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LISTEN: Mom's Frantic 911 Call After WI Newborn Goes Missing
Some unbelievable 911 audio has been released by authorities in Wisconsin, where a young mother woke up to discover a knife next to her bed and her newborn son missing.
Kidnapped 6-Year-Old Bravely Asks For Help in Store Bathroom
Kayden Powell was reported missing last week from his home in Beloit. His mother, Brianna Marshall, said that he had disappeared from his bassinet while she slept in the same room in the wee hours last Thursday.
Miraculously, the little boy was found behind a gas station in Iowa on Friday. He had been wrapped in blankets and left in a plastic storage bin. Police say he was in the frigid conditions for 29 hours.
Marshall's half-sister, 31-year-old Kristen Smith, is in custody. The FBI says she admitted to taking the baby after being arrested on an outstanding warrant from Texas.
According to The Associated Press, Marshall also doubted that her half-sister was responsible for the kidnapping during the 911 call. Smith was also gone from the house when Marshall awoke.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A recording of a 911 call from the mother of a Wisconsin infant who was taken from his home last week shows the distraught woman didn't think her half-sister, who is now charged in the kidnapping, had committed the crime.
Authorities on Monday released the nine-minute recording of the call Brianna Marshall, 18, made when she realized her son was missing.
Marshall told dispatchers that her half-sister was in the home the night before and that she awoke to find her half-sister and the infant gone. But the mother also asserted that her half-sister wouldn't take her son.
"I called her, and she's bawling her eyes out and told me to call the cops," Marshall said.
"But she's claiming she doesn't have the kid, correct?" the dispatcher asks.
"No, she wouldn't take my son," Marshall said.
Federal prosecutors charged the half-sister, Kristen Smith of Denver, with kidnapping Friday, hours after a police chief discovered the missing newborn, Kayden Powell, behind a gas station in West Branch, Iowa. The baby, wrapped in blankets and left in a plastic storage bin, was alive and well despite being left in freezing weather for up to 29 hours.
Smith, 31, is being held in her own cell at the Cedar County jail in Tipton, Iowa, while she awaits transfer to federal custody to face the kidnapping charge, Sheriff Warren Wethington said Monday.
"I don't feel comfortable putting her in with the general population due to the circumstances and media coverage other inmates would have seen," he said. "Some of the inmates over there are mothers, sisters, nieces and aunts. I don't think it would be in the interest for her safety."
The FBI alleges Smith took the boy from his great-grandmother's home in southern Wisconsin early Thursday, five days after Kayden was born, and began driving to Colorado. After Marshall discovered the baby was missing and called police, an officer reached Smith on her cellphone while she was passing through Iowa and instructed her to stop for questioning.
An officer who met Smith at a gas station in West Branch, Iowa, found no sign of Kayden. Smith repeatedly denied any connection to the disappearance, but she was taken into custody on a warrant from Texas charging her with tampering with government records and fraud.
About 29 hours later, the police chief found Kayden. The boy was reunited with his parents at an Iowa hospital, where he was discharged in good condition.
After the discovery, the FBI says Smith admitted that she took the baby and put him there. Investigators found online communications in which she falsely claimed to be pregnant or have given birth and a prosthetic pregnancy belly in her car.
Smith has an extradition hearing scheduled Friday on the Texas charge, but authorities said they believe her next move will be to Wisconsin because the federal case gets top priority.
Federal prosecutors in Madison have issued an arrest warrant for Smith, which gives them the power to place her in federal custody anytime. They will likely wait at least until a grand jury hands down an indictment, which could happen next week.
"She's not going anywhere" until then, Cedar County Attorney Jeffrey Renander said.
An attorney representing Smith in the extradition, Victoria Noel, didn't return a message from The Associated Press.


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Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell Monday:
Wells Fargo - Wells Fargo and nine other mortgage servicers entered into settlement agreements with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve. Wells Fargo said its portion of the cash settlement will be $766 million and it expects a pretax charge of $644 million in the fourth quarter. The company is scheduled to post earnings on Friday.
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Yum Brands - The parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut said it expects to turn in full-year earnings of $3.24 a share, lower than estimates, due to weaker-than-expected sales in China. The company said it expects same-store sales in China to be minus 6 percent for the fourth quarter of 2012, versus a previous forecast of minus 4 percent. Shares declined in extended-hours trading.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT men's soccer team saw seven different players record at least one point in its 6-0 victory over Newbury College on Saturday night. Zachary Kabelac led the way with two goals and an assist for the Engineers, who improved to 3-2 on the year. With the loss, the Nighthawks' ledger lowered to 1-1 overall.
After three solid chances to get on the board early in the game, MIT found success in the 11th minute. Kabelac caught up to a throughball from Ben Lewis and sent a shot on goal that was initially stopped by goalie William McNally's dive. However, the ensuing rebound sailed into the top right corner of the net and gave Kabelac his second game-winning goal of the season.
Over four minutes later, the Engineers' extended their margin on another goal by Kabelac. With the ball on the near side of the box, Joey DeRosa dodged a defender and sent a quick pass to Kabelac who immediately tapped it inside of the near post.
Kabelac's final point of the night came when he set up Christian Therkelsen for his first goal of the season in the 20th minute. With his back to the net, Therkelsen one-touched Kabelac's pass, spun, and struck the ball with his left foot into the lower left corner.
Newbury nearly ended the shutout with 17 minutes remaining in the half on a left-footed blast by Shaundize Moosavizadeh that just grazed the left post. He continued to power the Nighthawks' attack late in the frame as his shot from his right foot narrowly missed the net. Almost 30 seconds later Moosavizadeh mounted a dangerous charge at the goal but MIT's backline thwarted the scoring attempt and preserved the 3-0 advantage heading into the break.
The defensive battle continued until David Hawes booted in a feed from Timothy Joubert in the 67th minute. Anthony Saad extended the Engineers' lead to 5-0 when he one-touched the ball, spun 360 degrees, and then directed his shot inside the far post.
Moosavizadeh once again provided Newbury with its best opportunity to register a goal when his blast in the 82nd minute forced MIT goalie Ernesto Reza to come off his line and make a diving stop.
The Cardinal and Gray capped the scoring with seven minutes remaining courtesy of the Hawes-Joubert tandem. Hawes sent a corner kick into the box, which was promptly headed in by Joubert.
McNally racked up 14 saves for the Nighthawks while Reza grabbed two saves for the Engineers.
Both squads continue non-conference play next week. MIT will travel to Emmanuel College on Monday, Sept. 13 while Newbury will make the trip to Regis College the following day.


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SACRAMENTO, California - The State of California will challenge the environmental plan for a bottled water plant that Nestle Waters North America intends to build in Siskiyou County if the company does not revise its contract to pump water from the McCloud River, says the state's top lawyer.
"It takes massive quantities of oil to produce plastic water bottles and to ship them in diesel trucks across the United States," said California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr.
"Nestle will face swift legal challenge if it does not fully evaluate the environmental impact of diverting millions of gallons of spring water from the McCloud River into billions of plastic water bottles," Brown warned in a letter to the company July 28.
On the same day, the company issued a press release agreeing to a study and evaluation of the intended primary source of water for the project, Squaw Valley Creek, a tributary of the McCloud River.
Nestle has contracted with North State Resources to conduct the study, while scientists from the University of California-Berkeley and UC Davis will supply data and oversight of the evaluation.
Data on the existing hydrology and biology of the Squaw Valley creek watershed will be used to develop baseline information to improve understanding of the watershed.
"Nestle Waters is committed to ensuring that our projects are consistent with the sustainability and long-term availability of water in the communities in which we are located," said Nestle project manager Dave Palais.
"We are excited to get this important work started to help us better understand the watershed. The combination of North State Resources understanding and expertise in Northern California with the knowledge of some of California's leading scientists from the University of California will result in the development of valuable data that will benefit the McCloud Community for years to come," said Palais.
The press release states that Nestle will conduct further studies on air and water quality, traffic conditions, hazardous materials and also will explore the potential impact of climate change on water supply which will be included in a new draft environmental impact report.
Nestle, the biggest food company in the world, signed a water supply contract with the town of McCloud in 2003, but many residents oppose the deal, which they contend was signed without public participation.
The attorney general said the company's draft environmental impact report, DEIR, "fails to address in any meaningful way the project's likely environmental impacts."
"The DEIR fails to analyze the global warming impacts of the project even though bouling and transporting water are highly energy-intensive," wrote Brown. "Nor does the DEIR adequately examine the impacts of the project on air quality, water quality of the McCloud River and its tributaries, biological resources, or solid waste.
The McCloud River is unique among California's larger rivers in that most of its water derives from springs and underground lava aquifers rather than from rainfall or snowfall. The river and its associated riparian area provide habitat for over 200 wildlife species. The Lower McCloud has been designated a Wild Trout Stream by the state Department of Fish and Game.
As originally proposed. the project would allow Nestle to bottle 520 million gallons of spring water, and potentially unlimited groundwater, from the McCloud River watershed each year for the next 50 years for sale and distribution. Nestle would construct a one million square foot water bottling facility on the site of a former lumber mill, where it would bottle spring water and other beverages.
Nestle recently indicated that its revised proposal will reduce the size of the facility to 350,000 square feet and the annual water take from 1,600 acre fect per year to 600 acre feet per year - a reduction of approximately 60 percent
In a letter sent to Siskiyou County Planning Department Interim Planning Director Terry Barber on July 28, the attorney general said that "the environmental review for the previously proposed project had serious deficiencies."
Brown said "the suggested changes would require significant revision of the contract between Nestle and the McCloud Community Services District, a new, formal project proposal, and circulation of a new Draft Environmental Impact Report."
Brown also said the environmental analysis fails to consider the global warming impacts of producing and transporting millions of gallons of water including greenhouse gases from producing the plastic bottles, electrical demand for the project, and diesel soot and greenhouse gas emissions from trucks transporting the bottled water to market.
The attorney general has asked Siskiyou County to revise its environmental impact report and circulate a new draft of the environmental impact report.
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Walker, Brown, Shelton, Hicks, Tucker, Slaughter, Henry, Emerson, Watts, Schlotterer, Guttery, Goody, Bennett, Perdue, & Quick families
Contributor writes: "This photo was found in the Haskell Walker estate in 1991, Bixby, Tulsa Co. OK. (It) was taken around the last part of the 1800's. The place was probably Tate Co. MS or Sebastian Co. AR. Could possibly be Harvey & Martha Frances [Brown] Walker family. However, Harvey & Martha had only one known daughter and there are two in the photo. Ages of sons and one daughter appear to match those of the Harvey Walker family."
Contributor found the picture on this site and adds:
Haskell Walker was my father. In the photo are:
Row 1: Harvey D. Walker holding Cecil Richard Walker, Louisa (Lou) Walker; Martha Frances (Brown) Walker holding John Thomas Walker
Row 2: Uriah Jackson Walker, my grandfather; unidentified girl.
Thank you for writing in! Lovely photo!
This is a Family Photo of George Saundes Brown's family taken in Aledo, Illinois.
George S Brown, b. Jan 15, 1853
Sophronia Meek
Martha L Brown, b. Oct 11, 1897
Nancy R Brown
Samual A Brown
Ruth E Brown
Lucreita E Brown
Bertha E Brown
Isabella D Brown
Milton Brown
Albert W Brown
This Shelton Family photo was taken around Patrick Co., Va.
People in this photo are:
William L. Shelton, b Dec 1878
Joseph E. Shelton, b. Dec 1855
Sara Lou Shelton, b. Apr 1897
Martha E. Shelton, b. Nov 22, 1854
Rustus Shelton, b. May 1892
James W. Shelton, b. Jul 4, 1893
Robert Louis Shelton, b. Oct 13, 1890
Samuel J. Shelton, b. Oct 20, 1879
Mary Catherine Shelton, b. Sep 18, 1882
Eliza Ann Shelton, b. Jun 7, 1892
Unknown family with eleven children. I wish it were a better copy.
The William Hicks family:
Lewis Hicks
William Henry Hicks, b Mar 10, 1894
Ida Mae Hicks b Feb 13, 1920
Susie Malinda Hicks, b Feb 4, 1916
Sarah Elizabeth Stephen Hicks, b Mar 10, 1894
Leonard Hicks
Johnny Hicks, b Feb 26, 1919
Nannie Hicks, b Feb 26, 1919
Hattie Tucker, with Cordia Tucker, husband and their seven children. I wish this photo was a better quality copy!
This family photo was found in a photo album with the Likes, Acton and Price families.
These are probably the Slaughter children, probably Kansas or Tennessee.
This is a family photo of Albert & Emma Katie (Bolden/Bolding) Henry, minus their three youngest children who were not yet born: Ola Mae Henry b. 1909, and the twins Alice and Allie b. 1912.
In photo:
Alma Florence Henry, b Dec 1896
Thurman H. "Cap" Henry, b Dec 1900
Norman Allan Henry, b Mar 17, 1902
David William Henry, b Dec 1896
John Henry
Emma Katie Bolden/Bolding Henry, b Dec 1878
Albert Henry, b Dec 1869 Julian Walker Henry, b Dec 1906
The Emerson family, 1948. Contibutor says, "This is the last family photo taken of us."
Helen, b Jul 21, 1943
Betty, b Jul 24, 1947
Suzanne, b Nov 8, 1945
Mary Lou, b Apr 8, 1941
Clarence, b Jun 15, 1905
Dorothy, b Oct 17, 1915
Gloria, b Dec 5, 1939
(This is a tiny photo - don't bother to click to enlarge.)
Luke Watts Family of Horry Co, SC.
Poalk Watts, Luke Watts, Mary Watts, Sally Blackman, Josiah Watts, Luther Watts, Dora Gore, Missy Watts Marlow, Quince Watts, Mack Watts, Mandie Graniner not pictured, Spar Watts, Will Watts
The Schlotterer Family Photo--the first five kids. I just love this photo.
Karl Francis Schlotterer, aged 33, b Jan 16, 1891
Lucille Augusta Schlotterer, 28, b Jan 27, 1896
Anna Pauline "Peggy" Schlotterer, b Apr 17, 1921
Rose Magdaline Schlotterer, b Apr 8, 1923
Bertha Virgelia Schlotterer, b Jan 24, 1918
Marian Georgina Elizabeth Schlotterer, b Feb 23, 1915
Eda Marie Schlotterer, b Dec 20, 1916
George Francis Schlotterer, b Aug 10, 1919
Robert Franklin Guttery family photo, taken in Lawrence County, TN, Franklin County, AL, or Lauderdale County, AL. Interesting how different ones appeared to take on different spellings of the name.
John Williams, Ernest Williams, Virgie Guthrie Williams, Gladys Williams, Mary Sherrill Guthrie, Ottis Guthrie, Horace Guthrie, Robert F. Guttery, Gracie Guthrie Jones, Lucille Jones, Travis Jones, Grover Jones, William McKinley Guthrie, Dessi Guthrie Holley, Myrtle Guthrie Yarbrough , Sarah Guttery , Lieuticia Guttery Jeffreys, John Jeffreys, William "Will" Guthrie, Alexander Guttery, Lonnie Guthrie, Ruby Williams. I will have to decipher who's who another time!
Goody family. Names listed are: Alice Goody, Wilfred James Goody, Joseph Goody, Mary (Steele) Goody, John Steele Goody, Martha (Goody) Kingsbury, Mabel Sarah (Goody) Reid, Edith Mary (Goody) Harnden, Emily Mina (Goody) McMahon
Possibly the Bennett Family from Johnstown or Western Pennsylvania
These are children of Hiram S. Perdue and Elizabeth Elbin, gathered in Bedford, Talyor Co., IA for a family photo circa 1900. l-r Emmanuel Wilkenson Perdew b. 10 Jun 1861; Mary Ann Perdue Fuller b. 1869; Scott Perdue b. 1866; Nancy Perdue Stephens b. 1862; Albert L. Perdue b. 22 Jan 1864. The spelling of the family name varies: Perdue, Purdue & Perdew.
Albert was born Bedford Co., PA; moved 1873 with the family to Peoria, IL and then 1878 to Taylor Co., IA.
Oakley Francis Quick & Family
left to right, back row:
David Lee Quick, Augusta Mariah (Helms) Quick, Edward Minor Quick, Bertha Edith (Helms) Quick, Guy Alvin Quick, Jessie Francis (Crisman) Quick
Bottom row;
Oakley (Okie) Francis Quick, Mary Jane (Chambers) Quick, Elmer Ivan Quick


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When Northern Michigan's Soo Locks Readied for World War II
Could Adolph Hitler's German army penetrate an isolated peninsula in the Great Lakes where the best defense against, well everything, was a piping hot pastie? During World War II America's generals feared they might—especially given that 90 percent of the country's iron ore sailed through the Soo Locks, located in the Northern Michigan Upper Peninsula city of Sault Ste. Marie. What to do? Send 7,000 American troops to defend the locks. Narration by Sault Ste. Marie author/historian Bernie Arbic (City on the Rapids) in this video makes this little-known aspect of World War II history come alive.
*With special thanks to the Chippewa Historical Society for help in the production of this video.


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Although Samsung pioneered 7-in. tablets two years ago with the original Galaxy Tab, the company may be about to turn its back on the category — at least for now.
SamMobile, a fairly reliable source for Samsung rumors, reports that the company has dropped plans for a Galaxy Tab 3 7.0. The not-so-reliable DigiTimes had reported last week that the 7-in. tablet was in the works, but now SamMobile says Samsung may opt not to release the product and focus on 8-in. and 10-in. tablets instead.
The company is expected to announce several new tablets, including an 8-in. Galaxy Note, at Mobile World Congress next month.
Times are tough for 7-in. tablets, with the exception of Google's Nexus 7, Barnes & Noble's Nook HD and Amazon's Kindle Fire HD. Because the makers of those tablets sell their own apps and content, they can afford not to make much money, if any, on the actual hardware. In doing so, they've set an expectation that small tablets shouldn't cost much more than $200.
That doesn't leave much breathing room for a traditional hardwaremaker like Samsung. To make a compelling 7-in. tablet, the only options are to go even cheaper with bargain basement specs, or make a premium 7-in. tablet at a much higher price. There's already a lot of competition at the low end, and I've yet to see an expensive 7-in. tablet become a big seller.
So I could understand why Samsung might want to go a different route. An 8-in. Galaxy Note would stand out from slightly smaller tablets, and it would compete against Apple's iPad Mini with unique features, such as the built-in stylus and support for windowed apps. And if the Galaxy Note 10.1 is any indication, an 8-in. version would probably match the iPad Mini in price.
Still, it's sad to hear that Samsung may be ditching its 7-in. tablet plans. The original Galaxy Tab was what first piqued my interest in smaller slates — they're great for gaming, typing and reading — and I'd like to see more from the category than just a race to the bottom. (I've secretly hoped for a 7-in. Galaxy Note that could replace a reporter's notebook and easily fit inside a coat pocket.) Tablets with 8-in. screens are still compact, but they're a little less easy to hold in one hand and to stow away in a pocket.
For now, it looks like Samsung's hoping to squeeze a few more sales out of its Galaxy Tab 2. The company will soon sell a red version of the nine-month-old tablet at a $20 markup.


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|Conditions at Deuel as of Aug 2013
Deuel is listed as housing for general population, and houses level 1 and level 3 prisoners. Level 1 is "dorms" with no perimeter. Level 3 is fairly high security, fenced perimeter, armed guards, etc...
Deuel also operates a dairy facility with ~1400 head of cattle. Lovely smell in the heat of the day!
It is said that processing a new prisoner takes some number of weeks, as they look at criminal record, health, social history, etc before they determine the prisoner's permanent (usually) location. Deuel is one of the several Reception facilities in California. So it is possible that processing was completed at San Quentin, and this is his ultimate location, and it's also possible that he is at Deuel to be processed.Given the length of time since sentencing, I'd guess that he's still being processed, but that's really just a stab in the dark.
COURT UPDATE: As of today, September 11, 2013 there are no scheduled hearings (public hearings) for appeals or restitution, or anything else. I usually post the date last checked on our "ayres' Court Dates" tab on top of the page.
william hamilton ayres was arrested on April 5, 2007 on charges relating to his molestation of many young boys while he was alleging to provide psychiatric care to private patients as well as referrals for evaluation from the juvenile court system in San Mateo County. After years of playing demented for the courts, ayres plead "No Contest" and was found guilty of all charges against him on May 16, 2013. ayres was sentenced to 8 years in prison on August 26, 2013. ayres is currently under the conservatorship of his daughter Barbara Ayres of Sacramento, CA.
ayres has had significant interaction over the years with local politicians on boards like the "Children and Families First Commission," including the DA who was serving when prosecution began Jim Fox and Assemblyman Rich Gordon. In fact, Gordon nominated ayres for a lifetime achievement award for his "Tireless effort to improve the lives of children." ayres has also been vocally supported during his criminal trial by local head-shrinkers like Bart Blinder, Etta Bryant, Mel Blaustein, Harry Coren, Tom Ciesla, Robert Kimmich, Larry Lurie, Maria Lymberis, Richard Shadoan, Captane Thomson, and Harold Wallach.


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Garden in the subtropics; Currumbin Valley; Queensland, Australia
Thursday, 29 July 2010
SkyWatch Friday; Morning-glory;
22 comments:
- Sylvia K said...
Lovely captures, Titania! Love the composition in your first shot with the trees framing the sky! Beautiful colors and what a beautiful way to start the day! Have a wonderful weekend!
- 30 July 2010 at 07:03
How I long to see/feel/smell clouds ...
Please have a great Friday.
daily athens
- 30 July 2010 at 07:37
- Colin Campbell said...
Very nice. I have a tree shot too.
- 30 July 2010 at 07:50
- eileeninmd said...
Beautiful skywatch photo, Titania! Love like a great start to the day!
- 30 July 2010 at 09:15
- Hildred and Charles said...
Lovely gentle skies Titania.
- 30 July 2010 at 09:43
- lotusleaf said...
Beautiful sky photos. Have a nice weekend!
- 30 July 2010 at 10:48
- Rinkly Rimes said...
I love the way the sky is framed in number one!
- 30 July 2010 at 12:25
- J Bar said...
Great shots.
Sydney - City and Suburbs
- 30 July 2010 at 15:35
- Bonnie Bonsai said...
I love the beauty of the morning glory. I see them from my window.
Sorry for my absences. Been so long.
Hope your Winter is not as cold as ours.
- 30 July 2010 at 17:01
- Pearl Maple said...
Lovely collection of photos to celebrate Sky Watch Friday. Have a great weekend.
- 30 July 2010 at 20:01
- Autumn Belle said...
This is like a painting in the sky. Love the pastel shades and puffy clouds.
- 30 July 2010 at 23:31
- Manang Kim said...
I really wonder where those fiery color sky came from. The sky always reminds me of how beautiful nature is and it could never be duplicated for each second and minute they brought an awe to us. Happy weekend!
- 31 July 2010 at 03:43
- Pietro said...
Hello Titania! I really enjoy these fascinating skies, what a nice light!
Happy weekend!
- 31 July 2010 at 03:52
- Ann said...
Does the trees frame the map of Australia in the first photo?
How cold is your temperature?
This year's winter flu is very contagious. My whole family is suffering. I had a flu jab, but working with kids who come to school doesn't really help.
- 31 July 2010 at 18:09
- diane said...
The clouds are painting pictures in the sky.
- 31 July 2010 at 20:33
- Denise said...
Pretty skies Titania, love the pastel colors and I particularly enjoyed the first photo framed in the dark silhouette of trees. Enjoy your weekend and thank you so much for stopping by my blog.
- 1 August 2010 at 05:50
- Kcalpesh said...
Remarkable composition for the first one.. you framed the sky perfectly between the branches...
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- 1 August 2010 at 08:01
- Autumn Belle said...
Titania, I am featuring your blog on my sidebar this week.
- 1 August 2010 at 18:31
- Ann said...
Hi Titania,
I need your advice. I went as far back as your December posts, and I didn't see any post on this flower.
Do you know what it is? It seems to be a common garden plant, and it is also used in floral arrangement by florists.
- 2 August 2010 at 18:51
- Kathy said...
I'm always intrigued by your sky pictures. Nice job!
- 4 August 2010 at 05:47
- Janie said...
The skies are truly glorious. What a great beginning to the day.
- 5 August 2010 at 13:07
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Summary: The Court previously held that claimant's attorney is entitled to attorney fees. Claimant's attorney requested that the fee award be based on his contingent fee agreement with the claimant or for 477 hours worked at a rate of $225 an hour.
Held: The Court is bound by the attorney fee regulations of the Department of Labor and Industry. § 39-71-714(2), MCA. While those regulations provide for a standard hourly fee of $75 an hour, they also allow the Court to deviate from that amount if ten factors set out in the rule favor such deviation. In this case the factors clearly cut in favor of an increased award of $140 an hour for the 477 hours claimed by the claimant's attorney.
¶1 This Court previously determined that claimant's attorney, Mr. Paul E. Toennis (Toennis), is entitled to attorney fees from the respondent/insurer. The matter now before the Court is the amount of attorney fees to be awarded. A hearing regarding attorney fees was held in Billings on May 13, 2003, and the matter is now ready for decision. Findings of fact as pertain to attorney fees are contained in the following discussion and are not separately enumerated.
¶2 Toennis initially seeks fees based on his contingent fee agreement with the claimant. If the Court rejects that as a basis for fees, he then seeks fees on an hourly basis, $225 an hour for his own time and $135 an hour for the time of his associate, Ingrid Gustafson (Gustafson). Toennis presented an accounting of his time. That accounting was kept contemporaneously with his work and shows 477.1 hours of work. Gustafson did not keep her time but Toennis estimates she spent 50 hours of her time working on the case.
¶3 Respondent urges that Toennis should be limited to $70 an hour. It does not contest 310.6 of hours of his time but disputes the remaining 166.5 hours. It also disputes the fees claimed for Gustafson.
¶4 The fee dispute is governed by statute. Section 39-71-614, MCA (1999), fixes the amount of fees that may be awarded against an insurer, providing:
The statute is plain and clear on its face. The Court cannot add to it, ignore portions of it, or modify it. §1-2-101, MCA ("In the construction of a statute, the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted.").
¶5 Initially, the statute precludes any award based on Toennis' contingent fee with the claimant. While he may enter into a contingency fee contract with the claimant, the fees which may be awarded against the insurer must be based on an hourly fee basis. Toennis' request for a contingency fee award is therefore denied.
¶6 The statute also requires the attorney to "document the time spent" on the case. By necessary implication, fees cannot be awarded with respect to undocumented time. Since Gustafson did not document her time, the request for fees with respect to her time must be disallowed.
¶7 Toennis documented 477.1 hours of work. As set forth in section 39-71-614(1), MCA, I am not bound by that documentation. Although the subsection sets forth no standards for deviating from the documentation, a reasonableness standard is implied. Thus, the Court must review the hours to determine if they are reasonably related to the case and if they are reasonable in relation to the work performed. Attorney fees must be limited to work reasonably connected to the case. Having reviewed Toennis' itemization of hours and his testimony at the attorney fee hearing, I find that all 477.1 hours were reasonably connected to the claimant's case and were reasonable with respect to the actual work performed. He is therefore entitled to fees for those 477.1 hours of work.
¶8 The final question is the hourly rate for Toennis' time. He urges $225 an hour. That figure is not a rate he charges clients as all his work is on a contingent fee basis. Rather, it is the amount of his contingency earnings in 2001 divided by the number of hours he worked that year. That figure does not represent a "customary and current hourly rate for legal work performed in this state." It is also a volatile figure which could dramatically change year-to-year based on his recoveries for his clients. Most importantly, it exceeds the maximum amount prescribed by the Department of Labor and Industry (Department).
¶9 A maximum fee of $75 an hour is prescribed by the Department in Rule 24.29.3802, which provides in relevant part:
¶10 Toennis argues that the $75 an hour limitation does not apply because the rule was expressly promulgated under section 39-71-613, MCA, not section 39-71-614, MCA. He further argues that if the $75 limit applies he is deprived of due process because the rule does not provide him notice of the limitation. That argument is in turn based on the fact that the rule was expressly promulgated under section 39-71-613, MCA, and Toennis' claim that he lacked notice of the applicability of the limit under section 39-71-614, MCA. I am unpersuaded by the arguments.
¶11 Section 39-71-614(2), MCA, expressly provides that the attorney fees awarded by the Court are subject to an hourly "maximum established by the department." While the authority cited by the Department as authorizing it to establish such maximum was section 39-71-613, MCA, its authority under that section is broad. Section 39-71-613(2), MCA, provides in relevant part, "(2) The department may regulate the amount of the attorney fees in any workers' compensation case." Thus, section 39-71-614(2), MCA, merely confirms what is already provided in section 39-71-613(2), MCA, to wit: the Department, not the Court, has the authority to regulate attorney fees in workers' compensation cases. Thus, the Department's exercise of its authority under section 39-71-613, MCA, was sufficient for purposes of section 39-71-614(2), MCA, and provided Toennis with adequate notice under the latter section. Since there was adequate notice, Toennis' due process argument fails for lack of a predicate, the predicate being a lack of notice.
¶12 As set forth in subsection (4), the maximum allowable hourly fee under the rule is $75 an hour, however, ARM 24.29.3802(7) expressly allows the Department to deviate from that amount under unusual circumstances. Since the Court, rather than the Department, must, subject to the rule, fix the fee in a litigated case, § 39-71-614(2), by implication the Court must have the same authority to apply the exception. I must therefore determine whether the criteria established by ARM 24.29.3802(7) justifies deviation from the $75 rate in this case.
¶13 Toennis must prove by "clear and convincing evidence" that he is entitled to a fee higher than $75 an hour. He has carried his burden. Applying the factors set forth in ARM 24.29.3802(7), he has shown:
Cumulatively, the ten factors clearly and convincingly support a higher rate than $75 an hour. I find that they support a $140 an hour rate. I therefore find that Toennis is entitled to attorney fees in the amount of $66,794.
¶14 For the reasons set forth above, judgment is entered finding Mr. Paul E. Toennis is entitled to attorney fees in the sum of $66,794, which shall be paid by respondent, The Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.
¶15 This Judgment is certified as final for all purposes.
DATED in Helena, Montana, this 14th day of November, 2003.
c: Mr. Paul E. Toennis
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Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2012)
From the Editors
The Corporate Professor
Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University
Mark Edmundson
Pressured and Measured: Professors at Wannabe U
Gaye Tuchman
Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars?
Frank Donoghue
A Bibliographic Essay on the University, the Market, and Professors
Ethan Schrum
A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
James Nolan
Why Google Isn't Making Us Stupid…or Smart
Chad Wellmon
The Trigger of History: Capitalism, Modernity, and the Politics of Place
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Family Income and Student Achievement
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George Kateb's Human Dignity
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The No. 4 Nebraska volleyball team put on a dominating display in the season opener on Friday evening at the NU Coliseum as the Huskers swept the Saint Louis Billikens 3-0 (25-13, 25-17, 25-18).
The Huskers were led by Hannah Werth, whose striking offensive performance included 12 kills on 23 attacks and no errors for a hitting percentage of .522. Werth also contributed 10 digs for her first double-double of the season.
Gina Mancuso was not far behind Werth as she notched 10 kills on 22 swings and recorded six digs. Lauren Cook tallied 27 assists and led the team with 14 digs. Morgan Broekhuis tabbed nine kills on 20 attacks and recorded four total blocks.
The Huskers held Saint Louis to a .030 hitting percentage for the match. Nebraska recorded a .265 hitting percentage and had six total team blocks. NU out-dug SLU 44-43.
The Huskers came out firing in the first set, posting four-straight points to go up 7-1 on a kill by Werth. Broekhuis notched a solo block of her own to give NU an 11-2 lead, while Werth punched in another kill to put Nebraska up 14-3. Nebraska went on to take the first set 25-13, leading the match 1-0.
Werth and Mancuso's firepower in the first set led the Huskers, as Mancuso had four kills and an ace and Werth notched five kills. Cook tabbed nine assists and four digs as Lara Dykstra also had four digs. The Huskers hit .407 as a team and tallied two team blocks.
The Billikens came out hot in the second set as Saint Louis went up 5-1. A kill by Broekhuis gave Nebraska a 9-8 lead, while NU went up 14-10 and forced the Billikens to call a timeout. Two huge kills by Werth put NU ahead 16-12, while Mancuso stretched the Huskers' lead to 21-15. Nebraska closed out the Billikens 25-17 in the second set, leading the match 2-0.
In the second set, Mancuso, Broekhuis and Werth all notched four kills, while Cook orchestrated 10 assists. Nebraska out-dug Saint Louis 17-15, while both teams had two team blocks. Nebraska held Saint Louis to a .088 hitting percentage for the set.
Back-to-back kills by Werth in the third set put Nebraska ahead 9-2 before Saint Louis had to call a timeout. Nebraska took control of the set with a kill by Mancuso to give the Huskers a 15-8 lead. An error by Saint Louis would help Nebraska close out the Billikens 25-18, completing the sweep.
Werth and Broekhuis led the way in the third set with three kills each. Cook had eight assists, while the team recorded two total blocks and 16 digs. Saint Louis was held to a -.029.
The Huskers opened the match with a touching tribute to remember former Saint Louis Billiken Megan Boken, who passed away last Saturday. Instead of throwing volleyballs into the stands after starting lineups, the Huskers wrote a special message on each ball and met each Billiken at half court to give it to them.
Nebraska will now turn its attention to the defending National Champion and first-ranked UCLA Bruins as the two teams will square off tomorrow night at 6 p.m. at the NU Coliseum.


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"Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine"
by Arduino Team
August 8, 2016
"Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine"
by Arduino Team
August 8, 2016
Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine
The Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine is the ideal device for anyone that feels that their verbal communication needs a little extra kick.
The physical part of the piece consists of four bells of baritone horns, tubing, microphone, speakers, a mechanical foot and a projector. The software is written in openFrameworks.
When the software starts, it launches a web browser and creates a WebSocket connection to it. When someone starts speaking, the software sends a message to the browser to tell it to start speech recognition. Once the person finishes speaking, the browser sends words back as text back over the WebSocket connection. Each word is then added to a Box2D physics simulation as a series of rectangles linked together with springs. There's a mesh for each letter and shadows are created in GLSL with a shadow map.
When a word is near the foot, the computer sends a message to an Arduino telling it to kick. The foot is actuated with a linear actuator driven by a Pololu Dual VNH5019 Motor Driver Shield. There is also a foot polygon in the physics simulation. Every time the mechanical foot starts to kick, the virtual foot in the physics engine is animated with a timeline that has been matched to the actual movement of the mechanical foot.
The piece is on display at Young Projects Gallery in Los Angeles until August 19th.


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Spice Kitchen, TheFlavorful Recipes from Around the WorldMichal Haines; photography byJacqui Blanchard
published 2009 7 ¾ x 9 ½ • 192 pages • full-color photosISBN 9781566567541 • hardback • $29.95 •
"In her quirky, globe-trotting book, The Spice Kitchen, Michal Haines displays a range of culinary endeavor that would dazzle the most jaded spice merchant on the Silk Road, leaping from Szechuan to Mexico to Istanbul with nary a segue. Caraway onion cheese scones follow Armenian street bread, which in turn follows Vietnamese baguettes. Born a daughter of many cultures, Haines seems every bit as happy working with cumin, sumac and coriander as she is with ginger, garlic and lemongrass. Spiced Spanish Squid, with its ground almonds, smoked paprika and allspice, reinvents the fried calamari you thought you knew, while the Spicy Chocolate Ginger Tart crosses new frontiers of chocolate with fennel, cloves, caraway and ginger."Weekend Edition, NPR (The 10 Best Summer Cookbooks Of 2009)
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A cookbook that will undoubtedly inspire new directions in your culinary repertoireSince the days of the Silk Road and the Spice Trail, adventurers have traversed uncharted territories purely to get their hands on spices—those highly prized, heaven-scented powders. These intriguing, fragrant delicacies have captured the minds and hearts of people for centuries.The Spice Kitchen unlocks the best-kept secrets of culinary traditions from around the world. After 15 years running specialty food stores, talented chef Michal Haines has developed an impressive knowledge of, and genuine love affair with, these precious ingredients. From cumin-tinged curries to cardamom-laced soups; from ginger-drenched stir-fries to cinnamon-enriched desserts, she shares her passion for spices in this beautiful book. Michal's recipes, coupled with the stunning photography of Jacqui Blanchard, and the full A-Z guide to identifying, storing, and cooking with spices will help demystify the art of using them.
Michal Haines is a renowned New Zealand chef who has been running gourmet food stores for over 15 years. The knowledge she has accumulated, coupled with a fascination with ethnic cuisine, provided the inspiration for this book. Jacqui Blanchard is an internationally celebrated food photographer. She most recently photographed A Cook's Bible.
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"[R]ichly-layered... tour of global spices and seasonings"Publishers Weekly
"This marvelous book offers a user-friendly education on spices that will not only improve your culinary game show prospects but promises some very fine eating in the meantime... Michal Haines' "The Spice Kitchen" aims to make a spatula traveler out of any cook willing to dabble in the exotic. Drawing inspiration from Asia, the Middle East, India, North Africa and anywhere else that spices are used with vigor, the book presents unique yet authentic recipes designed to awaken the palate."The Associated Press
If your like usand were pretty sure you areyou have lots of little jars and packets and tins of random spices waiting patiently on your spice rack. These sit idle as time and again you reach for your favorite standbys. Well, Michal Haines "The Spice Kitchen" brings good news for those lonesome wallflowers. This beautifully illustrated guide to cooking with spices will give you plenty of reasons to reach into the back of your cupboards or to stock your shelves anew. Adventurous cooking veterans and budding foodies will appreciate Haines unfussy, easy-to-understand recipes.The dishes range from simple to ornate, so whether youre fixing a quick weeknight supper or preparing a Sunday feast, theres a recipe to fit your mood. Check out one of the unusual Middle Eastern or Asian dishes like Armenian street bread (a spicy lamb-topped flatbread concoction flavored with cumin and sumac) or Siamese mussaman curry, an all-day affair involving chicken, coconut milk and long list of ingredients including galangal, ground mace and brown cardamom.Readers will also find a new twist on familiar fare like recipes for midweek falafel and chicken mole negro or, sure to be popular with chileheads everywhere, living dead stuffed chiles. "The Spice Kitchen" offers interesting sweets as well, such as super-fast orange polenta cake laced with allspice, and the intriguing pink raisin jam, which calls for kokum, a tangy Indian flavoring completely new to us. Luckily for the reader, in addition to the beautiful pictures and unique recipes, "The Spice Kitchen" contains a detailed glossary in the back, explaining the history and origin of all the spices in the book. Chile Pepper
"Haines, a New Zealand chef, is fascinated with the role spices play in different cuisines, and her first book offers international recipes inspired by her culinary travels, from Moorish Swimming Rabbit to Drunken Chicken Salad. Other titles, such as Monica Bhides "Modern Spice" and James Oselands "Cradle of Flavor", have focused on spices in specific culinary traditions; Hainess wider-ranging book is recommended for larger collections."Library Journal
"If you prefer a world cruise to a visit to just one country, Interlink has also just published "The Spice Kitchen: Flavorful Recipes from Around the World" by New Zealander Michal Haines with photographs by Jacqui Blanchard.Instead of the familiar chapter plan that moves from soup through meats and fish to desserts, Haines usefully divides her recipes by purpose. Her chapters have such titles as "Mid-Week Speed," "Luxury Sundays," and "Spiced Nights."She culls many recipes from the spicy cuisines of the world, sometimes adapting them to modern tastes. There's an Andalusian Roasted Lamb, for example, and a Moroccan Chermoula-Baked Fish Salad. She also includes her own innovations, such as Arabian White Coffee Ice Cream, which derive from other traditions, in this case the Middle Eastern love of cardamom in coffee. Other such examples include Caraway Onion Cheese Scones and Ginger Ninja Bread.Haines certainly has some hot dishes in this book, but the word "spice" in the title does not imply blazing mouthfuls; rather the emphasis is on using spices (and herbs) to make deeply flavorful dishes."Clair Hopley, Amherst Bulletin
"This is a tome for lovers of intense flavors and those who adore what Haines calls the "spice-plentiful" cuisine of the Middle East, North Africa, Mexico and Turkey (to name just a few). The glossary in the back is quite a handy encyclopedia, describing each spice used and how to store and cook with them."Slashfood.com
'The Spice Kitchen'... might be one of the most tempting cookbooks to be published this year.The recipes sizzle with flavors that we think of as exotic, and indeed, spice expert Haines has included a glossary in The Spice Kitchen that is evocative reading all by itself. She explains the difference between cassia and cinnamon, which are similar but the reddish cassia is more potent in flavor. She describes the black limes originally from Southeast Asia, but also used in Middle Eastern cooking. These limes have been boiled in salt water, then dried, and in the process develop a tangy flavor all their own.Even a simple dish, such as North African Sunshine Chicken, a relatively fast meal to make, is loaded with spice, from the 18 cardamom seeds to the peppercorns, mace and cinnamon. At the end of the frying, orange blossom water is drizzled over the completed dish. No, not your everyday fried chicken recipe.I might serve the Watermelon, Cumin Seed and Feta Salad as a first course. Pistachio seeds and arugula offer mild-and-sharp tastes to contrast with the more delicate watermelon.From mezze (small tastes) to desserts, and even drinks, Haines doesnt miss a chance to extend her spice knowledge to recipe enthusiasts. If you know an adventurous cook, this book would make them a fine Christmas or birthday gift. SavorSA.com
"[C]ooks are both fascinated and intimidated by the use of spices...That's where Michal Haines' new book, "The Spice Kitchen" come in...lively, entertaining, and, more to the point, meaningful...As such, it takes the reader on his or her own journey of discovery along the road to flavor...Indeed, the general information found in her introduction, along with the in-depth spice glossary at the back of the book, go a long way towards preparing the reader for that journey...her five-page spice glossary (followed by another two pages of related ingredients) is both comprehensive and clearly written...Jacqui Blanchard's photos...are, without question, drop-dead gorgeous...as an introduction to the use of spices, it shines."ChefTalk.com
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Mario Kart 8 Reaches 2 Million Sold in First Month
No wonder Nintendo is adding a Mercedes-Benz into the game, Mario Kart 8 has sold over two million copies in less than its first month of release.
According to Gematsu, Nintendo has announced at its 74th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders that Mario Kart 8 has sold over two million units worldwide since its May 30 debut in the west and its May 29 launch in Japan.
Nintendo also reports that hardware sales are on the rise (mainly Wii U consoles and Wiimotes), which ties in to Mario Kart 8's launch as well. Factoring in the excellent Mario Kart 8 system bundle along with the free digital game download for owners of the racing title at Club Nintendo, these rising numbers should be no surprise.
Over 450,000 of these Mario Kart 8 sales are from its Japanese release, which suggests that the other 1.5 million copies sold stem from its North American and European sales. This recent success for Nintendo almost guarantees that we will see Mario Kart 9 sometime in the future.


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There was a time, not that long ago, when engine dynos were considered a black art. Not everyone believed in what the dyno had to offer, and some thought of dynos as nothing more than hocus-pocus. Aren't you glad we don't live in those dark ages anymore? Today, dynos are everywhere and the reality of dyno racing-i.e. trying to make more and more power on the dyno, just like trying to go faster and faster on the track-has become an art form of its own. At SUPER CHEVY we may not have our own dyno, but we still wanted to be able to test any and every part we could think of, just to see what would happen.
And we wanted to get you involved in the most important aspects of our tests. So we built an engine and crowned it Danger Mouse (DM), in reference to the fact that it will be risking its life just to test any hair-brained idea we might come up with. Then, we asked you to send in your ideas on what we should test next. So far it's been fantastic. Your initial response was a bit skeptical, and some sent letters calling us fools, claiming that there's no way we'd ever test their ideas. These same folks submitted ideas for engine combinations that we knew from previous testing wouldn't work. So in fact, a few of the nay-sayers were correct. We won't test every idea, just the ones that make sense. But we've also gotten tons of great ideas from your letters and can't wait to see more. So keep sending them in.
With more than six months of testing behind us, we thought now would be a good time to recap the highlights of each test to show you some of the best combinations to build. Basically, what we're offering in this month's installment are recipes for how to get your street small-block to produce anywhere from 300 to 425-plus hp and more than 440 lb-ft of torque, all on a budget and all with easy-to-find, off-the-shelf parts.
Racap From The BeginningFrom the outset we knew DM would see a lot of abuse, and we've logged over 275 full-throttle pulls, along with countless, unmeasured others, without a single failure. Such reliability can only be attributed to one cause, the best parts. When building DM, we stressed the importance of selecting the highest-quality components to ensure a long dyno life. The World Products Motown four-bolt block, complete Lunati forged rotating assembly, and Milodon high-volume oil system have performed flawlessly and helped DM produce consistent results month after month, and we thank them for it.
Since no dyno comparison of this type would be worth diddly if we didn't have some stock power figures to base our results on, we first equipped DM with the barest of bone-stock top-end parts. A set of reconditioned factory-iron "camel hump" heads (casting No. 461) from Powerhouse Engine Components breathed through a bone-stock iron GM intake fueled by a professionally prepped Q-jet from the Carb Shop. The reason we chose this carb was to avoid the hassles of spending hours tuning the carb on the dyno, and the Carb Shop Q-jet worked flawlessly, fueling DM into the 350-plus-hp range. After we felt we had a reliable stock baseline to compare figures to, we dove head-first into testing cams, cylinder heads, carbs, rocker arms, spacers, and manifolds, because that's what we felt most of you would like to see.
We've learned a lot from these tests and are sure we'll learn plenty more. Soon we plan to start applying the pressure to DM when we go with blowers and nitrous oxide setups to prove their worth. We'll also start messing around with bottom-end components, changing pistons and rod lengths to see what effect they can have on a stock-stroke small-block. So, as we've asked you every month for more than half a year now, send us your ideas, thoughts, comments, and criticisms for DM. Otherwise, we'll be left to our own devices to figure out what to do next.
Dyno TestsDanger Mouse Stock Baseline (Test 1) Profile:Compression: 9.4:1Heads: stock 461 "camel hump" castingsCam: COMP Cams 246PE cam (246/263 adv duration, 203/212 duration @ .050, .429/.438 valve lift, 110 Lobe separation)Intake: Stock ironCarb: Carb Shop Q-jetIgnition: Proform HEI, Champion No.14 plugsFuel: 76 Performance, 92 octaneIgnition Advance: 37 degreesExhaust: 1 5/8-inch Hooker headers into 3-inch Flowmaster mufflers
Tests 1-4: Baseline, new intake manifold, roller-tip rockers, retard cam 2-degrees (October 2002).
Test 1: This represents what a typical 355-cid small-block would make if it had just been blueprinted but still had most of its stock components.Max 395 tq, 308 hpAvg 376 tq, 266 hp
From this point on, except for the changes listed, nothing else was touched.
Test 2: We installed a Weiand PN 8004 dual-plane intake manifold and leaned out the Q-jet.Max 394 tq, 325 hpAvg 380 tq, 270 hp
Test 3: We replaced the stock stamped-steel rocker arms with COMP Cams 1.5:1 roller- tip Magnum rockers.Avg 390 tq, 278 hp
Test 4: We retarded the cam 2 degrees.Max 405 tq, 349 hpAvg 390 tq, 278 hp
Tests 5-8: Bigger 1 3/4-inch headers, full-roller rockers, bigger XE256H cam, stud girdle added (November 2002).
Test 5: Installed larger 1-3/4 Hooker headers. Compare Tests 4 and 5 and you'll see that average torque was down by 2 lb-ft, but peak toque and horsepower were up slightly, and average horsepower increased by 9. That's a fair trade to us.Max 407 tq, 351 hpAvg 388 tq, 287 hp
Test 6: Swapped in COMP Cams full-roller 1.5:1 aluminum rocker arms. Peak and average power didn't change at all (compare Tests 5 & 6), but we did get 5 more lb-ft of torque at 3,200 rpm.Max 407 tq, 351 hpAvg 389 tq, 288 hp
Test 7: A COMP Cams XE256H cam (256/268 adv duration, 212/218 duration @ .050, .447/.454 valve lift, 110 lobe separation) was swapped in, 2 degrees advanced, and we were rewarded with lots of grunt (compare Tests 6 & 7).Max 413 tq, 357 hpAvg 396 tq, 293 hp
Test 8: This was our very first weird test. We witnessed that the 3/8-inch screw-in studs in the heads were flexing as we lashed the valves, so we hypothesized that it might kill some lift and duration. In an attempt to prove our hypothesis correct, we installed a COMP Cams stud girdle. Power and torque fell off at most rpm, so the stud girdle was later removed.Max 413 tq, 356 hpAvg 395 tq, 292 hp
Note how DM's powerband slowly increases as we keep trying different parts.
Tests 9-12: Bigger carb, "Air Gap" manifold, new carb spacer, bigger XE262H cam (December 2002).
Test 8 ended the day with a maximum 356 hp and 413 lb-ft of torque, and average figures were 292 hp and 395 lb-ft. This month we tried a new Speed Demon carb and an Edelbrock Performer RPM "Air Gap" manifold with a Wilson 1 1/4-inch open spacer. We also installed the next-size-larger COMP Cams Xtreme Energy camshaft. The final reward was a new max 386 hp and 438 lb-ft of torque, and the new averages were 316 hp/416 tq. Now we've got this stock iron-headed 355-cid Mouse making almost 390 hp and 440 lb-ft of torque! So far this looks like the best power formula with the stock heads, particularly since the motor didn't respond that well to the bigger cam. That means that we just about maxed out the stock cylinder head's flow potential and would either have to go in and start porting or install a new set of performance cylinder heads for more power.
Test 9: Installed Speed Demon 750 carb with 82/88 jets.Max 418 tq, 356 hpAvg 398 tq, 294 hp
Test 10: We installed an Edelbrock Performer RPM "Air Gap" intake manifold, which was the best single-gain swap yet and the first test to average over 400 lb-ft of torque.Max 438 tq, 380 hpAvg 416 tq, 315 hp
Test 11: We installed a Wilson 1 1/4-inch-tall open carb spacer.Max 437 tq, 381 hpAvg 414 tq, 314 hp
Test 12: A larger COMP Cams XE262H cam (262/270 adv duration, 218/224 duration @ .050, .462/.469 valve lift, 110 lobe separation) was installed straight up.Max 438 tq, 386 hpAvg 416 tq, 316 hp
Unlucky Test 13: S/R Torquer cylinder heads (January 2003).By Test 12 we had really started to crank out some power, especially considering that DM still wore its stock iron heads and ran a mild camshaft. However, Test 13 really did prove to be an unlucky number, and we were taught a lesson in proper parts matching. The S/R Torquer cylinder heads (which we got from Bill Mitchell's Hardcore Racing Products for only $415 each) set us back a few ponies, probably the result of combustion chambers and valves that were too large compared to the stock heads.
Test 13: World Products S/R Torquer cylinder heads (PN 042660-2 67S) were installed (67cc chambers, 170cc intake runner volume, 2.02/1.60 valves). No other changes were made.Max 417 tq, 379 hpAvg 399 tq, 303 hp
Test 14-15: GMPP Vortec cylinder heads and COMP Cams 1.6:1 rockers (February 2003).
Since power fell off drastically in January's test, we knew we'd made some mistakes and had to redeem ourselves. To accomplish this we went back to The General and installed a new set of iron GMPP Vortec cylinder heads. We compared figures to the stock "camel hump" heads (Test 12) and found that even though the Vortecs actually dropped DM's compression by about 1/4-point to 9.25:1, that didn't stop them from adding more power. Then we swapped on our first set of 1.6:1-ratio rockers (previously only 1.5:1-ratio rockers would fit, due to pushrod interference) and were, once again, rewarded with more power.
Test 14: We installed iron GMPP Vortec heads (SDPC PN SD8060A, 64cc chambers, 170cc intake runner volume, 1.94/1.50 valves) with COMP Cams 1.5:1 Magnum roller-tip rockers (PN 1417-16) and an Edelbrock RPM "Air Gap" manifold (PN 7516).Max 435 tq, 409 hpAvg 413 tq, 330 hp
Test 15: COMP Cams 1.6:1 Magnum roller-tip rockers (PN 1418-16) were installed.Max 440 tq, 416 hpAvg 417 tq, 333 hp
Test 16-18: GMPP Vortec cylinder heads, Wilson four-into-one carb spacer, COMP Cams 1.6:1 rockers (March 2003).
The final dyno bash we'll review this month had us swapping cams, rockers, and carb spacers like they were going out of style. DM ended up making a maximum 427 hp and 439 lb-ft of torque. Those are fantastic numbers coming from just a 9.25:1 small-block still running a very small hydraulic camshaft (COMP's XE268H). The Vortec heads had made 23 more peak horsepower than the factory heads we tested-the camel humps (compare Tests 12 and 14).
In March '03 we tried a new Wilson carb spacer and gained some extra power at 3,000 rpm (Test 16). Then, we wrestled rocker arm ratios around and saw some torque improvement with no horsepower losses (Test 17). And we finally swapped in the next bigger COMP cam with the results we were expecting (Test 18), more horsepower upstairs and less torque downstairs.
By Test 18 we think we've reached the pinnacle of affordable small-block performance, and to make any more power we'd have to go with ported cylinder heads and/or a set of more-expensive aftermarket aluminum or maybe still some iron castings. Look for these comparisons in upcoming months. Still, if you follow our recipe, any properly blueprinted, pump gas small-block you build could easily duplicate all of our power figures, while costing only around $3,500 and being a kick to drive everyday.
Test 16: A Wilson 1-inch open carb spacer with a Wilson four-into-one tapered spacer were swapped in.Max 440 tq, 414 hpAvg 418 tq, 334 hp
Test 17: We tested 1.5:1-ratio exhaust rockers and 1.6:1-ratio intake rockers (best power of all rocker combinations tested so far).Max 442 tq, 414 hpAvg 419 tq, 335 hp
Test 18: A COMP Cams XE268H camshaft (268/280 adv, 224/230 @ .050, .477/.480 lift, 110 LS) was installed straight up. We changed all rocker arms back to a 1.6:1 ratio.Max 439 tq, 427 hpAvg 418 tq, 335 hp
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(AllHipHop News) Jay-Z's team hit the streets of Brooklyn to promote his looming album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, but through social media, the track listing has been revealed.
At press time, the information didn't include any feature appearances, but according to previous promo Rick Rubin, Pharrell, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz would handle the sonic back drop to Jay-Z.
But, earlier today in Brooklyn Roc Nation soldiers trooped through BK and passed out the track listing to fans.
The track listing and art is below.
1. Picasso Baby
2. Heaven
3. Versus
4. Tom Ford
5. Beach Is Better
6. FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt
7. Oceans
9. Part II (On The Run)
11. La Familia
12. Jay-Z Blue
13. Nickles & Dimes


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BBC News
- Remainer MPs trying to steal Brexit, says Liam Fox
- Londonderry bomb: Four arrests over 'reckless' attack
- Mike Ashley in talks to buy music chain HMV
- Holocaust victims funeral a reminder to 'confront racism'
- Three migrant boats land in Kent after crossing Channel
- TV mistakes fan for new Huddersfield manager
- Stonewall 100: MI5 and law firm among 'best LGBT employers'
- Woman hurt in 'hit-and-run' outside Leeds hotel
- Police speak to Prince Philip for not wearing seat belt
- Tom Bell: Murder arrest after Doncaster pub shooting
- Skywatchers await 'super blood wolf moon'
- Baby ray grown in sandwich bag at Aberdeenshire aquarium
- 'I wear a mask to prevent cold allergy reaction'
- Brexit protests: Testing the atmosphere on College Green
- WW2 wreckage found by grandson on Norwegian mountainside
- Liverpool fan celebrates 104th birthday with Klopp invite
- How do you transport a rhino from Germany to the UK?
- Keir Starmer: PM needs to compromise or face fresh referendum
- Liam Fox: May's Brexit deal is still the best way forward
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- Newspaper headlines: 'May blames Corbyn as cross-party talks fail'
- War on fatbergs: Can this 21st Century peril be blitzed?
- The pain of Tourette's: 'I'm always covered in bruises'
- Why your name matters in the search for a job
- Can pubs stand many more Dry Januarys?
- The woman with her head in the clouds
- Are grey cars really silver? And other car colour questions
- What's behind the success of Netflix's latest releases?
- Hunted on TV: Could ex-criminal take prize?
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The competition watchdog is seeking comment on customer protection measures Telstra has developed under its plan to move customers from its fixed-line networks to the national broadband network (NBN).
Telstra developed four measures in a bid to protect consumers and competition as it migrates its customers from its copper and hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) networks to the NBN, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says.
The ACCC invited comment on them on Thursday as it released a discussion paper focusing on the measure relating to Telstra's NBN Co information security plan.
This details how Telstra will gain confidential information from NBN Co while ensuring the telco does not receive an unfair commercial advantage from that information.
The watchdog also seeks comment on Telstra's measure for disconnecting services from its copper and HFC networks on the disconnection date, which is 18 months after NBN Co declares a region ready for service.
The ACCC also want so to hear views on when, where and how Telstra will build copper paths to supply services that are not yet available over the NBN; and the $11 billion definitive agreements between Telstra, NBN Co and the government came into effect in early March 2012.
Under Telstra's plan, the telco will progressively shut down its fixed copper lines and migrate its customers to the NBN's fibre-optic cable network.
NBN Co - a government-owned enterprise - is in charge of rolling out fibre-optic cable to deliver broadband services of up to 100 megabits a second to 93 per cent of Australia's 13 million homes, schools and businesses by 2021.
Submissions on the discussion paper are due by December 14, 2012.


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Its face, as long as an arm, looks down & down. Then the iron gate sound of the cage swings shut above the bed, a bell as big as the room: quarter- moon of the head, its nose, its whole lean body pressed against its cell . . . I watched my father hit a horse in the face once. It had come down to feed across
Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939. Plumly graduated from Wilmington College in 1962, and received his MA from Ohio University in 1968, where he also did course work toward a PhD.
Plumly's father, who died at the age of fifty-six of a heart attack brought on by his chronic alcoholism, dominates the poet's work: "I can hardly think of a poem I've written that at some point in its history did not implicate, or figure, my father" (Iowa Review, Fall 1973). His mother also figures prominently as the silent, helpless witness of her husband's self-destruction.
Plumly's books of poetry include Orphan Hours: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2013); Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007); The Marriage in the Trees (Ecco Press, 1997); Boy on the Step (1989); Summer Celestial (1983); Out-of-the-Body Travel (1977), which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Giraffe (1973); In the Outer Dark (1970), which won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008); Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry (Other Press, 2003).
He edited the Ohio Review from 1970 to 1975 and the Iowa Review from 1976 to 1978. He has taught at numerous institutions including Louisiana State University, Ohio University, Princeton, Columbia, and the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and Houston, as well as at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1978 and 1979.
His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he is Maryland's poet laureate.


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Asian soybean rust has been found in leaf samples taken from a county in Mississippi and a research station in Florida, USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed today.
USDA's soybean rust detection assessment team was dispatched last week after two leaf samples from a research farm at Louisiana State University were confirmed to have the yield-robbing fungal disease. APHIS and Agricultural Research Service scientists believe the introduction of the fungus in the continental U.S. was caused by a windblown event related to this year's unusual hurricane season.
Rust control options. Since there is no way to prevent rust, farmers' options are currently limited to scouting and timely treatment with fungicides during next year's growing season. Two fungicides, chlorothalonil and azoxystrobin, already have full registration for soybean rust control, according to the EPA.
Chlorothalonil is the active ingredient found, for example, in Syngenta's Bravo and Sipcam Agro's Echo 720. Azoxystrobin is the active ingredient found in Syngenta's Quadris SC.
More fungicides. At least five additional fungicides have received Federal Insecticide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Section 18 Emergency Exemptions in soybean-producing states. The list includes but is not necessarily limited to: myclobutanil — in Dow AgroSciences' Laredo EC and Laredo EW; propiconazole — in Syngenta's Tilt EC, Dow AgroSciences' PropiMax EC, and Makhteshim-Agan's Bumper EC; boscalid — in BASF's Pristine; pyraclostrobin — in BASF's Headline EC; and tebuconazole — found in Bayer CropScience's Folicur F.
Two additional fungicides, trifloxystrobin and tetraconazole, may also get FIFRA Section 18 approvals in some states. Examples of products that contain trifloxystrobin are Bayer Corporation's Stratego, Flint and Compass. Tetraconazole is found in Sipcam Agro's Domark SL. For a table of application rates for the various fungicides, visit http://planthealth.info/rust/rust.htm.


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As a follow up to our report on Google's Gmail privacy concerns, it appears as though Google's home state of California may be drafting legislation to make Google's planned business model illegal. Senator Liz Figueroa is leading the charge, arguing in a recent press release that "it is not customers who want such a program, it is advertisers." Calling the service a ?Faustian bargain,? the Senator says that the service undermines the most fundamental aspect of communication, namely the expectation of privacy.
At the head of the debate is Google's AdSense technology, technology that analyzes the words and content of a selection of text in order to determine the statistically-best text ads to serve. Privacy advocates argue that analyzing a user's e-mail is an invasion of privacy, even if it is done by a machine and even if someone agrees that this is allowable in a Terms of Service agreement. As noted in our earlier report, the UK-based Privacy International has already filed complaints in Britain, and US organizations are circling wagons on multiple levels.
As it is shaping up, the story is interesting on at least two levels. On the one hand, there's the question of computational analysis. Google's technology is so intelligent that some skeptics are reticent to compare it to other machine-based technologies. Such technologies as networking equipment, spam filters, and anti-virus filters have always scanned content, but AdSense isn't about matching keywords to a Bayesian database or searching for executable code in an e-mail: it's about trying to actually understand the e-mail in question. For example, Google's technology works to understand context in a very important way, and much of the ruleset used for contextualization must be created and maintained by a live editorial staff that looks at statistical performance. They don't want a selection of text about a recent death in the family to bring in insensitive ads about coffin sales. Google works hard to make sure the text advertisements are appropriate to the context.
One can see how this issue could continue to plague current definitions of invasion. While few would ever agree to a Gmail service that required human beings to read your mail and then send you advertisements, the prospects of a machine doing this work seem to go over rather well with a majority of people. The second, more curious aspect is exactly what Figueroa is calling the ?Faustian bargain,? namely the commonsensical notion that Google's technology should be permitted to perform as designed so long as everyone uses the service agrees to it. Can your privacy be "invaded" if you've given consent to that invasion? Perhaps, but opponents of the service argue that Google's current Terms of Service do a meager job of explaining how the service actually works, leaving customers (perhaps purposely) uninformed about the decision they're making. One thing is for certain, however. The moment this service goes public, Google's servers will be slammed by the droves of people who will sign up, regardless of what the Terms of Service are.


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The math
November 3, 2012 § 12 Comments
Here's what today's math looks like:
.5 cup oatmeal 300 cal
Coffee w/2% milk 16 cal
Banana 110 cal
.25 cup Raisins 150 cal
1tbsp Brown sugar 22 cal
.5 oz half and half 20 cal
.5 oz cream 40 cal
Morning total: 658 cal
.5 oz half and half 20 cal
3 eggs 270 cal
3 corn tortillas 240 cal
2 tbsp Sour cream 62
1 oz Chorizo 276 cal
Salsa 15 cal
.5 cup black beans 114 cal
100 g ranchero sauce 50 cal
Melon chunks 25 cal
Lunch total: 1,072 cal
10 small bread slices 600 cal
2 servings tomato dip 100 cal
1 glass red wine 125 cal
4 oz mozzarella cheese 340 cal
Large salad with Gorgonzola and raspberry vinaigrette 435 cal
100 g Pasta with cream sauce 400 cal
1.5 cup Chocolate ice cream 330 cal
.5 oz half and half 20 cal
1cup Greek yogurt nonfat 130 cal
1 large banana 110 cal
Evening total: 2,590 cal
BMR 1,800 cal burned
Swami's Beatdown and Bonus Ride 2,873 cal burned
Walking slowly around San Diego for 1.5 hours 200 cal burned
Calories out: 4,873
Calories in: 4,320
§ 12 Responses to The math
And what any bowel movements? That's losing weight.
You say "ick" now, but at this rate you'll be weighing the doodie soon…
OCD has a name. Wankmeister.
Keep that that calorie deficit going for a week, and you'll lose 1 lb ! 😉
Love the fact that you had a full cup more ice cream that oatmeal.
Obviously you won't know what the ice cream allotment is until you've assessed your calorie output for the day, but you do know you haven't burned enough calories as you slept to justify 1.5 cups of oatmeal.
And they call us "unhealthy"……HA!
in – out = accumulation. Thats the equation. One other thing of note on losing weight. The "out" is actually in breathing. You think about it, the combustion of fuel (food or fat) makes by products of CO2 and H2O. These are gasses that are exhaled in breathing. Thats why when you exercise you breath hard, and thats where the weight goes. It does not seem like you can lose much weight with your breath, but thats really where it goes. Weird huh,
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Nov. 15, 2005
Los Angeles, Calif. -
Nov. 15, 2005
Los Angeles, Calif. - What is Southern California's top sports moment of the year?
The Los Angeles Sports Council is asking fans to select the greatest moments in sports for 2005 in the Los Angeles/Orange County area. Through balloting on its web site at www.lasports.org fans can cast their vote for the top moment in any or all of 16 award categories.
The results of the voting will be revealed in a televised awards presentation on Sunday evening, December 11.
Among the nominees for "Other Div. I Schools" are Ralphy Holmes overtime buzzer beating basket in the NIT game at Oregon State and Sergio Pedroza's remarkable ninth inning in the NCAA Regional Tournament against Missouri.
Hosted by Hall of Fame announcer and "TV Voice of the Kings," Bob Miller, the star-studded 90-minute awards show will be televised live by KCAL-9 beginning at 8 p.m. from the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City.
To vote, go to www.lasports.org and click on the Greatest Moments icon at the top of the home page. Voting begins on November 15 and will conclude on December 5.
"This event is a continuation of our organization's tradition of recognizing the top sports moments of the year," said Sports Council Chairman Alan Rothenberg.
In 1995, the Sports Council staged a special event celebrating the "100 Greatest Moments in Los Angeles Sports History." Kirk Gibson's dramatic home run in Game One of the 1988 World Series was voted the No. 1 all-time moment.
This year's nominated moments were provided by each specific team, university or association, and were limited to three to five moments each. Due to the cancellation of the 2004-05 NHL season, the Kings and Ducks were not asked to submit nominations but will be recognized during the awards show. Winners will be provided with awards specially created by Tiffany & Co. for this occasion.
For the purposes of this event, the concept of a "moment" is loosely defined. It can be a specific instant in time (a winning goal, hit or shot), an individual or team record, a specific game or series of games or even a multi-day event.
A blue-ribbon media panel will rank the overall top 10 moments of the year and will select the Sportsman, Sportswoman, and Sports Executive of the Year. The panel also will be able to overrule the on-line voting results if an extraordinary moment occurs after balloting begins.
The event program will include a dinner, followed by the award presentations and video highlights for the most memorable moments. For dinner ticket information, contact Monica Maldonado at (213) 482-6352.
The "Greatest Moments" event will be a fundraiser for the non-profit Sports Council which will utilize the proceeds to further its mission of promoting economic development through sports in Southern California.
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Now that it's 2013, we're clearly thatmuchcloser to the release of Fifty Shades of Grey: The Movie, so it's no wonder we're hearing even more about the casting of Christian Grey. (And you didn't think that was possible -- ha!) Sure, there have been many false alarms surrounding which leading man will take the coveted role. We even thought for a moment that the classically dapper and always scrumptious Ryan Gosling was the shoo-in.
But now, Australian newspaper, The Herald Sun, is reporting that Chris Hemsworth is the frontrunner to play Christian in the highly anticipated flick. And the proof they offer sounds rather convincing ...
Apparently, Chris's performance in the soon-to-be-released film Rush, in which he plays the late and great F1 racer James Hunt, caught the eye of U.S. producers. Mostly because he shined in the movie's many steamy scenes, or as director Eric Feliner described it, "naked shagging." HOT!
This isn't the first time the hot new dad has been associated with Fifty Shades. Fans and gossipmongers alike have thrown around his name -- and his brother Liam's name -- as candidates for Christian and Elliot Grey. Around the same time tongues started to wag about his potential casting, he acknowledged that he had heard of the book but had yet to read it. Well, several months have passed since then, and maybe the picture's changed quite a bit ...
More from The Stir: Ian Somerhalder May Already Be Preparing to Play Christian Grey
Then again, this may just be a not-at-all-subtle attempt to hype Rush. Just like Eddie Redmayne dishing about his interest in playing Christian was a blatant attempt to up teen interest in Les Mis. So annoying. Fingers crossed it's more the latter than the former, cuz if Chris actually was cast as Christian, it would not only ensure him mega-stardom ... but also make many eye candy-craving Fifty fans very happy campers.
How do you feel about Chris Hemsworth as Christian?
Image via Jason Kempin/Getty Images


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The White House celebrated Diwali this year too with US Vice President Joe Biden lighting the traditional "diya" or the lamp as he joined a select group of Indian-American officials, community members and diplomats.
President Barack Obama wished people around the world "Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak" but unlike last year he did not himself join Tuesday night's celebrations at the Eisenhower executive building of the White House this time.
In 2009, Obama became the first US president to light the traditional lamp in the East Room of the White House. In 2010, he celebrated Diwali in Mumbai.
Diwali celebrations in the White House were started by former president George W. Bush, but he never personally participated in the celebrations, deputing senior administration officials to the function.
At this year's celebrations, Biden spoke of the universal resonance of Diwali and asked guests to commit themselves to providing for those less fortunate.
"In closing, the vice president expressed his wishes for a peaceful and prosperous Diwali and that the lights guide the guests safely home," wrote an official on the White House blog.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, which was closed to the press, a priest from a local Hindu temple draped a blue shawl around Biden's shoulders as he lit the "diya".
Attendees at this year's celebrations included Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao, the first Hindu American to be elected to the US Congress Tulsi Gabbard, and California physician Ami Bera, who is narrowly leading in a still undecided close Congressional contest.
USAID administrator Rajiv Shah and former White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra also attended.