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Lindsay Graham and Chuck "stun grenade doesn't hurt" Schumer working in immigration billSubmitted by Ulfilas on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 14:18
God Help Us!
Just the two biggest schmucks Washington could offer up.
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I wish this A-hole would just go ahead and
switch to the Democrat party, because there isn't anything Republican or especially conservative about this clown. I don't believe their is any elected official that follows the Zionist NWO agenda than this traitor! In reality, I believe a move to Israhell would be the best fit for this clown, because he always pledges his allegence to them way before America.
Show me your video Chuck or it didn't happen.
"Chuckie gets stunned" If you get stunned twice it will be more convincing.
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Thanks Ulfilas! Dead on Point for this discussion.
I am beginning to find Criminology akin to Demonology: An excuse for bad behavior
Free includes debt-free!


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The headboard looks great in my room. I was a little worried because there weren't many reviews but it doesn't look cheap and it seems sturdy. The faux leather is attractive, not vinyl-looking. No parts were missing or damaged, no holes needed to be drilled. I'm very satisfied with my purchase and my husband said just this morning how much more he likes our bedroom now. Assembly: It was very quick and easy to assemble. There are basically three wood panels (thicker than a door, not flimsy plywood sheets) that you attach together, then a padded fabric slipcover, then a second slipcover of the leather. The biggest challenge was moving king-size anything around in a bedroom. My husband put it together but I could have done it myself too. I think you need a second person to help hold it at times, but my 10-year-old son was able to do that. I think the leather cover could be a little tighter but if it bothers me I know I could tighten it up by stapling the back of it to the wood. I also really like that I could make my own slipcover out of any fabric and change out the leather cover if I wanted a different look....
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ITEM#: 14296056Update your king-size bed with this slip-covered headboard featuring a brown faux leather finish. This padded headboard is easy to install with the included hardware and easy to care for with its slip-covered design.
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The headboard looks great in my room. I was a little worried because there weren't many reviews but it doesn't look cheap and it seems sturdy. The faux leather is attractive, not vinyl-looking. No parts were missing or damaged, no holes needed to be drilled. I'm very satisfied with my purchase and my husband said just this morning how much more he likes our bedroom now. Assembly: It was very quick and easy to assemble. There are basically three wood panels (thicker than a door, not flimsy plywood sheets) that you attach together, then a padded fabric slipcover, then a second slipcover of the leather. The biggest challenge was moving king-size anything around in a bedroom. My husband put it together but I could have done it myself too. I think you need a second person to help hold it at times, but my 10-year-old son was able to do that. I think the leather cover could be a little tighter but if it bothers me I know I could tighten it up by stapling the back of it to the wood. I also really like that I could make my own slipcover out of any fabric and change out the leather cover if I wanted a different look.Read More
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Oxfam Coffee Campaign Visit to Peru by John Crabtree (Jan/Feb 2002) Main conclusions As well as interviewing some 15 or so coffee producers in Alto Piura and in the region of Tarapoto (San Martin), I also conducted interviews with representatives from a variety of different interest groups (names listed at the end of the report). This document highlights a number of broad conclusions from those interviews. Production trends Peruvian production may be close to peaking, says Lorenzo Castillo at the JNC. In 2001, it reached 162,000 mt. This year he thinks it is likely to fall to 150,000 mt, because the low prices are causing people to abandon coffee for other activities. Also, coffee plants are no longer being adequately attended, so yields are set to fall. The official projections are overly optimistic and don't take into account what's happening on the ground. Peru exports 95 per cent of its coffee, with Germany the single largest market. Structure of the industry At the level of producers, the structure of the industry is highly atomised. There are some 200,000 producers. On average these have less than two hectares of coffee each. Some have as little as 0.25 hectares. The industry is therefore one of small peasant farmers. In Piura, the tradition of coffee growing is of long standing; in Tarapoto it is much more recent, with many producers planting coffee only in the last 5-10 years as a result of the coca substitution programmes supported by USAID, the UNDCP, and others. There are lots of co-operatives operating, but many only provide services. A number went out of business when the Banco Agrario was closed down in 1992. The producers we met included both independents and socios of co-operatives or export ventures like Cepicafe. Most producers sell to local intermediaries (known as grillos or coyotes) who then sell on to the acopiadores in the main towns who generally work for the export companies. Almost all the producers I spoke with undertake preliminary processing at the level of the farm, the more organised among them selling pergamino (parchment) on to the acopiadores and exporters. In some cases, the acopiadores finish off the drying process. This reduces humidity levels to 12-13 per cent, which is the internationally acceptable level for green coffee exports. There are some 30 exporters, but of these, around ten dominate the industry. They channel credit to the acopiadores, who in turn provide finance back down the chain to the producers. The exporters are under pressure from the international traders who are seeking to bypass them and buy direct from producers and co-operatives (see below). Volcafe appears to be the most active, although Kraft is making in-roads as well. Specialty coffees Peru has become a relatively important player, relatively speedily, in the markets for specialty coffees, especially organic and fair trade. Both provide a premium to the producer. With such a big difference between the market price and the fair trade Crabtree, Peru Summary, January/February 2002, Draft Version 1 price (US$124 per quintal), the premium for fair trade is particularly significant. Both Cepicafe and Oro Verde are exporters of organic coffee only. Some of the producers we met in Tarapoto questioned whether meeting all the extra requirements for organic coffee was really worth it. According to Huancaruna, the cultivation of coffees that enjoyed such a price premium over conventional coffee was having a divisive effect in the growing areas. According to Alexsa, there is a growing glut in the market for organic coffees. Prices and the price chain As a consequence of the collapse in the world price, the price paid to Peruvian producers of coffee is currently extremely low. The exact prices as reported by individual producers vary a little, but the average price paid by an intermediary to a producer is as low as 80 soles (US$1=3.46 soles) per quintal (1 quintal = 100lbs or 46kgs), although prices paid by those eliminating the intermediaries were higher. In most cases, producers reported that the prices paid were considerably lower than their estimated costs of production. According to Prisma, with the world market price at US$45, the producer gets about US$30; his/her production costs vary between US$55 and US$70. (Oro Verde put production costs lower at around $30 per quintal or 103 soles; the Camara at $46). Producing 30 quintales at US$30 per quintal would give an annual coffee income of US$900. In contrast, in order to buy enough food to survive in the selva, Prisma calculates that the minimum necessary to meet basic needs is an income of US$1200 per year. Interviews with producers suggest that the amounts being spent monthly by farmers are much lower than this. Prices fell rapidly during 2001. According to Oro Verde in Lamas, prices paid by the co-operative to its socios fell from 150 soles per quintal in May to 112 soles six months later. They have fallen more since then. Typically (an example from Tarapoto, where I spoke to comerciantes), the grillo or coyote pays 80 soles per quintal to the producers. He in turn sells to the acopiador or exporter at 100-105 soles per quintal. This compares with 190-200 per quintal two years ago. Deducting transport and other costs, the margin that this coyote claimed to make was 2 soles per quintal, but it is the volume sold that counts. According to the ingeniero at Oro Verde, the margin was more like 10 per cent. We heard many complain that the comerciantes lend cash to producers just before the harvest (when they are particularly hard-up) on condition that they buy a portion of the coffee harvest at knock-down prices. At the local level, the coyotes tend to operate as a cartel, and it is difficult for producers to make use of the competition between them. The price advantage for the organised producer is threefold: · bypassing of intermediaries; · improvement in quality (price) and quantity (yields); · reduction in waste from improved methods of picking, processing, and storing, which reduces the costs for the exporter and therefore raises the price he is prepared to pay. The exporter then buys from the acopiador and sells on the international market at the New York bolsa price plus (or minus) a premium (or discount) for Peruvian coffee. Currently, Peruvian coffee attracts a premium over the bolsa price of US$3 (compared with $10 below as recently as 2000), which would mean roughly $48 or 166 soles. The costs of the exporters evidently vary, but average out at around $15- Crabtree, Peru Summary, January/February 2002, Draft Version 2 20 per quintal, from which it becomes clear that they do not make a huge amount of money. Clearly, when intermediaries are excluded, and producers or their co- operatives export direct, the gains are much higher. In the case of Cepicafe, producers were paid 212 soles per quintal last year (the rate is now lower) with an extra US$10 (34 soles) supplement for organic coffee. Social impact The low prices of coffee are clearly having a fairly devastating effect on producers, but the peasant economy (based primarily on family labour) provides a sort of shock absorber. The interviews provide much more detail here on the impact of prices on family incomes. Increasingly, producers are being forced back onto subsistence agriculture in order to survive. In most cases (though not all) coffee is cultivated alongside other commodities -- typically bananas, maize and yuca -- that provide a basic diet. In Roque, coffee producers were particularly exposed because they do not produce much else by way of subsistence crops. Generally, most of those interviewed reported that they were cutting back on purchases in local markets, especially for goods like meat. In some cases, notably in Piura, there were possibilities of raising some income by selling alternative crops, like citrus fruit and maracuya, but for these too, market prices were depressed. Several of those we interviewed managed to supplement family income by working off the farm on other activities (e.g. road building). The costs of harvesting are partly reduced by reciprocal, unpaid assistance between producers at harvest time, a system known as choba choba. Gender impact The crisis facing coffee producers is having a clear impact on gender relations, as women are being forced to shoulder an increasing amount of the economic burden. There were two main causes of this. First, male heads of household were being forced to go and work elsewhere, leaving farming in the hands of wives and children. Cases were mentioned of men going off to harvest coca and returning to their chacras only to harvest the coffee crop. Second, increased labour costs (because the demand for coca labour drives up the cost of labour generally) and lower incomes meant that farmers were reluctant to employ labourers for the harvest. Instead, women and children were being used to meet the labour shortfall. In all cases visited, women already play an important role in the productive process, both directly (in fulfilling certain agricultural tasks) and indirectly (providing food for labourers, etc). They are particularly involved in preliminary processing (despulpar, fermentar, secar). When children are obliged to help in agricultural functions, it is increasingly likely that they will stop going to school. Drug cultivation and coffee In Peru, drug cultivation (coca and now amapola) takes place in areas similar to coffee production (although this did not appear to be the case in Piura). Coffee has been one of the products that has been actively promoted as a substitute for coca growing. The increase in coffee cultivation in areas like the Lower Huallaga in recent years owes much to the efforts of crop substitutors. In the mid-1990s, when coca prices collapsed and coffee prices were high, coffee was seen by many as an attractive alternative to coca - especially as many campesinos were thoroughly sick of the violence and extortion associated with the coca economy. With coca prices rising and coffee prices on the floor, the pattern of incentives has radically changed. According to the JNC, coca provides nearly ten times more income per hectare than coffee. The extent to which coffee is being abandoned for coca is difficult to estimate. Most of those interviewed said that coca plantings were rising, but out of view of the authorities (and of observers like me). It would seem that Crabtree, Peru Summary, January/February 2002, Draft Version 3 where they can, farmers are cultivating some coca to supplement otherwise falling income. For the reasons mentioned above, farmers are also either abandoning their coffee chacras and moving to areas of coca cultivation, or the men are migrating seasonally to coca-growing areas leaving their chacras to be tended by other family members. The woman at USAID was in no doubt about her concerns for the reversal of previous crop substitution achievements. According to the JNC, there have been around 25,000 new or rehabilitated hectares of coca farming in the last 18 months. In addition to coca, amapola poppies are increasingly being grown in coffee-growing areas. The earmings from amapola are well in excess of those from coca. Government policy Government policy towards the coffee industry has been virtually non-existent in recent years, but there appear to be some signs of renewed interest. In part, this is the result of pressure from the likes of the JNC and Conveagro, the umbrella organisation representing rural gremios, which is currently chaired by Raul del Aguilar from COCLA. A team had apparently been created for the first time within the Ministry to study the problems of the coffee industry. One of those we interviewed, one of the few with specific knowledge of the international coffee business, had just been switched from Prompex (the export development agency) to the agriculture ministry. A good thing? Maybe, or maybe not. The men from the ministry repeatedly stressed the collaborative nature of their dealings with coffee organisations, something that these all refuted. Almost all informants in the field told us that the state played no role whatsoever at the local level. Mario Tavera and his colleagues did their best to give the impression that there is a policy, but this was refuted in just about all the other interviews that were conducted. Apart from saying that they were hoping to set up a coffee fund to help small-scale producers (amount yet to be agreed upon), the main gist of their 'strategy' is the need to improve the quality (and therefore the international competitiveness) of Peruvian coffee and to reduce costs. They place a lot of emphasis on filling niche markets, a policy which Del Aguilar says cannot possibly resolve the problems of the coffee industry as a whole. On the issue of costs, the agriculture ministry seems to echo the people from the Camara, which articulates the views of the exporters. Peru's costs, it is true, are raised by the distance separating the main growing areas from the principal ports. It apparently costs more to ship coffee from Quillabamba to Lima than it does to ship it from Lima to New York. With regard to the ICO proposal, they didn't seem to have much of an idea, but said that Peru would probably back it because it produces higher-quality coffees. Proposal for the destruction of low-quality stocks Positions varied with regard to this proposal, though for the most part people didn't seem to have given it that much thought. The Camara were very much against, arguing that all such schemes to regulate supply were doomed to fail, and what Peru needed to do was to improve its overall competitiveness in the international market by lowering production costs. This was also the view of Ekkenard Hausler, the broker from Alexsa. Ricardo Huancaruna took a rather different view, but stressed the fact that a multilateral financing arrangement to force producers to dig up coffee bushes would be difficult to orchestrate. The government did not give the impression that it had thought much about this specific issue. Other proposals that were discussed under the rubric of 'what can be done' included adding local value by roasting in Peru and raising domestic consumption through more effective promotion. The domestic market is small compared with, say, Brazil, Crabtree, Peru Summary, January/February 2002, Draft Version 4 where steps are being taken to raise coffee consumption. Neither of these seemed to provide much of a solution. Exporters under threat The exporters' survival is in doubt. A number of companies have collapsed in the past year; others have slipped seriously down the league ranking of the export companies. One reason appeared to be that some firms had lost a great deal by playing the futures market. As you would perhaps expect in a time of shrinking margins, there seems to be a process of adjustment going on. Large foreign companies appear to be moving in to do deals with specific groups of producers, offering them better terms (or more dependable contracts) than the exporters are able to give. The boss of Volcafe was in town in early February to pursue some production contracts. Huancaruna, by far the biggest exporter, showed some unease about this. In the past, Huancaruna was itself more aggressive than its rivals in building solid links with the co-operatives and local intermediaries. Volcafe seems to be trying to emulate some of the fair trade experiences. The traders also see Peru as an alternative source of supply to Colombia. Kraft has for some time established direct links with producers like COCLA. It is also working with Oro Verde. On the basis of two containers sold to Kraft last year, Oro Verde received $20 above the market price per quintal, a profit it was able to pay subsequently to its socios. Esteve, too, is doing the same sort of thing. The producers welcome such initiatives, perceiving them as a chance to break the traditional domination by the exporters. Names of interviewees: Araujo, Aladino President of the Asociacion de Cafecultores in Sauce Bayona Comericiante in El Faije, Piura Boscangel, Iberico Ingeniero at Oro Verde Cooperative, Lamas Castillo, Lorenzo Head of the Junta Nacional de Café (producers) Del Aguilar, Raul COCLA (large producer/exporter) Door, Christian PRISMA, an NGO working with USAID in crop substitution Gutierrez, Connie USAID Hausler, Ekkenard Atlantic Export (Alexsa) (brokers) Huancaruna, Ricardo Perhusa (exporters) Navarro Vascones Luis Camara Peruana de Café (represents exporters) Pulgar, Matilde UN Crop Substitution Program, Tarapoto Sanchez, Mario Comerciante, Tarapoto Paz, Santiago Executive Secretary, Cepicafe, Piura Tavera Mario Ministerio de Agricultura Vasquez, Guillermo Former President of Asociacion de Productores de San Martin Villanueva, Cesar Rainforest (NGO-ish intermediary) Crabtree, Peru Summary, January/February 2002, Draft Version 5
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lisa11310(z5 MI)March 10, 2007
Howdy again for this year. Can somebody post the interactive migration map again? I know I still have quite some time here in W. MI. but things seem to be happening earlier this year and I want to be ready!
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Here you go :)
Here is a link that might be useful: migration map
No problem, Lisa. They're starting to make a little progress inland. Here it is....
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The federal government has certified the Service Employees International Union's recent election victory at Kaiser Permanente, the union announced Monday, capping a bitter fight with an upstart union.
SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West said the May 2 results were certified by the National Labor Relations Board.
The union, which has represented Kaiser workers for nearly 70 years, beat back a challenge from the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The NUHW was founded by two dissidents who were fired by SEIU in 2009.
The NUHW was aided in the fight by the California Nurses Association.
Neither the CNA nor the NUHW "filed objections to the election, despite months of wild accusations that they were not being treated fairly," the SEIU said.
The vote affects 45,000 nursing aides, janitors and other employees at Kaiser statewide, including 6,500 in the Sacramento area. The SEIU won by 58 percent to 41 percent, with 1 percent voting for no union.
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Lung donation gave my friend 10 more years of life
It was 10 years ago last month that Jim Ladd was granted a second chance at life because another man died. The other man was Mike Antosh, a 40-year-old Free Press carrier and father of two young children who was struck by a vehicle and killed early on the morning of Aug. 15, 2003.
Jim, who was a non-smoker, had been waiting nine months for a double-lung transplant and was at Riverview Health Centre, where he expected to die. It was Mike's lungs, transplanted with his family's blessing, that literally breathed new life into Jim's body.
"It was nighttime, really late," Jim recalled years later about the time he woke to the sound of his beeper going off. The "beep, beep, beep" was signalling a donor had been found.
"And then, all of a sudden," Jim told me, "the door to my room flies open. The lights go on. Three or four nurses come screaming in. They're all excited. 'They've got a match, they've got a match. We've got to get you over to Health Sciences. Wake up, wake up! It's come, it's come, it's come!' "
Jim would survive to celebrate last month's 10th anniversary of the night he was given a second chance at life.
Then, on Saturday, I heard a different kind of beep, beep, beep, with a different kind of message. It was my BlackBerry signalling an email had arrived. And Jim had died.
The email was from a woman named Heather Singer.
"Dear Gordon, I am a friend of James Ladd, who passed away on Sept. 12.
"I have Bomber season tickets with him and he asked me to go to the game on Sunday (he was in the hospital). So despite the first win in the stadium, I wept throughout the game because of the empty seat next to me. I went directly to the hospital and told him about the game and he managed a fist pump. I know he appreciated your columns and he had said if he made it through he wanted to assist in getting that statue of Bud Grant outside the new stadium. I'm writing this so I can tell you of his passing and how much he loved football, whether it was the Rifles, the Bombers or the St. Paul's Crusaders. One of the many things we had in common was our love of football and we went to watch the Rifles in Saskatoon. I watched the St. Paul's team win another championship when his son, Aedan, was on the team and, of course, a few losing seasons with the Big Blue. Jim was a great dad to three wonderful children... I don't expect a response from you, and I weep as I write this email. Jim was just such a wonderful friend who overcame so many health issues and was so grateful to have such a full life filled with love of friends, family and football."
On Monday, I called Heather at the University of Winnipeg, where she teaches, and where she and Jim met four years ago in the gym because he positioned himself in her line of sight until she finally noticed him. It was that kind of persistence that got him through the last decade.
And through life, generally.
Jim was 67 when he died as a result of complications arising from skin cancer. We had known each other for nearly 50 years by then because for one season we were rival teenage quarterbacks on the same St. James Jets juvenile football team. I would go on to write about football. He would go on to coach the St. Paul Crusaders, help found the Winnipeg Rifles and be inducted in to the Manitoba Football Hall of Fame.
We became friends years later after Mike's family chose to give the organs that allowed Jim and four other recipients extra time.
In 2005, having survived three years and knowing the odds were six in 10 that he would survive 10 years, Jim told me Mike's memory was always with him.
"He's in my prayers every night," he said, his eyes brimming with tears. "I talk to him once in a while."
Jim spoke those words on the same day he had the rare opportunity to talk with Mike's widow. They met with the help of a priest who had comforted Jim in 2003 when he thought he was going to die, and who coincidentally officiated at Mike's funeral.
Jim met Epifania Austria at St. Ignatious Church on a day when all the seats were empty, but for the two they occupied in a back pew. Epifania wept as she remembered how generous her husband had been. Jim listened mostly, his hand resting gently on her shoulder.
Finally, he told Epifania this: "I view it as a miracle. And you're a part of it."
"I didn't want his life to be wasted," Epifania responded. "I wanted something beautiful to come of this."
"And it has," Jim said.
And it did.
Jim's obituary will appear in Saturday's Free Press.
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my program is in user space. I remember whenever someone use read() to read data in the ring buffer (like I did above), the part that is read will be cleared from the ring buffer. Is it the case, or is it not?
I am confused about this, since there is always something in the ring buffer, and as a result, my program is very busy processing all these logs. So I am not sure is it because some module is keeping sending logs to me or is it because I read the same logs again and again since logs are not cleared.
TO figure out, I use klogctl() to check the ring buffer:
CGR_CHAR buf[MAX_KERNEL_RING_BUFFER] = {0};
int byteCount = klogctl(4, buf, MAX_KERNEL_RING_BUFFER - 1); /* 4 -- Read and clear all messages remaining in the ring buffer */
printf("%s %d: data read from kernel ring buffer = \"%s\"\n",__FILE__, __LINE__, buf);
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- F.A.T. (Formative Assessment Tools) It Does a Student Good
- Do You Have F.I.T. (Fun Integrating Technology)? 2013 NC Assistant Teachers Association Presentation
- Taking the Common out of Common Core Standards
- Fun Digital Tools to Engage and Motivate Students
- Team Building
- Motivating the Un-Motivated
- Diversifying with Math Stations
On-site Professional Development Workshops includes:
1. Modeled and practice hands-on and interactive presentations. Participants are actively engaged in each strategy and/or activity presented.
2. Participants are provided with ready to use resources and digital books to integrate into their classroom.
3. One-on-One assistance to creatively customized resources to meet the need of their students.