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This week's lesson is an interesting compilation of horrifying stories of persecution and suffering from the life of Joseph Smith. Read on if you dare . . .
This week's lesson is an interesting compilation of horrifying stories of persecution and suffering from the life of Joseph Smith. Read on if you dare . . .
Halloween is just around the corner! Have you ever been on a witch hunt? Or have you been singled out by a witch hunter? Here are some tips for all the witch hunters and witches out there.
This week's lesson might sound like a repeat from the previous lesson on Plan of Salvation, but it is much more specifically focused on one of my favorite aspects of our theology: the 3 degrees of glory.
I read an interesting blog site that posed this very question from a Hindu perspective. It was thoughtfully worded, so I thought I would include some key excerpts.
There are some interesting parallels between the first family of the Book of Mormon and the first family of the Restoration (the Smiths). Coincidence? Or was Joseph Smith writing about his own family (vs. translating the story of another family)?
Can all sins be reduced to just one sin: pride? Is pride essentially the root cause of all sins?
A unique facet of Mormonism is our view of God's plan for his children, or our purpose in life. Today's lesson focuses on what JS restored regarding this plan.
D&C 89:1 refers to the WoW as: A Word OF Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion—To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the word of wisdom, showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days—Given for a principle with promise, adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints, who are or can be called saints. Huh? What was the point of the Word…
The term "apologist" is often used derisively like the terms "lawyer," "statistician," or "telemarketer." Why are apologists so derided? Is it warranted or just a bum rap?
What is a Urim & Thummim, and how will the earth become like one?
Finally, a lesson that really makes you think! This is probably my favorite JS lesson this year (no one dies or has to move to Missouri). For those who are teaching, you may also enjoy the excellent essay at Feast on the Word blog by joespencer.
Okay, last week I said the death lesson was going to be tough. Frankly, I think a Zion lesson is no picnic either. I'm looking ahead though, and there are some better ones on the horizon, so hang in there, teachers!
A word to the teachers out there. I know what you are thinking. Something like, "Ugh. I got the death lesson?!" So, if you have a family event in another ward that might precipitate trading this week, always a good plan. But for you unlucky suckers who drew the short straw, here goes!
Is your spiritual journey the same as your religious journey, or is religion just one of the facets of your spiritual life?
We've established that there are conservative Mormons (obviously) and there are liberal or "new order" Mormons. Taking the politico-religious rhetoric to its next logical conclusion, I'd like to make a case for moderate (or independent) Mormonism.
There is a lot being done in the medical field to help patients understand their genetic predisposition toward certain ailments. Isn't the same true for spiritual ailments? Don't we inherit some of these same tendencies from our parents and their parents and so on?
Welcome to the second virtual co-ed 3rd hour. This week's lesson is a topic that is often a seething hotbed of Mormon Matters controversy: "Obedience: When the Lord Commands, Do It."
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit Plenty of criticism is heaped on post-restoration church leaders. There seems to be a tendency to hold them up against an impossible and inaccurate standard of perfection while giving a pass to figures in the Old and New Testaments. But is that fair? Wouldn't OT & NT leaders have the same shortcomings when viewed from our "enlightened" modern perspective?
Welcome to the first ever Virtual Co-ed Relief Society/Priesthood Lesson (at MM anyway)! Here's why you should join the discussion: Virtual – you can participate whether or not you actually attended church Co-Ed – you can hear perspectives from both men & women Spiritual + Intellectual – some would like more intellectual content at church; others would like more spiritual content at MM. It's like chocolate & peanut butter. Non-LDS Perspective – we may hear non-LDS commenter viewpoints (welcome to all!) Advance Lesson Prep – those who are teaching RS/PH may find some insights for their lessons.


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Eastlake, OH - The Bowling Green Hot Rods (30-23) dropped a 6-1 contest to the Lake County Captains (17-33) on Thursday afternoon at Classic Park. Andrew Toles and Leonardo Reginatto each had two hits, and Reginatto drove in the only Hot Rods run. The loss to the last-place Captains sends the Hot Rods to their third straight series defeat.
The Captains jumped on the Hot Rods early, scoring four runs off Dylan Floro in the bottom of the second inning. Just two batters into the inning, Eric Haase homered to right field to put the Captains in the 2-0 lead. Two more runs came in to score with two outs in the inning on RBI singles by Erik Gonzalez and Dorssys Paulino.
Lake County took a 5-0 lead on a Logan Vick solo home run in the third inning. The Hot Rods scored their only run of the game in the top of the fifth. After a Justin O'Conner leadoff single and Tommy Coyle walk, Reginatto singled home O'Conner to put the Hot Rods on the board. However, the Captains turned a 5-4-3 double play to quell the Hot Rods threat, and Bowling Green was forced to settle for one run. The Hot Rods offense was quiet throughout the rest of the game, which was played in a brisk two hours and thirteen minutes.
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Other Names:Broiler-fryer, coq or poulet (French), pollo (Italian and Spanish), roaster, stewing chicken. Black Chicken: Black-boned chicken, poulet soyeuse (French), silkie bantam, silky chicken, Taihe chicken, zook see gai (Chinese). Capon: Capón (Spanish), cappone (Italian), chapon (French). Poussin: Baby chicken, spring chicken.
General Description:The chicken (gallus domesticus, NAMP P1000, P1100) is a commonly eaten bird descended from the wild red jungle fowl of Southeast Asia. Chickens may have been domesticated in India as long ago as 3200 b.c. Chicken is the most popular and widely eaten poultry in the world and may be cooked by almost any method. It can be cooked whole or cut-up, or individual parts may be cooked, seasoned, stuffed, basted, or sauced with a huge range of ingredients.
Free-range chickens, which are allowed access to the outdoors, have full-bodied flavor but are not as tender and are usually more expensive than conventionally raised commercial chickens. Natural chickens contain no artificial ingredients or added color and are only minimally processed. Kosher chickens are specially raised, fed a grain diet, and slaughtered by a ritual slaughterer using a razor-sharp knife. Then they are soaked in cold water and hand-salted with coarse salt and allowed to drain.
The small Chinese black chicken originated in Taihe, China, where it has been raised for more than 2,000 years. Because of their silky, furlike appearance, black chickens are cultivated as pets in some countries. These birds are usually processed Chinese style, known as Buddhist slaughter–with their head and feet left on–and are available year round in Asian markets. They are used by the Chinese to make a rich yellow chicken soup known for its curative powers and used as an energy-producing tonic for prenatal women. A black chicken is short with a small head, a short neck, and a black tongue.
Capons (NAMP P1200) are castrated young chickens prized for their tender white flesh. Caponization was known in ancient Greece and Rome; the procedure is done to produce a bird that is large and fat when fully grown. Capons are generally stuffed and roasted whole.
Poussin (NAMP P1400, P1401) are very small, immature chickens with delicate, moist meat. Poussin is French for "chick," an unfledged bird too young to have developed feathers for flying. These individually portioned birds are most popular among French and French-trained chefs. They have tender, subtly flavored lean meat due to their fast growth and young age. They may be semi-boned (removing just the rib cage) to make them suited to stuffing.
Rock Cornish game hens (NAMP P1500) are miniature chickens. They were created in 1965 by chicken mogul Donald Tyson, who cross-bred White Rock and Cornish chickens to create a reasonably priced, single-serving whole chicken. Game hens are popular for banquet service.
Characteristics:Chickens have both white (breast) and dark (leg, thigh, back, and neck) meat; wings contain both light and dark meat. Chicken is inexpensive and readily available, fresh or frozen, and is relatively lean and quick cooking. Kosher chickens may have some residual feathers, which must be plucked off, and their skin tends to be tough. Black chickens have small amounts of fine and tender all-dark meat that is highly flavorful and rich in nutrients. A capon is full-breasted with fine-textured, flavorful, light-colored meat covered with a layer of white fat. Poussins are very soft textured, with fragile flesh and bones, and are about 1 month old. Rock Cornish game hens are quite meaty and relatively fatty, though tender and mild in flavor. Cornish hens are easy to split in half before cooking because the bones are relatively soft.
How to Choose:Select a chicken appropriate to your needs. All birds should be plump with unblemished skin. A young chicken, or broiler-fryer, weighs 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 pounds and is about 13 weeks old. Almost any cooking method is suitable.
A roaster is a young chicken, 3 to 5 months old, which weighs 3 1/2 to 5 pounds. It is especially suited to roasting. A stewing chicken is a mature chicken, often a hen formerly used for egg production, which is more than 10 months old and weighs 2 1/2 to 8 pounds.
Commonly available chicken cuts include halves; breast quarters (the breast, wing, and back); drumsticks (the part of the leg below the thigh); drummettes (the meatiest top joint of the wing); and leg quarters (including the drumstick and thigh). Cut-up chickens are broiler-fryers that have been cut into eight parts. Also available are boneless, skinless breasts; thinly sliced cutlets; boneless thighs; Buffalo wings (the top two wing joints cut apart); back and necks (good for stock and soup); chicken tenders (the tubular, rich-tasting inner muscle under the breast); and organs such as chicken livers, gizzards, and heart. For Asian-style dishes, the legs may be sold "hacked" (cut through the bone into small sections).
Ground chicken may be either dark meat, light meat, or mixed. Giblets are the bird's heart, liver, and gizzard and usually come in a package tucked inside the abdominal cavity of a packaged whole bird. The parson's (or pope's) nose is the fleshy part of a chicken or turkey's tail.
Chicken oysters, the small, rounded, dense muscle that lies between the leg joint and the back, are highly prized for their flavorful and fine-textured meat. In French, their name is sot-l'y-laisse, meaning "fool leaves it there."
Amount to Buy:Allow 1 pound bone-in chicken per person; 6 to 8 ounces (170-225 g) of boneless chicken per person. Black chicken can be found in Asian markets, usually frozen but occasionally fresh. One black chicken will make soup to serve eight. A capon weighs 6 to 9 pounds. Poussin are sold as whole birds with giblets or as a boneless or semi-boneless specialty item. Allow one poussin per person. Rock Cornish game hens are sold whole only, with or without a separate packet of giblets. Allow one hen per person.
Storage:Refrigerate whole birds 2 to 3 days; refrigerate parts 1 to 2 days.
Preparation:Whole Chicken:
- Remove the neck and giblets from the cavity (use the neck, gizzard, and heart for stock; use the liver for stuffing). Rinse under cold water, pat dry, and season inside and out with salt, pepper, and any desired herbs.
- Place lemon halves and herb sprigs inside the chicken cavity, or stuff as desired. Tie the legs together with butcher's string to keep its shape. For crispy skin, massage the chicken with softened butter or oil.
- Roast at 400°F for 15 minutes.
- Reduce the heat to 350°F and cook for about 1 1/2 hours for a broiler fryer, 2 hours for a capon, 2 1/2 hours for a roaster, or until it reaches 170°F on a thermometer stuck in the thickest part of the thigh and the juices run clear.
Chicken Legs and Thighs:
- Trim off excess fat, using a sharp knife or scissors. If desired, marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
- Drain and pat dry, season, and roast, broil, pan-fry, braise, or grill till well cooked, generally about 25 minutes. You may also dust with flour or roll in breadcrumbs and bake.
Chicken Breasts:
- Marinate briefly if desired, at room temperature, for 1 hour, or refrigerated for up to 3 hours.
- Drain and pat dry and then cook in any of the following ways: pan-fry; dust with flour, roll in beaten egg then breadcrumbs, and then pan-fry; rub lightly with seasoned oil and grill or broil; steam over seasoned broth; roast at 400°F; or cut into strips and stir-fry. Cook until it reaches an internal temperature of 170°F, approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
Chicken Innards:
Chicken livers may be sautéed with onions, shallots, wine, or other flavorful liquids and served whole or ground up for pâté. Do not add chicken livers to stock or soup, because it will make it cloudy.
Chicken hearts and gizzards need long, slow cooking by simmering, braising, or stewing till they are tender. They may be served as is, or chopped up and added to stuffing or rice.
Chicken necks may be simmered till tender, and then the mellow, fine-textured meat may be picked off and eaten as is, or added to soup.
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And there it is, this is the Phoenix series 2.5" SATA II 120 GB version. You should easily be able to place it somewhere in your chassis. Small and light-weight. This is all you get and need, the SSD and a thin manual covering some of the basics of installation. Included with the Phoenix PRO 120GB SSD is a SDD bracket so you can mount this 2.5" SSD into a 3.5" HDD slot.
And though the photo would make you think otherwise, of course, it's a perfect fit for laptops. This SSD would bring a whole lot of performance into that laptop alright, all at low power consumption at 2 Watt and virtually no heat.
When we look at the connectors, we spot the standard power and Serial ATA connector, this drive is SATA2 compatible.
Slim and light-weight at 80 grams, 9.5mm tall, it's the standard for notebook drives and you can easily tuck it away in a regular PC. The SSD comes with a three year warranty. Installation wise it's the same as a traditional HDD. Pop it in, connect it, bind it, format it and you are good to go at horribly fast speeds. It uses the same connectors as a SATA storage device.
G.Skill designed another 8GB low voltage DDR3 kit (2x 4GB) that can be set at 1600 MHz yet still run a CAS latency of 7. And that is truly interesting because the denser the ICs get, the higher latency typically gets.
G.Skill 2x4GB CL7 1600 MHz Trident DDR3 review
We feel that more memory is rather important, and in that trend memory manufacturers have started to increase the density of DIMM modules. Where 1 and 2GB DIMM modules have been the standard, we now see very good progress in 4 GB DIMM modules. Today we\'ll do things a little different, G.Skill designed a 8GB low voltage DDR3 kit (2x 4GB) that can be set at 1600 MHz yet still run a CAS latency of 7. And that is truly interesting because the denser the ICs get, the higher latency typically gets.
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We test and review the G.Skill Flare DDR3 2000 MHZ C7 AMD kit. These kits are optimized for AMD platforms preferably with the new six-core X6 processors, and in specific some ASUS motherboards. The kit we'll be testing today obviously comes from that series and is a 2,000MHz CL7-9-7-24 1.65V 4GB (2GBx2) DDR3 kit with its latest Flare heatsinks.
G.Skill Phoenix PRO 120GB SSD review
The SSD tested today once again is the Phoenix series from G.Skill. After we tested their 100GB Phoenix SSD (which received a very positive review) G.Skill instantly requested if we would like to review the 120GB PRO model. Both drives pretty much are the same thing, same controller ... The 100GB Phoenix uses Samsung memory though but the trick is that there is 20GB extra volume space available on the new 120GB Pro (compared to the 100GB model) for nearly the same price. A new Firmware for the SandForce 1200 based controller that is inside this 120GB model simply reserves less NAND flash memory for its data-compression scheme. As a result the overall write performance could be a tiny bit slower, but only a few percent as best. It however will give you 20 GB more space to play around with at the same price. And since price per GB is everything in the land of SSDs -- this certainly is a significant for any vendor and for you as an end-user.


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Cooking fire displaces family of five
A family of five is without a home this morning after a fire erupted in their home late Tuesday night.
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - A family of five is without a home this morning after a fire erupted in their home late Tuesday night.
Capt. Barrett Baker with the Tucson Fire Department says the fire started in a home in the 7400 block of East 22nd Street just before 9:30 p.m.
A resident of the home was making dinner for her kids using cooking oil. After making dinner, one child wanted more food. The mother went back to the kitchen and turned the stove back on. The child then changed his mind and no longer wanted the food but the mother forgot to turn the stove back off, Baker said.
Minutes later, the oil ignited and started a fire on the stove top, extending into the cabinets above. The mother and three of her kids evacuated the apartment and knocked on the neighbors door as they exited the building.
The neighbor grabbed a fire extinguisher in the hallway and entered the apartment. He extinguished the flames and also shut down electricity to the apartment at the breaker panel, according to Baker.
When firefighters arrived on scene, they found residual smoke, but all of the flames were out.
No one was injured in the fire and the family is going to stay with local relatives.
Baker wishes to remind the community that cooking causes nearly half of all reported residential fires, and unattended cooking is by far the leading contributor to those fires. Remember to always stay close and have an extinguisher or lid ready in case the oil ignites.
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The following article has been written by the daughter of a resident who currently resides in a federally funded Australian nursing home. The intent of the article is meant as a warning for baby boomers. The writer offers some tips and hints to consider, as well as a personal perspective based on the resident's experience. It articulates some of the problems faced by consumers of aged care in this country.
Please be aware that in the future you may need to become a resident of a nursing home. You won't have any choice in which nursing home. Most likely, your children will decide this for you or a Social Worker if you do not have family. No, sorry, you will not be offered rehabilitation! You will be too old, you don't generate an income and no one is chasing your vote – you don't matter in our society. Your opinion will be of no value to anyone.
Harsh? Yes, perhaps but this is the system that you've allowed politicians to impose on the elderly for many, many years. Should have been paying attention then!
Those of us who have some experience have held our own, personally funded, Royal Commission to provide you with some help to navigate through your old age.
These are hints and tips to help you:
(Please pay attention, as these tips have come at a very heavy personal price for my family).
Think this is all a little too much for you? I agree it is. It is even inhumane. It is shameful.
Think there are agencies you can complain to? Not worth the effort. A great deal of time will be wasted but nothing will change as no one seems to have any power to make nursing homes accountable for the care they do not provide.
Your spirit will wither away along with your body. You will become depressed but there is medication for that. It has a side effect of making you extremely thirsty. That wouldn't be so bad if you could get a drink. If you do get a drink, you will need to go to the toilet more.
Oh, wait that really messes up the three times a day going to the toilet. Your dignity will be gone very soon and the fun-loving, joking staff will laugh to each other about you – right in front of you while they change you.
They're no different to the rest of society. It's just a job and the pay is terrible. You want compassion with that? Within a few weeks, you will become weaker and weaker. Poor diet, lack of exercise and losing the will to live take a toll on your body. Add a few falls out of bed and an infection - your time is really running out now.
Don't worry though, there's a waiting list for beds. Nursing Homes spend a great deal of money on advertising as they need to have a high turn over of residents to keep their shareholders happy. No one notices the figures, rates or percentages. It is after all, a place to die - no matter what the brochure says.
I know you saw the happy, healthy people digging in a vegetable garden – they were models and it was staged. Have you learnt nothing? Families believe everything in the brochure because they've been lulled into believing they have no other option but to place their loved one in a nursing home, as they believe that only the nursing home has the staff to meet your every need 24 hours a day.
The registered nurses shown in the brochure? It's advertising. Apparently there's a loophole that nursing homes are exploiting that means they're not required to have a registered nurse on site. They are "on call". You should have stayed home and rung healthdirect Australia (most states) or Nurse-on-Call (Victoria), - much cheaper and probably just as effective.
Please do not be angry with the government or the media. This is not their fault. They have much more important matters to deal with. It is important for the general public to be inundated by more pressing issues such as Rugby League, the Opposition Minister's speedos, ensuring quality in education with the MySchool website.
No, there's no website similar to that for nursing homes!! Are you crazy? If they put out the scores on nursing homes the industry would be crippled! We would have another financial crisis within the aged care facilities and that would not be good for the government.
I know some of you may have marched in the Anzac parade or been to the dawn service this year. It is sad that so much was sacrificed for this generation but somewhere along the line you forgot to teach them the art of gratitude. You may have served your country but you are now getting old and unfortunately, you are redundant. This generation is too busy dealing with all their time saving mechanisms to actually notice what is happening in the world they are going to grow old in.
I'm so sorry that I can't give you more hope, but that's something you will lose anyway the moment you step into the nursing home.
I hope this has opened your eyes and your heart a little.
Daughter of High Care Resident
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This scholarship is for graduating high school seniors who reside within the 60015 zip code in Illinois which includes the communities of Deerfield, Bannockburn, and Riverwoods. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must be US citizens, provide an outstanding record of service to others, and present a 3.0 cumulative GPA.
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Lucy the Margate Elephant just happens to be the largest (fake) elephant in the world. Read »
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At Julius Sturgis Pretzel Factory, you can make your very own pretzels and take a tour of the original factory, which dates back to 1861. Read »
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Rookie team:
Bledsoe, D. Cousins, D. Favors, L. Fields, B. Griffin, W. Johnson, G. Monroe, G. Neal, John Wall
Sophomore team:
D. Blair, D. DeRozan, S. Curry, T. Evans, T. Gibson, J. Holliday, S. Ibaka, B. Jennings, W. Matthews
Amare Stoudemire will be an Assistant Coach for the Rookies. Cannot wait to see what STAT draws up for a team that has the likes of Wall, Griffin, and Fields.
This should be a good game, and I'll go with the Rookies in this one.


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Posts From September 2012
Smashbox Image Factory Photo Op Eyeshadow Palette Review, Swatches, Photos
Smashbox Image Factory Photo Op Eyeshadow Palette ($39) is a newly launched, limited edition six pan eyeshadow palette in two color variations introduced for Fall 2012.
Of course, I wanted the Muse Palette. Obvious reasons right? But this was also the nude, natural color selection so I also navigated towards it for this reason. The other shade selection is entitled Icon and this has a more smoky look with an added purple twist. Equally lovely but my eyes aren't doing so well with smoky blacks and purples lately.
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As you know Katie Holmes is the new Face of Bobbi Brown. Bobbi chats Katie and this new collaboration on the Today Show video below. Have a look!
Disney Cinderella Collection by Sephora Video & Sneak Peek
Dreams can come true, it could happen to you if you visit Sephora this Holiday season. Disney Cinderella Collection by Sephora is a new Holiday 2012 launch that features an array of princess-y beauty products for the adult makeup junkie.
L'Oreal Project Runway Fall 2012 Colour Rich Lipcolour The Queen's Kiss Review, Swatches, Photos
L'Oreal will be launching their Project Runway Fall 2012 Collection shortly. Already reader's have been telling me they have seen it in stores. I haven't yet but my search continues!
Along with the collection four shades of L'Oreal Colour Rich Lipcolour will be launching in limited edition packaging and shades. Monday I wore one of those shades, The Queen's Kiss, here's a little review and some thoughts!Read More...


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Using Yield Prophet® to determine the likely impacts of climate change on wheat and barley production
James Hunt1, Zvi Hochman2, Bill Long3, Dean Holzworth4, Anthony Whitbread5, Stephen van Rees1 and Peter DeVoil6
1 Birchip Cropping Group, PO Box 85, Birchip, Vic 3483 Email firstname.lastname@example.com
2 Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU), CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia Qld 4067
3AgConsulting, PO Box 70 Ardrossan SA 5571
4Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU), CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, PO Box 102, Toowoomba Qld 4350
5CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, PMB2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064
6Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (APSRU), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland PO Box 102, Toowoomba Qld 4350 Australia
Regionally specific scenarios of the likely changes in seasonal rainfall and temperature are now readily available. Yield Prophet® (www.yieldprophet.com.au) is an on-line interface for the crop production model APSIM (www.apsim.info) that now has the potential to allow individual growers to assess how climate change will impact on crop yields at the paddock level. This paper describes how climate change scenarios for 2030 were incorporated into Yield Prophet® and used to develop tools which allow users to assess; (i) whether there have been any discernable changes in crop yields in response to recent climatic changes; (ii) yield distributions under different climate change scenarios assuming current practices; and (iii) yield distributions under different climate change scenarios assuming adaptation strategies. These tools are to be used on-line to allow growers and consultants to design scenarios specific to soil type, meteorological station, crop type and cultivar, sowing date and density. This knowledge will assist in making adaptive changes in crop management to cope with seasonal variability and changes in climate.
Key Words
Climate change, Yield Prophet, wheat, barley, modelling
Climate change is a challenge that current Australian grain farmers will have to face. Continued productivity and viability of farms will only be maintained if managers are able to adapt their systems, practices and business to changed conditions. Regionally specific scenarios of the likely changes in seasonal rainfall and temperature have in recent times become readily available through state extension publications and several interactive websites (www.csiro.au/ozclim and www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au). However, grain growers and their advisors currently have no means by which to assess how these scenarios will impact on crop yields, or to what extent negative effects of climate change may be mitigated by adaptation strategies.
There is also significant curiosity from farmers and advisors regarding the role of climate change in what, for many regions, has been a decade of below average rainfall. There has been no tool based on long-term meteorological data available that allows investigation of climate variability and change at a regionally specific level. This paper describes how an existing online crop simulation service (Yield Prophet®) was enabled to generate paddock specific yield simulations. These simulations allow investigation of climate change to date, crop yields under future climate change scenarios, and how adaptation strategies might mitigate the impact of climate change on yield. The aim is to provide a tool that can assist with climate change detection, planning for future change, and adaptation.
Monthly mean climate change scenarios for the year 2030 are obtained from the OzClim website (www.csiro.au/ozclim/home.do) for the location of user defined patched point data set (PPD) met stations. IPCC climate change scenarios used for the report are A1F1 emissions using the GFDL-CM2.1 model with high climate sensitivity ('worst case') and B1 emissions using the NCAR:CCSM3 model with low climate sensitivity ('best case').
Focusing exclusively on changes in the means ignores any changes in dispersion. A quantile regression estimating multiple rates of change (slopes of the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles) of daily max & min temperature, provides a more complete picture of the projections missed by other regression methods. In order to capture the changes in extremes of the distribution, past trends were investigated using M-quantile regressions (Breckling and Chambers 1988) for reference meteorological data sets in each region. These transformations were then applied in conjunction with the mean monthly temperature changes (from IPCC scenarios above) to historic met data for the IPCC baseline 1980-1999. The historic daily rainfall series (1980-1999) is simply adjusted by the monthly mean change. Finally, simple linear models of radiation, vapour pressure and evaporation are developed from the historical series of maximum temperature. The same model predicts these variables for the projected climates.
Yield Prophet® subscribers enter paddock specific information such as soil type and nearest PPD meteorological station into the Yield Prophet® website, as per regular Yield Prophet® use (Hunt et al. 2006). In order to generate a climate change report, the user must also provide a sowing rule, cultivar and plant density and nominate if they would like the simulation to run assuming full stubble retention, or with a percentage of stubble removed in each season. Users also have the opportunity to enter an 'adaptation' strategy of changed sowing rule, cultivar, plant density and stubble retention under a climate change scenario of their choosing ('best case', 'worst case' and a 'moderate' scenario represented by IPCC A1B emission scenarios using the Max Planck ECHAM5/MPI-OM model and medium climate sensitivity). This information is then sent from the website to the Yield Prophet® run machine that creates four one-hundred year continuous wheat simulations in APSIM (Keating et al. 2003), describing wheat yields for current, 'worst case', 'best case' and 'worst case adaptation' scenarios. The effect of an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration (to 420ppm for 'best' and 460 ppm for 'worst' case scenarios) and temperature on crop growth is captured in the APSIM wheat model with two functions that influence key model parameters (Radiation Use Efficiency and Transpiration Efficiency) that were derived from literature (van Ittersum et al. 2003). Output is graphically formatted according to the report template, and returned to the users' online account for viewing.
The climate change report graphically represents simulation output. Simulated attainable wheat yields (assuming that nitrogen is not limiting) for the last 100 years assuming user-defined 'current' practice are presented as a histogram with a mean and running mean (Figure 1). This puts recent seasons in the context of annual and decadal variability for the past century.
Figure 1. Simulated attainable wheat yields from 1908 to 2007 for a hypothetical paddock at Birchip, in north-west Victoria (■), mean attainable yield (····) and 10 year rolling mean (▬).
Probability of exceedence (probability that a given yield will be exceeded) graphs for the last thirty years and all other years (Figure 2a) and the last ten years and all other years (Figure 2b) provide a simple means for climate change detection. A Kruskal-Wallis test is used to determine if the distributions of recent and all other years are significantly different at a 90% confidence level.
Figure 2. a) simulated attainable wheat yields from 1908-1977 (▬) and 1978-2007 (▬) at Birchip, there is no significant difference between the distributions (p=0.62). b) simulated attainable wheat yields from 1908-1997 (▬) and 1998-2007 (▬) at Birchip, there is a significant difference between the distributions (p=0.01).
Probability of exceedence is also used to represent yield outcomes for 'best case' and 'worst case' scenarios relative to baseline years 1980-1999 assuming current practice (Figure 3), and adaptation (Figure 4).
Figure 3. Simulated attainable wheat yield for 1980-1999 for Birchip (▬), and for the same period under 'worst case' (▬) and 'best case' (▬) climate change scenarios.
Figure 4. Simulated attainable wheat yield for 1980-1999 for Birchip under 'worst case' climate change scenarios assuming current practice (▬), and 'worst case' assuming complete stubble retention and earlier sowing window (▬) as adaptation strategies.
The information presented in Figs 1-4 provide growers and consultants with a means to detect occurrence of climate change, and an estimate of how current IPCC climate change scenarios for 2030 will affect productivity on their farm. In the example above, change in attainable wheat yields at Birchip has been detected. Ten year rolling mean yield is currently lower than it has been at anytime in the last 100 years (Figure 1), and attainable wheat yields from 1998-2007 are significantly lower (P<0.1) than those from 1908-1997 (Figure 2). This section of the report makes no inference about future climate, or attribution of detected change to any possible cause (e.g. inherent variability or global warming caused by human activity).
Simulation indicates that yields under worst case climate change scenarios could be improved by farming systems adaptation, in this example through adoption of full stubble retention and taking advantage of earlier sowing opportunities (Figure 4). Growers and advisors can use this information to assist with strategic decisions such as succession planning, acquisition of new land etc, as well as in tactical applications including farming systems adaptation and design. There are numerous 'missing links' and caveats associated with the Yield Prophet® Climate Change Report which will need to be communicated to users. These include a possible increase in the frequency of frost and heat shock events under climate change, increased drought intensity and a decrease in magnitude, frequency or altered timing of seasonal breaks. All of these have serious implications for crop yields and are not considered in these simulations. It also overlooks the possibility that the last decade may be a 'step' function of climate change, and that the 1980-1999 climate baseline is no longer a valid benchmark over which to impose change. In spite of these limitations, the report provides what is to-date the only easily accessible means for grain growers to assess how climate change scenarios will impact on crop yields.
Breckling, J. and Chambers, R. (1988). M-quantiles. Biometrika 75, 761-71.
Hunt, J.R., van Rees, H., Hochman, Z., Carberry, P.S., Holzworth, D., Dalgliesh, N.P., Brennan, L., Poulton, P.L., van Rees, S., Huth, N.I. and Peake, A. (2006). Yield Prophet®: An online crop simulation service. "Ground-breaking stuff". Proceedings of the 13th Australian Agronomy Conference, Perth, Western Australia, eds N.C. Turner, T. Acuna and R.C. Johnson. (The Australian Society of Agronomy, Perth, Western Australia).
Keating, B.A., Carberry, P.S., Hammer, G.L., Probert, M.E., Robertson, M.J., Holzworth, D., Huth, N.I., Hargreaves, J.N.G., Meinke, H., Hochman, Z., McClean, G., Verburg, K., Snow, V., Dimes, J.P., Silburn, M., Wang, E., Brown, S., Bristow, K.L., Asseng, S., Chapman, S., McCown, R.L., Freebairn, D.M. and Smith, C.J. (2003). An overview of APSIM, a model designed for farming systems simulation. European Journal of Agronomy 18, 267-288.
van Ittersum, M.K., Howden, S.M. and Asseng, S. (2003). Sensitivity of productivity and deep drainage of wheat cropping systems in a Mediterranean environment to changes in CO2, temperature and precipitation. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 97, 255-73.


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Nearly 80 families have been left waiting for months to complete the adoption process and bring home a child from Nepal.
Some dropped the process altogether; others continue to pursue the adoption.
On the other side, even more relinquished children are left yearning for a place to call home after U.S. joined 10 other countries in suspending adoption from the South Asian country.
Following the release of a report by The Hague Conference on Private International Law, the U.S. State Department discontinued adoption of supposedly abandoned Nepali children due to concerns over child trafficking, fabrication of documents and an overall lack of a child protection system from Nepal's government. Their adoption system has been deemed unreliable after investigators found that many of the children adopted were in fact not orphans and that their parents are actively searching for them.
Currently, U.S. is only allowing the adoption of children whose birthparents are known. However, the number of children with that kind of documentation is limited because of the conflict with Nepal's culture, said Chuck Johnson, president and CEO of National Council for Adoption (NCFA), an adoption advocacy nonprofit that is against U.S.'s decision. According to sophomore microbiology major Deepak Basnet, who emigrated from Nepal only four years ago, the limitation is attributed to the fear from the biological parents.
"Parents think that their child will not be well protected and that they might be used for personal benefits," Basnet said.
On top of that, very few women are willing to openly give up their children, choosing instead to anonymously abandon the newborn.
"In Nepal… being pregnant and not married can be seen as a disgrace," Johnson said.
Basnet agreed.
"They might feel that that they have to secretly abandon their… because the society might not appreciate it," he said. "Single mother might have to face [people] talking against her for not being able to raise her own child."
Without information of where the children came from, officials in Nepal cannot be certain that they had not been kidnapped and sold for profit. And while the ban does seem logical, NCFA believes it not only leaves families heartbroken and anxious, but it also ruins the childhood and future for many abandoned children.
Unlike the U.S., adoption is not very popular in Nepal, so what becomes of these abandoned children depend heavily on the demand from international families.
"The acceptance of domestic adoption is not very common," Johnson said. "The country is not like the U.S. in which abandoned children have equal rights as biological children."
The ban makes it difficult for the children to survive as they will age unsupported and unprepared for when they reach their adolescent years. It also puts these children at a high risk of being trafficked to India for prostitution and other illegal activities, Johnson argued.
One way or another, the issue of preventing trafficking must be prevented and the states see suspension as an appropriate start. Protestors, however, see various alternative routes that both Nepal and U.S. agencies can take. They argue for severe punishment of traffickers, increase diligence in the monitoring the adoption process by both U.S. and Nepal agencies and implementation of Hague's standards of adoption.
But so far, said Johnson, the international community is not seeing that happen.
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Consumers of digital media will witness an important milestone in April when Apple's iTunes Store figuratively blows out the computer-generated candles on its virtual 10th birthday cake. Starting in 2003, just a few years after digital music's origin as pirate's booty on the high seas of illegal file sharing, consumers could open an account, search for songs, point a cursor at the "buy" button on their computer screens and download a brand new track, all in just a few seconds.
License to read: What are you buying when you buy online?
These days, digital retailers such as Amazon and Apple offer books, movies, television shows and music for instant downloading, and with the advent of smartphones, e-readers and tablets, people can enjoy these things almost anywhere. But when someone points to a "purchase" button on Amazon.com to download the latest James Patterson novel to their Kindle Fire, what are they actually purchasing?
The answer resides in lengthy expanses of legalese known as end user license agreements, or EULAs.
These documents often pop up when a user downloads a program such as iTunes, or they are stuck behind links at the bottom of the screen called "terms and conditions" or "conditions of use," the titles of which are a lot less compelling than "What's Hot" or "25 Exciting Books This Week." They are usually free of graphics and ponderously long, with entire sections written in all-caps.
Not surprisingly, few people actually bother to read a EULA. According to Measuring Usability, a Denver-based quantitative research firm, fewer than 8 percent of users read the EULA in full, and the average time that most people spend looking at these pages is 6 seconds. Their reputation for being impenetrable prompted the tech media website Cnet.com to invite actor Richard Dreyfuss to perform a dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA in 2011.
Concept of ownership
But wading through the turgid language could be worth more than six seconds for consumers unfamiliar with the shifting concept of ownership in the digital era. The most important word in "end user license agreement" is "license," because most digital retailers are selling the legal right to limited use of their products.
"The content owners say that they are giving you a license, not selling you a copy," said Sarah Burstein, professor of copyright law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
In most cases, people who purchase e-books, digital music or downloadable movies do not have the right to resell these products. Burstein said this restriction has been around since the advent of software, products with little or no physical presence. Old books, magazines, DVDs, compact discs and vinyl records can be resold, a right protected by the first-sale doctrine, an important provision in U.S. copyright law stating that the purchaser of a new copy of a book can then dispose of it as they please — give it to a friend, put it in a bin at a garage sale, or sell it back to the campus bookstore.
Access revoked
In contrast, digital media buyers cannot pass along their used megabytes. As the iTunes EULA cautions, "You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the iTunes Service in any manner." And if Amazon discovers that a customer has violated provisions of its terms, "your rights under this Agreement will automatically terminate if you fail to comply with any term of this Agreement. In case of such termination, Amazon may immediately revoke your access to the Service without refund of any fees."
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People are starting to chafe at this. They're saying, 'I bought my iTunes. Why can't I pass them on to my kids?'"
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Pick up
after your pets
Pet waste that is left on sidewalks,
roads, driveways, parks and yards can mix with rainfall and snowmelt
and travel to storm
drains and surface waters causing pollution and an increased
risk of disease.
It may be difficult to picture how one dog or cat depositing
a small amount of animal waste here and there can result in potential
water pollution, but studies have shown that the cumulative impact
of waste from all the pets, livestock, and resident waterfowl
within a watershed can have a significant impact on water quality
and may also cause human health risks.
More information on stormwater basics
More information on reducing runoff
up after your pet. When going for walks with your dog, bring
along a plastic bag and scooper. Pet waste should also
be removed daily from your yard. How should you dispose of
it? No solution is perfect, but here are a few choices:
of solid waste and used cat litter in the trash. Seal it securely
in a plastic bag. While this transfers
the problem to a landfill, it does protect the larger watershed
area from potential pollution.
solid waste down the toilet. Do NOT flush leaves, sticks,
debris or cat litter down the toilet!
the waste in a proper spot in your yard about five inches
below the ground surface (the upper soil layer is the biologically
active layer).
Another option
is to install an in-ground pet waste disposal system that works much
like a septic tank (this requires a deep hole).
is not recommended in areas with poor drainage and high water tables
(within 18 to 30 inches from the surface). It is also not an
effective option when
temperatures drop below 40 degrees F.
Gilbert Stuart Road Demonstration site
Never locate burial areas near
a drinking
water well, surface waters, storm drains or vegetable gardens.
larger yards, you can train your dog to use natural woodland
areas or
areas where grass
is not frequently mowed (left at least 4 inches tall).
The waste will naturally decompose as long as it is not at a
risk of mixing
and traveling with stormwater runoff. Do not rely on "natural
areas" that
are located near surface waters, drinking water wells,
or vegetable gardens.
dog yards and dog runs should never be located near a
water well or
immediately upslope of a surface water body. Ideally,
the area should be fairly level and well-vegetated and
located away from vegetable gardens
and children's play areas. Solid
waste should be collected and disposed of using the options
listed above.
feed the waterfowl! It encourages a higher number of
birds than natural food
supplies can support. These large flocks of birds also
deposit large quantities of waste in and around surface
waters, impacting
water quality.
you have horses or livestock (including poultry) - it is important
to properly store and recycle manure.
Livestock yards and pasture also require proper management
to reduce
risks. Keep animals out of streams and ponds - maintain vegetative
For more information refer to the
Healthy Landscapes Small Acreage Livestock Education Program.
View our fact
sheet and self-assessment series on these topics. View
our video,
Keeping Livestock: Protecting Water Resources and Health.
For more information on pet waste management
URI CE Home*A*Syst Program factsheet:
Waste and Water Quality Protection
Stuart Road Demonstration site
For in-ground pet waste disposal
systems contact your local pet supply store. You can also do
an internet search on pet waste disposal to obtain a variety
of sizes and models.
For more information on
livestock and horse best management practices
Livestock and Horses on Small Acreages: Protecting our drinking
water, families, and animals
Video - Keeping Livestock: Protecting Water Resources
and Health
The USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service and your local
Conservation District for more information on agricultural
waste management.
For more information on reducing runoff
Healthy Landscapes page reducing runoff
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In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more.
As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. Using her past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages, Quindlen talks about
Marriage: "A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation."
Girlfriends: "Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends. Sometimes I will see a photo of an actress in an unflattering dress or a blouse too young for her or with a heavy-handed makeup job, and I mutter, 'She must not have any girlfriends.' "
Stuff: "Here's what it comes down to, really: there is now so much stuff in my head, so many years, so many memories, that it's taken the place of primacy away from the things in the bedrooms, on the porch. My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it is in the drawers of our minds. Between the stuff at work and the stuff at home, the appointments and the news and the gossip and the rest, the past and the present and the plans for the future, the filing cabinets in our heads are not only full, they're overflowing."
Our bodies: "I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come. It's like a car, and while I like a red convertible or even a Bentley as well as the next person, what I really need are four tires and an engine."
Parenting: "Being a parent is not transactional. We do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: We are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us."
From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, Quindlen uses the events of her own life to illuminate our own. Along with the downsides of age, she says, can come wisdom, a perspective on life that makes it satisfying and even joyful. Candid, funny, moving, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake is filled with the sharp insights and revealing observations that have long confirmed Quindlen's status as America's laureate of real life.
"Weary, battle-hardened reflections on growing older infuse this latest collection of essays by novelist and former New York Times columnist Quindlen (Every Last One). Having chimed in copiously in previous memoirs on now familiar talking points such as raising children, finding life's balance as a working mother, achieving marital harmony and doling out feminist lessons to three grown children, Quindlen has found one nut to polish in a gratifying sense of survival on her own terms. Now in her late 50s, having lived much longer than her mother, who died when Quindlen was 19, the author finds herself shocked to hear herself referred to as elderly, and no longer troubled by the realization that her sense of control over events is illusory. In essays such as 'Generations' and 'Expectations,' she is careful to pay homage to the women like her mother who grew up before the women's movement and thus had fewer choices. Yet Quindlen sees much work still to be done, especially in breaking glass ceilings and in assumptions about women's looks — including her own. Cocooned in her comfortable lifestyle between a New York City apartment and her country house, surrounded by accumulated 'stuff' that is beginning to feel stifling, certain of her marriage-until-death and support of her BFFs, Quindlen holds for the most part a blithe, benign view of growing older. Yet in moments when she dares to peer deeper, such as at her Catholic faith or within the chasm of solitude left by children having left home, she bats away her platitudinous reassurances and approaches a near-searing honesty. (May)" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
"A reporter by training, a storyteller at heart, [Quindlen's] writing is personal, humorous, and thought-provoking." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Quindlen is an astonishingly graceful writer." San Francisco Examiner
"Thank goodness for Anna Quindlen. [She] is smart. And compassionate. And witty. And wise." Detriot Free-Press
About the Author
Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear. She is the author of six novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, and Every Last One.
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Athiest billboards appear in Sacramento area
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A collection of billboards just put up in the Sacramento area are attempting to inspire onlookers, but not in a spiritual way.
Atheist and agnostic groups in the region have bought roadside space in an effort, they say, to tell fellow nonbelievers they are not alone.
The billboards read "Are you good without God? Millions are." In the background are fluffy white clouds and blue sky.
Similar billboards have gone up in more than a dozen cities over the past year as part of a national campaign.
The 10 Sacramento billboards will be up for a month at a cost of $6,450.
Information from: The Sacramento Bee, http://www.sacbee.com
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Dennis Erickson to join Utah staff
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or the first time in more than 32 years, Dennis Erickson will be a college assistant coach.
Erickson, who led Miami to national championships in 1989 and 1991, will join Kyle Whittingham's staff at Utah as co-offensive coordinator. Erickson has been a head coach at seven Division I schools and two NFL teams since he was San Jose State's offensive coordinator back in 1981.
A formal announcement from Utah is expected Monday morning.
Erickson will hold the co-OC title with Brian Johnson, who was named Utah's offensive coordinator prior to the 2012 season. Johnson, who was just 24 years old at the time, was the young FBS coordinator in the nation.
Sources said that Whittingham was looking for an experienced coach to work alongside Johnson. He also interviewed former Colorado State head coach Steve Fairchild, a 31-year coaching vet. Fairchild was named Virginia's offensive coordinator on Jan. 30.
Erickson, who turns 66 in March, compiled a 179-96-1 collegiate record over stints at Idaho (1982-85, 2006), Wyoming (1986), Washington State (1987-88), Miami (1989-94), Oregon State (1999-2002) and Arizona State (2007-11).
In the NFL, Erickson was 40-56 with the Seattle Seahawks (1995-98) and San Francisco 49ers (2003-04).
Erickson served as a volunteer assistant for his son Bryce's South Albany High team in Woodburn, Ore. last year.
Utah has had six different coaches hold the offensive coordinator title in as many years. Andy Ludwig finished his final year with the Utes in 2008 and was succeeded by Dave Schramm, who then shared OC duties with Aaron Roderick in 2010. Norm Chow led Utah's offense in 2011 before leaving to coach Hawaii, before Johnson was given the title in 2012.
The opening on the Utah staff came when defensive line coach Chad Kauha'aha'a departed to Wisconsin on Dec. 20.
Whittingham moved fullbacks and tight ends coach Ilaisa Tuiaki to the defensive staff to make room for a new offensive assistant.


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S&K Plating asked SoCalGas account executive Jaime Leiva (left) for an assessment to help decide if a boiler should be replaced. "He walked me through the entire process, and I got a $10,400 rebate and a $14,200 zero-interest loan," said Mardig Chakalian (right), owner of S&K Plating. "Asking for an assessment was one of the best business calls I ever made."
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PB Fasteners was seriously considering the purchase of a $20,000 piece of equipment to help save natural gas. The vendor projected a payback of 2-3 years, but PB Fasteners called SoCalGas for a second opinion. After assessing the new equipment, as well as PB Fasteners' existing equipment and its usage history, SoCalGas estimated the payback to be 8-9 years. "I turned down the project after that," said PB Fasteners' Ken Pitts. "And I keep SoCalGas in the loop when other projects come up."
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TORONTO (AP) - Investigators are combing through the wreckage of a Toronto stage, trying to determine what caused the structure to come crashing down ahead of a Radiohead concert yesterday.
The British band says the collapse killed its drum technician, Scott Johnson.
Police say he was trapped under the rubble and pronounced dead at the scene. Three people were injured. Two were treated at the scene and one is in the hospital with a head injury that's not considered life-threatening.
Officials from the Ontario Ministry of Labor searched through the wreckage for clues to the cause of the collapse. They're also investigating whether safety regulations and standards were followed and if staff was properly trained.
Radiohead's website had listed the concert as being sold out, with 40,000 tickets sold. The band says fans can get refunds for the canceled show at points of purchase.
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As the nights begin to cool the tropical greenhouse at Tucson Botanical heats up in preparation of one of Tucson's favorite annual events – Butterfly Magic. Fly into the tropical greenhouse and take off on an exotic butterfly adventure that spans eleven countries; let some of the most beautiful and sometimes even rare butterflies of the world surround you. Join the millions of people worldwide who already have a winged obsession.
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Angela Simmons and Bow Wow pose together at Miami Fashion Week.
Everyone's got a celebrity crush, but on the next "Catfish," 19-year-old Keyonnah is convinced she's actually dating hers. As a tried and true Bow Wow fan, Keyonnah clocked many hours on the "106 & Park" host's fan page, and was shocked when, one day, she received a message back from the rapper, which led to many subsequent texts and phone calls. Is she on the money about their relationship status? Is she totally delusional? Most of you have been leaning toward the latter, but hey, stranger things have happened. Uh, right?
In the event Keyonnah's right about her online love, we've put together a quick timeline of Bow Wow's past relationships so that she's ready for any potential baggage. Take a glimpse, and tune in to "Catfish" tonight at 10/9c to see if
Ciara: After dating for a year and making music together on "Like You," Bow Wow and Ciara called in quits in April of 2006, according to People. While the couple was still together, Ciara was occasionally seen sporting a diamond piece of jewelry on her left ring finger, but assured the magazine it was "just a little gift."
Angela Simmons: Well, we definitely know that Bow Wow doesn't trash his exes! After dating on and off for years, Rev Run's daughter Angela Simmons and Bow Wow came face-to-face on "106 & Park" earlier this year and Angela tweeted of their reunion: "Been riding with each other 9 years and counting #realfriendship."
Joie Chavis: After staying mum on the topic for some time, Bow Wow came clean in a 2011 fan letter that he and former flame Joie had a child, Shai, together. Shai lives with Joie across the country, and Bow Wow told Oprah earlier this year, "It's so hard — I Skype with [Shai] and I just wish that I could just reach in there and grab her little self."
Tyra Banks: OK, so we might be reaching with this one, but after a recent appearance on "106 & Park" that included a big ol' smooch with Bow Wow (which, as it turns out, was her second), the supermodel is rumored to be the rapper's newest girlfriend. Think it's the real deal? If so, Tyra better watch her back — Keyonnah will be none too pleased!
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BBC pension plan causes strike threats
In June the BBC announced plans to reform its pension plan in an attempt to tackle the pension deficit estimated at £2bn.
The original proposes announced were to impose a cap on pensionable salaries to a 1% increase each year or to leave the final salary arrangement and join a new money purchase arrangement which is offered to new employees.
The new proposal which was sent to the BBC staff on Monday offers an extra option to that above, a pension based on a career average salary.
The new pension benefit would use the average pay of employees and no new cap would be imposed, however to afford the cost of such an arrangement, an increase in contributions is required of 7% instead of the current 4%.
The annual pension would be calculated using 1.67% of the average salary per year and would increase in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) or 2.5%, whichever was lower.
On 13 September 2010 the BBC's main unions announced strike dates of 5, 6, 19 and 20 October 2010 as a result of the pension dispute.
The BBC has said.
"We are disappointed that the unions have announced dates for industrial action."
"We believe our pension proposals address concerns raised by staff and that they should now have the opportunity to fully consider and explore them within the context of an ongoing consultation rather than the threat of a strike."
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Turkey Giblet Stock
Yield: Makes about 5 cups
Gourmet | November 1993
- the neck and giblets (excluding the liver) from 12- to 14-pound turkey
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 5 cups water
- 1 rib of celery, chopped
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 onion, quarterd
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crumbled
- 1 teaspoons black peppercorns
In a large saucepan combine the neck and giblets, the broth, the water, the celery, the carrot, and the onion and bring the liquid to a boil, skimming the froth. Add the bay leaf, the thyme, and the peppercorns, cook the mixture at a bare simmer for 2 hours, or until the liquid is reduced to about 5 cups, and strain the stock through a fine sieve into a bowl. The stock may be made 2 days in advance, cooled, uncovered, and kept chilled or frozen in an airtight container.
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Naples Concert Band Holiday on Fifth Avenue South 2011
The Naples Concert Band drew an even larger holiday season crowd to 5th Avenue than usual. Divided into musical sections like trumpets, saxophones, percussion and more with each playing 45 minute sets they anchored a busy evening that included other entertainment along the avenue. A forty year tradition, the band provides scholarships to high school and college aged students who audition to play with the band with annual awards totalling around $6,000.


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Stop by the Half Shell and enjoy a classic feel with some good, old southern hospitality. We take pride in serving only the finest quality, hand-selected Gulf oysters. Try them raw, charbroiled, New Orleans style, or Rockefeller. We also offer a delicious variety of seafood specialties, steaks, pasta, po-boys, salads, and New Orleans favorites such as gumbo, shrimp & grits, and royal reds.
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Half Shell is open for brunch 11am - 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Serving only the best steaks, selected from the top 2% of the country's beef and served sizzling hot. To experience fine dining at its Prime, just follow the sizzle to Ruth's Chris Steak House. Dinner is served nightly. For online reservations, click
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This is a handmade lighter in color leather Horse Saddle. The saddle is beautifully made, and smells like leather, because it's made from leather. There's buckles, a little give, and where you put your feet in the stirrups, it really moves! It's made from Prestige Leather, handmade and to scale for 1" miniatures. For dollhouse scale only.
You will receive the soft cushy holder for the saddle.
Measuring from the bottom buckle up to the top of the saddle measures 3". It's 2" deep, 1 1/2" wide.


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Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson believes he has the best shooting backcourt in NBA history, and the numbers don't dispute that. Neither do appearances, and anyone who has watched Stephen Curry shoot knows that it is an experience, a sight that needs to be seen.
It takes approximately 10:16 to watch every 3-pointer Curry has hit this regular season, all 272 of them, an NBA record that surpassed the single-season mark of 269 Ray Allen set in 2005-06 as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics. Curry also beat out Dorrell Wright's franchise record of 197 along the way to shooting 45.3 percent from deep.
Curry made another bit of history with teammate Klay Thompson, who he teamed with to outshoot any duo in NBA history by hitting a combined 463 3-pointers for the 2012-13 season, outpacing the 435 from Orlando's Dennis Scott and Nick Anderson in 1995-96.
And, here's the payoff, where you get to watch Curry's amazing shooting display (via Eye on Basketball). The No. 58 3-pointer is worth several looks, and so is Curry's 54-point explosion at Madison Square Garden from February. It's also worth noting how many of these come with zero players in position to offensive rebound, a sign of the confidence Curry—and his teammates—have in the NBA's most deadly 3-point shot. Enjoy.


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hey people. the past few years, two of of my events have been incorrectly listed in the who what where when, causing a lot of confusion for the participants.
for those who dont know, submissions for the who what where are accepted online at burnignman.com. once these submissions are made, they cannot be altered. then the borg gives initial approval of the listing and they are posted on the website. people are encouraged to review this listing for accuracy and email if there are changes. in my case, changes were made by the staff *after* i aprroved the online listing, to suit the print version. these changes altered the listing in a critical way. in 04 one of my events was listed in a village a mile away from the camp's actual location, and in 05 the event was listed on the wrong day.
i would like for people to be able to approve the final draft of the print version before it goes to press. i am interested in figuring out what would need to happen to make this possible. i am trying to compile some info (issues, suggestions) along with a regional rep for NYC, so if youve had an experience similar to mine, please message me or contact me at stacycats (at) missblackrockcity (dot) com


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The fourth major security update for 2011 is now available for Mac OS X customers. It's not just Snow Leopard users that must install the update, but OS X 10.5 Leopard users as well, Apple reveals.
Security Update 2011-004 is incorporated in the latest Snow Leopard release (OS X 10.6.8), and comes as a standalone download for Leopard users (Client and Server).
It provides security fixes in core areas of Mac OS X, including AirPort, App Store, ATS, Certificate Trust Policy, ColorSync, CoreFoundation, CoreGraphics, FTP Server, ImageIO, International Components for Unicode, Kernel, Libsystem, MobileMe, MySQL, OpenSSL, QuickLook, QuickTime, and others.
Apple learned that in certain circumstances, App Store may log the user's Apple ID password to a local file. However, that file is not readable by other users on the system, Apple said.
Nonetheless, the problem needed addressing, and Cupertino did so through improved handling of credentials. Both Leopard and Snow Leopard users are affected.
For MobileMe, the tech giant acknowledges that an attacker with a privileged network position may read a user's MobileMe email aliases. Apple explains why, and how this issue is addressed:
"When communicating with MobileMe to determine a user's email aliases, Mail will make requests over HTTP. As a result, an attacker with a privileged network position may read a user's MobileMe email aliases. This issue is addressed by using SSL to access the user's email aliases."
This issue only affects Snow Leopard customers, Apple said.
A memory corruption issue also exists in QuickLook's handling of Microsoft Office files. Apple learned that downloading a maliciously crafted Microsoft Office file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
The company fixes this in Security Update 2011-004 and outlines that it does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X v10.6. In other words, Leopard users remain unaffected.
Multiple QuickTime issues have been addressed as well. In all cases, viewing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution, Apple said.
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Social makes me Happy! How about you? #ibm #ibmsocialbiz #socbiz #marketing 2.0September 17, 2012
Happy Monday! And I am happy! I am home from my 2 weeks in Asia and Africa with great meetings with clients and great changes in the market. What a difference that a year makes!
Here's your request on this week's video which is an update on Social and Happiness! What do you guys think?


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Heritage sector seeks displaced apprentices
Latest update 12.02.2013 12:33
The future of building conservation and the training of the next generation in heritage building skills have received a boost thanks to funding for a unique Apprenticeship partnership training scheme.
The Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme is offering up to 45 placements in the heritage sector. Trainee placements are available in traditional building skills including stonemasonry, carpentry & joinery, bricklaying, and blacksmithing.
This intake is targeted at displaced apprentices – those who have been part-way through apprenticeships which have been lost by businesses collapsing in the recession.
Applicants are invited to apply now for placements which range from 6 -24 months at different locations across England and Wales.
We are running the scheme in partnership with Cadw, English Heritage, Construction Skills, and the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG). This unique training programme has been awarded £760,000 funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Bursaries will cover salary and training fees for the duration of the placement, and apprentices will gain a vocational qualification at the end of their training.
Charles Weston, who worked with David Sleight Conservation Ltd on the Bursary Scheme says:
'The Traditional Skills Bursary Scheme allowed me to spend three months on site working on a prestigious building. During that placement, I developed my understanding of conservation techniques and lime mortar technologies and their appropriate application; the use of lime mortars in the conservation of historic buildings, and an insight into managing projects in response to changing weather conditions through spring, summer and winter.
'The bursary helped me to cover the travel costs and out of pocket expenses during the period of the placement. The extended experience prepared me for the next stage of my training for the Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Heritage Skills.'
Rory Cullen, Head of Buildings at the National Trust says:
'The Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme was created in a bid to tackle the severe shortage of heritage building skills. Since it began, the scheme has provided nearly 138 work-based training placements across England and Wales, in skills areas where there are recognised shortages.
'We are absolutely delighted that the HLF has recognised the need to continue to provide critical funding – having always recognised the importance of traineeships. This will make a real difference to young people at such a difficult economic time but also help to safeguard the skills and the future of buildings in the whole heritage sector.'
The deadline for applications is the end of September. To apply and for more information visit www.buildingbursaries.org.uk or contact Elizabeth Long on 07824 545187


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Urban House
35/13 Soi Yommarat Saladaeng, Road Silom, Bangkok, Thailand, 10500
Overall Rating: 96
Urban House, is located on Saladaeng road, Silom – the heart of Bangkok's business, tourist and entertainment district.
Facilities at this hostel include:
- Air Conditioning
- No curfew
- Internet / Wi-Fi
- 24 hour hot showers
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Urban house provides you a cosy and clean accommodation in a relaxing atmosphere. Within walking distance, you may find - Shopping mall / Night Market - Embassies (Canada , Australia) / Banks - First class hotels - Lumpini Park (recreation area) / Boxing stadium Only 7 minute walk to BTS skytrain station (Saladaeng) and underground (MRT - Silom station), it is very convenient and easy to access to all parts of the city. Amenities: - Air-conditioning (individually controlled) - Refrigerator - Complimentary drinking water (one bottle per person per day) - Television / Cable TV - Bathroom en suite - Linen / towels - Soap / shampoo - Key card access - Free Wi-Fi - Continental Breakfast (7am – 10 am) - Free coffee Notes: - We accept cash only. - Our building is a smoke-free building. - Visitors are not allowed in the residence area. - We cannot accommodate children aged under 10 years old.


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RYAN'S FIGHT with LEUKODYSTROPHY just got a little more RARE!
On January 20, 2014, we finally found the monster that is effecting our son Ryan's motor functions. It is a Leukodystrophy, but it has no name. It is a mutation in the GJC2 gene, or a Pelizaeus Merzbacher like disease. The special thing about Ryan is: he actually has 2 mutations in the GJC2 gene. This is called a compound heterozygous mutation. One mutation he inherited from his mother, and the other he inherited from his father. We knew something was was wrong when Ryan was 15 months old and wasn't able to walk on his own. That is when the therapies started(OT & PT). He had his first MRI done when he was 18 months. The MRI showed a lack of mylenation in the white matter of his brain. This is the first time we heard the term Leukodystrohy. Since then, Ryan has had 3 more MRI's and there has been no change from the MRI's before so the Leukodystrophy is classified as a Hypomylenating Leukodystrophy. His doctors are stumped because according to his MRI he has the white matter of a 6-7 month old baby. Ryan is 4 and doing so much more than a 6-7 month old baby would do. He talks using 5-6 word sentences, he rides a bike, he walks with his walker, and he attends preschool at Powell Elementary in North Baltimore OH.
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MPA Rankings for Public Administration
In addition to rating their respective programs, students often post comments regarding their experiences. One Class of 2017 student earning her graduate degree from University of Kansas wrote: "There is a great balance of personal freedom to explore what is important to you, while also ensuring students have historical as well as current knowledge of the public administration field."
Students can continue to review their programs at www.graduateprograms.com and qualify to win a $1,000 scholarship, awarded once per semester. Reviews will be incorporated into upcoming program rankings.
Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms. These program rankings cover a period from September 1, 2012 to March 31, 2015. Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.
For a given graduate program, rankings are determined by calculating the average score for each program based on the 15 ranking categories. These scores are then compared across all ranked schools for that program and are translated into a final ranking for that graduate program, i.e., business and management. A given graduate program is not ranked until a minimum threshold of graduate student surveys is completed for that graduate program.