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In this industry it's not so hard to spot the changes as they happen: what's harder is to do something about them, given what's already in place. Technology is presenting organisations large and small with new opportunities, but also creates new challenges and pressures which might be easy to fix if those in charge had the chance to start with a clean sheet of paper.
Nowhere is change having more impact than in security and risk management. When the Jericho Forum was set up in 2004, its goal was to look at the challenges faced around 'de-perimeterisation' - that is, what does security need to become when the perimeter of the organisation starts to weaken based on how people are using IT? A question which has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Seven years later, for many organisations the perimeter has gone completely. Cloud computing, the umbrella term we use to describe internet-based applications and services, has arrived on the technological scene at the same time as the mass market adoption of smart phones and other mobile devices, rendering any 'fortress wall' models of IT redundant. There is no boundary, and information is running free across services and devices of all kinds with all the risks that ensue.
Right now, organisations are struggling to make sense of the new, even as they continue to manage the old. If the future is about hybrid environments that make the most of both existing in-house and cloud-based facilities, accessible from any device, the challenge will only get bigger. There is also an economic imperative: the organisations that deploy the right combination of technologies, wherever they are physically, will have the competitive advantage over those who stick with more traditional models.
One things's for sure - new approaches are needed to manage the risks inherent in running such complex environments. Traditional approaches have tended to focus more on locking down technology, or restricting access to people based on pre-defined policies. Technology-centric approaches might have worked well in the old world but are inadequate by themselves to deal with such challenges as consumerisation or location-independent virtual machines.
Future approaches need to encompass two additional characteristics, the first of which is information centricity. If information of a certain kind requires a defined level of protection, then this protection still needs to apply, wherever the information happens to be. Customer data might exist in a corporate database, in a cloud-based SaaS application and across any number of devices simultaneously. If such data is deemed important, then protections need to apply across all locations. Otherwise it is like locking the door while leaving all the windows open.
This brings to a second element. In his recent talk at the Royal Society, Tim Berners-Lee commented, "We're moving away from lockdown privacy to a focus on accountability." In this age where it is difficult to predict what might be used where, the ability to keep tabs on information and how it is used becomes a crucial starting point - both to ensure that policies have been kept to from a governance standpoint, and to diagnose issues should a breach take place. From an information perspective, this boils down to knowing where data is, who has access to it and how it is being processed, wherever it may be.
Accountability also requires new ways of thinking about identity management. In the past, user names have been associated with people in certain roles. Today's highly mobile, socially networked world is yielding composite identities, from geolocated Twitter messages to multiple site logins - and the composite identity is more important than individual elements. For example, a personal account registered with a service provider may prove a better mechanism to locate a mobile device, or even wipe its content should it be lost or stolen. But the IT department would need to make the connection between the device, its whereabouts and the data stored, before a 'wipe' decision could be made.
While nobody has a monopoly on the future, it is increasingly clear that traditional, technology-centric approaches are solving only a subset of problems, while ignoring the bigger challenges. There is no room for complacency - with information still growing at an alarming rate, and with the threat of cybercrime looming larger, nobody can rest on their laurels. By moving the focus away from technology, onto information and the accountability of those accessing it, organisations will be better able to respond to challenges they face, head on.


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By now, you've probably combed through Entertainment Weekly's All Time Greatest issue, which features our humble picks for the 100 best albums ever made. (Within certain paremeters—the lack of jazz or, you know, Beethoven should have tipped you off to the list's limitations.)
Though I'm proud of the amount of hip-hop, R&B, and pop featured on the final tally of 100, the list is dominated by rock albums. That's to be expected, as rock music (and particularly the albums made by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan) set the template for what an album was and what it could be, and there have been few variations on that template since the '60s. (For all its forward-thinking and genre-hopping, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is structured and paced an awful lot like a Beatles LP.)
Plus, traditional rock music had a few decades' worth of a jump on other genres we incorporated into our list, so Rubber Soul and Blonde On Blonde have had an extra 20 years to constantly re-entrench themselves, while the legacies of the first wave of great hip-hop albums are only now just being established.
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Employees rate FEMA an "F" over the last 6 Emp Satisfaction Surveys. To address this, FEMA needs to weed out the incompetent, self-serving employees who are in roles of supervision and management. This suggestion is for Employees to evaluate their supervisors/managers at the end of deployment, just like employees themselves are evaluated. This measurement should be used to determine is the individual should remain in management or be moved into staff/support roles.
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EVERY major company in the US uses this technique? And not every major company in the US has been experiencing good results in the last 6 years. GM, Standards and Poors,
Enron, Aldelpha, WorldCom, etc. . A problem initially exists where a manager doesn't know how to do their subordninates work but evaluates their subordinates. Now are we to assume the subordinates should evaluate the managers rendering a dual set of unqualified evaluations?
Commercial Business methods do not always translate to sound government methods, policies, and procedures. NIMS is very clear: "The evaluator is the person who will actually
observe for certification/re-certification purposes
the tasks being performed and documents successful
performance.It is the responsibility of the evaluator to:
Be certified in the position being evaluated."
So, when does the RESOURCE UNIT LEADER (RSL) start evaluating the PLANNING SECTION CHIEF (PSC)???
Unfortunatly...as the proverbial 'it rolls downhill'...the opposite would become true and Mgmnt. [fearful of itself] would look at it as challenge to their authority all the way up the chain...BUT...It is a terrific idea!!! 27 years with the Gov. and never kissed butt but received what I did thru merit...once they realized I had merit [that was an inside joke back when] since I was looked at by Mgmnt. as a threat to their "we've-always-done-it-that way" attitude.
Which government agency? Again, one shoe does not fit all and each one has a different mission as well as different objectives and task requirements that require different evaluation standards. It is highly doubtful that US EPA would use FQS (FEMA Qualification System )and Qualification Review Boards (QRBs). Accordingly, DHS and FEMA turn out best to performance of mission than the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) because of benchmarks being on a set of standards, measures and metrics rather than based upon employee satisfaction surveys, employees rating superiors, and a fell good approach. The difference being only the qualified being able to rate the subordinate and trainees.Obviously, while everyone was making others feel good at the SEC, the SEC apparently failed their mission and function regarding GM, Standards and Poors,
Enron, Aldelpha, WorldCom, etc. .
"we've-always-done-it-that way" attitude"???
Now this is why the unqualified should not even attempt to evaluate the qualified to avoid scandals at organizations like the SEC and VA. Togo Dennis West, Jr.
and Eric Shinseki as secretary of veterans affairs does not seem to differ as to results but we are led to believe that the current problem is a new problem. Should outsiders or subordinates evaluate either or should those that are qualified weed-out the individuals that failed to perform on their formal job descriptions.Apparently at the VA they have always done it that way and current results are the same results of the past. Obviously, the employee satisfaction syvey, employees, evaluations of superiors, and the feel good approaches do no work to well toward mission and objectives at either SEC or VA. Why emulate the failures of either?
I remember being in FEMA HQ--oh the quandary of the "under mumblers". I spent 25yrs deploying as a civil servant for DoD, DHS, and FEMA...I don't blame my supervisor for my feelings of being uncomfortable being deployed. You knew what you were getting yourself into when you submitted your resume, interviewed for the job, and raised your right hand as you swore in. If you don't like the work...usajobs.gov has openings...but read the fine print this time.
Of my own such experience inside CERT training besides never having experienced enough of the noted to shake the proverbial stick at nor never even having been deployed and that's an to the plus a perfect record,but there is some merit to this matter i.e. many either enlisted or draftees into our Armed Services went from so called peon status to proving their worth in the field and got a field granted Officer status for it...point the likewise of it here as with military of the many who never even saw the inside walls of no elite military training school but yet some earned the highest Officer rank possible.
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Makes 4 servings
active time
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total time
35 min
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- 1 lb Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved (quartered if large)
- 2 oz pancetta, visible fat discarded and pancetta minced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup water
Preheat oven to 450°F.
Toss together Brussels sprouts, pancetta, garlic, oil, and salt and pepper to taste in an 11- by 7-inch baking pan and spread in 1 layer.
Roast in upper third of oven, stirring once halfway through roasting, until sprouts are brown on edges and tender, about 25 minutes total. Stir in water, scraping up brown bits. Serve warm.
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Nutrition Informationper serving (4 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories130
- Carbohydrates10 g (3%)
- Fat8 g (13%)
- Protein6 g (11%)
- Saturated Fat2 g (12%)
- Sodium147 mg (6%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber4 g (17%)
- Monounsaturated Fat4 g
- Cholesterol10 mg (3%)
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type: Vegetable
main ingredients: Vegetable, Garlic, Pork, Brussel Sprout
cuisine: Italian
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ISSUE 50: Dale Hawkins
That's guitar playing.
by Lauren Wilcox
SPENDING TIME WITH DALE HAWKINS, singer and songwriter of the 1957 hit "Susie Q," is a little like spending time inside a life-sized, long-exposure photograph: Certain details, appearing and reappearing in the same places, burn themselves into recognizable forms; others, whipping past, are inscrutable blurs. Hawkins is a tall man, angular and knobby, with a rubbery, animated face and a corona of wavy gray hair, which he wears wet-combed back in a modified old-time pompadour. Now in his late sixties, he has a restless vitality. He hums, he croons snatches of old songs; he spins elliptical, looping narratives that emerge and recede and jump their tracks. He is constantly in motion, a gamboling, jointed motion, like a marionette—even his resting state is a fugue of low-grade popping-and-locking—and this contributes to an overall impression of the man first as a blur, then as an accumulation of images, and then as something more.
When I first got in touch with Dale, in early summer, he suggested that we meet for lunch at the Red Lobster in North Little Rock, Arkansas, where he lives. But when he nosed his car into the parking lot, he looked a little peaked, and asked if we could just go get a cup of coffee. Smelling of cologne, he folded himself into the passenger seat of my truck. He was wearing a spotless pair of black, ostrich-skin cowboy boots, jeans, a black long-sleeved shirt, and a fat, gold ring with opal chips inlaid in stripes across the face. I asked him how his recent tour had gone, and he started to tell me, and then digressed into a point about a song called "My Babe," which was written by a songwriter he had known at Chess Records in the '50s, but which took the tune of an old gospel standard. Dale rapped the dashboard with the ring-wearing hand and sang a few bars of "My Babe" in a loud, golden twang, which filled the cab along with the cologne and the air-conditioning.
The framing facts of Dale's youth as he laid them out for me in the coffee shop barely deviate from the script for most musicians of that time, the ones who flooded into recording studios from hamlets all over the South in the years after Elvis cut "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky." "We were all raised the same way, taught the same things," Dale told me, "and poor." Born near the tiny town of Mangham, Louisiana, he left home at fifteen, doing a stint in the Navy and ending up in Shreveport working for Stanley Lewis at Stan's Record Shop, where he educated himself about music, helping customers who would sing him a little bit of a song they had heard on the radio and ask him to locate among the stacks of 45s.
"Susie Q," which took Dale five months to write, was cut in a radio station in Shreveport in the middle of the night. Accompanying Dale was a small cast of studio musicians that included the guitarist James Burton, who was fifteen years old. Dale was eighteen. "Susie Q" was released as an r&b single on Chess Records (Dale was the label's first white artist), and reached Number Seven on the r&b charts. When Chess "saw that white folks liked it too," Dale says, they rereleased it as a pop single, and it reached Number Thirty-One. He made the most of the attention he got from "Susie Q" and other releases, including a song called "La-Do-Dada." He appeared at record hops around the country, and by the end of the '50s, he was the host of The Dale Hawkins Show, out of Philadelphia, with guests like Dizzy Gillespie and the Isley Brothers. When the craze for rockabilly—what writer Bill Millar calls a "mayfly era"—began to wane after a few years, Dale found work as a producer—in part, he said, to "quit the road" after his two sons were born.
Dale was quite successful as a producer, with hits like "Western Union" by the Five Americans, "Judy in Disguise" by John Fred & His Playboy Band, and several well-received albums by the Uniques. At one point, three songs he had produced made the Billboard Top 100 at the same time: "Do It Again a Little Bit Slower," by Jon & Robin, "Western Union," and "Sound of Love" by the Five Americans. Neither band had ever been in a studio before.
Along the way, two things happened. One was that Dale became addicted to the stimulant Benzedrine. The other was that "Susie Q," to which Dale had sold his share of the rights to Stan Lewis for two hundred dollars a few years before, had become a hit again for groups like Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Rolling Stones. It is hard to know, from the stories Dale tells and the way he tells them, what, exactly, persuaded him that he'd had enough of the music business, but in the early '80s he moved to Little Rock and entered a rehab program there.
For a while, he eschewed music altogether. An aptitude test administered in rehab suggested he might have a talent for motivational speaking, and for a couple of years he gave seminars for businessmen at insurance companies. He started Little Rock's first crisis center, with a suicide hotline for teenagers. In 1986, Dale received an envelope in the mail from MCA, which had bought the entire catalog of Chess Records. The envelope held his share of this transaction, a check for sixty-four thousand dollars, after which he began to entertain thoughts of putting together his own studio and making music again.
After an hour or so at the coffee place I had some of Dale's favorite stories written down on a legal pad, and a recording of him singing the guitar part of "Susie Q" ("Da, dee down down") over a coffee grinder roaring in the background. I did not have a sense of where the song had come from. Before I met Dale, it had seemed possible that "Susie Q" and its sly, almost sinister riff had been a fluke, an aberrant bit of rock & roll flotsam, pushed to the fore by something a little more forgiving than chance, by the pressure of a thousand artists in a thousand studios playing hopped-up, diced-up, mixed-up versions of the music they were raised on. But Dale Hawkins, circa 2005, did not seem like an aberration, or like what was left of one. He was sort of complicated and oblique, but he was genuine, and he seemed connected to music in a straightforward and intimate way that had nothing to do with the way his life had gone.
I asked if I could visit his studio, and he said, "Can you give me a couple of days? That place is a mess. I've been trying to find another place on the floor I can throw a piece of paper." When I laughed, he said, "Think I'm lyin'? Girl, I'll kiss your foot."
DALE'S STUDIO IS IN AN UNEMBELLISHED one-story brick building that looks like it might have been a dentist's office. Reflective paper covers a picture window, which looks in on Dale's recording equipment in the front room. There are several arched windows, obscured by a particular vintage of burlappy, industrial-gauge curtain, and a front door that lets into a small foyer usually sealed off from the other rooms. The times I visited, I had to stand in the front yard and call Dale on his cell phone from my cell phone to let him know I was there.
The studio itself is a curious combination of works-in-progress and sentimental ephemera. It is filled with bristling banks of recording equipment, speakers, and drifts of paper and CDs. A Fender guitar is propped in the window, its back to the room, and the sofa is set up as a makeshift bed. A framed doily with HAWKINS crocheted into it is hung above the gold record for "Susie Q." Computers and computer parts are strewn about. Dale and his girlfriend, Flo, have six computers between them, most of which he built himself. At one point during one of my visits, a CD he was playing for me got stuck in the disc drive, and he pulled out a screwdriver and removed the side of the computer to retrieve it.
I liked the resourcefulness and practicality of this gesture; it seemed to embody a general principle of Dale's work. "I never was a great musician," Dale told me, "but I was good at writing, and I was good at putting music together." He has a tinkerer's appreciation for a well-crafted song, for how much music can do with so little. The songs he gravitates toward are more soapbox derby than Formula One, cog-and-piston driven go-devils that do the job with punch and a minimum of fuss. Playing me a recording of one of his recent songs, "Boogie-Woogie Country Girl," he slapped his leg during a horn part and said, "We built this song on one chord. Hear that horn? That's a school teacher. I told him, 'Man, I want you to play me a fifth-grade solo. If I even see you moving your fingers, I'm gonna hit 'em.'"
Which is not to say his songs are easy. Nick Devlin, the guitarist on Dale's 1999 album, Wildcat Tamer (the one album Dale has released since setting up his studio), who has known Dale for almost twenty years, told me, "Dale's fond of making different guitar parts mesh together. He's a genius about it, really. He'll say, 'I want you to play decka decka decka,' and I'll think, God. But I'll go in there and play it, come out and listen to the playback, and it works. He can hear it all coming together. He'll err on the side of very, very simple, but there's sort of a sophistication about his thinking that you can't really get a grasp on. Sometimes I'll hear one guitar part against another guitar part and it's like world peace has been declared. It's that good freakin' news."
"Susie Q," of course, is a simple song. The riff, Dale said, is partly from the blues standard "Baby Please Don't Go," but instead of that blunt imperative, landing flat-footed at the end of the bar, there's just the name, guttering down the notes to a growl and hanging there, a pleading imperative in itself, cryptic and unanswered.
In Dale's hands, the riff and the chorus give the song something that in 1957 was just emerging in popular music, a funny frisson of desire, frank but illusory, that would become a hallmark of the age. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page said that the riff was what made him want to play rock & roll. John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival made "Susie Q" and variations of it into an era's worth of music. Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records convinced me that Dale's sound was essential to the evolution of popular music. Rock & roll moved forward on the song's spare groove; the cowbell, the plain, dark, dirty lament. And then rock & roll moved on.
WHY WASN'T DALE A BIGGER STAR than he was? He always had the best bands, played with the best musicians—James Burton and Scotty Moore, who both played with Elvis; Roy Buchanan; Carl Adams, arguably one of rock's finest, who played his guitar upside-down, with his pick taped to his hand because he'd had two fingers blown off by a shotgun. The music they made was called "rockabilly," a label Dale still resists. In retrospect, his music does sound more raw, less varnished than the music of his peers. The songs I listened to in his studio—played fast and rowdy and sung with feeling—had hooks so catchy they were almost itchy. Dale recorded dozens, if not hundreds, of these songs, which were never released. Whether they would have matched the success of "Susie Q" is impossible to say.
To some extent, Chess Records and the music industry in the 1950s probably didn't know quite what to do with Dale's not-exactly-rockabilly, not-exactly-rock music; nor, perhaps, did it know what to do with Dale himself. As far as I could tell, he was impulsive, willful, and independent to a fault—all of his best stories start with him speeding off in a car—and while he was gregarious and hard-working, I could not imagine him having much truck with the finer points of self-promotion.
Yet there was more to it than that. Wildcat Tamer, Dale's first album in thirty years, which was given four stars by Rolling Stone, does not differ in major ways from his early work. And as we sat listening to his music, it was often hard to tell what was new and what was old. Even the new music he produces has an odd nostalgia to it. He told me that he recorded Kenny Brown, R.L. Burnside's guitarist, because he sang songs that were from what Dale called a "pre-blues era" on Beale Street. I asked him what that meant. "Kenny," Dale told me, "sang a song that said, 'She hit him with a singletree.' I said, 'Kenny, where'd you hear that?' A singletree is what we used to hook the mule up to, to pull the plow. He sang these hand-me-down songs. That was the reason I produced Kenny."
The more time I spent with Dale the more I began to think that maybe he was an aberration. He had devoted his whole life to an entirely singular vision of rock & roll, which had found its way into pop music in time to propel the entire genre forward. But as rock evolved, it expanded and warped and polyped and sub-genre'd. And the sound Dale responded to—the sound that was created when a person took the tune of an old gospel standard and sang about his girl—that sound became distorted beyond recognition, at least to him. To him, rock & roll was always the stripped-down, fired-up music he started making when he was fifteen and on his own. It had what Nick Devlin called a "thread of attitude," and it was partly about the blues and partly about rock, but it was also about making something your own when you didn't have anything else. "You take the talent to create away from a man," Dale told me, "and what have you got? You ain't got shit." That was the kind of music he made, and the kind he listened for in other people.
One of those people was a harmonica player named Little Cooper from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Little Cooper, Dale said, cut an album in 1955 that was never released. Giving up the idea of making music for a living, he moved up to Illinois shortly thereafter to work in a factory. A few years ago, after he retired, he showed up on Dale's doorstep—"He just found me," Dale said—with a sack full of old tapes. He had been writing music all these years, he told Dale, and he wanted to record some of it.
"We took down eleven sides in seven hours," Dale said. "His brother played piano and guitar. Little Cooper wore his harmonicas in a sling across his chest, like shotgun shells. They were beautiful people." He showed me a tea towel thumbtacked to the wall, embroidered with a harmonica, which Little Cooper's wife had sent Dale as a present after Little Cooper died.
Dale dug a CD out of a pile and fed it into his computer. Little Cooper's music ricocheted around the studio. Dale sang along. On one tune, Little Cooper and his brother are doing a swinging dance-hall kind of blues, the piano boogie-woogeying around the upper register. "East St. Looey," Little Cooper sings, and then the guitar comes in.
"Soop, dooey-ooh-wah," sang Dale, in my direction, trying to impress upon me the importance of the riff. "See that? You understand? I've got a guitar doing the horn part."
"Right," I said.
"Right," Dale said with satisfaction, watching my face. "And that is very, very hard to do." He spread his arms, listening. He looked enormously pleased. "That's guitar playing," he said. "You ain't gonna hear that no more. When those boys finished, me and his wife were dancin' in the back of the room."
ABOUT A WEEK LATER, Dale called me to ask if I wanted to drive down to Indianola, Mississippi, to attend the groundbreaking of the B.B. King Museum and to hang out with B.B., whom he had met back in the '50s at Stan's Record Shop. B.B. used to stop in at Stan's to make sure they were displaying his albums; once, Dale had accompanied B.B. to one of his shows in Shreveport. Dale told me he hadn't seen B.B. in almost fifty years. "We're just going to rub on each other's necks and catch up on old times," Dale said.
This would actually be our second attempt to see B.B. A couple weeks before, when the bluesman played a festival in Little Rock, Dale, Flo, and I tried to visit B.B. on his tour bus before the show. B.B., the guard told us, hadn't arrived yet, and he asked us to wait outside the gate. Dale had dressed up, in a suit jacket with a satin kerchief in the breast pocket, a different gold ring (this one with a gothic "D" on the face), and his cowboy boots. "I'm going to give him thirty minutes," he told us. About twenty seconds later, he said, "Let's get out of here."
The drive to Indianola, Mississippi, from Little Rock takes about three hours. The first hour is a meander through forested hills, and after that the road hits the flat griddle of the Delta and shoots to the horizon, through fields corrugated with rows of new cotton and corn. A lot of America's best music has come out of the area, which includes the birthplaces of Sam Cooke, Conway Twitty, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters. From the highway, it is an empty, lonely stretch of land. Yellow cropdusters hotdog around the lowest level of the atmosphere. The bank sign in McGehee, Arkansas, said eighty-one degrees. It was shortly after eight in the morning.
Dale, who had come down the night before, had called and asked me to meet him in the parking lot of the Kroger where he was buying breakfast. He emerged from the store wearing a baseball cap that said FBI NEW ORLEANS, carrying a grocery bag and a cup of coffee for each of us. "Follow me," he said, hopping into his car. Dale's approach to traveling in unfamiliar areas is kind of like a scavenger hunt; he collects clues from passersby, tacking back and forth towards his destination. I followed him through a few lights and into the parking lot of a tire-repair place, where he sprang out of the car holding an entire chocolate cake aloft on one hand. "Want some cake, girl?" he murmured. One side of the cake had several chunks out of it. He handed it to me and headed into one of the mechanic's bays, shouting, "Hey, which way to the groundbreaking?"
At length, we found ourselves in a VIP parking lot surrounded by a chain-link fence. Dale had told me that he might play a couple songs with B.B. at that evening's show, and he had brought his guitar. We stood in the lot while he rifled through some papers, looking for the invitation to the ceremony. Some of the papers blew, one at a time, from the roof of his car.
I didn't know what to expect. Dale hadn't seen B.B. in fifty years, but I thought his name probably still held a certain cachet in the industry, and it seemed plausible that either Dale's or B.B.'s publicist had arranged, as Dale had said, for him to hang out with B.B. and perhaps to play with him. On the other hand, it seemed like a tall order. The ceremony we were about to attend was going to be hosted by former governors of Mississippi and various state officials, and mobbed by the press. There would be plenty of people interested in getting a piece of B.B. King.
A stretch limo pulled into the lot where we were standing. Dale didn't miss a beat. "Come on, girl," he said, and we slid inside. It discharged us at the vacant lot where the ceremony was being held, about a hundred and fifty feet from where we had parked.
I remember little about the actual ceremony, except that the sun bore down on my uncovered head so fiercely it was painful. The men on stage sweated through their suits. Dale's publicist, Del, a sunny woman in an orange hat, had secured him a place in the front row, next to an elaborately made-up woman of at least eighty, with fuchsia nails and a diamond ring on every finger, whom Dale introduced as "the first and only woman to play with Hank Williams," and who slipped her hand coyly into Dale's when the color guard marched past.
As soon as the final flashbulb had popped on the groundbreaking, Del grabbed Dale's arm and began to steer him towards B.B., in the middle of a crush of people in front of the stage. At the same time, B.B. King's people began to steer him towards a golf cart that was waiting to carry him to the reception. "Come on, if you want to," Dale hissed encouragingly at me over his shoulder. "And act official as hell."
When we were one handshake away from B.B., who was benevolently laying-on hands in a crowd ten deep, his escorts, like sheepdogs extracting an animal from the flock, plucked him from the crowd and deposited him in the golf cart. Dale's publicist, seizing the moment, lunged in front of the vehicle. "Mr. King, this is Dale Hawkins," she said in a rush. "He wrote 'Susie Q,' and worked at Stan's Record Shop in Shreveport."
It was difficult to see, from behind Dale, exactly what transpired between them at that moment, but after a pause, Dale poked his head into the cart, and B.B. slung his arm around Dale's neck. "All right, now," said B.B., his face unreadable behind his sunglasses. "How is Stan these days?" And then, spotting someone behind Dale, B.B. exclaimed, "Now that there is one of my most dedicated fans!" and the golf cart eased forward and was swallowed by the crowd.
Afterwards, Del made a valiant attempt to get Dale to the reception, saying that he might be able to play with B.B. that evening, or talk with him again. But Dale had had enough. "I've been doin' this my whole effin' life, Del, and I'm tired. If you only knew how tired I was." He pleaded with her in the emptying lot, and when she turned her back for a moment, he trotted briskly in the opposite direction.
On the way to the car, I asked Dale if he thought he would have more opportunities if he did more of the stuff his publicist wanted him to do. "That stuff just always embarrassed me, honey, I swear." He dropped his voice to a whisper: "But that was some good shit back there, wasn't it? Those cats at the magazine oughtta give you a raise."
I had expected him to be disappointed. But he was in a terrific mood. A few weeks before, when we had missed B.B. altogether at the festival in Little Rock, Dale had been just as buoyant: We were walking away from the guard and the gate when he grabbed Flo's hand and pulled her up the sidewalk in a little dance step. In the distance, B.B.'s opening act was wailing out a song about unrequited love.
"Hear that?" Dale asked us, cocking his head at the bass line. "That's Sly and the Family Stone. 'I want to thank you, for lettin' me, be myself,'" he sang. I didn't recognize it—the singer was singing some other lyrics—but about five minutes later, Sly's familiar melody came cranking through the trees. Dale reached back and goosed me on the arm.
"You see?" he said happily. "They finally got into it, after all that bullshit."


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JUDSON, Andrew Thompson, lawyer, b. in Ashford, Conn., 29 Nov., 1784; d. in Canterbury, Conn., 17 March, 1853. His father, Andrew, by whom the son was chiefly educated, was first pastor of the third church in Ashford. The son studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1806, and after two years' residence at Montpelier, Vt., settled in Canterbury, Conn. He was in the legislature in 1816, and in 1818 was one of the most active members of the Toleration party, which had for its object disunion between church and state. After a severe struggle the Tolerationists, aided by the Democrats, succeeded in setting aside the charter that was granted by Charles II., and adopted the new constitution, which has been the fundamental law of Connecticut since that time. Mr. Judson became state's attorney in 1819, was for several terms a member of the legislature, and in 1834 was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving till 1837, when he became district judge of Connecticut, which he held until his death.


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(Updates with Minnesota comment in 11th paragraph.)
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- North Dakota sued Minnesota, claiming the neighboring state's 2007 law limiting carbon emissions from electricity generated outside Minnesota and used within the state is unconstitutional.
"Minnesota's Next Generation Energy Act has direct and serious consequences for North Dakota," Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said today in a press statement announcing his filing with the federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
North Dakota power plants export most of their generated power to other states, including Minnesota, Stenehjem said. The Minnesota statute unconstitutionally interferes with his state's energy production, the attorney general said. North Dakota seeks a court order invalidating the measure.
Signed by then-Governor Tim Pawlenty in May 2007, the Next Generation act was intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while promoting renewable energy sources and greater energy efficiency.
"The best time to have taken action on energy issues would've been 30 years ago. The second best time is right now," Pawlenty said then in a press statement. "The nation has been asleep at the switch, but here in Minnesota we are kick-starting the future by increasing our nation-leading per capita renewable fuel use, boosting cost saving measures and tackling greenhouse gas emissions."
Imported Coal
Minnesota's power plants generate about 60 percent of the state's power relying on imported coal, while its Energy Act provides exceptions favoring Minnesota projects or businesses, Stenehjem said.
Drawing upon its lignite coal deposits, North Dakota has become "a vital and essential source of electricity" for Minnesota, according to the complaint.
The Next Generation act bars Minnesota's import of power from any new, large energy facility that contributes statewide power-sector carbon emissions and prohibits long-term power- purchasing contracts that would have that effect, North Dakota alleged.
Those restrictions subject energy projects outside the state to "onerous regulatory burdens," North Dakota claims. The case was filed on behalf of the state, the Lignite Energy Council trade association, the North American Coal Corp. and other entities.
Named Defendant
Ben Wogsland, a spokesman for Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, deferred to the state's Public Utilities Commission for comment on the North Dakota case. The commission is also a named defendant.
Dan Wolf, an assistant executive secretary speaking for the commission, declined to comment specifically on the litigation.
"As to Minnesota law, that is established by the Legislature and the governor, as reviewed by the courts," he said in an e-mailed statement. "The commission has and will ensure that the public utilities under its jurisdiction comply with the requirements set by these policy makers."
The case is North Dakota v. Swanson, 11cv3232, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota (St. Paul).
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Once AGAIN someone in the porn industry has decided to take a popular series and make it a porno. Wait, Spartacus? The two series about Spartacus on Starz had just about everything a good porno has. Just to be sure though we better do a check list:
Boobs? Check!
Butts? Check!
Testicles? Check!
Beavers? Check!
Merkins? Check!
Wangs? Check!
Nipples? Check!
1970's Porno Soundtrack? Negative!
Everything is checked off except the 1970's sound track and this NerdBastard is sure everyone would probably agree that we could do without that music anyways. Spartacus on Showtime had all the sweaty, heaving, and fornicating (minus the money shot) that any porn connoisseur would want.
What is it with the Porn industry these days? It's like some creative black hole sucking ideas from anywhere and slapping "A Porn Parody" sticker on the label to avoid a lawsuit. What ever happened to the good old girl comes to the big city and comes again, and again, and again?
Where is the originality in my Porn these days? When will we see a Porn movie turned into a Television or main stream movie?
Don't hold your breath . . .
Really . . .
Here is the SFW trailer. If you like your historical drama with some T&A then you will probably be more concerned about the other qualities of this production like sets, costumes, acting ability, etc, etc, etc. Hey, I have not seen the movie, but I am willing to place a bet based on my past Porn watching experiences that this will not add anything exciting beyond some Money shots to the Spartacus experience.
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DALLAS, Jan. 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mid-Con Energy Partners, LP (Nasdaq:MCEP) ("Mid-Con Energy") announced today that its management team will participate in the UBS MLP One-on-One Conference in Park City, Utah on January 14-15, 2014.
Corresponding presentation slides will be made available by clicking on "Events & Presentations" in the investor relations section of the Mid-Con Energy website at www.midconenergypartners.com on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. CT).
About Mid-Con Energy Partners, LPMid-Con Energy is a Delaware limited partnership formed in July 2011 to own, operate, acquire, exploit and develop producing oil and natural gas properties in North America, with a focus on the Mid-Continent region of the United States. Mid-Con Energy's core areas of operation are located in Southern Oklahoma, Northeastern Oklahoma and parts of Oklahoma and Colorado within the Hugoton Basin. Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes "forward-looking statements" — that is, statements related to future, not past, events within meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and include any statement that does not directly relate to a current or historical fact. In this context, forward-looking statements often address expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "intend," "expect," "plan," "project," "should," "goal," "forecast," "guidance," "could," "may," "continue," "might," "potential," "scheduled," or "will" or other similar words. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties and ultimately may not prove to be accurate. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. For further discussion of risks and uncertainties, you should refer to Mid-Con Energy's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) available at www.midconenergypartners.com or www.sec.gov . Mid-Con Energy undertakes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after this press release. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and our SEC filings. These forward–looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which may include statements about our:
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Google Nexus 7 hands-on
However, there is "knowing" and then there is "holding it in your hands" which makes all the difference in the world. The new Nexus 7 is a great tablet to behold. We know that full HD displays are becoming commonplace, but the screen on the Nexus 7 is simply stunning.
Moreover, one also really appreciate the stock Android experience when it is paired with powerful underpinnings. The quad-core Qualcomm snapdragon processor has absolutely no problem handling Android 4.3 and while it does not bring a super laundry list of changes, some features are no doubt going to be welcome, like solid battery performance courtesy of Project Roadrunner.
The Nexus 7 goes on sale next week, starting at just $229 for the 16GB model which is a fantastic price for the hardware involved.
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1. WHoyton1 (Posts: 1635; Member since: 21 Feb 2013)
Grrr my next tablet for sure...now I just need to figure out which phone? This screen looks amazing, I would buy it for the screen alone!
3. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5951; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Yeah, I am wondering whether to get the Nexus 7 and pass on a Note III. I can use my Note II as a Wi-Fi hotspot to get Internet access. Decisions, decisions, decisions.
4. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3024; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Agree...320+ ppi on a 7 inch is no mock matter.
Quality product for quality price!
I thought the hands-on should've been longer and a l'le more detailed.
18. Zeus.k (unregistered)
Awesome. I wish more companies could take this approach rather than focusing on sky high prift margins. Anyway Google is here to save the day. Now bring this to India play store with cellular connectivity and I'm sold
2. blazee (Posts: 317; Member since: 02 Jan 2012)
Gonna pre order one tomorrow
5. Tsoliades (Posts: 216; Member since: 22 Dec 2012)
Awesome design. I'll stick with my original Nexus 7, though!
13. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1009; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
thats what im thinking. the Next-Gen Nexus isnt that much different from the original once android 4.3 is updated. I have the 32GB Nexus7 and I love it
16. Shatter (Posts: 2031; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Its just a beefed up Nexus 7 will a way better screen. Current Nexus 7 is still fine if you don't care about the latest specs/benchmarks.
6. rtol1 (Posts: 21; Member since: 18 Jul 2013)
@ 1:26 "...project road runner"
Did I miss something during the live presentation? Because I didn't hear any mention of a project road runner included among the features presented at the keynote.
EDIT: As far as I remember, project road runner was supposedly a rumored feature for upcoming versions of android but was ultimately not true. Unless I'm wrong?
10. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3042; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
That's exactly what I was thinking too. I guess just the name itself was false but clearly they worked on improving battery life anyway, so Project Roadrunner it is then.
7. PK1983 (Posts: 195; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)
iPAD mini is not amused.
8. sorcio46 (Posts: 407; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
iPad mini is under the ground with its orrible screen, Apple's retina got owned :D
9. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5951; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Don't forget the SoC of the iPmini - this is where the 1G Sammy tablet was. Back in what, 2009? Talk about obsolete, sheesh.
12. domen151 (Posts: 27; Member since: 13 Sep 2012)
But the mini still runs very smoothly and handles all the games very well. You can't say this for 1st Sammy tablets ;)
14. BlackPower1966 (Posts: 2; Member since: 24 Jul 2013)
That's true
15. sniper1087 (Posts: 408; Member since: 31 Dec 2011)
I agree I dont get why people think just because it has more cores is better, it also depends on software and if the software runs smooth why do u need more cores? IOS runs smooth on a dual core and so does WP8, and I think they dont need more than that. I dont hate the N7 but I would have preferred a bigger screen size, 8 inch would have been good, browsing on that little screen is not that great on landscape, I need to hear the speakers and see how loud they are, that might be good if they made them loud enough at least for media consumption
17. Shatter (Posts: 2031; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Android is a much more powerful OS and it does a lot more than IOS/WP. Android has always had real multitasking and IOS 7 is just now getting it for example.
20. JunitoNH (Posts: 984; Member since: 15 Feb 2012)
Also, iPad mini is not made like a toy. Nexus a great first tablet for a child. Should had been made by Leap, not Asus.
26. sleepyjohnny (Posts: 151; Member since: 16 Dec 2009)
I'm sure the iPad's simplicity lends itself to be more child friendly. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with your comment
23. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5951; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Only because Apple kept the functionality of iOS 'constrained'. See how well the iPmini handles iOS v. 7. Or, if it handles it at all.
11. BlackPower1966 (Posts: 2; Member since: 24 Jul 2013)
Looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19. dednikko (Posts: 2; Member since: 24 Jul 2013)
I'm kind of upset that my laptop's monitor is too low resolution to get a feel for how the display is on a screen less than half the size.
21. belovedson (Posts: 832; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
what finally.
lte for verizon, att and tmobile?
so its a quad band? unlocked tablet for 350!!!
22. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
I had to have a good chuckle the other day watching an elderly couple that were interested in purchasing a galaxy tab 2 10.1
Customer : "I want to stick a 3G USB dongle in it to access the internet"
Sales person : "Um..Ah.. It doesn't have a USB slot.... (he should have said driver support) You'll have to purchase the more expensive version with sim card support"
Customer: (blank look on his face) "Oh.. OK. We'll mainly be using it to print photos"
Sales person: "Oh.. Umm..Ahh...Ahh... That depends on the printer (again completely ignoring the lack of driver support on android, both for cameras and external printers)... blah blah..blah.. more nonsense that I couldn't listen to.
Rather than say something like "What you're after is one of the cheaper Atom based Windows 8 tablets" he kept "umming and ahhing" pathetic excuses, ultimately trying to sell them something they didn't want or need. A true fanboy at his best.
24. robocopvn (Posts: 212; Member since: 10 Mar 2010)
S4 Pro is a bit outdated. Wish it could have S600 :)
25. JunitoNH (Posts: 984; Member since: 15 Feb 2012)
By the way, before you buy, read this article:
27. exxxius (Posts: 5; Member since: 21 Jun 2013)
Here you can see the most complete review of the new Google Nexus 7 FHD Tablet & Also the cheapest prices @ :


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Round 6 - 7/27/14
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Round 6 of the 2014 Yamaha Quad X Series took place at Glen Helen Raceway. The track layout was short with very few jumps or technical sections. The big hills were in as always but most of the track was just choppy straights and grooved corners. July at Glen Helen is rarely under 100 degrees and today the temps hovered right around there, although there was quite a bit more humidity than usual.
Moto 1: I had a decent jump off the dirt starting pad left over from the AMA MX National but was out-pulled down the long start straight by David Haagsma. My #94 YFZ-R slotted into second around the Talladega first turn just ahead of Garrin Fuller. The three of us stayed close for a couple laps but a couple mistakes cost me and I eventually lost touch with Haagsma. My rear brakes near over-heated near the halfway point with all the fast straights and down hills, causing me to lose even more ground. After a couple laps of laying off the brake-dragging, they were back and I rode strong to the finish but had nothing for Haagsma who took the win.
Moto 2: I launched a little crooked out of my ruts and knew immediately I had no chance for the holeshot; instead I was in a drag race with Fuller for the 2nd spot as Haagsma again grabbed the holeshot. The track had gotten much more choppy and all the rutted corners were much deeper than moto 1. I tried to ride smooth and fast to pressure Haagsma but he slowly pulled away from me for another moto win. I crossed the line in 2nd, followed by Fuller in 3rd.
Round 6 of the 2014 Yamaha Quad X series was a hot, muggy day at Glen Helen. While I'm not happy with a 2nd on the day, I am happy to see more pros on the line and to be pushed harder than the last couple rounds. Our next round has been rescheduled to Glen Helen on Saturday August 23rd. I'm sure it will be just as hot and I'm hoping to get back on the top step of that podium.
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Obama wants 10 mpg more from all new cars
by Alan Harten
May 27, 2009
On Monday, Barack Obama passed legislation that will place limitations on car emissions and will force US and foreign auto makers to design more fuel efficient vehicles.
The new legislation dictates that all new cars must offer at least 35.5 mpg by the year 2016 in order to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 30%.
Obama told governors, executives, and environmentalists that the new policy will help the economy, as it has struggled too much due to its dependence on oil, and at the same time reduce the amount of greenhouse emissions from vehicles, which is the first step towards a green friendly nation.
Environmentalists have welcomed the new policy, which will be enforced by the EPA, as the best step Obama has taken since he became president towards reducing the global warming threat.
The average car currently runs at 25mpg so a ten mile increase is the new mandate in the US where a quarter of global warming emissions comes from personal vehicles.
The act will reduce CO2 emissions by about 900m tones which is equivalent to closing 194 coal plants across the nation or reducing the amount of vehicles in the United States by 58 million.
The plan will also mandate that auto makers should make cars 5% more fuel efficient each year, beginning in 2012, and will release $50b in loan money for the auto industry pledged by the Democrats if this act became a part of legislature.
Representatives of the Safe Climate Campaign noted that the bill will lead to people using less gas on a whole even if they do not reduce driving habits, which is a very positive way to combat a growing problem.
The new legislation affects trucks as well, as they will have to run at 30mpg as opposed to the current standard of 23mpg.
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Kids adore their dads
Date: June 18, 2009
by: Loren Mayo | Staff Writer
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If you could get your dad anything in the entire world for Father's Day, what would it be?
A dog.
What's your favorite memory with your dad?
He's really nice and takes me shark fishing. We've been twice.
Where would you like to take your dad for Father's Day?
The sandbar out by Siesta Key.
Amelia Hansen
If you could get your dad anything in the entire world for Father's Day, what would it be?
I will draw him a heart and make him chocolate cake.
What's your favorite memory with your dad?
He is the best dad because he carries me around on piggyback.
If you could take your dad anywhere for Father's Day, where would you go?
I would take him to New York because I like my daddy, and that's where he grew up.
Alex Lutz
What is the coolest gift you can think of to give your dad?
I painted pottery — an alligator — to put in his office.
What's the best time you and your dad have had together?
He takes me fishing.
If you could take him anywhere for Father's Day where would you go?
To BW3's (Buffalo Wild Wings) and then to get Rita's Italian Ice for dessert.
Mia Frankel
If you could get your dad anything in the entire world for Father's Day, what would it be?
I am going to color him a card with me and him and add my name with sparkles.
What's your favorite memory with your dad?
He took me to the gas station to get an ice cream with chocolate chip and chocolate.
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Where would you like to take your dad for Father's Day?
Why is your dad important to you?
He takes me fishing and he's better than all the other dads.
Can you top last year's gift?
Last year we got him a digital camera. This year I am not sure what we're doing.
▲ Fathers receive free admission from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mote Aquarium with a paid children's ticket this Father's Day. For more information, call 388-1720.
▲ The Father's Day Garage Tour, a fundraiser for Every Child's Cupboard, will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Two car collections will be displayed at 6701 Deacon Road. and 1700 North Drive. For more information, call 376-2663.
▲ The Sarasota Classic Car Museum will honor dad and grandfathers by admitting them into the museum for the price of a child's admission June 19, 20 and 21. Dads will qualify to win a miniature scale model of a classic car and $300 in cash, plus three cars will be given away. For more information, call 355-6228.
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Who will win the youth vote in 2012?
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President Barack Obama speaks at a Grassroots Rally September 2, 2012 on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado. An estimated crowd of about 13,000 gathered to listen as Obama discussed his plan to help the middle class, Obamacare's impact and the importance of the youth of America getting out to vote in the upcoming election.
American citizens born by November 6, 1994 will be eligible to vote in this year's presidential election, but even those youths born before that date are paying attention to our political process. The youth vote usually leans to the left, but Republicans are heavily courting this voting bloc in 2012. President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign for the White House fairly revolutionized how political parties reach out to young voters with its strong and far-reaching network and use of the Internet to reach tech-savvy voters - and 2012 is no different.
Mitt Romney has stepped up his youth ground game and both candidates have smart phone apps available, with Romney's campaign opting to announce its pick of Paul Ryan for vice president via their app. Youth voters see America differently and they're far less concerned about traditionally Republican issues like gay marriage and abortion. And because they've come of age in a post-Great Recession world, jobs and employment are hot button issues.
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naauwpoort wrote: There are named varieties, one I have read about is called Fuseau which is recommended as it is less knobbly. The ones I bought many years ago were merely labelled Jerusalem Artichoke. Mine are fairly smooth and taper at both ends -- a similar shape to sweet potato but significantly smaller. - Shahn
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Searching for Pekpek
A conservation professional, Andrew L. Mack has lived and worked in some of the world's most diverse and exceptional ecosystems.
In Melanesia, in the wilderness of Papua New Guinea, Andy Mack completed some of the first in-depth and long-term ecological studies ever undertaken in the region. After decades of research, he came away with insights into conservation, economic development, and the global politics of earth stewardship.
Searching for Pekpek: Cassowaries and Conservation in the New Guinea Rainforest, is the chronicle of Andy's personal and scientific journey. His adventure is akin to stepping through a portal into a time and place where ancient cultures clash with modern sensibilities, of surviving in a country where there is no access to electricity, health care, roads, telephones, or police, all while searching for a dinosaur-like bird, some species of which can reach 6 feet, weigh 120 lbs, and are one of the few birds that can easily kill people.
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"Often advice to beginning graduate students is not to take on a project unless you know it is workable. We learn as students not to risk failure, usually with the coda that "later in your career when you are established, then you can take risks." But often by the time academicians are nicely established, they are there by virtue of not taking risks and are not about to start. Such entrainment for safety is not limited to academicians either. But I find a sure thing boring."
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text: Slide 33 Project RED: Module 2: The Re-Designed Discharge Process: Patient Admission and Care and Treatment Education: Slide 33Provides a four-module training program to help hospitals implement Project RED. A True Story*Public health nurse: "Jill, I see you are taking birth control pills. Tell me how you are taking them."Jill: "Well, some days I take three; some days I don't take any. On weekends, I usually take more."Public health nurse: "How did your doctor tell you to take them?"Jill: "He said these pills were to keep me from getting pregnant when I have sex, so I take them anytime I have sex."* Graham S and Brookey J. 2008.Notes:This slide gives a true story of what can happen when we are not clear with instructions, assume that the patient understands the information we provide, and do not assess the patient's understanding of what we said. Thinking about this example, how might a similar event occur with a patient with heart failure or diabetes? Page last reviewed August 2011 Internet Citation: Slide 33: Project RED: Module 2: The Re-Designed Discharge Process: Patient Admission and Care and Treatment Education: Slide 33. August 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/red/module2/slide33.html


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Business OverviewOne of the best aspects about starting a business that designs and manufactures driftwood and log furniture for the home and patio is the fact that much of the raw manufacturing materials can be acquired for free or for very little cost. There are literally hundreds of different household and patio furniture products that can be manufactured from driftwood, rough cut logs, or even waste wood. These furniture products and home decorations can include coffee tables, benches, serving trays, side tables, chairs, planters, storage boxes, bunk beds, and picture frames; and these are only a few examples. One unique product that is very easy to manufacture is driftwood coffee tables. Basically all that is involved is to locate a suitable piece of driftwood, clean with bleach, level and sand as required, and add a shaped glass top. Presto!'a highly saleable and unique piece of functional furniture. Once created, you can sell your furniture and decoration items by renting booth space at home and garden shows, flea markets, and even a kiosk in a mall on weekends. Be sure to contact interior decorators in the area to introduce them to your unique furniture product line. A basic homebased workshop and tools will be required to get started, as well as some creative design abilities, but that is about all that is needed to get this business off the ground and earning profits for you.
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in English it would be Kiss my ass
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Slow Song Comes On The Radio--Whose Face comes To Your Mind first?
When You Hear Your Phone Ringing...Who Do You Hope it is callin? Whose
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Isn't that cute? You know who its about lol!
Well things are going good I suppose*
Things are ok. Uhm-
History-ah its ok. I got homeowrk I need to do, and we have a test in there tomorrow..ugh*
Science-good..? Its accually one of my fave classes
APE-stil hating it lol!
Geom.-doing a tad bit better..kinda! I failed a test w/ flying colors the other day*
Band-we lost our 1st comp. yesterday, we had to have been cheated out because we were 10 times better than all the others. It really pissed me off.
Things are ok.
I'm a real loner at the house.
Maybe its normal to be a loner at your house, maybe not?
I don't care.
Uhmm..what friends? lol j/p
Ever since recently I have barely hung out w/ anyone from Pennington, well with the exception of Emily.
I have been hangn out w/ Whitney B. Rachel Ott, Sarah Stanton, Sam King, Caitlyn Callahan, Josh, Josh, Spenc, Nic, etc.
I jus don't see the point in hangin out w/ my old friends.
They are such preps and it pisses me off sometimes.
We are doing good *knocks on wood*
physically we aren't really close but mentally we are together all the time.
if that makes sense. I mean when we werent dating we were REALLY close physically.
But now we aren't even close to how close we were.
Like on the bus rides home we barely hold hands.
I did sleep on him again..lol
Other than those things theres nothing else to say.
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Vecchia Firenze Bed & Breakfast Florence
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- Disabled Facilities:
- Tennis Court:
- Terrace:
- Parking:
- Pets Welcome:
- Private Beach:
- Barbecue:
- Garden:
- Sauna:
- Shared Bathroom:
- Spa / Jacuzzi:
- Daily Cleaning:
- DVD/Music Collection:
- Air Conditioning:
- Ensuite Bathroom:
- Balcony:
- Safe:
- Sea View:
- Central Heating:
- City View:
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Important Notice : Avoiding Fraud
It's rare, but some helpful hints to watch out for with regards to fraud:
- It is important to NEVER wire funds or use/employ other fund transfer mechanisms such as western union: Always use a credit card to protect yourself against fraud. If owners pressure you into providing a deposit or refuse to accept credit cards, there is a high probability that this is a scam.
- If at all suspicious of fraud, ask to see their website, or any other literature they can provide or send to you. Ask them for contact details for guests who have previously stayed on their property insisting on telephone numbers. Be suspicious of emails that originate from free email services (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc)
- Research the property thoroughly on the internet to see if there is any history or mention of scams associated with the property.


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Directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable Talk THE BOXTROLLS, Changes During Production, Deleted Scenes, and More
by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Posted 85 days ago
Now playing in theaters is Laika's The Boxtrolls. Making their stop-motion debut is directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable and the film is based on the children's novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow. Featuring the voices of Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Sir Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, and Jared Harris, The Boxtrolls is about a young orphaned boy named Eggs (Wright) who is raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors who he must save from evil exterminator Archibald Snatched (Kingsley). For more on the film, read Matt's review or click here for trailers, images, interviews, and everything we've posted on the film.
At the L.A. press day I landed a video interview with directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable. They talked about the technical challenges making The Boxtrolls, how the crew from Paranorman and Coraline never disbanded, if they had any big changes during pre-production, deleted scenes, what will be on The Boxtrolls Blu-ray, and a lot more. Hit the jump to watch.