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Sportsbooks got buried tonight, with Alabama covering on top of the four NFL favorites all covering. I talked to some guys in the industry tonight and they said only the Bengals game saved the sportsbooks from a complete disaster. There was a late opinion on the Bengals, driving that number down from +4.5 to +3.5. The parlay cards were frozen at +4.5 so many guys used Cincinnati. Otherwise, the books were avalanched on Packers money after the news on Ponder, and the trend all week was Ravens money. Seattle took some action from -2.5 to -3.
Lots of parlays cashing tonight. The sportsbooks got hit with considerable Notre Dame money line action, which is typical of a name brand popular team in a championship game, but Alabama bettors gave the points. The sportsbooks needed Alabama to win but not cover. Once that didn't happen, they were forced to pay off the all-chalk tickets.
Here's a link indicating how bad it got late this season for sportsbooks, including the MGM forced to dip into emergency cash to pay off all the winning tickets:
"Kornegay also said that the books got killed on preseason over/under prop bets."
I noticed that last week, after looking at the opening lines and where they moved. Virtually every move was correct, and in several cases the number fell exactly wrong for the sportsbooks, like the Dolphins winning 7 when you could have played either under 7.5 or over 6.5, depending when you shopped. I had Cleveland under 6 but you could also have played over 4.5. In fact, one of my colleagues hedged some of his wager with 1/3 the amount on over 4.5, so he won both ways when it fell 5.
The sportsbooks no doubt be more conservative beginning next season, putting those numbers out later and not as prone to move the digits. Instead of moves from 7.5 to 6.5 they'll be more prone to stay at 7 and increase the juice on the under. Anything to avoid the dreaded middle. The NFL may be a copycat league but Las Vegas is a scared city, even if they are desperate to pretend otherwise and avoid that reputation. Win more than they prefer and they either chase you out or change the rules. When the Rams won the Super Bowl at 150/1 initial odds in 1999 that caused the industry to slash prices on longshots. Now even inept teams might open at 50/1 or 75/1. I have to laugh when I see those odds quoted. The Canes are a whopping 25/1 to win the BCS title game next season, according to Bovada. Anyone who takes that price, I'd like to book their action for the rest of my life.
Regarding Robert Griffin, he's always been horrendous at sensing pressure and avoiding contact. Shocking lack of instincts along those lines, given the speed and athletic ability. I can't stand the guy and it started early. As a freshman at Baylor all he had to do was sidestep a clod defender and make a simple pass to a wide open receiver for me to win a bet, a healthy bet. Instead, Griffin stood there and allowed the plodding mediocrity to hammer him. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. After his early knee trouble at Baylor, Griffin compensated by running sideways out of the pocket as soon as he sensed anything. Sometimes he sensed trouble that wasn't there. He'd literally turn his back to the line of scrimmage and dart sideways and a little bit backwards, setting up shop in a clear area. Initially he'd make nothing of those manipulated circumstances but during his final season it actually clicked, and smack from the opener, frustrating TCU. Long late improvised completions. I thought he'd regress to the mean as the season unfolded but it didn't happen. There's no denying Griffin's results the past two seasons has been beyond my expectation or wishes. He's had offenses nicely tailored for him, notably this season. We'll see where it goes.
I still handicap him as a phony, and plenty of familiar themes have surfaced along those lines. He goes out of his way to describe himself as a man. Not once, many times. He tweeted something about warriors and not many people being actually in the field of battle. It was deflection toward criticism. Inane defensive self-absorbed nonsense, the type of thing Lebron James would be crucified for. He felt threatened by the praise toward Kirk Cousins to the point he described himself as the "best option for the team" and "that's why I'm the starter." This was immediately following a playoff defeat, at home after a 14-0 lead. I'll go so far as to say Robert Griffin was quite pleased that Cousins flopped late in that playoff game, that he in fact silently rooted that way from the sidelines. Otherwise Cousins moves tighter in reputation, with whispers toward next season, given Griffin's health. Robert Griffin and his super hero socks can't have that type of thing.
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Soon here in WI fall turkey tags will be awarded, everyone who applied should get drawn and then on August 24 at 10a leftover tags go on sale. No hurry to buy in units 1,3,4 they don't sell out. However, that may change some year soon the number of fall turkey hunters in WI is on the increase up from historic average of 26,000 to 37,000 in 2012. That is big jump in one year perhaps I will quit urging my fellow hunters to try fall turkey hunting. However I have it on good word should the number of fall hunters increase WDNR will increase the number of tags available.
If you have a turkey dog make sure you are getting the dog and yourself in shape. The fall success rate is only 12% meaning you must wear out some boots to find the turkeys.
The weather is good take some hikes with your calls and call. Other than Vic pointing the turkeys out to me calling is the only way I know to get turkeys to show themselves in the dense summer cover. I wrote about this here- http://www.charlieelk.com/2013/turkeys- ... he-summer/
Turkeys respond to the right calls any time of year.
Heck I heard gobbling while hiking this morning and if that doesn't get the hunter's anticipation going I don't what else will.

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Posted: November 21st, 2012
Combine the sugar, salt, and 1/2 cup water in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and make sure the sugar has dissolved; add the cinnamon stick. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and let the syrup cool completely. Strain through a fine strainer into a 1-quart liquid measuring cup, and discard the solids in the strainer.
Puree the hulled strawberries in batches in a blender. Measure out 2 cups of puree (save any extra for another use) and combine it with the syrup.
Distribute the quartered strawberries among ten 1/3-cup pop molds. Add the fruit mixture to each mold, leaving about 1/4 inch at the top to allow for expansion. Stir gently with a Popsicle stick to distribute the quartered strawberries. Freeze until partially frozen, about 1 hour. Insert sticks and freeze again until the pops are fully set, 4 to 6 hours more.
To unmold, dip the mold in a deep pan of hot water until the pops pull out easily, 30 to 40 seconds, or let sit at room temperature for 5 to 10 minutes. Unmold and store the pops in individual resealable plastic bags; they are best eaten within 3 weeks.


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Making guns safe and believable in the Rep's 'Assassins'
More than 40 shots are fired onstage during the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of the musical "Assassins." Properties director Jim Guy makes sure the weapons used are both safe and believable.
Go behind the scenes at the Rep and learn about the firearms used in the show in this video.
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Russell Crowe will star in the November 6, 2009 movie Nottingham.
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"Doubtless there were few red-blooded American boys of the 19th century who did not share Tom Sawyer and his companions' sincere preference to being 'outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States.'" (Michael Patrick Hearn, American literary scholar and specialist in children's literature)
I love listening to or reading books--especially fantasy, science fiction, children's, classics, & historical.
This was a wonderful listen! The chapters (linked short stories) recount how Robin Hood comes to be an outlaw in Sherwood Forest, meets the key members of his band, and merrily adventures with them in and around Sherwood Forest in twelfth-century England. Howard Pyle's book has many impressive and pleasing points, among them:
exciting story-telling, rollicking lust for life, savory conversations, compelling songs, apt aphorisms, beautiful descriptions of nature, irreverent chastising of corrupt authority figures, interesting figures of speech (comparing, for example, the swift passing of Robin's anger to a breath on a window pane or the slow brain of a cobbler to a ball of unbaked bread dough), great humor (ranging from comical slapstick to witty banter and funny irony), and thoughtful movement from the light-hearted merriment of youth to the joy and grief of nostalgic maturity.
Christopher Cazenove reads with a clear voice and a charming manner and an effective range of accents and moods for the various characters, among them the good-hearted and stout Robin, the brawny and faithful Little John, the refined Will Scarlet, the querulous Sheriff of Nottingham, and the bestial bandit Guy of Gisbourne. Cazenove even remains in each character's voice as he sings the occasional catchy or lovely folk ballads. He infuses his reading with such meaning, humor, and life that listening to this audiobook was a pure pleasure that made me smile and laugh and finally moved me to tears.
"A splendid reading of the classic!"
Howard Pyle was the writer who put together stray tales of the English outlaw and created the narrative of Robin Hood we know today. His original novel is still great fun -- it took my kids (ages 9 & 10) a little while to get used to the language, but then they absolutely loved it. They've been acting out scenes and cracking themselves up. The narrator of this edition, Christopher Cazenove, is spot-on perfect for the material, too.
College English professor who loves classic literature, psychology, neurology and hates pop trash like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey.
"A Delight!"
This great classic is a wonderful read for anyone who loves the adventure and vivid characters found in the novels of Dumas or the wit and whimsy discovered in those of Twain. Reading Pyle's Robin Hood is like taking the two together in one mighty draft of fine literature!
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"Great Fun!"
This is considered a "kid's book." But much like with The Hobbit, it's written so much better than a lot of adult novels today. Sign of the times, I suppose. But as a kid's book, this puts aside the grim and gritty of today's fare and gives the reader something fun and truly wonderful. I've grown up reading this book, and to hear it via Audible is a treat.
Each chapter is a self-contained event, often with the next chapter building making a callback to the previous ones as a reminder. This means that while it's essentially a group of short stories, there is a continuity for those who appreciate such things.
Readers who are familiar with Robin Hood in his many multimedia incarnations will probably be quite surprised to learn both Robin's "origin story" and some of the other tidbits here and there. Just because it's fun, it doesn't mean it doesn't have a bit of dark thrown in for added weight. Pyle doesn't talk down to the reader, and as the title suggests, there's more comedy and farce than anything else. This book is a classic, and it holds up. Highly recommended. It's a great read for anyone of any age.
"Wonderful version"
I love the playfulness and characterizations in this performance! If you enjoy the Robin Hood myths, this is a fun version. And this can serve to answer all of the other questions listed here, so forgive me as I repeat myself.
I love the playfulness and characterizations in this performance! If you enjoy the Robin Hood myths, this is a fun version. And this can serve to answer all of the other questions listed here, so forgive me as I repeat myself.
I learned of this book from John Senior's list of books at the end of the Death of Christian Culture. The older English of Pyle's composition is beautiful and was educational for my children. The stories themselves are delightful. Finally, I cannot praise the reader enough: just listen to a sample. He does wonderfully with different character types.
"Fun & entertaining, if slow in parts"
A great listen - with humor, adventure and a life lesson here & there! The old English storytelling can be a bit difficult to wade through sometimes but worth the effort. The narration is excellent, with well defined, engaging characters.
"Loved the story Presentation was ok"
The singing wasn't our favorite we sped through some of the songs. The characters were represented well.
I loved it except for the end. Great narrator and great adventure! A must read if you are a Robin Hood fan.
"Well Done."
Anything by Howard Pyle is worth reading or listening to, and Christopher Cazenove is an excellent narrator.
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The game that got the beat going on Nintendo DS is back with a brand-new, equally addictive version for Wii. Instead of using the DS stylus to tap and flick the screen, players keep in time with the music with a simple push of the A button or the A and B buttons together. With more than 50 new mini-games to master, Rhythm Heaven Fever ($29.99) brings the same wackiness of the DS game to the Wii. Who knew that stabbing beans with a fork and slicing stuff with a samurai sword could be so musical?
Also like the DS version, the more you play, the more content you unlock—including bonus features and multiplayer mode. In multiplayer mode, you can find out if you and your friends are truly marching to the beat of the same drum. Up to two people can play at a time with 10 mini-games from which to choose. You'll both be grooving to the beat in no time.
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Biggest 'Breaking Dawn' Sex Secrets Revealed
'Breaking Dawn Part 2' is bound to be super steamy, thanks to the hot sex scenes! Kristen and Rob reveal secrets to their onscreen love-making!
Breaking Dawn Part 2 will be released on Friday Nov. 16, but fans can hardly wait to see Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) in action — in bed! (We feel you.)
To help ease your pain, we've put together the biggest secrets that Rob and Kristen have revealed about their steamy onscreen hookup!
"There's only so much the human body is capable of!" Rob told Hollywood.com.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you EXCITED for Breaking Dawn Part 2?
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NIH to invest $100 mn on HIV research
Singapore: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), US, plans to invest an additional $100 million over the next three fiscal years to expand support for research directed towards finding a cure for HIV.
In the three decades since AIDS was first reported, the NIH has been the global leader in research to understand, prevent, diagnose, and treat HIV infection and its many associated conditions. NIH-funded researchers, in partnership with academia and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, have helped develop more than 30 life-saving antiretroviral drugs and drug combinations for treating HIV infection. These antiretroviral drugs have transformed life with HIV infection for those who have access to and can tolerate the therapies. However, treatment requires lifelong access and adherence to these medications and management of treatment-related toxicities and clinical complications.
Important recent advances in basic and therapeutics research aimed at eliminating viral reservoirs in the body are spurring scientists to design and conduct research aimed at a cure or lifelong remission of HIV infection. Key stakeholders from academia, government, foundations, advocacy groups and industry have concluded that developing a cure for HIV is one of the most important biomedical challenges of the 21st century. This will require an extraordinary, collaborative global effort, including public-private partnerships and innovative alliances to share scientific expertise and accelerate the search for a cure.
Dr Anthony S Fauci, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said, "Although the HIV/AIDS pandemic can theoretically be ended with a concerted and sustained scale-up of implementation of existing tools for HIV prevention and treatment, the development of a cure is critically important, as it may not be feasible for tens of millions of people living with HIV infection to access and adhere to a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy."
Dr Fauci noted, "Our growing understanding of the cellular hiding places or 'reservoirs' of HIV, the development of new strategies to minimize or deplete these reservoirs, and encouraging reports of a small number of patients who have little or no evidence of virus despite having halted antiretroviral therapy, all suggest that the time is ripe to pursue HIV cure research with vigor."
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Symposium reflects on religious liberty
Posted October 17, 2008; 02:36 p.m.
Scholars of law, religion and public affairs will convene at Princeton for a symposium titled "Reflections on Religious Liberty" from 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in 219 Burr Hall.
The event marks the 400th anniversary of the journey of some 100 British citizens who fled to Holland in 1608 in the face of religious persecution. Some members of that separatist group later became the Mayflower Pilgrims who settled the Plymouth colony in America in 1620 in their quest for religious liberty from Britain's state church.
In honor of this anniversary, speakers at the symposium will reflect on the status of religious freedom around the world, asking what has gone wrong for millions of people whose freedom has been violated and taking a closer look at instances where religious freedom thrives.
The event is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute.
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Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 MEGA OISBy Kevin Carter - Wednesday February 13 2013 Lens Review
While this practically pocket-sized lens will only appeal to Panasonic and Olympus Micro 3/4 users, with an 35mm equivalent focal length of 200-600mm f/4-5.6, this lens may seem like an attractive option for wildlife photographers. In terms of image quality, the resolution is consistent across the image field while vignetting (lens shading) is well-controlled although the peak resolution is a bit low and acutance at 300mm (600mm equivalent) is, unsurprisingly, lower still. However, the sharpness at 150mm (300mm equivalent) is pretty good. Furthermore, at around $500, the price is relatively accessible.
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With the vagaries of photographing wildlife, the flexibility of a telephoto zoom would appear to be an attractive solution. However, image quality is often a compromise at the maximum aperture and longest focal length, typically the most crucial settings. We've pulled some lens data from our database and put together a round up of popular zoom lenses over the years (and made some comparisons with high performance primes). Read on to find out which models have the best image quality.
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I am relatively insensitive to colours, especially in the red-green corridor and your graphs make zero sense to me. The subtle intonation and colour you have in the >12 area and between 5 and 6 looks identical to me.
Is there any chance that you could allow the choice of the colour on one end so that they are differentiated sufficiently for everyone to be able to make sense of the results?
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Making Faces screens in San Francisco
Bay Area typophiles gathered at Typekit for a screening of the documentary "Making Faces".Read more
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Captain's Quarters & hotel BLUE 1st Annual Fall Mustang, Classic Ford, & Motorcycle ShowLocation: Captain's Quarters
We are excited to announce the Captain's Quarters & hotel BLUE 1st Annual Fall Mustang, Classic Ford, & Motorcycle Show on October 5th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Event entry is open to all registered guests of hotel BLUE and Captain's Quarters Resort and all Vacation Myrtle Beach (VMB) resorts who will be staying that weekend. Please call Captain's Quarters at 800-743-8572 to register for the event.
Viewing of the show is open to the public.
Guests of these 13 resorts will be showing off their Mustangs, Classic Fords and Motorcycles in the empty lot across from Captains Quarters Resort. If by chance it rains it will held be in the first level of the parking garage.
Prizes will be awarded to:
Mustang, "Best of Show"
Harley, "Best of Show"
Classic Ford, "Best of Show"
Also, there will be a prize for the car or bike that travels the longest distance to get here.
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Judges will be representatives of each property, and Steve Smith with Coastal Carolina Mustang Club.Next Date:


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RMI is working to accelerate the transformation from an aging, centralized electricity system reliant on fossil fuels to one that is efficient and resilient, with renewable resources widely distributed into local communities rather than concentrated in big power plants.
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What are leading DC power standards for picogrids? The "last 1000 ft"? Just as AC was divided into 110V or 240V standards, should DC also have 2 (no more, no less) standards? One for high-power devices and one for low power devices?
It seems to me a practical way is to set a goal/vision that by 2030 50 % of all the major building load (more than 2 MW), major industrial sites, small municipalities, all the campuses (including DOD facilities of more than 2MW) will be distributed. Studies indicates it is a doable goal. Benefits reliability, security, cost, better environment. Almost all the technologies will be available (2-20 MW storage, Demand Response 4 or 5th generation, advanced SCADA system, advance net metering
We must raise the top of mind awareness of the average citizen. There is so much misinformation that most people are forming opinions based on flawed information. Without local policy that begins to level the playing field with traditional energy generation nothing will happen.
I would like to support rmi by offering My patented design to promote alternative energy through the entertainment industry. Please google my name, Kirk Bowsrman or The Glass House Initiative for more information. All the besr, Kirk Bowerman.
What about the push now for Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate, hydromethane, methane ice, fire ice, natural gas hydrate, or gas hydrate for fueling the next generation power plants? - Yet another delay in investments for renewables, and a continued push for petro-combustibles. As long as petro is cheaper, the general public is not ready to replace a cheaper source of energy for a more expensive, albeit cleaner one. How do we redirect resources into renewable, cleaner energy so that it also becomes affordable?
Please note David Crane (CEO RNG) is moving towards with the new vision of distributed generation. Countries like Germany are ahead of curve.
I supported! :-) Aren't the current "leaders" part of the problem? :-) A "volks-power' solution with just enough regulatory support to keep the old central-supplier model from taking over again would be the key to success.
An invitation to E-lab:I work for the World Bank on small power producer regulations in Tanzania. Prior to this I was a writer with Home Power magazine. I'd like to share a vision of a the electric "grid of the future". Perhaps some hackers, artists, and "E-lab-orators" would be interested in building it. To many utility engineers, the greatest constraint to significant deployment of renewable energy is that these sources are, by and large, intermittent. Some people see this as a fatal flaw with renewables. I don't. The problem, I believe, is that in the past 100 years consumers have become very disconnected from where electricity actually comes from and the relative abundance of electricity in real time. Utilities have been able to oblige because storable, dispatchable fossil fuel powered electricity has been relatively cheap. But we could have a very different system in which nudges to consumers modulate demand in response to supply.Folks living on 'home power' off-grid type systems in which their homes are powered by sun or windpower are used to the idea that sometimes there is an abundance of electricity, and other times it is in short supply. When power is abundant, you do things like your laundry, or fire up the electric oven for cooking. In times of scarcity, you're careful to turn out the lights. Sometimes you need to go turn on the diesel generator (noisy, smelly, expensive to operate).Similarly, farmers harvest when the sun is shining. When it's rainy, they do other things.Utilities, increasingly, face the same reality of temporal changes in electricity abundance. Sometimes electricity is abundant. It was particularly so in spring of 2011 in BPA territory when winds in the Columbia Gorge were gusting and the snowmelt was significant. The wholesale price of power in Spring 2011 at the transmission level actually dipped below zero at times. But as a retail customer using this electricity, I had no clue of the abundance at the time. My light switches were mute.Other times electricity is scarce -- think a cold, still night in the Pacific Northwest when many folks' electric heaters are turned on, or a hot, breezeless day in California when air conditioners are cranking.What if, in every home that volunteered to do so, a high-tech electricity display device communicated, in an artistic and playful way, what the state of abundance/scarcity was in the grid? I'm imagining a web-connected display kind of like an iPad with pictures or videos that have high artistic content. The whole package could be set up so that many people could contribute artistic imagery along a theme. To me, some artistic inspirations for this the Johnny Cash Project http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/ where tens of thousands of ordinary people have created thousands of versions of a moving music video. (I'm not especially a Johnny Cash fan, but I love the massively collaborative art project embodied in the video). Another inspiration is the video game "Flower" in which you take control of the wind in Altamont Pass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_(video_game)This effort could be coupled with existing demand response programs that, for example, turn off people's water heaters in response to utility signals at times of peak load. And coupled with tariffs that encourage conservation in times of scarcity.Users that were interested could, with a few taps, find out detailed real-time graphs of energy production and demand data, like this one maintained by BPA http://transmission.bpa.gov/business/operations/wind/baltwg.aspx. This technology, in the homes and businesses of the willing, is the keystone, I think, towards a move towards a power system that provides for our needs (in times of scarcity) and our wants (in times of abundance) and facilitates high penetrations of renewable energy with no need to invent utility-scale storage.Up for the challenge? I think RMI / E-lab is uniquely qualified to take this on: (1) brilliant cultural creatives; (2) firmly grounded in power sector reality, with great connections to utilities; (3) fluent with necessary technologies; (4) has media channels in place to leverage scale-up.
In a DC building, the common standards are 12V for low voltage/low power applications and 380VDC for higher power systems. Of course, many of the electronic devices are using 5V internally - who knows whether we'll see 5V used as a bus voltage. We also will see whether there's an argument to be made for an intermediate standard voltage (like 50V), and whether the move to plug-in vehicles (generally 600V) will influence the ultimate standards.
Why not an AC + D c power transmission corridor?Advantages:Lower losses with AC modulation of DC.Faster dynamic response by monitoring AC currents and phasorsThis allows ajusting DC and AC %'sAc energy can be decoupled from DC with blocking cap and xfrm to local loads/sources. (solar farm sources excess capacity in the day local loads are sinks at night) main DC power content flows to long distant load.Higher total power throughput for a given wire diameter. (transmission lines not needed to be upgraded just nodes)PWM of DC can be filtered or modulated or both to accomodate ~constant loads. Each node can have both DC and AC coupling circuits to optimise to conditions.Disadvantages:switches must handle total AC + DC peak voltages appliedresonances can be harvested and moderated to maximize efficiency and protect end nodes from over voltages.
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Turkey Sloppy Joes with Avocado Slaw RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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Sloppy Joes are a suppertime staple, but my friends always say this avocado slaw makes them seem brand new. The creamy, tangy slaw tastes perfect with the savory sandwich filling. Try them—you'll agree! —Jacyn Siebert, Walnut Creek, CA
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- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 envelope sloppy joe mix
- 1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
- 1-1/4 cups water
- 1 medium ripe avocado, peeled and cubed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2-1/2 cups coleslaw mix
- 6 hamburger buns, split
- In a large skillet, cook turkey and onion over medium heat 7-8 minutes or until turkey is no longer pink and onion is tender, breaking up turkey into crumbles; drain.
- Stir in sloppy joe mix, tomato paste and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 8-10 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile, place avocado, oil, lemon juice, cumin, salt and pepper in a blender; cover and process until smooth. Transfer to a small bowl; stir in coleslaw mix. Spoon meat mixture onto bun bottoms and top with slaw. Replace tops. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Turkey Sloppy Joes with Avocado Slaw in Simple & Delicious June/July 2013, p19
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"I thought this was really good. I used a different sloppy joe recipe that is my favorite which is actually from Taste of Homes called Sloppy Joe SandwichesSo the avocado slaw was really good, I think I might still find a way to make it have more flavor as another reviewer suggested but I really enjoyed the crunch of the coleslaw on a sloppy joe!"
Reviewed May. 25, 2013
"I'm always on the look out of quick and easy recipes so I thought I give this one a try. The avocado slaw was intriguing, but I was disappointed. The was no flavor."


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A special $5 million appropriation to help Florida's courts will be split between hiring more retired judges and paying for technology to speed handling of foreclosure cases.
The court system got the $5 million from part of a $60 million appropriation that came from the national mortgage settlement reached with major banks by Attorney General Pam Bondi and other state attorneys general over problems in the banks' foreclosure operations.
Lisa Goodner, state courts administrator, detailed plans for the extra $5 million at a January 24 meeting of the House Civil Justice Subcommittee, which was having a general discussion of the state's foreclosure difficulties. The Legislative Budget Commission approved the $5 million for the courts as part of the settlement the week before.
Goodner told the subcommittee that $1.3 million will go to pay for additional retired judges to hear foreclosure cases and case managers to process and monitor the cases, ensuring they are ready for hearings when they go to judges. The remaining $3.7 million will go for technology, including converting paper documents to electronic records.
"The mortgage foreclosure cases are very paper intensive, and for the circuits still working in paper, they are drowning in paper," Goodner told the subcommittee.
The other $55 million appropriated by the Legislature includes $35 million for down payment assistance; $10 million for housing counseling; $5 million provided to the Attorney General's Office to help fund legal aid programs (At the request of the AG's office, The Florida Bar Foundation provided the AG with a list of legal aid grantees previously awarded foreclosure defense funds by the Foundation); and $5 million provided to the AG's office to reimburse the office and to continue its efforts to remedy abuses of the foreclosure process.
The panel heard from several agencies and groups with an interest in foreclosures.
Goodner noted the Legislature provided an extra $4 million this year to handle foreclosure cases that has actually allowed the courts to reduce their backlog, although not as much as hoped. The backlog has dropped from around 278,000 cases to 272,000. But that has come as the number of case filings has risen again; the absolute number of dispositions is up 23 percent from the previous year, she said.
The courts spent the extra $4 million in the 2012-13 budget — and the extra $6 million it got in the 2010-11 budget — on senior judges and case managers. The courts got no extra money for foreclosures in the 2011-12 budget.
Goodner said the extra senior judges allowed circuits to add more foreclosure dockets while the case managers made sure paperwork was complete and cases were ready to move.
The subcommittee got an overview of foreclosures in Florida from Amy Baker of the Legislature's Office of Economic and Demographic Research.
Baker said foreclosures will likely remain high and the housing market distressed until 2016 or 2017. Foreclosures in the state have risen 20 percent in the last year, and Florida now has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation with 3.11 percent of all housing units having at least one type of foreclosure filing. Nationally, more homes are coming out of foreclosure than going in, but Florida still has the opposite trend, she said.
At the height of the economic crisis, about half of all mortgaged homes in Florida were no longer worth the amount owed. Largely because of federal programs to help distressed homeowners, that figure has dropped to 38.3 percent, Baker said. Median home prices have risen slightly, although far below their peak.
Baker compared Florida with Nevada, Arizona, and California, which like Florida had huge housing booms before the housing crash. But while Florida remains mired in foreclosures, those three states are emerging from the crisis with most of the foreclosures resolved and other indicators improving.
She noted all three states have nonjudicial foreclosure and significantly shorter foreclosure times than Florida. Foreclosures in Florida took 169 days before the housing crash and now take 853 days, the third longest time in the nation.
However, Goodner and Eighth Circuit Chief Judge Robert Roundtree agreed courts can't entirely control how long it takes to resolve cases. Goodner noted that the national settlement with major banks ended the practice of pursuing a mortgage modification and foreclosure simultaneously, which meant cases were delayed while borrowers pursued modification options.
Roundtree, who has handled foreclosure cases, said the number of foreclosure cases has roughly tripled since the housing crisis. He also said courts are at the mercy of plaintiffs in moving the cases. Many times, a judge approves a foreclosure, and then the bank delays the final sale. In some cases, lenders seek cancellation of a sale, which reopens a case. Sometimes plaintiffs don't push cases, the judge said.
"There is not the urgency on the part of the plaintiffs to move these cases to a conclusion that there used to be," Roundtree said. "I don't presume to know why. It could be the sheer volume. We see a lack of paperwork, a lack of preparedness."
He recounted of having to set trials because the plaintiff couldn't produce an affidavit on how much the defendants owed only to have an official from the bank testify at the trial that the affidavit could have been easily provided.
Roundtree noted there are six counties in the Eighth Circuit, each with an elected court clerk, and those six use four different computerized case management systems. While his circuit has been able to design a program to handle all four systems, other multi-county circuits might not be so fortunate when it comes to managing cases, he said.
Tallahassee attorney Pete Dunbar, representing the Bar's Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, agreed with Roundtree that often plaintiffs file foreclosures and then fail to push the cases.
In addition, as the number of foreclosure cases has increased, the Legislature, because of tight budgets, has not approved any new trial judges, Dunbar said. This year, the Florida Supreme Court has asked for 65 new trial judges and one new appellate judge.
He said lawmakers need to be aware of harm to community associations from unpaid assessments for properties in foreclosure and to take steps to protect the titles of those who buy properties that have gone through the foreclosure process. Those matters, he added, are addressed in a foreclosure bill (HB 87) filed by Rep. Kathryn Passidomo, R-Naples.
Other testimony to the committee included:
• Yeline Goin, executive director of the Community Association Leadership Lobby, echoed Dunbar on the harm homeowner and condominium associations are suffering from unpaid assessments on properties in foreclosure. She said, after a foreclosure, the associations can get 12 months of unpaid assessments or 1 percent of the foreclosed amount, whichever is less. But associations often have to wait years for that, she noted.
• Lynn Drysdale agreed with Judge Roundtree that the biggest problem with foreclosures is plaintiffs. She said she's had clients who want to pay off their mortgages but have had difficulty finding anyone to work out the settlement. In other cases, opportunities for short sales or loan modifications have been lost because of the inability to work with the lenders.
"Even when we're trying to optimize solutions prelitigation, they're not happening," Drysdale said. "Please remember it's not the consumers' fault that the process is not working properly or the fault of the courts; it's the fault of the plaintiffs' attorneys."
• Assistant Attorney General Scott Palmer told the subcommittee that the national foreclosure settlement negotiated by state attorneys general resulted in about $5 billion of assistance for Florida homeowners and an agreement to address the paperwork problems that had been plaguing foreclosures.
"We see it as a good thing because hopefully it will take a foreclosure out of the pipeline, put a home back on the marketplace, and help us get through this economic downturn," he said.
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Passionate about the environment? Tour Israel's nature reserves, learn about farming in harsh conditions and visit sustainable-agriculture communities
Travel across Mount Carmel and the beautiful Beit Oren Valley down to Caesarea, Herod's port city and the Roman administrative capital in the region. Enjoy a walk through the impressive remains and a visit to the ancient aqueduct that on a beautiful stretch of Mediterranean beach.
Proceed to Yarkon National Park, a clean, green vista in the greater Tel Aviv area. Yarkon National Park has two main attractions: Tel Afek (the Roman Antipatris) and its Ottoman-period fortress, overlooking the springs of the Yarkon River; and the area around the sources of the Yarkon River, which boasts a wealth of flora and fauna. The municipal segment of the Yarkon Park in the heart of Tel Aviv is its main urban nature attraction, where you will meet Tel Avivians bike-riding, jogging, strolling and picnicking, especially in the late afternoon. Overnight in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem


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These are definitely coming out and you'll see the pictures at Comic Con.
The figures are in the animated style.
Magna Guard (Grievous' Body Guard)
Admiral Yualrin
Jawa 2-pack
Commander Gree
ARF Trooper
Battle Droid Sentry
You got me on what some of these things are, but the Clone Wars movie and TV show will reveal them.
The movie is August 15 and I believe the TV show starts in October. It may or may not repeat things that were shown in the movie. I don't know.
There are also these battle packs - they are animated style from what I heard:
B'Omarr Monastary (the Jedi will have to save Jabba's son in order to win safe passage to fight the Separatists in non-Republic space, and we might see when Jabba took over the B'Omarr Monastary seen as his palace in ROTJ). In any case, it's probably a convenient way for Hasbro to re-release the B'Omarr Monk figure.
Jabba The Hutt - this may be an animated version of the Hutt, or just characters he interacts with at the palace. They might do a throne dias here, so they can re-sell it to us as the ROTJ version later.
Clone Wars Attack Group - you got me. But you can bet that Hasbro will pack clone troopers in something.


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Among the projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is the Sun Island Resort (Padre Dam Municipal Water District (MWD)) Project.
Project Description: The Sun Island Resort project will solve bacteriological contamination by consolidating with Padre Dam MWD.
Final Project Cost: $387,670
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The following case studies and articles highlight successful C&D debris management projects implemented in Region 9. Additional case studies and fact sheets are available on the national C&D Debris Web site in the Publications area.
Turning C&D waste minimization policies into practice(Source: Smart Investments for City and County Managers: Energy, Environment, and Community Development; EPA 231-R-98-004)
Los Angeles, California has developed ambitious waste minimization practices to comply with a state law (Assembly Bill 939) which requires towns and cities to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills by 50 percent by the year 2000. Since C&D waste comprises 15 percent of the city's solid waste stream:
- The Bureau of Street Maintenance recycles old paving materials into crushed road base and new asphalt. This program has saved the city $14 million in its first nine years.
- The Los Angeles Earthquake Demolition Recycling Program diverted approximately 1.6 million tons of debris from landfills following the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
- CalRecycle (California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery) has provided technical assistance and a series of guides on C&D waste recycling and reuse for specific types of C&D waste in the Los Angeles area.
Public building deconstruction and reuse in the San Francisco Bay Area
The following case studies are available online:
- Case Study #1: Public/Private Partnership
North County Community Development Deconstruction Project (PDF) (4 pp. 703K)
- Case Study #2: Welfare-to-Work Program
Redwood Community Action Agency Old Growth Redwood Recycling Project (PDF) (3 pp. 276K)
- Case Study #3: Youth Training Program
Youth Employment Partnership Deconstruction Program (PDF) (3 pp. 1,477K)
- Case Study #4: Joint Venture
San Francisco Community Recyclers and Beyond Waste, Inc., Joint Venture (PDF) (3 pp. 254K)
- Case Study #5: Wood Reuse
Community Woodworks: Reclaimed Lumber mill and Woodshop (PDF) (4 pp. 1,114K)
Recycling success story -- Looney Bins, Inc.(Source: California Integrated Waste Management Board, Recycling Market Development Zone Program, August 2004)
Founded in 1986, Looney Bins, Inc. is an award-winning, progressive, and rapidly growing C&D debris waste hauling and recycling company with locations in Los Angeles, California. Looney Bins found a market niche by contracting with local Hollywood movie studios to deconstruct movie lots containing wood, cardboard, metal, plastic, and other salvageable items. Looney Bins then sells and/or donates the recovered materials.
Some of the uses promoted by Looney Bins have included providing wood to a company that makes reconstituted pallets; reusing Warner Bros. Studios' telephone poles for the Special Olympics; shipping reclaimed nails, screws, and other building materials to hospitals overseas; and helping a Southern California nursery reuse wood scrap for planter boxes. In 1999, the California Integrated Waste Management Board's Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Program made its first loan to Looney Bins for the purchase of a wood grinder, ancillary equipment, and working capital. This enabled the company to expand into grinding wood and drywall into mulch.
By 2003, the company had grown considerably and it received another RMDZ loan. Its new site, Downtown Diversion, is capable of processing all types of C&D debris, including asphalt, brick, wood, drywall, cardboard, concrete, carpet, scrap metal, roofing shingles, and other similar materials. Eighty percent of what is brought in will be diverted from landfill disposal. Material diversion is expected to reach 50,000 tons of C&D annually.
Firms see cash in others' construction trash(Source: Sharon Simonson, Silicon Valley Business Times, Exclusive Reports, August 20, 2004 print edition)
At Oak Elementary in Los Altos, the local school district is spending $6 million to rebuild and expand a 20,000-square-foot campus -- a relatively small job in the world of construction. Despite its paltry size, however, the Oak Elementary re-fit will produce a lot of one thing: trash -- hundreds and hundreds of tons of wood, metals, cardboard, concrete and asphalt.
But 60 percent to 65 percent of it won't be deposited in local landfills. Instead, it will be recycled.
"Landfilling is so expensive now. The cost is astronomical," says Thomas Hill, program manager for Santa Clara's Blach Construction, the district's construction manager. "It's just cheaper to get the stuff recycled."
In today's Silicon Valley, the Oak Elementary project is far from unusual. For a lot of reasons -- some market-driven and some not -- recycling construction materials and demolition debris is making greater and greater financial and economic sense, not only for the construction industry but for recycling companies.
This year, in San Jose alone, building and demolition contractors will send 200,000 tons of mixed construction and demolition (C&D) debris to be recycled, according to city estimates. That sum does not include the millions of tons of concrete, asphalt, wood and other products that are segregated and then recycled. Nor does it count the bathtubs, kitchen sinks, stoves and refrigerators salvaged and sold in the secondary market.
Alviso's Zanker Road Landfill and Materials Processing Facility, which bills itself as the nation's largest C&D recycler, says it has recycled 405,240 tons of material in the last 12 months.
The company is making money, says Michael Gross, Zanker's marketing manager, though he declines to say how much.
He also won't say how much of the company's revenue comes from the recycled concrete, wood chips and sundry other items the company sells to road makers, Gilroy farmers, electricity companies and others, and how much comes from charges to those dropping off their loads.
He does brag, "It takes us 25 minutes to recycle a mobile home, and if your brought us your (typical Santa Clara County) home, excluding the foundation, I could recycle it in about 45 minutes, and recycle 95 percent of it."The city of San Bruno required demolition contractor Stomper Co. of Newark to recycle 65 percent of the materials that will come out of the Tanforan Mall as it reduces the structure to its steel bones, removing roofing, flooring and even escalators, says Rick Tingstrom, Stomper's sales and marketing director. Stomper, a $10 million company with 100 employees, can do little to lower labor and equipment costs, Mr. Tingstrom says, so cutting the cost to transport and dispose of debris is paramount if it wants to improve margins. Recycling is one way to do that.
Sutter Health hopes to save money by recycling much of the old Emporium building in Mountain View at Highway 85 when it pulls the massive brick structure down to make way for a new $100 million medical office building.
"Virtually all of the materials that come out of that building we or the demolition contractor will do our utmost to sell or reuse," says John Holm, Sutter's project manager on the redevelopment.
Driving the C&D recycling push in the Bay Area is a 1989 California law that required all cities to recycle 50 percent of all their waste -- household as well as C&D and industrial -- by 2000. In 2002, the most recent year available, San Jose diverted 62 percent of its trash to recyclers, down from 64 percent in 2000, according to state estimates. In comparison, Oakland was at 50 percent in 2002, also down from 52 percent in 2000. Palo Alto was at 55 percent in 2002; Fremont was at 63 percent.
Nationally, 31 percent of municipal solid waste, better known as household garbage, is recycled, but there are no statistics on how much C&D waste is, says Adrienne Priselac, an environmental protection specialist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's San Francisco office.
The city of San Jose estimated in 1998 that 31 percent of the trash going into its landfills was from construction sites and demolished buildings, making the waste stream an obvious target for recycling efforts, says Stephen Bantillo, the city's commercial solid waste programs manager.
The city passed an ordinance in 1992 that rewarded companies for recycling by assessing no city disposal tax when materials are recycled; the city charges $13 a ton when trash goes to the landfill.
Then, starting July 1, 2001, the city initiated a construction deposit program that required anyone pulling a building permit to put down a deposit based on the project's size. The deposits, which can reach as high as $50,000, are refunded if waste from the construction or renovation is recycled.
The EPA's Ms. Priselac says she believes the San Jose deposit program is among the most progressive in the country.
But it's not only government regulation that is pushing demolition contractors and building companies to recycle, particularly here in the Bay Area but also nationwide. From a recycler's perspective, C&D materials have an inherent advantage over household garbage in that there are no coffee grinds, banana peels and baby diapers to deal with, she says. "People are increasingly asking if there are opportunities
there because it's already segregated from household trash, and it should be easier to recapture and reuse it." In addition, the state and region benefit from proximity to potential buyers. "In California, we are pretty close to strong markets for recycled goods locally and even overseas, predominantly in Asia," Ms. Priselac says.
William Turley, executive director of the Construction Materials Recycling Association in Lisle, Illinois, says that recyclers enjoy profit margins as high as 12 percent, though those margins vary widely among operators and across years. The association, established in 1996, in some ways reflects the industry's newness. Mr. Turley says he knows of no national data that shows either the number of C&D recyclers or the market's size.
The country's coasts, especially the Bay Area and New England, have the most evolved business infrastructures, he says, which is not surprising given that both are land- and landfill constrained. In comparison, Chicago has almost nothing, he says.
Rocky Hill, owner of Premier Recycle of San Jose, a $5 million company that processed 45,000 tons of C&D material last year, says he's still astounded at how much valuable stuff he's able to glean from the trash that comes his way.
"It's absolutely amazing," he says. "I still can't believe how much recyclable material leaves (construction and demolition) job sites as waste, and there is still so much more than could be recycled."
Still, he concedes, without government intervention, none of what's happening would be.
For information on specific state regulations for C&D debris, see Region 9 State Links.


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SALTILLO – The North Mississippi Coca-Cola Junior Golf tour kicked off its first week Tuesday at the Natchez Trace Golf Club.
Cason Collins got off to a good start, shooting an 81 to win the 16-18 year-old division.
The short game was good for Collins.
"My chipping really saved me today. I hit a lot of fairways, but I didn't put it on the greens like I wanted to," said Collins.
Alyssa Trulove won the girls division by shooting a 108.
"It was a pretty hard day, but overall it was fun. I'm really looking forward to participating in the tour this year," Trulove said.
Cohen Trolio claimed boys 10-11 division by shooting a 39 on eight holes, while Tate Dickerson took the lead the first week with an 82 to win his 14-15 boys division.
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Collins had no complaints about the course.
"The course was in great shape today. It was dry even though it has been a little wet lately. The greens played fast and rolled good."
Hole No. 5 was just about the only hole that gave Collins trouble.
"That was just a tough hole, because the pin was in a tough spot. It was difficult to hit the green down there.
Also in the 16-18s, Jacob Dixon placed second with an 84, and Kirk Reeder placed third with an 89.
The summer tour runs for eight weeks with stops at a number of Northeast Mississippi courses.
All age groups on the tour will resume play next week at the Pontotoc Country Club.
The tour championship is July 30-31 at the Starkville Country Club.
It will include the top eight in the point standings for each division.


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Deeplinks Blog posts about DRM
EFF will go to bat for users' rights at this month's hearings on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Section 1201's overreaching restriction on circumventing "access control" or "digital rights management" (DRM) technologies comes in direct conflict with lawful activities like conducting security research, repairing cars, and resuscitating old video games. For that reason, Congress included a provision allowing the public to petition the Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress for exemptions to the 1201 clause. It is a long, complex process that happens every three years with no guarantee that previous exemptions will stand, so EFF is back on the ground to advocate for several important issues.
In past years, EFF successfully petitioned for the right to jailbreak your phone and use DVD video for fair use remixes. In the 2015 petitions, we are working to uphold these uses and more. Here is what we are focusing on:
It's International Day Against DRM, which means folks around the world bring attention to the dangers of the so-called "technical protection measures" embedded in their stuff. But DRM (which stands for Digital Rights Management) isn't the whole problem; equally pernicious are the laws that prevent folks from circumventing the DRM in order to do otherwise perfectly legal things.
For example: perhaps you want to get your car in shape for that summer road trip. Maybe you're looking forward to a summer project where you make a fan video. Or perhaps you are organizing a reunion with friends that will include a gaming night, and you'd like to dig up some of the old games you used to play in high school.
Ending the scourge of DRM has long been an important goal for EFF, and the need has only increased in recent years. As the evidence mounts that we're already deep into what EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow has dubbed the War On General Purpose Computing, efforts like the Free Software Foundation's International Day Against DRM take on a new meaning.
It's not just about what we can do with the books, music, movies, and games that we buy, though that remains an important fight. It's a matter of basic consumer rights and security.
Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives, Because All "Hacking" is Illegal
The Entertainment Software Association doesn't want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is "hacking," and all hacking is "associated with piracy."
As the devices in our homes get "smarter," are they also going to spy on us? That question has led to one sentence in Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy getting a lot of attention lately:
Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.
The comparisons to 1984's two-way "telescreens" are straightforward. This kind of language suggests that while you're watching TV, Big Brother may be watching (or listening to) you. Samsung has taken to its blog for an explanation and edited the policy, but that has not assuaged everybody's concerns.
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The war began because the federal govt. wouldn't let the states leave.
Would they have started a war to abolish slavery? I doubt it.
The states on the other hand believed they had the right to leave just as they had elected to join the union.
They decided to exercise what they thought was their right and they started the war.
thus destroying the Southern economy. I love how "slavery" is mentioned a few times and the "constitution" is referred to numerous times...
"History is written by the victors." In truth Lincoln was a lawless tyrant, intolerant of any disagreement, who trampled on the liberty of a people desiring to be self-governed.
You are interpreting their worldview through the prism of your own, that's where you are failing. We see slavery, today, as mainly moral issue. People in the south 200 years ago saw it as a economic issue while people in the North, who did not care to understand the economic ramifications of banning slavery had the luxury of seeing it as a moral issue.
The modern day version of this is the Obamacare regulations. They can kill the economy, that's why most are against it. But liberals with no vested interest in the affected industries have the luxury of legally enforcing these regulations as a moral issue.
If war were to commence over this, one said would say the other overstepped their bounds and hurt the economy, the other would say those opposing ObamaCare are immoral.
Basically, the war was really about money and control.
People in the south 200 years ago saw it as a economic issue while people in the North, who did not care to understand the economic ramifications of banning slavery had the luxury of seeing it as a moral issue.
The modern day version of this is the Obamacare regulations. They can kill the economy, that's why most are against it. But liberals with no vested interest in the affected industries have the luxury of legally enforcing these regulations as a moral issue.
Leaving Union legally and peacefully, for WHATEVER reason, does not equal war.
The IMMEDIATE and ACTUAL cause of the war was the North invading and not allowing the South to legally secede.
That's why it is call the "War of Northern Aggression"
100% chance of a Romney landslide
Did not free a single slave. Research it. In fact, Lincoln was going to allow slave states to KEEP slaves if they willingly returned to the union. What does that tell you?
That the war was about preserving the union and not about freeing slaves.
Lincoln did not wage the war to end slavery, at least not at first. Lincoln ran for president in 1860 on a platform of non-expansion. That means he was opposed to the expansion of slavery into the western territories. The fathers of the South, however, were of the opinion that slavery could only survive if it continued to expand. Just read their words. They wanted to expand slavery west to California and south into Mexico and South America. If slavery stopped expanding, they said, it would die. That is why they seceded when Lincoln was elected because they knew that Lincoln, with a Republican majority in Congress, would prevent further states from coming into the Union as slave states.
This is well-documented in the words of the people of the time as well as the declarations of secession of states like Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. There would have been no secession crisis if it had not been for the institution of slavery and, therefore, there would have been no Civil War.
For the last time, the North did not fight the Civil War to end slavery! If you were to go back in time, say to 1863, and tell a Union soldier (especially an Irish one) that they were fighting to free slaves, he would knock your teeth out. Many of the Union soldiers were just as racist and as bigoted toward blacks as their Confederate counterparts. BUT...that doesn't take away from the fact that the Confederate government fought the Civil War to preserve the institution of slavery.
Anyone who denies slavery was the root cause of secession and civil war are just in heavy denial and are in the midst of rationalizing how their ancestors could have fought and died in a war over something so cruel and so evil as the institution of slavery. Either that, or they are libertarian neo-Confederates who believe that, no matter the reason for their secession, the South had every right to do so.
If Lincoln truly fought the Civil War to end slavery
There's the problem right there. Lincoln and the U.S. Government viewed what the South was doing as completely and totally illegal.
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Lincoln would have legalized slavery if it would have prevented war. That is a fact.
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mharris: Interesting diary entry, thanks. It reminded me a bit of the reasons for the egcs fork, way back when. Basically, a limited set of maintainers who were unresponsive in some ways, with processes that didn't scale, and no real interest in changing.
Forking worked great for gcc in this situation. gcc probably has an order of magnitude more developers now than it did then. Bug tracking has improved, patch tracking has improved, and the compiler has a whole has seen much important evolution which would have been greatly slowed under the old model. So the culture of openness has really helped. I wish you good luck if this is the course you decide on.
Work proceeds. Today rmathew got his copyright assignment approved, so there are some patches to check in. Plus I need to get started on setting up test builds on various platforms.
Nothing recently, but I wanted to welcome bje to Advo.


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When your desk is a little higher, not adjustable and you have shorter legs, then you need a footrest. I don't like to use the tilt and like to keep the footrest parallel to the ground. You can also raise or lower the foot rest to adjust it perfectly. The manual comes with instructions on how high you should set your footrest based on the size of your hands. Didn't work for me. Kinda stupid.
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David Smith stands by the Mars Simulation Chamber, a device at the Kennedy Space Center used to reproduce the conditions present on the surface of Mars. Smith used the chamber for his senior thesis project, during which he investigated the ability of bacteria to survive on the red planet. His findings ultimately may help NASA plan better interplanetary missions.
Below left: Inside the Mars Simulation Chamber, Smith's bacteria faced temperatures of minus 12 degrees Celsius, a typical summer day at the red planet's equator.
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Quintessentially Princeton
The senior thesis, an independent work that typically runs about 100 pages, gives seniors the opportunity to pursue original research and scholarship under the guidance of faculty advisers.
In the recently re-issued guide, "The Thesis: Quintessentially Princeton" (.pdf 1.9 MB), Nathaniel Fintz joins several members of the class of 2006 in reflecting on their experience writing a senior thesis.
"… the most wonderful aspect of the senior thesis is that it provides an opportunity not only to say something original, but also to blaze your own path into scholarly territory that may be largely unexplored or uncharted," he writes. "Seizing such an opportunity is perhaps the greatest way to approach your biggest undergraduate project, especially if you feel passionately curious about your topic, and if you have your adviser's good guidance along the way."
The May 7, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin profiles three students who have followed their passions into new realms for their senior thesis projects.
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From the May 7, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
David Smith always wondered whether other planets might harbor life, so when he actually got the opportunity to investigate, he jumped at it. His decision launched him on a year-long mission, leading him to the Kennedy Space Center and back.
Now, after long months exploring whether Earth bacteria can survive on the surface of Mars, he has returned with findings that could help NASA plan better missions to the red planet, and may even get his senior thesis published in a scientific journal.
"Philosophical questions concerning the origin of life on Earth and the possibility that it exists elsewhere in the universe have fascinated me since I read Carl Sagan's books as a boy," said Smith, who hopes his degree in ecology and evolutionary biology will help bring humanity some answers. "I wanted somehow to combine my interests in space and biology to explore these profound issues."
Smith's years at Princeton coincided with a class offering that perfectly fit his interests. In his sophomore year, Smith took the first-ever course Tullis Onstott organized with a few other professors on astrobiology, which concerns the possibility of life beyond Earth. The class inspired Smith and three of his classmates to form the Princeton Astrobiology Club, which last spring Onstott visited to search for someone to conduct the unusual research project he had in mind.
"One of my colleagues keeps a one-of-a-kind device called the Mars Simulation Chamber down at the Kennedy Space Center," said Onstott, a professor of geosciences. "The chamber recreates the cold, dry conditions that exist on Mars, and I thought it would be interesting to explore whether bacteria that thrive in cold places might be able to survive inside. David obviously wanted to find out too — his application was the best I received."
Onstott's colleague, Andrew Schuerger, has used the chamber primarily to test whether bacteria that hitch rides on space probes might invade the Martian environment, potentially contaminating an alien ecosystem and compromising the search for life beyond Earth. But Schuerger mostly has been concerned with warmth-loving bacteria that live in soils and spacecraft assembly workers, the source of most interplanetary hitchhikers.
"Everything I've done suggests that common skin bacteria would have a tough time on Mars, but David's proposal intrigued me," said Schuerger, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Florida. "He wanted to look at bacteria that were adapted to conditions as much like Mars as we can find on Earth, a question that I thought was the next logical step from my own research. He really impressed me with his preliminary work before coming to Kennedy."
Onstott said that if our planet's cold-adapted bacteria — known as psychrophiles — can survive in the inhospitable Martian environment, they could indicate how and where native Martian organisms might exist.
"Mars was once a wetter place where life could have evolved, and it might survive there now, perhaps deep underground," said Onstott, who recently discovered bacteria thriving two miles beneath the surface of our own planet. "The chamber might help us figure out where to look for Martian life."
After obtaining some psychrophiles from the Siberian tundra, Smith spent months in Princeton with Onstott's graduate student Mark Davidson breeding the organisms for additional toughness before taking them to Schuerger's chamber. Conditions inside were as balmy as they ever get on Mars: minus 12 Celsius, a typical summer day at the red planet's equator. But its rarefied atmosphere contains almost no water or ozone, and provides little protection from solar radiation.
"The Martian atmosphere is much thinner than Earth's, and the red planet's equator receives a punishing amount of ultraviolet rays," Smith said. "To simulate the sunlight, we shone high-intensity UV lamps onto the bacteria."
Against such harsh conditions, even a Siberian pedigree was insufficient; Smith found that just a few hours in the chamber was enough to doom the single-celled microbes. The specific reasons why they perished will remain confidential until Smith can publish them in a scientific journal, which — with the help of Onstott, Schuerger and a few other scientists — may happen in the next few months.
"In any case, I'm presenting the findings at the American Society for Microbiology conference in May," Smith said. "I haven't slept much lately putting it all together, but it's been a fantastic experience, and I couldn't have done it without a lot of people's help both here on campus and elsewhere."
Smith, who plans to pursue a graduate degree in astrobiology at the University of Washington in Seattle, first will take a year off to work again at the Kennedy Space Center.
"I have a whole new set of questions now," Smith said. "What if we put bacteria near the Martian poles, where there is frozen water? What if we put them inside or underneath a rock where there is some shade from the sun? And what other kinds of terrestrial life might have the capacity to grow on Mars? I can't wait to explore some of these other possibilities in the future."


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I've recently realized that I was a bad driver.
I remember sitting in my car in traffic, judging and hating everyone around me, "You call that a signal, idiot?!" "Get off my ass jerk or I'll just tap my brakes a little harder and see how you like the taste of my bumper."
Yet, the minute I arrived at my destination and stepped out of my car all my rage was lost. I couldn't talk in that tone, in those words to my co-workers, I couldn't treat the cashier at the grocery store with the same disdain.
And for some bizarre reason this all felt perfectly normal. Outside the glass and steel of my car everyone was out to annoy me or run me into a wall. But once I stepped out of my car I couldn't blame anonymous others.
But now, after a few car-free years and experiencing a lot of road travel on a much smaller vehicle, I have finally realized that the problem was me.
In the one fender bender I was involved in it was everyone else's fault but my own. The other driver braked too hard, the road was icy, the light was still yellow. Now I realize that I was traveling too fast for the conditions, that I was following too close and that I had no right to proceed through a yellow light without slowing down.
But it has taken me a very long time to come to this realization. It has taken a combination of no longer driving cars and reading about the way we behave in cars to come to the conclusion that I was a bad driver. But I was actively looking for reasons why my car made me miserable. It wasn't just the price of gas and constant maintenance costs. It wasn't just the insurance charges I felt too were too high, after all I thought I was a good driver. There was an underlying issue here and thankfully more and more people are studying why our cars can change perfectly decent people into rage-aholics.
In a recent Grist article, Sarah Goodyear looks at why people in cars seem to hate people on bicycles:
If you've ever been behind the wheel of a car, you've felt it: The dead certainty that everyone around you is a complete idiot who should get the hell out of your way.
If you've spent much time riding a bicycle, you have been the target of that wrath. And without the protective metal-and-glass bubble that shields drivers (mostly) from each other's anger, it's easy to feel the hate. A horn honked in your ear by someone zooming past, an insult shouted out a window, the grit kicked up in your face by someone passing too close — just to make a point. It's scary.
To explain why this happens, Sarah looks to Tom Vanderbuilt, author of the book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us):
What happens to most of us, in most driving conditions, is that we're losing some of the key attributes that facilitate human cooperation and, in a larger sense, society.
Eye contact, for example, has been shown in any number of experiments to increase the chance of gaining cooperation – that's why when drivers give you what was called on Seinfeld the "stare-ahead," your chances that they'll let you merge in ahead of them are greatly reduced.
Then there's the anonymity in traffic – there's no one to spread rumors or gossip about you about how bad your behavior was — not to mention the lack of consequences for acting like an idiot. It's all strikingly similar to the way we act on the internet, in what's called the "online disinhibition effect."
This is how door prizes happen. A driver, still in complete social isolation, fails to look for cyclists approaching and opens a door into their path. In an instant, the oblivious driver has made a potentially fatal mistake.
The question now is how do we socialize anti-social drivers? Most don't realize they behave this way and those who do often feel it is absolutely acceptable behaviour.
As Joe Simonetti explains to Tom Vanderbuilt in a recent Outside article:
"As a couples therapist, I tell people that we take things so personally," he says as we near the Whitestone Bridge, on the first dedicated bike path we've seen in more than two hours. It's easy, when a car edges too close or cuts him off, to "go to that paranoid place where they're just trying to fuck with me. We're so worried that someone else can steal our sense of self that we fight for it at every turn." But it could have been just that the driver didn't see him. Under the spell of what's called "inattentional blindness," people have been known to miss obvious things simply because they're not looking for them. Either that or what seems inconsequential in a car—passing by within a foot or two—can be terrifying to someone on a bike.
In my car I believed that every move I made was the right one. I was always acting in my own self-interest. When I first started commuting by bicycle I often behaved in the same manner. Only now I was exposed and on a different vehicle. I was confused when I'd aggressively "take the lane" only to have my aggression thrown back at me with 2 tonnes of steel. That's how you behave in protective cocoons. You can be aggressive and the consequences are rarely anything at all, sometimes just an annoyance of expensive bumper dings and scratched doors. On a bicycle the consequences can be more dire, fatal.
Changing driver attitudes isn't something that will happen inside of our cars. Listen to talk and news radio any morning and you'll hear a consistent mantra in the news reports and commercials reinforcing the idea that other drivers are out to get you, other drivers are creating terrible traffic and other drivers are the ones making dangerous maneuvers… it's always someone else.
So some cities are looking not at changing how we drive but at making changes that encourage people to get out of their cars. Vanderbuilt explains:
Few American cities have done a better job of getting people on bikes than Portland, Oregon, where around 7 percent of the population bikes to work and children cycle to school in huge "bike trains." And yet, last year, like many recent years, no cyclist was killed. (By comparison, Tampa, Florida, a city where fewer than 1 percent of the population commutes by bike, had nine cyclist fatalities in four months in 2009.) Greg Raisman, a traffic-safety specialist with Portland's Bureau of Transportation, says one key to getting people biking is providing infrastructure—actual or symbolic. The city features "bicycle boulevards" and bike-only traffic signals, and it's planning new six-foot-wide bike lanes. It recently put some 2,100 "sharrows" bike symbols on 50 miles of residential streets. He says the symbols send messages to motorists and are, as many Portlanders have told him, changing "people's mental maps of the city."
"We need to get people to change the way they think about transportation," Raisman says. While all road users need to step up in terms of behavior, he believes, calling for cyclists to be licensed, as some critics have lately done, isn't the right place to start. "I recently got my driver's license renewed," he says. "They just asked me if my address was the same." Among the things he was not asked was whether he was aware of traffic-code changes like the 2007 Vulnerable Road User law or a new Oregon rule that makes it legal for cyclists to pass on the right so they can filter to the front past queues of cars stopped at traffic lights.
I'll be renewing my own drivers licence in Ontario this year. In the five years since I last renewed, I've changed my address from a small Ontario town with few bicycle lanes and even less pedestrian infrastructure to a Toronto address in a city with pedestrian activated crossings, turning and parking restrictions and a new piece of cycling infrastructure known as "sharrows." Yet I won't be asked if I'm familiar with any of this. I'll confirm my address, get my photo taken and away I'll go, free to drive as I've been driving since I became a G level driver more than a decade ago.
Will Toronto's reputation for terribly long commutes make others search for alternatives? Or will we continue to think only of ourselves and place the blame on a faceless other? When looking in our rear view mirrors will we catch a glimpse of ourselves and realize that we are someone else's "other?" As I've found out, changing our own behaviour is extremely difficult but it can be done.
Read Grist: Why Do People In Cars Hate People On Bikes So Much?
Read Outside: Rage Against Your Machine
Photo via BikingToronto Flickr Pool


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High Performance Ice Box - 123 Qt.
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Engel High Performance Ice Box - 123 Qt. - USDA Defined Bear Proof
The Engel High Performance Ice Box - 123 Qt. (ENG123) is one of the premiere ice boxes available on the market today. This rugged ice box is heavily insulated and features a variety of features which make it both useful and durable. The high quality 2" thick polyurethane insulation and air tight freezer gasket seal in lid ensures that your food or beverages are kept cold for extended periods of time (on average, relative to other coolers, the Engel keeps ice for 8-12 more hours) and the polyurethane molded hand grip and convenient rope handles make this easy to carry when camping, at the beach or at the park for a picnic.
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Urethral stricture is an abnormal narrowing of the tube that carries urine out of the body from the bladder (urethra).
Urethral stricture may be caused by inflammation or scar tissue from surgery, disease, or injury. It may also be caused by pressure from a growing tumor near the urethra, although this is rare.
Other risks include:
Strictures that are present at birth (congenital) are rare. Strictures in women are rare.
A physical examination may show the following:
Sometimes the exam reveals no abnormalities.
Tests include the following:
The urethra may be widened (dilated) during cystoscopy by inserting a thin instrument to stretch the urethra while you are under local anesthesia. You may be able to treat your stricture by learning to dilate the urethra at home.
If urethral dilation is not successful or possible, you may need surgery to correct the condition. Surgical options depend on the location and length of the stricture. If the stricture is short and not near the urinary sphincter, options include cutting the stricture via cystoscopy or inserting a dilating device.
An open urethroplasty may be done for longer strictures. This surgery involves removal of the diseased part followed by reconstruction. The results vary depending on the size and location, the number of treatments you have had, and the surgeon's experience.
In cases of acute urinary retention, a suprapubic catheter may be placed as an emergency treatment. This allows the bladder to drain through the abdomen.
There are currently no drug treatments for this disease. If all else fails, a urinary diversion -- appendicovesicostomy (Mitrofanoff procedure) -- may be done. This allows you to perform self-catheterization of the bladder through the wall of the abdomen.
Treatment usually results in an excellent outcome. However, repeated therapies may be needed to remove the scar tissue.
Urethral stricture may totally block urine flow, causing acute urinary retention. This condition must be treated quickly.
Call your health care provider if symptoms of urethral stricture occur.
Practicing safer-sex behaviors may decrease the risk of getting STIs and urethral stricture.
Treating urethral stricture quickly may prevent kidney or bladder complications.
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McCormack WM. Urethritis. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 106.
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