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The North Carolina legislature voted earlier this month to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of a state budget bill that redirects $343,000 in family planning funding from Planned Parenthood to county health departments. "This budget adjustment does not cut a dime of family planning funding," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. "It does protect the consciences of pro-life taxpayers by sending funds to county health departments which do not perform abortions."
A different path?
When the head of Libya's transitional government described the country's future after the downfall and death of dictator Muammar Qaddafi last year, he declared: "We are an Islamic country. We take the Islamic religion as the core of our new government. The constitution will be based on our Islamic religion." Eight months later, Libyan voters may be trying to take a different path. The country held its first elections in decades on July 7, and preliminary results indicated a surprising tally: A coalition of secularists looked poised to make a strong showing against Islamist political groups.
That's striking in a country that's 97 percent Islamic. But secular-based politicians may have prevailed by focusing on the dynamic most pressing for many voters: rebuilding the country and the economy after 42 years of Qaddafi's corrupt rule.
Appendages no more
Republican governor-led states are jumping on the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling, which said states will not be required to expand their Medicaid rolls. The 2010 healthcare law required states to expand their Medicaid rolls or face the prospect of losing all Medicaid funding, and the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that states should have the option to refuse the expansion without losing all funding. Republican governors from Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Wisconsin have said they will not only decline the Medicaid expansion, because they're concerned about how it could balloon their budgets, but also will refuse to administer the insurance exchanges required under the law, leaving that job to the federal government. "I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab. Neither a 'state' exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better 'patient protection' or in more 'affordable care,'" said Texas Gov. Rick Perry in a July 9 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to healthcare."
Let it end
After a photo of a forced abortion victim in China went viral last month, discussion of the country's one-child policy has moved from the blogosphere to academic circles.
First a government-affiliated think tank recommended that China relax its one-child policy and consider a two-child option, pointing to the growing elderly population and shrinking workforce. In the 2010 census, 13.3 percent of Chinese were over the age of 60, compared to 10.3 percent in 2000. At the same time only 16.6 percent of Chinese were under 14, compared to 23 percent in 2000.
A few days later, a group of prominent Chinese scholars penned an open letter challenging the one-child policy, speaking not just of its economic implications but its human-rights violations. It specifically mentioned 23-year-old Feng Jianmei, whom authorities forced to abort her baby at 7 months because she could not afford to pay the 40,000 yuan ($6,300) fine for a second child. "From an economic perspective, the one-child policy is irrational," signatory and Chinese internet entrepreneur James Liang told The Wall Street Journal. "From a human rights perspective, it's even less rational."
Iranian injustice
Iranian Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani marked 1,000 days in prison on July 8, nearly three years since officials arrested the 34-year-old pastor and charged him with apostasy. Iranian judges may level new charges against him, including blasphemy and crimes against national security, reports the U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). A new conviction could give judges more reason to carry out a death sentence he already has received, following a trial date CSW says is set for Sept. 8.
Back to the future
After spending two years launching protons inside the world's largest particle accelerator, physicists in Switzerland announced July 4 they'd finally found evidence of the Higgs boson, an elusive, elemental particle first hypothesized in 1964. Two independent teams found signals pointing to the Higgs boson in the aftermath of 800 trillion proton collisions. The chance of those signals being false is 1 in 3.5 million, the scientists said-although it's possible they represent some other, undiscovered particle.
Physicists believe the Higgs boson, sometimes nicknamed the "God particle," is responsible for giving atoms their mass. Some hope the particle will help explain the beginnings of the universe, or illuminate other mysteries, such as the invisible "dark matter" that pervades space.
By the numbers
President Barack Obama on July 9 proposed extending Bush-era tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year-in exchange for raising taxes in 2013 for everyone above that threshold. Mitt Romney responded: "To add a higher tax on job creators and on small business is about the worst thing I can imagine to do if you want to create jobs."
The people's money
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced July 3 that his state ended the 2012 fiscal year with a $500 million budget surplus and more than $2 billion in reserves. The numbers are large enough to trigger an automatic tax refund of at least $100 per person, returning to taxpayers about $300 million when they file this year's tax returns.
When Daniels became Indiana's first Republican governor in 16 years in 2005, the state had a biennial budget process-and the two-year deficit ran to $800 million.
Daniels, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director under President George W. Bush, set up an OMB for Indiana and gave it real power. Spending slowed, causing Democrats to howl. But Daniels was a bipartisan offender: A temporary tax increase upset fellow Republicans. But results came quickly, and Indiana has repaid more than $750 million to schools, universities, and local governments, and has taken dramatic steps to fund the state's currently unfunded pension liability.
Will the budget bona fides put Daniels on Romney's short list for veep? Unlikely. Daniels is slated to become president of Purdue University when his term as governor expires in January 2013. He told Fox News in May that the vice presidency is "not an office I want to hold, expect to hold, have any plans to hold. If I thought that call was coming I would disconnect the phone."
Abortion? Yes. Spanking? No.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) meeting this month approved a resolution calling for "an end to the practice of corporal punishment in homes, schools and child care facilities." Fifty-one percent of the church leaders meeting in Pittsburgh voted for the measure, while 47 percent opposed it. The General Assembly also affirmed and expanded the PCUSA's support of abortion. In 1992 the PCUSA said abortion can be "morally acceptable" under certain circumstances. This year, it said the church supports "full access to reproductive health care for both women and men in both private and public health plans."
Such positions are why churchgoers are fleeing the PCUSA in droves. The church has seen a precipitous decline in attendance-more than 10 percent in the last five years alone. Today the PCUSA has less than 2 million members, down from a high of more than 4 million in the 1970s, and the average PCUSA church has less than 150 in attendance on a Sunday.
Made in Japan
An independent Japanese commission published a remarkably blunt conclusion about the Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011: "It was a profoundly man-made disaster-that could and should have been foreseen and prevented."
The July 5 report by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission challenged the claims of officials in both the Fukushima plant and the Japanese government. Officials had insisted that the tsunami-not the earthquake-caused the massive damage at Fukushima that led to the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. The tsunami, officials said, was a once-in-millennium event that no plant could withstand.
The commission rejected that idea, and said the earthquake might have caused the damage. That's significant because it means the plant may not have been as secure against quake damage as officials thought, and that other nuclear plants could be in danger if another major quake hits.
Commission head Kiyoshi Kurokawa wrote that government officials made the disaster worse by interfering with the response. And in a candid rebuke of Japanese society, Kurokawa wrote that the tepid disaster response stemmed from the culture: "our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to 'sticking with the program': our groupism; and our insularity." The author concluded: "This was a disaster 'Made in Japan.'"
'Nothing is left'
Torrential monsoon rains triggered massive flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, killing some 200 victims and forcing millions from their homes. The floods swept through mostly rural villages during the last week of June and destroyed tens of thousands of acres of crops.
Throngs of hungry and exhausted villagers began trekking back to their communities in early July to survey the damage. Officials estimated the flooding destroyed thousands of homes.
The U.K.-based Barnabas Fund reported that it was providing emergency aid to Christian families struck by the disaster. The report said families would likely need help for the foreseeable future "as they will have to rebuild their lives from scratch."
Meanwhile, in Russia flooding on July 6 killed at least 171 victims and devastated the southern mountain town of Krymsk. Residents of the town of 57,000 said warnings from local officials came too late, and many in the town were sleeping when the flood waters hit. "Nothing is left," resident Ovsen Torosyan, 30, told the Reuters news service. "We are like tramps."
Derecho damage
On the morning of June 29, a powerful "derecho"-a wall of powerful, fast-moving thunderstorms-was born over Chicago and swept across Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The storm's hurricane-force winds killed 24 in its path and left millions without power in the midst of one of Washington's all-time worst heat waves. The 100-plus temperatures made the storm especially violent, and then heat burned on for more than a week as cities set up cooling stations for those still without power.
Some meteorologists used the weather as evidence of man-made global warming: "It's very consistent with what we'd expect in a warming world," Deke Arndt, chief of climate monitoring at the National Climatic Data Center, told The Washington Post. Just over two years ago Washington was under record-setting snow and experiencing one of its coldest winters, which some saw as evidence against global warming. Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told NPR then, "It is important that people recognize that weather is not the same thing as climate."


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Green & Gold Stuffed Baked Potatoes
2 large russet potatoes
1/2 cup non-fat, plain Greek yogurt
1-2 Tblsp.milk
2 Tblsp. butter
2 Tblsp. minced onion
1 cup, steamed broccoli flowerets
½ cup shredded Cheddar cheese
salt and pepper
Minced garlic or garlic powder, optional
Wash and prick potatoes.
Microwave for 5 minutes, turn and microwave for 5 more minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes.
OR Bake your potatoes (better if you're doing more than 2 potatoes)
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Wash, dry and prick your spuds. Rub potatoes with a bit of olive oil.
Place directly on the middle rack of oven.
Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are cooked through.
When cooled enough to handle, cut potatoes in half lengthwise.
Carefully scoop out and save the insides to a small mixing bowl, leaving a thin shell.
Set shells aside.
Mash potato with yogurt, onion and seasonings. Add milk if needed or a couple Tblsp. of prepared Ranch dressing to get to the desired consistency. Stir in broccoli and ¼ cup cheese.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Fill shells and heat now or refrigerate for later.
When ready to serve, arrange on a plate and microwave for 3-4 minutes, until hot. Sprinkle with more cheese and heat just until cheese melts.
OR, arrange potatoes on a baking sheet and bake in a 350 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Add cheese for the last 5 minutes.
This recipe serves 4
Terri's notes:
~ Fun, pretty, healthy - you've traded fat for protein!
~ Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt is a ringer for sour cream. I also like Chobani's, it's a little thicker and may require an extra bit of milk. If the yogurt isn't tangy enough for your taste, add a ½ tsp. of lemon juice.
~ I use only the flowerettes for this recipe, but the sliced stems make great "chips" for dipping in your favorite dips.

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Is it possible to achieve a radiant complexion without using harsh chemicals and damaging the environment? Are natural ingredients from botanical sources potent enough to refine and retexture the skin? The Caudalie Paris Vinoperfect reviews left by previous customers help to shed light on these key questions. By reading through the ratings and comments in these informative reviews, you can ascertain whether these natural formulations deliver measurable results when used in a real-life setting.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A fatal crash temporarily closed portions of Beach Boulevard near Cortez Road.
According to reports, the crash happened around 10:15 a.m. when the Florida Highway Patrol and emergency crews responded to the scene.
According to a witness at the scene, the crash involved a motorcyclist and a truck, FHP does confirm at least one fatality.
The motorcyclist was traveling west on Beach Boulevard when the motorcycle was hit by a truck that violated the right of way, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Witnesses tell First Coast News that the motorcycle flipped several times in the air "like a rag doll".
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You could just make a brush with vertical lines and draw the edges around the cliffs afterwards?
I was wondering if there were any resources that would make mountains
or cliffs like this old example? I typically use Photoshop and Illustrator.
You could just make a brush with vertical lines and draw the edges around the cliffs afterwards?
You could do this by making a path, stroke the path with a small brush to create the darker ridge/outline, then create a new slope-lines brush (in a new document). To create the new brush make a line about 20 tall X 1 or 2 pixels wide. Click edit - define brush preset. Go into the brushes menu and pick the new brush. Increase the spacing to 200 or 300% or more and set the angle jitter to direction and then save this as a new brush and delete the previous one. Now, create a new layer and stroke the path again. This will work best if the path you make is a closed path, like a shape, and here's why - your slope line brush will make slope lines on either side of the path so you have to delete the lines on the "inside" so if you have a closed shape path you can turn the path into a selection (on the paths tab) then use the selection and the delete key instead of nit-picky erasing minute little bits at close zoom. So you will now have the outline and the slope lines all the way around so if you want an open end, take an eraser and erase.
Another option would be to create a bush that has the scallop dark ridge line and some slope lines and stroke a path with that but your path will have to be a bit wider than you initially draw since stroking the path runs right down the middle.
Or you could just use a 3-pixel round brush and draw a bunch of lines by hand...either way is tedious.
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If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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|School board to meet next Tuesday, Aug. 6
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Holyoke School District Re-1J Board of Education will meet Tuesday, Aug. 6 at 8 p.m. in HJHS Room #218.
The superintendent's report will include summer school update, back-to-school overview, 2012-13 fourth-quarter financial report and review of changes to 2013-14 staff handbook.
Action items on the agenda include approval of 2012-13 fourth-quarter financial report, non-resident students and transportation requests, district accountability charges for 2013-14, extra-duty assignments, intergovernmental agreements, 2013-14 board calendar and second reading of board policy on staff leave.
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Ms. Lane was born April 16, 1937, in Austin to William and Gurtrude Christoff. She was an accountant for Valshing Gin in Mathis and a member of Peace Church in Tynan.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a daughter, Karen Johnston.
Survivors include her grandsons, Lyndon Stautzenberger and Cody Stautzenberger.
A graveside service was conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 3, at Evergreen Cemetery in Skidmore with Pastor Wade Fuhrken officiating.
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This year we will have some great guest speakers including:
Dr. Michael Bicay, science director of NASA's Ames Research Facility
Mike Simonsen, membership director of AAVSO
Bruce Bookout, director of RMSS speaking on Archaeo-Astronomy
Aaaaaannnd.... Yours truly, giving a talk on the history of eyepiece technology.
Last year's attendance was a little low, so let's try and turn that around this year. How about some pristine viewing in beautiful Colorado? Early registration is now open. Price is as follows:
Early Registration (ends May 12, 2013 unless filled prior):
$40 Adult
$20 - Young Adult (13-18)
FREE - Child (12 and under)
Regular Registration (Ends May 26, 2013, unless filled prior):
$60 - Adult
$30 - Young Adult (13-18)
FREE - Child (12 and under)
Catered meals and merchandise also available.
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I have this problem with a new installation of Zimbra, that I am trying to solve for the last days, without success.
Everything is running smoothly, except for one thing: the accounts that have forward addresses configured receive duplicate messages at the destination every single time.
I tried everything and read thousands of articles on the Internet, without any luck.
Can anyone give me some advice please?
I can post every detail of the installation, just ask.
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Color Rules: 4 Very Versatile Colors for Any Room
Losing sight of your emotional goal is a mistake often cited when homeowners choose the wrong color for a room. If you're after a calm room, the experts say, you'll have to stay away from your favorite color red. But the truth is, just like people, colors can surprise you. Here are more than a dozen rooms where the vibe of the room goes against the conventional color personality.
Some colors can't change their stripes, so to speak. White always makes a room more open and airy, and a touch of pink seems to make even the most masculine room instantly more femme. But these four colors seem to be more versatile, in both big and small doses. It goes to show that even if calming blue is your favorite shade, you can still use it to make a room more vibrant. (The secret for balancing all of these moody colors? Lots of white.)
1. Black can make a room feel smaller, but black can also be cheerful and airy.
- Ease in with shades of gray.
- Show a lot of floor.
- Keep other elements cheerful, feminine and bright.
- Balance black with white.
2. Red adds a lot of energy and passion, but red can be calming in the right space.
- Use small doses.
- Try less saturated shades.
- Keep everything else white.
3. Blue makes a room more calming, but blue can also be energetic and lively.
- Go electric with accents.
- Choose a bright blue or turquoise.
- Keep everything else white.
4. Brown is a cozy and dull color, but brown can be bright and open.
- Use brightly colored accents.
- Let in tons of natural light.
- Keep the ceiling and trim white
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Jupiter, FL (Sports Network) - Josh Rodriguez hit a tie-breaking two-run
single in the eighth inning, boosting the New York Mets to a 4-2 spring
training win over the Miami Marlins.
Mets starter Jon Niese gave up four hits and a pair of runs over five innings.
He walked four and fanned five.
Ricky Nolasco started for the Marlins and allowed four hits and a run over six
Rob Brantly and Nick Green each knocked in a run for the Marlins in the fourth
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Healthy ecosystems produce goods and services that provide livelihoods for people and the potential for economic development. These include fresh water, agricultural productivity, fisheries, forest products, energy and protection from natural hazards. But when human activity degrades the environment, these goods and services decline, hampering economic and social development and leaving rural, marginalized communities more vulnerable.
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Will REDD make a difference?
Arild Angelsen of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and CIFOR gives a 'cynical optimist's' view on whether REDD will work. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
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Forests, people and climate change: the REDD solution
Major reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions are necessary if we are to avoid disastrous climate change. Given that deforestation and forest degradation account for up to 17% of man-made global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and sustainable management of forests is a good place to start. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
A new vision for drylands
Dr Mike Mortimore, a member of IUCN's Commission on Ecosystem Management, outlines his vision for the world's drylands and what's needed to achieve it. …
02 Sep 2009 | News story
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Amazonian indigenous group leads the way for sustainable forest management
IUCN had special visitors at its Headquarters on Tuesday morning! Four representatives from the indigenous Suruí people of Mato Grosso state in the Brazilian Amazon are participating in the Paléo Music Festival in Switzerland and visited us to share their stories regarding ongoing conservation activities carried out on their lands. … | Spanish | Spanish
22 Jul 2009 | News story
Don't forget human rights in conservation
A new book released today calls for more emphasis to be placed on human rights when nature conservation policies are developed and implemented. …
13 Jul 2009 | News story
Expansion of the Nahanni National Park Reserve - Parks Canada
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Indigenous women: most vulnerable to climate change but key agents of change
One of the key issues raised at the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Peoples (UNPFII), 18-29 May 2009, New York City, concerns the neglected role of indigenous women in climate change negotiations. The two week session brought together almost 2000 representatives of indigenous groups, UN agencies, governments and other experts. …
22 Jun 2009 | News story
Healthy nature protects against disasters – IUCN
Governments need to include better management of nature in all disaster risk reduction policies, if we are to reach the goal to substantially reduce disaster losses by 2015, according to IUCN. …
16 Jun 2009 | News story
Don't forget environment, IUCN tells UN
World leaders must consider the environment if they want to ensure people enjoy a sustainable and dignified life. That was the message IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre gave in her keynote address to the High-Level Ministerial segment of the 17th session of the United Nations Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD), held in New York from May 4 to 15. …
14 May 2009 | News story
Most successful Congress to date says report
The final evaluation report available as well in French and Spanish,of the 2008 World Conservation Congress (WCC), held in Barcelona, is available for consultation. The report, performed by independent evaluators Universalia, calls the Barcelona Congress the most successful congress to date. …
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It's too bad the Ducks got roped into this same bad deal as the Blazers. I'm sure they were sold a bill of goods, but were never promised anything in writing. I just hope they didn't sign a 10-year deal like the Blazers did. At least KOIN is finally in HD, so there's always hope…
Although I'm not a Duck fan (GO BEAVS), I am a Blazer fan, and I'm not sure anyone "got roped into the same bad deal".
I would assume that CSN-NW said "Here's a bunch of money so we can put your games on our channel." They didn't say anything about number of viewers.
The Ducks and the Blazers went to FSN-NW and said "look at all this money, can you beat it?"
FSN-NW said "No."
And the rest is history, the fans are getting screwed and the teams are getting paid. Yes, it was probably a little short sighted on the Ducks and Blazers to assume that by getting all this money from CSN-NW that they would also get a large audience.
CSN-NW is probably bleeding money, thats why they have such crappy shows on now, they are trying to stay afloat until the Blazer and Duck seasons where they might make some Advertising dollars back.


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Off Whitehall Road,
Whitehall Meadows and Bingley Island dates back to the Doomsday period. Today it is one of a few areas of riverside grassland that has not been treated with weedkillers or fertilisers, which means that a wide variety of species can thrive.
The meadows are characterised by damp loving grassland plant species, and bats, snails, common reptiles, dragonflies, damselflies and butterflies are just some of the wildlife that has been seen in the meadows. The wet riverside meadows grow on peat on shingle, and are cut annually or grazed as part of a maintenance regime. In the long term, we hope to graze the meadows to improve the grassland species and provide a more interesting and active historic landscape. We are working closely with the neighbouring landowners to graze the area effectively and hope to see the reapperance of species such as marsh orchid and ragged robin.
In Victorian times, Canterbury born Thomas Sidney Cooper painted traditional English landscapes of cattle and sheep grazing in this area, on the north bank of the River Stour immediately upstream from Westgate Gardens, Canterbury.
Free entry
Whitehall Meadows can be found west of Toddlers Cove play area, at the end of Wesgate Gardens in Canterbury. Bingley Island is south of the Toddlers Cove play area and is accessed through Tannery Field. To reach the car park, turn off St Dunstan's Street into Linden Grove. Join Whitehall Road forking right to Whitehall Bridge Road. Parking can be found at the end of Whitehall Close.
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College music faculty play trombone, alto and soprano saxophone, the euphonium and piano in instrumental faculty recital Feb. 17 in Wentz Concert Hall.
North Central College music faculty will present an instrumental faculty recital at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in Wentz Concert Hall.
Jonathon Kirk, assistant professor of music, will play the euphonium and trombone, and Lawrence Van Oyen, professor of music and director of bands, will play alto saxophone. They will be accompanied by other North Central faculty—Joann Cho and Jon Warfel on piano and Mitch Paliga on soprano saxophone. Admission is free.


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Starbucks® Italian Roast Mug, 16 fl oz
Inspired by our French Roast coffee, this classic 16-fl oz mug with a slightly flared shape features a white motor scooter on a matte black background, accented with a green interior. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
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2012-13: Named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic Team...fifth on the team in scoring with an 85.6 average for 26 rounds...had two "Top 5" individual finishes and four "Top 10" finishes...shot a season-best 78 at the Evansville Invitational...placed fourth in the UE-Butler Challenge...had a fourth place finish at the Butler Spring Invitational.
2011-12: Played in 10 rounds and finished with an 85.7 average...tied for 16th at the Green Bay Invitational...shot a single best round of 76 on the opening day of the Green Bay Invitational...placed 32nd at the Butler Spring Invitational...tied for 34th at the Butler Fall Invitational.
2010-11: Played in 17 rounds with a scoring average of 85.8...placed 38th at the University of Dayton Invitational...finished tied for 29th at the Chris Bannister Golf Classic while shooting a career-best 80 in the final round.
2009-10: Played in 16 rounds and finished with an 86.3 season scoring average...placed fifth in Butler's dual matches against IUPUI and Loyola...shot a career-best 81 at the PTSIR Classic and in Butler's dual meets with IUPUI and Loyola.
High School: Two-time All-Conference performer at Visitation Academy in Saint Louis...placed third in the state as a senior (75-83) and seventh in the state as a junior (79-82)...helped high school squad to a state runner-up finish as a junior and a state championship as a senior...named Fox News Athlete of the Week...team captain..earned four varsity golf letters...High School Coach: Ernie Bebe.


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Pilgrim Vintage Iron Two Tool Hook is the perfect multi-purpose hook. Rustic and hand-forged blacksmith-style single hook. Use it around the hearth for additional fireplace accessories such as fireplace tools, gloves and bellows and in the mud room for outdoor wear, or around the house for plants and hanging knick-knacks.
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SPIDERLOCK® HELMET STABILIZING SYSTEM(USA: 7,114,197)This precise rack-and-pinion mechanism is independent from the strap system and can be easily tightened on the head using only one hand for a perfect fit around the head and to keep the helmet in place.
This helmet stabilizing device perfectly fits in with the webbing system. Its mechanism is alike the Spiderlock® Elite, but with an engineered process to significantly reduce the weight. It may be tightened around the rider's head with only one hand. Ergonomic foam padding for optimum comfort at the neck area.


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I am trying to migrate from open webmail (sendmail) to Zimbra and I am using the script from http://www.zimbra.com/forums/migrati...a-4-5-6-a.html. I modified it to work with my directory stucture and naming scheme (we just use first name last initial). However, when it converts the messages I get the following error.
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ERROR: zclient.CLIENT_ERROR (/path/to/mail/mail_name37.txt does not contain a valid RFC 822 message)
I'm very new to perl and i don't see anywhere in the script where I can change anything to fix this error. The script does create the users folder in /tmp and converts the e-mails to .txt but never imports them into Zimbra. Also, I ran bulk provisioning prior to the mailbox conversion script to create all of the users with a default password.
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Concealer is a must-have in any cosmetics case to hide those imperfections that drive you crazy when you look in the mirror and to handle those "uh-oh!" moments when you wake up with a blemish or dark circles on an important day. Unfortunately, many of the concealers available on the market today use thick formulas to provide maximum coverage. These products never look completely blended, making your complexion appear uneven and unnatural. In some cases, a poor concealer can even make an imperfection more noticeable. The Stila Cosmetics Concealer collection was designed for you to apply with the confidence that whatever you are correcting will be fully, but flawlessly covered.
The products in the Stila Cosmetics Concealer line offer maximum coverage, but in formulas that are lightweight. This unique combination of effectiveness and lightness makes all of the items in the Stila Cosmetics Concealer range ideal for natural results. Featuring a variety of colors and formulation options, the Stila Cosmetics Concealer collection offers the right products for women of all skin types and tones. Find your perfect, flawless match today.
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Stila Perfecting Concealer - Shade B is the fullest covering concealer available from Stila Cosmetics. The concealer produces an opaque, semi-matte finish that is ideal to pair with any type of foundation and powder. The concealer is available in six shades, of which Shade B is the second lightest. All of the colors available in the range have the unique ability to detect your skin's natural coloring and subtly adjust for the most natural appearance. The foundation comes in an easy-to-squeeze tube.
Stila Brighten and Correct Concealer Tone was designed to mask imperfections in the under eye area. The mineral-rich concealer contains proprietary Haloxyl, which helps brighten and tone the skin in the under eye area, actually reducing the appearance of fine lines and dark circles rather than just hiding them away. The concealer comes in six shades, of which Tone is the second lightest and most popular.
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March 10, 2014 6:00 AM PT
If any city can be called opinionated, it would be New York City, so it's somehow inevitable that HereHere is making its debut in the Big Apple. It's Friday in Manhattan, and despite reports of several broken parking meters on its streets, the Upper West Side is pretty relaxed. Greenwich Village, however, is tense about seeing so many dogs off leashes. That's how HereHere expresses each neighborhood's reaction to its own civic data.
The project focuses on driving hyperlocal, real-world engagement to encourage civic discourse. The project comes from Microsoft Research's Future Social Experiences Labs (FUSE Labs). Kati London is a senior researcher and the lead for HereHere, which began in July 2013.
"HereHere NYC introduces daily neighborhood engagement with a light touch," London says. "It takes neighborhood-specific public data, and it enables the neighborhoods to communicate how they're doing—expressed through text and cartoonlike icons. People can receive the information via a daily email digest, neighborhood-specific Twitter feeds, or status updates on an online map. We want to understand how it changes or impacts the way people relate to their community when they can interact with data in this way."
HereHere's goals are to study how characterization can be a tool for data engagement. At the same time, researchers want to understand what sort of light, daily rituals are effective for connecting people to hyperlocal issues, as well as how to create compelling stories with data that can engage larger communities. These have been ongoing questions for London, whose career has focused on designing playful or disarming interactions that engage people or communities that might not bother getting connected without such interactions.
"In a world with a billion sensors, how will we make sense of it all?" asks Lili Cheng, general manager of FUSE Labs. "How will we make the data useful to improve our life, community, and the world at large? HereHere focuses on making sure anyone can understand civic data by changing the way we model and represent complex information at the human, social scale. We believe that if everyone can relate to complex data analysis and results in more human terms, we might have a better shot at using the data and sensors to anticipate new troubles and solve meaningful problems."
In fact, HereHere NYC is built on top of another research project London has been leading since the spring of 2013, called Project Sentient Data (PSD). That research platform translates complex data streams into human-readable output to help researchers explore the new kinds of applications and interactions that can be made when ecosystems of data are understood in terms of emotion states, personalities, and relationships.
PSD is data-agnostic and accepts any kind of data stream, either event-based or continuous. Designers and developers can select from default personas or invent characters in the system with particular responses to sets of data position, trends, and pace.
In September 2013, Project Sentient Data was put to the test when five teams of graduate students at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) prototyped five projects using PSD's server and application-programming interface to design new applications. Those enabled users to experience humanized data in personal, civic, public, or semi-public domains and included innovative concepts such as "self-aware bikes" and "sentient street signs."
These affirmed not only the technology concepts behind PSD, but also the breadth of opportunities for new products and experiences that intelligently communicate the most pertinent information in the most appropriate way—from a human perspective.
London always has enjoyed being at the intersection of social design, networked data, and civic engagement. She brings a wealth of diverse experiences to FUSE, having worked with organizations such as the U.K. Government, the Knight Foundation, MTV, and New York's Museum of Modern Art. Before joining FUSE in May 2013, London helped start, grow, and run Area/Code Games until it was acquired by Zynga. She became director of product for that social-game developer's New York City studio and worked on CityVille when it was at its peak of 20 million active users daily. London also teaches graduate-level classes on Persuasive Technology and on Design Patterns for Autonomous Objects at ITP.
"I'm interested in community," London says. "New York is a really vibrant community, for example, but I'm also interested in the edges, where there might be an opportunity for people to get more involved or see things from different perspectives. A lot of my work has been focused on things like driving real-world engagement and participation, using new technologies in accessible and, hopefully, surprising ways."
Some of London's past work, such as the hyperlocal projects funded by the Knight Foundation, involved games motivating people to be more knowledgeable about hurricane preparedness or used social mechanics and a real-world local currency to build person-to-person and person-to-local-business connections.
As for making a city neighborhood express itself through cartoons and text, it's not the first time she's given personality and expression to a non-human entity.
"My other interest is designing systems that enable users to experience the world in a way they otherwise could not," she says. "I worked on a system called Botanicalls that gives a human voice to plants based the plant's botanical characteristics. It translates data from a networked sensor to express needs—such as water or light. So if the plant needs watering, this enables it to make that request via texts, tweets or by making phone calls using a human voice."
HereHere NYC will be launched on March 10.
"We're eager to get people using it and seeing how it impacts them," London says. "Will they continue to use it? Will it provoke conversations within the community or discussions across communities? The interface is mobile-friendly and it's particularly easy for users to post or tweet what a neighborhood is saying today. Each neighborhood also has a Twitter account you can follow and tweet out."
For HereHere—or for any research project –there's always more functionality to build. It's an iterative process that requires feedback. London and her colleagues have been working with community members and beta testers throughout the design process, and she looks forward to getting feedback from a broader range of users for the next phase of iteration on HereHere.
Interested users can visit HereHere NYC to subscribe via Twitter or via email from the neighborhood(s) of their choice.


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Some of these efforts are highlighted below. For more information on other efforts, view our Patient Safety Action Group (PSAG) Newsletters. To view how we're doing with these quality-improvement efforts, click here.
May 12, 2011
(CMS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid addresses a number of quality measures in hospitals and report the hospital outcomes on Hospital Compare, www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. This website is a consumer-orientated website that offers information on how well hospitals provide recommended care to their patients.
Each year CMS posts diagnosis-specific mortality rates for each acute hospital through the Hospital Compare website and publicly reports how the hospital ranks against all others in the nation. As of 2014, hospital performance will be linked to Medicare reimbursement (Value Based Purchasing).
For Pneumonia Mortality, each hospital can have a ranking of:
Hartford Hospital was noted to have a rate that is "Better Than the National Rate". The Pneumonia Mortality calculation:
CMS will be publicly posting for the time period of 2007-2010:
April 14, 2011
Hartford Hospital has incorporated many evidence based practices into the care of our surgical patients to help decrease the risk of developing an SSI.
A multidisciplinary team has been working closely with Cardiovascular Services over the last year to decrease variation in the processes that have been shown to help with the prevention of SSI in Cardiovascular patients.
A Cardiovascular Quality Assurance Checklist (CVQA) was developed by the team and implemented in September of 2010. The checklist is used by teams involved in the perioperative experience including the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative areas. Each area completes a specific part of the checklist to ensure that we are performing all the elements identified by the team.
The first 6 months of information on these process improvement elements have shown that compliance with completing the CVQA is usually 85% on a weekly basis. For most of the measured elements we are 95-100% compliant with performing those processes identified to decrease the risk of SSI. The final and most important measurement is that there has been a decrease in the number of SSIs since the implementation of the CVQA checklist.
In addition to the above, select members of the team are now holding CV SSI huddles for review of any cases of SSI. These huddles help to determine which processes and areas of improvement could be further explored to help decrease the risk of SSI. Any issues uncovered are then brought back to the team for further investigation, discussion and correction.
Areas who are working so diligently to help with this important patient safety initiative include PATC, PACU, POLA, Operating Room, Cardiovascular Services and Medical Staff, C8, B9I, B9E, B10I, N10, C10, B10E, Infection Control, Research Administration and Quality Management.
View our latest Surgical Site Infections/Antibiotics Before Surgery Performance Measures.
March 3, 2011
January had zero infections for all ICUs and we are now approaching 10 months with an average across the entire organization of less than one BSI per month (down from approximately 4 per month in 2008. In fact, Bliss 11I recently celebrated 204 days with no BSIs.
This is as a result of the resolve and focus of the BSI Action group and new workflow instituted in all of the ICUs.
We are also to standardize the training and education for all clinicians who insert central lines at Hartford Hospital annually through a structured program beginning with our state of the art Simulation Center.
View our latest Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections Performance Measures.
In the month of November we demonstrated 100% compliance with hand washing before and after patient care as well as 100% respect for isolation precautions. However, we have recently seen a downward trend in compliance with hand hygiene and isolation precautions. We know that Hartford Hospital has and can continue to represent best practice.
We must remember that hand hygiene is one of the most basic ways that we can protecting our patients from hospital acquired infections. As with our success in preventing patient falls, this takes everyone's support. We are reviving our approach to this most basic patient safety action and our success is up to you.
Here are some of the measures being implemented to assist us achieve this goal:
Infection Control is working with Volunteer Services to enlist their support in monitoring hand hygiene, similar to what has been done in fall prevention.
Our goal is 100% compliance with best practice in hand hygiene and complete respect for isolation precautions.
View our latest Hand Hygiene Compliance Performance Measures.
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Prologis wins praise from World Economic Forum for sustainability
January 24, 2013 - LM Editorial
San Francisco-based Prologis, Inc. a leading global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, announced its inclusion in the 2013 "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" list at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Recognized as the world's most credible corporate sustainability ranking, the Global 100 consists of the 100 top-performing companies worldwide based on a range of sector-specific "sustainability" metrics.
Prologis has a comprehensive approach to sustainability encompassing three dimensions: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and governance.
As the leading global provider of certified sustainable logistics space, Prologis owns more than 39 million square feet of facilities meeting green building standards, has completed energy efficiency improvements in over 50 percent of its global property portfolio, and has installed 83 megawatts of solar panels as part of its commitment to renewable energy.
Steve Campbell, SVP director of environmental, engineering and sustainability, told LM that he views sustainable operations as a "vital component" to long-term business success.
"We are excited to be the only U.S. based real-estate company on the Global 100 list," he said.
Campbell added that Prologis will continue to develop, own, and operate a global portfolio of energy-efficient facilities that minimize their environmental impact.
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Thanksgiving Dinner...What Does it Cost for Turkey and the Fixings?
year- this according to Dave Miller, director of research and commodity services for the
Iowa Farm Bureau.
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That dinner includes: turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries
a relish tray of celery and carrots, pumpkin pie with whipped topping, milk and coffee for
10 people equates to $49.48. Last year's cost was $49.20, which went up a large amount from
2010 when the average cost was $43.47 for 10 people.
Miller says the increase this year come primarily from the cost of turkey going up just a
bit due to feed prices rising after the dry summer.
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Iowa is third in turkey production in the U.S. and much of the turkey you'll eat as a
northwest Iowa resident, probably came not far from home.
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Miller also says to be thankful this year for our ability to have such a bountiful meal
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A lot of Foods have a bad reputation but can actually be good for you. Woman's Day investigated and found Five Foods that aren't that bad.
1. Steak. Red meat got a bad rep because it's high fat. But not all of it. If you choose the right cut of lean beef, like top sirloin, you've got a steak packed with protein, iron, B-12, and zinc. And try to get grass-fed beef, which is the lowest in fat.
2. Potatoes. The anti-carb movement basically wrecked potatoes for everybody. But there's nothing bad about them if you watch your serving size, and prepare them right. They have a ton of nutrients . . . especially the skins.
3. Canned Vegetables. You always hear that canned vegetables have lost all their vitamins, so don't bother with them. But actually, studies show that frozen and canned vegetables are just as healthy as fresh ones. Plus they're way cheaper.
4. Eggs. Everybody blames eggs for heart disease and bad cholesterol. But eggs are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and protein. Research found that having one egg a day doesn't hurt you. Just take it easy with your five egg omelets.
5. Pizza. If you do pizza right, you have a powerhouse of whole grains, veggies, and protein-rich dairy. Start with whole wheat crust, load it with vegetable toppings, use low-fat mozzarella, and you're set.


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Well, like Frank, I was there to work, and work I did –another successful and fun game – I always enjoy how much the delegates enjoy the experience; we should all have more work that actually makes people happy.
We had a mix of
nationalities and cultures on the game – a real challenge but one that brings
its own extra flavours. I was thinking about those cultural variations on the drive
back to
My driver was a very nice man – a pleasure to share a space with, just enough English to converse, comfortable with silence and caring enough to return from a rest stop with an unsolicited bottle of water for me; plus a cheerful insistence that I try local specialties that I might not have seen before So, all-in-all, clearly he is a man who wants me to be comfortable and survive the journey.
So, why did he frighten the living daylights out of me at irregular intervals on the way? Simply by behaving normally for his culture: using road verges to pass trucks at high speed on the wrong side, overtaking in the middle of road works, driving at high speed within inches of other vehicles. While this seemed reckless to my culture, it is everyday for Brasil. It made me realise that as well as the social variations, culture extends to acceptable risk – what would just result in a late arrival in western Europe is met with a calculated risk to get past the slow moving obstacles, a culture that values speed over safety perhaps? Or more likely just the inevitable reaction to the extreme traffic volumes and conditions there. I didn't see it as a better nor a worse attitude, just a different one – and there being differences left in the world is something I, for one, feel is an unmitigatedly good thing.
I've experienced
many Brasilian taxi drivers before, so I was not surprised, but what did amaze
me was how quickly and unnoticed that culture got into my thinking and
unconscious actions. Back in the
So if we copy cultural elements so quickly after so short a visit – and that copying spills over into our next situation, do we do that with our customers too? Do we bring the needs of the previous customer we worked with to our next, even if it isn't the right culture for them? Maybe this is just one more thing for us to watch out for in our business relationships?


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Leggett & Platt Adjustable Bed Group Presents My Bedroom Retreat
My Bedroom Retreat 2013
Leggett & Platt Adjustable Bed Group to bring you the My Bedroom Retreat Contest. They're working on redefining the modern bedroom, recognizing that these days we use our rooms for much more than just sleep. With My Bedroom Retreat, we'll get to see who has the most beautiful bedroom, and how we live today in the bedroom.
Take our survey — how do you use your bedroom?
If you're tired of fighting with a mountain of pillows every night, then you can certainly imagine the dreamy comforts of a bed perfectly customized to your own preferences, whether you're reading, watching TV or fast asleep. Leggett & Platt's Adjustable Bed Group seamlessly blends function and technology with style and comfort. Check out the video below:
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Wednesday matinee lineup in D.C.
The Royals and Nationals close out an Interleague series at 3:35 Central today. Kansas City will face Washington's Stephen Strasburg. The game WILL air on Fox Sports Kansas City as it was added last week. Here's your lineup:
(Podsednik – LF), (Kendall – C), (DeJesus – CF), (Butler – 1B), (Guillen – RF), (Callaspo – 3B), (Betancourt – SS), (Getz – 2B), (Bannister – P)


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i was just bitching about this
the Cpt removed the like button...he was also promoted to Admiral after a winter trip into the Rocky Mountains...he payed his dues to get promoted and appeared like he had ridin horseback all the way home by his gander when he waddled off the plane..
it is good to report the blood stained moisture was halted by the aisle coach seat he was gifted by the powers that be...
Thank You TheAdmiral for opening yourself up for all of us to prosper...
Don't you mean Rear Admiral?
I don't always punch babies, but when I do they had it coming
GDI!! NOW IMF IS JUST LIKE ASF!! if i had a dislike button i'd be pressing the shit out of it right now.
I kinda LIKED that button....
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are times really that tough that prince had to go and sell the fucking like button?!
i will not sing cumbaya. what tha fuck is happening to this place?!!? i need another weed break to calm down.
in before reddog starts crying about the like button
having abs because you are skinny is like a women having tits because she's fat
How the fuck do I know if people like me or not now? I mean that was how I gauged my days...Jesus Christ...
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All information discussed is for entertainment purposes only. I do not condone the use of illegal drugs and do not use them myself.
That and AG are the reasons I came over from ASF. That and more trannies
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TheCaptn' is not a registered proctologist. His post are for his amusement only. Please seek proper medical advice if symptoms persist.
What happened to the like button? ASF stole it!
I'll get there or Die trying...
i had 5,000 likes...gdi
http://i910.photobucket.com/albums/a...psf75f970a.gif...PASSION IS MY FUCKING PASSION
I believe the new format that is coming out will have 3 choice buttons "fucking hilarious", "that's retarded", and "you die, you die and go to hell".
its being replaced with ''cry'' button..hope this helps


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Ultimate Basement Game Room Includes Simulated Shooting Range
Gaming chairs, a virtual target range, multiple TVs and a Control4 system make this a Gold Winning Fun Room
When remodeling his 15-year-old home, Scott Tallyn saved the best for last. Over the past five years, the professional photographer has slowly transformed every room of his outdated 4,200-square-foot residence in Peoria, Ill., to better reflect his outgoing personality and modern style. "I really wanted to add technology that would make this home work around my life so I could be more productive and efficient," he explains. "I wanted to be able to push a button and have things happen, based on how I like to operate." The addition of a Control4 automation system was the "winning ticket" that afforded him this luxury, ultimately giving him time to focus on the last, and arguably best phase of his extensive home makeover: the unfinished basement.
Into this 1,100-square-foot lower level the custom electronics (CE) professionals at Sherman's HomeWorks in Normal, Ill., installed a comfortable, cutting-edge home theater system, along with scads of in-ceiling speakers so music and movie soundtracks could be played throughout—all fairly common amenities in a basement redo.
The real fun unfolds in a simulated shooting range and gaming area. The shooting range occupies one side of the basement, where a 10-foot-wide motorized Da-Lite screen descendsfromthe ceiling on commandfroma Control4 keypad or handheld remote. The signal also fires up the computer that runs simulations—20 in all—and a Sharp video projector that beams the images onto the screen. The lights dim as well, so the IR signals fired by the guns—real weapons modified for thesystem—canhit theirtargetswithout interference. Adding to the realism are two Definitive Technology speakers planted in the ceiling over the stanchion that holds the rifles and pistols. "Every time you pull the trigger you hear a loud bang and feel the recoil," says Tallyn, adding that the volume can be adjusted so people can still hear music or the home theater.
Another sound system was dedicated to a portion of the basement where two racing seats offer an authentic arcade-style experience. Instead of popping a few quarters into a slot, a gamer activates two PlayStation 3 consoles by pressing a button on a Control4 keypad that Sherman's HomeWorks built into the arm of one of the seats. The keypad offers several options: a gamer can link each chair to the Internet through its own PS3 unit for head-to-head racing. Or he can play by himself and hear the audio through a sound system that includes four in-ceiling MonitorAudio speakers and a Velodyne subwoofer situated between the two chairs. Or each gamer can race on their own and hear the audio through a pair of wireless Sennheiser headphones. Each seat is positioned in front of its own 40-inch Samsung LED TV. Attached to a swivel, the TVs can be rotated "so you can't cheat by looking at your opponent's screen to anticipate his next move," says Tallyn.
Lighting plays an important role in this interactive wonderland as well, setting the stage for whatever activity Tallyn and his guests select for the evening. "At the top of the stairs there's a six-button Control4 keypad waiting for me to set the mood," says Tallyn. "I can choose to have all the lights come on at 25, 50 or 100 percent, and with a single, double or triple tap choose either jazz, a random mix of music or rock-and-roll from Rhapsody—access to the service is built into the main Control4 processor—to play through all of the speakers." Once guests have entered the room, Tallyn can use an iPad, iPhone, handheld remote or other keypads to tweak the lighting and music.
Tapping into the Fun
The six Control4 keypads in the 1,100-square-foot basement owned by Scott Tallyn of Peoria, Ill., help set the stage for massive amounts of fun … and control. Usually, keypads are designed so that each button performs a particular task, such as dimming a group of lights for a movie. The buttons on Tallyn's keypads, however, were set up by the custom electronics (CE) professionals at Sherman's HomeWorks, Normal, Ill., to perform multiple tasks. Tapping the button twice, for example, activates the Rhapsody music service on the Control4 system, goes to a random mix of tunes, and plays the music through all nine of the room's in-ceiling speakers. A triple tap tunes to the rock station.
System Design and Installation by: Sherman's Homework, Normal Il
Interior Design: Demanes Interiors
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UPS and Merck extend relationship with a global supply chain focus
June 28, 2011
Taking steps to further leverage a relationship that has been intact since 2003, UPS and global pharmaceutical giant Merck said today they are expanding their distribution and logistics agreement on more of a global supply chain basis.
Prior to this announcement, UPS managed the distribution, warehousing, multi-modal, and transportation services of Merck's North America-based medicines and vaccines, as well as package transportation and delivery services.
And with this new agreement, UPS will provide these services to Merck in certain markets in Asia and Latin America, as well as the emerging markets of China and Brazil, and transportation services in Europe, according to UPS officials.
"This has been a few years in the making," said UPS Vice President, Global Strategy, UPS Healthcare Logistics, Bill Hook, in an interview. "Merck had been looking for more of a collaborative relationship and reducing the number of companies they deal with from a global supply chain standpoint."
This effort began in earnest in 2009, with a North America project between UPS and Merck, when UPS took over control of Merck's distribution centers in the U.S. and related transportation services as well.
Hook said this problem was viewed as a real test, with innovative processes driving the value-creation goals UPS and Merck put together, with the idea that this partnership could be expanded and become a true global collaboration.
"For us, this relationship impacts every region of the world where we do business with Merck," said Hook. "There are, or will be, facilities on the main continents in North America, Asia, and Latin America. Regarding the international movement of Merck's vaccines and medicines, we will provide service to every region and market they serve. From that standpoint, it involves origin and destination lanes in every continent and most countries and our brokerage operation for clearing a product into these markets."
With several Merck products being temperature-sensitive, UPS has had to do a comprehensive training program for all of its global offices for products that require strict temperature and environmental controls, said Hook. And in some cases, UPS is opening new facilities and distribution centers in locations where they are needed, including ones in China and Brazil, where capacity is needed.
Hook said the key part of this deal for Merck is based on how the industry is facing unprecedented change with the market dynamics around regulation and the globalization of healthcare and pressures from government are creating an environment where companies need to change and think outside of the box for how to go forward.
"This expanded agreement with UPS allows us to focus on our core business as a global healthcare leader that looks for innovative ways to bring our medicines and vaccines to patients in emerging markets and markets around the world," said Willie A. Deese, executive vice president and president, Merck Manufacturing Division, in a statement. "UPS has the proven logistics expertise to deliver Merck's products with speed, consistency and care to our customers and patients."
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Coca-Cola joins Obama's Clean Fleets
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- 08 July 2011
NEW YORK: Coca-Cola, a member of The Climate Group, is among six new corporate partners to join Obama's initiative Clean Fleets Partnership, which aims to fuel the up-take of electric vehicles (EVS) in the US.
Coca-Cola already boasts the largest hybrid delivery fleet in North America, and this week rolled out new electric trucks in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York, as part of its plans to use fuel more efficiently.
Also joining Coca-Cola in the National Clean Fleets Partnership is Enterprise Holdings, General Electric, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Ryder and Staples, who will each work with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to reduce oil and diesel use and boost clean energy use.
Partners will also benefit from knowledge sharing, collaboration with the DOE on research and development and procurement assistance.
"We are honored to be one of the ten partners that make up the National Clean Fleets Partnership Program," said Steven Saltzgiver, Director of Fleet Operations, as he accepted the honor on behalf of the company. "Coca-Cola Refreshments is committed to investing in alternative fuel vehicles and innovative fleet technologies. This recognition is validation of our efforts to date and motivation to do even more in the future."
Coca-Cola and the other five new additions more than doubles the Partnership's number of corporate members, which also includes: AT&T, FedEx, PepsiCo, UPS and Verizon.
The Clean Fleets Partnership was announced in April 2011 and is part of the DOE Vehicle Technology Program's Clean Cities initiative, which will assist the Obama Administration's plans to cut US oil imports by one third by 2025.
Combined, these US companies run almost one million fleet vehicles, so this initiative will have a large impact on oil imports as well as carbon emissions reductions in the US.
Robin Haycock, Head of Transport, The Climate Group says: "We see these initiatives popping up all the time now and we are working on similar knowledge sharing activities in the US and UK with a number of other companies. Fleets are where the large-scale uptake of this technology will have a big impact. Initiatives like this make sense and help people see EVs positively, which makes EV momentum unstoppable; and a Clean Revolution in the US inevitable."
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Thoughtlessly saving energy at work
3 ways you (probably) save energy without knowing it!
I'm an early-riser; so when I get to the office, the lights are off, the coffee pot isn't percolating and all the computers are hibernating. Since we're still on daylight saving time, it's pretty dark for my first hour of work. As I start the day, there are a few things I do first-thing that save energy without me really thinking about it. Here's what I do:
- Use task lighting. Our office lighting is automatically set up to switch on in the morning. When I get in, well before the timer goes off, I just use my task light above my desk to help me work instead of turning the lights on early. (Of course, I switch it back off when the lights pop on.)
- Keep a sweater at work. Again, our office automatically kicks on the heat during fall and winter months. When it's just a bit to cool for me, I slip on my office sweater or grab a cup of tea and wait for the automatic system to do its work.
- Take the stairs. OK, I know this one sounds lame … but in addition to helping get my blood pumping in the morning, taking the stairs (and not the elevator) for two stories up, exercises my power instead of electric power.
All in all, these are simple things I do every day that save energy without a second thought.
So what are your favorite, easy solutions for saving or conserving energy? Read more »


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Made this for dinner last night. I had read previous reviews about it being bland so I was prepared to add some extras. I used some mixed veggies instead of peas. Used the whole can of soup. I also added onions to the beef while cooking and some extra garlic powder, salt, lots of pepper, seasoning blend, and a dash of cumin. I also put a few pats of butter on top of the rice and covered in tinfoil in the oven for a few minutes then added the cheese and cooked till it melted. It was really good, all 3 kids cleaned their plates!
I give this 5 stars using my modifications. I was worried that it might be bland if I followed the recipe as is so I gave it four stars. I added some chopped onion when I browned the hamburger. I used 1/2 salt and 1/2 mixed seasoning instead of the thyme since my husband doesn't like thyme. But I think what made it was the addition of 1/4 cup tomato sauce and 1tablespoon steak sauce. I used brown rice since that's what I had in the fridge. I couldn't stop eating it.
I like to embellish so here are some of my additions. The beef I sprinkled with garlic, pepper, and salt. I added onions green peppers, and fresh celery until while the meet was browning and let them get soft but firm. I cooked it in a rice steamer. (You can use beef broth in the rice steamer if you want; sometimes I do sometimes not) I followed the recipe but I used Italian style green beens instead of the peas. You can prepare in advance put in the freg. an bake when you get home. Everybody loved it!


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Russia and Canada to refer Arctic dispute to U.N.
- By Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Canadian counterpart Lawrence Cannon met today about competing claims over the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater rdige of continental crust under the Arctic Ocean claimed by both territories and pledged to let the United Nations resolve the dispute:
The dispute has intensified amid growing evidence that global warming is shrinking polar ice, opening up new shipping lanes and new resource development opportunities.
"We will submit our data on the Lomonosov Ridge and we are confident that our case will prevail backed by scientific evidence," Cannon said at a news conference after the talks.
Lavrov said Russia also is working to submit additional data that will persuade the U.N. of the validity of Moscow's claim.
"They should provide a scientific proof that it's an extension of our continental shelf," he said.
Moscow first submitted its claim in 2001 to the United Nations, but it was sent back for lack of evidence. Russia then dramatically staked its claim to the region by dropping a canister containing the Russian flag on the ocean floor from a small submarine at the North Pole in 2007.
Fears of armed conflict in the Arcitc may indeed by overblown, but it's hard to deny that the politics of the region are getting more interesting. Lavrov also warned that Russia would be no more toleratn of NATO encroachment on its Northern frontier than the South:
"I don't think it would be right for NATO to assume the right to determine … how make decisions in the Arctic,"


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Written by David Grafton. Posted November 15, 2015 at 7:47 pm
Like so many others these past few days, I have been swept away by the impact of terrorism. I have been watching images of, listening to pontifications on, and reading reactions and responses to the terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris, November 12 and 13. We have all read and been moved by the calls […]Read More >
Reflecting on the Syrian Refugee Crisis…
Written by David Grafton. Posted September 6, 2015 at 1:19 pm
Over the past few weeks, we have been faced with stories and images of the horrible humanitarian tragedy of Syrian asylum seekers in Europe. And while the media coverage has shifted toward the ongoing European debate about protection of borders and security (which resonates with the majority of Americans), it is easy to lose sight […]Read More >
Reflecting on the Mingana Qur'an…
Written by David Grafton. Posted August 30, 2015 at 9:54 pm
Although several weeks old, the announcement this past July of the extraordinary find of a seventh century Qur'an in the library of my alma mater, the University of Birmingham, is worth reflecting on as we begin a new academic year at a Christian seminary.
On July 22, the University of Birmingham announced that a PhD student in the Department of Theology had found one of the oldest Qur'anic manuscripts to date. The manuscripts have been carbon-dated to between 586 and 645 CE. This would put the Qur'an within the second, or possibly first generation of Muslims. Muhammad died in 632, and the first copy of the Qur'an is long reported to have been compiled in 650 CE.Read More >
Reflecting on the Islamic Declaration on Climate Change
Written by David Grafton. Posted August 21, 2015 at 7:55 am
An international Islamic symposium held this week in Istanbul (17-18 August 2015) announced a new declaration on global climate change supporting the Kyoto Protocol. This declaration, while not binding on any particular Muslim community, provides scriptural and theological arguments from the Qur'an for pro-active responses to global climate change. The two important theological assertions are God's […]Read More >


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Counting the cost of water
13 March 2012 | News story
The economic value of water cannot be underestimated. To that end the Head of IUCN's Global Economic and Environment Programme, Andrew Seidl talks about some of the risks that we face if we don't start counting the cost of water.
IUCN is working on many fronts at the World Water Forum in Marseille. Andrew Seidl explains what he's getting up to.
So just how is IUCN's Global Economic and Environment Programme working on water issues.
If we don't value the natural capital that is nature we will be facing up to some difficult scenarios in the future.
Andrew Seidl explains.


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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation/Connecticut Chapter - The official CFF website is excellent. Information about CF in general, research, CFFCareNet (CFF accredited throughout the USA), how to help CF, education (archives of CFF webcasts), and multiple other useful pieces of information.
Click here for a Graphical display of all measures over 5 years for Connecticut Children's - Registration Required
50 Years of Research, Progress, and Hope - a brilliant documentary video (approx 60 minutes)
Johns Hopkins Cystic Fibrosis Center - Their section on "What Is CF" is excellent. CF A to Z is a dictionary of almost everything that has something to do with CF.
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Biker Boyz
|Release Date: January 31, 2003
|Running Time: 110 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $21,701,045.00
|Genre: Action, Adaptation, Drama, Sports
Laurence Fishburne
Derek Luke
Orlando Jones
Djimon Hounsou
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Summary:A contemporary Western on wheels with desperados who live every day on the edge. Lawyers and city workers by day, they take to the streets in their leather gear to race by night. In the world of underground motorcycle clubs, the undefeated racer known as Smoke is the undisputed "King of Cali." But Smoke's dominance of the set is about to be threatened by a young motorcycle racing prodigy called Kid, who is determined to win Smoke's helmet and earn the coveted title.


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Open: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat 10am-4pm Closed: Sun & Public Holidays
Parking available. There is a readers' lounge equipped with a fridge and a microwave as well as complimentary tea and coffee (there are no shops nearby).
State Records City Office hosts the Government Recordkeeping Unit and records management training.
Group visits to the reading rooms
Groups are very welcome to visit the reading room. To assist with planning we ask that groups contact us one month in advance of the visit us in the Group Booking Form. This is particularly important on Saturdays when the reading room is staffed at minimum levels.
A group booking can be used for five (5) or more people »
We suggest that you also read our 'Getting Started' page which provides useful information and other links about visiting the reading room. Short tours of the Western Sydney Records Centre (WSRC) can also be presented to groups of five or more people (weekdays only). Book a tour when you book your visit.
Current group bookings
We have groups booked to visit the Western Sydney Reading Room on:
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Wednesday 25 May 2016
Friday 3 June 2016
Saturday 18 June 2016
Monday 20 June 2016
Wednesday 6 July 2016
Thursday 15 September 2016
Saturday 1 October 2016
Thursday 6 October 2016
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Take advantage of the pre-order service
To make the most of your group visit to the WSRC we suggest that you use our pre-order service. Each group member can order up to four items in advance using the online pre-order form. Pre-orders save you time as you can begin your research as soon as you arrive.
Copy service
We may be unable to provide same-day copy service for photocopies ordered in the reading room. If copy orders cannot be completed on the same day, we will make arrangements for the copies to be posted or collected. See our Guarantee of Service.
Talks and Seminars
Keep in mind that the reading room does get busy on days when a talk is scheduled in our Activities Program.
We offer introductory talks about the operations of State Records and the records in our collection for family and local history groups, Indigenous groups, school and TAFE and university students. It may be possible to also arrange a tour of the facilities at Western Sydney during the week as part of the introductory talk. These introductory talks and tours are provided at no cost to the group.
We also participate in external activities with other organisations, such as family history societies, including seminar presentations, information stalls and talks. Our topics include:
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(Le Mars) -- You can't help but scratch your head and wonder when will spring finally arrive? Although the moisture from this past week is perhaps appreciated, obviously, Mother Nature is playing a cruel late April Fools joke by producing the late season snows. Iowa State University Extension Climatologist, Elwynn Taylor says it may be at least two more weeks, or more, before temperatures warm up to near normal levels.
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Normally at this time of year, farmers would be in their fields planting the new corn crop. Since it will be a while until farmers can get to their fields, will that hurt the corn production in the long run?
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The ISU extension climatologist says although records show earlier planting usually performs better, he says the soil temperatures need to be at or above 50 degrees for a sustained period of time to help with the development of the seed. Taylor says records have proven as the spring progresses, it normally becomes wetter, which may be another factor determining when farmers will be able to plant this year's corn crop. Taylor says this past winter and colder than normal spring reminds him of the conditions similar to 1947.
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Taylor says Iowa farmers have had three straight years of below trend-line yields, and he believes the odds are in favor for a fourth year for below trend-line yields.


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Okay, I was following this page:
to do a split domain for migration.
What I was doing (and tell me if this is wrong, and the correct way to do it if possible) was putting a .forward file in the user directories that were moving.
So we'll use the example.com domain used in the webpage example.
mail comes to firstname.lastname@example.com. The MX points to mail.example.com. So the mail gets delivered to user on mail.example.com. In their home directory they have a .forward that sends the mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
zimbra.example.com bounces with a relaying denied error.
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One of my vegetable garden experiments was the Black Calypso Bush Bean from The Cottage Gardener. The seedlings that were not attacked by squirrels yielded a fair amount of seed pods, but I wasn't sure when to pick them. When they first started to develop, I ate them as I would a sugar snap pea and they were delicious, but they were green and did not resemble the black and white seeds I planted. Patiently I waited for them to mature even further and I finally got the beans pictured here. Unfortunately some were left on the vine a little too long. But at this stage, these ones were a little tougher to eat and I didn't know what to do with them.
I went to the Cottage Gardener site (which I should have done in the first place, duh!) and the description recommended using them for baking or soup making. Now I don't quite have enough for a hearty soup, but I may throw them in to one with other beans to see how they taste!


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by Neil Hershberg, Senior Vice President, Global Media for Business Wire
Recent news stories on companies victimized by false press releases, fake news stories and bogus web sites describe the perpetrators as "pranksters," and dismiss their actions as "spoofs" and "stunts."
According to my dictionary, the more appropriate term for activities that deliberately seek to deceive others is FRAUD. And when those actions affect the capital markets, the regulatory authorities are likely to weigh in with their own lengthy lexicon of legal definitions that will put this important issue in its proper perspective.
Several well-known companies have recently been traumatized by a troubling trend known as "corporate PR hijacking." These elaborate campaigns have included fake press releases complete with quotes attributed to actual company executives, counterfeit web sites, and fake news stories appearing on phony sites masquerading as legitimate, well-known news outlets. Companies that reportedly have fallen prey to disinformation tactics include BP, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil and, most recently, Chevron.
Bona fide media organizations have unwittingly become trapped in this bewildering "House of Mirrors," conveying erroneous information to the marketplace. These so-called stunts have a habit of snowballing, gaining dangerous momentum that can do irreparable harm.
"The issue of fake PR is one that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, and it remains to be seen if marketers and agencies can figure out a way to effectively combat the seemingly greater number of individuals who seem eager to participate in such efforts," observed Advertising Age.
The challenge of separating fact from fiction on the web certainly isn't new.
Paul Boutin, writing in The New York Times, said it best: "On the Internet, every day is April Fool's Day." [March 31, 2010]
While portrayed in media accounts as a creative way for critics to convey their message, the reality is that corporate PR hijacking has real victims and unintended consequences.
- Corporate reputation is a company's most prized asset. These surreptitious attacks have the potential to cause monumental damage;
- The integrity of all media is at risk as false information is unintentionally disseminated;
- Valuations of public companies can be affected as the market reacts to erroneous reports.
In other words, we're past the point of simple pranks, stunts and spoofs. We're talking serious business, with major implications for all market participants.
Under these circumstances, the trusted role of Business Wire as a credible news source is more important than ever.
While no organization is totally infallible, Business Wire combines proprietary technology with the largest editorial staff in the industry to deliver some 1,000 stories daily over its patented news delivery platform to the global media, the investment community, and consumers.
Business Wire Connect, our web-based order entry system, enables us to authenticate and validate all issuers. It has been operational since 1998, and is continuously enhanced and upgraded. Our network systems and editorial workflow procedures are independently audited on an annual basis by the world's leading accounting firms, a mandatory requirement for re-certification as a sanctioned regulatory disclosure service in multiple jurisdictions.
We also realize, however, the limits of technology and that there is no substitute for human intelligence. We have a seasoned staff of close to 200 editors worldwide who vet copy prior to distribution. We are proud to boast that we have the highest editorial accuracy rate in the industry.
While several of our competitors have recently introduced "do-it-yourself" platforms, our goal is be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. There is enough misinformation floating around without our providing yet another pass-through conduit.
Based on our almost half-century performance standards, Business Wire has earned its reputation for credibility in news rooms and trading houses worldwide. In fact, the world's leading financial information platforms and international news agencies allow us to "auto-publish" our content directly on to their systems, a true testament to our enviable track record.
We appreciate that everyone is understandably mindful of costs these days — as are we. It is especially important, however, to factor in the priceless value of credibility, reliability and trust in any deliberation, qualities that are of paramount importance in today's chaotic information environment.


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The long awaited and much requested revival of Robert Hunter Middleton's very popular classic is finally here. Mayfair Cursive was an instant hit for Middleton in 1932, and it went on being used widely until late into the 1970s, in spite of it never having crossed over to film type technology.
Like a few of its contemporary designs, most notably the work of Lucien Bernhard, Mayfair is a formal script that is somewhat based on traditional italic forms with swash uppercase, but also employs subsidiary hairline strokes in some of its lowercase as an emphasis to the script's cursive traits. More…
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Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3750330NS 750GB 7.2K Enterprise SATA Hard Drive - New Pull
Capacity: 750GB
Spindle Speed: 7,200RPM
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The Barracuda ES.2 drive is the perfect solution for high-capacity enterprise storage applications such as the migration of mission-critical transactional data, from tier 1 to tier 2 (nearline) storage, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are a primary concern. With energy-saving PowerTrim™ features, superior rotational vibration tolerance and a choice of SATA or SAS interfaces, the Barracuda ES.2 drive provides world-leading technology and value.
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