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The Buyout Offer for This Cellulose Products Maker Is Cheap
Anh is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Recently, Buckeye Technologies (NYSE: BKI) received a buyout offer from Georgia-Pacific LLC to acquire the company for $37.50 per share in cash, with a total transaction value of around $1.45 billion, including debt. The buyout offer represented a 29% premium to the average closing price of Buckeye on the market last week. Right after the announcement, its share increased to as high as $37.86, its biggest gain in five years. Is a $37.50 price tag a fair value for Buckeye? Let's find out.
Business snapshot
Buckeye is a leader in producing value-added, cellulose-based specialty products made from both wood and cotton with its manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada, and Germany. Buckeye is operating in two main product segments: specialty fibers and non-woven materials, with four main product categories including chemical cellulose, customized fibers, fluff pulp, and non-woven materials.
The majority of its revenue was generated from chemical cellulose's products, accounting for 40% of total 2012 sales. Non-woven materials products ranked second, representing 27% of total revenue, while customized fibers and fluff pulp accounted for around 15% and 18%, respectively. Buckeye sells its products to customers in more than 60 countries around the world, with the U.S. being the biggest revenue contributor, accounting for 32% of total 2012 sales. Germany and Japan ranked second and third, representing 13% and 7%, respectively, of total sales.
Three things I like about Buckeye
There are three things I like about Buckeye. Firstly, the company has consistently generated positive cash flow in the past five years. Its operating cash flow rose from $92 million in 2008 to $172 million in 2012, while free cash flow increased from $43 million to $87 million during the same period.
Secondly, the company has been returning cash to shareholders via conservative dividend payments. In 2012, it paid $0.27 per share in dividends, with a dividend payout ratio of only 9.1%. Third, Buckeye has a very strong balance sheet. As of December 2012, it had $641 million in total equity, $59 million in cash and short-term investments, and only $99 million in long-term debt.
The most profitable but the cheapest
At $37.60 per share, Buckeye is worth $1.46 billion on the market. The market values the company quite cheaply, at only 6.22 times EV/EBITDA. Compared to its peers Rayonier (NYSE: RYN) and Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY), Buckeye seems to be cheap.
Rayonier is engaged in the production of high value specialty cellulose fibers and fluff pulp. The company is considered to be the seventh largest private timberland owner in the U.S., with 2.7 million acres of timberland and real estate in both the U.S. and New Zealand. Recently, the company reported very strong first-quarter earnings.
While its revenue came in at $393.7 million, net income tripled from the previous year, jumping from $53.4 million in the first quarter last year to $147.7 million this year. The significant rise in net income was due to the discontinued operating income of $44.4 million from the sale of the Wood Products business. Rayonier is trading at around $58 per share, with a total market cap of $7.1 billion. The market values Rayonier at a much higher valuation than Buckeye, at 14.5 times EV/EBITDA.
Weyerhaeuser is considered the world's largest private owner of timberlands, with more than 6 million acres of timberlands, mainly in the U.S. In addition, the company also manages an additional 13.9 million acres under long-term licenses in Canada. Investors might be quite surprised with its incredible 1,200% rise in the first-quarter earnings results. Its EPS came in at $0.26 per share, a huge improvement compared to the EPS in the first quarter last year of only $0.02 per share.
The improvement in first-quarter earnings was partly due to the recovery in the U.S. housing market. Its CEO, Dan Fulton, commented: "Our wood products business reported its strongest quarterly earnings since 2005, as we effectively leveraged operational improvements in a strengthening housing market."
Weyerhaeuser is trading around $30 per share with a total market cap of around $16.5 billion. The market values the company quite expensively at 17.8 times EV/EBITDA. However, the company has the lowest return on invested capital at only 0.94%. While Rayonier generates around 10% return on invested capital, Buckeye is the most profitable company with the highest return on invested capital at 14%.
Income investors would like Rayonier the most with the highest dividend yield of 3%. Weyerhaeuser ranked second with 2.7% while Buckeye offers investors the lowest dividend yield at 1.2%. However, in terms of dividend sustainability, Buckeye seems to pay the most sustainable dividends with its conservative payout ratio of 12%. The payout ratios of both Weyerhaeuser and Rayonier are quite high, at 87% and 155%, respectively.
My Foolish take
I personally think that at $37.50 per share, Buckeye seems to be undervalued. The buyout price represented only 6.2 times EV/EBITDA for the company that generates the highest return on invested capital and has the most conservative dividend payout ratio among its peers.
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By Jane Cannon Mort
While I have worked in the The Sentinel's newsroom for nearly 22 years, in many capacities and covering almost every beat, I believe I am best known in the community in my role as food editor.
I believe this because often, when I'm out and about in the community, people will glance at me, look away, glance again, scrunch up their foreheads and then, finally, say, "Aren't you the food lady?"
Yes, I am. I became food editor about 20 years ago, and as I have explained in the past, it was because it fit into my schedule, not because of any expertise I have in the realm of cooking.
But, because I am the food editor, I have, over many years, learned a great deal about cooking, and about food in general —from my own research, from the Associated Press articles that frequently appear on the food pages, from information sent by food companies, from the wonderful consumer educators associated with the Penn State Cooperative Extension and — probably above all else — from Sentinel readers who contribute to our twice-yearly cookbooks.
The recipes in the cookbooks are submitted by people in Mifflin and Juniata counties (and, sometimes, beyond), who are willing to share their favorites and compete for prizes.
The next cookbook will be published on May 28. In it, readers will share their "Everyday Recipes: Tried and True Family Favorites."
Even though I have picked up a lot of information about cooking and food over the years, not to mentions cookbooks and recipes, I still suffer from monotonous meal planning and boring grocery shopping. It seems that in my household we have the same meals, week after week, month after month, year after year.
Hopefully, the newest Sentinel cookbook will put an end to that.
Details about the cookbook, including how to submit recipes and what prizes you can win, are on the food page in Wednesday's Sentinel (April 3). In addition, I promised to share a couple tried and true recipes that are my family's favorites. (I am not ashamed to admit that I make good use of convenience products —remember, I am not a gourmet cook.) Here goes.
Italian Pasta Bake —I think this is about the only thing I make that my college-age son, Joe, really likes, so I always make it when he's home on break. I'm not going to tell you how much to make; it all depends on how many people you are cooking for. This keeps well in the refrigerator and heats up nicely in the microwave, especially if you have some extra spaghetti sauce.
Brown some ground beef and drain the fat. Add your favorite spaghetti sauce and set aside.
Boil a pound or so of pasta — any shape. I usually use penne or shells. After draining the cooked pasta, add the meat sauce and mix in 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese. Spread the mixture into a 9x13-inch baking dish and top with about 2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle another 1/4 cup of parmesan on top and bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes, until the cheese is nicely melted.
This also works well without any meat.
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Prepare chicken-flavored stovetop stuffing mix and spread it into a baking dish. Top with skinless, boneless chicken breasts. Top the chicken with salsa, then sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese on top. Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes. For this recipe, I often use leftover chicken that is already cooked. When I do, I reduce the baking time to about 15 to 20 minutes, or until the cheese is nicely melted.
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Currently, FSDataset is the second long file in HDFS trunk source, and here is an illustration of it. Which is plot with XMind.
Currently, FSDataset is the second long file in HDFS trunk source, and here is an illustration of it. Which is plot with XMind.
HDFS-1362 introduces a volume refreshment utility for DataNode, thus, you can modify your dfs.datanode.data.dir configuration after insert new disks, and refresh it without reboot the machine or restart the service.
Disk failure happens frequently, and we had to replace it even other disks still in service. Currently, DataNode, actually FSDataset, could remove an error volume, but cannot active newer ones. Most modern servers and SATA disks support hotplug, why don't we enable it for DataNode?
Firstly we added a simple user interface including add, remove, list of volumes. After discussion with Tom White and Todd Lipcon, we decide to change to a simpler interface—refresh based on the reconfiguration framework introduced in HADOOP-7001 as they suggested. It will benefit the consistency of the running service and the on disk configuration file.
DataNode has 2 steps on volume management. In start time, DataStorage member loads the configured dirs, check the existence, availability, version, dir structure, etc. And do upgrade, roll back, and format if needed. Then, it adds usable dirs into itself, and provides an iterator for StorageDirectory access.
Having loaded the directories, DataNode constructs FSDataset member to manage volumes and blocks stored in them. FSDataset manages an array of volumes in FSVolumeSet and a map of blocks. In loading procedure, every blocks is found and recorded into the map with the block ID as key. The may is not indexed by volume, thus you must iterate all the map if you want to remove a volume to find all the blocks stored in it.
As described above, the block loading time depends on how many blocks in a volume, and it will consume much time if a volume is full of blocks.
In HDFS-1362, we have 4 steps to refresh the volumes:
• Firstly DataNode reloads the configuration, and creates the a list of dirs.
• Iterate the StorageDirectory in DataStorage,
• If sd is not in FSDataset, which means it had been removed before because of failure, remove it from DataStorage; then
• If sd is contained in the new dirs list, remove it from the list as it has already in service;
• On the contrary, if sd is not in the new dir list, it means a in-service dir has been removed from configuration. Currently, it will lead to a warning in log file only.
• Load remain true new dirs to DataStorage.
• Add them to FSDataset.
Load volumes operation based on the DataStorage.revoverTransitionRead, we copy and modified it as revoverTransitionAdditionalRead, the different is:
• Do not initialize the StorageID and StorageDirectory list;
• Do not doTransition against all SDs, but only the inserted ones;
• Do not writeAll, but only the inserted ones;
• Return the new added SDs Collections, which is used for the blocks loading.
We did not unify the revoverTransitionAdditionalRead and revoverTransitionRead because we considered it may related with writeAll and transition operation.
Load blocks means we add volumes to FSDataset, it's no more than add volume to array in FSVolumeSet and load blocks info into the map. But we think we can optimized on the loading to shorten the loading time.
FSDataset uses FSDatasetAsyncDiskService for some asynchronous execution on volumes, it is based on a HashMap, thus we only need to move the put operation from constrictor to a separate method and give its access permission to FSDataset.
Next step might be support the decommission operation which is not implemented now and leave a warning only.
I have committed the initial code on GitHub
And this post will give some explanation on the code.
Though we will keep improve our distribution, the NNC is not mature enough for product, and it is released as a reference for you.
The NNC code is based on Apache's Hadoop branch-0.20 repository. I had claimed our dist is based on ydist, but we met an unresolved issue about MapReduce on it days ago. Hence I had to port it from Ydist to Apache dist, which delayed my release work for days.
The code is constructed as follows:
There still some found issues here:
We will keep fix found issues on current branch, but will not contribute new HA related feature on it. And we will pay more attention on trunk,
We are planning on a BackupNode based design, which is closer to mainline code. And we are also interesting in participating the job on HA in JIRA.
We have also add some management feature to DataNode — volume add and decommission online, which help us replace failed hard disk without shutdown a node. This feature will be committed to the github repositry this week.
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We had written a HDFS performance test tool, which start a group of parallel read/write thread to press on HDFS.
The following figure illustrates the working of it.
The synchronizer is a server written in python, it accepts the request of test program running in test nodes. Having received requests from all nodes, it admits them start pressure simultaneously.
The test program is written in Java, and it starts several threads to write or read with DFSClient. All the pressure thread record the data it has written in a variable and the main thread of the test program collect them periodically, then written into a XML file.
Analyze the xml output file, we can tell the performance of reading and writing.
In our test program, it supports read only, write only and read-write. And it can be set as read files writen by itself or random files.
The only single point of failure (SPOF) in HDFS is on the most important node — NameNode. If it fails, the ongoing operations will fail and user data may be lost.
In 2008, we (team from China Mobile Research Institute) have implemented an initial version of Name-Node Cluster (NNC) on hadoop 0.17. NNC introduced a Synchronization Agent, which synchronizes the updates of FSNamesystem to slave NNs. Then we ported it to hadoop 0.19 and 0.20, and employed Zookeeper as registry of NNs. Related Information was mentioned in our presention in Hadoop Summit'09.
Here I will post some detail on the design and practice.
Each NameNode in NNC has a SyncAgent, either SyncMaster or SyncSlave. SyncAgent maintains the syncronization related status and deal with the synchronization data transfer between NameNodes. NNC work like a journalized filesystem, every change made in Namesystem of master NameNode will be logged and transfer to slaves as a SyncUnit, and it will replay at slave, which keep the slaves' Namesystem identical with the master.
A slave in NNC may transit among four status:
The following figure shows the transition of the slave status.
When a new NameNode join NNC, it enters a bootup procedure. After having handshaked with master, the master will inject the whole Namespace to slave node.
Then the slave will be marked as "Unsynced", and will receives the updates that happens since the above step 4. After having synchronized with the master, it will transit to "Synced" or "Up-to-date" status.
If an meta data changing operation happens, SyncMaster will transfer it to SyncSlave with the eastablished synchronization connection. If there are many slaves, each one will use a separated thread.
The following is the update events that will be hooked and synchronized:
In the 0.20 version of NNC, Zookeeper was introduce as a registry of NameNodes. From zookeeper, a slave can find the master's location, and DFSClients and DataNodes can also use it to find available NameNode. We did plan to adopt zookeeper in the failover procedure, but did not implement it yet.
The failover of NNC is managed by Linux-HA (heartbeat) 2.99. Whe master is down, linux-ha promote a slave to master. It update it status and update Zookeeper. Then DFSClients and DataNodes will connect to it.
A new method setAsMaster() is added to ClientProtocol, and administrator or scripts can use dfsadmin to call this method. It will promote the specified NameNode from slave to master.
When a slave is promoted to master, it constructs a new SyncMaster with the existed SyncSlave contents. The procedure does not affect the data of FSNamespace.
Another new method status() is also added to ClientProtocol, and Linux-HA OCF script keeps track the status of NameNodes with this method. If it cannot get the status of the master NameNode, it will promote a slave NameNode as new Msater.
During the failover procedure, DFSClients and DataNodes cannot connect to master NameNode, and they will keep retry for a while. Once the new master returns to work, all the operation will be done.
We deployed some experimental systems of NNC, the synchronization works well in lab and will be adopt in some expermental systems. And there are some issues yet:
Backup Node (BN) in trunk brings "warm" standby (HADOOP-4539), it synchronizes namespace information from Main NameNode, and leaves DataNode information, Block Operation (such as replication), and lease information unsynchronized. It could be a base of our furture work.
As NN in current trunk can log all the namespace changes as journals to BN, the rest information needed to be synchronized includes:
- Changes in DataNode Map: information collected from DataNode heartbeats and reports. Together with namespace info, the blocks map can also be calculated.
- Lease information: leases are updated by clients periodically or when it lock/unlock file for write.
- Block operation's status, such as pending replication block list: these information are depends on random number, thus it may lead to inconsistency if do not synchronize them.
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Eau Claire's Police and Fire Commission has announced the names of four candidates it will soon interview to replace Jerry Matysik. He retired last month after 10 years heading the Eau Claire police department.
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There are virtually always choices between the OEM and the aftermarket products. OEM is typically the recommended replacement originally designed for your street bike. Manufacturers like Honda always recommend OEM replacement parts, of course. However, there are instances where the aftermarket products have actually improved on the original engineering. Two key factors in choosing OEM CBR600F street bike parts or something from the aftermarket line come down to word of mouth or past experience with a particular brand name.
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New and used Honda parts and accessories available from various private and professional sellers. They offer a wide variety of street bike helmets, street bike apparel, and quality metric street bike parts.
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The Dougherty County Schools System Transportation Committee met Monday morning to discuss several different cost saving initiatives to help bus finances.
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DCSS is working on getting Turner Field and Newton Road to be the designated bus parking areas. It's something members feel will be more efficient for not only drivers but for bus maintenance.
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Entrepreneurs and policy makers will equally benefit from a conference aimed at improving public administration to better serve businesses. The conference is hosted by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Vice President Antonio Tajani and Vice President Maroš Šefčovič.
A well-functioning public sector is essential for the wellbeing of industry and enterprises. Smart administration offers better, more targeted and faster delivery of services to businesses and citizens. Companies can particularly benefit from reduction of time and costs, faster responses and better support of public administration. And all this is particularly important in the context of recovering from the on-going economic crisis.
To help public administrations across Europe become more effective in supporting industry and enterprises, Vice President Tajani, President Barroso, and Vice President Šefčovič will be hosting a high-level conference in Brussels on October 29th. The goal of the conference, The Path to Growth: For a Business Friendly Public Administration, will be to identify key difficulties experienced by industry in dealing with public administrations and to exchange ideas and experiences of how such difficulties can be overcome.
The Conference will bring together key players, namely ministers, policy makers, industry leaders and policy advisers to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing European public administration. It will provide a forum in which to exchange fresh and innovative thinking and good practices on how to make public administrations more business-friendly.
This initiative is part of the EU's growth strategy, EUROPE 2020, which stresses that, amongst other things, an efficient, effective and transparent public administration is one of the key factors in driving competitiveness in today's economy. To achieve this, important reforms enabling more strategic, effective and forward looking public administrations across the EU are needed.
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The conference will consist of two panel discussions in the morning and useful workshops in the afternoon. The morning sessions will discuss EU Member States' efforts at strengthening governance and institutions as well as expectations of enterprises from modern public administrations. In the afternoon, there will be three parallel workshops presenting good practices and identifying solutions on three main topics, namely reducing administrative burdens and improving regulatory quality; exploiting the potential of information and communication technologies in building smart and innovative government; and promoting strategic management in government.
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palmistry (also, chiromancy or chirognomy) An ancient notion that says a person's character, health, and destiny are portrayed in the folds, shape, size, and lines of the palm. In the nineteenth century, the writings of William Benham and Louis Harmon revived interest in the idea, which had somewhat waned since earlier times. William Warner, as Cheiro, was the great palmist at the turn of the twentieth century.
Lines, mounds and proportions of the hand, shown with zodiacal and planetary signs. Used in palmistry.
An interesting variation of the art, and every bit as accurate, is "podoscopy," reading fortunes from the sole of the foot. It is popular in China.
In the same way that reflexology, iridology, physiognomy, and similar systems try to establish that information is available in physical features, palmistry satisfies the human need to find meaning in any sort of natural pattern.
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If your battery has much lesser capacity or does not charge at certain level any longer, you may want to perform a gauge reset on it.
Note: make sure the AC adapter is plugged in when perfoming a gauge reset.
Go to Power Manager > Battery tab > Battery Maintenance
You should see this image - look for the Perform Reset button.
Is it true that we have to manually rearrange the power settings before we start the reset. The program asks us to close all the other applications, which means we should leave the computer alone on its own while it is doing the reset thing. I have tried this once: the computer goes into sleep mode after a while as my original power settings are not arrnaged. I have, then, put it into presentation mode and left it for the reset overnight, but it was again sleeping when I checked it in the morning and had not finished the reset. The reset is probably going to take 3-4 hours for an E220s; but for this to start and finish properly, you have to first manually change your power settings in such a way that nothing sleeps or hibernates. Is this true? If this is the case, how does the reset program not to do this very simple thing on its own?
Hi guvencs,
Yes it's recommended not to do anything while the battery is undergoing this reset. I'm not sure what would happen if never follows the instructions but there should be a reason not to do so.
To avoid your machine goes to sleep/hibernate/shut down , you need to set your machines to 'do nothing'. If you have Lenovo ThinkVantage Power Manager installed, check out the settings there to ensure all are set to do nothing. Otherwise, check the windows power options.
I believe the reset program does not do it on your behalf to avoid changing some settings without users' notice. For example, i configurely the time to sleep, hibernate and shut off time differenlty in Power Manager. I do not like other software to mess up my settings.
I''m sorry if this has caused inconvenience to you. Hope that you got your issue resolved.
Please make a battery maintenance feature for windows xp!
I installed this system on lenovo s 205 and my battery does not fully charge! I cannot correct this!
Hi eger33,
Regardless Win XP or 7, the software is more or less the same.
This article is actually for Think products. Lenovo s205 does not use ThinkVantage Power Manager as showed above. Yours should be using Lenovo Energy Management which you can download from http://support.lenovo.com.
Your battery does not charge could be due to some settings in Energy Management. Please check this TKB article hopefully it helps. It mentions about resetting battery gauge, power settings, etc.
Hi everybody
I have a thinkpad T430 S. I preferred installing xp sp3
The battery gauge seems to have a different behaviour if compared with other experiences of mine
The problem:
after 6-8 months from the pc was bought, it appeared shutting down to early if compared with the duration estimated by the gauge
Indeed this behaviour may be understood, and the battery re-calibrated, but not so early, in my expereince
Indeed it was after 6-8 months, not possible to have a hybernation of sleeping planned -say- at 10% remaining of the battery duration, as the 10% could not be reached as the pc stopped far before
Thus I performed maintenance of the battery as explained in the starting post above
The battery maintenance was performed -of course- at night. The following morning I found the thinkpad switched off and no message appeared when turning it on.
The situation, in any case didn't change at all: the pc uses to switch off when the gauge says 2 hours remaining and, interesting, as soon as I connect it to the power, it start saying to be incredibly already charged at 70% !
May I have some idea about this case ?
- battery firmware or sw not suited for XP ?
- battery with some cell broken ?
- how to have more information about the gauge calibration (maintenance) without waiting hours in front of the pc
Bye and thanks
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Does the battery gauge reset indicate when it finishes? I started it almost 20 hours ago, now Power Manager says the battery's at 100% and the geuge reset icon is stil on, and says it's still running. What am I to do of this?
I am using U410 ideapad, i had set my battery to charge at 60% only, now i want to full charge it to 100%.
There is a software but can't remember how to activate it.
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A Huge Solar Plant Opens, Facing Doubts About Its Future
The Ivanpah solar power plant in California is the largest and first electric generator of its kind. It could also be the last.
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NRG Energy to Buy GenOn in Move to Bolster Stocks and Cut Costs
8:36 p.m. | Updated NRG Energy said Sunday that it had agreed to buy GenOn Energy for about $1.7 billion in stock, creating one of the biggest independent power generation companies in the country. The deal is the latest example of consolidation...
July 23, 2012, Monday
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NRG expects to raise its annual earnings by $200 million by 2014, as well as save an average of $100 million in interest payments a year.
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Renewable Sources of Power Survive, but in a Patchwork
With natural gas cheap and incentives lacking, energy sources like wind and solar power have lost the support they had in recent years. Still, projects continue to move forward.
April 11, 2012, Wednesday
In California, a Fast-Charging First
The first public retail quick-charging station in California, said to bring a Nissan Leaf to an 80-percent charge state in under 30 minutes, was recently installed in Palo Alto.
April 10, 2012, Tuesday
Private Investment Rounds Weaken I.P.O.'s
For the companies and entrepreneurs involved, a private market may be great, but that may not be the case for public market investors.
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A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search
Renewable energy has received exceptional help from the government. That is ending, but some say it has been unnecessary.
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Electric-Car Makers' Quest: One Plug to Charge Them All
As more electric vehicles come on the market, the need for a common standard for fast-charge connectors is growing.
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Westinghouse Reactor Takes a Step Forward
Construction could proceed on a Westinghouse AP-1000 nuclear reactor if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is satisfied with its safety and environmental evaluations.
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Walgreen Pledges to Host 800 E.V. Chargers by End of 2011
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Greetings all!
There's been much deliberation at the national level about having a meeting this year and we SO want to have it, but have been stymied by lack of an overall Conference Coordinator. Regardless, we're pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Preeclampsia Foundation Conference is on!
We're providing some details here with the hopes that we can get a good feel, based on replies, for probable attendance. We need to sign a contract and commit to a certain number of rooms, etc. so would hate to be grossly overstating participation. In addition -- and this is super important -- if we don't get enough attendees to "break even" with costs, we will have to cancel it. We'll commit one way or the other with enough lead time to make your travel plans.
The conference will be at Oglebay Resort & Conference Center in Wheeling, WV (about an hour outside of Pittsburgh) on August 10-12. The North American Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (THE research docs in preeclampsia) will be meeting in the same location immediately following our conference. We plan to borrow some of their speakers for our conference[;)].
Oglebay Resort is an ideal location for bringing your family along for a vacation! While there's no big city life around there, the resort itself is quite beautiful with lots to do for all ages. See their website for more details -- www.oglebay-resort.com.
We have a three-fold agenda for the conference.
1. Provide quality education to preeclampsia survivors about new research indicating post-pregnancy health concerns, for us and our babies.
2. Provide training to Group Coordinators and other PF volunteers to equip them to carry out the Preeclampsia Foundation's mission in their locales.
3. Provide a venue for meeting and/or reconnecting with all our virtual friends from the Forum.
We will try to keep costs to a minimum and will negotiate the best rates possible for rooms and conference fees. Specific agenda and cost details will be forthcoming in a Conference Program and Registration form, but we do need to have some idea of attendance to negotiate from the strongest position possible.
If you're a Group Coordinator, please try to gauge interest in your area. Otherwise, all individuals are welcome to reply here and let us know if you think you'll attend.
Anybody in the country, but especially within reasonable driving distance, is welcome to be on the Conference Committee. Please email me directly and we'll get a meeting together soon to move forward quickly. Admittedly, this is very late to start pulling this together, but the enthusiasm and results you have shown with the Walk-A-Thon have been awe-inspiring!!
For those who attended our 1st Annual Conference last year in Seattle, we'll be building on the feedback from last year's attendees, and developing a more formal program. One thing that has changed pretty dramatically in the last year is the number and sophistication of the local groups. We plan to provide a more developed program to address the growing pains that have happily accompanied our growth, while still providing the opportunity for bonding and support that only real-live bodies can provide.
Looking forward to seeing you in West Virginia! Yeehaa!
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I had a conversation with Sydney about death the other night. I told her I don't know what happens when we die, but I like to think our spirit lives on. I pointed out that there's a lot that's unknown in the world and universe, so who really knows? I told her the worst case scenario is 'this is it' and when we die it's eternal emptiness. But it doesn't hurt to hope for more.
She brought it up because she's been receiving a lot of pressure from her friends about going to Church and Heaven and Hell. I have to remind myself that her friends are probably truly concerned for her, because they believe that themselves, but I couldn't help but be irritated with them. Sydney seemed really worried about the possibility of Hell. I told her I didn't believe in Hell at all, that even if we did have a creator I doubt It would make a person with such a mental defect (serial killers) that he/she would kill multiple people and torture them, then sentence that person to burn for eternity. It just doesn't make sense. Mental illness is real. A 'loving God' wouldn't create something like that with the intent that he/she would burn for eternity. The whole idea is ridiculous.


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17 December 2012
Founded by Robert & Gavin Paisley only as recently as 2011,
East Sussex based Chisel & Mouse have led the brothers on a
journey from 'hobbyists to professional architectural model
makers', and their business looks set to for continued success.
From their Sussex studio, their approach of utilizing both
traditional sculpting tools and cutting edge techniques (is the
name starting to make sense yet?) such as the increasingly
accessible 3D printing, allow them to reproduce the architect's
original design to fantastic tactile effect and detail. It is a
method with which they are becoming more and more dedicated to,
whilst exploring future applications of the technology for their
business, such as accepting bespoke commissions of your own private
property to adorn your mantlepiece.
Their range of models span many recognisable landmarks from
football stadiums to bus terminals, particularly in the beautiful
Art Deco style, and the range continues to grow. I'm sure they have
received a lot of commission requests in their short time already.
Being Glasgow based (and architecture graduates) ourselves, we are
particularly fond of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh models. We have
some buildings we would love to see, but perhaps the biggest
challenge would be a reproduction of Gaudi's work!
The models themselves are weighty and feel exactly as you hope
them to. The single colour of the cool, smooth plaster lets the
attention to detail such as the finely etched metal mullions and
window frames shine through. They come professionally presented and
protected in black boxes which also contain a description of the
Postcard Row, San Francisco
With the forthcoming 'Town House' collection expected to be
released early in the New Year, along with accepting an increasing
amount of commissions where possible, there is plenty to keep the
pair busy. Take a look through some samples of their work below for
great Christmas gift ideas.
Flatiron Building, New York
Abbey House, Marylebone
Willow Tea Rooms & Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Glasgow
Battersea Power Station, London
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Bankside Power Station, London
More of their collection can be viewed and bought at http://www.chiselandmouse.com/architectural-models.html
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Delaware is one of the USA's smaller states found on the Atlantic coast in the country's mid-Atlantic region. It packs in a great diversity of things to do and places to visit, and the beaches within reach of Delaware self-catering vacation accommodation are lovely.
Lovely beaches easily reached from Delaware vacation accommodation can be found at the charming seaside resort of Lewes. Here you'll be able to explore Lewes Bay, Lewes Beach, Dewey Beach and Cape Henlopen Beach. The latter sits within a state park and offers unspoiled natural scenery all around. You'll still find all the facilities you could require for a day by the sea, with parasol hire, changing rooms, showers, food concession and lifeguards. The park also offers some scenic areas for hikes and bike rides, and you'll be able to explore some military remnants from the Second World War.
You could also choose Bethany Beach for your Delaware vacation rental, which is found towards the south of the state, and offers a lovely sandy beach as well as three golf courses nearby.
The state around Delaware self-catering holiday villas has traditionally had laxer laws towards gambling than other destinations in the country, with prominent casinos to be found at Delaware Park Racetrack and Harrington Raceway. Another interesting quirk about Delaware is its lack of sales tax, which makes it a popular place for shopping. Among the most important malls in the state are Dover Mall and Concord Mall. While Christiana Mall, close to Newark, boasts more than 130 stores and services.
During you holiday at a vacation rental in Delaware you could amke the relatively short drive up to Philadelphia, which boasts a number of sights important to the foundation of the nation, including the Liberty Bell, which dates to the mid-18th Century and can be found in a purpose-built centre featuring exhibits of documents and artefacts relevant to the bell itself. Also in Philadelphia are a number of important museums and a lively cultural scene.
With the presence of the Atlantic Ocean the climate for Delaware self-catering vacation accommodation is moderate, with warm, humid weather from around May through to September. Winters are a little milder here than further inland, but still bring occasional snowfall and extended cold snaps.
The closest major airport to Delaware self-catering vacation rentals is Philadelphia International (PHL), which sits no more than two hours to the north by car, and can be reached from the UK via British Airways, flying to and from London-Heathrow (LHR).


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Dan, Matt & Maz from The Action Battle Team go to the toughest bootcamp ever run by the inventor of the bootcamp.
It all started with a silly theory - Matt thought that two untrained males (Dan and himself) could beat Maz - the trained female who goes to the gym three or four times a week. The team decided to put the theory to test and got the attention of "The Chief" Brabon - who is credited for inventing the idea of Bootcamp in Australia.
In October, Virgin Mobile members can take part in a free week of bootcamp training. For more information visit www.bootcamp.com.au/virgin
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LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- A Moscow man serving at least 20 years in prison for his role in the death of his wife and unborn child wants to withdraw his guilty pleas in the case.
The Lewiston Tribune reports that Silas B. Parks filed a motion in 2nd District Court last week to have his plea agreement tossed out.
Parks originally faced two counts of murder, but he pleaded guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter and one count of first-degree arson in 2010 as part of an agreement.
Parks was 25 years old when prosecutors say he strangled or suffocated a pregnant Sarah Parks.
Prosecutors say Silas Parks, and then set fire to their Moscow home. An autopsy found that Sarah Parks was dead when the fire started.


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2 rooms for rent in Poneloya, at the beach 20 min to Leon, also for (volunteer)groups. day or month
I rent out a room in my house which is located directly at the beach in Poneloya, buses to Leon stop every hour in front of the house (in 20 minutes you are in downtown Leon). Perfect for volunteers or people who would like to stay a bit longer at the beach. The room has a bed and closet and own toilet/bathroom. Use of kitchen and rest of the house is included as well as electricity and water (which is expensive at the beach). for 100 dollar a month
For more than 1 person (2-8) i have a second room for rent which is bigger, (inclusive private refrigerator) 2 person is 160 dollar, 4 is 220 dollar 6 is 300 dollar a month.
I live here with my boyfriend and dogs and cats, all animals are well trained and extremely friendly. They have to because they are trained or in training to give animal therapy and activities to children with a disability in Leon and Esteli. We do not rent out the rooms in our house to make a lot of money, just to help us in living expenses so we can focus more on our voluntary project with the children.
The bus stops in front of the house (we are a known bus stop) on the main road in Poneloya. The house isn't luxury like a lot of the houses here but nice, open from both sides we have a nice sea wind coming through. Places for hammocks under the palm trees, barbecue, campfire all is possible. There is a kitchen with oven available. We can help to buy fish from the locals.
As we said we have a bigger rooms which goes up to 8 persons. especially interesting for groups of volunteers who need a place to stay. After a big day of heavy volunteer work you can refresh yourself in the sea! We already had some satisfied groups.
also parking area available.
For pictures, check our website www.botanicajazmin.net to have an idea - note we are a small hostel, when you rent the big room , even just with three persons we won't put anyone with you in the same room, it is totally yours for the period.
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This Deal of the Day comes from Kelli B. Grant at partner site SmartMoney.
Outlet malls have a reputation for big-name brands and low prices. Now, shoppers can add Bloomingdale's to their list of potential bargains.
Parent company Macy's announced last week that it will open four Bloomingdale's outlet stores before fall, in Paramus, N.J.; Miami; Sunrise, Fla.; and Woodbridge, Va., with more locations planned for 2011. The outlets will sell clearance items from the mainstream Bloomingdale's stores.
Considering that competitors Saks, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom already have booming outlet divisions (Off 5th, Last Call and Nordstrom Rack, respectively), Bloomingdale's move is more about opportunity than desperation, says Kim Picciola, a senior analyst for Morningstar who covers the retail sector. "They can really use outlet locations to unload excess inventory," she says. Bloomingdale's outlets will also expand the brand's customer base, because outlet malls tend to draw more value-oriented crowds.
But in the struggling economy, the eye-popping deals shoppers have come to expect don't always materialize, says Howard Davidowitz, the chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm and investment bank based in New York. Retailers and designers have scaled back inventory amid slumping sales, which leaves less overstock. Some of that may go instead to discount stores such as T.J. Maxx, sample sales and even charity.
Many brands -- including Coach, Ann Taylor and Brooks Brothers -- fill the gaps with outlet-only lines that they sell at full price.
Here's how a couple balanced family demands and their own limited budget -- and loved the results.
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I got married last month. It was a bit of a whirlwind romance: At the beginning of 2009, we'd been talking about an engagement later in the year, with a wedding in 2010. Things being what they are, the engagement got moved up a couple of months, and we decided to plan a wedding for the end of the year.
The first question we had to ask ourselves was, "What size wedding do we want?" The next question was, "What can we afford?"
A little background
Let's talk about our personal situation for a moment before I answer the questions in detail. My wife is finishing school and doesn't work. I finished grad school 18 months ago, and had a bout of unemployment for the last four months of 2008.
As I'd just gotten out of school, I hadn't yet amassed much of an emergency fund. I mostly lived off of credit cards during that period. After moving, paying rent for two months on two apartments, and a small weekend trip to Europe earlier this year (before the wedding was in the works ... if I had known we were getting married this year, we wouldn't have gone), I racked up more than $10,000 in credit card debt. I set a goal in April to have my debt paid off by the end of January 2010 -- a goal I'm quite pleased to say that I'll meet.
Basically, the takeaway here is that we didn't have much money for a wedding.
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Here's the find of the week: Carla Fried, a retirement blogger at CBS MoneyWatch, alerted readers to a new Web site that can tell you how much your 401k's are costing you in fees.
A San Diego company called BrightScope, which rates more than 30,000 401k plans, now has a Personal 401k Fee Report -- and it's free.
It's been said that 401k fees are one of the great mysteries of retirement planning. If you don't believe me, take a look at your statements. You may find some fees, but all might not be listed there. Can you easily determine what you're paying? Are you paying too much?
In fact, the AARP says 83% of plan participants don't know what they're paying in 401k fees.
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50% of surveyed couples would take parental cash in lieu of financial help with a wedding, but how about taking a more frugal approach?
Nothing brings out our inner curmudgeon more than tales of Bridezillas and extravagant, expensive weddings. If we ruled the world, all weddings would be simple and inexpensive affairs. Are we showing our age if we suggest getting married barefoot in a field of flowers?
Free Money Finance brought our attention to a Brides magazine survey that says more than half the respondents would take money from their parents in lieu of a contribution to the wedding. Really? Who are these young slackers who expect their parents to pay for a wedding?
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I've had my car insurance through Nationwide for almost 30 years. My parents used Nationwide when I started driving, so that's who I used. Of course, back then there was no Internet or easy way to compare auto insurance quotes. You had to call agent after agent to get rates. Today, comparing auto insurance is a snap.
In fact, searching for the lowest rates is so easy, it's worth doing every year. A few years back I called Geico to see if they could beat the rates I was getting from Nationwide. Despite their commercials, they couldn't. Still, it was worth the 15-minute call. Just last month, Nationwide decided to bump up my insurance rates by $100 a year. So I'll be comparing rates this year, too.
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It's once again time for Friday food deals and freebies, with a little help from our friends at Cities on the Cheap.
Some of last week's deals are still good. McDonald's has rolled out its free Wi-Fi service for customers. At Starbucks, register your card and get two hours of free Wi-Fi every day, plus other perks.
'Pay what you can' shows are a boost to the entertainment budget.
Pay what you can is the happy hour of entertainment, a way to get out of the house without going off the rails. In my case, it was a Thursday night performance of "Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes" at Theater Schmeater.
Retailers may track your purchases, but they'll also target you for sales.
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Next time you're out shopping and a cashier asks if you'd like to join the store's free loyalty program, do your wallet a favor and say yes.
Turning up your nose to the offer probably means one of three things: You're worried about retailers tracking your purchase history, you aren't sure if you'll have a long-term relationship with a store, or you are (for lack of a better word) lazy, says Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, whose book "Gen Buy" assesses consumers' purchase motivations. "They view (loyalty programs) as not worth their time and effort," she says.
You may have reasons to be suspicious, but there are counterarguments to each objection.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French engineer who had been held hostage by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria for almost a year has escaped his jailers, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.
Hollande gave no details about the escape, but a Nigerian police official told Reuters Francis Collomp, who is over 60, had slipped out of his cell and managed to find a motorcycle taxi which took him to a police station.
Collomp was seized when about 30 gunmen stormed his compound on December 19 in the northern Nigerian town of Rimi, close to the Niger border where al Qaeda's North African wing, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), operates.
"The president expresses his gratitude to the Nigerian authorities, with whom French authorities have collaborated closely on this decisive action," Hollande's office said in a statement on Sunday.
Arriving in Israel for a state visit, Hollande later said Collomp had freed himself and that French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who arrived in Israel with Hollande, was flying to Nigeria to receive him.
Nigerian Police commissoner Olufemi Adenaike told Reuters Collomp had been moved to the town of Zaria, in northern Nigeria, in the past three months and had fled from there.
"He escaped yesterday in Zaria and boarded a commercial motorcycle taxi to the nearest police station," Adenaike said.
"We handed him over to the French embassy this morning," he added.
A diplomatic source told Reuters Collomp was weak and had lost a lot of weight but was not injured.
Collomp's wife Anne-Marie told French radio Hollande had called her to inform her her husband was free.
"I have heard that he has escaped, I say bravo my husband, bravo," she said.
In September, Collomp - an engineer at French renewable energy firm Vergnet - asked for help in a three-minute video posted on a jihadi website.
Ansaru, the militant group that kidnapped him, said soon after his abduction that he had been taken in retaliation for France's military action against jihadi insurgents in nearby Mali and its ban on wearing the full-face veil.
Britain has put Ansaru on its official "terrorist group" list, saying it is aligned with al Qaeda and was behind the kidnapping of a British national and a Italian who were killed last year during a failed rescue attempt.
The group is thought to have loose ties to the better-known Islamist militant sect Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in a four-year-long insurgency focused mostly on Nigerian security forces, religious targets and politicians.
Boko Haram and splinter groups like Ansaru pose the biggest security threat in Africa's second-biggest economy and top oil exporter, a major supplier to the Europe, Brazil and India.
Collomp's release comes just weeks after four French hostages kidnapped in Niger by AQIM, were released on October 29 after three years in captivity.
Seven other French nationals are being held hostage in Syria, Mali and Nigeria, including French priest Georges Vandenbeusch, who was kidnapped in northern Cameroon last week and is believed to be held in Nigeria.
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq and Emmanuel Jarry in Paris, Elizabeth Pineau in Jerusalem, Tim Cocks in Lagos and Isaac Abrak in Kaduna; Editing by Ralph Boulton)


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text: The good news is our daughter and son and their respective spouses had a very enjoyable time. My grandchildren ages 8, 6, 5 and 3 loved their first cruise and enjoyed all the facilities including Camp Carnival. Would my wife and I ever choose to sail with Carnival again the answer is a Resounding NO based on our sleepness nights because of our accomodation. For those cruise passengers who enjoy hot food at dinner at least in the Scarlet Restaurant to which we were assisned it was rarely hot but the grandkids seemed to enjoy the many options. My wife and I could not despite reporting the noise above our room to the service desk could not lower the din above us but were reimbursed 20% of what we had paid for the room. Happy and safe cruising to all.


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Trans-Institute Angiogenesis Research Program Launched
In February, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bevacizumab (Avastin) as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. The approval marked the arrival of an intervention in which the primary mechanism of action is angiogenesis inhibition.
We now can unequivocally say that angiogenesis is not only a critical factor for cancer, but for a host of other diseases. Control and promotion of new blood vessel growth may offer important benefits in revascularization of ischemic tissue, improving diabetic wound healing, and many other conditions. The potential for angiogenesis research to improve so many lives underlies the formation earlier this year of the NIH Trans-Institute Angiogenesis Research Program (TARP). The overarching goal is that a multidisciplinary approach to angiogenesis research will accelerate the discovery of new interventions for a variety of diseases and conditions.
TARP was conceived following a visit to NCI by the leadership of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). It quickly grew to include scientists and clinicians from the JDRF; our two institutes; National Eye Institute; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Last week the group hosted a two-day workshop that brought together international leaders (including those from industry) representing different angiogenesis research disciplines.
The workshop provided a forum to examine the state of the science in angiogenesis research as it relates to a variety of pathologic disease states; determine areas of need and overlap among the various disciplines studying angiogenesis; discuss what research could be conducted and how; and discuss novel models, systems, and core resources applicable to or needed by the community. An animal study recently released on the Nature Medicine Web site is an excellent example of what we believe to be TARP's potential. In the study, researchers from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine applied their knowledge on angiogenesis' role in tumor formation to develop a novel method for tackling obesity. Just as tumors require blood vessels, so do cells in adipose tissue. A protein specifically expressed in the vasculature of white fat tissue was used to target a peptide that causes cell death to that tissue. The method effectively ablated the adipose tissue and yielded rapid weight loss in obese mice without any detectable adverse effects.
The TARP initiative is still in the formative stages, but our intention is to move quickly. NIH representatives to TARP will meet this week to produce an executive summary of the workshop's major themes and develop a proposed staged implementation plan to move the program forward. We hope to include representatives from additional institutes because vasculogenesis is an important physiologic process in all developmental stages and pathophysiologic processes of every tissue.
The formation of TARP is an obvious and needed step. Cancer researchers can learn from diabetes researchers' work on angiogenesis and vice versa. The same is true for nearly any angiogenesis research - advances in one disease area may fuel advances in others. Our goal with this initiative is simple: to share, communicate, and make the most of the resources available to us.
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Present address: Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN Sheffield, UK.
Comparing geographical genetic differentiation between candidate and noncandidate loci for adaptation strengthens support for parallel ecological divergence in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis
Article first published online: 4 FEB 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04076.x
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Molecular Ecology
Volume 18, Issue 5, pages 919–930, March 2009
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GALINDO, J., MORÁN, P. and ROLÁN-ALVAREZ, E. (2009), Comparing geographical genetic differentiation between candidate and noncandidate loci for adaptation strengthens support for parallel ecological divergence in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis. Molecular Ecology, 18: 919–930. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04076.x
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openSUSE Conference Approaches
The openSUSE Conference will be held July 18-22, 2013, at the Olympic Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The 2013 openSUSE Conference (oSC13) expects hundreds of hackers from around the world for "5 days of awesome program speakers that blow your mind."
Speakers include Theo Chatzimichos, SUSE QA engineer; Vincent Untz, current board chair; Miguel Ángel Barajas, cloud computer architect at HP and host of the openenchilada podcast; Henne Vogelsang, founding member and developer of the openSUSE Project; Michal Hrusecky, SQL expert and openSUSE Release Team member; and Alberto Planas, SUSE employee.
The schedule has not yet been finalized, but Untz will preside over the openSUSE Town Hall Meeting and lead Team Report sessions. Vogelsang plans to talk about the Open Build Service and how it can simplify software packaging and maintenance. Chatzimichos' topic is configuration management with puppet, and Angel Barajas will talk about high-availability technologies. Planas takes a close look at trends in openSUSE download and installation numbers, whereas the openSUSE release process is the subject of Hrusecky's talk, and he will lead a key/certificate signing bash.
Submission deadline for proposals is June 17. Join one of the most active openSUSE communities in Thessaloniki, Greece's cultural capital, the acknowledged fifth best party city worldwide, and Europe's youth capital 2014. Entry is free; all you have to do is register at the oSC13 website. "Power to the Geeko!"
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If you're in a relationship, you naturally want to show a little extra love to your honey on Valentine's Day. The traditional elegant dinner, bouquets of flowers, decadent chocolates and shiny jewelry certainly have a wow factor, but those fancy gifts can add up to a small fortune.
What's a frugal romantic to do?
Gifts under $25
Here are a few local gift ideas, both thrifty and romantic:
Sweet Candy Co. » 3780 W. Directors Row, Salt Lake City, 801-886-1444. Assorted Valentine's sweets including a 5-pound bag of cinnamon lips for $11.99 and a 3-pound bag of conversation heart taffy for $9.90.
Food of the Gods Chocolatiers » 288 S. 300 West, Kaysville, 801-444-1140. Owner and chocolatier Cary Black says his dozen raspberry cream truffles for $18.99 and six chocolate ganache-dipped stem strawberries for $19.99 will not disappoint.
Every Blooming Thing » 1344 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-521-4773. General Manager Robert Upwall advises the budget-conscious to stay away from roses, but he says blooming plants, such as hydrangeas and ivy rings, start at $20. Single red roses are $6.50 per stem.
Heber Valley Railroad » 450 S. 600 West, Heber City, 435-654-5601. The Chocolate Lovers Train is sold out, but you can still get tickets for the Magic Train (Feb. 22 and March 22) and the Fiddle Fest Train (March 1), two tickets for $25, includes live music, entertainment, snacks and drinks.
Blue Boutique » There are four locations along the Wasatch Front: 1383 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City, 801-485-2072; 1051 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, 801-596-2160; 2778 W. 3500 South, West Valley City, 801-982-1100; 3365 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-334-4228. Sales associate Lela Salonen in the Sugar House location says budget favorites include paintable body chocolate for $14.99 and massage candles starting at $10.
The Echo Theatre » 145 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-691-4961. Two tickets to a live theater performance for a bargain $12. Performances include "Little Happy Secrets" and "Noises Off" through February and March.
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Joani Hill, who blogs on Coupons4Utah.com, says it depends on the stage of your relationship.
"If you're just starting to date and working toward a relationship, chances are you're students and young and broke," Hill said. "That's when you should be hitting the daily-deal websites."
She recommends looking at sites such as Groupon.com, Livingsocial.com and Amazon.com (and to shamelessly self-promote, SLCdailydeals.com) for local deals on fun date night ideas.
"I don't think it's cheap to take a Groupon on a date," Hill said. "I think it's sort of sexy to be concerned about your finances. I see it as kind of endearing."
If you're self-conscious about presenting a coupon on a date, Hill advises settling accounts with the bowling alley or rock-climbing club before you get there.
"Call ahead," she said. "I know local businesses would be glad to accommodate."
For committed and married couples, Hill, who's been married 32 years, says it's the little things that count, and often those gestures don't cost anything.
She suggests building a blanket tent in the living room and serving a favorite dish under cover. Or lighting candles in the TV room and cuddling up to watch a $1 Redbox flick you've both been anticipating.
"Once I wrote 'I love you' all over the bathroom mirror in red lipstick and my husband still talks about it," said Hill. "Those are my favorite kind of valentines."
When asked what she plans to do this Valentine's Day, Hill and her husband will enjoy a couples' massage at The Sanctuary Day Spa in Salt Lake City. While she admits it's a splurge, there is a frugal side to it.
"It's a Christmas gift from my husband. "I'm having my Christmas present for Valentine's Day, so that's a money saver."
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