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Christopher Lu, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor and a member of Princeton's Class of 1988, speaks to seniors from the pulpit of the University Chapel during the Baccalaureate service on Sunday, June 1. Lu urged students to embrace public service, regardless of their career path.
Princeton President Christopher L. Eisbruber said Lu "has followed a distinguished and admirable path in his professional and personal lives."
Senior Isabel Kasdin reads from the Bible during the interfaith service. Students who lead the service are chosen for their contribution to religious life at the University.
Senior Jihad Al-Jabban reads from the Quran.
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The Class of 2014 began three days of end-of-year celebrations on Sunday, June 1, with Princeton's 267th Baccalaureate, an interfaith service held in the University Chapel that included music, blessings and readings from a range of faith and philosophical traditions.
In the Baccalaureate address, Christopher Lu, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor and a member of the Class of 1988, urged seniors to embrace public service, regardless of the career path they choose.
More than 3,000 seniors, family and friends gathered for the event, one of the University's oldest traditions. Seniors wearing traditional gowns and mortar boards followed banners representing each of the University's six residential colleges and filed past family and friends on Cannon Green to watch the ceremony on a large screen. The seniors continued through East Pyne's arches and courtyard and into the chapel beneath large colorful kites. The sun filtered through the stained glass windows, and the soaring organ and rich rumble of a timpani filled the air with Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man."
Baccalaureate, one of the University's oldest traditions, is followed by Class Day and Commencement.
Lu was introduced by University President Christopher L. Eisgruber, who selected the speaker after consultation with leaders of the senior class. Lu serves as chief operating officer of the Department of Labor. Previously, he was White House cabinet secretary and assistant to President Barack Obama.
"In the 26 years since today's keynote speaker, Christopher Lu, sat in this chapel at his own Baccalaureate service as a member of the Great Princeton Class of 1988, he has followed a distinguished and admirable path of service in his professional and personal lives," Eisgruber said. "His dedication to his country, his community and — I note with pride — his alma mater exemplify the vision that Woodrow Wilson summoned when he coined this University's informal motto, "Princeton in the Nation's Service.'"
Eisgruber, left, and Lu follow mace-bearer Jeff Nunokawa in the procession.
Speaking from the pulpit high above the chapel floor, Lu called on his own story as the child of immigrants who sacrificed for his education to exhort members of the Class of 2014 to make the most of their opportunities in life.
Lu, recalling the words of his father, told the seniors that their Princeton education is an inheritance.
"Unlike a gift, there are strings attached to an inheritance," Lu said. "There are responsibilities implied. An inheritance is something you grow and pass on to the next generation."
Lu challenged the seniors with a question: "How will you make the most of this inheritance of a Princeton education?
"Let me suggest one possible answer: devoting part of your life to public service," he said.
Lu touched on his own career and the public-service accomplishments of others in the federal government — such as those who have helped reduce dangerous infections in hospitals, eradicate polio in India and sent the Curiosity rover to Mars.
"But public service is more than just government service," Lu said. "You can work for a nonprofit organization that promotes affordable housing or helps protect the environment. You can be a high school teacher. You can work as a medical researcher to discover life-saving drugs. You can serve your country in the military, as all three of my freshman year roommates did through ROTC. All of that is also public service."
The afternoon sun filters through the chapel's stained glass windows as the seniors file in for the service.
Lu said public service isn't defined by career, citing Bill Gates as a modern example of a successful businessman who has devoted significant time and resources to the public good. "You can work on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley and still be engaged in public service," he said.
"At its core, public service is a mindset," Lu said. "It is a commitment to address the problems of our time — and not simply pass those problems on to the next generation. It is a desire to reach beyond your circle of friends to help people who you've never met."
In closing, Lu told seniors that their public-service efforts will pay off in the long run.
"By looking beyond yourself, by understanding how we are all connected as one people, by fighting for greater opportunity for all, and by continuing the legacy of progress that defines our nation, you choose the better history of this proud University and its graduates," he said. "It is at that moment when you begin to realize the full value of your inheritance."
The Baccalaureate service included readings by students from the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible and the Quran, as well a series of blessings. Alison Boden, dean of religious life and of the chapel, and Deborah Blanks, associate dean of religious life and of the chapel, offered prayers.
The Baccalaureate service will be available for later viewing online. End-of-the-year activities will continue with Class Day and the Hooding ceremony for advanced-degree candidates on Monday, June 2, and Commencement on Tuesday, June 3.
Seniors gather outside Alexander Hall before processing past family and friends on Cannon Green and into the University Chapel.
The earliest recorded Baccalaureate address was given in 1760 by University President Samuel Davies.
Colorful kites lead the procession into the chapel on a sunny afternoon.
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By: Dr. Ricky Rood , 7:47 PM GMT on August 07, 2012
Ledgers, Graphics, and Carvings: Models, Water, and Temperature (4)
This is a series of blogs on models, water, and temperature (see Intro). I am starting with models. In this series, I am trying to develop a way to build a foundation for nonscientists to feel comfortable about models and their use in scientific investigation. I expect to get some feedback on how to do this better from the comments. In order to keep a solid climate theme, I am going to have two sections to the entries. One section will be on models, and the other will be on a research result, new or old, that I think is of particular interest.
Doing Science with Models 1.1: In the previous entry of this series I argued that if one considered the types of models used in design and engineering, then we use models all of the time. In fact, when we build or do just about anything, we use some sort of model to get us started. I ended the previous entry with the example of building a simple picnic bench that would hold three, two-hundred-pound men. Not only do the materials need to be of sufficient strength, but the legs of the bench need to be attached in a way that they form a solid and stable foundation. If the bench wobbles and the legs spread apart, then it will be unsafe. If we have experience of some sort, we construct a model from this experience. For example, if we have built or repaired tables and benches we have some ideas of good and bad construction. If we have no direct experience then we can find or ask about plans. These plans might be a schematic, a graphic model of the bench.
For those who do not build benches, but who, say, balance their checkbooks, there are models as well. The forms in a ledger represent models that have proven usable through practice or that have become standard approaches. Information is collected and organized: the check number, the date, the payee, the amount, the purpose and the category of expenditure.
These graphic, tabular, or touchable models are common enough that we develop intuition about their use. Introductory materials to climate models often use the words "mathematical," "numerical," and "computational." These words take us not only away from our intuitive notions of models, but also into subjects that many of us find difficult and obscure. However, in the past couple of decades we have seen the tabular models of checkbook balancing coded as computational products such as Quicken. Design and architecture move to tools such as Computer-assisted Design. Recently, we have seen this combination of the world of digital models and touchable products come full circle with the advent of three-dimensional printing. In three-dimensional printing, solid objects made of plastic and metal are rendered from mathematical descriptions of the objects. I will return to this idea of mathematical descriptions of objects later. The point that I would like to make now is that using computers as tools to represent the real world has in the last two decades become routine. Therefore, in and of itself, the use of computers to make numerical calculations of the real world is common. It might not be as universally intuitive to people as a ledger or a wooden design of a boat, but there is large body of experience that affirms the value of computer-based modeling.
There are a number of steps that need to be taken from here to climate models. So far, I have been talking about models that are in the spirit of a work or a structure used in testing or perfecting a final product. In climate modeling, the final product of the construction is a model. It is the purpose of that model to provide a credible representation of the climate. That representation has a number of attributes. There is the attribute of representing what we have already observed. There is also the attribute of predicting what we will observe, that is, predicting the future. Therefore, the final product of the whole process is the simulation of and the prediction of the climate.
As with many words, there is more than one definition of model in the dictionary. Another relevant definition from my print edition (third) of the American Heritage Dictionary is "A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further studies of its characteristics." (American Heritage Dictionary online) This definition is directly descriptive of a climate model. But like those introductions to climate models that I referred to above, it quickly goes to words like "system" and "theory" that are not quite as intuitive as I would like. This is where I will start next time.
Interesting Research: Attribution of 2011 Extreme Weather to Climate Change - Some might recall in 2011, I wandered into the contentious subject of the attribution of climate change to humans (collected here) and talking about communicating extreme weather events in the media (Shearer and Rood). The paper I highlight in today's blog is a compilation of efforts to understand the role of planetary warming in some of the extreme events of 2011. The paper is Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 from a Climate Perspective edited by Tom Peterson and others and published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This paper looks at six of the extreme events of 2011 and tries to attribute, in a variety of ways, the role played by human-caused global warming. (nice summary in New Scientist)
I want to focus on the part of the paper that discusses the extreme heat and drought in Texas in the summer of 2011. Much of that discussion is based on evaluating the effect of sea surface temperature, and specifically, the role of El Nino and La Nina. El Nino and La Nina are the names given to recurring patterns of sea surface temperature distributions in the eastern, tropical Pacific Ocean. The approach to this problem is to use models to make many simulations with sea surface temperature distributions similar to the La Nina conditions of 2011. Simulations were made for times in the 1960s and for the year 2008. The simulations provide an ensemble of many plausible outcomes, and it is possible to investigate the odds of a drought of similar extreme attributes as the 2011 drought occurring in the 1960s. The authors conclude that the warming climate made the 2011 drought 20 times more likely to occur now than in the 1960s. The authors point out that they cannot make statements about absolute probability. That is, they cannot state that in the absence of carbon dioxide increases and associated warming, that the drought would not have occurred.
This approach of using probability to discuss the impact of warming is an active area of research as well as an emerging way to communicate the relation between extreme weather and global warming. In the Washington Post, Jim Hansen has an op-ed piece that describes a paper which was released on Monday, August 6 (reference at end). In this paper Hansen revisits his metaphor that compares extreme weather in a warming climate with playing a dice game with loaded dice. That is, the dice are loaded in a way such that what used to be "extreme" will more likely occur. Going back to the Texas drought, that result mentioned in the previous paragraph says that the dice are loaded so that the extreme attributes of the 2011 drought are 20 times more likely. The takeaway message from Hansen is that we have, so far, underestimated how much the dice are loaded and that we have underestimated the probability of extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat waves, and yes perhaps, persistent cold snaps.
Hansen, Early Edition, PNAS, Perception of Climate Change
Hansen, Perception of Climate Change, Public Summary
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Shares of Tesla (TSLA) were jumping more than 8% in afternoon trading, a reversal from Tuesday's losses.
Today, Dougherty & Co. analyst Andrea James more than doubled her price target on Tesla, from $90 to $200. James gave even more bullish figures within her note, writing "We ultimately believe Tesla is a $300 stock at the factory's maximum capacity, which we hair cut to $200 for the execution risk."
James sees Tesla as the only company that has been able to make electric car technology work.
Separately, the company is suing machinery maker Atlas Technologies over whether a dispute about an agreement must be heard by an arbitrator, Bloomberg reports. Tesla's move is designed to force arbitration of the contract. The lawsuit was filed in Chancery Court of Delaware.


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Among 15 stocks that Goldman Sachs highlighted Friday for the potential payment of special dividends by the end of the year: Molex.
As colleague Michael Aneiro noted in his post here, companies flush with cash have the choice of giving some of it back to shareholders before ordinary income tax rates more than double from 15% to more than 40%. Much depends on the outcome of the November presidential election, but the shareholder-friendly rate is set to expire at year end.
When similar tax cuts were set to expire at the end of 2010, one-time dividend announcements were plentiful, Goldman says.
A maker of electronic components including connectors, sockets, cable assemblies and antennas, Molex (MOLX) was the only technology name to make the list. Based in Chicago's western suburb of Lisle, Molex has a history of raising its dividend, which stayed steady from late 2008 through 2010, during the throes of the financial crisis. It raised the quarterly dividend 10% to 22 cents per share payable June 25.
Molex shares were down 8 cents, or 0.29%, to $27.58. It has a market cap of about $4.8 billion and boasts a yield above 3%.
Goldman formed its list, in part, with a screen with parameters including cash flow, high insider ownership and low leverage. Molex had $652.25 million in total cash on the balance sheet at last count, $254.96 million in total debt, and insiders held about a third of shares, according to Yahoo! Finance statistics.


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I've seen a lot of good reviews about this knife,I'm really close to pulling the trigger on buying it .Anyone here have any feed back on them? Does the blade hold an edge ? Does the gut blade work as described?
I've seen a lot of good reviews about this knife,I'm really close to pulling the trigger on buying it .Anyone here have any feed back on them? Does the blade hold an edge ? Does the gut blade work as described?
I don't have that particular knife, but I have the butchers lite kit and have given several kits as gifts. Very high quality. Knives hold edges great. The company also does a lot to support hunters education. Would definitely teccomend their products!!!!
I took the plunge today, "there was only 1 left on the rack,so I had to buy it!"....Is what my wife thinks
This is the best hunting and skinning knife hands down. Always holds an edge because when a blade dulls, simply replace it. Very inexpensive to replace the blades and they are legitimately surgical blades. I was field dressing a deer a couple years ago at camp and one of the guys that always is there is a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic. He said those were the exact blades he uses on the table.
Cody's Gunslingin' Cosmonaut MH QAA (Shooter)
Looks like I just bought the 2nd best knife then.
I myself am thinking about buying this knife but they have came out with one with replacement blades also. Haven't seen the new one yet but have seen the swing blade at wally world for $50. The gutting blade may sway me. I can't sharpen a knife at all!!! That's why I like the replacement blades. Look at the youtube video of the worlds fastest deer skinner. WOW! He can skin and gut a deer in less than 2 mins. Takes me a little longer(A LOT)!!!
We are on deer number 6 between my son and I . I like the swing blade , holds a good edge and still sharpens easy with a chepo sharpener. The gut hook design is the best I've came across to date. It would be even better if it was offered with the Kodi Pack set up (caping blade and T handle bone saw).
Hey Shawn, I bought the razor light with the replacement blades(for I can't sharpen a knife for nothing). Love it and putting it to use. Bought it at mid-south shooters supply for $32. Really like it! It would be better with the gut hook.
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Obi Wan's starfighter...TRU repaint and the 500th vader...
looks like a trip to WM for me!!!
I need shock troopers and $66 from Ebay for 5 is NOT an option.
Obi Wan's starfighter...TRU repaint and the 500th vader...
looks like a trip to WM for me!!!
I need shock troopers and $66 from Ebay for 5 is NOT an option.
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Totally agree, don't give in. Based on what I've found I have a feeling these will be everywhere shortly.Originally Posted by Val Da Car
I found 5 more Shock Troopers today, again at Wal-Mart. I was pretty happy about that because I now have exactly the amount I was looking to obtain. Pretty nice to be done with those this early in the game. I also found one #33 green Clone Commander, so hit WM hard people. They seem to be the store for this assortment.
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Has anyone found the Shocktroopers, Green Commander, Black Pilot, 54 and 55 in Jersey yet?
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If not for amazon, I wouldn't even have theTarkin and Antilles waves, never mind the repaints. All I even want is one or two shocktroopers, but no sign of ANYTHING new in Jersey in weeks.
I have to amdmit, Walmart has been the place where I most go to find figures. As sad as this sounds TRU was the worst, while Target was some where in between.Originally Posted by Hellboy
"I have a visual" "Jedi?" "I think so." "How many? A thousand?" "No.." "Eighty?" "No sir.." "What? Fifty?" "Less.." "Forty? Come on! How many?!" "Two.." "What?!"
flinally here in missouri at one of my targets last night found #51,probably could have found #52 & #53 if i had gotten their earlier in the day. they also have shelf tags up for evolution & bp sets now. they did have 3 vader evolutions and 1 blue clone 3-pack. talked to wm stocker, they said they probably would not get anything new until after reset in august, not a problem unless they fill it back up with previous waves.
I haven't found anything new in over a month! I got a chance to talk with a Hasbro rep. who was at my local Wal-Mart last week. She said that the store has enough figures, and probably wouldn't be getting any new ones until the ones they have sell down some more. I was incredulous, since although nearly all they have are Chancellor Palpatine, Clone Pilot, Mon Mothma, and a very few Jedi and Bail Organa, the stuff is still selling, albeit slowly. She actually advised me to look to online sources, including Ebay.
I took her up on her offer.
I would have had to ask her why they don't take back the slow selling stock to make room for newer items. Or I'd ask her if they can even do that.Originally Posted by Twodot Tatooine
I mean, c'mon... the same 30 Darth Vader voice changing helmets have been sitting on each and every stores' shelves for an eternity! Nobody wants them anymore! Take them away! And I haven't seen so many Legos in my life that aren't selling. Take them away too! Or at least put them in the Lego aisle so they can make room for 3 3/4" figs. Let's bring out figures #45 and up, battle packs, evolutions... newer items!
In the last day or so I've been in a couple of Targets, and they finally restocked! The cruddy thing is that they restocked with figures #24 to #44... AGAIN! I don't know how the stores ordering works. I don't know if they say, "we need 6 boxes of Star Wars stuff," and Hasbro sends them random product lines and waves, or if the store can actually order whatever waves and product lines they want. Either way, something needs to happen. I guess that I'll just have to wait until August when they'll change their inventory.
I just don't want the stock to dwindle so much that the stores start skipping waves, or only getting one or two of a "must have" item.
Around me, stores just don't get stuff in, for the most part. That happened to me with a couple of product lines a coule of years ago... I never got the 2003/#20 Jango Fett-Kamino Escape, 2003/#31 Luke-Tatooine Encounter, 2003/#32 Vader-Death Star Clash, 2003/#50 super articulated Clone Trooper, or 2004/#20 General Madine. I got the Hall of Fame versions, or the 2002 versions, or the OTC versions of those figures, but I never got those. And that erks me, because I can't find them for a decent price (decent proce for me is not spending $20 for a fig including S&H). I don't want that happening to this 2005 collection with the 12 figs that are coming out, or with the remaining figs over # 50.
Finally found a Captain Antilles and Utapaun Warrior at a Target in Louisiana. It is about time! This Target is about an hour from where I live. Still no sign of the others though. No tarkin, meena tills, ask aak, bacara, anakin crispy, or paint variants.
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Dir. Robert Wise
Janice and Bill Templeton (Marsha Mason and John Beck), an affluent middle class couple living in New York, look on helplessly as their comfortable existence is shattered when the mysterious and charismatic Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins) enters their lives. He declares that their daughter Ivy (Susan Swift) is actually the reincarnation of his dead daughter Audrey Rose. Is he telling the truth? Or is he a raving psychotic they should cross the street to avoid? When Ivy begins to experience weird seizures and hallucinations, the couple have no choice but to accept the help of Hoover and the family are plunged into a nightmare they may never wake up from…
Director Robert Wise began his eclectic career as an editor for RKO. He was given his big break by producer Val Lewton directing the poetic horror sequel The Curse of the Cat People – more a sensitive study of child psychology than an out and out horror flick. Wise would return to the horror arena again with titles such as The Body Snatcher and his startlingly atmospheric Lewton homage The Haunting – another testament to how effective the 'less is more' approach to horror can be. Not one to rest on his laurels, Wise preferred to span the genres, making his mark with a wide range of titles such as The Sound of Music, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Towards the end of his career he returned to horror once again, with the markedly less effective Audrey Rose.
Beginning intriguingly enough, Audrey Rose opens with a shocking car crash in which a little girl is killed. From this point on a couple of parallels with Don't Look Now can be drawn – both films open with the death of a young girl and the remainder of the film charts the varying attempts of a parent to get over this death, all the while suspecting their dead child is attempting to contact them somehow from beyond death. Here the similarities end. Audrey Rose initially unravels as a mysterious stranger stalks a young family – the beardy-weirdy Hoover is seemingly obsessed with their daughter Ivy. This seems to coincide with Ivy experiencing some very weird shit indeed – distressing dreams and seizures during which she believes she is burning to death. As the tension mounts and the intrigue continues to swirl throughout proceedings, the film switches gear as the bizarre Hoover invites the Templeton's to dinner and explains that he believes their daughter is the reincarnation of his daughter. They are obviously sceptical and warn him to stay away – some of the looks exchanged over this particular dinner table are priceless. However certain events happen that force Janice to ask Hoover for his help, and so begins another segment of the film – the ongoing debate about whether or not reincarnation is real. The old religion vs. science vs. spirituality arguments are dragged out and dusted off, as are the 'who am I and what is my life for' ponderings and verbally flung about the screen by all involved as they act their faces off.
The film is peppered with a few memorable moments and images, such as the scenes in which Ivy flings herself violently around the rather nicely lit apartment as we watch from outside through the rain dappled windows. During one of her attacks, she 'burns' her hands on a cold window. Another mind-boggling though admittedly striking scene features a group of school girls dancing around a giant snowman they've just set fire to as an entranced Ivy crawls slowly towards the flames…
When Hoover kidnaps Ivy, the film - which began as a creepy tale about the potentially unsettling nature of reincarnation and a father's irrepressible grief - does another u-turn and plunges headlong into a semi-ridiculous and melodramatic courtroom drama.
Anthony Hopkins is no stranger to horror – two years after this film, he would go on to star in the chilling ventriloquist-dummy horror Magic and then lock horns with Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, via some little film or other about a transsexual serial killer and some quiet baby sheep. While Audrey Rose is a dreadfully uneven film, Hopkins – on the most part – remains the most mesmerising aspect of it. When he is onscreen he commands attention. His sinisterly calm demeanour cracks at various intervals to allow us to peek into the fragile and damaged soul of a man who never got over the death of his daughter and remains locked in a heart-wrenching cycle as he searches the world for her – or rather, for whoever she now lives again within. Aside from one or two rather 'thespiany' scenes in which Hopkins locks eyebrows with anyone else in the general vicinity and tries to emulate Bela Lugosi with the overuse of his hands, his performance is nuanced and suitably anxious. The rest of the cast deliver performances that range from consistent to downright annoying.
The most resonant thing about the film is its depiction of the misery, perpetual longing and heartache of Elliot Hoover as he desperately tries to reunite with his dead daughter. The notion that our lives are governed by 'greater forces' we have no hope of ever comprehending is also successfully evoked throughout the film. The downbeat ending that tries to assure us that Hoover hasn't given up hope, just ensures events are left on cold note, and for all the emoting onscreen, Audrey Rose is a strangely unfeeling film, and one that despite its seemingly positive message about life, death and reincarnation, was too uneven, bereft of suspense and much too distancing to make any sort of impact. While at times it was thought provoking, it was way too dry and overwrought. The 'tragic' death that occurs at the end of the film, and the fact that it was brought about through utter incompetence, isn't softened any by the idea that Ivy will be reincarnated again... And what of Audrey Rose? Is her soul to be entwined with that of Ivy's for all time? Yes, ambiguity is good - but gaping plot holes posing as ambiguity is not! This might warrant another viewing sometime in the future, but not for a while yet.


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Ok.....so which Jedi are in Episode II?
Plo Koon
Mace Windu
Eeth Koth?
Who else? I mean, the Council will have changed, there are only 4 permanent members. I think they are Yoda, Mace, Plo, and who else?
Who is going to see action?
I think:
Plo Koon
Mace Windu
Obi-Wan (duh)
Eeth Koth (if he is in it)
Anakin (of course)
who else?
I am so confused???


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ATLANTA The task force assigned the difficult task of deciding how much to compensate the victims of a North Carolina sterilization program, which was intended to reduce welfare costs and cleanse the gene pool of undesirable characteristics, settled on a number on Tuesday.Each living person sterilized as part of the states formal eugenics program, which lasted from 1929 to 1974, should receive $50,000, the task force said.Certainly, many of the nearly three dozen other states that once had eugenics programs sterilized more people. In California, about 20,000 people were sterilized by the state. But the program in North Carolina, which may have included as many as 7,600 people, lasted the longest and was one of the most aggressive.Now, North Carolina is the first to set a dollar amount for the victims.I think that number sounds fantastic, said Rita Thompson Swords, 72, who grew up in a poor family of 16 children. She was sterilized at 21 during a Caesarean section to deliver her second child. That is surely going to help a lot, she said by telephone from her home just outside Charlotte. Lord, I wouldnt know how to act if I get to buy me some new clothes.Not every victim was pleased. Elaine Riddick, 58, who now lives in Atlanta, was sterilized after a rape left her pregnant at 13. She had wanted $1 million. They took away something from me that was so valuable that I can never get back, she said.But Dr. Laura Gerald, the head of the task force, said the money sent a message that North Carolinians do not tolerate bureaucracies that trample on basic human rights.The road from the task force recommendations to the payout remains long. The report will next go to Gov. Bev Perdue on Feb. 1, and she will then add her recommendations and send it to lawmakers when she submits her budget to the Legislature, which comes into session in May.So far, there is bipartisan support for compensating victims. But persuading lawmakers to pay out what could be $100 million will be a challenge. North Carolina is predicting a $2 billion budget shortfall for its fiscal year in 2013, which begins in July.The panel recommended that the money go only to living victims, including those who may die before lawmakers approve any compensation. Of the people who were sterilized disproportionately minorities and many poor, uneducated and mentally handicapped only 1,500 to 2,000 victims are expected to be living.So far, the state has verified only 72 victims, but more are expected to come forward now that money is being offered, said Jill Lucas, communications director for the North Carolina Department of Administration.In addition to compensation, the task force recommends continued financing for the Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, which is helping to locate victims. The task force also suggests that people be given up to three years to come forward, and that any money they receive not affect their eligibility for government programs based on income.
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Harbaugh helps Paly open its football season
Original post made on Sep 15, 2013
San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has a busy weekend as his squad heads to Seattle to take on the Seahawks in a battle of Super Bowl-contending teams on Sunday. Harbaugh, however, will make time to return to his alma mater, Palo Alto High, on Friday night.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, September 13, 2013, 8:57 AM
Comments (4)
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Sep 15, 2013 at 10:44 pm
I think Jim should have spent the day working with his current team instead of reminiscing with his high school chums. They could have really used it. What an ugly game.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Sep 16, 2013 at 12:22 am
Jim came and went. He didn't stay long at the game.
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a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Sep 16, 2013 at 11:54 am
Coach Harbaugh was kind enough to take time from his job to make the Paly opener more exciting. Stop whining Paly Alum.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Sep 16, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Sorry, paly parent, you misinterpreted. I was responding to Jim, who was whining that Harbaugh should have been with his team instead. I was thrilled that Jim was there, as I graduated from Paly in '82 with him and he attended our 30-year reunion last year at a busy time too.
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Pursuant to Rule 3-7.10, William Henry Winters of Tampa has petitioned the Supreme Court for Bar reinstatement.
Winters was suspended for 91 days pursuant to a September 6, 2012, court order for violation of the following Rules Regulating The Florida Bar: Rule 3-4.3 (Misconduct and Minor Misconduct); Rule 4-7.10(f) (Lawyers may state or imply that they practice in a partnership or authorized business entity only when that is fact); Rule 4-8.4(b) (A lawyer shall not commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects); Rule 4-8.4(c) (A lawyer shall not conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation); and Rule 4-8.4(d) (A lawyer shall not engage in conduct in connection with the practice of law that is prejudicial to the administration of justice).
The suspension was served from October 6, 2012, through January 5.
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It seems that this happens in some way every turkey season, spring and fall.
I'll be out sitting up against a tree, in full camo and a deer or several deer will come right up to me. They never seem to see me or smell me. I've had them, like this year, less than 5 feet from me.
I used to bow hunt for deer many days each season. I'd wash my clothes in baking soda or some scent free detergent, air dry them and then put them in a plastic bag with pine boughs and pine cone or some "fresh earth" wafers.
I showered in scent free soap wouldn't even use a scented Kleenex to blow my nose.
I watched what I ate and avoided foods with lingering odors.
I wore "appropriate" camo and none of my body was exposed.
I'd carefully avoid cooking odors, gasoline and put a cover scent on my boot soles. I'd sit painfully still for what seemed to be hours, with a full bladder.
Still, many times I'd get busted. A deer would look at me, snort and be gone.
When I'm turkey hunting, I can get up in the morning,fry eggs and bacon, wear clothes that haven't been laundered in weeks, pay no attention to the wind direction, move occasionally and still have deer try to run over me.
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For those of you who approve such tactics, I can only assume you are also OK with similar interrogation of our own forces. Presumably representatives of our government who have called those who did similar things to our troops monsters who should be tried and convicted of war crimes are nothing but liberal whiners.
In my mind, you treat all people as you would want to be treated under similar circumstances. That doesn't mean that they would return the favor. However, our morality is measured first by our standards, not the lowest common denominator from among our enemies. I have never seen a convincing argument that torture is an effective technique for gathering reliable intelligence.
It is not up to me to be OK with that happening to our guys. Only a fool would think that it does not happen and much worse to our guys. They don't have a bunch of crying libs in most parts of the world to care what they do to our troops
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Oh I see because I support ridding our country of an enemy who has no other thoughts than to rip out your heart and show it to you while you die and to continue doing that until they die. have you forgot 9/11. They are terrorist's!!! Cowards!!! Enemies of the state!!!
Should we give them a group hug and say we are sorry instead. Liberals disgust me. They need to go and live outside in the real world. get up and see whats outside and don't live your life through the TV or the media.
They are the enemy and make no mistake they will do what ever it is to make you suffer a hideous death and if that means dieing to do that then so be it. Heck they are leaving a sand soaked filth and flea infested life in some middle east Sh*%$t hole and would be welcomed by a group of virgins upon arriving on the other side. I say send them there. I say let me send them there. Let me throw the switch. They are like a mad dog that needs to be put down.
But then that's not nice is it.
Who cares!!!!
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This is how I imagine how those that dont approve of water boarding might sound like. During a arrest or battlefield capture.
Interrogator We found you with a computer that has plans to attack the US
Its not mine
Interrogator Your phone has numbers of know terrorist
No it doesn't
Interrogator Your car has bomb making materials in the trunk
Its a science project
Interrogator You just finished flight school.
Its a hobby
Interrogator You have detailed plans of the twin towers
I was planning a vacation
Interrogator Were you planning anything
Interrogator OK I am going to get tough with you. Are you really planning anything.
Interrogator I am only going to ask you one more time
Interrogator ARE YOU PLANNING ANYTHING ?
Interrogator Alrighty then you are free to go would you like a referral to the ACLU or maybe a nice warm muffin. Sorry for the inconvenience.
"Communism only works in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in Hell, where they already have it" Ronald Reagan
Here is another account of an uncomfortable shower.http://waterboarding.org/firsthand
And your point?
I never said it was comfortable. It is a serious method of breaking ones spirit to allow the extraction of information. It appears to do just that.
Just because those that are subject to it don't like it and can't withstand more than a few minutes of the procedure, doesn't mean it is torture.
From Wikepedia:
Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on their back with the head inclined downward and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages.[1][2] Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning and is made to believe that death is imminent.[3] In contrast to merely submerging the head face-forward, waterboarding almost immediately elicits the gag reflex.[4] Although waterboarding does not always cause lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, physical injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, psychological injury, and, ultimately, death, which may be caused by one of the many possible conditions -- not only drowning -- that are triggered by this behavior.[5] The physical effects of waterboarding can come on even months after the event, and the psychological effects on the victims can last for years.[6]
Waterboarding was used for interrogation at least as early as the Spanish Inquisition to obtain information,[7] coerce confessions, punish, and intimidate. It is considered to be torture by a wide range of authorities, including legal experts,[5][8] politicians, war veterans,[9][10] intelligence officials,[11] military judges,[12] and human rights organizations.[13][14]
So what we have is a form of "strong encouragement" developed during the Spanish Inquisition and extended by Japanese interrogators in WWII (people we charged with war crimes) and Chinese interrogators during the Korean War (where we called it brain washing). It can cause permanent physical damage, including brain damage, and even death.
I guess torture only exists when it's being done by someone else to us. I'll believe it's not torture when Cheney himself is subjected to it a public video and the procedure is done with all the embellishments performed on any of our prisoners. If it's good enough for him, I would agree that it's good enough for them.
We are what we do, not what we believe, not what we promise, and not what we dream. If we allow ourselves to become our enemies, we deserve their fate.


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Cuarteto Latinoamericano to perform, April 1 and 3
Posted March 25, 2004; 03:43 p.m.
Cuarteto Latinoamericano, known throughout the world for its advocacy of Mexican chamber music, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The performance will include works by major composers of Latin American classical music, including Heitor Villa-Lobos, Manuel Ponce, Silvestre Revueltas and Alberto Ginastera.
The string quartet also will present a children's concert at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 3, in Richardson. The concerts are part of a month-long Latin American culture celebration, "The Search for Xochipili," featuring a wide variety of music, the visual arts and the spoken word. The project is sponsored by Princeton University Concerts in conjunction with the University Art Museum , the Program in Latin American Studies , the Program in Creative Writing and the Friends of Music at Princeton .
Tickets are required for both Cuarteto Latinoamericano performances, although the Saturday performance is free. For more information and ticket prices on the Thursday concert, call the Richardson box office at (609) 258-5000.
Contact: Tom Bartus(609) 258-3601


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How important for children is imaginary play?
|Olde tyme tea party. Girls engaging in pretend play, 19th c.
Photo via Wikimedia; public domain in US.
When you look at the research that has been done to test that, it comes up really short… It may be that we've been testing the wrong things; and it may well be that when a future experiment is really well done we may find something that pretend play does for development, but at this point these claims are all overheated. This is our conclusion from having really carefully read the studies.
any play a child engages in, alone, with playmates, or with adults, that involves uses of the imagination to create a fantasy world or situation, such as making toy cars go "vrrooooom" or making dolls talk.


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The U15, 16, 17 and 18 ECNL teams traveld to San Antonio, Texas February 23-26 to participate in their first ECNL National Event of the season. Playing against clubs from New York, Arizona, Dallas, Southern California, Colorado, North Carolina and Washington, the teams were a combined 3-4-5.
The highlight of the event was the number of college coaches who watched the games. A total of 116 schools were watching MTA players this weekend. "That is one of the great benefits to this league" said MTA Girls Elite Director Dany Storlien. "Our players were exposed to coaches and schools from all over the country. There is not another way to get the kind of exposure our players got in one weekend." "And it's not a one time shot either. A majority of these schools will come watch our players in San Diego and PDA as well" Storlien added.
Next up for the ECNL teams is a home weekend March 9, 10 and 11 where they host Carmel (IN), Hawks (MI) and Vardar (MI).
Click here for the list of coaches who attended MTA games.


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Climate + Site
Raspberries generally grow from zones 3 to 9, but you'll need to find a cultivar that's appropriate for your climate. In Northern areas, try extra-hardy raspberries such as Boyne, Nova, and Nordic. In the South, try heat-tolerant Dorman Red, Bababerry, and Southland.
Find a site with full sun and good air circulation. Avoid places where high winds can whip the canes around and damage raspberries. The site should be at least 1,000 feet (30 m) from any wild blackberries or similar bramble berries that could share problems. Provide fertile, well-drained soil that hasn't been used to grow bramble berries, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants, or roses, which can leave behind diseases that attack raspberries.
Choosing Plants
Buy only certified disease-free plants. You can get the bareroot, in containers, or as tissue-cultured plantlets. Your best option is probably vigorous, year-old, bareroot plants that have been propogated from virus-indexed stock.
Raspberries come in several colors. Yellow and red are the hardiest and are very sweet. Black raspberries are delicious but also the least hardy and the most susceptible to disease. Purple raspberries fall somewhere in between red and black.
Select raspberry cultivars that ripen at different times to spread out your harvest. For example, you could plant early-ripening, red summer raspberries such as Algonquin and chilliwack, then black raspberries such as Bristol, then ever-bearers such as Autumn Bliss and Heritage.
Planting + Care
Plant red and yellow raspberries 2 feet apart in a row, and they'll fill in solid in a year or two. Space black and purple raspberries 3 feet apart. Keep the row width fairly narrow—6-24 inches wide—to allow every cane to get plenty of sun and be fully productive. Mow or till along the edge of the row as needed to keep the raspberries from creeping out.
Apply compost and a little balanced organic fertilizer in late winter, if needed, for good growth. Mulch to discourage weeds and keep the soil evenly moist; water during dry spells. Propogate by division or layering, but only if you are sure your plants are healthy. In many cases, you're best off buying new, certified disease-free plants.
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Pruning and Training
Regular pruning will encourage your plants to produce high yields of top-quality berries. For a single fall crop on ever-bearers, simply cut off all the old canes at ground level when they are done fruiting.
Summer-bearing red raspberries produce fruit on 2-year-old-canes. Cut down the old, grayish brown fruit-producing canes after you harvest, but leave the new, current-season canes to produce berries next year.
In late winter, remove the smallest canes to leave three to six sturdy canes per foot of row.
Black and purple raspberries produce fruit on side branches that grow off the older canes. During summer, cut off the fruit-producing canes after your harvest, and snip off the tips of new canes when they're 3 to 4 feet tall to make them branch. During the dormant season, remove the smallest canes to leave four to six sturdy canes per foot of row. On the remaining canes, cut out any spindly side branches and trim the remaining side branches back to 8 to 10 inches long.
Related: How To Grow Blueberries
Harvest berries when they're sweet and ripe. Eat them promptly, dry or freeze them. Berries do not keep ripening after harvesting. For best flavor and ease of picking, wait until they are fully ripe. Some raspberries offer a slight resistance to picking even when fully ripe. Let your taste tell you when to pick. Red raspberries vary in color at maturity from light to dark red. Some purple ones change from red to purple to almost black, with sugar levels increasing as the color darkens. Raspberries slip off the stem when picked, leaving a hollow inside the fruit.
Pick your berries as early in the morning as possible, when they are cool. If the berries are wet, let them dry before picking. Handle them gently and place, don't drop, them into a shallow container. Refrigerate immediately.
It's easier to pick berries with both hands free. Tie two long strips of sturdy cloth like apron ties to a large tin can or small bucket. Tie your picking can around your waist, or hang it around your neck. Put your berry basket in the bottom if you like. Carry an extra basket to put overripe or moldy berries in as you pick; removing these berries will help prevent rot problems from occurring later.
Problem Prevention + Control
Several fungi diseases may attack raspberries. Powdery mildew can cause a white coating on fruit, leaves and shoots. Anthracnose produces dark blotches on canes and possibly sideshoot dieback. Cane blight causes wilted shoot tips and dark spots on the canes. Proper pruning, as previously described, should prevent many of the problems. If these diseases were a problem the previous year, spray with lime-sulfur when the buds begin to turn green. Check catalogs for resistant cultivars.
Viruses may produce stunted growth, curled, yellow-marked leaves, and/or crumbly, malformed berries. There is no cure; dig and destroy infected plants. Start a new patch in a different site with certified virus-free plants.
Crown gall can cause lumpy swellings on the roots and the base of shoots. Dig up and destroy infected plants. Replant new stock in a different site. Avoid wounding stems.
Bright orange spots on the undersides of leaves in spring indicates orange rust. This incurable disease attacks black and purple raspberries, as well as blackberries. Remove and destroy infected plants.
Gray fuzz on the fruit indicates fruit rot. Pick and destroy infected berries. Gather ripe fruit daily.
Borers are insect pests that damage canes, causing wilted shoot tips. Look for a small entry hole near the base of the wilted area. Prune off damaged tips or canes, borer and all. If the shoot tip is wilted but you don't see an entry hole and if the inside of the cane is discolored, a disease may be the culprit; cut off the cane at the base and destroy it.
This article is courtesy of Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.


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I'm afraid that as long as federal spending equals votes, the spending will never go down. As long as elected officials, government employees and union members have salaries and benefits that exceed the average citizen, the spending will not go down until it's too late.
Golden egg regards,
M&K's HR UH Tucker of Texoma JH
M&K's SHR Prime Black Angus
M&K's Miss Jessie Girl JH
Sir Jacob of Lakeview-Jake
Freeway JYD
Mike Whitworth
Another interesting graph that may explain more the income vs outgo gap!
Bloomberg Reports had another one in one of the latest magazines but based on age 18-65 that was even more dramatic. Sorry can't find it on the web. But it had employment of 18-65 yo males at below 65%!!!
Last edited by T. Mac; 04-18-2011 at 01:27 PM. Reason: add new graph
Imagine if we could get Democrats to pay their taxes!!
Stan b & Elvis
Amazing. Reminds me of the rich southern plantation owners getting the working poor to charge into union cannons for them....and their lavish lifestyle that the cannon-fodder were never going to share in even with a southern victory. Its happened before, its happening now, and it will happen again. I guess if you're rich, its good to have a gullible populace to do your work, pay your taxes, and fight your battles.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
You are a freaking doctor and you are playing the class envy BS. "I guess if your rich" Give me a break! YOU ARE A HECK OF A LOT RICHER THAN A LOt OF FOLK ON HERE. Quit your BOO HOOING I am sick of hearing it!
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HR UH Scott's Little Pistol JH (Annie)
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I say start tracking the ones who pay none and see how much "assistance" they get along with the tax return they get.
My Father,My Friend,My teacher,and now My Angel~ 04/21/1956-03/21/2011 You will always be missed. I hope to learn half of the stuff you knew.
~Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted~
If anything I was saying they should pay more! You got it all backwards, with all due respect.
Also, when the 250k line was drawn as somehow denoting "rich", that was under Reagan, and wages and CPI were a little different then.
If anything, I'm calling for a flat tax that ALL will be required to pay. Not just the working class, while the megarich get their loophole rate HALF of what I pay. Hope you don't have a problem with that.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
DNF.... You can certainly stroke a check to uncle sam..... go ahead..... if you think that you rich folk should pay more...... let your wallet do the talkin......
empty checkbook regards........
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to be continued WHEN????????
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We got to the station just in time for the next train to Winchester however the first 40min of the journey was spent standing up quite squashed in the toilet/door area as the train was packed full. Thankfully the rest of the trip we were able to find some seats and so it went quite quickly. We arrived in Winchester about 4.30 and were greeted by Tim (same Tim I had picnic with the other day) who then took us for a little tour around the city of Winchester via the comfy car. We then parked and had a short walk around the main areas including the big cathedral and the main shopping street.
It's a gorgeous little town and I actually remembered quite a bit of it from when we visited many years ago. After our wander we got back in the car and drove through the beautiful English country side (which Tim put well – looks like the Microsoft screensaver!) for about 20mins before arriving at Tim and Jans house. We were welcomed into a lovely little house by Jan and Robbie where we had some nice tea and cake and got to relax around for a while. It was nice to relax and sit and watch tv and do nothing as well as be able to do some washing and have a real shower! After all this it was dinner time which was absolutely delicious and consisted of spicy roast chicken, satay sweet potato bake and yummy garlic vegies, followed by apple and rhubarb pie with hot custard – yuuuum!
Monday 16th April
Woke up nice and refreshed after a great sleep in a nice comfy bed and had a great real shower with nice clean towel. Then were treated to a yummy breaky of fresh yoghurt and fruits and toast with vegemite! After breakfast Tim took us out to see Stonehenge which is about 30mins away from their house. On the drive there we passed gorgeous rolling hills and other typical English scenery. We arrived at Stonehenge which is right next to the highway which is quite strange and we headed in (while Tim waited outside reading his book in the sun). We were lucky to get there early enough that we beat most of the huge busloads of tourists. We listened to the audioguide for a while before it got a bit boring and started repeating things it already told us, so we just spent the time wandering the path around the stones.


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Hell no!
Hell no!
HELL NO as a defensive coordinator !! .... yes as a LB coach or some other positional coach
We dont need a circus...he needs to stay in NY!
No.......as in h-ll....no
I can't read the original post with that red background, but why change a DC when the one on the team is doing a good job???
Just Win Dolphins!
:coyle has done a real good work and I hope next year will do better
Heck No!
If Rex comes and we actually change to that leaked photo, I'm rooting for another team!
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Whats wrong with Coyle? I am sick of switching coordinators every year.
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ok, all those olympic supporters.
I am still waiting to hear about all the money we all made. Still waiting to hear the bc govt tell us about all the things they going to do with all the extra money they got. Still waiting for the experts to tell us how much better off we all are economy wise.
Instead, I keep hearing about possible cutback here and there, no money to pay the teachers, etc.
Where the hell is all that money we made.
Cleary dirtbag campbell and his cronies will be spending the rest of their lives laughing at how they got away with skyway robbery and made suckers out of the BC pro olympic supporters, and unwilling victims out of the rest of us.


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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tea Time at Nana's Quilt Kit
That's what we hear from this brand new quilt by Holly Holderman. You can find the pattern in the new McCall's Quick Quilts April/May issue.
Tea Time at Nana's uses Pam Kitty Love, and each block boasts an adorable scrappy cup & saucer. Finishing at 66" square, it's a wonderful quilt to brighten up your entertaining area. The assortment of florals keeps the quilt exciting, with a sprinkle of hearts all around. What a way to boost your tea set collection!
We are so excited to have kits available at Fat Quarter Shop! Don't miss out!
Posted by Fat Quarter Shop at 9:00 AM
Labels: LakeHouse Dry Goods, Magazine Quilt Kits
3 comments:
- JaneB said...
So adorable. Love that fabric!
- February 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM
- Cindy said...
I can TOTALLY see his quilt as a tablecloth for hosting a "tea".
- February 26, 2013 at 3:29 PM
- SewCalGal said...
Congratulations to the lucky winner.
I sure hope you enter the photo of the cat and beautiful quilts in the 2013 Pets on Quilts Show, this summer, hosted by Lilypad Quilting:
- February 26, 2013 at 9:11 PM
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The prostate gland is an organ that surrounds the urinary urethra in men. It secretes fluid which mixes with sperm to make semen. The urethra carries urine from the bladder, through the prostate gland to the penis.
With the exception of skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer among men in the United States. Early detection may result from a blood test called a PSA (prostate-specific antigen), and/or a digital rectal exam. The digital rectal exam checks the rear surface of the prostate gland for any abnormalities. A lump or hardness found during the exam might be a sign of prostate cancer.
There are two main surgical methods used for removing the prostate gland. The first method is called the "perineal" method. An incision is made in the perineum, which is the area between the base of the scrotum and the anus.
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DiSiac Dance Company to perform, Nov. 21-23
Posted November 12, 2002; 04:30 p.m.
The DiSiac Dance Company will give five performances of "Becoming . . ." Nov. 21-23 at Murray-Dodge Theater.
For its annual fall performance, the company of high-energy student dancers will present various ways of "becoming," such as becoming a pop star, becoming a new identity and becoming confident, elegant or intense.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21; 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22; and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23.
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65 Years in Business
To commemorate its 65th anniversary, Kaiser has opened a second building, co-located with its newly expanded headquarters.
This summer, Kaiser celebrated its 65th year of business in precision tool manufacturing. To commemorate its anniversary, the company opened a second building, co-located with its newly expanded and improved factory, in order to better facilitate growing business.
About 300 current, past and retired employees, family and friends gathered for the anniversary event, which featured an outdoor picnic, factory tours, speakers and socializing. "It's been an incredible journey to 65 years. I remember living on the premises," said Chris Kaiser, President of BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling, USA. "To see where Kaiser has come since I was a child, and to see where it's going, is very exciting. We look forward to the next 65 years." Additionally evidencing Kaiser's commitment to the next chapter is the recently expanded, state-of-the-art factory dedicated to increasing efficiency and productivity.
Originally, the Kaiser headquarters in Rümlang, Switzerland, was composed of a single building housing both the main factory and administration. In 2006, the company increased production capacity by leasing another building down the road. But with the two buildings separated by a half mile, it became challenging to efficiently manage production and logistics.
But opportunity knocked when a building next to headquarters suddenly went for sale, and Kaiser jumped at the chance to purchase it. After extensive renovations to the newly acquired building, some executives, along with sales, engineering, R&D, marketing and administration personnel were relocated under one roof. The new building also houses a tech center for tooling and machine demonstrations and a classroom for large sales meetings and presentations.
The existing main factory was also expanded to nearly 27,000 sq. ft. The facility's new machines and increased automation have resulted in greater output with fewer man-hours and lights-out manufacturing. Management can easily oversee all production, and employees no longer are forced to waste travel time between two production facilities.
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About 15 players took part in the Canadiens' optional skate Monday at Scotiabank Place in Kanata, Ont., as the team turns its attention to Game 4 against the Ottawa Senators.
Carey Price will be in net Tuesday when the Canadiens and Senators meet again in their best-of-seven series (7 p.m., CBC, RDS, TSN Radio 690). The Senators hold a 2-1 lead in the series.
"We really didn't play our game yesterday," coach Michel Therrien said of the Habs' embarrassing 6-1 loss to the Senators in Game 3 Sunday. "Even if it was 2-1 (for awhile) we didn't play the way we're capable of playing right from the get-go.
"In the first two games we played really well five-on-five and yesterday we didn't play well five-on-five. So we've got to make sure we go back to basics."
The Canadiens' power play also needs to be a lot more threatening than it was in Sunday's game, Therrien added.
Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban said he believed the Habs didn't do a good enough job of moving the puck out of their zone efficiently.
"We didn't do a good enough job of getting pucks deep and putting the defence in situations that they don't want to be in," Subban said. "And I think when you do that you allow teams to move out of their zone with ease. And I think we did that.
"We have to understand that we've got to go back to playing Montreal Canadiens hockey and executing our game plan," Subban added. "We've been a team that's always bounced back when faced with adversity and I have no doubt in my mind that we'll bounce back tomorrow."
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Social needs help sculpt primate faces
Catherine Clabby
It's hard not to stare at another primate's face. Those expressive eyes, so often like our own, demand attention. But so do the striking differences, whether it is tomato-red skin, a snout-like nose or thick, long fur. Biologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have concluded that sociality along with ecological pressures can be read in primate faces. In an article published in February in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they reported significant differences between Neotropical primates that live with many of their kind compared to those that live in relative isolation. In a written exchange, associate professor Michael Alfaro and postdoctoral scientist Sharlene E. Santana described their investigation with American Scientist senior editor Catherine Clabby.
What inspired your research into primate faces?
When you see the faces of primates, you see an extraordinary diversity of shapes, colors and patterns, so we wondered what were the factors behind this diversity. Social behaviors seemed to be a very likely candidate underlying the diversity of primate faces, so that drew us in to further explore how behaviors can shape the evolution of anatomy in these mammals. Neotropical primates were ideal to start our studies of facial diversity because they are a single evolutionary radiation spanning a wide variety of habitats and social systems, and they have an extraordinary variation in their facial features.
Are the faces of primates really that different from the faces of other mammals?
What is particular about primates is their high reliance on facial cues to interact socially, more so than many other mammals. Primates use characteristics of their faces and facial expressions to recognize individuals in their groups and to assess each other's behaviors. Related to this, primates have evolved a very well-developed visual system and neural centers for facial recognition. Such an important role in communication has shaped the evolution of primate faces, along with ecological and physiological functions.
What did you observe regarding the ties between the appearance of the Neotropical animals and their social behavior?
Species that live in smaller groups have evolved more complex patterns of facial color. The more complex faces have also evolved in species that share their habitat with many other closely related species. Both of these findings indicate that Neotropical primates use facial color patterns to identify species.
And what did you observe about those that live among more of their own species?
We initially thought that more social species might have the most complex faces, in that more differently colored parts of the face would allow for discrimination among individuals. It turns out, however, that the most social species have the least complex faces. We think this may be because facial expressions are more easily conveyed on simpler faces.
What role does ecology play here?
The evolution of pigmentation and hair length across several areas of the face is linked to ecological factors. Some parts of the face have evolved to be darker in species that live in more humid and forested habitats, and the area around the eyes has evolved to be darker in species that live in more sunny environments. This darker area around the eyes may help reduce glare in sunny habitats, in a similar way as when baseball players put black paint under their eyes. Also, the hair around the face has evolved to be longer as species live farther from the equator, possibly to keep them warmer.
You based the analysis on photos of male monkeys. Why? And what did you compare?
For most species of Neotropical primates, there is no difference in the facial colors of male versus female monkeys, but we decided to describe the color patterns of adult males to standardize for sex and age across species. We compared what we call facial color pattern complexity, which is the number of different colors in the face, the darkness and hair length of various facial regions, including the crown of the head, the nose, the mouth, the eye mask and the face margin across 129 species of primates.
Do these findings help you understand human faces too?
Since Neotropical primates are distantly related to humans, all we can do for now is speculate about the conditions under which the faces of our ancestors could have evolved. From the perspective of our study, human faces are relatively bare and simple, so we would predict that these faces evolved in highly social groups while sharing the environment with few closely related species. It is also interesting to think about how humans across cultures have developed a great diversity of facial paintings to identify themselves as part of particular groups or tribes, which seems to parallel what other primates are doing by evolving complex facial color patterns when they share their habitat with many closely related species.
What research in this area are you pursuing now?
We are expanding our study on color patterns to the rest of primates and to carnivores. We want to see how their facial and coat patterns have evolved and what social and ecological factors could be driving their evolution.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/social-needs-help-sculpt-primate-faces/1
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I was not impressed by Bidens behavior. I could care less about the meat of what either says but was more concerned about how they dealt with the stress. I wanted to see who has the better demeanor if they have to step up and take over. Ryan won hands down for what I look at a VP debate for.
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15th July 2012 05:14 AM #1
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My Wife's Diet
I am really concerned with my wife's eating habit. My wife used to have a good appetite before she got pregnant. Now that she's pregnant, it is alarming for me that she's just not that into eating that much! In fact, instead of gaining weight my wife is loosing weight. She does take her vitamins and does drink pregnancy milk, in no luck, her weight just keeps on dropping. Can you guys give me an advice of what I should do to get her appetite back? I forgot to mention that she hates taking that ferrous sulfate that our OB prescribed. She often misses it because she's saying that it gives her unnatural bowel movement.
Thank you for reading.
22nd July 2012 02:04 AM #2
Hello Hans,
I noticed in another post that you said your wife is now in her 4th month of pregnancy. At this point she will likely start to gain some weight. Baby is still very small, so "baby weight" is negligible but baby will start to put on weight more quickly now.
It is very common for a woman to lose weight during the first 3 or 4 months of pregnancy when she is nauseous and sometimes vomiting from major hormonal changes in her body. With my first pregnancy, I was very nauseous until the middle of the 5th month when it finally started to taper off.
Until the nausea starts to recede, I would encourage your wife to eat foods that have a higher caloric count but also foods that are good for her blood type.
I just created a post for another husband who is concerned about his wife's underweight pregnancy. Read through that and let me know if it helps.
Do you know what your wife's blood type is? Sometimes focusing on foods that are healing for the body can be very helpful.
I'd also like to know more about why she is not eating. What is causing the lack of appetite. Is it nausea or is it something else?
As for the ferrous sulfate (iron), there are natural iron supplements which do not cause constipation and are much easier on the body. But iron is very hard on the stomach and really must be taken with food in order to not CAUSE nausea. I'll give you more ideas on how your wife can get more natural iron in her diet when I hear back from you.
Warm regards,
22nd July 2012 02:38 AM #3
Here's a super great video where a pregnant mum shows you a smoothie recipe that is packed full of naturally occurring iron. This can be drunk in place of any iron supplements. Just goes to show how many different ingredients you can put in a smoothie. The frozen fruit makes it taste good.
28th July 2012 03:24 AM #4
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I see, I am relieved upon reading your response. Because of your answers from my other posts I am somehow figured out my problem! I will try to read the thread that you wanted me to go to, I will answer all the questions as soon as you can. Thank you and I loved the video
29th July 2012 12:03 PM #5
Hi Hans,
Please let us know if your wife tried a green smoothie or if she's making any changes and how it's going.
Warm regards,
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Hello again Hans,
I remember during the first 3 to 4 months of my pregnancy - with my 3 kids - I too lost weight instead of gaining. Due to the fact that there is life inside of a pregnant mum would simply mean she should be gaining some pounds. At first, which means during my first pregnancy, my appetite was not that good at all. I was nauseating and had that feeling that something in my throat was making me NOT want to eat. I even had this even all through out my pregnancy. I even had a supply of bananas just to relieve that "icky" something in my throat. The bananas relieved me though.
TO make it short, I would suggest that aside from confiding with your doctor, you may want to try finding ways to make her want to eat, even in small amounts of healthy food. Don't worry though because as long as your physician tells you that nothing is wrong with what your wife is experiencing, then soon enough she will start gaining weight and will have that fondness again of eating again.Hidden Content MumO'ThreeHidden Content
4th August 2012 12:47 PM #7
Another mum told me that she would eat a banana each morning before getting out of bed and it helped with her morning sickness.
I tried it and it helped me too. I found that different things helped with each pregnancy.
7th August 2012 01:13 AM #8
I kept a supply of food with me in bed (and at all times actually) when I suffered with morning sickness with my oldest. I found that eating little and often was the best way to prevent myself being sick and, therefore, to not be losing weight.