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Greater strength and endurance. Enhanced thinking. Better teamwork. New classes of genetic weaponry, able to subvert DNA. Not long from now, the technology could exist to routinely enhance – and undermine – people's minds and bodies using a wide range of chemical, neurological, genetic and behavioral techniques.
It's warfare waged at the evolutionary level. And it's coming sooner than many people think. According to the futurists at the U.S. National Intelligence Council, by 2030, "neuro-enhancements could provide superior memory recall or speed of thought. Brain-machine interfaces could provide 'superhuman' abilities, enhancing strength and speed, as well as providing functions not previously available."
Qualities that today must be honed by years of training and education could be installed in a relative instant by, say, an injection or a targeted burst of electricity to the brain. Rapid advancements in neurology, pharmacology and genetics could soon make such installations fairly easy.
These modifications could give rise to new breeds of biologically enhanced troops possessing what one expert in the field calls "mutant powers." But those troops may not American. So far, the U.S. military has been extremely reluctant to embrace human biological modification, or "biomods." And that could result in a veritable mutant gap. In this new form of biological warfare, the U.S. could find itself outgunned.
But not if Andrew Herr can help it.
A 29-year-old Georgetown-trained researcher with degrees in microbiology, health physics and national security, Herr is one a handful of specialists in the defense community preaching greater U.S. investment in biomods. First as a consultant with the Scitor Corporation, a Virginia-based firm whose clients include top military and intelligence agencies, and later as the head of his own research organization, Herr's job has been to think about biological modifications whose effects he says are "more than evolutionary."
Another word for that: revolutionary.
Whether positive or negative, the impact of routine biomods could be huge. "The best-case scenario is extraordinary increases in quality of life in the First World and beyond," Herr says. The worst-case scenario, he adds, is people being biologically modified "without them knowing it." That is, an evolutionary sneak attack.
But it's not clear how closely the government is listening.
The Once-and-Future Mutant Age ——————————
Ten years ago, there were all sorts of biomods enthusiasts roaming the halls of the Pentagon's premiere science division. In 2002 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched an ambitious effort aimed at tweaking troops' physiology to reduce their susceptibility to stress, sleep deprivation, fatigue, pain and blood loss while enhancing their memory and learning. The idea was to help soldiers "perform at their peak, stay at their peak," one former Darpa official told Wired.
The program was called Metabolic Dominance. It promised to produce America's first mutant warriors.
Progress was slow – understandably so considering the scope and scale of the effort. In 2007 Tony Tether, then Darpa director, downplayed Metabolic Dominance, signaling the beginning of the end of the program. "We're making it possible for people to be all that they can be, not making them be better than they can be," Tether told Wired.
By 2008 the science agency had all but abandoned Metabolic Dominance. Herr began his work the next year, studying and advocating biomods for an alphabet soup of military and intelligence clients. In effect, Herr helped pick up the pieces from Darpa's initial, failed effort.
In 2009 Herr was assigned to a Pentagon-funded project aimed at understanding "unit cohesion." That is, what makes one group of soldiers keep fighting through hunger, thirst, exhaustion, confusion, and the deaths of comrades. Unit cohesion has won and lost conflicts since the beginning of warfare, but it was still poorly understood.
For his unit cohesion study, Herr interviewed Army infantrymen, Navy submariners and Air Force drone operators. Partway into the two-year study Herr had an epiphany. "The 'aha' moment," Herr tells Danger Room, "was seeing a link between an objective physiological phenomenon – knowing the effects on the body and brain of stress hormones – and how that matched with all the literature on unit cohesion."
In other words, Herr had a vision of the stress hormones that our glands pump into our bloodstreams in life-or-death situations, and, in turn, impact the behavior of trained combat units. Tracing this physiological blueprint for combat effectiveness, Herr realized it could be altered biologically. "All of sudden the Matrix made sense," Herr says, referencing the secret world of the eponymous 1999 sci-fi film.
The military could select troops and their officers for their unique, inborn ability to cope with stress. Or it could directly tweak a soldier's body functions – re-balancing the normal hormonal cocktail so the soldier doesn't panic, doesn't retreat and keeps on fighting, even when the odds are against him and any normal person would just give up.
Specific enhancement methods Herr studied include: focused diet and exercise regimens; injections of the stress-inhibiting brain molecule neuropeptide Y; electroshock-style Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to boost thinking; and gene therapy for enhancing a whole host of body functions by literally altering a person's DNA with viruses or chemicals.
Following the unit-cohesion study, Herr began teaching individual self-enhancement techniques in Washington, D.C. and Indiana. His students were officers and civilians slated to deploy to Afghanistan under a Pentagon program that embeds American mentors in the Afghan government. Among other tricks, Herr instructed them to minimize brain-stimulating blue light in order to protect their sleep cycles; eat small, frequent, protein-rich meals to maintain steady cognition; and exercise in order to biochemically neutralize the steady stream of stress hormones that advisers experience in their year-long, sometimes dangerous deployments.
Herr says the curriculum fed into his other projects, many of which are classified. "I can't really talk about those," he says. Clearly, the techniques Herr taught to the advisers could also be applied to pilots, sub and carrier crews and frontline infantry, for whom the stress is even greater and the work even more critical to U.S. national defense.
But for these combatants, the Pentagon wants to go beyond merely encouraging self-enhancement. Patrick Lin, a professor at California Polytechnic State, notes the military's "ongoing interest in using pharmaceuticals, such as modafinil (a cognitive enhancer), dietary supplements, as well as gene therapy to boost the performance of warfighters."
And in February the British Royal Society identified four small-scale DARPA biomodification efforts focusing on stress-reduction and neurological enhancement, plus an obscure Air Force program aimed at the "exploitation of external stimulant technology" to enable airmen "to receive and process greater amounts of operationally relevant information." That's generally understood to mean drugs.
Herr says defense planners are discussing a comprehensive strategy to unite these programs and coordinate growing military investment in modification technologies. "What I've been working on is trying to support and guide that discussion." To that end, he has briefed the Defense Science Board, a panel of the Pentagon's top technology advisers.
A comprehensive biomods strategy would get the Pentagon back to the same conceptual point it was at a decade ago at the launch of Metabolic Dominance – and prove that U.S. military leaders are serious about preparing for the coming era of mutant warfare.
Ready or Not ————
Whether or not the Pentagon is ready, the biomods bug is spreading, spurred by government programs and, increasingly, privately funded research all over the world. But Herr cautions against expecting biomods to transform society and warfare tomorrow. "We're still in the foundational phase."
For its part, the National Intelligence Council expects some resistance to biomods. "Moral and ethical challenges to human augmentation are inevitable," the Council advised. Americans, especially, tend to have deep reservations about changing people's biology, Herr points out. That doesn't mean they won't do it. He points out increasing acceptance of cognitive-enhancing drugs among American college students. "Seventy to 80 percent of upperclassman have at least once taken these drugs illegally to get better grades," he says. "If the younger generation in our country is more comfortable with this, then that would make the use of these kinds of things in society, and by extension the military, very different."
But the U.S. is still likely to move more slowly on biomods than say, China or Russia. "Other countries are probably much more likely to take advantage of these [technologies]," Herr says. "The question will be how they do it."
"Other countries are also interested in these areas but are not so open as the U.S. about what they are doing, so it is difficult to know exactly what is going on in many cases," notes Rod Flower, a professor at the William Harvey Research Institute in the U.K. and the chair of the Royal Society's biomods study. It's equally hard to tell to which terrorists, militants and criminal groups these countries might have ties – and whether new biological weaponry might proliferate through these channels.
The best-case scenario for biomods, Herr says, is widespread, legal and peaceful use of performance-boosting methods to elevate creativity, potentially leading to technological breakthroughs in other fields that in turn could "really enhance the quality of people's lives."
"It would be nice to think that the efforts of military scientists could be put to peaceful uses," says Flower.
Herr says when it comes to weapons-grade mutations, it's wisest to focus on worst-case scenarios, albeit only the most plausible one. "What can be useful is a body of research which says here are things, which if they happen, would cause major discontinuities."
The most realistic future biomods apocalypse is one in which a hostile foreign government or terror group finds ways to subtly change a lot of people. "The worst-case scenario is people could start doing things that wouldn't be recognized," Herr says. "At least you can do something about if if you know it's happening."
Genetic Sneak Attack ——————–
Among his duties at Scitor, Herr was tasked with "red teaming" the performance-enhancement field on behalf of the Defense Department in order to assess the approach America's rivals are taking to the technology. Drawing on his childhood conversations with his world-traveling parents, Herr concluded that military biomodifications could develop very differently in other countries.
Herr says he achieved a breakthrough in his red-teaming in 2010, while in Boston attending what he describes as a "totally academic, non-military" conference on gene therapy, which typically involves "infecting" a person with a specially tailored virus that can modify DNA and in principle, cure a disease or correct a defect.
But fixing genes is hard. Damaging them is a lot easier, one of the speakers at the Boston conference admitted. "He said if our goal was figuring out how to create muscular dystrophy, we've been very successful, but if our goal is to treat it, we're far from the goal," Herr recalls. "He meant it as a laugh line. But I'm sitting in the back thinking ... it's kind of scary. They know how to break us but don't know how to fix us."
In one dire scenario, an army might attack its enemies by changing their physiology to make them dumber, slower, more afraid. In The Atlantic recently, two researchers even discussed the possibility of governments or terror groups genetically assassinating enemy leaders by tailoring cancers specifically to the target's DNA. The authors pointed out that the U.S. State Department already surreptitiously collects DNA samples from foreign dignitaries.
There are several ways these theoretical bio-attacks could be accomplished. At an August war game hosted by the Army, Herr and other experts said biological agents could be slipped into an enemy's food or water supplies or dispersed by air. Herr says it could also be possible to secretly add an agent to a commercial product. "Someone thinks he's taking protein powder but he's really taking God-knows-what."
If America gets caught unaware by some future bio-assault, it won't be because Herr didn't try to prepare us. After three years at Scitor, this fall Herr struck out on his own with an ambitious plan to advance the biomods field. He started two companies: one, a research firm called Helicase; the other, a sort of personal consultancy called Cognitrition that Herr says will offer clients advice on "enhancing cognitive performance through nutrition and day-to-day activity."
That's right: Herr wants to help people develop their own potential powers. If he's correct about the future of bio-weaponry, his clients will be just slightly ahead of the curve in the coming mutant age.


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The best and brightest auto industry luminaries — from Hyundai USA CEO John Krafcik to GM's new Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick answering your questions during the Detroit Auto Show. Not a commenter yet? Sign up now! Here's the schedule.
Today's schedule is (all times EST):
10:15 - 10:45 AM: Joel Ewanick, GM Chief Marketing Officer
11:00 - 11:30 AM: John Krafcik, Hyundai USA CEO
1:00 - 1:30 PM: Jim McDowell, MINI USA CEO
1:30 - 2:00 PM: Oliver Friedmann, MINI Head of Product Management and Vinnie Kung, MINI Product Management
2:30 - 3:00 PM: Gary Temple, President JLR NA
3:30 - 4:00 PM: Brett Berk, Editor of Stick Shift, Vanity Fair's Gay Car Blog
Because our time's going to be limited with executives, if you want to make sure your question gets answered, you've got to have your questions ready to go ahead of the official time slots for each AMA (Ask Me Anything).
No, that doesn't mean slapping your questions in this post. Those questions won't get answered. What it means is be here and refreshing the site ahead of the time slot to make sure you get your shot to ask your question — and more importantly, get it answered.
No softball questions. No rules. Ask them anything. It's what America demands.

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Warehouse Management System
Perfect inventory visibility. Continuously improve customer, supplier and employee perception. Fast, non stop, adaptable and easy to set up and use.
Warehouse management system – Comprehensive and practical
Goods in receipts are validated against purchase orders to ensure accurate updates to stock records. Labels are automatically printed for received items with barcodes for stock code, batch code and expiry date. You can directly put away or 'hold' stock in the 'transfer' location.
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Anything currently in the 'transfer' location can be moved to a physical stock location. Scan the location barcode and the location name automatically populates the location box.
Our order management system pushes orders as they are captured and allocated to the warehouse management system.
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You can customize pick lists to track simple light manufacturing workflows. We can adapt your system to use barcodes to track item build status.
You have complete control over the structure and format of the packing slips.
Because our order management software communicates with one or multiple couriers, you can send them shipping instructions, bulk print their shipping labels and retrieve and store tracking numbers in each sales order, so everyone including your customers know what was shipped, where and by whom.
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You can 'Wave' or 'Snapshot' count inventory.
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You can transfer stock using the mobile app or from within the system. The underlying stock adjustments mirror the physical movements.
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Your warehouse management system talks to your order management system which both talk to your inventory management and accounting. The status of your warehouse(s) is continually available for everyone who needs to know.
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Performance and Data Access Part 1: Time, Transactions, Packets
Performance, reliability and security continue to challenge system architects, as they have throughout the era of distributed computing. For systems with a database and network infrastructure, the performance, reliability and security challenges today are substantial. Whether applications are a composite of components, classes, assemblies, libraries, scripts, services or all of the above, an old adage still applies:
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Experience has taught us that dealing with the weakest link in a system architecture is often an ongoing process of remediation, for reliability, security and performance problems. In web services, enterprise applications, cloud computing and other distributed processing; the weak link can produce performance bottlenecks that we often quantify using time.
For some computing technologies, a relationship to time can be a defining characteristic. Time-division multiplexing provides a solution for processing multiple data streams to handle communication with multiple devices. Some operating systems have implemented multitasking with the processor scheduling task execution based of time slices. Computer timesharing was a catalyst for solutions to monitor program execution time and account for processor and storage usage.
In my salad days, a NASA project on which I worked was a prime example of real-time software that required 24x7 operations. The Goddard Real-Time System handled a telemetry stream from spacecraft that supported monitoring of biomedical data. The real-time moniker applies to software that processes data so rapidly it permits decision-making as events unfold, whether it's monitoring spacecraft, aircraft or stock prices or handling live video streams. Today complex event processing (CEP) software and in-memory databases are geared to meeting the real-time requirement.
Having become accustomed to using time as a measure of performance, we easily
understand that Usain Bolt's performance on the track is extraordinary because
of a pattern of world-record times. Like track, metrics produced by performance
benchmarks of computers and software are often time-centric. For hard drives, we
use benchmarks to compute average read transfer performance, with throughput
expressed as megabytes per second. We evaluate CPU chips by comparing execution times using benchmarks that include a mix of tasks. For benchmarks of SQL database query processing, we use a mix of SQL queries to measure average execution times.
With execution time being a traditional measure of computing performance, we
often use it in specifications and contracts to define requirements. Since keeping users engaged is important for interactive software, specifications often define a response time goal; this requirement is typically expressed in seconds. At the OS level, context switches and interrupt service routines must operate in sub-second execution times. For database-enabled applications and services, response time often depends on query execution time. For online transaction processing (OLTP), there is often a system requirement expressed as transactions per minute or transactions per second.
The anticipated response time for database applications and services varies with
different workloads. Approving a credit card purchase is an example of online
transaction processing (OLTP) involving short-running transactions that should
execute in seconds. OLTP applications often use a timestamp column in a table to indicate the time of a transaction. Other types of temporal data that might be stored in databases include interval, valid time, transaction-start time and transaction-end time. TSQL2 provides temporal extensions to SQL that support not only transaction time, but transaction-from and transaction-to times.
Not all database activity is a short-running transaction. Bulk loading of databases and ETL operations for a data warehouse can take hours. Analytical databases and data warehouses typically have a different type of workload than transaction processing databases. Behind the scenes of a business intelligence dashboard there can be a complex decision-support analysis that generates long-running queries. Besides a mix of workloads and transactions, factors such as virtualization and network latency can affect execution time and ultimately, distributed processing performance.
SQL queries were an early class of computing problem amenable to distributed
processing using a client-server model. A client could generate a query and ship
it across the network wire for a specialized database server to process and return results. Network communications, such as application layer protocols operating over network interface, Internet and transport protocols, are integral to client-server SQL processing. Today much SQL processing is done over standards-based Ethernet and TCP/IP networks, but the middleware and database wire protocols that drive communication between client and server vary by platform. Network communication using TCP/IP is a process that includes breaking data into packets for transmission across the Internet and re-assembling the packets at the other end of the network wire.
With Ethernet and TCP/IP, local or wide-area networks, executing SQL queries can involve multiple network round-trips and experience latency. When SQL database products evolved to support client-server processing, DBMS companies such as Sybase, Oracle and IBM recognized the potential for network latency. They invented databases that embed logic, such as stored procedures and classes, thereby putting code closer to the data on which it operates. But there's still the question of application servers and database clients distributed across multiple computers, so the network remains an important factor in determining query processing performance.


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With Facebook's initial public offering set to launch, the IPO market clearly looks set to get a big infusion of capital come spring. Considering the current weakness in U.S. IPOs, it will be a welcome boost.
According to Greenwich, Conn.-based Renaissance Capital, U.S. IPOs priced so far in 2012 are off 30% compared with this time last year. Year to date, proceeds raised a total of $1.5 billion, a minus 80.9% change from last year. So far, 22 IPOs have been filed, down 8.3% over 2011 at this time.
Even before the Facebook launch, the Technology sector's IPOs have been the most popular in the last 12 months, at 35% of all IPOs, in 11 sectors. Tech deals totaled $400 million for five deals. The next largest sector, Health Care, saw three deals totaling $200 million.
Average total return on Technology IPOs came to 22.2% versus 6.8% for Health Care. Another stand-out sector was Consumer, which launched two deals totaling $200 million for an average total return of 39%.
In a positive for the market, Renaissance Capital's U.S. IPO index shows a 14.7% return so far this year compared with 7.5% for the S&P 500 index of large-cap U.S. equities.
Renaissance said in a report last July that there are rumors of a possible $100 billion market cap for Facebook when it enters the public markets. However, the independent IPO research firm warns that the Tech sector might be headed toward another boom-and-bust cycle, which it already experienced in 2000.
"Despite the intense interest in these second-generation Internet companies, there is significant and serious debate about what they are truly worth," Renaissance reported. "They have achieved impressive growth to date and address large opportunities, but they still have a great deal to prove."
Public and private valuations imply enterprise-value-to-sales and price-to-earnings ratios for these stocks that are exceptionally high even for growth companies, and differing assessments of their prospects and valuations have caused trading to be highly volatile for those that have already gone public, Renaissance said.
In the global IPO race, which comprises all IPOs that raise more than $100 million in proceeds, the United States is the winner, at $1 billion, as of Monday. China comes next, at $500 million, followed by the United Kingdom, at $300 million.


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Congratulations to Mark Zylka, Nate Sowa and Bonnie-Taylor Blake for publishing the cover article in the October 9 issue of Neuron (www.neuron.org). In their paper, they found the transmembrane isoform of Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (PAP) plays a critical role in pain mechanisms. PAP is expressed in pain-sensing neurons, encodes the classic histochemical marker known as TMPase (or FRAP), and functions in purine nucleotide metabolism as an ectonucleotidase. In addition, intraspinal injection of PAP has potent and long-lasting analgesic properties in animal models of chronic pain.
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This report represents the third in a series of rental housing affordability analyses conducted by the Community Development Studies and Education (CDS&E) Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It uses the latest available data to explore rental housing affordability conditions and trends for communities in the Third District between 2005 and 2010.
The housing market has undergone significant changes in recent years. By analyzing current data, we can begin to understand how these changes have affected rental housing affordability. In this report, we analyze the rental housing market in the Third District in an effort to shed light on the affordability challenges faced by low-income households.
Reports published in 2010 and 2011 by the department are not directly comparable to this analysis because of differences in the geographies covered, the data sets used, and the methodologies employed. As a result of these differences, which are explained in the documentation file below, we strongly recommend against comparing estimates from one report to another.


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First Look: Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6
The new Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 looks strikingly similar to an Android smartphone, but the device is actually the latest media player to grace the growing category. The good news, however, is that it can even make calls and send text messages via Bluetooth.
The device — which runs on Gingerbread 2.3.6 — is like many media players on the market today, with solid audio quality and a collection of apps. But what's especially interesting about the Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 is that it can be tethered to a phone with Bluetooth 3.0 to send and receive calls.
This feature might be appealing for those that want to avoid paying for another phone and adding to monthly bills. To make use of this feature, you'll have to turn to an alternative service such as Google Voice and be connected via Wi-Fi at the same time.
From a design perspective, the device boasts a plastic body, 3.6-inch screen, 480 x 320 resolution display and a single-core Cortex A8 1GHz processor. Weighing in at 3.9 ounces, it is 0.3 ounces heavier than a classic iPod Touch yet feels less sturdy. The $149 device is also less expensive than the iPod Touch ($199), but the plastic body — compared to the iPod Touch's stainless steel casing — makes it not surprising that it's listed at a lower price point.
However, the interface is easy to navigate and it's also laid out intuitively. Sound quality is also crisp and clean. Other features include a rear-facing camera lens and a whole collection of apps, including FM radio, maps, Gmail, Google search and Social Hub.
The Samsung Galaxy Player 3.6 is available now at Best Buy.
Do you think there is still a need for media players or should all phones incorporate these types of capabilities? Let us know in the comments.


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Jack Rogers is the original manufacturer of the popular hand-whipped, leather Jacks Flat. Jack Rogers shoes has been in business making footwear in the U.S.A. since the early 1960's inspired by the isle of Capri and the famous individuals lounging poolside, specifically Jackie Kennedy.
Jack Rogers sandals are a warm weather essential for women of all ages and has been worn by many celebrities, and people all over the world. Their designs are inspired by the easy effortlessness of a day spent among loved ones. Slip them on with your favorite outfit and feel perfectly elegant.
Jack Rogers began as a resort style but has evolved into a lifestyle collection of year-round pieces available in numerous colors and sizes for women on Shoes.com. They're the pieces that take you from an afternoon stroll to dinner and cocktails


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Effective wealth planning takes place throughout the year. However, you can take some key steps before the end of the year and early in the new year that can make a positive impact on your overall finances, particularly from a tax perspective.
While the following list is not exhaustive, here are some time-sensitive items to look at now for your 2019 tax return.
If you owed more than $3,000 in tax upon filing your personal tax return for 2018, you may have received a notification from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) requiring you to pay tax instalments for 2019. If you have not made these instalments and will owe tax after your withholding taxes on salary are accounted for, you should make a payment by December 15. This will reduce or avoid instalment interest and penalties being charged.
Note: It is important that any tax-loss selling strategies you use account for the "superficial loss" rules, which will deny any capital losses if the investments are repurchased in a specified time period. More advanced planning can be used where a spouse has unrealized capital losses. Please refer to our "Advanced Tax Loss Selling" education article for more details. Should tax-loss selling between spouses be considered, it will be important to start the required steps at least 30 calendar days before December 27, 2019.
E.g., investment management fees, child care expenses, medical expenses
We recommend that you work with a tax planning professional to ensure all income, deductions, and credits are accounted for and filing requirements are fulfilled prior to the filing deadlines for your 2019 personal and corporate tax returns.
If you are an incorporated business owner, items to consider in addition to the above include but are not limited to:
We recommend you discuss these strategies with your professional investment, tax and legal advisors prior to implementation to ensure they fit within your overall wealth plan.
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Behind the Scenes at Hale's Ales, Seattle, WA
Hale's Brewery in Seattle, Washington has been in the craft beer scene since the early 80s. Inspired by the ales that founder and president Mike Hale tasted during a year long bicycling trip in southern England, Hale's produces their lineup of beers using traditional English brewing methods. Key to this method is employing a yeast specially adapted to open-topped fermenters. Housed in a 17,000 square foot building, formerly an industrial hose manufacturing plant, is a 30 barrel, gravity-fed, all steam-heated brewing system plus a 125 seat pub. The open floor plan, which shows off the fermenting room behind panes of glass with mirrors on the ceiling, allows pub visitors to take in the sights and smells of the brewing process.
The Hale's line up starts with a Pale American Ale—it was their inaugural brew back in 1983. The Mongoose IPA offers a hoppy pine aroma and is nicely balanced against the malts making it very drinkable. If "the hoppier the better" is your mantra, the turbo-charged Supergoose I.P.A is the way to go. The English influence is most notable in the Cream Ale, Cream Stout, and Special Bitter. Other offerings include the Troll Porter and the Red Menace Big Amber in addition to a number of seasonal beers.
During my visit, Hale's was offering a vertical tasting of a popular seasonal, the Wee Heavy Winter Ale. I was able to taste the 2002, the 2003 and the 2010 versions. They poured a deep rich mahogany color with hints of caramel and roasted malt without being too sweet. It may have been a nice warm day here in Seattle but these winter ales were tasting mighty fine.
Operating with a classic English brewing method while satisfying the hop-centric tastes of the Pacific Northwest is part of what makes Hale's a unique brewery. A bit of the old world combined with the new. In a sense, Hale's offers the best of both worlds right here in Seattle.
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Hale's Ales Brewery
4301 Leary Way NW, Seattle, WA 98107-4538 (map) 206-706-1544; halesbrewery.com
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[Update] Joe Maddon was asked about the possibility of changing the ground rules before the playoffs (via The Heater)…
"I honestly believe that if we were to get to the playoffs you might see some real strong consideration or more thought given to changing something now," Maddon said. "I think that's possible. I do. Truly, just think about a game being won or lost – just say it were the seventh game – and say that game was impacted by that, both sides would be yelling bloody murder."
[9:30pm] The Trop is quirky. The most famous (notorious?) of these quirks are the catwalks. And a few times a year a batted ball strikes one of the catwalks. We laugh when it benefits the Rays and we usually shrug our shoulders when they don't. But rarely do the catwalks have such a pronounced effect on the outcome of a game as yesterday in which a pop-up with 2 outs in the 9th inning of a tie game hit a catwalk, fell fair and scored the go-ahead run for the Twins. And never before have the catwalks impacted a pennant race.
Yes, this is a knee-jerk reaction, but maybe it is time to revisit the ground rules with respect to batted balls striking the catwalks.
Before we continue, let's review the catwalk ground rules:
- There are four rings, dubbed A-D moving out from the center with the A-ring closest to the center of the roof and the D-ring closest to the outer walls.
- Any ball that strikes a catwalk in foul territory is a foul ball.
- If a batted ball strikes the C- or D-ring in fair territory, it is ruled a home run.
- If a batted ball strikes the A- or B-ring and lands in fair territory, it is a live ball.
The ground rules on the C- and D-ring seem fair as they are beyond the field of play.
But what about the A- and B-rings? Is it fair that a batted ball can strike and be deflected by a catwalk and still be a live ball? Especially considering that in most cases, these are routine flyballs.
We feel there are two options that make more sense for the A- and B-rings…
- Treat every batted ball that strikes the A- or B-rings like fan interference. In other words, if the umpire deems that the ball would have been caught, then the batter will be ruled out. Or…
- Rule all batted balls that strike the A- or B-ring an automatic do-over. We can call this the "Cowboys Stadium Rule," where any punt that strikes the scoreboard are replayed.
Either of these options are better than the current "Pinball Rule." And yes, this is just the second time a ball has struck the A-ring. But certainly it is better to revisit the rules now, than after a game-changing play during the playoffs.
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Facial Surgery
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This week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual report detailing obesity rates throughout the 50 states. For the sixth year in a row, Mississippi cinched the top spot: according to results from the study, nearly 34.9% of its population is obese.
On the other end of the spectrum, Colorado is America's skinniest state — just 20.7% of the population ranks as overweight there. According to the center, about 35.7% of all American adults are obese.
(MORE: U.S. Obesity Rates Remain Stubbornly High)
Overall, certain regions of the country fared better than others. For example, the West came in with the lowest rates of obesity, followed by the Northeast, the Midwest and then the South. The Los Angeles Times reported that:
The South had the highest prevalence of obesity – with several states among the 12 that are in the over-30% category: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
(MORE: Severely Obese Kids Have Heart Disease Risk Factors as Early as Age 2)
The top 10 chubbiest states in the U.S. are:
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- West Virginia
- Alabama
- Michigan
- Oklahoma
- Arkansas
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Missouri
Erica Ho is a contributor at TIME and the editor of Map Happy. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.


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According to a Catholic writer in Italy, Pope Francis was aware that his reported words in an Oct. 1 interview published in "La Repubblica" could be misunderstood, and took measures concerning this.
Antonio Socci, a Catholic columnist for the Italian newspaper "Libero," wrote Oct. 27 that after the publication of the interview, Pope Francis was fully aware of the risk of misunderstanding of some of his words, particularly those on conscience.
In the interview, Eugenio Scalfari, founder and former director of "La Repubblica," quoted Pope Francis as saying that "the conscience is autonomous, and everyone must obey his conscience."
Pope Francis reportedly reiterated his phrase, adding that "everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place."
These sentences led to a certain amount of criticism for the Roman Pontiff.
The Pope's knowledge that he could be misunderstood is why – according to Socci – Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See press office, was "told to maintain that the text of the interview had not been revised by Pope Francis and that it was penned by Scalfari after an informal chat."
Fr. Lombardi also underlined that "the interview is not part of Pope Francis' Magisterium."
Despite this, "L'Osservatore Romano," the Vatican newspaper, re-published the interview in its Oct. 2 edition, and it is included among Pope Francis' speeches on the Vatican's website.
According to Socci, Pope Francis "regretted" the publication of the interview in "L'Osservatore Romano" and "complained of it to the director, Gian Maria Vian, in Assisi on Oct. 4."
Video from Vatican TV shows that when Pope Francis went to visit the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, he stopped by and had a one-minute chat with Vian.
According to Socci, "that is probably the moment when Pope Francis complained to Vian."
It is impossible to catch something of the conversation through the video, because of the background noise.
In fact, only two people were close enough to Pope Francis to listen to the conversation between him and Vian: journalist Aldo Cazzullo, and vice-director of the Holy See press office, Fr. Ciro Benedettini.
Socci confirmed to EWTN News Oct. 28 that he "learned about the Pope's regret by two different sources," and he asserted that "both of these sources were part of the Pope's entourage."
Socci further stated that "critics of Pope Francis for his view on conscience are double-dealing."
"Would you really believe Pope Francis thinks that everybody can have his own idea of good and evil and thus justify what he does?" he asked.
"Is it really possible Pope Francis has an idea that would make being Christians, or believing in God, into nonsense?"
Socci underscored that "Pope Francis' teachings on corruption, confession, the danger of the devil, all prove that Pope Francis' view is orthodox, and that he had not watered down the teachings of the Church, and particularly the doctrines of the Church."


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Sunday, March 28, 2010
I am TOO a good blogger...
Now before I tell you what that means, let me address the many comments and emails I have received taking me to task for not identifying each and every quilt pattern represented in the photographs of my sister's quilts that I posted a couple days ago. Apparently, a GOOD BLOGGER would have told you the name of the pattern, the designer, the names of every fabric used therein, the type of batting, what brand of sewing machine was used to make it, and what specific expletives my sister used any time she made a mistake and had to rip out seams and start over ("thunderchoad", "assbucket", and "dirty whore douche licker").
Whenever anyone has asked me for the name of a specific pattern, I have done the following three things:
1. Clicked on the picture to see it full size.
2. Read the name (if available in that picture).
3. Googled it.
And TA DA! The name of the quilt pattern, the designer, and dozens of places to purchase it!
But what really got me giggling over all this were the emails I received that said I really should have given you the contact information about the quilt shop itself (where my sister works). I DID! It's called a link, you silly gooses! Go back to the last post and look at the sentence where I told you my sister works in a quilt shop. See how the words "quilt shop" are a different color? Try clicking on those two words. Go ahead! It won't break the internet!
Whoops! Did you get scared? I'm still here. That was the website for The Quilter's Attic, the shop where my sister works. I am sorry that they do not have online ordering available, but they do have a phone! But don't leave a message - I can't guarantee that anyone knows how to access it. Oh, hey, y'all should get along real good then!
Awww, c'mon, baby. You know I love you.
In other news, the April May issue of Quilter's Home magazine has finally hit the newsstands and to everyone who has come here to this blog today as a result of that issue, I sincerely apologize for using the profanity you read in the earlier paragraph. That was not like me at all, and if you read through my archives, you will discover that I am really a mild-mannered wisp of a girl, dedicated to bringing only love and joy to my 7 or 8 regular readers.
Seriously. I'm a bucket of fucking sunshine. Ask anyone.
I am very excited about this issue because it has my longest (and, I think, best) article to date, called "A Brief History of Quilting." And just to whet your appetite, I will tell you that the opening page of this piece prominently features a large photograph of a yak!
The other article I am excited about was not written by me, but is a compendium of 55 awesome quilting blogs - mine included. Now I love quilt blogs, and craft blogs, and I know I would never have gotten to where I am as a quilter (marginally competent) without the online resources provided by bloggers. The blogging community is huge, but at the same time, one can find friends there so easily just by putting words and work online for everyone to see. I have said many, many times that blogging changed my life, and I would bet that is true for a lot of the bloggers in this article. If you need some inspiration for your quilts, your crafts, or your blog, do check out this list. And then go write the editors (the aforementioned Jake and Melissa) and tell them I'm a bucket of fucking sunshine.
20 comments:
- Brenda said...
I love your blog and I must say I was sooo surprised when MY small blog was mentioned - so thanks for telling everyone to look at the mag!
- March 28, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Jen said...
"dirty whore douche licker"- You are hilarious! And a damn good blogger, to boot.
- March 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM
- Wendy said...
Thank you, as usual, for the awesome humor of your blog. I think I must be one of your "7 or 8 regulars," but if not, please add me to your list. Love your blog, and love your article in the current issue of Quilter's Home (of which I would not have renewed without your comments made a month or so ago on Facebook and/or this blog.) Keep Rockin Bitchy one!
- March 28, 2010 at 10:14 PM
I can relate. I post ads for training offered by my company where the full description of various classes, plus time, date and cost are listed. It also includes a mailto link for who to contact.
You know how many people email me to sign up, to ask when it is and how much it costs? of course I can't reply to them as well as you have ;-)
- March 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM
- Linda said...
Of course you can't break the internet by clicking on hyperlinks! This is how it happens:
Don't say I didn't warn you...
- March 28, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- Jacque. said...
ohhhh, Megan. Of course you are a good blogger! I have you on my reader and love to come see what you have to share...and what expletives you use. {grin} You're the most honest blogger I know!
- March 28, 2010 at 11:25 PM
- soggybottomflats said...
Wtf? Asking about the quilt names, blah, blah, blah! That is too funny.
It must be the voice over in the commercial for ladies monthly supplies that cheerily sings...have a happy period!
Omg, I just snotted all over my keyboard!
- March 28, 2010 at 11:30 PM
- Cathy said...
Megan, Right after I emailed you I did click on the picture and there is was. I had been searching for the name of that quilt for a year and there it was. After googling I found the designer of that quilt was right here in Minneapolis and I was at her quilt store Saturday morning.
I guess I just wanted to email a famous fucking blog of sunshine.
- March 29, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- Cynthia said...
I have a quilt to enter in our little quilt show. It will be named "what the Hell was I thinking?" and I'm sure I will catch all kinds of flack for using the *H-bomb. Geez louise. I will need to post a link to your blog in my next letter to our Newsletter editor, who has not been able to get my fucking phone number right in my ad for the last 2 years.
- March 29, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- Andrea R said...
Ahhhh, this is why I like you. :D
- March 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- Quilting Queen said...
You are a wit...not a twit...a wit.need I say more. AND you are a great blogger, don't let anyone tell you differently. 'cuz I am here to defend you, sunshine.
- March 29, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Patty said...
I always look for your fucking bit of sunshine to brighten up my day. Now tho, my days are pretty crappy, but every little bit of your sunshine helps.
- March 29, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Sarcastic Quilter said...
well, I don't live too far from the shop you linked to and after seeing it, I had promptly decided one weekend I was going to stop in and say "the Bitchy Stitcher" sent me to see her sister! Then introduce myself as the Sarcastic Quilter and ask to see some fab fabric which would speak to me. :D
- March 29, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- Andrea R said...
Well darn it, this pic:
Doesn't have a label for me to Google. :(
- March 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- Sequana said...
You see, as a new reader, this is why I know we're gonna get along fine.
Everyone kept asking about that quilt with the little pigs on it - I copied the pic, zoomed up the size and could *almost read* the title. (Something about Pickled Pigs)
So I searched a few times with various words, and up it popped...Pickled Pigs Fleet. *S*.......I even added it to your comments in case people were still looking.
Took me all of.....say 10mins.
- March 29, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Jake Finch said...
Surprise! Of course you'd be on the list. It's how we knew you could write. When I grow up, I want to be funny like you. And yes, you ALL have to read Megan's column. It absolutely is hilarious. It made me a PIMP. (Peeing in my pants.)
- March 30, 2010 at 1:04 AM
HEY! You made the front cover of the mag...OK, I'll buy this issue! :)
Congrats, Megan! We are ALL proud of you! Now, you won't forget us little people when you are all big shot famous, jumping on couches with Tom Cruise (OK, that was a pretty dated bat-shit crazy famous person reference, but it is still my favorite!)
- March 31, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Ok! My second comment to your blog in one night! (My first visit to your blog ever!)
I have some spare yak poop if you should run out....
My name is Deborah (long o, second syllable gets the accent - it's the original unbastardized pronunciation.) I'm introducing myself here because I can't stand having to make a new frickin' identity every time I want to check out a new blog (not your fault), but just wanted you to know who was writing.
I'll read more of your blogs and will sign my name in the blog....because I'm just like that.
- April 1, 2010 at 10:39 PM
- Cheryl said...
hi -- the blog list in QH brought me here - and I'm so glad!
Only complaint i have about the list is that since it's on PAPER (gasp!) and therefore not hyperlinked, it's such a pain to type out whole long urls!
I was hoping maybe the website would have the article with hyperlinks - but alas, the web site has the LAST issue listed as the CURRENT issue - so I'm just doing the hard work of type type typing in the urls for the whole list!
BUT I do like your blog! (it was worth all that typing ;-)
- April 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Megan said...
Yeah, I know about the website situation at QH, and I can tell you that they are working on the problem. The editors are doing a great job with almost no staff, so cut them some slack and keep supporting the mag so that maybe they'll be able to hire someone to help 'em out (ahem, ahem)
- April 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM


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APASS south is up and running, using a new controller board for the filter wheel. Apogee sent the board out quickly, once they were notified of the problem. Everything seems to be working well, and we have a couple of nights of new data. APASS south has also been taking monitoring data for two southern novae and T Pyx.
APASS north is also working well. The new mirror has solved the image problems, and everything is functioning properly. The main problem is continuing clouds following the monsoonal pattern. Normally these clear out in early September, so we are not making much progress on the survey. Hopefully the pattern will change soon and we can get busy finishing the northern sky.
There was considerable interest in APASS at the recent IAU 285 symposium on Time Domain Astronomy. Several professional groups are now expecting to use APASS for calibrating their projects.
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To successfully complete Section 106 review, Federal agencies must:
- gather information to decide which properties in the project area are listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places;
- if so, determine how these historic properties might be affected;
- explore alternatives to avoid or reduce harm to historic properties; and
- reach agreement with the SHPO (and the ACHP in some cases) on measures to deal with any adverse effects or obtain advisory comments from the ACHP, which are sent to the head of the agency.
When historic properties will be harmed, Section 106 review usually ends with a legally binding agreement that establishes how the Federal agency will address the adverse effects. In the few cases where this does not occur, and the ACHP issues advisory comments, the head of the Federal agency must consider the comments in making a final decision.
For more detailed information on Section 106, you can check the ACHP website. The site contains the complete text of the revised 106 regulations and a handy Citizen's Guide to Section 106 Review that explains the process and the citizen's role in the process.
To initiate Section 106 review in Missouri, the federal agency or its agent/consultant must submit a Section 106 Project Information Form. Section 106 forms, instructions, and regulations are available below as downloadable PDF files. The editable forms cannot be submitted online, but are offered as a convenient way to fill out and print the document. The completed document must then be signed and mailed in together with the required supplemental material.
The department has changed all fill-in forms to PDF fill-in. You will be able to save and reuse these PDF forms. However, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher to save the PDF fill-in form. Also, at this time the department does not accept digital signatures. If your Acrobat Reader prompts you to use one, we ask that you don't.
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Global TGI Barometer January 2008 Issue 33
A combination of reduced faith in conventional treatments and the growth in availability of alternative remedies has led to a rise in the popularity of alternative medicine around the world.
Using the latest research from Global TGI, we investigate consumer attitudes towards alternative therapies in different parts of the world.
Divergent attitudes
The results of the studies suggest that acceptance of alternative therapies varies a good deal from country to country. This is likely to be caused by a combination of cultural factors and variance in the regulation of its use.
Focusing on the proportion of consumers in each country who say that they 'trust homeopathic medicine', we see a considerable divergence of opinion. Almost two thirds of consumers in India** say that they trust homeopathy compared with less than a fifth in the US and Great Britain.
Homeopathy supporters…
In India, alternative treatments are a well established means of combating illness, with an impressive 94% of people saying that they have faith in alternative remedies. Homeopathy is integrated into the general system of health care in India and our study shows that one in ten consumers have consulted a homeopath in the last year.
Other strong supporters of homeopathy can be found in Latin America and the Middle East. Around half of the population in Brazil, Chile, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates say that they trust homeopathic medicine.
…and cynics
In many countries, particularly in Europe, consumers are less convinced. At 15% agreement, Britons are the least trusting of homeopathy, and only 1 in 10 say that they prefer alternative medicine. Even in Germany, the birth place of homeopathy, just 27% of people trust this kind of treatment. France is the European market in which people are most trusting of homeopathy.
Why go alternative?
There are many reasons why many consumers are increasingly turning to alternative remedies to complement more conventional medicine. One theory is that consumers are choosing more and more to take responsibility for their own health and well-being. The internet has had a large impact in this respect, with consumers being given access to unlimited health information online. In the US for example, where we have seen a slow but steady increase in the proportion of people who say that they 'prefer alternative medicine to standard medicine' over the past five years, a third of the population now gathers healthcare information on the internet.
At the same time, people are becoming increasingly health-conscious. Taking Brazil as an example, 9 out of 10 people who trust homeopathic medicine say that they would pay anything where health is concerned, and one third claim that friends ask for their advice on health and nutrition matters. In Germany and Great Britain, half of those who trust homeopathic medicine believe that they should do more about their health.
Who uses alternative medicine?
According to Global TGI research, people aged 35 and over are generally more likely than their younger counterparts to turn to alternative medicine, and acceptance of the practice appears to increase with age. In Germany for example, 30% of 45-54 year olds say that they trust homeopathic medicine, compared with just 20% of 18-24 year olds. The research also shows a clear gender divide, with women generally more in favour of alternative medicine than men. In Chile for example, women are 24% more likely than men to say that they trust homeopathic medicine.
An alternative cure
Homeopathy is typically used to treat chronic or recurrent conditions and our research shows that people who have faith homeopathic remedies are generally more likely to have suffered from such complaints. In the US for example, homeopathy supporters are 57% more likely than average to suffer from eczema or psoriasis, 29% more likely to have asthma and 22% more likely to suffer from allergies or hay fever. In France, people who have suffered the same ailments were found to be 50% more likely than average to have consulted an alternative health practitioner in the last 12 months.
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The Helvetica® typeface is one of the most famous and popular in the world. It's been used for every typographic project imaginable, not just because it is on virtually every computer. Helvetica is ubiquitous because it works so well. The design embodies the concept that a typeface should absolutely support the reading process – that clear communication is the primary goal of typography.
Helvetica didn't start out with that name. The story of Helvetica began in the fall of 1956 in the small Swiss town of Münchenstein. This is where Eduard Hoffmann, managing director of the Haas Type Foundry, commissioned Max Miedinger to draw a typeface that would unseat a popular family offered by one his company's competitors.
Miedinger, who was an artist and graphic designer before training as a typesetter, came up with a design based on Hoffmann's instructions, and by the summer or 1957, produced a new sans serif typeface which was given the name "Neue Haas Grotesk." Simply translated this meant "New Haas Sans Serif."
The Stempel type foundry, the parent company of Haas, decided to offer the design to its customers in Germany, where Stempel was based. The company, however, felt it would be too difficult to market a new face under another foundry's name and looked for one that would embody the spirit and heritage of the face. The two companies settled on "Helvetica," which was a close approximation of "Helvetia," the Latin name for Switzerland. ("Helvetia" was not chosen because a Swiss sewing machine company and an insurance firm had already taken the name.)
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Dead Space 3 writes:
"The answer to stop the Necromorph terror for good is in front of him, will Isaac have what it takes?"
The art of ruining a good licence. No surprise it looks like Capcom's Lost Planet.
Of course it wouldn't be DS3 if they didn't continue the trend, that was a poor launch trailer. Although the CG bits got me thinking what a next-gen DS game would look like, I'll give them that much.
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An Educator's Guide to the "Four Cs"
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All educators want to help their students succeed in life. What was considered a good education 50 years ago, however, is no longer enough for success in college, career, and citizenship in the 21st century.
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Ten years ago, NEA helped establish the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) and in 2002 began a two-year journey to develop what became known as a "Framework for 21st Century Learning," highlighting 18 different skills. In the last eight years, 16 states joined P21 and agreed to build 21st century outcomes into their standards, professional development, and assessments.
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Oklahoma Companies Fare Well in Heading to Market
Oklahoma copanies have done well this year when officials opt to take them public.Published: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:00 am By: Jay F. Marks
Oklahoma companies fare well in heading to market Oklahoma companies have done well this year when officials opt to take them public. By Jay F. Marks Oklahoman
The stock market has been kind in 2011 to Oklahoma companies looking to go public.
Four have launched successful public offerings this year, combining to raise more than $1 billion in their debuts.
Now Chesapeake Energy Corp. is poised to wade into the market with a royalty trust that will hold a share of the proceeds from the company's Colony Granite Wash play in Washita County, as detailed in regulatory filings on Friday. The Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CHKR."
SandRidge Energy Corp. seemingly set the standard for such offerings this year in introducing investors to a pair of trusts.
The SandRidge Mississippian Trust, which trades as "SDT," raised $340 million in April, followed by the SandRidge Permian Trust, "PER," earlier this month, which at its initial offering grossed $621 million.
Success stories
Other successful offerings from Oklahoma companies in 2011 included NGL Energy Partners in May and Compressco Partners in June.
Tulsa-based NGL netted $75.5 million from its initial public offering, while Compressco, which trades as "GSJK," earned $54 million from becoming a public company.
Another planned IPO was canceled earlier this month, robbing investors of a chance to buy into "JAWS."
Oklahoma City-based Great White Energy Services withdrew its plans for an initial public offering after it was acquired by Bermuda-based Archer Limited.


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Just days after nearly hitting a new all-time high, shares of Amazon (AMZN) are faltering ahead of its earnings report, due after the bell Tuesday.
That begs the question: What do investors know that the rest of us don't? Probably not much, but the stock decline may be signaling some jitters.
Shares were down more than 2% Tuesday.
It's not too big a stretch for investors to be a little on edge, given Amazon's less-than-stellar third-quarter report.
This time around, analysts are anticipating a strong quarter, led by a 28% jump in revenue. That may sound pretty solid but some, like JPMorgan, are lowering their expectations for holiday sales "to reflect good (but not great) U.S. e-commerce trends during the holiday."
Did you buy a Kindle this year?
And while BGC Partners tech analyst Colin Gillis is hopeful Amazon will turn a profit, he's keeping a "hold" rating on the stock and says he prefers eBay (EBAY).
StockTwits traders weighed in with their own expectations.
$AMZN ugly reversal from 285 area and now #earnings are a total gamble - #traders always have an edge - live to #trade another day #stocks
Couldn't have said it better myself. But then again, isn't all trading kind of a gamble? Welcome to the casino of Wall Street.
Good point TrendHunter.
Barnes & Noble (BKS) took a hit from sluggish Nook sales so it's little wonder there may concern about how many of those sales shifted to the Kindle, if any. By all accounts, it was a relatively modest holiday season for retailers overall, both online and traditional.
Need I say more? I'm not sure Amazon will have quite the sharp sell-off that Apple did but then again, who knows? Investors are a fickle bunch and if the news is really disappointing, they may opt to bail out.
Haha . Good one. People always care about profit, but they also like their new shiny gadgets. Stay tuned for Amazon -- only 5 hours to go.
Barnes & Noble is having a good end to the year, thanks to the gift that keeps on giving -- the Nook.
British book publisher Pearson (PSO) said Friday that it would pay nearly $90 million in cash for a 5% stake in Barnes & Noble's Nook division. Microsoft (MSFT) already owns a 16.8% stake, leaving Barnes & Noble with 78.2%.
That was enough to offset any disappointment over Barnes & MORECatherine Tymkiw - Dec 28, 2012 1:52 PM ET
Amazon.com is in advanced negotiations to buy the mobile chip business of Texas Instruments, according to Israeli newspaper Calcalist, which would put the online retail giant on the path to becoming a manufacturer of smartphone and tablet processors.
Shares of Dallas-based TI (TXN) rose nearly 3% following the report, while shares of Amazon (AMZN) declined slightly.
Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is currently MOREHibah Yousuf - Oct 15, 2012 12:44 PM ET
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Japan's economy back in reverse
Japan's economy contracted between July and September, reversing two previous quarters of growth and underscoring fears that its post-disaster recovery has stalled.
Factory output in the world's third-largest economy has slowed and Japan recorded its worst September trade figures in more than 30 years as weakness in Europe, a strong yen and a territorial dispute with China hit exports.
The Cabinet Office said the economy of Japan, hammered by last year's quake-tsunami disaster, shrank 0.9 per cent in the September quarter from the previous three months, a result largely in line with market expectations.
On an annualised basis -- which shows how the quarterly data would look if it were maintained for a full year -- the economy contracted 3.5 per cent, it said, as exports slipped and demand among Japanese consumers also slowed.
While the annualised figure beat market expectations, it was the sharpest rate of contraction since the twin disasters in March last year paralysed growth.
The government has taken a series of steps to spur Japan's lumbering recovery, including offering incentives for fuel-efficient vehicle purchases and measures to rebuild the northern region hit by the tsunami.
However, those auto subsidies have now expired. Also, demand for Japanese cars has plunged in China, the world's biggest vehicle market, amid a consumer boycott that followed Tokyo's nationalisation in mid-September of an East China Sea island chain claimed by both Japan and its huge neighbour.
"Deterioration in external demand will likely continue through the October-December period as the negative impact from China is expected to remain," RBS Securities chief Japan economist Junko Nishioka told Dow Jones Newswires on Monday.
Nishioka added that the economy was unlikely to show growth again "until the April-June period at the earliest, since the negative effects from China are expected to remain until around mid-December and as the global economy is likely to hit a bottom in October-December".
Weakness in Europe, a key export markets for Japanese products, has also weighed with simmering fiscal turmoil on the continent.
Last month, The Bank of Japan unveiled $US138 billion ($A133.35 billion) in fresh monetary easing after central banks in the United States and debt-hit Europe also announced policy easing measures to stoke growth.
The BoJ said it would expand an asset-purchase program -- its main policy tool -- by Y11 trillion ($A133.88 billion) to Y91 trillion ($A1.11 trillion) yen, while keeping rates unchanged at between zero and 0.1 per cent.
The central bank, which also said it would provide new loans to banks, had been under pressure from politicians calling for urgent action on Japan's slowing economy.
The asset-purchase program is aimed at injecting liquidity into markets through purchases of government and corporate bonds, and commercial paper, with the latest move aimed squarely at countering a slowing global economy
The BoJ's stimulus came with a warning that Japan's economy would expand just 1.5 per cent in the year to March, well off an earlier 2.2 per cent estimate.
The strong yen is a particularly acute problem for major export brands such as Japan's automakers, with Honda and Nissan recently warning their full-year profits would shrink on the surging currency and China territorial spat.
Japanese factories and businesses across China closed or scaled back operations in September over fears they or their workers could be targeted by mobs protesting against Tokyo's nationalisation of the island chain, called the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China.
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Skripsi Bahasa Inggris 2
Skripsi Bahasa Inggris
It is known that English is an International language which has been received by countries all over the world. The function of it as a means of communication in meeting business or other activities among government over the world. Beside that English is used at science of knowledge, new invention in field of modern technology, pharmaceutical, medical, etc.
As a developing country, Indonesia really needs English because Indonesia government is trying to improve all aspects which are usually faced by all countries. One of these aspects is education, which is essential. As an English teacher to be the writer focuses her attention to the teaching English as the language of the world.
In Indonesia, English is learnt and taught to junior high school, Senior high school even at university. English means that something important for the student to be taught at school based on situation and condition of the object area. But there are some problems that faced by the students. It is realized that most students get bad mark. So, it proves that English is really difficult for the students. There are four skills in learning English they are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking is very important because speaking and human being cannot be separated from each other. Speaking is used to express their ideas and to communicate to people in civilized world. That is way speaking is important. But the students of SMP or graduated of it still get hard to be a good speaker. The problems are:
First, the students feel ashamed and afraid to speak English, so they never practice and use target language and they always use mother tongue in the classroom.
Second, for the teacher, they did not use variety of teaching such as visual aids. The teacher has to motivate the students to learn English in the class, and create the method of teaching. So the students will feel relaxed, and freely in using English in the classroom. The teacher must make afford to understand the material well. In learning English, The students are expected to reach four skills. Among those, speaking is the most difficult to master.
Teaching speaking can be done through dialogues, picture, games, etc. The teacher should choose a suitable ways such as: using games. If the teacher uses it, the students will have a lot of opportunity to practice pronunciation and communication or in other words it means that the students will get knowledge or input from games. Games which introduced to the students are Domino Instruction, What do I need? Sweet Reason, Dream sequences.
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HOUSTON -- Astros shortstop Carlos Correa looked the part of someone poised to contribute, and given his extended absence, his presence was a welcome sight in the home clubhouse.
Correa is scheduled to be reinstated from the 10-day disabled list Friday, ending a 36-game hiatus caused by lower back soreness. Correa landed on the DL on June 26 and has endured a methodical rehabilitation process, one that culminated with a five-game rehab assignment with Double-A Corpus Christi that included Correa going 3-for-16 with a home run for the Hooks.
The Astros (73-43) were 21-15 with Correa on the DL following their 8-6 loss to Seattle on Thursday. Correa was slashing .268/.352/.480 with 13 home runs and 49 RBIs before the injury ended a legit bid at a second consecutive All-Star selection. The Astros are 46-27 with Correa in the lineup.
"We wouldn't bring him back if we didn't expect him to be ready," Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. "This is a scheduled off day for him, and then assuming nothing happens on the off day, he'll be ready to go (Friday)."
Right-hander Gerrit Cole (10-4, 2.64 ERA) will start for the Astros in Friday's game against Seattle. He took the loss in both his starts on the recently completed road trip, allowing five runs on 10 hits and three walks with 16 strikeouts over 11 2/3 innings against the Mariners and Dodgers.
Cole is 2-1 with a 1.19 ERA over three career starts against Seattle, and two of those appearances came this season, when he went 1-1 with a 1.32 ERA. He gave up two runs in 6 2/3 innings against the Mariners on July 30 and took the loss in Seattle's 2-0 victory.
Right-hander Mike Leake (8-7, 4.16 ERA) takes the ball for Seattle (66-50) on Friday. Leake has recorded a quality start in four consecutive appearances dating to July 15. That includes his previous start against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, when he allowed three runs on nine hits with five strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings in a 6-3 win.
Leake is 6-5 with a 3.67 ERA over 12 career starts against the Astros and is 6-6 with a 3.72 ERA over 14 career appearances against Houston.
Leake is 0-2 with a 6.00 ERA in two starts against the Astros this season.
Mariners manager Scott Servais made official what had been rumored recently, announcing that veteran right-hander Felix Hernandez has moved to the bullpen effective immediately. Hernandez (8-10, 5.73 ERA) was slated to make his 399th career start in the series finale on Sunday. Instead, his next appearance will be the first of his 14 years with Seattle as a reliever.
An All-Star as recently as 2015, Hernandez has suffered a steady decline since then, going 25-23 over the last two-plus seasons.
The American League Cy Young Award winner in 2010, Hernandez finished in the top 10 in Cy Young Award voting six times between 2009-15. However, this season he is sporting a career-worst ERA and a career-low 7.2 strikeouts per nine innings. His 1.435 WHIP is the highest of his career. Hernandez last posted a quality start on June 25 at Baltimore. He is 1-4 with a 7.85 ERA over six starts since.
"Very difficult (conversation)," Servais said. "Certainly respect him and everything he's done here throughout his career but these things happen and ultimately it's about the team. It's never easy but again hopefully he takes it the right way. He'll get a chance to pitch at some point down there and maybe he can work his way back in the rotation. We'll see. He'll let us know on that."


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Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Xbox 360 (Pre-owned) Description
Product Country of Origin : This is a pre-owned product, purchased from Individual in India
March, 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning to the Third Tiberium War and long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-time Strategy franchise (RTS) of all time.
The critically-acclaimed Command & Conquer (C&C) series returns with Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars (C&C 3). Setting the standard for the future of RTS gaming once more, C&C 3 takes you back to where it all began Tiberium Universe.
In 2047, Tiberium has blanketed the Earth, which is now divided into zones based on the level of Tiberium infestation. Pristine Blue Zones represent 20% of the planet surface and are the last refuge of the civilized world. Partially habitable Yellow Zones make up 50% of the planet surface; most of the world population lives in these war-torn and ecologically ravaged areas. The remaining 30% of the planet is uninhabitable, a Tiberium wasteland swept by violent Ion Storms. Red Zones are like the surface of an Alien planet.
The infamous Kane has returned to lead the Brotherhood of Nod in a massive global assault on the Global Defense Initiative and the few remaining Blue zones left on the planet. Only you can stop him. The fate of humanity – and the planet – is in your hands.
Featuring state-of-the-art, next-generation graphics, an epic story with live action video sequences featuring top Hollywood actors, and the classic fast-paced C&C style of play, C&C 3 sets the standard for the single player RTS experience.
When you decide to test your skills online, a suite of truly innovative features, such as the ability to transform online battles into a spectator sport, unfold.
Welcome back, Commander.
All our pre-owned games are quality tested & fully playable, but bonus content or codes for online play may have been redeemed. Game may not include original artwork and/or manual.
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Hi All - welcome to this week's Tech Wrap-Up. We've been making some great strides on fixing issues over the last couple of weeks and I hope you're starting to see the improvements in the Editor.
In other news, yesterday we had Gawker Trivia night. Tech's team fart.gop (joined by Jane-Claire) CRUSHED the Editorial competition and we're looking forward to our victory lunch. Better luck next time @hotkitchen
Completed This Week
- A much-improved HTML edit view, with clearer formatting and colorization! This is currently behind a feature flag but you can access it using "/?redactorhtmlview=on" i.e. http://gawker.com/?redactorhtmlv…
- Smartpaste: content that is copy-pasted into the editor from outside sources is better sanitized than before. This is currently behind a feature flag but you can access it using "/?smartpaste=on" i.e. http://gawker.com/?smartpaste=on
Bugs Fixes:
- Applying a link to formatted text no longer results in loss of formatting
- Content displayed in editor now more closely matches the actual contents of the post. This resolves a number of bugs, including headings unexpectedly disappearing/becoming unformatted on-save, and other loss of formatting on-save
- Copy/paste within the editor can break the markup / introduce strange and unexpected markup Undo is sometimes too aggressive / removes much more changes than expected
- Fixed redirect loop issue of notification page
- Dismissed replies now show up on permalinks
- Reply permalinks show only the reply thread (from starter to leaves)
Work In Progress
- Fixing issues with Notifications not appearing for some users
- Building the migration scripts for Blog/User separation
- Working on blog description fields to fix Google search results
- Improvements to Kinja.com landing page and onboarding experience in design
- Global Navigation Improvements in design & prototype
- Left Column strategy
Up Next
- Direct Image Uploads to Cloudinary to reduce some lag issues we've been seeing with images in the Editor
- Global Navigation rework (development)
- Slack, we have purchased enterprise licenses for Slack, so we'll be discovery work around integrating Slack into Kinja and actually working on this during Budapest Hack Week.
- Working on ideas to improve user notifications on desktop
- User Profile enhancements


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I think having it as an option for direct or 3rd party use is a fine idea. After all, many news publishers have a tag for feeds of 'strange' news like Reuters' Oddly Enough, why not take it a step further? Christine Sent from my iPad On Apr 29, 2012, at 16:43, Dan Brickley <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > (disclaimer: thinking out loud) > > A smart-enough-to-know-better friend who shall remain nameless just > re-shared this link, having given it a quick check over (by searching) > and it looked real enough. At first glance it was Onion-esque but > wasn't obviously one of theirs, so got re-shared: > > http://www.freewoodpost.com/2012/03/13/mitt-romney-i-can-relate-to-black-people-my-ancestors-once-owned-slaves/ > > The article is completely false, as > http://www.freewoodpost.com/disclaimer/ indicates. If you view > source, you see itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" though (and a > load more metadata, ogp etc). > > I was wondering whether an addition such as > http://schema.org/SatiricalArticle could ever get traction. > > My initial conclusion is 'no', ... since most of the obvious > applications of 'SatiricalArticle' would likely slow the viral spread > of fake outrageous news around the Web, and so get little support from > publishers like the above, or > http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ http://christwire.org/ > http://www.theonion.com/ http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ etc. But you > never know, there might be some other incentives (e.g. disclaimers?) > that could support such an idea. > > So I thought I'd float the suggestion. If anyone here happens to know > such publishers, I'm curious of their perspective. Would a > machine-readable indicator of 'satire' be interesting to any of them? > Presumably they get much of their traffic from controversy caused by > reposting shocking "news". Of course there's always scope for that > same metadata to be created by third parties, but that's an old old > story (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-PICS-labels/ etc). > > cheers, > > Dan >Received on Monday, 30 April 2012 11:52:22 UTC
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1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup unsalted margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
6 oz. semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, cut into small pieces or chunks
1 cup chopped chocolate covered toffee (like viennese crunch)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the brown sugar, margarine, and vanilla. Using an electric mixer beat until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture and mix until just incorporated. Then mix in the chocolate and the toffee. Spoon the batter by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
Bake until golden brown, about 10 minutes, rotating pans to insure even cooking time for each batch.
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This chapter covers some questions that often come up on the mailing lists.
|CVS and generated files
|• maintainer-mode:
|missing and AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
|• Wildcards:
|Why doesn't Automake support wildcards?
|• Limitations on File Names:
|Limitations on source and installed file names
|• Errors with distclean:
|Files left in build directory after distclean
|• Flag Variables Ordering:
|CFLAGS vs. AM_CFLAGS vs. mumble_CFLAGS
|• Renamed Objects:
|Why are object files sometimes renamed?
|• Per-Object Flags:
|How to simulate per-object flags?
|• Multiple Outputs:
|Writing rules for tools with many output files
|• Hard-Coded Install Paths:
|Installing to hard-coded locations
|• Debugging Make Rules:
|Strategies when things don't work as expected
|• Reporting Bugs:
|Feedback on bugs and feature requests