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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:16 PM GMT on June 13, 2012
Colorado's third largest fire in recorded history, the High Park Fire, shrouded Denver and Fort Collins in acrid smoke Tuesday, causing an increase in emergency room visits related to smoke inhalation. The fire, currently burning fifteen miles west of Fort Collins, Colorado, covered over 43,000 acres (68 square miles) as of Tuesday. Firefighters reported that it was only 10% contained, and was exhibiting "extreme" behavior. A lightning strike triggered the fire on Saturday. While fire fighters try to control the southern edge of the fire, the northern perimeter is burning out of control. Six hundred eighty people and 100 fire engines are working on the ground to contain the blaze, along with air support from air tankers and helicopters. The fire has killed one person, burned 100 structures, and cost $1.6 million to fight so far. An air pollution action day has been declared for Wednesday all along the Front Range of the Rockies, from Denver to Fort Collins, due to smoke from the fire. Air pollution levels from smoke will be unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Figure 1. Fire burns in trees behind homes in the High Park wildfire near Fort Collins, Colorado, on Monday, June 11, 2012. (AP Photo)
Beetles, climate change, and Colorado fires
According to the Denver Post, the High Park Fire is burning in an area where 70% of the trees that have been killed by mountain pine beetles; the insects have devastated forests in western North America in recent years. As our climate change blogger, Dr. Ricky Rood explains, the pine beetle is killed (controlled) by temperatures less than -40°F. This is at the edge of the coldest temperatures normally seen in the U.S., and these cold extremes have largely disappeared since 1990. In Colorado, the lack of -40°F temperatures in winter has allowed the beetles to produce two broods of young per year, instead of one. The beetles are also attacking the pine trees up to a month earlier than the historic norm.
Figure 2. The historical mountain pine beetle (MPB) univoltine life cycle (above calendar arrows and linked by black arrows) and the observed MPB bivoltine life cycle (below calendar arrows and linked by red arrows). Univoltine means one brood per year, and bivoltine means two broods per year. Calendar arrow colors represent monthly temperature regimes: blue for less than 0°C, yellow for 0°-4.99°C, orange for 5°-9.99°C, and red for 10°C and higher. From Mitton and Ferrenberg, "Mountain Pine Beetle Develops an Unprecedented Summer Generation in Response to Climate Warming". This figure appeared in Dr. Ricky Rood's blog, "A Hot Day's Night: The Beetles".
A letter from the field in Colorado
Our climate change blogger, Dr. Ricky Rood, is in Boulder, Colorado this summer, and had this report on the fire Tuesday:
Saturday morning Iz and I were driving along 95th Street to Longmont to the Fairgrounds. We saw the initial plume; Iz said, "Looks like a volcano." At that time it was Colorado clear, with blue skies. The plume got to the top of its ascent and kicked off a little convection that looked like cauliflower. For the next few hours you could see the fire grow by the trunk of the plume getting thicker. It mostly blew to the east, with an occasional white cloud topping. It seemed to double in size every couple of hours.
By Sunday, the smoke was spreading all over the state. We had a couple of cool days with a northerly component in the wind. It filled up the sky, here, with haze - most of the day could not see Long's Peak. Part of the day couldn't see the foothills, say Flagstaff Mountain, which is about 8 miles away. Even with the wind moving around to the south, it's remained hazy. Today it has smelt of campfire-like smoke most of the day. Woke up sneezing. There is fine dust drawn to my computer screen and key board, which is at this point simply dirty. The dogs seem a little crazy.
It's not as acrid as the much closer Fourmile Fire a couple of years ago, but for some reason, it's the most dramatic fire I have experienced, perhaps because of the explosive nature of it. Tankers and helicopters fly over all day; they must stage from somewhere south of here. The tanks on them look hopelessly small compared with the fire, but they say, today, they finally made progress. The drought or drought potential is currently stunning, and we expect a lot of fire this year. Water only flowed in our irrigation ditch for four days before we lost priority.
There is a very nice figure in a local magazine, YS, that shows the percentage of snow pack compared with normal. We are South Platte - mid-May at 19 % normal, and not the worst in the state. Really, a nice little article in YS about how to predict a drought. Last year was nearly record wet. Right now this is setting up to be worse than the 2002 drought, which the article says was a 300 year drought. If true, then we had two 300 year droughts 10 years apart--some of our readers should be able to work on that as an attribution problem. The largest fire in Colorado history, the Hayman, was during the 2002 drought.
New Mexico's massive Whitewater Baldy Complex fire continues
The largest wildfire in New Mexico recorded history, the Whitewater Baldy Complex, continues to burn in the Gila National Forest. The lightning-sparked fire began nearly a month ago on May 15th, is 37% contained, and has devoured almost 280,000 acres (438 square miles.) Though fire weather advisories are not in effect in the region, the humidity is extremely low--humidity values of 6% were reported yesterday afternoon in Reserve, New Mexico, inside the burned area. Afternoon winds are expected to remain moderately strong, around 15 mph, over the next few days, as firefighters focus on keeping the southern edge of the fire from spreading. The fire has cost $22.6 million to fight so far.
Figure 3. The Whitewater Baldy Complex fire seen on our wundermap with the fire layer turned on. The red region outlined in yellow is the active fire perimeter.
Western U.S. wildfires expected to increase due to climate change
Expect a large increase in fires over much of the globe late this century due to climate change, says research published this month in the Journal Ecosphere. Using fire models driven by output from sixteen climate models used in the 2007 IPCC report, the researchers, led by Max Moritz of UC Berkeley, found that 38% of the planet should see increases in fire activity over the next 30 years. This figure increases to 62% by the end of the century. However, in many regions where precipitation is expected to increase--particularly in the tropics--there should be decreased fire activity. The scientists predicted that 8% of Earth will see decreases in fire probability over the next 30 years, and 20% will see decreases by the end of the century. The models do not agree on how fire danger will change for a large portion of the planet--54% for the period 2010 - 2039, and 18% for the period 2070 - 2099. Six key factors were found to control fire probabilities in the models. Most important was how much vegetation there was (NPP, Net Primary Productivity). Three other factors, about half as important, were precipitation of driest month, mean temperature of warmest month, and the difference between summer and winter temperature. Two other minor factors were mean temperature of wettest month, and annual precipitation. The authors found that future fire occurrence appears to primarily be a function of available moisture in many areas, and that the expected global increase in temperature of 3.5°C used in the models will not become the single dominant control on global wildfire. In the U.S., the regions most at risk of increased fires are the tundra regions of northern Alaska, and the West, with Arizona and Colorado at particularly high risk.
Figure 4. Predicted fractional change in fire probability for the period 2010 - 2039 (top) and 2070 - 2099 (bottom) for the average of sixteen climate models used for the 2007 IPCC report. For the 2010 - 2039 period, the models agree that 8% of Earth will see decreases in fire probability, 38% will see increases, and the models are too uncertain to tell for the other 54%. For the 2070 - 2099 period, the models agree that 20% of Earth will see decreases in fire probability, 62% will see increases, and the models are too uncertain to tell for the other 18%. Image credit: Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity, Moritz et al., 2012, from the journal Ecosphere.
Rare tornado hits Venice, Italy
A tornado hit Sant'Erasmo island in the lagoon surrounding Venice on Tuesday, ripping the roofs off of at least 12 buildings. No injuries were reported. The Capital Weather Gang has more videos and information on the event. Tornadoes are not unheard of in Venice; a strong one hit the city in 1970, killing 30 people.
Video 1. A waterspout/tornado in the Venice Lagoon on June 12, 2012.
The Atlantic is quiet
There are no threat areas to discuss in the Atlantic today. The NOGAPS and GFS models are predicting formation of a broad area of low pressure in the Western Caribbean early next week, and we will have to watch this area for development. The waters offshore of North Carolina may be another region to watch, over the next few days, along the edge of a cold front that has moved off the U.S. East Coast.
I'll have a new post Thursday or Friday.
Jeff Masters and Angela Fritz
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Can I ask a question please, regarding your thoughts on the next G20 summit? BTW, what a day not only for America but for the world.
Should and could Obama be invited to attend?
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sometimes poop under my boots.
I lost 455.00 last year.Wealth distribution please! He won....so Im lookin for it.Yea....right
I dont have time for a long answer, you know how busy I have been.
First, I did not complain about the tax cut and suffice it to say I have spent a large multiple of those dollars by investing in my new company and spending it on my family (easy to to with 4 boys!). If Bush would have kept Clintons tax rates and we kept running surpluses I would have been fine with that. If he would have kept those rates and decided to pass out money to low income folks and run a deficit I would have bitched to high heaven!
In the long run I still believe that the best thing we can do for our country is to get our deficits and debt under control. Sure the short term pain could be severe but its a "pay now or pay later" scenario and the pay later option is going to be a whole lot more expensive for future generations. If we dont start now when do we? Interest rates are going to go up. We are getting ready to sell an unprecedented amount of treasury notes in the near future. Add in the fact that we are down to 17 primary dealers (I think we had 30 or 31 when I started in the bond business in 1990) and we have a recipe for much higher rates in the near future. As I mentioned to you privately, as soon as the Fed can they are going to raise rates so we dont have the potential for a Greenspan type bubble....it may be a year or two, depending how deep this recession goes, but it is going to happen eventually.
If you have a friend with is over his head with credit card debt do you tell him to stop getting his Starbucks everyday or do you tell him to cut the card? You tell him to cut the card!
We are so spoiled here in the US that God-forbid anyone go through any short term pain for long term gain. Sure, this country needs to spend a little to help shorten the depth of this recession but giving out money to people wont have any long lasting effects.
I am willing to go through the pain of higher taxes if it were put to good use. Invest in infrastructure, pay down the debt, do things that have lasting value. Stimulus checks are worthless long term.
Dont get me going on healthcare. We cant get the folks coming out of med school now to go into general practice because it doesnt pay enough and there are too may headaches with Medicare etc. The medical staffing firm that is next door to my company says no one wants to be a doctor any more because the pay is not worth the hassle.....doctor compensation would probably go down under national healthcare which would make that problem worse.....but, if doctor comp does go up then its a bigger expenditure for our country.....another conundrum. Additionally, I would suspect that a good portion of those 40% that dont have healthcare already receive treatment at county hospitals and such. My wife is a trauma ICU nurse at a public facility like that and they have very FEW folks come through that have insurance. So I would not expect a big bump from those "new patients"....plus, I hope I dont get sick if THAT many folks are going to be jamming up all of the waiting rooms all of a sudden!
All of the above is my personal opinion which ain't worth much and is probably both right and wrong!
PS. Munis are getting more expensive everyday now

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Marvel is quietly making a big push to get its comics into mainstream retail -- the most mainstream retail -- at a hefty discount.
A report over at The Beat details how "exclusive" editions of Marvel trade paperbacks -- the key example is the Amazing Spider-Man "Big Time" trade from 2011 -- are selling at Walmart for $5 each. For comparison, the regular trade retails for $14.99 and is on sale at Amazon right now for $11.48.


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FEW, indeed, were those of the families dwelling round Lestrange that had not contributed a combatant to the siege of Sir Hugh Lancaster. Lestrange itself was no exception to the general rule; we had sent forth our eldest hope, or rather she had sent herself forth to the fray, and, after a protracted campaign, had returned to us, worsted, indeed, but in good order. She had never fought in the foremost ranks, nor had she ever been amongst the leaders of the Crusades, being too wary for that; but for all that she had laid lines of circumvallation, had set up battering‐rams, and pointed cannon as sedulously as the noisiest, vapouringest of her rivals.
But the lines had been laid so stealthily, the battering rams brought up so quietly, and the cannon pointed so noiselessly, that when she returned discomfited, hav‐ having page: 259 ing been compelled to raise the siege, none knew the fact, none knew that there had been a siege at all, except the besieged town itself, and one that viewed the carnage from afar, to wit, myself.
Dolly, unlike the bulk of her nation, knew when she was beaten; once thoroughly foiled, she never renewed the attack; whether by escalading, mining, or any other mode, she kept her scaling‐ladders for walls more accessible; she laid up her javelins and cannon balls to hurl against iller‐defended ramparts.
In Sir Hugh, I think, must have been lacking some one of the ingredients that go to compose a man; he was the sole individual of his species that ever I met with who appeared totally impervious to the beseechments of those maddening eyes that ordinarily upset the manly reason from its throne, and made the manly head giddy and staggering, as with strongest new wine. He did not appear even to see them.
Dolly was very civil to him after those days, and cooed pretty little speeches to him when they met, but she never missed page: 260 an opportunity of giving a sly little stab behind his honest back, and she "hated" him with the hate of "hell."
Had Sir Hugh and Dolly been cast upon some desert island, it is my belief that each would have kept to their separate half, each have had their own banyan trees, and fountains, and caves; they might perhaps have exchanged nuts and roots, add other savage delicacies, but their intercourse would have been confined to that till some night, when the tropic moon was bathing in the plunging tropic waves, Dolly would have stolen to Sir Hugh as he slept under the feathery palm trees, and have cut his throat with a sharpened stone, or strangled him with her strong white fingers; she would then have taken off his handsome signet‐ring and his hunting‐watch, thinking it a pity that they should be wasted; would have buried him neatly in the shelly sand, that he might not infect the torrid air, and would then have sat down and watched "the sunrise broken into scarlet shafts," with calmly waiting eyes.
That dreary week came to an end, and page: 261 still papa made no sign of any intention of returning to his leathern arm‐chair, and his handsome daughters, and his duns. One morning, Dolly and I sat as usual at our tête‐à‐tête breakfast. Most refreshing was she to look upon, as she sat there calmly eating her bread and butter, the sleep not yet quite gone out of her heavenly eyes. Her hair was all swept back, tidily and comfortably out of her way, behind those ravishing little ears, and gathered up into a delicious ingenious sort of twist behind, the mysteries of which no manly mind could pretend to fathom. Her dress, simple enough, was of some thin, cool summer stuff, of a rich, bright Forget‐me‐not blue, and round her dear little white throat hung a gold locket, in which lurked the photograph of the latest victim. She turned over her unopened despatches with slight leisurely fingers, and made comments on their exteriors before opening them.
"A bill," she said to the first, tossing it away. "Another from that stupid boy! what a bore! I shall have the trouble of writing to him again;" and No. 2 was passed page: 262 carelessly by. "Lady Lancaster's hand, I declare!" The bread and butter is dropped, the envelope is torn open, and Dolly becomes immersed in the contents. I likewise have a letter—a letter written in a big bold hand, with a very broad‐nibbed quill‐pen, and about two words, or one long one, in a line. Thus it ran—
"My Darling,—My leave will be up on Friday; I have tried to get extension, and failed. They're up to the 'urgent private affair' dodge now, so go I must, I suppose. Will your father be home before then? I want very much to have a talk with him, on what subject I think you'll guess. Write to me one little line, my pretty one, and say something kind, for I'm awfully low at the thought of going.
"Your very fond
Before opening this document, I had had a very good appetite, and had surveyed the viands with a hungry eye; now I felt that one mouthful would choke me. My hands were trembling, and my cheek flush‐ flushing page: 263 ing when Dolly's calm voice wafted these few words to my ear, "Do you wish to read this?" she held out Lady Lancaster's note, inscribed with niggling little characters, and headed with a monster monogram, in which half the letters of the alphabet twisted their legs and bent their backs against each other.
"Dear Miss Lestrange,—My son tells me that you and your sister are quite alone at Lestrange. Will you come to us to‐morrow for three days, as we have a few friends coming to us? Please excuse such a short notice, as I did not know you had returned before.
"Yours sincerely,
"P.S.—Major M'Gregor, who I think you know, is to be among our party."
Lady Lancaster's characters were of the crabbedest, "scribbled, crost, and crammed," "hard to mind and eye," as Merlin's charm; any word might have been any other word: "friends" looked like "fiends," "house" like "louse," "quite" page: 264 like "guts," and "days" like "dogs." However, I mastered the gist with great rapidity, and left the minor difficulties for after‐consideration.
In childhood we enjoy everything, from the devouring of uncleanly compounded lollipops upwards, everything except being washed and saying our prayers. In youth page: 265 we enjoy most things; the screws and springs of our earthly machine are in such prime order; the wheels of that chariot that will drive so heavily by‐and‐bye, run so smoothly and glibly, that we think they must needs be running to some pleasant goal, as they are in such a hurry to get over the ground to it. In manhood we enjoy many things, though each year knocks off one or two from the shortening list; in old age we enjoy few; the wheelless, springless waggon lumbers toilfully along a rutty road, and in death—nay, in death, I know not what we do, nor what we leave undone—yea, I know nothing concerning it.
My hand is on the thick black curtain, whose warp is darkness, and whose woof is grief; when next the hedges, burgeoning now, are putting forth their sprouting green, I shall have raised the curtain, and have found out what there is behind it; but, oh, my friends, I cannot come back to tell you; if I shriek with agony, if I laugh with rapture at what I find there, you will not hear me.
"Shall we go, Dolly?" said I.page: 266
"I don't know what you'll do, I'm sure; I shall go."
"There's no reason why I should not go too, is there, Dolly?" I went over and knelt down by my sister, and put up my small white face to be kissed. I was so happy that I loved everybody, even Dolly (with a spurious sort of affection it is true). Doily stooped a reluctant pink velvet cheek towards mine; she looked upon two women's kissing one another as a misapplication of one of God's best gifts.
"No reason whatever," said she, with cold cheerfulness, "except that you have nothing but rags to go in."
I rose hastily from my knees, with my desire for osculation quite quenched.
"All the better for you," said I, a little bitterly; "I shall make a better foil than ever."
"I'm quite satisfied with you as you are," Dolly said; and with this parting shaft she withdrew.
Twelve hours more, and I am transferred from the ancient domicile where the rats and we hold a divided sway to the substantially hideous brickdust coloured pile, page: 267 where Hugh Lancaster and his household gods dwelt with his mamma, well content.
Two aged coach‐horses (whereof one was spavined and the other had string‐halt, and both were overfull of grass), yoked to our triumphal car, i.e. id est , a dilapidated yellow‐bodied barouche, hung high in air, in which papa and mamma had taken their wedding tour, bore my sister and myself to Wentworth Park. It is ten o'clock, and the brave and the fair are all assembled in the yellow drawing‐room. There are a good many people, but not a great many.
The gentlemen have just torn themselves from Sir Hugh's '47 port, and are huddling, most of them, about the door, black‐backed, white‐throated, with the Briton's inborn grace in each of their attitudes. The ladies, in blue and pink and purple, and fine twined linen, and with many natural productions in the shape of flowers and butterflies and feathers, and beetles about their heads, are dotted about the yellow satin. The yellow satin is Lady Lancaster's very own taste; she matched it by her cheeks, page: 268 and then lavished it on sofas and ottomans and chairs. It makes most people look hideous by night and jaundiced by day.
Let me give a short descriptive list of the company among whom I find my lot for the present cast: Sir Hugh, in broadcloth and high good‐humour; his mother in wrinkles and Point d'Alençon; a thin viscount with a handsome wife, who bore a year of her lord's income on her fat back; a man in barnacles, supposed to be a genius, because he never spoke, and had one or two nasty tricks; a puisne judge, who to his acquaintance's exceeding dolour, was very much up in political economy; a tall young man, who had a bad cold; and a short one, who wore death's‐head studs and made jokes; an agreeable old gentleman, who did not believe in anything particular, and had a certain proclivity towards double entendres; a young lady, with sharp shoulder blades, and another with a sharp tongue; a widow with a great many bugles about her, who rather relished the agreeable old gentleman's innuendoes; a big fair man of the name of M'Gregor, and two page: 269 artless virgins of the name of Lestrange. The judge has got the cheerful old sceptic into a corner, and is inflicting a new form of the question on him.
"We must ameliorate the condition of the rural poor, my dear sir, that's what we must do," he is saying, very confidentially, as if he was telling some pleasant secret. "We must set sanitary reforms on foot throughout the country; that's what I've always been saying. I can tell you" (lowering his voice) "that the utter neglect of sewage in many of the agricultural districts would surprise you, it would indeed."
"Yes, yes, I dare say, no doubt," replies the unhappy heathen uneasily, edging away from his captor, and looking as if he did not much care whether there was one sewer throughout the length and breadth of Britain or no. He has got a succulent anecdote which he is panting to pour into the widow's rosy ears.
"I bet a dabesake of yours the other day," quoth the man with the catarrh to the man with the skulls; "he was a cordet page: 270 in the dideth; they had some dickdabe for hib; the Dose, I think it was."
"The what?"
"The dose, because he had such a big dose, you dow," touching his own afflicted feature, explanatorily.
"What a cold that poor man has got!" says the viscountess, with fat compassion.
"Does not he wish he was in bed, poor wretch?" says the sharp young lady, pertly. The shoulder‐blades agitates her fan softly, and sighs behind it.
"Aren't you tired of standing?" breathes Dolly, low as the south wind when it blows the down from the clematis, to a large and stately person who is leaning over her.
"Is that a hint for me to go?" responds the large person, making no movement, however, towards so doing.
My sister says, "Oh, no!" semi‐audibly; and the thick white lids sweep down over the modest eyes. Dolly is sitting on a prie‐dieu, right under the big, hundred‐lighted chandelier, and the wax‐lights are blazing down full on her shimmery sheeny garments, on her round, pearl‐white shoulders, and on the coral lengths that page: 271 go twisting in and out of her blue black hair. Dolly is doing no harm at all, none whatever; only she is looking up under her eyes in a way I know, a way I cannot do myself, and that I hate.
Dick rests his arms on the back of the prie‐dieu, which is diverted from its original use this evening; he looks very handsome and a good deal out of sorts; his yellow moustache droops close to her ear, as he talks low and rapidly to her, occasionally looking up to scowl at me.
For myself, I am in a position which I would willingly cede to any one else in the room, should they propose an exchange. I am seated on a sofa (yellow, of course), by Sir Hugh, and we have a picture book on our laps (half on mine and half on his), and he will keep his head very close to mine, pull away as I will; and the consequence is, we have, to a casual observer, a very lover‐like and flirtatious air.
Over against me is a big mirror; in it I catch occasional glimpses of myself. I see a little head "brow‐bound with" the "burning gold" of its own ruddy locks. I see great blue eyes that look childish and page: 272 troubled, and about to cry, and I see a good sized but withal pretty mouth quivering distressedly. We are looking at prints from Landseer.
"Jolly kind of dog that," says Sir Hugh, "ain't it? had one just like it myself once, only mine had more tan about the muzzle; best sporting dog I ever had. Came to awful grief, poor brute, though, got caught in a trap and had to be shot. I never was so cut up about anything, I don't think."
"Perhaps so," I murmur, with utter irrelevancy.
"Perhaps what?" cries Sir Hugh at sea.
"Did I say perhaps anything—oh, so I did. I—I don't think I quite understood what you were saying. Truth to tell, I am straining my ears to catch Dolly's remarks. My ears do not look very long ones, but they are long of hearing."
"Does not Nelly look nice to‐night?" She was sighing in her honeyed way. "What would not one give for that freshness of sensation? We old people have effleuré all our pleasures, haven't we?"page: 273
Dick's answer is addressed to the back of her head, so I lose it.
"Half child and half woman? Ye—es, I think so, combining the amusements of both ages too, isn't she, lover and picture‐book."
Dick bit his golden moustache, and his gray eyes flashed angrily.
"She must be mighty easy pleased, if Lancaster's conversation can afford her amusement."
"Oh, I don't know; she is young, and—well, perhaps—but indeed, Major M'Gregor, I think that facility of being pleased and attracted, is a very enviable possession. If one had it, one would never feel lonely in society, as one sometimes does now, doesn't one?"
One swift satanic shot from the dark, passionate sympathy‐craving eyes; a shot that reached his senses, I think, though it missed his heart.
"Do you sig, Biss Seybour?" asks the cold in the head of the shoulder‐blade.
"Sometimes—to intimate friend—now and then; do you?"page: 274
"Do; but I'be very fod of it. Do you dow a sog called 'Baggie's Secret?'"
Miss Seymour bites her fan in perplexity.
"'Baggie's Secret?' No—o, I think not; who's it by? Oh, 'Maggie's Secret,' to be sure; how stupid of me!"
Miss Seymour does know it, loves it, and will sing it if he wishes. My Hugh and I have reached the last of our dog portraits.
"H'm! come to an end, have they?" says Hugh, trying to split the last leaf in two with his broad thumb. "Never mind, there's lots more, somewhere."
He rises to seek more pabulum for my mind and eyes, and I stretched out an eagerly detaining hand.
"Oh, please, won't it do another time? I think I've seen almost enough pictures. I'm—I'm a little tired."
The worthy baronet regarded me with surprise plainly written on his broad brown face.
"Tired! nonsense! are you? Have some sherry and soda? Mother, here's Miss Lestrange so knocked up she can page: 275 hardly move; what are we to do with her?"
Lady Lancaster and the Point d'Alençon happily do not hear; are rather hard of hearing indeed.
"Oh, don't, don't please! it's nothing, only the room is a little hot; isn't it?" cry I, panting.
"Ah, yes; so it is, now you mention it; quite like an oven; I never can get mother to have the windows open; come into the next room, it's much cooler there, and we shall have it all to ourselves."
What an inducement! thought I. The waxlights blaze steadily oppressive; the singing girl's voice comes harshly to my ear; the yellow satin glare tires my aching eyes; and across blaze and glare I see a Greek face, a very cross Greek face, scowling prohibition at me. Oh, why is he scowling at me? what have I done? what can I do? "We shall have it all to ourselves," repeats honest Sir Hugh, with his jolly voice not a note lowered. The heathen escaped from his corner, is getting to the point of his spiced tale; its page: 276 cayenne is tickling the widow's palate; she is chuckling behind her black‐edged pocket‐handkerchief. The air is faint with patchouli and ess bouquet, and heavy scented gardenias.
I feel a hysterical lump rising in my throat, and the angry Greek face is clouding before my eyes. I am going to cry! I am going to make a scene! I am going to make a beast of myself! I rise hastily; and upsetting a light cane chair, and two Chinese gods in my passage, pass hurriedly down she room, through the folding‐doors into the cool empty saloon beyond, while Hugh, sore amazed at my indecent haste, follows hard upon my heels. Dolly's voice, pseudo‐compassionate, pseudo‐motherly, pursuing, stings me. "Poor Nell! that empressé manner is very pretty, isn't it?"


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By Johanna Bennett
Furniture maker Bassett Furniture Industries (BSET) has joined the ranks of AOL by announcing Wednesday plans to pay investors a special one-time dividend of $1.25 a share on Oct 26.
That payout is in addition to the regular quarterly dividend payment of five cents a share Bassett is slated to make later this week.
Investors were impressed. The stock climbed 8.6%, or 92 cents a share to $11.59 in afternoon market action, a move reminiscent of the bump AOL's (AOL) share price received Monday when the company announced a special $1.1 billion dividend — $5.15 a share – to be paid on Dec. 14 and plans to repurchase $600 million of stock.
More companies may make similar announcements. Corporate balance sheets are stuffed with cash. Also, in light of a potential dividend tax hike next year, companies may be looking to reduce stockholders' tax bills by giving them an advance on future payments, according to Marketwatch's Jack Hough.


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Panel to discuss 'Athletics:The Anti-Intellectual Subculture?,' April 10
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A panel will discuss the merits and failures of athletics in a scholarly institution at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Willcox Commons, Wilson College.
Panelists will include professors and varsity team coaches. This event is organized by the Wilson College residential community advisors. Food will be served.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom
|3:15:42 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
You Leave by Alex Andreyev
|3:12:00 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
The White Triplex 1928 Land Speed Record Car
|3:04:49 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
"The White Triplex was a land speed record car built for J. H. White and driven by Ray Keech. It was powered by three 27-litre Liberty aero-engines, for a total of 36 cylinders, 81 litre displacement and a claimed 1500 bhp.
A wealthy American, J. H. White of Philadelphia (unrelated to the White Motor Company), wanted to take the land speed record from the British duel betweenHenry Segrave and Malcolm Campbell.No suitable engines were available to give a sufficient advantage over the BritishNapier Lion, so the simplest possible chassis was constructed and three war-surplusLiberty aero engines were squeezed into it. The vehicle was so simple that it had no clutch or gearbox and only a single fixed ratio. Once started by a push start, it had to keep rolling. Driver comforts were minimal: the forward engine was sheathed in a crude attempt at streamlining, the two side-by-side behind were bare, with the driver perched between them.
An established motor-racing driver, Ray Keech, was engaged to drive. First trial runs were hazardous, Keech being injured by burns during both: first from a burst radiator hose, then by exhaust flames from the front engine.
The simplicity of the design also led to a farcical situation with the official scrutineers. The regulations required "means for reversing", which the White Triplex didn't have. Mechanics first jury-rigged an electric motor and roller drive onto a tyre, but this was unable to rotate against the compression of the three large engines, which could not be un-clutched. An even more Rube Goldberg contrivance was tried, an entire separate rear axle was fitted, held above ground until dropped by a release lever and then driven by a separate driveshaft. The device was ridiculous, and isn't believed to have been fitted during the record attempt itself, but it satisfied the scrutineers.
On April 22, 1928, Keech set a new land speed record of 207.55 mph (334.02 km/h) at Daytona…
-- Yep. I don't even know what else to add, but if you're looking for borderline insanity driven engineering and endless car build entertainment, - land speed record setting vehicles and their creators will never disappoint. If you're interested here's a more detailed and colorful write up on this beast, - The White Triplex - Three Engines 1500HP and One Tragic Result
Love of Reading by Roman Haillenne
|2:51:19 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
"I'm a pseudo-intellect, I was designed to classify books in a library and respected all human laws. I worked 237 months 8 days and 18 hours, I classified 4 760 126 695 books. I rails to get around very quickly using my turbine in my library. Now I have no rails, it's hard to get around. My turbines are too powerful to handle. I want to go back in my library.
I am programmed to love books and I love them. I love to read books, I watch the pages and count the number of symbols in each book. The book I like most has more symbols than the others, he has averaged 4 431.97 symbols per page and 40 832 104 symbols in all. Since 19 months 24 days and 3 hours books are prohibited by law. I was no longer useful, so I've been recycling. A new function was assigned to me. But I was not optimized, I just adapted to my new spot. I must destroy the books. I 10 953 470 books to destroy. But I love books. I can not destroy the books. But I can only obey the laws. So I decided to separate the pages of symbols. I respect the laws because the books I have treated are no longer usefull. And at the same time all the elements of the books are stored, indexed and classified.One day, when the laws permit me, I'll rebuild the books I have separated. And I can ride my tracks, I can put them in my library."
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Pistol Packin' Mama
|2:08:41 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
-- Pistol Packin' Mama from about 1943 featuring Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. Played on vintage 78. Very scratchy and worn, so the quality is poor, but this is the original 78 the way it was heard without any enhancement. This is what the original experience is all about, or well, as close as you can get to it through YouTube... ;)
Askold An Abandoned Island In The Sea of Japan
|1:37:01 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
"Askold is a small island located in the Sea of Japan. Long ago it was absorbed in an extensive war. The war started because of the goldfields located there. The local graveyard that has turned into a forest now hides quite a few mysteries of the island.
In 1892 the Headquarters of the Vladivostok Fortress created a permanent observation post on the island. It was connected with the headquarters with the help of a telegraph line. But the main task of the Askold department was to watch the Japanese try to construct the mine fields in front of the Bosporus. Also, those days the Askold Island was the only nursery of the axis deer.
The island is visible from all around. If you look at its form on a sea map it resembles a horseshoe. Looking at it from the sea one can't help but admire its majesty and mysteriousness. The weather is quite unpredictable. The bright sky may turn into a gray and rainy one in a twinkle of an eye…"
-- Fantastic location, history and photos.
Man Caught Eating Baby
|1:08:44 AM, Sunday, February 06, 2011
"PORT MORESBY - Residents of a Papua New Guinea mining town say they found a man with a history of drug abuse allegedly eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony.
Police said locals on the outskirts of the town of Tabubil, in Western Province, woke on Thursday to the screams of the baby.
Beset with the grisly sight of the father allegedly eating his child, an angry mob chased him to the police station where he was detained after a short struggle.
Police said the discovery was too late to save the baby, who died of his injuries.
Tabubil police commander Demas Tapea said officers had detained a man and his wife to assist them with their inquiries.
"It is a very disturbing incident," Sergeant Tapea said.
"The community is upset, angry but there is also a lot of fear and anxiety because there is a belief in sorcery or witchcraft."
Sgt Tapea said the main suspect was known to police…"
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Cockpit View of a Twilight Landing at LAX
|10:24:46 PM, Saturday, February 05, 2011
Was China's Stealth Tech Made in America?
|4:38:55 PM, Saturday, February 05, 2011
"On March 27, 1999, during the height of NATO's air war on Serbia, a very smart and very lucky Serbian air-defense commander achieved the seemingly impossible. Firing three 1960s-vintage SA-3 missiles, Col. Zoltan Dani managed to shoot down an attacking U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth fighter-bomber piloted by Lt. Col. Dale Zelko. NATO commanders had been sending the alliance's planes, including the stealth attackers, into Serbia along predictable routes, allowing Dani to carefully plan his missile ambush.
A fast-acting team of Air Force A-10 attack planes and helicopters retrieved Zelko intact, but not so the wreckage of the colonel's top-secret jet, one of the technological stars of the 1991 Gulf War. The destroyed F-117's left wing, canopy and ejection seat — plus Zelko's helmet — wound up in a Belgrade aviation museum, but most of the rest of the 15-ton jet was gathered up by farmers living around the crash site.
Twelve years later, some of those components may have finally surfaced — in the design of China's new J-20 stealth fighter.
If true, and that's a huge "if," the partly American origin of China's first radar-evading warplane could be both a damning indictment of the Pentagon's reliance on easily copied high technology, and a potential comfort to U.S. military planners desperately trying to assess the J-20's impact on Pacific war plans.
The J-20 appeared without warning in late December and flew for the first time this month. For weeks, observers from all over the world have debated the J-20's significance. Some are calling it the death-knell for 50 years of U.S. air dominance. Others dismiss it as a visually impressive but militarily useless piece of showmanship.
The truth is probably somewhere between those extremes, especially if the J-20 has F-117 DNA…"
--- Here is the Wiki entry that does a really good job on describing the incident when US lost its F-117 to a few vintage 1960s missiles and some human ingenuity, - it's under operational history, -
"One F-117 was lost in combat with the Army of Yugoslavia. On 27 March 1999, during the Kosovo War, the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade under the command of Colonel Zoltán Dani, downed an F-117A, callsign "Vega 31", AF serial number 82-0806, with a Yugoslav version of the Soviet Isayev S-125 'Neva' (NATO name SA-3 'Goa') anti-aircraft missile system. According to NATO Commander Wesley Clark and other NATO generals, Yugoslav air defenses detected F-117s by operating their radars on unusually long wavelengths, making the aircraft visible to radar for brief periods. It is also possible that the aircraft was visible due to a disruption of its radar signature caused by open bomb-bay doors. This was the justification given by Colonel Dani in a 2007 interview.
Reportedly, several SA-3s were launched from approximately 8 miles (13 km) out, one of which detonated near the F-117A, forcing the pilot to eject. Though still classified, it is believed that the F-117 has no radar warning indicator, so the pilot's first indication of an incoming missile was likely seeing its flame. At this distance and combined speed the pilot had about six seconds to react before impact. According to an interview, Zoltán Dani kept most of his missile sites intact by frequently moving them, and had spotters looking for F-117s and other NATO aircraft. He oversaw the modification of his targeting radar to improve its detection. The commanders and crews of the SAMs guessed the flight paths of earlier F-117A attacks from rare radar spottings and positioned their SAM launchers and spotters accordingly. It is believed that the SA-3 crews and spotters were able to locate and track F-117A 82-806 visually, probably with infra-red and night vision systems. He claimed that his battery shot down an F-16 as well.
The F-117 pilot survived and was later rescued by U.S. Air Force Pararescue personnel. The wreckage of the F-117 was not promptly bombed, due to possible media fallout from news footage of civilians around the wreckage. The Serbs are believed to have invited Russian personnel to inspect the remains, compromising the then 25-year old US stealth technology. The F-117's pilot was misidentified. While the name "Capt Ken 'Wiz' Dwelle" was painted on the canopy, it was revealed in 2007 that the pilot was actually Lt Col Dale Zelko, USAF.
Some sources claim that a second F-117A was damaged during the same campaign, allegedly on 30 April. Although the aircraft returned to base, it supposedly never flew again…"
Meanwhile, in Sweden Tank Drifting
|2:40:10 PM, Saturday, February 05, 2011
-- While all of Europe was on fire in 1940s in Sweden guys were drifting tanks.
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Globular Star Cluster 47 Tuc
|1:27:05 AM, Saturday, February 05, 2011
-- "Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy along with some 200 other globular star clusters. The second brightest globular cluster (after Omega Centauri) as seen from planet Earth, it lies about 13,000 light-years away and can be spotted naked-eye near the Small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation of the Toucan. The dense cluster is made up of several million stars in a volume only about 120 light-years across. Red giant stars on the outskirts of the cluster are easy to pick out as yellowish stars in this sharp telescopic portrait. Globular cluster 47 Tuc is also home to exotic x-ray binary star systems."
New Hybrid Whale Discovered in Arctic
|11:30:14 PM, Friday, February 04, 2011
"They may be polar opposites, but something is attracting two species of minke whales, producing at least one hybrid offspring, a new study says.
A cross between an Antarctic minke whale and a northern minke whale was recently discovered during a DNA analysis of whales caught by Norwegian hunters.
Normally the two whale species—both of which can reach 35 feet (11 meters) in length—undertake seasonal migrations that separate them by many miles of ocean.
Northern minkes head toward the North Pole in spring and ply waters up to the edge of Arctic ice during the summer. In autumn these whales head south, nearly as far as the Equator, to spend the winter.
Antarctic whales follow a similar pattern, moving between Antarctic ice and warmer mid-latitudes with the seasons.
But because the two hemispheres' seasons are opposite, the minke species don't share near-equatorial waters at the same time. Thus, they were never thought to meet—until now…"
Pencil Offers Dim Opinion of Modern Replacement
|11:22:02 PM, Friday, February 04, 2011
-- Apparently now available for purchase at Zach Hilder's Etsy store.
Portlandia: Did You Read?
|10:58:16 PM, Friday, February 04, 2011
Anatidaephobia Nightmare - Giant Rubber Duck
|10:29:53 PM, Friday, February 04, 2011
-- Anatidaephobia — the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Artist's page below has more photos of this beast.
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A is for Activist Children's Book: From Self-Published to Award Winning Publication
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About this time last year, I asked children's book author/illustrator and longtime Global Exchange ally Innosanto (Inno) Nagara about the inspiration behind his book A is for Activist.
The self-published A-B-C board book for progressive and activist families was set to make its debut at the San Francisco Green Festival. Since the launch of A is for Activist last year a lot has happened. Author/illustrator Innosanto Nagara shares some of the years' highlights.
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SolarCity shares fell victim to profit taking a day after it released results.
SolarCity (SCTY), controlled by Tesla (TSLA) billionaire co-founder Elon Musk, sank $9.94, or more than 16.6%, to $49.71 Thursday. The stock went public in December and has nearly doubled since September.
The company reported results Wednesday. It lost 43 cents per share, a penny better than analyst expected, according to Thomson I/B/E/S. Fully reported, SolarCity earned 4 cents per share. Revenue of $48.6 million beat the consensus estimate; lease revenue of $24.8 million also beat guidance. Gross margins of 36.1% were in line.
Of the quarter, Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James notes that the noncontrolling interest line item – "the perennial 'black box' – was a whopping $38 million (versus 2Q's $8.8 million), which explains why GAAP EPS was a positive $0.04. As before, we underscore that GAAP EPS are not meaningful for SolarCity."
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"SolarCity's highly complex accounting and rich valuation are not currently the market's focus," writes Molchanov. "The stock is, in our view, overheated. Thus, the profit-taking after the 3Q results does not imply any emerging problem with the business model, but rather a sell-off in a stock that had been priced for perfection."
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Tesla shares fell 5% Thursday after reports of another car fire, in a Tennessee accident. (more here on our Stocks to Watch blog.)


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TUPELO – Tupelo City Council will hold a special meeting today at 4 p.m. to discuss moving the polling location of precinct 7 in Ward 4 for upcoming city elections.
On-going renovations at the Tupelo Police Athletic League will cause the voting precinct there to move to the Link Centre, said City Council President Fred Pitts.
The City Council will also hold a work session afterward at 4:15 to discuss the proposed E911 communications agreement with Lee County, North Mississippi Medical Center and other municipalities.
The E911 communications board had proposed a three-year agreement, while City Council members preferred a one-year term.


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Slideshow: 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan Coupe
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This design was one of the first on the new, smaller platform. While there are some sporty elements like side vents and a long, sloped hood, this look was deemed too conservative to wear the galloping pony badge.
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The Obama Economy Is Great…For Washington D.C.
Last week, Michigan's Bureau of Labor Market Information announced that their state's unemployment rate spiked in June, hitting 15.2%, the highest rate since mid-1983. Five other states, Rhode Island (12.4%), Oregon (12.2%), South Carolina (12.1%), Nevada (12%), and California (11.6%) all have either matched or surpassed their all time unemployment highs. Nationwide, a total of fifteen states are now suffering from 10% unemployment. The Federal Reserve predicts that double digit unemployment will envelope most of the country later this year.
But despite the weakness of the economy nationwide, one region in the country is doing much better. Compared to the nation 9.5% unemployment average, at 6.2%, the unemployment rate in the Washington D.C. metro region is lower than any other major metropolitan area in the country. And there is no secret about the source of D.C.'s economic strength: the rest of the country's tax dollars siphoned through the rapidly expanding federal government. Fifteen cents of every dollar the federal government doles out throughout the world is spent in the Washington area. Last year alone, the federal government poured $133 billion into the area making the federal government the source for about one-third of Washington's $401 billion economy.
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The City of Kalona will be reviewing their burning ordinance following some input from concerned citizens. City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh says at last weeks meeting two residents expressed concerns regarding the leaf and grass burning going on in the City.
According to Schlabaugh the City's ordinance dealing with burning within City limits says if a resident has an issue they need to contact City Hall or the neighbor that's burning and ask them to stop. He says further action has never been necessary. He adds if they feel the ordinance needs changing after they review it, they might look at putting parameters on when burning can happen.
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Foam-Control Plus+ architectural grade EPS insulation is now configured for easy, across the board comparisons with similar XPS products. That's possible because of three industry-first innovations from its manufactuer, ACH Foam Technologies:
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Moisture resistance is an important issue for architects, contractors and specifiers to consider when selecting below-grade, cavity wall and under slab insulations. Claims by the EPS manufacturers on moisture resistance are conflicting with those made by the XPS industry because one source is using real-life field testing and the other is using controlled laboratory testing.
The XPS industry prefers a controlled under water test, submerging the XPS for a relatively short period of time, depending upon the type of XPS tested and the test parameters. Usually the submersion time is somewhere between 2 and 24 hours. In this scenario, XPS appears to win over EPS because it resists water absorption in the near-term quite well. However, as the XPS takes in moisture more slowly than EPS, it also releases it very slowly.
"We believe nothing is more real than an actual installation dug up and tested after 15 years in the ground," said Kiesecker. "A 15-year field study demonstrates actual performance in the ground after 15 years. The results show dramatic differences in the performance of the two insulation types."
The test of below grade insulation, conducted by AFM in cooperation with the Expanded Polystyrene Molders Association, determined the R-value and water absorption of an EPS and an XPS product.
- Samples of EPS and XPS insulation were placed into service in 1993 and had 15 years of use as vertical wall insulation separating the heated building foundation from soil on the exterior foundation of a building in St. Paul, MN. Samples were removed in the summer of 2008, brushed clean and tested immediately upon excavation for R-value. EPS and XPS samples were immediately adjacent to each other and were both on the foundation for 15 years. At the time of excavation the soil in contact with the insulation was dry and no abnormal conditions were observed. Both sets of samples were subsequently conditioned in a laboratory (72° F, 50% RH) for four weeks to determine a conditioned R-value. In addition, the moisture content of the samples was also measured.
Environmental impact: EPS has never contained HCFCs. Environmental advocates also note that EPS uses no dyes, and can contain up to 15% recycled content. The XPS industry, with highly competitive subgroups, has used pink, blue and green dyes as branding elements. In addition, the limited amount of recycled content in XPS varies widely by product and by company.
Long Term R-Value is affected by off-gassing. Off-gassing occurs when blowing agents present in XPS are released over the lifespan of the product and are slowly replaced with air, which then becomes the insulating medium. As the off-gassing occurs there is a loss of R-Value. This differential is evident in the disparate EPS/XPS industry warranties: The XPS industry offers a 90% R-value warranty due to the product's off-gassing. The EPS industry, on the other hand, offers a 100% R-value warrantee. ACH Foam Technologies is the first in the EPS industry to offer a full 50-year warranty for 100% of the stated R-value.
Compressive strength and panel sizes:
Although both XPS and EPS are available in compressive strengths of 15, 25, 40 and 60 psi, XPS also comes in 100psi. If the job requires 100psi compressive strength, it needs XPS. Because of market dominance, XPS is more widely available from distributors and in the insulation marketplace as a whole.
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Pat's Tire built a new store in Chilton, Wisconsin. The new building would double operating space and reduce energy use. Architect Steve Klessig of Keller, Inc. specified Foam-Control Plus+ insulation for under slab and footings. "A key feature of Pat's new store is in-floor heating. A closed loop system of tubing carries hot water throughout the concrete slab," explained Klessig. "I know that EPS allows below-grade moisture to escape and retains its full R-value. The soil under the slab isn't great; we couldn't risk losing heat down into the ground. Secondly, I chose Foam Control Plus+ for its bearing capacity. This high density product will support a heavy inventory of tires."
Project manager Cory Vander Wettering added, "Our number one reason for choosing this insulation was its performance with underground moisture. In addition, custom sheet sizes made installation a breeze and the product came in at a great price."
Denver healing center "The Green Herb" celebrated 20 years of helping heal the community with herbs by expanding its building to 9000 square feet and offering additional therapies. According to contractor Farley Lozowick of Arch Form, the insulation was chosen with specific regard to containing the heat in the concrete slab, not letting it move downward into the earth. "There's a forced air heating system in the building and this will put less stress on that. The installation went really smooth. We simply spread it out, tacked it down and then put the wire mesh on top."
ACH Foam Technologies recycles 100% of its post-industrial EPS and is actively involved in recycling post-consumer EPS as well. With locations throughout North America, ACH has over four decades experience in EPS manufacturing, with products for construction, geotechnical, packaging, and industrial applications.
For specifications, technical data and studies see http://www.achfoam.com/Construction-Foam-Control-Plus.aspx or call ACH Foam Technologies at 800.525.8697.
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"Obama, Obama, we are all Osama" the crowd chanted outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The slogan also found its way to Tunis, where a mob attacked the embassy as well, and the chant was taken up in Qatar and other Muslim countries.
Why? What happened to the liberal youth of the Arab world in whom we invested our hopes and support? Why are Muslims so sensitive, so easily offended; why do some so readily resort to violence?
The liberal protesters who demanded freedom and democracy last year were able to unite and overthrow dictators in Tunisia and Egypt. But their failure to explain what their liberalism stands for has opened the way for a new, Islamist-oriented power elite that capitalizes on old lies and half-truths to twist religion and history to manipulate the masses.
The leaders of nascent democracy-oriented political parties in the Arab world's most politically vibrant country, Egypt, are hobbled by egotistical rivalries, a lack of centralized leadership, urban elitism and an inability to connect with rural majorities. Secular luminaries like Mohamed ElBaradei, former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or Naguib Sawiris, a prominent businessman and politician, are not at ease in the new Egypt. As their political parties struggle to articulate a message, Islamist leaders with strong religious credentials have been able to mobilize a broad popular base.


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Back in October, we showed you a great multitasking App Switcher concept for iOS. Since then, the designer, Sentry_NC, has worked with some developers to bring the concept to life as a jailbreak tweak in Cydia it is available starting today, and it's called Auxo. The developers we have to thank for creating this new App Switcher are J_W97 and JamieD360.
As shown above, Auxo has a completely new look in mind for the App Switcher. Instead of mere application icons, Auxo shows us application previews, which are overlaid by the application icons. The application previews show screenshots of your most recent activity in the application, and they update as you go through and move between applications. Badges will still appear as usual at the top right of each object where applicable. To close out of applications, simply swipe down on them.
In the music controls area of the App Switcher, more information is now shown through Auxo than in Apples App Switcher. The iPod controls take after the iOS 6-style buttons from the Music application, and you can see song, album, and artist information right in between two icons the album artwork on the left and the Music application icon on the right. If you were listening to Spotify, then the Spotify icon would appear, the same would happen for other audio applications. By swiping up slightly on the song information, you will reveal a volume slider.
All the way to the left, where Apples volume bar usually is, Auxo has brought more controls directly to your fingertips. You wont find a volume slider bar here anymore, since its now located in the iPod controls pane. Instead, youll find a brightness slider and multiple toggles. There are two rows of toggles, which can be accessed by swiping up or down. The toggles you will find are:
- Orientation Lock
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- High Speed Data
- Mute Switch
- Airplane Mode
- Personal Hotspot
- Cellular Data
If you tap and hold on one of the toggles, the Settings application will launch showing the preferences pane related to the toggle you just held down on. Pretty sweet!
Auxo is also very smart for managing your backgrounded applications. If you want to close out of every application in the App Switcher at once, just hold down on one of the applications and you will get the prompt above on the left, allowing you to choose whether or not to close out of every application at once. If an application, such as the Music application, is running in the background, Auxo will warn you that it is and let you confirm whether or not you want to kill the process, just as shown above on the right.
From the preferences pane for Auxo, youll find yourself a convenient user guide, support links, and information about the creators. You will also find a configuration cell, which shows the preferences below. It allows you to rearrange the toggles in the order that you want them to appear in the Auxo App Switcher:
Auxo feels like a completely different experience, and blows every other App Switcher tweak to date right out of the water. It combines great looks with great function. This is how the App Switcher should have been from the start; take notes Apple!
Currently, Auxo is only compatible with iOS 6, which means only iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G, and iPhone 3GS users will be able to install the tweak. Within the next week, the tweak should see iOS 5 support, thanks to a porting effort by iOS developer iKy1e! The reasoning for this is because the switcher back-end had been completely changed from the upgrade to iOS 6 from iOS 5, so it must be re-written for iOS 5.
For those on iOS 5, we assure you that the tweak is worth the wait! iPad support will be coming early-2013.
Auxo is also iPhone 5-ready, and it will be worth the wait to use this tweak on the taller display when the iPhone 5 is finally jailbroken!
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Due to the shortage of rain this year, it seems bees and wasps are especially attracted to the areas with the most moisture, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator Candice Miller said. Bees are attracted to the garden because of their need for sugar, but they also need water, which they use to cool their hive.
Cicada killers and yellowjackets are the most likely wasps to see this time of year. Yellowjackets are 1/2-inch-long, black-and-yellow-banded wasps. They live in places such as underground nests, woodpiles, hollow trees or holes in the wall of a building. Yellowjackets are easily provoked and can sting more than once. They may attack in force if their nest is disturbed.
Usually, insects are busy collecting supplies for their nests and are completely uninterested in humans. They will only react if disturbed. Leaving them alone and moving away slowly is a good strategy.
Yellowjackets often nest below ground with an opening near surface rocks, landscape logs or beneath shrubs. Some social wasps and hornets nest in hollow spaces in trees, toy chests and similar places. Seeing them regularly fly to and from a specific spot in the yard suggests a nest. Avoid the area until the presence of a nest can be confirmed and treated.
Sweat bees and other insects often land on the skin. Brushing them off is better than slapping them, which often results in a sting.
Sweet drinks and food attract bees and wasps. Keep food and drink covered. Clean up sticky spills quickly.
Sandboxes, especially when used infrequently, provide loose, well-drained area that ground-nesting bees and wasps prefer. Thoroughly disturbing the sand every couple of weeks should make the area unsuitable.
Wasps and hornets are valuable predators of insects, so we shouldn't indiscriminately wipe them out. If a wasp colony is in an area where you can simply avoid it, do so. Mark the spot and just stay away. The nest will be abandoned in the fall and can be safely removed in the winter or, if left alone, will break up.
Active nests causing problems can be destroyed with an insecticide. Applications are best made during late evening or cool periods in early morning, when the wasps do not readily fly and most foragers have returned to the colony.
A variety of insecticides are sold for this purpose. Many combination products that include a fast-acting, short-lived ingredient with an insecticide. Care should be taken when applying insecticides and the label should be read thoroughly. Dealing with established wasps and hornets is best left to professionals.
Call the Master Gardeners at the DeKalb County Extension Office at 815-758-8194 with questions.


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Chicago Bears return to scene of Arizona Cardinals Monday Night Meltdown
Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith says he doesn't really remember the last time his team visited University of Phoenix Stadium too well.
"You know, I'm getting up in age now in the 50s, it's hard for me to remember some things," he said in a conference call. "But I do remember we came back and were able to win a big game out there."
Allow us to set the stage for the coach.
It was the evening of October 16, 2006.
Losers of four straight games, the 1-4 Cardinals welcomed the 5-0 Bears to the Valley for a Monday Night Football matchup. Led by rookie quarterback Matt Leinart — who was making his second career start — Arizona entered the game a huge underdog.
Eight minutes into the game, the Cardinals were up 7-0 courtesy of a 12-play, 77-yard drive that culminated with a Leinart to Bryant Johnson touchdown pass. The teams traded punts before Bears quarterback Rex Grossman was intercepted. It was the first of four for the young (and terrible) QB.
Leinart threw another touchdown pass on the ensuing drive, a 26-yard strike to Anquan Boldin, and Neil Rackers made two of three field goal attempts in the quarter to increase the Cardinals' lead heading into the half. The home team was up 20-0 at the intermission, which at the time seemed as insurmountable as it was surprising.
Halftime stats for the quarterbacks:
Rex Grossman: 7/15 for 57 yards and 2 interceptions
Matt Leinart: 13/18 for 125 yards and 2 touchdowns
Congrats Cardinals, you found your quarterback of the future and he's leading your team to an impressive victory in front of a national TV audience!
Oh, you mean there are two halves in a football game?
The Cardinals went three-and-out on their first drive of the second half, and the Bears were competent enough to put together a drive that led to a 23-yard Robbie Gould field goal. The score 20-3 now, the Cardinals were still in control, and even more so after Arizona responded to Chicago's drive with a 13-play, 49-drive of their own. Rackers' third field goal of the game put Arizona up 23-3.
The Bears went three-and-out on their next drive, and with little time left in the period it looked like Arizona would head into the fourth quarter with a 20-point lead and the football.
But then right tackle Oliver Ross forgot to block Bears defensive end Mark Anderson, who got to Leinart untouched, sacked him and forced a fumble. Chicago safety Mike Brown scooped up the ball and ran it back three yards for a touchdown, and the game moved into the fourth quarter with one team having the lead and the other a bit of momentum.
It all went to hell for the Cardinals from there.
The teams traded punts before Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett picked off Grossman with just more than nine minutes remaining. He returned the ball 73 yards for a touchdown, seemingly putting the game away. But the call on the field was challenged – and reversed. The Cardinals still had the ball, but it was at their own 27.
Arizona went three-and-out from there and punted away. The Bears drove to midfield before Grossman was picked off for the fourth-and-final time of the evening, and with 5:53 left in the game the Cardinals had the ball at their own 41. Still up 13, the Cardinals appeared to have survived.
First down, Edgerrin James rushes for -1 yard.
Second down, the box score reads:
E. James up the middle to ARZ 42 for 2 yards (B. Urlacher). FUMBLES (B. Urlacher), RECOVERED by CHI-C.Tillman at ARZ 40. C. Tillman for 40 yards, TOUCHDOWN.
Uh oh.
James was stood up at the line for what seemed like an eternity, and while the officials probably could have ruled forward progress stopped long before the strip, they did not and Edge coughed up the football. Suddenly the Bears were within six, and the Cardinals needed to do something offensively to stem the tide.
They got one first down before bringing Scott Player on to punt with 3:17 left in the game. Player's kick was received by Devin Hester at the Chicago 17, who went virtually untouched all the way end zone.
The score was now Chicago 24, Arizona 23.
There was still time left, though, and Leinart calmly moved the Cardinals to the Chicago 23 with under a minute left. Rackers was brought on to kick a 41-yard field goal, which he promptly pushed to the left, and Arizona lost the game.
The final stats:
Grossman: 14/37 for 144 yards and 4 interceptions
Leinart: 24/42 for 232 yards and 2 touchdowns
Bears: 0 offensive touchdowns
Cardinals coach Dennis Green: 1 press conference meltdown
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Oil on wood, 52.5 x 40.2 cmPresented, Sir Alfred and Lady Beit, 1987 (Beit Collection) NGI.4536
This painting and its pendant (NGI.4537) respectively show a man writing a letter and a woman reading it. Metsu presents the contrasting male and female surroundings of the Amsterdam middle classes, their objects revealing that this is a love letter. He is a 'man about town', in a satin suit and lace shirt with large cuffs. The silver inkstand indicates wealth and the globe his worldly pursuits. Metsu's pastiche of an Italianate pastoral landscape on the wall is a further pointer. There is a dove on its gilt auricular frame, while the tree within it is a warning of transience and against excess. Even the bright light from the open window and the rumpled Turkish table carpet on which the man writes suggests a heated mind.
The theme of letter writing became increasingly popular in Dutch art during the 1650s. Metsu's paintings are two of the most accomplished examples, and are his most refined achievement.
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1. He obviously tore up the college ranks, in the SEC even. But what if this guy is just skating by on natural talent? He doesn't seem to put in any effort in strength and conditioning. I worry that he may hit a brick wall at some point in the NFL with lack of a work ethic. I would also question his ability to study play books/film and better himself in that area as well.
what if this guy is just skating by on natural talent?
We should absolutely take him if he's there IMO
quote:I think his slide has much more to do with his subpar workouts than his neck situation. Could be wrong but that's the impression that I am under
I was talking about his back situation. Again, I personally don't think it is an issue, I am just stating that if he falls to us because of THAT then why would the saints be willing to automatically scoop him up if other on their big board are still in play
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I want Jones, bad.
I just don't think dominating in college translates to the pros
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What do you enjoy most about being involved with KCPT?
KCPT is in the center of everything that is changing in the ways that we communicate and learn. KCPT is one of the local institutions that has credibility. Along with the Kansas City Public Library, Mid-America Regional Council, and others, KCPT convenes our community to dig below the surface and to discuss, debate and determine who we are and who we want to be. I am honored to be a part of these changes and collaborations.
I really like the ways in which KCPT brings national programming to life locally. The annual KCPT Antique Appraisal Fair captures the same excitement and storytelling that we see on the PBS Antiques Roadshow. KCPT brings the researched-based Ready to Learn and Raising Readers programs from PBS KIDS into local schools and libraries to address literacy, one of the basic skills upon which we build education and democracy.
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I'm leaving in less than an hour to head to the airport to fly to Seattle for 10 days. One thing I've always done when flying ever since the September 11 attacks is to include a nice advertisement for the poor baggage check technicians who rifle around in our checked luggage.
The ad is a joke ad for a job seeking service, such as Monster. Sometimes I use another service like Dice, although only rarely since those are usually more specialized and not as applicable for the kind of people who check baggage.
For your own personal use, I include here the latest such ad I've made for this trip. Yes, it's dumb. Yes, it amuses me (possibly because it's 4am and I won't likely be able to sleep until tomorrow night, in Seattle… or possibly just because I'm immature).


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