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FAR SOUTH OF COLOMA: California's Gold Rush was truly one of those fairly localized events that changed the course of the planet's history, and definitely the path of the young United States. But the stories told of mining camps and the influx of dreamers hoping to get permanently rich very often center around Sutter's Mill and Coloma and the foothills of the Sierra (okay, Sacramento and San Francisco, you get your mentions, too). But the southern part of the Golden State also played a role in the rushes, perhaps most notably Julian, which still retains much of its 1800s-era character today. And yep, we did say "rushes" there, since California has seen a few. Julian's lode-laden days arrived a couple of decades after the mania of 1849. The good news, though, for students of the state's Gold Rush-y past and Old West town spirit is Julian throws a weekend-long festival honoring its pickax past during Julian Gold Rush Days.
GOLD PANNING AND BEYOND: The miners'll be out, and several people in miner-type costume, on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2 at the Julian Mining Company in Wynola. Gold mine tours and gold panning are two of the weekend highlights, but arts and crafts vendors, vittles for sale (yeah, you gotta say "vittles" during an old-timey party, right?) and other fam-nice to-dos will abound. A scavenger hunt for a gold nugget and tunes are on the calendar, too. And bet you'll come away knowing more about Julian's lively 1870s, when its own particular Gold Rush was in full heated force.
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Christoph Weber
posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 12:37 am
Dear. Dr. Muthen,
is it possible to estimate effects from a within level variable to a between level variable (random slope) with Mplus.
My case is the following:
2 level panel data (between N = 31), 2 waves.
I am using a latent difference score approach to model the change of a dep. variable Y.
My hypothesis is, that the change at the between level is affected by an interaction of Y at time 1 (within) and an indep. var X (within).
Best regards
Christoph Weber
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 6:19 am
Example 9.2 shows a random slope model.
Christoph Weber
posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 11:49 am
Thanks, but is it possible to specify:
s | y ON x w;
xw | x xwith w;
y s ON w x xw;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 8:49 am
Your specification is not allowed and is not the way to obtain a cross-level interaction between x and w. Example 9.2 is the way to do that. To see how the formulas work, see Slide 45 of the Topic 7 course handout on the website.
Christoph Weber
posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 11:21 am
Thanks, I know that this is not a common multilevel model.
But actually my hypothesis is, that individual factors (and their interaction) have an effect on the development on cluster level. Do you have any ideas how to model this?
Christoph Weber
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 11:51 am
Typically you want the between part of the subjects' scores to influence a cluster-level (between-level) DV, but it sounds like that's not what you are after. It sounds like you somehow want the within-cluster part of a subject's score to influence a cluster-level DV - is that right? Could this be an example: If a student misbehaves much more than the classroom average, this influences the teacher's well-being? If so, I have not seen this attempted in multilevel modeling - someone else?
Christoph Weber
posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 1:45 pm
I have the following design.
31 classes, 2 measures and an intervention between T1 and T2 that should change the environmental consciousness (EC). The EC are measured at T1 and T2. Further I have a measure of social capital at T1.
The hypothesis is, that in those classes, where students with high social capital have a low EC, there should be a worsening of EC on class level.
Thus I thought it would be necessary to model an interaction effect of social capital and EC on the change of EC on class level.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 1:59 pm
I think you can use regular multilevel modeling to accomplish this. You need a between-level interaction for the latent between-level parts (random intercepts) of ec and sc (social capital). In Mplus terms you say:
cluster = classrm;
! ec and sc are allowed to vary on both !within and between, so not on Within= or !Between= lists
Type = twolevel;
int | ec1 xwith sc;
ec2 on ec1 sc int;
ec2 on ec1 sc;
ec1 with sc;
Christoph Weber
posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 6:33 am
Many thanks for your help!
Christoph Weber
posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 12:32 pm
Building on this series of postings, I am interested in cross-level interactions between within and between level variables. I am interested in testing a model similar to example 9.5 (below) in the version 6, April 2010 user guide. I have dropped x1 from the model to simplify the example.
VARIABLE: NAMES ARE y1 y2 x2 w clus;
WITHIN = x2;
BETWEEN = w;
CLUSTER IS clus;
s2 | y2 ON y1;
y2 ON x2;
s1 | y1 ON x2;
y1 y2 s1 s2 ON w;
As I understand this example, it is testing cross-level interactions between x2 and w predicting the mediating variable y1 and between y1 and w predicting y2. x2, y1 and y2 are at the within level.
I am wondering if it is possible to adapt this model to accomodate y1 at the between level rather than at the within level. The moderating variable w would remain at the between level and the cross-level interaction would be between x2 and w predicting between-level y1 and y1 and w predicting y2. If this is possible, how would I adapt the code? Thanks in advance for your assitance.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 3:45 pm
A cross-level interaction is due to a random slope. If y1 is between only, it cannot have a random slope. You can have an interaction between x2 and w influencing the between-level y1 if x2 has between-level variation. If that between-level variation is latent, you use XWITH.
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I surprised myself by enjoying this week's Battlestar Galactica entry, "Dirty Hands." By the standards of television in general, the episode was no great shakes, but compared to the level that Galactica has been striking in recent weeks, especially in its 'issue' episodes, it was quite an improvement. It certainly helps that Aaron Douglas is one of the few younger cast members who can hold his own against Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos, and that appearances by Starbuck, Apollo, and the love quadrangle that will not die were kept to a bare minimum. Liking the episode, however, doesn't mean that I accept its premise. Even as I was watching and enjoying "Dirty Hands", I found myself listing the ways in which the episode's plot doesn't make sense. Here are but a few:
The story hinges on the existence of a deep-seated prejudice against poor, rural colonies, extended to the fleet's post-colonial reality. It's not impossible for me to accept that such a prejudice exists--although the references made, way back in the first season, to the exploitation of certain colonies were quite vague--but am I honestly supposed to believe that people need Baltar to point out its existence? The working class in particular, having been confronted with them since early childhood, should have a keen awareness of the limitations of their options in life. If the idea that only people from rich colonies become officers comes as a surprise to Tyrol, then there can't be that much truth to it--otherwise, it would be an accepted fact of life.
Within the fleet's post-apocalyptic setting, the episode tells us, the prejudice against poor colonies is expressed by using their survivors as manual labor while the former rich colonists live comfortably. This is, not to put too fine a point on it, complete and utter crap. I'm willing to believe that doctors, scientists, and engineers--professionals from Caprica and other rich colonies--would find a place of honor in the fleet. The folks who, before the apocalypse, worked as accountants, however, or regional sales managers, or directors of personnel, will have by now either learned a usable skill or been put to work pushing a broom. I'm perfectly willing to believe that there's an underclass in the fleet, but under no circumstances would it be comprised of skilled laborers, whose knowledge and experience are vital to humanity's survival.*
For neither the first nor second time, the writers are trying to map a real-world issue onto their invented universe without ensuring that the two situations overlap, counting on the audience's preexisting emotional associations to compensate for an incoherent plot. The two characters who cross the class divide in this episode are a case in point. It's very sad that Danny the college student is forced to work in an unfamiliar environment and nearly maimed, but has the kid been living in a bubble for two years? How is it possible that he's learned no new skills since the Cylon attack? Similarly, Seelix's promotion at the end of the episode is very stirring, but what's actually happening on screen is that the fleet loses a talented, experienced engineer and gains a rookie pilot--hardly a profitable trade.
As my mother pointed out this morning, "Dirty Hands" would have made sense had it been set early in the first season, several months after the Cylon attack. Coming as it does more than two years after the attack--two years during which the fleet's makeup was even further shuffled when a sizable portion of it left to colonize New Caprica--without any explanation as to how the institutions and attitudes of the old Colonial system could have had such an unnaturally long afterlife, the story beggars belief. Are we honestly supposed to accept that for two years there has existed an upper class within the fleet whose members have spent their time twiddling their thumbs because they have no usable skills in a post-apocalyptic situation? Not only that they would have been allowed to live in such indolence, but that they would choose to do so, doing nothing all day but contemplating the fact that their life might come to a brutal end at any minute?
On the character level, at least, the episode works as an extension of what came before it. I particularly liked the juxtaposition of Roslin and Baltar's attitudes towards the fleet, but I wish someone had pointed out to Roslin that the kind of behavior she exhibits in this episode is precisely the reason why she lost the election to Baltar in the first place. Baltar is a liar. He doesn't care about the people and his book is merely an attempt to garner sympathy before his trial (although frankly, it's quite astonishing to me that it should be successful). When he lies, however, Baltar tells the people to speak out and think for themselves. Roslin, with perfect conviction, tells the people to shut up, do as they're told, and leave the thinking to her. I think there was room in the episode for some acknowledgement that Roslin is trying, yet again, to herd rather than lead.
Still, at least Roslin is still a likable character. With "Dirty Hands", Adama completes the transition he began at the beginning of the season, and becomes a thoroughly despicable person. I'm not talking about the threat to shoot Cally**, but about the reasons for it. Adama isn't Cain. He doesn't have it in him to shoot a crewmember for threatening the crew's cohesion. He will, however, do a hell of a lot worse to you if he thinks you've turned your back on him, which is why Cally nearly ends up in front a firing squad. Worst of all, once Tyrol caves, Adama all but pats him on the head and proffers a reward--the meeting with the president--gazing deep into the Chief's eyes as if to say, see what a good guy I am, deep down? Well, no, Bill, you're not a good guy. You're a control freak, and dangerously psychotic to boot, and I would much rather work for someone who would shoot me for impersonal reasons than for you. I truly wish the episode had ended with Tyrol taking his family off Galactica.
But other than that, it wasn't a bad episode.
* As usual, it's more interesting to imagine the stories that might have been written for this show then to consider the ones that actually were. Wouldn't it have been cool if the protagonists of this Norma Rae story had been former white-collar workers, now exploited by the people they had previously looked down on?
** There seems to be a profound dislike of this character in fan circles which I simply don't get. People seem to resent her murder of Boomer, but since Boomer has turned out to be either a horrible person or not a person at all, I'm inclined to let that slide. The beginning of her relationship with Tyrol was indeed a bit creepy (although I can't help but feel that the writers don't mean for us to find it so, but that they couldn't be bothered to show us the characters falling in love), but in the present they seem to have a good marriage--there's a sense of partnership, of camaraderie, between them. It's not high romance, but given the way other married couples are depicted on this show, I find the quiet ordinariness of Cally and Tyrol's marriage is quite sweet.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Not Dead
The tumbleweeds have been blowing through AtWQ lately, for which I apologize. I could blame work--and I will--but also February has turned out to be something of a dead month, culture-wise.
Happily, March is already shaping up quite nicely. The final Nebula ballot is online, and you all know what that means--look for my reviews of the short fiction nominees in the near future.
A few observations on the ballot:
Happily, March is already shaping up quite nicely. The final Nebula ballot is online, and you all know what that means--look for my reviews of the short fiction nominees in the near future.
A few observations on the ballot:
- Michael A. Burstein has a piece in the novella category. Oh, joy.
- M. Rickert's "Anyway" didn't make the cut from the preliminary ballot, which is a crime. On the other hand, Rickert has a story on the novelette ballot.
- The Nebula jury added Battlestar Galactica's "Unfinished Business" to the best script category, thus cementing its irrelevance.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Holy Crap
Scroll down to the bottom of the interview for some Doctor Who casting news almost as exciting as Christopher Eccleston's guest role on Heroes.
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Saturday, February 10, 2007
Recent Reading Roundup 11
It's been a mainstream fiction sort of month (to counteract which, I am now rereading The Lord of the Rings), and here are some thoughts about the books I read:
- The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart - The cover of Shteyngart's debut novel is plastered with so many accolades, award notices, and effusive blurbs that there is hardly any room for the title, and for the life of me I can't figure out what these reviewers, award committees and authors were thinking. This is not to say that Handbook is a bad novel. It's well written, and quite funny--laugh-out-loud funny, at points. The novel describes the coming of age of twenty-something, Russian-born, Jewish Vladimir Grishkin, who emigrated to the United States as a child and finds himself, in the early nineties, aimless and identity-less in New York, desperate to escape his past as a foreigner and his present as the scion of bourgeois, money- and status-conscious parents. Over the course of the novel, Vladimir makes several attempts to reinvent himself--as the boyfriend of a beautiful, neurotic Upper East Side sophisticate; as the henchman of a Russian mobster in the fictional Eastern European country Stolovaya, just coming out from under soviet rule; as the ringleader and financier for a group of bohemian American ex-pats in Stolovaya's capital Prava; and finally, as a responsible, middle-class suburban husband and father--which have the increasing ring of desperation, and ultimately form the image of a personality so consumed with getting away from a semi-imaginary menace that it forgets to consider where that heedless escape might take it. This is, I suspect, the effect Shteyngart was aiming for, but he goes about achieving it in some decidedly strange ways.
As I said, Handbook is a funny novel, but its humor is steeped in crass cultural stereotypes. The Americans Vladimir meets are air-headed poseurs bent on repudiating their middle-class upbringing and enchanted by the vestiges of socialism they encounter in Prava. The Stolovayans, meanwhile, are obsessed with American capitalism and with emulating American culture. None of the characters are allowed to breathe on the page, to amount to more than their ethnic or national identity (in Prava, Vladimir meets and falls in love with a women who briefly seems to be an actual person, to have a personality rather than a social agenda. Sadly, she quickly develops the latter, which causes her to lose the former). Vladimir himself, though not without abilities--he's smart, determined, self-aware, and good at bullshitting people--is so consumed with self-loathing, so obsessed with becoming someone other than himself, that occupying his headspace is quite unpleasant. One quickly comes to the conclusion that the purpose of the novel is to get us to pity Vladimir--a character who, objectively, has very little to complain about. Shteyngart's attempts to elicit this reaction become increasingly frenzied as the novel progresses--towards the end, he has Vladimir beaten up by a group of skinheads in the employ of his mobster boss--to the point that he almost seems to be bullying his readers into reacting to his character as he would like them to. To pity a character, however, we have to be invested in it, and Vladimir is rarely interesting and almost never likable. Instead of feeling pity for Vladimir, therefore, I just found him pathetic, and I found the experience of reading about him--and of being asked to feel for him because of the lingering scars that life under communist occupation had left in his psyche--a bit like being badgered. I'm not quite sure what the point of the entire exercise was.
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller - Heller's short, restrained novel doesn't try to do a great deal. It is a character sketch of two women--Sheba Hart, a slightly unhappy teacher just entering middle age who has an affair with a fifteen year old student, and Barbara Covett, Sheba's friend and confidant, who narrates the novel, chronicling Sheba's downfall as the younger woman awaits her trial following the affair's discovery. With lucid, unobtrusive prose, Heller brings her characters to vivid and undeniable life. Sheba is not precisely a bad person--in fact she's capable of great kindness and decency, taking no part in the popularity contests and petty squabbles that permeate the teacher's lounge at the school where she and Barbara work, and welcoming Barbara into her life. She is, however, very, very weak--the kind of person who has never made her own decisions, and who genuinely believes that someone will always turn up to solve her problems. That person turns out to be Barbara, desperately lonely, but so rigid in her expectations from the people around her that she walks around consumed with hatred and disdain, incapable of loving anyone who isn't perfect, or at least perfectly willing to sublimate themselves to her will. Notes on a Scandal could easily have ended up a rather simplistic story--the novel's main thrust, after all, is the shock of discovering that Sheba, who has done a terrible thing, is not a terrible person, and that the upright Barbara is in fact a monster--but Sheba and Barbara are so convincingly human, and both so pitiable, that the absurdities and contrivances of the plot (such as Heller stacking the deck for Sheba by having her be the more vulnerable, more involved party in the affair with the student) barely register. Notes on a Scandal may not try to do very much, but the things it does do it does exceptionally well.
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - After reading Proulx's short fiction, I thought I might enjoy her novels, and decided to start with the Pulitzer-winning Shipping News. At least one of these decisions was a mistake. The Shipping News is a pleasant novel, and quite beautifully written, even if Proulx's distinctive style--short sentences, usually peppered with odd, perhaps even invented terms and adjectives and missing as many verbs, nouns and prepositions as Proulx could lop off without rendering them completely unintelligible--begins to grate after a while, but it's also a fairly unremarkable effort. The protagonist is Quoyle, an unhappy, defeated man who after the death of his no-good wife moves his family back to his ancestral home, a tiny speck of a town on the island of Newfoundland, and there makes friends, discovers in himself abilities he had never suspected, and finds true love. Which is the plot of about a thousand TV movies with the gender of the main character reversed, and Proulx doesn't seem interested in doing anything out of the ordinary with it. The characters are well-drawn, but none of them leap off the page. There are no interesting themes or literary tricks with which to dress up this rather maudlin story, and although the novel shines on those occasions in which Proulx steps away from her main characters and describes the invented history of Quoyle's adopted home, complete with whalers, pirates, and numerous characters sent to the bottom ofthe ocean by a treacherous sea, these interludes aren't enough to give it personality (in fact, one too many of them and the novel starts sliding towards twee). I don't exactly regret reading The Shipping News, but neither do I understand why it won such a prestigious award, or in fact why Proulx bothered to write it.
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker - Look, it's another early-to-mid twentieth century short story writer. Much like the Cheever and Jackson collections I'd read before it, The Portable Dorothy Parker suffers from its comprehensiveness. Parker simply doesn't have that much to say. Her women are invariably passive-aggressive, her men are oblivious, and many of the stories can be summed up with a single concept--why doesn't he call me, did he ever really love me, etc, etc. There are a few gems here (although far fewer than in the Cheever or Jackson collections)--"The Lovely Leave", about a couple being torn apart by the husband's military service; "The Standard of Living", about a what-if game that makes the lives of two office drones bearable; "Mr. Durant", in which a married man callously disposes of a pregnant mistress--and Parker's famous wit is matched by an impressive facility with words and descriptions. The collection also includes some of Parker's poetry (a newer edition also collects essays and reviews, but my copy is an ancient thing I picked up at a used bookstore and doesn't include them), which is where it is weakest. 'Poetry' probably isn't even the right word. Nonsense verse might work if one didn't get the sense that Parker was being entirely earnest writing about doomed love and longing for death and generally being far too maudlin than is really good for anybody. In spite of a few famous and still-amusing pieces, the poetry segments are best skipped in favor of the far superior stories.
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
There Aren't Any Respectful Ways to Say 'Your Computer Sucks'
Charlie Brooker's anti-Mac rant on the Guardian blog, inspired at least in part by the UK version of the 'I'm a Mac; I'm a PC' ad campaign, has been ruffling some feathers (on the other hand, it also inspired Alison to track down this Mac/PC slash site). I love my Mac dearly--even more so now that I'm working and forced to use a Windows machine most of the day--but Brooker's screed is so obviously calculated to enrage that I can't be bothered to react to it. It's the equivalent of a middle-schooler shouting 'poo!' at the top of his lungs, and Brooker's irate--not to say hysterical--anti-Mac and -Mac-users arguments are so absurd that the entire piece goes right through aggravating and out the other end into funny.
Where Brooker does have a point, however, is in his criticism of the ad campaign. I haven't seen the UK version, but even though I find the US originals quite funny (although their effect might have been lessened had I known that John Hodgman, who plays the fuddy-duddy PC, is a cast member on The Daily Show), there is something almost cringe-inducing about the smarminess with which the Mac and PC present their various strengths and weaknesses (PCs are good for work stuff, Macs are good for creative stuff is both a vast oversimplification and not actually true, and if I never hear the 'there are less computer viruses for Macs' argument again, it'll be too soon). Funny as it is, the campaign associates Mac use with condescension.
The only problem is that, much like Brooker's suggestion that a proper operating system should be cumbersome and hard to figure out, this is an argument from another decade. Mac ads have always been smarmy and condescending (and as for being simplistic: they're ads. They're trying to sell you something. Specifically, these ads are trying to get you to replace a cheap appliance with a more expensive one which will, in the short run, cause you some trouble as you scramble to track down equivalents to your existing software and deal with compatibility issues with the rest of the PC-using world. Simplistic is baked right in). Their basic gist is that the only reason to use a PC is not knowing any better (or, alternatively, being afraid), and since this is the thrust of the company's argument, it's hard to get away from a condescending tone. The best you can hope for is to cloak that condescension in the kind of humorous tone that the 'I'm a Mac; I'm a PC' campaign has been consistently hitting.
Not to mention that anything that follows up on this is almost automatically an improvement.
Where Brooker does have a point, however, is in his criticism of the ad campaign. I haven't seen the UK version, but even though I find the US originals quite funny (although their effect might have been lessened had I known that John Hodgman, who plays the fuddy-duddy PC, is a cast member on The Daily Show), there is something almost cringe-inducing about the smarminess with which the Mac and PC present their various strengths and weaknesses (PCs are good for work stuff, Macs are good for creative stuff is both a vast oversimplification and not actually true, and if I never hear the 'there are less computer viruses for Macs' argument again, it'll be too soon). Funny as it is, the campaign associates Mac use with condescension.
The only problem is that, much like Brooker's suggestion that a proper operating system should be cumbersome and hard to figure out, this is an argument from another decade. Mac ads have always been smarmy and condescending (and as for being simplistic: they're ads. They're trying to sell you something. Specifically, these ads are trying to get you to replace a cheap appliance with a more expensive one which will, in the short run, cause you some trouble as you scramble to track down equivalents to your existing software and deal with compatibility issues with the rest of the PC-using world. Simplistic is baked right in). Their basic gist is that the only reason to use a PC is not knowing any better (or, alternatively, being afraid), and since this is the thrust of the company's argument, it's hard to get away from a condescending tone. The best you can hope for is to cloak that condescension in the kind of humorous tone that the 'I'm a Mac; I'm a PC' campaign has been consistently hitting.
Not to mention that anything that follows up on this is almost automatically an improvement.
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
It Never Rains But It Pours
Seven years after the publication of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and a good four or five years since he first described the general gist of its plot, Michael Chabon is finally about to publish another (adult) novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, due this May. To tide us over that last stretch of Chabon-less months, however, the New York Times is serializing another new novel by Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road.
And, in other highly-anticipated-book news, J.K. Rowling.com reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on July 21st. Time to make that Amazon order.
UPDATE: More good news: season 2 of Life on Mars begins on February 13th.
And, in other highly-anticipated-book news, J.K. Rowling.com reports that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on July 21st. Time to make that Amazon order.
UPDATE: More good news: season 2 of Life on Mars begins on February 13th.
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ATLANTA – A healthier, low-emitting, built classroom environment will comprise the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute's booth exhibit at Greenbuild 2010, helping to raise awareness about the importance of good indoor air quality in schools and the simple ways it can be achieved.
The 20-foot by 20-foot classroom will feature GREENGUARD Children & SchoolsSM certified products from an array of manufacturers, including Accent Signage, IdeaPaint, KI, Knauf Insulation, Mondo, Owens Corning, Sherwin-Williams, StonePeak, Tesco Industries, Verosol, and Virco. GREENGUARD Children & Schools-certified products meet some of the most stringent chemical emissions requirements in the world, allowing them to contribute to the creation of healthier indoor environments. They also qualify for points under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) Green Building Rating System.
"When you consider the recent and dramatic rise in asthma rates among children—who spend upwards of 85 percent of their time indoors, not outdoors—it's hard not to question the healthfulness of their built environments, particularly their schools," says Henning Bloech, executive director of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute. "It's a known fact that products used to construct and furnish schools and other buildings can be major sources of airborne chemicals and other indoor air pollutants. By showcasing a built classroom environment that's scientifically proven to be low-emitting, we hope to provide a roadmap for architects, designers, and builders to follow in the real world."
In addition to exhibiting at Greenbuild 2010, the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute is participating in "Products Not Pollution," an executive roundtable discussion on the role of sustainability in product design. The roundtable will feature Dr. Marilyn Black, founder of the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute; David Walker of Dyson; Kirsten Richie of Gensler; Zorana Bosnic of HOK San Francisco; Vance Bell, CEO of Shaw Floors; and Bob Peoples of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®, who will moderate.
"While it's very important to consider and minimize a building's impact on the natural environment and its surrounding ecosystem, it's imperative that we also take into account the way products inside the building affect the health of its occupants," says Black. "Greenbuild is the perfect forum for this discussion, and I look forward to sharing this platform with such a distinguished panel."
Greenbuild 2010 takes place Nov. 17 through Nov. 19 at McCormick Place West in Chicago. The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute will exhibit at Booth #1545.
For more information, visit www.greenbuildexpo.org.
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The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute aims to protect human health and improve quality of life by enhancing indoor air quality and reducing people's exposure to chemicals and other pollutants. As an ISO-IEC Guide 65:1996 accredited, third-party organization, the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute certifies products and materials for low chemical emissions and provides a resource for choosing healthier products and materials for indoor environments. All certified products must meet stringent chemical emissions standards based on established criteria from key public health agencies. GREENGUARD certification is broadly recognized and accepted by sustainable building programs and building codes worldwide. For more information and a complete listing of certified products, visit www.greenguard.org.


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Indian Railways today increased freight charges for transporting diesel, cooking gas and kerosene by 5.8 percent, but oil firms may not immediately pass on the hike to consumers.
Indian Railways today increased freight charges for transporting diesel, cooking gas and kerosene by 5.8 percent, but oil firms may not immediately pass on the hike to consumers.
Freight on diesel was increased by 5.79 percent to Rs 1,041.80 per tonne from Rs 984.80 a tonne currently. The same on kerosene went up by 5.79 percent from Rs 886.30 per tonne to Rs 937.60 a tonne and that on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by 5.79 percent to Rs 937.60 a tonne.
The rates exclude development charge and busy season charges which essentially mean that actual hike for oil companies would be higher, according to the Railway Budget for 2013-14 presented in Lok Sabha by Railway Minister P K Bansal. Oil companies transport over about 32-33 percent of diesel, LPG and kerosene through railways and the hike in
freight will either have to be passed on to consumers or have to be accounted as under-recoveries, which the government would compensate from the Union Budget.
Fuel price hike: How much will HPCL, BPCL, IOC gain
The increase would mean an additional outgo of Rs 500 crore for state oil firms, Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL).
"We follow a fortnightly average cost as the methodology for revision in retail price of petrol and diesel. For LPG and kerosene, it is a monthly average. So, we have to wait (before passing on the hike)," an oil industry official said.
Also, the freight increase are proposed to come into effect from April 1 and oil firms will decide on marginally increasing fuel prices only then.
The increase in retail rates of diesel, LPG and kerosene that is needed because of the freight increase is yet to be calculated.
Bansal said the increase in diesel prices last month had added Rs 3,330 crore to Railway's fuel bill. Also, adding to its burden, is electricity tariffs that are revised periodically.
"The increase in fuel bill during 2013-14 on account of these revisions would be more than Rs 5,100 crore," he said while proposing an across-the-board increase in freight charges of over 5 percent.


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Friday, May 30, 2008
Random Poll: June ~or~ Good Friday Morning!
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Couch Update
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The More You Have, The More You Have....
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Linky Loo
Oh Y'all! The summer has started, and it is glorious.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
One of the great things about our trip to the mountains was the ability to have some long periods of quiet.
Oh! The birds are so happy this morning, talking and flying, and making such a ruckus! The sun is fully up now, and it feels so very good. Thank you. Lord, open your word to me this morning. Direct me to what I need to know, or study, or to live. Help me to hear and see. I desire to know you more.I closed my journal and opened my devotional, which told me to go to Matthew 3:16-17.
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it
you'll soon be out of your depth.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
My Name is Kellie, and I'm Addicted to Diet Coke...
...We love you Kellie.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Decorating, Served Enchilada Style
Here is the fruit of my scrapped material.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Oh y'all...
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Catching Up
I had such a full and fun weekend.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
For Lillian
If I win this, I intend to re-gift it. But with purpose. I have a set of 3 beautiful (boring) Chef's apron that my neighbor looks at while they dry on my clothesline.
She's 90 and she says that she wished she hadn't wasted years in boring aprons. She said she wished she'd had one that made her feel sassy and fun.
So if I win, you're going to knock the socks off my 90 year old neighbor.
I really wanted Suzanne to win this apron for you. I don't know her, but she clearly has a givers heart.
I was faced with a dilemma. Suzanne and I had an opportunity to grant a wish...how could we not find a way to make it work?
However, I also wanted to be fair to those who had entered and expected the drawing to be random. In the end, I knew the only way to get you an apron is if I made one specifically.
Made with you in mind.
I emailed Suzanne, and she sent me a little info, and when I found out your name was Lillian, I knew that God's providence was at hand.
You see, my name's Lillian too. My middle name, given to me in honor of my maternal grandmother Maude Lillian, who turned 90 yesterday.
I have always loved the name Lillian. So feminine. So sweet.
Maybe, just maybe, a bit sassy too?
What a pleasure it is (along with Suzanne!) to give you this apron.
With love,
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Never Say Never
Before I became a Mom I had The List of things I would never do when I had kids of my own.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Weekend Recap
Sharing a Pop-Tart with Lucy. I was always the first one up (I didn't want to miss the sunrise), but The Boy was always second...which gave us thirty minutes of time to be alone, just him and me. Which was lovely.
The Girl was anticipating a lot of wild flowers. Unfortunately, there was still snow patches around and spring flowers hadn't quite made their arrival. She managed to find some Dandelions (thought of you Janel!) so we could make a crown. That night The Mister and I watched as a fawn ate the rest of the flowers!
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Thirteen on the Thirteenth
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Meme Monday!
What were you doing ten years ago?
I was living with my parents, with my 8 month old baby boy, while The Mister was completing one of his clinical's in Colorado. It was only for six weeks. We were living in San Antonio, Texas while he was attending graduate school. I was still very much a First Time Mom, who was boiling everything that came into 25 feet of my chunky little baby.
What are 5 things on your to-do list?
1. Finish up several sewing projects.
2. Bring up the hem on shorts for my Dad.
3. Buy a gift for The Mister to celebrate our anniversary.
4. Laundry. Always the laundry.
5. Return library books.
What are 5 snacks you enjoy?
1. Almonds and apples. Together.
2. Toasted Nuts and Cranberry Luna Bars.
3. Tortilla Chips and Salsa (and I wouldn't mind a little avocado on the side.)
4. Peanut M&Ms.
5. Popcorn
What would you do if you were a millionaire?
I would take my family to Hawaii to meet some of my husbands extended family. I would set up college funds for my kids and nieces and nephews. I would help our friends in Brazil. I would buy The Mister a library of books and fun back-packing/hiking paraphernalia, to make up for all the amazing gifts he has given me in the last 15 years.
Name some of the places you've called home.
I have always said that anywhere my military husband is working, is where I will be home. At this point that has been Arizona; San Antonio, TX; Fort Worth, TX; North Carolina, and back to Arizona.
What are some of your bad habits?
I procrastinate on certain things, like making phone calls and replying to emails. I tend to look at certain situations as black and white. All or nothing. This wouldn't be such a problem if I wasn't always in a rush, when i should slow down. I should take more time to think before I act!
What are some jobs you've held?
I have been a nanny; an Icee Bear Promotional Bear (dressed up in a big white bear suit!); an extra on a movie set; in a hair advertisement; a receptionist at a shelter for abused and neglected children; an administrative assistant for a chef; a music teacher; a dance teacher; and of course, a Mom!
Who are you tagging?
I am tagging Meh, Lara, and The Gochi. And anyone else who is willing to play!
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Happy Mother's Day!
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Chewy Granola Bars
I had such a great response to my post re: HFCS, that I thought I would post a recipe for y'all.
2 1/2 c. Oats - quick rolled oats
1/2 c. Rice Krispies
1/2 c. chocolate chips
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/4 c. honey
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Add all of the ingredients and mix together until combined. Press into a square 8×8 pan. Bake at 350° for 18-20 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes and score into bars. Let it set completely and then cut into bars.
I doubled the recipe, but other than that i followed it exactly. I used a 13x9 inch pan and i was able to get 22 bar out of it.
Next time I am going to try replacing the butter with almond butter and see how it hold together.
The only other thing i would say is to really press the dough into the pan with wet hands. And be sure to allow it to cool COMPLETELY before cutting them into bars. I tried to cut out a bar when it was still look warm and it fell apart. The dough is a little dry before baking, but really firms up when baked and cooled.
Happy Snacking!
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Meet May
Can you see her? This is May, my sweet little hatchling. I have been watching that nest for so long!
I have already decided to name the brother June. Since he seems to be taking his sweet time coming out. And also, in honor of June, one of my favorite bloggers, who loves birds and nests, and animals, more than I do.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Oh I am so excited!
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
In Which I Throw a Tantrum Like a Three Year Old
This is a rant.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
I had planned to write about how this week is a crazy mess of field trips, Teacher Appreciation, and home-life craziness, but Mer did such a fine job on her blog this morning, that I thought I would say:
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Notes to Self: A Pictorial
1. You have an empty cupboard. Food and necessity items will not just magically appear. Things are getting critical. This is the last roll of toilet paper in the entire house. Move directly to Target, Do not pass Go. 2. The Mister keeps forgetting to take these Cream Cheese Brownies to work. Find a happy home for them. If not, proceed to #3.
4. Towels that are thrown into the laundry basket stink. Remind children to hang them before they hamper them.
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Monday, March 31, 2003
Salty Beer.
Greg Schirf to Protest New Utah Beer Tax By Dumping 64 Gallons Of Beer Into The Great Salt Lake on April 3.
He demands, "Give me liberty or give me a cold one."
The Phraselator.
American troops in Iraq are using the
Stop or I'll shoot.I wonder if it has AIM installed?
Get out of the taxi.
Take me to your leader.
Would you like some macaroni and cheese?
Here's a story about it and another.
Sunday, March 30, 2003
Random Abstract Listening to BBC World Service.
You wanna get a feel for this war?Oh oh, I'm listening.
Listen to BBC World Service for several hours.
They are interviewing Iraqi people again and again.
Basically Iraqis hate Saddam but, they hate war/invasion/invaders more.
The Latino Jewish Hip Hop Band, The Hip Hop Hoodios has a new Hanukah video, Ocho Kandelikas, that was added to the playlist on MTV.
Oy Vey!
Man arrested for insider trading attributes his financial success to time travel.
True or False?
Click the link to find out if Andrew Carlssin really turned $800 into $350 million in two weeks.
True or False?
Click the link to find out if Andrew Carlssin really turned $800 into $350 million in two weeks.
Ravi Jain: First Over New Zakim Bridge on a Motorcycle!
For self-proclaimed ''transportation pioneers'' Ravi Jain and Stefan Economou, yesterday was a beautiful day to tool around Boston's streets on a 1980 Yamaha motorcycle, hoping they could be the first members of the public to cross the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge... Jain said afterward, ''...it was breathtaking coming up onto the bridge. The workers were so excited. I just gave them the thumbs up.''My friend Ravi Jain becomes a part of history again.
Hear all about it on the Matty in the Morning radio show on Kiss 108 in Boston on Monday morning at 7:00AM.
Saturday, March 29, 2003
Iraq Vows More Suicide Attacks on Troops.
Iraq's vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, identified the bomber as an Iraqi army officer and said suicide attacks will now be "routine military policy". We will use any means to kill our enemy in our land and we will follow the enemy into its land. This is just the beginning. You'll hear more pleasant news later.Not good.
David Lawrence has a copule a Internet/Radio shows: Net Music Countdown and onLine Tonight.
He has just created a web site that features Legal MP3 Downloads.
He also uses MarketBanker to add sponsored links to his site, interesting.
This is great, someone else out there who doesn't steal mp3s!
Friday, March 28, 2003
Epitonic Radio.
Try Epitonic Radio. Just click the genres you're interested in, select the number of tracks to play (up to 500), and go for it. You'll hear high-quality non-stop music, with no commercials. And it's very likely you'll find some new artists that you'll want to check out.Looks very interesting. Now if I can only get it to play on my Mac!
via J-Walk
Adam Curry gets to test drive a Carver this weekend.
PROTEST records.
I was checking out my inbound links over at Technorati and found East-West magazine where there was a post that said that Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth launched protest records as a place to get free anti-war mp3's.
Dr. Bob Arnot Translates.
You are my friend if you stand there, but your are my dead friend if you step forward.Dr. Bob Arnot just filed a report, from Iraq, on the Imus in the Morning show. It was an amazing report. In the end he told us that he's doing a little translating for the marines.
The Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator.
via [ Wozz ] by way of [ Gary Hart ]
I haven't gotten much done today. Nothing seems worth bothering with, but pfft. Whatever. I haven't been up to anything lately. I've just been letting everything wash over me recently. Oh well.This could also work as a college radio DJ talk break generator.
via [ Wozz ] by way of [ Gary Hart ]
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.They want to live long and die out.
via [ J-Walk ]
A Different Enemy
"The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against," - Lieutenant-General William WallaceOh oh.
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Major Part Of Big Dig To Open Sunday.
Along with the opening of the Lenny Zakim Bridge, the whole expressway that travels though downtown Boston is going to be replaced by a tunnel that runs underground from the southern part of Boston to the Northern part!
I must have been living in a cave, not to have understood that this was happening this weekend!
Along with the opening of the Lenny Zakim Bridge, the whole expressway that travels though downtown Boston is going to be replaced by a tunnel that runs underground from the southern part of Boston to the Northern part!
I must have been living in a cave, not to have understood that this was happening this weekend!
Don't Zoom.
If you are doing any kind of video editing, you've gotta get Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro by Michael Wohl.
He says:
I'm only on page 45 out of 457 and I've gottn my money's worth!
If you are doing any kind of video editing, you've gotta get Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro by Michael Wohl.
He says:
When you physically move the camera closer to a subject, the relationship between the subject and the background changes in an organic way - similar to what you'd see in real life if you walked closer to an object. On the other hand, when you zoom in, the background is compressed in a way that our eyes cannot simulate. This odd visual effect can distract the viewer.Ahh, so that's why using a zoom is bad.
I'm only on page 45 out of 457 and I've gottn my money's worth!
Rachel is a 30-year-old gun-totin' capitalist oppressor college student with two jobs. She sells stuff over at ThoseShirts.com.
Howard Dean at the JFK Library in Boston.
(08:50) Steve: i saw howard dean yesterday at JFK
(08:50) Steve: i was anticipating being excited by his oratory skills
(08:50) Steve: I was not
(08:50) Steve: too bad
(08:50) Dan: oh
(08:50) Dan: I like JFK
(08:50) Steve: seems like a nice guy though
(08:50) Steve: he tried
(08:50) Steve: but failed
(08:50) Steve: he's no JFK
(08:51) Dan: yah
(08:51) Steve: that was the place to invoke memories and stand out yet he was kinda dull
(08:52) Steve: one quote he said was , "I'm not afraid of taxes" OUCH
(08:52) Steve: that hurts
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade.
The full text online.
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The full text online.
via [ J-Walk ]
Lenny Kravitz: "We Want Peace." [ Windows Media Download page at Rock The Vote ]
Lenny Kravitz released a peace anthem today, with Iraqi pop star Kadim Al Sahir.
There's an mp3 version over at wbcn. Thanks Adam 12!
This song rocks!
Let's see if it ever gets played on the radio.
*Update* - Adam 12's gonna play it on BCN!
Today's Front Pages from around the world.
Interesting to see what the main photo is on the front page of newspapers from different countries.
I wonder if this little girl will show up in your newspaper today?
via [ NextDraft ]
Buy a Peace Sign Button T-Shirt.
It's a classic peace sign button on a shirt without buttons!
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
The Agonist is the hot war blog right now.
How to make Netscape Mail display the Recipient instead of the Sender in the Sent Mail folder.
That does it.
1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.So basically, you just reselect your SENT FOLDER in Preferences.
2. From the Mail & Newsgroups preferences category, select Copies and Folders.
3. You should see the Copies and Folders Preferences dialog box. Select where to store copies of your outgoing mail and newsgroup messages. If you don't want to use the default "Sent" folder, click "Choose Folder" to specify a folder location.
That does it.
Monday, March 24, 2003
The Command Post.
Blogging the war in one place.
Saturday, March 22, 2003
Yulia is a Russian bride looking for a groom. She's calm, smart, honest, modest, kind, elegant, communicative, sensitive, and responsible.
She likes pop, disco, and romantic songs.
Friday, March 21, 2003
Who needs Ashleigh Banfield when we've got Kelly O'Donnell.
The Collier Brothers.
It's New York City trivia that I hadn't heard about before.
Gotta go throw away some newspapers!
"…They lived in terror that they would be poor (after effect of the Great Depression), that people would steal their possessions, and they hoarded everything, including a car they kept in the basement. It was too big to get in, so they disassembled it, then reassembled it in the cellar."Al Roker just mentioned The Collier Brothers when discussing all the newspapers that Katie has piled up on the anchordesk.
It's New York City trivia that I hadn't heard about before.
Gotta go throw away some newspapers!
Thursday, March 20, 2003
CBS: 'Senior Officials' Think Saddam May Not Have Survived.
...evidence that put him in the bunker last night was very reliable, and they are confident that the cruise missiles and bunker-busting bombs that were fired at that bunker last night hit the target. So now, intelligence experts are studying the tape to determine if it is really Saddam, or a body double which he is known to use from time to time.Well, he didn't hold up a newspaper like in Proof Of Life, so maybe he taped the message days ago?
via [ drudge ]
Odd Todd has a new cartoon.
Watch the outakes too!
via [ greengrl ]
Watch the outakes too!
via [ greengrl ]
NY Times: Hold It Right There, My Camera's Ringing.
Nokia also designed a new keypad for the 3650 in which keys are arranged like numbers on the face of a clock. The company says the new layout makes one-handed use easier.Aren't a clock's numbers arranged clockwise?
The Adam Ezra Group: Free Show tonight at The Paradise.
SoundClick: Band History.
Vote for Adair Howell in Cosmo's amateur covermodel search.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Evrybody's talking about Mark Romanek's Johnny Cash Music Video: Hurt.
via [ kingblind ]
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Free Speech Means No Media.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance where he received an award for supporting free speech.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance where he received an award for supporting free speech.
Howard Dean 2004 Call to Action Weblog.
Another one - Howard Dean 2004.
Those Americans who opposed our going to war with Iraq, who wanted the United Nations to remove those weapons without war, need not apologize for giving voice to their conscience, last year, this year or next year. In a country devoted to the freedom of debate and dissent, it is every citizen's patriotic duty to speak out, even as we wish our troops well and pray for their safe return. Congressman Abraham Lincoln did this in criticizing the Mexican War of 1846, as did Senator Robert F. Kennedy in calling the war in Vietnam 'unsuitable, immoral and intolerable.'Howard Dean is running for president and has a weblog.
Another one - Howard Dean 2004.
Reuters Raw Video.
Reuters Raw Video, the free service will stream unnarrated footage of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq.
Exactitudes: Tattoo Babes and others.
Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity.This rocks!
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Between Iraq and a Hard Place. [ Real One Video 12:39 ]
Timely comedy segment from England.
History repeats itself.
Timely comedy segment from England.
History repeats itself.
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Steven Wright has a web site.
Iraq Body Count.
The worldwide update of civilian casualties in the war on Iraq.
Today's News by Steve Garfield. [ Requires Quicktime ]
CrimQuips: Commentary by Barry Crimmins.
Bush gave detailed instructions to the Iraqi military about how to save itself. Too bad he hasn't a similar plan for the residents of Baghdad.
Take a look inside the Oscar Goodie Bag!
Monday, March 17, 2003
"US officer" Joins Lebanese ex-President for Last-Ditch Mediation.
Did this conversation really happen?
Is it a TV movie script?
"When do you intend to attack and try to kill me?" Saddam asked.I guess that's clear.
"Basically, after the March 19 deadline passes," came the reply.
Did this conversation really happen?
Is it a TV movie script?
London: Golden times for black taxi cabs.
Looks like a cross between a New Beetle and a Mercedes to me.
HBO's Six Feet Under: Music Credits.
This song is from my favorite CD of 2002: Details!
Song 02: David and Keith are excited and playful as they drive off to their vacation get-away.Nice!
Frou Frou: Must Be Dreaming
This song is from my favorite CD of 2002: Details!
Download the last Bis song.
"Today Of All Days" is the last output the band will produce, and you can download it now.
It rocks!
via [ grooveymother ]
"Today Of All Days" is the last output the band will produce, and you can download it now.
It rocks!
via [ grooveymother ]
NCAA Tournament Catfight!
Go Cats!
Miller Brewing Co. unveiled 10 new ads Thursday for the company's wholesale distributors at their annual meeting in Las Vegas. The new spots, a continuation of the Miller Lite "Story Tellers" campaign, include five ads that are spinoffs of the "Catfight" spot that stirred controversy last fall.Brooks says the "Catfight" sequels will debut during the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Go Cats!
Sunday, March 16, 2003
Saturday, March 15, 2003
What if the 'Challenge Question' is too challenging?
I just opened up a new account online and they asked me to pick a challenge question, in case I forget my password.
I think that most of these challenge questions are too tough to answer!
Favorite cartoon character is a battle between Dilbert and Doonesbury. Do the Get Your War On characters count?
Favorite fictional character is too hard. I watch a lot of fictional TV. Does Trista count?
Favorite restaurant is a tough one, it's a toss up between Doyle's Cafe and Dogwood.
Favorite book has a few contenders,
The Stand: Complete and Uncut, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and The Conversations by Walter Murch.
Best friend's last name is tough, since I have more than one!
Dream occupation. Hmm... I'd say what I'm doing now is it, Video Producer. But what if that changes when my screenplay gets optioned by Hollywood, or when Jay Leno hires me as a fulltime writer?
Favorite pet's name is tough since I didn't have one. :-(
First date. Can't remember my very first date. I wonder if that's a good or bad thing?
Don't you think we have enough things to think about these days?
Now there are reports of a Killer Flu!
I'm looking forward to spring.
Now there are reports of a Killer Flu!
I'm looking forward to spring.
Oh Shi'ite.
Hmm.. I'd think there would some other way to celebrate a birthday.
No wonder why kids are afraid to get their haircut. [ Warning: Do not click this link if seeing a child being tortured makes you ill. ]
Hmm.. I'd think there would some other way to celebrate a birthday.
No wonder why kids are afraid to get their haircut. [ Warning: Do not click this link if seeing a child being tortured makes you ill. ]
Wednesday, March 26, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m
Former Governor Howard Dean, presidential candidate in 2004, will discuss his positions on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues facing the nation.
JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, COLUMBIA PT., (close to Route I-93), BOSTON. FREE. (617) 514-1643.
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Wednesday, March 26, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m
Former Governor Howard Dean, presidential candidate in 2004, will discuss his positions on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues facing the nation.
JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, COLUMBIA PT., (close to Route I-93), BOSTON. FREE. (617) 514-1643.
via [ DexterOutlook ]
Amber Alert.
The Amber Alert is an early warning system to help find abducted children. It uses the Emergency Alert System to send out alerts to Radio, TV and Cable TV Stations who then broadcast an alert.
Code Amber.
Code Amber is a project that puts the Amber Alert information onto web pages.
During an Amber Alert all of the relevant details provided by the reporting Authority will be scrolled in the Code Amber ticker window.You can even add the Code Amber ticker to your site. It's easy.
Kevin Sites | blog.
First-person account of a news correspondent's life on the front lines.
This morning we will leave Tehran, Iran and drive ten hours to the border of Kurdish-controlled Northern Iraq. There are eight of us from CNN making this trip to the city of Erbil, a mix of shooters, satellite engineers, producers and reporters--we will ride in a 12-passenger tour bus with a microphone mounted to the dash.Hey babe, we'll be back to pick you up later.
Let's Not Ban Therapeutic Cloning Too.
Two weeks ago, the US House of Representatives voted to ban all forms of research that involved the study of human cells, including reproductive cloning and so-called "therapeutic cloning", whose technical term is Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT).
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said:
... "it is clearly immoral to criminalize using so-called 'therapeutic cloning'"Now the Senate has a bill, S 303 IS: Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2003, that proposes "To prohibit human cloning and protect stem cell research".
My friend's daughter has Diabetes, and asked me help them protect stem cell research. I'm in favor of protecting stem cell research, but why does the govenment tie the protection of this research with the banning of human cloning?
Use this link to contact your representative to tell them how you feel.
Friday, March 14, 2003
Big Dig plans March 30 openings.
Boston Globe Staff Photo by David L. Ryan
Ravi Jain, the Jamaica Plain resident who has succeeded in becoming the first civilian to drive in the Big Dig's new turnpike connector tunnels from Logan Airport, as well as the Leverett Circle Connector bridge, said he considers the next milestone to be the most important. He has been working on plans to be the first across the Zakim Bridge.Watch for my friend Ravi to be the first one across the bridge!
''It's like being the first to go to Fenway Park. You know it's going to be a symbol of Boston for decades,'' said Jain. ''We've all been living with this for more than a decade now, and the bridge is gorgeous. I can't wait.''
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The Durango High School softball team managed a split on the road Saturday, beating Rifle 7-0 in the opener before falling 11-8 in the nightcap.
The Demons (3-9) rolled to victory in the opener thanks to a big third inning. Leading 2-0 at the time, DHS put four runs on the board to push the lead to 6-0, then added an insurance run in the fourth.
Cindy Kobrin popped a home run and a double as part of her 2-for-3, three-RBI showing, while Mercy Lashway, Sidney Corbin and Augusta Brockus all had two hits apiece.
Lexy Vidunas was masterful in the circle, throwing all seven innings and allowing just four hits and four walks to go with 12 strikeouts.
Rifle hopped out early in the second game to erase Durangos 3-0 first-inning lead. The Bears scored 11 unanswered runs.
DHS rallied with runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, but the comeback attempt fell short with the tying run at the plate.
Kobrin stayed hot with the bat with two doubles and three RBIs, while Corbin went 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored. Mackenzie Sill had a pair of hits, an RBI and two runs scored, and Mikayla Jeffryes added a pair of hits.
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As a judge on NBC's The Voice, Blake Shelton stands tall as an ambassador for country music. And now that he's been crowned the CMA entertainer of the year, he's set his sights on global domination.
"As a country guy and as an industry, we have to keep pushing — and not just musically. We have to push the boundaries personality-wise," he told reporters backstage after the CMA Awards on Thursday night (Nov. 1). "We're the same as everybody else, and just because we're the popular music of the U.S. doesn't mean we can't be global and be bigger than just Nashville. We're always going to be country. We should be proud of that and take ownership of that and keep kicking and screaming until the world hears us."
After also winning his third consecutive male vocalist of the year award and sharing song of the year honors with wife Miranda Lambert for their co-writing venture on her hit, "Over You," Shelton made his way to the backstage pressroom. With reporters taking turns with questions, Shelton chatted about his shiny new hardware, his pivotal hit "Hillbilly Bone" and how he's becoming one of those guys he's always looked up to.
Where will you put these new awards?
Shelton: We've got some shelves that we put stuff on, but I guarantee you this. Of all those awards, and even tonight, we are proud of every single one of these things. That song of the year award … Miranda is a songwriter first and foremost. I don't know if she's said that. She's said it to me a hundred times. She's a songwriter first. And for me as a songwriter, that is as personal as I can get also. So the song of the year award, it will have its own shelf. It will have spotlights on it and an alarm and everything. Trip wires. There will be landmines if you walk towards it. All that stuff. It's a real big deal.
Since "Hillbilly Bone" became a hit, you've gone through this career reboot. Can you talk about what has led to that, other than Miranda's presence?
I don't think you can say "other than Miranda's presence" because if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle, you know? I mean, you can't say that. (laughs) I mean, Miranda's presence is as important as the fact that I ever moved to Nashville.
But I know what you're saying. Recording "Hillbilly Bone" and having Trace Adkins be on that record with me was definitely a turning point in my career. We were talking about that today, believe it or not. I went and sat in Narvel [Blackstock]'s office with me, Narvel and Brandon [Blackstock, Shelton's manager and Narvel's son]. We were having one of those moments where we were toasting, "Oh, my gosh, CMAs! We're up for some stuff and things are going good. Remember when we were doing the six paks [EP music releases] and we thought that was going to be the wave of the future?" That was dumb — it wasn't — but we thought it was going to be a big deal then. But the bottom line is we were still making records that we believed in at that time. No matter if there were six songs or 12 songs, they were all songs that we thought were important. And "Hillbilly Bone" was the one we wanted to step forward with.
And I think it was the revival of my career, you know what I mean? I think I was existing up until that point. But that was me finally stepping out. Me finally being the guy to the public that everybody behind the scenes knew. And me going, "You know what? I'm this guy. I've got to be this guy on my records and to the public." And here I am talking about it, talking about it in a good way, rather than, "Oh, man, that was dumb!"
Does this make you want to keep dreaming bigger and see how much bigger it can all get?
Absolutely, because I didn't see this coming. … I would think if you were looking towards this entertainer award you would think, "Man, I'm peaking right now. I need to be getting this right now." I didn't think about that tonight. I was thinking, "There's Taylor Swift, right there. I mean, really? This is pretty dumb that there's really anybody else even nominated."
But having said that, I didn't really think about it. But I've got so much more I want to do. In fact, I'm still trying to figure out how to even schedule all the things that I want to do because country music is still on the forefront for me. But because of my other job with The Voice, I get pulled away from touring. But that's about it. I still make records and I still tour as much as I can, but country music is still my job. That is still what I do and what I want to do, where I came from and where I'm going.
And I challenge any son of a bitch in this room right now to a country music quiz right now. This is not a joke to me. This is my heart. This is my soul. I know who the founders of country music were. And I know who took it to the next step. And I know who pushed the boundaries in the 1970s and who pushed them in the 1980s. This is a big deal. Country music is my life. I understand it. I've studied it. It's what I live and breathe.
To be male vocalist of the year is the biggest deal in the world to me. Entertainer of the year is a bigger deal to me. But is it leaving me wondering what's next? Hell, no! Hell, no! It's making me go, "Oh, my gosh, I'm starting to become one of those guys that I've read about and I've studied and I've understood and I've worshiped. What do I do with this?" And it's very important to me what I do with this. That's why a vehicle like The Voice is such a big deal because it's on my shoulders how everybody in this room and everybody in that other room is represented.


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The amphibious landing Monday included about 24 assault vehicles and more than 1,000 infantry Marines and sailors. Five Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercrafts commanded by the U.S. Navy's Assault Craft Unit 5 landed on the beach as support. The exercise challenged the Marines in command and control operations as they pushed through a beachfront.
The beach assault was part of a larger training exercise known as Steel Knight. Marines took the beach, stormed inland and secured the base's two airfields. At Twentynine Palms, 36 amphibious assault vehicles on treads and about 9,000 Marines performed live-fire training and maneuvers.
The base's commanding general, Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey, who leads 25,000 Marines in the 1st Marine Division, oversaw the collaboration between Marines from Camp Pendleton and Twentynine Palms.
The training exercise will continue for a week. Bailey and his officers began planning the large-scale exercise in June.
"It's a big deal to monitor exactly what's happening in two locations several hundred miles apart," said Col. Scott Wertz, operations commander for the 1st Marine Division
The exercise was conducted to improve combined arms competency skills. Since 2005, Steel Knight has been conducted as predeployment training in preparation for Operation Enduring Freedom. Between 2008 and 2010, the training exercise focused on counterinsurgency operations reflecting conditions in Afghanistan. This year, the exercise focused on conventional operations – Marines invading from the sea and returning to the sea – that are at the Marines' core.
"We never stopped training with amphibious assaults as we were allocating resources to the counterinsurgency fight," said Lt. Col. Howard Hall, the 3rd Amphibian Battalion commanding officer. "This (training) opens the door and gives us a proficiency to respond anywhere from a naval sea base."
While recent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have focused on the Marines' counterinsurgency skills, the importance of amphibious capabilities remains critical and relevant, base officials emphasize.
Amphibious assault vehicles traveling at 6-8 knots and powered by water jet propellers carried the Marines to shore.
Not all of the vehicle's achievements are measured in lethal victories. During the 1991 Iraq War, the sheer number of amphibious assault vehicles positioned near the shoreline forced the retreat of Iraqi forces from the front lines, Hall said. The vehicle was also the main transport for the infantry on the move from Kuwait to Baghdad during the second Iraq War in 2003. In 2005, in response to Hurricane Katrina, Marines used the amphibious vehicles to help save 263 people in the first 48 hours following the arrival of the devastating storm in New Orleans.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Crock Pot Spiced Apple Butter
Happy Homemade Wednesday Slow Roasters! Apple butter has been on my list of things to make for so long now. Perhaps fear of the unknown kept me from making it sooner. After I finished this heavenly creation I kind of laughed at myself. It was so easy. Don't wait. Go to the store and buy your favorite apples and make some apple butter.
You house will smell heavenly all day, and you will have 6-8 jars of this delicious Spiced Apple Butter as your reward. Munchkin loved it and so did Chad. It was a huge hit. You are going to love it.
Spiced Apple Butter - makes 6-8 (4 ounce) jars
6 pounds Fuji apples
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
Peel and core apples. Chop apples into small pieces.
Place apples, sugar, cinnamon and allspice in crock pot (I used 5 quart). Stir to coat apples with sugar and spices.
Cook on high for 1 hour, with cover on. You will notice the beautiful juice the apples, sugar and spices have started to create. Also the aroma coming from your crockpot is heavenly!
After one hour, stir apples and turn to low. Cook covered for 8 hours on low. Transfer apples and juices to a blender and puree.
Return to crock pot and cook on high for 1 hour, uncovered. Prepare to can apple butter.
Can by water bath according to manufacturers instructions. I chose to use the 'inversion method' of canning jams and jellies. It is fast and painless!
Click here for a printable version of this recipe - The Slow Roasted Italian.com
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This would be SUCH a good "end of the year" gift for all of my teacher friends! :-) I'm totally going to do this!ReplyDelete
Yum! these and your dried apple rings have me CRAVING apples like no other. saving this recipe for sure. i love apple butter on pancakes. :)ReplyDelete
i have never thought to make butter in the crockpot! GENIUSReplyDelete
My son loves apple butter and I too have always been afraid to make it myself. I guess I'll have to give it a try now that you have claimed it so easy to make.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Lovely! Sadly, I'm allergic to cinnamon, so I can't indulge, but I'm getting ready to can for the first time ever this year and i am SO excited!ReplyDelete
Wow, I had no idea it was so easy! I'd love to have my house smelling so delicious!ReplyDelete
Wow... this is awesome! I would love to try this! I love making homemade spreads and dips, and this would be a lovely addition! Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
I am a big fan of apple butter. My mom made this best in the whole world! Of course I haven't tried yours - yet! Thanks and have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
Just one question. Approximately how full do you fill the jars?ReplyDeleteReplies
Ball - Complete Book of Home Canning states 1/4" head space. Enjoy.Delete
- AnonymousApril 29, 2013 at 10:38 AM
I have been making this, it is delicious so far! After about 5 hours on low the apples were soft enough and I used a hand blender, since then it has been on high with the top off to thicken. I can't imagine 1 hour being long enough! It has been thickening for about 8 hours total for me and as of right now it is still somewhere between applesauce and apple butter in consistency... But everyone's crock pot is different so that may be why. So glad I found this recipe, I have very fond memories as a child of going to the country to my grandparents' friends cabin where they had an apple orchard, helping them pick apples and watching them make apple butter. We would then have jars of freshly made apple butter and it has been so long since I have had it. I've seen they sell some in stores but there are all kinds of ingredients in them so to be able to make it myself with only 4 ingredients is just lovely.ReplyDelete
Anyway thought I would thank you for the recipe and add in my experience since I haven't seen anyone else comment that they have tried it! If you are thinking about trying it - do it!
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Any problems trying to blend hot apples and juice? A little concerned about blowing the top off the blender because it is hot. Help!ReplyDelete
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In the Live RPG, Attributes are known as, the assassins TRAITS. There are 6 different Traits that define the characters strengths and weakness. The Traits not only effect the characters in-game stats, but are also used to role play an interesting assassin. Like I wrote before, the Traits are based on a scale of one to ten. One being weak, and ten strong. Below are the six Traits in order, based on Physical, Mental, and Emotional Traits. Two for each:
Not much response or intell from you gamers but I guess I should countinue to write about my RPGame. The game system is based on the number ten.
(A standard d10, will be used in Live.)
Ever thing is based on a number between 1-10. One being the lowest score, and ten being the best score possiable. Its like saying,"On a scale of 1 to 10, how hot is that chick?". Your characters traits (Attributes/ability scores in other games), are based on this 1-10 scale. Here is an example:
What kind of poeple does every one like in a gaming group?????
Im starting a new RPG based on realistic life of the past (1 BCE-1600 AD). In the game there is a clan of assassins who where and always have been the victims of being framed. The game explains why people are good and evil. It also explains why ancient texts refer to the darkness, as evil, and the light, as good. A sterio type that has never been explained. These assassins have lived since the beginng of man. Trained to deplet the corrupt, who abuse their power. Ever generation has a tale, and ever


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Izuna Uchiha (うちはイズナ, Uchiha Izuna) was a shinobi of the Uchiha clan. He along with his brother Madara Uchiha were renowned as the clan's two strongest members.
As a child growing up during the war-torn era, Izuna once accompanied his father on a mission to kill Hashirama Senju whom Madara, albeit unknowingly, had been meeting. Once there, Izuna and his father were confronted by Butsuma and Tobirama Senju, the latter of whom he acknowledged by name.[3]
Eighty years prior to the start of the series, Izuna and his older brother Madara were said to be equals as the most gifted members of the Uchiha clan. They usually competed with each other every day in order to get stronger. Both awakened their Sharingan early in life, and they became the first Uchiha to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. Madara used the power of his Mangekyō Sharingan to take control of the clan, with Izuna at his side. It said that Madara became blind, and he took Izuna's eyes to regain his sight.[4] Itachi Uchiha suggested that his eyes had been taken by force,[5] however Tobi insisted that Izuna had willingly given up his eyes for the good of his brother and the whole clan, seeing that Madara needed to remain strong to protect the clan from its growing number of enemies.[6] In reality, Izuna died with the mortal wound Tobirama had inflicted on him.[7] Madara took Izuna's eyes and it granted him with an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.[8] Madara's love for his brother lends credibility that Izuna willingly allowed Madara to take his eyes.
Izuna Uchiha was a harmonic and devoted person.[1] He also appeared to be very competitive with his brother, Madara, in terms of skill. Obito also implies that Madara and Izuna were close as brothers.
Izuna was a fair-skinned man with long, black hair that had a blue tint to it and was tied in a ponytail. His bangs parted down the centre of his face to frame both sides of it. He wore the standard Uchiha outfit which consisted of a high-collared, blue shirt with the Uchiha Crest on his upper back and blue pants which were wrapped up in bandages at the ends. On his waist, he had a bandage belt that held a sack which presumably held ninja tools.
Izuna was noted to be equal to his elder brother, Madara, in every way. Both of them had exceptionally strong chakra, even for Uchiha members, and trained daily to hone their skills.[9]
Izuna mastered his Sharingan at a very young age, alongside Madara. When Izuna awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, his took the appearance of three bars stretching out of his pupil. When Madara took his eyes, the two Mangekyō combined. Izuna's loss of his eyes rendered him blind, but he managed to survive, and continued to battle. This sudden disability however, ultimately led to his death.
He was also seemingly skilled in kenjutsu after being observed on the battlefield as a child with a sword in his possession.[3]
While posing as Madara, Obito Uchiha claimed that Izuna's death after giving Madara his eyes played a great role in Madara's antagonism towards the Senju clan when they proposed a truce. Madara would have thought Izuna's sacrifice to keep him strong and protect the clan as being in vain. Izuna's eyes continued to be of great importance, first, by granting Madara the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, and in his old age, Madara would also awaken the Rinnegan with Izuna's eyes. The same eyes were later transplanted into Nagato, who would later go on to become Pain, and a powerful figure-head of Akatsuki, and then into Obito Uchiha, who came to share Madara's ideals, and while posing as him, plunged the world into the Fourth Shinobi World War.
- Izuna (飯綱) is the name of a fox spirit in Japan and of a mountain. The latter is usually called Mount Iizuna, though. Iizuna, written with the same kanji, is also the Japanese name for the least weasel. Izuna's name can also be from a mythical god and wind spirit named Izuna that presents himself in the form of a tengu, which may be a reference to Susanoo's perfect form that resembles a tengu.
- Izuna and Obito share the same birthday, and blood type.
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