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Two goals in the third period? Including the game-winner?
Those are the moments that delight him.
But he never overlooks the moments that define him.
Such as racing across the ice to paste Brendan Smith into the sideboards — a collision that knocks the wind out of the perpetrator.
Such as stepping in front of Niklas Kronwall's power-play slapshot — a scorcher that hammers into the knuckles of his right hand.
Wincing, grimacing, this is the bent-nosed game face of Steve Begin. Hunched over on the bench, soothing the throb of the latest jolt. Concerned trainer leaning over for a word.
"Pain is part of the game," the Calgary Flames' toughie says the morning after the 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings. "I remember this summer somebody asking me, 'What do you miss the most about the game?' And I said, 'Pain.' Blocking shots and stuff like that . . . it's always been fun. I enjoy it."
But imagine life as an offensive dynamo?
"Well, it's probably fun," says Begin, chuckling. "It should be great being a goal-scorer, but I've had a blast doing this, playing the way I play."
Through 524 NHL appearances, Begin has collected 56 goals.
Contusions, though, are harder to track, especially as they overlap.
On Thursday morning, Begin doesn't practise, opting instead for treatment of an unspecified wound. From there, he's off to the dentist.
Just another day.
Last week against Vancouver, he handled exactly 17 seconds of ice time before a teammate rifled the puck into the back of his head, raising a golf-ball-sized lump behind his right ear. He never missed a game.
Begin knew what he was getting into in January — he earned a contract, suited up for the season opener, promptly had a slapper sizzled off his foot.
Welcome back to the NHL.
"Exactly," laughs the 34-year-old. "My friends, they all called me after and said, 'Well, you were talking about pain. How was that one?' "
Adds coach Bob Hartley: "Beige has played his entire career with pain. You just have to look at the (2001) Calder Cup picture in Saint John — lifting the cup and his face is all smashed up. That's the kind of guy you want in an organization."
Which would come as good news to Begin, who is eager to keep his bruises fresh. He insists that he has one, two, even three more years of toil in his 195-pound carcass.
In his corner, publicly, is Hartley.
"Players with the commitment of Steve Begin, I really believe that there's not enough (of them) in the NHL," says Hartley. "I always admired the way that he played. I look at the spirit, the leadership. Pretty amazing what he's done for us."
In addition to on-ice contributions, the Trois-Rivieres, Que., native knows what he can offer a squad in the midst of a teardown, with newbies arriving on a regular basis.
Begin recalls landing in Calgary — back in 1997 — as a wide-eyed junior. He assumed the training-camp axe would fall — it didn't. So here was Begin, 19 and out of his element. Joel Bouchard did his best to make him comfortable — or at least presentable.
"I had no suit, no tie, no shirt, nothing," Begin, grinning, says. "Then, when I signed my deal, Joel brought me to the mall and said, 'Just pay me when you get your first paycheque.' I always tell that story. I think it's quite funny — me as a kid coming here. You don't know anything and you're so excited. And Joel was there for me."
Paying it forward, Begin is a tenderfoot's best friend.
"I talk to them a lot, make sure they're OK. Right now, I'm trying to help them, even if they might take my spot."
Which is the cycle of pro sports, grooming the one who is destined to force you out.
No matter. Begin continues onward, riding a career that has always been day to day.
"Pretty much the story of my life," he says. "Every year it was, 'Is he going to make the team? Is he going to stick around?' Right now, I want to play every game and enjoy every moment, without knowing what's going to happen next year. I want to play every game like it's my last game. It's been like this the whole year."
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The giraffe calf has grown nearly a foot since his birth 3 weeks ago, towering in at just about 7 feet tall now. But there's another tell-tale sign of growth to look for: the formation of the calf's ossicones.
|Notice mom's fully formed ossicones and the little ones just starting to take shape on baby's head. Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
Ossicones are the horn-like protuberances giraffes sport on their heads. They are formed from ossified cartilage (cartilage that has transformed into bone) and covered in skin and fur. Remember what looked like a little tuft of hair on baby when he was first born?
|One-day-old giraffe with flat ossicones. Photo by Ryan Hawk/Woodland Park Zoo.
Those were his little ossicones, all flat and barely developed. But over the weeks they have begun to harden. You can see in these pictures at one-week-old how the ossicones are beginning to take shape.
|One-week-old ossicones, the profile view. Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo
|One-week-old ossicones, the front view. Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
Ultimately, they'll stand tall and strong on his head as he matures, a sparring weapon handy for competing with other males for food or perhaps a mate.
|The growing boy. Photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo.
The calf's budding ossicones hint at all that is ahead for him in the future. Treasure these early days—he may be as tall as 18 feet before you know it.
Video: 15 minutes of quality time with the 3-week-old giraffe, taken from the live web cam 8/28/2013.
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Dr. Malcolm Clark
A Conversation with Malcolm Clark, Principal Investigator for Census of Marine Life on Seamounts.
Where were you educated?
I studied at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where I received a PhD in Marine Biology in 1982, then did postgraduate work in fisheries ecology and stock assessment.
How did you become interested in the ocean?
My family, for generations, has been involved in the sea, either as ship officers, fishermen, or keen sailors and yachties. I also started sailing as a young kid, which is common in New Zealand where one is never far from the coast, and so the progression into marine biology was probably natural.
What do you study and why is it important?
I study seamount biodiversity, deepwater fisheries, and the effects of trawling. These three are related, and are a focus of CenSeam, which stands for the Census of Marine Life on Seamounts. Seamounts can be productive habitats and benthic fauna and fish species can be abundant in these areas. Deepwater fisheries for species like alfonsino, boarfish, cardinalfish and orange roughy, for example, often take place on and near seamounts, and as a result, the localized impact of trawling can be substantial. Very little is known of what actually lives on seamounts - only 300-400 have been sampled out of a possible global total close to 100,000. We need to learn more about the animals found on seamounts, how the communities are structured, how they function, and how fisheries can affect them-so that seamount resources can be managed in a sustainable way and biodiversity is maintained.
What do you enjoy about your work?
It is always challenging, often exciting, and never the same from day to day. My work has taken me from the North Sea to the Antarctic, from the surface to over a kilometer deep in a submersible. It is a fascinating world in the oceans, and there is so much we have yet to learn.
What are some of the challenges you face?
There is so much to do, given a large number of seamounts spread throughout the world's oceans. Research offshore is expensive. It is hard to get enough funding together to carry out detailed research. There is always a trade-off between examining one area in detail, and many more on a broader scale. The world of seamount biodiversity is very complex, and it is hard to sample the deep and capture the full range of biodiversity - animals are very good at not being caught!
What have you learned and what do you hope to learn?
The CenSeam programme is just beginning, but we hope to compile a lot of existing information. We also intend to foster new expeditions to gain a much better understanding of the structure of seamounts and how their ecosystems function. We can use this knowledge to try and advise how human activities can be managed to ensure conservation of seamount biodiversity.
How do you spend your spare time when not studying the ocean?
When not studying the ocean, I tend to play in or on it. I enjoy the water sports of sailing, diving, and white-water kayaking. And, of course, there is always old house maintenance, and normal family events. Following our three children's activities just about fills the day, every day.


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University of San Francisco Professor Dayle M. Smith Named School of Business Dean at Clarkson University
Dayle M. Smith has been named dean of the School of Business at Clarkson University, effective July 1, 2013.
Smith is a professor of management at the University of San Francisco's McLaren School of Business and has held a number of leadership roles during her 20-year tenure at the institution, including current service as the director of the Business Honors Program.
She holds her doctoral degree in organizational communication and organizational behavior from the University of Southern California, and has also taught at the University of Southern California and Georgetown University.
In announcing Smith's acceptance to serve as the dean of Clarkson's nationally ranked business school, Provost Chuck Thorpe said, "Dayle Smith is an inspirational leader with collaborative vision and a record of supporting innovation and team-building experiences across departments, universities and international borders. She is well-positioned to help Clarkson faculty, students and staff blur boundaries, use technology and develop strategic partnerships to connect to industry, global organizations and Clarkson's remarkably successful alumni in new ways."
Smith responded by saying, "Building on the extraordinary legacy of leadership in the Clarkson University School of Business, I look forward to helping the school and university reach new levels of excellence and share its pioneering influence both domestically and internationally."
At the University of San Francisco, Smith teaches classes in leadership, management and organizational behavior, human resource management and other management electives at the undergraduate, graduate and executive MBA levels.
Smith spent her 2010-11 academic year in Hong Kong as a member of a senior Fulbright scholar team. With top administrators, faculty and staff at eight Hong Kong universities, the scholar team helped shape a nationwide educational transformation initiative.
She has also taught internationally in Hong Kong, mainland China, Indonesia, Thailand and in the Republic of Georgia, along with active participation in international executive programs, working with such groups as Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, the Northern Ireland Small Business Institute and groups from Africa, Scandinavia and Southeast Asia.
Smith has authored over 25 books, including Learning Team Skills; Management Communication (with Arthur Bell); Difficult People at work: How to cope, How to win; The E-Business Book and Women at Work: Leadership for the Next Century.
Her articles have appeared in such journals as Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Business Communication, Human Resources Planning, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Staffing and Recruitment and others.
In addition to her research and teaching, Smith also consults for a number of organizations in the areas of strategy, leadership, team training and development and executive coaching as well as service on several boards that address social entrepreneurship in the developing world. Her clients have included Wells Fargo Inc., Quaker Oats, Marriott Corporation, United States Coast Guard, United States Army, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Safeway Stores, Cost Plus World Markets, PaineWebber, Santa Fe- Southern Pacific and the Library of Congress.
In 2008, Smith was awarded the University Service Learning Award and nominated for the National Ehrlich Award. She designed and implemented the Public Service Internship program placing students in paid internship opportunities with Bay Area non-profit agencies that address a full range of social issues including homelessness, healthcare, at-risk youth, children with disabilities, social entrepreneurship and community redevelopment.
With her husband, Arthur H. Bell, Smith is co-founder and CEO of Lexingford Publishing, an Internet start-up with offices in Hong Kong and San Francisco that provides authors with an alternative model for publishing original intellectual work.
Smith received her Ph.D. and Master of Arts degree in organizational communication from the University of Southern California and her bachelor of arts in speech communication from the University of Texas at Arlington.
She serves on several boards, has coached softball for the Tiburon Peninsula Little League, plays Marin and USTA League Tennis and is actively involved in her community. Smith and Bell are the parents of three children.
Timothy F. Sugrue, who has been the dean of the Business School since 2000, will step down June 30 to focus on serving as CEO of the Beacon Institute, a subsidiary of Clarkson University in Beacon, N.Y., which he has led since 2011.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Tea Police Chief, Officer Resign; Reason Unclear
TEA, S.D. (AP) - The southeastern South Dakota city of Tea is without a police chief.
City Councilman Chuck Ortmeier tells KSFY-TV that Chief Brian Ketterhagen and Officer James Klimple resigned on Monday during a closed executive session of the City Council. He wouldn't say why. A telephone listing could not immediately be found for either Ketterhagen or Klimple.
Mayor John Lawler told the Argus Leader newspaper that the two men resigned for personal reasons. He did not elaborate. Lincoln County State's Attorney Tom Wollman declined to comment to KSFY.
Assistant Chief Brian Tvedt is temporarily acting as chief as the city looks for a successor to Ketterhagen, who had been chief a little more than two years.
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This is using the GUI approach. My IBM BPM courses for dev and admin should be available sometime in Q3 2013.
For this install I am using the flowing three media files
- BPM_ADV_8.0.1_LNX_X86_32_64B-2_3.tar
- BPM_ADV_8.0.1_LNX_X86_32_64B-3_3.tar
- BPM_ADV_8.0.1_LNX_X86_32_64B-1_3.tar
Once de-compressed this is the file list.
|-rw-rw-r--. 1 bpmadmin 500 1148 Nov 3 01:07 launchpad.ini
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bpmadmin 500 1148 Nov 3 01:07 launchpad64.ini
drwxrwxr-x. 10 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 16:03 .
drwxrwxr-x. 8 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 16:04 repository
drwxr-xr-x. 4 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:23 properties
drwxr-xr-x. 2 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:23 LICENSES
drwxr-xr-x. 38 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:23 launchpad
drwxr-xr-x. 7 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:23 dbscripts
drwxrwxr-x. 12 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:26 IM
drwxrwxr-x. 12 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:26 IM64
drwxrwxr-x. 3 bpmadmin 500 4096 Nov 3 17:26 responsefiles
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 bpmadmin 500 6081 Nov 3 17:26 launchpad.sh
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Feb 25 11:05 ..
I will start by running the launchpad.sh file
I have chosen to install the typical installation which allows me to choose the type of installation I want to perform. I then selected the Install Process Center option.
Click Next
Fill in the appropriate username and password. I have used wasasdmin/wasadmin
Choose use DB/2 Express
I used the following username/password combinations to start with:
Click Next
I then opted not to connect with my support account. This is a test environment, so need for that. I also like to be in control of updates. I am unsure what this option actually does, so I am leaving it out.
Click Install software
Take note of the Schema names
If you get the following error, then it is because you have not set some of the prerequisites
Ensure you complete the Linux Os Prerequisites.
For centos 6.3 I added the following to sysctl.conf
|#Added for WAS Process Server
kernel.sem=250 256000 32 4096
Then I added the following lines to the end of the /etc/security/limits.conf file:
|# - stack - max stack size (KB)
* soft stack 32768
* hard stack 32768
# - nofile - max number of open files
* soft nofile 65536
* hard nofile 65536
# - nproc - max number of processes
* soft nproc 16384
* hard nproc 16384
I then rebooted CentoOS.
First the installer installs IBM Installation Manager, then uses the repository from the install media as outlined at the beginning of this article.
If you get and error like:
It is most likely just errors being reported that your user for DB/2 already exists due to a previous trial of the install. Might be best to delete the users and groups mentioned earlier and start again.
I clicked Yes to launch the First Steps Console
A dialog will pop up detailing verification information
Now click the Administration link.
use the username and password you entered earlier on during the installation.
I am using wasadmin/wasadmin
If we navigate to the Server's view, we can see that we have a server and the profile that this server belongs to has been augmented for BPM.
If we navigate to the Applications view we will be able to see many applications that have been installed.
We will now go back to the first steps console and click on the Process Centre console link
We can see from the screen capture below that the context root is:"ProcessCenter"
We can also see that there is a download link to download IBM Process Designer. We will cover this in a separate document.
Lets look in to which application is serving the Process Center Console?
If you locate and find the app called IBM_BPM_Repository, and look at it's web-modules context root u will see it is the Process Center Console Application.
Click Context Root for Web Modules
Well that's all for this article, I hope this gives you some insights on a basic installation on a Process Center. In my course which is due for release in Q2/Q1 2013, you will get a complete guide on how to install BMP silently. I am also building a course on how to develop using IBM Integration Developer.


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Macey Scholar Lindsay SnyderSOCORRO, N.M. May 10, 2011 – A rising senior in the Biology Department, Lindsay Snyder has been a standout student and an involved campus community member since arriving in Socorro in 2008.
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Macey Scholar 2011-2012
A graduate of Aztec High School, Snyder has held several jobs on campus, is now on a research team, plays on the women's volleyball team and volunteers through the campus chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the biology honor society.
Unlike many future Tech students, Snyder had never heard of the university until she received a recruiting postcard during senior year of high school. Because of that mailing, she visited Tech during Exploration Day and became sold on the Biology Department, the faculty and the small-town feel.
"I am profoundly thankful to have received that little postcard three years ago," she said.
Snyder is currently working on two biology research projects with Dr. Tom Kieft and Dr. Kevin Kirk. With Kieft, she is studying micro-organisms that live in extreme deep-Earth environments. Snyder is characterizing the genetic materials of organisms that live without oxygen or sunlight.
"We're discovering new organisms from the deep subsurface," she said. "I really enjoy research because it involved molecular techniques combined with microbiology and we've had some interesting findings."
With Dr. Kirk, Snyder is doing evolutionary ecology work on one particular plant and its various strains. She is conducting exploratory experiments regarding the plant's growth and reproductive cycle.
Both Kirk and Kieft wrote glowing nomination letters supporting Snyder as a Macey Scholar. Both said that Snyder is among the best undergraduate students they've taught in 20 years. They also both credited her with displaying leadership skills in the lab and in the classroom.
"Lindsay is extremely bright," Kirk wrote. "She is very good at finding the key questions that need to be answered and the crucial experiments that need to be conducted."
Kieft said Snyder is unique among top performing students, in that she cares more about learning and doing research than simply maintaining a high GPA (which she also does).
"She is the best straight-A student I've had work in my lab in 20 years," Kieft wrote. "She systematically solves problems and overall has shown true commitment to the project."
Snyder's main extracurricular activity has been volleyball, which she has played since seventh grade. She is now the president of the Women's Volleyball Club and helps some teammates with tutoring. In 2010, she was runner-up for Sportswoman of the Year at Tech.
Associate Vice President Dr. Scott Zeman, who also serves as volleyball coach, nominated Snyder for her academic prowess, athletic involvement, community service and range of talents.
"Lindsay exemplifies the ideal of the 'student athlete'," Zeman wrote. "Lindsay has bhe keen analytical mind of a science student, coupled with the communication skills and breadth of interests of a liberal arts student."
Snyder intends to pursue a master's degree and launch a career that includes both field work and laboratory research. She said her New Mexico Tech experience has prepared her extremely well for life after college.
"I have met some of the greatest people at this institution and made friends that I believe will last a lifetime," she said. "I believe that the many opportunities provided to me here will grant me the best possible base to further my knowledge and skills in the future."
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New Society Publishers, a publisher and press focusing on sustainability issues, has become the first publisher in North America to become "carbon neutral."
New Society Publishers, a publisher and press focusing on sustainability issues, has become the first publisher in North America to become "carbon neutral."
Becoming "carbon neutral" is a new expression that is gathering momentum around the world. The 2006 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Australia, is planning to be carbon neutral, as well as the National Football League's 2006 Superbowl XL, to be held in Detroit.
"This is a great way to play our part, as we try to find ways to conduct our business in a more environmentally friendly manner," said Chris Plant, co-owner of New Society Publishers. "We see it is a fundamental component of being a socially responsible business and walking our talk."
With the purchase of 213 tons of carbon offsets, New Society Publishers has neutralized the effect of the 213 tons of emissions that were released into the atmosphere during 2003 as a result of the publisher's use of paper, fuel, electricity, and garbage.
New Society's 213 tons of emissions came from its use of paper (140 tons), flights and couriers (65 tons), trucking and vehicle travel (7 tons), fuel for heat and power (0.75 tons); and garbage (0.14 tons).
Half of the publisher's emissions were offset by a contribution to Tree Canada, which will plant 182 trees to absorb 106 tons of New Society Publisher's emissions.
The other half (for 107 tons) was offset by a contribution to the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), based in Washington DC. SELF brings solar electric lighting to villagers in countries such as South Africa and Bhutan, replacing the use of kerosene, which is a dangerous and expensive carbon-producing fossil fuel.
New Society Publishers's emissions analysis was done by climate specialist Guy Dauncey, author of the award-winning book Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change (New Society Publishers, 2001). Mr. Dauncey is himself carbon neutral, offsetting his personal emissions each year, a habit he shares with Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Mr. Dauncey has also developed a guide called "Going Carbon Neutral "" A Guide for Publishers" that can be used by any publisher in the world to help them do the same -- free from www.newsociety.com.
New Society Publishers operates from offices on Gabriola Island, British Columbia. The 25-year old company has a staff of eight people, and publishes 30 titles a year. Its goal as a company is "to contribute in fundamental ways to building a more ecologically sustainable and just society."
In 2001, New Society became the first publisher in North America to print all their books on ancient forest-free paper: 100% post-consumer recycled, non-chorine bleached. Since then, New Society Publishers has saved over 6,000 trees with this strategy.
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sciencenews.org – Analysis of 42,000 pill recipes shows nearly 93 percent have ingredients that may cause allergic reactions.
Source: Daniel Reker, et al. "Inactive" ingredients in oral medications. Science Translational Medicine, 2019.
medicaldaily.com – A new study claims women perform better in warm offices.
Source: Tom Y. Chang, Agne Kajackaite, Valerio Capraro. Battle for the thermostat: Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance. PLOS ONE, 2019.
discovermagazine.com – Microfossils from the Canadian Arctic, earliest known fungus, point to a much earlier evolutionary timeline not just for fungi, but for animals as well.
Source: Corentin C. Loron, et al. Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada. Nature, 2019.
sci-news.com – A new study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that adult bonobo males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in the group.
Source: Martin Surbeck, et al. Males with a mother living in their group have higher paternity success in bonobos but not chimpanzees. Current Biology, 2019.
cbc.ca – Sea levels could rise by as much as two metres by 2100 in a worst-case scenario involving melting ice caps and high CO2 emissions, new research suggests.
Source: Jonathan L. Bamber, Michael Oppenheimer, Robert E. Kopp, Willy P. Aspinall, Roger M. Cooke. Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019.
nytimes.com – A discovery in a fossilized mouse could help scientists work out the true colors of dinosaurs and other creatures from prehistory.
Source: Phillip L. Manning, et al. Pheomelanin pigment remnants mapped in fossils of an extinct mammal. Nature Communications, 2019.
discovermagazine.com – New research suggests Pluto hides an ocean beneath a thin insulating layer that keeps its ocean wet and its ice crust cold.
Source: Shunichi Kamata, et al. Pluto's ocean is capped and insulated by gas hydrates. Nature Geoscience, 2019.
discovermagazine.com – A diet of ultra-processed food causes weight gain even when it doesn't have more sugar, fat, or carbs, according to a new intensive study at the NIH.
Source: Kevin D. Hall, et al. Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake. Cell Metabolism, 2019.
discovermagazine.com – China's Yutu-2 lunar rover found material dug up from deep under the moon's surface that could help explain our satellite's origins.
Source: Chunlai Li, et al. Chang'E-4 initial spectroscopic identification of lunar far-side mantle-derived materials. Nature, 2019.
popularmechanics.com – A big study analyzes dental records and finds a surprisingly early split in Europe.
Source: Aida Gómez-Robles. Dental evolutionary rates and its implications for the Neanderthal–modern human divergence. Science Advances, 2019.
upi.com – Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eradicate. Not even the fiery asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs could rid Earth of its bedbug infestation.
Source: Steffen Roth, et al. Bedbugs Evolved before Their Bat Hosts and Did Not Co-speciate with Ancient Humans. Current Biology, 2019.


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To make the cake: Grease three 8-by-2-inch cake pans and line with parchment round Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt, set aside. In a measuring cup mix together the milk and vanilla, set aside.
In a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together the sugar and oil on medium-high speed for 1 minute. Add the egg whites and mix for another minute. Add the vinegar.
Add the flour to the sugar and egg mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the milk. Mix well after each addition and scrape down the bowl. Divide the batter into 3 bowls. Add the red food coloring to one of the bowls. Repeat with the blue food coloring.
Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Allow the cake layers to cool completely. Remove from the pans, leaving the parchment on the bottom. Use a 4-inch round biscuit cutter to cut out the center of each cake. Carefully lift out the center piece of cake and place them into the center of the other colored cakes.
To make the cream cheese icing: In a mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the cream cheese until it is softened, about 2 minutes. Add the butter and mix until smooth. Add the confectioners' sugar 1 cup at a time, mixing well between each addition, on low speed. This will be quite a bit of sugar to incorporate into your bowl.
To decorate the cake: Place the blue/red layer onto a cake stand or serving platter. Put one cup of the icing on the cake. Smooth the icing to cover the layer all the way to the edge.
Place the white/blue layer onto of the icing and peel off the parchment, if it is stuck to the bottom of the cake. The parchment can be useful for moving the layers. Add another cup of the icing and spread it smooth. Add the final red/white layer.
Cover the entire cake with a crumb coat of icing, to keep the crumbs from getting on the outside of your cake. Use a large star shaped cookie cutter to create the decoration on the top of the cake with blue decorating sugar. Once it is covered well, carefully lift off the cookie cutter.
Divide the remaining icing into 2 bowls and color one of the bowls with red food coloring. Fill 2 pastry bags, fitted with a star tip, with the red and white icings. Decorate around the blue decorating sugar with small red stars.
Pipe a border of white stars along the edge of the cake. Then fill in the entire top with white stars, so the top is completely covered.
Starting at the bottom of the cake, pipe a row of white stars, then repeat with a layer of red, and continue all the way up the sides of the cake.


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thegreekdog wrote:jj3044 wrote:thegreekdog wrote:Healthcare costs increased substantially, as a percentage of GDP from 1968 to 2008. Why? I'm sure the growing number of obese people and increases in the average age of our population had much to do with it. But one would think technological advancement would breed less need to spend money on healthcare. There are a number of studies showing what drives healthcare costs in the US. Such factors include increase utiliation of health insurance created by increased consumer demand (which will only increase now that we have "free" health insurance), new treatments, and more intensive diagnostic screening. Other researchers indicated that healthcare providers are rewarded for treating and testing patients rather than curing them. None of these cost factors are helped by the Affordable Care Act.jj3044 wrote:The law does much more than create more "freeloaders". It also tries to change the healthcare delivery system, which today is VERY ineffective. Here's how:
-Make preventive well-visits free (fully insurance paid) annually, allowing for much earlier identification of diseases and conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and yes, cancer, which in early stages typically do not have many symptoms. By the time symptoms are noticed, usually damage has already been done. By identifying and treating these conditions earlier, the condition costs much less, and will over all reduce the burden of treatment in the system today.
-Encourage a performance-based fee structure from insurers to providers. I currently live in Rhode Island, and "Patient centered medical homes" are the new buzz word... meaning that most of the resources needed to treat a patient are located within the practice (dietician, physical therapist, nurse case manager) to facilitate better care. When the patient meets better-than-average outcome measures, the practice gets paid more. Also, electronic health records are being installed so that if a patient goes to a different doctor, they can pull up the patient's information, see that they had a CT scan last month that was negative, and NOT order an unnecessary, duplicate test.
-Encourage employers/insurers to utilize value-based benefit designs. Basically these designs encourage proper use of the healthcare system by rewarding plan participants for being proactive in their health such as having an annual physical, taking a health risk assessment, or speaking to a health coach.
I need more details (e.g. links). I've read the law at least twice, and I don't remember seeing anything like this in it.
I am assuming you just mean the second and third point, as the free well-visits has been highly publicized, and I'm sure it was communicated to you when your plan renewed (assuming you are in the USA).
For the other two points, I doubt I'll have time to actually go through to find the sections (although, I may in the next few days... let's see how Thanksgiving goes and how many tasks my wife gives me ). For the third point, I am specifically referencing the grants for businesses to start a wellness program, and the law allowing employers/insurers to now use up to 30% of the premium as a wellness incentive (i.e. the aforementioned well visits, coaching programs, etc).


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It never occurred to me that 301 on-domain redirects might be a bad idea for passing along browsers/search indexers to new content URLs, but here's a use case where it becomes a big problem: when the person in charge changes their mind and wants to revert anything that you modified with a 301. I felt like an idiot for getting stuck in this technical snafu, and the workaround feels horrible, so let me explain.
Let's take a simple example. Say you've got a page with information about widgets, and your task is to redesign the widget page. You see that it's called content_123.html. Obviously, this isn't a good URL, so you would like to guide clients correctly to a new URL, like "/products/widgets". You heard that 301 redirects pass along PageRank after a little delay, and it's better than serving a 404, right?
Well, here's where it gets hairy. A few weeks later, the person in charge changes their mind and instructs you to revert the site to its original form. Easy, right? Just remove the 301 redirect from .htaccess, restore the old files, and you should be good to go, right?
Wrong. 301 redirects are cached for certain browsers, such as Firefox 3.5+ and Chrome. That means that a large set of users that visited your site, along with search engines, cached that mapping of content_123.html to "/products/widgets". Even though your webserver is no longer instructing clients about any 301 redirect, any browser (and likely all search engines) have now saved your 301 redirect. You can't create the reverse mapping either, because browsers and search engines are usually smart enough to avoid infinite loops, so they'll just ignore the new instructions. God forbid you redirected anything to "/", too.
If you're lucky, this is an intranet app and you can instruct all users to manually clear their browser caches. If it's public and this was a big redesign, your users may never even be able to get to a valid page if you just dump the old files on the webserver and they're all redirected via 301s.
The big issue is this: there is no way to tell a browser to clear out or undo a 301 redirect. You have to wait for a browser user to clear the cache, or have to wait for it to expire. This is totally unacceptable from a user's point of view, so here's a super-ugly way to workaround the problem.
- Put legacy content back.
- Eliminate all 301 redirects from your .htaccess / mod_rewrite config. Might as well stop causing damage first.
- Rename legacy file (perhaps append something standard), like content-123-orig.html
- Create new mod_rewrite rules to do 302 redirects from the original legacy URL to the new renamed URL. This will redirect all existing links from the legacy site to the old URLs, for any browsers without the cached 301 redirects, such as new visitors or users who clear caches.
- Create more mod_rewrite rules that do 302 redirects from the 301 redirect targets (the "new" urls that are being moved away from). This will redirect clients that were using the new site, and also will serve the correct page for clients with a cached 301 redirect – for example, browser A cached the 301 redirect, and so when you type in /content-123.html in its address bar, it instead tries to load "/products/widgets.html". Because of the new 302 rule, it will report that "/products/widgets.html" has been moved temporarily to "/content-123-orig.html" and the user will load the legacy page contents.
This is obviously a really horrible workaround, but changing your mind is something that normal humans do in the real world, and irreversible changes deserve more attention. It's embarrassing to post a "solution" like this, but if you run into this problem I'd rather save you some time than save me some face.
If you're considering going with 301 redirects in a move to a new URL structure, be aware that you're moving down a one-way street. It makes HTTP 301 seem awfully out of place in a spec that is otherwise quite comprehensive about downstream caching of content. Caching redirects seems like a logical behavior when the spec says that the change is permanent, and I suspect the main reason that this hasn't caused more visible problems yet is that the "permanent" part has been ignored by browsers until recently.


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Xocai makes solid dark chocolates, and varieties include plain nuggets, squares with omega-3 fatty acids, peanut butter cups, Xobiotics with probiotics and X Power Squares. Dark chocolate may be healthy for your heart, and Xocai chocolates have extra antioxidants in them. All Xocai chocolate products have a high oxidative radical antioxidant capacity, or ORAC.
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Berries are sources of flavanols as well as other groups of flavonoids, including flavanols and anthocyanidins, and Xocai chocolate products contain acai berry and blueberry blends.
Each serving of Xocai Omega Squares provides at least 200 mg long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, and eating an average of 250 mg per day may lower your risk for heart disease, according to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health.
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Biology Professor Reiss Gets Grant To Create CSI:DNA Website, Dec. 10, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
Right: High school students investigate a staged crime scene at New Mexico Tech's Fidel Center. The "body" is a dummy.
SOCORRO, N.M., Dec. 10, 2008 – New Mexico Tech biology professor Dr. Rebecca Reiss is taking her popular course CSI:DNA to the Internet.
The Applera Foundation recently gave $35,000 to Reiss to create an interactive web-based course in forensic science. The Applera Foundation is attached to Applied Biosystems Inc., of Foster City, Calif., which makes the Prism 310 genetic sequencer.
"This is a good match," Reiss said. "It fits the Applera Foundation's mission for biology education. The added attraction is that the web module will include their instrumentation."
The internet module will include three main segments. First, students must take a forensic science tutorial and quiz, which will include 2-D graphics. Then, once officially "certified," they will visit a 3-D virtual interactive crime scene, where they can navigate the scene and collect DNA and other clues. Finally, students will go to a 3-D interactive forensic crime lab where they will use the Prism 310 to test their DNA.
Computer specialist David Medcalf will create the virtual crime scenes and virtual lab, while Reiss will provide the biological expertise. Within a year, they plan to have a working site open to anyone, although the target audience is high-school teachers and their students.
Left: Dr. Rebecca Reiss, biology professor at New Mexico Tech, received a $35,000 grant from the Applera Foundation, to create an Internet version of her CSI-DNA mini-course in forensic biology.
Reiss is also opening a writing contest to generate the narratives of crimes, all of which must include a body found with various biological and physical clues about the crime.
"The idea is to get some literary scenarios written by fiction writers instead of scientists," Reiss said.
Originally called CSI:Socorro, the intensive week-long class debuted in 2004 as part of New Mexico Tech's summer mini-course for high school students. The course immediately became one of the most popular mini-course projects.
Reiss, using a National Science Foundation grant and funding from the university, purchased the Prism 310 in 1998. The Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer was introduced in 1996 as a new method of examining DNA that uses fluorescent tags. Reiss said the instrument is an affordable, versatile, genetic analyzer that is an alternative to gel-based DNA analysis. Also, the Prism 310 produces almost no hazardous waste, unlike previous methods that used radioactive materials, she said. Another benefit is that the fluorescent tag system requires much less genetic material – hair, skin or saliva, for example – to produce a genetic profile.
Reiss incorporated human forensic DNA into her sophomore-level genetics course in 2002. Several police departments from around the country donated expired reagents to help Reiss kick-start the class. Tech graduate Catherine Dickey, who is now a forensic scientist with the Metropolitan Forensic Science Center in Albuquerque, helped Reiss with the technical aspects of forensic genotyping. Scotia Kurowski, a participant in Tech's Master's of Science for Teachers program developed the week-long mini-course.
Students in the mini-course gather evidence at a mock crime scene and extract DNA from them. In a small tube, reagents are added that amplify and label specific sections of the DNA. These sections of DNA are known to evolve rapidly and each individual has a unique pattern. Up to 48 samples can be tested at once in the Prism 310 in the Reiss lab, which fires a small laser at the sample. Sensors detect certain wavelengths of light based on the fluorescent tags and the genetic material.
"The results are that we have a genetic fingerprint from a very small sample of DNA," Reiss said. "This is a powerful technique that has revolutionized forensic DNA analysis."
Students in the mini-course learn the basic principles behind Prism 310 in Reiss' biology lab at New Mexico Tech. They get hands-on training in DNA forensics – collecting samples, preparing them for analysis, loading their samples into the instrument, and analyzing the results.
"Not all of the students who take CSI:DNA become forensic scientists," Reiss said. "But it gets them interested in science and the scientific method."
During the week-long course, students spend the bulk of the first two days learning the basics about DNA, genetics and the laboratory procedures. For the next three days, the students investigate the crime scene, gather evidence, interview suspects and witnesses and conduct experiments in the lab using the Prism 310.
The new Internet module will make the course available to students and teachers anywhere at anytime.
Medcalf will create at least five different crime scenes, all of which will test students' abilities to gather evidence and conduct experiments. The web module will include a tracking system for students to follow their own progress.
Web surfers can find a variety of virtual reality scenes on the Internet, but this will be the first crime scene learning module of its kind. Using QuickTime Virtual Reality, Medcalf will stitch together digital pictures of the Fidel Center atrium and lounge to create a 3-D 360-degree representation of the crime scene. He will use Virtual Reality Modeling Language to create the 3-D interactive forensic lab, which will be accessible via any standard browser.
"It will be as if you're there, immersed in the environment," Medcalf said.
While the class certainly capitalizes on the CSI franchise of TV shows, Reiss believes the real attraction is the human fascination with mysteries and using the scientific method.
"We want to make it fun but our goal is to show why the scientific method is a powerful tool in forensics," Reiss said. "And we want to convince people that it's not difficult to do science. Why are crime scene mysteries popular? Because they encourage critical thinking skills that engage the viewer. Forensic investigations aren't just an analogy for science. They are science."


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wimax has been on my radar for a while and with Intel's investment in pipex today ($25m to create a joint venture called Pipex wireless) – wimax is suddenly in the limelight
As expected, I love this because the emergence of a technology like wimax is a positive force to the current stalemate in the mobile data industry
The article below is from theregister
Pipex WiMAX play to shake up UK market?
The UK market for broadband wireless services is set to become highly complex – and a possible proving ground for various technologies and business models – as the main holder of 3.5GHz spectrum, Pipex, shows its hand. Pipex holds the national license for 3.5GHz spectrum but, to date, has scarcely used the asset, leaving the PCCW-owned UK Broadband the only significant player in licensed broadband wireless services with its nationwide 3.4GHz holdings.
With UK Broadband slowing down its initially aggressive roll-out plans using its IPWireless kit (based on UMTS TDD technology), the UK has seemed ripe for shake-up, especially with spectrum trading soon to be permitted for the first time, and incumbent British Telecom expressing strong interest in WiMAX. It had therefore been speculated that Pipex would seek to sell on its spectrum, but now the UK's seventh largest ISP has announced its own WiMAX trials, in partnership with Airspan.
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This could indicate that, like some major US ISPs like EarthLink, Pipex will look to expand its customer base and add portable services to its bundles through wireless delivery (mobility is unlikely to be an option in the near term, since UK regulator Ofcom has so far proved hostile to allowing this in the 3GHz bands, and faces heavy lobbying from UK cellco giant Vodafone to maintain this stance). This could make the UK market less attractive for UK Broadband, which may seek to sell on its licenses, possibly – if Ofcom permits it – to BT.
This, in turn, could create a two-horse race in licensed spectrum for WiMAX-type services for business and high end residential customers, which would also be joined by some of the players using unlicensed 5GHz spectrum, such as Telebria, which has just announced new funding, and Libera. The market could be further complicated when Ofcom opens up additional broadband wireless spectrum from 2006, and especially if it decides to allow non-3G technologies into the 2.5GHz band, previously earmarked, when it is opened up next year, for 3G expansion only.
Pipex, set up in 1991, was the UK's first commercial ISP and now mainly serves business customers with 100 points of presence (including 20 point-to-multipoint broadband wireless PoPs). As a wireless ISP, it has the advantage of readymade backhaul arrangements and established reputation for corporate class service levels. The question is whether it will stick to its business market – also targeted by Libera – with wireless or use the lower cost infrastructure to relaunch its efforts in the consumer space.
Fixed broadband wireless is in the early stages in the UK. Like most European countries, it experienced a bubble of interest when 3.5GHz licenses were awarded at the end of the last century, but few real services ensued. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, coverage is limited to only a few regions, with 45 per cent of the residential coverage in London and the South East, and 30 per cent in the Midlands. Regulator Ofcom estimates that there are 5,000 subscribers in licensed bands and a further 2,000 to unlicensed services (there are also 6,000 two-way satellite internet subscribers).
As in other countries, providers are divided between addressing underserved rural areas – as Telabria and Langreen are doing, as well as BT with its Alvarion-based pilots in remote areas of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; and targeting businesses with lower cost alternative to T1 leased lines. This has been the approach of Libera, which aims to cover 75 per cent of UK businesses by the end of next year and recently launched in London.
Both business models can be served by unlicensed equipment – rural areas because there is little congestion or interference; businesses because operators can afford to set up base stations on high buildings to gain line of sight. For urban or suburban consumers, though, licensed bands will probably be essential because of the interference risks and the need for line of sight in 5GHz. Hence the increasing value of the 3.4-3.5GHz bands, whether Pipex and UK Broadband choose to keep or sell them, and the likelihood that Pipex might seek to use wireless to re-enter the residential sector.
Pipex strategy
In its 2004 annual report, Pipex indicated its reawakened interest in the 3.5Ghz-4.2GHz spectrum it acquired in 2003 along with Firstnet Services, one of the broadband wireless operators that rode the wave of the 1999-2000 boom and then failed. It points out that this band is newly interesting because of the potential of the WiMAX technology and, as part of a duty to finalize the fair value of the license in 2004, estimated this at £5m. In the provisional acquisition balance sheet of Firstnet prepared for the purposes of the 2003 financial statements this license had no carrying value attributed to it.
"In assessing the value of this asset at the acquisition date the Company has taken account of the significant progress, particularly in terms of specifying WiMAX global standards, that has been achieved in the post acquisition period and of the uncertainties present in the exploitation of new technology," says the report. "The value now attributed to the licence at the date of acquisition is £5m and this has reduced the goodwill arising in Firstnet by the same amount. The licence value is being amortized over 20 years."
The Airspan technical trial will last until February and will be focused on a base station at the equipment maker's testing facility in Stratford-on-Avon in the Midlands, and a demonstration house about 1.2 kilometers away without line of sight, fitted with Airspan's EasyST indoor WiMAX-ready modem. The equipment will work in the 3.6-3.7GHz band. The aim is to see whether a DSL-like experience can be achieved with WiMAX, and success will lead to commercial trials. Future trial phases will assess the performance of other WiMAX CPE types, including laptop cards and handheld devices for both fixed and nomadic applications.
All this reinforces the idea that Pipex is mulling a consumer service. Another motivator is voice over IP, which will also be tested in the trial. Pipex CEO Mike Read said: "WiMAX is an exciting new opportunity for Pipex and this test will help determine how we offer wireless broadband services to our customers using our licensed spectrum. Combined voice and data offerings using WiMAX will enable PIPEX to deliver differentiated products in addition to our existing services."
source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/30/pipex_wimax_trial/


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Conspiracy theory:Tammy mentioned in a post a while back that Billy and Carissa are away on camp. Could "camp" = AR12?Just a thought...
randomnzer - You are too funnyQuoteConspiracy theory:Tammy mentioned in a post a while back that Billy and Carissa are away on camp. Could "camp" = AR12?Just a thought...I was wondering why Carissa kept wanting to learn how to drive my car which has a stick shift before she left for camp.
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Amazing Race 12 wont be airing until January 2008 or so, but work is already underway. I like it that our schedule this time around isnt quite so hectic. It means Ill have a chance to dig in and try some new ideas, sounds, techniques
and with any luck the music will be all the better for my extra tinkering-time. It isnt always that wayextra time can sometimes be a bad thing, believe it or not! Im a firm believer that struggle is underrated, that the fear of an impending deadline can streamline and refine the creative process. I think that, as composers, we have to learn to trust our first instincts and make em work. Sometimes those instincts are wrong
but if were constantly second-guessing them, I think we get into the bad habit of believing our gut feeling is somehow disposable, that its something to be ignored. In a business where its our opinion (creative, musical, narrative, aesthetic) that were selling, that can be a crucial mistake. Right now, though, Im enjoying the extra time to create. I have a bunch of new sound libraries and audio plug-ins and mix techniques I want to try, and its nice to have the luxury of making some mistakes for a week or two. You wont hear those mistakestheyll be relegated unceremoniously to the Trashbut Ill hear them. And, with any luck, Ill be able to use them to make the next incarnation of Amazing Race music even better: harder-hitting, sonically richer, more adventurous. I cant wait! Image: Where will the twelfth Amazing Race take you? Tune in and find out!in a few months.
Slowhatch found a sighting in Prague here .
2007 The Amazing Race 12(13 episode series)CBSWorld Race Productions Inc.Bruckheimer TelevisionBertram van Munster - DirectorJerry Bruckheimer - Executive Producer
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text: 8 spring wardrobe solutionsUpdated 2:32 PM ET, Mon May 6, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Spring wardrobe solutions8 spring wardrobe solutions – Spring weather can be pretty, but it can also be pretty extreme. How does one dress for freezing mornings, rainy afternoons and balmy evenings? Sharon Haver, a stylist and fashion reporter who runs "FocusOnStyle," shares practical solutions based on the latest runway looks. For example, scarves can be a lifesaver, she said. Double one to use as a muffler when it's cold, wear it down when things warm up or consider a neckerchief, as Dior and MiuMiu showed in their Spring 2013 ready to wear lines.Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – A short-sleeve sweater can be the perfect solution for in-between weather. Wear them on top of a long sleeve shirt, Haver said, "and the sleeve that is sticking out becomes the accent." Pair a short sleeve sweater with a lace blouse for a more textural look. This layer is especially useful at the office, she said, where modesty is important and the temperatures are likely cool all year round.Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – Spring sends Haver straight into "shoe discombobulation," she said. Boots are too hot, but it's not sandal weather yet. What's really needed, she said, is a low or midheel, closed-toe shoe. Kitten heels and "flatforms" (platforms without a high arch) are making frequent runway appearances, replacing the sculptural, ridiculously high platforms recently in vogue, she said. But these are tricky shoes to wear, Haver said. "They can make your leg not look as long," she said, so try before you buy. Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – Flippy, short skirts -- a major statement at the spring shows in Paris -- are on trend for 2013, Haver said, but who wants to wear a breezy chiffon skirt in 50-degree weather? Take heart, there's a way! Spring's new hemlines "look fresh worn with dark hose or tights," Haver said. Tights help you transition into lighter weight clothes in your wardrobe, she said.Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – "I think everyone should have a really nice trench coat no matter what," Haver said. Olive, black or white trench coats are perfect for this spring. "Notice I didn't say beige," she said, which look a little more "rainy day" against the bright cobalts and yellows shown on runways. Another trench trend is a larger arm. While trench coats have shown a more tailored look recently, going into fall you'll see a larger, retro silhouette. "A vintage trench will put you ahead of the game," Haver said.Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – The perfect pants for spring, as modeled by this Parisian pedestrian, are a pair of black, straight-legged pants hemmed to right above the ankle, Haver said. "A little bit of ankle baring" makes it modern, she said, and black is a perfect neutral to pair with brighter colors. You can wear them with flats, pumps or ankle boots, she said. The pants should be more or less at your natural waist; not skinny (think more straight than tapered): and in a lightweight wool or cotton blend. Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – The embellished sweatshirt may be the most radical makeover this athletic top has had since Jennifer Beals' "Flashdance" days. Seen here in Paris, the embellished sweatshirt can be made of cashmere or decorated in prints -- even a hologram print, Haver said. "It looks really pretty with a pencil skirt or straight-leg pants," she said, and is very practical for unpredictable weather.Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: Spring wardrobe solutionsSpring wardrobe solutions – "Corduroy is back," Haver said, "and has been for about two years now." And they are a wardrobe staple that wears easily for most of the year, she said. Stick to thin whale corduroy for a look that works for fall, winter and spring, and make sure there is lycra in the fabric to alleviate sagging in the knees and seat. "I like the look of corduroy pants in colors," she said. "Corduroy jackets tend to read more fall, but (pants) in a brighter color like cobalt or orange would be nice for spring."Hide Caption 8 of 8Powered by Livefyre


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Yesterday I posted about WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah blasting Ann Coulter's "betrayal" of him regarding the anti-gay "culture wars" by keynoting GOProud's HOMOCON. You could almost feel Farah's raging on the keyboard at other luminaries of the right who are also abandoning the professional anti-gay agenda:
…"Conservative" icon Glenn Beck, in a conversation with Bill O'Reilly, said basically he doesn't care about the attack on traditional marriage. Asked if the California ruling will harm the country in any way, he responded: "No I don't. Will the gays come and get us? I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is it to me?'"# p #2_18 # ad skipped = true #
Rush Limbaugh, the iconic leader of American conservatism, hired the noted homosexual singer Elton John to perform at his wedding. He has not aired one of his bitingly satirical "gay community updates" in years.# p #3_18 # ad skipped = true #
"Conservatives," it seems, are on the verge of not only accepting homosexuality's domination of the culture, but embracing it.# p #4_18 # ad skipped = true #
We can now add Bryan Fischer to the far-right public meltdown. He's the host of the "Focal Point" radio program on the American Family Radio talk network (one of the arms of Don and Tim Wildmon's American Family Association). This is a man who actually said that society must "put active homosexuals through an effective reparative therapy program."
Look at this crazed column, "Coulter, Beck go AWOL in culture war." The anger-generated spittle is dripping onto his keyboard.
Count Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck as the latest deserters in the culture war and in the battle for sexual normalcy. They have flinched at "precisely that little point which the world and the devil are … attacking," and so have forfeited the right to consider themselves any longer culture warriors.# p #8_18 # ad skipped = true #
Let's be clear: Endorsing homosexual behavior is not a conservative position, period. Supporting special rights based on aberrant sexual behavior is not conservative, period. Supporting either civil unions or marriages based entirely on using the alimentary canal for sexual purposes is not conservative, period.# p #9_18 # ad skipped = true #
You [Ann Coulter] will be received with a standing ovation [at HOMOCON] for pandering to a group that wants to put open homosexuals in the same showers and barracks with sexually normal soldiers (priority No. 4) and is fiercely opposed to any attempt to elevate protection for natural marriage to the Constitution (priority No. 7 – see GOProud website).# p #10_18 # ad skipped = true #
…Glenn Beck has completely and shamelessly surrendered on the issue of gay marriage, and did so on Bill O'Reilly's program, only the most-watched cable news program in all TV land…Even O'Reilly, who is a notorious squish on the subject of the acceptability of homosexual behavior, was taken aback by Beck's capitulation and rightly accused him of "ignoring the profound change in the American family."# p #11_18 # ad skipped = true #
Folks, we are starting to see real damage to core of the professional homo-hate machine. The fiscal conservative/libertarian lite wing of the GOP, as well as those like Beck and Coulter, who depended on that demo for their meal ticket in the past, sees the legal handwriting on the wall for the social conservatives (aka loonies) and are publicly making a break for the door to more credibility), with the alignment now toward the burgeoning Tea Party wing.
It's pretty clear that a corner has been turned, with the green light foor Beck and Coulter likely being the 138-page Prop 8 legal ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker that decimated the pathetic case presented by the defenders of marriage discrimination. The sorry-ass, religious, culture, and bias-based excuses to prevent opening civil marriage to lesbians and gays couldn't stand up to the reality-based legal standard, as Olsen and Boies smacked down the so-called "experts" who bothered to show up to testify. Just a peek at Walker's Findings of Fact alone put those ridiculous arguments completely to bed.
Beck and Coulter, who are thinking about their professional bottom lines, are placing their bets on the legal wind blowing away from the bible-beating theocrat wing of conservatism.
Again, while I can't always agree with their political positions on issues, credit also has to go to GOProud, which has managed to become a deeply lodged splinter into the social conservative movement in a very short time (the LCR was never this effective). It was first an irritation, and now it's making the bible-beaters hurt badly if they are taking this infighting public over HOMOCON. Makes we wish I could get up there to cover the event, which is on September 25 in NYC.
GOProud's Chris Barron recently took The Peter to task over his expected eruption over Coulter's gig:
"I strongly encourage Mr LaBarbera to head out to his local bookstore, buy an Ann Coulter book and actually read it. For a guy who claims to be a "fan," he seems completely clueless about what Ann has actually written and said about gay people and gay conservatives.# p #17_18 # ad skipped = true #
If Mr. LaBarbera spent less time obsessing about gay sex and hanging out at gay Pride events, maybe he would have a little more time to read one of Ann's books."# p #18_18 # ad skipped = true #


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Meet Teri GerardTeri Gerard, De Anza's campus budget analyst, says her interest in the logic of numbers surfaced early in life. "I've been hopelessly left-brained ever since," she says.
After graduating college as an accountant, Gerard was hired by the same corporate manufacturing office in which she had done an internship. "As a cost accountant, I do believe I was the only person in the building who enjoyed the annual physical inventory," she says. "I stayed with that company for 10 years and served as accounting manager for six. I'd studied governmental accounting as an elective in college, and eventually transitioned into a senior accountant position at Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, Oregon."
She subsequently moved to Santa Cruz, and approximately three and a half years ago the campus budget analyst position opened here. "The timing must have been right because after only three weeks in Santa Cruz, I came to De Anza as a temporary employee. I later applied for the position, was hired, and have enjoyed being here since."
Berta Pace, Business/CIS Division administrative assistant, says Gerard is always friendly, intuitive and patient with colleagues. "She has a clear, concise understanding of the work she is committed to and continues to conquer Banner challenges, material fees confusion and frantic deadlines in a positive, upbeat manner."
Gerard says, "I am an analyst at heart and remain contented daily as challenged to fulfill the needs of this position. While the implementation of Banner finance may be difficult for some and daunting for others, I decided early on to like Banner. This decision has not always been popular with co-workers, but again, the challenges suit my personality. This new system promises many areas of research and study before we'll be happy with its requirements. However, I continue to be impressed with the results of the information it does provide. We will get there, and patience will be required. I continue to work with district and campus personnel to improve the use of this new system."
Gerard says she has a strong appreciation for education and spent a few years watching for an appropriate opening at a local community college. "I currently serve De Anza College as Classified Senator for the Administration Building as well as Building Monitor in the event of an emergency. I also serve on the Finance and Educational Resources Planning and Budget Team and the Campus Budget Team. I hope to be a part of this experience for many years to come."


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I value all comments made in good faith. Try to understand this concept. It's not about your point of view or your mode of expression. We love disputes and diversity. But I won't allow bad faith commenters to leverage their destructiveness on my commitment to free speech.Following this new policy and with Meade helping me, we've been deleting commenters we believe are writing in the comments with the purpose of wrecking the forum and driving away the people who enjoy the comments section as a place of free expression.
It's hard to draw this line, and it's possible that we're seeing some commenters the wrong way. The message at the comments window also says "If your comments are deleted and you don't understand why, write to Meade, who is helping me with this," but Meade tells me no one has yet emailed him, so I tend to think we've identified the "bad faithers." Meade says "There are about a dozen. Call them 'The Dirty Dozen.'"
Now, we can also err the other way. There might be a commenter who impresses us with a clever form of expression, even as he hurls insults. My orientation toward free speech has made me very tolerant of people like that, even when they attack me and the commenters here. I've gone very far defending edgy and harsh expression. That's part of why my new policy is about the good faith/bad faith distinction. That distinction depends on the writer's purpose, and purpose can be hard to discern, especially in clever writers.
In this context, there was a commenter who offended a lot of people, but he crafted his comments quite creatively. We delete him now as one of the bad faithers, but there are some ex-commenters who — elsewhere on the internet — excoriate me for leaving his comments up as long as I did. I'm not going to link to these folks whose idea of a good time is attacking me. I'm just going to invite them — and anybody else who's been following this dispute — to click "more" and see a comment that should take them aback.
This is a comment from Trooper York, written at 4:32 p.m. on September 5, 2011 (spelling and punctuations left as is):
Actually J is an acquried taste with a strong opinion and a unique way of presenting it. He has a point of view and is trying to find a way to express in his jazzy improv style. I know that the personal attacks can be annoying but who am I to critize that since I love personal attacks my ownself.If you haven't been following this dispute but clicked "more" anyway, Trooper runs a blog devoted largely to insulting me, and his primary complaint seems to be my failure to delete J in the past. I normally ignore him, but I found his hypocrisy so amusing and interesting that I had to memorialize it. The trouble with a policy of silence is that you shoot it all to hell if you speak even once, but... whatever... I'll return to my policy of silence. If followers of this now-old dispute need something to chew on, chew on the question whether J was Trooper's sockpuppet, and Trooper was flattering himself.
I like to hear someone who thinks so much differently than me. You need both sugar and mustard. You shouldn't get caught up in his name calling. It's just a motif like garage's idoicy and Cedarffords anti-semitism.
He brings a lot to the blog in my humble opinion. Another voice that we should here. Just sayn'


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Muni spokesperson Paul Rose says about 440 of the transit agency's roughly 600 vehicles are in operation and nearly all buses and trains have returned to regular routes.
However, officials are still advising riders of hour-long wait times and crowded buses that may turn around mid-route to minimize crowding. Cable cars haven't operated all week. Instead, bus service is in place.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has run out of patience. On Wednesday he filed charges with the state's Public Employees Relations Board, aiming to end the disruption.
Herrara filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, which represents about 2,200 Muni workers and other city employees in the midst of a contract dispute.
The employee union is in the middle of contentious contract negotiations with the SFMTA, although TWU Local 250-A president Eric Williams denied earlier this week that the sickout was organized by the union.
In a letter to union members on Tuesday he wrote, "We have advised management that TWU Local 250-A has not directed, authorized or otherwise participated in any work stoppage."
Williams said that the SFMTA intends to seek damages from the union because of the en masse work stoppage.
Muni worker strikes were banned by San Francisco voters in a 2010 ballot measure. Herrera said that a work stoppage like this week's sickout is also banned.
Williams said the most recent proposal from the SFMTA includes a pay hike but would require employees to contribute to their pensions and would result in a net loss for Muni workers in a city where costs of living are rising.
Members of TWU Local 250-A overwhelmingly rejected the proposal in a vote on Friday.
Rose said under the terms of the city charter, the two sides will now go into arbitration, with the next meeting set for Saturday.
Herrera contends in his complaint that in the wake of the contract rejection, the union is required to "submit to the decision of a neutral three-member arbitration board" and that "the sick-out is illegal under both state law and the existing contract with the workers."
Herrera noted that SFMTA officials announced Monday that it would not pay transit workers for sick time taken during the sickout unless workers could document that they met the criteria to claim sick leave.
Herrera argued that the union should follow city law and resolve the contract dispute with the MTA without involving the riding public.
"This is an unfortunate attempt by the union to get around a law and contract provisions they don't like," Herrera said in a statement.
Meanwhile, those dependent on Muni just want to get to work.
"Without the Muni, you know, it's really hard, tough," said rider Ali Alholiwi.
Muni typically has between 55 and 75 vehicles not on the street. This week they've had hundreds sitting idle, with only a third of driver showing up for work Monday. Wednesday was an improvement. No word yet on Thursday.
"We're cautiously optimist we can put this behind us going forward," Rose said.
Still, some choose to avoid Muni entirely.
"Muni's not as efficient as some other forms of transportation," said one resident.
That commuter prefers to pedal.
Others caught a Lyft, hailed a taxi, walked, drove, or rode a private shuttle.
Another option -- the new startup Chariot.
"I take this Chariot because it gets me there faster," said Kendal Prather. "It's a little bit more of a comfortable ride, actually a lot more of a comfortable ride."
Prather switched to Chariot about a month ago, and anyone can ride it.
The service route runs between the Marina and the Financial District during rush hour.
Chariot CEO Ali Vahabzadeh says it costs less than $4 a ride.
"We certainly have seen ridership spike this week because of the sickout," he said.
(ABC7 News reporter Tiffany Wilson and Bay City News contributed to this report)