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Geno Smith is Competing for the Starting Job; There is no Reason to be Buds with Sanchez
The more I think about it, the more I realize that Geno Smith not going to Mark Sanchez's "Jets West" is really no big deal. My initial reaction was I felt that Geno was looking immature and arrogant, but then after taking a step back you have to realize: He's COMPETING and wants to rip that starting job from Mark who has held it since the 2009 season.
If you were competing against your "enemy", would you want to go in the lions den? Make no mistake however; once this competition is over and a winner has been selected for the beginning of the season, I expect the loser to support the main guy. They don't need to be the best of friends, but once the starter has been named, I expect number 2 to be a great teammate and support him the best way possible. There is no room for dividing a locker room.
A video, via the OCNN network (yeah that still exists), showed Geno working out with Steelers' WR Antonio Brown, and let me tell you, the ball velocity and precision was impressive. Geno has always had the big arm, and is completion percentage in college has been a very high 70′s. Mark has always struggled with ball protection (50+ the last two seasons is bad), and Geno would be an upgrade in that department.
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The question will be, will Geno be ready to learn and run the offense for the first week. My money is still on Mark Sanchez, but I think I'll stick to my original prediction that sometime during the season when Sanchez struggles, Rex won't hesitate to turn the franchise over to Geno thus ending the "Sanchize" era for good.
May the best man win the job. PERIOD.
This is over in my mind. Geno is a superior talent to Sanchez in every way. Accuracy, Arm Strength, Pocket Presence, Running Ability. What Sanchez has is more experience in a pro offense and against pro defense. Geno IMO is gonna win the starting job from Mark when the pads are on, because Sanchez just isn't that good. Sanchez had every advantage and still didn't separate himself from a rookie who didn't take the snap from under center in college. Literally everything Geno is doing is new to him and still he was neck and neck with Sanchez. Geno is the best option for this team IMO. No Geno won't be perfect, but I think he's still gonna be better than Sanchez.
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Sprott Buys Energy With Commodities at Recession Valuation
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Chemical, metal and agricultural companies around the world have fallen to valuations whose only precedent came in the last recession.
Commodity producers in the MSCI All-Country World Index lost 17 percent since June 30 and traded for 10.6 times reported income as of Oct. 21, cheaper than 96 percent of days since 1995, data compiled by Bloomberg show. In Canada, where stocks get more value from producers of fuels and minerals than any other major developed market, losses in energy shares are exceeding oil prices for the first time in 17 years.
"It has everything to do with fear and little to do with actual fundamentals," Sprott Inc.'s Eric Nuttall, whose Sprott Energy Fund is up 16 percent this month, said of oil stocks. "When people are in a fear-driven mode, fundamentals can be irrelevant in the short term. Eventually, the stock market will always be fundamentals-driven."
Speculation that economic concerns have sent prices down too far spurred Nuttall, who oversees the C$116 million ($115.6 million) fund for billionaire Eric Sprott's firm, to buy shares in Calgary-based Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd. and Trican Well Service Ltd. ING Investment Management's Paul Zemsky says he's waiting for a solution to Europe's credit crisis and signs that China has stopped trying to curb inflation before buying.
Valuation Pressure
The S&P GSCI Index of 24 raw materials lost 12 percent last quarter, the biggest retreat since 2008. Copper fell 26 percent, crude oil retreated 17 percent and aluminum slumped 15 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Commodities are projected to rise in 2012. West Texas Intermediate crude oil may rise to $95 a barrel at the end of next year from $87.40 on Oct. 21, the median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg shows.
Declines that erased more than half the value from Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, Vedanta Resources Plc in London and Helsinki-based Stora Enso Oyj drove down the price-earnings ratio for materials stocks as much as 50 percent from the 2011 high, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Before this year, the only time the shares were cheaper was during the 2008 credit crisis, data compiled by Bloomberg since 1995 show.
Mining and chemical companies in the U.S. are trading at 12.1 times analysts' forecast profit for 2012, compared with 12.6 times for the full Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Valuations fell even as analysts cut their 2011 earnings estimates by 3.7 percent since the start of September, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Debt Crisis
Investors sold shares as concern Europe's debt crisis will spread dimmed prospects for economic growth. Gross domestic product in the U.S. may expand by 2 percent next year, down from an estimate of 3.3 percent in February, according to the median estimate in a survey of 82 economists by Bloomberg. Commodity stocks in the S&P 500 declined as much as 62 percent during the recession that began in December 2007, compared with 55 percent for the full index, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
"The huge amount of uncertainty is keeping the multiples low, but I'm of the camp that they're just too low because I don't think things are that bad," Eric Green, a Philadelphia-based fund manager at Penn Capital Management, which oversees about $6 billion, said in a telephone interview on Oct. 19. "Things will work out better than the market is anticipating."
Rescue Fund
The MSCI All-Country World Index rose 0.4 percent last week as investors awaited a summit where policy makers might increase the size of Europe's financial-rescue fund to help Greece avoid a default. The S&P 500 advanced 1.1 percent to 1,238.25. The global stocks gauge climbed 1.8 percent today, while the S&P 500 increased 1.3 percent.
ArcelorMittal plunged 29 percent in August even after second-quarter earnings beat analyst projections and the world's biggest steelmaker forecast higher shipments in the second half of 2011. BBMG Corp., a Beijing-based cement producer, retreated 41 percent between July 8 and Aug. 29, then slumped another 19 percent even after reporting a 45 percent increase in first-half net income.
While earnings for U.S. materials stocks rose more than profit for all S&P 500 companies in the past seven quarters, they're so far underperforming the index for the three months ended in September. Since 2006, they have only fallen short of analyst forecasts once, in the fourth quarter of 2008. AK Steel Holding Corp. and Dow Chemical Co. are among the 19 materials companies in the S&P 500 to report earnings this week.
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"You have a very uncertain direction of the economy now, and these things move around quite a lot," Jason Brady, a managing director at Thornburg Investment Management Inc. who helps oversee about $73 billion from Santa Fe, New Mexico, said of materials companies. "The idea that commodity prices are going to go to the moon in a straight line isn't really there anymore."
The S&P/TSX Energy Index dropped 19 percent and West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures declined 17 percent in the third quarter, the first time in 17 years that the stocks had a bigger loss when both retreated. Companies are trailing because concern about the economy is masking the industry's earnings potential, Michael Clare, a money manager at Creststreet Asset Management Ltd., said in an Oct. 17 telephone interview.
Recession Levels
"The oil equities are pricing in the potential for a recession and seem to be ignoring the oil price," said Toronto-based Clare, whose firm's energy hedge fund returned 137 percent from its inception in April 2005 through Sept. 30. "The oil price is telling you the oil market is quite a bit tighter than equity market investors would have you believe."
The index of Canadian energy stocks has sunk 11 percent this year as concern about a potential recession has led investors to sell equities most-tied to economic growth. Suncor Energy Inc., the country's biggest oil and gas producer, slumped 29 percent last quarter. Trican Well Service, an oilfield-services company that Sprott's firm is buying, lost 34 percent last quarter. It has rebounded 21 percent this month.
Accelerating Acquisitions
Industry acquisitions are accelerating following the retreat. Kinder Morgan Inc. agreed last week to buy El Paso Corp. for $21.1 billion, the energy industry's biggest transaction in more than a year. The deal creates the largest natural-gas pipeline network in the U.S.
Statoil ASA, Norway's biggest oil company, said it plans to buy Brigham Exploration Co. for about $4.4 billion. New Gold Inc., which mines gold in California, Mexico and Australia, said last week it is buying Silver Quest Resources Ltd. and Geo Minerals Ltd. in an all-stock deal valued at C$121 million.
"The Chinese slowdown is exaggerated, the world continues to demand more oil and there will be a reacceleration in commodities prices as we move into 2012," Tom Wirth, who helps manage $1.5 billion as senior investment officer for Chemung Canal Trust Co., in Elmira, New York, said in a telephone interview on Oct. 18. "These companies are in far better shape than they were in 2008."
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In today's high tech environment, language technology software is everything; it includes machine translation systems, web search engines, spelling and grammar checkers, speech processing, and smartphone personal assistants, such as Apple's Siri. The problem is these technologies
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Receiving the lowest scores in all areas (weak/no support), Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Maltese were at the highest risk for extinction. Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Greek, Hungarian and Polish showed fragmentary support and are therefore also at risk. Languages receiving moderate support included Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. View the complete results of the study here.
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Beppo (poem)
Beppo: A Venetian Story is a lengthy poem by Lord Byron, written at Venice in 1817. Beppo marks Byron's first attempt at writing in the Italian ottava rima metre, which encouraged his inclination for satiric digression. In this, it is the precursor to Byron's most famous — and generally considered his best — poem, Don Juan.
The poem tells the story of a Venetian lady, Laura, whose husband, Giuseppe (or "Beppo" for short), has been lost at sea for the past three years. According to Venetian customs, and without shedding too many tears, she finally takes on a Cavalier Servente, simply called "the Count". But when the two of them attend the Venetian Carnival, where she is duly admired for her beauty by all the men, she is closely observed by a Turk who turns out to be her missing husband. Beppo explains that he has been captured and enslaved, but was freed by a band of pirates that he joined. Now, with the money he made through his life of piracy, he has returned to be re-baptized and reclaim his wife. Laura returns to Beppo, and he and the Count become "friends".
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The poem's main merit lies in its comparison of English and Italian morals, arguing that the English aversion to adultery is mere hypocrisy in light of the probably shocking, but more honest custom of the Cavalier Servente in Italy. Also, it seeks to show that, in comparison to Byron's Oriental Tales of 1813, this looser attitude towards morals may be more beneficial to all participants.
The poem manifests a number of typical Byronic qualities: it is digressive in its structure, for example, and it takes satiric jabs at targets familiar to readers of Byron, such as literary women and other poets (including Robert Southey, who appears as "Botherby"). As he does in major poems like Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, Byron mixes fictional elements with elements of autobiography in Beppo.
Reputedly, Lady William Russell was the inspiration for "[one] whose bloom could, after dancing, dare the dawn".
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Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on October 27, 2011 | Comments (2)Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. Island of Lost Souls. The Most Dangerous Game. The Night of the Hunter. The Blob. For a company perhaps best known for releasing pristine editions of international arthouse classics, The Criterion Collection certainly has a healthy amount of cult films in its repertoire. Cult cinema is often a difficult beast to recognize, for such films avoid the roads best travelled in their journey towards recognition and renown. Unlike seminal films in the collection including The 400 Blows, 8 ½, or Rashomon, cult films aren't typically met with immediate cultural or institutional recognition upon release, aren't made by internationally-recognized talent, and don't always have an immediately traceable history of influence. That is, however, what makes cult films so interesting and so valuable: they emerge without expectation or pretense and signal the most populist and anti-elite means by which a film can gain recognition, pointing to the fact that there are always valuable films potentially overlooked between the pages of history. Herk Harvey's low-budget drive through horror masterpiece Carnival of Souls (1962), like many cult films, emerged into the top tier of film culture in some of the unlikeliest of ways. Harvey was an industrial and educational filmmaker; the $33,000 Carnival was his only feature work. The film had ten minutes lobbed off of it for its drivethru run to fit more screenings, and was largely a non-event when it first graced American screens. Carnival's success is owed mostly to genre film festivals, late-night television […]
Criterion Files #91: The Blob
Criterion Files By Adam Charles on July 7, 2010 | Be the First To CommentIn 1960 Alfred Hitchcock released Psycho, oft-credited as the film that brought the horror genre out of the predominance of drive-in culture and into the realm of serious cinema, at least domestically since the early days of James Whale and Tod Browning. It's the film that validated horror as a category thematically capable of producing accomplished art. Two years prior a film was released that was very much intended for the drive-in crowd with all of its conceptual silliness (a giant glob of jell-o envelopes humans and grows exponentially as it devours) may not have left as prevalent a mark on cinema history as Hitchcock's masterwork, or even some of its popcorn entertainment contemporaries like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but where Psycho progressed the genre forward in artistic cinematic inclusiveness and Body Snatchers (as well as many others from prior decades) solidified its usage as powerful allegory The Blob accomplished multiple feats that in hindsight can make one wonder whether or not the minds behind it were, like the the film's antagonist, not of this world. The Blob, fifty-plus years after its release, seemed to have been made by either soothsayers or time-travelers. How's that for science-fiction?
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Der Freischütz Opens 31 January at The Athenaeum
Der Freischutz (The Marksman), a gothic horror opera long dismissed outside Germany as ludicrous, has ridden changing entertainment fashion to make a rare reappearance in Melbourne.
Its supernatural themes are no longer alien in an entertainment world dominated by magic and monsters, such as the Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, says Sally Wilson, the soprano who sings the heroine.
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A warm invitation is extended to all to celebrate the life of a wonderful person, extraordinary artist and devoted mentor, counsellor and teacher, Eilene Hannan at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Corner Sturt St and Southbank Boulevard, Southbank on Sunday 10 August at 2 pm.
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Windsor Street is usually quiet but late Saturday evening it was swarming with investigators from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office.
"There was nine cop cars and four unmarked... And so we were a little concerned," said Chrissie Gillett.
"There were detectives, people in uniform everywhere," said Loma Broussard.
Detectives say they received an anonymous tip about possible illegal weapons inside a home on Windsor Street. "We found several weapons, approximately 55-60 weapons and we're unable to determine if any are illegal at this point," said Sgt. Robert Manuel.
Investigators say all of the weapons were found locked safely in a vault inside a shed behind the home. While 80 percent of them were rifles, several guns brought out have nearby neighbors concerned.
"Some of them have really long barrels and some of them look like they have the large magazines that would be automatic weapons. They wouldn't be just for hunting... So that's scary," said Gillett.
"That's scary, that's really scary. My husband hunts, but I mean we're talking -- lots of guns -- that's scary because somebody could go off. You don't know what they would do," said Broussard.
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An extra wide ironing board for tablecloths? Other wonderful things that I can vicariously enjoy? |
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What is a bed crown? |
No bed crown here. I thought they were for little girls, but I bet they'd be beautiful for a large bed! |
No, but I would love to have a Miele rotary iron to iron my sheets and tablecloths. Anyone have a spare $2,000 to donate for the purchase? |
- Posted by patty_cakes (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 16:32
Only in my dreams of castles, knights, and of course dragons! But, I do have a four-poster bed with a crochet canopy, which is nothing more than a vintage bed 'topper' or could even be a table cloth. I've had it forever, and even have a gold one I change out to~the holes in the crochet secure it to the posts. I'll be making a crown for my little GD out of a shelf similar, but longer, to the one pictured. My intent is to turn it upside down, and hot glue fabric to the shelf side. It's an 'open wood' design, so will be easy to secure with screws, rather than nails. I'm very excited to start this project, and still looking for bedding for her daybed. I'm looking for something solid ivory~my daughter thinks i'm nuts, but it *will* be washable. |
Here is a link that might be useful: crown
- Posted by patty_cakes (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 16:35
Here's several gorgeous bed crowns, or coronas, which is what they're really called. Many can be constructed~now i'm gonna take another look............. |
Here is a link that might be useful: bed crowns
- Posted by Cindyloo123 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 16:59
I didn't know they sold ironing boards in anything other than the standard shape and size. This seems like a big untapped market to me! I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars for one, but if they sold rectangle boards for the same price as the standard shaped boards, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. |
I do have an ironing board that is about 1 1/2 times the normal width. I sew and quilt so it really comes in handy when ironing drapes, etc. Only downside is that the cover is a mess and I can't find one to replace it. Looks like I will need to sew one. I would rather sew more fun items! Upside--I can make a pretty one that matches my sewing room. |
- Posted by porkandham (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 20:23
No bed crown, but I did have a half canopy bed as a child. It's a similar idea, but it's part of the bed, and it's squared off. |
I was thinking the coronas must have evolved from the half-canopies, almost as if they are the vestige of a canopy bed. I like the idea of an abstracted roof over the sleeper. |
- Posted by allison0704 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 20:57
I have 2 friends with rotary irons - both LOVE them. I wouldn't mine a vintage bed crown in a guest bedrooom or daughter's room. I've often wanted an extra wide ironing board. I don't iron very often, but when I do, it's usually a tablecloth or curtain panels. |
I just went to see what a rotary iron was. I pictured a hot, steamy hand mixer. But what I found is what I call a mangle. It looks like you have to fold your items before you rotary iron them -- is that right? Did you know you can get old ones for little money? The brand name is ironrite. My search took me to a dyeing forum. Another interesting thing. How often have I wanted to dye a home decor thing and didn't dare. |
My husband built one for me and I covered it with padding and ironing board fabric. It fits over my ironing board. Love it for ironing larger items and quilting projects. |
- Posted by SunnyCottage (My Page) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 11:17
Does anyone use a steamer instead of an iron? I recently bought a "My Little Steamer" (believe they may have originally been sold on Home Shopping Network, but they can be found elsewhere online), and love it. I've used it for everything from drapes to t-shirts and I don't think I'll ever go back to an iron again. |
Jamies, the older rotary irons are narrower and almost impossible to find replacement covers for, but the idea is very much the same as the new Miele ones. SunnyCottage, have you tried using a steamer on a tablecloth or sheets? My experiences haven't been very good. If I try to use the steamer with the fabric on a horizontal surface, the steamer dribbles and I can't figure out a way to hang a large round tablecloth vertically so that I can steam it without creases. Currently, I set up my ironing board beside the bed and use the bed to hold the ironed cloth/sheet as I do each section. So I iron a section, then go to the other side of the bed and pull the fabric toward me. It's really a pain. |
- Posted by SunnyCottage (My Page) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 12:14
I hang most of my clothes to dry instead of putting them in the washer, and they go on hangers that I perch on the top of a long strip of molding that runs between my kitchen and breakfast area. Sounds odd, but it actually makes a very good "clothesline"! I have hung tablecloths this way, clipped to several hangers that are designed to hold pants, and this works well. I can then steam in an upright position and the steamer doesn't dribble. I haven't tried doing this on anything as large as a sheet though. |
- Posted by Cindyloo123 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 17:13
funnygirl, now I have to make a larger top for my board! How does the top attach to the board to keep it from falling off or moving? |
C/loo, DH took strips of wood (approx. 1 x 1/2") and attached them to the underside of the plywood. They follow the shape of the ironing board so that it (ironing board) rests inside the framework. I hope that makes sense! |
- Posted by Cindyloo123 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 5:33
Thanks Funnygirl, that was the method I assumed he used but just wanted to be sure. I intend to make myself one of these ASAP. And you should put a pic of yours on pinterest because I searched all over the Net and couldn't find a single post or pic about someone making a homemade top like that. I'm also looking forward to using Fun's idea of laying the freshly ironed part of a large item on the bed. Why didn't I ever think of that? |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 7:22
No bed crown, but I do have a sheepskin rug on the side of my bed. DH's grandmother always had one and I loved it as long as I can remember...I remember her when I walk on it. So soft and scrumptious on bare feet. |
I've used a table instead of a bed. Because it's slippery I don't have to tug, but the table is smaller than a bed and more ends up on the floor. I wonder if the new steamers are more powerful than they used to be? I have one from the 80s and it works for small areas of wrinkling on clothes but it would really take a long time and a lot of refilling to do a large item. Thanks everyone for the lovely conversation and ideas. Sheepskin is such a luxe, isn't it? I can't walk through costco without blissing out. You can tell I never lived on a farm. My dear MIL always had a mirror above her range, and now I realize my mother's closest aunt has one, too. I really wanted one in my new kitchen but opted for a bigger sheet of stainless because it was easier. I'll have to attach a mirror to it. Pattycakes, your GD will love what you make her. And the sense of specialness will last her whole life. !!! My ironing board cover is cotton with an irregular print on it, and it always fools me into thinking my drape or tablecloth is stained. I did the ironing when I was a kid, and it seems to me we had a teflon-y cover that was much better. |
No bed crown here, but SunnyCottage, I threw out my ironing board many years ago when I moved and the iron has not been used since or needed either. I love my steamer, a floor model. All my better clothing is hung to dry, and usually whatever I plan to wear for work needs only a brief touch up. |
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Updated: 10/04/2005 - October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - The Seven-Mile Bridge to the Florida Keys is finally open again.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Thousands of dead fish are tainting tourism along the Panhandle.
Posted: 10/04/2005 - The 48th annual Deep South Fair is in Thomasville this week, and organizers say it's a family event that will also raise money for good causes in the community.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - One of the state's largest utility companies is making plans for a nuclear plant in Florida.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Jeb Bush is backing his brother's latest choice for the US Supreme Court.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Consumer Reports has released a list of the perfect retirement havens, and Thomasville finds itself at the top.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Members of the Florida State Police Department go above and beyond the call of duty by educating youth on the dangers of driving drunk.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Residents of one local county get a chance to air it out with a man who can take their concerns straight to the nation's capital.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - The rising price of oil is forcing political leaders into looking for energy alternatives. And they are turning toward ideas once considered too environmentally unfriendly.
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Updated: 10/04/2005 - The high cost of gas has many commuters resorting to pedal power.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Another Tallahassee gas station has been accused of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - A long-established church in Tallahassee has lost its director and two other clergymen.
Updated: 10/04/2005 - Some questionable work at a local subdivision has residents, county commissioners and a developer coming to the table to figure out what went wrong, and how to fix it.
Updated: 10/03/2005 - A group of parents and teachers opposed to the FCAT is launching a campaign to fight Florida's mandatory third grade retention policy.
Updated: 10/03/2005 - Florida employers could find themselves looking down the barrel of the National Rifle Association.
Updated: 10/03/2005 - There are thousands of identity theft cases in North Florida alone.
Updated: 10/03/2005 - Tallahassee residents wake up to find their cars burglarized.
Updated: 10/03/2005 - With a hug from his son after a ceremonial oath, Chief Justice John Roberts began his first day at the Supreme Court.
Updated: 10/03/2005 - It's the time of year when leaves change color, a breeze cools the air, and squirrels … go nuts!
Updated: 10/03/2005 - Thousands of students displaced by Hurricane Katrina are learning they may have to face another hurdle while they attend school in Florida.
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Wal-Mart cut its full-year profit forecast, citing higher employee healthcare costs and increased investment in its online business, and the company said heavy discounting was likely to continue into the holiday shopping season.
As expected, the world's largest retailer also reported flat U.S. same-store sales, excluding fuel, for the second quarter - the sixth quarter of declining or no growth.
Wal-Mart, whose shares were down slightly at $73.90 in early trading, blamed intense competition and weak consumer spending for sluggish U.S. same-store sales.
" ... Consumers are still concerned about cost of living and employment," Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said on a conference call on Thursday.
U.S. retail sales in July were the weakest since January, data showed on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart named a new head for its online business in June, as part of plans to integrate the business with its network of brick-and-mortar stores.
Online sales grew 30 percent to more than $10 billion last year, but accounted for just a fraction of Wal-Mart's net sales of $473 billion.
Wal-Mart said it expected online sales to grow 25 percent in the year ending January. (Reuters)
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Ok first thing. I punched the coordinates into my Garmin GPS and choosing the format closest to the coordinates given, I was on my way. The coordinates it too me to was a dirt road between a few farms. I had to stop and ask a lady how to get to the school because Garmin couldn't find it as a school. When i got there i found this was the WORST course. I've been to campgrounds that were setup better for a DG course. In the description it says "1st tee in front of tennis courts" There was NO tees at all anywhere in the park. They were correct when they said that 1/2 the holes were numbered. The other baskets were just thrown here and there. I would NOT recommend this to anyone to play at. Thanks for wasting an hour and a half drive, 1/2 tank of gas and a Saturday.
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Southland leaders made their case Monday night to host a casino, one of five that could be established around Illinois if a gambling expansion bill being considered in Springfield becomes law.
A panel of lawmakers set up shop for an hours-long public hearing at the Tinley Park Convention Center, taking comments from supporters and opponents of the bill that represents the Legislature's latest attempt to expand gambling and survive the veto pen of Gov. Pat Quinn.
Country Club Hills Mayor Dwight Welch gave a fiery performance at the hearing, bringing along the chief executive of Cannery Casino Resorts, Bill Paulos, who has proposed a casino in the city and told the legislators "we can put a shovel in the ground tomorrow," spending upward of $200 million at a site near Interstates 57, 80 and 294.
"We blow everybody out of the water, just on the numbers," Welch said.
But the panel led by state Rep. Bob Rita, D-Blue Island, chief sponsor of the gambling bill in the House, also heard from leaders from Calumet City, Dolton, Homewood and East Hazel Crest, among others.
"We are right next to Hammond, Ind.," said Bryan Swanson, Calumet City's economic development director. "We want to capture all those dollars that are going into Indiana."
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Those backing the expansion contend that it could create between $400 million and $1 billion in new revenue for Illinois.
It also heard Monday night from stakeholders in the horse racing industry, gambling foes and representatives of the two Joliet riverboat casinos, who spoke out against a casino in the Southland.
The site for a Southland casino has not been chosen. Paul Braun of the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association said his group has come up with a revenue-sharing agreement that could spread the benefits across the region.
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BUT... Would that not give the authorities more reason to use keystroke-loggers and other such technology?? If they have to wade through a (possibly) nightmarish brute-force attack just to get the grocery list you sent to your spouse, they'll end up doing one of two things if they want to find out what you're sending:
- Get better hardware to do the brute-forcing in a more timely fashion.
- Fight for judicial, congressional, and executive approval to the use of keystroke-loggers, etc. because they need access to the encrypted data.
While I don't believe that we should all completely switch to encrypted communication, I do believe that there is a need for it. As such, the only way to avoid having every encrypted message decrypted by "big brother" is to provide enough other encrypted traffic (jokes, random chatter, etc.) along with it to make their jobs more difficult, but yet still feasible under the current laws we have.


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When an oil spill or other pollution event occurs, the public may be entitled to compensatory restoration. This does not refer to attempts to clean up the impacted site and restore it to its pre-spill condition; that is primary restoration. Compensatory restoration is additional restoration that compensates the public for the interim lost ecological services between the time of the incident and full recovery to pre-spill conditions.
While there are a variety of economic methods that may be used to calculate resource damages, Resource Equivalency Analysis (REA), also known as Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) is the most common method used in NRDA cases nationwide. This method was developed in the early 1990s and became the recommended approach in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) regulations promulgated by NOAA in 1996. Since then, REA has been endorsed by the courts on two occasions. Here, we provide a brief synopsis of that method, as well as links and references to more detailed descriptions and articles about REA.
REA, we first seek to quantify the injury in terms of degree (% of baseline injured), duration (years until recovery), and size (# of acres, stream miles, birds, etc.). A trajectory estimating the recovery to baseline is also estimated. The injury may be described in terms of lost acre-years or stream mile-years or bird-years of lost ecological services. We then seek to quantify the benefits of a restoration project in similar terms: degree of benefit (e.g., % services per unit area), duration of the project, and trajectory of the benefits over time. With this information, we "scale" the size of the project until the benefit of the project is equal to the injury. The final step is to cost out the project. This cost becomes the measure of damages.
Dunford, R.W., T.C. Ginn, and W.H. Desvousges. 2004. The use of habitat equivalency analysis in natural resource damage assessments. Ecological Economics 48: 49-70.
Flores, N.E., and J. Thacher. 2002. Money, who needs it? Natural resource damage assessment. Contemporary Economic Policy 20(2): 171-178.
Hampton, S. and M. Zafonte. 2004. Discounting and uncertainty in natural resource damage assessments. Poster. Fourth SETAC World Congress, November 14-18, 2004, Portland, OR
Hampton, S. and M. Zafonte. 2003. Calculating compensatory restoration in natural resource damage assessment: Recent experience in California. Proceedings of the California World Ocean '02 Conference, October 2002, Santa Barbara, CA PAPER AVAILABLE HERE
Helton, D. and T. Penn. 1999. Putting response and natural resource damage costs in perspective. Proceedings of the 1999 International Oil Spill Conference.
Jones, C.A. and K.A. Pease. 1997. Restoration-based compensation measures in natural resource liability statutes. Contemporary Economic Policy 15: 111-122.
King, D.M. 1997. Comparing ecosystem services and values with illustrations for performing Habitat Equivalency Analysis. Prepared for NOAA. Silver Spring, MD. PAPER AVAILABLE ONLINE
Mazzotta, M.J., J.J. Opaluch, and T.A. Grigalunas. 1994. Natural resource damage assessment: The role of resource restoration. Natural Resources Journal 34: 153-178.
NOAA. 1995. Habitat Equivalency Analsyis: An Overview. Policy and Technical Paper Series, No. 95-1, (Revised 2000 and 2006).
NOAA. 1999. Discounting and the treatment of uncertainty in natural resource damage assessment. Technical Paper 99-1.
Penn, T., and T. Tomasi. 2002. Calculating resource restoration for an oil discharge in Lake Barre, Louisiana, USA. Enivornmental Management 29(5): 691-702. PAPER AVAILABLE ONLINE
Sperduto, M.B., S.P. Powers, and M. Donlan. 2003. Scaling restoration to achieve quantitative enhancement of loon, seaduck, and other seabird populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 264:221-232.
United States v. Fisher, 977 F. Supp 1193 (D.D. Fla 1997)
United States v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., No. 97-02510-CIV-EBD, 1999.
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17612 (S.D. Fla. Sept. 27, 1999), aff'd, 259 F.3d 1300, 1305-06 (11th Cir. 2001).
Unsworth, R.E., and R.C. Bishop. 1994. Assessing natural resource damages using environmental annuities. Ecological Economics 11: 35-41.
Zafonte, M. and S. Hampton. 2007. Exploring welfare implications of resource equivalency analysis in natural resource damage assessments. Ecological Economics 61: 134-145
Zafonte, M. and S. Hampton. 2005. Lost bird-years: Quantifying bird injuries in natural resource damage assessments for oil spills, Proceedings of the 2005 International Oil Spill Conference, May 15-19, 2005, Miami, FL. PAPER AVAILABLE HERE
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Jason Giecek -- Tinkerertink69 -- was one of the earliest people on my Open Salon friends list.
I consider him a littermate, since we joined OS about the same time, and his demented overnight posts from the bowels of gambling casino IT hell made me howl with laughter.
When he was "outsourced" by bean counter jackals, all of us knew what had happened and were appalled. Still, he attacked the issue with his customary wit, irony, humour and sarcasm, and when he recently landed another job, we were happy for him.
Throughout it all, he never lost sight of the important things in life.
The most important of those was "Wifey", Pamela, his spouse for nearly 15 years.
She was clearly his rock, his friend, his confidante, his ally. We could all see it, and we admired the both of them as they worked their way through problem after problem, together always.
Now, heartbreakingly, suddenly, she's gone.
In his place, I wouldn't know what to do.
Red and I recently went through a "spot of bother", as they say, over a wound on her forearm that turned septic in less than a day, sending the telltale red streaks up past her elbow toward her shoulder.
It could have -- would have -- killed her without numerous IV antibiotic treatments and many hours spent in the local emergency room.
It made me even more aware than usual about the place she has in my firmament. Quite simply, I'd be lost without the feisty comrade who always has my back.
I'll be telling her that tonight, again, because I want her to know just how much she means to me.
And, in honour of what Pamela meant to Jason, I'll be having a tree planted in her name in Point Pelee National Park not far from here.
It'll be a living memory of someone I never knew who is gone too soon.
Requiescat in pace, Pamela.
Tink has been a mainstay of goodwill, friendship, and humour here. A good soul. So sudden and heartbreaking to lose his beloved wife. Words can seem inadequate at a time like this but I hope he knows how much this community cares for him and that he is in our thoughts at this most difficult time.
Take care Tink,
May he somehow know what love for him ... for them ... we feel ...
This would be one of them.
I was so saddened to hear about this, my friend. Though I don't think Tink and I were "favorites" here, I always found his comments and posts creative and funny. He was a man with a tremendous sense of humor and an enormous amount of compassion for his fellow OSers.
My heartfelt condolences go out to Jason and his family. They will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Thank you for posting this tribute to Pam.
I had not logged on to OS for days, and I just saw this. I am shocked by the news.
My thoughts and prayers are with Jason and his family during this very challenging time. This is just heartbreaking.


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We have received a number of questions recently about sharing photo books. Sharing a photo book means that you make it available for others to see and/or buy over the internet. To others, your shared photo book will look just like it looks to you when you click the preview button in the PixBuilder tool. I.e. you see a simulation of what that project will look like in print and you can flip through the pages.
You don't need to wait until your project is completed or ordered before you share it with others online. In fact, you may prefer to show it to others before you finish it so that they can make suggestions for changes or improvements. This is especially true of commercial projects where client feedback is required.
1. Log into your account and under the "My Books" category click on See all.
2. Find the photo book you want to share. Under the orange bar (if it's not completed) or green bar (if it is completed) you will find three choices : Edit, Copy, Share/Embed. Click on Share/Embed
3. Clicking on the Share/Embed button will take you to a new page. On the right hand side of the screen, click on the blue bar that says "Share". You will then move the button at the top from the off to the on position. You can then either email the link directly to whomever you would like to share it with, or you can copy the link and send it in a separate email.
We hope these quick and simple tips will help you when you are designing your photo book with Adoramapix.
The photos you take are personal. They mean something to you. Why not take that one step further and display them in a personal way?
I found a great birch tree that had fallen in the woods. It's a native tree from where I live. I had a friend saw it into different sections for me and then saw about a 1/2″ thick place holder into the top of the small stumps.
I love the way they look and they compliment the images that represent where I live. Plus, it' s free and means more to me than a small frame from a general store. If you choose to do something like this, I suggest to use only fallen branches or logs.
Ever hear the old saying, "You can fix it later in post" ? Well that is true on a lot of photography issues, however, trying to get sharp images after the picture has already been taken through post processing doesn't always work. Instead, try these few tips to get images sharp right off the bat.
1. Set your AF Point
One of the most important things you can do is to use your navigation keys to choose your AutoFocus point selection within your image. Typically, when photographing people and or animals set the point on the eye that is closest to the camera. Now, if you can't get the AF point exactly where you need it, then you can always focus and recompose. This is used best in low light situations or when your subject is in the corner of the the frame. In order to do this, you select the central AutoFocus point and move the camera on the subject. Then half press the shutter to focus the lens and recompose the shot. You will still have the shutter release button half released when recomposing the shot. Then press the shutter when the image is where it's at in your viewfinder.
2. Use a Tripod
Tripods are often awkward to bring along or you may think they just too heavy. However, using a tripod stabilizes the camera and reduces movement. Even when you use a higher shutter speed or brace yourself before pressing the shutter, there is still room for error or in this case blur.
3. Back Focus
Did you know there is a button on the back of your camera that can help you get a sharper image? It's the back focus button. Many pros often use this to get tack sharp images, however it does take some time to master. The button is located in different areas on different models of cameras. You'll want to pull out your camera manual to find out the best way to use this button. I found a great tutorial on why this button is important and how to set up in your camera. Click HERE to read more.
4. Good Lens
There's no getting around this one. Want a sharp image? Get a sharp lens. The best investment I have made in my photography journey has always been a sharp lens. The kit lens that comes with some cameras will not necessarily net you a sharp image. Instead, do some research and find out what lens is in your budget and will give you the sharpest image. Whether you choose a prime or zoom lens, you should be able to rent them and test them out before making your final purchase. Prime lenses work best for low light. Zoom lenses work best for more action shots. Depending on what you are photographing, this will also help in your decision on which lens is best for you.
5. Press Shutter Lightly
A softer touch will always net a sharper image when it comes to the shutter. When clicking the shutter, do it as lightly as you can. Your finger should be actually on the button and then gently press it. Also make sure your finger is in contact with the button to begin with instead of hovering over it. Remember, more movement means more chance for blur.
We know there are a lot more ways to get sharper images and we'd love to hear from you. Let us know what you do to master sharpness.
-written by Libby for Adoramapix
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Every week we like to give updates or inspiration to making photo books through our PixPublisher software. This week though, I received a number of inquiries on how to edit a photo book that was already made through Pix Publisher.
Through three simple steps, I can show you how to make the edit.
First, choose the book that you have already completed or ordered. Go to : My Books –> See All —> Choose the book that you want to edit. If you look under the green bar, it will say view, copy or share/embed. Click on "copy"
The copy will automatically move to the top of your list of photo books. It will look familiar to your completed photo book, only it will have a yellow bar now that says "complete book." Under the bar, select edit.
Your photo book will open and you will then be able to edit/adjust whatever you need to from the original.
If you have any other questions on our PixPublisher – feel free to email me at email@example.com. I would be more than happy to help you finish a beautiful photo book that will last for generations.
Mixing the past with the present is one of my favorite ways to show off my prints with Adoramapix. I constantly change out my small photographs and have found ways to go outside of the box and find new ways to showcase them.
My latest find all came together for under $15. This included the print and the supplies. Here is a look at my latest endeavor. I found an old silver tray for $8 at a local thrift store. It was a bit tarnished but that was the look I loved. I also bought some fun magnets, string and of course my prints.
I simply found a few magnets that were fun and placed them on the top of the image that I wanted to hang. You can find magnets at any dollar or craft store.
I had string around the house, but decided to find something with a little more flair. I tied triple knots on each of the serving handles so that when it hangs, the string is about 2-3 inches above the platter.
I started with a bunch of smaller prints, but in the end decided I liked the one big 8×10 print better.
And then I put a simple finishing nail up and it was ready to hang.
All together the project cost me $15 but that included everything. I did have string and magnets already but decided I wanted something a little more fun. The time to put everything together? It took me about 10 minutes. I can see this perfect for a nursery or even have three of these serving platters together and put family photos on them. Since the platter was silver, I found cooler tone photos looked the best – those with grey, whites. Black and whites would also look amazing on the platter.
If you have any great ideas on how to display prints – email firstname.lastname@example.com. We are always looking for new and innovative ways to display our prints.
-Written and Photographed by Libby for Adoramapix


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An excellent tool that's been inside of Aperture for a while to help us identify areas where we may be losing shadow detail or highlight detail is the Show Hot and Cold Areas. You get to that up under the View menu and right here, Highlight Hot & Cold Areas, and we are just going to turn that on. What you get, essentially, is the red. That is the areas where you are losing highlight detail and then the blue, these are areas where you are losing shadow detail.
So, that means if I were to make a print right now, these areas will show paper white, and then these areas will have no detail whatsoever. You can fix that easily using Aperture's tools. For instance, let's tackle the highlight areas first. We could just go here to the Recovery slider in the Exposure brick and just move that, and you can just move that until that goes away. I never feel the need to get rid of absolutely every little bit of specular highlight because sometimes things are just pure white.
But I do want to cut down the big areas, such as we did here. In terms of fixing these areas right here, where we were blocked up in the shadows, I will just go down to Highlight and Shadows. Move my Shadow slider until I'm happy with the results. I don't want to compromise the rest of the image just to get rid of those few little areas of plugged up shadows, but just maybe just open them up a bit. Then when I am all done, all I have to do is go back to View, turn off Highlight Hot & Cold Areas.
I could use a keyboard command if I wanted to just quickly turn it off and on. Either way, it's up to you, but it's a very handy tool when you are making those finishing Exposure adjustments.
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In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried "undesirables" across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east.
Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly British secret police. It's his job to warn the Prime Minister of treason, to arrest plotters, and to discover Jews. The midnight… (più)
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Posted onShrinkfast Marketing, a maker of heat-shrink tools, named Dr. Shrink its Distributor of the Year.
The shrink-wrap supplier was honored for high-volume sales and its marketing and training approaches.
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We are sorry to inform you that PanoEdit is discontinued in its current form due to compelling circumstances. We hope that the tech behind PanoEdit will be used in a new application that will be released once it is ready. Thank all of you for using our application and for your very useful comments that helped to greately improve the application.
PanoEdit, an advanced and easy to use panorama stitching software for Mac. You will create beautiful panoramas using its automatic image alignment,
Making a panoramic photo with PanoEdit:
- Take overlapping photos by rotating your camera.
- Load to PanoEdit and click "Match All".
- Save a seamless panorama.
A review from the UK Mac App Store:
A must have photo editing app ★★★★★
by UKmacnut - Version 1.6 - Nov 25, 2012
Having stiched together a few scenes this year I have to say I'm very impressed. Photographers shouldn't be put off by the simple interface because underneath is a powerful tool. It does the job quickly, and well. It will suit the casual user as well as the advanced user. Well done to this app's author.