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When last we saw Jigsaw (played here once again by Tobin Bell), he was lying dead in a makeshift hospital gurney, the product of a buzz saw to the throat (back in Pt. III). Thanks to the wonderful world of flashbacks, he lived on in the fourth film and does so here again; though don't expect too many revelations about his life or his work from this outing. As we learned at the end of IV, Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) -- the detective at the heart of the investigation since Part III -- had been secretly in league with Jigsaw the whole time. Actually, one isn't sure just when he actually started up with the cancerous killer with serious ethics on his brain, though Part V attempts to tell that story -- even if the time frame completely confuses the viewer at every turn. The plot weaves in and out of all of the sequels, with occasional flashbacks to vaguely remind you of how they all tie together. One thing about the Saw series is that you never know exactly when and where things are taking place in regard to what's come before. Usually the film ends with a spinning camera and a character yelling up at the sky, piecing together the movie for you -- except this time, the twist is the equivalent of the Titanic sinking. Of course, there are a few other characters in the flick (the most notable face being Dexter's Julie Benz), but they really make no difference to the plot and serve only to eat up a few juicy kills.
And speaking of gore -- where is it? Sure, there's a quick decapitation, some fingers being sliced up, and a guillotined torso, but compared to its precursors, Saw V doesn't come close. And really, that's what the audience is there for. Say all you want about them appreciating the plot twists, but in the end, they're there for the nasty, cringe-worthy stuff. It's as if the writers (Feast's Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton) were so preoccupied with threading the story's needle that they forgot what kind of movie they were writing. Say what you will about the franchise -- good or bad -- but if the previous filmmakers got anything right, it's that they delivered the goods to their audience. So does Part V cut it? Absolutely not. It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be. With hanging plot threads all over, and a sense that the series really has collapsed in on itself, one has to wonder how Lionsgate could come back with a new entry that continues to successfully question all that came before. What will they do next? Probably rip more people off. It's worked for them so far. leave a comment --Jeremy Wheeler
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Apple Poised to Move Higher as Wall Street Takes Notice
As Apple builds out its ecosystem of products (iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac), users tend to remain with one brand, making it "sticky." Hedge fund manager David Einhorn noted this fact earlier this year at an investment conference, thanks in large part to iOS and iCloud, Apple's mobile operating system and cloud computing offering. Einhorn recently pared his position in Apple, but still holds a good chunk of the Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple.
The recent increase in optimism is evident elsewhere on Wall Street, as some believe Apple's recent selloff was vastly overdone. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White called the selloff in Apple shares "insanely insane" given the valuation at which Apple shares were trading.
Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG) have had some success in the tablet and handset markets, but by and large it's still Apple's game. Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker has done her traditional year-end look at the state of technology, and one of the slides shows Apple is poised to dominate this holiday season.
Children aged six to 12 tend to dominate parents spending for Christmas, and Apple is all over their lists to Santa. About 48% of this age group wants an iPad, 36% want an iPad mini, surprisingly the same percentage as the iPod Touch. One in three children this age want an iPhone for Christmas.If Meeker's presentation is correct and Wall Street analysts' aren't being overly optimistic, Apple could have a lot higher to go as we move into 2013. Interested in more on Apple? See TheStreet Ratings' report card for this stock. -- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Commodity_Bull
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Secretary's review
In my first Secretary's Review, I'd like to start by thanking my predecessor, Dennis Richardson, for leaving the department in such fine shape. The culture of any organisation derives much of its nature from its chief executive – and Dennis's energy and drive left a lasting imprint on the ethos of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Over 2012–13, economic and strategic power continued to shift inexorably from the Atlantic to the Indo–Pacific. Asia has re-emerged as a region of first order economic and strategic significance in its own right. The international system is working its way through a period of flux, against the backdrop of global economic uncertainty. Regional and global institutions are seeking to catch-up and properly accommodate these changes. Australia's future prosperity will depend more than ever before on its external environment and its ability to advance its national interests abroad.
This is of course the core business of the department. And the department's work depends vitally on our overseas network. It is our 95 overseas posts that do much of the heavy lifting in building networks of influence for Australia, advocating Australian interests abroad, supporting official visits, providing analysis, and assisting Australians in distress. The role of the department in Canberra and our offices across Australia is to provide policy advice to ministers and the government, negotiate bilateral and regional trade agreements, lead whole-of-government engagement in regional organisations such as APEC and the East Asia Summit (EAS), engage with business and community groups, deliver passports and consular services to Australians and provide corporate services for the organisation, both at home and abroad.
… Australia's future prosperity will depend more than ever before on its external environment and its ability to advance its national interests abroad …
No department prospers in isolation. Strong whole-of-government collaboration is essential to the successful development and advancement of Australian interests abroad on issues as challenging and diverse as people smuggling, counter-terrorism, cyber security, disaster response, transport security, trade in agriculture, development assistance, peacemaking and peacekeeping. Our overseas missions reflect this increasingly varied mix, with our ambassadors and high commissioners leading teams with officers from 28 government agencies.
Significant issues and developments
If Australia is to take full advantage of the opportunities of the Asian century, we need to work harder to build and deepen our understanding of and engagement with the region.
In the past year, the department dedicated considerable resources and diplomatic attention to our six core bilateral relationships — the United States, China, Japan, Indonesia, India and the Republic of Korea, recognising that Australia's prosperity is tied to that of our key partners. Highlights of the department's work on these relationships included:
- Leading a whole-of-government effort to develop country strategies out to 2025—a commitment under the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper—to better identify whole-of-Australia objectives and priorities for the Asian century to guide our engagement with Japan, China, Indonesia, India and the Republic of Korea.
- Sustaining high-level engagement with the US Administration. The Australia–United States Ministerial (AUSMIN) consultations in Perth in November 2012 —co-organised with the Department of Defence—provided an early opportunity to engage with the newly-returned Obama Administration across the gamut of our shared international political, security and economic interests.
- Laying the groundwork for the enhanced bilateral consultation arrangements agreed with China during Prime Minister Gillard's visit to Beijing in April 2013. Australia now has an annual leaders-level meeting and ministerial-level economic, and foreign and strategic, dialogues. Australia joins the United States, Russia, Germany and Britain as the only countries to have similar arrangements with China. The department led difficult free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with Australia's most significant trading partner.
- Further strengthening our already comprehensive relationship with Japan, our most comprehensive in Asia, agreeing to a joint vision for security and defence at the fourth annual '2+2' dialogue between foreign and defence ministers in September 2012. We narrowed negotiations on an FTA to a small number of sensitive market-access issues.
- Engaging more closely with Indonesia, through the second Annual Leaders' Meeting in Darwin in July 2012 and the second Foreign and Defence Ministers' Meeting in Jakarta in April 2013. Starting negotiations on the Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was a significant milestone.
- Continuing to build Australia's strategic partnership with India, by supporting the Joint Ministerial Commission, and progressing negotiations on a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement. The department also led the first round of negotiations on an Australia–India nuclear cooperation agreement.
- With the Republic of Korea, setting up the first '2+2' meeting (held July 2013), the first such meeting the ROK has held with any country apart from the United States. Negotiations on an FTA are close but unfinished owing to differences on a small range of sensitive issues.
Australia's immediate neighbourhood remains a perennial priority for the department. In this we have worked closely with New Zealand. Our engagement is centred on a desire for security, stability and prosperity shared through the region:
- Supporting the conclusion of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) and withdrawing the Australian-led International Stabilisation Force, marking an important milestone in the progress of this new nation.
- In the Pacific, leading Australia's participation in the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus negotiations, which have expanded and intensified, assisting with the implementation of the Seasonal Worker Program.
- Coordinating the further drawdown of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), and following national elections in Papua New Guinea, the department led Australia's intensive engagement to provide a framework for our modern and dynamic partnership.
As we look more broadly at the world today, demographic, economic and political shifts require regional approaches to solving our biggest challenges. New players are emerging in all parts of the globe. Increasingly, as relationships among the world's established and emerging great powers shift, we will need to work with regional powers to harness our common interests and influence changes in accordance with our national interests.
Regional institutions will be of enduring importance for Australia. With this in mind, we focused our diplomatic efforts on the EAS and ASEAN. Over time, we hope the EAS will develop into the premier regional institution, driving financial and economic integration, building confidence, and nurturing a culture of collaboration on security issues.
- The department supported ministerial and leaders' discussions in the EAS and the ASEAN Regional Forum on regional security issues, including on the South China Sea, the Korean peninsula, and non-proliferation. The government announced the appointment of Australia's first resident Ambassador to ASEAN in 2013.
We believe a global rules-based approach and strong institutions are a vital support for and driver of Australia's continued peace and prosperity.
- Consequently, the department led a whole-of-government effort to secure Australia's election to the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member for 2013 and 2014. In the first six months we have established ourselves as a constructive and capable council member, contributing to international sanctions work, and playing an important role in the council's approach to Afghanistan, the debate on Syria, as well as counter-terrorism.
… we will need to work with regional powers to harness our common interests and influence changes in accordance with our national interests …
Just as the United Nations and the EAS are important to minimising strategic risk, trade policy is central to maximising economic opportunity. We are pursuing Australia's objectives of free trade through complementary routes. Both bilateral FTAs and regional agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) underpin Australia's interest in expanding global free trade.
- The Australia–Malaysia Free Trade Agreement, Australia's seventh FTA, entered into force last year. In addition, we began RCEP negotiations, involving ASEAN and its six FTA partners.
- The department led negotiations on nine free trade agreements. The countries covered by Australia's current FTA negotiations and the six FTAs already concluded represent 73 per cent of Australia's global trade—a total of $447 billion.
- We continue to push for momentum in multilateral trade negotiations despite the stalled World Trade Organization Doha Round, as well as pursuing other paths to trade reform, including taking a lead in the Trade in Services Agreement negotiations.
APEC also continues to operate as an important vehicle for deepening Australia's economic integration with the Asia–Pacific region and fostering habits of practical, reform-oriented collaboration.
Australia's membership of the G20 is vital in times of economic uncertainty. The G20 has the right size and membership to get things done and is key to driving Australia's international economic engagement. It's small enough to make decisions, but weighty enough to have a global impact.
- In preparation for Australia's G20 presidency from December 2013, the department contributed policy advice on trade, development, food security and energy issues. We escalated our advocacy efforts with G20 countries and a range of international organisations to build support for the G20 forum and its forward agenda.
… Australia cannot assume that our interests and values, or the international rules which we helped shape and continue to adopt, will remain unchallenged …
Delivering services to Australians
Providing Australians with high-quality consular and passport services represents a significant dimension of our work as Australians travel abroad in ever greater numbers. For most Australians, the Australian Passport Office is their only point of contact with the department. In the interests of ensuring the ongoing security of Australian passports we are working to develop the next generation of passports, the P-series, scheduled to be issued in August 2014.
With 8.8 million departures by Australian citizens and permanent residents over the past year, we issued just over 1.7 million passports and assisted 11 927 Australians in difficulty overseas. Many of those consular cases were in remote places and under challenging circumstances. Over the year, a number of high-profile cases involving detention and legal proceedings required substantial resources.
Corporate governance and management
The past year has been challenging, requiring careful reflection on Australia's current and future interests and allocation of resources.
Staff development and language training remained a priority. We increased the language training budget by a modest 3.3 per cent to allow for the language introductory program to include Japanese, Arabic and Indonesian. Despite an ageing information and communications technology system, we completed 42 development projects to improve capability, particularly at overseas posts, and to prepare a suitable platform for long-term improvements. We secured budget funding for the International Communications Network program, which from 2013–14 will replace the present secure communications network for use by the department and other government agencies.
We continued to manage, maintain and improve Commonwealth-owned property and leased estate which is used by 28 Australian government agencies. In June 2013, this was valued at $1.8 billion. We progressed plans to construct new embassy complexes in Jakarta and Bangkok. The department allocated substantial capital and other resources to monitoring, maintaining and improving security at Australia's missions overseas.
The world is becoming more complex and our strategic environment more crowded. Australia cannot assume that our interests and values, or the international rules which we helped shape and continue to adopt, will remain unchallenged. As China and India assume great power status, we must adapt to a changing strategic arena. Our priority interests are better considered now in the multipolar context of the Indo–Pacific, including the security of maritime passages so vital to our increasingly globalised trade.
Taking multilateral approaches to optimise our influence in solving global problems is getting harder as membership broadens. We will continue to respond to this creatively: by advancing institutional reforms, building and adapting other bodies to reflect new and changing needs, and forming new coalitions. The coming year will be a busy period for the UN Security Council, with our membership continuing to provide Australia with unique opportunities to bring the perspectives of Australia and the wider Pacific region to the highest decision-making table in global affairs.
… the corporate challenge … will be to maintain an effective overseas network and adequately staffed Canberra-based operation …
We have a strong interest in preserving and promoting the role of the G20. A successful G20 not only advances Australia's economic prospects, but preserves our influence in a key international body. Our chairmanship in 2014 will not only help us to shape the agenda but also demonstrate the value of our participation in such formative institutions.
2014 will see the end of Australia's military deployment through the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. We must now ensure that the follow-up 'soft power' engagement is right, including through more training of national security forces, assistance with good governance, and providing on-going humanitarian aid.
In the coming year we plan to develop a consular strategy that will outline a three-year plan to promote improvements and innovation in the delivery of consular services. A key element of the strategy will be to focus resources on assisting Australians most in need of help, and to sharpen our public messaging to emphasise that consular assistance should be an option of last resort, not the first port of call when travellers find themselves in difficulty.
The department's greatest assets remain its people and its overseas network. In the tight fiscal environment, the corporate challenge for the department will be to maintain an effective overseas network and adequately staffed Canberra-based operation.
Transitioning from the ageing secure communications network to a new platform will be complex but fundamental to improving the department's productivity and effectiveness.
An important priority for the coming year will be to reflect on and respond to a Capability Review of the department undertaken between April and June 2013, as part of an APS-wide review program agreed by the government in 2011. The department will develop an Action Plan to respond to the review findings. We will continue to provide high quality policy advice and meet our corporate needs but as resources diminish we must look at doing less with less. We will also need to shift resources from corporate to policy functions.
Underpinning all this effort will be the department's dedicated staff, who, I am confident, will continue to display their distinctive professionalism and determination in serving the government with the advice, analysis and follow-through to secure Australia's future prosperity in a changing and challenging world.


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Star Wars gets unofficial sequel: Lockheed's orbital missile barrage system
Lockheed's Multiple Kill Vehicle-L space superiority platform promises to be the final word in the event of an intercontinental ballistic missile attack. Part of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System, the MKV-L is designed to deal with the multitudinous targets an ICBM launch would provide, rather than take out a single warhead.
ICBMs can be tricky. They act as a far-reaching delivery system for a swarm of smaller warheads — some of which are dummies to confuse opposing countermeasures — that shower a broad area in booms, bangs, fire, and general badness.
The MKV-L would respond with a barrage of its own, firing a pathfinder seeker warhead that would keep track of the number of enemy projectiles and take no prisoners, eliminating every warhead, dummy and even the delivery vehicle. Now that the milestone of a calibrated pathfinder seeker has come and gone, Lockheed is setting its sights on the next step: running tests in a true flight environment in the next year or two, and getting the system online by 2017.
As a quick aside, Lockheed needs to work on its renderings. The odd assortment of bland space balls, cones and cans aren't really inspiring a lot of confidence in me.
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Sorry if its already been mentioned but Wosley are an old brand https://www.wolsey.com dating back some hundreds of years and produced the underwear for the Everest Exibitions, boiled wool to exact size fitted! They are relaunching there line this AW13.
I've been looking around for British companies producing heritage inspired 'workwear'. There seems to be several established companies and quite a few newcomers.
Those I've found and like the looks of so far are:
Nigel Cabourn : http://www.cabourn.com/
Not introduction needed - there's already a good thread on him: http://www.styleforum.net/showthread...=nigel+cabourn
Heritage Research : http://www.heritageresearch.co.uk/
Seem to be best known for their collaboration with Quoddy. Not just British workwear, but workwear, expedition wear, military wear etc. from Europe and the North americas. Appear to be committed to quality of materials and design.
Norsea Industries :http://www.norseaindustries.com/
Coastal workwear. Fairly new company but growing fast. I believe production is partly UK based and partly made in India.
Cro'Jack : http://www.crojack.co.uk/
Seem to be a very new company. Clothing looks very good. Military and workwear inspired.
Universal Works : http://www.universalworks.co.uk/info/about-us
Fairly well known on the forum. Seem to offer good value modern interpretations of workwear.
Margaret Howell : http://www.margarethowell.co.uk/
MHL & Margaret Howell lines. Been doing her thing for years. Thread here: http://www.styleforum.net/showthread...argaret+howell
Old Town : http://www.old-town.co.uk/products.htm
Horrible website, but their clothes look interesting. Small producer, largely made to order.
Thread here: http://www.styleforum.net/showthread...ritish+vintage
Albam : http://www.albamclothing.com/
No introduction needed.
Barbour : http://www.barbour.com
No introduction needed, lots of threads. Big company. Waxed jackets are still mainly produced in the UK. Other clothing varies. Increasingly looking at their back catalogue to produce more interesting heritage clothing.
Let me know of any I've overlooked. Footwear would require another thread altogether.
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I've ordered stuff from them with no problems when I was living in Britain. I love their Vauxhall trousers, and I have a Harris Tweed waistcoat of theirs that I wear all the time in winter. They really don't ship much beyond the UK though. They have a new Japanese collaboration / line which they have designed for mass production, called 'Holdfast' (it's actually an old British workwear label in itself). It seems to be essentially some basic Old Town designs done in a very limited range of fabrics and factory-made.
I am currently in Tokyo and the Japanese company concered, Glastonbury Ltd, have an exhibition on right now of next year's range, inclduing Holdfast, so I will be going down this week to take a look. I will report back at the least, and I will try to get some pictures but I can't guarrantee that they will allow it.
Okay, so I went down to check out the Holdfast stuff and it's all very nice and as expected - almost exactly like the Old Town stuff, although there are a few extra pieces - a Duster Coat, for example. However, unbelievably, the prices are much higher, in some cases twice as much as the Old Town equivalent in the most expensive fabric choice. So, Holdfast will certainly not be a good choice for those who wanted to find Old Town-style clothes, but factory-made and at a slightly lower price point...
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From their website:
"Tender has its roots in antique workwear and machinery, especially from the Great British Steam Age. On a steam train, the tender was the truck which carried the coal and water to power the locomotive, and was coupled in between the engine and the carriages. They were built incredibly solidly, mostly from riveted cast iron, and had to hold enough fuel to take a train weighing many tons all over Britain.
The other important face of Tender's English-made clothing is the nurture which is put into the clothes: in their research, design, manufacture, and wear. Just as a gardener tends to a vegetable patch, or a shepherd is the tender to a flock of sheep, so we hope that Tender's owners will live with their clothes, wearing them hard, but respecting their provenance and the stories they have to tell."
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Not meant as a replacement to actual self-control, boundaries, and good decision-making.Too many young people take a pledge of purity or put on a purity ring (or promise ring) without the proper understanding of chastity. That is why the teenagers who have purity rings or take abstinence pledges are just as likely to engage in sexual activity as those who don't!
Purity is a learned behavior and chastity is a tough virtue for any teen. We need better mentoring, accountability, education, and support.
Now, I am not saying that an external sign of an internal attitude and commitment is always a bad idea. But, the ring itself is rarely going to help anyone. Thus, the purpose of the video.


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Hi. I am new here and by no means a chocolate maker. I am a chocolate melter.
By trade I am a nurse, but dabble in making various treats, soap, shampoo and the like. I am always wanting to learn something new.
I was hoping for a touch of sage advice on a project I wanted to try this winter. I would like to make hot chocolate on a stick and have the basic technique for assembling, but am having trouble figuring out which chocolate would be best to create the base out of. It has to melt readily and smoothly in warmed milk so that it turns into a creamy hot cocoa. The cheapo chocolate I had that I created my mock-ups out of is abominable. It doesn't melt into the milk, but rather looks like flecks of chocolate floating in the milk.
I'd like to make this into a "drop it in and stir it" type of treat. On a sort of related note, I'd like to dip my homemade marshmallows in a tad of chocolate and haven't found a decent type to make a smooth, shiney, not to brittle coating. Anybody with ideas? Thank you in advance!
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The planned sports complex in North Myrtle Beach already is outperforming expectations, the city says, and its still a year away from opening.
The city said Thursday it had already lined up events that would bring an estimated $13.5 million to the city during the complexs first nine months of operation in 2014, about $3 million more than originally expected for the first 12 months, North Myrtle Beach spokesman Pat Dowling said. Officials originally expected $10.6 million during the complexs first year, according to a Coastal Carolina University study done in 2011.
They are already ahead of the game, Dowling said.
Most of the events lined up for March 2014, when the complex opens, through November 2014 are collegiate training and tournaments and include baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse and others, Dowling said. He declined to name the events, saying the city had verbal contracts and didnt want to tip off other cities that might try to lure the same event.
The National Collegiate Sports Invitational, which lasts three weeks and is expected to bring 60 softball and 24 baseball teams to the beach, will christen the complex as its first event scheduled for March 2014. The city has hosted that event the past few years at its existing facilities.
The city issued $15 million in general obligation bonds to buy the land and help pay for construction of the complex, and raised the property tax rate by six mills for eight years to generate revenue to pay for it.
We need to grow the economy, especially the offseason, Dowling said of why the city made the investment. Sports tourism is a great way to fill in your off season.
Sports events pumped about $12 million into North Myrtle Beach during the 2012 budget year, he said.
The complex, which includes a 27-acre lake, will have six baseball-softball fields, up to eight soccer-football-lacrosse fields, an amphitheater, playgrounds, a dog park and picnic shelters. There also will be a Veterans Plaza with a gathering area and a multi-purpose trail. The complex is scheduled to be finished in February 2014.
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In this podcast, Ricardo taks about the indices of earned value in the project. He explains that the great secret of earned value is to evaluate current performance to project the future. Ricardo also explains how to analyze the rate of time or cost when it is less than, equal to or greater than one.
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Gostaria de saber se no MS Project, existe uma ferramenta (por exemplo, no modo de exibição de uso da tarefa) que já me dá plotada a projeção dos Valores a Agregar e do Custo a Agregar.
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"The difference between the editions is words," Lewisohn told The Examiner. "About 380,000 in the UK, about 430,000 in the U.S. (The U.S. edition) will include the endnotes, omitted in the UK for space reasons."
He adds: "The premium edition ('author's cut') hardback, with approximately 2,000 pages, will come out in the UK from Little, Brown on Nov. 13. If Crown decide to take the author's cut edition (in the U.S.), it won't be this year. For the time being at least, it will be available only from the UK," he said.
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Today marks the 221stanniversary of the U.S. Constitution, the "supreme Law of the Land," and the creation of the federal government. Although the federal Constitution sets the floor for the protection of individual rights, states are free to augment those protections. Arizona has done this on a number of occasions: Private Property Rights Protection Act (Proposition 207):While the federal government may freely regulate away the value of people's homes and businesses without compensating them as long as some meager value remains, Arizona regulators must provide just compensation for many land use regulations that diminish property values.
Taxpayer Access to Courts: Arizona taxpayers have broad standing to sue when public funds are spent illegally. In federal courts, illegal expenditures go unchallenged by taxpayers except in very limited cases.
Supermajority to Increase Taxes: Unlike the U.S. Constitution which requires a simple majority of the Congress to approve a tax increase, Arizona's Constitution requires tax increases to be passed by a 2/3 vote of the legislature and signed into law by the governor. If the governor won't approve the increase, the legislature must pass a tax hike with a 3/4 majority.
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Welcome to Taliesin West. In the desert hills of Scottsdale, Arizona, is the winter home, studio and architectural school of Frank Lloyd Wright and his fellowship. Frank Lloyd Wright began construction on Taliesin West in 1937 and lived here until his passing in 1959. He was 91 years old. The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture still has its main campus here. Among other acceptance requirements, to study at the school, you must design, build and live in your own little desert shelter on the property! Your given budget… $3,000! Only a few are up to the challenge every year. Imagine that! You can bet they don't have air conditioning!
A public tour was a highlight of my recent jaunt to AZ.
Created of the earth…Wright and his apprentices collected rocks and sand from the surrounding desert to build an organic masterpiece.
{Living Room Photo: Karen Morton via Flickr / Origami Chair Photo: Simon Clay Photo, "Frank Lloyd Wright", Iain Thomson, Thunder Bay, 1997, via PrairieMod}
Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take photos inside the private residence, so the last two photos above are from the noted sources. "What? No photos? Oops, I forgot!" I shoulda been a rebel.
Taliesin, the summer home, is located in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Don't see myself getting there any time soon…then again, you never know…
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When a young family returned to the States after spending several years in Shanghai, China, they brought back authentic Asian pieces to incorporate into the design of their modern Des Peres home. Michael Wyrock, a senior design consultant for I. O. Metro, helped bring the home's Asian-inspired living room to life.
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Guitar Hero and DJ Hero discontinued, your pile of plastic instruments weep
The era of shredding on fake plastic guitar and spinning a fake vinyl disc with colorful buttons is over. Activision has officially ceased development of future Guitar Hero and DJ Hero games.
Citing decreased demand and interest for music-based games, Activision says it "cannot make these games profitable given the current market." I'll say, the age old adage of "if you've seen one, you've seen them all" certainly applied to both game franchises. I can't even remember the last time I touched my plastic guitar — I haven't a clue where I even stashed it anymore.
Activision says the axing of its music game franchises was strictly business-based. Instead, the publisher will focus more on Blizzard games, Call of Duty and Bungie's new IP (developers of Halo).
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Also inducted were country rock star Linda Ronstadt, who revealed last year that she is battling Parkinson's disease and did not attend, and Cat Stevens, the British musician who has gone by the name Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam, eschewing the stage for decades.
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One little boy in Powakka, an Amerindian village on the northeast edge of the Amazon rainforest, may never know the whole story about how he got his name.
It begins with Tamra, a fifty-something nurse I met in Peace Corps training in Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana), South America. We were the two oldest women in the group. I was accompanied by my husband, but Tamra's husband had stayed at home in California.
For Tamra, being a Peace Corps Volunteer had been a life-long dream. Her children were grown and her husband, Rick, well-established in the construction business, told her, "Go with my blessing and do it."
Suriname's Peace Corps program was young, we were the fifth group to arrive in the country, and the first to experience village-based training. The day we arrived in the Amerindian village of Powakka, village men were just completing the construction of the new Peace Corps training center, the place we would go to everyday for classes on language, culture, and project development.
During the two months of training, we would live with Amerindian host families, where we could immerse ourselves in the culture and the Sranan Tongo, the lingua franca of Suriname.
Tamra's host mother, Yolanda Sabayo, already had two little girls and was seven months pregnant.
When our training ended and we were to leave Powakka, our group decided to throw a party at the training center for the village children. A real party with games and prizes and food and drink. For most of the children, it would be the first time they tasted chocolate milk. The planning excited the entire village as well as our Volunteers, and the party was a thrilling success.
It was hard to sleep that night, knowing that in the morning we'd leave our new friends.
In the middle of the night, Yolanda went into labor. The mid-wife was nowhere to be found. Tamra found herself alone in a tiny wooden cabin with two small children and a woman about to give birth who spoke very little English.
Volunteers are given medical kits by the Peace Corps doctor containing such necessaries as antibiotic ointment, aspirin, band-aids, tweezers, mosquito repellent, lip balm, sunscreen and condoms. We were told that Peace Corps policy is that volunteers are not to give so much as an aspirin to anyone else. We were acquainted with strict rules against getting medically involved with local people.
But Tamra was a nurse first, and did what she had to do. She delivered Yolanda's baby, a wailing, healthy boy.
According to Amerindian custom, the afterbirth was buried in the yard and a blue dot was painted on the baby's forehead to ward off the evil eye.
What would Yolanda name her new son? She admitted she had not planned a name. To Tamara's surprise, Yolanda said she liked the name of Tamra's husband, Rick. She would name her baby Ricky.
All this we learned over breakfast the morning of our departure from Powakka. To their credit, our Peace Corps doctor and Country Director smiled as they reminded us of Peace Corps' "official policy" regarding medical intervention, and nothing more was said.
Tamra's Peace Corps assignment was with a hospital in Suriname's capitol, Paramaribo, where she shared a house with other PC volunteers, three young women.
My husband and I were privileged to meet Tamra's husband, Rick, when he came to Suriname for a vacation, armed with a video recorder. Rick and Tam travelled to neighboring French Guyana, visiting Cayenne and Devil's Island. They went to Powakka to visit Yolanda and introduce Rick to his namesake. Everything was recorded.
Eight months into her Peace Corps service, Tam's mother was diagnosed with cancer. Tamra made the decision to leave the Peace Corps to be with her mother in her final days.
Not long after she returned home to California, her mother's health rallied — great news. And then the unimaginable happened: Rick had a sudden, fatal heart attack.
In Powakka, little Ricky has grown to be a sturdy little boy, now ten years old. Several years ago I visited Yolanda and her family and e-mailed a photo of them to Tamra.
Today Tamra works in a veteran's hospital in northern California. She still speaks warmly about her Peace Corps experience.
When people ask what Peace Corps service was like, it's hard to answer. I try to explain that every volunteer is different, every country, every village, every assignment and every experience is different.
As baby boomers face retirement, the percentage of volunteers in their fifties, sixties, and even seventies is increasing.
Because we are older, do we treasure our Peace Corps experience more than young people? Do we have a greater understanding of what it means to volunteer, a greater appreciation for the experience?
In many countries, gray in your hair gains you undeniable respect. I believe this also contributes to a different kind of Peace Corps adventure. I think Tam would agree that over 50 is a great age to experience Perce Corps service.


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Janelle and Rich were married at the beautiful Westcoast Wilderness Lodge on the sunshine coast. Angela Girard and her team at Reflection Events headed up the planning, florals, and decor (they did an amazing job with their truck full of decor goodies that they brought from Vancouver), Audio Edge was there for the music, and cake was by Clayton's Bakery. Thank you Janelle+Rich and their families for such a warm and welcoming weekend at Egmont- I wish I could do this every weekend!
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Murphy's edge may be Spott knows exactly what he is getting.
"That it is Spotter makes it that much more special," Murphy said. "Hopefully it is my year. The last two years, he told me what to expect and to play my game."
Also included in the final camp roster is Murphy's former York Simcoe Express teammate, Daniel Catenacci, a third-round selection of the Buffalo Sabres, also in 2011.
"It's awesome," said an obviously excited Catenacci, who faces a huge challenge among a group of 21 forwards in camp. "It's always been a dream of mine since I was a little kid to be invited to the camp and play on Team Canada.
"Obviously, I'll be facing a lot of competition next week and it'll be tough, but the biggest thing is getting invited."
A Newmarket resident, Catenacci has compiled 43 points, including 17 goals, this season for the highly regarded Owen Sound Attack. He is a former No. 1 pick in the OHL draft, selected by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in 2009.
Murphy was selected third overall in the same draft by Kitchener.
The possibility of reuniting former York Simcoe Express teammates is appealing to the parties involved.
"It would be unbelievable to be on the same ice on the same team," Murphy said. "I played with him as far back as I can remember. I'm happy for him to get an invite, too."
No argument from Catenacci.
"That'd be a really cool thing to do," he said.
Catenacci's teammate, Jordan Binnington, a Richmond Hill resident and third-round pick of the St. Louis Blues in 2011, was named one of four goalies chosen to attend the camp.
Binnington has a 2.15 goals against average and .935 save percentage, along with three shutouts this season for the Attack.
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Simply put, as Sam said last night, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" as ab-lulous! We loved the way it incorporated songs from a classic movie into an ongoing storyline between Will and Emma.
What else did we enjoy about the episode? Our staff goes over it all in the following edition of the TV Fanatic Round Table...
What was your favorite quote from the episode?
M.L. House: I was in Sue's Corner for this line: "Children must know fear. Without it, they'll try be Frenching grizzly bears or trying to live in Florida."
LJ Gibbs: "I have no idea what's going on in this script, and it's not in a cool Inception kind of way." God bless you, Finn.
The Barancle: I enjoyed how the episode tackled body perception from a male point of view, as that's an under-reported issue. It also led to this gem from Sam: "Ain't no carpool lane to sexy."
What was your favorite song from the episode?
M.L. House: It may cause my wife to leave me for John Stamos, but I also couldn't help but get down to "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul."
LJ Gibbs: Easy. I wanna do the Time Warp again. Can we stop to give props to the costume designers for coming up with these outfits? Truly astounding.
The Barancle: "Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me." I didn't think Emma had that sexy side in her, but... wow. Safe to say she does.Are you on Team Will or Team Carl?
M.L. House: Sorry, my curly-haired friend, but Team Carl. Will may have come around in the end last night, but the entire inspiration behind the musical was petty and selfish. As Will himself eventually said, Carl makes Emma happy. It's that simple.
LJ Gibbs: Easy. Where there's a Will, there's a way to get these two together! As The Barnacle referenced in his answer above, Emma may be content with Carl, but a whole new side of her comes out with Will. She seemed pretty darn content singing that song to him, didn't she?
The Barancle: Team Will. For Emma, that is. For myself? Team Jacob all the way!
What classic film would you next like Glee to take on?
M.L. House: The Sound of Music. How amazing would that be?!?
LJ Gibbs: West Side Story.
The Barancle: Can I choose a play? Wicked. We already know Idina Menzel would fit right in.
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Abundant oil supply and not enough demand are causing a drop in gasoline prices. Does saving a little cash at the gas pump influence economic growth and employment rates? Gerald Celente, publisher of Trends Journal and researcher at Trends Institute, comments on the decrease in oil prices. When interviewed by a reporter Celente shares how lower gasoline prices helps some consumers, yet offers little assistance for people with high debts and poor income jobs. Celente goes on to share how saving a few pennies at the pump helps, but fails to create meaningful economic change. To view the full interview please click here.


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It's National Scotch Day. So There's Your Excuse.
Even though you could theoretically reproduce Scotch outside of Scotland, legally you couldn't call it Scotch.
It's National Scotch Day, which means it's high time you brush up on the basics and get to know the manliest thing to sip.
Meet Scotch WhiskyScotch is one of those special spirits that manages to distill the essence of a place into a bottle. A combination of Scottish barley, smoke from a peat-fired flame and clear, cold water conspire to give the drink its distinctively bold flavor. Scotch can only come from Scotland, in the same way that Tequila can only come from parts of Mexico or Champagne from France.
The word "whisky" itself ("usquebaugh" in the original) is from Scotland's traditional language, Gaelic. It means "water of life," and we'd drink to that. Even though you could theoretically reproduce Scotch outside of Scotland, legally you couldn't call it Scotch, and as you'll soon learn, so much of the geography of Scotland goes into the spirit that there's no good reason to try to reproduce it elsewhere. Here, then, is your ultimate Scotch whisky guide.
How It's MadeFirst, start with barley. If a whisky is "malted," that means that wet barley was spread in a huge room and brought it to a temperature where it barely starts sprouting. In other words, the Scotch-makers fool the grain into thinking it's going to grow into a plant instead of a future of pulverization and lots of procedures with scalding hot water.
During this malting, many distilleries (and professional malters that sell to distilleries) use peat, which is kind of like charcoal that still needs a few million years to harden, to smoke the malt. This, friends, is how you get that delicious smoky flavor. Some other things help, but this step in the process really gives Scotch its one-of-a-kind taste.
It's Mashing TimeThe grain is ground to powder and thrown into a big tank of water, along with yeast that eats grain and excretes alcohol. The booze is boiled off a few times, and then the good stuff — what's now basically moonshine (or "new make spirit," as they say on the other side of the pond) — is put into casks that spent their first life holding sherry, bourbon or even rye inside.
If you've ever wondered why a four- or six-year bourbon can be the height of quality but good Scotches start closer to the 10- or 12-year mark, blame it on the cool Scottish clime. Down in Kentucky, it gets so hot in the warehouses during the summer and so cool during the winter that the liquid inside expands into the wood and gets squeezed out many times over during its aging.
In Scotland, the process — and some would say the drink, but we'd take issue with that — is a lot more subtle. There's a more gradual aging, and a double-barrel Scotch will even spend time in two different barrels, absorbing the character of each. Once it's bottled, Scotch doesn't get better, but if kept in a cool, dark place, it shouldn't get worse.
There's a lot of confusion about the difference between single malt and blended Scotch. Blended Scotch is just that: a combination of up to 50 grain (non-malted whisky) and single malts from various producers. There are severe laws that dictate the age on the label. It cannot, for example, be less than three years old, and the age on the label is for the youngest whisky in the blend.
The "single" in single malt refers to one single producer or distillery. What's in the bottle, in other words, is the result of one production process and not a blend of many. This, for the person who's ready to dive deeper into the waters of life, is where things get interesting.


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Each week, we will be taking a look back at the fascinating history of Burr Ridge and separating fact from fiction. This week we bring you the second of our two part look at how the Village of Burr Ridge was named.
It's hard for us to imagine just how rural Burr Ridge was back before it was, indeed, "Burr Ridge." Women tell stories of husbands taking tractors during snowstorms; children in the 1940s and 1950s recall hunting in small woodlands. The area wasn't merely dotted with farms, it was mostly farms. Where there were farms, there were farmers; and where there were farmers, there was "The Prairie Farmer."
"The Prairie Farmer" was a newspaper originally published in 1841, and created to serve rural America. The paper was extremely popular here in the Midwest, and particularly in the Chicago area, which was an agricultural hub. By the 1920s, "local man" Burridge D. Butler was the successful publisher of this piece of historic Americana.
According to author James F. Evans in "The Prairie Farmer and WLS: The Burridge D. Butler Years," Butler wrote:
"My phenomenal reconstruction of Prairie Farmer must get the attention of every advertiser... I took an old paper and made it sparkle with freshness."
Butler viewed his leadership — beginning in 1928 — of WLS Radio here in Chicago, with similar no-nonsense, seeing the interests of the working farmer as honest and direct: "...no politics, no schemes, just square-toed affairs."
Radio in our rural area was a necessity of life. WLS (World's Largest Store, founded by Sears, Roebuck and Co.) was the station designed for the agricultural majority. Butler's description of his WLS station and the role of "The Prairie Farmer" (with shows like the popular Chicago-produced "National Barn Dance") make this point clear. Here, he writes on July 1, 1939 in "Broadcasting" magazine:
"WLS in Chicago has intensive coverage of the rich Middle Western market. WLS proves its audience in this area and throughout the country by the letters they write — definite evidence that they are listening."
And from one of these listener letters, Butler quotes:
"Radio is so much a part of life that we take it for granted. Time signals in the morning speed my husband off to work and the children to school. Household programs provide me with a wealth of helpful culinary and housekeeping information. News periods keep us in touch with all that is happening in the world; play-by-play sports broadcasts hold intense interest for my husband and son and the many musical and dramatic programs supply entertainment for all of us. Yes — and the commercial programs supply constant and valuable shopping suggestions."
So, did Burr Ridge get its name from Burridge D. Butler? Well, there's no written record of that. The federal 1940 census shows his address as E. 5th St., Hinsdale. However, his popularity, advocacy for the everyday farmer, working relationships with International Harvester executives and Hinsdale address all seem to make it seem possible. More research and written proof is needed to be more conclusive.
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Byon November 1, 2011
1) Second day of domination in the news cycle, beeyotches, and there's no sign of it's stopping any time soon.
2) Overheard on Capitol Hill:
Sen. Graham: "He's running for what? He's accused of what? Holy hell, I mean, Jesus, can't I get the flu or something? Where's Lieberman? I'm not going in there alone."
3) The Fox News lifeboat is getting awfully crowded. Luckily, there are firm and uncommonly large hands on the, ahem, tiller.
(And, uh, Annie? I know your previous experience with them was limited to the small cement replicas at the end of the family driveway, but they're really not your blacks, okay?)
4) I knew I should have been in Pella. I'd have killed in Pella. Even lying my ass off about ethanol would be easier than talking about this stuff. Sounds like I missed a show. "The current government "is maniacally anti-jobs," Newt Gingrich said. "Obama is a left-wing radical who believes in class warfare." And they think I'm crazy. I might just hire this guy.
(This is, of course, a match made in heaven, since Herman Cain already has long experience in dealing with doughy frauds.)
5) But they're waiting and seeing on me. Waiting and seeing is good. I might just run out the clock on this bad boy.
(Note to Jeff Jorgensen: "It's not the Herman Cain we know," is sort of off the point. Herman's problem is not with anyone named Jeff.)
6) And look at these suckers, and I haven't even campaigned much out there.
"The current Cain sexual harassment issue doesn't ring true and is a little too convenient timing-wise," said Julie Roe, a conservative activist in central Iowa who said she is considering backing Cain in the January caucuses. "I've had enough 'tolerance' and 'diversity' classes to find most accusations, especially with the tone of these particular accusations... to disbelieve them.
Can you believe it? This woman took 'tolerance' and 'diversity' classes and all she learned in them was not to believe the victims. Call me Kevlar, baby, because I am bulletproof.
(Yeah, he's still nuts.)
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Apple stockholders hold annual meeting
CEO Tim Cook made some interesting comments. Comparing the first OG Apple iPad to the Apple iPad Air, he called the former tablet "embarrassing." And after bragging about the all-time tech record of $171 billion in revenue that Apple brought in last year, Cook told the stockholders in attendance, "We want to grow more. And this morning, we want to unveil some new products ..." But Cook admitted he was just kidding, taking the air out of the room.
Many in the room didn't appreciate the joke, which reminded many of the the stockholders attending, that Apple hasn't had an innovative new product since 2010.
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1. Kishin (Posts: 647; Member since: 30 May 2013)
New products is all saw in this article..So exciting..
5. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3562; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
Lol, right!...Yeah, politics are boring..
2. joey_sfb (Posts: 3254; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
Why is Tim Cook calling their former iPad tablet design "embarrassing"?
Any one could make a guess?
6. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 1275; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
It was heavy, battery life wasn't great, and it had a horrible screen, same as the first iPhone. It's not about what you used to do, it's about what you are doing.
7. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3562; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
Sounds kinda like a Surface Pro.. Lol!
11. g2a5b0e (Posts: 2725; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
Sure, if you're looking at it by today's standards. None of those things were necessarily true when it came out though.
3. networkdood (Posts: 6326; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
oh joy, Al Gore...what a phony
4. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3562; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
"" Apple shareholders hold annual meeting.. They decide that it would be best to have the iPhone6 run WP8.1, and make Ballmer CEO"""
Lol!!! Just joking.. :-):-):-)
8. Miracles (Posts: 560; Member since: 31 Aug 2013)
The video was rude. Climate change is much more important than them stockholders making money.
9. PBXtech (Posts: 984; Member since: 21 Oct 2013)
Brutal quote, sounds like they aren't too fond of Tim and miss Steve. Too bad for Tim most shareholders don't know jack about running corporations.
10. superduper (Posts: 151; Member since: 20 Oct 2013)
Not sure how the Mac Pro is not innovative and new. It squeezes an unimaginable amount of power into a tiny frame, much smaller than the average desktop PC tower. I can't think of any cylindrical desktop computers or workstations that existed before it was released. PCs are still box shaped, as they have been since the '80s. That's 30 years of convention overturned.


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