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I understand it is old and went to my local bike store or LBS? and asked questions. The gentleman told me it would basically take about 1,000 to put together yet he didn't recommend it because it was a 26inch wheel size and that it was too slow for todays 29 inch sizes. I am trying to shop around for all the components and pieces for the bike even if used for half that amount.. I also need help to learn how to put together.
If anyone would be willing to help guide/direct and also trade some of their components for items I may have or services I can offer from my company as a motion graphic artist, graphic designer, photographer, cinematographer.
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I can't wait for winter to use this! It was a bit much for the summer and spring as my skin wasn't too dry or dehydrated. It didn't absorb too well but I assume it will when my skin needs it. It doesn't have too strong of a scent but it was enjoyable. Thankfully more of the hibiscus and argan smells came out instead of sesame so I didn't smell like a Chinese restaurant.4
So it does feel wonderful on your skin, but the smell is a tad strange - almost bitter smelling if bitter had a smell... The oil is nice. It has a dry oil feel to it, but I can't
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1. Determine the decimal value of the following 8-bit 2's complement numbers.
(a) 11111011
(b) 00110111
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2. Perform the following addition or subtraction of the given numbers using 8-bit 2's complement representation of the numbers. Parts (a) and (b) are given in decimal, while parts (c)-(e) are given in 8-bit 2's complement. Indicate in each case whether overflow occurs.
(a) (-65)+(+72)
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(c) 01101100-01010011
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Drummer on another level
The song is just not metal enough for this drummer but he goes on to show his stuff anyway.
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Klobuchar Speaks Up for Middle-Class Working Families
Joins Vice President Biden for Middle-Class Task Force Meeting in St. Cloud Klobuchar Urges Help for Minnesota Dairy Farmers, Ag Secretary Says Help is on the Way
Saying that Minnesota has always been a strong middle-class state, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar was in St. Cloud today to participate in the second meeting of the White House Middle-Class Task Force, chaired by Vice President Joe Biden.
With about 400 Minnesotans in attendance, Klobuchar offered a welcome and opening remarks at the meeting, which was held at the New Flyer of America bus manufacturing plant.
Done in a town-hall style format, the meeting was designed primarily as an opportunity for the Task Force to listen to Minnesotans and learn how they are handling the economy and how they want their government to help.
The New Flyer facility was selected as the location because the company's employment has grown steadily. The St. Cloud facility now has about 650 workers, and another 300 work at a Crookston facility.
Klobuchar said that Minnesotans "have always prided ourselves on our hard-working people, our high-quality education and our spirit of innovation. But here, and throughout America, we now face very difficult economic times."
She cited the importance of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create new jobs, revive the economy and build the foundations for longer-term prosperity and pushed Administration officials to help make additional investments in area projects, like extending the Northstar Commuter Rail from Big Lake to St. Cloud. Klobuchar announced last month that she was successful in securing $70 million as the final installment of federal funding for the Northstar Project that will help create new jobs and businesses and expand multimodal transportation.
Klobuchar also strongly urged the Agriculture Secretary to provide help to Minnesota dairy farmers as soon as possible. Falling prices of dairy products, combined with unusually high costs and a drop-off in international demand due to the global economic crisis have recently imperiled the dairy industry. Secretary Vilsack said that Klobuchar has made him aware of the issue and that an announcement would likely be made in the next week to help dairy farmers.
Klobuchar spoke more broadly about transportation projects in the state saying, "The recovery plan can be summed up in three words: jobs, jobs and jobs. It's already happening. Minnesota has just announced the first 11 transportation projects made possible by the new federal funds - $40 million and 1,000 new jobs. There's a lot more still to come."
In addition to transportation infrastructure, the recovery plan invests in education, energy, health care and high-speed broadband communications, which is so important in rural areas.
"Even in the midst of adversity, there are still opportunities," Klobuchar said. "The New Flyer facility shows how. The company is a leader in transit innovation and low-emission, alternative-fueled vehicles. It's prepared for the future, which has allowed it to continue growing despite the current economy."
New Flyer employs 650 workers in St. Cloud, as well as another 300 at a Crookston facility. New Flyer added 90 new jobs last year and has a substantial backlog of orders.
Besides the vice president, Task Force members who participated in the event included U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. New Flyer's president and CEO, Paul Soubry, was also on hand.
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Is stomach stapling for teens worth the risk?
Imagine a spectrum titled "satisfying sexual urges via objects external to us." At both ends of the scale there are socially unacceptable objects. Let's say as you move to the left on the scale you start seeing inanimate objects, such as the crease on that old couch in the basement of a fraternity house. [...] Farther to the right, you start seeing animals, the mentally ill or undeveloped, dead people all the time, and children. In the broad middle of the range we find socially acceptable sexual activity -- sex with consenting adult partners pretty much captures it. [...]
Your very denial of any intention to have sex with children is proof positive that the power of your repressive reflex, far from being the guarantee of your celibacy with regard to children, is rather the precondition of their eroticization: the strength and energy of the "never with children" is a suspect defense mechanism. Of course, we would all love to have sex with kids. They're cute. They have nice skin. They smile winningly. In general, all those creatures who are cute, with nice skin, and who smile winningly (such as pumpkins, pigs named Babe -- we all know the list) act as excellent objects for discharging sexual energy. [...]
The mere fact that there's a *basis* for such-and-such behavior in humans does not lead to the conclusion that it's okay to do it, nor that the true origin of the behavior is in us. Rather, since the overwhelming majority do not use either pumpkins or children for the release of sexual energy -- despite the presence of unexplored tendencies in these directions -- we need to look *elsewhere* for the causal agent producing this behavior in a small subset of the population.
A former student of Kincaid's, hamlineprof struggles to bring the discussion back on topic:
Kincaid deplores the mistreatment of children in this culture, hell the mistreatment of every- and anyone. But, he argues, in a culture which claims to idealize the innocence of children, and raises a ruckus over every perceived threat to such innocents (from the media to strange abductors to you-name-it), why is there such *fascination* with the most extreme forms of mistreatment? Or, if we're so concerned with the mistreated, why aren't there blitzes of media coverage around the everyday abuses of children in poverty--why do we focus on the rarest of rare, and ignore the actual problems facing those we seek to protect? [...] On the one hand we ostensibly want to separate children from pain and abuse and sexuality and various other horrors. On the other hand, we ignore the most widespread and dangerous of such horrors.
MsZilla ventures an explanation for why that is so:
Because stranger danger can be helped. Whereas the other sort of thing really can't be. Because they don't have a simple pat answer to the actual problem, they'll give you a wrong but simple and pat answer to a tiny speck of it and hope that convinces you they have a good reason they have their head that far up their you-guessed-it. That's why they like to focus on it.
The training that is given in school, by child protection advocates and is recommended for parents can be effective when it comes to dealing with strangers. But it's very different when the person has the authority and influence on the child and the time with them to slowly get around that training. And a very small percentage of these crimes are committed by strangers. [...]
No amount of the training or practicing saying "No!" or any of the rest of it is terribly effective against an intelligent predator that is known to the child. And that is an absurdly large percentage of the cases. [...]
I was taught the same things when I was growing up. I practiced saying "No!" and did the little games with the teachers and my Mom. We read the coloring books and went through them and we "talked about it". I agonized to myself every time the subject came up, but I never told. I said the right things so my mother wouldn't worry. I didn't hate him. He was my stepfather. He was the father of my brothers and sisters. He was family. I loved him and I didn't want him to get in trouble. [...]
Do you honestly think your daughters would use those self-defense tactics on you? Say your four-year-old doesn't want to take off the pants she just tromped through a mud-puddle in because they're here favorites and she wants to wear them anyways. You're not gonna let her do that because she'll get mud everywhere and you don't have time to deal with the fuss because you have to go pick your wife up at the airport. So you deal with the situation by taking them off her. She gets scared. Do you in your heart of hearts think she'd fight you dirty enough to stop you? Do you think it's physically possible?
If the training you're talking about is to be at all effective, she would have to. It's all supposed to go off what makes them feel uncomfortable. So her fear because you look all angry and scary is supposed to trigger it. And changing her pants does involve getting your hands somewhere near a danger zone, and that's also supposed to do it. But you're her father. Do you think a few platitudes spouted at her once a year at school and a few pious affirmations by you that you mean she should do this even to you have a chance against that? Use your head.
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George W. Bush's reading of Albert Camus' L'Étranger (The Stranger), combined with Sen. George Allen's public utterance of an apparently French-derived racial slur, represents the rare infusion of francophilia into American politics (by two members of the conservative establishment, no less). A far cry from the days of Freedom Fries, indeed.
TJA speculates that mention of this novel in Talladega Nights, the Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy, might have inspired W.'s choice.
As a matter of diplomacy, Utek1 declares it was "probably unwise for the president to be seen reading a book about a soulless murderer of Arabs":
With Iraq in chaos, the ceasefire in Lebanon hanging by a thread, and the US making noises about invading Iran, the last thing Bush should be doing is throwing gasoline on the fire. But once an oil man, always an oil man.
Fortunately, the easiest way for Bush to make amends is to continue onto Camus' next novel, The Plague. Here, the hero isn't a murderer, but a doctor battling an epidemic of bubonic plague in the Algerian town of Oran. Despite the pestilence afflicting all those around him, the doctor continues to do his small part to relieve their suffering. The image of Bush reading about a Western caregiver providing comfort to Muslims during a bleak moment in their history would be a lot better PR for Bush than to be seen getting tips on how to murder Arabs without remorse.


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Update on Abejitas Trabajadoras GroupJorge is part of the "Abejitas Trabajadoras" (Little Worker Bees) communal bank and says that they gave the group that name because they consider the insect to be very hardworking. He is 32 and a native of a town where the principal economic activity is guava cultivation. He is married and has two children, who are in primary school. He has worked, from a very young age, as a baker, but four years ago he branched out on his own in order to provide economically for his household and earn a bit more income. He notes that it was his family who taught him how to make different kinds of breads such as the delicious chilindrinas (sugar coated buns), doughnuts, conchas (sweet buns), espejos (large, glazed cookies ), teleras (a type of bread), cuernitos (croissants) and many other varieties.
Jorge says that he gets up at a very early hour, at about 4 in the morning, to do his baking. He sells his bread in the city, since various stores have already placed orders. He is asking for a loan to buy basic ingredients such as flour, milk, eggs, sugar, cooking gas, food coloring, etc. He says that, especially in the month of November, he makes bread for the Day of the Dead, since the Day of the Dead holiday is celebrated in the country. He is very pleased that they will give him a loan because then he will have the supplies needed to make his delicious breads. Jorge's goal is to own another mud oven because the bread has a more delicious taste and it is cooked with wood which gives it a different flavor.
The other eleven members of the communal bank are Gloria, Cristina, Elizabeth, Rosa, Mariana, María de Jesús, Adriana, Teresa, Alma Delia, Sandra, Georgina. They are all requesting loans to invest in their businesses selling items such as shoes, furniture, sweets, embroidered handicrafts, flowers, appetizers and cosmetics by catalog.
Los otros once integrantes se llaman Gloria, Cristina, Elizabeth, Rosa, Mariana, María de Jesús, Adriana, Teresa, Alma Delia, Sandra, Georgina todos ellos están pidiendo sus créditos para invertirlo en sus negocios como venta de zapatos, mueblería, dulcería, bordados de prendas artesanales, florería, antojitos, cosméticos por catalogo.
Previous Loan DetailsElizabeth is a very hard-working woman who does her household chores very responsibly. She has two young children: an 8 year-old boy who is in elementary school and a 6 year-old girl who will start elementary school soon. Elizabeth's business is selling juice and smoothies outside a school. ... More from Abejitas Trabajadoras Group's previous loan »
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Fans of Matthew Lewis' mobile Cajun cookery pinched and sucked 750 pounds of mud bugs at Where Ya At Matt 's final boil of the
Fans of Matthew Lewis' mobile Cajun cookery pinched and sucked 750 pounds of mud bugs at Where Ya At Matt's final boil of the crawfish season, an outdoor party made possible by social media.
Lewis used Facebook and Twitter to alert his followers to the Fremont shindig, interspersing beignet promises and ticket-sale promotions with his standard truck-location updates. Lewis' sophisticated use of Facebook won him a Seattle Web Award last week, making him one of four food-and-drink specialists so honored.
Urbanspoon took the Best Mobile App title in the food-and-drink category, while the Best Website prize went to Homegrown Sustainable Sandwich Shop, which sets an example for other restaurants by listing its menu, hours, and phone numbers online. @SaltySeattle, who's acquired more than 3000 followers with her bawdy food commentary, won an award for Best Twitter Feed.
And the wins could keep on coming for local gourmands: Readers chose the recipients of six awards (Seattle's Favorite Online Time Waster, Seattle's Most Shameless Self-Promoter, Seattle's Sexiest Geek, Seattle's Favorite Meme, Most Useful Mobile App, Wild Card) to be announced at the invite-only Seattle Web Awards gala next week.
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This season, the NFL added a weekly Thursday night game, which puts professional football on TV three nights a week. Later on, after the bulk of the college football season is over, Saturday will also be in the mix—but for now, the league has to stay away from Friday and Saturday. Why? Because Congress said... READ ON
You've probably heard that Barack Obama recruited Massachusetts senator and ketchup-magnate-by-marriage John Kerry to play Mitt Romney in mock debates. But Obama certainly isn't the first president to fine-tune his skills through pseudo smackdowns. In fact, almost every presidential candidate in recent years has hired a surrogate sparring partner. Here are 8 all-star stand-ins and the politicians they portrayed.
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The third party presidential candidates we told you about a couple of weeks ago were only the top of the list of those running for president in 2012. There are plenty more, but as you go down the list, information becomes harder to find. Here are a few that are either on the ballot somewhere or are waging a serious (or semi-serious) write-in campaign, in no particular order.
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This week in Tampa, those attending the 2012 Republican National Convention will exchange far more than plans for adjusting the tax code and adjective-laden riffs relating to the hairstyles of Romney and Ryan. By bringing together an abundance of joyous, carefree, captive audience consumers, political conventions result in a perfect storm scenario for tchotchke peddlers. Everything from weird-looking stuffed animals to giant party-themed belt buckles gets created for these events.
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An October surprise is any bit of news that breaks right before an election that has the capability to help determine the outcome of the race. Since voters are often swayed by these revelations, the right October surprise can swing a losing campaign right into White House. Here are a few notable examples.1968: LBJ calls off the bombs.The 1968 race between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey looked like it would be an electoral rout. Nixon successfully ferreted away Southern Democrats who... READ ON
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When Seymour held onto the ball, like in its opening drive, the young Class 4A Owls looked promising against Class 5A Franklin in Friday's season-opener at Bulleit Stadium.
But coach Josh Shattuck's team followed up an impressive 7-0 opening advantage with nine fumbles (losing five), and the Grizzly Cubs took advantage of each for a 61-7 victory.
"I've just never seen anything that bad with ball security," said Shattuck, who insisted his team will get better as it learns to protect the football. "You can't beat a freshman team fumbling nine times."
No, and Franklin was certainly better than a freshman squad this night.
It didn't start that way.
The Owls marched the opening kickoff 68 yards behind sophomore quarterback Jackson Morris, who dove in from the 1 for the first score of the new season.
That lead lasted only 15 seconds, as Franklin's Chad Williams took the kickoff 99 yards up the left sideline for a score to tie it at 7.
From there, the wheels fell off, as four lost fumbles contributed to a 14-minute 34-point blitz by the Grizzly Cubs to make it 41-7 at halftime.
"It's hard to evaluate when you fumble after every second or third play," Shattuck said. "I don't know that they were 61-7 better than us. They're a better football team. There's no doubt about that. I'll give them some credit for getting after the ball."
Indeed, Franklin did not turn over the ball and was penalized only twice, somewhat surprising for a team playing a very emotional game. The Grizzly Cubs lost two teammates over the summer in a drowning accident and had been pointing to getting back on the football field.
Franklin seniors Ryan Torrance and Jacob Stevenson combined for 212 yards and six scores on just 13 carries.
Still, the Seymour offense showed promise behind Morris and the running of sophomore Zach Carpenter and senior Isaiah Thomas, collectively churning 197 rushing yards.
"We've just got to get better," Shattuck said. "If we have ball security, that probably cuts out 30 points. Ten yard gains and we're coughing it up."
A young line opened some good holes and gave Morris time to hit six of 11 throws.
"On execution, our initial surge is OK, but we've got to get a lot better," Shattuck said.
The Owls have little to address those issues, as Class 6A Jeffersonville visits Friday night.
"We know we're extremely young, and we know where our program's at, but we cannot wait until the offseason to get better," Shattuck said. "It's got to happen right now."


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Nelson has appeared in dozens of metro-area theater productions since moving to Denver in 1996. He has most often been seen in MAP productions such as "The Rainmaker." He also recently appeared in "The Weir" for the Victorian Playhouse in Denver.
"Pete had three worlds -- his church, his neighborhood friends and the theater," said Miners Alley Playhouse artistic director and friend Rick Bernstein. "He took his craft very seriously and he gave it his all every time."
Nelson was only diagnosed in February. He entered hospice care in Aurora last week, after a hospital stay for pneumonia.
"His cousin said many friends had stopped by to visit him at the hospital and the hospice center," said Kellie Rae Rockey, Nelson's friend and castmate in "A Delicate Balance."
On Feb. 25, the Miners Alley Playhouse held a fundraising performance of "Deathtrap" to help defray Nelson's medical costs. Nelson had been a cast member for several weeks until the cancer diagnosis was made. The benefit raised $3,000.
"We wanted to pay tribute to all the great work, great roles and great memories that he has created for all of us," said Bernstein.
The funeral service is 2 p.m. Wednesday April 4, at St. Gregory's Church, 6653 W. Chatfield Ave. That's east of Wadsworth on Chatfield. Reception to follow (303-979-5236). Donations in Nelson's name may be sent to MAP, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 80401.


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Send good vibes this way please. I feel pretty confident he is fine, but it's still a little scary.
Hang in there mama. Your baby is likely fine and just being stubborn and lazy.
Did they have you lay on your side and drink ice water? That always gets DS going when he won't cooperate. It is scary but it happens a lot. Hang in there!
They buzzed him and he jumped, but then went right back to sleep.
Good luck! It's incredibly common to fail a nst, but still nerve wracking.
What a stinker. I'm sure he's fine. Hopefully he'll hang onto that love for sleep when he's out. :)
I had eaten a granola bar before I got to the hospital, but I had also taken my insulin, so my sugar was a little low.
The best part about him being lazy is that I had a nice, long ultrasound and they have me an estimated weight. He's around 6 lbs, so he's looking pretty much right on target.
My little girl keeps failing her BPP's and barely passing her NST's. She just chooses to be lazy when it's time for everyone to look at her. I have to get them 3 times a week, so now I make sure to drink juice and eat something with a little sugar right before going in. They also usually make me lay on my side, which seems to get her going just enough. They just tell me to make sure to pay attention to her movements the days I don't get tested. My YDS never passed his NST's either, he was a lazy baby.
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He was kind mellow all weekend, so I feel better after the ultrasound.
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Jeffery Alan Spooner / Sept. 12, 1968 – Nov. 7, 2009Published 10:11am Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Jeffery Alan Spooner, 41, of Battle Creek, died Nov, 7, 2009 in Perry, Iowa.
He was born Sept. 12, 1968, the son of Calvin R. and Jeanette M. (Watson) Spooner in Dowagiac.
He graduated from White Pigeon High School in 1987 and worked as a truck driver for 20 years.
Jeffery enjoyed driving trucks and collecting NASCAR memorabilia.
Jeffery married Marissa Cipriano on Jan. 27, 2006. She survives. Also surviving are daughter, Jordin M. Spooner, of Sturgis; mother, Jeanette (Don) Coy, of Dowagiac; father, Calvin Spooner, of Battle Creek; brother, William (Lynn) Spooner, of Dowagiac; sister, Deborah (Dave) Landman, of Grand Rapids; stepbrother, Don (Ginger) Coy, of McBain; stepsister, Gayle (Robert) Wilson, of Niles; special brother-in-law, Ken (Cindi) Simpson; uncle, Don (Trixie) Spooner, of Battle Creek; aunts, Kathy (Ron) Harrison, of Reno, Nev., Bonnie (Dave) Poshke, of Benton Harbor, Sharon (Peter) Matute, of Las Vegas; and five nieces and five nephews.
He was preceded in death by Roy and Arlene Spooner, William Watson and Elvira Wallace.
The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 at Shaw Funeral Home where services will take place at 7 p.m. with the Rev. William Lang officiating.
Memorial donations may go to cover education expenses for his daughter.
The family is being served by Shaw Funeral Home: www.shawfuneralhome.com.


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MLB story lines: Will the economy affect baseball?
Updated: March 30, 2009, 12:30 PM ETSportsNation
Before the season started, we polled our writers on what they believed would be the biggest story lines in baseball in 2009. They came up with five consensus topics. What do you think will happen in each situation?
Abreu, Dunn, and Burrell felt the economy's pinch.
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Type: New Feature
Status: Open
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: Trunk
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: marketing
Sprint:Bug Crush Event - 21/2/2015
- A case corrospond to a Request(CustRequest) in OFBiz.
- There are many types of requests including RFI (for information), RFQ (for quote), RFS (for support), and so on.
Following screens should be implemented in this :
- Create/Edit Case: Following fields should be present on the GUI.
"* (Start next to fields)" - showing the required field.
— Company Name - Lookup showing all the Party Group in the role of "Account"
— Requesting Party* - Lookup to select the existing party in the role of "Contact"
— Priority - Keep default priority as the medium (either 4 or 5 on the user interface)
— Type
— Subject* - Map this field into custRequestName field of CustRequest entity.
— Reason - associate this field with the enumeration entity and create few records there so that it could be referred here.
Reason can be "Unexpected Behaviour of Application", "New Feature Request" etc.
— Description -
— Status - Show this field in Edit mode of request only. (While updating request)
- There will be summary section for the cases and following block will be shown in it.
— First block will be the history of the customer request.
— Party / Roles - All will be shown in the read mode (Party Group, Requesting Party & Logged in party details who has created request).
— Request Items.
- There will be following tab button adjucent to Summary Section.
— Party / Roles(The two records for Party Group and Requesting Party will be in readable mode. and user should only be able to change the details of Request Tracker i.e the person who has logged in the Request.)
— Request Items
Details Left Navigation Section.
First Block: Shortcuts
Create New Case
Find Case
My Cases - List all the cases of logged in party by default. So it will be easy for him to select and update on those cases accordingly.
Only show those cases that are not in complete status.
Second Block: Quick Add Case
Fields to be present in this block are:
Company Name
Requesting Party*
For the quick add case block we should keep the default priority as medium (i.e 5)
- All
- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
I will be working on this. Thnks.
How are the cases related to custRequest entity. custRequest entity is used in Orders-Request.
There are also status fields and reasons fields in custRequest
Looking more, the description in the issue is already taken care by the Order-Request feature except for the following
- shortcuts & quickAdd
Please add more info or let me know how it will be different from Order-Request. Instead, can the Order-Request feature be improved?
Hello Aswath,
Its good to see your comment on this.
The idea of introducing the "Cases" header item is that it is very commonly used term in CRM prespective.
We should use the CustRequest entity as it is to solve our purpose if we talk about Cases.
Here we should only reuse the required things and will exclude the extra things.
We are trying to provide the easy navigation option to CSR in SFA component instead of moving different application bar in OFBiz.
If you think that I would like to create a service then that service will go into the Order Manager component and will be reused in the SFA component.
So in short we should reuse the CustRequest entity and its associated entity (services or anything else) in our sfa component.
Does it make sense to you now ?
"Shorcuts" and "Quick Add" section will be part of SFA component.
Please let us know if you need more help in completing this task !
Hello Ashish,
Thanks for sharing more info to this.
There is also a WorkEffort Entity. If you look at the Project-Task, Task feature is reusing WorkEffort entity.
Can Cases use the WorkEffort? What would be the difference in CustRequest & WorkEffort.
Also, I think we need an 'assigned to' field. Because a CSR may create a Case, and assign it to another party.
Hello Aswath,
Thanks for your comment.
Here you go.
CustRequest can be a wish list for new feature or bug fix from a customer and after approval it can be associated with the WorkEffort.(aka task)
Now workeffort can be associated with the so many party using WorkEffortPartyAssignement.
The party is nothing but the person who will work on that task.
There is no need to have "assigned to" field in the CustRequest entity.
If the request is delegated to another person (to change the status or supervise the request) then the old party will be expired and the new party will be created. The responsible entity for this operation is "CustRequestParty". The role of the newly assigned party will be again the request tacker.
Please let us know if you have more question.
Ashish Vijaywargiya
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Hello Ashish,
I am understanding the custRequest & the CustRequestParty. The RequestRoles-UI is used here to create CustRequestParty
Lets say, using the RequestRoles-UI, the new RequestTaker is another party 'DemoEmployee'. So, now, how does the DemoEmployee know that he is the new RequestTaker?
How does the new RequestTaker approve?
I am trying to understand how the complete Cases end-to-end will work.
More of a esthetics approach
Cases is more medical and legal in terminology.
From ofbiz perspective is seem a project task would be more fitting.
from a CRM perspective a Ticketing system is more appropiate, since there is a lot of communication with the customer or client.
In the implementation I use, this includes,
automatic response for requests assigning a project . the Projet Id is used as the ticket number, instead of the requestID.
MCA is used to link the return messages to the correct Project as task.s The messages are timelined in the project.
This allow the project managment to be used for assigning the task and tracking resources under workeffort.
Just my two cents.
Hello Aswath,
Here you go:
>> Lets say, using the RequestRoles-UI, the new RequestTaker is another party 'DemoEmployee'. So, now, how does the DemoEmployee know that he is the new RequestTaker?
Good question. An email can be invoked after changing the Request Tacker associated with the Request.
It can be handled in another JIRA issue (or we can say new wish list for feature improvement).
>> How does the new RequestTaker approve?
I don't have enough points for this process right now but here we can take help community members.
I would be thankful to see comments from others in this question.
Let me share what I think about it right now:
First request comes then a request tacker is being assigned to it and then he / she will be responsible for that particular request.
He / She can change the status of that request (Other user having more privilege or have access to Request component can also change the status). And then after accepting that request that can be associated with the workeffort and members can start work on that request (request can be either new feature wish list or bug list)
Thanks !
Here is my understanding of the Cases:
Cases is another UI which is just a subset of Order-Request UI. There is no cases ENTITY. Is that correct?
Since Cases is a CustRequest, I am trying to understand CustRequest better, and here is my understanding.
A new CustRequest is created based on the customer input. Then this CustRequest goes into an approval process. (Currently this workflow is not available OOTB). Is CustRequest like some paper work in the real scenario? After this, a workeffort is created and linked to this CustRequest. WorkEffort is where the actual work is taken care. Hence both CustRequest and WorkEffort has there own workflow.
MyCases: It will list all the CustRequests, if the recent partyID in CustRequestParty is same as the logged in partyid.
Please provide more inputs on the requirements and design. I don't have clear picture on end-to-end on how cases will work
Is my previous understanding correct?
What will be the RequestRole of the user who is creating the case?
The entities RFI and RFQ are to be regarded as opportunities and should be handled as such.
A RfS is an request that is related to an existing support contract and should be handled from that angle.
But, it could lead to a task assignment and the possibility to register worked hours.
A case could be seen as a set of information related to the account.


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Friday, July 22, 2011
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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So it's day two back on the horse. And boy does my a** hurt. LOL Just kidding. Just kidding.
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|News Releases - Art, Galleries & Museums
|Written by Susan Horan
|Thursday, 24 March 2011 07:31
Davenport, Iowa – March, 2011– "The Pollock 'Mural' Debate: What Have We Learned?" is the topic of a presentation set for 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second Street in Davenport.
The presentation and discussion is a collaborative effort of the Figge and the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA). Andrew J. Butler, president of the board of directors of the Figge Art Museum, and UIMA Executive Director Sean O'Harrow will comment on the questions raised by recent efforts by state legislators to mandate the sale of the Jackson Pollock's "Mural" as a means of providing scholarships for UI students.
The presentation will also examine the role of art objects and art museums in public education, including the role of real objects for use in teaching; and how cultural institutions advance economic development.
Participants will also have the opportunity to see "Mural," which is on display at the Figge, along with other UIMA works of art following the flood of 2008.
Free with Figge membership or paid admission. University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff are admitted to the Figge free of charge with a UI ID card. UIMA donors are admitted free with their donor courtesy cards.
For more information see uima.uiowa.edu.
225 W. 2nd Street|Davenport, Iowa|52801
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Updated: 07/03/2014 - For an elderly Beaufort County woman, the tornadoes of late April this year destroyed her home. Now, a group of volunteers want to give her back her home.
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Posted: 07/02/2014 - Misty Walker has been named the new principal of Washington High School.
Updated: 07/02/2014 - WITN Meteorologist Charlie Ironmonger shares important tips to help you and your loved ones prepare for Arthur.
Updated: 07/02/2014 - The last tropical system to cause any significant damage to Eastern Carolina was almost three years ago with Hurricane Irene, which dumped over 15 inches of rain in parts of Beaufort County, flooding homes and roads.
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Updated: 06/18/2014 - The Ormond Amphitheatre in Bath is opening its doors to host "The Promised Land" for a ninth season.
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Updated: 06/21/2014 - An abused dog that was first featured on WITN last month is now the World's Ugliest Dog.
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Updated: 06/14/2014 - John Pack, Beaufort County's Emergency Management Coordinator, says roads are now clear in parts of Washington after heavy rainfall caused flash flooding overnight.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
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Teachers and emerging readers have already made Bill Martin's books their own, but these new editions are intended to cement the deal--and extend the brand. The trim size is smaller, and the text is placed uniformly across the bottom of each page and broken into short phrases. Back matter includes a letter to parents and teachers and further reading activities. [Review covers these My First Reader titles: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?] Copyright 2011 Horn Book Guide Reviews.
Horn Book Guide Reviews 1997
The contemporary classic, beloved of preschoolers and beginning readers alike, loses nothing in its translation to a board book. Carle's bold, brilliantly colored animals against a white background are still striking, and the simple text is large enough and in a clean enough typeface to be quite readable. Copyright 1998 Horn Book Guide Reviews
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PreS-Gr 1-- In this new edition of the popular classic (Holt, 1983), the same clean design and crisp text remain. Illustrations, however, have been slightly altered. Stronger colors and more texture help delineate animal bodies more sharply. Positions and shapes are slightly changed, resulting in a less static look. Red Bird is shown in flying position with a sleeker body, sharper beak, and more carefully defined tail and wing features. Yellow Duck has webbed feet and an open bill; Blue Horse has black hooves and teeth showing; Green Frog a spotted back and pink tongue; the former Mother with pale pink skin has become Teacher with beige skin tones and darker hair. The overall effect is livelier and more interesting, although changes are minimal enough that the old edition is still serviceable. When replacements are in order, this will be a welcome addition. --Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information.


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Among the Intellectualoids
Neutering God
In progressive, inclusive circles, you are not to call Him by any pronoun.
It's a wonderful mercy that much of the more extreme elements of radical feminist theology in the churches peaked in the 1990s and have since faded. The high tide of radical feminist theology was the 1993 ecumenical Re-Imagining Conference, endorsed by nearly all the Mainline Protestant denominations or their women's agencies, where speakers condemned traditional Christianity as patriarchal and instead acclaimed ancient feminine deities like Astarte, Isis, and Athena. God was also commonly called "Sophia," based on the Greek word for wisdom. There was a special altar call for lesbians, not for repentance, but for acclamation. A milk and honey ritual replaced the traditional Eucharist.
Of course, Re-Imagining was enormously controversial, even earning an episode on Ted Koppel's Nightline. Although there were subsequent Re-Imagining reunions, few of the Mainline groups again endorsed, and the Re-Imagining Community eventually dissolved. Radical feminist theology, which deemed the traditional Jewish-Christian deity as unacceptably patriarchal, has mostly retreated into the tenured faculty of the most liberal Protestant seminaries. Its constituency never fully expanded beyond mostly older, white, upper income church women in declining denominations or from small, dissident Catholic groups. Predictably, no orthodox church group has been able to thrive while minimizing historic core doctrines, like the Trinity or Atonement, which radical feminist theology dismissed as the imagined fancies of ancient chauvinistic men in robes. Like most liberal theology, radical feminist theology assumes that God does not self-disclose as objective reality but rather is a human-projection, and therefore can be routinely reinvented to suit desires and fashion.
But strains of feminist theology persist, though often more subtle. It is not uncommon in some Protestant circles for sometimes otherwise orthodox preachers to persistently avoid all personal pronouns for the deity. Since "he" and "him" are deemed potentially offensive, "God" instead is cited repeatedly like rapid, repetitious fire from a Gatling gun. This semantic ploy, if it must be used, might be somewhat less grating if some traditional alternative names were also used, like the "Almighty," or simply "Lord." Some preachers say "God-God-God" without personal pronouns based on conviction, or imagined potential offense for a feminist in the congregation, or because a seminary demanded this practice. Some Mainline Protestant seminaries require "inclusive" language for all references to the deity. Ardent liberals will even avoid traditional Trinitarian language, substituting "Creator-Redeemer-Sustainer" for "Father-Son-Holy Ghost."
Christians and Jews worship a Spirit who is not a man or woman, though Christians of course believe that God did become man in Jesus Christ. Jewish and Christian Scriptures always refer to God in masculine terms, while sometimes metaphorically likening God's love to a hen protecting her chicks or a woman searching for a lost coin. God in neither Old or New Testament is ever referred to as "she" or "her." Some theologians speculate that, among other reasons, the transcendent God of the Jews was entirely distinct from the very gendered and sexualized pagan deities, some of which literally gave birth to creation. The Jewish God created by fiat, not birthing. Jesus called God "Father," and there is no scriptural reference of a Heavenly Mother. An unauthorized United Methodist hymnal supplement of 10 years ago included hymns titled: "I Am Your Mother," "Mothering God You Gave Me Birth," and "Womb of Life," benignly intertwined with more traditional anthems like "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," the Navy's traditional hymn. There's no evidence that any of these "Mother" hymns has gained a wide following.
The rising new Evangelical Left is anxious to repeat many of the same mistakes that took Mainline Protestantism from the center of America's religious to the sideline. So it was inevitable that some Evangelical Left voices would encourage feminist friendly gender-neutral God language. A recent commentary in Jim Wallis' Sojourners comes from a woman Presbyterian minister, who apparently learned "inclusive language" at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. "Using inclusive language makes room for the diversity of God's people to feel equally valued, included, acknowledged, and invited to participate in God's community," she explains, as she struggled to overcome her conservative Southern Baptist background. She recalled attending a feminist theological conference where "Godde" was offered as a compromise between God and "Goddess." Apparently this was advocated by older women, while the younger women were somewhat discomfited. Currently based at a "diverse" San Francisco church, this minister now feels a "connection with God as Mother, Bosom, and Nurturer."
We can wish her well. But a deity who lacks personal pronouns, or who is gender fluid, is ultimately depersonalized and distant, defeating the purpose of Judaism and Christianity to relate fallen humanity to a very personal, redemptive deity whom Jesus asked be called "Father." While the gender-neutral or feminine versions of God touted by remnant feminist theologians are supposed to be "inclusive," in fact their appeal is mostly limited to small, liberal urban audiences. Growing Christianity, Protestant or Catholic, in America, or around the world, is not commonly singing "I Am Your Mother," or looking to "Godde."
My late predecessor Diane Knippers, a sharp critic of feminist theology, once encountered famed "Feminist Mystique" author Betty Friedan, who told her she had once asked her own rabbi why she, though obviously a liberal, was so uncomfortable with the idea of goddess. "Because you are a Jew," he succinctly replied. Christians and Jews believe they worship a deity who reveals His own identity, not one who is randomly invented by His adherents. Such a deity seems to inspire more widespread and lasting devotion than His "inclusive" alternatives.


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ESPN Jason Stark's latest says the list of teams for a premium closer like Francisco Rodriguez is short. The Mets, Indians, Brewers, Rangers, Tigers and maybe the Cardinals are all looking to fill voids at closer.
The other teams are not interested in spending a lot of money, especially for K-Rod because there are so many closers available at this point. He lists besides K-Rod, there is Brian Fuentes, Trevor Hoffman, Kerry Wood, Jason Isringhausen, Brandon Lyon, Eric Gagne and Juan Cruz.
There's also Chad Cordero, who is coming off shoulder surgery and is iffy for Opening Day. Also, potentially available on the trade market: J.J. Putz, Bobby Jenks, George Sherrill, Huston Street, Jose Valverde and Matt Capps.
He also says that teams are cutting back and using in-house alternatives. For example, the Angels are probably going with a rookie, Jose Arredondo. The Padres let Trevor Hoffman go so they can make way for Heath Bell. The Cardinals let Jason Isringhausen go and might go with either Chris Perez or Jason Motte, if they decide not to sign a closer.
All which makes you think that the price for K-Rod and others to drop. Stark has heard rumblings about K-Rod getting offered 4 years between $50-55 Million. But the Mets don't want to offer four years to any closer and according to one source it was called, "The Deal Breaker"
The same source says he was told that, despite talk that the Mets prefer to fill that role with a free agent, if Seattle were to put J.J. Putz on the market, he would go to the top of the Mets' list.
Jason Stark: K-Rod Rumblings, 4 years $50-55 Million???
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Aranesp/Epogen has the active ingredient darbepoetin alfa. It is used to treat anemia and muscular dystrophy. Commonly reported side effects of Aranesp include anemia, pain, aplasia pure red cell, fatigue, and hemoglobin decrease. Aranesp differs from endogenous erythropoietin (EPO) by containing two more N-linked oligosaccharide chains. It is an erythropoiesis-stimulating 165-amino acid protein.
Recently it was reported to the FDA, that patients under Aranesp have anaphylaxis incidents of 0.48%, more than double compared to those injected with Omontys's 0.2%.
The only difference between the two drugs is that AMGEN, who markets Aranesp, clearly outlines in their label HOW to treat anaphylaxis and the symptoms associated with it. AFFYMAX did not outline the proper treatment guidelines for OMONTYS and prior to the recall had no incidences of mortality associated with the use of OMONTYS due to allergic reactions.
Yahoo does not allow links in posts and occasionally deletes my posts altogether, but if you search the FDA website, look for the clinician information. Its a long read, approx 100 pages or so but there is anaphylaxis statistics, as i have provided above.
Sentiment: Hold
Like i have said in the past, i can not predict the future; however, I am anticipating a positive update within the next month.
1. AFFY has cleaned out its balance sheet,
2. AFFY has progressed rapidly with restructuring by significantly laying off majority of its workforce,
3. TAKEDA has taken full responsibility of the recall for OMONTYS
4. Collaboration with the FDA has been an ongoing process, since the recall
5. AMGEN is obviously threatened as it chose to do pharmacy kickbacks in order to promote their drug. AMGEN pain 24.9 million dollars to bury the allegations.
6. TAKEDA will buy out AFFY over AMGEN because TAKEDA wants the right to a drug with a $3-6 billion dollar a year potential.
7. I've been in medicine a long time and i did put my money where my mouth is. A drug that was FDA approved, cost over a billion dollars and 15 years worth of research will not be squandered.
I will either fall with all of the longs, highly unlikely or I will join in celebration, all of those who had the nerves of steel to hold on during this most stressful time.
In any event, please don't risk money you can't afford to lose. AFFY is still a very high risk stock and is a potential all or nothing at this point. GL to all my fellow longs
Sentiment: Hold
Keep up the good and honest predictions !!! Every time you post a message, it makes make believe more on holding on to AFFY shares until Affymax is bought by TAKEDA, even though it is a very high risk investment.
Sentiment: Hold
Raj - i am laughing here. Naturally, God Fraud is mute here! He is speeches! Why? He is a big mouth when he cuts and pastes his propaganda on this board, but to actually "think" he is deaf, dumb, and blind.
I hope we do celebrate. I am in one of the following locations where i own homes: Berkeley, CA, Port Townsend, WA - or St Paul, MN. Raj - where are you located??
Good Luck Longs - i think the tide will turn for us...
Very nice and factual post. Thanks Raj.
Sentiment: Strong Buy
Very interesting post Raj. Keep up the good work. I really hope they announce something positive soon. If they announce it pre market, we could be looking at an exploding pps. Fingers crossed.
We Affy longs need something that knocks the socks off the bashers and the shorts.
I must say that it's a very interesting post and probably the main reason why they initiated the recall. By now Takeda has an idea about the root cause of those death and will address them via the recall SOP. Takeda would never sign a licencing deal with Affy if they didn't believe that Omontys won't be back. They are probably working back and forth with the FDA for another REMS post reintroduction of Omontys.I would not exclude the possibility of a buyout from either Takeda or Amgen who has a good working relationship with Takeda and much more experience with this type of drug adverse events. It's a win-win for both cies. For the price it's up to Affy majors holders. We should have an update of the ongoing recall pretty soon.
Sentiment: Hold
interesting post .. thanks !!!
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Atomic Priesthoods, Thorn Landscapes, and Munchian Pictograms
How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.
As for the problem of actually getting these essentials across, the report proposes a system of redundancy—a fancy way of saying throw everything at the wall and hope that something sticks. Giant, jagged earthwork berms should surround the area. Dozens of granite message walls or kiosks, each 25 feet high, might present graphic images of human faces contorted with horror, terror, or pain (the inspiration here is Edvard Munch's Scream) as well as text in English, Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, Arabic, and Navajo explaining what's buried. This variety of languages, as Charles Piller remarked in a 2006 Los Angeles Times story, turns the monoliths into quasi-Rosetta stones. Three rooms—one off-site but nearby, one centrally located, and one underground—would serve as information centers with more detailed explanations of nuclear waste and its hazards, maps showing the location of similar sites around the world, and star charts to help intruders calculate the year the site was sealed. According to 1994 estimates, the whole shebang would cost about $68 million, but that's just a ballpark figure based on very incomplete data.
Proposals for the "earthworks" component demonstrate that the whole project of communicating with the future is really a creative assignment, more dependent on the imagination than on expertise. What'll really scare off 210th-century tomb raiders? The report proposes a "Landscape of Thorns" with giant obelisklike stones sticking out of the earth at odd angles. "Menacing Earthworks" has lightning-shaped mounds radiating out of a square. In "Forbidding Blocks," a Lego city gone terribly wrong, black, irregular stones "are set in a grid, defining a square, with 5-foot wide 'streets' running both ways. You can even get 'in' it, but the streets lead nowhere, and they are too narrow to live in, farm in, or even meet in."
The Sandia panelists were not the first to devise a several-thousand-year warning system. In the early 1980s, the semiotician and linguist Thomas Sebeok wrote a paper for the U.S. Office of Nuclear Waste Management titled "Communication Measures To Bridge Ten Millennia," which proposes a folkloric relay system to pass along information: "The legend-and-ritual, as now envisaged, would be tantamount to laying a 'false trail,' meaning that the uninitiated will be steered away from the hazardous site for reasons other than the scientific knowledge of the possibility of radiation and its implications; essentially, the reason would be accumulated superstition to shun a certain area permanently." Sebeok further suggested a Dan Brown-like "atomic priesthood" of physicists, anthropologists, semioticians and the like who would preserve the "truth."
Sebeok's concept for an artificial myth is, in a word, silly. Indeed, he acknowledges the shortcomings of the system himself: "Folklore specialists consulted have advised that they know of no precedent, nor could they think of a parallel situation, except the well-known, but ineffectual, curses associated with the burial sites (viz., pyramids) of some Egyptian Pharoahs." Given that even organic religious movements have trouble imparting site-specific information—scholars continue to debate whether Moses parted the Red Sea or the Reed Sea, a large lake close by—it's unlikely that eggheads could devise a myth haunting enough to turn the Carlsbad site into a permanent no-man's land.
We've seen this before—or, at least, we have on screen. In Alien, the crew of the Nostromo picks up a transmission from a derelict spacecraft. Only after deciding to investigate do they realize that the transmission is a warning signal. But by then it's too late; the Nostromo is well on its way to becoming a maternity ward for extraterrestrials. All the attention paid to the site seems as likely to encourage unwanted visitors as to ward them off, since surely future anthropologists, or just Mad Max dystopia types, will be curious to explore a spike field in the middle of the desert. The proposed systems are imaginative, but that's all. They depend, necessarily, on the intruders' willingness to decipher messages laboriously before simply acting—drilling to find oil, say, or precious metals.
There's also something oddly short-sighted about this far-sighted project. Radioactivity causes cancer and a host of other medical problems—that much is certain. But the report fails to note that we may find cures for these ailments in the next century or, perhaps, even earlier. In that case, should the EPA convene a new panel to communicate the most advanced chemotherapy technique? Ultimately the option of doing nothing—of leaving the site devoid of markers— seems like the most elegant solution of all. It may at first appear callous, lazy, and irresponsible, but at the very least, this relaxed approach is cheaper than erecting spiked granite monuments and building fancy information centers—not to mention commissioning additional panels to work out all the details.


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Muse at Target Center, 3/7/13
Photo by Tony Nelson
With Dead Sara
Target Center, Minneapolis
Thursday, March 7, 2013
When it came time for the finale last night at Target Center, Muse didn't leave anything to chance. Well, scratch that -- maybe a little bit: The high-definition LED screens that wrapped around the stage suddenly transformed into a giant roulette wheel, and -- whether it was scripted or not -- for a moment the set list hung in the balance. Then the ball landed: "Stockholm Syndrome."
As the band tore through "Stockholm's" nigh-on-metal riff, the Jumbotron-sized screens overhead began flashing and spinning, then rotating up and down with one another. Finally, as the Brits hit the song's climax, the screens lowered all the way down to the stage, until they'd surrounded the band and formed a pyramid, completely blocking them from view. The screens lit up with ominous images of eyes and men in suits.
And the song, with that, was over.
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Slideshow: Muse at Target Center, 3/7/13
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Everything about Muse's show last night was played out on the largest of scales. The set -- as could be expected of an arena show -- was lavish, with not only the aforementioned LED screens, but also three separate stage levels that included a runway. Drummer Dominic Howard was set up right in the middle of it all, his kit set on risers at center stage, and throughout the night there were lasers and smoke at almost every turn. Even the endless series of guitars had lights on the necks that glowed in the dark every time the house lights went down.
(Did we forget the sunglasses with the song lyrics on them? There were those, too. Oh hell, yes, there were.)
Photos by Tony Nelson
And the band itself delivered in kind. There were moments of calm scattered among the set list, but for the most part, Muse went flat-out for the entire hour and 40 minutes that they played. Just about every song, one way or another, not only rocked, but did so on an anthemic scale -- with Matthew Bellamy's big, finger-tapped guitar solos full of screaming distortion and whammy bar dives, or huge drum flourishes that swarmed the room with the snaps of Howard's double-bass pedal. This was a band with everything, and lots of it.
Which is what made some of the show's themes feel a little incongruous -- namely, the political rabble-rousing (which, however vague the message may have been, there was nonetheless plenty of). That massive finale during "Stockholm," for instance? Once the pyramid had formed and the song was over, the screens cut to scenes of people running through what looked like a war zone, before the band reemerged and finished off the main set with the dystopian warnings of "Uprising." Set against the ostentatiousness of everything surrounding it, the Orwellian specter rang a little hollow.
In fact, there were at least three overt references made to Wall Street during the night, including having stocks run along the screens as though on a ticker, and another that was a long close-up of a laughing businessman. Sometimes, too, the message felt a little mixed: Bellamy played a squealing rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner," an act of patriotic chutzpah (by an Englishman, no less) that prompted a sea of raised arms holding cellphones in the crowd, after which the band launched straight into the anti-corporate manifesto "Animals." ("Advertise/Franchise/Expand/Kill the competition," Bellamy chanted.) If nothing else, it was all rather unsubtle.
Photos by Tony Nelson
But that, in the end, was beside the point--or perhaps it was the point. Songs like "Animals" and "Uprising" or even "Knights of Cydonia" fit in perfectly alongside Muse's other songs, which, for the most part, were love songs. Of course, these love songs were no soft touch; these were songs of high drama, of conflict and wrongdoing. Bellamy sang about love as asphyxiation; as drowning; as madness. It might as well have been a battlefield.
Which, really, was how it all tied together. If the political songs had a rebellious, against-the-Man streak in them, then so too did the love songs. After Bellamy declared, in "Uprising," that "they will not control us" (the literal "they" not necessarily mattering), he then turned it inside-out on "Follow Me," promising, "I won't let them harm you." In either case, here were Muse not only as outsiders, but heroically, and romantically so. All the pyrotechnics and extravagance and showmanship were all there simply to reinforce the conviction.
Naturally, there was more than enough showmanship packed into the night, especially on the part of Bellamy, dressed sharply as he was in a sport coat with black and silver triangles, some faint stubble on his chin. There were fist pumps, prompts to the crowd to wave their hands or sing along, and more than several occasions where he dropped to his knees either to sing or tear off a guitar solo. His grand piano conveniently raised up out of the floor whenever it was time to start off a ballad.
But the cleverest touch came during "Undisclosed Desires," when Bellamy, having made his way to the uppermost level of the stage for the first (and as it turned out, only) time of the night, suddenly made the descent all the way down to floor level. There, accompanied by security guards, he walked past the audience, shaking their hands and singing, without losing his stride, "I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart."
Right then, the crowd probably would, indeed, have followed him anywhere.
Critic's Bias: They're so rich. I'm so jealous. (Not really. That would be unprofessional. *Coughs*)
The Crowd: Not quite full, but loving every minute of it.
Overheard in the Crowd: Does smelling weed count? Because there was actually a lot of that.
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Coldwell Banker Coastal Rivers Realty attends eventPublished 10:31pm Monday, March 11, 2013
TAKING THE SHOW ON THE ROAD: The Cypress Landing resident marketing team of Jack Menzie, Vivienne Afshari, Kathy Tuley and Bobby Clark, from Coldwell Banker Coastal Rivers Realty represented the community in McLean, Va., the weekend of Feb. 16-17. There were over 55 communities present from Delaware, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland and Arizona. North Carolina led the way with 20 different communities in attendance. Visitors attending the show included mostly couples who have been or are just beginning their planning process for an alternative type of living. Their presentation to each visitor included a discussion of the lifestyle advantages of our area as well as the many amenities we offer such as education, healthcare and entertainment.


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As experienced dog breeders of Boston Terrier's and having bred French Bulldogs & Miniature Dachshunds in the past, we know only to well that the world of dog breeding can be a complex one and that it sometimes does not always go according to to plan. And no matter how well organised and planned a litter is sometimes nature will throw a curve ball at you when you least expect it... We therefore recognised a need for various dog breeding services to be available here in the UK.
We are committed to promoting responsible dog breeding and ownership and we decided to set up Canine Scan And Chip a dedicated dog breeder service which includes dog pregnancy and post whelping scanning, a pet and puppy microchipping service, and puppy neonatal care equipment hire such as puppy incubators and oxygen concentrator hire. Over the years we have gradually expanded our services to include a full and partial whelping and puppy rearing service to include a inhouse or call out service, a mating assistance service which includes stud dog handling for a natural mating , sperm testing and Artificial Insemination services. Also we are now expanding our equipment hire to include Petnap Heat Pads, Margot The Dog Pens and the revolutionary Nurture Whelping Boxes.
Our main services are briefly outlined below and are completely confidential - for full details about our services and pricing info please visit our 'Services' Page by using the link above or below .
Dog Ultrasound Scanning Services - We offer a range of dog pregnancy, whelping and post whelping ultrasound scanning options. Aswell as a range of diagnostic ultrasound scans to take to your vet for analysis. We have attended a full comprehensive ultrasound scanning course and have very professional ultrasound equipment to ensure we can offer the best ultrasound scanning services to our clients as possible.
Pet & Puppy Microchipping Service - a microchipping service which is available to all breeders and pet owners to help encourage responsible dog breeding and ownership. We have attended a pet microchipping course and are fully qualified to microchip domestic animals.
Neonatal care Equipment Hire - We offer the facility to hire out puppy incubators and Portable oxygen generators. Neonatal care for puppies of flat faced breeds is often required and in our experience has been quite literally a life saver.
Pregnancy & Whelping Equipment Hire - We are now pleased to offer vital whelping equipment for hire including live puppy detectors which can be used during the later stages of pregnancy and during whelping to detect the heartbeats of unborn pups. We also are able to offer PetNap Heat Pads for hire which are a prefreable and far safer option to keep you newborn and young pups warm instead of using an over head chick brooder lamps which have to suspended above your whelping box and often end up over heating the bitch which is not ideal. We are working very hard to facilitate the hire of the amazing Nurture Whelping boxes which simply slot together in minutes and are made of a food safe material which has excellent thermal properties.Lastly we are able to hire out the Margot The Dog Pens which are made up of indivdual panels which slot together to make an excellent puppy run / pen.
Mating Assistance Services - From facilitating stud dog handling and training to achieve a natural mating to sperm collection and testing and Artificial Insemination services we are able to offer a complete mating professional assistance service to both experienced and inexperienced breeders to help them offer a professional stud service which helps to prevent failed matings and having to do free of charge return stud services.
Whelping Asssistance & Puppy Rearing Services - We appreciate that whelping can be a very stressful time and whelping and caring for puppies espcially pups of flat faced breeds can be exhasuting and not something everyone is capable of doing.. Therefore due to many requests we have decided to offer you the benefit of our experience and equipemt by offering either a full or partial whelping assistance service and can tailor our service to suit your needs. The partial whelping service involves us coming to you to whelp your bitch and being on stand by. The full whelping service involves us having your bitch with us to whelp and treating her as we would one of our own dogs. we either offer just the whelping service on it's own or we can care for and raise your pups for a period of up to three weeks decided by you. We have found this service very popular and gives your pups the best chance of survival as we have 15 years whelping and dog breeding experience and should complications occur during whelping we know exactly when to call on the services of our own fully qualified flat faced breed specialist vet (who is on hand to assist us should your bitch need veternary assistance at any time day or night).
Dog breeding is essentially dealing with nature and sometimes no matter how much you try or how much experience you have some puppies can not be saved but in our experience it is always worth trying... Obviously the more you breed the more you see and experience and we truely believe you never stop learning and that no one can possibly know everthing and anyone who professes to "know everything" should be avoided. We will always do our best to help and advise where we can but we are not vets and the advise and help we give is not designed to replace the advise and medical assistance of a trained vet.
We all should be fully aware of the risks we take when we mate our dogs and that things can and do go wrong, although it is not common place to loose the Mother or the whole litter of pups or worse the Mother and the whole litter of pups, we have to remember that it can and does happen from time to time. Dog breeding is certianly NOT a way to earn "quick cash" and we recommend all potential dog breeders to properly research and think it through before any mating occurs. We can contacted at any time for help and advice and don't mind helping anyone who has a passion to do it correctly with the welfare of their bitch, pups and breed at heart.
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