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Recently Iíve come across some interesting terms for variants of common network topologies, so I decided I’d try to list as many of them as I can for reference. Please suggest others to add. Please welcome Ziyad Basheer for his first post on EtherealMind. Network automation tools are nothing new, but vendors are starting to implement deployment simplifying tools such as Cisco’s AutoQoS and AutoSecure. These tools for reducing repetitive deployments’ costs and assist configuration are a mark of a trend. Dynamic deployment tools will only get more popular and eventually gain mainstream deployment within the multiple facets of the network.† Are all networking books over 10 years old obsolete? Kevin Bovis a Technical Services Director with Cisco Gold Partner provides 10 examples that would suggest that some networking books are worth keeping and can provide a bit of credibility to an ageing Technical Manager. In the recent weeks, J. Michael Metz from Cisco entered a ****ing contest with my friend Greg and decided to prove that the FCoE standards are done. For years, my services have belonged to one employer at a time. †They advertise for a position. †I interview. †We chat, perhaps multiple times. †If we like each other, there’s a negotiated offer, and I come on board. †We hug, shed a joyful tear or two, and I settle in behind the keyboard with fellow […] As you might have noticed, everyone is talking about Data Centers lately and all the new “revolutionary” networking technologies are targeted at this segment. The reason is simple: server virtualization (not to mention the vapor-word) will forever change the networking landscape and the networking engineers might get badly hurt if caught unprepared. Has IT certification become nothing more than a racket? Something I heard this week made me really start to wonder? John McManus kicks off writing at EtherealMind with a look HSRP and GLBP First Hop Redundancy Protocols. The CCIE program isn’t just about knowledge, it’s also about technique and methods that help you continue learning all your life. One of the dangers of being from a pure cisco background is assumption. You treat all devices as if they have the same defaults as ‘normal’ Cisco devices. I think I’m pretty good at avoiding this, but it gets us all sometimes. As we all know, when you run long lived TCP connections through application […]

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Darrell M. West Vice President, Governance Studies, Brookings : Party chairs need three qualities: being able to raise money, stay on message, and build a strong organization. Palin has fundraising skills, but has not demonstrated the needed attributes in terms of message discipline or organizational development. If Steele goes, it would be better for Republicans to find an organizational type who can get out the vote and not make gaffes. When the public opinion climate is on your side, there is no excuse for distraction.

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I was still looking at the remaining ping pong balls, and wondering where to put them away, when I spotted a string of fairy lights looking unloved. On went the figurative lightbulb, and the Lucky Charms appeared! You will need: A string of fairy lights (and batteries if required) A pair of scissors A handful of ping pong balls (I only had enough for every other light, it doesn't matter if they're all covered or not) Step 1: Piercing You need to pierce each of them, and then file/cut out the hole so that it is slightly smaller than the diameter of the light bulb. I used the blade of a pair of scissors, and turned it around in the hole, to carve out the excess plastic. Be careful with this - I slipped on the one in the top right, and made a huge slot, luckily, it wasn't so big it doesn't fit now! Step 2: Decorate I used a selection of lucky charm motifs on mine...

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Most important thing in savings is to make sure it is safe! Despite of period and purpose of savings Safety comes first. Below are some methods to make sure your savings are protected: Inflation has a negative effect in the savings. Time Value of money is lost due to inflation. To over come this invest in instruments which earns best interest for your savings. • Watch out bonus rates There are many banks boost the interest rates for a temporary period to attract more deposits. These bonus rates end after the specified period and savings will lesser interest after that period. Make sure you have a note of these end dates and re-deposit in a savings appropriately. • Foreign banks In case you have savings in foreign banks you should check and know whether those banks are safe and licenced to carry out banking operations. Have the peace of mind after you deposit your hard earn money in a safer bank. • Safeguard from tax In most of the countries interest income from the savings is treated as a form of income which is taxable. Diversify your savings so you don’t get hold to Taxable income category. If you are not sure get an investor advisors help to plan out your savings. • Deposit appropriately and Evade savings charge Select the savings accounts based on the need of you. If you want to withdraw in a short term deposit appropriate for the period. Than deposit in a longer period tempting for the higher interst rate. Keep in mind when you deposit for a longer period and you want to withdraw before the due date you won’t get the promised interest and there will be penalty charge for pre mature withdrawal.

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Long before she wrote her first book, Esther Spina was on a course that would lead to hundreds of unique experiences that she would one day share with her readers. Raised in California, Esther started out “ambitious” by becoming the first female promoted to the role of Order Desk Clerk for General Electric/Hotpoint, which she worked up to for 4 dedicated years. While this was an amazing accomplishment for such a young woman, Esther was not through with “firsts.” After two years Esther moved to San Diego where she met and married her husband, Frank Spina. Together, they built a highly successful ceramic tile business. However, the recession of the 1990s made California construction a difficult industry in which to succeed. Frank and Esther made the decision to move to Fort Worth, Texas, and Esther began her independent sales journey by selling business to business for a National Company for the next 12 years. She then joined another sales organization, where her career took her to heights she had only dreamed of previously, which inspired a great deal of writing in her new book, The Ambitious Woman: What it Takes and Why You Want to Be One. The Ambitious Woman is a candid look at what it takes to be a successful woman in business, at home, or in any other environment. Esther shows how to be ambitious enough to pursue your dreams, no matter what you envision. Combining her faith, her personality and her own experiences, Esther brings a love for life and her profession to her book. Esther’s network, Ambitious Women, provides support through annual conferences for women within that community. Her goal is to expand her network to include ALL women. The Ambitious Woman: What it Takes and Why You Want to Be One is a culmination of years of hard work, and can serve as the unifying factor in bringing business women together from all walks of life. As an author, speaker and National Consultant Esther wants to help others enjoy the financial freedom and family-friendly schedules that come from business success. Women in every area of business will find that The Ambitious Woman illustrated how women embody characteristics such as being an inspiration, living in empowerment, and being truly motivational to help others reach their goals and create win-win relationships in every area of life, both business and personal. See other products

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Kary Mullis, Doc Ellis, and A Meditation on LSD Kary Mullis: Highly Unique Chemistry "I wouldn't try to publish a scientific paper about these things, because I can't do any experiments. I can't make glowing raccoons appear. I can't buy them from a scientific supply house to study. I can't cause myself to be lost again for several hours. But I don't deny what happened. It's what science calls anecdotal, because it only happened in a way that you can't reproduce. But it happened." --Kary Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field No, I wasn't kidding -- Kary Mullis won a Nobel Prize in 1993. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field is the title of his autobiography, which generated a lot of controversy with his cheerful announcement that many of his breakthrough moments in science happened courtesy of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. (His autobiography on the Nobel Prize website is much more toned-down.) Jeff Wells has a very fascinating article about Mullins and his Glowing Racoon Experience, which yields this creepy gem: "And it's not only Mullis who has experienced strange phenomena at his cabin. Some time later, and before having told anyone of his encounter and missing time, his daughter Louise lost three hours wandering down the same hill, reappearing in the same spot just as her distraught boyfriend was about to call the police. And to Bill Chalker, author of the recently published, and fascinating, Hair of the Alien (which recounts the first forensic DNA analysis of a purportedly alien artifact), Mullis said that a guest at a party to celebrate his Nobel win in 1993, unfamiliar with his account of the "raccoon," encountered a "small glowing man" on a hill leading to the cabin. The figure suddenly expanded to full size and said "I'll see you tomorrow." He left the party with a friend for their hotel rooms in a nearby town. Very early the next morning he found himself outside in the hotel parking lot, "terrified by the impression that he had somehow been back" to the cabin." Re-Assessing That Nobel Prize Nearly every Nobel Prize that's ever been awarded since 1901 has been disputed, and the one Kary Mullis recieved is no exception. He was nominated for inventing Polymerase Chain Reaction, a technique for getting DNA sequences to replicate themselves -- with no living organism involved. This is called "amplifying" DNA. PCR is a stable technology for genetic research today, and you can find a good quick visual guide right here and grok it in 10 seconds. "Beginning with a single molecule of the genetic material DNA, the PCR can generate 100 billion similar molecules in an afternoon. The reaction is easy to execute. It requires no more than a test tube, a few simple reagents, and a source of heat." --Kary Mullis, from Scientific American It's a curious and apparently inevitable trend -- multiple researchers, working separately and often distributed randomly all around the planet, will fall upon the same concept at around the same time. (I've been collecting incidents of this weird "resonance" and there will probably be an article on that eventually.) In 1971, a Norwegian by the memorable name of Kjell Kleppe published a research paper on the PCR concept -- and curiously again, his co-author was MIT professor Gobind Khorana, who won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his contributions to Medicine. So what gives? Wikipedia -- of all sources -- provides a very eloquent closing thought: The Kleppe story may best illustrate the claim that an invention, even if has been conceptualized earlier, does not really exist until it can be developed and realized. It could similarily be viewed as a good example that research scientists often ignore or reject the notion of their inventions belonging to anyone rather than being available to everyone. LSD and Human Creativity The long history of Great Achievements on Acid is probably familiar to most Brainsturbator readers. Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson both loved it. Artists from Salvador Dali to Alex Grey have used it to great effect in their creative process. Hundreds of notable authors have benefitted from LSD: William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey and Allan Ginsburg, St. Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins and Steward Brand of the Whole Earth Catalog. It was a formative experience in the lives of both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Two of the best american comedians, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks, both used acid when they were in their prime. Kareem Abdul Jabbar was chewing blotter around the same time he studied martial arts under Bruce Lee. Timothy Leary may or may not have tried it during the 1960s. And of course, infamous tweaker Oliver North was under the influence of LSD during most of his testimony at the Iran-Contra hearings in 1986. Acid runs through the veins of the past 50 years of American music in measurable quantites even today. Coltrane, Hendrix, Santana, Allman, Zappa, right on up to Trent Renzor and Maynard James Keenan. Kieth Richards ate acid and now he's immortal and totally immune to the effects of any Earth drugs. Hell, there are even rumors that The Beatles might have tried it. My all time favorite is MLB pitcher Doc Ellis, who pitched a perfect game in 1970 while he was tripping, and by his account, tripping his balls off. Doc Ellis was a rare breed in many respects. Later, in 1974, he came to the conclusion -- probably not while tripping -- that his teamates has gotten soft and needed a lesson in keeping it real. At a press conference before a game with the Cincinatti Reds, he announced: "We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm going to hit these motherfuckers." The man was definitely not kidding: Ellis opened the contest by drilling leadoff hitter Pete Rose in the ribs; hitting the next batter, Joe Morgan, in the side; and then plunking Dan Driessen in the back to load the bases. Although clean-up hitter Tony Perez managed to dodge Ellis' pitches long enough to draw a walk before being hit, Dock aimed his next two offerings at Cincinnati catcher Johnny Bench's head, whereupon he was unceremoniously yanked from the game by Pittsburgh manager Danny Murtaugh. --from this snopes.com article Of course, this isn't all a fun, happy parade of beautiful success stories and baseball love. LSD has destroyed plenty of people as well: Phillip K. Dick probably could have used a bit less acid in his life. Syd Barrett disappeared, and Matisyahu used acid back in the 90s and....well, just look at him now. Before I abandon the topic of "LSD and Human Creativity", first take a look at the White House's official list of nicknames for acid: probably the biggest laugh you'll get all day. Highlights include Animal, Brown bombers, Comic book, Grape parfait, Pink robots, Potato, Russian sickles, and The Hawk. Who wrote that list, Richard Nixon? Where Did All The Acid Go? The War on Drugs has been the worst mistake the United States has made in 100 years -- considering that's a century that includes the Vietnam War, Operation Paperclip, and George W. Bush becoming president, any thinking person probably disagrees with me. Consider my case, though: in the USA, someone gets arrested on drug charges every 20 seconds -- and they wonder why stoners are paranoid, right? As of 2005, 42.6 percent of all those arrests are for marijuana offenses, a drug which has medical benefits and harms nobody -- a "drug" which is a f*ing plant, if you actually think about it. It's hard to feel good about living in a country where the vegetation isn't even free. ...but back to the war on drugs: the United States actually has the highest rates of incarceration on the planet. Russia and China are both behind us, and China has 1.3 billion people. Our total prison population has been rising every single year for 33 years now, which is strange because the crime rates have been steadily dropping since 1991. When you talk about prison statistics, sadly, most people picture huge, violent men who want to rape and kill them. Let's put these numbers in perspective: over 200,000 of these prisoners are women. 29% of them are in prison for non-violent drug charges. It's an open secret in this country that just for being black, you're six times more likely to wind up in prison as a white human being. I live in Vermont -- around here you're over 12 times more likely to wind up in prison. We also have a population that's 98% white, but these two statistics are obviously unrelated. You're Not Answering the Question I mentioned all that because the War on Drugs, to be fair, does have one major victory: they pretty much shut down the entire market for acid back in 2000. The man you see on the left is Leonard Pickard, currently serving two life sentences for the manufacture and distribution of LSD. (It is unclear at this time how the Feds expect him to serve both sentences.) The San Francisco Chronicle elegantly sums up Pickard as a "nonsmoking, marathon-running vegetarian, a Harvard graduate and deputy director of a University of California program that tracked illegal drugs." He was also the reason most acidheads even got the chance to try LSD in the first place. Although it's impossible to quantify actual numbers out of a black market substance, I think anyone who was paying attention from 1999 through 2001 probably noticed that $20 tenstrips went extinct across the United States. So clearly Pickard's bust had quite an effect. (It's worth considering that perhaps Pickard supplied much less LSD than the DEA gives him credit for -- and perhaps his bust just served as a clear signal to everyone else involved to make a career change.) Some documents we keep handy at the Brainsturbator Library: LSD: My Problem Child -- Albert Hoffman Moire Patterns and Visual Hallucenations Synthesis of LSD -- Barnes -- 1974 Vintage Recipe. (Manufacturing LSD is totally illegal and you should not do it. Also, you probably have no idea what you're doing even with a recipe, so chillax.) Stanislav Grof Interviews Albert Hoffman LSD Psychotherapy -- Stanislav Grof Beautiful copy, high-res scan, large file, great book. Handbook of LSD Therapy Organizations still carrying the torch for genuine scientific research into LSD include MAPS, Heffter Research Institute, and the Beckley Foundation, all of whom maintain very educational and information-packed websites for those looking to learn more. And as always, check out the two most venerable and valuable drug websites online: the Lycaeum and the Vaults of Erowid. Kary Gets the Last Word From his official website: "Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. "Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year, truths and devices that enrich our lives and grow up out of the graciously willing puzzles of the unknown in an orderly but unpredictable way, out of a process of observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion; a process that as far as we know, was first proposed and adopted, only a few hundred years ago by a number of Europeans faced with a new world to explore and some worn out scholastic tools passed down from the ancient Greeks to explore it with. "The Galileos and the Newtons and the Hookes, and the Boyles invented new sharper tools of inquiry and the age of science was born. Now we each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the Seventeenth Century would have gone to war to possess. We are the recipients of scientific method. We not only can luxuriate in its weed-like growth, but we can each of us be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. And we will. There is no stopping it, nor can there be any end to it." Apparently, Kary Mullis is currently working for DARPA, helping the military learn how to survive their own bioweapons and "super-pathogens" -- hope the money's good.

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President Barack Obama has requested Michigan car factory workers to construct additional support for his plan to fend off the impending fiscal cliff crisis, which primarily consists of increasing the tax rates of the wealthy Americans. The Barack Obama trip to Michigan was preceded by private meetings of his with the Republican House Speaker, John Boehner, on Sunday at the White House. The US President’s appearance at a Detroit car factory on Monday consisted of him informing the Detroit car workers that he wouldn’t compromise with the Republicans on the matter of tax rises for the rich. The President, nonetheless, expressed willingness to negotiate with the Republicans on some issues related to the fiscal cliff crisis. Barack Obama guaranteed to the Detroit car factory’s workers that the Democrats would enact some tough spending cuts where it was necessary. But the spending cuts, which would be incorporated in the Obama ‘fiscal cliff’ plan, weren’t specified by him at the Detroit event. Barack Obama cautioned the automobile employees in Detroit that, if no congressional action was taken before 2013 to ward off the fiscal cliff threat, middle-class American families would witness a $2,200 (£1,369) increase in taxes in 2013. Middle-class Americans such as the car workers in Detroit couldn’t afford to withstand absence of congressional action on the fiscal cliff matter. Barack Obama’s ‘fiscal cliff prevention plan’ involves jacking up the tax rates for the American millionaires while prolonging the George W Bush-era tax cuts for everyone else. In connection with fiscal cliff, Republican Senator Jim DeMint quit the Senate to decry Barack Obama’s fiscal cliff plan as well as to condemn John Boehner’s negotiations with the US President to stop the fiscal cliff eruption. Without US congressional action this year, fiscal cliff is expected to break out on January 1, 2013, as deep spending cuts and tax increases for all Americans will greet the country in 2013. Extended welfares for the long-term unemployed and a provisional reduction in payroll taxes are also listed to die at the same time. This is projected to defer the US economic recovery from the 2008 recession.

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With more than 700,000 e books already on line, The Top Suspense Group plans to slash through the clutter and offer readers one site filled with exciting books in several genres at reasonable prices. As creator and acclaimed author Dave Zeltserman explains, “Every member of our group has made his or her mark on genre fiction, whether it's noir, crime, mystery, thriller, horror or Westerns, and in some cases, several of these genres. “Authors include Max Allan Collins, Bill Crider, Ed Gorman, Vicki Hendricks, Harry Shannon and myself,” Zeltserman notes. Zeltserman has spoken before about the difficulty readers have in searching for sites that offer seasoned professionals making some of their finest material available at affordable prices. Not only will readers get the books, but many of the books will contain extra material, such as the writer’s commentary on the book that has been purchased or the addition of a free short story. “Readers will appreciate a reliable inexpensive site that continuously delivers some of the best in contemporary genre fiction,” said Top Suspense Group member and multi-award winning author, Max Allan Collins.

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|This article does not cite any references or sources. (July 2009)| Mount Rainier from the southeast end of the lake |Location||Lewis County, Washington, |Primary inflows||Upper and Lower Lake Creeks| |Basin countries||United States| |Max. length||2 mi (3.2 km)| |Max. width||0.6 mi (1 km)| |Surface elevation||2,857 ft (871 m)| |Islands||1 (Wizard Island or Enchantment Island)| Packwood Lake is a freshwater lake in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. It is located near the town of Packwood and is a popular day hiking and overnight camping area. The southern half of the lake lies within the Goat Rocks Wilderness area. Packwood Lake lies at approximately 2,857 feet (871 m) above sea level and about 25 miles (40.5 km) southeast of Mount Rainier. Its main source of water is glacier-fed Upper and Lower Lake Creeks, which descend from Gilbert Peak (also known as Old Snowy Mountain). The lake is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) long and 0.6 miles (1 km) wide. The lake is held in place by a natural dam. Approximately 1,200 years ago, Snyder Mountain, which borders the lake to the northwest, broke and slid down into the (then) Lake Creek valley, effectively plugging it and forming the lake. Maximum depth is approximately 160 feet (49 m). The island in the lake is officially named Agnes Island, and also referred to by locals as both Wizard Island or Enchantment Island. The island is protected by the US Forest Service and no landings are permitted there. Packwood Lake is home to a genetically distinct species of rainbow trout. This trout has evolved for over a thousand years, separated from other populations of fish. It is known for its excellent taste, large size, and drab creamy coloring. Due to many years of stocking, however, the fish is becoming less and less prominent as its gene pool becomes diluted by stocked fish. Also calling this lake home are several species of birds, including heron, bald eagle, and wood duck. Black bear are also fairly common, as are deer, elk, raccoon, cougar, and (in the higher elevations above the lake) mountain goats. Packwood Lake has been used for several thousand years by Native Americans as summer quarters and hunting territory. Due to extremely cold winters and subsequent heavy snows, the area is considered largely uninhabitable during the winter. Packwood lake was dammed by man in 1964 to produce electricity. There is a small 27-megawatt dam at the foot of the lake which has taken over the job of holding back the lake from the Snyder Mountain landslide. Great care was used when designing and building the dam so as not to affect the abundant wildlife that calls the lake and surrounding area home. The actual dam structure is only a couple of feet tall, creating only a small holding pond which feeds the penstock. Water from Packwood Lake is also piped to the town of Packwood and supplies the greater Packwood area. Packwood lake is a popular hiking destination for both day hikers and campers. The trail leading to the lake, Packwood Lake Trail #78, is also a popular entrance to the Goat Rocks Wilderness and surrounding area. The lake is also used as a stopping ground for travellers headed to Mosquito and Lost Lakes to the north, and Gilbert Peak to the southeast. An all-terrain vehicle trail (the 'low trail') was completed some years ago and offers ATV and horse access to the lake. The 'upper trail' is reserved for hikers only, though many people ride horses on it and deposit trail apples for hikers to step in. Both trails, upper and lower, are approximately 5 miles (8 km) to the lake from a well-maintained and paved parking lot. Continuing past the lake, hikers are offered hundreds of miles of trails covering breathtaking scenery, and the Pacific Crest Trail may be reached about 7 miles (11.3 km) beyond the lake. The lake itself is a very popular fishing hole and may be fished from shore or paddle boat (motors are prohibited). Additionally, fishing with bait is prohibited (lures only) and all lures may contain only a single barbless hook.

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The Arch Priest Father Gregory Robert Allen Buss, 71, of Spring Valley, IL passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2013, in his home, after a three month battle with cancer. A Divine Liturgy and funeral service were held Saturday, March 23 at the St. George Orthodox Church in Spring Valley, conducted by Fr. Nicholas Dahdal and other area priests. Burial followed at St. George Cemetery. Visitation was held at the church on Friday, March 22, followed by The Funeral for a Priest, conducted by Fr. James Ellison, Fr. Habib Ghantous, and other area priests. Fr. Gregory was born April 6, 1941 in Kalamazoo, MI to Robert and Emily (Malmstone) Buss. He married Katherine (Kay) Wedge at St. Luke's Parish in Kalamazoo in 1965. Fr. Gregory received a B.A. in Philosophy from Kalamazoo College, an M.A. from Seabury-Western Theological Episcopal Seminary, a B.A. in Math from Dickinson State University, and he was ordained in the Orthodox Priesthood and served as Priest of St. George Orthodox Church in Spring Valley for the past 18 years. Fr. Gregory had many hobbies, including astronomy, walking, and reading. Survivors include his wife, Katherine Buss of Spring Valley; a daughter, Rebecca A. (Lucas) Buss-Martinez of Denver, CO; a son, Robert A. Buss of Philadelphia, PA; two sisters, Judith Buss of Portage, MI and Katherine Edgerton of Delton, MI; and his half-brother, Lavon Armstrong of Edgerton, OH. He was preceded in death by his parents and his half-brother, Ronald Armstrong. Memorials can be made to the St. George Orthodox Church, in care of The Guest Book is expired. Katherine Buss, 1024 W. Third St., Spring Valley, IL 61362. Published in Kalamazoo Gazette from Mar. 29 to Mar. 31, 2013

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Tag archives for agriculture Petrochemical companies spend millions to undermine the science on benzene; in-depth series sheds light on the horrific working conditions in Mexico’s agricultural sector; National Labor Relations Board rules in favor of worker organizing; and federal officials grilled on response to West fertilizer explosion. New Mexico dairy farm workers face dangerous workplace conditions and fears of retaliation; Chicago passes minimum wage increase; worker dies at Staten Island car dealership; and Philadelphia task force supports paid sick leave. Despite significant unanswered questions about human and environmental health impacts – and no exposure monitoring requirements – the EPA has approved a new herbicide called Enlist Duo for use on genetically engineered corn and soybeans in six Midwestern states. Environmental groups and farmers are suing to block approval, saying EPA failed to adequately assess health risks. “Yes, you can use my name because it doesn’t matter. They have already done everything they can do to me.” Those are words from Eliceo, a former dairy farm worker in upstate New York. Earlier this year, Eliceo, 36, decided to speak up and share his story with local advocates who are tirelessly working to improve conditions on New York dairy farms and end persistent reports of workplace safety violations, preventable work-related injuries, wage theft, exploitation and in some cases, worker deaths. In announcing National Farm Safety Week, President Obama emphasized his Administration’s commitment to reducing hazards of agricultural work – including for young people. So how are we doing at protecting children and teens working on farms and ranches? Note: There is no federally required safety training for youth working in agriculture. Estimated injury rate is 38 per day and fatalities, 115 per year If the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) give their approval to a new herbicide called Enlist Duo and to corn and soybean seeds genetically engineered (GE) to resist that chemical, the United States could see a significant increase in what is already one of the country’s most widely used herbicides.… Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on heat deaths among U.S. workers, underscoring the often-tragic consequences that result when employers fail to take relatively simple and low-cost preventive actions. For 17 years, Salvadora Roman deboned chickens on the processing line at Wayne Farms in Decatur, Alabama. Because of the repetitive movement and speed of the processing line, Roman developed a chronic and painful hand injury that affects her ability to do even the most basic household chores. About three years ago, she was fired from the plant for taking time off work to visit a doctor for the injury she sustained on the line. A Human Rights Watch report on children working in US tobacco fields resurrects Obama Administration decisions to abandon a Labor Department regulation to protect youngsters working in agriculture. Conditions on Florida tomato farms improve thanks to the Fair Food Program; federal officials are developing a protective inhalation screening level for the West Virginia chemical spill region; and a Government Accountability Project expert testifies on whistleblower protections in observance of Workers Memorial Day.

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NYS Festival Of Balloons Countless air-filled balloons, some carrying gift certificates for prizes, converged on Main St. in Dansville on Friday, August 6th 1982 after Carroll Teitsworth of Groveland took off in his hot-air balloon from the business district. This event was part of a promotion for the Dansville Business Association’s annual Sidewalk Days. During Labor Day weekend of that same year, the ninth annual Oktoberfest and the first “Greit Oktoberfest Balloon Race” took place. This special event began an annual tradition in Dansville which eventually would transform into the NYS Festival of Balloons [NYSFOB]. The event grew from 18 balloons sponsored by local businesses to a four day event with multiple launches and thousands of spectators visiting the Dansville area to watch the skies in the valley fill with the colorful creations. The NYS Festival of Balloons kicks off the four day event with a Balloon Glow that takes place on the Brae Burn Golf course. Launches of the hot air balloons take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings as well as Saturday, Sunday & Monday mornings, weather permitting. While the balloons are the focal point of the event, there is a wide variety of other events also taking place. The Dansville Municipal Airport field fills with arts & craft vendors, food vendors, a classic car show, musical performances, rides and amusement activities for children as well as numerous other events. To learn more about this spectacular event, visit the official NYS Festival of Balloons website. The 2013 NYS Festival of Balloons Event The NYS Festival of Balloons begins this year on Thursday, August 29th at the Brae Burn Golf Course on Red Jacket Street in Dansville with the annual Balloon Glow tradition. The series of events continues through out Labor Day weekend, ending on Monday, September 2, 2013. To see this year's schedule of events, please click here. The NYS Festival of Balloons in the News Coming soon .... links to read all about the news coverage surrounding this wonderful event!

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GreenLake wrote:Because the DS is under 7m, you really aren't required to mount any lights under the navigation rules (unless you are motoring). If you do, there are convenient sets of navigation lights that are sold for Kayakers. Get the led light version and find a way to mount them at the bow and stern. That's what I do. You might need a strong flashlight if you have to pick your way through rocks, pilings, unlit docks or moorings... Night sailing has it's own attractions, although it makes some people nervous. Beating against current into a rising wind as night falls is probably not the best starting point. Moderate winds, a good full moon, and the lights from a well-populated lake shore can ease the transition. A UPS might have made a nice difference on my return leg, because it was nearly all close reach. On the way out, it was more like a broad reach turning into downwind as the evening progressed, and I flew a regular spinnaker. I find that in moderate winds, singlehanding a spinnaker isn't rocket science, even had a hand free to take some pictures. Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests

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This week, it was announced that Larry Kane will write the foreword to Ms. Kessler’s She Loves You the 3rd book in her John Lennon Series about the life of John Winston Lennon due to be published in October 2013. Larry Kane is the author of Ticket to Ride and Lennon Revealed . Jude Kessler has published the first two books in her nine book series - Shoulda Been There and Shivering Inside. You can read more about Jude Kessler at: http://www.ontherockbooks.com. For more information on Larry Kane, go to: http://www.larrykane.com/

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The Fertilizer Institute Commends Passage of CFATS Reauthorization Bill Without Inherently Safer Technology Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted unanimously to amend the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2868), which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2009. The House passed bill was replaced with a substitute amendment offered by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that will reauthorize the existing Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program through Oct. 4, 2013 and without any government mandates for the use of Inherently Safer Technology (IST) provisions. The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), a national trade association representing U.S. fertilizer manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, many of which are regulated under CFATS, was pleased with the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s passage of a reauthorization bill that does not include IST. “The fertilizer industry is strongly committed to security measures that prevent fertilizers from being used for any purpose for which they are not intended,” said TFI President Ford B. West. “However, we have not been able to support provisions, such as IST, which will unnecessarily jeopardize the availability of widely used, lower-cost sources of essential plant nutrient products, and as such we’re pleased with the outcome of the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s consideration and amendment of H.R. 2868.” In addition to eliminating IST and reauthorizing the current CFATS program, Sen. Collins’ substitute amendment will establish voluntary programs through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will facilitate training courses to improve partnerships between the private sector and state and local communities under CFATS, and provide chemical facilities the opportunity to receive recommendations from DHS to aid in their compliance under the CFATS program. Collins’ substitute amendment will also create an inventory of chemical facility security best practices and will establish an advisory board to advise DHS on the implementation of the CFATS program and the new voluntary measures that have been introduced. “Overall, TFI is satisfied with the passage of Sen. Collins’ substitute amendment, and we look forward to continuing to engage with lawmakers and DHS in crafting regulations to ensure the safety and security of our industry’s facilities and products.” said West. About the Fertilizer Institute The Fertilizer Institute represents the nation’s fertilizer industry. Producers, wholesalers, retailers and trading firms which comprise its membership are served by a full time Washington, D.C., staff in various legislative, educational and technical areas as well as with information and public relations programs.

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Pubic hair - page 14 My female patient wants me to shave her pubic hair, she cant do it herself she only has limited movement of one arm . Should I do it? (I would rather not) any advice? Update-this is a LTC Vent patient who is not going home.... Read More - 0Aug 27, '08 by DoeRNI had this done for surgery and it was not a pleasant experience. I am sure the nurses were used to it but it felt worse than getting a foley. I would have to draw the line at this we are (will be after Oct) professionals and to me shaving pubic hair is not in the scope of our practice. We don't work in a spa and we are not a hotel and also like other people said the razors in the hospital are horrible. I have had male patients to ask me to shave their faces and I refuse with the razors the hospital provides. I nicked on man and felt horrible. He had so much facial hair that food was getting caught in it and it was not a pleasant sight. Just think of a nick in the pubic area. Just waiting for an infection to start IMO. - 0Aug 27, '08 by NurseyPoo7I worked in an ALF where a pt who had sexual psych issues before (I found this out AFTER the fact) kept coming to the nurses (the nurses worked in the office and med techs and aides worked up on the floor) and asking us to trim his pubic hair. The administrator (not a nurse) "delegated" it to me. No way in hell I was going to do this. Later that day AFTER I had left to go home, I was called on my cell by the administrator b/c pubic man was down there c/o his pubic hair again. I was told I HAD to come back and give him a trim or I was in deep doo doo. So, I came back and went to find a pair of scissors. Couldn't find any blunt/safety tip scissors. I found this huge pair of silver metal sharp scissors. Went up to the administrator and went "Snip snip! Do we have any smaller scissors than this b/c I dont want to cut his penis off on accident" A couple weeks later I went thru his chart and looked at old nurses notes and he had been seen by the psychiatrist before for sexual advances/comments he made to other residents. - 0Dec 13, '08 by claybobI donít understand. Although I strongly disagree with it I thought it was very common for a nurse to shave "down there" for Pre Op. Many of the comments Iíve read here from nurses make it sound like itís the last thing on earth they would ever do. Is that what the aides and assistants have to do? Why would it be so different than Pre Op? - 0Dec 14, '08 by GadgetRN71Quote from claybobBecause even the OB-GYN docs have gotten away from shaving the pubic hair for procedures. I did a fair amount of GYN procedures before I started specializing, and I don't think we ever shaved down there.I donít understand. Although I strongly disagree with it I thought it was very common for a nurse to shave "down there" for Pre Op. Many of the comments Iíve read here from nurses make it sound like itís the last thing on earth they would ever do. Is that what the aides and assistants have to do? Why would it be so different than Pre Op? Surgeons are getting away from shaving operative sites...they feel it can cause more problems than it's worth.(ie nicks leading to infection) On the occasions we do remove hair, we are to use clippers, not razors, per policy. - 2Dec 15, '08 by Babs0512IMHO, I've noticed nearly all teens to 30+ somethings shave their pubes. I'm guessing it is no longer acceptable to be a grown woman with pubic hair? In any case, this is a personal hygiene issue, to me it's no different that shaving a mans face, or pubes for surgery. I've shaved women's underarms before due to casting, and yes, I've shaved legs for a young 38 y/o with recent stroke who was embarrassed for her husband to see her leg hair so long. We nurses dis-impact rectums, put foley's in people, put vaginal creams in as ordered, bathe patients, etc... so what's the big deal about shaving pubic hair? May not be "your thing", but is isn't any different than so many other things we do for patients to improve their spirits or body image. I've done it before, I could do it again. It's such a small thing really, why not accomidate the patient? - 0Dec 15, '08 by carbaminohemoglobinI would have to say a "No!" It definitely would be an infection issue! From the few times I've attempted to "groom" myself, I know that it leads to nicks, ingrown hairs, rashes, pain, itchiness.. Hair removal is certainly NOT my specialty. I believe this duty should be reserved for a professional. Not too mention (I believe this was stated previously), it may be perceived in a sexual way. Normal peri-care would be much easier to explain than shaving pubic hair for aesthetic purposes. I will shave a man's face in the same way I would fix a woman's hair or paint her nails if I had the time, but anything more than that.. I think not. - 0Dec 15, '08 by kafeneQuote from nurseJLooMy female patient wants me to shave her pubic hair, she cant do it herself she only has limited movement of one arm . Should I do it? (I would rather not) any advice? Update-this is a LTC Vent patient who is not going home. Believe it or not this isn't the first patient that asked me to do this I had another patient with ALS ask me to trim hers with an electric razor because she said the hair gets caught in her underwear and pulls. I had got "pulled" to her unit and she asked me to do it -had her own electric razor-so me like a fool assuming the nurses were doing it for her went ahead and did it then i found out that only a few people would do it for her. What do I look like? the personal pube trimmer? also she was a real pain in the butt about how it was trimmed, I dont want to relive that nightmare! I've NEVER heard of that... that's one funny story!!! hahaha. :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

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PHOTOS & STILLS - GALLERY Asin to sign a big project!Dec 31, 2012 Asin, who had become an A-lister in Bollywood with a good run at the box-office this year, will reportedly be ushering in the New Year in Las Vegas in the U.S. The Kaavalan girl had made a stop-over in New York to spend Christmas with one of her dear friends. It is believed that the actress is all set to sign a big project once she returns from her holiday. Tamil cinema fans will be hoping that it’s a Tamil project and will be anticipating her return to the South. OTHER NEWS STORIES - When Ajith Shot For Two Days W... - Asin Rules Out Love ... - Galaxy Of Superstars For FICCI... - Asin Says Yes To Bikini ... Bu... - Asin Threatens To Sue In Court - Asin Wants To Get Married - Asin Is Out ... - Asin Regrets - Gautham Menon Directs Asin - Asin Meets Vijay And Prabhudev... - Tamannah Follows Aish, Katrina... - Asin Says No To Lingusamy - Is It Asin Or Priyanka Chopra ... - Santhosh Sivan Wins Top Honor - Stars At Sets Of Big Boss 6 - Photos - 6. Pokkiri (2007) | Top 20 Best Films Of Vijay - Slideshow - 11. Kaavalan (2011) | Top 20 Best Films Of Vijay - Slideshow - 17. Sivakasi (2005) | Top 20 Best Films Of Vijay - Slideshow - Khiladi 786 Movie Review - Khiladi 786 Long Drive Song - Videos - Khiladi 786 Promotion - Photos - Khiladi 786 Long Drive Video Song - Videos - Khiladi 786 - Photos I II III - Stars At Amitabh Bachchan Diwali Celebration - Photos - Asin Promotes Khiladi 786 - Photos - Sivakasi (2005) | Top 10 Most Anticipated Deepavali Releases - Slideshow - Khiladi 786 Hookah Bar Video Song - Videos - Asin Akshay Kumar At Red FM - Photos - Khiladi 786 Trailer - Videos I II

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Select () or exclude () categories to narrow your recipe search. As you select categories, the number of matching recipes will update. Find exactly what you're looking for with the web's most powerful recipe filtering tool. "WOW! This bread definitely lives up to its title! I made it last night and my husband was still raving about it as he was leaving for work this morning. Don't let the long list of directions scare you off-it's really pretty simple if you just take it step-by-step and follow the directions. I had read that the stickier your dough, the fluf..."

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Welcome to biology-online.org! Please login to access all site features. Create account. Log me on automatically each visit | Page history | Printable version Ending; forming an end; lowermost. Their desinent parts, fish. Origin: L. Desinens, p. Pr. Of desinere, desitum, to leave off, cease; de- _ sinere to let, allow. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005. This page has been accessed 929 times. What links here | Related changes | Permanent link © Biology-Online.org. All Rights Reserved. Register | Login | About Us | Contact Us | Link to Us | Disclaimer & Privacy | Powered by CASPION

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Have you found those questions to be effective when dealing with bullies? I responded to your question and put in references to School Bullying, and when I submitted my response, with Links to references, the Message came back that my response would be reviewed by a moderator. Basically, there are several objectives to consider when dealing with a Bully. Self-Confidence of the Target. Secrecy strategies for the Bully Display of fear by the Target Associations with the target's friends. Injury risk to the Target Excessive Injury to the Bully Excessive Antagonism of the Bully Positive Dialogue with the Bully So these are some criterea by which to judge the effectiveness of shouted questions. I do not mean to suggest that shouting indicriminantly is always the best option when confronted by a Bully. But having positive phrases in mind, to allow the bully to back off, while still saving face, can be constructive. Discussing and practicing shouting phrases during the practice of sub-teen Aikido training may at least increase self-confidence and reduce fear of bullies. Search School Bullying

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Violinist Chee-Yun returns to the Polinger Artists of Excellence concert series after her sell-out concert at the JCCGW in October 2012. Chee-Yun’s flawless technique, dazzling tone and compelling artistry have enraptured audiences on five continents. This December WETA is getting into the holiday spirit with special broadcasts on WETA Television.See our holiday specials → Garrett Peck, author of "Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C." discusses the history of brewing in the nation's capital.Watch video → WETA Channel 26 hit the Washington airwaves on October 2, 1961, when station manager George Baker introduced viewers to WETA's inaugural broadcast, The New Era.Watch first broadcast →

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I stayed at the Amalfi for one week at the end of July and it was wonderful. I normally stay at good hotels (W, Century Plaza, etc) and the Amalfi topped those with it's very personal service throughout. The doormen greet you warmly on each return and the housekeepers smile sincerely as they offer bed turndowns and make sure the room is spotless. Every member of the staff seems to genuinely like making guests comfortable and that is what makes a great hotel. The evening reception is a particular treat - I normally skip hotel "wine receptions" but at the Amalfi, they not only serve top shelf drinks made to your taste, they have a great antipasto - and I found my fellow guests a fascinating and eclectic mix. The Amalfi atmosphere makes these gatherings a comfortable place for a businesswoman travelling alone to relax and enjoy good conversation and a great drink at the end of the day. The folks at the front desk also made a superb restaurant recommendation for me when I unexpectedly had guests for dinner - and got us a great patio reservation at the last minute on a Friday evening. The beds are great, the ammenities top notch - and the shower is amazing. The morning breakfast buffet lets you grab a juice or coffee on your way out to meetings - add in the free wifi and you have a model of how a hotel should take care of business travellers. Now that my company is moving me to Chicago, I plan to book occasional weekend "getaways" at the Amalfi just for the fun of being treated so very well! - Official Description (provided by the hotel): - Located in the heart of the vibrant River North district, Kinzie Hotel embodies the adventurous spirit of Chicago. Named after the renowned Chicago settler and silversmith, John Kinzie, the history and culture of this exciting city unfolds at our doorstep, waiting to be discovered. Boasting a central location near Michigan Avenue and the Loop, this contemporary Chicago boutique hotel is a sophisticated downtown escape for both business and leisure travelers. Whether your interests are arts, dining, shopping, or nightlife, our ideal location easily allows you to embark on an urban exploration of Chicago.Chic, comfortable accommodations feature Chicago-inspired design elements and luxurious amenities, including rejuvenating H20 Plus Spa products and Keurig coffeemakers. Enjoy our complimentary deluxe continental breakfast, conveniently served on each floor just steps from your guest room. An evening reception in our intimate Double Cross Lounge is the perfect way to unwind after a busy day of meetings or exploring the Windy City.Stay connected with complimentary, lightning-fast WiFi throughout the hotel or by visiting our complimentary 24-hour business center. Keep up with your workout schedule in a well-equipped 24-hour fitness center, featuring state-of-the-art equipment, free weights, Yoga/Pilates mats, and more. At Kinzie Hotel, you’ll experience Chicago like you never have before. ... more less - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Orbitz, BookIt.com, HotelTravel.com, Cheap Tickets, Expedia, Priceline, getaroom.com, Hotels.com, Booking.com, TripOnline SA, Jetsetter and Tingo so you can book your Kinzie Hotel reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers. - Also Known As: - Chicago Amalfi Hotel - Amalfi Hotel Chicago

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Flour Girl: The surprise of a multi-muffin Scrounging around my cupboards during the snow-in, I found a canister of multigrain hot cereal: basically, rolled oats with some other good-for-you whole grains mixed in. It had a recipe for Applesauce Multigrain Muffins on the back. To my surprise, I had all the ingredients, which was obviously a sign I had to make them. When else are you trapped, looking to bake and have everything you need? Because they were back-of-the-box, I didn't expect great things, but I thought the experience might be entertaining. What a delight to find they are simple and good. And they're not full of fat and sugar, unlike so many muffins that, while we eat them for breakfast, are really no more than un-iced cupcakes. (Don't get me wrong, I like a cupcake as much as the next gal, but muffins should be different.) These still have a moist interior, and the streusel topping dresses them up to add another layer of flavor and texture. Of course, given that they are a healthful start to the morning, I feel entitled to smear them liberally with butter and honey. There goes the not-so-much-fat-and-sweetness benefit. I made them large (no big surprise there), wrapped them individually in foil and kept them in the freezer to portion out through the week. They make an to-go breakfast that's easily defrosted in the microwave. -- Leigh Lambert Applesauce Multigrain Muffins Makes 6 large or 12 standard-size muffins Applesauces vary tremendously in flavor. You may want to increase the amount of cinnamon in the batter, depending on the brand of applesauce you use. MAKE AHEAD: The muffins can be individually wrapped in aluminum foil and stored at room temperature for 2 days or frozen for a month. To reheat, unwrap and microwave on HIGH for 15 to 30 seconds. Adapted from Country Choice Organic Multigrain Hot Cereal. For the topping 1/3 cup uncooked multigrain hot cereal, such as Country Choice Organic (may substitute old-fashioned rolled oats, but do not use instant) 2 tablespoons packed light or dark brown sugar 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon For the muffins 1 cup uncooked multigrain hot cereal, such as Country Choice Organic (may substitute old-fashioned rolled oats but not instant) 1 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or more to taste (see headnote) 1 cup unsweetened applesauce 1/2 cup low-fat or nonfat milk 1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar 1/4 cup sunflower oil or canola oil 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Use nonstick cooking oil spray to grease the wells of a muffin pan (or pans). For the topping: Combine the multigrain cereal, brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Add the melted butter and mix well. For the muffins: Combine the multigrain cereal, flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl; mix well. Combine the applesauce, milk, brown sugar, oil, egg and vanilla extract in a separate bowl. Add the applesauce mixture to the flour mixture and stir just until moistened. Divide among the wells of the muffin pan(s); they should be filled 2/3 full. Sprinkle equal amounts of the topping over the tops. Bake 18 to 20 minutes for standard-size muffins and 25 minutes for large muffins. The tops should be domed and spring back to the touch. Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes, then use a round-edged knife to dislodge the muffins. Serve warm. Cool completely before storing. Per muffin (based on 12): 203 calories, 4 g protein, 32 g carbohydrates, 7 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 21 mg cholesterol, 58 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 13 g sugar February 25, 2010; 7:00 AM ET Categories: Flour Girl , Recipes | Tags: Flour Girl, Leigh Lambert, baking, muffins Save & Share: Previous: A fight at the Food Magazine Next: Wine: Do competitions matter? The comments to this entry are closed.

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IN last week’s column, the first of the new calendar year, I suggested that 2013 promised to be bigger and better for all, and on Monday that was fulfilled with a record crowd drawn to the Moruya Jockey Club for the running of the Narooma Cup. With monstrous heatwave conditions prevailing both before and after Monday, Cup Day was miraculously perfect in all respects and our racing community and visitors alike responded accordingly for this wonderful event. I congratulate our professional and dedicated ground staff for presenting the track in perfect condition, looking better than I’ve seen it in 10 years of racing – a view confirmed by all riders during the course of the afternoon. It was a great start to the day for the locals when Greg Backhouse’s Briefcase Benny held on bravely under Nathan Berry’s hard riding to take out the Class Three mile by a short head over Kembla visitor Regallic. Matt Stephen’s King Bing, ridden by Roly Saxton, finished a close third. Briefcase Benny’s three previous runs this campaign, all at Canberra, had close and promising finishes, and Greg had him primed for the extra trip on his home track and he delivered accordingly. Matt’s King Bing showed enormous improvement in his second run for the stable, after his somewhat dismal near-last debut at Canberra in December and looks like he’s responding well to the change of scenery. John Marzol’s Tififi almost claimed victory on her debut in the Maiden (1010m) sprint, which was claimed late by Kembla visitor Mykindacolour – the pair fought it out neck and neck up the straight, with just a length between them on the line. The Class One (1200m) sprint saw Luke Pepper’s Cognac Prince scratched at the barriers, as well as the favourite Extreme Shot, the race going to Kembla-based Majestic Beast, leading in a visitors’ trifecta. The Maiden (1425m) Plate also went to the visitors, taken out by Rob Price’s $2 race favourite Modest Hero. The eye-catching run came from Joseph Ible’s Run Pat Run who showed enormous improvement on his two previous starts to finish third in the event. The locals fought out the minor placings behind Queanbeyan-based Saharamar in the Benchmark 55 (1200m) sprint, with John’s Mineral Deposit, Greg’s Paxton and Luke’s Magic Franco finishing in that order. The tables then turned in our favour when Luke’s Freetoair held on by a long head in a four-way photo finish over the visitors in an exciting Narooma Town Plate (1200m) with young Brodie Loy in the saddle. The seven-year-old mare is racing in career-best form this campaign, now with a second and two consecutive wins from her past three runs and she may well back up in the Moruya Town Plate in two weeks’ time, and will be hard to beat again on her home track. Unfortunately the same result for Luke, and no doubt many punters, did not come to pass in this year’s Narooma Cup (1650m), when Luke’s Quichang led up the straight but was caught in the last stride on the line by Paul Murray’s Kembla-based race-favourite Fair Nation, going down by a half-head and preventing a repeat of last year’s Cup win. It was a heartbreaking result for the whole team, but that’s racing. The day ended on a high when John Gamble’s Seanessy got home by a half-head on the line in a three-way photo to take out the Benchmark 60 (1425m) ahead of Bede Murray’s California Poppy. John’s got the gelding in career-best form and I’m keen to see him next step out. Luke, Roly and James Geppert bravely made the trip to Wagga on Tuesday with Not On Monday, coming away empty handed, although James claimed a second and a third placing from several rides. John Marzol’s Grey Drama ran at Warwick Farm on Wednesday where his top weight and outside barrier all counted against him, and he just couldn’t get over to the fence. He wandered wide in the straight, finishing unplaced, and I suggest you overlook that run completely – bad luck to all concerned but he will no doubt bounce right back when better circumstances prevail. Moruya runners step out today at Canberra, with nominations in the mix for Queanbeyan and Tumut on Saturday, Cowra on Sunday and Nowra on Tuesday in a busy week ahead. Until next week, good luck and good punting.

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i wish i could say that i was channeling bono here, circa 1991, but sadly, this is me in the midst of getting a crown at the dentist. what might not come across in this pic is that the entire lower right side of my face is frozen. scratch that - i was frozen all the way up along the nose and cheekbone. i couldn't even get my right nostril to flare, try as i might. i remember when i got all four wisdom teeth pulled years ago. i barely experienced any swelling thanks to the antibiotics and anti-inflammatories in my drip. you can betcha i asked to be knocked out. far less traumatic than seeing the dentist holding your head down and coming at you with an elevator and dental forceps. getting a crown put on, however, resulted in the one-sided chipmunk cheek look after the freezing wore off. it seriously looked like a was storing nuts for the winter. on one side of my face. fortunately, the swelling went away over the course of a few days. lucky for me, i'm not phobic about visiting the dentist, having seen him tons of time since i was a child. (i liked my sugar. a lot.) although truth be told, the sound of a drill and the smell of disintegrating tooth can be a bit unsettling. anyways, here's what my crown looked like on the computer, as it was being milled in office. well, enough of that "pleasant" experience and me looking like a hot mess. back to bono and the fly. *sigh* i wish U2 would make music like they use to.

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Thus, an alternative approach is a social experiment. Take a substantial number of families who don't have a home computer, and randomly give some of them a home computer. Then compare the results for those with and without a computer. Robert W. Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson report the results of the largest field experiment thus far conducted along these lines in "Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren," recently published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (5:3, pp. 211–240). (This journal is note freely available on-line, although many readers will have access through library subscriptions or their membership in the American Economic Association.) Here's the conclusion from their abstract: "Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational outcomes, including grades, test scores, credits earned, attendance, and disciplinary actions. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out even modestly-sized positive or negative impacts. The estimated null effect is consistent with survey evidence showing no change in homework time or other “intermediate” inputs in education."And here's a bit more detail on their results. They note: "There are an estimated 15.5 million instructional computers in US public schools, representing one instructional computer for every three schoolchildren. Nearly every instructional classroom in these schools has a computer, averaging 189 computers per school ... [M]any children do not have access to a computer at home. Nearly 9 million children ages 10–17 in the United States (27 percent) do not have computers with Internet connections at home ..." The sample for this study includes students in grades 6–10 in 15 different middle and high schools in 5 school districts in the Central Valley area of California, during the two school years from 2008-2010. The researchers surveyed students at the beginning of the school year, about whether they had a computer at home. After going through parental consent forms and all the paperwork, they ended up with about 1,100 students, and they gave half of them a computer at the beginning of the year and half a computer at the end of the year. Everyone got a home computer--but the researchers could study the effect of having one a year earlier. Having a computer at home increased computer use. Students without a computer at home (the "control group") reported using a computer (at school, the library, or a friend's house) about 4.2 hours per week, while students who now had a computer at home (the "treatment group") used a computer 6.7 hours per week. Of that extra computer time , "Children spend an additional 0.8 hours on schoolwork, 0.8 hours per week on games, and 0.6 hours on social networking." Of course, any individual study is never the final say. Perhaps having access to a home computer for several years, rather than just one year, would improve outcomes. Perhaps in the future, computer-linked pedagogy will improve in a way where having a computer at home makes a demonstrable difference to education outcomes. Perhaps there is some overall benefit from familiarity with computers that pays off in the long run, even if not captured in any of outcomes measured here. It's important to remember that this study is not about use of computers in the classroom or in education overall, just about access to computers at home. My wife and I have three children ranging in age from grades 6 to 10--the same age group as represented in this study--and they have access to computers at home. The evidence suggests that while this may be more convenient for them in various ways, I shouldn't be expecting it to boost their reading and math scores. (Full disclosure: The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is published by the American Economic Association, which also publishes the Journal of Economic Perspectives, where I work as the managing editor.)

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After a solid run in the OI at Pine Top Feb 12-13, Stewie and Boyd have been tuning up for their first advanced of the season. That will take place back at Pine Top on Feb 25, and then they will head to SPHT II. After SPHT, it will be on to the Fork CIC***, and then off to Rolex! Silva has been such a GREAT help for Boyd and Stewie, and rides the horse like a Goddess! I am not going to lie, it irks me that I can't get out of Stewie what she can. At least it is harder for Boyd too!!! That makes me feel better. Nonetheless, I really appreciate everything she has done for Stewie's dressage. Attached is a pic of the little angel doing a recent gallop. As time goes on, and the fitness gets stronger, feel for Boyd on these gallop sets. They get a bit wild!!!

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I’m not the first to jump on the latest technology. Even after working in high-tech for more than 20 years, I am still a late adopter. But if you can prove to me that a new technology will save me or my company money, I’ll make the switch in an instant. In 2008 the company I work for, Precise (a developer of application performance management systems), was spun out of its parent company Symantec and into a private company. Suddenly, we had 1,000 customers to support, and a limited IT department. Symantec offered to sell us licenses for SAP and other enterprise software packages that we had been using. But in our new structure, we needed applications that were scaled down and easier to support. We ditched the world of licensed software and annual commitments to large capital expenses on equipment — the traditional way of doing IT — in favor of cloud, SaaS and virtualization. As a midsize company with more than 200 employees, it was a tectonic shift. But after a year-long migration of our IT infrastructure and applications to the cloud, we shaved more than $2 million, or 70 percent, from our annual IT budget. Here’s how we did it. Our first priority was to find a solution to support our customers, so we chose Salesforce and NetSuite for the front and back-office solutions. It took a single data analyst a mere five hours to migrate all of our data from SAP to the new systems. For customer support, we chose Drupal and for marketing we chose Marketo — both of which were seamlessly integrated using WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration. Next up, we had to deal with the Microsoft Exchange servers that we’d inherited from Symantec. Microsoft Exchange can be a bear to support with a slim staff, so we opted for Google Mail instead. The e-mail migration took about five days, and later we also moved from Microsoft SharePoint to Google Sites for collaboration. The cool thing is, employees don’t have to do everything on Google. They can still access their favorite Microsoft Office applications, such as Excel, or use Outlook front-end if they wish. We also went through a major server virtualization project in engineering — chopping off about 60 percent of our server expenses — and switched to AT&T fiber for networking and adopted VoIP for telephony. None of the technologies that I’ve mentioned are new or even groundbreaking. But the fact that we could adopt all of them in a short period of time, integrate them using a single data analyst and realize such financial benefits is astounding. Even five years ago, small and midsize companies couldn’t afford state-of-the-art technologies to run their businesses. That’s all changed — and the playing field for IT sophistication has leveled out. Not only is using newer, Web technologies more affordable, but they’re also more reliable. That’s been the case at Precise, at least. We haven’t had any issues from moving to a SaaS environment. We didn’t spend a bunch of money on hordes of consultants to get everything in place. It really was that simple. I give credit to our former IT director, Sharon Cohen, for choosing the right strategy and the right partners — that’s key. Our transition to the cloud means that today we spend less time managing all the plumbing and more time working on our own products. We’re even looking at deploying cloud-based systems for R & D. And let’s not forget, we are saving more than $2 million per year. That’s the kind of money companies of our size, which comprise the bulk of the U.S. economy, can really put to good use. We can use those savings to hire strategic new employees or bring new features and services to our customers. For midsize companies, there’s no doubt: rip out your on-premise software apps, go SaaS and adopt the cloud across the board. Zohar Gilad is the executive vice president at Precise, a developer of application performance management systems. Before joining Precise, Zohar held senior executive positions at Mercury Interactive, which was acquired by HP in 2006. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial. - Infrastructure Q1: IaaS Comes Down to Earth; Big Data Takes Flight - A clouded view of Google Music - The Case for Increased M&A in 2011: Actions and Outlooks

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Made available by Touch N' Go Systems, Inc., and the Law Offices of James B. Gottstein. You can also go to The Alaska Legal Resource Center or search the entire websitesearch. (a) The following information is not confidential and is available for public inspection upon request: (1) a document that is already a public record including deeds of trust, financing statements, warranty deeds, bills of sale, mortgages, liens, and vehicle titles; (2) general information regarding loans, including the original loan amount, loan terms, personal guarantees, and disbursement and repayment schedules; (3) insurance matters, including title insurance policies and correspondence with insurance companies and borrowers regarding losses, accident reports, and nonpayment of premiums; and (4) foreclosure and default proceedings. (b) The following information is confidential and is not subject to public disclosure: (1) personal and financial information, including income tax returns, financial statements, business income statements, pro forma profit and loss statements, credit information obtained directly from banks and other creditors, and reports obtained from consumer reporting agencies; (2) loan committee memoranda and minutes containing information relating to creditworthiness of an applicant; and (3) payment history on a loan, unless the loan is in default. (c) Information not described in (a) or (b) of this section may be subject to public disclosure. Requests for disclosure must be made, and will be determined, in accordance with 2 AAC 96. Upon receipt of a request for disclosure, the department will notify the loan applicant and other persons with a privacy interest in the request, to permit them to present reasons why the requested information should not be disclosed. History: Eff. 9/11/85, Register 95; am 8/10/97, Register 143 Authority: Ak. Const., art. I, Editor's note: As of Register 176 (January 2006), and acting under AS 44.62.125 (b)(6), the regulations attorney made a technical change to 3 AAC 86.090(c) , to reflect Executive Order 113 (2005). Executive Order 113 eliminated the Telecommunications Information Council and transferred its functions related to public information and records to the governor and to the Department of Administration. Note to HTML Version: The Alaska Administrative Code was automatically converted to HTML from a plain text format. Every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, but neither Touch N' Go Systems nor the Law Offices of James B. Gottstein can be held responsible for any possible errors. This version of the Alaska Administrative Code is current through June, 2006. If it is critical that the precise terms of the Alaska Administrative Code be known, it is recommended that more formal sources be consulted. Recent editions of the Alaska Administrative Journal may be obtained from the Alaska Lieutenant Governor's Office on the world wide web. If any errors are found, please e-mail Touch N' Go systems at E-mail. We hope you find this information useful. Copyright 2006. Touch N' Go Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Last modified 7/05/2006

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A new backpack and school supplies are synonymous with a new school year but sadly, many families cannot afford these items. In response, The Office Depot Foundation and its National Backpack Program has provided over 2.9 million backpacks to children around the world in the past 12 years. This year, to mark the 13th anniversary of the program, the Office Depot Foundation will donate 300,000 backpacks with essential school supplies to children in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Internationally. It really makes my heart happy to see corporations doing their part to make a difference in the lives of children. This year the collection includes six different sackpacks with kid-friendly graphics. The bags do not have any logo's or markings on them other than the adorable designs. Each sack comes with a zippered pouch that contains a pen, pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser, ruler and crayons. We received a sampling of the bags and I am certain that any child would be thrilled to receive one of these sackpacks for school. Visit the Office Depot Foundation Facebook page or follow them on Twitter @OfficeDepotFndn for more information on this amazing program! *This is not a paid post. All opinions are my own. We received a media sample of the products to help facilitate this post about the program*

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The following notices have been submitted for publication in the Saturday edition of the San Angelo Standard-Times. SAN ANGELO — Josefina "Fina" Ruiz Navarro, 77, of Sterling City, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. Service was Friday at St. Paschal Catholic Church in Sterling City with burial in City Cemetery. Arrangements were by Shaffer Funeral Home/Grape Creek. Survivors include her husband, Ramon Navarro; brothers Marcelino Ruiz, Alejandro Ruiz and Miguel Ruiz; sisters Guadalupe Ruiz and Gloria Ruiz; sons Miguel Navarro, Tony Navarro and Lupe Navarro; and daughters Rosemary Rodriguez and Alma Valdez. SAN ANGELO — Mary Ellen Van Zandt, 87, died Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Graveside service is at 2:00 p.m. today in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are by Shaffer Funeral Home/Sherwood Way. Survivors include her sons,Kenneth Van Zandt of Spotsylvania, Va., and Wayne Van Zandt of San Angelo; brothers Frank Crossland of McCamey and Archie Crossland of Brownwood; and sister Iola Mills of Cleveland, Ohio. STANTON — Marshall C. Louder, 88, of Tarzan, died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in a Midland hospital. Service is at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Arrangements are by Gilbreath Funeral Home. Survivors include his son, Johnny Louder of Stanton; daughter Teresa Hern of Stanton; and sons Billy Louder of Stanton. LOCKHART — Etta Hilton, 94, died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Graveside service is at 1:30 p.m. today in Lockhart Cemetery. Survivors include her daughters, Nora Buswell, Nan Reeves, Linda Hilton and Melissa Hilton. BIG SPRING — Billie Smith, 83, died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in a local nursing home. Graveside service is at 10 a.m. today in Mount Olive Memorial Park. Arrangements are by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. Survivors include her son, David Glenn Smith of Big Spring; and daughters Brenda Kay Snyder of Cambridge City, Ind., Lana Lee Brewer and Teresa J. Smith, both of Big Spring, and Sandra Gail Alexander of Abilene. BALLINGER — Elizabeth "Dot" Schroeder, 76, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in a local care center. Service is at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church with private burial in Protestant Cemetery in Rowena. Survivors include her son, Eric Schroeder of Cedar Creek; and daughter Julie Doniger of Rockwall. MENARD — Elva Mireles, 84, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2014. No services are planned. Arrangements are by Heritage Funeral Home. Survivors include her sons, Gilbert Bara, Danny Bara, Rudy Bara, Jessie Bara, Robert Ramon and Manuel Ramon; and daughters Ramona Bara, Alice Perez and Gloria Santana. BALLINGER — Bradford Lee Robbins, 59, of Eden died Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, in Ballinger. Memorial service is at 10 Tuesday at Glory Road Cowboy Church. Arrangements are by Lange Funeral Home. Survivors include his wife, Vonda Robbins of Eden; children Aryn Romer of Houston, Cara Leinman of Pespin, Fla., Clint Robbins of Spring and Whitney Robbins of Beaumont; and sisters Donna Magill of Eden and Linda Keese of Llano. BIG SPRING — Mary Ramirez Magana, 52, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in a local hospital. Private family service is at a later date. Arrangements are by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Survivors include her husband, Belen Lopez of Big Spring; sons Steven Magana and Abel Magana Jr.; daughter Rosalinda Magana of Lubbock; brother Daniel Ramirez of Snyder; and sister Cynthia Ramirez of Snyder. BIG SPRING — Oceal McMillan, 92, died Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in a local care center. Graveside service was Thursday in Trinity Memorial Park. Arrangements were by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Survivors include her sons, Ron McMillan of Columbia City, Ore., and Charles Michael McMillan of Orchard City, Wash.; and sister Maudie Mclendaon of Big Spring. Need Help? Call us at 1-877-304-7763. Monday-Friday: 6am-8pm / Saturday: 6am-12pm / Sunday: 6am-1pm

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The most viral images on the internet, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing. That file type is not supported! Supported formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG, APNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, XCF For luck, Andy Murray carries around an old man in his bag 1 year ago

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Book your room at Hotel Solsana Please enter your travel dates. Family-friendly ski hotel with a ski shuttle This hotel in Saanen is convenient to Relleri Ski Resort, Schonried Horneggli Ski Resort, and Eggli Ski Resort. Local attractions also include Rougemont Ski Resort and Gstaad Ski Resort. Skiing and snowboarding are not the only attractions at Hotel Solsana, where you can enjoy a meal at the restaurant, take a dip in an indoor pool, and relax in a sauna. In addition to complimentary wireless Internet access and refrigerators, guestrooms feature safes along with minibars and coffee/tea makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! At your hotel At your hotel After a day on the snow, enjoy a relaxing soak in the spa tub and an invigorating swim in the indoor swimming pool. Getting to the slopes is a breeze with the hotel's ski shuttle. Hotel Solsana helps provide the perfect winter holiday with ski storage and ski passes. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This ski hotel also offers a children's pool, a sauna, and a fitness center. Hotel Solsana has designated areas for smoking. - Arcade/game room - Total number of rooms - 47 - Number of floors - 5 - Complimentary newspapers in lobby - Free breakfast - Fireplace in lobby - Fitness facilities - Gift shops or newsstand - Designated smoking areas - Tours/ticket assistance - Free Wi-Fi - Number of indoor pools - - Designated smoking areas (fines apply) - Computer station - Laundry facilities - Meeting rooms - Multilingual staff - Luggage storage - Number of meeting rooms - - Free parking nearby - Train station pickup (complimentary) - Year Built 1913 - Ski shuttle - Ski passes available - Ski storage - Number of buildings/towers - 1 - Spa tub - Children's pool - Indoor pool Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi Park your car Free parking nearby In your room - Coffee/tea maker - Shower only - Hair dryer - In-room safe - Free Wi-Fi - Cribs/infant beds (complimentary) Eat and drink A complimentary breakfast is served between 7:30 AM and 9:30 AM. Bistrot - Onsite restaurant. An indoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply. - Golfing nearby - Downhill skiing nearby - Ski equipment rental shops nearby - Bicycle rentals on site - Hiking/biking trails on site - Mountain biking on site The fine print for Hotel Solsana When you arrive Check-in time starts at 4 PM Check-in time ends at 10 PM Special check-in instructions: Special Instructions: Please contact the property ahead of time if you are planning to arrive after 10 PM. When you leave Check-out time is 11 AM How you can pay Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2 You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. No rollaway/extra beds available - A tax is imposed by the city: CHF 4.00 per person, per night for adults; CHF 2 per night for guests up to 15 years old. - Self parking fee: CHF 10 per day - Pet fee: CHF 10 per pet, per day We should mention This property offers transfers from the train station. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).

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The conditions of employment 347K are a summary provided for your information. Please read the document to ensure you understand your entitlements and obligations. Where these conditions vary according to your employment status (Permanent, Temporary or Casual) the variance/s will be outlined under each employment condition heading. Please note your employment conditions are specified in the relevant legislation, industrial instruments / instruments governing your employment. It is assumed that when accepting an offer of employment you are doing so based on the conditions of employment of that role. This page was last reviewed on 11 Apr 2012 at 11:47AM

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Duration: 14m 15s Published: 06 Sep, 2010 Catch all of the highlights from Saturday's game in Athens, OH right now on TerrierVision HD. Remember, TerrierVision videos are best viewed using the 720p setting on your You Tube viewer. In the season opener on Saturday evening, the Wofford College football team was defeated by Ohio University 33-...

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Top Networking Trends of 2013: The Good, The Bad A discussion with 451 Research’s Daniel Kennedy about this year’s key networking trends, including bigger budgets, wireless rollouts and security woes. In terms of networking, what should CIOs be doing that they’re not doing? "I think it is difficult for IT to accurately show ROI for the technically complex meat-and-potatoes work they do every day, upgrading equipment and the like. There is some fuzzy math involved many times in creating an individual ROI for technology investments; we have to work on generating a better balance between appropriate communication with our business counterparts and moving forward with a strong security strategy. The business side shouldn't need to approve every IT project; there has to be some reliance on the technical sophistication and proper decision-making of the CIO." Do you have any networking budget advice for CIOs? "Yes, CIOs need to increase their budget in order to be competitive. Cost containment is always important, but it is not the key issue now. During the economic downturn the cost-cutters made their hay, but in general it's a career-limiting move. As a CIO, you have to deliver value. "CIOs need to concentrate on their core investments. Networking equipment is only good for five years. You need general refreshes, like core upgrades. Also, CIOs need to look at wireless, unified communications and videoconferencing, if they’re not doing so already. You have to get behind these three technologies and demonstrate how they can enable the business." About the Author Jack Rosenberger is the managing editor of CIO Insight. You can follow him on Twitter via @CIOInsight. You can read his previous CIO Insight article, “Turning Ideas Into Innovations,” by clicking here.

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A city run by one of China's incoming political leaders that has billed itself as a future international financial center is instead becoming the country's internet censorship capital. Tianjin, whose Communist party secretary Zhang Gaoli is one of the seven men most likely to get a seat on the new politburo standing committee due to be unveiled at the 18th party congress starting on Thursday, is developing a replica of Manhattan to which it aims to attract global banks. But local government officials explaining a mock-up of Yujiapu, the new district on the site of a former fishing village, last week said they did not know of any foreign bank that had committed to coming. Meanwhile, some of China's leading internet firms are relocating their censorship operations to Tianjin as they battle soaring labor costs. Tianjin's tale illustrates China's rapidly changing economic landscape but also puts a question mark over the reform and economic policy credentials of the country's incoming leaders. (Read More: China's New Leaders—the Lineup) Mr. Zhang has been characterized as a financial reformer, mainly because he served in the southern province of Guangdong, known for piloting economic reforms. Two people familiar with the party's discussions over leadership posts said Mr. Zhang could receive an important economic portfolio in the team that will rule China for the coming decade. But while Tianjin, which he has run since 2007, has failed to boost Mr. Zhang's credentials, it has become the first choice for internet companies as they follow textile, toy, and electronics manufacturers away from larger cities in pursuit of lower wages. Youku Tudou, China's largest online video company by revenue, is considering moving its censorship operations from Beijing 170km to the coastal city of 10m people. "We're talking 300 to 400 people, and there's no reason these people need to be in Beijing or Shanghai where salaries are going through the roof," said a person familiar with the company's plans. The Chinese government requires the private companies that run internet services such as search engines and social media to censor. Censorship has intensified ahead of the party congress in an effort to muzzle discussion of the party's internal power struggle and corruption. The censorship departments of Sina Weibo, China's leading Twitter equivalent, and the online video website Sohu have already been moved to Tianjin. When users of Sina Weibo post content deemed offensive or subversive, a virtual "little secretary" deletes their posts, blocks searches for keywords or admonishes them to back off. "Censorship is a low-end, labor-intensive kind of work, so these operations are easier to relocate to lower-wage locations," said Li Zhi at Analysys, a Beijing-based internet research firm. According to jobui.com, a Chinese job search website, the average monthly salary for internet censors in Beijing is Rmb4,081 ($653), in Shenzhen Rmb3,714, and in Tianjin Rmb2,998.

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You can't tell by the cutesy cartoon characters, colorful blobs with big eyes and little squeaking Japanese girls, but the basis behind Sega's Puyo Pop came from Russia. In the former Soviet Union, native Russian Alex Pajitnov started a revolution in game design, creating Tetris in 1985 while working as a mathematician. It was about making pieces of four blocks fit together. Players control the rotation of pieces that fall from the top of the screen one at a time. The object was simple enough: create horizontal lines across the screen; the line disappears, and then you score. A game can only end when the pieces have accumulated so high that no more space can accommodate it. So simple, yet so captivating. Now here is Puyo Pop, previously known as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine for the Sega Genesis and Kirby's Avalanche for the Super Nintendo. Previously released on the NeoGeo Pocket Color, the game follows more than Tetris' basic premise of rotating and eliminating falling objects. Puyo keeps its rules simple, yet is so deceptively difficult to master. Do not let its cartoony history fool you. Through its multi-player competition, the game can sometimes exceed the heights of excitement that Tetris has provided for years. The cute but absurd storyline may lead to thinking this game is devoid of sophistication, but applying the "kiddie game" label here can't be justified, as it is with most cases outside of a Sesame Street or Teletubbies game. Colored blobs called Puyo fall from the screen. They come in pairs that the player can rotate on the way down. Linking four Puyos of the same color (horizontally, vertically or both) removes them from the screen, allowing any Puyo remaining to drop and fill the vacated space. This may lead to several possible "chain combos" if additional colors match. All in all it sounds like a variation on the Tetris theme. From there comes the twist, in the form of heated competition. In the single-player mode, you are Arle, a sharp little girl who is friends with some creature named Carbuncle. You challenge the artificial intelligence, which comes in the form of wacky characters that include a used teabag-using skeleton, a fish that makes you hungry for fish just by his presence, an easy-going hot-tempered elephant and a devil who wants to shack up with you. You each have your own screen with falling Puyo. When Puyo disappears on your screen, it transfers over to your opponent's in the form of "Block Puyo." Block Puyo can easily ruin the setup of combos for the other person, and with subsequent chains, you can easily stack more than half a screen full of them, forcing the opponent to whittle down the pile. However, these "attacks" on an opponent can be countered when the opposing player attacks at the same time. The difference between the two attacks will be added onto the player with the lower attack factor. The game ends when the third row from the left in a player's pit is stacked to the fullest. This may seem confusing at first. Believe me, I wasn't sure what the game was about my first try. I merely whittled away at my pile and got rid of individual stacks of Puyo like how I would play Tetris. Imagine my surprise when my simple two-step consecutive chain was counter-attacked by a five-step consecutive chain. Poor Arle screamed in terror when my pit filled almost immediately. That was only the first challenger too! That brings me to a minor complaint about the game: the lack of a training mode. Since this game is wholesome enough for children, some kids may have a hard time grasping the concepts of the game by simply reading the instruction booklet. Although the rules are simple, none of it becomes evident until it can be seen. However, the game is easy to get into, and the difficulty slope is easygoing. Just apply patience to learning the intricacies of the game, as well as for the "kiddie game" storyline, and you'll be a Puyo Popper in no time. Though graphics aren't usually an important factor when it comes to puzzle games, Puyo's rules requires clear distinction between colors. The Puyo are easy to distinguish, but the playfields are a little on the dark side (most of them being brown or gray). And just in case you can't determine you're losing with all the gray Block Puyo on your screen, the characters yelp or cheer depending on your situation. A sound test with portraits of all the characters can be unlocked by collecting cards from characters, adding a little initiative to play the single player mode. Fortunately, everybody can Puyo. The game includes both a two and four-player mode, which allows you to see the other players' screens. The gameplay remains the same, except that it's less awkward to yell at your human friend than a computer-controlled "red-scaled dancing fish man" with human limbs. One thing that holds Puyo Pop from becoming more than just a great puzzle game is its lack of urgency. For those who have played Tetris, and there are many, you can often recall blunders you made when you neglected to see a perfectly good fitting space when you opted for what may have seemed like the more obvious positioning. Then the next block falls, rendering you inert unless you do some quick rotating and positioning to remove lines one at a time. In Tetris, you are the enemy and your only weapon is your keenness. Playing Tetris often draws comparisons to Zen Buddhism, and it's easy to see why. To score high is to be aware of your surroundings, knowing every nook and cranny in the pit while also being conscious of the changes to environment that happen every few seconds. Although it's hard to imagine practitioners of Zen swerving violently to get that long Tetris block into the side, the game is a state of mind. Playing Puyo requires you to be aware of your opponent's pit as well as your own, making you think on your feet. However, an entire screen of Puyo can be wiped out in one fell swoop with a lucky or well-placed chain combo. Likewise, an opponent can fill your screen up with Block Puyo, giving you a sense of hopelessness. An example of both cases was when I was on the verge of beating a sharp computer AI who had its entire screen filled save for the final slot in the third row from the left, where the Puyo fall from. In Puyo, there is a technique called "quick turn," which allows you to rotate the falling puyo in a single narrow column. The computer frantically quick turned repeatedly like a spinning wheel until luck had it land on the exact color it needed. Its entire Puyo pile was nearly wiped from existence, transferred over to me and I was left facing the continue screen. After all, what can you do with your Puyo after something like that happens? You can quick turn, but you're often never that lucky, especially if your opponent dominates you with such a big combo. It was a real struggle for me to write anything negative in this game, so much so that comparisons to Tetris were necessary. After all that, here's a positive comparison to that classic of puzzle games: it's not as ingenious, but it's just as addictive and playable for as long as Tetris can be. Puyo Pop achieves what a good puzzle game asks for, simple execution yet addictive and deep fun, adding a distinctly weird Japanese flavor to a premise that originated in Russia. If Tetris is a truly timeless videogame, Puyo Pop is almost so. Then why didn't this game score higher? To be frank, it's because I don't play Tetris anymore. But maybe you still do. Then again, you probably still play kiddie games, too.

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Skype goes down worldwide for first time since 2007 Updated--It wasn't exactly a red-letter day for Skype: Users trying to access the service to make calls Wednesday morning had trouble connecting, a problem confirmed by Skype in a Twitter message. The VoIP service continued to update users through the day, saying by 4:00 p.m. EST that service is "now gradually returning to normal--we expect it may take several hours for everyone to be able to sign in again, however." The problem, Skype explained on its website, originated among its supernodes, many of which (Skype wouldn't say how many) were "taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype." The site went on to say "Our engineers are creating new ‘mega-supernodes' as fast as they can" and referred visitors back to Twitter for status updates. To add to the ignominy, in a classic cause-equals-effect motion, the number of Skype users complaining about the outage on Twitter likely caused the annoying "fail whale" to raise its head above the waves for a few hours Wednesday as well, says tech blog TheNextWeb.com. Failure of the supernodes is a pretty critical issue, notes Charles Studt, Vice President of Product Marketing at IntelePeer, a cloud communications provider. "In any modern IP communications network, that centralized directory function is pretty important obviously for being able to manage essentially, where are the end points located or what routes should I take to find them for a given process flow," he told FierceTelecom. "The takeaway probably is, obviously those pieces are really critical to how the network operates, and ... whether those supernodes were just unavailable because someone pulled a plug in a server room or whether they were doing a software upgrade globally to all the supernodes and something didn't go so well in the upgrade ...but regardless of the reason, when that intelligence leaves the network, then you have a big problem." The last time Skype experienced a major outage was in 2007, caused by what the company called an "algorithm deficiency." - L.A. Times has this blog post - see Skype's statement - and this article How do you and your company deal with VoIP phone service outages? Skype, Fring and the real cost of VoIP and video calling

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Thread: Jeep Names 03-10-2004, 10:44 PM #1 Pro Comp X Terrain??? what are the best Jeep names??? cause we know all of our special Jeeps have names.... 03-10-2004, 10:48 PM #2 i just call mine.."the jeep" 03-10-2004, 10:55 PM #3 lil'bit but she may have a memmorial soon.On a long enough time-line, The survival rate for everyone Drops to Zero! 03-10-2004, 11:25 PM #4 I own 'Reaper'. 03-10-2004, 11:27 PM #5 More often than not my Jeep's name is filled with a slur of profanity, but I still love her.These voices in my head are giving me a headache.... 03-10-2004, 11:43 PM #6 My recently departed YJ was "Whitey". A guy I worked with named her the "white shadow" because when I bought her there were 4 other Wranglers at our garage and all of them were black. It evolved into Whitey. No name for the Cherokee yet. 03-10-2004, 11:45 PM #7 i used to call mine pt109, but now i just call it a big piece of crap82 CJ5 that dont run.... and is no more.... 94 Z71 J, you wont be forgotten 03-10-2004, 11:52 PM #8 Can't tell ya'll my jeep's name on this site, starts with an F ends with an R rhymes with pucker. 03-10-2004, 11:54 PM #9 Mine has two names: The Juice and The Big Best. I want to give her a girls name, but Im afraid that Ill meet a girl with that name and she'll think Im creepy. 03-11-2004, 12:10 AM #10 I call mine April, after my girlfriend, cuz there both hell to get started in the morning lol 03-11-2004, 12:24 AM #11 I call mine FUBAR most of the time 03-11-2004, 12:34 AM #12 My Yj was Jeezabel named by my wife cause I was told I loved Jeezabel more than here! Last one the CJ was Tugly cause it was tugs ugly cj. 03-11-2004, 03:57 AM #13 My Jeeps name is Bradley, but I call him Brad. It's a few reasons why I named him that. But I want to stay a good standing member on this board, so I wont say why.wicked good dude 03-11-2004, 06:31 AM #14 When mine was green some folks started calling it the snot rocket. We'll see what it'll be named once we get her up and running again. 03-11-2004, 06:34 AM #15 Mine is "Lucy" for what reason i have no idea! She got named that by Tug when i was in Tennessee and it kinda stuck after that. 03-11-2004, 06:54 AM #16 "Project: Stomper" or "Stomper"... My buddy called up after the SOA and asked about the stomper project, I didn't know what he was talking about, ends up he was comparing it to those little match box cars with huge tires on it.91 YJ 4.0 5spd SOA + 1.5" reverse eye RE springs D44 LS Rear & ZJ Disks 36"x14.5" Parnelli Jones' Banks SS exhaust And a bunch of home made stuff! Stock 2005 Loaded WK, for now! 03-11-2004, 07:37 AM #17 My TJ was named Blanche...it just seemed to fit for a slow old lady of a 4 cyl. 03-11-2004, 07:50 AM #18 I call my YJ the struggle buggy. since I have 33 in tires and a poor little 4 cyl that probably struggles to turn them. Sometimes I tell it the story "The little train the could" so it feels better about itself at night.95 YJ 4bangin, 3in BL, edelbrock shocks and SS, 33in bfg mt/km, dynocrap exhaust 03-11-2004, 08:41 AM #19 I used to call mine blue balls but the new name that it seams to aquiring is the snurf. (it is bright blue with white top) I dunno, perhaps I will just call it Karren, for no apparent reason other than thats the first name that just came to my mind!It used to be a jeep Thing, But all that stuff broke 03-11-2004, 09:52 AM #20 My jeep's name is Bruno.Thats what my sister always calls it.I think it's because it's brown.

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Kim Kardashian can’t wait to get married…in due time! The 33-year-old reality starlet was seen out doing some Christmas shopping in Beverly Hills yesterday, and she definitely had a glow about her. While later leaving La Scala restaurant, Kimmy stopped to pose with some fans for photos, even though she was dressed down in her gym gear. It looks like Kim is taking some time to relax before she starts planning for her wedding with fiance Kanye West, since they were both seen leaving a screening with the family of Anchorman 2, which `Ye has a cameo in. Kimmy gushed over Yeezy’s performance in the film to paparazzi, which is something she doesn’t normally do these days. If anyone is excited about the couple’s upcoming wedding, it’s definitely Kris Jenner, who recently revealed some of the details in an interview. She said in the interview: I don’t think it will be two people in a chapel, if you know what I mean!” “I don’t know if they’ll let me jump in That’s two very creative minds getting together and they definitely have their own ideas! The whole way it evolved has been a dream come true for me, as her mom and…North’s grandmother!” “Our house is blissful. To watch Kim and see her mature and grow and turn into the most delicious mother, who is interested and engaged and reads to her every day, and if she works, brings North with her. It’s very cute the way she doesn’t want to be apart from her.” “And Kanye adores both of them,” she said. “The way he speaks of them: it is so delicious, and I can’t explain how in love with them he is. It’s really sweet to watch.” We love seeing these two so in love and eager to walk down the aisle! We can’t wait to see what the wedding plans are like!

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Five highlights from around the country: 1. Notre Dame went to Christmas break 14-4. Since opening up the second half with two three-game weeks (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday), the Irish are 1-5. They lost 2-1 to Fairbanks on Saturday, their fourth loss in a row. 2. Boston College, apparently upset by recent struggles, took out its frustration on Northeastern in a 9-3 victory. Steven Whitney with the hat trick and four points. 3. St. Cloud State, UND’s next opponent, will come in red hot after becoming the first WCHA team to sweep Denver in 60 league series — a span that dates back to 2008. The Huskies are tied with Minnesota for first place. 4. Nic Kerdiles finally knows what it feels like to lose a college hockey game. Wisconsin, which had been 8-0-3 since Kerdiles became eligible, lost 2-1 to Miami despite a strong performance in goal by Joel Rumpel. 5. Behind two goals by Derek Army, Providence upset New Hampshire 6-5. The Wildcats yanked starting goalie Casey DeSmith after allowing four goals on 15 shots. Top WCHA performers 3 points — Drew LeBlanc, SCSU, 1 goal, 2 assists 3 points — Ben Hanowski, SCSU, 1 goal, 2 assists 3 points — Alexander Krushelnyski, CC, 1 goal, 2 assists 3 points — Rylan Schwartz, CC, 3 assists 2 points — David Morley, SCSU, 2 goals 2 points — Zach Palmquist, MSU, 2 goals UND 4, Minnesota 4 In a highly entertaining game that left everyone buzzing in Mariucci Arena, the Gophers rallied for a 4-4 tie thanks to a goal by Nate Condon with 2:58 left in regulation. Rocco Grimaldi and Danny Kristo both rang shots off the post in overtime and the game ended in a tie. Game stories: - Everyone leaving the rink last night talked about what a great college hockey game that was to watch. The atmosphere was outstanding. UND fans loudly chanting “Let’s Go Sioux” countered by Minnesota fans with their own “Let’s Go Gophers” chants. The arena was buzzing for almost the entire third period and overtime. It’s a shame if they don’t find a way to play this every year starting in 2016-17. - The game felt a little like Saturday night’s last year in Mariucci Arena to me. UND had the lead, Minnesota was pushing hard and you just felt like at some point they were going to break through. UND didn’t lose this one, but Rocco Grimaldi said it felt a little like that after the game. - Speaking of Grimaldi, he was really dynamic during the game and nearly won it in overtime. His shot hit the post, though. His goal was a big-time shot. - Minnesota always seems to be known as a high flying offensive team, but what stood out to me was their defense. They have more big, strong players than they have recently and they make it difficult to get to the net. They also win more battles in the corners than they used to. - The Gopher defensemen also were very active in holding the blue line and pinching. It led to them sustaining offensive possession sometimes, but freshmen Brady Skjei and Mike Reilly also got caught on two of UND’s goals. - Minnesota had the better of the first period, outshooting UND 13-5. After that, shots were 8-8 in the second and 13-13 in the third. I thought UND had the best of play in the overtime. - Zane Gothberg allowed four goals, but is perhaps starting to make a run at the No. 1 job. He played pretty well. And he got a piece of two of the four goals he allowed. I have a feeling there’s going to be a good battle for that No. 1 job here. - Colten St. Clair came back into the lineup and did a fantastic job. I thought he provided a ton of energy throughout the night for UND. - UND only had 1:04 of power play time in the game, so there wasn’t much of a chance to establish special teams. - A lot of people have been ragging on UND’s defensive corps. I think a lot of what we saw this weekend had to do with Minnesota’s big forwards. Zach Budish is a big guy who won two puck battles and made two really good feeds for two Minnesota goals on Saturday. - Minnesota coach Don Lucia didn’t seem to think Adam Wilcox was very sharp — pointing to the two posts in overtime as evidence. - UND doesn’t have much of a chance to come down off of this big rivalry series. Next up: the team that’s tied with Minnesota for first place, St. Cloud State. Coach Dave Hakstol didn’t think it would be any problem refocusing for another big series at home.

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From: Ben Crick ([email protected]) Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 12:30:36 EDT On Tue 26 Oct 1999 (11:02:55), [email protected] wrote: > In the Hebrew NT I happen to have the greek term kaqhghths is > translated 'moreh' here. It sets me to pondering, is it possible that > the author is here suggesting that the leader of the Qumran community, > like the "rabbis" and "fathers" should not be viewed as authoritative (in > such a way that their authority eclipses Jesus's). I.e., were there folk > in the early Church who did, in fact, follow rabbis, fathers, and "righteous > teachers" and thus the author of the Gospel writes to curb the effect of > their authority? Some think that verse 10 is a doublet of verse 8, hUMEIS DE MH KLHQHTE hRABBI: hEIS GAR ESTIN hUMWN hO *DIDASKALOS*, ktl. Aleph and B have DIDASKALOS; but most of the rest have KAQHGHTHS here in verse 8 as well as in verse 10. A DIDASKALOS is what we would call a "Doctor"; whereas a KAQHGHTHS is a "Master". The Vulgate has Magister in both places. My Hebrew/English diglott NT (Franz Delitzsch) has at verse 8, KiY 'eCFD HuW' RaBB:CeM HaMMF$iYaC... and at verse 10, KiY 'eCFD HuW' MaN:HiYG:CeM HaMMF$iYaC... A MiN:HFG is a driver of horses, a drover of cattle, or a commander of an army: quite an appropriate title for the Good Shepherd, and the Ruler with the Rod of Iron. We do know from 1 Corinthians 1:12 that the "cult of the personality" was rife in that particular church. No doubt our Lord could foresee that develpoment, and no doubt here he tries to anticipate it and nip it in the You cite MoReH as a translation of KAQHGHTHS. Maybe the translator meant the Aramaic MFRe', Lord, as in MARAN AQA or MARANA QA (1 Corinthians 16:22). The root M-R-H means to rebel! -- Revd Ben Crick, BA CF <[email protected]> 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK) http://www.cnetwork.co.uk/crick.htm --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [email protected] To subscribe, send a message to [email protected] This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:40:44 EDT

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Modric: It’s great to hear the whole stadium shouting my name Real Madrid midfielder, Luka Modric has been the engine that has driven Real Madrid to incredible success over the past several months and following Saturday evening’s 4-2 win over Villarreal, the Bernabeu stood and gave the Croatian midfielder an ovation. “The victory is very important because we faced a very difficult opponent and we’re coming off a great physical and mental effort against Atletico Madrid. These are three very important points. “It’s great that the Bernabeu shouted my name. I am very grateful. I’m at a good moment, as is the team. That’s what matters. I’m very proud and I thank the fans.” Modric then discussed the upcoming second leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal at Atletico Madrid and despite having a three goal advantage, Los Blancos cannot afford to rest of their laurels. “We can’t afford to be complacent, despite having a great game in the first leg. The tie isn’t decided and we have to play at the Vicente Calderon as if it were zero to zero. We need a goal to kill the tie.”

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I can’t take it any more. Jay Rosen sent me an article by the Washington Post public editor that said the folks in the newsroom don’t like Dan Froomkin because he’s too liberal, and they’re miffed that the Technorati tags on their articles lead to bloggers who criticize them. Where do we start. Number one, Dan Froomkin’s column is often the only thing worth reading in the Washington Post, the one thing they’re managed to do right as they crawl their way out of the 18th century amidst a series of spectacularly bad decisions that have blown their credibility and set them in lockstep with the wooly mammoth. So the reporters don’t like the guff they’re taking from bloggers? I fucking bet they don’t. But that’s what you get when you set the bar so low the only people who stick around are the ones who can limbo under it. Take today’s offering by Jim VandHei and Carol Leonnig. I got about half way through and I thought "you know, they’re getting better, this isn’t at all bad." Then they hit a speed bump: Novak wrote that Luskin told her the tip set in motion a cycle of events that led Rove and his lawyers to search phone logs and other material. No, she didn’t. What she said was it "led him to do an intensive search for evidence that Rove and Matt had talked." But now that you mention it, what about the phone log? Did that disappear into the either too along with the Hadley email until Rove recovered from his nasty bout of the memory-sucking flu? The naturally incurious mind of the reporters triumphs with a galling lack of pursuit. But then they really go into turbo-charged absurdity: A lawyer close to the case said Luskin has contended the conversation happened before Rove’s first appearance before the grand jury in February 2004, when he testified he did not recall discussing Plame with Cooper. Luskin refused to comment. A spokesman for Rove’s defense said in a statement that Rove is cooperating and that private discussions with the prosecutor will not be discussed publicly. One possible explanation of why the date is so important is that Luskin could contend it would have been foolish for Rove to try to cover up his role when he knew — because of Novak’s disclosure to Luskin — that a number of people knew he had talked to Cooper and that it probably would soon become public. OH MY GOD CAN YOU UNHOOK YOUR MOUTH FROM ROVE’S KNOB LONG ENOUGH TO MENTION THAT THIS MAKES NO SENSE?!! Now for all I know this is exactly what happened in a defense that seems to have been cobbled together by contestants at some regional Dust-off huffing championship. But to throw it up without question is not journalism, it’s not even stenography, it’s cretinism. You have to have an extra chromosome floating around somewhere to sit there muttering "uh huh, uh huh, oh…good point" when someone is spinning you that kind of fish tale. The WaPo article linked above is just gibberish. Basically Luskin or someone else runs to the press screaming "this is great for my client" no matter what the news is and the journalists feel obliged to try to make that spin fit the facts even when it makes no sense. Isn’t it about time to point out that Robert Luskin has spent the past few years lying to the Washington Post? Rather than pointing this out, they write a glowing, four page testimonial to his unwavering genius. And then they wonder why we mock them furiously. There are only a few outlets that receive leaks from official government sources, and the public must look to them for what meager information we are dribbled. That we become enraged at the obtuseness and opacity of the reporting is completely predictable, and I’m sorry we’re not here to quietly applaud bimbo journalism that cares more about its own perpetuation than it does any responsibility it has as a fourth estate. If you long ago stopped caring about serving the public interest, fine, don’t be surprised when the public grows contentious and turns on you. What the WaPo writers are viewing through their Technorati tags is only a tiny crumb of a rage that threatens to sweep them into irrelevance. If they care about the preservation of superstar journalists and the politics of access above all else they blind themselves to the sea change that is taking place in how information is exchanged. Dan Froomkin is the future. They say they want to balance him out by adding a conservative voice? That’s great, just what the Mighty Wurlitzer needs, another outlet. As I’ve said before, this isn’t about right vs. left, it’s about people on both sides who are sick of the machine. One step forward, six steps back. Outside the fucking box, that lot. It won’t be long before the WaPo honchos wish they’d sent Bob Woodward and his embarrassing apologies packing before he dragged them down into 8-track tape anachronism. I dare them to take a look at the bulk of the last year’s offerings on the CIA leak and do anything other than groan. The reporting is execrable and the dot connection worse. They’ve handed the keys to the kingdom to the village idiots and they shouldn’t be stunned when bloggers merely point that out. Update: Froomkin responds: "The journalists who cover Washington and the White House should be holding the president accountable. When they do, I bear witness to their work. And the answer is for more of them to do so — not for me to be dismissed as highly opinionated and liberal because I do." Crooks & Liars also weighs in. Digby: "The DC press corps has no idea how they look to the rest of the country after more than a decade of running with GOP trumped up scandals, pimping for impeachment, trivializing the effects of an unorthodox presidential election in 2000, and then saluting smartly and following Dick Cheney over the cliff on Iraq." Oh yeah. (graphic by Monk at Inflatable Dartboard)

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Band will release 'Ordinary' and 'Breathe' on 10-inch vinyl by Kory Grow, Rolling Stone U2 will release two new songs, "Ordinary Love" and a new version of "Breathe," on 10-inch vinyl as part of Record Store Day's "Back to Black Friday" event on November 29th, according to Billboard. The cover of the 10-inch features a painting of Nelson Mandela because the group wrote and recorded "Ordinary Love" for the biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which is based on the South African president's autobiography and comes out the same day. "Breathe," which originally came out on U2's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon, is listed on the Record Store Day website as the "Mandela Version." The vinyl is limited to 10,000 copies. The band members befriended Mandela years ago and, according to their website, they were inspired to write the songs after seeing early cuts of the film. The movie stars Idris Elba (The Wire, Luther) and Naomie Harris (Skyfall, 28 Days Later . . .) and was directed by Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl). The song appears in the trailer for the film.

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Niches to Riches Enhance your expertise, more effectively help customers and distinguish yourself from the competition. Here are 10 markets to target this year: 1. International Sales. The weak U.S. dollar makes homes a bargain for Europeans and gives Canadians more buying power. Latin Americans also recognize that now is an ideal time to buy lower-priced properties. 2. Short Sales. In a short sale, the owner asks the mortgage lender to accept a payoff that is less than the total amount due. Any potential short sale is contingent on the lender’s approval. 3. Foreclosures. For most Florida sales associates, the biggest opportunities come from working with buyers, including renters seeking an inexpensive first home, handyman types who want to repair and resell a fixer-upper, and investors seeking income-producing properties. 4. New-Home Sales. A statewide inventory of several hundred thousand newly built residences remain unsold. Real estate professionals can help buyers take advantage of builder incentives and special financing 5. Property Management. Property management, either in a full-time salaried position or as a supplement to a sales career, can provide a steady income flow. 6. Luxury-Home Sales. Luxury-home sales have held up surprising well during Florida’s residential downturn. 7. Commercial Brokerage. Economists expect Florida’s commercial real estate market to outperform the residential sector in 2008, with active sales and leasing activity in the retail, office, industrial and hospitality markets. 8. Young First-Time Buyers. A recent study by International Demographics found that there were 6.2 million adults aged 18 to 35 with household incomes over $100,000 in 87 major metropolitan areas. 9. Seniors. More than 78 million baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) are beginning to reach their 60s. And a significant percentage want to retire to attractive communities in Florida. 10. Singles. From recent college graduates and young professionals to divorced parents and elderly widowers, singles at all age levels constitute a growing segment of the Florida market. Nationally, 51 percent of all U.S. adult women live without a spouse, and by 2010, Fannie Mae estimates, as many as 31 million single women will be homeowners—28 percent of all U.S. households. For more information visit the Great Time to Buy microsite: http://buynow.floridarealtors.org . To read this article in its entirety, go to www.floridarealtors.org and search “Scratch That Niche: You Might Like It.”

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The whole Canadian Lego Glock snafu somehow zipped past me without really piquing my interest until I read the mention of it over at Blunt Object's blog. That was the first time I read that the whole fracas, SWAT team and all, was caused because some invertebrate in a nearby office was Gladys Kravitzing through the window and saw that our future SWAT team tackling dummy had in his hands what looked like a pistol. Not "...had what looked like a pistol and was pointing it at people." Not "...had what looked like a pistol and was pulling on a ski mask." Not "...had what looked like a pistol, and a dozen sticks of dynamite taped to his L.L. Bean hiker's vest and was hollering "Allahu akhbar!"." Nope, he just had a pistol in his hands. Apparently the mere sight of a gun, not even being used in any kind of hostile manner, is enough to provoke panic sweat and jittery 911 calls in today's Toronto. One can imagine that when the cops showed up with their heaters, the caller completely lost continence. One has to wonder how such a toothless creature musters up the towering courage it must require to emerge from under the covers in the morning and scurry to the bathroom without having an OHIP-paid psychiatrist waiting in the john to help talk him through the trauma.

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The Ethiopian champion has been battling injury for over a year. After a long hiatus due to several leg injuries, multiple world record holder Kenenisa Bekele is officially back in training. According a Twitter posting, Bekele wrote that “it has been almost a year since my leg injury, but I have now started training. I’m hoping to be ready for the London Olympics.” Bekele is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and arguably one of the best distance runners of all time. He has won an amazing 11 World Cross-Country titles. Bekele’s struggles began last February when he ruptured a calf muscle preparing to set a new world record in the indoor 5000m event. Bekele then suffered from a knee injury that delayed his comeback even further. The question is: What events will Bekele compete in in London? He’s never raced a marathon, but will be heading to London as a 34-year-old seasoned runner, so chances are the Ethiopian will take on the 26.2-mile event. He will also most likely race the 10,000m, because there is an eight-day gap between the two events. For More: Athletics Weekly

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Playing without Bobby Ryan due to a league-imposed suspension, and without their best defensive game plan for reasons unknown, the Ducks needed to steal one to win Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Sunday in Nashville. Despite trailing 2-0 late in the second period, and 3-2 early in the third, they nearly did. Mike Fisher’s goal at 10:21 of the third period held up as the game-winner, and the Predators’ 4-3 victory put the Ducks in a 2-1 hole in the best-of-seven series. Teemu Selanne scored goals 30 seconds apart late in the second period to erase the 2-0 deficit. With the Ducks trailing 3-2 early in the third period, Matt Beleskey re-directed a Saku Koivu shot past Pekka Rinne (13 saves) to tie the game again. It was nearly enough for the Ducks to pull out the road win despite being outshot 37-16 and despite the absence of Ryan, who was suspended for Games 3 and 4 of the series for stepping on Nashville defenseman Jonathon Blum. Ray Emery (33 saves) held his weight against the barrage of shots, but some defensive-zone lapses by the Ducks did him in — Martin Erat took advantage of a poor clearing attempt by Lubomir Visnovsky on the game’s first goal; Ryan Getzlaf mishandled the puck just before Jordin Tootoo put it in the Ducks’ net; David Legwand and Fisher snuck behind the defense to score the Preds’ final two goals on Emery’s back door. A few more notes and observations: Kyle Palmieri was the surprise replacement for Ryan in the lineup — surprising if only that the last of his 10 career NHL games came in November. He had been a productive player for AHL affiliate Syracuse in the meantime, and he started Sunday’s game with former Crunch linemates Matt Beleskey and Nick Bonino. Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle shuffled his lines quite a bit after the first period (the Ducks were being outshot 16-4 at one point early in the second) and Palmieri wound up with one shot on goal in an otherwise uneventful 10:07 — including 46 seconds on the power play. Randy Carlyle on the decision to play Palmieri: “The decision was based upon the fact that he’s played very, very well the last six weeks in the American Hockey League. He is a scorer, so welt that adding that potential offense that he can provide was a better option.” And on the line as a whole: “The Kid Line they were fine. They worked hard. They could’ve done a better job supporting the puck in the offensive zone a couple times but you cannot fault them for their involvement in the game, their compete level. They handled themselves quite well, I thought.” Selanne broke Rob Niedermayer’s team record by playing in his 74th career playoff game as a Duck. The goals were his 38th and 39th all-time in the playoffs. Not that it mattered to Selanne, who was unusually coarse in his postgame assessment: “We have no business in this (expletive) game. No business. They want it more. They won the battles. We were lucky to be even in the game. Very disappointed. … I hope everybody’s going to be pissed off about this and (expletive) learn something about this.” Predators head coach Barry Trotz, meanwhile, wins for Most Politcally Correct Postgame Quote: “Sometimes you have to get kicked in some of the places you don’t want to get kicked before you realize, ‘I have to do this, and if I do this I’ll be successful.’” Andreas Lilja, Andy Sutton, Kyle Chipchura, Jarkko Ruutu, Dan Sexton and Jonas Hiller were the Ducks’ scratches. Defensemen usually get more ice time than forwards, but Corey Perry played a team-high 25:34 tonight. The Predators won the faceoff battle tonight (27-24) and the team that has won the most faceoffs has gone on to win all three games of the series. As is often the case, Todd Marchant (6-2) and Saku Koivu (9-6) did fine, while Ryan Getzlaf (6-12) and Nick Bonino (3-6) did not. Fisher (11-6) was dominant for Nashville. Game 4 is Wednesday in Nashville.

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Sound Consumer | November 2002 Looking for a few good leaders By PCC Nominating Committee: Bob Cross, Stewart Rose, Carmelita Logerwell, Mark Huppert, Cathy Buller It's that time of year when the air gets nippier, the leaves begin to change, and — the PCC Nominating Committee gears up its search for candidates for the next board of trustees election! Didn't we just have an election? Yes, we did, but it takes time to recruit and get acquainted with potential candidates in order to present the best possible slate to the membership each year. There are many ways to grow — bigger, smarter, more focused.We're looking for bright, business-minded individuals to join the PCC Board of Trustees and share their experience and expertise to help PCC become the best that it can be. A nine-person board of trustees elected by the active membership directs PCC. Each trustee serves a three-year term, with three positions open for election each year. A trustee may serve no more than three consecutive terms. The board's primary responsibilities are to provide wise stewardship of the cooperative's resources and leadership to maintain the success of a retail grocery co-op with well over $65 million in sales. The PCC Board follows the John Carver model of policy governance. The nominating committee begins its work by talking to many people about the possibility of serving on the board, providing the information they need to decide if board service might be a good fit, and assessing skills to see what is needed. In January, we will be interviewing applicants and offering nomination to those whose experiences, interests, and skills indicate they would be successful board members. The election is held in May and the new board term begins in June 2003. Please see the next section, Responsibilities of the board of trustees. If it sounds like you or someone you know, we invite you to apply and put your experience and skills to work providing leadership for the largest retail food cooperative in the United States. We look forward to meeting you. PCC membership required. Elections are in May. Application deadline is January 14, 2003. Responsibilities of the board of trustees What the board does - Serve as trustees for and provide linkage with the member-owners and shoppers of PCC. - Establish two types of policies to guide management: Ends to provide direction, and Executive Limitations to prevent unacceptable actions. - Establish two types of policies to guide board actions: board-CEO Relations to ensure effective communication between the board and management, and board process to ensure excellent board performance. - Ensure that all activities of PCC are carried out within the law, Articles, and Bylaws. - Provide wise stewardship of the member investment. What the individual board members do - Understand the board's roles and responsibilities as stated in the bylaws. - Allocate sufficient time to prepare for each meeting. Trustees receive packets of written information in advance of each meeting. - Prepare for and attend all scheduled board meetings, held at least five to seven times per year, usually on the last Tuesday of the month, plus serve on one or more board task forces. Board meetings may average four hours; task force meetings 90 minutes to two hours. - Attend annual meeting each year, usually a half day in April. - Attend two day-long board retreats each year, usually one in summer and one in winter. - Visit stores regularly throughout term of office and attend PCC events when possible. - Time spent on board business may vary from month to month, averaging 10 to 15 hours per month, including preparation for meetings. - Annual stipend. - Unique and valuable hands-on cooperative board experience. Report on board activities The board's September 24 meeting covered a variety of topics, from a presentation on green architecture by the architect for the new Fremont store to a discussion with management on its interpretation of the board's newly developed policies on PCC's direction (Ends Policies). The board also made plans for its November retreat, which will focus on education in four broad areas: finances, grocery operations, cooperatives, and food toxicology. From time to time, the City of Seattle Weights and Measures experts show up without warning at our stores (and other grocery stores) to verify the accuracy of our pricing for customers. They select 50 random items and check to make sure that the price listed on the shelf matches what actually rings up at the register. In mid-October, Weights and Measures conducted a pricing audit at PCC Greenlake. It was 100 percent accurate. Congratulations to Mark Frasher, Sue Reid, and Bill Hardesty for a job well done.

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|Enter your zip to find stuff near you| This classified ad has expiredClick here to view current advertisements similar to this one. My Little Shoppe of Kool Stuff is a new place to shop. It offers you products like electronics, cell phones, kindles, shoes, and more. While there why not check out the link that takes you to a great site for trips, vacation and hotels. Will also be adding a rental car company for customer convenience. Do all your shopping at one place. [please contact me for website address]

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Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, has floated the idea of eliminating kickoffs. Instead of a kickoff after a team scores, the team that scored would get the ball at its own 30 yard line in a 4th down and 15 yards to go situation. The team would have the choice of punting, or trying to convert a 1st down (and if they fail, the other team would get the ball in great field position). I’m a stat geek and a sports fan (baseball is really my first love). When I was in high school, I was the statistician for the basketball team, and worked as a spotter in the football press box. I also started a fantasy football league when I was 15 — long before fantasy football really became popular. And I even tried to create a football power rating system from scratch. Yes, I was, and still am, a nerd. Sports statistics as a teenager were my “gateway drug” into the world of taxes. So I bounce ideas around in my head about sports all the time. Even before Goodell came out with his idea, I’ve been toying with an idea that calls for not just eliminating kickoffs, but eliminating the entire kicking game from football altogether. My proposal is this: - No more kickoffs, punts, field goals or extra-point kicks. The objective of football is to get the ball into the endzone. So, reward teams that get the ball into the end zone. - The team that gets the ball first would not receive a kickoff. Instead, the ball would simply be placed at a certain yard line (probably that team’s own 35) and play would proceed from there, the same as always. Except …. - No punting, no field goals. If it’s 4th down, you have to go for it. If you don’t convert, the other team gets the ball. - Touchdowns are still worth 6 points. After a score, the scoring team goes for the 2-point conversion. If they convert, they get to keep possession of the football, 1st and 10 at their own 35. If they fail to convert, the other team gets the ball at its own 35 yard line. Right now, 2-point conversions take place from the 2 yard line, and the conversion rate is usually around 50%. I would propose moving the conversion back to, say, the 5 yard line, to add to the degree of difficulty. There are plenty of flaws with my idea, but it’s something I cooked up earlier this football season (I think I was watching the Chiefs play when I came up with this idea, which may explain why my mind started to wander). “This blog post, along with comments that may follow, should not be considered tax advice. Before you make final tax or financial decisions, please secure a professional tax advisor to give you advice about your unique situation. To secure Jason as your accountant, please click on the ‘Services’ link at the top of the page.”

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Happy Trails RV Cords presents our NEMA L5-30 male to NEMA TT-30 female RV adapter. This adapter converts from a 30 Amp Locking power source to a 30 Amp Straight Blade source. Now made with a clear compound and an interior LED light that shows you when you have power! 1x NEMA L5-30P (male) 125V 1x NEMA TT-30R (female) 125V Price incudes shipping to the lower 48 states For shipments outside of the US, please call for a freight quote.

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- What is TMJ? - TMJ Causes - TMJ Symptoms - TMJ Treatment - The success rate of TMJ Treatment - Dangers of Untreated TMJ - View how TMJ affects you - TMJ Consultation & Diagnosis - TMJ Splint Therapy - TMJ Mouthguard - Orthotic Solutions - Taking away your Pain - Porcelain Veneers - Smile Rejuvenation - No Surgery Needed - TMJ Physical Therapy - I-Cat Scan - Chiropractic Care - TMJ Cost / Dental Financing - TMJ Smile Gallery - About Dr. Siman - Patient Forms - Contact us Do you have TMJ? |• What is TMJ?||• Taking Away Your Pain||• TMJ Effects| |• Where’s my TMJ?||• No Surgery Needed||• Do I Have TMJ?| |• Is Treatment Expensive?||• TMJ Causes||• Why a “Dentist” for TMJ?| |• TMJ Diagnosis||• TMJ Symptoms||• Long Term Solutions| Does pain stop you from living your life? It doesn’t have to be that way. TMJ symptoms can be debilitating. You need to put and end to your constant pain. It’s always there. It seems to have been there forever. You don’t know what’s causing it. But you do know that you must find a way to relieve it. You can’t perform at work… You can’t be there for your family… You’ve stopped enjoying anything . . . . . . all you feel is pain. When you have an unbalanced bite, your jaw, head, and neck muscles must to work extra hard to compensate. Your bad bite is a result of your malfunctioning jaw joint (TMJ). Does this sound like you? Stop your pain with TMJ treatment How long has it been since you have been suffering? Maybe your jaw and face hurt all the time. You might be coping with a constant headache or migraines. Maybe the pain is in your neck, ears or mouth. Perhaps it’s in your shoulders or your back. Whatever the pain is, it’s been there for years and you can’t find relief Life is a gift and coping with constant pain is no way to live it. Remember when life was fun? You were active, happy and carefree. You can return to that life with TMJ treatment. There’s a solution to your TMJ pain. Do something NOW and stop pain from ruling your life. Take a look at what a ‘bad bite’ is doing to you. It impacts you from head to toe. Most people don’t know that their pain could be caused but misaligned or missing teeth. They don’t know that their painful body is a result of dental problems. Take action today. There’s a solution to your pain and you can address it now, before it leads to bigger problems down the road. Your head, neck, shoulders, ears, eyes, face, muscles and posture will thank you . Is lack of sleep ‘killing’ you? 1. Test yourself. Right here, right now. You may be unaware of the destruction that is happening when experiencing insufficient sleep. If you knew that your current Sleep Disorder symptoms will lead to future bigger issues, doesn’t it make sense to take action NOW? Snoring issues, Sleep Apnea or Insomnia can be life threatening… Do the sleep test 2. Sleep Disorder Consultation & Diagnosis Imagine a world – your world – where drowsiness and fatigue don’t plague you. A world in where you look forward to a restful night’s sleep and you get it! A world in where you face the day refreshed and invigorated; ready for what life throws at you. Read more 3. Feel like your sleep problem is ‘killing’ you? You aren’t the only one wondering as over half of all adults are getting fewer than the recommended daily hours of sleep required. Additionally, more and more people say their sleep problem disrupts their lives and subsequently affects their partner’s lives too. How does sleep loss affect your life? Read more Why Dr. Eddie Siman? What is it you want? Relief from snoring, breathing problems, long sleepless nights? Hopefully a happier, healthier life? Dr. Eddie Siman has been providing Sleep Disorder Solutions for more than 25 years. Come in for a Sleep Disorder Diagnosis, and let us show you how we provide effective non-surgical solutions to get help get rid of your sleep problem. Getting started is easy. Read through the helpful resources on this website and schedule a consultation. Then get ready to smile again! How lack of sleep affects your life… Read more

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yeah i am not one of these bandwagon fans but with the Cubs it doesn't matter,they will probably break my heart for the umpteenth time. I was hoping I might get anyone to make a Cubs sig for me to use until baseball season is over and I can go back to my football love. If anyone is up to it.I'd like a sig with the Cubs logo,and maybe a nice pic of a view of Wrigley from home plate looking towards the ivy and bleachers. If able to add text I'd like "Bleacher Bum For Life". I have promised my sig master not to bother him until next year for my next football sig so if there are any takers on this please let me know. 100 years?! It's time for "next year"

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Lace up your sneakers: It's time to register for the fifth annual Palmerton 5K for Diabetes, which benefits the American Diabetes Association. The race/walk will take place Saturday, Aug. 25 at 9 a.m. in Palmerton Borough Park. The Palmerton 5K for Diabetes will raise funds for the American Diabetic Association (ADA), whose goal is to prevent, cure and manage diabetes. The race/walk is founded and organized by volunteer Carla Majczan, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in childhood. "Everyone knows somebody who is diabetic. Every person is affected by this disease in some shape or form," said Majczan. "And this disease affects every part of their life." One in 10 adults currently has diabetes, a disease marked by high blood sugar levels. High blood sugar levels can cause health problems such as heart disease or stroke and can also damage the eyes, skin or nerves. Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death, but actively managing the disease can reduce health risks. Doctors diagnose diabetes through a simple blood test. Majczan credits the Palmerton 5K's past success to the sheer size of the diabetes epidemic, noting that many local people are driven to support the ADA in their neighborhood. "It had just grown so much. People wanted to come back and do it again this year," she said, adding that last year's event grew to more than 100 runners and walkers. She hopes to see even more people at the fundraiser this year. "The more people who come out, the more people who you tell about it, the bigger an impact we can have." Of course, Majczan and all supporters of the ADA dream of a day that these fundraisers will be unnecessary and a cure for diabetes is found. Until then, she continues to support ADA's mission of treating and preventing the disease. "It would be nice if people could just take a pill and be done with diabetes for the day," said Majczan, noting that it's not that simple. While medication plays an important role in managing her diabetes, she also plays close attention to her diet and physical activity. She hopes taking part in the 5K will encourage others to become or stay active. "The better health you're in, the easier your diabetes will be to control. A huge part of diabetes is exercising and eating healthy," she said. "This is a great reason for people to come out and start exercising. "In some of the past races, families walked together," she added. "I see how when people cross the finish line, they're proud that they've crossed this hurdle. It's kind of representative of the whole disease." While the Palmerton event reaches just a fraction of the people the ADA expects at its annual "Step Out Walk" in Bethlehem and Scranton, local ADA associate director Dawn Fernandez says that these smaller events are just as important as those that receive national attention. "Any event that we can do to get people involved in the community, it's a great thing," said Fernandez. "They may seem small on a local level, but in the big picture these events allow great things to happen." She noted that ADA research has been used to create new and more effective ways of treating diabetes, including advanced insulin pumps that allow Type 1 diabetics to lead more active lives. They are also "closing the gap" on the technology required to create an artificial pancreas, she added. This breakthrough was made possible in part by support of local volunteers such as Majczan, and those who support her fundraisers. "Her last five years of raising this money has put us closer toward this breakthrough. It's amazing to have volunteers like her out there," she said. The ADA is actively looking for volunteers and sponsors for the event. For more information or to register for the Palmerton 5K for Diabetes, call 888-342-2383 ext. 4625 or 610-390-2086, or email [email protected] .

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Putin brings forward South Stream gas pipeline build Russia has brought forward to late 2012 from 2013 the start date for building a pipeline to transport gas to Europe under the Black Sea, bypassing Ukraine. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the move after Turkey gave permission for the South Stream gas pipeline to be built under its waters. The first gas is expected to be pumped through the pipeline in 2015. The move gives the project a clear run into the lucrative energy markets of Europe. Kiev had had failed to reach an agreement with the pipeline's owners. Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom has a 50% stake, Italy's Eni 20% and France's EDF and Germany's Wintershall 15% each. The main rival to the South Stream project is the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline, which is set to carry gas from the Caspian region to Austria, passing through southern Europe. The Nord Stream, pumping gas from Russia's northern fields to Germany, opened last month, bypassing Poland, which like Ukraine has also had disputes with Russia over gas.'Strategic partnership' "I think it would be desirable to start (construction) at the end of next year," Mr Putin told Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller during a meeting at his house outside Moscow. Mr Miller said the pipeline's total cost would be 16.5bn euros (£13.8bn), of which Russia would pay around 7.5 billion euros. In energy talks with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hailed the countries' "serious and major" co-operation, describing theirs as "a strategic partnership". With few energy resources of its own, Turkey is highly dependent on Russian gas, correspondents say. It wants to become a major energy corridor by transporting Russian gas through its territory to the Middle East. But analysts say the South Stream project concerns the European Union, which wants to diversify its energy supplies and break free of its growing dependence on Russian gas.

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Carne assada em vinho dalhos portuguese pot roast in wine and garlicFrom dione73 5 years ago - 4 cups dry red wine shopping list - 6-ounce can tomato paste shopping list - 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley shopping list - 1 teaspoon fresh oregano shopping list - 2 bay leaves shopping list - 4 tablespoons paprika shopping list - 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red-pepper flakes, or more to taste shopping list - 2 teaspoons salt shopping list - 1 3-pound rump roast, strings removed and cut into 3 equal pieces shopping list - 1 1/2 pounds Portuguese chourico or Spanish chorizo, cut into 6-inch pieces shopping list - 10 cloves garlic, crushed shopping list - 3 Spanish onions, chopped shopping list - 5 cups water shopping list - 8 medium yukon gold potatoes, peeled and quartered shopping list - 8 medium carrots, peeled and cut in half crosswise shopping list How to make it - 1. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk half the wine into tomato paste until smooth. Stir in herbs, spices and salt. Set aside. - 2. Place beef and chourico pieces in covered (18 x 12 x 7 1/2-inch) oval roasting pan. Evenly distribute garlic and onions around meat. Pour in wine mixture. Add the water and remaining wine. Cover and marinate in refrigerator overnight or up to 48 hours. - 3. Preheat oven to 450 F (230 C). Remove pan from fridge, place on bottom rack of oven and cook covered for 2 hours. As marinade reduces to gravy, baste meat often to keep moist. - 4. Remove chourico, cover with foil and keep warm. Lower temperature to 400 F (200 C). Add potatoes and carrots and cook 30 minutes; uncover and continue cooking until meat is browned and potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes more. - 5. To serve, place meat in center of large platter and ring with vegetables and chourico. Ladle gravy on top. The Cookdione73 US, RI The Rating4 people Sounds fab gotta try it :)aussie_meat_pie in My Kitchen loved it I have had this in a Portugese restaurant and it is delicious. Great post! pleclare in Framingham loved it Have had this in a Portugese restauranr. It's delicious. Great post!pleclare in Framingham loved it - Not added to any groups yet!

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President Obama and Vice President Biden were in New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa and Florida over the weekend. Fresh off his convention address, President Obama gave a pep talk to a crowd of thousands at St. Petersburg College in Florida. Check out what he had to say: “Change won’t happen without you … Only you have the power to move us forward. But you’ve got to use that power. “If you’re not registered to vote, go to GottaRegister.com … If you’re not sure about how to vote, go to GottaVote.com. Talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors, talk to your co-workers. Don’t just talk to people who agree with you; reach out to folks who don’t follow politics that closely. Talk to somebody who’s undecided. Talk to some of your Republican friends. And talk to them about a vision for the future that moves everybody forward, not just a few. “I’m asking for your help. Can you knock on some doors for me? Will you tell your friends and neighbors what’s at stake in this election? Will you register? Will you vote? Because if you do, we will finish what we started. We’ll create more good jobs. We’ll generate more homegrown energy. We’ll hire more great teachers. We’ll send more young people to college. We’ll bring home more troops. We’ll take care of more veterans. We will open the doors of opportunity to everybody who’s willing to work hard and walk through them.”

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Galak-Z at first glance it looks like a twin stick shooter but it is far from it. It is an interesting take on a rogue Not a year goes by that I don’t get super excited to talk to our friends Greg Kasavin and Supergiant Games. Before the show started Oh Internets! Jeff and Luke talk about the internet's Ire! After a short break, Jeff and Luke are back to break down a few different video game topics. Our thoughts on both the Xbox One and the PS4. Hard Drive Crashes, Day Jobs, Real Life be DAMNED! The show much go on!

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Not long ago Bells asked me if my house is full of felted 'pods' and other vessels. Well, no, it's not. But there are a few around. I'll be submitting a few felted vessels to be included in the Knit1Blog1 exhibition at Crafts ACT from Friday 13 July. Lots of the local (and some not-so-local) knitters and bloggers are taking part, and some are running workshops as well, as part of the Festival of Contemporary Art. Although the house is not yet knee-deep in felted items as Bells might have envisaged, the stash of feltable yarns received a big boost this week with a hefty donation from Taph's boodle earlier this week. I've packed about two thirds of it into a bag that originally held a queen-sized blanket. I don't have even a tinge of guilt (doth the lady protest too much?) bringing it into the house. Even though I do have too much STUFF generally, this stuff will get felted, I love to have a good range of colours around when the mood strikes - in fact it's already come in handy today.

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I guess it won't be my hooker heels garnering me attention at this Summer's Christy Awards. I'm so freakin' happy! Can you believe it??? And Lisa Samson, my bff lovies, is a finalist for her rawkin', amazing book Embrace Me. It was my favorite Lisa Samson novel until her incredible The Passion of Mary Margaret came out. How much does this rawk? Seriously. And we're in two different categories, so you can hope both of us will win! Here is a list of all the finalist: Contemporary Romance category are: * Beyond the Night by Marlo Schalesky (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group) * Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren (Tyndale House Publishers) * Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White by Claudia Mair Burney (David C. Cook) Contemporary Series, Sequels & Novellas category are: * Sisterchicks Go Brit! by Robin Jones Gunn (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group) * Summer Snow by Nicole Baart (Tyndale House Publishers) * You Had Me at Good-bye by Tracey Bateman (FaithWords) Contemporary Standalone category are: * Dogwood by Chris Fabry (Tyndale House Publishers) * Embrace Me by Lisa Samson (Thomas Nelson) * Tuesday Night at the Blue Moon by Debbie Fuller Thomas (Moody Publishers) First Novel category are: * Blue Hole Back Home by Joy Jordan-Lake (David C. Cook) * Rain Song by Alice J. Wisler (Bethany House Publishers) * Safe at Home by Richard Doster (David C. Cook) Historical category are: * Shadow of Colossus by T.L. Higley (B&H Publishing Group) * Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin (Bethany House Publishers) * Washington’s Lady by Nancy Moser (Bethany House Publishers) Historical Romance category are: * Calico Canyon by Mary Connealy (Barbour Publishers) * From a Distance by Tamera Alexander (Bethany House Publishers) * The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen (B&H Publishing Group) Suspense category are: * By Reason of Insanity by Randy Singer (Tyndale House Publishers) * The Rook by Steven James (Revell) * Winter Haven by Athol Dickson (Bethany House Publishers) Visionary category are: * The Battle for Vast Dominion by George Bryan Polivka (Harvest House Publishers) * Shade by John B. Olson (B&H Publishing Group) * Vanish by Tom Pawlik (Tyndale House Publishers) Young Adult category are: * The Fruit of My Lipstick by Shelley Adina (FaithWords) * I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires by Cathy Gohlke (Moody Publishers) * On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group)

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Indiana coach Kevin Wilson wouldn’t confirm a report from the Indiana Daily Student that junior tailback Darius Willis is definitively out for the season, but he expressed little hope of a return for the Franklin Central graduate and hinted that his injuries could be career-threatening. Willis was the starting tailback in both 2009 and 2010 for the Hoosiers and compiled 885 yards and 10 touchdowns in those two seasons, but he’s continually battled injury. That includes a torn patella tendon in his knee that ended his season after four games last year. Willis hasn’t practiced much since sitting out all of spring and making it in for only a handful of practices in the preseason. Wilson, who is rarely specific in describing injuries, said that Willis reaggravated the knee injury, which puts not only his season but his career in doubt. “It could be the end of his career,” Wilson said. “It’s a recurring deal. He’s far enough along. That’s just for the doctors and his family to decide.” He didn’t rule out a return completely, but he also floated the possibility of Willis taking a medical hardship waiver. That would mean he would remain on scholarship, but would no longer play because of the injury and would not count against the scholarship limit of 85. Former left guard Aaron Price, a South graduate whose career ended because of a back injury is in a similar circumstance. “I don’t know if he’s out for the season,” Wilson said. “… If you can’t play with it, you look to do those medical deals like you do with guys, but that’s not our call. That’s a league deal where you document if the injury is significant enough where he can’t play. Then he stays on scholarship and frees it up. He hasn’t practiced but a couple, three times all year. He just kind of retweaked the tendon or whatever injury before. It just didn’t heal right, I guess.” The Hoosiers’ second-most experienced tailback coming into the season has moved not only out of the rotation but away from the position. Redshirt sophomore Nick Turner, who handled almost all of the work at tailback this spring, was passed on the depth chart by redshirt freshman Matt Perez, junior college transfer Stephen Houston and true freshman D’Angelo Roberts. Wilson said he wants to try to use Turner’s considerable speed elsewhere, so he’s moved him to safety for the time being. “We’re trying to find him a spot on the field,” Wilson said. “With some seniors at safety, maybe it’s a year-away move, but why do you wait? If you’re not playing, let’s escalate it. … I don’t know if he can play over there. He’s fast, but there’s a lot of fast guys that can’t play football. He wasn’t doing well at running back. The young guys went past him. We’re just trying to find a spot, get him on the field. He’s a good kid, trying. He did a nice job in the spring, but the young guys have just played better and went by him.” Turner has seen plays during games in special teams, and Wilson said he’s a long way from understanding the defense because he’s just begun learning it. Wilson said he was moved to safety instead of cornerback because he has better straight-ahead speed than lateral quickness. Wilson said he could move back to running back immediately in case of injury. Turner, a 6-foot-187-pounder, rushed for 157 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries last season, typically working as a change-of-pace scatback. He also had seven receptions for 54 yards. Ben the budget for professors and the AD budget are not co-mingled unl [...] Yowza, that's a lot of receivers in one class (6 including Hawkins?).. [...] "sighs" Podunker, I tend to agree with davis that IU don't have th [...] Hey Geoff, did I miss the results of the last 3 on 3 contest? [...] Both are excellent prospects who will play a lot of good football for [...] He's sorta a Hoosier 'Final Four Founding [...] Kill's hill at Ninn. is/was not near so high to climb as at IU. [...]

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Rendtion of the new Clemmons Medical Center courtesy of Novant Health Clemmons, NC -- Novant Health announced plans Thursday to build a 24-hour emergency department, an outpatient surgery center, an imaging center and primary and specialty medical offices as part of the $23 million first-phase construction at its Clemmons Medical Center campus. The new facility will have approximately 35,000 square feet and cost $15 million. Novant also will spend an additional $8 million for road construction, site grading and building greenway trails with parking. The 12-bay emergency department will provide 24/7 emergency care. The imaging center will offer a CT scan, X-ray and ultrasound services. The outpatient surgery center will offer a full range of technology for outpatient procedures. Construction is anticipated to begin by Spring 2012 and the first phase completed in 2013. The initial facility is projected to provide 80 full-time positions. Future development of the 26-acre medical center campus will include inpatient and other hospital-based services. WFMY News 2

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Whenever I go back to Hawaii (usually every 6 to 12 months) my friends Dylan and Aaron and I always eat at least one lunch at the affordable local favorite, Hank’s Haute Dogs in Honolulu. My dad told me about the place a few years ago, and of course after hearing him rave about it I dragged some friends along to check it out. It is in an odd in-between area, right on the edge of downtown but mainly surrounded by commercial warehouses. However, they made a nice effort to offer some space for customers to enjoy their unique creations, and on a hot day (which is pretty much every day in Hawaii, I guess) the umbrellas are a huge plus. As far as I know, Hank’s is the only place on Oahu to get an authentic Chicago dog (the one I always order), and the owner does it right; he imports the signature poppy-seed buns and alarmingly bright green relish all the way from Chicago! When Kiyo was in Hawaii with me a few months ago, he ordered the Hawaiian dog: Portuguese sausage with mango mustard and pineapple relish. Aaron loves the chicken dog, topped with sweet mango relish and lime mustard. Another only-at-Hank’s item is their delicious and refreshing hibiscus lemonade. On a sunny, hot Hawaiian afternoon it absolutely hits the spot. Of course, Hank’s skinny natural cut french fries are an absolute must-have side dish. My friends and I cannot resist their homemade garlic aioli, which we dip the fries into (the leftover aioli usually ends up on my Chicago dog). A recent addition to the menu are double-fried duck fat french fries, so a few weeks ago when I once again found myself at Hank’s with Dylan and Aaron on a sweltering afternoon, we decided to give them a try. We even went out of our comfort zone and tried a different dipping sauce: wasabi tobiko crème. Ok, I admit it; we also ordered the garlic aioli, it’s just too good to pass up. The wasabi crème was interesting and went well with the fries, but I will always be a garlic fan. The duck fat fries were just a bit heavier than the regular ones, but packed a lot more flavor and I really enjoyed the new version. Hank’s hot dogs, toppings and sides are truly unique and delicious… so much so that they were featured on Food Network! Hank’s Haute Dogs Open 7 days a week Location: 324 Coral St., Honolulu HI 96813 Phone: (808) 532-HANK

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Research on breast cancer after pregnancy at the University of Colorado Cancer Center is reaching a key milestone thanks to a gift from NCAA women’s basketball charities. The Kay Yow Cancer Fund and The V Foundation for Cancer Research annually fund cancer research based in the host city of the NCAA Women’s Final Four. This year, the $100,000 grant will fund continuing work at the University of Colorado Cancer Center aimed at preventing young women’s breast cancer. “We’re at the point where this money will help us finalize the data we need to support a clinical trial for the prevention of postpartum, pregnancy-associated breast cancers,” says grant recipient Virginia Borges, MD, MMSc, a CU Cancer Center investigator and co-director of the center’s Young Women’s Breast Cancer Translational Program. Marsha Sharp, executive director of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund, and Nick Valvano, CEO of the V Foundation for Cancer Research, will present Borges with a ceremonial check at a news conference at the Anschutz Cancer Pavilion on Dec. 1, 100 days ahead of the NCAA Women’s Final Four, to be held in Denver. “It is so encouraging to fund research whose target is not only the treatment of breast cancer, but the prevention as well,” said Valvano. “We are proud to be associated with this project.” “The women’s basketball community has been incredibly supportive of the Fund since its inception, especially during the month of February,” said Sharp. “With this in mind, it is very fitting for us to fund research on young women’s breast cancer in the host city of the 2012 Women’s Final Four.” Founded in 2005 by Borges and co-director Pepper Schedin, PhD, the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Translational Program at the CU Cancer Center specializes in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer in women under age 40, with a special focus on pregnancy-associated breast cancer. The program provides comprehensive breast cancer treatment and survival support to more than 100 women each year. The program also instigates and participates in both basic and clinical research into the causes, treatment and prevention of breast cancer in young women. Borges and Schedin published a paper in Nature Medicine in July 2011 that showed that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen reduce the severity of postpartum breast cancers in animal models, and now the research team will move the preclinical results toward humans. Borges and Schedin’s work targets an especially at-risk population. In fact, recent studies show that women who have children before age 30 increase their risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer by 10 percent and women who wait to have children until after age 35 increase their risk by 30 percent. Not only is breast cancer more prevalent in young mothers than in women who have not had a child, but cancers diagnosed in the early years postpartum also tend to be more aggressive, with increased risk of spreading to other organs. Women diagnosed with cancer within two years of giving birth have a 40 percent five-year survival rate, as opposed to a 70 percent five-year survival rate for women diagnosed outside the postpartum window. The pair’s work shows that NSAIDs reduce the wound-like qualities of breasts undergoing the process of involution, during which milk-producing cells are killed and replaced with fat cells. During involution, healthy tissues can be invaded by fibrous collagen, which promotes tumor growth and travel into the lung. NSAIDs decrease production of the enzyme COX-2, which promotes the growth of this fibrous collagen. “Dr. Schedin and I are the right arm and the left arm of this research organization, and so this grant from the Kay Yow and Jimmy V Foundations will directly fund research that benefits young women,” Borges says. Borges and Schedin are faculty in the CU medical school, and Borges provides breast cancer care at University of Colorado Hospital. About the CU Cancer Center The University of Colorado Cancer Center is Colorado’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. Headquartered on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the center is a consortium of three state universities (Colorado State University, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Colorado Denver) and six institutions (University of Colorado Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, National Jewish Health , Denver Health, Denver VA Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Colorado). Together, our 440+ members work to relieve suffering from cancer by discovering, developing and delivering breakthroughs in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer for the citizens of Colorado, the region and beyond. Learn more at www.coloradocancercenter.org. About the Kay Yow Cancer Fund The Kay Yow Cancer Fund®, in partnership with the WBCA and The V Foundation, is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization committed to being a part of finding an answer in the fight against women’s cancers through raising money for scientific research, assisting the underserved, and unifying people for a common cause. Donations can be made at www.KayYow.com. All donations are tax deductible. For more information, visit www.KayYow.com. About The V Foundation The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded in 1993 by ESPN and the late Jim Valvano, legendary North Carolina State basketball coach and ESPN commentator. Since 1993, The Foundation has raised more than $100 million to fund cancer research grants nationwide. It awards 100 percent of all direct cash donations and net proceeds of events directly to cancer research and related programs. Administrative and fundraising expenses are paid by the Foundation’s endowment. The Foundation awards grants through a competitive awards process strictly supervised by a Scientific Advisory Board. For more information on The V Foundation or to make a donation, please visit www.jimmyv.org. About the WBCA Founded in 1981, the WBCA promotes women’s basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to develop a reputable identity for the sport and to foster and promote the development of the game as a sport for women and girls. For additional information about the WBCA, please visit wbca.org. About the NCAA and Division I Women’s Basketball The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for more than 400,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I, II and III sports. Visit www.ncaa.org and www.ncaa.com for more details about the Association, its goals, members and corporate partnerships that help support programs for student-athletes. NCAA women’s basketball is characterized by strong fundamentals, high quality of play, sportsmanship, role model student-athletes and family oriented entertainment.

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View Full Version : UE1 - UT storing variables on client machine 13th Mar 2011, 09:10 PM How can I store variables on client(in some ini) for a mod and access/modify it as and when required? 14th Mar 2011, 10:18 AM 15th Mar 2011, 08:52 PM where are the variables stored, I mean which ini?And how can I access them??? 15th Mar 2011, 09:04 PM If you have to ask like that, it's above your pay grade. I don't mean for that to sound so condescending but if you are planning on pursuing something like this you better know what you are doing before you start writing to people's ini files, ESPECIALLY default ones. What exactly are you trying to do? 15th Mar 2011, 09:12 PM Why *sometimes*, people dont give straightforward answers? Read the question again.I want to store a variable(belonging to my class) on client's computer and access it as and when required.This is what we call clientside settings.No fancy stuff.I am not modifying variables of other classes. 15th Mar 2011, 09:18 PM I gave you a straightforward answer. You use SaveConfig to save your declared variables. Since you don't understand how to create an ini file on a client (and it appears you are fuzzy on declaring variables and how they are used), it's going to be pretty hard for you to write to it. Send me your current code and tell me what you want to accomplish. We can go from there. I have a feeling you aren't really asking the question you really want to ask. 18th Mar 2011, 07:35 AM I made a .ini file and added [Package.Class] (Where package.class is, you put your own custom package.class where you are calling SaveConfig(); from) Once SaveConfig(); was called in my mod, the variables in code were saved to the .ini file. ResetConfig(); can be used to reset the variables in code to the ones currently listed in your .ini (At least that's how I've been taught how they work) Here's an example snippet from my own mod. It's an item that when activated, brings up a UWindow GUI and the user can summon weapons easily. The weapons that can be summoned (Supports up to 50) are defined the .ini file. This is my first step in UWindow modding, so the code may be a bit fuzzy. class UShopClientWin expands UWindowDialogClientWindow Config(UShop); // Configurable weapon list Var Config Class <Weapon> ShopWeapons; // List of weapons Var UWindowSmallButton Button_Weapon0; ResetConfig(); // Reset ShopWeapons to whatever is in my .ini Button_Weapon0 = UWindowSmallButton(CreateWindow(class'UWindowSmallButton', WinWidth/2-122, WinHeight/2-20, 120, 16)); Button_Weapon0.SetText(""$ShopWeapons.Name); // Get the name of the first weapon and print the text to the button function Notify(UWindowDialogControl C, byte E) /* Click types: DE_Created, DE_Change, DE_Click, DE_Enter, DE_Exit, DE_MClick, DE_RClick, DE_EnterPressed, DE_MouseMove, DE_MouseLeave, DE_LMouseDown, DE_DoubleClick, DE_MouseEnter, DE_HelpChanged, DE_WheelUpPressed, DE_WheelDownPressed. */ if( E==DE_Click && C==Button_Weapon0 ) GetPlayerOwner().Summon(""$ShopWeapons); // Summon the first weapon in the list in our .ini And in my .ini: 18th Mar 2011, 10:00 AM Thanks for the nice reply. Yeah thats right.But the problem is that server should also be able to access those variables.The example you gave allows only the client computer to access the variables stored and make the desired Uwindow. 18th Mar 2011, 04:03 PM What use would the server have for a UWindow anyway :) The server accesses all variables like this, otherwise they wouldn't replicate to you. It's a simple matter to let the server also write to the ini. A variable by it's very nature implies that there is some difference that the server needs to be aware of and share with the client the results of it's decision. There are a few examples of 'player only' variables (like crosshair choice, video driver) that don't replicate to the server but by and large most all do. You just keep halfway asking your question. Put it out there and ask. Hell, one of us will write the code for you to use. vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2014, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.

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Maajong doesn't have a personal statement currently. 41 years old My Family, Learning Guitar Joined: 11-January 12 Profile Views: 551* Last Seen: 4th October 2014 - 10:55 PM Local Time: Dec 22 2014, 07:04 AM 16 posts (0 per day) * Profile views updated each hour 28 Nov 2012 is it a problem to share my practice sessions on soundcloud to discuss about them with other users or is it against copyright? 11 Jan 2012 I just registered as a member of GuitarMasterclass.net and want to shortly introduce myself. My name is Torsten, 38, I am from Hiddenhausen,Germany and on my way learning the guitar. I learned the first chords about 4 years ago in a group course that did not take ma very far. Due to lack of time (and money) for a teacher I now play for myself and try to learn out of books, DVDs and online lessons. My main problem is to practice and advance structured. Maybe the lessons from the Beginners Corner are the ones for me, we´ll see. The REC Program seems to be interesting maybe I´ll post a take soon So, until then, hope I´ll have a lot of fun here and ROCK ON!! 27 Mar 2013 - 16:22 4 Mar 2012 - 13:12 8 Feb 2012 - 13:31 14 Jan 2012 - 21:40 Other users have left no comments for Maajong. There are no friends to display. |Lo-Fi Version||Time is now: 22nd December 2014 - 08:04 AM|

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Bob and Gennie DeWeese with a painting by their daughter, Tina DeWeese. Photos courtesy of T. DeWeese. It has been months since Gennie DeWeese put down her paintbrush for the last time and died in her sleep at age 86, and still they come to find her. Often they come on motorcycles or maybe a rental car, paying homage to Gennie and her late husband, Bob, whom Robert M. Pirsig described in his novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Gennie who encouraged the main character to write down his musings on the metaphysics of quality, resulting in the treatise that remains a cult favorite. For many of these Pirsig Pilgrims, the most vivid parts of Pirsig's odyssey are the descriptions of his old friends, the DeWeeses, and his return to Bozeman where he had taught in the English department at Montana State from 1959-1961. Raised by parents both immortalized for their hospitality and intellectual thought, the DeWeese children remain gracious to the Pilgrims, especially Tina DeWeese, who lives in the family home located 14 miles out of town. However, they point out that Pirsig was just a peripheral part of their parents' lives. "It's ironic that it's through that book that the entire world knows my parents," said ceramic artist Josh DeWeese, the youngest of the DeWeese children. The five DeWeese children prefer their parents be remembered as contemporary artists. However, in addition to Bob's paintings and collages and Gennie's woodcuts and expansive landscapes, the pair also is remembered for their genius in cultivating and encouraging all manner of creative types and thinkers, nurturing and mentoring the arts in Montana. It didn't matter what discipline--if anyone in Montana was perpetrating art during the last half century, the DeWeeses supported him or her. "The DeWeeses were instrumental in the creation of public galleries," said Mark Browning, who founded the Custer County Art and Heritage Center 30 years ago, and serves as its director today. "They taught us it was worth showing art for educational purposes rather than just showing what will sell, which is what gallery businesses have to do. There would be no Emerson Center for the Arts in Bozeman, no Custer County art center in Miles City, without the DeWeeses showing the way." Internationally recognized jazz trombonist and vocalist M.J. Williams of Basin, Mont. met the DeWeeses while acting one summer in Virginia City with Cathie, the eldest of the DeWeese children. "I didn't know many people who centered their lives on the arts. It was such a freeing experience," she said. "I think their support for all the arts -- music, theatre, dance -- validated generations of Montanans." "Based on my own life, the most important thing they did for the arts in Montana was gathering those creative people together," said Browning, who first met the DeWeeses in the mid-1970s when he began getting involved in statewide arts groups. "I'm a self-taught artist and I was awestruck at the discovery of this network of people who cared about the arts." "The DeWeeses, to me, represent the heart and soul of the visual arts in Montana," said Beth Lo, ceramic artist, jazz musician and longtime faculty member in the art department at the University of Montana. "When I came to graduate school in Missoula, I was introduced to the DeWeese family. I was immediately impressed with the way they blended their art and their lives." Inspiration and conversation DeWeese's work at the June solstice show and sale honoring Gennie, her work and her life. Photo by Kelly Gorham. Bob and Gennie met while art students at Ohio State University. He earned a master's degree in Iowa and they lived in Texas before Bob took a job in 1949 at what was then Montana State College. In buttoned-down 1950s Bozeman, they led what many considered to be a bohemian lifestyle and quickly displayed a talent for championing local intellectual life. Neighbors marveled at what they found inside their small brick house on South Church Avenue -- a vibrant chaos of kids and half-finished art projects and the implicit lesson that Art Mattered. "My career -- the life I have lived -- would never have been if I hadn't known this family," said New York City-based dancer/choreographer Mary Overlie, who grew up across the street. Bozeman psychologist Dee Mast recalls encountering Gennie on Main Street in her youth. "In those days, women didn't show it but she was a woman who knew who she was," Mast said. "Gennie wore bright colors and natural fabrics and a hairdo that suited her, not fashion. There I was in my bubble cut and double knits. Gennie was one of the women who modeled what I needed, to become what I was (meant to be)." Tina DeWeese recalls that her father's downtown Bozeman studio was a gathering place for the community's intellectuals, most based at the university. "In those days, there were not the social divisions between (university) departments that there are today," Tina said. "My parents' friends were artists and scientists and philosophers from all over campus. They would talk for hours about what they were doing." Moving beyond tradition Gennie liked to say that when they arrived in Bozeman, "art in Montana was pretty much all about Charlie Russell. Contemporary art was made fun of (in those days) --but it evolved and so many people do it now I don't think there's any conflict." The DeWeeses helped broaden the definition of art in Montana beyond the "Russell School" with their own work as well as their influence on the students Bob inspired during three decades of teaching. He took seriously his role as a mentor to artists. Tina said she found a note shortly after her father's death written in a sketchbook. "He wrote the word 'responsibility,' which he defined as the ability to respond," she said of her father, who was always making art, sketching on scraps of paper, making collages from whatever was handy. "He felt that was his means of being responsible." Before the family moved to Cottonwood Canyon in 1965, Gennie's work had been largely influenced by the abstract expressionist movement. She also did oil portraits of her children, ink sketches of friends and family and small abstracts. In the canyon, surrounded by the steep, tree-covered hills with the crystalline creek tumbling past just below the house, her vision exploded with rich colors and she traded her paintbrushes for cattle-markers and later, pigment sticks. She used the large, crayon-like bars of oil and color to respond to the landscapes, people and pets around her. Her determination to be true to her passion resulted in one painting of the Gallatin Valley that is 40 inches high and 121 feet long. Many of her works were too large to frame economically so she adopted the Asian system and made giant scrolls. Once, when asked the difference between the landscapes and her non-objective work, she said the subject matter was determined by whether she was responding to the interior or exterior worlds. Modernists and legends A few years after Bob's retirement in 1977, he and Gennie ran a gallery at their home south of Bozeman. People flocked to the gallery openings, sometimes as many as 200 people, even 14 miles out of town. "We wanted to show artists who were good, who lived in Gallatin County, and who didn't teach at the university so couldn't exhibit there," Gennie said in a magazine interview in 1991. "We sat down and made a list, and in no time, we thought of several dozen artists we felt should be seen." After Bob's sudden death at age 70 in 1990, the DeWeeses received several honors for their contributions to Montana's artistic world. In 1990, Bozeman High School named the Bob and Gennie DeWeese Art Gallery for them. In 1995, Gennie and her late husband received the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts. That same year, Gennie received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from MSU, where her earlier work on a master's degree had been interrupted by the birth of Josh, whom she fondly called her "thesis." Billings' Yellowstone Art Museum, the Missoula Art Museum and Helena's Holter Museum all have presented retrospective exhibits of the DeWeeses and have many DeWeese works in their permanent collections. The Holter is designated as the repository for the bulk of the works. Browning plans a retrospective of Bob DeWeese's work to open next March in Miles City. In his promotional material, he describes DeWeese as "a pioneering modernist whose creativity, warmth and generosity made him a Montana art legend." "What I feel is unique about these artists is their high level of productivity and quality of their work, coupled with commitment to their wide circle of friends and community," Lo said. "The DeWeeses were exceptionally open and hospitable to students and fellow artists, as well as the landscape that surrounded them. They had the ability to balance the inner life of an artist and the public life of teacher and pillar of the artistic community in Montana." Lo played bass guitar with the Missoula-based band Salsa Loco at a June solstice celebration of Gennie's life and work held seven months after her death. Internationally recognized artists John Buck and Deborah Butterfield, both former art professors at MSU, loaned their large horse arena, as they had for a sale and retrospective of Bob DeWeese's work in 1991. Hundreds turned out for the celebration and for the show and sale that continued the next day, appreciating row after row of Gennie's exuberant paintings. Passion is the thing The five DeWeese children celebrated their mother with a large art show and party attended by a Who's Who in Montana contemporary art. From left: Jan, Tina, Cathie, Gretchen and Josh. Photo by Kelly Gorham. In a circle of life that is very satisfying to DeWeese friends and family, Josh has begun a new career teaching ceramics in the MSU art department after 18 years at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramics Art in Helena, 14 years as its director. He said he is proud to continue the DeWeese connection with MSU. "Now is a great time to come to MSU's art department," he adds. "So much change is under way with new, ambitious faculty members." Tina also has made her living as an artist for years. She is best known for her wire sculptures of horses, but also explores new forms and ideas. Cathie had a career in early childhood education and remains a social activist in Mexico, where she lives. Jan teaches and plays music in Portland, Ore. Gretchen, who also paints, teaches art in an elementary school. In the summers she also works in the Montana wilderness. Recently Tina and Josh discussed the dilemma of art for art's sake versus commercial success. They agreed that their father, with his teaching salary, never had to worry about acceptance of his creations and could be utterly honest in his work. Then again, so was Gennie, with her huge paintings that fit only in large rooms. "Even though he didn't have to sell his own work, Dad was not a snob about art --he was always very proud of his students who were successful and sold a lot," Josh said. But he and Tina remember that their mother liked to point out that while artists are expected to starve, "You'll never find a doctor or a lawyer who has to take a day job to support his passion for the law or medicine." Gennie worked hard on her art until the day she died, leaving behind hundreds of paintings. To the end, she retained her convictions and sense of humor. She was a lifelong smoker and in 1996 the Bozeman Chronicle published her letter to editor in which she suggested that there might be worse dangers than smoking. Her children (all non-smokers) chose a photo of her with cigarette in hand to illustrate her obituary in the Chronicle. A few years ago Gennie said that someone asked her, "Why do you keep painting?" as she struggled with various health problems. "Because," she said, "if I keep doing it long enough, maybe someday I'll do a good one."

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Pete Rose’s Corked Bat? Picture Of The Day: Cubs Fans And Their Matching Tattoos You would think that getting the words “sweet” and “dude” tattooed on your back is so stupid that the only place you would see such stupidity is in a stupid movie like Dude, Where’s My Car. Well it appears as though there is one place on earth where you can expect a similar level of stupidity. That would be the 1060 West Addison Street, Chicago, IL., better known as Wrigley Field. (Please excuse the excessive use of the word stupidity, but you try and find a better word to describe this!) It is one thing to attempt to use binoculars in order to provide your camera with an extra zoom, or shield your eyes from the sun when there is a perfectly good baseball cap on your head (unfortunately it is being worn backwards, defeating its purpose), but to show up at the ball park without a shirt to cover up the dumb mistake you made when you told some guy to put the words “sweet” and “dude” on your back is pretty much inexcusable! I guess this it what happens when you play a majority of your home games during the day. Students begin ditching school to the point where its effects have become increasingly evident. Hat Tip – [Joe Sports Fan]

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A Honeywell Gulfstream G450 packed with medical supplies, aid workers and AIN editor Stephen Pope touched down at Port-au-Prince Airport yesterday afternoon as part of the ongoing humanitarian relief effort by business jets bringing desperately needed help to earthquake survivors in Haiti. The flight departed Morristown (N.J.) Municipal Airport early yesterday morning carrying 12,000 vials of antibiotics and relief workers from Operation USA, a California-based aid organization. The group landed in Richmond, Va., to take on as much fuel as possible before heading on to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Honeywell’s government affairs department then arranged for a slot reservation allowing the G450 to land at Port-au-Prince Airport and park on the UN ramp, where the supplies were offloaded onto UN trucks. The three passengers who stayed behind in Haiti included Dr. Maxo Luma, a native Haitian now living in Vancouver whose sister and another relative were killed in the quake; Stefanie Dee Nieber, an Operation USA nurse from Los Angeles; and Steve Texas, a native Haitian living in Boston. The flight was crewed by Honeywell pilots Dave Armstrong and Marc Lajeunesse and flight attendant Nan Kramer. Kelly Reed, Honeywell director of corporate citizenship, who also went on the flight, said the company is already planning its next aid trip to Haiti and plans to lend assistance for rebuilding. AIN Rides Along on Honeywell Relief Flight to Haiti - January 19, 2010, 11:35 AM

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Reading's director of football Nick Hammond is confident they can hold on to winger Stephen Hunt despite reported interested from Sunderland. The 26-year-old Irishman only signed a new two-and-a-half-year contract last summer but the club are ready to offer him an improved deal to keep him at the Madejski. 'It (Hunt's contract) is part of an on-going discussion. We did his contract in the summer and I said to him `If you progress like you have done this season, we'll look at your contract again',' Hammond told the Reading Evening Post. 'That discussion was some weeks ago and we're in the middle of it. I'm sure we'll find a satisfactory conclusion for both us and Hunty. 'He is our player and he's done exceptionally well with us. I fully expect all our players to stay. 'No-one will be leaving Madejski Stadium unless it suits Reading that they do so. 'We are in control of the situation and there will be no developments unless we decide it's the right move for our club.'

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This post is dedicated to all "school counselors" out there! Especially my friend, former classmate and colleague, Dr. Amy Upton. If you take one of her classes...you better ever not say the words "guidance counselor". Lately, I have been getting annoyed by the lack of unity the school counseling profession seems to have as it relates to what we call ourselves. While on Linkedin, I saw "counselor", "school counselor", "guidance counselor" and "professional school counselor". WHAT!!!????!!!!???? Colleagues, I ask you...can we use ONE name, please???? Joe Public is NEVER NEVER EVER going to stop calling us "guidance counselor", if we don't stop calling ourselves that! We are school counselors! If you want to throw the professional in front of it...that's fine; but for Pete's sake stop identifying yourself as a "guidance counselor". The term is outdated, antiquated and degrading. There are no professional organizations that even have the term "guidance counselor" in them. Does your state license still say "guidance counselor"? State legislation? The contract for your school division? If it does, then you need to contact your state SC organization and lobby for a change in terminology = advocacy. Today, we are so much more! We are collaborators, consultants, data conquerors, advocates, leaders, role models and I could go on and on and on...We just don't "guide"! A whole bunch of professions "guide", but that doesn't make them a school counselor. Whenever, I hear someone say "guidance counselor", I correct them and say "oh, you mean the school counselor? It's not the "home ec" teacher anymore! It's not the "gym" teacher anymore! It's not the "shop" teacher anymore! So, we shouldn't be the "guidance counselor" anymore! C'mon people!!! It's 2014. It's PAST the time for a change. It's time to unite...One Name. Period! If you are still calling yourself a guidance counselor then I want you to look in the mirror and say three times to yourself, "I'm a school counselor. I'm a school counselor. I'm a school counselor. Now, doesn't that feel better? Because you can't be EXTRAORDINARY calling yourself a "guidance counselor"!

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By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Just before the invasion of Iraq five years ago, the British prime minister met the French president. This episode has been described by Sir Stephen Wall, then of the Foreign Office, although not all Americans may have heard about it. Wall says that the meeting was quite cordial in the circumstances, with Tony Blair—the all-American hero of the moment—again voicing his ardent support for the war, and Jacques Chirac—whose very name was a curse to Americans at a time when congressmen were childishly ordering “freedom fries” with their lunch and Thomas Friedman was telling readers of The New York Times that France should be “voted off the island”—reiterating his opposition. More specifically, Chirac said several things. For one, Blair and his friend George W. Bush knew nothing of the realities of war, but he did: 50 years ago, the young Jacques Chirac was a draftee serving in the French war in Algeria, a horrible conflict which Iraq has turned out to resemble all too closely. The Americans and British seemed to think they would be welcomed in Iraq with open arms, he said, but they shouldn’t count on it. He added very astutely that a mere Shiite majority was not to be confused with what we in the West call democracy. And as a final shot he asked whether Blair realized that, by invading Iraq, he might precipitate a civil war. When the British team left, the prime minister turned to his aides (no doubt with that boyish grin some of us have long since had enough of) and said, “Poor old Jacques, he just doesn’t get it!” Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq By Patrick Cockburn Scribner, 240 pages As Wall adds, we know now just who got it. The disasters which have come about were not only foreseeable, they were foreseen—although not even the canny Chirac could have guessed quite what terrible form they would take. For that matter, as Patrick Cockburn more than once remarks in “Muqtada,” few Iraqis imagined the violence into which their country would be plunged, and even the Sadrists, whose leader is the subject of this highly informative book, “were surprised by the scale of support for them as Saddam’s regime fell apart.” Nor did the bitterest critic of the war then imagine that, five years on, American aircraft would still be helping the Iraqi army to hold off attacks by the Mahdi Army. But then astonishment has been greater still on the American side as Moqtada al-Sadr, the astute, harsh, frightening scion of a line of martyred Shiite clerics, became one of the central players in this grim drama. He was first completely underestimated by the Americans, and of all the mistakes they have since made in Iraq, Cockburn writes, one of the gravest (which is saying something) was the attempt to marginalize him and his movement. But then the war had been embarked on by politicians in Washington and London, encouraged by a claque of media cheerleaders, who began knowing very little about the country they were invading. Cockburn knows a great deal. One of the pre-eminent foreign correspondents of the age, he first visited Iraq 30 years ago and has written earlier books on Saddam Hussein and on the war, besides his reporting for the London Independent. Whether or not even he could have envisaged the Shiite revival, at least he understands its causes, and he offers a helping hand to those of our rulers who to this day can barely explain the difference between Sunni and Shiite (or who, like Sen. John McCain, have not quite grasped the fact that Iran is a Shiite country, which very much does not support the Sunnis of al-Qaida). As Cockburn recapitulates the story, Islam was sundered by the early schism which followed the killing of Ali, first cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, in the year 661. In the first place those called the “Shi’at Ali” were no more than Muslims who had supported his claim to the caliphate, and it was only with the passage of time that the distinctive nature of Shia sharpened. A couple of centuries later its adherents became known as “Twelvers”: There had been 12 imams in succession up to al-Mahd, who disappeared at Samarra, but Shiites held that he, the Twelfth Imam, would one day return to purify the world. This may seem quaint to sophisticated Westerners, but that belief is scarcely more esoteric than the belief of frum Jews that the Almighty of ineffable name will one day send the moshiach to redeem his people, or of Christians that, as the Nicene Creed says, he “shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead.” While there was no precise theological difference between Shiite and Sunni to compare, let’s say, with the doctrine of transubstantiation which divides Roman Catholics from Protestants, the memory of Ali’s piety and virtue would come to be contrasted with the wealth and power of the Ummayad dynasty in Baghdad. And so Shia gradually became “the faith of the dispossessed and opponents of the powers-that-be,” much like Catholicism in Ireland under the Protestant Ascendancy. Later still this faith acquired a greater importance when Iran was forcibly converted to Shia by the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century, and the tribes of southern Iraq converted in the 18th. The religious affinity between Iran and southern Iraq is now of the highest significance, even more so thanks to the accident of religious-cum-geological history which has left the Shiites sitting on top of a very large part of the world’s oil supplies. The story was further complicated by the rise of an independent Shiite clergy, or ulema: The crucial fact that this ulema was separate from the state made Shia a much more potent alternative force to the existing regimes. That was so first under the Ottoman empire and then, after the Great War, when the modern entity of Iraq was created by the British—“in a fit of absence of mind,” if ever that phrase applied—with a one-fifth Sunni minority set in power over a Shiite majority. Such precarious minority rule persisted under the Hashemite monarchy; then when the last king was overthrown in 1958; when the secular Arab Socialist Baath Party took power in 1968 (those were the days when, as an old Middle East hand said to me sardonically not long ago, “we thought the Baathists were the progressive modernizers”); and when Saddam Hussein established his personal dictatorship in 1979. No ruler of a Muslim country can easily wage a full-scale Kulturkampf on “the House of Islam,” but Saddam vigorously persecuted the Shiite leaders, notably the clan then headed by Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, uncle of Moqtada. Told that he must submit to the government, Baqir memorably said, “If my little finger was Baathist, I would cut it off”; he was duly executed by Saddam in 1980. His cousin Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, Moqtada’s father, succeeded him as the regime’s main opponent; Saddam’s hit men duly assassinated him along with two of his other sons in 1999. Just as Stalin ordained following the murder of Kirov, the assassins were themselves subsequently killed. One can well understand from this story that, although the wholesale dismissal of Baath Party members was one of the worst mistakes the occupying forces made, since it denuded the country of policemen and teachers, Shiites have little fond memory of the Baathists. Nor do they have much fondness for the Americans. After Saddam’s forces were driven out of Kuwait in 1991 there were some in Washington who wanted to push on and destroy Saddam, and who still bemoan the fact that this was not done. What Bush the Elder said in answer—“We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq”—looks much more convincing now that precisely that has happened. The real crime of the first Bush administration was to encourage a Shiite insurrection (as well as another by the Kurds) and then look away while Saddam savagely suppressed it: Much of what we have witnessed recently is payback for that time. In one more macabre twist to the plot, the mendacious denial by Saddam’s regime that it had killed Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr may have allowed his son Moqtada to survive; that and his own considerable skill and cunning, “his ability to make swift retreats, politically and militarily, when faced with an adversary of superior strength.” Born in 1973, Moqtada was still in his 20s when he became the leader of the Sadrists. The regime tolerated him, even allowing him to start and edit al-Huda, his own magazine, while he bided his time. He had skillfully exploited the memory of his father even before the invasion gave him the opportunity to assert his authority over a large part of Shiite Iraq when Saddam fell. It also allowed him to settle some scores. The Sadr clan had a long-standing family feud with Sayyid Majid al-Khoei, another leading opponent of the Baath regime, and “a charming and intelligent man,” according to Cockburn. Within 24 hours of Saddam’s overthrow, Majid was dragged from the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf and brutally hacked to death; it was generally assumed (wherever it was not too dangerous to say so) that Moqtada was behind the murder. Cockburn delivers an open verdict, wondering whether someone whose survival instincts had been as well honed as Moqtada’s under Saddam would have been so incautious as to give clear orders in front of witnesses for a murder of this kind. But that is not the same as acquitting him, and the portrait that emerges is of part messianic preacher-man and part ruthless capo di tutti capi. That does not mean that he is no more than a rabble-rouser, or no less than a new Hitler, both phrases used of Moqtada by Paul Bremer. The appallingly incompetent proconsul wanted to arrest the Sadrist leader, but neither the Iraqi police nor the Spanish component of the coalition forces that happened to be outside Najaf where he had taken refuge was so imprudent as to do this. Moqtada remained at large, and his movement grew in strength. In 2006 the Sadrists fought and won the bloody battle of Baghdad with its accompanying ethnic cleansing of Sunni, but both before that and after he sometimes appeared to seek compromise. Last year he quietly and adroitly vanished for several months, and although he has denounced the occupation, he has for the most part prudently avoided direct confrontation with American forces he cannot possibly match in firepower but which he can most certainly outwit, as he repeatedly has done. This book is a truly valuable addition to our patchy knowledge of true events in Iraq, although it is not always easy reading. Cockburn is a more workmanlike than graceful writer, there are signs of haste, with events not related in consecutive order and untidy repetitions, and the endlessly tricky nomenclature—“the Grand Ayatollah’s son Mahdi al-Hakim” is not to be confused with either the grand marja Muhsin al-Hakim or Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim—makes more demands than usual on the reader’s concentration. There used to be editions of “War and Peace” with bookmarks listing all the characters and their connections, and such a bookmark would have been no bad idea for this book, maybe with a glossary (Marji’iyyah, mujitihads, al-haram, turba, husseinayas) printed on the other side. But Cockburn’s command of the subject is never in doubt, nor his intimate knowledge of the country. He actually likes Iraq and its people, despite everything, and he has a sharp eye for telling detail. Among other nice touches, he observes that you could always tell when a political meeting was made up of people who hadn’t lived in Iraq for too long, since there were no smoke-filled rooms: Whereas most Iraqis chain-smoke, these returning exiles had been conditioned by decades of the American anti-smoking terror. In a bleak final chapter on “The Disintegration of Iraq,” Cockburn glances scornfully at the catalogue of error the last five years have seen. This has made it possible for some who originally supported the war to offer the sheer incompetence with which it was conducted as an excuse. This defense should not be allowed, since the war was never based on any rational, feasible political project, but it’s true that mismanagement made things far worse than they need have been. At the time of the invasion, almost all support for Saddam collapsed, and “had life become easier in Shia Iraq in the coming years, this might have undermined the Sadrist movement. Instead, people saw their living standards plummet as provision of food rations, clean water, and electricity failed. Saddam’s officials were corrupt, but the new government cowering in the Green Zone rapidly turned into a kleptocracy comparable to Nigeria or the Congo.” Even Moqtada himself was sometimes in the dark, and was barely able to control the forces he had helped unleash. All the same, in terms of statecraft he is a veritable Talleyrand or Bismarck compared with the Americans. They never grasped that, however much Iraqis had hated Saddam, few felt that the occupation was legitimate, and they therefore would not give their loyalty to the United States or the Iraqi governments it sponsored. At the same time, the “attempt to create an anti-Iranian Iraq was to play into Iranian hands and produce the very situation that Washington was trying to avoid.” As Jacques Chirac might ask with a Gallic smile, did les anglo-saxons really have any idea what they were doing? Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of several books, including “The Controversy of Zion,” “The Strange Death of Tory England” and “Yo, Blair!” He is writing a book on Churchill’s reputation before and since his death.

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“You and your kind have set us back a hundred years or so.” ~Janet Hubert Wendy Williams’ big mouth has landed the ratchet TV personality in a battle she may not be ready for — one with herself! That’s because a completely out of pocket move to take a stab at the Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s original Aunt Viv prompted the actress to tell Wendy ALL about herself!!! “You are such a demon Wendy. You are wicked, awful, conniving, sinister, spiteful, jealous of every other woman. Simply put, Wendy you are a virus.” That’s after Tatyana Ali appeared on the Wendy Williams show earlier this week and Wendy decided to get rude, asking Ali about the beef between Janet Hubert and Will Smith. To be sure, Ali was just a child at the time of the tension — which is why Hubert checked Wendy in a serious way! Continue Reading…

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Aging in a rainbow world Updated: April 3, 2009 at 4:42 pm ENGAGE: Write a letter to the editor | Comment on this story Aging in a rainbow world CHARLOTTE — On April 28, join other seniors at the “Gay and Gray at the Crossroads: Navigating for Your Future” seminar to be held at the Levine Jewish Community Center, 5007 Providence Rd., from 6-8:30 p.m. Registration and refreshments are from 6-6:30 p.m., with a speakers and an information resource fair following. This event is targeted at LGBT seniors, partners and caregivers, friends and family. It is a confidential and non-judgmental environment where discussion on important topics can be addressed. Hear from local speakers, as well as the Rainbow Center in Atlanta, on planning for aging in today’s changing world. Other presentations and resource tables will be available to answer questions about what you can do as you stand at the crossroads of gay and gray. Local representatives from the Charlotte region will address legal issues, financial planning, housing and long-term care options, healthcare, end-of-life issues, caregiving and social and advocacy organizations. Following a successful Gay and Gray event in 2005, the Charlotte region has seen little in the preparation for LGBT Baby Boomers. These seniors often face additional challenges as they age and plan for their future retirement and healthcare needs. Everyone wants to remain in their own community and be as independent and vital in their older years as possible. RSVP is due by April 24. Admission is free. On April 29, further your knowledge-base with “Gay and Gray: Creating a GLBT Friendly Environment” at the Center from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. This course awards four hours of ACH and Social Work CEUs. Morning refreshments, lunch and all handouts are included. This workshop will help participants increase awareness and understanding of the unique needs of the LGBT senior. Participants will be able to identify concerns and barriers and outline strategies for creating an inclusive experience for LGBT elders in your facility or organization. Rebecca Stapel-Wax, director of The Rainbow Center in Atlanta and Linda Ellis, executive director with the Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative, will discuss ways to be sensitive to LGBT issues and foster understanding and respect of LGBT elders. Local resources and representatives will be available to answer questions about legal and financial issues, healthcare, housing and long-term care, care giving end-of-life issues, aging and more for organizations and facilities. According to the Council on Aging, aging Baby Boomers are the largest generation in our country’s history; in the next 20 years, Mecklenburg County will experience a 260 percent growth in the adults over age 60 (That’s around 250,000 people above the age of 60); and Mecklenburg County’s older adult population is now increasing at a greater rate than that of the population of children. The Council examined this demographic shift and identified emerging issues that are likely to impact the quality of life for aging adults in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community. The ultimate goal is to create a senior-friendly community which allows aging adults to maintain independence, dignity and quality of life. Listen to industry experts as they lay out information on how to cope with these concerns. No onsite registration is available. Register online at www.centralina.org. Cost is $10. Sponsorship for both events is made possible by The Centralina Area Agency on Aging, Centralina Council of Governments and the American Association of Retired People (AARP), in cooperation with Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation and Crossroads Charlotte. For more information, call Linda Miller at 800-508-5777 or email [email protected]. Jones to join cruise CAROLINA BEACH — Want to have a great time doing the “Y-M-C-A” while cruising on the Atlantic, USA? Well, jump on board as Out Impact brings in former original Village People Cowboy Randy Jones for an evening cruise on the Royal Winner Princes II on June 12 from 7-10 p.m. Jones is a Multi-Platinum artist and American Music Award winner. Jones was a Pop icon from the days of disco. Not only was he successful in the recording industry, but he starred in the motion picture business in “Three Long Years,” “Facade,” “A Tale About Bootlegging” and “Can’t Stop the Music,” among others. In his latest eclectic pop collection, “Ticket to the World,” Jones reveals yet another dimension of his ability which may surprise. With wide-ranging material by some of Pop music’s greatest songwriters, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jim Steinman, Depeche Mode, Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys, Neil Diamond and a gem by the Bee Gees, he reinvents a set of pop standards in a smooth, sexy style. Boarding time is 6:30 p.m. at 100 Carol Winner Ave. Tickets are $50 and partial proceeds of every ticket benefits YouthAIDS. Out Impact will also be providing the first 100 guests who purchase tickets a special VIP gift bag. This is a limited engagement with only 300 tickets to be sold and this event will happen rain or shine. No refunds. YouthAIDS, an education and prevention program of PSI, uses media, pop culture, music, theatre and sports to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and reach 600 million young people in more than 60 countries with life-saving messages, products, services and care. For information on this important organization, visit www.youthaids.org. Tickets include the cruise which features the scenic view of the Cape Fear Intracoastal Waterway and historic Cape Fear River and a complimentary Carolina BBQ dinner with non-alcoholic beverages. There will also be a cash bar on board with dance music after Jones appearance. For tickets, sponsorship opportunities or more information, call Bambi Weavil, Out Impact CEO and publisher, at 910-538-0115 or 910-538-4309, email [email protected] or visit www.outimpact.com or www.outimpactproductions.com. Student group needs assistance LUMBERTON — Safe Schools NC Advocacy Research Intern S. Austin Cavanaugh has announced that the non-profit is planning to conduct a web survey for LGBT youth in North Carolina during the month of April. Target participants are those who are in middle or high school. Areas to be explored are experiences of harassment at school, parental relationships, social support, internal psychological resources and mental health and well-being. Safe Schools NC is a statewide partnership of organizations and individuals dedicated to eliminating bullying, harassment and discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity in North Carolina schools. For more information, email [email protected]. Fundraiser in progress HICKORY — ALFA’s Dining for Friends (DFF) Kick Off and Packet Pick Up event was held on April 2 at Market on Main. 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During the DFF Pr[EVENT], attendees can enter a raffle for a fully-furnished dining room set, complete with buffet from Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, lighting by Robert Abbey, Inc. and place settings and accessories from Belk. Tickets are just $20 per ticket or get three for $50. Enter for a chance to win other great raffles for just $5, including a four-day, 3-night stay at a beach house in Holden Beach, compliments of Jane Earnest and a Market Meals package, compliments of John Duke and Market on Main. ALFA announced that Bob Williams and Stephen Heavner will serve as the DFF Honorary Co-Chairs for 2009. Williams is the co-owner of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams and Heavner is the bookkeeper for the well-known furniture company. Both men and their company have been tremendous supporters of ALFA for many years. Anyone may register to host a DFF party by calling the ALFA office at 828-322-1447, ext. 223. For more information, email [email protected] or visit www.alfainfo.org. Film seeks participants BROUGHTON — Deirdre Leary, a sophomore at Broughton High School, is working on a documentary with a group of other classmates for a film class which focuses on gay marriage and gay/lesbian parents and how they are viewed by society. They are searching for gay/lesbian couples who have adopted and/or ones who has done artificial insemination. Leary reminds those who wish to participate in this endeavor that they will be on tape and will be asked personal questions. The film staff is able to travel to do public or private meeting place location interviews. They have fairly flexible schedules. Questions that the crew and interviewer will ask are: • What were some of the challenges you faced throughout the adoption process? • Why was the most difficult challenge faced? • Were you viewed differently in society? • How has this experience changed you? Appointments need to be set up by April 13, with final filming completed on April 20. For more information, email [email protected]. info: Announce your community event in NC News Notes, email: [email protected]. You can support independent, local LGBT media! Give a one-time gift or sign up for ongoing voluntary online subscription to support qnotes' nearly three-decade long community service and keep our publication's dynamic, hard-hitting and insightful news and entertainment coverage alive. Click here to support us today. About the author: Lainey Millen is QNotes' special assignments writer, N.C. News columnist and production director. She can be reached at [email protected] and 704-531-9988, x205.

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Quick little link-madness for today. * The next Emerging Leaders Night Out has been announced! We'll be getting together on November 29, to celebrate the Small Press Book Fair on December 2 and 3. And thanks to the good offices of marketing wizard Steve Colca, Emerging Leaders NYC now has its own website. It's little more than a blog at this point, but it's a start, and hopefully it will be another resource for connecting with each other. Check it out, tell us what you think, and RSVP for the ELNO! * As I was making my Christmas wish list on Powells.com (yes, Mom, there are still books I don't have), I finally discovered the Powell's blog. And duh, it's great! Several of my links today are courtesy of the alert and witty folks at Powells, and there's more where these came from. Is there anything those Portland indies can't do? * The National Book Award winners are announced this Wednesday -- oh, the suspense! (If Richard Powers doesn't win, I'm going to be very disgruntled.) A commenter on this blog a couple of weeks ago mentioned the flap about Gene Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese being nominated for the Young Adult award, so here's some links on that: the Wired article lamenting the choice (along with a lot of comments taking issue with the writer's opinion), and Gene Yang's response to Wired on the blog of his publisher, First Second Books. I had the pleasure of hosting the publisher of First Second, Mark Siegal, at an event with cartoonist Joann Sfar last week, and Mark mentioned the complaints about the nomination (the first ever for a graphic novel) with a kind of rueful satisfaction. Sometimes criticism is the sincerest form of acknowledgement. * I'm working on freelance projects, volunteer projects, reading projects, blogging projects, and holiday projects. But I'd better get my tuchas in gear on my bookstore project, or someone else will do it first. (Thanks Bookslut, Powell's, and The Onion for the hilariously close-to-home link). One major obstacle is the fact that my ancient laptop isn't up to handling the spreadsheets I need to create a workable budget, so I'm in the market for a new computer -- I'm thinking Apple since there's a store nearby my house and I love their customer service, but it's all new to me and I wonder if I'd be paying for cuteness and creative options when all I really need is Microsoft Office and a bigger hard drive. Any thoughts from book people and/or business people on PC vs. Mac in our particular industry? And how's a poor bookseller like me to afford it all? Sorry for ending on a complaint -- must be the gloomy, sloppy weather. I'll be back on Wednesday with some book reviews and in a better mood, I promise. Happy reading!

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August 5, 2013 Random Comics News Story Round-Up * I hadn't noticed that Rob Steibel and the Kirby Museum have parted ways , apparently because of the former's penchant for commentary on the latter's site. * John Rovnak talks to Dean Motter . Andrea Tsurumi talks to R. Sikoryak and Kriota Willberg . Josh Bell talks to Steven Grant . Brigid Alverson talks to Ken Sasaki . Graeme Neil Reid talks to Darryl Cunningham * not comics: designs from an unproduced Micronauts cartoon * Adam McGovern on a few different comics . Somebody named Andy on Incidents In The Night , Sky In Stereo #2 and Ticket Stub . Rob Clough on MOME #22 . Oliver Sava on Batman, Incorporated #13 * Alexander Nagorski at one of the DC blogs pays tribute to Grant Morrison's run with the Batman character. * not comics: I don't know what this * the Aurora Rise charity profiled . That article does a good job of breaking with standard narratives in terms of how it presents the fact that these people died, which is tough to do because the nature of violence here means we have a lot of standard narratives for that kind of thing. * so I've been having dreams that Andy Capp joined the Avengers. Ken Eppstein sent along this cartoon that indicates he at least has a passing familiarity-via-proximity to Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson. * I've never understood marketing offers, let alone known them inside and out in a way I can endorse them, but I guess if you go here you can get some sort of freebie from GoComics.com. * Seth has dug up a Len Norris cartoon that has the same basic structure in terms of its joke as the famous Saul Steinberg 9th Avenue cartoon that came much later. * David King draws Sluggo * I love it when people talk about their comics collections * a couple of you have sent me this article about innovations in webcomics coloring ; it was fairly fascinating, so thank you. * finally, via Jog tweeting about it comes this article about Naoki Urusawa having a conversation with Benoit Peeters and Francois Schuiten. That is a bunch of heavy-hitters. posted 2:00 am PST Daily Blog Archives

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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeldwill deliverremarks at 1:00 p.m. EDT to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Newspaper Association of America Convention at the Omni Shoreham 2500 Calvert St. (at Connecticut Ave.) NW Washington D.C. For further information contact Hollen Wheeler at (703) 697-9845. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz hosts an honor cordon to welcome Pakistan's Minister for Finance Shaukat Aziz to the Pentagon at 9 a.m. EDT. The cordon will be held on the steps of the Pentagon River Entrance. Media must be at the Pentagon North Parking Entrance no later than 8:30 a.m. EDT for escort to the cordon. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operationsfor Coalition Joint Task Force 7,andDan Senor, senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority, willconduct an operational update from Baghdad at10a.m.EDT. This event can be viewed in the Press Briefing Room. Media wishingto attend must be at the Pentagon North Parking Entrance no later than 9:30 a.m. EDT for escort.

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On March 20, President Obama marked Norooz, the Iranian New Year, with his strongest words to date in solidarity with the people of Iran. "Though times may seem dark," he told Iranians, "I am with you." Days later, with significant US backing, the UN Human Rights Council voted to establish a human rights monitor on Iran, answering the call of Iranian human rights and democracy activists. This was an impressive victory for the president's strategy of UN engagement and was praised by international human rights organizations as a tangible means to help protect human rights in Iran. It was also an important demonstration of how President Obama can translate supportive rhetoric into meaningful action to stand with the Iranian people. As we have learned from the past, lofty rhetoric about freedom is meaningless without sound policies behind it. The president's critics predictably dismissed the monitor victory as too modest, too pragmatic, too dependent on international support. They fail to acknowledge that three decades of enmity and conflict will not be resolved in a single step. There are a number of crucial measures to build on the monitor effort. Though they may not appear sweeping enough to some, they actually make a difference. The absence of a silver bullet should not prevent us from taking these small but important steps to stand with the Iranian people. Fix Visa Policies for Iranian Students Iranian students are a critical demographic of Iran's human rights and democracy movement. Recognizing this, President Obama directed much of his recent Norooz address to the majority of Iranians who were born after the turmoil of 1979 that sparked decades of US-Iran enmity. In last year's Norooz address, the president even committed the US to seeking "a brighter future" for these young Iranians by expanding student exchanges with Iran. President Obama should honor this promise by fixing a glaring problem for young Iranians seeking to study here: the Single-Entry Visa policy. For many young Iranians, studying abroad offers a reprieve from the repression they face at home from their government. Students have faced increased restrictions since 2005 under Ahmadinejad that has only escalated in the aftermath of the 2009 elections. And students seeking to study abroad are pressured not to study in the west, with some Iranian officials even threatening to ban study in the US entirely. Instead, students are provided incentives to study in Russia and China. But those Iranians who do choose to seek to attend American schools face significant and unnecessary restrictions from the US government. Under the Single-Entry Visa policy, students who come to the US cannot leave for the duration of their studies without losing their visa. Iranian students at American schools find that the restrictions under the Single-Entry Visa policy cost them academic opportunities and cuts them off from their families. Students have shared stories about not being able to visit ill relatives and, in one case, being prevented from returning to Iran for the funeral of a family member who was executed by Iran's government. These students ask why the US, if we say we are friends with the Iranian people, subject them to restrictions that no other nationals from Middle East countries face. Obama should take the seemingly small but vastly important step to repeal the Single Entry Only policy and allow Iranian students to obtain a multiple-entry visa to study in US schools. There is no better way to convey our friendship with Iran's youth than to offer an outstretched hand as Iran's government clenches its fist. Eliminate Internet Restrictions As former New York Times Tehran correspondent Nazila Fathi explained recently at a NIAC conference on Capitol Hill, "If the US wants to help, the first thing [Iranians] need is access to the Internet." Unfortunately, the US imposes its own firewall on Iran through sanctions that restrict software and hardware from being exported to Iranians. "Lift the sanctions," says Fathi. "Iranians cannot even buy Skype credits to talk on Skype lines, they have to rely on telephone lines that are monitored by the Iranian government. There is satellite internet over Iran, but because of the sanctions they cannot access it." The first step to supporting Internet freedom in Iran is for the US to get out of its own way. The Obama administration worked during the height of the Green Movement protests in 2009 to shield certain types of communication software from sanctions. Unfortunately, it took nine months to lift restrictions, and only on rudimentary chat software. Other basic tools that Iranian activists want access to remain blocked without a special license. For instance, Google's secure web browser Chrome was not allowed in Iran until January of this year -- a full year and a half after the June 2009 elections -- because Google did not have the necessary US government license. President Obama should move swiftly to allow the free flow of communication tools to Iranians. The US should exempt useful Internet software, hardware, and services from this counterproductive, cumbersome licensing requirement. End Humanitarian Restrictions In 2009, Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced legislation to sanction Iranian human rights abusers and companies that support Internet censorship, while easing restrictions on US humanitarian and human rights organizations. The sanctions eventually became law, a positive step. But the proposal to allow humanitarian and human rights organizations to work in Iran has yet to be acted on, so these activities face restrictions similar to those on Internet technology, In fact, in 2003 the US eased these restrictions in response to the devastating earthquake in Bam, Iran -- but only temporarily. The efforts of humanitarian groups like Mercy Corps and Relief International to assist in disaster relief over that twelve month period did not just address a moral imperative, they helped engender goodwill among the Iranian people and benefited US interests. We should not bar Americans from working directly with Iranians to improve child and maternal health, treat drug addiction, or prepare and respond to natural disasters. The president should permanently lift the restrictions that prevent Americans from exporting goodwill to the people of Iran. Many of these proposals have languished for lack of political space in Washington and a demand for silver bullets. But while these measures may seem small to some, they will enable the US to make a positive impact. President Obama now has an opportunity to create his own space and match his promises with important policy adjustments. He must not miss this opportunity to truly stand with the Iranian people. Jamal Abdi is Policy Director and Trita Parsi is President of the National Iranian American Council, the largest grassroots organization representing the Iranian-American community in the US. Follow Jamal Abdi on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jabdi

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This Medical Video: Cannula are often introduced into blood vessels in 80% of patients in the hospital for treatment. This can be a daunting experience to patients and stressful to doctors as multiple attempts are used. This may result in introducing spreading MRSA, E Coli Chlostredium living on your skin into blood and results in Invasive MRSA Skin is often not adequatly cleaned during subsequent atempts as doctors/nurses do not wait for 1 min after applying cleaning solution on the skin before they puncture your Multiple punctured sites allow CA-MRSA to enter blood stream resulting in bacteremia and death. Our mission is to reduce spreading invasive CA-MRSA in the hospitals by developing alternative technique to introduce cannulae. Medifix was created by doctors with a mission to reduce the threat of spreading antibiotic resustant bacteria to mankind.

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SORT BY Relevancy EZ WAY BROADCASTING POST #EZWAY ON ANY OF YOUR POSTS PLEASE EZ TALK LIVE - Helps you connect to Hollywood! Brought to you by EZ WAY 411 - Eric Zuley is a 7 time award winner, congrassionally recognized and for his committee efforts and world wide awareness he had a award named after him from the MMPA and city and county of Los Angeles. Eric Z. has been a TV & Radio talk show host for over 7 years and currently is the founder of the WTV & EWB Network. EZ will be giving you all the updates and insight on how to connect with the stars. EZ WAY CARES - The Peace Fund Games celebrity paintball games for charity. EZ TALK LIVE GUESTS: 10:35 am Actor "RICK MORA" in the Block Buster TWLIGHT / Yellow Rock with Michael Biehn, James Russo and the Spears Brothers which received 18 film awards / SAVAGED / The Dead and the Damned. Rick is the voice of Young Turok (alongside Irene Bedard and Adam Beach) in the animated feature Turok: Son of Stone. TALENT TIME ARTIST: "MaryandBrianna Ferraro" are 17 year old twins who are singer/songwriters Known for their Song "HEY TAYLOR SWIFT". They have just Launched their First Mini Album Available @ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/maryandbrianna . Tune In And Here Their Music/Interview.. Join Johanna for this exciting edition where her guest will be Native American Actor, Model, Host, and Humanitarian Rick Mora. Born Yaqui & Apache, Rick Mora is an actor and model with more than 20 years’ experience in the entertainment industry. His breakthrough came with a small scene as Jacob’s great-great-grandfather Ephraim Black in “Twilight.” Since then, he has appeared in several more films, including Little Boy with Kevin James & Sean Astin and “Yellow Rock” with Michael Biehn and James Russo. During the show, Rick will also discuss “The Codex of Awakening” which is a book designed to open the doors of perception, shining light into a world of experience that has long been dark and dormant. When Rick first opened the pages of “The Codex of Awakening,” he was not prepared for the awe-inspiring journey that the words set in motion. In part because of this eye-opening experience, he feels that his mission in life is to further the cause of spiritual growth and development. Join Johanna and Rick for this monumental episode. Cloverleaf Radio's hosts The Host with The Most Jimmy Falcon and Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling's Gremlina welcome Actor/Model Rick Mora, Best known for his work in "Twilight", "Big Money Hustlas" and much more! Join us! Interview with Rick Mora from the movie Twilight. Rick played the warrior, great grandfather of Jacob Black. (See the clip here –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmYFGCjYTA.) Rick has been in many more movies and TV shows including Yellow Rock and The Dead and the Damned, which both came out in 2011. This Thursday on the Rick Factor. Christian warrior, mother, and Youtube sensation Lisa Haven will be my guest. We will be going over current events dealing with the coming New World Order. How we can use God to fight it off. Lisa will be on for 30 minutes. The Rick Factor will interview Dr. Larry Wittner on 09/02/2014. Larry is a professor of history emeritus at University of Albany State University in Albany NY. He has had over 43 years experience as a educator. He will be discussing how the higher education has been corporatized. This has negatively effected how are kids are being taught. He has written a satarical novel that depects this plight, What's Going On at UAardvark?. He will discuss this new book and how the corportization of higher education needs to be cartailed. You can contact Dr. Wittner at www.lawerencewittner.com, or, email him at [email protected] December 23, 2014 edition of Wrestle Talk with Joe Lance and Rick Rose, with Special Guest Shane "Swerve" Strickland from CZW. One of the top international wrestling talents in the wrestling industry today, The International King of #SWERVE Shane Strickland! Find out Shane's most intense moment's, advice and upcoming stuff for him. We will also be discussing WWE, NXT, TNA and Independent Professional Wrestling. Join us as we interview Shane and talk professional wrestling. Please make sure to follow the station, so you don't miss any other shows! Also, follow us on Twitter @WrestleTalkBTR and on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/wrestletalkbtr On September 19th Rick will be interviewing Amanda Kay. Amanda is a model, RN, and a healthy lifestyle activist who's walk with God helps her through her daily walk. She's has an inspirational story that will help people see their working out in a whole new light. Best of Living Wealthy Radio...mentor to entrepreneurs Rick Sapio. This year's BUSINESS FINISHING school will be held in March. For more information check out the website: http://www.businessfinishingschool.com/ Entrepreneur, coach, and speaker Rick Sapio overcame family tragedies to found his first business at 13. Since that time Rick has founded over 20 companies and is regarding as one of America's top business coaches and advisors to entrepreneurs. Rick is a lifelong entrepreneur who started his first business, a bicycle repair shop, after the death of his father, when he was just 13 years old. The seventh of nine children raised by a mother with serious, life-long depression issues, Rick learned early that it's best to think positively about the cards one's been dealt in life, no matter how difficult those cards seem. Rick learned that business growth and success are accelerated when a few key principles are applied. He found that by learning "The 12 Foundational Principles of Business," which he teaches in an online program called Business Finishing School; that virtually any individual or company can be put on the path to prosperity. He created these principles to help successful people become more grounded and focused in their business and personal lives. Lyn Buchanan, BA, MA In the first hour Author Lyn Buchanan will be joining us. Lyn was the trainer for the military's remote viewing unit, was a viewer for the unit for 8 1/2 years, and has have been teaching it in the public sector since his retirement in 1992. The Seventh Sense. Rick Waid is a seer, remote viewer, and past-life reader. He was born with gifts that he did not realize he had until his late-30s. While Rick’s mother was also a reader, he did not become aware of his talents until he began researching the paranormal field. Rick Waid began to connect with the other side through electronic voice phenomena, and he started having visions and hearing his spirit guide,” Rick explained. “As his gift progressed, He learned how to remote view and was able to psychically see places he had never been to before.” He can also now connect with “the other side” and frequently receives messages from loved ones beyond the veil. “He wrote My Paranormal Journey: One Man’s Obsession to share with others a compelling passion that ultimately revealed to me gifts he never knew he had,” Rick said. “I hope it will help others realize there are reasons for exploring into new territories and breaking through current boundaries.” Born in Michigan and he lived in Ohio and Kentucky for most of hischildhood. He is one of 21 brothers and sisters. 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Trip Start Jul 31, 2007 32Trip End Oct 10, 2007 Map your own trip! Show trip route Well I hope this mail finds you all in great shape and I must just say that this will be the last such mass mail that I will send out! I know you hate them but its the only way that I can correspond with the massses in my limited time of access to a computer and internet connection (right now being kindly offered by the library resources at Portsmouth Public Library, Maine.) So a quick update on things since the last email will go something like this: * hills galore * sunshine and high temperatures + humidity * aching legs * bordom of my own company * crazy drivers * some scary moments * eating anything I can get my hands on * just hit 2000 miles * will cross the border of the last state, Maine, in about 2 hours. So there it is, I know you are all busy and dont want to read a life summary. THings have been tough over the last few days with the hills being an ever present problem and the return of my old nemesis, the WIND. Another element that I had so far been avoiding caught up with me the other day too, the RAIN. Put all of this together along with teh endless miles and really nobody there to inspire me it has been really difficult to find the motivation to carry on.........but of course I then turn around to myself and after a few sharp words (I am always careful that nobody else is around) I continue. The last few dayts have been especailly hard with rain, wind, a problem with my right knee and a couple of broken spokes....but life goes on right!! What would really help is for me to see some more online donations as this would motivate me massivley for what is the most hilly section yet...the end 200 miles. So if you want to donate and help keep me inspired and motivated for the lasrt couple of days (I think what I have done is worht a few quid ???) then please use the secure site found from this link This donation site will be active until the 10th of October so there is a while yet if you would like to give and yet dont have the time right this moment..... Or if you would like to read the updated bog and see some photos (both will be done in the next week once I have finished and have the time to attack this side of things then please visit: or if you would like to read a more thorough version of the day to day antics then please continue to check the site as I will be adding much to this in the coming weeks.....patience is a virtue though so please dont expect anything in the next few days!! This will also include the final amount of money raised for thh Parkinson's Disease Society once I have done all of the sums etc. So thanks for reading this mail, for donating, for reading the blogs and maybe for once every while, thinking of mer as I race up the East coast, on my trusty bike which I have named, Bike. Take care and I will see, speak or mail more personally very soon

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Filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood Despite interest from the likes of Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis, British video artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood has been selected to direct the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Gray. Though Taylor-Wood—who, since her marriage, has gone by Taylor-Johnson—has only directed one feature-length film, a biopic about the early years of John Lennon, she is well-known for her photography and video art, which focus on themes of sexuality, death, and madness. In an essay for the New York Times Book Review, Chloe Schama wonders why there are so many exposed female backs on the covers of new novels. Over the past few weeks, Australian writer Kathryn Heyman has had an interesting back-and-forth with the editors of the London Review of Books about the paucity of female writers in their pages. After receiving a letter asking her to renew her subscription, Heyman declined, and sent off a hilarious letter bemoaning the LRB's dearth of women writers. In response, senior editor Paul Myerscough wrote a gracious note, commenting, that “despite the distress it causes us that the proportion of women in the paper remains so stubbornly low, the efforts we’ve made to change the situation have been hopelessly unsuccessful.” In an interview with Canada’s National Post, 81-year-old Canadian writer Alice Munro said that she has more or less retired from writing. Munro told the paper that she’s "probably not going to write anymore." (In the past, Munro has announced her retirement only to later publish new work). Last week, the Paris-based bookstore Shakespeare and Co. and the London-based White Review (whose editors were interviewed last year for Bookforum) awarded the bi-annual Paris Literary Prize to C.E. Smith for his novella Body Electric. The award, which was established in 2010, grants 10,000 euro to a novella written in English by a previously unpublished author from anywhere in the world. The previous winner was Rosa Rankin-Gee, who won for her book, The Last Kings of Sark. After coming under fire for a Kickstarter campaign that raised $16,000 for a book critics called called a “manual for sexual abuse,” the fundraising company has decided to ban all so-called “seduction guides” and has announced that they’ve donated $25,000 to an anti-sexual violence organization.

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Heidelberg University is a community of learning that promotes and nurtures intellectual, personal and professional development, leading to a life of purpose with distinction. An easy way to double your contribution is through employee giving programs. Many corporations have giving programs in which they match employee gifts to qualifying organizations. If you volunteer with us, your employer may also provide us with a grant as a way to recognize your ongoing support. For more information, enter your company name below to see if they will match your contribution or contact Katie McCrystal at [email protected] or (419) 448-2486. Thanks for checking to see if your company offers these programs! - What are employee matching gift programs? Employee matching gift programs are corporate giving programs in which the company matches donations made by employees to eligible nonprofit organizations. It's an easy way to double your contribution to us! - What are volunteer grant programs? Volunteer grant programs are corporate giving programs in which companies provide monetary donations to organizations where employees volunteer regularly. If you volunteer with us, it's an easy way to provide us with additional financial support! - How do I request a matching gift or volunteer grant? Requesting a matching gift or volunteer grant is normally a five minute process which must be initiated by the donor / volunteer. You can do this by filling out and submitting a paper match form provided by your employer or through an electronic submission process. Please search our database for company specific information. - How is this information obtained? - What if I still have questions? For questions regarding your company's programs, please contact your employer's HR or community giving department. Much of the necessary information is also available on your company intranet. For questions regarding submitting a matching gift or volunteer grant request to us, please contact us using the information provided on this page.

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Thu. Dec 28, 2006 My Favorite Photo of the Year You might wonder why I’d say this is my favorite photo of the year. To your eyes, it’s probably just a picture of a little girl in an old wagon. But to my eyes, there’s a much greater context. That rusty red wagon was given to my Dad for Christmas when he was a child during the Depression. Long before he passed away in March, he’d said he wanted to pass that wagon on to his granddaughter. So on Christmas day, we made sure that happened as he wanted, and I made the photo above. I see the context of my whole year in that one photo. Over the past year, my niece Caroli has become by far my favorite photo subject, four Flickr sets worth. So for Christmas I put together a collage (best viewed large) of her first year with LeeAnn and Danny, from November of 2005 when she arrived from China, through November of 2006. 18 of my favorite images across that 12 months (including one where she was mad at me). It’s the best kind of “Year End Review” there is. And the only one you’re likely to get around here.

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Battlefield 4 in-Game Screenshots and Trailer Leaked – Gets Overhauled Destruction Engine Codenamed Frostbite 3 We are just a couple of hours away from the Battlefield 4 launch reveal and the gameplay details along with first in-game screenshots have already started to hit various web portals. Battlefield 4 – The True Next Generation Shooter From the images, it can be seen that DICE is aiming to increase the fiedility of the game, it looks alot like Battlefield 3 but the graphical power of the Frostbite 2 engine has been updated by such a leap that it feels like a new game. The whole atmosphere in that first screenshot and the landscape is an amazing thing to look at plus its all in-game rendered with the power of Frostbite 3. Definitely some thing to look forward Battlefield 4 Trailer You might remember that we detailed in our previous report that Battlefield 4 would be getting an updated rather a complete new Frostbite engine known to be as Frostbite 2.5, well according to BF4Central most of our details that mentioned such as a new Destruction engine, better lightning and increased tessellation effects were true however DICE seemed to have changed the codename for the new engine and it is now referred to as Frostbite 3. From our previous article: Furthermore, the game would feature Dynamic weather effects such as rain, sandstorms, fog, haze and would be totally random. Each map would get these dynamic weather effects and would change depending on the variable conditions. As you may have noted, the cover image shows a glimpse of these weather effects such as rain. Battlefield 4 would also bring back the much renowned and upgraded Destruction 4.0 system to the game which would offer destructible environments and buildings which we saw back in Bad Company 2. The new Destruction engine would be a total game changer which was skipped entirely from Battlefield 3 (Except Battlefield 3: Close Quarters). Its comeback to the game after last released in Bad Company 2 is warmly welcomed by fans of the series. It would be great to see how these effects settle down in the metropolis of Shanghai, China which we also confirmed to be featured in game before any one else along with the introduction of female characters in the single player section of the game as well as rumored for Multiplayer. DICE has also revealed several teasers for their Battlefield 4 such as Air/Land/Sea trailers and revealing posters on Battlefield.com. Theslanted.com has revealed that EA would begin Pre-orders for the game starting from 10 PM PST which would include both standard and digital deluxe editions. Buyers of the Digital Deluxe edition would get access to Battlefield 4 Beta (Medal Of Honor: WF and Battlefield 3 Premium owners would too) along with Battlefield 4 Expansion pack. It should be noted that Battlefield 3 Digital Deluxe edition at launch granted users access to Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand DLC. Both editions would be sold exclusively on EA’s Origin as Battlefield 3. Battlelog would get a complete new overhaul once the game is launched. Those who pre-order would also get a real life “Prepare 4 battle” dogtag which can be seen below *Too Sexy*: Image Courtesy of Pixelenemy! Get Latest Tech News Daily We cater to your constant need to remain up to date on today’s technology. Like us, tweet to us or +1 us, to keep up with our round the clock updates, reviews, guides and more.

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What China Might Have Been – Mark Oneill From Asia Sentinel: Zhao Ziyang‘s thoughts, available in a new book, point to his vision of change in China. The deposed Party Chief supported more elections, party democracy, and accountability Speaking from the grave, a remarkable Chinese political figure is calling for drastic changes in the Communist Party, including the elimination of the post of party chief, the abolition of party branches in ministries and companies, the introduction of independent trade unions and direct popular election of officials up to the city level. In life, Zhao Ziyang, who was prime minister and party general secretary for nine years until he was purged after he refused to sanction the crackdown and massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was an unpleasant reality for Beijing, a popular reformer who was kept under house arrest until he died in January 2005. [Full Text]

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Originally published 04/05/2013 When George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, died 90 years ago this week he was one of the most famous men on Earth. He occupied the family seat at Highclere Castle, but wintered in Egypt every year. By 1923, Carnarvon had spent an estimated £35,000 on excavation, hunting for glory.Finally he got it. His man in the field, Howard Carter, had discovered the steps down to the unbroken seals on the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of Kings. Carnarvon dashed from England, and together they broke in a small portion of the door. “Well, can you see anything?” the Earl asked. “Yes,” came the famous reply, as Carter waved his candle and caught the glint of gold, “wonderful things.”The story was a press sensation in a gloomy post-war world still mourning the dead of that terrible conflict and the influenza pandemic that had followed shortly afterwards. The tomb was formally opened in February 1923, with visiting royalty, dignitaries and the world’s press in attendance.... - Now it’s the University of Louisville’s turn to remove a Confederate statue - A fortress built by Alexander the Great after he conquered Jerusalem has been discovered - Yale students protest decision to keep Calhoun’s name - Six maps that will make you rethink the world - Middle Tenn. State President Wants to Strip Confederate General’s Name From Building - The historian and cartographer Bill Rankin has developed a new way to visualize slavery - Paula S. Fass says young Americans need required national service - Historians are now trying to show that the gay revolution also took place in the midwest - The Unconference Movement Grows – And Historians Are Taking the Lead - New appeal to "Bring Back Military History"

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Thankfully, a judge has issues a temporary restraining order against the man, so Jasmine Villegas can sleep soundly at night! When Jasmine Villegas made out with her pal Justin Bieber in the back of a car last year, we’re sure she didn’t intend for this to happen! TMZ is reporting the 17-year-old singer has been being stalked by a 33-year-old man who made videos and sent tweets threatening to rape and kill her. He even offered to pay someone $5,000 to do the deed! How horrible! TMZ reports Jasmine claims, “In a couple of the videos, he has appeared holding deadly weapons, i.e. a gun, machete knives stating that he was going to find me, rape me, and kill me.” Apparently, the stalker Steven Cintron has been sending Jasmine thousands of messages and 75 YouTube videos. One of the messages had a schedule of her performances and note attached reading, “You’re dead Jasmine. I swear to God I’m going to kill you. I will blow your f**king head off bitch.” Thankfully, a judge gave Cintron a temporary restraining order that also blocks him from contacting Jasmine on the Internet. There will be a hearing later this month, reports TMZ. We’ve had Jasmine in the HollywoodLife.com offices before and she’s nothing but professional, talented and sweet. We can’t imagine having to live in fear like this! Hopefully, the judge gives that creepy guy a punishment he deserves…and more!

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We were surprised by the Colts’ decision to cut safety Bob Sanders, for a couple of reasons. With no salary cap and no impending requirement to pay anything to Sanders other than a $500,000 offseason workout bonus (if, you know, there are any offseason workouts), the Colts could have kept him around. Instead, Sanders has a two-week window to sign with a new team before the league possibly shuts down. But there’s another reason to be surprised by the decision to cut Sanders. Consider the words of team president Bill Polian, circa November 2009. “First of all, his contract is not up for another three years, I believe. At least two – I think three. There’s no way we would cut Bob Sanders unless he’s completely incapable of playing and I don’t think that that’s the case,” Polian said. “I think he’ll be back better than ever as the saying goes next summer. I see no situation where we would cut him.” So either Sanders is completely incapable of playing, or Polian needs glasses.

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by SAPInsider 2004 (Volume 5) » July (Issue 3) Deploy As You Go Transitioning to mySAP ERP Q&A with Thomas Baur Q. Ramp-up for mySAP ERP 2004 starts this summer. How will this impact SAP R/3 and SAP R/3 Enterprise customers in the short- and long-term? Thanks to our new release and maintenance strategy, our customers now have a lot of flexibility with implementing mySAP ERP. In the months ahead, SAP customers running releases up to and including 4.6C will need to decide on and plan a transition strategy. While the 2006 end-of-maintenance deadline isn't imminent, it is close enough to impact near-term IT decisions. So I strongly advise SAP R/3 customers running a system below SAP R/3 Enterprise to get a handle on what mySAP ERP is — what options it affords them and what implications it poses to their business processes, their user communities, their IT landscape, and their SAP licensing arrangements. I suggest SAP R/3 Enterprise customers also do the same. While end-of- maintenance doesn't happen for this group until 2009, the gap in capabilities between SAP R/3 Enterprise and mySAP ERP is quite large. Many SAP R/3 Enterprise customers may want to make the transition long before the 2009 date in order to take advantage of Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), Manager Self-Services (MSS), Enterprise Self-Services (ESS), or Travel Management, for example, which all come standard with mySAP ERP. Whatever your current situation, you'll need to understand the capabilities of mySAP ERP relative to the SAP systems you're now running. That way, you can make informed decisions not just about your transition, but also about day-to-day activities between now and then. That said, I want to clearly emphasize that our customers are not in a hurry. Our maintenance cycles for SAP R/3 releases allow customers to carefully work out a strategy for their future business processes. With mySAP ERP, we are not talking about a "rip and replace" scenario, but rather a "deploy-as-you-go" scenario — and this is important to know. A customer can run mySAP ERP even with SAP R/3 4.6C or below. This is the smart thing about mySAP ERP. If you are a customer with a certain need to implement SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), you can do just that. You don't have to first upgrade to SAP R/3 Enterprise or SAP ECC (SAP ERP Central Component), the new ERP core component within mySAP ERP 2004. So we need to talk about your upgrade from three perspectives: your technical upgrade, your license, and your implementation. For customers still on an SAP R/3 system below 4.6C, I strongly recommend that you start thinking now about your next step. With our updated maintenance strategy, you can extend your current maintenance for another two years — until December 2006. That would give you enough time to plan, for example, a technical upgrade to SAP ECC 5.00, which comes with mySAP ERP 2004 and will be generally available in Q1 2005. By converting your SAP R/3 license to mySAP ERP 2004, you could start exploiting the gained business benefits immediately at the beginning of next year. Or, if you are a customer currently involved in an upgrade to SAP R/3 Enterprise, proceed with that — you always have the option to convert your license to mySAP ERP and implement other components like SAP BW step-by-step while maintaining SAP R/3 Enterprise as the core ERP backbone. The bottom line: To meet critical business demands, convert your license to mySAP ERP to get the full scope of ERP functionality, and then deploy the components as you go. That's a very practical road to follow. Q. Given the scope of the release, should customers be bracing themselves for a costly, complex upgrade? Quite the opposite. This upgrade is not an all-or-nothing proposition. The license gives you the full breadth and depth of mySAP ERP functionality. You pick and choose what you'd like to implement, and when. Let me give you just a few examples: From a licensing perspective, all of this functionality is at your disposal. (That's not the case with SAP R/3 4.6C and below or a license to SAP R/3 Enterprise alone.) From an implementation perspective, you tap into these strategic capabilities when the timing is advantageous to your business. As a result, we're seeing a great deal of excitement across finance, operations, and HR organizations. Think about where IT dollars are being spent. Behind every major project stands an expensive integration exercise. Whatever your challenge — compliance, planning, RFID, acquisitions, global ATP checks, accelerating time-to-market or order-to-cash, human capital management, or even homeland security — integration is an ever-present IT hurdle, one that constitutes a huge expense. mySAP ERP is built on SAP NetWeaver, our open application and integration platform. That has huge TCO implications — very positive implications — for SAP customers. Business intelligence, portal and integration technologies, master data management, a mobile infrastructure, and a Web application server are all part of SAP NetWeaver, and they all work together. That's at the infrastructure level. At the application level, mySAP ERP is part of mySAP Business Suite and can therefore be extended with mySAP CRM or mySAP SCM, for example. It's at the application level where integration usually really gets costly, but not with mySAP ERP. The bottom line is that evolving from old-school ERP to this new generation of ERP delivers benefit and savings to all vested parties. You can expect a rapid adoption curve because, frankly, it's more costly not to take the mySAP ERP road. Q. But don't companies suffer from a glut of technology? They do. That's why you see SAP recommending a smooth shift to service-based architectures, to its Enterprise Services Architecture. It's the only viable way to protect and further leverage the value of all those existing IT assets and at the same time pave the way for new ones. Without a service-based architecture, diminishing returns on IT assets will happen at an alarming rate. With a service-based architecture, you can control costs and facilitate growth in multiple directions — the growth that comes from within (when you grow your customer offerings, for example) and the kind that comes about from mergers or acquisitions. The studies bear this out. Company after company report that they need to get to this end goal and want to partner with a vendor that can help them get there. Seriously, who wants to be confounded by something like issuing a purchase order, canceling an order, or performing an available-to-promise check? What one would hope would be a simple business process is anything but. These kinds of basic business activities are difficult because they encompass multiple systems and vendors. SAP NetWeaver delivers the prerequisite technology for moving toward a service-based architecture. And again, with mySAP ERP a customer is able to cover three fundamental needs: to leverage existing IT investments, to extend business benefits, and to grow into a service-oriented architecture. So you've laid out a plan for your SAP upgrade. Your business analysts have gathered the requirements, your business users are ready for testing, your ABAP developers have started development, and your Basis team is working with the Data Center team to minimize your downtime. Everything seems to be in place, but you feel like you overlooked something. Maybe you did — but how can you know? IT organizations are caught between two seemingly irreconcilable forces — the ongoing need for new initiatives that drive business growth and competitive advantage, and the equally insistent demands of managing the infrastructure. If organizations aren't careful, they end up spending most of their time running the system and very little supporting business objectives. Deploying the next upgrade of a given SAP module is a great example of a time-consuming and resource-intensive task that can be minimized to a "non-event" if the right access strategy is in place. Citrix, an SAP Global Technology Partner and member of the SAP NetWeaver partner initiative, provides a trusted and proven access infrastructure solution — the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite — that enables simple, fast, and scalable application deployments with less risk, leading to quicker returns and allowing you to spend more time on strategic projects to grow your business. By adopting an access infrastructure that features efficient and server-centric application management, collaboration, security, and remote access, organizations such as Delta Air Lines, Kindred Healthcare, Engen, and SAP AG itself have lowered the cost of both managing SAP solutions across a heterogeneous infrastructure and deploying them to a diverse user base. Secure Access for SAP — Anytime, Anywhere, Over Any Network The Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite turns every organization into an on-demand enterprise by providing simple and secure access to applications from any location, device, or connection. The MetaFrame Access Suite centralizes application installation, processing, and administration on the server instead of on the desktop, significantly reducing maintenance and support costs and accelerating deployment across the organization. With Citrix, whether you are deploying the SAP GUI or a published browser running the SAP Enterprise Portal, applications and data never leave the trusted network. Only screen refreshes, mouse movements, and keystrokes are transmitted between server and client. Therefore, no matter what device a person is using — be it a public kiosk, a library terminal, or their child's PC — data integrity is assured. Also, for the first time, the SAP iView for the Citrix Business Package, which provides integration between the Citrix access infrastructure and the SAP Enterprise Portal, allows organizations to make their portal the central hub for all communication and access. Work Smarter, Not Harder With its server-centric architecture, Citrix software enables applications to be centrally deployed in a fraction of the time needed to install them individually on local desktops for a large and/or geographically dispersed user base. To upgrade to the next version of an SAP solution, for example, IT teams no longer need to visit hundreds of users in multiple locations or to track down mobile devices. The application is simply installed on one server, pushed out to the other servers in the farm, and then made instantly available to all users simultaneously — no worries about forgetting a device, user, or application. A roll-out can often be completed over a weekend. MetaFrame Presentation Server allows you to install the new SAP GUI or updated browser on a separate set of servers. This means that multiple versions of the interface can run within the same production environment, something that cannot be accomplished with a desktop solution alone. Additionally, users can access the new version — whether it's a test bed or the production release — without disrupting their current responsibilities; users just point to an icon, click, and start working. From an administrator's perspective, you install the updates once and then push the install package to the other servers in the farm. You can complete the entire upgrade in less time than it takes for a single desktop installation. Additionally, session shadowing allows support staff to remotely monitor and assist users for training or troubleshooting during the upgrade deployment without having to visit their desks personally, resulting in substantial cost savings. During our own deployment of SAP at Citrix, with a population of over 2,000 users worldwide, we recognized savings of over $150,000 on our SAP SRM upgrade alone. We realized ongoing savings of over $100,000 per year on help desk personnel, calls, and orientation/training. For organizations using the SAP Enterprise Portal, the SAP iView for the Citrix Business Package allows any Win32 or UNIX application running in a Citrix environment to be instantly Web-enabled without recoding and to be centrally deployed to users through the portal. This capability extends the scope of the portal with access to any application. Lower Costs While Raising Service Levels Many enterprises have found Citrix software to be a powerful solution for reducing the cost of computing through greater IT efficiency, reduced infrastructure costs, lower bandwidth demands, and streamlined administration. Citrix itself is a classic example. Having standardized on SAP, Citrix deployed the solution to employees worldwide using MetaFrame Presentation Server. The deployment was completed in just 20 days, with annual cost savings of $2.5 million. Following are key TCO areas impacted by Citrix solutions: Extended Life of Existing Infrastructure Stable, Predictable Performance Across Any Network Faster Realization of ROI and TCO Benefits Back to that SAP upgrade — the thing you overlooked was how to make your life easier by using the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite to deploy SAP. With Citrix, the workload associated with deployment to thousands of heterogeneous devices is no longer a logistical challenge. The infrastructure can be better managed, and end-users enjoy a more consistent experience. Besides these compelling features, it's also a less expensive way to go. That will make the executive team happy while you delight your users with improved service. For more information on the SAP-Citrix partnership, please visitwww.citrix.com/info/sapinsider. Michel Koopman, SAP Global Alliance Executive at Citrix, joined the company in 1999. During the last five years, he has initiated and managed strategic technology alliances with SAP, Computer Associates, and EMC, among others. These relationships are built on strategic global go-to-market plans, solution integration, marketing, and sales collaboration with partners. Previously, Michel held similar positions at Baan Company and International Distillers. Today, business pressures clearly demand that companies do more with less. As your company makes the business case for upgrading to the latest version of SAP, are you faced with making additional infrastructure investments? As you evaluate your IT landscape, are you finding that you are paying too much for the infrastructure required to run SAP? Because of the recent releases of SAP R/3 Enterprise, mySAP ERP, and mySAP Business Suite, an unprecedented number of customers are evaluating upgrading their SAP systems. Any upgrade project can be difficult to justify, as it imposes change and requires additional time and infrastructure investments. As you consider your own upgrade plans and reevaluate the infrastructure that supports your SAP system, now may be the time to cap investments in Unix-based systems and implement your SAP upgrade on a cost-effective, high-return platform — the Microsoft and Intel Platform for SAP. Incorporating the cost-reduction benefits associated with the Microsoft Platform running on Intel servers into your business case can significantly raise the overall ROI and value proposition of your upgrade project. The Case for the Microsoft Platform for SAP No matter whether you're planning an upgrade to SAP R/3 Enterprise (SAP R/3 4.7), mySAP ERP, or the mySAP Business Suite, it is a good time to reconsider your infrastructure. And because Windows is proven to be enterprise-ready, scalable, and reliable for large-scale implementations, companies across a wide variety of industries are now deploying their SAP applications on Microsoft Windows Server System and Microsoft SQL Server to reduce their total cost of ownership. (For an example of Microsoft's own successful migration to SAP R/3 Enterprise on SQL Server and Windows Server 2003, see box below.) The Microsoft Platform for SAP offers a combination of high-end scalability and reliability to accommodate the future growth of SAP customers, all at a price point that makes it easy to acquire and operate. What's more, R&D investments in the Microsoft Platform ensure continued functionality, quality, and performance improvements that SAP customers can count on to grow right along with them. Microsoft invests more in research and development than any other IT company. Furthermore, partners such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Unisys, Dell, and others are making technology investments right along with us, further magnifying the R&D advantage over other server platforms. For mission-critical SAP deployments, the Microsoft Platform is a safe, proven choice. Consider that: For a real-world example of how this can work for companies using SAP, Microsoft can point to our current customers — including reference customers running some of the largest SAP environments in the world — to provide their perspective and experiences to other SAP customers. In-Depth ROI Analysis for Your Infrastructure, Not Just Your Solutions To further support customers in their upgrade plans, Microsoft has partnered with industry-leading consultancies to deliver a set of SAP upgrade services that are designed to maximize return on investment. Together, we will work with you on an SAP Upgrade and Migration Analysis, which will give your company a real-world look at the costs associated with upgrading SAP and moving it to the Microsoft Platform. Our partners do a rigorous and technical analysis of your current SAP environment and infrastructure and will provide an executive-level presentation on the results, including: Companies deploying SAP on the Microsoft Platform can achieve savings in the acquisition, administration, and operation of both hardware and software. Organizations implementing this platform have already seen significant benefits, including: The Microsoft and Intel Platform is less expensive to purchase and less expensive to operate, and it delivers the reliability, availability, and scalability that SAP systems require. As you make the business case for your SAP solutions, be sure to carefully evaluate your infrastructure as well. To learn more about upgrading your SAP system on the Microsoft Platform, visitwww.microsoft-sap.com. 1 For full technical details on the performance of the Microsoft Platform in the SAP SDN Benchmark, see www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/compare/SAPSales.asp or visithttp://www.sap.com/benchmark/sd3tier.asp and select the link to Certification Number 2002007. "No surprises!" QI Solutions has heard this exclamation many times from companies considering an SAP upgrade. A primary concern for any company thinking of upgrading to an SAP R/3 4.6C, SAP R/3 Enterprise, or mySAP ERP release is risk mitigation and the ability to eliminate downtime and conduct business "minute one" after the upgrade. Another primary challenge for any company considering an SAP upgrade is discovering how to focus on areas of business benefit and enhancement so you can begin delivering functionality and value to the business as soon after the upgrade as possible. This can only be accomplished if you know what functionality is being used within your SAP system today and what new functionality will be available to you after the upgrade. Using a Toolset for Your SAP Upgrade The QI Solutions Upgrade Toolset is a solution that specifically addresses these primary areas of concern for an SAP upgrade — mitigating risk and focusing on business benefit by reducing the upgrade cost of ownership. Founded on the SAP Reverse Business Engineering (SAP RBE) tool, the QI Solutions Upgrade Toolset works with SAP RBE, adding data object and proprietary analytics to address key upgrade considerations. Mitigating Risk and Focusing Your Upgrade The QI Solutions Upgrade Toolset provides the answers to those questionable and invisible areas that so often create risk, cause delays, and render an upgrade more trouble than it is worth. While planning your upgrade, what if you could know and understand: The QI Solutions Upgrade Toolset enables this foresight. Here are some examples of the data objects that are captured and reviewed: Figure 1 illustrates the summary information that is captured. The ability to directly see and analyze these SAP objects allows you to address those areas specific to your SAP environment that will negatively impact your upgrade. Adding New SAP Functionality Whether you decide to implement enhanced functionality during an upgrade or in a phase after the upgrade is complete, the process presents a tremendous opportunity for most organizations. Depending on your original implementation release and your concentration on adding new functionality, there may be thousands of functional enhancements you can deploy in SAP. Many organizations have either: If your organization lives within either of these categories, a significant number of enhancements are available to you to deliver business benefit and potential competitive advantages. Reduce the Risk, Increase the Benefit The QI Solutions Upgrade Toolset specifically focuses on business benefit and reduces the upgrade cost of ownership. Here is how: For any repaired object, that object and all the objects impacted by the repaired object are identified, which could number 1, 5, or 50. This prevents problems with the system not working correctly once the upgrade is completed and allows focused testing on those areas of most risk. Highly used transactions and processes are identified. Testing can focus on areas that are business-critical, and time for less-used processes is allocated accordingly. Identifies the transaction codes that have changed or been added, which creates concentrated areas for user training. Identifies user exits so that core functionality and Business Add-Ins can potentially replace them during the upgrade. Identifies and quantifies the usage of all "z" (customized) programs and reports. This furthers testing prioritization and allows a company to determine if customized programs and reports can be replaced with resident SAP functionality. Identifies all enhancements from the current release of SAP to the target release. This provides the key areas of concentration to attain desired business benefit and ROI. The Upgrade Toolset can also address many additional areas during the course of an upgrade. For more information, please contact QI Solutions at www.qisolutions.com or at +1 216 328-5558. Every SAP professional knows the value of automation — running SAP automates and streamlines critical business processes throughout the enterprise. Success-minded, forward-looking SAP professionals know that there is further value to be gained by eliminating manual processes involved in the inter-company delivery of reports, purchase orders, invoices, and other transactional documents generated by SAP solutions (see Figure 1). Esker DeliveryWare Platform is a comprehensive solution to automate the exchange of business documents between customers, suppliers, and partners — regardless of source, format, or destination. And what better time than during an SAP upgrade to think about gaining the added value of automated document delivery. Address Document Delivery Issues Before They Arise A considerable amount of uncertainty accompanies any upgrade, especially where document delivery is involved. Consider your SAPcomm or SAPconnect interface: Many older fax servers, for example, only support SAPcomm, so you may be forced to seek alternative methods. When planning for an SAP upgrade, consider the following key issues: Tap Into Upgrade Resources When upgrading to a new SAP solution, organizations typically have test servers, test data, and time set aside to make sure everything works correctly. You may also have an increased budget and additional human capital in the form of consultants and other contract personnel. Given these added resources, it just makes sense to do a full tune-up while you have the hood open. And integrating document delivery in conjunction with your upgrade can eliminate the need for retraining later. Raise the Bar Upgrading gives you an opportunity to improve business communication channels. While you may have had your output management or fax server solution connected to just one SAP module, with the upgrade you may want to expand document delivery to other modules. You may need to alter some business processes to fully leverage the new system. And you may want to exploit new document delivery methods, such as outsourced automated fax and mail services that can optimize efficiency and flexibility. You may also want to move document delivery and notification logic off the application server to an independent architecture. This offloading can allow for higher server performance and reduced dependency on SAPscript to manage document formatting. Comprehensively automated document delivery can help you achieve better customer service, cost control, and IT consolidation. More complete automation means less intervention, programming, and system maintenance. It's Feasible with Esker DeliveryWare Esker DeliveryWare is an SAP integration-certified solution that helps organizations implement automated document delivery without risk or disruption of existing business procedures. It resides on a server, connects as an independent device, and requires no custom programming. Esker DeliveryWare recognizes and processes any SAP document format, including RDI and XSF, and cuts forms development (SAPscript) time. With both BC-CON and BC-XOM interface support, Esker DeliveryWare integrates seamlessly and provides full document delivery capability — including receipt notification returned to the SAP system. Esker DeliveryWare automates every phase of document composition and delivery, from capture to distribution. At the core of Esker DeliveryWare is the DeliveryWare Rules Engine — Esker's content-based technology to automatically format application output and deliver documents to any destinations via any combination of output media (see Figure 2). Esker DeliveryWare provides a graphical formatting environment and built-in Crystal Reports, and offers Esker on Demand service options for cost-effective outsourcing of fax and printed mail to a hosted Esker DeliveryWare server for formatting and delivery. Results with Esker DeliveryWare include: Esker DeliveryWare also facilitates incremental implementation. You can start with one document process and/or delivery media (such as fax), then automate other processes and add media as time and needs dictate. Including Esker DeliveryWare in your SAP upgrade plans gives you a solid foundation for automated document delivery. A Proven Solution from a Proven Leader Esker is an SAP customer and a recognized leader in helping organizations eliminate manual processes involved in the delivery of business documents out of enterprise applications. Specializing in automating the delivery of SAP-generated output, Esker has a dedicated R&D team focusing on SAP and a working relationship with SAP Labs. SAP customers around the world use Esker DeliveryWare to streamline document-centric business processes, gaining significant efficiencies, time/cost savings, and rapid ROI. For More Information To learn more about Esker DeliveryWare, visit www.esker.com. We also invite you to attend a free Web seminar, exclusively for SAP Insider readers, for details on results that Microsoft and other Esker customers have achieved by implementing Esker DeliveryWare Solutions in conjunction with an SAP upgrade; visit www.esker.com/ upgradesuccess.

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If ever there were a high-end mall on the East Coast to give Miami’s Bal Harbour a run for its money, it would be Americana Manhasset. Gucci, Hermes, Fendi, Prada, Oscar de la Renta, Cartier, Chanel, Tiffany & Co. – the only thing more shocking then the endless parade of luxury designer shops is the fact that somehow a GAP location was able to sneak into the mix. Now, affluent suburban woman have a new place to add to their must-shop stops – Beauty Bar. The newly opened boutique has been in the works since June and it marks the first brick-and-mortar outlet of the online beauty shopping destination of the same name. More comparable to Space NK than Sephora, it offers men and women a curated selection of products with focus on natural brands, hard-to-find brands, and well-known favorites (their best sellers are Clarisonic and Dermalogica). I spoke with some members of the team when I stopped by to check out the space and was told that given their target demographic (affluent suburban mothers), Americana Manhasset was the only place they considered for their first boutique. However, because space in the Long Island mall is so hard to come by, Beauty Bar had to jump on the opportunity when it unexpectedly arose back in June, despite the fact that the e-commerce site the store is based on launched just a few months before in February. Talk about a risky move. In addition to the sales floor, there is a treatment room and a NuBest blow dry bar, which marks NuBest’s – considered the go-to high-end hair salon in the area – first salon-in-shop. Among the products used for the facials are Jurlique, Natura Bisse, and Dermalogica and the products sold reflect the site, which interestingly enough is owned by the same parent company that owns soap.com and diapers.com (hence the mother target demographic), meaning you can shop across sites. Destinations to buy beauty products are a dime a dozen, so the key is finding one that suits your needs, whether it be Sephora because of its wide selection and exclusives or Space NK for its roster of international brands, Beauty Bar, or some other... I may not be an afflient suburban mother, but I will nonetheless be shopping on Beauty Bar’s site because the most interesting thing I picked up while there was that their warehouse is full of robots that pick and pack orders in less than 30 minutes, meaning that if you live in Manhattan and order a product by 10 AM, you’ll get it that day, they have free shipping on orders over $39 (which everything, pretty much, is), and there's a no-questions asked return policy whithin a 365-day window. Just don't expect a sale to pop on any of Beauty Bar's luxury products anytime soon…

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(n.) one who neglects his or her personal hygiene and appearance purposefully. That guy is such a narkseth! He needs to buy shoes and start wearing socks!!! af Smaje Ning 24. maj 2007 Skriv din email-adresse nedenunder for at få Dagens Urban Ord gratis hver morgen! Emails sendes fra [email protected]. Vi lover ikke at spamme dig.×

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