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Here are some post from today's Biz Buzz Blog …
Small and local – remember Small Business Saturday
The holiday shopping season hasjust begun, so you still have plenty of time to buy. So between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, don't forget about Small Business Saturday tomorrow, Nov. 24.
What is Small Business Saturday? Quite simply, it's a push to shop at local and small brick-and-mortar shops. And we have plenty of those not only in Tupelo, but across Northeast Mississippi, from stores and boutiques in downtowns to small shopping center.
Lowest gas prices in Belden, Fulton today
In the Daily Journal's weekly survey of area gas stations, we found the lowest price at $3.09, available in Fulton and Belden.
The highest price is in Booneville, at $3.24
More prices at link below
Protesters show up at Walmart on West Main
At least a half-dozen people in Tupelo showed up to join the nationwide protest against Walmart.
At 8 this morning, six people were in the grassy area next to the main parking lot entrance to protest Walmart's low pay, benefits and "retaliation" against employees "speaking out."
We were there for about 40 minutes. Two Walmart associates were supposed to join them, but we didn't stay long enough to see if they did.
National organizers say more than 100 protests and walkouts were planned today, with more than 1,000 protests having happened since earlier this month when the movement started. Don't know if there were any walkouts at the Tupelo Walmart.
Helping to organize the protest in Tupelo – and joining it as well – were at least two locals: the Rev. James Hull and Bob Spencer. Both carried signs and expressed their support for "justice" for Walmart employees.
We'll have more in tomorrow's Daily Journal.
Black Friday update
Toys R Us, Sears and Walmart opened their doors at 8 p.m Thursday, and The Mall at Barnes Crossing opened at midnight. Yes, there were long lines, yes there was the usual frantic crush of people at many stores.
Seems all was good, more or less, at Old Navy, where the line was long but security was indeed provided.
We heard that the $20 boots at Belk were a big hit. Big enough to cause a little rumble in the shoe department. I understand there are a few videos on Facebook floating around.
Anyway, early this morning, the crowds were thinner, but were growing again by mid-morning at the mall. Mall General Manager Jeff Snyder said the mall at midnight was as packed as it's ever been, and it's shaping up to be a record turnout for Black Friday weekend.
Downtown stores started opening at 8 a.m, and shoppers were making their way there as well. Another popular stop was the Tupelo Flea Market.
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I just added a lovely page to my favorites and now I cannot remember how we find our favourites???
Hope someone can help and thank you to whoever does help me.
Gallery Favorites
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 08:38 PM
Click on your name in the upper right corner of the page, go to My Settings, click on the Gallery tab in the horizontal bar, and click on Your Favorite Images under Your Albums. HTH
Posted 29 November 2012 - 08:58 PM
Thanks Theresa for your reply. I found it following your great instructions.
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Glad I could help!
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I always have trouble finding that. Thanks for the refresher, Theresa.
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While perusing Amazon, I came across this apparently new book for sale. A mispelled word on the book cover immediately got my attention, the word "novas" instead of "novice". Using the "Look Inside" feature Amazon has, I soon came across two more mispelled words in the author's biography, "persent" instead of "percent" and "experiance" in place of "experience".
I'm not trying to pick on the guy, but my question is- Is it common practice to release a book without utilizing the services of an Editor or at least using spell check? If he is from another country and these are common spellings then I apologize for my ignorance.
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Wow, this is truely welcome news. Many eager fans were hoping McFarlane would do more of the Alien & Predator figures in the future, or even a full A&P line. It appears that McFarlane Toys saw the immense positive reaction to the Deluxe Alien vs. Predator set, and the wants for more.
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Rumored 2004 Movie Maniacs include possible characters from upcoming films like "Freddy vs. Jason", "Jeepers Creepers"... maybe even "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"; the latter which has been re-envisioned for a new feature film directed by Marcus Nispel.
More on this Movie Maniacs line as it develops.
This info was posted at both Figures.com and McFarlaneGuide.com. Hopefully they sell well, and McFarlane decides to persue a full A&P toy line. I know that I would welcome it, as I enjoyed collecting the Kenner line.
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Glad Arroyo starts at AT&T Park, looked like it was gone.
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Glad Arroyo starts at AT&T Park, looked like it was gone.
They are hitting it hard.
SF smashin early!!!
GEEZ Arroyo get the pitches DOWN!
Why is it, since last night, these bozo announcers say "He just missed that" on every fly ball the Giants hit?
Yes that was a very impressive infield single. I thought for a second it was leaving the yard. - texasdave 10/13/12
Hanigan wanted that last pitch neck high and Arroyo threw it right in his kitchen. Lucky so far.
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One night in 1989, as Robert Franz, Robert Nemzek and John Winckler of the University of Minnesota were out testing a sensitive video camera, they accidentally captured a fleeting red glow above a distant lightning storm. The enigmatic light turned out to be an electric discharge connecting thunderclouds with the ionosphere high above—an atmospheric phenomenon new to science that explained many of the strange lights that pilots, among others, had sometimes seen while gazing at the darkened sky. Over the past decade, other investigators have confirmed the existence of such "red sprites" and have carefully studied these curious flashes (along with other eerie nighttime lights called "elves" and "blue jets"). But only recently did they learn that sprites can also form during the day.
Mark Stanley, a graduate student at New Mexico Tech, and three colleagues reported the first detection of daytime sprites in the March 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters. These flashes of light would have been exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to detect optically while the sun was up, but Stanley and his colleagues used a completely different tactic. They had built special radio equipment to study ordinary lightning discharges that take place within dense thunderclouds—bolts that might be quite bright but are nevertheless hard to see from a safe distance. Stanley realized that the characteristic radio signature of sprites would allow him to use this same apparatus to identify daytime examples, if they existed at all.
Others had considered this possibility, too, but it was unclear whether sprites could form while the sky is bathed in the sun's light. The difficulty is that solar ultraviolet photons keep the atmosphere ionized to lower levels during the day than at night. Sprites normally start out in very thin air (at an altitude of about 75 kilometers), moments after a huge discharge of cloud-to-ground lightning creates a sizable electric field higher up. Such whopping electric fields cannot arise within the conductive ionosphere, which thus acts as a lid for the electrical goings-on below. Because the base of the ionosphere drops to about 60 kilometers during the day, sprites cannot begin to form at the usual level. And for a sprite to initiate lower down, in more dense air, requires a larger electric field, perhaps one greater than any lightning discharge can create—or so it was thought.
Despite this uncertainly, Stanley and his colleagues decided to search for daytime sprites. They began a concerted campaign in 1997, operating their radio gear whenever promisingly large thunderstorms erupted. Because the radio technique is sensitive to events taking place well over the horizon, they followed electrical storms raging many hundreds of miles away. These physicists looked intently during that entire summer for the fingerprint of sprites during daylight hours. They found nothing.
"I never did look for daytime sprites after that," recalls Stanley, "I pretty much ruled it out." And so he got on with other projects. One was to conduct radio measurements that might provide "ground truth" for a satellite that was launched that summer. The Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events (FORTE) satellite detects optical flashes and radio emissions from the atmosphere, primarily to help monitor clandestine nuclear testing. But scientists also intended to use that satellite to make observations of natural atmospheric discharges.
On August 14 of the following year, Stanley turned on his radio equipment to record a fly-by of the FORTE satellite. The orbital geometry was rather unfavorable, with the satellite passing a mere 15 degrees above the horizon. But Stanley noted that storms were brewing in southern Texas, directly below the speeding spacecraft, and he thought it might just be worth collecting measurements. A few minutes later he was rewarded in a way he had not expected—with the characteristic radio signature of a sprite. Stanley was shocked: "Five minutes later, I saw the next one come through, and five minutes later the next. I knew these had to be sprites." Although his apparatus was switched on for only 35 minutes, he had accidentally captured three sprites in a tiny fraction of the time he had spent looking for them during the previous summer.
Careful analysis showed that the lightning discharges that spawned these sprites were indeed exceedingly large. Specialists concern themselves with the so-called charge moment, the product of the current and the height of the discharge. Typical nighttime sprites take place after lightning with moments of less than 1,000 coulomb-kilometers. The daytime sprites Stanley recorded followed discharges with moments about five times that size.
The requirement for exceptionally large lightning discharges explains why daytime sprites are rare creatures—so rare, in fact, that no one has detected any since Stanley's fateful half-hour recording session nearly two years ago. Stanley, for one, has certainly tried again to find more examples, and he points out that Matt Heavner of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, who operates a network of specialized radio receivers capable of detecting such sprites, has also failed.
Why was the 14th of August 1998 so different from other days? The Texas storm that aroused Stanley's curiosity was large but not exceptionally so. "I've certainly seen bigger storms over the Great Plains," he remarks. Stanley speculates that this particular storm might have been special because it carried so much moisture; the areas it flooded made the national news. But what exactly allows a rare thunderstorm to generate just the right conditions for a daytime sprite remains something of a mystery. In any event, atmospheric physicists are pleased that Stanley was lucky enough to turn on his radio gear at just the right moment—and that Franz, Nemzek and Winkler were lucky enough to point their video camera in the right direction back in 1989. Davis Sentman, a leading investigator of sprites at the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute puts it well: "This whole field is based on serendipity."—David Schneider
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2000/7/invisible-lights-in-the-sky/1
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KOLHAPUR, India Four years ago, when she was expecting her first baby, Kisabai Biranje wanted desperately to be invisible. She tried for as long as she could to keep her pregnancy hidden behind the crumpled pleats of her floral printed cotton saris. But as the months passed, it became impossible to keep her bulging belly a secret. Becoming a mother was Kisabai's greatest joy. But pregnancy in the sixth decade of her life was also her greatest shame. As her stomach began to show, it set off a trail of tarnishing gossip and innuendo in this agrarian town in India's western sugar belt: How did she get pregnant in her post-menopausal years? Was the egg her own? Was the sperm her husband's? Why would she want to become a mother at the age of a grandmother?But her unremitting quest for motherhood, however risky -- or risqué -- at her age, kept her going. "We had nearly given up after more than two decades of marriage," explains Kisabai, who does not have a birth certificate, but says she was born just after British colonial rule in India ended in 1947. "We went to doctors, shamans, god men -- nothing worked." "Then we discovered a clinic that made childbearing at our age a reality," chimes in her husband Mahadev Biranje, a 68-year-old sugarcane farmer. "When we told the doctor we were thinking about adoption, he said, Why do you want to raise someone else's child when you can have your own?' We looked at him incredulously and said, Can we really do that at our age?'"The Biranjes discovered that in vitro fertilization (IVF) -- a procreation technique that involves harvesting a woman's egg from the ovary and fertilizing it artificially with a healthy sperm -- could circumvent, if not undo, the deleterious influences of aging on female fecundity, making pregnancy possible even at an advanced reproductive age. For Mahadev, the procedure was akin to being plopped on a biological time machine that miraculously rolled back the years.In recent years, thousands of fertility clinics have cropped up around India, spawning a new industry of "fertility tourism" for reproductively challenged couples from around the world. They are the medical equivalent of dollar stores, offering IVF treatment at a fraction of the cost in developed economies, and often without the strict regulations and waiting periods that elsewhere make the procedure a logistical nightmare. IVF -- along with other reproductive specialties like surrogacy (the world-famous "womb-for-rent" business), hormone therapy, and gamete (egg or sperm) donation -- are part of India's flourishing fertility treatment business, on track to blossom into a $2.3 billion enterprise in 2012 according to the lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry. The sector, described as a "pot of gold" in a report by the Indian Law Commission, has earned India the dubious reputation of being the world's baby factory.Fertility clinics aren't just serving the international market, they're increasingly serving the domestic market as well. And regulation has not kept pace with the proliferation of clinics as India emerges as the Wild West of fertility. In recent years, facilities have been accused of a litany of shocking abuses -- from exploiting impoverished women who became surrogate mothers to prescribing unapproved fertility drugs to delivering "stateless babies" who are refused citizenship by both their mother's country and their Indian birthplace.The Indian government is gearing up to pass a new law to regulate the fertility business, prepared by a 12-member committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research and expected to be tabled in parliament in the coming months. It mandates that all fertility clinics be registered with the government; spells out specific guidelines for the sourcing, purchase and storage of gametes; and also explicitly enumerates the health and legal rights of surrogate mothers and babies delivered by them.But one pressing issue has remained beyond the purview of regulation: How old is too old to get pregnant?In 2008, Rajo Devi Lohan, an Indian woman from a tiny village in the northern state of Haryana, became the world's oldest mother at the age of 70. About a year and a half later, Bhateri Devi, a 66-year-old from the same state, became the world's oldest woman to give birth to triplets.In India, as in many other countries, medically assisted procreation techniques have long been the preserve of the upper-class elite. But in recent years, with proliferating clinics hawking cheap treatment, it is fast becoming the trend du jour among middle- and working-middle class couples, including the elderly. Bearing children at an old age is considered anathema to cultural norms in India, as the Biranjes have learned, but it often does not overshadow the social pressure to reproduce.After about five decades of a childless marriage, both of the Haryana women were impregnated by fertilized eggs implanted to their post-menopausal uteruses by Dr. Anurag Bishnoi, who runs a private fertility clinic in the city of Hisar. Lohan's health rapidly deteriorated after her caesarean delivery and she suffered internal bleeding. In various media interviews, she said she is still surviving on pain killers and wasn't forewarned by Bishnoi about the dangers of giving birth at her age.Critics say Lohan's predicament is not an isolated case. Fertility clinics generally don't offer patients reliable information about IVF's low rate of success and high probability of health complications and fetal abnormalities. Women over the age of 50 who undergo IVF are known to be prone to a high incidence of gestational diabetes and pregnancy-associated hypertension. With an older uterus being less capable of effecting normal labor and vaginal delivery, the chances of cesarean delivery in women of this age group are significantly higher after IVF than with natural conception. There is also a high probability of twins or triplets -- which increase the chances of maternal and neonatal morbidity.Bishnoi, the doctor in Haryana, has publicly denied that Lohan's ill health was linked to her delivery and appears to glorify women who take the plunge despite the risks involved in such pregnancies. "Becoming pregnant at advanced age has its own hazards," he acknowledges on his website. But "procreation is considered a basic civil right of man. We salute those women who endanger their lives when opting for IVF for becoming mother and getting rid of the stigma of infertility."The website lists a number of cases of advanced-age pregnancies, including Lohan's case, under a separate header titled "our achievements." Leading the list is a 75-year-old man who got married twice, apparently in the quest of a baby, but to "no avail". Then in 2007, he brought one of the wives, a 60-year-old woman, to Bishnoi and was "blessed with a son and a daughter" in the same year. The reason for the woman's infertility is unknown, the website says, but her case highlights that "if a lady has uterus," nothing -- not even age -- can stop her from becoming a mother.India's draft fertility law will mandate that a surrogate mother should not be over 35 and cannot produce more than five children, including her own. But it defines no upper age limit for other women looking to get pregnant through fertility treatments. In the United States, as in India, there are no restrictions on advanced-age pregnancies. Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority officially lifted age restrictions on pregnancies in 2005. France is one of the world's few countries that has sought to outlaw artificial insemination of post-menopausal women, arguing that the practice is "immoral" and "dangerous to the health of mother and child."In India, where fertility treatment is significantly cheaper, regulation weaker, and childlessness is considered a curse, the recent high profile cases have highlighted how women -- even across small towns and villages where health facilities are scarce -- are taking extraordinary risks to conceive babies."Medically it is now possible to impregnate a 60-year-old. But medically, it is also possible to impregnate a pre-pubescent girl. Does that mean we should allow it?" says Imrana Qadeer, a retired professor from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "The misguided emphasis on genetics -- It has to be my baby, my blood' -- has overshadowed safer and more progressive options such as adoption."But Dr. Pushpa Bhargava, one of the chief architects of the Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, says deciding whether an upper age limit should be fixed is a "non-question.""Procreation is a basic right, and we cannot deny it to anyone," he says, adding that the draft law includes a provision to "discourage" medically unfit women from seeking fertility treatment by requiring clinics to provide professional counseling about its health implications, the low rate of success, the costs involved, and also advice on the possibility of adoption. Bhargava says a fertility counselor's role would be analogous to that of a marriage counselor. "The counselor will offer advice, but in the end, to do or not to do is entirely your decision."But given the intense social pressure that surrounds childbirth in many parts of India, prospective mothers often don't see it as a choice. Infertility is rarely countenanced as just another random happenstance of birth. A victim of nature's caprice you may well be, but childlessness in many corners around India epitomizes a grave sexual defect, eliciting guilt and shame. "No baby? Is something wrong? Is it you or your husband?'" Kisabai Biranje describes it. "That's the general thinking. A married couple must reproduce to be venerable in society."Before their marriage, Mr. Biranje was wedded to Kisabai's elder sister, Akatai, but he left her after she was diagnosed with a uterine fibroid -- a non-cancerous tumor lining the muscles of her uterus -- which challenged her ability to conceive. The current legal status of their marriage is unclear. The two women and Mr. Biranje live together in the same house. IVF was tried on Akatai once, but it failed. Kisabai has undergone numerous IVF cycles in the past half-decade -- each more physically daunting and emotionally nerve wracking than the other. "After every failed cycle, you cry and cry for days," she says. "Then you wipe off your tears and get yourself ready for more needle pricks." Mr. Biranje says the medical bills have cost him more than 200,000 rupees ($4,000). He is not comfortable sharing where the egg or sperm came from, but the source was vetted from their own caste. The Biranjes say they were warned by their doctor of the low success rate, but they still revere him as "god" for holding out hope that they "won't die barren."Hope does eclipse realism at Dr. Satish Patki's clinic, spread over three floors in a boxy building that stands out in a sedate neighborhood in Kolhapur's leafy suburbia only because of the crowds it attracts. On a typical weekday, the clinic's slender corridors are packed with patients, clutching scans and medical reports, many from faraway places -- a nurse from Pune city -- 145 miles away -- whose husband has threatened to dump her if she did not produce an heir; a municipal employee from Hubli in neighboring Karnataka state whose wife has been declared "normal" by gynecologists and is troubled by whispers among relatives that he maybe impotent; a Moscow-based Indian businessman visiting with photographs of his teenage daughter delivered in Patki's clinic in 1997 after his Russian wife underwent 19 failed IVF attempts elsewhere.Patki, a diminutive man with an amiable boy-like charm and receding hairline, has delivered more than 1,000 IVF babies in over two decades. His private chamber is festooned with a rack full of awards and trophies and photographs of him hobnobbing with influential politicians. But he spends much of his time inside his laboratory, a compact cleanroom accessed through a hygiene sluice with an air shower system. Inside, Patki, dressed in surgical scrubs and squinting into a microscope, makes babies in a petri dish. Outside, white-clad nurses explain the technique to bewildered couples watching the magnified image on a large plasma television. On one afternoon, a waiting middle-aged couple gazed with amazement at shoals of sperm bobbing around like jumpy tadpoles as they were plucked and pierced into egg cells. Minutes later, Patki emerged from the lab, wearing a triumphant smile as he took off his scrubs and reassured the wonderstruck couple that the embryos would soon be ripe for implantation.Young and middle-aged couples form the bulk of his patients, he said later, sinking into the overstuffed swivel chair in his office. His clients comprise poor peasants -- who are lured to his small-town clinic, which is significantly cheaper than fertility clinics in cities -- as well as wealthy tycoons who are assured fully discreet personal service if they so wish. With some patients, he often feels compelled to explain that medically it is not possible to manipulate the gender of babies -- at least not yet -- a stark indicator of the cultural preference for male children in India, which has dangerously distorted the country's sex ratio. He says he does not carry out requests for sex-determination tests either. "Disclosure of sex of fetus is prohibited under law," reads a placard tacked on his cabin wall.Unlike the controversial Bishnoi, he does not advertise advanced-age pregnancies as a specialty, but he does not discourage them either. "The uterus is the only organ that can be rejuvenated" post menopause, he beams, as if declaring a prophecy.Patki says he has had only a "handful" of such cases, the most memorable of which was that of a 50-plus woman from a nearby village who became a surrogate for her own daughter in 2006. The daughter suffered from Rockitansky syndrome -- a rare congenital disorder which causes the uterus to be absent. Too ashamed to publicly reveal that she was pregnant with her grandchild, the woman was given a private room in the clinic after her abdomen started to bulge.The local press had a field day with the sensational story. "Granny delivers grandson," read a headline in the best-selling Times of India -- the clipping is part of Patki's glossy clinic literature. But she had no desire to be celebrated. Just hours after her caesarian delivery, she sidled out of the clinic with the baby, becoming the only patient who, Patki regretfully says, lost all contact with him.The Biranjes had no desire to be celebrated either. For them, undergoing IVF was like taking a blind leap, knowing fully well there may be no redemption in the end. But many failed cycles -- and a million tears -- later, a miracle happened. "Parenthood, however late in life, makes you feel complete," Mr. Biranje says, as Madhura, his tiny and underweight daughter, lolls on the floor near his feet. The wives, coy and reserved, nod in agreement. As he lifts her in his arms, Kisabai speaks, almost as an afterthought: "Yes, but we might not be around when she grows up."Her eyes brim, but don't well over. After she had Madhura, Kisabai got lucky a second time in 2010, but suffered a miscarriage in the third month. The Biranjes recently sent Patki a stack of freshly peeled sugarcane from their farm through a messenger, requesting another appointment. They are hoping he will give them a boy.
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Below are staff reviews of select new books in the Youth Services Department.
For a list of all the new and forthcoming Youth books, click here.
New Book Reviews
All That's Missing
Reading Level Grades 4-6
11-year-old Arlo has lived with his only relative, his grandfather Poppo, since Arlo was two. But in the last couple of years Poppo's mind has started slipping. Arlo now takes care of his grandfather making sure no one knows how bad Poppo is getting.
On the night Poppo is found trapped in a dumpster, life as Arlo knows it disappears. After one night in the children's home, Arlo knows he must escape. Armed with $68 and courage he sets out on a journey to find his missing grandmother, the one he has just recently learned is alive.
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Other stories of kids seeking family are:
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt and
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Chaos of Stars
Reading Level: Grades 7 - 10
When Isadora was little she loved to hang out with her father. He was calm and gentle and very proud of her artistic talent. Both her parents were. Her mother Isis gave Isadora a beautiful set of paints and her father Osiris gave her an entire room all her own to decorate any way she liked. Isadora loved to show her parents her progress on her room. Until the day she discovered she was not going to be imortal like her parents...she was going to stay mortal...and the room would be her tomb.
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Other godly adventures include:
The Lost Sun by Tessa Gratton
The Reluctant God by Pamela Service
The Savage Fortress by Sarwat Chadda and
Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
Think Again! False Facts Attacked, Errors Exploded, Myths Busted
Reading Level: Grades 4 - 8
Everyone knows that goldfish have a 3 second memory, Vikings wore horned helmets, and sugar makes kids hyperactive. Well, everyone is wrong. You will find out the truth about these myths and many, many more in this amusing collection of "facts" which have been busted by scientific studies.
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Moomoo Moomoo: Moo Moo - Moo
Moo moo moo moo moomoo moo moo moo moo moomoomoomoo moo moo moomoo moomoo moo moo moo.
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More books by David LaRochelle
Reading Level: Ages 2 - 6
When cow sees the farmer has left his car unattended he can't resist taking a joy ride.
Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog
Reading Level: Grades 3 - 7
Stick Dog is at it again! This time Stick Dog and friends are determined to help themselves to the hot dogs in the frankfurther cart, but they have competition from a gang of hungry racoons. The friends devise various ridiculous schemes to steal the hot dogs that test practical Stick dog's patience. Then there's an added problem when Karen, the dachshund, gets trapped in a human's house. Once again, readers will love the the many funny "bad" drawings of Tom Watson.
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Hank Finds an Egg
Reading Level: Prek - PreK - Grade 2
In this stunning, wordless picture book, Hank, a cute stuffed animal (perhaps a bear or a monkey) finds an egg that has fallen from its nest. After several unsuccessful attempts to reach the nest, Hank cares for the egg at his campsite. With the help of mother hummingbird, there's a happy ending for all. Dudley built wonderfully detailed dioramas from paper, clay, fabric etc. and then photographed them. She created a world readers will want to visit again and again.
Bedtime Monsters
Reading Level: PreK - Grade 3
Josh Schneider hits the mark again as he reinvents the classic monster under the bed tale. Arnold is your average boy. He trashes an imaginery Fifth Avenue and bites off the heads of animal crackers. But Arnold doesn't want to go to bed for fear of bedtime monsters. Sure enough, they appear one by one. Some very silly monsters jump into bed with Arnold since it turns out that they are afraid other monsters. Readers will laugh aloud at the imaginative illustrations and love the surprise ending!
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Rump: The Story of Rumpelstiltskin
Reading Level: Grades 3 - 7
This is Rumpelstilton as never before. Instead of the nasty, baby stealing gnome, Rump is a young boy, small for his age, malnourished, and picked on by village bullies. His mother died when he was born and the last thing she uttered was his name. In a kingdom where your name is your fate, how much worse could it get than to be named Rump? But is it his full name?
The orginal story is here. There's the greedy miller, his beautiful daughter, a gold loving king, and a boy who can spin straw into gold. Add in messanger gnomes, gold crazed biting pixies, witchesin woods, and smelly trolls and readers will agree that Shurtliff can spin some tale.
Reading Level: Grades 7 & up
Set in a dystopian American, years ago before the story begins a new virus killed millions of people and turned others into half-human, half-animal mutants. The rest of humanity fled and built a wall along the Mississippi River to separate themselves from the "Feral Zone."
When 16-year-old Lane McEvoy learns her father has gone missing, she must enter the forbidden "Feral Zone" to complete a mission that could save his life. Everson, a handsome border guard, and bad boy Rafe accompany Lane her astonishing journey. The characters are multi-faceted and, like all good science fiction, Inhuman raises important questions, namely, what it is to be human or humane. Readers will eagerly await the next two books in the trilogy.
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33 Minutes
Reading Level: Grades 5 - 8
...until Morgan Sturtz kicks my butt
Sam Lewis and Morgan Sturtz were best friends all through elementary school, but by seventh grade Sam is the brainy, nerdy, small kid while Morgan is is the popular football player who struggles in school. Readers know something has happened to warrant the promised "butt kicking," but don't find out until later in the book. Hask-Lowy takes readers through a boring social studies class, a classic food fight, a fire drill and the cover "butt kicking." Sam is a smart, likeable narrator. "If you know someone was going to kick you someplace, would you not hope for that place to be your butt?"
There are so many books about the changing friendships among girls. Here's one about boys that girls will enjoy, too.
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text: blog postsMatthew Ehrlich, author of 'Journalism in the Movies'Jun 18, 2012 10:49 amEntertainmentGeneralShare on FacebookTweetEmailImagesJournalism will be getting dramatic treatment starting on June 24 with the premiere of HBO's "The Newsroom," the latest creation of "West Wing" producer/writer Aaron Sorkin. Will viewers like what they see in the portrayal of journalists and the workings of the news media? Journalism professor and former radio reporter Matthew Ehrlich thought that movies about journalism mostly undermined the press. Then he took a critical look to write "Journalism in the Movies." Ehrlich discussed the new series and the public's dramatic perceptions of journalism with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain. It's easy to think that movies and other popular media have contributed to the public's low regard for the news media. Reporters, after all, are often portrayed as cynical, scandal-seeking and worse. What do you see in the movies that contradicts that? Well, think of a movie like "All the President's Men," which shows Woodward and Bernstein doggedly pursuing the Watergate story with the staunch support of their editor and newspaper. There you clearly have a more idealistic and even heroic portrayal. And it's not that unique or unusual – popular culture has regularly presented stories in which reporters may sometimes do things that we wouldn't teach them to do in journalism school, but which nevertheless end happily with the public interest being served. What are some of the common themes or storylines in film and other dramatic portrayals of journalism? You routinely see journalists confronting pressures to build ratings or circulation, and either succumbing shamefully to those pressures or fighting the good fight against them. You see journalists having to choose between remaining detached and above it all, or else getting involved and taking a stand. You see "old pro" journalists telling young "cub" journalists how news should be done, for better or worse. You see journalists both young and old being more successful in their professional lives than in their personal lives, and often becoming romantically entangled with their co-workers or forming family-like bonds with them. And, of course, you see journalists talking really, really fast. The image that emerges is one of journalists being a sort of species apart, but also engaged in high-stakes, important work. Good journalism produced by a free press helps people and serves democracy; bad journalism hurts people and undermines democracy. Either way, the press matters and makes a difference. Based on Sorkin's previous work, and what you've seen in advance publicity, is he following in that tradition with his new series, or writing a different script? Is he more cynic or idealist? It sounds like he's very much following in that tradition. He seems to be drawing upon his earlier series "Sports Night" in depicting a high-stress television setting and "The West Wing" in showing a group of co-workers trying to maintain their ideals and do the right thing. Sorkin has said that he thinks that today's news is too concerned with entertainment as opposed to substance and that it's too afraid to call a lie a lie. Those are not new concerns in popular culture's treatments of the press; they extend back at least to the play "The Front Page" and the so-called "jazz journalism" of the 1920s. It looks as though in "The Newsroom" we'll see journalists trying to fight for substance and truth in the face of significant pressures to do otherwise. That's about as idealistic as you can get, which is not to say that it's completely naive or unrealistic. What do we need to know about journalism that we don't usually see in movies or television? I suspect that it's not that much different from Hollywood's treatments of doctors or lawyers or teachers – real-life journalists do not ordinarily engage in the thrilling and appalling things you see them do in popular culture. More often, they're just going about their day-to-day business and doing their jobs the best way they know how. Still, it can be inspirational to see fictional journalists (many based on real-life models) heroically serving the causes of truth and justice, just as it can be instructional to see them as cynics and scandal-seekers who eventually get their comeuppance. At the very least, it can be a whole lot of fun.stats39,778 Views additional actions


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USAF Staff "Appalled" at Wasting $1B USD on Failed Software Upgrade
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Project suffered an excess of ambition, irresponsible contractors, and a broken management structure
The plan was to consolidate a slew of expensive and largely redundant data service platforms at the
U.S. Air Force
(USAF) down to a more cohesive collection. The move was supposed to yield billions in savings by locating and selling redundant parts (roughly half of the USAF's
$31B USD in parts
is thought to be redundant or unneeded). The new platform of services would come online, just in the nick of time to complete a massive looming 2017 audit.
I. Too Much Ambition, Too Little Execution
Grover Dunn, the Air Force director of transformation at the time remarked, "We've never tried to change all the processes, tools and languages of all 250,000 people in our business at once, and that's essentially what we're about to do."
However, the transition never finished. And last month the USAF was forced to make the embarrassing admission that after investing $1.03B USD since 2005,
the transformation was being scrapped
after it was deemed that the program had failed to yield "any significant military capability".
The USAF is being forced to stick with dated hardware stretching back to the 1970s, after fumbling a major infrastructure upgrade bid. [Image Source: A1C-Meyer]
The decision was also made when contractor Computer Sciences Corp. (
) -- the lead system integrator -- gave a dire prediction that the project would not be ready until 2020, would only implement a quarter of the original promised scope, and would cost $8B USD.
The military plan, which was based off of commercial off-the-shelf software ("COTS"), would be rather ambitious for a more homogenous large corporation. Amidst a defense division with a myriad of special needs it was incredibly over ambitious, as Director Dunn's comment suggests.
II. Experts Predicted Program Was in Trouble
So the question people are asking is why it took the USAF $1B USD -- mostly handed to CSC -- to recognize the futility of the effort.
Jamie M. Morin, assistant secretary of the Air Force,
testified before a subcommittee
of the
Senate's Armed Services Committee
and did not mince words about the astonishing nature of the software services SNAFU. He comments, "I am personally appalled at the limited capabilities that program has produced relative to that amount of investment."
Paul K. Ketrick and Graeme R. Douglas of the
Institute for Defense Analyses
warned of the upcoming failure last year, and suggested the sinking USAF effort was not alone. In their
2011 report
they estimated that since 2009 $5.9B USD was spent on such software across the
U.S. Department of Defense
, with only some smaller programs showing success.
The pair believe that a key determinant of success or failure is the size of the program and whether the DoD makes the mistake of appointing a single director over an overly broad effort, as with the USAF program.
Mr. Douglas to
The New York Times
, "[The successes] got there because they had strong leadership who committed to the program and had the authority to make the changes necessary for success. It's rare that a single leader in the Department of Defense has the authority over the span of activities [as with the USAF]."
USAF has terminated the $1B+ USD data project, and now may lose up to $15.5B USD in savings the project would have gained by cutting redundant parts. [Image Source: Unknown]
Now left with software and hardware that dates as far back as the 1970s, the USAF is expected to have to try to scrape by on the 2017 audit with the old platforms. Most expect the audit to go poorly. So is the USAF to blame for poor planning? Experts certainly think so.
But so far there haven't been reports of cohesive repercussions for the DoD officials and contractors involved. The USAF is carrying on as if the situation is normal when in fact it is all [fouled] up.
The New York Times
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Christmas is all about celebrating traditions between families, friends and community.
One long-standing event that has heralded Christmas in the hearts of many celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO) first presented George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" at the Basilica in St. John's during Christmas 1987. That production also heralded the beginning of NSO's Philharmonic Choir.
"Messiah has featured many, many Newfoundland-born and Newfoundland-based performers over its 25-year history," said Heather McKinnon, NSO's current vice-chair and member of the philharmonic choir.
This year, the star-studded list of soloists includes brothers Peter and Michael Barrett, Daniel Taylor and Wendy Nielsen.
"We have a countertenor this year, which is normally a female voice, but countertenor is being done by a male voice."
That voice belongs to Taylor, who McKinnon said is considered the best in his craft and is the most sought-after countertenor in the world.
"Daniel's from Montreal and he has friends in Newfoundland. He's flying in from San Francisco the day before the performance," said McKinnon.
"We're thrilled to have him. He's an international superstar and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us. There's no doubt."
The NSO will be joined once again by soprano Nielsen from New Brunswick. Nielsen, a Canadian opera star, performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera.
"Not a lot of opera voices can make the transition to early music like 'Messiah,' but Wendy does it with ease because she performs well in both genres," said McKinnon.
The Barrett brothers of Corner Brook will perform as soloists in this year's production as well. They're currently making names for themselves in the opera world.
"They are both singing opera with the Canadian Opera Company and making an opera career in the large opera houses," McKinnon said. "Peter has just this last season been working with the Met in New York."
'Messiah' junkie
Gerry Germain is past chair of the NSO. Originally from Montreal, Germain moved to Newfoundland in 1991 and attended his first NSO production of "Messiah" that year.
He's attended every performance and many of the rehearsals since then.
"I'm a bit of a Messiah junkie," he said.
Germain said he is excited that the production will make use of the organ at the Basilica for the first time.
"It's a magnificent organ and we've never used it before," he said.
"We'll be doing it with an organist by the name of Stephen Candow, a Newfoundlander who was previously the organist and music director at the Anglican Cathedral in Ottawa, and he's moved back to the island. The 'Messiah' is part of his oratorio. I think it's going to be quite special."
Germain says the Casavant organ was made in Quebec.
Dublin pub connection
NSO has discovered an unusual connection between Handel and a pub in downtown St. John's.
"Messiah" was first performed during the winter of 1741-42, when Handel was in Dublin at the invitation of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish. Handel did two performances of the "Messiah" in April, the first to raise funds for charity and the second for himself.
Since the early '90s, Germain and other NSO musicians have gathered at the Duke of Duckworth in downtown St. John's to "play a little pool and have a beer" after a performance or rehearsal.
Handel's "Messiah" was first performed at the Great Music Hall on Fishamble Street in Dublin.
"There's a pub there owned by the father of the current owner of the Duke of Duckworth," Germain said. "As the legend goes, Handel used to frequent that particular pub on Fishamble Street. So there is that connection with the original performance of the 'Messiah.'"
Annual tradition
Prior to 1987 there had been other ad hoc performances of "Messiah" by various groups at other venues and times of the year in St. John's.
"Then (NSO) artistic director Peter Gardner and Doug Dunsmore (current choral director) decided they wanted the NSO to start a production of 'Messiah,'" McKinnon said.
"And that's how the philharmonic choir was formed and became part of the NSO family, for the express purpose of performing the 'Messiah.'
"They agreed to keep it going as long as people were interested in hearing it," she added.
Obviously, interest has remained high. During past years, the NSO has had the opportunity to take the "Messiah" on the road — to Bonavista, Eastport, Grand Falls-Windsor and Corner Brook.
"The Basilica performances are on Friday and Saturday, and outreach performances
are done on Sunday afternoons," says Ger-main. "It's difficult to organize, but it's a lot of fun and the choir and orchestra love to do the outreach performance."
With about 150 people involved and a number of large instruments, transportation can get tangly.
"We need three buses, and when we went to Corner Brook we needed two aircraft. And one of the biggest problems is getting sponsors," he said.
The NSO performance of the "Messiah" has been broadcast nationally several times, both on TV and radio.
In keeping with the 25-year tradition this year's performances will be conducted by conducted by Douglas Dunsmore and Marc David.
"Messiah" will be performed at the Basilica at 8 p.m. on Dec. 16 and 17, presented by Cox and Palmer, this year's principal sponsor.
Tickets are not available at the door but can be purchased online from the Arts and Culture Centre or at the Arts and Culture Centre box office.


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BURGLARIES: Burglary reported on the 8000 block of County Road 13 in Nisswa on Sept. 23.
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Report on Sept. 24 of a barn broken into on Highway 6 in Emily.
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Thefts were reported from Front Street on Sept. 28 and Brown Street on Sept. 23. An iPod was reported stolen on Olson Street in Pequot Lakes on Sept. 18.
On Sept. 18 it was reported that a vehicle was broken into on Pequot Boulevard.
BURGLARIES: Two Yamaha golf carts were reported stolen Sept. 27 in a burglary on Blueberry Lane in Pequot Lakes.
A burglary was reported on Davis Street in Pequot Lakes on Sept. 19.
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I was wondering if any of you guys play MMO's.
Im a non-stereotypical video game nerd, im capable of having a normal conversation with other people, I play sports regularly (Rugby) and I have a girlfriend but dear lord I have a serious MMO addiction I play them much more than I should and they are by far my favourite game genre. If I had the choice of going out to a club with the Mrs or doing a raid with my mates who I have never even met... odds are im doing the raid
My drug of choice is Star Wars the old republic, I also dabble in planet side 2 and recently I have played a bit of Rift and Everquest 2. Ive never got into WOW though, I just cant stand the leveling content, I do have all the games though, even the pandas. I play TOR obsessively, to the point the GF thinks I prefer my trooper to her. I really enjoy the social and team based aspects of MMO's especially raiding or massive coordinated assaults in ps2.
MMO's are just my thing, FPS with the exception of PS2 and maybe BF3 jut don't do it for me. I also love RPG's but MMO's are the core of my gaming diet.
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TUPELO – The Komen North Mississippi Race for the Cure was tickled pink Tuesday to put proceeds from its annual race to work.
"This is a day of celebration for us," said Ellen Friloux, board president for the Tupelo-based affiliate that serves 15 Northeast Mississippi counties.
On Tuesday, the affiliate announced $182,000 in grants to eight nonprofit organizations around the region to assist in the fight against breast cancer. Along with $8,000 set aside for small community grants, the grants make up 75 percent of the net proceeds of the annual race held in October.
"This is the culmination of all that hard work," said Liz Dawson, grants chairwoman.
The Tupelo chapter of Sisters Network, a national African-American breast cancer survivors group, will receive nearly $29,000 to provide mammograms to medically underserved women as well as community education programs.
"Last year we assisted over 200 women," with mammograms with the help from the Komen affiliate and other organizations, said chapter president Norma Derring. "Our goal this year is to be able to assist 250 or more."
Other grants announced Tuesday were:
• $66,000 for Baptist Memorial Healthcare Foundation to provide mammograms to the medically underserved through Baptist Memorial Hospitals in Booneville, New Albany, Columbus and Oxford.
• $25,110 for the NMMC Breast Care Center to provide mammograms and education to the medically underserved throughout the region.
• $17,000 for the Antone Tannehill Good Samaritan Free Clinic in Tupelo to provide screening mammograms for its clients.
• $13,030 for the Columbus-Lowndes Free Medical Clinic to provide screening mammograms.
• $10,900 for Magnolia Regional Health Center Foundation in Corinth to host a breast cancer education program.
• $15,000 to Access Family Health Services for screening and education.
• $6,000 for Lift Inc. in Tupelo to provide mammogram assistance.


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Moore discussed social media and when he began composing his own music.
"It started when I was about 16," said Moore. "I got some recording equipment and it motivated me to compose my own stuff. I would rather hear something that I created than a replication."
The Antlers touring guitarist Timothy Mislock and vocalist/guitarist Peter Silberman discussed their biggest career moments and new album, Burst Apart.
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"I see a guy who has tremendous size, defensive-oriented, got some skill on the block has a pretty good IQ for the game and has a lot of passion," Williams said. "Sometimes that gets in the way a little bit. But it's a good thing. It's not negative or selfish. And he'll admit he's not your average NBA guy. But I kind of like that."
"So many guys in the NBA are cookie-cutout. One guy puts on those stupid glasses, everybody's putting them on. The next thing they'll be carrying canes to the games as fashion pacemakers. It's getting out of hand with all that. He's a guy who kind of walks on his own and doesn't care what people thing."
Shortly after Lopez arrived July 27, he underwent an arthroscopic surgical procedure on his left knee that addressed a minor tendon problem that had troubled him throughout last season in Phoenix.
The Aug. 4 surgery allowed Lopez plenty of time for rehabilitation and Lopez is at 100 percent as the Hornets get into training camp.
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Wood is getting ready for school. It's a morning like so many other mornings. And that's where her new book, When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, begins.
She is in fourth grade, nine years old, when her father dies of a heart attack on his way to work at the mill. She will never be the same. She has one younger sister, practical, take-charge Cathy, as well as two older ones —mentally disabled Betty and schoolteacher Anne: "the thing that holds fast to the shifting ground." (There is also an even older, married brother named Barry.) It is Anne who gets the Wood family through the immediate aftermath of Dad's death. She cooks meals, arranges the funeral, comforts both the girls and their mother, who holds it together just barely; Mrs. Wood is shell-shocked, distant, broken, taken to "lying down" for long spells. But she is not ruined. "Every day she rises, puts on her glasses, tries to look like everybody else," Wood tells us firmly.
Though Wood, who now lives in Portland, recounts her story with the accumulated wisdom of several decades, her words and tone recall childhood. These memories are told in a compassionate voice, one that honors the young girl who lived them.
It is easy to understand why Wood seeks refuge at her friend Denise Vaillancourt's house, which "seems like a place where nothing can go wrong." She buries herself in books — the Nancy Drew series, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women. She worships her priest uncle, Father Bob, who wrestles with his own demons. She tries to follow the contract negotiations at the Oxford Paper Company. There is a lot going on. Wood maintains a light touch throughout, capturing the simultaneous confusion and insight of childhood.
Then another tragedy strikes. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Just over six months have passed since Dad's death, and when Wood hears that a Terrible Thing has happened, she fears the absolute worst. It is not that. Wood admits that on that November day, "Cathy and I are possibly the only two citizens of the United States of America who receive the heart-jangling, era-shaping news . . . with a gulping wallop of relief. Mum is home, making a salmon loaf for our no-meat Friday supper, alive alive alive."
She watches her mother take solace in the national narrative. "Jackie's story made Mum's bearable," Wood writes. "What happened to my family in April is now happening to the Kennedys; what happened to the Kennedys is now happening to the whole country; and the whole country cannot stop crying." There is comfort in shared misery.
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Earlier this week, reports out of China suggested that tainted meat was sold to Yum! Brands (YUM) franchise Little Sheep. The company was steadfast in its denials, and today it was vindicated.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
On Monday, the Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Committee said in a statement on its website that it seized meat with the brand name New Zealand Sliced Lamb that it said lacked production or ingredient labeling. The statement said inspectors found invoices that showed supplies went to Little Sheep Group Ltd., a Chinese restaurant chain that Yum acquired in 2011, among others.
On Friday, Yan Zuqiang, director of the agency, said the statement erroneously connected sales of the questionable meat to Little Sheep. Mr. Yan declined to explain how the inaccurate claim ended up on its website.
Yum's China woes have weighed on its shares. Its stock has gained 0.4% to $69.37 today, after returning 5% so far this year including reinvested dividends and price appreciation, well off the S&P 500′s (SPY) 15% gain. It's also trailing McDonald's (MCD) 14% return and Wendy's (WEN) 24% rise.


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