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You ought to think about going to a vineyard if you are actually enthusiastic about wine. You will certainly find out a lot about how wine is made, exactly what makes a taste special as well as get an opportunity to witness the manufacturing of your preferred wine if you check out a vineyard throughout the best period.
When purchasing wine, do not make the error of thinking a wine has to be pricey to be delicious. When looking for a fantastic bottle of wine, do not immediately go for the priciest wines in the shop. No 2 establishments are precisely the very same, so when you are hunting for that ideal wine, understand exactly what you that ideal wine is and understand exactly what the shops are serving. Signing up with a wine club is not constantly the finest method to get an excellent rate on the wine you acquire. Inspect how much the wine is at your regional merchant initially and then compare that to the rate of the wine with a club subscription after including in shipping.
When purchasing wine, do not make the error of thinking a wine needs to be costly to be delicious. There are lots of wines out there that taste fantastic and are reasonably priced. It is an excellent concept to attempt an economical bottle if you are not sure you like a certain range of wine. This is why you should go to wine tasting events to help you decide which wine is best for you.
The taste of this dish is improved by the wine. There are other ranges of white wines that are an excellent match with seafood.
No 2 shops are precisely the very same, so when you are hunting for that ideal wine, understand exactly what you that best wine is and understand exactly what the shops are serving. Checking out the current testimonials and providing from the regional choices assists provide you a much better feel for exactly what lies within their cellar. Understanding exactly what the shop offers will certainly assist limit the option procedure to a couple of names that work!
From the soil to the glass, there is a great deal of work which enters into a bottle of wine. Understanding all you can about wine indicates enjoying it more than ever. This short article has lots of techniques and pointers to make your very own wine consuming a a lot more satisfying activity.
These easy concepts about wine will certainly make sure to assist you on your method to a much better glass. When you take pleasure in wine more, you'll discover you wish to look for more guidance, too. In the end, wine will certainly end up being an excellent pal who is constantly real to you when you require them.
While some people are billed as specialists when it comes to wine, no one understands everything. Make up your own mind and have enjoyable experimenting and attempting brand-new things.
Although white wines must be completely cooled when you consume them, you must stay clear of keeping them in a fridge for weeks at a time. The very best thing to do is to keep them at space temperature level and cool those an hour or more prior to you intend on serving them.
That is due to the fact that white wine tends to have a lighter taste than red wine, and will not subdue the taste of a terrific fettucini alfredo or bbq chicken. Experiment with various white wines to see which you like finest.
Discover a dark location in your house to save the wine if you are like many individuals who do not have a wine cellar in their residence. See to it the temperature level is kept moderate and relatively consistent. One great location to save your wine is all-time low of your closet.
Wine is best when kept in a cooler, damper environment. Lots of individuals choose to develop out a basement or cellar for keeping wine.
Make a routine of attempting brand-new wines as typically as you can. If you take the time to experiment with them, you will certainly have the finest opportunities of discovering a wine that matches your tastes. Everybody has various tastes, so simply due to the fact that a wine is stated to be outstanding does not suggest that you will certainly enjoy it, so venture out there and attempt them.
Look at the whole wine establishment. Some establishments are much better arranged than others, and you might even discover some fantastic offers in an area that you could not generally look in.
With white wine, go additionally down to about 47 degrees. If white wines get too warm, they can taste dull.
Many individuals delight in an after supper beverage, and a rich dessert wine is the ideal option. French Champagne and California Port are rich in taste, in addition to Italian Moscato. Your supper visitors will certainly like sitting by a warm fire, enjoying their wine and having an excellent discussion.
When trying to find a terrific bottle of wine, do not quickly opt for the priciest wines in the establishment. While the expense of a bottle is one indication of the taste and quality, there are likewise lots of others. Make the effort to attempt a couple of affordable brand names, and they simply may amaze you!
Signing up with a wine club is not constantly the very best method to obtain an excellent rate on the wine you acquire. While the costs per bottle are usually truly great with a wine club subscription, the shipping expenses can be fairly high. Inspect just how much the wine is at your regional seller initially and afterwards compare that to the cost of the wine with a club subscription after including in shipping.
When you are choosing on exactly what wine to acquire, utilize your judgment. Due to the fact that somebody advises a costly wine that you may not otherwise consume does not imply you can go versus your own choices for no other factor, simply. This just winds up in squandered cash on bottles you will not delight in.


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by Virginia Sowers, ChildFund Community Manager
Today is World Toilet Day. And if that very thought causes you to laugh, that's OK. We need more good-humored, regular people on the planet.
After you enjoy a few jokes and bad puns, you actually should be in the right frame of mind to think seriously about a world problem.
Some 2.6 billion people (nearly half of the world's population) don't have access to toilets and proper sanitation, according to the 2010 Update by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.
Diarrheal diseases kill five times as many children in the developing world as HIV/AIDS, UNICEF reports.
Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection, according to the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease.
Each of these facts is daunting on its own, yet ChildFund has found that lack of proper sanitation also contributes to poverty perpetuation. When children, especially girls, do not have access to adequate bathroom facilities at school, they don't attend class. Who knew that a lack of toilets contributes to illiteracy?
When young children attend schools without latrines or even soap and water to wash their hands, disease spreads quickly. Attending school shouldn't be a health hazard. But for so many children, that's exactly the risk they face. All because they don't have access to sanitary facilities. Conditions are often no better for them at home, where untreated sewage pollutes villages and water sources.
So, on World Toilet Day, it comes down to action. Take a stand against disease and poverty by educating your friends and families about the importance of toilets. Even better, make a commitment to help fund a project like ChildFund's effort to build six latrines for an elementary school in Mexico. The latrines will greatly improve sanitation and privacy, while reducing the risk of disease for boys and girls who just want to learn.
Hot on the heals of World Toilet Day, 20 November is Universal Children's Day.
A day to reflect on the rights of children. Rights that we take for granted in some parts of the world. The right to education. The right to accessible books and educational resources. And the right to develop through fun and play.
In Indonesia, Rainbow Reading Gardens is working to uphold these rights on Universal Children's Day. http://tamanbacaanpelangi.com/?p=876
We would love to hear from others around the world who can share experiences and ideas.

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MADISON-Mary Ellen Fahey, age 80, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at Agrace HospiceCare. She was born on Nov. 6, 1932, in Kenosha, the daughter of Albert J. and Madeline Rose. Mary Ellen married William Fahey on Sept. 26, 1959, in Madison. She received a nursing degree from St. Mary's School of Nursing in Milwaukee. Mary Ellen was a nurse for many years, with the highlight of her career working with Dr. Rock at St. Mary's. Following her retirement, she had the pleasure of being caregiver to all six of her grandchildren.
Mary Ellen is survived by her husband, Bill; three children, Bob (Deb), Jean (Dean) Oseth, Maureen (Ron) Lehmann all of Cottage Grove; six grandchildren, Peyton, Tyler, Marek, Connor, Marshall, and Nolan; and brother, Jack (Sue) Rose of Kenosha and their children, Tracy and Brody (Zenide). She was preceded in death by her son, Dave; and her parents.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at ST. DENNIS CATHOLIC CHURCH, 505 Dempsey Road, Madison, at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, with Father Kent Schmitt presiding. Entombment will be at Roselawn Memorial Park. Visitation will be held at the church from 11:30 a.m. until the time of Mass on Friday. Memorials may be made to Agrace HospiceCare. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
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Can Eliot Spitzer Stay Progressive?He's famously fought Wall Street corruption, Con Edison, and the insurance industry. But now that Spitzer is New York's 54th Governor, can he take these values to Albany and (eventually) the White House?
He's famously fought Wall Street corruption, Con Edison, and the insurance industry. But now that Spitzer is New York's 54th Governor, can he take these values to Albany and (eventually) the White House? Late Tuesday night, Eliot Spitzer took the stage in a crowded Manhattan ballroom to be greeted as New York's governor-elect. Clinging tightly to the Plexiglas podium, sweat rolling down his face, he stood in front of his family and a hand-painted American flag backdrop. "At times in my life, I have been known as the people's lawyer," Spitzer told the cheering crowd. "And I fully intend to serve this state as a people's governor." The state's progressive advocacy community is thrilled that Spitzer has ended 12 years of Republican control under Governor George Pataki. But on some issues—-especially housing, welfare reform, and development--Spitzer's exact positions remain unknown. Hopes are high, but most progressives say they have a healthy sense of realism about what Spitzer will be able to accomplish in New York's difficult statewide political arena, especially in light of his campaign pledge not to raise taxes. Many answers will come in this first year, which will be closely watched across the country; in New York, it's widely assumed that Spitzer—like Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt before him--is using Albany as a stop on the way to the White House. "If a Republican wins in '08, then it will be a wide open in 2012. And governors make great presidential candidates," says Cornell University government professor Walter Mebane. "It's inevitable that he'll try. He's an ambitious guy." Born 47 years ago in the Bronx, Spitzer attended two of New York City's best private schools before heading to Princeton, Harvard Law, and a white-shoe corporate law firm. In 1994, he shocked coworkers by seeking the Democratic nod for attorney general. Despite heavy financial backing from his father, a real estate magnate, Spitzer finished last in a field of four. In 1998 he tried again, edging out the Republican candidate after a six-week recount. In 2006, things were different. Spitzer won with just under 70 percent of the vote. This overwhelming mandate allows him to "say his support came from every precinct," including traditionally conservative Upstate, according to Steven Brams, a professor of politics at New York University. Such a margin will prove handy in negotiating with Albany, and will boost his prospects as a presidential contender, Brams says. For the past several years, Spitzer's interest in the governorship was well known, his campaign war chest overflowing, and his poll numbers intimidating. The campaign was surrounded by a sense of inevitability. "It's a little like Richard Nixon's rose garden strategy in '72," says Brams, with one key difference: Spitzer is not an incumbent, and he has no record in executive or legislative office. Instead, he had stellar name recognition and statewide good will from eight years as attorney general. And there's much reason for that good will. Spitzer transformed a sleepy office into an aggressive litigation team. His office's lawsuits and threats--to rein in Wall Street corruption, force General Electric to clean its contamination from the Hudson River, and end inside dealing in the insurance industry--made him the most prominent state official in the nation. But being governor is different. "Attorney general is a great position [in which] to be progressive. It's one of the best positions, in that you can use the courts to step around the political process," says Richard Kirsch, the executive director of Citizen Action of New York. As the 54th governor of New York, Spitzer will have a larger bully pulpit, but not the large staff of motivated lawyers that allowed him, as attorney general, to move simultaneously on many fronts. As governor most people expect that he'll have to concentrate on a far more limited portfolio. And he'll be held responsible for coming up with solutions to long-standing problems, such as the moribund Upstate economy, while facing challenges new to him, like balancing the state's budget and working with a Republican state Senate and a Democratic state Assembly often derided for cronyism. Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign slogan was "Day One: Everything Changes." One change aimed squarely at the current Legislature is Spitzer's promise to veto any state redistricting plan not drawn up by an independent commission. On this, Cornell's Mebane has his doubts: "Just getting that done alone would take all his capital." But Spitzer has other goals. He's released a property-tax reform plan designed to lessen the burden on middle-income homeowners. Frank Mauro, who heads the progressive Fiscal Policy Institute, has been crunching New York budget numbers for over more than years. And in all that time, he says, he's "never seen anything approaching this level of detail from a campaign." But not all advocates have been as pleased with the level of detail Spitzer has offered. "A lot of the Spitzer campaign materials have been focused on the positive stuff. He hasn't had to get into specifics," says John Stouffer, legislative director for the New York Sierra Club. Spitzer's record as an environmental litigator, not only on cleaning up the Hudson but also in other areas such as suing the federal government to regulate smoke-belching Midwestern power plants responsible for acid rain in New York, easily won him the group's endorsement. But Stouffer is concerned that the governor-elect may not be on the environment's side when it comes to big development programs. Spitzer has said that he considers a plan to build a new high-voltage line through the state's historic Adirondacks "dead," but he hasn't spoken against other major construction projects that give environmentalists pause, such as controversial proposals to build a 6,860-unit housing and commercial development in western Brooklyn and a NASCAR track on Staten Island. "Those are issues that we're going to have to be out there fighting. We can't expect that Spitzer as governor is going to be fighting on these issues, or even making the right decisions," says Stouffer. Housing activists are perhaps the progressive group most sanguine about a Spitzer victory. Spitzer has said that he'll provide more funding for public housing in New York City, institute an effective fine-collection system, and step up code enforcement. But he's hesitant to endorse other proposals that housing activists insist are essential to stem losses of regulated and controlled housing, such as returning regulatory powers to New York City's elected officials, or adjusting key portions of the state's rent laws before they come up for renewal in 2011. By that time, advocates say, tens of thousands of regulated units will be gone. "We're very aware of the fact that he comes from a real estate family, and that he has a lot of friends in the real estate world and that he's sympathetic to them, and that they have access to him," says Jenny Laurie, director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing. Poverty activists say they are sure that Spitzer will be an improvement over Pataki, who they say actively worked to move and keep poor families off welfare, often into jobs that kept them poor. Bich Ha Pham heads the statewide Hunger Action Network. She wants to see New York adopt welfare reforms used in other states, such as expanded workforce education and wage supplements. "I would say on welfare issues, we haven't heard much from him," says Pham. "I think the main thinking is why put something on the record--especially if it's not a 100 percent wining position with the public--if you don't have to." In socially liberal New York, Spitzer has been forthright in his support for same-sex marriage and reproductive rights, which has thrilled progressive activists. Along with Deval Patrick, the just-elected governor of Massachusetts, "he will be the first governor of any state to support marriage equality. That's incredibly significant," says Joe Tarver of Empire State Pride Agenda. Mary Alice Carr, spokesperson for NARAL's New York chapter, says that her organization expects Spitzer to work to make New York a bulwark of state-level abortion rights in the face of what may be an anti-Roe Supreme Court. Spitzer's overall philosophy isn't always clear, according to Bertha Lewis, who works mostly on poverty and social justice issues as director of ACORN, the community-organizing group, and as a cochair of the state's Working Families Party. "He's conservative on some issues and liberal on others…sometimes I can't pin him down," says Lewis. "People say he's going to govern to the right, because, you know, he's not a flaming liberal. Because we've seen those situations before." But in the end, she's pleased. Under New York's unique fusion voting laws, Spitzer's name appeared on ballots statewide as a candidate of both the Democratic and Working Families parties. And like many other progressive advocates, she says that Spitzer has promised her organization a place at the policy-making table once he's in office. "New York has a tradition of enacting progressive legislation ahead of the rest of the country, a history that had been abandoned," says Richard Kirsch, executive director of New York Citizen Action. "We're hoping he'll bring that back." For now, New York's progressive advocacy groups are celebrating, and waiting for the real work to begin. Spitzer has announced that he'll be giving a major address on education in mid-November, with other policy addresses to follow. The country's punditry will be watching to see what kind of Democrat Spitzer turns out to be.


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6th January 2013 08:23 AM #1
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The reasons for unsleeping night?
Hi there! I want to share with you one strange fact. I think that my daughter (2 years old) does not like to sleep!!!
I do not know what specialist think about that, but I can approve it. She always need something-she is hungry or thirsty, hot or cold, not to mention daily sleep. She still wakes up in the middle of the night and cry. I do not know what to do anymore. Please help!
6th January 2013 04:13 PM #2
Hi Anni,
2 year olds need about 13 hours of sleep each day. 10-12 hours at night, and 1-3 hours during nap time. If your daughter is not getting this much sleep it could be affecting her health.
Many people don't truly understand how very important rest is. Without proper rest and sleep, the body will become sick. But also, if the body is sick, it can create a situation where the child is restless and cannot rest peacefully.
Where does your daughter sleep at night? In your bed next to you? In your bed, but not next to you? In her own bed? Do you try to give your daughter a nap each day?
Do you breastfeed her to sleep? Does she take a bottle to fall asleep? Does she like to suck on a dummy / pacifier? Does she take her milk from a sippy cup or a regular cup now?
Anything you can add about your daughter's sleep patterns would be helpful.
Warm Regards,
8th January 2013 02:25 AM #3
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It takes long time to fall asleep!
Hi Kate!
My daughter sleeps in her own bad, because I think that is better for her. Am I right?
I try to give her a nap each day, but she need much time to fall asleep, sometimes it takes one hour! She takes a bottle to fall asleep. When she was baby, I sang lullaby, but I have never hold her on my hands to fall asleep. I take her to walk, to play with other children. Each day she has a lots of activities to do, but she rarely gets tired and fall asleep at the moment. The hardest thing to me is that she need so much time to fall asleep. If you have some advice, please write it to me.
Regards, Anni
8th January 2013 04:20 AM #4
I would try adding in a nap during the day. You say you take her on walks and let her play with other children, so maybe she is not taking a nap during the day because she is getting too much stimulation. Instead of taking her on these outings, why not implement a rule wherein an hour of time a day is spent quietly lying on the bed in a dimly lit room. Chances are she will fall asleep and sleep begets sleep.
Also, make sure you are not giving her any caffeinated beverages during the day or lots of sugar, especially in the four hours prior to sleep/nap time. Turn off televisions, computers, and any other games an hour before bed as well and keep the house quiet and dark during this time.
She likely needs a good, calm routine to turn off her mind and get some sleep. Good luck!
8th January 2013 11:50 PM #5
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Hi mom2many!
My daughter takes a nap every day, but you might be right about getting too much stimulation.
But you are totally right about beverages and lots of sugar few hours before sleep time.
Since she was born, my house is quiet during the time when she have to fall asleep, so that's not problem. Thanks!
10th January 2013 10:47 AM #6
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Hi Angela!
I have stopped giving my daughter caffeinated beverages and reduce sweets. She always takes a bath before sleep time and she likes it. For the last two days she easy fall asleep, so I must say that I'm lucky now!
Thanks for your advices!
13th January 2013 02:38 PM #7
Great advice from Angela! Sounds like the caffeinated beverages and high sugar were contributing to your daughter not falling asleep.
14th January 2013 12:28 AM #8
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Yes, thank you again!
18th June 2013 09:07 PM #9
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May be she feels uncomfortable by her wearing clothes or try to understand what she want in caring matter for her.
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unsleeping night at one year old
Hi, my name is Nicole and i have a daughter of one year old and my main concern is that she's not sleeping well at night. She's always asking for her milk, not to mention that I've tried giving her tea but she doesn't even smell it that she already starts crying and I don't know what to do to make her sleep good. Please help me with advice
21st August 2013 02:20 PM #11
Hi Nicole,
I've found that making the night time routine as relaxing and regular as possible really helps baby to sleep better at night.
Many babies who are a year old will breastfeed to fall asleep at night. This means they are getting some good protein (mother's milk) in their tummies, and this can help them to stay asleep longer at night. Your daughter may need milk before bed. I never offered my babies water or tea before bed. They needed the protein an calories in the milk.
You can also try offering a scrambled egg before bed, as this is protein and may help her to sleep longer as well.
If there has been a recent change in your daughter's routine or even in the stress level at home, this can affect sleeping patterns. Noise in the room and/or a room that is not pitch black at night can also trigger a child (and adults) to awaken in the middle of the night. If you can see your hand in front of your face at night, the room is not dark enough.
If you need to change your baby's nappie at night, try to keep the light as low as possible. Sometimes using a little flashlight is helpful. Again, the goal is to keep the lights low, and the noise off (no television at night) so that your baby can have a restful night's sleep.
Some children do really well with a bedtime routine which starts with brushing teeth, then bath time, then story time, and ending with prayers and sleep. If your child falls asleep watching TV, you'll want to avoid this and start a good, regular bed time routine. This may help her nervous system to relax so she falls asleep in her cot and sleeps longer.
Did your daughter sleep well before? When did she start waking in the middle of the night? Or has she always woken up throughout the night? Some babies who sleep with mum will smell their milk (if mum is breastfeeding) and will wake up to feed. It sounds like this may not be your situation, though.
Any further insight as to what you think may have caused this would be helpful. Has anything changed at home? Would you consider home to be a peaceful, happy place?
Warm Regards,
23rd August 2013 06:23 PM #12
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Thank you for your reply. She usually eats before bed time, she gets to sleep without TV or any other distraction. Over night is very quite in the apartment and dark, so even when I have to change her nappie at night I'm not turning the light on. We love her very much and our home is a really peaceful and happy place. She always had this program over night and about giving her milk before bed she doesn't wanna drink it, only during the night
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Actually try doing some exercise it will help you to have some sleep because you feel tired because of workout and your body require some rest so you will definitely sleep.
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18th September 2013 06:30 AM #14
Dear NicoletaHS,
How is your daughter's sleep going?
You mention above that she mainly wants to drink her breastmilk at night-time, rather than in the day. Often children of this age are so interested in what is going on in the day that they find it hard to focus and have a good feed and then they make up for it in the night. I know this is the case with my 10 month old. There is so much happening in our house in the daytime (especially with my very active 2 year old entertaining us all) that he has his longest feed last thing at night and then after around 3-4 hours sleep.
If you think that this may be the case then you could try giving her a quiet feed in the day when the lights are low and things are quiet. You could also try breastfeeding your daughter whilst she is in the sling.
You also mention changing your daughter's nappy at night time. Is this because it is dirty or just wet? I only change my baby's dirty (i.e. pooey) nappies at night-time (which hardly ever happens these days) unless the nappy leaks or he seems unusually unsettled.
Warm wishes,
19th September 2013 07:50 PM #15
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Hi ljmarsden,
Actually some new things happen for 3 or 4 days now. She requests a bottle of milk before bed time and she drinks only another one but she splits it, like 300-350 ml of milk into 3-4 times. She sleeps rather good then she used to and I feel like my body gets some rest as well. So things are going for the better.
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Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix is the easy base for this recipe. Mixed with marshmallow crème and melted chocolate, it's a sweet and nutty cookie combination.
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For a change from rice side dishes, try slow-cooked quinoa with spicy beans and roasted peppers to add southwestern flavor to your meal.
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text: 2013 Golf Tournament 1st Place Mixed/South Course (L to R): John Rowen; Scott Kuklish, Eileen Doody and Jim Proehl More than 280 golfers gathered at the Coto De Caza Golf & Racquet Club on April 22 to support St. Joseph Hospital's 28th Annual Golf Tournament, which raised more than $332,000 – the highest in the event's history. Proceeds from the sold-out tournament benefited the Robotics and Minimally Invasive Treatment Program at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. "The St. Joseph Hospital Golf Tournament is the single most significant event held in support of our Investing in a Healthy Tomorrow Campaign benefiting the Robotics and Minimally Invasive Treatment Program," said Charles Foster, vice president, administrator for St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group and chair of the St. Joseph Hospital Golf Tournament. "It is through the generous support of our sponsors and underwriters that this event extends our mission of continuing to serve our community of patients and physicians." Jeff Oskins from Meyer & Reeder, Inc. gets his clubs ready for the tournament St. Joseph Hospital's surgical expertise and advanced technology play a leading role in shaping the next generation of surgery. By investing in the latest technology, training clinical staff and partnering with surgeons experienced in robotics and minimally invasive surgery, St. Joseph Hospital uses minimally invasive and robotic procedures to treat a wide range of medical conditions. The hospital's Robotics and Minimally Invasive Treatment Program has achieved national recognition – and with one of the nation's first Hybrid Operating Rooms, two robotic da Vinci Surgical Systems, robotic arm-assisted orthopedic surgery utilizing MAKO technology, Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) and "Smart" Operating Rooms, St. Joseph Hospital's surgical program is taking robotics and minimally invasive treatment to the next level. For more information about St. Joseph Hospital's Robotics and Minimally Invasive Treatment Program, visit www.sjo.org. The St. Joseph Hospital Golf Tournament key event sponsors included: CJB Contractors, Inc., CWD Electric, Inc., Fire Safety First, Meyer & Reeder, Inc., Minuteman Parking Company and PDC Facilities, Inc. For more information on the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation, please visit www.sjo.org/waystogive. Tournament contest winners: (L to R): Ron Gonzales, Gary Cohee, Greg Mudd, Linda Oskins, Claire Kraskin, Kim Norton and Shelley Pavlis About St. Joseph Hospital Founded in 1929, St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., is a nationally recognized, 525-bed, not-for-profit Catholic hospital dedicated to extending the healing ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. 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Eddie Grant, veteran mapmaker for the city of Providence, sits at the back of an otherwise colorless planning department office, a large cardboard cutout of the Three Stooges looking over his shoulder.
"I grew up with these guys," he says, with a broad grin. "That's when you had three channels on TV."
Grant has been here some time: 31 years, or about 30 years more than his partner in the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) division, David dosReis. "I'm the old school," Grant says. "He's the new school."
A graduate of the now-defunct Hall Institute for Technology, Grant was once known as a "draftsman." Now, he is a "GIS coordinator," having swapped ink and paper for mouse and monitor some time ago.
And if he is still beholden to the comedic arts of another era, he seems quite pleased with the evolution of his craft.
Grant and dosReis unearth an old, hand-drawn map of downtown Providence. "It took me about five months to do," says Grant, 55. "Today, we can do it in 20 minutes."
Correcting mistakes was a particularly trying endeavor under the ancient regime, he suggests, pulling out a handheld electric eraser he once used to "grind out" errant property lines and ill-considered streetscapes.
The rubber tip has grown dry and crumbly with disuse. Grant drops it in the waste bucket without nostalgia. "I like new, clean things," he says.
The principle extends to his taste in architecture. Ask Grant if he misses any of the landmarks that have disappeared from his maps over the years and he'll reply with a shrug. "I don't like old buildings," he says.
DosReis, who got a bachelors degree in marine sciences from the University of Rhode Island and a masters in geography from the University of South Carolina, is more aligned with the present taste for preservation.
He points out the detail in Grant's old downtown map with evident admiration. And he has far more interest in Providence's historic architecture than his partner, pausing during a recent chat with a visitor to lament the vacancy at the city's 19th-century Arcade shopping center.
But dosReis, 39, is also enamored of the latest in GIS technology. On a recent afternoon, he pulled up a three-dimensional map of Providence on Google Earth, apparently assembled by an amateur urbanist.
"That's where I see GIS going," he says. "It's this whole open source thing."
DosReis speaks, with a planning-department excitement, of the day residents will pull up an online map of the city to report potholes, cracks in the pavement, and other municipal maladies.
But for now, Providence's two GIS coordinators take their pleasure in a swifter, cleaner execution of traditional fare: zoning maps, neighborhood planning, that sort of thing.
Grant leads a visitor to a work room. Whatever his appreciation for the new technology, he clings to one relic of his draftsman's days, stored in the corner: a three-dimensional model of a planned development along Prairie Street.
Little wood blocks stand in for buildings. Green beads, ordered from one of the city's old jewelry makers, serve as tree tops.
The department dumped the rest of Grant's old models — many crafted over the course of two or three months. But he insisted on holding on to this one. "This was my baby," he says. "This was my favorite."
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Nintendo's Wii U On Sale On November 18th
"Consumers will have the chance to be among the first in the world to purchase the Wii U console when the clock strikes midnight on Nov. 18 at Nintendo World in New York's Rockefeller Plaza. Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime will be on hand to count down the launch and sell a new Wii U to the first consumer in line. Fans waiting in line will get premium items (while supplies last) during the event. Nintendo is also selling New York-themed T-shirts with Mario's image at the event. All proceeds from sales of the shirts will be donated to the American Red Cross in support of relief efforts from the effects of Hurricane Sandy."
More than 20 games will be available for Wii U at launch, which will be offered in two different colors and configurations. The Basic Set will be offered in white at a suggested retail price of $299.99, while the Deluxe Set, which includes higher storage capacity, additional accessories and the new Nintendo Land video game, will be offered in black at a suggested retail price of $349.99. Will you be lining up to get one?


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A proof of the cluelessness of economic and political and even scientific leaders:
1) Cheap energy creates exponential growth because it will be easier to use it than actually do the equivalent labor.
2) Nuclear energy will use the last reserve of energy stored in the universe. Far beyond earth history (like fossil fuel), it goes all the way to the big bang: the energy in the atom. After that, it's GAME OVER
3) Exponential growth will always deplete resources in linear time. (Remember the story about the king, the checkerboard, and the grains of rice?)
4) Conclusion: The only way sustainable future is to make a 180 degree course change and transition from an economy of expansion and growth, to one of collaboration and interconnectedness: the CreativeEconomy.
...an "Economic Sanctuary". Help me code it.


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I am a fairly new judge and I have a question about a specific "NO BIRD" situation I encountered last year. It was my first go-round judging. We were running the water series Senior level. We were setup with 2 dead bird stations and the question occurred with the GO bird. That station was equipped with a "Bubba" kick-winger.(launches the bird extremely high and far)about 80 yards total with a short swim. We needed to re-bird and exchange some of the helpers before we were to continue. The memory bird station went off without a hitch. The GO bird however, only made it about 15 feet high and about 20 feet out. The cover was the same in both fall areas. I paused for a second mulling over if "No Bird" should be called. The dog appeared to mark the fall so I called their number. The dog crushed both marks (Thank You Pup!) and the blind.
In my opinion the malfunction actually made the series less difficult because of the proximity of the fall to the blind and gunner. I didn't want to send the team back to a holding blind after making it to the line, seeing the birds, and being steady. I've been there and the extra time in the holding blind waiting to run again has been absolutely nerve wrecking for me and my dog. My thought process, which may be flawed, is to save the "No Bird" for the falls that put the dog in a considerably tougher scenario. Just looking for some opinions and some advice.


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Speaking Event: Khaled Hosseini and the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe -- from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos – Hosseini's tale expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.
In March 2001, while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner. Published in 2003, that debut went on to become an international bestseller and beloved classic, sold in at least seventy countries and spending more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In May 2007, his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, remaining in that spot for fifteen weeks and nearly an entire year on the bestseller list. Together, the two books have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and more than 38 million copies worldwide.


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Who is the lamest villain of all time, in your opinion?
My vote, despite heavy competition, has to go to Arcade. First, what is his power, or does he just play games? He can control the X-Men, right? That still doesn't forgive the outfit. Ye gods!!
Runners up include:
Crazy Quilt
The Calendar Man (they tried a couple of years ago to update him, but it just didn't work)
The Owl
8-Ball (this guy debuted in the 90s? )
Dazzler (she's a hero, true, but she's so lame she ranks here anyway)
Stegron, the Dinosaur Man
Steel Wind (Dazzler's disco cousin)


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Car targeted by shooter; woman injured
Victim treated and released
TOWN OF BELOIT, Wis. - Town of Beloit police are looking for a shooter after a woman was injured in a shooting Wednesday.
Police were called to the 1900 block of South Wisconsin Avenue at 3:57 a.m. for a report of a shots fired incident. Officers said a vehicle with four occupants parked in a driveway was the apparent target of the shooting.
"Shortly after they pulled into the driveway, a vehicle pulled up on Wisconsin and the passenger in that vehicle started firing a handgun," Police Chief Steven Kopp said.
All the occupants were Janesville residents, and a 30-year-old woman in the car was shot in the arm, according to police. She was treated at Beloit Memorial Hospital and released.
Officers said 12 .40-caliber casings were recovered at the scene and the vehicle was struck five times.
"It's very lucky that there weren't more injuries," Kopp said.
Nearby residents said the home where the incident happened has been hit by gunfire before.
Kopp said the motive for the shooting remains unclear.
"We got some conflicting stories from the four occupants of the vehicle about why they happened to go to this house at 4 o'clock in the morning," Kopp said.
Police said the shooter fled north on South Wisconsin Avenue in a dark blue sedan.
On the same block, three people were injured during a shooting in January outside the Silver Slipper Saloon.19613552
"I don't think this is a trend that we're seeing. This shooting is certainly unrelated to the one we had back in January, so I don't think this is a pattern," Kopp said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Town of Beloit Police Department at 608-757-2244 or Greater Beloit Crimestoppers at 608-362-7463.19573766
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Chinese president Hu Jintao's recent visit to America provided ample grist for the media mills, but despite all the attention surrounding protocol gaffes the real story of the meetings was lack of progress along any policy front, including economic relations. In spite of Washington's chiding and threats over the growing trade imbalance, Beijing knows it has Treasury by the bonds. Roughly a third of China's central bank reserves, approaching an astounding $1 trillion, are in U.S. Treasury notes.
The question is therefore when the Administration and Congress will finally face up to the fact that America's deficits are American problems requiring American action. The current account deficit is now running at record heights of $805 billion, 6.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), requiring about $2 billion of imported capital each day to sustain. Fueling the current account deficit is the Federal budget deficit, which, while down from 3.6% of GDP in 2004 to 2.6% in 2005 after a year of exceptional tax receipts, is set to soar anew on the backs of hurricane and war costs, runaway entitlement spending, and Washington's revealed preference for foreign borrowing over cutting pork and raising revenues at home. The recent $39 billion in projected spending cuts adopted by Congress for programs such as Medicare and student loans amounted to great dramatic theater, but a mere 7/100ths of 1 percent of GDP.
The Administration's response to the so-called "twin deficits" has been a yawn. In accordance with the vice president's neoeconomic postulate that "deficits don't matter," there is no policy beyond sending out the Treasury secretary at the bottom of a news cycle to cajole the Chinese into allowing greater currency "flexibility," which the whole world feted them for not doing during the Asia crisis. These are therefore merely thinly veiled calls for a weaker dollar, no different from the devaluation cries heard routinely around the world from export interests.
But outsourcing deficit management to the currency market is junk economics and irresponsible geopolitics. Even if China revalues by the large levels demanded in the Schumer-Graham bill, the yawning American trade gap will remain. Recent econometric analysis of the trade and currency data show the responsiveness of U.S. imports to movements in the dollar to be vastly lower than politicians assume. Thus, particularly because imports currently exceed exports by such a large amount, the higher dollar price of imported goods will make the trade deficit larger, at least until exports start growing rapidly. And that may take a very long while.
Furthermore, readjustments of relative prices via exchange rates won't bring much production back onshore. Textile factories that have closed over the past decade won't reopen even after a steep dollar decline. A significant Chinese revaluation will lead to higher imported sock prices at Wal-Mart, not a sprouting of new American sock plants.
America's comparative advantage vis-à-vis China is clearly in high-technology goods, particularly those with potential military applications. Yet these are precisely the goods the Administration is determined to keep out of Chinese hands, even in the face of European delight at the prospect of cashing in as Beijing continues its prodigious military build-up without American suppliers. It is difficult to envision, therefore, what precisely would stoke the sort of surge in U.S. exports to China that could make a serious dent in the ballooning trade gap.
The second flaw in a soft dollar policy is the naïve belief that a dollar decline will be orderly and painless. This is what the Administration is banking on, but its own policies are guaranteed to undermine it. As they continue to push forward with unbridled spending and tax-cut plans that raise the trajectory of future budget deficits, foreign investors are certain at some point to turn their backs on the ever-expanding stock of U.S. Treasuries, and turn instead to investments in other countries' assets. Central banks, such as Sweden's Rijksbank, are already known to be doing this with their reserves.
The anointment of Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman will, unfortunately, actually reduce pressure on the Administration and Congress to move beyond the soft dollar campaign. The Economic Report of the President, released in February 2006, clearly bore the imprint of Bernanke's rosy view of cause and effect in the American current and capital accounts. In Chapter 6, entitled "The Capital Account Surplus," the president's advisers sought to paint the current account deficit as a consequence of foreign investors voting enthusiastically on investment opportunities in theU.S. .
This claim ignores the fact that a substantial portion of this capital inflow originates from central banks and other quasi-governmental institutions, not from private investors. As former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Martin Feldstein has pointed out, the oft-reported 17% share for official inflows includes only those transactions directly attributable to central banks and other monetary authorities. It does not capture transactions undertaken by private banks on behalf of central banks, nor does it include purchases of U.S. Treasuries made by state-owned enterprises. Using the conservative assumption of an extra $150 billion of inflows attributable to unreported transactions by central banks, roughly 30% of inflows are coming from the official sector. At this level, the "global savings glut" hypothesis becomes much less compelling, yet this mantra has become another justification for inaction in Washington.
When the extraordinary level of official financial flows to the U.S. do dry up, American policymakers will be confronted with some very unpleasant choices. Especially if oil prices, now past $70 a barrel, continue to rise, the trade deficit will become even more insensitive to changes in the dollar's value. As a result, the dollar may have to fall by commensurately still larger amounts to shrink the trade deficit. The Fed will try to forestall a dollar plunge with growth-crunching hikes in interest rates. This will slow the dollar's slide, but not stop it.
Consider what a bad scenario for the dollar will actually look like. There is a discomforting contrast to be drawn between the economy today and in 1985, when many were already proclaiming the U.S. current account deficit "unsustainable." Twenty years ago, when the U.S. current account deficit stood at 2.8 percent of GDP, foreign governments owned 8.4 percent of U.S. government debt outstanding. At the end of 2004, with the current account deficit at 5.2 percent of GDP, foreign governments owned a much higher 27.6% of the total debt outstanding. This is a cause for concern, as it represents a much greater concentration of holdings among a group that is prone to herding.
Central banks around the world hold roughly two-thirds of their reserves in dollars. Asian central banks alone have amassed an astonishing $2 trillion in reserves, most of it in dollar assets. As the dollar has shed nearly a third of its value against the euro just since 2002, prudence would suggest a re-evaluation of the relative weight of dollar holdings in official portfolios going forward. Indeed, strong hints that a reweighting was underway were clear in late 2004 and early 2005, with reports of dollar sales by the Chinese and Russian central banks, said to be for euro and Asian currencies, and strong hints from Japan, Korea, and India that future Treasury purchases would be curtailed.
The dollar has since been bailed out by a heady combination of EU constitutional chaos and French and German political angst, on the one hand, and petrodollar parking in US assets on the other. Resurgent gold, recently at a quarter-century high of over $700 an ounce, was the main haven for dollar bears in 2005, but with the eurozone set to expand by a dozen or more nations in as many years going forward, it is clear that the still fledgling euro's international allure has enormous upside potential.
Now consider the fact that precedent is not encouraging for the dollar. Witness the fate of gold as a central bank reserve holding in the 1980s and '90s. Over the course of the 1980s, when the gold price fell from $615 to $381 an ounce, central banks added a net 344 tons of gold to their reserves. Yet over the 1990s, as gold fell further to $279, central banks sold a net 3,148 tons. In one year alone, 1992, central bank sales amounted to nearly a quarter of the annual gold supply, depressing the price by an estimated 8.27%. Central bank net gold sales continued at annual rate of 500 tons in the early years of this decade.
The dollar has since fully supplanted gold as the foundation of the world's monetary system; a feat unprecedented in world history for a completely uncollateralized fiat currency. But should the dollar continue an extended decline, under pressure from unprecedentedly high trade deficits, there is every reason to believe that central banks will seek greater diversification in their reserves, most likely into euros. As central banks bailed out of gold in the 1990s, their herding out of dollars will accelerate the dollar's decline.
If the Bush Administration persists in projecting an image of insouciance over the dollar's long-term fate, this will undermine the currency's hard-earned role as the world's pre-eminent standard of value. It will also reduce America's influence over the setting of global norms in international commerce. Such a decline would halt the further march of dollarization in Latin America (where Ecuador and El Salvador recently ditched their currencies, and with them the very possibility of capital account crises): a march that is every bit in America's long-term economic and security interests.
So, what should be done? The beginning of wisdom is to acknowledge that a more flexibile or even significantly revalued Chinese currency will not be the savior of the U.S. trade deficit. But the fact that both the Administration and Congress continue to bank on this false hope prevents the nation from pursuing more difficult but far more reliable solutions.
First among these measures—and the one meaningful action the Administration and Congress can undertake in short order—is to forge a serious and workable plan to reduce the federal budget deficit over the next five years, and the trajectory of future deficits going further forward. This, of course, is easier said than done. Political forces arrayed against spending cuts and tax increases remain very strong.
The impact of budget cuts on the trade deficit is difficult to measure precisely – studies find that every $100 in budget deficit reduction yields from $20 to $50 in trade deficit reduction. Yet budget deficit reduction is the only lever available to cut America's dependence on imported capital that is both economically sensible and under the US government's direct control. Many commentators have pointed to America's low and declining private savings rate as an important target, but decades of government tax incentives to boost private savings have yielded little more than windfalls to those wealthy enough to be able to shuffle their existing savings toward whatever tax carrots are dangled before them.
Broad-scale protectionism as an answer is so demonstrably self-defeating that it must be resisted through vigorous public diplomacy. Schumer-Graham tariffs of 27.5% on Chinese goods would become this century's Smoot-Hawley disaster. The trade deficit is ultimately determined by national saving and investment: protectionism does not increase production and, absent an outright banning of trade, does not even affect the trade balance. With China feverishly pursuing new bilateral trade agreements around the globe, America can ill-afford this short-sighted domestic political pacifier. America must, to the contrary, seek to bolster the multilateral trading system, which is the country's only effective bulwark against contagious global protectionism in times of political stress.
The Administration can continue to look for help from abroad by pressing Western Europe and Japan ever more firmly to boost their growth rates. Better growth among America's richest trading partners will fuel U.S. exports and bring down the trade deficit. But the Europeans will be slow or worse to eliminate disincentives to work and job creation, and the Japanese will remain disinclined to consume as long as they continue to doubt their government's ability and commitment to carry on providing for the retired while creating opportunity for the young. Thus the policy burden is necessarily on America to reverse its growing fiscal imbalance.
A painful period of world economic adjustment appears inevitable without firm and immediate action on the budget deficit, and it will have serious implications for America's power in the world. A plunging dollar accompanied by rapidly rising interest rates and a weakening American economy will make other nations less deferential to American wishes at the International Monetary Fund, at the World Bank, and in trade negotiations. Oil-producing Arab states will become even more resistant to American pressures for reform of their political and economic systems, and turn increasingly to Europe and Asia to place their investments and to garner political support. It will become ever more difficult for the United States to afford military action abroad. As it is, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are costing the U.S. over $70 billion annually. That high a level will soon become politically and economically unsupportable, and it will become clear both to Americans and to others that the U.S. will hesitate to act even where future threats appear to be dire.
America's standing in the world very directly hinges on what others believe the country can give to them or withhold from them. Washington can prevent a dollar-driven decline of U.S. global power by demonstrating that it has the political leadership and will to make the hard decisions necessary to sustain American economic strength. This must be grounded in restored budgetary responsibility. America is, at this moment, effectively an economic diabetic. Its insulin is fiscal rectitude. It will not cure the trade gap on its own, but it will allow the world to live with it by preserving the dollar as the bedrock of world commerce and finance.
Menzie Chinn is professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a former senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-author of Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.


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Morrissey specializes in decadent enlargements of contrary emotions: he's got despair on lock, he's an excellent sculptor of ennui, he's increasingly facile with rage, and he harbors bitterness with the same protective sweetness that he so easily abandons when submitting to the ecstatic plight of his own desires — whatever those might be. Although he is often ambiguous, Morrissey is seldom ambivalent — so it was the first in a line of bummers to behold him interrupting his own song ("Best Friend on the Payroll," off Southpaw Grammar) to encourage a swelling vibe of doubt and impatience that seemed to limit the capacity crowd's response throughout his House of Blues set to a dull roar.
Should I preface this by admitting that I haven't seen the Mozzer perform since '92? I probably should. When last I saw him, I could hardly see him: I was caught in a two-hour crush of shrieking unpopular kids smothering one another and flinging already smashed bouquets of gladiolas at his feet. Hundreds of us strewed ourselves across the Brandeis University lawn for 10 hours before the doors to the Gosman Center even opened, doing the Morrissey chant (i.e., "Mor-ris-sey" sung to "Stars and Stripes Forever" or "Here We Go," depending on which side of the Pond you were raised), and vandalizing his tour bus with love letters in magic marker (statute of limitations in effect, I hope).
Sunday night was . . . different. The only things getting smothered were the remaining embers of my youth. (Hey, Moz isn't the only one with a flair for the drama!) It wasn't so much that he seemed old; we did. Not one person was thrown out for leaping the barriers to touch him. I saw only, like, six homage pompadours. And when Moz emerged, after a quick backstage shirt change, in a crisp, white Oxford to sing "Let Me Kiss You" (from 2004's You Are the Quarry) only to slip it off, blot his sweaty spots with it, and hurl it into the crowd, it didn't even get torn to tatters.
Much like his songs of the past eight or so years, his live shows seldom differ in their general aspect. He invokes his muses through extended visual warm-ups — this time a montage of archival footage of Shocking Blue, the New York Dolls, and the exquisite schnozz of the long-forgotten Jobraith. He lets aphorisms float over the crowd like released balloons: "You are standing in the House of Blues — by all means make use of that fact." He offhandedly subs in new lyrical bits while growling the tail ends of others. He strolls, he shimmies, he withdraws and lurches in a kind of swirling gallop (let's just call it oscillating wildly), and he draws randomly from his and the Smiths' catalogues. This evening's back-catalogue selections were diverse: a promising opening duo of "This Charming Man" and Vauxhall and I's "Billy Budd," the lilting oasis of Your Arsenal's "Seasick Yet Still Docked," twangy "Sing Your Life" B-side "The Loop" (which foreshadowed his still-present rockabilly streak), and a climactic, fully extended run-through of latter-day Smithian swan song "Death of a Disco Dancer," which ended in a rumbling wash of drummer Matt Walker's unlikely gong. But the set relied far too heavily on his latest, Years of Refusal (Lost Highway).
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Conway, the John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton, has been named the recipient of the Priestly Award by Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
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Description The English sole, Parophrys vetulus, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on sandy and muddy bottoms in estuaries and near shore areas, at depths of up to 550 metres (1,800 ft). It reaches up to 57 centimetres (22 in) in length, and can weigh up to 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb). Its native habitat is the Eastern Pacific, stretching from the coast of Baja California in the south to the Bering Sea in the north.
English sole is an important commercial fish, primarily caught off Washington, Oregon and California. Though biomass is increasing, catches have been declining since the 1960s and are currently almost at an all-time low.
English sole is also known as lemon sole.
Dimensions Up to 22" (56 cm).
Habitat Ocean or bay shallows.
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The great debate over emissions allowance distribution.
Sam Napolitano is director of the EPA Clean Air Markets Division. Erich Eschmann , Melanie LaCount and Elyse Steiner work in the Division on market-based program design and implementation.
The great debate over emissions allowance distribution.
There may be no more sure way to increase interest in a cap-and-trade policy discussion than to broach the subject of distributing allowances. Frequently it's one of the first issues stakeholders want to talk about, and one of the last resolved. The value of allowances makes distributing them one of the most challenging aspects of setting up a trading program, despite the fact that other program design features carry far more weight in determining the program's ultimate success. In fact, the allowance distribution methodology has very little indeed to do with achieving the environmental and human health goals of cap-and-trade programs. However, given the level of importance understandably ascribed to allowance distribution, stakeholders should consider carefully the choices and the implications of alternatives, particularly in the context of a potential nationwide greenhouse gas (GHG) policy.
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A cap-and-trade program first sets a cap, or maximum limit, on emissions that is below the business-as-usual level. Emission allowances, or authorizations to emit (usually 1 ton or 1 metric ton), are created by the government, with the total amount limited by the cap. Allowances function as the program currency, holding real value because of their scarcity and ensuring total emissions remain within the cap. Each regulated source can design its own compliance strategy to meet the overall reduction requirement, including sale or purchase of allowances, installation of pollution controls, fuel switching, or implementation of efficiency measures. Sources also completely and accurately measure and report all emissions. In order to comply, each emissions source must surrender allowances equal to its actual emissions to guarantee that the overall cap is achieved. 1
There are two principal methods by which the allowances created under a cap-and-trade program can be distributed: They can be auctioned off, or they can be assigned free of charge to select entities (also known as "grandfathering" when given to those with compliance obligations). Of course, a hybrid of the two systems is another option. If allowances are auctioned, the government must decide how to design the auction and what to do with the proceeds; if allocated freely, the government must decide how to identify which sectors and entities should receive them, and how many each should receive.
Decisions relating to auction and allocation methodologies can be highly contentious, since they involve the distribution of valuable commodities and may affect some stakeholders differently than others. Governments often focus on the social cost of direct compliance, such as equipment installations and fuel switching. However, discussion of allowance-distribution methodologies also should consider the impacts related to compliance investments. Distribution methodologies that hinder the pass-through of allowance value ( e.g., free allocation in cost-of-service states) or otherwise subsidize production ( e.g., updating) may impact the program's total cost by shifting the compliance response away from those able to achieve reductions at the lowest cost. Regardless,


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I often refer to the basics, keeping Scouting simple and remembering the reasons we are here and why we do this thing called Scouting.
I attended a dinner in honor of a Scouter the other night, at the end of his comments he read from Baden Powell's last message to the Scouts of the world.
I have read this before, but until the other night I did not see the simplicity in which the founder of Scouting saw things.
It is worth a look, to see that if we just keep it simple, we will always do it right.
Dear Scouts,
– if you have ever seen the play Peter Pan you will remember how the pirate chief was always making his dying speech because he was afraid that possibly when the time came for him to die he might not have time to get it off his chest. It is much the same with me, and so, although I am not at this moment dying, I shall be doing so one of these days and I want to send you a parting word of goodbye.
Remember, it is the last you will ever hear from me, so think it over.
I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too.
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man.
Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn come to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. "Be Prepared" in this way, to live happy and to die happy – stick to your Scout promise always – even after you have ceased to be a boy – and God help you do it.
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Be happy Scouts and Scouters.. thats what it's all about!
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OREGON/FITCHBURG - Leo J. Buchner, of Oregon/Fitchburg passed away peacefully Monday, December 24, 2012 at Agrace HospiceCare.
He was born May 31, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois to Gizela Geresh and Anton J Buchner. The family moved to the Oregon area in 1922 where Leo attended Lakeview School. During those early years he liked to hunt and fish, anything to be outside in the countryside. Leo worked in the two general stores the family owned, one was in Lake Waubesa, Brickson Park area and the other was at the corner of Hwy MM and B.After high school graduation he went to work at Fritz Construction Company in Madison where he achieved his construction apprenticeship.
He married Bessie M Drought on September 7, 1940 and they celebrated 65 years together. In 1941 he helped build the Badger Ordinance Powder Plant in Baraboo, WI and worked there until he joined the Army Corp of Engineers serving in the WWII European Theater until 1945. Returning home he rejoined Fritz Construction Co then had an opportunity to start his own General Concrete Construction Business in 1952. He was a well known Madison contractor for the next 28 years, retiring in 1980. He took immense pride in the work he did for Dane County, the City of Madison, the State Capital building and University of Wisconsin campus as well as various residential customers.
Leo was a loyal Badger Hockey season ticket holder and Braves/Brewers fan. His hobbies included bee keeping and working in his many flower and vegetable gardens on his 40 acre homestead on Hwy MM.
Survivors include his daughter, Karen (James) Frank; son, Robert (Susan) Buchner; brother, John Buchner; nephews, Robert and Brion Drought, Jack (Melanie) Martino; seven grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife Bessie in 2005, his parents, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, aunts and uncles.
Private funeral services are planned with burial in Roselawn Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in Leo's name to Agrace HospiceCare.
The family wants to thank Jim and Bernice Conner for being such close neighbors and good friends. They have been so helpful, thoughtful and generous to Leo and Bessie for so many years.
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New details on the unfolding Chris Christie bridge scandal
FORT LEE, N.J. - Friday, about two thousand pages of documents were released and are shedding new light on what's being called an act of political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee.
A committee of New Jersey lawmakers released nearly 2,000 pages of documents Friday. They're part of the investigation into why traffic onto the George Washington Bridge was snarled back in September.
The documents show in the days after the lane closings, officials scrambled to control publicity damage and local police and other officials had a hard time getting details about the situation.
Also included in the documents, a scathing email sent from the executive director of the Port Authority saying he was never told about the closures. The documents also show that drivers started complaining about the traffic near the bridge immediately after the lanes were reduced.
In the wake of the scandal, Governor Chris Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff, Bridget Kelly was fired.
Port Authority official David Wildstein refused to answer state lawmakers' questions Thursday, he was held in contempt. Wildstein and Kelly are accused of jamming up traffic near the George Washington Bridge as political retribution.
But Christie says he had no knowledge of the events and maintains he was not connected.
"I'm stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here," shared Christie.
The abrupt lane closures caused a massive gridlock and delayed emergency responders in Fort Lee. Christie personally apologized to Mayor Mark Sokolich, but folks living there have mixed reactions.
"I think he did it to make himself look good, because he had to," said Dorie Greenlaw. "It was at a point where he had to because he knew about this."
"I don't blame Christie for it because you can't monitor everybody in your administration all the time," added Frank Branco.
The US Attorney's office is looking into the scandal to see if it should bring charges. A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday by folks claiming the gridlock made them late for work resulting in lost wages.
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In September 2011, the YLD logo competition was launched to select a unifying symbol for the programme. The competition attracted 15 entries from young leaders all over the world and all participants in the programme were invited to vote for their favourite logo on the YLD website. The winner was Claudia Labate from Brazil. Claudia is 23 years old and has worked closely with the Juvenile Diabetes Association of Brazil (ADJ) since 2009, where she is currently responsible for social media. She has also co-authored a children's book on diabetes, which will be published at the end of November 2012. Here is Claudia's explanation of what her logo stands for:
The logo has 7 colors, representing the SEVEN CONTINENTS on earth.
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Emerging as if it is blooming and not closed to show that the YLD is not something closed, but open minded to new definitions of what is diabetes and how we can help people with diabetes.
Of a lamp referring to IDEAS, INSIGHTS, INNOVATION, LIGHT…those were concepts of the group I imagined while thinking about the logo briefing. The green and the blue shape shows CARE. The purple (color of mystery) refers to MYSTERY of what the future will bring us. The pink image is half a HEART (turned 90º), and when this heart comes into contact with the blue circle we get orange, which represents ENERGY.
Throughout the design process, I asked my friend that all of the words below should be represented: HAPPINESS - When you look at it, BEAUTY THROUGH DIVERSITY/HETEROGENEITY - It should be beautiful because different things are being put together. In this case a group that includes individuals of differing ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, religious and political beliefs, sexes and ages. HOLISTIC - I wanted the logo to be something that communicates it´s about diabetes, but not something directly related to diabetes, therefore no needles, no numbers, or symbols from the "diabetes world" etc. This was done to help promote a more HOLISTIC view of what our impact means to the world.


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Eleanor "Ellie" Mae Hosking
Eleanor "Ellie" Mae Hosking, age 67, passed away at home on Thursday, November 29, 2012, surrounded by family and friends. She was born at home in Soldiers Grove, February 4, 1945 to the late Clarence and Verda (Steiner) Salmon. Ellie married Ted Hosking September, 12, 1969. She was a lifelong homemaker who enjoyed decorating her home, spending time with her pets, and was an active member of the Curtiss Street Bible Fellowship Church in Mazomanie.
She is survived by her husband, Ted; a sister, Sharon (Willard) Dilley, Gays Mills; a brother, David (Dawn Holt) Salmon, Middleton; sister-in-law, Alyce Salmon, Ferryville; brothers-in-law; Tom (Dolores) Hosking and David (Jane) Hosking, both of Black Earth; sisters-in-law, Julie (Fred) Marti, Barneveld, Margaret (Jerry) Blaser, Jackson, TN and Jean Lucey, Mt. Horeb. She is further survived by many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother Edward Salmon, Ferryville.
A funeral service will be held on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 11:00am at the CURTISS STREET BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, 10416 Curtiss St., Mazomanie, with Pastor Mark Cymbalak officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Interment will be held at a later date at the Montgomeryville Cemetery, Soldiers Grove.


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Well I got my product ready for MacWorld. I delivered the show build at 9:30 am this morning. Fortunately my client didn't have to fly out to SFO until this afternoon, so he was able to install and test it. He said it worked well.
If you want to see what I've been working on, stop by WiebeTech booth #1651 and ask James to show you the "technology demonstration".
I pulled all nighters two nights in a row to make the show deadline, with only four hours sleep in the middle. That's starting to get hard on an old guy like me. (I'm 38. I wouldn't have thought that was too old to stay up all night but it's starting to feel that way).
I'm glad I delivered a test build last night for my client to try out before the final delivery, because he had some trouble and I had to figure out what was wrong. We were planning to stay up all night while I sent him diagnostic builds but fortunately it was just a couple simple problems that didn't take us long to figure out.
I was really worried though because what he tested wasn't really of good enough quality to demo at a trade show, and I was worried sick some awful bug would happen. But in the end everything went well. It took all night because there was a lot of work to do but there were no real problems encountered.
In the end I was able to just deliver the demo and go to bed, and my client was able to run it just fine.
Some work remains before the product can be made an end-user product, but I know how to do what needs to be done. One of the chief advantages of my product over competing products will be that it should be so easy for regular users to use. It's not quite there yet.
Now I wait anxiously to hear what the reaction from the press and the public will be.


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