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|0. pg_bulkload - pg_bulkload is a high speed data loading utility for PostgreSQL
|Activity Percentile: 93.65
Activity Ranking: 9.00
Registered: 2007-03-08 10:26
|1. libpqtypes - libpqtypes is a libpq extension that offers a new way of handling parameterized queries and getting result values, using a printf/scanf style interface. libpqtypes requires libpq-events, found in 8.4 or a supplied 8.3.x patch.
|Activity Percentile: 89.68
Activity Ranking: 14.00
Registered: 2008-04-15 14:42
|2. PL/Proxy - PL/Proxy is database partitioning system implemented as PL language.
|Activity Percentile: 80.95
Activity Ranking: 25.00
Registered: 2006-07-10 14:49
|3. Better Oracle functions support - This project implements of some functions from the Oracle database. Some date functions (next_day, last_day, trunc, round, ...) are implemented now. The functionality was verified on Oracle 10g, and the module is useful for production work.
|Activity Percentile: 76.98
Activity Ranking: 30.00
Registered: 2005-05-18 06:40
|4. pgmemcache - A PostgreSQL API based on libmemcached to interface with memcached.
|Activity Percentile: 73.81
Activity Ranking: 34.00
Registered: 2004-11-28 00:43
|5. Foreign Data Wrapper for Oracle - PostgreSQL extension that provides a Foreign Data Wrapper for easy and efficient access to Oracle databases, including pushdown of WHERE conditions and required columns as well as comprehensive EXPLAIN support.
|Activity Percentile: 69.84
Activity Ranking: 39.00
Registered: 2011-08-12 10:15
|6. Pavel Stehule's collection - I wrote some perhaps useful functions for PostgreSQL. This project collect it and allows easy using of these functions.
|Activity Percentile: 58.73
Activity Ranking: 53.00
Registered: 2009-09-16 08:29
|7. Random Dataset Generator for SKYLINE Op. - Random dataset generator for SKYLINE operator evaluation as set returning function as described in [Borzsonyi2001].
[Borzsonyi2001] Börzsönyi, S.; Kossmann, D. & Stocker, K.: The Skyline Operator, In ICDE, 2001, 421--432
|Activity Percentile: 52.38
Activity Ranking: 61.00
Registered: 2007-10-12 19:52
|8. DTrace Probes - Adds DTrace probes to PostgreSQL. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Pervasive Software.
|Activity Percentile: 46.03
Activity Ranking: 69.00
Registered: 2005-12-14 20:05
|9. PL/sh - MOVED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/petere/plsh
PL/sh is a procedural language handler for PostgreSQL that allows you to write stored procedures in a shell of your choice.
|Activity Percentile: 35.71
Activity Ranking: 82.00
Registered: 2005-05-23 11:19
|10. passgen - Small contrib for the random generation of password.
|Activity Percentile: 29.37
Activity Ranking: 90.00
Registered: 2007-02-21 17:45
|11. dblink-ldap - dblink functions to access an LDAP directory as a table/view in PostgreSQL.
|Activity Percentile: 15.08
Activity Ranking: 108.00
Registered: 2005-08-26 14:22
|12. StoneDB RDBMS - StoneDB是基于PostgreSQL开发的关系型数据库管理系统。特性如下:
Registered: 2014-08-24 14:52
|13. userlocks - This project provides compatibility between the legacy userlock contrib module and the newer advisory locks feature. As of PostgreSQL 8.2, userlocks are no longer provided as part of the PostgreSQL distribution due to licensing issues.
Registered: 2006-07-10 19:09
|14. pgchem::tigress - Pgchem::tigress is the chemoinformatics extension to the PostgreSQL DBMS. It enables PostgreSQL to handle molecules through SQL statements.
|Activity Percentile: 2.38
Activity Ranking: 124.00
Registered: 2004-12-28 10:01
|15. Bizgres - Bizgres project creates and builds a PostgreSQL "distribution", including experimental core mods, for an optimized Business Intelligence version. Downloads and Docs are on homepage www.bizgres.org
|Activity Percentile: 0.00
Activity Ranking: 0.00
Registered: 2005-04-16 19:13
|16. IGNITE : PGSQL Information Integrator - IGNITE is a PostgreSQL-based information integrating system
|Activity Percentile: 0.00
Activity Ranking: 0.00
Registered: 2006-03-07 18:04
|17. Veil - Veil is a database security add-on for Postgres. It allows databases to be created with efficient row-level access controls: different users can access different subsets of data.
|Activity Percentile: 0.00
Activity Ranking: 0.00
Registered: 2005-09-13 18:45
|18. Postgres-XC - Postgres-XC is a write-scalable synchronous multi-master PostgreSQL cluster with the following features.
1) Both read and write scalability.
2) Configured with more than one server.
3) Complete global transaction and visibility management.
|Activity Percentile: 0.00
Activity Ranking: 0.00
Registered: 2010-03-16 01:02
|19. Hyper Estraier search for PostgreSQL - This package consists of PostgreSQL C function which calls Hyper Estraier API and returns results in user defined format and trigger which maintains consistency of data in full-text index. It also include helper script to easily create full-text index.
|Activity Percentile: 0.00
Activity Ranking: 0.00
Registered: 2005-06-26 19:44
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A major deal is in the works between American Airlines and US Airways. Our hometown airline could merge with American as early as next week.
A Wall Street Journal report states the deal could be announced as early as next week, while several other national reports say it could take a few more weeks.
Either way, it appears it's more likely the merger will happen than not.
The merger is worth more than $10 billion and if the deal goes through, it would create the world's largest airline.
American Airlines filed for bankruptcy back in November 2011 and some industry experts say this still may not be enough to save the company.
"Don't get too mislead by size, a brontosaurus was very big at one time too, but it didn't do real good...size isn't the issue, it's revenue streams and competitive flows and I think this will improve it, it won't fix all their problems but it will improve it," said Boyd Group President Michael Boyd.
If the merger happens, what will become of our hometown airline US Airways?
US Airways CEO Doug Parker is expected to run the new airline, while American Airlines CEO Tom Horton will likely move to a seat on the board of directors.
While this may be a good deal for both airlines, customers will lose out.
"Short term, I don't think much is going to change. People's wallets right now tell how they're going to pay for tickets right now. Long-term, I think we're going to pay more for ticket prices," said FareCompare.com's Rick Seaney.
Could we see more airfare wars? More options for travelers?
Here's what the Dean of Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business believes.
"US Airways or American, once they're merged, is not going to walk away from Phoenix. It's a big hub and Southwest is a big competitor here, and they're not likely to just walk away and let Southwest have the Phoenix hub to themselves," said Dean Robert Mittelstaedt.
One traveler told FOX 10, "I think that Southwest and JetBlue will continue to undercut them when it comes to price and even where services are concerned."
US Airways CEO Doug Parker has already said a merged airline would keep the "American" name, and have its headquarters where American is right now, in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Sweden is famous for sending amazing NHL athletes like Nicklas Lidstrom & Henrik Zetterberg and of course all of these guys. At this point we are talking about monster numbers of athletes that not only come over the United States to live and play...they dominate the competition. For years we as North American brethren have wondered how can they be this good?
I have finally discovered a simple answer to this query. In Sweden if they don't play hockey, they are forced to participate in insane 8km obstackle courses like the one featured below.
At times these supreme athletes jump over logs, take out waterways and even crawl under bridges. This is what being a man is all about. It's also the reason the National Hockey League is back to becoming a legitimate sport again.
For the sake of hockey...Sweden I implore you to keep coming up with more and more pointless competitions like this one.
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Toeless Yoga Socks
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Grippy socks that let your toes spread out
Special Offer: Buy 2 or more pairs, get 10% off (final discount reflected in cart) (Details)
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All grip. No slip. Put your entire sole into your yoga practice! Now you don't even need your mat to get into your favorite poses. The targeted traction zones provide no-slip grip on any surface, while the open design allows toes to spread for better tactile feel and balance. 81% cotton, 11% nylon, 5% polyester, 2% rubber, 1% spandex. Machine wash. China.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by weaving67 Great Socks for weavers too! I love these socks. I didn't buy them for my yoga practice,however. I bought them for my floor loom. While weaving my feet would always slip on the smooth wood treadles.. The sticky sock bottom is perfect for for stepping on the wood treadles. The toeless design allows me to feel which treadle I am on. No more slipping! September 8, 2014
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(KCEN) -- The budget battle and government shutdown loom in Washington.
It still could be avoided, but a partial shutdown of the federal government takes effect at midnight Eastern Time tonight, and a deal doesn't look likely.
Today the Senate shot down a budget deal that was passed by the House this weekend.
It would have paid the nations bills, delaying Obamacare for another year.
The ball is back in John Boehner's court. There's a new house Republican plan, but it still would push back Obamacare, and Democrats still refuse.


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Well my goodness, the last quickpage exchange rendered a whopping 30 quickpages! It's become quite a hit with you all! So much so that this time around I'm gonna have to put a limit on how many quickpages each participant can submit...2.
So, not sure what this thing is all about??? It's quite simple, create a quick page with Yin's Wishful Kit and you'll receive an album back full of quick pages made by each of the participants.
Each participant will submit at least 1 quick page but not more than 2 using this kit only. At the end of this exchange, all participants will receive all submitted quick pages including a special one created by Yin.
- Layouts should be created and saved at 12" x 12" and 300ppi.
- If you are familiar with creating a quick page in a transparent .png file, please submit it in that format.
- If you are not, please design your quick page by creating your layout and using a white or black area (whichever is of most contrast to your layout) for the photo placements. Save your layout as a flattened .jpg file at full resolution (unless you are submitting a png file already) . I will take what you submit and punch out the areas for photos and convert them to transparent .png files before sending them all back to the participants.
- Please name your files as follows to help me track these easier. YourForumName_KitName_QP.png so as an example, mine would be Hollys_wishful_QP.png.
- Save a preview of your quick page at 600x600 and upload it to the Quick Page Exchange Gallery for all the oooohs and ahhhs!
- I will need the preview .jpg at 600x600, and either the .png or .jpg file at the full 12x12 size sent to me. You may use any file sharing site of your choice, or you can zip it up and email me the zip at email@example.com.
- Sign-ups are required for this so that we know who is working on pages.
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The adidas Outdoor Terrex Conrax CP Insulated Boot combines waterproof/breathable Climaproof protection with 200 grams of Primaloft insulation and a Traxion outsole, making this boot perfect for any winter sport or everyday cold weather use.
Encouraging you to battle the elements, adidas Outdoor builds high-performance footwear and apparel that is designed to take on whatever nature dishes out. Utilizing premium fabrication and innovative construction while incorporating stylish designs, adidas Outdoor apparel is equally at home in the backcountry and around town.
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The first 150 people through the doors of Wendy's new restaurant in Perrysburg Monday at 10:00 a.m. will receive a free t-shirt and one free cheeseburger everyday for the remainder of 2013.
The restaurant has a new building design which includes extra seating, Wi-Fi, and a fireplace. At 4:00 p.m. there will be a ribbon cutting to unveil the new restaurant design. Perrysburg Mayor Nelson Evans will be in attendance.
Wendy's plans to re-image at least 100 company and 100 franchise restaurants in North America in 2013.
The Perrysburg Wendy's is located at 26630 N. Dixie Highway near Eckel Junction Road.
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A Very Merry Kidz Bop
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The week's top-selling holiday albums, ranked ... more by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. This chart is refreshed with new data only during the winter holiday season.
Jan 4th Holiday Albums 1 Duck The Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas The Robertsons
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Obama reiterates call for repeal after GOP leader says he was willing to 'take a look at' the multibillion-dollar subsidies.
This article is by Jim Kunhenn of The Associated Press.
Amid rising gasoline prices at the pump, President Barack Obama urged congressional leaders Tuesday to take steps to repeal oil industry tax breaks, reiterating a call he made in his 2012 budget proposal earlier this year. The White House conceded his plan would do nothing in the short term to lower gas prices.
The president wrote a letter to the bipartisan congressional leadership on Tuesday, a day after Republican House Speaker John Boehner said he was willing to "take a look at" repealing the multibillion-dollar tax subsidies enjoyed by the major oil companies.
Rising gas prices have become a political weight for the White House, with polls showing that as the cost rises at the pump, the president's approval ratings have slipped. Obama has increasingly sought to display action on oil, even as he acknowledges that there is no immediate answer to stem costs
"High oil and gasoline prices are weighing on the minds and pocketbooks of every American family," Obama wrote. But he also added that "there is no silver bullet to address rising gas prices in the short term."
Obama's proposal, spelled out in his past two budget plans, would eliminate a number of tax breaks for oil companies that would generate an estimated $4 billion a year in additional revenue.
Congress may be ready to talk tax reform, but are Americans ready to talk about ending tax breaks that save them money?
Most of America's taxpayers finished up their federal tax returns April 18.
But a Washington, D.C., tax think tank says that for tax year 2010 almost half of us don't owe the federal government any income taxes.
Around 45% of U.S. households, or about 69 million, will end up in this envious tax position, say Tax Policy Center researchers. Some of those folks will even get money back from Uncle Sam.
Percentage points-wise, that's slightly fewer folks who don't owe the IRS than in 2009. That year, the Tax Policy Center estimated that around 47% didn't owe income taxes.
While most of us pay at least something to Uncle Sam every year, some groups are exempt from federal taxes.
This post is by Mark P. Cussen of Investopedia.com.
Every year, millions of Americans patiently wait for weeks to receive all of their necessary tax data in the mail, dutifully gather them together and prepare their returns, and wistfully contemplate what they could have done with the dollars that went to Uncle Sam and their state governments.
But not everyone is subject to this process; there are some groups of people in America who have been exempted from this process under our tax code.
If you're wondering when taxes were started, read The History Of Taxes In The U.S.)
There are five main categories of taxpayers that are lucky enough to escape the tax man.
While Obama had the highest tax rate and gave the most to charity, his income his first year in office was millions more than Bush or Clinton.
By Jim Wang, Bargaineering
I always look forward to the annual ritual of the White House releasing the president's tax return because it feeds one of my guilty pleasures -- financial voyeurism. This year is no different as pundits pick apart the 2010 tax return and look to draw conclusions about the president's financial life.
In this article, however, I intend to do something slightly different. I'm going to compare President Obama's return with the returns of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, using their first year in office. For my analysis, I leaned on the archives at Tax Analysts, which saved the releases as they were made available.
Experts say refunds are a bad deal, but taxpayers, particularly the young, like receiving an annual windfall. Last year's average refund was $3,003.
This article is by Laura Saunders of The Wall Street Journal.
Three-quarters of all filers will get refunds this year, about the same as usual -- but the amount of those refunds has surged over the past decade.
While the practice of overpaying Uncle Sam throughout the year in order to collect a big refund the next was once sacrilege to personal-finance experts, the rationale is getting more compelling.
Last year's average refund reached a new high of $3,003, and this year's average is tracking last year's, says Internal Revenue Service spokesman Eric Smith. That is almost twice the $1,698 average of 1999. The growth far outstrips inflation.
A close look at tax data shows the growth in refunds hasn't been confined to taxpayers at any one income level, says economist Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center in Washington. Some people who suffered job or investment losses in the 2001 or 2007-09 recessions did overpay inadvertently, and received bigger refunds, but these increases don't explain the total rise.
A new study finds that for first time since the Great Depression, tax receipts from households total less than the government paid out in unemployment, Social Security and other programs.
By James Cooper, The Fiscal Times
With President Obama's deficit-reduction plan now on the table, the political left, right and center are ready to rumble over how to assure long-term fiscal stability. The big questions are where to slash and by how much. But over the next year or two, the most important question for the economy might well be how quickly the cutting should begin. Households have become unusually dependent on the government for income support and removing that prop too fast could put the recovery at risk.
White House provides online calculator that breaks down your tax payment the way it is allocated by the fedral government -- at least most of it.
I hope all y'all came through Tax Day relatively unscathed.
Even though most people get refunds when they file their returns, it's still no fun to fill out the forms detailing how much of our money goes to Uncle Sam.
Exactly how that money is and will be spent is the prime topic nowadays on Capitol Hill. Congress finally agreed last week on a budget to keep federal offices open through Sept. 30.
Discussions on the next fiscal year budget, however, are likely to be more difficult.
A lot of the debate centers on which programs get how much money. Several organizations have created graphics depicting the expenditures.
But the most popular populist budget tool right now is the taxpayer receipt. Advocacy groups have devised programs to break down our taxes to a more personal level.
Now the White House is getting in on the act.
The Obama Administration has released its version of an online federal taxpayer receipt calculator.
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First family paid 26% of adjusted gross income, and the Bidens paid 23%. The Obamas are expecting a refund of $12,334.
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President Barack Obama is making less money than he used to, though it's still a lot: He and wife Michelle reported income of $1.73 million last year, mostly from the books he's written, according to his tax return. That was down from the $5.5 million of a year earlier.
The president, who has been campaigning to raise taxes on the wealthy, paid the government $453,770 in federal taxes, about a quarter of the income. Just last week, he renewed his push to end Bush-era tax cuts for households with annual incomes above $250,000 -- noting that that would include him.
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Moseley and Kings Heath Ward
Moseley and Kings Heath Ward is situated 4 km south side of the City Centre. It is bounded to the north by Balsall Heath and to the south by Hall Green. Cannon Hill Park forms the western boundary and Springfield lies to the east. It includes Moseley Village and parts of Kings Heath. It has a mixture of neighbourhoods, some relatively affluent, and some of which are disadvantaged.
The Alcester Road (A435) runs through the Ward and is an important route linking the City Centre with Redditch and the M40.
Moseley and Kings Heath Ward is predominantly residential, having a range of housing, including a number of attractive larger properties dating from the late nineteenth century, many of which are included in the two conservation areas - Moseley Village and St Agnes.
It has high quality parks at Cannon Hill (also the home of the Midlands Arts Centre - MAC), Kings Heath and Highbury, as well as the private Moseley Park, and other areas of importance for nature conservation or landscape value e.g. the gardens of Highbury Hall and Moseley Golf Course.
Two shopping centres serve the area, at Kings Heath and at Moseley Village.
Draft Moseley and Kings Heath Neighbourhoods Plan
The plan below is a draft version of the Moseley and Kings Heath Neighbourhoods Plan which has arisen from several consultation events during 2013 between stakeholders in the ward.
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Rail: The Camp Hill - Kings Norton line passes though the Ward, but has no stations.
Major bus routes: 11, 50, 35
Major Roads: A445, A4040 (outer ring road)
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Dec. 18, 2012
University of Chicago receives package addressed to fictional character Indiana Jones, from The Raiders of the Lost Ark film; mailing was prop replica sold on eBay. MORE
Oct. 24, 2012
University of Chicago is midway through $250 million mixed-use community redevelopment effort aimed at revitalizing 53rd Street, blighted retail district several blocks north of its historic Hyde Park campus. MORE
Sep. 25, 2012
Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson is struggling to revive Gary, Ind, a declining steel town of 80,000 people; has turned to former Chicago mayor Richard M Daley and his graduate students at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies for advice. MORE
Sep. 18, 2012
Scholars at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute have published an online dictionary of Demotic Egyptian, the language used by common Egyptians for at least 1,000 years, from 500 BC to AD 500; 2,000-page dictionary represents almost 40 years of research and provides a counterpoint to the knowledge gained by the study of hieroglyphics, which were used by the pharaohs. MORE
Jan. 19, 2012
David Axelrod, a strategist who guided Pres Obama onto the national political stage, will run the new Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago following the 2012 election. MORE
Nov. 6, 2011
University of Chicago's Mansueto Library is largest and latest library to add automated storage and retrieval systems. MORE
Oct. 31, 2011
University of Chicago offers conference on Jersey Shore Studies, attracting media studies scholars, sociologists, humorists and philosophers in a full-day academic discussion of the popular MTV reality series Jersey Shore. MORE
Sep. 17, 2011
Football was abandoned at University of Chicago from 1939 to 1969 for being an 'infernal nuisance, but is thriving again, in its own measured terms. MORE
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Name: University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Type: 4 year, Private not-for-profit
Year Founded: 1892
Tuition and Fees (Fall 2008): $37, 632
Total enrollment (Fall 2007): 14,538
Undergraduate enrollment: 4,926
Undergraduate applicants (Fall 2006): 9,458
Percentage admitted: 38.5%
Graduation rate: 90%
Sports Nickname: Maroons
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September 26, 2014, Friday
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Chicago Competes Against Itself for Site of Obama Presidential Library
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June 14, 2014, Saturday
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June 8, 2014, Sunday
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May 27, 2014, Tuesday
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May 6, 2014, Tuesday
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April 18, 2014, Friday
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Favorite Sport/Team
Chicago Blackhawks, Bears, Bulls, and Cubs
Favorite Movie/Actor
Audrey Hepburn
Go-to karaoke song
"Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
My first job
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
One on each ear lobe and absolutely no tattoos.
Mac or PC?
PC. I refuse to switch to Mac. Never!
Nintendo, Xbox 360, PS3, or don't game?
All the above. Nintendo is my ultimate favorite though. Super Smash Bros., Bond 007, and Mario Party were the best.
What fun fact, talent or superpower of yours should guys know about?
I have Xray vision,..
What's the most memorable pick up line you've ever heard?
This guy checked my shirt tag to see if it says made in heaven..
What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
Tried traveling to the moon when I was 10. I really thought I was going to be sucessful in doing so put my plan failed. One day I will get there.,
What's the most unusual place you've ever hooked up? How'd it go?
Beach at night. Amazing.
What's in your purse or pocket right now?
I don't carry a purse. Honestly, I HATE purses. I put my money/credit card in my pocket and I have my phone in my hand.
What do you feel most comfortable wearing?
My boxing gloves.
Would you rather have boring sex all the time or an amazing romp once a year?
Both. If I HAD to choose I would rather have an amazing romp once a year
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Steming from the term "Crazy", when Referring to someone as "Cray Cray", signifies their craziness to a whole other level. The ultimate second power of crazy. This person can either be insane in the brain. Or simply, TOO DOWN. To the point where its not even cool anymore.
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A desperate attempt to say "crazy" made by some adult trying to be cool.
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usually used in adjective form, cray- cray simply means, super crazy
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The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century.
"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't — which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.
Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a meal — at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.
We are indeed what we eat — and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?
Pollan (The Botany of Desire) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label on a frozen dinner, dig into a steak or decide whether to buy organic eggs. You'll certainly never look at a Chicken McNugget the same way again.Pollan approaches his mission not as an activist but as a naturalist: "The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world." All food, he points out, originates with plants, animals and fungi. "[E]ven the deathless Twinkie is constructed out of... well, precisely what I don't know offhand, but ultimately some sort of formerly living creature, i.e., a species. We haven't yet begun to synthesize our foods from petroleum, at least not directly."Pollan's narrative strategy is simple: he traces four meals back to their ur-species. He starts with a McDonald's lunch, which he and his family gobble up in their car. Surprise: the origin of this meal is a cornfield in Iowa. Corn feeds the steer that turns into the burgers, becomes the oil that cooks the fries and the syrup that sweetens the shakes and the sodas, and makes up 13 of the 38 ingredients (yikes) in the Chicken McNuggets.Indeed, one of the many eye-openers in the book is the prevalence of corn in the American diet; of the 45,000 items in a supermarket, more than a quarter contain corn. Pollan meditates on the freakishly protean nature of the corn plant and looks at how the food industry has exploited it, to the detriment of everyone from farmers to fat-and-getting-fatter Americans. Besides Stephen King, few other writers have made a corn field seem so sinister.Later, Pollan prepares a dinner with items from Whole Foods, investigating the flaws in the world of "big organic"; cooks a meal with ingredients from a small, utopian Virginia farm; and assembles a feast from things he's foraged and hunted.This may sound earnest, but Pollan isn't preachy: he's too thoughtful a writer, and too dogged a researcher, to let ideology take over. He's also funny and adventurous. He bounces around on an old International Harvester tractor, gets down on his belly to examine a pasture from a cow's-eye view, shoots a wild pig and otherwise throws himself into the making of his meals. I'm not convinced I'd want to go hunting with Pollan, but I'm sure I'd enjoy having dinner with him. Just as long as we could eat at a table, not in a Toyota. Pamela Kaufman, Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Michael Pollan is a voice of reason, a journalist/philosopher who forages in the overgrowth of our schizophrenic food culture. He's the kind of teacher we probably all wish we had: one who triggers the little explosions of insight that change the way we eat and the way we live." Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse restaurant
"Michael Pollan is such a thoroughly delightful writer — his luscious sentences deliver so much pleasure and humor and surprise as they carry one from dinner table to corn field to feed lot to forest floor, and then back again — that the happy reader could almost miss the profound truth half hidden at the heart of this beautiful book: that the reality of our politics is to be found not in what Americans do in the voting booth every four years but in what we do in the supermarket every day. Embodied in this irresistible, picaresque journey through America's food world is a profound treatise on the hidden politics of our everyday life." Mark Danner, author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror
"Every time you go into a grocery store you are voting with your dollars, and what goes into your cart has real repercussions on the future of the earth. But although we have choices, few of us are aware of exactly what they are. Michael Pollan's beautifully written book could change that. He tears down the walls that separate us from what we eat, and forces us to be more responsible eaters. Reading this book is a wonderful, life-changing experience." Ruth Reichl, Editor in Chief of Gourmet magazine and author of Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
"What should you eat? Michael Pollan addresses that fundamental question with great wit and intelligence, looking at the social, ethical, and environmental impact of four different meals. Eating well, he finds, can be a pleasurable way to change the world." Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
"His book is an eater's manifesto, and he touches on a vast array of subjects, from food fads and taboos to our avoidance of not only our food's animality, but also our own. Along the way, he is alert to his own emotions and thoughts, to see how they affect what he does and what he eats, to learn more and to explain what he knows. His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling." Bunny Crumpacker, The Washington Post
"The main contribution of Omnivore's Dilemma is its scope and rigor. I know of no other book that delivers a broader picture of the U.S. food scene, how it got the way it is, and how it's changing.... [A]n important book, sweeping through broad ground with impressive primary and secondary research." Grist magazine
"Pollan is an engaging companion, whether he's diving for abalone, collecting wild yeast, or musing about American gullibility. And his message is compelling. After reading the book, you will want to change how you eat." BusinessWeek
One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year
Winner of the James Beard Award
Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
"Thoughtful, engrossing ... You're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from."
-The New York Times Book Review
"An eater's manifesto ... [Pollan's] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner!"
-The Washington Post
"Outstanding... a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits."
--The New Yorker
"If you ever thought 'what's for dinner' was a simple question, you'll change your mind after reading Pollan's searing indictment of today's food industry-and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives.... I just loved this book so much I didn't want it to end."
-The Seattle Times
Michael Pollans newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation--the story of our most trusted food experts culinary education--was published by The Penguin Press in April 2013.
A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us-whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed-he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
About the Author
Michael Pollan is the author of three previous books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, and The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon. A longtime contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.
Table of Contents
The Omnivore's Dilemma Introduction: Our National Eating Disorder
I. Industrial: Corn
One. The Plant: Corn's Conquest
Two. The Farm
Three. The Elevator
Four. The Feedlot: Making Meat
Five. The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods
Six. The Consumer: A Republic of Fat
Seven. The Meal: Fast Food
II. Pastoral: Grass
Eight. All Flesh Is Grass
Nine. Big Organic
Ten. Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture
Eleven. The Animals: Practicing Complexity
Twelve. Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir
Thirteen. The Market: "Greetings from the Non-Barcode People"
Fourteen. The Meal: Grass Fed
III. Personal: The Forest
Fifteen. The Forager
Sixteen. The Omnivore's Dilemma
Seventeen. The Ethics of Eating Animals
Eighteen. Hunting: The Meat
Nineteen. Gathering: The Fungi
Twenty. The Perfect Meal
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You might not be familiar with the term 'Z-Movie,' but if you grew up in the 90's, chances are you've seen one. They're the beyond-low-budget monstrosities that teased you from the walls of the mom-and-pop video store. Usually, the films themselves could never live up to the pictures on the videotape boxes (because this was way before your fancy 'Digital Video Discs' and 'Blu-Rays') but occasionally you'd find something truly unique. 'WEIRDO FLICKS' will clue you into some movies which 'unique' doesn't even begin to describe...
'Brain Damage' - 1988, Directed by Frank Henenlotter
Ah, 'Basket Case.' One of the most beloved no-budget trash flicks of the 80's. I guarantee you have a friend who loves this film and its basket-dwelling lump of flesh Belial. Frank Henenlotter took his love of grindhouse cinema and his tiny budget and created something legendary. Unfortunately, his other movies aren't as well-known. Too bad, because most of them are even better.
Along with the hilarious 'Frankenhooker' and the insanely disgusting comeback film 'Bad Biology,' Henenlotter also quietly released this '88 oddball semi-anti-drug flick. It concerns a man who finds his body taken over by a weird alien creature called The Aylmer that attaches itself to his brain. It talks in a matter-of-fact British accent, and secretes a mind-altering chemical which the main character, Brian, seems to enjoy.
It's not all so simple, though. The alien creature wants something in return, and that something is murder. Yep, by taking control of Brian's mind and body, the alien sends him on a killing spree so that it may feed.
Actually, come to think of it, the creature might NOT be an alien after all, but an 'embodiment of evil' sort of thing. I mean, it's obviously a heavy-handed metaphor for drug abuse, but that fact rarely gets in the way of the good time you'll have watching this thing.
There's an excellent scene where Brian, off his rocker on whatever chemical the Aylmer excretes, starts yelling 'woo hoo!' in a junkyard, and subsequently murders a cop who tries to arrest him.
The whole thing is a gooey, neon 80's good time, and if you loved 'Basket Case' but are sleeping on this one, you need to STOP that. It's pretty readily available, too.
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New London - Nancy Paetzell worked her whole life and thought she would be able to live off Social Security in her retirement years.
But in tears Tuesday afternoon, she told U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., that she is barely surviving on her $1,230 monthly Social Security check. She pays $825 in rent and tries to save $50 a week. But by month's end, she has cleaned out her savings account to pay bills. She is eligible for $15 a month in food stamps and receives help with heating costs through the federally funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
"When I was growing up, you were told you'd have Social Security to take care of you," said the 77-year-old Norwich resident, who is receiving on-the-job training at Thames Valley Council for Community Action in the hopes of landing an office job to make ends meet. "How come I'm so poor? I'm poorer than I've every been in my life. I can't pay my bills. I never wanted to be so poor."
Paetzell was one of four people directly affected by the automatic federal spending cuts known as sequestration who told their stories to Murphy during a visit to the TVCCA office.
She told Murphy that cuts made in Washington are felt the hardest by the poor and the working poor.
"My parents told me stories of what they had to do to survive during the Depression," she said. "It's nice to use the word recession, but I think this is similar to the Great Depression."
Murphy was in town gathering information on the affects on Connecticut residents of cuts made in Washington. He said he will bring the stories of struggling residents back to the Capitol, where members of the House and Senate will begin reviewing the budget.
Murphy said he will lobby to stop more cuts, especially to LIHEAP, which was cut by 5 percent last year and will be cut by 5 percent in each of the next 9 years. The $5 billion program will be reduced to about $2.5 billion.
Two years ago, Connecticut received $125 million in energy assistance. In 10 years, the amount will be about $76 million, Murphy said.
"It's not enough," he said. "Americans won't allow people to freeze to death in their own homes."
As the funding goes down, the need for heating assistance is going up, according to TVCCA. Two years ago, the local TVCCA, which serves communities in southeastern Connecticut, had 8,500 applications for energy assistance. Last year, the number was 9,500.
Lee Carenza, who is in charge of the program for TVCCA, said he expects to get more than 10,000 applications this year. The program awards grants of up to $585 to help pay for heating bills for income-eligible families. Two years ago, the highest grant was $900, he said.
Deborah Monahan, executive director of TVCCA, said people who are working full time come into the office in tears looking for help and saying they have nowhere else to go.
Wayne Lee, a retired Minneapolis police officer who works for the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Sound Community Services, told Murphy he needs the energy assistance. He is recovering from a stroke, is still paying off student loans from 20 years ago and sleeps in a sleeping bag in the winter because it's warmer. His grant for energy assistance has been cut from $700 to $300.
Sue Hostnik, who works full-time for United Community & Family Services, said she is living paycheck to paycheck raising her three children, ages 8, 15 and 16. She said she counts on the energy grant, which dropped from $700 to $300, to pay her winter heating bills.
"My heat won't get shut off, but in May, I have to pay what I owe," she said. "I tell the kids, 'Get out the sweatshirts and the extra blankets.'"
Murphy said his counterparts in Washington "need to understand that even working full time, people can't pay their bills in Connecticut."
"We will win this fight eventually," Murphy assured the group.
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The head of the National Conference of Black Mayors has filed court papers accusing his director of running up some $600,000 in questionable business expenses. Twenty-one mayors across the nation are now calling for the resignation of Vanessa Williams. FOX 5 senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell first broke the story of the Atlanta-based political organization's staggering debt. Auditors who are well aware of that debt have uncovered an eye-opening shopping list that includes everything from Saks Fifth Avenue and Tiffany's to private school tuition.The FOX I-Team's previous report detailed how the National Conference of Black Mayors left a trail of debt across the country. Angry vendors, years of unpaid bills, bounced checks, court judgments, and tax liens, totaling nearly $1 million. Executive director Vanessa Williams blamed the debt on embezzlement by a former board member. But during their most recent convention in Atlanta, the board elected Sacramento Mayor and former NBA All-Star Kevin Johnson as its new president, and created a task force to investigate the debt. As board president, Mayor Johnson sued Vanessa Williams, saying she wouldn't cooperate. She filed a counterclaim saying Mayor Johnson was improperly elected. In July, Fulton County Judge Christopher Brasher ordered Ms. Williams to turn over the financial records. Mayor Johnson's lawyers say they still haven't received the financial records they wanted from Vanessa Williams. But they did get three and half years worth of records directly from the bank, which they filed in court. The bank records show the NCBM spent money at Tiffany's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Juicy Couture, Louis Vuitton, ticket broker StubHub, Toys 'R' Us, private Christian school tuition and cash payments to Vanessa Williams and her husband.Jeff Dickerson, a regular on The Georgia Gang, is the NCBM's spokesman. He says the board was stunned when it saw the expenses."One of the questions they want answered, how did this go on? How do they stop it?" said Dickerson. "They want it stopped right away."Dickerson says 21 mayors from across the country have now signed a petition, filed in court, requesting Vanessa Williams resign immediately. Dickerson says if the conference can get its financial house in order, it can begin to repay dozens of people it owes money to."It will be a chance to pay back the money or a portion of it," he said.The I-Team tried to get a comment from both Vanessa Williams and her attorney, but did not hear back from either one.
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It was a cruise to remember but one most, if not all, of the passengers would rather forget.
The nightmare of the Carnival Triumph has ended but the horrific stories about what the passengers experienced as the disabled ship drifted at sea -- are simply incredible.
One of those passengers is back home in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.
Jonathan Rosenberg of Washington Heights is finally back home. While some called the cruise "pure hell", he has a different perspective.
Rosenberg and his girlfriend were among the 4,200 passengers and crew aboard the Carnival Triumph. The 14-story ship lost power after a fire broke out.
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This stunning chalet shares the same classic Savoyard style building with our Chalet La Perle. It will definitely appeal to those guests seeking a combination of excellent modern facilities and traditional character. The interior is particularly attractive with exposed stone and beams, complemented by vintage decorative touches.
The Chalet Aigle Royal is spread over three floors and the bedrooms are decorated to a high standard offering en suite facilities. The generous and comfortable lounge, with exposed high ceiling, is light yet cosy with large picture windows offering fabulous views towards Tignes Val Claret. Here guests can relax in front of the wood burning stove after a day on the slopes. To complete the luxurious standard Chalet Aigle Royal features a sauna and steam room on the first floor and an outdoor hot tub-the perfect finishing touches for this super chalet. Access to the slopes is via a non pisted track which is only 50 metres away, or you can take a short 4 minutes' walk (approx. 400m) to either the Chaudannes or Paquis high speed chairlifts.
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Graham Hill:
Less stuff, more happiness
Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life.
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