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After forming O Ecotextiles in 2004, they began a world-wide search for manufacturing partners interested in a cradle-to-cradle process of creating no-impact, perfectly safe, incredibly luxurious fabrics.
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CBS Sports To Televise Navy-Notre Dame Game In Prime Time
ANNAPOLIS, Md.—CBS Sports announced today that the Navy-Notre Dame game will be televised nationally to a prime time audience with a scheduled 8 PM kickoff at FedExField in Landover, Md.
This is believed to be the first time a Navy football game has been televised live in prime time on an over-the-air network (ABC, NBC or CBS) and it is also believed to be the first night game in the 87-game history of the longest continuous intersectional rivalry in the country.
CBS will televise the Florida-Georgia game at 3:30 PM to serve as a lead-in to the Navy-Notre Dame game.
Last year, Notre Dame hung on for a 38-34 victory over Navy when the Irish stopped the Mids on a fourth-and-four play deep inside Notre Dame's territory with 68 seconds remaining.
Tickets remain for the Navy-Notre Dame game as well as Navy-Ohio State and all five games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Click here to buy tickets online: http://www.navysports.com/

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My latest article entitled "How to Attend a Genealogy Webinar" has been posted at Archives.com. This is one of many articles you'll find as part of the Learn from Experts series at Archives.com – check it out and you will see some familiar faces among the genealogy blogging crowd!
The most recent article discusses not only how to select the best genealogy webinar to meet your educational needs and skill level, but also provides some "best practices" on creating the proper learning environment. One of my tips: reboot your computer 15 minutes before you log in to a webinar – this will help free up memory and ensure a better connection to the webinar.
Visit the Articles page here at High-Definition Genealogy for my other recent and past articles on genealogy.
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To save on TV, Internet, and phone bills, many people get all three services from the same company. Those "triple plays" get you steep discounts, but only for a limited time. Then bills often shoot up. But Consumer Reports says there are ways to save.
Consumer Reports' annual survey of subscribers shows 44 percent of those who bargained got up to $50 a month off their bill, and 7 percent got an even bigger discount.
If you use your cell phone more than your home phone, some companies are letting you make a triple play with your cell phone instead of a landline. And if you want to keep both, several major providers are offering "quad plays" that let you add your cell-phone service, too.
So don't stick with the plan you've always had. Explore new options. Your situation changes, and you might be paying for services you don't even use all that much.
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HTC's Sense Android skin is one of the best out there, and now some of its features are set to make their way over to other Android phones.
The Taiwanese manufacturer has set up a new business unit, HTC Creative Labs, to develop apps for Android phones – and its first creation is Zoe, a video creation app that's available as part of its suite of features on the HTC One (M8).
READ MORE: Smartphone supertest: Samsung Galaxy S5 vs HTC One (M8) vs Sony Xperia Z2 vs LG G3
Zoe lets you select a compilation of up to 16 video clips and still images; pick a theme and music track, and it'll spit out a 30-second highlight video. It's no iMovie; editing options are limited to picking which clips top and tail your video, and you can't select what order your clips appear in.
Naturally, HTC has designs on the space filled by Vine and Instagram – it envisions Zoe as a social network built around shared media. You'll be able to let other users edit and remix your Zoe clips, adding new pics and videos.
Part of the rationale for setting up the HTC Creative Labs group is that stock Android has become more user-friendly; there's less need for manufacturers to add software on top to differentiate their product. "Android doesn't need as much fixing anymore, to be honest," Drew Bamford, head of HTC's user interface team, tells recode.net.
There's no word yet on what the HTC Creative Labs group will be bringing to the wider Android world next, but we'd cast our vote for BlinkFeed, the much-loved rolling news-and-social-posts service that most HTC users can't live without.
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It Was a Weekend
Friday I went to Nashville to Vanderbilt Hospital for a regular port flush. All normal there, except that I hate walking into the registration room at the cancer clinic and seeing a room full of very, very sick people. Fully knowing that I was once one of them and could be again. Puts a damper on my day every time.
After all my talk of rain last week, we did finally see some blue skies. Beautiful!
Friday afternoon I got word that my dad was being admitted to the hospital for observation because he'd had a small stroke. A stroke! Now maybe Becky had cancer at 29; maybe my brother had major colon surgery in his mid-twenties; maybe I had/have cancer at 35; maybe Elizabeth had a preemie baby and knee surgery that required breaking her shin and a 9-12 month recovery. Clearly, the Hale children have issues. But my parents? They're not allowed to be sick. So a 5-bypass heart surgery this spring plus this small stroke makes it feels like my world is crumbling a little.
I am super, super thankful that there do not seem to be lingering effects from the stroke. Mom and dad spent the weekend at the hospital, but came home last night, and they're back to work this morning. Very grateful for that. The reason for the stroke and how much we need to be worried about a recurrence is still to be determined.
But I'd be lying if I didn't admit that Saturday I felt like crawling into a deep dark hole and hiding instead of choosing to recite Psalm 46 over and over in my head. It's all okay. Bad things happen sometimes, but it's all going to be okay. The battle between fear and choosing to trust rages in my head and in my heart. It's hard work. Maybe that choice should come easily, but it just doesn't.
Speaking of bad things, Rory spent most of her weekend looking for this overdue library book. Instead of shouts of joy when she finally found it, she cried. So, so typical. And, ummm, of course, I took a picture!
We took a trip to the farmer's market Saturday. Since we've been growing a few of our own vegetables, we haven't visited as often this summer. We came away with corn, purple hull peas (which only Brian likes), a cantaloupe, and farm eggs.
And our own garden? This is how many tomatoes we picked just on Saturday. And this doesn't count the entire bucket of green beans (which are already cooked and waiting to be eaten in my fridge) and the bucket of banana peppers. I don't even like banana peppers!


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May 9, 2013
Barbara Mikulski is worried. The powerful Democratic U.S. senator from Baltimore has seen a lot of big government programs go sour because the funding dried up before they were finished, and now that she is chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, she says she is afraid it is about to happen to the whole U.S. space program.
"We're going to get to the end of the day with a fiscal quagmire, unresolved, with the space agency and DOD [Defense Department] and other agencies underestimating what it's going to take, and then we end up with programs that falter or sputter," she says. "NASA's mission faltering or sputtering really can blow the whole program."
The source of Mikulski's fiscal- quagmire nightmare is sequestration, the automatic across-the-board federal-spending cuts that Congress set up to force itself to reduce rationally. She and Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on her subcommittee, will tell anyone who will listen that it is time to return to "regular order," which means federal funds will be allocated, authorized and appropriated like they were before sequestration. The senators represent states with major NASA field centers—Goddard and Marshall, respectively—and the regular order would make it a lot simpler to continue nurturing the high-dollar programs that mean jobs and business for their constituents.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says the agency has been able to keep its major programs on schedule under sequestration this year without furloughing employees by holding down costs whenever possible. The agency drafted its $17.7 billion budget request for fiscal 2014 on the assumption that Congress and the White House would be able to figure out a better way to handle budget cuts.
Mikulski and Shelby consider that budget request inadequate, particularly in the funding for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) that is intended to take humans beyond low Earth orbit. NASA wants $820 million to keep at least two competitors in the running for a commercial route to the International Space Station, but many lawmakers would like to see $300 million of that transferred into the $1.385 billion SLS request for fiscal 2014.
At Marshall Space Flight Center, work on the big new rocket appears to be going well. Preliminary design review is scheduled to begin June 17, and managers do not see any show-stoppers. A lot of the hardware has been repurposed from other flight vehicles, and getting to this point has had more to do with making the components work together in new configurations rather than the time-consuming detail work of developing new engines.
For example, the first four SLS flights will use surplus RD-25D space shuttle main engines, four at a time. The engines flew three at a time on much shorter vehicles than the towering SLS, which also will accelerate faster off the pad. That will create inlet pressures on the order of 300 psi, a higher level than the RD-25D can accommodate with only minor modifications, according to SLS chief engineer Garry Lyles. But the test stands at Stennis Space Center can only deliver 260 psi at the inlets, so the engines will be throttled back on the initial flights to hold the inlet pressures at 260 psi, Lyles says. The test facilities will be uprated when the follow-on RD-25Es come on line, he says.
Meanwhile, at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans crews have removed the cells where large sections of foam were applied to shuttle external tanks, making way for the Vertical Assembly Facility that will house the largest friction stir-welding machine ever built, to join SLS tank and dome assemblies once the final design is set.
There is a whole shelf-full of studies, going back decades, that conclude the best way to move humans beyond low Earth orbit is with a heavy-lifter like the SLS. Alternate methods—smaller launchers and in-space refueling depots, for example—fly in the face of the lessons learned with the dangerous and time-consuming process of building the ISS in orbit, and would require new technologies that will cost even more money and time. Instead, NASA has decided it wants $105 million in new funding to begin work on an asteroid-capture mission that would give a focus for near-term human exploration beyond low Earth orbit (AW&ST April 29, p. 36).
Mikulski is right. "Faltering and sputtering" now could indeed "blow the whole program." Congress already has shielded air traffic control from sequestration. Is the U.S. space program any less important than on-time arrivals for air travelers?


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FOR everyone who had a chance to watch Moscow TV in the month prior to the election, it was easy to predict the loser: Yegor Gaidar and Russia's Choice. It was not so easy to predict the winner.
Russia's Choice, whose leaders were mostly a part of the Yeltsin government, was under attack from all the other parties - not only the communists of Gennadi Zyuganov and the nationalists of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, but also the reform economist, Grigory Yavlinski, and the pro-Solzhenitsyn Democratic Party of Russia. The real target of the attacks was not Mr. Gaidar but President Boris Yeltsin himself.
Mr. Yeltsin's policies were defended only by Gaidar and the other representatives of Russia's Choice, and very poorly at that. Gaidar, as Yeltsin's proxy in the election, was not only extremely boring but arrogant in his TV appearances. This arrogance was manifested in his remarks that he and his colleagues were too busy with government work, so they did not have time to answer the accusations of the opposition. Underlying the impression of arrogance was the image, repeatedly shown by the opposition on TV, of the shelling of the Russian parliament by Yeltsin's tanks.
So it came as no great surprise to those who were able to watch Russian TV that Russia's Choice lost the election. What did come as a surprise was the extent of Mr. Zhirinovsky's victory.
But, to do credit to Zhirinovsky, it is necessary to emphasize that his appearances were the most interesting of all the candidates'. He was the best speaker. He entertained the audience instead of speaking like a professor. In some respects, he seemed more like a Western politician than any of the other candidates. Probably he lost himself a few million votes with his racist remarks, such as his call for blond, blue-eyed speakers on TV, which only alienated the non-blonds and the non-blue-eyed without adding anything to the readiness of the nationalists to vote for him.
In spite of some improvements in the position of Russia's Choice after counting the votes for individual deputies, the Dec. 12 elections are still a terrible defeat for Yeltsin. To be sure, he concentrated on putting all of his authority behind the project of the new Constitution. However, the Constitution only barely passed. Zhirinovsky also strongly supported the new Constitution and told his supporters to vote for it. Without their votes, the Constitution would probably have failed; its opponents included not only the communists, but moderate-reformist blocs such as Mr. Yavlinski and Nikolai Travkin.
Zhirinovsky supported the Constitution, not because he supported Yeltsin, but because he had it in mind to replace Yeltsin and become president, with all the powers that the new Constitution gives the office.
The world press, including the democratic press in Russia, has concluded that a huge portion of the Russian people have rejected freedom and democracy in their first free choice and have instead chosen slavery and imperialism. This, however, is a misreading of the situation.
There are two main reasons for the heavy vote for Zhirinovsky and Mr. Zyuganov, that is, for the ultra-nationalists and communists.
First, the country is experiencing an economic disaster that makes even the Brezhnev era look like a period of plenty. Over the last three years, industrial production has dropped 40 percent. The monthly inflation rate has exceeded 20 percent. Overnight, a low-level but very secure existence for millions of people turned into a world of desperate insecurity: more beggars, criminals, rackets, prostitution, and homelessness, while a few dozen people became millionaires sporting BMWs and Porsches.
No matter what one thinks of economic ``shock therapy,'' the ordinary citizen saw no improvement. Just the opposite. Someone can sincerely support the goal of a free-market economy and at the same time doubt that rapid reform can lead a socialist economy to change quickly into a normal free-market economy. We have to keep in mind that, as yet, there is no precedent for a successful transformation of a former socialist economy into a normal free-market economy. We also have to keep in mind that a socialist economy could be and was built from above, but a free-market economy cannot be. In Eastern Europe there is an adage: ``It is easy to transform an aquarium into fish soup, but it is much more complicated to reverse the process.'' When Russian workers voted against the Yeltsin-Gaidar shock therapy, it was not because they liked slavery. Freedom from hunger is also a very important freedom.
Second, the disintegration of the Union of Soviet nations helped fuel the Zhirinovsky and communist vote. This compounded the economic disaster. It divided people from friends and even family. In this respect, the ex-Soviet situation has much in common with the situation in the former Yugoslavia. To travel by car or train from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad, it is necessary to pass through two independent states, Belarus and Lithuania. Yet these are at least relatively calm areas. Far more serious is the situation for travel to the new states along the southern frontiers of the Russian Federation, where there are already widespread Yugoslav-style conflicts.
In addition to his vote within the Russian Federation, Zhirinovsky probably had the support of most of the 25 million ethnic Russians who find themselves minorities in the new states. The 2 million who have fled back to within the shrunken borders of Russia were already a strong source of support for him. In most of the new states, the same old nomenklatura remains in power, having only exchanged its communism for nationalism.
IT was a comic aspect of the electoral campaign that nearly all the parties accused one another of being communists or Bolsheviks. ``Today you can find communists only in the Kremlin,'' declared the movie producer Govorukin, one of the leaders of the pro-Solzenitsyn Democratic Party of Russia. ``Who but communists would be capable of bombarding the parliament with artillery?''
Probably the best explanation for the current tragic situation in the former Soviet Union appeared in the pro-Yeltsin weekly, Novoe Vremya (New Times). In a September 1993 issue of this weekly, an article by a former Georgian dissident Tengiz Gudava appeared under the title, ``The Union Which We Lost.''
``My Father is Georgian and my mother Russian,'' Gudava says. ``I was born and raised in Georgia. I studied in Moscow. I was imprisoned in a KGB prison in Tbilisi. And I was a prisoner in the Perm prison camps.... In the USSR I was labeled `anti-Soviet.' In the West they called me a `Soviet dissident.'... In short, I am a real `Soviet man.' As Gorbachev once stated, there were between 50 million and 60 million people born of such ethnically mixed marriages in the USSR. This means we constitute a nation much bigger than many of the independent states. Why should we not proclaim our sovereignty?''
Further, Gudava writes: ``The Soviet Union wasn't an empire. It was fiefdom of the communist mafia, which almost remained unharmed by the breakup, unlike the Soviet Union itself.... The division into separate states with a still-living communist system is the best recipe for civil war.... Vladimir Bukovsky was absolutely correct when he said that nationalism is not the enemy of communism but its supporter, because it prevents the unification of democratic forces.... The Soviet Union really was an evil society, but not because different nations lived together in it, but because they were under an evil power.''
Gudava's article describes well why the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia disintegrated. It also explains why so many Russians voted for parties that promised the reunification of the Soviet Union. Zyuganov's communists, however, were crippled because they are attempting the hopeless task of reuniting the Soviet Union on the basis of a dead ideology. Zhirinovsky, too, cannot possibly unify the peoples, and can only bring on a Yugoslav-type civil war, thanks to his idea of unification on a basis of Russian nationalism. However, this is enough to give him a crude appeal within Russia itself. Yeltsin, who had to destroy the Soviet Union in order to get rid of Gorbachev and come to power himself, was until now reluctant to talk about reunification and so indirectly supports the nationalism of the local former communists in the outlying areas.
No one voluntarily chooses slavery. When people vote for communists or Nazis, this only means that they see no other real choice. Unfortunately ``Russia's Choice'' was not such a choice. Zhirinovsky is like a shadow of the present government, which follows in its wake.
The Western world is in an extremely difficult situation. To embrace Yeltsin, without real financial or other practical support, may actually promote Zhirinovsky's rise. This could bring a civil war in the former Soviet Union ten times larger than in the former Yugoslavia - and a hundred times more dangerous because of nuclear weapons. We may need to avert a World War III. The Opinion/Essay Page welcomes manuscripts. Authors of articles we accept will be notified by telephone. Authors of articles not accepted will be notified by postcard. Send manuscripts to Opinions/Essays, One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115, by fax to 617 -450-2317, or by Internet E-mail to email@example.com.


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(Reuters) - Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc's patent trove.
AOL said it was selling more than 800 patents related to advertising, search, e-commerce and mobile to Redmond, Wash-based company, surprising investors with the size of the deal and sending AOL shares up more than 40 percent.
The sale includes technology rights from AOL's current and former businesses, ranging from Netscape, ICQ and MapQuest to CompuServe, Advertising.com and others, according to a source close to the matter.
The sale process, which AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong described as a "full-blown dynamic auction," started last fall after board approval.
Armstrong said he made a call to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer alerting him of the decision to sell the patents.
The auction included e-commerce companies Amazon and eBay, both of which have been largely absent from the recent patent wars, as well as Google and Facebook, according to the source.
Spokesmen for Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon were not immediately available for comment.
A final buyer was selected late on April 5, Armstrong said.
Technology companies in recent years have sparked a frenzy for patents, bidding up prices in a defensive move to keep competitors at bay.
The AOL deal is one of the larger patent auctions in recent times, representing roughly $1.3 million per issued patent, according to the source.
That compares with the bankrupt Nortel Networks patent auction last year — considered a blowout $4.5 billion sale of its 6,000 patents — for roughly $1.05 million per issued patent, the source said.
The Nortel deal sparked a wave of patent sales and litigation and played a part in AOL's decision to launch a patent auction.
Google is in the process of buying Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion mainly for its intellectual property. Google also acted as the stalking-horse bid for Nortel Networks' wireless patents.
Microsoft was part of the group led by Apple Inc that won the Nortel patents.
Yahoo has launched a lawsuit against rival Facebook for patent infringement involving advertising.
AOL and Microsoft are no strangers to partnerships. Last year the two companies along with Yahoo formed an advertising alliance.
Microsoft's latest move with AOL proves it is keen on shoring up its patent portfolio.
"Investors had anticipated little to no value for the portfolio - a few hundred million at the most," said Clayton Moran, an analyst with Benchmark.
AOL said a "significant portion" of the proceeds would be passed on to its shareholders.
As part of the deal, AOL will continue to hold more than 300 patents related to key strategic areas for the company, including advertising, search, and social media, and will receive a license to the patents being sold to Microsoft. Also, Microsoft will be granted a non-exclusive license to the patents AOL retains.
"We think this move is a big win for AOL in both the speed at which the sale was made and the actual amount it received," wrote Anthony DiClemente, an analyst with Barclays Research.
AOL shares soared $7.87 to $26.29 in afternoon trade.
One of the pioneering companies during the early days of the Internet, AOL was known for e-mail and dial-up access services. It has been trying to reshape itself into a media and entertainment powerhouse dependent on advertising revenue.
Activist shareholder Starboard Value LP had pressed AOL management to pursue a patent auction, arguing the portfolio could produce more than $1 billion in licensing income if properly monetized.
The deal, expected to be completed by the end of 2012, includes the sale of an AOL unit, on which AOL expects to record a capital loss for tax purposes.
AOL said it expected to use about $40 million of its existing deferred tax assets — 20 percent of its total — to offset any ordinary income taxes resulting from the licensing of its remaining patent portfolio.
Evercore Partners and Goldman Sachs acted as financial advisers to AOL. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner acted as legal counsel. Covington and Burling LLP offered legal advice to Microsoft.
If the deal falls through, Microsoft may pay AOL a termination fee of $211.2 million, AOL said in a regulatory filing.
Additional reporting by Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore and Greg Roumeliotis in New York; Editing by Supriya Kurane and John Wallace


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'Jellies Family' is a line of plates, trays, glasses, bowls and carafes made of brilliant coloured and transparent PMMA designed by Patricia Urquiola, part of a designer series of tableware for Kartell known as Kartell in Tavola.
"The particularity of the line lies in the fact that each plate model has a different pattern of clear naturalistic inspiration" says Kartell. "The transparent, subtle and delicate colours combine easily and can result in a variegated table of creative and original inspiration – just, in any case, like the style of the Spanish designer. The mixing and matching of plates and colours create an original but discreet impression, a blending of the creative and the sophisticated.
Says Patricia Urquiola, "Jellies is a three-dimensional coloured world for the table. Plates 'not plates', glasses and pitchers with bubbles. The touch and sight bring cut crystal to mind. Generous decorations. They live outdoors and play with light refractions. They're not afraid of rain or tumbles. They live equally well inside with all the same or with a mix of colours."


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The Lindenwood University Theatre Program will present the satire "Comic Potential" as part of its Studio Series at 7:30 p.m. on April 23, 24, and 25 in the university's Emerson Black Box Theater.
Tickets cost $10 and are available at the Lindenwood Box Office (636-949-4433) and online at www.lindenwood.edu/center. The box office and the Emerson Black Box Theater are located in the university's J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, at 2300 W. Clay Street, in St. Charles.
The cast includes James Krawczyk, Nicole Ogden, Jason Puff, Sarah Porter, Lindsay Bartlett, Tasha Zebrowski, Alex Cooper, Stephen J. Heffernan, Megan Jones, Brian Kappler, Jenni Passig, Parth Patel, Kimi Wibbenmeyer and Ryan Wood. The director is Marsha Parker, Lindenwood's dean of fine and performing arts.
A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, "Comic Potential," by Alan Ayckbourn, begins in a television studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped. One actor starts speaking gibberish; he is an "actoid," a robot, and his programming is off kilter.
Adam, the young nephew of the producer and an aspiring writer, is on the set and starts chatting with Jacie Tripplethree, the actoid (serial number JCF31333) playing the nurse. He finds, to his surprise, that not only can she carry on a conversation but, due to what she calls a fault in her programming, she has a creative imagination.
Adam wants to build a new television series around her but the studio will not hear of it. He also finds he is falling in love with the charming robot.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Potential Link Between Celiac Disease And Cognitive Decline Discovered By Mayo Clinic
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What's interesting is someone once told me they did this study of kids and breakfast, which was an obesity-based study which I despise but the findings were that, kids who ate breakfast were less likely to be obese than kids who did not eat breakfast. And then, of the kids who ate breakfast, those who had protein were least likely to be obese; those who had oatmeal, or other such grain, were next, with kids who ate sugar cereals (most often wheat and corn) the most likely to be obese of the breakfast eating group.
Incidentally, Karl Lagerfeld was quoted in Time Magazine this week as saying we should pay less attention to skinny models because they are naturally thin and pay more attention to the growing obesity problem in France - and what I say to Karl is - isn't the media's constantly telling us how impossibly thin we should be one of the sources causing our psychological obesity? Sorry to be so morbid and obese-minded today....it must have been dumb Karl's comment this morning that set me off. I am just tired of thin people blaming fat people for being fat. Read something I like on it and scroll down to "Have we always made this connection between being thin and being healthy?" link: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/19235/


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Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a Security Deed given by Michael Mosley to Bank of America, N.A., dated March 18, 2008, recorded in Deed Book 443, Page 70, Appling County, Georgia Records, as last transferred to M&T Bank by assignment recorded in Deed Book 484, Page 747, Appling County, Georgia Records, conveying the after-described property to secure a Note in the original principal amount of NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND 0/100 DOLLARS ($94,500.00), with interest thereon as set forth therein, there will be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door of Appling County, Georgia within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in December, 2012, the following described property: SEE EXHIBIT "A" ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF
The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in Security Deed and by law, including attorney?s fees (notice of intent to collect attorney?s fees having been given). Said property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.
M&T Bank is the holder of the Note and Security Deed to the property in accordance with OCGA § 44-14-162.2. The entity that has full authority to negotiate, amend, and modify all terms of the mortgage with the debtor is: M&T Bank, P.O. Box 1288, Buffalo, NY 14240, 800-724-1633.
To the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party in possession of the property is Michael P. Mosley or a tenant or tenants and said property is more commonly known as 282 Ricardo Street, Baxley, Georgia 31513. The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the security deed. This law firm is seeking solely to foreclose the creditor?s lien on real estate and this law firm will not be seeking a personal money judgment against you.
M&T Bank as Attorney in Fact for Michael Mosley
McCalla Raymer, LLC
1544 Old Alabama Road
Roswell, Georgia 30076
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EXHIBIT "A" All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot No. 284 of the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, consisting of 0.436 acre, more or less, being Lot 107 and the Western half of Lot 106, Block 6, Weatherly Park Subdivision, and being more particularly describe as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection of the Northern right-of-way of Ricardo Street with the Eastern right-of-way of Cypress Drive; thence North 00 degrees 11 minutes 20 seconds West along and with the Eastern right-of-way of Cypress Drive 144.65 feet to a point; thence North 89 degrees 56 minutes East a distance of 131.1 feet to a point; thence South 00 degrees 11 minutes 20 seconds East a distance of 145.09 feet to a point on the Northern right-of-way of Ricardo Street; thence along and with the Northern right-of-way of Ricardo Street North 89 degrees 52 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 131.10 feet to the point of beginning. For a more particular description reference is hereby made to a survey and plat thereof prepared by Denean W. Dixon, G.R.L.S. No. 1647, dated December 28, 1996, recorded in Plat Book 14, page 209, of the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia, and incorporated herein for a more full and complete description and all other legal purposes. This being the same identical property conveyed from Kelvin Skinner, et. al. to Lana L. Morris by deed dated January 28, 1997, recorded in Deed Book 299, Page 446 of the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia. Less and except: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot No. 284 of the Second Land District of Appling County, Georgia, conveyed from Lana L. Morris to the City of Baxley, Georgia, by Right of Way Deed dated May 3, 2002, recorded in Deed Book 366, Page 470, of the records of the Clerk of Superior Court of Appling County, Georgia.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State has lost an alumnus whose leadership and philanthropy have helped the University to become a pioneer in the life sciences. J. Lloyd Huck, the retired chairman of the board of pharmaceutical firm Merck & Company and a former chairman of Penn State's Board of Trustees, died in State College, Pa., this week at the age of 90. With his wife and fellow Class of 1943 member Dorothy Foehr Huck, he established endowments in fields ranging from molecular biology to nutrition, leading to the creation of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
"Few institutions are fortunate enough to have such visionary advocates as Lloyd and Dottie Huck," said Penn State President Rodney Erickson. "Through Lloyd's decades of service to the University, he guided Penn State on an ambitious path, and through the Hucks' philanthropy, they have enabled our students and faculty to fulfill that ambition. Lloyd's belief in the potential of the life sciences to transform our world and in the potential of Penn State to be a leader in the field will continue to inspire our students and faculty for many years to come."
Lloyd Huck, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., interrupted his studies at Penn State to serve in World War II, and he completed his degree in 1946 as the only chemistry major in his class. After an early career as a research chemist with Hoffmann-La Roche, he rose through the ranks at Merck from a marketing manager post in Omaha, Neb., to become the company's president and chairman of the board. The Hucks remained closely connected to their alma mater, taking on a wide range of volunteer roles. Lloyd chaired the Board of Trustees from 1988 to 1990, and he also served as president of the Penn State Alumni Association from 1975 to 1977.
Lloyd Huck was among the first to recognize the increasingly important role that philanthropy would play in public higher education, and he led one of the University's earliest private fundraising efforts in the 1980s to secure support for the Wartik Building, a facility dedicated to the life sciences. He was a member of the steering committee for the Grand Destiny campaign and a fundraising chair for Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
The Hucks also have led by example with their own philanthropy to Penn State. Their gifts and estate plans have benefited programs and projects across the University, including the Eberly College of Science, the College of Health and Human Development, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the Smeal College of Business, and University Libraries. The Hucks have been leading supporters of the Life Sciences Building, the Business Building and the Henderson Building projects at University Park and the Biotech Institute and Cancer Institute at Penn State Hershey.
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, an interdisciplinary consortium of faculty, students, and programs in seven Penn State colleges and schools, were named in their honor in 2002, the same year that they were recognized as the University's Philanthropists of the Year. The Huck Life Sciences Building, named in 2012, celebrates their continuing commitment to the University. Lloyd received the Distinguished Alumnus award, the highest honor offered by Penn State to its graduates, in 1993.
"Lloyd never lost his passion for learning or his passion for Penn State," said Rodney P. Kirsch, senior vice president for development and alumni relations. "When the Hucks retired to State College, his tremendous curiosity led him to take several science courses at the University to learn more about the interdisciplinary nature of research, particularly in biomedicine. He was a man of great intellect and was universally respected by all who came to know him. Yet he was modest about the enormous impact he had on Penn State's advancement."
Lloyd is survived by his wife, Dottie; son Lloyd E. Huck; daughter Jeanne Leslie-Hughes; daughter Virginia Stalcup and her husband, Steven Stalcup; four grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. A visitation will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22, at the Koch Funeral Home in State College. Memorial contributions can be made to the Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 116 Old Main, University Park, PA, 16802.
To read a remembrance of Huck released by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, visit http://live.psu.edu/story/63124.


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I am getting a problem when scrolling through long post lists where the grid lines get corrupted and display over the text.
Hopefully the screenshot shows what I mean:
This makes the text very difficult to read!
Is it possible to turn off the display of grid lines in the post list?


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I've never really gotten along with git. Its feature set is good, but its usability is horrible. Mercurial on the other hand has roughly the same features, but is much more enjoyable to use, which is why it is my version control system of choice.
However, in recent years Github's popularity has exploded. So, how to get my code onto Github without using git?
Firstly, there's the hggit mercurial extension that allows you to push to a git repository. Install it and add these lines to .hgrc:
Then you need to create a bookmark for hggit to use as the basis for the master git head:
And now you can just push:
So where does Perl come into it? Well, I want to automate the creation of the Github repository, and setting up the bookmark. Here's my script to do that...
One interesting part of the script is the PithubX::Base package which acts as a monkey-patch for Pithub::Base, swapping out the OAuth authentication for HTTP basic auth because that seemed easier than figuring out how to get an OAuth authentication token.
I've saved that as github-mirror. But so that I don't have to remember to run it, I've also added it as a hook in my .hgrc so that whenever I push changes to my mercurial repo, github-mirror runs too:
perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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You know what seems pretty amazing to me?
What's amazing to me is that I can have a conversation with someone about how much they love comic books, or action figures, or LEGO, or animated movies for children, and agree that these things are indeed awesome and fun. Also agreed is that anyone who claims that adult people shouldn't be reading/playing with/watching these things (like Serious Adult Dudes Who Write for Esquire) should really just relax about what people find enjoyable, and maybe not shit on them all the time.
I have those conversations all the time. But they go differently when I say (in the same spirit) that a lot of my favorite science fiction and fantasy books are YA fiction. Somehow, YA fiction is exempt from the rule of Awesomeness Not Being Tied to Target Audience.
Why is that?
You know what I read when I was growing up? A lot of stuff that was not only above my grade's reading level, but also intended for adult readers. I read things like Piers Anthony's Xanth novels, from A Spell for Chameleon to Demons Don't Dream (yes, it took me that long to realize that these books were basically formulaic crap with panty-fetish and creepy sexism, because I started reading them when I was ten years old and stopped when I was thirteen). I read things like Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels, which are also formulaic but substitute fairly straightforward sexism, self-indulgent author cameos and vintage automobiles for panty-fetish. I read Dirk Francis' mystery novels, because hey – horses! And mysteries! Some of those I'll even pick up for a re-read (my favorite is The Edge). I read almost all of Robert A. Heinlein's books – some of which I still treasure, but a lot that I'll never re-visit. Same with Isaac Asimov – I love his short stories. I don't think I'll read any of his novels again. I read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which is hefty for a twelve-year-old (I was hooked by The Hobbit - which is YA fantasy).
I read all of this, as well as a lot of books that were intended for people my age.
Now that I'm older, I find myself uninterested in many established and newly-written books that are written for adults. Part of this is idiosyncratic – I like what I like, a good book is a good book, and I'm past the point of forcing myself to read something just because it's been widely-praised, or is supposed to be a must-read for a particular genre. I know that I won't live long enough to read everything that I want to read, so why waste time on things I end up not wanting to read?
What's wrong with YA fiction, and YA science fiction and fantasy in particular (which is primarily my interest)? Here are some justifications for the blanket dismissal of YA that I've heard personally.
YA is full of Teen Angst.
Well, no. It isn't, unless your definition of Teen Angst is so broad that it includes "young people with feelings," which seems a little unfair. Children and teenagers are allowed to have feelings, too. And yes, it's sometimes frustrating for adults to relate to them because they have yet to gain the life experience to manage their feelings the way adults do, or to put those feelings in a broader perspective. But children and teenagers also deal with real problems, and they're allowed to have opinions and emotions about those problems. And since problems are conflict, you're going to see a lot of young people dealing with problems in YA fiction. Funny, that. This brings me to the next justification:
YA doesn't deal with real, adult problems.
Actually a lot of it does. Because some of the problems you have when you're a kid are directly related to the problems you have when you're an adult. There are some things that are too big to be relegated to a single age bracket. Death is one of those things – it's not a "kid problem," and if you think that most kids aren't faced with death at some point in their developing years, I have to conclude that you lived a most fortunate and sheltered childhood.
The ending of relationships is another problem that isn't specific to kids. And a relationship doesn't have to be romantic in nature for it to cause strong emotions when it ends, nor does the relationship have to be a healthy one, or a benevolent one. Change is hard, and even when that change is necessary, that doesn't always make it easier.
Bullying is not specific to kids, although it's a common belief that this is so. As bullying behavior is being more commonly correctly identified in our society, it becomes more and more apparent that adults face problems of bullying as well. In fact, at my place of work, bullying behavior is explicitly identified as a form of workplace violence. If you make your co-workers afraid to come to work, or make them feel as though they are unsafe when they work with you, then you are a bully. It doesn't matter how old you are.
There are, of course, a lot of other issues that are dealt with in YA novels – I just picked a few of them as examples.
YA doesn't confront harsh realities – it pulls punches. It's not realistic.
Okay, what was I just talking about? These are harsh realities. These are brutal facts, being confronted by young readers. If you're going to quibble about the lack of "realism" in characters using magic wands or laser swords to help them confront these issues, then I have to ask – do you have these same qualms about "realism" in your adult SFF? If not, why is YA different?
And about "pulling punches" – I'd disagree very strongly that any kind of positive resolution to the problems in a YA novel constitute "pulling punches." I'd also disagree that you can always expect a happy ending from a YA novel. There's just as much variation in genre books that are targeted to young adults as there is variation in genre books that are targeted to adult adults.
YA is full of romance.
Some of it is. And it's that way because romance is a literary genre. YA romance is a literary sub-genre, and YA supernatural romance (thanks for making that A Thing, Twilight) is a literary sub-sub-genre (or whatever you would call it). Saying that YA is full of romance (as if that's automatically a Bad Thing) is like saying any non-romance genre is full of romance. Also, there's that whole people-having-relationships thing. Sometimes those relationships will be romantic. It happens. Because, as stated above, young people are also people.
Of course it's fine to have your own preferences regarding the kinds of romance you might find in a book, regardless of genre – but it's both inaccurate and lazy to handwave away an entire genre because romance.
So why all of the animosity toward or disinterest in YA SFF? That's what's really difficult for me to comprehend, especially when I'm discussing it with people who, in almost every other media, fully embrace things that are marketed to younger people. I don't see how someone could claim that they're not interested in every single work that falls under the large umbrella that is YA fiction, and at the same time decry other people who claim that they're not interested in science fiction, fantasy, or any other broad genre. Also, it behooves us to remember Sturgeon's Law:
90% of everything is crap.
If you're not interested in YA fiction because nothing you read while you were growing up stuck with you, or you feel like you've never read any YA that you've liked, then I've put together this helpful list of suggestions for you. Give them a try, or don't. Just think about it, the next time you walk past the YA section at the library or bookstore, or are tempted to dismiss someone's enthusiasm about a new book that they've read just because of where it happens to be shelved.
Dianna Wynne Jones
- The Dark Lord of Derkholm
- Year of the Griffin
- Deep Secrets
- The Merlin Conspiracy
- The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
- A Tale of Time City
Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- The Lightning Thief
- Sea of Monsters
- The Titan's Curse
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Last Olympian
Heroes of Olympus
- The Lost Hero
- Son of Neptune
- The Mark of Athena
- The House of Hades
- The Blood of Olympus (October 2014)
The Kane Chronicles
- The Red Pyramid
- The Throne of Fire
- The Serpent's Shadow
Tamora Pierce
Song of the Lioness
- The First Adventure
- In the Hand of the Goddess
- The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
- Lioness Rampant
The Immortals
- Wild Magic
- Wolf-Speaker
- Emperor Mage
- The Realms of the Gods
Protector of the Small
- First Test
- Page
- Squire
- Lady Knight
- Trickster's Choice
- Trickster's Queen
Provost's Dog
- Terrier
- Bloodhound
- Mastiff
Circle of Magic
- Sandry's Book/The Magic in the Weaving
- Tris's Book/The Power in the Storm
- Daja's Book/The Fire in the Forging
- Briar's Book/The Healing in the Vine
The Circle Opens
- Magic Steps
- Street Magic
- Cold Fire
- Shatterglass
Other Emelan
- The Will of the Empress
- Battle Magic
Garth Nix
The Old Kingdom
- Sabriel
- Lirael
- Abhorsen
- Shade's Children
Terry Pratchett
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Tiffany Aching series
- The Wee Free Men
- A Hat Full of Sky
- Wintersmith
- I Shall Wear Midnight
And these are not even a quarter of my bookshelves. I have plenty more suggestions, and hopefully more may show up in the comments sections.


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Friday, 31 October 2014
Halloween offer update....
It's Halloween, and we have a sale…
Morning all, it's Halloween today and we're having a fabulous 24 hour sale…
We have an amazing 25% off all our products on the website and in the shop today when you spend over £25…
it's our biggest ever saving so get your orders in, don't forget that some of our older stamps are retiring at the end of November so it's a great chance to stock up on any you may have missed first time around!
Please note that we will be very busy during this amazing sale… it is for 24 hours only (finishes at midnight) and is while stocks last. The discount will be applied to orders of Lili of the Valley products (stamps, art pads and paper pads) over £25 and no back orders will be taken. Please allow a few extra days for delivery and the usual postage charges on our paper pads apply, worldwide postage is free on the other products. The sale only applies to Lili of the Valley products and the £25 order threshold doesn't include postage costs
2014 saw our first limited run Seasonal stamps at Lili of the Valley, you've loved our cute Halloween and Bonfire images and although the Halloween one has sold out now I couldn't not share these cards again with you today for some inspiration!
Aren't they fabulous!
Leave a comment to be in the draw for todays candy, our winner from Wednesday is you Carol S, well done Carol please send your address to firstname.lastname@example.com
Have a lovely day all, make sure you stop by tomorrow when I'll be introducing our new Guest Designer, she's joined us before but you loved her work so much that we've asked her back!!
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Good afternoon bloggers, just a quick heads up to watch out
for a FRIGHTENINGLY good deal on our website from
You won't want to miss it, and if you're not up at midnight
then all the details will be in tomorrow's post!!
Sledging Fun…
Morning all, there's no Theme Thursday today as I have one last card to share with you from Anke who's been our lovely Guest Designer for October
Anke made this beautiful Christmas card and she's used a stamp from our 2014 collection, this cute image is called Sledging Fun
The wavy sentiment is on the Christmas Wishes stamp set and Anke used papers from our Festive Trimmings pad
Isn't it beautiful, I'd like to thank Anke for joining us this month and I'm sure you've all enjoyed seeing her lovely makes
You can see more details on her own blog and make sure you let me know what you think before you go and I'll draw a candy winner from the comments we get
Our winner from Tuesday is you Carole Pollard, well done Carole please email your address to email@example.com
Our October 'Anything Goes' challenge finishes tomorrow night so if you haven't entered already then visit our challenge page at the top of the blog for all the details
Have a lovely day all, see you tomorrow when I'll have news for you!!
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Feather Boa…
Hello lovely crafters, how are you all this morning?
I have another card to share today using one of the stamps that will be retiring at the end of November…
Gretha made this and the cute image is called Feather Boa
It's one of our older images, isn't she cute!
Gretha used the handy Journaling Tags too on her card, and papers from our popular Snow Princess pad
Hope you like it, let me know what you think and as always I'll draw a winner from the comments for our daily candy
Our winner from Monday is ribenaruby, congratulations to you, please email your address to firstname.lastname@example.com
See you tomorrow everyone when I'll have our final card from Anke who has been our Guest Designer for October… enjoy your Wednesday!
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Little Acorn…
Morning crafters, I have a lovely journal page to share today made by Lou
This is one of the stamps that is retiring, I've always thought of this cute little bunny as a Spring image but as you can see here it's perfect for Autumn too…
I love this, Lou used a variety of our clear sentiment and element stamps too and you can see full details on her own blog
Let me know what you think, it's always nice to see our stamps used in other ways and I can always rely on our clever Lou to come up with something a little bit different!
Our candy winner from Sunday is you Sarah (fame01). Well done Sarah please email your address to email@example.com
See you tomorrow everyone, have a good day!
Monday, 27 October 2014
Retiring Stamps…
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Inktense Pencils…
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Saturday Sketch…
Morning crafters, it's a while since we've had a Sketch on a Saturday what with one thing and another so here's a new one for you to try, and a lovely matching card from Gretha…
Gretha used one of our 2014 Christmas stamps called Winter Walk on this lovely card with papers from Pastel Dreams
You can stick to the Sketch and them embellish as Gretha did here, or you can choose to move/rotate the elements. Remember they are simply to give you inspiration and you can move things around to suit yourself
You can see all our layouts on the Sketch page at the top of the blog
As always we have daily candy so don't forget to leave a comment. Our lucky winner from Thursday is CraftyChris, well done Chris please email your address to firstname.lastname@example.com and she'll send you out a little crafty prize!
Have a fab Saturday everyone, see you tomorrow
Friday, 24 October 2014
Baby Gift Box, and some news…
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Theme Thursday…
Morning crafters, how are you today?
It's Thursday again (blimey, where are these weeks going?) so it's time for another Theme Thursday and today I've chosen…
Love Balloon
We have some of the cutest stamps around in the love and romance category, some of them are being discontinued too so have a look at the retiring section on the website and don't miss out on them
Today I'm featuring different styles of card using the same stamp, this adorable image is called Love Balloon…
I love every one of these cards, our DT really enjoyed using this sweet couple
Lucy has some cards to share on facebook today using another one of our stamps so make sure you check that out too and see what she has chosen!
Let me know what you think of today's selection, a winner will be drawn from the comments for our daily candy Our Tuesday giveaway goes to Annette Reed, well done Annette please send your address to firstname.lastname@example.com
Have a great day everyone, see you tomorrow
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Times To Treasure…
Morning all, I have a beautiful card to share today using one of the stamps that will be retiring at the end of November
Gretha made this and the adorable stamp is called Times To Treasure…
The lovely sentiment is also included with this stamp, what fantastic value for £4.50!
The pretty papers are from Country Meadow
You can see all the stamps that are being discontinued on the website, there are some super cute ones and when they're gone they're gone!!
Leave me a comment to be in today's candy draw, our winner from Monday is Renae, well done Renae please email your address to email@example.com
See you tomorrow for Theme Thursday! Have a great day everyone


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So we all know that CFCA President and Co-founder Bob Hentzen is passing through 12 countries on an 8,000-mile walk called Walk2gether. Weíve had UnivisiÛn, Fox 4 KC and the Kansas City Star report on him.
What you may not have heard about is the fashion statement that CFCA is making in the process!
Many of the countries in which Bob is walking have made Walk2gether T-shirts for CFCA staff members, sponsored friends and their families to wear as badges of honor.
Enjoy the sample gallery slideshow that weíve created:
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Local companies and some CFCA livelihood projects have benefited from the design, manufacturing and distribution of these T-shirts.
One report in particular touched us: Benjamin Nestor, a sponsored youth in El Salvador who is in a wheelchair, created the Salvadoran T-shirtís design.
Henry Flores, director of the CFCA Communication Center in El Salvador, told us that Benjamin taught himself how to use Photoshop, a graphic design program.
ìA group of friends gave Benjamin the computer and he started to play with it,î Henry wrote. ìHe is awesome!î
Note: One of the benefits CFCA provides sponsored members is clothing. Many of them especially enjoy wearing their T-shirts designed with the CFCA and Walk2gether logos!


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We showed you the new Zeta-platformed Buick Park Avenue a little earlier today and we were pretty surprised at how non-Buick the styling is, and how plush and non-General the interior looks. Apparently the fervent fans of the General over at the GMInsideNews forums are feeling the same way. They're wondering why the world's biggest automaker doesn't offer said RWD vehicle stateside for the Wood-y brand, especially given what we've heard about the similarities between vehicular desires in the two markets. Here's what a few of them have to say:
"Every day that goes by, I become more and more embarrassed by GM's car offerings in the United States...I don't believe GM has the desire to sell something like this in the US. They couldn't do it with STS. They Certainly won't do it with Buick."
"Even if they wanted to bring that over here now they would say it is still 8 years away.. But its coming. Meanwhile we twirl in the wind as usual. GM you have got to give us product like this and faster!"
"Hey! I wonder if Rick and Bob have seen this car? The offerings here in the US sure don't indicate that!!!!!!!!!!"
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Windows Phone 7 has been out for about two years now. In that time I have switched back and forth with different free Twitter apps. Mostly the has been because someone has mentioned one or another that they like. I figured I would give a quick run down of what I felt were the pros and cons of each. These are only the ones that I have used and your mileage may vary. So here we go.
While it is great that Microsoft put this functionality in, it is extremely limited in usefulness. Some apps leverage it to allow you to share pictures or information they contain. In all though, I don't use it unless it is the quickest way to get something out.
The official Twitter app isn't a very big step up from the phone functionality. It gives you a better timeline view and better attachment handling, but it makes you bounce to a browser page to see images that are linked to a tweet.
This was my main Twitter app for quite a while. It is the only one with InstaPaper integration so that you can save you a tweet and review it later. My main problem is that it crashes too much when it can't find a connection. It also only previews yfrog and twitpic images and only once you go to the detail of a tweet. Other than that it is a solid Twitter client.
This is my current favorite. It has nice image display in your timeline which I have not seen on any of the other apps. There are two modes that you can use with this app. The first is standard to most Twitter apps that allows you to navigate to a tweet and do the usual operations. The second is what they call Quick Buttons. In this case you do not see the content of the tweet but go straight to the let's get something done stage. It is an interesting take. I do miss the Instapaper integration and it has a tendency to show a blank timeline list once in a while after you view detail entry. If you scroll the list it restore your timeline, but you lose you place and are put to the first entry.
I am not very fond of this app. The first thing is that it makes you pick a "Space" when you enter the app. This is really "which account do you want to see". On top of that it does not show who retweeted an entry in your timeline and then only tells you how many people RT the post when you look at the detail. There is a Speak feature that will read you a single tweet, but you have to navigate to the tweet and then to a menu to make it work. We will have to see if this gets better with the features in Windows Phone 8. Other than that it is another basic feature app.
In the end I am sticking with moTweets. I would appreciate it if they added the Instapaper capability and fixed the one bug. If they did that I would be really happy with the product.
@aphoria suggested that I missed Rowi in this review. When I started the review I didn't see a free version of Rowi in the marketplace which excluded it from this post. I guess I missed it somehow.
My initial thoughts on Rowi were that I absolutely hated it (bare with me here). It felt like way too many taps to get anything done. Tap the tweet to bring up a menu and then tap the view button. That still doesn't make sense to me, but I respect what they are trying to do. If you see a tweet that you want to reply to or RT the functionality is right there. My problem is that I generally don't blind RT. I want to explore the links first. My other complaint is that having images off to the right side doesn't work for me. They are too small to be useful. Put them below the text and bigger. I do like that once I go to view a tweet it is one button tap to send to Instapaper and RT a quote is supper quick from the list. I am going to try it for a while longer and see if I whether I stick with moTweets or move over to Rowi.
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Last night we had our first meeting in several months. Carl Franklin presented on Google Platform As A Service: AppEngine. As I spend most of my time in the Microsoft arena it was interesting to see another take on cloud services. This was also enhanced by the fact that Carl had spent a lot of time doing Microsoft platform development prior to his current stint with the Google products. He was able to compare and contrast the to environments which is very helpful as we go to make recommendations to our clients and sponsors.
We are hoping to get back on track with our meeting schedule going forward. As I get confirmation on upcoming topics I will post more. If you are interested in hearing more about a specific topic or have one you would like to present please let me know though the contact page of this blog. At the very least join us. Enjoy the topics and the conversation. You can also join our LinkedIn group to get more updates.
Windows Phone has a number of great capabilities built into it for developers. The Bing APIs allows you to easily give your application mapping functionality. You may just want to give users directions to a fixed location. What happens though when you want to give a user directions from their current location to an address that they are picking from application data? This article will cover just that scenario.
Since almost everything in Windows Phone development is asynchronous this can get a little tricky. You end up creating an event handler for a GeoCoordinateWatcher and follow that with a call to the Bing GeocodeService. You end up with a chain of events where you are following the bouncing ball, but this is the sequence that I have found works.
Let's take a closer look. In my example I am using a ListBox that is data bound to a ViewModel. I am using the selected item to index into the ViewModel's collection to pull back the address information.
First you are going to need to reference the System.Device namesapce.
You will also need to add a service reference to the Bing GeocodeService.
In the code file you will need to include the following using statements along with a using statement for your service reference.
using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;using Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps;using System.Device.Location;
Add the following global variable in to communicate between your events.
private GeoCoordinateWatcher watcher;private ItemViewModel itemModel;private GeoCoordinate location;
The first thing you need to do is put code into one of the ListBox events to grab the current location of the phone. This is done by creating a new GeoCoordinateWatcher and passing is a method to fire on completion.
watcher = new GeoCoordinateWatcher(GeoPositionAccuracy.Default);watcher.PositionChanged += new EventHandler<GeoPositionChangedEventArgs<GeoCoordinate>>(geoWatcherChanged);watcher.Start();
In the geoWatcherChanged method we will capture the get the resulting phone location and fire off a request to the GeocodeService. Before we do you will need an interpreter for the properties of the GeocodeRequest.Address. Of course my conversion is from an American perspective.
Now lets look at the code for this section. One thing to note is that you do need to get a Bing application key in order to use this call.
int index = this.myList.SelectedIndex;itemModel = App.ViewModel.Items[index];watcher.Stop();watcher.Dispose();watcher = null;location = e.Position.Location;GeoService.GeocodeServiceClient geoService = new GeocodeServiceClient("BasicHttpBinding_IGeocodeService");GeocodeRequest request = new GeocodeRequest();request.Credentials = new Credentials();request.Credentials.ApplicationId = "Your Bing Key";// Set the options to only return high confidence results FilterBase[] filters = new FilterBase[1];filters[0] = new ConfidenceFilter() { MinimumConfidence = Confidence.High };GeocodeOptions geocodeOptions = new GeocodeOptions();geocodeOptions.Filters = new ObservableCollection<FilterBase>(filters);request.Options = geocodeOptions;request.Address = new Address();request.Address.AddressLine = itemModel.Address;request.Address.Locality = itemModel.City;request.Address.AdminDistrict = itemModel.State;request.Address.PostalCode = itemModel.Zip;geoService.GeocodeCompleted += new EventHandler<GeocodeCompletedEventArgs>(geocodeService_GeocodeCompleted);geoService.GeocodeAsync(request);
The last step is to get the resulting location code and call the BingMapsDirectionsTask to launch the turn by turn directions. To do this we will use the geo code from both operation and label them so that it is easier for the user.
GeocodeResponse geocodeResponse = e.Result;if (geocodeResponse.Results.Count() > 0){ BingMapsDirectionsTask task = new BingMapsDirectionsTask(); LabeledMapLocation labeledMapLocation = new LabeledMapLocation(itemModel.CompanyName, geocodeResponse.Results[0].Locations[0]); task.Start = new LabeledMapLocation("You", location); task.End = labeledMapLocation; task.Show();}else{ MessageBox.Show("Could not find the destination address");}
Now we have an interactive set of direction based on your application data which make life easier for your users. Have fun.
Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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A self-contained, battery-powered vacuum lifter, the Anver Fork Lift Vacuum Attachment features a chassis that slides onto standard 26-in. forks for picking up loads from the top using up to 16 spring-assisted rubber suction pads. With the elimination of hooks, grabs and slings, the vacuum attachment is easy to attach and remove, and has built-in parking stands to protect the pads during storage.


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IFR robot statistics 2013
IFR Quarterly Statistics, and estimates that in 2013 about 168,000 industrial robots were sold, 5% more than in 2012. Robot sales to the Americas continued to increase due to necessary automation processes in the North American industry. Robot sales to Asia rose considerably due to strong demand from China, South Korea and other growing Asian markets. In the fourth quarter 2013, the start of recovery in the euro-zone pushed robot demand substantially. Due to the rather weak development in the first three quarters, robot sales in Europe stagnated in 2013.
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The Table Tennis Challenge 2014
On March 11th! Timo Boll, Germany's table tennis champion, currently ranked 8th in the world, will go up against a KUKA Agilus robot armed with special vision and software and a paddle. Check out the
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Director Michael Mann is eyeing Gold as his next directing vehicle with Paul Haggis onboard as a producing partner. Said to be in the vein of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the contemporary thriller centers on a search for, naturally, gold. Written on spec by Patrick Massett and John Zinman (TV's Friday Night Lights), Heat Vision reports that Haggis was initially looking towards directing the film himself before deciding his plate was too full. He then brought the script to Mann, who took quite a liking to it.
Mann and Haggis will produce the film alongside Michael Nozik, with Mann looking at it as a possible directing vehicle. The three plan on developing the package before going out to studios. While no actors are attached as of yet, Mann sent the script to Leonardo DiCaprio. Mann himself has quite a few projects on the horizon as well, including an adaptation of the Bernard Cornwell novel Agincourt which centers on the 15th century battle between the English and the French.


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Happy Thursday!
Today I am sharing my fall handbag for this year.
I picked it up from a Bebe Outlet this summer.
This bag was on clearance for only $66 but Bebe was having a sale to take an additional 50% off the lowest ticketed price. So I scored this handbag for only $33! I have only had it out for about 2 weeks now and have gotten a ton of compliments on it. It may be bright but it's also orange!
I tried to tone it down with a spare scarf I had lying around from Charlotte Russe.
I really do love Bebe handbags and now that I know I can find them on clearance at the outlets I'm hoping to own a few more.
I usually wear them for months and months and they really hold up to all my abuse.
I hope you enjoy this shot because in the process of taking this photo I dropped my camera on the concrete! Luckily I didn't break the touch skin but it is dented. :(
Don't forget to enter my giveaway for a Lorac Mega Pro 2 Palette. All you have to do is subscribe and comment on the video which you can find HERE
This will be my last post for the week as I am going away this weekend. Follow me on snapchat for my adventures! (vzaleski)
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COVER Talking it out: Radio host offers disaster therapy
It's late Thursday afternoon, three days after the Virginia Tech massacre, and Charlottesville's best-known afternoon radio host, WINA's Coy Barefoot, is once again working through the seemingly incomprehensible disaster.
"This thing has really shaken me up," says Barefoot in the moments before he goes on the air. "I had to leave the living room last night and just go cry it out alone in the dark."
His radio show dubbed "Charlottesville... Right Now" usually features a mix of local and state– sometimes national– figures. But what happened in Blacksburg caused Barefoot to cancel all his guests.
"This week," he tells callers, "it's just you and me, folks."
The first call is a mom with a child at Virginia Tech, who thankfully is safe. The mother says she did not get upset when she first heard the news, or cry as details were filled in over the next few days, even as the body count kept rising. But when she drove down Rugby Road Wednesday and saw that UVA students had painted their beloved Beta Bridge orange and maroon, she "just lost it."
Barefoot picks up one of several typed documents he has neatly arranged around the studio. This one is a spare, typed list of the 33 students who died.
"Every day I look at these names, and I think, today I'm going to read these, and I'm going to talk about them," Barefoot says. "But I can't, and I don't know why." His voice cracks almost imperceptibly.
During a commercial break, the long-time observer of the Charlottesville scene explains how he and his afternoon drive-time callers have moved through the range of emotions. "Tuesday and Wednesday were more about shock and grief," he explains. "Today is more about anger."
Here's the first hour from "Charlottesville... Right Now!" on Thursday, April 19.
Barefoot is incensed that NBC chose to air the violent video footage the killer mailed between his two murderous assaults. Barefoot believes that action rewarded the killer with undeserved notoriety. And even though radio is all about the audio, Barefoot won't air any killer rants on this AM radio show.
"NBC was played beautifully by the shooter," says a caller named Tom from Charlottesville.
"The families' pain and despair have been deepened," Barefoot agrees, "and their healing has been postponed. That's the part that's most reprehensible."
Barefoot and his listeners are also angry at Neal Boortz, a nationally syndicated radio host in Atlanta who is broadcast on WINA. A day after the shooting, Boortz intimated that the Tech victims deserved some degree of blame for allegedly acting like "weak zombies" instead of somehow taking out an assailant armed with two deadly weapons.
"To ask trapped, unarmed people to rush their killer is just ludicrous," says Barefoot, and a listener agrees that Boortz, who spoke in Charlottesville less than two months ago at the Omni Hotel, offered "a load of hooey."
"People in the media have power," Barefoot explains during a news break. "Those in power should be held to a higher standard."
Even when he's expressing anger, Barefoot's posture doesn't change, and his voice stays level, though his eyes convey a certain passion. The next caller takes several minutes to explain his opinion– that Boortz's comments were taken out of context– that Boortz was not blaming the victims, but society, which ought to have equipped the victims to defend themselves.
During this call, Barefoot leans back in his chair, arms crossed, listening intently. When the caller finishes, Barefoot is silent for a few moments before he responds.
And here's the second hour.
"Hey, Pete? What were those kids supposed to do?" asks Barefoot. "All they did was get up and go to class, for God's sake."
And with that, the show is over. Barefoot takes off his headphones and shrugs in frustration– all he can do is listen while people talk– and maybe that's a start.
WINA's Coy Barefoot cleared his calendar for Tech talk.
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Mentioned in this article is syndicated talk show host Neal Boortz. Last week, while the nation mourned the horrific murders at VT, Mr. Boortz was busy blaming the victims for their own deaths.
You would not believe how hateful he was. I happened to record his statements and have posted them on my web site. Listen for yourself
I am very sorry for your loss and I am sickend that Mr. Boortz has chosen to "cash-in" on your pain.
You can't call the students "weak zombies" and then pass it off as "oh, I was really calling out the society that made them into weak zombies, not the weak zombies themselves." That's argumentative cowardice.
Boortz is echoing what has become a popular right-wing talking point, and I find it appalling. Talk about exploiting a tragedy for your own political agenda.
No one in this community should EVER listen to Boortz again and advertisors should understand that they are wasting money for his time slot. Boortz' lack of simple human decency for the victims of a horrific crime is appalling. And if that doesn't work, then the decent people who work at WINA should consider finding employment elsewhere, because WINA owes this community something better than a talk show host who spits at the victims of tragedy. It is truly distressing that he is still on the air in Virginia.
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It's not about right or left, it's about right and wrong. There's a war on for your mind.
It is a shame what people will do to get ratings - thus more money. I have never listen to Boortz and after reading the statements he made concerning the Tech students and teachers .... I don't think I will!
Oscar Lewis,
I hope that you or someone else gets this out on YouTube or some other venue which will catch the attention of the advertisors who support Boortz. It is my hope that the civilized values of our society will win out.Surely attacks on the innocent dead , injured, and survivors of a horrific crime should be beyond the pale of what we are wiling to accept.
I certainly do not want to listen to Boortz either but I do want to know who on earth his advertisors are, so I listened for a moment at a red light this morning- anyone heard of a company called "Vision Computers"? The light changed and i changed stations but if anyone can stand it, I do believe the public should know who is paying the bills for Boortz.


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With courses flooded, golfers head indoors
While Currie Park in Wauwatosa is covered in water from the Menomonee River, golfers are headed indoors to the dome to get in a few early season swings.
"All of us in the dome and throughout southeast Wisconsin would love to see some sun," said golfer Bob Timberlake.
Jon Canavan, turf manager for Milwaukee County Parks, said he would like to see some sun so he can get crews to work.
"Right now, none of our help has been hired yet," he said. "It's a seasonal thing. They're kind of in a holding pattern."
Despite the very soggy April, he said he is not yet worried about conditions for the season.
"It's a slow start, but once summer comes we'll get golfers out here," he said. "We'll be just fine."
But he can't help but think of last year's early start.
"I believe it was the first of March and it was 80 degrees," he said.
Many pro shops and practice facilities are open to help give golf enthusiasts their fix. But what golfers really want is to hit the greens.
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One of the 68 people confirmed dead in the militant attack on a shopping mall in Kenya had once been a writing instructor at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor taught creating writing and African literature at Stony Brook for six years in the 1970s, according to Newsday.
Awoonor, a former ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and the United Nations, died after being wounded in the Sunday attack, when gunmen with heavy artillery stormed the crowded mall frequented by Westerners.
Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was among the 175 injured and is responding to treatment.
Arthur Dorbrin, co-founder of Amnesty International's Long Island chapter, told Newsday that Awoonor was in Nairobi to attend an annual festival of literature and the arts.
Meanwhile, the NYPD has heightened security at key locations around the city in response to the ongoing attack, though officials say there are no specific threats to the city.
Counterterror units have been deployed throughout the city and extra officers were on the streets Sunday, especially in heavily trafficked areas like Times Square and Penn Station.
"We keep track of events across the globe as they unfold and we adjust our counter terrorism efforts accordingly," NYPD spokesman John McCarthy said in a statement. "We have redeployed our critical response and Hercules teams as a precaution. There is no specific threat."
The Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened additional strikes, saying it was in retaliation "for the lives of innocent Muslims" killed by Kenyan forces leading an African Union offensive in Somalia.
In nearby Jersey City, local Kenyans attending a church service said Sunday that their thoughts and prayers were with those still held hostage in the mall.
"We will pray for them and ask for patience," said Rev. Haron Orutwa during his sermon at Tumaini Kristo Lutheran Church.
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Campaigning against the influence of creationism in the UK Science Classroom
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Bob Sorensen? wrote: "Something I have long believed and I think is constantly reinforced: People believe things because they *want* to. You know, "thinking" with emotions and biases rather than looking at any evidence.
In this case, the leftist press horribly misrepresented Dr. Danny Faulkner, which prompted Ken Ham to set the record straight: http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs ... n-abounds/ And we see the predictable result, where bigoted anti-creationists spread the untruths without checking facts, and then add their own uninformed prejudicial conjectures. To quote from the Evil One in "Time Bandits", they are "mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence": http://www.forums.bcseweb.org.uk/viewto ... 72&p=48929" [/quote="Bob Sorensen?"] (Sorensen presumably, and at around 3.30 pm GMT on 26 March ie long after my post in the BCSE thread concerned - where I posted the Faulkner blog that appears to correct the various bloggers, whose recent comments Roger simply HIGHLIGHTED when he started the thread, without making any accusations that Faulkner was being untruthful about the bloggers.)
Followed by:Alexander Gordons wrote: "The BCSE is giving approval to untruths and defamation by letting them stand. They also demonstrate that they are severely impaired regarding integrity." [/quote="Alexander Gordons"](Alexander Gordons.)Remo Wilson wrote: "One of those jerks at the BS forums lied about me, too. "Sorenson, Wilson, and indeed Sarfati want all, Christians to be YECs. That seems to take priority over what it means to be a Christian" Stupid idiot liars. And what in my profile gives that bozo the idea I claim to be a Christian? I hate liars and I hate bullies and these people are both." [/quote="Remo Wilson"] (Remo Wilson - I have previously had the misfortune to encounter this loudmouth Wilson guy either whinging about me by nickname on the QEP facebook page or - as below - attacking me personally: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... omments=73)
None of these TQEP ideologues seemingly has the guts to defend their behaviour here (except possibly using false identities as may have happened in the past briefly)!
All they have the bottle for is whinging about the BCSE from the safety of a facebook science-denial page from which all of us either have been banned already or no doubt would be banned if we went there.
And having just reviewed today's posts (after mine) at the other thread, I CANNOT SEE THE COMMENT THAT REMO WILSON IS WHINING ABOUT (WHICH CERTAINLY WAS NOT MY WORDS EITHER HERE OR ELSEWHERE).
Young Earth Creationism does seem to attract SOME of the nastiest amongst God's Elect.
As I've mentioned here recently, I rather suspect that most of them were dishonest BEFORE becoming YEC Christians or Christians and then YECs. Though I do not underestimate kiddie indoctrination in the Bible Belt, I suspect that most nicer or perhaps brighter Christians would either shun YEC-ism or else briefly embrace it but then reject it when they gradually discovered that to be a plausible YEC you have to LIE your mouth off about science and also ATTACK the integrity and honesty (using selected scriptures) of all those - Christian or not - who refute YEC dogma as unscientific, anti-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and ad hoc/illogical.
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