zimmer, Nebraska’s associate athletic director for life skills, has worked with the Hall-of-Fame organization on the program. “We’re emphasizing good sportsmanship, responsible behavior and the need to make sound choices, not only inside the traditional school day, but outside the school walls as well,” Zimmer said.
Editor’s Note: For more information about the “SPORTSMANSHIP PEP RALLY,” please contact either Munksgaard at 402-432-8049 or Zimmer at 402-472-4616.
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By Brett Marshall - Special to The NewsWinning one state championship is difficult enough.
To repeat as a state team champion is even more of a challenge.
But that's what the Syracuse Lady Bulldogs golf team did on Monday at Cherry Oaks Golf Course in Cheney.
With junior Kiah Rash finishing second individually, and sophomore Sydney Brown taking third after the two tied at 94, coach Rick Mathias saw his team produce a score of 397 in defending their 2011 title won at Emporia's Municipal Golf Course.
"It was pretty darned cool to see the girls play the way they did and come away with the championship," Mathias said. "We were leading by two at the turn and then we just seemed to play better for the most part on the final nine."
Rash and Brown were sitting atop the leaderboard most of the day until the final group came in and Council Grove's Taylor Alderman claimed the top spot with an 87.
Rash, the younger sister of 2009 state champion Kamie Rash, who now competes for Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, had nines of 51 and 43.
"She was 11 over after four holes and then got going," Mathias said of Rash. "She's just kind of been that way most of the season."
Brown's consistent day was comprised of back-to-back 47s.
"She had been struggling with her swing, but we finally got her to do a couple of things and she started hitting the ball great," Mathias said of Brown.
Stephanie Geven, the lone senior, had a 97 after opening with a 43 and struggling to a 54 on the back nine. Shannan Lemons followed with a 112 while Laura Geven and Alice Englert finished with 125 and 130, respectively.
Cheney and Russell tied for second at 411 with Cheney claiming the runner-up spot by using the team's fifth score as the tiebreaker. Silver Lake at 417 and Caney Valley at 418 rounded out the top five. Holcomb was seventh at 428 and Lakin eighth at 441.
Lakin's Makayla Hendrix and Holcomb's Olivia Ortega tied for 15th with 102s while Kenzie Becker and Erika Robinson of Holcomb tied for 20th at 107.
Other Lady Longhorns scores were Kenzie Roth at 112 and Taylor Becker with a 149. Lakin's remaining scores were Jenna Garcia with a 109, Hannah Randolph with a 113, Emily Eggleston at 117, Ieshi Jury at 120 and Aubrey Anson with a 143. Cimarron's Jessica Ast with a 108 and Taylor Moyer with a 125 competed as individuals for the Lady Bluejays in their first season of having girls golf. | http://hutchnews.com/Print/1016-3-2-1A-golf | 2013-05-18T10:53:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Not a bad way for the Monarchs to steady a shaky stretch.
The Monarchs (14-7) came into Friday's games having lost 7 of 10 after opening the season with nine straight wins. On top of that, the Monarchs suffered their worst home loss ever Thursday, 9-0 to the Wichita Wheat Kings.
Martin helped put the Monarchs in a better mood, as he took a shutout into the seventh inning. He only lost it when the Knights scored two unearned runs with two outs, despite not hitting a ball out of the infield.
"Absolutely," Martin said when asked if he wanted the shutout. "But with the way things have gone lately, I just hope a win like this gets us back on track."
Martin was the catalyst of steering the Monarchs back into the win column. He allowed four singles - one was an infield dribbler and one came when left fielder Jake Gaul lost a fly ball in the sun - and struck out six.
"He pitched his butt off today," third baseman Mason Salazar said. "That was the best I've seen from him so far. He was pounding the zone, getting ground balls, and the defense was helping him by making the plays."
Early, Martin and Lindsborg's Jesse Hart were locked in a tight pitchers' duel. It seemed Lindsborg was going to break the scoreless game in the fourth inning when Vaughn Berberet hit a line drive to left field that Gaul couldn't find. Berberet ended up with a double, and then Wes Moody grounded out, moving Berberet to third base.
"I tried to hit another gear and sit them down, or get a weak ground ball," Martin said.
Martin struck out Jordan Jones and Dom Faron on six pitches, ending the inning.
"That's probably the turning point in the game," Monarchs coach Deron McCue said. "They have a kid on third with less than two outs, and if they get a run, with the way we've been playing, things could have gone south for us in a hurry."
Instead, things quickly improved for the Monarchs. Including the first four innings, the Monarchs had not scored in 10 innings, mustering just five singles. They had one hit through four innings Friday, which was a Scott Splett single in the first inning.
With one out in the top of the fifth inning, Jake Cloutre hit a soft single to right field. Jake Gaul then did the same, and Cloutre motored to third base. Right fielder Anthony Traverso tried to throw Cloutre out but badly overthrew third base, and Cloutre scored. Gaul scored on Salazar's single, and Salazar scored when Tyler Detmer hit an infield single, and shortstop Jordan Jones chucked the ball away for an error.
"I told the guys they weren't going to get it out of here," McCue said. "The wind was blowing in, and we've hit one home run on the year. I told them that we've got to hit line drives and grounders, and get back to what we do best."
The Monarchs tacked on two more runs in the fifth inning. With one out, Seth Spears walked and scored on Terrell Brown's double. Gaul singled home Brown with two outs.
That was more than enough for Martin, who threw less than 90 pitches and was in control, even in the last inning when the Knights scored twice.
"It was a tough day to hit, with the wind blowing in, and the pitchers understood that," Martin said. "Both of us pounded the zone because not much will happen on a day like this."
Martin's performance was a tough act to follow, but Roper did even better. Only two Knights reached base in the first six innings - on a walk and on an error. Then with one out in the seventh, Jordan Jones lined a clean single to center field.
"I knew it was going on in the back of my head," Roper said. "I knew what was going on. I just wanted to throw strikes. Maybe I tried too hard in that last inning."
Still, with three games this weekend, Martin and Roper gave the Monarchs bullpen some rest. Roper struck out seven and threw just 93 pitches.
Luke Acosta scored the only run in the first inning. He doubled with one out, went to third base on Detmer's ground out and scored on a wild pitch. | http://hutchnews.com/monarchs/Monarchs-second--1 | 2013-05-18T11:03:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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curiousgirl
10-18-2005, 05:06 PM
just curious, when ac/heat units (insde and out) get submerged like in new orleans are they totally ruined or can they be dried out and made to work again?
edrock
10-18-2005, 05:12 PM
gas furnaces shot........a/c units maybe repaired new boards and relays and such
aircooled53
10-18-2005, 05:33 PM
I would replace motor/contactor and any relays.
ductwork if sub-merged and thermostat with air handler if water or mold present.
Carnak
10-18-2005, 05:35 PM
It is possible to repair the outside unit of the air conditioner, they could work for two days, two months or two years.
I salvaged my outdoor air conditioning unit, it has been working a year so far.
smokin68
10-18-2005, 05:40 PM
If they can make a submerged car work again so can an A/C,furnace or whatever once it's dried out . Many of today's electronic gadgets can work again if submerged and then dried out...as long as it's thoroughly dry.
peytonc2682
10-18-2005, 05:44 PM
I say fire the old a/c systems back up, if they go out there is no loss. On the other hand, I am not sure I would want to use a furnance that had been under water.
[Edited by peytonc2682 on 10-18-2005 at 05:48 PM]
Chill
10-18-2005, 05:51 PM
One thing to think about is how old the unit is. Anything over 15 years, I wouldn't waste my time on.
millerman
10-18-2005, 05:54 PM
We are not talking just submerged but submerged in raw sewage, chemicals you name it. The outdoor unit could be saved, toss the indoor unit along with ducting.
[Edited by millerman on 10-18-2005 at 06:01 PM]
Carnak
10-18-2005, 06:05 PM
If you are insured get a new one, if it is going to be a while before you can replace, repair now, replace whenever you can.
dash
10-19-2005, 09:21 AM
From the "no name" or "storm of the century"of March 1993 ,FEMA paid for new syatems,those that kept the old one ,had it fail in the next 3 years,as far as we could tell.
Hard to get all the salt water out of coils,etc..
Carnak
10-19-2005, 10:21 AM
If you live in an area that is prone to salt water flooding, odds are it is a corrsoive environment in the first place.
dash
10-19-2005, 10:32 AM
Ours isn't as we are on the central west coast of Florida,the Gulf doesn't have the surf and salt spray of the Atlantic,or SW Florida beaches.
Carnak
10-19-2005, 10:38 AM
No surf here either, just can't get more than 2.5 miles inland.
ct2
10-19-2005, 11:22 AM
curiousgirl....do you have a sister named evilcurious girl?
that really is a serious question believe it or not
curiousgirl
10-19-2005, 02:53 PM
no dont have any sisters tht i know of.
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The chemistry department has six instructional labs, five student-faculty research laboratories, three instrument rooms, a prep room, chemical storage rooms, and a computer lab.
A partial list of the department's shared instrumentation includes a 400 MHz Varian NMR, a Hewlett Packard GC-MS, a Perkin Elmer 100 FT-IR (ATR), a Polymer Laboratories PL-GPC 120 Integrated Gel Permeation Chromatography System, UV-vis spectrophotometers, a MBraun Unilab (1200/780) Inert Atmosphere Glove Box and a PureSolv 400 solvent purification system.Students engaged in research receive keycard access to all of this equipment.
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Today’s Items:
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Merkel’s Past
In the 1980′s, Angela Merkel lived in East Germany and was responsible for brainwashing in favor of Marxism. If she could do that kind of work for communists, just imagine what kind of work she is doing for the banksters.
CIA Recruitment… In Russia
U.S. Embassy worker Ryan Fogl, was caught in the act of CIA recruitment by the Russian counterintelligence agency, following John Kerry’s visit to Russia. In addition, according to a letter seized, this spectacular failed attempt would not have come cheap… Try a million dollars a year plus bonuses – courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Nothing says trust like CIA operatives, working for the State Department, trying to recruit spies in Russia.
Obama’s Assault on Media
Well, it appears that more distractions from the gun-running from Libya to Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria continues with the fact that AP reporters are outraged over the Justice Department’s spying on them and seizure of phone records. In effect, the Justice Department is treating reporters as if they were members of the Tea Party? So, now we have Benghazi gate, IRS gate, and now AP gate from the so-called most transparent administration in U.S. history. Maybe, we should have another beer summit since Obama appears to believe he is already drunk with power as he hailed ‘World Press Freedom Day.’
Obamacare Rate Explosion
Aside from the fact that the scandal ridden IRS is not ready for Obamacare, internal cost estimates indicate that health insurance premiums will grow 100 to 400% under Obamacare. The key reasons for the surge in premiums include wider services to adding less healthy citizens, and non-citizens, to the roles.
IRS and Health Records
The same IRS that targeted groups that were in opposition to Obama, will be demanding everyone’s private health insurance records in January. Just imagine your worst enemy digging through your medical history and accidentally making public any, and all, medical information. Yep, this is the legislation that needed to be passed before reading it. Right Nancy Pelosi?
Police Brutality
Please watch this video on how the police break down this mans door
and taser him nearly to death because he was filming them from within the house. The police state is at not only at the doorstep, they have come in.
Waist to Height Ratio
Measuring the ratio of someone’s waist to their height is a better way of predicting their life expectancy than body mass index. People with a waist to height ratio of 80%, can expect to live 17 years less. So, instead of dieting, perhaps one should find a way to grow a few inches taller?. | http://hyperreport.org/tag/russia/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
We make three points. First, this is a physical security breach that does not, on its surface, appear to have any reputation impact. The financial impact will be minimal because the event is one of the perils commonly covered by property and casualty insurance. The second is that this is the type of physical security risk most companies are best prepared to mitigate - physical removal. Most are not in a position to mitigate the reverse security risk of physical introduction--the type of physical security risk that nearly brought Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) to its knees a quarter of a century ago.
Here's a worst case spin from a reputation perspective. Fact: Lilly has lost control of $75 million (wholesale) of product. These drugs are all branded and marked as authentic Lilly ethical pharmaceuticals which stakeholders expect will be safe and effective. Suppose branded product reentered the market after being adulterated. Suddenly, the Johson & Johnson fiasco seems like child's play.
You ask for a motive? How about the mother of all insider trades? Would criminals who execute a Mission:Impossible-style heist have the financial acumen to short Lilly equity or go long on Lilly credit default swaps as they flood the market with adulterated pharmaceuticals? Could they recognize returns in excess of $75 million in fungible liquid assets?
And this brings us to the third point. Superior reputation management includes both crisis management and scenario modeling exercises. Because even rumors suggesting the above could be damaging.
Heads Up - Date ChangeThe Mission: Intangible Monthly Briefing for April 2010 will be held one week later than usual in deference to those who celebrate Good Friday. On 9 April 2010 at 12h00 EDT, the second Friday of the month, we will host a conversation featuring incoming Integrity and Corporate Responsibility Committee Chairman Paul Liebman from Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and IA Value Signaling Committee Chairman Jon Low from Predictiv. The title for the one hour moderated discussion is: Ethics - A valuable intangible asset? Mary Adams from Intellectual Capital Advisors hosts.
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As the leaves drop for fall and the snow passes for winter I think of all our feelings we had those summer nights when I would look you in your eyes to say those three words every girl dreamed , whether they were said on a balcony , in a garden , or on a roof that’s their only dream to have a man say those words and mean it as the sentence leaves my lips I see tears tremble past her cheek and into her smile , she says them back with utter relief as if I was not going to say them. When I asked her , why did think I would not say that , I believe you are more marvelous than a sunset and you have a smile that makes my heart skip a beat , I believe that is love , when someone’s actions not even their words , make you believe there is nothing better than their being with you , that is love . | http://iamoverlyconfident.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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NS – The Price Of Being A Male In The Glorious Nation Of Singapore
Ok. I need to get this out of my system. I have been rushing the completion of as much work as possible before I go for my reservist in-camp training tomorrow. For the next 3 weeks, I will be paying the price of being born a male in the glorious nation of Singapore. I’m rushing work that needs to be completed days in the future, work which was ‘ordered’ only days before because I won’t be around in the weeks ahead.
I applied for deferment and it was rejected. The reason ‘work commitments’ was deemed invalid because the company had time to prepare for my period away at training. How were they to prepare for it? Duplicate another resource to the team so that two people will have the same knowledge of a system build up over 1.5 years of working so that the other person can cover me when I am away for 3 weeks. Seriously? You think every company has the same sort of redundancy built into the gloriously competent SAF?
Ask the company to withhold promoting me to a higher level of responsibility and instead pass it to another individual so there will be no gap when I’m away at in-camp training?
Now, I have always maintained National Service was important and have made it a point to go back for every single training. Even training I had to go because SAF lost the records of my previous training. Yes. The SAF made me go back to do something I already did because their clerks were so ‘meticulous’ in their processing of paperwork.
I didn’t need to do any RT. I’m saying it now. I could have failed my IPPT to kingdom comes and wouldn’t need to do a single second of RT but I called up the people responsible for maintaining the RT system and told them they missed me from their records. I eventually learned the reason why I was missed and it was another ‘shining’ example of how the SAF administration works.
When I had fever, I still took the ATEC 1 tests because there was no other person to replace me in my section. Yes, so little people went back during the last training that we had a shortage of personnel that shuffling men around couldn’t even help.
I’m not saying I have been the best solider. What I’m saying is that as much as possible, I have done what was asked of me. I haven’t made it a point to go out of my way to skip training. I haven’t ‘eat snake’ during NS and reservist trainings.
I was hoping if the day comes when my outside civilian life might be impacted by training, that the people in charge would honor the implicit bargain I thought was made – I will give my best whenever I can, and you don’t fuck around with the civilian life that actually really matters.
I’m not saying that training doesn’t matter. It does. But at the end of the day, it should be recognized that some training is good to have and some is just plain wayang. I can say for the 3 weeks back in camp, I’ll probably be rushing to wait, waiting to rush most of the time, just like every other time.
On another note:
I could have applied for partial deferment and on hindsight, I am wondering if I should have. I’ll go back to camp and discuss with my superiors. The way I see it, only 1 week is really crucial during this training.
The problem with our reservist system is that a lot of the officers we have aren’t the ones we trained and lived with for the better part of 2.5 years we did NS. What it means is that there is no way for the officers to know if an individual is making a genuine request for deferment because he believes that he can’t afford the time for training or he is just trying to ‘eat snake’/malinger. If it was my old officer from NS, I am pretty sure he would know I wouldn’t have made the request unless I was sure I needed the deferment.
In this sense, I understand the difficulty for them in granting deferments to the non-hardcore cases. The hardcore cases who are out just to avoid training would berate them with requests until it is much easier for the officers to just grant the request or these hardcore malingerers would just report ‘sick’.
The irony is that the new officers demand the same loyalty from us when they themselves are unable to show the same sort of loyalty. It is no one’s fault. Both parties don’t know each other. But by virtual of rank, they can ‘force’ that loyalty.
On a final note:
I hate how patronizing foreigners and women are when I share about how much a disruption NS is. Fuck you, you understand. Don’t give me the platitude ‘I am serving my nation’ and shouldn’t complain. And while we (those who serve NS) might joke that it is free chalet with free food and exercise, we jest because we recognize what a major inconvenience reservist is and its symbolism of how much the state owns the males in Singapore (which is a lot). You (i.e. foreigners and women) don’t get the right to make snide comments about how lucky we are to have a holiday and do not need to work.
While we may be communing with nature, reservist isn’t a walk in the park.
On a final final note:
I once talked to a bunch of older guys about their reservist liabilities and it seems that their take on it is slightly different from mine. They actually looked forward to reservist training.
I think the difference arises because the SAF is now rushing us through our cycles. The higher-ups from SAF say it is to help us finish our liabilities earlier, but I believe it is really just to help the SAF save cost. When I have to do reservist training when I am in university, you don’t have to pay much for salary. So a cycle that starts when an individual is 25 and ends late in his thirties is much more expensive than the cycle which starts when an individual is 22.
Anyway, the reason why those older dudes looked forward to reservist:
1. No need to listen to wife nag.
2. No need to send kids to school early in the morning.
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mtrice:
NOAA Coastal Services Center recently had a press release regarding its new website that allows users to interactively map historical hurricane tracks and produce charts of population trends by county overlaid with hurricane occurrences. It also links to all your favorite hurricane sites. It's useful for creating maps for your upcoming Isabel talks!
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>> James River watershed drains approximately 10,000 square miles of land. The river begins in the Allegheny Mountains, where it is formed by the confluence of the Jackson and Cowpasture Rivers and flows approximately 340 miles to the Chesapeake Bay. Sub-tributaries include the Appomattox, Chickahominy, and Elizabeth Rivers. Land use within the watershed is predominantly forest, with agriculture/farming accounting for approximately one-fifth of land use. Major cities in the watershed include Richmond and Hampton Roads. The census population for 2000 in the watershed was over 2,500,000 people. Based on information in Dauer, et al., 2003 and the James River Association.
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Parallel computations at "home"
Last years PC processors speed increases slowly and the Moore's law leads to the fast growth of transistors number on a chip. As a result we've got multi-cores processors. Now only for 65$ one can buy Dual Core E2140. At 2.4 GHz with Speed Step technology ("Minimal Power Management" under Windows XP) it is very cool. In several years we can upgrade it to Quad and FireStream crystals have hundreds of coprocessors.
Monte-Carlo modeling and fractal drawing are parallelized easily by dividing of "work space" among coprocessors. It is realized in Java by Threads. The applet
DirectMT.java
below draws
the circle map
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New York: Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, knocking out power and flooding some of Lower Manhattan's deserted streets even as it lost some of its strength.
Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday morning but was still sending waves crashing onto shorelines and flooding coastal suburbs.
There was about a foot of water in the streets at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan and the tide seemed to be rising, although there was less damage than many had feared.
Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday morning but was still sending waves crashing onto shorelines.
"It's not bad as we they said it would be. The streets are flooded but not as bad as I thought," said John Harris, 37, who defied an evacuation order and stayed home overnight in the Rockaways. "But I'm going to keep my eye on it. I know how to get out of here if I have to."
Heavy rains and wind forced the closure of three bridges leading to the Rockaways peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean, and further east on Long Island sand berms built to hold off the flooding and protect coastal businesses appeared to have failed.
Irene was blamed for at least nine deaths in North Carolina, Virginia and Florida as it headed up the East Coast. About 3.3 million homes were without electricity and several million people were under evacuation orders.
New York City's normally bustling streets were eerily quiet after authorities ordered tens of thousands of residents to evacuate low-lying areas and shut down its subways, airports and buses.
Forecasters said Irene still posed a serious threat of storm surge that could raise water levels by as much as 4 to 8 feet in coastal areas from Virginia to Massachusetts. Isolated tornadoes in the New York area were possible.
The storm dumped up to eight inches of rain on the Washington region, but the capital appeared to have.
From the Carolinas to Maine, tens of millions of people were in the path of Irene, which howled ashore in North Carolina almost empty as Irene rolled into the city with full force.
Broadway shows were canceled, coffee was hard to come by with Starbucks stores closed and burgers and fries were in short supply as McDonald's outlets were shut.
The city's streets were quiet although some people were out checking on the storm's damage.
"I was hoping to come out to see the worst," said Tom Wall, 38, a mechanical engineer dressed in sandals and an orange rain jacket as he walked along the South Street Seaport. "So far it's much less dramatic than I expected."
After Irene, weather watchers were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Jose, which formed near Bermuda., many of them in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
Some refused to leave. Nicholas Vigliotti, 24, an auditor who lives in a high-rise building along the Brooklyn waterfront, said he saw no point. "Even if there was a flood, I live on the fifth floor"
Storm surge fears
Flood waters forced officials in Hoboken, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, to evacuate a storm shelter, the mayor of Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer, said on Twitter.
The Miami-based US.
Summer vacationers fled beach towns and resort islands. More than a million people left the New Jersey shore and glitzy Atlantic City casinos were dark and empty.
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Mumbai: Who better than the team of 'Jism 2' to show that there is nothing sexier than having compassion for animals? Director Pooja Bhatt and co-producer Dino Morea have donated the wardrobe of 'Jism 2' to benefit PETA's homeless-dog adoption campaign and other initiatives.
Costumes including Leone's lingerie, dresses and gowns as well as attire worn by male actors Randeep Hooda and Arunoday Singh will go on the auction on eBay on August 3, the first day of the film's release. The details of the auction can be found at PETAIndia.com.
"With Jism 2 supporting PETA it's clear, compassion for animals is super sexy. The proceeds from the auction of Jism 2 wardrobe will go directly toward PETA's efforts to encourage homeless dog adoption, spay and neuter and toward our other lifesaving campaigns. If you respect animals, one easy and fun way to help stop their suffering is to make a bid" says PETA India CEO Poorva Joshipura.
Pooja Bhatt and Dino Morea have donated the wardrobe of \'Jism 2\' to benefit PETA\'s homeless-dog adoption campaign.
In India, tens of millions of homeless dogs struggle to survive on the streets. Many of them go hungry, are injured or killed, are hit by vehicles or are abused by cruel people..
The auction is up for ten days starting 3 August.
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A stretch of Australia's Sunshine Coast has been blanketed in sea foam.
Swept ashore by the remnants of a tropical cyclone that struck Australia last week.
Some reports suggested that people living in the Australian town of Mooloolaba woke up on Monday to find parts of the small beach town in the state of Queensland covered in foam.
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