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Medizone International, Inc. Management
Edwin G. Marshall – Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Edwin G. Marshall became Chairman of the Board in June, 1997, following a successful hostile proxy takeover. He was additionally appointed Chief Executive Officer in April 1998.
Mr. Marshall attended the College of Marin, with a double major in business and fire science. From 1964 to 1978, Mr. Marshall worked in the fire service in a city with a major chemical industrial complex, leaving with the rank of Captain. He then pursued various business interests including ownership of a real estate brokerage firm and part-ownership of a number of other small businesses in other fields. He has been a private investor in real estate, precious metals, and stocks since 1973.
Michael E. Shannon, M.A.,M.Sc.,M.D. – President & Director of Medical Affairs, Board Member
Dr. Shannon received his medical degree from Queen's University in Canada, which included advanced training in surgery and sports medicine. He also holds post-graduate degrees in neurochemistry and physiology. He has been actively engaged in applied medical research within these areas for over 27 years.
He served in the Canadian Forces for 31 years retiring at the rank of Commodore (Brigadier General equivalent) as Deputy Surgeon General for Canada. During the first Gulf War, Dr. Shannon served as the senior medical liaison officer for all of the Canadian forces.
In 1996 he assumed responsibilities within Health Canada for re-organizing the Canadian blood system. Working with both the provincial and federal governments he oversaw the development of a new corporate entity dedicated exclusively to the management of blood services in Canada. He was then appointed Director General for the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, a position he held for three years.
In December 2000, Dr. Shannon left the Canadian federal government to pursue a new career in industry. In that capacity he simultaneously directed a phase III clinical trial in Canada, the United States and Great Britain for an artificial blood substitute product. Following completion of that work he was asked to accept a special assignment with the Canadian Federal Government Auditor General's office. His assignment being to conduct a cost benefit analysis of all government sponsored pharmacare programs and make recommendations directly to the Parliament of Canada. His assignment and presentation to Parliament was completed in November 2004.
Dr. Shannon then served on a special assignment to the Canadian Public Health Agency (Center for Disease Control equivalent in the United States) as Senior Medical Advisor. His responsibility was to direct the rebuilding of the Emergency Medical Response Capacity for Canada. In this regard and under his direction, the largest emergency medical response exercise in the history of the country, involving the overnight construction of a mobile hospital, hundreds of doctors and thousands of patients, was successfully held in Toronto in December of 2007.
Dr. Shannon has been actively engaged in medical bio-oxidative (O3 based), research since 1987 and was directly responsible for the first human clinical trial to have ever been approved in North America which examined the efficacy of O3 delivered via minor autohemotherapy in the treatment of AIDS. He was also responsible for several primate studies utilizing O3 involving scientists from various departments within the Canadian Federal Government, as well as senior investigators from Medizone International and Cornell University.
Dr. Shannon has served as the Senior Medical Advisor to Medizone International since 2002. In August of 2008 he accepted a position on the Board of Directors of Medizone International and assumed responsibility for medical affairs. In October 2008, he was additionally appointed the President of the Canadian Foundation for Global Health.
Mr. Hoyt became a director in January 2002. Mr. Hoyt is a graduate of the University of Indiana, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Over the past 37 years, he has become a recognized leader in the life insurance industry, working as a career agent for American United Life Insurance Company. Mr. Hoyt's clients have ranged from large public companies to small private businesses.
In recent years he has spent most of his time in public speaking and relationship building in the insurance industry. His previous work experience includes seven years with Merrill Lynch as well as serving as the Chief Executive for the Chamber of Commerce in three Indiana communities.
From June 1996 until June 2010, Mr. Hoyt was the Chairman of the Board of Biological Systems, Inc., a privately held corporation involved with bio-cleansing remediation systems for animal fats and oil-based materials. He also serves on the Development Board of the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center (since January 2000) and is the Chairman of the Board of the St. Vincent Foundation in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Thomas (Tommy) E. Auger – Chief Financial Officer
Tommy Auger has over 17 years of financial accounting, operational and management experience with growth businesses.
He has worked in public accounting at the international firms of Deloitte, Andersen and KPMG where he provided businesses with accounting, financial statement audit and business consulting services. He has also gained significant experience working with SEC registrants and required filings, including IPO and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr Auger's career has seen him service mid to large-sized public and private companies in the bio-technology, real estate, hospitality and entertainment, high-technology, trucking and professional service industries.
Tommy graduated from Oklahoma City University with a Master's of Science in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is currently actively involved in the Utah Association of Certified Public Accounting (UACPA) and was instrumental in developing the Pronet Council, which helps accounting students throughout Utah.
The UACPA and other volunteer church and civic organizations often call upon Tommy for "guest speaking" roles.
Outside of work, he loves spending time with his wife and children. He also enjoys participating in and/or watching sporting events.

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Windows 7 M3 shellstyle for XP by leosssWatch
©2008-2016 leosss
Windows 7 M3 shellstyle for XP visual styles
What is the XP Visual Style you have used in the screenshot? So far I couldn't find a nice "Windows 7 Basic" theme for XP
I've seen this shellstyle before but it's vista look-a-like so can you give me the link of the shellstyle based on this shellstyle?
sorry, i dont understando you
good i like it
what visualstyle is that???
Please pardon my ignorance, but how do I install this shellStyle?
How to use shellstyle?
Looks great, very well done, mate!
does this fix that problem when the screen is bigger than 1024x768?
i hope
For me it doesn't... To work on bigger screens, the background of the shellstyle (BITMAP 120) should be longer (2000px instead of 1024).
lol, i just redownloaded the xasda and it's working alright on my screen when maximized, so i think i'll be keeping the other shellstyle^^
nice to know you're still alive
se vemos loko
nice to know you're still alive
se vemos loko
I just don`t know what to say, looks great, elegance and simple.
Great shellstyle!
Hey, they look great, thanks Leo.
Now if you would fix the startmenu of MiVista 1.1...
Now if you would fix the startmenu of MiVista 1.1...


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As one of the top commodities traded on an international basis, coffee gets a lot of positive and negative press. It figures substantially into every feasible area of debate, from human rights to economics and politics, and of course, especially here in Seattle, environmental concerns. In all of these things, there is a lot of praise to be given, and there also always seems to be a "dark side" to the issue.
In 2007, students at the University of Washington started a campaign under the banner "Sustainability is Sexy," to address one particular aspect of coffee's dark side: the environmental impact of disposable coffee cups. For the most part, the "to go" coffee cups so many of us enjoy our coffee-on-the-go from will probably never be recycled, but will end their lives as garbage. Early estimates for how many paper coffee cups would be used in 2010 put numbers around 23 billion. It doesn't take a degree in Environmental Science to realize that, if most of those 23 billion paper cups are going in the trash... well, that's an awful lot of trash. (Not to mention, the downfall of an approximate 9.4 million paper-producing trees.)In response, campaigns such as the Sustainability is Sexy campaign set out to reduce the number of paper cups used by the coffee industry, through increased awareness, as well as incentives for coffee drinkers who provide their own, reusable coffee mugs. As you are no doubt aware, there are many options for reusable coffee mugs. And as you can no doubt imagine, there is an environmental impact pro/con list for the use of each different kind. It can get confusing. And I can't pretend to have the answers.
But, through extensive Google-ing of the topic, I can provide you with four handy tips to make your daily fix more environmentally friendly. (I could probably provide you with five, but would hate to encroach on the Top Five column's territory. So four it is.)
4. Just say no to Styrofoam. Styrofoam, it turns out, is even less biodegradable than Twinkies, and will essentially sit in a landfill for all eternity. With the possible exception of office coffee, we here in the Northwest don't really serve our coffee with polystyrene. So that's an easy one. And an easy one to fix if you work in an office guilty of the offense.
3. If you plan to sit in the coffee shop while you enjoy your beverage, get a "for here" mug. Not only does this save a paper cup, but it affords you a whole new set of criteria by which to grade a coffee shop. Some of the coffee shops around town have fabulous mug selections. And some of them really really don't.
2. When you know you're going to be headed out the door as soon as you get your drink, try to bring a reusable mug of some kind. But do yourself a favor, and treat the choosing of this mug like the investment that it is. Make sure you get one from which you enjoy drinking your coffee. If it's a hassle, or it drips, or it tends to fall over, or it's ugly, or it isn't well-insulated, or you're ashamed of its corporate branding, or it's difficult to drink out of, or impossible to clean, etc. etc. etc., you will be substantially more likely to forget it at home. Get a travel mug that adds to your coffee experience, not one that detracts from it! Then, make sure you find out if your favorite cafes offer you any kind of pat on the back for your environmental efforts (such as a small discount on your order).
1. Above all else, no matter what, no matter how passionate you are about the environment, no matter how badly you want your $0.10 mug discount, no matter, no matter, no matter, do NOT go the Colin Beavan route. It was with considerable chagrin that I happened upon his January 2009 post from the No Impact Man blog today, which actually promoted the re-use of lightly-used coffee cups found in the garbage of your local coffee haunt.
I don't care how much you love trees, that is just gross.


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The market has taken quite a beating since its April 29 high, and
this has dragged the good down with the bad. Volatile penny stocks
are especially susceptible to this kind of sell-off. However, they
also have the potential to rebound fast and furiously when the
market turns back around.
Now, when we say "penny stocks," we're not talking about
micro-cap pink sheet or OTC stocks that cost only a few cents per
share. Yes, those are true penny stocks, but they are much too
risky to make good investments. Rather, the penny stocks we
recommend are a little bigger (read: safer), yet all the names on
this list still trade for less than $3 per share. However, they
still have the ability to deliver spectacular gains when the market
turns around.
Here are 11 penny stocks to buy:
Gaming company
Nevada Gold & Casinos
) finances, develops, owns and operates gaming projects. The penny
stock is probably most well known for owning Colorado Grande Casino
in Cripple Creek, Colo.
In the last year, UWN stock is up 47%, compared to a gain of 23%
for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. More recently, UWN stock has
jumped 24% in the past 90 days. Looking at UWN's last income
statement, this penny stock posted a quarterly revenue growth of
153%, year-over-year.
Premier Exhibitions Inc.
) is engaged with the creation, design, marketing and presenting of
educational and entertaining exhibitions around the world. The
company's exhibition products are displayed primarily in exhibition
centers, museums, retail locations and other venues with high
traffic, including the Luxor Hotel and Casino.
In the last 12 months, this penny stock has climbed 20%. With a
52-week range of $1.01 to $2.50, this penny stock could be a good
choice for those looking for high reward potential.
International casino entertainment company
Century Casinos Inc.
) has gained 19% since last June. Century Casinos develops and
operates gaming establishments and related lodging and restaurant
facilities in parts of Canada and Colorado.
Last quarter, the gaming company posted quarterly revenue growth
of 21%, year-over-year. Concerning earnings, analysts are expecting
CNTY to post an EPS of three cents this quarter, compared to last
year when the company just broke even. Add in last quarter's
quarterly of earnings growth of 180%, year-over-year, and CNTY is a
penny stock worth buying.
MTR Gaming Group Inc.
) owns and operates gaming properties in West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. MNTG is also the owner of Racelinebet.com,
which offers online and telephone wagering on horse races.
Year-to-date, this gaming company has watched its stock value
rise 29%, compared to smaller gains by the broader markets. Looking
at earnings, analysts are projecting a jump in EPS to 3 cents this
quarter, after the company posted an EPS of 2-cent loss this time
last year. Currently, MNTG is trading at more than double its
52-week low of $1.30.
Designer, manufacturer, marketer, seller and distributer of
videogame accessories,
Mad Catz Interactive Inc.
) is another penny stock worth keeping an eye on. The penny stock
is up 41% year-to-date, and the past 52 weeks, MCZ is up an
incredible 333%.
Mad Catz's last income statement was littered with positive
numbers, including a quarterly revenue growth of 91% and a
quarterly earnings growth of 73%, year-over-year.
Emerson Radio Corp.
) has made its name designing, sourcing, importing, marketing,
selling and licensing various houseware and consumer electronic
products. Based in New Jersey, the company works primarily with
microwaves, video products, alarm clocks, stereos and telephones,
among other products.
The company posted a net profit margin of 8% last quarter.
Looking at its last income statement, MSN posted a quarterly
earnings growth of 23%, year-over-year. In the last 12 months, the
penny stock has gained 29%. With a 52-week range of $1.57 to $2.96,
add MSN to your list of stocks to buy.
Sirius XM Radio Inc.
) is a stock that is usually very popular among penny stock
fanatics. The radio stock offers music, sports, news, talk,
entertainment, traffic and weather channels in the United States
for a subscription fee.
SIRI stock has jumped an impressive 126% since last June, and
24% since January. Earnings wise, experts are projecting a jump of
2 cents in EPS this quarter, compared to the EPS posted last year.
Last quarter's quarterly revenue growth of 9% and quarterly
earnings growth of 88%, year-over-year, are also strong indicators
that this is a penny stock worth buying.
Diversified international merchandising and marketing services
SPAR Group Inc.
) provides merchandising and other marketing services to
manufacturers, distributors and retailers worldwide. Based in New
York, the company works with companies in 11 countries.
Since the start of 2011, SGRP stock is up an impressive 43%,
compared to smaller gains by the broader markets. In its last
income statement, SPAR Group posted an astounding quarterly
earnings growth of 603%, year-over-year, easily the best on this
list. The penny stock also reported quarterly revenue growth of
25%, year-over-year.
Envoy Capital Group Inc.
), is an international consumer and retail branding company, and a
merchant banking and financial services company.
This penny stock is one of the biggest gainers on our list,
rising 110% in the past six months. Looking in the shorter term,
this penny stock has gained 19% in the last 30 days. Buy this penny
stock now as it trades below its 52-week high of $2.18.
Manufacturer, distributer, retailer and seller of sports licensed
Dreams Inc.
) also deals with sports memorabilia and acrylic display cases. The
company is known for operating retail stores and a websites for
selling its memorabilia as well.
In the last year, DRJ stock has gained 45%, compared to smaller
gains by the broader markets. Earnings wise, DRJ stock has
outperformed earnings estimates for four consecutive quarters. The
penny stock also posted a quarterly revenue growth of 42% in its
last income statement. Buy this penny stock with a 52-week range of
$1.17 to $3.18.
Pizza Inn Inc.
) operates a chain of buffet style pizza restaurant and
delivery/carry out style restaurants and express restaurants. As of
June 2010, Pizza Inn owned 312 restaurants both domestically and
In the last 12 months, PZZI stock has climbed 22%, and the chain
is up 19% since the start of 2011. Looking at its last income
statement, the company posted quarterly earnings growth of 22% and
quarterly revenue growth of 5%. PZZI is trading just below its
52-week high of $2.41, and should be considered by penny stock
investors and pizza enthusiasts alike.
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Thank you to MullenLowe for their work on this great PSA. April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Please Hang up and Drive.
Responding to that phone buzz is just as dangerous. Stop #distracteddriving.
Safe Roads Alliance has partered with We Save Lives and its founder, Candace Lightner (also founder of MADD) in the Crash Coalition: Drop the "A" Word. It is an effort to get American's to stop using the word "accident" in reference to roadway incidents.
Crashes are almost always the result of driver error, poor decisions, negligent behavior and often crimes such as drunk, drugged and distracted driving. These events are wholly preventable, and should not be called "accidents".
Prevalent use of the word "accident" allows people to avoid responsibility for their role in crashes. Further, it allows drunk, drugged, distracted and negligent drivers the connotation of innocense.
For more information, please check out our blog or our web site.
The sad fact is that Massachusetts pays millions of dollars more in healthcare dollars each year simply because one quarter of us are not wearing seat belts. Massachusetts is embarrassingly near the bottom in seatbelt usage, ranking 48th out of 50 states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us that nationwide, 85 percent of us are buckling up, and in many states, more than ninety percent of drivers wear seat belts—resulting in fewer fatalities and injuries, and significant healthcare cost savings.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says Massachusetts' low belt usage costs the state an estimated $170 million annually in medical, property, and lost productivity costs. If Massachusetts were to boost seat belt use to 85 percent, we would save $55 million per year in health insurance costs alone.The national highway fatality rate is the lowest it's been in 60 years, largely due to safer cars coupled with a gradual but dramatic increase in seat belt use during those years. The CDC reported last week a decline of more than 15 percent in non-fatal vehicle crash injuries from 2001 to 2009 – a period during which seat-belt use has increased."A simple step that most drivers and passengers in the United States already take—buckling their seat belts—cuts in half the chance of being seriously injured or killed in a crash," said CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH. "Yet, about one in seven adults do not wear a seat belt on every trip. If everyone in the vehicle buckled up every time, we could further reduce one of the leading causes of death."Statistical evidence indicates that passage of a primary seat belt law in Massachusetts would boost usage to the national average of 85%. As of 2008, one in three U.S. adults lives in states with only secondary enforcement laws. Residents of these states account for 49 percent of the unbelted drivers and passengers on U.S. roads. Nineteen states do not have primary enforcement seat belt laws – including the Commonwealth.Massachusetts can benefit greatly from a primary seat belt law. Those who claim that opting not to wear a belt harms no one but themselves are wrong. Unbelted crashes cost all of us in the form of higher insurance fees, lost productivity, and most of all, through the heavy emotional toll that these needless deaths take on family, friends, and the community.The absolute most important thing you can do to stay safe in your car is to wear your seat belt. This is a fact. No matter what your opinion is about the law, it is simply fact.Safe Roads Alliance supports the effort in Massachuset to pass a primary seat belt law. Those who claim that opting not to wear a belt harms no one but themselves are wrong. Unbelted crashes cost all of us in the form of higher insurance fees, lost productivity, and most of all, through the heavy emotional toll that these needless deaths take on family, friends, and the community.If you support this effort, please "like" our Facebook page "I Support a Primary Seat Belt Law in Massachusetts".
Safe Roads Alliance has developed The Parent's Supervised Driving Program to improve teen driver safety. The premise is simple: Parents have tremendous influence on teen driving behavior, particularly during the required supervised driving phase of the driver's training process. A recent study from the AAA Foundation found that parents are lacking the resources, knowledge and strategies to provide the optimal driving guidance to their teens.
Despite their best intentions, parents do not always:
a) model best driving behavior themselves b) supervise teens in a variety of driving conditions and circumstances c) stick with active teaching long enough for their teens to learn "higher order" skills such as looking ahead, detecting dangers, or anticipating the actions of other drivers.
As a consequence teens are too often ill prepared for the variety of conditions they face. This results in teens making poor decisions once the license is granted and they are driving alone, without supervision.
The Parent's Supervised Driving Program addresses these needs with a clear, step-by-step sequence of lessons created by the nation's leading driver education experts. The Program reflects the best practices for learning basic, as well as higher order, driving skills.
Visit the The Parent's Supervised Driving Program website to download a copy of the guide as either a PDF or for your e-reader.
The Program offers a mobile app called RoadReadyTM as part of its national effort to reduce teen crashes. RoadReady offers parents a tool to log the time they spend teaching their permitted teen to drive. Optimized for iOS7, RoadReady tracks logged drive times against the state Graduated Drivers Licensing (GDL) requirement for parents and teens to drive together for 30-70 hours before teens receive their driver's license. RoadReady's functionality offers parents an easy, efficient way to guarantee their teen receives the most experience behind-the-wheel, including allowing parents to:
RoadReady also offers a distraction-free supervised driving experience – users can put the phone away while driving and resume the app experience once they park.
Visit the RoadReady website for more information and to download the app.
The Parent's Supervised Driving Program is sponsorship supported and currently provided by DMV and state partners' licensing agencies to every teen learner's permit recipient at no cost to the state or to the parents.
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Sonnenbatterie announced an all-in-one residential PV and storage system for $10,645. The price includes a 2 kilowatt-hour eco 2 Sonnenbatterie battery, a German-made PV panel, an inverter, an intelligent control system and 19 percent sales tax (called value added tax or VAT in Europe). The only cost not included is installation, since this varies according to location. Philipp Schröder, Sonnenbatterie's managing director, told GTM a "low-end" installation cost could be in the region of $745, including VAT.
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SunEdison Signs 6.2 Megawatt Solar Power Deal With L.A. County
SunEdison Inc. has signed 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Los Angeles County for 6.2 MW of solar energy. The electricity will be used for nine government facilities. SunEdison will build solar parking canopies at many of the locations. "By signing a long-term agreement with guaranteed pricing, L.A. County will save millions of dollars while dramatically reducing its exposure to rising utility rates," says Sam Youneszadeh, SunEdison's regional general manager of its western U.S. solar business.
Rising Sun Solar Installs First JuiceBox Energy Storage System In Hawaii
SEIA Solar Newsletter | Nov. 24, 2015
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Standard Solar Completes Construction On One Of Maryland's Largest Retail Garage-Top Solar Canopies
Standard Solar completed installation of a 265kW garage-top solar canopy for developer Federal Realty Investment Trust. The seven-level, 566 parking space garage is part of Pike & Rose, the developer's new mixed-use residential, retail and office project in Rockville, Maryland. The 855-panel array, expected to produce 226,500 kWh a year, will offset approximately 30 percent of the energy required to power the garage and the multiple electric vehicle charging stations.
California Leaders Press Forward on Climate Action
Under the California Climate Leadership initiative, State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León, Senators Ben Hueso, Mark Leno, Fran Pavley and Bob Wieckowski, with the support of leaders from the business, labor, public health, consumer advocacy, and environmental communities, have announced a package of bills that would help meet Governor Brown's climate change objectives by setting clean energy goals, divesting in fossil fuels and spurring growth in the clean energy economy. Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement applauding the initiative:
New DOE Report Shows Solar Growth Spurred by Loan Program
WASHINGTON, DC – In a new report, the Department of Energy (DOE) has highlighted the success of the Loan Programs Office's solar projects, saying that since it financed its first five utility-scale projects in 2011, 17 additional projects have come on line without the use of loan guarantees. The report coincides with the dedication ceremony of Desert Sunlight, a 550-megawatt (MW) solar project in Riverside County, California.
California Ramps Up Solar Thermal Program
WASHINGTON, DC – In a move that will increase the use of solar heating in California, the state's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has increased the incentive caps in California Solar Initiative's (CSI) Solar Thermal Program for multifamily, commercial, and pool heating systems. Applauding the decision, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President and CEO Rhone Resch issued the following statement:
Sustainable Energy Factbook Shows Huge Growth in Solar
WASHINGTON, DC – Pointing to huge growth in the U.S. solar industry, the 2015 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook, produced for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, was released today. In response to the report, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President Rhone Resch said:
SEIA Applauds Proposal to Make Solar ITC Permanent
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Calling it "a major investment in America's future," Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), today applauded a proposal included in President Obama's fiscal 2016 budget request that would make the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) permanent, similar to other existing tax credits. Solar energy is an American success story. Since first being enacted in 2006 under a Republican administration – and at SEIA's strong urging – the solar ITC has been a tremendous boon to both the U.S. economy and our environment.
Trina Connects Two-Thirds Of 300 MW Solar Plant In China
Chinese vertically integrated solar company Trina Solar has confirmed that it has connected two-thirds of its Yunnan solar farm to the grid, surpassing 200 MW this week having added 133 MW in the third quarter alone.
GRID Alternatives Project Provides Solar Power For San Diego Troops
A collaborative project involving GRID Alternatives San Diego, San Diego Habitat for Humanity, and Willis Allen Real Estate, has given solar power to eight military veteran families this year.
SunLink Corporation Installs 270 kW Solar PV Rooftop System In California
SunLink Corporation and RA Power & Light have completed another successful commercial rooftop solar installation – a new 270 kW system at the Aethercomm facility in Carlsbad, California. Solar developer and EPC RA Power & Light leveraged years of expertise in commercial solar together with the rapid installation advantages of SunLink's Precision-Modular RMS ballasted mounting system to complete the project three weeks ahead of schedule.
Clenergy Provides 1.7 MW Mounting System For Australia's First Commercial Diesel-PV Hybrid Powered Mine
RBI Solar Partnered With Conti On PSE&G Landfill Solar Project
RBI Solar has supplied the racking for the 11.18MW-dc Kinsley Solar Farm in Deptford, New Jersey.


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Ras Kass x Doc Hollywood ft. Jackie Chan - Arrested Developments (Hands Up)
Update: Click "Watch" above to peep the freshly-released video for Arrested Developments (Hands Up), directed by Louie Rubio and produced by Lex Larson.
Yes, you read that right: on Arrested Developments, the latest leak off their Booth-sponsored collaborative set, Cali rhymesayer Ras Kass and beatsmith/singer duo Doc Hollywood are joined by none other than Jackie Chan. Granted, the kung-fu legend is only present in sampled form, but the song itself, which finds Kass waxing gangsterish over his production partner's bombastic brass grooves, is so dope it's hard to complain. For more, check out the collaborators' Spit No Evil LP, available now for free streaming and download in the Booth.
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The Man Who Knew Bin Laden
Hart, Jeffrey, The American Conservative
The Man Who Knew Bin Laden [Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, Michael Scheuer, Free Press, 384 pages]
A BIZARRE, much discussed event took place during the May 2007 South Carolina debate among Republican contenders for the presidency. Congressman Ron Paul asserted that the motivation for the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington had been our foreign policy: "Have you ever read the reasons why they attacked us? They attacked us because we've been over there..." Rudy Giuliani answered as if amazed: "That is an extraordinary statement. ... I don't think I have heard that before, and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11."
After the debate, Paul, accompanied by foreign-policy expert Michael Scheuer, held a press conference in which he sardonically offered Giuliani "a reading list" that included Scheuer's book Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.
Giuliani was then a major contender for the presidency, while Paul was given no chance at all. Most Americans watching the exchange would probably have agreed with Giuliani, who was wrong, and considered Ron Paul absurd, when he was right. I would also guess that most of the audience was as ignorant as Giuliani in thinking that bin Laden attacked us because we are a democracy, because our women have rights, or because we aren't Muslims. Such ignorance may be universal.
Michael Scheuer is an essential educator. Indeed, no one can read Scheuer and doubt that he knows what he is talking about. He is a CIA veteran who headed the bin Laden unit According to SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, "One of the reasons for [Scheuer's] leaving [the agency] was that Porter Goss, the G.W. Bush appointee who replaced George J. Tenet as CIA director, sent out a memo just after the November 2004 elections stating that the CIA's job is to support the president, which caused consternation within the agency."
As an aside, I have had a similar experience of the Bush administration's recoil from professional competence, hi 2005,1 received a phone call from the White House personnel office. Would I be interested in serving on the National Council on the Arts? Yes. What are my qualifications? Well, I served two six-year terms on the National Council on the Humanities-appointed first by Nixon, then by Reagan-the only person in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities to have done so. Also, I have written widely on art as well as literature. I have been a professor of English at Columbia and at Dartmouth. Very good, said the phone. And you don't have to answer this, and it really doesn't matter, but do you support the president? I answered yes, "I support the president the way the rope supports the hanged man." I never heard from the White House again.
Scheuer's expertise is on full display in his writing. His well-documented and often convincing argument is that Osama bin Laden's motivation for a "defensive jihad" against the United States arises from the following sources:
* American troops on the Arabian Peninsula, with its sacred cities of Mecca, where Mohammed was born, and Medina, where he established the first Muslim state.
* American support for corrupt tyrannies, as in Saudi Arabia and Egypt
* American theft of Arab oil, which is to say, buying it at lower cost than is justifiable.
* Israeli occupation of Palestine, including Jerusalem, and unqualified U.S. support for Israel.
* The American invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, with the consequent slaughter of thousands of Muslims. (Iraq is considered sacred territory because it was the site of the Caliphate for half a millennium.)
* Aggression against Muslims worldwide, as in Somalia, Timor, the Philippines. (These last two can hardly be blamed on the United States.)
* Cultural aggression by the West through television, the Internet, and other means of mass communication. …


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Great later grooves from Average White Band – a real gem from the point when the group was settling nicely into a mellow soul vein! By this point, the combo wisely realized that they couldn't keep things going forever as a funky group – so they laid back and fell into their second strongest suit – the kind of mellow stepping rhythms that sparkled nicely between the bigger cuts on earlier records, produced to perfection here with a shimmeringly soulful feel! The album's got a mature feel, and the lyrics are often understated and well-balanced – no easy crossover soul or adult contemporary cliches – just the kind of warmth the band was always known best for. Titles include "Into The Night", "Our Time Has Come", "Catch Me", "For You For Love", "Help is On The Way", "If Love Only Lasts For One Night", and "Shine". (Includes the printed inner sleeve. Cover has a cut corner, and two stickers.) © 1996-2016, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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Music from the Americas: Works by Pitomberia, Muczynski, Wilder, Valjean / Lieurance Wind Quintet
1 CD / Summit Records / 2011-11-08Works: Liduino Pitomberia: Suite Hermetia, for woodwind quintet, Op. 95; Robert Muczynski: Quintet for Winds, Op.45; Alec Wilder: Quintet for woodwinds no 2; Paul Valjean: Dance Suite, for woodwind quintet;...
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Ensemble: Lieurance Wind Quintet
As the Lieurance Woodwind Quintet turns 63 years old, they have taken on the task of examining music written by composers since their inception. The...continue...
John Harbison: The First Four String Quartets / Lydian String Quartet
1 CD / Centaur / 2009-09-03Works: John Harbison: Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 2; Quartet for Strings no 3; Quartet for Strings no 4
Ensemble: Lydian String Quartet
The Lydian String Quartet are professors of the practice of music at Brandeis. During the past 27 years, their exquisite artistry has inspired worldwide critical...continue...
Echo 20/21 American Contemporaries / Emerson String Quartet
1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2009-04-02Works: John Harbison: Quartet for Strings no 2; Richard Wernick: Quartet for Strings no 4; Gunther Schuller: Quartet for Strings no 3
"The Emerson Quartet... serve all three composers with characteristically magnificent dedictation." - Gramophone...continue...
1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2003-03-12Works: Astor Piazzolla: Libertango; Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet; Ronald Bruce Smith: Quartet no 2 "Nostalgia"; Gabriela Ortíz: Cuarteto no 1; John Harbison: Quartet no 2; Silvestre Revueltas: ...
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Gale Force - Harbison, Barber, Hetu, et al / Prairie Winds
1 CD / Albany Records / 2000-09-01Works: John Harbison: Quintet for winds; Vincent Persichetti: Pastoral for wind quintet; Jacques Hétu: Quintette for woodwinds, Op. 13; Samuel Barber: Summer Music, for wind quintet, Op. 31; Aaron Copl...
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Harbison, Shostakovich: Piano Quintets / Apple Hill Players
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Barber: Summer Music; Beach, etc / Reykjavic Wind Quintet
1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-06-01Works: Samuel Barber: Summer Music, for wind quintet, Op. 31; Irving Fine: Partita for Wind Quintet; Gunther Schuller: Suite for woodwind ensemble; John Harbison: Quintet for winds; Amy Beach: Pastorale for...
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Why Watch? Because all week long we'll be featuring short films featuring the gang from Community.
Today's features the children's book narration of Chevy Chase.
I desperately wanted to find an embeddable version of the immortal Walk…Don't Walk from 1968, but alas, the internet has failed me. However, sometimes failure is success in disguise because I was able to find Chase playing the role of storyteller for an animated version of a children's tale that's really sweet. It's a benign counterpoint to his character on Community as instead of being overtly racist and self-centric, he's talking about how a father and mother decide to cheer up their son by turning him into a pizza.
The animation style is what might happen if a comic strip came to life, and the story's truly heartwarming.
What Will It Cost? Just 6 minutes of your time.
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EU ministers stall new soil protection rules
December 20, 2007 12:38 PM - Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union environment ministers put new rules to protect soil in the bloc on a backburner on Thursday after a coalition led by Britain and Germany blocked the adoption of a draft law. The bill had sought to prevent the soil's deterioration from industrial use and the effects of climate change. It would have obliged the EU's 27 nations to set up public inventories of sites where soil may be contaminated with dangerous substances and lay out ways to clean them up. "There was a blocking minority against the soil directive. Maybe we will return to it in the future, but it is unclear when," an EU diplomat said. The diplomat said advocates of the planned law had failed to muster a qualified majority to adopt it when Britain, Germany France, Austria and the Netherlands voted against.
Survey: Online Hybrid Car Searches Rise
December 20, 2007 12:19 PM - Paul Schaefer, ENN
RICHMOND, Va. - At a time of uncertain gas prices, a new consumer survey says online searches for hybrid cars are on the rise. Examples of the most searched hybrid cars include the Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota Prius and Toyota Camry Hybrid. These hybrids are climbing in popularity based on recent month- to-month trends of searches for hybrid cars on the carmax.com website. November 2007 carmax.com data indicated that searches for hybrid cars have increased 10% over last year and 43% from October to November
EPA Denies States the Right to Fight Global Warming
December 20, 2007 12:10 PM - Paul Schaefer, ENN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stunned the nation today by denying California and 17 other states the right to proceed with regulations that would reduce global warming pollution from new automobiles. "EPA is not following science or the law," said Jim Tripp, general counsel for Environmental Defense. "This decision is like pulling over the fire trucks on their way to the blaze," said Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense "For 40 years, EPA administrators have recognized the important role that California plays in innovating new standards to fight pollution."
City of Pasadena Greenlights The Pasadena EcoHouse
December 20, 2007 12:00 PM -
PASADENA, Calif. - The Pasadena EcoHouse is a step closer to reality today, after the City of Pasadena approved the homeowners' hillside building permit at last night's meeting. When completed, The Pasadena EcoHouse will be the first single-family, structural concrete insulated panel (SCIP) home in the nation to earn the coveted Platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes Green Building Rating System(TM), as well as the first LEED Platinum home in Pasadena. To earn the Platinum rating, The Pasadena EcoHouse will score points in several categories, including design, location, site impact, water and energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and green building awareness and education.
Lose 41 Pounds in 5 Minutes - Stop Junk Mail With 41pounds.org!
December 20, 2007 11:39 AM - Paul Schaefer, ENN
FERNDALE, Mich. - You can make a Green New Year's Resolution that lasts five years -- lose 41 pounds in less than five minutes. The average American receives 41 pounds of junk mail every year, and you can stop yours right now. The nonprofit 41pounds.org service stops your postal junk mail and unwanted catalogs to clear the clutter off your desk and give you a junk-free mailbox. When you stop your junk mail, you also keep the trees in the forest doing what trees do best: providing oxygen for us to breathe and absorbing carbon to cool the planet. So take a moment now to start your year on a clean, Green foot -- sign up for 41pounds.org.
California will not get waiver on emissions
December 20, 2007 12:38 AM - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Wednesday said it will deny California's request to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles, a setback for environmentalists and a victory for automakers. The administration said an energy bill signed into law hours earlier by President George W. Bush means no further action is needed to cut carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, which account for about 30 percent of the U.S. total.
Experts: Pricy Oil Will Push Renewable Fuels Development
December 19, 2007 03:02 PM - Paul Schaefer, ENN
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL - researchers at the University of Minnesota has discovered a silver lining in the increasing cost of oil. Midwest experts in research, government, business and nonprofit sectors who attended the university's E3 conference last month were surveyed on what they think will promote sustainable energy research within their geographic domain. Forty percent of the respondents said the cost of oil is the primary driver.
U.S. toy makers, trade policy caused recalls: report
December 19, 2007 01:40 PM - Karey Wutkowski, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A torrent of toy recalls this year is due in part to U.S. trade agreements encouraging American toymakers to cut costs by shifting production overseas, the watchdog group Public Citizen said on Wednesday. A report by the non-profit group said more than 87 percent of U.S. toys are imported, a dramatic shift from the 1970s when almost 90 percent of them were produced domestically. "This toy safety crisis was made in America by toy corporations who chose to relocate their production to locations that can't ensure toy safety," Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division, told reporters.
Consumer Worry About Product Safety Growing
December 19, 2007 12:21 PM - Paul Schaefer, ENN
EAGAN, Minn. - Consumers' worries over product safety are growing, according to an analysis by a major legal information services provider, and consumers are increasingly expressing those concerns in the form of lawsuits. Following recent publicity surrounding recalls of consumer products, including children's toys containing lead paint, beef and other foods contaminated with E. coli bacteria and children's cold medicine with improper dosage markings, Americans are increasingly concerned about product safety.
Holiday Flowers, Without Pesticides
December 19, 2007 11:46 AM - Paul Schaefer, ENN
Los Angeles - Celebrating the holidays with flowers is inspired and wonderful, but poisoning the people who grow and prepare the flowers is not. No one does it intentionally. But what many consumers don't know is that the floral business often puts the health of the people who grow those flowers at risk.


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The Agony Of The Condemned by Draccone Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 92]
Justin is a vampire that lives his life killing his kind. He's angry that he was turned when he didn't want to. He killed his sire a long time ago but is still thirsty for revenge. Justin thinks that his real family are a bunch of monster that he has to kill. His kind just thinks there is something oh so wrong with the blond.
Categories: QAF-U.S., Alternate Universe, Abuse, Anti-Ethan, Anti-Michael, Brian/Other, Humor, Incest, Justin/Other, Minor Character Death, Rape, Romance, Unsafe Sex, Vampires , Violence Characters: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 38 Completed: No Word count: 107845
[Report This] Published: April 01, 2008 Updated: November 08, 2015
If Someone Had Known by yvonnereid Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 6]
Some chapters may be hard to read. Its not for everyone.
WARNING:Yes, rape, abuse and suicide (no major character death)
My advice to anyone who is or has gone through this traumatic experience...talk to someone and get help.
Thank you with my whole heart to Judy (bigj52) for taking the time to beta this story for me. It's the hardest story I ever wrote.
Banner: Thank you so so much to Ali (britinkinlor o Livejournal) for taking the time to make my banner for this.
Categories: QAF-U.S., Alternate Universe, Abuse, Angst, Brian/Justin, Brian/Other, Child Abuse, Hurt/Comfort, Incest, Minor Character Death, Rape, REAL LIFE ISSUES, Violence, Self Harm Characters: Original Character(s)
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 6463
[Report This] Published: February 12, 2012 Updated: February 12, 2012
Partners in Crime by Bob Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 1239]
Detective Brian Kinney was about to quit the force at the Pittsburgh PD when he heard he was getting a new rookie for a partner until he met the young son of the Chief; Taylor made just for him. For years Brian didn't look at another man until he saw new junior detective Justin Taylor; a hot young virgin rookie given to Brian by Chief Craig Taylor; trusting his beautiful very young son with his best gay detective. Together they are a very powerful undercover unit, and one soul united.
My very best to Daphne Angel for the outstanding banner with two beautiful sons. You go girl! I answer all review comments because I love you.
Categories: QAF-U.S., FEATURED STORY, Alternate Universe, Brian/Justin, Child Abuse, Hetero Sex, Humor, Incest, Minor Character Death, REAL LIFE ISSUES, Romance, Unsafe Sex, Violence Characters: Original Character(s)
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 98 Completed: Yes Word count: 219385
[Report This] Published: January 23, 2010 Updated: October 16, 2010
Forgive Me Father by Liberty Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 83]
B>Please Do Not take My icon
Categories: Brian/Other, QAF-U.S., Alternate Universe, Abuse, Child Abuse, Hurt/Comfort, Incest, Minor Character Death, Out of Character, REAL LIFE ISSUES, Unsafe Sex, Rape, Justin/Other Characters: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 32 Completed: Yes Word count: 38293
[Report This] Published: October 31, 2008 Updated: June 19, 2009
The Mind's Manipulations by walmer92 Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 26]
Set in Season 5, After L.A., but before the break up. The time line might be a little twisted. Brian wakes up on the floor of his loft, his last memory of picking up a blond trick under a street light. The last five years of his life are gone.
Categories: QAF-U.S., Abuse, Child Abuse, Incest, Violence, What If, Rape Characters: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 8 Completed: Yes Word count: 81300
[Report This] Published: May 01, 2008 Updated: January 28, 2009
Something Dark by Bine, elyxer Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 6]
Summary: Dean returns from hell, but he's not the same. In his grief, Sam has allowed that part of himself, that he'd kept dormant, out. When the brothers reunite, they discover that they both have something dark living inside them. Have the Winchester brothers turned into what they spent years trying to kill?
Time Line: ALTERNATE SEASON 4
Categories: QAF-U.S., MISCELLANEOUS FICTION, Alternate Universe, Could be Canon, Hetero Sex, Incest, Out of Character, Unsafe Sex, Violence Characters: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 8 Completed: No Word count: 17389
[Report This] Published: September 26, 2008 Updated: November 16, 2008
Dirty Little Secret by Naima Rated: NC-18 [Reviews - 20]
High School fic-Brian is the school soccer star and Justin is the shy artist with a haunting family life
Disclaimer-not my boys! i just play with them
Categories: Out of Character, QAF-U.S., Abuse, Incest, Minor Character Death, Romance, Violence, Rape, Anti-Michael, Alternate Universe, Child Abuse, Hurt/Comfort Characters: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 12 Completed: No Word count: 11677
[Report This] Published: May 17, 2008 Updated: June 06, 2008


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School Suspends Boy, 7, For Biting Pastry in the Shape of a Gun
The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school.
The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school.
Myth debunked - parents can indeed be funny and we have the tweets to prove it! Check out 10 of the most hilarious things written on Twitter this week by parents (and one non-parent who gets it) this week:
When it comes to maternity leave, The United States earns a pretty dismal ranking when compared to other countries, being the only first-world country, and one of only three countries (the others being Lesotho, Swaziland and Papua New Guinea) that does not offer paid maternity leaves. Not only do other countries have better systems in place for maternity leave, but they have some pretty great welcoming gifts for their newest citizens. In Finland, for example, new parents can choose between receiving the above maternity package filled with essentials for baby's first few months or a tax-free lump sum of 140 euros as a maternity grant.
Remember this conversation:
Kid: "Mom, can I have a puppy?"
Mom: "Go ask you father."
Kid: "Dad, can I have a puppy?"
Dad: "No."
Mom: "What did your father say?"
Kid: "No."
Mom: "Then it's a no. Respect your father's decision."
When did this all go away?
If you're not in the know, a movie has been "sweded" when somebody does a low-budget recreation of it. Now that you know, look at these little kids doing all the movies nominated for Best Picture Oscars...
We all have favorites: favorite food, favorite color, favorite band. But a favorite child?
Daniel decided to become a rapper before becoming a man.
We first introduced you to the adorableness that is baby and puppy best friends a few weeks back. It's a phenomenon that's almost way too cute to handle. But can it honestly get any better than that? Answer: Y-E-S.
Talk about your net winnings.
We've got to give it to this kid: he's sticking with his story, and that's commendable! Deny, deny, deny...


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Saturday, February 1, 2014
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- Sturgeon basketball tournament games (South Callaway High School was competing in) have been canceled for the day. The makeup game will be 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8.
- The Fulton High School winter homecoming dance has been postponed to a later date to be announced.
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Fort A.P. Hill launches mobile application for smart devices
April 10, 2012
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Fort A.P. Hill is expanding its outreach to the Warriors it trains, employees who support them and the public through a new mobile application for Apple and Android devices.
Fort A.P. Hill's free application is now available at the Apple App Store and should be available in Android stores within two weeks. To download the app for Apple devices, visit the Apple iTunes Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fort-a.p.-hill/id514659250?mt=8
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The Maze Bank is a chain of banks in the HD Universe located in Los Santos. Its main branch is the Maze Bank Tower, the tallest skyscraper in San Andreas, located in Downtown Los Santos. The company also sponsors the main city's arena.
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Sixteen-year-old Gabriel Wright of Mesa will head back to school today, but first he needs to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Wright, a Red Mountain High School junior, won a scholarship this spring to attend school for one year in Germany as one of five Arizona participants in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange.
"There's no better way to learn a language than to live the language," said Wright, who has never been outside the United States.
He flies today to Washington, D.C., and then travels with other program participants to a monthlong German immersion camp in Mollseifen, Germany. He will meet his host family Sept. 11 in a small town along the Rhine River.
Wright's mother, Melanie Fortney, said she looks forward to her children moving out — but she has mixed emotions about sending Gabriel away for a year because he is so young. Nevertheless, she said she would never stop any of her seven children from pursuing their dreams.
"I want my kids to spread their wings and go as far as they can," she said.
Wright applied for the program with the help of his Red Mountain German teacher, Rodney Cole, who lived in Germany one year as an English teacher. Wright said the application process was extensive and involved essays and interviews.
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Sooooooooo wonderful <3
Just wonderful
Very beautiful, but she looks a bit too old for him... maybe it's just me :/
oh my.. this is so beautiful they look so in love and happy
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I looove all things in this photo
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specially the emotion of it
Sweet and enchanting and magical. Looks like a fairyland!
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I love that song... and the picture is perfect!
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Anyone shed some light for me on the latest results of my water testing?
I've been treating my tank for ich (high temp/salt method) and did my first water change (20%) after 10 days. For some curious reason I didn't test the tank water prior (not like me at all) and after the water change my results were:
Ph 7.8
Am .25
Trite .25
Trate .00
I was very concerned after this and almost performed another water change on the spot. Instead I went to bed with a fair amount of stress with the thought that my tank was on its way to crashing ....
The next morning I test and the results were:
Ph 7.8
Am 0
Trite 0
Trate .50
Why the change in results w/out me doing anything after the water change? The biological took care of it for me naturally as it should? Thanks- Kym
Am confused as to nitrates that went from 0 to 50 overnight?
Not 50 but 5.0, as in just getting a reading on the chart. This morning my results are exactly the same as yesterday morning:
Ph 7.8
Am 0
Trite 0
Trate 5.0 (not 50)
I'm assuming that based on these results that my tank is ok???
I'm still having my ich issue but I'll post about that issue over in the disease section. This ich thing is really starting to get me down....
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The ultimate goal is to increase your stride length while maintaining a quick foot turnover. Although it may sound tricky or complicated it truly isn't. In mortal-speak, it is going from running easy to increasing your speed by lengthening your stride for about 15 seconds and then slowing your speed down and walking back to recover and catch your breath.
Here's the long version of how to run striders with ease:
- Find a predictably flat surface (runway) that is long enough to run 30 seconds at speed (about 250-300 feet for most).
- If you're running striders before a speed workout or race, make sure to warm up first with three to five minutes of walking and five to 10 minutes of easy-paced running. For races, time the striders so you complete them a few minutes prior to the start of the race.
- If you're running them post easy run, walk it out for a few minutes to bring your heart rate and breathing down before you start.
- If striders are new in your running regimen, start with a total of four and slowly build to six to eight over time.
- Start the strider by running easy, focusing on a short, quick stride, and then gradually increase your speed by lengthening your stride. Keep your torso tall and relaxed.
- It should feel like a controlled fast pace rather than a sprint.
- When you reach three quarters into the runway distance, gradually decelerate by shortening your stride until you come to a walk. If you're running by time, the total stride should be around 30 seconds (i.e. run easy 10 seconds, increase stride length 15 seconds, decelerate 5 seconds).
- Walk back to the starting point to recover and catch your breath and repeat the strider again.
- Striders can also be woven into the middle of an easy run, which is a great strategy for newbie runners with a base of mileage for learning mechanics and learning how to run faster.
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A recent report by audit and professional services firm KPMG International, The Architecture of the Deal, examining global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) activity in the financial services sector over the period 2007-10, finds that in such a tough market as most of the world is still in, navigating and tackling the potential perils of post-merger integration could be the key to whether or not a particular deal succeeds.
John Bowen, KPMG in South Africa's M&A leader for financial services, says that given the greater challenges of M&A in sub-Saharan Africa, many of the key findings of the report have always been true locally.
For instance, the report finds that cultural integration can be the difference between success and failure, whereas a high 32 percent of respondents to the report admitted their management of cultural integration was poor. This is a significant challenge, given that highly sophisticated banks tend to develop quite distinctive cultures.
If this is a challenge in Europe and North America, says Bowen, how much more is it a challenge in Africa, with its 54 nations, massive diversity in regulation and even more in language and customs.
"Africa is an environment where one cannot get away from the fact that a physical in-country presence is essential. This traverses the spectrum from soft issues – exactly what is the protocol of getting introduced to regulators and local banks in an environment where cold calling is frowned upon? – to hard issues of currency, regulation and availability of scarce skills," explains Bowen.
Notwithstanding the number of African countries, only a handful form viable target markets at the moment. Increasingly, however, each of these is a gateway to an entire region. "Each region has unique customs and norms. Given these variables, early engagement with the regulator may be vital. It is pointless pursuing a transaction without knowing from the outset that it will receive regulatory blessing, but how to engage is the important consideration.
"Furthermore, one needs to understand the local hierarchy, particularly whether the person you're dealing with has the requisite authority to make a decision. Or, should you be talking to somebody else?"
There's no textbook on this and no shortcut to on-the-ground experience. "Many deals fail for the twin weaknesses of a lack of a local understanding and lack of engagement with the regulator," adds Bowen.
Complexity of deal structure similarly does not lend itself to a fly-in approach. "Again, because of regulatory complexity and, more particularly, because of cultural diversity, the deal team has to reflect a full set of disciplines and expertise. In an environment where skills are scarce and employees already apprehensive about foreign ownership, it is vital that a communication strategy be devised to reassure all parties, both pre- and post-merger, as integration of sometimes highly distinctive cultures is more important here, than almost anywhere else in the world."
Unseen barriers to a deal can be thrown up unless there is plenty of staff participation –
and co-operation. "Often, employees will feel threatened that a sophisticated global bank is buying them out and possibly showing them up: this only becomes exposed through considerable dialogue and establishment of a relationship of trust."
The KPMG report found that an obvious but often neglected area in M&A is that of regular and effective communication with important stakeholders during the integration phase – especially if a deal is based on revenue synergies.
While the report emphasises communication to the market because of concerns in this environment that you may be overpaying, Bowen says that in Africa, the priority is to communicate more with other stakeholders – primarily staff and regulator.
Each of these lessons has already been observed in South Africa, where many major foreign acquisitions were far from smooth. This was notwithstanding the greater sophistication of the South African financial services sector relative to other sub-Saharan African countries.
"Therefore, the need for an exhaustive due diligence on the soft as well as hard issues cannot be over-emphasised. It is this factor alone which results in a subsequent speedy and pain-free merger.
"Too often, the complexity of an African deal persuades parties to focus on speed above thoroughness. Our research finds that time spent on due diligence is time well spent. Success comes not from speed of striking a deal but speed of integration, which itself comes from thorough planning, following thorough due diligence," says Bowen.
Bowen believes the African market may yet avoid the impact of global volatility, as indeed may all emerging markets. The degree to which specific countries' M&A industry will be affected by market volatility will depend on each region's growth prospects – and Africa has one of the highest growth forecasts, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Internationally, hopes have been pinned on the strength of the economies of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries, a grouping that South Africa has of course recently joined. Bowen expects these countries to boost M&A in South Africa, particularly as many BRIC companies are expected to use South Africa as a bridgehead into sub-Saharan Africa, to tap its resources and growing consumer market.
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About three percent of American adults call themselves vegetarians, but studies have shown a significant number of them occasionally eat meat. A poll conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed two out of every three self-identified vegetarians had eaten meat in the previous 24 hours.
Vegfest organizer Stewart Rose, vice president of Vegetarians of Washington and author of The Vegetarian Solution, says these transitional vegetarians are among the most enthusiastic consumers of the animal flesh analogues that have lately been flooding the non-meat market. In 2011, sales of meat substitutes, including fake riblets and imitation chicken nuggets, were up ten percent from three years earlier, the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
"Sales of these products are through the roof," Rose says. "People are moving in a vegetarian direction."
At Vegfest, the nation's largest vegetarian food festival, food manufacturers will offer samples of newly-developed meat substitutes, including vegan seafood.
"We'll have bacon that isn't bacon, cheese with no dairy and even shrimp that's not shrimp," Rose promises. "I've heard reports of people's cats meowing when people open the cans."
Fake meat isn't a modern concept. As early as the 1890s, John Harvey Kellogg was promoting a peanut cutlet that could be seasoned to taste like veal or salmon. He later experimented with soy-based analogues, presaging the mid-century invention of the meatless hot dog.
Controversy over analogues dates back nearly as far. There are vegetarians who believe fake meat perpetuates an appetite for animals, and helps normalize a practice they consider immoral.
"Some people would like to have a lentil loaf because they don't want to be reminded of the slaughterhouse, and I don't blame them," Rose says.
Rose, who's adhered to a strict vegan diet for 33 years, isn't ethically opposed to fake meat.
"I get urges for a hot dog when I listen to a ball game in the summer," he admits. "I love those Tofurkey dogs."
Advances in meat science mean analogues are now much more palatable than Kellogg's nut paste, Rose adds.
"The quality of vegetarian food has improved," he says. "People used to think they were in a bind, they could have healthy food or delicious food. You don't have to sacrifice good taste."
More than 500 foods will be available for tasting at Vegfest, including such traditional vegetarian staples as baked tofu, curry and soy milk. But Rose says he doesn't expect the 50 percent of Vegfest attendees who aren't vegetarian to immediately gravitate to dishes that might challenge a committed carnivore's palate.
"We believe everyone should proceed at their own pace and do the best they can," he says.
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KILLINGTON A group of three teenage skiers from the Pittsburgh, Pa., area, were the latest group of skiers who had to be rescued after they deliberately skied out of bounds Sunday afternoon, police said.
Vermont State Police said the skiers, all 17-year-old girls, were at Killington with a school group and skied out of bounds at 1:16 p.m. Sunday from the Juggernaut Trail. The girls later called 911, and their location was determined through GPS, police said.
The Killington Ski Patrol entered the woods and were able to locate the teenagers and get them out unharmed. State police and E-911 were also involved in the rescue.
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