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Office Depot to shutter 126 stores
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Office Depot Closes Stores
Retailer Office Depot today said it will close 126 of its North American stores in a bid to remain healthy. The company plans to make 112 closures of these within the next three months and the remainder throughout the rest of 2009 as their leases come to a close. New store openings will also be cut in half to 20 next year. The move, which drops about 10.8 percent of the company's total stores, will have a total cost of between $270 million to $300 million for Office Depot but should save about $75 million in day-to-day expenses throughout 2009 while also boosting earnings from $70 million to $90 million.
The company doesn't explain the particular reasons behind the move but says the store cuts are the results of a "strategic review" conducted in late October. These reductions follow a quarter where the company posted a $7 million loss and is facing tough economic conditions where Thanksgiving sales declined for the first time in recent memory.
Office Depot's efforts also follow a significant scaling back by multiple struggling retailers that focus heavily on electronics, including now-bankrupt Circuit City as well as Tweeter.


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It would be difficult to miss all the protests, bumper stickers, media coverage and celebrity activism surrounding Trestles Beach in recent years. The problem in question is the extension of the 241 Toll Road—if the 241 is extended, it will run alongside and across the San Mateo Creek, which supplies the world-class beach with sediment and sand that help shape the famous well-shouldered waves of Lower Trestles.
Just like how all the creepy cookie-cutter communities springing up all over Orange County are a response to its growing population, the proposed extension of the 241 certainly would give you some more elbowroom compared to the cramped and crowded Interstate 5 during the Friday rush-hour parking lot. However, aside from the 241 extension encroaching on a national park that protects endangered species, the local and international surfers and nature enthusiasts argue that all the concrete and steel would interrupt nature's work.
The question is: Is saving 30 minutes on your commute really worth the destruction of that natural environment?
But all that "Save Trestles!" work is slow to harvest. Each day that Trestles stays untouched is indeed a victory, but any permanent, resounding proclamation from our government will probably take years. So, if you would prefer to do some instant-gratification work in the name of Trestles, come down and help Barefoot Wine clean up the beach. Trestles is the Beach Rescue Project's seventh and final stop on its national campaign, where not only will your work help the environment immediately, but also you'll be rewarded afterward with free wine, food and a live performance by Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson at the Rip Curl store in San Clemente.
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November 25, 2015
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's official news agency says the
country's judiciary chief has ordered a full investigation into the
case of an U.S. journalist convicted of spying and sentenced to
eight years in prison.
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi's order Monday comes a day
after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Roxana Saberi should be
allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal.
The IRNA report says the investigation will be carried out
during the appeals process.
President Barack Obama has said he was "gravely concerned"
about Saberi and was confident she wasn't involved in espionage.
The case has complicated Obama's efforts to break a 30-year
diplomatic deadlock between the two countries.
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Back in July, I began an article on How to Manage Your Blogroll. Managing your blogrolls and managing your RSS-feeds is really all about "staying in touch" with wonderful, intelligent, funny or witty people. Be careful who you delete. Be careful who you add. It's all about reputation. It's about the global conversation, and taking a ride on the ClueTrain. It's all about loving and respecting people. It's all about the cycles of life, your circle of concern, and your circles of influence. It's all about listening more than you talk.
God gave us two ears and one mouth, to remind us to listen more than we talk. My blog roll is full of links to many people that I have never met-in-person. I may disagree with some of the things they write, but I love and respect them all.
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Video: Absolute Chaos – Mini Madness!
Far too many Minis attempt to occupy the same piece of racetrack at the same time in this awesome historic racing clip, which proves that the spirit of the golden age of motorsport is alive and well in 2014.
Endaf Owens is in the thick of it in his stunning MK1 Cooper S, as the field puts on a great show of door-to-door, four-wheel-on-the-grass historic racing action. Glorious stuff!


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The VForce4 Reed Valve System
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The all-new VForce4 is built upon the solid foundation that has made the VForce3 such a success for the last 10 years. While the VForce3 has been continually refined over the years, this is a complete redesign of the entire system.
We jokingly say, "The only thing we didn't change is the bolt pattern." However this is actually quite true. All the components that go into making a VForce reed valve system have been significantly changed since the VForce3.
While the most obvious change on the all-new VForce4 is certainly the full-length reed stops, let's take a look at some of the other significant changes as well…
- All-new reed petal resin system, carbon fiber and lay-up
- Pre-curved reed petal ensures better seal at tip
- Wider reed cage for maximum airflow
- Combined reed tip area increased by 10.5% resulting in increased total air flow
- Airfoil shape added to cage tip to increase air velocity from outer ports
- Long reed stops added to progressively slow petal tip velocity, for increased petal durability
- Reduced frontal area of central wing by 15.6% combined with a more aerodynamic shape
The VForce4 was recently reviewed by Dirt Bike magazine in the June 2011 issue. The staff raved about the performance benefit on their KTM 300, even over the existing VForce3 installed in their test bike. You can find more information on the review, as well as read the entire review by clicking here.
The unit took very little effort to install, and incredibly, it made for a vital power improvement.
—Dirt Bike Magazine / June 2011
NEGATIVE: We searched and found a big, fat goose egg here. This system is excellent.
—Dirt Bike Magazine / June 2011
PLEASE NOTE: To get one very common question out of the way upfront, the all-new VForce4 is currently only available for KTM 250/300 models. We will be releasing more models in mid-2013, and will post more information then.
VFORCE4 Product Information
01WHAT IS THE VFORCE4 REED VALVE SYSTEM?The Moto Tassinari VForce4 reed valve system is a complete replacement for your existing stock/OEM reed valve that offers many performance advantages.
02WHAT DOES THE VFORCE4 DO?The VForce4 aids in performance by eliminating the stock restrictive reed valve, with a design that is much more efficient and typically offers increased reed petal life as well.
03WHAT CAN I EXPECT AFTER INSTALLING THE VFORCE4 REED VALVE SYSTEM?Dyno testing shows an immediate horsepower gain of anywhere from 5-10% through the majority of the powerband. The VForce also greatly increases throttle response and acceleration, while also broadening the peak power.
04WHAT'S INVOLVED WITH INSTALLING THE VFORCE4 REED VALVE SYSTEM?Simply remove the stock reed cage assembly and replace with the VForce reed valve system. The VForce is truly a simple bolt-in. If you're able to check your reeds for wear (which you really should be doing at least annually) then you have all the skills necessary to install a VForce reed valve system.
05ARE THE REED PETALS REPLACEABLE? CAN I DO THIS MYSELF?Yes the reed petals are completely replaceable by the end user. The entire VForce3 reed valve line completely "screw-free". The entire assembly literally snaps together, making reed petal changes truly a "snap".
06WHAT'S INCLUDED WHIN I PURCHASE THE VFORCE4 REED VALVE SYSTEM?Moto Tassinari product line brochure, Moto Tassinari and VForce decals, detailed installation instructions, VForce reed valve system (including reed petals) and gaskets.
07WHAT IS THE PRICE OF THE VFORCE4 REED VALVE SYSTEM?The manufacturer's suggested retail price of the Moto Tassinari VForce4 reed valve system is $148 (USD).
08WHERE CAN I PURCHASE THE VFORCE4 REED VALVE SYSTEM?The manufacturer's suggested retail price of the Moto Tassinari VForce4 reed valve system is $148 (USD).


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You will find Airport Transfers in the UK very necessary in case you will like to save on time when travelling to the UK. First, in order to be assured of quick services, you should book the UK Airport Transfers online. There are many companies that offer the airport transfer services; you should compare them before you decide on one. You may be wondering on how you will be able to compare the services, in fact it is very easy. You will just long into the websites of the companies that offer the services from where you will easily compare them. Here are benefits of using airport transfers from hotel to airport or vice versa:
You will save on time
Transfer services will move you from the airport to the hotels where you will stay. This is unlike relying on public means of transport which follow strict timetables; they can end up exposing you to a lot of delays which will lead you to wasting a lot of time. In case you have travelled to the UK on a business trip, you should book the transfer services online for you to be assured of saving on time.
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You may have travelled to the UK on the first time. Instead of risking where you can get lost while trying to trace your hotel, you should book the transfer services online. They will enable you trace your hotel easily because the drivers know the UK in and out. Cases where you may meet with other people who may steal from you or mislead you will be no more. The drivers will relate to you in a professional way which will make you accomplish your duties that may have lead you to travelling to the UK in a peaceful way.


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Northview Elementary School is located in Valparaiso, IN and is one of 9 elementary schools in Valparaiso Community Schools School District. It is a public school that serves 328 students in grades K-5. See Northview Elementary School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Northview Elementary School had 28 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Indiana average is 18 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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A couple, caught on tape stealing lottery tickets, admits to the crime.
Tina and Ahmed Eid pleaded guilty to theft for taking hundreds of pick four tickets from the Crossroads Marathon station in Hustonville, where he worked.
One of the tickets won and is worth 25-thousand dollars. The owner of the gas station is expected to get the money.
The Eid's received probation after paying the Kentucky Lottery thousands in restitution.
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Filmed by Brian Dwels....Iz the Wiz...graffiti legend...ALL TIME KING...REST IN PEACE..the song is...Write My Name..by Able Too.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Art of Vulcan
SAN FRANCISCO - Vulcan is an amazing graffiti artist, painting walls and collaborating with other artists. See the many colors he's trying to accomplish in this piece.
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"Ouroboros" - A video short from Sam3
...a phenomenal stop-motion video from Sam3!
Stop motion filmed in Berlin
September/November 2008
music by Bijan Cheminari
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
.. the breast piece of art ever.
Probably the breast piece of art ever. See subtitles or youtube for artist details...
Sunday, July 5, 2009
SOUR's creative webcam music video..
The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.
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Quite a few readers were eager to comment on Eric Heisig's Thursday article, "Milton juvenile corrections worker charged with battery against teen."
A surveillance video that appeared with the article, released by the Department of Juvenile Justice, showed an employee of the Milton Girls Juvenile Residential Facility slamming a teenage girl held at the facility into a cement wall, throwing her to the ground and lying on her for nearly 20 minutes.
The employee, Shannon Abbott, 33, of Milton was arrested Dec. 4 by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office and charged with misdemeanor battery ...


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New Haven seeks attendance boost
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The New Haven Open is closing the upper bowl at the Connecticut Tennis Center for this year's tournament amid dwindling attendance numbers.
Tournament directory Anne Worcester says the idea is to create a more intimate atmosphere and make the stadium seem less empty than in has in recent years.
She says she hopes fewer available tickets will result in more advanced sales.
About 53,000 fans attended last year's tournament, down from crowds that once hovered close to 90,000 to see the final hard-court event before the U.S. Open.
The WTA tournament -- which begins Sunday and runs through the week -- is in its final year of a three-year deal with its major sponsors, including Yale.
This year's event features four of the top-10 players in the world.
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Yesterday's acquittal of Richard "Dickie" Marshall in the 1975 slaying of American Indian Movement activist Annie Mae Aquash doesn't end the case.
As the Associated Press reports here, another man is to go on trial this summer.
Marshall (shown above in the photo by Ryan Soderlin of the Rapid City Journal) was accused of supplying the gun that killed Aquash, who reportedly was suspected by fellow AIM members of being an FBI snitch. A federal jury in Rapid City, S.D., found him not guilty after only two hours of deliberation.
The trial featured a lot of contradictory testimony. For notes on its many twists and turns, see this story by Heidi Bell Gease of the Rapid City Journal, who covered it.
John Graham is to be tried soon as the alleged triggerman.
Norman Zigrossi, who was director of Rapid City's FBI office in the 1970s, says the aquittal gives him pause.
"Well, it's not very positive, that's for sure, because you never like to lose them," he says.
Another person involved in the case, Arlo Looking Cloud, was found guilty of murder in 2004 and sentenced to life in prison.
Gwen Florio
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Going along with Sarah's blog, I've decided to make this a week of healthy blogging. Sarah has been exploring life without wheat, so I thought I would share the food adventure my mom and I have embarked on this month.
I am not a dieter. I don't really believe in it at all. I just don't really believe that life is about depriving yourself of things. Limiting, being wary, sure, definitely. But let's be real, I'm gonna eat bread and it's gonna have butter on it. There are things that I know I am more likely to binge on (hello, Coca Cola, I'm looking right at you) and so I don't keep it around, but I also know that I am much more likely to binge on things like chips and cookies if I attempt to never eat chips or cookies again.
I do believe in a balanced diet. Have some pasta, but hey how about throw in a bell pepper with it. Go for a salad instead of soup. For me it's about being healthy, not skinny. I also like my calories to count (however, I don't really bother counting my calories). I'm fine with a spoonful of peanut butter, even though it's a whole 200 calories (or whatever) because that spoonful of peanut butter is gonna last me. I don't like to be filling my day with empty calories; I want to get the most out of what I'm putting in me all day. I am also much more successful at being healthy during the week than the weekend. I keep healthy snacks at my desk, I bring something like fruit and Greek yogurt for breakfast, and I try to find something nutritious for lunch. There's a lot less options for me to graze and munch and nibble on. Also less time, work gets a lot more hectic than my apartment.
Recently, my mom discovered a blog that talked about Mason Jar Lunches and decided to give it a go and asked if I would be up for trying it too (she also said she would provide the mason jars). So I was in! The concept is pretty simple. You get a large mason jar, and then put wet stuff on the bottom, and dry stuff on the top; because it's so tall it keeps everything separated and fresh. So layer one is dressing and veggies, layer two is proteins, layer three is leafs, and then you finish it off with some croutons.
It actually has been working out pretty well. I spend about 45 minutes on Sunday evening putting it all together, and then I have salads ready to go for the week. I bake my chicken, and while the oven is preheating I put my dressing in the bottom of the jar. Then while the chicken is baking (30 minutes) I chop all my veggies. This part could go quicker if I bought whole peppers instead of mini peppers, but the bag of mini peppers are just so much cheaper that it's worth my time to chop. Once I have all my veggies in then I also put in a healthy amount of feta cheese. Because cheese. This is also where I would throw in beans or pasta. And then about this time my chicken is done, so I chop that up and put that in there as well. Then I throw in whatever leaf I bought that week, grind a bit of pepper, and throw on some croutons, and I'm all set. Boom. A week of healthy lunches.
I've learned a couple things so far. Don't buy the cheap leafs. Yes with enough cheese and dressing anything is bearable. But I'm wishing I had splurged for the $7 mix rather than my $3 mix this week. It's fine. But it's not great. I'm also still figuring out croutons. They just don't keep their crunch. Maybe I just need to keep a bag of croutons at work and throw them on day of. I also learned that I don't like carrots as much as I thought. I try to do the "serving size" of everything I put in, but that left me with far too many carrots. But none of these things have kept me from eating my salad and enjoying it.
It's been a fun way to be healthy during the week. I'm sure it will also get me to expand on my raw veggie pallet as I'm sure I will need to mix things up soon. But I'm getting my five daily servings of fruits and veggies between breakfast and lunch and I feel great.
So here is to more healthy meals in 2014!
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The Ourlads' scouting service doesnt get the national publicity that ESPN and SI.com can give their draft experts, but its well respected in scouting circles.
We havent looked at Ourlads' mock drafts in this blog yet, so here are the Packers first-round picks from two mocks this week on Ourlads.com.
The first, with no author named but presumably done by Ourlads' GM and national scout Dan Shonka, has the Packers selecting Washington cornerback Desmond Trufant at No. 26 overall (link: http://tinyurl.com/butznma). Some scouts think Trufant might be the best pure cover man in this draft, though whether he is so good that the Packers would bypass greater needs elsewhere is another matter.
Four-year starter, Shonka wrote. Comes from a long line of defensive backs. A good athlete who was regularly matched up on the opponents best receiver. Good football instincts. Takes a direct line to the ball with no false steps. Good short area quickness. Quick footed and aggressive. Can play press.
Ourlads' scout Chris Steubers mock draft has the Packers selecting LSU safety Eric Reid at No. 26. Steubers mock (link: http://tinyurl.com/cfsn8fa) included no explanation or player description, but finding a potential starter at safety opposite Morgan Burnett is one of the Packers biggest offseason needs. Reid could be the second safety off the board; the top safety prospect generally is considered to be Texas' Kenny Vaccaro.


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Posted By Smockity Frocks On March 9, 2009 @ 5:58 pm In Family | 13 Comments
I quit going to story time at the library a few years ago because while the librarian would be reading the story, and shushing noisy children, the parents WOULD NOT STOP TALKING! The would stand at the back of the room telling their tales of bargains on baby socks or everlasting ear infections and completely ignore the librarian telling their children, "If you are not quiet everyone won't be able to hear."
It always drives me nuts to try to listen to something when there is competing noise around me. If we are watching a movie or television show and someone needs to tell me something, I pause the movie or mute the show so I can listen to one thing at a time.
It is because of this preference that I rarely have music playing in our home or car. I like music. I really do, but I like to fully listen to it, not merely hear it as a background noise.
We have CDs of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, as well as poems of Robert Louis Stevenson set to music, and some others, but I only like to have them playing if no one is talking, and since that happens next to never, I just don't have them playing often at all.
There are times that I realize our family is missing out on something important, namely music appreciation, but I simply can not tolerate trying to listen to a beautiful piece by Mozart AND listen to my four year old tell me about the dream she had last night while the seven year old is waiting her turn to tell me what she wants for her next birthday and the three year old is singing her own special version of "Jesus Loves Me".
I guess I could play a CD every day at nap time, but the children like to read, and I feel like, once again, the music would be background noise, and it deserves to be so much more than that.
So, how do you handle music in your home? Are you the type that has it going all day long as you talk and laugh and work? If so, HOW DOES IT NOT DRIVE YOU CRAZY?! Or do you have a special time carved out for listening in silence? (This would be more my style, but I don't happen to have extra minutes of the day just lying around the house.)
Any suggestions?
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WASHINGTON - With control of the state legislature and governor's office, Wisconsin Republicans were in position to have their way in redrawing congressional district boundaries based on the 2010 census.
In an early flex of their new muscle, state Assembly and Senate Republicans hired law firms to redraw district lines and defend against potential lawsuits while blocking Democrats from being able to do the same.
But the state recall election set for July 12 could dilute the GOP's strength and put the redistricting battle on course for a partisan split. In that sense, it would be just like ...


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The New York State Board of Law Examiners managed to foul up this year's bar exam, as readers of this space know, by losing many of the essay answers that had been submitted on laptops….
[T]he results were made known 11 days ago, and the examiners claimed to have taken educated guesses on the missing results [by extrapolating from how affected exam takers did on other parts of the test]….
[O]ver the holiday weekend, this anonymous comment appeared on my site, claiming that credit was given for an essay with no answer, and the same credit was given for an essay with a great answer. And there was no indication that this person was told his/her essays were part of the missing ones:
"Here's a fair summary (having taken the test, having intense problems down loading and uploading the test) and failed: I left one NYS essay blank. (Ran out of time) I received a 3/10. That's odd… But then, on the essays I KNEW — KNEW so well that I was practically jumping for joy as I took the test — I received a 3/10 on those as well."
"BOLE claims they have informed all those who had computer essays lost — I suspect not. I have written away for my answers and I will be intensly [sic] interested to see how that blank esay [sic] scored a 3/10… I suspect they were ALL blanks, because of the uploads."
"If anyone else is in this prdicament [sic], please chime in. There are a few attorneys that specialize in this, and I've contacted a few."
Very strange. Does anyone have a similar experience to share? Or is this commenter off his or her rocker?
How, Exactly, did New York Grade That Bar Exam? [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
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MENA@Risk 2010 - World Economic Forum Report Highlights Key Risks and Opportunities for MENA Countries
Yann Zopf, Associate Director, Communications Department, Tel.: +212 6736 95733; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Water scarcity, energy security and underinvestment in infrastructure are interconnected risks affecting development in MENA countries
- Regional opportunities in managing risks include investment prospects, lowering transaction costs and improving cooperation among stakeholders
- Regionally-focused institution-building aimed at increasing system resilience is a key to mitigating risks and grasping opportunities
- Download the report at: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/ME10/WEF_ME10_RiskReport.pdf
Marrakech, Morocco, 26 October 2010 – The World Economic Forum today launched its report The Middle East and North Africa at Risk 2010, revealing that growth trends across the region are placing rising and competing demands on water, energy and infrastructure. The report was presented at the start of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, taking place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 26 to 28 October.
Together, the risks to water, energy and infrastructure have the potential to impede economic progress as well as heighten the danger of critical failures in essential services. The report, written in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, the management consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan Companies, discusses the trends and uncertainties that are driving the evolution of these risks and the resulting trade-offs involved in formulating response strategies.
"The Forum feels that the region's business leaders master a high degree of understanding of the complexity of global risks today," said Sherif El Diwany, Senior Director, Middle East, at the World Economic Forum. "Resilience is seen increasingly as a business strategy imperative for the Middle East and North Africa. Every region in the world must assume it is vulnerable one way or another to the global risks in this decade. The Middle East was to some degree spared during the recent crisis, but it is certainly time to think collectively how we can be more resilient to avoid a case where we would be reacting to another global crisis of a different nature and reach."
"Population growth, resource shortages, and economic conditions in one country impact entire regions. Global leaders and decision-makers must support initiatives to improve global and regional risk resilience," said Brian Duperreault, President and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC), and Co-Chair of the 2010 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa.
The report argues that more integrated water and energy management strategies within and between MENA countries are absolutely critical, given the limited resources that must be shared across sectors and geographic boundaries. Energy security is an increasingly urgent risk despite extensive fossil fuel reserves in some MENA countries. The region's highly energy-intensive growth model is exacerbating the impact of resource depletion, limited conversion capacities and unbalanced regional distribution of fossil fuels. Increasing the price of energy and water across the region could help spur investment in more resilient distribution networks while creating incentives to reduce demand and increase efficiency; however, price increases create difficult trade-offs for economic and social development.
Underinvestment in infrastructure is a driver of the energy and water challenges as well as a chronic risk to growth. Regionally-focused infrastructure at greater scale and higher levels of quality would help mitigate these chronic risks and increase regional resilience to shocks. However, much-needed private sector participation in infrastructure projects is hampered by barriers in the legal and regulatory environments.
The Middle East and North Africa at Risk 2010 report will be a major part of the discussions at the meeting in Marrakech this week. The full report is available on the Forum's website at www.weforum.org/GlobalRisks
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Verdict against critic of creationism
A teacher's description of creationism as "superstitious nonsense" was ruled to violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by a federal judge in a decision in C. F. et al. v. Capistrano Unified School District et al., issued on May 1, 2009.
Creationist legal dispute resolved
Answers in Genesis and Creation Ministries International have agreed to settle their legal dispute, issuing a joint statement reading, "Each ministry is now focused on its respective mission, having put this dispute behind them."
ICR sues THECB
The Institute for Creation Research Graduate School filed suit over the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's decision to deny the ICR's request for a state certificate of authority to offer a master's degree in science education.
Consequences of the flawed standards in Texas?
Since the March 2009 decision of the Texas state board of education to adopt a set of flawed state science standards, media coverage has increasingly emphasized the possible consequences.
Polling evolution in Louisiana
"Just in time for the bicentennial observance of Charles Darwin's birth, a new survey of Louisiana residents shows 40 percent of the respondents believe evolution is not well-supported by evidence or generally accepted within the scientific community," the Baton Rouge Advocate (April 14, 2009) reports.
White House science advisor deplores Texas standards
John Holdren, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology, told the ScienceInsider blog (April 8, 2009) that the recent adoption in Texas of a flawed set of state science standards was "a step backward."
Celebrate the Darwin anniversaries with video
Two projects to celebrate the Darwin anniversaries — the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species — are soliciting video contributions.
Stick Science cartoon contest
Florida Citizens for Science, a grassroots organization defending and promoting the integrity of science education in Florida, is sponsoring a cartoon contest!
Comer case dismissed
In a March 31, 2009, decision, Chris Comer's lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency, challenging the agency's policy of requiring neutrality about evolution and creationism, was dismissed. The Austin American-Statesman (April 1, 2009) reported, "The state's attorneys argued in court filings that the agency is allowed to bar its employees from giving the appearance that the agency is taking positions on issues that the State Board of Education must decide, such as the content of the science curriculum."
Texas needs to get it right
As the Texas state board of education prepares for its final vote on a new set of state science standards, no fewer than fifty-four scientific and educational societies are calling for the approval of the standards as originally submitted — without misleading language about "strengths and weaknesses" and without the flawed amendments undermining the teaching of evolution proposed at the board's January 2009 meeting.
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Gateway exits direct PC sales business
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Gateway Exits Direct Sales
Gateway on Friday revealed that it will formally quit direct-order sales of PCs and other products and offer its lineup only in retail stores. The surprise move ends the business that underpinned Gateway's early success in the 1980s and 1990s but is described as bringing the American company's approach in line with that of its parent company Acer, which took over Gateway last year and itself offers computers only through resellers. Moving to a single model is also said to save on costs by simplifying Gateway's sales process.
No timetable is given for the transition.
The decision marks a significant about-face for Gateway, which began exclusively as a direct business but tried branching out to retail during the late 1990s and early 2000s with its own-brand stores. The effort ultimately floundered in part due to Gateway's insistence that no stores keep their own stock; customers could try example systems but were asked to order systems online or via phone if they wanted to commit to a sale.
It ultimately returned to retail through third-party vendors such as Best Buy and has enjoyed moderate success that contributed to moving rivals such as Apple and Dell into third-party retail stores, although the company only moved into third place among PC vendors after the Acer acquisition joined the two Windows PC makers' market share.


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Your Fat Bacteria Is Why You're Fat (And May Be The Key To An Obesity Cure)
Guess what happens if you take the bacteria from a skinny person's intestines and put them into a mouse. A few scientists decided to find out.
Weight gain can be infectious—just ask anyone tempted by their coworkers' constant snacking. But our tendency to be either lean or heavy might be far more infectious than we've realized, new evidence shows.
In recent years, scientists have learned that the unique microbial communities in our guts have a role in determining our body composition, just like diet and exercise. Actually harnessing the power of bacteria to fight obesity, however, has always been a long ways off.
In a series of experiments reported in the journal Science today, a team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis showed how traits like "obese" or "lean" can be transmitted from humans to mice via gut bacteria and took "a step toward the ultimate goal" of developing anti-obesity therapies from simple bacteria, as a commentary published alongside the study put it.
The scientists started by finding four pairs of human twins, where one twin was obese and one was lean, and then implanted a sample of each of the twins' gut "microbiota" into mice that were raised in sterile conditions. Even though all mice were fed the same exact diet, the mice populated by microbes from the obese twin grew fatter than mice who got the microbes from the lean twin and their metabolism changed, too.
Another stage of the experiment led to an even more interesting result: Combined with a healthy diet, "lean" microbial communities can be catching.
Remarkably, when the obese and lean mice were later put in the same cage for 10 days, the obese mice began to show the same "leaner" metabolic profiles of their cagemates (through feces, mice exchange bacteria when they share a cage, but the researchers wanted to find out which bacteria would dominate). But while this transformation happened when mice were fed their normal diet and a "healthy" human diet, it actually did not occur when the mice were fed a "typical" American diet that is low in fiber and high in saturated fat.
The upshot is that we may be able to use bacteria to treat obesity, but it probably would need to happen in concert with a healthy diet-a lab finding that pretty accurately reflects the intertwined factors that experts have observed in public health studies.
"Together, these results emphasize the strong microbiota-by-diet interactions that underlie invasion and illustrate how a diet high in saturated fats and low in fruits and vegetables can select against human gut bacterial taxa associated with leanness," the study says.
Today, probiotics are all the rage in food marketing, with more than 500 products hitting the shelves within the last decade and many labeled with a wide range of healthy claims. Whether "fights obesity" could ever be added to the list remains to be seen—especially because the study was done with mice only and the same interactions may not happen in humans—but the results offer hope.
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I would agree if it wasn't for the yeast probiotic Florastor that I've tried which have slimmed me up. It's 10x bigger than bacterial based ones, is antibiotic resistant, and engulfs bad bacteria while boosting immune factors.
I also now have strong cravings for proteined and fruited salads almost nightly. So while most probiotic is a crapshoot depending on compatibility with your existing flora, yeast probiotic seems to yield a response compatible with a much wider range of flora returning results you feel pretty quickly
To expand on my first comment slightly: The mice studies don't - I think -
involve feeding mice probiotics, but rather stool transplantation from
one large intestine to another. This sounds disgusting, but is the
subject of some intense research and study presently.
My understanding is it's very unlikely probiotic products on the market play much role in the gut flora anyhow - when you take something like that by mouth, apparently the vast majority of the bacteria are destroyed by the stomach acid. Much more important to eat the sorts of foods healthy gut bacteria like to feed off of than to try to introduce them via the stomach.
But I'm no expert - I just thought the closing paragraph seemed to be on shaky evidence.


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The Mysterious Death of Orca L112
Since researching our June article on the shaky state of local resident orca populations, I've been waiting for the report from NOAA's local office, hoping they could determine what killed L112, also known as "Sooke" or "Victoria."
The young female southern resident killer whale washed up dead on the Long Beach Peninsula this February, bruised and swollen, particularly around her head and neck.
There was no conclusive cause of death found in the May 15 progress report from NOAA's Northwest Regional Office.
Still, a few observations in this update shone a bit of light into the murky depths:
- "A complete screen for infectious agents did not detect any significant disease-causing organisms." Important, as a recent Seattle Times article highlighted the risk to orcas from airborne viruses and other pathogens.
- Ocean currents at the time suggest that the animal died "near the Columbia River or to the south."
- Death from sonar or underwater explosives still hasn't been ruled out, though the United States Navy told NOAA that it has "no records indicating that Navy units used sonar or explosives between Feb.1 and Feb. 11." That is, the days prior to L112's stranding.
- The trauma noted around the head and neck of L112 "is consistent with physical trauma" at a level that could have killed the whale.
More studies are pending.
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Tour Jost House Museum
This historical old house shows how many of the houses here were converted to commercial use and then back to residential. It was built in apx. 1786. and was once home to a merchant, S. Sparrow, then was bought by Thomas Jost, a Halifax merchant. The family stayed here until 1971. The house is set up more as a museum with the 3 floors showing different periods of time. We began in the basement where we saw the beehive oven. A table was filled with old kitchen implements and our guide had us guess the function of each. A wooden washing machine was down here also, as well as barrels that were used to ship things in. An interesting note was that the stained glass windows for St. George's were shipped in barrels of molasses and the lead from the windows was then in the molasses which were later sold. On the first floor there was the store in the front 2 rooms. They used both pewter and china in the dining room. On the 2nd floor we saw wooden floors with rope used as caulking in the spaces in the bedroom. Sparrow was a shipbuilder so he used methods used to build a ship in building his house. The parlor was on this 2nd main floor which was furnished in the Victorial period to show what it would have looked like then. Then on the 3rd floor there was a museum with a Victorian wedding dress, a shawl given by Queen Victoria, to a lady who came here to get married to a captain in Victoria's body guard, and other period clothing. Also up here was an a late 1800's drug store donated by J. Cook, a pharmacist who died in 2005.
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Tour Cossit House
There is an interesting area of Sydney that has some of the old historical buildings which made up the original town. Cossit House is the home of a controversial Loyalist Anglican minister who came to start a new life in this British colony in 1786. He was the first rector of St. George's church near the house. There are costumed guides who tell you about the house. I was most interested in the old kitchen shown in the photo here. Notice that the main counter of the red cabinet is unpainted because that was the work surface where food was prepared. It's like our kitchen counter. Pewter plates and cups were used. They didn't know at that time that lead used in them leached into the food put on them. Cossit's wife was named Thankful and had 13 children. Off of the kitchen is the "birthing" or "sick" room. It was painted tomato red, the original color which was used because blood wouldn't stain the walls. The upstairs bedrooms were furnished as they were then. Rope beds were piled with quilts made from old clothing. Ropes were tightened which is where the term "Sleep tight" came from.
You can park on the street along Charlotte St. but need to have quarters to feed the parking meters. $1 for an hour.
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Celtic Colours Festival
Cape Breton is well know for its celtic celebrations and music. During my visit there was a festival ongoing but I didn't really get to see much of it.
This would be a good time to visit the area when you have all these extra festivities on the go at the same time.
Enjoy their web site.
Waterfront Boardwalk
As you can see from the picture, Sydney has a nice waterfront walkway. If you are in the downtown area and want to go for a walk this will be nice.
You will certainly get an Atlantic feeling from this. Enjoy the salt water air and there will probably be some cruise ships in the harbour at the same time.
Fortress of Louisbourg...
Fortress of Louisbourg (National Historic Site of Canada)
Step back in time to 1744! Experience Louisbourg, a thriving seaport and capital of Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island).The Fortress of Louisbourg was one of the busiest harbours in North America andone of France's key centres of trade and military strength in the New World. Today, the Site is an exciting and entertaining lesson in history. Discover its many secrets!
Each summer the Fortress springs to life. Dozens of costumed animators become the town's residents of the summer of 1744. Period homes, exhibits and theme centres line the central streets of Rue Toulouse and Rue Royale, as well as along the busy waterfront (quay).
Men, women and children enact the full range of society from the leisurely activities of the rich to the hard physical labour of the poor. You'll see engineers, musicians, soldiers, merchants, street vendors, bakers, servants and fishermen.
The 'residents' will surprise and delight you with stories, dances, music, nailmaking, cooking, sewing, gardening and animal care.
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Driving the Cabot Trail
The Cabot Trail is soooo pretty. You can't possibly see all it has to offer in one day. There's alot to do and see all along the trail with truly spectacular views.
The Cabot Trail is 185 miles or 298 km and loops around the northern tip of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia, passing through many charming communities such as Pleasant Bay, Cheticamp and Ingonish. Each with breath taking scenery, unforgettable hospitality,artwork,museums, whale watching, accommodations and some of the finest sea food dining in the world. The Cape Breton Highlands National Park lies along the Cabot Trail, providing world class hiking, camping and scenic look-offs.
Rita's Tea Room
Rita MacNeil is a famous Canadian singer/songwriter from Big Pond, Cape Breton. She opened a tea house in her hometown. It's a very nice and fancy little spot- you can have tea, browse in the gift shop, and look at displays about her life and recordings.
Whale Watching
Whale watching was a really fun activity. A little expensive- but for over 3 hours on the ocean and close up encounters with whales, it was worth it! I found the guides to be extremely friendly and knowledgeable.
Make sure you drive the loop...
Make sure you drive the loop highway through Cape Breton National Park in the NE lobe of Nova Scotia's superb Cape Breton Island. The trip is impossible without a car, motorcycle, or bike, however.
'Nova Scotia' is Latin for 'New Scotland.' If you've never been there, this is as close as you'll get without crossing the 'pond.' The landforms are spookily similar, though the accent is definitely not the same. Sadly, there are no castles, either.
See new travelogue with pics of the drive around the island.
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Borders offer special conditions not only for smuggling but for the idealization of the smuggler. This sounds pretty obvious, since, after all, political boundaries are the obvious places where customs and immigration regulations are enforced. But we must consider not only the existence of such political boundaries but the circumstances of their creation. In this respect, the Lower Rio Grande Border was especially suited for smuggling operations.
To appreciate this fact, one has only to consider that when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially settled the conflict over territory between Mexico and the United States, a very well defined geographic feature -- the Rio Grande itself -- became the international line. But it was a line that cut right through the middle of what had once been the Mexican province of Nuevo Santander. Friends and relatives who had been near neighbors --within shouting distance across a few hundred feet of water -- now were legally in different countries. If they wanted to visit each other, the law required that they travel many miles up or down stream, to the nearest official crossing place, instead of swimming or boating directly across as they used to do before. It goes without saying that they paid little attention to the requirements of the law. When they went visiting, they crossed at the most convenient spot on the river; and, as is ancient custom when one goes visiting loved ones, they took gifts with them: farm products from Mexico to Texas, textiles and other manufactured goods from Texas to Mexico. Legally, of course, this was smuggling, differing from contraband for profit in volume only. Such a pattern is familiar to anyone who knows the border, for it still operates, not only along the Lower Rio Grande now but all along the boundary line between Mexico and the United States.
Unofficial crossings also disregarded immigration laws. Children born on one side of the river would be baptized on the other side, and thus appear on church registers as citizens of the other country. This bothered no one since people on both sides of the river thought of themselves as mexicanos, but United States officials were concerned about it. People would come across to visit relatives and stay long periods of time, and perhaps move inland in search of work. After 1890, the movement in search of work was preponderantly from Mexico deep into Texas and beyond. The ease with which the river could be crossed and the hospitality of relatives and friends on either side also was a boon to men who got in trouble with the law. It was not necessary to flee over trackless wastes, with the law hot on one's trail. All it took was a few moments in the water, and one was out of reach of his pursuers and in the hands of friends. If illegal crossings in search of work were mainly in a northerly direction, crossings to escape the law were for the most part from north to south. By far, not all the Mexicans fleeing American law were criminals in an ordinary sense. Many were victims of cultural conflict, men who had reacted violently to assaults on their human dignity or their economic rights.
Resulting from the partition of the Lower Rio Grande communities was a set of folk attitudes that would in time become general along the United States-Mexican border. There was a generally favorable disposition toward the individual who disregarded customs and immigration laws, especially the laws of the United States. The professional smuggler was not a figure of reproach, whether he was engaged in smuggling American woven goods into Mexico or Mexican tequila into Texas. In folklore there was a tendency to idealize the smuggler, especially the tequilero, as a variant of the hero of cultural conflict. The smuggler, the illegal alien looking for work, and the border-conflict hero became identified with each other in the popular mind. They came into conflict with the same American laws and sometimes with the same individual officers of the law, who were all looked upon as rinches -- a border-Spanish rendering of "ranger." Men who were Texas Rangers, for example, during the revenge killings of Mexicans after the Piza±a uprising of 1915 (1) later were border patrolmen who engaged in gunbattles with tequileros. So stereotyped did the figure of the rinche become that Lower Rio Grande Border versions of "La persecuci¾n de Villa" identify Pershing's soldiers as rinches.
Corrido Ballads
A corrido [ballad] tradition of intercultural conflict developed along the Rio Grande, in which the hero defends his rights and those of other Mexicans against the rinches. The first hero of these corridos is Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, who is celebrated in an 1859 corrido precisely because he helps a fellow Mexican.
Other major corrido heroes are Gregorio Cortez (1901), who kills two Texas sheriffs after one of them shoots his brother; Jacinto Trevi±o (1911), who kills several Americans to avenge his brother's death; Rito GarcĒa (1885), who shoots several officers who invade his home without a warrant; and Aniceto Piza±a and his sediciosos (1915). Some corrido heroes escape across the border into Mexico; others, like Gregorio Cortez and Rito GarcĒa, are betrayed and captured. They go to prison but they have stood up for what is right. As the "Corrido de Rito GarcĒa" says,
...me voy a la penitencia
por defender mi derecho.
... I am going to the penitentiary
because I defended my rights.
Jesus Maya & Timoteo Canu, singing "Gregorio Cortez" corrida (1949), about 100 kB .AU
The men who smuggled tequila into the United States during the twenties and early thirties were no apostles of civil rights, nor did the border people think of them as such. But in his activities, the tequilero risked his life against the old enemy, the rinche. And, as has been noted, smuggling had long been part of the border way of life. Still sung today is "El corrido de Mariano Resķndez," about a prominent smuggler of textiles into Mexico, circa 1900. So highly respected were Resķndez and his activities that he was known as "El Contrabandista." Resķndez, of course, violated Mexican laws; and his battles were with Mexican customs officers. The tequilero and his activities, however, took on an intercultural dimension; and they became a kind of coda to the corridos of border conflict.
The heavy-handed and often brutal manner that Anglo lawmen have used in their dealings with border Mexicans helped make almost any man outside the law a sympathetic figure, with the rinche, or Texas Ranger, as the symbol of police brutality. That these symbols still are alive may be seen in the recent Fred Carrasco affair. The border Mexican's tolerance of smuggling does not seem to extend to traffic in drugs. The few corridos that have been current on the subject, such as "Carga blanca," take a negative view of the dope peddler. Yet Carrasco's death in 1976 at the Huntsville (Texas) prison, along with two women hostages, inspired close to a dozen corridos with echoes of the old style. The sensational character of Carrasco's death cannot be discounted, but note should also be taken of the unproved though widely circulated charges that Carrasco was "executed" by a Texas Ranger, who allegedly shot him through the head at close range where Carrasco lay wounded. This is a scenario familiar to many a piece of folk literature about cultural conflict --corridos and prose narratives -- the rinche finishing off the wounded Mexican with a bullet through the head. It is interesting to compare the following stanzas, the first from one of the Carrasco corridos and the other two from a tequilero ballad of the thirties.
El capitßn de los rinches
fue el primero que cay¾
pero el chaleco de malla
las balas no traspas¾.
The captain of the Rangers
was the first one to fall,
but the armored vest he was wearing
did not let the bullets through.
En fin de tanto invitarle
Leandro los acompa±¾;
en las lomas de Almiramba
fue el primero que cay¾.
They kept asking him to go,
until Leandro went with them;
in the hills of Almiramba
he was the first one to fall.
El capitßn de los rinches
a Silvano se acerc¾
y en unos cuantos segundos
Silvano GarcĒa muri¾.
The captain of the Rangers
came up close to Silvano,
and in a few seconds
Silvano GarcĒa was dead.
Similar attitudes are expressed on the Sonora-Arizona border, for example, when the hard-case hero of "El corrido de Cananea" is made to say,
Me agarraron los cherifes
al estilo americano,
como al hombre de delito,
todos con pistola en mano.
The sheriffs caught me
in the American style,
as they would a wanted man,
all of them pistol in hand.
The partition of Nuevo Santander was also to have political effects, arising from the strong feeling among the Lower Rio Grande people that the land on both sides of the river was equally theirs. This involved feelings on a very local and personal level, rather than the rhetoric of national politics, and is an attitude occasionally exhibited by some old Rio Grande people to this day. Driving north along one of today's highways toward San Antonio, Austin, or Houston, they are likely to say as the highway crosses the Nueces, "We are now entering Texas." Said in jest, of course, but the jest has its point. Unlike Mexicans in California, New Mexico, and the old colony of Texas, the Rio Grande people experienced the dismemberment of Mexico in a very immediate way. So the attitude developed, early and naturally, that a border Mexican was en su tierra in Texas even if he had been born in Tamaulipas. Such feelings, of course, were the basis for the revolts of Cortina and Piza±a. They reinforced the borderer's disregard of political and social boundaries. And they lead in a direct line to the Chicano movement and its mythic concept of Aztlßn. For the Chicano does not base his claim to the Southwest on royal land grants or on a lineage that goes back to the Spanish conquistadores. On the contrary, he is more likely to be the child or grandchild of immigrants. He bases his claim to Aztlßn on his Mexican culture and his mestizo heritage.
Conversely, the Texas-born Mexican continued to think of Mexico as "our land" also. That this at times led to problems of identity is seen in the folksongs of the Border. In 1885, for example, Rito GarcĒa protests illegal police entry into his home by shooting a few officers of Cameron County, Texas. He makes it across the river and feels safe, unaware that Porfirio DĒaz has an extradition agreement with the United States. Arrested and returned to Texas, according to the corrido, he expresses amazement:
Yo nunca hubiera creĒdo
que mi paĒs tirano fuera,
que Mainero me entregara
a la naci¾n extranjera.
I never would have thought
that my country would be so unjust,
that Mainero would hand me over
to a foreign nation.
And he adds bitterly:
Mexicanos, no hay que fiar
en nuestra propia naci¾n,
nunca vayan a buscar
a Mķxico protecci¾n.
Mexicans, we can put no trust
in our own nation;
never go to Mexico
asking for protection.
But the mexicanos to whom he gives this advice are Texas-Mexicans.
(1) The uprising occurred on the Lower Rio Grande Border and involved a group of Texas-Mexican rancheros attempting to create a Spanish-speaking republic in South Texas. Piza±a endeavored to appeal to other United States minority groups.
excerpted from Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border. 1993. Austin: CMAS Books, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas.
Original Editor's Note: Special thanks to Victor Guerra, Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
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DATE OF CORRESPONDENCE: March 8, 2012
Name of the Invention Promotion Company: Absolutely New, Inc.
Invention Promoter's Address: 650 Townsend St., Suite 475, San Francisco, CA 94103
Complainant's Name: Judy A. Blecha
Complainant's Address: 4008 Soapstone Lane, Gainesville, GA 30506
Customer's Name: Judy A. Blecha
Name of mass media invention promoter advertised in: Unsolicited mass mailings.
Invention promotion service offered to be performed: Prepare a Marketing Research Document, Prepare a Marketing Package, Represent Invention at trade shows, personally contact Potential Acquirers in attempt to obtain a sale, or licensing agreement.
Explanation of complaint between customer and invention promoter: This complaint concerns my paying an enormous amount of money to Absolutely New Inc. (San Francisco, CA) to promote my patented bandana hats (U.S. Patent #7836522 - Bandana Headwear With Flexible Headband, Having Options of Reversibility, Attachable Visor, Attached Cap And 3-Way Visor; - Registered name: Bandana Hat (R) ) and their many violations and unethical behavior. First, in our initial conversation, I wasn't made aware that I was to be sent the necessary disclosures as required by Federal Statue 35 U.S.C. section 297 of the American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) of 1999. They further violated CALIFORNIA CODES, SECTIONS 22379 (n) - 22380 - 22381 - 22383 - 22384 - 22386 & 22388 as spelled out at the website: NATIONAL INVENTOR FRAUD CENTER. Also, there is no actual proof that my patent was marketed as is specified in their contract. Any one of these violations would render my contract null & void. I was contacted by this company 3 times (between December 2, 2010 to January 27, 2011), offering their services before I called them after receiving the last letter in late Jan., 2011. I was curious to learn what they could do for my invention and the fee, if any (fees are required in all advertising as per Cal Code #22380, I later learned, but was not included in any that I was sent). I spoke with XXX, letting him know my husband and I were very skeptical about spending so much of our savings when so few patents ever get licensed. XXX assured me there were other ways, such as distribution, to market my patent, if licensing was not an option. This statement of his, (1) plus reading online that XXX, President of UIA at the time, and with who I'd been contact 5 years previous, endorsed Absolutely New, Inc. (2) were the tow reason I decided to sign an agreement with them. Using money from our savings as payment in the amount of $14,920.00, I reluctantly signed a contract in early Feb., 2011.
The main reason for my reluctance was that I'd asked XXX some very pertinent questions (in emails) which he chose not to answer, most likely because he didn't want his answers in writing. More recently, I realized as written above, that he'd not told me in our first conversation that he'd be sending me a disclosure required by California Law as well as the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999. According to California Business and Professions Code § 22379(d) & 22381 as well as 35 U.S.C. § 297(a), this information was supposed to be disclosed to me in writing upon first oral communication.
It was included in the contract, but not pointed out orally, as required by law, that this disclosure would be sent to me. Due to this omission, I'd not paid as much attention to that disclosure as I would have otherwise. Also, when the contract was sent to me in an email, it opened right at the beginning of the contract & the disclosure (above it) was invisible to me. Much later, after I'd already signed the contract, I noticed that I had to scroll up (before beginning of contract) to see the disclosure I'd not been told about in any of our conversations.
I've been very disappointed with the services (or lack of) that Absolutely New Inc. (hereafter know as ANI for brevity) performed on my behalf over the last year. Many services have not been fulfilled as specified in the contract. For instance they were to show the patented hats at trade shows that were a good match for my product, and they never did this even though there were several that were a perfect fit. I worked with XXX during first 6 months and she left many of my questions sent by email, go unanswered (IE - why wasn't my hats presented at trade shows and why wasn't she promoting to sporting goods manufacturers or those who made hats for those with hair loss). One of the questions she did answer, although falsely, was when I asked what marketed, although I'd not be sent quarterly reports. I later learned from the person, who took her place, this was not the case. Because of complaints from others like me, position, Robert Lugar was in charge of my account. When I mentioned to him, that though I'd suggested it in emails and on the phone, they'd never promoted my larger style, with an attached knit cap, (for which the patent was awarded). These larger hats are perfect for men who work or play outdoors; who need more head coverage from the elements and just as perfect for those with hair loss. I even sent him a list of companies who made hats for cancer patients as well as an impressive-looking marketing flyer for them. He later told me in an email that if I wanted more promotion, I'd need to sign another contract. I wrote back that this was a highly unethical solution as all the hat styles were presented to ANI when the agreement was signed. Amazingly, ANI new saw the potential of so many styles being an incredible selling point as the company would gain all these styles being an incredible selling point as the company would gain all these styles with one contract. In addition, my having had the name, Bandana Hat registered was an enormous plus!
ANI just uses a one-page marketing sheet and all the styles couldn't be shown on this one page. They had to keep things 'simple', I was told in the beginning when I wasn't impressed with this on-page PR package. In their quarterly reports, they would list the companies with who they'd presumably been in contact and their responses, which were very vague, brief and there were no specifics, such as dates and conclusive evidence of follow-up pursuits. Also, there was no follow through to some companies who seemed interested. The following quarterly report never showed that these companies had been contacted again. When I asked about this in an email, I didn't get a response. In December, 2011, I wrote and asked XXX to send me specifics of communications he and XXX had with the companies to who they had corresponded. Having spent nearly $15,000, and getting an inferior marketing package and service from ANI, my questions going unanswered and especially with their violations, I knew something must be done. Around the time of that email, I'd let him know many of my grievances although I'd not mentioned the AIPA and statues of California Law being violated, except for the one where they had 7 days from receipt of my request of all records, in which to respond. I had no response to this email sent on December 2, 2011.
On February 14, 2012, I wrote to ANI's Attorney, XXX, requesting that all records and correspondence relating to services rendered from February, 2011 to Feb., 2012, (when they claimed to have contacted a few more companies). I expected that copies of letters and emails that supported this effort as well as dates & content of all phone messages would be sent soon thereafter. As written above, California business and professions code section 22379 (n) states they have 7 days after receipt of such letter to make this vital information available to me. This was sent three weeks ago and I've not heard anything, making this complaint further inevitable.
I have all original documents & emails to back up my complaint. ANI will no doubt have a rebuttal that they sent my marketing package to some companies after the 6th month term (which isn't nearly long enough to promote an invention!); however I can't be sure of this, since they refuse to send the details of this promotion as per my request. Had I not been told there was a good chance I would get a distribution deal, if licensing was not an option, I surely would not have signed an agreement with ANI. Perhaps I should have been on the phone with them every day until I got the answers I needed. I'm a very busy person though and didn't have the time or patience to do this. Also, an honest company who has their client's best interests in mind, would not deny them answers to their questions. Because of the many benefits, uniqueness and attractiveness of my patent, I had faith that eventually a company would have the foresight to see the potential market for the various styles. When I attended a QVC meet in Chicago (contest to find 8 new inventions) sponsored by XXX several years ago, two of their reps said the hats were perfect for QVC. I realized I wasn't in the position to purchase multiple thousands myself. Besides, it was always my goal to have my patented hats distributed and/or licensed. I wear one most every time I leave the house and get many compliments from both men and women. There is definitely a market for these unique hats with so many benefits.
A compliant has been filed with the BBB in San Francisco, CA, in which I'm requesting the amount I spent ($14,920.00) plus return of all materials and products I'd sent them. Being very upset when I wrote the complaint to the BBB, I made a few errors (concerning some of the CAL codes, etc.) and sent the BBB an amendment the following day to rectify said errors. The same letter was sent to the FTC; however there was no way to update the Codes online. I have in my files a letter to them (FTC) with the amendments noted in case this is later needed. In conclusion I would never recommend Absolutely New, Inc. to any inventor.
Signed: /s/Judy A. Blecha Date: March 8, 2012


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Day Two of 2010 NFL Draft: FS for Bears
We all KNOW that the Bears need to answer the FS position in this year's draft. Curently, two of the better FS are still on the board in Nate Allen and Taylor Mays. Either one of them I wouldn't "toot my nose" in the air about having on my football team. Neither of them will be on the board at the #75 pick, so the Bears will have to do something in order to get one of these sure-fire safeties.
Let's look at this in a couple different pieces, Bears fans...
... Who do the Bears have on roster that is expendable so that they can move up into the 2nd round?
>>> Greg Olsen, TE-- He doesn't fit well into a Mike Martz system. Although the Bears have said that they can make him fit and there is opportunity for him in the system, the track record of a tight end in a Martz system has been one of blocking and low receptions for even the most talented TE.
>>> Hunter Hillenmeyer, LB-- With the signing of Jamar Williams, Nick Roach and Pisa Tinamosoa, there just isn't a need for Hunter Hillenmeyer in Chicago any longer. The thing is, he really isn't attractive enough to get you back ino the 2nd round. Perhaps the 3rd or 4th.
>>> Charles Tillman, CB-- Charles Tillman has been taking it easy this offseason and has said he wants to go light in camps this year because he wants to preserve the wear and tear on his body this season. Corey Graham has been filling in for Tillman's absence and many scouts and reports have said that they have been impressed with Graham's tackling ability. And isn't that what we require out of the CB in C2? Tillman's coverage ability has never been spectacular; decent at times at best. Tillman refuses to move to safety and I think with his shoulders becoming more of a liability, coaches might be cooling down on the TIllman love fest.
That being said...
... Out of those players, who has a need for one of those players in the top-half of the 2nd round?
Right away the team that sticks out to me is the New England Patriots who hold THREE picks in the second round (44, 47, and 53).
The Patriots are in the market for a tight end and the Bears hold a former first round draft pick in Greg Olsen, who has speed and play-making ability, but has underachieved thus far in his career. However, there is still a huge amount of potential there and in the right system...
... He could blossom.
With three picks, the Patriots could be willing to move one and add a third in its place for a Greg Olsen.
What the Bears have to be aware of is that the Vikings, Broncos, and Eagles are all still in the hunt for a FS (Vikes more of a SS; Mays). Sergio Kindle is still on the board, along with Jimmy Clausen which makes an intriguing position for the Vikings on what to do with the 2nd pick in the 2nd round. Personally, I think they are content with Tarvaris Jackson and their LB unit. I do think Brett Favre will be back for one more season. That makes one of two top safties fair game for the Vikes, right?
The Bears have to wait to see what the Vikings do with their pick, then wait til the ever "mysterious" Al Davis selects with the 7th pick in the 2nd round and possibly look to see if the patriots are willing to move their 44th pick.
Category: NFL Draft
Tags: Brett Favre, Broncos, Chicago Bears, Eagles, Greg Olsen, Nate Allen, Patriots, Taylor Mays, Vikings
Posted on: March 18, 2010 12:34 pm
NFL Draft Watch: Tim Tebow's Exodus to the NFL
Tim Tebow's college career has been one that directors dream about producing on film. He's a modest, humble kid who just loves the game of football. Whether you like his game or not-- Tim Tebow is a winner. He has been since his first collegiate start in 2006. Now, after a storybook collegiate career, he is taking his game and fanfare to the NFL and looking to be selected in this year's NFL Draft.
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JOANN DALGARD: Learn names, use them lovingly
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Norm had it made.
Remember the TV show "Cheers"? The character Norm was such a regular, everybody shouted his name when he walked in.
I am certain, as an old hymn says, "When we all get to Heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be." And I'm pretty sure everybody will know your name.
Our names are important to us and sound differently when spoken by someone who loves us than when uttered indifferently by a stranger.
In the gospel of John, chapter 10, the evangelist says the shepherd knows his sheep by name.
In John 13:31-35, Jesus tells his followers, "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. ... By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Reflecting on the latter text, a priest referred to a story about a child just learning to pray.
This youngster was overheard to say, "Our Father who art in Heaven; How do you know my name?"
Sadly, there are parents and children who do not even know of each others' existence, much less a name.
The Creator knows each of us intimately and has unfathomable love for us.
This can be a source of great solace in those dark and lonely times when you feel like you have nowhere to go and nobody to care if or when you get here.
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Several towns have homecoming celebrations on a regular basis.
I was invited to attend such a gathering and it was like going home to a place I'd never even been.
The people evidenced loving respect for each other, and they seem to have been blessed with the gift of looking beyond the surface, accepting young people with tattoos and facial piercings alongside folks who could have posed for the famous "American Gothic" painting.
These folks know the condition of the soul matters more than passing fads and phases of grooming and clothing.
At another celebration in another town, I heard a fellow comment, "There goes 'Miss' (with the man's name)."
The individual in question is respected as a person and the tendency to cross-dress is accepted as a quirk that keeps life interesting.
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