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Energy Source Builder
Environmentally Responsible House Requires Thoughtful Choices
Kermit the Frog noted that "it ain't easy being green." Builders James McDonald and Cary Thompson would agree. One major obstacle to building environmentally friendly houses is finding building materials that cause the least environmental harm. McDonald and Thompson have been trying out their ideas for several years, but their latest project is a speculative home in Eugene, Oregon designed by Architect Rob Thallon and James Givens. They must be doing something right. Halfway through construction the home sold for the asking price. Also, two buyers are waiting for houses that will be built on adjacent lots.
Builders Cary Thompson and James McDonald faced tough decisions when building their environmentally-friendly house.
Evironmentally Responsible Materials
"You can't just run down to the lumber yard for these materials," says McDonald. "Sometimes you order something, but it's not there when you need it. So you have to scramble to find a replacement."
Because they are unfamiliar with environmentally friendly materials and their suppliers, builders generally have concerns about availability, reliability, durability and cost. To address these concerns, McDonald and Thompson relied on several resources, including printed material, computerized databases, organizations, conferences and manufacturers. As builder and consumer interest grows, retail suppliers are appearing in some larger cities--offering another source of information and places to go when you find yourself one quart shy of a finished floor.
McDonald and Thompson asked manufacturers' representatives about product content, toxicity, origins, processing and transportation. Many times these reps didn't have answers and referred the builders to others.
It's not surprising that manufacturers are unprepared to answer those questions. Until recently, no one asked them. That is starting to change. "Most people consider only cost," says Thompson. "We're going further. We're considering all the options." But you can't deliberate forever. There comes a time when you must make a decision, choose a product and get on with the job.
"You don't have time to keep researching every point," says McDonald. "It would never end." Even after all the research, decisions are seldom clear-cut.
Take the case of the cedar siding. McDonald and Thompson had two choices: Red Cedar and White Cedar. McDonald's reasoning went like this: Red Cedar grows closer to the site in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, but it comes from dwindling stands of old growth. White Cedar is more available and comes from well-managed forests, but must be trucked thousands of miles from eastern Canada. He finally choose the White Cedar.
Many manufacturers make environmental claims, but most of these claims are impossible to verify. Fortunately, builders will soon have help. Independent agencies have begun certifying the environmental claims made by manufacturers. Two prominent agencies are Scientific Certification Systems and Green Seal. In the house built by McDonald and Thompson, the maple flooring, framing lumber and AQC treated lumber were certified.
Energy Use
One key feature of any environmental home is low energy use. The energy efficiency of this house was certified by the Eugene Water & Electric Board through their Super Good Cents program. In fact, the house uses 20 percent less energy than the level needed to qualify.
Energy-saving features include: R-26 double-framed exterior walls, windows with a heat loss rate of U-0.35, fully insulated concrete slab floor, R-49 attic insulation and a passive solar water heater. One key feature is passive solar space heating. Almost 60 percent of the home's windows are located on the long, south-facing wall. The sun shines through these windows, heating an exposed slab floor in the living room.
Indoor Air Quality
Paints and finishes low in toxic compounds were chosen for most inside and outside applications. McDonald notes that finishes with darker pigments were difficult to find, so he chose a standard paint for the dark trim. Reducing toxic materials is the first step toward a healthy indoor environment. The house also uses a central fresh-air ventilation system with heat recovery to control moisture, odors and contaminants generated by the occupants.
Architect Thallon and Givens describe their process as "site-based, builder-tailored and driven by the desire to create beautiful, useable and flexible spaces."
Instead of drawing plans containing all the minute details, they prepared minimal working drawings for permit approval. This enabled on-site decision-making with the builder.
"Weekly meetings were held to evaluate the emerging qualities of the place, continue design and detailing, anticipate problems and make necessary changes in a timely and economical fashion," says Givens. A key environmental design feature is small size. The home is about 1550 sq. ft., much smaller than most new homes. A detached studio adds 200 sq. ft.
"We used fewer, larger rooms to allow flexibility and promote a generous feeling in a modest square footage," says Thallon. The kitchen, eating area and living room flow together along the sunny south wall. The living room drops three steps for a sense of separation.
One large children's bedroom contains two built-in bed alcoves. The room can be subdivided to create separate bedrooms.
"Nothing meets all the environmental requirements, except building smaller," says Thompson. "It's the best thing you can do to save materials, lower costs and conserve energy."
This article appeared in Energy Source Builder #40 August 1995


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This discussion may contain spoilers!
The phrase "the lady or the tiger" comes from a famous allegorical short story of the same name. Wikipedia has a short synopsis of it here, which will make some of my points below clearer.
I think there are many the similarities between that story and TWD — particularly the ending. What does Clementine choose to do? Lee/the player have spent the entire game instructing her, either directly or by example, in how to behave in the harsh world she's now in.
Will she make the right choice? Is there a right choice? At this point between seasons, there isn't. Just as in TLoTT, it's up to the audience to determine what happens next. The same goes for Kenny, but in a less layered fashion.
And I think that's how it should stay.
Ambiguity is pretty unpopular with American audiences. For a good example consider the backlash over the last scene of "The Sopranos." Short version: (Tony was killed in front of his family and never saw it coming, just like the audience didn't.) Even though clues as to what definitively happened are all over the place, the fact that it wasn't explicitly stated and shown created a lot of confusion, anger and resentment amongst viewers immediately after it aired. Luckily many people eventually got over it and now recognize it for the courageous artistic choice it was.
So I think if TTG continues Clementine's story in S2 it will undermine S1 as a single complete work. Like TLoTT, the theme of TWD is choice in the face of uncertainty. To know what the outcome is ruins the work's ability to evoke that feeling of teetering on the edge of a precipice. The game worked so hard to create that feeling and to use it to manipulate audience emotions that I think releasing the tension of not knowing would be doing the story a disservice. As the central emotion, I think that's the one we should be left with.
To know who those figures on the hill are would be like knowing why the Mona Lisa smiles, or how a magic trick works. The answer might be clever, interesting, or even impressive, but it will never be as compelling as not knowing. It's the mystery and feeling of uncertainty which makes the ending so powerful.
Besides, there are only three things that can happen anyway.
[*]She's rescued and survives. Not only is this counter to the property's standard of "no one is safe," it can't be conclusive because the story of that world doesn't skip ahead by decades.
[*]She dies. This one sucks for the obvious reason that it means that all the player's/Lee's effort was for nothing.
[*]The cycle starts all over again with another person guarding her. This sucks because: We've already played that story; It turns Lee into just her first surrogate parent; It basically turns Clem into a football that the player must carry to the end of the current narrative. As much as I loved that fictional little girl I want to play TWD, not "Babysitter vs. Zombies 2."
If I was forced by TTG to decide what happened to Clem, I'm not sure what I would pick. But whatever I decided could never be as emotionally powerful as the feeling of not knowing.
So I hope the developers consider this as a serious option.
But if they do go this route, I hope they let the players know up front that that's what they're doing and why. I think modern audiences can understand things like that. People are increasingly genre savvy and comfortable with analyzing works while still enjoying them. Once the realm of creators, critics, and obsessive fans, I think more people can now take things like authorial intent into account when reflecting on works of art.


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Locals mostly stay home
Of the nine contested state and local races, primary voters chose to re-elect the Republican incumbent legislator for state House District 66, allow an appointed district court judge to continue to serve in her current capacity, and selected their choice for the GOP nominee for the only contested County Commission seat. The 2012 primary election results will become official only after being signed by the State Canvassing Board on June 26.
More than 20 incumbent legislators decided against seeking re-election this year, including Sen. Rod Adair, R-Roswell, first elected to the state Senate in 1996, meaning many legislative seats will change hands. Seventeen candidates were unopposed on Tuesday's ballot. The lack of contested races may explain light voter turnout locally. A mere 2,236 individuals cast their ballots early, with 1,790 voting at the County Administrative Building, 428 at the Roswell Mall and 18 in Hagerman. In total, 6,768 ballots were cast in Chaves County, 1,585 Democratic and 5,182 Republican.
Area Democrats will now step into the ring as none faced an opponent Tuesday. Chaves County Democrats weighed in on only two contested races: U.S. Senate and New Mexico Court of Appeals.
Securing nearly 70 percent of the vote, children's court judge Monica Zamora beat fellow Democrat and workman's compensation judge Victor Lopez in the race to serve on the New Mexico Court of Appeals. Zamora will now face Judge Miles Login to read more
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Yes indeed, a good time had by some at the Waycross Exchange Club Fair.
We have these fun filled people doing their deeds as the Ware County Sheriff's Department did their deeds.
Bodrick Denard Wright, age 22, from 634 OWENS STREET, charged with possession of cocaine.
Lawrence Eugene Woods, age 19, from OAK STREET, charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and sale of marijuana.
Ronnie Roundtree Webb, age 48, from 4118 Bethany Lane, charged with selling 90 hydrocone pills to an undercover deputy.
Crystal Danielle Champagne, age 19, from 911 LEE AVENUE, charged with being party to the crime of sale of Schedule II drugs,
A 16 year old boy from Manor was charged with possession of marijuana and multiple charges of the sale of marijuana.
Ronnie Culver Jones, age 38, from 611 E. Waring Street, charged with criminal intent to sell Schedule II drugs.
Anthony Nicholas Haddad, age 19, from 5655 Olin Manning Circle in nearby Blackshear, charged with possession of marijuana.
It's sad. Most of us go to the fair to take our kids, have fun with our friends, and enjoy the rides and exhibits. Others just go looking for more business opportunities.
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We didn't quite know what we were getting ourselves into when we asked Kristen Stewart to name her favorite British slang word.
The actress spent a while perfecting her British accent in anticipation of "Snow White and the Huntsman," and between that practice and her British boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, we were sure Stewart had learned a phrase or five that she was partial to. But we should have realized where she was headed when she told MTV News that she was being "way too honest here" during her Sneak Peek Week interview.
That's right: KStew's favorite British word is "cu–." She defended it, saying, "You go over there [to England], and it's a very different effect. It's fun. It's good."
Sure, we would have gone with "arse" or "wicked" or "innit," but we sort of get where Stewart was coming from in her preferential colloquialism. As her "Snow White" co-star Sam Claflin said, "['Cu–']'s become the new 'mate.' "
The conversation could have ended there, but Stewart added that her favorite way to use the "C" word is by adding an "-ing" to the end.
"Add an '-ing' to it — this is terrible — I heard some really down English crazy guy, on our crew actually, really angry, adding the '-ing,' " she explained. "It's a really good word."
What about Claflin's favorite American word? Apparently, that's an easy question. "Aluminum. Garage. Trash," he said with a laugh. "The list is endless."
Fortunately, you won't hear the pair saying any of those words in "Snow White and the Huntsman," which hit theaters Friday (June 1). But at least now we have a better idea of what Stewart and Pattinson are whispering in each other's ears in all those paparazzi photos.
Head over to MovieAwards.MTV.com to vote for your favorite flicks now! The 21st annual MTV Movie Awards air live this Sunday, June 3, at 9 p.m. ET.


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UPDATE: Leatherback sea turtle in stable but critical condition at Mote
SARASOTA - The newest visitor to the infirmary at Mote Marine in Sarasota weighs in at nearly half a ton and extends almost six feet from nose to tail.
The 800-pound Leatherback sea turtle — the largest reptile and first of its species ever treated at Mote — is on the mend at the marine lab after arriving from South Florida late Tuesday.
The female turtle has serious injuries and spent much of Wednesday swimming in circles in a tank as Mote scientists attempt to nurse her back to health.
The Leatherback, the largest and most endangered of all sea turtles, has been receiving around-the-clock care by Mote staff in a controlled medical pool since it arrived in critical condition, said Mote spokeswoman Hayley Rutger.
The mammoth turtle has a deep gash on its left rear flipper and cuts on its right side and face.
The turtle on Wednesday was in a harness and swimming circles in about 18,000 gallons of water; the straps prevent it from hitting the walls, Rutger said.
"They do have kind of delicate skin compared to other sea turtles," she said, adding that Leatherbacks dive the deepest of all turtles and are not used to boundaries.
Leatherbacks, which can reach 1,500 pounds, do not have hard shells. Rather, their carapace is bony and covered with a rubbery skin, Rutger said.
Eve Haverfield, president and founder of nonprofit group Turtle Time, said even crawling on sand can cut the Leatherback's soft skin.
Haverfield was one of more than a dozen people who helped rescue the stranded 5-foot-long turtle from Big Hickory Island near Bonita Springs Tuesday.
The turtle was coaxed into a boat and then covered in a tarp and hoisted by crane into a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission truck to be taken to Mote.
"Lots of motivated people took great pains to rescue this animal," Haverfield said of park rangers, wildlife experts and volunteers.
Haverfield, who monitors sea turtles in southern Lee County, said the turtle's cut likely came from a boat propeller.
Mote has not determined the cause or extent of the turtle's injuries. Blood samples and X-rays have been taken, but results were not immediately available.
"We wish her the best and hope to release her back into the ocean in a few days," Rutger said. "It's very neat to see and try to help a species that is so endangered."
Details of the turtle's release have not been mapped out, but it may be set free far offshore to prevent another stranding, Rutger said.
The turtle was first spotted on a Collier County beach on Monday trudging in circles, a behavior common after nesting.
Leatherbacks rarely nest in Southwest Florida, and it is not nesting season. The species mostly nests on the state's East Coast, the Caribbean or Pacific Ocean beaches.
It is unlikely the turtle nested in Collier County, Haverfield said, but a Leatherback did nest on Sanibel Island in Lee County last season.
In March 2000, an 800-pound Leatherback turtle was rescued from Holmes Beach with a seriously injured flipper. The bone in the turtle's flipper was broke, and a Clearwater veterinarian had to amputate.
To help Mote Marine care for the turtle and other marine life, donations can be made at www.mote.org/hospitalhelp.
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The leatherback sea turtle rescued from Big Hickory Island in Lee County on Tuesday remains in critical condition at Mote Marine Laboratory today. The turtle has been placed in a medical pool and appears to be in stable but guarded condition — however, as with all critically ill animals, her condition could change at any time.
The nearly 800-pound turtle was brought to Mote by Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after it stranded Tuesday. Since its arrival at Mote, veterinary staff have taken blood samples, are providing supportive medical care and are monitoring her condition around the clock. The turtle has been placed in a harness in the medical pool to help allow it to swim comfortably and to keep her from rubbing her delicate skin on the sides of the pool. Leatherback turtles are a pelagic - deep water - species, and un-used to boundaries or walls, making it difficult to treat them in a confined setting. Rehab is rarely attempted with this species.
Experts are always reluctant to bring this species of turtle in for treatment, according to Dr. Andy Stamper, Mote veterinarian. "Plan A was to get the animal back in the water, Plan B was to bring it into the hospital," Stamper said. The turtle could be released within days, he said.
Special thanks goes to Eric Kolek at Sarasota's American Canvas who quickly constructed a harness for this extremely large turtle on Tuesday. While our goal is to release this turtle as soon as possible, Mote is also seeking donations to help support the medical care of this animal.
"This turtle is larger than other animals — even dolphins — that we usually treat at Mote," Stamper said. "That means we have to use larger amounts of things like antibiotics to treat her and that costs are higher."
To make a donation to help support the turtle's care, please go to www.mote.org/hospitalhelp.
About this leatherback turtle:
The animal is an adult female nearly 5 feet long and weighs a whopping 787 pounds. She has a wound near where her left rear flipper attaches to her body and some abrasions on her right side and face. The animal does have a tag, so information about her previous nesting activity should be available later today.
Species information:
■ Leatherback turtles are the largest living reptiles in the world and are the largest and most endangered of all sea turtle species.
■ Leatherbacks don't have shells like loggerheads and other sea turtles. Instead, their carapace is bony and covered with a firm, rubbery skin. Leatherbacks are commonly found in deep ocean waters and are the most migratory and wide ranging of all the sea turtle species. They nest on beaches around the world, with the largest nesting populations found on the coasts of northern South America and west Africa. There are minor nesting populations in the U.S. Caribbean (primarily Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and in southeast Florida. Leatherbacks are rarely seen along Southwest Florida's Gulf coast - although a leatherback nest did hatch on Sanibel Island (Lee County) in August 2009.
■ Experts estimate most leatherback nesting populations have declined by at least 80 percent. The largest declines for leatherbacks have occured in the Pacific, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the IUCN (the International Union for the Conservation of Nature). Trends of leatherback populations in the Atlantic aren't as clear; some Caribbean nesting populations seem to be growing, but they remain much smaller than Pacific populations were less than a decade ago. Nesting on U.S. beaches has shown an upward trend in recent years.
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Nicholas M. Horrock, Arizona Prison Ban Struck Down, Washington Times, May 20, 2003.
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Prisoner-rights groups are closely
watching a proposed rule in Florida Wednesday that would bar inmates
from "advertising" for pen pals and other outside contacts after last
week winning a major federal court ruling in Arizona that struck a law
barring inmates from letting information appear on the Internet,
advocacy officials said.
Tracy Lamourie, a director of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death
Penalty, said if Florida adopts the rules, proposed earlier this year,
her group and others might consider another legal challenge. The
proposed Florida rule would become part of prison regulations and
would bar prisoners from advertising for anything.
"Inmates who post ads or have ads posted with the assistance of
another person shall be subject to disciplinary action," the Florida
regulation says.
The Arizona ruling and actions in other states underscore the power of
the Internet both as a tool for social advocacy groups and a place
where critics say prison inmates can make improper contacts and
endanger the public.
U.S. District Judge Earl H. Carroll, sitting in Phoenix, ruled Friday
that when Arizona moved to bar prison inmates from directly or
indirectly providing information for the Internet it violated not only
the prisoner's First Amendment rights, but also the rights of advocacy
groups who set up Web pages.
Under pressure from the widow of a murder victim, the Arizona
legislature passed a law in 2000, House Bill 2376, which forbade
prisoners from communicating with any organization that had a Web site
and from allowing their names and material about them to be displayed
on the Internet, even if they had no control over its use.
The widow, Stardust Johnson, noticed in 1999 that the man who is
serving a life sentence in the Arizona State Penitentiary for brutally
beating her 59-year-old husband to death in 1995, had a Web page
advertising for people to correspond with him through a service called
"PrisonPenPals.com." Penpals, she told an Arizona legislative
committee, was an Internet provider that sold prison inmates Web pages
for $19.95.
The ad, she said, showed the inmate, Beau John Greene, holding a
kitten, portraying him as a submissive person and gave no hint he had
committed a crime in 1995 that prosecutors called "heinous and very
Johnson wanted to know what gifts, money and pen pals Greene acquired
through the ad.
Johnson and other witnesses told the committee that access to these
Web pages made it possible for inmates to stalk former victims, carry
out fraudulent activity, and make improper contacts with children and
other unsuspecting people.
Inmates in Arizona prisons did not have direct access to the Internet,
but communicated with Internet providers by sending a letter. Under
Johnson's prodding and the pressure of prison officials, the
legislature passed a law that said "an inmate shall not receive mail
from a communication service or service provider or remote computing
In addition to paid providers, prison-rights advocacy groups such as
the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Citizens United for
Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and Stop Prisoner Rape use the
Internet to press social issues.
The Canadian Coalition puts pictures on the Web of inmates from around
the world facing death sentences and publishes the details of legal
cases where there have been questions about fairness and the guilt or
innocence of the prisoner.
The coalition came under attack from an Alabama state Sen. Bill
Armistead, R-Columbiana, who said it gave "death row inmates a forum,
on the World Wide Web, to vent all their thoughts against society,
along with so-called poems and artwork."
Shortly after the Arizona law was passed, prison authorities passed a
regulation that even if prisoners did not purposefully lend their
names and case details for a Web page, they could face punishment
within the prison and possible criminal charges. The prisoners were
told it was their responsibility to have their names removed from the
Internet though the regulations prohibited their getting in touch with
the providers.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in July 2002 charging that the law's purpose
was to "suppress the flow of information from prisoners to the outside
world, and to chill the advocacy of plaintiffs and other anti-death
penalty and prisoner-rights organizations."
The suit said the "Internet has revolutionized social political
"In the past, advocacy had to pay for postage and stationary to send
information to their members and supporters, and these costs imposed
limits on the number of persons these groups could reach with their
message. Now such groups can make information available to an
unlimited number of persons at no marginal cost simply by posting it
on the organization's Internet Web site."
Prison experts agree the Internet has become a powerful tool for
spreading information on bad conditions in prisons, abuse of prisoners
and other difficulties.
Many advocates, like Lamourie, agree some prison ads are
inappropriate, but that this is offset by need to have some sort of
human contact with the outside world for the 2 million prisoners in
American institutions.
Carroll found that in addition to protecting victims, the Arizona's
law had the intention of silencing outsiders, the advocacy groups that
used the Web pages. He found that prisoners trying to misuse contacts
could be prevented from doing so by current regulations that allow
mail to be read by authorities and that other monitoring powers could
also protect the public.
"The statutes codifying HB 2376 are not rationally related to
legitimate penological objectives and are therefore unconstitutional,"
he wrote. He ordered Arizona prison authorities to immediately stop
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I was at the table watching two adorable boys eat hamburgers and listening to them tell corny jokes—the kind only 9 year old boys think are funny. These boys were in my primary class and I was taking them out for a little dinner date to get to know them better.
"Sister C," one of them asked. "How come we've never met your husband?"
"Um, I don't have a husband," I answered.
"Really? Wow. How old are you?" the other one questioned.
I told him my age.
"Wow. You're older than my mom and she has a husband and 5 kids!"
Yes, kid. That thought has not escaped me. Thank you very much.
"Do you want to be married, Sister C?" he innocently asked.
"Yes, I really do," I sincerely answered.
"Does Heavenly Father want you to be married?"
"I believe He does," I responded.
"Well," he said, "If YOU want to be married and Heavenly Father wants you to be married, then what are you waiting for?"
Oh, the logic of children.
It's been a few years since that little conversation and I still think about it from time to time. That little primary class got it into their heads that if they all prayed really, really hard, they could get their primary teacher married. Because, as their logical brains worked, if I wanted to be married and Heavenly Father wanted me to be married, well, then, I should be married.
They prayed in class and I even got reports of their prayers at the dinner table asking the Lord to give me a husband. Yep, it became a ward movement.
You know, those boys are on missions now.
And I'm still "waiting."
As my life's path has crossed with other women, I have noticed a common theme among so many of us.
We are all women in waiting at one time or another.
Some of us are waiting for promised children or the return of a prodigal.
Some of us are waiting for healing, whether physical or spiritual.
Others are waiting for forgiveness, either to receive it or grant it.
There are women waiting for a spouse to come to church with them (while others of us wait for a spouse. Period.).
Some of us are waiting for promised children or the return of a prodigal.
Some of us are waiting for healing, whether physical or spiritual.
Others are waiting for forgiveness, either to receive it or grant it.
There are women waiting for a spouse to come to church with them (while others of us wait for a spouse. Period.).
It doesn't seem to matter the age or the stage of life. We wait. And while our circumstances are all so very different, our life journey seems so often to be the same. That is not to say the experiences are the same, but in the actual process of learning and growing…and waiting, we are very much in this together.
In the scriptures, waiting is often right next to patience:
"I waited patiently for the Lord…" (Psalms 40:1)
"the patient waiting…" (2 Thes. 3:5)
"waiting patiently" (D&C 98:2)
The connection of these two words is likely very obvious. It doesn't matter if you're waiting for a delayed flight or a delayed blessing—the attribute of patience helps you find meaning and fulfillment in the midst of the waiting. Ironically however, it is the waiting that often most tests our patience, particularly when we are waiting for something that is important to our hearts or eternally significant to our progress.
I have come to know for myself that God has had, does have and will always have a plan for me.
And while some of that plan and many of those promises have not come in the ways I would have expected or in the timing I initially hoped for, I have learned to trust the path and the timing of God's promised plan for me. And in the waiting on that plan, some of life's sweetest lessons have become mine.
So, to the cute kid in my primary class several years ago…what am I waiting for, you ask?
Well, I am waiting for God. I'm waiting for His perfectly timed plan. I'm waiting for His promises.
And in the meantime, I'm trusting Him and following His will.
And doing it with patience. Because that's what He asks.
"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." (Hebrews 10:36)
Laurel Christensen grew up in California, Kentucky and Missouri. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University which she received after serving in the Riverside California Mission. She has spent most of her career at Deseret Book Company where she worked for several years as the Director of Entertainment, producing shows like The Forgotten Carols and launching and managing Jericho Road, among other artists. She is currently the Vice President of Product Development and also oversees the Time Out for Women program, spending many weekends on the road producing Time Out events. Laurel has a Masters degree in Communications Management and thinks it would be fun to someday be called "Professor". She is the author of several talk CDs and books for young women.


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By Kevin Fitchard
Jun 19, 2007 12:00 AM
Industry expectations for the IP multimedia subsystem shouldn't change, given that more than 75% of service providers worldwide consider it a core architecture for IP-based converged services. But the real market ramp won't come for another year or more, according to a panel of experts at an IEC "Deploying IMS" panel Monday.
Tom Valovic, program director of voice-over-IP infrastructure at IDC, identified IMS as being in a liminal state, which can mean either transitional or uncertain. However, with a forecasted compound annual growth rate of 83.5% over the next four years, which pushed the market to $9 billion annually, IMS is pretty certain, he said.
"We just need to adjust our expectations in terms of the timeline for IMS," Valovic said. He added that the market for IMS will start ramping up in 2008 and 2009.
Session moderator Amir Atai, lead scientist of the converged business group for Alcatel-Lucent, said commercial deployments are proceeding as carriers take a phased approach but acknowledged that "sometimes there is a need for service providers to go beyond the standard."
Valovic warned, however, that deviations such as Verizon's advances to IMS (A-IMS) threaten the "harmonization and synchronization of the IMS standard."
Naseem Khan, chief architect for Verizon, said A-IMS is not a separate standard, but an addition of key enhancements, including Web services, to the IMS standard.
AT&T, on the other hand, sees IMS not as a goal but as a tool to build the network of the future the way it believes it should be built, said Siroos Afshar, chief architect for AT&T. And that is reflected in its Common Architecture for Real-Time Services (CARTS) strategy. CARTS supports all access technologies without preference, and the company looks to IMS to see how it can support that vision.
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Ansaar Management Company (AMC) is a social enterprise taking on the challenge of developing low-income housing in Pakistan. AMC is poised to not only build sustainable housing, but to also manage the critical and complex intricacies of community development.
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Ansaar Management Company (AMC) provides affordable, quality housing solutions to the lower-income segment of the Pakistani population. AMC was established in January 2008 in Pakistan. AMC targets households earning PKR 8000 to 25,000, and specializes in community-based approaches.It is a for-profit, low-cost housing company, which follows the world-renowned Saiban model of development known as Khuda Ki Basti, where there is a strong emphasis on self-reliance. Differentiating itself from Saiban's NGO model of incremental development, however, AMC focuses on scalability and sustainability through its for-profit, low-cost approach.
AMC, as a developer, identifies large tracts of land in the peri-urban areas of major cities of Pakistan and prepares business plans/feasibility studies for prospective investors. Once an investor, which could be from the public sector or the private sector, has committed to a specific project, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) is created for that investment based upon equity contributions. In order to minimize risk for investors, the SPV holds the land title. Next, the SPV obtains project financing to develop the project based upon the Saiban methodology of incremental development. In addition to this, AMC also provides project management services for low income housing developments.
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The singer added, "The higher the hair, the closer to God. We country folk, we like our big hair. I am certainly no exception."
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iOS 7 is now out of captivity and is currently being downloaded by millions of people across the world. With this release, the developers can now concentrate fully on working on the next untethered jailbreak utility. Tweets have recently been spotted between Pimskeks and Pod2g, two prominent jailbreak developers, with the latter saying that his confidence in the availability of a jailbreak tool is increasing. However, he does point out that we shouldn't expect it to be ready soon.
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Ever since iOS 7 was first revealed, along with the first beta release on June 10th, the jailbreak developers have been hard at work, testing each beta and working out what is available for use. With such a radical overhaul of the iOS, system there is a great deal more for the developers to work with.
We have already read of some delays due to the fact that Apple patched a few exploits with subsequent beta versions, although whether that was by design or accident is not known.
However, with the public release of iOS 7 the developers can now get down the serious task of testing the remaining exploits and looking for more in case they are needed. Just after the GM version was released on September 10th another highly skilled developer, Planetbeing, told us that the team had managed to break through Apple's security and could now start seriously looking at the kernel.
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While this is good news for the jailbreak community, we must not forget that it took around 5 months after release for an untethered iOS 6 utility to be released. Evad3rs, the team responsible for that jailbreak, are working hard on finding ways to upgrade their utility, Evasi0n, to support iOS 7, as well as taking into account the new iPhone 5S with its brand new 64-bit technology.
So, before we all start champing at the bit, demanding a utility be released, let's not forget how much work actually goes into one of these tools. It isn't a 5 minute job, it requires months and months of hard work, most, if not all of which is carried out by the developers, in their free time for nothing.
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I don't now how to get cydia!
You get Cydia from jailbreaking your iDevice. And do you mean for iOS 7? As above mention, iOS 7 still have yet to have any jailbreak available. So, currently there's no jailbreak for iOS 7.
Or you mean this " http://www.cydiaios7.com/download-cydia-on-ios-7.html " Which add Cydia to your iDevice running on iOS 7 homescreen which does not jailbreak your device, instead it is a trick or prank someone to make them think you have jailbreak your iOS 7 iDevice.
Me too apple
I got it but it keeps on getting a 404 error
I dont really see its necessary for an average iPhone user to jailbreak, pretty much most of the jailbreak tweeks and features are now natively integrated into iOS 7
Nobody force those regular users to jailbreak !
There is a jailbreak for 6.1.3 on older devices. if you are on iPhone 4 you can jailbreak using evasi0n i believe.
Thats right, i think people jailbreak to download cracked apps lol
I used to have an iPod and that thing is boring without a jailbreak i give you that.
Waiting for iOS 7 Jailbreak. Hope to be sooner.
Can anyone tell me how to jailbreak ios 6.1.3
There's no jailbreak for 6.1.3
I meant there is no *untethered* jailbreak for 6.1.3…all the jailbreak you can find by google
If all the non jailbreakers jailbroke then it wouldn't be fun because everyone would have cydia -desir3 out-
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How to Eat Chocolate
Eating chocolate is both an art and a passion. It is important to appreciate the "food of the gods," and to do so you should try it in all its different forms.
1Begin by reading books on chocolate. You can never learn too much about it; make sure to get books with colorful photographs of chocolate. Look especially for books that discuss tasting chocolate, discussions on the various brands of chocolate and the history behind chocolate. All of this is good background knowledge to start the process of consuming chocolate. However, if the situation is urgent or you already have a fair amount of personal experience looking at/smelling/purchasing chocolate, you may skip this and proceed to step 2.Ad
2Try milk chocolate varieties. See if these please your palate. Always seek the best quality milk chocolate varieties rather than the common supermarket and corner store bars and confectionery. Look for European chocolates, especially Swiss brands, because, while they normally are more pricey, the product is held to a higher standard than most American chocolates. Even better, of course, would be to find a chocolatier who makes chocolate from scratch near to you. That is hard to find nowadays, though, so don't be hopeful.
3Try dark chocolate next. This ranges in intensity from around 45% through to 100%. Be careful not to try the dark chocolate at too high a level to begin with or you may not like it. Start at around 45-50% dark and work your way up. Most people do not like the 85-100% range at first, as it tends to be very bitter. 100% has no sugar content at all and is very harsh to the untrained palate. When tasting dark chocolate, allow it to melt in your mouth rather than chewing. This will make it tastier and less bitter.
- Try white chocolate. This has a delicious and interesting flavor because it is made with cocoa butter, not powder. It is very creamy and sweet, but the same rules apply here as to dark chocolate: the longer you let it melt in your mouth, the better the chocolate-eating experience is.
4Try truffles. These should be hand-made, preferably by a chocolatier, a pâtissier or a baker who specializes in chocolate treats. The cream must be fresh. If not, the caliber of the taste will be diminished. Return them and demand new ones--the chocolatier deserves to be made aware of any issues.
5Try drinking a chocolate New York Egg Cream. This is a delight not to be overlooked in the pursuit of enjoying chocolate. Purists may pooh-pooh drinking it, but did you know that this is how chocolate was first appreciated by the Aztecs and the Europeans many centuries ago? There are many ways to enjoy drinking chocolates. What is most important, however, is to find the finest quality of said drink. Beware drinking chocolates marketed at children or for mass cafeteria consumption; they are likely to be over sweet and sickly. Look for low fat/sugar content (i.e. no added fats to pad out the powder and not too high a sugar ratio). True connoisseurs will look for powdered drinking chocolate that has no additional milk fats, slight sugar and high cacao content or for the pure grated or broken high quality chocolate itself (added directly to warm milk).
6Savor chocolate. Whether you chew, allow to melt in the mouth or drink your chocolate, enjoy it slowly and with enjoyment. Take out time to discern the notes in chocolate for yourself and to try to develop a tasting repertoire that suits you. Chocolate differs in taste and quality in the same way as wine, whiskey, cognac, seafood and game meats do. Learn to appreciate the subtleties over time. And share with a friend--become experts together!
7Focus on nothing but the chocolate. This works with most tasty foods but is especially appealing with chocolate. Close your eyes and cut off all sensory information except the chocolate. Pay attention to the taste and details of the entire piece, moving around in your mouth and savoring the flavor. Allow the chocolate to overwhelm your senses and don't let anything else bother you, at least for the time being.Ad
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- Use higher-fat milk for drinking chocolate. Reduced fat milk is not as creamy or heavenly and does less justice to the drink.
- For sweeter chocolate, melt it and add some sugar, then let it sit in the fridge for an hour.
- The best kinds of chocolate are those from reputable chocolate companies. Keep in mind, though, "reputable" doesn't always mean "the biggest." Some very large chocolate companies make the absolute worst chocolate, while small, privately owned companies make absolutely spectacular chocolates. The Chocopaedia (not related to Wikipedia or any of its associated websites) has ratings for many small chocolate producers worldwide, to help you chose one whose product is right for your tastes.
- Try a "submarine" if you want to watch the chocolate unfold in the glass. Heat the milk, add to the glass and then pop in a good quality chocolate bar. Use a teaspoon to help swirl it around. After it is fairly evenly distributed, start drinking. You will need to keep on stirring it during the time you drink it, as the chocolate that has sunk to the base of the glass needs to be encouraged to swirl around the milk. This is half the fun of the drink.
- Not all chocolate is fair trade. Be sure to avoid companies that use exploitation to sell chocolate at lower prices.
- Be careful not to begin with very dark chocolate or it is unlikely you will ever grow to appreciate it.
- Keep chocolate away from animals, especially birds, dogs, and hamsters, as chocolate has been proven poisonous to them.
- As with anything, enjoy in moderation. Although recent claims point to the health effects of darker chocolates, they still contain fat and should not be taking the place of fruit and vegetables in your well-balanced diet! Use your common sense and watch your waistline.
- Chocolate gives migraines to some people. If head pain kicks in, stop eating chocolate until you see a doctor and get something to counteract it.
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Dubbed as the "forefather of indie-hop," Francis originally earned acclaim in the early 2000's by winning the most highly coveted titles of the emcee battle circuit. With little to no funding, Francis sustained himself by selling his innovative "Sick of" mixtapes, all made by hand on the floor of his Providence, RI apartment. These were essentially bootleg compilations full of select recordings from his 12" vinyl singles, demo sessions, live performances and radio freestyles. The popularity of these tapes birthed Strange Famous Records (SFR); a meager, one-man operation in 1999.
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NBC News' "Today" continues its ratings surge with another million-plus win over the competition. For the week ending September 7, "Today" was No. 1 with 5.6 million total viewers – a 1.22 million (28 percent) lead over GMA, and a 2.66 million (100 percent) lead over "The Early Show." Excluding the Olympics, "Today" posted its biggest total viewer audience since the week of June 2, 2008 and its best advantage since the week of May 26, 2008. "Today" widened its total viewer gap over GMA by 4% versus the prior week while topping GMA by at least 1 million total viewers on all rated mornings last week. This week's win marks "Today's" 665th consecutive week in first place.
Week-to-week, "Today" improved 2% in homes, 4% in total viewers, and 5% in A25-54. Season-to-date, "Today" has added 110,000 total viewers (a gain of 2%) to its audience versus the comparable period last season. "Today" has now extended its season advantage over GMA to 1,035,000 total viewers, its highest level this season. Season-to-date, "Today" has increased its advantages over GMA in homes (from 14% up to 23%), total viewers (from 15% up to 23%), A18-49 (from 28% up to 36%) and A25-54 (from 26% up to 30%). "Today's" advantages were also up in W18-49 (from 17% up to 29%), M18-49 (from 50% up to 57%) and W25-54 (from 17% up to 23%).
For the week, "Today" led with a 4.3 household rating/15 share and 5.6 million viewers. "GMA" trailed by large margins with a 3.3/12 and 4.3 million viewers. CBS' "The Early Show" remained far behind in third place, with a 2.2/8 and 2.8 million viewers.
In rating A25-54, "Today" led GMA by 33 percent (5 tenths) and beat the "Early Show" by 100 percent (1 ratings point). In rating A18-49, "Today" outperformed GMA by 36 percent (4 tenths) and Early Show by 114 percent (8 tenths).
"Today II" posting a 2.4/9 in homes and 3.1 million viewers. It continues to top "CBS Early Show" in total viewers, homes and key demos. "Today II" also topped "The View" in M25-54. Compared to its pre-Olympic 3Q'08 average, "Today II" improved in W/A18-49 (10%/14%).
"Today III" posted its best delivery in W18-49 since the week of April 28, 2008, M25-54 since the week of July 14, 2008, and A25-54 since the week of May 26, 2008. "Today III" increased versus the prior week in total viewers (6%) and rating W18-49 (14%). "Today III" also posted growth in rating W18-49 (14%) versus its STD average. For the week, "Today III" delivered a 1.4/6 in homes and 1.8 million viewers.
On its digital platforms, "Today" continued its strong performance during the week ending September 6 with more than 6.8 million online streams . TODAYshow.com's stories, blog, message boards and live votes were also popular with users.
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Kmart closes its store in Oxnard
Site damaged in recent rainstorm
Kmart is permanently closing its store in south Oxnard after a powerful rainstorm damaged the roof about two weeks ago and left the store inoperable.
Located on the northeast corner of Channel Islands Boulevard and Ventura Road, the store employs about 120 people, said Kimberly Freely, spokeswoman for Sears Holdings Corp., parent company of Kmart.
"We're hoping to offer them positions at neighboring locations," Freely said. "I don't have the specifics on how the job reorganization is going to go."
Not everything is grim, though. Home Depot already is pursuing plans to open a store on the same site, possibly by late 2009 if plans are approved by the city.
The death knell for the Kmart store occurred during a powerful rainstorm Jan. 22 when water pooled on the roof, causing it to collapse. Officials evacuated the store and closed it for three days. The store reopened for about a day and a half, and then closed again, Freely said. At that point, the store was "inoperable," she said. The store has remained shuttered since then.
Asked why the company was closing the store, Freely said because of the rain damage and because the company decided not to renew its lease, which expired Jan. 31. She declined to elaborate.
The storm left a roof beam cracked, said Don Di Domizio, a supervising building inspector for the city of Oxnard. An engineer hired by Kmart later found more roof damage in other locations, he said.
The company will not repair the building, Freely said, adding that she had no knowledge of any other damage reports.
Meanwhile, Home Depot hopes to move to the site, giving it a second store in Oxnard. The company has an existing store at The Esplanade shopping center.
Plans call for razing the nearly 104,000-square-foot Kmart, its 9,300-square-foot garden center and a roughly 16,000-square-foot strip mall, Oxnard Associate Planner Winston Wright said Wednesday.
Home Depot hopes to build about a 106,000-square-foot store and a nearly 35,000-square-foot garden center, plus provide 604 parking spaces.
A Burger King and another restaurant in the shopping center would remain.
The city will release a draft environmental impact report on the proposal in about 45 days, Wright said.
If the project is approved, Home Depot would break ground by the end of the year and open in late 2009, Kathryn Gallagher, a company spokeswoman, said via e-mail.
The company generally hires about 150 people from the surrounding community, which could include displaced Kmart workers, Gallagher said.
Kmart recently closed its stores in Ventura and Simi Valley.
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In a recent article authored by Lora Cecere, she stated that nine manufacturing clients she worked with in the span of a week are all still using spreadsheets for planning—despite the fact that they've spent millions on the implementation of SAP and JDA supply chain planning software. So why are few companies using planning software they've invested so heavily in?
Per the article, very few companies can use the optimizers within the SAP planning software to run their business. That's because, according to Lora:
"The software from SAP, with the name of SAP APO, doesn't meet the line-of-business needs for optimization and visualization. While it met the market requirements for IT integration (and is one of the strongest supply chain planning systems of record), it has failed to meet the greater business needs for the line-of business user. Yes, the systems are integrated, but the plans are not sufficient."
Lora went on to describe the situation with JDA, referencing the fact that JDA forced an upgrade when it re-wrote the planning software to a new architecture seven years ago. This presented JDA customers with a clear impetus to migrate to other software, and many did. Lora stated:
"Over the course of the decade, I have watched many JDA implementations be replaced by SAP. The primary JDA solutions still in use are JDA's transportation software (purchased from i2 Technologies) and the warehouse management software (purchased from Red Prairie). Line-of-business users have found the consolidation of the company difficult. Most of the companies that I speak to are angry that the acquisition has not yielded more."
Despite the fact that SAP is the market leader based on sales volume, it isn't providing the kind of leadership or innovation that the user community expects, according to Lora. As a result, frustration has grown, and the opportunities for competitors to step in have increased. Supply chain planning has only increased in importance amid escalating demand volatility and global market complexity. This serves to magnify the marked difference in planning software capabilities. A "rip and replace" approach is not one that most companies want to take, but they want "a system of differentiation that planners could use." Competitors, then, have an opportunity "to build something that can lay on top of the SAP architecture that can better meet the needs of the line-of-business user."
All of this has netted one major result, according to the article: the market for SAP supply chain planning software has waned. Lora explains:
"The company has been pushing a Big Data and HANA message, but to no avail. There are few takers. SAP has also written several applications on the HANA architecture (a database purchased with the Sybase acquisition) that offers the promise of greater scalability and usability. The promises have not translated into a viable product. The company has also stated that the current supply chain planning software, SAP APO, will be re-written on SAP HANA by 2020 making the current software obsolete and requiring a forced upgrade. The user community is not happy. They are pushing back."
Amidst all of this, major changes have taken place among the leadership at SAP and JDA. Vishal Sikka, the longtime head of technology at SAP has departed the company. Given that Vishal drove the HANA strategy, and he left while SAP is pushing HANA, the impact is significant. And, JDA announced two weeks ago that its CEO, Hamish Brewer, was asked to step down after a 20-year run.
Lora calls for the leaders to innovate, noting:
"There are new kids in town. The market is flush with new best-of-breed vendors. They are not hampered by maintenance upgrades and legacy board issues."
Steelwedge is proud to count itself among the best-of-breed vendors driving innovation in the planning software space. And, we're not so new. We have a decade of domain expertise backing our single, cloud Integrated Business Planning (IBP) platform. Steelwedge solutions for sales and operations planning (S&OP) are trusted by many of the world's leading manufacturers because of our easy-to-use interface, easy-to-access cloud applications and easy-to-configure platform.
What have your experiences been like with planning offerings from SAP, JDA, or other large software companies? Are you still using spreadsheets to handle the heavy lifting? Let us know in the comments.


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Much has been written of the recent attacks on the Sony network but one of the smaller details I noticed made me want to write this short article.
One of the types of data that was lost in the data breach were the answers to users security questions. You know the ones I mean, when you sign up for a service and you get asked questions like "What is your favourite colour" or "Mother's maiden name". These questions are designed to be used if you forget your password in order to verify your identity before allowing access to your account where, you can reset your password (best) or it displays your password on screen (worst).
This data being available to bad people is obviously not a good thing as they can theoretically go through the password reset process, answer your security questions and gain access.
Those in security are always banging the drum about avoiding password re-use between sites but this is still incredibly common despite reasonably good password management programs being available these days to aid the process (KeePass, LastPass, even vi with OpenSSL or GnuPG).
However, even if you're using a different password for every site, if the bad guy can just reset it he wins, you lose.
So I'll let you in on a little secret, when you register for something and it asks you what your favourite colour is "you don't actually have to tell the truth". Furthermore, you don't even need to enter a colour!
Here's a suggestion, use the same random password generator (you do use one right?) and generate some random string as your answer. Then use that same password manager application (or text file encrypted) to store the question and your answer. Use different answers for every site, just like you use different passwords and lo, if the answers to these questions make it into the hands of people of ill will you can at least be confident that your only exposure is from that one website.
This approach also affords you protection against people attempting to guess your security answers. How many goes will it really take to guess your favourite colour for example? There aren't that many to choose from.
So, in summary, the recommendation should be widened. Avoid not only password re-use but also any other data which could be used to gain access to the account when the data is a free choice.


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2013 Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings by Tier: The Elite
Click here to enter the 2013 Lester's Legends Fantasy Football Team Name Contest!
Gone are the days of running backs ruling the fantasy football universe, but there are several running backs that separate themselves from the pack. If you come away with one of these backs in your fantasy football draft, you should be positioned for success.
Jamaal Charles, Kansas City Chiefs
Lost in Peterson's incredible season was Jamaal Charles' similarly impressive return from his own knee injury. At times the Chiefs went away from Charles, but he still managed to produce 1,745 total yards. With Andy Reid on board, don't expect Charles to be overlooked. He should be particularly active catching the ball out of the backfield. Another season removed from the injury, Charles should be even more explosive in 2013.
Arian Foster, Houston Texans
Foster has averaged 1,900.7 total yards and 15.7 touchdowns over the past three seasons. That level of success is ridiculous. He has, however, averaged 371.7 touches over the past three years. Ben Tate is a capable backup and the Texans have legitimate Super Bowl aspirations. It would not be surprising to see Tate, who had 76 touches last year, to eat into Foster's workload so he's fresh for the playoffs. That still shouldn't keep Foster from being one of the top two fantasy running backs in the land.
Marshawn Lynch, Seattle Seahawks
Lynch has averaged 1,601 total yard and 12.5 touchdowns over the past two seasons. He had at least 85 yards rushing in 14 or 16 games last year. He has scored a touchdown in 20 of his last 28 games. Lynch is as steady as they come. He should be one of the first running backs off the board.
Doug Martin, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Martin put together an unbelievable rookie season, compiling 1,926 total yards and 12 touchdowns. He had 98 or more total yards in 10 of his last 12 games. He scored 11 touchdowns in his final 11 games. Martin caught 49 passes on the year. With his strength and low center of gravity, he's a difficult tackle. He has the speed and burst to score any time he touches the ball.
Alfred Morris, Washington Redskins
Morris is coming off a 1,690 total yard, 13 touchdown season, but he does have the stigma of playing for Mike Shanahan. He does know a good thing when he sees it though. Shanahan did not hesitate to give Terrell Davis or Clinton Portis the ball. Morris had 85 total yards and/or a touchdown in 14 of 16 games. He could be more productive in the passing game, but that's only a minor concern given his productivity.
Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
Peterson shook off a torn knee like it was a common cold en route to 2,314 total yards and 13 touchdowns. He has scored double-digit touchdowns every year. All Day is the perfect combination of power and speed. Weeks 7-15 he averaged 164.1 rushing yards and 1.1 touchdowns.
Ray Rice, Baltimore Ravens
Rice produced 1,621 total yards and 10 touchdowns last year. He has averaged 1876.5 total yards and 9.8 touchdowns over the past four season. He's particularly valuable in PPR league as he has averaged 69.5 receptions during that span. Bernard Pierce will cut into his touches, but that shouldn't keep Rice from having another big year.
Trent Richardson, Cleveland Browns
Richardson had 1,317 total yards and 12 touchdowns despite dealing with knee, rib, and ankle injuries. Norv Turner will not hesitate to give him the ball, which should lead to increased production. The key will be for Richardson to stay healthy. Richardson had more duds than the other backs on this list. He's earned a spot based on his potential.
C.J. Spiller, Buffalo Bills
Spiller truly is a threat to take the ball to the house any time he gets his hands on it. He averaged a ridiculous 6.0 yard per carry en route to 1,703 total yards on 250 touches. He has only reached 20 carries three times in his career so we don't know how he'll hold up to a heavy workload. The other concern is the mere 16 career touchdowns.
Click here to see the second tier, third tier and fourth tier of fantasy football running backs.
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September 10, 2004
Import prices increased 1.7 percent in August, the tenth increase in the past eleven months and the largest monthly rise for the index since February 2003.
The increase was led again by higher petroleum prices, up 9.6 percent in August and 40.4 percent over the past year. The August price index for petroleum imports was at its highest level since publication began in 1982.
Nonpetroleum prices also contributed to the overall increase in import prices, rising 0.4 percent last month and marking the largest gain for that index since rising the same amount in February. Prices for nonpetroleum imports had been unchanged in July and were up 3.2 percent for the year ended in August. Overall import prices rose 7.2 percent over the same period.
Overall export prices fell 0.5 percent in August, the second decline in the past three months following an upward trend since September 2003. The August decline was driven by an 8.5-percent decrease in agricultural prices, the third consecutive decline for that index and the largest one-month decrease since monthly publication began in 1989.
These data are from the BLS International Price program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. Learn more in "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes - August 2004" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 04-1763.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Import prices climb in August 2004 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2004/sept/wk1/art04.htm (visited October 10, 2015).
New estimates of personal taxes in Consumer Expenditure Survey
In 2013, the Consumer Expenditure Survey improved its personal tax data.
Trends in long-term unemployment
Long-term unemployment reached historically high levels following the recession of 2007–2009.
Housing: before, during, and after the Great Recession
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do you like evolution? I tried it and kinda like it. I think i will stay with mozilla, but it was pretty slick.
Greets all!
I had recently given up on Sylpheed for one big reason -- the inablity to do multiple attatchments at once. If anyone knows how to correct this -- back to Sylpheed I go.
But since I doubt that it was just me -- does anybody know of a mail client besides KMail that can do maildir format email imports (so I can migrate) and do multiple accounts in some fashion. Currently KMail works, but I am finding it a pain to deal with all of the KDE crap getting loaded just for one app. I am finding that on my weak ass POS box here at work, lightweight non KDE and non GNOME works the best.
And, it doesnt need to be all GUIish like Sylpheed, Mozilla, and KMail -- but mouse support would be handy (like mc has would be ideal).
do you like evolution? I tried it and kinda like it. I think i will stay with mozilla, but it was pretty slick.
Evo is more bloat, and doesnt allow multiple file attatchments. When I send out long distance reports, I have more than just a few files that need tio be sent. Having to manually attatch each one at a time, is not worth it. Evo slows this crap machine at work almost as much as KMail. Although, featurewise, it was pretty nice. Thats the reason I went to sylpheed -- less bloat. Then the irritating fact with attatchments popped up.
Out of the GUI email clients the only one that does multple attatchemnts at once and can import my email is KMail. I figured there may be some obscure, underrated one that can be reccomended.
Mutt is by far the best mail client I have used. You have to learn a little about how mail works on Unix, and you have to learn a little about fetchmail and sendmail (or Qmail) but its well worth it.
And it is not GUI- its 100% pure CLI.
how well does mutt handle subdirectories and multple pops? I have about 5 pops that I will need to check and will need to create roughly 25 subdirecotries across the whole lot. For example my offsite email has a saved, redhat-list, slackware-list, freetds, 2600, gnome-list subdirectories my mail gets filtered to.
How bad will it be to use that? Thats why I kinda stuck to a gui -- I dont like how fetchmail grabs multiple accounts. Not to mention, my passwords are cleartext.
Mutt is amazing at handling folders, subfolders, sub-subfolders....
But yes, you need to use something like fetchmail to get your mail as Mutt is just the reader- it can't really fetch or send mail on its own.


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You know it is an emergency if:
- Raw sewage is backing up onto your property or into the gutter.
- Your street is flooded due to clogged storm drains.
- A water pipe is broken and water is running out into the street.
- Paint, oil, swimming pool water, or other types of hazardous waste are being dumped or washed into the gutter or storm drain.
- A maintenance-hole cover is missing or not sitting correctly on the opening.
Sewer Problems
If your sewer system becomes clogged or backs up, the problem may not be in the sewer line at your home or business. Contact Us before you call a plumber. The Municipal Utitlies Department (MUD) will come out to determine the location of the problem and clear any clogs beyond the owner's connection point. This could save costly and unnecessary plumbing repairs.
We have crews on duty 16 hours a day, 365-days a year, who will respond promptly to your call. Our service trucks are equipped to open clogged lines. If repairs to City lines are needed, we have construction crews available to handle the problem.
Clogged Storm Drains
Clogged storm drains can cause street flooding and pose traffic hazards. Please keep the storm drains clear of debris. Remember to sweep and dispose of leaves and other garden debris from the gutter and sidewalks; don't let it clog the drains. If the drains get clogged during a storm and your street and gutter begin to flood, Contact Us. We will send a crew out to clear the storm drain as quickly as possible.
Water Leak Problems
If you see water leaking into the gutter or street, it may be an indication of a broken pipe. First, check the nearest address to see if your water provider is the City of Stockton. If it is, please call MUD, so we can send a service crew to assess the situation. If it is not, please contact your provider. Even a small leak can be a sign of a larger problem and water is much too precious a resource to waste. Helping to avoid waste can ultimately save money for us all.
Illegal Dumping or Cleaning
If you see that someone is washing out construction or painting equipment, dumping oil, emptying their swimming pool, or in any way allowing any type of hazardous waste to get into the gutter or storm drains, please call MUD as soon as possible. Water that goes into the gutter flows through the storm drain and into the Delta without being treated. We need to stop the hazardous waste before it gets into the Delta. Each call is treated with confidentiality. Illegal dumping is a serious matter.
Storm Drain Covers
Missing or Improperly Set Maintenance Hole Covers
If you see a missing maintenance hole cover, or one that is not sitting correctly on its intended location, please call MUD as soon as possible. Your call could prevent serious injury and prevent unnecessary property damage.
Water Waste
Water is a precious and vital resource for us all and it should never be wasted. Report water waste by calling our Water Conservation Hotline.
All of our telephone numbers can be found by visiting the Contact Us web page.
External Links
San Joaquin County Mosquito and Vector Control District - Mosquito control questions
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Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, the Gaslight Anthem and more announced for Deluna Festival
April 17, 2012 by Bryne Yancey
The lineup for this year's Deluna Festival has been announced and features Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, the Gaslight Anthem, the Joy Formidable, City And Colour, Superchunk and several others.
Check it out here. Deluna happens Sept. 21-23 in Pensacola, Florida.


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Moms of more than one kid...
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If you had an episiotomy with your first, did you with your others as well?
I had one with my first and not with my 2nd. I'm pregnant with my 3rd. I'm freaking out I'll have to with this one. Just looking at the odds, I guess.
Yep. All 3. But that's what they did back then!
#2 no (I didn't tear at all!)
#3 small tear no stitches
i did with my second, and yes with my third. my third was a lo tmore complicated and i was painfully ripped open by the doctor to get the baby out. no other choice.
I had at least 12 stitches. My MIL stopped counting.. not sure why she was to begin wtih.... My 2nd I had one stitch from her nail, no tear or cut.
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#1 yes (very small, only 1 stitch)
#2 no (I didn't tear at all!)
#3 small tear no stitches