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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Act 2 Green Smart
A great gift for that person in your life that wants to be green is a bag from act 2 Green Smart. The exterior fabric is 100% recycled PET polyester and the interior fabric is also 100% recycled PET polyester. PET is plastic bottle, and they are one of the biggest enviromental disasters today. In the United states alone, 230 bottles per person go to landfill per year. That's enough crushed bottles to fill the Rose Bowl Stadium in California every two weeks! These bottles, which are made from petroleum , find their way into landfills, rivers, lakes and roadsides. And they never decompose.
act2GreenSmart thinks that this is unacceptable. The technology exists today to convert bottles into high quality, durable fabrics which look and perform equal to their virgin counterparts. All of Act2 fabrics are made from 100% certified post-consumer PET bottles. You get a top quality product made from one of the world's most durable fabrics, polyester, AND save the planet at the same time. If you would like to see a step by step process of how you can turn plastic bottles into bags go here.
To make this tote it took 10 - 16 oz. PET bottles. It saves 6,623 Btu or 1.9 kWh and it saved enough energy to power your laptop for 78 hours. Now how is that for going green?
Would you like to win an act2 GreenSmart tote of your own?
Just leave me a comment telling me how you do your part to be green.
For a second entry add my button, and leave a separate comment.
Contest ends November 20.
116 comments:
I wash all my clothes in cold water.
- November 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM
Your button is now on my blog.
- November 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- reb said...
We have water saving shower heads.
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- November 8, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- B said...
We drive a prius, use travel cups, recycle everything, and only have florescent lighting.
- November 8, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- Shannon said...
By recycling as much as possible.
- November 8, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Tes283 said...
I try to buy based on the amount of waste that I will NOT have to throw away.
I also think outside the box. Chop sticks can be used as finger replacement for sewing. It saves my fingers. I can also use it to push fabric under the foot as I lower the foot.
- November 8, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- peg42 said...
We've been making sure to conserve energy whenever possible. We changed all our bulbs to energy saving and we make sure to keep lights off and to keep our heat low. Thanks so much for this giveaway.
- November 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM
- Sandy said...
instead of bottled water we have a filter that can be switched on for filter water to refill a bottle at the sink- kids love it because htey have their own bottles
- November 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Sandy said...
- November 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Jessica said...
I wash my clothes in cold water too. And I save all my plastic grocery sacks and reuse them. I am planning on getting some of the curly light bulbs and some fabric totes to put my groceries in. Thanks!
- November 8, 2008 at 3:56 PM
- Milton said...
Everything is recycled or placed in the compost; glass bottles are reused whenever possible.
- November 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- chromiumman said...
we just got a prius
- November 8, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- diesel51 said...
I let things dry without the dryer when possible. I always carry a reusable grocery bag when shopping.
- November 9, 2008 at 5:15 AM
- denyse said...
I use reusable bags and switched out our bulbs and have a low flow toilet.
- November 9, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- naturegirl said...
We use the new light bulbs, we recycle everything that we can, we buy energy efficient appliances, we use natural/organic cleaners, and we conserve energy and water as much as possible.
- November 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM
- redron said...
wash in cold water and recycle everything
- November 9, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Take cloth bags to the store.
- November 9, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- mverno said...
for one thing i buy bulk whenever possible it cuts down on refuge
- November 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- Sunnyvale said...
We take cloth totes to the grocery store, we can use another one, plus one of ours is already getting frayed.
- November 9, 2008 at 11:10 AM
I reuse my aluminum foil until it is no longer useable.
- November 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- sito50 said...
I buy used whenever possible - clothes, furniture, appliances.
- November 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Dress warmer instead of turning the heat up.
- November 9, 2008 at 2:26 PM
- Tonya said...
recycling as much as possible
- November 9, 2008 at 2:37 PM
- Annie said...
We wash everything in cold, we turn off the taps when brushing our teeth, we recycle everything that can be, we always bundle up under sweater, slippers and blankets (I never turn on the heat!!), we walk when we can and we unplug everything at night time!
- November 9, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- danosor said...
I compost,recycle ,save energy by lowering and cuting back and educate others about the enviroment.
- November 9, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- tatertot374 said...
Thank you for having this. I would love to win this. We recycle everything we can. We have made bird feeders from milk jugs. Thank you!
- November 9, 2008 at 5:53 PM
I recycle and I wash in cold water and have done this for a long time, I grow my own vegetables in the summer.
- November 9, 2008 at 6:34 PM
- Jenn S. said...
I recycle, and generally just try and live as minimally as possible.
- November 9, 2008 at 7:15 PM
I don't drive, I walk everywhere! It's a healthy way to get exercise and run those little errands that I can just carry!
- November 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM
- Shel said...
We don't buy bottled water anymore. Everyone in the family has their own reusable water bottles. We also recycle and put in a new Water Pik showerhead that has a pause feature for "navy showers".
- November 10, 2008 at 12:02 AM
- Sharon said...
Lights off as often as possible, heat turned down, recycle, walk instead of drive WHENEVER we can. Thanks for entry!
- November 10, 2008 at 3:45 AM
- Sharon said...
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- November 10, 2008 at 3:45 AM
- Sharon said...
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- November 10, 2008 at 3:50 AM
I walk everywhere and unplug all appliances when I'm not using them!
- November 10, 2008 at 4:27 AM
- Sara said...
I use a reusable bottle instead of buying plastic
- November 10, 2008 at 5:13 AM
- Tobye said...
I wash in cold water, I have low flow nozzles on all my faucets, I take my own bags to the store, and I recycle anything I can.
- November 10, 2008 at 5:52 AM
- Don A. said...
we recycle our junk mail to make pretty one of a kind papers
- November 10, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Kimberly L said...
Use cold water to do my wash, and line dry instead of the dryer
- November 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- Karen said...
Showers, instead of baths... water saving shower heads :)
- November 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM
- ladyspy79 said...
I recycle or reuse most everything I can: ziplocs, plastic and paper bags, cardboard.
Thanks for the giveaway!
- November 10, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- K Amos said...
We cook in big batches and freeze small portions so we don't buy as much junk or dirty up as many dishes
- November 10, 2008 at 1:52 PM
We've switched to using a pur flavor option water pitcher and ditched sodas!
- November 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM
- jemmmers74 said...
We wash clothes in cold water and in the summer we open the windows ans use fresh air as much air in stead of the A/C as much as possible
- November 11, 2008 at 7:06 AM
- Jennifer said...
I adore these totes! We recycle, use our own bags for groceries, we have extremely low flow on all our faucets and shower heads, I wash everything on cold and air dry when possible, I use ECO friendly products, and all our lighting is CFLs.
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- November 11, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- Jennifer said...
Your button is on my blog: http://www.rundpinne.blogspot.com/
knittingmomof3 AT gmail DOT com
- November 11, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- DOODLEGIRL said...
use a reusable water bottle instead of plastic disposable
- November 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- vboackle said...
we recycle newspaper.
- November 11, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- Becca said...
We recycle everything, we only do full loads of laundry, we stopped using paper plates and plastic silverware, we use real water bottles instead of plastic ones and we have turned our heat to a lower temperature this winter. Thanks!
- November 12, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- ky2here said...
I compost nearly everything - even dryer lint.
- November 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM
- littlelatina said...
I recycle, I try to conserve energy as much as possible and I just started buying environmentally friendly cleaning products
- November 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM
- Kari said...
I use cloth bags at the market!!
- November 14, 2008 at 3:19 AM
- dawns41 said...
We recycle paper, plastic, and aluminum. We use reusable market bags. We use geen cleaning products like seventh generation. We are putting in a home orchard.
- November 14, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- rosannepm said...
Walk to the grocery store and use our green bags when we live in a suburban area
- November 14, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- K. Cleaver said...
We do what everyone else is doing. Wash on cold, recycle, changed out the lightbulbs, and use canvas bags at stores.
- November 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM
I wash my clothes in cold water, use energy efficient bulbs, recycle all aluminum and paper products, and only have the lights on in the house when necessary.
- November 15, 2008 at 12:18 AM
- Alice said...
recycling as much as we can
- November 15, 2008 at 7:21 AM
- Beverley said...
We do all our laundry in cold water, and recycle everything we can.
- November 15, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- bleu said...
I reuse and recycle whenever possible.
bleuteam at gmail dot com
- November 16, 2008 at 6:06 AM
- Shana0825 said...
I do my laundry with Cold water only... And we drink purified faucet water instead of bottled water
- November 16, 2008 at 1:28 PM
- Mae B said...
ive gone green by using a shower timer
- November 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM
- Kathleen said...
I use baking soda for everything, from cleaning, to scouring pans to deodorizing. It's biodegradable and safe!
- November 16, 2008 at 6:21 PM
- Kathleen said...
I added your holiday button to my blog
- November 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM
I recycle everything. This year we tore down a trailer with double pane windows. We saved all of them and are replacing all our house windows. Our house was built in 1940. I think the windows were as old. We are insulating walls. Replaced the roof thats been leaking for 2 years. So far I have went thru a case of caulking. We're adding a bathroom and fitness room upstairs. All the bathroom fixtures is water efficient. I have cracked down on electric. Any thing with electronic lights are hooked to surge plugs we shut off. I open the curtains upstairs to the balony window for heat. I waste nothing, time, food, money. We are very smart shoppers. The list goes on and on. I'm the greenist you've ever seen.
- November 16, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Washing clothes in cold water, in summer leaving windows open at night and not needing to use air condtioning during the day, unplugging appliances when not in use.
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- November 16, 2008 at 11:08 PM
- RE said...
The easiest thing to do is wash laundry in cold on the lowest load size possible to conserve water! Thanks!
- November 17, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- wigget said...
our household tries to recycle as much as we can and use energy-efficient appliances (to save money too!)
- November 17, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Tanya W. said...
We have energy efficent lights and recycle
- November 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Randominities said...
To be green, I try to make crafts out of things that are heading to the trash, like using the fabric of old clothes. I also use a lot of fabric bags.
- November 17, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- Sara said...
recycle newspaper.
- November 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- AllieOop said...
We compost everything we can from the yard and kitchen.
- November 17, 2008 at 4:28 PM
- Shauna said...
I recycle and reused, I always try to use energy efficient lights as well as reusuing my cloth bags for the grocery store!
- November 18, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- justicecw said...
We turn our heat way down at night and when we are not home....we also recycle everything we can. thanks, email@example.com
- November 18, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- SeahorseLady said...
We recycle as much as possible, use energy efficient light bulbs, reuse whatever we can and give away things that we no longer can use to those who need them.
- November 18, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- Lisa said...
I turn off all lights when I'm not in a room and take shorter showers at lower temperatures.
- November 18, 2008 at 11:24 PM
I wash all my clothes in cold water.
And I try not to use so much ele. Thanks for the chance to win.
- November 19, 2008 at 4:26 AM
- yellowlabs said...
We use energy efficient light bulbs and recycle everything we possibly can!
- November 19, 2008 at 6:39 AM
- Kt said...
We do the usual recycle and try to reduce waste and replace bulbs with efficient ones when they go out and we also compost! we just started last year and we have so much less garbage it's awesome.
kmsst19 at gmail dot com
- November 19, 2008 at 7:39 AM
We recycle our papers, take a tote bag with us when we shop for groceries and drive as few miles as we can.
- November 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM
- gkstratos said...
We compost and always recycle. We've nixed our addiction to plastic water bottles, too
- November 19, 2008 at 10:38 AM
I recycle everything I can, and I try to buy permanent things and reuse them rather than always disposable stuff.
- November 19, 2008 at 11:44 AM
I have been green for sometime now in most aspects of my life. The reason was to be more cost effective, and it just so happens that it ends up being green also. I reuse everything, I use florescent lighting because it saves me money, We don't use cell phones, we only use rechargeable batteries, I make my own tote bags for groceries and I make my own body oil, I save just about everything and reuse it some other way. It not only saves the enviroment, but you can save soooo much money.
- November 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM
- joannaonthelake said...
There are so many things we are doing as a family to Go Green. Everything from using our KOR One water bottles in place of buying bottled water to using CFL lightbulbs throughout the house and really conserving our energy consumption. One thing I started doing recently is making my own household cleaning products. Here is a recipe I will share with everyone:
It is a Creamy Soft Scrubber. You simply pour about 1/2 cup of baking soda into a bowl, and add enough liquid detergent to make a texture like frosting. Scoop the mixture onto a sponge, and wash the surface. This is the perfect recipe for cleaning the bathtub because it rinses easily and doesn't leave grit. Add 1 teaspoon of vegetable glycerin to the mixture and store in a sealed glass jar, to keep the product moist. Otherwise just make as much as you need at a time. I have been using this for the past 3 months or so and it works fabulously!
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this wonderful GREEN giveaway!
- November 19, 2008 at 4:51 PM
I re-cycle everything I possibly can. Also, I wash in cold water. I don't throw out clothes we don't use anymore, I take them to the 2nd hand store to donate.
- November 19, 2008 at 6:34 PM
- huggr1960 said...
I am on the Green Team where I work to make people aware at work of what they waste and what to do to lessen that waste.
- November 19, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- Auriette said...
We recycle, turn off lights when we leave the room, and try to use green products whenever possible.
- November 19, 2008 at 8:27 PM
We use public transportation or walk everywhere. I always carry cloth bags. We have changed all of our lightbulbs to the energy saving ones. We put up a screen door that seals tight. We bought a set of High Efficiency Washer and Dryer. We recycle everything possible. We use travel mugs whenever we go to get coffee. Instead of buying water we have installed a Britta Water Filter, which saves money and the environment.
- November 19, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- bndraldy said...
Natural cleansers like vinegar and baking soda do a great job without harming the planet. I use reusable grocery bags, recycle and compost and try to conserve gas by driving much less.
Thank you for the opportunity to win!
- November 20, 2008 at 12:39 AM
- Helen said...
I recycle everything that my city takes, reuse items all the time and reduce the products I buy.
- November 20, 2008 at 2:06 AM
- dddiva said...
We reduce, reuse and recycle when we can, carry our own shopping bags, changed the lightbulbs, buy organic and recycled products when it is feasible, etc...
- November 20, 2008 at 5:15 AM
- dddiva said...
Your button is on my blog.
- November 20, 2008 at 5:16 AM
- donna444444 said...
I recycle.
- November 20, 2008 at 5:38 AM
- donna444444 said...
I put your button on my blog.
- November 20, 2008 at 5:39 AM
- Swtlilchick said...
I takes reuseable bags to the grocey.I wash my clothes in cold water.I have a compost pile.I
recycle just about everything.
We have turned the thermonstat
down.I use energy saver light
bulbs.I use dishwasher only when it is full.We stay home more to save gas.We use bar soap instead
of liquard lasts longer.
- November 20, 2008 at 5:42 AM
- klp1965 said...
i try to recycle everything and i do alot of gardening :)
- November 20, 2008 at 6:14 AM
- Roseann K. said...
I've been recycling forever!
- November 20, 2008 at 6:14 AM
- purango said...
We recycle, participate in clean up days for rivers and lakes, buy energy efficient appliances and bulbs, have a compost pile and have rain barrels to collect wwater for outside use. firstname.lastname@example.com
- November 20, 2008 at 6:36 AM
- Heather said...
We recycle, use canvas bags at stores and use ceiling fans and cfl bulbs. Pretty soon, we'll be growing our own veggies.
- November 20, 2008 at 6:43 AM
- Patty said...
we use florescent lighting, wood heat, I wash in cold water and line dry almost everything. We work from home so we conserve alot of fuel there. Using reusuable bags more and more.
- November 20, 2008 at 6:56 AM
- lilyk said...
I carry with a reusable canvas bag with me when I go grocery shopping.
- November 20, 2008 at 7:06 AM
- Tammy said...
I do all my laundry using cold water, and we use fluorescent bulbs.
- November 20, 2008 at 7:27 AM
- Carolyn said...
I have a compost heap and add all my kitchen greens, plus my leaves from autumn all go in. I have the best compost come Spring!
- November 20, 2008 at 7:48 AM
- Jennifer said...
We try to recycle everything we can.
- November 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM
- DAVID said...
I keep the heat set at 55 and wear sweaters.
- November 20, 2008 at 8:42 AM
- Kelly F said...
I think one of the most important parts of being green is educating others in how to be green. The three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), as cliche as they may have become, are still just as important as ever. Simple things such as turning off lights when you leave the room, buying energy efficient lightbulbs, and unplugging appliances when they aren't in use, really do make a difference. I am amazed at the momentum the green movement has gained and I am happy to see green go mainstream!
- November 20, 2008 at 9:16 AM
I recycle everything. My Grandmother used to reuse EVERYTHING. How did we go wrong? Well, at least the tide is turning and eveyone is trying to go green.
- November 20, 2008 at 9:28 AM
we recycle all of the timeq
- November 20, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- DianaLynn said...
I recycle, reuse and repurpose every single day.
dlcwin AT gmail DOT com
- November 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM
- Freestuff, coupons, and sites that pay. said...
i car pool to work
- November 20, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- ChrysKJ said...
I always recycle when possible, and make sure to conserve energy in my household.
- November 20, 2008 at 1:26 PM
By recycling as much as possible.
Thanks so much for this giveaway!
- November 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM
- fancyfeet48 said...
nice bag.
- November 20, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- Brittany said...
i have energy saving lightbulbs and i take the trolly to work everyday instead of driving by myself
- November 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- Melissa B. said...
We've stopped buying bottled water.
- November 20, 2008 at 7:29 PM
I wash all my clothes in cold water.
- November 20, 2008 at 7:29 PM
- calgirl said...
I recycle, reuse and donate things to the local senior center and teen center.
- November 20, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- masonsgranny59 said...
we wash all our clothes in cold water.
- November 20, 2008 at 8:41 PM


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Kevin Durant's shoe-contract saga is over and the 2014 NBA MVP is staying with Nike, as first reported by Darren Rovell and Marc Stein of ESPN:
Maryland-based apparel giant Under Armour reportedly offered Durant a mammoth contract in hopes of luring him away from Nike. But it's hard to overpower the Swoosh.
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Jake Owen Heats Up the 2014 CMT Music Awards With 'Beachin"
Barefoot and buckwild; that's how Jake Owen rolls. And that's how he sang 'Beachin'' at the 2014 CMT Music Awards.
Wearing a casual white tee, knee-length shorts, and sporting his always surfer-smooth hair, Owen was the life of the [beach] party.
He hinted at a Nashville beach party earlier, saying, ""They can expect to see the entire downtown Nashville beachin'. And that's a big deal for me, being a kid that moved here from Florida that is now outside the huge Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, and I have the whole downtown throwing beach balls around. I feel like I got to bring a little bit of my past in Florida with me up here to Nashville. I feel like I've made it."
His bare feet only added to the beach vibe, and even though it was outside of Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, it had a definite tropical feel with palm trees and a tank top-clad crowd. As he sang, fans tossed giant beach balls around, making outside of the arena the place to be!
'Beachin'' is the second single from his fourth studio album 'Days of Gold.' Owen is up for CMT Performance of the Year for his 'Days of Gold' performance on CMT Hot 20 Countdown.


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Looking for a bite to eat after work? Osteria Cicchetti II, 5104 S. College Road in the Monkey Junction area of Wilmington, has some great specials at the bar. From 4 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, enjoy $5 appetizers and $4 small plates. Appetizer choices include Meatballs Napoli, Sausage & Peppers, Calamari, Fried Mozzarella, Artichokes Francaise, Eggplant Parmigiana and several types of Bruschette. Small plate choices are Parmigiana Zucchini, Stuffed Cherry Peppers, Beets & Ricotta Salata, White Anchovy &… Read More »


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Descendants of Dr. Julius and Louise (Venn) Krueger:
I am researching my great-uncle and great-aunt Julius and Louise Krueger. Louise was born Oct. 20, 1882 in Ontario to Charles and Eliza Venn. I believe Julius was born in Tomahawk, Wis., to Ferninand Krueger and Mille Lueck. Julius and Louise were married May 8, 1906, in Wisconsin and lived in Tomahawk, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, for many years. Their three children, born there, were Evelyn, Virginia and Robert J. Krueger. Julius died in 1917 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Bradley, Wis.
As of 1920, Louise was working in a ladies wear store. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Women's Society of Christian Service of the United Methodist Church. She died in Tomahawk July 5, 1969, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Bradley, Wis. At the time of her death, her daughter, Virginia, was married to R. J. Henderson and her daughter, Evelyn, was married to Mr. Howard Sandsmann.
Louise had several brothers and sisters; my grandfather Alexander Eugene Venn, Robert, Alfred, Leo, Edwin, Caroline and Emma.
If there are any relatives of Julius and Louise Krueger who would be interested in contacting me, I would be happy to share the family history that I have, and hopefully, obtain some history of their lives in Wisconsin.
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Vancouver, B.C.
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The daughter of former New York Times book critic Anatole Broyard (1920–90) relentlessly pursues the story of his mixed racial heritage, which he had concealed.
Bliss Broyard began her own career with a collection of short stories, My Father Dancing (1999), published nine years after her mother finally revealed that Anatole came from a New Orleans family of blacks and Creoles. Bliss and her brother were, to say the least, surprised. They had grown up in suburban Connecticut, spent summers on Martha's Vineyard and attended exclusive, mostly white schools. Although the kids had met their grandmother and an aunt when they were small, their father never mentioned his large extended family in the Big Easy. After he died, his daughter determined to get it all and to get it right, embarking on years of prodigious research involving multiple trips to New Orleans; searches for birth certificates, former homes, places of business; numerous interviews with family, friends, lovers, employers. The result is a complicated and sometimes distracting tapestry that weaves together the Broyard family tree, her father's biography and her mother's much briefer backstory with her own childhood, adolescence and young womanhood. Adding to the narrative ungainliness are large—sometimes too large—doses of social history: of New Orleans, of race in America, even of DNA testing. Despite occasional silliness, as when the author mentions that some people had always said she danced like a black girl, the tone here is generally serious. A not-so-admirable Anatole Broyard emerges. Though his daughter endeavors to understand him, less forgiving readers will be repulsed by his cold rejection of his birth family, his serial sexual escapades before and during his marriages, his ferocious, vaulting ambition, his personal and professional arrogance, his paternal pettiness. These are not qualities that Bliss Broyard wishes to highlight, but she does not downplay them either.
The expansive narrative is in need of pruning. Still, this uniquely American story of race and ambition is of surpassing importance.


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If you want to know why relying on information supplied on the internet by anonymous strangers is a bad idea, look no further than Wikipedia's articles on finance. When I first put up my website in 2003, I included a (hard to find) page of a few reference links. I didn't provide a link to Wikipedia. Instead, I issued a warning: Wikipedia -- There is no link, since this is a public service announcement. If you do a word search on Google, Wikipedia will usually be the first thing that pops up. Yet from behavioral finance to structured finance, your financial IQ will almost certainly drop for having read it. That warning goes double today. We've experienced a financial crisis that nearly brought the global market to its knees, but you won't find resources on Wikipedia that will give you the goods. In fact, you will often be misled with misinformation. One of my colleagues looked at the page for "collateralized debt obligations" today. He called me up and said "Hey! There's no mention of you or of your articles and books warning about bad ratings and corrupt structures." He said the same thing about its page on credit derivatives. He was right, so I dashed off a paragraph or two to Wikipedia. I didn't even bother looking at the page for the rating agencies. This would be funny if the omission of relevant information weren't so tragic. This could be deemed a mere oversight, except that I wrote the first eponymous trade book on credit derivatives in 1998 warning about documentation risk and information asymmetry that created economic distortions that could swamp the credit risk of the underlying products. Over the years, I've also been a huge critic of the derivatives trade organization, ISDA, for claiming documentation for credit derivatives wasn't hugely flawed, when it was. My work is well-known in the finance industry. When my book on credit derivatives was first published in 1998, risks in credit derivatives were like sex in Victorian England. No one spoke of it in public. Deutsche Bank immediately ordered 600 copies of my credit derivatives porn, and several other banks and investment banks made large bulk orders. In 2003, I wrote a book warning about misrated collateralized debt obligations, the unreported risks of synthetic structures that used credit derivatives technology, and flawed CDO structures that posed risks to investors. Those structures are the type that blew up on AIG and a number of other investors. Due to control fraud, CDOs also blew up on a number of investment banks that underwrote them. U.S. taxpayers bailed them out. I updated the CDO book in 2008 and named deals and culprits. If you look at the early Amazon reviews of my 2003 book on CDOs, they are hilarious. Industry professionals tried to discredit my warnings. One structured finance "professional" from London wrote a couple of the reviews. This was revealed by an Amazon glitch a few years back. He was an industry cheerleader for CDOs. But facts don't change just because one has an economic incentive to ignore them. The reviews of the 2008 second edition were vastly different, even though the message was the same, albeit updated. I've also been an ongoing critic of the rating agencies and the SEC. My firm issued a report revoking the designation of "Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Agency" for Moody's, Standard & Poors, and Fitch. The SEC has failed to do it, but it is less qualified than I am in this specialized area, so I did it for them. The SEC may be charged with authority over the rating agencies, but it doesn't have the credibility to exercise that authority when it comes to structured products. My website has links to articles going back to 2003, when I formed my own firm and was able to speak out even more forcefully in public. I warned of flawed ratings, flawed CDOs (and other flawed structured financial products) and of hidden risks in the credit derivatives markets. Long-time readers of the Huffington Post are well aware that I've been issuing ongoing commentaries of these structures and of so-called regulators, since Arianna Huffington invited me to blog here in December 2009. Wikipedia somehow missed all of the above. It relies on volunteers to write its articles. If you are an information consumer, be warned that Wikipedia won't do your research for you.Update: After my post, Wikipedia scurried to make some changes to those pages. It also removed my additions. It didn't avail itself of mainstream media reports that contradict its narrative. Why is that a problem? For example, Robert Rubin and Charles Prince, former Citibank executives, told a Congressional investigative committee that they couldn't have known about problems with credit derivatives and CDOs prior to the fall of 2007. By ignoring peer reviewed information, Wikipedia's narrative helps that narrative. The reality is the information was in the public domain from credible analysts and recognized (but not by Wikipedia) experts. It's no wonder that Wikipedia is not recognized as a credible source by courts. Among others, a Te xas court ruled: "Wikipedia entries are inherently unreliable because they can be written and edited anonymously by anyone." My work isn't only in my publications referenced above, but it is also in peer reviewed financial journals including seminal work in Risk Professional and The Journal of Structured Finance, and many more financial publications. It's well-documented. I've also been widely quoted in mainstream financial media. Yet Wikipedia's editors have no idea who did seminal work and who are industry outsiders reading and then trying to interpret--or misinterpret--that work. Problems with credit derivatives and CDOs were public information and well-reported. Wikipedia didn't have useful information in real time, and now after the fact, its narrative is also distorted. For example, Wikipedia's "expose" of Magnetar ignores the front page Wall Street Journal articles that broke the Magnetar story and other CDO stories in 2007. (I was quoted in them, since I had been pushing for more attention to these problems for years.) Here's just one front page example: " Wall Street Wizardry Amplified Credit Crisis," by Serena Ng and Carrick Mollenkamp, December 2007. (Wikipedia references the 2010 report of a self-acknowledged industry outsider who is not an expert in this field.) More references can be found for free here. There are many useful resources for financial research, but Wikipedia isn't a very good one. In my opinion it is unfixable, because it is arbitrarily edited without peer review. Update March 6, 2013: Some time ago, Wikipedia posted an unsolicited profile of me. Right after I wrote the above commentary, Wikipedia posted what seems to me to be a retaliatory note: "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (February 2013)." This simply illustrates why I believe Wikipedia is a failed experiment. In the note I just left on Wikipedia, I ask that it remove its unauthorized profile of me. I posted a note of my own on the unauthorized Wikipedia profile: "This note is from Janet Tavakoli. I did not seek the Wikipedia profile shown below, and I have nothing to do with the posting of the content other than this note. After I wrote a Huffington Post commentary about Wikipedia being an unreliable resource,"Warning! 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Christianity Today was founded in 1956 to offset the influence of The Christian Century. In those days, we rarely agreed on anything. But in the run-up to the 1960 election, the two magazines warned Americans against electing a Roman Catholic President.
The Roman Catholic Church was not like "most denominations," CT's editors warned. If it were, "all Americans would welcome a qualified Roman Catholic citizen in the White House." But Roman Catholicism claimed "the State should officially recognize the Catholic religion as the religion of the Commonwealth … and should … sanction the laws of the church."
Those words from Pope Leo XIII provoked the same kind of reaction as talk of Shari'ah law does today. "Election of a Roman Catholic to the presidency … sooner or later would be a threat to our freedoms," said CT's editorial.
The candidate at issue was, of course, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, war hero, senator from Massachusetts, and scion of a politically connected Irish American family.
His election to the presidency in 1960 was by the narrowest margin since 1916. One key factor in his victory was a speech he gave to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, assuring the ministers that fears of foreign and denominational influence on his policies were unfounded. Without those reassurances, no Catholic could have won the presidency.
Memories of that occasion emerged this year when former Senator Rick Santorum told a college audience that when he read JFK's speech he "almost threw up." Santorum told ABC News, "Kennedy for the first time articulated a vision saying, no, faith is not allowed in the public square …. What ...1


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We've enjoyed William Voegeli's essays in the CRB on the Democratic Party's inability to define itself ("The endless party") and on Social Security's failure ("False security"). In the new issue of the CRB, Voegeli looks at Joseph Heath's and Andrew Potter's Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture. These Canadian critics aim most of their fire at the flamboyant "transformative Left," those who would rather perform guerilla theater than learn to govern effectively. Voegeli concludes:
For conservatives, the easy part is to agree with the book's devastating critique of countercultural inanities. The hard part is to know what to think of its authors' political project. A serious Left could be: a welcome change from the gassy self-righteousness of the transformative Left; a newly formidable adversary; or people one can do business with, to borrow Margaret Thatcher's remark about Mikhail Gorbachev. Of course, a serious Left may turn out, instead, to be simply impossible–a contradiction in terms.
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Samsung introduces youth-focused Galaxy Young and Galaxy Fame Jelly Bean handsets
Samsung is showing no sign of slowing its product release cycle, after it today announced the launch of two new lower priced Android handsets — the Galaxy Young and Galaxy Fame — aiming for the youth market with a gaming and media focus.
The Galaxy Young features a 1GHz processor, 768MB RAM, 3.27-inch HVGA TFT display, 3-megapixel rear-facing camera, 4GB internal storage (with microSD support) and a 1,300mAh battery. The device has a Galaxy S III feel about it, but comes in a lot smaller than its bestselling older sibling, and runs Google's Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) operating system.
The Galaxy Fame is similar to the Galaxy Young, but offers slightly different features. The Fame sports a 3.5-inch HVGA TFT display, the same 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage (also with microSD support), a 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 4.0, optional NFC and a 1,300mAh battery. The device also comes with Android 4.1 preloaded.
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Lync Migrations Depend On Infrastructure
This week, as I walked the halls of the Enterprise Connect conference in Orlando, Fla., I heard executive after executive talk about migration. The genesis of their discussions was the idea of migrating from PSTN (the Public Switched Telephone Network) to VoIP, or from VoIP to UC (Unified Communications). In addition, everyone (and I'm not really exaggerating, here) was talking about the migration from desktop units to mobile devices. The challenge wasn't finding someone who was helping their organization migrate -- it was finding someone who was standing still.
Just to make things a little more interesting, two Microsoft products were at the center of many discussions -- and many questions about just how to migrate both software and infrastructure to take best advantage of their capabilities. The first of these products is Microsoft Lync, the UC product that brings all sorts of communication, including audio, video, text messaging and desktop sharing, together in one rather complex package. Perhaps because it integrates so well with Windows Server and the rest of the Microsoft back-end suite, Lync has rapidly become the default UC package for many companies looking to make the leap in that direction.
The first thing to consider is the degree of role-based permission fine-tuning that arrives as part of Windows Server 2012's AD implementation -- and the ease with which those permissions can be managed through WMC (Windows Management Console). The goal of a single enterprise identity, federated across all the major communications mediums at use in the modern enterprise, is largely realized in the Lync/Windows Server 2012 pairing. It's in the infrastructure, though, that things get truly exciting.
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Letter to the Senate Urging to Sign the Attached Letter Being Circulated by Senators Rockefeller and Snowe
September 24, 2008
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On behalf of the National Education Association's (NEA) 3.2 million members, we urge you to sign the attached letter being circulated by Senators Rockefeller and Snowe calling for a temporary increase in the federal Medicaid match as part of a stimulus package.
Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia are projecting deficits for 2009 or 2010. A growing number of states have made or are considering harmful cuts in health care, education and other vital services.
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PIERRE - The South Dakota Supreme Court says an insurance company does not have to cover a Rapid City woman for a crash because her policy expired 12 hours before she hit four boys on their bicycles.
Tamara Bradford pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular battery for the September 2007 crash. Authorities say her blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit for driving when she hit the boys.
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I've got to stop staying at cheap motels.
After a lovely stay in Philly last night, bunking with my buddy Jim Coursey in his deluxe Hampton Inn suite, I cruised into NY.
I did nine signings in PA (including one with Jim Munchel in Camp Hill who had 110 copies of my books) and spent the night hours drinking Yuengling lager with Mr. Coursey. The next morning, I headed to the Big Apple on four hours of sleep. After a wonderful lunch with Leslie Wells and her niece, I was so wiped out I had to take a nap.
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I was asleep the moment my head hit the smelly limp thing the Inn's proprietors optimistically refer to as a pillow. I awoke in the early evening, and visited some stores in Staten Island and around Jersey. I'll post a complete list of stores tomorrow night (perhaps) but in the meantime here's the stats:
Miles driven so far: 4604
Bookstores visited so far: 156
Books signed so far: 1332
Books hand sold so far: 143
Bookstores remaining: 344
Nights in crappy hotels: 5
The Backspace Conference is happening this weekend, at the reknowned Algonquin Hotel in NYC. I'll be doing the toastmaster thing, and I believe I'm also on some sort of panel. Tomorrow I'm hitting Manhattan with my publicist and we're going to visit at least 15 stores. But now, the lumpy bed beckons...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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Two facts are already well known: Alfred Hitchcock loved casting cool blondes in his films, and Tippi Hedren was plucked from obscurity to star in two of them, "The Birds" and "Marnie." The director's obsession with, and abuse of, that particular leading lady provides the basis for "The Girl," an intoxicating HBO/BBC collaboration anchored by splendid performances from Toby Jones and Sienna Miller. Now 82, Hedren has publicly endorsed this account, and even with dramatic embellishment, it's a story likely to leave anyone weaned on the Hitchcock filmography feeling — pardon the expression — spellbound.
If there's a serious flaw in "The Girl" — and one would certainly be hard-pressed to find one in Miller's resemblance to the ravishing Hedren, or Jones' uncanny replication of Hitchcock's voice and mannerisms — it's only in the 91-minute movie being almost too economical. A bit more backstory about the key players, given the strength of these characterizations, would only have enriched the experience.
Principally a model, Hedren is as surprised as anyone to be contacted by Hitchcock, the assumption being the real stars of "The Birds" will be adorned in feathers, not fashion. At first, his behavior is slightly odd — the occasional suggestive limerick — but nothing to truly alarm her. Besides, what an opportunity to land a role sought by "every actress on the planet."
Once she's cast, though Hitchcock grows more daring, including a fumbling pass, followed by a grueling five-day shoot of the sequence where Hedren's character gets attacked in the attic, apparent punishment for rebuffing his advances. (Scenes from the film's production, mounted here in South Africa, are meticulously re-created.)
Director Julian Jarrold ("Kinky Boots") and writer Gwyneth Hughes, working from a book by Donald Spoto, use Hitchcock's drunken confessions and asides by his wife, Alma (Imelda Staunton) — who seems almost complicit in the tawdry ordeal — as well as his loyal secretary ("Downton Abbey's" Penelope Wilton) to address some of the fundamental questions. After all, many Hitchcock stars were beautiful; what prompted him to single out Hedren for such extreme mistreatment?
Whatever the motivation, the way the movie unfolds is fascinating, featuring the best work of Miller's career, and Jones so inhabiting Hitchcock — trapped within his grotesque frame — as to quickly get past impersonation to a darker portrayal of genius.
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Granted, a few snippets of dialogue feel a little too pat — more perfect than one suspects people conjure under duress — and the closing postscript perhaps overreaches in implying a link between the film's events and the trajectory of Hitchcock's career thereafter. Some might also wince (as a New York Times interview with Hedren seemed to) at maligning a cinematic giant who's been dead more than 30 years, given the rightful admiration of the director's work.
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Regular expressions have a syntax in which a few characters are special constructs and the rest are ordinary. An ordinary character is a simple regular expression which matches that character and nothing else. The special characters are `$', `^', `.', `*', `[', `]' and `\'; no new special characters will be defined in the future. Any other character appearing in a regular expression is ordinary, unless a `\' precedes it.
For example, `f' is not a special character, so it is ordinary, and therefore `f' is a regular expression that matches the string `f' and no other string. (It does not match the string `ff'.) Likewise, `o' is a regular expression that matches only `o'.
Any two regular expressions a and b can be concatenated. The result is a regular expression which matches a string if a matches some amount of the beginning of that string and b matches the rest of the string.
As a simple example, we can concatenate the regular expressions `f' and `o' to get the regular expression `fo', which matches only the string `fo'. Still trivial. To do something more powerful, you need to use one of the special characters. Here is a list of them:
[:alnum:] [:cntrl:] [:lower:] [:space:] [:alpha:] [:digit:] [:print:] [:upper:] [:blank:] [:graph:] [:punct:] [:xdigit:]To include a `]' in a character set, make it the first character. For example, `[]a]' matches `]' or `a'. To include a `-', write `-' as the first character in the set, or put immediately after a range. (You can replace one individual character c with the range `c-c' to make a place to put the `-'). There is no way to write a set containing just `-' and `]'. To include `^' in a set, put it anywhere but at the beginning of the set.
For the most part, `\' followed by any character matches only that character. However, there are several exceptions: characters which, when preceded by `\', are special constructs. Such characters are always ordinary when encountered on their own. Here is a table of `\' constructs:
These regular expression constructs match the empty string--that is, they don't use up any characters--but whether they match depends on the context.
Not every string is a valid regular expression. For example, a string
with unbalanced square brackets is invalid (with a few exceptions, such
as `[]]', and so is a string that ends with a single `\'. If
an invalid regular expression is passed to any of the search functions,
invalid-regexp error is signaled.
Here is a complicated regexp, used by Emacs to recognize the end of a
sentence together with any whitespace that follows. It is the value of
the variable
First, we show the regexp as a string in C syntax to distinguish spaces from tab characters. The string constant begins and ends with a double-quote. `\"' stands for a double-quote as part of the string, `\\' for a backslash as part of the string, `\t' for a tab and `\n' for a newline.
"[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)[ \t\n]*"
In contrast, in Lisp, you have to type the tab as Ctrl-V Ctrl-I, producing the following:
sentence-end => "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\| \\| \\)[ ]*"
In this output, tab and newline appear as themselves.
This regular expression contains four parts in succession and can be deciphered as follows:
\" is C or Lisp syntax for a double-quote in
a string. The `*' at the end indicates that the immediately
preceding regular expression (a character set, in this case) may be
repeated zero or more times.
\\($\\| \\|\t\\| \\)
[ \t\n]*
This section describes some common regular expressions used for certain purposes in editing:
Page delimiter:
This is the regexp describing line-beginnings that separate pages. A good
value is
(string #\Page).
Paragraph separator:
This is the regular expression for recognizing the beginning of a line
that separates paragraphs. A good value is (in C syntax)
\t\f]*$", which is a line that consists entirely of spaces, tabs, and
form feeds.
Paragraph start:
This is the regular expression for recognizing the beginning of a line
that starts or separates paragraphs. A good value is (in C syntax)
"^[ \t\n\f]", which matches a line starting with a space, tab,
newline, or form feed.
Sentence end: This is the regular expression describing the end of a sentence. (All paragraph boundaries also end sentences, regardless.) A good value is (in C syntax, again):
"[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\|\t\\| \\)[ \t\n]*"
This means a period, question mark or exclamation mark, followed by a closing brace, followed by tabs, spaces or new lines.
match structure containing
the indices of the start and end of the first match for
the regular expression regexp in string, or
nil if
there is no match. If start is non-
nil, the search starts
at that index in string. If end is non-
nil, only
(subseq string start end) is considered.
For example,
(match "quick" "The quick brown fox jumped quickly.") => #S(match :start 4 :end 9) (match "quick" "The quick brown fox jumped quickly." :start 8) => #S(match :start 27 :end 32) (match "quick" "The quick brown fox jumped quickly." :start 8 :end 30) => nil
The index of the first character of the string is 0, the index of the second character is 1, and so on.
The next values are
match structures for every `\( ... \)'
contruct in regexp, in the order that the open parentheses appear
in regexp.
copy-string or
(coerce (match-string ...) 'simple-string).
(regexp-quote "^The cat$") => "\\^The cat\\$"
One use of
regexp-quote is to combine an exact string match with
context described as a regular expression.
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College Football 2012 – Week Four Recap
What did we learn in Week Four? National title hopes are alive and well for Florida State and Oregon. Oklahoma's are on life support. Notre Dame's defense is really good. LSU can win with defense. And Alabama continues to roll.
Here are all the highlights from this week in college football.
#1 Alabama 40, Florida Atlantic 7
Alabama's shutout streak came to an end at 12 quarters but, other than that, there's not much about which the Crimson Tide defense can complain. The Owls managed just 110 total yards and did not get on the board until there were less than two minutes left in the game and the Alabama defensive starters were long since done for the day. Crimson Tide quarterback A.J. McCarron threw for 212 yards and three touchdowns in the win.
#2 LSU 12, Auburn 10
On a night in which the LSU offense struggled, the defense showed that they were still good enough to get the win, forcing three turnovers, recording a safety and holding Auburn to just 183 total yards. Auburn took a 10-9 lead late in the second quarter, but managed just 29 plays for 83 yards and two turnovers on their final seven possessions. While this wasn't a highlight-reel night for the LSU offense, running backs Spencer Ware and Michael Ford did combine for 131 yards and a touchdown on 24 total carries in the game. This is the first time in Auburn school history they have lost three games before the end of September.
#3 Oregon 49, #22 Arizona 0
The expected shoot-out never materialized as Oregon's defense turned in a surprisingly dominant performance to blank the Wildcats. The Ducks forced five turnovers, returned two interceptions for scores and held Arizona quarterback Matt Scott, who came into the game averaging 395 yards in total offense per game, to just 219 yards with three interceptions. The Wildcats, who averaged over 46 points per game coming in, made it into the Oregon red zone six times, but were turned away each time. Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota led a balanced offensive attack with 260 passing yards and two touchdowns.
#4 Florida State 49, #10 Clemson 37
Behind a career night from quarterback E.J. Manuel, the Seminoles rallied for 35 second half points to come back against the Tigers. Manuel threw for a career-high 380 yards and two touchdowns and added another 102 yards on the ground in the win. The Seminoles' defense also got in on the action, holding the ACC's leading rusher, Andre Ellington, to just 55 yards on the ground (although he did also score on a 52-yard trick play pass from receiver Sammy Watkins). Clemson led 28-14 four minutes into the third quarter before the Seminoles outscored them 28-3 over the next 17 minutes. Florida State rolled up 667 yards of total offense in the win that secured its lead in the ACC Atlantic Division and kept the Seminoles' national title hopes alive.
#5 Georgia 48, Vanderbilt 3
Georgia jumped out to a 27-0 lead in the second quarter and coasted to an easy victory to get their second conference win of the season. The Bulldogs' two freshman running backs, Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall, combined for 212 yards and four touchdowns on the ground while quarterback Aaron Murray added another 250 yards and two scores. Vanderbilt has not beaten a ranked SEC opponent since 2008.
#15 Kansas State 24, #6 Oklahoma 19
A year ago, the Sooners blew out Kansas State, 58-17. But Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein made sure this seasonwould be different. He didn't have a huge statistical night, throwing for 149 yards and rushing for 79 more and a touchdown. But he made several key plays on third downs to keep drives alive late in the game. OU took a 13-10 lead into the fourth quarter, only to see the Wildcats score on back-to-back drives in the next eight minutes to secure the win. Sooners quarterback Landry Jones threw for 298 yards, one touchdown and an interception in the loss. But the key stat was turnovers—Oklahoma turned the ball over three times, leading to 10 Wildcat points. This was Kansas State's first win in Norman since 1997 and the first time ever that a ranked team has beaten a Bob Stoops-coached team at home.
#7 South Carolina 31, Missouri 10
South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw put any concerns about his injured throwing shoulder to rest, going 20/21 for 249 yards and two touchdowns. Junior running back Marcus Lattimore became the Gamecocks' all-time rushing touchdown leader, scoring his 32nd and 33rd career touchdowns on 21 carries for 85 yards. Missouri quarterback James Franklin, who missed last week's game with a shoulder injury, started for the Tigers but was largely ineffective, being sacked three times and just throwing for 92 yards in the loss. Playing without suspended safety D.J. Swearinger, the Gamecocks defense held Mizzou to just 151 yards and three points through the first three quarters.
#8 West Virginia 31, Maryland 21
Tavon Austin hauled in a school-record 13 passes for 179 yards and three touchdowns as West Virginia survived a surprisingly tough upset bid from the Terrapins. Austin also became the Mountaineers' all-time receptions leader with 208 for his career. Maryland came into this game ranked 122nd in total offense. In this one, however, the Terps rolled up 351 yards of total offense (just 12 less than West Virginia), but turned the ball over three times (two in Mountaineers territory) and missed a field goal in the loss.
#9 Stanford BYE
After upsetting then-#2 USC, the Cardinal got the week off to prepare for a Thursday night matchup at Washington.
#11 Notre Dame 13, #18 Michigan 6
Already off to its best start since 1988, the Notre Dame defense continued its early-season dominance to snap a three-game losing streak to the Wolverines. The Fighting Irish forced six turnovers, including four interceptions of Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson, and held their second-straight opponent without a touchdown. After accounting for 948 yards and eight touchdowns in two previous meetings against the Irish, Robinson was held to just 228 yards and no scores in this one. Michigan outgained Notre Dame 299-239, but simply couldn't overcome a stretch of six consecutive possessions that ended in a turnover. Twice, Michigan had the ball inside the Irish 10-yard line but came away without points.
#12 Texas BYE
The Longhorns had the week off to get ready for the roughest stretch of their season, with a three-game swing at Oklahoma State, vs. #8 West Virginia and vs. #6 Oklahoma.
#13 Southern Cal 27, California 9
After struggling to run the ball against Stanford last week, the Trojans pounded the ball this weekend with two rushers going over 100 yards. Penn State transfer Silas Redd rushed for 158 yards and a touchdown while Curtis McNeal added another 115 yards on the ground. This was the first time since 2008 that USC had two 100+ yard rushers in the same game. USC's defense held the Bears to just 250 total yards (77 rushing) and only 3-of-14 on third down conversions.
#14 Florida 38, Kentucky 0
Florida had no trouble recording its 26th straight win over Kentucky, shutting out the Wildcats and holding UK backup quarterback Morgan Newton (playing for the injured Maxwell Smith) to just 7/21 for 60 yards and three interceptions. Florida's offense struggled early before erupting for 21 points in the second quarter. This was Florida's first shutout in conference play since 2001.
#16 Ohio State29, Alabama-Birmingham 15
Alabama-Birmingham actually outgained the Buckeyes 403-347 and scored on a blocked punt return in the first quarter, but committed nine penalties for 99 yards and turned the ball over twice to sink their upset bid. Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller had a slow day by his standards, but still managed to throw for 143 yards and add 64 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. The Blazers came into the game ranked 122nd nationally in scoring, but held Ohio State to just seven points through the game's first 28 minutes.
#17 Texas Christian 27, Virginia 7
TCU quarterback Casey Paschall's hot start to the season continued as the junior threw for 305 yards and three touchdowns in the win. Virginia's offense racked up 353 total yards, but turned the ball over four times—including an interception and a fumble recovery by linebacker Kenny Cain—that led to 10 Horned Frog points. TCU has the nation's longest winning streak, currently at 11 games.
Oregon State 27, #19 UCLA 20
Oregon State has only played two games, but upset ranked teams both times. Oregon State quarterback Sean Mannion threw for 379 yards and two scores and the Beavers' offense racked up 501 total yards. But the big story was the Oregon State defense, which held UCLA to just 444 total yards. Bruins came into the game ranked second nationally in total offense, averaging 622 yards per game. Most notably, the Beavers held UCLA running back Johnathan Franklin—who came into the game as the nation's leading rusher—to just 45 yards on the ground.
#20 Louisville 28, Florida International 21
Florida International put a scare in the Cardinals, taking a 14-7 lead late in the second quarter, before the Louisville offense responded with 21 unanswered points. Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater didn't have his greatest game (19/36 for 194 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions; he also rushed for a touchdown) but made the plays when he needed to in leading the Cardinals on three touchdown drives of 70 or more yards.
#21 Michigan State 23, Eastern Michigan 7
Le'Veon Bell rushed for a career-high 253 yards and a touchdown as the Spartans rallied late in the game to survive the upset-minded Eagles. Eastern Michigan actually led the game until there were less than two minutes left in the third quarter. But two fourth quarter touchdowns provided the final margin of victory for the Spartans. This is the fourth straight opponent that the Michigan State defense has held to less than 300 yards.
#23 Mississippi State 30, South Alabama 10
After a slow start, the Bulldogs exploded for 20 unanswered points in the second quarter to provide all the points they would need. The offensive statistics for both teams were actually fairly even, but the Jaguars missed a field goal and turned the ball over three times in Bulldogs territory to end any chance they had of pulling off an upset.
#24 Boise State 7, Brigham Young 6
While Boise State has been known for its offensive fireworks in recent years, this game was all about defense. The Broncos got their touchdown on a 36-yard interception return for a score in the third quarter and then turned away an attempted two-point conversion by BYU in the game's waning moments. The Cougars were held to just 200 total yards and 2-of-12 on third down conversions. They also turned the ball over five times. This was the first time since 2005 that Boise State was held scoreless in the first half.
#25 Nebraska 73, Idaho State 7
Nebraska erupted for 35 points in the game's first 13 minutes to put this one away early. Returning from a knee injury that sidelined him the last 2 ½ games, running back Rex Burkhead rushed for 119 yards and two touchdowns—including a career-long 61-yarder—on just eight carries. The Nebraska defense held their overmatched opponents to just 210 total yards (only 72 of which came against Nebraska's starters), forced three turnovers, returned an interception for a touchdown and sacked Idaho State's quarterbacks a season-high seven times. The Huskers also got an 81-yard punt return touchdown from Ameer Abdullah, giving Nebraska its first game in three years in which the Cornhuskers scored on offense, defense and special teams.


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We're here on a three-week trip to continue our explorations of the caves of Rodrigues. The south-western part of Rodrigues (the smallest of the Mascarene Islands) has a partial covering of calcarenite, a type of wind-deposited limestone, which is riddled with caves. This rock is locally known as 'corail', and is believed to have formed when the coral reef was exposed during a period of low sea level, and the coral sand blew inland, forming dunes, which later lithified (turned to rock).
The caves were formed by groundwater dissolving the rock, and they boast all the usual flowstone formations - stalactites, stalagmites, columns, curtains, straws, helictites, gours and crystal pools. Two of the more awe-inspiring larger caves, Caverne Patate and Grande Caverne (below), are open as showcaves, but we are here for the old dead stuff - the bones of the animals that lived on this remote island before humans got here. We tend to find bones in the sediment on the cave floor, but not always.
Grande Caverne, one of the larger caves inRodrigues
We are aiming to find the caves that were excavated by two 19th century naturalists, George Jenner and Henry Slater, who were among the first to collect bones of extinct species in the caves. Unfortunately, Jenner delegated the work to his deputy, and he in turn ducked out of his duties, meaning that Jenner's report is vague at best, and perhaps fictional at worst!
Slater's account was not much better. Using these tatty shreds of evidence we are trying to figure out where these two teams actually dug. There is a point to this - Jenner's collections were sent back toCambridge University Museum, and Slater's are now in the Natural History Museum, London. We'd like to know which caves the bones came from.
So what lived here in the past?
Rodrigues is 534 km east of Mauritius, the home of the famous dodo, but its little-known cousin, the solitaire, lived on Rodrigues. This bird was also flightless, and succumbed to extinction for similar reasons - human arrival, introduced species and rapid changes to its environment, that began around 1730.
The Rodrigues giant tortoises were taken to provide meat and oil for long sea voyages and to supply the hospital in Mauritius (the oil of giant tortoises was believed to cure scurvy). This over-exploitation caused their extinction around 1795; just 70 years after the Mauritius giant tortoises became extinct for the same reason.
Many other species of bird and reptile on Rodrigues also became extinct. Some of them we know from contemporary accounts and from museum specimens that were collected while the species were still alive; others we only know from the bones left behind in the caves.
There were no mammals except for the fruit bats, which are still with us today, thanks to a massive conservation effort. Of the endemic birds, only the warbler and the fody have survived, helped by local conservation work. The sparrow that visits our dinner table and the gecko that patrols the house, are just two of the introduced species here. Goats, cattle, cats, dogs, pigs, chickens, ducks and turkeys are here too, and we find their remains in the caves.
Sieving cave sediment in search of bones, big and small
Island hospitality
In 2007 we helped to set up a small museum on Rodrigues. It is here that we are based, and where our finds will remain. We are staying with a local family, a short walk from the museum and most of the caves. They are feeding us very well, with local produce including fish, octopus, vegetables and fruit, washed down with bucketfuls of rice.
The cyclone season has just finished and the strong winds that were keeping the mosquitoes at bay have now dropped, so I am fighting my usual battle with them (helped by a good mosquito net called 'Mosinet' which I highly recommend!). Julian says that he only brings me on these trips so I can be the mosquito bait. However I think I have proved my worth this time…
Taking a well-earned rest after lots of digging and sieving
Exciting fossil finds
We have been excavating in one large cave for about a week, and got down to about 1 metre depth. We are sieving the sediment and picking out all of the bones, big and small. Julian is very pleased that we have found some bones of the solitaire (probably all from the same female), rail, owl, night heron, parakeet, petrel, starling and other passerines. As usual, there is lots of small reptile, including the world's largest ever gecko, which was half a metre long, not including the tail.
At some point I went to explore the other side of the cave. Having stopped to pick up a solitaire wing bone (as you do), I looked up and saw the carapace (upper shell) of a tortoise wedged under rocks and partly buried in sediment. We carefully freed the fragile carapace, which was in pieces, and transported it back to the museum in a big washing-up bowl lined with bubble wrap, where I carefully cleaned, repaired and mounted it. Today we made a space for it in a display case. This carapace might be the third species of extinct giant tortoise of Rodrigues- we are still pondering this, and will send photos to an expert on the fossil tortoises of the Mascarene Islands.
The carapace (upper shell) of a tortoise, found wedged under rocks
As if this wasn't enough, today (1 May) we visited three caves, to take GPS readings and photos. In the last one of these caves, I spotted another tortoise carapace, in a really awkward position under rocks. As it was nearly 3pm on Labour Day, and we hadn't brought our washing-up bowl (!), we decided to leave this one until morning. This is why we are celebrating with a well-earned beer! In your face, Jenner and Slater, you should've gone to Specsavers!
Braving tight spaces in search of fossils


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(CNN) -- Juventus moved to within a point of Serie A leaders Roma on Sunday night after a resounding 3-0 victory over Napoli in Turin.
The home side were ahead inside the second minute when Fernando Llorente fired home but had to wait until deep into the second half before sealing the three points.
Two goals in six minutes did the trick -- Andrea Pirlo doubled the lead in the 74th minute before Paul Pogba wrapped things up with a volley in the 80th minute.
Not even Angelo Ogbonna's dismissal three minutes later could take the shine off the result.
Defeat leaves Rafa Benitez's Napoli side in third place with 28 points while Juve have 31, one less than Roma who dropped points for the second successive week after only managing to draw 1-1 with Sassuolo in the Stadio Olympico.
An own-goal from Alessandro Longhi in the 19th minute gifted Roma the lead and that's how it stayed until the fourth minute of injury time when Domenico Berardi stepped up to grab a last-gasp equaliser for the Serie A strugglers.
Roma now have 32 points from 12 games and host Cagliari in their next league match on November 25.
AC Milan's winless league run extended to four games after a 0-0 draw at bottom-of-the-table Chievo.
Milan, who were without suspended striker Mario Balotelli, also finished the game with 10-men after Riccardo Montolivo received a second yellow card with nine minutes remaining.
In Serie A's other Sunday fixtures, Genoa beat sixth-place Hellas Verona 2-0 to move up to seventh. Atalanta rise to ninth following a 2-1 over Bologna while Cagliari move up to 13th after beating Torino 2-1.
Fiorentina beat Sampdoria 2-1 while Parma and Lazio played out a 1-1 draw.
Over in Spain, Barcelona extended their lead at the top of La Liga to three points following a 4-1 win at Real Betis.
First-half goals from Neymar and Pedro and a second-half brace from Cesc Fabregas ensured Barca wrapped up a comfortable win. Jorge Molina scored from the penalty spot in injury time to give the hosts a belated consolation goal.
Second-place Atletico Madrid are now only three points ahead of city rivals Madrid after a 1-1 draw at fourth-place Villarreal.
Elsewhere, Valencia drew 2-2 with Valladolid while Sevilla beat Espanyol 3-1.


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Cliffs Of Moher, the Burren and Galway Tour From Dublin Nov18Mar19
After departing Dublin, your first stop of the day will be at Athlone Applegreen station. You will have the opportunity to stretch your legs and maybe get yourself a coffee or breakfast. This is a 10 - 15 minute stop. After arriving in Galway, you will have 1 hour to explore this amazing little city with cobbled streets. Your guide will walk you to Shop street and Lynch's castle. You will have the opportunity to explore the city on your own or join your guide in showing you to the main street of Galway.You will now follow the entire Wild Atlantic way between Galway and Ennistymon. Passing historic landmarks such as Dunguaire Castle etc. And driving through villages like Kinvara, Ballyvaughan, and Kilfenora. Next you will stop for 30 minutes at the Burren. Where you can enjoy fantastic views out to the Aran Islands, Galway Bay and on a clear day the 12 Bens mountain range. Be sure to bring your camera, as the unusual karst rocks make for some dramatic photo opportunities, and views stretch out towards the Aran Islands and the Twelve Bens mountain range. Here you can find Mediterranean, Arctic and Alpine plants growing next to each other.Finally arriving at the day's star-attraction - the magnificent Cliffs of Moher. With 1.5 hours to explore, you'll have ample time to walk along the 702 foot (214 metres) high cliffs, learn more about the natural wonder in the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Center, and take plenty of photos. Don't forget to do the Ledge experience inside the visitor centre. Entrance fees included.The tour now heads back inland to 2 more unique stops. This route is filled with amazing views, Norman Tower houses, lakes, horses and other farm animals. A great way to see how real life and farming works in the West of Ireland.We will now stop at Kilmacduagh Monastery for 30 minutes. Kilmacduagh Monastery has one of the finest collections of monastic buildings in the country. A very rare chance to take pictures of a 12th century Round Tower located among this abundance of early christian buildings dating back to the 11th century.Your last stop of the day will be in Loughrea. We will stop in this town dating back to Strongbow and the Anglo Normans around 1236. Your stop is next to the lough(lake) Rea, where you will have 30 minutes to take some pictures. Use the bathrooms and get stocked up for the journey back to Dublin.
Outside Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Parnell Square N, Dublin 1, Dublin, IE, Ireland


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DrewOrlando necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 146 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
I am a 26 year old very outgoing and fun personal trainer in Florida with 7 years experienced. I am certified in personal training, specialist in sports conditioning and nutrition. I want to have a concrete logo that will start to be recognized. I plan on going global with my website targeting all sorts of fitness enthusiasts.
Right now I train all sorts of people. Starting from your regular male or female wanting to lose weight, youth, high school and college athletes. LIke I mentioned, I plan to take the personal training to an online level with workout and dieting programs offered via the web.
My initial thoughts on the logo was to have a futuristic looking globe, possibly in black and white in the background with the initials FT(Fitness Totality) Also saying Fitness Totality and the tagline " Tomorrow Starts Now"
Colors interesting me are black white and red or possibly blue.
I'm really looking for something that jumps off the page but is still also simple. I don't want it too cluttered.
Hope this helps, would love to see what everyone can do!
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How to Sign Up For a P-Patch
The P-Patch Community Gardening Program, in conjunction with P-Patch Trust, a nonprofit organization, oversees 75 P-Patches distributed throughout the city, equaling approximately 23 acres, serving 4,400 gardeners. Gardeners throughout the city contributed 17,000 hours maintaining the common areas of the garden in 2010.
What is a community garden? A community garden is a space where neighbors come together to grow community and steward – plan, plant, and maintain –a piece of open space. Community gardens are gathering places that strengthen networks through cooperative ventures; a source of pride among residents; a visible product of land stewardship and a healthier urban environment. Traditionally, they involve individual gardening plots which community members pay an annual fee for while all shared spaces throughout the garden are cared for together.
What is a P-Patch? P-Patch is the name given to community gardens that are managed by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods P-Patch Community Gardening Program. The name, P-Patch, originated from its first community garden, Picardo Farm. Gardens come in many shapes, sizes, and ownerships (For more Facts about P-Patch Community Gardens: Detailed Fact Sheet)
What's the "P" in P-Patch? Definitely a favorite P-Patch question. The history of the P-Patch Programgoes back to 1973. The 'P' commemorates the family who used to farm the area that became the first community garden in Seattle, the Picardo Farm P-Patch. This P-Patch was acquired from the Picardo family who ran a truck farm in the earlier part of the 1900s up in the Wedgwood neighborhood. Their farm originally included the current P-Patch area, University Prep and Dahl Playfield. When the city started up the P-Patch program in 1973, the 'P' was taken to commemorate the family.
For the past 37 years, P-Patch community gardeners have been
- Growing community
- Nurturing civic engagement
- Practicing organic gardening techniques
- Fostering an environmental ethic and connecting nature to peoples' lives
- Improving access to local, organic, and culturally appropriate food
- Transforming the appearance and revitalizing the spirit of their neighborhoods
- Developing self-reliance and improving nutrition through education and hands-on experience
- Feeding the hungry
- Preserving heirloom flowers, herbs, and vegetables
- Budding understanding between generations and cultures through gardening and cooking
Each Garden is Unique P-Patch Community Gardens spring from the desire of neighborhoods to make connections and improve their surroundings through stewardship. All P-Patch Community Gardens are open to the public to enjoy and are used as restorative spaces, learning/idea incubators, and places to gather and visit. The gardens also provide a way to give back to the community: gardeners contributed over 18,500 hours in 2009 (equivalent to 9 full time workers) and show their concern for the value of organic vegetables and community by supplying fresh produce to Seattle food banks and feeding programs. In 2010 alone, P-Patch gardeners donated 20,889 pounds=41,778 servings of fresh produce.
In recent years the demand for space in P-Patch community gardens has grown. The P-Patch Community Gardening Program has taken steps to shrink the waitlists. In 2010, all gardens will be assigned a maximum square foot limit as a tool to open up more gardening space. New Gardens are being built over the next 2-3 years with community garden levy funds. In 2008, citizens passed the Parks and Green Space Levy of which $2 million has been dedicated to the development of new P-Patch community gardens.
Also, to address the broadening interest in urban agriculture (of which community gardening is a part) and increase the palette of choices available to neighborhoods when they are creating community gardens, the P-Patch Program is experimenting with different models of community gardening. These include large tracts for food growth, collective gardens that do not have individual garden plots, and giving gardens.
To sign up for your own P-Patch Community Garden plot please visit http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/ppatch/signupPpatch.htm
Happy Gardening.


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Parking Permits Online
Semester-length student parking permits may be purchased online here or in person at the Admission and Records Office. To be valid, the permit must be properly placed on the vehicle and be clearly visible from the outside. To be properly placed, it must be affixed to the inside of the front windshield, bottom corner, driver s side. Improper or non-display of a permit will result in a parking citation.
Parking Information and Regulations


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328 Series Overview
The Incon Lighting 328 Series wall fixtures are impact resistant. With a tough build and simple design, the 328 Series is a great choice for residential, commercial and industrial exteriors. This fixture is American Compliant.
The 328 has an impact resistant polycarbonate housing that comes in white, black, or bronze and an impact resistant polycarbonate lens that comes in white & clear prismatic.
Depending on your wattage the 328 Series can be equipped with a 120V 60Hz Magnetic NPF or Electronic NPF, or 120/277V 50/60Hz Electronic HPF ballast depending on which bulb you choose. This fixture is wall mount only and is wet location listed. Lamps are included unless ordered with the no lamp (NL) option.
The available color temperatures for compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs range from warm (2700K & 3000K), medium (3500K) and cool (4100K) white to full spectrum (5000K) kelvin temperature. This fixture can also be equipped with:
- 120-277 Volt Ballast
- Philips Advance Ballast
- Remote Battery Backup (CFL Only)
- Dimming Electronic Ballast
- Feed Though
- High Power Factor
- Set of 3" Black Vinyl Letters
- No Lamp
- On/Off Pullchain
- Photocell (120 Volt Only)
- Photocell (208-277 Volt)
- Philips Lamp
- Sylvania Ballast
- Sylvania Lamp
- ULT Universal Ballast
The 328 Series is also available in the all-new 328-LED Series configuration. Click here to download the 328-LED Specifications Sheet.
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