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Thanks for your comments. It is the most incedible place on the planet I am sure. Totally incredible. Glad you enjoyed the blog!
Our Antarctic Dream Comes True
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Antarctica Day Five - Curveville Island, Neko Harbour, Zodiac Cruise and Chilean Base
This was the Antarctica that we ordered!!! We woke up to the most glorious sunshine. Up on deck we were passing the Antarctic coastline, completely covered in the brightest white snow, with glaciers reaching to the sea and icebergs floating past the ship!! Wow! Wow! Wow! Finally, we really felt like we were in Antarctica and this was our reward for the Drake Passage!
All of us passengers were completely hyped up due to the incredible scene that lay before us! Our first stop was Curveville Island. On the zodiacs we whizzed between the most beautiful icebergs before landing on the beach. Once again, the penguins seemed completely oblivious to the presence of these loud, noisy humans which had suddenly appeared on the island. We walked around in a complete daze, everywhere we looked the scenery was just incredible, and we had to pinch ourseles that we were actually here...in Antarctica!
Once back on the boat we headed off towards Neko Harbour passing through the Errerra Channel which was completely covered in broken ice, so that it looked like one massive floating carpet of ice on the water! We finally stopped at Neko Harbour for our first landing on the Anatarctic Peninsula. Once again, the land was covered in hundreds of cooing, squaking penguins and sleeping fur seals. We climbed up through the snow to a viewpoint at the top of the hill where we overlooked the whole harbour, with our Antarctic Dream a tiny speck in the distance, surrounded by gleaming icebergs. What a sight! I'm really struggling to find words to describe it. In fact, words cannot describe it. It's simply breathtaking!
Once back down on the beach we jumped onto the zodiacs one again, and were treated to a two hour tour through the ice just as the sun was setting lower in the sky, producing the most beautiful soft colours not only in the sky but reflecting in the water and on the icebergs. In fact, it had become a running joke that since all the icebergs were utterly amazing, we saved the word "niceberg" for those which were particularly spectacular!
As we meandered our way through the ice, we passed many icebergs with crabeater seals lazily snoozing ontop, snowy petrels which flew passed in the sky and the odd penguin which would swim and jump through the water. Absolutely amazing....infact, I think we could both say that this was THE most amazing experience / sight of our lives...and also a rather emotional one!
When our zodiac cruise was over we returned to The Antarctic Dream and sailed back through the channel which was once again covered in ice. Our little ship pushed it's way through, bouncing a little, or a lot on one occasion as we actually hit a rather big iceberg which was left with red paint scraped down it's side!
Our third landing for the day was the Chilean Base where we stopped just as the sun was setting. The sky turned dark blue as did the snow and icebergs....yet another amazing sight!
What a day....it was our Antarctic Dream!


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After month of battling, first with the audio transcription, then with the english correction, and finally with the french translation, my Trolltech interview finally gets published: English version and French version
I am the first one to say that there is no more stupid project than writing a source editor. There are plenty, they work good enough, you should better focus on something more useful. Even more stupid would be to rewrite one major editor like Emacs or GVim. Despite that, I am now engaged in Yzis, the rewriting of a vi-like editor.
The problem we had with gvim is that when doing KVim, we found many limitations in the way graphics are handled in gvim. It prevented us to make a good kpart component for KDE. Working with the source was a nightmare and the author was not willing to ease the task for us: only bugfixing and nothing else are accepted in gvim.
So, we started yzis. So far I have contributed the test suite and the undo code. Despite gvim being very advanced, I am confident that we can eventually bring a better editor. The key of success for yzis vs gvim:
- object oriented code (yes, this is C++) that cleanly separate features: gvim is coded in C, a big part of it with pre-ansi syntax.
- documentation in the header file: gvim has no such things as header-file
- easy-access: it is very easy to add a new command to yzis already, and it will only get easier
- strong test suite to allow easy maintainability and no regression: this is where gvim fails. Currently, Bram does not want to touch gvim too much because he is afraid of breaking anything. We won't have this problem. One of my coworker says that a good test suite is more valuable than code. With the test suite, you can write the code again and be sure get what you want.
- seperation of vi-engine and GUI code: a problem we had with gvim is that the engine is so tied to the text frontend that it is difficult to use it in graphical environments. There is no such thing as event-loop which forced us to do twisted manipulations (sometimes eating all the CPU)
On the drawbacks side, yzis (even the engine) depends on Qt because we did not want to deal with unicode problems. However, we use very little of Qt for the backend (mainly QString, QMap and QList) and it could be replaced with a std::string if one is motivated. There is no windows port yet, but I am investigating the porting of tinyQ on windows, to have at least the backend compiling.
GVim is a great editor so we will have a long way before competing with him. However, we have an easier to maintain codebase. We can not borrow code but we are probably going to implement compabilibilities features, like re-using the syntax highlighting files.
We are heading to Milestone 1 in one week. Wait and see...

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Red lights, traffic jams, road works – in everyday driving situations there are countless instances where the engine is idling, unnecessarily burning fuel. The Automatic Start/Stop function in the BMW Z4 Roadster switches off the engine when the vehicle stops temporarily and thus avoids unnecessary fuel consumption.
The Automatic Start/Stop function in the BMW Z4 Roadster (sDrive18i, sDrive20i und sDrive28i) switches off the engine as soon as the vehicle is not moving and the driver disengages the clutch (for manual transmission) or operates the brake (for Steptronic transmissions). However, intelligent electronics only switch off the engine when no energy is needed by other loads and there is no adverse effect on your safety and travelling comfort. For example, the engine remains active until the optimum running temperature has been attained or until the interior climate has reached the desired range. Depending on the type of transmission in the vehicle, when the engine has been switched off by the Automatic Start/Stop function, either releasing the brake or engaging the clutch will cause it to start up again automatically in a fraction of a second. The result is less fuel consumption and fewer emissions.


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Description ADULT SUMMER Pale gray above and whitish below, palest on head and neck. Has a black cap and, in flight, note dark upper surface to outer primaries and dark-edged wingtips seen from below. ADULT WINTER Similar, but shows only remnant of dark cap on nape. JUVENILE AND 1ST-WINTER Similar to winter adult, but with dark spots on back, upper wings, and upper tail, and yellowish legs and bill.
Dimensions Length: 18-21" (46-53 cm)
Habitat Very locally common on Atlantic and Gulf coasts and present year-round as far north as North Carolina; summer breeding range extends north to New England. Nests on islands and feeds in shallow seas. Disperses outside breeding season and many birds winter south of our region.
Observation Tips Easy to see on coasts. Congregates and mixes with other terns where feeding is good.
Range New England, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, California, Southeast
Voice Utters a coarse, low-pitched kree-eh.
Discussion Large, robust tern with buoyant, direct flight. Plunge-dives after fish. Bill is stout and orange and legs are black and long. Tail is deeply forked. Sexes are similar.


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And that was a blog ... A blog.
Under "works cited" where would you put that?
And that was a blog ... A blog.
Under "works cited" where would you put that?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
The reason I brought up The Bell Curve is this. I was talking to a friend who is a psychology professor at a local collage. We were talking about race relations and he told me that it's such a hot issue you can't even discuss the numbers. He has taught straight out of the text, and been accused of racism. The Bell Curve book was written using data from research by Arthur Jensen. The gap in scores narrows some in similar economic conditions but doesn't go away. To ignore the problem and call anyone who wants to address it ignorant or racist does nothing to solve it. Reactions like that only make the problems worse. I'm not saying I'm genetically superior to anyone. What I am saying is if you can't even discuss it the problem will remain along with the gap in income and social class. We've been trained to immediately jump on anyone with a view other then what's PC.
And your right this probably was off subject.
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The thing best predicted by IQ testing is performance on similar tests, not performance in life or the economy. On balance, I think the question is off topic. More importantly, it is irrelevant for almost any discussion that is not purely academic. I see little to suggest that white males, who are clearly stupider than white females and Asians of any sex (based on IQ tests), have suffered from their lack of brain power.
If the Christian coalition put up signs saying "Why believe in Allah" we wouldn't hear the end of it. It would be beaten to death in the media, and by our liberal friends as radical Christian fundamentalist stepping on poor minorities. We should be more accepting,blah, blah, blah. It's this double standard that's gotten old. I think you have to be evil to put something like that up.
In my working career in private industry I worked with 2 separate demographic groups: Underground Miners & a demographic that consisted of some of the better Engineering Graduates of accredited universities. There is a major difference in case you missed it. Smarter people make smarter choices, it is only in government where the standards are low that someome can get by faking it.
What I have found is all groups are wired differently. You might read the study on autism published a few months ago in Scientific American. It's very interesting.
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I'm not sure what parts of my statement you are questioning or the basis of your questions. Wikepedia notes that:
"The American Psychological Association's report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns[15] states that IQ scores account for about one-fourth of the social status variance and one-sixth of the income variance. Statistical controls for parental SES eliminate about a quarter of this predictive power. Psychometric intelligence appears as only one of a great many factors that influence social outcomes."
By virtue of the luck of my birth, my schooling, and my employment, I have spent most of my life in environments where IQ's that were less than 3 standard deviations above average were considered to be a little slow. However, the smartest and most successful boss I ever worked for barely made it through a 4th rate college and worked hard to do it. What he had was drive and great judgment and that trumped raw intelligence every day.
At 14 he worked part time emptying bed pans. At age 21, with his IQ of about 115, he was CEO and part owner of a NYSE $400 million temporary staffing company at a time when that qualified as Fortune 500. He sold that and bought a bankrupt environmental assessment laboratory that he turned into one of the top ten engineering consulting companies in the world before selling it to retire at the age of 40. He surrounded himself with smart people and I was happy to be one of them. Most of us understood completely why he was boss. Two of the smartest arranged the buyout that made my boss very wealthy. The two geniuses who engineered the takeover drove the company into bankruptcy within a year.
Brains take many forms. IQ is just one of them and not necessarily the most important.


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By Shuli Ren
Back in April, China's largest e-commerce Alibaba bought 18% stake in China's Twitter Weibo, which is owned by Sina (SINA), an Internet portal that went public in the 1990′s, for $586 million.
Pacific Crest analysts Cheng Cheng and Evan Wilson believe Abliaba may increase its stake in Weibo, because of the microblog's strategic value:
While the Alibaba-Weibo partnership still needs to progress, we see significant strategic value in Weibo for Alibaba. We also see no alternative social platforms with Weibo's scale and reach that could be alternative partners for Alibaba.
It might as well, because Weibo is worth more than half of Sina's valuation, as I argued in a blog a month ago, and meaningful monetization is a long time away. Weibo is the valuable intangible, the strategic asset that has a lot of potential but is barely getting started with generating sales.
Just look at Sina (SINA)'s 2014 consensus P/E multiple: It trades at 46.4 times, according to S&P CapitalIQ. Even benchmarking P/E against revenue growth in the next three years (PEG), Sina is valued at 2.5 times.
Who trades like that? OK, maybe Facebook (FB). It is valued at 47.5x forward P/E but its 2 times PEG is more reasonable. Facebook is closer to making money and justifying its valuation than Sina is.
By now, most analysts should agree that Weibo is where Sina's value lies. Here are Pacific Crest analysts:
We believe the case for SINA's valuation is becoming increasingly binary, with the majority of SINA's value coming from Weibo. Furthermore, we believe the premium valuation for Weibo compared to other social networking peers is primarily due to Alibaba's investment and the potential that Alibaba could increase its investment.
I have no patience. I am nervous about perpetual re-investments and no cash in sight. Another strategic stake for cash would be nice.


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DS93X is a powder metallurgy Damascus steel. It is made from two different hardenable steel grades (RWL34 and PMC27). The two alloys are fused on smelting in more than 100 layers with no transition band and can therefore be regarded as a solid piece of steel before further processing. Further processing (creation of the pattern) is carried out in the same way as in traditional Damascus steel production. Soft annealed for easy processing. The steel becomes stainless after heat treatment. Hardenable up to 64 HRC.
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At the beginning of the nineties the company Erasteels formed a powder metallurgy steel division in Sweden which was later called Damasteel AB. Powder metallurgy technology had already been in use for over twenty years at this point. But even though the steel quality was greatly improved compared to standard production methods and alloys became possible that could not be produced before, it took time to become widely accepted on the market. Using the same technology the company began producing stainless Damascus steel and patented this new process. Soon several large knife manufacturers and smithies saw the potential of the new material which is now also available for end users in a multitude of patterns and sizes.
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I heard that at Coldplay's LA concert, they did a cover of "Fight For Your Right" in standard CP style. From the brief snippet on the radio, I'd get that as a single.
Yesterday, with grading and paper collating, I had on:
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- best of No Doubt (excuse me, mister...)
- best of Mr. Mister ('cause I'm a Mr. [not a Mrs.]...)
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More land along Sugar River opens to public
600 acres along river near Verona will be available for fishing, recreation
MADISON, Wis. - Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced a new conservation effort Monday that adds to the land on the Sugar River that is open to the public for fishing and recreation.
Under the partnership between Dane County and the Natural Heritage Land Trust, a permanent easement of 154 acres was secured to protect a block of more than 600 acre of land along the Sugar River south of Verona and near Paoli.
Dane County purchased 450 acres from the Bruce Company last January, securing the largest acquisition of riverfront property in Dane County's history.
The county's proposed contribution for the additional protection of public lands is a conservation grant totaling more than $161,000.
"Working together with the property owner and the Natural Heritage Land Trust, this easement opens up miles of the Sugar River for canoeing, fishing and soon, hiking," Parisi said in a release. "Whether on foot or in the water, what we are doing today means families will be able to relax and enjoy one of the finest natural resources in the state and region for generations to come."
Parisi said his 2014 county budget includes $300,000 for development of a new trail spanning the former Bruce Company property from Paoli north to Sunset drive in the town of Verona.
The county completed installation of a new public parking area on the south end of the Bruce Company property last fall for individuals looking to fish on the Sugar River, according to the release. A similar lot and canoe launch will be constructed on the north end of the property this spring.
If the Dane County Board approves the grant, it will cover 52 percent of the $307,622 needed for the Natural Heritage Land Trust to purchase the land, according to the release. The rest of the costs will be covered by matching funds from a land protection program and the Natural Heritage Land Trust.
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Pick No. 15 NO Star Lotulelei DT Utah Utah team physician Dave Petron gave Lotulelei a clean bill of health after the heart-condition scare at the combine. This guy can play.
New Orleans Saints Top needs: OLB, LT, DE, SS, NT
Rd. 1 (15) LB Manti Te'o, Notre Dame Rd.
3 (75) OLB Jamie Collins, Southern Miss
Analysis: If you're curious as to why I'd take Te'o in Round 1, it has a lot to do with how the board sets up, and how the defensive depth chart sets up. The Saints need to upgrade the talent on defense, period. The pass rush in the 3-4 is of particular concern. However, with Jarvis Jones, Dion Jordan and Barkevious Mingo off the board, I'm reaching if I target an OLB at that slot. Pretty badly, in fact. Next, the defensive line at least has some youth. The Saints used their first pick on presumptive starter at NT Akiem Hicks last year. And they used a first-rounder on Cameron Jordan the year before. So it was either a corner or a linebacker, and the cornerback value is also not good at No. 15. So Te'o is the pick, providing an immediate starter, and the chance to move some people around to maximize the unit. Later, I grab an extremely productive 3-4 OLB in Collins. With 20 tackles for a loss last season, Collins was disruptive and could be a useful pass-rusher even as a rookie.
8. Buffalo Bills: Alec Ogletree, LB, Georgia
9. New York Jets: Tavon Austin, WR, West Virginia
19. New York Giants: Sheldon Richardson, DT, Missouri
24. Indianapolis Colts: Barkevious Mingo, DE, LSU
I dont think we would pass up Mingo to grab another CB IMO.
15. New Orleans Saints - OT Terron Armstead (Arkansas Pine-Bluff)..One of the Saints biggest needs is at the OT position since they lost OT Jermon Bushrod to the Bears in free agency...this is a little bit too high for Armstead, so look for the Saints to attempt to move down and out of this pick. Trade Down!
Team Needs - OT, NT, DE, OLB; Offense - Spread offense, Zone blocking. Defense - 3-4 scheme, Man coverage.
--surely a different name you won't see this high too much. I could imagine a stretch LT pick if the Saints had one rated close enough. History shows they stick by their big board and aren't afraid to take a name that pundits decry as a reach.
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So sorry this didn't work out as you hoped. Thanks for sharing your cautionary tale with us. Have you looked into online backup? I've been using Carbonite, but there are many companies that will do that for you.
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No I haven't looked into that yet. I'm still going back and forth on spending the money for Data Doctor. The practical side of me says that's a lot of money that could be for nothing. The sentimental, what if, side of me says it would be worth it to get those precious mementos back. I've been unzipping the files Angie let me re-download and I've found a bunch wonderful freebies as well. /> I've been trying to really get them organized and tagged well. But when I think about scrapping I get /> at how careless I was that I think I'm afraid to try. I know that sounds silly especially since I had a creative block before this happened. It's like I don't know where to start. /> I kid myself into thinking I could use the many photos I have on Facebook. However, I know those won't be high res copies.
Sorry I'm dwelling. This is the conversation I have on a day to day bases. I just wish I knew what to do. />
Sorry I'm dwelling. This is the conversation I have on a day to day bases. I just wish I knew what to do. />
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Kelly, you've suffered a significant loss, and there is a lot of emotion tied up in it. Give yourself time to process it, and be gentle with yourself. Hang in there.
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Frist open house scheduled, movie moved inside, Sept. 8
Posted September 2, 2004; 12:14 a.m.
The campus community is invited to attend the Frist Campus Center's fifth open house on Wednesday, Sept. 8. The activities are free and open to all faculty, staff and students.
From 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the center's 100 level, there will be live entertainment by Gordon James, information and resource tables on campus life and other areas, and commemorative gifts, including outdoor seat cushions for the "Moonlight Movie."
The movie, "Shrek 2," will be shown from 10 p.m. to midnight. Due to rain, the location has been moved from the south lawn to 301 Frist.
The outdoor showing of the movie has been rescheduled for 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, on the south lawn. Free popcorn, ice cream and cotton candy will be available, as well as additional seat cushions.
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05-16-2013, 12:20 AM #1Member Molly
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Brand new freshwater tank
I purchased a 20 gallon tank. At the moment I have 2 tetras out of 8. 6 died and I am unsure how.
Testing the pH, Nitrates, Nitrite, and Ammonia, everything seems normal. The other two live happily as ever though so I am assuming chemical wasnt the problem
Was it just that I introduced too many into the tank at once?
I am on hold right now before I add more fish. I am not satisfied with that gravel I have. I went with a the noob mistake of that tacky blue gravel instead of a black/natural.
I am waiting for my eco substrate to come in before I completely change that.
My aquarium has been running for about 1.5 weeks now. Again everything reads correctly. Temp range is 76-78.
what are "normal" or "fine" parameters for you? it would be helpful to know what method of testing you are employing (test strips, liquid test kit, pet store water testing, etc) and what your exact parameters are.
did you cycle the tank? cycling is the (unknown to most beginners) process of accumulating beneficial bacteria in your tank that metabolize fish waste. unless you got some filter media
from another established tank, the fact that you have fish in your tank 1.5 weeks (a very short time) after setting it up is indicative that you probably did not cycle the tank. without cycling
ammonia from fish waste will quickly build up to lethal levels. the reason you did not find a problem with your parameters might be because you have an inaccurate perception of what is fine and what not(again, posting exact parameters would help) or else by the time you tested the tank, most of the fish are gone and so ammonia levels have went down.
+1 to madagascariense reply.
A tank will not cycle in 10 days unless you have introduced filter media from a cycled tank. Chances are your water parameters didn't even have time to register ammonia levels until you put your stock in and then all went to heck as the fish waste added ammonia to your system and your filter bacteria couldn't change it into nitrate gas because there wasn't enough of them. The fish got poisoned by the ammonia and passed away.
Now your in a cycle with fish which will require alot of water changes with declorinator to keep them healthy. Did you check out the how to cycle a tank threads in this forum?
If not check it out.
I doubt your substrate had a hand in this unless you got it off the side of a railway track like I did my first go around.
Hey dont pack it in, we have all been there and learned to go through it.Warning; Bulldog Pleco guarding my Sons tank now..
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So my pH ran about 7.6, and my nitrate,trite and ammonia were all at 0's are nearly 0. I use an "API master fresh water chemical test kit".
I also had a Betta fish in the tank previous to the tetras.
Hopefully my substrate comes tomorrow. Would you guys recommend me adding plant life first or still waiting? Would it speed upmy cycling process? And being 1.5 weeks into cycling my brother said would be enough. He said the main problem was I introduced too many fish which did the ammonia. If I introduced like 2-3 I would have been fine, which is why that is all that survived.
I have been putting dechloirinator in as well.
Is there anything else recommended? All I really have atm is fish food, dedchlorinator, and my NO3, NO2, NH3, PH test kit.
Assuming your tank was cycled from the previous inhabitant, I would suspect that you have added too many too quick. You filter would have held only sufficient bacteria to live off the ammonia generated by 1 betta (not a lot), and would take a week or two to grow sufficient to cope with the increased load. Keep testing, add 1 or two fish each time you've had zero ammonia and nitrites for a week, and show a small amount of nitrate (less than 20ppm). The show of nitrate indicates you have bacteria converting ammonia and nitrites. Sorry I dont have planted tanks so cant offer any advice there. Take the time to have a read through some of the older threads here and in the general forum, theres a lot of knowledge there for the taking. Good luck
You can plant whenever you like in a cycle. At most the plants will cause a slight dip in the nitrates but since cycling is mainly about seeing ammonia and nitrites drop to 0 that's not that important.
Introducing substrate to a tank that's up and running is a major operation. Might want to get it over with ASAP.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.


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A walk through the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Meah She'arim is a rare opportunity for immersion in a fascinating religious and cultural experience that contrasts sharply surrounding modernity.
It was an auspicious day in 1874 when a small group of Jerusalem Jews resolved boldly to build this neighborhood in the nearly empty lands outside the walled city. They sought a promising name to symbolize their dream: In that week's Torah portion were the words: meah she'arim – one hundred fold, the bumper crop Isaac reaped (Gen. 26:12), showing divine favor.
Its original buildings are still there: built in pairs, facing each other across narrow, bustling courtyards, accessed by gateways from the street. As visitors* browse the fruit and vegetable market, Judaica and religious bookstores, they will notice the variety of dark suits among the men, indicating their specific Hassidic or non-Hassidic allegiance, the women's modest dress – and many, many children! An added attraction on a Thursday-night visit is the quarter's bakery, at its busiest churning out challahs for the Sabbath.


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Lobsters, blueberries, potatoes, and . . . pot? As Maine's medical-marijuana program inches closer to business-as-usual, weed is on the verge of becoming a meaningful part of the state's economy — a budding piece of Maine's local, sustainable, pro-agriculture aesthetic. We wouldn't be surprised if, eventually, the widely adopted "Buy Local" slogan is expanded to include cannabis; already, the local economy is evolving to accommodate pot-growers, caregivers, patients, and dispensary owners. We can see the ad campaign now: A Maine farmer, weathered by the midday sun, holding up a five-leaved plant. The voiceover will ask, Do you Smoke Local?
But before that happens, the state's medi-mari program — which allows registered patients to purchase marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of qualifying medical conditions — needs to overcome some growing pains and settle into its (sizeable) shoes. There is a considerable backlog of patient applications at the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the program. There are questions about whether the list of medical conditions is sufficiently comprehensive, about confidentiality, about lingering pot-stigma. And there is a brewing conflict between people with different visions for Maine's marijuana industry (medical or otherwise): some want to keep it small-scale, while others seek to harness and develop its money-making, job-stimulating properties in a bigger way.
Despite these hiccups, there's no question that pot will pump up Maine's economy.
"[T]here will clearly be a benefit to the state in terms of tax revenue from dispensaries," says Becky DeKeuster, chief executive officer of Northeast Patients Group, which will operate four dispensaries in Maine, including the one in Cumberland County. "But beyond that, we are looking at jobs being created — not only for dispensary workers but for caregivers who are growing for patients outside the dispensary system. There will be economic stimulus for stores that sell cultivation equipment, for shops and restaurants located near dispensaries . . . We are getting calls from all over the Northeast and as far away as Wisconsin, from patients who want to move to a medical cannabis state, doctors who want to study this medicine, and people who want to work in the dispensaries. So this industry is an economic magnet for Maine, and I think in five years and beyond, we will be astounded at its positive impact on our state economy."
How that impact will be delivered remains to be seen.
The lay of the land
In November 2009, 59 percent of Maine voters approved the ballot question that expanded and clarified Maine's medical marijuana law. Possession and consumption of medical marijuana had previously been legal but logistically inaccessible. The citizen referendum, brought by Maine Citizens for Patients' Rights, sought to streamline the system of distribution and make it easier for patients to obtain medicinal cannabis. When it passed, a task force set to implementing it — looking at how similar laws work in other states, and making recommendations to former governor John Baldacci. Maine's rules were adopted last summer.
Many of those who advocated for the referendum envisioned a network of individual "caregivers" who would cultivate and distribute marijuana to eligible patients.
"We saw small-scale, mom-and-pop operations," says Jonathan Leavitt, who worked on the ballot campaign from its inception and serves as executive director of the Maine Marijuana Policy Initiative.
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Watched Gone in 60 Seconds (remake) today.... Eleanor....
"That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't."
Watched Art School Confidential last night (by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, the team that made Ghost World).
Funny stuff, especially since I could relate to it. Others might not care for it so much.
[FONT=Book Antiqua]He passes to Moses - He shoots, he scores![/FONT]
Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
Watched Higher Learning yesterday, great flick, love that movie.
Watched Dazed and Confused today
thanks Chux Turbo LBC Bobafrett Mtriv73 Rjarvis JF96 JT JMG FB Rogue2 Tycho Slicker Deoxy Caesar JontheJedi JJReason Brandon Solo JMS UK for great deals.
SSG Pro Football Pick em and Bowl Pick em Champ 2006. 2007 NCAA Bracket Champ
#24 - Gone but not forgotten
On a Steven Seagal kick. Watched Above the Law last night and going to take down Hard to Kill tonight. After that it is Out for Justice and Under Siege (easily the best one) followed by On Deadly Ground, then a viewing of Fire Down Below.
"That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't."
I didn't really care for Flags of Our Fathers. I've never had as much interest in the Pacific theater as I did for the European one though. I've also seen the History Channel doc on the Iwo Jima flag raising so the film didn't really break new ground for me.
I thought Apocalypto was pretty good. Who'da thunk anyone would make a movie about the Maya?! I'm not sure why they included the arrival of the first Europeans, since the Mayan Empire is considered a pre-Columbian (as in Christopher Columbus) civilization. It had pretty much collapsed several hundred years before the first Spanish conquerors set foot in the Americas.
Weird War Tales: Featuring the Creature Commandos #105 November 1981 (DC Comics)
1408 - was ok, cool storyline. Samuel Jackson was under-utilized. John Cusack is a pretty good actor.
Sands of Iwo Jima - much better than Flags of our Fathers. Really cool to get a perspective from the other side. Really highlights the different outlook on warfare and dying the Japanese had. Many wasted lives due to suicide.
Night at the Museum - was ok, better than I thought it would be.


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Eight awarded fellowships and grants for cultural policy studies
Posted June 4, 2003; 02:41 p.m.
The Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies has selected eight graduate students for fellowships and grants for the 2003-04 academic year to support research and writing on cultural policy topics.
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the center has been making annual awards since 1998 to graduate students at Princeton and area universities. The center awards $15,000 doctoral fellowships to students who are writing a dissertation on some aspect of cultural policy and $4,000 project grants to students who are working on smaller projects related to arts and culture in America.
Mellon Foundation Doctoral Fellowships were awarded to Gabriel Rossman in Princeton's sociology department and Thierry Rigogne in Princeton's history department. Rossman is studying the effects of media ownership on content in newspapers, movies and radio. Rigogne is completing a dissertation on the book trade in 18th-century France, focusing on the geography of publishing and the effects of censorship and regulation.
The center also named six Mellon Foundation Research Affiliates, including five students from Princeton: Meredith Bostwick, architecture; Ted Coffey, music; Hannah McLaughlin , English; Maria McMath, anthropology; and Yue Zhang, politics. Steven Holochwost, a music student from Rutgers University, also received a grant.
The center is a research program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .
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Côte d'Ivoire: Helping displaced families return home
Sixty-year old Madeleine Doué, a widow and mother of six, fled Blody, her village in Moyen Cavally, in December 2010 and settled at the Catholic Mission in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire last year.
The camp offered Mrs. Doué and her family security as well as access to food and health services. In August 2011, however, she decided to return to Blody despite not knowing what had happened to her village.
"After eight months of being on the run, I decided to go home so that I could live on my own terms, nearer my family and on the land left to me by my grandfather. I just wanted to get back to my traditional way of life," says Madeleine.
However, when she got back to Blody, Madeleine's hope for a new start gave way to stark reality: her house had been burned down. She and two of her children have had to sleep in a neighbour's kitchen while she rebuilds her home.
Nearly a year after the crisis, more than 186,000 Ivorians remain displaced within the country and over 160,000 others are refugees in neighbouring countries. At the peak of the crisis last year, about a million people were internally displaced and there were 200,000 Ivorian refugees in 13 neighbouring countries.
To help internally displaced Ivorians like Madeleine Doué, the UN today launched a humanitarian appeal for Côte d'Ivoire asking for over US$173 million to help UN agencies, and local and international NGOs like Solidarite Internationale, carry out critical projects in 2012.
As part of one of these projects, Mrs. Doué needs to make around 2,000 mud bricks – a task made more difficult by the lack of reliable water in the area. "Coming home has been harder than I expected, but there is a strong sense of solidarity in the community. Young people working with the village Habitat Committee help me fetch water and mix the soil so I can finish making my bricks and rebuild my house," says Madeleine.
In western Côte d'Ivoire, shelter remains a major problem for internally displaced people and returnees. According to humanitarian organizations, 75 per cent of the 12,600 homes destroyed during the crisis, belong to villagers like Ms. Doué. Funds are urgently needed to rehabilitate these homes if the resettlement of these returnees is to be sustainable.


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After the outcome tonight, I thought I would look up some info on the current Supremes. One of my inquiries led me to this:
It is a transcript of Justice Scalia's majority opinion in "District of Columbia vs. Heller". It is a long read, and there are many very interesting passages. I would recommend that anyone interested in the thinking behind the primary arguments for the individual right to keep and bear arms take an hour or so to read it. I am sure that I will read it several times to be sure that I understand it, but I have included three short passages that I find quite salient.
It is therefore entirely sensible that the Second Amendment 's prefatory clause announces the purpose for which the right was codified: to prevent elimination of the militia. The prefatory clause does not suggest that preserving the militia was the only reason Americans valued the ancient right; most undoubtedly thought it even more important for self-defense and hunting. But the threat that the new Federal Government would destroy the citizens' militia by taking away their arms was the reason that right—unlike some other English rights—was codified in a written Constitution. Justice Breyer's assertion that individual self-defense is merely a "subsidiary interest" of the right to keep and bear arms, see post, at 36, is profoundly mistaken. He bases that assertion solely upon the prologue—but that can only show that self-defense had little to do with the right's codification; it was the central component of the right itself.
St. George Tucker's version of Blackstone's Commentaries, as we explained above, conceived of the Blackstonian arms right as necessary for self-defense...........................Tucker elaborated on theSecond Amendment : "This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty … . The right to self-defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine the right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." (emphasis mine, HPL).
In addition, in a shorter 1840 work Story wrote: "One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms,.........................."


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By: Carolyn T. Geer
January 20, 2013
It's time to rethink how much you're saving for retirement and how you're saving it.
For one thing, the recent budget deal in Washington (aka the American Taxpayer Relief Act) didn't renew the so-called employee payroll-tax holiday. That means higher Social Security payroll taxes--and smaller paychecks--for nearly all wage earners.
At the same time, the new tax law lifted the restrictions on shifting money from regular 401(k)s to Roth 401(k)s, where contributions are made after tax instead of pretax, but withdrawals can be tax-free. (Earnings in regular 401(k)s are taxable when withdrawn.)
The payroll-tax increase hits average earners particularly hard and threatens to put a crimp in workplace retirement-savings accounts.
For the past two years, the employee share of the tax was reduced to 4.2% from 6.2% on the first $110,100 in earnings. This year, it snaps back to 6.2%.
Also, as previously announced by the Social Security Administration, the maximum amount of earnings subject to the tax rises to $113,700 this year, which alone increases Social Security taxes for nearly 10 million workers.
Those with wages above the taxable maximum are less affected by the tax, percentage-wise, than those with wages below the cutoff, who feel its full effect.
"For the five-figure wage earners, it's a significant change," says Stephen Horan, head of private wealth management at the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute. "People are more likely to cut back on savings than they are on spending."
Joni Tibbetts, a vice president in retirement investor services at Principal Financial Group, provides an example of what could happen if you don't budget for the 2% payroll-tax increase and instead cut your pretax 401(k) contributions.
A 30-year-old making $50,000 will see his take-home pay shrink $1,000 this year. If instead of cutting spending this worker puts $1,000 less into his 401(k) this year, he could have nearly $12,000 less by retirement at age 66.
If he doesn't increase his savings rate over the next 36 years, the loss to his retirement account could approach $236,000. (And this isn't even considering any employer matching contributions.)
If you were caught off guard by this year's payroll-tax hike and are forced to scale back your retirement-plan contributions, Ms. Tibbetts suggests signing up for automatic annual savings-rate increases to get your contributions back on track as quickly as possible.
As for converting assets in a regular 401(k) account to a Roth 401(k), one obstacle is the relative scarcity of Roth 401(k) plans. Fewer than half of employers offering regular 401(k)s also offer the Roth version.
Beyond that, the pool of ideal candidates for conversion is relatively small: namely, young employees who expect to be in a higher tax bracket in retirement than they are now and who can afford to pay the income taxes they'll owe upfront on the converted amount from nonretirement assets.
Mr. Horan suspects there is another deterrent at work here: tax risk--a possible change in the tax treatment of Roths.
Ever since the introduction of the Roth IRA in the 1990s, Congress has periodically made it easier for investors to convert pretax accounts to Roth accounts in the hopes of drumming up tax revenue in the short term--even though it does nothing to solve the country's deficit problem long term.
Still, assets in traditional individual retirement accounts continue to dwarf those in Roth IRAs by a factor of 15, and fewer than 10% of employees offered Roth 401(k)s choose to use them.
"As much as Congress has been trying to encourage people to take that tax bite upfront, people have trouble pulling the trigger," Mr. Horan says.
Perhaps they're afraid that 20 years from now Congress will change the rules regarding Roths. Remember in the 1980s when they started taxing Social Security benefits? There's nothing preventing them from doing something similar with Roth distributions.
What to do? "When you've got uncertainty, create options for yourself," says Mr. Horan. "Have a portfolio of accounts much like you have a portfolio of securities so that you can adapt to changing tax laws as time goes on."
In other words, don't put all your retirement eggs in one tax-sheltered basket.


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Last Saturday's 350-yard rushing performance notwithstanding. Against a defense where all 11 players have draftable grades. I would note that it took until about the middle of the 2d quarter before it really started working on Georgia. Running like that takes a commitment to bring about a cumulative effect. I saw somewhere that 22 of our last 25 plays were runs, including a straight handoff on a 3rd and 5. You saw what happened on the play-action pass.
You may be right about ND, but I bet we require them to prove it on the field before we give up and just throw it 40 times. Per their fans, ND prefers to sit in a two-high safety look and control the running game with 6 or 7 people. As good as they are, I just don't see that working long-term against our offense.
The other thing about running the way we like to is that there is no adjustment or scheme to cover the situation where the OL is knocking the DL's peckers in their watchpockets, except for bringing more folks down into the box. If we are getting a hat on a hat I like our chances.
Of course, anything is possible, and we are all one injury in the right spot away from being really mediocre. If Jesse Williams had not made it back onto the field Saturday, I am not at all sure that we would have beaten Georgia.
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I didn't say throw it 40 times. If y'all pass 40 times, y'all lose. Stanford was more predicated to running the football @ the time they played ND with the size & strength to do it, yet they didn't. Best chance is to throw on 1st down & run plenty of play action.
You may be right. That plan worked pretty good against LSU last year in the BCS game.
I understand the theory of throwing on first down. The problem is that an incompletion leaves you at 2d and 10, and a sack leaves you in worse shape. We are also bad to throw a WR screen that makes 2 yards. I never thought I would say this, but we are really missing Brad Smelley and the matchup problems he was able to create.
I still say we need to commit to the run until they absolutely prove that we can't, with of course some play-action passing mixed in to take some shots down the field. We will see if Saban & Co. agree with me.
basic football : the run sets up the pass, play action means absolutely nothing if you haven't established some sort of running game...National Championships are built around great defensive teams,that could also eat up the clock and punish you with a sound running game...also helps to have a QB that doesn't turn the ball over
The pass sets up the run.
I think I am starting to understand why LSU underachieved for so much of its history.
This is definitely not how either Alabama or ND are typically set up.
For historical reference, we weren't supposed to be able to score against LSU in January (in Louisiana!) and we did. Texas had some kind of otherworldly run defense in 2009, and we had 2 100-yard rushers. Miami was supposed to shut us down in 1992, and we ran pretty good on them. All the way back to Penn State in 1979 (1978 season) with Matt Millen and Bruce Clark on the DL and allowing less than 60 yards rushing per game, and that came out OK too.
It may turn out differently in January. ND is obviously doing something right. We will
see. ND has a great coaching staff and they will be ready to play, but I would not bet against our staff with this much prep time.
Should be a heck of a game.
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Your historical precedent argument only works when the game is static. Comparing today's fast break no huddle offenses to anything more than a few years back is meaningless. 1978?... really, why not keep going past the I, past the wishbone, past the T formation to the single wing which much more resembles what we see today than any other predecessors.
Happy birthday, Johnny Football! You can unwrap your present on Saturday night!
And good luck against the Sooners. That should be one hullabaloo of a game.


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Minnesota Students to Benefit from Obama Initiatives
Contact: Sandy Connolly, Director of Communications
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St. Paul, MN - Officials at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE) are applauding two initiatives announced today by President Obama aimed at lowering monthly student loan payments for borrowers struggling to repay their loans.
Susan Von Mosch, Interim Director at OHE, said she expects these initiatives to have a positive impact on student borrowers across Minnesota.
"Over the past few years, state funding for Minnesota colleges and universities has decreased dramatically, triggering tuition increases across the state well beyond the rate of inflation," said Von Mosch. "One of the results has been that Minnesota students borrow at higher rates than students nationally, and as a result, leave college with significant debt." According to Von Mosch, the average number of Minnesota students who graduated with debt in 2009 was 73 percent, and over 90 percent at some campuses. Difficulty finding a job during the current high level of unemployment makes repaying these loans even more difficult.
Under the administration's plan:
- Beginning January 1, 2012 through June 20, 2012, students with both Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL) and Direct Loans will be offered an incentive to consolidate their loans into the Direct Loan program. This would impact an estimated 120,000 Minnesota graduates, offering them both a lower interest rate and the convenience of paying one lender.
- More generous income-based repayment (IBR) terms will be fast-tracked to become effective in 2012 instead of 2014. Borrowers participating in the income-based repayment program, estimated to be about 10,000 in Minnesota, would be eligible to limit payments to 10% of monthly income instead of 15%, beginning in January 2012. In addition, borrowers who had not fully repaid their loans after 20 years would qualify for loan forgiveness instead of the current 25 years.
Also announced today, the U.S. Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CDPB) have teamed up to launch a new Know Before You Owe project aimed at creating a financial aid shopping sheet, which colleges and universities could use to help students better understand the type and amount of aid they qualify for and easily compare aid packages offered by different institutions.
The CFPB is also working to educate students and their families on their options for paying back their federal and private loans after graduation. This week, the consumer agency released the Student Debt Repayment Assistant, an online tool that provides borrowers, many of whom may be struggling with repayment, with information on income-based repayment, deferments, alternative payment programs, and much more.
"Whether you are a graduate with student debt, or a new student just entering postsecondary education, I encourage you to consider these new opportunities for assistance," said Von Mosch.


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As most Colias-species, it is an avid flyer. Though the species is normally restricted to the habitats, occasionally it is found far from suitable breeding grounds. The larva is found on Vaccinium uliginosum.
Dimensions 1 3/8-1 3/4" (35-44 mm).
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The concept is simple: Pick your favorite of the two pairs in each poll. Done. YOUR VOTES will determine the winners of this tournament showdown.
After eight hotly-contested first-round fights, the quarterfinal bracket is set. Tuesday, Robsten jumped ahead of JT and Jessica Biel in a #1/#9 matchup.
Wednesday, the Obamas (#4) took on Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds (#12), then #3 Jay-Z and Beyonce took on #6 Prince William and Kate Middleton!
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By The Associated Press
SALTILLO — The city of Saltillo will hold a public meeting on March 5 on a proposal to ban smoking in public places.
Mayor Bill Williams tells WTVA-TV in Tupelo that the hearing will allow local residents and community leaders to voice their opinions on the issue.
Local resident Gernarro Cole says it is a health issue and one of courtesy to others.
Williams says he sees it as coming down to property rights. He says a person who has some property should be allowed to decide what goes on in that property as long as it is something that is legal. He says smoking is legal.
Several towns across Mississippi have banned in government owned buildings. Others have also banned it in public areas such as restaurants.


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This Christmas the youngt men of Troop 664 put together a gift box to send to the soldiers serving in Iraq. They sent candy, magazines, handy wipes, Christmas Cards, and other stuff the Troops like. They also put together this video and decided to share it on YouTube. A disk of the video went in the box to Iraq.
Merry Christmas to all our Soldiers serving at home and abroad.
And Merry Christmas to you!
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Stan and Bean step up for injured Hertrampf
LA CROSSE, Wis. - UW-La Crosse Eagles running back Ben Hertrampf accounted for nearly 30-percent of the team's offense a year ago. He was also the leading rusher on the team this season through four games.
However Hertrampf's 2012 campaign has concluded. He suffered a left knee injury in Saturday's win in Stevens Point and will need to have season-ending surgery.
Eagles head coach Joel Dettwiler really likes the depth in the backfield as they'll need to replace a player who accounted for such a large percentage of their offense. "What's fortunate for us is that we've got I don't know if I would say a stable full of running backs, but we've got some guys who are experienced and working hard."16850038
Junior Jared Stan is set to make his first college start this Saturday when the Eagles have their season home opener against UW-Platteville. "This will be my first start in college so it's an exciting experience, that's for sure. I've been waiting for this for a long time putting in a lot of hard work in and everything is starting to flow together."
Backing up Stan will be sophomore Dillon Bean, a graduate from Westby High School. "I've never been more excited to step up and the team counts on me now. It's a different feeling now - before preparing for games I knew it was Ben and Jared. Now that my name is in the mix it's a different feeling and it's a good feeling and I'm ready to show that I can be counted upon."
"We're looking forward to both of those guys carrying the football," adds Dettwiler.


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With the University of Texas assembling a panel to review a February study from the Energy Institute at UT Austin following PAI's report "Contaminated Inquiry", there has been a flurry of media attention to gas industry's capture of scientists and economists, using the independent brands of and public trust in universities to promote a gas-friendly message, often using misleading information or low-quality scholarship – a phenomenon we have termed "frackademia." This week, Climate Desk, a collaboration between Mother Jones, Slate, Wired, the Guardian, and other outlets, released an article drawing attention to a report commissioned by the Ohio Shale Coalition and released with the logos of Cleveland State University, the Ohio State University, and Marietta College on its cover. The Climate Desk story featured Dr. Robert Chase, a Marietta geologist who co-authored the study, and his ties to the natural gas industry and government.
Chase runs a consulting firm to negotiate leases between landowners and gas companies. His firm Chaseland LLC was the subject of an inquiry by the Ohio Ethics Commission after landowners contested a permit granted to Chesapeake Energy by the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission, a five-member body on which Chase serves. Chase's history consulting on lease negotiations with Chesapeake led him to recuse himself from that case, and the Ethics Commission ruled that Chase must recuse himself from any case involving companies or people he had done business with at his consultancy.
"An Analysis of the Economic Potential for Shale Formations in Ohio", the Ohio Shale Coalition-commissioned study that Chase worked on paints a rosy picture of hydrofracking, promising "65,680 jobs and $3.3 billion in labor income, or an average income of $50,225 per job" and a nearly $5 billion increase in Ohio's GDP from 2011 to 2014 thanks to fracking in the Utica Shale, numbers that the authors call "very conservative." Researchers at the Ohio State University's Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy have criticized these estimates as overestimating job creation by "about 400%". Also, in addition to Chase's conflict of interest in writing a report endorsing fracking while running a consulting firm that takes a share of the bonus payouts for every gas lease it negotiates, the report itself was commissioned by a pro-fracking group and some of its authors and contributors exhibit similar conflicts. These conflicts raise the question of whether the study's results were determined before it was conducted.
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put it where the sun don't shine
I think i remember being told that once or twice
David Jansma
put it where the sun don't shine
I think i remember being told that once or twice
David Jansma
The time you spend on earth with your dog is precious; enjoy it to your fullest
depends if we are talking about the sun shining on a dog's azz every once in awhile
or if someone in London is trying to convince you that the sun is shining on a particular day
or if someone in Alaska is trying to describe a night during the summer where the sun is shining tlll 3am
I think it depends on what program the sun uses to rise that particular day., and even more importantly, what program did it use to set the evening prior?
Waterspook Sables Dark Secret, MH (Sable)
Trumarcs Bankshot Bandit, MH ( Fats)
Waterspook Tomfoolery, SH ( Tommie)
Waterspook Bankshot Whiz Bang,JH (Jesse)
Waterspooks Girl Named Bill, SH ( Billie- my princess.....)
Waterspook Kickin' Gunshot, SH ( Boom)
Waterspook Kickin' Good Time MH(Kick)
Waterspooks Partner In Crime, SH ( Bouncer)
Brush Creek Waterspook, JH, WC- my first girl.(Spooky)
How much force is required to make the sun shine? and do you wear a glove when doing ear pinch?
Paul Cantrell
Black Ice Retrievers
Marcola OR
Too many dogs to list (By some Bitch)
"Helping Hunters Train Their Dogs"
Would a solar eclipse be considered secondary shining or indirect shining?
Denise Jepson
Centerfield Retrievers
Five Star Fielders Choice MH
Centerfields My-Oh-My MH
Centerfields Waterfowl Wizard
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference! -Winston Churchill
There's those who just TALK about doin' it and those who just DO IT!
Is sunburn punishment for staying out in the sun too long, or re-enforcement of using sunscreen?
Darrin Greene
Um... Bon, that be morning not night.someone in Alaska is trying to describe a night during the summer where the sun is shining tlll 3am
Howard Niemi
You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
get your dog out and TRAIN! caryalsobrook 2013
Define is. And when you do, share your knowledge with Bill Clinton.
Don't bother to just be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
No need to start talking dirty Becky.
Carol Howey
Owned and handled by Cruisin' with Indiana Jones, JH
Alternate Handler: Westwind Buffalo Soldier
Apprentice Handler: Snake River Medicine Man, SH


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Women Business Owners present assertiveness discussion
BINGHAMTON, NY – A discussion of "Saying Yes . . . but Meaning No, " is on the agenda for the next Binghamton University Small Business Development Center's Women Business Owners (WBO) roundtable, at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites (behind the Plaza Diner), 3615 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal.
Diane Lange, a certified leadership coach, will teach participants how to express their needs and communicate assertiveness through body language. Lange has over ten years of experience in organizational development and owns a private practice specializing in leadership, building business relationships and performance management.
The roundtable costs $15 per person, payable at the door and includes a full breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards and brochures to share. Advance registration is required. Call Binghamton University's Small Business Development Center at (607) 777-4024 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com to register.


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950 Sutherland Ridge
Clinchco, VA 24226
(Dickenson Co., VA)
In execution of a corrected deed of trust, from RICK D. SUTHERLAND, aka Ricky Dean Sutherland and DAINA L. SUTHERLAND, aka Diana Lynn Sutherland, dated July 6, 2010, in the original principal amount of $85,808.73, recorded in the Clerk's Office of the County of Dickenson, Virginia, in Deed Book 478, at Page 659, (Seth E. Twery, P.C. having been appointed Substitute Trustee under instrument of record in said Clerk's Office in Deed Book 501, at page 514), due to default in payment of the debt secured, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in front of the Courthouse for the Circuit Court of Dickenson County, Virginia on the 14th day of January, 2013, at 11:30 a.m.,that certain tract of real estate known as 950 Sutherland Ridge, Clinchco, VA 24226 situated in Dickenson County, Virginia, being more particularly described as follows:
Situate, lying and being on the waters of McClure Creek in Dickenson County, Virginia, and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at an iron pin (new) in the sideline of Sutherland Ridge Road, and a 40 foot right of way; thence with the sideline of the 40 foot right of way and the property herein conveyed the following calls and distances: S. 34 degrees, 11' 20" W. 98.44 feet to an iron pin (new); S. 25 degrees, 26' 50" W. 89.21 feet to an iron pin (new); S. 21 degrees, 37' 40" W. 51.77 feet; S. 18 degrees, 41' 30" W. 32.65 feet, to an iron pin (new); S. 16 degrees, 23' 50" W. 28.55 feet to an iron pin (new); S. 22 degrees 42' 00" W. 41.03 feet to an iron pin (new), corner for the remaining property of Rick and Diana Sutherland, (DB 475, page 710) and the 40 foot right of way; thence with the new divisional line of Sutherland, N. 32 degrees 12' 50" W. 312.74 feet to an iron pin (new); thence N. 3 degrees, 45' 20" W. 382.46 feet to an iron pin (new), corner for Clinchfield Coal Company Joshua Pressley 940.59 acre tract; thence with the divisional line of Clinchfield, S. 44 degrees, 54' 20" E. 480.00 feet to the point of BEGINNING, containing 2.34 acres more or less, as shown on survey by Larry Culbertson, dated May 19, 2010, entitled "SURVEY FOR RICK AND DIANA SUTHERLAND"
Included with the sale is a 2009 Clayton Manufactured Home - VIN No. CWP019391TNAB.
Sale subject to all conditions, restrictions, reservations and easements, if any of record and now applicable thereto.
Terms: At least 10% cash on day of sale; balance due within 30 days.
Seth E. Twery, Esq.
Seth E. Twery, P.C.
P.O. Box 185
Lynchburg, VA 24505-0185
Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC, 5703 Crutchfield Dr, Norton, Virginia 24273 is applying to the Virginia Division of Mined Land Reclamation (VDMLR) for a Revision of Permit No. 1101955 and NPDES Number 0081955 in order to add approximately 279.78 acres to the existing coal surface mining and reclamation operations and to add three ponds, (17, 18 & 19) and two NPDES points, (017 and 018) at the following location:
The additional mining area is located in Buchanan and Dickenson Counties approximately south of Duty. The existing and proposed permit area is at latitude 38º 44' 13" and longitude 84º 30' 17" on the Duty 7.5' USGS Quadrangle. The permit area being added is situated along the drainage divide of Left Fork of Cane Creek and Three Forks Branch. Surface drainage will be passed through sediment control structures prior to being discharge into receiving streams. Surface drainage from the proposed permit area will enter Cane Creek, Left Fork, Indian Creek and Three Fork Branch.
A copy of the application materials will be available for inspection and public comment at the Circuit Court Clerk's Office at the Buchanan County Courthouse, Grundy, Virginia and the Dickenson County Courthouse, Clintwood, Virginia. A copy of the draft NPDES permit and fact sheet are available for public inspection and comment at VDMLR's Big Stone Gap office.
Any person whose interests are or may be adversely affected by the proposed operation, or any officer or head of any Federal, State, or Local Government agency or authority may within 30 days of January 16, 2013, submit written comments or objections, concerning the proposed operation, and may also request in writing, that VDMLR hold an informal conference concerning the application. A request for an informal conference shall follow the requirements of 4 VAC 25-130-773.13(c) of VDMLR'S Regulations.
All correspondence should be submitted to VDMLR, P.O. Drawer 900, Big Stone Gap, Virginia 24219, Attn: Permit Section, Phone: (276) 523-8202. Written comments and a request for informal conference may be e-mailed to the Division at
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See America's top 10 haunted places
See America's top 10 haunted places
10. San Francisco, California: One of San Francisco's most famous landmarks, Alcatraz Island is also home to some of the city's weirdest ghost stories. Toptenz.net said Visitors to the island often claim to see apparitions walking the cellblocks, and sometimes hear voices emanating from what was once the cafeteria.
9. Key West, Florida: Sunny Key West may not seem to be a likely setting for haunted houses, but the small beach community is home to some of the oldest American ghost stories. According to Toptenz.net, the city's rich history of buccaneers and rumrunners provides the backdrop for a lot of these ghosts, like those that are said haunt Captain Tony's Saloon.
8. Athens, Ohio: Athens Lunatic Asylum: There's nothing creepier than a good old-fashioned insane asylum. The Athens Lunatic Asylum operated from 1874 until 1993. The hospital held many violent patients, and is notorious for being the site of hundreds of lobotomies. Since closing, the hospital has been at the center of numerous ghost stories, according to Toptenz.net.
7. Portland, Oregon: Shanghai Tunnels: Portland's coastal location established it as a shipping hub and port of call for sailors during the 1800s. This eventually led to the rise of a practice known as shanghaiing, wherein unsuspecting men and women were kidnapped from bars or hotels, shipped to the Orient, and impressed into slave labor or prostitution. Today, tunnels used for that purpose are said to be haunted by the ghosts of the people who were kidnapped, many of whom were never seen or heard from again, according to Toptenz.net.PHOTO: Flickr
6. Charleston, South Carolina: Built in 1809, The Dock Street Theater is said to be the home of two spirits. The first is Nettie, a poor prostitute who was killed near the theater after being struck by lightning. Toptenz.net reports the other is the ghost of Junius Brutus Booth, an actor who is more famous today for being the father of John Wilkes Boothe, the man who killed Abraham Lincoln.
5. Salem, Massachusetts: Joshua Ward House is known as one of the most haunted houses in America, Joshua Ward House is built on the foundation of the home of George Corwin, the man who served as Sheriff during the Salem witch trials. Corwin is infamous for his role in the death of Giles Corey, a local man who was charged with witchcraft. Toptenz.net said many claim that Corey and Corwin haunt the Joshua Ward House.
4. Chicago, Illinois: Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is rumored to be one of the prohibition-era gangsters' favorite places to dump bodies, Bachelor's Grove is an old and decaying burial ground that has been the site of countless stories about ghosts, spirits, and devil worship. According to Toptenz.net, several headstones in the cemetery seem to move at will, and many claim that the spirits of the dead often materialize and walk the grounds at night.
3. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: The Devil's Den is a rocky outcropping of boulders and shrubs that was the site of one of the clashes of the second day of the battle. The spot is famous for being the location of a Confederate sharpshooter who was killed while taking from behind the rocks. Union forces later found a body, and photographer Alexander Gardner took a photo of it that has since become one of the most iconic images of the battle. According to Topternz.net, this man's ghost now haunts the Devil's Den, and to this day visitors to the park often have a great deal of trouble trying to take photos anywhere near the site. Pictures often come out blurry and unusable, and cameras have a strange way of suddenly dying whenever they are turned on in the area.
2. Savannah, Georgia: The Hampton Lillibridge house was built in 1796 and originally served as a boarding house, according to Toptenz.net. It was purchased in the 1960s by a builder who hoped to restore it, and it was then that strange phenomena began to occur. At one point during construction, a portion of the roof collapsed, killing one of the workers. Other builders claimed they would hear voices and footsteps whenever they were alone, and that pieces of construction equipment would often be thrown across the room. Countless exorcisms and investigations have taken place at the house since, and it has gone through several owners, but the presence that haunts it is said to still remain there today.
1. New Orleans, Louisiana: According to TopTenz.net, New Orleans, has truly embraced its reputation as a center of all things paranormal. The city is full of haunted mansions, taverns, and graveyards. You can't go far without hearing stories of cursed pirate ships, Civil War-era spirits, and voodoo hexes.


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Event: Phoenix
Max Papis Avoids Late-Race Cautions to Bring Home Top-15 at Phoenix
MIAMI, FL (February 28, 2011) -- One week after crossing the finish line in 12th-place at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, Max Papis and the No. 9 GEICO Racing team trekked cross country to compete at Phoenix (Ariz.) International Raceway, the second stop of the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. Numerous late race cautions plagued the field, but Papis used patience to bring home a solid 15th-place finish in the Arizona desert.
A normal schedule occurrence saw the Truck Series complete a one-day show on Friday, as practice, qualifying and the race all took place during the same day at the one-mile track. After dialing in the GEICO Toyota in the morning practice session, Papis laid down a respectable lap in qualifying to start the 150-mile race from the 18th position.
The beginning of the Lucas Oil 150 saw the 36-truck field complete laps under green-flag conditions. As Papis faced a loose handling Tundra, the Italian slipped back a few spots in the first 30 laps and was placed one lap down to the leaders. The yellow flag was displayed on lap 43, with the Gecko holding 22nd-place. Crew chief Randy Goss called his driver to pit road for four fresh tires, fuel, and adjustments to help tighten up the Toyota. Restarting on lap 49 from 23rd-place, Papis began fighting for the Lucky Dog award.
The second caution of the night was brought out on lap 59, with Papis in 22nd-place, two spots shy of receiving the Lucky Dog award to return to the lead lap. Papis reported to his GEICO crew that the adjustments made on the first pit stop helped but he was still loose. Remaining on the track, Papis restarted on lap 63 from the same position. Another 40 lap green-flag period ensued as Papis continued to run strong in the 22nd position.
On lap 101, the third caution slowed the pace, sparking a string of six cautions in 40 laps. Goss radioed for Papis to come back to pit road for the final stop of the evening, taking four fresh tires and fuel. Continuing to dodge accidents in front of his GEICO Toyota, Papis swerved and swayed to break into the top-20 by lap 119. Showing extreme patience and driving skills, the driver's break finally came on lap 133 as he received the Lucky Dog award and regained his position on the lead lap.
The green flag waved for the final time on lap 140, setting up a 10-lap shootout in the Valley of the Sun. With six laps remaining, Papis battled his way into 15th-place. Never looking back, Papis crossed the finish line and recorded his second consecutive top-15 finish. Papis continues to hold the eighth position in the Camping World Truck Series Driver Championship Point Standings, only 10 points behind leader Matt Crafton.
"We battled hard tonight to get that Top 15 finish for GEICO and Germain Racing. We took what the day gave us and we will move forward to the next race in Darlington," Papis said. "I was able to stay out of trouble and we are getting better one lap at a time. We're 8th in the point standings and just ten points out of first place, so we are in a good place and we are going to keep fighting and getting better each race."
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Family: Lycaenidae, Gossamer-wing Butterflies view all from this family
Description Boisduval's Blue (Aricia icarioides) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family found in North America.
A. icarioides has been classified in at least four different genera since it was named by Boisduval in 1852.
The caterpillar is green and covered with short white hair with numerous diagonal marking on its sides; its Chrysalis is about 5/16" (8 mm) long and is green with red-brown on abdomen.
Larvae feed on species of lupines (Lupinus).
Dimensions Caterpillar, to 3/8" (10 mm).
Habitat Canyons & caves, Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Shorelines & salt marshes, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Grasslands & prairies, Alpine & subalpine habitats.
Range California, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Plains, Northwest, Southwest.


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Since completing his studies with Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett at the University of Michigan, Russell Peck lb. 1945), has won the Koussevitsky Prize in Composition and honors from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and several state arts councils in the U.S.A., and has served as composer-in-residence of the Indianapolis Symphony. His music (which includes a concerto for tenor saxophone), has been recorded and performed by fifteen major orchestras in America, as well as the London Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Great Britain. 'Drastic Measures' (1976), contrasts a lyrical opening followed segue by a rhythmic closing 'Allegro' movement. The work draws considerably on pop and jazz influences, especially the funky 'Allegro', which is built on a twelve-bar blues bass-line. Peck interjects a reminder of the quiet opening before ending the piece with a tutti flourish.
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Flemish composer, organist, and teacher, studied with Zarlino in Venice before being appointed organist of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, where he remained for his entire professional career. Known today primarely as a composer of organ music, Sweelinck was known by his contemporaries as a vocal composer because only these works were published during his life. He was also a renowned teacher, nicknamed 'the maker of organists'. The 'Fantasia' featured on this recording lends itself for adaptation from its original as an organ piece because of the organ-like sound that a quartet of saxophones can achieve. The contrapuntal lines in all ranges also make for a perfect opportunity to display the agility of the saxophone quartet in all its voices. German composer, pianist and clarinettist, Harald Genzmer )b. 1909) studied composition with Paul Bindemith, and like his teacher, is a prolific composer in all genres (except opera) who has written music both for concert performance as well as for amateurs and students. His catalogue includes a 'Rhapsodic' for baritone saxophone, two pieces for alto saxophone, a sonata for soprano saxophone, and several saxophone quartets. The opening 'Allegro's' precise rhythms and modern harmonies set the mood for 'Genzmer's Quartet no. 2 far Saxophones'. The second movement, marked 'Amabile, tranqoillo', features a melody played by the soprano saxophone over a dense accompaniment from the other instruments. The third movement is an 'Intermezzo' in rondo form. Following the opening theme, there is a 30 measure solo for unaccompanied tenor saxophone, alter which the theme is taken up successively by the soprano, alto, and baritone. Alter several statements and developments, the movement concludes with a final statement of the theme by the baritone. The lively finale is propelled by energetic rhythms until eight measures before the end; after a short silence, the work comes to a close with a long crescendo.
Born William James Robjohn, Caryl Florio (1843-1920) was an American composer of English birth. Except for a few lessons as a child, he was self-taught in music. His family opposed his musical career, which led the young composer to change his name to Caryl Florlo in 1870. After spending the early years of his career in New York City, in 1896 he took charge of music at Biltmore, George Vanderbilt's estate near Asheville N.C., where he remained until 1901. He spent the next two years in New York, and then returned to Asheville to teach and conduct choruses and church choirs. The 'Quarfette far Saxophones' was written for the Wonder Saxophone Quartet, also known as the New York Saxophone Club, in 1879. It features crisp, flowing lines and lush harmonies that take complete advantage of the full, rich sonority characteristic of the saxophone quartet. The 'Quartette' is unique as an original work for the saxopho- ne quartet from the Romantic period. 'Twelve Variations in C' on the French song: 'Ah vous dirai-je Maman', was composed by the 22 year old Mozart (1756-1791) in Paris in 1778. This delightful set of variations may be a farewell to his beloved mother, who died just days before its composition. The New Century Saxophone Quartet originally intended this arrangement for its children's concerts, but has found it a favorite with concertgoers of all ages. While the French song's title may not be familiar, most listeners will instantly recognize this popular melody. French composer and pianist Jean Franaix (b. 1912) began composing at the age of six under the tutelage of his father, the director of the Le Mans Conservatory, and completed his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His numerous works include concertos, chamber music, operas and ballets, including many works for wind instruments. The 'Petit quatuor pour saxophones' was written in 1935, and published in 1939. The first movement, a rollickingly fun exercise in over-emphasized dynamics, is marked with the nonsense title 'Gaguenardise'. in the second movement 'Cantilne' tacit for the soprano saxophone, the alto sings gracefully over a spare accompaniment from the tenor and the baritone. The jolly and humorous mood returns for the final movement, 'Srnade comique' which features alternating triple and duple meters.
The quartet concludes with a chromatic flurry followed by a simple two-measure cadence. Edward C. Barroll's 'The Piggfy- Wiggle' subtitled 'A Saxophone Episode', is a fine example of American novelty music from the first half on the 20th century. It is a favourite encore of the New Century Saxophone Quartet.
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Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family
Description ADULT breeding Female has brown upperparts (many back feathers have yellow-buff margins), white throat, dark cap, and reddish orange neck; gray breast and mottled flanks grade into white underparts. Summer male is similar, but colors are duller. ADULT WINTER Has mainly gray upperparts and white underparts, with grayish hindcrown and nape and black patch through eye. JUVENILE Recalls winter adult, but has brown upperparts with pale buff fringes to back feathers; gradually acquires gray back feathers in fall.
Dimensions Length: 7" (18 cm)
Habitat Widespread and common nesting species beside tundra pools. Winters at sea off South America. Migration is mainly at sea, but a few turn up on inland freshwater pools.
Observation Tips Easy to see, mid-May-Jul, in Arctic; otherwise seen on pelagic boat trips during migration or from coasts during on-shore gales in fall.
Range New England, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Western Canada, Southeast, Florida, Plains, California, Eastern Canada, Great Lakes, Northwest, Alaska
Voice Utters a sharp kip call.
Discussion Delightful and often tame little shorebird. Uses all-dark, needlelike bill to pick small invertebrates from water's surface, typically while swimming. Shows role reversal at nest and breeding females are brighter than males.