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There's no need to halt production in order to refill with packaging material or strips since both are replaced automatically. Automation also ensures that splices between packaging material reels and strip applications are of consistent, repeatable quality.
The flow of sterile air needed to maintain aseptic conditions is fully controlled in a closed loop, and designed to auto-correct if deviations occur. The smallness of the aseptic zone leads to savings in the consumption of both power and peroxide.
A peroxide bath, as opposed to a spray system, sterilises the packaging material inside and out. A special thermal carpet keeps the peroxide bath at the optimum sterilisation temperature.
Using servo-motors, the jaw system profile is created in a software model rather than mechanically. This facilitates rapid conversion between different kinds of package production. Profiles are optimised to give better looking packages; printed package designs are synchronised to reduce waste.
Several factors contribute to the easy operation of this filling machine: the Tetra Pak Operator Panel with its intuitive touch screen interface; large windows through which operators can observe production at first hand, and ground level access to essential working parts.
The PLMS centre automatically collects production data from the automation platform. To this, the operator can add his own observations. Improvements in production efficiency can then be made on the basis of the two.
As the filling machine is an integrated part of the line it communicates with all the other line equipment. Sterilisation, filling and sealing processes are continuously controlled, increasing the output of 'on-target' packages. This feature also enables selectable capacity for compatibility with existing processing or downstream equipment.
Packages are released from the machine in an upright position, which simplifies the production process and increases reliability. Servo-motors accelerate the final folding process to give a good package shape and high capacity. They also enable the production flexibility offered by QuickChange and Volume Conversion functions.
The unit consists of a control cabinet, a heating element to sterilize air (or an inert gas) and a nozzle which injects the sterile air (or inert gas) to the product to create froth. When the froth settles down, it leaves a residual headspace which enables the content to be shaken and mixed. Using this method, products can be filled by weight so the choice of volumes is wider
The flat packaging material with a PLH is fed into the DIMC unit and therein the neck of the screw-cap opening is injected over the PLH using the direct injection moulding technology.
The actual lid is screwed on to the neck downstream by the Capper.
The DIMC unit is placed at floor level for easy operator access.
The PullTab Unit punches a hole in the packaging material then applies an Inner PE-Strip and an outer Aluminium Tab (which is later used for opening the package). The opening is hermetically sealed before the packaging material proceeds to forming and filling.
The module consists of six parts that need to be changed by the filling machine operator. After this has been done, the machine automatically adjusts by applying the servo motor programme for the new volume chosen. Within 15 minutes, the machine can be ready to start production again.
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Freezing the rugelach before baking helps the cookies maintain their shape. For gift giving, layer them between sheets of waxed paper and arrange in tins lined with colorful cellophane or tissue paper.
- Yield
- Makes 32
- Dough:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 6 ounces chilled cream cheese, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- Filling:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 12 tablespoons cherry preserves
- 8 tablespoons dried tart cherries
- 8 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 8 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup (about) whipping cream
- For dough:
- Blend first 3 ingredients in processor. Add butter and cream cheese and cut in using on/off turns until dough begins to clump together. Gather dough into ball. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces; flatten into disks. Wrap each in plastic and refrigerate 2 hours. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead. Keep refrigerated. Let soften slightly at room temperature before rolling out.)
- For filling:
- Line large baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix sugar and cinnamon in small bowl. Roll out 1 dough disk on floured surface to 9-inch round. Spread 3 tablespoons cherry preserves over dough, leaving 1-inch border. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons dried cherries, then 2 tablespoons chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar and 2 tablespoons walnuts. Press filling firmly to adhere to dough.
- Cut dough round into 8 equal wedges. Starting at wide end of each wedge, roll up tightly. Arrange cookies, tip side down, on prepared baking sheet, spacing 1 1/2 inches apart and bending slightly to form crescents. Repeat 3 more times with remaining dough disks, preserves, dried cherries, chocolate chips, cinnamon sugar and walnuts. Place baking sheet in freezer 30 minutes.
- Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 375°F. Brush cookies lightly with whipping cream. Bake frozen cookies until golden brown, about 40 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks and cool completely. (Can be made ahead. Store in airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week or freeze up to 1 month.)


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Stocks continue their slide this morning (bouncing as I post this). Note that the trend is for futures to ramp overnight, but in the morning as the volume picks up the selling overwhelms the attempts to levitate the markets. That intervention is SICK, a sure sign that ordinary people have no business "investing" in such a mobster controlled environment. The dollar is higher, bonds are slightly lower after going parabolic the past couple of weeks, gold is also pulling back slightly following its parabolic move and another new record high, silver is flatware, and food commodities have been moving mostly sideways.
The Weekly Unemployment number came in at 395,000, down from last week's 400k, which was revised higher, of course. While this number is below the psychological 400k mark, it still does not indicate any job growth, in fact just the opposite – any number above 350k indicates a shrinking workforce and it has been YEARS above that figure. An otherwise very vanilla report, here's Econospin:
Initial jobless claims, for the first time since early April, are under 400,000, at 395,000 in the August 6 week in what is a positive indication of job market improvement. The four-week average of 405,000, down 3,250 in the week, is the lowest since mid April and is down now for the sixth week in a row. A month-ago comparison with early July shows a 13,000 decline in what hints at improvement for the August employment report.
Continuing claims also show improvement, down 60,000 in data for the July 30 week to 3.688 million. The four-week average is down for a third week in a row at 3.719 million. The unemployment rate for insured workers slipped one tenth to 2.9 percent.
The government is not citing any special factors in the data which is a positive surprise given possible distortions tied to summer retooling in the auto sector and to the temporary shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. Stocks futures came off lows, but only briefly, following this report which however was accompanied by an unfavorable trade report.
The International Trade Report indicates that both imports and exports are declining and that despite the lower oil prices we continue to import far more than we export. Ross Perot showed us all what would happen with "free" trade, and here's the giant sucking sound you hear:
Despite help from lower oil, the U.S., trade deficit worsened further in June to $53.1 billion, following the unexpected ballooning of the gap the month before to $50.8 billion (originally $50.2 billion). The June shortfall came in wider than the market median forecast for $48.0 billion. Exports dropped 2.3 percent after slipping 0.5 percent in May. Imports dipped 0.8 percent, following a 2.9 percent jump the prior month.
The jump in the trade deficit was led by the nonpetroleum gap which widened to $36.9 billion from $33.7 billion in May. As expected, the petroleum goods gap narrowed to $29.6 billion from $33.7 billion in May. The services surplus nudged down to $14.5 billion in June from $14.6 billion the month before.
While the economy appears to be getting a boost from lower oil prices, the reversal in exports (hopefully temporary) is an offset.
Gee, I'd like to know exactly how the economy appears to be getting a boost from lower oil prices? What inane baloney. Oil is still above $80 a barrel, and if you go back in time and look, every single time oil rises above that mark, a stock market crash is not far behind. The only reason this one took a while was QE2, but it was QE2 that was responsible for $100+ oil in the first place – so it is just an example of how you cannot print your way to prosperity.
I've got a good rant in me about the criminals, but I've said it all a million times before, so I'll let it go for now. The math is impossible, the "market" is 100% not real, and nearly 100% fluff. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine... because I'm not invested in it, and I got REAL.


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Internet and email users can be added to the sex offenders' register for a whole slew of new offences after the Home Office drastically increased the number of relevant offences.
An unspecified range of offences related to internet and phone use has been added. Now people committing a crime that involves improper use of public electronic communications networks can be made to be subject to the strict conditions imposed by being on the sex offenders' register.
A judge or the police can decide if someone committing one of these crimes should be made the subject of a Sexual Offence Prevention Order (SOPO), which means that they are added to the register.
"We have not listed all the offences, this is an overarching offence," said a Home Office spokeswoman. "What we are talking about is nuisance calls, obscene comments or obscene use of the internet where there is a sexual nature to it."
Some crimes involving computers could previously involve someone being given a SOPO, but this new order from the Home Office, which is to be put to Parliament, would widen the range of crimes which could qualify.
"We are talking about things that are not already an offence – harassment emails to a colleague of a sexual nature, for example," said the spokeswoman. "The best example is nuisance calls, heavy breathing, obscene sexual comments."
Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said that the expansion was a question of protecting the public. "The offences may not seem inherently sexual, but could have had a sexual motive," said Coaker. "These changes are necessary to strengthen the monitoring and management of sex offenders."
Police and the courts are instructed to issue a SOPO if they believe an offender might commit a sex crime if not issued with a SOPO.
The Home Office has also increased the number of crimes which automatically result in someone being put on the register. Inciting or causing child pornography; controlling a child in prostitution or pornography; and arranging child prostitution or pornography now guarantee a SOPO, the Home Office said. The changes are to section three of the Sex Offenders' Act.
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Are there any park rules I need to know?
Parks are open to everyone to enjoy. There are some basic rules to ensure a good experience for all users. Most parks are open 5:00 AM to midnight. Hours are listed on park entrance signs. Restroom hours are limited generally to the daytime during the warmer weather months. Dogs are welcome on leash and owners are responsible for picking up waste left by their dogs. Alcohol is not allowed on park property unless you have applied for and received a permit from the PP&R Customer Service Center for an event, such as a group picnic. Garbage must be put in garbage cans or packed out. Picnic areas and sports fields may be reserved (permitted) for a fee, and those with a permit get priority access to the site.


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Bernie Sander will make Anime real! Show you play to cast your vote for Bernie Sanders in the kawaii anime inspired shirt. This anime shirt features a manga style portrait of Bernie Sanders and the phrase "Bernie Sanders Will Make Anime Real."
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When American consumers think of the United States Department of Agriculture, it's almost always in connection with the mark of inspection that can be found on labels and products.
That mark serves as a seal of approval, bolstering consumers' confidence that the meat, poultry and processed egg products they are about to enjoy are safe and wholesome. And that confidence comes as a result of the work of the men and women of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
"Faces of Food Safety" introduces you to the men and women who play a role in making our food safe. These profiles were published from 2014 to 2015.
Read the most current Faces of Food Safety.
|Dr. Angela McIntyre
McIntyre, a Supervisory Public Health Veterinarian / Enforcement, Investigative and Analysis Officer in the Atlanta district, wears many hats in order to help the Agency meet its mission.
|Lucy Touhey
Senior Emergency Response Specialist Lucy Touhey helps ensure the Agency is ready and able to respond to emergencies that affect the food supply.
|Dr. Kristin Holt
Dr. Holt has served as the FSIS liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2001.
|Marianne Gravely
Since its inception in 1985, USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline has handled more than 3 million calls from the public on all sorts of food safety topics. 27-year hotline veteran Marianne Gravely, has answered many of those calls.
|Shannon Edelmann
Delivering tailored training resources to a large and technically diverse workforce is a challenging task. Shannon Edelmann understands that she has an important role to play in that task as the AgLearn Lead Administrator with FSIS. (AgLearn is the USDA-wide system for managing training records and activity.)
|Kristin Goodwin
Kristin Goodwin's food safety career began with an internship, which led to a career position as a Food Technologist with the Office of Policy and Program Development's Labeling and Program Delivery Division.
|Maria Esteras
As Deputy District Manager of the Denver District, Esteras supports the FSIS field office with the largest geographical area.
|Cecilia Matthews
Cecilia Matthews, a Human Resources Specialist in FSIS' Office of Management, believes that
empowering employees begins with listening to them.
|Steven Soderborg, Jr.
Soderborg is a consumer safety inspector who has worked for FSIS for 15 years. But work isn't the only place where he takes a lead role in food safety. As a troop leader, Soderborg has to keep 15 Boy Scouts safe on camping trips. He teaches them how to keep food safe while living outdoors.
|Sue Nelsen
Sue Nelsen, a resource manager in the District Office in Springdale, Arkansas, supports FSIS employees in the field in many ways.
|Susan Scarcia
Philadelphia District Manager Susan Scarcia embodies FSIS' core value of One Team, One Purpose.
|Dr. Courtney Baldwin
Dr. Baldwin proudly turned a lifelong passion for food safety into an FSIS career.
|Mark Wheeler
As part of the Labeling and Program Delivery Staff, Mark Wheeler puts 37 years of entomological and food science experience to work.
|Michael Rivera
Consumer Safety Inspector Rivera has been protecting public health as a civil servant for 50 years and has no plans to stop.
|Pam Ogasawara
Currently a senior staff officer in OFO's Recall Management and Technical Analysis Staff, Pam Ogasawara is the epitome of a dedicated public servant.
|CSI Guillermo Orquiz
Practicing food safety at work, at home and in the community is essential for Guillermo Orquiz, a rotating CSI in the Albuquerque, N.M., circuit. The 7-year FSIS employee knows the importance of his job and tries to impart his knowledge to consumers of all ages.
|Michael Cawvey
CSI Michael Cawvey has been an inspector at beef, swine, goat, sheep, elk, buffalo, ostrich and poultry slaughter plants. Currently, he is assigned to a squab (young pigeon) slaughter facility and to a processing facility in a prison.
|Kristin Beaty
Food safety is a core value for Kristin Beaty, a food inspector in Wakefield, Nebraska who works to ensure the safety and wholesomeness of processed egg products.
Rachel Johnson-DeRycke
Victoria Usher
Dr. Jarrel B. (Brent) Perry, DVM
|Dr. Chau Vu
Dr. Vu holds many titles: FSIS Supervisory Enforcement Investigations and Analysis Officer, Captain with the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, Doctor of podiatry and pharmacy, and wife and mother.
|Michael Gafrancesco
This consumer safety inspector in Syracuse made a tremendous difference in the lives of others during this year's Feds Feed Families campaign.
|Shunekia McAuley-Spears
"I love food, and I love science," says McAuley-Spears, a consumer safety inspector in New Orleans who is celebrating her tenth year with FSIS.
|Michael Piotrowski
Consumer safety inspector Piotrowski makes sure that plants are in compliance with FSIS regulations and ensures that the integrity of the mark of inspection is maintained.
|Barry Rhodes
Rhodes thrives in a fast-paced work environment and likes the excitement that comes with being an FSIS program analyst and the liaison to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
|Jeffery Jacobsen
Jacobsen serves as an Enforcement, Investigations and Analysis Officer (EIAO) in the Des Moines district. EIAOs have a diverse and complex part to play in the FSIS mission.
|Scott Seys
Senior Epidemiologist Seys solves scientific problems that directly impact public health. He enjoys collaborating and working with other federal, state and local agencies and national organizations.
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LeBron James took a hit to the nose in the fourth quarter of tonight's Heat-Thunder game, and proved he's mortal by bleeding on the floor. But he still completed the dunk after getting smacked in the nose by Serge Ibaka, which is damn impressive.
James went to the locker room for medical attention and didn't return, but the Heat still beat the Thunder, 103-81.


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Bridges (Hashiwokakero) is a type of logic puzzle game. The object is to connect all of the islands into a single connected group by drawing a series of bridges between the islands. The number in the center of each island represents the number of bridges connected to it. The bridges must begin and end at distinct islands, travelling a straight line in between and not crossing any other bridges or islands. At most two bridges connect a pair of islands. To build a bridge between two islands click on the first one and drag to another. Good luck!
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The ubiquitous yellow four-inch cedar Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, most associated with test taking by students, was made in Jersey City for over a century. The American inventor and manufacturer responsible for the familiar writing implement was Joseph Dixon (1799-1869), who was born at Marblehead, MA. After the Dixon Crucible Company closed its doors in the 1980s, the manufacturing plant was renovated and is now the Dixon Mills, a mixed-use apartment complex.
As a young man Joseph Dixon, known as an inventor and manufacturer, took an interest in experimentation with crucibles and graphite. He mixed Ceylon graphite, found on his father's sailing vessels, with clay and water, rolled the substance into strips, baked them in his mother's oven, and pressed the strips into pieces of grooved cedar wood. The invention, however, did not replace the popular quill pen as a less expensive writing instrument until the practicality of the pencil became apparent to the soldiers during the Civil War. With its fast gaining popularity during the war, Dixon designed a machine that planed and shaped enough wood for the manufacture of 132 pencils a minute for which he received a patent in 1866.
Dixon had moved to Jersey City in 1847 for its location and marketing potential for his products and then proceeded to construct a large manufacturing plant of several buildings. Three years later he received patents for the use of graphite crucibles in pottery and steel. He refined his steel-making process with a furnace of his own design. Other inventions with which he is associated are the first iron stove polish made of graphite, use of fast-color dyes for cotton fabrics, the prototype of the contemporary viewfinder, a process of photolithography, and a crucible that was able to withstand heat of 2,780 degrees. His steel production was recognized as superior to its English counterpart at the London World Fair in 1851, for which he received a gold medal. In 1853, Dixon's home was said to be at 20 Wayne Street.
Dixon died in 1869 at the age of seventy, but his company continued to improve upon his goal of making the affordable and serviceable lead pencil. His son-in-law, Orestes Cleveland, a manufacturer from New York, had entered the company in 1858 and became president. His hands-on supervision established the company as one of the most highly regarded brands for the mass production most consistent and reliable products of its kind. By 1872 the Dixon Crucible Company was making 86,000 pencils a day and selling them for five cents each. The company's next major decision in 1873 was to purchase the assets of land, mills and water power of the American Graphite Company at Ticonderoga, NY, to enhance its graphite production. It was not until 1913, however, that the location of American Graphite was added to the well-known brand name "Dixon Ticonderoga" pencils. The company name continued as the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company.
While the company made strides in its pencil, stove polish and crucible sectors, its financial status was compromised and went into bankruptcy due to the malfeasance of its president. Orestes Cleveland used corporate funds to campaign unsuccessfully for governor of New Jersey in 1880. He had entered Jersey City politics in the 1860s, serving on the Board of Alderman (1861 and 1862 as president) and in the US House of Representatives (1869-1871). He also was elected mayor in 1864 and again in 1886 with the help of Bob Davis, the Hudson County Democratic "Boss."
Joseph Dixon's company was saved by the head of the First National Bank in Jersey City and political power broker, Edward F.C. Young. He was named receiver of the company in 1883, restored it to profitability and became its president. The Dixon Crucible Company eventually came under the control of Young's son-in-law George T. Smith. The company, through Young's financial skills, survived its set back and, a century later, had twelve manufacturing plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
In 1986, the Dixon Venture Corporation, at 535 Secaucus Road, Secaucus, New Jersey, converted the former Dixon plant into a mixed use complex of 452 apartments, retail units, and a health club, known as Dixon Mills. Architect James N. Lindemon of Jersey City was responsible for the renovation of the plant into turn-of-the-twentieth century townhouses. Features of the buildings have been preserved, such as the signage, twin 150 foot high smokestacks, upper story walkways, wrought iron railings, and original stoops. Within the complex, Wayne Street has been closed off to provide a two-block landscaped cobblestone pedestrian mall.
"Joseph Dixon." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
Erskine, Helen Worden. "Joe Dixon and His Writing Stick." The Reader's Digest Reprint. Pleasantville, NY: November 1958.
Kaulessar, Ricardo. "From Pencils to Condos." The Jersey City Reporter 10 December 2006.
Prior, James. T., ed. "The Dixon Company Marks 150 Years," New Jersey Business February 1977:43-44.


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little books
So lately, it seems that everyone is talking about mini books. My pal Mandi has an amazing mini book tutorial on her blog (I can't get over the oh-so-cool photos of her process.) Jamaica makes made some of my all-time favorite little books ever. Elise has really been on a roll lately. And you must see this post by Christina Clouse where she lays down the master list of some of the best mini books ever made.
Because of Christina's post, I decided to upload all my mini book photos that I had on my hard drive to Flickr, where I could see them and organize them into little groups. I'm so funny about making little books. There are so many of them in my house. It seems that when I'm done making one, I just throw it on the shelf and wonder if its pages will ever see the light of day again. Sometimes I wonder why I keep making them.
But then I think about the content. The range of subjects I have documented. I made a pregnancy book, and a twenty-page book for Lotus containing detailed notes I took about her babyhood, every single month of her first year. There's a book called 'I have to confess' (a free class by Shimelle) that dishes a bunch of my secrets and embarrassing traits. 'Life' has some of the funniest every-day little stuff that I've ever written about. I have a few little books dedicated to music; one about growing up on mtv in the 80s/90s and another with obscure song lyrics called 'Words to Live By.'
But even if I wanted to stop making mini books, I don't think I could. The subjects you can cover never end. There's huge appeal in knowing that you can finish a book in one night. (Okay, it might be a late night.) It's the perfect way to document a trip, a year, a season, a list or random stories and facts that you want to keep forever. Even if they do end up on a shelf for x amount of time.
Someday, you'd have to hope that they will end up in the lap of that potential someone who may love paging through and reading all of the random things you wrote. I was that sentimental kid, sitting around boxes of old photos at my grandparents' house and wanting to take home the old Sears Roebuck catalog they kept in their closet. I looked at the backs of every single photo to read the notes and dates and learned to distinguish the difference between my mother's and grandmother's handwriting. I was fascinated by a tin box of things my dad had collected when he was serving in the Army as a medic in Korea when he was just 17-18 years old. Those things were my favorite treasures.
So really. When you laugh at yourself for spending an evening making scrapbook pages, consider that it may not be so pointless after all. You just may inspire some young future person to do the same, three or more generations away. (It's also possible that everything you make will be destroyed by a natural disaster, thrown out or put in a box and never seen again. But I think we're all aware of those risks and continue in good faith. Ha.)
Anyway, here are the WINNERS of the giveaway mix CDs from the last post...
YAY! Kristen W., Je, Sheri and Jamie – email me your mailing addys to jgeigley [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll get these sent off soon. Thanks for playing; this was so much fun.
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Yay!!!! You totally just brightened my morning!!!!! After the day I had yesterday, I totally needed this!!! (see my last blog post, lol) My 4 year old started pre-K yesterday and it was a nightmare. Today was better tho and this just made my day even better!!! Thanks so much, Jen!!!!ReplyDelete
awww thanks for the shout out!! I'm going to have to go check out your flickr thing...ReplyDelete
love your minis hard!!! :)ReplyDelete
I have yet to make a mini book. Maybe because I started scrapping only about 2 years ago(maybe less) and I just started to catch wind of mini's not to long ago either. BUT I am working on right now, a look back on my twenties. I love how everyone is posting about them. Its giving me tons of inspiration:)ReplyDelete
LOVE looking at your minibooks... I have a whole bunch of them myself... should make some more! Oh, and congrats on being a "fashionista"!!!ReplyDelete
great post jen! sadly, i have made a total of 2 mini books for myself. and about 4 for other people. I really do like making them I am just to bad at sitting down and doing it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 3:29 PM
You are a mini queen, for sure...bring a couple with you to chicago, I want to see them in person!ReplyDelete
congrats once more for making the fashionista group!
ooooh! i am in mini-book heaven! one can never make enough minis!!! thx for sharin' the love!ReplyDelete
you are the master of mini albums girl. they are all soooo awesome, i must expand my own collection :]ReplyDelete
oh my. this is one of my very favorite posts!! I'm just starting to make mini books and albums, what an inspiration.ReplyDelete
awww. This post is RAD. I loove your little books. Must for sure check out the flickr. Isn't it the best feeling having everything organized?ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE LOVE your minis. and the links.ReplyDelete
- Karlee HoffartAugust 26, 2009 9:14 PM
Hey Jen, I love your pages and mini's... would you do a post on what equipment you use; I love your graphic pages like the mind bullet page and Lotus's 12mths book, what do you use to make some of those graphics on your page? Thanks again- you rock!ReplyDelete


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That would just be too easy. But rest assured, whichever OS your allegiance lies with is supported by Etsy sellers Getting Weddy, who have both Mac and PC belt buckles starting from $15. Or further display your geek cred, and make your own. [Etsy via Technabob]
I am neither brave nor geeky enough to wear any of these belts, but if you are, then go grab these one-of-a kind belt buckles at Holly and PJ's Etsy shop Getting Weddy. The buckles – no belt included – range from $15 (USD) to $22.


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It's no secret Justin Bieber lives a lavish lifestyle, so much so that eggs could set him back around $20,000. That, or lead to jail time.
On Friday, Bieber was heard in a video tossing eggs at a neighbour's home in California. However, TMZ reports the pop-star's hijinks caused an estimated $20,000 in damages.
The home's facade reportedly has to be re-plastered and because it's Venetian plaster, an expensive type of material, the bill is expected to run about $15,000. Certain doors hit during the incident will have to be re-stained, adding another $5,000 to the tab.
Law enforcement told TMZ the case will go to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, who could file vandalism charges against Bieber. And because damage exceeds $400, the vandalism charge could be a felony. There's no word as to if a court date has been set or what Bieber could end up being charged with.
As for Bieber, neither he nor any of his representatives have reached out to the neighbour with an apology or some method to compensate him. The singer tweeted a photo yesterday sporting another tattoo on his inner forearm.
The tattoo appears to be the head of a jester or joker. He also tweeted another photo of new ink on his upper arm: a compass, possibly in the event he ever loses his way.
In related Bieber news, the New York Daily News reports the singer might be part of "The Expendables 4", the action franchise starring Sylvester Stallone. Actor Terry Crews said Bieber is in the running for a spot.
"The next one, I am telling you Justin Bieber is coming for 'The Expendables 4,'" Crews told the publication. "That is for real."
The film is reportedly aiming for a 2016 release and will be shot in Bulgaria.
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David Hackl, the director of "Saw V" has got a new film coming out called "Red Machine" and today we've got our first image. The movie is about a bear that goes nuts and kills people so the image is of... you guessed it, a pissed off bear. Well played!
For those of you who enjoy the written word, Clive Barker is just about wrapped up with "The Scarlet Gospels", the final chapter in his "Hellraiser" series. Hopefully they'll make a movie out of it, because pictures are better then words. Fact!
Ciaran Hinds is in talks to play the Devil in the upcoming "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" film. What's better? Some Italian actress/singer named Violante Placido is apparently in talks to join the cast as well. I've never heard of her and from what I've seen on Google Images she's never heard of clothing either.
Finally here's some new images from "My Soul to Take". They've got a kid freakin out and then another one with some kids drawing straws and... oh god I just don't have it in me anymore. This movie is going to be awful.
Mila Jovovich to star in "Year Zero", which is about a "a young woman attempting to clear her father's name in a string of gruesome murders at an Alaskan oil refinery.
The "My Bloody Valentine 3D" DVD will come in both 2D and 3D versions. The 3D version will also contain 4 pairs of "red/blue" 3D glasses, since "RealD" is not a medium available for home theaters yet. How will the red/blue results translate to DVD? You'll find out May 19th when this disc lands.
Rebecca Romijn (formerly Romijn-Stamos) has been tapped as the third lead in ABC's "Eastwick", their television adaptation of "The Witches of Eastwick". She'll play "Roxie", a "bohemian and sharp-tongued single mother. Sounds sassy!
Nicholas Cage isn't ready to sign on to "Ghost Rider 2" yet because as he puts it, the script needs "some tweaking". No word on if his input is what made the last film so "awesome", so I really have no idea how to interpret this.
Full Moon president Charles Band wants to remake his "classic" film "Puppetmaster", and do it in 3D. I really have no words for this story.
Of course Lesbian vampires have super long tongues. Kind of makes sense, no?


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World Cafe Looks Back: Jazz Greats
Sonny Rollins.Phil Bray
- Sonny Rollins, "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" (Blue Note Years, Vol. 6)
- The Rolling Stones, "Waiting On A Friend" (Tattoo You)
- Miles Davis Band, "Spanish Key" (Bitches Brew)
- Stanley Clarke, "Jerusalem" (The Toys of Men)
- Stanley Clarke, "School Days" (School Days)
- Return To Forever, "Day Ride" (Return To Forever)
Throughout the month of October, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of World Cafe by revisiting some of the best and most memorable interviews of the past 20 years.
Today's World Cafe session features three talented musicians who've uniquely shaped the evolution of jazz: Sonny Rollins, Stanley Clarke and Jack DeJohnette.
The show begins with a look back at the career of Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest living saxophone players. Inspired by the likes of Fats Waller, Rollins says he feels "a holy obligation" to evoke his heroes in his playing. Rollins has released 57 studio albums, and he stopped by World Cafe in 2007 after releasing Sonny Please, his first in five years. In this interview (one of our best), he discusses his lifelong desire to elevate jazz in society, his performances with The Rolling Stones, and the ways his grandmother instilled in him a passion for activism.
From Rollins, we turn to Jack DeJohnette, the Chicago-bred drummer who played with legends like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson and Thelonious Monk. In this 1998 interview, DeJohnette explains how his uncle, an influential DJ, introduced him to jazz through his collection of 78s. He recounts discovering his talent when a drum set was left in his basement, as well as his experience playing with Davis on Bitches Brew.
Finally, we close with bassist Stanley Clarke. Declared a legend at 25, Clarke was likely the first bassist to headline jazz tours overseas, and he invented both the piccolo bass and tenor bass. In this 2007 interview, Clarke describes his musical childhood in his school's band and orchestra, and discusses his album The Toys of Men.
This segment originally aired on October 17, 2011.


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Who Will Be Twitter's Bestest Search Friend? Google and Microsoft Engage in Yet Another Pick-Me Face-Off.
[UPDATED: With added information about range of product discussions.]
In this digital era's version of "Spy Vs. Spy," Microsoft and Google find themselves in yet another sharp-elbowed battle to be the one to strike some kind of commercial search deal or product partnership with Twitter, many sources with knowledge of the situation said, as they also jockey for position to evaluate the potential of the much-hyped microblogging start-up.
After last week's explosive rumor that Google was in "late-stage" talks to acquire Twitter, which BoomTown reported was wildly premature, I set out to try to sort out exactly what was going on.
As I found out, there was a lot–mostly much talking related to possible product and distribution partnerships, centered around Google or Microsoft, especially around a deal to become the one to exclusively deliver search or other similar services to Twitter properties.
The reason for the interest? Many think Twitter's real-time search of its 140-character "tweets" posted by users on the service will become the next great battlefield in search. Google currently dominates the general search market, with third-place Microsoft struggling to get more share.
But how to do that is in flux, as past efforts at various third-party search arrangements have had mixed success for both Google and Microsoft. Both companies and also Twitter are trying to figure out new ways to do such deals.
On top of that, it is also unclear if Twitter wants to strike a deal purely to get a payment from either Microsoft or Google, as others have done. Twitter management has indicated that they are much more interested in growth and distribution over a revenue focus.
Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone said as much on the start-up's Web site recently, as well as in many media interviews, noting that it will begin experimenting with its own business ideas this year.
In other words, the talks Twitter is having with both Google and Microsoft could also lead exactly nowhere too.
Along with the commercial talks, both Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) are also trying to figure out if Twitter is simply one of the many shooting stars that are far more typical in Silicon Valley or if it is sea-change start-up worth pursuing and paying up big-time to acquire.
"As impressive as what Twitter has done, we are all overexcited," said one source. "And so it's hard to figure out the right thing to do with all the pressure to do something."
Thus, while an offer for Twitter from Microsoft, Google or a plethora of other players–from News Corp. (NWS) to Yahoo (YHOO) to Cisco (CSCO) to Time Warner (TWX) online unit AOL to big telcos–could come at any time, said many sources, only a huge price would lead to an acquisition, especially since the growth of the service has been accelerating more rapidly in recent months than has been reported publicly.
This all makes for dicey times at Twitter, which sits at the center of all this noise, trying to build a company, while also being fully cognizant that trying to engineer a massive buyout could be its best outcome.
Further complicating the situation: The fact that Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams–who has already sold one company, Blogger, to Google and eventually left after a lackluster experience, a common one of many entrepreneurs who sell out early to large companies–is less interested in selling out than in growing the company.
But without the kind of control of the company's fate–which allowed Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to effectively block similar buyout pressures early in its history–Twitter's founders also might not get the last word in the event of an unusually attractive offer.
While a $500 million stock-and-cash one from Facebook last fall was turned away by Twitter due to worry about the social-networking site's market valuation, the massing interest is overwhelming and forcing it to make some clear decisions about it path.
"When you are in a situation like Twitter is in, you have to wonder if this is the high-water mark and it is time to sell out or if you are underestimating yourself badly by even considering that," said one Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has been in a similar spot in the past. "It can be very hard to think straight."
Indeed, all the attention is both distracting and slightly surreal for its top execs and small 30-person staff in San Francisco, said many sources close to the situation, especially the mass of media that resulted due to that now-discounted rumor that Twitter was poised to be sold off for a giant pile of money.
In fact, Twitter has its hands full enough scaling its recent surge in growth and keeping the service humming along (it has had tech snafus in the past).
But for Google and Microsoft, this geopolitical one-upsmanship by the Internet's two most important companies is quite familiar, and they have not hesitated to jump into the Twitter tempest.
If that sounds a lot like the two-month fire drill in 2007 that resulted when Microsoft and Google competed to see who could sidle up closest to then-belle-of-the-Silicon-Valley-ball Facebook, you are exactly right.
After much huffing and puffing back and forth and this way and that way, it resulted in a Microsoft "win," which gave it the distinct honor of forking over $240 million to own 1.6 percent of Facebook at an astonishing $15 billion valuation.
Even as Facebook has grown quickly in size since then–to 200 million users, as announced yesterday–its valuation has dropped to $3 billion to $5 billion.
Microsoft had previously struck an search ad deal in the U.S. with Facebook in which it paid a guaranteed revenue to Facebook and later also did a deal to do some of the search on the site.
Such kinds of deals have become common for both Google and Microsoft in recent years. Google struck one with News Corp. social-networking site MySpace, as well as with AOL (which will also soon come up for renewal).
And Microsoft grabbed the right to pay Digg a guaranteed fee in another online ad deal. And the pair also fought more recently over a mobile search distribution deal with the wireless unit of Verizon (VZ).
And so it goes now with Twitter.
No partnership deal has been made as yet, of course, since such a thing would say a lot about Twitter's future, since the prospect of marriage overhangs such a choice, which is also–in essence, a declaration of allegiance in the cold war between Google and Microsoft.
If that also sounds like a plot of a James Bond movie, with geeks armed with algorithms instead of gadgety weaponry, you're also exactly right.
More, obviously, to come…
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.


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Update: I just submitted this as a topic for next year's NHC. Hopefully I can get my techniques out there to fellow homebrewers! Sour beers are something I'm passionate about, and these methods are making REALLY great beer!It would be great to follow up the topic with a house culture sample swap and the following NHC!


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As gun sales boom, New Hampshire posters draw controversy
Obama called 'Firearm salesman of year'
Keith Cox, co-owner of Collectable Arms & Ammo in Merrimack, N.H., says business at his gun shop has never been better.
"We experienced a three- to six-time increase in our gross sales," the gun store owner said.
The poster out front of his shop thanks President Barack Obama for that -- titling him "Firearms salesman of the year."
Cox says the administration's push for tighter gun control after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., has caused a run on guns.
"I think we're complimenting him," Cox told NewsCenter 5 when asked if the poster is meant to offend the president.
But the storefront signage also seemingly juxtaposes Obama with Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. A poster near that of the president shows those three former leaders with the label, "All experts agree: Gun control works."
Some folks in Merrimack are taking exception to that.
"I don't like how they're comparing Barack Obama to those three terrible people," said resident Michael Differ, who calls the posters offensive. "I honestly don't think that's good."
Cox says the storefront is two separate messages, and isn't meant to portray the president as a dictator.
Asked if he believes the president is a dictator, Cox responded, "No, I don't. I think he has beliefs that in my opinion go against the grain of what the Constitution's about."
Many of his customers agree with that sentiment. They worry the president's gun control proposals, including an assault weapons ban, universal background checks and the closure of the so-called gun show loophole, represent a violation of the Second Amendment.
"You're messing with the Constitution," said Merrimack resident Jennifer Zimmer. "And that's what upsets people."


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Are the Speakeasy Bars Getting Old?
Weekly insight into the world of drinks with Paul Clarke from the Cocktail Chronicles and Imbibe magazine.
"Secret passwords and exclusive policies be damned."
In yesterday's Diner's Journal, Pete Wells writes that Pegu Club co-owner and bartender extraordinaire Audrey Saunders is opening a new place, the Tar Pit, with chef Mark Peel in Los Angeles next month.
With this move, Saunders—one of the most talented and influential bartenders in the ongoing cocktail renaissance—becomes the latest New York bartender to spread the craft west of Weehawken. Sasha Petraske, whose New York bars Milk & Honey and Little Branch (among others) helped spur the trend of the now ubiquitous speakeasy-style cocktail bars, played a hand in opening The Varnish in Los Angeles earlier this year, as well as taking his skills to the nation's capitol, working as a consultant on the Rooftop Bar at the W Hotel.
Toby Maloney, who came up through the bartending ranks at Pegu Club and Milk & Honey, took his talents on the road several years ago, opening The Violet Hour in Chicago and, more recently, consulting on The Patterson House in Nashville and Bradstreet Craftshouse in Minneapolis.
But what's even more interesting is the approach Saunders is taking with the Tar Pit. Wells writes that she rejected the idea of opening yet another pre-Prohibition themed bar, describing that concept as being played out. Instead, the approach will be that of a 1940s-era supper club, with an emphasis on vintage Hollywood style. "'We need to get back to a point where things are fun again,' she said of the cocktail culture. 'We kind of got really heavy.'"
It's only been a few months since William Grimes wrote of the popularity of speakeasy-style bars in the New York Times, but if the mixed reactions bars such as the Prohibition-themed Tavern Law in Seattle has received in local media are any indication, the intensely serious style of craft cocktail bars may be on the wane.
Instead, as Saunders indicated and as cocktail historian David Wondrich suggested in his review of Brooklyn's Clover Club in a recent issue of Esquire, the emphasis is swinging back to a very simple concept: fun places that serve good drinks—secret passwords and exclusive policies be damned.
While enjoying an immaculately prepared cocktail used to require a visit to an exclusive bar, increasingly quality drinks are popping up at neighborhood bars and upscale restaurants—a good indication of how the craft of quality mixology is spreading.
I still love visiting places like Bourbon & Branch in San Francisco, but it's also refreshing to order a drink at a place like Feedback Lounge in Seattle, where the pool tables and rock and roll vibe are countered by quality craft cocktails being served at the bar.
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Obama: At least 1 American killed on plane shot down in Ukraine
ROZSYPNE, Ukraine >> The United States began building a case Friday that would pin the blame for the downing of the passenger jet over Ukraine on separatist forces supported by Russia. President Barack Obama said at least one American was among the nearly 300 killed in an disaster that could dramatically escalate the crisis in Ukraine.
Quinn Lucas Schansman, a dual Dutch-American citizen, was on board the flight that was shot out of the sky Thursday, Obama said.
The president said evidence so far indicates that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists. He noted it wasn't the first time the separatists had shot down planes in the region, adding that a "steady flow of support from Russia" had included heavy weapons and anti-aircraft weapons.
He called for an immediate cease-fire to allow for a full investigation
"This was a global tragedy," Obama said. "An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies filled with citizens from many countries, so there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened."
Officials from the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board were on their way to Ukraine to help determine what happened, Obama said. He warned that evidence must not be tampered with as a United Nations-backed investigation goes forward, and he said, "We will hold all its members, including Russia, to their word" in allowing access to the crash.
"This should snap everybody's heads to attention," Obama said.
Earlier Friday, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power says the United States cannot rule out help from Russia in the investigation into the launch of the missile.
Power said the U.S. believes the SA-11 missile was fired from an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists who previously boasted about obtaining such missiles. She said Russia has provided SA-11s and other heavy weapons to the separatists.
"If indeed Russian-backed separatists were behind this attack on a civilian airliner, they and their backers would have good reason to cover up evidence of their crime," Power told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. "Thus it is extremely important than an investigation be commenced immediately."
The Security Council called for "a full, thorough and independent international investigation."
Meanwhile, emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners spread out across the sunflower fields and villages of eastern Ukraine, searching the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down as it flew miles above the country's battlefield.
The attack Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations — including vacationers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia. At least 189 of the dead were from the Netherlands.
The Ukrainian government in Kiev, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting and the Russia government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all denied shooting the plane down. Moscow also denies backing the rebels.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Friday for a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine and urged the two sides to hold peace talks as soon as possible. A day earlier, Putin had blamed Ukraine for the crash, saying Kiev was responsible for the unrest in its Russian-speaking eastern regions. But he did not accuse Ukraine of shooting the plane down and did not address the key question of whether Russia gave the rebels such a powerful missile.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry released a video purporting to show a truck carrying the Buk missile launcher it said was used to fire on the plane with one of its four missiles apparently missing. The ministry said the footage was filmed by a police surveillance squad at dawn Friday as the truck was heading to the city of Krasnodon toward the Russian border.
There was no way to independently verify the video.
Access to the sprawling crash site remained difficult and dangerous. The road into it from Donetsk, the largest city in the region, was marked by five rebel checkpoints Friday, with document checks at each.
By midday, 181 bodies had been located, according to local emergency workers in contact with officials in Kiev. In addition to the Dutch, passengers on the plane included 29 Malaysians, 28 Australians, 12 Indonesians, nine Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos and one person each from Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong, according to the airlines and those governments.
Still Nataliya Bystro, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's emergency services, said rebel militiamen were interfering with the recovery operation. She did not elaborate.
Separatist rebels who control the crash site issued conflicting reports Friday about whether they had found the plane's black boxes or not.
"No black boxes have been found ... we hope that experts will track them down and create a picture of what has happened," said Donetsk separatist leader Aleksandr Borodai.
Yet earlier Friday, an aide to the military leader of Borodai's group said authorities had recovered eight out of 12 recording devices. Since planes usually have two black boxes — one for recording flight data and the other for recording cockpit voices — it was not clear what he was referring to.
Borodai said 17 representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation and four Ukrainian experts had traveled into rebel-controlled areas to begin an investigation into the attack.
Ukraine's state aviation service closed the airspace Friday over two border regions gripped by separatist fighting — Donetsk and Luhansk — and Russian airlines suspended all flights over Ukraine.
The crash site was spread out over fields between two villages in eastern Ukraine — Rozsypne and Hrabove. In the distance, the thud of Grad missile launchers being fired could be heard Friday morning.
In the sunflower fields around Rozsypne, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border, lines of men disappeared into thick, tall growth that reached over their heads. One fainted after finding a body. Another body was covered in a coat.
About 70 off-duty coal miners joined the search, their faces still sooty from work.
In Hrabove, several miles away, large numbers of sticks, some made from tree branches, were affixed with red or white rags to mark spots where body parts were found.
Ukraine Foreign Ministry representative Andriy Sybiga said the bodies will be taken to Kharkiv, a government-controlled city 270 kilometers (170 miles) to the north, for identification.
Among the debris were smashed watches and mobile phones, charred boarding passes and passports. An "I (heart) Amsterdam" T-shirt and a guidebook to Bali hinted at holiday plans gone awry.
Large chunks of the Boeing 777 that bore the airline's red, white and blue markings lay strewn over one field. The cockpit and one turbine lay a kilometer (a half-mile) apart, and the tail landed 10 kilometers (six miles) away. One rebel militiaman in Rozsypne told The Associated Press the plane's fuselage showed signs of being struck by a projectile.
The area has seen heavy fighting between government troops and pro-Russia separatists, and rebels had bragged about shooting down two Ukrainian military jets Wednesday in the region.
Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said the plane was flying at about 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) when it was hit by a missile from a Buk launcher, which can fire up to an altitude of 22,000 meters (72,000 feet). Malaysia's prime minister said there was no distress call before the plane went down.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott demanded an independent inquiry into the downing.
"The initial response of the Russian ambassador was to blame Ukraine for this and I have to say that is deeply, deeply unsatisfactory," he said. "It's very important that we don't allow Russia to prevent an absolutely comprehensive investigation so that we can find out exactly what happened here."
"This is not an accident, it's a crime," he added.
For his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed Kiev's accusations that Moscow could be behind the attack.
"Regarding those claims from Kiev that we allegedly did it ourselves: I have not heard a truthful statement from Kiev for months," he told the Rossiya 24 television channel.
He also said Russia has no intention of getting its hands on the plane's black boxes and added they should be given to international aviation organizations.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk described the attack as an "international crime" whose perpetrators should be punished in an international tribunal.
"Yesterday's terrible tragedy will change our lives. The Russians have done it now," he was cited as saying by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lay insisted again Friday that the airline's path was an internationally approved route and denied accusations that Malaysia Airlines was trying to save fuel and money by taking a more direct flight path across Ukraine.
"I want to stress that this route is an approved path that is used by many airlines including 15 Asia-Pacific airlines. We have not been informed that the path cannot be used," he said.
Aviation authorities in several countries, including the FAA in the United States, had issued previous warnings not to fly over parts of Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March. Within hours of the crash Thursday, several airlines announced they were avoiding parts of Ukrainian airspace.
Passengers on the plane included a large contingent of world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists headed to an international AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia. News of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community.
In the Netherlands, flags were flying at half-staff as residents mourned the victims.
At the Tour de France cycling race, riders observed a minute of silence for the victims before the start of the day's stage in Saint-Etienne. The Dutch team Belkin wore black armbands.
For one Australian family, the Ukraine crash represented an almost unbelievable double tragedy.
Kaylene Mann's brother Rod Burrows and sister-in-law Mary Burrows were on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 when it vanished in March over the Indian Ocean. On Friday, Mann found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed on Flight 17.
"It's just brought everyone, everything back," said Greg Burrows, Mann's brother. "It's just ... ripped our guts again."
Leonard reported from Kiev. Others who contributed included Yuras Karmanau in Kiev; Mstyslav Chernov in Rozsypne, Ukraine; Nataliya Vasilyeva and Laura Mills in Moscow; Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands; Edith Leherer in New York; and Eileen Ng and Satish Cheney in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


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The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to stop Alabama officials from enforcing a strict immigration measure that has already driven Hispanic students from public schools and migrant workers from towns, warning that it opens the door to discrimination against even legal residents.
The Department of Justice's filing to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also said the law, considered by many to be the most stringent immigration rules in the country, could cause considerable fallout as immigrants flee to other states or their native countries.
A coalition of advocacy groups also filed a separate appeal Friday that claimed the law has thrown Alabama into "chaos" and left some Hispanics too afraid to go to their jobs and reluctant to send their kids to school.
In the meantime, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he intends to continue enforcing the contentious law, which allows authorities to detain people suspected of being in the country illegally and lets officials check the immigration status of students in public schools.
Those measures took effect last week after a federal judge upheld them, and they help make the Alabama law stricter than similar laws passed in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia. Federal judges in those states have blocked all or parts of those measures.
Government attorneys outlined several problems they have with the Alabama overhaul.
They worry the law is likely to expose legal residents "to new difficulties in routine dealings" and could force federal authorities to deal with low-risk immigrants rather than the most dangerous criminals. And they say the attempt to drive illegal immigrants "off the grid" could disrupt both diplomatic relationships and national policy.
"Other states and their citizens are poorly served by the Alabama policy, which seeks to drive aliens from Alabama rather than achieve cooperation with the federal government to resolve a national problem," the filing said.
Immigration has become a hot-button issue in Alabama over the past decade as the state's Hispanic population grew by 145 percent to about 185,600. U.S. Census figures show the group represents about 4 percent of the state population, but some counties in north Alabama have large Spanish-speaking communities and schools where most of the students are Hispanic.
Alabama Republicans have long sought to clamp down on illegal immigration and passed the law earlier this year after gaining control of the Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. Bentley soon signed the measure, saying it was crucial to protect the jobs of legal residents amid the tough economy.
Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard said the state was forced to act because the federal government ignored its responsibility to enforce immigration law.
"In Alabama we believe in obedience to law because it promotes fairness and protects the rights of everybody," said Hubbard, who is a Republican. "That's why instead of just talking about it, we took action to ensure nobody is allowed to cheat the system and ignore our laws."
The measure has had an immediate impact.
Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home from school. Some towns and urban areas have also reported a sudden exodus of Hispanics, some of whom told officials they planned to leave the state to avoid trouble with the law.
A federal judge blocked other strict portions of the crackdown, including a part that forbids drivers from stopping along a road to hire temporary workers, a ban on businesses from taking tax deductions for wages paid to illegal workers and a provision that makes it a crime for an illegal immigrant to solicit work.
But the judge let other portions of the law stand, concluding several groups failed to show they met the legal standards to block the law. That coalition, which filed a separate lawsuit, filed its appeal late Friday.
Advocates applauded the federal government's move. Allison Neal of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, which was part of the coalition that sued, said she hopes the "11th Circuit will act quickly on this because of the real harm we are seeing here in Alabama."
Legal experts say they expect the Supreme Court to eventually weigh in on the issue, but are still uncertain which state will win the race to the court.
"Whether the Alabama one is heard or not, I can't predict. But until there's greater clarity from Congress or the court, there's going to be more appeals," said Doug Towns, an Atlanta lawyer who specializes in immigration employment law. "Opponents say this creates a patchwork approach to immigration policy, and ultimately that needs to be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court."
The Justice Department's challenge called the Alabama law a "sweeping new state regime" and urged the appeals court to forbid states from creating a patchwork of independent immigration policies. It also said the law could strain diplomatic relations with Latin American countries, who have warned the law could impact millions of workers, tourists and students in the U.S.
The law, it said, turns illegal immigrants into a "unique class who cannot lawfully obtain housing, enforce a contract, or send their children to school without fear that enrollment will be used as a tool to seek to detain and remove them and their family members."


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Promotion Committees
Department of Medicine Promotions Committee
Terms of Reference
The University of Toronto, Department of Medicine (DoM), Senior Promotions Committee is responsible for the annual review of senior promotion dossiers (to associate professor and full professor) and provision of candidate recommendations to the Chair of Medicine and Decanal Promotions Committee.
Committee Membership
The committee is comprised of senior full-time clinical faculty members (full professor rank) who have been selected by the department chair in consultation with the committee chair to reflect the constituency of the department's faculty. Appointed members serve for an initial three years and may remain on the committee up to five years in total.
Committee Mandate and Role
The committee will meet for three mandatory half-days in the autumn of each year. The committee will be supported by the DoM senior promotions administrator. Review documents will be provided to reviewers at least 21 days prior to the first committee meeting.
All committee members are expected to:
- Be versed on the policies and procedures of both the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Medicine relating to senior promotions
- Attend all committee meetings and give highest priority to committee responsibilities
- Exercise strict confidentiality with regards to all promotion documents and committee discussions
- Review and declare all potential conflicts of interest to the committee chair regarding promotion candidates. In the event of a conflict, the committee member will excuse themselves from all discussion and voting regarding the candidate in question
- Review all materials provided relevant to their assignments and provide constructive, fair reviews of all assigned candidates
- Complete Implicit Bias Training according to department expectations prior to undertaking any committee work.
Committee members may not:
- Provide letters of reference for promotion candidates
Committee members may serve as hospital promotion mentors, but will abstain from voting for any candidates whom they have mentored.
The Committee Chair is expected to:
- Ensure fair and transparent process of review.
- Consistently remind committee members of importance of confidentiality in all promotion deliberations.
- Ask all members to declare potential conflicts of interest at the beginning of each candidate review, and determine if the conflict is significant.
Specific Responsibilities
Each committee member is assigned four-six candidates to review, approximately half as primary reviewer and half as secondary reviewer. Assignments consider obvious conflicts of specialty division and provide a mixture of rank and promotion pathways to each reviewer.
The primary reviewer will review the assigned candidate's confidential promotion documents that present the details of his/her background and achievements since the last promotion. On the basis of these achievements, the primary reviewer will make a recommendation for or against promotion, and will justify the conclusion through a thorough analysis of the documentation provided in a written report to be submitted at the meeting in which the candidate will be assessed.
The secondary reviewer will review the candidate's confidential promotion documents with the same level of detail as the primary reviewer and reach a decision for or against promotion. The secondary reviewer's report is intended to offer additional context to the primary reviewer. The report is to be submitted at the meeting in which the candidate will be assessed.
All members of the committee will read all promotion documents and will have reached their own independent conclusion regarding promotion of each candidate. This allows for a frank discussion, leading to a recommendation by the committee to the Chair of Medicine.
The committee will vote by a show of hands for or against promotion and those with conflicts of interest will abstain from voting. The committee is not required to reach a consensus. In the event of a split vote or recommendations not to promote, the committee will discuss what additional documentation might be provided to change the decision, and these recommendations are submitted to the candidates' physician-in-chief (PIC) offices to be addressed prior to the third and final committee meeting. At this final meeting, candidates in question will be given a re-vote, considering any additional materials, to confirm final recommendation to the Chair.
All members (excluding those with a declared conflict of interest) will participate in the vote.
|Martin Schreiber, chair
|St. Michael's Hospital
|Lori Albert, chair TEC
|Toronto Western Hospital
|Ahmed Bayoumi
|St. Michael's Hospital
|Internal Medicine
|Michael Farkouh
|Toronto General Hospital
|Susan Fox
|Toronto Western Hospital
|Wayne Gold
|Toronto General Hospital
|Infectious Diseases
|Shahid Husain
|Toronto General Hospital
|Infectious Diseases
|Stephen Lapinsky
|Mount Sinai Hospital
|Douglas Lee
|Toronto General Hospital
|Geoffrey Liu
|Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
|Medical Oncology
|Mona Loutfy
|Women's College Hospital
|Infectious Diseases
|Warren Mason
|Princess Margaret Hospital
|Lucy Osborne
|Ramesh Prasad
|St. Michael's Hospital
|Ravi Retnakaran
|Mount Sinai Hospital
|Endocrinology and Metabolism
|Peter Rossos
|Toronto General Hospital
|Gastroenterology & Hepatology
|Damon Scales
|Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
|Critical Care
|Jeffrey Zaltzman
|St. Michael's Hospital
Teaching Effectiveness Committee for Senior Promotion
Terms of reference
The Department of Medicine Teaching Effectiveness Committee (DOMTEC) serves the role of reviewing the teaching dossiers of candidates for senior promotion (promotion to associate professor and full professor). All candidates must demonstrate a minimum of competence in teaching to achieve promotion. The DOMTEC verifies that such competence has been demonstrated. Additionally, the committee contributes to the appraisal of those candidates being considered for promotion on basis of 'Sustained Excellence in Teaching,' in parallel to the work done by the Department of Medicine (DoM) Senior Promotions Committee.
All DOMTEC decisions are communicated to the DoM Senior Promotions Committee by the DOMTEC chair to assist in their process or recommendation to the Decanal Promotion Committee.
Committee Membership
The committee is comprised of senior full-time clinical faculty members (full professor or associate professor rank) who have been selected by the department chair in consultation with the committee chair and hospital physicians-in-chief.
Committee Mandate and Role
The committee will meet two-three in the autumn, just prior to the meetings of the Department of Medicine Senior Promotions Committee. The committee will be supported by the DoM Senior Promotions Administrator. Review documents will be provided to reviewers at least 21 days prior to the first review committee meeting.
All committee members are expected to:
- Be versed on the policies and procedures of the faculty of medicine relating to senior promotions for full-time clinical faculty members
- Review and declare all potential conflicts of interest to the chair regarding promotion candidates
- Act as reviewer for three-four assigned candidates using a template, to be submitted prior to the meeting
- Review all materials provided that are relevant to their assignments and provide constructive, fair reviews of all assigned candidates
- Avoid acting as internal referees for any senior promotion candidate. In the event that a committee member is acting as a referee, he/she will abstain from discussion and voting with regards to that candidate
The committee chair is expected to:
- Ensure fair and transparent process of review
- Clearly communicate DOMTEC decisions to DoM Senior Promotions Committee
|Lori Albert, chair
|Toronto Western Hospital
|Caroline Chessex
|Toronto Western Hospital
|Associate Professor
|Maria Cino
|Toronto Western Hospital
|Gastroenterology & Hepatology
|Associate Professor
|Barry Goldlist
|Mount Sinai Hospital
|Geriatric Medicine
|Catherine Kelly
|Women's College Hospital
|Endocrinology and Metabolism
|Ophyr Mourad
|St. Michael's Hospital
|Internal Medicine
|Associate Professor
|Danny Panisko
|Toronto Western Hospital
|Internal Medicine
|Peeter Poldre
|Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
|Eric Yu
|Toronto Western Hospital


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Plan to limit public aid for fertility treatment causing stir
The government's recent decision to discuss limiting public aid for fertility treatment to women ages 39 or younger, as well as how often aid can be received is causing concern among people undergoing such treatment.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry decided earlier this month to consider establishing the age limit based on a report compiled by a ministry study group that concluded fertility treatment is riskier and less effective for women 40 and older.
The ministry is believed to have made the decision in the aim of providing effective fertility treatment to women who are relatively young and more fertile. But concerns have been raised among women 40 and older who are already receiving treatment.
The study group headed by Keio University Prof. Yasunori Yoshimura said in the March report that public aid for fertility treatments should be limited to women ages 39 or younger if an age limit is introduced.
The aid began in 2004 to provide financial support for infertile couples, as treatments are not covered by public health insurance and cost about 300,000 yen to 400,000 yen per treatment, including egg collection. Aid is provided for up to 150,000 yen per treatment and shared equally by the national and local governments.
A couple's annual income must be 7.3 million yen or less to receive the grant, but there is no age limit. In fiscal 2011, aid was provided for 113,000 treatments, a marked increase from 18,000 in fiscal 2004.
According to data on nationwide fertility treatment, or external fertilization, from 2007 to 2010, the rate of pregnancy was about 20 percent among women ages 32 or younger, but the success rate starts dropping sharply from age 36, falling to 8 percent among women aged 40 and 1 percent among those aged 44.
Additionally, the chances of a miscarriage rise with age.
However, 36 percent of women receiving the treatment were 40 or older, according to the 2010 data.
Older women are more likely to develop pregnancy-induced hypertension or have chromosome abnormalities in the fetus.
The study group's report and the subsequent government move are causing concern among people receiving the treatment.
A 40-year-old part-time worker in Chiba Prefecture said she is uncomfortable since it invites all-out differentiation between women aged 39 or younger and those aged 40 or older. "Things can be very different even among women of the same age," she said.
The woman began receiving fertility treatment at 37, the second year after her marriage. She started external fertilization last year.
It costs her up to 700,000 yen each time she receives the treatment, which includes placing a fertilized egg in her uterus. Her monthly part-time pay is 30,000 yen.
She said she is using money she saved when she was single to get by.
Fine, a Tokyo-based nonprofit supporting people with fertility problems, said half the people they surveyed paid more than 1 million yen in total for fertility treatments.
Fine director Akiko Matsumoto said many people have to quit their job due to difficulties in working and receiving the treatment at the same time. This is because the date to collect an egg for external fertilization or to place a fertilized egg in a woman's uterus is decided at the last minute.
External fertilization costs are covered by insurance or publicly subsidized in the United States and some European and Asian countries.
According to the International Society of Reproductive Medicine data in 2010, an age limit is in place in many countries. Such public aid is limited, for example, to women aged 44 or younger in South Korea, 42 or younger in France and 40 or younger in Singapore.
Osamu Ishihara of Saitama Medical University Hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department, who is well versed in foreign fertility treatment systems, said the system has been built on a scientific and cost-benefit basis in other countries.
"It cannot be helped that the Japanese system, on the other hand, is called a welfare handout, although the aid is helping reduce the financial burden of patients," Ishihara said.
Reviewing the number of times aid can be received is another issue.
Currently, the aid is offered up to three times in the first fiscal year and up to two times each fiscal year thereafter. Aid is provided a maximum of 10 times over five years.
Through analysis of National Center for Child Health and Development data, the study group found 78 percent of treatments took place during the first two years, and 92 percent of women who gave birth did so within six treatments.
The study group proposed providing aid six times over two years, while placing no limit on the number of treatments per year, which is believed to allow people to use the aid according to their circumstances.


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It's been a while since we checked in on indie platformer The Other Brothers, so it was a treat today that I actually got my hands on the game.
What you see above is the game's first level. What you maybe can't see is that, to go with the retro-inspired aesthetic, it's got some retro-inspired sensibilities, in that for a first level it's pretty tough!
I mean that in a good Mega Man, Prince of Persia kind of way, though. If you want to get hold of the demo yourself, there's info on how to do so at the link below.
The Other Brothers [Official Site]


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Despite calling Gov. Rick Scott's proposed $74.2 billion budget "thoughtful" and "fiscally sound", Florida House Appropriations Chair Seth McKeel said the varying ways it provides raises among different groups of employees is raising concerns of fairness.
Scott is recommending giving each teacher a $2,500 across-the-board pay increase. For non-supervisory state workers, he is recommending an across-the-board bonus – not a permanent pay raise – of $1,200. Depending on the type of evaluations they get, these employees could receive an additional $2,500 or $5,000. Corrections workers, because of a drop in prisoners who return upon release, would get increases of between $500 and $1,000.
"It seems to treat different employees differently," said McKeel, R-Lakeland, during Tuesday's meeting with Scott's budget director, Jerry McDaniel. "And we have consternation about that."
Afterward with reporters, McKeel went further criticizing the proposed compensation, which is one of the budget's key platforms.
"There are three different ways, and I'm concerned if that's a defensible mechanism for dealing with employee pay," he said.
That's apparently a new line of attack for state Republican lawmakers, who initially opposed Scott's hike in teacher pay because every teacher received it. They prefer hitching teacher pay to SB 736, which was the first bill Scott signed as governor and was championed by Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, who is now House Speaker.
The bill eliminated teacher tenure and added a merit pay plan tied to student achievement on standardized tests.
McKeel said told reporters Tuesday that "clearly, we think that merit is a viable solution."
But the fairness doctrine – should all employees get the same type of pay increase – appears to be a new concern.
McDaniel explained Scott's rationale for the pay. The raises for the corrections officers is for the drop in recidivism. Scott likes merit pay for state workers. And teachers, McDaniel said, deserve a pay raise because they just do, striking a note of support for teachers that would have seemed unimaginable two years ago when Scott cut lower education by $1.3 billion.
"He believes that one of our most valuable assets are our teachers," McDaniel said. "They spend more time with our children than many of our parents do. He believes, across the board, they are underpaid. They make an average of $45,000, and they spend inordinate amounts of time, not only in the classroom but in their homes and on weekends, preparing for classes and spending time with students in terms of remediation."


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